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VOLUME XX.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOttOUS SKEICHKB FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Sot Much—A Bull About a Sheep-
Most Elevator iSoyg Can Do It—
.No*, ot Out Danger—ln the
Background, Etc., Etc.
Do you see the man with the big bass drum
And a druin-3ticj£ in his hand?
IV ell, he mattes more noise than all the rest,
.But he doesn’t lead the band.
—Washington Star.
A BUI#L ABOUT A SHEEP.
Collector—“Wuat have you got in
that caft?”
“Half a sheep.”
“Alive or dead?” <
MOST EI.KVATOK BOVS DAN DO IT.
“That fellow on the top floor is a con
ceited ass!”
“\S hy don't you get the elevator boy
to take hirri down?”—New York Sun.
GIVING HIM A CHARACTER.
I ‘Bronson makes me tired. He is
'quarrelsome and clumsy,” said Martin.
“ThatVtrue. Bronson would' try to
split & hair with a meat-axe, I think.”-!
Judge. * •- ...
ifc'OT OCT OF DANGER.
Black—“ls your daughter out of dan
ger yet, White?”
White—“ No. I have no hopes for
her ns ifli&ga? the doctor is in attend
ance.”^—Yankee Blade.
• ' #
TEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE.
1 Mrs. Brown—“ How does she keep
other women from looking at her hus
band?
Mrs. Cobwigger—“She makes him
wear home-made neckties.”
A .BRIEFLESS BARRISTER.
Attorney Wautling—“What did your
father say wheu he saw my picture in
your watch?”
Mis3 Worth—“ That it was the only
case you had ever appeared in.”—Jewel
er’s Weekly.
lucky 1 for the tatients.
Hr. Jalap—“Yes,l am going to retire.
I’.ye'got enough and am willing to give
somebody else aobattce.”
Fogg—“l sete!*'*"insur motto hence*'
forth will be ‘Live and let live’.”—Bo3-
tou Transcript.
in the background.
“I hear you are going to marry Miss
Bullion. I should think you would
marry Goldie Sterling; she 13 just as rich
and much younger-.”
“Yes, my dear boy, but Miss Bullion’s
papa is much older.”—Life.
A NATURAL CONSEQUENCE.
“Now,” said the physician, “you will
have to eat plaiu food and not stay out
late at night.”
“Yes,” replied the patient; “that is
■what I have been thinking ever siuce you
sent m your bill.”—Judge.
AN IMPORTANT QUERY.
Mrs.Pewreut —“I saw Mrs. Freechurch
to-day. She’s a strict Episcopalian,you
know; and, of course, she is wearing
sackcloth now.”
Mrs. Giddibody (with deep interest?—
“Indeed! How has she got it trimmed?”
—Judge.
COMPANY MANNERS.
Mr. Black—“..What kind of a woman
is Mrs. Green?”
Mrs. Black—“Fmsurel don’t know.”
Mr. Black—“But you've been at her
house a number of times.”
; Mrs. Black—.“ Yes; as a visitor.”—
Yankee Blade.
.' . ,* NO CONFIDENCE IN MAN.
.Dickey~r*“}Vhat do you think? A. man
the door asked me &> change a five
dollar bill.*
ttdeu—“Did you ds it?” “
cawse rot,..- He might:
not have given uxe the rigit change,don’t
you know.!’—Ljfe. ...
f BETTER TUAN THANKS.
r Mam mi — 1 ‘ tJu! .you thank- Mr? Nice
feWo when ho gftve you that sflyer dol
lar?” ' ' • : ‘ *
. Little Boy— “Ycs’m —that is, sorter. u
Mammal‘What, did you say ?” i •
Boy—‘‘l tdle.him ncK.’ timp he
kissed Sis.Lwouldn’t-tell.” —Gfood News._
.V • FISHERMAN S. LUCK.
Glim—“ Never mind, old fellow, if
Miss Goway has refused you. There are
as good fish in the spa as ever were
caught.’*
Hilow—“There are better.”
Glim—“ How’s that?” ... * '
HUow—“You know 'when you are
fishing the big ones all get away. *•
.Jester. t
couldn't ns bulldozed.
Waiter ($s Moodies is about to leaye)
sir. It is customary, sir, for
* patrofis to—ahem I—to remember the
waiter, sir.”
Meodles—“Oh, never fear! 1 shall
not forget you m a hurry. Haw could
‘Y,’wheu we have been together so.; long?
It seems teu years since I gave my or
dw*. n i-Hif{ier’s Bazar. -
, HE BAT DOWN.
Principal of Grammar School—“ Wil
liam Flint, stand up! What arc you
laughing at?”
William—“l—l don’t like to tell, Mr.
Luskinson.”
—■ Principal—“l insist on knowing.”- **.~
Wibiida— ‘ *lwas laughing at Ben
Parrott. -1 He whispered to me that he
, c-saw ygu Miss Roomseveu oq the
stairway ’fore. school took up. ’—Qhi
; pcp;- , ivlbune. i r '', .
tit* • - - . WhiP
b£* caught <sn. < .
He— you *believe in hypnotism?”
• ghe—“l heard the other day of a man
who was hypnotized by being made t*
look for some time at a diamond ring.’*
He—“l wonder if any bright piece of
glass wouldn’t have done as well.”
She—“ Perhaps so, with a man, but
not with a woman,”
He (at a jeweler’s the next day)—“l
want a diamond ring, lady’s siie,bright*
est you have*’’--New York Weekly.
the object of the system.
The customer who had brought some
damaged goods back to exchange them,
and had patiently accompanied the cash
girl for fifteen minutes irom one official
to another in pursuance of the tegular
routine, leaned against the counter to
rest himself.
“A out plan of making exchanges,” he
said, “is really discouraging,”
“Yes,” cordially replied the young
woman at the desk, filling out a blank
necessitating a trip to another official two
floors above, “that** what it’s fo’r.”—
Chicago Tribune.
they take it gently.
They were watching the people going
to church Sunday morning from the
hotel window.
“There’s a nice looking man, a com
fortable looking sort of a man, one of
those men you always have a feeling or
desire to trade places with,” remarked
the visitor, pointing out the one in ques
tion.
“Yes,” replied the resident, “he is
one of our best known men, and he has
for years been taking life very quietly,
indeed.”
“A capitalist?” inquired the visitor.
,“Ob, no; a doctor,” and there was a
lull in the conversation.—Detroit Free
Press,
REALISTIC, indeed.
Three pupils of the Marseilles School
of Art were chatting together in the Can -
uebiere. Said one of them: “Look
here, my friend, the other day I painted
a little deal board in imitation of marble
with such accuracy that,on being thrown
into the water, it immediately sank to
the bottom.”
“Faugu!” said another. “Yesterday
I hung my thermometer on the easel sup
porting my view of the Polar Regions.
It fell at once twenty degrees below
freezing-point.”
“All that is nothing,” remarked the
third, in conclusion. “My portrait of
the Marquis De la Caraargue is so : life
like that it requires to be snaved twice a.
week.”—Le Masque de Fer. - ■
Experimenting With Turtles’ Ejgs. '
Among the industries of .the {State ;of
Illinois none is, pernap?, known less
about than that of turtle Gulture. Ahd
yet it seems that it is a branch that ret.
ceive3 a considerable amount of atten
tion. • -*
Tn Lisbon, 111., there is a miniature
turtle farm. Tne owner is experiment
ing with the hard-shelled creatures, and
if his experiments prove sueceSsful there
is c iikelihood that real turtle soup vvill
not be quite so uncommon as at present.
Mrs. Edwin Welch, of this city,whose
father is making these experiments at
Lisbon, related some interesting facts
yesterday.
■ “Last spring,” she said, “my father
killed a turtle in which he found thirty,
eggs. He put them in au ordinary pan
ana placed them in the garden. They
were covered with mud to the depth of
two inches, and so placed as to be pro
tected from the rays of the sun a portion
of the day. In September sixteen tur-‘
ties weie hatched, and he succeeded in
saving the lives of six of these. The re
mainder were devoured by the geese.
When first hatched they were the size of.-
a silver dollar. y
“They live on beef, crawfish and a
variety of foods that may be given, 'them.
When placed in a barrel of Whey they
thrive and grow fat rapidly. They show,
some signs of intelligence,and my father
had one turtle that would make decided'
demonstrations tof joy when father called
him. He associated hi3 name, which
was Dicft, with* feeding time, and Was
aLways dimposed to .respond wheahe heard
it cailedi .*,■>, t ,
“Their shells aye scalloped-aud of a
grayish color..' Although they bafe no
teetfi, they bite ; viciouslV/and' arb dan
gerous pets to* WtrerC there
Are children. In * some’cases they; are
usually muzzled by tying'their heat& so
•that it is i m poss i b La 4 to., thr pst thaqa out .
beyond the shell.’.’—.Chicago T^&uife,*-..
PpvfnsHc. J #
“ A party of Indians marched into the
National Hotel, a"t itashmgtoivthe other
day; hidrsd6tl*bad\he Corridor to them
solves. A perfume surrounded them
which was too dense ' for civilized
OtfiuitoriW. * They bad dust been array
ing themselves in the habiliments of
civilization, and to .compile their outfit
had put into their pockets musk, pouches
taken from the interior .of the muskrat’s
body. Tfie scent was.
bad to be shoveled out of. the, hotel*.
The musk of commerce, pVoperiy deduced
.daring the manufacturing- process, ie-a
rery strong perfume, bat the* unadulter
ated. article in its original-pouch is almost
strong enough to ipake a cast iron man
faint. Musk iu its ..natural state is said
to be the national' perfume many
tribes, whojmaually
of- the' ra6f for -t-heir music potoehes aad
iSkins.—Heir Orleans Ricayune.. :_ i;
tt — r
He-Wrote No-LoYe Letters.
General Washington was uuusuany
wise in bis generation, as shown bysthe
fact,to which attention is recently called,
that among all his voluminous corre
spondence there is not a single love letter
extant. It is said that he 'was a great
gallant in his youth," and there frere
many belies who* in! turfiy 'tfirfltd%im
as an ardent admirer,-- but, '•tfttotogh tbe
of all of them,. b’&n cArefufly
examined, there is not one tender mis
sive Indited'by the loftier of bis Coun
try. 'Whatever Sweet thkiga he hud to*
say*hdaiivered by and
ijft.no tftli-taio repords. of feis sweet in
fatuations for others to laugh over.—
Now Orleans Picayune,
V** - 1 *% *>**.w-
JACkSON. GA., FRIDAY, MAY 27, lߧ2.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What is Belfig Done in CongnsslM&i
Bails for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS "AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTKS.
THE HOUSE.
■Thursday. —ln the house-the third
party refceiYed recognition Thursday
morning, and Mr. Watson semt np to the
clerk’s desk and ha 1 read this terse reso
lution, “That the committee on Ways
jmd : mea£s,. be requeued, Li report - the
sub treasury bill. * He asked unanimous
consent for its consider ition, but Mr.
Rebr.h'ooveVs- dfemntrtl for the “regular
drder” operated ms an objection.
After a : fruit <>f ttficjccinmittee
the house went into c mmittee of the
wh'hle, Mr. L’ s'? (*<-, hr Georgia, in the
chair. After several attempts to ; mend
the bill had failed the chair delivered
his decision on the point of order made
against the amendment offered by
Mr. Bland of Wednesday for the
coinage of all silver bullion pur
chased, and now in the treasury, into
standard silver dollars, the cost of coin
age to be paid out of the seigniorage or
gain to the government the remainder of
the seiguiorage covered into the treasury.
It .wasuoneeded,’said the chair. that the
amendment changed the ex'stiug law,
and therefore it would not be in order,
unless, being germane, it reduced the
amount covered by the bill. The clause
in the bill related to the tecoinage of
abraded minor coins, and the amend
ment was germane to the subject
matter of the clause. Did it reduce
amounts covered by the bill? The
mere fact that it struck from the bill
the appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the re
colnage of minor coins did not reduce
the amount because it appropriated the
seigniorage, which might amount to
$2,000,000. It did not reduce the.
amount covered by the bill and might
increase tlie expenditures. He sustained
the point of order and ruled out the
amendment. Mr. Bland then re-offered
his amendment with the proviso attach
ed to it, “That the cost: of this coinage
shall not exceed $95,000 —$5,000 of
which shall be for the coinage of sub
sidiary silver, and $90,000 for the stand
ard silver, doUar.”- -At thtr-con elusion of
another long debate the chair said that
he had beard nothing to chunge his
opinion: that the-Jtfhendment wgs not
germane; a#d fie, therefore, ruled the
amendment, as modjfiedy out of order..
Mr. Bland appealed feo®' the, decision,
. but the*cq®mittee,.sustained* th6decision
of the chair by a.vote.of 120 to 7§V Mr.
Cogswell, of Massachusetts, offered an
amendment appropriating $T,016,445 for
continuing the work of the eleventh cen
sus.'-In a standing,.vote the amendment
was defeated by a large majority. The
committee theh arose and the house ad
journed. 'i . ..
Friday. —Once more Mr. 'Watson, of
Georgia, attempted to ‘Secure considera
tion of the ri solution requesting the
ways and mems committee to report the
subtreasurj bill in the house Friday, and
once more the demand for the “regular
order” operated as an objection. After
the call of committees for reports, the
hoiise went into committee of the whole,
with Mr. Lester, of Georgia, in the chair,
on the tundry civil bill. After several
amendments had been rejected with little
debate, • Mr; Dickerson, of Kentucky,
moved to strike-out the appropriation of
$150,000 toenable-the secretary of war
. to complete the establishment of the
Chickani&uga and Chatanooga Nation
al , park. This also was lost, Mr.
Dickerson and Mr. Compton being Ithe
only members who had anything to say
in its favor, while it was vigorously op
posed by Mr. Pickier, of South Dakota;
Mr. .Snodgrass, of Tennessee, and Mr.
McKaig, of Nebraska. The vote stood
thirty to eighty-eight. On the motion of
Mr. Cox, of Tennessee, an, amendment
W!is adopted appropriating $14,500 for
improving .grounds and fences arouud
the arsenal at Columbia, Tenn. Mr. Hol
man gave notice that, hereafter, the ap
propriations committee would"'insist that
the river au& harbor contracts be provid
ed for in .the rivet and harbor bill,
Mr. 'KiigVrC "raised a point of
order against the clause - in
the bill appropriating $50,000 for
the preparation of-the site and .erection
of ; a pedestal fpr the statue, of the late
Gen. W. T._Sherroan in the city of Wash
ington. 4rtfip conclusion °f a king de
bate upon a poifit oi order, the fchairman
‘(Herbert) said thht he, would like to 6ver
riile the tJqinf of cirdir if his.
4feay cleaMo do so, tut he .could find no
liW. authorizing jthe appropriation, and
was constrained to sastiiu the point and
rule out the clause. Mr.s. Hefidfcrson, of
lowa, then hiked ■Bcaniraoui consent to
reinsert the but Mr. Kilgore
objected! Mr. Heidersou then gave
notice that he would call the matter
up in the boy.se Saturday in the b
},£ ' separate bib. aud ask unanimous
consent for its consideration; Pending
further action, the eommitee rose
The house took a recess until 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for tie consid
eration of privAe pension bills. ;
Saturday. —-In the house M*. McMil—
T-Euessee. from-the copmittee oh
reported a resolution thal the hour
for the meeting of the house each <lay
shall be 11 o’clock. Adopted, "he house
Went into committee of toe whole,
Mr. Lester in the ohair, on tin sundry
cjvil appropn&ti°h hilt. Mr. lorney, of
Alabama, offered an amendmen pvovid
mtr tbW; the board-of managers and national
for * disabled voluntee soldifra*
shall apply the excess over $5 jar month
of pensions of all inmates to tht supfiojt
of the home —except wherejan i matethas
a dependent wife, child *or paret. . Tbia
gate rise to-a good deal of And
was .vigorously opposed. c In aivocating
th® amendment Mr. Snodgrass of Ten
nessee, said that the pension ril, which
should be a roll of honflr, hai Become,
owing to the legislation of the epuWican
p*rty,'a roll *f dishonor. • lr. Bland,
•4>f .'Mifsouci, commented,'the
large expcunitures made by th present
Congress, and Attributed many <f them to
the legislation of the fifty firs*tbngress.
X?r. Fotney’s amendment . wasadppted.
On motion (rf Mr. W. A! Stone,of PemL;
sylvania, the hous 3. adopted an amend?
went, drafted at the stoggestio of the
government, accounting officers to cor
rect abuses arising from attempts on the
■>art Of court officers to increase theif
fees, the principal requirement being
hit prisoneis shall be taken to the near
■-t judicial officer of the Uuired States.
A number of these amendments, having
the approval of the attorney general and
substituting sa ! aries for fees to a large
extent, were offered by Messrs. Sayers
and Culberson, but went over.
Monday.— The house met at 11 o’clock
Monday with less than 75 members in at
tendance. 3lr. Butler, of lowa, made a
request fur the consideration of the sen
ate bill to grmf a pension to tx Senator
George W. Jones, of lowa. Watson, of
Georgia, objected. Then Mr. Wesson's
resolution requesting the committee on
ways and means to report the sub treas
ury bill was adopted without objection
drdebtte. Mr. Watson, having ach’t vea
his object, withdrew his objection to the
Joaes pension bill, and, on motion of Mr.
HendersoD, of lowa, it was taken
up and passed. Mr. Kilgore was
also in attendance, and his objection
was defeated' by the retfiffkt of Mr.
Bryad, of for the consider
ation of the bill for the erection of a
pedestal for the statne to General W. T
Sherman. Mr, Bailey, of Texas,- was also
on hand with his demands f .-r a qionun
on the private bill called up bv Mr.
McKinney, of New Hampshire,and almost
three quarters of an hmr elapse? before
a quorum appeared, nod the measure was
passed. The floor was then accorded to
the committee on the Distr’ct of Colum
bia* A bill giving the district commis
sioners authority to supervise ihe man
agement of all street railroad lines within
the city was passed; also an amende ,t
was adopted providing for all-night cars
running at intervals of half an hour.
After passing a few more local bills, the
house adjourned. v
Tuesday. —ln the house Tuesday, Mr.
Stewart, of Texas, from the committee on
rivers and harbors, reported back the
river and harbor appropriation bill with
the senate amendments thereto, with the
recommendation that the senate amend
. merits be non-concurredim Objected to.
The bill was referred to a Committee of
the whole. The house thee went into a
committee of the whole, MK Lester in the
chair, on the sundry civil appropriation
bill. The only action of importance was
the decrease of the appropriation for the
Alaska boundary survey from $35,000 to
SIO,OOO. Pending further discussion the
house adjourned and a democratic caucus
was announced for 8 o’clock Tuesday
evening.
THE SENATE.
Thursday. —The senate resumed con
sideration of the bill exempting American
coastwise vessels, piloted by their Ameri
can masters, or by a United States pilot,
from the obligation to pay state pilots for
services not rendered. Mr. Butler op
posed the bill in the interest of pilots in
the southern waters-. He said they daily
and nightly imperiled their lives,to sava
'the property or ship owners. Mr. Culler
offered an amendment repealing such
parts of the navigation laws ns prevent
the purchase by citizens of the United
Stales <>f ships in foreign countries, and
their right to American registry and to fly
the American flag. The amendment was
tabled. The river and harbor appropria
tion bill wa9 then taken ua, and Mr. Mc-
Pherson made a motion tc recommit the
bill with instructions to reduce the
amount 50 per cent. Mr. Dolph
moved to lay the motion on the
table, and-Mr. Dolph’s motion was agreed
to. The clerk preceded with the rca
of the bill for amendment. A large num
ber of amendments reported from the
.committi eon commerce, i majority of
tfiem iricrea-ing the appropriations, were
agreed to. *' Among them were the fol
lowing: Reducing the appropriation
for the harbor at Charleston, S. C., from
$300,000 to $225,000. Increasing tlie
appropriation for Cumbu-laud Sound,
Ga., from. $122,000 to s>oo,ooo. Re
ducing the appropriation for the harbor
at Savannah, Ga., from $425,000 to
$318,000.- Reducing the appropriation
for the harbor at Mobils, Ala., from
$350,000. to $262,500. Increasing the
appropriation for Roanoke river, N. C.,
from $15,000 to $50,000.
Friday,— After a little nutine business
the senate on Friday resimed the con
sideration of the river’ant! harbor bills.
Mr. Pugh move i to tnkefso,ooo from
.the appropriation of $262,(00 for Mobile
harbor and to add that sun to the , p
-propriation of $150,000 fcH the improve
ment of B ack Warrior river. After a
long discussion, into which politics enter
ed Mr. Pugh’s anendment was
agreed to. Some other- uinor amend
ments haying been offered and acted on,
the • hill .'wps repotted to the
senate. ' Afl . agreed
■to tin . the committee were._ concurred
.in in gross, and the bill was passed
' without divisipa, -althDugh Mr. McPher
son remarked a-few minir.es afterwards
that he had intended to asx the yeas at.d
nays.. A 'conference war asked, and.
Messrs. Frye, Dolph and RsnsOm were
appointed conferees on the part of the
senate. A considerable number of bills
were, at the request of various senators,
taken from the calendar and passed. All
were of local interest only, two or three
being public building bills. The senate
weet into executive session and, at 5:20
olclock adjourned till Monday.
Monday —ln the senate Monday Mr.
Vest offered a resolution,, which was laid
on the table for the present, discharging
the committee on finance from further
consideration of the house bill to put
wool on the free list and to reduce duties
on woolen goods and directing the com
mittee to report the bill back to the
senate for its action thereon. The senate
bill appropriating $50,000 for nn cques
trino statue of General Francis Marios,
at Columbia, & C., was taken from the
calendar and passed. The calendar was
then taken up. Among the bills passed
was the following: Refirriogto the court
of claims, the claim of the Citizens’ Bank
of Louisiana for specie taken from the
bank by General Butler, with an amend
ment excluding the allowance of interest.
At 2 o’clock the calendar was laid aside
and “unfinished business” taken up,
- being the senate bill -to provide for the
punishment of violations of the treaty
rights of aliens. S -veral speeches were
made for and against the bill. Peadig
discussion the senate adjourned.
Tuesday.— lminediately after opening
.proceedings in the senate, Tuesday, Ihe
calendar was taken up and a large num
ber of bills disposed of. t Among those
passed were the following: Appropriat
ing $300,000 each for public buildings at
Oakland and J-an Diego, Cal.; senate bill
to submit to the cotirt of private land
claims the title of William McGarrahna
to Rancho Panoche Grande, Cal. This
claim arises out of a grant made b*.
Manuel Micheltorena, governor of Upper
California, to Vicente P. Gour z, in 1844.
and purchased by McGirrahan. It has
been before congress in one shape or an
other for many years. The calendar was
laid aside at 2 o’clock p. m., and the bill
to provide for the punishment of viola
tions of the treaty rights of
aliens was taken up, Mr. Morgan
continuing his argument iu al
-of the bill. At the
of his argument Mr. Morgan moved
with the assent of the committee on for
eign relations, that the bill should go
over till next December. Debate on the
bill was continued by Messrs. Turpie,
Gray, Hiscock, Georae, Teller and
others. The matter finally weut over
without action. Mr. Pettigrew, from
the committee on quadri-centennial re
ported a joint resolution directing the
president to proclaim a general hoii lay
commemorating the four hundredth an
niversary of the discovery of America on
October 12, .1892. Placed on the calen
dar. The senate then adjourned.
NOTES.
The senate, on Friday, confirmed the
nomination of B. F. Carter, postmaster
at Ccdartown, Ga.
President Harrison, on Friday, pro
claimed a treaty of reciprocity with Gua
temala. It goes into effect May 30th.
Baron Fava, Italian minister, was re
ceived in the blue room of the white
house Monday morning by President
Harrison.
There was a desultory discussion upon
the general subj 'ct of tariff legislation by
the reDate finance committee Tuesday,
but no effort was made to secure actiou
upon any of the house tariff bills that are
now on the calendar of the committee.
It appears that there is no probability of
an early report by the committee upon
these measures.
Mr. Mitchell, from the committee on
privileges and elections, on Tuesday, re
ported to the senate a joint resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
providing for the election of United
States senators by the popular vote. He
said that the members of the committee
were divided on the subject and would
m ike separate reports. The joint resolu
tion was placed on the calendar,
jj [Representative Livingston, of Georgia,
has made a request of the committee on
rules to set aside one or two days for the
consideration of the sub-treasury bill by
the house. It will be granted. There
is a disposition the members
of the house to bring the matter up and
dispose of it finally. When it does come
up, there can be no trimmiug. Members
will have to show their hands as being
squarely for or against it.
Tbe senate has made such rapid pro
gress with the regular appropriation bills
that but two of these measures, which
have been sent to it by the house, await
the action of the senate. One of them
—pension appropriation—is purposely
withheld iu committee, and the other,
diplomatic and consular, it is ex
pected, will be reported to the sen
ate and passedjat once. The un
finished business is a bill to punish
violation of the treaty rights of aliens,
but the consideration of thi3 measure
may be further delayed by the calling up
of one of the pending special orders.
There are three of these orders, namely:
The silk cultural bill, the bill to fix the
compensation of United States district
attorneys and the revenue marine trans
fer bill.
THIRD PARTY CONVENTION.
L. L. Polk Will Probably be Nomina*
ted for President.
The third party in North Carolina met
'in convention in Raleigh Monday.
Seventy-five counties were represented.
/Ihe following was unanimously adopted :
; Resolved, That this being the first reg
ularly organized people’s party conven
tion of the state of North Carolina, we
'cannot let this occasion pas3 without say
ing to the people of the United States
that in the person of L. L. Polk, we have
;the patriotic statesman, the Christian
gentleman, in whom we have every con
fidence. His ability, integrity and pu
rity fully qualify him for any position in
the gift of the American people, and at
Omaha, Neb., in July we propose to pre
sent our valued citizen as a candidate for
the presidency.
The chairman of the executive com
mittee was directed to take immediate
action in having each congressional dis
trict represented at Omaha on July 4th,
and has issued an address to the people
of the state in behalf of the People’s
party. According to this address, coun
ty conventions are ordered to be held
June 11th end congressional conventions
June 16th, and former to choose dele
gates to the latter and to determine
whether they will put a county ticket in
the field. The various district conven
tions will elect four delegates and alter
nates to the Omaha convention.
The following are announced as having
been elected delegates from the state at
largeto Omaha. Hirry Skinner, T. B.
Long, Otlio Wilson, faleorge E. Hunt, A.
C. Shuford, D. H. Gill, A. J. Dally, K
N. Sea well. The alternates are: P. H.
Massey, j. M. Bateman, H. Seare, C. N.
Jervis, Daniel Wortli, H. H. Nichols, J.
E,.Piers( n,-O L Svinsou.
NtGROES THREATEN REVENGE
For the Numerous Lynchings in the
South Dynamite Discussed.
- The Loston fiepubf-can printed by col
ored people in Bostoi, Mass., contained
an article in last Saturday’s issue to the
effect that certain coo red of Cam
bri fge and Boston, lelonging to secret
societies, have for sonetime bren earnest
ly discussing the nunerous lynchings of
colored men in the south. According tr
reports, these men lirve beeD taking les
sons from the socialists and Ru-sians a*
to the making of dynamite bombs anc
other explosives, wi.'h which they pro
pose to return to the south and take re
venge unless the ottrages are stopped
The men are bound together by a solemr
oath, and refuse to be classi
fled as anarchists.
THE SOUTH IN BlllEF
The Hews of Her Progress Portrayal in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OP HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The democrats of Trimble county, Ky.
have instructed for John G. Carlisle for
president.
Dr. J\mes it. Randolph, for a term of
years superintendent of the Florida insane
asylum, died in Tallahassee Monday, aged
83 years.
N. B.Taylor, S. L. Moore and W. P.
Phillips, lumber cutteis, were struck by
lightning near Suffolk, Va. } Monday, aud
instantly killed.
The ninetieth anuual commencement
of Salem, N. C., Female academy began
Monday with the baccalaureate sermon
by Rev. Dr. W. W. Moore, of Ilampden
Byndey, Ya.
A dispatch of Saturday from Dennison,
Texas, says: Rewards for the arrest an i
conviction of the murderer of the four
Denuison women the other night now
aggregate $5,000. There is as yet no
trace of the criminal.
A telegram of Friday from Raleigh, N.
C.,reports the assassination of R D. Mc-
Cotter, ex-member of the legislature.
He was waylaid near his home in Pam
lico and shot dead. There is no clue to
the assassin and no reason for the crime
as he was a quiet citizen, a farmtr and
merchant.
A special of Monday night says a cy
clone swept through Bertie county, N.
C., wrecking nil the houses on Wiley
Askew’s farm. It leveled the trees on
William Pritchard’s place. Some of these
fell on his house and crushed it, killing
one of his children instantly and breaking
the other’s back.
Carl Matson and W. R. Sherman were
arrested in Macon, Gil, a few days ago
charged with counterfeiting. On Monday
Matson made a clean breast of the affair
and took the office! s three miles below the
city and showed them their little mint.
The dies, metal, etc., were secured and
will be used as evidence against the men.
A dispatch of Friday from Milan, Ten a.,
sajs: Two thousand panels of wire fence
have been cut in this county by an organ
ized gang opposed to the wire fence law,
made legal by recent legislation. Waite
cap notices have been served on several
farmers that they will be tarred and
feathered and if necessary killed, if the
fences are rebuilt.
A telegram of Sunday states that a
tunnel on the Savannah and Wes'ern
branch of the Georgia Central railroad
was discovered to bo on fire Sunday.
The tunnel is near the Coo3a river, in the
Coosa coal fields, some twenty-five miles
southwest of Birmingham. It runs
through the seam of coal, and this to
gether with the framing was burning.
A Mobile telegram of Monday says:
Twenty-eight mules of the Mobile Street
Railway Company, affected with glan
ders, have bem isolated and eight killed.
Seven more have since taken the disease
and will probably be killed at one It
may be necessary to isolate all the well
mules, and if so traffic on the street rail
way will stop.
A Baltimore telegram of Tuesday states
that Celonel Charles Marshall, who
served on General Rob rt E. Lee’s st iff
during the late war. has been invited by
the IJ. 8. Grant post, Grand the
Republic, of Brooklyn, to del.ver an
oration at the Memorial Day exercises at
Grant’s tomb. Colonel Marshall has ac
cepted.
Advices of Friday from Key West,
Fla., are to the effect that Garza, the
Mexican bandit, is positively in that city,
but he is being kept in hiding pending
the receipt of authentic inform iti n from
the Mexican government as to the reward
for his capture. He has not been ar
rested yet, and the local officers, who
know those guarding Garza, refuse to
talk.
A Nashville, Tenn., dispatch says: The
jury in the case of Rev. George J. Lind
ner, on Friday, brought in a verdict of
guilty of obtaining money under false
pretenses, and he was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. Lindner is an
alleged minister of the Christian faith,
who secured money on worthless checks
and pawned diamond rings which he had
secured from a jeweler to show to a
young woman, to whom he whs to be
married. He was captured at Savannah,
Ga. He will be tried on five other in
dictments.
The Atlanta paper hangers we t out
on a strike Friday morniDg. Some time
they ago arranged a scale of prices, and alt
wall-paper dealers adopted it. Lately,
however, they say the dealers reduced the
pay, and as they failed to res lore the scale
they ordered a strike. The strikers claim
tbat wall paper costs the dealers cnlj
four cents a roll, that tbeir sede de
mands ten cents and twelve and one-bdf
cents a roll for hanging, aud the dealers
charge customers thirty-five cents roll
for the paper and hanging. They-in lend
to start a co-operative store, and will re
dues the price on wall-paper to eighte< n
cents a roll.
EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS
Wreck a Building and Causes the Death
of Several People.
At 4:35 o’clock Saturday afternoon t'ie
factory o? the Etna Pyrotechnic Com
pany at Hartford, Conn., blew up with
tremendous noise, which shook the city
aid was heard some miles in the country.
The contents of the budding flew high in
the air and were scattered in every dbec
tion, some of the fragments being'carried
a mile or so from ihe scene. J. L. B.
Sibley was at the works paying off help.
His was ihe first body taken out of the
wreck. He was apparently killed in
stantly. EmmaTarbox, Emma Tregunsa,
a widow and Maggie Copen, employes,
were found dead in the ruins, recogniza
ble only by their clothing. They were
fearfully blackened. George Zinsoth and
one woman employed thtre are missing,
but will probably be found in the ruins.
A number of others were more or less se
riously hurt.
Advertising always pay*, j us t put an
advertisement in this paper snd see.
NUMBER 21,
ANOTHER HOLD-UP IN FLORIDA
Train Robbers Astain at Work —A. Sus*
pect Now in Jail Confesses.
A Jacksonville dispatch of Tuesday
iays: Only one of the Monroe junction
murderers is i > custody. lie is in Or
lando jiil Hod has confessed. The other
suspects are not identified, but are still
held. The authorities refuse to give the
name of the matt who has confessed and
will allow no one to see him. lie has
furnished an accurate description of his
four accomplices and claims to have had
nothing to do with the killing of Saun
ders. the express messenger, nud was one
of the men who boarded the locomotive.
TITEY TRY IT AGAIN.
A Gainesville special Tuesday says:
“Alfred Davi?, engineer of the swith en
gine at the Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern yard, was held up by two white men
Tuesday morning at 2 o’clock. They
first made inquiries about the departure
of trains. Then they asked wheiher or
n ,t the train robbers had been caught
and what was known of them. Then
placing thc : r pistols close to Davis’s head
they demanded all he had, which they
took from him. One wanted to kill him,
saying, ‘Dead men tell no tales.’ The
other objected, but ordered Davis to walk
off. Davis’s pistol was in the cab and no
one Was down there at the time except
the night telegraph operator, who finally
came up town and told a policeman, but
the policeman refused to leave his beat,
to notify the sheriff, so nothing was
known of it until morning. Both men
were white and answered very closely
the published description of the Monroe
junction train robbers. The authorities
are searching for them with a vengance.
PASSES FOR THE EDITORS.
Further Courtesies Extended tlie Geor
gia Weekly Editors by the Railroads*
Mr. Chrles D. Barker, cor res pop ing
secretary of the Georgia Meekly Press
Association, nunotiucis that in addition
to courlesies secured for members Irom
Colonel 11. W. AVrenn, of the Bust Ten
nessee road, Colonel D. G. Edwards, of
the Queen and Crescent route, has ten
dered the use of his road from Meridian
to New Orleans, or Shreveport, La.
From either point connections can bo
made with the Texas Pacific railway,
which has tendered through their
general passengrr agent, Hon. Gaston
Mealier, the use of their road to El Paso
Texas, a distance of 1,203 miles more.
It seems now that the Mexican roads will
not extend courtesies. This being the
case, an effort will bo made to secure
transportation from roads cx’ending into
southern California or Colorado. Mem
bers going on the exclusion should notify
the secretary at once. Roads in Georgia
will undoubted y furnish passes to Rome
to members not having same and tho sec
retary will secure such if notified in t mo.
ANOTHER LEVEE BREAKS.
The Most Serious that 'as Yet Oc
curred this Season.
A New Orleans dispatch says: A crev
asse occurred at 8 o’clock Sunday night
on the Fesrer place, three miles beiow
College Point. This is regarded as the
most serious break that has so fur oc
curred in the levees of the lower Missis
sippi this season. The water from it will
overflow a large part of St John the B ip
tist’s parish, and greatly damage the Mis
sissippi Valley railroad. The crevasse
was caused by a crawfish hole. At ten
o’clock Monday night ihe break was
forty feet wide. There is no material on
hand to repair the dam g>, and it is
hardly possible that anyth ng can he
done. Aid is ‘being telegraphed for in
every direction. '
ANOTHER LEVEE BREAKS.
The Most Serious that Fas Yet Oc
curred this Season.
A New Orleans dispatch says: A crev
asse occurred at 8 o’clock Sunday night
ou the Fesrer place, three miles below
College Point. Tbisws regarded as tbe
most serious break that Las so far oc
curred in the levees of the lower Missis
sippi this season. The water from it will
overflow a large part of St. John the B ip
tist’s parish, and greatly damage the Mis
sissippi Valley railroad. The crevasse
was caused by a crawfish hole. At ten
o’clock Monday night the break was
forty feet wide. There is no material on
hand to repair the dam ga, and it is
hardly possible that anyth ng can be
done. Aid is being telegraphed for in
every direction.
THE GLENN TAX BILL
Mas Been Forestalled in so Far as it
Affects the Columbus Southern It. R,
The case of the Columbus Southern
road brought to test.-thg constitutionality
of the Glenn railroad tax bill; in which
the supreme court of Georgia de
cided - against thtf railroad and in
favor of tbe peoplejof tbe State, has gone
to the supreme court of the United
States. There is involved in the result to
the people of the state ov. r three hundred
thousand dollars a year, which the peo
ple will save if the act be sustained by
that court. Hon. W. C. Glenn, formerly
of Whitfield county, now of Fulton, tbe
author of the bill, is a candidate for at
torney general of Georgia.
BLAINE FOR PRESIDENT.
He Will Get the Republican Nomi
nation if He Will Accept.
A special dispatch of Monday from
Washington says: Unless Air. Blaine
writes ale ter, p ; sitively refusing to ac
cept the nomination, he will be the re
publican nominee for president. That is
as definitely fixed as anything political
can be, and tbe possibilities of his de
clining are almost infinit£simL The
thing is, indeed, fixed. A senator who
is in a position to know, if the future
can be foretold, is re ported-as saying that
there was no longer aDy doubt about the
republican nominal ion.
Will Benefit Orange Growers.
A Washington dispatch says: Senator
Pasco, of Florida, submitted in the sen
ate Tuesday, a proposed amendment to
the agricultural appropriation bill appro
priating |5,000 for conducting an invest
igation of diseases of the orang * and
other citrus fruit trees, and tb^rcause,
and for experimenting as to their cure.