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pi ai K Hi cm. VOL XXII- CO UN rV DIRECTORY. Ordinary—J. F. Carmichael. Sherill —J. O. Beauchamp, Deputy —J. W. Crawford. Surveyor—B. J. Jinka. Treasurer—T. L. Williams. Tax Collector—T. J. Cole. Tax Receiver--C. R. Carttr. Coroner—Simon Hardy. Clerk Superior Court—Joe Jolly ; court drd Mondays in February and August. Road Commissioners—6ls G. M., J. L, Barkley, H. G. Asbury, T. O, Woodward; 613 G. M., J, M. Ball, J, E. Hale, J. W. Fletcher; 609 G. M., J. W. Winter, J. L. Pye, S. K. Smith; 014 G. M., J. W. Holoway, J. H. Cole, J. Van Wright; 552 G. M., D. B, Moore. R. M. Harper, F. M. Maddox; 612 G. M. f W. O. Crawley, Cornelius McCluare, T. 11. Nolan; 010 G, M., T. P. Bell, R. M. Fletcher, J. G. Coldwell; 616 G. M.,J. 11. Maddox, J. J. Wilson, J. C. Barnes. Board of Education--W. M. Mal let, A. G. Hitchens, J. T. Gaodusan, D. N. Carmichael, J. M. McMichael. E. E. Pound C, S. C. Ollice in court house. Jury Commissioners—H. N. By ari, T. L. Williams, W. B. Dozier, E. J. Ball, T. P, Ball, Alex Atki nson. Justices Court—6ls Dist., R. A. Woodward, J. P.; J. G, Kimbell, N. P. 010 Dial., 11. L. Brown, J. P.; H. C. l'haxton, N. P. 609 Dist., W. A. Waldrup, J. P,; Sieve Moore. N. P. 552 Diat., James Jolly, J. P.; J. M. Maudox, N. P. 012 Dist., Howard Ham, J. P.; F. Z. Curry,N. P. 010 Dist., T. J. Collins, J. P.; T. I*. hell, N. P. i 010 Dist., O. B. Kaowlee, J, P,; J. L. Barnet, N. P, 011 Dist., A. H. Oglelree, J. P.; W. F. Douglas, N. P. city directory. Mayor E. E. Pound. Coimcilinen—T. J. Lane, J. W. Car-, Michael, B. P. Bailey, T. M. Furlow. CHUKCUES. Methodist—Rev. f. \V. Bell, pastor. Services, every Sunday at 11 a.m., 7 p.m. Piayer meeting every Wednea d.iy night. Baptist -Rev. G. W. Gardner, pas tor. Services every Sunday at 11 a. in. md 7 Prayer meeting every ” 'I hursd * Mr. Pha: r, pa* t . Ber\iees every 3rd Sunday at II .m. and 7 p.m., and every Ist Sunday ai 7. p.m. SECRET SOCIETIES. 1 . & A. M. —Chapter meets2nd and till Monday nights. Blue Lodge, Ist and 3rd Monday nights. Bed men— 2ud and 4th Tuesday wights in each month. PROFESSIONAL, CARBS. M. V. McKIBBEN, Attorney at Law, JACKSON, GEORGIA. M. M. MILLS, ATTORNEY ATLMV. Office in court house, Jackson, Georgia. W. W. Anderson. Frank Z. Curry. ANDERSON & CURRY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Negotiates loans on real estate. Office up stairs over the Yellow store, Jackson, Georgia. Dr.T.K.Tharpe, DENTIST, FI.OMI.LA, - . GEORGIA. Crown and bridge work and all the latest methods of dentistry. Teeth ex tracted without pain. Prices moderate. Satisfaction guaranteed. Dr. O. H. Cantrell DENTIST, JACKSON, GEORGIA CLEVELAND HOUSE. JACKSON, - - - - The only brick Hotel between Atlan ta and Macon. Board $2.00 per day. Miss Jennie Wallace. Prop. decl4-12m STOP AT THE Morrison House. EVERYTHING NEW A A DRIEST- CLASS. Conveniently Located, Free Sad to Depot, C. It. Go-sham, Propriet r DEMPSEY HOUSE, SOUTHEAST CORNER PUBLIC SQUARE, JACKSON, GA. Strictly first-class in all respects. Give it a trial when you come to Jack son. Terms moderate. Satisfaction •guaranteed. , , , .MRS. A. M. JESTER, Prop. dec!4-3m THE JAMS©! ARGUS. HIE CASHIER GONE. Dark Developments in the Bank ing Circles of Detroit. THE M ATTER HiS BEET KEPT SECRET. r hf: Late liißolvency of the Hank Drought the 1 act* to Surface and a Warrant for the Arrest of a Defaulting- Cashier is the Result. Detroit, Midi., February B.—United >Stata Commissioner Graves, on the eompiaint of State Bank Examiner Caldwell, has issued a warrant fur the arrest of Frederick Marvin, late cashier of the Third National hank of Detroit. Mr. Caldwell made the complaint on instructions of Comptroller Eckels. The charge is the violation of the na tional hanking law by converting to his own use the credits of the bank. The specific charges against Marvin are that in March last he converted two notes, the property of the hank, to his own use. For that reason he was removed from the cashiership of the hank, but owing to the financial disturbance which pre vailed last summer the matter was kept dark until now. The Third Na tional hank recently went into liquida tion and has paid all depositors in full. The receiver is now eollectimr on the assets of the institution for the share holders, and it was considered that no harm could he done by taking the ac tion related above. The amount of the defalcation is not yet determined, but it is alleged that it will reach $50,000. Mr. Marvin has been missing for a week, and his whereabouts are at pres ent unknown. Market Matters in Chicago. Chicago, February 8. —Whe.’.t showed a very weak front yesterday. The bears were still in control of the open ing and maintained their position throughout the entire session, with the exception of a very short period of firmness. Selling was led by George Seaverns & Cos. and Damson Bros. & Cos., whilst McDoitgtill covered a large line of short wheat. May opened 1-4 and 1-2 lower at <' 1-2 to : 1-4. de clined to 0") 1-8. re;u ted t<> * 2 1-1. where it closed with a net Toss of 1 :e for the day. Corn v. hi boring under tin l same condiC- • ' t have existed for ‘some time p I. and for a good part of ’•the sessio a were w< ak and lower, 'iin nag was. 1-Se lower than Tncsd •> e. declined another 1-4 c. reacted • and l-'.’c. and the close was practically unchanged from that of Tuesday. The uctiou of wheat was partly instrumental in causing the early weakness. -tats were much steadier than either wheat or corn. Offerings were not as heavy and the demand from shorts was more impor tant, and closed with a gain of l-8 for the day. A Virginia Mystery Is Solved. Nashvili.k, Tenu.. February 8. —On the 4th of January last E. A. Sonners, of by kins, Pa., mysteriously disap peared from a Louisville and Nashville train in the vicinity of Big Stone Gap, Ya. He was largely interested in min ing industries in southern Virginia and east Tennessee and at Middleboro, Ky., yesterday the body was found floating in the Clinch river. It is sur mised that in a tit of temporary aber ration he jumped from the train into the water, and that the body remained at the bottom until dislodged by the recent high water. Deatli of Mr. O. V. Smith. Portsmouth. Va., February 8. —Mr. O. V. Smith, who has been for three years traffic manager of the Seaboard Air Line, died at 3 o'clock yesterday morning at his home in Portsmouth, Ya. Mr. Smith has been ill for some time. He went to Europe last No vember to see if the watering places of France and Germany would relieve bis sufferings, but he returned to America without relief, and has been growing steadily worse since lie landed. Inpossible to Convict, It Seems. Charleston, S: C., Feb. 8 Special to the News and Courier, from Anderson says that there have been five acquitals yesterday and to-day in the trials jus tice court under the dispensary law, and no convictions. Juries were asked in three eases and were composed equally of tillmanites and conserva tives. Smallpox at Quarantine, Mobile. Mobile, Ala., February 8. — The Rus sian bark Hera, Kynzell, master, is at quarantine, thirty miles down the bay, with confluent smallpox. The vessel sailed from Barcelona December 18. The quarantine physician asks the board of health for vaccine virus for sixteen persons. Death of Senator Fleming. Cavii.’ a. Ga.. February 8. Hon. T.W Fleming, of Baker county, died of grip at his home yesterday mor: ag? lie was the senator from tlie Ninth dis trict in the la-u : slature, and Iki> for years been su-xruiieiuWut of education in Baker eov. v. Ttu . K\ end-d. City ? . Feb, 8 -The inter oceanic ha ’ • iimany of Mexico.- has deeid *a- ’x.ec.d its line from Chioutia. to -■’-t of Acapulco. on the pacific c* i k mm-ediatelr. Pork on tlie ?s*e; -i n v.-!*l begin Febuarjr fifteenth. Frames Sweep over Montgomery, Mo. Mo toomki:*. Mo.. Feb.B Fire this morning destroyed the greater portion of the bnsinc: s houses of the city. Seventeen stoves and office buildings were burned. Lost, $130,000: insurance aboil alt. r ' - h To the of Jamaica. *; . i;. Feb. 8 The Plant will run three excur* N to the island of Ja- A ; h . 1 a ring It. Tampa. Fla. • Vi. i a., i second March Ist and the t -.U* .’il. i l'.’tll. IT WILL BE KOL3, IT IS SAID. Republican* and Jeffersonians Ama'.ffa matlng, It Seems, in Alabama. Birmingham, February 8. —The anti organizedylemocratic forces are in the city, several thousand strong. They have been coming since yesterday, and every train into the city firings dozens of recruits. The largest part of the crowd came last night and this morn ing, and the best posted leaders esti mate that there are 3,000 visitors here today. Captain Kolb and his lieutenants are champing their bits. They are anxious for the fun. There will be 1,289 delegates in the Jeffersonian convention. The basis of representation is fixed on the white population according to 1890, allowing one delegate for every 1.000 population and one delegate for each fraction of a thousand over 500. The Sun’s Cotton Report. New York, February B. —Cotton ad vanced 10 to 11 points, but reacted and closed 10 to 3 poinis higher than Tues day and steady, with sales of 104.000 bales. Liverpool advanced 1 1-2 to 2 points, closing steady, spot sales there being 8,000 at unchanged prices. In Manchester yarns were very dull, and cloths quiet. New Orleans advanced 7 points from Monday’s closing prices, hut lost most of this. Spot prices were l-16c higher: sales 145 for spinning and 50 for speculation. Southern spot mar kets quiet and unchanged. New Or leans sold 2,000 and Memphis 1.050. Port receipts 0,746, against 23,059 this day last week and 11,845 last year; thus far this week 05,592, against 89,508 thus far last week. Exports today, 8,583 to Great Britain and 2,545 to the conti nent. Augusta receipts 199, against 145 last year. Memphis receipts 418. against 490 last year; shipments yesterday 1,579. St. Louis receipts 519, against 1,151 last year; shipments yesterday 111. Hous ton receipts 1,901, against 3.008 last year; shipments yesterday 2,210. New Orleans receipts today estimated at 6,000, against 2,577 the same "day last week and 5.81 G last year. The New Orleans Races. New Orleans, February B. —First race, national handicap, Lancers of Boston, purse S2OO, 8-year-olds, 3-4 mile. Gleasotne won. B. if. second, Ovation third; time. 1:15. Second race, Burgess Corps, Albany, N. Y., selling, purse S2OO, 5-8 mile. Nat tie Howard won, Minnehaha second, Eva’s Kid third; time, 1:02 1-2, Third race, Gate Gity Guards, Atlan ta. Ha., purse $250. selling, 7-S mile. Viola Belle won, Miss Knott second. Shiloh third; time, 1:28 3-4. Fourth race. Continental Guards, New Orleans, handicap, purse S4OO, 1 mile. Marie Lovell v—m. ( apt. Ham mer second, Boro third: time, 1:414-2. Fifth race, Governor's Greys, Du buque, la., selling, purse $250, 1 mile and 70 yards. Duke of Milpitas won, Emma Mac second, Mezzotint third; time, 1:46 1-2. Sixth race,Louisiana National Guard, selling, purse $250, 3-4 mile. Baby Bill won, Bonnie Kate second, Mvrtilartha third; time. 1:10. An American Murdered and Robbed. San Louis, Potosi. Mexico. Feb ruary 8. —Lewis F. Lawrence, a mining man who came here from Pennsyl vania about eighteen months ago, was attacked by a band of robbers near Guadaleazar, a small town northwest of here, and immlered and robbed, news of the crime being bl’ought here yesterday. Mr. Lawrence was on his way to the city of Tula, in the state of Tamaulipas. and left here about a week ago in company with another Ameri can, whose name is unknown to any one here. The body of Mr. Lawrence was found by the side of the road terri bly mutilated with knife wounds. It is supposed that his companion was carried off to the mountains by the bandits, who will hold him for ransom.- The Execution of Will Purvis, Jackson, Miss., February B. —Will Purvis, a whitecap, was executed at Columbia, Miss., yesterday. Purvis’ crime grew out of a whitecap outrage. The victim was a young Marion county farmer, named Will Buckley who worked one season, and with the money earned studied medicine the next. The emploj r ment of-a negro farm laborer brought on a whitecapping with wnich Purvis was connected. Buckley went boldly to court and tes tified, securing the conviction of sev eral of the accused. Purvis swore vengeance, and about a year ago Buck ley was shot down at night while on his way home. Circumstantial evi dence pointed to Purvis as the assassin, and he was convicted. ♦o Prevent the Issue of Certificates. Chattanooga, Tenn., February s. Leopold Wallach, of New York eity. counsel for the Savannah and Western railroad bondholders committee and the bondholders of the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus railroad, after in stalling E. E. Jones as receiver in pos session of the Chattanooga. Rome and 1 Columbus railroad, has gone to Savan nah, where he appears before the Unised States court to prevent the issue of §701,000 of receivers’ certifi cates on the property of the Savannah and Western railroad. Strangers Marry in Athens. Athens, Ga., February B—JudgeB—Judge J. W. Proctor, a prominent jurist of Glen wood. Fla., was married last night to Miss Elizabeth Maddox, of this city Neitlier party had seen the other pre vious to one hour before the cere ir.* my was performed. The engagement and all the arrangements were made ; y correspondence, and kept a see:\ t. The marriage was a great surprise to the relatives. Moody and Saukey in TVash-ngton. Washington, February B.—Dwight Moody and Ira D. Sankey. the evangel ists, opened a series of four week's re vivals at Convention hall in this eity last night. It was by far the largest religious gathering ever known in Washington. Indictments Under The Dispmsar- Law. Charleston, Feb. S— The grand jury of Berkely county yesterday, found in dictments against two parties for vio lation of the dispensary law. These are the first indictments found in this state under this law. . JACKSON, GA-, FEBRUARY 8, 1894. THE }TCREAKY BILL. Spirited Debate in the House and Final Veto on the Resolution. PROLONGED DEBATE IS THE \ESAIE. Houtelle's Privilege Resolution (ailed Up a Soon as Vote Was Taken <n the Met reary Resolution ~<>th>r Matters in Congress. IN ashingtox. February 8. —in the senate yesterday, Mr. Cameron repub lican, Pennsylvania) presented a very large number of remonstrances against the \N iNon tariff bill from merenants, boards of trade, manufacturer, and ..op eratives, representing almost ail the industries carried on in that state. lie occupied the floor for fully 15 inc ites in presenting them, one after another, and stating what they were. There were at least fifty of them in all. ' He also offered an amendment to the. N\ ilson tariff bill, postponing the time when it is to go into effect from June, 1894, to January, 1890. It w*s referred to the com: ittee on finance. Dolph offered a resolution, which went over until today, providing for printing as a senate docum >nt, with appropriate headings, etc., oi all the memorials, petitions and communica tions presented, or to be presented to the senate prior to March Ist in refer ence to the Wilson tariff bill. At 12;80 the house bill to repeal the federal election laws was taken up,and Hoar addressed the senate in opposi tion to it. Another objection made to the fed eral election law was tin t it took away control from the peo >l. of the locality, but the same thing had been done in several democratic states in the last fifteen years in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Louisiana and other states. The right of managing and ordering elections had been taken from the peo ple who gather at the pods and had been put in the hands of the central power of the states, managed and wielded by democratic loaders. After some colloquy, or this point with Hunton (d--raoer. t, Virginia) Hoar exclaimed: *h he •cor is in the archives of this capitol a : ‘< of the history of election ; in his country since 1 SHS the Idakev t ; ~i • corst his tory of crime since i rid was created. •‘S' e can only den wit ii tie t subject in silence. ■_ ‘•'A hen thesb report:. are :v ;d, black ening the .fa.ur fame of **nd, we must walk backward with averted gaze an>l hide our heads in shame. This is a question of fraud or no fraud, and there is nothing else to it. It is a ques tion whether the supreme pearl and gem in the crown of American man hood shall not have the strongest force on the face of the earth- for its protec tion and defense.’’ ' Gray (Delaware) replied to Hoar, who, he said, had mistaken or misrep resented the democratic opposition to the election laws. They wanted to wipe them out, not because they pro tected the weak from the strong; it was because democrats believed, from a bitter experience, that those laws were not only at war with every tradi tion of local self-g’overnment. Not only did they degrade the states of which they were citi zens, but they buttressed up the very fraud which they were intending to destroy. From the inherent vice in their structure-they had been, necessa rily, an auxiliary to the party machine of the party in power in the federal government. In every city of 20,000 in habitants they had been the ready means by which, during the last twen ty years, the republican party had put its hand into the treasury of the United States in order to defray the election charges and expenses of the party. There could not be a success ful denial of that statement. Allison (republican, Iowa) argued against the bill, stating that, so far as he knew, there was no public opinion demanding the repeal of the fedei*al election laws. Daniel (democrat, Virginia) was the next speaker. He admitted that he was mistaken Tuesday in his impres sion that the democratic platform called for the repeal of the federal election laws. It did not do so nomine, but it did so inferentially in a para graph, which he read. Bate (democrat, Tennessee) closed the debate. He made an argu ment in support of the bill. At the close of Mr. Bates' speech, Chandler withdrew* the amendment heretofore offered by him and moved another, the purport of which was to make the proposed re peal effective only to the ex tent of prohibiting the employment ox deputy marshals at elections. This amendment was rejected—yeas, 27; nays. 40. Three populists I Allen. Kyle and Peffer) and one republican (Stew art. Nevada) vote dwvth the democrats in the negative. Another amendment was offered by Chandler for the purpose of excluding from the effect of the repeal the crimes sections of the revised statutes in re gard to elections. It was also rejected —yeas. 27: nays. 33. Two other amendments were offered by Chandler to restrict the scope of the repeal) and were rejected by sim ilar votes. Perkins (republican. California) of fered the amendment of which he had given notice Tuesday, allowing th? election laws to remain, but confining the federal supervision to cities of 200.- 000 inhabitants or over, instead of 200,- 000. as now*. The amendment was rejected—yeas, 27: nays. 39. Three additional amendments were offered by Chandler, and were rejected —two of them without a division and the third by yeas. 27: nays. 39. The bill was then passed—yeas, 39; nays, 28. A party vote, except that btewart (republican, Nevada) and AL Jen, Kyle and Peffer (populists) voted with the democrats in the affirmative. The House. Almost immediately after the open ing of the house proceedings, the speaker and Reed got into a parliamen tary wrangle as to whether or not the order by which the absentees were re called continued after the adjournment. The chair held that it did. and the house took up the special order, which was the consideration of the Hawaiian resolutions of the foreign affairs com mittee. Before the vote was announced it was seen that the house almost se cured a quorum, if it did not actually have it, and there was an effort made by some members to withdraw or change their votes. The speaker, how ever. held that this could only be done by unanimous consent, and there was objection made in each case. ' The speaker announced the vote as follows: Yeas, 184; nays, 3 —no quorum. Before further action was inaugurated Springer made the point of order that 177 constituted the quorum and not 179, as had been held. In support of this he cited the ruling of ex-Speaker Reed in the fifty-first congress, holding that a quorum consisted of a majority of the living members, and not of all those who had been elected. The speaker read Reed’s ruling from the Fifty-first congress, in which it was shown that a very important case —contested election case—that he (Crisp) being on the floor at the time, that a point of order was made that a quorum consisted of a majority of the members of the house, and not of the. living- members. That Speaker Reed, owing to the confusion at the time, could find no precedents, and so al lowed the point temporarily, but on reviewing the question subsequently, and looking up the precedents, decide 1 that a quorum consisted of a majority of the living members. Reed proceeded that in that ease he had changed his opinion, and it was evident that the speaker had changed his. The speaker, resuming, held to the opinion of his predecessor that a quo rum consisted of a majority of the liv ing members, but that he would sub mit the question to the house. Cockran Bailey and Raynor came into the discussion, and Raynor made a par liamentary inquiry as to whether it would be in order to lay the pending point of order on the table and order another roll call'. On this second roll call the populists voted “No,’’ to make a quorum, and the republicans, seeing that they could not'prevent the quorum, changed their :jties and answered to their names. The resolution was ag-reed to by a vote of 177 to 75. As soon as the vote had been an nounced on the McCreary resolution, Bo.utelle called up his privilege resolu tion. which he had introduced Decem ber 23rd 1893. Boutelle demanded the yeas and nays and the roll was called, resulting in the defeat of his resolution —yeas, 9i; nays, 161. DESPERATE FIGHT IN TEXAS. A Pistol Hattie Between a Highwayman and Oitlcers—Two Killed. Wharton, Tex., February B. —News has just come to town that Sheriff Hamilton Dickson was killed above town at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. In company with Sheriff Townsend, of Columbus, and Deputies Hope, Heart and Wells, they had located Draddock. the murder of Constable Townsend, at Weimar. While entering- a thicket on the east side of the river, about three miles below Rancho Grande, Braddock was suddenly discovered. He beg-an firing- at close quarters upon Sheriff Dickson, who was killed instantly. Im mediately one of the posse made short work of Braddock. The murderer was shot and killed in an instant. Mr. Dickson was married only a few weeks ago. Braddock, the dead des perado, had been arrested for train robbery and for killing two negroes, but was released. A few weeks ago he was put off an excursion train and fired into it, for which he was locked up at Weimar. When Constable Town send went to feed him Braddock cut him to pieces and escaped. ArcLaurin Elected and Congratulated. Jackson, Miss., February B. —At noon yesterday the tw r o houses met in joint session foy the purpose of electing a United States senator to succeed Wal thall, resigned. Senator A. M. Byrd placed the name of A. J. McLaurin, the choice of the caucus, in nomination. Mr. Ratliff placed the name of Frank Burkitt in nomination as the choice of the populists. The ballot resulted: McLaurin, 142; Burkitt, 18; scattering, 4. The latter w’ere populist and re publican votes. In a few brief words Mr. McLaurin accepted the trust. Mc- Laurin will leave for Washington on Monday. Among the telegrams of congratulation received by Senator McLaurin w’as one from Senator D. B Hill. - Death Awaits the Train Robbers. Little Rock. Ark., February B. Sheriff Hobgood, of Jackson county, arrived here yesterday afternoon with Tom Brady, Jim Hydrick and Albert Marsker. the convicted train robbers who were yesterday sentenced to hang on April Oth. George Padgett, the rc> maining one of the quartette, whose trial was continued until the next term, was also one of the party. All four were placed in the penitentiary yesterday afternoon for safe-keeping. riar.'al Law Shall Cease Febaary 36th. R:o De Janeiro, Feb., B —The govern ment lias decided to decree that martial law shall cease on Feb. 26th and that the presidential election shall take place on March l, in accordance with the constitution. Dr. Prudente de Moraes, president of the senate, is the only candidate yet named for the national presidency. He is a civilian from the state of Sao Paulo. It is possible that he will be acceptable to both sides. # Reorganization of the Georgia Central. New York, February B.—lt is stated that the reorganization movement in the Georgia Central is rapidly ap proaching the point at which a definite proposition to security holders may be n*ade. It is understood that nearly all the floating debt creditors have entered into the agreement with Gen. Thomas and Thomas F. Ryan to surrender their claims under a reorganization. THE REPORT DENIED. Secretary Carlisle Is Not Prepar ing- a Substitute for Bland Bill. OFFICIAL FIGURES AT THE TREASURY The Wool Growers to Memorialize Con gress on the Subject or the Industry as Affected by the Wilson Bill—News anti Gossip. Washington', February S -Official figures at the treasury department show that within the past three or four days, since a bond issue was practi cally assured, gold has been withdrawn from the treasury for the purpose of paying for the bonds. On .January 3d the gold balance was. in round figures, $30,000,000 of • United States net-sand of treasury notes of 1800. both redeem able in gold. There were $15,000,000. Yesterday the gold, in round figures, amounted to 804,000,000 a decrease of $10,000,000, while the legal tender notes had increased to $57,000,000. The net difference of $4,000,000 in gold was paid out to meet current expenses. Treasury officials have begun trans ferring the balance of the gold de posited for the bonds. In round fig ures, this amounts to $28,600,000. The stated balance yesterday stood: Gold, $93,112,586; currency, $24,002,739; total, $117,115,325. Figures could not be ob tained to'sliow whether, in addition to the gold paid in on the bonds, the treas ury, in the usual course of business, gained or lost gold. The Report Denied. That Secretary Carlisle is preparing a substitute for the Bland silver sein orage bill is officially denied at the treasury department. Secretary Car lisle is opposed at this time to the coin age of silver seinorage, and has so in formed members of congress who have sought his views on the subject, ilis conference with silver leaders Tuesday was to make the Bland silver seinorage bill, if it was determined to push it to passage, less objectionable from the administrative standpoint than the original bill. The Wool Grotrerri* Memorial. The National As ociation of Wool Growers yesterday decided to memo rialize congress for the purpose of se curing hearings before the senate finance committee on the subject of the woolen industry as affected by the Wilson bill. There will be appended to the memo rial the statements of the representa tives of the different wool-growing states. A committee appointed by the association waited on Senator Voorhees and presented to him a resolution adopted at Tuesday's meeting, adding that a date be fixed by the finance com mittee for hearing a committee of the association. Senator Voorhees informed the com mittee that no hearings will be given, hence they say that their only recourse is congress, and the memorial will be presented to it probably today. Capt. Meehan Ordered to Alabama. Capt. Fred A. Meehan, engineer sec retary of the lighthouse board, has been ordered to Montgomery, Ala., re lieving Capt. Philip M. Price, the en gineer officer there, who will assume Capt. Meehan’s duties in Washington. Maj. Charles W. Raymond will be as signed as engineer officer for the fourth lighthouse district. ‘•No Sijjiis of I.ife.” The life saving service has received no details of the sinking of an unknown steamer on outer Diamond shoals, Cape Hatteras, N. C. The keeper of the sta tion there simply telegraphed the fact, adding. ‘‘No signs of life.” The point where the steamer sunk is fully ten miles from the shore. Hope is entertained from the fact that no signs of life are visible, that the crew may have been taken off by a passing vessel. Gos iip. The senate has confirmed the follow ing nominations of postmasters: Mississippi—Lucy E. Harris, Hazle hurst. North Carolina —C. W. Tayloe, Wash ington. South Carolina—Douglas Mclntyre, Tennessee—W. O. Menefee, Coving ton. There are not enough meu enlisted in the navy to properly man the United States ships which go into commission before the first of May, and moreover the limit allowed by law will not per mit the enlistment of a sufficient num ber. TO PROTECT TWCTNEGROES. Military Ordered to Maim sas, A a., to Pro tect Two Prisoners from Lynchers. Richmond, Va., February B.—Pur suant to a call from the sheriff of Prince William'county Governor OTer rall ordered the Alexandria light in fantry to proceed to Manassas to aid the civil authorities in protecting two negroes, who are being tried there to day for the crime of rape committed upon Mrs. Meflin and Mrs. Elliott. The negroes were arrested last week and put in jail at Manas;-as. but had to be taken to Alexandria to prevent their being lynened. The sheriff, in his re quisition. says he cannot get a posse sufficiently strong to protect the pris oners against lynching upon their ar rival at Manassas today unless aided by the militia. The commonwealth’s attorney- of the county and the judge of the court also recommended that military assistance be sent to Manassas. Thirteen Persons PoUoned. Berlin, I-eb. B—The8 —The Lokal Anzeiger a despatch from Minsk. Russia, which says that a rich Hebrew family named Milanovieh, consisting of thir teen persons, including servants,* —ar took of food in which poison had been placed, and every one of them died within fifteen minutes. A number of arrests have been made. R. & D. Meeting Postponed. Richmond, Va., Feburary B.—The meeting of the stockholders of the Richmond and Danville railroad has , been postponed to the 21st of March, i BFHOIIIL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY. NEWS IN BRIEF. Gathered from all Parts of the Country hy Telegraph. Mr. Warner, of New York, introduced in the house a currency bill. Six deaths from smallpox were re ported yesterday in New York. President Barrios, of Guatemala, is threatened with a revolution. Discrediting witnesses for the State are tactics of Couhlin's lawyers in Chi cago. The Papal Secretary says Archbishop Corrigan has not been summoned to Rome. Forty-two millions of the new bonds have been allotted to New York sub scribers. Policeman Lanahan killed his wife and then committed suicide in Phila delphia. . No head, arms or legs were on the body of a woman found near Edge more, ind. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is wanted by the Salvation Army as a witness in a mock trial. The Government of Nicaragua has recognized the provisional Govern ment of Honduras. W. Astor Chanler was reported on •Jan. 23 and is expected to reach the coast by Feb. 10. * The men on the Northern, Union and Southern Pacific Railroads are talking about strikes, An army lieutenant at Pilsen, Bohe mia, first insulted and then with his sword cut down two citizens, By pointing to his innocent brother William Resa escaped arrest for mur der in Wilkesbarre, Pa. ‘tin unmitigated lie” is what Arch bishop Corrigan calls some stories pub lished about him in Chicago. The ‘‘Block and Neighborhood” system of voting has been adopted bv the Republicans in Indianna. A fourteen-year old girl had a man arrested in Raleigh, N. C., for having forced her to appear as his wife. Robert Rathgerber, once a New York millionaire, killed himself at Chicago. He had become an outcast through drink. A. 11. Howland, who was said to have jumped from the steamer Pilgrim, en route to New York, has been traced to New Jersey. Charles Gooderioli has been changed to his bed for a year and a half in Ken nebunkport, Me. He is twenty-eight years old and demented. In announcing that Germany lias signed the Russian treaty Emperor William said its rejection would have been followed eventually by war, The outer line of Vasquez’s defenses at Tegucigalpa, Nicaragua, has been forced back. Vasquez says the position is not as bad as lias been reported. Pierre Brady, a handsome young Frenchman, committed suicide in the St. James hotel in New York appar ently because he was disappointed in love. Fire destroyed a great part of the memorial hospital for women and chil dren in Brooklyn, and twenty-eight pa tients were removed to a temporary refuge. Muriatic acid fumes ascended into a laundry on Centre street, New York, and eighteen young women employed there fainted, while others were taken violently ill. The president nominated J. B. Kim enour as postmaster at Belvidere, N. J. Postmasters at New Dorp and Roas ville, Richmond oourfty, N. Y., were also named. Dancing in short or low-necked dresses will bring liability to a fine of SSOO if a bill in the Massachusetts Leg islature passes. Sensational theatrical lithographs were torn down by Boston police. Secretary Tracy gives Czar Mc- Kane six unpleasant hours of cross-ex amination before Judge Bartlett, in New York, involving him in many con tradictions of former evidence and af fidavits. Closing Scenes at the Mardl Gras. New Orleans, February B.—The Governor’s Greys, of Dubuque, la., spent the day in sightseeing, after having had their photographs taken in a group at the base of the Lee monu ment. Last night the Greys were es corted to Coliseum park by the Fourth battalion, where the visitors gave an exhibition drill, which was witnessed by a large throng. During the after noon the Greys and Boston Lancers, with the local military as an escort, at tended the wiffter race meeting. An extra card was presented, and the oc casion was named “Military Day,” in honor of the visiting soldiers. The Du buque command left this morning for home, after a most enjoyable visit. The Boston Lancers will be treated to an excursion on the river today, and at night will be banquetted at the Hotel Royal. They leave for home on Fri day. Tillman for a-Third Term. Coltmbia, S. C.,• February B.— lt is und *rstood that there is a reform con ference going on in Edgefield with a view of involving some plan to patch up the little differences in the camp. It is stated that it is likely to be agreed to ruu Governor Tillman for a third term, elect a lieutenant-governor, and then if the legislature elects Gov ernor Tillman to the United States senate the lieutenant-governor can step into his shoes, which may or may not fit him. It is argued that bv the governor standing for a third term he will be in a position to defend the a ministration without having to leave that to an untried hand. Among the Arkansas Moonshiner*. Little Rock. Ark., Feb. B— Collector Cook, has received a telegram from Deputy Collector L. McClure, at Port Smith, reporting that he had just re turned from a fifteen days raid on moonshiners in Polk and Sevier coun ties, captured fifteen wild eatters, and nine illicit stills. This makes fifty illicit stills captured in Arkansas tin der Cooks administaation. RaAl* Made by Dispensary Constable*. Charleston, Feb. B—Six8 —Six raids were made by’ the dispensary constables in Charleston yesterday, one of the raids being made upon a private re si enee. Liquors were found at only one of the establishments visited. The raids were not attended by any exoiting in cidents and no crowds collected during their progress. NO 6.