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The Tribdne.
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VOL XVIII.
England proper has a population
less than 28,000,000, which is less
half that of the United States.
The total number of Chinese in
United States in 1890 was 105,465.
The total number in 1890 was only
107,475, a gain in ten years of but
2010 .
The New Orleans Picayune thinks our
sanitary scientists will do well to con¬
sider whether or not an excessive use
of ice is destroying the vitality of the
American people, and give warning
accordingly.
On small French farms the farming
Is extraordinary skilful. The land is
far cleaner than on most farms in
England, and there is dextrous
economy in laying out crops in rota¬
tion and in the use of chemical man¬
ures.
The vertical system of writing is now
the most popular in Europe and in this
country. In the opinion of the New
York Reoorder it looks better, is more
legible and occupies less space than
the sloping writing once in fashion.
It fatigues the writer less and is prefer¬
able from a hygienic point of view.
New Zealand sheep raisers have been
trying to raise a class of sheep that
will suit both the British meat market,
-and at the same time produce a profit¬
able fleece of wool. The experiments
have led to the conclusion that a cross
between the Merino ewe and the Bor¬
der Leicester ram is about right.
! rous It is pearl a rare in thing an American to find a oyster, really lus- but
G great many sueh pearls are found in
he common fresh water mussel The
i ‘(pearl bearing mussel is distributed
'over a wide area in the United States,
and extremely valuable mussel pearls
have been found in New Jersey, Ohio,
Tennessee and several other States.
An occasional black pearl of some
Value is found in the native oyster.
! Not many years ago the bulk of the
papital invested in Mexioan undertak¬
ings was English, but in the three
years ending with 1892 the amounts
embarked were $213,500,000 English to
$345,810,000 American, As the Ger-
mans have put only $63,750,000 into
the oonntry in their entire career up
to 1891, American interests in the Re¬
public are far ahead of those of both
our leading competitors combined,
Bays the San Francisco Examiner.
While a New York policeman was
laughing uproariously at a fat man
who had been upset by a bicyclist, re¬
lates the Detroit Free Press, a wheel
going at the rate of twenty miles an
hour struok the policeman and knooked
him withim a few inches of half a
block. Ten minutes later the rider
who had bowled the blue-coated
guardian over was looking through
the bars, while the fellow who had
collided with the fat man was cavort¬
ing about the streets at a Nancy Hanks’s
clip. It makes a vast difference in a
large city whether you run over a
common citizen or a policeman.
The President of the United States
is allowed $36,064 for the salaries of
his immediate subordinates. His pri¬
vate secretary gets $3260; his assis¬
tant secretary, $2250; the stenogra¬
pher, $1800; each of five messengers,
$1200; the steward, $1800; each of
the two doorkeepers, $1200; and other
subordinates lower salaries. There
is an allowance of $8000 for the White
House stationery, carpets, eto. ; $12,-
500 for repairs and refurnishing; $2,-
500 for fuel; $4000 for the green¬
house, and $15,000 for stable, gas and
other incidentals. In all, the Presi¬
dent and his house cost the American
people over $125,000 a year.
The horse breeding industry of the
whole world is having a hard time of
it, asserts the American Dairyman. In
distant Australia, on the European
continent, in Canada and in this coun¬
try the same story is told. The causes
of course vary in the different places,
but the over production of low-grade
stock is a factor in all of them. In
parts of Australia such horses are not
worth their pasture. Their unsaleable-
ness has obliged breeders in that coun-
try to boil them down as the only
means to realize anvthing from them,
ket in the shape of hide, hair, glue,
bone, cat meat and oil. The owners
regard themselves as fortunate if car-
casses nets them $7.50 each. This is
an exceedingly small price for a horse,
but the disappearance of the grade
that nobody, wants must ultimately re-
suit in a broader inquiry for the bet-
ter class of stock. If the Canadian
and American breeder would follow
the boiling down example o! their Au.-
very much brighter.
CARNES VILLE, FRANKLIN «"•! •»t|iq*«.>l s.wofr WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1893.
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CONGRESS IN SESSION.
Tit Daili Routine ot Boll
mi Epitomized.
What ^s Being Done to Allay
cial Impression ami Bring Relief.
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flieyiw ed proceeding^ chaplain Tuesday of the senate, open- with
llie journal morning
read prayer, by Secretary of Monday
lUmv Cox. The
dentials Af GeYirge C. Perkins, the
and senator the •fr^m oath > of California, were
office was administer¬
ed to U’>m. ’ The senate then took
a re¬
cess until 12:45 o’clock The recess
having expired, Mr. Harris, of the
committee appointed to wait upon the
president, reported that the commit¬
tee had performed that duty, and had
been informed that the president would
communicate with congress immedi¬
ately. Thereupon Mr. Pruden, oni
of the president’s secretaries, appear¬
ed and delivered the message, which
was ate by immediately Mr. Johnson, read to the sen
its chief clerk.
The reading of the president’s mes¬
York, sage concluded, Mr. Hill, of New
arose and presented the first
bill of the session providing for the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman law It then contained a
provision declaring that the repeal of
the purchasing clause of this law was
not to be construed as an abandon¬
ment of bimetallism, but on the con¬
trary declaring that it was the duty of
the. government to maintain gold and
silver on a parity. Two bills
were introduced by Senator
Stewart, of Nevada Their titles
were: “To restore the rights of coin-
age,” and “To supply the deficiency in
the currency.” The latter bill was
read in full. It directs the secretary
of the treasury to issue silver certifi¬
cates equal in amount to the amount
of silver bullion in the treasury pur¬
chased under the act of July 14, 1890,
in txcess of the amount necessary
at its coinage value to redeem
the treasury potes is made under
that act and to issue the same to
provide for any deficiency in the reve¬
of nues such of the government,' the surplus
certificates to be used in the
purchase of 4 per cent, bonds at their
market price, not exceeding 12 per
cent premium. Mr. Stewart delivered
a prepared speech upon the bill. In
the speech he declared himself against
the repeal of the sherman act, as such
repeal would, he said, destroy silver
coinage forever.
Third Day —Senate met Wednesday
morning and without transacting any
business adjourned until Thursday.
Motion was made by Gorman and the
yeas and nays demanded by Platt.
The vote stood yeas 48, nays 21.
Fourth Day —Just after read¬
ing Wednesday’s journal Senator Gor¬
man moved that when the senate ad¬
journed it be until Monday. The mo¬
tion prevailed by a vote of 37 to 18.
The negative votes in both cases were
liven by republicans and the affirm¬
ative votes by democrats, reinforced
by senators from silver producing
states, led by Mitchell and Peffer.
the House-
Second Day. —The house was called
to order promptly at noon Tuesday
and prayer was offered by the newly
elected chaplain, Rev. Dr. Haddawy.
The journal, which was a rather
lengthy one, was then read and ap¬
proved,and the house took recess until
12:45. After recess Mr. Springer,
chairman of the committee appointed
to wait upon the president, reported
that the president would communicate
in writing a message to congress forth¬
with. Mr. Pruden, one of the presi¬
dent’s secretaries, made his bow and
sent the important document to the
clerk’s desk, where it was read by
Clerk Kerr. Tho president’s message
was listened to with intense interest
by members of the house, and at the
conclusion of its reading was greeted
with general applause, not confined to
any section of the chamber. Tho
Michigan election case pending be¬
tween Richardson and Belknap
was then taken up A vote
on a republican resolution de-
claring Belknap entitled to his seat on
a prima facie case was defeated. Mr.
O’Ferrall’s resolution for the immedi¬
ate swearing in of Mr. Richardson was
agreed to without division and Mr.
Richardson came forward and quali¬
fied. Mr. Reilly, of Pennsylvania,
announedd the death of his colleague,
William Mutchler, and as a mark of
respect to the memory of the deceased
the house at 4:35 o’clock adjourned
until Thursday.
Third Day. —The house not in
session.
Fourth Day —In the house, Thurs-
day, after the reading and approval
of Tuesday’s journal, Bailey of Texas,
moved that the house take a recessun-
til one o’clock. On a viva voce vote
the motion was declared defeated.
Bailey then demanded a division, and
again it met with defeat, the vote
standing 76 to 127. On securing tel-
g8
Fifth Day. —The pro and anti-silver
men came to a line of procedure Thurs-
day night, and upon their agreement,
immediately after the reading of the
journal in the house, Friday morning,
Mr. Wilson,of West Virginia, who had
been chosen by the president and 8«c-
retarv Carlisle to represent the admin-
Oration in tie contest, offered a bill
for the repeal of a part of the Sher-
” U “loride. “tta? 'ffi
United States are hereby pledged to
maintain the parity of gold and silver
coin of the United States, at the pres-
Lw!!i.M"ry h ic,i lh ”Mf r bIL”!
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some little objection from the repub-
licans an arrangement was effected
whereby a debate for fourteen days—
with night sessions if desired—was
provided for—votes to be taken on ra-
tios varying from sixteen to one to
twenty J to one, i and an amendment re-
vivi B the B ftnd aot of 1878; the
dail ' se8sionB of tho hoU8C to extend
from II o’clock a. m. until 5 o’clock
p. m. Tho immediate consideration
of both was asked for. An attempt to
filibuster was made, but the previous
question was put and adopted. Then
Mr. Bland offered a free coinage bill
at sixteen to one ratio as a substitute
for Mr. Wilson’s bill, and debate was
declared in order. Mr. Raynor, of
Maryland, immediately took the floor
against Mr. Bland’s bill. Thus the gen¬
eral debate, to last eleven days, began.
The third man to rise and address
the speaker was Mr. Pence, of Color¬
ado, a new member elected by popu¬
lists and silver democrats. That a man
who has not been a mender of the
house a week should attempt a speech
was the a great surprise to every one, and
members crowded ubeut. He sur¬
prised the house more than any young
man who has ever addressed it. His
first words showed him to be an orator
and a scholar. For more than thirty
minutes not a member left his seat,
and when he had concluded ringing
applause went up from every part of
house. Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama,
followed Mr. Pence in an able demand
for a greater volume of currency. It
was 5 o’clock when the house ad¬
journed.
Sixth Day. —But little interest was
manifested in the silver debate in the
house Saturday. There was nothing
but speech making. As none of the
great orators of the house were to be
heard from the attendance was light.
The speakers were Harter, of
Ohio; Hendricks, of New York ; Bow¬
ers, of California, and Rawlins, of
Utah.
Why the House Took Recess.
The recess of Thursday was taken in
order to permit a conference between
the silver and anti-silver steering com¬
mittees time to arrive at some conclu¬
sion. After the recess Springer, (dem¬
ocrat) of Illinois, moved that the
house adjourn. A chorus of yeas
came from the democratic side and a
strong echo of nays from the republi¬
cans. The house adjourned until Fri¬
day by a vote of yeas 179, nays 137.
Why the Senate Adjourned.
-The injection partisanship by repub¬
lican 13 senators on the financial question
had a wholesome effect on the
democratic members irrespective of
views. They bitterly resent being plac¬
ed in the attitude of opposing a demo¬
cratic president in his efforts to do
away with the extraordinary wave of
depression now sweeping without re¬
sistance, over the whole country. For
this reason the senate adjourned im¬
mediately upon assembling until Mon¬
day to give the finance committee time
to present some measure for immedi¬
ate action.
AUGUST CROP REPORT.
Rust and Heavy Itains Damage Cotton
Somewhat.
The crop report of the department
of agriculture issued Thursday for the
month of August makes the condition
of cotton 8.04. A decline of a little
over two points since last month.
This is the lowest average for August
ever given out by the department.
Averages by states are for Virginia,
88 ; North Carolina, 84 ; South Caro¬
lina, 75 ; Georgia, 63 ; Florida, 92 ;
Alabama, 79 ; Mississippi, 81; Loui¬
siana, 89 ; Texas, 72 ; Arkansas, 89 ;
Tennessee, 83 ; General averages August
for several years are as follows: 1892,
82.5 ; 1891,88.9 ; 1890, 89.5; 1889, 89.3;
1888, 87.8: and 1887 it was 73.3. The
present low condition is the conse¬
quence of excess of rain in the early
part of the season, followed by hot,
dry weather during the month of July.
Rust is reported as the cause of inju¬
ry to the crop in the states of Ala¬
bama, Mississippi and Tennessee and the
boll worm and the caterpillar have
damaged crops more or less through¬
out the states of Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas and Arkansas. Shedding is also
reported as occurring in some locali¬
ties Since the first of August the
drought has been broken, and rain has
visited the cotton belt, excepting in
parts of Tennessee, Mississippi and
Texas, where it is badly needed. In
some portions of Mississippi and Ala¬
bama too much rain for the good ol
cotton is announced.____
LIBEL CASES DISMISSED.
,J,overnor . . w ... .
Editor ”, Haltzeli. ose< ' 1
A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala.,
says: The libel eases brought by
Governor Jones against Editor •J’rank
Baltzell, of J he Alliance Herald ,
were on Friday noli pressed in the
city court. Judge Bariugton, repre-
Baltzell had made the amende honor-
able through his paper declaring that
hischarges against the governor weri
made during a heated campaign and
he did not intend to reflect upon the
personal or official honor and integrity
°* Governor Jones; thet as the ends
of justice had been subserved he re-
quested the cases nol pressed, whicl
was accordmglyjone.___
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Happenings of 1 Interest Portrayed In
PI ]lij'Paragraphs. I
1 Ga., board of health
The quarantined Augusta,
1ms against Pensacola
until December 1st.
Tho board of health of Chattanooga,
Tenn., at a special meeting Thursday
morning ordered a strict quarantine
established against Pensacoal,Fla.
Thursday undlr t!je city of Birmingham
put quarantine against Pen¬
sacola, Fla. Special officers will meet
all trains from* the south and escort
them through the city.
Scranton, Miss., established quaran¬
tine Monday morning against Pensa¬
cola. Refugees who arrived on the
early train were immediately station. sent to
the Round island quarantine
A Nnshvillo, Tenn., dispatch of
Thursday says Tho A merican na-
tional bank has suspended payment.
The Safe Deposit Trust and Banking
Company has taken advantage of the
sixty days notice.
At noon Thursday a strict quaran¬
tine against Pensacola went into force
at Savannah. No passengers, no bag¬
gage and no freight from that Florida
city will be allowed to enter Savannah.
This was a result of a meeting of the
board of sanitary commissioners.
Thursday ;U •ning about fifty mon
employed ii> ; Richmond and Dan-
ville shops i> llknta, Ga., wero drop¬
ped from \ payroll. There have
been about > hundred and fifty men
employed, l d unP e road has found it
necessary to . Jlce its force.
The Ohio democratic conven¬
tion assemble*»t Cincinnati Thursday
morning. LnMrence T. Neal, of Chil-
licotlie, was unanimously nominated
for governoi on the first ballot. Col.
W. A. Taylor, of Columbus, was nom¬
inated by acclamation for lieutenat
A Savannah, Ga., special says: The
bull movement in the naval stores
market, or rather especially in the
high grade rosins, has experienced
somewhat of a reversion during the
last week or two, and prices, which
reached a good figure, grew unsteady,
wavered and fell rapidly.
A special from New OrleansB says:
President Oliuliant ^-uard called a special
meeting of th of hwiltli Thurs¬
day morning!- .^1 1 ftet on report of
yellow fever Pensacola. After a
full discussion of the subject the board
decided not to actually quarantine
Pensacola, but to detain passengers
coming from that city.
The First National bank of Nash*
ville, Tenn., closed its doors Wednes<
day at the close of business hours.
It was the oldest banking institution
south of the Ohio, having been estab¬
lished in 1863. It had a capital of
$1,000,000 and a surplus fund and un¬
divided profits of $100,000. The sus¬
pension is in no sense due to any losses
made by the bank.
Information from Coni Creek is to
the effect that a miner named Elkins
and possibly one by tho name of
Drummond were lynched Wednesday
night by th Tennessee soldiers
guarding the ljuvicts. They were the
two men held under arrest charged
with lining leaders of the mob which
assassinated Private Laugherty Mon¬
day night.
A dispatch from Frankfort, Ky.,
says Another daring attempt among
the convicts to blow up the peniten¬
tiary walls and escape, was discovered
by Warden Norman Wednesday night,
and the details wero made public at
once Tho principals in the con-
spiracy were the two Reeves brothers
and a fellow by the name of Millard,
all desperate men, who are serving
terms of thirty-one years each for
blowing up a bank and attempting to
burn tho town of Tompkinsville a few
years ago.
News comes from San Antonio,Tex.,
that Colonel R. M. Moore, special
agent of the treasury department
states that the troubles ulong the Rio
Grande aro serious. Some fifteen or
twenty arrests have been made on
charges of smuggling cattle from Mex-
ICO Colonel Moore directed that ar¬
rests should only be made in cases in
which the cattle could lie identified by
flesh marks independently of brands.
The result has been that only about
200 to 300 head of cattle havo been
seize d, where 2,000 might have been
taken.
THE SCARE IS OVER
And Every I fling Quiet In Pensacola--A
Proclamation Issued.
A Pensacola special of Friday says:
The city is quiet and the panic has
coln pl e t]y subsided. No new case ol
y e j] ow (ever or a Huspiciousease of any
( ] e8cr jptj on has been reported to the
p, our il of health. Dr. health,' Porter, president
0 f Bic B tate board of has taken
ch Surgeon General Wyman at
re ’ ', '
. r ,
\x c G ru( ] er) investigation. Carter and Murry to mak€
thr ough t l
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Routing Desperadoes.
A • j (j[ Fri(1(lv frora j ac kson,
-ru., counties of Clarke
• wil ,., )X and Marengo are
“roua doings" highest tL pitch at the
of notoriou.
Meaebamites, and between four anc j
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TRADE TOPICS.
Dun A Co.’s Report of Business for
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trado says: The long desired meeting
of congress, which fully answered ex¬
pectations, and the arrival of $13,280,-
000 of gold from Europe with $10,000,-
000 more on tho way liavo not brought
tho improvement many anticipated.
Stocks aro stronger, but failures con¬
tinue and the closing of industrial es¬
tablishments, idlo hands and silent
shops multiply, and tho disorganiza¬
tion of domestic changes is even greater
than a week ago. There has boon no
startling crash, but the formal failures
of banks, including one in New York
and several in Nashville, number thirty-
four, while refusals to pay except
through a clearing house or with lim¬
itations are becoming more common.
The commercial disasters, 894 in num¬
ber, include such names as R. H. Cole¬
man, the “iron king;” J. H.Walker A
Co., of Chicago, in dry goods, and H.
L. Hotchkiss, in stocks.
The arrest of industry goes so far
that a third of the iron production
ceased in July and the consumption of
iron in manufacture diminished 46 per
cent from May 10th to July 1st. Not
even this shrinkage stimulates demand
to support prices, which remain tho
lowest on record, and further stoppages
in August have reduced the weekly
output below 100,000 tons.
But $18,000,000 bank uotos will be
quickly added to tho circulation,
through tho use of tho bonds purchas¬
ed from savings banks and $23,000,000
in gold from Europe, in spite of tho
advanco in tho Bank of England rate
to 4 per cent, and in its charge for
gold to 76 shillings and 10 penco,
which, with some specie and
notes from Canada will make
tho largest addition to tho monetary
supply ever experienced in a single
month. If this suffices to causo the
release of hoarded money, some re
covery may come without, waiting for
the slow-footed lawmakers at Wash¬
ington. But late advices give reason
to nope that tho wishes of the busi¬
ness world may soon be answered by
tho unconditional repeal of the silver
purchasing clause of tho act of 1890.
Failures during the woek number
394 in the United States, against-160
last year and twenty-five in Canada,
against twenty for tho same week last
year. Tho west still contributes the
larger number—191 for tho past week
—against 287 for the pr evious week.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
Condensed from Onr Most
Telegraphic Aflyiccs
And Presented In Pointed and Reada¬
ble Paragraphs.
The Phoenix powder mill, one of
the largest in tho country, situated
nine miles east of St. Louis, Mo., iu
Illinois, exploded at noun Tuesday.
Two men were killed and several in¬
jured.
Tho severest earthquake felt at Santa
Rosa, Cal,, since 1868 occurred Wed¬
nesday morning Oscillations wer<
apparently southeast to northwest,
Considerable damage was done in tin
way of falling chimneys, broken win-
dows, etc. The courthouse was badly
shaken up.
RolTert H. Coleman, the “iron king”
of tho Lebanon, Pa,, valley ami a
millionaire several times over, has
confessed judgment in favor of his
brother-in-law and one of his attor¬
neys, aggregating $306,500, which,
together entered, with other liens previously
swells tho aggregate to $2,-
604,000.
Tho Commercial bank, of Minneap-
olis, Minn., closed its doors Wednes¬
day morning. The capital is $200,000 •
its deposits $400,000 and its time de¬
posits $222,000. The loans and dis¬
counts at the last statement amounted
to $642,000. It is stated by the officers
of tho bank that depositors will be
paid in full.
The men who aro charged with
wrecking the Indianapolis, Ind., Na¬
tional bank are to be prosecuted. The
legal proceedings may begin at once.
United States Attorney Burke lias
been in conference with the examiner
ami the receiver for three days, and is
acquainted with the faces relating to
the suspension of the bank.
Advices of Wednesday from Chey¬
enne, Wyo., state that the governor
has decided not to appoint any one to
the senatorship made vacant by the
resignation by A. C. Beckwith,
the senate shall have decided the
question whether or not a senator ap¬
pointed after the failure of tho state
legislature to elect is entitled to a seat
The banks of the Clearing House
association of Cleveland, O., on Wed-
nesday decided not to furnish any
more cash to meet the pay roll cf man-
ufocturing establishments, but to issue
instead clearing house checks in small
amounts. The oViject is to counteract
the growing tendency of working peo- j
YELLOW JACK AT BR U ^ 0 ^
A . Case ,. o Announced kmn „ n ZT'tfa<i Br* Ul . drt
Differ Ounce put' {> i|>au»>t[
A special of Bat^jji i; not; .qtuup
fever has hit Brunsv
Lamb, of that city ' ‘
nouncement to the / ).*'ii!L-I J J
w.
-e case has been do, pur, inuj
Las been isoluted and. jo p»|J
OHR LATEST DISPATCHES.
The Happenings of a Day Chronicled in
Brief and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing tl.c (list of the News
From Ail Parts of the World.
Nelson Morris & Co. ’s large fertiliz¬
ing department, at Chicago, burned
Saturday morning Unofficial esti
mates of the loss indicated that it will
be about $300,000.
A special from St. Johns, N. B.,
says Rev. G. L. Neill created consid-
erablo excitement in his church Sun¬
day night by announcing that a cablo
dispatch had been received to the ef¬
fect that Queen Victoria had been
striekou with paralysis.
Captain Charles 1*. Barrett, who is
under arrest at Spartanburg, S. C.,
for alleged complicity in postal frauds,
was given a preliminary hearing be¬
fore a United States commissioner and
committed to jail in default of $6,000
bond, pending tho action of the grand
Tho First National bank of Gadsden,
Ala., suspended Saturday, owing to in¬
ability to make collections and gradual
withdrawals of deposits. The deposit¬
ors will be paid in full. The announce¬
ment caused universal regret to tho
citizens of Gadsden and that section
of tho state.
Surgeon General Wyman Saturday
morning received a telegram from
Passed Assistant Surgeon Magruder,
of the marine hospital service, sta¬
tioned at Pensacola, Fla., to tho effect
that no new or suspicious cases of yel¬
low fever have appeared tliero since tho
two deaths already reported. Tho ex¬
citement is rapidly subsiding.
Charleston’s board of health, Sun¬
day, ordered quarantine against Brun¬
swick, Ga. The stop is purely pre¬
cautionary, and little uneasiness is
felt, either by tho authorities or tho
city. The health department announ¬
ces that similar action be taken in re¬
gard to other cities in which yellow
fever may break out.
Josiali Morris & Co., of Montgom¬
ery, Ala., the leading private banking
house of the state, made an assignment
late Saturday evening. It is due to the
continued withdrawal of deposits dur¬
ing the last sixty days and drafts made
in the meantime. It in stated that tho
assets will easily realize largely more
than the liabilities. This is the gen¬
eral belief of those who are acquainted
with the situation.
A Knoxville, Tenn., special of Sat-
urday says General Kellar Anderson
states that the situation at Coal Creek
is very exciting. It is reported that
three more miners were lynched at
Briceville Saturday morning. General
Anderson says that he has discovered
a plot by the miners to kill himself
and all the soldiers by ambushing
them when they appeared alone, but
that precautions have been taken
against this.
A Chicago dispatch of Saturday
says The once famous wheat specu-
lator, B. P. Hutchinson (Old Hutch),
has sold liis membership in the Chica¬
go board of trade The check was is
sued to the old gentleman twenty-six
years ago, and went at a vory low
price Hutchinson was lit one time
worth $8,000,000,accumulated iu spec¬
ulation. The sale of his membership
is taken as marking the final close of
his busy life.
In tho supreme court of tho District
of Columbia Saturday suit was filed
for $50,000 for breach of promise
against Representative William C.
P. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, by
Madeline V. Pollard. Miss Pollard is
the woman to whom it was announced
ho was engaged about two months ago.
Just what effect the suit will have
upon Mr. Breckinridge’s standing in
the house, of course, is not known.
Members are not disposed to censure
him at present. They want the facts
before reaching a verdict.
A dispatch of Saturday from Harts¬
horn, I. T.,states that election returns
from sev< utecn of the nineteen conn
ties of Choctaw Nation,give the Locke-
Jackson, or national party, a majority
of fifteen, and the Jones, or progres¬
sive party, iu two counties The na
tionalists are jubilant, as they will
have a large majority to control tho
next council, maintaining that their
policy lias been vindicated It is
feared they may adopt docisivo meas¬
ures to prevent the execution of the
nine c ondemned Choctaws set for 8ep-
tember 8th.
BANK OFFICIALS ARRESTED,
( barged With Wrecking lhft First Na-
11 on it I Hank of Orlando, Fla.
Orlando, Fla., is thoroughly excited
0V er tho now and sensational turn the
flfTuirs of the suspended First National
|,arik have taken. Late Wednesday
night the president of tho bank, Nat
I’oyntz, Cashier J. L. Giles and liirec-
tor J. B. Parnamore were arrested on a
charge of fraud. President Poyritz, in
■ J. H. Lee, of Ovide, and W. R.
fund, of Orlando, who aro directors
-xo „ Lik, and for O. T. Poyntz, as-
er. , All of the parties are
tizens, standing well in
ty
in V ? k ’
|^^Hb»rk special of Friday says^
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NO. 33.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Affairs of Government and Routine of
the Various Departments Discussed.
Notes of Interest Concerning the I’eo*
pie and Their General Welfaro.
Tho senate finance committee Thurs¬
day morning discussed the silver ques¬
tion informally in connection with
various bills referred to it Tuesday,
but decided for the time time being
to tako no action on any of them.
Tho announcement of the prevalence
of yellow fever at Pensacola, made by
the New York papers of Thursday
morning, caused a general concern
among the southern members. There
is a probability of a request for a very
stringent quarantine measures bill to
be made.
The position of tho speaker at this
particular time is, to say tho loast, un¬
enviable. He lias tho placing of some
356 members on 59 committees of
every conceivable character. To do
this without criticism from the coun¬
try and without heart-burnings from
the members here and there is of
course an impossibility.
The announcement of the commit¬
tee on rules was made prior to ad¬
journment of tho house Thursdny and
consists of tho speaker, Catch ings,
Outhwaito, Reed and Burrows. Outh-
waito takes tho placo of McMillen on
tho committee. This would seem to
show thut McMillen is to load the
democrats on the floor.
Tho indications at present are that
free coinage will bo defeated in the
house by from thirty to fifty majority,
though a change is -possiblt In the
senate the free coinage men are in the
majority right now, but several sena¬
tors arc wavering under tho pressure
from tho administration and outside
sources, and the result there is doubt*
ful
Representative Oates, of Alabama,
met with a painful accident in Wash¬
ington Thursday in being thrown
from a cable car The car started
suddenly, and Colonel Oates, having
but one arm, was unable to save him¬
self, and fell heavily to the pavement,
striking on his back The back of the
oongre ssnien's head is badly bruised as
well as his back, and while no serious
injuries are apprehended his physicians
do not pronounce Colonel Oates yet
out of dai iger.
Tlie Hllver Cancna.
The silver Caucus called for noon
Wednesday in the house was fairly well
attended. It was not a democratic cau¬
cus, but a caucus of all advocates of
free coinage. Many free coinage
democrats declined to go on the
grounds that they preferred not to at¬
tend a general caucus ot democrats,
republicans and populists. There were
about ninety democrats, six populists
and three or four republicans present.
It lasted several hours, and almost
oveyr one did some talking. Mr. Rank-
head, of Alabama, arose and explained
the situation, and suggested that the
caucus appoint a committee of five to
confer with tho anti-si I vorites arid pro¬
pose this plan for settling the financial
question: The introduction of a free
coinage bill by Mr. Bland Thurs¬
day; the ratio of silver to gold
in tlio bill to be same as
at the present—16 to 1; then all other
bills and amendments from all frac¬
tions could follow. Three weeks' de¬
bate on the entire question, then a
voto on the ratio of 16 to 1 If that
was voted down 17 to land so on until
some ratio was adopted. Anything offered
else germane that might be
should be voted upon without fillibus-
tering. Finally if free coinage was
voted down, a bill similar to the old
Bland law should bo voted upon. If
that and all other silver propositions
failed, then a vote should be had on
tho unconditional repeal of the Shor-
man law. The proposition as Mr,
Bankhead explained simply means a
square and open flglit, all sides agree¬
ing not to filibuster, or fight behind
cover, but to let the settlement of tho
matter go to the strongest side. It
was adopted unanimously, and a com¬
mittee compose! 1 of Messrs Bankhead,
Culberson, Bland, Bryan and Lane, of
Illinois, were appointed to confer with
the silver men.
Gold on flio way.
Tho sum of £050,000 in gold was
withdrawn from the Bank of England
Wednesday for shipment abroad. Of
this sum £495,000 was for the ship¬
ment to the United States and £55,000
for Montreal. Tho Bank of England
is charging a premium on eagles and
is holding bar gold at a higher rate.
The sum of £430,000 was shipped for
Now York on the North German
Lloyd steamer and Lahu, tho sailing White from Star
Southampton, sailing
line steamer Brittonic, from
Liverpool. The Lahn took the bulk
of the shipment.
Chlcagu Orders Gold.
Chicago ordered $3,000,000 • gold
direct from London Friday, and will
get the first installment. Monday. The
method is to buy New York exchange
at the big discount, and then get cable
transfers on New York. The result is
that Chicago collects its New York
balances viu London, helps itself and
helps New York at the same time.
Au Old Cannon Found.
Eight miles north of Greenville, O.,
John Noff, on Saturday, found a can-
non captured from St. Clair s soldiers
by the Indians during the retreat from
Fort Recovery to Greenville in 1791.
A derrick was used to extricate it from
a hole eleven feet deep. It is brass,
six feet long, loaded, ami shoots B1X-
pound balls. _______
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