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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1889)
The Democrat. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CLEM. C. MOORE. CRAWFORDVIILE, GEORGIA. Enured »t the po.mffice at Crawfordrille, Oeorg s, as second-class mad mutter. Germany is said to be very mad be¬ cause Prance i* lending money to Many of our readers will l>c sur prised to learn that Iv vada has lost about one -third ot its voting population during tho lait ciglit yonr-. This is due mainly to tho cxliaui'.inn ot tho cele¬ brated silver mines at Virginia City. Though tho (1 util rate is four or five more to the thousand in cities than in tho country* tho markod clilforonco be MVOC11 the rat'-H in iliiTcrcnt citien indi¬ rates that improve 1 plumbing and o „,i, h< . r sanitary .. prccautiona x )mvo moil fled the evils of over crowding. Canon Taylor, of tho I’rotcstnnt K >i*eopnl church, lately produced m citimste before tho London Church (’ mgron that it woul l lake ovor 8 )0 9 - 000 years at the present rate of progress to convert tho world, even if tho popu¬ lation remained stationary and tho con virtj stead fait. When tha E lglhU took possession ol the Island of Cyprus, it was annually rnvuged by grasshoppers ti such a de greo that its crops were hardly worth consider tion. la fivo yenrs, and nt a coat of only tome fliOO, 000, tho insects were almost destroyed und it now co-ts i but , .cam $8000 a year to . koop , tho , laud i , freo . irom ravage*. TheNiw York Buu sny* tliat since tho government of tho United B atoi ve tu established tic r i liavo boon only threo prsaUents who fulled to invito to tho cabinet a cifizon of N w York. Thoso .Joan . . Annins, . . J Jioinna Jollorson , _ Woro and Zichnry Taylor, and ia two out of tli ... three tho presidoat at tho , * crises v;ce lime was a N w Yorker. T m new Texas capitol, built by C'h cago rnon, has boon turned ovor to tho Bluto and accepted, Three mil lion acre, of land woro given for this building, tho last installment of 810, 000 ncres having boon handed over to Col. Abner Taylor on Saturday, Tho building cost, as shown by actual vouchor*, $3 000,000, which makes tk« cost of the laud por acre to tho Chica¬ go syndicate $1. Now OrUatu ladies are con tomplating tho organ i/.ation of a commlttoo of 100 of their sex whoso duty it will bo to look, in a largo and practical way, aftor tho interests of women, as to how they treated . in . •tore*, asylums, , prisons, , are st.'itlon-housoi, etc. They liavo no do¬ »iro to bo ‘‘antagonistic to naccainry business methods,” but to organize ‘.homsolve* into a forca that will com¬ mand respect and bo of scrvico to tho weak and unprotected. They hopo in time to make it a Biato longu>. In 18lU tho mineral resources of New M xico woro first explored, and in spito of Immense d 1 ill ultio* a great deal of oro hna boen obtained. Tie l ltd States qeolo deal survey report says tliat in New M x'co coal is found in sevoa counties in bads from 0:10 lo fourt en feet thick. Tint ipialily ranges through nil varieties from brown to anthracite. Tha mo t importaut fields uro open in ' • . 01 racing a area of 600,080 acre*. Tho report says of tho J.os t'critlos bids: “Tha coal U hard, donso and of a brilliant lmtrc, and is -aid t.» be, *0 tar as all practical pur¬ poses nre concerned, fully cijutl to tho best anthracite." The total production for ISMS was 271,285 ton*. Tho averago price ot t'u* coal n quoted at ifj pci ton. _____ In l ... hum . it is . tbe . . «.ty of ... the Uw mnj which goe* iu for br ita tv. The official or^an o( tho government* the Pekin Qat^ttc, gives in tho calmest way «n account of two men bci. ; tortured to death on a trumped-up charge. A ChincM draper in the Kuagan district was robbed, and he determined to fix the crime upon a responsible person in order to recover his property, With the connivance of a magistrate, a pros perous dealer and his sou were arrested and tortured to make them cocfe-, what they knew nothing about, Tin y wcu d not, and their boatmen were tortured in their turn until they confessed what they were askod to— namely, that their master h*d committed tho crime. Thereupon father and son were again brought before the magistrate and sub¬ mitted to torture, Thcv dccliaed t confess, an t both died u .der the or¬ deal. The aw, however, did not refuse redress to he widow and mother, who brought suit against all the persons concerned. Th magistrate is to be bsnb cr ad, but the others go free. Just how lL le legal Chines o man w.rk se thi gs out it is difli to P THE DEMOCRAT, C3AWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA. AUSTRIA'S,CROWS PRINCE. The Hf*ir Apparent to the Throne Found Dead in Bed. Accounts of the Death and Subsequent Scenes. The sudden and somewhat mysterious dmth of , romi j. ri uee Rudolph, the heir apparent to the throne of Austria, has created a shock among the crowned heads and nobility of Europe. The dead Prince was thirty-one years old. He died while on a shooting ex< urston at Meyerhog. about twelve miles rrom Vienna. The newapaper /* ot. V K&y8 tbAt on I day when Crown Prince i'.udoiph returned from shooting he complained of headache and retired to hie room to write a letter. He awoke <>« Wedneed&y before seven o’clock, and at half-past seven ordered bis breakfast to ba brought up to him. Hi* valet, i,n en taring tho room with his breakfast, found the Prince dead in iiis bed. Count Hog as and Prince Philip, of Co¬ burg, who were Prince Rudolphs when guests, rushed to the Prince’s chamber the va.et told them the Prinoe was dead. Count Hogas. uttircd in his hunting costume, im iimiiatety w*mfc Krnperor with Fraucia ail Joseph to Vienna with andl the quaint^ wt'i n©WK. with '!'>*€? Count wan closot-Kl.for name tim^ Hi* Majenty, who, directly utter tho inter hauteur! to inform theEmpr<*#s. death whose ^ rif .( VJ pou leanng of her aonV. wai terrible. Both tlio Emperor and Empres* thon w ent to the apartments of Crown Priocew. Hteplianlo and told her of her Inwhand’a death Prineewi Stephanie minuted upon go¬ ing immediately to Meyer.in^, e.Torta where of tiio Frineo lay dead, and the united the Em tier or and idnpreu^ were hardly aMe to prevent her. They w«ro finally Kucceauful, however, and the Cnifieror then remained alone until three o'clock in the afternoon, when he ordered the body of the Prince to bo brought U> Vienna. Ti»u Ixxly of the Prince arrived in Vienna ot one o'clock a. m. on h upecial train. depot A large crowd had gathered at the station to await iu arrival hut. quietly left the nt the request of tho guards. When the train arrived the body wan placed on a bier an l taken to a carriage which was drawn by six black horww „ V0r !* y ‘was ’rmnovil^un'Tdeep req."' shown by all The Court Chaplain, the Mayor of Vienna, Prince Hoheiilobe and other dignitaries fol lowed the c arriage, while the guards walked on each side of it. Crowds awaited the ar rival of the procession at the Holhurg imperial The body, upon arriving at tho lately palace, was l*orno to the apartments oecupiod by the dead Prince, where it was left reposing in state, surrounded by guards. An autopsy on the body of thfi Prince took , m . m (1j „f| M r which tho remains were e ra¬ 1 aimed. 'The court lias ordered three months' “Yi'wTni tli’tiieslw of the copper eoflln in winch the laxly of thy Prince was placed, it wai iim;o 2 wibio U> put it into an ordinary iu*urHa in conveying it from Muynr’injr beurse used to tho in railr*>afl station, so a Imtk** farrvuig tho bodies of paupers to burial was brought into requisition, Ardiduke Charle* L >uU. brother of the Emperor, is the heir ^ presumptive to the Austrian throne, tho succession passing to his tiie Archdukes Otto and Ferdinand rc .iiccl; vc v LATEST NEWS. Til* second trial of ox-Alderman Thomas Cleary for alleged bribery in co noctlou with the Broadway railway franchise has been re¬ moval from New York city to l’lngliamlon, Broome County. *t wn* lmty>~'*>io u jury in tho metropolis. The l’enueylvanla Senate lias passed final¬ ly tho prohibitory amendment by a vote of 13 to 3. Typhoid fever and diphtheria are decimat iug tiie liUlo village of West Middlesex, Murcor County, Bonn. Pour, Republican, has been elected to Conjfresa 111 the First Indiana District by a majority ranging from > f >05 to 1(XX) to sue* twl Uov , nior Hovey. One hundred indictments for election f r , iu i, have been found In West Virginia and 161 in Indiana. The recount in the l’helps-Clutiis contest in the Fifth Congressional District of Cali¬ fornia lias closed. Ciunls, Democrat, was given nine majority. ’i'll; President ami Mrs. Cleveland were entertained ut dinner by the Secretary of War and Mrs. Endicott. Harry 1* Bryan, Secretary Bayard's stenographer was ordered to proceed to 1irila to obtain 1 lie election certificate's of that State for Use in counting tin electoral \ ote 1 the Union. The President bns sent a message to Con gross on the Sum on , most ion, accompanied with reports from Commander Mullen, of t iie Nij sie and Consul Ulacklockof Samoa. Tin: Secretary of Stute lias api,)ointod Charles M. s. Leslie Yn-e Consul of the 1 ruled States at U 10 Janeiro, Brazil, vice B. D. Armstrong, rreigned. Tux President and Mr*, (hevriand gave * re.sg'14,ui at the White House in honor of Congress and the Judiciary. Tme Post Office Appropriation bill as com pletod im. proposes it a total appropriation of fti-. 5.‘.,.44*. ... This - . total . , is 1 . $316,630 less than tin estimate's, and $.\ 735,310 more than the ap promotion ft'r the current year. J'WBUbENT Cijtveland has sent to tb ^d.w A lr; *bn;u«, the ,.f following \ irginia. nominations t» be Comptroller Jesse D o the Currency, rice William U Tivmholm. re rigne.1 and Deems S 4Ya.ie of Montana. t« l*o JustivY of tiu» Supremo Court of tin Territory of Montana, vice Newton \V. Me Connell, resigned. A A«txr TXR a a prolonged t.rv’ »n»w.i conference .vmferenre the the Senate and House ren.orvreos agreed upon the bn wtabiiahing a new Department of Agricul tore, the chief officer of which shall l» 1 member meinber of of the the (abmet. Cabinet under under th, the Me at',. 01 O! Secretary of Agricultor. Co. call Whit*, the Secretary cf tbe Autertcsm location to hmgiaisl. has Iwt robbed of jewels valued at $35,0001 MlCUUtL v, CusK . aad h»s son weredrewnee , in tbe St. Lawrence River. n<«r Dickinson’’ landing, Canada, by the upsetting of theii lott. Ms. Thau's, tbe American Minister tc Kagiand. aud his wife sailed a few days ag from Bouthamptno for New York. Tut French I'hambrr o( iVpuUes rotpc tx<ifkieniV in tho ItOfprnimnt—W to *40. Thk v?mihi Council of Aonani has e-ectad l^uniav. Km^. He s the sum of Ihe former Kres. b in Stanixt, of I reston. Governor Gvceea. ot Oanadn, ii open ng the Dominic:* 1'xr.iamMiL refernti to tbe rejection of the FavTies inMiy, and said that Canada must n*v for tho jr*. n: to the treaty of ISIS, NEWS STTMMAEY. eastern and Middle 8 t«e«. Aeakly 1000 Brooklyn street earemp!oye§ nare struck fxtcau.se of aa alleged e'**ion ot tbo ten boar Jaw. Seven lines are up. Tkn teaman were seriously Bealdjd, three fataJJy, by the bursting’ of a bo lien pipe on the White Btar steamer Republic a New i or k Harbor. Ai the trial of the pneumatic d namiti fbotarix h£ ’ Tba^n aa having shown remarkable accuray. A female nurse at the Cooper Hopital in Camden N J w«« murderously imitate*?th> aiau'ted bvan -ea.yfWSffla*- unknown man who 4 * meth uru**?*™' * VES and Geor/o H. ft^yner. i W WttlJ all street Ktrft^t OT/Cmt operators, ^ uni W«ro were arrested urroafAti »t Lt. Hew apW . York city m a suit brought by the lincin nati. Uftti. H&iniltoD Hamilton and Anri Dayton bfty ton Railroad I Iflilro&d or or do* dfr frauding frauding the the company company of of #2,553,328.1*7* *2,.W),32H.'d7 l President Cleveland hag comm’>ed tc a term of five years the sentence of Ja ies D. Fish, formerly Pr sident of the larini National Bank of New York, who is i Jrvin^ a _ ten year term at Auburn, , N. ... Y., ...______ urier t conviction in April. lVs.fi, of oi misapplyiig misappiyiig the tne funds of that bank. He will be reeased May 11. In joint convention the Maine Legis iturt elected George L. Beal, of Norway, II I tat* Treasurer, lie receive 1 112 of the 116 1 1 ’otel cast. Governor Green, of >ew .Jerseyhas signetl the Mil repealing the law whic| re qulred i aUot-box 1 ** to be close! at suiue The Knight i of Labor have instituted a general tie-up of all streetcar lines in Yew York city except two. 1 wenty-one surfac« 10,Jw. systems are at a standstill. About men are idle. The strike is because of an allegi-d evasion of the t-n hour day law. Iht fourth day of the Brooklyn strike pasied without a car being run. Tho directors con Rcnt'-d to hold a conference with the njea (>ae of the seven tied-up lines has yielded tc the strikers terms. N EAR Ash burn ham Junction. Mass., Xcik Tromliley and Robert Joy Western Union lincinen were killc I t.v an ensr nr v'c-n l , r " E men wer * upset •, in >ew v York Bay Ro. kj V a ferryboat. Two were drowned. ( Sonrli and West. t Richard Smith, a Cb.sitaw Indian, ha been hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., fo murder. Senator Carpenter, of the Indiana' legislature, has been unseated ou the charge of bribery made against him. The .1. J. Burns Company, railroad con¬ tractors at Battle Creek, Mich., has failed with liabilities of $L,<MMJ,0J0. Thi: latest estimate of * the amount emt»z- , sled by J. A. Moore, the Connecticut Mutuai Life’s agent at Iudianupolis, is $l,0JU,tAW. Ed. i rev has been banged at Texas; Marietta, Jim Ga.; Charles McGill at Camoron, Seams at Eutaw, Ala. : John \ oncey at Yan ceyville, N. U., and Charles Blackman at Ellavllle, Ua. All were executed for mur der H. Irving 1.at;meh murdered his aged mother at Jackson, Mich ., In order to obtain a small amount of insurance money. Samuel Wakefield, Jr, co ored. shot and killed James W. Trainer, his employer, In .N.'w Iberia I unsh, l.u., uul wu« prumptl, ’a" s house. In her absence the houeo caught fire und the children were burned to death. Three men were instantly killed and two fatully injured by a boiler explosion at Pop ur Bluff, Mo. Colonel Roger Jones, Inspector died Fortress General of the United Btutos Army, at Monroe. The bill to remove the territorial capital ,TP. Otiliith (Minn.) Opera House has been destroyed by lire. The total loss y\ * a ' i0 ’ 0oa Kimball, sixty I : j At Omaha. Neb., David three killed years old and wealthy, was run ovet j and by a train of cars. j Thhkk hundred and eighty-five cases of tvphoid fever are reported at Lakeview, tiu duy. Da-1 Two school children of Aberdeen, kola perished in a snow storm and a third wns not expected to survive Amm.v Elms, a colored man, has licet hanged at Raleigh, N. C., for the murder of his father. John M. Clayton, brother of Poweli Clayton, who was contesting Breckinridge’i ai seat iu Congress, bus been assassinated Hummervil e, Ark. The firs' National Convention of Furn ture Manufacturers met at Grand Rapid.} Mich. Bevkn residences, two livery stables aid two business houses w The ere destroyed by fha at Marietta, Ohio. losses nggregtta $40,000. Julian C. McCi.ru*,of Mitchell, Ind., his Jisapiieared with $33,000 belonging to mine's, of whom he wasguardian. Smallpox has become epidemic at M»n ro< '' N1 ioh. James H. Beret has tx>en re-elected to the United States Senate from Arkansas. Washington. A person At* encounter took place in WusliingtuU between Representatives Cra a, of Texas, and Barry, of Mississippi. Iho Bai y rri'eivpd a pair of black eyes. mat er has bam amicably adjusted. The Army Appropriation bill rep.irte to the House provides of f3t,:'ti6.4t5. foe an which aggregate is $• p- 8$ propriation ap}>ropriatiou for the less than ihe curl nt year. the estimates were $-'4,lbO,3,V', e*u Hive 1 ,f the provision for sea coast defeo The Senate in executive session ™on firmed the following nominations: John Tyler Campbell, of California, now Ctansul at Auckland. New Zealand, to be Consul at i l>0 chow, China; John Darcy ConnoDy, of California, to be Conaul at Auckland, t.. y. ' n 'nmUul noWirel l.im ,.f ,u aimeptance of™, iuvit .t,on to.Le mar time conference. Sin, t Murcli 4, 1SS5. the Governmebt has purchssevt UunU as follows; 4 per cfent* 012: Amount. total $M\rtJ4.UXL cost, *7'.651 accruedintaie»t,J$321.- .n 27. 4 l per den ty— s Amount, $68,541,650: accrued interest4*371. r.ifjj ccwt. *T4.162.^61. (jraxrfo ml&l *x pended, $146.Nl4.a v h. * J A sEKIOt s surgical operation has', |en sp> < ^ tfuUy formed on Senator Vance at Washington, (.hie of his eyes which ias caused him a great deal f trouble/wasre moved Three physicians w-re pertorroW in aueid anoe and the operation was being it a moments, the jvitient aiiaes he tu ^ t Colonel W. L Trknhoi m. Coriptre'Ier 'X, StieTreLfem.' - effe.t” / hb pleasure . - Foreign. A dispatch to the Laris I>mp* from zilwr, Africa, says: “An AmeriAn sa.Hng vesse., bound from Zanzibar to MMsgagcar, was fired on by a berann vessel, nd ode of her masts was brokea.” i en* have been massa.Tei n<** Saa ia Africa, bv some ot the coast tribes a? rat ires of Zanzi tiar. T«r. :a<; of th- 1 British troa havJ lei i Suakin, Feypt. The comman d the Smith tarn carri$on devolves upon Hp e f THE SAMOAN [ROUBLE. A MESSAGE lH't M T*It EST D EST CLEVELA SO OS TIIE SUIiJF.Cl’. Prince Bismarck’* Announcement of War (poll (lie > a moans. The President has sent to Cong res i addi tional correspondence relative to Samoa af **"• accoII, - oa,,isd by the fol.owiug message: T° the Congress: I had the honor on the loth inst. to com raunlcat0 *° your honorable body certain cor respondence and documents in relation to af gr. Vice zsjsb, Comal ‘ssuTars and the at Apia naval 1 vessel vpw! commander ---------_ of the United i rtates w fatno r*n */« laying Xipsie in tnosa waters, 1 loss no time in it,am them before Lif/wa you. van I T aiso a. sa transmit f rangmit herewith hfimwith tha th® full text of instructions from Prince von Bis marck to the German Minister at this capital, which was communicated on the afternoon ot the 20th inst. Ibis a,ip«ars to be an amplification of prior telegraphic instruction __________ .. on ths fame subject channel com- and municate municate l l through tnroogn the me same which, being 1 J set forth ’ in tt.o note of “ the ,* ... ... x t of State Count \ , Arco ai beeretary .Minister, to of the on 12th inst.. * iev the German last was' duly laid isefore Congress, with my message in relation to Bamoan affairs. It i? also proper t < inform you that on Monday, the Jsth instant, the occasion 0 j co himunication of the note of the prince Chancellor, the Secretary of State was given to understand by the Germnr. Min ister that a proposition from his Government to that of the United States for a conference on the Samoan subject was on its way by mall, having left Berlin on the'A-th inst.; so that its arrival here, in due course of mail, can tie looked for in a very short time. In reply to an in jury from the Secretary 0 f Slate whether the proposition referred to was for a renewal of the joint conference between the United Stales, Germany and Groat Britain, which was sua r pended in July, 18*7, or for the considera tion of Samoan affairs ah noro, Hie 1 -erman Minister stated his inability to answer until the proposition, which left Berlin on the '20th inst., should have been l-e.-eived. J shall hereafter communicate to the Con gressail Information before me in relation to the Samoan status. Grover Cleveland. Bismarck, to Bayard. Accompanying the message was a addressed dispatch dated January 13, at Berlin, and bv Pi ince Bismarck to the German Minister jri Washington, informing him that that Germany was making war upon which part of the Somoan people recoznizes Vii the leadership of Mataafa, and i”* n , tr ru n g f «.e Minister to communicate t plrtC of interesting information to tjecretary Bavard. Bismarck states distinctly that Germany i, as been transplanted from the sia o of friendly mediation between the rival Samoan chief to a state of war af r a;n st Matsafa and in support of the Insu-gent chief, Tamaseso Con tinning. Bismarck save: “We shall carry on t j l( , C o n t,. 3 t which has been forced upon ns by Mataafa and his followers with the utmost consideration Our for English mid American interests. military ”, ™" sa. J‘zrz rss B,ue w414 n .■ neieaiarui x h asiume the o charac.ei 01 assistance to I uuiaa's *. LABOR NOTES. The Bakers’ Unions la Connecticut have a State federation. assuming The sailors’ strike at Liverpool is serious proportions. its death benefit to $100. All that . Saraoan f i oes not work. 1 in country is imported. 0 J K R -n 1?,’?%?.Lf mo 0C0 Dairs of suspenders were made in . tiie United states States lastvear last > e TNvo hundred Bohenium women makers have lef * - - B-ltimore, girls’ h.. training *-S- | for a boys’ and 1 Melbourne, A a .^Hr7nrtl« r,i»pi*v is licin" formed in Australia, A for the lmportasiou importation of domestic servants. thousand . ' The lock-out of the two m .n s at Spring Valley, Ill., has been en y» compromise. foot is movement to A project now on a furnish protection to the operatives in Sew ing factories. Liverpool using*vfolence*'to The striking seamen at are vessels' prevent men shipp.ug on in port. the , author , MBS. AmklibRivks ChanlKR, iSS. has given $100 for the best essay , of child labor. st! bjeet chief seat of the knt Cohoes, N. Y., the that sixty-five P e goods industry, reports idle. cent, of Its mills are Seven million feet of spool w-ood was lately shipped from Baugor, Me., to a firm of Scotch thread makers. o'M,i,y TuE.it. is a » , var of race* J Hungarian and Italian .„ii an miners m. tiers at at the coal : Carbo : pits near , of f A-bany,^ aiw Ga ! THE colonxl washerwomen have warned away several China ( sought to compete with tuein. Fifty-five cents a day is the average . ew nings of the American working lieople, counting ^Tukre in women and children. nre six Knights of ljibor an i Trade Unionists among the Representatives and Smators m the State of Indians. Site ten per Mass., cent, has in resolve,, the wages upon 1 • a ^ductmn • o. Numerous Pennsylvania and Ohio manu fteturers have been forced back to the ute coal as the natural gas is running low. « ■*«* The Diamond Match Company of Con wrucut has signal a «mtract to ligate, i« iiineuse straw Doara ana p P WVbadi. Ind. J.nittkRs in Donegal. Ireland are sovks paid , thiee to four cents per pair for lon£ thw tbe most nimble fingers cannot tirnsn iu than a day. the L^gisia Boston's labor unions want tiro LoL to abolish the system of fines m textow there, as well as to make eight hours »teyw work for employes of the state and ihecitv. the.Pwite . has been introduced in oi cv Uaaia House requiring employers uun.tui alueu iaborere P. pay a —rsou so empioiei of twenty rents a day. The numbed mwengaged m^erK^ pendant fistieriesis ou ‘Oi,*^. the fisner es. * ana Mis seamen. nnsi steaniboatinen. caua, uen, pi.ote. anil water men. iiX*,9S>2, make a total or- al.-J--"’. The hair spinavrs lately heal a convention in Bsutimori- ami iunited a Nat.onai Union anil e acted officers. ihe.e are only a boat JuTtMur I spinners m i>.«s-oa the , n and mm Hyae States. I tf»i ar of wDOtii are in a , Mass. '*1 wo New York or ;an cations — the iv. rkmgwomen's Society ot --aw ing-Machine Os ratore and tae Ladies’ Kn.piov nienl So. etv—have com mei ih-.r fores ;cr toe ocxteiinb Wiireby i»h meat of of a werkiug n moer glri of may > d.-vG o* the lot toe niajko easier. CONGRESSIONAL. Tne senate. 34th Dat.— Mr. tall introduced a joint resolution to appropriate SlO.uoo for an in vesiigation of the causa and best methods ot curing und preventing yeliow fever by Dr. Pau. Gib’.ir and other competent persons ... J'r. Sawyer reported back the House bill tc increase the maximum of interna tvonai money orders from $50 tc #iOJ, and it was passed bill The Military Academy amended Appropriation and passed was taken up, The Pension Appropriation bill was passed with tut one amendment—appropriation The of jupiO-I for rent of District pension of agencies.... Columbia Senate passed the Ap propriation bill with amendments and &znA a 5Jx& for the establ.sbment ________ of a lightship, X, at‘a with fog signals, at Sandy Hook. tj - i, X. V i e ,, cost not exceeding $d0.iXX>. with an amendment mak .*«« j nc » a n cnuilar nnsiiai* provision t v- i m * lor * nr Great f. - on t Round D, pin J yboal, near Nantucket, Mass., and esquiring the construction of the ships and to be Jet to ships the ] owes r. responsible American bidders shipyards. that The toe amend be built in men t was agree! to, the Liil passed and o conference with the House asked. .. .Senate then proceeded to the consid erationof the bill to declare unlawful trusts a! .,s combinations in restraint of trade and production, but reached no conclusion. An amendment offered by Mr. Hoar was agreed tii. Mr. Mr. Platt Platt offered offered an an amendment, amendment, mak mak j n .y tile * he j aw resides apply whether in tile Unite the principal 1 States G « trust or m a foreign country. The bill, a amended, was ordered printed as well as the pending amendra nts ...It was voted to ask for a conference witli the House on the Milts bill and the Senate substitute.... Mr. Hale reported the Consular and Diplomat!. Appropriation hill, and gave notice that he would call it up at an early Samoa, date. lt con tains the Day. appropriations —The Senate for the entire 36th spent day upon a discussion of the question whether t[. 0 present Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the Court G f James, Germanv and Uus gia and to the French Ambassadors Kepubiie should be raised to the rank of or not, and after devoting five hours to the discus gi( . n it was not able to reach a decision.... Mr. Eegnn introduced an amendment to the Hherman Anti-Trust bill. It is in tho Mature of a substitute....An amendment reported by the Senate Committee on item Appropriations of was agreed to, inserting an for a Consul-General at Apia. Samoan Islands ....On motion of Mr. Blair the Army Nurses’ Pension bill wns taken It up by- the Senate, amended and passed. allows a pension of $2o a month to all women nurses during Day.—T the late war. he Senate resumed , consid Both eration of the bill, Diplomatic and being Consular Ap- Mi. propriation the question on Gibson’s amendment to make the title of the ministers to 1;ranee. Germany f.reat Brit ain and Russia ambassaaors,' 1 and it wns finally adopted by a vote of 2>> to 24... It was decided to discuss Samoan affairs with open doors, an 1 j. r Sherman made a long speech on the controversy ... Mr. Momkrson reported a proposed amendment to the Sun¬ dry Civil bill appropriating #40,(fc» for the preparation of a site and tho erection of a pedestal for an equestrian statue of Geneial isheridan m the city of \\ ashington. “^iaVn . t fP Wll? nliionmtie The qu^tion 6 and” Co War Ad" 'tho KSSiS.TiY.JS s^sa^a&JSfs&sss C sSK.n 7 ^ The House. 36th Day.—S ecretary Endicott sent to the House a report from Lieutenant-Colonel Gil Corps of Engineers, of the results of a survey for a ship channel between Jersey City and Ellis Island, New York Harbor, and for a.ship channel between the deep watet bill, was portrait is printed on Government shall be printed under the r fighthouses portrait. appropriation for repairs of increased from $300,000 to $835,000, and Randall offered an amendment appro «1S0,0(K) for the purpose of mresti . the extent to which the arid region be redeemed b> irrigatiOs. , . ^bst,tute therefor, Die ^ro; h Senate substi Reed moved to concur in the of lute. Mr. McMillin raised the.point first be or der that the substitute must con sidoreii iii Committee of tha hole, and \.r. ' Mj]Js thp point . ti)at jt must be referred to tbe Committee on Ways and Means. Mr. Reed advocated the immediate consideration of lllp Senate measure. Mr. Mills and Mr. Mc jjmin submitted the points of order which they had held in reserve, and the Speaker decided that under the rules the bill must be re ' e rr f. thl , v^nt'te o]] ty ftys fiU ,i Means.... The Ford immigration report was recommit ted, and the committee was given leave to relX)rt at any time....Representative Hemp hill, reported favorably a bill propositi to secure 2500 acres along the lme ol itocx Creek to be used as a public park. McCreary 1 tie mu appropriates $1,500,000....Mr Edmunds resolution, ue reported the ciaring tho sense of the Government of tbe United States in respect of tho connection of European Governments with inter-oceanic canals at the Isthmus of Darien, in Ceutral America. concurrent . resolu S8 Day.—T he Senate , th for the .Oint tion was agree*! to providing of Congress on mee ting of the two houses -vVednesdav, February 13, for the purpose the electoral vote....The nouso 1*“^ considered the Sundry Civil bill. The ing amendment appropriating method of irrigating investigating 2i-JsssxSSbis^5it& the beet ^ oprUtinK t50 ,0(X) for the education of children of school age in Alaska, Introduced referenee t0 rac e... .Mr. Springer for enab.mg ^ Omnibus the admission bill providing of the Territories an ot ac t for city^ D Xhe House Sundry in Committee Civil Ap- of the $6u0. propriation bill. The appropriation of made for the niw library building. Civil The Hollye flnal i v pofsed tbe Sundry reported A pproprmtion bid ..Mr. Clarity fa ” orab!y a bi u for the establishment In the vicinity of tb« wreck of the steamer Oregon. a t the rntraneo to New York harbor, 01 ® „* Hght.hip ^ with «d a $00.000.... steam fog Mr. signal^ Cothran at a co re t to IO authorizing p^ted favorably a resolution the President of the I nited States .0 a such measures es in bis necessary to enesuslaa promptly '^vernme^ oh am ina*m for the J from the \ injuries, ,osa» and damages suffered by toe Venezuelan -n-.^j utlon' Steam Tnm^rtatmnrC^mpany s 0 requesting the President to insist on the restoration of avoirs on the - mojm Is:a: ,ds they existed at the time of convention letwesa representatives of ' Germany, Great Britain and the Unite., q, and to take necessary steps to pr terx American righte there. orn Day.- The Oklahoma bill was brougat to £be attention of the House by -U". sip r ; n re r of ILincls, with a motion to g< , the »' hole ior 1 ! into Committee of consideration. The motion was agreea t , Mr Dockery, of MissotirL be.ng assignee. ........ Th t. Navajo Int-iian^ of Arizona arc very successful in rxie.r-g stock. According to tho tbru es of vhe reservation agset. they own .4 ..I <) horses and pemes. isJO mute*, oatt.e goau. and 500 Lorroa yv- ir »o< ’ ilipnings ds and for they the year amounted d S-C,AJC> - j, ,, >> » a.so so < „ tee - pe is -'nl '.a . v.’goat sk.na 1 PROMINENT PEOPLE* KiSO Ja-Ja. of West Africa, is flUr 4 ™ Osman Digna means Osman the bearded. Ladt Brasst’s posthumous work is just out. forty-five years The Princess of Wales is old. of Delaware, Senator-elect A. Higgins, is a bachelor. king, is Claus Spheckles, the sugar worth $20,000,000. made seventy six . The Pope is said to have speeches in one week. Japanese Minister Kuki owns the most gorgeous equipage in Washington. Two Chicago maidens, the Misses Armour,, have something like ;5,'/00,u0'J apiece. Senator Wolcott will be the youngest man iu tha next United States Senate. The Shah of Persia is to make a tour of Europe, beginning at St. Petersburg m April. laid more corner The Prince of Wales has stones for public buildings man any maD living. band of twenty Two sons remain of the children who once called John Brown ' pretty lit Hon. Levi P. Morton has five tie daughters, between the ages ot eight and fifteen. entered Senator Morr-ll, of Vermont, the House ol' Representatives tlnrty-loui years ago. has Mbs. Kellie Grant Sartoris ar¬ rived in Hew York from England, on a visit to her mother. General H arrison is said to be shortest in stature ot any man ever called to the Hresidential chair. Mrs. Polk, who was mistress of the White House over forty years ago, is now m her eighty-fifth year. Gould’s confi¬ Giovanni P. Mobosini, Jay of five dential partner, has a collection over hundred watches worth about $30,000. Strawberries that cost $3 a dozen were served at a dinuer given by Senator Stan iord at Washington the other evening. Marie Frances Norton, a sister of Charles J. Guiteau, has published a novel mainly devoted to a defence of her brother. Senator Ransom has represented North Caro.ina at Washington for many years, but has never yet taken his Wife there to live. Ex-Secretary of tho Navy Robeson is aging rapidly, his hair being snow white, and ids once round and rosy cheeks pale and thin. Miss Rose Cleveland is now in her win¬ ter home at Naples, Kla., where she has a five-acre orange grove and a cosey six-room house. During his forty-three years of England,hai orphanage work George Muller, of lir.stol, received nearly $3,b0d,U10 in voluntary con tributions. The ruler of China, the dowager Empress, ol has ordered for the benefit of “the son heaven” that Shakespeare shall bo translated into Chinese. The Czar of Russia is said to be an enor inousenter, and lo consider inree pounds ol steak und two quarts of champagne as only a very light lunch. John Wanamaker’s life is insured for a round million of doliars, which a statisti¬ cian computes is at tho rate of $761)0 fot every pound of liis flesh. Bir Morell Mackenzie circle, is quoted as hav¬ Eu¬ ing lost caste in medical ail over rope, many openly asserting tiiat iiis pub¬ lished book was not only unprofessional, but an advertisement. The famous rifle-shot, Dr. Carver, said, in a recent interview, lhat he began killing bisons for the market in 1767, and during 1H74 his record was 5500 head, the greatest number be ever killed in one year. Thk now Governor of Kansas, Lyman C/hio, A. Hump ohitouvas born in Stark Afteftie Ccunty, July ‘ wa he became anSlito^ancraaaillj, lawyer. In an interview recently,General personally Boulanger about said: “I grant interviews to 280 persons a day. Thi3 morning alone I spoke -to 143. That is without counting the delegations which 800 set foot 10U0 in this room. day. They number from to fifty persons a time.” I see them in groups of about at a George Kennan, the journalizt and author, lives in a quaint and modest little house in Washington. He is forty-three years old, and has a long, thin face; his mouth is concealed by a heavy moustache, figure his eyes are large and dark, and his is spare. Mr. Kennan keeps himself in condi¬ tion by a daily spin of ten miles ou his bicycle. THE PATENT OFFICE, Report anti *Recomir»endations of the United States Commissioner. Commissioner of Patents has traus mitted his annual report to Congress. He recommends that the law relating to trade marks be amended so as to specify what do¬ Jhepatent . gVjaR be registered as trade marks: providing that tba^patents system be amended by extinguished issued hereafter be t £ e ,} 0Te mmt-nt at any the time invention upon of the gJJSwe naV ment to the owners of a aluouut ot money, to !,e de turniin3d by arbitration or otherwise, ^ s , ;e m appropriate to Congress; first providing that patents in foreign Americans States couc t r i e s shall expire in the United with the lifetime of the patent in the repealed, foreign eou ntrv in which it first expires be The total receipts of tbe office for the past were $1,118,516, and the total ex ™ jl_ n 4itures $974,108, office showing have the been net ome c f t he to The patent fund in the Treasury January 1, 1SS9 amounted to $3 - m fm The num berof original patenfa •» ’ ’. ^g,; 60 V"ie registered, 1069, t marks tebels registered, 21,591. In the yeai * patentsexpired. P* ' MALIETOA’S PROTEST. Samoa's Deposnl Kins roni;»!nins of €*er nianj’s Action. • A ^ of the Samoa T Im*. and South Sea Adrerf«er, , . t>i,W published ished at at Ap^ Apia Samoa fcomoo, December 2 l. has reached Washington It -ontaina the farewell letter of King Malietos, who haj been exi;ed by the Germans. The deposed Samoan monarch says: "I was repeate«Ilv told by the repres«nta- Govern tives of the British and American ments that they would oSer me aad my G overnman t assistance and protection if I abstained from doing anything that might cause war among the Samoan people Re¬ j in 0 n them promises I did not put down rebel ; lan . -jr ow I flad that war has been made upon m- bv•theEmpyror of Germany and Tonm Carman" forces uni the fdherents ot lamasese threaten to make war on all Sa moic3 who do not acknowledge Tamasese as -fam innocent of anv wrongful act, and J- ;trI -,.v,y protest agaiDst the action of Gor¬ manvj But. as the German nation is strong and 1 am weak. I y»eld to their aughtegei to prevent I shall my people myself from being s deliver np to German forces to prevent blood s Heri. I desire to remind you of the prom iseg repeatedly made to your Governments and trust that you will so far redeem them as to cause the lives and liberties cf my chiefs and people to be respected. "I wish to inform you that I fear that the Germans will comps me—as they acknowl- are now forcing Tamasese my people—to King, sign and papers if I sign such edging as under compulsion, aad to papers it will be avoid Signed) war made -JLauETOa,£mg«f upon my people Saajoa.’’
