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AT THE CAPITAL
VTIIA T THE FIFTY FIRST CON-
GUESS IS DOING .
irrorsTMKXTS by president harrison—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL, IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
rhe senate consumed , all day rhursdaj
. ff ,on > d,s<1lsM "8
’ cst '° d o w.th newjpaper cor-
respondents who persisted m printing
their secret session news. The idea of
jailing the correspondents unless they
will tell the source of their informa¬
tion, has practically been abandoned.
Dozens of other suggestions were made,
and nearly every senator present had a
word to say, but all propositions again were
voted down, and adjournment was
had without a decision upon any plan.
As matters now stand, many senators are
very much annoyed. Indeed, they are
angry, but there seems only one solution,
the abolishment of ‘‘dark lantern' 5 ses¬
sions.
In the house, on Friday morning. Mr.
Haugen, of the committee on elections,
rejKjrtcd a resolution in the Alabama con¬
tested election case of Threet vs. Clark.
The resolution, which was unanimously
reported, declared Clark entitled to retain
his seat, it was adopted. The house
then went into committe of the whole on
the private calendar. The house in its
evening session adjourned. passed fifty private pen¬
sion bills and
After the usual morning business on
Friday in the way of the presentation of
petitions and of the introduction and re¬
lating of bills, the senate proceeded to
the consideration of bills on the calendar.
Public buildings on the calendar having
been reached, the following Oakland,Cal., were passed :
For Sterling, IIIs.,$50,000;
$800,000 ;0hyenne, Wyo..$150,000; Ches-
tcr, Pa.,$100,000; Helena, Mt., $400,000.
I he senator from New Hampshire Mr.
Blair again attacked the press of the
country. He went on to speak of the
Ron ton I Urn hi, Boston Globes qnj\ New
{'.„ urie r against ft ft educa-
tional hill and said that everydej^pcratic
paper in New’ lork advocated at,., mean-
\ that connection, the lie will, 1, me*,
b vrld and Lmumj Font. After a short
wccjitive session, the senate adjourned
till
In the house on Saturday Mr. Me-
Creary, of Kentucky, from the commit-
tee on foreign affairs, reported a rcsolu-
tion requesting from the president any
correspondence with the Mexican gov- in
orument in regard to the mted employment
the regu.ai army o! the l States of
Indian scouts tor the purpose of pur-
suing hostile Indians m their raids into
terutoiies ol the l mted States; and any
cor respend t-ce m regard to the proposed
transfer ol the Apache and
< hincahua Indians irom Mount
\ ernon barracks Alabama, to
lor llill, Indian Territory. Adopted....
1 he morning hour was consumed in the
discussion ot the hill providing for the
compulsory attendance of witnesses be-
fore which registers passed. and receivers of land offices,
was The house then, in
committee of the whole, resumed consid¬
eration of public building measures. A
great number of bills for public
building were called up and discussed.
The The bills committee to the house, then arose which aud immediately reported
found itself in a small deadlock. There
was no quorum to pass the bills. Pend¬
ing further discussion the house ad¬
journed. privileges and
The senate committee on
elections, after a long session on Satur¬
day, considering the contested Montana
seaatorship, by a party vote decided to
recommend to the senate that Power and
Saunders, the republican senators, be
seated.
NOTES.
A bill was reported from the committee
on agriculture on Thursday to transfer the
weather bureau to the agricultural depart¬
ment.
The comptroller of currency lias au¬
thorized the Anniston National bank, of
Anniston, Ala., to begin business with a
capital of $100,000.
The agricultural committee on Friday
postponed the vote on the compound lard
hill for a week. The southern men feet
more hopeful aud are working like beavers
to defeat it.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker and
wife, accompanied by Mrs. Harrison,
Mrs. Russell Harrison and Mrs. McKee,
will leave Washington for a trip to Flori¬
da where they will spent about two weeks.
Attorney-General Miller has received
information from the United States mar¬
shal of Alabama, of depredations timber, on gov¬ and
ernment lands, i:i seizing
alsc of his taking charge of several saw¬
mills.
It has been charged pending in the prosecution New York
Time* that the
against the civil service commission is a
conspiracy, into which the officials president
and prominent republican have
entered for the purpose of wrecking the
reform system, aud substituting the old
spoils system.
Speaker Reed called all his chairmen ol
committees together, Thursday morning,
and gave them strict instructions to hold
down the appropriations. He said he
was determined that the Democratic pre¬
dictions that this would be the most ex¬
travagant administration iu the history
of this country should not prove correct.
The sub-committee on the world's fair
made encouraging progress towards the
completion of their bill at Saturday's
meeting. The Chicago visiting delega¬
tion were present and the sub-committee
turned the bill over to them with instruc¬
tions to go over it very carefully, line by
line, and suggest such changes as in their
opinion were necessary to make the mea¬
sure meet the _ge£jja of Chicago.
] Representative Taylor, of Illinois, on
Thursday, introduced in the house a bill
I ro provide for the establishment of a sys-
I tem of g° vernment telegraphs, for the use
of the government and the people, and to
.
! be operated as a part of the postal system.
Jt provides that a board,consisting War of the
| Secretary of State, Secretary of and
Postmaster General shall cause to be built
or shall buy lines of telegraph, wherein it
it the opinion such are needful to the pur-
poses of the government.
The direct .« bill w», ’ on Friday, re-
, bac . k tho houso t„„„ the jndi- J
committee, ... accompanied • i i by •
ciary major-
ity and minority reports. The majority
report says that the views on the bill last
year meet the approval of the majority,
and are adopted by them in reporting
the bill back this year. The minority
report says that the veto message of ex-
President Cleveland is so accurate and
lucid in statement, so cogent in reason¬
ing and logical in deduction, that the
minority adopts it as expressing their
views on the bill.
Senator Alison, the great republican
tariff leader, created a sensation in polit¬
ical circles, on Friday, by coming out in
au interview in which he plainly leading and dis¬
tinctly goes back on the feature
of the republican platform outlined in
the Chicago convention. He says; “You
may say that I am in favor of a deep cut
on sugar. I will not say that I favor the
abolition of the duty and the payment of
a bounty. As to tobacco, you may say
that I will vote to abolish the tax on it
very reluctantly. We will have a hard
time explaining the duty on a great many
necessities, if we abolish the duty on
this great luxury.”
THE FARMER’S TALK
THE FARMER'S ALLIANCE OF MINNEJO®t
MEET IN CONVENTION.
The annual session of the Minnesota
Farmer’s Alliance met at St. Paul
Tuesday, and nearly 400 delegates were
present. Deputy State Lecturer Fish
painted a dark picture of how farmers
nre being robbed by the boards of trade
0 f Minneapolis and Chicago, which
raised or lowered the price of wheat as
they pleased and held the starving declared, farmers
at their mercy. It was time, lie
that the big gambling hell in Chicago
was wiped out of existence, and if the
farmers rose in thefr might this might
be accomplished. W. followed S. Grove, in
county lecturer,
a similar strain during the day.
It developed that there were three fae-
tions iii the convention, one favoring an
endorsement of Albert Sheffer, the re-
publican candidate for governor, the sec-
ond wanted Merriam, the present gov-
eruor, endorsed, and the third wanted the
Alliance to break away from all parties,
They wmnted to place Ignatius Donnelly tariff
in the field on a Farmer’s Alliance
re form platform. The Sheffer people are
[q pow’er, and will likely remain so.
There are now' nearly 770 Alliances in
the state, with a total membership of over
8QQ.000.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
BIRMINGHAM, DETROIT AND JONESVILI.E.
THE SUFFERERS
A special from Birmingham says: The
most disastrous fire that ever occurred in
that city, broke out in a brick block on
19th street, at 2:30 Sunday morning.
The losses and insurance are: E. E. Sew¬
ell, undertaker, on stock $15,000, build¬
ing $25,000, insurance $5,000; Misfit
Clothing company, loss $5,000, fully in¬
sured; McGuire & Wood, saloon, loss
$3,000, insurance $1,000; Joe Frank,
wholesale liquor dealer, stock dam*
aged by water, fully insured....
At Detroit, Mich., Fire was discovered
Sunday morning in the rear of Gray A
Baffy’s six-story brick furniture factory,
which was totally destroyed. The Car-
roll A Hunter Chair company establish¬
ment, the Ostler Printing company and
Carroll Cigar manufactory, caught next
and were burned to the ground. This is
the largest tire Detroit has experienced
since D. M. Ferry's seed store fire, in
January, 1886. when the loss ran into
the millions. The total loss is estimated
at $250,000, partly insured... .Fire
broke out at Janesville, S. C.Sunday night
at 12 o'clock. The following stores were dry
burned: J. L. McWhirter A Co.,
goods; J. L. Swink, Jr., groceries; is J. esti¬ N.
Lemaster A Co., drugs. The loss
mated at $10,000. with some insurance.
A COMPLICATED CASE.
A QUESTION OF TITLE TO A YOUNG LADY'*
HAND IN MARRIAGE.
The register of deeds for Guilford
county, N. C., is confronted with a prob¬
lem w hich only the courts can solve. A
young lady of that county, who is very
charming, has two lovers, and it appears
w as engaged to both. On Friday oue ol
the young men went to the register ol
deeds to procure a marriage license foi
himself aud the young lady referred to.
He was disappointed beyond expression
w’hen he was informed that his rival,
whose engagement was previous, had
filled a caveat einptor to prevent the issue
of the license. The register declined to
issue the license uutil the courts had de¬
cided the question of title.
BOLD BURGLARS
HAKE WAY WITH $4,000 WORTH OF JEW¬
ELRY AND DIAMONDS.
Burglars entered the jewelry store of
Bob. J. Dunning in Kansas City, Kan.,
Thursday morning, sledge and broke a safe aud open
with a $4,000 ten pound diamonds, hammer rings, sec¬
ured worth of
watches and chains. The jewelry in easea
was not disturbed.
CRAWFORD SHERIFF’S SALES.
p EORGIA —Crawford County. —Will
|J be sold before the court house
in the town of Kuoxville, Ga., within the
legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday
in April next, the following described
property, to-wit: Lot of land No. 77, in
the Seventh District of said county, con¬
taining 202 1-2 acres, more or less, levied
on under a fi. fa. issued from the Justice
Court of the 529th district, G. M., said
county, in favor of John A. Houser, vs.
B. F. Lee. S. M. Lee and E. S. Lee, as
the property of said defendant found in
their possession. Levy made by the con¬
stable of said district and turned over to
me for sale. Terms, cash. Witness my
hand officially, this February 2Gtli, 1890.
B. A. HARTLEY,
Feb. 23th, ’90. Sheriff.
O EORGIA— Crawford County. — W.
U J. McGee, Administrator de bonis
non of David McGee, deceased,has applied
to me for letters dismissory, and such
letters will be granted applicant on the
first Monday in April next, unless good
oLjections are filed. Witness my hand
officially, this January 1st 1890.
O. P. WRIGHT, Ordinary.
Jan. 1st 3m.
G EORGIA— Crawford County.— Ed¬
ward Miichell has applied to me for
exemption of personalty and valuation
homestead. I will pass on same on the
first Monday in March next. Witness
my hand officially, this Jan. 31st, 1890.
O. P.' WRIGIIT, Ordinary.
G EORGIA— Crawford County.—
James A. Moore and John J. Cham¬
pion, executors of James Roberts, de¬
ceased, have applied to me for letters of
dismission from their executorship. filed, will Un¬
less good them objections dismissory are the I first
graut letters on
Monday in June, 1890. Witness my
hand officially this the 4th day of
March, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
Ordinary.
p EORGIA— Crawford Coin t y.—
UW. Iv. Eubanks Executor of Eligah
Eubanks, deceased, has in due form ap¬
plied to me for letters of dismission from
his executorship. Euless good objec¬
tions thereto are filed, I will grant to said
W. K. Eubanks such letters dismissory on
the 1st Monday in June, 1890. Witness
my hand officially.
O. P. WRIGHT,
Ordinary.
p EORGIA— Crawford County. —W.
|JM. Taylor, administrator of estate of
Rufus Carter, deceased, has administration applied for
letters dismissory from the will be
of said estate, and such letters
granted on the first Monday in May Witness next,
unless good objections are filed.
my hand officially, ‘ this January 27th,
1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
jan 31-13 Ordinary.
pEORGlA— Crawford Counit. —A.
||C. Pandtis and Jemes M. Sanders,
executors of the will ofThos. J. Sanders,
deceased, have applied to me for letters
dismissory from iheir exccutoiship;
therefore all persons concerned are here¬
by required to show cause, if any they
have, on the first Monday in May next,
why such letters should not be granted.
Witness my hand cfticinllv, January
27th, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
Jan. 31—13t Ordinary.
THE QUEEN S INFLUENCE
BROUGHT TO BEAR IN THE CASE OF MBS.
MAYBRICK.
A dispatch from London, England,
says: Report is current here that tht
queen has about decided to grant pardon
to Mrs. Maybrick, the American woman
now serving a life time sentence for the
alleged poisoning of her husband, Al-
though the general petitions in favor of
the unfortunate woman were suppressed
by tho home secretary, with whom it is en¬
tirely optional w hether or not it shall reach
the queen, it is known that over a month
ago a memorial, influentially signed by
female members of the aristocracy, was
successful in reaching her majesty, and
indications point to the probable issuance
.if a free pardon.
A BIG ASSIGNMENT,
THE AMOUNT INVOLVED BETWEEN $700,-
000 and $800,000.
The general assignment of the brewing
firm of Monroe Eckstein A Co., and of
Leopold Wertheimer, its surviving part¬
ner. w as filed in court at New York, on
Friday. Monroe Eckstein died last June.
Wertheimer is the head of the tobacco
house of L. A E. Wertheimer at Sau
Francisco. E. Wertheimer, of this firm,
died and his widow applied for receiver¬
ship for the business in San Francisco.
This complication compelled the assign¬
ment. The brewery interest is valuable
and the assignees will endeavor to pre¬
serve it. The total amount involved is
-tated between $700,000 and $800,000,
mostly commertial paper. Preference
amount to $123,000.
An Anc ent Tomb.
Full one-half of the people living and
in a radius of five miles of Edgcwater Hocked the
Plcasantville, N. J., have to
site of the unearthed tomb of the people
who at one time ruled that land. Eight
skeletons were taken up at one place and
others have been found. Among the
skeletons was one whose skull was found
encased in tortoise shell ornaments, oys¬
ter shells and beads. It is probably that
of the once powerful chief Kinewaugha,
whose descendants still live along the
shore. Four skeletons were dug up there
and a little further on more were found.
Before the avenue is completed probably
hundreds w ill be exhumed.
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CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CABLE.
things that happen from day TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Wire mills throughout the country
have dosed for two weeks in order to re¬
duce. the supply of wire in the market.
The Illinois democratic central com¬
mittee has decided to call a state con¬
vention, to meet at Springfield on June
4th.
Several snow storms and frosts are re¬
ported in England and in various visited parts
of Europe. Among the regions
are Rome and Trurerc.
The crockery warehouse of the B. C.
Clark Crockery company, at Kansas City,
Mo., burned Monday, with the entire
contents. Loss, $100,000; fully insured.
The German government will form
fifty more batteries of artillery, in order
to complete the two new army corps, the
formation of which was sanctioned by
the last reichstag.
There was a long meeting of the sugar
trust in New York on Thursday, and be¬
fore it had ended interested parties every¬ divi¬
where information that a cash
dend of two and a half per cent had been
declared for the present quarter.
The formal order of Justice O’Brien, of
New York, in the sugar trust injunction
suit was filed Friday. The order con¬
firms the decision handed down on Feb¬
ruary 11, no changes whatever being
made in the provisions which Justice
O'Brien then set forth.
While trying to cross the river at
Johnson’s island, sixteen miles above
Knoxville, Tenn., two sous of William
Maples and a son of William Baker, were
drowneckon Friday. They were in a
frail boat which capsized, and the lads
perished before aid could be rendered.
R. R. Donnelly A Sons, printers of the
Chicago city directory, one of the oldest
printing and publishing houses in the
west, failed on Thursday, with liabilities
aggregating $100,000 and assets which,
if disposed of at forced sale, will proba¬
bly uot realize more than fifty per cent of
the liabilities.
A Jefferson City Mo., dispatch investigate says:
The committee appointed Treasury to finished
the affairs of the State
counting the cash on Saturday and have
found it $10,000 short. They express
the opinion that an examination of the
books and papers will increase this some¬
thing over $30,000.
At the coffee exchange at New’ York,
on Monday, the price for Rio Janeiro cof¬
fee advanced to eighteen cents, the
highest point for over a year. About
24,000 call. bags changed hands at the first
Before the regular call was over,
there was an advance of from thirty to
forty points.
A dispatch from Zanesville, Ohio, says:
J. C. McGregor, reading clerk of the
house of representatives, died Friday
morning died of dipththeria. .Mrs. death McGregor four
one week ago after the of
children. Three children are remaining,
and Mr. McGregor's father may die,
which will make ten deaths in one family
from diphtheria.
A remarkably bold and successful rob¬
bery took place at the courthouse at Wa¬
bash, Ind., on Thursday. While the
corridors of the building were deserted
during recess, the county treasurer's office
was entered from the main hall, and the
money drawer under the pay counter
forced with a pair of shears. Several
hundred dollars in checks, currency aud
silver was taken. The thief then locked
the door and departed.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York, for week ending March 8,
amounted to $106,129. of which $219,-
930 was in gold and $046,199 silver. Of
the total exports $4,905 in gold and
$041,900 in silver went to Europe and
$214,166 in gold and $4,299 in silver
went to South America. Imports of
specie for the week amounted to $473,-
426. of which $415,362 was gold and
$58,004 silver.
He is happy whose circumstances suit
his temper; but he is more excellent who
cat suit his temper to any circumstances.
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HIGH SCHOOL
SPRING TERM.
Opens January 13.
Closes .. .June 27.
FALL TERM.
Opens...... ......September f.
Closes...... ......December 19.
Rate of tuition for All Classes, $2 per
month. A 'pro rata allowance will l>e
made for Public Fund.
Each pupil will he taught by the most
modern methods.
1 cordially solicit your patronage. Fur¬
ther information will be cheerfully fur¬
nished by
C. G. POWER,
Principal,
The Tracy Disaster Recalls Another.
The fatality at Washington will recall
to many the disaster that befell a former
' Secretary of the Navy forty-six years ago.
On that elate, February 28, 1844, the
Honorable Abel B. Upshur was killed by
the bursting of a gun on board the United
States steamer Princeton. He had been
appointed Secretary of the Navy in Presi¬
dent Tyler’s cabinet three years before.
but in 1843 was transferred to the head
of the State Department. On board the
Princeton at the time of the explosion, President
besides Secretary Upshur, were
Tyler, Secretary of the Navy Gilmer,
Secretary of War Wilkins, the Honorable
Thomas H- Benton, Virgil Maxcy, Cap¬
tain Kennon, Messrs. Gardner and Phelps,
Second Assistant Postmaster General
Tyson and a number of ladies. The big
gun had twice been successfully fired,
and the third trial was ordered. The
company left the dinner table for the
deck, but President Tyler, when about to
follow, decided to wait a few uiinuics to
listen to a favorite song, and that delay
probably saved his life. The gun was
tired and exploded, slitting its massivi
breech into two parts. One part killed
Mr. Upshur, Mr. Gilmer. Mr. Maxcy, Cap¬
tain R. Kennon and Mr. Gardner, while
the other swept away a portion of the
bulw arks and went into the water. Seven-
teen of the crew were hurt. The aeci-
dent shocked the whole country. The
President sent a special message to public Con-
gress the next morning, while all ,
and private business in Washington was
suspended.—[Boston Journal.