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The Crawford County Herald
KNOXVILLE. GEORGIA.
W. J. McAFEE, Editor and Proprietor.
SUBSCRIPTION. 41 <K) FLU YEAR
The militia force of the United States
which may be available in an emergency,
is placed a? 7,352.171. The regularly
organized militia, however, only num¬
bers 203,392 men and 8052 officers.
The 200 American medical students
matriculated at the University of Berlin
were greatly agitated over the refusal of
the German authorities to recognize their
American diplomas in the recently issued
University Calendar. While the medical
degrees of all other nations were duly
recorded, Ihosc conferred by institutions
in the United States were entirely ignored.
According to careful calculation made
by a British clergyman of note, and just
published, Protestants have increased
during the last 100 years from 37,000,-
000 to 134,000,000, or nearly fourfold.
Roman Catholics during the same period
have increased from 80,000,000 to 163,-
000,000, or twofold. The Greek Church
during the century has increased from
40,000,000 to 83,000,000, also twofold.
f
! Russia is at present in the throes ol
a temperance campaign, which the cen¬
tral Government does not seem to be sec¬
onding to any extent, if one may judge
by the news from the department ol
Kiev. In that section thirty-six villages
sent petitions to St. Petersburg demand¬
ing the abolition of all liquor selling es¬
tablishments within their boundaries.
Thirty-five of these petitions were re¬
jected, but the thirty-sixth being accept¬
ed the inhabitants of the village thui
deprived of its drink turned out and beat
to death the man who had drawn up the
petition. They said lie had been alto
gether too eloquent.
; What the AVashington Star regards
. as
a long step toward democracy is «m-
bodied in a resolution to be introduced
in the English House of Lords, providing
that a peer of the realm shall have the
right to resign his place and stand for
election in the House of Commons. By
this means the youthful and energetic
members of the oldest and most aristo¬
cratic families of England may be eu
abled to get from beneath the burden ol
their birth and coming in touch with the
people lead on more speedily to that
democracy which must come, and which
will be the purer aud better and safei
democracy if it have as its representatives
ami leaders the best men of the nation,
regardless of the distinctions of birth and
class.
■ The Journal de St. Petersbourg, in com¬
menting upon the German Emperor's
plans for ameliorating the condition of
the workingmen, says that only a Gov¬
ernment conscious of its own power
would attempt such a task, for the reason
that it is absolutely necessary for that
Government to be possessed of means o!
checking any misconstruction of its plans
that might be attempted, and preserving
public harmony in the event of such mis¬
understanding. The Berlin Poet rtcog
uiV.es the humane sentiments that
prompted the Emperor iu formulating
the plans, but observes that he has en¬
tered upon a very dangerous path, and
compares his proposal to the similar at¬
tempt of Napoleon III. in 1863, at which
time the French Monarch announced 8
European congress before he had con¬
sulted any of the other powers.
AVhen we study the progress of agri¬
culture we find, says the New York
Times, most conspicuous illustrations ol
the tendency of production to exceed the
demands of consumers. Corn, for in¬
stance, has increased in quantity far
ahead of the increase in population. In
1874 the area in this crop w r as 41,000,-
000 aciei; in 1886 it had grown to more
than 75,000,000 acres, an increase of 85
per cent. During these twelve years the
population increased only 36 per cent.
The same excess lias occurred in the pro¬
duction of cattle and hogs and the sala¬
ble products of these staple agricultural
.products. It is not difficult to discover
the cause of this great and dispropor¬
tionate increase. The extension of rail-
roads in the great corn and cattle grow¬
ing regions has forced a vast increase in
he population, and has led to the culti¬
vation of enormous areas and the pro¬
duction of enormous crops and herds of
cattle with the inevitable result of de¬
pressed values.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal on ’Friday, the house went into
committee of the whole (Mr. Burrows,
of Mic higan, in the chair) on the pension de¬
appropriation bill. After a lengthy
bate on both sides, the committee rose
and the bill passed... .A number of pri¬
vate bills, coming over from last week
were passed, among them one for the re¬
tirement of John C. Fremont, with the
rank of major-general.... On motion of
Mr. Robertson, of Louisiana, a bill was
passed appropriating $25,000 to enable
the secretary of war to purchase driven 2,500
tents for the use of people from
their homos by floods, now Louisiana.. prevailing in
Arkansas, Mississippi, and . .
On motion of Mr. Morrill, of Karsas
(acting on instructione from the commit¬
tee- on invalid pensionsjthe resolution was
adopted calling on the secretary of inte¬
rior for a copy of evidence taken by the
committee appointed by him to investi¬
gate the management <>f the pension
offic e under Commissioner Tanner. The
house, then at ;{ o’clock, took a recess
until 8 o’clock, the- evening session to be
for the consideration of private pension
bills.
The Sherman trust bill provoked along
debate in the senate Friday afternoon.
Senator Sherman made a concise state¬
ment of the purposes aimed at by the bill.
Trusts, he contended, were the outgrowth and
of high tariff w hich fostered them,
the only way to suppress them was to bury
the ax in the cause which made them
possible. A long running debate fol¬
lowed. The bill went over till Monday,
when the forthcoming debate will proba¬
bly attract widespread attention. Mr.
Blair renewed his motion to reconsider
the vote of Thursday, by which the edu.
cational bill was rejected, and Mr. Inrr.au
moved to lay that motion on the table.
No action was taken.
In the house, on Monday, Mr. Hender¬
son, of Iowa, from the committee on ap¬
propriations, reported back tht* urgent
deficiency bill, with senate amendments
thereto with the recommendation that
certain of these amendments be concur¬
red in and certain non-concurred in. Air.
Henderson stated that the aggregate
amount carried by the senate amend¬
ments was $050,000. Amendments,
in which the committee recommended
concurrence, carried only $37,000. The
amount appropriated by the bill was
$24,720,000, of which $21,874,000 was for
the benefit of the old soldiers of the
country. The first bill called up, and
which was considered in committee ot
the whole, was the senate bill authorizing in the
the establishment of a public park long de¬
district of Columbia. After a
bate an amendment was adopted provi¬
ding that the total cost of land shall not
exceed the amount of money Pending appropriated fur¬
by the bill—$1,200,000.
ther action, the committee rose, and at 5
o'clock, the house adjourned.
In the Senate, on Monday, Air. Hoar,
from the committee on privileges
and elections, reported claiming four resolu¬
tions in the case of persons seats
as senators from the State of Montana—
two of them declaring that Clarke and
Maginnis were not entitled to seats, and
the other two declaring that Saunders and
Power were “entitled on the merits of
the ease, to be admitted” to seats. A
resolution from minority of the commit¬
tee, making opposite declarations, were re¬
ported and all was ordered to
be printed, Mr. Hoar giving
notice that he would ask the senate
to consider them during the week...
The bill to declare unlawful trusts and
combinations in restraint of trade and
production was taken up, and Mr. Turpie
addressed the senate. He discussed the
constitutional points involved, and con¬
cluded by expressing the belief that con¬
gress had the same power to reg¬
ulate inter-state commerce that the
states had to regulate their own commerce.
A long running debate, both for and
against the bill, followed, but it went
over w ithout action.... Conference was
agreed to on the urgent deficiency bill,
and Messrs. Hale, Allison and Cockrell
were appointed After conferees executive on part session, of the
senate. a short
the senate adjouened.
In the house, on Tuesday, immediately
after the approval of the journal, Air.
Candler, of Massachusetts, called up for
consideration the World'.- fair bill. The
bill was read in extenso. An amendment
was agreed to for the postponement of the
fair until 1893. An amendment was
adopted providing for the appointment of
a board of lady managers to perform such
duties as would be prescribed by the com¬
mission. An amendment was also adopt¬
ed providing that one of charged the members with of
the board, claimed to be the
-election of the government exhibit, shall
be chosen by the fish commission.
Among the bills introduced and re¬
ferred in the senate on Tuesday was one
by Air. Morrill to establish an educational
fund from the proceeds of public lands,
and one by Air. Farw ell to give a pension
of $2,000 a year to tht widow of General
Crook. Also a joint resolution by Air.
George to amend the resolution so as to
empower congress to make all laws that
are necessary and proper to suppress com¬
binations in restraint of trade or pro'due
tion, and to prevent transactions that
create a monojKily or increase or depre.-s
the prices of commodities that are or tuav
become a subject of commerce among the
states or with foreign nations.
NOTES.
By a vote of seven to five the housi
committee on coinage, weights and meus
ures, on Monday, authorized Chaimurti
Conger to report tUie AVindom silver bill
to the house with a number of amend¬
ments.
The republican members of the ways
and means committee on Friday consider
ed the sugar schedule and had under ad¬
visement a proposition to substitute spec¬
ific for advalorem duties. There was also
some discussion upon the rate to l>e fixed
upon raw silk, but no decision
reached in either c-ase.
The southern trip of the Pan-American
congress has been deferred for ten days
or two weeks, A few days ago it was
intended that the congress would start
south about April 1st. but owing to mi-
expected complications in the work lor
which the congress convened, they will
not be able to start before the 15th, and
possibly not until the 20th of April.
On Tuesday, the house committee on
elections disposed of two contested elec¬
tion eases, namely, Posey vs. Paret, first
Indiana district, and Bowen vs. Buchan¬
an, ninth Virginia district. In both of
these cases the committee M ill recommend
that the sitting number lie allowed o re¬
tain the seat, so that in the seven election
cases passed upon by it up to the present
time the committee has favored four re¬
publicans and three democrats.
Major McKinley’s tariff bill, which was
to have been presented on Friday to the
full committee, is not yet born, and there
is no telling when it will mike its ap¬
pearance. Major McKinley and his asso¬
ciates are beginning to find out A:at they
have an elephant on their hands. On all
sides opposition is vigorous and intense,
and the committee is trying to hammer
the bill into shape, and get it reported beyi.ud to
the house before it is emasculatec
recognition.
An application from Mrs. Thom ■ T.
Jackson for a pension for the services o«
her late husband, General “Stonewall”
Jackson, in the Mexican war, was filed at
the pension office Friday. General
Longstreet was the witness. To the
above was added the affidavit of I)r.
Joseph Graham, who was present at the
marriage July 15, 1857, of Lieutenant J.
Jackson and Miss Mary Ann Morrison.
Mrs. Jackson wilt receive a pension the of
$8 per month from January 29, 1887.
date of the passage of the Mexican Vete¬
ran’s Bill—some $804 up to this date.
The committee on agriculture, on Fri¬
day, reported favorably to the house, with
amendments, of the Conger bill, defining
lard, and imposing a tax upon and regu¬
lating the manufacture, etc., of compound
lard. The bill, in its main features, is
similar to the oleomargarine law, which
the committee says has given general prevented sat¬
isfaction, and the wrongs to be
and the benefits to be secured are in their
general character the same in both cases.
The report concludes with the statement
that the compound lard trade as carried
on is a stupendous commercial fraud,
which it is the duty of congress to sup¬
press.
Having once reopened the subject of
duties on sugar, the republican members
of the ways and means committee find it
a hard matter to adjust them satisfacto¬
rily in AVashington. On Tuesday the re¬
finers were in force. There were a num¬
ber from New York, Boston, and
Philadelphia. They made a stren¬
uous protest against the action of
the committee in cutting so heavily
into the existing rates, and maintained
that a twenty-five per cent, cut was all
that the refining industry could stand.
On the other hand, about a dozen mem¬
bers of congress from the west insisted
that the duties must be still further re¬
duced.
TOUGH ON CANADA.
THE EFFECT OF THE NEW UNITED STATES
TARIFF ON HER TRADE.
A dispatch from Ottawa, Ont., says:
It appears as if the framers of the United
States tariff changes had studied the dis¬
tinctive products of each province of
Canada, and increased the duties on them
accordingly. The new schedule aims at
Ontario in the toatterof barley
and apples at Quebec and New
Brunswich on horses and hay, aud at
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
on potatoes and other vegetables. Nova
Scotia also gets hard hit in the shape ot
increased duties on fish. Those who have
looked into the details of the new tariff,
think it is a direct blow at Canadian
trade with the United States. The duty
on horses is now twenty per cent.; the
proposal is to raise it to thirty per cent.
Canada sent last year 17,277 horses, val¬
ued at $2,113,728, to the United
States. The increased duty is
leveled against that trade, and
will fall most heavily ou Ontario and
Quebec, whenco 16,000 of the horses
were drawn. The duty on cattle, for¬
merly twenty per cent, is to be raised to
$10 per head where the cattle are over a
Tear old, and $2 per head where less.
Canada sent 37.300 cattle, valued at
$488,266, to the United States last year.
The duty on these imporis would be, un¬
der the old rate, $9,764. Under the new
rate it would reach, provided the cattle
are all over a year old. $373,090. Eggs,
now free, it is proposed dozen. to Canada’s tax at the
rate of five cents a ex¬
ports last year were 14,011,017 dozen.
The tax at five cents would be $700,000.
It is iu barley that the greatest damage
will be done. The present duty on bar¬
ley is ten eents per bushel. It is pro¬
posed to increase the Ate to thirty cents.
Last year Canada sent 6,934.504 bushels
to the United States. The present duty
on this quantity is $993,450. The new
duty would aggregate $2,980,350.
J. Carolina J. Bruner, Watchman editor and published proprietor of at
the
Salisbury, died at his home in that town
on Sunday. He was seventy three years
old, and the oldest and one of the best
known editors in North Carolina, having
edited the WatrJunan regularly since
1839.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS TIIAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Incendiaries are at work in Bismarck,
North Dakota,
The influenza epidemic is raging in
Australia and New Zealand.
The New York court of appeals has de¬
dtIed that the electrical execution act is
constitutional,
The bondsmen of ex-State Treasurer
Noland, of Missouri, have agreed to settle
t le deficit.
James J. Slocum, the baseball player
convicted of murdering his w ife, was on
Friday sentenced to death at New Yoa-k.
The Illinois democratic central com¬
mittee has decided to call a state con¬
vention. to meet at Springfield on June
4 th.
Major-General George Crook. U. S. A.,
in command of the department ofMissouri,
died at the Grand Pacific hotel, at
Chicago, Friday morning of heart disease.
A large number of dealers in fruit in
New York have petitioned the committee
>n ways and means, at Washington, duty pro¬
testing against any increase in the
on lemons and oranges.
General Robert Cuminiug Schcnck,
congressman, soldier and diplomat, and
leader in public affairs a generation C., Sun¬ or
more ago, died a Washington I).
day evening of pneumonia.
There was a long meeting of the sugar
trust in New York on Thursday, and be¬
fore it ended interested parties cash every¬ divi¬
where had information that a
dend of two and a half per cent had been
declared for the present quarter.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Burling¬
ton, Iowa, reports: Nearly 200,000 acres
of the eastern portion of the state have
been burned by prairie lives fire believed not yet lost. ex¬
tinguished. Several
The fire was started by hunters.,
The “Newark.“last of the cruisers built
for the government by Cramp & Sons, of
Philadelphia, was successfully launched
Wednesday afternoon. The vessel was
christened by Miss Grace II. Bautelle,
daughter of Congressman Bautelle.
A special from Canton, Ohio, says:
The Canton glass works, one the largest
and most successful in the country, was
totally destroyed by fire Sunday morning.
Loss $00,000, insurance $35,000. Two
hundred workmen are thrown out of em¬
ployment.
Judge O'Brien, of the New York su¬
preme court, on Friday granted leave to
the sugar trust to declare a dividend of
two and a half per cent, on $50,000,000,
provided the portion due the North River
refinery was deposited with the court,
pending the suit.
The supreme court of the United States
on Monday affirmed the judgment district of the
court below from the eastern of
Virginia, granting a writ of habeas cor¬
pus to Wilson Loney, convicted of per¬
jury. It was alleged Loney swore falsely
in giving testimony in a contested elec¬
tion case.
Both branches of bill the providing legislature that of
Ohio have passe 1 a
railroad employes who have worked
twenty-four consecutive hours, shall not
resume till they have had eight hours’
rest. Twelve hours are to constitute a
day’s labor. The line for violation is
$150 in each case.
The will of the late J. Yojpsg Scam-
mon, founder of the Inter-Ocean,
was admitted to probate at Chicago,
Tuesday. Air. Scammon left an fire estate
worth $250. Before the great ol
1871 he was worth a million dollars.
What remained after the tire was lost
in the panic of 1878.
THE RETIRING CHANCELLOR
EMPEROR WILLIAM OFFERS HIS THANKS
AND A DUKEDOM TO BISMARCK.
A special edition of the Berlin Riech
Sanzeiger contains the imperial rescripts,
cordially thanking Prince Bismarck for
his services and appointing him Duke of
Lanenburg, colonel-general of cavalry
and field-marshal-general; also appoint¬
ing Count Herbert Bismarck interim min¬
ister of foreign affairs and General
A the on Prussian Caprivi chancellor and president of
has made ministry. Prince Bismarck
the arrangements to evacuate
palace of the chancellor at au earlv
date, w
THE SUGAR TARIFF
RAISES A HOIVL AMONG THE LOUISIANA
PLANTERS.
The Louisiana Planters' association
held a meeting at New Orleans on Friday
aud testing adopted against a series reduction of resolutions pro-
a of the tariff on
sugar all without other protected a corresponding reduction
ou articles; protesting
against the duty on sugar being changed
from specific to an ad valorem tax, and
also against the standard being raised
thirteen to sixteen Dutch standard, color
test.
CRAYON GREENBACKS.
A YOCNG ARTIST TRIES HIS HAND Al
COUNTERFEITING.
A St. Joseph, Mo., special says: Fred
Jones, aged nineteen Thursday years, fqr a crayon
artist, was arrested counter-
feiting United States $5 treasury notes
Jones’ method of.counterfeiting was pe-
culiar. He used no dyes, but made cyavor
copies of genuine notes. The counter
feita are pronounced by offeers to be cx
ceptioually deceptive
SOITHEES NOTES.
INTERESTING- NEWS EMM All
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SONS AND WXOS’S LINE.
The Pan-Americanists- wiJA leave Wash¬
ington on their Southern: trip about tht
10th of April.
A fire started in the business portion ol
Laredo Texas, Tuesday morning, and be¬
fore it could be checked. .$100,000 worth
of property had been destroyed. It w*«
partially covered by insurance.
According to the monthly statement of
the railroad commission, just issued at
Columbia,, the railroads of South Caro¬
lina earned nearly $9.f)00.(KH) net in Janu¬
ary'. an increase of about $140,000 over
the corresponding month of last year.
The Dallas, Ua.. cotton mills were
completely destroyed by fire Friday ii
morning. The mills were owned by
company of Dallas gentlemen and the loss
is about $15,000, with only $ ^,500 in¬
surance. The mill was ill be comparatively felt by
new, and the loss w its
owners.
The San Francisco -chamber of com
inerce on Monday adopted resolutions re¬
citing that the existing tariff on sugar i-
favorable to the development of the beet
sugar industry of the country, and particu¬
larly of the Pacific coast, and protesting
against the proposed reduction of duty on
this product.
It is officially announced at Chattanoo¬
ga, Tenn.,tliat the Chattanooga Southern
Railroad will lie extended immediately
to Gadsden, Ala., and from there, vis
Talladega, to Atlanta, Ga. It will open
up a section very rich in mineral wealth.
Cars will be running to Gadsden by July
1st.
On Friday, near Blocton, Bibb county,
Ala., forty miles south of Birmingham, the
dead bodies of four negroes were found in
the woods. Three had been shot to death,
and the head of the fourth one had been
severed from the body with an ax. An
inquest w r as held, but it was impossible to
iearn how the negroes came to then
death.
The twenty-second annual meeting of
the Georgia press association met at Sa¬
vannah, Ga., on Tuesday. The following
officers were elected: W. L. Glessner,
President; T. Al. Peeples. Vice-President;
T. L. Gantt, Second Vice-President; J
AY. Burke, Treasurer: T, A\'. Chapman.
Secretary; AV. S. N. Neal. Corresponding '
Secretary.
II. Al. Flagler, of St. Augustine, Fla.,
has offered to deed to the Baptist society
a lot worth $25,000 and $25,000 in cash
for building a church, chapel and parson¬
age in that city, on condition that the so
ciety raise $75,000 within twelve months.
A. E. Dickerson, editor of the HeligUnn
Herat J, of Richmond, A'a.. will endeavoi
to raise the additional sum required. This
is the fourth church which Air. Flaglei
has built, or aisled in building, in St. Au
custine.___
ALLIANCE HEADQUARTERS
ESTABLISHED IN WASHINGTON — THJS
SUB TREASURY PLAN.
The Farmers’ Alliance has established
a headquarters in AVashington. where tin
work of educating congress as to desired
legislation will be carried on. The pres¬
ident. Air. Polk, is ou hand actively
pressing the merits of the new sub-treas¬
ury plan. Air. Polk declares that tliL
plan is the product of the best minds of
the Alliance, and if this congress fails to
enact it into a law. the next congress will.
The Alliance is making its influence felt
with congressmen and the politicians of
both parties are considerably worried by
its aggressions.
BLUFFTONS GIFT.
SHE SECURES THE LOCATION OF THE NEW
METHODIST UNIVERSITY.
Bluffton, Alabama, makes the munifi¬
cent gift of $500,000 to the Alethodist
Episcopal church lor the location of the
educational institution know n as the Un¬
iversity of the Southland. Rev. C. L.
Alann, D. D., who has it in charge, says
tluit $1,500,000 will be expended on the
piain building, which will be 300 feet by
300 feet and seven stories in height, with
an inner court 200 feet square. The ma¬
terial to lie used is white marble granite
and sandstone. Ground will be broken
April 15th, and work on the building
pushed rapidly.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
TH» UNITED STATES COURT REVERSES TWC
DECISIONS OF STATE COURTS.
The supremecourt of the United States,
on Monday, rendered decisions in what
is known as the granger cases, being ap¬
peals from the decisions of the state
supreme court of Minnesota, upholding
the action of the state railroad and ware¬
house commission in fixing rates foi
handling and switching cars of the
Minneapolis and Easton railroad, and
fixing rates on milk over road, the Chicago, The de-
Milwaukee and St. Paul
ciaion of the state court is reversed in
both cases.
ANOTHER SYNDICATE
INVESTING IN IRON AND COAL LAND*
IN THE SOUTH.
The purchase of the town site of Spring
City, fifty miles from Chattanooga, Term.,
on the Cincinnati Southern road by a
syndicate from Kentucky is reported.
Ten thousand acres are involved in th<
.sale, the consideration being a half mil¬
lion dollars. The purchase is for the de¬
velopment of irsn and coal industries.