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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.