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The city cf Geneva, Switzerland,
means to attract visitors in August by a
gigantic International Musical Festival,
for which 11, 000 invitations have
already been issued.
One of the suggestions lor the
Chicago World’s Fair is a gigantic iron
tent covering 200 acres, with au iron
tower in the centre 1500 feet in height,
corresponding to the tent pole.
A writer in Tue Toronto Ghhi calls
attention to the increasing spread of
the Canada thistle in the Dominion.
There is a law on the subject, but it is
a dead letter, he says, aud he suggests
that the Government appoint weed in¬
spectors to abate the nuisance.
There are in the Japauese Empire
24,945 elementary, 45 normal, 48 or¬
dinary middle, aud 11 official schools
besides colleges, private schools, kin¬
dergartens, and libraries, the cost to
the taxpayers for the public schools
alone being more than $8,000,000.
Scientific farming in Italy is to be
undertaken this year by a company
owning a capital of $20,000,000. If
the operations prove successful the old
woodeu plow, pulled by oxen, that has
held the field si ice an era before the
Rimay C'asars, will probably have to
go.
Poisonous snakes in India caused
the death of 1,165 persons and 81
cattle, and wild animals the death of
65 persons and 2, 252 cattle during last
year. The human mortality was very
slightly less than in the previous year,
while the animal mortality was appre¬
ciably greater.
In Roumania recently the cold has
been very intense, and the evolves have
been driven in very close to the towns.
One mail carrier was attacked and
killed by them on Iris route. His
horses were also devoured, and even the
leather post bag was torn to piccc3, but
many of the letters were recovered.
The workingmen of Silesia, Austria,
arc in a pitiable condition. They can-
not eveii obtain sausages. A meat fam¬
ine exists in the country. American
pork is excluded, and the quantity of
the native product inadequate. A
petition has been addressed to the
Buudcsrath, asking the repeal of the
duty on American pork.
A veteran detective in Cincinnati was
instructed to watch a train and arrest a
woman with a child about two years old.
Uc arrested one with a child fivo years
old, and when laughed at for his mis¬
take asked that some one give him fig¬
ures ou a two-year-old child. An in-
Bpcction of twelve proved that no two
were of the same height or weight, or
looked the same age.
The Commissioner of the Census
hopes to be able on August 1 to an¬
nounce approximately the total nuinbei
of people in the United States. In ac¬
complishing this result electricity—the
applications of which seemingly know
no limits—will have a share, 9 ince
electrical enumerating machines are to
be employed, doing ten times as rapid
work as the human brain and hand.
The people at the nntipodes have had
it hot the past winter, Australia’s ther¬
mometer going up to 101 in the shade
and 147 in the sun. It should be re¬
membered that our winter is their sum¬
mer, and vice versa, Australia has
suffered much the past season from
floods and accidents, Thus it seems
that misfortune has been equally dis¬
tribute! around the world, Yet the
sum of benefits is greater than the sum
of misfortunes.
The St. Louis Chief of Police, who
has had many years’ experience with
criminals, declares that the man who
has once been to State prison seldom re¬
forms. He says that the ex-convict
now on securing his release generally
reports to the Chief of Police in any
large city where he proposes to stay and
inquires whether he will be given a fair
show. He generally makes protesta¬
tions of reform, but the criminal in¬
stinct is too strong iu him, and a few
months sees him return behind bars.
This the San Francisco Chronicle terms
a cynical view, “but it probab’y agrees
with the experience of most officers of
the law. The exceptions to the rule
are furnished by tho men whose pas¬
sions or misfortunes led them into
crime, but who have no taste for what
is ‘crooked. > >»
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON-
GUESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
measures of national importance
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
T . , house Wednesday , _ morning.
tn the on
-lr. Ilarmer, of Pennsylvania, presented lub
a memorial of the Manufacturers c >
of Philadelphia. invested 'representing American many
millions .... of . capital .
m
industries, and many thousands of work-
men,.earning Arneilean wages, m ay >
o piomp a( mu on. .111 <gis a mi
w ii< i * a i -me e nnpor a ion o a
rtcles produced by our own people He-
mittee mb^of of iiril the whole, Mr f? 1 w‘lS‘ ^
probation being the bill, motion the of pending Mr. Dunnell, question of
on
Minnesota, to strike out the clause pro-
viding clerks for senators. The motion
to strike out was lost— 8N tn 87 Pendine
further discussion described bv Mr. Buri
terworth as “playful,” the committee
rose, and the house at 5:3.5 Wednesday, adjourned. Mr.
In the senate, on
Chandler offered a resolution to adopt a
rule to expedite the taking of votes in the
senate and to facilitate public business,
The resolution was referred to the com-
mittee on rules. Mr. Platt presented tlit
conference report on the senate bill to
provide a temporary government for the
territory of Oklahoma. 'I’he reading of
the report, which is in the form of a
substitute for the entire bill, and covers
fifty-two printed pages, occupied agreed over an
hour. The report was to—yeas
50, nays o. The bill now now goes to
the president for his signature. The sen-
ate adjourned. Thursday, discussion
In the house, on
ssrstr* apptpS™ TS.
judicial i’he bill ou
appnipiia ion for ibo civil service
commission. This would make it inac-
tive, but would not abolish the, commjg-
sion or the laws. However, it provoked and
a discussion which was rich, rare
racy all through, and lasted all day. but
the rjncndnicnt to cut off the voted uppripria-
lion for the commissions, was down
by 120 to 61.
On motion of Mr. Gray, the senate on
Thursday, again took un for considera-
tion the house bill to transfer the revenue
marine service from the department. treasury depart- The
ment to the navy
amendments reported from the com-
mittee ou naval affairs were agreed to.
Pending consideration of the revenue
cutter bill, Mr. Hoar, from the commit-
tee on privileges and elections, reported
(as an original measure), the bill to amend
and supplement the election laws of the
United States and to provide for the
more efficient enforcement of such laws
and it was placed on the calendar. Con -
sideration of the revenue cutter bill was
resumed, but at two o'clock it was dis-
placed by the land forfeiture bill. The
forfeiture bill was read and committee
amendments, after the explanation, land forfeiture agreed bill to.
Consideration of
occupied the remainder of the afternoon,
except the time spent in a brief execu-
tive session. Without disposing of it,
the senate adjourned.
In the house, on Friday, Mr. Cannon,
of Illinois, from the committee on appro-
priations, reported a joint resolution ap-
propriating $150,000 to enable the seere-
tary of war to distribute rations for the
relief of the destitute people in the dis-
trict overflowed by the Mississippi and its
tributaries. The secretary of war is to
co-operate with the state authorities in
distributing the relief passed—139 here provided. 24.... The
joint resolution was to
On motion of Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio,
yeas, 120; nays, 100—the house went
into committee of the whole (Mr. legislative Payson,
of Illinois, in the chair), ou the completing
appropriation bill. Without
consideration of the bill the committee
rose and the house at 5 o’clock took a re-
cess until 8 o’clock, the evening session
to be for the consideration of private pen-
sion bills.
The Senate, ou Friday, resumed con-
sidcration of the railroad land forfeiture
bill, and Mr. Call went on with his argu-
ment in favor of the amendment offered
by him as to the forfeiture of railroad
lands in Florida. Mr. Blair, notieiug the
inattention of the few senators who were
in their seats, called attention to the fact,
and, on his motion, a call of the Senate
took place. Mr. George spoke in favor
of Mr. Call's amendment, and said some
pretty severe things about the absence of
senators from their seats. The bill went
over without action until Monday. At
ff:15 o'clock the Vice-President announc¬
ed that he had signed the joint resolution
appropriating $150,000 for the relief of
sufferers by the Mississippi overflow, and
the joint resolution was sent to the Presi¬
dent for Itis signature. The Senate bill
appropriating $75,000 fer a public passed. build¬
ing at Fayetteville, N. C., was
By appointment of the speaker, Mr.
Burrows, in of Michigan, house acted SatonhW. as speaker On
pro tem the on
motion of Mr. Lee, of Virginia, abiii was
passed road appropriating Alexandria, $7,000 Ya., to construct the
a from to na¬
tional military cemetery near that place.
The house again went into committee of
the bill. whole on the the legislative appropriation ordered.
A call of house was
Only 101 members responded to their
names. The dreary scenes attending the
call of the house were then enacted, while
the sergeant-at-arms was engaged in the
task of hunting up absentees, After
five hours consumed in this weary man¬
ner, further proceedings under call were
dispensed with. The house then, at 11
o’clock, adjourned
NOTES.
The senate has confirmed the nomina
tion of John C. Fremont, major general
United States army (retired).
The senate bill appropriating $140,000
for a public building at Tampa, Fla..
has been reported and placed ou the cal¬
endar.
The sub-judiciary committee of the
house left Thursday night on the sourk-
eru tour to investigate federal court offi¬
cials.
President Harrison, in a commuuica-
t j on to Attorney General Miller, alleging
obstructions to officers of the United
^ tatcs cour ts, instructs the attorney gen-
erol to use every power to protect court
offioC rs in discharge of duty.
The republicans of the house and sen-
, lte on Wednesday again agreed upon bill. a
j-, as j s f a y the preparation of a silver
agreement is in harmony with the
,newire ,ld0 ’’ ,cd by th ° senatC « ucu *
committee, with one important amend-
^ The secretary of the treasury has award-
« g° ,dh [ e «vtng medal of the first
das * to Richard f. W arren, of timing-
.on, N. C., for extreme and heroic daring
*n rescuing Miss Carrie Moffett from the
surf at Wrightsvillc Beach, N. C., in
June last.
Two more territories are to be made
states. This time they are New Mexicoand
Utah. The republicans of the house t*>m-
mittee on territories have decided to report
<he two bills favorably. The democrats
of the committee also favor the admission
h it are making strenuous opposition bills. to
certain partisan features of the
The federal election bill, reported the bv
Senator Hoar on Thursday, from
privileges and elections committee, is a
very elaborate measure, and provides, the
with great detail and minuteness,
scheme of national supervision of idee-
tions. It differs widely from the Ledge
bill, and it is essentially a government
supervisory measure
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International American conference • “The
secretary ^ thaUhe of state tc „£ desires to evnress S his
international American conference had to
be b„ejouero4„ abandoned but dclS. Micro wou'd ta^hc 1.............
ter leaving Richmond' T and a great o-reat unccr unccr-
n nf , sin^erelv'Vor
later.' He thanks vou the
hospitality u'ouble you'^Tave vou extended ’Sen to them ii and the S
to -Tr
appreciate their entertainment and hone 1 1 1 vou
bv which lie is 5 governed : ”
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COTTON STATISTICS.
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reported bt the new obi.eans cot-
TON exchange.
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Ibe Orleans Cotton Exchange ,
issued on Saturday the following state-
mcnt ’ °° verin S tllc cotton crop movement
from September 1st to April 25th, inclu-
slvc - based on telegraphic returns from rail-
a11 the leadm » oott<)n eenters and
roads crossing on the Ohio, Mississippi
and Potomac rivers: Net shipmets over-
land to North American aud Canadian
{ or tbe w'eek ending April 25th,
$>910 bales, against 5,902 for the same
week last year, making the total for the
season to date 892,067, against 906,238.
American mills have taken during
thirty-four weeks 2,132,348 against 2,-
129,ol3 last year, of which, by northern
spnmcrs and Canada overland, 1,728.546
against 1, <25,711. Northern mill takings
during the week, less stock corrections,
were 5, <95 against 10, <09 for the corres-
pondmgs seven days of last year. The
amount of American crop brought into
sight during the past week were 23, 715
hales, against 31,525 for seven days last
year, ending April 25th, making the total
thus far for the month of April corresponding 89.026,
against 117,244 for the
t w<*nt\-hvo days in April last year,
J be amount of the crop now in sight this is
7,00<,128, against 6, <28,301 up to
mite last jear. llie foreign exports dur-
ing the week arc 10,112 bales loss than
those lor the correspond ing seven days
!a ' r soason - reducing the excess to date
over last year to 324,201. The stock at
flipping ports and 290 leading interim
sou ^ heri ' markets were aggregate reduced
dining the week 40,903, against a Jailing
t “ e same t,Mle ,a8t S ear of and
ar< u .°" .^0, <M bales less than they were
a ' dlls tmit ’ season ‘
GOVERNMENT RELIEF
FOR MISSISSIPPI SUFFERERS—-MANY PLANT¬
ERS DEPRECATE IT.
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., says:
Governor Stone has been requested by
the secretary of the war to assist the
government agents in a proper distribu¬
tion of the relief provided by congress plant¬
for the overflow sufferers. Many
ers deprecate tli« ‘“government ration
business” in Mississippi, asserting that
they can and will feed and care for theii
tenants till the water recedes, also de¬
claring that there is no suffering, and
that the distribution of government
rations is only calculated to demoralize
labor and encourage idleness.
THE IMMIGRATION BUEREAU
ORGANIZES A BRANCH IN JACKSONVILLE,
FLA.—AN EXPOSITION TO BE HELD.
4Y. W. Pemble. commissioner of the
organization Immigration of the Southern arrived Interstate
bureau, in Jackson¬
ville, Fl3., Wednesday, and in a very
few hours organized the first branch in
Florida for porfecting the union. A
great southern interstate exposition and
permanent traveling exhibits is to be
held in one of the large northern cities
in 1891. Branches will be formed in
every large city and town in Florida.
Boston or Chicago will probably be the
city chosen for the exposition.
IF HE WERE PRESIDENT. I
SOME VERY PITHY SUGGESTIONS BY MR.
JU1I18 h. BKOWN, OF ATLANTA, GA.
The New York World asks the public ii
this question: ‘‘What would you do
you were President of the United States?”
Among the answers which have caused
most comment is one by Mr. Julius L.
Brown, of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Bream’s
answer contains food for thought and
we here reproduce it from the issue of the
New York World dated Sundav ' April 13,
] h<) 0, , ■
f n response you' to your question to the pub-
lie, -What would do if you were
President of the United States?” I sug-
gest Bone few things which are thorough-
Iv Utojiian, because I will never be Pre- !
side,it, and because if 1 were party spirit
^ too rife for either one of the present
parties to adopt them. the United
“ 1 ^re President of
Ma es and I did not have a Congress
thoroughly in accord with me I would
<‘Xeni tc the laws of the United (states un¬
partially, whether m Indiana or in Geor-
tf*a. II I were President of the United
States and had a Congress recommenda- in thorough
™conl ™ *> th; «t my
1( >us would be adopted, I would:
e l )n ' s|dc,lt of tb o whole
-r- U nited ; Ves Mates. 1 would not be President
°* au > party and would not be President
11 an S(!Ctl ‘ui. 1 would do all yn my
- and
P <nver ,u have good government, and educate
u ' l ,r °tect, defend, enrich
oui people. uld the Mi is i i
f C ’S? < 5T I -^ leve ®, f ' i PP
« ‘ md n Missouri Rivers and prevent disas- .
n 0Vc J“ 1 1 ^ k 0WS tt ’ a d , n f. dius wou i form d connect a P e tbem ‘ f f. ct
V ^_ Enough ™ the ., centre of the
1 tcs
’
, T budd factories t .
7, T- f gun mid the
a ')' f ' nUK ! ' u ' s ’ ? rts . > ® tc ‘> put
whole , country in such a position ol
tfs"“ t i.ower ,w ■* l,e “
"°" kl b " ikl » '«*> com-
*•
f end °V r commerce, protect our citizens
,n [?. re l^ n countnes alld rosent insults,
^~I would improve our rivers and
, iai Jors and mak e t!u .' m available, tor the
Same reasons which . induce private per-
ttdr
w'ould amend the navigation
laws . so as to makc the United States tlfe
,t>ad big maritime nation of the world and
Pi ace our country's flag back on the seas
lrom wh f“ ce Admb ; d drove id
Seventh —I would subsidize steamei
iineS 8 ufl ^ nt1 ^ to P^'7 dc read .V and
cheap facilities . lor building up a trade
with Mexico, Central and South America
aud the islands, in all of which the bal-
ance of tra de is against us. 1 would dc
this for the same reasons which induce
private individuals to donate their rights lands, oi
way for railroads through
and when these lines were strong enough
to stand alone l would withdraw the sub-
sidy. Eighth would readjust the tariff,
- I
raise it in some things and lower it in
others, so as to thoroughly protect every
American industry and enable this coun¬
try to produce everything it needed, sc
that in case of war we need not buy any¬
thing we desired from other countries.
Ninth—1 would put everything on the
free list wc did not produce, whethei
diamonds or coffee. I would not dema¬
gogue about taxing luxuries.
Tenth —I would put books (except pi¬
ratical reprints of American books, which
I would not permit to be imported),
maps, engravings, pictures and statuary,
and everything of that kind which edu¬
cates our people on the free list. I would
make luxuries so cheap that the pool
could afford to have them.
Eleventh —I would provide by general
laws for the erection of public buildings
in every city having a population permit of ten
thousand or more, and would not
the Government to be a tenant in such
places. Thus I would provide provide for work the for
American labor and con¬
sumption of American materials, No
business man rents a house when he is
able to own one.
Twelfth —I would conduct- the general
business of the Government upon the
same economical principles which pro-
gressive business men use in the conduct
c f their own affairs. I would try to get
the same work for the same money that
private persons do. 1 would prevent jobs
and thieving in public works. In a word,
I would have au honest administration if
I bankrupted the Treasury in the prose-
eution of public would thieves, invite the emigra¬
Thirteenth —I
tion of honest people, whether English or
Chinese, who desired to become citizens
of this country. I would prevent
ownership of lands by aliens. A man has
no right to have his life or property pro-
tected by a government to which he owes
no Fourteenth allegiance.
-1 would provide bv gen-
oral laws—changing the Constitution if
necessary—so as to have uniform laws
upon the subjects of marriage, divorce,
liens, mortgages, conveyances of real es-
tateand such matters as are common in
business between persons of different
States, and thus prevent the confusion
which now exists
Fifteenth —I would assume that the
motive w hich impels a man to tight for
his country was patriotism and not a de¬
sire for gain, and would reduce the pen¬
sion list and pay pensions only to a poor
soldier absolutely needing it, or his poor
widow, who w r as his wife when he was a
soldier.
Sixteenth I womd extend Charles 8um-
ner’s idea. I would repeal the laws pre-
venting a Confederate soldier from be-
coming an officer in the United States
army. I would erase the names of the
battles in the late civil war from the flags,
I would destroy all battle flags. I would
take cure of the Confederate dead in the
same way as the Federal dead are now
cared for. I would point w ith pride to
their aalor, and 1 would g:ory in the fact
that they were equally American soldier*.
Seventeenth —I would appoint did no man
to any local Federal office who not
command the respect and continence of
the people among whom no was living.
Eighteenth—1 would instil a love of
country instead of :i love of party in the
hearts of our entire people, north, south,
east and west, so that no matter when-
an American citizen might be, he would
say with pride, I am an American,
'Nineteenth —I would be roundly cursed
bv demagogues, those stirrers up of strife
north, south, east and west, who live.
move and have their being in sectional
and party agitation, but I would be lion
ored and respected by the great American
people who have the honor and well-be-
ing of our whole country at heart and
who wish sectional bickerings to cease,
Julius L. Brown.
Atlanta, Ga.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN TEE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA¬
SON’S and dixon’s line.
A Scotch-Irish association for the state
of Alabama was formed in Birmingham
Saturday.
The Nerv Orleans cotton exchange de¬
nies that there is any danger to that city
from the high water.
Ground was broken Thursday at Bluff-
ton, Ala., for the new building of the
University of the South.
The D; vis Land Stock company has
secured (8,000 for Mrs. Davis, and is
ready to receive additional subscriptions.
It is reported that in the past fifteen
months 71,000 negroes have left North
Carolina. It is stated that this estimate
is made on reliable data and upon careful
investigation.
In a letter received at Louisville, Ky.,
Mary Anderson, after confirming the re¬
port of her engagement to Navarro, states
that she will never again appear before
the footlights.
The Maryland legislative committee in¬
quiring into the malfeasance of ex-State
Treasurer Archer, on Thursday discovered
$56,000 of the missing bonds which w ere
supposed to have been lost. The defal¬
cation thus remains at $132,000.
A San Francisco dispatch says: One of
the most severe shocks of earthquake ex¬ in
perienced here for a long time was felt
this city and neighboring localities a lit¬
tle after 3:30 o’clock Thursday morning.
The buildings were aroused shaken perceptibly, from their
and persons were
sleep. Plastering fell from the walls in
places, but no serious damage has been
reported yet.
A Richmond, Ya., dispatch says: Per¬
haps the most elderly Couple troth ever Wed¬ mar¬
ried in Virginia plighted their
nesday at Milwood, in Amelia coumr-y.
The groom was Dr. P. N. Hudson, whe
has reached the venerable age of seventy-
seven, and the bride is Mrs. Jane R.
Blair, aged seventy-one. She was the
widow of the late William T. Blair and
the youngest daughter of the late Nicho¬
las Mills.
A FACTORY BURNED.
SEVERAL PEOPLE LOSE, THEIR LIVES AM)
OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED.
A dispatch from Catasaugo, Pa., says:
At 6 o’clock Thursday morning fire was
discovered in the large new building
owned and occupied by the Union Silk
Manufacturing company. While the fire¬
men and others were working hard to
control the fire, an cxplosiou of vitriol
and other acids occurred, and before the
firemen could escape, several of them
ere caught by the falling walls ami
many injured by falling timbers.
The list of killed so far as known i* a*
follows: John Good, aged 27, killed In-
falling walls; Joseph killed Lodigiaua. falling an walls. Ital¬
ian, boss dyer, by
The bodies of two other persons, not
identified, have also been recovered.
Many persons were injured.
The loss on the building is $50,000; Oil
machinery $35,000, and on stock $25,000,
partially covered by insurance.
DISASTROUS FIRES.
•The business portion of greenwood,
MISS., DESTROYED—OTHER BLAZES .
^ destroyed , . , the ,, entire . business
Jr ® Wednesday por-
.
la)n ^
D Jair y-three houses were de-
^ . ‘H, and two lives are said to have
,' st ' VIctlms are given as
John Doreh , and an unknown man....
' Toh " W H g ner ’ s five-story block, 73
V- V South Raul street, Rochester, N.
^-> | )ur a e d M ednesday morrnng. Los*
on the building $65,000. occupying Weaver &
( ° - ‘ manufacturers, a
P art of the building, . lose on stock and
machinery, $80 000; insurance $57,000.
Uangslow, howler «fc o., leath 3 . plush
aud carpet manufacturers, lose •*y*
' two-thirds insured.
AN INDEPENDENT PASTOR.
SUSPENDED FOR REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO
CHURCH AUTHORITY.
Rev. W. A. Harrison, for many years
pastor of the Third Presbyterian church
in i\noxville, Tenn., has just been sus-
relations pended from dissolved. the ministry and pastorate
Two of his elders are
also suspended. This action on the part
of the Presbytery was caused by the re-
fusal of the pastor and the elders to sub-
mit to the authority of the Presbytery for
some vears past, but to act independents
of it. The church is one of the largest
and richest in the Southern assembly, and
mjeh excitement exists over the case.