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et 3 O 3 r w O VOL. I. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ivORK OF CONGRESS. THE FIFTY-FIRST PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOU6E AND SENATE BRIEFED— DELIBERATIONS OYER MAT- ! TEES OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES. The house, ou Friday, after reading L journal, went into committee of the [hole, Ldry Mr. civil Burrows appropriation in the chair, bill. on The the [ndry (ded'for civil the law expenditure for the current of $25,000,000. year }*ro- few amendments were adopted, insert- ig new items and slightly increasing jhers already in the bill, increasing the fgregate of the bill‘by $75,000. Mr. pod night, of Kentucky, moved to strike it the cause relative to irrigation debate sur- IV. Upon this amendment a ose which consumed the remainder of le day’s session. Without completing Insidcration of the bill the committee so and the house at 5 o’clock took re- till 8 o’clock. the evening session to for the consideration of private pension Is. In the senate, on Friday, Mr. Morrill 'esented a remonstrance from two coun- of Is in Vermont against the imposition lityontin. Ittee. Referred to the offered finance Thurs- com- The resolution ly by Mr. Edmunds, appointing Edward j. le. Valentine taken sergeant-at-arms and agreed of to. the sca¬ The Ir.ate was up then taken and silver bill was up Ir. Morgan resumed the floor in favor of ire coinage. Mr. Aldrich next address- I the senate. He defended the amend- rnts reported by the tiuance committee i the house silver bill, and asserted that stead of demonetizing silver, the sys- m proposed by the finance committee ould more effectually monetize it than c system now in force under the law of 78. At the conclusion of Mr. Aldrich’s £ech, a colloquy between Messrs, and Edmunds (in which Mr. Alli- n also took part) was carried on at me length in reference to legislation United as greenbacks, the payment of bonds in gold and the effect of an adon currt ‘ nc y and a contraction currency. Without concluding his Mr. Daniel yielded for and, motion to executive session, after a executive session, the senate, at 0:20 till Saturday. Wil- the house, ou Monday, petition Mr. of of Ohio, presented Ohio, a for the of Dayton. en- ment of a law prohibiting the sale, ■, manufacture, or importation confederate of ban- or flags, representing anarchists. Re- EG or the red flag of red. The house then went into com- of the whole, (Mr. Burrows, of higan.in the chair),on the sundry civil bropriation bill. In the course of an political debate, Mr. McComas, predicted the passage of a which would insue a free ballot and count in the southern states. Mr. of Indiana, offered and amend- to en f° r De the eight-hour law in the ernment printing office. Ruled out )0 'pt of order. Pending action on p bill, the committee rose and the Mse, [ the at 5:20, adjourned. n senate, on Monday, a message pi the house asking a further confer- ■ e the °n the anti-trust bill was presented • request assented to after remark# Messrs. Edmunds and Vest. The de- enev appropriation bill for pension# Blair introduced a joint resolution the president of the United to institute an international confer¬ ee. to meet in Washington, in Febru- • 1891, international with a view to the formation nn alliance for the sup- jssion of slavery and the slave trade, ,liz e d people, and to provide for of schools of common Wled " e ’ art and industry. Also to ure dl< ; disarmament of nations and establishment of international courts, appropriating of the $100,000 for the ex- ses conference. Laid on the Hie house silver bill was taken ant Mr. Daniel resumed his speech n n him Friday. Mr. Allison next -( 4. tbe se pate in a lengthy argu* . ° r rte co ' na ge. ' ! he '' hole on the suudry civil bilL After adopting one lment adding $40,000 to the bill, ^ mit teo rose and reported the bill * ,bc l)i11 was Passed. The men went ieto committee of the e "n the Indian appropriation bill. 1 appropriates $6,000,000. With- "inpieting the the bill, the committee house adjourned. bouse ^ r was taken fo s attitude [\ e erticized the the adminwtra- silver 1 upon ques- and a i' sorted ^ the silver-pro- r ‘K v . u cs could baT foreseen what ' e KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO., GA„ FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1890. that atitude was to be, the present ad¬ ministration would not be in existence. In conclusion, Mr. Wolcott said that the •iiiver bill was' ot far greater importance than the election bill.the anti-gerrymand- ering bill or the tariff bill, The senate then proceeded to vote on the amend¬ ment reported by the tiuance committee. Among the amendments agreed to was the following offered by Mr. Plumb in lieu of the first section of the house bill: That from anu after the dnte of the pas¬ sage of this act the unit of value in the United States shall be a dollar, iud the same may be coined of loin hundied and twelve an.1 one- hall grains of standard silver; or of twenty-live and eight-tenths grains of standard gold; and said coins shall be legal tender for all debts public or pri- rate; that tncreaftcr any owner of silver or gold bullion may deposit the same at »uy mint of the United States to be formed into standard dollars or bars for his benefit, and without charge; but it shall be lawful to refuse any deposit of less value than $100, or anv bullion so base as to be unsuitable for the opera- lions of tiie mint. The title of the bill was amended, so as to read: "An act to provide for the free coinage of gold and diver bullion, and for other purposes.” passed— The bill, as amended, was then vens 4 , nays 25. The bill for the admis- Jon of Wyoming as a state was then mlo-n up. -•<> ., s to make it '‘unfinished business, ” and the senate, at 0;20. ad- j^m-ned, NOTES. The river and harbor bill, as it passed the hojse, appropriates $19,078,945. Lodge-Rowell national election jjr«2 law bill within the next two weeks. Speaker Heed and the other house leaders are turning Iheir allen.ion to ,he aonare. Iuthe passage of a free coinage bill by the senate Tuesday, the administration w as defeated on every turn. There was qo mincing matters by the southern and western senators. rney came out squarery for tiie feee coinage of both gold confer¬ and silver. Now the bill will go to a ence committee. On Monday Surgeon-General Hamil¬ ton, of the Marine Hospital bureau, yellow was informed that a second case of fever bail developed on the British vessel Avon, now detained at Chandeleur quar¬ antine station. He also received a report from the special agent sent to Merida, Yucatan, to investigate its sanitary con¬ dition, that twelve cases of yellow fever have occurred there and that there are fears of an epidemic. The republican csucus Monday, con¬ is sidered the national election law. It ready to be reported to the house. Hav¬ ing disposed of this subject, the caucus next turned its attention to McComas’s smti-gerrymandering bill. This was dis¬ cussed at some length. Before the vote was taken many members had left the hall, so that the result, which was the de¬ feat of the bill by a vote of twenty-two to twenty-six, was unsatisfactory to its friends. Since the announcement that the enu¬ meration of Washington City had closed, a number of complaints have been made by those who insisted they have not been counted. Inquiries from a number of people by a Pont reporter would seem to indicate that the census had not been ac¬ curately and completely taken. In the editorial and composing rooms of the paper there were a number of persons omitted by the enumerators. Numerous complaints have also been received by the local supervisor of census from per¬ sons who complain that the enumerators failed to get their names. Senator Vance has written a reply to the letter of Superintendent Porter, ask¬ ing the senator’s influence in behalf of the census supervisor of Asheville. N. C. Senator Vance protests against the people of Asheville being made responsible foi the misdoings of a few' or for the anony- pious circular. He sats he is sure that tbe wboie reported trouble in Asheville is exaggerated, ana that no more dim- culty will be found in taking the censui there than in any other city. If the enu- merators, he said, know how to behave themselves,they will meet with no trouble The proposition to raise, by populai subscription, a sum necessoay to erect a colossal equestrian statue of General Grant and Lee at Cumberland Gap is very generally commended bv the public men at Washington. Quite*a parties, number who ol the leaders of both political interviewed fought on both sides, were on the matter, and the consensus ol opinion is, that the sentiment prompt! this movement is a beautiful and pa and preserving in bronze the famous scenes at Appomattox, when the two op- ponents clasped hands at the conclusion ol hostilities. NEWS OF THE SOOTH. BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬ ESTING NATURE. IMTHY ITEMS FROM ALL rOINTS IX TIIE SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬ TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC. The t™*! ex-Treasurer Hemingway was begun Miss., in the Circuit Court at Jack son > ou Tuesday, A steam pipe of a tug at Norfork. Ya., exploded Tuesday, killing Captain Darby and a fireman, Three shipments of Virginia wheat were received in Baltimore Friday. The best lot sold at $1.10. Fifty-two republican clubs met in Jack¬ sonville. Fla., Tuesday, for the purpose of formiug a. state league. Mobile, Ala., complains that the cen- 8113 enumerators are overlooking a great number of colored people m their couut. Mr. Sam Inman, who was appointed World’s by President Harrison as one of the P ,ur Commissioners for Georgia, declines to serve. The Kentucky court of appeals, on Tuesday, decided that the defaulting 1 reasurer Tate’s bondsmen must make up the shortage. Judge George G. Junkin, of Christians- burg, \ a., was on Tuesday, elected trus¬ tee of Washington and Lee university, in the place of Colonel William Alleu, deceased. A special from Jacksonville, Ala., re- aid to l>e the second of its kind in the wor i c j i 0 >, n .yndSe.'i, p, *,_ • ____, . ... English negotiating all for the purchase of nearly of the largest tobacco manufactories in the city. The shoe firm of Stein Bros., Richmond, composed of Lee and Albert Stein, of Va., made an assignment Friday for the benefit of their creditors. Their total liabilities are $25,000 and the assets not named. A Charleston, S. C., dispatch of Tues¬ day says: The democratic convention of Hampton county elected a Tillman dele¬ gation to the democratic state nominating convention which is to meet Septembei 10th. A meeting of all the trades unions oi Chattanooga, Tenn., was held Saturday night. About 4,000 workingmen federa¬ were present. The object is to effect a tion of all the unions, which will be done next Saturday night. ®...... rr.i re state of Mississippi, the circuit . . in court at Jackson, has obtained a judg- ment for $3 *,420 against Jones & Hamil- ton. et al., late lessees of the penitentiary that convicts of that state. This is for amount Claimed ,o bcJuefor 1885. A Charleston, S. C., dispatch the of Mou- day, says: The work of taking census has nearly been completed. While official figures are not obtainable, a conservative estimate of the population of reach the city, however, is that it will nearly 70,- 000 . Prof. Ed Hutchinson, a balloonist, while making an ascension in the out¬ skirts of Knoxville, Tenn., on Saturday, fell from a height of seventy-five feet and was fatally hurt. He is 26 years old and hailed from Chattanooga, This was his fourth ascension. A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: Tuesday, Exo¬ dus agents arrived in the state atid are distributing posters and papers among the negroes, setting forth th*. charms of the fair south. They will uat every effort to secure a great movment of the negroes, beginning next November. The Anniston Evening New learns rom farmers that in all their experience n the cultivation of cotton they have never seen the crop looking so well oi growing more rapidly than it is this year. The yield this season will largely exceed that of last, unless some unforeseen acci¬ dent befalls it. A census enumerator at Richmond, Va., las found a colored woman, named Mar¬ tha Gray, who has had thirty-seven chil¬ dren since 1868. She has given birth tc t0 8 f\ cn others husband, singly. She is now living with .. l her bird and.of the thirty- 8even children but one survives. A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says Late Saturday asternoon a demitv sherifl arrested P. H. Waring and J. Black, or a charge of representing a bogus life in- surauce company. It is said they collect- ! ed premiums or. policies in an insurance The company which does not exi«t. men were promptly lodged in jail. will probably amount to $50*00*0. Gov- ernor Buckner will save the state's credit by advancing the money, without inter est. from hla private fortune, to meet al. urgent obligations, lie has already ad- ! vanetd $10,000. A Cedartown, Gn., dispatch says: The ami Cherokee iron furnace has started, our people are delighted. For has two years been this immense establishment silent, and business has been hampered With all somewhat by its failure to run. its departments running, the pay roll of the company will be $15,000 per month. The furnace makes a run every six hours, and the best quality of iron in the south is made. At Louisville, Saturday, the Kentucky court of appeals decided that a telegraph company is liable to damages both to feelings and financial interests by failure to use all due diligence to deliver a tele- irram. The case was Chapman vs. th# Western Union Telegraph company, in which the telegraph company failed to deliver a message to Chapman, notifying him of the approaching death of his father. A dispatch of Tuesday, from Winston, N. C., says: The proposition to issue $200,000 worth of bonds for city im¬ provements was overwhelmingly carried. This provides for the immediate erection of a market-house, city hall and city prison, the construction of a sewerage system and well paved streets and buying of waterworks. The $100,000 hotel will go up immediately, as will also the plug tobacco factories P. H. Ilsnes and It. J. Reynolds, and will be the largesVin the world - A terrific storm swept through the wes- tern part of , Wilson county, N. U., late Monday evening. The storm was accom- pauied by a tornado and hail. The lattei played havoc with the growing is serious- crops, particularly tobacco, which so H," T° y 7“ ga" ploughing it up and will plant th. tana in corn. Ifie latter crop, as weu as cotton, the are also badly-hurt. wide The track u«*v.*v i/j storm was several miles and its course was tweuty miles. There is widespread discontent in Gharleston, S. C., about the result of the census enumeration. It Is said that liun- dreds of families have not been counted. There are thirty districts in the city, each of which was calculated to show over 2,000 population, Some of these tail from 500 to 600 behind, and it is claimed that this is caused by the negligence of the enumerators. The last city census, two years ago, thought gave a population of 08,- 000 . It is that the present eeu- sus will show a total of not over 55,000. A MINE HORROR. FIFTY MEN I’ERISH BY THE EXPLOSION OI FIRE DAMP. A . dispatch from „ Dunbar T . - Pa., „ says: Monday morning at 12 o’clock an explo¬ g j on shook the miners’ dwellings on Hill Farm, in Fayette county, near this place. j n a mome ut fearful news had spread that Hill Farm mines, owned by Philadelphia parties, had exploded. Fifty-two miners had gone to work in the worninr*' and were in the slope when the explosion oc- curred. Of these fifty-two, eighteen were in the left heading, and thirty-four in the right heading. Those in the left heading got out all right, escaped. the others were cut offi and not one Fire damp, which exploded by an accidental spark from a miner’s lamp was the cau-e of the disas- ter. Miners from the left drift escaped blackened and bruised, but safe, audthey told a fearful story of the scene; just be- fore the blazing coal ou the right could be seen a score of terrible faces walled in by flame. No man could pass and live, Willing hands and hearts were not want- ing on the outside, and a corps of one hundred strong men began the w’ork of rescue. The universal and unwilling verdict from old miuers about the shaft is that the entombed men have either been killed outright bv the explosion or later by suffocation. The latter seems to be more probable, at least in part, as sounds were heard from the entombed men as late as 1 o’clock in the afternoon. These grew weaker and weaker, however, and half an hour lr.ter even the most hope¬ ful of the rescuers could hear nothing but his own heart-throbs. The disaster is the worst ever known in the Connelisville region, the nearest approach being th# Leisin mine explosion seven killed. years ago. when twenty-three were A HUGE LOCKOUT, TROUBLE BETWEEN NEW YORK SUIT AND CLOAK MAKERS AND THEIR WORKMEN. At noon Friday about 6,000 cutters and cloak and suit makers were locked out by the different cloak and suit firm* throughout New Y’ork city. The greater portion locked out were union men, while several hundred are non-union men. The greater trouble, decided to lock out every man tbe mat ter is amicably settled. Fourteen firms are interested in the lock- out. NO. 18. TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE BUSY WORLD. A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬ DENSED FROM NEWSY DfSPATCHK? FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT THE CABLE BRINGS. An earthquake shock was felt at Cush ing, Quebec, Monday morning. It is reported that the Mahdi has re¬ leased all Europeans who were takes prisoners by his forces. Every railroad in Cleveland, Ohio, is tied up. and passenger and mail train* are the only ones running. Building laborers of Boston, Somev ville and Cambridge, Mass., have struck, for an increase of wages. Heidlebach, Icklelieimer & Co., of New York, have ordered $500,000 in gold for export to Germany. A dispatch of Monday says: Thirteen thousand dock laborers, at Swansea r kng., have struck for higher wages. H. N. Hickman was nominated foi railroad commissioner by the Missouri democratic state convention Friday, ' Spanish Saturday, in th> The cortes presence of the king, formally declared the king’s son Louis Phillume, heir tu ' the throne. Hon. Francis W. Hill, of Exeter, Maine, democratic candidate for gover- nor, died very unexpectedly at his horn* Sundav morning, It is reported that the Mormons are gradually deserting Utah, <tud that be fore Ions ,g there will Ik only a few of then lcft e territoiy. Dispatches Dispatches of of Saturday Saturday sav say that that choleft cholert has broken out at Pueblo dc Rugate h. the province of Valencia, Spain. Four¬ teen deaths have already occurred. John Dillon, William O’Brien and .Toh« Redmond have been America, appointed in the delegate* to make a tour of autuiun. in the interest of the Irish national**** movement. Stanley says the director of a Dutch house recently told him that his firm now has thirty steamars on the bought Upper Congo and that their house had $l r 50D- 000 worth of ivory in the last two years The executive council of the America*/ Bankers’ association held its annual meet¬ ing in New York Saturday, and decided that the convention of 1890 be held al Saratoga, N. Y., September 3d, 4th aad 5th. A special from Reading, Col., says th» r one of the peaks of Mount Shasta liae disappeared. The top appears to hurt been out short off and to have fallen ini/ the crater below, the depth of which ha-- ucver been penetrated by the eye of man. 1 he Damburg-Amencan York steamship dav> Co lumbia arrived at New a few a # 0 ’ having made the voyage from Southampton in 6 days, 15 hours and ->1 ndnutes * this being the fastest trip be tween these two ports on record, A dispatch relatives of Monday from London s#}' 9 only the of the bride ami groom are invited to be present at th< w edding of Miss Mary Anderson and Mr. Antonio Navarro. The cermony, it is announced, will be of the plainest ami simplest character, Judge Cowan, of the court of general sessions, New York, on Friday dismissed indictments against John Keenan and ex- Boodle Alderman Henry L. Sayie* charged pated with bribery of' in having partiei- in the steal the Broadway rail¬ way franchise, According to several Parisian newspa pers, M. Ribot. minister of foreign affairs, is about to declare the recognition by France of the Brazilian provisional gov¬ ernment, and has intimated to Seuos Stagielra, Brazilian representative, thar President Carnot is ready to reoeivc him. A meeting, held at Paris Saturday tc to express sympathy disturbed with the the arrested ni¬ hilists, was by anarchists, who entered to have a free fight. Th* Egalate commented severely upon the ac¬ tion of the anarchists, and in revenge thirty of them made an attack upon the office of the newspaper Sunday and de molished everything in sight. A complete set of proofs of Henry Jl. Stanley’s forthcoming work. “In Darkest Africa," were obtained in a mysterious manner by some person who offered cop¬ ies to an English paper. The house ot commons has issued a circular warning any person against publishing the work, as the government has charge of its pub¬ lication. Exports of specie from the port ol . New York during the week ended Satur¬ day. June 14, amount to $1,390,000. an*? ol which $1,380,950 was in gold, $59,050 silver. All the silver and $]. 068,700 in gold went to Europe, and $262,250 in gold went to South America. Imports of specie for the week amounted to $107,550, of which $6,269 was in gold, and $101,281 silver.