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VOL. I.
I NATIONAL CAPITAL.
OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
W CONGRESS.
v-EEDIXGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
RIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT-
OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
ERS COUNTRY. —NOTES.
In ■Pennsylvania, the house, on was Friday, excused, Mr. at Mutchler, his own
licst flora further services on the
fcmittee on coinage, weights and mea-
L Jointed and Mr. Vaux, of Pennsylvania, house
to fill the vacancy. The
|i resumed consideration bill. of the gen-
P deficiency Friday, Mr. Call of-
fe the senate, on
I Iructing ,i resolution, which was agreed to,
fons the committee on foreign rc-
to inquire and report such mens-
f f as may be the necessary United for States the protection who were
jnerly itizens of
residents of tuba and subjects
jSpain, against prosecution by the
Inish government for offenses them. alleged The
have been committed by
[current resolulion, heretofore of-
[d by Sir. Plumb, for the expressing removal
desire of Congress
he remains of the “illustrious sol-
rand statesman, l-lysses S. Grant” to,
I their interment in, Arlington Na-
lal cemetery, and requesting the pres¬ emi-
lut to convey to the widow of that
lt fcalfof man such desire, tendering to her, on
the nation, all necessary facili-
I for such removal and interment, was
len up and agreed to. The conference
Tort on the fortification bill was taken
for consideration. After some discus-
n the conference report was agreed to.
e tariff bill was then taken up, the
* pding paragraph being No. 134,
| other page iron
as to hoop, band, scroll or
.steel. After a lengthy discussion
% bill went over without action. A
psage from the president, in settlers ref-
jnee to destitution among
Oklahoma, was read and referred
the committee on appropriations.
i 1 . Hoar, from the library committee,
Jept ported the senate joint resolution to
from the national encampment of
Grand Army of the Republic a statue
|" pedestal of the late General Ulysses
I Grant, to be erected in the capitol,
■>vided that the de*sign of the statue
Id pedestal shall receive the approval of
K Is joint committee on the library, and it
passed. The senate then adjourned.
■The senate met at 10 a. m., Saturday,
le rollcall showed that there in the
■amber twelve senators less than a quo-
K Ivpting senate joint resolution was passed,
from the Grand Armv Repub-
|a laker statue then of stated General that U. S. the Grant. vote The
was
Ion the resolution of the committee on
P*s, Ik: it providing that after two hours de-
shall be in order to move non-cou-
prence in the senate amendments to the
|han lu was appropriation adopted. On bill. motion The of resolu- Mr.
jh:tthorue ■the judiciary the resolution committee. was The referred house
Id proceeded, under special order, to
I consideration of the senate amend-
fDts to the Indian appropriation bill,
[hen the debate terminated a vote was
F e n on Mr. Perkins’s motion to noncon-
. the
|r in senate amendments. This was
p«l pise then to. adjourned. Yeas, 150; nays, 2. The
I Ihe tariff bill was taken up in the sen-
p 011 Monday, Mr. the pending question
r' I n b r Plumb's amendment, offered
Saturday, to paragraph 134, page 27,
rf; uce ‘he additional duty on iron oi
r 8 ®' ™°P fro| s t cu t to lengths for baling pur-
r u two-tenths to one-tenth cent
' r P (,u D'L Rejected. No interest was
a P 1 bh (tin plate) proceedings reached, until when para
was
vDgthv discussion ensued. The pend-
■I question went over till Tuesday. A
nierente was ordered on the Indian ap-
)n|* r , latl0a ' 81 }d Call bill, and apppoiuted Messrs. Dawes,
were con-
°“ T I' art of the senate. The sen-
.*, tLen adjourned.
lc h°use, on Monday, took up the con-
Uhon T 1 T bUl. I> ,? rt 0n the Sundry civil appro-
After a brief debate, in
lirtro irS< w hich Mr. Dockerv pre-
id- i cienc of between $20,000,-
1)0 L v
U government t-u,000,000 - in the revenues ol
L me conference during the current fiscal
. 1 er f report ordered was reported,
hem con e rence upon
oor“ cn<1 i ® ents still in dispute. The
a the tv accor ded to the committee
1S !i .• nCt ° f Columbia, and the bill.
Dowr,. -Atkinson bill, conferring
Prtsj 'otolfo K<?S on the Baltimore and
^ m r ? a< * Company, was taken
P T> previous question ordered,
eas inn was
onsiiin, : Da v 8 ’ 50 ‘ An hour was then
i ^ easing of the roll
lilstorv ^lr Without upon
i0n8 - further
lf.f * he °f U 9e h< 'use Tuesda adjourned. Mr Cannon,
f Uliaoh ‘ - V ' -
hatinno ’ r rom tlie commit ee on anpro-
e»di re P or ted a joint resolution ex-
T>PronS n lfWa / n tUDtil Au 29th
DS for - V ,he ^ ust )
VP rnmint' 8 ' l PPort of the
te federal cen, ^ DOt appropriation alread . v Provided bills already for in
KNOXVILLE, CRAWFORD CO., GA„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 , 1890.
tlie passed. After a short debate,
joint resolution passed.
Mr. Dingley called up the motion—which
hud been pending for some time—to re¬
consider the vote bv which the house
passed the senate bill to adopt regula¬
tions for preventing collisions at sea.
"
The senate bill was passed, requesting
vessels in collision at sea to stand bv
each other in order to prevent loss of life.
It is further provided that the commander
of eueh vessel shall make known to the
other its name. I was amended, in cer-
tain particulars, and a conference with
the senate ordered. The house then ad¬
journed.
In the senat°, on Tuesday, Mr. Hale
reported back the house bill to amend
the census laws so as to require informa¬
tion to be obtained from unincorporated
express companies. Passed without
amendment. The tariff bill was then
taken up. The pending question beinir
Mr. Vest's amendment (offered Monday)
reducing the duty on the plate from
22-100 cents per pound to 1 cent, (the
present rate) Air. Morgan resumed his
argument. He was followed by Messrs.
Daniel, Moody and Vance, each of
whom made forcible arguments in
opposition tariff bill to the laid tin plate clause.
The was asi 7 e temporarily,
and Air. Allison reported from the appro¬
priations committee the house joint reso¬
lution to continue the appropriations of
iast year for the support of the govern¬
ment. It went over tiil Wednesday. The
tariff bill was agnin taken up, and the
debate on the tin plate paragraph was re¬
sumed. Air. Gray added bis voice to
those who had appealed in behalf of the
canning industry. yielded Without concluding,
Air. Gray the floor at (5:10 o’clock
p. m., and the senate, after a brief exec¬
utive session, at (5:20 o'clock adjourned.
NOTES.
The president, on Friday, nominated
Alexander Clark, of Iowa, to be minister
and consul general of (he United States
to Liberia.
On Monday, the senate committee or
tiiiii-ioiiery man Din to dc reported tome
fepate -with the recommendation that it
pass.’
While on Monday there seemed a
thousand <*f snags before the senate, and
while it then seemed and was predicted all the
that congress would eit right on
winter, Tuesday the route was shown to
be clear aud all will be smooth sailing.
Congress will adjourn about the 10th of
September.
The house anti-lottery bill w-as favora¬
bly reported to the senate Tuesday, with
au amendment published in providing foreign .countries that newspa¬ shall
pers mail unless, in
not he excluded from tne
the opinion of the postmaster general,
they are being circulated for the purpose
of advertising the lottery.
There was a genuine sensation in the
senate Tuesday afternoon. Senator Quay
caused it by quietly introducing a reso¬
lution, just before adjourning, which
prov.de• that during the present session
t he senate shall consider no business other
than the tar ff bill, appropriation bills,
public buildings, public lauds, pensions
and senate and house concurrent resolu¬
tions; that the consideration of all other
bills be postponed until next session.
I'll is means that the force bill will be
shelved for this session at least.
Secretary Noble Superintendent lias approved the Porter, rec¬
ommendation of
submitted Friday, that the original order
directing a recount of the population of
the entire city of St. Paul, be put into
execut on. Superintendent Porter, in his
letter of recommendation, gives a detailed
account of his recent investigation which
shows that while, perhaps, a large share
of the irregularities were found in nine
specified enumeration districts, yet gross
errors in 35 districts render, in his opin¬
ion, a recount of the whole city neces¬
sary. An examination of the schedule
disclose 1 among other irregularities, the
, duplications of
fact that at least 4,000
names were made.
The Tomb of Eve.
The Arabs claim that Eve's tomb is at
Jiddah, the seaport of Mecca, The
temple with a palm growing out of the
solid stone roof (a curiosity which is of
itself the wonder of the Orient) is sup¬
posed to mark the last resting-place of
the first w-oman. tradition. Eve
According to Arabian
measured over 200 feet in height: which
strangely coincides with an account of
our first parents written by a member of
tlie French Academy of Science a few
years ago. who also claimed a height of
over 200 feet for both of the tenants of
the Garden of Eden.
Eve’s tomb, which is in a graveyard and
surrounded with high white walls,
which has not Ixjcn opened for a single
interment for over a thousand years, is
the shrine of thousands of devoted
Ishmaelitos. who make a pilgrimage It to is
the spot once every seven years. tombs of
hemmed in on all sides by the
departed shiekhs and other worthies who
have lived out their days in that region of
scorching sun and burning sands.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FROM NEWBY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
Sixty thousand persons attended mass
meetings held at Buenos Ayres, Monday,
to rejoice over the fall of President Cel-
man.
Original package houses in Kansas and
Iowa closed their doors Saturday in con¬
sequence of the passage of the original
package bill.
The woolen mills of C. E. Gelsendorff
& Co, in West Indianapolis, burned
Tuesday afternoon. Loss $100,000; in
surance $05,000.
A careless telegraph operator at Fish¬
er's Station. N. Y., caused a collision of
two trains in which three men were killed
and fifteen cars destroyed.
The London Times believes that the
eventual result of the American sdver
coinage act will be the adoption by Amer¬
ica of a silver standard.
The old factory of the Laclede Fire
Brick Manufacturing Company, in Chel¬
tenham, suburb of St. Louis, burned Fri¬
day. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $40,000.
The treasury department at Washi ng-
ton, on Tuesday, sent about $5,000,000
in silver certificates to the sub-treasury
in New York to purchase silver under the
new law.
The English government has informed
Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary ol
state, that it is impossible for England tc
receive a papal envoy or to send a minis¬
ter to the Vatican.
A very destructive hailstorm passd Monday over
southern Lancaster county, Pa.,
morning. Several hundred acres of to¬
bacco were cut to pieces and completely
ruined. The loss will be large.
Harrison Werner, the flfT-yeur-old
Ohioan, who undertook to roll a wheel¬
barrow fromConncllsvillc, Ohio, to Wash¬
ington City, is now very near his destina¬
tion, having been about four months ou
the trip.
A dispatch from Evansville, Ind., says:
The strike of the switekm u in the Ev¬
ansville «fc Terre Haute freight yards here
came to an end at noon Friday by the
company conceding all the demands of
the employes.
Nine of the thirteen companies depart¬ consti¬
tuting the Trenton, N. J., fire
ment, adopted resolutions to dish, nd Sat¬
urday. This step is the outgrowth of a
broil between the department and the
city fire commissioners.
There appears to be little doubt that a
Woman's Department will be founded in
the World's Fair at Chicago. A plan for
a section to be governed by tin* formulated Woman's
League will be iminedi-v.-'.iy
and presented to the commissioners.
At a meeting of the Brick Manufac¬
turer’s Association of New York and New
Jersey, held at the Astor house on Mon¬
day, members of the assosiation sub¬
scribed half a million dollars to sustain
four boycotted brick manufacturing firms
at Verpiancks.
The colored people of Kansas held a
convention at Saliua, Monday, to decide
upon a colored man as a candidate for
auditor at the coming republican presided. state
convention. B. If. Bruce John
L. Wallace, of Kansas City, Kansas, was
chosen as the candidate.
The centennial of the discovery of coal
in Pennsylvania will be celebrated in
September next year. It was a huntef
named Philip Ginter who made the dis¬
covery on Mauch Creek mountain, in
Carbon county, and therefore the pro¬
posed monument will be dedicated to his
memory.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says
a strike of the .mechanics for nine hours
has been inaugurated in that city, and is
spreading. About three thousaud men
in idle. The principal fight seems to be
against the Westinghouse interest, and it
is said all employes of Westinghouse,
numbering 4,000, will be oat.
A dispatch from New Haven, Conn.,
savs: The most terrific thunderstorm
that has visited this secaon in twenty
years swept up Long Islaad sound Mon¬
day afternoon, and' erected havoc all
along the shore. Hailstones hour, as targe as
walnuts fell for half a* in trope,
especially corn and tobacco, southern
aud southeastern Connecticut are ruined.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York for week ended August 9th,
amounted to $2,774,436, of whicn $1,771.
336 was gold and $3,100 was silver. All
the silver and $1,705,168 in gold went to
Europe and $6.1(53 in g«id specie went during to South
Amirica. Imports of the
w eek amounted to $15#, 901, of which
$58,620 w as gold and $102,281 was sil-
ver.
The magnificent chapel of Chlpultepec,
in Mexico, which, according t* the re¬
ports received from the city of Mexico,
is being sought after by Jay Gould, Is
held in great, reverence by the Mexican
people, and since the fact has been made
public that negotiations are pending
to its sale, an intense feeling has been
aroused among the lower classes, who
object to the grand structure going out
of government hands.
A Philadelphia dispatch of Tuesday
says: In this week’s journal of the
Knights of Labor will appear a statement
from District Assembly 2:10, (which or¬
dered the strike,) explaining York why Cen¬ the
strike w; s o dered on the New*
tral road: a so. an editorial upon the
same subject. Both are very long, and
in each the chief b nme for the strike is
laid upon Vice President Webb, of the
Central company
A BIG STRIKE
INAUGURATED ON THE NEW YORK CENTRAL
AND HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD.
A general strike upon the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad and th«
Harlem railroad, was ordered Friday by
the executive board of district 246,
Knights of Labor, with the authority of
the general board, and soon after seven
o’clock in the evening all the members ol
the order from New York as fur west a«
Utica, on the Central, left their places,
and traffic on the great road came almost
to a standstill. Reports of Sunday being
say that new men are
employed and traffic is being resumed.
The officials claim that no further delay is
apprehended. Tticre were many state¬
ments made regarding the number of men
on the strike. The men themselves said
there were 3,000 or 4,000, while the rail¬
road officials maintained that there were
but 30u or 400 out.
General Master Workman Powdcrly,
wheu asked bis views concerning the
strike on the New York. Central aud
Hudson River railroad, said that some
time since, it was reported to him that
the employes of that line were being dis¬
criminated against, (he discharged organized men
all being known as leaders of
la''or. This strike is taken as a final pro¬
test against such discrimination which
had become unbearable. Mr. Powdcrly
said that the employees of (he road have
a perfect organization from New York to
Buffalo. All of these Knights organizations of Labor, are
not members of (he
but their action is a concerted odc and
(here will be perfect unity. The ordei
to quit work will be obeyed by all.
THE WEEK’S BUSINESS.
REVIEW OF THE CONDITION OF TRADE FOR
THE PAST WEEK BY DUN A CO.
Dun & Co.’s weekly trade review saysi
The present state of trade throughout the
country appears satisfactory for the sea¬
son, and reports are almost uniformly
confident in tone. Wool is more freely
bought, sales reaching 3,411,000 expected, pounds,
and a further decline is not as
quite liberal orders are coming for light¬
weight goods. Cotton goods move in
fairly and the suspension the
print cloth works is having hides,
desired effect. The market for
leather and boots and shoes is buoyant.
The crop outlook is on the whole, less
promising. Chicago reports that the
heat and dry 7 weather is cutting down the
yield. In the other reports there is evi¬
dence of an irrgularity of conditions. In
the south valley states too much rain
threatens cotton. The fall of 20 per cent
in wool abroad threatens a great supply
of cheaper goods if the proposed change
of duties fail, so producers hesitate,
The outlook depends largely upon the ex¬
tent of injury to crops, the action of con¬
gress regarding duties and foreign demand com¬
plications, which affect the foi
gold. The formation of a new Argentine
government may stop new demands foi
gold from that quarter, and the banks of
England and France domestic both gained the ol
gold last week, but exports
products continue small and imports
large. failures of the week number for
Business
the United States, 179; and Canada, 29.
Total, 208.
A FLOATING MESSAGE
WHICH TELLS A PITTIFUL STORY OF THIR¬
TEEN DRIFTING ENGLISHMEN.
A Portland, Oregon, dispatch says:
Sunday a boy rowing in the harbor Sun¬
day morning picked up a carefully sealed
bottle, which, upon being opened, letter, was
found to contain the .following distinct
written on cartridge paper in a
EngiLsh hand:
* * English Bark Ship Edmont, June
23, 1890.—We are sinking very fast.
Our latitude and longitude uuknown.
No compass, no rudder, no hope. If this
reaches a human hand please notify Bailev
& Co., Hull, England, that we are thi»-
teeu men aboard and all in a starving
condition. Mv mother, oh, my mother!
She lives on' Hedgeson street, Levitt
Terrace, Hull, England. Good-bye if we
‘ Duplow.”
arc not rescued. John
ADVERTISE NOW
NO. 2(5.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY JTKMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TIIK
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The first bale of new cotton for Louisi¬
ana was received in New Orleans Friday.
Careful estimates of the growing or¬
ange crop of Florida places it at 2,000,-
000 boxes, or about the same as last
year.
The Colored Farmers’ Alliance of
Burke, Columbia and Richmond counties,
with a capital stock of $10,000, all paid
in, will open an Alliance store in Au¬
gusta, Ga., in September.
The tax assessment for this year, just
complete,shows an increase of over a mil¬
lion dollars in the assessable value of
Montgomery county, Ala., over last year.
The increase is almost entirely in the city
property.
Hume Clay, aged twenty-seven people years, of
who is connected with the best
Kentucky, has disappeared, and now it
leaks out that he forged the name of his
grandfather, Matthew Hume, for many
thousands of dollars.
Tlie Anti-Lottery League convention of
Louisiana has issued an address to the
people of the United States, and asks
their aid in bringing about such a na¬
tional legislation as will break down the
power of the lottery.
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C,,says:
Rutherford college, one of the largest
non-denoniinational colleges in the suite,
situated in Burke county, was totally de¬
stroyed by fire Saturday. The loss was
complete—about $10,000. The college
will not suspend, but continue right
ahead.
Buckner «fc Ellis’s fine training stables
were burned Tuesday morning about 3
o’clock, near Clarksville, Te'-qp, ami eight
valuable trotters aud pacers were burned
to death. Tlie fire was undoubtedly of
incendiary origin, and the total loss ex¬
ceeds thirty thousand dollars. There was
only $8,380 insurance.
In the anti-lottery convention at Ba¬
ton Rouge, La., Friday morning, a reso¬
lution was introduced to boycott the
7'imcs-Bemacrat and Daily States, of New
Orleans on account of their pro-lottery
sentiment. The newspaper committee
reported $30,300 guaranteed be published for a morn¬ in
ing daily newspaper to in opposition to
the city of New Orleans
the re chartering of the lottery.
r I'he New Orleans Picayune notices the
departure from that city of a solid train
loaded with rosin, for the far destination
of Denver, Colorado. The amount of
rosin carried by the train, which consist¬
ed of a number of cars, aggregated whole a
round million pounds, and the
amount was shipped by a New Orleans
firm to a Colorado soap manufacturing
establishment located in the thrivingeity
of Denver.
Connelly & Fais, publishers of the city
directory of Chattanooga, Tenu., give
33,545 as the population of the city, while
the census official report gives only 39,-
101, a discrepancy of 3.436. Thecensus,
however, gives (5,000 more than the direc-
tor J' , city and- , suburbs. A rnove-
ment to obtain a recount of the popula-
tion is being discouraged by those who
w **° L ie res,1 R would be detnmen-
tal to the city and suburbs.
A dispatch, of Friday, from Greenville,
S. O., says: The Carolina, Knoxville aud
Western railroad is nearer a reality than
has yet been. A meeting of the stock¬
holders was held at Knoxville, and new
officers and directors were elected. The
stockholders are New York, Boston, St.
Louis and Augusta capitalists. work within The sixty com¬
pany proposes to begin completion
days, and to push it to as
rapidly as possible. The subscriptions
amount to $550,000.
A SOCIALIST MEETING.
A GREAT GATHERING IN BRUSSELS—REV¬
OLUTIONARY SPEECHES.
A dispatch from Brussels says: Forty
thousand persons took part in the social¬
ist demonstration here Sunday, There
were many women in line. The troops
were confined to their barracks all day.
Police patrolled orderly. the streets, The but route every-
thing thronged was sympathetic onlookers. was
with
They marched to St. Giles park, where the
they were addressei by leaders of
movement. Delegates from the labor
and progressist parties met in the evening
and sent the following dispatch asked what to King the
Leopold : You have is
country s watchword? It is uni.ersal
suffrage.” Violent revolutionary speeches
w ere made by several delegates. It was
resolved to summon a congress to sit from
September 10th to the 15th to consider
the subject of a general strike. ___