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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
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Official Orsan of Crawford County.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Entered at the p istoffiee at Knoxville,
(4a., as sccond-clas^ matter.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR:
JOHN B GORDON.
FOR GOVERNOR:
W. J. NORTH EN.
FOP. SECRETARY OF STATE:
PHILLIP COOK.
FOR STATE TREASURER:
It. U. HARDEMAN.
FOR COMPTROLLER GENERAL:
W. A. WRIGHT.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL.'
G. N. LESTER.
FOR COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE:
It. T. NE9BIT.
FOR CONGRESSMEN SIXTH DISTRICT'.
J. II. BLOUNT.
FOR SENATOR 23UD DISTRICT:
J. M. C ULPEPPER.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
A. J. McAFEE.
Tali fekro county lias instructed her
representative to vote for Gordon.
Gordon is a loDg horse and hard to
curry. His opponents will think so be¬
fore the race is over.
Tn E Democrats of Green county in mass
meeting instructed their representatives
to vote for Gordon.
Ik the 28th district lion. PL B Smith,
of Jasper county, whs nominated for the
acn.it e. He was instructed for Gordon.
W. C. Gill was nominated for the
Hxaatc in the Tenth district last Meek.
The convention was unanimous for Gor¬
don.
On which side of the late unpleasant-
wees vviis Dr. McCunearrayed ? He fought
4Jordon then and is fighting him now.
The Macon A* Birmingham It. It. wil
fee raaaing trains to LaGrange by Octo¬
ber 10th.
Gorddn is sure of seventeen votes from
the 6th Congressional District. We be¬
lieve he will get every oue of them.
Brains seem to be below- par in Bibb
just now-. At least it is no recommenda¬
tion for a candidate for the Legislature.
The Thomaston Times has been en¬
larged to an 8-page paper. Prof. G. W.
Harrison is noM its editor.
Hon. James H. Blount, who is a po¬
litical prophet of the first rank, says than
Ijordjon will sweep the State.
The Houston County Alliancemeu
kicked up such a row that the Southern
Alliance Fanner decided to publish the
resolutions pissed by the York Alliance.
W hen Gordon was shedding his blood
for bis country’s cause, uffierj were Mc-
€uae and Norwood ( How much blood
slid either ever shed lor their country i
Gordon addressed a large mass meet*
log at Gainesville last week. Great en¬
thusiasm prevailed, and resolutions en¬
dorsing him for the senate were passed.
Hon. TV. T. Flynt was nominated for
ibe senate in IDch d strict last Meek.
Resolutions endorsing Gordon for the
-senate wera unanimously passed.
If ability, experience, honesty aud
ftfqmlarity have any weight iu the elec¬
tion of a speaker, then Clarke Howell
wil! be the next speaker of the House.
If the- Democrats of the next House
will do their duty and act on the prece¬
dents of the present House, they will
•turn Mr. Reed, of Maine, out to grass.
A tremendous mass meeting of citi¬
zens of Rockdale and surrounding couu-
tios, was held in Conyers last Friday.
Gordon was unai iaioudy endorsed for
the senate.
Rev. ThjB) Pickett, independent can¬
didate for congress in the 9th district, has
Been proven to have deserted from the
Confederate army. It he Mas false to
the South in her darkest hour of uecd,
-ean we trust him now ?
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IIOI SF. AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT¬
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OCR
COM MON COUNTRY. —NOTES.
After prayer, by the chaplain, thecleik
of the house, on Friday, proceeded under
instructions from the speaker to call the
roll on the question of ordering the pre¬
vious question on the approval of lhc
journal of Tuesday’s proceedings. Dur¬
ing the roll call a message was received
from the senate announcing the passage
of the tariff bill with amendments, and
by direction of the speaker it Mas refer¬
red to the committee on Mays and means.
The previous qu stiou M as ordered. No
quorum appearing, on motion of Mr.
McKinley, at 1:55 o’clock, the house ad¬
journed.
In the senate, on Friday, Mr. Ingalls
presented a petition from the citizens of
Missouri, asking for the passage of the
compound lard bill. At the suggestion
of Mr. Edmunds, it was day, agreed that routine one
hour be given each after
morning business, to bills on the calen¬
dar. Unobjected to. Mr. Quay gave
notice that .Saturday, after the reading
of the journal, he would ask the senate
to consider resolutions iu respect to the
memory of Samuel J. Randall. The bill
to authorize the construction of a bridge
across the Mississippi river, calendar at Winona, and
Minn., M-as taken from the
passed Mi^i a verbal amendment. The
calendar was then taken up. An hour
M'ns devoted to the bills on the calendar.
Among other bills passed was the senate
bill to subject to state taxation national
bank notes and United States treasury
notes the same as other money. The con¬
ference report on the railroad land for¬
feiture bill was taken up, and Mr. Mor¬
gan continued his argument in opposi¬
tion to it. He was folloM’ed by Mr.
Sanders in favor of the adoption of the
conference report. Without concluding
his arguement, Mr. Sanders yielded for
a motion to proceed to executive busi¬
ness, and at 0 o’clock p. ni. adjourned.
The approval of the journal of Tues¬
day’s proceedings of the house Mas the
first question presented to the house
when it met Saturday morning. The
journal Wednesday, u'as approved. Thursday and The Friday, journals of
were
read and approved without, objection,
and then the house proceeded to pay its of
last tributes of respect to the memory
the late Senator James B. Beck. After
addresses by Messsrs. Dunnell, of Minne¬
sota; McCreary, of Kentucky; Stone,
of Kentucky; Blount, of Georgia; Hen¬
derson, of Illinois; Carauth, of Kentucky;
McMilian, of Tennessee, and Hooker, of
Mississippi, the the house, as of a the further deceased, mark
of respect to memory
adjourned.
In the house, on Monday, Mr. McKin¬ and
ley, from the committee on M-nys
means, reported back the tariff bill with
the senate amendments, with the recom¬
mendation that the amendments be non-
e incurred in. Referred to the committee
of the M hole. Mr. McKinley also re¬
ported a resolution for the immediate
consideration of the tnr.ff bill in the
house. After two hours of general de¬
bate it shall be in order to move to non¬
concur in the senate amendments in
gross, and agree to the committee of
conference asked for by the senate, and
the house shall, without further delay or
other motion, proceed to vote on said
motion. The resolution Mas reported
and .Mr. McKinley gave a very brief
statement of the senate amendments, but
entered into no argument as to their pro¬
priety or continued impropriety. by Messrs. Discussion Herbert was of
further
Alabama, Price of Louisiana, Morse of
Massachusetts, McRae of Arkansas,
P’arquhar of New York, Kerr of Iom u,
> f udd of Maryland, Chandler of Massa¬
chusetts, Buchanan of New Jersey and
Adams of Illinois. The senate amend¬
ments Mire noil-concurred in. Yens,
12U; nays, 82. Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee,
rose to a following question of resolution: privilege. He
offered the “Re-
solvid, That the clerk of the house of
represent dives be direct* d to communi¬
cate to the senate the fact that the house
reprobates and condemns the utterances
of lion. Robert P. Kennedy, representa¬
tive from the state of Ohio, delivered in
the house September 3d. reflecting upon
the character and Pending integrity of the senate
ns a body.” action the house,
on motion of Jar. McKinley, adjourned.
The senate, on Monday, took up and
disosed of sixteen bridge bills on the cal¬
endar. The consideration of bills on the
calendar to M'hich there M-as no objection
(under rule 8) was then proceeded with.
At the close of the hour assigned to busi¬
ness on the calendar, the conference re¬
port on the railroad laud forfeiiure bill
Mas taken up as unfinished business, and
Mr. Sanders resumed his argument. Mr.
Sanders was followed by Messrs. Dolph,
Plumb and Morgan. Mr. Morgan did
not conclude his remarks, but an agree¬
ment was arrived at that the vote o« the
conference report should be taken at 2
o'clock Tuesday. The senate then ad¬
journed. the house, Tuesday, motion
In on on of
Mr. Taylor, of Tennessee, the senate bill
was passed for the relief of Admiral S. P.
Carter. On motion of Mr. Ilouk, of
Tennessee, the senate bill was passed,
authorizing the construction of a bridge
across the Tennessee river, at Knoxville,
Tenn. On motion of Mr. Lester, of Geor¬
gia. the bill passed authorizing the con¬
struction of a bridge across the Altamaha
river, in Georgia. consideration The house of then pro¬
ceeded to the the En¬
loe resolution, relative to the Kennedy
speech. Mr. Bayne. of Penr.syl
vania offered a resolution re-
ferring the Enloe resolution, to-
aether with Kennedy’s speech, to the
committee oa judiciary. The resolution
was adopted. On motion of Air. Crisp,
senate bills were p-s-ed authorizin'; the
construction of bridges across the Chatta¬
hoochee and Oconee rivers in Georgia.
On motion of Air. Wheeler, of Alabama,
the senate joint resolution was passed au¬
thorizing tin- president to appoint Rich¬
ard II. Jackson, of Alabama, an ensign
in the navy. The speaker announced the
appointment or the following conferees
on the tariff bill: McKinley, Burrows.
Bayne, Dingtey, Mills, McMilliu and
Flower. '1 he house then adjourned.
The house bill to provide for the hold¬
ing of regular terms of the circuit and
district courts of the western district of
Virginia was taken from the calendar in
the senate on Tuesday and passed, with
amendments. The senate then devoted
one hour to bills on the calendar unob¬
jected to. The first bill on the calendar
was the senate bill authorizing the libra¬
rian of congress ftltfj.OOO. to purchase, Townsend at not library ex
eeedino- f he records
of national, state and individual
concerning the origin, progress and con-
sequences of the lute civil war. This bill
occupied the entire hour and was. then
passed. The senate bill appropriating of the road
$10,000 for the improvement Pensacola,
to the national cemetery, near
Fla., was also passed. The conference
report on the railroad land forfeiture bill
was resumed, and Air Morgan continued
h s argument against it. The conference
report was agreed to. Yeas, JO; nays,
1 J—a strict party vote. The house anti¬
lottery bill was then taken from the calen¬
dar and waspase.cd without a word of dis¬
cussion, and the senate took up the
house bill to re pc 1 the timber culture
laws. An amendment was offered in the
nature of a substitute. This substitute
was itself amended at the suggestion passed of
several senators, and was then and
a conference asked with the house on
disagreeing votes, and Alessrs. Plumb,
Pettigrew and AVtilths 11 were appointed
confeiecson the part of the senate. The
senate t* en took from the calendar the
senate bill to establish a United States land
court and to provide tor the settlement of
private land claims in certain states and
territories. The bill having been read,
whs laid aside until Wednesday. and the
senate at 4.45 o’clock adjourned.
NOTES.
Three Georgia men were appointed
clerks in the war department, Saturday, at
salaries of $1,000 each. They are Os well
A. Combs, Thomas A. Johnson and
George Campbell.
The remainder of the senate amend¬
ments of the tariff bill were put through
the ways ami -means committee in short
order Monday morning, non-concur¬
rence being recommended in each case,
a ul the chairman was authorized to re¬
port the bill to the house.
Representative Burton, of Ohio, on
Fiiduy, introduced in the house a bill to
regulate the division of states in the
union into congressional districts. The
bill provides that in twevo months after
the passage of an apportionment congressional act the
states shall be divided into
districts by a districting board in each
state, composed of four resident mem¬
bers, two of each political party, The to dis¬ be
appointed by consist the governors. of contiguous terri¬
tricts are to
tory, and no district is to hive more than
one member.
ERICSSON’S REMA IfJS
AT REST IN HIS NATIVE LAND—IMTOSINQ
CEREMONIES.
A cablegram from Stockholm, Sweden,
?ays: The body of Captain John Ericsson
was landed from the United grates war
ship Baltimore, at 2 o’clock Sunday after¬
noon. The transfer was made with much
c< remony. The route to the railway station
was thronged with spectators, who main¬
tained respectful silence as the procession
passed along. It, is estimated that 100,-
000 persons viewed the procession. Arriv¬
ing at the railway station, where a special
train was waiting to convey the body to
Wermland, the birthplace of Ericsson,
the remains were placed in a handsome
funeral car, heavily draped in black. At
3:20 o’clock the train moved slowly out
of the station. The whole ceremony was
conducted with great solemnity and made
a profound impr ssion.
A GRAVE CHARGE.
POTTER AND LOVELL ARRESTED FOR
EMBEZZLEMENT.
A dispatch W. from Boston says: Walter
Potter and D. Lovell, of the firm of
Potter. Lovell ic Co., were arrested Mon¬
day on warrants charging them with em¬
bezzlement and larceny. The complaint
is made by Charles Richardson, of Phila¬
delphia. a member of the firm of C. Rich¬
ardson & Sons, a director of the National
Bauk of the Republic in Philadelphia,
xnd president of the Edgehill Furnace
Company. It alleges the embezzlement
and larceny of $79,000 worth of bonds of
the Edgehill Furnace Company. bond The
prisoners were held in $75,000 each
lor a hearing on September 25th. Both
furnished bouds.
A TRIPLE ALLIANCE
REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN FORMED B!
GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND ITALY.
A dispatch from London says: The
St<ind*treV » correspondent at Rome con¬
firms the report that the Alliance between
Germany, Austria and Italy has been re¬
newed. The Official Gazette, of St. Pe¬
tersburg, Russia, says the renewal of the
triple alliance for seven years will encour¬
age Austria in her anti-Russian aside policy,
and will oblige re-double Russia to hei cast vigilance. peace
f usions and
SU BSCR1 BE NOW.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
l SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬
DENSED FIRM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE S '.M S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
Purchases of silver Monday DJO,000
junces.
The cholera has made its appearance in
Aleppo, Turkey.
The international commercial congress
was opened in Paris Thursday.
Thirty-one new cases of cholera and
twenty deaths at Valencia, Spain, Fri¬
day. Paul
The retaking of the census in St.
has revealed great frauds in the first euu-
monition.
Interest prepaid on four per cent bonds,
by the treasury department Monday,
amounted to $462,584.
The Austrian warship, Taurus, with a
;rcw of sixty-nine men and four officers,
has foundered in the Black sea.
The twin cities’ census—St Paul, 133,-
301; Minneapolis, 164,780. These are
Superintendent Porter’s figures.
Union journeymen house painters of
Washington city struck for an eight-hour
Jay Tue.-day. Between 200 and 300 men
ire out.
Barnes Compton, who was unsealed by
the present house of representat ves, was
an Monday, nominated by a primary is
Baltimore.
Ex-Governor AYillinm E. Cameron, of
Virginia, publishes a letter in which he
announces his withdrawal from the re¬
publican party.
A tree across the tracks of the Black
Hills and Fort Pierre railroad, on the
Black Hills, threw off an excursion train
Friday and three persons were killed.
The Ship Owners’Federation, London,
have promised delegates representing that
7,000 ship captains and officers,
they will affiliate with their federation.
The lockout instituted by the dock
companies at Southampton, against labor¬
ers in their employ, began Monday morn¬
ing. AVork on the docks is entirely sus¬
pended.
The national world’s fair commission
began its session in Chicago, Monday. It
is expected to dispose of much busiuessot
importance to the success of the big ex¬
position.
George R. Geatt, a well known lawyei
of Baltimore, lias been mis-ing since Sun¬
day last. It now appears that he is on
his way to Europe, leaving a shortage in
some trust funds.
The official returns of the New York
eity census, as furnished Friday night by
Superintendent Porter, gives the total
population as 1,413,501, an increase since
1880 of 807,302.
A special from Ardock, North Dakota,
rays: Snow began falling here at 5 o’el ick
i. in. Friday, and now lies four inches
deep on the ground. Threshing is de¬
layed at least a week.
An explosion occurred Tuesday in
Maybach pit, at Send AVenndel, Rhenish
Prussia, by which twenty-five miners were
killed. Other men in the pit, to the
number of 325, were rescued.
A London dispatch of Alonday s ys:
lohn Alorley has gone to Dublin to make
a personal survey of the agricultural situ¬
ation and to confer with Dillon and
O’Brien prior to their departure for
America.
General John S. Crocker, warden of
the District jail, died at his residence,
in Washington, Suudny. He was ap¬
point* d warden in 1869, and during the
Guiteau excitement had charge of all the
arrangements for his confinement and
hanging.
The amount of silver offered for sale to
the treasury department Friday aggre¬
gated 431,000 ounces, aud the amount
purchased 321,000 ounces as follows:
Forty-six thousand ounces at $1,150;
100,000 ounces at $1,157; 100,000 ounces
it $11,574; 75,000 ounces at $11,575.
The through Kansas City express, of
the Missouri Pacific railway, which left
St. Louis at 9 o’clock Saturday night,
was partially wrecked at Glencoe switch,
twenty-seven miles west of 3t. Louis.
Oue passenger was killed and fifteen
wounded, four fatally.
A Topeka, sixty-sixth Ivan., dispatch says: sessiou Dele¬
gates to the annual of
the sovereign grand lodge I. O. O. F.,
which convened here Monday, and wil 1
continue in session during the we k, are
arriving on every train. Governor Hum¬
phrey welcomed the convention on the
part of the state, and Mayor CofTran on
the part of the city.
The German authorities at Bagamoyo,
Africa, have published a notice permit¬
ting everybody to engage freely in the
liave traffic, and only prohibiting the
exportation of slaves by sea. The Arab
slave dealers are authorized to recover
runaways. The Arabs are overjoyed at
the license thus afforded them, and are
openly buying slaves at street auctions.
A dispatch of Monday, f.om Salvador
says: Telegraphic been communication with
Guatemala has restored. But the
Salvador government refuses to allow ca¬
ble dispatches paid to pass through until Gua¬
temala has the amount due on mes¬
sages for the past four mouths. The only
exception is in case of important official
telegrams addressed to foreign legations.
A Sunday dispatch from the capital,
says: It has developed lard during a few da vs
that the compound bill is a dead
issue. It will be shelved in the senate,
anu the Paddock pure food bill adopted
as a substitute. The Paddock bill sim¬
ply provides that ail goods shall be sold
exactly for what they are worth,
they shall be branded as such. and
The Massachusetts labor party w Tu/T a q <J
in Boston, Mass., in convention
The folio wing state ticket was nominal'
Governor, Charles E. Marks, Soramj'i,
lieutenant governor, George R iwj’
Lynn; secretary of state, John F.
Hyde Park; treasurer, J. ,J. u -
Boston; attorney general, J. on,
Greenfield; auditor, P. F. O'Neill,
ton.
A dispatch of Tuesday, say S: &
dores at Melbourne, Australia, have d '
cided to boycott outgoing steamers whio>
loaded by non-union u
are men. Tli.
mayor of Sidney, having offered to acts*
mediator between the workmen aid tip
employers, sented suspend the labor calling congress has c,f
to out of shear™
and refrain from any fresh a Sgressi v ,
steps for forty-eight hours.
A cablegram of Friday from
Switzerland, says: Revolutionists i Q
canton of Ticino formed a
government and convoked a popular "JR !■
sembly, which declared the existing
ernmeuts atid grand council
and ordered general elections for
The bundersnith was called in extra
s on and ordered federal troops
to the scene of disorders.
A dispatch of Saturday from
town, N, Y , says: The rain which )y
fallen in torrents almost continually ft
live days past, has swollen every streu
in this section to a spring Ire shot heigh
and the effects are seriouely felt he» j
about by the almost complete aud OgdenslJ tying up
the Rome, AVatertovvn
railroad and its branches, and thedestiw
lion of mills and other damage to mad
facturing and farm property.
The sanitary police of New York,!
Tuesday, completed the oen-usof thesJ atoJ
ond w ard of the city. It shows
of 1,196 residents of the ward instead!
922, as reported by the census nv:t>. 7|
health commission, after consideringt« forththatlfl
adopted a resolution setting concfl
evidence pointed clearly to the
siou that the census of New York (;■
as announced, is both inaccurate and*
complete, and called upon the mayor I
order a new census to be taken ofailB
habitants of the city. |
A PLAN PERFECTED
BY WHICH THE FARMERS CAS HI
THEIR COTTON.
At the last raectiug of the Natit
Farmers’ Alliance, the matter of am
ing some plan by which the cotton p
ducers could hold their crop for ta
prices, was referred to the cotton M
mittee with power to make any arrd
ment possible to effect opened this cad. j
committee at once cornmna flj
tiou with European < apilalists,
has now been in progress several moq
and it was given out in i
York Saturday that the arranc;eitf
have been at last perfected with Euroj
capitalists to advance $32 per bit
2,900,000 bales of American L
ton to be stored in the *
homes of the South lor a pj
of one year, allowing the farmer to
pose of the cotton any time >uirin;
year, should the price advance tal
satisfaction. The European then! syndil
which advances this money on
will charge 4 per cent per annum in I
interest, and w 11 be fully secure!
which the advance is made. '11x4
rangements means that the farmersl
have the use of $64,000,00) and 4
same time keep 2,000,000 bales of J
out of the market. This money cm"
the very lowest rate of interest that 1
bt asked, nnd the arrangement fl
fail price to of produce cotton, a marked it virtually advance vdtWij j
as
once over one fourth of the crop j
country. Final action will hs
>103. j
DISGRUNTLED STRIKE!
PROMISED AID TO PARTICIPANTS 0
RECENT STRIKE DOESN'T PAS
The A promised dispatch from financial Albany, aid N- f- r ^ ! “j j
who arrived took part in Monday. the now Some defunctj t f j
here rec'ived ‘J
$1.25 each and others aj
as $2.50 each. The ex-strikers belic'j
oughly disgusted, and it is
if be they members should ever of the strike Knight® again'Jl I
as railroH 1
because there will be no <V
the organization. The pittance
ceivcd for five weeks' idleness If*!
them to lose all faith in their
How Han’t Drew Did
About the time* that Daniel
jan his Wall street career he
the country one time to
friends, and two farmers
him to decide a case. J®
other five bushels of wheat
to measure it in a half bushel aJ
the top of the measure with a
other objected, aud Uncle '■
asked to decide.
‘■Well, legally speaking. answered. a
only a bushel,” he be s V
‘•And ran the measure I
“I think it can.”
“What with?”
“Well, if I was selling w ■
probably use half the
barrel.”
“Which edge of it?” 1;
“Gentlemen, decide on,’’sighed that is a the J> 01I o L^ "j
now
I M as selling to a widow or 3 n
am certain that I should eafj ,
nxu-iirc with the straight who p
was selling to road a man and hi' l’ u .
cows on the I j
neighbor's corn I'm afraid H ’]
the circular side, and scoop
boot.”