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About The Crawford County herald. (Knoxville, Crawford Co., Ga.) 1890-189? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1890)
WASHINGTON MEWS, second session OF THE fifty-first CONGRESS. the LAW MAKERS OF UNCLE SAM's DOM ‘ N again at work —routine of tub HOUSE and SENATE - EACH DAY’S PRO¬ CEEDINGS TERSELY TOLD. Iu the house, on Monday, Mr. E. B. Taylor, from the committee on judiciary, reported back the Enloe resolution for the arrest of George Minot, one of the doorkeepers, for attempting violently to prevent Mr. Enloe’s exit from the house during a call of the house in August last. The committee reports that the case calls for no action on the part of the house. The floor was awarded to the District of Gplumbia. The comm ssion bill, known as the “Atkinson bill,” granting certain privileges to the Baltimore and Potomac rrilroad, within the city of Washington, was fallen up, ordered engrossed and read the third time, and a motion to re¬ commit ttas defeated—75 to 139. About thirty public Tuesday builoing bills passed the bouse afternoon. They appropriate them a the total bills of for $4,600,600. buildings Among and were at Savannah Rome, Ga. The force bill fight in the senate be¬ gins to assume an interesting form. Fri¬ day Senator Gray, of Delaware, to ik up the bill, and not only discussed it, but discussed the motives of the II publicans who drew it up, and of those who favor it. lie denounced the measure in the severest terms. He spoke from 1:20 o’clock until 5 o’clock, and then an¬ nounced he would continue his speech Saturday. The force bill fight goes on in the sen¬ ate. Senator Gray continued his speech throughout the entire day, Saturday, be¬ ing frequently sides. interrupted by senators on both His argument was continued Monday. The house to house canva s feature of the bill was the main subject discussed. The fight was somewhat warm at times, Senators Hoar and Spooner, be¬ sides many Democrats, frequently inter¬ rupted Mr. Gray. Senator Gray concluded his speech, in opposition to the has force bill, Monday af¬ ternoon. He been speaking since Friday at 2 o’clock. The speech is said to be one of the best artfcmients ever made in the senate, although there was a dim" attendance of republicans through¬ out its delivery. No republican has yet spoken on the bill, Senator Gorman presented a large number of petitions, principally from the statu of New Y'ork, protesting against the passage of. the election bill. He said they had been gotten up under the lead of the New York Star. The Indian question again came up in discussion upon the joint res¬ olution heretofore introduced by Mr. vestfuailou Morgan, appropriating $5,000 for an iu- of the Sioux outbreak. Mr. Berry obtaiued the floor at s.iv nVlock. and the senate adjourned. morning Senator In the senate Tuesday along Plumb, of Kansas, who has all been opposed to a radical election bill, and who wants to relieve the present em¬ barrassing financial situation, introduced a bill in the seuatc for the retirement of national bank notes, aud providing for the free coinage of silver. This looks like the silver senators have decided to pull with the democrats to shelve the force bill and pa«s a free coinage bill at once. Senator Berry, of Arkansas, and Senator Daniel, of Virginia, spoke against the force bill. So far no republi¬ can senator lias been heard from 31 r. Hoar gave n< t oc that he would ask the senate Wednesday to set into the evening until the debate on the bill was closed. After executive sestion, the senate ad¬ journed. NOTES. The president, on Friday, nominated Uomaldo Pacbelo, of California, minister to the Central American States. The army appropriation bill has been completed by the committee, and was re¬ ported Wednesday, It appropriates $24,642,029. Superintendent Porter issued an order Saturday to pay the Georgia census enumerators who have not heretofore re¬ ceived their compensation. Two bills imposing reported a tux Tuesday npon com¬ by pound bird were Sena or Paddock, without recommenda¬ tion, from the committee ou agriculture. The clerk of the house has made up a list of the next house, There are 234 democrats, 88 republicans. 8 Farmers’ Alliance, 1 uncertain, 1 vacancy; total 332. Judge S'ewart. of Georgia, passed ■through the house, Saturday, a bill to graut B. S. Roane, of Fairborn, a pen¬ sion of $12 a mouth for services in the Indian war. The apportionment bill, providing for 376 members of the house, was finally decided upon as the best bili to pass by the r publican members of the census committee Tuesday. The secretary of the treasury, on ?»lon- dav, tran*r iffed to the house an estimate aggregating $34,500,000, submitted by the secretary of the interior to supply the deficiency for the payment of army and navy pensions for the current fiscal year. Mr. Cutcheon, on Friday, called up the senate’s joint resolution authorizing the secretary of war to issue 1.000 stands of arms to each of the states of North and South Dakota. Wyoming, Nebraska and Montana were addded to the states in¬ cluded in its provisions, and it was passed. The president on Friday transmitted to the house the correspondence Barrundia growing out of the killing of General by Gua'emalian officers on board the Pacific mail steamer “Acapulco,” in the port of San Jose de Guatemala. The Correspondence was called for by • reso¬ lution of September 24th,. las^ The alliance third party talk is the cause of much uneasiness at Washington among the members of both parties. It is not generally believe i among the politicians that an alliance third party w. uld have any great amount of strength, old but it would draw votes from both^the parties, and greatly change the politi¬ cal situation. TELEGRAPH AMD CABLE. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE BUSY WORLD. A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON¬ DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES FROM UNCLE SAM'S DOMAIN AND WHAT THE CARLE BRINGS. Germany,on Friday, recognized the re¬ public of Brazil. The first snow of the season fell in Danville, Va., Monday. The liabilities of the Delamater bank at Meadville, Pa., will reach $800,000. The failure of Colbron, Chauncey & Co., was announced on the New York stock exchange Tuesday. Postal Card Contractor Daggett, of Birmingham, Conn., was on Monday de¬ clared a bankrupt. Whitten, Burdett & Young, clothing, Boston, made an assignment Tuesday, lhe firm is rated by Bradstreet at $500,- 000 . Washington McLean, formerly propri¬ etor of the Cincinnati Enquirer , died in Washington Monday night; aged seven¬ ty-four years. The amount of silver offered for sale to 1,120,000 the treasury department Monday, was ounces, and the amount pur¬ chased was 685; 000 ounces. The interstate commerce commission made its report Monday. I’he report re- views at length the w>>rk of the eomims- . me idme its to the law. A cablegram of Sunday from Cairo, TgypC.says: lhe cotton association re- poi ts the picking of the Egyptian cotton crop as finished that the crop is good ol qua.ity and the yield is 3, <u0,00J cantares. The will of Daniel B. Fayerweather, the millionaire . feather , dealer, of New rork, was filed Monday. He gives $L- 100, 000.to different colleges, and $95,<)00 to hospitals, lhe testator died the 15th of last month. A Zanzibar dispatch of Friday says: Emin Pasha, who is at the head of the German expi di. ion, has arrived at Lake Victoria. Tin expedition had a numberof fights successful with Arab all slave traders, but it j was in engagements. ■ Ma\ or Creitiier, of Chicago, on day signed the ordinance giving$$our OOo to the World’s Columbian . —j. ,„;u „ f hands of President Harrison, B ^ then issue his proclamation to m viievday. A dispatch of Sunday fn h.J lb. T. Cruz, Mexico, says: The , 8 .. e ?* thorities will give out very few , xil „ 6t to the press about yellow fever in that it j city. However, popular rumor has that the disease is epidemic. The bishop of Vera Cruz is dying. The total amount of money put into circulation by Monday’s treasury distributed opera- tions is about $6,307,300, as follows: By the purchase of 4 per cent bonds, $5,550,000; by the purchase of 4* per cent bonds, 150,000, and the purchase uf silver bullion $707,300. The loan committee of the clearing house at New York, on Tuesday, issued $187,000 additional, making the total to date $1,412,000. The Farmers’Loan and Trust Company has circulars stating that on January 1st it will discontinue the practice of having its checks passed turough the clearing house. A special of Friday, from Pine Ridge agency, South Dakota, says the situation has not materially changed. The hostile Rosebud Indians sleep upon their arms prepared conitaatb .for attack. They have taken all they and wish burned of the thogovCTn buii dl meut beef herd, n s and corrals. They are living m»n, ana are happy. Mead¬ Delamater & Co., bankers of ville, Pa., made an assignment Friday morning. No particulars are obtainable. George W. Delamater, the defeated can- didaie for governor, is president, This bank is another depository of state funds, to the amount of $ 100,0110, but State Treasurer Boyer says the state is amply protected by bonds. A special of Tuesday from Erie, Pa., says- The failure of Delamaterq of Me idville has reached Erie through the business relations of the senior Delamater. State Treasurer Bover h. s entered judgment against Noble, Rowles & docks, Co., owners of extensive coal and ore valued at $75,000. The company of the firm is Geor e B Delamater, who has other intereris in Erie. Large business blocks at Pittsburg were The destroyed by fire Friday morning. buildings destroyed were brick, seven stories high, occupied by E. Magin, packer house; S. «fc II. J- Jenkin.son, wholesale tobacco horse; Crea. Graham A Co., stove and hardware dealers; L. J. Harris A Co., wholesale , druggists, , five jhief Engineer Samuel Evans and irerneu were caught under the falling .vail. the furnace EXPLODED eight people ushered INTO ETEU¬ AN D NITY. A blast funiice blew up at I1 *-> rhurs !av afternoon, burying fifteen men xlneath the falling have been masonry taken and out so metal. far. Eight ffes bodies fatal accident tha. has is the third occurred at this furnace. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬ ESTING NATURE. PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL I’OINTS IN TIIE SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬ TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC. N. W. Smith, contractor at Chattanoo¬ ga, assigned Friday with about $9,000 assets and $7,500 liabilities. The corner-stone of the Grady Hospital at Atlanta, will be laid with imposing ceremonies on Christmas day. A trust has beeu formed by all the leading the lumber men of Georgia to control world’s supply of long-leaf yellow pine. It Is an immense combination, in¬ volving millions of dollars, Hon. Patrick Walsh, on Tuesday, de¬ clined the appointment as one oi the Warm Spring Indian commissioners. The position was tendered him a few weeks ago by President Harrison, without his seeking it. A Chattanooga dispatch of Friday says: H. I. Kimball, president of the Kimball Town Company, has sent a cablegram from London that he has placed a tlnee- quarter interest in the town for £1,0 i0,- 000 sterling. He will sale for America about January 17. Judges Maw and Baker, in New Or- ie ms, on Tuesday, sustained a motion to quash the indictment against the lleiinesy assassi 1 s, because of the presence of a stenographer in the grand jury room, The prisoners were remanded to the sheriff. W. H. Persons was put on trial at , Memphis, Tuesdsy, charged with the | murder of his wife in September. The ! parties are prominent, aud the killing was most brutal. The case crea es in- . tense excitement, and the city Is gnatly wrought up over the affair. A Charleston dispatch of Sunday sava: The notice of the introduction ia the leg- islaturc of a bill converting the Charles- ton police force into a metropolitan force, to be governed by three commissioners appointed by the governor, has raised the biggest kind of a row there among the local politicians and others. A Jackson, Miss., dispatch of Tuesday says; Marshal Moseley, with two trusted assistants, and aceomuanied by 'who Detec- ,j ve Jackson, the sleuth hound ran the Burrows gang to earth, left last night vvi b i{ u be Smith, the only living one of the outlaws, for Columbus. O., where Rube was sent by Judge Hill for life. Governor St me willingly delivered him over to the government, ■^leigh, ,fl?ere X. is C., considerable over the shortage excitement of C. in \Upchurch, judge of the that late Republican in the pro- county, guar- funds. Postmaster A. W. Shaffer. n f T T rw4mr hnniie!*>»»*, uut <?<ccted of to bona. pay * He $15,000, taken tbe full tne has pos- 0 ? Upchurch’s residence, which is of ■ the handsomest in the city, but Mo h is heavily mortgaged. A meeting of the directors of the Dan- vilie and East Tennessee Railroad Com- pany was held at Danville. Va., Saturday, and arrangements were perfected to build at once a new line of road from Danville to Bristol, Tenu., a distance of 200 miles, The road is to be an extension of the At- lantie and Danville road, now operating between Danville and Norfolk and when the entire hue is bu,It it will be practi- ^ IcUiue w.th the N°rfo lk aud >v ; tc “ I rank W. Gregory manager and edi- or of IU Evening Democrat .of Mem- >his, lenn., has been indicted by -he federal grand jury for violating the otterv law. A ter the last drawing of he Louisiana lottery The Democrat's New )rleans correspondent wired that paper he winning number, held by the Memphis ;*®P *®- P™°* sul ° ‘ „ f *’‘‘i nt ’WasVnrr'ton' d Vision ^ that itg lwb ‘ u ca rion w.mlci ^ lishc s The Democrat ub L i isht .d not only its experence ? with the toffice department , bu also the objec J . , ist Uence the action of the fand jury. THE STRIKING MINERS tLL NOT BE recognized in THEIR de- hands by tiie mining boses. hia All the large mine operators of Ala- held a meeting at Birmingham, 'mrsday, and after a preamble, setting 1th the fact that the miners there have liken a writt n contract and struck on t order < f a Northern committee, they ssigned the following agreement : . That we positively decline to ad¬ 'ce the price of m niug. . That we positively decline to recog¬ or confer with the executive Com Uee of the United Mine Workers of ierlca - , That we will, in accordance with opast custom, alway s meet a commit- tof our own men, appointed by our o miners, to discuss any differences veil mav exist between us. ae miners’ committee also held a iting tb Thursday and decided to con- the strike. The furnaces of the Urdleben Coal and Iron Company go otf blast on account of ihe strike, aiseveral others will shortly follow. A DIFFERENCE. e years like endless currents flow ^nd bring a change to me, Fwas twenty-two she told me no— yes at thirty-three. FRAIL CRAFT. •nd—How did you happen to up set kist—I sneezed.—[Good News. KINGS COAL AND IT’S A'CEN^TJRY SINCE AMERICA CROWNED THEM. King Anthracite Discovered in sylvania—King Cotton Enthroned by Mechanical Inventions. Coal and cotton—what enormous in¬ dustries do these two words suggest, aud who could believe on the first suggestion that the American centennial of the in¬ auguration of these industries is yet to be celebrated? But it is even so. True, some little work was done in both long before, but the great coal mines of Penn¬ sylvania were not discovered till 1791, and on the 12th day of July, 1790, Sam¬ uel Slater first started his machines at Pawtucket, R. I., and soon after the manufacturing of cotton was an assured success. We may now say that the Unite States produces in round numbers 7,000,000 bales of cotton yearly, of which one- third is manufactured in the country, and that the total output of coal this year will be very near 130,000,000 tons, of which Pennsylvania will produce one- half, as she has done for some years past. It is therefore fitting that Pennsylvania should inaugurate the centennial as she now proposes. The history of the State’s coal discoveries is a romance. Philip Gint'aer lived on the mountain side near the site of the pres¬ en t Mauch Chunk, Peun. lhe forest ; '' ,vas m primitive state, game was plenty and he was a good hunter. In one excursion he found a large tree re- cently uprooted, and in the cavity thus formed was a peculiar “black stone,” which excited his curiosity, and he took a specimen to Colonel Jacob Weiss, a neighbor whom he suspected of superior knowledge. That gentieman pronounced j it “stone coal” and sent specimens to j Philadelphia. The savants declared it I was too hard to be valuable, declared but Mr. Charles Cist, a printer, other- wise, ana, altera long struggle, orgaa- ized a small company to mine it—and thus was the first anthracite coal in Pennsylvania developed, It did not pay, however; the black¬ smiths declared that they could do uoth- ing with it; timber was so abundant that no one thereabouts used coal for fuel, and there were no good roads. So but a few tons were mined. In 1798 the State began to improve the navigation of the river, and in 1803 Mr. Cist started six “arks” down the stream with a hun¬ dred tons of coal on each. Four of these were wrecked, two reached Philadelphia, and after many attempts to “make it burn,” the municipal authorities, who had bought u7 the stuff, used it to make footw . ‘ l s i And so ended for seventeen Jf ars the tbe operations operations of ot the tac Lehudi ueni e n Coal ooai A “ “‘nuraciw fm.ua neat _ Fottsville, and the blacksmiths there sue- ceeded in making it burn and in some was sent to Philadelphia. The man who tried to sell it was threatened witu arrest for attempting a swindle! ° ne hrm > however, tried it in a furnace, and after some hours of blowing and sweating the laborers quit in disgust, fastened the furnace doors and went to dinner. When they returned the furnace doors were red hot. The secret was dis- covered—anthracite coal was to be ignb ted and then simply let alone. In 1820 the Lehigh Company began again and .hipped «M tons; theymaJe it 1000 tons the next year, 2240 the next and 4500 the next. The increase thereafter was rapid, a railroad coming in 1828 to bring the coal to the river. In 1830 the Lehigh Company shipped 41,000 tons; 225,000 in 1840 and 722,000 in 183 o. In 18S7 Pennsylvania nroduced 1 34,641,007 tons of anthracite and about: 3 0)0 00,000 tons of bituminous. Then came the great strike, and immediately ! after it natural gas, aud for figures on the actual effects we must wait this year’s It is queer that mankind was so slow to discover the value of coal, though Theopnrastus mentions that the smiths of ancient Elis used a sort of stone for their forges which he called “lithathrax. ” The Romans cut roads and aqueducts through through the the coal coal beds beds of of France France and an never never U8ed used the the mineral. m j ner al. In England V-. it — was certainly -——j used as ... early —1---» as A. D. 850, but the discovery of cinders indicates that the Britons used it before the Roman occupation. as'1300 It was burned in London as early and in 17SS only 61,000 tons of iron were made with coal. It is now estimated that the power created by burning coal iu Great Britain is equal to the labor of 600,000,000 men, and that is but one-third the amount used by the world, the United States now being nearly or quite equal to the mother country. In the cotton industry the M estern nations were still slower, and the first really successful Amencaa crop wm grown rn bouth Carol.ua .a 1790. Yet is known tha the cotton manufactures of Iud., fiounshed some 440 years B. C„ and the indications are that the bus.ness had contmued long before that, as t.mc would be required to bnng it to perfec- ■on. The cmhzed people of Europe imported cotton good, from India for centuries before establishing manufac- tures of their own, and contrary to what is generally believed, the manufacture in England is but little older thau in Amer¬ ica. In t 1/39 Samuel c? t Slater ci * came from , Eng- „ land to Pawtucket, R. I., but was not allowed to bring any machinery with him, as the doctrine of protection then included toe export of macainery as well as the import of goods. Alrny & Brown, of Pawtucket, advanced the means, and he made the machinery from memory—■ startiug it July 12, 1790. He had pre¬ viously tried New York and Philadelphia, but no one would venture. He remained an enterprising man to the end of his life, and after acquiring a fortune spent $40,000 in perfecting the turnpike claimed sys¬ tem of New England. It is also that he founded the first Sunday-school in America. Captain Henry F. Jenks,of Pawtucket, who is organizing the centennial, pro¬ poses that every cotton manufacturing firm in the United States shall furnish ode stone to make a monument for Slater, to be surmounted by his statue. The growth of the manufacture has been re¬ markably regular for seventy years, the war era excepted, and the ratio of home consumption to exported raw cotton has varied but slightly for twenty years. Ia 1890 there were 10,921,146 spindles running in the Lnited States, employing 181,028 persons, but the increase since has been very great, fa the South the number doubled in seven years, the pro- duct being worth i?21.000,000 in 1880, and $43,000,000 in 1887. The price of raw cotton also grows more steady as the area of production increases, a variation of two cents in a year being now rare where variations of five or ten cents were common sixty years ago .—Brooklyn Citi- win Justice Miller Betrayed. j A paragraph in a Western paper to the e g ec t that the late Justice Miller, of the Supreme Court, was so reticent coucern- ing the business of the court that no one WJ13 ever able to 0 btaiu from him an ink- ling as to the nature of decisions on pending cases, is, of course, true. He was the most scrupulous mau alive, but, nevertheless, ou one occasion a certain ring of speculators in New York had ad¬ vance information as to one of his de¬ cisions by which they made hundreds ol thousands of dollars. It came about in this way: A certain widow of a certain famous general was a near neighbor and intimate friend of the Miller family. She was a woman of extravagant tastes but small income, and was suspected of mingling in the lobby to replenish her purse, but the Miller family were always her firm friends, and she was as much at home in their house as in her own. It was known that Judge Miller had pre- pared the opinion of the Supreme Court in what was known as the Pacific Rail- road cases under the Thurman act, that he had read it at the regular conference of the justices on Saturday morning, that it had beeu approved by the court, and would be delivered ou the following ! i Monday As the decision was certain to i a «; ect tbe P nrices f of all Pacific 1 Railway railway securlt,es materially , whicn , evei it we nt, and as it might rum men who held the stocks and bonds or make their for- tunes, there was an intense anxiety to know its nature in advance. The a^ent of a New York syndicate largely inter- est ed in the securities offered the Gen- era[ - s widow $50,000 if she would obtain tbis information. She undertook the dalicatc task. While the Miller family were at cburcb Sunday mornim-- she wen t to the house, entered Judge Miller's library, unlocked his desk by means of skeleton keys, and copied i a [ portion of the opinion . wbich was c rricd n Ncw York and Wjl3 Jna de the basis of verv opinion larcm transactions in stocks before the f cEou ^4^ was announced _ a b out l 3 0 o The the widovv was never allowed to enter the Miller house a-min and was never -i-iin recognized bv'any .’Lluii of the family In fact V ’ m Miego^herlsOOOO t ° i . $50,000.— 1 - V 4 !lint 0,1 IIandl,n S a Pet Singing Bird The owner of a canary or other sing- bird sometimes has occasion to catch for the purpose of examining it as for instance when the pet received a hurt. When the bird * perfectly tame and fears to be this task l3 not a pleasant one a t en< I er 'hearted person, for the little flutters around and dashes the bars of its cage at the risk of ™ n g itself and of aggravating any which it may have. A simple and easy way to avoid this - - - is to handle the bird at night. by the cage, and then let some turu out light. The bird will ^ perfectly still, and you can catch it difficulty. When the light has turu(; d on the pet can be examined, ^ t bcn P lJ t back behind its bars.— York Tribune. The London Police. The metropolitan police force is not under the control of any local authority, but are directed by commissioners who are reS p 0 asible to the Home Office of the geoeml guvernment. In There is a stroug demand Loudon for the transfer of the Ld police authority subjecl to the County Lei Council, the J has J prorated JU- cossion . „ is tbM b tion of . ia| aatiooa , interests London is Vo vastly ihouill important, that tho higher authorities maintain con- tr0 , of tbe u ||cc jn f otectioQ of » those - central concerns that pertain to the greatest capital in thn world. Ulti¬ mately a compromise will probably be reached. The County Council ought certainly to have some share in the police ’ administration of the metropolis. r -Cm- * - n __ , A.t any moment may be set in motion ten million soldiers upon the confines of Switzerland.
