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>- Can c__ SZ CS5 nd session OF thi VlFTY-FIRST fc0 CONGRESS. X^VOUK OK UNCLE SAM’S DOM UN ^ X' —ROUTIN'E DAI’S OF THE AND SENATE each P&O- HOUSE told. cbedi >' 08 tersely .v Products, and (he carcasses thereof, are -abject to interstate commerce. Xr a brief of speech Tex.v, against and for the it by bill Mr. by Snckbridgc, v Mills Man land, the bill was of fernai to the committee on agriculture, house then went into comm ttee of -le on bills reported lrom the ittee on private land claims Mr. m Minnesota, notice that of gave Tur-dav lie would ask the house to the appo.tionment bill and then { he house adjourned. Monday, motion of la ti e house, on on u Carter, of Montana, the oath of office r gtmaster’of the house administered was P° Jmnea W. Hathaway, of Montana, to McKinley, from the ways and jlr committee, reported uud the house adopted, a resolution calling on the secretary of the treasury for the names of the several banks in which public money j, deposited, the place where such deposi¬ tories arc situated, the date of such de¬ posits, the reasons therefor an 1 the mte of interest, if any, which has been or j, jj 0W paid into the treasury by such depositories in return for the use of the public funds. The speaker then stated that the pending bu-iness was a motion made o , Septemoer 1st by Mr. Hermann, of Oregon, to suspend the rules and pass the bill for the adjustment and payment of claims arising lrom Indian depreda¬ tions. The bill provides f<-r the appoint¬ ment, constitute by the president, of three judges, to a court, to be known as the court of Indian depredation claims, and toinqu re into, and ad ju iicate all claims for the pr perty of citizens taken by the Indians without just cause. After an advocacy of the measure by Messrs. Her¬ mann, La h im, Townsmd of Colorado, Savers, Mil s and Perkius, and a criti¬ cism upon it by Messrs. Holman aud Kil¬ gore, the motion was agr< ed to and p ss- ed Mr. McKinley, fiom the committee on ways and means, reported the Fiwwer joint resolution, extending the bonded period from February 1st to July 1st, 18111. Mr. Enloe raised the point of no quorum, and the house adjourned. the The house consumed Tuesday in apportionment bill. The bill provides has, for 350 members of the house. It however, been made to read that it shall not go into effect until the tif'v-third congress. The house, after a long discussion, passed the reapporti nment bill Wednes¬ day afternoon. Nearly every member of the Georgia delegation, except Mr. Blount, voted against it, because the re- pub icans lefused to graut New York a recount, which would have given that city another member. The bill is the one providing for 356 members. It diffi¬ w II probably pass the senate without culty. The senate, on Saturday, resumed con¬ sideration of the election bill, and Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, m id" an argument in opposition to it. He yielded to Mr. Dan¬ iel, who reported back from the commit¬ house tee ou public buildings aud grounds, the bdl for public buildings at Rome, Ga., and who off red a resolution, which the was adopted, callmg on the secretary of treasury for information as to the sums of money, with interest to date, advanced by the states of Virginia and Maryland to the United States to be ap¬ plied towards erecting public buildings at the seat of the government ou the banks of the Potomac. In the senate, on Monday, Senator Col¬ quitt made a brilliant and telling speech against the force bill. He ecoupied the floor for two hours. Mr. Wilson, of Maryland, also made a legal and consti¬ tutional argument against the bill. There were only eight senators present when the speaker’s gavel fell Tuesday morning, fore the presiding officer laid be¬ the senate Mr. Morgan's resolution calling for on the secretary of the treasury information relative to the payment of the claims of John I. Davenport as supervisor of elections and as circuit court commission_r. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Morgan presented the credentials of the election of his colleague, •»r. Pugh, and they were laid upon the table. The pending business was stated " K “ the consideration of the Do ph resolution, providing for an investigation to whether the right to vote was de¬ nied or abridged in any state, etc., and ", r -Morgan addressed the senate again-t \v- i’ 1 "' ^ r - I> »lph spoke in favor of it. II • ph l 11 yielded *. conc l u ding his argument, Mr. ’! for a motion to adjourn. n the .-cnatc, on Wednesday, Mr a ’ unanimous consent that Fri- ,i, a cl ck debate the - ° p. m., ou ;‘: , ectl “ n Should be considered as ‘"M.“d. j liis was met by a chorus of ob- jw\.ons from the democrats and the re- 'i 1, b li through. The senate resumed Dotph He ontinuing i0D ° fthe his speech eIectioa of Tuesday. bill. Mr. Gi ,vas followed by 1 3Iessrs. Morgan, • Kenna. Reagan and Butler, who e str mgspeec ics against the raeas- , r Hoar again endeavored / , •jom ‘ - democratic to ex- >n of senators the men- some h specific time—any time, no U -? u ~ for taking a vote on the ^ , *‘ ^ Gordon th<. Ul r remarked that ’ dViii» ^ I,ate 0n W .‘ s ^ on| y on 1 ^ the thcshold ijuite of tiumi ere w< *rc a Kr r f aenators both sides of the °n u u - Thc KOTES, Upon motion of Judge Stewart, a bill passed the house Saturday giving Mrs. E. J. Baldy, of Griffin, Ga., ape s ono #20 a month, on account of her husbmd’s ser- vices in the Indian war. The acting secretary of the treasury sent a letter to congress Saturday iu which he recommended an immediate appropriation of #2,000 for additional heating apparatus for the Augusta, Ga., postoffice. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bussey, on Monday, rendered a decision upon the pension case of a man who, after serving in the confederate army, afterwards enlisted in the union army. In effect, he rules that previous service in the confederate army does notenter into the question of a pension. lie is on exactly the Same footing as all other union soldiers. It lias recently developed that there are three Ailianc men in the present house. They are Pickier, of South Da¬ kota; Lewis, of Mississippi, and Pierce, of Tennessee. Mr. Pierce, made himself solid by introducing on Tuesday, a reso¬ lution call upon the ways »nd means committee to report the sub-tr usury (fill to the house on January 5th, and provid¬ ing that consideration. the f Rowing monday be fixed for its The Dist rict of Columbia appropriation bill for the next fiscal year, as reported to the house, carries', exclusive of the wa¬ ter department, #5,083 appropriation 227, being #477,- 309 h ss than the for the current year, aud #63,38.1 less than the estimates. department, The appropriation is for the water which payable from the water revenues, is #302,498. Ti e cabinet meeting Salurday consid¬ ered the financial condition of the coun¬ try, aud as a result, the president, it is understood, will send a message to con¬ gress in the early part of the week, sug¬ gesting as a measure of relief thc enact¬ ment of legislation for the issue of addi¬ tional currency based on the increased purchases of silver. Secretary Windom, who was in New York city conferring with bankers as to the best method of a-- fording prompt relic;', is s dd to favor the purchasing of the present stock of silver, amounting to about 13,0 )0,000 ounces, and tiie purchase also of an additional nmjunt equal to annual retireme t of na- t oual bank notes, estimated at $2 >,0 -0.- 000, thereby adding about $30,000,000 to the circulation. HEAVY SNOW STORMS IMPEDING TRAFFIC AND DOING CONSIDER¬ ABLE DAMAGE. A New York dispatch says: interfered The storm with Wednesday seriously river harbor business. 8 veral canal and sm tiler boats-u ik at the piers in both North aud East rivers, aud the high tide and gale have combined io make it diffi¬ cult for ferry boats to run into their slips safely. Many of the outgoing passenger steamers which were- to have sailed dur¬ ing the day are at anchor in the lower har¬ bor. Reports from Pittsburg, Pa., say: The sn iwfall Wednesday was the heaviest in several years. The wires are down ail over Pittsburgh, Allegheny and Bir¬ mingham. Horses were killed and sev¬ eral men badly injured by. contact with electric light wires. The situation is so despirate that the department electric of public safety has ordered all tae street car lines to stop running for the present. There 1ns been a tremendous snowfall in the Allegheny mountains, and at Bedf r.J it is one and a half feet deep on a level, i'.ailroad wires are down, aud there is much anxiety for fear of accidents. The Pittsburg and Western is snowed up completely. No freight trains wha’cver were running on any roads, and the pas- icnger trains that straggled through were late from one to six hours. IN TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA. Knoxville, Tenn., dispatches say: The gnow which began falling in tais section Wednesday has com in tied to fall with more or less constancy ever since. Upper East Tennessee has from four to eight inches on the ground. Mountains thirty miles north of here are covered to about the same depth, and mountains al »ng the Tennessee and North Carolina border have from six inches to two feet of snow'. The snow was one foot deep on a level >>t Bristol and in places is drifted four feet Jeep. Tr.dn are having trouble to get through. In southwe-t Virginia snow h <s drifted b idly aud is said to he verv heavy about Marion, \ irginia. There was a heavy snowstorm at Dan- vil e, Va. In Patrick county the snow was eighteen inch's deep and the track of the'banvill and New River blocked railway was badly blocked. All trains are at Staunton, Va. A dispatch from Roanoke, \a., says: The roof of the blacksmith shop of the Roanoke Machine W orks fell in under the In avv wei lit of snow’, at 2 o clock a. m Wednesday. One man o; the night force wa tr. killed and eight seriously in- jured. r- ® igc to ihe building and 1 inuchi 5* uated at #100,000; un- —j is heaviest snowstorm tor insured. It the y-ar CiMOLERA IN PANAMA. rWELVE hundred DEATHS IN SEUEN WEEKS—AN ICE FAMINE. The stvamer San Suan, which arrived at Sin F’raueisco, Saturday, from Panama, brings news of ravages of cholera in Gua-emala. More than 12,0l'0 cases are reportedin the state, ami l,200death« occurred in the city of Guatemala in bcvcu weeks. An ice famine is reported from thc isthmus. A company recently started ice factory at Colou, but the an and the machinery of the broke heated down, term, ice novr^m command* middle #70 per ton. TELEGRAiH AN) 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 TILE CABLE BRINGS. The banking house of S. A Kean & Co., of Chicago suspend, d Wednesday. The epokaue National bank, of Spo- kaae lulls, Washington, suspended Wednesday. The towns of Dardanelle and Monti- cello, Ark., were nearly destroyed by tire Monday. Brevet Maj r G neinl Alfred H. Terry, United States aimy, retired, died nt New ti ven Tuesday morning. The Li rillard Brick Works Company, 66 South si reet, New York was placed in the hands of a receiver Monday. Morris A Smith, bankers and brokers, No. 20 South i hi d stieet, Philadelphia, made an assignment Monday. T he Corning mill of the Ohio Powdei Company, near Youngsvide, O., blew up Tuesday. Two workmen were killed. Chesterfield county, Pa., bank closed its doo s Tu sday morning. The deposi¬ tors are safe by amoitgage on real estate. A disastrous fire occurred at Pottstown, Pa., Saturday morning, which burned out half a dozen business firms and their buildings Fire Monday night destrovci nearly half of the business portion of Darlington, S. C. The loss will be #35,000, covered by insurance. The Iowa legislature on Wednesday, in joint session, took two ballots f >r U fi¬ led States senator without result, The seco id ball t resulted: Dubois 17, Sharp 9 McConnell 9 Ciaggett 8, Mahcw, dem¬ ocrat 3. Fire, on Monday, destroyed the Illi¬ nois Central machine shop at Water Val¬ ley, Miss. A. Carlson, a merchant, was instantly k lied by som • falling timber. H. E. Lewis, wife and six small children aud others were slightly hurt. A Chicago dispatch says: Miller’s ob¬ jections have been met and Pr sident Harrison can issue his world’s fair proc¬ lamation. The directors met Tuesday night and accepted the $5,000,000 city ordinance. A dispatch of Monday from Lausing, Mich., says: The Michigan grange is in open revolt against the N itional Grange on account of the stand taken by the na¬ tional oiganization in endorsing the pro¬ position for government loans on real es¬ tate. The Paris Figaro, on Wednesday, pub¬ lishes Russian advices stating that anoth i plot to murder the czar lias be n discov¬ ered. The conspirators are m mbers ot a noblemen’s club. Several Poles have been arrested for complicity iu the plot, and the club house was closed. A dispatch of Tuesday from Centralia. Mo., says: J. G. Gillespie, treasurer of Boone county, is short over #20,060 in his accounts, The county will lose nothing as his bondsmen are able to make g od the amount. Gillespie has a signed nis property to his bond>men. A special of Sunday from Atchison, Ivan., the home of Senator Ingalls, says the Farmers’ Alliance of Atchison county, at a recent meeting, adopted a resolution rccon,mending the retirement of Ingalls from the senate and the elec¬ tion to his seat of a Farmers’ Alliance man. At Philadelphia Geo. F. Work, Louis Pfeiffer and James S. Dungen, were given a hearing Wednesday morning at iho Central police station on theck.rge of wrecking the Bank of America, and the American Life Insurance company, and at its conclusion were held in $2!).- 000 bail each, to answer at court. Being unable to obtain this amount of bail, they were r manded to prison. A box of giant powder exploded in Sunday Lake mine at Wakefield, Mich.. Tuesday, killing two men instantly and fatally wounding others. Two men were engaged in opeoing a can of into powder with a chisel and a spark got the can. The exposition set fire to the tim¬ bers of the mine and it burned briskly. There are some men in the mine, but particulars cannot be learned. A terrible accident occurred Wednes¬ day at Escouffiaul colliery, at Hornu. province of Ila.naut, had Belgium. A shift of eighteen men entered the cage and the engine started to lower them into the pit. Suddenly, and without warning, the rope cooneciiug the cage with the drum broke and ihe men were precip¬ itated to the bottom of the shaft. Every one of the occupants of the cage were killed. A dispatch of Tuesday from Paris, France, says: Seven Alpine chasseurs, working under command of an officer at a new h rtre-s on the summit of Sacharal, between LaBuga and Riviere, were swept, with their superior, by a sudden blast Five of ... the men, and , , over a precipice. fell distance of 1,500 feet. t the officer, a I Their bodies have been recovered id a frightfully mutilated condition Two of the men managed to cling to some rocks j and so managed to espape death. j I his shocking mistake. : | menu-Thank jou, Mr. Johnson; but I wouldn’t vou find some younger ° aud prettier girl? Johnson-Oh, yes, but I hate to dance ; with young and pretty girl*.—[The Ax- j ' sos i. CROP FIGURES. REPORT OF AVERAGE PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS BY COUNTIES. The .‘■tatistical returns of the agri ul- tural department f. r December give the average farm prices of agricultuial pro¬ ducts by counties, ms follows; i he pres, nt corn crop is worth more than th« last, and the farmers wiilrece ve more for it. The average price, by the present re¬ turns, is 50.1 cents per bushel, against 28.3 cen s tor the crop of 1889, an increase of 77 per cent. The prices in seven corn surplua states are: Ohio 51 cents, Indiana 47, Illinois 43, I wa 41, Missouri 44; Kansas 51, Ne¬ braska 48. The average farm value of the wile t crop, as estimated, is 84 cents per bushel against 69.8 for 18S9, nn in¬ crease of 20 per cent on the price of last year. The price of oats has responded sharply to the pressure of thc small c op, an i the increased demand because oi the short corn crop. The average is 42.2 cents agaiust 23 cents last year. It is the highest reported since 1881. Rye, like oats, at 62.9 cents is higher than since 1831, and the same is true of barley at 64 8. Buckwheat 37.7 marks an advance over l st year, but is lower than in 1888. The deficiucy of the po¬ tato crop has caused an advance m value* ia ail sections of the country. The aver age is 77.7 cents, an increase of more tlun 90 percent over the prices of the past two years. The returns show slightly higher prices for tobacco than have prevailed since 1S87. The pound. average is reported at 7.7 cents per Hay, alone of all farm products, records a decline from last year. The present price is #7.74 per ton, increased ana u slight falling off is due to the product. depart¬ Toe December returns to the ment of agriculture of the value of cot¬ ton on the plantations are ne-vrly the same as last year, the average beinj; quite as previous I igh as the average farm value The of the crop, or 8.6 cents, state ave rages are as follows: Virginia, 8.7 cents per pound; North Carolina, 8.7; South Carolina, 8.7; Georgia. 8 6; Florid i, 8.6; Alabama, 8.6; Mississippi, 8.8; Texas, 8.4; Arkansas, 8.5; Tennes¬ see. 8 4. . . IMMIGRATION CONVENTION IN SESSION AT ASHEVILLE—ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Three hundred and fifty delegates, representing every section of the south, were present at the opening convention of the south¬ ern interstate immigration Wednesday. The at Asheville, N. C., body was called to order by N. J. T. Johnson, of Texas. Hon. It. B. Vance, i f Asheville, was chos u temporary chairman and welcomed thc conven¬ tion to the state of North Carolina. Captain Nat Atkinson delivered an ad¬ dress of welcome on behalf of the city of Asheville, a d G vernor Fowle welcomed the convention on behalf of the state of North Carolina. James Lyons, of Virginia, delivered a response on behalf of the convention. The com¬ mittee on permanent organization made the following report for permanent offi¬ cers of the convention: Mr. Bryant, of Tennessee, president; D. II. Elliott, of Florida, secretary; D. C. Garlington, of South Carolina, and Mr. Wilcox, of Georgia, assistant secretaries; F. N. Wad¬ dell. of Asheville, sergeant-at-arms; vice presidents to be electe t by each state in the convention. The convention adjourn¬ ed at 6 o’clock p. ni. till Thursday morn¬ ing at 10 o’clock. NO CONVENTION WILL BE HELD, BUT A CONFERENCE OF COMMITTEES WILL UK HAD. At a meeting iu Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday night, attended by General Master Workman Powderly and John Davis, raember-elecet of congress, from Kansas, ou behalf of the Knight* of La¬ bor, President Folk, national lecturer; Mr. Willetts, member of the exe utive board; >ir. Wardwe 1, of North Dakota, an 1 others of the Farmers’A Uhiuce, it was decided to have no convention at Cincinnati on February 231, a* had been arranged. It was decided that the eall for the Cincinnati convention should not be formally issued, but that in its stead, a routerenc; of committees of five from each of die o g mizati <us app inte 1 should be hell some time in February, which should uo over the ground care- lully, and without taking formal, action, practically decide what course of action should be pursued. This is a decided victory for the conservative element among the third party men. THE THREE C’S. A RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR TIIE CHAl I.ES- TON, CINCINNATI A CHICAGO KAILWAf. In the United States circuit court at Charleston, S. C., Friday, Judge* Bond and Bryan j granted against an the injunction Gharles- re , traininc , ;U suits t Cincinnati & Chicago railway, and - ti * ga!liuel Lord, of that city, >rar reCeiver w q th notice that a 4 t of m()t ion thc app ., intmcu a ,>enn nent receiver would be argued on ihe first Tues lav in February next. The sffii z r; Company, of Pennsylvania $200,000, Investment Company, of Philadelphia, #100,000; Barker Bros. & Co., asked A foreclosure the mortgage built u and ^ rua( * 230 miles ninety miles more graded. NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER¬ ESTING NATURE. riTTlY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TIIE SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER¬ TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC. A 10, OOO-gaHon water tank collapsed at the Buena Vista paper mills in Augus¬ ta county. Va., Tuesday, resulting in the killing of one man and injuring two other employes. President Ernest Howard, of the Vir¬ ginia stock exchange, at Staunton, Va., was arrested Monday on a warrant charg¬ ing him with embezzlement of funds of the exchange. About twenty small houses on the square be mded by Melpomene, Terpsi¬ chore and Franklin streets, New Orleans, burned Wednesday night Loss estima¬ ted at #80,000, insurance light. Henry D. McIIenry, member of the national democratic committee, and dele¬ gate from Ohio county to the Kentucky constitutional convention, died suddenly Wednesday morning of heart disease, at his home in Haitford, Ky. A Releigh dispatch of Monday says: The State Allianee Peanut Union has of¬ ficially indorsed ti e National Peanut Union, and declares that it will hold stock for 5 cents per pound, and persuade all farmers to do the same. Wni. S. Cbelkey, confideltial clerk and bookkeeper for Peeples Trotter, whole¬ sale grocers at Chattanooga, was arrested and placed in jail Tuesday, charged with larceny, embezzlement and false entry of accounts. Th c inouut stolen willaggre- gate over $1, o i, covering a period of about a year. In a shooting scrape which occurred Monday afternoon, at Rowen, Miss., Will Blue, Dave McKee and Bob App ewhite were mortally wounded. The tight grew out of the killing of a cousin of McKee by Blue, at a party in Jetferson county a short time ago. All parties are young men. A Clarksville, Term., dispatch says: Hancock, Hallams & Co., proprietors city, of Graccy tobacco warehouse in that made an assignment at a late hour Satur¬ day evening. It is not known what the liabilities are, but they are said to be about #180,000. The ussets ure thought to greatly exceed the liabilities. The stringency of the money market caused the assignment. The preliminary examination of Attor¬ ney General Pope, at Columbia, S. C., charged with violating a section of the state constitution, in discharging I homas II. Butler from the engrossing Ilaskell depart¬ ment, because he voted for against Tillman, w.is heard before Trial Justice Youmans Tuesday morning and the case dismissed on the ground that the section did Dot apply to state officers. A i hattanooga dispatch Alliance says: circles A sen¬ sation in Farmers’ came to light Monday. A. McHan, editor of a paper called the Fanners' Alliance, has been expelled from in the the local branch campaign on aeco *it ol huving re eut tnrown the editorial support of the pa¬ per to the Republicans. Mellan an¬ nounces that he will continue the publi- : cation as an independent Farmers’ Al- liauce journal. A Nashville, Tenn., disp.tch of Sat¬ urday says: The excitement at Clarks¬ ville over quieted the down. recent heavy fai ures h is a 1 out A bank examiner is now investigating the condition of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ National bank. H. O. Antbugh <fc Co.. doing business near Clarksville, have been iorced to the wull by the tightness of the money mar¬ ket. Their liabilities are about #85,000; assets somewhat larger. Governor Jones, on Tuesday, reprieved Ann Patterson, who was sentenced to be hanged in Seale, Russell county, Ala., Friday, for the murder of her husband, by poisoning. The reprieve the ’ was result of a petitition signed by uearly every lady in Seale, asking for the com¬ mutation of the woman’s sentence to im¬ prisonment for life. Governor Jones granted the reprieve until January 16th, to gaiu an opportunity to give the case close investigation. It is more blessed to give than to re¬ ceive, but this doesn’t apply to tiie littlo exchanges made on Christmas Eve in the dimly lighted parlor under the mistletoe bough. A number of horseflesh restaurants have been started in Berlin, Germany. pROTifltrnoN nr ••buckeyes." A boy was knocking the horse-chest¬ nuts off a tree on Cass avenue, when a pedestrian observed: “I supjxise you think they will act as a charm to ward off rheumatism, but they won’t.” 4i l didn't suppose they would,” replied the lad. “Then what do you want of them?” “To act as a cluiroi to ward off lick¬ ings. I know a boy who carried four of them in his pockets and didn’t get licked in four straight weeks!”—(.Detroit Free Press. SOMETHING TO BRAG OK Ted—I once wrote a poem. Ned—That’s nothing. Every fellow has done that. Ted—But 1 sold mine.—[Epoch. THE FINEST FLOWER. *. . t 11 Tee subject of a national Bower is being discussed a great deal now, Miss Minnie,” remarked a visitor at Miuneap- , olis, to a maiden of that city. “What io you think about it?” “Well,” replied Miss Minnie, “I think papa*8 fancy winter wheat flour rather tikes the biscuit.”