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AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Allairs ot Govenunent ail Roatine ot
the Boise an! Senate Dlscassel.
Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo¬
ple and Their General Welfare.
A Washington special states that
there is no foundation whatever for
the report that a crank attempted to
assassinate President Cleveland Friday.
An inquiry made of Private Secretary
Thurber was the first that he or any
one connected with the white house
had heard of the rumor.
The senate adjourned Friday with¬
out confirming the nomination of Mr.
Hornblower to he justice of the su¬
preme court. This failure to confirm
has the effect of a rejection. The
president will, therefore, he compelled
to either send his name again or to
nominate another man for the office.
Secretary Carlisle has placed to the
credit of Pension Agent William Buie,
of Knoxville, Tenn., in the subtreas¬
ury of Cincinnati $1,500,000, and to
the credit of Pension Agent C. J. Wal¬
ton, of Louisville, Ky., $1,000,000.
This makes this subtreasury the larg¬
est United depository of pension funds in the
States.
The president, Friday, signed the
bill extending for six months the time
in which the Chinese can register
under the Geary law. The presi¬
dent also signed the New York
world’s fair prize winners’ expo¬
sition bill, and the bill conveying the
battle ship “Illinois” at the world’s
fair to the state of Illinois.
A Washington special of Monday
says: The report is being widely cir¬
culated that Commissioner of Pensions
Loehren has resigned. The reason
assigned for the resignation is that
he is an old soldier and is dissatisfied
with the attitude of the administra¬
tion concerning reforms in the pension
list. Secretary Smith contradicts the
report and insists that there is no
truth in it.
Thursday Secretary of the Navy Herbert
appointed a board of offi¬
cers to investigate fully the defects in
the Detroit, Montgomery, Marble¬
head, Machinas and Castino and re¬
port a plan to remedy them. The
board consists of Commodore John J.
Walker, Captain E. O. Mathews,
Chief Engineer Farmer, Chief Engin¬
eer Main, Naval anil Constructors Fornald
and Bowles Assistant Naval Con¬
structor Capps.
Speculation is beginning to be rife
concerning the successor to the late
Circuit Judge Hugh L. Bond. The
circuit comprises Maryland, the two
Virginias and the two Carolinas. Pub¬
lic men from the states in the circuit
south of Maryland appear confident
that the Succession will fall to one of
their number. There are capable law¬
yers, some of them of considerable ju¬
dicial experince, who may be fairly
said to be candidates for the appoint¬
ment.
A Washington special says: The
populist members of congress, inclu¬
ding senators and members of the
house, issued an address Saturday ap¬
pealing to the people to take up the
silver cause. The address begins with
a statement of the aggregate debts of
the world and of the gold and silver
in existence, calls attention to the fact
that the arts require almost the total
gold production and says the decrease
of the volume of this metal, caused by
hoarding, has caused it to appreciate
40 or 50 per cent.
The senate, just before the close of
the executive session Friday, rejected
the nomination of Henry C. G. Ast
wood, of New York, to be consul of the
United States at Calais, France. The
following nominations were confirmed:
James B. Boosevelt, of New York, to
be secretary of the embassy of the
United States at London, England,
vice Henry White resigned; 'Thomas
P. Smith, of Indian Territory, to be
an Indian Inspector. Postmasters—
Duff Post, at Tampa, Fla.; John M.
Waddell, Darlington, S. C.; Frank
M. Emanuel, Bennettsville, S. C.
The Free Coinage Vote.
Now that the repeal bill has become
a law and silver purchases have ceased,
it will be interesting to those who have
studied the question and kept up with
the action of congress to read the fol¬
lowing votes in the two houses. The
figures were prepared from the official
record.
In the house the vote on free coin¬
age was as follows: For—democrats,
103 ; republicans, 13 ; populists, 8.
Against—democrats, 114 ; republicans,
113 . On the Bland-Allison bill the
vote was: For—democrats, 144 ; re¬
publicans, 14 ; populists, 8 . Against—
democrats, 103 ; republicans, 110 . On
repeal the vote was: For—democrats,
138 ; republicans, 101 . Against—demo¬
crats, 76 ; republicans, 24 ; populists,
8. In the senate the votes were on
free silver: For—democrats, 18 ; re¬
publicans, 7 ; populists, 3 . Against—
democrats, 18 ; republicans, 21 . On
the Bland-Allison bill: For—demo¬
crats, 20; republicans, 10; popu
nlists, 3 . Against—democrats, 17 ; re¬
publicans, 20 . On repeal: For—dem
porats, 20 ; republicans, 23 . Against—
democrats, 19 ; republicans, 10 ; popu-
lists, 3. Twelve states voted 'solidly
in the house and senate for repeal.
They were: Connecticut, Delaware,
Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New
York and Wisconsin, which gave Cleve¬
land a plurality of 65,459 votes in
1892, and Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Ehode Island and Ver¬
mont, which gave Harrison a plurali¬
ty of 68,831 votes. Five states voted
solidly in both house and senate
against repeal. They were Colorado,
Idaho, Kansas and Nevada, which gave
Weaver a plurality of 27,222 votes,
and South Dakota, which gave Harri¬
all son a plurality of 8,344 votes, though
the votes which Montana cast were
against it. Harrison’s plurality in
this state was 1,270. Three states,
Colora, Idaho and Nevada, were solid
for free silver, and all the votes of
Montana were cast the same way.
Ten states, Delaware, Maine, Mary¬
land, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Ehode Island,
Vermont and Wisconsin voted solidly
against free silver.
TRADE TOPICS.
Dun & Co.’s Review of Trade for the
Past Seven Days.
B. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly Beview
of trade says: The repeal of the silver
purchase act does good already. The
business world in every part qf the
country reckons it helpful, and the
tone of trade is more confident. It is
hardly the time as yet for the effects
to be felt to any great extent in man¬
ufactures, but bankers are more liberal
in accommodations and merchants
more hopeful in purchases. It is well
to remember that the act will do less
good than if it had been passed early
in the spring, or without d^lay after
congress had assembled. It cannot
now prevent the several thousand fail¬
ures which have already occurred nor
relieve the creditors from resulting
embarrassments. It cannot now save
from loss a multitude of manufactur¬
ing establishments which have closed
because the future seemed uncertain.
It will go far to restore business con¬
fidence, which was much needed, but
many may expect from the measure
larger returns than can at this late day
be realized.
The action of congress had less vis¬
ible influence upon speculative mar¬
kets for products iu part, because for¬
eign markets obstinately refused to
accept the higher valuations which
speculators here tried to establish.
The people across the water award un¬
stinted praises to those who secured
the repeal bill, and there is not much
disposition to pay higher prices on
that account. In view of the great
abundance of money at speculative
centers, the weakness of the market is
more insignificant. Industries could
not be expected to make any material
gain as yet, in consequenoe of no
financial conditions, but the demand
for textile products has to some extent
improved.
Failures for the week, 238 in the
United States, against 238 last year,
and twenty-eight in Banada, against
thirty-one last year. Only five con¬
cerns failed with liabilities exceeding
$100,000 each. The aggregated liabil¬
ities for the week ending October
26th, was larger than of late, amount¬
ing to $7,400,000, against $5,800,000
for the previous ^veek.
TRAIN ROBBERS FOILED.
They Were Expected and One is Killed
and the Other Captnred.
At 9:30 o’clock Friday as train No.
15, which left Knoxville, Tenn., at 8
o’clock for Louisville over the Knox¬
ville and Ohio was taking water at a
tank 200 yards beyond Coal Creek, a
small station thirty miles from Knox¬
ville, two men boarded the front plat¬
form of the express car and rushed
into the open door. They covered the
express messenger, B. D. Scribner,
with their pistols. As they did so,
Chief of Police Atkins, of Knoxville,
and Lieutenant Hood, and Detective
Irwin, who were concealed in the car,
sprang from their hiding places and
called upon the robbers to throw up
their hands. Instead of obeying that
command, one of the desperadoes
turned upon the officers and opened
fire. A regular fusilade followed.
One of the robbers fell at the first fire
but the other continued his unequal
battle, emptying his revolver as fast
as possible. At last bis final bullet
sped wide of its mark and the man was
overpowered and*placed in irons.
OFFICIALS EXPECTED IT.
Smith was found to be badly wound¬
ed, being shot through the groin and
may die. Chief Atkins was shot
through the arm, and Officer Irwin re¬
ceived a scalp wound.
For the last three or four days the
night trains on the East Tennessee go¬
ing north have carried a posse of offi¬
cers armed to the teeth and ready to
fight a desperate band of train robbers.
This was done on information furnish¬
ed the company’s officials by Officer
Irwin, who in some manner which he
refuses to divulge, learned that an at¬
tempt was to be made by William
Smith and Fred Gerding, two well
known men about town, and scions of
well known and prominent families,
sftsattassBss
water'tank some night during the
week.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drill of Her Prcgress ail Pros
nerity Erie© Hotel
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
A $100,000 woolen mill is being seri¬
ously considered as the next factory to
be established at Huntsville, Ala.
The court house at Lexington,
Holmes county, Miss., together with
all the hooks and records, was destroy¬
ed by fire Friday morning.
A special of Thursday from Jackson,
Miss., states that Governor Stone has
issued a proclamation for a special
election to he held December 14th to
all legislative vacancies.
The Commercial club, of Birming¬
ham, Ala., has resolved to circulate a
petition to the ways and means com¬
mittee asking it not to lower the duty
on iron and coal in the new tariff bill.
Thirteen convicts escaped from the
stockade at Coal Creek at half-past 5
o’clock Wednesday morning, and up
to Friday, only four had been recap¬
tured. The matter was kept very
quiet.. The country is being scoured
for those yet at large.
Fourteen new cases of yellow fever
were reported by the Bruuswick hoard
of health Thursday. The weather is
moderating, yet bracing, and all new
cases will shortly come to the surface.
Surgeon-General Wyman reports three
cases of yellow fever at Way cross, Ga.
Thomas B. Purnell and Bobert L.
Burkehead, of Baleigh, have taken an
option upon the lease of all the North
Carolina state convicts, 1,200 in num¬
ber. These convicts are to he em¬
ployed in the penitentiary, at the
phosphate mines or other mines or on
farms.
The Bank of Leesburg, Fla., Yager
Bros. ,proprietors, which suspended Au¬
gust 14th, resumed business Thursday
morning and will pay depositors in
full within eight months, or sooner.
It is a private bank, operated under
the general banking statute of Florida.
Michael & Loeser,.wholesale ■5 and re¬
tail harness and sa cillery and buggy
dealers, at Huntsville, Ala., have failed
and assigned. The liabilities are esti¬
mated at $10,000 to $15,000 and the
assets at $900. They have been ship¬
ping goods to various points over both
railroads for some weeks by the carload.
Twenty-four new cases of yellow
fever were reported by the Brunswick
board of health Friday. It is ru¬
mored that one case of genuine yellow
fever has developed at Camp Detention
in the person of a sailor en route to
another port. The rumor, while not
officially confirmed, has been fully in¬
vestigated and appears to be correct.
A Montgomery special, of Sunday,
says: The extension of the Alabama
Midland road, known as the Abbeville
Southern, is completed to Headland,
Ala., and that place is now connected
by rail with Montgomery. The may¬
ors of the two places exhanged tele¬
graphic congratulations. This new
line will bring a large quantity of cot¬
ton to Montgomery.
A thirty-page book, printed and
bound in sheep, was filed for record at
Brenham, Texas, Friday. It is a mort¬
gage for $5,068,000, executed by the
Houston and Texas Central railroad in
favor of a loan and trust company of
New York and the Southern Pacific.
The amount is made payable in gold,
the bonds being for $1,000 each and
due April 1, 1912.
A Raleigh special of Friday says:
The state will not abandon its convict
farm on Roanoke river, but will put
2,500 acres additional under cultiva¬
tion. The superintendent of the pen¬
itentiary says the six floods in Roan¬
oke river have caused the state a loss
of $30,000 this year. Despite the
floods 1,200 bales of cotton and 60,
000 bushels of corn were produced.
A Knoxville special of Saturday
says: ‘ William Smith, the train rob¬
ber who was shot at Coal Creek, h&a
told the story of the attempt. He says
that Fred Gerding persuaded him to
go into it. Smith told his father and
others that Gerding was planning and
says he knew the express people had
been notified. He expected to be re¬
warded by the express company.
Smith may die.
A Charleston dispatch of Sunday
says: In the c ase of Sadie Means, the
telephone girl who was expelled from
the Second Presbyterian church at Co¬
lumbia, S. C., for working in the tele¬
phone exchange on Sunday, the South
Carolina synod, at Clinton, has or¬
dered that the action of the Charles¬
ton presbytery in the case be annulled
and that the church in Columbia “re¬
store Sadie M. Means to all her rights
and privileges as a member in full
communion.”
A Raleigh special says: A special
committee of the board of lady mana¬
gers of the North Carolina confederate
nionument met Thursday afternoon
and adopted plans as designed by Col¬
onel L. M. Muldoon, of Louisville,
Ky. The plans thus chosen are sub¬
ject to modifications. The design
“ssjsts «
life-size bronze figures, one of a con-
federate infantryman and the other of
a cavalryman in spirited attitudes and
with a shaft thirty feet high sur¬
mounted by a figure ten feet in height
of a soldier at rest. Colonel Muldoon
was a confederate officer.
PUGULISTIC ALDERMEN.
A Disgraceful Scrap in Chicago's City
Council.
A Chicago special says: Such scenes
were never before enacted in the cham¬
ber of the city council or the city of
Chicago as transpired Saturday. Be¬
fore the crepe-draped speaker’s desk
stood two aldermen, opponents politi¬
cally in the council, each declaring
himself the chairman of the body. A
reading clerk, an officer of the coun¬
cil, in order to protect one of these
speakers in his alleged right to rule
over the body, leaped upon the hack
of the opposing speaker and tried to
eject him from the stand. A clerk of
the body tore up a resolution regular¬
ly introduced, because it was not in
line with what his party desired. Over
the crepe-draped rail of the speaker’s
stand leaped another alderman upon
the back of the clerk. To his aid
flocked his colleagues. Upon him
jumped an alderman of the opposing
faction, throwing off his coat as he
ran and clutching at the throat of the
man who by force was trying to get
before the council that which should
not legally have fyeen tried.
Police officers rushed into the en¬
closure to separate the struggling al¬
dermen, and in the fight the crepe
which hung about the desk of the dead
mayor was torn down and trampled
under foot. The men who three days
ago spent money and labor to honor
Mayor Harrison, disgraced liis memo¬
ry by a disreputable brawl over the
right to sit for twenty minutes iu his
chair.
The council is almost evenly divided
politically, the republicans having a
slight majority, while the dead ex¬
mayor was a democrat.
The council chamber is guarded by
a squad of police officers and no man,
no matter what his politics or position
is allowed to enter.
ivnow rnyseir.
A male adult has half an ounce of sugar
In his blood.
The normal temperature of a human
body is 98 2-5 degrees.
in An adult perspires twenty-eight ounces
twenty-four hours.
An ordinary man exhales every daj
one pound of carbonic oxide.
As a rule the length of the face is the
same as the length of the hand.
The rate of pulsation is 120 per min¬
ute in infancy, 80 in manhood and 60 ir
aid age.
Sweat consists of nearly 99 per cent,
water and a little over 1 per cent, of sal¬
ine matter.
Each adult inhales a gallon of air a
minute and consumes thirty ounces oi
oxygen a day.
Tae action of the human heart is suffi
riantly strong to lift every twenty-four
hours 120 pounds.
It has been computed that the average
growth of the fingernail is about one
thirty-second of an inch a week.
All the blood in the body makes the
entire round of the circulation in
twenty seconds, so that three times
in every minute all the red globules of
the blood, which are the oxygen car¬
riers, must each have its fresh medium of
oxygen. In is
the human body there said to be
more communicating than 2,000,000 the perspiration glands ducts,
having with surface by
a total length of some ten miles.
The blood contains millions of millions
of corpuscles, each a structure in itself.
The number of rods in the retina, sup¬
posed to be the ultimate recipient oi
light, scientist is estimated at calculated 30,000,000. A Ger¬
man has that the
gray matter of the brain is built of at
least 600,000,000 cells.
Those Who Have Lived.
According to a recent writer it is im¬
possible number to of give any close figures on the
persons who have lived on
this earth. It is generally considered
that one person in every thirteen dies
each year. At this rate the population
would be renewed every thirteen years.
Assuming that the population of the
world is 1,000,000,000, and thatithas been
1,000,000,000 at any time during the last
6,000 years, we find that the population
has been renewed about 461 times; that
is, that 462,000,000,000 have lived on
this earth since the creation. This, of
course, is vastly iu excess of the real
number, is for the world, so far as we can
tell, more thickly populated now than
e^er before. Probably if we were to cut
those figures iu two we would still be
above the actual number, with a total of
231,000,000,000 persons. There are no
figures on which to base an estimate of
time. the population The of the taken world wheu in He Christ’s
census was
brought up to Jerusalem has not come
down to us; if it had, it would have
been of great historical and sociological
value. Magazine. — [Goldthwaite’s Geographical
Corbett au^ Mitchell Sign.
A New York dispatch of Sunday
says: An agreement was signed to¬
night by Billy Thompson, represent¬
ing Charles Mitchell, the English
pugulist, and W. A. Brady, represent¬ will
ing James J. Corbett, which prob¬
ably have the effect of bringing off the
big international fight in New Orleans.
It looks, after all, as if the Olympio
Club, of the Crescent City, would se
oure the event
THE POPPIES IN THE CORN,
When the mist in pearly columns
Eises o’er the hilltops gray,
And the dews of early dawning
In the grasses melt away,
Then the sun in softened splendor
Sheds his first rays thro’ the mor:>
Lo, they kiss the sleepy faces
Of the poppies in the corn.
O’er the scene there falls a silence,
All the twittering song-birds stil
As the lark, his far flight taking,
Circles toward the distant hill,
Up and upward, flies triumphant,
Earth-bred warbler, heaven-born.
Till a song steals down from cfloudland
O’er the poppies in the corn.
Slowly comes the hush of noontide,
Not a leaf sways on the tress,
Not a dew-drop on the grasses,
Not the whisper of a breeze,
Glows the sun in scorching fury,
One wee butterfly forlorn,
Panting, falls in dying struggles
On the poppies in the com. m
Soft a breeze comes rustling over,
Sighing thro’ the cedars tall,
Stirs the grapes in hanging clusters
On the mold’ring wine-clad wall,
Sinks the suu iu amber glory,
Dies the day as night is born,
Ono wee star peeps through the twilight,
At the poppies in the corn.
—Maud E. Kendrick, in Boston Globe.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
No doubt the jail-bird often wishes
he could fly.—Truth.
A short history of China: A seven
dollar tea-cup and a three-dollar ser¬
vant-girl.—Washington Star.
A dollar in.a savings bank will ulti¬
mately turn out to be worth two iu an
old stocking. -Boston Herald.
The tenant who spends all his money
on a tear naturally has cause to worry
over the rent.—Buffalo Courier.
There was a man in. our town,
Ai*l he was wondrous wise.
He kept his tongue, he stopped his ears,
And also shut his eyes.
It is the man with about $6.17 to his
credit in a bank that usually tries hard¬
est to stir up a panic.—Washington
Star.
The highest form of sincere flattery
at the present time is to ask a man if
he can change a $10 bill. —Memphis
Appeal.
The walking delegate doesn’t need
to be remarkably handsome to present
a striking appearance.--Buffalo
Courier.
A good many concerns that have
gone under lately have been sunk by
their floating debts.--Philadelphia
Ledger.
Friend—“Well, Tommy, now that
you’ve started to school, what do you
like best?” Tommy—“Recess.”—In¬
ter-Ocean.
“Well, Anna, have you found the
rose for my hair yet?” “Yes, Madam;
but now I cannot find the hair.”—
Fliegende Blaetter.
Quericus—“Who was it that wrote
the song ‘They’re after me?’ ” Witti
cus.—“Adam, in all probability, as he
was the first man. «The Club.
He went to get a photograph ,
He posed in killing style,
The sad result was little else
Than hands and feet and smile.
Washington Star.
The true luxury of an alarm clock
lies iu its reminder that with a little
extra haste you can spare fifteen min¬
utes for another nap.—Washington
Star.
In the search for the Western train
robbers, one detective arrested another
detective as one of the guilty men.
Detecting is a great business some¬
times.—Baltimore American.
They didn’t come with aw hi l bills
To present with a savage stare,
For they were afraid he'd begin to tell
Of the things he’d seen at the Fair.
—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
“Life is a song,” said some poet,
and he told the truth. But it is a sad
reflection that a man may make his
existence as obnoxious to society as
some popular tunes get to be.—Wash¬
ington Star.
“I wouldn’t be so particular to take
the sand out of your shoes all the time,
Mr. Noedle,” she said, and then, after
a pause, “Your system might absorb
a little. I think you need some. ■
Philadelphia Record.
“A penny for your thoughts, my love,”
* In tender tones he said,
Then she told that visions of. oyster stews
Were floating through her head.
—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
All the wedding party were assem¬
bled at the registrar’s. The bridegroom
alone was missing. At last he put in a
belated appearance. He was a hale
old gentleman of seventy. “Another
time,” said the registrar, “come a bit
.
earlier. ”—Sonntagsblatt.
“Well, Aunt Rachel,” said the young
lady in the travelling suit, “I shall
have to bid you a long farewell.” “If
you’re going in this train, ma’am,”
Baid the guard (signalling to the driver
to go ahead,) “you’ll have to make it
pretty short. ”—Tit Bits.
1 A Boat ot a Single Pearl.
A Turin jeweler has made a tiny
boat formed of a single pearl. Its sail
is of beaten gold studded with dia¬
monds, and the binnacle light at its
prow is a perfect ruby. An emerald
serves as a rudder, and its Btand is a
slab of ivory. It weighs less than
half an ounce. It price is $20,000.