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fp#Sipi JUf : W'f.Wd •r H 1 1 aps W%m l I i. \ VOLUME 19 Nobby line of Crush Hats. Nobby line of Extra Pants. Full Line Dress Shirts. » ndF * ncy IE SUITS, In Square Cuts. 3&4Button Cutaways, Double Breasted Sacks. And the prettiest line ol PRINCE ALBERTS Ever Shown to the Public- Also, Elegant line of NECK-WEAB— LATEST DESIGNS. (ST All Jnst received and on exhibition for those wishing Suits for Easter Sunday. i. H. WHITE, JR., S CO. SOUTHERN MUTUAL BUILDING - AND - LOAN ASSOCIATION. GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, BRANCH. I am now offering Stock in the 8 th, or Feb- and twenty cents per share. C. H. JOHNSON, Agent. Griffin, Ga. Jan. 24, 1890, 239 " Call and insure yonr property before it bnrns. SOVTHERNMVTUAL h sfffl taking risks as well as Georgia Home, imperial -and- CENTRAL CITY. IMF Call at once. Don’t delay. C. H. JOHNSON. Agent. For Sale and lo Rent. 6 room house and 30 acres land ,with fish pond 60 on It and good with orcard. vacant lots, wide streets, in beau¬ tiful oak and kickory greve, on Hill street, in ■>i and % mile of passenger depot. Time wil be given if desired. This property p SILL DOUBLE IN VALUE in next three years. The J. M. Urawner 7 room house and 2 acres land. Also. 4 acres and 18 new room houses. Will give a bargain in this and is a good paying investment. 56 acres inside city, 14 in woods. Beautiful grove—can be cut up into lots and sold of six months for over double present price. Adam Janes house and 10 acres land. A No. 1 orchard and valuable place. Mrs. Charlton house and 4 acres, Hill St. Female College houses and lot, 2Mi acres land. Will be divided if necessary. Houses and nice building lots on Hill, lar and other portions of the city and al store houses FOB SALE. Persons having lands and houses to sell rent will be attended to promptly. 6. A. CUNNINGHAM, Beal Estate Agent. TMttiMJinl FEATURES FOR 1890. ^Valuable reports and market forecasts from ending Hints Cities. how ship on to and what to grow. . Correct crop reports from all sections. An indispensable Journal far farmers and •fruit growers Our Information Bureau •merchants to subscribers-, in all tells the Cities; all -about commission A Handsome 12 page Weekly. Regular To Price,.......................f3 00 per yeax subscriber* of tine paper I 60 Fruit Trade Journal Co., 21 to 24 State St., New York. LIFE |OF THE HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS. BT MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS. Te Bi SOLO BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY The Prospectus and complete outfit for can- veasing will be ready immediately. -**•»*» T^rtilng^Peslrable «n this g reat work will please address, as •non as possible, tlie publishers, SLLFORD COMPANY, l«tk Street. MEW YORK. j|JP DABBLING IN DIET! A Real Estate Investment Company Organized In Griffin. A number of the progressive citizens of Griffin met in the office of the City National Bank yesterday and organ¬ ized the Beal Estate Investment Com* pany of Griffin. All the stock was subscribed, amounting to 125,000, ten per cent, was called in at once and the company organized under the charter already obtained. Al 1 the ntobkho'ders except two were, iresent and evinced an active interest. following officers sears sleeted: President—A. Scheuerman. Sec’y and Treas.—J. P. Nichols. Directors—A. Schenerman, H. C. Burr, B. R. Blakely, J, P, Nichols, R. T. Daniel. Investment Committee—B. R. Blakely, H. C. Burr, B. T. Daniel. The objects of the company are to Buy and sell reaT estate, make Im¬ provements, rent property, etc. They will commence in a small way at first, but will have plenty of money to back them whenever it be¬ comes necessary to enter into larger projects. These companies have accomplish¬ ed much for their stockholders and for the public good Wherever or¬ ganized, and we predict that the ef¬ fect of this organization will soon be felt in Griffin. BLOWN TO ATOMS. A Michigan Powder Mill Explodes and Kills a Man. Marquette, April 23.—The An¬ thony Powder Company mill, one and a half miles southwest of Negau- ree, blew up at an early hour this morning. Twenty minutes later a second explosion occurred, supposed to be one of the storage houses. As no one was at the works but the watchman, he is the only one killed- The cause of the explosion is at* tributed to a defective boiler and its spread to the explosive material in the storehouses. The total amount of the wreck is unobtainable, because people will not approach tho spot, fearing an¬ other explosion. The shocks shat¬ tered glass along Iron street, in Ne- gauree, and was plainly felt in Mar¬ quette, over twelve miles away. A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT. A Pennsylvania Explosion Kills Thres Men and Injures Others. New Castle, Pa., April 23.— Three men were instantly killed and six others badly injured, by an explosion, early this morning, at the JUtna mills. Two of the injured will probably die. The explosion was caused by the col¬ lapse of the flue end of the big boiler. The explosion was terrific and the es¬ caping steam scorched everything for some distance around. BASEBALL YESTERDAY. National League. At New York— a. a. a New York .00 130010 0- 5 10Z Philadelphia. 00000101 1- 3*4 Batteries: Rusie and Buckly: Vickery and Clements. Umpire: Lynch. At Boston— R.H.JL Boston........ 00100009 5- 8(0 Brooklyn.. .. 2 rT IT m F-TM fi I'-.i cros; Uetsetn and Beanet; Hughes and C.rUmpi re: VVeedo o. St PRUbuig- It. H. X. Pittsburg..... 0 II. « 0 t I 0 2-1113 5 Cleveland:.. . « 41 S 0 1 0 3 0 0—9 14 • Batteries: .Schmitt and Miller: Parsons and —!L Zimmer. Umpire: Zacbarias. ------- At Cincinnati— «. a. a. X. Cincinnati . 0 2 2 2 b 0 0 1 Z- * 11 1 Chicago...... 0 0 3 0 0 # 1 0 0-4 ( 7 Batteries: Foreman and Keenan; Coughlin and Kittredge. Umpire: McQuade. Players* League. At Now York— - a. ■. i. New York.... 20004032 0-11 12 * Philadelphia. 4 0 2 6 0 0 0 1 x-13 13 t Batteries: Ewing and Ewing; Knell and Milligan. Umpires: Ferguson and Holbort. At Boston— k. m. *. Boston........ 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0-51812 Brooklyn..... 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 x- 7 7 * Batteries: Gurabert and Kelly; Weyhing and Cook. Umpires: Gaffney and Barnes. At Pittsburg— a. «i. a. Pittsburg..... 201 01010 0-552 Chicago....... 000 200000-258 Batteries: Staley and Carroll; Baldwin and Boyle. Umpires: Matthews and Gunning. At Buffalo— 8 . H. r Buffalo....... 500230*2 0-15 U 2 Cleveland .... 020210012-1 14 • Batteries: Ferson and Mack; Bakely and Sutcliffe. Umpires: Knight and Jones. American Association. At Louisville— a. n. a. St. Louis..... 00020010 1- 4116 Louisville .08202780 x-lT 20 2 Batteries Stivetts and Adams; Stratton and Ryan. Umpire: Connell. Atlantic Association. At Baltimore—Baltimore, 2; New Haven, 3. At Wilmington—Wilmington, 6 : Worces¬ ter, 23. At Jersey City—Jersey City. 21; Newark, 12. At Washington—Washington. 13; Hert¬ ford, ». ____ Lorthamborland Presbytery. Emporium, Pa., April 23.—Th« Pres¬ bytery of North uni: a- iland is in session here. Rev. Dr. Stewart .Uitchel, of Mount Carmel, is moderator, an 1 Key. R. L> Stewart, of Danvilie, clerk. Tho presbytery includes tt m “a wwhip of (j.WX), with forty-three ui.uijtera, cov¬ ering the counties of Lycoutiog. Mon¬ tour, Clinton. Coiatn .it union. .*>nyder, Cameron and vortuitaberianJ. Til- principal u jw -w wJT »: c:u election .. f cointni*si.i .e.s lo L; ■ ..e'teril ,v k.iIiv in Ma» and to tag* »jn*WS >J4 iii-i i<i: turn o; the revision of the it rstetinaur confession of faith. ___ GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 84 1890. STMDJSIDE, For Agricultural Depression is to be Regulated. Secretary of Agriculture Rusk Gives His Views. Extensive Importation, and Resultant Competition wlth .onr Own Farmers and Their Products — protection for Farm Prodnoe as Necessary as Protection for Manufactures—Important Question. Washington, April 28.—J, W. Rusk, secretary of agriculture, In speaking of the great depression ip agriculture at the present time, says: “Few people realize that our imports of agricultural products, estimated at prices equal paid by agricultural the consumer, are about to our exports esti¬ mated at prices paid to the farmer ; yet such is the case. Our imports of pro¬ ducts sold in competition with those actually produced nearly on $115,000,000, our own soil now amount to and as much more could be produced on our own soil under favorable conditions. We must another surely conclude that we have here ject is cause for that depression. The sub¬ so vast I cannot dismiss it briefly. “The establishment of our agricultu¬ ral experiment stations, the energetic research by the department of agricul¬ ture into the resources of different sec¬ tions of this country, investigation of their soils and climate, and the applica¬ tion, in general, of scientific principles to agriculture, doubly ail combining, provided, make always, this assurance sure, that this diversification be encouraged and fostered by the application of the principle of of industries protection to the the develop¬ ment new on farm. It is simply the extension to our agriculture of the protection so beneficially extended in the past to our manufacturing indus¬ tries. In the days when the fanners were prosperous, when good crops were accompanied with high prices, and the value of agricultural land went up ac¬ cordingly, the fanners to a man stood by the half principle of the of protection urged burden¬ on be¬ with manufacturers, who, ed then the heavy load of taxation imposed upon them by the civil war, were threatened with grave disaster in the face of European of the competition. Now in the face severe competition which to-day confronts the farmer in foreign the markets, self-interest duty, fairness, demand; and in should long run afford him benefits of that we the a home market for all that he may be able to cludes produce all the on sugar our own and soil. molasses, This in¬ all animal products, wool, bread silk, flax and other fibres, all our stuffs, fruits, hay, wines; hops, but rice, tobacco, of these vegetables things will ana many never, can never, be produced on Ameri¬ can soil in competition with the labor of European in the nations, of especially the industry when, abroad as case sugar, has been helped by liberal government bounties. “Accompanying the this principle of pro¬ tection to American farmer is that of reciprocity, which should invariably be applied whenever that of protection is relaxed. If there are products grown to better mission advantage duty in other countries, re¬ of on which would seem to be in the interest of a large portion of our only population, be accorded such as the remission result of should recip¬ rocal concession in the way of a remis¬ sion of duties by such other countries on products with other more readily products grown and here. whenever * * * .So ; duty on and such the products is lowered or re¬ moved, protection to our farmers thus diminished, it should be as the price of concessions made to us in the tariff of other countries in favor of our own farm products. In this way, and in this way only, tected—new can our markets farmers being lie adequately pro¬ thus thrown open to them for those products which they “No can possible most easily relief and cheaply produce. them can come to or to the country ; no permanent remedy for present ills is to be found in measures which aye rather the outcome of resent ¬ ment than the product of reason. I would say to the farmers, stand firm as the everlasting hills in demanding what is fringement right, and resisting rights any possible in¬ by on your as citizens any other cl ass or combination of people; but beware lest, in your just eagerness to secure your own rights, you seek to in¬ fringe upon the rights of others. No measure that conflicts with the rights of follow tWfiurs <>f th§ boomerangs and return to injure the hand that shaped it. On tne other .ii.ua let it be borne in mind by all other classes of our citizens that the present conditions demand con¬ sideration now, and that consideration must be full and fair ail ; for the time being it is paramount to other questions, and, if necessary, every other inte re st must be prepared looking to stand the aside in favor of measures to relief of ag¬ ricultural depression.” The Railroad Situation Gloomy, PlTTSBURO, Pa., April 2d.— Never has* the railroad situation been more gloomy. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen h is taken up the cause of the switchmen, md resolved to cling to the switchmen in their demands, and have presented grievances of their own to be adjusted. Superintendent road, the Starr, of the for Fort Wayne before was at the meeting a few min¬ utes members went into secret session. He used every argument against a strike, but members of the union left the hall and met in another building. The end is not in sight. —— — The Sliver Question. Washington, April 23.— The silver men have managed to secure one con¬ cession, which they ail regard as of value, in the shape of amendment to the house committee a iti, which will be of¬ fered the senators as a partial compro¬ of mise, absolutely less than requiring the purchase not two million ounces of silver in each month, regardless of price. The committee was also willing to agree that treasury notes issued in the purchase of silrer bullion shall be redeemed in coin, dxlawfui money, as well as bullion, as sisted proposed retaining by the house bill, but per¬ m the proviso that the government, and not the seller of bul¬ lion, shall have the option of determin¬ ing the medium in which the notes are to be redeemed. The striking carpenters in Chicago are said to te riotous. Vtr Malign mt diphtheria is epidemic in has ning, bean Minn. Out of 150 persons there twenty deaths since April I. COLONE L L L. POLK, President of the National Farmer* 1 AUl- aace. Before the Committee. Washington, April 23.—Colonel Polk has been before the senate committee on agriculture and forertry, which has un¬ der consideration Senator Vance’s bill to provide for a system of warehouses for farm products throughout the the country, to be operated by government, deposits which is to issue its notes upon of grain therein. Colonel Polk read a long argu¬ ment in support of the measure, which, he said, was formulated by the commit¬ tee appointed for that purpose by the convention of the National Farmers' Al¬ liance and Industrial Alliance, held in St. Louis on December 8,1889. The de¬ cline ed in in thaftoe agricultural of, the marvelous and industries developinet during ether intei interests and the past decade, and he insisted that something should be done for the farmers. He charged the fault upon the financial system or the govern¬ ment, which had resulted in high priced money and low priced products. The remedy, First, he suggested, was three-fold: restore silver to its dignity and ail right sufficient amounts of [currency direct to the people, at a low rate of interest, to meet the legitimate demands of business of the country, and wpich shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private; third, secure to such issue equal dignity with money metals by basing it on real, tangible, Mr. Polk substantial followed values. by Dr. C. W. was McCune, chairman of the national Alliance, com¬ mittee on legislation of the who addressed himself more particularly to the merits and details of the system of warehouses a* outlined in the bill. He asserted that merchandise thus stored would not deteriorate, below the market standard, and that ,he system had proved feasible and practicable in California, where the Grangers’ bank, in 1889, loan¬ ed $3,000,000 on certificates issued to the farmers on wheat deposited in ware¬ houses owned and controlled by them. Bay«a Sara In Bulu. Batov Sara, La., April tike 23.—The levee broke at 12:30 a. m. and town is in ruin*. Not a house has escaped damage or destruction by the deluge. Many of the people have had nearly all their household effects ruined. Boats and rafts are the only Means of com¬ munication. exhausted by their The efforts people to were the ex- save levee and are now in despair. Heavy rain all day has added to the gloom. Most of Point Coupie is also flooded from a break in the Taylor levee. The Fanny Poor crevasse wifi probably be a serious one. The large levees still hold, hut the outlook fit bad. Phllad A,<ht» Carpenter* Will Nat Strike Philadelphia. April 23.—Represen¬ tative master carpenters units in saying that the demand of the journeymen carpenters be of the 35 city that hour their will wages increased to oents per in all likelihood be granted. This state¬ ment gives assurance that there will be no building trouble trades in Philadelphia during among The the next year. bricklayers, brick makers, plasterers, plumbefs, painters, stonecutters and stonemasons have all entered into agreements with their employers con¬ cerning during the the coming rate of wages to bs paid season. Tt>* Areher Iuvratlgation. Baltimore, April 23.— The Archer investigating taken committee, since last Wednesday, which has a recess met again this morning and will hold daily sittings until the work is finished. The committee may finish its work by Saturday. of the Today office at noon the formal transfer of state treasurer was made from Archer to Col. Brown, his successor. Mr. Archer is reported to sonally be improving by and will either the per¬ at¬ or counsel appear at torney general's office. Qortrur Hill an Cairo pt PrnotlcM. Albany, April 23.—Governor Hill sent to recommending the legislators last night recently a mes¬ sage that the passed corrupt practices act, be ex¬ tended so as to require sworn state¬ ments of elections cases to be filed by political committees and acts as well as by candidates. Also so as to fix a limit of legal election expenses. The bill to submit a prohibition amendment to ths people in 1891 was ordered to third reading. _ f und actors W»nt to Strike. Indianapolis, April 23.— of Railway The Indian* Con¬ division of the Order ductors at a second meeting held hers discussed the recent wholesale discharge of conductors ter the several lines Cen¬ tering here and decided by non-striking an almost unanimous vote that the clabse in the constitution should bo stricken out The division's representa¬ tive to the annual meeting the mi repent May 1 of ft was instructed to vote tor ucioua A Right la th* Ciloaku Capital. Columbus, O., April 2$.—The house of representatives while in session pass¬ ing local bills last in evening the lobby was inter¬ rupted by a fight L. Hawkins and between CoL Sol Adjt. P. Gen. Kinneon, Morton officer of th* First an regiment, of Cincinnati. They wer# disputing concerning regimental mat¬ ters when Kinneon called Hawkins a liar and was immediately The knocked down by him. sergeant-at-arms then separated the combatants. Sefiwatr Saak aa* Four Drawaod. W. Baltimore, H. Brinsfleld, April Capt, 23.—The John schooner H. Elli¬ off son, Point-No-Point of Tappahannock, and Va., three has of sunk th* crew and a passenger were drowned. Ihi schooner was bound from Great u icomico river to this city with a cargo of railroad ties. The four men lost are Aiate David Prim, Seamen John Har- kum, John Betts and Robert Ellison, all colored. ____ 11 m Ftahory Nagottetioaa. Ottawa, April 23.— Sir John Thomp¬ son, minister of justice, is authority for the statement that when a settle¬ ment of the Uuited Behring sea difficulty is reached the 8 tales government will be prepated to open negotiations with n view to an arrangement of the Atianti; fishery question. Said G*>*« Dm. Buenos Ayres, April in 23.—There h*s been a marked decline the premium on gold during the pest twenty-four bourn. It is quoted has been at high Within the past ten days it as as 318. The decline would seem to indicate pub¬ lic confidence in tiie new ministry. ■ THE WORMS FAIR. The Senate Finally Passes the House Bill. A IAYA L REVIEW PROVIDED. FOIL A Lang and lateraatlng Dabat*— Thlr- taaa Saaatar* Oppota tha Mansard Mr Mali's Propmitton far a Maas. moth Farad# of School Children Hs- Jnotad—No Status for Columbus. Washington, April 23.—On motion y the senate proceeded to celebrating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding an international sxhibition of arts, industries, manufac¬ tures and the product of the soil, mins and sea, in the city of Chieage. in th* state of Illinois. "’“N The only amendment reported by the senate committee is the insertion of a new section providing for a naval re¬ view in New York harbor in April, 1893, and for the unveiling of a statue of ton. Christopher Columbus at Washing¬ Mr. Vast In Opposition. Mr. Vest, of Missouri, opposed ths bill in a long and brilliant speech. He dwelt upon the municipal contests over the location of the fair and character ized them as undignified and disgraceful. Iu conclusion he declaraed that he did not believe that the exposition would ever be n success; it came too soon after the Paris exposition, and in his judgment the people outside of the oities engaged in the contest did not care anything about the exposition. Had the time come, he asked, when the people of this country had to be amused in their condition of great jMsnnlary distress, of unjust laws; and was the United States to follow the example of those old countries which provided amusement for the people in the gladia¬ torial arena in order to prevent them criticising the laws of the oountry? No Bapmttorr tmr Antlqultle*. Mr. Gorman offered an amendment to strike out the naval review provision and insert in lieu of it an appropriation of $500,000 for a memorial building in of Washington as a hemisphere. repository of antiquities This the western was rejected. Chandler Mr. thought the naval re¬ view would be a great benefit to ths exhibition and would give it a send off which could uot be so well attained in any way. The country would not bs ashamed of its vessels at ths review. Mr. Blair opposed the proposition to hold a naval review as fostering a spirit of war, and said that ‘ ‘accursed institu¬ tion, infernal war, the badge savagery.” thought this should be abolished., turn institute the country of strong enough to era peace. A School Children’s Parade. Mr. Biair offered amendments au¬ hibition thorizing of the the president public schools to hold and an ex¬ a re¬ view of the public school children in Chicago an 1 to provide for of the Queen erection Isa¬ of a statue in memory bella, of Spain. Mr. Blair’s public school review amend¬ ment was rejected. The Queen Isabella really assisted Columbus in his queen expedition. great Mr. Blair said there was a grave doubt whether Columbus ever discov¬ ered America. It was claimed by many that America was discovered 500 years before Columbus declared, was born. The ex¬ hibition, be so far as it was connected with the name of Columbus, was an arrant humbug. The amend- was also rejected. Lotting NSW York Dwwa Easy. Mr. Plumb opposed the committee’s amendment as incongruous and totally inapplicable The to back the purpose the amendment of the bill. purpose of wee that New York should have some¬ thing to break its fall; something to minimize the fair at Chicago, it would, Mr. Plumb thought, be small enough anyhow without drawing off any por¬ tion of the people to witness a naval re¬ view. His opposition to the naval re¬ view tially was monarchist mainly because it Two was essen¬ a idea. mon¬ arch! never of cam» together of without a display fare. That the ought instruments be, Mr. Plumb naval war¬ de¬ to clared, wiped out of the whole busi¬ ness. After further discussion Mr. Hoar’s amendment striking out the Columbus statue view amendment was agreed to, and agreed the naval re¬ 28; 27. The was section to—yeas, adopted reads: nays, as Sacrum *. That tbs president is hereby em¬ powered and directed to bald a naval review in New York harbor in April. IMS, nod te ex¬ tend to foreign nations an invitation to send ehipe of war to join the United Statee navy la rendesvotu at Hampton Beads and proceed thence to said review. Linear Sailing PrakSMtad. Mr. Blair offered an amendment to the first section of the bill prohibiting the sale of liquors, wins or beer witnin tiie limits of tue exhibition grounds and made a short speech in support of it The amendment was agreed to—yeas, 33; nays, 15. The bill was then passed—yeas, 43; nays, ’.3, Senators Barbour, Berry, Blackburn, Cockrell, Coke, George, Hampton. Vance. Vest Morgan. and Walthall Pugh, voted Reagan, in the negative. A committee of conference on the disagreeing lirwiey, points Far was .veil asked, and Vance and iles-tr*. were appointed conferees on the part of the senate. 1:111s 1’aosad In tha Manta. The bouse passed a bill providing that soluiers who lost their limbs dur¬ ing the late war shall be entitled to re¬ ceive an artificial iiuab every three years. The conference report on the bill to provide Oklahoma temporary aJoji government for was <-,i. The bill to pension prisoners of war was discussed at length and defeated by 14a yearn to 78 nays, toe necessary two- tbiras being lacking. Cite Fori tea’s Had Break. New York, April 23.--The Fall River line steamer Puritan, which ran agroun l on the rocks at Hell Gate oo Saturday last, was placed in the dry dock. It is now thought that it will cost between $30,000 and $10,000 pair the steamer, as there re tea a great bole 100 feet long and in soar wide as fire feet on the post i A SAD WELCOME. *a Ralft at Warn*, Frlghtfally Maw- glad by Iti Cara. Catasauqca, Pa., .April 38 —An emi¬ grant train carrying 300 passengers went up the Lehigh Valley railroad at about midnight with nearly all on it bound for the west It stopped her* to leave a Hungarian woman and her two little cidldren, who wet* on their way to Siegfried's Bridge, where the woman's Alone husband and is employed. land the in a »i range woman produced a card bearing the ad¬ dress of her husband, iisaute to speak her language two men pointed up the track as the direction t'ai Wo,nan should take mile* to reach her - iiiiU.ba, arms and the othw youngster at her side, the woman niar.-d up the dark and lonely An hour as well later as dangerous the bleeding track. and man¬ gled form of the woman, with a leg and both arm* crushed, was found on the track with the children by her side cry¬ ing and unable to ren ter any assistance. The children, fortunately, and escaped se¬ rious injury. Mother children were taken to bt. Luke’s hospital at Bethle¬ hem on a special train and the mangled limbe wore amputat husband 'd. When the of the woman learned of the accident to hie wife he was almost crazed with grief. Swath Pub Bowrzaatsatlaw. is Baltimore, made here April that the 28 .—The revival statement of th* South Pennsylvania railroad combination into which the the Western Maryland and the Bali more and Ohio will enter and form a great system with a short line in th* west. Ths Western Maryland has re¬ cently mads oontracts with both the Baltimore and Ohio and the Reading. It is recalled that John W. Garrett be¬ fore his death contemplated such oon- nections with th# Heading Mil Uu South Penn and that Robert Garrett was holding a conference with Vender- derbilt on the South Penn road when Vanderbilt died. Bontoa Packer* strike. ployes Boston, April 23.—The striking em¬ house submitted at Squire ft Company’s packing to Mr. Squire, a statement but refused or griev¬ ances he to deal with them as a body and advised them to get work elsewhere, as he would make no concession and did not think they had the any foreman grievance. the Mr. killers Squire sent to of and desired them to go to work, but the foreman said his men were Knights of Labor and would not return unless the other employee were taken back. No disorder has asyet occurred, but trouble is feared should new men he set to work, Th* Uapablitnn Oa aaaa Washington, April 38.—The caucus of night Republican the sliver member* question of the house spirited last on was and led to a wide discussion of til# matter. The positiou taken by a ma¬ jority (nine of of the the house fifteen cauctis member*) committee was ex¬ plained that of by minority Mr. Conger, Mr. erf Perkins, Iowa, and the oy of Kansas Finally, after a long discus¬ senting sion, on the motion extreme of Mr. silver Perkins, of repre¬ the men minority, mitted to the the house whole caucus matter committee. was recom¬ ■trlklag far Nlo* Hoar A Sharon, Pa, April 23.—All the car¬ penters here went out on a strike for shorter hours. They are now working ten boon, but demand nine hours, and one small firm has conceded the de¬ mand. The other three targe employ¬ ing firms refuse to accede effort to the de¬ mands and are maxing an to se¬ cure the buildings enough non-union men to put up at present under contract. This, the men say, will not be success¬ ful, unless workmen are imported, as the carpenters’ organization hare I* very strong. Aa 014 HaahleaoJ Fourth of Jalj. McKeesport, Pa., v'pril 23.—The convention of the cl -.•■gaies represent¬ and ing twenty-five Junior Order counciu of the benior o. American Me¬ chanics to arrange for the usual parade of the order in tour counties—Alle¬ gheny, July Fayette, 'Washington and Follows Greene —on 4, was held iu Odd hall. The ablest speakers have been se¬ cured and the very t>t- c nusic. Burgess Thomas Tillbrocx, pt evident erf the parade organization, was elected grand marshal of the parade. 0*14 la Tt..l Vi relate. Petersburg, W. Va.. April 33.— Gold has been discovered in what is known as the "Wiac tract,” near the ooanty have been seat, Bampire of tea qu arto show assayed in the east and an average of $i iJ per ton. The quartz has also bean found on farms ad¬ joining the Wiasi property. Sraoll Boy* Klnil'a a Great lira Louisville, April 33. — The little town wiped of HarrodFiurg, by Kv., was al¬ most out sir-. The damage is estimated at - - >■ The origin of the fire was in the ■ Jp ra house and the supposition by small is that tins was set on fire some boys. ^ Tb* 1*. Mthtr. Fair; warmer; southwesterly winds. NUGGETS OF NEVUS. James A I* McClure, a wall known lawyer of Baltimore, Is dead W. H. Hmlth, one of lb* publisher* and editors of The Odd Fellows Register and Masonic Journal, died in Portland. Me. The raisins of a ratAid/ of 275.000, in oon- -fderation of which the Paciflc Mail Steam- ihtn company wifi run a line of steamers be¬ tween Tacoma, Yokomuna and Hong Kong, was completed at Tacouu. The Bov. Dr. Huntley, or the First Meth¬ odist Kptsmpal churrb, Annapolis. Md., warned the member* of bi*congregation that it i* against the discipline of U* church for themtosiga application* of saloon keeper* for liquor licence*. Mr. Robert M. Prou t, for many yean col¬ lector of internal retinue for the Baltimore district and a writ known Insurance broker, 1* dead. i her* bai been a general Increase In the Newfoundland tariff of 6 to 1ft par cent. Augustus P, Botkwci’. furrier. No. 731 Broadway. New York, made an assignment to < erace U. White without preference. John E. Cowden, said to be the oldest Odd Fellow In the country, dlod at Amesbury, Mnsa^agedMyear*. He joined tbeorde?in I'Mlode phi* iu 1SSL Charleo F. Kincaid th* »layer of ex-On- -rcssmaa Tawlbee, was admitted te ha .e *UB» of *3>,0QS. London evening . a.-arionai teiegr* etant = EVENTS JN The Balfour and Purchase 1 TROUBLE l-T lvl*h Nor*!—noaora - -ilL I London, April 1 has sprung a mine m speeches of thirty Un th* house of Gladstone's ^ At that time the lowers of Git as having m the s patl bin with rhetorical i y| the bill a* a i equity, launched in " by benefits, its operation not only to whole kingdom. To m Ths News proffers the would do well in o ' -m tying themselves that tot ancae on oc which they have in support of Mr. ha sten to make the: ticas. •* WlUiaa* O’Brien's London, novel, April which he wss in prison, hM by which Longman, is Green i 1 entitled ” ._ is a historical etc _ with tit* ber of Lrish-American have treated it solely on its out the slightest reference ‘ cal leanings of its autism News regards it «s the Gmtte writings of Lever will expresses the ; full impress in confidence toe torixing the new Irish era. Kn* boon translated into I Italian and pro mire, a la rge m MM* Main •eeans’a London, April 38.- cured a new trial of Sir Georgs Elliott tlon that new evidence ing at which the she next care was at tire t**t. The v still adheres to his gfitifin jg ffiM ftttainnt U Iub KU rcUtuOuS Wlbu ' ,v " Belgisa Ball war* Belgian Brussels, April i8.- minister of rails credit telegraph* of 11,003,000 has Get 1 of ing the fiscal railway system year increase in con enormous in resulting giumand from the the prevailing recent i hire elsewhere. 7 s : i Vienna, April 38.- trouble vailing strikes May day, and the th* <f on eminent has ordered the of strong forces of tree turbed centres, and baa inforce the already at Vienna and th* ital. ' 'i* IM t -_jp -i Vienna, April ce wed their riot trim Silacia. They wer they posed had by the military, smashed every r of the principal street*, sion between the riot er s ass many conveyed were th# injured hospitals. on 1 . to Brussels. April 23.—A of diplomats, minis of the anti-slavery confers notable persons attended a Opera given in honor lari; of Stanley at house eveninf explorer was vociferously —ffiSr Berlin, April 23. - The ywucu ur txjaccvj be su m ma ri ly May places day filled by holiday. ’7 fi pp re a ■ - oEKUn* A (MTU Tm n* ““"A Francesca Prevosti, a star who has just been ' siderably her in this city, is | appearance in i London, April members are divided in < Mr. Parnell's motion piste explanation l A Harbor at jfsiWbL . te.-. * work to cost |i,756,000. "" * -■**■"£3 ■ a -.s' s Ss|