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4 THE AMERICU8 WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, MAi 8, 189i THE TIMES-RECORDER. Dally and Weekly* Tiif. Amkrious Rkcokoku Kstahi.ishm The Amekiclb Timkh Khtablisiied MW. Consolidated, April, ixoi. SUBSCRIPTION : Daily, One Year, • Dam , One Month, • - Weekly,One Year, - Weekly, Six Month*. • F«»p advert thine rate* addrom* Uahi om Myrk’k. Editor an. THE TIMES rCBLI.SHlNL THE MAVIS MONUMENT The New Orleans Picayune suggests that the old Confederate veterans should organize in every Southern state for the purpose of raising funds for a monu ment to the memory of Jefferson Davis, and that the matter should be called to their attention by hen. John B. (Jordon, the commander of the Confederate Vet erans Association, at the reunion which takes place at Jackson, M’ss., next nut h. Americus, Ga„ May 8, 1891. The Cordelian wants a system of pub lic schools for Cordelc. Tin: I'nited Sta .Mild try ■d with : confront! The iron hi regions grow* evictions ai li glits. Henry Waiter; state of Pennsylvai ing army for the s»i disorders. es and Italy eh other. Both arc i empty treasury, he Pennsylvania coal se each day, and the using some Moody ! The people of tSouth should,as one I man,follow the lead to he set by the vefc- | erans, and erect as a tribute of love one of the grandest monuments ever built to any of the world’s heroes. There were thirteen states in the Con federacy, and there were hundreds of thousands of Southern soldiers and sym pathizers in the non-seceding border state suggests that the maintain a stand- ession of its own According to are HI,(M2 loco States. At the Manual, there j ( >en t uj .Nothing short of a half million dollars should he thus invested, and if every veteran would constitute himself a com mittee of one to raise subscriptions, each Southern state might raise $10,000 to $.">0,000, by letting everybody contribute twenty-live cents up to live dollars, as they might feel inclined. If there ever was a holy duty ineum- in the United to sin the 1,135,00<> freight cars in An uid of 1800 there were t j, e If cheap clothes make a cheap man, as the republicans argue, it is just as fair to assume that the cheap sugar which our children eat makes cheap colic. Tiie nobility of Kugland lias been tackled by the grippe with fatal results in many cases. The grippe is no respec ter of persou and king and peasant alike perform the nasal act. Heavy frosts and ice are reported from the northwest, and the damage to the fruit is groat, while down this way we are enjoying the delightful sunshine and eating fruits and vegetables from the gardens. thousands people of the south, it is levotion to the memory of lan whose sun set behind the lefeat in a cause for which of our people laid down their ABOUT TIIE SPEAKERSHIP. Th** at tacks of the Ht Louis Republic upon Judge Crisp, and 'heir forced effo ts to boom Mr Mills for speaker of thfi next house of representatives are extremely ridiculous. The last Is that bet#of ten to one are offer ed In Washington that Mills will be elect d speaker. The Republic cun get nil the bets ill uke tu Mi. d hi Isp/’ It continues to he lots not iff reformer; liecmo or of the repeal of ; on tobacco: liecaus. the Hlalr hilt; been: •ry, L be elec enthusiastic he lias not been In hs Internal revenu - lie was ready to vote * hs m up.tor ted pro- In Cie id supp * All of which Is the him—another r. riff a hat Judge Crisp o be held to d iy, no on le writer ol i e abov ihi get double as man; militate In the rice, an ■ a certaint y.—At hint Abbeville will have a bank. The organization was perfected hist week, with S. 1*. Lasse ter, president, and S. N. Mitchell, cashier. The capital stock is $50,000 and it will bo a branch of the People’s bank, of Atlanta. The New York legislature failed to make an appropriation for the World’s fair, but it will have an opportunity to do so next year. It will not do for all the states to turn their backs to Chicago. It cannot run the fair alone. President Harrison and party are now in Oregon, and will soon journey towards the east again. In the mean time Blaine is bolding the fort in Wash ington, but all important matters are delayed until Benny’s return. Last Sunday’s issue of the Brunswick ^Times announces a change in the edito rial management. Sam Whitmire retires and McK P. McCook takes charge. W’e regret to lose the one from the editorial craft and welcome the other into the fold. The officers of two banks, one in Now York and the other in Philadelphia, failed to immigrate to Canada after their crookedness, and have been arrested. The charge is making false entries on their books for the purpose of deceiving the bank examiners. Tiie trial of E. A. Underwood for the murder of Alex Sayre, some six weeks ago, was begun in Atlanta Monday. From the facts published at the time of the killing Underwood will probably follow in the track of O/.born, unless something new is developed in the trial. Macon’s water supply is running short and it is now thought that the res ervoir will have to be tilled from the river at a point above the city. The ap pearance is not so good as that from the springs from which the supply is now takeu, but it is said to be just as pure. The Georgia convention for the World’s fair will meet in Atlanta to-day. It will be a notable meeting, and much is expected of it. The foundation for Georgia’s representation at the World’s fair will be laid, and the people of the whole state should sanction the work by substantial support and assistance. It is now stated that if Secretary Proctor resigns to succeed Mr. Edmunds in the Senate President Harrison will give the war poti f olio to General Alger, and thus get bim out of tho way as a ri val for the presidential nomination next year. If Alger lias the bee in his bonne 1 , however, ho will decline to accept tho appointment. Tiie Michigan legislature has adoped a new method of choosing presidential electors. The electors, instead of being elected on a general ticket from the stato at large, will be chosen by districts. Each congressional district will elect one, and tho whole state has been divid ed into two districts, each of which will choose an elector. The effect of this ar rangement will l>e to give the Democrats at least half of the presidential electors. Let a memo ial he erected worthy of the greatness and the self-sacrilico of the chief who led where every southern man and woman followed Let every old soldier rally around the last resting place of ins old chieftain for tho performance of a sacred duty. Let the patriotic women who make green the graves of the sleeping heroes ou memorial day, take up this matter, and add this duty to that which they have obligated themselves to observe as long as time shall last. Let the children of those fatheis, whose boxes lie beneath the sods of a thousand battle fields, from Bull Run to Appomattox, and the children of others more fortunate who survived tho strug gle, take up tho watchword “Honor tc our illustrious dead,” and join hands with the veterans and with tho noble women, who are ever foremost in pa triotic deeds; and altogether determine that the monument shall he built, the grandeur of which can ho measured by the effort put forth by the south acting in harm * nious concert. A monument will, in any event, ho erected, hut it should he such a one as will represent not only the command ing features of the illustrious dead, hut the veneration in which he was held by the people for whom he sacrificed his all. Let’s raise $500,000 in the south by the individual contribution of every man, woman and child in the land. Will the veterans and tho ladies memo rial associations lead off in this enter prise? The school history for southern chil dren should clearly set forth the south ern side of tho controversies that led to the war between the states as its main purpose. It should he a perfectly fair history, and, therefore, should state the northern side of the controversies also; hut the motives and principles that ac tuated the story of their glorious part in that struggle should bo told in a way to make a lasting impression on the minds of the younger generation. A colorless narrative will not answer. The child should he made to understand fully what his father and kinsmen fought for and how well they fought and should he inspired with moro pride in tho history of tho four years of une- ipial war waged by tho southern states in their struggle for Independence than in any other history that ever was writ ten or that ever will he written.—Nows and Courier. The Constitution is right. Judge Chas. F. Crisp will he the next speaker of the house, and the useless attacks of Charles Henry Jones will only tend to make him stronger. It will bring more prominently before the people the splendid work he implished in his almost single hand ed tilts with the tyranical speaker, who occupied the chair in the last House, which alone, if he had done nothing else, would entitle him to recognition at the hands of his party. The cranky utterances of Charles Hen ry will have little weight with the mem bers who compose the next House, and the only possible object of the attack is to keep his own name from sinking into oblivion. But Charles Henry Jones can he for given when it is known that he inherits his insanity. The people of Talbotton, Ga., where he spent the early part of his life, are well acquainted with his family his tory. His father, I)r. John Jones, while a good man, had his peculiarities, which seem to be more perfectly developed iu his s perfectly sound In mind, at least his life at that time was not such as to create that impression, and he was always looked upon as a man who, though learned in his profession—he was a prac ticing physician—was regarded by liis neighbors as out of the usual run, and if lie were alive to-day would he termed a crank. It must be from this source that Charles Henry gets his crazy streak. A ROW OVER THE TARIFF. The Western Commercial Congress, which met recently at Kansas City, end ed in a row over the tariff. The reso lutions composed by a majority of the committee on resolutions and finally passed by a vote of ffd to 55, each state delegation dividing, favored a tariff for revenue only, free, unlimited coinage of silver, and the issue of a sufficient amount of legal tender notes, redeema ble in both gold and silver, “to restore the equilibrium between money and other products." The minority report favored a tariff with incidental protec tion, and the free, unlimited coinage of “American gold and silver in a ratio es tablished by an International Monetary Convention, which shall make the silver j and gold of equal purchasing pow The silver clause of the minority re port was defeated off a viva voce vote and then came the light on the tariff Mr. K. V'. Smalley ot Minnesota, chair man of the committee on resolutions, led the protectionist forces. He said that he had not expected when he accepted the chairmanship that the democrats “would crowd their party platform down his throat.” He charged that the con vention had been packed in the interest of the democratic party, and that its real purpose was to “weld together the dem ocrats and the farmers’ alliance ” Tho charge was vehemently denied and vehe mently repeated, and a debate of more liveliness th in good temper ensued. The representatives of the Business Union of St. Paul, withdrew, and after the pas sage of the majority resolutions, Mr. GEORGIANS ON TIIE SPEAKERSHIP. Congressman Tom Winn drove down from hi« home in Gwinnett yesterday and spent the pay among his friends in Atlanta. I THE FRENCH 31 ASS ACRE. The slaughter of men, women aid ft children at Fourmies, France, by troo I on May day is likely to bring on a serioSJ I eruption among tho laboriny classes r,| | “Yes, I was in Washington,” said he, ; that country. The soldiers claim that I Tor some weeks during the closing days j they were justifiable in firing into th*| of the last congress, and from what I j mob, as they were closely pressed, i Jln | gathered from the old and new members ■ there is no excuse for killing the i B alike I do not think there is any doubt, j cent children, and it seems that th of Mr. Crisp’s election as speaker. Niue- should have been able to repel the i * tenths of the old members I talked with | men without the use of their guns, tj, I said he was by odds the best equipped ; laboring classes, not only at Fourmie* I i for the office. He is conservative, ; hut also in all the labor centers J just, well balanced and a thorough par*; France, are terribly incensed, and active! liamentarian—the very best man in the j preparations are being made toatta^l House for speaker. And he will get it. j the regiment which fired the fatal shot. Gallant Ben Clifton came up from Sa- Dynamite, in large quantities, is bei D I annah and spent the day among his imported from Belgium, and it look | degenerated into a democratic pow wow,” resigned his chairmanship and left the hall. The congress passed reso lutions providing for biennial sessions, hut it is evident that the tariff question will have to he kept out of the debates of future congresses if they are to he successful. JACK THE RIPPER. The recent murder of a woman in New The Doctor was not considered i York after the usual style of Jack the Kipper, and the great sir in police cir cles to catch him leads the Herald to re mark : It is Interesting at this Juncture to recall out* Ido dent In tiie weird and Khiwtly caret* ot Jack tue Kipper. On the last day of Heptembcr PM8, when ho had Mccompllshed his fourth crime, and all London was wild with excitement and fury, lie wrote ou the shutter ot an adjoin ing house these words of warning and de fiance: •T have murdered four, and will murder sixteen more before I surrender inys.lf to the police.” Here was a bold cbsllenge to tiie detectives to And ills biding place, and an Insolent prophecy that he could not ba discovered but would have to make himself known when ills si rang * ta*k was completed. What a inousin-dty lie must be! He itss already killed nine In London, and If this last murder In New York is ids work, then lie is just lialf way to tiie end of bis journey. Tiie man’s make up is simply astounding. The most it rid imagination can hardly eon celve .t such a creature. He is the uevil In carnate, gloating over deeds from which his fellow* recoil, and bousting that he is beyond the reach of possible detection. Hanging is too good for the scoundrel. friends here yesterday. “1 don’t know j very much as if there would be liv e i I anything about polities now,” said lie. times at Fourmies. I ‘Indeed, I have been too busy since the j But whatever the results of the e inquiry! legislature adjourned to think of poll-; are there is no doubt that a feeling 0 f| tics. The legislature can he relied upon | bitterness against the troops, and < to redistrict the state satisfactorily, and against the government, has been arouj.1 and* I shall he perfectly satisfied with I ed that will not he allayed in a long time I what they do. Tlio Brunswick people It will show itself in riots and other labor! seem to want to get a district they can disturbances of one kind and another ft call their own. That is, they want to j In all the labor centers of Franco there! cut loose from Savannah, and I suppose 1 is an unmistakable desire to avenn they will do it. No, I am not thinking j those who were shot to death at Four! about running for congress next time. I j rales, and it is not improbable that the! am young enough to wait, but I am go- killing and wounding of so many met ing on to Washington just before the i women and children will causb a deplor iiext. congress meets, to put in some j able condition of affairs throughou work for Crisp for speaker. He is the France. the biggest man in Georgia to-day, and T 7 777 . : * ■ . * i *i . b . V *, r,IE London Standard, commentinj lie must be the next speaker of the ; . . . , . u *| . „ , , * „ on the Blair incident, says; “Seldoal of the house of representatives. . . , , "P ...... . , . i has a moro ffagrant breach of inter! “What do I think of Crisp s chances? ’ .. , . . . it ‘l u ,, • .1 . * r . , o national courtesies occurred than in thil Smalley, saying that the congress “had said Congressman Kufe Lester, of Sa- . . . - ... . . . 'appointment of Blair as minister to! vannali, who called up to see about that i . ,, , . . .. | ’ 1 , .... i China, and the refusal of tho Chinese! government to receive him has inflicted! a rebuff alike od Hlair and tlio Unitdl the next house of representatives. No, j < ■ Tom Watson’s letter will not injure his . J, ardl ad( , t0 the the popularit M chances in the least. -Atlanta GonstI- P ,. og|dont IIarri80Ui and the Americi J * j who have been snubbed by tho actiosl The rumor is now atloat—and it is j of China will thank neither tho I’resiT based upon good authority for belief, dent nor Blair for having placed the| too—that editor A. I. Branham will re- j country in the wrong. Blair, inthJ tire permanently from tho Georgia field ! course <?f liis public career, has said! of journalism. Mr. Branham is one of ' many unpleasant things about other! contempt case yesterday. “1 simply j feel confident that lie will he speaker of ! HIS SINS HAVE OVERTAKEN HIM. “Old Hutch,” tho Cldcago speculator, has at hast gone to the wall, aud no one in this broad land will grieve that he will no more enter the field of specula tion. His heavy losses in the past two years have about consumed liis immense fortune, and made him a subject for the mad house. He wandered away from liis home several days ago, and on Fri day was arrested at Evansville, Ind., vYliile on his way to Florida, it'is supposed. Old Hutch” has been the terror ol speculators for years, and lias manipu lated the markets in more than one in stance to the sorrow of his neighbors and associates. He was extremely ec centric, and In many ways attracted public attention, not only in his specu lations hut in Ids private life. He cared little for the world or what it thought of liis methods, but accumulated mil lions are nothing to him now,and he will probably spend the remainder of his days in an insane asylum. The Savannah News in speaking of the candidacy of Judge Cricpforthe speakership says: “The prospects of Crisp are much better than those of any other candidate. Ho is conducting liis canvass quietly and with excellent judg ment. The attacks which the friends of other candidates inako from time to time on his record lie meets fairly and squarely, and thus far they have done him no harm. Indeed, there are reasons for thinking that they have done him good, boeauso they have given him a chance to cxplaiu some things which, if unexplained until the last moment, might be used to his disadvantage.’’ The republicans of I’eunsylvauia are glad, doubtless, that G. \V. Dolamater, their candidate for governor at the elec tion last fall, was not elected. Immedi ately after the election I he hank of Meadvillc, of which he was the head, failed. And the failure was one that has never been satisfactorily explained. All the circumstances connected wit i it have an ugly look. The liabilities were about $1,100,000 and the assets look rather slim just now. No city in Georgia can take rank with Americus on improvements in the past two years, and to-day she is rapidly marching onward and gathering new citizens from all parts of the country. Hundreds of new' houses have been built in the past twelve months, and still every a callable mechanic is busy with saw and hammer, and the houses are hardly completed before they are occu pied. The only thing that will keep Americus from being bigger than any other city in Georgia is that she would crowd all other cities outof the state. The Chicago Inter-Ocean says that tlio democratic orators are not making such a tintintabulation about tiu as they did a few months ago. The orators, how ever, pointed out to the people what a fraud the tax on tin plate was, and the latter are now making tho tintintahula- tion which is so disagreeable to the ears of tho republicans. The people are aware of the fact that there is not a pound of tin mined in this country, and the miserable, bulky and course stuff ex hibited at republican conventions as American tin plate is nothing more than American sheet iron covered with tin from Europe, and it was the purpose of McKinley when he increased in liis tariff hill the tax on tin plate to compel the people to purchase the inferior plate made in this country, in order to put millions of dollars in the pockets of a few republicans who are engaged in the manufacture of sheet iron. There will he perturbation among the society ladies of many cities when it be comes known that the custom house de tectives in Now York have made the lar gest capture of Parisian gowns in the history of the special treasury agents’ office. Special Agent Wilbur and his men, in confiscating the costumes, have unearthed a systematic swindle on the government which has contined for yearsand has robbed the revenue of many thousands of dollars in duties and at the same time exposed incompotency at the appraiser’s stores. Tho goods seized consisted of forty-three cases of the finest Paris dresses. They w ere con signed to' fashionable dressmakers In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburg and other cities. The consignor’s agent on this side of the Atlantic has escaped be cause he is now in Europe. the brightest and brainiest men in Geor gia to-day, and liis ability has shown itself wherever it has been carried. In the field of teaching Mr. Branham made a reputation that was most enviable. As a superintendent of public schools he won golden opinions wherever his ser vice was secured. Leaving the profes sion of the pedagogue, Mr. Branham en tered the newspaper business as a re- Mrs. Mary Ann Jackson, widow « General “Stonewall” Jackson, is in Neil York, engaged in writing up a biogr phy of her distinguished husband. New York special states that for manJ porter ou the 'Atlanta’"Cowtltation, ! 5*“™ " ftor ‘1*? 0ener “ r * ,leatl ‘ \ where l.e at once became known as one ! Jf^on steadl y refused all request. | of the best writers in Geor K ia. IIig | g'™ to the public the story of his life. countries. It will ho well If his politic! al friends reward his services in .s-im*! other way than making him ministeru| a foreign court.” work as editor of the Brunswick Times, j ^ 81,0 <=o«ld write it. It was , and later of the Trlbune-of-itomo hag ! “1 their only child, Mrs. Christian finished the climax of his success in the forth estate most splendidly. It will be heard with regret all over Georgia that Editor Branham is to permanently with draw for the state pre^s, where ho has done so very much good work.—Athens Banner. h:| married that she yielded to her request to write tho life of a father she had ne*| er known except by reputation. Mrs. Christian’s death, Mrs. Jackioi has looked upon this as a labor of lovil and has continued the work for kef grandchildren. Tho hook is now c pleted, and will ho published this fiHl The Louisiana Lottery question now | it will ho essentially tho story of Genf goes directly to the people of the state j era i Jackson’s private and domi for decision. The continuance of the | uf e , institution after the expiration of its present lease Is forbidden by the consti tution of the state, hut a hill to change the constitution iu this respect was The question whether Robert Hamilton is alive is again occupvi^ public attention. Hamilton is the n passed by the legislature, and was vetoed ! who - 11 wiU ^ remembercd - I to a scandal in which a $10 baby and by Governor Nichols. The lottery com-. pany contended that tho governor had pi * lme(1 0,1 on him as hl80WD ’, , no right to veto such a bill, and carried \ woman ln tho ca8 ° was sent t0 ,bC * tiie case to tlio supreme court, which i ' unt * ar J r ' , ,,, has now decided in the company’s favor, I lcKcd ,hat he waa <lrowncl1 wh '!, e Ing a swift-tlowing stroam. The ! that was said to be his was buried a ; where it was found. Thomas Cooptr,| throo’jmlges voting that way while two voted against it. The bill, therefore, be comes a law, and nt tlio next general , election the lottery amendments will be ; " ote<1 8»l<le, was present, submitted to the people for their action, j hU body was /ound^and^he Tho present sentiment in tlio state is 1 there ncro circumstancos which led hi * jm.oi.uii nt.utiuu.uh iu tiiu ntitiu Iri , ... . .1 ,>J favorable to tho company, and it is * be hive .hat theibody was not lUI probable that it will receive a large ! Ham,lt<,n - Man * beliovo tba “f j 1 n ' L l> 1 ......... 1!~ n . . Amn ..liter fiiftlfl majority of the votes cast. Editor Gunn, of the C’uthbert Lib eral-Enterprise, comes out this week with a card explaining his connection with tho Northen caucus. He axplains that he was invited and attended, but had nothing to do with passing resolu tions. He does not dischuie what was done in the meeting, further than to say that certain officials were discussed and it was decided to prefer charges be fore the executive committee, but up to this time nothing has been done. Ed itor Gunn's explanation does not throw much light upon the mansion meeting. CONORKSSMAN Dol.I.IVER, OUO of tllO few rcpulicans in Iowa who managed to escape the democratic tidal wave last fall, says that Gov. Boies will have to go at the next election, as the republicans will sweep the state. This borirt was made at Washington a few days ago hut since then lie has no doubt read in the papers that tho farmers are going to put a ticket in the field at the next state election, and that Boies’ chances of suc cess are decidedly more encouraging than those of the republican who will oppose him. Boies has made a good governor, has given his attention to the needs of the farmers, and there is every reason to believe that hundreds of them will vote for him again. One thing is certain, however, and that is, if the democratic ticket is not successful the republican will not be. Hon. W. A. Pkffkh, tlio alliance sen ator from Kansas, expresses himself on the wants of the people as follows: “The people want more money. They do not care much about the tariff; they do not care very much about tho coinage; but want money, and they will not be sat isfied until they have money. So you may set it down that, no matter what republicanism or democratic partisians do for an issue in 1892, the masses of the people who are mustering for tho re bellion which is coming, will talk about little else than money, more money, cheaper money; and that will be the great issue in 1892 and from that time forward, until success crowns the efforts of the masses.” Peffer is right, but what troubles most people is how to get it. is in Australia, or some other forei^ country, and that lie will reappear* tho public has forgotten tho scandal* The arrival of the steamer Erop 1 of India at San Francisco on Tuei from Liverpool, after a voyage of ei| days, L a remarkable feat. The ' touched at Gibraltar, Marseille*. pore, Ismai’ia, Suez, Clomobo, F* Hong Kong, Kobe, Nagasaki and 1 liama. With no deviations from straight course the total distance ersed is over 1(1,.*100 miles. The moil markable part of her run was from koharaa to San Francisco in 10 day*, hours and 34 minutes. The dirt between the two ports is 4,950 miles, which makes the average«P«^ the steamer about 475 miles a day. posing that she kept on the shortest route. It wii.i. be greatly to the credit of the New York police force if the man cap tured in New York a few days ago, known as Frenchy No. 1, turns out, as Inspector Byrnes believes, to he “Jack the Kipper.” The entire police force of London has been trying for two years to capture this interesting individual, without success. Highway butchery cannot go on with impunity in America, as this arrest proves. Ir now appears that the announce ment that Mr. Blaine would not be a candidate for the republican nomination for president against Mr. Harrison was simply a little previousness of son Bus sell through the columns of his own journal. Mr. Blaine remains quiet upon the subject, hut will no doubt speak out as soon as lie decides whether it is safe for him to enter the race. To become president has been the ambition of his life, and he would hardly lot an oppor tunity to gratify it fail. In announcing that he will not he a candidate for tho presidency Mr. Blaine probably feels that it is liis duty to relieve Mr. Harrison on that score, as the latter knows that should the for mer consent to run ho would have a for midable rival, and an unfriendly feeling might arise between the president and Ids premier. If Blaine should become a candidate he would probably resign Ills present position. In his speech before the assembled teachers in Biunswiek, Governor Nor then advocated schools for the training of teachers; and Commissioner Brad well wanted longer terms for the c*>iumon schools. The greatest need of the schools is more money, and when the salary is sufficient to command we will have j better teachers, and abler men and wo men will train for the profession. District Attorney Grant has about concluded his investigation of the na tionality and legal status of tho Italians killed in New Orleans, and, though no official report has been made, it is under stood that only two of them were Italian citizens, and tlioyjwereexpatriated crimi nals. This gives the Italian government little or no grounds for indemnity, and the whole matter will probably end with a few more communications between the heads of the statu department of the United .States and Italy. Put up your I 8ay8: guns. 5 ~ ' tori The expenditures for pension* year ending Juno 30, as now~ 0 ' stated, amounted to $109,3>‘*^ the previous year we paid $87,^" while in the year before that $80,288,508.77. Tho cost of the W army, it may he interesting to for this year estimated at $M*!* Besides our pensions our ainff $30,000,000. Tiie Charleston News and ^ Tho cotton crop of D 1 *" ’ Is in sight to-day, according to ^ Hester, of the New Orleans amounts to the Immense total o ^ Elaborate preparations are being mado at Columbia S. C„ for colobrat- j i.Trhlch' u'YlS.OOO "“"V, ing the centennial anniversary of tl.e the , f the pre cedW ■ Hint meeting of the (jeneial assembly of — ' fJ£ South Carolina in tliat city. The celc-1 Senator Bi.aiii had Id* R' P bration will occupy May 1:1, 14 aud 18, | and had gotten a.s far as Chira^^ and wilt include an oration by General 1 journey as minister to China* ’ - Wade Hampton, a military parade, a , was called back to Washing people’s ball, etc. It is well to celebratu Cblrcse government may do such events, ] it is hardly possible. bee; and Ucci