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SOIILEY COUNTY ENTERPRISE.
A. J. HARP, Publisher.
Federal Figures.
sm«MENT OK THE NATIONAL OEIIT
DURING JAN IT A It Y.
The following is a recapitulation of the
national ilobt statement issued tor January:
Interest-bearing Debt,
Bonds nt 4 1-S )>cr cent .. $250,000,000 00
Bonds at 4 per cent.... .. 737,747,004 00
Bonds at 3 per cent.......... m, i9o,fioo oo
Refunding certificates at 4 per
Navy cent....................... pension 317,803 00
fund at 3 per
Pacific cent....................... railroad 14,000,000 00
bonds at 0
i "'per cent.................... 64,633,512 00
Interest..................... Principal.........».......$1,‘.’00,779,413 11
8,383,930 11
Debt Total.....................; which $1,2(59,063,343 00
on interest has
ceased since maturity:
’ Principal.............. Interest................... ... 8,334,755 26
Total............... 201,179 83
Debt $3,535,934 59
Bearing no Interest.
Old demand aud legal tender
Certificates notes............... . $346,738,096 00
of deposit 14,590,000 00
Gold certificates...... . 115,384,951 00
Silver certificates,.... . 80,761,609 00
Fractional currency, less
lost ■$8,375,954, destroyed estimated as
or 6,959,153 77
Principal........ ....... $573,334,409 77
Total Debt.
Principal....... Interest........ *1,837,438,677 03
8,48.5,109 44
Total....... $1,813,933,686 47
Less cash items
available for
reduction of
the dobt....... 231,451,551 a
Less reserve
Reid for re¬
demption United States of
notes.........100,000,000 00— 331,451,551 33
Total dobt less available cash
Net items.................... .. 1,514,472,135 15
Debt cash cash in the in the Treasury.... Treasury 79,689,863 *34
Debt February 1, 1886....... ... 1.434,782,273 91
less cash in theTreasury
January 1, 1886............ 1,448,454,836 72
Decrease of debt during
the month............ $8,6?2,553 81
Cash in the Treasury.
Available for reduction of
Gold the public held for debt;
actuully gold rertifl-
cates outstand¬
Silver ing.................... held forsilvercertifi¬ $115,284,951 00
cates ing actually outstand-
United States held 80,761,609 00
notes
for certificates of deposit
Cash actually outstanding .... 14,590,000 00
held for matured debt
and interest unpaid......... 11,809,864 70
Fractional currency......... 5,136 63
Total available for reduction
of debt...................... $331,451,551 32
Deserve Fund,.
Held for redemption of
United States notes, acts
Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12,
Unavailable 1882........................ 100 , 000,000 00
for reduction of
the dobt:
Fractional silver
Minor coin........$29,013,993 coin.. 86— 71
Certificates held 531,948 26,545,943 57
as cash.... 58,399,476 Ofl
Net cash balance on hand.. 79,689,862 24
Total cash in theTreasury
as shown by Treasur¬
er’s general account.. $498,986,833 13
The following is a comparative statement
'of the receipts and expenditures of the Uni¬
ted States.
receipts.
January. Since
Customs. Source, $14,492,9.54 1886. July 1, 1885.
90 $110,822,220 37
Internal rev.. 8,214,13190 67,038,070 35
Miscellaneous. 2,030,771 00 14,152,508 86
Total. $24,737,857 80 $191,512,808 48
January. 1885. Since 1884.
j Customs......l $107,093,931 July 1,
54
['Miscellaneous. j Internal rev.. 65,210,532 18,546,854 76 97
Total.....$35,872,128 80 $188,851,319 27
EXPENDITURES.
Source. January. 1886. Since.
Onlmary. $12,278,762 48 July 1, 1885.
IVlI.-MIlS. . $83,202,634 81
Interest ... 1,257,946 91 84,843,846 58
. ... 9,216,421 80 84,854,541 50
Total.....$22,7.53,131 19 $151,401,032 89
January. Since.
1885. July 1,1884.
Pensions. Ordinary .$11,379,119 51 53 $90,273,296 96 00
Interest.. 568,771 29,000,987
. 9,212,533 38 34,901,954 86
Total.......$21,160,424 42 $154,176,33814
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
KTXB. nTlsson has just refused $30,000 for
fifteen concerts in Russia because it is so
Cold.
Miss Kate Field has been giving a very
successful series of lectures and readings in
tlie West.
M. Lasrf.lle, tho great baritone of tin
Paris Grand Opera, is about to quit Paris on
a tour through Europe.
Sol Smith Russel has been doing a good
business on the road this Season with his new
comedy, “Felix McCusick.”
Friends of mtisio in Boston propose to
build an opera house in which grand opera
may be adequately represented.
Edwin Booth is playing and an engagement Bar at
tho Fifth Avenue theatre, Lawrence
L at the Star theatre, New York.
One is reported, of Kate is Chase Sprague’s actress. daughters, It is
to become an
eldest, ami she is reputed a very talented
Bilaying 1 Fanny Davenport says that after a week's
of tho arduous part of “Fedora'’ she
Is perfectly prostrated and “tumbles all to
1
H Sacred evening concerts prevail exten¬
sively in German churches now, just English as ora-
uhurchos. are frequently to be heard in
B Miss Nettie Carpenter, the youthful
Highly American violinist,, after an extended and
successful tour in the larger cities of
England, has returned to London.
■.Lester Wallace has in preparation a
theatre new comedy which he will produce at his
in New York later on in the season,
which he will probably appear himself.
■JvUerr Albert Niemann, the great Ger-
Blau tenor, will represent Herr Gudehus as
Tristan jSmmer—a in the Bayreuth festival plays next
part in which he remains uu-
ailed-
Brecn ISMmk. JUDicwas the cause of a duel bc
two editors in the city of Mexico ou
til" occasion of her recent visit, to the capital
cf the the sister republic. They ilisagroad as to
merits of the actress,
if Bhsical No little world sensation has been violent created in the of
by the protest
Card fiainst i ual-Ar< -hbish op Caverot, of Lyons,
Massenet’s grand opera “Herodiade,”
on Scriptures. the plea of its being a travesty of the
mTinr youngest performer in the London
theatres is the infant that tskes part in the
bai'- song in the last, actof “My Sweetheart ’’
Alld It is eighteen months old. and is the fourteenth
It of a working gunmaker in Edinburgh.
fwought is put to lied every afternoon at four, is
to the theatre at nine, and is in bed
«ain futy, half an hour later, earning for this
it is said, more than its father.
I
DEATH OF GEN. HANCOCK.
THE OR EAT SOLDIER CALLED TO IIIM
FINAL HUNTING PLACE.
The (Sudden Demise of the (Senior Major
General of (he United Minted Army.
General Hancock’s death was the result of a
malig nant carbum 1* on ths back of bis seek,
which had confined him to bed for several
dsys. No serious alarm was felt, however,
until shortly before ho expired.
In front of No. 8 Governor’s Island, an or¬
derly on fiiesdav was pacing to and fro. It
was the late residence of Major-General Win¬
field Scott lianoock, who had died therein at
2.35 o'clock. If the general had lived until
the 14th day of the present month he would
have completed his sixty-second year, having
been born at Norristown, Pennsylvania, Fub-
ru ary 14th, 1824. In the second story fron
room, furnished with soldier-like simplicity,
lay the remains of a general who,as the guards
remarked, had led the troops to more battlei
than any of his military contemporaries. The
death of General Hancock was a surprise
to his family—it was a shock to them as to his
friends.
Twenty days ago he started on business con¬
nected with the department of the Atlantic to
Philadelphia, and tin where he remained two days,
ington n proceeded to Washington. In Wash¬
a boil developed on the back of bis neck.
It. was lanced on January 30th, and as the
general was much inconvenienced by its pres¬
ence, he returned to New York several days
sooner than be had designed. During the
first week of February ths boil developed into
s malignant carbuncle, which prevented rest
or Dr. sleep.
Janeway was called in attendance, and it
was not until marked weakness had resulted
from the presence of the carbuncle that the
surgeon discovered that General Hancock was
offering from diabetes. Dr. Jane'vay celled
in consultation Dr. Sutherland, medical di¬
rector of the departmeut, and Dr. D. M. Stiin-
son, of New York. The medical men conclu¬
ded Monday that tho case was assuming a very
serious form. At 10 o’clock Monday night, be¬
fore going away, Dr. Janeway found his pa¬
tient in good spirits and able to assist himself,
and he left him apparently improved and in
charge of Hospital Steward Itobinson. At
6:45 Tuesday morning Mrs. Hancock dis¬
patched an orderly for Dr. Janeway, as ’Ttie ’she
feared the genoral was sinking rapidly.
doctor came speedily, and found tho general in
a comatose etate, with feeble pulse and all the
premonitory symptoms of death. The doctor
summoned the two physicians already named.
Hypodermic injections of brandy and ether,
and of carbonate of ammonia and brandy,
were administered. These, however, only alle¬
viated the suffering of the soldier, who gradu¬
ally sank away until death was touched at 2:35
p. nt., as stated.
THB HOUR OF DEATH.
In the words of Dr. Janeway, “the general
went down, to the close of his life like a person
descending a flight of stairs.” When death
came three physicians and the hospital stew¬
ard only were present. Mrs. Hancock was
then in the adjoining room. The general
leaves his widow and three grandchildren, two
girls and one boy, named Mara, Ada and
Gwynne, the issue of the general’s son Kusseli,
who died December 26, 1884, and whose loss
the general has ever since mourned. Major-
General Whipple will assume command of the
department, supported president hy Lieutenant-Colonel
Jackson, Hancock’s until the from shall appoint Gen¬
eral successor Generals Scho¬
field, Terry or Howard.
The telegram announcing the dangerous ill¬
ness of Genera! Hancock was received by the
president the about cabinet, 1 p. then m. Tuesday, and was
read to in session. Jnst aft¬
er the oabinet adjourned, a second telegram
a os received at the white house conveying the
intelligence of his death. The president was
informed and the flag on the white house was
placed at half mast. The president soon after
issued the following executive order :
Executive Mansion, Washington, February
9, 1886, 4 o’clock p. m.— The tidings of the
death of Winfield Soott Hancock, senior major
general of the army of tho United States, has
just been received. A patriotic and valiant
defender of his country, and an able and heroio
soldier, a spotless alike with accomplished gentle¬
man, crowned the laurels of military
ronown and the highest tribute of his fellow-
countrymen to his worth as a citizen, he has
gone to his reward. It is fitting that every
mark of public Therefore, respect it is should be paid to his
memory. now ordered by the
president that the national flag be displayed at
half mast upon all buildings city of the executive
departments in this until after his funeral
shall have taken place.
Daniel 8. Lamont,
Private
<;EN. HANCOCK’S CARKER.
General Hancock and his twin brother,
Hilary, were bom oil St. Valentine’s Day,
February 14, 1824, in tho little town of Mont¬
gomery That Square, about Montgomery the time General county, Winfield Penn.
was
Scott’s name Franklin was on everybody’s Hancock, tho tongue, and
Benjamin his general’s
patriotic the father, of gave the one sturdy of old new-born hero of
sons name
Lundy’s Lane. General Hancock’s father
was a school teacher, who afterward studied
law and became a sound and respected mem¬
ber of the bar. He personally suj>erintended
the education of his sons for some time after
they became old enough to receive book in¬
struction, ristown academy, but subsequently where they sent remained them to until Nor¬
Winfield was appointed to the military acad¬
emy at West Point.
Hancock entered the academy July 1, 1840.
XJ. S. Grant, Geo. B. McClellan, Kosecrans,
Lyon, Longstreet and “Stonewall” Jackson
wore cadets there at that time. „.
As a brevet second lieutenant of the Mxtu
Infantry he was stationed at Fort Tawson,
near tlie Red River an the border of Texas
In 1846 he received his commission,as rejpment second sta¬
lieutenant to a company of his
tioned on the Mexican frontier. On the hi cak¬
ing out of the war with Mexico, Instead of be¬
ing sent to the front as he desired. Lieutenant
Hancock was ordered to Newport, After Ky.. repeated bat¬
ra< iks to do recruiting duty. ordered to tne
applications ho was at last
scene of the conflict and Landed at \ era
Cruz in time to take partm General lierces
advance to reinforce Scott at Puebla. In
this campaign he was in three engagements, wounded.
nnd For his in one gallantry of them on ( he was field slightly at the battle of
Melina del Rey he was breveted first lieu-
On his return home after the war Hancock
was ordered to the upper Mississippi, and re¬
mained t here until 1*49. In 1850 he was or¬
dered to St. Louis, where he remained five
years and where he married his wife,
who was a Miss Russell, the
daughter of ft St Louis merchant
In 1855 Lieutenant, Hancock was appointed and
quartermaster wilh the rank of captain,
was sent, to Florida, where the trouble with
the Seminole Indians was tieginuing. He re¬
mained at Fort Myers in that State untiU857,
and it was in this Ada year Elizabeth, awl at Fort who Myere died
that his daughter, His Russell Hancock,
in 1875, was born. son,
was born in St.. Louis in 18.(0.
From Florida Hancock was sent to Kansas,
where the troubles over the slavery question
were in progress, and from Kansas he went
with the expedition in 1858 against the Mor¬
mons, who were manifesting an ambition to
throw off allegiance to the government at
Washington and setup for themselves. From
the latter part of 18.5 until the breaking out
of the civil war, Captain Hancock was sta¬
tioned at lids Angeles, Cal. He was still
ing had in done the capacity uninterruptedly of quartermaster, since he went as
Florida.
ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1880.
When tho news of tho realty critical stato
of affairs had made its two months’ journey
by Hancock way of Panama asked to California, oallod Captain Bust
at once to be
and was gratified. He landed at New
York on the 4th of September, 1801, Washington, aud pro-
ceeded at once to
not even stopping to see his
.. _ his and from
parents, who were near route,
whom he Hancock had been separated then thirty-eight for many years.
General was years
old, and he had been so successful in his ad¬
ministration of the quartermaster depart¬
ment that he general was nt first and appointed assigned a
quartermaster General - Robert Anderson’s
to com-
mand in Kentucky. But General
McClellan knew the young officer’s
fitness for duty of n more active kind, and
personally urged that he by be made of a brigadier President
general, which was done order
Lincoln, his commission !>eing issued on the
23d of September, 18(51. Gen. Hancock nt
once set about the task of aiding to organize
the confused masses of volunteers
who w’ere then the nucleus of what
was afterward the army of the Potomac into
something like military shape. Tho talent he
displayed in this quickly of attracted 1863 his attention, brigade
ant 1 when in the spring between the James
landed on the peuinsula
river and Ohreaiieake bay, which was the
scene of the first grand operations the of the
army of the Potomac, it was hy far most
complete and effective of any in the army.
The first serious struggle in which General
Hancock engaged was that of Williamsburg,
where be won distinction by his tact nnd per¬
sonal courage. By a feigned retreat he led the
enemy in pursuit, and then turned on them
with a furious musketry fire. It was here that
lie gave his oft-quoted command. “We must
give them the bayonet, gentlemen.” and it
was here that the first colors captured by the
army of the Potomac were taken General
klcClellon personally thanked the regiments
of Hancock’s brigade for their gallantry on
this occasion.
From this time on General Hancock fol¬
lowed the fortunes of the army of the Poto¬
mac under McClellan, Burnside, McClellan
again, and then fighting Joe Hooker, steadily
growing in prominence until, at the
battle of Gettysburg, be loomed tip
as one of the most conspicuous figures
among those whose coolness and cour¬
age saved that great Union victory from tho
disaster of Iteing a great Union defeat. Gen¬
eral Hancock was severely wounded in the
thigh in this conflict. A musket ball passed
through his saddle, bending a wrought and iron
nail about it as it went, both hall nail
penetrating General Hancock’s body,
This wound was a source of seri-
ous trouble to General Hancock during his
campaign under General Grant, nnd during
the battles of the Wilderness compelled him
at one time to retire temporarily from com-
mand. This was the only injury General
Hancock received during the war, though he
took part in the fiercest engagements of a l
the sanguinary Virginia horse campaign. under At
Ream's station he had a shot him.
The engagement at Boydton was the last
which General Hancock fought with the Sec¬
ond Army Corps, of which be had long had
command. After that engagement he
received orders from Secretary Stanton
to report nt Washington, duty where he
was assigned to the of organizing conqtosed
tho first veteran corps,
of men .who had served two years. He was
subsequently put in command of the army of
the Shenandoah. 100,000 men, at Winchester,
in which command he remained until
the assassination of President Lincoln, in
April 1865 On the 23<1 of that, month
Gen. Hancock took command in Washington
and remained there during all the exciting
times that followed up command to the hanging the division of Mrs.
Surratt. He was in of
of the Atlantic in 1868, when his name was
first prominently mentioned in connection
with the presidency. The Democratic con¬
vention which nominated Seymour gave on
one vote 144 voices for Hancock. In 1869 Gen.
flancock was relieved of the command of
jhe division of the Atlantic and assigned to
he division of Dakota, where he remained
mtil 1872, w hen he was again put in oom-
nand in New York. In 18f8 his hoadquar-
ers were removed from New York to Gov-
irnor’s fn Island, where he afterward resided,
1880 he received the Democratic nomina¬
for the presidency against General Gar-
and had 1.55 votes in th# electoral col¬
against Garfield's 214.
General Haneoek’s last appearance in pub¬
was when, under the orders of the secre¬
of war, he directed the national cere¬
attendant upon General Grant’s fu¬
and commanded the United States
and naval forces taking part there¬
No one figure was more striking in the
procession that of marched the soldier to who Riverside
than that was so
to follow his old commander to the
General Hancock’s son, Russell Hancock,
Married Miss Gwynn, of Louisville, A Ky., he and
secame a cotton planter. year ago died
Most unexpectedly. General and Mrs. Han
jock’s affections lieeame centered in their
{randehildren, boy and of girls. whom In there were dead three, hero’s
me two the
nome these youngsters reigned supreme, and
the 'amily boy especially, the 1 (earing his mother’s
sye.” name, was very “apple of his
General Hancock leaves no property, real
m personal, of lived any great intrinsic value, hav¬
ing always of $7,500 generously and spent his
tnnnal supposed, pay as a major-general. It
is indeed, that his wife’s estate has
oecome so reduced that it will amount to
lomparatively little.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
No LESS than *1,500,000 is needed to finish
the capitol at Albany, N. Y.
American iron-ship builders say there will
be large increase in their business this year.
Fifteen thousand children under fourteen
years of ago work in New Jersey factories.
Knowvillk, Tenn., is built over a cave,
and occasionally the bottom of a street drops
out.
There are twenty-three cotton mills in
course of erection in the South, at a cost of
$3,000,000.
The New York Cremation company, of
New York city, capital stock $25,000, has
been incorporated.
The experiment of clearing away been snow¬
drifts by means of natural gas has very
successful at Pittsburg.
There are eighteen soldiers’orphan schools
in Pennsylvania on which the State has ex¬
pended $8,000,000 since 1865.
It is said that Shanghai shipped 500,000 pounds to this
country last year not less than
tea.
Messrs. Moody and Sankev have ar¬
ranged to visit Mobile, New Orleans, Mem¬
phis and other important points South.
There has been a fearful destruction of
game birds in Virginia, thousands of pheas¬
ants, partridges and doves haring perished
from cold.
It is reported that an extensive steel manu¬
facturer of Sheffield, England, w ho employ
3,000 men, is about to transfer his works to
this country.
An English paper says that the Hindoos
are complaining about the poor quality ot
idols furnished them by the Birmingham
manufacturera.
There were only two cases of varioloid
and ono of smallpox in the United States
army last year, Vaccination was earned
out with groat regularity.
A company has been formed in Buffalo,
N. Y., to supply that city with natural gas
from the gas-fields of Pennsylvania for heat¬
ing and illuminating purposes.
The sultan has engaged t wo German apoth¬
ecaries, to devote themselves exclusively to
his service, at $5,000 a year each, with board
and lodgings in the palace gratis.
From the commencement of the cholera
epidemic in Spain to the last reported day oi July, the the
number of cases of cholera by
Spanish officials was 114,740, of which 63,973
proved fatal.
SENATE ANO EXECUTIVE,
IVKAKfiMNU OVER TH1K QUESTION
OF OFFICIAL REMOVALS.
Crsslutlona Introduced In Open MenuIe
on Both Sides.
Another step toward a public discussion of
the controversy between the President and
the Senate as to the respective rights of the
executive aud legislative branches of the
government in the matter of suspensions and
removals of Federal officers was taken on the
2d, when Senator Riddleberger intro¬
duced tlie following rest...Lion in the Senate:
Resolved, That it is the sonso of the Sennte
that the Executive of tho United States is
not moving restricted by constitutional law’ in tho re¬
Senate has or suspending right appointees; require that that
no to reasons
shall be given for such removals or suspen¬
sions; that it is tho right of the the Senate to call
forauy paper relating to conduct of re¬
moved or suspended appointees, or to the
qualification presented and fitness tho of all persons whose
names aro to Senate for con¬
firmation or rejection, comply ami with it is the demands duty of
the executive to all
for the s«nie.
Mr. Riddleberger briefly explained that his
ob ject in offering the resolution was to bring
about an open discussion of its subject. It
did not, lie said, involve tho question of the
so-called high prerogatives of the Senate, and
had nothing to do with the subject
of open or secret sessions. Be-
fore Mr. Itiddleberger had finished his ex¬
planation Mr. Cockrell was on his feet
ready to object to the present consideration
of the resolution. Mr. Riddleberger re¬
marked that he hadn't the slightest objection
to a little delay, and then Mr. Pugh an¬
nounced that he wanted to offer a substitute
for the resolution, but was not then ready.
Later in the day Mr. Pugh presented the fol¬
agreed lowing that series they of resolutions, and Nr. Riddleberger’* and it was
proposition should be printed and laid qver:
First—That the executive power is ex-
press) President y vested by United the constitution in the
of the States, so that he
shall take care that tho laws be faithfully
executed.
Second—That the power of appointment to
Federal office is an executive power, to be ex¬
ercised by the President under the limitation
in the constitution that he shall nominate and
by Senate and shall with appoint. the advice and consent of the
Third—That the power of removal or sus¬
pension from the powers and duties of Fed¬
eral office is also an executive power vested
exclusively in tho President without any such
limitation in the constitution as is imposed
thereby on the power of appointment, and
for its exercise he is responsible alone to t he
people, and not to the Henate.
Fourth—That the right of the President to
make nominations to the Senate and of the
Senate to advise aud consent thereto are each
separate and President independent and Senate rights to be exer¬
cised by separately the independently respectively
ami ‘ and within
their absolute discretion, but in relation to
the person or persons so nominated the
Senate may request information of the Presi¬
dent affecting the character or qualifications
of those as to whoso appointment the he asks the
ail vice and consent of Senate.
Fifth—That when the President makes
nominations to the Senate of persons to be
appointed by him to exercise the powers and
duties of Federal officers who have been re¬
moved or suspended by him no law, public
duty, or public policy requires the that he shall
send or communicate to Senate any
cause, reason, or information within his own
knowledge or contained in any IcR
dressed ters, petitions, papers, member or documents ad¬
to him or any of h is cabinet,
or in the possession of either, and relating to
the subject of removals or suspensions, or
containing thereof charges, for making' causes or reasons and •
proofs suspensions, and law, public such duty removal'
no or p .o-
lic policy such requires information or authorizes the Senate t ,
call for existing in any s\ eh
form from the President or any member of
his cabinet, to enable the Senate to review or
question the action of the President in exer¬
cising his executive, of removing discretionary, susiiencling or exclu¬ Fed¬
sive power or
eral officers from the powers mid duties of
their offices, or to put the President on trial
by the Senate or to enforce accountability to
the Senate for anything he may have done in
the exercise of such jurisdiction.
Sixth—That to obtain information con¬
sidered by either house of Congress useful in
passing necessary and proper laws, either
house of Congress may request the President,
if not deemed by him incompatible with the
public his knowledge interest, to give contained any information in with¬ pnb-
in or any
lic document or records on file or in
the lawful custody of any of the
departments and relating to the administra¬
tion of any public affecting office, the or offii the ial official con¬
duct or acts conduct or
duties of any public officer; but for the Sen¬
ate to make such request of the President, or
to direct any member of his cabinet to trans¬
mit to the Senate any information or any
public tive documents or papers in open or execu¬
session to enable the Senate in open or ex¬
ecutive session to review the propriety or the
reason or the information upon which he
acted, or may have acted, in making removals
or suspensions, would be an attempt to obtain
such information by false pretenses and for
uses and purposes not authorized or justified
by States, any aud law should or public the President policy of the United
grant such
request or require any members ol
his cabinet to obey such dD
reetion from the Senate, when deemed by
him to 1(0 made for such unjustifiable nnd
unlawful uses and purposes, would l»e to rec¬
ognize aud enooumge an improper his practice exclu¬
aud an injurious innovation upon
sive and independent rights, powers and
dutif s as President of tho United States.
Geronimo Caves In.
I!!; t I’At’HE Cl! IKK AND HIS FOLLOW¬
ERS MJKHKNDKK.
Additional news from the seat of war con
firms the report of the Apache chief Goron
imo’s unconditional surrender to the United
States troops. The war has been in progress
since may, 1885, and troops have been in the
Southwest field since the 22d of that month
It has been one of the hardest wars on th®
regular service that ever occurred in tho
West. the None but those realizo acquainted the
with country can
hardships. The Indians were fully
equipped, and wli >rt their horses’ feet became
tender on long marches they iron, made rawhide
siioes, almost as durable as and were
thus enabled to distance the pursuing the cavalry. Indians
Being familiar with the country
led the soldiers a weary and uncertain chase.
They divided into small bands and raided
in all directions kill the Coming to a ranch, they
would settler and his family, mutilate
the victims beyond recognition, steal provi- Gero-
sious and drive off all the horses. Chief
liimo with was his the baud first to of go on bucks. the war-path They
were Chirieuaha Chaehise's celebrated Apaches, tlie from rem¬
nant of fighters
San Carlos agency, in Arizona. The tribe
was always warlike, (t never lived on the
reservation proper, but under the control of
tho agency. The Chiricahuas were scattered
through the mountains within the limits of
the reservation number. so that From it was all impossible to there tell
t he exact account*
most have been nearly a hundred.
Otreiul esti rites place the number of those
who were killed by these fiends during their
last raid at 170. Many of the killed were
W J ; 1 •l East. hivin If ' the highly people respected ol Now connections Mexico and
ia tho
Arizona Gcroui.no ar>3 and permitted hiafellows to will have be hanged. their wa y t
THE NEWS.
Interesting Happenings from nil Points
EASTERN ANO MIDDLE (STATES.
A cutter belonging to tho ocean steam¬
ship Donau was nlu down by a tug in the
North, river at New York, aud the eleven
men lnt bo small boat were thrown into the
water. Midshipman Kerseh, tho officer in
charge of tho cutter aud live soauieu were
drowned,
The Connecticut lower house has passed a
resolution appropriating $19,090 for a monu¬
ment over the grave of tho revolutionary
hero, General Israel Putnam.
A dynamite magazine at a shaft on the
new New’ York aqueduct exploded the other
night w'ith terrific force. A watchman was
killed, and much damage was done to prop¬
erty within a radius of a quarter of a mile.
Samuel Williams, a farmer, and his wife
were burned to death in their dwelling at
Trenton, N. Y.
The New York horse-car conductors and
drivers have been successful in a strike for a
reduction in the hours of labor to twelve
hours a day.
A train at Butler. Penn., dashod into a
sleigh containing Christian Daubenspeck. his
wife and a Mrs. Harper,smashing the vehicle
to pieces and fatally injuring all three oecu-
James Clarke, a refractory prisoner in
the Riverview penitentiary, Pittsburg, stali-
bed and seriously injured three of the keep¬
ers.
SOUTH 4NI> WEST.
A FIRE at Jackson, Miss., destroyed the
princij>al hotel, the bai k and several store¬
houses, involving a lost of $100,000.
A snowslide near Breckenridge. hundred feet Cal., of
buried three men undei a
snow and rock.
The flames have consume! a large railroad
freight house, together with much freight
and twenty-five or thirty cars, at Grand
Haven, Mich., causing an estimated loss of
$250 000.
revival in a hall at Dora.Ind., brother-in-law, when Charles he was
shot dead bv his
Pnvey. In the confusion Mrs. Oates dropped
her baby, and it was trampled to death.
The Ritzinger Brothers’ bank.a private in¬
stitution at Indianapolis, Ind., has failed for
about $450,900. Many of tho depositors are
poor Gen nans.
In a collision between two engines near
Rtaunton, Va.. Fireman Gillinfs was instant¬
ly killed and four other men seriously in¬
jured.
The Deadwood and Rapid tbe City (Dakota) place
mail stage was robbed near latter
and the registered letters carried off.
Bolling Parker, of Nansemond county,
Va., while insane killed bis sister and fatally
wounded his wife with an axe.
A rabid dog in Parsons, Kan., bit several
persons, young and old, a few horses aud
many dogs before it was killed.
White workmen on the Pacific coast are
boycotting Chinese labor so effectually that
thousands of Chinamen have been discharged.
Preparations to semi large numbers of unem¬
ployed Chinamen buck to China are under
way.
Miss Lotto a Perkins is suing E. J. Bald¬
win. the California millionaire, in the
Ansreles (Cal.) courts for $500,000 for breach
of promise of marriage.
The alleged discovery of silver on a farm
c Ynttaville, Ohio, has produced groat laud has ex¬
doubled citement in that neighborhood, aud
in value.
WASHINGTON.
Tn>" President and Miss Cleveland nnd
meni.;«rs of the cabinet with their wives oc-
he ompanied family residence the remains of of Secretary Mrs. Bayard Bayard from to
the railroad depot, whence the casket was
put upon a train for removal to Wilmington,
D;;., where the interment took place.
.General David Hunter, of the United
States army (retired), died a few days since
in Washington, aged eighty-four years.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has granted a writ of error to review t he
legality of the conviction Illinois of a prisoner—the bank—who
defaulting cashier of an
had beenlddnapped in Peru.
CnficF Geronimo, the notorious Apache
chief, has surrendered to the United States
troops.
The commissioner of pensions for the says the lisca* es~
timated cost of pensions next
year is $7.5,800,000.
James H. Hough, a member of tho United
States secret service detective force, shotand
instantly killed himself at his residence in
Washington. No cause was assigned for
the act.
A Washington dispatch says that “the
decision of the House committee ou oxpendi-
tures in the department of justice that it has
no authority under the Hanback resolution
ernment’s to go beyond expenditures the simple question the telephone of tho gov¬
in cases
will lead to the ordering of another investiga¬
tion. It is proposed by some members to go
into the entire history of all the telephone
cases, the Bell, Pan Electric,aud the rest, and
ascertain how far officers of the government
under the present and preceding adminis¬
trations have been involved.”
The House committee on commerce has
agreed to report of commission favorably a of bill three for (hi visit ap¬
pointment Mexico, the a Central American states to and
Brazil for the purpose of investigating the
methods pursued in these countries ft. the
protection of the people against yellow fevw.
Foreign.
A MUTINY occurred among tho boys on
board a reformatory ship at Liverpool, the
lt.ds at a signal attacking the officers with
firearms and other weapons. wounded Eighteen before lioys the
and two officers were
mutiny was checked.
George L. Lorillard, a noted American
sportsman, died a few days ago at Nice,
Franco, aged forty-three years.
There are fears of a revolution in Spain.
The French chamber of deputies have
voted that ttie crown jewels shall be sold for
the benefit of aged laboring men.
FURS AND BKINM.
A HeulibrCondition of (be Ylnrket In All
Kinds of Skin* and Furs Krporied,
Latest reports state that for furs and skins
in the New York market there has been a
good demand and prices are ruling higher
and firm on most kinds:
North, West South HB'l
No. 1 quality and Hast, Sonthvof 00 t.
Fisher....... $5 h« ojill (1(1 *5 h0t<($4
“X .Sd 12 OOto SO 00 8 00 1 o' 4 "h
Yearlings..... 4 onto s oo a Ohio 5 'll!
otter, each............. 4 soto 8 00 8 onto n oo
Heaver, per lb. 3 one 4 00 s Mto 2 (lit
Mink.................. .. 40to i no Bfito *h
J\ed fox............ .. 1 unto 1 75 Sftte 1 00
Grey Fox. ......... .. 1 30to 1 75 8#t0 1 80
Kaccoon,each...... b'-ack....... .. 75tO 1 OU 30 4(ltO 1 80 15
Skunk, .. 1 25'JO 1 90IO 70
Bkuuk. Skumc, striped...... half-striped. 7.’.to ' 45 85 85(0 55to 10
.. 40 to
hkunk, white....... 15(0 so 1«© 15
Opoesum oat) Uto 17 «o IS
Muskrat, tV....... 9 to 12 rti, 8
Muskrat, winter.... Mto 17 !2tO ’5
Two Men Killed.
At .. the Mecklenburg ironworks . . in . ... h&rlot u,
N. C., Wednesday afternoon, J. Springs and
will Aiistin, both colored, were instantly killed
^tcolored the falling of die elevator, and S. Brown,
was ’adly injured,
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
The Winter Harvest.
In winter somo things grow quiokly,
As I have found;
It does not take long for the harvest
Tooover the ground.
At sunsot tho onrth is bare as oan be,
And in one night,
With snow-fi iwors sparkling, bloom upon
bloom,
The ground is white.
They giow on tho roofs, they grow on the
trees,
And the tallest steeple
Holds a snow-lily aloft to show
The little people.
oh, is not winter a happy lime
For young and old ?
But the poor—they shiver at the snow-flowers:
They are so cold!
— Youth’s Companion.
The Mmtto of Nllence.
You have often heard “It takes two
to make a quarrel.” Do you believe
it? Ill tell you how one of my
little friends managed. Dolly never
came to see Marjorie without a quar¬
rel. Marjorie tried to speak gently,
but no matter how hard she tried,
Dolly finally made her so angry that
she would soon speak sharp words,
too.
“Oh, what shall I do? - ’ cried poor
little Marjorie.
“Suppose you try this plan,” said
her mother. “The next time Dolly
comes in, seat yourself in front of the
Ur. and take the lungs In hand.
Whenever a sharp word comes from
Dolly, gently snap the tongs, without
speaking a word.”
Soon afterward in marched Dolly
to see her little friend.
It was not a quarter of an hour be¬
fore Dolly’s temper was ruffled and
her voice was raised, and ns usual she
began to find fault and : cold. Mar-
j u ie llew to the hearth and seized the
tongs, snapping them gently.
Mote angry words from Dolly.
Snap went the tongs.
More still. Snap!
“Why don’t you speak?” screamed
Dolly in a fury.
Snap went the tongs.
"Speak!” said she.
As snap was the only answer, Dolly
cried out: “I’ll never, never come
again, never!”
Away she went. Did she keep her
promise? No, indeed! She came the
next day, but seeing Marjorie run for
the tongs, she solemnly said if she
would only let them aione they would
quarrel no more for ever and ever.—
Illustrated Christian Weekly.
it he Advent (ire of a IHouseu
A mother-mouse, when her children
had nearly reached the age when it
became time for them to seek their
own fortunes in the world, cautioned
them particularly against the traps
and dangers that would lie in their
paths. “My children,” said she, “the
cheese looks very tempting, and is
even sometimes toasted, but beware of
it; for it will bring misfortune to
you.”
One time the whole family of young¬
er mice came upon a trap. “This, I
suppose,” said (he eldest nnd wisest,
“is the trap against which our mother
so carefully w’arned us. And yet,”
continued lie, “the cheese looks very
tempting. I doubt extremely if there
be any real danger in it. And evep if
there be, I think that, by a proper
amount of self-control and wariness,
one might avoid all ill consequences.
Because some have been caught, it
does not necessarily follow that a like
fate must overtake all. At least I
shall inspect the trap to satisfy my¬
self whether there is really as much
danger in it as our mother said. You
know, she is apt to be over-cautious
very often.” And with :his remark,
in spite of the urgent warnings of his
brothers, the over-wise mouse deliber¬
ately entered the trap.
“I cannot see,” said he, when he was
within, “that there is any real dan¬
ger, aDd it is very pleasant here. One
need not eat of the cheese, you know.”
But even as he spoke the delicious
smell of the cheese overcame his cuu-
tion; he concluded there could be no
danger in taking the smallest nibble.
No sooner, however, had he touched
the tempting morsel, than the trap
fell and he was a prisoner.
“Alas!” said he to his weeping
mother, who had hastened to the trap
upon learning the fate of her son, “I
now discover, when it is too late to
repent, that the experience of age is
safer than the presumptuous wisdom
of youth. — St. Nicholas.
A Mirage.
Something akin to a mirage may
often be seen at L;tke Griffin, Fla. If
one looks north across tho lake from
the south, as a rainstorm is approach¬
ing from either north or'south, he will
see the timber and other objects at the
north end stand out in bold relief as if
y ie y were in tho middle of the lake
half the distance they really are
a wav. The change is striking and un-
accountable.- . , , -Bartow D ± / {bla.) n, N Inform- r »
unt.
VOL. 1. NO. 21.
To-day..
pbe sunshine lingers in tho room,
I see it through the window dream,
Kissing the pillow, where he laid
His hoad, in many a boyish dream.
But, oh! tho ohango since yesterday—
Tho young, strong step that so I miss, ■ ■
Tho weary miles now strotehing on
Between us, and my last fond kiss.
Ai.d mine had boon a different plan,
A drenm of sheltered brooks and bowers,
Of toil and pleasure hand in hand,
Of home and friemla and merry hours; ,
But ho had longed to try the world,
its hopes, its promises, its cares, ii
To tempt Dame Fortune’s fickle smile,
And win her to him unawares.
And so, with spirit bold and brave,
He pressed my hand in mute good-by,
And turned aside, lest X should see
The tears that glistened in bis eye.
And my poo- heart wss aching sore.
He might have heard each throb of pain;
My questioning hoart that yearned to know
If I should meet my boy again.
Oh. life is hard* The common lot
And parting wring tho anguished heart.
But, oh' how differently we’d choose,
Yet see onr fondest hopos depart!
Wo take the burden wo would fain
Isiy down, and fold our weary iiunds,
Proving our loss may be his gain,
Trusting to Him who understands.
— Every Other Saturday.
HUMOROUS.
Good r.t a pinch—A tight shoe,
A fine art—Presiding over a police
court.
Tho successful author has a fortune
in his own write.
Auctioneer (selling town property)’
•Why, gentlemen, the very atmos¬
phere’s worth the money ”
Iowa encourages men to quarrel and
becomo sick by employing 5 women
lawyers and„122 women doctors.
Jt is given a reasou why lawyers
charge such enormous fees that their
career is a brief one, at the longest.
•.Nervous girl” wants to know how
..-cure a tickling sensation about the
face, Get him to shave off his rnous-
tache.
Imitation cod liver is now made in
Paris. What anybody wants to imi-
tate tho stuff for is a mystery. Some¬
thing as unlike it as possible would be
more taking.
“Something now in butter dishes, I
see," said Mrs. Pompano as sho
glanced over the advertisements.
“What is it?” asked Pompano eagerly.
•Good butter.”
A Boston oculist advortises to sup¬
ply “cork nose spectacles.” Without
being positive wo presume that spec¬
tacles for cork noses are the same as
those for the ordinary kind of noses.
In Spain tho natives keep guinea
hens about their houses for the sake
of enjoying their harsh and discordant
cries. 'This would 3eem to indicate
that they have no street bands in
Spain.
_
Undei clothing.
.Saya Dr. Wm. A. Hammond. “Tho
chief object of underclothing is the re¬
tention of the natural heat of tho body
ii such a way that low temperatures
and sudden changes will not affect tho
surface. Several years ago I perform¬
ed some experiments which went, to
show beyond any doubt that silk is
below wool in its power to prevent
tho loss of heat from the body, and
very little superior to cotton. Indeed,
nothing is in this respect, preferable to
wool, and of this material all under¬
clothing meant for winter use should
be made. In summer a mixture of
wool and cotton, called merino, may
bo worn, but even in very hot weather
Rilk is not desirable, for it is not such
a ready absorber of the perspiration as
wool, and allows the body to be kept
in a state not very remote from t“at
kuown as parboiled. Wool, however,
taking up, as it does, the moisturo
from the body, exposes it to the atmos¬
phere. or is evaporated, and, tho pro¬
cess being a cooling one, keeps ths
skin from being overheated. No un¬
derclothing should ever be so thick ns
to prevent free ptusago of the cuta¬
neous excretions *nd the atmospheric
air. The skin requires ventilation as
do the lungs. Chamois-skin undor-
garinents, “perforated” or unperforat
ed, aro abominations.
The Largest Nugget ol Gold.
Louis Bbinding says that tlie gor!-
crglly accepted statement that tho
• irgest nugget over found in Califor¬
nia was worth a little more than $2
000 fs an orronecis ono, says tho
Virginia City Enterprise. Ho savs
that J. J. Finney, “Old Virginia,’
fo’iiHi a piece of gold about six mile:;
‘rom Do •. nieviile, Sierra County, • c
tho 21st day of August. 1857. that
weighed 5,000 ounces. Tho gold of
that, vicinity was worth $18 an ounce,
which would make too value of tho
nugget somo $90,000. This would
make tho Finney nugget the largest
piece of pure gold ever discovered, so
far as accounts go. Heretofore the
Australian nugget, found in the B.1-
larat gold fields, ip's been considered
Iho largest, it was valued at $00,000,