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9 V J he Irwin County News.
Official Organ of Irwin County.
JA8,T MAUN D, Publisher!
nCU’JIDa THE HEIISS.
i.
The niftht was clear, tbs sleighing good
The cutter ;-»\t not wide,
|ghe snuggle 1 e.03e beneath the robe
■ To her fond lover’s si e.
"The horse was spirited and jumped
With frequent tugs and strains,
Until she innocently said:
■ ‘‘Da let me hold the reins!"
ir.
They’re raarriei now, perhaps because
She was so helpless then.
She loves him weP, auf he lores her—
Well, in the way o" ram;
And yet in all their sweet deli ght
One sad thought makes hint wince;
She held the reins that winter’s night,
She’s held them ever since.
—Somerville Journal.
MRS. DUSENBURY,
jtfegSlr URLED like a kitten
in tlie depths of Mr.
BwfPt A chair, 8t. Maur’s great half easy lost
J) among the crimson
cushions, sound
iaSp M* ur looked the
’ image of shocked
^rnay ^»;iug to and the profound library for indignation book which as,
a
■Planted to show to his friend Dusen-
pury, ho found the very young lady for
rv\horn idly they had already waited dinner
■mfortably three-quarters of an hour, dozing
Hen in his study-chair, and not
dressed for dinner yet. It was some
■rments before he could articulate for
Hazement.
■tmd,” ‘Upon—my—word, really, upon—
he managed to say at last.
up at the sound of his
Batimplcd Hduriv cheeks pink with
fringed eyes bright as
','Jamts, Hisorder. and her soft black curls
HSl "k, is that you?” she said,
H. rosy-tipped fingers, and
her white lids again, as
^^PWRined to be roused from her
ft Iss—St. yet. Maur.”
never called her St. Maur except
hr extraordinary occasions, and she
j a'little at the M
b you aware that dinner has been
■for you a full three-quarters of
tell, I” I’m very sorry you
without opening her
[it grew slightly red in the
ft and contumacious girl 1
1 Ruby St. Maur, that your
jnd is waiting in the parlor
It’ho?” Ruby exclaimed,
Ight up very straight, and
eyes to their utmost
^^pitbury, awaits the gentleman in the I ex-
|WI»Repair rry, you pnr-
at once to shortest your dressing
room, and join us in the possible
space of time.
Mr. St. Maur spoke in his sternest,
most unanswerable tones, and left the
apartment in such a state of indignation
that no forgot tBe book he came after,
and returning for it, found that con¬
tumacious girl still lingering there. On
seeing him, she asked, very coolly:
“Papa, who is Mr. Dusenbury, any¬
how ?’W
“Mr. Dusenbury is the man you are to
marry, and that is enough for you. O J
with ybu.”
“Presently. I can dress enough for
Mr. Dusenbury in ten minutes. It’s the
sttaiejold he hunks that disowned his sou
because couldn’t make just such a
dusty old skeleton of him as he is him¬
self. Isn’t it, papa?”
Papa’s brows lowered ominously.
“Miss St. Maur, I desire you to repair
instantly to your dressing room. Do you
hear?”
“Allons, papa.”
She kissed her fiugers to him, balanc-
ing herself archly ou the threshold of
the door, and still lingering in roguish
defiance.
“Do you know what color the old
parchment bundle in there particularly
abominates?”
“You’d be sure to wear it, eh?” Mr.
St. Maur said, boiling over with wrath,
“I desire that you attire yourself with
your usual care, I’ll put you on a diet
of bread and water, miss; see if I don’t.
Dinner has been waiting an hour, I tei!
you, and I’m literally in a starving con¬
dition.”'
She danced back into the room.
“Dear papa, let me bring you a lunch
ii bile you’re waiting.”
He lifted his cane in mock threaten-
.2
“Off with you, witch! Will you go?”
She laughed, made a great affectation
of dodging the uplifted cane, and van-
( Ten minutes after, Rue to her boast,
Nhe dashed into the parlor, a gorgeous
little oeauty to have turned half
a dozen such heads as that ot the auti-
■ousted specimen of the genus homo who
sat conversing with Mr. St. MaOC- and
tnkiug monstrous pinehe3 of snut be- !
tween the words. j
• That, must have been the reason the- I
called her Ruby: she was sue t a "wge-
ous Jittfe creature in herself; all fipagklv
flash, and with an almost bin baric I
SYCAMORE, IRWIN COUNTY, GA., FEBRUARY, 24 1893.
fondness for rich and glowing colors,
which, however, seemed 6nly tho fitting
setting for her peculiar stylo of besuty.
,Her dress now was a claret-colored satin,
clasped at throat and wrist with orna¬
ments of white topaz, and her curls were
looped back from her face with a gold
dart set with the same stones.
Dinner was served at once, both gentle¬
men seeming in a famishing condition,
and Ruby presiding in such a manner as
to call forth most approving glances
from her proud and gratified papa.
As for papa’s dear friend, Mr. Duseu-
bury, he divided bis attentions between
the dinner and Miss St. Maur, and was
evidently as much bewitched as it was
possible for him to be.
“Capital, capital! matters couldn’t have
gone off better, after all,” Mr. St. Maur
murmured to himself, after bis friend
had gone, walking the parlors and
rubbing his hands together in great glee.
“Dusenbury’s a gone case, that’s evi¬
dent. Ruby, my dear, you behaved like
an augel.”
“Did I, papa?’’ that young lady re¬
plied, demurely, glancing at him from
under her jetty lashes, while the least
bit of a smile twitched threateningly at
the dimpled corners of her rosy mouth.
“I’m glad to see you haven’t got any
school-girlish notions in your head,
Ruby. I was uot without fear that you
intended to be perverse in this matter.
It's a splendid match, child, splendid.
Dusenbury’s very rich—most thriving
firm, really, in the city—and we're think¬
ing, child, of consolidating our two
houses—‘St. Maur, Dusenbury & Co.’—
do a magnificent business then, perfectly
magnificent. I was afraid Dusenbury
would bolt from the scheme. But he
won’t now, if this matter goes on as it’s
beguu. Why, Ruby, you’ll be the
proudest woman alive when you’re Mrs.
Dusenbury.”
“I dare say I shall, papa; but what’s
become of the old cormorant’s sou?”
“Mr. Dusenbury’s sen was a bad fel¬
low, I’m afraid, and lie’s well rid of
him.”
“I don’t believe he was bad a bit,
now. His father just wanted to make a
withered old hunks of him like himself,
and because he couldn’t do it he disowned
him,” Ruby exclaimed, with irate em¬
phasis and a rosy peut. “I know one
thing': If I ever get the power Hunt
Dusenbury’s father shall do him justice.”
Mr. St. Maur stared in a speechless
astonishment from which he did not re¬
cover till after Ruby had given him her
good-night, kiss and swept like an indig¬
nant little queen from the room.
“What a strange child she is really,
upon my word,” he muttered then.
Miss Ruby St. Maur was a somewhat
indolent, luxurious little body. She was
very fond of curling herself away among
silken cushions and dreaming sometimes
waking vision. She was occupied pre¬
cisely thu3 one morning, of which I am
going to tell you. She looked like a
feminine edition of Cupid asleep among
the roses, though she wasn’t asleep, or
if she was she was decidedly talkative
in her slumber.
“Now, then,” she murmured, bring¬
ing her little rosy palm emphatically
down upon the cushions, “if I could
bring that fastidious Hunt to the point,
I’d fix matters in a twinkling. What is
it to him if papa has got money? it
isn’t papa’s money he wants—it’s mo,
and why ho can’t say so I’d like to know.
I suppose, now, if I was his washerwo¬
man’s daughter he’d find a way to tell
me he loved me in very short order,
but—”
“Mr. Dusenbury,” announced the ser¬
vant at the door; and, not seeming to
have heard, Ruby sat still, and pretend¬
ed to be very sound asleep indeed.
If this were Mr. Dusenbury, he must
have druuk at the fountain of youth since
yesterday, for this gentleman could not
have been more thau twenty-five, and he
carried himself with the handsome grace
of Apollo.
As the door closed behind him he ad¬
vanced slowly down the parlor, not see¬
ing the sleepiug beauty till he came be¬
side her, and pausing then in rapt, ad¬
miration before so charming a picture.
It was an admirably counterfeited
slumber—the jetty lashes uutremblingly
prone upon tho velvetry cheeks, the
breath comiug at regular intervals
through the rosebud mouth, It wasn’t
much wonder that Mr. Hunt Dusenbury
caught his breath, and murmured:
“I wish I dure!”
The lips of the fair sleeper moved
slightly, and bending to catch a faint
utterance, he heard something that
sounded wonderfully like his own name
with a caressingly expressive prefix.
Mr. Hunt Dusenbury rather doubted
the evidence of bis own ears, but he
acted quite a3 though he didn’t, for,
slipping an arm under the little curl-
dressed"head, he drew it to his shoulder, bright
and when Ruby opened ber wide,
eyes in profound astonishment, he kissed
them shut again, murmuring:
you?”’ “Ob, Ruby, Ruby, my darling, I love
She flushed like a rose under his .
kisses, but she could a t resist the temp-
tation to be tantalizing, so she said,
pouttngly: “Well, Hunt, what if do? You
you
know papa has got ever and ever so
much money, and I’m all the girl he s
uot, aud I don't know how you can have
the audacity to tell me that, under the
circumstance?.”
Hunt looked perplexed a minute, but
he caught the mischievous sparkle of
Ruby’s roguish eyes, and sealed them
ugaic with his hjps.
“Confess now,” he whispered, laugh-
“In Union, Strength and Prosqjerity Abound.”
ing; “be good, Ruby, and own up hon¬
estly, as I havo. If you don’t, I’ll tell
what you said in your sleep just now.”
“Oh, I wasn’t asleep, liunt, I only
pretended to be.”
“You—did?”
Hunt looked horrified incredulity, and
made a movement to withdraw his arm,
and put the little head back upon tho
cushion, muttering something that
sounded like, “Tho young couquette!”
but Ruby, stealing an arm around his
neck, said, half saucily, half in earnest:
“Don’t scold, now, and I’ll confess.
You sec, Hunt, you were so long in com¬
ing to tho point, and—and—somebody
else came a wooing last night.”
“Somebody else?”
Ruby laughed.
“I sha’n’t tell you who; a regular old
money bags, though, from whose clutches
I wauted you to rescue me.”
“Ruby, I wish I ever could tell when
you are making fun of me."
The other Dusenbury came again very
soon—“Moneybags,” Ruby called him—
and did the honors for him more be-
witchingly than ever. How entertaining
she was and how delighted Papa St. Maui
was.
And then, in a few days, Moneybags
came-again, and this time lie brought
Miss St. Maur the most magnificent
present with him—a set of rubies that
made her pretty eyes sparkle with de¬
lightful vivacity.
“These,” he said, significantly, “are
for the future Mrs. Dusenbury.”
“Oh!” Ruby said, innocently, “I
thought they were for ina.”
“Do you like them?’’
“I never saw anything half so beauti-
ful.”
“I’d give you them, and a great deal
more besides,if you’d promise to be Mrs.
Dusenbury.”
Ruby played with the sparkling stones,
and looked persistently at her slipper at
lea3t two minutes. Then, lifting to her
aged suitor a pair of eyes, whose radi¬
ance dazzled him so that he didn’t know
whether bo was in his counting room,
and somebody had thrown a brick
through tho window, or a thunder storm
had come up, and the lightning was
playing fitfully around his wrinkled old
face.
“If I’m going to be bribed,’! she said,
sweetly, “it must be with something
more than a ruby necklace.”
“Anything in the world, sweet girl,
to the half of all I possess."
“You are not in earnest, Mr. Dusen¬
bury, of course not. You gentlemen are
a great deal fonder of making promises
than you are of keeping tlmm,” Ruby
said, archly.
“Never was so much in earnest in my
life; get me pen and paper and I’ll show
you.”
Taking him at his word, and tantaliz¬
ing Mm with roguishly expressed doubt,
Ruby danced away and brought Mm tho
required articles. He did not expect to
be taken so at his word; but humoring
her whim, as he called it, Moneybags
drew up, in regular business form, a
paper in which he obligated himself to
bestow on Miss Ruby St. Maur the half
of all ho possessed the day she became
Mrs. Dusenbury.
Ruby kent up a constant fire of jest
and laugh and general witchery, but
took possession of the document in
triumph, and promised Moneybags that
she should claim tho fulfillment of the
obligation it contained at an early day.
Both Mr. St. Maur and Moneybags were
in
A week dropped slowly away, and
Moneybags quite neglected his business
at the counting room in order to dino
with his old friend, St. Maur. He really
seemed to be getting humanized.
One night Miss St. Maur kept dinner
waiting again, til! the two gentlemen
grew somewhat impatient, and Mr. St.
Maur, summoning a servant, sent to in¬
quire after her.
Before the servant returned, however,
Ruby herself came—not in dinner attire,
however, nor alone; but with bridal
flowers iu her hat, and het little snowily
gloved hand confidingly resting upon
the arm of Mr. Hunt Dusenbury.
“Really, upon my word,” began Mr.
St. Maur.
“You won’t let papi3Cold, will you?”
Ruby sard, putting out a coaxing hand
to Moneybags, and in a comically aud¬
ible aside, “Shall we kneel down,
Hunt?”
Moneybags looked fiercely at the little
olive branch Ruby held out to him
about half a minute.
“Humph,” he growled, “I suppose
you're married?”
“Oh, yes,” Ruby said, placidly, “it’s
ail right. I’m Mrs. Dusenbury fast
enough."
Moneybags tried to look Plutonian
grimness, and frowned till his gray eye-
brows bristled. But it wouldn’t do.
The humor of the thing wa3 too ap-
parent. Besides, he was glad of an ex-
ettse to welcome back that young hope-
ful of his. So, melting suddenly, he
shook Ruby s small hand cordially,
grumbled something about its being bet-
ter so, and, turning to Huut, “Glad to
see you, ray boy, and if you 11 let this
young sunbeam you ve caught sparkle at
the head of my table at home, you may
sit at the foot m it aud you may study
law all the days of your fife for aught I
care.
Mr. St. Maur could but follow Money-
bags' example, and they all went out to
dinner, which still waited, as gay a
partv as jou often see. New lork
Kfrvw.
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS ITEMS.
MieiSEl Holes From all EOCtiOUS Of the
Ui!IiS!l States 811(1 Enrolls.
The Vermont World’s Fair commis¬
sioners ha”o decided to dediente the
Vermont building on May 10.
The county insane asylum, four
miles from Dover, N. II., was burned
last week »nd forty-four lives were
lost.
Tho Duke of Marlborough left .the
bulk of his property to the Duchess,
the late widow Humiuersley of New
York.
The Harvard class of ’55, with
which Phillips Brooks graduated, is
agitating a $300,000 memorial chapel
to t.ic dead bishop.
The Evangelical Alliance of Boston
has petitioned congress to prevent tho
sale of firearms and whisky to the na¬
tives of tlie Pacific Islands.
The Russian colony near Chester¬
field, Mass., lias proved a failure, and
it is sit’d that by tlie end of next week
all the farms will be deserted.
At Montreal live stock exporters
have received definite word from
Washington that Canadian cattle will
uot be permitted to be sent through
the United States for export to Great
Britain.
Dr. Severus La Chapelle, of Mon¬
treal, a member of the Dominion Par¬
liament, acting for a Canadian com¬
pany,’has purchased front Dr. Iveeley,
of Dwight, the Dominion. right to open Keeley
institutes in tho
Frank Cronin has brought a novel
suit for $8,000 against the Seventh
Avenue hotei, Pittsburg. Ho was a
conductor in the Pullman service, and
lost his position because the hotel clerk
failed to call him in time to take his
car.
The Carbon Steel Company has
signed a contract with William Crump
& Sorts for furnishing all the boiler
plates for three new Inman Line
steamships. The plates will be the
widest and heaviest ever made in
America.
Sixty leading French, Belgian and
GCFftian insurance companies having
formed a syndicate to insure European
visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair
against death or disability on the
journey or during the sojourn in Chi¬
cago.
The World’s Fair Catholic educa¬
tional exhibits committee has
issued a communication against the
exhibit of indecent uictures in the ex "
position buildings, anti signatures ille
being secured front all parts of die
country in support of tbo movement-
The first section of the long-heralded
Krtipp gun exhibit lias arrived at tlie
World’s Fair grounds. Tho install¬
ment required 31 flat cars for its
transportation. The Krtipp exhibit
will be given a separate building re¬
sembling a feudal castle.
A committee composed of Frank 8.
Ilainbletou, John Gill, William A.
fisher, li. B. Sperry, of Baltimore,
and Joint S. Williams of Richmond,
has been organized for (he protection
of the bondholders of the Savannah,
Ainericus &. Montgomery railroad.
At New York a meeting of the Rus¬
sian Club has been field to protest
against the singeing of tho proposed
extradition treaty between the United
Slates and Russia, _uiider which the
people who attempted tlie life of the
(Jzar would be treated iiLe common
criminals.
J. E. Laconic, who, with other pros¬
pectors left Colorado Springs some
time ago to loc tie gold mines in the
reservation of the Navajo Indians,
lias returned. lie says they were
driven out by the Indians, who
threaten any and all invaders in their
gold fields.
Daniel Sweeney, an American mer¬
chant who lias returned on the steamer
„tty of Panama from a three months’
trip through Central America, reports
that Honduras,Nicaragu t and Salvador
are under martial law and ;Hat it is
dangerous for a stranger to travel
there.
The civil service commission lias
summoned Collector of Customs T G
Phelps, of 6an Francisco, to Washing¬
ton, for ihe purpose of answering
charges that he removed certain cus¬
toms employes because they refused to
contribute to the republican campaign
fund.
The first case ever recorded in New
York city of the suicide of a China¬
man was received at the coroner’s
office the other day. Tlie man was
Clue Buoy, 19 years ofd, who lived at
No. 22 Mott street. l(e took parts
green because iris Chinese sweetheart
would not marry him.
The secretary of the navy approved
the findings today iu regard to the
distribution of tlie Chilian award for
tlie families of those killed and injured
at Valparaiso, October l(i, 1891, in
the attack on the seatin = of the Haiti-
more- The board an-a « the cas-
$ 1.00 a Year in Advance.
unities into four classes and assigned
a proportionate amount of the $75,-
000 .
At Toronto. Out., a meeting of
the short horn cattle breeders’ assoei-
a(io » il "’ iis Jellied that plcuro-pneti-
tnouia existed in any part of Canada.
It was decided to withhold exhibits of
Canadian cattle at the World’s Fair
unless quarantine regulations of the
United States as proclaimed by Sec¬
retary Rusk, are modified.
Owing to the unusually cold weather
which has prozeiled in Cuba during
the.past few weeks, the cane continues
to ripen with much rapidity. 'Tho
saccharine richness of the juice is
greater than ever before attained at
this early period of the season, but
unfortunately the purity of the juice
is rather unsatisfactory. Jt, is esti¬
mated ihal the sugar crop will be Short
200,000 tons.
The dispatch vessel Dolphin lies
raised on board two four-inch, rapid-
firing guns, in lieu of her six-inch rill •;
recently carried amidships. Tho two
four-inch guns are catried on' Hie
boats and in positions admit ting prac¬
tically of a direct ahead tire. The
Dolphin is the first ship in the United
Stales navy to be given rapid-til ing
guns of large calibre.
At Pittsburg, Pa., Henry Batter and
Carl Nold, the anarchists charged with
being accessories before the fact to
the attempted assassination of II. C.
Frick, chairman of the Carnegie Steel
company, limited, were found guilty
as indicted. The extreme penalty for
the crime is seven years in the peni¬
tentiary. Two years more will be
added for conspiracy, of which they
were convicted on Thursday.
Inauguration of Cleveland.
The work of committees having
charge of the ceremonies incident to
the inauguration of President-elect
Cleveland is progressing satisfactorily.
Gen. McMahon and Col. Corbin, who
liave supervision of the arrangements
of the parade, are daily receiving ap*
plications from military organizations
all over the United States for posi¬
tions in tho line. More than 100 or-
grnizaiiins (including Tammany)
have lints far ret orted a probable
strength of over 17,000 men to form
in line on March 4. The governors
of l ho following named tv
nolified the committee they will be in
line accompanied by members of their
staffs, and, in many instances, by in¬
dependent military companies: Dela¬
ware, Pennsylvania New Jersey, Con¬
necticut, Massachusetts, Maryland,
North Carolina, Ohio, Louisiana and
Wisconsin.
It is almost certain a majority of
the governors of (lie remaining states
will be present, blit as yet fney have
not notified tlie committee. Pennsyl¬
vania, as usual, will send the largest
representation of any state. Its full
national guard of 8,500 men will lie
in lino. New York will send its
crack organizations—the .Seventh and
the Sixty-ninth regiments—and prob¬
ably Company A, of the Tirteenth reg¬
iment, Brooklyn.
Tho following independent organi¬
zations have notified (he committee to
reserve positions in the line:
Georgia Hussars, Monumental City
Guards and Baltimore Rifles, Palmetto
Guards of Charleston, 8. C.; Cleve¬
land Troop and Alliance Guards,
Ohio; and the Fortwith Fcncibles,
Texas. There is every probability
that tlie inauguration of March 4,
1893, will surpass all its predecessors.
. Sent to tlie Pen for One Day.
Judge Christman nt Jackson, Miss.,
has passed a novel sentence upon a
voting while boy in Circuit Court,
now in session at Raymond. Tho
boy, .Joseph Holliday, is about 17
years old, and was tried for arson.
He pleaded guilty, but the lawyers
and friends of the youth brought the
facts before (be court in such a light
that (he judge satv lit to sentence him
to Ihe penitentiary for only one day.
Shot ill Harding brought him Saturday
morning, and he was put in stripes,
and lias been working out his sentence
all day. Three hundred citizens sent,
up a pclition to the governor to par¬
don him, so that be would not lose
bis citizenship, but under Hie new
code Hie governor w ,s powerless to
grant pardon, Hie law requiring a pc¬
lition lo be printed for 30 days be¬
fore pardon can be bad. Tbo boy
will have to appeal (o tbo legislature
to restore his citizenship.
Big Batch of Bandits.
Brigadier-General Frank Wheaton,
cotnufiuider of the military depart¬
ment at San Antonio, received a tele¬
gram Saturday from Capt. John G.
Bom ke, of the Third cavalry, stating
that he had just returned to Fort Ring-
gold from detached service in the
field, and that he brought, in with him
fifteen bandits, who were captured by
bis troop in Starr county. In addi¬
tion to the captured bandit prisoners
he brought in four others, who sur-
rendered peaceably. This is the big¬
gest piece of work yet accomplished
by the United States troops on the
lower Rio Grande border, and Capt.
Bout ko is h’ghly commended for the
success of bis scouting expedition by
the military authorities.
VOL, 111. NO. 12.
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Summary of tie Proceedings of tlie Fifty-
Second Session of Cairo
FOKTY-FIltST DAY.
Senate. —The senate took up unob-
jectod to house bills and passed a num¬
ber of them, including sixteen pension
bills. The bill for the relief of the
assignees of John llonch, to pay the
balance due on the despatch boat Dol¬
phin, $8105, was also passed. The
bill to require automatic couplings
and continuous brakes on freight cars
was discussed. The senate refused to
consider the New York and New Jer¬
sey bridgo bill. Thu senate ratified
the Russian extradition treaty with
amendments.
FORTY-SECOND DAY.
Senate.—M r. Morgan has intro¬
duced a bill which will give the pres¬
ident power tn establish a temporary
goverum nt in Hawaii pending the es-
tablislnm nt of a permanent one. The
car coupler bill was dismissed.
Boi se. --1 he opening fealuro of the
tension was the- spontaneous expresion
oi: regret manifested by his colleague
a! the voluntary retirement of Mr.
Blount of Georgia, frotn tho ‘eat
which he has iiilcd for twenty years.
Never before in ilie history 6f congress
has a member been so honored The
house then, in committee of the whole
(Mr. Hatch in (he chair), proceeded
to the consideration of the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill. There
was no and the bill
was read for amendments. When
the committee rose the bill was passed.
The Military Academy appropriation
bill was then taken up. There was no
opposition made to the bill, which was
passed without division. Public bus-
mess was then suspended to enable
the house to pay tribute to the late J.
W. Kendall of Kentucky. After re¬
marks by Messrs. McCreary, l’aynter,
Caruth, Bunn, G. W. Stone, McKin¬
ney, Smith, Weaver, Wilson and
Belknan, the house out of respect to
the memory of the deceased adjourned.
rou t Y-TUIliD DAY.
Senate. —The whole of Ihe day’s
session after the morning hour was
devoted to (lie discussion of the auto¬
mata car-coupler bill. House __The
house filibustered all day against tho
ttnfi-i ptio'.i and bankruptcy bills.
FOllTV-lOi; UTH DAY.
Senate.— The vice-president pre¬
sented ihe memorial of the Chicago
Chamber of Commerce favoring the
annexation of the Hawaiian Islands.
The conference report on the bill to
restore to the public domain a portion
of the White Mountain Apache Indian
reservation was agreed to. The tail-
road car coupler bill was further dis¬
cussed, but went over. The legisla¬
tive, executive and judicial appropria¬
tion bill was referred. House. —The
legislative appropriation bill was dis-
cuised..
FORTY-FIFTH DAY.
House. —Tho electoral votes were
counted in joint session in the house,
and the result was declared. The leg¬
islative appropriation bill was consid¬
ered.
FORTY-SIXTH DAY.
IIouse-TIic friends of silver sustain-
ed Ihe demand for Ihe previous ques¬
tion on the silver purchase bill. Tbo
legislative bill was passed. The repeal
bill was passed bv a vote of 152 to
143.
forty-seventh day.
House — The invalid pension ap
p- operation bill was considered in
committee of fie whole. Without
closing the general debate the com¬
mittee arose, and the house took a re¬
cess until S o’clock, (he evening ses¬
sion being dc\ oted to the considera¬
tion of private pension bills.
Het,ter 'J uke Them In, Too,
Among those who arrived ost Hie
Australian Monowai at. Sau Francisco,
were ex-American Consul A. Rick and
Mrs. Rick, from Btilurilari, Gilbert
Islands. Mr. Rick said bo received a
let.ior front (be Stale Department last
November ordering hi in to close his
office and return home, as the seizing
of ihe islands by England made bis
fur;her slay there unnecessary. Mr.
Rick shut np shop November 2(!lhand
sailed for Sidney. He says the old
king made a pathetic appeal to him to
interest the American government in
his behalf, as he claims bis people pre¬
fer an American lo an English pro¬
tectorate. lie says American trade
will soon be ruined, as Hie British
traders ate favored by I heir govern¬
ment and the feeling against Ameri¬
cans is strong. The natives prefer to
deal with Americans, but they are
given to undoi stand that it will not bo
healthy for them lo do this.
—. . -
May IJestinic if it Chooses.
Some two weeks ago the Vicksburg
Electric Street Railway company, af¬
ter a hearing by Judge Gillatul, was
granted permission to continue laying
its track between Cherry street cross¬
ing and the Washington Hotel, upon
giving bond m the sum of $1,000.
Thu h >nd was made Saturday evening
ami tiled with the circuit clerk, but
whether the road expects to resume
construction at ouee is not known.
