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THE STATESBORO EAGLE V OL. t>. THE EAGLE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year, In advance,.., $I.0t Six months, in advance, .50 Advertising rates made known on a{ plication. Obituary notices 5 cents per iin ■ We are not responsible for opinions uprcesed by correspondents. Entered at the Statesboro, Ga., postolt.ee as lecon'-class mail mat ter. THE EAGLE Is published at Statesboro, Bullock coun¬ ty, Georgia, on every Thursday, at one lar a year. Statesboro is the county site, and is situated in a fine farming section. Bullock baa a population of about 10, 000, three-fourths of whom are white people. It is admitted that it is the best farming county in Southeast Georgia. It is solidly Democratic, beiug known as the “Banner County." The farmers ar Industrious and enterprising, aud each year adds to the wealth and population of the county. ’ ' ‘ Statesboro is connected by with the C. R. R., at Dover, and a manent boom has struck our town, and new era dawns upon our people. The Eagle is the official organ of tht the county, and has a large and Sucreas ing circulation. Its aim is tc aid all things that tend to the advancement of the people and the upbuilding of the county. As an advertising medium, The Eagle cannot be excelled. The merchants of Savannah, Augusta and elsewhere, get trade from the county, aud the city merchants, ns well as the county merchants, will find it to the'i advantage to advertise their business in the columns of The Eagle. We keep on hand, for sale at Ion prices, Justice Court Summons, Execu¬ tions, Blauk Deeds, Mortgages, &c. Job work of all kinds neatly, beauti fully and promptly done, at prices thui will compare with city prices, such as -Letter ITCids, &c. finllocii Count; J --- Judge SurERiou Court —James K Hines. Solicitor General —Oscar II. Itog ers. Stenographer —S. W . Sturgis. Clerk— -J. E. C. Tillman. Sheriff— S. J. Williams. Court convenes the 4th Mondays in April and October. Ordinary —A. R. Lanier. Court 1st Monday in each month. Tax Collector— Francis Akins. Tax Receiver —W. B. Akins. Treasurer —Geo. R. Beasley. Coroner —D. C. Proctor. ’’County Surveyor —R. II. Cone. y JUSTICE COURTS. 44th (Sink Hole)—John Rushing, J. 4, Green P. O. Court, 1st Saiutdaya. J. 45th (Club House)—Geo. Trapreil, N. P., Metter P. O.; John G. Jones, P v , Metter P. O. Court, 2d Saturdays. 46th (Lockhart)—R. F. Stringer, J. P., Rocky Fed P. O.; II. At. Lanier, N. P., Endicott P. O. Court, 1-t Satur¬ days. J. 47th (Briar Patch)—U. AI. Davis, P., P., Ivauhoe P. O.; C. A. Sorrier, N. Areola P. O. Court, 4th Saturdays. 48th (Hagins)--J. G. Chi tty, .T. P., Mill Kay P. O.; W. II. AIcLean. N. P., SHU Ray P. O. Court. 2d Saturdays. 1209th (Statesboro)—E. C. Aloseley, .T. P., Statesboro P. O. M. G. Brnnnen, N. P., Statesboro P. O. Court second Mondays. 13.23 t'f. nstonV - Madison L infer, J. P. Bliss P. O.; J. H Soarboro, N, P , Bliss P. O. Court 1st Fridays. 1340 (Bay)—John Donaldson, J. P., Harville P. O.; Samuel Haiville, N. P-, Harville 1*. O. Court, 3d Saturdays. Established 1868. a (Successors to I. Dasher & Co.) 145 Broughton St, Savannah, Ga Dry Goods, Ladies’ and Children’s Gloaks , BOYS’ CLOTHING, ETC. JSf-Mr. J. IT. Hiller and Mr. A. G. 'Waters, now with us, will take pleasure in serving t!;c'r toiends. STATESBORO, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1890. . PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R. J. Williams, J. A. liliAXNEN, Swainsboro, Ga. Statesboro, WILLIAMS & BRANNEN, Attorneys at STATESBORO, GA. Will practice in all the Courts of Middle Circuit. C. A. SORRIER Areola, (jJ-eoi'gfia. --AGENT FOB- fire nl Life lira, FOR THE COUNTIES OF Bulloch and Tatnall. RML ESTATE. Any person who has LAND TO SELL And wants to find a purchaser ought to ADVERTISE! 1 will act as Agent- for the sale of Lands placed in my hands, and will ad¬ vertise the same, and will charge a Rea -onuble Per Cent, for selling the same. |yif no sale is made no expenses are incurred. Respectfully, J. A, BRANNEN, Ga. TS$ . Has doubled the uumber'of its subscri¬ bers during the past year, and hopes be¬ fore the etsd of the present year to SEND IT TO EVERT HOME 111 THIS COUNTY! The advertising patronage in tbe past has been very good, and we know that Advertising p ayS ! you want to reach the people, the way is to ADVERTISE. moMiiii L W. PERDUE, A. M„ Principal. Spring Term Opens January 13. All the Branches taught and Students prepared for College. but Government positive, kind. The instiuctijn in the Collegiate De¬ partment largely by lectures and demon¬ stration. Students required to take notes at recitations. TUITION: $2, $3 and $4 per month, according to grade. Pupils charged entering from time of to end of term. The Aftusic Department Will ho kept up to the highest standard. Address, L. W. PERDUE, Prim, Excelsior. Ga. OR, W. F. Brew ton. Pres. Board Trustees. BIG BLAZE IN CHICAGO. FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS LOSS. The large brick and stone building at the corner of Adams and Market streets, owned by the city dry goods house of J. V. Farwell&Co., at Chicago, caught tire early Thursday morning, and before the flames could be subdued the southern half of it was gutted. A careful estimate of the loss, made aftei the fire was under control, places the total damages at $475,000, of which Mr. Work loses $325,000, Taylor Bros. $50,000, and Farwell & Co., on buildings, $100,000. One life will probably be lost, and several firemen were seriously injured. Vegetables and Their Properties. According to the diuretic, Medical Reconi, and as¬ paragus is a strong forms part of the cure for rheumatic persons at health resorts. Sorrel is cooling, and forms part of the soup which the French order contain after a tiring of journey. and Carrots a quantity people, sugar, while so others are avoided by some think them indigestible, but it is only the yellow core that in difficult of diges¬ tion—the outer layer being quite tender. The onion is rich in alkaline elements, which counteract rheumatic gout. It slowly stowed in weak broth, and eaten with ii little Nepaul popper, it is an ad¬ mirable article habits. of diet The stalks for patients cauli¬ of sedentary value, but of flower have the same are so ill-boiled and unpalatable that few per¬ sons would make part of their meal to consist of so uninviting an article. Tur¬ nips, in the same way, are often thought to be indigestible, but tho faultlies with the cook quite as much as with the root. The lettuce has a slight narcotic action, and, when properly cooked, is easy of AT THE CAPITAL. WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON¬ GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON— MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. Among the hills introduced for refer¬ ence, on Tuesday, was one by Mr. Pierce to create an agricultural commission to in¬ vestigate the the present depressed condition of agricultural interests of the country. Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to pre¬ scribe in part the manner of the election of members of congress, and it was re¬ ferred to the committee on privileges and elections. It provide^ that in all states of the United shall be States for the representatives districts to congress now prescribed hv law, until an apportionment of representatives shall be made by con gross according to the census to be taken in 1890. The object of the bill is to pre¬ vent gerrymandering in the states. The bill appropriating $100,000 for a public The building at Burlington, la., was passed. of senate resumed consideration the bill to provide a temporary government for the territory of Oklahoma. The Blair educational bill was then taken up and Mr. Blair continued his opening speech in support of that measure, With out concluding, Air. Blair yielded business, to a motion to proceed to executive and after a session for that purpose, the senate adjourned. The house met Wednesday morning in continuation of Tuesday’s session. De¬ bate on the proposed code of rules was continued. Mr. Alorse, of Alassachusetts, in the course of a defense of the proposed code said: “The business men of the country tion, and arc that demanding “do business policy" legisla¬ of the nothing congress for the last ten years shall change, and how shall you change it without amending the rules that bind the body, hand and foot ?" In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Sher¬ man called up the concurrent resolution heretofore reported by him from the com¬ mittee on foreign relations, United congratulating the people of the States of Brazil on their adoption of a republican form ol government. The resolution is in these words: “That the United States of Amer¬ ica congratulates the people of Brazil on their just and peaceful assumption of the powers, duties and responsibilities of self government, based on the free consent of the governed, and on their recent adoption of a republican form passed of government." The resolution was unanimously. Between 1,800 and 1,500 persons as- sembled in the house galleries Wednesday evening to listen to arguments upon the proposed code of rules, and had the pleasure of looking down upon about thirty representatives: Messrs. Manseur of Missouri, Lane of Illinois, Rogers of Arkansas, Indiana, Springer of Illinois, Brookshire of and Shively of Indiana, Wike ol Illinois Pierce of Tennessee, de nouced the rulings of the speaker, while they were defended by Messrs. Moore of New Hampshire, Duncell of Minnesota, Honk of Tennessee and J. D. Taylor of Ohio. As usual, on Thux-sday, the' Democrats objected to the approval of the journal; as usual, a roll-call was needed; as usual, the Democrats refrained from voting,and as usual, the speaker counted a quorum, and declared the journal approved, by a vote yeas 141, nays 1. Consideration of the code of rules was then proceeded with. notes. The senate on Thursday confirmed the nomination of Blanche K. Bruce to be re¬ corder of deeds for the District of Co¬ lumbia. It was not Atlanta’s colored lawyer, C. II. Astwood, J. Taylor, ex-minister as was reported, Hayti, but II. C. C. to’ who created the sensation at the Riggs House Alonday evening. All members were present at the cabinet meeting Tuesday, including Secretaries Blaine and Tracy, This is the first tinu there lias been a full attendance in several weeks. At a secret caucus of the republican members of the senate committee onpriv ileges and elections Thursday afternoon, it was decided to seat the two republican senators from Montana. Senator Blair has been consuming tht time of educational the senate for four days speaking on his bill, He has tired the senators out and the chances of the bill passing are waning every day. Indeed, the opponents of the bill are working vigorously to defeat it. A bill introduced by Senator Edmunds Tuesday to provide a public school system fof Utah is a most elaborate and compre¬ hensive measure and with great minute¬ ness provides the about all the school legislation affairs nec¬ in essary for conduct of the Territory. One of the objects of the bill is to diminish Mormon influence. The secretary of the treasury, on Wednesday, issued a second call on tin national bank depositories for a reduction of public balances held by them, to be paid call is on for or about before the March 1, 1890. The the same amount as first call, except that banks having asked hut small amounts to transfer have been for the full amount hi order to close out the transaction. The house committee on patents Thurs¬ day, by unanimous vote, instructed Mr. Simonds, chairman of the sub-committee, to make a favorable report on the housi bill, 3914, known as the international copyright bill. The bill allows foreign United nit hors to take out the a copyright footing in the is States upon same as allowed American authors, provided the type-setting, printing and binding is done wholly in the United States. contained On Saturday small last pine Senator wrapped Ingalls’ box, mail a four inches long, two inches wide and a little trict: Joseph Ounsley, third district. Georgia—Christopher C. Haley, first dis¬ trict ; Joseph II. Thibadeau. third dis¬ trict; Marion Bethuue, fourth district; Isaac Bcckct, fifth district; William A. Harris, sixth district. The senate, nominations: on Tuesday, confirmed the follow ing Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraor¬ dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the core than an inch thick. On being »pened the box was found to contain one of the Union Metallic Company’s “Star" cartridges, in black ink: with “Election the following for inscription old cuff for Ingalls, from Jackson, pills Miss. Come or ludsee us, Old Nutgalls.” 'V|ie President, on Wednesday, nomi tiattrd to be census supervisors: Vir ilifis—Frank Ahiiama—Jack W. Winston, third district. R. Wilson, fourtl? dis trick. South Carolina—Samuel J. Poinicr, lirsf district; Pelevan Yates, second dis trict; F. W, Mactieker, fourth district, Mississippi—Edward Aldrich, first dis United States of Brazil, now credited to the empire of Brazil. To he United States attorneys: Samuel AY. Hawkins, for the western district of Tennes¬ see ; Hugh B. Lindsay, for the eastern district of Tennessee; John Rubin, for the middle district of Tennessee. To he United States marshals: J. G. Watts, for the western district of Virginia. Post¬ masters: C. L. Pritchard, Elizabeth at Front Royal, Va.; C. Guirkin, at City, X. C. The senate has confirmed R. O. Bush, collector of customs Marshals—A. at Charleston, 8. C. United niithcru States district of Georgia; E. B. Buck, W. Walker, middle and southern districts of Alabama: John C. Slocum, surveyor-gen JQ! of Florida. Postmasters-—Alabama -TB. Cornish, Demopolis; C. AY. Childs, mrion; 11. Perdue, Greenville. Florida F|rnaudina. —AT. II. Harden, Bartow; O. S. Oakes, sippi—J. Supervisors Census—Mi>sis- district. AV. Chandler, second Florida—J. AV. Tompkins, second dis trirt. Tennessee—AA'. C. Hunt, first district. OOTTON STATISTICS. SINE-TENTH OF THE COTTON HAS LEFT PLANTATIONS. Cotton returns of the department agriculture for February gives local mates of the proportion of the crop has left the plantation. The tion make 90.4 per cent, leaving 9.6 cent, to still go forward. About tenths of the crop lias, therefore, reported in sight, or in small stocks in the hands of country merchants, or in transit. The state averages are as follows: Virginia 87, North Carolina 89, South Carolina 90, Georgia 90, Florida 98, Alabama 90, Mississippi 91, Louisiana 89, Texas 93, Arkansas 90, Tennessee 87. The average date of the close of picking is about the same as last year in Georgia, Mississippi, is earlier Louisiana and Tennessee, and in the Carolines, Florida and Arkansas and later in Alabama and Texas. The average of county dates is December The 12, ranging from November to January. has proportion found difficult of seed sold to oil mills been to estimate,but is apparently not much over twenty-five pei cent, of the crop, possibly between 900, 000 and 1,000,000 tons. The largest pro¬ portion reported is in Louisiana, followed by Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and the Carolinas. The average state Carolinas prices, as consolidated, are: The aud Georgia, 18 cents per bush¬ and el; Tennessee, Mississippi, 17; Florida, Louisiana, 1(1; Alabama 15; 14; Texas aud Arkansas, 1 3. Returns of quality are Carolina, very high, except in in Virginia and North and Tennessee and Arkansas. It is superior in all states of the gulf coast. The per centage of lint from seed cotton is as follows: Virginia, 39; North Caro¬ lina, 31.5; South Carolina, 33.7; Georgia, 32.2; Florida, 32.8; Alabama, 88.5; Mis¬ sissippi, 32.3; Louisiana, 33.5; Texas, 32.4; Arkansas, 82.3; Tennessee, 32. The damage by insects was the greatest ir Arkansas and Texas. In Florida, Alaba¬ ma, Carolina Mississippi, it general, Tennessee and North was hut less severe. Georgiu and South Carolina suffered less. The loss from the boll worm was in Geor¬ gia, Alabama, Lousiana and Texas greatei than that from tne THE MORMONS DEFEATED. I4LT LAKE CITY IS NOW UNDER CONTROL V OF GENTILES. ■A dispatch from Salt Lake City, Utah, concerning the election there, says: Ev¬ sumed erything is now quiet. Business has re¬ its normal condition, and were it not for the decorations upon the houses of the Gentiles, there would be no indi¬ cation of the great political battle wlucb closed Tuesday night. Official returns give George A. Scott, Gentile, for mayor, a majority of 809; Louis II. Yams, Gen¬ tile, for recorder, 539; J. B, Walton, Gentile, for treasurer, 659; E. R. Clute, Gentile, for assessor, 466; J. M. Young, Gentile, for marshal,773. The remainder of the general ticket, including fifteen councilman was elected by majorities them ranging from 300 to municipal 400. This gives control of the council for the first time m the history of the city. defeat, Mormon organs while they concede tlrir specifically charge that it was accomplished character, by frauds of the most de¬ flagrant and these they scribe in detail. There is no suggestion, of but A PLUCKY WOMAN. During the third act of tho Academy opera of “The Rose of Castile” at the of Music in Richmond, Va., while Emma Abbott was raised singing a solo, an alarm of fire was in the crowded house, cause! by the fumes of burning paper. Miss Ablwtt continued her song, however, during the consternation that ensued. The alarm soon subsided and the opera proceeded. SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTJX0 NEWS FROM POINTS IN THE SOUTH. GENKRAt PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WHICH ARB HAPPENING BELOW MA¬ SON’S and dixon’s link. A general strike is threatened in the Alabama mining region. The twenty-sixth Bundes Haengerfest at New Orleans, La., was opened with great eclat Thursday night. Ed Johnson and Jim Butts, murderers of Captain Miller, who was killed last October, Thursday. were hanged at Perry, Ga., on Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is in Charlotte, the N. (7 He is there to examine mineral lands of that section, and say* he may invest in some mine. chant Benjamin F. Lendhart, a general mer¬ doing business at Lowell, Gaston county, N. (’., made an assignment Wed¬ nesday to Alfred Andrew's. Liabilities about $8,000; assets $3,000. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says that the bill to incorporate the Pan American Railway and Navigation Com¬ and pany passed the legislature Wednesday, went to the governor without amend¬ ment. The Atlanta, Ga., Chamber of Com¬ merce held its first annual banquet on Thursday night. Among the guests were many made prominent northern men. Speeches were in the discussion of the South's interests and progress. There is a strong movement to have the study of agriculture introduced into the public schools of the rural districts of the South. Hon. 1*. J. Berekmans, of Augusta, Ga., and Hon. Daniel Dennett, of Mississippi, are pushing the matter be¬ fore the public. President E. T. Barnes, of the Alliance Peanut Union, who resides at Newsom’s, in Southampton county, A'a., announce! officially that the union has resolved that the minimum prices of farmers’ stock of cleaned peanuts shall be Of cents pel pound. The directors ol' the Tampa, Florida, Branch Alliance exchange met recently in that city to transact important busi¬ ness, and a general invitation was ex¬ tended to all the stib-Alliauces in that county to be present and discuss matters pertaining to the welfare of the order. Citizens of Mobile, Ala., on AVedties flay, completed a quarter million dol¬ lar subscription to the preferred stock of the railroad, Mobile, Jackson aiul Kansas City the amount needed to secure the building of the road from Mobile to Jackson, Miss., in one year from date. Durham Wednesday night N. all the prisoners in county, C., jail made their escape. broken, During and the key night, a rear window was a was handed in tied to a long pole. The key fitted the door >f the cells. The combination lock was unlocked and the prisoners released them¬ selves. A dispatch of Wednesday, from Pied¬ mont, Ala., says: A great crowd is here from many states. The sales of lots came to $125,000. In addition to the works heretofore announced, a hundred ton furnace is secured. Main street lots were sold up to $125 a front foot. President E. T. Stockhouse, of tbe South Carolina State Alliance, has been to Charleston to organize a sub-Alliance in that county, and now there is only one county in the state, Beaufort, that has no A Uiance. The total membership now amounts to over 30,000, with a steady in¬ crease every month. The trustees of the State Baptist Fe¬ male ballot university, on Wednesday, decided by to locate it at Raleigh, N. C. Durham had offered $50,000 and a site for the college; Oxford offered $80,000 and a site; Raleigh offered $25,000 and isite; Greensboro offered $10,000 and a site. The Willingham Lumber company, of Chattanooga, served Tenn., was, on Thursday, with liability processes praying for a re¬ ceiver. The will exceed $100, 900. The assets are m>t yet known. The company became embarrassed by endors¬ ing for the elevator company which failed some months ago. A convention of southern ice manufac¬ turers, invested representing capital, three million dollars :>f was held at Cliatta oooga on Thursday, mid an ice manufac¬ turers' exchange was formed. Officers— president, vice-president, W. J. Rushton, Birmingham, Ala.; G. \V. Beiz, Chatta oooga; secretary, Abe Ellis, Macon, Ga.; treasurer. Louis P. Hart, New Orleans. A shipping rate of $6 was fixed. A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., says: All efforts to settle the strike at the Birmingham VVeib, rolling mill have failed. President of the Amalgamated Association, returned to Pittsburg Wednesday, his mission having been fruitless. The company refuses to rec¬ ognize the association in any way, and the men refuse to give up their plan to organize a local long lodge. and The bitter light now promises to be a one. A south bound special railroad, train, on colli¬ the Alabama Great Southern ded with a north bound passenger south train, on Wednesday, forty miles of Bir¬ mingham, Ala. Engineer Ed killed Doolittle, of the passenger train, was in¬ stantly. Several passengers were severely bruised, but composed none seriously sleepers injured. The special with was singing of societies filled German en route from Chicago and Cincinnati to the saugerfest at New Orleans. Advices from California brougbtthe news that in the Sierras the snow was seventeen feet deep on the level, and in many places it had drifted to a depth of thirty fee t. At points entirely along the railroads the telegraph poles were out of sight. NO. 36 THREATENED TROUBLE. A GREAT STRIKE EMINENT IN THE ALA¬ BAMA MINING REGIONS. Dispatches to the Tradesman, of Chat¬ ing tanooga, Tenn., from the Alabama min¬ is threatened regions indicate that a general strike volving thousands throughout the miners state, in¬ of coal and causing close fifteen or twenty blast furnaces to down. Tradesman representa¬ tives have closely investigated the situa tiod, and state that the strike inaugurated n few days ago, when 500 miners of the Debardelebcn company qut work threat ens to be the commencement of a gen¬ eral strike. The Debardeleben miners declined quit work because the company to accede to tehir demands. First, that they be furnished posts, ties and rails. Second, that no boy under seventeen years of age be permitted to work in the mines. Third, that a com¬ mittee be permitted to regulate working hours in each mine. Miners have referred the matter to a committee of the Knights of Labor, and await their decision. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE¬ GRAPH AND CABLE. THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WOULD, CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Another ballot for speaker was taken in the Iowa legislature Monday without re¬ sult. The first session of the fourth annual meeting of American in newspaper Wednesday. publish¬ ers, was opened New York The men indicted for attempting to bribe the Cronin jurors pleaded guilty on Wednesday. passed. Sentence hat not yet been The Paris Rouviev announces that the total government revenue for 1889 was $031,400,000. $914,300,000, and total expenditures, The Philadelphia and Reading compa¬ ny's North Ashland, Pa., colliery, shut down indefinitely Tuesday, throwing five hundred men and boys out of employ¬ ment. Emperor AYilliam, of Germany, has caused an order to he issued prohibiting the exhibition of portraits of himself, his ancestors, or any of his family without his sanction first being obtained, His pictures were being put up with cigarettes. A dispatch from Pitsburg, Pa., says: tive Thursday morning the boiler of a locomo¬ exploded and Yougbiogbeny on the Pittsburg, railroad, McKees miles port thirty south of there, killing one man and injuring four others, one of whom has since died. A dispatch from Toddcn, North Dako¬ credited ta, says: Between 800 and 1,000 Indians, to Devil’s Lake agency, arc whol¬ ly destitute of cnothing, Unless and in the lust stages of starvation. furnished with food, clothing and medicine at once, the Indians will die like dogs. At New York, Tuesday. Judge O’Brien handed down his decision in the celebra¬ ted sugar trust case. He decided in sub¬ stance, that the company should be allowed to continue its business, but continues the injunction restraining the trust from transferring other its property, interfere or doing with any acts that might the rights of the plaintiff. A committee of the Canton Oyster ex¬ change, of Baltimore, was before the committee of the legislature Wednesday, having care of the Chesapeake bay and its tributaries. The oyster men favor the passage of a law which will stop the catching April of oysters, for any purpose, after 1st. Baltimore and neighboring towns are becoming alarmed about the possible loss of their oyster crop and trade. At a session of the American News¬ paper Publishers’ Association in New York, Thursday, the following resolution was introduced: “That the American Newspaper hearty Publishers’ Association is in being sympathy with the efforts now made by American authors to ob¬ tain from congress fuller security for lit¬ erary property, and we believe the pro¬ posed international copyright bill to be in the interest of the national honor and wel¬ fare." THE TICKET AGENTS. MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIA¬ TION IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Tiie International Association of Rail¬ road Ticket agents held its second annual session in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednes¬ day. Two hundred and sixty delegate! were present, with about 100 ladies who accompany them. They come from every state in the union and from Canada and Mexico. The officers of the association are: Mr. Brown, ticket agent Atlanta, Ga., president; station, M. Cleveland, G. Carroll, Ohio, union passenger and W. Venneman, union secra¬ tary, T. station, Evansville, Ind., treasurer. The associa¬ tion derided to hold its next annual meet¬ ing at Denver. INDIGNANT FRENCHMEN. THE MANITOBA LEGISLATURE ABOLISHES * OFFICIAL USE OF FRENCH LANGUAGE. A special from Winnepeg, Manitoba, says the Manitoba legislature on Thursday of decided to abolish the official use the Freucli language in the country by a vote of 26 to 10. The French speaking people are very indignant over this action and serious trouble is carries feared, particularly his it Premier Greenway out propo¬ sition to abolish Roman Catholics separate schools. The Catholics are loud in their threats against the government.