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MILES & STIFF M 29 Marietta Street, TXj^LKTTA, ga. Hill Grade Pianos and Organs. PULL LINE SHEET MUSIC. Terns and Prices Right. |3J“Send for Catalogue. IN CONGRESSIONAL RALLS. Daily Routine of Boil Houses oi tie Fifty-Second Congress, Measures Discussed and Bills Passed By Our National Law-Makers. THE SENATE. In the senate, Tuesday, senator Har¬ ris reported the quarantine bill with the appropriating clause omitted as a substi¬ tute for the quarantine and immigration Hill bill passed by the house. Senator objected to immediate action upon the as he wished to examine it, and the bill went over uutil Wednesday. The senate then took up Mr. Chandler’s res¬ olution requesting the president to trans • mit to the senate any convention he may make of Hawaii, with and the Mr. provisional Candler discussed government it, and moved reference of the rosolution to the committee on foreign relations. Mr. Dolph made a long statement on the subject, giving details as to the population, commerce, etc., of the island, and favoring annexation. Before he had concluded his speech the anti-option bill was taken up. At 3:15 o’clock discussion on the bill closed and voting began. The first vote was on the amendment offered by Mr. Vilas to strike out of the George substi¬ tute the words “options and futures as hereinbefore defined, are hereby declared to be obstructions to, and restraint upon commerce among the states, and with foreign countries, and to be illegal and void.” The vote was yeas 21, nays 50, So the amendment was defeated. The on Mr. George’s substi¬ tute, which proposed to declare the bus¬ iness of options and futures an obstacle to and restraint upon commerce, and to be illegal and void. It was rejected, yeas 19, nays 5. The question was then on the passage of the bill. Several other amendments were presented, and all were rejected, some without division. The bHl was then passed, yeas 40, nays 29 Theiottification billwas then taken up. Mr. Dolph took the floor and continued the speech which he had begun in the inorning on (he subj ect of the annexa¬ olHHawaiian isl ands. He yielded the ffoot|temporarily to servicetfon permitTiotices Friday to be giveirqf ^aemorial at 2 o’clock p. m., for the lafiT Senator Barbour of Virginia, and or Saturday at 4 o’clock for the late Representatives Ford of Gamble, of South Dakota; Michigan, and Stackhouse, of South Carolina. Mr. Dolph then went on with the reading of his speech. When he closed the consideration of the fortifica¬ tion bill was proceeded with. No prog¬ ress, however, was made, and the senate adjourned. Wednesday, the vice In the senate, , president announced the appo intment of Messrs. Teller, Ransom and McPherson as a committee to.make the necessary rangements for tne inauguration of the president-elect on the 4th of March next. Mr. Washburn moved that the senate insist on its amendments to the anti-op¬ tion bill, and ask a conference with the house. The motion was agreed to, and Washburn, Mitchell and George Here appointed conferees on the part of the senate. The fortification bill was then taken up. Mr. Teller offered an amendment appropriat¬ ing $130,000 for testing the tweive ioefe elevating gun carriage of N. II. Emery. Agreed to. No other amend ment was successful. The bill was then passed, and the army appropriation bill was taken up. Mr. Proctor moved an amendment itmreasing the monthly pay of first sergeaflts to $30, and sergeants to $18 an increase of $8 and $1 respective¬ ly. and givfn? to both classes increased payforl4§gth of service. amendment Agreed adopted. to. The wasjhe only the bill was then passed and Dis¬ trict of Columbia The appropriation item that bill was takeu up. only amendment provoked any opposition by the was commit¬ the appropriations, reported directing the tee on district commissioners to obtain plans and specifications for municipal buildings to cost $500,000, on the reservation in front of Center Market, on Pennsylvania avenue. The amendment was allowed to go over till Thursday without action. Bills inflows: on the calendar were then passed as House bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across Mobile 9 ver by the Chicago, Mobile and Guif Port Railway Company; extending for three years the time to complete the con stl^ction of a authorize bridge across the the construction Alabama and to of a bridge across Warrior river by the Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and Memphis Railway Company. After a short execu¬ tive session the senate adjourned. In the senate, Thursday, Messrs. Hale and Blackburn were appointed by the vice president as tellers to assist in counting in the electoral vote on the 8th of February. The concu rrent resolution from the legislature of Oregon requesting all the senators from that state to use honorable means to secure the annexa¬ tion of the Hawaiian island to the Uni¬ ted States was presented by Mr. Dolph, and referred to the committee on foreign relations. The resolution heretofore of¬ fered by Mr. Chandler negotiations requesting with the president to enter into the commissioners of the the provissionsl annexation government of Hawaii for of the Hawaii islands was, on Mr. Chan¬ dler’s motion, referred to the committee on ^feign relations. \ - the HOUSE. In the house, Tuesday, on motion of Mr, Wilson, from the committee on the census, a resolution was adopted calling an the secretary of the interior for io /ofiaation as to whether manufacturers BULLOCH TIMES. VOL. I. and refiners of sugar have refused to answer questions propounded what to them by census officials, and if so, steps have been taken to compel them to answer. The house then resumed, in committee of the whole, consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. When the paragraph the making build¬ appropriation to continue ing of the library of congress was reached Mr. Enloe moved an amendment, providing that the chief of engineers wil award all contracts for material to the lowest responsible bidder and preference shall be given to home over foreign pro¬ ducts, when material of equally good quality of home production is offered at equal or lower prices. Mr. would Cogswell be hoped that the amendment involved good adopted, because it doctrines. such The republican protective adopted. Bland amendment was Mr. gave notice that he would demand in the house a yea and nay vote on the amendment relative to marble for the congressional library. It was plain to him that the democratic house, which was opposed to protection, should not put itself up in favor of the Tennes¬ see marble and in opposition to Italian marble. It was a protectionist gentleman proposi¬ tion. Mr. Enloe said that the from Missouri had misinterpreted his amendment. It did not contain any pro¬ vision for the use of Tennessee marble, nor did it contain any principle of pro¬ the tection. Its purpose was to put American citizen on an equal footing with foreigners. In the house, Wednesday morning, in pursuance of the terms of a concurrent resolution, passed by *he house and sen¬ ate, making arrangements for the count¬ ing of the electoral vote, the speaker ap¬ pointed as tellers Chapman on the and part Lodge. of the house Messrs. Both are members of the ''ommittee on the election of president and vice presi¬ dent. The house then went into a com¬ mittee of the whole for the further con¬ sideration of the sundry civil bill. The pending question order was on the jurisdict¬ ional point of raised by Mr. But¬ ler, of Iowa, against the river and har¬ bor items of the bill. It was con¬ tended that the appropriations should have been reported by the committee Mr. on rivers and harbors; but, although Holguin was the foremost of those who made the contention against the power of the committee of which he is chai rmaD, that committee came out victorious, and that item was decided to be a proper one, and further than that, the item withstood a fusilade of objections and came out unscathed. The aggregate of the item is sixteen millions. Without finally act¬ ing on the bill the house adjourned. The house Thursday morning discuss¬ ed for a time the point of order that amendments to the anti-option bill must first be considered in committee of the whole. The speaker then reserved hi9 decision upon the point of order until Friday. Mr. Catchins, from the rules committee, circulation reported the special order and for the bank bill (Andrews Cate silver repeal), giving notice that he would call it up February 9. The anti¬ option bill, with the senate amendments, having been laid before the house, Mr. Hatch moved that the house non-concur in the amendments and agree to the re¬ quest of the senate for a conference. Mr. Bynum raised the point of order that the amendments must be considered in the committee of the whole. Mr. Cum¬ mings introduced a bill to provide for and facilitate commercial and political union between the United States of America and the Dominion of Canada. Consideration of the sundry civil appro¬ priation bill was then resumed. A num¬ ber of amendments were presented but were defeated. The committee then rose and reported the bill to the house. The amendments—except those to which opposition was made—were agreed to in bulk. The Enloe amendment giving preference to domestic marble over for¬ eign marble was lost. The bill then passed, and at 5:10 o’clock the house ad¬ journed. CAPITAL GOSSIP. Mr. Mills’s credentials for his second term day. were presented to the senate Tues¬ The senate committee Thursday morn lng> by a unanimous vote, decided to report the Norfolk and Western bill fa¬ vorably, but with two amendments. There was a hubbub of extra session talking in Washington Thursday. Don Dickinsons’s expression that an extra session might be called to repeal the Sherman law was spread around with amazing rapidity, Tom Watson, of Georgia, introduced a bill in the house Thursday providing for an increase of the national currency and to provide a method homestead for the land distribution laws and of the same by to provide for the payment of said loans and for other purposes. Senator Butler offered in the senate, Thursday, an amendment to the naval appropriation bill empowering the sec¬ retary of the navy to purchase for the naval purposes certain plats of land ad¬ jacent to the United States naval station at Port Royal, provided S. C., an appropriation of $10,000 for this purpose. A 3 a compromise Colonei settlement Livingston, of the sil¬ ver question, of Georgia, has proposed that coined, all the bul¬ the lion in the treasury be that Sherman law be repealed and the gov¬ ernment forbidden to speculate in either silver or gold, and that the owners of silver bullion be allowed to have coined free t^wo million dollars a month. The compromise has been received with some favor. The nomination of Judge Jackson, a; Lamar’s successor, came as a great sur¬ prise to the senators and was received while the senate was in executive session. There were no comments made on the floor, but the republicans gathered about STATESBORO, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY,9,1899. in little groups and discussed ft. With the exception of a few who think the president should have appointed well a re¬ publican, the nomination was re¬ ceived. There will, it is said, be little, if any, opposition to his confirmation. Agricultural Appropriation Bill. The house committee on agriculture completed the agricultural appropriation agreed bill Wednesday. The bill as upon carries an appropriation of $3,189,800, a reduction of $33,360 from the current fiscal year, and $125,700 below the esti¬ mates. The total decrease from last year’s appropriations is really $193,260 as the deficiency bill was passed inspection last year appropriating $160,000 for the of meat and live stock exported and for an inquiry into the manufacture of sugaT. An item of $10,000 proposed for experi¬ mental silk culture was rejected and no provision was made for experiments in rain-making. How the VoieSlootl. The following is the vote in detail on the anti-option bill: Allison, Blackburn,Call, Yeas—Messrs. Chandler, Cockrell, Cullom, Davis, Du¬ bois, Faulkner, Felton, Frye, Gallinger, Gordon, Hale, Hansbrougb, Hawley, Higgins, Hunton, Irby, Kyle, McMillan, Manderaon, Mitchell, Morgan, Morrill, Peffer, Perkins, Squire, Pettigrew, Stockbridge, Proctor, Sherman, Shoup, Voorbees, Walthall, Teller, Turpie, and Wilson—40. Washburn Nays—Messrs. Berry, Blodgett, Butler, Caffery, Cameron, Coke, Daniel, Dawes, Dixon, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Harris, Hill, Hiscock, Hoar, Jones (Arkansas), McPherson, Mills, Palmer, Platt, Pugh, Ransom, Sawyer, Stewart, Vest, Vilas, White and Wolcott—29. Pairs were announced between Car lise and Paddock, Aldrich and Quay, Bate and Allen, Jones, of Nevada, and Saunders, Pasco and Casev, Vance and Warren. Senator Gordon voted for the bill and Senator Colquitt paired in favor of it. The Texas senators both voted against the bill as did the two Arkansas senators, who were instructed by their legislature to vote for it. Though the Missouri sen¬ ators were instructed by the legislature Senator of that state to vote for the bill, Vest made a statement. Though in¬ structed by his legislature to vote for the bill he would" vote against it. Senator Cockerell, however, voted for it. A majority of the southern senators voted against the bill. Terms of the Anti-Option Bill. The anti option bill as passed by the senate, Tuesday, is the one passed by the house of representatives on June 9th, 1892, with various senate amendments thereto. The first section defines the word options to mean a contract or agree¬ ment for the right or privilege to deliver at a future time or within a designated period any of the articles mentioned in section three. The second section defines futures to mean a contract or agreement to sell and deliver at a future time or within a designated period any of such articles wbea the party «o contracting was not the owner of such articles or had not agreed for the right to their future possession. The act, however, is not to apply to any contract to supply national, state or municipal governments with any such articles, nor to contract by farmers and planters for future de¬ livery, nor to agreements to pay or deliv part of the product of land as a com¬ pensation for its use, or as compensation done for work or labor done or to be on same, nor to agreements with farmers or planters to furnish such articles for use or consumption—provided shall that such not con¬ be tracts or agreements by board made or settled for any of trade or exchange. The third sec¬ tion specifies articles to which the bill is to apply, as cotton—raw or unmanufactured—hops, wheat, corn, oats, The rye, barley, pork, lard and bacon. fourth section imposes special taxes, as follows: Dealers in options or futures at $1,000, a year license fee and 5 cents a pound on cotton, hops, pork, lard or bacon and 20 cents a bushel on grain. Sections five to fourteen relate to details for enforcing the tax, and section fifteen provides that the act shall take effect on the 1st of July 1893. Tuesday af¬ The bill passed the senate ternoon by a vote of 40 to 29. A score or more of amendments were offered to the bill as reported from the senate com¬ mittee on agriculture, but none were adopted. The committee on agriculture materially however had amended the bill from the shape in which it came from the house. Thus the bill goes back to the house in an amended form, and must be again acted upon by that body. TO PREVENT RUMORS Is the Purport of a Bill Before the French Chamber of Deputies. A Paris telegram says: At a meeting of the cabinet Tuesday M. Bourgeois, minister of justice, submitted a bill which was prepared unfounded for the punishment of persons c rcu uting financial rumors institu¬ re¬ garding the safety of tion*, thereby ciusing people to with¬ draw their money from savings banks. The bill is highly approved and will by be the brought mem¬ bers of the cabinet, before the chamber of deputies at once, the government demanding urgincy for Its consideration. A COMPRESS EXPLODES And Thirteen Men Probably Killed, Besides a number Badly Injured. The Planters’ compress boilers at Vicks¬ burg, Miss., exploded at 11:30 o’clock Thursday. The compress was torn to pieces. Three men so far have been taken out dead. Ten people are still in the ruins. Seven men have been taken out more or lees injured. LAID TO REST. Tie Hal Remains ol James a Blaine Consigned to tie Toml Amidst One of the Most Impressive Public Demonstrations in His Honor. A Washington special says: Mr. Blaine could not have a private funeral. Every effort was made to comply with his own understood wishes, and with the expressed desire of his family in this regard, but the surging wave of pub¬ lic interest swept over the barriers im¬ posed and made his private funeral one of the most impressive public demonstra¬ tions in honor of the dead. The most eminent men in the nation stood around his bier. The presence of the president and cabinet, the justices of the supreme court, senators and representatives and diplomatic corps was not more waiting signifi¬ cant than the homage of the crowds lined which, in respectful which silence, the fu¬ neral the streets passed. through cortege COVERED WITH FLOWERS. The parlor on the second floor where the body lay in its cedar casket, closely sealed, fairly was embroidered with flo al tributes. The casket rested on a huge bed of roses, violets, palme leaves and ferns, sent by Mrs. Emmons Blaine, about nine feet long by four feet wide, flowers artistically giving the combina¬ tion colors* and designs of an oriental rug. The parlor was far too small for the destinguished mourners who by invi¬ tation sought access to it. president’s party. The president entered, accompanied Hal¬ by Mrs. McKee, private Secretary vice ford and Lieutenant Parker. The president, accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Morton, members of the cabinet and their families and many other distin¬ guished people followed. The cere¬ monies at the house were grand in their simplicity. tho A few minutes after 11 mourners entered and the president and all the dis¬ tinguished concourse rose to pay fitting honor and sympathy to the sorrow of the deceased statesman’s relatives. The fam¬ ily was followed by Rev. Dr. Hamlin, of the Church of the Covenant, whd stand¬ ing beside the casket, in a low tone de¬ livered the Presbyterian prayer for the departed, soul. He returned thanks to ended God typ|itbz <$ilyPthat his power life of this immortality life was a might be begun. He beseeched the Al¬ mighty that comfort might come knavery member of the stricken household, be cAisc one that had gone out of this life had gone to immortality. Let the conso¬ lation that comes from above fall tenderly and sweetly upon them. Speak to them words of comfort such as Thou alone can teach. This we ask in the name of our Savior. Amen. THE MARCH TO TIIE CHl'kCH. This completed the brief, impressive and services, and the casket was closed tenderly borne to the hearse. Solemnly and ia silence the family and mourning guests left the house which has been so frequently invaded by the angel of death, and the sad procession wended its way slowly to the church. Outside the house the street was thronged with spectators the who reverently doffed their hats as pall bearers deposited their sacred bur¬ den in the hearse, while the attendants temporarily buried it under as many .low¬ ers as could be placed thereon. The cor¬ tege then started for the church. A long line of carriages, in which were the family and distinguished personages, followed the hearse in regularly assigned order. The Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, where Mr. Blaine was a pew holder, is a modern edifice, situated at the corner of Connecticut avenue and N street, opposite the British legation and in the heart of the fashionable north¬ western section of the city. Anticipating the tremendous pressure for admission to the church, a squad of police was sent there early in the morn¬ ing to surround the building with a cor¬ don of rope and to exclude all not spec¬ ially invited. The decorations at the church were very rich and effective. The relatives and pall bearers occupied main the first eight rows of seats. In the aisle behind them were seated the presi¬ dent, vice Crisp president, and members cabinet of officers, the Speaker with their families. Inter¬ su¬ preme court mixed with them were Baron Fa vs, dean of the diplomatic corps, Sir Julian Paance fote, British minister; the new Russian minister, Prince Concatu:ene; represent¬ atives of the French, German and Span¬ ish legations and nearly all the ministers from South and Central America as well as many senators and representatives. the In addition to those persons at house among the senators were Sherman, Saw¬ yer. Carey, Yoorhees, Merrill,Washburn, Peffer and Cockrell. Five of the justices of the supreme court, beaded by the venerable Justice Field, arrived early. The others were Justices Gray, Blatcbford, 3rown and Shirsa. Chief Justice Fuller joined them just before the services began. On the left side of the church were the dele¬ gations from the state of Massachusetts, from the Union Philadelphia, League clubs of New York and and from various points in Pennsylvania. Warner Miller, Theodore Rosaevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge and Ex-Representative Dunnell, of Min¬ nesota, were with these delegations. exercises at the church. It was exactly at 12 o’clock when slew and solemn organ music announced the arrival of the funeral party at the door of the church. All present rose and remain¬ ed standing as the funeral party moved down the aisle. Dr. Hamlin, the pastor, walked at the bead of the mourn - NO. 40 era, holding in his hand the open book containing the ritual of the Presbyterian worship, and read as he advanced select¬ ions from the scriptures. CONVEYED TO THE CEMETEItY. When all were seated the deep peals of the organ, and Dr. Hamlim, rising from his place in the pulpit, began the church services with the reading of selections from scripture. Their reading finished, prayer was offered by Dr. Hamlin. At the close of the prayer the funeral pro¬ cession once more formed and the body conveyed to Oak Hill cemetery and there laid to rest GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Developments Daring The Week. A review of the industrial situation in tha South for the week past shows that there ia an evident increase in the volume of industrial de¬ velopment. Six new cotton mills have been or* gamzed during the week, one at Columbia 8. C., with $750,000 capital, another Orangeburg, at Monroe, La., with capitalized $250,000 capital, $100,000, one at and others at a C., at Florence, Ala., distillery Chickamauga has been and charterer Hartwell, Oa. A $100,000 and five flouring mills, four al Weatherford, Texas cotton oil milk, three tanneries and seventeen woodworking establishments have also been re¬ ported Fifty-three . industrifg established tew were or incorporated during the week, together with 6 enlargements of manufactories, and 14 im¬ portant new buildings. Among the new indus¬ tries reported for the week are brick works at Houston, Texas; canning factories Oak at Tenn., Hender¬ son, N. C., Clarksville and Grove, a $60,000 development company at Covington, Ky., and a distillery at Fort Worth, Bladestan, Texas. Flour and grist mills are reported at Ky.. Maiden, N. C., Pikeville, Jonesboro and Willette, Tenn., a fence company at Florence, 8. C., a machine shop at Rock Hill, 8. C„ and oil mills at Beebe and Little Rock, Ark., Mem¬ phis. Tenn., and Cleburne, Texas. Phosphate works are to be established at Al¬ bion, Bartow Shreveport, and Williston, La,, Bristol, Fla., and Tenn., tanner- and ies at Charleston, W. Va. The wood working pliusfts of the week include band saw mills at Dyers burg, Tenn., and Norfolk, Va., a furniture fac¬ tory at Jackson, Tenn., a lumber company shingle at Charleston, S. C., and saw, planing and mills at Renfro, Ala,, San Antonio, Fla., Kra¬ mer, G&., Benton, Ky., Ellisville, Miss., Pote casi and Woodland, N. C., Glen Alpine, 8. C., Blue Spring and Dyersburg, Tenn., and Churchville and Big be Stone built Gap, Cullman,Ala., Va. Water works are to at Aransas Pass, Cameron and Huntsville, Texas. Among the enlargements reported mills are Union stove works at Atlanta, Ga., cotton Ga., Henrietta at and Springs, Ala., Augusta, Pleas¬ Salisbury, N. C., and stave works at Mt. ant, Tenn. The new buildings of the week include a $500,000 court bouse at Fort Worth, Texas, Va,, and one costing $75,000 at Parkersburg, W. an opera house at Clinton, Tenn., and school build¬ ings at Knoxville, Tenn., and Plant City, Fla. —Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) HEADING THEM OFF* An Uncle of Hawaii’s Queen Reaches Washington Ahead of Commission. A Chicago special of Thursday says: John M. Cleghorn, from San Francisco, an uncle of Princess Kaiuliani, the heir apparent to the Hiwaiian throne, stole a march on the Hiwaiian commissioners, who are on their way to Washington to present the claims of the provisional gov¬ ernment. As soon as the news of the revolt be¬ came kDown, Cleghorn packed his grip and took the first train for Washington with the result that he arrived in Chicago forty-eight hours ahead of the commissioners, and will reach the capitol that much in advance of them. His purpose is to present the claims of his niece to the United States govern¬ ment before the commission appointed by the provisional government arrives at the national brother capitol. of 8. Cleghorn, He is a A. whose deceased wife was the sister of the deposed queen Lilinokalani, and whose daughter, the heir apparent, is at a fash¬ ionable school in England. He will lay before President Hwrisen the claims of his neice. Princess Kaiulttni, and will plead for the establishment of a protectorate with the princess as queen. TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS investigating the “Snaps’ 5 Which the State Officers Have Been Enjoying. A Nashville, demand Tenn., sptciii reduction ways: The in justice of Ihe for a the fees of certain state tfficiils was shown Tuesday when the joint commit¬ tee that had investigated the subject pre¬ sent d i*•» report in each bouse of the legislature. r l his report showed that the stale ircasnrer during the past two years received $31,822, out of which .he had paid $5,20(1 expense*, leaving him $26,- 662, or $13,311 per annum. The secre taiy of state in 1891 received $5,146; in 1792 $5,769. 'the c moptroller received in 1891 $6.872;in 1892 $6,299. During these terms these officials received 2,600 fees us comm ssioners for refunding the direct tax, which will not acruc to any other official bereaftir. HORRIBLE MINE DISASTER. Over One Hundred Hen Lose Thier Lives in an Explosion. News comes from Buda PesSh, Hun¬ gary, of a fearful explosion which took place in a coal mme at Todod, near Grau, Friday morning. The cause of the dis¬ aster is a mystery. Fire broke out im¬ mediately after the explosion and is still burning. About 150 men were in the mine at the time of the explosion. The shaft waa not impaired and The the cage bod¬ was sent down almost at once. ies of nineteen men who had been killed by the shock were found near the bot¬ tom of the shaft and brought up. The rescuing party were unable to reach the bottom. About 180 men are still In the mine, and no doubt is entertained that all are dead. 1 Cow Piai Is the only Piano manufactured in the <South, Buy it and keep your money at home. Made and sold by MILES & STIFF, ATLANTA, GA. THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH Rotes ol Her Protress and Prosperity Briefly Epitomized And Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. A Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday special appoint¬ says: Jackson Smith was on ed permanent receiver of the Morristown and Cumberland Gap railroad on the pe¬ tition of a majority of the stockholders. A Dallas, Texas, special says the jury in the case of Dr. R. H. Jones Thursday, brought in a verdict of guilty, giving him a life sentence. In October last at a confederate reunion Dr. Jones killed W. G. Veale. Bills passed the North Carolina legis¬ lature Tuesday chartering four railways —the Winston, Salem and Charleston, the Burlington and Southwestern, the Atlantic and Ohio, and the Virginia and 'North Carolina. ~ Seven deaconesses were ordained in St.John’s Episcopal church at Mobile, Ala., Thursday morning by Bishop P. H. Wilmer in accordance with the new canon of the Protestant Episcopal church. They take service in the church home for orphan boys and girls. A Washington special says: In the matter of the adjustment of the grant for the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company of Alabama, under the act of September 29, 1890, Secretary Noble, on Wednes¬ day,decided that the company is entitled to lands only for the constructed portion of the road between Girard and Troy, amounting to 302,233 acres. A Raleigh dispatch of Tuesday North says: The agricultural department of Carolina is in receipt of reports from the wheat section of the state, which show that winter wheat and oats look uncom¬ monly well. Snow has protected general' them from the severe weather. The outlook for all the crops is extremely fa¬ vorable and farmers are very hopeful. A Washington special of Thursday says: Robert 8. Sharp, of the Chattanooga di¬ vision, has been appointed inspector ia charge of the Chattanooga division, em¬ bracing the states of Florida, South Ca¬ rolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The appointment is said to. be a most excellent on.e. Mr. Sharp is considered One of the most skilled and competent officers of the bureau of depredations. The house judiciary committee, Tu< day, ordered a favorable report on fcl Benatc^rcsohitk^aujj^jJriziog from thYftpjnVpmtioB Lfif nirffii . gust, cceds 1890. of the to public apply lands a portion to 'more of ufl$|9g "tSi a plete endowment and support, of the » L ricultural and mechanical arts cotyeg* m t* the state of Virginia. mieundersjlandfipr The legislature of Virginia, through department, a adjpurnewv with the interior without giving the requirt d assent to tjio act of 1890. * In the Alabama senate, staid Senator and Inger, sedate of body St. Clair, by offering startfeafrj fe j a. r mj resolution by which the proposition ameajflfoia be submitted to the people of article eight of the constitution by 1i| addition of section eight to that artfc This amendment proposes to give general assembly the authority to the suffrage to all women in the state Alabama over the age of twenty-owl years. The right to vote is limited t® . municipal elections and to elections whiefe are held involving the right to make, sell or dispose of malt or spirituous liquors, A Raleigh, N. C., special says: There was a very important meeting, Thurs¬ day, of state officers, railway commis¬ sioners and legislative committees to pre¬ will pare the most important bid which come up at the present session of the leg¬ islature, It is to repeal acts wh : cb give partial exemption from taxation to the Cheraw and Salisbury, the North Caro¬ lina and the Wilmington and Weldon railways. There will be a great fight over this bill, but it is certain to pass, aSj a decision has already been made that all exemptions must be which removed. The will* to¬ tal of property on the state get tax under the terms of this bill ia $2,520,000. the A Jeff meeting Davis of Monument the board association of directors wa» ofj held at Richmond, Va., Wednesday. The following resolution was adopted the r “Resolved, That it is the «euse of board'that the remains of President Da¬ vis be removed from New Orleans to Richmond and re-enterred in Holiywoodi on May 30th, Hollywood memorial day^ and that the president of the association be authorized to appoint a committee of five, of which he shall be chairman, to consult with Mrs. Davis and the New Orleans authorities, and to arrange all other details necessary to make said re¬ moval and interment.” The most disastrous fire that has vis¬ ited Huntsville, Ala., in forty years, oc¬ curred Thursday night. What was known as the Struve block was totally destroyed. The damage is estimated at $50,000: The block was occupied with the law of¬ fices of Laurence Cooper, Ben P. Hunt, and W. E. Browo, drug stores of J. B. Humphrey, jewelry store of E. Rarthous, Western Union telegraph office, doctors* offices of W. E. Wheeler! C. A. Robinson and W. 11. Buxretf, United States com¬ missioner's office, H. M. McCullough, commission merchant, of Jarac* H. Mar¬ tin, dental office* of Drs. J. S. Hill, An¬ derson, Pokings Bros., and the saloon of W. F. Struve. The amount of insurance is not yet known. Fruitless Balloting. J A Washington special of Tueednjr •ays: The senatorial situation remains Nebraska unchanged and in Montana. Wyoming, Washington^