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VOL. I. General Comity Directory. SUPEKIOTt COURT. N. L. Hutchins, Jutge; R. R. Rus sell, Solicitor General. Tho superior oourt meets the first Mondays in March and September. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. J. D. Spence, J. T. Lamkin, S. L. Hinton, James S. Dobbins, Janies T. Jordan. Regular quarterly sessions first Monday in March, Juno and De cember. JUSTICE COURTS. Ben Smiths— J. T. Wood, J. P. ; J. A. Hawthorne, N. P. Court third Sat urday. Berkshire— William M. Jordan, J. P.; J. R. Cain, N. P. Court third Saturday. Bat Creek —C. D. Jacobs, J. P.; J T. Mcllvany, N. P. Court first Sat urday. Cates —T. A. Pate, .T. P., , Webb, N. P. ; court second Cains— T. J. Kilgore, J. Pool, X. P.; court tiiinl Satu^fl I>' i.i iit i '. ! I i. . ' Spence, N. P.; court the fourth Saturday. Harbins —A. J. Bowen, J. P.; Robt. Ethridge, N. P.; court Saturday before secoud Sunday. Hoo Mt.—C. S. Maffett, J. P., J. R. Roberts, N. P.; court fourth Saturday. Goonwifyi—J. T. Baxter, J. P., C. P. Jacksojfi, N. P.; court Friday before fourth Saturday, ■MjAwbencevilbe— W. M. Langley, J. H\, J. M. Mills, N. P.; court first Fri day. Martins— J. R. Baxter, J. P., J. F. Wilson, N. P.; court fourth Saturday. Pinckneyville —A. J. Martin, J.P., J.W. Haynie, N. P.; court Wednesday before third Saturday. Pucketts— W. S. ilnnnali, J. P., C. B. Pool, N. P.; court second Saturday. Rockbridge —J. A. Johnson, J. P., E. J. Mason, N. P. ; court Friday be fore tho third Saturday. Sugar Hiun—J. E. Cloud, J. P., J. A. Higgins, N. P. ; court Friday be fore the thir^Saturday. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary— R. B. Whitworth. h. . Clerk Superior Court —D. T. Cain. | Sheriff —T. A. Hasslett; Deputy •Sheriff W. J. Tribble. [ Tax Corrector —S. C. Martin; Tax Receiver, D. O. Hawthorne. .Treasurer — A. W. Moore. Surveyor— R. N. Maffet. Coroner— J. T. Hadawoy. city government. Mayor— S. J. Winn. Treasurer— J. D. Spenoe. Clerk —J. M. Mills. Marshal —A. N. Robinson. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF MAILS. Arrival— G., C. &N. (East bound) —8:49 a. in., 6:25 p. m. West bound 6 ;25 p. m. Departure— 7:4o a. m., 8:30 a. m., 6:00 p. m. Sunday Mail— Arrives 8:49 a. m., 6 :25 p. m. Leave Office—-8 :50 a. m., 6:00p. m. The time given in tho foregoing is Eastern Time, which is 38 minutes faster than sun time. FOREIGN ORDERS. Money orders will be issued from Lawrenceville postoffice on any coun try in the world. For cost of issuing apply to postmaster. POSTAL NOTES. The fee on a postal note is 3 cents. No note for over $4.99 issued. EDUCATIONAL. County School Commissioner —W. T. Tanner. Board of Education —S. T. McEl roy, Chairman ; L. F. McDonald, M. E. Ewing, J. F. Espy, T. L. Harris; meets subject to call of County School Commissioner. CHURCHES. Methodist— Rev. W. A. Parks, P. C. Services first and third Sundays. Baptist— Rev. J. B. S. Davis, P. C. Services second Sunday and Saturday before in each month. Presbyter* an— Rev. Chalmers Era ser, P. C. Services fourth Sunday in each month. EPWORTH LEAGUE. R. W. Peeples, Pres. ; Miss Anna Born, first vice Pres.; Miss Annie Winn, second vice Pres. ; Miss Cora Holland, third vice Pres.; T. M. Hol land, Seo. ; W. J. Peeples, Treas. ; Miss Annie Winn, organist; meets every Friday night. I. o. o. F. —no. 21. Officers —W. INI. Langley, N. G.; ■t. K. Powell, V. G.; K.B. Whitworth, ' Sec. ; L. Brand, P. Sec. ; J.H. Shackle ford, Treas; W. E. Brown, Ward.; C. H. Brand, Cond.; S. P. McDaniel, S. S. G; A. N. Robinson, O. S. G.; T. A. Haslett, R. S. N. G.; L. F. Mc- Donald, H. S. N. G.; W. T. Tanner, R. S. V. G. ; L. E. Winn, L. S. V. G.; T. D. Collins, R. S. S.; C. J. Born, L. S. S. ; W. A. Davis, Chap. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. Officers —C. H. Brand P. D.; R. J. Bagwell, Die.; L.M. Brand, Vice Die.; M. A. Born, Asss’t. Vice Die. ; J. P. Byrd, Reporter; E. K. Rainey, Finan. Rep.; J. L. Moon, Chaplain ; D. T. Cain, Treas.; J. H. Shackleford, Sen tinel ; W. A. Dt vis Guide. Meets Semi month^ —first and third Friday nights—at Odd-Fellows Hall. MASONIC. Lodge No. 131 (Lawrenceville) — Officers: Jas. D Spence, W. M.; S. A. Haygood, S. W.; J. M. Patterson, J. W.; J. K. Jackson, S. D„ ; S. A. Townley, J. I>. ; W. H. Patterson, Tyler; meets first Tuesday in each month. Mt. Vernon Chapter No. 39, R. \ • A. M.—J. D. Spence, H. P. ;J. T. VlcElvany, K. ; W. L. Vaughan, 8.; S. H. Hagood, C. H.; B. L. Patterson, ■ S.; J. M. Patterson, R. A. C.; L. Master Ist V.,; W. J. t«i, Master 2d V. ; A. T. Patterson, 3d V.; J. W. Mitchell, Sic. on Friday beiore tin- tlnrd Sat ■Pf ot each mouth. BLrcst in the Lord to deliver you Ha danger, but never put Him to a ■by thrusting yourself into it un- Kssarily, The Lawrenceville News. COMiIIKSSIONAL. DAILY Ol J ■ I to ir, at least ecess, were to do busi ittee called bill to pre j collection counties or lroad com of United rsies affect lough the rated by a jointed by House bill the crime irs, officers or agents of national banks, fixing the term of imprisonment for the em bezzlement of less than SIOO,OOO at from five to ton years, and for the em bezzlement of more than SIOO,OOO at from ten to twenty years, was also passed, os was also the bill to remove certain restrictions now imposed upon the sale of leaf tobacco by farmers who produce it. The Tucker joint resolution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people was discussed for three hours. Without action the house, at 5:20, took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be for the con sideration of private pension bills. Immediately after the reading of the journal in the house, Saturday, Mr. Rowers, republican, of California, de manded the regular order, thus cutting off tho transaction of any miscellaneous business. The speaker announced the regular order to be a vote on the Tucker joint resolution, providing for the elec tion of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. As this was a proposition involving a change of the constitution, the affirmative votes of two-thirds of the members were necessary to its passage. The yeas and nays were demanded and the re suit was —yeas 137. nays 49, Two thirds hnving voted in the affirmative, the joint resolution was declared to have been passed, accompanied by up pluuso. It was the second time the house had thus declared itself on the question. In the house, Monday, a Dill to re vise the boundary between the eastern and western judicial districts of North Carolina and fixing the times of hold ing court at. Raleigh, Wilmington, New berne and Elizabeth City, was passed. AH' further business was blocked on account of no quorum and the house, at 1 .30 o’clock, adjourned until Tues day. In the house. Tuesday, the bill di recting the re employment of railway postal clerks who were dismissed from March 15th to May, 1889, which came over from Saturday and Monday as unfinished 1 nisi ness, was passed, yeas 140; nays 53. The order of business for the remainder of the week was re ported from the committee on rules and agreed to. Mr. Talbert, of South Carolina, introduced the following resolution : “Resolved, That the com. uiittee oil coinage, weights and meas ures, be requested to bring in nt. once a bill for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, and that the commit, toe on banking and currency be re quested at once to report, back to the house some one or all of the measures before it looking to a chunge in the monetary system.’’ THE SENATE. Friday’s session of the sennte was s veritable volcano in full eruption. If belched forth molten lava, amt strewed hot ashes everywhere. It was indig iiant with Mr. Cleveland, and it hcsi tated not to express its indignation and determination not to he bulldozed by what it characterizes as impertinent executive interference. Though there was no action — only talk—such scenes of intense excitement, of bitterness, of eruption, have seldom been witnessed in the senate chamber. Mr. Smith, of New Jersey, the man who has made the fight for tho sugar trust, started it by a speech predicting that it would the senate bill or no bill. Then came David Hill in the role of champion of President Cleveland. Mr. Hill made a speech that will go down in history as one of the most remark able efforts of the century. He spoke for free raw material, endorsing what Mr. Cleveland said for that. Heulog ized the president for his bold, fearless stand for free raw material, then roast ed him for his stand in favor of a duty on sugar and showed up his inconsistent positions on the income tax, and final ly admonished theseuate to recede from its amendments on the grounds that if it did not, and the house should ac cept them, the president would veto the bill. The entire speech wns a most remarkable utterance. It made his senatorial colleagues as mad as hor nets that he should have endorsed tne president’s abuse of the senate, but the representatives who were present listened with expressions of thorough approval and delight. Then Senator Vest, who is one of the senate con ferees, arraigned the president. He simply roasted Mr. Cleveland for his in terference, and predicted that the senate bill would become a law or the Mc- Kinley bill would remain. Senators Gray, Vilas, Caffrey and Blanchard consumed the balance of the day. All except Mr. Vilas held that the senate bill must stand. Mr. Vilas wanted the one-eighth of a cent differential duty in favor of tho sugar trust stricken off. The debato during the day indicated that the senate is determined at this time to stand by its bill. The excitement in and around the senate chamber Monday was much greater than even on Friday last, when action was expected to be taken on disagreeing to the conference report on the tariff bill. An hour before the time of meeting, the doors of the pub lic galleries were besieged by crowds striving to obtain admittance, and by noon, when the proceedings began, there was not a vacant seat in the galleries except in the diplo matic gallery, and there were hun dreds of people in the hulls and cor ridors and on the marble stairways who were unable to get iuside the chamber: In the absence of the viee | ■ i • I.iii' Si iIS 111 . ' ' pp : ' . ' : MKT ' Ijr : jflk every r>rancli and he hoped the situation would be met as became American senators, and ns became patriotic citizens. Senator Gorman’s speech was in tho main a de fense of Ins position, and that of his conservative followers, with occasional attacks of more than usual bitterness from time to time upon I’residcnt Cleveland and wliat lie called "the com mune,” for their slanders and asper sions on the senate. He assumed that Mr. Cleveland’s statement to several senators that he wanted a bill passed, committed him finally to the Gorman compromise bill. From this premise he argued that the president's letter was an act of usurpation, character izing it, as “the iriostextraordinai y,un called for and unwise letter ever penned by a president of the United States.” Mr. Gorman called on Mr. Vest to verify his broad statements. Amid intense excitement Mr. Vest somewhat hesitatingly arose and told wliat he knew of the matter. Mr. Vest said that Mr. Carlisle had told him that the greatest calamity tiiat could happen to lhc democratic party of the country would he the failure to pass the tariff hill. He also called on Mr. Har rison for nu explanation of his under standing of the president’s policy, and Mr. Harrison told of several interviews he had with the president. The presi dent, like every democratic senator, was not perfectly satisfied with the bill, but he was in favor of the senate hill as a great iiupiovement over the existing law. It was 12:27 Tuesday before Mr. Harris, of Tennessee, called up the conference report in the senate, and then, much to everybody’s surprise, Mr. Hill arose and, with characteristic deliberation, told the senate that he agreed with tho senator from Mary land (Mr. Gorman) that the country was confronted by a great crisis. He then started to sketch the events Lad ing up to the deadlock between 'he senate and the house. Ho advised the course of receding from tire senate amendments, as hovhud pro posed, and not to stick blindly itwd ob stinately to the senate provisions, Hill concluded his speech at 1 :52 niniT applause from the galleries and on the the senate. He was followed • • of Louisiana, who of-. providing tkM the somite conferees shall stand on the bounty features of the sijjJß schedule. jfl In the senate, Wednesday, fereuce rek rt on the legislatiaß • rutivi- iiiiMjmlii'ial iij !' r "jgmßl was agreed To. At 1. • port on | / ! tin ' ' . £ l m „ _ : B i l . I. e SBHhBBBhSHP Ms Jg HgS ■ Attention in. re to the ,| s l, its labor during the nrenmripi* Accounts in gome measure for tbi-. The pig iron market is very dull yet and prices sluggish, hut lumber is a little better, coal iu good demand, mid the textile plants, furniture nulls and flooring nulls veiy busy. Forty-five new industries wore renor'ed dur ing the week, together with ten enlargements and thiriy-six new buildings. Among the moat prominent new industries are $35,030 brick works to be established at Plaqtieuiioo, 1,a., by Altemus Bros., Limited; car works mid a co:- ton-tie factory at Gillett, Ark., and a cotton compress to be erected at Mindt-n, La., by A. Goodwill and associates. The Koyse Electr o Light Company, Keyser. W. Va., capital $30,- 000; the Great Kanawha Falls Water Pow: r Electrical Manufacturing Company, Kmiwha Falls. W. Va_ capital $2,000,000; tin-P rfeetion Lock Company, Fordyce, Ark., capital SIOO,- (.00, and tho Chickasaw Asphalt Company, Fort Worth, Texas, witli a capital of $500,000. Tho Associate Phosphate Company lias been organ ized at Ocala, Fla., with a capital of $100,000; the Robert Mcßride Company will locate a $25,000 oil mill at Newnan, Gs., and the lied Cypress Lumber Company, capital SIOO,OIO, has been chartered to build a bind saw m il at Patterson, La. There were also reported bottling works at Jacksonville, Fla., brick works at Broadway, Va.; canning factories at Helena. Ark.. Mount Pleasant, Ga., and Winchester, Tenn. Cat works to be erected at Gillett, Ark.; electrical plants at Houston, Texas, and Richmond, Va.; fiber works at Winchester. Tcun.; impl* meat works at Nistersvdle, W. Va,; machine shop at Jackson, Tehn.; marhlo works at Northporf, Ala-, and mines to be opened at Alex rdna.Va. Plant for special macbmerv at Covington, Ky ; mineral wool factory at Moundsville, W. Va.; phosphate plant at Inverness, Fla.; stove w. rks at Waco, Texas; saddle factory at Lampasas, Texas, and soap works at Savannah, Ga. A cot on gin will be established at Culloden, Ga.; cotton mills at Gillett, Ark., Lansingburg. N C.; Maxton, N. C., and Waco, Texas. A knit ting mill will probably be located at Ma lison, Ga., and furniture manufacturing companies have been organized at Jackson and Memphis, Tenn.; lumber mills will be erected at Ciiipley, Fla., and sawmills at Hamilton, N. C., and Monroe, La. Among the enlargements reported are flour ing mills at Monroe, N C., a leather factory at Gainesville, Ga., sugar mills at New Iberia, La., cotton mills at La Fayette. Ga., and knitting mills at Martinsburg, W. Va., lumber miils at Glade, Miss., will be enlarged, saw and planing mills at Abbeville, Gi., and Walburg, N. C., and shingle mills at Abbeville. Ga. The most prominent new buildings are a four-story business bouse at Kuoivdle. Tenn.. and SIO,OOO buildings at Louisville, Ky., and Bhepherdsville Ky., a $30,000 cub building at New Orleans, La., a $40,000 hotel at Ih-Land, Fla., and a $35,000 hotel at New Orleans, La., a $250,000 opera house at Jacksonville, Fla., and school buildings to cost $20,000 a. Waco, Texas. A Sllll* WItKCItKI) Ami Her Crew of Twelve Men tio ltowu to Death. Word has been received at San Francisco of the total wreck of the British bark Willi in Lelacbur, off Cape St. Jumes, on Provost island, six hundred miles from Singapore. The vessel left Singapore for Hong Kong May 4th, to load for San Fran cisco. Her bones are now bleaching on the rocks off Cape St. James, while the bodies of her crew, are strewn along,JPhe shore. Out of a crow of twelve not a man lives to tell the tale. The >srew consisted of four English men eight Chinese. LAWRENCEVILLE.GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1894. CLEVELAND’S VIEWS REGARDING THE TARIFF SET FORTH IN A STRONG LETTER. A Document Which Will Coin ill aml Considerable Attention. The following is a summary of 'Presi dent Cleveland’s letter to Representa tive Wilson on the tariff situation, which Mr. Wilson read as a part of his remarks in the house Thursday af ternoon: “Executive Mansion, Washington, July 19, 1894.—(Personal.) —Hon. William L. Wilson—My Dear Sir: The certainty that a conference will be ordered between the two houses of congress for the purpose of adjusting differences on the subject of tariff leg islation makes it also certain that you will be again called on to do hard ser vice in tho cause of tariff reform. “My public life has been so closely related to the subject; I have so long ed for its accomplishment, and have so often promised its realization to my fellowing-countrymen as a result of their trust and confidence in the dem ocratic party that I hope no excuse is necessary for my earnest appeal to you that in this crisis that you strenuously insist upon party honesty and good faith and a sturdy adherence to demo cratic principles. I believe these ab solutely necessary to the continuation of democratic existence. “I cannot rid myself of the feeling that this conference will present the best, if not the only, hope of true de mocracy. Indications point to its ao tion as the reliance of those who desire the genuine frnitiou of democratic ef fort, the fulfillment of democratic pledges and tho redemption of demo cratic promises to the people. To reconcile differences in the details comprised within the fixed and well defined lines of principle will not be the task of the conference, but as it seems to be, its members will also have in charge the question whether democratic principles them selves are to be saved or abandoned. There is no excuse for mistaking or misapprehending the feeling and tho temper of the rank and file of the de mocracy. They are downcast under the assertion that their party fails in ability to manage the government, and they are ayjjrehensive that efforts to bring out jrariff reform may fail, but Unbare mlfcih more downcast and ap- P’ehefl^MW 1 their fear that demo- may in- surrendered. 'h' .v cannot than to look with ionli- B'jiH"! those w lio, witli you, ' ' ' t 11. ll r'.'i.rm BBfftk"’ ' *'. v 'l'-nio „Bfc This Quail B deuce is m Be liF ' H§ ■T pr. Bjms*> ■ BKiisPyiii- pffilgi democratic our of the Ihuse i* the which it means party perfidy and party * will lie submitted to >it ' tfClii.-h etui,,, ij, s,b iii',- Wo our Bt ' r Hi t Tion Oi l be accordeSJWr people and our manu facturers as soon asthedemocraticparty was invested with the power to deter mine the tariff policy of the country. Tho party now Jias the powor. We arc as certain today ns we have ever been of the great benefit that would accrue to the country from the inau guration of this pe’icy and nothing has occurred to release ns from our obligation to secure this advantage to our people. It must b« admitted that no tariff measure can accord with dem ocratic principles and promises, or bear a genuine democratic badge that does not provide for free raw material. * * * It is quite apparent that this question of free raw material does not admit of adjustment on any middle ground, since their subjection to any rate of taxation, great or small, Is a like violation of democratic principle and democratic good faith. “I hope that you will not consider it intrusive if I eay something in re lation to another subject which can hardly fail to be troublesome to the conference. I refer to the adjustment of tariff taxation on sugar. Under our party platform, and in accordance with our declared party purposes, sugar is a legitimate and logical article of reve nue taxation. Unfortnuately, how ever, incidents have accompanied cer tain stages of the legislation which will be submitted to the conference that have aroused in connection with this subject a natural democratic animosity to the methods and manipulations of trusts and combinations. I confess to sharing in this feeling, yet it seems to me we ought, if possible, to suffi jiently free ourselves from prejudice to enable us coolly to weigh the con siderations which in formulating tariff legislation ought to guide our treat meut of sugar as a taxable article. While no tenderness should be enter tained for trusts, and while I am de cidedty opposed to granting, under guise of taxation, any opportu nity to further their peculiar methods, I suggest that wo ought not to be driven.away from tho demo cratic principle and policy which leads to the taxation of sugar by the fear, quite likely exaggerated, that in car rying out thiH principle and policy we may indirectly and inordinately en courage a combination of sugar refill ing interests. 1 know that in preset conditions this is a delicate subje.!, and I appreciate the depth and strength of the feeling which its treatment has aroused. * « * “In the conclusion of the conference touching the numerous itenrs whict will be considered the jjeo/Je are not afraid that their interests t 111 bo neg lected. They know that tho result, so far as these are concerned, will be to placo home necessaries and comforts easier within their reach and to instiro bettor and surer compensation to those who toil. “We know that a tariff covering all the varied interests and conditions of a country as vast asoursmustof neces sity be largely the result of honorable adjustment and honorable compromise. I expect very few of ns can say when our measure is perfected that all fea tures are entirely as we would prefer. “You know how much I deprecated the incorporation into tl.e proposed bill of the income tax feature. In a matter of this kind, however, which does not violato a fixed and recognized democratic doctrine we are williug to defer to the judgment of a majority of our democratic brethren. I think there is a general agreement that this is the party duty. This is more pal pably apparent tv hen we realize that the business of our country timidly stands and watches for the result of our efforts to perfect tariff legislation ; that a quick and certain turn of pros perity waits upon a wise adjustment, and that a confiding people still trust in our hands their prosperity and well being. “The democracy of the country pleads earnestly for tho speedy com pletion of the tariff legislation which our representatives have undertaken, but they demand not less earnestly that no stress of necessity shall tempt those they trust to tho abaudoumeut of democratic principle. “Yours very truly, “Groveb Cbeveland.” NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY EPITOMIZED IN PUNG ENT PARAGRAPHS. Chronicling Events of Special Interest to Our Readers. The Kentucky JellicoCoal company, whose miners are on a strike, adver tise for one hundred able-bodied ne groes to take the place of the strikers. They will work negroes in the future. At a meeting of the Savannah Com mercial Club, composed of the busi ness men of the city, resolutions were adopted urging Georgia’s senators and representatives to do all in their power to push forward the passage of the tariff bill. The Mobile and Ohio Railway Com pany at Jackson, Tenn., have issued orders that all members of tho Ameri can Railway Union in its employ xvould be immediately dismissed. This af fects several hundred men on the Jack sou and St. Louis division. The congressional convention at Austin, Texas, Saturday renominated Joe Sayers for congress by a rising vote. A resolution endorsing the course of President Cleveland in main- the penso and security of the ÜBerniiiypt was mmuinionsly adopted. S. C., special says: It is rumored that Governor Tillman has announced that the state dispensary would be reopened on August. Ist, and that tho law would bo rigidly en forced. It is also reported that lie will issue a proclamation to that effect. The North Carolina Steel anil Iron Company's property at Greensboro has been purchased by a syndicate, represented by Gov. Black, of Penn sylvania, and Mr. A. A. Arthur, of Tennessee. It will hereafter lie known as the Greensboro Iron and Steel Com pany. R. Det Jones, the ox-postmaster at Warrior, Ala., who disappeared mys teriously several weeks ago, has been arrested at Birmingham on a charge ofembezzlirig funds. After a trial be fore Commissioner Wilson lie was held to bail in the sum of $2,000. He was committed to jail. At Columbia, S. C., Tuesday, habeas corpus proceedings were brought be fore Supreme Justice Pope, formerly uttorney general under Tillman, in a ease of the state against Silver, of Or angeburg, charged with violating the dispensary law in June last. The jus tice, iu a verbal decision, held that the act of 1893 was still in force, and that it had not been acted upon by the su preme court. A Jaekson, Miss., special says: Mr. William J. Burns, of the secret service, and special agent appointed to confer with the governor about the special warrants, lias arrived iu the city. After learning that the whole matter had been submitted to Secretary Carlisle by Gov ernor Stone, through Senator George, he has nothing to say in the matter, but will await the decision of the sec retary. The southbound passenger train from Dullus, over tile Texas and Pacific road, dtte at Texarkana, Ark., nt 7 :15 o’clock p. m., Monday, was wrecked near Queen City, Tex., shortly before 6 o’clock. It is reported that seven people were killed us a result of the accident. Among those who met death were the engineer, fireman, ex press messenger and a negro porter. Three passengers were also reported killed. The American Protective Association is beginning to cut a very important figure in the political situation at Chat tanooga. At first, the-organ illation was ridiculed and no attention Was paid to it, but now the fact has developed that it has over one thousand members in the city, which is sufficient to decide the county elections either way. A ticket is being formulated by the American Protective Association lead ers and it will receive the full vote of the body. Monday afternoon Deputy Sheriffs Charles M. Cole and James Smith, with warrants for the arrest of Charles Hudson for complicity in the massacre at Slope 3. near Pratt City, Alu., went to the house of Hudsyn’s father, near Coalburg. No sooner did the deputies appear than the Hudsons opened tire on them, Cole falling dead nt the first fire and Smith falling mortally wounded. The alarm was given, dur ing which the Hudsons escaped to the mountains near by. Switchmen Strike. All the switchmen on the Texas and Pacific went out at New Orleans Sat urday night in sympathy with the strikers on the Queen and Crescent, who were not taken back astir the col lapse of the strike. The local officials of the Texas and Pacific are doing the switching, and there seems no indica tion of violence, _ SUMMARY OF NEWS. CONDENSATION OF INTERESTING OCCURRENCES Which Happen From Day to Day Throughout the Busy World. A dispatch from Omaha, Neb., says: Master Workman (Sovereign will tako part in the Alabama statu campaign. The other members of tho Knights of Labor executive hoard, with tho ex ception of Hayes, will stump Nebraska for two weeks. It is officially announced that in consequence of the prevalence of chol era the mobilizing of the reserves and the customary autnmn military ma neuvers iu the viciuity of St. Peters burg, Russia, will not take plueo this year. The National Cash Register Com pany, of Dayton, Ohio, has entered suit iu the United States circuit court nt Hartford, Conn., against the Hub inger-Carroll Cash Register Company, of New Haven, Conn., for infringe ments of valuable cash register pat ents. At a meeting of the local American Railway Union nt Butte, Mont,, the strike on the Montana division was declared off. It was the las road in the state to hold out. The Northern Pacific and Union Pacific are in full operation, though trains are running under military escort. The Chicago express No. 12, on the Big Four, collided with a freight, en gine nt Griffiths, 0., killing the fire man on the freight engine and two tramps on the head end of the mail car; also badly injuring Engineer Duf fer on the freight engine. Several passengers were also injured. The Italian government has received information from Africa that a battle was fought Tuesday between a force of Mahdists 300 strong and a detachment of Italiau troops near Kassel a. Tho Mahdists were defeated and the Italians took possession of Kassalo, which they occupy. The Italian loss was slight. The Southern Railway and Steam ship Association at a meeting at Coney Island, resolved to increase the rate on first-class freight between New York and Atlanta, Ga. The rate lias been 60 cents since the spring meeting of the association. It has now bocu fixed at $1.14 per hundred. The meeting adjourned until August 22. Carl Siewers writes to the London Standard that he is receipt of advices from Norway that leave littlo doubt that the Wellman arctic expedition is lost. Experienced sailors just return ed from Spitzbergen say they are of the sumo opinion, and Colonel Field ing, who accompanied C'i plain Nitres’ expedition iu 1875, slinros this belief. Debs and ctber officers of the Amer ican Railway Union met with a deci ded reverse at Chicago Tuesday in their fight against the prosecution for con tempt in the United States court. The court decided that the answer filed by the defendants is not a sufficient reply to the charge of contempt, and the motion of their attorneys thnt they bo discharged be overruled. The Allen Pnper Car Wheel Com pany started up its works at Pullman Monday morning. Only two of the fifty employes of the Allen company returned to work. The managers of tho works say they are not discouraged by the failure of more men to report for work, and insist thnt the men have been restrained from reporting at tho opening hour through fear of violence. The members of tho Southern Rail way and Steamship Association say that the recent meetings have resulted in securing a most satisfactory agree ment for the maintenance of rates. The essential feature is the provision that when any line has evidenco that a company is giving a rebate or cutting rates, it can, on presentation of evi dence to the commissioner, demand a gemrul reduction in the rates, all round, to meet the case. The big shops of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have closed down, throwing out of employment about 400 men. General Superintendent Gabel says: “The unfortunate financial condition that the receivers of this company find themselves in as a direct result of the recent strike of the American Railway Union, makes it necessary that we close the works at this point indefi nitely.’’ A New York dispatch says; Charles Broadwuy Rouss, the millionaire mer chant, has decided to givea competitive prize to art students of southern birth, who have been resident in Paris not longer than two yenrs. Mr. Rottss is a southerner and he limits the compe tition to those born south of the Ma son and Dixon line. The prize will be sufficient to maintain the winner for two years, by which time he is expected to prove his ability, if ho has any. THREE FIREMEN KIDDED An«l Two Hundred Horses Perish in the Flames. Early We dnesday morning fire was discovered in (he warehouse and sta bles of the George W. Knox Express Company, occupying over a quarter of a block at Second and B streets, northwest, Washington, D. 0. Ihe building ftnd contents were destroyed, and two hundred and five horses were burned to death. The Adams Express company's stabics, adjoining the Knox building to the north, were almost entirely consumed but tho horses were removed. Plight two-story houses in the alley north of the Knox building and two small houses back of the Adams stable, were destroyed. Three firemen were killed by falling walls, and four seriously injured. One of the Knox stable employes was badly injured and will probably die. The warehouse was packed from basement to roof with furniture and merchan dise, many families having their entire household goods stored in the build ing. Tho loss is übout half a million dollais. Cotton Picking in Texas. Cotton picking in south Texas be gan in earnest Monday morning. Al ready about fifty bales of new cottou in different sections have been picked, out. Cottou iu general looks better than ever known iu Texas, and well posted authorities predict a crop of 2,600,000 bales, _____ MILL OPEN AGAIN. SOUTH CAROLINA’S DISPENSAR IES TO RESUME BUSINESS. Governor Tillman Issues a Proelaina ■mition to That Kdect. A Columbia special says: Gov erner Tillman promised in his cam paign speeches a few days ago to re open tho dispensaries the Ist day of August. Monday he issued tho fol lowing proclamation: “State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber.—Whereas, under tho pro visions of an act to prohibit the manu facture and sale of intoxicating liquors, as beverage, within the state, except as herein provided, approved December 24, 1892, the state assumed control of tho legal liquor trnffio in South Carolina, commencing July 1, 1893; and, whereas, the said policy and pur pose of the state to permit the sale of liquor by and through the state’s offi cers only, wns reaffirmed by an act, approved December 23, 1893, entitled ‘An Act to Declare the Law in Refer ence to and Further Regulate tho Use, Sale, Consumption, Transportation and Disposition of Alcoholic Liquids or Liquors Within tho State of South Carolina, and to Police tho Same;’ and whereas, the supreme court of tho state of South Cnrolina, by a decision ren dered the 19th of April, 1894, de clared tho first act, above mentioned, unconstitutional, oxcept ono small proviso of one section, the execu tive, in obedience to what ho conceiv ed to be the will of the court, closed all tho dispensaries and discharged tho constabulary. In a subsequent decis ion, the court still ignoring tho act of 1893 above mentioned, constructed its decision to mean ‘there can bo no legal sale of liquor by license,’ but hns seemingly on purpose omitted to mention or construe the act of 1893: aud, whereas, the state of South linn acting in good faith through Mfl executive branch of tho and relying upon tho decision of the supreme court in tho case of Hoover vs. the Town Council of Ches ter, in which it was declared that tho net of 1892 ‘was in effect an act to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors, the power to’do which is universally recognized,’hns invested large sums of money in liquors for sale under tho provisions of tho two acts mentioned ; and, whereas, this liquor is now being held at heavy expense, while the state is flooded with contraband whiskej, sold without authority of law. - - “Now, therefore, I, B. R. governor of tho state of South Car olina, in oxereise of my discretion, ns executive, do issue this my proclama tion and declare thnt tho said supreme court, having adjourned without in any tvise giving expression in regard to the act of 1893, that the said act is of full force and effect, and will be en forced iu accordance with my oath of office, until tho court shall have passed upon the same, or until tho legislature shall havo repealed it. “Tho conuty dispensers in tho va rious counties will open their dispen saries on Wednesday, August IbL All persons interested, ineluding public carriers, are notified that the importa tion of liquors will be at the risk of seizure and prosecution, and ull con traband liquors found in the borders of the state will bo seized and confis cated according to law. “In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the great seal of tho state to bo affixed, at Colum bia, this 23d day of July, A.D., 1894, and in the ono hundred aud nineteenth year of the independence of the United Btates of America. “B. R. Tillman. “By the Governor, “ J. E. Tindall, Secretary of State.’' MAY CAUSE TROUBLE. It is generally thought that this re opening of tho liquor excitement ie going to cause serious trouble all over the state in the next few mouths. AN ANARCHIST ON TRIAL. I’r.ul Lega Snys He Intended to Kill Crlpl «nd Defends Anarchy. The trial of the anarchist, Paul Lega, for attempting to kill Premier Crispi, as he was riding in a carriage on his way to the Chamber of Deputies, on June 16th, began at Romo, Italy, Thursday. „ The court room was crowded. The prisoner, upon being arraigned, said that he was animated in his attempt upon Signor Crispi’s life much less by hatred to Crispi personally, lhan he was by a desire to strike at tho chief of the Prepotent- Society. The prisoner made a vigorous defense of I'.nurchy, and concluded his speech 1;/saying: “I now await your ver dict. If you give capital sentence, there is always some ono ready to avenge his brethren, in France or in America.” DEBS OUT OF JAIL. He and Ills Companions Give Bail 111 the Sum of S7,(KM). A Chicago special says: Debs, Howard, Kelilier aud Rogers, of the American Railway Union, are at lib erty under bail, pending the hearing of the various cases against them. Wednesday afternoon they were re quired to give $7,000 bonds, covering five new indictments iu addition to the contempt cases brought by tho government and the Santa Fe railroad. The hearing of the contempt cases was continued until September sth, and it is the purpose of the defend ants’ attorneys to force a hearing on the indictments laefore tho eoutempt cases are again called. I’HOTOGRAPHERS MEKT. The National Association Assembles nt Bt. Louis. Photographers from all over Ameri ca and pictures fxorn all the great art centers of the world were gathered in: St. Louis Wednesday, that city having been selected as the point for holding tho fourteenth annual convention ol tho Photographers’ Association ol America. Specimens of these artists work will be exhibited alongside ol and compared \Vith t^^*j^*fEuro !>!l L> Klli.<U| The Lih|B A NO. 39. NATIONAL CAPITAL.) _. ! NEWS AND GOSSIP Oil WASH INGTON CITY. Brief Notes Concerning the BuslneMof Our Government. The president Tuesday sent to con gress a dispatch from Minister Willis, in which he states that Queen Liliou knlini earnestly requests that the United States will not recognize the Huwaiian republic. A few minutes after 3 o’clock Tues day afternoon, almost immediately af ter the senate adjourned, the demo cratic senators went into caucus for the purpose of formulating a pro gramme in regard to the disposal of tho tariff bill. For three hours the discussion continued, and at that time, without having reached any conclu sion, an adjournment was taken until Wednesday at the same hour,_ At the suggestion of Chairman Cock rell, Senator Gordon has made a con densation of the house bill to appro priate $200,000 for the Atlanta expo sition. The bill was too cumbersome, in tho opinion of the senators, to be udded as an amendment. It. will bo reported in the new shape, if not d on favorably, but as the main poin s are perfectly preserved, then will be no difficulty in tho conference, the bill puss both houses. Tho president has announced tho commissioners to investigate the con troversies between certain railroads and their employes connected with the recent strike as follows: Carroll D. Wright, who is designated by statute ns one'of the Kornnn, of Now York, and Nicholas K. Worthington, of l’eorin, HI., se lected by tho president. Under tho twas obliged to nppoiut a citizen ois as one of tho commission ifTieers of the American Bimet aguoat ameeting in Washington call for a conference to beheld jity August 16th, of those who believe that no permanent improve ment in tho condition of tho condition of the country can lie hoped for as long as the present gold standard policy is pursued, and who favor the immediate restoration of the bimetallic standard of tbo United States, with the free coinage of both gold and silver at tho mtio of 16 to 1. The senato committee on territories has agreed upon favorable reports to the bills admitting Arizona and New to -statehood. Both of these bills havo already passed the house. Could tlioy be considered by the scn ute at this session they would paes. ff is, however, not probablo that they will be reached on tho calendar before the December session. With the Utah bill ulready a law and these two soon to be, this congress Las done well in admitting new states. A report received at tho Marine hos pital bureau from Surgeon Young, at Key West, Fla., announces the occur rence there of an epidemio of ‘‘den gue” fever. The report states that np to date iheutioned, (July 17,) there* had been 65 cases out of a garrison of 115, among the officers and men of the Third Artillery. There have also been a number of eases, probably some dan gerous, among the residents of the city. Dr. Porter, stato health offi cer of Florida, in n communication dated the 18th, instant, says that, up to date, there had been 75 cases of "dengue” fever, but no deaths. TRADE TADK. Hradstreet’s Report of Business for Past Week. Brudstreet’s report of trade for tho past week says: “I'he disappearance of the great railway strike of 1804, the revival of regular freight schedules and the cus tomary movement of produce and mer* chaudise by water and rail have done much to restore something like tho ■ preceding volume of trade. Tho encouraging statement is merely that general business is only approaching the usual midsummer proportions. The returi? to work of potters at Tren ton aud Wheeling, employes of Pull man, tubemukers at McKeesport, a further return of coke operatives in the Connellsville region and of coal miners iu the western* and southern m states, together with all recently strik- ing railway employes, will furnish more industrial employment within a fortnight than at any previous date since April Ist. ‘‘Large eastern business centers re port a feeling amohg jobbers and other wholesale houses favorable to a ✓ revival in trade as soon as tariff legis laliou shall have been definitely set tled. Dealers west, northwhest and southwest at tho larger distributing centers unuounce that merchants are running with very small stocks, that they coutiue to buy only for actual wants iu sight. The effect of the re cent wide-spread disturbance in trans portation aud industrial circles are now making themselves felt in bank clearing returns, the aggregate thiH week being 1120,000,000, a drop, as compared with the preceding week, of about 3 per cent, and as compared with the third week in July, 1893 ol 1G per cent. “Southern cities which have felt the effects of the railway blockade report that shipments are.now regular, crop prospects generally favorable and # the feeling in jobbing circles one of im provement. Aside from this no change is reported from Memphis, Nashville, Charleston,Savannah and Birmingham. Atlanta advises that fall trade is open ing satisfactorily and manufacturers are busy; Chattanooga that the demand lias improved, and Augusta, that while the demand is more active, the crop outlook is less favorable, owing to re cent excessive rains. The fruit trade at New Orleans is greatly improved since railroad traffic has been resumed, and there is some demand for building material, favorable crop reports throughout u .