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VOL. I.
General County Directory.
SUPERIOR COURT.
N. L. Hutohins, Judge; K. B. Bus-
Bell, Solicitor General. The superior
court meets the first Mondays m March
and September.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
J. D. Spence, J. T. Lamkin, S. L,
Hinton, James S. Bobbins, .Tames T.
Jordan. Regular quarterly sessions
first Monday in March, June 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. CaiD, N. P. Court third
Saturday.
Bat Creek—C. I). Jacobs, J. P.; J
T. Mcllvany, N. P. Court first Sat
urday.
Cates—T. A. Pate, J. P., A. J.
Webb, N. P. ; court second Saturday.
Cains— T. J. Kilgore, J. P., J. M.
Pool, N. P.; court third Saturday.
Duluth—G. H. Barker, .7. P., A. H.
Spence, N. P.; court Thursday before
the fourth Saturday,
Harbins— A. J. Bowen, J. P. ;Robt.
Ethridge, N. P.; court Saturday before
second Sunday.
Hoo Mt.—o. S. MHffett, J. P., ,T. R.
Roberts, N. P.; court fourth Saturday.
Goodwins —• J. T. Baxter, J. P., C.
P. Jackson, N. P.; court Friday before
fourth Saturday,
Lawrenceville—W. M. Langley, J.
P., J. M. Mills. N. P.; court first Fri
day.
Martins—J. E. Baxter, J. P., ,T. F.
Wilson, N. P.; court fourth Saturday.
Pinukneyville— A. J. Martin, J.P.,
J. W. Havme, N. P.; court W'eduesday
before third Saturday.
Pucketts— W. S. Hannah, 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 the third Saturday.
Sugar Hill —J E. Cloud, J. P., J.
A. Higgins, N. P. ; court Friday be
fore the third Saturday.
OFFICERS.
W?t. B. Whitworth.
Court—D. T. Cain.
-b»ois wtiL,li>Ut\. Hasslett; Deputy
Sheriff W. 7 l,le.
Tax OoLLt'y on—S. C. Marlin; Tax
Receiver, D. C. Uawtliorne.
Treasurer —A. W. Moore.
Surveyor —R. N. Maffet.
Coroner —J. T. Hadattav.
city government.
Mayor —S. J. Winn.
Treasubf.r—J. D. Spence.
Clerk —J. M. Mills.
Marshal—A. N. Robinson.
arrival and departure of mails.
Arrival —G., C. &N. (East bound)
—8:1!) a. in., 6:25 p. m. West bound
6:25 p. m.
Departure—7:lo a. m. t 8:30 a. m.,
6:00 p. m.
Sunday Mail—Arrives 8:19 a. m.,
G :25 p. m.
Leave Office—B:so a. m., 6:00p. m.
The time given in the foregoing is
Eastern Time, which is 30 minutes
faster, than sun time.
foreign orders.
Money orders will be issued from
Lawrenceville postufliee on any coun
try in the world. For cost of issuing
apply to postmaster.
postal notes.
The foe on a postal note is 3 cents.
No note for over $1.99 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 Suuday and Saturday
before in each month.
Presbyterian—Rev. Chalmers Fra
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 Corn
Holland, third vice Pres.; T. M. Hol
land, Sec. ; W. J. Peeples, Treas. ;
Miss Annie Winn, organist; meets
every Friday niglit.
I. O. O. F. —NO. 21.
Officere—W. M. Langley, N. G. ;
T. R. Powell, V. G.; R. 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. Hnslett, R. S. N. G.; L. F. Mc-
Donald, H. S. N. G.; W. T. Tanner,
R. S. Y. G. ; L. E. Winn,
L. H. Y. 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, Asus’t. Vico 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. De.vis Guide. Meets Semi
monthly—first and third Friday
nights—at Odd-Fellows Hall.
MASONIC.
Lodge No. 131 (Lawrencevilley—-
Officers: Jas. D. Spenco, W. M.; S.
A. Haygood, S. W.; J. M. Patterson,
J. W. ; J. K. Jackson, S. D. ; S. A.
Townley, J. D. ; W. H. Patterson,
Tyler; meets first Tuesday ia each
month.
Mr. Vernon Ch ifter No. 39, R. \ •
A. .-. M. —J. D. Spence, H. P. ;J. T.
McEivany, K. ; W. L. Vaughan, S.; S.
A. Hagood, C. H.; B. L. Patterson,
P. S.; J. M. Patterson, R. A. C.; L.
A. Townlev, Master Ist V.; W. J.
Born, Master 2d V.; A. T. Patterson,
Master 35 V. ; J. W. Mitchell, Sec.
Meets on Friday before the third Sat
urday of each month.
Once it was “tramp, tramp, tramp,
the boys are marching.” Now it is
“boys, boys, bojs, the tramps are
marching. ”
The Lawrenceville News.
IT IS Pip
it mostT^U
tt JtTIES.
Tie Hon L Sen
ate Bill ii Tato
RATHER THAN CONTINOE TO
FIGHT FOR ITS OWN.
Special Measures Passed Placing
Sugar, Iron Ore and Coal
On tlio Free List.
Monday the house democratic cau
cus adopted a 1 delation, by a vote of
130 to 21, discharging the house con
ferees from further consideration of
the tariff bill and agreeing to the sen
ate bill. The resolution also pro
vided that sugar, coal, iron ore and
barbed wire should be put on the free
list by means of separate bills, which
it is purposed to report from the ways
and means committee at once. The
resolution in its full text was as fol
lows :
Resolved, That it is the sense o f this
caucus that the order heretofore made
requesting a conference with the sen
ate on the disagreeing votes of the two
houses on houso resolution 5,864 be
rescinded; that the conferees hereto
fore appointed on the part of tho
house he discharged from further duty
in its behalf and that the house recede
from its disagreement to tho senate
amendments to said bill and agree to
the same.
Resolved further, That the house
shall at once proceed to the considei
ation of separate bills placing the fol
lowing articles on the free list, viz.,
sugar in all its forms, iron ore, coal
and barbed wire.”
The committee on rules is requested
to make an order providing for the
prompt consideration of such motion
and bills.
How the BUI Was Passed.
After the reading of the house jour
nal Monday, Mr. Sayers offered a joint
resolution extending until tho 24th in
stnnt, the provisions of tho joint reso
lution carrying furward the appropria
tions upon the basis of those for the
past year. Tho joint resolution was
passed. District of Columbia business
was undertaken, but discussion oi the
first bill called up was interrupted
by the introduction of the ex
pected order from the committee on
rules relating to the consideration of
the tariff bill and cognate measures,
which was proposed by Mr. Cathings.
It provided, first, that it shall be in
order after the passage of the order, to
move that the action of the house re
questing a further conference on tho
tariff bill be rescinded ; that the con
ferees be discharged from further duty
in connection therewith, and that the
house agree to the senate amendments
in bulk, which motion shall be debated
two hours, when the vote on its adoption
and the motion shall be indivisible.
General leave to print on the subject
is given for ten days. Second, that it
shall be in order after the introduction
of the order to present in the house
and consider, without reference to any
oommittee, bills for placing sugar,
coal, iron ore and barbed wire upon
the free list. Thirty minutes shall be
given for the discussion of each bill
and then a vote shall he taken. Mr.
Catchings moved the previous ques
tion, and Mr. Reed raised a point of
order against the resolution. The
point of order, after a heated discus
sion, was overruled by the speaker.
The question then being on agreeing
to the resolution, Mr. Reed demanded
a division. The speaker announced
the vote ns 188, three more than a
quorum. Mr. Reed demanded the yeas
and nays. The house order waH adopted
—76 to 97, not voting 11. Upontkean
nouncement of the vote Chairman Wil
son" immediately submitted in writing
the motion provided for in the order
adopted.
Mr. Reed made the point of order
that the bill was not before the house.
The bill had been brought in, how
ever, during the roll call, and the
speaker pointed to it. Mr. Reed re
sumed his seat and Mr. Wilson took
tho floor. He spoke but ten minutes
at the opening of tho debate. 11c
then reserved the balance of his time
and Mr. Reed, the leader of the on
position, took the floor. The gentle
man from Maine aroused his followers
to the hightest pitch of enthusiasm.
Mr. McMillin,a member of the ways and
means committee, followed Mr. Reed.
Mr. Wilson then yielded a few min
utes to Mr. Pence, of Colorado, the
leader of tho populists, who said that
the populists had thought and thought
still, that the contest over tho tariff
between the two old parties was a good
deal of a mock conflict, and a sham
battle. Mr. Cockran, of New York,
was given the closest attention by the
expectant galleries and was at times
enthusiastically applauded from each
side of the chamber as his sledge
hammer blows were dealt at the
McKinley law or the senate bill.
Speaker Crisp, in his speech closing
the debate upon the tariff bill, said he
desired to publicly assume full respon
sibility for what the house was about
to do and to aver that it was in the
best interest of tariff reform. Re
ferring to tho matter of trusts, Mi-
Crisp said if there were any in this
country they had been created by the
republican party, and while the bill
did not uproot them, as he wished it
did, it reduced the rates of duty on
articles controlled by them 50 per cent.
“Going through this schedule, ’’said Mr.
Crisp in conclusion, “whilst it is not
all we wish, it is the best we cau now
get. The moment we get this sched
ule, we intend to move forward ; we
do not intend that there shall be a of,'
backward step in tariff' reform. (Ap
plause.) We believe that the adjourn
ment of this congress without the pas
sage of some kind (if s tariff bill Would
be a bio 1 rinform from which
it would buff / for yenrs to
come.” (Long*?!' 'H’ujsontinued ap
plause.) At the^' ise '' *|>f Mr. Crisp’s
speech there .•" ,HUl)r, \it„ noise, con
fusion and RrowiA j n the ball.
Then Mr. ®H n fpse and cor
rected a stateni*' 0 made in his
opening speech u” m, *wsect that SIOO,-
000,000 worth sugar had been
purchased by the sngnr trust in antici
pation of the passage of the sngar
schedule of the senate bill. Ho had
been mistaken, ho afterward learned.
The trust had purchased 448,000 tons,
amounting in dollars and couta to
about $25,000,000. In conclusion,
Mr. Wilson raid this wan not a time
for democratic enthusiasm. It was
plair democratic necessity. But if tho
democratic party was to live—if it
did live—it would not lay dowu its
weapons nutil it had made it impossi
ble in this country to lay burdens on
one class of our citizens for the en
richment of another. Mr. Wilson then
demanded a vote on the resolution.
Tho. yeas and nays were ordered and
resulted—yeas 182, nays 106, present
and not voting, 3. The democrats
who Voted against tho motion were
Messrs. Cockrnn of New York, Cov
ert of New York, Davey of Lou
isiana, Dunphy of New York,
Everett of Massachusetts, Gorman
of Michigan, Hendrix of New
York, Johnson, of Ohio, Meyer, of
Louisiana, Price, of Louisiana, Tars
ney, of Missouri, and Warner, of New
York. The populists voted for the
motion. During the afternoon there
were many senators present, and most
of them remained until tho bill passed.
Among them were Messrs. Brice, Gray,
Chandler, Davis, Coke and l’atton.
the free list bill.
Mr. Wilson then immediately rose
and offered the first of the separate
free list bills in nccordauco with the
resolution adopted by the caucus. It
provided for the free admission upon
its passage of bituminous coai, shale,
slack and coke. The Vote upon the
bill by tellers was 78 to 47. Mr. Reed
raised the point of no quorum and
Mr. Wilson demanded the yens nnd
nays. The bill passed. Yeas, 160; nays,
104 ; answering as present, 1. Twenty
one democrats voted against the bill as
follows: Messrs. Alderson, of West
Virginia, Bankhead, of Alabama, Boat
ner, of Louisiana, Burns, of Missouri,
Crajn, of Texas, Davey, of Louisiana,
Denson, of Alabama, Edmunds, of
Virginia, Epps, of Virginia, Kritibs,
of Pennsylvania, NcKaig, of Mary
land, Oates, of Alabama, Reilly,
of Pennsylvania, Robbins, of Alabama,
Swanson of Virginia, Tucker of Vir
ginia, Tyler of Virginia, Wise of Vir
ginia, Weadock of Midusan, Wheeler
of Alabama, and Wolverton of Penn
sylvania. Mr. Haugen, of Wisconsin,
was the only republican voting aye.
The free iron ore bill was next on the
programme. It passed—yens 163 to
102. The democrats voting against it
were: Messrs. Alderson of West
Virginis, Bankhead of Alabama,
Beltzhoover of Pennsylvania,
Boatner of Louisiana, Davey of Lonsi
ana, Denson of Alabama, Edmunds of
Virginia, Meyer of Louisiana, Oates
of Alabama, Price of Louisiana, Reilly
of Pennsylvania, Bobbins of Alabama,
Robertson of Louisiana, Swanson of
Virginia, Wendcock of Michigan,
Wheeler of Alabama, and Wise of Vir
ginia. The free barbed wire bill pass
ed promptly —j-cas 187, nays 84. Free
sugar passed—yeas 276 to 11—and
the house, at 10:25 o’clock, adjournod
until Wednesday next. Those who
voted against free sugar were Messrs.
Boatner, Davey, Meyer, Ogden, Price
and Robertson, democrats, of Louisi
ana; Everett and Stevenson, demo
crats, of Massachusetts; Harmer and
Reyburn, republicans, of Pennsylvania,
and Sperry, democrat, of Connecticut,
This was the largest aye nnd nay vote
ever cast in the houso of representa
tives.
GROWTH OK TIIE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for the Past Week.
Tho Tradesman, Chattanooga, Toon., in its
report on the imlus'rul condition of tiie Sou h
fo,* the past'wi ek says: The week just ended
lias shown a consul* ruble increase in the num
ber of newly established industries, hulicatmg
that the rev.vat in So-,them devoiopement is in
active progress. Tho prosperous condition of
the farmers and planters, whose largo crop*
arc not grown thid season as in form r years
by means of advanc s on raotgage-*, is having a
good effect on all kinds of busiue-s. Cotton
will tliia y* ar be to a gr at extent a ready
mon v crop, and the needs of the South* ru
people will hi suppled with home grown bread
and meat to a greater extent than ever liefore.
Forty-eight new indnstri s were established
or incorporated dming the week, prominent
a n ng which are: The Sieven-on Coal Co., of
Parkersburg, W. Ya . capital $507,000; a $300,-
000 cotton mill at hath, S. C., and a 1,000 ton
sugar mill at hnnkir, La.; the Santee lt.ver
Cypress Lumber Co., of Furgus *n, S. C., capi
tal $300,000; and the Panther Lumber Co., of
. McDowell, W. Va.. with the same capital. 1 lie
Neabitt Cotton Mills Co-, has been charteied at
Nesbiit, S. C„ with $200,000 capital: the Co
lumbia Concrete Co., at Ah xandria, Va., also
w.tli $200,000 capital; the M. C. Kiser Co., of
Atlanta, Ga., capital $125 000, and theN. Antli
Mrg. Co., of Alexandria, Va.. capital 5*100,0 iO,
are also repor.ed. A SIOO,OOO phosphate com
pany lias been organ zed at I sm; a, Fla ; a
$50,000 grani e quarrying company at Norfolk,
Va., and due witn $30,000 capital at Southport,
N. C,; a $50,000 coal e uipany at Norton, \ a .; a
$25,000 milling company at Taylorsville, Kv.,
and a $2~>,OlC iumber company at Osyka, Miss.
There is also reporiisl cotton mills at Chat
tanooga. 'lenn , and Palestine, Tex.; electrical
plants at Jacksonville, Fla., Atlanta, Ga-, Ash
land, Ky., ami Oxford, Miss.; fl >nr awl grist
mills at Frankfort, Ky., Ualeigh, N. C.. Austin,
Tex., Lurav, Va., and Kingwood, VV. Va., and
an iron working plant at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Tin plate works on a large scale are to he es
tablished at Wheeling, W. Va., an ice factory at
hluefl 11, W. Va.; m i rhle works at Fort Sm 1 li,
Ark ;an oil mill at Alexandria. La.; a quarry at
Ua Vergno, Tenn., and snap works at Augusta,
Ga, and Fayetteville, N. C ; Wood-working
plants are report rl at Sullivan, Ala, Tampa,
Thonotosassa and Winderm re, Fla., Meridian,
Miss., and Wilson, W. V ; and water works at
Avon Farit, Fla., Audulioii anl A-hlar.d, Ky.,
and Oxford and Water Valley, Mis*.
Ihe enlargements for tire week include a
knitting mill at Ralegh. N. C ; cotton mills at
Mountain Island ami Rockingham, N. C . and
Pacolet, S. 0., an electrical company at N ;sh
ville, Term., a maehin • shop at Mon'rmuery.
Ala., and saw mills at Fort Myers and St. Au
gustine, Fla Among the new buildings are an
academy at Waynesboro, Ga., and a college at
Cooper, Tex ; a s2u UOJ hotel at Bayou Sara,
La.; residences at New Orl ans. La., anl a
large warehouse at Lit:* li H. W. Va.
THE EXPOSITION BILL
Appropriations $200,000 for the At
lanta Show Passes the House.
A Washington special says: Colonel
Livingston’s bill, substituted by Rep
resentative Cannon for the senate
amendment, passed the house by ac
clamation Friday. It appropriates
8200,000 and the administration build
ing at Chicago for the Cottou States
*nd International exposition,
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LAWRENCEVILLE.GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, LSTN^
HALLS OF CONGRESS
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OK BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
What Our National Law-Makers are
Doing for the Country.
The Hawaiinn question came to the
front again in the honse Thursday,
forming the subject of the most spir
ited and interesting portion of the pro
ceedings. Mr. Bontello raised it as a
question of privilege. Ho repudiated
tho reported imputation that in intro
ducing resolutions recognizing the Ha
waiian republic he had sought to ob
tain a partisan advautage for the re
publican party, but that he was de
sirous only of maintaining the honor
and dignity of the government and of
observing the unbroken traditions of
tho country and of congress. Ho criti
cised the failure of the committee on
foreign affairs to act upon his resolu
tions nnd denouncod the Hawaiian
policy of the administration. The
house then proceeded to the consider
ation of tho bill to increase the effi
ciency of the militia.
The sessiou of the house Saturday
was confined to the Consideration of
two items in the sundry civil appro
ritions bill, upon which the conferees
had found themselves nimble to agree.
The first related to the irrigation anil
reclamation of arid lauds, nnd as to
this, the bonne voted to recede from
its disagreement to the senate amend
ment, with an amendment of its own.
This amendment proposed to give to
each of tho states containing these
arid lands a million acres upon certain
conditions, the chief one being that
$3 per acre should be expended by the
states in irrigating the lauds. The
amendment directing tho secretary of
the treasury to purchase the Mahonelot
for a site for the government printing
office, at a cost not exceeding $250,000,
was the last remaining item of disa
greement to be acted upon. The prop
osition to purchase the Mahouo lot
(the senate amendment) was defeated.
Tho proposition to purchase ground
adjoining the present site and extend
the building thereon was agreed to—
-138 to 41. The house agreed to a con
ference on the items still in controver
sy ; the old conference were reappoint
ed; and the house, at 4:40 o’clock, ad
journed until Monday. Immediately
after tho house wtdjwtirued a call for a
caucus of the democratic members for
10 o’clock Monday morning was read.
The session of the house Friday was
almost wholly takeu up with the con
sideration of tho first confi reuoe re
port on the sundry civil appropriation
bill. The principal subject of discus
sion was the appropriation to enable
the government to make an exhibit at
the Atlanta exposition, which afforded
an opportunity fur several “bridge
the bloody chasm” speeches that were
applauded warmly. Tile vote on the
amendment showed that the house, 3
to I,favored making the appropriation,
but wanted it to be in the form of the
house bill on that subject. Mr. Cannon
■moved that the house conferees be in
structed to propose to the senate coufer
ees,inlieu of that provision in the bill,
the substance of the bill reported to the
house June 4 liy the committee on ap
propriations appropriating $200,000 in
aid of the exposition. The motion was
discussed l>y Messrs. Cannon, Murray,
republican, of South Carolina; Coombs,
democrat, of New York ; Sickles, dem
ocrat, of New York; Pence, populist,
of Colorado; Cogswell, republican, of
Massachusetts, and Bryan, democrat,
of Nebraska, all of whom spoke in
enthussastic terms of the enterprise of
the people of Atlanta in projecting the
exposition, and expressing their gratifi
catiou at being abl • to vote for the ap
propriation. Mr. Williams, democrat
of Illinois, and Mr. Dockery, his com
mittee colleague, opposed the proposi
tion to vote aid to the exposition. Tho
question was further discussed favor
ably by Messrs. Grosveuor, republican,
of Ohio; Everett,democrat of Massachu
setts, and Livingston, democrat, of
Georgia, ami in opposition by Mr.
Snodgrass, democrat, of Tennessee.
Mr. Cannon’s motion was then agreed
to without division. Several other
items of disagreement were discussed
until 5 o'clock, when, without dispos
ing of tho report, the house took a
recess until 8 o’clock.
In the houso Monday a joint resolu
tion was passed extending until the
24th instant, the provisions ol the
joint resolution providing appropria
tions for public purposes, on the basis
of those for the last year. The sedate
tariff bill was then presented and after
a lengthy discussion was passed.
Till! NKNATI!.
In the senate, Thursday, the house
bill to repeal in part and limit the
section of revised statues under which
bounty land warrants are refused to
ex-soldiers of the Meican war who af
terwards served in tho confederate
army, gave rise to a discussion. Mr.
Platt moved to postpone it till the
first Monday in December. The dis
cussion was interrupted by a motion
by Mr. Gray to proceed to the con
sideration of executive business, nnd
at 1 :15 the senate went into executive
session and at 1:40 adjourned till Fri
day.
Saturday’s proceedings in the senate
were of a most interesting and exciting
character, involving as they did the
success or defeat of all t lie tarfff work
of the session, nnd it was only by the
casting vote of tho vice president that
the democratic party was saved from
a bail repulse, if not a complete over
throw. The day began by a debate of
tho lesdutiou offered on Friday by
Mr. Hill, imtructing the senate con
ferees on the tariff bill to report
whether the conferees of the two
houses were likely to agree, and if not,
to report a disagi lenient.
The senate at Monday’s session went
into executive session for the purpose
of taking action on the Chinese treaty.
After a full discussion of the matter
the treaty was ratified.
As soon as the senate journal was
read Tuesday morning the chief clerk
of the houße appeared and delivered a
message, announcing the passage by
tho house of tho bills to place on the
free list, sugar, bituminous coal, irou
ore ajid barbed wire. Tho message
made no allusion to the concurrence
of the house in all the senate amend
ment? to tho tariff bill. When the
vice- Meside«t laid before the seuatq
tho freo list bills, Air. Mauderson
asked that they bo read at length and
objected to the second reading of all
of them. Mr. Hill gave notice of
amendments to each of the hills, pro
viding for tho repeal of all income
taxes. Tho senate, at 2:10 p. m., ad
journed until Wednesday.
TELEGRAPHIC news
CONDENSED FROM OUIt MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short anil Crisp Items of General
Interest to Our Readers.
Tho Wichita, Kaus., National bank,
the oldest banking institution in the
southwest, lias been placed in the
hands of the comptroller of currency.
It is stated that the operatives of the
ootton mills at Hancock,N. H., have boon
notified of a 16 per cent reduction in
their wages, to tako effect after August
tho 20th.
Henry E. Smith A- Co., the largest
wholesale dealers in boots ami shoes
in Worcester, Mass., havo assigned.
Tho liabilities amount to $200,000,
and the assets are about $240,000.
A cable dispatch from Rome, Italy,
says: Tho villages destroyed by earth
quake in Sicily a few days ago will be
rebuilt by tho government and the
taxes of the inhabitants will be remit
ted.
During the derby regatta at London,
Monday morning, a large row boat in
which excursionists were being con
veyed to the Traveler, wag upset. All
the occupants Were thrown into the
Water and twenty wore drowned.
General Manager Oliver, of the
Oliver Iron and Steel Company, at
Pittsburg, I’a., jg authority for the
statement that the South Fifteenth
street plant of the company will soon
bo turned into one of tho largest tin
plate works in the world.
The Aetna stand iron works, at Bel
aire, 0., luih been placed in operation,
after ten weeks’ close down, giving
employment to 2,000 people. The
Holly River Lumber Company, of
Palmer, \V. Va., south of Belaire lias
failed. The liabilities are chiefly to
the farmers in that sectiou.
The board of trade finn of Boogc,
Frazer & Co., at Chicago have assign
ed. The fluctuations of the corn mar
keH and the failure of the Hawkeye
Commission Company, of Omaha,
Neb., is believed to have canard tin
failure, Boogc, Frazer & Co. wen
oflicers and heavy stockholders of the
Huwkeye company.
The Kaffirs in north Transvaal, Af
rica, aro in open revolt. They have
blocked tho road from Murchison,have
burned homesteads and captured cat
tie. The Kaffirs are now besieging the
headquarters of the president and the
government buildin i at Agatha.
Troops have been hastily dispatched
to the rescue.
Luther C. Challis, who has been a
prominent figure in Bt. Joseph, Mo.,
and at Atchison during the past twenty
years, and who was at one time a most
daring speculator in New York, lies
dead at his home in Atchison. He
was once among the lenders of Wei)
street. Several times in his life Chal
lis was worth $1,000,000, but he died
in want.
A disastrous headend collision oc
curred on the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fo railroad between Hurdland
and Gibbs, Mo., early Sunday morn
ing between express train No. 5, west
bound, and express No. 4, eastbouud,
resulting in two trainmen being killed
and several passengers injured and the
engines and combination express and
baggage cars completely demolished.
A St. Louis - dispatch says: Dun
Creedon, champion middle weight of
Australia, signed articles to fight Bob
Fitzsimmons for a purse of $3,000 be
fore the Olympic Club, of New Or
leans, on the night as September
2fith. The articles of agreement have
been returned to President Scholl, of
the Olympic Club, who is now in New
Y’ork, and Creedon will at once com
mence active training for the fight.
Dispatches have been received at
Shaughai, China, confirming tho re
port that the emperor lias divested
Viceroy Li Hung Chang of tho order
of the Yellow Riding Coat, which is
the highest order in China, allowing
the wearer privileges next to those of
royalty. The emperor has freely ex
pressed his anger at the viceroy’s hav
ing allowed Japan to get ahead of
China in preparing for war.
Considerable excited comment is be
ing made at St. Petersburg, Russia, in
regard to a dispatch from London
stating that it is Great Britain's in
tention to propose that the powers in
tervene in Corea with tho view of ob
taiuiug the evacuation of that country
by China and Japan and the establish
ment of international control. It is
stated that Russia would not permit
this and that she would prefer to
allow the war so continue.
The Pullman company hns praeti
cally decided to eviet its striking ten
ants for non-payment of rent. Vie-
President Wiekos, of the company,
says that the new employes must lmv
houses, and, as mpst of the Pullman
dwellings aro occupied by strikers,
some sort of action will bo taken at
once. The announcement oreattd in
tense excitement among the strikers,
as the men hail not an idia that tin
company would dure to take radical
measures.
BCEI NO THE PULLMANS.
They are Charged with Doing liusiiirss
Without Warrant of Law.
Attorney General Moloney has filed
in the circuit court dirk's office of
Cook county, at Chicago, u petition,
for a bill in equity against the Pull
man Palace Car Company, calling up
on it to show cause why it should not
be prohibited from further doing bus
iness under the laws of tho Btate. The
petition sets forth that it has violated
the franchises conferred upon it by
the state in numerous particulars and
lays stress upon the fact that it is con
ducting a hotel business and a reul
estate business at Pullman without
warrant of law.
801 l Worms In the Cotton.
801 l worms are destroying ootton at
an awful rate in west Texas. Planta
tions of from twenty to two hundred
JssumW*******! -
WASHINGTON NOTES
NEWS CONCERNING THE VARI
OUS DEPARTMENTS.
Sayings and Doings of the President
and Members of the Cabinet.
Resignations have been requested
by Secretary Carlisle from George W.
Aschoroft, inspector of hulls at Nash
ville, Tenn., and O. C. Dugges, in
spector of steam boilers at Nashville,
Tenn.
The conference committee of the two
houses concluded the consideration of
t in sundry civil appropriation bill late
Tuesday nnd will report an agreement.
There is a compromise on the senate
amendment for the payment of heirs
of the victims of the Ford the.lit l dis
aster, which, however, provides the
necessary appropriation. The same ih
true of the amendment for the Atlanta
exposition. The amendment concern
ing the donation of 1.000,000 acres of
lands to various arid land states for the
encouragement of irrigation remains
iu tho hill, but in amended form.
A crisis iu the tariff affair* was
reached Friday, both in tho open sen
ate and in tho secret councils of the
democratic tariff confi roes. When tho
conference closed it was with the un
derstanding that tho meetings would
bo suspended for the present. No time
was set for reassembling tho confi reos,
nnd it was felt that no further sessions
might bo necessary in case tho
Rcnnto acted favorably on Senator
Hill's resolution directing the son
ato conferees to report the situation of
affairs. What was of most importance
was tho feeling expressed by the house
conferees at the close of the confer
ence that in case the Hill resolution
passed—nnd they believed it would—
the conference would practically bo
relieved of its work ami it would re
main only for the house to accept tho
senate bill as a lesser evil, as they be
lieve, than the McKinley law.
All that remains now to make tho
senate bill a law is tho president's sig
nature, and some believe, though with
out good grounds, that he will with
hold his signature or possibly veto it.
Tho bill is not so good a one as the
house wanted, or as the party had a
right to expect, hut it is so farsuperior
to the McKinley act that no otto who
cherishes the hope of ultimate freo
trade or who believes iu tariff reform
could conscientiously hinder it» pas
sage. This was the feeling which
prompted Speaker Crisp to withdraw
his forocs from tho field when ho saw
how hopeless and even disastrous it
was to continue the fight. It was this
view which urged Mr. AVilson to call a
caucus of democrats and advise its ac
ceptance. It is currently reported
that ono reason why free sugar, freo
coal and free iron were put through
the house as separate measures was in
compliance with an expressed demand
from the white house, so that the presi
dent could tell within the ten days given
him to hold the bill exactly what dis
position tho senate intended making
of them. If they pass any or all of
these it is said ho will sign the bill.
If that body treats these measures us is
their habit of treating popgun lulls,
then he will veto the tariff document
and hold congress together until
another nnd more satisfactory bill is
sont to him.
Revenue Under the Tariff Bill.
The passing of the tariff bill has led
to various estimates as to tho effect it
will have, should it not meet with a
veto, upon the national revenues. The
following figures from official docu
ments are of interest: The treasury
estimate for the fiscal year 1895 aggre
gates revenues of $154,427, 748 from
theso sources: Customs, 8190,000,000;
internal revenue, $160,000,000; mis
cellaneous, $20,000,000; postal serv
ice, $86,427,748. The estimate
of revenue under the tariff bill
as passed by tho house made a total •
of $442,085,177.32, divided as follows:
Customs, $124,657,429; Internal rev
enue, under present la'vs, $160,000,
000; Internal revenue, additional un
der house bill, $53,000,000; Miscella
neous items, under present laws, $20,-
000,000 ; Postal service, under present
laws, $94,427,748. The estimate of
revenue under the house bill as amen
ded and passed l»y the senate
July 3, 1894, exceeds' iu the
aggregate both the two previous esti
mates anil gives the followiDgsbowiug:
Customs, $179,251,142; internal rove
nuo, as above stated, $213,000,000;
miscellaneous items, as above stated,
$20,000,000; postal service, as above
stated, $84,427,748. Total, $496,078,-
890. Under the house hill the ml va
lorem rates of duty showed a decrease
of duty amounting to 873,710,023,
and under the senate bill the de
crease of duty is shown at $19,122,310.
In this computation articles that are
free from duty are exoluded. Tho
following table iu this connection
shows the dutiable value under the
present law as $400,609,858.48, with a
duty of $198,373,452, the ml valorem
rate being 49.58 per cent. Under the
bouse billdutiable value, $351,041,963;
duty, $24,657,429; ml valorem rate,
35.51. Under the senate bill dutiable
value, $463,447,163; duty, $ 179,351,142;
ad valorem rate, 38.68.
A FATAL FLASH.
Lightning Strikes a Tree anil Kills
Seven Ball Players.
About 3 o’clock Friday afternoon a
crowd of boys and men met on a
small prairie, nine miles south of De-
Kulb, Texas, and were playiug base
ball. A shower came up during the
Inline and they all ran to a large oak.
Lightning struck tho tree and the fol
lowing were killed outright: John
Jacobs, Walter Atchloy, Tom Blanch
ard, Will Hentley, John Jackson,
Chris Petty, Will Walsh. About a
dozen of the boys were hurt, and it is
thought some of them will die.
They Gave It Up.
The congressional democratic con
vention atTexurkana, Texas, adjourned
after a ten days’ stssion trying to
choose a successor to Hon. D. B. Cul
berson. The convention adjourned to
meet in Paris, Tex., August 30th.
Anarchists Acquitted.
The great anarchist trial at Paris
ended Saturday iu the acquittal of all
the thirty defendants on the charge of
tnarchy.
LATEST DISPATCHES
GIVING THE NEWS UP TO THE
HOUR OF GOING TO PRESS.
A Brief Summary of Dally Happen
ings Throughout the World.
Hevoral warehouses have been burned
on the Fitime water front at Vienna,
Austria. The loss is £300,000. None
of the near-by shipping was damaged.
Tho enrolling of the tariff bill was
completed Tuesday and the committee
on enrolled bills is now comparing it
with the original text from which it
was copied.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road Company reports that their
miners, who havo been on a strike
four mouths have agreed to go to work
on tho company’s terms, which moans
38j cents per ton for mining coal.
This pure 2,000 men to work iu the
district.
The eighty-eight Coxeyites who were
captured in the police raid at Hyatts
ville, Mil., last week aud committed to
tho house of correction as vagrants,
were put to work Tuesday building
good roads for the state. They are to
increase tho width of the roads lead
ing from the institution anil will have
plenty to do during their three mouths'
stay.
The grand lodge of the Knights and
Ladies of Honor met at Jackson, Miss.,
Tuesday, in tho thirteenth annual ses
sion. Thirty-two lodges were repre
sented. The address of the grand pro
teotor, grand treasurer and the grand
secretary show the order to be pros
perous. Tho total membership iu tho
state is V 76. Twenty-one deaths oc
curred during the year and $34,000
was paid to beneficiaries.
lteportH received at tho treasury de
partment Tues lay morning from
whisky producing centers, state that
there is a great rush to tako whisky
out of bond at the old rate of 90 cents
a gallon before the new tax of sl.lO
per gallon becomes operative. At
most of the large distilleries, tho
whisky in bond lias already boon
gauged, ready upon payment of tho
tax, to lie withdrawn. A conservative
estimate places the amount of whisky
in bond at 60,000,000 gallons.
A Washington special says: Tho
next forty-eight hours will murk either
tho dc *•■—> f - -<u Washington of all
*>f the rlo oiin/I /A V. AO
maiuing here, fl .1 jnftjiUEjW
the district jail of any of them who
will not accept transportation. This
was decided on a conference held
Tuesday between the district commis
sioners, Major Moore, the superinten
dent of police, nnd Frank Hume, who
lias aided largely in obtaining railroad
transportation for the commouwoulers.
The North Carolina statejiouie alli
ance mot in annual convention at
Greensboro, Tuesday. About 75
per cent of tho counties of tho
state were represented. An effort
is being made to put tiie alliance on
its old footing. The officers now seo
the mistake of bringing politics into
the order, nnd tho delegates are trying
to avoid partisau questions. At the
afternoon session tho question of es
tablishing a statehouso exchange was
discussed, nnd aroused great enthusi
asm.
It is likely that tho fate of General
Antonio Ezeta, ox-vicc president of
Halvador, who is now a refugee on
bonril tho United Htates gun-boat
Bennington, will bo decided by the
courtsof California. It is understood
that the state department has come to
the conclusion that tho char'/- which
have been preferred against General
Ezeta and his three companions are
too serious in their character to be
overlooked, and it has accordingly
issued a preliminary warrant to Dr.
Guzman for their arrest.
Tuesday tho North Carolina sta;3
agricultural department summarized
the crop returns for July us sent tu by
more than a thousand correspondents.
The condition of crops is as follows:
Rice 90, corn 101, cotton 91, tobacco
83, field peas 92, sweet potatoes 91,
peanuts 89, sorghum cane 90, turnip
crop seeded will be 94 per cent, condi
tion of full planting Irish potatoes 80
per cent. Aialo fruits, apples are only
21, peaches 15 aud grapes 63. The
corn crop is the finest ever known iu
the state.
JAPANESE LEAVING CHINA.
Five Hundred Have Left Shanghai.
Japanese I’ostolllee Closed.
The London Central News corre
spondent in Shanghai telegraphs that
the final exodus of Japanese residents
has begun. Home 500 Japanese, who
havo closed their business there indefi
nitely, will leavo Blianghai for home.
The Japanese postoffice has beeu shut
up. Every precaution has been taken
to prevent any hostile demonstration
of the natives against tho emigrants.
Captain Galsworthy and Chief Officer
Tantplin, of the Kow Bhuug, have ar
rived iu Shanghai. The American and
Norwegian consuls in Bhunghai arc re
fusing clearances to ships carrying
rice.
The Shanghai correspondent of tho
Central News says that tho telegraph
line in Corea is controlled by the Jap
anese in tho south and by tbe Chinese
in the north, aud that both the Japa
nese and Chinese refuse to transmit
news dispatches. It is calculated that
China will have 60,000 soldiers in Co
rea before the close of September.
JAPANESE MARCHING ON.
The correspondent of Tho London
Timet at Shanghai telegraphs that 12,-
000 Japanese troops from Fuesan, and
8,000 from Yuensan are marching to
ward Seoul, the capital of Corea. I' ne
san is the chief port of Kaung-Bnng-
Do, the southeastern province of
Corea, and Yuensan is the northeastern
port of the kingdom. The Isiing-Li-
Yamen, the supreme council of the
empire, have guaranteed the safety of
foreigners in the interior of China.
WILL DEMAND INDEMNITY.
Sir Edward Gray, uuder secretary of
the foreign office, iu answering Sir ElJis
Asbiuead- Bartlett, iu the house of com
mons, at Loudon, said that Great
Britain would hold Japuu XWM&Wt
for the loss qf tin, Untiab .. jtfe M’ 1
the btfPPI
NO. 42.
SUITIIKKN’ SPECIALS
NOTING THE MOST INTERESTING
OCCURRENCES OF THE DAY
And Presenting an Epitome of the
South’s Progress and Prosperity.
Judge Talley, of Huntsville, Ala.,
will apply to the supreme 'court for a
r. hearing in his impeachment trial.
11. 11. Bales, of Chattanooga, who
di-appeared from that city three weeks
ago and w»h supposed to have been
murdered, has returued. He says he
has been out w est for his health.
A Huntsville, Ala., special says:
Sheriff Powell and Chief of Police
Davis have arrested nine negroes, one
a woman, uear Madison station,
charged with burning the barn and
nine horses of Humphrey brothers, in
Limestone county, last May. The
proof is said to be conclusive against
them.
The AVies and Observer, the lead
ing democratic newspaper in North
Carolina, lias changed hands. Mr.
Josephus Daniels is tho president of
the new company, which is n strong
one and embraces many of the leading -•
men of tho state. An entire new out
fit lias been provided and an extensive
special news servico will bo organized.
The largest fire ever known in De
mopolis, Ala., occurred Sntnrday.
It broke out iu the ceiling of the Webb
building, the pride of Demopolis. The
origin of the fire iH uuknown. The
building is a total losb. It cost
$16,000. The insurauoo is SIO,OOO.
A number of firms occupying tho
building were burned out. The total
lias will reach $40,000.
nnnl iwif fi>Ani IKa vicinitv
Reports sent out from tho vicinity
of Fort Worth, Texas, to the effect
that boll worms had appeared in largo
numbers and threatened the destruc
tion of tho cotton crop aro without
foundation. A few worms have ap
peared in come localities, but not iu
numbers sufficient to create any alarm.
The ootton crop all over northern
Texas is better than it lias been for
years.
The Tillman nud Ceutral Club met
at. Charleston about ono hundred and
fifty strong and elected forty delegat-4
to a reform convention. They w;-.-1
instructed to vote for delogftbffToTk,,
state reform Columbia
who for John Gary Keans,
■irbrnieetiiig was held with _ closed
doors anil an attempt on the part, of
a crowd, who wanted to elect Tindall .
delegates* to get in was frustrated. • ,
Plans for tho reorganization of the ,
Fast Tennessee Land Company havo j
been perfected at Nashville. Tho |
company owns tho town of Harrimnnja
and a large quantity of mineral la/yB
adjoining. Some time ago it stout iJD
to a receiver's hands, ex-Postmastr.
General James being tho receiver. 1
The majority of tho stockholders aro |
i-astern men. Tho plau of reorganize- _
tion contemplates tho carrying out of I
improvements originally intended, I
building furnaces, railroads, etc.
TRADE TALKS.
What Bradstroet Says of the Business ’
Outlook.
Bradstrcct’s weekly trade review
says:
“Evidence continues to accumulate
that the earlier portion of July wit
nessed tho lowest point iu tho ebb of
the commercial tide, in the
after tho moderate revival in the
spring. July bank clearings this year <
furnished a list of twenty-nine cities
with larger aggregates than last year, (
while the June report furnished only
eighteen cities with totals larger than
in June a year ago.
“Tho practical cessation of various
severe industrial disturbances of the
year has emphasized the tendency to
improvement reported by telegraph
from manufacturing and commercial,
centers the past week. A further iu- q
dication of tho tendency to improve-,
ment is seen in the week’s
30 cents per ton for steel billets, MM*
in the fact that the domestic wool my
kets today are more in favor
,eller than they have been for a year,
and that wool is firm at the 2 cents
advance scored in the last week.
“ tho New York stock market is
troug iu toue on renewed expecta
tion* of a tariff settlement, with the
unexpected improvement in raihgj&d
arcings and tho stopping of gold ex
ports as additional factors. ;|
“Southern railroad shares attractl
.increased attention and favor from the!
relatively good conditions in that sec-1
lion.
“Boston reiwits Massachusetts cot
ton manufacturers find business un,
satisfactory, but mauufacturers ol
men’s wear, woolens, etc., report prod
ucts moving freely. Chattanooga ad
vices are that groceries are moving
more freely, with collections fair,
while iu Atlanta jobbers iu nearly all
lines report more activity in shipment!
although rains havo damaged the crop
somewhat. Favorable weather, good
crop prospects aud a bright outlook
for business characterize the situ
ation at Augusta and Jacksonville,
Fla., the wholesale trade has ex
panded. A fairly good demand is re
ported from Savannah, and althougl
there is no improvement at Memphis,
the outlook is more encouraging
South Carolinn crops have been dam-
Fged by rains, but Charleston report!
lumber aud naval stores markets mor«
active. Neither Birmingham nor Neu
Orleans advices contain news of imi
pruvement in demand, dullness char
acterizing the situation at both places,
and at Galveston trade is reported
slack in dry goods and notions.
Cesario Must Die. j
The board of pardons, it was Ml
uouuoed at Paris Monday, maintain
the sentence of death imposed 11 po
Cesario Sautou Geronimo, the assassj
of President Carnot, condemned to 31
on Friday next.
Profkssor Garner, who spent la
year in Africa, studying the dlalecj
of gorillas, and other quaurumaiij
is about to write a series of anicM
describing the natives of the counM
he visited. As nothing interests
so much as man, we are ini.m
think that his Account at the ncj
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majority JMbI