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The Rockdale Banner.
VOL. XI.
million more women than
fhere are a
men in Germany
bad driving of the Paris cabmen
The the “Syndicat du Spo t
has impelled oiler prize for competition
Francais” to a
in driving;_
than $500,000,000 worth of min
More *1 from the mines of
products came
nation last year, according to the
t hi3 sued.
report just is
Experiments in raising tobacco in
south Australia have been highly sues
ful, and the crop will hereafter re¬
Cl 1 '' attention.____
vive much
About 500,000 persons hold Govern
ment tobacco licenses, Fully 500,000
jo addition find employment in raising,
handling and manufacturing it.
Dr. Robert Morris, who recently died
at La Grange, Ky., was one of the two
poet laureates which Freemasonry has
bad in all its history. Robert Bums
was the first._
The late Paris census show3 six thou¬
sand nine hundred and fifteen Ameri¬
cans, fourteen thousand seven hundred
ami one English, and thirty-five thou,
sand seven hundred and eight Germans.
According to London Trull, the
mother of Germany’s new Empress
would have married in 1852 the Em¬
peror Napoleon III. but for the opposi¬
tion of Queen Victoria and the Prince
Consort, to whom as Princess of Ilohen
lohe-Langeuburg, she was closely re¬
lated.
An estate situated in the business por¬
tion of the village of Port Chester, in
the township of Rye, N. Y., valued at
$15,000,000, and which was leased for
100 years, is about to revert to the heirs
of its original owners, through the dis¬
covery of a record which has just come
to light.__
The decline in value of hill town
farms in Massachusetts is put by 1he
Chicago Times at fifty per cent, during
the last ten years. A well improved farm
near Greenfield, valued at $7000, brought
recently $3000 at a forced sale, The
shrinkage in several town values has
been from $300,000 to $800,000.
One of the most remarkable mechani¬
cal changes of the clay, declares the
Scientific American, is the setting aside
of steel and the readoptiou of iron for
some of the most important parts of lo¬
comotives on many railroads. It is only
comparatively a few years since the
change was made, on most roads, from,
iron to steel.
In the approaching evolutions of tho
French fleet off Toulon, captive balloons
are to be employed— a new idea in
naval man : uvres. The apparatus s to
be supplied from the armv aerostatic
school at Chalais-Meudon, and will be
sent to sea on board a pontoon, which
■will 1 e towed by one of the vessels of
the squadron, and from it the ascents
will be made.
In 1869 there were in Moscow, Russia
but five common schools, with an attend¬
ance of only 250. Ten years later the
schools had multiplied to eighty and the
pupils to more than 4009. Since then
ihc numbers have doubled. In St.
letersburg there were in 1876 only six¬
teen common schools, with 800 pupils.
These numbers have since multiplied
more than fifteenfold.
Hie Philadelphia Drug, Oil and Paint
Reporter ^ attributes the decline iu the
price of quinine largely to the fact that
the trees planted some thirty years ago
the English and Holland Govern
tteuts in India, Java, Ceylon, and else
"^here, are beginning to markedly affect
die market. The export of cultivated
ark from these places is now enormous
yearly increasing.
The Railway Aye comments on the
by mcomp ehensible .fear of invasion felt
the English. Not only are they
ne rvous at any mention of tunneling
or bridging the channel between them
I ranee,but the House of Commons
as ^ sen seriously considering the ques
, .
10a destroying the GOO yards of the
imental tunnel which was bored
Te or sin years ago!
sc ‘ en rific school would be about the
1 -hing one would
expect to find in
in ir ' a ’ Cerituj bUt accordin the town g t( > Mr. Kennan,
TeU n y, of Tiumen has
' quippe<i
e school of this kind. It
h a me< -hanical department,
with a
f 1 and en lG ne > lathes and tools of all
S ’ a Apartment of physics,with
fQ e =** > * ) * ratu8 mclu ding
Ffi ’ even the Bell,
D ’ ^ )c Thear telephones and the
pk 0 nogmph, a complete and
yery well .
lib Chemical laboratory, a good
ot * rt * nd
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1338.
SENATE TARIFF BILL,
A PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE FOR
THE MILLS RILL INTRODUCED.
Features of the Measure Presented by the
ICepub lienn Senators,
The majority of the Senate Finance Com¬
mittee have made a report proposing a sub.
•titrte for the House bill, commonly known
as the Mills bill. According to the estimates
made by the committee the bill provides for
a total reduction of about $75,000,000, made
up approximately as follows: Sugar, $27,-
759,000; free list, $6,590,000; tobacco (in¬
ternal revenue), $24,500,000; alcohol in the
arts, $7,000,000; other reductions in customs,
$ 8 , 000 , 000 .
The following are the additions to the free
list:
’ sulphate Acorns, raw-, dried or undried. Baryta,
Beeswax, of, or barytes unmanufactured.
Books and pamphlets printed exclusively
m Bands, languag s other than English.
menting plaits, fiats, laces, etc., for orna¬
tured; bulbs hats; bristles, raw or unmanfac
and bulbous roots, not edible;
chiccory root, raw, dried or undried, but un
ground.
. Coal, stack or culm; coal tar, crude; curl¬
ing stone handles.
roots, Currants, Zante or other dried; dandelion
raw, dried or undried, but Unground;
~ggs and yolk.
Feathers and, down of all kinds, crude and
unmanufactured
Jute, jute butts, manilla, ramie, sissal
grass, sunn; all other textile grasses or fibrous
substances unmanufactured or undressed;
floor matting, known as Chinese matting.
Grease ahd oils, such as are commonly used
iu soap making or mine drawing, etc.
Human hair, raw, uncleaned and not
drawn; mineral waters, not specially enumer¬
ated; molasses, testing not above 56”; olive
oil, for manufacturing or mechanical pur¬
poses; nut oil or oil of nuts; opium, crude or
unmanufactured, Potash, crude for smoking. potash,
hydrate; potash, carbonate; caustic
or sulpliate nitrate of, Or saltpetre;
potash, Rags, of; potash, chidrate of.
all not enumerated; hemp seed; rape
pentine, Sponges, hand, tar and pitch of wood, tur¬
The internal revenue section of the bill, so
far as it relates to tobacco, provides that
after the 1st of February, 1889, manufac¬
turers of cigars shall pay a special tax of $3
annually. The tax on cigars, cheroots, than and
bn all cigarettes, weighing more three
pounds per thousand, which shall be manu¬
factured or sold after that date, shall be $1.50
per thousand, and on cigarettes weighing less
than three pounds to the thousand, 50 cents
per thousand, and said tax shall be paid by
the manufacturer, It repeals all laws re¬
stricting the disposition of tobacco by
farmers and producers and all laws
imposing and taxes on manufactured tobacco
snuff, and the special taxes reqi uired
by law in to be paid by manufacturers of and
dealers leaf tobacco, dealers in manufac¬
tured tobacco, snuff and cigars, pedlers of
tobacco, Of snuff and cigars and manufacturers
snuff. It provides for a rebate on all
original and unbroken packages held the by
manufacturers or dealers at the timo re¬
peal goes into all effect (February i, 18$:)). It
a so repeals laws limiting, restricting or
regulating tion of the manufacture, sale or exporta¬
tobacco or snuff.
Alcohol to be used in the industrial arts is
relieved from the payment of an internal
revenue tax. Provision is made for bonded
alcohol warehouses, and safeguards are pro¬
vided against fraud.
There is a prohibition against the use of
any distilled liquors npon which the internal
revenue tax has not leen paid in the manu¬
facture of tinctures, proprietary articles,
alcoholic wineB, liquors, cordials, which bitters or other
beverages. compounds, are used or sold
Rs
The duty on sugar is reduced about fifty
per cent.
The following is a synopsis of the princi¬
pal tariff changes made by the bill, with the old
percentages set off against them pa¬
renthetically in the order of importance:
AV ool and manufacturers of wool (the class¬
ification of wools is that of the present law).
Wools of the first and second class and all
hair of the alpaca, goat and other like ani¬
mals, 11 cents per pound (10 to 36 cents).
Wools of the th ird class, exceeding in value
12 dents per pound, 6 cents per pound,
AYoolen cloths, shawls and all manufact¬
ures of wool, not enumerated, valued at not
pound, exceeding and 49 in cehts addition per thereto- pound, 35 cents per
35 per cent,
ad valorem (35 cents and 35 and 40 per cent.).
Abbve 40 cents and not exceeding 60 cents
per pound, ad 35 cents per and pound and 35 40 per
cent, valorem (:J5 40 cents and and
40 per cent.). Above 60 cents per pound, 40
cents Flannels, per pound blankets, and 40 hats, per cent, ad valued valorem.
etc., at
above 60 cents per pound, 40 cents per po und
and 40 per cent, ad valorem, (24 and 35 per
cent, and 35 cents and 40 per cent.).
AVoirlin’s and children’s dress goods, Italian
cloths, etc., made part of wool and valued at
not exceeding 15 cents par square yard, 6
cents per square yard, 40 per cent, ad va¬
lorem (5 cents and 35 per cent.).
Manufactured articles containing an ad¬
mixture of silk and in which silk is not the
component material of chief value, and not
otherwise provided, 11 cents per s ; uare yard;
and, in addition thereto, 40 per centum ad
valorem (5 cents and 35 per cent, and 7 cents
and 40 per cent according to value),
Provided that all goods of the character
enumerated or described in this paragraph,
weighing over four ounces per square yard,
shall pay a duty of 40 cents per pound and
40 per cent, advalorem (35 cents and 40 per
cent.) Women's and children’s dress goods,
Italian cloths and composed wholly of wool,
11 cents per square yard and 40 per cent, ad
valorem (10 cents and 25 per cent.). A11
such goods with selvages made wholly or in
part of other materials, and all such goods in
which threads marie wholly introduced or in part the of
other materials have been for
purpose of changing the classification for
duty, 11 cents per square yard and and 40 per
centum ad valorem (9 cents 40 per cent.).
Provided, that all such goods weighing, over
four ounces per square yard shall pay a duty
of 40 cents per pound and 40 per cent, ad
valorem. made, enumerated, all
Clothing ready not
goods made on knitting frames, and all pile
fabrics, composed wholly or in part of wool
made up or manufactured wholly or in part,
40 cents per pound and 45 per cent ad valorem
(40 cents and 35 per cent.).
Cloaks, dolmans, jackets, etc., excep t knit
goods composed wholly or in part of wool,
made up wholly or in part, 45 cents per
pound and 45 per cent, ad valorem (45 cents
and 40 per cent.) printing
Endless belts or felts for paper or
machines, 20 ceuts per pound and 30 per
cent ad valorem (20 cents and 35 per cent).
A New England man has beaten the
green goods sawdust men at their own
game. He got one of their circulars,
and in reply asked for a sample of their
goods. They sent him a genuine$1 bill
and the gentleman of New England and
stopped the correspondence then
there.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.
Engineer Alfred Miller, of the steamer
Eolus, died at Newport, R„ I.,on the steamer,
from injuries received by a nitric acid ex¬
plosion. Miller was in the engine-room near
by the and was compelled to breathe gases from
acid. He stopped the engine and turned
on the fire pumps before leaving his post,
thus averting a dreadful disaster at the ex¬
pense of his own life.
A further defalcation of $25,000 was dis
covered in the accounts of absconder AVill
iam R. Foster, Jr., with the Gratuity Fund
of the New York Produce Exchange.
Lewis Cobb, of Gloucester, Mass., about
sixty-five Boston, years old, committed suicide, iu
by throwing himself in front of a
rheumatism, moving car. He had been suffering wit!
There has been a light fall of snow in New
The Hampshire, fall Pennsylvania and New York.
was heaviest in the Mohawk Valley,
where a storm raged for several hours.
Michael Whalen, of Danville, Penn.,who
has been in poor health for some time, cut
his wife’s throat and then his own. The life¬
less bodies were found lying on the bed, and
there was every indication that the woman
had made a desperate struggle to escape the
grasp of her maniac husband.
The newly appointed Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from Persia,
AYiar, Hadji Hos ein Ghooly Khan Motamed el
has arrived in New York. His Ex¬
cellency, Kouli Khan, is the first Persian
representative ever accredited to this coun¬
try, the United although there has been a treaty between
States and Persia since December,
1856.
The Kings County Oil AYorks, at B rook
lyn, N. Y;, were damaged by fire to thi e ex
tent of $50,00(1, and two workmen were
burned to death by an explosion resulting
therefrom.
Henry Fitch, of Oxford, N. H., Demo¬
cratic candidate for State Senator, was
killed by being thrown from his wagon.
South and West.
Senor Florence Luitz, a wealthy ranch
man and an old Indian fighter, killed himself
at his ranch near Seliora, Cal.
Two workingmen were biirned to death in
the fire which destroyed S. G. AYilkins &
Co.’S furniture factory at Chicago.
Patrick Dunn, a fireman on board the
steamer San Marcos, plying between New
York and Galveston, Texas, jumped over¬
board and was drowned while the vessel was
entering the Gulf of Mexico, in order to
escape* Engineer. the brutal treatment of the Chief
The Sioux Commission, recently -P'
turned pointed by AVashington. President Cleveland, have re¬
to The Indians decline
to accept the terms of the treaty and surren¬
der their reservations:
Starvation ahd cannibalism is reported
among the Indians of the Northwest Terri¬
tory.
ended The September wheat had corner been at forced Chicago
after cash wheat up
to $2 a bushel. The losses to the shorts were
erormous.
Serious damage is reported to the tobacco
crop in Virginia by heavy frosts.
A snow storm which lasted two hours
occurred falls of in Mary and, and there wore irginia. light
snow in Various portions of V
Mrs. Louis Hildf.brandt, the handsome
young wife of a well known resident of
Wheeling, AY. Va., has died from the effect
Of a pistol shot wound inflicted by her bus
band in a fit of drunken anger.
At Nuzums Mills, AV. Va., AVilliaan AViil
iams knocked his wife down with a chair,
the woman dying from the effects of the
blow. AVilliams is eighty years old and his
wife was seventy.
Five men were killed at Helena, Montana,
by the ditching of a freight train.
Mr. Mills, author of the Tariff Reduction
bill, was renominated for Waco, Congress Texas. by the
Democratic Convention at
John D. Copeston and John Perry Pearce,
of Louisville, were drowned in the Ohio
River while boating.
A terrific storm raged along the Great
Lakes. Five lives were lost and much
damage done to shi] ping
TiIe Traders’ Bank of Chicago has failed
with liabilities of $1,000,090.
There are over 450 eases epidemic of typhoid fever
in Duluth, Minn., and the appears
to be growing. There have been numerous
deaths, of Beatrice,
Mrs. George Poffenberger,
Neb., strangled her two children with a
strong cord, and then shot herself through
the heart. She left a note for her husband
saying she was afraid she was going crazy.
Colonel J. J. Daniels, President of the
Florida Sanitary Association, and one of the
leading citizens of Jacksonville, Fla., is
dead of yellow fever.
A violent storm in the Ohio Valley Ky., was
particularly severe around Owensboro,
and Rock port, Ind., where three men were
killed by lightning and many buildings were
damaged by wind. Loss estimated at $50,
000 .
■Washington.
Secretary Vilas has .ent an important Cherokee
letter to the principal Chief of the
Indian Nation, notifying him that any le?
or contract tor grazing on the ‘ Ohero_
outlet” in the Indian Territory made by him
or his nation will be illegal.
The Senate has confirmed the
JSSTffK Lambert Tree, of Illinois, to be
ritory; Russia; George Davidson, of
Minister to 8* SSSSS
of Michigan, to be Minister to Belgium.
Coinage at the United States mints during
September aggregates 7,149,2SO pieces hav
tog a total value of $0,000,73 ). Total gold
coinage, $2,310,750; total silver coinage,
$3 349,185. $12,257,026
during The nub’ie September, debt was reduced
tS and $83,706,000 during
the last three hree months month_
„ . .
$31,69S,L4. e expenditures,? tmre.s W' , m , vr? • _
There have been forty-seven post offices
raised to Presidential offices since October 1,
with salaries ranging from $1000 to $1600.
The treaty of the United States with Peru
has been ratified.
The President has nominated James Petti
grew, State Treasurer of South Carolina, to
Be Consul-General at Melbourne, Australia.
Foreign.
Heavy firing ba« taken place at Buskin:
between the rebels and the British f <J. rce s. A
deserter reports Seventeen that the rebeis suffered se
verely. were killed by the ex
plosion of one shell.
31. A'iette, French Minister of of Deputiei Agricul
ture. reported to the Chamber
that the grain harvest amounted to 278,000,
000 bushels.
M !i> I’ aran Stevens, a famous anc
wealth"v society leader of New York Europe city, hai ol
been robbed while traveling to
jewels worth $100,000.
PiUHRssdP Geffiken, who is
been arrested.
A hurricane in the AVest Indies caused
great damage to life and property. Four
American vessels were wrecked oft TJurk’s
Island, and a great many seamen perished.
The mysterious fiend of London, who has
a passion for murdering women in the most
brutal manner, has added two more victims
to his list, this making six females in all
whom he has murdered and mutilated with
great atrocity.
Professor Gkffcken, who has been ar¬
rested for publishing extracts from the diary
of the late German Emperor, claimB that he
receive 1 permission from Emperor Frederick
to publish them three months after his death.
Senator James G. Ross, a ten-fold mil¬
lionaire, and Canada’s greatest speculator,
has died in Quebec.
Several arrests were made in London of
persons suspected of connection with the
Whitechapel murder mystery, and rewards
amounting to $ 1000 were offered for the de¬
tection of the murderer.
Over three hundred natives were killed in
a battle with a force of natives led by British
officers on the Gold Coast in Zanzibar,
Africa.
Six lives were lost in an explosion work¬ on
board an iron mud-carrying steamer
ing in the Panama Canal.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Girls are employed as shingle packers in
the mills at Bay City, Mich.
Great Britain mines 16,000,000 tons of
Iron per year and imports 8,000,0 )9 tons.
It is estimated that eight millions of um¬
brellas are made in this country annually.
The Indianapolis Oar Works are turning
cars out at the rate of twenty five per day.
In the United States 640,000 and women 530,000 are iu
employed in manufactories,
laundries.
Paterson, N. J., may he called the Lyons and
of American, for it manufactures silk
other fine goods.
Sixty employers in the United Statics
share in some measure their profits with
their employers. the
AYallace Gruei.i.e, assistant editor of
Labor Signal, and a prominent Indiana
labor man, is dead.
Cowboys used to get $50 a month each and
board. Now- $3.5 is a top figure, and the aver¬
age is $25 a month and board.
Thirteen hundred men have been thrown
out of work at Boston and Brooklyn by the
feugar Trust closing refineries.
Direct returns from producers show that
the total value of building stone quarried $85,000,- in
the United States during 1387 was
DOO
Twelve! hundred bolters England, employed have in
the cotton mills at Bolton, system ot
gone on a strike against a new
weighing cotton.
The hours of labor in England were twelve
per day up to 1846, when thoy were reduced
to eleven; and again reduced to ten in 1374,
where they now stand.
Five hundred convicts in the Kings for
County (N, Y.) Penitentiary make shoes
the Bay State Company, under a contract
Which expires in M irch next.
At Manistee, Mich., girls other feed the like planer,) work.
in They the also hop-mills do the and sacking do at the dai-y salt
works, and make from $1 to $1.2> a day.
Trenton, N. j, has over $4,009,000 in¬
vested in potteries, and the army of work¬
men employed receive in the aggregate of
$75,000 a week. The aggregate earnings of
the employes are about $18.50 a week.
Herman Stein, the New York shirt con¬
tractor who recently went before the Con¬
gressional Committee and stated that he had
reduced the wages of his employes an 1 would
do so again if he felt so inclined, 1ms kept his
Word.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
ttf America was founded in convention in
Chicago, August 12, 1881. At first it had
only 12 local unions and 2043 members. Now
it has 481 local unions in over 445 cities and
53,000 enrolled members.
There are 30 )0 women telegraph operators $W0
in England, earning anywhere from to
$1000 a year. Tho telegraph being a branch
of the civil service in competitive England, it examination is neces-iary
for them to pass a
before employment is given them.
Most combination tools are so clumsy that
carpenters have generally abandoned them
as wasting time instead of saving it. One
tool, however, of recent invention, is handy
and simple, and likely to become of great
service. It is a piece of steel or other mate¬
rial cut so as to form a square, mitre or tri
square. capacity of Da
The work of doubling tho at Now Albany,
Pauw’s plate glass factory for two
Ind., which has been in progress
years, was entirely completed a few days
since. The capacity of the works is 2,90),990
feet of plate glass, 301,090 boxes of window
glass and 30,000 gross of fruit jars.
In many establishments where the daintier
and more artistic of the artisan trades are
carried on—wood carving, scroll work, china
decorating and the like —th- work is turns 1
over largely to women. ’he employers find
that the sex generally have fine hands fitted
for work requiring delicacy and fi .n i-ss,
good artistic taste, and a fondne-. for the
employment.
PERSIA S MINISTER.
The Oriental I resiaen
Hunseif Before the
new Persian Minister, Hadji Hossein
President Kouli Kahn, Cleveland h. I—.y- by the feecre-ary o “
State. The Minister is very diminutive,
d he win enjoy the reputation of being
the 8horte8t in suture of any of the members
G f the diplomatic corps, not accepting Mr.
Mutsu, the Japanese representative. His
costume was hidden by a heavy cashmere
robe, which glistened with jewels and the
various insignia of his Cleveland rank- entered . the ..
When President proetrated himself before
room the Persian com
hjm Then followed a p rformance
mon enoug h i n the Orient, but never be.ore
witnessed here. Before a hand could be raised
to prevent him, the Minister bumped bis
head gravely three times against the noor,
and then, as if satisfied that be hadMom tn
properthing, hestraightema lima
awaited t he .^^ nt L P ^;f p or a
t; ef M a i, is trate
an d the repre
. ^Then’tbTOriental delivered r‘-eTitABv,
His address was >f Minister’s
tongue. At the conclusion low - and , re
address the President bowed
! sponded. P ld , , f; n joW| tie Min
" h tS, tl fi i^ ^knowledgment and the
ister bowed bis acfcno. - t, 3
party separated.
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. .
President Cleveland has appointed versity
Professor Arthur J. Starejo’the T m
of P an« Notre Expo Dame, sition as oM sment.fic • Fr. expert to^he
—....IntAm-a
i tiK. and i'itcraturp ol Fr.nc,
I ! “ thorough.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate Proceedings. Chi¬
185th Day. —The President signed the
nese Exclusion bill and sent it to the Senate
accompanied by a message. Senator Sher¬
man moved the reference of the message to
the Committee on Foreign Relations, which
was agreed to.... The bill foreiting unearned
land grants of the Northern Pacific Railroad
was favorably reported.... Mr. Halo offered
a resolution calling upon the Secretary of
War for information relative to the circular
issued by General Bonet.
186th Day.—M r. Yoorhees, from the Li¬
brary Committee, reported favorably a bill
for tlie purchase of the lifo size oil painting*
of Abraham Lincoln by G. AY. F. Travis, at
a cost not to exceed $15,000.... The Senate
agreed to the conference report on the Defi¬
ciency Appropriation bill.
1ST Til Day.—T he substitute for the House
Tariff bill was reported back; it reduces the
revenues about $74,000,000.... The Senate re¬
sumed consideration of Mr. Hide’s resolu¬
tion calling on the Secretary of War for an
explanation of General Benet’s circular as to
discharges of certain employes in United
States arsenals and armories.
ISStii Day.—T he report of the Committee
on Finance against the M ills bill and in sup¬
port of the substitute therefor was submitted.
The minority report, together with a supple¬
mental report of Mr. Beck, were also given
.... The Henet resolution was salaries adopted.... passed The
bill to adjust Postmasters’ was
.... Mr. Chandler’s resolution for an inquiry then
into the recent Louisiana election was
taken up, and Mr. Blair spoke upon it, and,
in connection with it, argued in favor of his
Educational bill.
House Proceedings
023d Day. —Iu the House the report of the
Stahlnecker Investigating Committee, which
completely exonerates too Congressman, rest of was tho
presented... .The Hodse spent the bills the
day in consideration of private on
calendar.
224th Day.— The President’s messago ac¬
companying his signature of the Chinese Ex¬
clusion bill was received by the House and
referred to tho Committee on Foreign Af¬
fairs. .. .Thebill incorporating the Nicaragua
Canal Company was discussal... .Resolu¬
tions against trusts were offered by Mr. Lan
bam and others. Mr. Dunham’s measure
urges that it hr declared that it “is the sense
of the House” that the remainder of Was ses¬
sion should be devoted to legislation against
“trusts.” House .passed the bill
225th Day.— Tho
permitting settlers who have abandoned their
homesteads to take up others... .The reauest
of the Mexican National railroad to allow
their freight to pass through the United
States without examination or appraisal has
IxiGii laws of
226th Day. —The bill to extend the
the United States over tho Public Land Strip
was discussed, but no action roicbeil... .The
Deficie ncy bill was taken up and the
aqueduct frauds discusse 1. A letter wasread
from Major Lydecker stating that the de¬
fects thus far discovered could he remedied
for $5060, while ten times that sum was
reserved for that purpose. He also stated
that the contractors were under heavy bonds
to, make good any failure to satisfactorily
complete the work.
PK0MINENT PEOPLE.
The King of Sweden is a historian.
The Queen of Roumania lias become a pub
lisher.
The Prince of Wales intends joining the
Odd Fellows.
Evangelist Moody will spend the wintei
in California.
Mrs. Fred Grant loves the military, and
still lives at AVest Point.
George Bancroft, the historian, has just
past his eighty-eighth birthday.
The betrothal of the Czarevitch of Russia
to Princess Maud of Wales is announced.
Hit, Oliver Wendell Holmes has mad 0
more money as a surgeon than as an author
Bishop Foster of the Methodist Episcopal only
Church, was licensed to preach when
fourteen.
Thf. American Duchess of Marlborough
has already distributed several large sums bo
London hospitals. youngest
Colonel F. C. Lister Kay is the
regimental commander in the British service,
being only thirty-six years old.
Joseph Thompson, tho plucky African
explorer, is only twenty seven years old, of
medium height, but robust and wiry.
Carl Schiirz lias been applied to by
Houghton. Miffim & Co. to write a Life of
Abraham Lincoln” for their American States¬
men series.
Senator Sherman is reported five to have
made $890,000 during the past years
from investments in real estate on Columbia
Heights in Washington.
Frank E. Vistcrato, a well-known citizen
of Salem, Mass., was, when a iad, on o of the
1200 Greeks that, under Marco Bozzaris,made
the famous charge at Carponisi in August,
1823.
Some one has discovered that
dates for President this year Cleveland is the
biggest, Harrison the shortest, I isk the hand¬
somest, Streeter the wealthiest and Holva
Lockwood the sweetest.
Yan Fhou Lee, a graduate of Yale, who
married a New Haven lady, has been ap
pointed to a position in tho Pacific Bank, all nan
Francisco, Cal. He will attend to the
business bis countrymen, the Chinese, have
with the bank.
The "‘silent Yon Moltke” isn’t at all silent
at home. He is, on the contrary a charm¬
ing lively and amiable companion. He is
verv fond of the wife of his nephew, w ho
presides over his household, and of her chil
fl ren He loves whist and roses, and ot these
. variety
flowers cultivates a great
j OHJf L Porter, who designed and con
s tructed the Merrimac the first ironclad ever
built, and who thus changed completely the
systemo f naval warefare, is now wieldm r a
broadaxe He is an old in the man, navy almost yard eighty, at L° u^he but he is is
colnl ^Ue<l to toil from early until late.
ProbaB ly the richest world, college Professor professor E. in
j^n-erica, if not in the is
Salisbury, of Yale. He is a millionaire,
fortune was made from investments
i n Boston real estate. Professor Salisbury is
&bout W3Ven , y yearg old, is a man of courtly
(lem(ianori , m d has traveled over nearly the
whole world.
Ex-Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, ^ credited
with having an income of *104 000 a year.
Y'l’YTh Chiim of and JaMn and
Mr. Low is thirty-nine years age, is
-narr>ed married to to a a very v g brilliant and cultured
woman.
The Russia Government has offered a sub
fidy of $65,000 annually to a private firm for
a steamship line, to run between Russian
Pacific ports and Corean, Japanese and
Chinese ports, to be at the disposal of Russia
in the event of war.
| A rai l roa d to run ™ from Selma, Mineral Ala.,
! h the ri , hest
gdds in Alabama, is to i-»W».- be built in that State
g, . -Kk
NO. 33.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
The hop crop in England is a failure.
The yield of celery this fall is exceptionally
large.
They are putting an elevator in the Wash¬
ington Monument.
Russia is talking of interfering in the
Afghan disturbances.
Associate Supreme Court Justice Stanley
Matthews is convalescent.
For the first six months of 1888 the English 957.
railways killed 165 people and injured
Ice skates are going to be cheap this
winter, as several of the patents have just
run out.
A young couple who were married at Nar
ragansett Pier, Mass., took their wodding
trip in a balloon,
King Kalakaiu, of Ilia Sandwich Islands,
goes to Melbourne, Australia, next month to
attend the Exposition.
The bronze statue of the poet Longfellow> Portland,
erected by his fellow townsmen of
Me., has been unveiled.
The South American skunk has been
introduced into Australia with n view of
exterminating the rabbit pest
The Pope has closed his jubilee by celebra¬
ting high mass for the dead in St. Petor’s in
the presence of III),000 people.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria,
narrowly escaped being shot at the riflo
practice of Austrian soldiers.
The world’s pacing record of one mile for
three-year-olds lias been beaten at Napa,
Cal., by Gold Leaf. Time, 2:15.
Two corporals of the French army have
been arrested for offering Label rides and
cartridges to the Italian government
Floods are prevailing throughout Switz¬
erland, which have caused much damage suffered. to
property. Railroads have especially
John Richmond, the Irish member of Par¬
liament, has been convicted under the Crimes
Act and sentencod to five months’ imprison¬
ment.
The cabbage growers of Weston, Ohio,
have formed a (rust, and will refuse to sell
cabbages for less than live cents a head in
the .field.
The number of persons fined in the Gorman
Empire in the lust fiscal year for evading the
payment of imperial taxes and customs ex¬
ceeded 15,000. record of
Thirty prizes is the unparalleled her first
the English yacht Yarana for this, tho.
season, which she closed by winning
Channel race.
Minister West, the English Envoy to
this country, becomes Baron Sackville, in
consequence of the death of his elder brother
without issue.
LATEST NEWS.
FiTzainRONS & Crisp’s carriage factory
at Trenton, N. J., has been destroyed by lire
Causing a loss of $50,000,
The Vermont Legislature convened at
Montpelier and W. P. Dillingham was in¬
augurated as Governor.
Frank Smith and Teddy AVeaver, two
fishermen of Parlcertown, N. J., wer
drowned while fishing.
Ahram S. Hewitt hns been renominated
for Mayor of New York City by a meeting
of citizens, irrespective of parties, held iu
Cooper Union.
Ex-Alderman Arthur J. McQuade, of
Ne,w York City, who was convicted as a
boodler and sentenced to seven years’ im¬
prisonment in Sing Sing, lias been released
on $20,000 bail pending a new trial.
John B. Curtis, a rich hotel keeper of
Salamanca, N. Y., shot and killed himself at
the Grand Central Hotel, New York. Mel¬
ancholia, occasioned by the death of his
wife, was the cause. 4
The New York ball team defeated the
Chicago nino, by a score of 1 to 0, thus
virtually winning the League championship
for 1888.
At Medina, Ohio, Mrs. Mary L, Garrett
vvns convicted of the murder of her two im.
becile stepdaughters, and, sentenced to hang
on January 24,1880.
Tint United States collector of customs a*
San Francisco has given notice that no more
return certificates will be issued to Chinamen.
The damage by frost to tho tobacco cioj
in the South Side section of Virginia is very
great ami more than one fourth of the
crop has been completely ruined,
A CANOE, containing
man aml their < igbteen-months child and
Mrs. Phillips and her four children,was cap
si zed at Frinceis Anne, Md, Mrs. Konne
man with her babe in her arms sank in¬
stantly. Mrs. hillip’s two-months-old babe
was borne from her arms, and went down
together with her four-year-old child.
BUSINESS FAILURES.
The business failures occurring throughout
the United States for the third quarter of
the year completed amount in number to
2301, with liabilities of a trifle over $32,000,
000 The failures for the third quarter aggre^ate of
1887 numbered 1088, with liab»
ingthe enormous sum ot *i 4,0JO,000 the number inis of
shows for ISSN an increase m while the
the failures of the quarter, 424,
liabilities have decreased, as compared large with
1887 nearly #51,000,000. The aggre¬
gated liabilities in the 1887 quarter was due
to speculative disasters, and it is probable failures
that the liabilities of the legitimate this.
were no greater last year than
For tho nine months of 1888 the failures
number 7550. with liabilities of over
009,000. as compared with 6850 failures and
$128,000,000 of liabilities in tho same for period 18-8
of 18S7, showing that the failures
were in number 700 more than last year, but
with liabilities about 30 per cent. less.
In the Dominion of Canada and INewfound
land the failures for the three months just
closed number 381, with liabilities of $11,6™,
009, as against 1108 failures and Ww 0
liabilities in the same quarter of “
the nine mouths of US8 ending with MR
ternber 30, the Canadian failures . s( .
1256 with liabilities of $11,482,014,,as liabilities, «
1017, with $13,458,000 of
same period of 1887.
Thf. largest passenger engine fu fiia world
has just been finished by th ' 5ork, ' , n p rov ;l
Providence, R. I., for the 3 ew Jbe onvmg
dence and Boston Pailroad- It takes
wheels are six feet »
three tons OP <oaltogettolf te,m -. .
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