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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1888)
THE CONYERS WEEKLY VOL. X. WASHINGTON, D. G, TACTS ANV FANCIES ABOUT MEN AND THINGS. XYhnt Our National Law .linker* are DolB® —Departmental (tossip-Movcint'nts President ami Mrs. C leveland. CONGRESSIONAL. In the Senate Mr. Allison, from the committee on appropriations, reported effect back the House bill to carry into ■the provisions of the net of the 2nd of March, 1887, in regard to experimental Placed stations at agricultural colleges. pn the calendar. On motion of Mr. Quay, the Senate took from the calendar and passed the bill increasing the pen¬ sion for total deafness to thirty dollars a j month (front thirteen dollars), and partial allow¬ ing a proportionate rating for deafness. The Senate then took up the bill widow giving a pension of $2,000 yearly to dhe of Gen. John A. Logan, pass¬ ed it almost unanimously, and also grant¬ the ed by the same vote a pension to The widow of Geo. Frank P. Blair. Senate then took up the Blair education¬ al bill, hut soon proceeded to the consid¬ eration of executive business .. In the House, the morning hour was consumed in debating the bill affecting the title to a small tract of land in Kansas, reserved for some New York Indians, who never occupied the lands. The bill was finally passed. The committee on foreign affairs was discharged, and at its own request, in¬ from further consideration of the bili, corporating the Maritime Canal company, of Nicaraugua, and the same was referred (to the committee on commerce. The (speaker pro tern stated the regular order to be the consideration of the resolution setting apart February 21st, after the morning hour and each day thereafter, until further order, for the consideration of bills reported from the committee on public buildings aud grounds, appropria¬ not to in¬ terfere with revenue or general tion bills. Filibustering motions were then entered upon, but were repeatedly voted down amid much noise and con • fusion. Among the petitions and memorials presented in the Senate and referred, were the following: By Mr. Brown, of the Medical society of Georgia, to have surgeons’ supplies and instruments offered placed •on the free list. The resolution by Chandler some days ago, calling on the navy department for information as to the purchase of plans and specifications in foreign countries; as to changes from the original plans in the construction of ships of war; and as to contracts made for ships and ordinance since the fourth of March, 1885, were taken up. The first of them was adopted, and the second referred to the committee on naval affairs. As to the third, Mr. Butler moved to amend it so as to substitute 1880 for 1885. A long discussion ensued, many senators arguing against the propriety of putting into the bill amendments that would have the effect of delaying its passage; Mr. Hale defended his action in offering amend¬ ment on the ground that the Senate had just overruled the position which the ap¬ propriations committee had taken on the subject (not to add any items to bill as as came from the House) and also on the ground that the secretary of the navy stated that the appropriation was abso¬ lutely needed. The Senate confirmed the nomination of C. H. Way, oi Georgia, consul-general Litchfield, at St. Petersburg; C O. postmaster, Abingdon, Va-., and R. M. Gardner, Chrisliansburg, Va. ... In the House, Mr. Henderson, of North Carolina, from the committee on judiciary, internal reported a bill to amend the revenue laws. Placed on the House calendar. A resolution, with the accompanying follows: preamble, was adopted, that as certain individuals “Whereas, It is alleged in the United and corporations States engaged in manufactur¬ ing, producing, mining or dealing in the necessaries of life and other productions have combined for the purpose of con¬ trolling or curtailing the production or ing supply of the same, and thereby i 'creas¬ their price to the people of the coun t'y, which combinations are known as associations, trusts, pools, and like names; and, Whereas, Such combinations not only injuriously affect commerce be¬ tween the states, but impair tic revenues of the United States, as derived from its duties on imports; therefore, Resolved. That the committee ort manufactures, be and the same is hereby directed to inquire into the names, number and extent of such alleged combinations, under what¬ bination ever name known, their methods of com¬ of doing business, their effect upon the prices of any of the necessaries of life and of all productions to the peo¬ foreign ple of the country upon its internal or commerce, and its revenues from impost duties, together with any and all other matters relating to the same which may call for or suggest legislation by House, Congress, and report the same to the with such recommendations as said committee may agree upon, and for these purposes the committee on manu factures is authorized to sit during r SCS sion of the House, to employ a stenograph er, to administer oaths, examine witnesses, compel the ai tendance of persons, and the production of papers. In the Senate. Mr. Yoorhee.s introduces bills for the formation and admissi >■: the State of Montana. Referred. Mi Hoar called up the moti-n made l»y M Gorman some time since, to record h the vote by which the Senate had onie ed a special committee of five on Pac-ir Railroad matters. He explained his tive in proposing a special ( oinrai’tci The motion to refer the matter t-.> ;1 railroad committee was rejected Th original resolution was modified !e ;> creasing the membership of the ■ ; committee to seven, and it was thi-i adopted. A bill was introduced by M r CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1888. Call to prohibit subjects of foreign gov¬ ernments from catching fish within three marine leagues of the coast, < r within any of the bays or headlands of the United States. Mr. Palmer addressed the Senate on the subject of the bill introduced by him on the 12th inst,, to regulate immi¬ gration.....In the House, Mr. Oates, of Alabama, from the committee on judici¬ ary, reported a bill making bills ol lading Conclusive evidence in certain cases. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Whittliornc, of Tennessee, fr. m the committee on naval affairs, reporte 1 a bill appropriating United $175,000 for the repair of the States steamship Hartford Mr. Richard¬ son, of Tennessee, chairman of the com¬ mittee on printing, reported a resolution calling on the. public printer for information as to whether he has recently discharged or furloughed what any of his force, and, if so, for ordered reason, at a time when printing Also by the House is greatly in discharges, arrears. whether in making such giving pref¬ re¬ gard has been had to statute, erence in employment Adopted to honorably consid¬ dis¬ charged soldiers. the morning the In House eration of hour, proceeded lo the consideration of the resolution concerning Fort Brown Mili¬ tary Reservation, Texas. The resolution was'adoptecT the <5n bill motion passed of Mr. Phelan, author¬ of Tennessee, was izing the construction of a bridge Memphis. across the Mississippi river at intro¬ Mr. Breekenridge, of Arkansas, duced a bill to authorize the consolida¬ tion of customs collection districts in cer¬ tain cases. Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, olio led a resolution for the printing of the ol 5,000 extra copies of the report hoard of visitors to the Military Acade¬ my. GOSSIP. The President sent the following nom inations to the Senate: Postmasters, Buena Vista Wood, Rock Hill, S. (J.; Jacob W. F. Little, West Point, Ga. The Interstate Commission is after the express the South), companies and companies (especially those using ol the are all the influence they can to cause delay iu the investigation which is to take A delegation of the House of Repre¬ sentatives from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee other tobacco-growing states held a meet¬ ing, and decided to unite Dodge, in a statisti- request for the removal of J. R. can account of the of department defects in his of agriculture, estimate of the on tobacco crop of last summer. A reception was given by the President and Mrs. Cleveland, at the Executive -Mansion to the members of Congress and justices of the district and United States courts. The mansion was decorated with flowers and potted plants as usual and music was furnished by the Marine band. Mrs. Cleveland was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Fairchild, Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Don M.Dickinson, and presentations were made by Colonel Wilson. The House judiciary committee unani¬ mously approved and will report for the to bill the House favorably a substitute in¬ to amend the internal revenue laws, troduced by Mr. Henderson, of North Carolina. I i its present shape the hill abolishes all minimum penalties and for confers tlic infraction of revenue laws, on the courts discretion in the imposition i f punishment within the limit fixed by the statute and greatly changes the pres¬ ent excise laws. The President acted upon appeals fot executive clemency as follows: Garland D. Carrier, convicted in South Carolina of violating the internal revenue laws, and sentenced to twelve months’ impris¬ onment, and to pay $500; sentence com¬ muted to one month’s imprisonment on condition that the fine is paid within that time. E. P. Ilipp, convicted in South Carolina of passing an altered years’ bank imprison¬ note, and sentenced to three ment. and to pay a fine of $500; sentence commuted to fifteen months actual im¬ prisonment. The executive committee of the Na¬ tional Confectioners’ Association of the United States, is in session at the Ebbitt House. This Association of Confection¬ ers was organized at Chicago nearly four years ago. Its membership is limited to wholesale and jobbing manufacturers, and its object is to improve the standard oi confectionery. To this end it has pro¬ cured the passage of laws against the adulteration of candy in many states, and now publishes a standing offer of $100 re¬ ward for information which will procure the conviction of anyone violating such laws. In the case of Hugh M. Brooks, alias W. H. Maxwell, agaiust the state of Mis souri, was up in the United States Su¬ preme Court. This is the famous Max well-Prelier murder case. Brooks, oi Maxwell, plaintiff in error, is now in prison in the city of St. Louis under sen¬ tence of death for the murder of C. Ar¬ thur Preller, in April, 1885. The case brought to this court upon a writ of eiror to the Supreme Court of Missouri and the decision here is upon a motion made by the attorney-general of that state to dis¬ miss for want of jurisdiction, and was denied; its effect is to affirm the sentence of death pronounced by the state court. BOOMED INTO JAIL. One of the leading boomers of wild-cat land schemes in Los Angeles, Cal., Dr. G. Hamilton Griffin, has been arrested for em bezzling $1,000 from three of his clients. Griffin is president of the South¬ ern California Land Bureau, which formed one of the 400 real estate offices in that city, where the Eastern tourist may be ac¬ commodated with town lots at fancy prices and land at $1,000 an acre. He is said to be well known in Toronto and Montreal, Canada, as Dr. Gustavus Gib¬ son, and to have spent several mouths in the Montreal igil for swindling:. SOUTHLAND D0TT1NGS. interesting news items for BUST PEOPLE. The Soiint, Religion* and Temperance World—Projected Enterprises—M«vr fringes, Fires, Deaths. Fite. Chancellor P. H. Mell, of the Univer¬ sity at Athens, Ga., is dead. The grand jury at New Orleans, La., has decided that keno is not gambling within the meaning of the statute. Hon. John T. Allen, ex-State Treasurer of Texas, died at Houston, aged 80. He bequeathed industrial $300,000 to the city for au school for hoys. A bottle of corn whiskey taken from a drunken man in Atlanta, Ga., while on the ploded mantlepiece with the of the police small station, ex¬ noise of a cannon. Stenographer Barnes asked for $600 fot Macon, reporting the Woolfolk Judge murder Gustin allowed case at Ga., and the bill. There were 300,000 words put in the record. Deputy Sheriff J. M. Autry was shot and instantly killed near Tuscaloosa, Ala., while arresting Jim Semmes, a ne¬ gro. The negro fired from his house just as he reached it. The jail of Edgecombe county, North Carolina, at Tarboro, and the old Steele Creek Presbyterian church in Mecklen¬ burg county, North Carolina, were des¬ troyed by fire. Rev. J. S. Dill, who was called to the pastorate of the Central Baptist Church at Atlanta, Ga., aud also to that of the Baptist Church of Goldsboro, N. C., hail accepted the latter call. The court house of Mobile comity, Ala., was destroyed by fire. A defective flue set fire to the roof and the flames records. spread slowly and gave time to save the The building was valued at $50,000. While the fast train on the Georgia road was approaching Augusta, some miscreants, when the cars were about which two miles from the city, threw rocks smashed several windows. No one was hurt. Rev. Sam Jones, the revivalist, spoke “To Men Only” at Kansas City, Mo. The attendance was 6,000, and the collection for Jones’ personal benefit amounted to $3,500, He spoke that night to an audi¬ ence of The celebrated trotting stallion, Happy Medium, valued at $40,000, died at Lex¬ ington, Ky. He was foaled in 1863. Thirty-nine of his get have records of 2:30, or lower. He was of Ned by Gen¬ eral W. T. Withers. “Hands up; I am a detective!” were the words used by Albert Knott, a young colored man who had summoned Fred. Patrick, of Atlanta, Ga., to the front door. With his hands out, Patrick cap¬ tured the bogus detective. J. M. Frazier, who was for years treas¬ urer of the Mobile & Georgia Railroad company, left Columbus, Ga., for Mexico to accept the position of auditor of ac¬ counts of the construction company of the Mexican National railway. It having been announced that the printers who recently struck on the Couri¬ er-Journal , of Louisville, Ky., proposed Hat¬ starting an opposition paper, W. N. demau, proprietor of the Courier-Journal, tendered the strikers full associated press dispatches six months free of charge. Central railroad engine, No. 29, En¬ gineer Greagor, run over J- B. Brinson, a young white man, at Tennille, Ga., and cut off both his legs just below the knee. Brinson is a train hand on the W. & T., and was in the discharge of his duties when he was struck by the engine, which he did not see, as he had his back to it. He died. Cold weather has at last closed Fa taps co River with ice, and navigation is stopped to Baltimore, Md., except to larger class which local steamers in and a Both few smaller craft get up tow. state and city ice boats are at work, and thus far have succeeded in breaking the ice from that city to open water in Chesa¬ peake Bay. Charles G. Minnigerode, a prominent citizen of Alexandria, Va,,in the railroad supply business, committed suicide at his residence by shooting himself in the head with a pistol. He Richmond, w,n a son of Rev. Dr. Minnigerode, of Va., was at one time a Confederate soldier and served on Gen. Fitzhugh children. Lee’s staff. He leaves a wife aud eight Goldthwaite Graham, a well known citizen, for many years deputy sheriff of Montgomery, Ala., committed suicide. The deceased had been drinking and re¬ marked to his son: “I’m going to kill myself. Old man Workman went by the laudanum route, and I’ll do the same.” He was noted for courage and integrity, and when not drinking was a very estima- ; ble man. Murphy Phillips, indicted for rape; Jack Chapman, charged with the murder of Monroe Bvnum, and a negro named Jones under a jail sentence—the only three pris >- «r caped. The jail is constructed after the usual manner, with an inside cage sur rounded by a corridor. At the time of the escape the prisoners were out in his corridor, and. by the use of a common stove poker, they dug a hole through bnck wall of the jail. The man who was secured by the Montgomery, Ala., police, confessed to the captain of police that he was Reuben Barrows and the fugitive his brother Jim. Reuben was taken to the gallery and photographed. The picture, with a de scription, was sent to the express office at Texarkana, which was lately robbed, and it is believed by the same gang. Reuben says that one of the gang ar rested in Texas turned state’s evidence i and revealed the hiding-place of $20,000 of stolen money, which was recovered, also the names. That’s how the detec¬ tives got on to them and traced them into Lamar county. GOING FURl’HER SOUTH. The Scheme Which an Indiana Mail is Afli taling Among Colored People. Col. A. A. Jones,of the Indiana auditor's office, who is connected with the latest proposed exodus of negroes from the Southern States to South America, talks freely about the scheme. Ho is an active friend of movements for the ‘-improve¬ ’’and ment of the condition of his race, was engaged in the first exodus of 1879. lie accompanied Gov. Chamberlain, colored together with several other young men, to South Carolina from Massachusetts, and entered heartily into that movement. “This exodus,” ho said, “will be effectu¬ ally pushed and by May 1st we expect to have our first party on the road. There arc no headquarters as r et. The move¬ ment is very young; less than a month old, so far as active work is concerned. Headquarters will he established proba¬ bly in New York. We shall have three ag-ents in Cincinnati; one at St. Louis, and one at Chicago. I am agent at this point. We have some of the best people in the country interested—men who are willing to go down in their pockets for the relief of their colored oppressed people brethren. in this We have some country pretty well fixed and they are committed to "the work. There is no fixed amount of capital. We wish to accom plish by the exodus, first and foremost, protection. This is not a ques¬ tion of politics at the bottom, although it will, of course, have some po¬ litical bearing. The colored man has de¬ veloped and made the South what it is. and the white laborers could not and cannot do the work that our people do. Southerners will find a difference when they have to use white labor. We have selected South America for a location because of its climat.e and adaptability the of soil to produce such articles as colored people arc accustomed to rais¬ ing. We have investigated the Our country and received favorable reports. peo¬ ple do not want to come North and West, because of climatic conditions, and be¬ cause the prejudice against the black race follows them even there. In South America, as well as in other parts of the world, the color of the skin does not bar one out of the race for the best. We shall start our emigrants from eastern points. 1 can’t speak more definitely now than to eay that a boat will run to Brazil, and will carry passengers at $14 a head. Certain¬ ty that is cheap enough. We have agents at work iu the South now,, and we shall get as many emigrants as possible out of Mississippi and Louisiana, while not neg¬ lecting Missouri and Kentucky, and if there is not a big emigration, the guess.” therefore, next summer, then I miss ESCAPED THE HALTER. Charles F. Jones, of Nnrtli Carolina. Wlio Murdered His Wife Imprisoned for Life. The sheriff of Cranen county, North Carolina, took recently to the penitentiary one of the worst criminals ever known in Carolina. His name is Charles Frank Jones, and he is a young white man. Last May he murdered his wife, near New Berne, by strangling and then drowning her. He had been married three years, but had become tired of his wife and enamored of a young woman of that section named Haddock. Ho told his wife he intended to secure a divorce. Ilis wife told him never, with her consent or knowledge. Thereupon he said that there were several ways of procuring di¬ vorces, and intimated that he Haddock. intended, at all hazards, to marry Miss Jones’ wife had left him and taken refuge with her mother. He went to her mother’s house after her, and by fail promises induced her to leave and go to what he told her was a new home he had prepared for her. Taking their little child in his arms, Jones led the way to the river. They crossed it in a boat. Jones then laid the child on the ground and strangled his wife. After strangling her he threw her body in the stream. It was found a few days after. Jones was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. He appealed to the supreme court for a new trial. It. continued the sentence of death. Jones was to be hanged respited last him De¬ cember. Governor Scales until the latter part of January. The death warrant was issued by the Gover¬ nor, under the provisions of the new law, for his execution at a latter date. The county commissioners of Cranen asked for a commutation on the ground that the Jones was an imbecile. The case was talk of the whole state. The Governor called in a council <>f state, and the day before the date fixed for the execution a commutation to imprisonment for life was granted Jones. He made a full confes sion of his crime. MIGHTY ODD. C, Martin, prominent . of P. a man 2JSB3S homc JJ e says that about two months | llis little" granddaughter informed h m that stol;es -were falling in the bouse, p rom that time this phenomenon has con tjnuecl The stoues have been seen tc j al j jn the house by various persons, and they are from ten pounds weight down t0 ' q Uar ter of a pound. They fall ap p are ntlv from the room, and do not in f | eilt the floor as they would do if dropped from that height. In some cases they ap ar t0 project themselves from the side 'f t h e room. The first observation of t his strange phenomenon was at the old >i ar tin house. The family moved about * house of quarter of a mile to a new Martin's, and the stones fell there. Then m0 ved into another house, and yet t^e fall continued. THE BDSY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHER BY THE EVER¬ PRESENT NEWSPAPER MAN. J-lip Flll-openn Towers Preparing f«r » Strtiggle-Jrl.ita Allairs—storms* Ifni I road Accidents, Suicides, etc. ! There is a fuel famine in the city oi I San Francisco, Cal. Au explosion of melinite occurred in a factory at Zurndorf, Hungary, killing three persons and wounding twelve. News from Winnepeg declare that the deficit in the accounts of the late govern¬ ment is now found to reach over half a million dollars. Local option was carried in Allegan county, Mich., by over 1,500 majority. This makes fourteen counties that have voted for local option in Michigan. A startling plot for the wholesale lib¬ eration of the prisoners confined in the state penitentiary, at Jeffersonville, Warden Ind., was discovered recently by Patton. The Toledo, Ohio, Anarchists have is¬ sued a call for a meeting to be held soon. The call is in circular form, and hears the ensanguined motto: “Blood, Bombs or ■Bread!” The jury iu the case of Holmes, vs. New York Times brought in a verdict for plaintiff of $5,000. Holmes is the Sara¬ toga undertaker who embalmed Gen. Grant’s body and sued the Times for li¬ bel. The people of Beardsly, Minn., are so desperate that a number of farmers drove into that place after fuel,and there being none, tore down the railroad company’s snow fences and hauled away several loads. Two passenger cars ou the Salem branch of the Delaware & Hudson, N. Y., Rail¬ road, jumped and the turned track, went three overall times. em¬ bankment over Sixteen passengers were injured, four of them fatally. The rear car of the Boston and Montreal train was thrown from the track by a broken switch rod near South Royalton, Vt., fell down a fifteen foot embankment and landed bottom hurt. upwards. Seven pas¬ sengers were Havana, Cu>.i, is iu a turmoil, and on the ▼ergo of mob violence, owing to unscru¬ pulous acts of the government. Iu one day there were twelve murders, one suicide, eight highway robberies and font stabbing affrays. The body of a woman found at Seattle, IV. T., recently has been identified as that of Mrs. Frank Mannor. She was formerly a noted beau¬ ty of New York and San Francisco. Drink caused her downfall. A row occurred at the railway station at Galway, Ireland, between a crowd which was awaiting the arrival of Fath¬ ers Burke and Francis, and the police. their The latter charged the the people, crowd using retaliated batons freely, while by throwing stones and bottles. An explosion occurred at a While dynamite factory near Jenkintown, Pa. four men were making cartridges, a large can of dynamite sailing exploded. through the The air. men One were all sent was killed,being nearly blown to pieces. The other three were badly crippled, hut may live. An attempt was made to serenade Wil¬ fred Blunt, who is confined in prison at Galway, Ireland. The police interfered and ordered the musicians away. The musicians thereupon embarked in boats and had a torchlight the walls procession of the prison. on the river beneath Seamen from the warship Banterer gave chase, but failed to capture the serenad¬ es. Owing to a mistake by the signal sta¬ tion, a fearful collision occurred on the Oeste railroad, that runs from Havana to Vuelto Abajo district, Cuba. A passen¬ ger train collided with a freight train 17 miles east of La llerradura station. The engineers and firemen of both trains were instantly killed, and their bodies terribly mangled. Forty passengers, more or less, were badly hurt. An explosion occurred in No. 5 which pit, Wilmington colleries, B. C., by upwards of fifty lives were lost. A man who was standing one hundred yards from the pit at the time, stated that when the explosion occurred, a dense mass of dust and smoke shot into the air, and the fan house and the wood-work in the shaft were destroyed. By prompt mine action saved. 103 men out of 160 in the were It is feared the others are dead. ll AD PLACE TO SMOKE IN. An explosion took place at P. A. Stow man’s store at the “Pines,” near Green Pond, N. C., in which Aaron O’Brien was terribly burned. A negro in passing l he keg of powder dropped a spark from his pipe in the keg, which exploded, and rain t asting consternation all around io the building, tearing off the weather boarding, some shingles and completely ruining one gable end of the house. Five Dr six customers, most of them negroes, were severely bruised and burned. Mr. 3'Bricn had his hands and face terribly Durned before he got out of the building, aided out in his wounded condition in rescuing the others from the wreck. DOWN-EAST WEATHER. Tha following are below zero towns re¬ ported : From New Hampshire, Keene 30, Swansey 33, Marlow 32, Hinsdale 28, Ashuelot 29, Nashua 24, Dover 20, Great Falls 23, Farmington 22, Haverhill, New Durham Massa- 24, Derry Depot 26; ehusetts, 14; and the thermometer in towns on the South Shore are 10 to 48 below. Hartford, Conn., reports 11 be low. NO. 49. MISSISSIPPIANS EXCITED. The Governor of tin; Stale Vetoes the Bill lot a Constitutional Convention, The sensation at Jackson, Miss,, is the veto by the governor of the Senate bill providing for an election in August to elect delegates to a constitutional conven ¬ tion to assemble in September, provided in said that a majority of the votes cast election should be in favor of the calling of the convention. The present Consti¬ tution was made in 1869 and confers ex¬ traordinary powers on the governor. He has the appointing of the entire judiciary his of the state and there is no limit to terms of office, being perpetually absolutely eligible for re-election. He is vested with the power to pardon every convict in the state at his will. He has the power and uses it to retain bills passed by the Legislature and sent him inside of five days before the adjournment of the Leg¬ islature, reserving to himself th0 during privi¬ lege of signing them at any time the 22 months that the Legislature is ab¬ sent. To divorce the judiciary and the executive, to limit the tenure of the gov¬ ernor, to establish a hoard of pardons of the or otherwise relieve the executive great responsibility, to restrict the pow its of other officers, to establish the chancery judges and cheapen the judici¬ ary system, to have a constitutional pro vision ’ ‘ i regarding convict labor, and to in some wise dispose of the prohibition urged ques (ion, are only some of the reasons by the friends of a constitutional conven¬ tion, as well as to consider the suffrage question, in which no radical measure would be considered for a moment. The. governor says he regrets that his solemn convictions of duty, etc., prevents his agreeing with a co-ordinate branch of the government. His convictions are so positively against the measure that he would be unfaithful to the trust confided in him if he failed to assume the respon¬ sibility of withholding his approval. The question of qualifying suffrage,he asserts, when touched will produce such a storm with the labor of the state as was never before witnessed in Mississippi. He re fers to the power which the convention would have, should it assemble, being only restrained by its own discretion,and the Constitution of the L nited States,and fears that those who would have been in¬ strumental in the holding of tlie conven¬ tion would be powerless to control the whirlwind which they had called into ac¬ tion. NORTH CAROLINA K. OF L They Thoroughly Indorse tin- Ulair I'Mura¬ tional Dill and Hit Pennsylvania strike. The North Carolina assembly ot Knights of Labor met in annual session at Greensboro, Congressman John Nich¬ ols, state master workman, delegates presiding. and One hundred and fourteen officers were present. Reports were that made of the strength of the order during the past year it had doubled its membership. It is estimated that it now has over 30,000 members. The assembly unanimously adopted the following reso¬ lutions: “Whereas, There are now in the state of Pennsylvania thousands of oiu - brothers who have been forced to strike against the oppression of the Read¬ ing railroad company. Resolved, That while we do not believe in strikes, ex¬ cept as the last resort to which wo be¬ lieve Knights of Labor employed on rail¬ roads and in the mines of the Rending railroad company have been driven. Re¬ solved, That we regard this as directly against, that terror of liberty—monopoly of —and that while the battlefield this great struggle is in the state of Pennsyl¬ vania, we believe the principle involved is right—food, clothing and shelter for men Who toil to create the wealth of this country and their right to organize protection, for their own improvement and Resolved, North Carolina That Knights looking of with Labor^ deep oi are solicitudeand heartfelt sympathy upon the manful struggle of our brothers in Penn¬ sylvania, that we will encourage them and help them financially to the extent of our ability, believing as we do that their cause is our cause. Resolved, That we call upon all local assemblies in this state to aid their brethren in their strag¬ gle as far as they be able immediately. All the old officers with one or two exceptions, were re-elected, John Nichols was ro¬ tained as master workman. The various officers are equally divided between white, and colored. Among the resolutions adopted, were the following: In¬ dorsing the Blair educational bill; favor¬ ing a change of method to elect United States senators direct by the people; strong!; - favoring a government telegraph; forbidding the discussion of politics in the state assembly. AMERICA'S NEW CARDINAL. It is agreed upon in Catholic ecclesias¬ tical circles that xlrchbishop Williams, of Boston, Mass., will be made a cardinal at the consistory in March. Other changes: Rev. Dr. Cappele, of Washington, D. C., will probably be promoted New Orleans; to the vacant archbishopric will of be created out a of new the archbishopric of Milwaukee and Bishop Ire¬ archdiocese and land will become the new archbishop, Ameri Dr. O’Connell, rector of the . Ill college, in Rome, will succeed Bishop Keane, of Richmond, when the latter ss sumes duties in the new university at Washington. ADVANCING PRICE*. The sugar trust gave another evidence of its power when it ordered Moller, Sierck & Co., of New York, to close their refinery, One of the of the firm said that the shut-down would not occur until the raw sugar on hand had been used uj In the meantime :h<: firm notified its e new jobs. The w trust hat ing been completed, its directors, at Peoria. Ill., raised the price three cents per gallon on high proof spirits,
