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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,