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THE CONYERS
VOL. XL
~~X federation of clubs been formed and similar with
ioeieties in Paris bas
the object of cheapening medical attend¬
ance. Adult members of the association
pay forty cents a year for medical at
tendance, and children twenty c ents.
The contract for the Peter Cooper
monument in New York has been
awarded to St. Gaudens, the sculptor,
who began his art work in Cooper insti¬
tute. The monument will cost about
$33,000, and the money is in the bank.
It is a curious fact that while Queen
Victoria speaks German in her home
circle, the present German Empress dis¬
regards it in hers and uses English as
much as possible. Engiish is tlie fire¬
side tongue of the Greek, Danish and
Russian royal families.
It has been figured out by a statistical
official that there are 31 criminals to
every 1000 bachelors and only 11 crimi¬
nals to every 1000 married men. From
this showing he argues that matrimony
restrains men from crime, and ought
therefore tfiffie encouraged by legislation
tnd otherwise.
The hay crop of 1887 was something
like forty-five million tons. For the
past seven years the hay crop has aver¬
aged a value of about three hundred and
eighty-eight million dollars a year. The
hay crop exceeds the cotton crop in value,
and Southern farmers are now paying
more attention to it than ever before.
Artificial flowers are going out of use
in England and lace coming in at about
an equal ratio. In 1882 the value of
flowers imported reached in the enormous
sum of $2,500,000, while 1886 this fell
off to $1,250,000. The increase in the
importation of lace meanwhile has
amounted to more than all these figures
of artificial flowers together.
An old man in Maysvillc, Ky., has
driven a coal wagon for thirty-eight
years, and in that time it is estimated
that ,he has delivered over 4,000,009
bushels of coal. In his declining years
he can reflect that he has contributed to
the comfort, and consequently to the
happiness, of a vast number of his fellow
beings, and therefore has not lived in
vain.
Some interesting facts and figures re¬
garding the unfortunate exiles of
Siberia have recently found their way
into print. It appears that on January
1 of this year, the total number of politi¬
cal and other prisoners of both sexes in
the provinces of IrKutsk, Yeneseisk and
Yakutsk was 110,000. Of these 42,000
were in fixed places of residence, 20,000
were employed on different public
works and 48,000 had escaped confine¬
ment and were living on “their own
hook.” In Western Siberia the number
of the escaped prisoners was still greater,
a recently taken census of the different
towns and villages showing that the
enormous proportion of 67 per cent, were
missing.
The treatment which Sir Morell Mac¬
kenzie is receiving in Berlin greatly ex¬
asperates the people here, writes the
English correspondent of the New York
Sun, and there is even some wild talk in
society of boycotting certain German
medical experts settled in London. We
learn from Berlin that Mackenzie is the
recipient daily of many abusive and
threatening letters. He is railed at in
the press and insulted on the bill boards.
Omy the other day an offensive cartoon
was found posted on the famous Bran¬
denburg gate, depicting the Empress
Victoria and Dr. Mackenzie, with the in¬
scription beneath: “The murderers of
our Emperor.” The placard was imme¬
diately torn down by the police, but no
attempt was made to discover and
punish its authors.
The $10,000 cook who is engaged and
will soon hold the position of “gastro
nomical director” in Mr. W. K. Vander¬
bilt s household, says the New York
Prm, besides being the inventor of
tecipes for producing appetites, and
‘plots” for taking them away again,
knows to a wonderful nicety the anatomy
of a fowl or bird, He can carve one
with a touch of refinement, and has an
ability to make a little go a great way,
that it would be difficult to surpass,
Take a duck, for instance. Off go the
legs and wings in four quick passes of
ike knife. Next the breast bone is
clean shavpn TritR Wlth a P er P en dicular a- , stroke , ,
and tk tnen a number of horizontal
eaviug ones,
as many slices on the dish as there
has been dashes of the knife Then the
carcass is divided into so many nice took
£gtidbit. thateach ^I° V f******* vies with the * tem other
in® 4 mo# P**
tia ° ^ 11 “ M - Jo*ef’’gets
* a 01 4 small salary and limited
Sorters, he can gi ve j n the art of
ssthstit earriar er tnn
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CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 18. 1888.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
HOW CONGRESS IS SPENDING
ITS TIME AND ENERGY.
OFFICIAL ACTS OF THE PRESIDENT—AP¬
POINTMENTS AND REMOVALS—WHERE
THE NATION’S MONEY GOES—GOSSIP.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, Mr. Stewart, of Nevada,
introduced a bill proposing an amend¬
ment to the Constitution of the
United States, so as to reduce
fiom two-thirds to a majority vote
in the House, overruling presidential
vetoes. The animal industry bill was
laid before the Senate as unfinished bus¬
iness, and then the presiding officer (pre¬
sumably under an order agreed upon in
executive session last Thursday), ordered
the galleries to be cleared and the doom
to be closed, and the Senate proceeded
to the consideration of executive busi¬
ness.... In the House, Mr. Mills, of
Texas, from the committee ou rules, re¬
ported, and the House adopted without
discussion or division, the resolution i
providing that the general debate on the
tariff bill shall close in five days. Under
the call of States a number of bills were
introduced and referred. The House
then went into committee of the whole
(Mr. Springer in the chair) on the tariff
bill, and was addressed by Mr. Hatch, of
Missouri. A bill was passed appropria¬
ting $20,000 for the construction of a
road from Newberne, N. C., to the na¬
tional cemetery near that place.
In the Senate the railroad land grant
forfeiture bill was taken up, the question
the being on Mr. Cali’s motion to reconsider
The vote by which the bill was passed.
vote passing the bill was then recon¬
sidered find the bill again brought be¬
fore the Senate. The necessary amend¬
ment to protect pre-emption and home¬
stead claimants was then offered by Mr.
Spooner and agreed to. Mr. Call offered
an amendment confirming the Jitles of
purchasers . of certain railroad lands in
road Florida lying constructed adjacent within to parts the of time rail¬
lines
limited in the granting act. Mr. Call’s
amendment was agreed to and the bill
passed. Mr. Call introduced a bill to
withdraw all public lands in Florida from
entry except under the pre-emption and
homestead laws. Referred... .In tlie
House, Mr. McCreary, of Kentucky, joint sub
mi! ted a conference report on the
resolution authorizing the President to
arrange a conference for the purpose of
promoting arbitration and encouraging
reciprocal commercial relations between
the United States of America and the
republics of Mexico and Central and
South America and the empire of Brazil.
Adopted. The House then went into
committee of the whole (Mr. Springer,
of Illinois, in the chair) on the tariff bill.
GOSSIP.
John B. Wylie, of Georgia, postoffice
inspector, has resigned.
Mr. Carlton introduced a bill in the
House on Monday to pay John S. Willi¬
ford, postmaster at Athens, Ga., from ’65
to’66 $1,395 for services rendered during
that time.
An effort is being made in Congress to
pass a law giving pensions to disabled
men who left the Confederate army and
joined the Federal forces. Under exist¬
ing laws they are disbarred.
The House committee on the judiciary
have recommended that the claim of
Samuel Noble, formerly of Rome, but
now of Anniston, Ala., growing out of
cotton transactions with agents of the
United States, be audited and paid.
The measure recently introduced in
the Senate, “to incorporate the national
academy of dental science,” names as
one of the incorporators J. M. Holmes,
of Macon; E. 8. Chisolm, Tuscaloosa,
and A. Eubank, Birmingham, Alabama.
The bill amending the act of estab¬
lishing in connection with colleges, so as
to enable the governors of states to re¬
ceive installments of appropriation session, passed when
the legislatures are not in
ihe House. Thus none of the states
whose legislatures failed to act at recent
sessions will lo3e the amount. Georgia
was among the states whose legislature
failed to act.
The committee on war claims have
recommended that the administrators of
8. H. Hill, deceased, of Muscogee
county, Ga., be paid $1,212.50 as com¬
pensation for rent and occupation of
building in Columbus by the military
authorities in 1865. The committee also
rgcommend that Floyd P. Hudgins,'of
Chattanooga county be paid $1,413 du¬ for
military supplies taken by the army
ring the War. The Senate committee on
claims have made a favorable report on
the bill passed by the House to allow
Morgan Rawls, of Effingham of his county, house Ga., in
$800 for the destruction
Guyton in 1865 by United States soldiers.
The Postmaster-General has arranged
for an additional fast mail train between
Louisville, Ky., and Nashville, Montgomery, Ala.,
via Bowling Green, Decatui
and Birmingham. The train will leave
Louisville at 6:30 a. m., daily, arriving
at Montgomery 9:45 p. m. It will make
close connection at Louisville with the
evening mail from Chicago, and will
overtake the Montgomery mail, which
left Cincinnati at 8 o’clock the evening
before, and which passes through Louis
ville at 12:45 a. m., making the time
from Louisville to New Orleans twenty
flve box F a ' tw fcnty - five “ inuteS ’ ?
pearly six . , hours over the present sched
There is a strong feeling developing should in
Congress that the United States
own buildings in all towns of any size,
in which provision can be made for the
efficient transaction of the government
business and the proper accommodation
of the people. Under the proposed law
the following places in the state of Geor-.
gia would be entitled to such an im¬
provement S30; Americus, : Albany, postal receipts, $8,328; $5,*
Bainbridge, $4,496; Athens,
Brunswick, $3,276; Barnesville, $3,123;
$7,092; Columbus, $6,700;
Dalton, $3,220; Gainesville,-$3,842; Grif¬
fin, $4,474; LaGrange, $3,095; Maco’n,
$32,245; Marietta, $4,903; Milledgeville,
$3,271; Newnan. $3,210; Rome, $10,-
826; Thomasville, $4,911.
DIFFERENCE o£ OPINION.
In the Southern Baptist Convention,
held at Richmond, Va., during a discus¬
sion about Chinese missions, Mr. Joyner,
a returned missionary, said it was his
opinion that our missionaries to China
should don their costumes, conform to
the diet and manner of living^ of the
Chinese, build churches after their style
of architecture, and be all things to all
men, and thus win their confidence and
esteem. The speaker was earnest, ad¬
vancing ideas and declaring facts not
hithcito prescribed to this convention.
The Chinaman is amused at the mun
ners of the foreigners and despises his
dress and cuisine. He, (Joyner,) lauds
Dr, McKay, who has gradually succeeded
in China, by adopting Chinese costume,
diet, building Chinese houses and lastly
but best of all; to the glory of God—
married a Chinese wife. He insists that
this suggested plan is the one Paul prac¬
ticed. Dr. Graves, from China, Tvho has
been a missionary for twenty-five years, He
spoke, differing from last speaker. and his ob¬
has been there a long time, just the
servations and experiences Joyner’s. are He lost his
opposite of Mr.
health while trying to subsist on Chinese
food, and for a while assumed the
Chinese dress. It was a failure; also
trying to live in a Chinese house
was out of the question. If one is to
accomplish any adequate work for his
board, his statements refute substantially
the effect intended by Mr. Joyner’s
speech. He knew of but one missionary
who had married, not a full-blood Chinese
but a half-caste, with the object of win¬
ning greater influence among those hea¬
then, It was a total failure. The mail
left the field and returned to America.
GREAT INVENTION.
There is on exhibition in the office ol
the clerk of the superior court, in Atlanta,
Ga., samples of pulp made of the hulls
and stalks of the cotton plant. The pulp
is as white as snow and can be converted
into the finest writing paper. It is re¬
garded as valuable and is the product deemed of
parts of the cotton plant hitherto
valueless. The process by which it is
made is new. It is a process by which
the ligneous substances of the hulls and
seed are dissolved. By this process over
fifty per cent of the fibre is extracted
from the hulls which have been regarded feed
as fit only for fuel in the mills or for
and fertilizing purposes, and which were
sold for four dollars a ton. These con¬
verted into pulp will be worth four times
as much or about forty dollars a ton.
From the stalks usually left to rot in the
fields this new process utilizes about thirty
eight per cent of fibre at a very small ex¬
pense. it has been settled that there are
fertilizing properties in the oil of the cot¬
ton seed, and it is asserted that the fibre
will not decompose for six years and can¬
not be used as a fertilizer. This is why
the woody matter eliminated from stalk
and hull is much more valuable as a de¬
composing fertilizer than the entire seed.
By the same process the ramie plant and
its troublesome cousin, the bagasse stalk,
is met and overcome. By the decorta
ting process, the fibre was crushed and
torn out by a slow and expensive lignine is process. simply
In the new process the
dissolved out and the snowy films of the
ramie, and the tawnier threads of the
sugarcane are coaxed out as easily as the
infantile kitten to its milk.
CHURCH DESTROYED.
Flames were seen bursting out of the
fine stained glass windows of St. Paul’s,
the Episcopal Cathedral church, at the
junction of Main and Erie streets, Buffa¬
lo, N. Y., on Thursday night, and in¬
stantaneously most of the interior was a
mass of flames. An explosion had occur¬
red in the basement furnace, being sup¬
plied with natural gas, and the force was
so great as to tear off and blow out the
heavy doors on the Erie and Pearl streets
side. The fire burned with especial it
fury on the Erie street side, when
attacked the fine Hook & Hasting’s or¬
gan in the choir loft. In half an hour
from the rime of discovery, the interior
of the noble church was completely de¬
stroyed, but it was evident that the mas¬
sive'walls and tower would stand. The
church was valued at about $250,000;
about $3,000 on the memorial windows,
and about $2,500 on the organ.
H IS CONDITION.
Prof. Virchow examined the Emperor
Frederick on Monday. He afterwards
told Dr. Mackenzie that he was much
puzzled and was even now unable to de¬
fine the disease. The emperor continues
to experience difficulty in swallowing.
This is partly due to the pressure of the
canula; which, however, does not pre
vent his taking solids. He received Bis¬
marck sitting in a chair during the inter
view.
NEGRO KILLED.
On Saturdav night Mark Terrill, pro
prietor of the City hotel, at Mineral Point,
Wis shot and killed Henry Wesley, Terrill’s a
colored man. They were in
bar room, and had no dispute; but Ter- the
rill was recklessly firing shots about
room and one struck Wesley in the head,
killing him almost instantly.
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTERESTING FACTS BRIEPED
FOR BUSY HUMANITY,
MOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLES—FIRES,
ACCIDENTS—INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS,
Alabama.
In an interview, Vice-President T. T.
(lillnian, of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and
Railway company, would fit Birmingham, the Ala., ad¬
said his company not pay
vanced rate demanded by the coal miners, ,
It is believed that the miners will order a
general strike, but have not yet sent any
communication to the officers of the com¬
pany, and it is possible they may decide
to compromise.
United States Deputy Marshal Milam
returned to Birmingham on Thursday
from a rough and perilous trip into the
western portion of the state. He was
searching for witnesses in a case now
pending. The witnesses did not want to
be found, and they had plenty of friends
to help them out of the way. For fifty
hours Milam was without food and was
compelled to sleep in the woods. The
country people refused to let him have
anything to eat, and would not allow him
to stop at their homes.
Florida.
The schooner Ridgewood; owned by
Dr. J. C. L’Engle, of Jacksonville, was
destroyed by fire on Thursday near Jack¬
sonville.
The establishment of a carrier pigeon
messenger service in connection with the
signal office at Key West, Fla., is a cer
tainty. The order was recently promul¬
gated for the necessary loft, fixtures and
training baskets. The order includes
nest pans, perches drinking fountains,
bath pans and mating cages. The loft
will be prepared to accommodate 500
birds, ns evidenced by the requirement of
500 leg bands to be marked, “United
States Signal Service, Key West, Fla.”
Gtorfla.
Gen. George Paul Harrison died at
Savannah, Monday, aged seventy-four.
He was a major-general in the Confeder¬
ate army.
William Hopkins, of Rabun county,
who was to hang on Friday for murder¬
ing a stranger with a stone, had his sen¬
tence commuted to imprisonment fur life.
The Fish Commission started 1,000,000
fish to the Chattahoochee River, and at
Atlanta the jars were replenished with
city water instead of artesian. Nearly
three-quarters of the fish were dead be¬
fore they got to the river.
At a meeting of the Augusta post oi
of the Grand Army of the Republic on
Thursday, the action of the E. D. Baker
post, of Philadelphia, in accepting contributing Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston as a
member, was cordially indorsed.
On Monday night, fire broke out in the
West & Edwards building on Pryoi
street, Atlanta, and a loss of nearly $60,
000 was sustained. Bain & Kirkpatrick, and
hardware; McDonald Bros., grocers;
Levi Cohn, wholesale dealer in notions
were the principal sufferers.
On Sunday, a mob of several hundred
young men Totten-egged the Salvation
Army in Atlanta, and assaulted the bar¬
racks with rocks. Mayor Cooper has
ordered the police to protect the Army,
and will hold them to rigid accountabil¬
ity if they do not, so he says.
The steamship Gate City, from Boston
to Savannah, Ga., collided with an un¬
known vessel two hundred miles north¬
east of Cape Hatteras in a dense fog, at
two o’clock Saturday morning. The
steamer was struck on the port side for¬
ward. The vessel’s bowsprit penetrated the for¬
the steamer’s side, tearing deck. away
ward rails and part of the
Kent nek J.
A mob composed of about one hun¬
dred men went to the farm of Joe Smith,
near Bowling Green, on Friday, hanged and him. took
a negro farm hand and
Marlin Sloss, a farmer, has had about
twenty horses poisoned is supposed during to the be past the
year, and the negro
guilty party, as he was once in the em¬
ploy of Sloss and was discharged. He
made threats against Sloss several times.
JVffosfssfppK
A committee of the Ladies’ Confed¬
erate Monument Association on Thursday,
called on Hon. Jefferson Davis, at Beau¬
voir, and invited him to participate in
the ceremonies of laying the corner stone
of the Confederate monument at Jackson
on the 26th inst. Mr. Davis expressed a
great willingness and desire to be present
and will attend if the state of his health
permits.
Missouri.
Charles H. Jones, late of the Jacksor -
ville, Fla., Timet-Union, has assumed
editorial charge of the St. Louis Repub
limn.
Advices from the Red River country,
report that the damage done to the in¬
habitants of Red River valley in the past
ten days is almost beyond computation, since 1843.
and the flow is the largest
Most of the plantations near the river
have been covered with water from fil&r
to six feet deep, and many miles of fenc¬
ing, cribs and barns have been washed
down, and carried away.
On Sunday, the levee situated south of
Alexandria, broke in several places and
vast volumes of water began poSring
into the town, which was completely in
undated. In the mam streets the water
is full/ three feet deep circumscribing
the movements of the population and
rendering transportation from one point
to another possible rudely constructed only by means of
skiffs or rafts.
Tennessee.
C Rumbus PoWeli, of Knoxville, died
suddenly on Sunday from nervous dis
ease, fin St Robert C. Diviver, the foreman
Df Ogden’s book bitadery in Knoxville
dropped dead from heart disease.
Henry Lane, a young man about twen
ty-one yfiSrs old, night-watchman for the
Lenoir Manufacturing Co., at Lenoir?, on
Monday, was struck by an engine and re¬
ceived injuries from which he died.
A Colored bootblack found a dynamite the
cartridge about six inches long in
rear of a house in Knoxville, on Wed¬
nesday night. How it came there is a
mystery, and the police will investigate.
The body of Wm. Boesch, the old Ger¬
man who' left his home some days ago,
was found in the rivet directly opposite fisher¬
Knoxville, Wednesday, stretched by some the
men who had a line across
• stream. The coronet returned a verdict
of death by drowning with ffooidal in¬
tent on account of his wife’s illness.
Maj. O. H. Ernest, Capt. Dan C. King
man and Col. William E. Merrill consti¬
tute the board that pass on the Memphis
bridge. The western approach will be¬
gin three-quarters of a mile from the
bank of the river, while the eastern or
Memphis approach will not be more than
300 or 400 feet long. The structure will
be composed of steel and the most solid
masonry, and will cost $2,000,000.
Thre will be only one railroad track
across the bridge, and the wagon and
foot-way will be of plank, on a level with
the track.
Mrs. Carrie Judd, wife of Mr. A. W.
Judd, 6f Chattanooga, was visiting spending rela¬
tives in Fayetteville afrd was
Wednesday night at the residence of her
sister, Mrs. H. K. Holman. After mid¬
night the lady became thirsty and an¬
nounced her intention of getting a drink.
She left the room and was heard almost
immediately to fall into the cistern, and
before assistance reached her she was
drowned. The cistern is in the hall, and
and as the pump was broken, a rope it,
bucket was used to draw water from
one-half of the covering being removed.
Drs. Diemes and Goodner made every
effort to resuscitate her, but without
success.
South C'arollnii.
A colored boy, aged Newberry eight years, county, was
killed by lightning in in of his parent’s cab
while sitting front
in.
The survivors of the four German mil¬
itary companies that served during the
War in the Confederate army from
Charleston, are moving in the matter of
a monument to their dead comrades.
St. Mark’s colored Episcopal church,
Charleston, has determined to maintain
an independent position. At a recent
meeting of the congregation, resolutions
were adopted expressing patient gratification
that after thirteen years of effort,
(he constitutional rights of St. Marks had
been recognized "by the diocesean con¬
vention in admitting Rev. J. II. M. Pol¬
lard, its colored minister, to membership
in the convention without question or
objection, “but holding our union in
the church by our allegiance only to the
bishop of the diocese under the canons
ind constitution of the Episcopal general conven¬ church
tion of the Protestant
in the United States, without refereuce
to the dioceseau convention of South
Carolina or its laws.”
Virginia.
The Southern Baptists met in Conven¬
tion on Thursday at Richmond. Among
the fraternal delegates from the North
were Rev. H. M. Bixby, D. D., of Prov¬
idence, Rhode Island; Rev. Mr. Johnson,
of Batavia, New York; Dr. O. C. Pope,
New York City, and the following from C.
Philadelphia: B. Griffith, D. D., C.
Bitting, D. D., Colonel Charles II.
Bancs, of the famous “Philadelphia
Brigade;” W. O. Bucknell, John B.
Kendrick, and others.
Gen. Horatio King and Gen. Geo. H.
Sharpe, representing the committee of
the Army of the Potomac, arrived at
Richmond on Saturday, and were met by
a committee of the Army of Northern
Virginia. These gentlemen are perfect¬
ing airangements for a grand July reunion to 2,
be held at Gettysburg, on 1,
3 and 4. General King stated that
Congress proposes to furnish money
enough to give the soldiers shelter and
furnish transportation to those ou both
sides, who are financially unable
to attend. Gen. Sharpe stated that the
war department would send batteries to
fire salutes and soldiers to do guard duty.
North Carolina.
The long drouth in some parts of the
state which had begun to cause much
damage to various crops is now entirely
broken. Copious rains have fallen in all
parts of the state. Cotton, which had
in some sections, been in the ground for
weeks without sprouting, is now coming
up. The effect of the rains upon wheat
and oats, has been magical, and both
crops are flourishing.
The Hunt tobacco factory and ware¬
house of Lexington, was totally destroyed
by fire on Saturday. This factory be¬
longs to the heirs of Edwin Holt. The
place and all its machinery, with which
it was well supplied, was rented some
months ago by a E. T. Harmon, of High he
Point, N. C., who contemplated, this so
said, manufacturing tobacco season,
but had not yet commenced operations.
He had, however, collected a large
quantity of leaf tobacco, which was en¬
tirely consumed in the building. The
fire was discovered to be incendiary in
origin. From circumstances connected
with UarmoU’s conduct, both before
and about the time of the fire, ti cabled
Hannon’s arrest, charged with causing
the conflagration. The loss is estimated
at between $70,900 and $80,009.
NO. 12.
AROUND THE GLOBE.
ITEMS GLEANED FROM TELE¬
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT THE NORTH,
EAST AND WEST—THE EUROPEAN SITU¬
ATION—DOINGS OF KINGS AND QUEENS.
The Stony Creek Rolling Mills of Nor¬ No¬
ristown, Pa., have closed down.
business.
Disston’s steel and saw works at Ta
cony, Lots Pa., have been destroyed by fire.
$300,000. j
The Delaware Rolling Mills, at Phil
lipsburg, N. J., have shut down owing,
to a dearth of orders. ,
Three thousand persons have been
drowned by a flood in the Canton River.
A severe earthquake is reported in the
Japan Sea. i
On questioning a lot of Italian immi¬
grants at New York on Monday, two
thirds answered that they had keen in
prison in Italy. i
Tlio Vatican has received a dispatch
from the papal nuncio at Paris stating,
that the disputes between France and the
Vatican have been satisfactorily settled.
The entire business portion of Gold
endale, Washington territory, was swept had
away by fire ou Monday. The town loss will
no fire department, and the
reach $175,000.
All weavers and spinners in the vicinity
of Breslau, Germany, have gone on strike.
The police have found thousands of so¬
cialist documents, and many arrests
have been made.
The British government show unusual
activity in overhauling and strengthening
the seacoast defences. At Sheerness two
30-ton guns have been mounted, and the
banks of the Thames River are being
fortified. ■
A special from Marquette, Mich., says,
a regular January blizzard is raging, but
the snow melts as fast as it falls. Snow
fell at Nestoria, Gladstone, Grand Haven
and Alpena on Monday, and cold weather
prevails in the fruit belts.
William Showers, under sentence of
death for the murder of his two grand¬
children, who escaped from the Lebanon,
Pa., jail last Tuesday night, his was old
captured Sunday within a mile of
home, and is now safe in jail.
A young man who had just drank a
glass of beer in the Atlantic gafden in the
Bowery, N. Y., and had no money to
pay for it, went into the toilet-room, and
when the waiter’s back was turned, shot
himself in the left breast, He died in
stantly.
The iron tanks containing 15,000 bar¬
rels of oil, two miles up Oil Creek, near
Oil City, Pa., wero struck by lightning
on Saturday. The tank boiled over,
setting fire to another tank on the oppo¬
site side of the creek, containing 34,000
barrels.
The tenants of Scott and other estates
in the parish of Kildysart, county Clare,
Ireland, have adopt the plan of campaign. in
The moonlighters raided four farms
the same parish because the occupants destroyed
had paid their rents. They
property and injured the teuauts.
The government of New Zealand has
proclaimed all Chinese ports to be infected
in order to put a stop to the entrance
into the colony of Chinese immigrants, and
the government of South Australia has
proposed that an inter-colonial confer
ence be held for the purpose of arrang¬
ing for united measures to exclude immi¬
grants from China.
The steamer Finance, which arrived at
New Y 7 ork from South America, brings as
passengers Capt. Lavender and crew of
five men from the schooner Alice Mont¬
gomery, from Norfolk, Va., for Provi¬
dence, which foundered iu the blizzard of
March 12tli. The shipwrecked Guy C. Goss, men from were
picked up by the bark
Philadelphia for Japan, and landed at
Pernambuco.
Judge Caldwell, at Cincinnati, Ohio,
sentenced Henry Munzebrock, saloonist,
convicted of violating the Sunday clos¬
ing law, to ten days in the workhouse
with a fine of $50 and costs. The latter
amounts to a considerable sum. An
effort was made to suspend the execution
of the sentence, but the judge refused to
permit further delay, and the defendant
went to the workhouse with other pris¬ hair
oners, and was shaved and had his
cut.
An electric light wire of the Brush
company killed one of its employes,
Thomas H. Murray, on the cornice of a
Broadway building, N. Y., on Saturday.
Murray went out on the cornice, and in a
couple of minutes a policeman saw a puff
of smoke as if from behind the cornices
At the same time an employe saw smoke
curling in the window and heard a
spluttering sound. He found Murray
dead and one of the electric light wires
partly cut through and the insulating ma
to rial burning. Murray’s face was tran¬
quil, but his right hand was charred and
the bones were visible from the little
finger to the middle of the palm.
UNITED AT LAST.
In the African M. E. Conference, at
Indianapolis, Ind., a vote was taken church on
the question of a union with the
in Canada, and it was carried. The vote
was taken by yeas and nays, and so many
delegates desired to explain their votes
that the convention was in a stir and the
vote proceeded slowly. TV hen Bishop
Payne was called, he said the union was
based on suppression and absolute lying,
and he voted against it. This created a
sensation, and some hisses were heard.
All the other bishops voted yea, and the
resolutions were adopted.