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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 * « * 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.