Georgia Historic Newspapers

    .4 HE CONYE mj m Y H j Y
VOL. XI.
At the recent New York Methodist
Conference a promise was exacted from
candidates for the ministry to wholly
bstain from the use of tobacco.
a
Several prisoners under the sentence ol
death have been interviewed in New
York, and have unanimously declared in
’ the
favor of electricity as against rope.
Almost every American craft which
goes to sea now carries oil to smooth the
troubled waters, and there is hardly a
week in which it does not save some ves
tel from foundering.
The Chinese of Tacoma, AYashingtoD
Territory, import from Alaska every few
months big boxes full of dried hears’
paws, from which they make a medicine
similar to their dried lizard tonic. Bear’s
gall which sells at $10 a pound, is also in
great demand among them.
One of the most successful of orchid
growers is a young New Jersey woman,
who, finding herself in straightened cir
cumstandes a few years ago, began flor¬
iculture in a small way on a little piece
of pine land. Now she has taken hex
younger sisters into partnership and is
doing a big business.
The electric motor for street cars has
passed the experimental stage, asserts
the Detroit Free Pi » . It has been tried
in Boston and provi d a marked success,
drawing a car at the rate of from twelve
to fifteen miles an hour with ease, and
ascending grades without difficulty. It
is claimed that the car can be run eight
eea hours with but two changes of the
storage battery. If this is true, and it is
also true that the Co t is less than horse
power, the street-car horse is doomed.
The late Emperor AViiliam, of Ger¬
many, during his lifetime saw disappeai
from the scene six Popes, eight Emper¬
ors, fifty-two Kings, six Sultans, and
twenty-one Presidents. Four of these
:are still alive, but the remaining eighty
nine are dead. Kaiser AVilhelm pos¬
sessed, among other virtues of the
Hohenzollerns, that of economy. AVith
put falling into the sordid avarice of
[Frederick the Great, he knew how to
[reckon, and succeeded in raising the
[fortune [time of his house, which was at one
very small.
[ AVhatever he the result of the marriage
between the Indian Chaskaandhis pious
white school mistress out in Dakota,
[remarks the New Y r ork Sun, it is evident
phat he has got a wife who puts in prac¬
tice the most advanced ideas of the
sights of her sex. According to the
reports that come by telegraph, she
parried hras on the courtship by which he
won; she gave him gifts in proof of
per attachment; she presented him with
p gold wedding ring, upon which both
pf pint their names were engraved; she took
out to walk; she manifested her
affection in public; she aided in his
education, and it is alleged that she even
kent so far as to offer to work for his
Support. There was thus a complete
reversal of the customs that are ordinarily
practised ike rights in the matrimonial market, and
of women were asserted in a
Fay which can be justified only by
recalling leap the glorious fact that this is
year.
Emperor AYilliam, aged 90, AY. AY.
Corcoran, 89, Air. Alcott, 88, Chief Jus¬
tice AVaite, 71, and Attorney-General
jhewster, deaths, 71, have all died this year, and
iese says the Courier-Journal,
tall attention to the longevity of
[ctive and famous men in all lands. In
unerica, George Bancroft, the historian,
1 87. Neal Dow, only a short time ago
efeated when a candidate for Alayor of
ortland, Ale., is 84. Simon Cameron,
fho was in Lincoln’s Cabinet, is 88.
lavid Dudley Field is 82. General Jo
eph E. Johnson and John G. AVhittier
re eighty. Jefferson Davis is 79. Oliver
Vendell Holmes and Hannibal Hamlin
re, with Gladstone and Tennyson, 88. Ex¬
resident AIcCosh,of Princeton, and Pres¬
ent <int ® Noah a rnard, Porter, of Columbia of Yale, are 76. Pres
, ro.essor College,is 78.
Dana and General Fremont
r " l4: Admiral Porter is 73. General
jubal e Early an( is l Senator 72. Justice Dawes Miller, Jus
r are 71, the
p e of Chief Justice AYaite. Louis Kos
Rth still li ves at the age of 85. Car
Inal ^Newman is 86. Yon Moltke is
Ferdinand de Lesseps is 82. Car
Manning is 79. The Pope is 77.
Q Marshal Bazaine and King
.
*’ :Qe historian of the Crimea, 76.
ert Browning are
Jsmarck, and Aleissonier are 75.
Earl Granville and Bawlin
,B s the hj«to nan, 72.
’ shows are This certain
S rMt vitality ana wag the leaders
,
6 B!n rteesth centurv. Out
times
to the old me*. But
them wou!d probably be willing
e *«hange fame for youth.
SOUTHERN SPRAYS.
INTERESTING FACTS BRIEFED
FOR BUSY HUMANITY.
HOVEMENTS IN RELIGIOUS, TEMPERANCE,
MASONIC AND SOCIAL CIRCLES—FIRES,
ACCIDENTS—INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
Alabama.
Some of the moiders at the Elliot car
works, in Gad-den, struck for higher
pay. Their places were quickly filled.
The grand indictments jury, at Birmingham, re¬
turned eiilit against Judge
H. G. Bond, general manager of the De¬
catur Land Company, for embezzlement
of the funds of the company.
Florida.
Rockwell & Kinne, hardware dealers
of Jacksonville, have failed.
“Tissue paper parties”—an improve¬
ment over the kinness, is Jacksonville’s
latest fad.
A carrier pigeon line is proposed to
connect Pine Level, the present county
seat, with the w ires at Fort Ogden.
Postoftiees have been established at
Arrow Park, DeSoto county; Lacoochees,
Pasco county, and at Turnbull, Brevard
county. The post-masters are AVm.
King, AVm. Acosta and A. J. Carter.
Georgia.
Gov. Gordon patdonedMattie sentenced from Barrow, llous
i colored woman,
:on county, for manslaughter, because he
jonsidered she was innocent.
Augusta has grow n in population as
follows: 1860, 12,493; 1870, 15,386;
1880, 25,000; 1888, 46,176. Since 1880
the limits of the city have heen enlarged.
Augusta is to utilize the big market
house, that was built ten years ago to
replace the one blown down in a cyclone
by turning it into an Exposition board¬
ing house.
Because Augusta, Macon, Columbus,
Rome, Athens, Alii ledge vnle and Gaines
vdle, will hold fairs next Fall, the Pied¬
mont Exposition company, of Atlanta,
will not hold a fair until October, 1889.
The Augusta Exposition party that
went AA r e-t to “woik up” the country out
there in behalf of the enterprise, h ;ve re¬
turned, aud Editor AValsh of the Chroni¬
cle, said: “A\ T e were too weil treated,
and it is a mystery how we all managed
to survive. ”
Mississippi.
A committee left Jackson on Monday
for Beauvoir to escort Air. Davis to the
laying of the coiner stone of the Confed¬
erate monument.
Two crimes were avenged by the hang¬
ing of a white man, named Graham, and
two negroes, named David Moore aud
AVillard Hail. The execution took place
in the jail yard at Bolivar.
Missouri.
A freight train on the Rock Island
road weut through a into bridge near Ran¬
dolph point, crashing a short ravine twen¬
ty-five feet deep. In a time a
freight on the Hannibal & St. Joe went
through a bridge which adjoined Rock
Island, and which had been weakened
by the first wreck. Two engineers, a
fireman and four tramps were killed.
North Carolina.
Col John A. F* gg, one of the last sur¬
viving officers of the Alexican AYar fiom
North Carolina, died sudenly on AVed¬
nesday, at Ashville; aged 81.
Allen B. Dills, a well know and highly
respected farmer near Webster, shot and
killed William II. Bumgarner, and fa¬
tally wounded his father, William Bum
earner. The difficulty arose through a
misunderstanding about a small tract of
land, and is the termination of an old
fetid. The latest report says that old
man Bumgarner has seven bullets in him,
and is expected to die.
£ontli Carolina
The state railroad board of equalization
lias completed its assessments per mile of
the several lines several in the suite after hearing
arguments from companies, The
average assessment per mile on the
thirty-two roads is $5,500; the highest
is $14,000, being that of the Northeastern
railroad running from Charleston to
Florence, the and the lowest is $500, being
that of Bishopville railroad, which is
to run from that vilage- to Lumber.
AAliile Theron Earle, son of Rev. T. J.
Earle, of Gowensville, anti his sister,
Aliss Juliet Earle, were attempting to
cross North Tiger River at Turner’s
Mills, the buggy and occupants were
swept dow n the stream by the flood and
drifted over the mill dam. Aliss Earle
fell on the rocks, and her skull being
fractured she sank and never found. reappeared
until her dead body was Young
Air. Earle was separated from his sister
and was saved in a half drowned condi¬
tion by the miller who had seen the acci¬
dent and had gone to the rescue.
Texas
The committee of the Presbyterian
Cumberland Assembly, at AYaco, on tem¬
perance, submitted an able report con¬
demning license,high or low,as w rong and
criminal. It also pronounced spirits the inconsis¬ sale or
manufacture of ardent as
tent with Christian character.
Hempstead, the county seat of AYaiker
county, is in a state of great excitement,
caused by some articles which appeared
in the Weekly Guard new spaper reflect¬
ing on the county officers. Deputy Sher¬
iff Chambers attacked William Ailchin,
the author of the articles, and was
killed; Allchin was himself ki led hy
another deputy sheriff, and the shetiff’s
son was arrested for having a hand in
the trouble, The governor has ordered
several military companies on duty.
Louisiana.
The Legislature, in joint session on
Wednesday, declared Gen. R. L. Gibson
the choice of the general assembly to suc¬
ceed himself as United States Senator.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1888.
Kentucky.
James W. Schooler, colored, of Nich
olasville, was, on Thursday, admitted to
practice before the court of appeals. lie
is the first colored man to attain this dis¬
tinction in the state.
Tennessee.
Work on the new custom house in
Chattanooga has started.
The Perry Stove Works at South Pitts¬
burg were destroyed by fire on Saturday,
entailing a loss of $209,000; insured for
$175,000.
Work lias been commenced on the new
building at the University of Tennessee,
at Knoxville, to he devoted to scientific
purposes. It will cost about $10,000.
A memorial service was held by posts
2 and 45, Grand Amy of the Republic,
at Rev. Dr. Riker’s Church in Chatta¬
nooga, and a large delegation of N. B.
Forrest Camp of Confederate Veterans
wete present by special invitation.
The Farmers’ Convention in session at
Knoxville discussed horticulture, stock
raising, “fence or no fence,” the destruc¬
tion of insects, English Hamilton sparrows, etc.
S. J. A. Frazier, of county,
was elected president for the ensuing
year, and J. K. P. Wallace, of Anderson
county, secretary.
Health Officer Mitchell, of Chattanoo¬
ga, on Thursday expressed to the Health
Board liis convictions that in view of the
fact that small-pox was at Jackson a few
weeks since, and lias appeared that at Mem¬
phis within the la^t few days, it was
desirable to take especial steps looking to
the thorough vaccination of the people.
The first pansenger train to run to the
top of Lookout mountain over the
standard guage railroad left Chat¬
tanooga on Sunday, carrying the di¬
rectors of the company, a number of
railroad officials and invited guests. The
trip was made in safety in forty minutes,
the distance being eight miles. The av¬
erage grade up the mountain is 100 feet
to the mile.
Carmichael, the colore 1 man wlio
killed Sbipe, the deputy sheriff of Knox
county, is sentenced to be hung on July
20. After his conviction, the grand jury
was called into the court room and Judge
Logan proceeded to deliver to that body
a special charge iu reference to the dem¬
onstrations of violence which had been
attempted on Thursday. lie ordered in¬
dictments found against every one of the
ringleaders, and charged the grand jury
that it was their duly to see that no
guilty man should escape.
Virginia.
J. J. Shirkey, dry goods merchant,
Staunton, Va., made an assignment on
Wednesday. Liabilities, $25,000 to $30,
000; assets, $18,000.
A NOTABLE SCENE.
The Presbyterian Assembly held a ses¬
sion at Philadelphia, Pa., and the South¬
ern Assembly, in session at Balt more,
Md., adjourned, in order to go to Phila¬
delphia on a fraternal visit. AVhen Dr
Thompson, of Philadelphia, and Dr. J. J.
Bullock, the venerable moderator of th(
Southern Assembly, greeted each other,
there were shouts and cheers, which
were renewed when the visitors entered
the grounds where President and Mrs.
Cleveland, the host and hostiss, and
the commissioners of the Northern
Assembly were waiting to receive
them. The latter stood in a double
row with uncovered heads as the South¬
ern members passed up to the front
of the portico, where the exercises were
to be held, venerable Dr. Brown, of Vir¬
ginia, and the Southern moderaror, Rev.
J. J. Bullock, D. D., of Washington,
coming in for a special share of the ap¬
plause. Congressmen Randolph Tucker,
of Virginia, aud Breckinridge, of Ken¬
tucky, were conspicuous among the
Southern lay commissioners, and were
heartily recognized. As the President
md Airs. Cleveland emerged from the
house to the portico there was a burst of
cheering from the big assemblage on the
lawn. The rain had ceased, and the
people stood with bared heads. The
President was accompanied AYood, by the Modera- host,
Air. Alorris, Rev. Charles
tors Thompson and Bullock and other j
officers of the two assemblages. j
MARRIED AT LAST.
The marriage ceremony of Prince
Henry, second son of Emperor Frederick,
and Princess Irene, third daughter of
Grand Duke Ludwig, of Hesse, was sol
emnized in the chapel of Churlottenburg
caste on Thursday. All the bells at
that Charlottenburg were rung commenced, to announce and
the ceremony had a
salute of thirty-six guns fired at 12:30
announced that the bride and bridegroom
had exchanged rings. Both Emperor
Frederick and Dowager Empress Augus
ta were present during the ceremony.
Prince Henry and the crown prince were
dressed in naval uniform. Thousands of
people were assembled outside the castle
and when the aged Gen. Von Aloltke ar
rived, he was enthusiastically cheered by
the multitude. The bride and bride
groom are first cousins and are grand
children of Queen Victoria, of England ^
fate e A?ke g S ° f
PBn ess
SAT DOWN UPON.
Newton Dexter manager of , the , Food _ ,
Exhibition to be hetd i“ AHrany, !N. Y.,
in September, was applied to for space
for an exhibit of oleomargarine. He
letter to Dairy Commissioner _
wrote a
Crown, asking if such a dtsp.ay wou.ct
be allowed, and received the following
letter in reply: “It is my opinion
that an exhibition in the manner named
in your letter would be in violation of
the state law.” The oleomargarine peo
ple say that they will exutolt and oefy
aDjr law to prevent them.
AROUND THE GLOBE.
ITEMS GIEANED FROM TELE¬
PHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT THE NORTH,
EAST AND WEST—THE EUROPEAN SITU¬
ATION—DOINGS OF KINGS AND QUEENS.
Finland Diet has passed an act increas¬
ing the cavalry force.
Memorial services’were held over the
tomb of General Winfield Scott Hancock
in Montgomery cemetery on Sunday at
Norristown, Pa.
Cardinal Gibbons has heen notified of
the appointment of Dr. John S. Foley,
of St. Martin’s Church, Baltimore, Aid.,
to he bishop of Detroit, Mich.
The Chicago, Ill., anarchists talk of
putting a presidential candidate of their
own in the field. Capt. Black, their law¬
yer, appears to be the favorite for the
nomination.
A new gasometer at the gas works at
day. Hochelaga, Canada, exploded on Satur¬
There were from twelve to twe ity
men in the building at the time and five
were killed.
.Company H. 1st regiment, Virginia
Volunteers (Richmond Grays,) went to
New York to participate in the Memorial
Day exercises and received a grand ova¬
tion ll'om the Metropolitan city.
John Lawrence Sullivan, the “slugger”
of Boston, Mass., lias bought an interest
in a circus enterprise, that is noted for its
many scrimmages with the police author¬
ities in which it exhibits.
thern The switchmen employed in the Sou¬
Pacific yards in Los Angeles, Cal.,
struck on Friday. They gradually complain dispensing that the
company has been
With the men who participated in the
strike two week-* ago.
Some of the boy inmates of St Vincent
Orphan Asylum, located in San Rafael,
near Sau Francisco, Ca!., made several
attempts to fire the building. One boy
confe sed that they wished to run away
was the reason they did it.
Some excitement ensued in the Meth¬
odist Conference in session at New York,
on and Thursday, in the balloting for bishops,
after 14 ballots, Dr. Newman, Gen.
Grant’s old pastor was elected to one of
the vacancies.
M. Wilson’s constituents in Paris have
sent a petition to the Chamber of Dep¬
uties, asking that body to summon M.
Wilson to attend to his legislative duties
or to expel him. AVilsun is Ex-President
Grevy’s son-in-law.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
in (North) at Philadelphia. Pa., voted that
view of the present unsettled opinion
relating to the Revised Ver-ion it was in¬
expedient to authorize its use in the pub¬
lic worship of the sanctuary.
All the employes of the Milwaukee
road at Mitchell, Dakota, were notilied
that they had been assessed one-third of
their pay for the first six days of the
month, to help the company pay the dam¬
ages sustained through tbe “Q” strike.
The parliamentary election at South¬
ampton, England, tesultcd in a victory
for the liberals, Evens, liberal candidate,
received 5,151 votes, and Gue-t, conser¬
vative nominee, 4.200. The vacancy was
caused by the promotion of Admiral Com
merel , conservative, to command at Ports¬
mouth,
Mrs. F. C. Friday Krueger of Elgin, Ill.,
was killed on in trying to rescue
her eighteen months’ old child from an
approaching freight train on the North¬
western railway. The child had wan¬
dered from the house out to the track
and was also killed, being struck just as
she reached it.
Mr. Gladstone, addressing a party of
Rockdale excursionists at Hawarden on
Saturday said, with regard to the Irish
question, that while it was going back¬
ward within the walls of Parliament, it
was advancing outside, and it was to the
nation th y looked to carry every great
question.
At the Alethodist General Conference
in New York, in a ballot for bishops
(447 votes being cast) two out of the
q ve to he elected were chosen, viz: Rev.
John Ileyl Vincent, D. D., L%. D., of
Rock River, Illinois, and lyv. J. N.
Fitzgerald, D. 1)., of Nasfffk, N. J.
Vincent received 311 votes and Fitzger¬
ald 310.
A waterspout fell in the northwestern
part of Dawes county, Nebraska, on
Sunday night, burying five miles of the
pv e mont, Kilt horn and Alissouri Talley
t rac k arid carrying away a large number
) the AVhite and
0 f ca ttle. Bridges across carried and
L one Tree rivers were away,
a num (j Cr 0 f settlers along these rivers
j iave | )een lost. The spout came in the
f ornl 0 f a p; lc k cloud, which resembled
a i ar g e car t wheel in rapid motion and
a pp,. are d about ten feet thick,
THE DYI NG S OLDIER m(rR
impression * is that Lieut,
p | ;l slleridi the Commander-in
chief of the United States Army, is now
on his deathbed, caused by valvularaffee
tion of the heart. A consultation of four
army doctors was held on Saturday morn
lag and no hope ^ seemed to he entertained
^ the pati t would recover. The
, . £ go j^| cr rallied afterwards, and
g art ok of milk an;1 ch ; ( . ken broth, but on
und he C0mmeDC ed sinking. Digitalis and
* effec t him,
faUed t0 have anv on
0 ^ en wa , administered to prevent
bl d poisonil) *; „ RS he has (edema of the
lower mbs (nYopsicai of sweiling) the blood. due Bro- tc
. fect cirCU | at ion
m ;d e 0 f p ' t .s«ium was administered with
choco , 8t ( l induce sleep. The last 1ml
)etin from Uje vete ran’s sick chamber it
to t ^ e e g ec t that he is linking rapidly.
CORNER STONE LAID,
The corner stone of the Divinity building
of the new Catholic University of Amer¬
ica was laid on Thursday at Washington, unfavorable
D. C., under the most
weather conditions, as it was raining.
Only about BOO people expected, were present, and
where fully 35,000 were
the grand procession, tinder the direction
of General Rosecrans, which was to have
been an imposing feature of the ceremo¬
nies, had to he abandoned. The pro¬
gramme of religious services was hut
partially carried out. The ceremony of
blessing the site of the chapel and laying
the corner stone was postponed These ceremonies on ac¬
count of the rain.
will he performed at some future date.
President Cleveland was present, occu¬
pying a seat On the platlorm Bishop between Ireland.
Cardinal Gibbons and
With the President were also Secretaries
Bayard, Vilas, Whitney aud Endicott,
and Postmaster General Dickinson.
Among the distinguished Cardinal prelates Gibbons, pres¬
ent were: James,
Archbishop Yfilliams, of Boston; Ryan,
of Philadelphia; Elder, of Cincinnati;
Sal Pointe, of Santa Fe, and Ireland, of
St. Paul: Bishops Spalding, of of Buffalo; Pioria;
Keane, of Richmond; Ryan,
Northrop, of Charleston, S. C.; Bttrke,
of Cheyenne; Machebeuf, of Denver;
of Gilmore, of Cleve¬
land; Janssens, of Natchez; Phelan, of
Pittsburg; Kain, of Wheeling; O’Reilly,
of Springfield; O’Sullivan, of Mobile;
Moore, of St. Augustine; Leboeuf, of
Washington teriitory; Maes, of Coving¬
ton, Kentucky; McGovern, of Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania; Dr. John S. Foley, bishop
elect, of Detroit; Robert Fulton, New
Jersey, provincial of the order of Jesuits
of the United States, and Monsignors
Farley, of New York, and Sullivan, of
Wheeling. A large number of priests,
scholastics and seminarians were present.
A few moments before 4 o’clock, the
president arrived and was introduced to
Cardinal Gibbons, and other distinguish¬
ed divines present, who removed theii
scarlet and purple berettas and remained
uncovered while the President was stand¬
ing. He took a proffered Ireland seat between the
the Cardinal and Bishop voices on
platform. A choir of 150 accom¬
panied by the Marine band rendered
Hndyn’s anthem, “The Heavens are
Telling.” This was followed by the
charting of Psalm eighty-three seminary hv and the
choristers from St. Mary’s After
St. Charles college of Baltimore.
selections were rendered by the choir and
the Marine band, at 4:30 o’clock
Right Reverend Bishop Spalding,
of Peoria, made an address.
Bishop Keane, rector of the University,
here stepped forward, and addressing
himself to Miss Caldwell, who was seated
at the right and in front of the platform,
read a short letter from the cardinal to
Miss Caldwell, expressing the munificent profound
gratitude of the church for her
gift, which he said entitles her to he
considered the “foundress of our Catho¬
lic University.” Accompanying the car
dina!’s letter was one from
the Pope solid to gold, Bishop Keane.
A medal of and about twe
inches in diameU r, was then presented
to Mi-s Caldwell from the Pope. It was
instituted by order of Leo Nil at the be¬
gin begining of and in commemoration ol
the eighth year of his pontificate. the One
side contains the profile of pope; on
the other is history the representation lifted aloft by of angels, the
genius of inscription commemorating the
with an
opening of the archives of the Vatican
to historical researches of the scholars of
the world. The medal is enclosed in a
red velvet case, embossed with the papal
arms.
OHINESE PIRATES.
The China steamer arriving at San
Francisco, Cal., brought of news of the ex¬
traordinary wreck the steamer, San
Pablo, which occurred April 24th, on a
reef off Turnabout Island, in the For¬
mosa straits, off the China coast. '1 he
vessel struck a sunken rock in a thick
fog early in the morning and every one
was aroused. The captain soon saw that
the vessel was to be abandoned, as she
was filling fust, and showed a tendency
to cap ize. Just before the lifeboats were
ready to he lowered, a swarm of Chinese
pirates came from the neighboring main¬
lands. They came in such overwhelming
numbers that before any demonstration
could he made on board the sinking ves¬
sel, the pirates were climbing up the ship
side, heavily armed. Capt. Reed passed
revolvers and guns among the passengers
and crew, and after a furious fusilade
the pirates were beaten off. They made
a second and more desperate when attempt Reed to
hoard the San Pablo, Capt.
brought the ship’s hose pipes into requi
sition, and the pirates were again put to
flight. Ten were killed. The passengers
and crew reach d the mainland, and the
pirates sacked the vessel and burned her.
She was valued at $500,000.
SAW GEN. WASHINGTON.
-
In a new cottage at the corner of
Twelfth street and avenue D, in Firming
ham. Ala., lives Mrs. Elizabeth AIcDott
gal, who claims to be 102 years old. She
is a native of South Carolina, having
been born there in 1786. She has thirty
nine grandchildren. grandchildren She and claims fifty-three distinctly great
to
remember having shaken hands with
a™. .»•>
AT LAST.
-
A body found in the lake near Mil
waukce, AYis., on Saturday, is identified
as that of young Tascott, who murdered
Banker Snell last AViater in Chicago, Ill.
NO. 14.
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 on Thursday, the fol¬
lowing House bills were reported and
placed on the calendar: Authorizinethe
construction of bridges across the Ten¬
nessee tiver at Chattanooga, Tenn., and
at Gunthersville, Ala. Mr. Stewart
called up the joint resolution offered by
him on the 14th iristant for ft constitu¬
tional amendment reducing to a simple
majority the vole necessary to override
the presidential veto, and addressed the’
Senate on the subji ct. Senator Stewart
closed his speech at half-past one and
then the conference repott on the pen¬
sion appropriation bill was agreed to.
She se ect committee to examine into all
questions touching meat products of the
Uniled States was announced. (Messrs.
Vest, Plumb, Manderson, Cullom and
ecutive Coke) aud business.....On the Senate proceeded motion to Mr. ex¬
a
Cachings, of Mississippi, the Senate hill
passed lor the erection of public build¬
ings at Vicksburg, Miss., motion at an ultimate of MY.
co-t of $100,000. On
Taulbee, of Kentucky, the Senate bill
was passed authorizing the construction
of bridges across the Kentucky river aud
its tributaries by the Louisville, Cincin¬
nati & Virginia Railroad Company. On
motion of Mr. Lee, of Virginia, the bi,l
was passed, making inauguration day
a holiday in the District of Colombia.
The House then went into the committee
of the whole, (Mr. Turner, of Georgia, 1
in the chair)on the post office appropriation Georgia,
bill. On motion of Mr. Blount, of
the allowances for mail messenger service
was increased from $900,000 to $950,000.
The conference report on invalid pension
appropriation hill was agreed to. passed The
bill is identically the same as it
the Senate, except that the appropriation
for stationery and other expenses of pen¬
sion agencies is reduced from $18,000 to
$ 10 , 000 .
GOSS 11*.
Rev. Snmuel If. Giesv, D. D., rector
of the Church of Epiphany in AYashing
ton died on Sunday of pneumonia.
The Hatch bill to enlarge the duties of
the department of agriculture aud make
it an executive department, is going
through with a tush.
The United States Consul at Port au
Prince, Hnyti, reports another revolution,
and President Cleveland at once directed
Admiral Luce to send a man-of-war to
protect American interests.
The bill to pay Morgan Rawles, of
Georgia, $8,000 for property destroyed
by Union forces during the War, which
also passed the Senate on AVednesday
will go to the President on Friday.
In mapping out the work for the
United States Supreme Court for the
Summer, Justice Lamar was assigned Florida, to
the circuit embracing Georgia, Louisiana and
Alabama, Mississippi,
Texas.
Some of the Southern members of the
House Committee on rivers and harbors
are di-mttved by the changes made in tho
bill by the Senate committee, and ex¬
press an intention to vigorously asserted oppose that
those of importance. It is
tiic New England approp iations have
been, in many instances, increased even
beyond the estimates made by the engin
eer oflicers, and those submitted by the
department, while the Southern items
have been ruthlessly cut.
THE NEW WAY.
A parly of white men at Marion, S. O.,
punished Luther R. It ch, from North
Carolina, who came to that town in com¬
pany with a mulatto woman, calling her¬
self Jane Mooie, intending to marry her,
n > marriage license being required in
South Carolina. The woman’s fears were
aroused, and she quit before the regula¬
tors could handle her. Rich was taken
into hands, severely whipped, painted
black and paraded around the town. He
was glad to get off with his life. He
confessed his purpose to marry the
woman simply to get possession of her
money. The law of South Carolina pro
hibits the inter-marriage of white and
colored.
A Floating Light. *- . -
A very pretty effect may be produced
bv causing a candle to burn while almost
' ____^ M immersed in water
iT in a tumbler. The
: J Wm -r-r ut is very
f Insert a nail—
not too heavy—in of
the lower end a
"■J __.short candle in or¬
_____ _____ and place
der to make that end heavier, enough
the whole in a glass containing
water to reach the upper edge of the can
die without wetting the wic.v.
At first thought nothing seems st. anger
than to expect a candle to e cn t.e.y
consumed in such a situation, out u s
simple enough. As the candle burns, it
grows lighter and ligh er,
gradually as it dunmishes & >
that the lighted end al v. a) s
th ^reoveVthfouttide Moreover, » uu ThtS.?.”!! of . the candle, »*r. .
„
little hollow in the center, as is shown
in our design. This hollow place also
helps in making the candle float, ana .
preserves the wick from contact with
the water. Thus the candle will continue
to burn in its strange candlestick until
the wick it entirely consumed .—L Hint'
ration.