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VOL. XI.
Fourteen thousand men and women
their living in London with their
, rn
ins.
A comparison of the work of English,
ch and American detectives shows
ret cent, ahead
, e latter to be twelve per
1 around.
A French doctor of note says th
hysician who will advise a women to
ide horseback for her health should
on
e kicked out of the profession.
The greatest achievement in the history
f life insurance has been made by Sir.
oha Wanamaker. the great Philadel
(hia merchant, who is now paying pre
jiiums on $ 1 , 000,000 to twenty-nine
[illerent companies.
Only forty per cent of the quantity of
line-apples sold in any year between
860 and 1865 is now disposed of. Tilt
anana and early Southern fruits have
one far toward driving this once fa
orite fruit out ot the market.
In the graduting class of the college at
lillsdaie, Mich., this year, two members
f the same family were rivals for class
onors. One was C. II. Jackson, fifty
iree years of age, and the other his son
jged Enprecedented twenty-two. in So educational strange a rivalry history. is
I ke It won’t be ten years hence, predicts
Detroit Free Press, when all build
Ls piped for heat in the winter will be
tooled in summer through the same
Lipes. If ice can be trick artificially send frozen down
[t would be no great to
Ste temperature of a ha 1, opera house
r room.
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I it is human to err, moralizes the Phila
lelphia Inquirer and just in so far as it
,
s human to err, men must be excused for
heir occasional mistakes. A ( iuciunati
Iruggist has killed a patient by making
| m stake in putting up a prescription,
he first mistake iu eight years and in
100,000 prescriptions.
I Iras -Since ex-G rvernor Hubbard, of Texas,
appointed Mmistei to the Court ot
Japan, our trade with that co ntry has
rrown I from $13,000,000 to $25,000,000,
- ?,500,000 in excess of the total English
Japanese trade for, the same year. It
Llso exceeds the German-Japan trade by
119,000,000, and that of France by $12,
[ 100 , 000 ._
A New York house which ten years
igoemployed 100 traveling salesmen now
loes its business entirely by illustrated
:atalogues and correspondence, and its
trade is ahead of what it used to be.
Others are moving the same way, and in
i few years hence, predicts the Detroit
Free Prc-si, the drummer will drum less
lumerously.
Of that vast work, as projected, the
ship canal between Bordeaux on the At¬
lantic seaboard and Narbonne one the
Mediterrane|ii coast, it is stated that the
cost will be some $131,003,000, and
while its length would be about 330
mil s the use of it would be a saving of
nearly 700 miles by vessels going from
southern France or northern Italy to the
northern Atlantic.
It has generally been believed that the
eduction in average height of French
oldiers which followed Napoleon’s
lue, of course, to the immense slaughter
a those campaigns, made ail of those
loldiers the shortest in Europe. But, ae
:ording to a high medical and military
mtherity in Russia, the minimum height
>f the Russian and the French conscript
sabout equal—five feet; while in most
>ther European countries the minimum
anges from five feet one inch to five feet
hree inches.
The New York Sun says: “Queen
'Victoria’s attention is to be drawn to
the fact that the woman who made the
lining for the superb carriage in which
tier Majesty rode on Jubilee Day last
year is on the verge of starvation. The
poor creature is a cripple, bent almost
double, and has worked and lived in
the same room for thirty years. The
lining was exquisite work, but the
■woman was paid only five cents per
yard, and b y working from dawn till
midnight she was able to make just six
yards.”
The importation of firecrackers this
year, says the American Cultivator will
amoun t to 300,000 boxes. This is 100,
ooc more than last year, The increase
is partially due to larger pepu'ation, 'but
mostly to the fact that this year a Presi¬
dential election occurs. “ The left-over
*‘Ock on the 4th of July will all come
•bailable before November. Of the
more costly pyrotechnics large amounts
/ e ma< ^ e in this conn ry by American
anuf acturers, but nobody can success¬
.
j^_7^ eoracker com P e te with the Ch nose in the
manufacture.
CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1888.
THE SOUTH.
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIGIITNI#G PLAYS IIAVOC EVERYWHERE—
COTTON STATISTICS—SUICID ES —RAIL¬
ROAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
Alabama.
A passenger train on the Nashville road
ran into n buggy just east of Stevenson,
on Sunday iu which was a man, bis
wife and child. The man was killed and
the woman and child badly hurt.
Mayor Les er, of Savannah, Ga., tele¬
graphed that he is informed that Mr.
Memwether digd at Fernandina, Fla., of
yellow fever, and asks that Fernandina
be inspected. Dr. Hamilton replied,
authorizing him to send a competent in¬
spector to Fernandina at the expense of
the maiine hospital bureau.
• The race and labor troubles at Round
Mountain furnace, Cherokee county, have
broken out again. A special from Gads¬
den says the white laborers, who had
tried to drive away the negro, s, blew up
the house of Manager Elliott, of the fur
nace company, with dynamite. They
threatened to blow up the furnace, and
Manager Elliott and the sher ff of Cher¬
okee county appealed to the governor
for help. Governor Seay ordered the
■Etowah Rifles of Gadsden to the scene of
the trouble.
Miss Ida Fulton committed suicide at
Brewton. She loved against the judg¬
ment of her parents, not wisely, perhaps,
but too well. Miss Fulton was only
about seventeen years of age, accomplish¬
ed and attractive and she belonged to
one of the best families of the place.
In the note to her heart-chosen sweet¬
heart she gave him her ring and request¬
ed him to kiss her once in death before
burial. Her engagement with the man
chosen by her parents had gore so far
that her wedding trosseuu had been pre¬
pared, but there was a luneral d.rge in¬
stead of a wedding march.
News comes from Clay county, in the
eastern part of the state, of the mysteri¬
ous disappearance and supposed Weaver, murder
of two Mormon elders, Davis and
who have been preaching in that section
for some time. These Mormon elders
were ordered to leave some ti lie since,
but they refused to obey the order. The
feeling against them among the better
class of citizens was stiired to fever heat
last Sunday by a baptizing conducted by
Elders DaVis and Weaver. It is said
that these elders took several converts of
both sexes to a mill pond, and taking
them into the water in a perfectly nude
condition, immersed them in the presence
of about fifty people.
Florida*
The authorities of Tampa officially de¬
clare there is no yellow fever there.
cleorata.
Isaac May, of the firm of Elsas, May &
Co., of Atlanta, died on Monday^
J. J. Cummings, a railroad contractor,
died suddenly in Atlanta from the effects
of a continued spree.
“Fantan,” one of the oldest gambling
games in the world, is played openly by
the Chinese laundrymen in Atlanta on
Sunday nights. They tell the police it is
Chinese checkers.
N. J. Nash, a farmer - returning home
after selling a load of watermelons, was
killed at Bellwood crossing, near Atlan¬
ta, by a train of the Georgia Pacific
Railroad.
There will he a grand reunion early in
September at LaGrange of the fo lowing
regiments of Confederate veterans, viz.:
4ta, 13th, 21st, 3oth, 41st and 60th
Georgia.
There is a case of yellow fever at Flint
Station, four miles from Camilla, and
also a suspected ease at Valdosta. A
res dent had been in the infected district,
and on returning home was taken sick,
and it is feared it may result in a case of
yellow jack.
HomU Carolina^
Anderson is hard at work working up
a cotton-fact.-ry project.
While a party of negroes were Mannir out bqar
driving in Santee swamp, near r,,
Buell Dukes shot and killed Berry Tayior
ora bear. Dukes was on a stand and
Berry was coming through a cane brake
bout fifty yards from where Dukes
was standing. As he emerged from the
canes Dukes fired, hitting him in the
head with four buckshot.
The secretary of the state board of
hea’th, has received additional and im
portant infoimatiou concerning the
alairning epidemic of black measles,
wh ch is prevailing among the negroes
on In the plantations along the Santee river,
Georgetown county On the planta
tion of Mr. Hazard, where over thirty
neo-roes died from the disease, and
it fs said to be spreading so rapidly that
an" entire cessation of work on the grow
ing crops is fea ed. The crops consist
mostly of rice which is now in the milk
and requires 1 careiut watching.
There is . P r ®™ lse oi . a
rice mills at Charleston. Tne bat.le was
begun by the Chisolm mill, which. an
"o°6 D ce e nts a ^r U b C Xl Up to l886 th!
price was 12 cents a bushel, 8 cents for
barreling and \ cent for weighing, a to¬
tal of 18.1-2 cents. In 1886 there was
a Induction to 8 cents for milling and 5
cents for barreling, a total of 13 cents.
The charges for weighing have been
abolished. The present reduction by
tbe Chisolm makes the rates 6 cents for
m Uing and 5 cents for barreling, a total
of U cents. There are five mills in
l harleston. all of which do an active
business. 9 A
Tennessee.
Because the colored admittance people of Cliitta
nooga were denied to East
Lake Park they have bought a park for
their own use.
An explosion to-k place in the Chatta¬
nooga ice faetory on Monday, which
frightened a team of horses, causing
them to run off. The driver, Adam
Schearer, was killed by the wagon run¬
ning over him.
Five weeks ago, Policeman W. T. Rus¬
sell, of Chattanooga, shot and killed
Jesse Bishop, a negro, for resisting ar
rest. Chief of Police Howard received
the following “Death communication, written
in red .ink: to Russell and all
police that shoot a negro. Beware Po
Iiceman Russell, your time is short.” In
the center ot the sheet of paper was a
skull and cross bones.
Virginia.
The captain which of passed the steamer down the Mason Rappa¬ L.
Weems,
hannock river during a storm, icports
that when the st - rrn came up, the mem¬
bers of a colored laptist church were
gathered at Carter's Wharf, witnessing
an immersion. The rain drove the
crowd into an empty freight shed.
While they were huddled together, a bolt
of lightning struck the building and
seemed to leaj) right into the mid^t of
1 he crowd, killing three per.-ons and
stunning the entire crowd. The candi¬
date who was being immersed was one
of those killed.
IMPENDING TROUBLES.
The London News ridicules the argu
ment that President Cleveland’s Message
relative to the fisheries question is a
party move. He would not have recom¬
mended retaliation unless he had regarded rejected
it as the last alternative to the
treaty. With reference to the Toronto
Mail's demand for customs union between
Canada and the United States, the News
says: “It would be a strange aud ironi¬
cal stroke TH' fortune should Mr. Cham¬
berlain, who poses as an ardent imperi¬ his
alist, have inuireetly contributed, by
recklessness and rancor to the detaching
of the Domin on from the sovereignty of
t..e queen.” News from Halifax is to
the effect that those who have contended
that Canada made too liberal conctss ons
to the Un ted States, are pleased that the
fisheries treaty is rejected, but others
who have desired an amicable settlement
of the disputes on almost any equiiable
basis, express extreme anxiety over the
United States Stnate’s action. Alt par¬
ties are unanimous in dema ding that the
modus vivendi shall be immediately re¬
scinded and that the whole resources of
the Dominion, if necessary, shall be
placed at the disposal of the marine de¬
partment for the adequate, stern and un
yielding protection of Canada’s fishing
grounds. Only those vessels which have
taken out .licenses ior the present season
will be allowed in'Canadian ports, ex¬
cept under the convention of 1818. In
all circles the gloomy feeling prevails The
that serious troubles are impending. restrain
American fishermen will not
themselves from following the fish within
limit. If found tresspassing, the Cana
d an cruisers are bound to make a cap¬
ture. The Canadian people feel that
they are bucked by the whole resources
of the British empire. They say that the
British squadron stationed there “could
blow up New York in four days, not
taking into consideration that the United
States has any navy, or that it possesses
the finest torpedo system in the world.
The Canadian Parliament, by its ratifica¬
tion of the treaty, has proposed liberal No
concessions in the interest of peace.
government could live in Canada that
would make a more complete abandon¬
ment of Canadian contentions. If there
is bloodshed in consequence of the Sen¬
ate’s inscrutable action the responsibility
must rest with tho-e who, by their gross
mi-representations of the facts, have in¬
fluenced the Senate’s action. The action
of the Senate persiste 1 in, or even while
affairs remain in status quo, can scarcely
result otherwise than in violence, and for
this the United States must take the re¬
sponsibility in the eyes of the world.
A SMALL WAR.
^ Trinidad, Col., special says: What
ma y prove a long aud bloody struggle
opened to-day on the Maxwell Grant at
Stonewall, forty miles west of Trinidad.
The sheriff's pos-e sent to keep the peace
was met by armed settled in numbers
estimated at from 200 to 500 men. The
settlers demanded the arms of the posse,
which demand was reiused. The posse
took up quarters in the Pooler hotel, a
large frame building. The settlers cn
deavored to force an entrance when the
posse opened fire. R R. Russell, one ol
the oldest settlers, fell dead, and two
three others were wounded, and the
building was soon r.ddled with bullet .
The sheriff is gathering m™ 1 ® numbers
to go to t e rehef of the besieged posse be
It is believed that the building will
burned and a dozen besieged deputies
put to death. The settlers come Horn
tributaries of the Pugative River, Ver
mejo, New Mexico, and also from the
Costillo grant in those mountain fas
nesses. It seems useless to oppose them
with either militia or regular troops.
Public sentiment in Trinidad is entirely |
tfae settlerSi Tbe 8tttler cava lry is
com d o{ both Americans and Mexi
cans. The Mexicans are painted as for
war.
SCUTTLED HER.
The steamer Persian Monarch, rescued
a number of sailors from the sinking
bark Gyfie, and took them to New York.
The captain of the Gyfie deliberately
gcuttled his vessel and saturated her with
[ p ara fl Qe preparatory t > firing her, requir
the crew to declare that she had fif
(et . u f ee t 0 f wa ter in her hold, which
statement was not true.
OYER THE GLOBE.
WHAT THE ELECTRIC WIRES
POUR INTO OUR EARS.
LABOR NOTES —ACCIDENTS ON SEA AND
LAND—TERRIBLE ACCIDENTS ON THE
RAILROADS—NOTED PEOPLE DEAD.
The death is announced of Philip Hen
ry Gosse, F. it. S., English , naturalist,
aged 78 years.
Gen. Von Schkopphas been Knobelskorf appointed
governor of Cologne. Gen.
succeeds Gen. Von Schkopp as command
ant; at Spandau. 1
The captain of the steamer Earnwell,
bringing was arrested at Philadelphia, into Pa., that tor
a case of yellow fever
city from Aspinwall.
Texas fever has broken out violently
among the native cattle in Decatur, Ill.,
and many have died. Its origin is traced
to cattle brought there in Juue.
The Fifih National Prohibition headquarters
at avenue and Fourteenth street,
New day. York, were formally Prohibirionist opened bead- Mon¬
Heretofore the
quarters have been in Chicago.
George W. Waldron, one of the own¬
ers and manager of the Wa'dron bank,
of Hillsdale, Mich., absconded, variously taking
vLh him money and securities
estimated at from $60,000 to $80,000,
He leaves a wife and two childreu.
P.'P'rswere filed and approved Washington, by
Territory, Judge Alhn, appealing at Tacoma, the decision
recent
of the supreme court relative to woman
suffrage, that it was unconstitutional,
to the supreme court of the United States.
T^e explosion of 20,000 pounds of
powder oc< uired in the. drying house of
the Giant Powder compa y, near West
Burkcley, Cal. Two white men and
three Chinamen were killed. The white
men were Josiah Lewis and C. Bunce.
The building was blown to atoms.
The empiess of Russia, princess of
Waloa, and all royalti.sof Denmark, met
at the palace of the duke of Cumberland
at Gemunaen, in Austria. It is surmised
that the meeting related to the project of
the czar and Emperor William to create
a monarchy of Bulgaria and Roumelta,
with the duke of Cumberland as king.
The Berlin, Germany, newspapers are
silent on the subject of the arrests of so
ciulits, which are made daily. The par¬
ticular prison in wliict arrested parties
are confined is crowded now with* men
and women, charged with the propaga¬
tion of socialist doctrines and the utter¬
ance of s.ditious cries.
The third council was held at Imaco,
Col., between the Indian commissioners
and the Indians. The Indians received
the overdue gratuity money, and it was
expected this would put them in good
jmmor and facilitate the business in hand.
Speeches were made on both sides, but
fthe chiefs were obstinate and would not
comerit to removal.
The false work for building the. super¬
structure of the Chesapeake & Ohio Rail¬
way bridge over the Ohio betwecD Coving¬
ton and Cincinnati was swept away by a
great raft of drift wood that had accumu¬
lated at its base. The losers are the con¬
tractors, tlio Phoenix Biidge company.
They estimate their loss at nearly $200,
000. Two weeks move low water would
have made them safe.
An Evansville, Ind., special is to the
effect that all trains have railroads, been stopped
Oil the Mackey system of owing
to the strike declared against' the roads
therein embraced by Ciiiefs Arthur and
Sargent. The system includes the Peo¬
jand ria, Decatur and Evansville; Evansville,
Indianapolis, and Evansville and
Terre Haute roads, having a total length
of 700 miles. The trouble began some
weeks ago out of discriminations said to
have been made by Master Mechanic
Smith against the brotherhood meu.
Chiefs Arthur and Sargent came to the
scene of action and temporarily settled
the matt- r, but repeated snubs, it is al¬
leged, have precipitated a strike which
includes all engineers, firemen and
switchmen.
A BAD LOT.
A Chinese organization of so-called
anarchists, over 100 strong, has been
formed in New York. The purpose of
this s. r nge Mongolian organization is
ost- nstblv for “mutual protection,” but
its real object is to get possess.on of the
Chinese municipality by force. The
principal and most remunerative of these
revenues is obtained from the forty or
more gambling dens that are now paying
the municipal treasury at the rate of $10
per mon h per den. This is divided by
two rival organizations—the Municipal
Council and the Lun Gee Tong Society—
each getting about $200 per month regu
larly. But the-e Mongolian anarchists
pri'pi se now to obtain entire control of
ail these revenues, and they began a few
Jays ago by invading, in a body, the
corns of the.Lun Gee Tong Society,
irivimr its members cut with clubs and
acarly ki’li ig Gon Her, one of the prin¬
cipal members.
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IMPORTANT.
A very important discovery has been
made by which one of Canada the greatest will imtne- privi
h g s now enjoyed order by of the Secretary
di itc y cease, by that is the right of
of the Treasury, and
Canada to ship her products in bond
through the territory of the United
States for export from the ports of the
United States. The statistics show that
of the $270,000,000 worth sent both
ways during the past six years at least
$100,000,000 worth was in Canadian
prod nets exported via phrts of the United
States.
YELLOW FEVER NOTES.
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Governor Perry, of Florida, Georgia, tele¬
graphed to Governor Goidon, of
to ascertain if there was any truth in tht
report of the proposed conference with
Governor Goidon, of Georgia, with a
view of putting on a strict reply quarantine that he at
Waycross, and received a is that
had not heard of it. The fact
Waycross sent back several carloads ot
passengers and baggage on Sunday, hav¬
ing ordered a strict quarantine op
through traffic of every kind. This
hems Jacksonville in on every hand.
The only way of egress is to go to Bou¬
logne quarantine camp, remain ten days,
an 1 upon the certiticate of health be re¬
leased tree to go where one chooses.
The Jacksonville board of health, re¬
scinded its order, and will now publish There
names and addresses of the sick.
is great satisfaction - and relief at this
decision. The city looks more desolats
than ever. Fully 15,000 people have left
it. The quarantine is complete, with
scores of hospitable cities in Georgia,
Alabama, Tennessee, and the Carolinas
swinging their gates, wide open; not a
person iu Jacksonville is permitted Great to set
foot upon prevails, an outgoing and there car. has been ex¬
citement
some talk of tearing up the Savannah,
Florida and Western tracks, the argu¬
ment being that if that road refuses to
take passengers out, the citizens may
very properly refuse to let cars come in.
Pre-ident Mitchell, of the Jacksonville
Board of Health, is in favor of giving
the widest publicity to all news, but it
seems that newspapers are not held m
much esteem by one or two others. If
these concealed cases are yellow fever,
then some one is criminally responsible. exact
If not, the public should know the
facts in the matter, for concealment and
the loss of confidence would create a
panic that would be very pernicious in
us effects. It is suggested as an explan¬
ation of the action of the papers in sup¬
pressing the names of the victims, that,
as the aristocracy were catching it, they
did not like their names mingled with
canaille —Tom, Dick and Harry.
The Savannah, Florida & Western
Railway has reduced the number of its
trains in and out of Jacksonville to the
minimum. The train leaving Jackson¬
ville at 5 p. m. has been discontinued
till further notice. The train formetly
arriving in Jacksonville at 8 a. m. has
also been discontinued. As soon as yel¬
low fever broke out in Jacksonville, Mr.
George W. Haines, superintendent of
the Brunswick & Western Railroad,
whose headquarters is in Brunswick, set
out for that place to look after the em
ployes there. Two days ago he started
back but was stopped at Waycross by
the quarantine inspectors. He appealed tel¬
to the Brunswick board of health by
egraph, but that body would not waive
any of the fifteen duys at have quarantine. the of¬
Mr. Haynes telegraphed to be moved
fice of the system that can
temporarily transferred to Waycross.
The Spanish steamship Castella, the first
of the cotton fleet known naocean tramps,
arrived at quarantine at Charleston, 8.C.,
from Havana. At a meeting of the
board of health a resolution was adopted
prohibiting all vessels from .feverin
fected points to come to that city until - *
after November, and that the Castella
should be quarantined for fourteen days.
Two passengers from Live Oak, near
Jacksonville, were captured in Charles
leston, having run the blockade. They
were at once sent over to the lazaretta,
where they will be kept fourteen days.
The board of health of Brunswick, Ga.,
refused to let the Mallory line steamships
run in their vessels there until
after they have been quarantined times in twenty the
days and fumigated three
meantime.
GOVERNMENT RELIEF.
Information has just been received at
Jacksonville, Fla,, from J. H. Stevens,
agent of the Savannah; Florida & Western
Railway, that the United States Govern¬
ment has chartered a train from the road
and will run it daily from Jacksonville to
Boulogne, leaving Jacksonville at about
1:30 p. m., each day. Passage to the
camp will be provided by the government
free, the only requisite being certificates
from the board of health as to freedom
from disease. Passengers must, howev¬
er, satisfy the board that they intend go¬
ing there simply for quarantine purposes.
Alter a period of ten days, during which
the passenger is kept at the government’s
expense, he is discharged and may go on
to any part of the country at will.
THE CROPS,
Reports from Arkansas, Kentucky,
Tennessee, North Carolina and South
Carolina indicate that the weather has
been favotable to a 1 crops. High winds
and heavy rains-did considerable dumage
to growing crops in Louisiana and Mis
sissipi. High winds also damaged corn
in Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Penn¬
sylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. But
the at.endiDg rains will improve the
crops.__
STOPPED,
Orders were given out on Monday tc
contractors to stop work on the Duluth,
South Shore and Atlantic extension tc
West Superiors. That road has made an
agreement to use the Northern Pacific
tracks. The immediate cause of this is
on account of President Cleveland’s re¬
taliatory message, as the South Shore
is entirely owned by the Canadian Pa¬
cific.
A JOKE.
The French police have received in
structions to discover the authors of an
ingenious political trick, which consist
defacing the coins of Napoleon IH,
and sunstituting the name of Boulanger
b Empereur, with the date .888.
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NO. 27.
WASHINGTON, D. <J.
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BUSY TIMES STILE, IN THE NA¬
TIONAL CAPITOL.
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CONGRESS IN SESSION YET—MOVEMENT*
OF PRESIDENT AND MRS. CLEVELAND—
WHO ARE GETTING FAT SLICES.
CONCJREMIONAI,.
In the Senate on Monday, the resolu- 1
tion heretofore offered by Mr. Stewart,
calling for copies of reports, affidavits
and communications, on which the com¬
missioner of the general land office basi d
his letter to Mr, Barnes on the subject of
timber depredations, was taken up and
discussed.....The Speaker laid before from
the House a number of telegrams
absent members, asking for an extension Their
of leaves on account of sickness.
requests were complied with. Unde*
the call of states, the following resolu¬
tion etc. was introduced and referred:
Requesting the President to communi¬
cate to the House copies of all communi¬
cations addressed by his direction to the
government of Great Britaian remonstra¬
ting with that government against
wrongs and unfair treatment of citizens
by the action of the Canadian govern¬
ment in ret unding to vessels and cargoes
which pass through the Welland and
other Canadian canals, nearly the entire
tolls if they are destined to Canadian
ports, while those bound for American!
ports are not allowed any such advantage i
and against the breach of the treaty o(
1871, whereby Great Britain promised the t d
the United States equalLv The in President matter is
of land Iran sport atian.
also called upon for copies of any de¬
mand made by his direction upon Great
Britain for redress of such wrongs, and
replies of Great Britain to such commun¬
ication and demands. Mr. Hooker, of
Mississippi, introduced a joint resolution
authorizing the President for a given
period, to suspend the The duty on Cotton
bagging. Referred. House went
into committee of the whole on the defi¬
ciency appropriation bill.
(iOSSIP.
Senator Call introduced in the Senate
a bill to subdivide the internal revenue
collection district of Florida, and mak¬
ing a sub-district of Key West.
Judge Stewart received a petition
signed by 800 citizens of DeKalb county, -
Ga., asking for the removal of the pres-<
ent postmaster at Dunwoody.
The President sent to the Senate the
nomination of George W. Preston, of
Georgia, to be Indian agent at the Mis j
sion Tulc river ageuej', California.
A member of the conference committee
on the sundry civil bill states that Sena¬
tor Brown’s amendment well appropriating the Au¬
$10,000 for an artesian at
gusta, Ga., arsenal has been agreed to.
Health Officer Townsend, of Washing¬
ton, and Surgeon General Hamilton,
held a conference in regard to the yellowr train
fever epidemic, and decided that a
inspection service should be in organized that city to
inspect all tinins arriving
from infected points.
The House committee on invalid pen¬
sions took up the bill granting Sheridan. n pension
of $5,000 to the widow of Gen.
The bill had been referred to ft sub-corat
mittee oi one, consisting of Morrfll, of
Kansas, who recommended that the
amount be fixed at $2,000 per annum. fix it
Judge Yoder, of Ohio, moved to
at $8,500, the amount recommended
the Senate committee. This was adopt¬
ed, and the bill was ordered to be report¬
ed with the amount placed at $3,500.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
The paper mill owned by George
Whiting, situated on the island between
Neenah and Mehnsba, Win., was de¬
stroyed by fire. While the burning _ struct¬
ure was surrounded by a crowd of spec¬
tators the battery of boilers exploded.
The roof and wails were thrown out,
sending a shower of bricks and timbers
among the spectators. Eighteen fatally injured per¬
sons were killed and seven
and a number seriously hurt, several of
whom will die.
A Very Confiding Hostess.
[From the Buffalo Courier.]
A gentleman who was invited out to
dine at a Dele ware-avenue residence
lately observed that the chandelier over
the dining room table was of peculiar light
construction, so that there was a
over the head of each guest. The globes
were of various colors, some amber,
some red and some blue. “What is the
object of having the globes of his of different
colors ?” the guest asked hostess,
“Why, you see,” said she, “when one
gives a dinner or tea one must Invite
some people whom one perfectly hates. and
Now last Tuesday I gave a supper,
I had to invite two women whom I de¬
spise. But I had to invite them or some
of the young men I wanted wouldn’t
come. I bad my revenge on my fair en¬
emies, however. I placed each of these
two women under one of those pale blue
lights at the table. They’re but usually tinder con¬ that
sidered beautiful women,
light they had the most ghastly look you
ever saw, They were perfect aged 20 scarecrows. the
They seemed to have years
minute that they sat down, The men
noticed it, of course, but they did not
divine what caused it. awfully They glum were at
qtiite taken aback and
first. But finally one of them turned
with a sigh and began talking to a real
homely little thing that was sitting un¬
der a ruby-colored light. Why, she was
perfectly charming under it. So you see
that when I want people to look jser
feetly hideous I put them under the
blue lights. It kills everything.” The
gentleman looked up. He was under a
blue light. ______