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THE CONYERS WEEKLY. VOL. XI. The attempt to grow tobacco in Bng , d has resulted about m disastrously 8n cotton did. l5 tb« attempt to grow ETaiscr William is much interested In val affairs, and it is believed that Ger B9 hereafter much more at any will pay ention to her navy. Greystone, Mr. Tilden’s expensive Hudson river residence, has been in the narket for two years, with no buyer. [ cost him $25,000 a year to keep it up, t willing to follow ln d no one has been luit. Seventy-five miles an hour—or a mile nforiy-eight seconds—is the astounding te 0 [ speed which has just been at- j ■ned bv the “West Coast Express,” of 81 London ! and r v..a«»«!orn Northwester Dailwnv y, ! he English the , „ a Its triD * from the to , edteh metropolis. ,. * 8 ! The roaring gas well back of Canons burg, Penn., is said to have the greatest registered pressure of any in the world. The gas looks like a solid piece of blue steel for some distance after it comes out Df the pipe. Solid masonry twelve feet thick surrounds the well to hold the cap D n. When in drilling the gas was struck, fools and ropes weighing though 5000 they pounds were thrown out as were feathers. ____________ Pftb’e Island, which lies in the direct hath of all transatlantic shipping bound [o New York, is rap'dly being washed sway. The branch hydrographic offices [n that city and Philadelphia have just been served with notice by tbe British government that one of the lighthouses has been undermined, and must be taken [own and removed to a site further in¬ land. At present the sea threatens to peraol sh the light and the tower. | A practical test of fire-proof, patent Stiffened wire lathing, was given recent yin Philadelphia. A brick building wenty feet souare was erected of two Divisions, in one the common wood lath ng such as is generally used, in the ptherwas the stiffened wire lathing with bast iron ribs. At 3:05 in the afternoon the fires were started, and in eight minutes the plaster, and wood lathing Dropped and were consumed. At 4:5 5, when the visitors left the grounds, the Ere in the wire lathing apartment was pill bon burning, with no signs of consump of the plaster or lathing. Mrs. Diaz, wife of , the ,, President r, • 1 i of « Mexico, has labored for years, accord tg to a the v hew York Graphi-, , . to , imcliorate the condition of the poorer jass , ot . , her bhe has established sex. arious institutions for the employment f poor women and girls, and has :opularized work which, until she bc ameits protecting patroness, was looked !pon as unbecoming and contrary to stablished customs. Under her patron ge these institutions have become lourishing and afford respectable employ¬ ment to hundreds of her sex. She is ever tidying some new scheme for the dvancement of the poorer classes, and Ier name will be a future household f °rd associated with benevolence and dndness. Jvery HKesbarre, curious Penn. case One is reported of the young from ™mcu employed at the silk mills of that wn was taken with an epileptic fit. fell .0 <h, floor, „d ,he' other girl, > xierea around and became most! ‘krmed aa d excited. Suddenly one of hem gave a wild shriek and fell over in 'lolcnt hysterics. Tile excitement in teased, and in a minute minute or or so so another another oan h, _ ____ "Oman was seized with hysteria. Qe girls were now almost almost wild wild w.tb w th ervmiser^-* 3 excitement, , and one after another cues and struggles as they lay bi »» th, floor combioed to m.k. scene an extraordinary and alarming ae - Sixteen of th„ h g,rb thus ,, rated WCre P ro3 ’ -Medical in , aid summoned, and was t,rrls wei '- revived and sent home. ' ^ T - ^ an Dorston estimates, in ii e o,- American, that sii there are one ! ? D cars the United States, the „ -®up!ers of which must be changed if standard of ' the Master Car Builders’ i6 generally adopted. He -vouid :h make e 08 ^^ the entire ^ 8 ‘ 5 ° expense * Car ’ of wh; the ‘ eh Sn *'^00,000. . )ref l&ced-J° , U * i1er8 Supposing the ) ~ _W k ic k musfc be < t is_ jD „° ljave eo-t $15 per car, or for the crlak equipment, Action of car he lJ- T . Wr8cij9 *the from broken links, r om an< death rate h* re ® s ' ac * c and going between i c oq annn !n y pl f ^ and replace the links, * more, $22 k ff) 00 o • or v *«'l ^ thinks theauto idedi, ?“ pler mil5t regarded as de '■ k* cheapest. CONYERS. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1888. FROM FAR AND NEAR, MATTERS OR MOMENT IN VARI¬ OUS QUARTER, > OF THE GLOBE. Terrillc Battle Between Tramps and Mexi¬ cans of Colorado. A terrible battle in a Denver and Rio Grande box-car between tramps, resulting in tbe killing of three Mexicans, together with the capture of Billy Cornelius, known as “Billy the Kid,” who heads a notorious band of horse thieves, made up Colorado’s calendar a few days since, i Three Mexicans, Selidon Vijil, J. A An noya and Joan A. Arelland, and a half a dozen tramps boarded a box-car at Pueblo, Col., and afterward Vijil wr; -uscovered dying in the car, shot through the bowels, and the other two were found dead twenty five feet *>part near a bridge, Anuoya being shot in the buck with a forty-five calibre and Arelland clubbed on the head until dead, the When que.-t oiled as to the cause friends Vijil said had toys had done it He and his said. Before a light and were whipped, he telling It more he died. Mexicans and the seems that the three other tramps quarre ed, drew their weapons, and one of the bloodiest battles in the West was fought. It was a terrible encounter be¬ tween nearly a dozen men huddled in a box, stealing their way and fighting in riddled the night time. The inside of the car was with bullets. Further developments may show that other lives were lost and the bodies concea'ed. Since last Friday thirty-two men have been chasing “Billy the Kid,” a noted des¬ perado, rivaling in some respects his name¬ sake. At the head of desperate men he has been terrorizing Southeastern Colorado and is supposed to have participated in some of the terrible crimes in Oklahoma, the neutral land strip, and the Pan Handle country. A large and well-chosan posse of men have been hot on his trail for several days, and last Friday came upon the desperado in the night-time. Billy was too quick for them, and, mounting a magnificent horse, started on a wild, mad dash over the plains and es¬ caped. three days later he captured Two or was by a farmer, who was passing a ranch known to be vacant. Seeing a light, he looked in and recognized “Billy the Kid,” cooking his Tho desperado had sworn that he would never be taken alive, but the farmer entered the cabin, covered Billy with a double-barrel shotgun, and he threw up his hands. He is now in jail in Trinidad, Col. Headlong to Heath. A thrilling and appalling spectacle was witnessed in connection with a balloon as¬ cension at the Ottawa (Canada) Industrial Exhibition. About 5 o’clock in the afternoon a balloon which was in process of inflation was surrounded by a number of young men. Suddenly a cry of horror was raised as it broke from its moorings and shot into the air carrying with it a young man named Thomas Wensley, who had been care¬ lessly holding on by a small rope attached to the balloon. Higher and higher by he his sped hands in his fatal flight, simply view clinging thousands of and suspended in full of spectators, his aged father being one of the number, but fortunately unaware that his only son was tbe object of his gaze. When about one thousand feet from the ground he made a desperate his struggle but as though endeavoring to retain grasp, the effort was vain and poor Wensley fell headlong to the earth. It was noticed that ! when be had descended apparently about a hundred feet his body turned and contorted as if in a dying struggle, after which lus de scent was like that of a lifeless mass. The grief stricken father is almost wild w ith frenzy. He cannot bo restrained from walking the streets as he gives vent to his feelings over the result of the dreadful spec¬ tacle which he witnessed with apparent com posure. Wensley was about twenty-three years of age. Killed Himself on His Wedtti. e-Day. Three hours before the time set for the wedding of Wi liam B. Van Derwort, a son of ex-Judge Van Derwort, of Chaumont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to Miss Frankie C. Matteson, of Sandy Creek, he sent a bullet from a revolver through his heart and expired instantly. sensation The tragedy has caused a profound Creek, where it in the little village of Sandy twenty was enacted. The deceased was only and two years of age, a college graduate Chau- a law student in his father’s office in mont. contracted debt at Van Derwort had a Sargent’s store in the village and on the wed Derwort started out of town on foot. An oifi ^ ^d'but before Mdmak” an arrest the young man drew a recover fQ*SFSS£S!i * tSUSS and husband had done, was prostrated al j m03t driven insane ' Destructive Prairie Fires in Dakota. One of the most destructive prairie fires that ever visited Dakota has just occurred. AU q£ the westera part of Lamoure county and much of the southern and western part of Stutsman county, fire were burned0 ver. Instances of where ran fas*or than horses and wagon are narrated. extinguished in some places but was still prairie from Lamoure to within a few miles of Jamestown, fifty miles, was all ablaze, They could see the burning barns, dwellings and grain-stacks from the car windows. Kebels Repulsed. Tbe rebels made an attack upon the water fort at Suakim. They were repulsed with severe loss by the heavy artillery fire of the British. One British gunner was killed. The gunboats continued firing into the rebel camp. Deserters report that there is much sickness in the camp. Cholera has broken out in Khartoum. His Method. “The great row that is being made about the immigrants difficulty of is keeping absurd, out un¬ desirable very you know,” said the young man at the club to his admiring friend. “Formy part,” he continued, “lam sure that nothing would be easier*than to detect improper foreigners at Castle Garden.” “How would you do it?” inquired his companion. “Why, I would exclude mother’s every did son of them whose clothes not fit.—. Chicago News. A welt known London firm of refreshment contractors recently advertised for 4,000 ad¬ ditional waiters, and 10,000 applications of the candi¬ were received in response, the whole date* claiming to hare had experience. NEWS SUMMARY. Eastern and Middle States. i ■ Patrick Tracey, baggage master at Hyde killed Park, Mass., was struck and instantly the by a train while attempting to save life of Mrs. Young, aged sixty nine, of had SbaroD, who bad fallen upon the track. He the partially succeeded in pulling her from track when he was struck by the engine. Mrs. Young’s left fo it was cut off, and her left arm broken, and she was fatally injured. The Delaware Republican Convention at Dover nominated Henry Dupont, Joseph R. Whittaker and Joshua Marvel for Presi¬ dential electors, and Charles H. Treat for Congre s. The resolutions indorse the Chica¬ go platform. William Warren, the veteran actor, died at his home in Boston. He was seventy years old. and had been one of the foremost comedians on the American stage for over fifty years. The President has signed the Fortification and Army bills, and approved the act for the construction of a revenue cutter for New berne, N. C. Miss Mathilda Rot and Jules Grang lande were drowned in North River, New York city, by the capsizing of a row-boat in which they were taking a pleasure sail. A fire in Henry Alias’s brewery, New York city, did about $.05,000 damage. Congressman McAdoo has been renomi¬ nated'for that position by the Democrats of Hudson county, New Jersey. Milton Weston, the Chicago millionaire, sentenced four years ago to ten years impris¬ for onment in the Pennsylvania penitentiary contributory murder, has been pardoned. Charles Dodge, cashier ofShipmm. Bar low, I.at-ocque & Choate, the New York law firm, St has committed suicide at his home in ipleton, Staten Island. His death follow¬ ing so closely on the exposure of Bedell’s forgeries, the firm, who recently stole inquiries $264,008 regard¬ from same led to many ing his books, which were found to be rrect. South and West. C. H\ Crosswaitiie, a miner at Ouray, Cal., shot latter and killed had Johnson, given his partner, the be¬ cause the some strangers privilege of entering Cio.nS wait he’s cabin. Captain Richard Dawson one of the best known navigators on the lakes, com¬ mitted suicide at Toledo, Ohio, by hanging Mrs. Mary Pecongo, widow of Charles Pecongo, the last chief of the Miami Indians, has died at the Indian Reservation, northeast of Marion, lnd., aged sixty years. James Stellep. was instantly killed, Dorsey Miller mortally wounded, and two others slightly hurt in a fight with Arthur Moore a few mdes from Berkeley Springs, W. Va. Jackson Hunter' of Muneie, lnd., called upon his tenant named Fleming and ordered him to vacate. They engaged in a quarrel, and Fleming struck Hunter with an axe. Hunter then fired at Fleming, but missed him and killed his own son. A colored man named Pinckney beat Shell, living in Anderson county, S. C., his two-year-old stepchild so cruelly that it died fifteen minutes later. Louis Davis, a large land proprietor, whe murdered David Miller, a neighbor, last January, was taken from jail at Steelesville, Mo., and lynched. Victor Sebree, a United States Revenue officer shot and killed Catrino E. Garza, a Mexican editor, at Rio Grande City, Texas. He was placed in jail and the Mexicans at¬ tempted to lynch him. The sheriff placed him under the protection of the United State! garrison at Fort Ringgold and Governor Ross sent several troops of Rangers to quell the disturbance. Antony Carney, committed of Chicago, suicide fatally shot his wife and then whil< drunk. Mrs. Eva Gately, a widow, with her twe children, was killed by a train at Versailles Ky. The “Lone Highwayman,” who to traveler! has fol the last two years been a terror in the vicinity of Kerrville, Texas, has been killed. He was shot with a needle the gun head bj Mrs. Lizzie Hay, Sabinal, at her Bandera home on County. waters of Rio The Georgia cotton crop has been damaged nineteen per cent, and the corn crop thirteen per cent. Town Marshal Woolwine, of Jellieo, Lyons, Tenn., attempted to arrest William Both drew revolvers and fired and both were instantly killed. E. A. De.funian. a third party, was fatally injured. Loveza Amador, captain of the Contras Guards of Mexico, and Granciuna Cantu, a State ranger, settled a long standing diffi¬ culty at San Felipe de Sabinas, killed. Texas, by a pistol fight, in which both were H. S. Ives and George H. Stayner, the fa¬ mous Wall street operators in railway se¬ curities, were acquitted of embezzlement and larceny at Cincinnati, WasbinfftotL The President has nominated J. G. Park hurst, of Michigan, to be Minister to Bel¬ gium, Walter C. Newberrv W. postmaster to be at Chicago, and Captain II- Lawton Inspector-General of the Army. Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom have left Washington for a short stay at Saranac Inn in the Adii-ondac.cs. They were accom¬ had panied by Dr. Ward, of Albany, who been a guest for some days at Oak View. President Cleveland and Private Sec¬ retary Lamont spent Saturday and Sunday with Editor Sing -rly, of tbe Philadelphia Record, at his farm near Gwynedd, Penn., returning to Washington on Monday. President Cleveland has vetoed House bill 8310. providing for the disposal of a part of Fort Wallace military reservation to the Union Pacific Railroad Company at the rate of $30 per acre. The Treasury Department sent to Con¬ gress an estim ite of $9000 to pay the messeu gers bringing the Presidential electoral to the Capital. They receive mileage of twenty-five cents for one way. The messen¬ ger from Annapolis receives the smallest amount, $10.50. and the one from Salem, Oregon, the largest, $988. Up to late date the total number of yellow fever cases at Jacksonville, Fla., was 2134: total deaths, 221, The Senate has passed a bill widow granting of Gen¬ a pension of $3500 a year to the eral Philip H. Sheridan. Foreign. Calvert Brother, woolen factore d The firm bough" John on credit Calvert and has sold’ absconded, for cash at a sacrifice. Hundreds of lives have been lost by flood.* in Spain. murder of has Another horrible and, a woman similar occurred at Gotheshead, Eng tc the four preceding brutal murders ot women in the White Chapel district of Eondon. di The has publication a g of Emperor i-r^erickf , ° U ^e n m Five P prominent merchants of Brockville Canada, were drowned at that place by thf sinking of a sailing yacht in raidchacneL Seventeen peasants were senienc>d to bs hanged in Russia for the killing of thr0f policemen. Th’. remains of General Bazaine were in¬ terred in the San Justo Cemetery, Madrid, of Spain. the deceased The funeral and was few attended friends. by the sons a A EUNUCH in the Sultan’s palace at Con¬ The stantinople chief eunuch was hanged and eight for killing other a comrade. eunuchs have been exiled for having neglected their duties. Joseph Barberie, son of Hon. J. C. Barberie, George Edward, and Lawrence McHugh, an orphan lad, were drowned off Dalhousie, New Brunswick, by the upsetting of their boat. A conflict arose between German resi¬ dents and coast tribes at Bagomoyo, Zanzi¬ bar, Africa. The German Admiral landed with a force from the Leipsie to assist the Germans, and killed 150 men without suffer¬ ing a single casualty. A force under Colonel Grauam has totally defeated the insurgent Thibetans at Jelopha Pass, capturing their camp. Four hundred Thibetans were killed or wounded. Colonel Bromhe.-d lost his right arm and nine Sepoys were wounded. Colonel Graham is advanc¬ ing into Thibetan territory. The most malignant type of typhoid fever is prevalent at Kingston, Canada. One hun¬ dred and forty persons are reported to be prostrated with the disease. Three small boys were playing “killing pigs” at Cowbay, Nova Scotia. A six-yoar- the vil¬ old son of Mrs. Anderson, who keeps lage bote!, was bound hand and foot by his two little companions, who then cut h.s throat with an old rusty knife, from the ef¬ fects of which he died. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Bismarck has a mania for getting weighed frequently. Evangelist Moody will spend the winter in California. Thomas A. Edison is studying the problem of aerial navigation. The Kings of Cambodia and Assam will visit Paris next year. The Ameer of Afghanistan is said to be meditatiu - a journey to England. It is rumored that Bismarck will follow Von Moltke’s example and resign. The Prince of Wales has accepted an invi¬ tation to visit the Czar of Russia. Andrew Carnegie came to the United States in IS 15, when he was 10 years old. Emperor Willi am, of Germany, receives almost daily letters threatening his life. Count Albin Csaky has been appointed Hun¬ to succeed the late Herr Trefort in the garian Ministry. Colonel Markham, an English line. hunter, has a good record in the tiger He has killed seventy-two. The oldest voter in the United States this year is a Texas man, Richard Kid<" who was born 115 years ago. The Russian Grand Dukes Sergius and Paul have been received and entertained by the Suitan at Stamboul. The tallest man in Congress is Stewart, of Texas, while Bowers, of Georgia, is the lean¬ est. Senator Ingalls is the thinnest. Chicago gave Chief Justice Melville C. Fuller a notable banquet and reception on the eve of his departure for Washington. Senator Sawyer will be seventy-seven years old when his present term expires and he says he will then retire from public life. Judge Walter Q. Gresham has returned to Chicago. He says that, as he is on the Bench, he will not take any part in the cam¬ paign. Secretary of the Treasury Fair* child’s grandfather was the printer and publisher i; of a newspaper. His father was a awyer. Prince George, of Greece has been be¬ trothed to Princess Marguerite,second daugh¬ ter of the Due de Chatres and a wealthy heiress. The Empress of Austria is said to own twenty pet horses and twice as m iny dogs, after whose proper entertainment sue per¬ sonally sees every day. Viscount Cranbrook, one of tea oldest members of the present British cabinet, prides himself on never having, through his long life, read a novel. Further discussion upon Mr. Gladstone reveals the fact that he was flogged only school once at Eton, for refusing to trouble. give away a fellow who had got into Florence Nightingale, the famous nurse, is a confirmed invalid, being a patient in St. Thomas’s hospital, Londou. She has never recovered from the injury to her spine re¬ ceived during the Crimea. General Russell A. Alger, of Michi¬ gan, is worth $10,009,000. His money is in¬ vested in pine and mineral land, a railroad and a bank. All of his fortune has been made within fifteen years. Belva Lockwood has been married twice. She is ft’so a graduate of two col¬ leges. She has both experience and accom¬ plishment, and yet her candidacy for the Presidency can be looked upon onjy as a joke. Frank Dempster Sherman, the poet, has a great fondness for the higher mathematics, particularly for calculus. He is at present preparing for the press a text-book on cal¬ culus, while at the same time revising his poems for publication. Wilson Waddingham, of Savin Rock, Conn., is said to be the largest land-holder in the United States. He is believed to own over 2.000,000 acres of graz ng land in New Mexico and elsewhere, and he has also made lr rge investments in real estate in Western cities. “Skipper Crunslile.” It cannot always be to d by the looks of a word bow it should be pronounced. whose In England, for ohn example, is a addressed man name is Si. . always as Mr. Sinjun. A newspaper correspondent tells a Marblehead (Mass.) story bearing upon tlie same point. the at Salem, A ca-e was on in court in which great interest was taken by the fishermen The clerk called the first witness: “Captain Edward Crownin* shield, come into court”—no response. The summons was repeated with like I j re-ult, and the bronzed and weather beaten old tars began to look around j withinterest old an0 the curiosity. front seat One espe- stout , veteran on was ciaily curioii8, ana watched the creen bai e closely to see who this distin guished individual was. The clerk intimated to the court that til e witness was evidently not present, and j )U , i us tice knew the locality its inhabitants better than the scribe. “Let me try,Mr. Cierk,” he said, with a snriie, and called “Skipper Crunshle.” “Here,” responded the ancient in the front scat, who had apparently been ex p?ct : ng the advent of some distinguished naviil o Leer, and failed to recognize himself under the high-sounding title, NEWSY GLEANINGS London is to have an electric railway. Carl Schurz is still »t Kiel, Germany. The crops in France exceed all expecta¬ tions. The rye crop of Europe is considerably short. Mormons are flocking into Wyoming in great numbers. Thirty million trees have been planted in Kansas this year. Inventor Edison says he has found a sure cure for yellow fever. The honey crop of the country is below the average this season. A canal will soon be built between the Black and Caspian Seas. | (A Chinaman is refused naturalization papers by a St. Louis Judge. The Czar and Czarina have declined to re¬ ceive Queen Natalie of Servia. Heavy losses have occurred to cranberry growers from the severe frosts. An eagle carries off the six-year-old child of a Kansas farmer and devours it. An electric bolt killed four people of one family in Cosala, Mexico, recently. Bunco men in Pittsburg swindle an aged and respectable citizen out of $10,080. In Kansas drought has caused a severe de cline in the condition of the corn crop, p The King of Siam has donated to the Bap tist mission at Bangkok the sum of $2 10 , 000 . Three carriages and five cabs formed the funeral train of ex-Marshal Bazaine at Madrid. The prospect appears to be that the onion crop of the country will fully equal the large crop of 1886. The amount of loss to creditors in England and Wales through bankruptcy last year was $35,574,575. The King of Greece, accompanied German Kaiser by tlje Duke of ISparta, visited the at Potsdam. A provisional Government has been es¬ tablished in Hayti. Order is restored and business is brisk. Robert Somerville, of New York, was torn and trampled to death by cattle on a Western ranch. About 1672 regular passenger trains enter and leave the depots of New York City every twenty-four hours. The German Government wants to build more men-of-war, and is going to ask the Reichstag for money to do it. The Swiss Government will ask the Swiss. Parliament for a credit of $5,000,000 to sup¬ ply the army with improved rifles. The Cotton Spinners’ Association, at Man¬ chester, England, decides to run on short time to defeat the speculative ring. Returns for 1888 show that British live stock has decreased 4.8 per cent, 1886. compared with 1887 and 7.8 compared with The Sultan of Turkey has obtained a loan of $5,000,000 at seven per cent, from the Deutsche Bank to build a new railroad. Three hundred Indians at the Lower Brule agency have signed the settlement treaty to open a part of the reservation to Baldwin, the balloonist, leaped from his balloon with a parachute at the height of 6000 feet, in London. He fell in safety. The German Government is going to make an official inquiry into the publication of alleged extracts from the late Emperor Frederick’s diary. The opening of the Augusta (Ga.) National Exposition has been postponed from October 10th to November 8th, and to close December 15th. It is stated that the United States authori¬ ties will compel the Brooklyn Bridge to abolish its electric lights because they inter¬ fere with the safe navigation of the East River. CONGRESSIONAL. Senate Proceedings. 180th Day.— The conference report on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was agreed of to. ,. A bill regulating the the presentation President of bills and joint resolutions to the United States, after a brief discussion, was referred.... Mr. Edmunds Utah presented State a petition against dishonored admitting as the a field of and placing a star on blue.... The House bill to create without a Depart¬ the ment of Agriculture was passed Mr. Chandler Weather Bureau section.... introduced a bill to pay $50 to the Congo Emigration Company for each colored man who desires to emigrate to any free State of Africa. Deficiency Ap¬ 18 1st Day.— The General the propriation bill was passed. Among amendments was one appropriating $8745 to pay to the widow of the late Chief *1 ustice Waite the balance of bis year’s salary.... $10,000 A bill was passed of appropriating the monument for memorating the completion the surrender of Burgoyne com¬ at Saratoga, N. Y.... A bill was introduced to prohibit the immigration of Chinese laborers ..Mr. Call introduced a bill directing tlie . Commission of President to appoint a seven physicians of the different schools of. medi¬ cine as far as practicable who shall observe and view and make a report of all the facts on the yellow fever in Jacksonville so far as practicable. Day.— Mr. Edmunds introduced ... a 18'2d the special resolution to bring out corre spondence relating to the Chinese Restnc tion bill.... The Senate went into Executive session to discuss tbe condition of the Chinese treaty and the relations of tbe two Govern¬ ments.. .Mr. Sherman’s resolution for an in¬ . relations between quiry into the state of the tbe United States and Great Britain and Canada was taken up, anil Mr. Morgan dis¬ cussed it.... Tbe joint resolution to continue the provisions of existing law providing for the expenditures of the Government up to and including October 10 was parsed.... AIL the private pension bills on the calendar, 114 in number, were passed in forty-five minutes, including the bill granting a pension to the widow of General Sheridan. 183d Day.—M r. Danie’s continued the De¬ bate on the President s n.es-ago.....The Sen¬ ate passed the bill approving tbe new fine of demarcation between the waters of Rhode Island and Connecticut. House Proceedings. 219th Day.—I n the House Mr. Morrow Sir^"ribe n fe^t rolled bills... .The conference report on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was the agreed Lon to, but no decision was reached on gressional Library Building feature. A fur tber conference was ordered.... A resolution extending appropriations for certain Govern ment bureaus till October 15 was resolution passed.... to Mr. Crain again called up his suppress trusts, and the measure was dis cussed but no action token. f™. for 220th Day.—T ho House passed the bills a commission to attend the Geodetic Con ference at Brussels, and also to encourage en listment in the navy.... The joint resolution to provide for an international commission to determine Mexican boundary the questions was passed.... Academy The bill to regulate, considered, course and at the Naval providing was after March an amendment that 4, 1889, the minimum age for the admission of a cadet to tbe academy shall be sixteen years, and the maximum twenty-on* years, *u adootod.. NO. 32. LABOR NOTES. . Three million women in the United State* work for money. There are only three crutch factories In the United States. The File-Makers’ Union has added a sick benefit fund to its other financial advantages. Mr. A. I. Root gives employment to 150 hands about his bee establishment in Chicago. There are about 25,000 persons engaged in the manufacture of cigars in New York City. Twelve suits have been brought against* Boston mar ole firm for importing contract labor The Brotherhoftd of Locomotive Firemen have deculed to amalgamate with tue Knights of Labor. On tiie pay roils of the Pennsylvania system of railways there are constantly the name* of 50,050 employes. There are -500 persons employed making by the in¬ 131 firms engaged in the wagon dustry in Philadelphia. Cuban troops are under arms to suppresi an expected riot among the 25,001 striking Cigannakers in Havana. The baskets for peaches are made in Laurel, Del., and the workmen and work women get eighty cents a hundred. Chess for the working classes is a now experiment of the English chess players, and it is meeting with cousiderab e success. The National Federation of Miners and Mine Laborers contemplate putting the nine hour system into effect at an early date. The tanning of lipa constrictor sk,ns form* a branch of in, I us try. in Hamburg* N. J. They are made into pocketbooks principally. The labor societies of Pittsburg have raised oyer $2508 for the njonum nt to be erected in memory of Thomas Armstrong, a noted labor leader. It is slated that the National Union of the United Brewery workmen, which was or¬ ganized in August, 1880, ha3 already spent $80,000 in strikes. Since the organization of the insurance feature of the Knights of Labor the order has paid out in benefits over $55,000 to tane ficiaries of deceased members. Seventeen trades societies have forward¬ ed to the English Labor Bureau reports show¬ ing an aggregate membership of 180,130, of which total 7000 wore unemployed. The Brotherhood dt Locomotive Firemen, local which was established in 1873, with one union and nine members, has now 380 divi¬ sions and 18.000 beneficial members. There were 253,852 manufacturing estab¬ lishments in the United States when the last census was taken, with a capital employed of $2,^0,- 272,608. The number of men was 2,732,595. box factory The employes of a Baltimore struck because the firm put in The nailing machine ma¬ chines during the busy season. boxes needs four men and can nail 6000 per day. The average man can nail only 225 boxes per day. • Messrs. Wyman and Sons, printers and publishers, of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, have given a pension of $50!) per annum for life to W. H. Phillips, on his retirement H orn tho position of case-overseer, which lie has filled for a number of years. It is asserted that the American Federa¬ tion of Labor is numerically the strongest labor organization in the world, even sur¬ passing tne Knights df Labor, Knights having-f.18,000 is offici¬ members, while that of the ally set down at 535,01)0. A convention wifi soon be held for the ■ formation of a National Oystermen s Union. Already eleven local unions have been formed, and it is intended that the Nat onal Union shall have a sick benefit fund ”^°w ing a member $5 a week and a death benefit fund by which his heirs wifi receive $75. Asa general thing.shoemakers’ England. profits are An better in this country than in American shoemaker can make ut a cost to himself of sixty-six cents what an English shoemaker has to pay $1 for, while in mantis facture of ladies’ Bhoes the expenditure of twenty-five cents in this country is equiva¬ lent to that of thirty-four cents in Eng.and. A WOMAN’S RESTAURANT. it is Run by and for Women, witW Seats Reserved for Men. A novel restaurant has been opened ai Sixth avenue and Fifty-ninth Woman’s street Co-opera¬ uu der the title of the tive Restaurant. It is run by the Woman’s New York Club and Co opera tive Exchange, and according to signs which appear in the horse cars and else¬ where it is a restaurant run by and women, for in the interests inirwroBtra of ui women ..mVu, women. Seats, however, “are reserved for men.” It was started by a Mrs. Pike, once a well-to-do woman under tbe patronage of a number ol wealthy ladies, among whom is Mrs. Edward W. Lambert, the wife of the chief examin¬ ing physician of the Equitable Idle As¬ surance Society. Mrs. Pike is a woman of enterprise and energy. She conoeived tbe idea that a restaurant run by went the cooperative plan ought to pay, and ahead to prove it. She applied surface to the directors of the Sixth avenue railroad for the rental of a large store the on the east s de of tbe avenue next to corner of Fifty-ninth street, and when she had explained the objept for which it was to be used they let her have it for one-third of its real value. Then she Lad it fitted up. Although it lias been running only six weeks, the success of her scheme has been demonstrated* and it is already self-supporting. the Exchange to One of the ideas of is furnish employment for worthy $1 poor women at home. By member, paying and any woman may become a t-na can cook at home some of the things sold , . ., re8 taurant. All sorts of foodsJ entilers, cakes, and bread, art already supplied in this mannen Mrs. pik e said that the only obstacle enco ob ere j B0 for has been the difficulty of ta £ rl i n(? good b waitresses. A table a note breakt.isc ,” ana ^ dinner ainne at thirty cents ha* been started “ n “ ,1* patronized, * many men availing themseivesoi , the in re- 6e rved feats. the , Exchange t will berehip in ^ A mein other privt eventnullv eventaau>iuci include many j restaurant leges. The floor above sale tue ofrtl ' t; fo to be devoted to the articles an( J there will also be a library . . V roomB Mrs. Pike hopes to be . eventually for the able to start , a faotor foctwye y j ^ | manufacture of vane plan, and bas been j ; goods on tne same several leading ; encoura ged to do so by T. Sun, - j the city.—A. , Douse n