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VOL. 1.
Immigration to this Republic shows a
steady and even rapid tendency to in.
crease.
prairie dogs are said to be multiplying
so fast in some of the Western States
that there is danger that they will over
ran the country.
The Goulds, Astors and Vanderbilts
are their own insurers. None of the in
surance companies, it is said, can boast
of having these names on their lists.
The discussion over the last words ol
Mr. Parnellrecalls to London Truth the
story of the dying utterances of William
Pitt. In his last moments Mr. Pitt said
something unintelligible. Some one
made it out to be ‘‘Save my country,
heaven'!’’ but the nurse said he simply
asked for boiling water.
The streams flowing into Lake Cham
plain on the Vermont side are to be
stocked with salmon. United States
Fish Commissioner McDonald intends to
place some 20,000 fish from one to two
years old in Otter, Lewis and Mallet
Creeks and Brown’s and the Winooski
Rivers. In these secluded waters the
salmon will find protection from vora
cious fish of the pike and pickerel va
riety until large enough to seek the
deeps of Lake Champlain.
A company in St. Louis is raising
mushrooms in an immense cellar, 12x90
feet, for the Western market. An in
quirer who ventured into the subterra
nean garden found an almost Egyptian
darkness and a temperature of fifty to
fifty-two degrees Fahrenheit. The com
pany began operations in August last
and has already sold 40,000 pounds of
the succulent fungi. The season of field
mushrooms lasts only six weeks, and the
St. Louis growers propose to meet the
demand for the remainder of the year.
Everybody knows that Queen Marg
herita, of Italy, is beautiful, says the
Argonaut. But the beauty of the Queen
is a public affair—a matter of State.
When the doctors were consulted as to
Her Majesty’s surplus fat, they recom
mended Alpine climbing. At first the
Queen would not hear to it. But it was
represented to her that her beauty
formed one of the strongholds of the
royal family with the common
So the Q leen resigned herself to her
fate, and devoted herself to Alpine
climbing.
“It is a great mistake,” says an archi
tect in the New York Tribune , “to sup
pose that men are becoming smaller
physically. Wuen I was in Europe, iu
Munich, we gave a grand ball and the
city authorities decided to let the artists
have the use of the mediaeval armoi
stored in the museum there. There were
only two suits of armor which could be
worn by us. These were the suits of
giants of that time. The rest, which
belonged to the ordinary-sized, strong
mediaeval soldiers, were too small for
U3. Would this not tend to show that
we are larger than our ancestors
were?”
Let nobody think lightly of the itin
erant apostle of bargains known collo
quially as the festive drummer, urgc3 the
New Orleans Picayune. There are 250,-
000 of him, according to the latest re
ports, and during a twelve-month he
tnaketh himself responsible for 300,000,-
000 of the 400,000,000 tons annually
shipped on American railroads. He also
maketh away daily with $1,750,000 of
bis employers’ money, charging it to ex
penses; or, in the nine months of his
yearly activity, nearly $382,000,000.
The drummer is emphatically a great
institution, both as to deeds and power
of telling them.
The achievements of T. P. O’Connor
in producing within one week a compre
hensive and well-written life of Parnell
is, says Harper's Weekly , a noteworthy
but by no means unexampled instance of
fast literary work. Goldsmith wrote his
classic “Vicar of Wakefield” under even
greater pressure, tor an officer of the law
stood at his elbow to expedite matters.
Marion Crawford’s “Mr. Isaacs” was the
result of a month’s work; and other
authors, when the frenzy was on, have
exhibited remarkable busts of speed in
composition. Horace Greeley, for ex
ample, wrote his “Printer” within thirty
minutes. • It was composed to be read at
a
a Press Club benefit, and Mr. Greeley
rose from bed at midnight to write it,
after the poet chosen for the occasion
had shown himself unequal to the task.
Staff of iatif letoi
CRISP IS SPEAKER.
THE GALLANT GEORGIAN GETS
THE PLUM
After a Hard Fought Contest
Against Great Odds.
A Washington dispatch says: At 9:45
o’clock Monday night the battle of the
ballots in the speakership contest ended
in a victory for Charles F. Ciisp, of Geor
gia. and for the coming two years he will
preside over the national house of repre
sentatives. Thirty ballots were required
to place him in nomination in the demo
cratic caucus, and the contest from the
start to the finish has been one of the
most intense in interest and the most de
termined on the part of the managers of
the respective candidates.
When the caucus adjourned on Satur
day night it was still anybody’s battle.
The two leaders in the race were near
each other, and there were many features
of the situation that made the nomina
tion of any of the three lesser candidates
bo no means improbable. A day of per
suasion and entreaty w as found to be lost
when the first ballot was taken Monday
morning, the leadeis being still in touch
ing distance of each other, and three
weaker candidates still holding a respect
able portion of their strength. At no
lime, up to the point where Mr. Crisp
received within two votes of enough to
nominate, was the outcome by any means
certain, though toward the close it was
apparent that he was drawing away from
Mills.
THE TURNING OF THE TIDE.
The recess taken at 6 o’clock Monday
evening was something of an advantage
to Mr. Crisp. There was a determination
on the part of the democrats participa
tion in the caucus to end the struggle before
a hopeless deadlock should occur, which
would inevitably breed party dissensions
and impair the usefulness of a democratic
house during the next two years. It was
the determination of the majority of the
caucus, Hatch having retired before the
evening recess, to likewise compel Mc-
Millian and Springer to get out of the
race. The purpose was to make the
issue between the two leaders, Crisp and
Mills, where a single ballot would end
the struggle, and close up the ranks sol
idly for the work that is to be done at
i his session.
Immediately after the reassembling cf
the caucus it was announced that not
longer than two hours would be requir
ed to end the struggle. This prediction
was justified, us McMillin was finally
pushed from the track, though Springer
still retained his hold on the eight
staunch supporters who had never left
his standard, and the end was almost.
Finally Hatch cast his vote for Crisp, and
Byrnes and Wilson,of hisstate delegation,
followed his lead and also voted for the
Georgia candidate. This gave Crisp a
lead of five votes on the iwenty-third
ballot. On the twenty-fourth balb t,
Springer lost another vote and Crisn
reaped the profit. Mr. McClelland, f
Indiana, then went over to Crisp. This
was the only change but it gave Crisp a
lead of six over Mills. Up to the 27th
ballot no change was made. 4 motion
was made to take a recess until 8 o’clock
p. m. The motion unanimously pre
vailed.
During the evening Springer and Mc-
Millin held a hasty conference, with the
result that they decided to act together
in the termination of the contest, should
it become inevitable that either Crisp or
Mills must be elected. Springer also held
a conferenoe with .his , supporters, and
released them from further allegiance to
himself, each to be allowed to vote as he
pleased.
THE FIRST CHANGE.
The first change came when the name
of Durborow, one of Springer’s Illinois
supporters, was reached. That gentleman
voted for Crtsp, and a few minutes later
another of Springer’s Illinois friends also
voted for the Georgia candidate,Crisp was
then within eleven votes of an election
on the twenty-eighth ballot, but McMil
liu’s nineteen men were still unmoved,
and no election was possible while they
remained loyal to the Tennessean. On
the following ballot—the twenty-ninth—
there was one change that was fraught
with ominour portent for the candidacy
of Mills. Stahlnecker, who had been
steadily voting for Mills, changed to Crisp.
At .the beginning of the thirtieth ballot,
and before the call had begun, McMillin,
who had been standing in the rear lobby,
entered the hall. Instantly there was a
burst of applause, a9 this was an unerring
indication that the gentleman from Ten
nessee was to withdraw from the contest.
MCMILLIN WITHDRAWS.
McMillin obtained recognition from
the chair, and thanking his followers for
their loyal and constant support, formally
withdrew from the contest aimid ap
plause.
As the ballot proceeded the followers
of the Tennessee candidate began to scat
ter, and changes came in rapid succession,
and at the conclusion of the ballot Crisp
stood with 114 votes, and Mills with 108
the Georgia candidate one short of
nomination, with Springer and his little
band of followers holding the balance of
power.
springer’s grand act.
It remained for the Illinois leader to
say who sh uld be speaker of the fifty
second congress. Great applause greeted
Springer as he entered the hall. There
was a breathb ss pause ns Springer pro
ceeded to his little group of supporters,
and shaking hands all around, thanked
euch for his loyal support. The house
applauded this graceful little act, and
when Springer asked recognition from
the chair and prepared to vote, the sus
pense was more than painful. “I de-
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11,1891.
sire,” said Mr. Springer, “to be recorded
ns voting for Crisp.” The vote of
Springer nominated Crisp, and the ap
plause which greeted its announcement
was deafening.
A dozen members rushed simultane
ously to grasp the Illinoisan’s hands and
he was the recipient of an enthusiastic
ovation from the supporters of Crfep.
Messrs. But-ey and Stewart, of Illinois,
Kribbs, of Pennsylvania, and Holman, of
Indiana, followed their candidate, and
after Springer’s withdrawal voted with
him for Crisp, Snow, of Illinois Brvan,
of Nebraska, and Martin and Patton, of
Indiana, remained on record as voting
for Springer, so that the result of the
final and decisive ballot was as follows;
Crisp, 119; Mills. 105; Springer, 4;
Stevens, 1.
On motion of J. D. Brown, o! Indiana,
' >.•} Domination of Crisp was made unan
imous.
Immediately there were loud calls of
“Crisp! Crisp 1” and a committee was
appointed to notify the successful candi
d ite of his selection and escort him to
the chair. Applause and cheers greeted
the appearance of the gentleman from
Georgia, and, after bowing his acknowl
edgements, Mr. Crisp spoke as follows:
Representatives; I am profoundly
grateful for this mark of your confidence
and esteem. I pledge myself, here and
now, to devote whoever of industry and
ability I possesses to the advancement of
the real interests of the democratic party,
[Great applause.] I beg to say to you
now, as I speak to you my first word
since I am your selection for speaker, that
my election means no step backward in
tariff reform. [Prolonged applause and
cheers.] I beg to say 10 you that
there is in our party today no man
who more earnestly believes in the dem
ocratic doctrine of tariff reform than
I do. [Renewed cheers, and cries
of “Bravo!” Bravo!”] After the long
struggle through which we have passed,
when representatives are fatigued,
when it dots not become me to consume
your time, I beg to say, however, that
during the progress of this canvas I have
said no word respecting any individual
WuiCu WOulu at all justify him iu having
any harsh feelings sgainst me. [Applause.]
I have felt that it was a friendly struggle.
[Renewed applause.] I have felt that we
were all democrats, and I have felt who
ever might be chosen speaker, whenever
this Louse meets and organizes we stand
as one body, working and laboring for a
common cause—the principles of the
democratic party. [Cheers.]
I thank you again for your confidence
and for your kindness, and assure you
that this whole contest has left in my
bosom no unkind feeling toward any
member of the house. [Prolonged ap
plause and cheers.]
ELECTION OF OTHEU OFFICERS.
Ex-Congressman Kerr, of Pennsyl
vania, was nominated for cleik on the
first ballot.
Ex-Congressman YoUer, of Ohio, was
nominated for sergeant-at-arms by a large
majority over ex-Congressman Murphy,
of lowa, and the nomination was made
unanimous. Ex-Congressman Turner, of
New fork, easily beat General Colt, of
Cincinnati, and ex-Doorkeeper Field, of
Virginia, for doorkeeper.
TRADE NOTES.
Business of the Past Week as Reported
by Dun & Cos.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven
days, as reported by R. G. Dun & Cos.,
number for the United States, 301;
Canada, twenty-six or v a total of
agamst 295 last week. The only change
observable in the condition of business is
a gradual improvement. One sign of an
unfavorable character is that collections
at some points are slower and harder
than usual, particularly where the low
price of cotton leads the holders to defer
selling as long as possible. But at the
principal western points, collections are
very satisfactory, larger trade centers
reporting most favorably in that respect,
and there is less difficulty at eastern
cities, though at the south some embar
rassment continues.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Money is not particularly stringent
anywhere, plough rather close at Nash
ville and Montgomery.
Speculative markets have tended
downward on the whole. Cotton has
again declined a sixteenth to 8.06 c, with
sales of 653,000 bales at New York, and
portreceipts still far exceed the extraor
dinary receipts of last year.
Southern markets are overloaded and a
stringency at some points is caused by
delay in realizing, prices being unsatis
factorily low. At most southern ports
the low*price of cotton causes a set back
and business is only fair, though at Rich
mond it is improving with tobacco sec
tions.
THE IRON MARKET.
There is little new in the great indus
tries, for while the tone of the iron mar
ket improves, and there is more inquiry
for rails and bar iron, with larger sales
of pig, the price is the at
tempts of some southern makers to real
ize.' Trade in cotton goods is perhaps a
shade better, and in boots and shoes the
factories are well employed.
THE WALLS FELL
And Killed Five Men Ctright-Manj
Others Hupt.
At St. Paul, Minn , Friday afternoon,
a force of men were_ engaged in clearing
away the debris of the burned building
formerly occupied by Farwell, Ozum &
Cl, and Griggs, Cooper & Cos., when one
of the walls fell with a terrific crash, kill
ing five men instantly and injuring twen
ty others, some of them severely. Five
bodies have been taken from the ruins,
and it is thought five more are under the
walls.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS
AT WORK.
Daily Routine of Both Houses Briefly
Outlined.
MEETING OF TEE HOUSE.
The heavy rain storm which visited
Washington Monday morning had little
effect in dampening the ardor of persons
desirous of witnessing the opening of the
fitty-second congress, and at an early
hour a great crowd surged through the
corridors of ihe capitol. The utmost
good feeling prevailed, and the marble
stairs were improvised into seats by the
patient waiters. Haidly had the caucus
adjourned for the opening exercises, for
as ytt no speaker had been agreed on,
when a wild rush was made for the galler
ies, and in afew minutes every avail
able seat iu the long - benches was
occupied, and the less fortunate specta
tors were compelled to view the scene
over each other’s from the
door recesses. On the floor all was
bustle and confusion. As the republi
cans entered the hall of the house where
the democratic caucus had been held,
they were greeted by their democratic
colleagues, and congratulations and con
dolences were exchanged. Many of
the desks were ornamented with
flowers with more or less beauty,
although they were not as nu
merous as in former years,
and the speaker’s desk was conspicuous
by the absence of adornment. As the
clocks of the city were chiming the hour
of noon, Clerk McPherson ascended the
clerk’s desk and called the house to
order. Not since the forty-fourth con
gress has any holdover clerk in perform
ing a similar duty faced so many new
workers in the legislative field. The
clerk immediately proceeded to call the
roll. 326 members having answered to
their names the house immediately, on
motion of Mr. Holman, of Indiana,
adjourned to meet at noon Tuesday.
THE SENATE.
The senate galleries were crowded
with spectators, eager to witness the
opening of the Fifty-second congress.
Presidential and diplomatic galleries
were unoccupied, but reserved sections
were well filled. Here and there through
ut the chamber the desks,of senators
who were to take their seats as senators
for the first time were marked by baskets
of flowers, and the president’s desk
was distinguished in a like manner.
There was an unusually large number of
new senators to swear in, counting up sev
enteen without the senator from Florida,
neither the name of nor that of Da
vidson being on the printed list of sena
tars. At noon the vice-presiden J took
the chair, and the session was Opened
with prayer by Chaplain Rev. J. G. But
ler. The vice-president welcomed the
senators to a resumption of their official
duties, and called the senate to order.
The vice-president then laid before the
senate t£e credentials of the new senators
and letters of resignation received bj him
during the recess. Those papers that
were read first beiDg the letter of
resignation of Senator Reagan
of Texas, and the appointment by the
governor of that state of Mr. Chilton in
his stead. The next credentials read were
those of Felton, of California, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Hearst,
and next were the resignation of .Ed
munds, of Vermont, and the appointment
of Proctor in his stead. The next cre
dentials were those of Call and Davidson,
e tch claiming to be senator from Florida.
Tne senate then adjourned until Tuesday.
CRASH ON THE RAILS.
Three Trains Piled in a Promiscuous
Heap-Seven Lives Lost.
A dispatch from Worcester, Mass ,
says: A most terrible wreck occurred
on the New York snd New England rail
road at East Thompson at 6 o’clock
Friday morning, caused by the collision
of a south-bound freight with cn east
bound freight going over a west-bound
track. The Long Island express was
passing on the other track at the time
and all three trains were piled up to
gether. Engineer Tabor of the Boston
train, and his fireman are reported killed;
one passenger on the Pullman
is reported burned to death
and many were injured. The
cars almost immediately took fire. The
accident is said to have been due to an
open switch. Two of the injured pas
sengers have died, makiDg seven deaths
so far. The fireman, as well as the en
gineer of the steamboat train was killed.
Both trains were running eastward on
parallel tracks and came together at full
speed at a cross-over, the switch being
probably broken. The freight crashed
into the side of the passenger train.
A PROHIBITION BILL
For the State Has Been Passed by South
Carolina's Legislature.
A dispatch of Saturday siys: The
house of representative?, on Saturday,
passed, by a vote of 40 to 34, the prohi
bition bill. The bi 1 absolutely prohibits
the sale of beer, liquors, wines, etc., in
any portion of the state, or the transport
ation of it by railroads, express compa
nies, etc., under heavy penalties. It was
passed after a bitter fight lasting two
days. The law is said to be framed on
that now in force in lowa. It is gener
ally believed that if this bill becomes a
law it will divide the democratic party in
the state, and result in the complete en
franchisement of the negro voters, who
will be called in (o take part in the state
and national g&mpaiga next year.
A NOVEL PLAN
Adopted by Farmers for Raising the
Price of Their Cottou.
A dispatch from Charleston says: The
cotton farmers of Greenville county, 8.
C., have adopted a novel mode of raising
the price of cotton. At at a ma e s meet
ing, held Saturday, the following resolu
tion was adopted:
Resolved, That we, the cotton produ
cers of Greenville county, and other citi
zens thereof, agree to assign all cotton,
to be made in this county in 1892, to the
county commissioners, or other officers to
be elected by the voters of the county,
and will deliver the same at queb place in
the county as may be dirtc ed by said
county commissioners, provided the said
county commissioners, or other officers,
pay for the same iu cash or county bands
at 11 cents a pound, for middling, and
less or more for other cotton, by class or
grade, 1 cent a pound to be reserved for
expenses, etc.
The county commissioners referred to
are the fiscal officers of the county, and
the proposition to pay for cotton by issu
inn county bonds is povel,
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
South Carolina has been awarded a
gold medal by the board of director* of
the Augusta exposition for the excellence
of its exhibit of natural and manufac
tured products.
Sales of loose leaf tobacco in the Dan
ville, Va., market during November
reached 2,307,000 pounds and for two
months of the tobacco year 4,059,865
pounds, showing a decrease as compared
with the same months of 1890 of 8,880,-
320 Bounds.
A Nashville dispaten says: The cer
tificate of election as a member of con
gress to represent the second district was
issued Thursday by Governor Buchanan
to John C. Houk. The official returns
from the recent elections show the total
vote to be: J. C. Houk, 24,095; J. C.
J. Williams, 7,829; W. H. Henry, 211.
The citizens of Senoia, Ga., have or
ganized a banking company, whffih will
be in operation within sixty days. It
will be known as the Farmers’ and Mer
chants’ Bank of Senoia. Work is being
rapidly pushed on the bank building,
and it will soon be ready for occupation.
The bank will start with a capital of
$25,000.
A meeting of the Eli Whitney Monu
ment Association of Augusta, Ga., was
held Saturday and it was definitely de
termined to celebrate the centennial anni
versary of Whitney’s great invention, the
cotton gin, next November, during
Augusta’s great cotton exposition, by un
veiling a handsome monument. It will
be a magnificent monument and will cost
at least $50,000.
A Nashville dispatch of Thursday says;
That it is the intention of the state offi
cials to return the convicts to the Elat
Tennessee branch prisons within a few
days is now conceded. Acting under
the authority recently given him, Super
intendent Wade has employed a number
of guards and is securing more every day.
The 800 men at S4O a month will cost
$144,000 per annum.
A Nashville dispatch of Saturday 6ay*:
The investigation of the interstate com
merce commission into the charge*
against the Louisville and Nashville
railroad has been concluded, the only
man examined being Stuart R. Knott,first
vice president and traffic manager of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad- The
written testimony will be sent to Wash
ington and be submitted to the commis
sion.
Tides it* a Well.
There are some queer wells on Gray’s
harbor, near Ocosta. The queerness is
in the fact that the water in the wells
rises and falls with the tide. In order
to strike water it is necessary to bore
about 125 feet. The water is pure, fresh
and soft. If rises in the pipo at high
tide, about three feet above the level of
the ground; at low tide it falls to about
two feet below the surface of the ground.
In the harbor the rise and fall of the tide
is ten feet. The most -plausible expla
nation is that advanced by Captain de
Couroey. Ho says the water .probably
lies under a stratum of earth so that,
when tho earth above is covered by the
tide, the tide’s enormous weight is com
municated to this stratum through the
softer strata above, thus pressing down
upon the water at high tide and forcing
it up in Ike pipes, and causing it to fall
when the tide recedes. —[Aberdeen (Cal.)
Herald.
CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYES.
The Commission Makes its Annual Re
port to the President.
A Washington dispatch of Saturday
says: The civil service commission in
its annual report to the president states
that the classified civil service now con
tains 84,000 government employes.
From July 1, 1890, to June 80, 1891,
5,206 applicants were examined for de
partmental service at Washington, of
whom 8.337 passed and 1,869 failed to
pass. The report calls attention to the
extension of the classified service to in
clude a portion of the ludian service,
and says that this extension is especially
important as for the first time applying
tie principle of non-partisan appoint
ment* to the Indian service.
NO 33
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Fire at Plainfield, N. J., destroyed
property lo the amount of $200,000.
The private bank of M. N. Wills, of
Lamar, Mo., made an assignment Friday.
Mr. Lemimer, president of the Inter
national League of Peace, of France,
died Friday.
A fire in Philadelphia Sunday night
gutted the four-story building Nos. 719,
p 721 and 723 Vine street. .
Dispatches of Friday reveal the intelli
gence that the epidemic of influenza is
daily spreading in Berlin.
BellefoDte, Pa., iron and nail works,
limited, suspended Saturday with liabil
ities aggregating $302,000.
The Paris Official Journal, publishes a
decree authorizing the importation of
American pork into France.
A dispatch of Friday from Brazil, Ind.,
says the miners are gradually returning
to work in the block coal mines in that
district. *
Mrs. Delia Stewart Parnell, mother of
the late Charles Stewart Parnell, sailed
Saturday for England, accompanied by
her son, John Parnell.
Friday’s dispatches state that a change
for the worse has occurred in the condi
tion of Dom Pedro, ex-emperor of Brazil,
who is suffering from chills complicated
with diabetes.
A London cablegram says: The suit
of Countess Rus°ell for separation from
her husband, Earl Russell, which has
been the social sensation of that city for
a week, terminated Friday in a verdict
against the countess, The lady is also
condemned to pay the costs, which are
very heavy.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: The
4 o’clock express on the Bound Brook
route from New York, Thursday after
noon, collided with a gravel train near
Flemmington, N. J. Six persons, said
to be railroad employes, were killed and
a number injured. No details of the
accident are obtainable.
A New York telegram of Saturday
says: The total visible supply of cotton
for the world is 4,163,817, of which
1,780,517 are American, against 3,057,-
127 aud 2,578,327 respectively last year.
Receipts at all interior towns 225,426.
Receipts plantations 313,083. Crop in
sight 5,002,717.
A cablegram of Sunday from Paris
states that out of eighteen archbishops
and sixty-seven bishops throughout
France only six have refrained from open
adhesion to the archbishop of Aix against
the government in the matter of the
decree forbidding bishops to leave their
dioceses without permission.
A dispatch of Saturday from Utica,
N. Y., says: Hiram D. Wilson, of Glen
Falls, who was sent to the state hospital
some time ago, is not the bomb thrower
who made the attempt on the life of Rus
sell Sage, as has been reported. The
man is still an inmate of the institution,
which he has never left since he was in
carcerated.
A London cablegram of Sunday says:
The committee of the English bondhold
ers of the Ohio and Mississippi bonds
'have obtained legal opinion of the validi
ty of the English vote in electing three
directors charged to carry the policy of
union with the Baltimore and Ohio. The
counsel they have employed advise them
that there is not the slightest doubt of
the legality of the vote, and that if the
case is carried to the courts, English
bondholders are sure to triumph.
Suit was enterred Thursday afternoon
against ex-Mayor Richard Pearson, of
Alleghany, Pa., for embezzlement. He
is charged with retaining $740 of work
house and jail funds. Comptroller Jamesß.
Brown gave information before Alderman
McMasters. The ex-mayor was arrested
and furnished bail in the sum of $7,000
for appearing next week. The charge
against Pearson is similar to the one
preferred against Mayor Wyman.
AN EXPLOSION OF GAS
Causes a Rig Blaze in Jersey City***
Buildings Gutted.
A dispatch fom JerS' y City say*: An
explosion of g:'s caused a disastrous fire
at the Jersey City terminus of the Penn
sylvania railroad Friday morning. The
company recently completed a magnifi
cent train shed on a grade with the street
elevated road, constructed from the river
to Bergen hill, and were constructing
new waiting rooms and ferry houses to
correspond. The old wooden office
building in the ferry house, was turned
into a temporary exit for east-bound
train passengers, and the officials moved
their desks into a five-story brick build
ing fronting on Exchange place. It was
in ibis exit that the explosion occured,
at 3:40 o’clock, and the surrounding
woodwork was instantly ablaze. On
the interior portion of the depot building
Ihe flames spread rapidly. The flame*
from the old office building mounted up
ward until the wooden railing and sides
of the unfinished waiting room were
ablaze. The fire was then carried along
the huge pine pipe casing to the new
office structure. This consisted of five
solidly built structures of brick, 15x48
feet, and five stories high. The second
floor of the easterly building was used as
a baggage room, and others being merely
bare walls. The four floors above the
baggage room aud two buildings on the
west were gutted.