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VOL. i.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Telegrams of Sunday report that Poet
Walt Whitman has somewhat improved.
Admiral Jorge Montt was formally
installed Saturday as president of Chile.
Sir William White, British ambassador
to Turkey, died of influenza in Berlin,
Monday.
The grip is becoming epidemic in New
York. Twelve deaths were reported
Thursday.
. The total loss by Sunday night’s fire in
Boston will be nearly four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
A collision occurred Thursday' near
Cuernevaca, Mexico, on the Southern
railroad, resulting in the death of twelve
persons.
The British steamer Southgate arrived
at New York, Monday, with 4,900 bales
of Egyptian cotton—the first large impor
tation of that article.
The total number of postoffices in the
United States is 65,007, being the high
est number ever reached. About three
hundred are presidential.
Reports of Thursday from the north
west indicate that it is snow’ing over a
wide area, extending from northwest ter
ritory southward to Montana.
Telegrams of Monday state that fully
three-fourths of the people in Hamilton,
0., are afflicted with the grip. The
death rate is the highest ever known.
Ten deaths from grip were reported to
the board of health of New York Friday
as against twelve on the preceding day.
Six were in tenement houses and four in
private houses.
A dispatch of Monday states that the
entire system of the San Antonia and
Aransas Pass railroad is tied up by a
strike of its employes. The trouble was
caused by the discharge of a conductor.
A Washington dispatch says: Secreta
ry Foster spent a short time at his office
in the treasury department Monday af
ternoon, for the first time since Novem
ber ,JL7th, when he was taken ill in New
%grk. J .....
York dispatch says: Accord
ing -to statements made by the warden
and attendants in Ludlow street jail.
Etjwaikl Fielli is in a bad condition.
He neither (kite’rsor drinks and i* growing
perceptibly weaker every day.
A Washington dispatch of Friday says:
The navy department has been officially
informed of the arrival of the United
States Cruiser Boston at Valparaiso,
Chile. Orders have been issued to the
commander to proceed to San Francisco.
Saturday was the 115th anniversary of
the revolutionary buttle of Trenton, N.
J. Gov. Abbett laid the corner stone of
a monument to the memory of Washing
ton and the continental troops who
crossed the Delaware and surprised and
routed the Hessians.
At Camden, N. J., Saturday, A. Holt,
publisher of the Echo, a religious journ
al, issued in that city, was fined 11,000
for contempt in publishing a statement
reflecting on the court. He was com
mitted to prison until further orders of
the court are made.
A New York dispatch says: The ac
tion ol Henry Stanford, as president of
the Adams Express company, against
John Hoey was discontinued Monday by
order of Justice Andrews, of the supreme
court, and the attachment granted on
October 16th has been vacated.
A Tyrone, Pa., dispatch says: The
cashier and stockholders of the defunct
Tyrone bank turned over all their prop
erty to Assignee Stevens, Monday, for
the benefit of their creditors. This will
swell the assets to $160,000. .As the
liabilities are only SIOO,OOO, the depos
itors have good prospects of getting dol
lar for dollar.
A cablegram from Rome, Italy, says:
While midnight mass in celebration of the
Christmas festival was being performed
Friday morning in a church in the city
of Valencia, four bombs were exploded
in the edifice in rapid succession. The
congregation was, lor the time, paralyz
ed, by fear, and a number of lights
burning in the church were extinguish
ed.
The Carpenter Steel works at Reading,
Pa., were burned Saturday night. Two
of the buildings, besides the office, were
saved, and not as much of the machinery
was damaged as was at first supposed.
work of rebuilding on a larger scale
will be commenced at once in order to
fill government contracts for steel pro
jectiles for heavy ordnance. The total
loss is estimated at $90,000 to SIOO,OOO,
fully insured.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says: Johu G. Roth, the crank who at
tempted the life of Rev. Dr. John Hall,
was put on the stand. He told a ramb
ling and incoherent story of conspiracy
to keep him forever in poverty, and
claimed that Dr. Hall was at its head..
The whole of his tale of woe was that of
a madman at bay, and his counsel had ™
difficulty in satisfying the jury as to the
prisoner’s insanity.
Dispatches of Saturday say that la
grippe has a firm foothold in Montreal,
Canada, and it is now claimed there are
1,000 cases. It affects its victims in a
different way than before —pains in the
stomach and headache, followed by
weakness in the lower limbs - but the
attack only lasts in most cases from, four
days to tw r o weeks. The street railway
companies, police force and fire brigade
are the biggest sufferers. Out of 375
men on the police force fifty-five arc laid
UP with it.
State of Cl aDr gmiif.
A POSTAL GUIDE
Which Has Been Issued by Postmaster
General Wanamaker.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
issued a postal guide, the only official
organ of the postoffice department, and
in it is a number of matters of interest.
He makes several important recommend
ations. One is that physical examina
tions of applicants should be made for
the heavy work of the railway mail. A
very general extension of the money order
system is advised, and a number of rea •
sons given. The adaptatioa of the tele
phone to the postal system is heartily
recommended. The lottery towns come
in fora great deal of attention.
From all over the United States but
686 letters containing lottery tickets
were received at the dead. letter .office
from December, 1890, to last October, an
average of sixty-two a month. At pres
ent the average is less than forty, which
shows that the anti-tottery bill is . being
enforced. This enforcement,' however,
curtailed the revenue of the revenue
service more than one million dollars last
year. Here is a statement from the
Postmaster General, the truth of which
is not generally known:
“Only once in a quarter of a century—
in 1882-1883, just prior to the inaugura
tion- of two-cent postage—have the
department receipts met the expenditures.
The estimates for 1893, which have been
prepared for the action of congress at the
coming session,.show that the service
may be made to reach a self-sustai; ing
basis by July 1, 1893.
In the additional railway postal service
established during the year, the south
comes in for a full share. Of the 8,000
miles increase, three-fourths were sup
plied to western and southern states, the
south having 1,400.
The postmaster general meets the
views of a big number in what he has to
say about the telegraph.
“I want to see,” he remarks, “the two
great servants of the people, the post
office and the telegraph, reunited, and
the telephone brought in to enhance the
value of the combination. Public inter
ests, private needs, and the popular will
call for these agencies to perfect the
great postal system of this country.
Sixty-four millions of people are taxing
themselves to-day to the amount of
$70,000,000 annually to maintain the
postoffice plant, and are denied the right
to vitalize this magnificent machinery
with the mightiest force which science
has given to render that machinery most
effective.”
As to reducing letter postage to a uni
form rate of 1 cent, Mr. Wanaqpaker
has this to say r'
“To do this means exactly that the de
partment will lose one-half of the re
ceipts from letter postage. One half
would be $20,716,063.75. I have hereto
fore stated that 1 cent postage will be suc
cessfully demanded in time. I believe
that time is not far off. It would not be
just and fair to a service upon which
every effort has been spent for two years
to make it self-sustaining, and which
now promises to become so in the next
fiscal year, to heap upon it, the instant
the balance sheet becomes clear, a bur
den of millions.”
The postmaster general believes that
letter-carriers should not be weighted
down like pack-horses; that railway
postal clerkß should be paid for the
■dangers they face daily;' that it is wrong
to pay a fourth-class postmaster SIOO a
year who has fo pay S2OO for fitting his
office with boxes, and that rural delivery
should be widely extended.
Then comes a valuable item regarding
newspapers which he says, could be car
ried Iree. “It is possible from July 1,
1893, to take off the entire tax on news
papers, except for city delivery, if all
books of every kind are placed on a level
with other merchandise and the postage
mnv be reduced by consolidating fourth
class matter with the third-class.
RIOTOUS MEXICANS.
The People Object to the Closing of
Their Monasteries.
A dispatch of Thursday from the City
of'Mexico says: A district judge recent
ly issued orders to the police and troops
for clossng four monasteries iriPiieblo
on the around that the maintenance of
these institutions is contrary to law.
Upon carrying out the judge’s orders the
people revolted and a tight between the
people on one side and the police and
soldiers on the other followed, during
which one person was killed and four
others wounded. Accounts of the affair
are conflicting. The clergy on one hand
assert that they were torn from the altars,
leaving the sacrament exposed, dragged
through the streets by troops and sub
jected to many humiliations. The popu
lace rose en masse and offered considera
ble resistance to the troops, crying:
“Viva la religion; death to the Masons.”
Twenty-five priests were arres'ed. Pu
eblo is in a state of intense excitement.
NEW POSTAL CARDS.
Issued from the Postofflce Department
at Washington.
Two new sizes of posial cards went into
effect Tuesday. The postoffice depart
ment issues them to postmasters, to be
known as “A” and “C” cards respective
ly, in addition to the “B,” the one now
in current use. The A will be of fine
quality of loft-dried paper; the Cof a
strong, finely finished jute paper. The
former will be nearly gray in color and
2 15-16 by 4$ inches in dimension, with
a portrait of General Grant in the upper
right-hand corner. The card will be
printed in dark blue. The C will be
light mauiila, 3fx6£ inches, designed
very much like the other new card. Post
masters will not be permitted under any
circumstances to redeem postal cards in
the hands of the public, nor to exchange
one kind for another.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1,1892.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
J. H. Wertz, clothier, Louisville, Ky.,
made an assignment Monday.
Hunter Bros. & Cos., dry goods, Mem
phis, made an assignment Thursday.
Atlanta made her first shipment of
bonds, recently isssued, to the purchasers
in New r York, Saturday. They represen
ted $289,000.
The comptroller of has au
thorized this First National bank of Key
West, Fla., to' begin business, with a*
capital of SIOO,OOO. " ,
The orjhodox'Jews of Atlanta haveor
ganized a relief association for the pur
pose cf relieving and aidiug their down
stricken brethren with as much as it is
possible for them to do.
The statement of affairs of Rosenber
ger, Spondler & Cos., the Newmarket,
Ya., bankers who had branches in three
oher towns, places the combined short
age at about one hundred thousand dol
lars.
A Raleigh dispatch of Thursday says:
The election in Brunswick county on the
questioa of subscribing SIOO,OOO to se
cure the construction of the Brunswick,
Western and Southern railway resulted
in the defeat of the proposition.
Governor Fleming, of Florida, on
Monday, appointed Edward J. Tracy,
state treasurer, vice Francis J. Pons, de
ceased. Tracy has been the governor’s
private secretary since 1889. He is a
native of Cuba, but was educated at St.
Augustine.
An injunction was granted in the su
perior court at Macon, Ga., Saturday,
against the Macon Abstract company
pending the hearing of a petition for a
receiver filed by W. L. Henry, who
claims that he was induced to sink $12,-
000 in the company on false representa
tion.
Surgeon General Wyman, of the marine
hospital service at Washington, has re
ceived a telegram from the medical offi
cer in charge of the smallpox district at
Harris Neck, Ga., saying that the dis
ease lTad’ been 'nearly stamped out, and
that no fear need be felt of its breaking
out elsewhere.
A Savannah telegram of Saturday says:
The latest ruilroad news is to the effect
that the Savannah, Macon and Dublin
road is now working to come by Savan
nah early in 1892/ The officers of the
road have been in correspondence with
the Middle Georgia and Atlantic people
for some time, and it is understood that
they are desirious of making their way
to Hutchinson’s island over the latter’s
track.
A dispatch of Saturday from Fresno,
Cal., says: Gratton Dalton, the fugitive
train robber, who escaped from Visalia
jail last. September, was overtaken by
officers in tbe mountains Friday and in a
desperate fight one of the officers was
killed and two of the robber gang were
wounded. Dalton escaped unhurt. He
was convicted of robbing the Sonthern
Pacific at Alila, in Tulare county, last
January.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Sunday
says: To-day the full extent of the de
struction by fire was made apparent.
The principal retail business houses of
Chattanooga are in ruins. A terrible
picture of devastation is seen. The fire
district covers an area of 250 square feet.
In all nineteen storerooms were destroyed,
with several stores above them. The
total loss will reach $650,000, with
$500,000 insurance.
Thursday night a large house six miles
Irom Goldsboro, N. C., occupied by
William Pearsall, suddenly burst into
flames. By the time people reached it
the house was in ruins. The skeletons
of Pearsall, fcis wife and two children
were found. It was evident that Pear
sall was trying to save hi§ children, as
their skeletons 1 were oh either side of his.
There is considerable suspicion that the
family was murdered and the house set on
Are.
George Rose and his son Sam, were
tried at Murphy, N. C., Saturday before
United States Commissioners Patterson
and Henry on the charge of counterfeit
ing and passing counterfeit money. Sam
Rose was sent to jail. His father gave
bond for his appearance at the United
States court in Asheville. They have
been counterfeiting dollars and nickels,
and the counterfeits exhibited in court
are the basest sort of imitations of the
coin of the realm, being made from pew
ter or metal.
LESS COTTON.
A Movement in Mississippi to Reduce
Acreage.
A meeting of planters, merchants, fac
tors and others interested in the produc
tion of cotton was held at Greenville,
Miss., Wednesday. State Auditor W.
W. Stone, one of the largest planters in
the delta, called the meeting to orJer,
and introduced the following resolutions,
wnich, after fuii discussion, were unani
mously adopted:
Resolved, That we, the planters and
cotton factors of Wa-hington county,
recognizing the intense financial strain
and absolute distress which now hangs
like a pall over the cotton producing
country, growing out of overproduction
under the present management, and that
in the future we see no hope for us as
producers unless some radical remedial
changes are made in the system now in
vogue among the planters and merchants,
to the end that less cotton be raised or
the production be cheapened.
DUN’S REVIEW
for the Week Ended De*
ceniber 24th.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the six days ended
Dece’mbeV 24th, reported to R. G. Dun &
Cos., number for the United States 257,
and for Canada 35, a total of 292, as
compared with a total of 335 last week
and 320 the week previous to last. For
the corresponding week of last year, the
figures were 333, representing 303 failures
in the United States and 30 in the Do
minion of Canada.
The holiday trade is not always a just
measure of the prosperity of the people,
out it is satisfactory to know that at most
points unusually large this year. It
indicates that the people feel able to cx
>end more liberally than usual, and it
qturns large outlays to the manufactu
rers of holiday goods. The general
trade this season is unusually light, the
merchants being engaged in taking
stock, but at many points it is reported
larger than usual, and even larger than
last year.
The volume of trade measured by the
Searings at the various cities, outside of
New York, was 6 per cent more than last
year for the first half of December, and
later reports show an increase of about 9
per cent. The movement of products
continues extraordinary. Reports from
"cities other than New York i-how less
complaint as to collections, and a large
trade in progress. At Baltimore trade in
sclathing, dry goods, and boots and shoes
is good for the season. At Philadelphia,
the jewelry trade is unusually busy, the
grocery trade light, but equal to last
year’s, Trade iu tea, coffee and sugar
fairly active, and in chemicals quiet and
steady; while tobacco, liquors and wool
are quiet.
Southern cities report less cheerfully
than the others, the low price of cotton
causing the dullness. The great indus
tr.es close ihe year with more than the
usual activity, even woolen mills having
orders enough to keep them fairly em
ployed, and a number have recently
smarted, but none shut down. Cotton
manufacturers find a good demand and
numerous enlargements of plants are re
ported. Shoe factor es are complain that
the usual orders are lacking, and yet they
are fairly active. Paper mills are busy
and making many additions of machinery
and buildings.
Iron manufacturers have been turning
out more pig than ever before, though
some works stop for the holidays, and
the tone of the market is stronger, with
Tather more demand for finished products.
Speculation continues moderate, wheat
4 bavins 1 risen 1J cents, with safes of 13,-
000,000 bushels, corn Vv *ying declined 1
cent, and oats a fraction. Coffee un
changed, oil a cent higher, and pork un
changed.
COTTON STILL LOWER.
Cotton has sixteenth below
8 cents, with receipts from the plan
tations exceeding last yeaoj to
date by 556,000 bales. The very'large
output of coal leads operators to expect
lower prices. Money is plenty and cheap,
and there is a general feeling that tl e
favorable conditions will continue for
some months.
THE VACANCIES STILL VACANT.
No Appointments hy the President Yet
for the Interstate Commission.
A Washington dispatch says: There
was some comment at the capitol
Wednesday upon the failure of the pres
ident to send to the senate for confirma
tion the names of the persons to fill the
vacancies in the interstate commerce
commission. One of the originally ap
pointed commissioners is dead, one has
resigned, and Commissioner Morrison’s
term of office will expire January Ist,
before the senate reassembles. Owing to
the peculiar phraseology of the creating
act, the terms of the commissioners ex
pire at the end of the period for which
they are appointed, instead of
continuing, as is usual, until
the qualification of their suc
cessors, so that when Commissioner Mor
rison’s term of office ceases on January
Ist, the commission will consist of but
two members. Some fears hare been ex
pressed that the commission will be se
riously crippled and prevented from dis
charging its full functions after the first
of the year owing to this state of affairs,
but it appears from a perusal of the act
that that emergeucy is guarded against
by a paragraph in section 11, providing
that no vacancy in the commission shall
impair the right of the remaining com
missioners to exercise ull the powers of
the commission.
DECEIVED THE DIRECTORS
And Made Way with SIOO,OOO of the
Bank’s Money.
A Raleigh di-patch of Wednesday gives
further news of the flight of Cashier
Ranscm M. Bowden, of the wrecked First
National bank of W’iimington. The
batik closed its doors the day before
Thanksgiving, and Bowden fled that
night. The reason for his flight is ex
plained. He had for years deceived the
bank examiner and directors by suppress
ing the true state of affairs, and making
it appear that the liabilities to the
depositors were only $300,000, where
as they are $400,000. Only $9,000 in
cash was found in the bank when it clos
ed. The available assests will give the
depositors about 40 cents on the dollar,
an i, with the assessment on the stock
holders, will not enable over 60 to 75
cents on the dollar to be paid. The
members of the Bowden family say that
even they do not know his whereabouts.
All his property has been seized. He
was one of the leading church and Sun
day-school workers in this city, and, it is
believed, is now out of this count? f.
HUNG TO TREES.
The Fate of Bob SI ins and His Gang
in Alabama.
A dispatch of Thursday from Mobile,
Ala , says: Three months ago Bob Sims,
leader of the co religionists in Choctaw
county, all in toe neighborhood of Wo
mack Hill, vai arrested for running an
illicit distillery, which he claimed he had
divine authority to run. Two of his
brothers, fellow believers, rescued him,
killing a bystander and wounding a dep
uty in charge. One of the brothers was
killed. Sims and the other brother es
caped, and have been hunted for vigor
ously ever since. Wednesday night Bob
Sims and his gang reappeared in Womack
Hill and attacked the house of John
McMillan, who has been a member of the
pursuing posse. At 11 o’clock at night
seven of the Sims gang, all armed with
Winchesters, fired into McMillan’s house
and shot the occupants as they ran out.
Fluelleu Utzen was shot, but not mor
tally wounded; John Kennedy, McMil
lan's father-in-law, was killed; John
McMillan was shot three times and will
die; tbe twelve-year-old neice of Mc-
Millan was killed; the ten-year-old ne
phew was shot in the house and burned;
Miss McKenzie Shorter, boarding at Mc-
Millan’s, was shot twice in the neck;
Ohailey Ritzev escaped unhurt. They
then opened McMillan’s store and robbed
it of what they wanted and left it lighted
up and open, scatteiing shoes along the
road.
PURSUING THE OUTLAWS.
After the slaugliteran alarm was spread
and Sheriff D. O. Gavin and posse started
in pursuit of the desperadoes. They were
found and surrounded in Sim’s old home,
six miles from the scene. Knowing that
the cabin was provisioned with articles
plundered from McMillan’s store, and
also that Sims and his men would not
surrender without a fight iu which the
assaulting party would suffer severely,
the sheriff telegraphed Governor Jones
for a detachment of artillery, his purpose ■
being to overawe Sims by a display of
force, or to blow the cabin to pieces.
The governor ordered Colonel Price Wil
liams, commanding the First regiment of
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D Late i>i \j\j poj vvs luopwuu Willi a uctauu*
ment and one piece of artillery.
The troops left Mobile at a quarter of 8
o’clock Saturday morning, and reached
Shubata, Miss., at 6 o’clock. At half
past 9 o’clock, the soldiers were en route
for the scene of action in Choctaw coun
ty, Ala., twenty-one miles distant.
In the meantime Sheriff Gavin on Christ
mas morning sent to Bladen Springs for
cannon. When Sims heard of this prep
aration to blow his strong-hold to splin
ters, he looked at his women folk aud his
heait misgave him. He began to parley
with the sheriff. At 2 o’clock he said he
would surrender if the posse would do
him no injury, and if the posse would
protect him from mob violence. At first
the proposal was flatly refused, but the
fact that there were women in the house
was a strong point in favor of mercy to
the inmates, so that at last the terms of
Sims were accepted. At 4:30 o’clock the
outlaws laid uown their arms, and came
out of the house. The posse were aston
ished to see that, instead of seven des
perate outlaws, there were only two men
and a boy, as follows: Rffit. Sims,
Thomas Savage and Young Savage, a
nephew of Sims. Four women—Bob’s
wife and three daughters—came out, also.
The others were at once ironed and placed
in a wagon. The women were placed in
a second wagon and under guard. At 5
o’clock the procession started to Butler,
the county seat of Choctaw county, al
though it was feared that they would be
mobbed on the way.
As showing the temper of the people of
Choctaw it is said that John Savage, who
was arrested the day before Christmas on
the charge of being a member of the
Sims gang, was hanged to a tree at 10
o’clock the same night.
THEY WERE LYNCHED.
A later dispatch states that while the
posse in charge of the Sims ’party were
enroute to Butler Friday night a mob of
Choctaw men overpowered the posse and
haDged the three men—B6b Sims, Tom
Savage and Young Savage. It is report
ed that another of the Savage boys was
hanged at the same Time. '
When the guard moved off with Sims
and the three Savage men —for there
were three of them, namely, Thomas
Savage and two boys, sons of Con Savage
—there remained behind the greater part
of the posse that the sheriff hud attracted
to the scene, and these immediately held
a consultation, and, after debate, decided
it would not do to permit the desper
does one chance of escape. So they set
out in pursuit. On the way they met
Con Savage, another of the Simsites,
and without any delay he was strung up
to a tree. This is the man reported
hanged on Christmas eve. Later the
guard was overhauled, but made no re
sistance. Sims and the other three were
taken back to the tree upon which Con
Savage had been hanged, and four ropes
were quickly adjusted to the branches
thereof. The nooses were quickly ad
justed and the four desperadoes were
launched into eternity.
PLUMB’S WEALTH.
The Dead Senator’s Private Estate at
Least a Million.
A dispatch of Thursday from Emporia,
Kansas, says: Since the death of the late
Senator Plumb there has been a great
deal of speculation as to the dimensions
of his private estate. Colvin Hood, bus
iness associate of Mr. Plumb, and one of
the executors cf the will, states that the
estate, at a very conservative estimate, is
valued at $1,000,000.
In Favor of Annexation.
At a public meeting held in Innorkin,
Ont., Thursday night a resolution was
carried favoring political union with the
United States as a means of bringing
prosperity to the people of Canada.
NO 37.
CHATTANOOGA BLAZE;
Over Half a Million Dollars in Property
Destroyed.
"he most disastrous fire in Chatta
nooga’s history occurred Saturday. D. B.
Loveman & Co’s, great dry goods hous j,
occupying three numbers on Market
street nt the southeast corner of Eight,
was discovered to be on fire while the
clerks were at their luncheon on the third
floor. The flames spread with astonish
ing rapidi‘y, burning through the eleva
tor shaft and stairway, cutting off the
escape of about thirty female employes,
who were rescued from windows with ex
tension ladders of the fire department,
aided by citizens. Two of the women
jumped from windows and were some
what injured, and a third was rescued in
an almost suffocated condition. The ad
joining buildings were soon aflame, the
fire licking up over a half million dollars,
in less than two hours.
The fire began at 12:30 o’clock in the
afternoon, and by I:3Q o’clock buildings
on the north side of Eighth street were
ablaze. The buildings burned on Mar
ket street were: D. B. Loveman &
Company, dry good®; T. C. Ervin &
Company, dry goods; Christie & Com
pany, dry goods; Chattanooga Library
Association, Chamber of Commerce,
Schwartz & Brother, boots and shoes;
Silva & Abbott, chinaware (on Eighth
street), Wesler & Manning, insurance;
W. J. Alexander, broker; Charleston
fast freight line; Great Southern
Tea Company; Tennessee Missis
sippi and Ohio River Transportation
Company; R. F. Dix, barber: Martin &
Ifonry, red estate; Rowles & Ritely, in
surance; Mrs. Jane Weaver, milliner;
Southern Bank and Trust Company;
T. A. Roberts, jeweler; T. D. Charleton,
ITowesewing machineagent; W. B Van
Wagoer, drugs; Fourth National bank;
P. 8. Griffith, real estate; C. C.. Ander
son, real estate; Lucas & Peacock, insu
rance; Harris, Thomson & Quinn, real
estate. The total loss is about eight
hundred thousand dollars with about five
hundred and fifty thousand dollars insu
lanoe.
CHILEANS ARE SURPRISED
That We Should Consider the Murder
of a Few Sailors.
A San Francisco dispatch of Wednes
day says: Correspondence of the Asso
ciated Press from Santiago, Chili, under
date of November 21st, says the feeling
against Americans is so strong that ever
since the congressional party came into
power a majority of the people are dis
posed to regard the killing of the few
American sailors as a very trifling affair,
and express much surprise that the
United States should have taken official
notice of the matter. The reports of the
intendente of Valparaiso say there were
2,000 men engaged in the “sailors’ ”
fight. He gives this figure to show that
the police were powerless to quell the
disturbance. ,
Asa matter of fact there was not any
where near half that number, and the
police found ample opportunity to Btop
the trouble. ... For some time following
the attack there was a strong feeling
among the crew of the Baltimore, and
the men would have liked to send another
party ashore better equipped. Of thirty
six American tailors arrested at the time
of the fight, not one had a weapon more
formidable than sailors’ jack-knives.
The correspondent says President
Montt has given no special indication of
any sympathy with the general ill feeliag
in Chile against the United States. In a
recent interview with an Associated
Press correspondent, he expressed the
hope that all dificultics would be settled
amicably, as he did not believe the
people of either nation desired
trouble. He also expressed disap
proval of the accusations and insinu
tions made against the American minis
ter by certain Chileans in the United
States, professing to speak for the Chil
ean government. - •
. "A SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT.
To the United States Constitution to be
Submitted to Congress.
A New York disp&t&h of Sunday says:
The National League for the Protection of
American Institutions has prepared an
amendment to the constitution of the
United States, which will be submitted
to both houses of congress shortly after
they resume their sessions. This amend
ment, which, if adopted, will be the six
teenth amendment reads as follows:
No state shall pass any law respecting
the establishment of religion, or prohibit
ing the full exercise thereof, or use to
property or credit, or any money raised
by .taxation, or authorize either to issue
bonds for the purpose of furnishing,
maintaining or aiding by appropriation,
payment for services, expenses or other
wise, any church, religious denomination
or religious society, or any institution,
society or undertaking, which is wholly,
or in part, under sectarian or ecclesiasti
cal control.
The following states prohibit sectarian
appropriations in their constitutions:
California. Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mis
souri, Montana, New Hampshire, North
Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas,
Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming—
twenty-one states.
FOR DEEP WATER.
A. Petition to Congress Endorsing Sa
vannah’s, Scheme.
, The first movement in congress towards
the appropriation of $3,000,000 to deepen
Savannah harbor was made in the senate
Wednesday. It came from Missouri, and
was in the shape of several petitions of
fered by Mr. Cockrell, from the board of
trade and the Commercial Club at St.
Joseph. They endorsed Savannah’s
scheme, and petitioned congress to appro
nriate the amount recommended.
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