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VOL i.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS
AT WORK.
Daily Routine of Rotli Houses Briefly
v Outlined.
THE HOUSE.
Thursday.— ln the house, Thursday,
after the approval of the, journal and the
appropriate reference of various execu
tive communications, on motion o: Mr
Springer, of Illinois, it was ordered that
■when the house adjourned u, be to meet
Monday next. Mr. Richmhon, of
Tennessee, chairman of the comm t
tee on printing, offered a con
current resolution auth rizing that a
committee examine into the errors in the
index of the Record of the present ses
sion and to take steps to remedy the de
fects. He thought that the resolution
presented a question of privilege, as it
affected the integrity of the record of the
proceedings. Ho called for the read
ing of the rule relating to ques
tions of privilege. The rule hav
ing been read Mr. Richardson
IhV. * bioe rfff coifqiiled the in
jca i.u . failed to niciLom ue names of
seven members from Tennessee aud the
names of a number of others. The reso
lution was agreed to. Call of states wa
then resumed.
Monday. —ln the house, Mr. Breckin
ridge of Kentucky asked unanimous con
sent to offer a resolution recitiug the let
ters written by the secretary of state by
direction of the president to the diploma
tic representatives of Venezuela, Nicara
gua, Columbia, Honduras and other na
tions, calling attention to section 3 of the
McKinlev act relative to reciprocity, anc
stating that the president deems th
duties imposed by these countries to
be reciprocically unequal and unrea
sonable, and that, unless on of
before March 15th next some satisfactory
arrangement is entered into, the presi
dent will issue a proclamation suspend
ing the provisions of this section; and
further, reciting that such action by the
president would be unconstitutional,
onerous and unjust, and instructing the
committee on ways and means to report
before February 25th the bill repealing
the third section of the McKinley act. It
also authorizes the president, with
out further legisla'ion, to declare
ports of the United States free
and open to all products of any
nation of the American hemisphere
upon which no export duties art imposed,
so long as such nation shall admit to its
ports free of all national, municipal and
other taxes, flour, corn, meal and other
breadstuffs, preserved meats, fish, vege
tables and fruits, cotton-seed oil, rice
lumber, agricultural implements or such
other products as may be agreed upon.
Referred to the committee on ways and
means. The call of states was then re
sumed, and under the call a large number
of bills were introduced and referred.
Tuesday. —Congress was in session for
only eighteen minutes Tuesday morning.
Speaker Crisp beiDg still unable to pre
side the house was called to order by the
speaker pro tem. Richardson, of Ten
nessee, introduced a bill to regulate pub
lic documents. Referred. After the in
troduction of several other bills the house
adjourned till Wednesday.
THE SENATE.
Thursday.— When the senate met
Thursday, every state was represented by
Its two senators, except Nevada, from
which Jones has not yet been sworn in
for his term, and the state of New York
whose Senator-elect Hill had not presen
ted his credentials. Afier prayer by
Chaplain, Mr. Hill entered the chamber
and was soon surrounded by senators
from both sides welcoming hiiu to his
new scene of public duty. As soon as
The Journal was read, Hitch
cock announced David B. Hill of the
state of New York was present and pre
pared to take the oath of office. The vice i
president invited him to come forward j
and take the oath.
Monday. —The senate on Monday in
executive session finally ratified a general
act signed at Brussels, July 2, 1890, by
seventeen powers, including the United
States, for the repression of the African
slave trade; and also a convention of com
merce and navigation between the United
States and the independent state of Con
go, signed at Brussels July 24, 1891.
Mr. Teller introduced a joint resolution
providing for an international bi
metalic agreement. The resolu
tion declares it to he tne determned pol
icy of the United States government to
use both gold and silver as full legal
tender money/either under the existing
ratio in use or under one that may here
after be established by the United States
alone or in accord with other nations. It
directs the president to invite the gov
ernments of the countries comprising the
Latin union, so-called, and of such othor
nations as he may deem advisable, to
join the United States in a conference
and to adopt a common ratio
between gold and silver for the
purpose of establashing inter
nationally the use of bimetallic money
and of securing a fixity of relative values
between these metals, the conference to
be held at such place as may be mutually
agreed upon by the executive of the va
rious governments. The resolution was
referred to the finance committee. Mr.
Butler offered a resolution instructing
the finance committee to report a bill re
pealing all taxes imposed by congress oh
the circulation of state banks of issue,
and at his request it was laid on the
table. The executive session adjourned.
Tuesday. —ln the senate, Mr. Dolph,
from the committee on coast defenses,
reported a bill for the purchase of sites
for fortifications; also a bill to provide
for fortifications and other seacoast de
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fenses. Mr. Berry a member of the
committee, said he dissented from the
latter bill, which covered an appropria
tion of twenty-three million, extending
over a period of eleven years. Dolph
explained that the appropriation in the
bill had been reduced to one hundred
mil ion, and it is thought best to make
the appropriation all at one time, to be
used during the eleven years, ten millions
for the first and nine millions at the ou<'
of the succeeding ten years.
LIVINGSTON’S RESOLUTION
Which Was Introduced in the House
Thursday.
A Washington dispatch says: Colonel
Livingston introduced a very important
lesolution in the house Thursday morn
ing. It is one calculated to get at the
bottom of the financial depression of the
country. The resolution is as follows:
Whereas, There is a widespread de
mand for financial reform, and this de
mand is being intensified daily by the
depressed and poorly compensated pro
ducers and laborers of the country, there
fore be it
Resolved, That a special committee of
seven be appointed by the speaker to re
port as en*ly as }. ~etif ■ Lie:
t. The amount bf ntfiouat Dank notes
outstanding, the amount based upon
United States bonds and United States
currency; also, the amount of United
States bonds held by national banks as
basis for circulation, and the reason for
their not being used for that purpose, to
gether with the contraction of the vol
ume of national bank circulation, the
rate of interest charged by national banks
and the profits of the system since its in
auguration.
2. The amount of contraction ip every
species of currency that has been used as
a part of the circulating medium since
the year 1865; the amount of currency
now in the United States, its kind and
where located, and how distributed by
states.
3. The amount of currency in kinds
held by the United States treasury and
by national banks as reserves, and also
the probable amount held by other banks
for the same purpose,
4. The volume of business transacted
bv the United States during the year
1890, with the amounts based respect
ively upon cash and credit.
5. To what extent is foreign capital
invested or used in the United States;
also its effect upon the industries of the
country, and the manner in which the
interest and dividends of such invest
ments are prid, and to what extent do
such investments control ’ the products
and labor of the country and how and
why.
6. Also to report such suggestions and
amendments to the present financial sys
tem, as in the judgment of the commis
sion, may be to the best interest of the
people of this country.
COL. LIVINGSTON TALKS.
In explanation of the resolution Colonel
Livingston said: “There is nothing par
tisan, nothing local,nothing anybody can
object to in that resolution. If I can get
a fair committee, all the facts on financial
matters wiH be brought out. If the
distress of the people of the country is
due to financial evils, congress wants to
know it and remedy it. If not, the peo
ple want to know it, and they can look
for evils elsewhere. It will settle all this
agitation. It will place the facts before
us, and a correct opinion can be formed
sto what to do. It will bring congress
and the people nearer together than they
have been for twenty five years.
ADVICE OF COMMISSIONERS
Is that a Reduction of Twenty Per
Cent in Acreage be Made.
A Memphis dispatch says: A confer
ence was held between the commissioners
of agriculture of the various cotton states,
who attended the convention of cotton
growers regarding the actiop of the con
vention and they agreed to the following
memorial: .
“The commissioners of agriculture, rep
resenting the states of Alabama, Arkn
sas, North Carolina, Georgia and Tenn
essee, being impressed with the necessity
of a reduction in the acreage of the cot
ton and greater diversification of
crops, for home consumption, hereby in
dorse the action of the cotton growers
and merchants’ convention, held in the
city of Memphis, Tennessee, on the Bth
day of Janarv, 1892, do earnetly appeal to
all agricultural and mercantile organiza
tions, consisting of alliances, granger,
state and county agricultural societies,
boards of cotton exchanges, chambers of
commerce, etc.; also individual farmers
and merchants, to assist and co-operate
with us in securing the foregoing resolu
tion. And to this end they recommend
a’generaland local adoption of the action
of the convention, pledging themselves
to a reduction of not less than 20 per
cent of the cotton acreage of the last year;
and further urge and recommend imme
diate organization of state, county and
districts, or townships, to act either in
dependently or through legally organized
societies, as may be deemed best, and
which will most readily insure the bene
fits arising from concert of action and
decreased production ot cotton for the
year 1892.”
AFTER THE CZAR;
Another Plot to Blow Him into
Eternity Frustrated.
A St. Petersburg, Russia, cablegram
of Sunday says: Two nihilists arrested
at Moscow are now imprisoned in Fort
ress St. Peter and St. Paul. It is said
there is evidence that they laid bombs
with an electrical attachment under the
line over which the imperial train was to
pass from the Crimea. The plot was
discovered through an anonymous letter
sent to a government official.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15,1892.
THE WIDE WORLD.
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
Fire in Jersey City, N. J., Monday
night destroyed property to the amount
of $125,000.
The treasury department will appeal
from the decision that goat’s hair is ex
empt from duty.
A dispatch of Tuesday says: The street
car strike in Indianapolis has completely
stopped traffic in that city.
R. J. Andorf & Bro., dealers in dia
monds, jewelry, etc., at New York, made
an assignment, Monday, with preference
of $12,500.
The town of Larissa and surrounding
country, in Greece, were shaken by an
earthquake Monday. Almost simultane
ously hot, springs appeared on Mount
Osza.
A lLiis cablegram of Tuesday reports'
that King Humbert has made overtures,
to the Pope, offering to compromise tht
questions at issue between the state and
the Vatican.
On Monday a boiler in the pork-pack
ing establishment of A. B. March, at
Bridgeport, Pa., exploded, completely
wrecking it. Two men were killed and
eight injured.
Dispatches from Paris state that the
influenza continues to spread in that city.
The record of Monday shows an increase
Of seventy in the number of deaths re
sulting from influenza.
The senate, in executive session Mon
day ratified the general act signed at
Brussels in 1890 by seventeen powers, in
cluding the United States, for the. repres
sion of the African slave trade.
The First National bank of Muncy,
Pa., was closed Monday afternoon by
order of Bank Examiner Dengler. News
of the action of the bank examiner creat
ed great excitement in the village.
A dispath of Friday from Des Moines,*
la., says: R. W. Lane, foib eight years
treasurer of Tappanoose county, has dis
appeared. Books in his office, as far as
examined, show a shortage of $12,000.
The senate and house of Ohio voted
separately for United States senator, Tues- (
day. In the senate John Sherman re
ceived eighteen votes and James E. Neal
eight. In the" house Sherman received
ninety-three votes and Neal twenty-nine.
A dispatch from Lowell, Mass., says:
A deputy sheriff placed an attachment
of $50,000 upon the property of General
Butler Friday. The attachment is said
to be the result of an action of tort
brought by Estes & Lauriat, Boston pub
lishers.
William McKinley, Jr., was inaugur
ated governor of Ohio at Columbus,
Monday. The occasion was non-partisan,
political friends and foes of the new
governor all joining with the utmost har
mony and zeal in the inauguration exer
cises and parade.
A London cablegram of Tuesday says:
There is no abatement whatever in the
epidemic of influenza which is sweeping
over Englaud. On the contrary reports
have been received from hundreds of
places throughout the country showing
that the disease continues to spread with
increasing violence, 9
The Brook of Birds
boro, Pa., notiWoits employes on Tues
day of a general reduction of wages. The
puddlers were reduced from $3.50 to
$3.35 per ton, the sheet mill employes
from forty to thirty-six cents a ton and
the nailers about ten per cent. The firm
employs over four hundred hands.
A Washington dispatch says: The
national executive silver committee is
sued a long address Friday night, declar
ing that continued experience demon
strates that there can be no adequate or
final solution of the money question ex
cept by making silver equal with gold
for money purposes; in brief, free bimet
iallc coinage.
A reception was given Tuesday eve
ning at the white house by the president
and Mrs. Harrison to the diplomatic
corps, to which the congress, army and
navy, and all persons prominent in offi
cial life, besides many others of equal
note in Washington and from elsewhere,
were invited, and which in point of bril
liancy, had not been equaled in years.
JACKSON’S DAY.
A Banquet by tlie Business Men’s Asso
ciation of New York.
The Business Men’s Democratic Asso
ciation of New York city celebrated
Jackson’s Day with a banquet Friday
night. Speeches were made by Grover
Cleveland and Mr. Springer, of Illinois.
Speaking on “The Issues of the Day,”
Mr. Springer said among other things:
“I can state, without any fear of success
ful contradiction, that there is not the
slightest probability of a free coinage
bill becomiog a law during this congress,
nor is it likely that any amendment of the
existing law will be made. If any meas
ure on this subject is passed it will be
one which democrats throughout the
country can and will cordially support. It
is possible that some such measure,accepta
ble to democrats generally, may be agreed
upon and become a law during this ses
sion of congress. In reference to public
expenditures, the democratic house of
representatives of this congress may be
relied upon for a record of rigid econ
omy. This will not be another billion
dollar congress A reduction of between
fifty aad a hundred millions a yeai by
the present house of representatives may
be confidently expected as compared with
the appropriations of the previou# con
gress. ”
TRADE A LITTLE DUI&,
Dun & Co.’s Report of Business for
Past Week.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during eight days since De
cember 81st, reported to R. G. Dun &
-,C0., number for the United States, 395;
Canada, 42; total, 485, against 320 last
week. The first week of the new year
has been marked by some striking events.
There has been an important decline in
the prices of wheat and cotton, which
have been held of late a little too high
for foreign estimates of value, so that
exports were somewhat checked. The
decline will bring out larger orders for
export.
fluctuations in prices .
Wheat has dropped sharply—3J cents
for the week on sales of only 15,000,000
bushels, Oats also dropped 2J cents,
-but corn rose an eighth, the large exports
actually exceeding those of wheat for
three days of the week, sustaining the
jprice. Pork products scarcely changed;
oil rose 2$- cents, and coffee a quarter.
Cotton has dropped to the lowest price
*since early in 1849, viz., 7.44 cents for
, middling uplands. Receipts at the south
continue greater than last year, and.
| though exports are also greater, the
stock accumulated and largely carried by
banks at various points has a depressing
influence. This affects trade throughout
the south, but the demand for sugar and
rice is strong aud active, with slightly
better prices.
FAIR FOR THE SEASON.
Trade in other parts of the country
is fair for the season, the New Year’s
quiet not having entirely passed. Great
industries report no important change,
though in iron a large business is being
done, and the tone is improved. Some
improvement is seen in bar and plates and
fair business in structural iron.
The money market has been well sup
plied at New York, and other markets
throughout the north are easier. The
treasury has been disbuis ng freely during
the week, and while the sales of stock on
foreign account have lifted the rates of
Lreign exchange half a cent, the swell
iug exports appear to insure further im
ports of gold.
PROSPECTS FAVORABLE.
In brief, the business prospects of the
country are remarkably favorable for the
beginning of the new year, excepting at
the south, and while the depression in
that section may considerably affect
some trades and branches of manufacture,
die uplifting infltience of the large
northern crops and*of the unprecedented
foreign demand for northern products
give substantial ground for the great
confidence which prevails.
NEW DIRECTORS
Who will Mj|nage the Geugia Cen
tral Railroad. *
The stockholders of the Central rail
road of Georgia a meeting in Sa
vannah Mom%y and elected anew board
of directors. General Henry R. Jack
son and General G. M. Sorrell take
the places on the Central railroad
tory made vacant by the retirement of
Pat and John C. Calhoun. Mr. G. J.
elected to succeed Mr. S. M.
Inman, who tendered his resignation be
cause of press of business. General
E. P. Alexander was re-elected president,
The qpeeting was further enlivened by an
attempt of the minority; stockholders to
enjoin the election of the new board.
Out of this attempt future sensations are
expected.
From New York comes gosrip growing
out of the situation, but developments
were in a state of expectancy. The one
fact is prominent, however, and, that is
that Brice and Thomas are in the saddle!
The board selected is composed as fol
lows: General E. P. Alexander, J. K.
Garnett, Abraham Vetsburg, Joseph
Hull, Gen. Henry R. Jackson, George J.
Mills, General G. M. Sorrell, C. H. Phio
izy, H. T. Inman, E. P. Howell, U, B.
Harrold, James Swann, J. C. Maben.
The board is regarded as a very fine
body of businessmen. It is a board of
men who are above suspicion. No one
reading the list will think for an instant
that the majority of these men would
stoop to any underhand dealings or any
thing calculated to injure tbe Central
railroad or the interests of the minority
stockholders. The new board gives great
satisfaction to all interested parties.
secretary’s statement.
After the adjournment of the meeting
Secretary A. J. ltaub gave out the fol
lowing for publication:
The annual election of ihe Central rail
road of Georgia was held to-day. Nine
members of the old board were re-elect
ed . Four vacancies which have occurred
by death, resignation and otherwise,
were filled by the electian of J. C. Maben,
of New York, and General G. M. Sor
rell, General 11. R. Jockoon and Mr. G.
J. Mills, all of Savannah. The last two
gentlemen are the largest stockholders of
the Central road in the state of Georgia.
The directors of the Richmond Terminal
company have acted in this case in the
same way that they will act in the Rich-.
mond and Danville election to-morrpw,
and in the electiona of boards of the
smaller leased roads. That is, all boards
of directors now elected are to hold office
only until the stockholders’ commitlee of
representation, of which Mr. Olcbtt is
chairmrn. shall submit its plan apd the
stockholders vote upon it.
TOO MUCH MORPHINE
Admistered by His Physician Killed the
Khedive.
A London cablegram of Monday says:
All the leading newspapers confirm the
report that the khedive died from the
effects of ao overdose of morphine ad
ministered by Salem Pasha, the native
physician.
THROUGH DIXIE.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH BRIEFLY
PARAGRAPHED
Forming an Epitome of Daily
Happenings Here and There.
A bill was introduced in the Virginia
legislature Monday designating as legal
holiday the 19th of January (Lee’s birth
day), and the 3d of June to be known as
the Confederate Memorial Day.
A Memphis, Tenn., dispatch says: The
county court Tuesday morning ordered
$20,000 to be appropriated by this(Shelby)
county for a proper representation at the
world’s fair, providing the SIOO,OOO will
be raised by the state.
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch says: The
grand jury on Tuesday brought indict
ments against the Southern Express com
pany for receiving and forwarding money
to the Louisiana lottery and returning
tickets to purchasers.
Columbia, S. C., will have an electric
street railway and vastly improved elec
tric light service within the next ninety
days. The electric light company and
the street railway have consolidtted with
a capital stock of $15,000.
A meeting of the creditors of W. C.
Bee & Cos., was held Monday in Charles
ton. Lewis J. Jervey, who composed
the firm, was made agent of the credi
tors. The liabilities were stated to be
$221,000; nominal assets, $225,000.
The grand lodge of masons began its
105th annual communication at Raleigh
Tuesday night with a large attendance.
Grand Master H. A. Gudger in his ad
dress stated that there are 280 lodges in
the state and 8,500 members. There are
in all 20,000 Masons in the state.
A fire occurred in the Louisville and
Nashville shops at Decatur, Ala., Friday
nieht with the result that the repair
shops are a total loss. The shop was one
of the most extensive in a splendid sys
tem of shops belonging to the company.
The loss is $40,000, fully insured.
A large meeting of Santa Fe employes
was held at Gainesville, Texas, Saturday
at which resolutions were passed not to
handle any freight that came from or
went to opposition roads. A resolution
was also passed asking officials not to re
ceive such freight for shipment.
James Hoctor and his sister, Mrs. Ma
mie Fitzpatrick, of Savannah, great
gi'£ufc-gi*iid-ehildieu of Sir Francis Drake,
have received letters from English law
yers asking them to send them all the
facts in connection with their claim to
Drake’s reputed estate of $50,000,000.
A Savannah lawyer is now preparing the
papers.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch of Tuesday
says thnt every inmate of the Confederate
Soldiers’ Home in that city is sick with
grip. Some are seriously so. Four deaths
have occurred in the past few weeks.
The dead are John Prince, G.H.Thomas,
J. H. Sandeford and B. M. Coleman.
The general sitting room of the home has
been converted intqa temporary hospital,
and in this and the regular hospital thir
ty sick are receiving most careful atten
tion.
A case of unusual importance was de
cided Saturday, in tlie Birmingham, Ala.,
circuit court, precedent being established
for holding employes liable in damages
for a failure to exercise due skill and
diligence. The Woodward Irom Com
pany brought suit against a mechanical
engineer for negligence of duty, result
ing in the wreck of*a miheral train. The
case was decided in favor of the company, “
and the engineer was found liable in
daitfages to the extent of $l5O. It is the
-first case of the kind ever before the
Alabama courts.
A New York dispatch of Tuesday says:
A proposition has been made by the hol
ders of the invalid bonds of Georgia for
a settlement of the whole business upon
a basis that the state may pay what was
actually appropriated of the proceeds of
the bonds to the state’s uses, honestly and
faithfully. The petition of such a settle
ment is to-be sent to the Georgia legisla
ture and is signed by Russell Sage, J.
Pierpont Morgan, Merton, Bliss & Cos.,
Brooklyn Trust Cos., Fulton Bank,
National Broadway Bank,
and Metropolitan Savings Bank.
NOT DECIDED.
The Boyd-Thayer Contest Not Yet Set*
tied, as Reported.
A Washington dispatch says: The
Boyd-Thayer case involving the question
>f the citizenship of Boyd, and as a con
lequence his eligibility to the office of
jovercor of Nebraska, to which he was
idected, was not decided by the United
States supreme court Monday as reported.
An inquiry into the matter develops
.■he fact that only eight justices sat
In the hearing of the case, Just
tice-Bradley being abseut on accoun
of illness. The premature announce
ment that the court hud decided the case
in favor of Boyd by a vote of 6 to 3 can
1 not be correct. Therefore, so far as re
spects the majority by which the deci
sion is alleged to have been reached, the
justices, of course, will say nothing
whatever as to the case in advance of
the announcement from the bench of
their decision.
BUYING~FLOUR MILLS.
A Syndicate Getting a Strong Foothold
in Utah.
A dispatch of Friday from Ogden,
Utah, says: Joseph Clarke, representing
an English syndicate, has bought twenty
three or all but six of the flour mills in
Utah. The transaction involves SI,BOO,
000 for plants and $850,000 for stock now
on hand.
NO 39
A CYCLONE’S FURY.
Two People Killed Outright and
Others May Die.
A roaring, seething cyclone burst upon
Fayetteville, Ga., Tuesday night, carry
ing death and desolation along its track.
In two homes are families weeping over
their dead. Twenty victims of the storm
are suffering from their injuries. Those
who wore killed are Will Travis and
Sallie Graham. Several others are mo
mentarily expected to die.
Those badly wounded are Tom Curlin,
Freeman Simmons, his wife, a little negro
girl named Jones, and D. C. Knox and
wife. All of the latter are in a critical
condition, aud may die at any moment.
COMING OF THE STORM.
Tuesday night, as the residents were
at their supper, a gradually increasing
noise in the southwest, and a dense black
cloud gave indications of an approach
ing storm. Louder and louder it became.
The wind blew fiercely, and every one
sought shelter. Then the wind began to
ease, while a thousand cannons seemed
simultaneously booming. All of a sud
den a huge funnel-shaped cloud burst
upon the town, and a moment later all was
still. The Heavy rain that followed fell
in torrents upon more than a dozen
wrecked homes. Immediately those who
had escaped the cyclone rushed from
their homes to ascertain the damage done.
The storm covered a width of 200 yards.
It grazed the tree tops in the woods, and
just as it reached the town seemed to
swoop down upon it, and, like an undu
lating wave of smoke and fire, gathered
up its prey, and either dashed it to the
ground or carried it through the air.
The first house struck was the barn of
Mr. J. W. Graham, and some fine stock
was killed. In his home near by his
family of twelve had huddled with fear in
a large room. The storm struck the
chimney, throwing it upon Sallie Kate, a
child of eight years, pinning her to the
floor, lifeless. Then the house collapsed,
and was soon in utter ruin. All the
occupants were hurt, more or
less seiiously. Mr. Gragam’s gin house, a
blacksmith shop and a cottage, unten
anted, followed in the track of destruc
tion- The Fayetteville seminary, a
building which withstood the war, was
soon a mass of broken desks, books,
tables and w<>od. Three hours sooner
eighty laughing school children
would have been buried in the ruins.
At the home of Mrs. Lizzie Henderson, a
widow, Mrs. Travis, her daughter, was
lying sick. When the wind began to
beat against the panes Mr. Will Travis
rushed to move his wife away from the
window. He was drawn through it and
carried 200 yards through the air. The
house was crushed, but the mother and
two children were but slightly hurt. Two
hours afterwards Mr. Travis was found
two hundred yards away dead and terri
bly mangled. A large number of other
buildings were wrecked and their occu
pants more or leas injured. That more
people were not killed is a miracle, as the
houses were completely demolished.
SOUTHERN WEALTH.
Statistics of Values as Given Through
the Manufacturers’ Record.
Despite the flnaucial trou >les of 1891,
says the Baltimore Manufacturers’ Re
cord, and the consequent depression
throughout the world, the increase in the
assessed value of property in the south
was greater than in any preceding year
since the war. The gain in 1890 over
1889 was $270,000,000, the largest in
crease in any one year up to that time,
but the gain in 1891 over 1890 was $320,-
000,000. Every state shows a large gain,
Texas leading with $72,000,000. The in
crease in Maryland was $33,000,000, Vir
ginia about $40,000,000, North
Carolina $30,000,000, South Caro
lina $18,000,000, Georgia $30,-
000,000, Florida $4,000,000, Al
abama $13,000,000, Mississippi $5,000,-
000, Louisiana $1,000,000, Arkansas
$8,000,000, Tennessee $13,000,000, West
Virginia $3,000,000, Kentucky $48,000,-
000. The actual increase in some of the
states was much larger than these figures
indicate, as assessments of real estate in
some of them are only made every five or
ten years. This is the case in West Vir
ginia, where no new assessment of real
estate has been made for, we believe,
nearly ten years. In 1880 the total as
sessed value of property in tbe south was
$2,913,000,000, and in 1891 $4,816,000,-
000, an increese of $1,900,000,000. The
official figures from each state shew the
following valuations:
1870 1891
Maryland.. $459,187,408 $510,003,077
Virginia.... 303,997,613 446,535,438
N. Carolina. 169,916,907 257,052,256
8. Carolina. 129,551,624 168,242,679
Georgia 251,424.651 445,047,960
Florida.... 31.157,840 97,000,000
Alabama... 139,077,328 271,953,321
Mississippi. 115,130,651 167,028,893
Louisiana .. 177,096,459 235,700,000
Texas 311,470,736 854,603,756
Arkansas... 91,191.653 180,000,000
Tennessee.. 211,768,438 360,570,462
W. Virginia 146,991,740 190,312,617
Kentucky... 375,473,041 632,346,932
Total, ..$2,813,436,095 $4,816,396,896
EXPRESSMEN OUT.
i Big Strike Inaugurated Against
the Southern Express Company.
A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala.,
says: Nearly every express messenger
of the incoming and outgoing trains of
the Southern Express Company went on
a strike Friday night. The trouble was
brought about by the discharge of a
member of the Express Messenger’s A*,
sociation. The strikers state that they;
will not resume unless their grievances
are satisfactorily adjusted.