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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 - ... . . .... .. —-"" ! --- - - - —— 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.