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VOL. 1. Kansas farmers are going into the banliog business with a capital of sl,- )00,000. The armies of the civilized nations of ;he world numbef 3,600,060 men. Be tides the loss of their time and labor, :hey cost at least SIOOO a year each, and :hat amounts to $3,600,000,000. Toronto, Canada, observes the Phila delphia Record, is most probably the strictest Sabbatarian city in America and very few cities in auy part of the world are more rigid. All business is sus pended on Sunday, all stores are closed ; it is even forbidden to sell newspapers or soda water. It is a strange story that comes from New Orleans. While playing a hose upon a tire a telephone and an electric light wire got crossed, and the stream of water striking the wires, a heavy cur rent was thereby afforded an opportunity to make a ground, which it did through the column of water and the body ol too fireman who held the nozzle, killing him insviutly. This story may or may jot be a.- regards ins actual happen ing, comments the Boston Transcript, but the fact remains that theoretically it is possible for just such an accident to occur. Nearly two-thirds of the water or dinarily used by New York is clea: waste, according to the figures of con sumption and supply for London. Witli a population more than three times New York’s, the daily consumption of that population is 183,859,000 gallons. It is figured out that the requirement in twenty years will reach 290,000,00 C gallons; that it will require at least three years to get the consent of Parliament after anew scheme for reaching ad ditioual sources shall be matured, and not less than twelve years more to erect the works. As no steps have even been proposed yet, the conclusion is reached that the supply of underground water must be relied on to provide for the in creased consumption. The Chicago Tribune ha? the follow ing: “The embezzlement record of the year is a large one. The total of recorded defalcations is $19,720,294. It is nearly two and three-tenths times the total of 1890, and the list is only a partial one. Undoubtedly some have been ‘missed’ in the count, and the list does not include what is probably a considerable number that were privately settled, one of the conditions to which was that the steal should not be reported to the public. If these could be included the proportion might not be materially altered, but the total would perhaps rise as high as $25,- 000,000, or an average of forty cents for every inhabitant of the United States lost by men who abused the trust reposed in them by others who confi led to the n the care of personal property.” The Panama Star and Herald f is authority for the following statement of extra inducements Venezuela is willing to give to secure the immigrants she wants to develop her rich but wild ter ritory: “The Government will pay the passage of the immigrant from the port of sailing to the port of landing, allow him to import his personal belongings, tools, etc., free of duty, will pay his board for sixteen days, give him two and a half acres of land and allow him to purchase all he wants for half price,with two years’ credit to pay for it, exempt him from military service, and guarantee him all the privileges and humanities allowed to foreigners.” It should be stated that the Republic is somewhat particular as to the kind of immigrants it -will receive. The day of sky-scraping buildings, so far as Chicago is concerned, seem to Frank Leslie's Weekly to'be at an end. The Underwriters’ Association of that city have formally decided that they will not insure any structures, except office buildings, which exceed eighty-five feet in height and that all office buildings of non-combustible construction mast b< limited in height to one and one-half times the width of the street upon which the building may be constructed. The Underwriters’ Association, being one of the most powerful association* in the country, its decrees will undoubtedly be enforced. It is said, indeed, that a num ber of contracts for high buildings have already been recalled. It ii to ba hoped that the policy here laid down will bo enforced in other cities, and that some regard to security will be paid in the erection of public and private buildings everywhere throughout the country. -State of tJIaiV Mctts NATIONAL CAPITAL THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS AT WORK. Daily Routine of Both Houses Brieflj Outlined. THE HOUSE. Wednesday. —That the members of the house arc becoming somewhat weary of its long discussion over the rules was evidenced Wednesday morning by the small attendance when the speaker called the body to order. The house resumed consideration of the rules. The pending motion was that made by Mr. Boatner, of Louisiana, striking out thf clause per mitting general legislation on appropria tion bills, provided that, being germain, it retrenches on expenditures. Thursday.— Consideration of the rules having been resumed, Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, offered an amendment pro viding that eulogies to deceased mem bers shall be delivered Sundays, (and Sunday only.) on which day the ceremonies shall be opened with prayer by the chaplaiD. These services, he said, were in the nature of religious ser vices. and no more appropriate day could be selected for giving tribute to deceased members than Sunday. Mr. Morse, of Massachusetts, seconded the amend ment. He believed that memorial ser vices were educational and proper and the Lord’s day was the most suitable o- e that could be choseu. Mr. Ray, of New York, opposed the amendment. It was evidently offered in the interest of those persons who never attended church. Mr. Ileed, of Maine, gave information that the consumption of time in the first session of the last congress for memorial services was twenty-four days. Friday.— When the deficiency appro priation bill for the census office came up in the house Friday, Mr. Sayres, a mem ber of the appropriations committee, raised the question as to the use of the $6,000,000 heretofore appropriated for the office, and he directly charged that the office had been grossly mismaua ;d, and that Superintendent Porter had been recklessly extravagant. He did not pro long the controversy further than to state that he had proofs that the census office had been conducted extravagantly, as stated. The deficiency, however, was accepted by the house, and the appropri ation made. In the meantime it is the intent on of the democratic leaders in congress to have a thorough investigation of the census office. Monday. —The house spent the day debating the passage of a resolution of inquiry into the expenditures of the world’s fair. The appropriations com mittee was instructed to make the in vestigations. Among the new bills in troduced was one to allow the interstate commission to give special rates to com mercial travelers. THE SENATE. Wednesday. —lu the senate, Wednes day, Mr. Dolph, from the committe on foreign relations, reported back adverse ly the various anti-Chinese bills intro duced and referred at the present session, and reported, in lieu of them, a bill con tinuing in force for ten years all laws now in force prohibiting and regulating the coming into this country of Chinese persons and persons of Chinese descent. Calendar.' The joint resolution, proposing an amendment to the constitution of the United States relating to marriage and divorce, heretofore introduced by Mr. Kyle, was taken up and Mr. Kyle ad dressed the senate in support of it. Thursday. —ln the abscence of Vice President Morton,the chair was occupied by Mr. Manderson, president pro teffi. Among the bills reported from the com mittees and placed on the calender were the following: Authorizing the con struction of bridges across the Talla poosa and Coosa rivers; to extend the provisions of the act in re lation to the immediate transportation of dutiable goods to St. Augustine, Fla. The following bills were reported back adversely: To extend the provisions of the act for the immediate transportation of dutiable goods to Fernandina, Fla. At the request of Mr. Pasco, this bill was placed on the calendar. At 12:3) the senate proceeded to executive business. When the doors were reopened the re port of the committee on privileges and elections in the case of the Florida sena torship (declaring Mr. Call entitled to the seat) was taken up for action, aud the report read, closing with the sen tence: “The appointment, of Davidson was an act of mere irrelevancy, which it is not necessary further to notice.” NOTES. The senate on Monday confirmed the nomination of Rathburn to be postmaster at Elmira, N. Y. Among the new petitions to Congress for the week are many against sending liquor to Africa, and several to transfer the Revenue Marine Service to the Navy, to reduce letter postage to one cent per ounce, and to introduce the metric sys tem into the Custom Service. “Sockless” Simpson has introduced a bill to provide for the relief of the agri cultural population of the country and to encourage agriculture; and Dr. Epos of Virginia, to repeal all internal revenue taxes on brandies distilled from apples, peaches and other fruits, and to refund taxes heretofore collected on such braudie3as remain unconsuined. A meeting of free silver members of the house committee on coinage, weights and measures, was held Saturday night. It is understood that there was absolute ly uo difference of opinion as to what course should be pursued with reference to the silver question, and that it was unanimously decided to report favor- TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1*2,1892. ably a iree and unlimited coinage l iras uie at an early day. A bill that will interest the ptifpk throughout the distilling sectiou ot The south was reported favorably to the L ujse Friday by Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, Irpm the judiciary committee. It is subs'kc tially the bill introduced by Mr. Hen derson, of North Carolina, to amend die internal revenue laws. The first section abolishes what are known as minimum punishments, and is intended to discour age frivolous prosecutions. By the second section no warrant in the internal rev enue can be issued upon an affidayit mak ing charges “upon information and be lief,” unless made by certain officials, iaa aiso makes more stringent tne !-iy relating to the fets of the court officers, with a view of removing some of the teinpation to make cases for the fees to be derived therefrom. Section 8 requires warrants to be made re'urnable to the nearest federal commissioner or ot’iCr official, and section 4 gives to the attor ney general veto upon appointment of United States cor- nirsionets nnd ihf power of summary removal of commu sioners. The last section empowers the comm ssioner of iuternal rev enue, with the approval of the secrets, v of treasury, to discontinue or compt mise civil and criminal <•*# ____ BRAVE FIREMEN Rescue Twenty Little Girls from ft Terrible Death. A fire was discovered shortly after 9 o’clock Tuesday morning in the Trinity church mission house, a six-story build ing, at 211 Fulton street, New York. On the second and third floors there were twenty children, all girls, in charge of several sisters. The fire broke out in the basement, and was caused by a defective flue. Before its presence was known the smoke and flames filled the lower portion of the building, seemingly cutting off from escape the children and sisters. A panic seized the children and they ran to the windows, screaming for help. Hook and ladder company No. 1 and engine com pany No. 16 are only a few doors distant. Firemen were promptly on hand. Fire man Argue covered his head with his coat and rushing up stairs through the smoke, returned with five little girls. He went back again and brought out five more children. Other firemen followed him and all the other children and the sistejs were taken out in safety. THEIR POSITION DEFINED. The Third Party aud Alliance are Sepa rate Organizations. A dispatch of Wednesday from Topeka, Kau., says: The official organ of the Farmers’ Alliance in this state, published by the executive committee of the order, this week contains statements authorized by the executive committee, showing the distinction between the people’s patty and the Alliance. The two organizations are, the committee states, entirely sepa rate, the people's party being outside of and independent of the Alliance. The statement continues: “We now officially declare that there is no such things as an alliance ticket. Neither can the alliance hold a party po litical caucus, party primary election or adopt direct party measures as such within alliance meetings jusoper, without the liability of their charter. We the shadow of right the treasury for purposes, yet we have the advocate any prin ciple or platform adopted by state or national organization. MONEY EASILY EARNED. “What? Another new dre?s!” said a married man to his better half, as the parcel was opened. “Don’t distress yourself,” she replied. “I paid for this out of my own pocket.” “Oh, indeed! But where did you get the money from?” “I sold your overcoat,” was the cool reply. MRS. SCRIME’S GARDENING. Old Friend—Did you have much of a garden this year? Mr. Scrimp (of Scrimpville) —No; it didn’t amount to much. In the spring I gave a grand garden digging tournament, the young ineu who dug the most to have the pick of the girls for the evening, aud it worked well, but it cost me ’most two dollars for refreshments. Then I had a planting bee, and that wasn’t so expen sive, only r the planting wasn’t half done. Later on I tried tp get up a wedding festival, but somehow the young folks sort o’ lost interest, aud I gave up gar dening in disgust.—[Now York Weekly. POSTOFFICE FACILITIES. Money Orders Given if the Postmaster’s Compensation Reaches S2OO. A Washington dispatch of Saturday says: Postmaster General Wanamaker has issued an order giving money order facilities to all postoffices where the compensation of the postmaster reaches S2OO per annum. The expense of carry ing this order into effect is trifling, and the offices already established under it are doing an amount of business greatly in excess of the anticipation of the de partment. ONLY HER BROTH I^. He—l think I have a right to an ex planation. Y'ou permitted a young man to kiss you at the party last evening. She—lt was only my brother. He—Your brother? She—Yes; young Smith. He pro posed to me once, and I promised to oe a sister to him.—[New York Press, THE WIDE WORLD. GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE CULLINGS Of Brief Items of Interest From Various Sources. E. Goddard & Sons, flour milling men, of St. Louis, assigned Friday. There was a slight shock of earthquake at Omaha, Neb . Thursday. Adjutant General William McClelland died Sunday afternoon at Harrisburg, Pa. The provincial elections held Monday resulted in a triumph for the conciliation party in Brazil. A telegram of Monday states that the grand jury has indicted every rumselier in Bangor, Me. * The Behring sea joint commissioners met for the first time Monday afternoon and made prelimminary arrangements for a series of sessions. Fire Monday destroyed one of the best business blocks in Lamed, Kas., causing a loss of $125,000; about half insured. The amount of silver offered to the treasury Friday was 960,000 ounces. The amount purchased was 330,000 ounces at 91.10 to 91.40. Thirty barges were torn from their moorings by the drift ice at Breslau, Ger many, Thursday, and forty persons are re ported drowned. A dispatch of Thursday states that the governor of New York has signed the bill allowing newspapers to publish de tails of electrocutions. The London papers ore urging the British government to see that Great Britain is properly represented at the World’s fair in Chicago. The steamer Buffon arrived at New York quarantine station Thursday with •yellow fever on board. Five of the sea men died during the voyage. A fire in Manchester, N. H., Sunday, destroyed two large business blocks and badly damaged two other blocks. The damage is estimated at $125,000. The large iron works of Hugh Ketchwn & Cos., at Hughsville, a suburb of Indian apolis, Ind., were almost completely destroyed by fire Sunday. Loss $150,000. A cablegram of Thursday from Ant werp, Belgium, says that the French .ucanisr St. Andre collided with aud sank the Danish brig Thor, drowning all the crew. Impressive services were held Thursday in the Scotch church at Mentone, Italy, over the remains of the Rev. Mr. Spur geon, which were then by rail for London. I Monday’s "dispatches st#e that* the strike of the Pittsburg, Allegheny and Manchester traction lines is still on, al though is running cars reg ularly. Another claim for damages has been filed against Chili, this time by Andrew McKinsely. He was severely beaten by the police and then imprisoned. The claim is for $40,000. lie congress of delegates of French labor exchanges opened at St. Ethienne Sunday. The congress adopted the prin ciple of the federation of all labor ex changes in France. The barbed wire trust, which is com posed of all barbed wire plants in the country, has been dissolved. This state ment was made Friday night by K. M. Gates, of Chicago, who was president of the combination. There was a bad wreck on the Chicago and Alton road near Larabee, Mo., Sun day morning. • An open switch causing a passenger and a freight train to crash into each other, the engineer and fireman of the freight being instantly killed. No passengers hurt. Two hundred electric light wiremen at New York went out on a strike Friday, aud they declare that before they give in every building and office between the Battery and Thirty-ninth street to which the Edison Illuminating Company’s wires run will be darkened. The president, on Friday, issued his proclamation promulgating the recipro-, city treaty with the British West India colonics. Its details were foreshadowed in the publication of December 30th, but this proclamation includes in its provis ions several colonies which were excepted in tho Dublication of December 30th A London cablegram says: The will of the late Cardinal Manning was opened Thursday. It shows that ho possessed less than one hundred pounds, which was in consols, and a collection of books. This fact speaks louder than words in showing the benevolence of tho cardi nal. The will contains no statement of public interest. Justice James, of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. Monday morn ing, delivered an opinion in court in the silver brick case. The petition of Mer rick, Morse and others for a mandamus to compel the secretary of the treasury to receive and coin into dollars the silver brick tendered him by the petitioners was denied. Chief Justice Bingham dis sented from some of the views of the majority, but agreed with them upon the main question. A Washington dispatch of Monday says: The national democratic committee has appointed Colonel Richard J. Bright, of Indiana, sergeant at-arms at the national democratic convention, and F. E. Canda, of New Y'ork, agent for the committee. S. P. Sheerin, of Indiana, secretary of the committee, together with Bright and Canda, has been charged with the duty of proceeding to Chicago and making all necessary preparations for the convention. A New Tork telegram sayi. 8. V. White, the senior member of the firm of S. V. White fc Cos., who failed for sev eral millions some months ago, has prac tically settled all debts, and on Thurs day applied for read mission to the stock exchange. His New York creditors have for the time being written off one million dollars of his indebtedness, Their only security is his word. No such compli ment was ever paid to a business man in the financial district before. A New York dispatch say: Judge Martine, in general sessions Friday dis missed the indictments for misdemeanor tound against the editors of the different daily newspapers of the city, who pub lished the details of the electrocution of the murderers, Woods, Smiler, Slocum and Jugiro, at Sing Sing on July 7, 1891. In '•ecommending the dismissal. District Attorney Nicoll sta’e l that the statute under which the indictments were found had been repealed, and that accordingly their convicti n coil and not be obtained. THAYER GIVES UP Ami Writes a Manly Explanatory Letter to Governor Boyd. A dispatch of Saturday from Omaha, Neb., says: The following letter has been handed to Governor Boyd: Lincoln, • Neb., February 7. —Hon. James E. Boyd: Dear sir: When I commenced proceedings one year ago to test your title to the office of governor, I did so in the full belief that there was great doubt in the public mind ns to your citizenship and eligibility. I then took occasion to publish that as soon as your citizenship was established by the courts, I would gladly surrender the office to you. The contest was not one of per sonal strife, nor to satisfy any ambition of my own, but to comply with and up hold the constitution of the state. Now" that the public press has an nounced that the highest tribune has declared under the constitution and laws of our country and state your rights to office, I cheerfully yield the office of governor to you without awaiting the mandate of the court. As lam about to leave the state on Monday to be absent 3ome weeks, it would be most convenient to turn over the office to you at 2 o’clock jf that day, if it is your pleasure to ac :ept the same at that time. Very respectfully, John M. Thayer. COTTON LOSSES BY FIRE. An interesting Letter to the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. President Waiter C. Flower, of the New Orleans cotton exchange, has ad dressed a letter which has been published, to the collector of the port of New Or leans, in answer to a circular letter of the treasury department sent to all cotton ports, calling attention to the impropriety of baled cotton, and the losses by cotton fires, aud directing that the reports be made for prosecutions of all violations of the law r . President Flower, in a long array of statistics, 9hows that out of 20,000,000 bales of cotton received at New Orleans in the last ten years, only 35,000 bales were partly damaged. He says cotton fire losses from all causes since 1882 were only $509,000 out of $1,000,000,000 of total value, equal to $1 iu $2,000. n¥w EVIDENCE In the Wrecking of the Keystone Bank -•Yard Implicated. A Philadelphia dispatch says: At the hearing Tuesday of Henry H. Yard, who was involved with Ex-City Treasurer John Batdsley and President Gideon W. Marsh in the wreck of the Keystone bank, some evidence was introduced by United States District Attorney Read which created a decided sensation and promises to un raval the mystery of the disappearance of the bank’s entire capital. Government Expert A. R. Barrett tes tified, from his examination of the bank’s books that Yard’s indebtedness at the time of its closing in March last was $493,785, including overdrafts of $278,- 611. Of the remainder, there are four certificates of deposit, amounting to $5,- 000 each, issued to Yard without being charged against him, action which is bar red by the statues of limitations. *• GARZA STILL ON DECK And Giving Trouble on Both Sides of the Rio Grande. A Washington telegram of Saturday says: The Garza movement along the Mexican border is giving the officials of the war department considerable trouble just at present. No secret is made of their disappointment that Garza is still at large in the American territory, and that his operations cannot be confined exclusively to Mexican territory. Garza aud his followers are known to have re ceived aid and sympathy from the Mexi can residents in the vicinity of Rio Grande, and the fact that the United States troops are unable to capture the revolutionists is, in a large measure, at tributed to the deception practiced upon them by these people. CHILI AT CHICAGO. It is Probable that She Will Not Send an Exhibit. A cablegram of Tuesday from Valpa raiso to the New York Herald says: There does not appear to be any likeli hood of the Chilian government voting money for the Chicago fair, partly on account of the present financial status of the country and partly because Commis sioner Harlow is accused of being the author of sensational telegrams which have been sent to certain American pa pers. This has set the people against him. NO MORE LOTTERY THE GREAT L. S. L. GIVES UP THE-FIGHT. And will Retire from Business-The Announcement a Surprise. A New Orleans dispatch of Thursday says: The state is convulsed by the sen sation produced by the card issued by John A. Morris, announcing that the Louisiana Lottery company will go out of business. The most bitter feelings were aroused through the lottery’s fight for a renewal of its charter. Both polit ical parties split, and the moral question, like that involved in liquor prohibition campaign, has entered even the families, which are divided everywhere. Those not on the scene can hardly begin to appreciate the bitterness of passion which has existed. Happily, this will now subside, the cause being removed. Ihe company takes high ground for giving up the fight. Asa matter of tact, a continuance of it would be costly to the lottery corporation, and could not help it auy. Since the lottery was ex cluded from the mail, the revenues have dwindled to a point where there is little profit left. Mr. Morris, who is the principal holder of the lottery company and stock, says in his card to the people of the state: “Realizing tli roughly, my associates and I, that we have been incorrect in our opinion of public sentiment on this ques tion of anew charter, and not desiring to see the people of the state of Louisi ana involved iu strife over this question, I hereby declare upon my part and upon the part of my associates that we would not accept or qualify under the proposed amendment to the constiiution, even were it to be adopted by the people at the general election of April next. As the supreme court of the United States has decided the anti-lottery postal law to be constitutional, it is my purpose and that of my associates to respect that law and abstain from violating it in any manner. Our offer was prompted as much by the desire to benefit the people of Louisiana as by the prospect of profit to ourselves from the grant as a business proposition. My associates and I are closely identified with the interests of the people of Lousiana, as we own much property within the borders of the state. Convinced that the granting of another lottery charter ip ’he stato would be the cause of continued agitation and discon tent upon the part of a number of citi zens of Louisiana for the entire period for which the charter might be granted, we would be unwilling tp accept such a charter even though it was given to us without the, payment of $1 of license tax.” THE LETTER A SURPRISE. Mr. Morris’s letter was a surprise to the great majority of the people, al though it had practically been decided on some two weeks ago. After going over the matter, Mr. Morris had come to the conclusion that, in view of the strong opposition that had been aroused to the company, and especially the passage of the anti-lottery postal law, it would be impossible, if the law was declared consti tutional by the United States supreme court, to pay Louisiana $1,250,000 a year and carry on the business with profit. The net earnings of the company were about four million a year. Since it has been shut out of the mails it has shrunk to barelv one-third what it was before, having earnings of about one million three hundred and fifty thousand dollars or one million four hun dred thousand dollars. If the state of Louisiana received $1,250,000 of this, there would be nothing left for the stockholders. These facts were laid before the company, and it was decided to abandon the application for a re newal of the charter in case the court decided the anti-lottery postal law constitutional. When the decision came the paper was drawn up and given so the press. THE QUESTION SETTLED. This disposes of the question of the ex tension of the charter. All the tickets at the coming election will be against the lottery amendments, and the vote will be practically unanimous against it. The charter of the company has still two years to run, until January 1895. The company will serve out its charter, asit can well do, as it now pays the state a bonus of only $40,000 a year. At the end of the term it will wind up its affairs and retire from business. DR. M’KENZIE DEAD. He Was the Acknowledged Greatest Physician of the Century. A London cablegram of Wednesday night says: Sir Morell MacKenzie, the greatest physician, is dead. He had suf fered from bronchitis and asthma, fol lowing his recent attack of influenza. His illness, however, it was considered, had taken a favorable course. His death wm quite sudden. The career of Dr. MacKenzie as a physician is a striking example of force of genius. He early displayed great analytical and surgical power, and, when yet quite young, was regarded by the seniors of a jealous profession as their equal. His fame traveled from England to all parts of the world, where his name came to be regarded as an authority in medicine. BELIEVED HIM. Cora —Didn’t you think he was trying to flatter you when he said you were beau tiful as an angel? Dora—No. • ‘Why?” “Because I thought sc myself.” * NO 43