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VOL. l.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What Is Being Done in Congressional
fiaiis for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOI.D—BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Thursday.— ln the house, Mr. Bur
rows, of Michigan, rising to question of
privilege, called the chair’s attention to
a speech pulished in The Record pur
porting to have been delivered by Wil.
liana J. S one, of Kentucky. To tha
five lines of his own remarks Mr. Stone
appended five chapters of Henry
George’s book on “Protection or
Free Trade.” These chapters run from
twenty—one to twenty-six, ’’There seems
sto be something preconcerted about
this,” continued Mr. Burrows. “One gen
tlemen had quoted from chapters from six
teen to twenty inclusive. Another rep
resentative had quoted chapters eleven
to fifteen. Another gentleman, Mr. Fith
ian, had quoted from chapters six to ten;
another gentlemen had quoted from
chapters one to five. In other
words, under leave to print, there had
been published the entire volume of a
copyright book except three chapters.
Those, he presumed, would be forthcmv
ing. (Laughter.) When _ one member
left off at one chap'er it was taken up by
the next and they had succeeded in get
ting in The Record the entire volume of
a copyright book, to be distributed at
public expense. His point of order was
that under the leave granted to members
to print remarks in The Record it was
not in order to say simply. ‘Tdesire' to
submit a certain volume as expre sing
my views,” and then publish the printed
book in The Record. After a lively dis
cussion Mr. Burrows’ motion was table 1.
Friday —Whether in deference to Urn
religious sentiment or in deference to the*
inclement weather, a number of members
were absent Friday morning, and when
the speaker called the house to order at
noon the vacant seats far outnumbered
those which were occupied. The speak
er laid before the house a hou*e bill to
promote the safety of national banks
with the senate amendment thereto. Mr.
Bacon, of New York, in charge of the
measure, not being present, a request was
made that the bill be permitted to remain
upon the speaker’s table, but to this Mr.
Bland objected, and upon his motion the
bill was referred to the .committee .>■>
banking and currency, which action, in
the opinion of the advocates of the meas
ure means its death. Private business
was then proceeded with.
Saturday. —ln the hou-e, Saturday,
only private business was transacted.
Monday. —Easter Monday opened dis
mally. Rain fell in torrents, and there
was a mixture of chill and warmth about
the atmosphere which was very dis agree
able. The result was that the attendance
of the members in the house was small
when the hour of noon arrived. Mr.
Mcßae, from the committee ou public
lands, moved to suspend the rules and
pass a bill to adjust the swamp land
grants and to fix limitations for filing
claims thereunder. The motion to sus
pend the rules and pass the bill was de
feated. Yeas, 113; nays, 77, not two
thirds voting in the affirmative. The
house then went into committee of the
who'e on the naval appropriation bill.
Mr. Elliott, of South Carolina, favored
the clause for the increse of the navy, in
the precise language in which it was
couched in the pending measure He
believed that the committee on naval
affairs had followed the wisest and safest
course. He was opposed to the motion
of the gentleman from Indiana (Mr.
Holman) to strike out the provision
for tho construction o# one cruiser,
and also to the amendment of
the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Boutelle)
for the construction of two additional
battleships. Mr, Boutelle, in advocating
his amendment, urged the importance of
of immediately proceeding wbh the con
struction of two new battleships. This
was a simple question of whether congress
would perform their duty of the hour
now, or whether it would put off that
performance for twelve mouths. Mr.
Herbert took the ground that, if the
democratic party struck out tho cluase for
r * #
the construction of au additional crui er it
would commit a political bluuder. Mr.
Boutelle’s amendment was then rejected
—65 to 102; ten democrats voting in the
affirmative and no republicans in the
negative. Mr. Cummings, of New York,
offered an amendment for the construc
tion of one battle ship and five torpedo
boats. Lost—73 to 09. Mr. Boutelle
offered an amendment for the construc
tion of two steel gunboats at a cr st of
$500,000 each. Lost—sß to 104. Mr.
Cummings then came forword with an
other amendment of four torpedo cruis
ers, $500,000 each; two light draught
gunboats at $350,000 each, and
two first-class torpedo boats at
f 120,000 eacn, but it met with a similar
fate. A motion then recurring on Mr.
Holman’s motion to strike out the pro
vision for the construction of one new
cruiser was defeated—sß to 120. Mr.
Holman moved to strike anew cruiser
and to substitute therefor four torpedo
boats. The motion was quieted by a
remark by Mr. Boutelle that it would
save time to make four row boats, while
Mr. O’neill, of Missouri, thought rafts
would be preferable. The u otion was
lost—4s to 105. Mr. Comme then rose
and Mr. Boutelle moved to recommit the
bill with instructions to the c mraittee
naval affairs to report it back with the
incorporated in the original amendment
for the construction of two battle ships
at $3,000,000 each, and ten torpedo
boats at 120,000 each. The motion was
defeated —yeas, 61; nays, 184.
fflate of late Hcttig.
THE SENATE.
Thursday —ln the senate, t.t the close
of the routine morning bu-iuess, in the
course of which the resolutions of the
Boston merchants favoring the repeal of
the stiver law of 1800 were presented,the
calendar was taken up.
Friday— Only routine business was
transacted in the senate Friday when ad
journment was had until Monday.
Monday. —The familiar figure of ex
Senator Edmunds was seen in the senate
chamber at the opening of Monday’s ses
sion of the senate. While Secret u v V>-
Cook was reading the journal of last
Thursday, Mr. Edmunds moved around
on the republican side and received
greetings from the senators of both polit
ical parties. The first business transact
ed after the reading of the journal was
the announcement by Vice President
Morton that he had received a com
munication in the uature of a petition
from James P. Young, late chief
executive eierk, to be laid be
fore tne senate, ..men wiL, Morton
added, be laid upon the tabic, it hiving
been printed. Mr. Vest introduced a
bill to prohibit the contracts by the post
master-general with any steamship com
pany making unjust* discrimination
iigaiuL. any p .n, of the United States as
to imports by vessels carrying foreign
mails. In connection with the bill, and
before asking its reference to the com
mittee on commerce, Mr. Vest said he
desired.to submit certain resolutions
of he merchants’ exchange of
the city of St. Louis. Mr. Sher
man, the chairman of the for
< ian filiations committee, gave notice in
the senate that he would on Tuesday ask
the attention of the senate to the Chinese
restor tion bill. It was necessary, he
said, that it should be passed within tea
days, as present legislation on the sub
j ct would, under the certain con-
struction of it, expire some time in the
month of Mav next. Senators Vest,
Cockrell and Daniel called the attention
of the sen ite to the alleged discrimina
tion in i ie by the United States and Bra
' zilian Steamship company against the mer
chants and produce dealers of the south
and west by refusal to land at the
port of Newport News, coffee shipped
from Bra/. I on account of the objections
by the merchants of New York. Mr.
Vist presented the resolutions of the St.
Louis merchant’s exchange, protesting
against the discrimination a3 being a
blow aimed at the commerce of the west
and south, and he also offered a bill to
remedy the evil. Mr. Daniel stated lie
had received a number of resolutions to
ah f
early'day and address the senate upon
this unjust discrimination. Mr. Cock
rell supplemented these statements by
pn senting resolutions of the Wholesale
Grocers’ Association, of St. Louis, to the
same effect. The bill and resolutions on
the subject were referred to the commit
tee on commerce.
NOTES.
The postmaster general has notified
Speaker Crisp that free delivery will be
established in Americus, Ga., ou the first
of June.
The president has decided to appoint
Attorney General Miller to the vacancy
on the supreme bench. But the appoint
ment may oc delayed some time tor the
attorney-general to get the business of
his department in shape to leave it.
Representative Hitt, of Illinois, will,
perhaps, be appointed minister to France
to succeed Whitelaw Reid.
Judge Allen Fort appeared before the
house committee on interstate and foreign
commerce Friday and made an argument
in favor of an amendment to the inter
state commerce laws in favor of extend
ing the powers of the commerce commis
sion. He was representing the conven
tion of the state railroad commissioners
and they want the interstate commission
to have the power to enforce its findings.
The committee will probably report a bill
of the character asked.
The United States and Chile have de
cided to play quits. Diplomatic rela
tions are to be severed between the two
governments on account of both yet
harboring anger over the recent contro
versy. Minister Moutt left Washington
some time ago to enter the Chilean con
gress. Chile declined to send another
representative to Washington. Asa
const queuce M nister Egan has been
grante Ia leave of absence to come home.
He will not return, and no one will be
rent in his place during the present ad
ministra'ion.
For Public Buildings.
The house committee on public build
ings Friday completely negatived the
supposition that, in persuance of an econ
omical policy, the construction of new
public buildings w T as to be very much
restricted, for it presented favorable re
ports upon twenty-three bills, authorizing
the construction of new buildings, as
well as upon two bills increases of origi
nal appropriations. The bills reported
were as follows: At Cumberland, Ind.;
Gardiner, Maine; Newport News, Va.;
Laredo, Texas ; Brunswick, Ga.;
Ann : ston, Ala.; Hastings, Nebraska;
Joliet, III.; Spokane Falls, Wash.; Ann
Arbor, Mich.; Boise City, Idaho; Helena,
Mout.; Durham, N. C.; Massillon, Ohio;
Gallipolis, Ohio; Suspension Bridge, N.
Y.; Brockton, Mass.; Bedford City, Ya.;
Cheyenne, Wyo.; Waterbury, Conn.;
Clinton, Iowa; Providence, 11. 1., and
Nashua, N. H. Also increasing the limit
of cost of building at Paterson, N. J.,
and Kansas City, Mo. Also for the sale
of the old custom house at Louisville,
Ky. All of the bills were placed upoa
the calendar.
Ilural .Mall Delivery.
The resolution reported to the senate,
by Mr. Mitchell, of Ortgon, appropria
ting $200,000 for the continuation of the
postmaster general’s successful experiment
in extending the free collection and de
livery of mail into villages and farming
TRENTON, GA. TRIDAY, APRIL 22,1892.
districts is one of the mauy outgrowths i t
the agitation which business men ano :
country people have been prosecuting i
vigorously for the last three or fouji
months. A business mau of Minneapolis
has been laying a great many valuable]
facts before the newspapers and the peoi
pie. In a circular lately received at the
postoftice department he says: “It ij
a wonder that the farmer who, during
the long winter hours, has so much
leisure for self improvement, for self-ed
ucation does not avail himself of it? Is
it a wonder that he is referred to by his
‘city cousins’ as ‘moss back, a greeny, a
hayseed,’ when, as a matter of fact, he
might be the most culightened of any
class of our population? The original
expense of a newspaper, periodical or
other literature, is trifling compared with
the immense amount of benefit derived
from it; often a single hint, a recipe, a
suggestion, a word of advice is worth the
subscription price of a dozen papers for a
year, to siy nothing of the general ad
vantages obtained in being kept posted
in regard to the markets of the world,
and the moral ii fluence a good newspaper
has over a household.
Mail Hnbnidy.
The Atlantic coast liue mail subsidy
matter, over which there bus been quite
a fight, has been settled by the house
post-office committee, and they have re
ported in favor of continuing the sub
sidy. The appropriation last year was
$295,000 for the fast mail service between
Washington aud Tampa. Under the
contract between the post-office depart
ment and the coast line, however, only
$190,000 was paid. The committee
therefore decided to m*ke the appro
priation this year $196,000. As the
postmaster-general recommended an en
tire discontinuance of the subsidy there
will be a fight on it in the house, but as
this road has received a subsidy
fer fourteen y-ars, the chances are
it will be continued for a while
yet. Some of the southern and south
western congressmen think if the
coast line subsidy is to be continued the
Piedmont Air-Line, which runs the fast
cst mail service of any railroad entering
the south, should likewise receive addi
tional compensation. P. rhaps an amend
ment to the bill to that effect will be of
fered, when it comes up, in either the
house or tbo senate. The Air-Line peo
ple claim that their fast vestibuled train
would pay if they received the addition
al mail compensation allowed the coast
une. Ihe iMew Orleans, l exas ana oen
tral and South American mails go over
tjjyLU'yJM-ThSX AfliUtftfUafa mu Lirie
one day is saved in the time to Mexican
and Central and South American coun
tries .
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
Jersey City’s Courthouse Burned—Dis
astrous Blazes at Other Points.
A fire occurred Wednesday morning in
the city hall at Jersey City, N. J., while
the great crowd still waited about the
building to hear the result of tbe charter
election. Great excitement prevailed
among the large number of persons who
witnessed the fire, and many of them on
account of their defeat by the republicans,
expressed the opinion that the fire had its
origin in some dire political plot. The
fire was of a mysterious character, as
there was nothing infiamable or likely to
cause flame in the office where it
ated. *
The press, stereotyping and corsposir§
rooms of the Evening Star office, at Wash
ington City, were burned Wednesday
morning. Several large and expensive
presses were ruined. The rear extension
of i he building—four stories—was com
pletely gutted. No estimate of the losses
has as yet been made but was well in
sured.
The great mercantile house of Henry
Ellenßon at Leavenworth, Kansas, was
partly destroyed by fire Tuesday night.
The building covered half a block end
wss three stories high, and filled to the
roof with dry goods, clothing, boots and
shoes, the entire stock being valued at
$150,000. The stock of dry goods was
nearly all destroyed. The loss cannot
be estimated as yet. About SBO,OJO in
surance.
The Manitowoc Manufacturing compa
ny’s plant at Manitowoc, Wis., was burn
ed Tuesday; loss $200,000; insurance
SB,OOO. Two hundred workmen are
thrown out of work. The company made
theater, school, and church furnituro.
The smelter of the Butte and Boston
company, at Battle City, Montana, was
destroyed by fire Tuesday. The loss is
estimated at $250,000; insurance $60,000.
The fire was caused by the intense heat
from the furnace. The eight O’Hara
furnaces, six Bruckners and four reverba
tory furnaces were totally destroyed and
five hundred men were thrown out of em
ployment.
RIOTOUS BELGIANS.
Factory Operatives Make a Fight for
an Increase in Wages.
A cblegram of Wednesday from
Prague, Belgium, says: Operatives em
ployed in the linen mills at Nacheod, in
Bohemia, went on a stiike, and finding
that they were not likely to succeed in
their demnnds, they began to act in a
riotous manner. Threats were made that
they would destroy the mills. Later the
strikers assumed a very menacing atti
tude, and a large force of gendarmes
tried to disperse them. The strikers
were desperate and a pitched battle fol
lowed. The gendarmes drew their sabres
and struck right and left, while the
strikers used sticks and stones as weap
ops. Several of the rioters were badly
cut by the sabres of the gendarmes.
Lnews IN GENERAL
Happenings of the Day Culled from Gm
\ Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
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fjA’HAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
h* OWK COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
| The Massachuseets house of re present
! ives has passed a bill favoring ten
mrs as a day’s work for railroad ern
pyes.
The New York assembly, on Friday,
issed by a vote of 70 to 34, a bill giY
ig women the right of suffrage in all
’.ate elections.
A Loudon cablegram of Sunday says:
ominunication with the continent is
.ill interrupted, as a result of the snow
orms of Saturday.
Colonel Trumeu A. Merrimau, ouc of
ne best known newspaper men < f New
brk city, died suddenly Saturday. He
ws a member of the forty-ninth con
fess.
A cablegram of Sunday announces the
cath of Henri DcKock, French play
right and novelist. He was born in
'•aris in 1821, aud was a son of the great
loveliet, Paul DeKock.
Saturday night the Chamber of Com
nerce, of New York, gave a banquet to
Wiitelaw Reid as an evidence of their
ipireciution of his efforts in behalf of
Anerican commerce while minister to
Hance.
Cablegrams of Friday from Vienna,
Justria, state that an epidemic of black
c-aallpox is raging in Poland, especially
oi the Galician frontier. The disease is
vtry fatal, most of those who are at
tacked dying on the third day.
A dispatch from Olean, N. Y., says:
The oldest man in this part of the state,
John Loftus, died Sunday, aged 111
yiars. He was a veteran of the Crimean
war and a survivor of the Waterloo. He
hid several medals for foreign war ser
vice.
A report from the western part of the
Creek nation states that a cyclone passed
through that section of the country a
night or two ago, destroying over a dozen
houses and many barns, killing three
people and a large number of horses aud
cattle.
The Interstate National bank at New
f v i-V closed its doors Friday afternoon
de ; positfifs , inf, '£w.'bixg ; -Jw '’j’fer
cent of the entire deposit, and within a
week a dividend of 50 per cent or more
will be paid to the stockholders.
At 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon two
heavy shocks of earthquake were felt in
Por.land, Ore., and points neatly. The
vibration was tho wco. lOStut; can.
and lasted aboif ten seconds in£ach ctoc.
Many persons became frightened when
tho buildings began to tremble and
rushed into tl* damage done.
The total visible supply of cotton for
the world week ending April 16th was
4,205,181 bales, of which 3,629,481 bales
are American, against 3,218,478 and
1.552,078 bales respectively last year.
Receipts at all interior towns 26,847 bales.
Receipts at plantations, 42,414 bales.
Crop in sight, 8,600,983 Ijul§m9
A telegram of Friday from Toronto,
A. G. Brown, the default
ing broker, has fled to Mexico. It is
also stated that his pilferings will aggre
gate over one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. They have grown to this figure
from a few thousand. They nearly all
consisted of forgery of powers of at
torney by which he transferred cus
tomers’ stocks.
At Anglesola, a village in the province
of Lerda, Spain, a remarkable tragedy
occurred while Good Friday services
were progressing in a crowded church.
While the priest was on his knees before
the altar, a man armed with a shert
sword and a revolver sprang from before
the pulpit. With one blow of the sword
he nearly decapitated the priest, killing
him instantly. The assassin escaped.
The London Times’ Madrid correspon
dent says that the difficulty regarding
American missionaries in the Caroline
islands has been satisfactorily arranged.
Spain consents to the return of the mis
sionaries to the islands and agrees that
they shall not be molested in their mis
sionary work provided they do not inter
fere with local government matters or
questions between the island authorities
and natives.
A Chicago dispatch of Thursday states
that another hitch lias occurred in the
work of the national democratic conven
tion wigwam and several days valuable
time will probably be lost in conse
quence. Property owners on the lake
front demanded a deposit of $50,000 cash
before permitting the work to proceed.
This raises the amount of subscriptions
to $65900, and thus fur the urrangement
committee has secured only $41,000.
a aispatcn ot Sunday trom Havana,
Cuba, reports that during the evening
services at the church San Nicolas, Thurs
day, a terrific explosion occurred at the
church door. No great damage was
done to the church and nobody hurt, but
the priests and worshipers dispersed in a
panic. Nothing of this kind has ever
before occurred in Cuba, but the frag
ments of metal found demonstrate that
the anarchist methods have reached the
Spanish colonies.
While a freight train on the Rome,
Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad was
standing on the track in Watertown, N.
J., Monday another heavy freight train,
going twenty miles an hour, ran into the
rear cars and damaging twenty-five oth
ers. Three men were on the engine of
the rear train. The engineer, firemen
and brakeman all escaped unhurt and all
acKnowicage mat mey were asieep.
They had been on the road so many con
secutive hours that they were worn out.
The engine was wn eked. Nobody was
killed or serious'y in jured
HOW IS BUSINESS?
I)un & Co/9 Report for Week Elided
April 16.
It. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for
week ended April 15th says: During all
this yi ar busim ss news has been curiously
sectional. Western cities are gaining
almost without exception, doing the
largest bu-iuess ever known, and inclined
to Tesent the suggestion that it is in any
degree b low expectations. The south
all the year has been struggling with un
avorab e conditions, doing less business
ban a .year ago, and looking in vain for
material change. The east has been
doiog a large business, rather less
than a year ago, but on the whole, less
than many traders expected to do this
\ear. Tnis, with very thin profits,makes
the season disappointing to many. These
conditions continue, and are reflected the
returns of the past week. Yet the vol
ume of trade in the whole country has
been larger than in any previous year.
The iron trade illustrates the situation.
The output of furnaces April Ist was 185,-
482 tons, against 193,902 tons March Ist,
123,483 a year ago, when the great strike
v sin progress. The reduction in the
output of pig iron is clearly necessary,
dnee the consumption has been 10,000
ons weekly below tbe output. Unsold
•t> ck as officially reported were 132,330
tons greater on April Ist than January
Ist.
REPORTS FROM OTHER CITIES.
News from cities outside of New York
is rather better as to the est, cheering
as usual from the west, but somewhat
less satisfactory as to tbe south. Balti
more notes improved exports-of bread
ituffs, a fairly active trade in canned
jo ids with stocks not large and the com
pletion of anew tin plate plant to turn
out 1,800 boxes weekly. Business at
Little Rock is depressed; at Nashville
and Memphis, dull; somewhat improved
it Montgomery, but rather 11 it at New
Orltans and slackening at Savannah.
Speculative markets have been more ac
tive, wheat falling 3£ cents with sales of
94,000,000 bushels at New York and corn
1 cent, while oats are slightly higher.
Westefn receipts of wheat c mtinue at
the rate of 3,690,000 bushels weekly,
with exports shrinking, but western re
ceipts ol corn have beeu 8,000,000 bush-
TTifVffrosrte iu,.
exceeding last year,s, and the price has
advanced three-eighths during the
week, with enormous speculative tians
actions—no less than 850,000 bales in
New York. No change is seen in pork
products; coffee is a quarter weaker and
oil a cent stronger. Speculation in ex
ports has not been particularly active or
strong, but the constant demand for good
dividend payers sustains the list.
The financial situation is remarkably
free from unfavorable signs. Collections
in nearly all parts of the country are bet
ter than usual, though delay is seen at
some points in the south, and money
markets are everywhere amply supplied.
Nor is there reason to apprehend a dis
turbance <>n account of foreign trade.
Business failures occurring throughout
tbe country during last week number for
the United States, 191; Canada, 35; a to
tal of 226.
A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER
In Which a Deputy Sheriff Is Killed
by a Desperado.
A dispatch of Friday afternoon from
Murphy, N. 0., says: Last Saturday
night another of Bill Murphy’s victims
bit the dust. This time Charley Ray,
deputy sheriff of Monroe county, Tennes
see. After killing his brother, Medlin
and Martin, he sent the sheriff of Monroe
county word that he didn’t want to hurt
him, but he must not come and try to
arrest him. The sheriff did not go until
a warrant was sworn out and placed in
his hands for Murphy’s arrest. He then
summoned a posse of fifteen men and,
with Charley Ray, his deputy, they went
to Jellico. It was after dark as they ap
proached Tom Miller’s house, where Bill
Murphy and his brothers, Arch
and Jim, were. They heard
crowd approaching and
got out of the house in the chimney cor
ner. Sheriff McKean ordered them to
surrender and they opened fire on the
posse with Winchesters. A hot fire from
both sides was kept up for a few min
utes, and Charley Ray, the deputy, fell
with a bullet in his brain. Then the
sheriff’s posse, except Dan Murphy, ran.
The sheriff was shot in the shoulder, but
fortunately for him the ball struck the
breech of hia gun, tplintering it, and
saved hia life. Th3 Murphys then
made a dash for the house again, which
is built of logs, with only one door, and
begau firing through the cracks. The
whole crowd then precipitately* fled,
leaving the dead body of Ray where he
fell.
MORE TROUBIE EXPECTED.
A messenger was aent to Sweetwater
for medical aid for the sheriff, anti to
telegraph the governor for troops. More
trouble is expected, as Murphy will ‘not
be taken alive. He las s akid off Li?
grave by the side of his dead brother.
A Marble Trust Being Formed.
According to a dispatch of Thursday
from Murphy,N.C.,the combining of the
southern marble interests is becoming an
assured feet. All the quarries between
Marietta, Ga., and Murphy though own
ed by half a dozen different corporations,
are really controlled by the Southern
Marble Company. The agents of the
combine are gobbling up all the marble
lands available.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The Bews of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
Sheriff Lincoln, of Lowndes county,
Miss., says the loss of life by the floods
iu the Tombigbee valley has been greatly
exaggerated.
A crowd of drunken men fired on the
State troops at Coal Creek Thursday
night. No one was hurt. There were
from 200 to 300 shots fired,
A fire at Savannah, Ga., Sunday morn
ing, injured the stock iu Saul’s ten cent
store, Sampson’s fruit store and Field’s
furnishing store to the extent of $12,000.
Four hundred government tents were
received in Columbus, Miss., Sunday
consigned to the mayor, who is distribu
ting them to those made homeless by the
recent flood.
The state board of prison inspectors of
Tennessee have decided that they had no
authority to interfere with the working
of the state convicts on the streets of
Nashville, and declined to interfere.
According to a San Antonio dispatch
of Friday the receivers of the San An
tonio and Arkansas Pass railroad have
refused to treat with Gran ! Chief Clark,
of the Order of Railway Conductors, and
a strike of the trainmen of the road will
be ordered.
An Ocala, Fla., special says two men
were murdered Friday night near Her
nando, Citrus county. Their names are
Robert Stevenson, paymaster of the Em
pire State Phosphate company, of that
place, and Mr. Payne, the mail carrier.
They are said to have beeu killed for
their money.
A Vicksburg, Miss., dispatch of Mon
day says: Serious trouble is apprehended
at Hardtimes, La., where 300 to 400
levee laborers are out on a strike. The
men claim to have been paid in paper
subject to a heavy discount, and they
were obliged to oay extortionate prices
for supplies. They ure utterly destitute
and said to be desperate.
The immense plant of the Sample
Lumber company, at Hollins, Clay coun
ty, Ala.,burned Sunday,causing & loss of
seventV-fi v C> 1ol, '““ rl dollar*, with an in
feet of lumber was destroyed. The fire
started in the dry kiln and everything,
went. The plant was oue of the largest
in the south. It will be rebuilt at once.
A fire at Martinsville, Henry county,
Va., Friday night, destroyed Self’s livery
stable, Mountain View hotel,
shop, Stevens’ saddlery, the postotnee,
T. A. Ransom’s store, Davis’ grocery
s’ore, the county jail, and two saloons.
The courthouse and Trent’s hotel caught
fire, but the flames were extinguished.
The mail matter in the postoffice was
stved. The loss is estimated at $30,000.
Insurance considerably less than half.
A special from Huntington, W. Va.,
says: Friday evening as the Chesapeake
and Ohio train No. 13, west bound, was
coming into the city, Mrs. Kirk and her
daughter, Zells, were walking along the
track, and stepped from one track to the
other, not seeing the passenger train ap
proaching and before they could get off
the train struck them. Mrs. Kirk was
instantly killed while her daughter lived
only a few minutes.
There have been a number of incendiary
fires at San Antonio, Texs, in the last
three weeks. Sunday night three fires
started simultaneously in the business
portion of the city, entailing a loss of
SIOO,OOO. Citizens stood guard all night
over ihe city. The city marshal, Shar
dein. received an anonymous note saying
the fires have just begun. A meeting of
cit zona has been called to devise means
to protect the city and incidentally to
punish the incendiaries if caught.
The last grand democratic rallies of
the campaign in New Orleans were held
Saturday night by the opposing demo
cratic factions. Those favoring the state
ticket headed by S. D. McEnery, for
governor, and the municipal ticket
headed by Joe Fitzpatrick for mayor, had
their meeting in LaFayette square. The
Fostcrites and the citizens, having the
municipal ticket headed by Hon. Joseph
Shakespeare, for mayor, the present in
cumbent, held their meeting on Canal
street, where speeches were made.
A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: The
Patapsco Guano Cos., raises in the United
States circuit court the question of the
validiiy of the present tonnage tax on
fertiliz rs. Two years ago the license
tax of $-500 annually was declared
by the federal court unconstitu
tional. The legislature then levied a
tax of 25 cents a ton, and this the com
pany claims is quite as unconstitutional
as the former direct tax. The company
also contends that more monev is raised
from tins tax than is required for the
analysis of fertilizers, and that much of
it is disbursed for different objects. The
case is set for hearing before Judge Bond
at Grceoesboro May 7th.
Mnon THAI TURRIT TUfITTRLF.
11l VUAi V rn.rn.mm
“The Convicts and Troops Must Go
When the Leaves Come OwL”
A Knoxville t legam of Saturday says:
The trouble at Coal Creek continues.
The firing on the troops by the miners
has probably brought a long impending
crisis. At Camp Anderson, telegraph
operator, Maddox, is missing. A hint
was dropped by the miners some days ago
that the troop* and convicts would have
to go “when the leaves come out.” All
the miners have quit work and trouble is
looked for every moment.
NO. 8.