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VOL. 11.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What is Being Done in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAT TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
• CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Thursday. —The house was engaged in
doing nothing during the first hour of
its session Thursday morning. A reso
lution making the position of assistant
journal clerk annual instead of one ses
sion, having finally been adopted, the
house (by unanimous consent) went into
a committee of the whole (Mr. Oates, of
Alabama, in the chair) on the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill.
Friday.—lu the house Friday morn
ing the speakei called attention to the
fact that at the time of adjournment
Thursday the sergeant-at-arms had been
given warrants for the arrest, of absent
members. He would now ask the officer
to make his report. Colonel “Ike” Hill
then proceeded to the space in front of
the speaker’s desk to submit his report,
when he was interrupted by Mr. Owens,of
Ohio, with the point of order that after
the adjournment of the house the ser
geant-at-arms had no authority to bring
in the absentees. The speaker replied,
that that was not a question of order It
was a question for the house to decide.,-
Colonel Hill stated that nineteen war
rants had been put in his hands. Two
members be had failed to find; one had
been suddenly called away ou account of
sickness in his family; four were out of
town. He had notified the other twelve
and they had promised to be on hand Fri
day morning. The speaker stated that the
sergeant-at-arms had called on him in the
meantime and asked what he should do
with the members upon whom he served
warrants. The speaker had taken the
liberty to instruct him to notify them to
be present at Friday’s session.
Saturday. —There were not one hun
dred members present when the speaker
called the house to order at noon S itur
day. By unanimous consent the house
went into committee of the whole, Mr.
Oates, of Alabama, in the chair, on the
diplomatic and the consular appropria
tion bill, the pending amendment being
that offered by Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, re
storing the salary of the minister of Ven
ezuela to $7,500, which the hill proposed
to reduce to $5,000. Hitt and Blount
resumed business as tellers, but received
little patronage from the republicans.
However, they were patient, and for al
most an hour awaited the democratic cus (
tomers who were summoned from the
committee rooms by and doorkeep
ers; and their patience was rewarded,
and they were enabled to close up busi
ness with honor. A quorum appeared
and the amendment was lost —19 to 149.
Monday. —Being suspension day in the
house, Mr. Fowler, of New Jersey, moved
to suspend the rules and pass the hill
which authorizes the secretary of the
treasury to grant registers as vessels of
the United States to such foreign built
steamships, now engaged in freight and
passenger business, and sailing in .an es
tablished line from a port in the United
States, as oce of a tonnage of not less
than 8,000 tons and capable of speed of
not less than twenty knots per hour, of
which not less than ninety per cent of
the shares of foreign corporation or as
sociation owning same was owned Jan
uary 1, 1890, and has continued to be
owned until the passage of this act, by
citizens of the United States, provided
that such American owners shall, subse
quent to the date of this law, have built,
or have contracted to build, in American
ship yards, steamships of aggregate ton
nage of not less in amount than that of
steamships so admitted to registry. After
a brief explanation by Mr. Cockran, of
New York, the motion was agreed to and
the bill passed. The Bryan bill, provid
ing for free binding twine,was then taken
up and passed bv a vote of 183 to 47.
three republicans voted for it, and two
democrats (Covert aud Coburn of New
York) voted against it; all the third
party people voted with the democrats.
The bill granting a pension to the sur
vivors of the Indian wars of 1832 to
1842 was also passed. It provides that
the names of the survivors who served
thirty days in the Black Hawk war, the
Creek war, the Cherokee disturbance, or
the Florida war with the Seminole Indi
ans and were honorably discharged, as
well as the survivin'! widows of such
officers or enlisted men, provided such
widows have not re-married, shall bo
placed upon the pension rolls. The pen
sion will be $8 a month. The bill will
undoubtedly pass the senate very soon
aud will become a law at this session of
congress.
THE SENATE.
Thursday -Only routine business was
transacted in the senate. No bills of
unusual importance were considered.
Monday —Numerous petitions were
presented in the senate Monday against
legislation for the closing of the World’s
fair on Sundays. They came from the
states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Wis
consin, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri
and Arkansas. Many of them were
from religious bodies. Also one from a
Methodist church in New Hampshire ur
gently protesting against further
adverse legislation against the Chiuesc.
In presenting the petition for legislation
for the closing of the world’s fair Sun
day, Mr. Vest described it as a
petition.” It had been originally,he said,
addressed to two Ohio senators,and it con
tained a resolution pledging signers to re
fuse, henceforth, to support for any office
or position of trust any senator or mem
ber who should vote for further aid of
any kind for the world’s fair except
on conditions named in the memorials.
Whatever might be his vote or* the ques
tion, he said, he should certainly pav no
iitteutiou to tluu sort of resolution. He
did not hold people who had seut hir.
the petition responsible for it. It had
been obviously prepared in the city of
Washington ns a sort of political black
mail. If that soit of practice were to
continu •, nnct we were expected to vote
lor the bill, which he might believe un
constitutional, he did not want to hold
office on any such conditions. As to clos
ing the world’s fair on ihe Babbath, trap
inestio*’ wm he tore th o committee
of which he was a member, and
was being considered very care
fully. A much more serious question,
however, was as to the expenditures that
had already been made ab mt the Colum
bian exposition, among which he noticed
that of the five millions contributed by
the city of Chicigo $90,000 had been
expended for the location of the exposi
tion in that city. He stated that the
committee which had lately visited Chi
eago Ran Investigated that' question to
see whether the • xpenditure was neces
sary, how it was expended and who got
the money. He had expressed the opin
ion when the bill was first presented in
the senate, that expending live millions
tne city of Chicago would come lo
congress and say that it was necessary,
for the honor of the entire country,
that the exposition should be ol
the people of the United States.
NOTES.
A bill to establish free mail delivery in
towns having a population of five thous
and, or annual pos' office receipts of five
thousand dollars, is pending iii the sen
ate and will probably pass.
An early adjournment of congress is
one of the things earnestly desired by
the majority party in the house, and in
order to attain it, the policy is to pass
the appropriation bills as speedily as pos
sible and send them to the senate, so that
on fiiat body may be fixed the responsi
bility for any possible prolongation of
the session well into the summer. The
promptness with which the senate has
passed the appropriation bills heretofore
sent to it has stimulated the desire for an
early adjournment, and has also increased
the possibility of its accomplishment, if
the house does its part.
Sporlin* Conirressineu.
During the past week the race course
has proven more attractive to the average
member of cougress than the capitol.
Since the races commenced it has been
almost impossible after 2 o’clock in the
afternoon to get a quorum in either house
of congress, but should the roll be called
at the race track there is little doubt but
that a quorum would answer to their
names. On Thursday the house
had to suspend business and send
the sergeant-at-arms out to the
track to arrest absentees and
compel their attendance, hut the track is
five miles from the capitol, and although
the officers of the house captured several
carriage loads of members they did not
return with them until those members
who were at the capitol became tired of
waiting and adjourned the house.
Nineteen of the arrested members were
carried before the bar of the house and
put on trial Friday; but as usual all
made excuses and were only punished by
their colleagues making sport of them for
a time.
BUSINESS REVIEW
For Past Week as Compiled by l)un
& Cos.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade foi
week ending April 29th says: Business
failures occurring throughout the country
during week number for the United
States 186, Canada. More favorable
weather in many parts of the country has
brought better reports of business. Un
doubtedly distribution has been much
retarded by the backward season and the
condition of country roads and in some
quarters collections have been slow on
that account. But the improves ent in
such quarters for the week has beeu gen
eral aud meanwhile the volume of busi
ness continues to surpass ali previous
records, gaining but little and yet gain
ing at the east over last year and falling
behind only about X percent at the south
in the aggregate, notwithstanding the
great depression in the price of cotton.
The volume of trade has been over ten
per cent greater than in any other year
at the west, though on the Pacific slope
some decrease appears.
At Philadelphia the dry goods trade
equals expectations; Baltimore, near-by
trade improves, though the southern
trade is smaller, and the city supplies a
wider territory. At Philadelphia no im
provement is seen in iron, and pig sells fair
ly,butat lowprices; while finished iron is
produced in largo quantities, though
makers complain of unprofitable rates.
The south still reports an unsatisfactory
trade at many points, though prospects
are considered brighter at Savannah, and
collections are good at Nashville. Trade
at New Orleans is quiet, the demand for
cotton being moderate; sugar, quiet but
firm, and rice steady with a moderate de
mand.
A striking feature of the week has been
an immense and unprecedented trade in
dress goods. Sdes of wool at Boston,
Philadelphia and New York have been
88,748 576 pounds this year against 82.-
058,426 last year, a gain of 8 per cent.
Both receipts and exports of cotton fall
behind last year’s Money has been un
disturbed and easy. The treasury has
paid out $2,100,000 more gold than it has
taken in, hut has taken in $700,000 more
silver than the increase of small notes.
Merchandise reports for April show a
gain of 6 per cent over last year at New
York, while in imports there is some de
crease. Though railroad earnings con
tinue large stocks are dull and rathei
lower than a week ago.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, MAY 6,1892.
NEWS IN GENERAL
Happenings of the Day Cnlled from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
'
Returns thus far received of municipal
elections held-an France, except in Paris,
Monday, shdinhat the republicans are
ahead. jgjt
A Monday states that the
loss by SurrTCy’s fire in Winnipeg, Mani
toba, aggregate s $125,000. Four blocks
were burned over.
•
A Philadelphia dispatch of Saturday
says: Six members of “the Devil’s Auc
tion” company have been removed from
the debris of the Grand Central theatre
fire.
The British steamer Glengoil, from
Brazil, which arrived at New York
Tuesday morning, reports having lost
three of her crew while at Santos from
yellow fever.
The house of representatives of Con
necticut met at Hartford, Tuesday, after
a recess of nearly three months. A few'
appropriations for contingent expenses
were passed and the house adjourned
until September 27th.
At the ministeri il council at Madrid,
Spain, Tuesday, the cabinet decided in
favor of the introduction in the cortes of
a law providing for the trial of dyna
miters without jury.
Joseph Silver, twenty years old, died
Tuesday evening in Pennsylvania hospit
al. He is the third who has died since
the fire from his injuries, making nine
victims in all.
Fifty cases of crunpowder which had
been shipped for Venezuela was seized at
San Francisco Friday at the instance of
the Venezuelan consul and taken to the
government magazines.
A quantity of explosives was seized
Sunday in an anarchist residence at Ville
Momble, near Paris, France, the police
having got wind of the plot to destroy
the Hotel de Ville. One person was ar
rested and a number of others escaped.
Reports reached Berlin, Germany, on
Monday, that over a ton of dynamite and
gunpowder had been stolen from the
magazines at Corfu, a Greek island in the
Mediterranean, where the'king of Greece
makes his summer residence. No details
are given. *
A bill in equity has been tiled in the
United States circuit court at Philadel
phia by the government against the sugar
trust, to prevent the consummation of
the recent deal by which the trust ob
t lined control of the individual refineries
ia that city.
The Princess opera house, at Winni
peg, Manitoba, and six stores in the
block burned Sunday. Ruso & Swift’s
‘ Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company lost
everything, including the special scen
ery, etc. The loss will be
very heavy.
On Tuesday the commissioner of pat
ents issued t.hree patents to Thomas A.
Edison, assignor, to the Western Union
Telegraph Company, of New York, cov
ering features of the speaking telephone.
The original application for patents was
filed in 1877. A
At a meeting of the workingmeu eKlel
egates held in London, Sunder
letters were read from Lord Salisbury and
Balfour, saying they could not promi-e
to receive a deputation to set forth their
claims for the establishment of the eight
hour day law.
A telegram says that the grand circus
at Troyes, France, was set on fire Sun
day, presumably, by the anarchists, and
burned to the ground. The flames
spread to and destroyed three adjacent
houses. While the fire wa9 burning a
loud explosion took place in the interior
of the circus.
A cablegram of Friday from Melbourne,
Australia, says: The Deeming trial has,
been continued. Miss Bounseville iden
tified Deeming, who promised to marry
her, giving the name of Baron Swanston.
The jeweler’s clerk identified the prison
oner as the sneak thief who stole two
rings from the store, one of which he
gave Miss Rounseville.
A Washington dispatch of Friday says:
It has been arranged that the ratification
of the Behring sea treaty of arbitration
between the United States and Great
Britain shalPbe exchanged at London
instead of Washington, as originally
contemplated. The change was made in
order to expedite the finally act of nego
tiation. Hon. Robert Lincoln, United
States minister to England, has been
empowered to acton behalf of the United
States, and Lord Salisbury will act for
her majesty’s government.
The British steamship Tynehead, load
ed with 7,000,000 pouuds of wheat for
the Russian famine sufferers, sailed from
New York Sunday for Riga. The cargo
forms a contribution of the state of lowa
and will be delivered to the Russian suf -
ferera. Two hundred and thirty-two car
loads of grain were received at Brook
lyn, but this was more than the Tyue
head could carry away. What remains
will he sold and the proceeds forwarded
to Russia. A miscellaneous lot of other
provisions also went on the Tynehead.
According to a London cablegram thc
strong efforts for her se ease, made by
the friends of Mrs. Florence Ethel Os
borne, sentenced to nine months’ impris
onment for the theft of pearls from her
friend, Mrs. Hargreaves, aud the subse
quent perjury, have beeu successful. It
was argued by many persons that the
state had no light to put the stigma of
prison birth upon the child to be borne
by Mrs. Osborne. • This and other argu
ments were brought to heir upon the
home secretary, wi’h th- re*ul l *h>’t on
Saturday he issued an order for Mrs. Os *
borne’j n>l. • ~
MAY DAY WAS QUIET,
Although Workingmen in Large Num
bers Celebrate the Day.
A London cablegram says: The ex
pected and long prepared for labor dem
onstrations were held Sunday in most of
the large cities of the c mtineat and va
rious manufacturing and mining districts.
In many places the authorities had for
bidden the holding of processions, and
the workingmen observed the holiday by
taking their families to suburban resorts
and passing the nay in a quiet manner.
In view of the many outrages perpetrated
by the anarchists duriug the past
few mouths, and many threats that have
been made to make the day memor
able for its disorders the authorities in
all continental cities adopted most strin
gent precautions to prevent or suppress
any outbreak. Every city has its contin
gent of socialists aud anarchists, and
May day was the appointed time at which
they were to show themselves in force
and to give proof of their power.
Thus iar advices received show that in
most places the day wus passed harmless
ly if not quietly. There were assemblies
of workingmen, where speeches of an
inflimmatory character were made; but
the police were generally ou the alert,
and good order, if it was not absolutely
preserved, was easily restored when
breeches of order occurred.
May day was observed in London in a
very quiet manner. A large procession
formed on the Thames embankment and
inarched to Hyde Park, where monster
meetings were held. A large crowd of
speakers addressed the crowd, including
Cunningham Graham, the socialist member
of the house of commons, Tom Mann and
Ben Tiliett, labor leaders, and Hepniak,
a Russian nihilist.
Dispatches from Paris, Berlin, Vienna,
Madrid and Rome say the day was ob
served by parades, etc., but no riotous
demonstrations wore made.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Industrial Development in the Week
Ending April SOtli.
The Trade-man, (Chattanooga. Tenn.,) in its
review of the new industries established in the
Southern States for the week ending April 30th,
says that the reports received from its corre
spondents throughout the Southern States in
dicate that the weather of the week has been
very f.vorahle, and has been generally taken
advantage of by fanners. Cotton planting is
far advanced, and r< ports show that the acre
age will be reduced from 20 to“3sper cent.
sixty-one new industries are reported as es
tablished or incorporated during the week—to
gether with 8 enlargements of manufactories,
and 28 important new bu ldings. Among the
new industries are: Agricultural implement
works with $50,000 capital at Atlanta. Ga.,
brick works at Cleveland. Tenn., a SIOO,OOO
br weryat Huntingdon, W. Va., m button fac
tory at Dayton, Tenn., canneriw at Guyton,
Ga., and Aiki iJ S C. aud cot A comjesses
at PlantersvillWand Waxahachi* Tex. A dis
tillery will be built at Paris, Tenn., eleciric
light plant at Madisonville,
Kv., and feßrownsvme, Tenn.. and a
grain at Renner, Tex., Flouring
mills -.will be built at Clarksville,
Tenn., Elizabeihton, Ky., and Graham, Tex.;
corn mdls at Nashville, Tenn., and Rossville,
Ga. glass works st Fairmont. W.Va.. a $50,-
000 harness factory at Parkersburg, W. Va., an
ice factory at Li tie Rock, Ark., an-1 a $500,000
refrigerating works at Wheeling, \V. Va., ma
o'-, i % shops at Sumter, S. C., plow works at
T. mp'o, Tex., wire works Ala.,
and a $200,000 manufacturing and power com-
New Braunfels, Tex. A $250,000 oil
has been charleredar Columbia, S. C.,
one with SIOO,OOO capital at Dallas,
Tex., a $50,000 one at Itaska, Tex.,
and one at Raleigh, N. C. A rice mill
■with $250,000 capital has been established
at New Orleans, La., a shoe fa -t >rv at Bristol,
Tenn., and a large tannery at Johusou City,
Tenn. Cotton mi Is are report'd at Chester,
S. C., capital SIOO,OOO, at Camden and Den
mark. 8. C., at Huntsville. Ala-, and Rome,Ga ,
and a large tobacco packing house at Qmi cy,
Fla. A box factory will be built at Statesville,
N. C., handle works at Camden, Ark., lumber
,c mpanies are reported at Fort Motte, S. C.,and
Wittsburg, Ark., planing mills at Elmore, Ark.,
and Hawkins, lexas, saw and shingle mills at
Decatur, Ala., an 1 Marshall and Pittsburg,
Texas, a stave mill at Camden, Ark., and a
$30,000 wheel factory at Birmingham, Ala.
Enlargements of co-ton mills are report and at
Natchez, Miss., and Rosalie, Ga., of furniture
works at Kuoxville, Tenn., of novelty works at
Middleshorough, Ky., of a tannery at Salem,
Va.. aud of phosphate works at Anthony, Fla.
Among the uni.dings of the week are business
houses at Birmingham. Ala., Knoxvil e and
Morisstown, Tenn-, Little Rock, Ark., Rome,
G.i., Pensacola, Fla., Vicksburg, Miss., and
Salem, Va., colleges and school buildings at
Abingdon and Richmond, Va-, Atlanta, Ga.,
Moriistown and Sweetwater, Tenn., and Belle
view, Fla.. a $40,000 court house at Carrollton,
Ga,. railroad depots at Albany, Ga., and Liber
tv Hill, Texas, and a SIBO,OOO opera house at
Knoxville, Tenn.
AN EDITORIAL JAUNT.
The Georgi i Weekly Press Association
to Visit Mexico.
Extensive preparations are being made
by the Georgia Weekly Press Association
for their coming pleasure trip to Mexico.
Col. B. W. Wrenn, general passenger
agent of the East Tennessee, has notified
Secretary Barker, of the association, that
he will be glad to pass the members over
his line from Rome, Ga., to Meridian,
Miss., a distance of 304 miles. At Me
ridian close connections will be made
with the Queen and Crescent for Shreve
port or New Orleans. Other roads will
probably extend like cotftpeips.
ANOTHER THEATRE FIRE.
A Woman and Child Burned to
Death—Narrow Escapes.
Sunday night a fire started in the rear
of the stage at Loeb’s Variety theater at
Leadville, Colorado, and in a few mo
ments the entire place was ablaze. The
flames spread rapidly, and before they
w'-re got under conttol half of the block
on State street was gutted. There were
a number of narrow escapes. One wo
rn* i and a little child were burned to
death. Ihe damage is estimated at
$40,000, and about SIO,OOO insurance.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The Hews of Her Progress PortrjyeJ in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraph)
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
Afire at Key West, Fla., Friday after
noon, destroyed seventeen hours in less
than two hours. Loss, $15,000; insur
ance, SIO,OOO.
The United States vigs-ls Philadelphia
and Kearsage have been ordered to Sa
vannah, Ga., to participate in the annual
May celebration to Degin ou the 9ih inst.
Friday morning The new Georgia. Car
olina and Northern railr ad delivered to
a firm in Atlanta, Ga., seventy bags of
coffee shipped from Baltimore Isst Tues
day evening. This is considered very
fast time.
Fire Friday night at Reed City, Miss.*
destroyed all the business houses and res"
idences on both sides of Main street-
No business block was left standing two
hours after the flames broke out. The
loss is very heavy, but was not given in
the dispatch.
Dispatches of Friday from Corpus
Christi, Texas, state that an immense
amount of food and relief supplies from
the north for the starving Mexicans at
Rio Grande City, have been received at
that place and are now being distributed.
Over 5,000 familes were fed Thursday.
Two hundred men on the Kentucky
Central and Louisville aud Nashville rail
railroads, including transfer hands,
switchmen, yardmen, section hands and
laborers, went on a strike Monday on ac
count of a reduction in wages from $1.35
to $1.25 per day. They predict that all
men along the line will join the strike.
A Jacksonville, Fla., dispatch says:
There was a great deal of excitement
Monday in railroad circles over the
rumored sale of the entire property of
the Florida Central and Peninsula Rail
road Company to H. B. Plant, of New
York, president of the Plant railway and
steamship system. The price said to be
paid was $7,500,000.
The stockholders of the North Carolina
Cotton Oil Company met at Raleigh
Saturday and electad direcrors who in
turn elected officers: T. R. Cnaney, of
New York, president ;W. G. Upchurch,
of Raleigh, vice president; R. F. Monroe,
of New York, secretary; Justus Ralph,of
New York, treasurer; Garland Jones, of
Raleigh, assistant secretary and treasurer.
The railroad commission of Georgia, at
a meeting in Atlanta on Monday,decided
to lower the rate on excess baggage on
railroads. The rate is now fixed at 10
cents per hundred 20 miles, 45 cents for
100 miies, 90 cents for 200 miles. This
a considerable reduction. At the sumo
meeting the commission decided against
the petition of the drummers for ticket
books ot two cents per mile.
The first through traiu from Atlanta,
Ga.. over the Seaboard Air-Line arrived
utliileigh, N. C., Monday morning on
time. This line will undoubtedly prove
a grand trunk line between the northeast
and southwest. The track is pronounc
ed admirable, that of the new portion of
the Georgia, Carolina and Northen being
superior to many old roads. All classes
of railroad officials turned out to see the
new train.
Sunday morning a disastrous fire oc
curred at Herling, Ky. The Sentinel
newspaper office, J. H. Brunner’s shoe
store, the postoffice, llanline’s Bazaar,
Enoch’s bargain house, busiuess houses
of T. P. Martin & Cos., dry goods and
notions; Walter M. GayACo., groceries,
and Mrs. KateO. Clark, miilfnery, were
entirely destroyed. Total loss $50,000.
with insurance aggregating one-half that
sum.
The talk of the Liquor Dealers’ Associ
ation testing the constitutionality of the
“dramshop” chapter of the annotated
code is creating some stir and feeling in
Jackson, Miss. The supposition, even
among persons not avowed enemies of
the liquor traffic, is that the whisky peo
pie are liable, i{ they succeed, to jump
from the frying pan into the fire, as it is
asserted that the legislature will pas r,
more stringent law, even if it does not
enact absolute prohibition.
fire at Norfolk, Va., destroyed the
cotton warehouse owned jointly bv E. C.
McCulloch and C. W. Grandy *fc Sons,
fend occupied by Bassett, Nash *fc Cos.,
and other cotton merchants, in which was
stored 1,200 bales of cotton, 100 bags of
peanuts and 100 tons of fertilizers. Bas
feett, Nash & Cos. were the principal
losers. Their lpss amounts to $30,000,
Covered by insurance. The total loss on
the building and contents is about $75.-
000. The total insurance is about. $50,-
000.
The concludiug arguments were made
Saturday in the Richmond and Danville
cases before Judge Speer at Macon, Ga.,
in the cases for contempt. The attorney
for the Central, argued that the court
could fine or imprison (or both) the
officials of the Richmond and Danville
for failure to pay over the insurance mon
ey collected for Ihe loss of the Macon
passenger depot Judge Speer orders
the Richmond and Danville to pay the
Central $20,000, Macon depot insurance.
He reserves his decision on the Steamship
stock in escrow.
A Preacher Gets Damages.
A Boston, Mass., dispatch of Friday
says: In the case of Rev. W. W. Downs,
for slander, against three of the members
of the Bowdoin Square Baptist church,
the jury reported a verdict giving the
plaintiff SIO,OOO damages. Mr. Downs
sued for $50,000. The verdict lies against
Dr. Rufu9 K. Noyes, Abbie Campbell and
Alice Neptune aliaa Alice Watson.
LIFE IN SIX. ACTS.
Baby Boy
Sighing, crying, Fooling, schooling.
Night and day; Getting tall;
Winking, blinking, Growing, rowing,
Full of play. Playing ball.
Youth. Manhood.
Fussing, mussing, Cooing, wooing,
Over a tie; Future wife;
Larking, sparking. Gushing, blushing.
On the sly. Tired of life.
Middle Age. Old Age.
Slaving, craving. Ailing, failing,
Hoarding wealth; Day by day;
Driving, striving. The undertaker
Broken health. Eads the play.
—National Educator.
PITH APPOINT.
Preferred stock—Thoroughbred.—
Truth.
There is no pleasanter company, after
fell, than an eloquent listener.—Boston
Transcript.
Somebody is apt to slip up when there
is a crisis in Greece.—Memphis AppeaL
Avalanchet
Let anyone be idle long enough and
he will break out in some folly.—At
chison Globe,
Teacher—“ What is quickness's”
Scholar—“ Quickness is when a person
drops a hot plate.”—Judge.
Setting a broken neck is a great feat
of surgery. Still it doesn’t quite come
up to putting a head on a uiau.—Boston
Herald.
Cora—“He has a rather plebeian
name.” Merritt—“ Yes; but he spells it
differently from anvbody else.”—New
York Sun.
The even “tenner” is a good thing to
keep. Once change the bill and it is
astonishing how soon it dwindles to noth
ing.—Truth.
This world is but a fleeting show
Admission’s free, no doubt.
But, goodness gracious! How it costs
Before a man gets out.
—J udge.
Professor (to student who has made
several bad mistakes in German, after a
pause)—“Mr. Gote, will you kindly
continue to the next break?”—Yale Re
cord.
There are lots of wives in the world
who never know that their husbands a j
“jovial and whole-souled” except when
they see it in the papers.—Atchison
Globe.
What is it bolds the eager crowd
And seems to stir each soul’
A teamster there is just about
To dump a load of coal.
—Washington Star.
“We are going to accommodate our
passengers better,” said the President of
a street-car line to a reporter. “Going
to put on more cars, I suppose?” “No;
we are going to hang four more straps in
sach car.”—Brooklyn Life.
Somehow a man cannot help feeling a
little queer as well as a good deal proud
when he is invited to address the school
in the very same room where he used to
whittle his desk and make caricatures
of the teacher.—Somerville Journal.
Old sayings are all well enough in their way;
And yet there is room for improvement,
I take it.
’Twould be truer to say, when we quote it
to-day—
“ Where there’s a will there’s a way ta
break it ”
—Truth.
Salaries of Navy Surgeons.
An assistant surgeon in the United
States Navy recieves an annual salary of
SIOOO on leave or waiting orders; SI4OO
on shore duty and SI7OO at sea. After
serving fire years these amounts are in
creased to SI2OO, SI6OO and SI9OO re
spectively. When at sea he is allowed
in addition one ration at thirty cents a
day. After attaining .the rank of passed
assistant surgeon, the yearly pay is in
creased to SISOO, SIBOO and S2OOO, ac
cording to the duty performed during
the first five years in that rank, after
which he receives SI7OO, S2OOO and
S2IOO. The next higher grade is sur
geon with a salary ranging from a mini
mum of S2BOO at sea to $4200 after
twenty years’ service, the latter sum in
such instances being paid no matter
where assigned. After passing to the
rank of medical director, medical inspec
tor, or fleet surgeon, he is assured a sal
ary of $4400 at sea, on shore, on leave,
or waiting orders until the time arrives
for his retirement at the age of sixty
two, unless this occurs because of acci
dent or other cause prior to attaining
that age. When placed on the retired
list the rate of pay subsequently drawn
is seventy-five per cent, of the total sal
ary held by the medical man at the time
ot his retirement.—Detroit Free Press.
Individuality in Thumbs.
The Chinese are credited with many
things, including the use for a long
time of thumb impressions as proofs of
indentity. This, however, Francis Gal
ton, the eminent British anthropologist,
pronounces an egregious error, inasmuch
as the Chinese have employed thumb im
pressions only as a kind of oath cr signa
ture. Such impressions, showing the
curves in the ridges of the bulbs of the
thumbs or forefingers, are now known
to be an unfailing mark of identity, since
they do not vary from youth to age, and
are different in different persons. Mr.
Gallon has the impressions of the care
fully-inked thumbs of over 2000 per
sons, and in them he traces typical
forms, of which the individual forms are
simply varieties—Trenton (N. J ) Amer
icaa.
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