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VOL. li.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Wiiat is Being Done in Congressional
Halls ior the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION —OTHER NOTE3.
TIIE HOUSE.
Thursday.—la the house the third
party received recognition Thursday
morning, and Mr. Watson sent up to the
clerk’s desk and ha t read this terse reso
lution, “That the committee on ways
and means be requested to report tne
subireasury bill.” He asked unanimous
consent for its consideration, but Mr.
Beltzhoovet’s demand for the “regular
order” operated as an objection,
After a fruitless call of the committee
the house went iuto c mmittee of the
whole, Mr. L ster, of Georgia, in the
chair. After several attempts to ’ mend
the bill had failed the chair delivered
his decision on the point of order made
against the amendment offered by
Mr. Bland of Wednesday for the
coinage of all silver bullion pur
chased, and now in the treasury, into
standard silver dollars, the cost of coin
age to be paid out of the seigniorage or
gain to the government the remainder of
the seigmorage covered into the tr asury.
It was conceded, said the ch dr. that the
amendment changed the ex sting law,
and therefore it would not bit iu order,
unless, being germane, it reduced the
amount covered by the bill. The clause
in the bill related to the recoinaue of
abraded minor coins, and the amend
ment was germane to the subject
matter of the clause. Did it ieduce
amounts cover, and by the bill? The
mere fact that it strip k Tom the bill
the appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the re
coinage of minor c ons did nut re luce
the amount b c*use it appropriated the
seigniorage, which might amount to
$2,000,000. It did not reduce the
amount covered by the bill and mighi
increase the expenditures. He sustained
the point of order and ruled out the
amendment. Mr. Bland then re-off.r and
his amendment with the proviso attach
ed to it, “That the cost of this coinage
shall not exceed $9-3,000 —$3,000 o
wbieh shall be for the coinage of >ub
sidiary silver, and $90,000 for the stand
ard silver dollar.” At the conclusion ol
another long debate the chair said that
he had heard nothing to change Lis
opinion that the amendment wh-< iup
germane, and he,- therefore, ruled' the
amendment, as modified, out of order
Mr. Bland appealed from the decision,
but the committee sustained the decision
of the chair by a vote of 120 to 75. Mr.
Cogswell, of Massachusetts, offered an
amendment appropriating $1,010,445 foi
continuing the work of the eleventh cen
sus. Iu a standing vote the amendment
was defeated by a large majority. The
committee then arose and the house ad
journed.
Friday. —Once more Mr. Watson, of
Georgia, at'empted to secure considera
tion of the risdution requesting the
ways and me ms committee to report the
subtreasury bill in the house Friday, and
once more th demand for the “regular
order” operat das an objection. After
the call of committees for reports, the
house went iuto committee of the whole,
with Mr. Le-ter, of Georgia, in the chair,
on the sundry civil bill. After several
amendments had been rejected with little
debate, Mr. Dickerson, of Kentucky,
moved to strike out the appropriation of
$150,000 to enable the secretary of war
to complete the establishment of the
Chickamauga and Chatanooga Nation
al park. This also was lost, Mr.
Dickerson and Mr. Compton being the
only members who had anything to say
in its favor, while it was vigorously op
posed by Mr. Pickier, of South Dakota;
Mr. Snodgrass, of Tennessee, and Mr.
McKaig, of Nebraska. The vote stood
thirty to eighty-eight. On the motion of
Mr. Cox, of Tennessee, an amendment
was adopted apprppriating $11,500 for
improving grounds and fences around
the arsenal at Columbia, Teun. Mr. Hol
man gave notice that, hereafter, the ap
propriations committee would insist that
the river and harbor contracts be provid
ed for in the river and harbor bill.
Mr. Kilgore raised a point of
order against the clause in
the bill appropriating $50,000 ior
the preparation of the site and erection
of a pedestal for the statue of the late
Gcd. W. T. Sh.rman in the city of Wash
ington. At the conclusion of a long de
bate upon a point of order, the chairman
(Herbert) said that he would like to over
rule the point of order if he could see his
way clear to do so, but he could find no
law authorizing the appropriation, and
was constrained to suotiin the point and
rule out the clau-e. Mr. IlendersoD, of
lowa, then asked una iruous consent to
reinsert the clause, but Mr. Ki.g‘>re
objected. Mr. Henderson ten gave
notice that he would call the mutter
up in the house Saturday in the shape
of a si pirate bill, and ask unanimous
consent for its consideration. Pending
further actio i, the committee rose
The house took a recess until 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for the consid
eration of priva e pension bills.
Saturday. —ln the house Mr. McMil
lan, of T- nriessee, from the committee on
rul< s, reported a resolution that the hour
for the meeting of the house each day
shall be 11 o’clock. Adopted. The house
then went into committee of the whole,
Mr. Lester in the chair, on the sundry
civil appropriation bill. Mr Form y, of
Alabama, offered an amendment provid
ing that the board of manag>rsof national
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers
shall apply the excess over $5 per month
of pensions of all inmates to the support
of the home— except where an inmate has
a dependent wife, child or parent. This
gave rise to a good deal of discussion and
was vigorously opposed. In advocating
the amendment Mr. Snodgrass, of Ten
nessee, said that the pension roil, which
should be a roll of honor, had become,
owiug to the legislation of the republican
patty, a roll of dishonor. Mr. Bland,
of Missouri, commented upon the
large expenditures made by the present
congress, and attributed many of them to
the legislation of the fifty-first congress.
Mr. Forney’s amendment was adopted.
On motion of Mr. W. A. Stone, of Penn
sylvania, the housa adopted an amend
ment, drafted at the suggestion of the
government, accounting officers to cor
rect abuses arising from attempts on the
part of court officers to increase their
fees, the principal requirement Being
that prisoners shall be taken to the near
est judicial officer of the United States.
A number of these amendments, having
the approval of the attorney general and
substituting salaries for fees to a large
extent, were offered by Messrs. Sayers
and Culberson, but went over.
Monday.— The house met at 11 o’clock
Monday with less thau 75 members in at
tendance. Mr. Butler, of lowa, made a
request for the consideration of the sen
ate bill to gnnf a pension to ex Senator
George W. Jones, of lowa. Watsou, of
Georgia, objected. Then Mr. Watson’s
resolution requesting the committee on
ways and means to report the sub-treas
ury bill was adopted wilhout objection
or deb >te. Mr. Watson, having achieved
h s object, withdrew his objection to the
Jo ies pension bill, and, on motion of Mr.
Henderson, of lowa, it was taken
up and passed. Mr. Kilgore was
also in attendance, and his objection
was defeated by, the request of Mr.
Bryan, of Nebraska, for the consider
ation of the bill for the erection of a
pedestal for the statue to General W. TANARUS,
Sherman. Mr, Bailey, of Texas, was also
on hand with his demands for a quorum
on the private bill called up by Mr.
McKinney, of New Hampshire,and almost
three quarters of an h tur elapsed before
a quorum appeared, and the measure was
pa-sed. The floor was then accorded to
the comm'ttee on the District of Colum
bia. A bill giving the district commis
sioners authority to supervise the man
agement of all street railroad lines within
the city was passed; a’so an amended
was ad pted providing for all-night cars
running at intervals of half an hour.
After passing a few more local bills, the
house adjourned.
Tuesday.— ln the house Tuesday, Mr.
Stewart, of Tex <B, from the committee on
rivers and harbors, reported back the
river and harbor appr >pri ition bill with
the senate amendments thereto, with the
recommendation that the senate amend
ments be non-coneurred in. Obj cted to.
The bill was referred to a committee of
the whole. The house then went into a
committee of the whole, Mr. Lester in the
chair, on the sundry civil appropriation
bill. The only actl nof importance was
the decrease of the appropriation for the
Alaska boundary survey from $35,000 to
SIO,OOO. Pending further discussion the
bouse adjourm-d and a democratic caucus
was announced for 8 o’clock Tuesday
evening.
THE SENATE.
Thursday. —The senate resumed con
sideration of the bill exempting American
coastwise vessels, piloted by their Ameri
can masters, or by a United States pilot,
from the obligation to pay state pilots for
services not rendered. Mr. Butler op
posed the bill in the interest of pilots in
the southern waters. He said they daily
and nightly imperiled their lives to sava
the property of ship owners. Mr. Butler
offered an amendment repealing such
parts of the navigation laws as prevent
the purchase by citizens of the United
States of ships in foreign countries, and
their right to American registry and to fly
the American flag. The amendment was
tabled. The river and harbor appropria
tion bill was then taken up, and Mr. Mc-
Pherson made a motion to recommit the
bill with instructions to reduce the
amount 50 per cent. Mr. Dolph
moved to lay the motion On the
table, and Mr. Dolph’smotion was agreed
to. The clerk proceded with the reading
of the bill for amendment. A large num
ber of amendments reported from the
committi eon commerce, a majority of
them increasing the appropriations, were
agreed to. Among them were the fol
lowing: Reducing the appropriation
for the harbor at Charleston, S. C., from
$300,000 to $225,000. Increasing the
appropriation for Cumberland Sound,
G-a., from $122,000 to SIOO,OOO. Re
ducing the appropriation for the harbor
at Savannah, Ga., from $425,000 to
$318,000. Reducing the appropriation
for the harbor at Mobile, Ala., from
$350,000 to $262,500. Increasing the
appr ’priation for Roanoke river, N. C.,
from $15,000 to $50,000.
Friday. —After a little routine business
the senute on Friday resumed the con
sideration of the river and harbor bills.
Mr. Pugh move 1 to t ike $50,000 from
the appropriation of $262,000 for Mobile
harbor and to add th“t sum to the ap
propriation of $150,09 ) for the improve
ment of B ack Warrior river. After a
long discussion, into which politics enter
ed largely, Mr. Pugh’s amendment was
agreed to. Some other minor amend
ments having been offered and acted on.
the bill was reported back to the
senate. All the amendments agreed
to in the committee were concurred
in in gross, and the bill was passed
without division, although Mr. McPher
son remarked a few minutes afterwards
th t he had int> nded to ask the yeas and
nays. A conference was asked, and
Messrs. Frye, Dolph and Ransom were
appointed cm forces on the part of the
senate. A considerate number of bills
wete, at the request of various senators,
taken from the calendar and passed. All
were of local interest only, two or three
being public building bills. The senate
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, MAY 27,1892.
went luto executive session and, at 5:20
o’clock adjourned till Monday.
Monday— ln the senate Monday Mr.
Vest offered a resolution, which was laid
on the table for the present, discharging
the committee on finance from further
consideration of the house bill to put
wool on the free list and to reduce duties
on woolen goods and directing the com
mittee to report the bill back to the
senate for its action thereon. The senate
bill appropriating $50,000 for an eques
trian statue of General Francis Marion,
at Columbia, 8. C., was taken from the
calendar and passed. The calendar was
then taken up. Among the bills passed
was the following: Referring to the court
of claims, the claim of the Citizens’ Bank
of Louisiana for specie taken from the
bank by General Butler, with an amend
ment excluding the allowance of interest.
At 2 o’clock the calendar was laid aside
and “unfinished business” taken up,
being the senate bill to provide for the
punishment of violations of the treaty
rights of aliens. S.vcral speeches were
made for and against the bill. Pending
discussion the senate adjourned.
Tuesday. —lmmediately after opening
proceedings in the senate, Tuesday, the
calendar was taken up and a large num
ber of bills disposed of. Among those
passed were the following: Approprlat
irg $300,000 each for public buildings at
Oakland and fan Diego, Cal.; senate bill
to submit to the court of private land
claims the title of William McGarrahan
to Rancho Panoche Grande, Cal. This
claim atises out of a grant made by
Manuel Miclieltorena, governor of Upper
California, to Vicente P. Gotm z, in 1844,
and purchased by AJcG irrahan. It has
been before congress in one shape or an
other for many years. The calendar was
laid aside at 2 o’clock p. m., and the bill
to provide for the punishment of viola
tions of the treaty rights of
aliens was taken up, Mr. Morgan
continuing his argument in ad
vocacy of the bill. At the c’ose
of his argument Mr. Morgan moved,
with the assent of the committee on for
eign re’ations, that the bill should go
over till next December. Debate on the
hill was continued by Messrs. Turpie,
Gray, Hiscock, George, Teller and
others. The matter finally went over
without action. Mr. Pettigrew, from
the committee on quadri-ccntennial re-,
ported a joint resolution directing thtr
president to proclaim a general holiday
commemorating the four hundredth an
niversary of the discovery of America on*
October 12, 1892. Placed on the calen
dar. The senate then adiourned.
NOTES.
The senate, on Friday, confirmed the
nomination of B. F. Carter, postmaster
at Cedartown, Ga.
President Harrison, on Friday, pro
claimed a treaty of reciprocity with Gua
temala. It goes into effect May 30th.
Baron Fava, Italian minister, was re
ceived in the blue room of the white
house Monday morning by President
Harrison.
There was a nesultory discussion upon
the general subj ct.of tariff legislation by
the senate finance committee Tuesday,
but no effort was made to secure action
upon any of the house tariff bills that are
now on the calendar of the committee.
It appears that there is no probability of
an early report by the coramitteejApon
these measures.
Mr. Mitchell, from the committeeou
privileges and elections, on Tuesday, re
ported to the senate a joint resolution
proposing a constitutional amendment
providing for the election of United
States senators by the popular vote. He
said that the members of the committee
were divided on the subject and would
make separate reports. The joint resolu
tion was placed ou the calendar.
| [Representative Livingston, of Georgia,
has made a request of the committee on
rules to set aside one or two days f>r the
consideration of the sub-treasury bill by
the house. It will be granted. There
is a disposition among ail the members
of the house to bring the matter up and
dispose of it finally. When it does come
up, there can be no trimming. Members
will have to show their hands as being
•quarely for or against it.
The senate has made such rapid pro
gress with the regular appropriation bills
that but two of these measures, which
have been sent to it by the house, await
the action of the senate. One of them
—pension appropriation—is purposely
withheld in committee, and the other,
diplomatic and consular, it is ex
pected, will be reported to the sen
ate and passedjat once. The un
finished business is a bill to punish
violation of the treaty rights of aliens,
but the consideration of this measure
may be further delayed by the calling up
of one of the pending special orders.
There are three of these orders, namely:
The silk cultural bill, the bill to fix the
compensation of United States district
attorneys and the revenue marine trans
fer bill.
NEGROES THREATEN REVENGE
For the Numerous Lynching* in the
South - Dynamite Discussed.
The Boston Repvblican printed by col
ored people in Boston, Mass., contained
an article in last Saturday’s issue to the
effect that certain colored men of Cam
bri Ige and Boston, belonging to secret
societies, have for some time b en earnest
Iy discussing the numerous lynchings of
colored men in the south. According to
reports, these men have been taking les
sons from the sociali-ta and Ru situs as
to the making of dynamite bombs and
other explosives, with which they pro
pose to return to the south and take re
venge unless the outrages are stopped
The men are bound together by a solemn
oath, and indignantly refuse to be classi
figd as anarchists.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
Happenings of the Day Culied from Our
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WIIAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OF INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Offers of silver to the treasury depart
ment Friday aggregated 680,000 ounces.
A dispatch of Friday from Teheran
says that cholera is raging along the
Afghan-Persian frontier.
William H. Vtnderbilt, son of Corne
lius Vanderbilt, died in New York Mon
day night. He was brought home from
Yale college sick with typhoid fever.
President Harrison has proclaimed the
treaty of reciprocity with Guatemala. It
goes into effect on the 30th of May. Its
terms are similar to those of existing
treaties with the West India Islands.
A dispatch of Friday to the London
Times, from Madrid, states that Spain
has cancelled the prohibition of the itn
port of American pork, which Inis been
in force many years.
A fire, supposed to be of incendiary
origin, on Monday destroyed four blocks
of wooden buildings in Chehalis, Wash.
The central portion of the town was
wiped out. Loss, SIIO,OOO.
The comptroller of currency on Mon
day declared the first divid nd of 15 per
‘cent, in favor of the creditors of the
First National bank of Wilmington, N.
C., on all claims proved, amounting to
$504,143.
A cablegram of Sunday from Alexan
dria, Egypt, says: Seven thousand bales
of cotton were consumed in the fire that
partly destroyed the great cotton ware
hou-e at Minnet El Bissel. The fire orig
inated among some loose cotton.
A most disastrous fire broke out at
Brigham City, Utah, at 2 o’clock Sunday
morning, in a saloon, and before the
flami s were gotten under control approx
imately SIQO,OOO worth of damage was
done. The fire was confined entirely to
business houses.
A London cablegram of Monday says:
Thom is O’Brien, the notorious “bunco
steerer” who was extrudited from Eng
land the state ot New York, aud who
escaped from the custody of the officers
of that state after be ng convifct<?dl and
sentenced to the state prison, has been
e 1 in Par s.
A Chicago dispatch of Tuesday says:
It has been practically settled that Comp
troller Lacy will become president of the
Bankers’ National Bank, an institution
with $1,000,000 capital, to (Aen July 1
Lacy has his willingrMss to accept
the pre-icieufy if the details#f the uank’s
organization is satisfactory to him.
A disrajtfh of #>nday from Crook
Bayou says’mhat divers were at work all
day on the sunken wreck of the St. Louis
train on the Cotton Belt road. The Pull
man and chair cars were buried under
twenty feet. Sunday night nine bodies
were taken from them. Over a dozen of
the wounded are in house near the scene
oflhe wreck, badly injured.
Governor Boies, of“ person
allwnivesUgatitig the flooded district re
sold to issue a proclamation inviting
the peop’e of lowa and the country gen
erally to contribute for the relief of the
destitute people. The pioclamtion
was sent out from DtsMoines Wed
nesday and stated that $200,000 is
needed for this purpose.
Advices of Sunday from Melbourne,
Australia state that an open boat, in
which fifteen members of a football
team were being taken across the Bay of
Port Phillip by two fishermen has been
found bottom up, and all are supposed t’>
have been drowned. The boat contained
fifteen persons, all told. One body has
been found. The others are being search
ed for.
Attorney James Monahan at Kansas
City, received a cablegram Monday from
London, stating that Mrs. Monahan’s suit
in chancery for the recovery of a large
amount of property from the English gov
ernment was successful. The property is
17,000 acres near Little Rock county,
Gallway, Ireland, and a valuable sheepj
ratch near Melbourne, Australia. The
property is valued at $2,000,000.
An east-bound Jacksonville Southern
engine, collided with a west-bound pas
senger train on the Vandalia road, five
milts west of Gn enville, 111. at 5:58
o’clock Saturday morning. Both engines
and the baggage car of the passenger
train were wrecked and the first passenger
coach considerably damaged. An express
guard named Firn was instantly killed.
The crews of both engines saved them
selves by jumping but were considerably
bruised. None of the passengers were
injured.
Bishops were appointed to conferences
by the African M. E. general confirence
at Philadelphia Monday as follows: Sec
ond District—Baltimore, Vi’ginia.
North t arolina and Northeast Carolina
conference—Bishop W. J. G lines. Sixth
Dis rict—Georgia, North Georgia. Macon,
Alabama, N* rth Alabama and Serna
conferences—Bishop A. Grant. Seventh
District—South Carolina, Columbia,
Northeast South Carolina conferences —
Bishop M. A. Salte.r. Eighth Dis rict—
Florida, East Florida and South Florida
conferences—Bishop T. A. Ulard.
Judge Lane, county judge of Cass
county, Mo., who is imprisoned at Kan
sas City, by order of United States Judge
Phillips for refusing to comply with t e
latter’s order to issue a special tax levy
to pay bonds voted twenty five years ago
in aid of a railway that wus never buit,
received word Mon ay that he hud been
nominated by the democrats of his coun
ty ns their candidate for the state legis
lature. The nomination is an endorse
ment of his course iu undergoing impris
onment rather than issue a tax levy
against which the sentiment of the county
is unanimous.
STATUS OF BUSINESS.
t
Duu & Cos. Make a Favorable Report
for the Past Week.
R, G. Dun & Co.’B review of trade for
week ended May 20: The business fail
ures occurring throughout the country
during the week number for the United
States 169; Canada. 23. Total, 192. For
the corresponding week last year the fig
ures were 214 failures in the United States
and 40 in Canada.
The great floods in the west, unprece
dented at some points, and prolonged
rains extending over the whole of the
Mississippi valley seriously interrupted
trade. But there is nothing to warrant
the apprehension that the year’s crops
will be deficient, or that Irade for the
year will fall below expectations. In all
quarters a confident spirit prevails, and
even at the smith business seems to be
relatively less embarrassed than of late.
Money is everywhere in large supply
and light demand. Collections are only
unsatisfactory where bid weather delays
distribution and settlements. Phila
delphia notes foir trade in dry goods, ex
cellent except in the south; more activity
in wool, especially in worst and grades,
and larger trade in iron, though at low
prices, more encouragement is seen in
glass, and slight improvement iu some
groceries. Iron is weaker at Pittsburg,
but there is fair demand for finished pro
ducts, especially for hardware, and im
proving trade in glass.
At New Orleans trade is fa’r, with cot
ton in better deman i and firmer, and at
Savannah, though trade is failing, pros
pects are favorable. Coffee has advanced
one half cent, with sile3 of 133,000 bags.
The injury to cotton in the southern
valleys has less to do with the advance of
a sixteenth in the price than the covering
of speculative Milos. With dealings of
475,000 bales the fluctuations have been
small.
THE GREAT INDUSTRIES.
The gnat industries are fully as active
as usual at this season, though prices are
remarkably low. Cotton, perhaps, fares
best, the price of the material being
about the lowest for forty years, while
the great demand prevents corresponding
reduction in goods. New wool begins to
Clime forward, and is promptly taken
with a slight advance on some grades,
the market being more nearly bare of
supplies than usual. The sales at the
three chief markets aggregate since Jan
uary Ist, 9,000,000 pounds, or 10 p j r
cent, more than last year. The manu
facturers are fairly sup;) led with orders
in most branches, the demand for dress
goods pressing upon the capacity of the
mills and the trade in flannels exceeding
last year’s.
ANOTHER HOLD-UP IN FLORIDA
Train Robbers Again at Work—A Sus
pect Now in Jail Confesses.
A Jacksonville dispatch of Tuesday
says: Only one of the Monroe junction
murderers is in custody. He is in Or
lando jail and has confessed. The other
suspects are not identified, but are still
held. The authorities refuse to give the
name of the man who has confessed and
will allow no one to see him. He has
furnished an accurate description of his
four accomplices and claims to have had
nothing to do with the killing of Saun
ders, the express messenger, and was one
of the men who boarded the locomotive.
THEY TRY IT AOAIN.
A Gainesville special Tuesday says:
“Alfred Davis, engineer of the swith en
gine at the Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern yard, was held up by two white men
Tuesday morning at 2 o’clock. They
first made inquiries about the departure
of trains. Then they asked whether or
m,t the train robbers had been ciught
and what was known of them. Then
placing their pistols close to Davis’s head
they demanded all he had, which they
took from him. One wanted to kill him,
saying, ‘Dead men tell no tales.’ The
other objected, hut ordered Davis to walk
off. Davis’s pistol was in the cab and no
was dowu there at the time except
the night telegraph operator, who finally
came up town and told a policeman, but
the policeman refused to leave his beat,
to notify the sheriff, so nothing was
known of it until morning. Both men i
were white and answered very closely
the published description of the Monroe
junction train robbers. The authorities
are searching for them with a venga ice.
POLK’S WILL DECLARED VOID
And His Estate Will be Sold for Equa
ble Division.
A Na-hville di-patch of Tuesdav says:
The will of ex-President James K. Polk
has been declared invalid, and his home
place, with his historic mansion and
tomb, being about one acre in the center
of the city, will be sold and ihe proceeds
divided among fifty or more heirs at law,
who are scattered from New Yo’k to
California. President Polk, although a
fine lawyer, attempted to establish a per
Detuity, and left his place to the state in
trust for the use of the most deserving of
the Polk family, and on this grouud the
will was set aside. The place is worth
$50,000
Failed Because of Big Salaries.
Ttie Fraternal Circie, a beneficiary or
der of Baltimore, has a membership of
20,000, who have been p yhig $2 50 per
month on the ptomise of receiving
SI,OOO on an investment of S2OO in three
years. The court, ordering liquidation,
i-ays that the assets divided would Lot
exceed SI,OOO. The cause of the failuie
is large salaries.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
The News of Her Progress Portrayed in
Pithy and Pointed Paragraphs
0
AND A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
The democrats of Trimble county, Ky.,
have instructed for John G. Carlisle for
president.
Dr. James H. Randolph, for a term of
years superintendent of the Florida insane
asylum, died in Tallahassee Monday, aged
83 years.
_ N. B. Taylor, S. L. Moore and W. P.
Phillips, lumber cutters, were struck by
lightning near Suffolk, Va., Monday, and
instantly killed.
The ninetieth annual commencement
of Salem, N. C., Female academy began
Monday with the baccalaureate sermon
by Rev. Dr. W. W. Moore, of Hampden-
Syndey, Va.
A dispatch of Saturday from Dennison,
Texas, says: Rewards for the arrest and
conviction of the murderer of the four
Dennison women the other night now
a gg re gate $5,000. There is as yet no
trace of the criminal.
A telegram of Friday from Raleigh, N.
C.,reports the assassination of R. D. Mc-
Cotter, ex-member of the legislature.
He was waylaid near his home in Pam
lico and shot dead. There is no clue to
the assassin and no reason for the crime
as he was a quiet citizen, a farmer and
merchant.
A special of Monday night says a cy
clone swept through Bertie county, N.
C., wreckiug all the houses on Wiley
Askew’s farm. It leveled the trees on
William Pritchard’s place. Some of these
fell on his house and crushed it, killing
one of his children instantly and breaking
the other’s back.
Carl Matson and W. R. Sherman were
arrested in Macon, Ga., a few days ago
charged with counterfeiting. On Monday
Matson made n clean breast of the affair
and took the officers three miles below the
city aid showed them their little mint.
The dies, metal, etc., were secured and
will be used as evidence against the men.
A disj ttch of Friday from Milan,Tenn.,
says: Two thousand panels of wire fence
have been cutrin this county by an organ
ized gang opposed to the wire fence law,
made legal by recent legislation. White
cap notices haYe been served on several
farmers that they will be tarred and
feathered and if necessary killed, if the
fences are rebuilt.
A teL gram of Sunday states that a
tunnel on the Savannah and Western
branch of the Georgia Central railroad
was discovered to be on fire Sunday.
The tunnt! is near the Coosa river, in the
Coosa coal fields, some twenty-five miles
southwest of Birmingham. It runs
through the seam of coal, and this to
gether with the framing was burning.
A Mobile telegram of Monday says:
Twenty-eight mules of the Mobile Street
Railway Company, affected with glan
ders, have bet n isolated and eight killed.
Seven more have since taken the disease
and will probably he killed at once. It
may be necessary to isolate all the well
mules, and ;f so traffic on the street rail
way will stop.
A Baltimore telegram of Tuesday states
that Colonel Charles Marshall, who
served on General Robert E. Lee’s staff
during the late war, has been invited by
the U. S. Grant post, Grand Army of the
Republic, of Brooklyn, to deliver an
oration at the Memorial Day exercises at
Grant’s tomb. Colonel Marshall has ac
cepted.
Advices of Friday from Key West,
Fla., are to the effect that Garza, the
Mexican bandit, is positively in that city,
but he is being kept in hiding pending
the receipt of authentic information from
the Mexican government as to the reward
for his capture. He has not been ar
rested yet, and the local officers, who
know those guarding Garza, refuse to
talk.
A Nashville, Term., dispatch says: The
jury in the case of Rev. George J. Lind
ner, on Friday, brought in a verdict of
guilty of obtaining money under false
pretenses, and he was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary. Lindner is tin
allege i minister of the Christian faith,
who secured money on worthless checks
and pawned diamond rings which he had
secured from a jeweler to show to a
young woman, to whom he was to be
married. He was captured'at Savannah,
Ga, He will be tried on five other in
dictments.
The Atlanta paper hangers went out
on a strike Friday morning. Some time
they ago arranged a scale of prices,and all
wall-paper dealers adopted it. Lately,
however, they say the dealers reduced the
pay, and as they failed to res'ore the scale
they ordered a strike. The strikers claim
that wall paper costs the dealers only
four cents a roll, that their scale de
mands ten cents and twelve and one-balf
cents a roll for hanging, and the dealers
charge customers thirty-five cents a roll
ior the paper and hanging. They intend
to start a co-operative store, and will re
duce the price on wall-paper to eighteen
cents a roll.
Will Benefit Orange Growers.
A Wa-hington dispatch says: Senator
Pasco, of Florida, submitted in the sen
ate Tuesday, a proposed amendment to
the agricultural appropri ition bill appro
priating $5,000 for conducting an invest
igation of diseases of the orange and
other citrus fruit trees, and their cause,
and for experimenting as to their cure.
NO. 13.