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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.