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VOL. li.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What Is Being Dane in Congressional
Halls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD —BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION—OTHER NOTES.
THE HOUSE.
Thursday. —Cheatham of North Carc
haa, the colored member who poured oil
on the troubled waters Wednesday, was
recognized in the house Thursday morn
ing to ask consent for the consideration
of the Dill appropriating SIOO,OOO for
the compilation of statistics showing the
progress of the colored race from Janu try
1, 1862, to January 1, 1892. Nr. Kilgore,
of Texas, objected, and the house went
into a committee of the whole, Mr. Les
ter in the chair, on the sundry civil ap
propriation bill. The pending ques
tion was on the subject of the
Sunday closing of the World’s fair.
Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, offeied as a
substitute the following: ‘’Provided,
that the government exhibit at the
World’s Columbian exposition shall not
be open to the public cn Sunday.”
Adopted. The question then recurred ou
the original amendment as amended by
the substitute, and it was adopted.
Friday. —ln the house, Friday, on
motion of Mr. Cockran, of New York,
the joint resolution was passed to correct
a clerical error in the McKinley tariff act.
It corrects the error whereby a duty of
from 15 to 50 cents per pound is impo ed
ou sweetened chocolate, and fixes th
duty at 2 cents per pound. On motion
of Mr. Meredith, of Virginia, a resolu
tion was adopted calling on the civil
service commission for information as to
whether there are on the eligible list of
typewriters aud stenographers, women,
who have passed the examination and
have not received appointments and
whether any department refuses to accep'
women as stenographers and typewriters,
The house then went into committee oi
the whole, (Mr. Lester, of Georgia, in the
chair,) for further consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill. The
pending amendment was that offered by
Mr. Richardson, of Tenn., limiting the
number of copies of public documents
which may be printed by the heads of
bureaus without express authorization by
congress. Rejected by a vote of 91 to 93.
Mr. jJmjimtm
amendment with modification which ex
presffy excepts the department of agri
culture from limitation. Agreed to with
out opposition.
Saturday. —The house finished the
general debate on the postoflice bill
Several good speeches were delivered
The bill will next be discussed by sec
tions. The house adjourned till Tuesday
on account of Monday being decoration
day.
Tuesday —After routine business Tues
day morning, the house went into a com
mittee of the whole (Buchanan, of lowa,
in the chair) ou the postoflice appropri
ation bill. The house had to adjourn
early however, because of the absence of
a quorum. Over 180 men were at home
looking after fences or frolicking about
the country. The house thereupon issue t
an order revoking all leaves of absence.
An attempt was made to aid to the post
office appropriation bill $300,000 for the
delivery of mails but owing to the absence
of a quorum it was not voted upon.
THE SENATE.
Thursday. —At the opening of its
session Thursday morning Senator Stew
art caught the senate napping, and made
a motion to take up the pending free
coinage bill. Before the senators actu
ally realiz ;d what the motion was the
clerk was calling the roll. Then there
was a stampede from the chamber by the
senators who feared the issue. Senato
Hill was one of those who declined t
commit himself by a vole. Mr. Stewart’r
resolution passed by a vote of twenty
eight to twenty. This vote probably r p
resents the sentiment of the senate
on the question. The debati
then commenced on the bi l,
and went on un il adjournment.
The principal speech of the day w s de
livered by Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
who declared that if both parties nomi
nated candidates for president who were
opposed to free coinage, the great mass of
the people of the country who were infavor
of the free coinage of silver, would have
but little preference for one over the
other. The inference drawn from his
remarks was that thousands of people,
who want financial relief, would be
forced to join the third party. Pending
the debate the senate adjourned.
Friday. —When the routine morning
business of the senate was disposed of
Friday morning, the (ajendar was taken
up under rule eight, but Mr. Morgan
voluntarily abandoned his right and con
seated to have his resolu'ions laid aside
without action. That having been done,
the business on the calendar was pro
ceeded with in regular order under rule
eight. Among the bills passed were the
following: To reclassify and prescribe
the salaries of railway postal clerks.
The rates fixed are: First class, not ex
ceedingsßoo; second class, not exceed
ing $1 ,000; third clars, not exceedin';
$1,200: fourth class, not exceeding
$1 ,300; fifth class, not exceedin ' $1,500;
sixth cla‘S, not exceeding SI,OOO, and
seventh class, not exceeding SI,BOO.
The senate adjourned until Tuesday with
the understanding that the silver bill
would then come up.
Tuesday. —There was a very small at
tendance of senators r.; the opening s s
sion of the senate Tuesday morning.
The vice president was absent and Mr
Manderson took the chair as president
pro tem, At 2 o’clock the calendar was
laid aside and the bill to provide for the
Stale of Sabe Bte.
free coinage of gold and silver was taken
up. Mr. Sherman addressed the senate,
prefacing his speech on the bill by
saying'that he did not regard it as a par
tisau measure, or as a political measure,
on which the parties were likely to di
side. It was largely a burl measure.
There was no question to be compared with
it in the importance of its effect on the
business interests of the country. He
representing a state nearly central in pop
ulation, had tested the sense of the peo
ple of Ohio and they, he believed, were,
by a large minority, not only in
the republican party but in the
democratic party, opposed to the
Dee coinage of silver. They believed
that it would degrade the body of cur
rency, reduce its purchasing poxer one
third, destroy the bimetallic system of
the country and reduce the country to
the single monetary standard of silver,
measured at the rate of 371 grains to the
(1 1 or. He went on to defend the finan
cial action of the renublican rar’v and
his own partin it. During the two and
a half hours that Mr. Sherman spoke,
but few senators left Che chamber. The
senator commanded close attention of his
hearprs. He had not finished his argu
ment when the hour of adjournment
came.
notes.
The president, on Thursday, issued a
proclamation promulgating a reciprocity
treaty with Austra-Hungary. Its terms
are similar to those in force with Ger
many, Italy and Switzerland.
The house committee on elections Tues
day, decided, by a strictly party vote of
7 to 2, to report in favor of the democrat
ic sitting member, Turpin, in the con
tested election case of McDuffie vs. Tur
pin, from Alabama.
Col. Polk, president of the Farmers’
Alliance, has come out in a card in the
third party organ at Washington declar
ing for the the Third party, and stating
that his paper in North Carolina will be
for it hereafter.
The silver debate opened in earnest in
the fenate Tuesday. Senator Sherman
consumed all the afternoon in an argu
ment against free coinage. The s-ilver
senators polled the senate, and Senator
Teller expressed the opiuion that it would
be out of the question to force the anti
silver senators to a vote until after the
Minneapolis convention. Thus the silver
question can play no part in that conven
tion.
The Agricultural Appropriation Bill.
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completed Friday by the house commit
tee bn agriculture, and will be reported
to the house early next week. It appro
priates $507,500 more than the bill of
last year. One million dollars is appro
priated to carry out the provisions of the
meat inspection law, which is half a mill
ion in excess of the appropriation for the
current year for the purpose. One hun
dred and thirty thousand dollars is al
lowed for the distribution of seeds,
against $30,000 during the present fiscal
year. For investigation on the subject of
forestry and the continuation of experi
ments in rain production, $20,000, is ap
propriated. this is an increase of $5,000.
Secretary Rusk secures $5,000, being
$2,500 more than the current appropria
tion to enable him to continue his work
of ascertaining the feasibility of creating
foreign demand for additional agricul
tural products of the United States.
The Postofflce Bill.
The house fiuished general debate on
the postoffiee bill Saturday. There will be
two contests during the discussion of
this bill by sections. One for free deliv
ery of mails in the country,and the other
to pay all railroads the same for oarrying
mails. The majority of the members of
the bouse favor the rulal delivery of
mails, and the fight for such will be
earnest. The only question is that of ex
pense. While, perhaps, this house will
fear to do the whole thiug at once, the
experiments will be extended,, and the
chances are we will have free delivery
everywhere very soon. There is a clause
in the bill to pay land grant roads but
50 per cent of the amount paid other
roads for carrying mails. As it costs the
land grant roads just as much as it does
others to carry mails, this reduction of
their compensation is considered unfair,
and a strong fight will be made to amend
the bill as reported from the committee,
and place all the railroads on the same
footing. It is also possible that an effort
will be made to pay the Richmond and
Danville the same compensation for its
fast service to the south as that paid the
Atlantic coast line. It is considered by
all the southern members as only right
and proper that the two systems should
be paid on the same basis, especially as
the Richmond and Danville mail service
is quicker and superior in every way to
the other.
THE MAURITIUS HORROR.
Over a Thousand People Were Killed
in the Tornado.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday from Mar
seilles. France, says: Mails which have
just arrived from Mauritius confirm the
statement that 1,2 0 persons were killed
and 4,000 injured in the recent hurri
cane. Thhurricane was preceded by a
violent magnetic disturbance. The sea
rose nine feet, the highest level since tbe
cyclone of 1818. Scarcely a house
in the colony escaped damage. Many
churches and public buildings were
destroyed. The fine church of the
Immaculate Conception is in ruins. The
cathedral, however, by a strange chance,
secaped. The dead include a large num
ber of leading inhabitants* Fearful
sigh s were witnessed in the streets. One
factory collapsed, killing 200 inmates.
One half of the sugar crop was destroyed.
The plantt rs’ losses are incalculable. A
special relief loan of £60,000 will be ob
tained from the imperial government to
i be repiid in twenty-five years.
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JUNE 4,1892.
NEW YORK CONTEST.
The Syracuse Convention Selects Dele
gates to tto Chicago luting
THUS INBURING A BITTER CONTEST —TflE
MID-WINTER MEETING DENOUNCED
AND CLEVELAND INDORSED.
Pursuant to call the Cleveland Demo
crats met in convention in Syracuse, N.
Y., Tuesday. The meeting was called to
order at 2:30 o’clock by Charles S. Fair
child, chairman of the state committee,
who made a brief speech. Hon. John
D. Kernan was named as temporary
chairman of the convention. Mr. K< rnan
then took the chair, and addressed the
convention. At the conclusion of bis
remarks the roll of delegates was called,
and the convention took a recess until
3:30 o’clock. During the recess delega
tions met by congressional districts to
elect members to each of the committees
that had been provided f> r before the
intermission. At 4:15 o’clock the con
vention was again called to order by Mr.
Kernaa, who asked for reports of the
committees. Jacob F. Miller, of New
York, as chairman of the committes
on permanent organization, report
ed for permanent officer! the
temporary organization. Mr. Ker
nan thanked the convention for its
renewed courtesy, and culled on EiKry
Anderson, chairman of the committee on
resolutions, for the report of that cotn
mitt<e. Chairman Anderson then sent to
Secretary Baldwin the platform as pre
pared and revised by the committee dur
ing the recess, and it was read.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
The platform opens with the declara
tion that the democratic party alone is
true to the people and can be trusted to
administer the government in their inter
est; denounces the republican party and
its billion dollar congress and its McKin
ley bill and the force bill, and contrasts
with it the wise and prudent democratic
administration of Grover Cleveland. It
condemns, with much detail, the McKiu
iey tariff act and says the democratic
party has no more urgent mission than
to destroy a system productive of
so much evil and, in a spirit of
moderation with due regar 1 to
the interest of capital now invested
and labor now employed in protected
c olft in u c "ft s op] iol ill on’ folte
tariff until all customs taxation ia enacted
for revenue only. It approves the use of
both gold and silver as fnoney and de
mands that all dollars, whether gold or
silver, shall be equal in value to each
other, in fact as well as by declaration of
iaw. It demauus the repeal of the Gher
man silver law of 1880, as an obstruction
of international bimetalism and because
it is rapidly bringing this country to sil
ver monometalism with all of its att< ud
ing evils. It recognizes the n: cessity of
an organization ukough which the party
may direct its energies, but when such
organization claims to be the party itself
instead of its instrument, then it sup
presses the voice and misrepresents the
desire of the party. When it
calls caucusses at unaccustomed seasons,
and upon insufficient notice; when Re
gardless of the votes it placed upon v Jftie
convention roll, it admits to the conven
tion only those who, without re#pect Jto
to the voice and wishes of their constitu
ents, will agree in advance to support the
schemes and oligarchy itTias established;
when it gives notices in advance that
they who will not agree to he subservient
will not be admitted—then it ceases to
be representative, creates discontem,
rouses resentment and imperils the suc
cess of the party. Ia this emergency it
becomes the duty of the original elements
of the party to take such notice as will
restore to it the just relations between its
members and their agents. The platform
closes as follows:
The democratic party retains unshaken
confidence in the ability and lofty integ
rity of Grover Cleveland, and in his de
votion to public duty. He is the choice
of an overwhelming majority of the
democrats of New York, and the coun
try may rely with confidence on his abil
ity to carry the state triumphantly in
November. We believe that by nomi
nating him to lead the party in the ap
proaching contest for the presidency, the
national convention will carry out almost
the unanimous wish of the party and best
consult the welfare of the country. We
pledge ourselves to support the candi
date nominated in Chicago. The dele
gation chosen by this convention is in
structed to act as a unit according to the
determination of a majority of its mem
bers.
The denouncement of the midwinter
convention was greeted with tremendous
applause. The reference to Grover Cleve
land as being able to carry New York
state also moved the convention to its
feet and brought on a storm of applause,
while the affirmation that this conven
tion and its constituencies would support
the nominee at Ch : cago, whoever he
might be, was greeted by a burst of ring
ing cheers that left no doubt as to the
purpose of the convention. At the close
of the reading the throng was again upon
its feet, and the applause was long and
uproarious. Several enthusiastic and
earnest speeches were made in seconding
the motion for the adoptiou of th i plat
form. The report of the resolutions
•ommittee was then adopted, the plat
form being thus endorsed. The follow
ing resloution supplementary to the
piatform was presented and adopted :
Resolved, That this convention ap
prove, endorse and point with pride to
the administration of Grover Cleveland,
and we recommend him to the Chicago
convention for nomination, and to the
democratic party and patriotic people of
Ithe country for re election again to the
presidency.
Judge Sunderlin, of Schuyler county,
then read a list of district "delegates at
large chosen by the districts and by the
committee on de egates to the Chicago
convention. The work of the committee
was approved, and thus the question of
a protest had been determined, and a
course of a contest and demand at Chi
cago for the seventy seats of New York
York had been fixed upon.
The following are the delega'es at
large: Alexander E. Orr, Brooklyn;
Frederick R. Coudm, N u w Y r ork; C. F.
Bishop, Buffalo; ex-Mayor Edward Fitz
gerald, Troy.
ENDORSED THE ELECTORS.
Before adjournment was had the fol
lowing resolution was presented:
“Whereas, The object of this conven
tion is to correct the wrong done to the
democrats of New York by the conven
tion held at Albany on the 22d of Feb
ruary last in the selection of a delegation
to Chicago not representative of their
will; and
Whereas, We realize that the action of
the electoral college clearly registers the
will of the party, as proposed at the na
tional convention and expressed at the
polls; now, therefore, better to assure
the democratic party that we have no
other wish than that the will of the party
shall be fairly ascertained and registered
by the electoral coll< *e, we hereby nomi
nate as electors for president and vice
president of the United States the fol
lowing citizens of New Y'ork:
Mr. Fairchild then read the list of elec
tors named at the Albany conventi n in
February,and the resolution was adopted,
end the nominations thus were endorsed.
A resolution of thanks to the citizens of
Syracuse was adopted, for their hospita
ble treatmeut of the convention, and at
5:50 o’clock p. m., the convention ad
journed sine die.
THE LAST ROBBER CAUGHT
Who Held Up a Florida Train and Mur
dered the Messenger.
For two or three days < fficers of th •
Southern Exp:ess Company, with three
sheriffs and armed posse with blood
hounds, have been scouring the cou dry
penetrated by railroads lead ng ou of
Palatka for Bob Floyd, the f u th one of
the train robbers who killed Messenger
Saunders at Monroe Junction, on the
morning of May 21st.
Late Saturday night a special from
here. He was captur?<i”ioy Sfttriff Fern'
nell and his posse at J >ne-ville, it 10:15
o’ch ck Saturday night. He was taken at
the houso of a Mr. Benefield,for whom he
had worked two years ago, when he first
came to the state. The posse surround
ed Benefield’s house and FlAd surren
oered without any trouble. I
Ployd’s storv."
Floyd is a slight, toyish looking lad,
and told hhkstory mu kly and freely,
and impreMed all who heatd him
as being a simple country boy, led by
evil companions anl whisky into the
lommission of crim-. Ho has made a
c- nfession, giving all the facts in th:
case. His account of the plann ug of
robbery tallies very closely
witn the confessiou who is in
the Orlando jail, an 1 wTinTfie published
neggpaper stories.
Without doubt, this is the most re
markable case in the history of train
robberies. Within eight days fr *m the
“hold up” and murder all implicated in
this crime are either captured or killed.
The Southern Express Company has
pushed the investigation most vigorously
from the start, and has spent a large sum
of money in prosecuting the search. The
sheriffs of Orange. Volusia, Putnam,
Clay, Hamilton and Alachua counties
have all done excellent work, ad at
least 2,000, in all, have from time to
time been under arms in various posses at
scores of points-
AT GRANT’S TOMB.
A Member of Lee’s Staff Delivers a
Touching Oratiou.
A New York dispatch says: The fund
for the Grant monument has been com
pleted. That was tbe announcement
made, amid the cheers of the multitude,
at the Memorial Day exercises Monday
afternoon in front of the tomb of General
Grant. The crowd was a very large one.
The program of exercises was very im
pressive and appropriate. The principal
oration was delivered by Colonel Charles
Marshall, who was chief of staff to Gen
eral Lee, the confederate commander.
Among other things, he said: “It is not
easy to express the thoughts that the
scene before me inspired in my mind—in
the mind of every man who understands
tbe full meaning of this occasion. Men who
were arrayed against each other in dead
ly strife are now met together to do
honor to the memory of one who led one
part of this audience to complete and
absolute victory over the other, yet in
hearts of the victors there is no feeling
of triumph, and in the hearts of the van
quished there is no bitterness; no humil
iation.”
After referring to the bitterness of the
conflict aDd the fact that the combatants
so quickly dispersed at the end of the
war, he said:
“No such peace as our peace ever fol
lowed immediately upon such a war as
our war. The exhaus’ed south was com
pletely at tbe mercy of the victorious
north aud yet the sound of the last gun
had scarcely died away when, not only
peace, but peace and good will, were re
established, and victors and vanquished
both took up the work of repairing the
damages of war and advancing the com
mon welfare of the whole couutry,. as if
the old relations —social, commercial and
political between the people of the two
sections had never been disturbed.”
NEWS IN GENERAL.
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Happenings of tbe Day Called from Oar
Telegraphic and Cable Dispatches.
WHAT IS TRANSPIRING THROUGHOUT OUR
OWN COUNTRY, AND NOTES OK INTER
EST FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Kingan & Co’s, packing house at Kan
sas City, was destroyed by fire Tuesday
night. The plant was valued at sl,-
000,000.
John Simpson, dry goods dealer, New
York made an ass gnment Tuesday for
the benefit of his creditors. There arc
preferences amounting to $12,000.
The colored people of Waihi ngton city
observed Tuesday as a day of fasting and
prayer because, they state, “of the out
rages inflicted upon their race in the
southern states.”
Advices of Sunday state that the chol
era epidemic at Srinagar, India, in Vale
of Cashmere, continues its terrible course.
In the last four days out of 1,731 persons
attacked 900 have died.
Two thousand workmen employed in
the Valladolid shops o; the Northern rail
way at Madrid, Spain, struck for a re
duction of hours of labbr Saturday, and
are coercing other workmen to joiu the
strike.
A cablegram of Friday from P.iris,
says: Jurors likely to be drawn, for the
trial of Rovachal at Montbrison for mur
der, are pleading ill health in order to
avoid serving. It is now expected that
the trial will begin June 14.
The certificate of the National Lead
company, of New Jersey, which bought
all the lead works of the country, was
filed at the county clerk’s office in Buf
falo, N. Y., Friday. The capital stock
is $30,000,000.
Another great storm passed over Indi
anapolis Tuesday and a tremendous
amount of water fell. A number of
streets were submerged. The water is
over the first floor of mauy houses. The
damage will be great.
Isaac Remsen’s carriage manufaefury,
Nos. 740 to 750 Grand street, B*ooklyD,
N. Y., and fourteen other buildings,
burned Monday. Loss $150,000, of
which $115,000 falls on the carriage
manufacturing company. Insurance $85,-
000.
, ...uunwvlit *JI.
tersburg. Russia, is to the effect that the
cabinet has decided that Jews who are
desirous of emigrating shall be provided
with a permit free of charge and be re
lieved of military service. Other im
munities will also be granted.
Floods in the vicinity of Indianapolis
caused by the heavy rains of Tuesday
have caused the loss of at least three
lives. Carl Weaver, aged nine years, and
John Henderson ar.d his six-year-old son
were drowned. It still rains, and the
creeks and rivers are still rising.
The Minneapolis Tribune is taking a
postal card vote of the delegates to the
national convention as to their prefer
ences for president. Up to Tuesday
night 282 replies had been received, di
vided as follows: Harrison, 180; Blaine,
38; non committal 54, and 10 scattering.
A terrific cloudburst flooded Webb
City, Mo., and surrounding country Mon
day night. Water fell in great masses
and flooded the streets to the depth of
eighteen inches on a level. All lead and
zinc mines in t’>e city were flooded nearly
to their tops and the loss will be enorm
ous.
Ex-United States District Attorney
Archibald Stirling died of paralysis in
Baltimore Monday evening. Mr. Stirling
was over sixty yearn old. He was ap
pointed district attorney for Maryland by
President Grant in 1869, and continued
in office until Cleveland was made presi
dent.
Fire at San Francisco Monday destroyed
tbe Fulton Iron works, Hammond Car
works, Van Drakes Brass foundry and a
number of small frame buildings, causing
a loss of $450,000; insurance, $95,000;
the Hammond Car works. SBO,OOO, and
the remainder is divided between the
Van Drakes family and several smaller
f*ns.
An explosion of mine gas Thursday
morning at Mocana qua colliery, of the
West End Coal Company, which is lo
cated about twenty miles below Wilkes
barre, Pa., resulted in the death of one
man, the fatal injuring of another and
serious injury of eight others. The cause
of the explosion is unknown, as the only
one who could explain the matter, Fore
man Prother, is dead.
A destructive fire broke out at Moscow,
Russia, which threatened for a time to
sweep through the city. The fire de
partment found it impossible to subdue
the flames and save the property attacked,
so it was decided to endeavor to confine
the conflagration and hasten the destruc
tion of the burning district. When the
fire had burned itself out, three streets,
containing sixty houses were in ruins.
A telegram from Kansas City says:
Two distinct tornadoes passed from
southwest to northwest to northeast north
of Caldwell Monday night carrying
everything before them. One man is
known to have been killed and much
damage was done to farm property.
Funnel-shaped clouds were distinctly
visible from both Caldwell and Conway
Springs, but no details of destruction
have been obtained yet.
A committee representing New York,
Philadelphia and London capitalists has
submitted anew plan of reorganization
tor the Marietta and North Georgia rail
road. The plan provides for the issue of
new firat mortgage fifty year 5 per cent
bonds for #3.500,000, a second 5 percent
NO. 14.
mortgage for $4,000,000 (interest to 1897
payable in incomes), income bonds
for $1,500,000 and $11,500,000 of stock,
of which $8,500,000 is preferred. The
proceeds from the sale of $2,600,000 of
the firsts will be used to retire the
$1,389,000 prior lien bonds of 1881, to
settle receiver’s debts and provide for
betterments and improvements.
SCENES OF DEVASTATION.
Whole Towns Swept Away in the West
by the Raging Floods.
A dispatch of Sunday from Arkansas
City brings news of fearful devastation
by floods in the west. The telegram
says: The river here is still rising and
now the guage is 49.8 feet. All com
munication with the back country, ex
cept by skiff or dugout, is cut off. The
water is cutting all kinds of capers.
Bayous and sloughs that have heretofore
run down stream during flood times are
now rushing up stream at lightning
rapidity regardless of all the laws of
gravitation, taking not only farmers’
fences, but actually taking his crops by
the roots, soil and all, and carrying it no
man knows where. Whole fields are re
ported from which every particle of loose
soil has been swept away. While the
back water of Arkansas City is eight
tenths below that of 1890, six miles west
of here it is reported up to 1890, and up
about the Amos Bayou country it is above
1890. Water from the Arkansas passing
through Gum swamp and other places, is
now pouring over the binks into Bayou
Birtholomew in a number of places and
ovetflowing that stream, damigingthe
planting community along its banka.
A trip through a portion of the sub
merged districts of the Arkansas and
White rivers reveals the fact that the sto
ries of suffering have not been half told.
Without any attempt at exaggeration it
can - be said that the entire valley is in a
condition bordering on a state of horror.
In Desha county, Arkansas, one of the
richest farming counties in the south,
there are not one thousand acres of dry
land to be seen outside of Laconi circles.
Not a faun escaped and of the entire
population, with the exception of a few
negroes, who are roosting in the second
stories of houses, not a human beiog is to
be 6ecn. Hollindel, up the White river,
baa been swept off the face of the earth
and the remnants of houses are lodged
among the limbs of the trees along the
banks of that mighty torrent. There is
not an inhabitantsthere today, nor a soul
CitV.. ~ The back water
river aud is up to the
buildings.
Red Fork, a place of 400 people, is no
more, and the same can be said of Pen
dleton. Relief boats have come in from
that section, bringing surviving families.
Large plantations, known as the Black
more place, Allen Maples and Green
place, are under water, and ruined, and
tenants are camping around on high
spots of ground, wet and hungry. All
around Catfish point the waters come
rushing in from the Arkanses river,
sweeping through forty miles of planta
tion property.
BIG DAY IN ROCHESTER.
Harrison and Flower Make Speeches—
-250,000 People Present.
Monday will ever be a memorable day
in the history of Rochester, N. Y. Never
before has the city been so crowded and
never before has it entertained such dis
tinguished company. Public and private
business was suspended and everybody
took a holiday. It is estimated that fully
250,000 people took an active part in
the various demonstrations. Of this
number fully 100,000 came from the sur
rounding country. The president was en
thusiastically reeeived everywhere and
was compelled to bow his acknowledge
ments to almost continuous chee-ing.
The weather was bright and fair. The
feature of the day was the dedication of
the handsome monument in Washington
square in honor of the soldiers and sail
ors of Monroe county who died in de
fense of iheir country. Speeches weie
made by President Harmuu and Gover
nor Flower.
MORE TERMINAL NEWS.
Drexel, Morgan & Cos. Asked to Taka
Hold of Affairs.
A New York dispatch of Thursday
says. For several days a quiet move
ment has been on foot among security
holders of the Richmond Terminal to
request Drexel, Morgan & Cos. to take up
the reorganization of the Terminal com
pany. A circular letter addressed to that
house has been very numerously signed.
Spencer ! rask, John D. Blcodgoou bq<l
others have been quite active iu the mat
ter. A conference committee was ap
pointed and arn eti g held. The com
mitt'ewns comprised of J. C. Mnhen,
W. H. Goadley, G. F, Stone, Samuel
Bartou Swerome, G. B. Schley, W. L.
Joseph Blag den, Herman Clark, L. L.
Monson, G. Foster Peabody, J. A. Ruth
erford, J. 11. Davis. H>-nry Clews and
John B oodgood. Tire result of the meet
ing was unanimous upon the adop ion of
the resolution asking Drexel, Morgan <&
Cos., to undertake the rcor . au’zation.
DESIRED TO BE HUNG.
A Strange Story Which Comes from
Bastrop La.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Bastrop,
La., T.u ye: S. C. Brigham, the manager
of a plantation on the Islaud of Deslare,
was shot from amb ish by an old negro.
The negro summoned Col. Phillips and
tc Id him he wanted to be hung. Col.
Phillips put a rope around the negro’s
neck, pulled the rope over a limb of a
tree and the negro was soon dead.