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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. ~r *- *- :n —• 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. ■ ■ ■ ■*,* . 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.