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VOL. n.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What is Being Done in Congressional
Balls for the Country’s Welfare.
PROCEEDINGS FROM DAY TO DAY BRIEFLY
TOLD— BILLS AND MEASURES UNDER
CONSIDERATION —OTHER NOTES.
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THE house.
Thursday.— There was no objection
Thursday morning by the house to the
reference of the seuate free silver bill to
the committee on coinage, weights and
measures and it was so referred by the
speaker. Mr. Bland asked leave that the
committee might sit during the session
of the house. Messrs. Tracy and Kil
gore objected. Mr. Bland became indig
nant. The bill, he said, had been de
layed several days by filibustering, and
he hoped that the committee on rules
would report back speedily the resolution
referred to it by him Wednesday granting
the committee on 'coinage, weights and
measures leave to sit during the sessions
of the house. Mr. McMillin, from the
committee on rules, reported a resolution
providing that Friday shall be
treated as Suspension day. Mr.
Watson, ot Georgia, inquired, whether
the gentleman would modify his resolu
tion so that two night sessions should be
ordered for next week for the discussion
of the subtreasury bill. Mr. McMillin
declined to do so, stating that the sub
treasury bill was not yet before the house.
The resolution was adopted without ob
jection. Mr. of Kentucky,
called up the conference report of the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill. The report was opposed by Messrs.
Blount, Butler, McMillin, Holman and
Outhwaite, the opposition being against
the appropriation of $05,000 for the pay
ment of the share of the United States
for the expense of a preliminary survey
l'or an intercontinental railway. The op
position prevailed and the conference
report was rejected—yeas, 104; nays,
140.
Suspension Day.— Friday being—un
der special order of the jhouse—suspen
sion day, Mr. Shively moved to suspend
the rules to pass the tin plate bill. Mr.
Dalzell demanded a second, which was
■ordered—l6B to 0, the republicans refus
ing to vote in the hope of breaking a
quorum. Half an hour’s which
followed, was devoid of interest, except
when Mr. McMillin, in supporting the
bill, referred to the occurrences at Home
stead. These occur!ences, he said, showed
that the present tariff iustead of increas
ing the wages of labor, as had been
claimed by the republicans, had decreased
them. Did any deny it? Mr. Dalzell,
of Pennsylvania, most emphatically de
nied it. McMillin again declared that the
wages of labor had decreased again and
again. Dalzell entered a denial, supple
menting it with the declaration that the
gentleman did not know what he was
talking about. McMillin referred the
gentleman to the' statement made by Mr.
Frick to substantiate his statement, and
added that it was the gentleman who did
not know what he was talking about.
Dalzell responded that he undertook to
ssaiisfy auy lair aud intelligent man in
the house that the unfortunate affair at
Homestead had nothing to do with the
tariff question. Mr. McMillin retorted
that the republicans bad promised that
wages would be increased. That this
promise had not been fulfilled as
had been shown, and the re
publicans were sensitive when the failure
was commented upon. If the gentleman
from Pennsylvania desired to maintain
that the promise had teen fulfilled, why
had he not got up and done so when he
had an opportunity to talk? Dr. Dalzell
replied that he had not done so because he
had believed that there was not a man so
mean as to gloat over the dying men at
Homestead.. McMillin retorted that any
anaa who accused anothei of gloating
over the affair at Homestead could be
truthfully accused of falsehood. This
•dialogue did not last over half a minute,
but it was half a minute of a good deal
of excitement, and at its conclusion the
tin plate bill was passed—yeas, 207;
.nays, 56. Mr. Whiting, of Michigan,
moved to suspend the rules and pass the
lead and ore bill. After ail re
sources for delay had been ex
ihausted by the under the
lead of Messrs. Burrows and Reed, the
motion to suspend rules and pass the bill
•was agreed to—yeas, 165; nays, 62. Mr.
Reed immediately rose to his feet with a
motion to adjourn, but the speaker rec
ognized Mr. Whiting for amotion to sus
pend the rules and pass the bill limiting
to SH)Q the value of wearing apparel
which may be admitted free of duty. The
speaker then recognized Mr. Reed to
move an adjournment. Lost —yeas 20;
mays, 181, and the motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill was agreed to
without a division, amid general ap
plau e. In ihe meantime the hour
of 5 o’clock had arrived and
the point was raised on the re
publican side that under the rules the
speaker must declare the usual Friday re
cess until 8 o'clock p. in. The speaker
said that the house had adopted an or
der substituting today as suspension day
instead of Monday, July 4th, aud ge uiu
not think it within his power to declare
a recess. However, he submitted the
question to a vote of the house. The
house decided, by a large majority, that
he should Dot and motions to suspend
the rules and pass bills continued.
Other bills passed were: The railroad
land grant forfeiture, and the bill grant
iug the Territory of Utah self-govern
ment.
Saturday. —On motion of Mr. Blount
the house, on Saturday, further insisted
on its disagreement to the senate amend
ments to the diplomatic ; nl consular ap
propriation bill, and another conference
was ordered. Mr. Bland, from the com
mittee on coinage, weights and measures,
reported the Stewart free silver bill
placed upon the calendar. Mr. Tracey
asked leave that the minority committee
he permitted to have its views printed,
aud further asked that the report of the
majoiitv and the views of the minority
be printed together. To the
latter uart of the request Mr.
Bland objected, fearing that it might
result in a delay of action on the mea
sure. It was his intention, he said, to
take the earliest opportunity to have the
bill considered. He had no objection to
the minority filing its views at any time.
Consent was therefore given to the mi
nority to file its views. Mr. Herbert
presented the conference report on the
naval appropriation bills.
Monday. —ln the house, Monday, on
motion of Mr. Bullock, of Florida, a
bill was passed extending the provisions
of an act for the immediate transporta
tion ofdutiable goods to the port of Fer
nandina, Fla. The speaker appointed
Herbert, Lawson of Virginia, and Dolli
ver as conferees on the naval appropria
tions bill. Mr. Wheeler submitted a
conference report on military academy
appropriation bill. On motion of Mr.
Bently, of New York, a bill was passed
appropriating $250,000 for the publica
tion of the eleventh census.
Tuesday. —On motion of Mr. Catch
ings, from the committee on ru'es, a
resolution was adopted setting apart the
day for the consideration of bills called
up by the committee on the election of a
president, vice president and members of
congress. On motion of Mr. Stout, the
senate bill was passed granting to the
Mexican, Gulf, Pacific and Puget Sound
railroad the right of way through the
public lands in Florida, Alabama, Mis
sissippi and Tennessee. Mr. Dockery
submitted the District of Colum
bia appropriation bill. The re
port as agreed to appropriates
$90,000 to meet the expenses of the G. A.
R. encampment in Washington, the ap
propriation to be paid entirely out of the
revenues of the District of Columbia.
The report was agreed to, yeas 150,
nays 77. Mr. Chapman, in demanding
the regular order, called up under the
direction of the committee on the elec
tion of president, etc., a joint resolution
proposing constitutional amendment for
the election of senators by a popular
vote.
THE SENATE.
Thursday —ln the senate Thursday
Mr. Platt, from the judiciary committee
reported back the anti-option bill with
the statement that the committee had
been unable to agree upon a report, two
members of the committee having been
abseut and unable to attend its meetings.
They believed that the dealing in agri
cultural products by persons who did not
have the ownership of them was a great
evil and injury which ought to be
remedied if there was any power under
the donstitution to remedy 1% but they
were unable to agree either qpon the
house bill or any other bill. Believ
ing, however, that the matter ought not
to be longer delayed in the com
mittee, he reported the bill back without
any recommendation except that it be
placed on the calendar for early con
sideration. Mr. Washburne gave notice
that he would address the senate on the
subject Monday and would call up the
bill for action at an early day. Confer
ence reports on the Indian appropriation
bill, the military academy bi 1, the legis
lative appropriation bill, the postoffice
appropriation bill and the bill approving
the funding act of Arizona, were pre
sented and agreed to. The seuate then
proceeded to the consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill and dis
posed of about half of it. Then, after a
short executive session, the senate, at
5.15 o’clock, adjourned.
Friday. —ln the senate Friday, Mr.
Hill introduced a bill changing the date
for the dedication of buildings of the
world’s Columbian exposition from the
12th to the 21st of October, 1893, and
after a statement by him as to the reasons
for the bill, and one from Mr. Cullom
assenting to it, the bill was passed. Air.
Quay said that, in the discussion of
Thursday on the troubles at Homestead,
Pa., severe reflections had been made on
the Carnegie Iron and Steel Compa
ny. He held in his hand a
communication from Mr. Frick, mana
ger of the Carnegie works, which he
thought, in fairness to the company,
should be printed in The Record, and be
asked that consent bo given to have it so
printed. Mr. Peffer objected, and Mr.
Quay sent to the clerk’s desk and had
read the Associated Press interview with
Mr. Frick. By this means it became
part of the proceedings of the senate and
was entitled to publication in The Rec
ord. Mr. Quay said, however, that he
would telegraph for a statement on the
part of the workingmen. In order tp
counteract the effect of Frick’s statement
Mr. Peffer sent to the clerk's desk and
had read a communication published in
Friday morning’s Post over the signature
of F- 8. Smith, giving the labor side of
the question in the matter of wages.
Saturday. —A further conference was
ordered on the diplomatic and consular
bill. Consideration of the sundry civil
bill was resumed.
Monday —Mr. Butler, according to
notice heretofore given, moved that the
senate take up the bill to transfer the
revenue marine service to the navy de
partment. The bill w'as laid before the
senate by yeas 35, nays 24. Mr. Allison
moved that the bill be laid aside and con
sideration of the sundry civil appropria
tion bill be resumed. After discussion
the bill was laid aside informally.
Tuesday. —ln the senate, Mr. Palmer
sent to the clerk’s desk and had read a
communication leceived by him from the
director of the mint in response to ques
tions submitted by him in regard to the
TRENTON, GA. FRIDAY, JULY 15,1892.
amount ot stiver in tne treasury, ivir.
Morgan objected to the printing of the
correspondence in the Record. It was,
he said, an argument on the silver ques
tion concerted between the senator from
Illinois and the secretary of the treasury
—an unfair argument, and he did not
wish it to go to the country without an
explanation. After fuither remarks Mr.
Allison objected to the discussion
and the matter went over. Mi.
Sherman offered a resolution calling
on the secretary of the treasury for a
statement of several shipments of rum
from Boston to Africa—with the names
of the consignors—during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1892. Objection was
made by Messrs. Chandler and Hawley
to confining the inquiry to Boston, and
the resolution was changed so as to apply
to all ports of the Unite ! States, and, so
modified, was agreed to. Mr. Dolph,
from the committee on foreign relations,
reported a bill amendatory of the last
Chinese exclusion act, the amendment
being to strike out the words “one
credible white witness,” and to insert
in lieu thereof the words “one credi -
ble witness, not a Chinese person or a
person of Chinese descent. Mr. Palmer
protested against the proposed amend
ment as contrary to the spirit of the
age. Tne original bill, he said, was
barbarious in itself; but the proposed
amend sent was adding to its barbarism.
Mr. Allison, seeing that the bill was
going to lead to a debate, objected to
its consideration, and called up the sun
dry civil appropri itiou bill, the pending
question being the Quay amendment re
quiring the Columbian exposition, at
Chicago, to be closed on Sunday. D.-bate
was tempoiarily interrupted to allow the
presentation of the conterenoe report on
the District of Columbia bill, and it was
agreed to. At 2 o'clock the silk culture
bill came up as “unfinished business.”
Mr. Washburn moved that the anti-op
tion bill should take the place of the
sdk culture bill as “unfinished business.”
A vote was taken, and resulted: Yeas,
33; nays, 15 Afterward Hiwlev, wbo
was recorded as voting 1 nav,” said
that he had voted, or had in
tended to vote, “yea.” 8o the anti
option bill was taken up, and became
“unfinished business,” to be takeu up
each day at 2 o’clock. It was, however,
immediately laid aside oq motioa of Air.
Allisqn, and consideration of the sun try
civil appropriation bill was proceeded
with. Ihe Quy Sunday closing amend
ment was discussed until after 5 o’clock.
Unanimous consent was then given to
have debate Wednesday on thp exposi
tion section continue under the ' live
minute rule.
NOTES.
The house committee to investigate the
Pinkertons, left Washington for Pittsburg
Monday night. Oates. Bynum and Boat
ner are the democratic members of the
committee. Taylor aud Broderick the
republicans.
The house coinage committee made no
report on tbc silver bill Friday b cause
of the absence of two of its members
fayorable to the’-’-iffil. ‘The anti-si ver
members deplined in committee
to break a quorum, apd as a consequence
action had to be postponed
Before congress adj iurn§ the advocates
and oppopents of tfle subtreasury bill will
have an opportunity to give full ventrfo
their views on this question. Ip ordejpf
satisfy the deraapd of the farmers of the
country the committee ou wavs an/
means will perhaps report the Iff* to the
house adversely within a few days. A
day will then be given for its discussion
and the opponents of the measure will
have full opportunity to express their
views.
The Tin Plate Bill.
The tin plate bill, as passed by the
house Friday, provides that on aDd after
October 1, 1892, the duty on tin plates,
terneplates and taggers’ tin sh ill be 1 per
pent ppr pound, and that on and after
October 1, f894, tin plates, turneplates
and taggers’ tip shall be admitted free of
duty, It further provides that block,bar
and pig tin shall be retained op the free
list, and contains the usual rebate on
drawback provisions in the interest of
our foreign trade. The lead ore bill,also
passed by the house, provides that ores
containing silver and lead in which the
value of silver contents shall be greater
thap the value of lead contents according
to sample and assay at a port of entry shall
be considered silver qres and as such shall
be exempt from dpty.
IHE DREADED CHOLERA
Is Spreading in Russia Despite Heroic
Efforts to Cheek it.
Dispatches of Saturday from St. Peters
burg say: Despite the efforts made to
prevent it, the cholera has reache 1
lyioscow, where the total absence of
Sewerage renders the situation most dan
gerous. Several passengers on board the
steamer Or noco, bound from Astrakhan
for Niatuma, died from cholera on the
steamer, Owing to the prevalence of
cholera at Baku, the government officers
have been transferred to Kashari. There
have been reported in Saratoff forty
new cases of cholera and eleven deaths
from the disease. In Astrakhan 112 new
cases have been reported. The hospital
record in Astrakhan is complete. At
Baku thtre have bepu ninety-four deaths
outside of the hospitals, Therp have
been taken to the hospitals 178 new pa
tients, and eighteen more deaths have
occurred in them. At T flis several new
cases and two deaths arc reoorted.
i’ll* English Elections.
A cable dispatch from London, says:
At 2 o’clock Monday afternoon the total
returns received showed the election of
194 conservatives, 163 liberals, 27 liberal
unionists. 27 anti Parnellites, 5 laborites
and 4 Parnellites.
THE SOUTH IN BRIEF
the Sews ot Her Progress Portrayed In
Pltby and Pointed Paragraphs
ALD A COMPLETE EPITOME OF HAPPEN
INGS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM DAY
TO DAY WITHIN HER BORDERS.
A fierce fire raged in Louisville, Ky.,
for several hours Sunday morning ir: the
tannery of Wedding & Bros., involving
a loss of $200,000. Three men fell from
the fourth story window, overcome by
heat and smoke, just as a rescue was at
hand, and were seriously injured. Fifty
thousand dollars was the insurance.
On account of Georgia having one
more representative in congress since the
■tats has been redistricted, Georgia will
gi t more money for her soldiers this year
trom the general government than ever
before. Governor Northen, on Monday,
teceived a circular from the war depart
ment saving that Georgia would this year
receive $11,331.07 instead off 11,057.16
which she received last year.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch of Mon
lay says: The present flood in the Big
bee and Warrior rivers following so close
ly on the floods of May, is causing great
destitution and suffering. The citizens
have called On Governor Jones for aid
and asked him to invoke help from con
gress. The g ivernor’s reply urges it as
the duty of ihe commissioners’ courts iq
the several counties to act iu such emer
gencies, but offers to issue a general pro
slamation calling oq the people of the
whole state. He declines to oall on con
gress.
The monthly crop report of North
Carolina was made up by the department
of agriculture Friday, based ou returns
from nearly one thousand three hundred
correspondents, and shows the percentage
of condition of crops to be as follows:
Wheat 99, oats 95, corn 99, cotton 84,
Irish potatoes 103, peanuts 85, tobacco
91, sweet potatoes 90, sorghum 91. rye
93, grapes 90, hay 94. There is im
provement in all crops. The report on
fruit gives the percentage as follows:
Apples 56, peaches 52, and that on stock
shows cattle to be 95, sheep 91, swine
100, horses and mqles 87- The condition
aud supply of labor is put down as 88.
On application of the Bibb Manufac
turing Company, J. Kyle & Cos., Chatta
hoochee National hauk of Columbus, and
George P. Swift, an order wiii issued
Friday morning by Judge Martin, plac
ing the Paragon mills at Columbus, Gi.,
in the bands of a receiver. James P.
Kyle, present secretary of the company,
was appointed tempprary receiver. There
are five mortgages againstAtlie mills,
amounting to ever $60,000, nw the dotal
liabilities are Add to be *The
Paragon mills were buiU. in 1888. They
have or hand manufactured
goods. It l&jl be continued in opera
tion by the temiporary receiver.
Suit has been filed at West Point, Miss.,
against the Georgia Pacific division of
the Richmond aud Danville for $75,000
fop being taxes for the years 1886, 1887,
1888, JBBO. The petition asks for taxes
forMfce state of Mississippi and fop the
co qn t Olay, Webster,
Carpoll, Leflore,
Washington and Tal|ehatchie,
the total amount being $75,560, 1890,
1891 and 1892. When the road was first
proposed all the counties subscribed sums
ranging from $30,000 to $150,000, with
the understanding that the road should
pay taxes when operation commenced. It
is understood that the road will deny this
and claim that it was to be exempt from
taxes for acer ain number of years.
COTTON BROKERS FAIL,
But a Big Syndicate Comes to Their
Rescue.
Isaac Cook & Sons, prominent cotton
bpokers of Liverpool, suspended payment
Thursday. A syndicate has beep formed
to tak® over the whole interest in 110,006
bales of cotton. This cotton will be un
loaded at the rate of 2,500 bales daily
until their interest is liquidated. A no
tice reading as follows was posted at the
rooms of the Liverpool Cotton Associa
tion :
“We deeply regret that owiug to tfle
non-ptpeipt of money due, we are com
pelled to suspend payment.
olsaap Coor & Sons,”
The failure has caused a sensation. Li
abilities are reorted to amount to 475,-
000.
COTTON STATISTICS.
As Given by the Department of Agri
culture.
The July returns to the statistician ol
agricuture at Washington, make the
ayerage conditition of cotton 89 9. The
dune report was 85.9. The averages by
states are: Virgiuia 85, Georgia 88,
Mississippi 85, Arkansas 77, North Car
olina 91, Florida, 86, Louisana 84, Ten
nessee 87, South Carolina 94, Alabama
90, Texas 87.
For the purpose of comparison the re
turns of July, 1891, are given. General
average 88.6; state averages: Virginia
83, Florida 94, Louisiana 91, Tennessee
82. North Carolina 80, Alabama 87.
Texas 05, Georgia 85, Mis-issipp 91,
Arkai s s 90.
Dun’s Report.
R. G. Dun & Co’.B rev.ew of trade for
the week ended July Bth, says: Business
failures occurring throughout the country
during the week number for the United
States, 158. Crop'prospects are further
imorove I and grain and cotton are weak
er. Manufactures of all kinds are active,
except as the iron works are stopped by
the dispute about wages, and trade is un
usually active for the midsummer.
TROOPS FOR HOMESTEAD.
Gov. Pattison Details Eight Thousand
Militia to A*ssist the Sheriff.
A dispatch of Sunday from Harrisburg,
Pa., says: The entirq division of Na
tional Guard of Pennsylvania, about eight
thousand men, has been ordered to Home
stead to support Sheriff McCleary iu sup
pressing the trouble at that place. This
action of the governor was taken on re
ceipt of the following dispatch:
PiTTsiiuiio, July 10.—To Robert E. Pattison,
Governor, Harrisburg: The situation at Home
stead has not improved and sv.iile all is quiet
the strikers are in control and openly express to
me and to t!ie public the determination that
the works shall not be operand uni,ss by
themselves. After making all efforts in my
power, I have failed to m cure a posse large
enough to accomplish anything, and lam sat
isfied that no posse raised by the civil authority
eau do anything to change the condition of
affairs and that any atti mpt by an inadequate
force to restore the right of law, will only result
m further armed resistance and a consequent
loss of life. Only a large military force will
enable me to control matters. 1 believe if such
a force is sent the disorderly dement will be
overawed and order will be restored. I, there
fore, call upon you to furnish me such assist
ance. William H. M’Cleaby, Sheriff.
Governor Pattison, as commander-in
chief of the National Guard, at once is
sued the following ordet:
George It. Snowden, major general command
ing National Guard of Pennsylvania: Put th 9
division under arms and move at onoe, with
ammunition, to the support of the sheriff of
Alleghany county at Homestead. Maintain the
peace and protect all persons in their rights un
der the coußtimtionpf the state. Communicate
With me.' Robert E. Pattison, Governor,
To Sheriff McCleary the following
telegram was sent;
Willirm H. McCleary. Sheriff of Alleghany
county, Pittsburg: Have ord red Major Gen
eral George It. Miowden, with a divisim ol' tire
National Guard of Peunsylvanii, to your sup
port at once. Put yourself in communication
with him. Oomnmuioato with me further par
tianlars. Robekt E. Pattison, Governor.
General Snowden, with the adjutant
general aud quartet master ge eral, at
once proceeded to formulate orders for
the moblizstion of the Guard.
THE NEWS AT HOMF.3TEAD.
luteuse excitement was created at
Homestead late Sunday night by the an
nouncement that the Pennsylvania mili
tia, 8,000 strong, had been ordered out
nqd would arrive in Homestead, The
news flashed over the wires to the city at
11 o’clock p. m., and a few midutes later
it had come to the ears of the strikers.
At first the report was received with in
credulity, but a few inquiries among
jffess representatives convinced them that
it was right. Some of the strikers were
at flrst disposed to be a little defiant, and
there were occasional declarations that
even the militia would be opposed, but
when it was learned that the division or
dered out numbered 8,000 men, these
declarations promptly gave way to “Oh,
well, we have beat Pinkerton, anyway;”
“They did not dare to come,” aud thus
consolation is found in the reflection that
the most hated enemy of organized labor,
the Pinkerton guards, had been obliged
to confess defeat and give me the battle.
WILL WF-LCOME THE MILITIA.
Monday’s dispatches from Ilomstead
state that hostilities are over. At a mass
meeting of the strikers in the afternoon
it was decided by a unanimous vote, and
amid great enthusiasm, that the militia
should be welcomed to the city by brass
bands and other ceremonies appropriate
to the ocoasion. It was aUo resolved that
any striker who should hoot the militia,
or otherwise fail in proper lespect to the
state’s representatives should be ducked
in the river, and a committee was ap
pointed for that purpose. The burgess
was requested to invite all citizens hav
ing no business in Homateid to depart, as
it was feared some unwise and anarohistic
sympathizers with *the strikers might
seek to precipitate trouble. All the lead
ers made speeches, and three brass bands
of the city tendered their serviees in the
■welcoming ceremonies to the militia. No
one doubts that all will be peaceful hence
forth,
KILLED WHILE SLEEPING.
Horrible Fate of the Occupants of a
Pullman Car.
A terrible accident occurred at Mem
phis, Tenn., iu the Newport News and
Mississippi Valley railroad depot at 5
Friday morning. A stone re
taining wall twenty-six feet high fell
without a moment’s warning, crashing
on to the tracks below. Six passenger
cats were wrecked, two of them being
completely buried under the thousands
of tons of rocks. One of these cars was
the Pu lman sleeper Swannanoa in which
Conductor Hogan, of New Orleans; Con
ductor J. K. Hunter, of Chicago, and a
colored porter were asleep. The sleeper
was smashed flat. Never wat there so
complete a wreck.
ft will take two or three days to reach
the bodies, and UDtil then it will not be
known how many are dead. The cars
were side tracked, so no passengers were
aboard, hut the conductors had two
friends visiting them, who were seen in
the car as late as midnight by the yard
watchman. Their Dames are not known,
so inquiry cannot be made for them, and
their bodies may be in the car. The
w ill was 500 feet long, 26 feet high,
feet thick at the base and 2 j at the top.
The matooary consisted of blocks 2J
feet square. Three hundred feet of the
wall fed, pushed out from the center by
the bulging of the earth, caused by the
unusual quantity of rain.
Yellow Fever iu Mexico
Dispatches of Monday from the City of
Mexico state that yellow fever is raging
in Vera Cruz, and many deaths from the
dread scourge occur daily. It is feared
that this year, owing to the exceptional
heat and dryness of the season, the dis
ease will be unusually fatal. Many of
the native families, who, as a rule, are not
subject to the infection, have moved to
the City of Mexico and other places.
NO. 20.
EDUCATORS MEET.
Georgia Teachers’ anti Southern Educa
tional Associations in Convention.
The Georgia Teachers’ Association met
iu state convention at Atlanta on the 4th
inst. It was a notable gathering of in
tellectual men and women engaged in
the culture and training of Georgia’s
youth and in building up the educational
interests of the state.
The meeting continued for three days
and during its sessions much important
business pertaining to the school system
of the state was transacted. Interesting
discussions by brainy and prominent edu
cators occupied much of the time of the
convention. The many subjects were
ably handled and the general informa
tion adduced therefrom will prove of in
calculable benefit to the school teachers
of Georgia. President Euler B. Smith,
of LaGrangc, was re-elected president.
Secretary T. W. Frederick, of Marshall
ville, was also re-elected. Mr. Merry
was elected treasurer, and Dr. Boggs aud
Commissioner Bradwcll were made vice
presidents.
TIIE SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Immediately on the adjournment of the
Georgia Teachers, the Southern Associa
tion was convened. Fully two thousand
teachers from Maine to Texas were in at
tendance. The deliberations of this body
were of the most interesting character.
Important questions in regard to the gen
eral educational interests of the country
were ably discussed, and papers read by
some of the most prominent educators of
the country and much valuable informa
tion elicited therefrom.
Major W. F. Slaton, superintendent of
the public schools of Atlanta, was elected
president, of the association. Mr. Frank
Goodman was elected secretary, and
Treasurer Harrell was re-elected to his
old position. Among the resolutions
adopted by the Southern association was
one recommending that a great college
for women be established at some suita
ble place at a cost of not less than a mil
lion dollars. It suggested that an ad
dress bo issued to the southern people ou
this subject, and all things being
equal the place offering 300 acres of land
and SIOO,OOO in cash secures the college.
It recommended that a committee of five
be appointed to look into this matter
and report at the next meeting.
The favor of the federal government
was invoked in increasing the appropria
tions of the bureau of education.
All measures looking to rendering the
common schools of the country more use
ful were favored, and it was demanded
of all publishers of school books to grant
southern purchasers and dealers the same
terms and advantages accorded in other
parts of the country. All railroad au
thorities were appealed to,, to reduce the
present high rates of freight on the trans
portation- of school books, aud represent
atives in congress were asked to favor
such revisions of the postal laws us shall
effect the cheaper transmission of books
by mail.
The selection of a place for the next
meeting was left with the executive com
mittee.
MT. ETNA AFLAME..
Rivers of Fiery Lava Pour Down Her
Sides—Consternation Reigns.
A cablegram of Saturday from Rome,
states that Mount Etna is unusually ac
tive. A thick column of smoke, in
which lightning flashes nre seen issues
from the crater and rises to a great height
in the air. Quantities of lava and ashes
are also ejected from the crater. Several
shocks ot earthquake occurred during
Saturday morning the tremors being felt
throughout the whole district.
LATER DISPATCH.
Further news from Catania states that
another eruption of Mount Etna occur
red Sunday. Mayor Nolls, of Nicolosi,
declares that a terrible volcanic outbreak
is impending. The inhabitants of-the
city and surrounding country are in a
state of consternation. The eruption
assumed alarming proportions during the
night, though less grand than the entfk
tion of 1886. Huge quantities of lava
have been thrown out of the volcano and
have formed a double stream, which is
advancing rapidly towards Nicolo
si and Belpasso. Lava is already within
six kilometers of Nicolosi. Great dam
age has been done to the surrounding
country. A severe earthquake was felt'
in the immediate vicinity of the volcano,
during Saturday night. Twelve houses
and a portion of the church have been
destroyed. The eruption is still active.*
UNFORTUNATE ST. JOHNS-
1 -
The Losses Estimated at Fifteen Min
ion Dollars.
Dispatches of Tuesday from St. Johns,
Newfoundland, state that every lawyer’s
office, doctor’s residence and office and
the Protestant clergymau’s residence was .
burned and every daily newspaper and
every printing office destroyed and there
is no type, paper or ink remaining in the
city for a single poster. Several house
less persons have died since the fire in
consequence of fright and exposure. Mos!
of.the people are now temporarily housed
iu sheds and tents, but provisions and
clothing are needed and relief should
take these forms. The insurance agents
held a meeting Tuesday. Their reports
showed that the losses covered by insur
ance placed in agenciet there amounted to
$4,250,000. The estimated total of 'tosses
is about fifteen mil inn do'l t>.
Understood.—“l say, Dubois, you do
know how to lay it on thick, old man! I *
like your cheek telling Miss Brown she
spoke French without the least accent!”
“Vy, certainment, men ami —without
ze least French accent! ’ [London
Punch.