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The Morgan Monitor. VOL. II. NO. 26. $1 PER YEAR. THE SECRET. Nightingales warble about it All night under blossom and star; The wild swan Is dying without It, / And the eagle cryeth afar; The sun he doth mount but to find It, / But Searching the green earth o'er; / more doth a man’s heart mind it, f Oh, more, more, more! A Brother’s Sacrifice. By STANLEY HOWARD. WAS leaning against the rail¬ tab m ing in the park, m enjoying a cigar and watching tW the carriages as m they passed. the fash- It My j)Tgfe- ionable was hour, ftu< ^ this was a favorite occupa- Had I been younger, I might possibly have in¬ dulged in « dream of the time when riches and luxury should be mine, when the inner circle of society should be my world; but I was no longer young. At sixty one is contented with sufficient, and wealth loses much of its fascination. I have found it so, at least. There was a block for two or three minutes, and the occupants of the car- l'iage which was standing just in front of me arrested my attention. There xvere two ladies and a gentleman— Husband and wife and daughter I took t-hem to be. The man, who was about my d age, the was exceedingly good-looking, au the elder young lady was pretty, but it xvas terested lady who particularly in¬ me. Her hair was quite white and her face pale, but so handsome, and so exquisitely sweet in expression, that in a moment my old brain was weaving a romance about lier. Many people looked at the carriage aud sev¬ eral bowed. Evidently the occupants xvere people well known. “You seem interested,” said a man, touching my arm, as the carriage moved on. “Yes,” I answered, shortly. I have a rooted aversion to entering into COll- versation with strangers. The man looked at me curiously, xvitk a smile upon his face, He was tall and thin, only fairly xvcll dressed, but of gentlemanly bearing, and there xvere deep lines under his eyes and about his mouth. “I have been looking for you for two months past,” he said. “For me! You Ii.tvo made a mis¬ take, I think.” “You have changed little, Mr. Har¬ graves; I must have changed much, or you would remember me.” “Certainly I have forgotten you,” I said, politely, hearing him call me by name. x “Robert Denmore.” For a moment I xvas silent—Den- more I ‘ ‘Of course—yes. We met in Vienna, didn’t we?” He nodded and xve shook hands. “Vienna—twenty years ago,” I said. “How time Hies! What have the years brought to you?” “A living death,” was the strange answer. I looked inquiringly at him. “True,” he said. “Come to my rooms and renew our old friendship, 1 haven’t a friend left in the world ex¬ cept you; and I cannot let you go noxv I have found you. I have been look¬ ing for you for two months—two months to-morroxv. I can fix the time to an hour.” Robert Denmore had alxvays puzzled me—he puzzled me now. As I xvnlked home xvith him, my mind slipped back txventy years. He and I had met in Vienna, aud finding our tastes agreed, had traveled about together for a few months. AVe became very good friends, but he told me little about himself. He seemed to have done with the past altogether, and thought very little about the future. I remember him sayiug once, “I never think about xvhat I did yesterday; I don’t care xvliat happens to-morroxv; to-day is all I trouble myself about,” and he carried this system of existence to such an ex¬ tent that arrangements xvere often up¬ set. No doubt there xvas a secret in his past life, but I found him an inter¬ esting companion, and his secret did not concern me. After dinner that night xvo sat and smoked. “It does me good to seo you again,” he said. “The fact of the matter is, that I xvaut to tell you a story. Were you never curious ubout mo in the old days?” “Yes, often.” “AVell, 1 xvaut to tell you my his¬ tory. I xvas a disappointed man then; I am a broken-doxvn one noxv, xvithout friends, almost xvithout money. Oh! I am not going to borrow, You re- member when I left you and returned to England?” “I do, and you promised to look me lip in London, xvhich promise you never kept.” “No; but you received a letter from me telling you that I xvas going abroad?” “Yes.” “That letter was ft lie, • I have not been out of the country since. I knew I was not going xvlien 1 wrote that let¬ ter. ” He spoke as if the statement wax Ijjre keynote to his whole history. His manner quite startled me. ‘jKuu xvoitder why I took the trouble to tell you a lie? Well, I wanted to be forgotten; I did- not waut you to try to find me.” “And yet you have spent the last two months looking for me,” I said. “I don t want to be forgotten any Over the gray leagues of ocean The Infinite yearneth alone; The forests with wandering emotion The thing they know not Intone; Creation arose but to see It, A million lamps In the blue; But a lover he shall be It If one sweet maid is true. —G. E. Woodberry, in the June Century, more. I want to have a friend in xvorld to talk to.” He was silent for a moment and lit his pipe. “There xvere txvo of us,” be "twin boys. I xvas the elder by minutes, and xve were born months after our father’s death, grew aud up great friends, as txvins are, yet wo were very different. developed into a quiet, studious, faced youngster. I xvas slow at ing, sloxv of speech, aud nobody’ favorite. My brother, Richard, on contrary, boy xvas bright, clever; even as his conversation xvas brilliant. He could do anything everything, was full of f uu and laughter, and generous and thoughtless to fault. Richard Deumore was by everybody. When we were sixteen my mother died. I the night before her death as if it yesterday only. “ ‘You are my eldest boy, Robert,’ she said, taking my strong hand in her feeble one. ‘You are, perhaps, not so clever, naturally, as Richard, but you have got balance, which ho has not. Richard troubles me often.’ “ ‘Everybody likes him, mother,’ answered. “ ‘That makes all the danger; more and I want you, Robert, to look after Richard.’ “ ‘I shall alxvays love him.’ “ ‘And you will help him?’ “ ‘Yes, alxvays.’ ‘ ‘More than once that night she made me repeat the promise, and I took oath, little knowing xvhat the oath meant. “Time passed, and we both got on well. Ihad, perhaps, the most money, but then I did not go out as much as Richard did, and he gave away more than I did, too. “The humdrum round of my daily life xvas suddenly disturbed—pleas¬ antly so. Alice Eversham came into it, and from the first moment I saxv her I loved her. I had never even cared about a woman before; bad never for even, as a boy, had a preference one of the pupils at the seminary for young ladies xve passed evory morning on our way to school, For a long time I loved in silence. I feared to put my fate to the test, and hen I plucked up my courage to ask Alice to be my xvife I xvas too late. She xvas kind and gentle, but her ‘no’ xvas final. “ ‘But, Alice, I xvill xvait. You xvill change—you must change,’ I said, in in my despair. “ ‘I shall never change.’ ( t < Who hi the—the other man?’ “ ‘I cannot tell you that. A xvoman does not confess her love for a man before that man has asked her.’ “Life has been black enough for me many times, heavens knows, but never so black as it was then. It is the one great has passion I have knoxvn, and it made me what I am to-day. “A week later Richard bounced into my room one night, threxv himself doxvn in an easy chair, and began to, laugh. “ ‘Got the blues, Bobbie?’ “ ‘No.’ ( ( ( Well, congratulate me. I’m the happiest fellow in the world. I xvaut. you to bo my best man. I’m going to be married.’ “ ‘Married!’ “ ‘Yes; I am caught at last—the dearest girl living. You knoxv her xv ell.’ i < < Who is it?’ “ ‘Alice Eversham.’ “I sprang from my chair and brought my clinched fist doxvn upon the tablo. Blind rage took possession of me for a moment. “ ‘Hallo!’ ho exclaimed. ‘AVhat’s tho matter? Are you in love with her, too?’ “ ‘No; I was thinking,’ I answered, stupidly. “‘If you think like that often you xvill smash all your furniture. Come, toll me the truth, Bobbie. You are m lox’e xvith Alice yourself, I cannot blame you. Anyway, she will bo your sister, old follow. ’ “His words xvere intended as a con- solation, but they xvero maddening. It xvas only afterxvards, when I became sane enough to think calmly, that I felt Richard had as much right to happiness as I had. AVe both loved her, and she loved me. It xvas all fair, honest dealing; I could not eom- plain. “Richard’s wedding-day was a tor- ture. “ ‘Good-by, Robert,’ Alice said, just before they went axvay. ‘You forgive me?’ ‘“There is nothing to forgive,’ I ansxvered. “ ‘And you xvisli mo happiness?’ “ ‘With all my heart!’ I said. ‘We shall not see much of each other, Alice, in the future; it is better not; but remember, I atn your brother— more, your friend. If you should ever want me, send for me.’ “ ‘When xve come back I shall send for you at once,’ she ansxvered, merrily. “ ‘And I shall not come. In trouble you shall find me ready, but otherwise I shall be out of reach. I leave Eng¬ land to-morrow, and I do not knoxv when I shall return.’ POPULATION AND DRAINAGE. MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 9, 1807. “ ‘I shall have to get into trouble quickly,’ she said. ‘Good-by!’ “I left England and wandered about, trying to forget. Alice had been mar¬ ried ten years when I first met you, Hargraves, and during that time I did not Bee her, but I heard constantly myseif from Richard, and beggared almost in helping him. He did not seem to have an idea of the value of money—spent limit it as if there was no to his income. “It was a letter I received from Alice which made me leave you bo sud¬ denly. Richard was again in Berions difficulty, his and she wrote to me with¬ out knowledge, he having told her then for the first time how often I had helped him before, saying that he could not ask me again. I went to her, and found matters about as bad as they could be. Richard was desperate and half ashamed to see me. By a terri¬ ble struggle, and pledging my credit to the utmost limit, I managed, as I thought, to sot him straight. I be¬ lieve Alice would have gone down upon her knees to thank me had I let her; and Richard thanked me, too, but did not seem quite at ease. I was glad to get away from them, and I made arrangements to leave England again. To be perfectly truthful, my resources were so reduced that I meant to set¬ tle in some continental town where living was cheap. All my preparations were made, when I received a tele¬ gram: “ ‘Come to me at once. Amok.’ “AVondering xvhat new complica¬ tion had arisen for I could read trou¬ ble in the message—I went. “Alice xvas alone. “ ‘Robert,’ she said, clutching aud there look horror my arm, xvas a of in her eyes, ‘is it true?’ “ ‘Is xvhat true?’ “ ‘That Richard is thief?’ a “ ‘No. Who has said so?’ (( < We xvere dining out last night, and I overheard two men talking about Richard. They xvere surprised to see him there. One of them said dis¬ tinctly that he had committed for¬ gery xvith regard to some company matter, and xvas liable to be arrested at any moment. ’ “ ‘Nonsense, Alice! You mis¬ are taken. ’ “‘They mentioned his name—R. Denmore. Oh, Robert! I have been brave through my troubles—heaven knows I have—but if this is true it will kill me. ’ ‘“Did these men appear to know Richard xvell?’ I asked. “ ‘No. They heard his name, and then began to talk. ” “ ‘Have you said anything to Rich¬ ard about it?’ “ ‘No. I ought to do it, but I am a coward, and dare not, If it is all a lie he would never forgix r e me for doubting him. If it is true—Robert, you once promised to always be my friend—- you must save him, for my sake and my child’s.’ “ ‘I am always your friend,’ I an- sxvered, taking her hand in mine. ‘I will find out all about this story. It is all a mistake, probably; and if not, there is more than one R. Denmore, for instance.’ “I was terribly afraid that the story xvas true, but I spoke to lessen her anxiety. Tho look of a startled hare came into her eyes, hut I did not think about it until afterxvards. How the men Alice overheard obtained their information I do not knoxv, but it xvas in substance true. A heartless fraud had been committed, and appar¬ ently by R. Denmore. I xvas help¬ less. AVhat could I do? And then Alice’s words and look took posses¬ sion of me. I think for a few days I xvas almost mad. I need not tell you hoxv, link by link, the chain of evi¬ dence was forged—I holped to forge it myself. It xvas easy. The fact of my preparations for leaving England, the uncertainty of my destination, my pledged credit. “I xvas arrested, tried, convicted. There xvas no mercy for the man xvlio, by a heartless fraud, had brought ruin aud destitution to many—death by suicide to more than one. I was sentenced to twenty years’ penal servi¬ tude. Txvo months ago to-morroxv I regained my liberty.” He stopped—his tale was told. “Denmore!” I exclaimed, starting to my feet. “You did this for a brother’s sake?” “No; for tho sake of the woman I loved.” “It was a monstrous folly, It was wicked.” “It is over.” “And your brother?” “He remained silent—has been silent ever since. Things have pros¬ pered with him—fortune is hift. Twenty years is a long time to re¬ member. He has quite forgotten me.” “Scoundrel! And his wife?” “I do not know, Hargraves, but I think she must have beliex'od me guilty. You see, the evidence against me I was very strong.” xvas silent. Presently Denmore took some papers from his pocket. “I saw this ina shop xvindow yester¬ day, and bought it,” he saiil, handing me a photograph. “On it xv»s printed, ‘Hon. Bichard Denmore and xvife.’ He has become famous. Do-you recog- nize the picture?” Then I remembered the occupants of the carriage in the park. “I think I have kept my oath, Har¬ graves.” I took his hand and pressed it, but T did not speak. A lump xvas in my throat, and xvords would not come.— The Home Queen. Of the $569,000,000 worth of goods exported from the United States last year 1,340,000 tons of coal, 2,386,186 ounce!! of produce. Green Fluke, one of the three col¬ ored men who xvere in the band <i pioneer Mormons who founded Salt Lake City, is still alive in Idaho, ) THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE ARE THE NEGROES’ BEST FRIENDS. PHILOSOPHER DRAWS COMPARISONS Ife Han Strong Conviction. In Itcgnrd to Lynching and Throws Out Some Timely Suggestions, These “Boston yankees" already have big money in cotton mills i'n South Carolina. Three-fourths of the capital in the new mills in Spartan¬ burg is New England money, and they have never yet even suggested the OIll- ployment is of negro operatives. Indeed, it a new departure if Boston has suddenly fallen in love with the negro, for all the genuine yankees I know or have known had little use for him, ex¬ cept as a base of political operations. The new little city of Fitzgerald that is made up of Illinois yaukeos, won’t even allow him a domicile in the cor- poration. I know a yankeo lady who was taken sick here and she wouldn’t cat anything they cooked, and liked to have perished to death during her long illness. Kind neighbors took nice things to her, but had to tell her they were cooked by negroes. It, is curious how they don’t mix things up north, for in one hotel you will find all colored waiters and in another all whites. There are hotels in Flor¬ ida where all the waiters are New Eng¬ land girls. In tho northwest no color¬ ed barbers are allowed. They would lynch one just as soon as lie put up his striped pole. Thero is really less prejudice against tho negro at tho south than at, the north. There are more trades and occupations open to him. But, all this has been said and resaid for thirty years. “Oh, but you lynch them,” they say, and the Now York Herald keeps an account against us—over 300 in the last twelve months, If it was 3,000 we would still ask, like Governor Oates, “What are Lynching you going to do about it?” for that crime is the law of nature, and will goon. When juries are organized to try hyenas and wolves and gorillas, maybe these brutes in hu¬ man form will be tried, but not before. The argument is exhausted, and we stand by our wives and children. If the brute who was burned at, Dallas had had as many lives as a cat, I would have have burned them all. The fate of that poor little child has haunted me ever since. And so let tho negro bishops and preachers and teachers and editors stop bewailing the lynch- ings and go to denouncing the outrages and teach to their people the enormity of the crime and its swift and sure pun¬ ishment. The emotions of the human heart are the same at Urbana as at Dallas. But Anglo-Saxon fears are aroused prematurely. No white children have yet been displaced that I have heard of. The papers say that some xvealthy negroes are about to build a cotton mill in Alabama. That is alright, of course, and they xvill employ negro labor. Mr. Anglo-Saxon can’t com- plain about that, but he charges that Hon. Hoke Smith in 1.893 wrote an article for The American Reviexv ad¬ vocating the employment of negro labor in our cotton mills as a means of competing xvith tho Chinamen. Well, I don’t believe that Mr. Hoke Smith wrote any such thing, for we have no Chinamen in that business, and if xve had, liow could tho negro compete any better than the white race? I know of no trade or occupa¬ tion in which the negro excels the white man, either in skill or cheap¬ ness. But this man is very mad xvith ns, and actually abuses Frank Stanton for xvriting poetry about mules and xvatermelons and violets and daisies, while the white people nre threatened with the direst calamity of thirty ye ars. Stop, Stanton, stop; and write a poem about the black cotton mills that loom up in the distance. But while on the subject of tho dusky race, my attention was called by my wife to a photograph and a sketch of Queen Li 1 that appears in the July number of The Puritan. The photo¬ graph indicates a handsome woman of Moorish complexion and features quite as English as Queen Victoria’s, Tho sketch gives her praise for her man¬ ners and her lavish entertainments and her modesty of deportment. It closes with these words: “She is really a queenly woman, Her bearing is dig- nified, her manner gracious, her lan¬ guage perfect and one leaves her presence echoing the sentiment: ‘< )nco a queen, always a queen.’ Now that dethroned woman has been the butt of hundreds of cruel jokes and slanders and for what was it? For political schemes that are noxv about to mature in the annexation of Hawaii. Or am I too suspicious of our Ameri¬ can politicians? May tho good Lord help us all aud keep us frqm stealing, especially from a woman. P, S.—Allow me to thank all those kind friends, far and near, who have sent me the poem 1 asked for: “Man xvauts but little here below,” by J. Q. Adams, It gratifies me to learn that so many are better versed in literaturo than T am, and I thank them for their kind consideration of my ignorance.— Bill Art, in Atlanta Constitution. A Kansas man has petitioned the Legislature to change his name, John Rat, because he can induce no young woman to accept it. Very naturally the feminine sex is averse to becoming a Rat catcher. Elects Senators by Popular Vote. Next September, for ib« third time, South Carolina will elect a Buffed States Senator ' v a popular vote. THROUGH GEORGIA. Preparations will be begun at OllCO for the entertainment of the hordes of old veterans that will pour into Atlanta on the occasion of their reunion next year. The veterans in the city aro all enthusiastic over the next reunion. They say Atlanta will do the right thing and see that the thousands who come will receive every attention. A protest has been made against, the issuance of a charter for the Teflon, Thomasville and Gulf railway by the owners of the Pensacola road, from Pidcook to Moultrie, and the question will be argued before the secretary of state on Friday, July 2d. It is the case of an existing road trying to shut out competition under the ten-mile law, The Third Georgia regiment, under the command of Col. R, U, Thomason, of Madison,xvill spend n xveek at Nash¬ ville during the summer. The trip xvas planned during the stay of the Third Georgia at Camp Northen re¬ cently and all the companies agreed to go on the trip. The Clark Rifles xvill be well represented on this trip. Macon is to have a new hotel cost¬ ing anywhere from $250,000 to $356,- 000. The best business men in the city are behind the movement They set the necessity for a large and ele¬ gant hotel, and xvill put their money and the money of a number of outside capitalists into the enterprise. The site has been selected, but tho promo¬ ters are keeping it a secret, Macon has long felt the need of a lino hotel. The report of the Fulton county grand jury recommending that salaries be paid the justices of the peace in¬ stead of fees has caused quite a stir among Fulton county’s justices. While the grand jury was in session nil of the justices in the county wero summon¬ ed to appear and nearly all of them were reprimanded for the manner in xvhich they had conducted their offices. There xvas some talk of finding a bill against one or txvo of them for their negligence in failing to record all of the cases that come to their courts. The brandy season is noxv on and the moonshiners have competition in the lino of supplying the thirsty xvith pure distilled brandy. United States Internal Revenue Collector Tramell is busy issuing licenses to brandy mak¬ ers, who xvant to manufacture the fire xvater during the peach season. The number of patents issued so far is small, but eventually the revenue men think they will have more than they can do registering the government dis¬ tillers. Mr. Trammell thinks that there xvill be nearly 300 bonded dis¬ tilleries in Georgia this year. The peach and apple crops are very large and he thinks that a great deal of brandy keepfcup xvill lie manufactured, lie with the fruit crops and says that this year’s yield xvill bo very good. * * * Mrs. Enoch G. Jones is still being held at the Fulton county jail. The authorities in Fayette county have sent word to Sheriff Nelms that as the jail in Fayetteville is not completed, it will be best to let Mrs. Jones remain in Atlanta pending her trial for assault xvith intent to kill. Mrs. Jones spends her time in sewing and reading. She refuses to see any callers. Tho latest news from the Jones’ home states that the old man is getting along very well and that his injuries will not prove very serious. E. G. Jones is a first cousin of the father of Mrs. McCul¬ lough, who xvas foully murdered near Riverdale a year ago, and of which murder John McCullough, her husband is charged and in jail at Jonesboro awaiting trial. Judge Lumpkin, at Atlanta, lias handed down his decision in Hie peti¬ tion of the receivers of the Southern Mutual Building and Loan Association asking for direction in regard to a number of matters. The first question answered is in regard to the defunct association. Judge Lumpkin has de¬ cided that the association shall no longer bo conducted and managed as a going concern, lmt that it shall be wound up in the nature of a liqnida- tion, and that no further efforts “ shall ‘ he made either by tho court or the stockholders to perfect a reorganiza¬ tion that would look to an increased outlay of capital or a divergence of the funds now in the custody of the re¬ ceivers. The second important ques¬ tion which has been decided by the court is xvhelher or not a reward should be offered for flic arrest and convic¬ tion of William 0. Hale, the erstwhile president and wildcat financier. In his order Judge Lumpkin decides that the reward will not bo offered for tht missing president. A stiff fight is on between Governor Atkinson arid Hie state geological de¬ partment. The first inkling of tho fact that the governor didn’t love the geological department came with the day xvlien the Blalock investigating committee began to examine the affairs of that, department. Jt was then found that the governor thought tho state could got along without the de¬ partment, and if signs count for any¬ thing tho governor will try to have the state geologist shoved out of a job, oi l ather have> the job taken off the state geologist, by abolishing the depart ment. Tho first open demonstration of war came when tho governor and his party went up to Bee the exposition at Nashville. The governor was in¬ finitely until pleased xvith the Georgia ex¬ hibit he came to the mineral dis¬ play. He looked up at the mineral display and found that every Georgia mineral sent from this section of the stale xvas classed as coming from the Birmingham, Ala., district, T. P. GREEN. MANAGER. THE SUBJECT OF MUCH SPECULA- TION IN WASHINGTON. PRESIDENT MAY RECOMMEND ONE, It Is Rumored That no Will Send Special Message to Congress Regard¬ ing tho Matter. A Washington special of Friday ! says: The question of whether the | president will send a special message to congress recommending the crea¬ tion of a currency commission will be definitely decided next week. The president is strongly inclined at this time to send a special currency message to congress, regarding himself as in a creditable measure pledged to this course. In fact, it xvas semi officially an¬ nounced at the white house that such a message would be sent to congress next week, but some of tho president’s most influential advisers on financial questions are opposed to a message as impolitic at this time owing to hos¬ tility to a commission on the part of congress, and the final determination, ns stated, will not be reached until Mr. McKinley’s return from Canton. The executive committee of the In¬ dianapolis sound money convention hax r e been actively advocating tho committee’s scheme ever since the ad¬ vent of the present administration. H has also tho sympathy of the presi¬ dent, xvlio committed himself to it in his inauguration. President McKin¬ ley, however, did not rnro to recom¬ mend it to congress while the tariff bill xvas pending lest it might compli¬ cate and delay action on that measure. All along the chief difficulty which presented itself to those xvlio favored a, commission for the investigation of tho currency system has been the op¬ position it would encounter in en li¬ gress, AA’hile a bill for the creation of a coin- mission could easily be passed in the house where faot’ous opposition would he unavailing against the operation of a cloture order that would bring it to a vole, such opposition in the senate might be almost interminable. Sev¬ eral of the silver senators have openly avowed then unalterable hostility to the creation of a commission and Sen¬ ator Teller, of Colorado, has declared that he would remain here unit! De¬ cember to defeat it. This being the situation, it is under¬ stood that 8OH10 of tho executive com¬ mittee members of the Indianapolis convention are noxv inclined to believe that it would perhaps bo a mistake to press their request for tho creation of a commission by congress. The better and wiser thing to do, some of them noxv think, would bo to withdraw their requests for a commission and to use tho provisional power vested in tho committee by the Indianapolis con¬ vention and themselves select a com¬ mittee to investigate the currency question and present their conclusions through the public press. If those conclusions wore such as the administration could subscribe to, they could be made tho basis of an ad- ininistration measure modified as Hoc- retary Gage, conducting an independ- ant investigation, might suggest. Tho secretary has been at work for some time on a comprehensive curren¬ cy reform scheme and some suggestion lias been made ns to the wisdom of not having a farther agitation of the ques¬ tion but of permitting Mr. Gage, who has the full confidence of business men generally, to frame a measure af- ter as much consultation as he may de¬ sire xvith financiers, business men, members of Iho houso and the senate and others. Tho matter xvas under discussion at the cabinet meeting Friday, but not in a manner to lead to a definite conclu- sion on policy, and the matter wont over until their return to the city next, xveek, xvliou it is probable that Mr. 11. M. Hanna, chairman of the executive committee of the Indianap- olis convention, and perhaps other members of the committee will come to Washington to discuss the sitxiatiou xvith the president and Mr. Gage. Upon the result of the conference xvdl proba ily depend I resident Me- Kinlcy s action as to a special nies- sago to congress. TO TAX STOCKS AMI RONDS. IjOtlg© I’ropofioi Anwmliufiiit to Tariff Bill lor Tlmfc Purposes A Washington telogram says: Sena- tor Lodge Friday proposed a draft of an amendment to the tariff bill provi- ding for a tax on stocks and bonds. As prepared, the amendment vides for a tax of 5 cents a share on $100 or fraction of the face value of capital stock or of bonds of either is- Finance, and of 2 cents each for each *100 or fraction on each transfer stocks or bonds. United States and state bonds are exempted, as aro in- dividual bonds to secure mortgages, aml also the stock and bonds of mu trial benefit building associations. CORNELL WINS AGAIN. Thin TIm« the Doughty Crew Captures tho Fresh man Face. Cornell won the freshman race at Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ Wednesday, by three-fourths of a length; Columbia second, by one-third of a length over Pennsylvania. The official time: Cor- noil, 9 minutes 21 1-5 seconds; Oolum- liia, 9 minutes 22 3-5 seconds; Penn- sylvauia, 9 minutes 23 1-5 seconds. Tho race was over the two-mile course botweon three American orews rowing xvith purely American laethoda. OFFICIAL STRIKE ORDER Iasuad By National Board of United Min© Workers, With Instructions. A special of Friday from Columbus, O., says: A general strike of miners of the United Mine Workers of America has been ordered for July 4th by tbo ntiaonal executive board, whose head¬ quarters are in this city, and also by the district presidents, as a result of the meeting held hero June 24th, 25th and 26th. The official document says: “To the Mine Workers of the Coun¬ try, Greeting— Fellow Miners: At the last annual convention of the United Mine Workers of America, held in the city of Columbus, O., January 12-16, 1867, it was determined that the scale of prices should be advanced to the following rates: pick “Pennsylvania mining, (Pittsburg district) Ohio, 69 cents per ton ; 60 cents per ton; Indiana, bitumin¬ ous), 60 cents per ton; Illinois (Grape creek), 55 cents per ton. Machine mining to be paid three-fifths per ton of the price for pick mining except in Indiana (bituminous), four-fifths where the price shall lie per ton of the price paid for pick mining; other mining sections a corresponding increase in, price that will place them on a relative basis. “It xvas further agreed that the time for tho enforcement of the scale was loft with tho national board and district presidents to determine when it xvas most opportune to put this scale into effect.” The document then urges unanimity and fidelity among the members. “The signs of the times,” tho paper says, “as pointed out by the press and by the affairs testimony of men versed in public arc that business is im¬ proving; that au upward tendency in prices of all eomodities is apparent. “In the general business revival and industrial improvement which is ear¬ nestly proclaimed xve ought to share, and if xve do not attempt to share, xve shall bo false to ourselves aud to those dependent upon us. “Let the watchword bo,” says the circular, “mine xvorkers aro entitled to a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s xvork: Local committees aro directed to bo formed, “and see that action is taken at once. The field is large and’ it xvill be an impossibility for national and district officers to attend at all points, consequently all local leaders arc ordered to assume the responsi¬ bility and authority for the successful oonsumation of our desires, “To insure success great caro should be exercised by all that no breach of tht: peaco occurs at any time or place, under any circumstances. Bulletins xvill be issued from time to time to keep you informed of the progress of affairs. ” STRONG RESOLUTIONS Adopted by the fteorght Bur Association lteemnmeiidifiK Kolb tins. The following resolutions were adopted by the Georgia Bar associa¬ tion in session at Warm Springs, after the warmest debate which has ever agitated the association: “Resolved, That it Is the sense of this as¬ sociation— “1. That criminal pleadings should he amendable. “2. That tlic stale and the defendant in criminal oases should ho put upon an equal¬ ity in tho challenges of jurors. “3. That prisoners who desire to make any statements on their own behalf shall ilo so under oath and subject to cross-exainina- tion; that in 1I«» of the rigid, to makes statement, ns Is now practiced, tho defend¬ ant shall have tho right to be Sworn as a witness lu his own behalf, “4. That the president shall appoint a special committee of nine, of xvldcli Judge Georgs ffillyer, of Atlanta, shall ho chair¬ man, to present tho draft of bills embodying the foregoing resolutions to the next general assembly, and shall urge the adoption tliere- of. “B. That said committee be, and is hereby requested to present to tho next meeting of this association a report covering the wholo subject of needed reforms in tho criminal law and its administration, and shall cause to be printed and mailed to each member of this association, thirty days before the next meeting, a copy of said report.” LAW SHUTS THEM UP. A third Louisville building and loan association, The Globe, xvent to the wall Friday afternoon, finding itself unable to carry on business under the state law as construed Viy the appellate court. The assets and liabilities are estimated at $400,000 each. The managers and presidents of the build* ing and loan associations have issued cards calculated to restore confidence. TWO B. & L. FAILURES. Caused By a Recent Decision of Kentucky Appellate Court. The Commercial Building Trust, a corporation doing building . and , , loan a business at Louisville, Ky., assigned Wednesday. liabilities .. The assets and . estima- are ted & about half a million dollars each- The assignment is caused by Hie recent decision of the appellate court in which it was held that all nr forest charged or collected by any cor- poration or persons in Kentucky ill excess of 6 per cent xvas usury. Following , the heels of the faii- on nre of the Commercial Building Irust, tho Columbia Building and Savings Anraoc'iatloru went to tho wall. THIS TRAIN WAS DITCHED. only One Passenger, However, Was So- rionsly Hurt Tn tho Smash-Up. __ The westbound ,, . passenger train on the Oregon Short Line road went into the ditch near Glenn s ferry, Idaho, Wednesday night, owing to a broken One person was seriously .... injured . and one slightly injured Iho names of the injured one is not given | Superintendent O ft 'jm and Chief Bxirgeon Pwkerton left on a special train for the soene of the aooident.