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CURRENT TOPICS.
Lent begins February 15.
Tup latest dude cane is also a cigarett*
holder.
John Sherman is said to be worth sl,-
6<!0,000.
The Pope is in receipt of 12,000 pairs of
slippers.
Whittier can not abide the aroma of
cabbage. .
A single Pnritan rose costs a dollar in
New York.
The retail price of coal at Pusadena,
Val., is #25 a ton.
The Chinese alone hold the secret of
making India ink.
Trie seventecn-moiiths-old King of Spain
gets 51,000,000 a year.
Florida tr a -kets are supplied with new
tomatoes of native growth.
Northern New York farmers propose
to organize an Albany lobby.
A New York life insurance agent has
oponeri an office in Jerusalem.
A lard trust is the latest. It ought to he
a fat thing for those who are ir, it.
The fund for the New York Grant Mon
ument amounts now in all to #l2 (,000,
i For the entire calendar year of 1887, the
Government debt was reduced #117,016,000.
As a popular resort for suicides the
Brooklyn bridge is an unqualified suc
cess.
A man named “Toogood” has been ar
rested in Baltimore for disorderly con
duct.
Taimage dictates his sermons to his
secretary at the rate of 150 words a
minute..
It has been decided by the postmaster
at Bt. Lt uis that mince pie is not mailuble
matter.
There are whole towns in Germany that
do little else but make dolls for American
children.
England has got another slice of Africa
This lime it is a piece of Zanzibar, near
Port Wanga.
'Somebody “unpatriotieally” compares
Maine sardines to pincushions soaked in
bad whale oil.
The man who has the contract of clean
ing away the garbage in New York City
clears #50,000 a year.
Grave defects have been discovered in
the steel being used in the construction of
cruisers in California.
TnritE isn’t much doubt that Cape Cod
is getting eaten up by the greedy sea, and
in time will disappear.
Ki*ib>p Whiim le says that ‘as long as
the Indian has an alms house to go to, so
long will he, be a pauper.”
The President lias determined that ho
■will not appoint, a delegate to the medical
congress to be held at Lima, Peru.
Hanging is not a popular mode of death
in the Empire Btate, and a change is rec
ommended in the Governor’s message.
Bon -in-law Wii son has docided to quit
France, and. will hereafter reside in Scot
land, where he has purchased an estate..
The fastest locomotives in this country
are on the Pennsylvania railroad. It is
claimed they can go a mile in liity-two sec
onds.
A Petersburg (Va.) patriarch seventy
live years of age, is marri d to his eighth
wife and is the happy father of thirty-six
children.
John Williard, of New Garden, Pa., has
a fine sheep whose wool made nineteen
yards of cloth a yard Wide. It makes a
good yarn.
The Daily Hot Blast, of Anniston, Ala.,
has been sold. The man who got this paper
will have to handle it with tongs, judging
from its name.
There is a mountain of coal in Wild
Horse Valley, Wyoming, which has been
burning for thirty years. It sends up dense
volumes of smoke.
Lithographic stone is found in Dallas,
Tex., fully equal to the i-tone imported
from Europe. It costs from #4O to $55 foi
a 3tone 30x40 inches.
A contest over a seat in the Maryland
Legislature is going on between two men
who bear the striking names, respectively,
of Seaggs and Bassc?r.
C. F. Huntington, the railway magnate
whose wealth is computed at #50,000,000,
once peddled out butter by the pound tc
the miners in California.
Donna Juana Parkaga v. peFuenzaeidj
has jnst died in ltancagua, Chili,at Ihe age
of 120 years. Bhe 1 ved to see her great
greai great-grandchildren.
Over five thousand acres of timber land
near Hawkinsville, Gn., sold at anotion re
cently for #SB. Borne of the land went for
less than half a cent ail acre.
There seems to he no limit to George W.
Child’s benefactions. Ho has just sub
scribed $2,500 for the erection of a memor
ial window to Milton in Westminster Ab
bey.
For the first time since the construction
• f the old cathedral at Bt. Augustine, Fla.,
200 years ago. the customary celebration
of midnight mass on Christmas Eve was
omitted this season.
Anderson Burrell, a planter living
near Montgomery, Ala., is the father of
thirty-one children and the grandfather of
sixty. He is seveniy-one years old and has
been married four times.
Ihe new paper shirts are very popular
among the newspaper men Ht Grand Rap
,fls. One enthusiast c laborer on the Daily
hngir declares the shirts keep a fellow so
warm he can soak his overcoat in the win
ter.
The young ladies of Hastings, N* b , met
in council one day last week and passed
resolutions declining to attend balls wit#
the young men unless the latter should con
sent to recognize them when there is an
opera.
Hope Leo's uppenlance in the basilica of
St. Peter’s a few days ago, was the first
appearance of a Pope the e since Victor
Emmanuel entered Rome iw 'SM with
Hoops to overrule the temporal authority
of the Pope.
An anti-tithe agitation in Wales is among
the probabilities of the immediate future
with which the English Government will
have to den’. This, with ’he home rule
Question, will give the conservatives con
siderable work to do to keep the reic' 0*
|ovenunent well in hand
boiler Explosion,
Destroying the Mill ana Scatter
ing Ruin and Destruction
Everywhere.
Pieces of the Bolter Found sixty Feet
Distant— A I’uddler Horribly Burned-*
Others Found Badly Scalded and
Bruised,
Brasil, Lily, Jail. 9.—At 12:30 p. m. to
day the r orth one of a battery of two
boilers on furnaces Nos. 13 and 14, located
in the extreme north end of the Central
Rolling-mill, in this city, exploded with
terrible force, blowing down the entire
north end of the mill, and scattering
wreck and ruin all around. The boiler,
which was twenty-six feet long by forty
two itches in diameter, parted, one
piece eighteen feet long being
hurled, projectile - like, to the west.
It cut through a large brick smoke
stack whose walls Were two feet thick,
snd landed on the furnace switch, cross
ing the iron yard of the blasting furnace,
a distance of sixty yards. The sm dler
piece was hurled in exactly ihe opposi 0
direction, bringing up against a brick
smoke stack, which it completely demol
ished. The cloud of escaping steam and
the great depth of debris, added to the con
fusion of the hour, left in uncertainty for
the time being the true character of the
destruction of life wrought. Fortunately
many of the employes were at dinner:
Matt. Mortimer, puddler, at work at the
southwest end of the furnace, was buried
under two or three feet of red-hot brick,
and his remains were in a horrible condi
tion when exhumed. Wm. E. Williams,
puddler, who was at work at the north
west end of the furnace, just opposite the
fatal boiler, and over whose head it pass
ed, escaped badly scalded and bruised
about the head, but may live. Mortimer
was married. The other injured are J. G.
Lewis, puddler, struck on the head by a
brick: Peter Dolan, puddler, unmarried)
and recently of Terre Haute, left leg bro
ken and crushed below tho knee, also head
injured; John E. Tobin, badly scald
ed; Elias Davis, struck with
a missile and scalded; Jolm
Kauffman, at work in the blast furnace,
iron-yard, part of the boiler passing over
his head, struck on the head w' M a brick.
Tobin has since died. The bailer had not
been in use but a little over two years. It
was cleaned and tested and found to be all
right yesterday. Competent engineers
were in charge, and tho force pump was
in order. February 10. 1885, a boiler on the
opposite battery exploded, resulted in
eight or ten fatalities. In the accident to
day two or three others were slightly in
jured. The extent of injuries of thosj re
ported is not known, and another death or
two may result.
Remains of a Meteor.
Jai ksonvillk, Fla., Jan. 9.—A huge
atone supposed to lit of meteoric origin
was found near Middleburg. Fla. Search
parties were organiz 'd and it was finally
found. It had been broken into several
fragments by striking a stump, the large
one being buried out of sight. The other
pieces were hot. One of them weighs 212
pounds, another fifteen nnd others ton and
five. It looks like iron ore. is dark, quite
hard and covered with small white trans
parent crystals.
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Underground Fire Gaining.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 9. — An old coal pit
on the Diiworth property, Mt. Washing
ton, is burning, having been set on fire
last Thursday by some boys. The intense
heat and the apparent headway gained by
the fire causes considerable apprehension
among the residents of the Mount, as it is
honey-combed throughout with old galle
ries, giving every chance for the subter
ranean cob ft ignition 'o spread.
Paymaster Shot.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 9. News was
received here to-day of the shooting of
Paymaster Ruffin at a railway camp on
the Birmingham Mineral yesterday. He
became involved in a row with a negro,
and another negro compelled him at the
mouth of a revolver to hold up his hands
whijg the assailant shot him. Ruffin is
still alive, but will almost certainly die.
The negro who did the shooting escaped,
but his partner is in jail here.
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Three Drowned.
Mobile, Ala., Jan. 9.—Robert Vo!'a, a
young architect who was superintending
the erection of the Baldwin County Court
house, went ou‘ in a sail boat with three
mechanics —Miller, Lewi* and Wilson—to
go to Point Clear, on the c istern shore of
the bay. The boat capsize I, and Voltz,
Miller and Lewis were drowned. Wilson
clung to the boat all night and was res
cued. •»
Millions of Feel o! Logs Lost.
Loukhaven. Pa., Jan. 9. —An immense
jam of ice and logs, form 'd in the boom
here during the immense thaw, gave way
last night, and millions of feet of logs and
timber went adrift. The est imated loss to
lumbermen is upward of #35.000. These
logs are parts of drives t hat, faile 1 to come
in on the flood ef May Inst. The ice moved
off without further damage.
Archtelogicat Discovery.
Athens, Jan. 9.—Tie remains of the cel
ebrated Temple of Kabcirio have been dis
covered by Germ a i excavators ti3ar
Thebes.
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May Haag For It.
W heeling. W. Va.. Jan. 9. frank Fal
lour, a prominent cit zen end a large hold
er of ie-il estate, '.va' arrested yesterday
or a charge of setting fire to a dwelling in
the night, an offense which is one of the
three punishable under the statutes ot this
State with death.
Peace not Pledged.
Paris. Jan. 9.—The Journal Dr* Dtijat* of
ficially denies that M. Carnot instructed
M. Herbette, French Ambnssador to Ber
lin, to inform Emperor William that so
long hs be remained President thore should
he no war.
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 13. 1888.
ASSAULTED IN THE PULPIT.
Plain Talk From a Preacher (lives Of
fctue to One of His Hearers.
Buc tel, 0.. Jan. Rer. P. 8. Butts,
pastor of th? M. E. Church here, of late
indulged in a too free use of
personalities while in the pulpit,
even to assailing the charac
ter of some few residents of the place, and
last even ing was speaking Of the surety
of sohie deceased parties being residents of
hell, when Mr. Geo. Kelly.a one-legged man,
arose, and walking up to the pulpit, struck
him a stinging slap on the lace. Kelley
never drinks. When some of the mem
bers suggested the arrest of Kelley, Butts
said no, but he would kneel and pray for
him, which lie did, and if any one did ar
rest him he would pay Kelley’s fine, if ho
had to sell bis horse and buggy to do it.
Mr. Butts bas offended several other citi
zen-- in a like manner. Kelley is censured
for doing the way he did at that time and
place.
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TEN WEEKS ASLEEP.
Remarkable Case of l.aura Webster, of San
Francisco,
Ban FhanclscO, Jan. B.—Laura Webster’s
lbng sleep, lasting over ten weeks, is at
tracting widespread attention here. Borne
physicians think it a case of catalepsy, but
the condition of the girl is at times hardly
like that of a person suffering
from that disease. Yesterday morn
ing her sister, as usual, asked her what
she wished to oat, nnd she mechanically
said “ginger bread. 11 This Was given lldl 1
with a glass of milk. Once the devoted
sister asked her what she wanted. “What
have youi” was the unexpected answer.
The sister told her. “Oh, I dont know:
give me something to eat,” answered
Laura, with an expression of weariness,
the first intelligent expression noticed
from her since she was taken ill.
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Family Lacerated by DogA.
CamdeN, N, J., Jan. Si—Thomas H.
French, a prominent lawyer residing At
No. 47 York street, his wife and Jennie
Young, aged eight, the child of a neighbor,
were all frightfully bitten by two huge
dogs this afternoon. The animals were of
unusual size and had at one time been
Owned by Mr. French. They were per
fectly docile, the children frequently
romping with thetii. Tq-<lay Jennie
Was playing w ith them, when one of the
dogs becoming cross, fastened his teeth in
her arm. Her screams brought in Mr. and
Mrt. French to the rescue, when they were
attacked and frightfully bitten in the face
and limbs. The dogs were finally driven
off, when it was found that the wounds
inflicted were very painful and serious,
though not supposed to be fatal.:
Through the Lick Telescope.
Ban Jose, Cal., Jan. 8. — The first satis
factory observation through the Lick tele
scope was Made last evening at nine
o’clock. 1 he sky was clear and the weather
c iol. The. big telescope was first pointed
at the nebula in the constellation. Orion,
which appeared to Messrs. Clark, Swaz'-y,
Keeler and Floyd more ma.’nifleent than
ever before. About eleven o’clock Saturn
was also observed with satisfaction. Only
medium power was used, and the, observa
tion closed about midnight. Work on the
photographic lens will immediately pro
ceed.
For Postal Telegraphy.
Louisville, Ivy., Jan. 8 —At the regu
lar monthly meeting of the Trades and
Labor Assembly this afternoon a resolu
tion was adopted atll forwarded to Con
gressman C&rttth, of this district, urging
him to actively favor the postal telegraph
movement. A resolution was also adopt
ed and forwarded to Legislator Charl
ton at Frankfort, urging him to secure
passage of a bill prohibiting the emp'oy
of any but Union printers by the State
priutc r.
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Lamar Resigns.
W AsniNGTON, Jan. B.— Secretary Lamar
yesterday tendered to the President his
resignation as Secretary of thß Interior,
and it was accepted bv the President. The
formal resignation, it is understood, will
not go into effect until Itfioh of Tuesday
next, iu order to o. able the Secretary to
close up some routine business.
Leo Receives Pilgrims.
Rome, Jan. B.—The Pope to-day received
two thousand Spanish pilgrims. Up after
ward rewived Emperor William's ehtoy.
to whom ite expressed the great pleasur
with which be reg-triled the latest proof of
the Emperor's affection, and the excellent
relations existing between Germany and
the Vatican.
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Accident at a Funeral.
Jamestown, N. Y., Jan. B. —The fune
of little Eddie Miller occurred to-day. L
driving to the funeral his littie sister, aged
eight years, opened the door of the car
riage and fell out. the carriage passing
over and crushing her high. *
Montana Weather.
Belgrade, Mont., Jan. B.— Last night the
thermometer registered 49 dcgi ees below
zero, and at six o'clock this evening it is
37 degrees below and growing colder.
Weather clear, no wind, snow a foot deep,
and cattle suffering severely.
Encouraging News From Fritz.
Berlin, Jan. 8. —Tt o Frankfort Xeitang
announces that Dr. Bramann is about tc
return to Berlin from San Remo, as the op
oration of tracheotomy on the Crown
Prince is not likely to be necessary.
Free Liquor ’he Order ot the Oay.
Sioux Fall* Dak., Jan. B.—The compact
entered into between the Prohibitionists
and saloon men of this city to test the local
optio i law was declared off yesterday by
the saloon men. who found they could cot
be arrested, prosecuted nr enjoined under
tho present law. As the matter now stands
it is free liquor and nobody’s business.
Developing a Volcano.
Nogales. A. T., Jan. B.—San Martin Peak
in the State of Vera Cruz. New Mexico,
has been belching fom h dense smoke for
some time. It is thought the mountain
will become an immense volcano.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.
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First Session.
Wafiiihgton, -tun. 4.—Senate—A number
of pe-tilnns were pro -ented ami bills introduced.
AB->ng Ihe latter was one by Mr. Brown to
abolish internal revenue taxation. The Senate
took up the resolution for the distribution Of the
President's annual message, and Mr. Sherman
delivered his tariff speech. He was followed by
Mr. Voorhres and Mr. Teller. The pending res*
olution was not referred. The Blair educational
bill was taken up. and at 8:50 p. m. the Senate
adjourned, after five minutes of executive ses
sion.
House.—The committees were not ready, and
bill* were introduced and referred, by unani
mous consent, until 4:50 p. m.. when the House
adjourned. Nine hundred and two bills and res
olutions were introduced.
Washington, Jan. s.—Senate.—The Presl
dent s message on Territorial affairs was pre
sented and referred to the Committee on Indian
affairs. Bills were reported Horn this com
mittee. and a number introduced by Senators.
Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Dolph spoke In favor of &
naval station on the Pacific coast, Mr. Reagan
(Texasi opposed the Kibieational bill. At 4:>o
p. m. the Senate went into executive session,
and at 3110 p. m. adjourned until Monday.
House.—Bills were introduced until the an-,
nouncement of the committees, after which an
adjournment was taken at 1:10 p. m. until Mon
day next, to enable the committees to organise.
Washington. Jan. it—Senate.— A number
of memorials and petitions were presented ant
bill.- Introduced, among them Mr. Sherman's te
inr* t certain funds in the Treasury, and to
establish a bureau of adulteration and to regu
late and prohibit the importation, manufacture
and sale of adulterated foods and drugs. The
Senate took up Mr. Brown's resolution to re
peal internal revenue laws. Mr, Blown ad
addressed the Senate. He was followed by
Mr. Vest, at the conclusion of whose remark*
on executive session was held, and at 4:3) the
Senate adjourned.
House. —Mr. Baker, of. Illinois, resigned his
position on the Committee on Claims. The
Committee on Accounts, through its Chair
man, reported a resolution designating the
committees entitled to employ clerks. Mr.
Perkins, of Kansas, offered an amend
ment providing that every member of tho
Housfe riot the t-Hairmiih Of a committee shall
be allowed a Clerk at one hundred dOllais a
month. This was ruled out on a point Of ordef
and changed so as to apply to each mem
ber of a committee. On a molion to recommit
a lively debate followed, during which the ne
cessity of a clerk to each member was discussed.
Finally the resolution was recommitted with
nst-motions to prohibit the Chairman of a com
mittee from using a committee clerk, except on
business of the -j- ihm.t- e. Tho can of Htat'-s
for the introduction of b-'lis was proceeded With
until Missouri. was rea bed, and at 5 p. m. the
House adjourned.
Washington, Jan. IP.—Senate.—Messages
from the President on minor topics were re
ceived and referred An adverse report win
made from the Post-oftiee Commit ter on the
resolution for the appointment of a select com
mi nee on the postal telegraph. The resolution
was indefinitely postponed. Bills were in
troduced, and then the direct tax bill was
taken from the ca'endar and considered.
Amendments were proposed and voted down.
At two o'clock the hill was laid aside,
with iiri amendment pending burring all
claims not Hied within six years. The Blair
educational bill was taken up, after Senator
Chandler had introduced a resolution directing
tho Judiciary Committee to investigate the su
p cession of the colored vote at the
recent election at Jackson. Miss. Mr.
Wilson, of Maryland, spot v in oppn.-ition to
the educational bill. Mr. Wke took the floor
next, and m 8:45 the Sena'e went Into execu
tive session. The nomination of Wffl. F. Vila?
as Seci'htury of the Ihterioc ahd JJon M. Dickin
son as Postmaster General were repotted favor
ably, and at 1:45 the Senate adjourned.
House.—The urgent deficiency bill was re
ported. The call of Slates was resumed from
yesterday. The Committee on Banking and
Currency reported a bill to provide for the issue
of circulating notes to the National Banking As
sociation. The House ut 1 i.Vt p ni, adjourned.
MUST BE ‘'BEAUTIFUL.’’
A Frenchman’s Device Which Breaks Youi
Backbone Instanter.
Albany, N. Y., Jan. 10.—The meeting of
♦be commissioners appointed to investi
gate and report to the Legislature the most
LufflanS and pl’iitttiU.il nieihod fdf carrying
into effect the sentence Of death in capital
cases was held yesterday afternoon. Tho
commission have made a thorough inves
tigation of the matter, but as yet have
had no conference in regard to the report
to be submitted to the Legislature. The
commission has received through Gov
ernor Lilli a letter from a FYB:ich mechanic
residing in Paris, who decides the electric
idea to be a painful operation and offers a
device, which is a chair, on which the coti-.
demned sits and hia spinal column is im
mediately broken. A hundred a div can
be easily nnd painlessly eaeeutri l by his
machine, which lie describes as “beauti
ful.”
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Verdict in a Breach ot Promise Case.
New York, Jan. 10.—Miss Clara Camp
bell, of I ronton 0., was given a verd'et
against Charles Ai bnca'd; the wealthy c-if
fee merchant. Of thC City, for #4.5 (no. ill
her suit for breach of premise. A motioii
for a now trial was overrule I, but a sbiy
of execution was grant d.
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A Protest From Far Oh' Utah.
Salt Lake. Utah, Jan. 10. — Uiuh wool
growers, representing over a million
sheep, met in convention in this eitv yes
terday. A permanent organic itiort was
effected, and a sD Ong rMohuiofi pa se 1
protesting against .he reduction of the
tariff on wool.
New; fram Staley.
Berlin, Jan. 10. Dr. Schweinfurth,
African explorer, writes from Cairo.under
date oi Deoeinb -r 3). that news that B‘an
ley had reached Emin Buy m r.ved at Cairo
Decemlior 22. More definite alvices are
expected shortly.
Almshouse Destroyed by Fire.
JfoNKOE, Ut., Jan. 10.—Fire in East Vil
lage, near ihis place, onti cly destroyed
the alms-bcuse and an adjoining building,
aud three inmates were burned to death.
Another Railroad Wreck.
Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 10.— An accident
to the Pot Hand express train, near here,
resulte i in the loss of -ine lives uid tha
wounding ot about fifty others.
Senator Wiison Re-non rested.
J)es Moines. la., Jan. 10.—Senator Wil
son was ie-npminuted by the Republicnn
caucus )f the Legislature even. u<.
VOORHEES ON THE TARIFF.
Bin ln«l ana Senator’s Able Kepty lo
John Sherman’s Attack on tho I’iresl
dont—Tho Cry Against Tariff - - Reduction
Noiiimj; Bui Forty Cl»|iiii*|i —llemOvinii/
tho True Friend of tho Working-Man.
Washington. Jan. 5 —ln the Henate yes
terday Henator Voorhees took the floor, and
delivered a powerful speech in defense of
the President’s message. He denounced
the statements mode by John Sherman in
his uncalled-for attack on the Administra
tion as ins ncere and misleading, and then
entered heartily into the principal subject
under discussion.
The cont raction of the volume of the currency,
he said, had always been a policy marked by
disaster and suffering and accursed by every
friend of the general welfare of Ihe country.
But when that abominable policy was still
further aided and executed by snatching, as it
were, the money of the people from their very
hands at the rate of #10,00,1,000 a month, with
out necessity, excuse
or paliation, every hon
est mind had to revolt
against such wanton
ro bbe ry. It was a
crime against every
home, every fireside
and every living man
and wo ma n In the
United States. It is a
crime National in its
proportions, gigan ti c
in its strength, omni
present in its visita
tions and brutal in its
rapacity. And yet the
day before the recess
the Senator from Colo-
ratio (Mr. Teller) sneer- senator voorhees.
ed at the idea of the surplus being of any conse
quence. And the Senator from Ohio i Mr. Sher
man) also declared (not by cable from Paris but
on the floor of the Senate) that it
was fortunate for the country that there
was a surplus of #65,000,090 in the Treasury. It
will be for that Senator, if he becomes the Re
publican candidate for the Presidency next
summer, to explain to the people why it is
fortunate that their money is gathered into the
Treasury in excess of all the uses, prescriptions
and wants ot the Government, instead of re
gunning in the pockets of the people.
There was In the Republican press and among
Republican politicians a determined, presist
fent rtnd brazen campaign of mendacity on this
•object; and it Would continue in the rouncils
find field work of the Republican party day by
day, morning, noon and night, until the frosts
of next November come to wither and blast
alike their falsehoods and their hopes.
Ho denied fhat the President had de
parted one jot or tit le from the decla
ration of the last Democratic platform
fin the subject of taxation. That declaration had
been bdld, explicit and peremptory. It was
made in a few plain, strong words, the meaning
of which it was impossible to pervert or mis
understand. Incidental protection to home
manufactures had always been the policy of the
Democratic party. It was recognized in the
last Democrat c National platform. He re
jo ced in every element of American success.
He was proud of the inventive genius of the
country and of its vast establishments, whore
• killed labor abounded. He looked with de
light on the cotton-mills, coal-mines, blast
furnaces and rolling-mills of the South, us
well as on those of New England, Pennsyl
vania ,aml many Western States. He
Would JWiotirago them in their gigantic career'
of development and usefulness; and he held
that the pol cy of the Democratic party had
been always ample for their prosperity and
progress. That was the only safe policy for
Americtm manufacturers themselves. Jf It
were otrP‘ clearly understood that the manu
facturers as a class demanded that they tie en
riched by means of fraudulent tnxos, that they
accept the guidance of th” leaders of the R»-
ptiblicart party and join in their praise, then
ndeed, perils would environ the manufactur
ng interests of the country such as were never
’ nown before.
If (he Democratic party, with its record of more
than fifty years in ilifi administration of the
Government and ,ts frank afid rpnsiantdec
laznt on of principles, w,is to be charged with
th” lolly of free trade every time an attempt
W;iS made to modify the tar Iff, the people would
Very soon and very clearly find out ihat such
assaults iferfi Drily made to divert public atten
tion from the evil designs itffd schemes of plun
der of which they were the v dims.
Proceeding to discuss the message of the
President, he said that it was apleasure to turn
to declare that tli s remarkable stale paper was
true to the principles and teachings of the Dem
hci-atic party fiottl its foundation by Jeffersrei,
And t at the thanks of ihe laboring aid butti
n' ss classes df Dm* riountry were due to the Ex
emtive for seizing on mat vital issue with
tt e grasp of a strong, honest man. end for pre
senting it to his countrymen ia such a Shape
a :d light that it never would disappear until
tire wrongs therein presented were exposed
hud redressed and until the outrages of over
taxation ceased.
In the present age of swollen prfilCUSe.*, of
shallow Aristocracy and of gilded vulgarity, the
splendid utterances tt ‘he President’s message
fell on the minds of the people S" a coken. as a
promise of relief, reform and redemption from
one who had never broken a pledge or forgot
r. public duty. The President had declared for
*hn lowly arid oppresned.
since the malchigsS iffihievtalinaugural of jef
lyrson on the 4th of March, IKOj, flo tfimfiiunitvi
-1 .in had ever emanated Lom the Chief Miig'iS
trate.of this Government more able, more el
evated in statesmanship, more humane and
benevolent in its purpose, or more conducive
to the genera! Wellard Hml good government
than the message under cons deration-
Coming down to the practical question Of
taxatloli Mr. Voorhees s.vd he wis aware that
there were ninny objectifirt? to the internal
taxes, but on grounds far different fl'dri* a de
sire to perpetuate enormous and unjust
tariff taxes on the necessities of life. He ap
preciated the fact that for many years,
and cspec ally ill several Stab s, the
whole system had 1 been used as a pow
erful instrument of partisan political war
fare; and had been rendered odious to every
free nrinded citixen. He WaS also fifteb re
m nded that it was a War tax, arid that it shoilld ,
pass away in time of peacei All these Opinions j
h:u their rve ght with linn. But While heavy
t i*es which had been laid by a war tnr.fi On
every article entering into the wants and neces
sities of the people were not reduced at all, he
submitted that the wor . of rcturm and reduc
tion would be pursued in that field, and the in
ternal revenue system left to stand awhd“, sub
ject to certain modificat uns. As to tob >cco. he
suggested that the tax on cigars and snuff
(produe.ng #12,V)0, r -0i) might be retained and
the re»t o(the tax (producing #17,0(10,015) abol
ished. This, however, was a feature of deta'l,
and perhaps » feature of compromise. The
great bulk of abatement in the present total
unnecessiry taxation of the people would have
to take place in a careful and prudent revision
of the tariff, and we would have to leave to the
future what ought seem the best means
and arrangements by which to attain
that end. As a choice between reducing inter
na; revenue or tariff tapes he would tabor to
cheapen woolens, linens, cotton fabrics, salt,
lumber, coal, iron, steel, and all other staple
commodities rather than sum articles as were
!ndiilg’'d in (rom acquired habits or luxurious
modes of living.
After quoting some sentences from the Pres
ident n message, Mr. Voorhees asked whether
it was from gach Wise, conservative statements
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(guarding the interests of manu
facturers on the one hand, while seeking to
relieve the people on the other) that
the charges of “free trade” were made
against the message. Did it not rather
seem tiiai those aho cavilled S'fiu Mr. Cleve
land. and denounced hfs views, were such as
had predetermined a quarrel, and who would
pot approve the Declaration of Independence
if it came from his hands? Such political
leaders might have their uses, but in the
present instance it required no gift of
prophesy to foresee that as “blind lead
ers of the blind" they and their fol
lowers would roll in the ditch of defeat to
gether. A persistent and violent effort was be
ing made by those who managed and led ihe
opposition to the present Administration to
convince the public mind that the President was
unfriendly to labor Interests and labor organiza
tions, and that the reduction of taxes, power
fully enforced, would prove hurtful to the
working-men, and especially to wage laborers
employed in manufacturing industries. He
might pause to ask the meaning of the present
condition of the wage-workers in many of the
most extensive manufacturing regions, and why.
under the present high tariff, were they engaged
in constant strikes and severe struggles with
their employers. His heart was full of appre
ciative sympathy for the working-man and his
household, as they gathered around their
troubled fireside, often in penury, some
times in actual want, and never in ease
or affluence, but he had never yet conceived
it to be a remedy for his privation and
anxieties to Increase the tax on his blankets
and bed-clothing or on his salt and meager ta
ble ware. The President had expressed his
solicitude for the welfare of the American la
borer, and had pointed out the vigilant ears
which his interests should receive In the treat
ment of the tariff.
Senator Voorhees quoted from the Repub
lican platform of 18KI. wherein It pledged itself
to “correct the irregularities of the tariff and to
reduce the surplus,” and he said that that was
a plain, clear admission, made three and a
half years ago, that the work of the Tariff
Commission had been poorly done and
called for correction, and that the pledge ha 4
never yet by one word, one vote, one step, or
the lifting of one finger been attempted to bo
carried out to this day. On the contrary, the
Republican leaders had not only done
nothing themselves to remedy their own
confessed wrong-doing, but had hindered
the efforts of every body else. If now,
after this long delay, the leaders of the Repub
lican organization in Congress and elsewhere
assumed the attitude of tariff reformers it
would only be under the compulsion of publ<»
opinion, invoked and aroused by the powerful
statement and appeal of Mr. Cleveland in his
late message. They were chiefly incensed
against the President because he h »d disturbed
their policy of inaction.
Their anger was kindled because their dila
tory tactics could avail them no longer. As
had been said of the charge of the Llgh* Brig
ade at Baiaklara: “It is magnificent, bu* it is
not war,” so many thoughtful observers the
tremendous financial power and enduranoa ot
the American people might exclaim - “it
is glorious. but it is not statesman
ship.” It was glorious to the manhood and re
sources of the Republic; but in giving the
orders, in shaping the policy, by which tho
American people had been so strained, taxed
and bitterly tested, all the world knew that a
blunder equivalent to a crime had been com
mitted and had been stubbornly persisted in.
But the question still recurred in its homely,
practical way as to the disposal of the results
of this blundering policy.
He turned from the propositions for a larger
army and navy and costly coast defenses as a
remedy for the Treasury surplus to more nat
ural, necessary and practicable methods for its
use. A generous pension roll, with all arrearage*
paid, liberal appropriations for the improve
ment or rivers and harbors, the construc
tion of public buildings wherever needed
for the public service, were all laudable ob
jects and should be attained, but they would
fall tar short of restoring the immense sur
plus to circulation and of affording the relief
needed.
As a further remedy, and indeed as the
greatest and most potent, the American people
would be best pleased to see the publte debt
dimin shed, and if the authority to purchase
bonds not yet due was not to be found in exit
ing law, Congress should promptly supply the
defect, There was no bondage so cruel as that
of debt, and when the last Government bond
was paid and the last vestige of the National
debt wiped out there would he a jubilee year
beside whose glories all other jubilees and cen
tennial years wou'.d grow pale and insignificant.
He had fa th in its coming becav.se the Ad
ministration had at last been placed upon
sound principles and was being carried on by
honest and able hands. The Ameri an people
would see to it that no backward «top should
be taken for the future.
RIOTOUS TROOPER#.
White and Black Soldiers Engage in a
Bloody Figlit Ove- the Arrest or a Yount
Girl's Assailants-Three of the Former
Bad'y Wounded.
8t Lout i, Jan. 5 -At t> o’clock Tuesday
evening a small detachment of negro soldiers
left Jefferson barracks, twelve miles below
the city, to go to F.elly’s saloon, one sails
from the barracks On the way over they
met fl white woman and outraged her. Aa
soon as#lie new* was received at the bar
racks a detachment of Company O, num
bering forty or fifty, all white men, wee
««nt after the outrngers. The negro sol
diers at the barracks hearing this, got ready
to go to defend their colored comrades.
They were disarmed, but went any
how, and jo ned the outragers A ter
rible battle was fought between the whits
and black soldiers. Neither side had arms,
but stones, clubs and knives were naed
freely. A man named Livingwood was
badly stabbed, another named Peterson
had his skull fractured, and another named
KrummemOcker was internally injured.
All are white.
Fifty-three colored soldiers were arrested
for participating in Ihe riot, but forty-S'S
have been reeased. The seven held in cus
tody are believed to be the ones who out
raged the girl, but the evidence is not con
clusive.
A Phosphate Company Suspends Opera
tions.
Charleston, 8. 0., Jan. s.—On Monday
one of tile li-rgest phosphate companies di*-
churged all of its hands, locked up its ma
chinery and tied up its fleet of dredgers.
This s the Brotherhood company. A direc
tor says the sn«p°nsion will last for three or
four months. It is probable that other
large mining companies will follow suit, the
object being to reduce the supply of rock
until prices are better.
Dropped Dead,
Washington, Jan. s.— Shortly after mid
night Tuesday Charles 8 Moore, one of the
best-known young lawyers in this city, sud
denly dropped dead wh'le crossing E street
at Thirteenth, northwest. Mr. Moore had
just eaten a hearty luneb and was with ft
party of friends. He died without a strug
gle. The remains were at once taken to his
home on Twelfth street and Dr. Staunton
summoned, who pronounced his deatlj
the result oi cerebral apoplexy.