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About Haralson banner. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1884-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1890)
Raralson Couaty Danoen, R e PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK ——BY THOS. W. GRIFFITH. i —AT— BUCHANAN, - - GEORGIA A writer in The Toronto Glabs calls attention to the increasing spread of the Canada thistle in the Dominion. There is a law on the subject, but it is a dead letter, he says, and he suggests that the Government appoint weed in spectors to abate the nuisance. There are in the Japanese Empire 24,945 clementary, 45 normal, 48 or dinary middle, and 11 official schools besides colleges, private schools, kin dergartens, and libraries, the cost to the taxpayers for the public schools alone being more than $8,000,000. Scientific farming in Italy is to be undertaken this year by a company owning a capital of $20,000,000. If the operations prove success ful the old wooden plow, pulled by oxen, that has held the field siice an era before the Romay Cwsars, will probably have teo go. Poisonous snakes in India caused the death of 1,165 persons and 81 cattle, and wild animals the death of 65 persons and 2,252 cattle during last year. The human mortality was very slightly less than in the previous y ear, while the animal mortality was appre ciably greater. In Roumania recently the cold has been very intense, and the wolves have beer driven in very close to the towns. One mail ecarrier was attacked and killed by them on his route. His horses were also devoured, and even the leather post bag was torn to pieces, but many of the letters were recovered. The workingmen of Silesia, Austria, sre in a pitiable condition. They can not even obtain sausages. A meat fam ine exists in the country. American pork is excluded, and the quantity of the native product inadequate. A petitionr has been addressed to the Bundesrath, asking tke repeal of the duty on Amer.can pork. * A veteran detective in Cincinnati was instructed to watch a train and arrest a woman with a child about two years old. He arrcsted one with a child five years old, and when laughed at for his mis take asked that some one give him fig ures on a two-year-old child. An in spection of twelve proved that no two were of the same height or weight, or looked the same age. The Commissioner of the Census hopes to be able on August 1 toan nounce approximately the total number of people in the United States. In ac complishing this result electricity—the applicatfons of which seemingly know no limits—will have a share, since clectrical enumerating machines are to be employed, doing ten times as rapid work as the human brain and hand. The people at the antipodes have had it hot the past winter, Australia’s ther mometer going up to 101 in the shade and 147 in the sun. It should be re membered that our winter is their sum mer, and vice versa. Australia has suffered much the past season {from floods and accidents. Thus it seems that misfortune has been equally dis tributed around the world. Yet the sum of benefits is greater than the sum of misfortunes. The St. ILouis Chief of Police, whe has had many years’ expericnce with criminals, declares that the man whe has once been to State prison seld om re forms. He says that the ex-convict now on securing his release generally reports to the Chief of Police in any large city where he proposes to stay and inquires whether he will be given a fair show, He generally makes protesta tions of reform, but the criminal in stinct is too strong in him, and a few months sees him return behind bars, This the San Franeisco (hronicls terms _ a cynical view, *but it probably agrees with the experienos of most officars of AR e %‘W ey 2 AT THE CAPITAL. WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON-— MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. In the house on Wednesday morning, Mr. Harmer, of Pennsylvania, presented a memorial of the Manufacturers’ club, of Philadelphia, ‘‘representing many millions of capital invested in American industries, and many thousands of work men, earning American wages, in favor of prompt action on tariff legislation which shall check the importation of ar ticles produced by our own people.” Re ferred. The house then went into com mittee of the whole, Mr. Payson, of Illi nois, in the chair, on the legislative ap propriation bill, the pending question being on the motion of Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota, to strike out the clause pro viding clerks for senators. The motion to strike out was lost—B3 to 87. Pending further discussion, described by Mr. But terworth as “‘playful,” the committee rose, and the house at 5:35 adjourned. In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Chandler offered a resolution to adopt a rule to expedite the taking of votes in the senate au(i) to facilitate public business. The resolution was referred to the com mittee on rules. Mr. Platt presented the conference report on the senate bill to provide a temporary government for the territory of Oklahoma. * The reading of the report, which is in the form ofa substitute for the entire bill, and covers fifty-two printed pages, occupied over an hour. The report was agreed to-—ycas 50, nays 5. The bill now now goes to the president for his signature. The sen ate adjournced. In the house, on Thursday, discussion came up on an amendment by Amos Cum mings to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill to strike out the appropriation for the civil service commission. This would make it inac tive, but would not abolish the commis sion or the laws, However, it provoked a discussion which was rich, rare and racy all through, and lasted all day, but the amendment to cut off the appropria tion for the commissions, was voted down by 120 to 61. On motion of Mr. Gray, the senate on Thursday, again took up for considera tion the house bill to transfer the revenue marine service from the treasury depart ment to the .navy department. The amendments reported from the com mittee on uvaval affairs were agreed to. Pending cousideration of the revenue cuttér bill, Mr. Hoar, from the commit tee on privileges and elections, reported (as an original measure), the bill toamend and supplement the election laws of the United States and to provide for the more cfficient enforcement of such laws, and it was placed on the calendar. Con sideration of the revenue cutter bill was resumed, but at two o'clock it was dis placed by the land forfeiture bill. The forfeiture bill was read and committee amendments, after explanation, agreed to. Consideration of the land forfeiture bill occupied the remainder of the afternoon, except the time spent in a brief execu tive session. Without dispesing of it, the senate adjourned. In the house, on Friday, Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the committee on appro priations, reported a joint resolution ap propriating $150,000 to enable the secre tary of war to distribute rations for the relief of the destitute people in the dis trict overflowed by the Mississippi and its tributaries. =~ The secretary of war is to co-operate with the state authorities in distributing the relief here provided. The joint resolution was passed—l39to24.. .. On motion of Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, veas, 120; nays, 100—the house went into committee of the whole (Mr. Payson, of Illinois, in the chair), on thelegislative apprtg)rimion bill. Without completing consideration of the bill the committee rose and the house at 5 o’clock took a re cess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of private pen sion bills. The Senate, on Friday, resumed con sideration of the railroad land forfeiture bill, and Mr. Call went on with his argu ment in favor of the amendment offered by him as to the forfeiture of railroad lands in Florida. Mr. Blair, noticing the inattention of the few senators who were in their seats, called attention to the fact, and, on his motion, a call of the Senate took place. Mr. George spoke in favor of Mr. Call’s amendment, and said some pretty severe things about the absence of senators from their seats. The bill went over without action until Monday. At 8:15 o’clock the Vice-President announc ed that he had signed the joint resolution apgropriating $150,000 flor the relief of sufferers by the Mississippi overflow, and the joint resolution was sant to the Presi dent for his signature. 'The Senate bill appropriating $75,000 fer 4 public build ing at Fayetteville, N. C.,}was passed. By appointment of the| speaker, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, acted as speaker pro tem in the house on Saturday. On motion of Mr. Lee, of Virginia, a bill was passed appropriating $7,000 to construct a road from Alexangriu, Va., to the na tional military cemetery near that place. The house again went into, committee of the whole on the legislative appropriation bill. A call of the house| was ordered. Only 101 members responded to their names. The dreary scenes attending the cc;u of the l;ouse were ther enm;tgd, ‘while est s e G the task of hunting up absentees 3,Aft);§; s ik Ae A o SR BT SBT A five lours consumed in this weary man- A e e Aithened il 0 ote e, 4 tion of John C. Fremont, major general United States army (retired). The senate bill appropriating $140,000 for a publi¢ building at Tampa, Fla,, has been reported and placed on the cal endar, The sgub-judiciary committee of the house left T'}nursdny night on the south ern tour to investigate federal court offi cials, President Harrison, in a communica tion to Attorney General Miller, allegin obstructions to officers of the Unites States courts, instracts the attorney gen erol to use every power to protect court officers in discharge of duty. The republicans of the house and sen ate on Wednesday again agreed upon a basis for the preparation of a silver bill. The agreement is in harmony with the measure adopted by the senate caucus committee, with one important amend ment. The secretary of the treasury has award ed a gold life saving medal of the first class to Richard F. Warren, of Wilming “on, N. C., for extreme and heroic daring In rescuing Miss Carrie Moffett from the surf at Wrightsville Beach, N. C., in June last. Two more territories are to be made states, This time they are New Mexicoand Utah. The republicans of the house (om mittee on territories have decided to report the two bills favorably. The democrats of the committee also favor the admission bit are making strenuous op%ositrion to certain partisan features of the bills, The federal election bill, reported by Senator Hoar on Thursday, from the privileges and elections committee, is'a very elaborate measure, and provides, with great detail and minuteness, the scheme of national supervision of elec tions, It differs widely from the Lcdge bill, and it is essentially a government supervisory measure. By direction of Secretary Blaine, the following message has been sent to the various committees in the south that had prepared to entertain the delegates to the international American conference: ‘‘The secretary of state desires to express his regret that the Southern excursion of the international American conference had to be abandoned, but there would have only been one foreign dclegate in the party af ter leaving Richmond, and a great uncer tainty whether the others would join later. He thanks you sincerely for the hospitality you extended to them, and the trouble you have taken to arrange for their entertainment, and hope that you appreciate the circumstances and reasons by which he is governed.” COTTON STATISTICS. REPORTED BY THE NEW ORLEANS COT TON EXCHANGE. The New Orleans Cotton Exchange issued on Satarday the following state ment, covering the cotton crop movement from September Ist to April 25th, inclu sive, based on tclegraph* returns from all the leading cotton centers and rail roads crossing on the Ohio, Mississippi and Potomac rivers: Net shipmets over land to North American and Canadian mills for the week ending April 25th, 8,910 bales, against 5,902 for the same week last year, making the total for the season to date 892,067, against 906,238. The American mills have taken during thirty-four weeks 2,182,348 against 2,- 129,513 last year, of which, by northern spinners and Canada overland, 1,728.546 against 1,725,711. Northern mill takings during the week, less stock corrections, were 5,795 against 10,709 for the corres pondings seven days of last year. The amount of American crop brought intc sight during the past week were 23,715 bales, against 81,525 for seven days last year, ending April 25th, making the total thus far for the month of April 89,626, against 117,244 for the corresponding twenty-five days in April last year. The amount of the crop now in sight is 7,007,128, against 6,728,301 up to this date last year. The foreign exports dur ing the week are 10,112 bales less than those for the corresponding seven days la-t season, reducing the excess to date over last year to 324,201, | The stock at shipping ports and 200 leading interior southern markets were aggregate reduced during the week 40,908, against a fallin off the same time last year of 48,071, ang are now 180,781 bales less than they were at this time last season. GOVERNMENT RELIEF - FOR MISSISSIPPI SUFFERERS-—MANY PLANT ERS DEPRECATE IT. A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., says: Governor Stone has been requested by the secretary of the war to assist the government agents in a proper distribu tion of the relief provided by congress for the overflow sufferers. Many plant ers deprecate the ‘‘government ration business” in Mississippi, asserting that they can and will feed and care for their tenants till the water recedes, also de claring that there is no suffering, and that the distribution of government rations is only calculated to demoralize labor and encourage idieness. THE IMMIGRATION BUEREAU ORGANIZES A BRANCH IN JACKSONVILLE, FLA.—AN EXPOSITION TO BE HELD. ‘W. W. Pemble, commissioner of the organization of the Southern Interstate Immi t;onmamved in Jackson ville, %,W esday, and in a very few hor smambmnch in AL RO T L T R |by de b e ’?swwn*;%?w;mw IF HE WERE PRESIDENT, SOME VERY PITHY SUGGESTIONS BY MR. , JULIUS L. BROWN, OF ATLANTA, GA. - The New York World asks the public this question: *‘What would you do if you were President of the United States?” Among the answers which have caused most comment is one by Mr. Julius L. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Brown's answer contains food for thought and we here reproduce it from the issue of the fIBGQ‘:') York World dated Sunday April 13, In mvi)aonse to your question to the pub lic, “What you would do if you were President of the United States?’ I sug gest some few things which are thorough ly Utopian, because I will never be Pre sident, and because if I were party spirit is too rife for either one of tge present parties to adopt them. If I were President of the United Sta‘es and I did not have a Congress thoroughly in accord with me, I would execute the laws of the United States im partially, whether in Indiana or in Geor gia. If Iwere President of the United States and had a Congress in thorough accord with me so that my recommenda tions would be adopted, I would: First—Be presigent of the whole United States. I would not be President of any party and would not be President of any section. I would do all in my power to. have good government, and to protect, defend, enrich and educate our people. Second—l would levee the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and prevent disas trous overflows, and would connect them with the lakes and thus form a perfect waterway through the centre of the United States, Third—l would build gun factories and foundries, forts, etc., and put the whole country in such a position of thorough defense that we would not be at the mercy of foreign powers, Fourth—l would build a large com plete, perfect, modern navy, so as to de fend our commerce, protect our citizens in foreign countries and resent insults. Fifth—l would improve our rivers and harbors and make them available, for the same reasons which induce private per sons to improve their estates. Sizth—l would amend the navigation laws so as to make the United States the leading maritime nation of the world and place our country’s flag back on the seas from whence Admiral Semmes drove it. Seventh—l would subsidize steamer iines sufficiently to provide ready and cheap facilities for building up a trade with Mexico, Central and South America and the islands, in all of which the bal ance of trade is against us. 1 would do this for the same reasons which induce private individuals to donate rights of way for railroads through their lands, and when these lines were strong enough to stand alone I would withdraw the sub sidy. Eighth—l would readjust the tariff, raise it in some things and lower it in others, so as to thoroughly protect every American industry and enable this coun try to produce everything it needed, sc that in case of war we need not buy any thing we desired from other countries. Ninth—l would put everything on the free list we did not produce, whether diamonds or coffee. I would not dema gogue about taxing luxuries. Tenth—l would put books (except pi ratical reprints of American books, which 1 would not permit to be imported), maps, engravings, pictures and statuary, and everything of that kind which edu cates our people on the free list. I would make luxuries so cheap that the poor could afford to have them. . Eleventh—ll would provide by general laws for the erection of public buildings in every city having a population of ten thousaud or more, and would not permit the Government to he a tenant in such places. Thus I would provide work for American labor and provide for the con sumption of American materials. No business man rents a house when he is able to own one. Twelfth—l would conduct the general business of the Government upon the same economical principles which pro gressive business men use in the conduct of their own affairs. I would try to get the same work for the-same money that private persons do. Iwould prevent jobs and thieving in public works. In a word, I would have an honest administration if I bankrupted the Treasury in the prose cution of pnblic thieves, Thirteenth—l would invite the emigra tion of honest people, whether English or Chinese, who (fesired to become citizens of this country. I would prevent the ownership of lands by aliens. A man has no right to have his life or property pro tected by a government to which he owes no allegiance. Fourteenth—l would provide by gen eral laws—changing the Constitution if necessary—so us to have uniform laws upon the subjects of marriage, divorce, liens, mortga%es, conveyances of real es tate and such matters as are common in business between persons of different States, and thus prevent the confusion which now exists. Fifteenth—l would assume that the motive which impels a man to fight for his country was patriotism and not a de sire for gain, and would reduce the pen sion list and pa{ pensions only to a poor soldier absolutely needing it, or his poor widow, who was his wife when he was a soldier. : Sizteenth—ll would extend Charles Sum ner’s idea. I would repeal the laws pre venting a Confederate soidier from be ;@ slicer in the United States e R O e e lags. that they were equally American soldiers. Seventeenth—l would appoint no man to any local Federal office who did not command the respect and confidence of the people among whom he was living. Eighteenth—l would instil a lo_ve of country instead of a love of party in the hearts of our entire people, north, south, cast and west, so that no matter where an American citizen might be, he would say with pride, I am an American. - Nineteenth—l would:be roundly cursed by demagogues, those stirrers up of strife north, south, east and west, who 'hve. move and have their being in sectmnal‘_ and party agitation, but I would be l}on ored and rcsPected by the great American - peop\e who have the honor and well:bu: Y ing of our whole country at heart s who wish sectional bickerings to cease. Jurius L. Browß. Atlanta, Ga. T N . SOUTHERN NOTES. & INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTAH. BENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA SON'S AND DIXON’S LINE. A Scotch-Irish association for the state of Alabama was formed in Birmingham Saturday. The New Orleans cotton exchange de nies that there is any danger to that city from the high water. Ground was broken Thursday at Bluff ton, Ala., for the new building of the University of the South. The Divis Land Stock company has secured SB,OOO for Mrs. Davis, and is ready to receive additional subscriptions. It is reported that in the past fifteen months 71,000 negroes have left Noith Carolina. It is stated that. this estimate is made on reliable data and upon careful investigation. In a letter received at Louisville, Ky.,fi Mary Anderson, after confirming the re< port of her engagement to Navarre, states that she will never again appear before the footlights. The Maryland legislative committee in - quiring into the malfeasance of ex-State Treasurér Archer, on Thursday discovered $56,000 of the missing bonds which were supposed to have been lost. The defal cation thus remains at $132,000. A San Francisco dispatch says: Ongof the most severe shocks of earthquake ex perienced here for a long time was felt in this city and neighboring localities a lit tle after 8:30 o’clock Thursday morning. The buildings were shaken perceptibly, and persons were aroused from their sleen, Plactering fc!l from the walls in places, but no serious damage has begp/ reported yet. Vi A Richmond, Va., dispatch says: {Per haps the most elderly couple ever mar ricd in Virginia plighted their troth Wed nesday at Milwood, in Amelia county. The groom was Dr. P. N. Hudson, who has reached the venerable age of seventy seven, - and the bride is Mrs. Jane R. Blair, aged seventy-one. She was the widow of the late William T. Blair a#¢ the youngest daughter of the late Nich las Mills. A FACTORY BURNED. SEVERAL PEOPLE LOSE THEIR! LIVES AND OTHERS SERIOUSLY INJURED. A dispatch from Catasauge, Pa., says: o At 6 o’clock Thursday morning fire was discovered in' the large new building owned and occupied by the Union Silk Manufacturing company. While the fire men and others were working hard to control the fire, an explosion of vitriol and other acids occurred, and before the iremen could escape, several of them | zere caught by the falling walls and many injured by falling timbers. | The list of killed so far as known is as follows: John Good, aged 27, killed by falling walls; Joseph Lodigiana. an Italg ian, boss dyer, killed by falling wafi The bodies of two other persons, not identified, have also been reccovered. | Many persons were injured. : The loss on the building is $50,000; on machinery $35.000, and on stock $25,000, partially covered by insurance. | DISASTROUS FIRES: o 3 THE BUSINESS PORTION OF GREENWOOD, MISB., DESTROYED-—OTHER BLAZES. § L ¢ f Fire destroyed the entire business por- § tion of Greenwood, Miss., Wednesday § night. Thirty-three houses were de- § stroyed, and two lives are said to have been lost. The victims are given o 8 & John Dorch and an unknown man.... § John G. Wagner's five-story block%fifi to 79 South Paul street, Rochester, "N. § Y., burned Wednesday morning. Loss | on the building, $65,000. Weaver & § Co., shoe manufacturers, occupying & | part of the building, lose on stock and | machinery, $80,000; insurance, $57,000. } Langslow, Fowler & Co., leather, plush | and carpet manufacturers, lose $50,000; | two-thirds insured. e AN INDEPENDENT PASTOR. | SUSPENDED FOR REFUSAL TO snm&fi; CHURCH AUTHORITY. . ' 4 Rev. W. A, Harrison, for many yeatst§ paslt{or of itlllxe 'l’;‘hird Presbyterian ;w’ | in Knoxville, Tenn., has just been sus- § pended from the ministry and pastorate relations dissolved, fi%'fi%.} 4 suspended. This "A"‘,lw% e part ' *%M»Q:{'W = L e e e T
