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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
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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
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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
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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. §
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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%.}
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