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CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
. GRAPH AND CABLE.
LHINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THRROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES,
Five-huudred lolling mill men are out
on a strike at Pitisburg, Pa. e
The New York ‘court of appeals has de
cld@&mmghflwmfion act is
constitutional.
Jame¢ J. Slocum, the baseball player
convicted of murdering his wife, was on
Friday sentenced to death at New York.
The Illinois democratic central com
mittee has decided to call a state con
vention, to meet at Springfield on June
4th.
The strike of the English coal miners
has ended. Wages will be advanced b
per cent., and the men will resume work
at once. 3
Major-General George Crook, U. 8. A.,
in command of the department of Missouri, |
died at the Grand Pacific hotel, at
Chicago, Friday morning of heart disease,
General Robert Cumming Schenck,
congressman, soldier and diplomat, and
leader in public affairs a generation or
more ago, died a Washington D. C., Sun
day evening of pneumonia.
Dr. Harrison Wagner, whose numerous
suits against the Adams Express company
has attracted so much attention, has come
to grief. He was, on Wednesday, arrest
ed in Washington, D. C., charged with
forgery. :
There was a long mecting of the sugar
trust in New York on Thursday, and be
fore it ended interested parties every
where had information that a cash divi
dend of two and a half per cent had been
declared for the present quarter.
The ‘‘Newark,”last of the cruisers built
for the government by Cramp & Sons, of
Philadelphia, was successfully launched
Wednesday afternoon. The vessel was
christened by Miss Grace H. Bautelle,
daughter of Congressman Bautelle.
Senator Voorhees will be the principal
counsel for Mr. Kincaid when he is put
on trial for the killing of ex-Representa
tive Taulbee. Scnator Voorhees has had
several long consultations ‘with Mr. Kin
caid, and has marked out the line of de
fense.
A special of Wednesday from Henley,
Wis., says: A great fire is raging in Ger
mania mincs and threatens a heavy loss
of property. Five miners penned in the
burning mine have perished. The bodies
of two have been recovered. ILoss to the
mining company SIOO,OOO.
A special from Canton, Ohio, says:
The Cauton glass works, one the largest
and most successful in the country, was
totally destroyed by tire Sunday morning.
L.oss $60,000. insurance $35,000. Two
“hundred workmen are thrown out of em
ployment.
Judge O'Brien, of the New York su
preme court, on Friday granted leave to
the sugar trust to declare a dividend of
two and a half per cent. on §50,000,000,
provided the portion due the North River
refinery was deposited with the court,
pending the suit.
Both branches of the legislature of
Ohio have passed a bill providing that
railroad employes who have worked
twenty-four consecutive hours, - shall not
resume till they have had eight hours’
rest. Twelve hours are to constitute a
day’s labor. The fine for violation is
$l5O in cach case.
A dispatch of Thursday from Berlin,
Germany, says: The labor conference is
working with unexpected rapidity and
success. The Sunday committee has prac
tically finished its labors, having arrived
at a compromise, advising that rest on
church holidays be obligatory only for
woinen, young persons and children.
John F. Plummer, the well-known
. . s e
republican politician and dry goods mer
chant of New York, made an assign
ment Wednesday. The dry goods trade
was a good deal startled when the failure
was announced. ~ The liabilities are
stated to be $1,000,000. The firm is one
of the largest commission houses in the
business, and has been in existence many
years, e e
Jefferson Davis Memorial Volume.
BY DR. J. WM. JONEE.
We learn from the publishers, Messrs.
fI. C. Hudgins & Co., of Atlanta, Ga.,
that the Davis Memorial volume being
"areparcd by the popular author, Dr. J.
¥m. Jones, is rapidly nearing completion.
Since the death of the greatest leader of
the “Tost Cause,”’ there has been an un
greccdcnted demand for such a work
nd it is an assured fact that it willhave
an enormous sale.
Messrs, Hudgins & Co., say they ex
fe(:t to have canvassers in the field in a
ew days so the public will not have long
to wait.
Aside from the great love and admira
tion on the part of our Southern peo;{le for
the dead hero, the fact that the talented
author is so well and favorably known
will doubtless cause the volume to be re
ceived with unusual favor.
Those wishing an_agency should write
at once to Messrs. H. C. Hudgins & Co.,
of Atlanta.
CRAYON GREENBACKS.
A YOUNG ARTIST TRIES HIS HAND AT
. COUNTERFEITING.
A Bt. Joseph, Mo., special says: Fred
Jones, aged nineteen years, a crayom
artist, was arrested Thursday for counter
teiting United States $5 treasury notes.
Jones’ method of counterfeiting was pe
euliar. He used no dyes,but made crayon
copies of genuine notes. The counter
feits are Fronounoed by effcers te be ex
eeptionally deceptive.
DODGE'S FIGURES, |
. PODGE 'S FIGURES, |
o samovvrona,_mammones cow |
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stician J. R. Dodge i the March Fopoet
of the department of agriculture. Pl?he
| rreva!ence of low prices is noted and feel
ing of discouragement in rural circles
‘throughout the world is indicated. It is,
and has been, especially severe in Great
Britain, and is the subject of com
pliint, discussion and official in-
Vvestigation in Germany, France,
(taly, and other countries. It is
present in monarchies and republics, un
der diverse currencies and economic sys
tems. Though the prices of implements,
utensils and fabrics are also lower, the
farmer's interest account is unreduced,and
his mortgage harder to lift,
THE CAUSE OF LOW PRICES.
The main cause of low prices is referred
to the inexorable law of supply and de
mand. Corn and wheat and other staples |
are cheap because of over-production.
[mmigration has increased the population
3,000,000 in ten years. Inter-continental
areas have Leen carved into farms free to
the natives and foreigners, opening mil
lions of acres to cultivation. Railroad ex
tension has stimulated production and
overwhelmed the east with western pro
duets. Speculation first and utilization af
terwards have produced results that
have astonished the world with a plethora
of bread and meat, The old world has
joined with the new to crowd the moun
tains, valleys, slopes and far-stretching
plains of the continent with becves, in
the haunts of the once countless herds of
buffalo.
In the more castern areas maturity of
beeves has been hastened by breeding and
feeding. An extendedk comparison shows
how in the progress of forty years, pro
duction outrun the population in its
wildest strides. 1t is shown that wheat
growing has become a philanthropic mis
sion to make cheap bread consistent with
the low wages 1n Great Britain, that
northwestern missionaries continue sowing
their seeds and floating their bread across
the waters, mourning for profits that do not
roturn after many days. Itissuggested that
less than a fourth of the world cat wheat;
that half of the people of Europe scarcely
know the taste, and that Asia, Africa,
South America and Australin all have
wheat to sell, Mr. Dodge says that while
there is an excess of production of few
staples, there are insufficient supplies of
many other necessary products, and the
total absence of scores of others, which
should furnish profitable employment to
rural labor. There is too narrow a range
of cropping. Diversification is essential
to agricultural salvation. There are im
ports cesting §240,000,000 per annum,
of a; cultural products which should be
produced here. These are sugar, ani
mals and their products, fibers, fruits
and nuts, barley, leaf tobacco, and wines.
The farmers are suffering for the want of
the hundreds of miliions of dollats that
the sweat of the brows and dexterity of
hands might produce in ‘‘raw materials”
for scores of old and mnew industries.
Depression more intense will result, it is
predicted, if the farmers continue to re
strict their efforts, walk in the furrows
their fathers turned, and seek to live and
die in the same overdone and profitless
routine. Another serious cause of de
pression, he says, is the exorbitant share
of farmer's products taken by middle
men and carriers. Speculators depress
prices when the garners are full,
and boom them when the farmers have
nothing to sell, as at present. 'The com
munity is infested with the pestilent
swarms of non-producers. The curse of
speculation blights and consumes the re
sult of honest industry. Leeches fasten
on every product of labor and suck from
it the life-blood of profit. Men who pro
duce nothing, who neither toil on faims
norspin in factories, are absorbing the
wealth of the country, by combinations
without conscience, and service without
equity.
THE BOLD BOOMERS.
' ORGANIZING FOR ANOTHER RAID ON THE
‘ CHEROKEE STRIP.
The Cherokee Strip Homesteaders’ as
sociation has issued a secret circular,datea
at Guthrie, Arkansas City, Winficld and
Coldwater, Kas., March 11th, which re
cites that: ‘‘The administration having
given evidence of its entire sympathy with
the thousands who arve clamoring for
homes in the great domain, now wholly
given over to the cattle barons, to the ex
clusion of many worthy settlers, it has
been deemed expedient for prospective
settlers to organize a sccret association,
having for its object the invasion of the
Cherokee strip at a given time. Accord
‘ingly, on the 22d day of April, at 12
o’clock,a concerted movement oi boomers
will be made on all sides of 1
the outlet. We have good reason to
believe that the settlers ‘will be un
molested if the movement assumes suffi
cient proportions.” The matter was
brought to the attention of the president
on Wednesday and he advised that a
statement be given to the press to effect:
“That no matter what the proportions of
the raid, the settlement of the strip will
not be allowed until it is made lawful.”
The patrol of the Cherokee strip by the
forces of the United States army was be
gun Wednesday.
HER HANDS FULL.
Excited Boy—Come on, quick! The
ould man is b'atin’ the ould woman again.
Police Justice—Why don’t she come
herself if she wants to make a complaint
or have him arrested?
Excited Boy—She’s too busy. = She's
got him down and is bumpin’ his head on
the flure.—[Texas Siftings. |
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In the Millarbor Plains, Australia, two
enormous caves have been discovered
large enourh to hold 200,000 persons.
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INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S AND DIXON'S LINE.
The Pan-Americanists will leave Wash
ington ‘on their Southern trip about the
10th of April.
Bills repealing the charters of Frank
fort, Henry County and Grand Lodge
lotteries passed the Kentucky house of
representatives, Thursday.
Dr. M. A. Rust, one of the oldest and
most prominent German physicians in
Richmond, Va., fell from a ladder on
Thaorsday at his residence and was in
stantly killed:
The Southern Baptist convention will
meet at Fort Worth, Texas, in May next.
This is a large and able religious body.
It covers the territory from Baltimore to
Texas, and represents over 2,000,000
Baptists. '
According to the monthly statement of
the railroad commission, just issued at
Columbia, the railroads of South Caro
lina earned nearly $9,000,000 net in Janu
ary, an increase of about $140,000 over
the corresponding month of last year,
The Dallas, Ga., cotton mills "were
completely destroyed by fire Friday
morning. The mills were owned by a
company of Dallas gentlemen and the loss
is about $15,000, with only $3,500 in
surance. The mill was comparatively
new, and the loss will be f{felt by its
owners.
On Friday, near Blocton, Bibb county,
Ala., forty milessouth of Birmingham, the
dead bodies of four negroes were found in
the woods. Three had been shot to death,
and the head of the fourth one had been
~severed from the ‘body with an ax. An
inquest was held, but it was impossible tc
learn how the negroes came to their
death,
TOUGH ON CANADA,
THE EFFECT F THE NEW UNITED STATES
TARFF ON HER TRADE.
A dispatchfrom Ottawa, Ont., says.
It appears as T the framers of the United
States tariff clanges had studied the dis
tinctive prodicts of each province of
Canada, and iicreased the duties on them
accordingly. The new schedule aims at
Ontario in |/ the matterof barley
and apples (at Quebec and New
Brunswich on/horses and hay, and as
Nova Scotia md Prince Edward Island
on potatoes anl other vegetables. Novs
Scotia also get hard hit in the shape of
increased dutig.on fish. Those who have
mokcdinto"fi&&téflefi of the -new tariff,
think it is’a direct blow at Canadian
trade with the United States. The* duty
on horses is n¥w twenty per cent.; the
proposal is to nise it to thirty per cent.
Canada sent lait year 17,277 horses, val
ued at $2,18,728, to the TUnited
States. The increased duty i
leveled agaist ~that trade, and
will fall most heavily on Ontario and
Quebec, where 16,000 of the horses
were drawn. [he duty on - cattle, for
merly twenty pr cent, is to be raised to
$lO per head where the cattle are over a
year old, and @ per head where less.
Canada sent 7,300 cattle. valued at
$488,266, to tk United States last year.
The duty on tkse imports would be, un
der the old rat, $9,764. Under the new
rate it would mach, provided the cattle
are all over a yar old, $373,090. Eggs,
now free, it isptoposed to tax at the
rate of five cenyf dozen. Canada’s ex
ports last yea ¥ere 14,011,017 dozen.
The tax at fiveemts would be $700,000.
It is in barlg hat the greatest damage
will be done. (!§e present duty on bar
ley is ten cents'per bushel. Tt is pro
posed to increasehe rate to thirty cents.
Last year Canadasent 6,984,504 bushels
to the United Stas. The present duty
on this quantity | $993,450. The new
duty would aggreate $2,980,850.
J. J. Bruner,[litor and proprietor of
the Carolina Wchman published at
Salisbury, died athis home in that town
on Sunday. He s seventy three years
old, and the olde and one of the best
known editors inorth Carolina, having
edited the Watdgan regularly since
1839. ° !
| BLUFFDN'S GIFT.
s
SHE SECURES TIH!{CATION OF THE NEW
METHOD? UNIVERSITY,
Bluffton, Alabja, makes the miinifi
cent gift of SS§?OO to the Methodist
Episcopal churchyr the location of the
educational instition knowu as the Un
iversity of the uthland, Rev. C. L.
Mann, D. D., wlhas it in charge, says
that $1,500,000 V 1 be expended on the
main building, wch will be 300 feet by
800 feet and sev&t;ories in height, with
an inner court 20eet square. The ma
terial to be used c;’hite marble granite
and sandstone. ‘ound will be broken
April 15th, and‘ork on the building
pushed rapidly. ;
; JACK FRiT’S WORK.
1 GREAT DAMAGE TIE TENNESSEE FRUIT
CROP BYE FREEZE.
On account of slate frosts, it is con
ceded by the fruipisers of Tennessee,
that this year’s-p will be unusually
small. On the rid and mountains it is
estimated that @ty per cent of the
peach, and fiftecter cent of the apple
{ crops have becnpstroyed. The pear
crop is a total fait. Grapes are cut off
by the frost, bt ¥ rewvod and give a_
good late crop.
S 0 N RRGO B SR T D R Rty
~_ Abrownand paltry thing, ~ ©
~ Itseemed an idle pastime 3
To stay its hasty wing. |
But lo! my neighbor grasped it,
And 'neath her watchful cargy
It grew and gave her freely
A wreath of blossoms rare,
And tken the plant beholding, *
My tears fell freely down,
The seed was O, so paltry, . ‘
And light as thistle down. i
Why was there none to whisper, ‘
“Tis opportunity!”
The bloom and fragrance yonder
Would then have been for me.
-Clara J. Denton, in Detroit Free Press. |
ARG P RS Y
HUMOROUS. |
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When money talks of course it talks
cents. |
It's a very wise father who knows as
much as his son.
When will the authorities refuse
rhymsters a poetic license?
A cloud upon a real estate title does
not always have a silver lining.
Men are like drums—the on3y with
the big head makes the most noise.
A citizen of Franklin, Pa., is taxed
nine cents on real estate and $3.50 on
dogs. .
A clergyman who expendel §5 in
order to officiate at a wedding in Harris
burg, Pa., rcceived a fee of §3.
There is hardly any man so friendless
in this world that he hasn’t at least one
friend ready to tell him his faults.
It requires no tariff prophet to pre
dict that it will be exceelingly difficult
to do away with the tacks on cirpets.
Clouds are a good deal like men—
they are harmiess when alone, but they
make trouble when they get together.
‘‘Anything new under the sun
today?” ¢Yes, that paint you're sitting
on. I painted that step this morning.”
In five minutes 2 woman can clean up
a man's room in such a way that it will
take him five weeks tc find out where
she put things.
“Bread is the staff of life, you
know,” said the farmer’s wife to the
tramp. “Iknow itis,” answered the
tramp, sadly; “‘and I know I've gottoo
lean on it.”
Six policemen of Bt. Joseph, Mo.,
have been robbed of their boots while
on duty. Sleep is a good thing, but it
is costly when it is had at the rate of
twenty-five cents a snore. |
“Jf it hadn’'t been for me little
Harry Parker wou'd have gotten a good
licking to-day, ma. He struck me, you
know.” ¢And what did you do, my
son?” ¢TI didn’t hit him back.” :
“Don’t feel badly over what my wile |
said to you to-night. You shouldn’t %
mind what she says.” ¢ Well, Idon’t |
see why I shouldn’t mind what she |
‘says. Inotice you always do." 1
A man who had committel a misde
meanor in Cincinnati attempted to es
cape arrest by climbing: to the top of an
electric wire pole, but the gallant po
liceman mounted after him and made
him prisoner.
Visitor—Tommy, I wish to ask you &
few questions in grammar.: Tommy—
Yes, sir. Visitor—ls I give you the
sentence, “The pupil loves his teacher,”
what is that? Tommy—Sarcasm. —
Texas Siftings.
Yashly—Wickwire, we have just
been discussing - the question whether
married women really do go through
their husbands’ pockets. Does yours?
Wickwire—Of course, I can only give
you my own cxperience, and that is she
don’t. 'When she gets to the bottom
of them she stops.— Terre Huute Egz-'
press. ; |
“I'm afraid,” said Ethel, ¢that Har- ‘
old’s new situation at the Capitol is
having a bad effect on him.” Do you
mean the young man who didn't go
away till after 12 o’clock last night?”
**Yes; he makes so many motions so
adjourn and then doesn’t.” — Washing
ton Post, '
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Knew What He was About. |
Monsieur wanted the picture hung to
the right; madame wanted it on the
left. But monsieur insisted that the
servant should hang the picture accord
ing to his orders. Consequently Josei)h
stuck a nail in the wall on the right, ‘
but, this done, he also went and stuck |
anoi;hér in on the left. “What is that |
second nail for?” his master inquired in
astonishment. **ltis to save me the ‘
trouble of fetching the ladder tomorrow
when monsieur will have come round to
the views of madame.” —ZLondon Punch,
S e .
% . L e », Exs RN b $
the Census Will be Taken.
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Everything is now ready at the census
department to begin counting the people
of the United States. The manner of
getting at the number of péogl“ffl
will be very simple. A supervisor has
charge of each rfistrict. He appoints the
enumerators, subdivides the ‘dismcts,f and
is responsible for their zeal and accuracy.
No enumerator is to look after a sm-’
vision of more than 4,000, and he must be
a resident of the subdivision and person
ally familiar with a great number of the
people. The enumerators are to start out
on Monday, June 2. Those in cities of
more than 10,000 inhabitants must finish
n two weeks, while those in the country
are given a month., These men will make
from SSO to SIOO each.
Here isthe list of questions to be asked.
With these the enumerator must go to
each family and get answers to all the
questions:
1. Give Christian names in full, and
initial of middle name, surname,
2. Whether a soldier, sailor or marine
during the civil war (United States or
confederate) or widow of such person.
3. Relationship to head of family.
4. Whether white or black, mulatto,
quadroon, octoroon, Chinese, Japanese
or Indian,
5. Sex.
6. Age at nearest birthday. If under
one year give age in months.
7. Whether single, married, widowed
or divorced.
8. Whether married during the census
year (June 1, 1889, to May 31, 1890.)
9. Mother of how many children, and
number of these children living. :
10. Place of birth.
11. Place of birth of father. :
12. Place of birth of mother.
13. Number of wears in the United
States.
14. Whether naturalized.
15. Whetheér naturalization papers have
been taken out.
16. Profession, trade or occupation.
17. Months unemployed during the
census year (June 1, 1889, to May 31,
1890).
18. Attendance at school (in months)
during the census year (June 1, 1889, to
May 31, 1890).
19. Able to read.
20. Able to write.
21. Able to speak English. If not, the
language or dialzct spoken.
22. Whether suffering from acute or
chronic disease, with name of disease
and length of time afflicted.
23. Whether defective in mind, sight,
hearing or speech, or whether crippled,
maimed or deformed, with name of de
fect.
24. Whether a prisoner, convict,
homeless child or pauper. :
25 and 26. Is the home you live in
hired, or is it owned by the head or by a
member of the family?
27. If owned by head or member of
family, is the home free from mortgage
incumbrance?
28. If the head of the family is a
farmer, is the farm which he cultivates
hired, or is it owned by him or by a
member of his family?
29. If owned by head or member of
family, is the farm f{ree from mortgage
incumbrance?
30. If the home or the farm is owned
by a head or member of family, and mort
gaged, give the postofice address of
owner.
If any one refuses to answer these
questions, except, perhaps, as to age in
case of females, they are liable to a fine
of SIOO. Superintendent Porter expects
to have a fairly correct estimate of the
population of the states and territories
ready in August. He will complete the
tables necessary for the re-apportionment
of representatives in congress in time for
use in the short session. i
TweNTY-FIVE thousand tons of steel
rails have been recently imported into
Mexico for use in the construction of rail
ways. This transaction is the first suc
cessful competition in Mexico with the
European product.
“The \vm&d grows weary praising men,
And wearied grows of being praised—"’
But never wearied grows the pen
‘Which writes the truths that ]huve amazed
the thousands who have been given up by their
physicians and who have been restored to com
plete health by using that safest of all reme
dies for functional irregularities and weak
nesses, which are the bane of womankind. We
refer, of course, to Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre
scription, the only guaranteed cure for all
those chronic ailments peculiar to women.
Read the guarantee on the bottle-wrapper.
To regulate the stomach, liver and bowels,
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets excel. One a dose.
The ebb and flow of matrimonial felicity is
dependent upon the tied. .
T e ¥S B s B = ot~ sS NP Ogra se ey
Tired Feel
Has never been more prevalent and moregosmt- ‘
ing than now. The winter has been mild and un
healthful, influenza epidemic and fevers have visited
nearly all our homes, leaving about everybody in a
weak, tired-out, languid condition. The usefulness
of Hood’s Sarsaparilia is thus made greater than
ever, for it is absolutely unequalled as a buliding-up,
strengthening medicine. Try it and you will realize
its recuperative powers. x
“I was very much run down in health, had no
strength and no inclination to do anything. I have
been taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla and that tired feel
ing has left me, my appetite has returned, I am like
anew man.” CHAUI'CEY LiATHAM, North Columbus,
Ohio. o
N. B. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsaparilla flo
not be induced to buy any other. e
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Sold Ly all drugglsts. $1; six for §5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass, e
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100 Doses One Dollar