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NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TRH
EOUTHERN SBTATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The Virginia State Firemen’s ‘associa
tion met in Alexandria Wednesday and
elected officers.
The Alabama Republican State conven
tion, at Montgomery, adjourned on
Thursday after afiopting a platform.
Rear Admiral Gherehardi and twenty
eight officers of the North Atlantic squad
ron wére entertained in Charleston 8. C.,
on Friday by the city council.
Frank Mcllvaine, cashier of the Sul
phur Deposit bank, at Sulphur, Ky., ten
miles east of Louisville, has left for parts
unknown, and it is believed he is shortin
his accounts.
A car load of watermelons, bound for
northern markets passed through Macon
Ga., on Thursday. The melons were
raised at Cullum station, on the Savan
nah, Florida and Western railroad.
The Congregational Union, of England
and Wales, has called an international
council of Congregationalists, to meet in
London in July, 1891. The denomina
tion in the United States is invited to
send 100 members,
A big movement has started in Middles
borough, Ky., to erect colossal statues of
Grant and Lee on Pinnacle mountain,
Cumberland Gap. Ex-confederate sol
diers and grand-army of the republic men
are pushing the enterprise.
The posts and wires of the Postal tele
graph have been erected from Birming- ‘
ham, Ala., as far as Bessemer. The line
is to be built on through to New Orleans,
and four wires will be stretched between
Birmingham and the Crescent City. |
Five thousand people participated in
the confederate memorial services at Win
chester, Va., Friday. The address was
made by Colonel H. Kyd, of Hagers
town, Md.. and the decorations of the
_ graves and monuments were elaborate.
A dispatch of Wednesday from Union,
8. C., says: The crop prospects are bet
- ter than for a good many ycars; cotton
| has a start seldom equaled. The oat crop
is excellent, the Spring rains making
them. The wheat crop is not so good
A Battlefield, Miss., dispatch says: A
monstrous snake was captured near here
Thursday. The huge reptile had forty
seven rattles and was over nineteen feet
long. Its skin, after being stripped from
its body, held six pecks of bran.
A Greenville, Miss., special says: The
first cotton bloom was received here
Thursday from George C. Bronson’s Lake
Washington place. This is the earliest
bloom received in the last twenty years.
Crops throughout the country are doing
splendidly.
The body of a well-dressed man with
@ bullet-hole in his head was on Thurs
day found near Jacksonville, Fla. A
scrap of paper in his vest pocket had on
it the name, ‘‘J. House, Piqua, 0.” The
coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of sui
cide.
A dispatch from Linden, Texas, says:
Three negroes, Tom Mills, Fletcher Hol
den and Henry Holden, were hanged here
Baturday for the murder of James Mec-
Greior, a white man, at Atlanta, Texas,
on the 7th of last December. All con
fessed.
A dispatch of Saturday from Laredo,
Cal.,, says: A stage running between
Laredo and Guererro, Mexico, which left
this city with Mexican mail and two pas
sengers, was held up by Mexican bandits
twenty miles down the Rio Grande. One
passenger was robbed of S7OO.
A Hiawassee, Ga., dispatchsays: There
were twelve hundred an(f eighty acres of
wild lands of Towns county sold at
sheriff’s sale here on Saturday. The land
sold for an average of eleven cents per
acres. The timber on the land is worth
more than the land brought at auction.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
The articles of incorporation for the Ala
bama, Georgia and Florida Railroad Co.
were on Thursday filed in the office of the
secretary of state. 'The proposed road is
to run from Birmingham, Ala., to Colum
bus, Ga., and its capital stock is fixed at
three million dollars.
At Suffolk, Va., Friday morning, fire
entirely consumed H. W. Bradshaw’s
planing mill, dry kilns, and a lot of lum
ber, together with all the tools and ma
chinery. The loss is about $40,000; in
surance $11,500. Bix cars of the Nor
folk and Western Railroad company were
also destroyed.
A disgatch from Water Valley, Miss.,
says: Three freight trains on the Illinois
Central railroad were badly wrecked
Saturday at Springdale, causing great
damage to the road, but no loss of life.
The accident was caused by conductor
Ruffin, of the rear north-bound train,
misreading his order. s
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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY=FIRST ’
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
COMMON COUNTRY.-—NOTES.
In the house, on Wednesday, Mr. Os
borne, of Pennsylvania, presented the con
ference report on the .army appropriation
bill. The report was agreed to. Mr
Morrill reported the disagreement of the
conference committee on the senate de
pendent pension bill. The house insisted
on its amendment, providing a service
gengion, and a further conference was or
ered. The house then procceded to the
further consideration of t{’)e Alabama con
tested election case of McDuffiie against
Turpin. 7The first vote was taken on the
minority resolution declaring Turpin
elected, and it was reported —yeas 114,
nays 180. The majority resolution scat
ing McDuffiie was agreed to—yeas 130;
nays 118, and Mr. McDufliie appeared at
the bar of the house and took the oath of
office. Mr. McKinley presented a concur
rent resolution directing the enrolling
clerk to enroll in the customs admimstra
tive bill what is known as senate amend
ment 91, in regard to the abandonment of
goods to underwriters and salvors. The
resolution was agreed to—yeas 127, nays
5. The house then, at 4:05, adjourned.
The resolution for an inquiry into the
management of the fish commissioner’s
office was taken up by the senate
on Wednesday, and agreed to. The
presiding ofticer, Ingalls, announc
ed as select committee on the bill
for the establishment of the university of
the United States: Messrs. Edmunds,
Sherman, Ingalls, Blair, Dolph, Harris,
Butler, Gibson and Barbour. The forti
fication bill was taken up, the pending
question being on striking out two items
for the Watervleit, N. Y., arsenal $248,-
743, for the erection of a south wing, and
$780,000 for machinery for twelve-inch
guns, and inserting, in lieu of them, the
following for boring and turning laths,
rifling machine, and eighty-ton traveling
crane fully equipped for the manufacture
of twelve-inch guns, at Watervleit Arsenal,
N. Y., $235,000. A long debate followed.
Finally the amendment to strike out the
two items described and insert the sub
stitute was agreed to—3B7to 18. Amend
ments were adopted providing for the
purchase and test of a new infantry gun
and two new cannons. All other amend
ments were agreed to and all were passed.
The senate then adjourned.
In the house, on Thursday, Mr. McKin
ley, from the committee on rules, re
gorted a resolution providing that the
ouse shall proceed immediately to the
consideration of house bill 5,331 (the sil
ver bill,) and that consideration be con
tinued until Saturday, at 8 p. m. Mr.
McKinley said that the resoluticn was in
tended to give the house of repre
sentatives an opportunity to pass some
silver legislation and give the coun
try a silver bill, which would be
in perfect response to the general senti
ment of the country. It was to give the
house an opportunity to pass the bill,
which would take all the silver bullion
of the United States and utilize it for mon
etary purposes. It was to give the peo
ple not $2,000,000 a month, but $4,500,-
000. The resolution making the silver
bill a special order was adopted—yeas
120, nays 117. Messrs. Williams, of Lli
nois, and Lanham, of Texas, spoke in op
position to the bill, and Taylor, of Illi
nois, favored it. Pending debate, the
house adjourned until 11 A. ». Friday.
Among the bills reported in the senate
Thursday from the committee and placed
on the calendar, was the house bill to es
tablish a national military park at the
battlefield of Chickamauga. The silver
bill was taken up, and Mr. Hiscock ad
dressed the senate in opposition to the
free coinage of silver. After a long dis
cussion by Messrs. Sherman, Teller,Stew
art and Aldrich, the bill went over.
Several private pension and bridge bills
were taken from the calendar and passed,
Mr. Blair introduced a bill to prohibit
the exportation of alcoholic liquors to
Africa and islands of the Pacific ocean.
Referred. The senate adjourned.
The silver debate was resumed by the
house Friday morning, Mr. Lind, of Min
nesota, being the first speaker. A long
running debate followed, then the house
at 5 o’clock, took a recess until 8 o’clock,
the evening session to be for general de
bate on the silver bill. Mr. Perkins, of
Kansas, acted as speaker pro tem. at the
evening session. The house, at 11 o’clock,
adjourned until 11 o’clock Saturday.
In the senate on Friday,Mr. Platt present
ed a petition from the tobacco growers and
dealers of the Housatonic Valley, Conn.,
in favor of a specific duty of not less than
$2 per pound on imported wrappers.
Referred to the finance committee. A
new conference was ordercd on the
dependent pension bill and Messrs, Davis,
Sawyer and Blodgett were appointed
conferees on the part of the senate. The
gilver bill was taken up’and Mr. Plumb
addressed the senate. Pending debate
the bill was laid aside. .A message from
the president is relation to the landing
of an armed force from the revenue cut
ter, McLane, at Cedar Keys, Flcrida, was
presented, read and referred to the
judiciary committee. After acting upon '
some local bills, and a’ brief executive
session, the senate adjourned. |
The house Saturday afternoon passed
the republican caucus silver bill. In the
free coinage amendment there were dis
‘senting votes from the republican side.
However, al the southera e, ¢xcept
free efi%fi ’i endment. The bill was
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500,000 of silver certificates monthly on
the deposit of silver bullion. ‘
! : NOTES.
The senate committee on commerce is
busy with the river and harbor bill.
Indications are that the tariff bill will
be ready to report to the senate on Mon
day of next week.
The scnate and house conference held
another meeting Saturday, but no con
clusion was arrived at.
The marine hospital bureau has been
informed of a case of ycllew fever on
Chandleur island, which arrived on a
vessel from Brazil. ;
A delegation of about o-e hundred
importers from New York city appeared
on Wednesday before the senate commit
tce on finance, to protest against the
passage of the MeKinley tariff bill.
Republican refresentatives went into
caucus immediately uson the adjourn
ment of the house Wednesday afternoon,
to consider the silver question, No defi
nite action was agreed upon. :
The president, on Friday, nominated
James A. Pine to be collector of customs
at Fernandina, Fla.; William A. White,
at St. Mary’s, Ga. ; William L. McMillan,
surveyor of customs at New Orleans.
There is & movement on foot in the
senate to have congress take a recess from
the first of July to the first of October.
The reason the men who have proposed
this assign is that the senate finance
committee will take at least three months
to prepare a tariff bill, to report to the
senate as a substitue for the house bill,
and that while this committee is at work
thero will be no business for the houses
to trarsact outside of that which they
finish by the first of July.
It is understood at Washington that ¢
movement is on foot among southern
men, who were ex-confederates, some of
whom now reside in New York and
otßers in the south, to raise a subscrip
tion for the Grant monument, as it seems
New York will never raise the fund
for the monument to Grant at River
side park. It is now proposed that the
men who fought on the other side come
forward and subscribe the additional
money needed.
THE FLEECY STAPLE.
REPORT OF THE NEW ORLEANS EXCHANGH
REGARDING THE CROP.
The New Orleans cotton exchange is
sued a statement Tucsday, embracing
thirty-nine weeks of the season, from
September Ist to May 80th inclusive, this
~and last year, showiug that 7,078,915
bales of 1889-1800 have come
iuto sight at the ports, overland
- points of crossing and leading southern
interior centers, including the takings
by southern mil's. Up to this time last
season the amount brought into sight was
6,805,112 bales, or say 98.08 per cent of
the entirte crop. The statement shows
there were brought into sight after May
30, last season 33,178 bales. It indicates
that of the supply this sesson 2,117,502
bales have been taken by American and
Canadian mills, including 429,587 south
of the Potomae, and 4,725,047 have been
exported to foreign ports. It also shows that
northern mill takings and Canada over
land is 32,960 bales ahead of the cor
res({)oqding thirty-nine weeks of last year,
and that excess in foreign exports for the
season is 220,6387. Between the Ist ard
18th of May, inclusive, this season’s stocks
at American ports and twenty-nine lead
ing southern interior markets have de
creased 17,910 bales, against a decrease
during the same period last year of 122,-
884, and are now 141,278 bales less than
they were at this time last year. .
DEATH ON THE RAIL.
A PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED AND FIVE
MEN KILLED.
A dispatch from Rockford, 111., says:
The Northwestern passenger train from
Freeport, which reaches Chicago at 2
o'clock, jumped the track two miles west
of here at 11 o’clock Friday morning, on
account of a broken wheel. A gang of
gection. men were working about two
hundred feet from the point where the
engine left the rails, and before they could
get away the train had run them down
and toppled,over them, The entire train
was wreckedhand the engineerand four of
the scctiop@men killed outright. The
fireman, two station men and some of the
passengers were injured.
A PHOSPHATE SYNDICATE
ORGANIZED IN' BARTOW, FLORIDA, WITH
OVER A MILLION CAPITAL,
A dispatch of Monday from Bartow,
Fla,, reports: One of the largest phos
phate syndicates in Floridyg was formed
very quietly in Bartow. It is calied the
American Mining and Improvement Com
}fany with a capital stock of $1,200,000.
hey own 4,720 acres of the noted phos
phate bed on the Alafia river. This com
pany is now preparing to mine and have
a contract to deliver 10,000 tons of phos
phate in a certain length of time, begine
ning July Ist.
WICKED STUDENTS
RESORT TO VANDALISM IN CELEBARATION
OF THEIR VICTORIES.
A dispatch from Boston, says: The
| Harvard boys held high carnival Satur
day night over their victories in the Yale
basehall games. During “the night the
Solloge buéldings were defaced with vari
| ous mottocs, including some agmfm
| r.ferences to Yale. The statute of John
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- TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
"WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
| BUSY WORLD.
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A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
‘ DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
. THE CABLE BRINGS.
. The New York supreme court, on Fri-
Jay, affirmed the conviction and sentence
of ex-sheriff Flack.
While firing a salute from a Ht:lytiax':
corvette, at Philadelphia, on Saturday, a
premature explosion occurred and several
men were wounded.
Steamers arriving at Baltimore, New
York and Boston continue to regort many
icebergs, and some of them of large di
mensons, on their passage.
A dispatch from London says: Cholera
has crossed the Caucasus, and appeared
in the southern provinces of Russia,
making its way westward.
President Carnot, of France has par
doned seventy-two workingmen who were
“convicted and sent to prison for offenses
in connection with the recent strikes.
Richard L. Edwards, of Cincinnati,
was drowned three weeks ago. When
found his hair had turned white, it 1s
supposed from fright while drowning.
Mrs, J. C. Ayer, widow of the noted
Eatent medicine millionaire, is to erect a
ospital in New York city for consumpt
ive patients, at a cost, it is said, of
$3.000,000.
The prosecution of the striking car
penters of Chicago by their old bosses is
being continued. The strikers’ pickets
are arrested as fast as one shows himself
near a non-union job.
An Egyptian claims to have discovered
the sarcophagus of Cleopatra, and has
written to the directors of the World's
Fair, at Chicago, offering to sell it, with
the skeleton of the queen, for $50,000.
Henry Hoffman, a discharged employe
of the LaClede flour mill, St. Louis, has
been arrested, and has confessed that, out
of revenge, he set fire to the mill, by
which it was destroyed. The loss is
about $75,000.
The cracker pool recently formed at
Minneapolis, having proved unsatisfac
tory, a cracker trust, with a capital of
$10,000,000, has been formed. It is to
include and conduct the entire cracker
business of the country.
Councilman Maloney, from the joint
standing committee of ways and means
} of the Baltimore council, Wednesday l
night, reported an ordinance authorizing
thesale of the city’s 32,5600 shares of
- Baltimore and Ohio common stock.
~ The London Times declares that the
order to dispatch the American cruisers
to Behring sea smacks too much of the
- methods of the first Napoleon in dealing
with weak statesmen, and that if the or
{ der is executed British men of war must
follow.
l An explosion occurred Thursday after
' noon on the German junk steamer, Hans,
on the Deleware river. Thirteen men
were caught in the flames, and several
were badly burned; onc has since died.
The loss on vessel and oil is about.slso,-
- 000.
Burglars blew open the safe in Brow n’s
- bank, Chatsworth, 111.. at 2 o’clock Sun
day morning. The building caught fire
- and seventeen store buildings, compris
ing the main block, were burned. The
j bank contained $15,000.
The Home Market club, of Boston,
Mass., had for its special guests Saturday
evening, Secretary of War Proctor,
Speaker Reed, Congressman Dingley and
Greenhalge, while among the 250 gentle
men present were many who were prom
inent in national and state affairs.
Tt has come to the knowledge of the
police of St. Petersburg, Russia, that the
nihilists in France are en%aged in a fresh
conspiracy against the life of the czar.
The french police were made cognizant
of the conspiracy by the authorities there
and placed on track of the conspirators.
A Joliet, 111., dispatch says: Bernard
Dealey, a life convict, whoreceived word
a few days ago that his sentence had
been commuted and that he would be
free next October, dropped dead Wed
nesday while telling his good fortune.
' His excessive joy undoubtedly produced
heart disease. :
A Lincoln, Neb., dispatch says:
Meagre reports received from Bradshaw,
a hamlet of some four or five hundred in
habitants, about fifty miles west of Lin
coln, state that the town was swept away
late Wedesday night by a cyclone. Six
persons are reported killed and twenty
five or more injured.
The negro conference opened at Mo
hawk Lake, N. Y., Wednesday. A
number of distinguished men from all
parts of the country were present. The
conference is called to consider the ques
tion of Christ'anizing and educating the
colored people. Among the speakers
were ex-President Hayes and Albion
Tourgee: ‘
The laboring classes of the City of
‘Mexico are up in arms because the goy
ernment has decided that hereafter all
wecrking men on both public and private
works must wear pantaloons instead of
the usual cotton garment. The authori
ties determined, however, to enforee the
order. - ;
The county attorney at Topeka, Kan
sas, caused the arrest of six men selling
liquor there in original packages, and a
state judge sent them to jail. But judge
Poster, of the federal court, has released
them on writs of habeas corpus. The
county officials say they will continue
makine arrests under the | itate law and
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the decision of Judge Underwood,of Au
burn, in the Kemmler habeas corpus cases,
was affirmed. This allows the case to go -
at once to the court of appeals. The
only question at issue is whe her
Kemmler can be legal'y executed by the
narden of Auburn prison.
The free coinage convention of the
state of Nevada, met at Carson a few
days ago and adopted resolutions re
questing senators and representatives In
congress from the state of Nevada to fa
vor the measure for the oPening of mints
of the United States for free and unlim
ited coinage of standard silver dollars,
and to support no other bill.
The court of claims at Washington, D.
C., has dismissed the claim of A. B. Mul
let for $150,000 compensation as architect
of the building now occupied by the
state, war and pavy departments. His
claim was for architect’s commis
sion on the total cost of the building. al
though it was not completed till 1888,
thirteen years after he ceased to have anye
thing to do with it. ;
BUSINESS REVIEW.
AN ENCOURAGING REPORT SENT OUT BY
DUNN & CO.
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R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade for
week ended Saturday, June 7, says: Al
indications regarding legitimate business
continue c¢ncouraging. At the same time
there is a renewal of speculative excite
ment, based on the prospect that the sil
ver bill will speedily pass both houses,
and insuch a form that executive ap
proval can be expected. There is no room
to doubt that conditions are improving for
the productive industries, and for legiti
mate trade. Crop prospects have bright.
ened wonderfully. The general average
of prices has not been aflgected much ag
yet, but has turned upward, and manu
factured products, with breadstuffs, show
a general tendency to advance. The great
industries show clearly a general tendens
cy toward improvement. In iron weak
ness appears nowhere, while an advance
in many quotations is reported, and the
marking down of anthracite No. 1 to $lB
by the Thomas company is but a formal
recognition of prices for the time current.
Large sales of steel rails are reported,
amounting to 30,000 tons, with $30.50
quoted here as the minimum. Consuming
works continue so fully employed, and
stocks of pig-iron are believed to be so
light, that fear of a further decline dur
ing the hot months, in which many
furnaces close for repairs, has abated.
Cotton manufactures continue fairly ac
‘tive, and the decline in raw cotton dur
ing the week has helped a little. The
speculative markets are generally stronger
though cotton has fallen over §, with
sales at 840,000 bales, The money mar
ket has been variable, the treasury hav
ing taken in about $1,000,000 more than
it paid out. Exports from New York in
May show an increase of 103 per cent
~over last year, and though the increase
in imports was about 9 per cent, there
| has been only moderate realizing. For
eign exchange has advanced only a quar
ter of a cent. In short, the monetary
prospect in all parts of the countryis
favorable to business activity. Business
failures last week number, for the United
States, 179; Canada, 26. For the corre
sponding week last year the figures were
200 failures in the United States and
25 in Canada.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
4 BOLT STRIKES FOUR MEN, KILLING TWO
OF THEM.
A Detroit Hree Pressspecial from Cairo,
Mich., says: At 7 o'clock Wednesday
cvening four farmers were struck by
lightning, four miles west of here—T. N.
Taggett, Edward Goodchild, William
Holmes and Matt Ringle. They were
engaged in performing an operation on a
young horse. A thunder storm came up
suddenly and a bolt of lightning struck
in the midst of the men. Goodechild and
Holmes were dead when assistance ar
rived, although no marks or traces of the
current could be found upon their per
sons. Ringle and Taggett are recovering,
ENGLISH CAPITAL
AGAIN BROUGHT INTO REQUISITION IN
WEST VIRGINIA.
A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va.,
says: The negotiations which have been
going on for the past two months between
the Atna and Standard rolling mills and
representatives of an English syndicate
for the sale of the mills, came to an
agreement Thursday so far as the tna
“is concerned. The price paid is $750,000
and a forfeit of $15,000 has been de
posited. The negotiations for the Stand
ard mill will probably be completed
within a few days.
ALL CREMATED.
AN ATTEMPT TO LIGHT A FIRE WITH KERO
SENE RESULTS DISASTROUSLY. '
A Durango, Col., special of Monday
says: Mrs. Robert Morrow, on Sunday,
attempted to light a fire with kerosene,
An explosion occurred, which get fire tc
the clothes of the woman, her tgour-year-f‘
vld son and baby. They were 2l three
cremated in the nouse, which was burned
before assistance could be rendered.
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THE WILL BROKEN,
THE TILDEN RESIDUARY ESTATE TO BE DI
VIDED AMONG THE HEIRS.
~__Judge Beach, of the supreme court of
ow York, how decled.in saver of Ools
Georgo H. Tilden, the contestant of the
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