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About The Banner-messenger. (Buchanan, Ga.) 1891-1904 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1891)
the fanner -‘itlfsaenjjer. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY KY -A.. XLflDCr-yVXX 3VI3S:. NEWS AND NOTES CONDENSED FROM TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. . Epitome of Incidents that Hap¬ pen from Day to Day. The severe weather in England is caus¬ ing classes deep distress among the ] oorer of people. The failure of E. Ilorubosthe, broker, was announced on the Stock Exchange, at New York, Monday. The long striky in the shoe manufac¬ tories at Rochester has ended. The em¬ ployees are*ret timing to work. A gang of five safe blowers wasemukt by the police the of'C'liicigo Saturday night. One of gang is an oldqirofessiotiul. The advisory board of railroad presi¬ dents has decided upon an agreement for the association, and have elected officers. Tbe picture “The Angelus,” that has been on exhibition iu this country for somo lime, was shipped to Havre Satur¬ day morning. Judge Pratt, in New York, va¬ cated the order appointing a receiver for the sugar trust Saturday, and directs that the company be handed over to the reorganization eommitte *. A cablegram of Monday from Paris, says: Though only 141,000,000 francs were required by the terms of the new loan, the enormous sum of 2,340,000,000 francs was deposited by subscriptions. A London dispatch of Monday says: Baron Hirsh is negotiating for an exten¬ sive Jewish settlement iu Palestine for the benefit of several’ thousand Jews now being driven by persecution from Russia. William C. Jillson. owner and busi¬ ness manager of the Hope River Warp Company, at Wilbmantic Conn., lu closed the mill. Au assignment is pre¬ dicted iu a fe w days with heavy liabil¬ ity s. B. A J. dispatch M. McCarrell, from Clearfield, A. O. Smith Pa and , savf: W. E. Wallace, a-signees of W. A. Wallace, filed their bond .Saturday morning. ft. Judge Furst, of Centre count-*, approved Th6 bond b for $1,OfO.bOO, J. W. Wrigley, assignee of Judge Kribbs, Wal tne sum of $120,000. *It was ^groved by Judge Fuisf. j A cablegram from Cork, says: The state of destitution into which the poor people of ejajne portions of Ireland are plunged, can bo judged by the I act that Saturday the representatives district, of over waited 100 families living iu Cloyne upon the board of guardians and ear¬ nestly begged fur assistance. They stated that for some time past they bad been starving and living almost entirely upon turnips. The bureau of American republics is informed that since the passage of the McKinley bill, which places a heavy duty bn silver-bearing lead ores, formerly brought from Mexico to the United States for reduction, a company lias been estab¬ lished for the erection of large smelting works at San Luis Potosi, with u capital of $4,000,000. The capital is mostly furn¬ ished by a New York syndicate, and the company is organized under the laws of ' New Jersey. The steamer State of Nevada, of the State line, which arrived in New York on Thursday, brought to port the officers and crew i f the Brilish sb-amcr Pollux. The State of Nevada fell iu with the Pollux on the 29tti of December, in lati¬ tude 54.14, longitude 21.15, ina and helpless condition, and took her officers crew aboard at the request of Captain Whitson, of the Pollux. The Pollux was in a sinking condition, her rudder gone, and she was leaking so badly that it was only a question of a few hours before she would go down. A Berlin dispatch of Sunday says: Reports received from German hospitals are favorable to the Koch remedy. Dr. Koenigshafcr,»of lymph with Stuttgart, in the has applied the success treatment of diseases of the eyelids and cornea. Professor Z emsecn. of Munich, declares that by the- use of the lymph he has ef¬ fected the complete cure of three and patients in the eiirly stage of phthisis, thirty patients suffering from undergoing phthisis in Rome hospitals, who are the Koch treatment, are reported to be progressing favorably. MISSISSIPPI'S MONEY. Report of Her State Treasurer —A Splendid Showing. State Treasurer Evans’statement of the condition of the treasury on January 1-t, made pursuant to section 137 of the new constitution, shows that the present treasurer received of ex-Treastuer Hem¬ ingway $270,835.90; received from all soutccs since, $1,241,020 52; disbursed, $1,195,271.27; balance on hand, $323,- 185.25. Governor Stone verified the statement by counting the money. and the No bonds were sold last ^ ear, re¬ ceipts, with the exception of a short loan of $25,00o, are made of the ordinary revenues of the state. __ The wealth of colored people m tno South is estimated at $263,000,000. WASHINGTON, D. C. NEWS NOTES AND ITEMS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. Proceedings of the Second Ses¬ sion of the 51st Congress. In the house Thursday the house foreign affairs committee instruc ed the chairman, Representative Hilt, of Illinois, to report the diplomatic and consular appropria¬ tion bill. The'bill carries an aggregate wxsm MSaSfi been paid in aggregate fe. s, were made salaried offices. T, e fees of these six teen consulates during the past year were 141,870, and the salaries provided the debate for aggregate $04,000. Owing to upon the subsidy bill, Mr. Iithian of Illinois, opposed the measure, and veigbed against the system of subsidies, He then proceeded to argue in favor of free ship policy and the policy of abolish ing restrictive navigation laws, as the best means of restoring the Amencan flag to its proper place upon the sea. Lng and had adopted that policy and the result was that she now commanded fifty-two .per cent of the tonnage of the world Mr. U heeler of Michigan, fP n On % Friday ? ly the in , house ° f went °r £ into Tl: com mittee of the »hole, Mr. Allen, of Michi gan, in the chair, on the private calendar, The first t ill on the calendar was one re ferring to the court of claims, the claim of the Citizen’s t ank of Louisiana, grow ing out of Hie seizure and covering into the United states treasury of certain moneys of the I auk by General B. F. Butler. The amount involved is $215,000. The measure gave rise to quite a long dis cussion, it being advocated by Messrs. Blanchard and Boatner, ol Louisina, . and opposed by Messrs. I homas, of Wisconsin, and Grosvenor. of Ohio. 1 he hour of 5 o’clock having arrived, the bill went over, the eommitte rose, and the house took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening session to be for the consideration of private pension bin-. The vice-president Saturday, laid before the sen ate on the protest of twenty three members of the Idaho legislature against allowing Mr. Du 1 ois to take his seat. Referred to the committee on privi leges ai d elections. Mr. Sherman, from tke committee on foreign relations, re ported a bill to amend the act of Febma ry 1S8.Q, Company incorporating (authorizing the the Nicaragua is-ue of Canid bonds guarant-ea By tbe aud l/nited with the states) placed On the calendar ac copi panving report oid red printed. The senate then r sumed tonsi l oration of the finance bill (or of m; anti-c infraction bill, as Mr. Sherman termed it iu his motion) and Mr. Morgan continued his sp'-ech begun by him Friday, in support of the free coinage amendment. Mr. Morgan yielded the floor, temporarily, and Mr. Dawes presenied the conference re port on the bill to carry out. in part, the provisions of the act to divide the Sioux Indian reservation and, and in l’esponse to explanation. a question by Mr. Edmunds, made an He said that the commis sion of which Gen. Crook was the heart, promised the Sioux Indians, in the course of negotiation, to use its influence at Wnshingtsn for the redress of certain grievances. The commission subsequent ly met forty representative Sioux Indians from tbe reservation where the present outbreak occurred, to see to it that those assur nces were carried out. The Indian conuni tees of both houses were also pres ent, and all being together, the bill had been prepared to carry Iudiahs out understood exactly the assurances as the them. The co fercnce report was agreed to, and Mr. Morgan resumed his speech, During »n intermission the pension ap propriation bill and the bill nppropriat ing $800,000 for a public reported building nt Providence, R. I., were and placed cqncludcd ou the calendar. and Mr. the bill Morgan at 4 o’clock, was laid aside and a message from the prisi dent was read, forwarding a memorial of the legislative assembly of Oklahoma for the relief of destitute people of that teri tory. Referred to the cominitte on ap propriations. The senate adjourned. The house drifted along in a careless fashion, Monday and only two or three unimportant appropriation bill$ were acted on. of c Senator . Q.«y r. bill Monday got . in . , hw . much , talked . „ , election which proved to be a twin to the Hoar lodge bill. It au tbonzes the president to use troops to in sure fair elections when in his judgment troops may be necessary. The house by nhn-'prf 108 to charged consideration the committee . on rules from fur her ol the Dockery res olution, asking lor an investigation the alleged and silver pool by which bankers members scooped a million. A heated debate preceded the vote. ls otes. The legisl dive appropriation bill laid before the house Saturday and placed on the calendar. The army appropriation bill was then taken up in committee of the whole. The secretary of state is in corr spond ence with tbe Spanish minister in regard to the alleged outrages perpetrated ou the American missionaries in the Carolina islands. Senator Stanford, *n Friday, intro¬ duced a bill providing for an extension of the executive mansion in accordance with the plans suggested by Mrs. Harrison, at a cost not to exceed $950,000. The secretary of the treasury laid be¬ fore the house Saturday morning a rec- $87,000 ouunendution for an appropriation ot to put electric wires in certain public buildings now being aud constructed. Che building at Atlanta Augusta, ' U;l - ll,ul,s -' d >» thc l ist * The * secretary ’ of war has appoints i Gen. Charles W. Field to the place made vacant in the war records office by the lecent death of Gen. Catlmus Al, Wil cox. Geu. Field is a graduate of West Point, aud was a dim in pushed major general under Robert K. Lee in the army of Northern Virginia throughout the war. The following postmasters were ap¬ pointed for Georgia by the president "Wednesday: J. C. McCall, Buffington, Bingen, De eatur county; M. C. Bowdre, 009 -.unng the iceeiit fimi-.ciul flurry by die heavy purchase of 4 per cent bonds, has been steadily increasing since the lsi Instant, by reason of the large cxcesi of now reached “PJJ? ncauy 1 $18,000,000. ZToOi) 000 ^a In speaking of this apromment . increase, a treasury official said Friday, that the do part meat was once more in a position where it coud again go mObm** and buy 4 percent, bonds if there was any urgent necessity lor so doing. ihe house-committee on appropriations, Friday, completed consideration of the legislative executive and judical appro prmtion bills for the next faseal year. I lie bill carries with it a total appropriation ° $2 1’ 55!) ’. 346 - b0,,, & *H 8 \ 138 ess than the estimate, and $208 o 411 less than tile nppr< printim for the cum specifically nt year, The whole number of salaries provided for in the bill is 10,597, Ring 201 le s than the number estimated for atu [ fifty-nine less than is provided fin¬ i n the act for the current y. ar. Ten clerks to the civil service commission, w ith salaries aggregating $15,800, are provided for, this reiee to take aggregating the place of ten clerks with salaries $l4,e00, detailed to the commission from the revera! executive departments. Tin’s was strongly recommended by the civil service commission, FEARFUL WEATHER Which Being . Experienced . m . is 1 European States, a London cablegram of Friday says: It is now the'seventk week of the preva Jenee of frost throughout the United Kingdom, with ao signs of abatement oAhe severity of the weather. For du ration of the frost period this is and the in greatest winter of the century, point of severity, the winters of 1818 ; ,nd 1814 alone exceeded it. The Thames below Richmond rsmains partially frozen and impeding is covered with ice floes, which are navigation. Numerous deaths have resulted from the extreme cold, several of them at the very gates of. the workhouses, where groups of poor peo pj e wero waiting for shelter, Midland newspapers declare thatthous ands of persons in that region are in a condition of semi-starvation, many labor ers being compulsorily idle without fires or food. Them yors of cities, with the aid of local boards, are directing an or ganized distribution of bread and coal, and arc starting relife kitchens; still they fail to reach most of the cases of distress, The coasts of Belgium, Holland and north Germany arc blocked with ice. In Scheldt river, navigation is nearly north at a standstill on account of ice. At the German port of Cuxlmven, twenty-nine steamships are ice bound, Antwerp 10,000 workmen have been thrown out of employment, owing i 0 unusually severe weather. The misery caused among the poorer classes in conse q Ue nee is widespread and intense. The use of dynamite is about to be tried to bre ak the ice at Copenhagen, where 8CV cral steamships lie ice-bound, At Berlin the temperature is at sixteen degrees Fahrenheit. In the northern part of Italy snow began to fall *W-ednos¬ j a y au ,i did not cease till Friday. The inhabitants of that region are entirely suffering acutely, such weather being is feared un known to them, and it that numbers of people hAvc perished In the gtorm. Dispatches from Vienna say that com munication with points south of that eity j s frre at y impeded, and on all railways centering thij«j the movement of trains is paitially suspended, SNOW IN SPAIN AND FRANCE. A telegram from Madrid reports heavy now-fails in Spain aud says that cointnu nicatio „ wil k all provinces oi Spain is j oi . u p j t a i g0 reports the prevalence Valencia, cf where in { J { cold weather in £ have been swept by the yUum _ e tailins hca accompuniei vy losses. by hail A violent storm it d su ’ aud extending long distance in the lan d IS report c<l from Algiers, "the , P J p 0r t j 8 fcoupled J with tiio assurance that , . , ik 8Uch severity of weather " k in that ro ion before. Advices from Par is say that the Seine is blocked with ice near Rouen and that the Saone is frozen above Lyons. r l de¬ grams lr<-m Arras and Nimes sav that much mfferjng is being caused at these places by the intensely cold weather, and that a number of persons have been found frozen to death. Ttre total annual income of the gam¬ ing tables of .Monte Carlo is about 20,000 0 0 francs, A* or in the neighborhood table shows of $L 000,900; roulette an average daily profit of from $1,000 to $1,250, and occasionally, when a reckless player has been putting down the maxi mum stakes, the fable's winnings will amount to $15,000. Eight of these tallies were in action at Monte Carlo throughout the busiest part of -last sea firm ALLIANCE NOTES. NEWS O'F THE ORDER FROM ALL SECTIONS. Hens of Interest to Alliance men Everywhere. Tin-: demands at ocaua. Ou arc uut of th* continued and tier sistent misrepresentations by the press in regard to the action of 'he recent na Sect ionVwl' d.'-mmll the abolition of , fc p Uvcral StS, r 8 which sub 'curies shall loan mon.-y to the people of ou approved V 1 .,J ^ sccmtitv i t a l 0 w rate in ter , s t (> j vceed two per cent per jj, rrovi l>d That real estate non ^^ f products ill-ill be con ,|J «d that the circu , uU incdium lie ‘inc. cased to at least $.70 / per capita, .,‘ keeping the volume , Vor j U) h(; (k uuuL this the following substitute was adopted, to which Wade, of Tennessee, !l;t d ius name withdrawn from this por tion of the report: ,Lnd 1(l . We d the abolition of na tional banks b. We demand that the government shall establish sub-treasuries*or Deposito¬ ries in 'the several States, which shall loan money direct to the people at a low rate of interest, not to exceed two per cent per annum, on non-perishable Jarm with . , products, , mm , a , iso upon real , estate, of proper limit .fcioiis upon the quantity land and amount ol money. ^ demand that the amount _ ihe «• « oi circulating medium be speedily increased to not hss than $54 jier capita. proposi¬ 'fhe vote by States on the first tion was as follows: Alabama............... . 4 Arkansas Alliance...... 2 Arkansas Union........ 2 Indian Territory........ 2 Virginia.............. 4 West Virginia.......... 2 New York ........... *-» Kansas................ X Florida................ SC North Dakota..."...... to South Dakota.......... IS Kentucky.............. Pennsylvania, not voting. Michigan.............. w Louisiana............ Mississippi............. 1 Indiana ..., ........... : - to Georgia.........*..... *1 Carolina......... rfk. Carolina........ rfk ;... If* Colorado, not voting. Ti nnessee ............ h o Many land.............. ts California.............. t: L, L. Polk, President ... h B II. Cloner, Viee-Pres, m J. H. Turner, Secretary.... 1 C. W. Maeune, Chr. Ex.... 1 Jones, Judiciary Coin....... Absent. A. Ward.11................ 1 Tennessee, iu voting 1 aye and 8 no, explained that they would have voted t aye ou the section as it came from the committee before it was amended. This would have made but seven votes atreins:. that portion of the report which contained the subtreasury clause, The balance of the demands were adopted unanimously, "we as demand follows: that Congress, 2. That shall pass such laws as shall effectuMly prevent the dealing iu futures of all ag¬ ricultural and mechanical productions; of.proced¬ preserving a stringent system the ure in trials us shall secure prompt conviction, and imposing such penalties compli¬ as shall secure the most perfect ance with the law. 8. We con temu the silver bill recently passed by Congress, and demand iu lieu thereof the free and unlimited coinage of silver. 4. We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, nnd that Congress tike prompt-acti m to de¬ vise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by Miens and foreign syndicates; and that all lands now held by railroads aud other corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the government, and held for actual settlers only. 5. Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and spec al privileges legis¬ to none, we demand that our national lation shall be so framed in the future as not to build uji one industry at the ex¬ pense of another; and we further de¬ mand a removal of tlie cxis ing heavy tariff tax Lorn tlie necessities of life that the poor of ourland must have; we fur¬ ther demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes; we be li-vo iliafc the money of the country should be k jpt as much and as possible in tlie hail Is of the people, hence we demand that all national and St te r v enues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economic¬ ally and honestly administered. (i. Wo demand the most rigid, honest and just State and national governmental control and communication supervision of the means of public and transporta¬ tion, and if this control abuse and supervision existing, do s no.t remove th - now vc demand the government ownership of such means of communication and trans¬ portation. 7‘ We demand that Congress the (Jinied StatrH submi* an amen 'mont to the eonsthuti >u providing for tlw ole< lion of Umled Stales Semi'ore by direct viit, • of the j»e )>1 >> of each Slate. Immediati ly after ttx«* niiftiitio i of the above Mr. Davie, of Ke tu ;Uv, intro¬ duce 1 ! die following loaolti'i n, wluc.l win adopt. "I l»v a rising Viiic wiih only lour mcmbcis voting ngaius' it. Whereas, there i« now a bill known ns the sti''-treasury hill in the hands of the ways and means committee of the house of repriscBtntives which should have t ,1-011 reported and acted upon at the he-; session, and which if enacted into Ian would bring the fimncial relief so much riteded by all lasses and industries. ........— hat 1 c ‘‘ ,ny °)‘. t ,hes e Pnury p«<- •"*" d meet tbe DCCCS91tieS of tbo l01 ‘" mg masses. After a whole yea, of ridicq'c, false ar gument and misrepresentation, in 8 a can vention representing lotos tvventy-n no ates. but seven could be found against it andouly one St to, Illinois, voting solidly iu opnosi-ion. Even o e third of the dele „ iU , from Missouri, the home of tin most unfair, unjust and misleading opp sition, ’ voted for the proposition. U vva3 a C om,)let- iub-treasury victory for the support ( .,-s of tile plan, and demon strated that it or something better be demanded a„d insisted upon by th i.ttth-eiit. farmers of tlrs coun ry. TOPICS OF TRADE. Dun & Co.’s Business Review for the Past Week. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: The vear op ns With the ox t )C £tcd improvement in the money market* and in collections resulting from annual disbursements, which have been larger tfaan ugual> - r i l0 hopeful feeling in most branche8 of tia< j ( . continues also, J and the railroad outlook is improved. I he legis¬ lative prospect is regarded by m iny with appreher sion, and the situation in tin iron and cotton industries is not satisfac¬ tory. Prices of some pro iucts in both have been further reduced nnd many works have stopped for a t me. ’ihe cur¬ tailment of credits, which t >e monetary uncertainly causes, is, there'O’C, severed felt in these as in other branches of busi ness. It is becoming clearer every day that one great obstacle to prosper.ty is a fear that the debasement of the dollar may produce violent contract! .n«, the withdrawal of foreign" investmc ts, a col¬ lapse of credits and disaster which will be felt in every branch of trade and industry. the shrinkage of In cotton manufacture credits has severely strained many con¬ cerns, and prices of goods have been tow, but further reductions have be n made during the past week in blenched cotton, Reports mf tr.de from different cities Ore sitill much influenced by reviews of last year’s great size, but generally ind cate a l.irge volume of traffic iu progn ss foi the season, with marked improvement, since the monetary pressure abated. At Philadelphia, the leather and shoe trades are dull, and retail purchases are confined to evening up sizes. Wool is in little demand. Some uneasiness is seen r> gard ing obligations in tobacco, but better col¬ lections in paints. Higher throughout cotton pro¬ the duces greater activity receipts New South. Sugar and rice at Orleans arc good. 'Ihe money markets throughout the country are less strmgent., and reports of collections are more favor¬ able. Speculative operations continue wholesomely inactive. '1 he foreign trade continues favorable, f xports showing a large gain over last year, while there is more increase in imports. 'Ihe week's failures number 875; for tlie correspond¬ ing week of last year the failures were 384 . TO CULTIVATE RAMIE. Plans on Foot to Grow the Plant in Texas. A Galveston dispatch organization of Sunday says: Following the utilize of a stock company to the lands adjacent to Galveston" for the culture of ramie and other and fibrous plants, a meeting has been held a committee selected to formu¬ late a prospectus of the enterprise, which was done later. Four parries have each d nated 100 acres of Ian t adapted to the ■purpose, between Galveston and Houston. Subscriptions to the stock will be taken for small amounts, thus making interest in theenterpri e include a large number of people oi the c ty. About $7,500 wil! be the amount required to meet the ex¬ penditures of the first year, and wilt cover the cost of machi cry for derovti ing. labor and all th- expenses incident t> tiie undertaking for thirty acres of hind. IT e demand for this material is unlimited. Experiments with the ramie plant in Texas prove the ability of the soil for its cultivation. A TEXAS CYLONE Which Left Death and Desola¬ tion in its Wake. At 8 o’clock Thurs : ay afternoon a cy¬ clone [passed about three miles of this town, carrying death and destruction iu itspaih. It was 100 yards in breadth, and demolished everything it struck. Several houses were blown down, and an infant was killed and four adults se¬ riously, if not mortally, woatr ed John Schmidt was blown over a barb wire fence. He seized the wire n- he passed, anu Ills hand was almost torn off. H- usehold goods were scattered about for miles, and the loss is great. A further search may reveal many more dead bod¬ ies, but mght coming on put an end to the quest of the rescuers.
