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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES. VOL. VI. AT THE CAPITAL. WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON— MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. On Monday, the house in committee of the whole, proceeded to consider the bill appropriating $1,500,000 for the erection of three United States prisons, and for the imprisonment of United States pris oners. The bill was reported favorably to the house and was passed, yeas 117, nays 104. Colonel Qates, direct of Alabama, bill when is preparing it to meet the tax comes over from the senate. He is going to tack the cotton tax refunding bill to it, and demand a vote upon that first. Then he is going to add another amendment, which is of the utmost importance to every section of the south. It is to allow the people of the south to go before the court of claims and establish their right to the $10,000,000 in the treasury, which belongs to individual citizens of the south, and which is tlic proceeds from the sale of captured and abandoned property. Mr. Barnes introduced three important bills for refund Georgia on Monday. The collected first was to the cotton tax between 1863 and 3868. Another is to make the arsenal at Augusta a manufac tory of munitions of war. His third bill appropriates $50,000 to improve the Sa vannah, between Trotter shoals and Au gusta, and $100,000 to improve it be tween Augusta and Savannah. The house committee on territories on Monday considered the Oklahoma terri tory bill, anil will perfect the measure and report it to the house by the end of the week. A hot contest was made over ex tending the laws of some one of the states over the proposed new territory. The probabilities are that the laws of Missouri or California will be adopted, with the chances in favor of the latter. Mr. Gorman, on Tuesday introduced in the senate, a bill improvements making appropria- of the harbors tions for continuing Norfolk, Charleston and Savan at nah. The bill makes the following harbor ap propriations: For $457,000; improving the S. at Norfolk, Va., Charleston, C., $750,000; and Savannah, Ga., $500, 000 . For utter wildness, the scene in the house on Wednesday lnts never been equaled. Pandemonium reigned wild supreme. with Democratic members went ex citement and anger, and Speaker Reed was denounced iir'thc strongest terms. Just after the house met, a motion was made to take up the Smitli-Jackson con tested election case. question Judge considera- Crisp, of Georgia, raised the of tion, and an aye and no vote was taken. The democrats, upon the advice of Judge Crisp, refused to vote. However, Messrs. Cowles, Buckalew and Covert voted by mistake. All three asked to withdraw their votes before the vote wasennounced, but the speaker refused to recognize them. When the vote was announced, it was 161 ayes and 3 noes. “No quorum” was called, when Mr. Reed proceeded he to an nounce the names of members saw present who had refused to vote, and directed the clerk to record them n the journal ns present. A loud shout of approval went up from the Republican side, and at the same in stant every Democrat was on his feet protesting. Just imagine filled with the scene! A great hall rep resentatives; galleries all around packed aud jammed with people; every mem ber on the floor upon his feet; the mass of men on one side jeering and applauding; an equal number on the other angered aud enraged, presiding Jink ing their lists at the officer, denouncing his decisions, and yell ing in derision: “Czar, czar, dictator, dictator, revolution. ” From the republi can side came back the shout: “Listen to the wild rebel yell!” But nothing would stop the confusion. Members jumped up on their seats, threw papers and books iu the air, and shook their would fists at each other until it seemed there be a veritable riot. The wild scenes of Wednesday were re-enacted on Thursday with even more vigor. The fight opened on the approval of the journal, when many democrats called for recognition: which speaker Heed refused to hear, He refused to en terrain an appeal. The battle then opened. “I denounce it,” thundered Mr. Bland, as he ran down the aisle, “as an outrage, and I denounce you,” shaking his fist at the speaker, “as an imfamous tyrant.” The Democrats arose from their seats. jumped into chairs, and called wildly in derision. The galleries joined them, while from the Republieen side came hisses. It was the w ildest of wild scenes. NOTES. The house committee on rivers and har bors has begun the preparation of the appropriation bill. According to the schedule, the house committee on elections. Tuesday, took up the Maryland contested election case of Mudd versus Compton. The house committee on public lands has ordered a favorable report on the bill to grant certain public lands to the city of Jacksonville, Ha., for park purpose,. The secretary of the treasury has awarded the contract for the construction of a public building at Birmingham. Ala., to McCarthy & Baldwin, of IV ashington, at $76,034. The senate has confirmed the following nominations: United States Attorney, Thomas R. Borland, eastern district of Virginia; M. D. Wickersham. southern district of Alabama. The department of justice is trying to discover the whereabouts of Franz, the victim of the recent alleged outrage his at Aberdeen, Miss., with a view of ex amination in regard to that affair. BLACKSHKAR, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1890. Mr. Clements, of Georgia,on Thursday, received a letter from the secretary of the treasury, saying he would in a day or two, transmit to Congress a letter asking that the $35,000 due the state incorporated of Georgia, on the Trezevant claim, be in the deficiency bill. There is much complaint about the ab sentees on the Democratic side of the house. The Democratic assistant door keeper, whose duty it is to keep he a quorum had in that wing, remarked that the Georgia, no er mplaint to make against delegations. They Texas, and Arkansas were constantly on duty. The secretary of the treasury, on Wednesday, issued a second call on the national bank depositories for a reduction of public balances held hv them, to be paid on or before March 1, 1890. The call is for about the same amount as the first call, except that banks having asked but small amounts to transfer have been for the full amount in order to close out the transaction. Mr. Dorsey, on Tuesday, from the committee on banking and currency, issue re ported a bill to provide for the of circulating notes to national banking as sociations. He explained that the object of the bill was to permit banks to issue notes to the extent" of 100 per cent, of the par value of the bonds deposited, provided. instead If of ninety per cent, as now the bonds bill to became the amount a law, of a bank $100,000 depositing could ssue notes to the same amount less live per cent, left as a reserve. The formal recognition of the United States of Brazil by this government was completed Wednesday afternoon, credentials when the president G. Deamaral received Yalente, the the of Seuor J. new minister accredited by the credentials provisional of government, and also the Senor Salvador Mendonca, as envoy ex traordinary and minister plenipotentiary on a special mission to the United States. The ceremonies were marked by great cordiality. Secretary Blaine presented the two ministers and they, iu turn, pre sented their secretaries. The senate on Wednesday confirmed the nominations as district attorneys of C. H, Peck, southern district of Mississippi, and Charles A. Cooke, eastern district of North Carolina; register land office, Ju lian II. Bingham, Montgomery, Ala. Postmasters: South Carolina, J. R. Moss, Henderson; S. H. Vick, Wilson; Vir ginia, A. M. Allan, Culpepper; Stetb Balling, Petersburg; T. R. Campbell, Luray; R. S. Dudley, Pulaski City; C. D. Foster, Fredericksburg; T. H. Gor don, Newport News; Ambrose II. Lind say, Portsmouth; F. L. Shade, Norfolk; D. J. Taylor, Pocohontas; Mrs. Mary H. Long, Charlottsville; A. S. Asberry, Roanoke; J. 11. Blunt, Ashland. The president on Thursday sent to the so inte the following nominations: William H. Taaf, of Ohio, to be solicitor general; Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsyl vania, now accredited envoy extraordina ry and minister plenipotentiary to the empire of Brazil, to be envoy extraordina ry and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of Brazil. Postmasters— Charles L. Pritchard, Front Royal, Va.; Lewis P. Summers, Abington, Va.; Charles Guirkin, Elizabeth City, N. C .; George T. Hammer, Bristol, Tenn.; James W. Lee, Aberdeen, Miss.; Edmund II. Thompson, Wesson, Miss.; William F. Elgin, Corinth, Miss.; II. II. Harring- Perdue, ton, West Point, Miss.; Tillary Garrison, Greenville, Ala.; Frederick A. Palatka, Fla. NOW ’TIS ICE. THE SNOW ON TJIE PACIFIC RAILROAD HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO ICE. A dispatch officials from San Francisco, says: Railroad at Sacramento suc ceeded in having communication for a short time, office Monday night, with the Truckee on the eastern slope of the Sierra mountains, where it was learned that the snow' was sixteen feet deep on the track between that place and the station five miles west of there. The late rains followed by freezing weather, had transformed this into ice, which will have to be chopped understood out and shoveled away railroad by hand. It is that the company has endeavored to secure tele graphic communication with Reno in order that a few at least of the west bound trains that are there can he ordered back to Ogden and their passengers transferred to the South ern route, The situation remains the same on the road to Oregon. The water in the streams and rivers of California is receding, but in some places slow ly. From Colusa, in the western part of Sacramento valley, reports come that for miles north and south of there, farms are covered with water to the depth of from two to six feet. The loss through out the state by the flood cannot be even approximately estimated at this time. THE PRICE TOO LOW. A STEAMSHIP COMPANY REFUSES TO CARRY UNCLE SAM'S MAIL. A ^tch , of , Tuesday _ from San _ _ Iran . ™ jt&Uj f ,£ L!£lan<i without cam £ g gtatea maj , fw the nort w ich had accumulated here in a great volume, owing to the complete railroad blockade. It appears that the steamer Columbia, which sailed for Portland last charged the United States govt-m mtnt $1 per mail bag, but the gov6rn ment only offered thirty cents per bag for mail to go by Santa refused. Rosa. which the steamship company British TEe company cites that the gov eminent pays this American line $40 per mail bag for carrying mails from this port to Victoria, and that when the home gov ernment cut the rate to 50 cents they de clined. Two weeks' mail for the north remained here, and the situation from a i commercial standpoint is serious. SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTH. GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WIIIQU ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA SON’S and dixon’s line. The • ‘la grippe” has made its appear ance in Atlanta, Ga. New Englund capitalists are to assist the citizens of Aberdeen, Miss., iu build ing a cotton factory. Colonel John Mason Brown, one of the most prominent lawyers iu Kentucky, died in Louisville, Wednesday. H. R. Anderson & Co., dealers in dry goods, Norfolk, Va., made a deed of trust Monday. Liabilities amounted to $42,000. A cow on the track threw a train off, at Seymour, La., and thirteen cars were wrecked, two men killed and two others seriously injured. A bill was presented in the Virginia land in legislature Tuesday ceding certaiu Alexandria and Fairfax counties to th« United States for an avenue to Mount Vernon. A disastrous fire broke out at Sumter, 3. C., Tuesday morning. The building of P. Monoglian, dry goods, Durant <& Belitzer, furniture, aud the Peoples’ bank were burned. A very fatal epidemic, strongly resem bling meningitis, is raging in the western part of Cook county, Texas. Patients, in many cases, die in a few hour's ufter tak ing the disease. The city council of New Orleans has adoptod an ordinance against prize under fight ing, but permitting glove contests, organized the management of regularly athletic clubs. A dispatch of Monday says: Colonel L. L. Polk, president of the National Farmers’ and Laborers’ union, is at Ral eigh, N. C., and is very sick. Some of his friends speak of his condition as se rious. Mrs. Enoch Ensley, on Thursday after noon lightod the fires of the Henrietta Ensley furnace, at Sheffield, Ala. It is one of the best built and equipped of plants in the South; has a rated capacity one hundred and twenty-five tous daily. Governor Taylor will legislature call a special for Feb- ses sion of the Tennessee ruary 15th. Among the subjects to roail be embraced ure the election, relieving better the laws and some means of manufacturing industries of the double taxation imposed by the present laws. The Mississippi senate spent its entire session Thursday in the discussion of Sen ator Wilson’s anti-trust bill, which passed by a vote of 23 to 10. It is very sweep ing in its provisions and strikes from the shoulder against combines of all kinds, designed to control values by fastidious methods. The program for the southern trip of the Pan-American congress has not yet been made out, but they will, perhaps, of leave Washington about the middle February. A number of the delegates have expressed a desire to see the large cotton mills at Augusta, Ga., arid that is certain to he one of the first southern points visited. There are in Florida 10,000 orange growers. The acreage is 100,000 and the capital invested is from $60,000,000 to $75,000,000. Three seasons ago there were produced 1,250,000 boxes; two sea sons ago, 2,100,000, and the lust season about 2,500,000 .boxes. It is estimated that the crop of 1890 will be over 4,000,- 700. The house of representatives, in session at Jackson, Miss., by a vote calling of 62 consti- to 41, passed a bill on Tuesday a tutional convention to meet in that city August 12th next. It is provided said that the constitution submitted adopted by the people conven- for tion shall be to ratification or rejection. 17ie Sharj) Rifles, of Lexington, Ky., have received orders to*be ready to march to Harlan county. The occasion is the apprehension of trouble there when the circuit court opens. The legislature has ordered an investigation into the troubles in that county, and it will probably be made while the troups are there. A strike was inaugurated mill at the Bir mingham, Ala., rolling on Monday, which promises to be a long and bitter one before the trouble is adjusted. Over one thousand men, including helpers, are employed in the mill, and and they will all shut be thrown out of wp/k, the mill down. The strike was caused by the men trying to get the mill into the Amalga mated association, to which the managers objected. The resolution adopted by the execu tive committee of the chamber of com merce, a few days ago, indorsing the measure now before congress to pay ton nage subsidies to American built ships, has caused considerable excitement at Charleston, S. C. It is doubtful if the state's representatives in congress will and accede to the request made .by them, support the measure. The tendency of public opinion in that city and the state of South Carolina, is opposed to subsidies of ail kinds. THE EIGHT HOUR QUESTION A MASS MEETING FOR ITS AGITATION TO BE HELD IN MAY. Washington’s birthday is the last day, fixed by the St. Louis convention, of the American Federation of Labor for the holding of simultaneous mass meetings eight-boar V. agitate the enforcement of the system on May 1. In a circular to the various unions, President Gompers, of the Federation, appeals for voluntary contri butions in aid of a fund for the agitation of the question between .this and Mat 1. TRADE REVIEW. COLDER WEATI1KH MAKES THE CONDITION OK BUSINESS MOKE FAVORABLE. R. G. Dunn A Co.’s review of trude for the week ending Jan. 25th, says: Business has a decidedly more favorable appearance. Colder weather has brought a general increase of activity and im provement bursement iu collections. The bonds heavy dis brought by the treasury for have easier money markets, anil sev eral troublesome labor controversies have been adjusted. The prevailing sickness, though seriously interrupting trade anil industry in many quarters, is distinctly abating at the east, The official state went of the iron and steel association is particularly gratifying, because it shows that contrary to the general impression, unsold socks in the hands of makers, and the warrant company did not increase during 1889, but actually decreased 16,- 300 tous. The production was 7,004,525 tons against 0,480,788 in the previous year. sumption Adding imports the total con- will of pig iron in this country probably 7,750,000 prove to have been in about tons against 0,088,744 1888. A gain of more tnnn a million tons in the year over the largest consumption explains ever the previously known, fairly advancing precedented prices production. in the face of the un THE WOOLEN BUSINESS. has been little improved for all grades by the colder weather and fairly active for cheaper cassiniers and worsted with some gain in heavier woolens, Cotton goods move fairly at firm prices, but dis- the rise In material begins to cause some turbance. Speculation in cotton has marked up the price half a cent with sales for the week of 1,100,000 bales and receipts for the week slightly fall behind, while ex ports slightly exceed last year’s. show Except in unhealthy cotton the speculative though markets here no activity, The money decrease has been decidedly easier. of $4,000,000 in cash held by the treas ury, and the rate for money on call has declined to 8$ per oont. Foreign ex change is also a shade lower at 4.80, and increasing gold reserves at the banks of England and France foreign give trade, more confi- im dence. In the some provement is observed in exports at New York, which fall only six per cent, below last year’s for January thus far, while the decrease in imports is seventeen per cent. But the exports of wheat have been de cidedly small since the recent rise, and flour shipments are light, while even corn '•xports appear to fall behind those of last year. Reports from other cities are gen erally more satisfactory for the week. Most reports note an Business improvement in weather and in trade. failures occurring throughout the country in the last week, number for the United States, 295; Canada, 43; total, 838; against 330 last week. ADVICE TO ALLIANCEMEN. THEY ARE DIRECTED TO READ THE NEWS FAKERS AND KEEK ROUTED. The president of the Aiken, 8. C., Central Alliance Club, and one of Ai ken county’s most successful planters, gives the following advice to Alliance men: “i do,sue to rail the attention ol Alliancemen to a resolution adopted by the National Alliance at St. Louis. This resolution sets forth, as a reason for our financial troubles, the pernicious which hanking system of our government, is run almost exclusively in the interest of capi talists and manufacturers, enabling them to control the volume of currency at the time when our crops are corning purchasing into mar ket, thereby increasing decreasing the the power of money and value of agricultural products, the toil making and anxiety the profits arising from of of the year’s labor go into the pockets those who have not labored for them.' Now the plan set forth in the St. Louis convention is designed to meet and over come this evil, and also to serve as a basis of union and create a concert of ac tion which will wipe out sec tional animosities and cement the interest of the whole country. The fanners and wage earners are greatly in the majority in this country, and it is only necessary for them to know aud un derstand their rights, to have them se cured, and we should see to it that our senators and representatives enact such laws as will give us ample protection. expressed We frequently hear the fear that the Alliance will run into politics, putting good men iri office, who understand We hope it will, at least to the extent of our wants and will enact such laws as we need. In this age of newspapers and telegraphy any one who remains in igno rance of siriel indifferent to the financial and industrial questions of of the the day cannot be, in the true sense word, a good citizen, but is his guilty of a culpable neglect of duty self. to Not country, that his family and to his own we would have every man a crossroad politician, far from it, hut we would have one take an intelligent interest in ail questions which affect our well-being, and in order to do so we must read the papers. They are cheap and efficient educators, in their columns ai! topics of importance are discussed and dissected, and the care ful and thoughtful reader is not likely to be duped or made a pliant tool of by de signing men.” A MEMORIAL YEAR. 10,157 PEOPLE KILLED 1869. BY ACCIDENTS IN THE TEAK During the yea ar 1889, the loss of life by accidents in i this country, as tele graphed to newspapers, was as follows: Drowning, 5,705; fires, 380: cyclones and storms, 163; explosions, 349; Mines, 308; falling buildings. 69; lightning, 215; Total, 7,719. The killed in railroad ac indent* wo* 2,438. CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE GRAPH AND CARLE. THINGS THAT UAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLfiD FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Ex-Governor Bross, of Illinois, for a long time an editorial writer on the Chi cago Tribune, died in that city Monday night. In the New York assembly, on Tues day, debate the world’s fair hill passed without or amendment. One negative vote being east. Her majesty’s theatre, London, Eng land, has been closed. Four hundred persons are thrown out of employment by the closing of the house. fortune Mr. Forepaugh’s estimated ago ivas 68. He leaves He a at $1,000,000. leaves a wife and one son, Adam, jr., who will succeed to his circus property. The czar has declined to act as arbitra tor between Holland and France in their dispute regarding the boundary between French Guiana and Dutch Guiana. On Wednesday Lucia Zaretta, the Mex ican midget, said to ho the smallest hu man blockaded being in the world, died a passenger Cali- on a fornia. train, at Truckee, A Lebanon, Mo., special says: Mrs. Mary Boganz and soil, postmistress and assistant at Pnrtlow, were arrested Tues day by Postoffice Inspector McClure for robbing mails. Hurricanes continue in northwest and central Germany. Much damage lias been done to forests in these sections. A heavy snow storm prevails in the Er/.e gibrge mountains. A dispatch from New York, says: The Cunard steamer Bothnia was sighted oil Sandy Hook Thursday morning. Miss Bisland, competitor of Nellie Bly, in the race around the world, is on hoard. R. A. Corrigan, of Kansas City, has bought the outfit of the New York Graphic, the illustrated paper that failed recently, lie. will resume its publication will be, as an afternoon paper, Imt it not illustrated. The United States steamer Enterprise, having on board the remains of minister George 11. Pendleton, late United States for to Germany, sailed from Dartmouth Now York Monday, but was compelled to return, owing to the weather. A New York dispatch says: The Cap tain of the steamer Laplace, from Rio Ja neiro, reports that forty sailors who, while iiiHoxicutcd, had shouted in the streets, “Long live the emperor,” were executed secretly in prison at Rio. The residence of Father Flcckmyer, at Mansfield, Pa., was badly damaged Thursday by the in explosion of a dynamite priest cartridge placed undoubtedly the cellar. The of says it was the work an anarchist. At. a Portuguese meeting, held at Rio Janiero, Brazil, on Tuesday, with it the was Eng- re solved lish to suspend business send telegram Lisbon, people, stating and that to members a of the col- to ony there are prepared to make any sac rifice for their native country. The Cologne published Gazette at Berlin, on Thursday, an interview of its correspondent at Lihson with I'imcntulu, Portuguese prime minisiter. lie said that Portugal was preparing an appeal to the powers, including Great Britain, based on the provisions of the Berlin Congo treuty. Out of the 211 presbyteries in the United States, 47 have thus far voted on the question of revision of the West minster confession. Of these, 35 have voted in favor of and 12 against revision. Most of the votes for revision are in the west; most of those against it are in the east. A dispatch from Baltimore says the strike and consequent lockout of Green glass blowers lias ended. Fire was started in the furnaces Wednesday, and the men w ill return to work. The agreement with the manufacturers which was enter ed into, is entirely satisfactory to the em ployes. A dispatch from Punxsutawney, Pa., says: The sheriff evicted nineteen fami lies of striking coal miners at Walston ind Adrian Monday, arid seven on Satur Thc day. There was no excitement, miners did not seem at all discouraged by the wholesale evictions, and accept the situation cheerfully. Arrangements are being made at New York to give the Rev. l)r. Talrnagean en ihusiastic reception on his return from it broad. Several tugs have been char tered to convey the prominent members of his church nisi his most intimate friend? down the hay to meet hint. There will he a banquet apd perhaps some fireworks. Dr. W. If. Bradley, manager of tin weekly edition of the Philadelphia Prem, on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the em bezzlement of money given him to buy stamps for the mailing department of that paper, 'flie amount of his stealings i placed between $8,000 and $9,000. The doctor was sentenced to five years and six months in the penitentiary. The world's fair committee of the house held a long session Tuesday and com pleted the draft of the world’s fair Hill, which it will report to the full committee. The first section adopted by provides subscription. for the raising of capital fixes stock the of the Another section amount paid ui) subscriptions, which must lie in hand before the eommiss on begins work, at not lesst han $5,000,000. Fire broke out at Kittery navy yard at Portsmouth. N. II., Monday morning. Buildings No9. 45 and 46, with contents, were entirely destroyed. planing No. machinery, 45 was full of sawing and and 46 was a ship fitting shop. Among the property destroyed was trie furniture NO 18 of the .Tuuiata, now under repair, and part of the furniture of the Lancaster, mul a large amount of stores. The loss aggregates a little over $100,000, accord ing to appraisement; no insurance. A GREAT RACE. CIRCLING THE GLOBE IN SEVENTY-TWO DAYS AND SIX HOURS. Last November the New York World and the Cosmopolitan each Magazine, of lady the same city’, sent out one of their correspondents for a tour around the world. Besides being atrip in the inter est of the papers named, it was in reality a race between the two young ladies, and the time of starting been and their progrese over the world has minutely noted from the day of their embarkation. Miss Nellie lily represented the World, and Mrs. Kate Bislaml the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Miss Bly reached New York Saturday at 3.40 l). eleven in., minutes being just in cir- 72 days, six globe, hours anil thus breaking all previous cling the lily’s trip from Fran records. Miss San cisco to New York was most exciting and attracted wide spread attention. All along the route she was received with regular ovations, and given every attention. At New York Miss Bly received a most royal welcome. The moment of her arrival was heralded over the city by the firing of cannon and large delegations of citizens congregated at the station to meet her. In fact, all New York accorded a grand ovation to the plucky young lady who, alone and unattended, accomplished the marvelous feat of breaking the record for fast, traveling. Miss Bisland, at last accounts, was still on 111 “) ocean, homeward hound. A SOCIALIST MEETING. RESOLUTIONS PASSED DECLARING THEIH rOI.ICY ANTAGONIZING IlKIUl MOST. At n meeting of socialists in Waverly hull, Chicago, on Sunday, resolutions were adopted, railing attention to the declaration of the socialist leader, Herr Hebei, in the German rcichstag, on Sat urday. The statement of Hebei was that the disappearance of anarchism from Germany was due to the efforts of the so cialists, and the government had inter ested itself iu elforts to support an an archist movement for the purpose of confounding its net ion and declarations with socialism, and thus discrediting the latter, aud that Herr Most's Friehert was the product of the secret police. The resolutions concluded as follows f “We hereby emphasize United the necessity giving he«4 o socialists in the States to this declaration of the policy and prin- this ciples of German socialism; that in country dynamite agitation has no justification whatever, and its ad vocates—the Mosts aud the Dei,urns—• should be recognized and t reated as agents of despotism, ami riot as reformers, and antagonism between socialism and their reactionary agitation be kept ns well de fined aud aggressive, as in Germany.” A FATAL BLAST AN EXCLUSION 1IUHLS To DEATH THREE .MEN AND FATALLY WOINDH FOUR OTHERS. A dispatch from Banbury, Pa., says; A gang of Italians, Poles and Hungarians employed in widening the road bed of the Sliamoken, Hunhury and Lewisbnrg rail road from u single to a double track road, were at work Tuesday in a cut ncai Puxiuos, where binsling rock was nccessa* iy. Shortly before noon three blasts wore set and the gang retired to await the ex plosion. Unknown to them only two 6f the blasts had exploded and the men had gone hack into the cut and were at work shoveling away the dirt and broken rock when the third blast exploded, and the men were hurled iu all directions. One of them was picked up dead. Two oth ers have since been dug out of. the rock dead, and still another is supposed to he buried, dead, of cour-e. Four men were so badly crushed tin:, will orobably die. THE ANGRY ATLANTIC. HEAVY SEAS DAMAGING VI El.8 — THIRTY PEOPLE DROWNED. The Cunard s tinnier Cephalonia, from Boston, January 18th, for Liverpool, ar rived at Queenstown Monday. During the passage she encountered a gale that was so severe that the pa -ingcrs were kept below for two days, it being feared that if they were permitted above decks they would be carried away by the seas that came aboard....The British ship Loch Moidart, from Pizagua. November 2d, for Hamburg, is ashore at Callantsoog, Holland. Thirty of her crew were wash ed overboard after she struck, and all per ished. .. .The British ship Janet Cowan, liefore reported having returned to Ply mouth, is in distress. She lost a number of sails when oil the isle of Wight last Thursday. Five of her crew were lost. Although the ship was almost dismasted, the remainder of the crew succeeded in navigating her to Plymouth. WANT A CHANGE. FARMERS ASKING THAT THE GOVERNMENT take charge of new York's canals. The Farmers’ Club of Onondaga county, of Sew York, passed resolutions in favor “a fair arrangement whereby the general and governrn* nt hull take the control management of the Brie and Oswego ca nals of New York.” The preamble de clares that those who are taxed for the lupport of the canals do not receive ade quate benefits therefrom, while the great west and liorthwcst are largely benefitted beyond the benefits derived by the state :n the transportation of their cereals and >ther bulky merchandise through the Ca lais.