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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
YOL. YL
An indication of the spread of English
as a language is given by the fact that it
has just been chosen for use in the re
cording of important treaty engagements
between Russia and China.
Paris morals are getting even worse.
Last year out of 26,000 malefactors 16,
000 were under twenty years of age.
The corruption in this wholesale way of
the youth of a great city is the most un
favorable sign of the many unfavorable
signs given by the French capital. The
moral reliance of France has long been
in the provinces.
Probably 1000 steers are shipped alive
out of New York every day. Theii
landing place on the other side, as a rule,
is Deptford, London. Ships carry all
the way from fifty or sixty head up to
600 each. If a hundred or two are
carried they are kept on the upper deck.
If from 400 to 600 are carried, then two
decks, and sometimes three must be de
voted to the cattle.
Tha Supreme Court decides that the
law requiring citizens of Idaho, when
about to register, to swear that they are
not bigamists or polygamists and that
they are not members of any order that
practices or encourages plural marriages,
is constitutional. The decision was ren
dered in a suit brought to test the con
stitutionality of the law, and will greatly
aid in the suppression of Mormonism.
Latest British emigration returns show
that Great Britain continues to be the
European colonizer par excellence. Eng
land has delivered herself of 164,225
emigrants during 1890; Ireland comes
next with 64,972, while Scotland—the
land which founds empires on a peck of
oatmeal—contributes *25,371. This
makes Great Britain’s total 254,5GS out
put for 1889 compared with 279,928 for
1888. Of foreigners making use of Brit
ish ports for embarkation, 83,608 left
Great Britain in 18S9, compared with
113,230 in 1880. Of the total of all na
tions, three-fourths selected tho United
States as their new home, Scotland send
ing so large a proportion as 17,593.
There are four members of the United
States Senate who can never be candi
dates for the Presidency of this republic
under the constitution because of an
alien birth. Senator Jones, of Nevada,
was bom in England; General McMillan,
of Michigan, in Canada; Senator Beck,
of Kentucky, in Scotland, and Senator
Pasco, of Florida, in England. While
it is the exception rather than otherwise
that a Senator was born in the State he
represents, sectional lines have beeu
■closely observed. Of the northern Sena
tors only two were born in the South—
•Cullom, of Illinois, and Senator Hawley,
of Connecticut, in North Carolina. Not
one southern Senator is of northern
■origin. 1
The low point to which the price of
bides has been forced through the de
pression which has existed of late, seems
to have tempted sellers to try to find a
aew market for their merchandise. Dur
ing the past few weeks about 80,000 to
100,000 dry Western hide3 have beeu
shipped to Europe, in order to try that
market. How this new departure will
turn out is at present entirely problemati
•cal, but if European tanners can use otir
hides to advantage, it will offer up a new
field, and tend to give a tone of steadi
ness to this market that has not been felt
for a long time. The recent shipments
■of African hides to Europe from this
market, while a new feature in itself, was
not of that importance to the trade here
that this latter shipment will be if it
proves successful in opening up a new
market.
It is said that the chronic state of fear
in which he lives has driven the Czar of
Russia insane. The stories told of the
dread and apprehension with which his
mind is filled by the plots of the revolu
tionists have been no exaggerations of
the truth. His life from hour to hour is
one of abject and quaking fear; every
bush is a Nihilist and every obscure
cranny of his palace conceals a mine. An
autocrat and a despot, he has refused to
modify the tyrannous rule which has
brought these dangers into being. A
representative Government, or even
smaller concessions, would have quieted
his reign and preserved his reason. The
Chicago Herald thinks it not to be won
dered at that he has gone insane. Tbe
task of maintaining a despotism when
even monarchies are cihmbhng would
have been too much for a more powerful
brain than his.
AT THE CAPI1AL.
WHAT TI1E FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PKESIDF.NT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the senate on Tuesday the attend
ance at the opening prayer was so small
that a call of senators was ordered, and
after a quorum was thus obtained the
journal of Monday was read and approved.
The credentials of Senator Allison for his
new term, commencing March 4, 1891,
were read and ordered to be placed presented on
tile. Among the petitions from Flor
and referred was one.
ida asking a duty of one dollar
per box . on foreign resolution oranges.
Mr. Hoar called up the re
ported by him Monday for the exclusion
from the Record of sentences interpolated
by Mr. Call in the report of his remarks
in the discussion with Mr. Chandler some
weeks ago. Mr. Call submitted some
remarks in his own vindication, and as
sured the senate that he had no intention
of violating its rule. A vote was taken
on the resolution and resulted yeas 27,
nays 11. No quorum. Without dispos
of the matter, the senate adjourned.
In pursuance of the agreement made Sat
urday, the public building bills which that
day passed the committee of the whole,
came up Tuesday morning in the house
with the previous question ordered.
The bills were passed. They provide the for
the erection of public buildings at
following points: Cedar Rapids, Atchison, la.;
Chester, Pa.; Columbus, Ga.;
Kan.; Alexandria, La.; Houlton, Me.;
Lynn, Mass.; Lafayette, Ind.; Baton
Rouge, La.; and Tremont, Neb. Also an
increase in the limits of the cost of build
ings at Newark, N. J. Scranton, Pa.;
Troy, N. Y., Dallas, Tex., and Spring
field, Mo. The measure involves <wn ex
penditure of .$1,845,000... .Mr. Baker, o!
New York, from the committee on terri
tories, reported a bill for the admission of
Wyoming. He asked for the immediate
consideration of the bill which, under the
new rules, is a privileged measure. The
house decided to consider the bill, and it
was referred to a committee of the whole.
The first three-quarters of an hour of
the session of the house Wednesday
morning was consumed in a desultory
discussion as to the status on the calen
dar of private claims reported from the
court of claims, but the speaker reserved
his decision. Mr. Cannon, from the com
mittee on rules, reported a resolution set
ting aside Wednesday and Thursday lor
the consideration of the Oklahoma bill.
The resolution was adopted and accord
ingly the house went into committee of
the whole on the Oklahoma bill. Mr.
Kelly, of Kansas, offered an amendment
providing that a general status of Kansas
(instead of Nebraska) shall extend over
the territory, until after the first session
of the motion legislature. Mr. Edmunds the senate,
On of
on Tuesday, proceeded to the considera
tion of the resolution reported on the 10th
of February from the committee of pri
vileges and elections declaring that it is
competent for the senate to elect a presi
dent, pro tempore, who shall hold offico
during the pleasure of the senate and
until another is elected and shall execute
the duties thereof when the vice-president floor
is absent. Mr. George took the in
opposition to the resolution. Mr. George
was still speaking when the hour of two
o’clock arrived and the educational bill
came up as “unfinished business.” lie
asked unanimous consent that he might
go on and finish his argument. Mr. Plumb
called uj >ou Mr. Blair to give the when senate he
some indication of the time
would be ready to have a vote taken on
his bill. There were, he said, a great
many important measures on the calendar
—measures relating to pensions, to for
feiture of land grants, to silver
coinage and to other important
subjects affecting the months prosperity the
of the people. Nearly four of
session had elapsed and nothing had yet
passed the senate that could be said to be
of any national importance. Finally it
V. .1. - arranged that on next Thursday,
at 2 o’clock, Air. Blair shall have the
floor to speak for not exceeding an hour,
and that then the bill shall be under the
five minute rule and a vote shall be taken
on the amendments and bill.
NOTF.8.
The committee on military affairs Thurs
day reported to the house the military
academy appropriation bill. It calls for
$430,09C.
The secretary of the tVeasury on
Wednesday received a conscience con
tribution of $20.25 from an unknown
resident of Charleston, S. C.
It is given out th-.t the republicans of
the house election committee on Wednes
day decided to unseat Louis W. Turpin,
of Alabama, and bring in their man (Mc
Duffie) to take his place.
The senate on Wednesday exclude proceeded from the to
vote on the resolution to
the Congreteional Record the interpolations
made by Air. Call in the report of the
discussion with Air. Candler on the 20th
of February. The resolution was agreed
to—yeas 36, nays 14.
Democrats in congress say that the sur
plus in the treasury has dwindled during
one vear of republican administration from
$110,000,000 to less than $40,000,000. and
the spoliation of public funds
contemplated by the party in power will
not be long in reducing the “vaunted
surplus" to a reminiscence.
Mrs. Harrison, Airs. Wanamaker. Mrs.
Russell B. Harrison, Aliss Matiatnaker,
Airs. Wiidon, of Philadelphia; B.
Robinson, of New York: Air. Iius-ed
Harrison and Air*. Hammond, of
ton. left Washington Thursday
in the private car of J. H. InmaD,
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1890.
dent of the Richmond and Danville rail
road, for a trip south.
The senate, on Thursday, confirmed the
nomination of Lieutenant Colonel Wil
liam Smith, paymaster general, with the
rank of brigadier general. Collectors of
customs—E. C. Duncan, district of Beau
fort, X. C. Collectors internal revenue—
Virginia, P. H. McCrull, sixth district;
J. W. Brady, second district. H. II.
Williams, United States Marshal, south
ern district of Florida.
The senate on Wednesday confirmed
the following nominations: Collector of
customs, J. E. Lee, St. Johns, Fla.; Dan
iel P. Booth, Mobile. United States mar
shals, Simon Matnews, southern district
of Mississippi; George 1. Cunningham,
South Carolina; James W. Brown, wes
tern district of Tennessee; William E.
Craig, United States attorney, western
district of Virginia. Post-masters, Mis
sissippi; W. F. Elgin, Corinth; Virginia,
C. P. McCabe, Leesburg; Perkc Agnew,
Alexandria.
Representatives of the Florida orangi
growers appeared before the ways and
means committee on Wednesday to request for
an additional measure of protection
their industry. J. E. Ilartridge present- during
ed 1heir case in an argument,
which he dwelt at length ution the prac
tice by importers of .securing undue re
missions of duty upon damaged fruit. II*
believed that the duty should be fixed at
${ per box, and the provisions for damage
allowance should be stricken from the
law.
Dr. McCune, a high officer in the al
liance, and editor of the National Econo
mid , told the committee on agriculture
that the alliancemcu of the South were
divided on the compound lard bill, He
said many favored it, and many opposed
it. The southern members, however,
said he wus not coirect; that every
farmer in the cotton states was opposed
to the measure, as it was a direct attack
upon cotton seed, and would reduce their
value to almost nothing. All the efforts
of the southern men are now being ex
erted to smother tho bill and committee.
A PREMATURE EXPLOSION
IN WHICH SEVERAL PEOPLE WERE KILLED
AND MANY INJURED.
An explosion of dynamite occurcd at
Brooklyu waterworks, near Rockville
Center, N. Y., Thursday, by which
several men were killed and a number
injured. Dynamite was being used for
blowing up tree stumps on the line of
extension of Brooklyn Rockville acquedui Center. t, a half
mile east of Two
laborers, who were walking near, were
blown to pieces, a part of their bodies
being thrown in every direction. Two
others were fatally injured. The shock
of the explosion created consternation.
Many houses were shaken, and a number
of window panes broken.
Later reports say: The river at New
Orleans at 8 a. m., Thursday was six
teen feet and three tenths. At 5 o’clock
it was reported by the harbor station at
sixteen feet and nine-tenths, and at 2:50
o'clock they reported remained the water that at seven- point
teen feet, but it at
but a short while when it receded to six
teen feet eight-tenths, where it seemed to
make a stand. This was six inches above
the record of other years, and the water
went over the levees all along the city
front at every flooded depression the or low and place side
and soon streets
walks of a large section of the city. The
river at Baton Rouge, rose six inches:
Ilayou Sara, rose nine-tenths of a foot;
Natchez, >ose six-tenths; Greenville.
Miss., rose two inches, and below Arkan
sas City the water is running over tin
levee. It continues to rain. Donaldson
ville, La., rose seven inches;Plnquemine.
La., rose six inches. Every preparation provide is
that ingenuity and man can
being made for breaks that may occur.
The min has fallen for fifty-four inches hour
and the total fall has exceeded five
Dispatches from Memphis, Tenn., condition. say:
The rivers are in an alurming
The highest flood level ever recorded has
already been reached at many attained point
south of here arid will likely be
from Cairo to the gulf within the next
five or six days.
Reports from Arkansas City, Ark., wu
the real condition of affairs at that place
have been suppressed. has flooded The water the from
Sappington break town
and surrounding country. Hundreds of
hogs and sheep have been drowned and
the people are in constant fear of a break
In the levee in front of the city, where the
water on Thursday was of four levee. inches upon
the sand bags od top the
THE CZAR IN DANQER.
HE IS THREATENED WrTH ASSASSINATION—
A WARNING LETTER.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Rus
sia, says: The Czar has received »
threatening letter from a woman wbc
signs herself “Tichebikova.” The writei
says that unless he modifies his reaction
ary policy, he and will meet the fate of Petei
III., Paul I., Alexander H. A copy
of the letter was sent to each of the min
isters at the same time. The police an
extra watchful, and are conducting at
active search for the persons suspected
bemg implicated . the sending of th*
in
letter.
_
WORKING FOR ANNEXATION.
OBCASIZATIOJt LOOKING TO A UNION BE
tween “ir UNCLE SAM” AND CANADA.
A dispatch from Ottowa Canada,
pays that a league having for its object
the union of the United States and Can
ad a, has within a week founded forty
three subordinate leagues, with a mem
bership the of league 1,793. The total memberehi
of now exceed* 5,000, a
voters.
CLKRENl MEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DA' TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
The ballot reform bill passed the Mary
land legislature Thursday.
At London, Wednesday evening, the
house of commons rejected the Irish laud
tenure bill by a vote of 231 to 179.
The Uliuois democratic central com
mittee has decided to call a state con
viction, to meet at Springfield on June
4th
Tidewater Land and Timber company,
at Baltimore, has made an assignment to
John W. Denny, trustee. Bond for $80,
900 was filed.
Tho influenza is raging at Teheran,
Persia, causing 70 deaths daily. Several
members of the shah's household arc
among the sufferers.
Several snow storms and frosts arc re
ported in England and iu various visited parts
of Europe. Among the regions
are Rome and Trurere.
The crockery warehouse of tho B. t'.
Clark Crockery Monday, company, at Kansas City,
Mo., burned with tho entire
contents. Loss, $100,000; fully insured.
Harrison & Loedcr, wholesale dry assign- goods,
at 379 Broadway, Liabilities N. Y., made an $800,
ment Thursday. nominal between exceed
000 and $400,000; assets
the liabilities.
in The United Townsend, States steamer Iroquois,put Tues
to Port Washington, iu the
day, having been blown about condition the since
Pacific ocean in a disabled
December 23d last.
A dispatch of Alonduy from St. Louis
states that a large received consignment of cotton ami
seed has been in Oklahoma
will be distributed among the settlers ini
mediately. Planting will begin at once.
Report has it that the large packing
and canning establishments of Baltimore
have been secured by an English syndi
cate, or at least 95 per cent, of them,
whose output of goods amounts to $15,
000,000 a year.
There was a long meeting Thursday, of the and sugar be
trust in New York on
fore it ended interested parties every
where had information that a cash divi
dend of two and a half per cent had been
declured for the present quarter.
It. came out in an English court a few
days ago that 100 worn-out horses hud
just, been shipped Belgium, from that used country in the to
Germany and to be
manufacture of sausage, and that such
shipments were a regular thing.
The five-story building owned and oc
cupied by Stern, Mayer & Co., one of the
largest and wealthiest clothing manufac
turing firms in Cincinnati, was completely
gutted by fire Monday morning. The
loss is estimated at $4.50,000; insurance,
$250,000.
At New York, on Alonday, Deputy
Sheriff AIcCorry and Warden Keating,
of Ludlow street jail, were indicted by
the grand jury on charges of bribery.
They were placed under arrest and taken
before Judge Fitzgerald, in each who placed the
bail at $10,000 case.
United States Indian Agent Wood 1ms
notified a cattleman that in accordance
with an order from the commissioner of
Indian affairs, dated March 5, 1890, he
will at once instruct tho police to drive
from the reservation the cattle of all who
made use it by for the grazing Indians. purposes under grants
A. A. Courtcr, former cashier of the
Equitable bank, at New York, was ar
rested Tuesday. The arrest was made on
five indictments—three for forgery and
two for having received deposits after the
bank became insolvent. Bail was fixed at
$10,000, and he was remanded to the cus
tody of a detective until he could secure
bondsmen.
'The thirty-eight cotton mills at Fall
River, Mass., with a cash capital of
$18,550,000, carried and paid $1,853,000
during 1889, or an average of 9.98 per
cent on their mills, capital. Of the entire num
ber, thirteen with $7,250,000 cap
ital, paid from 10 to 24 per cent, an av
erage of 14 per cent.
A dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo.,
savs: Governor Frances Booneville, has appointed
Lou V. Stephens, of State
Treasurer of Missouri, to serve until the
second Monday in January, 1893. The
appointment was made lute W ednesday
afternoon, and at 0 o’clock Block, Mr. of Stephens
appeared before Judge of the office. su
preme court an*I took tho oath
A London correspondence dispatch of Tuesday, says: Eng
The official between
land and Germany with regard to the
coming labor conference has just been
made public. Lord Salisbury, in his re
ply accepting the invitation of Germany
to send a delegate to the conference, re
fused to in any way lend his influence tc
rhe promotion of the of proposed legal re
■triction of the hours labor.
A STfeAMtrt AQrtlFT.
AT THE MERCY OF WIND AND WAX’E FOR
TWO MONTHS.
A telegram was received at the navy
department on 'I uesday from Com
mander Bishop, commanding the United
from Honolulu to Samoa, her piston rod
oroke and her machinery became dia
tTanged and she was driven out to sea.
Commander Bishop says that the officers
xnd crew are all well and that after he
has taken on coal and £nciaco. provision*, he will
take the Teasel to Sen
RUSHING WATERS.
WESTERN RIVERS OVERFLOWING TIIKIB
BANKS AND INUNDATING THE LAND.
Flood news from various points along
the Mississippi river and other streams
Wednesday morning, in is that White and
Black rivers, Arkansas, are on a ram
page. Both arc over their banks, and
overflowing the country on each side fi t
miles. Heavy rains have fallen, and
continue to fall, along these streams and a
general inundation is looked for. The
Black is a tributary of the White,
and the White empties into the
Arkansas just above the point where tho
latter pours its flood into the Alississippi.
At Flirt Smith, on the Arkansas, a rise of
over eighteen foot took placo in twenty
four hours, and at last accounts the swell
was proceeding nt a rapid floods rate, The
great rise, added to minor pouring
out of all the small tributaries below Fort
Smith, will greatly add to the volume of
water iu the Mississippi below the mouth
of the Arkansas, and increase the
peril to tho lower country. All railroads
m the vicinity of Fort Smith arc suffer
ing from serious washouts or loss of bridges
and trains are abandoned temporarily.
At Betesville, Ark., the AVhitc river rose
eighteen feet Wednesday and is now ris
inga foot per hour. At Greenville, Alisa.,
the river stood forty-seven and a half
feet and still rising. Latest reports from
the levees tluit along the the principal Mississippi levees
side were
were still in good shape, but the
strain against them was increasing it has been every
hour. At Arkansas City rain
ing for about forty hours, and the crcv
us.se in the levee above the city is now
about four hundred feet wide. The peo
ple are much alarmed at the outlook, and
some arc seeking higher situation ground. At
Poplar Binds the is
serious. The vise in tho Arkan
sas, west of Little Hock, is un
precedented. It is feared another
day will bring out the unwelcome news ol
the water’s ravages. The flood outlook
at Memphis, previous Tenn., is more since threatening the
than at any time pres
ent high water begun to excite attention.
The Arkansas and White rivers arc pour
ing out an immense volume, and the situ
ation below their mouths is anything but
encouraging.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE8.
BIRMINGHAM, DETROIT AND JONESVII.I.E,
THE SUFFERERS
A special from Birmingham occurred says: Tin
most disastrous * Are that ever in
that city, broke out in a brick block on
19th street, ut 2:80 Sunday morning.
The losses and insurance are: E. E. Sew
ell, undertaker, on stock $15,000, build
ing $25,000, insurance $5,000; Misfit
Clothing company, loss $5,000, fully in
sured; McGuire & Wood, saloon, losi
$3,000, insurance $1,000; Joe Frank,
wholesale liquor dealer, stock dura
aged by water, fully insured...
At Detroit, Mich., Fire was discovered
Sunday morning in the rear of Gray A
BiifTy’s six-story brick furniture factory,
which was totally destroyed. The establish- Car
roll & Hunter Chair company
ment, the Ostler Printing company and
Carroll Cigar manufactory, ground. caught next
and were burned to the This b
the largest tire Detroit has experienced
sinceD. M. Ferry’s seed store fire, iu
January, 1886, when the Iohh ran into
the millions. The total loss is estimated
at $250,000, partly insured.... Fin
brokeoutat Jonesville, 8. O'.Sunday night
at 12 o’clock. The following stores were
burned: J. L. McWhirter & Co., dry
goods; J. L. Swink, Jr., groceries; The loss is J. esti N.
Lemaster & Co., drugs. with
mated at $10,000, some insurance.
A MINE HORROR.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE KILLED
BT AN EXPLOSION.
A cable dispatch from London says
A terrific explosion occurred Monday in
Morsa Collery, in Glamorganshire, hundred Wales.
Ijitest advices are that three
miners were eatomed, and all] blit 160
were rescued from the workings,
nearest the main shaft. Most of those
taken out are unhurt, but several liave
received fatal injuries. Eight bodies,
shockingly mutilated, have been excitement recov
ered from tho mine. Great
was caused at the pit by a rurnor that ap
peals for help could l>c heard from the
entombed men. The rescuers were con
stantly succumbing to the effects of gas,
and were obliged to make a speedy retreat.
WILL THEY COME ?
SOME DOUBTS EXPRESSED ABOUT TnE PAN
AMERICANS COMING SOUTH.
It looks like the southern trip of th*
Pan-Americans will be a very decide
failure. Some doubts are expressed Only twclv as t
whether they will go at all.
of the delegates have accepted the Secretar Southei
Blaine’s invitation to take
trip at the expense of the governraen
Twelve delegates have declined, and t)
others have failed to reply tfiat at all. Dipl*
mats, however, say the excursio
must take place, no matter how few wi
go on it, for invitations have been sei
out and acceptances returned.
DECIDED TO CL09E.
>» th« bank from whose vau.U lelle
Charles A. Pitcher stoie all the cash i
June, 1888. He is now in a Ganadia
j»>b The bank recovered nearly all t
the cash and securities tuat Pitcher stol*
but its affairs have not been in a flourish
>«* condition for some time.
NO 24
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH AHE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE.
The Kentucky legislature, on Wednes
day, passed a bill calling a constitutional
convention.
The first cargo of Florida phosphate
will bo exported from Savannah this
month for Liverpool.
The Richmond chamber of commerce is
making arrangements to entertain the Pan
American delegates.
Jacob Fuller, librarian of Washington
and Leo university, Lexington, Vu., died
Wednesday, aged seventy-live years.
Arrangements are being made for three of
large excursions, through Virginia,
representatives of the New England asso
ciation.
Alatilda Ruby, a negro woman, died at
Raywick, Ky., recently, aged aged 128
years. Her mother died five yiurs ago,
at the age 135 years.
Five prisoners wero enabled to escape
from jail nt Moulton, Ala., recently
through a big hole torn iu the roof of
their prison by a bolt of lightning.
A lire occurred Tuesday morning by
which the Durham fertilizer factory at
Durham, N. C., was totally destroyed.
The total insurance involved is $17,000.
The Tennessee house of representatives
on Tuesday enacted what is known as the
Dortch elccsion bill, Mycr’s registration
bill and Carson poll tax bill into laws.
They lmd previously passed tho senate.
Tho Chattanooga, Tenn., News states
that ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, and
his party will take the Budding Ridge
property about at Trenton, of coal On., consisting iron land of
30,000 acres ami
at, $1,100,000, as fast as the titles can be
made out for it.
Tho trial of ex-Presldcnt Holden and
ex-Sioretnry Pullen, at Memnhis, Tenn.,
on two indictments charging larceny,
embezzlement and fraudulent breach of
trust, came to an end Monday, Iloldeu
was acquitted Pullen on ull the counts. The
jury found guilty on tho first
jount and fixed his punishment at fifteen
lays in tho work-house.
The members of the Tailor’s uuion, at
Atlanta, Ga., are. out on strike. Tney
made a demand upon employers for an
increase iu wages, which wus refused.
It is reported that the strikers are or
ganizing into a joint stock company for
the purpose and embarking of opening into a co-operafiva
.tore the merchant
tailor business for themselves.
Mercic’s A dispatch from Richmond, Vn., says:
equestrian statue, iu bronze, accepted. of
General Robert E. Lee, has been
The statue was made in Paris, and will
lie shipped at once to this legislature, country. At the
recent session of the resolu
tions were adopted accepting the monu
ment on behalf of the state of Virginia.
(Seventeen hundred puoplo atteuded Vcn- an
entertainment Momluy night ut tho
dnrne at Nashville, Tenn., for tho benefit
of the Jefferson Davis monument fund.
The Young Men’s Demoernric club had
charge of the affair, and fully $1,200 was
realized above expense*. Chief Justice
Turney, of the Tennessee supreme court,
delivered an address on the life and char
acter of Mr. Davis.
Baxter Brotherton, a constable of Han
cock county, ami three raftsmen were ar
rested at Chattanooga, Tciin., Monday,
for stealing a raftof logs, valued at $1,000.
The four men cut the raft loose in the up
per portion of Hancock county, their in
tention being to flout it to Chattanooga
arid sell it. The owner of the raft discov
ered the theft a few hours later, and swore
out wurrants against the quartette, who
wero placed in the county jail.
A NOTABLE GATHERING.
THE CHARITY BALL AT BT. AUGUSTINE,FI.A.
A GRAND AFFAIR.
A dispatch from St. Augustine. Fla.,
says: “The charity bull 'Thursday night at
the j’once de Leon was the greatest suc
cess of the season. All New York’s four
hundred were transported bodily here,
uud the wealth and fashion of the whole
country was represented. Tho ball wis
given for the benefit of Alicia hospital,
which was built by Mr. Flagler, and will
be supported by the Ladies' Hospital asso
ciation, for whom the ball yvas given.
Among tho prominent guests were Mr.
and Mrs. Calvin 8. Brice, of Ohio; B. F.
Jones and wife, Fred Vanderbilt and
wife, Admiral Ujwhur and yvife, Wash
ington; Mr. and Mrs. If. M. Flagler, An
nie Flagler, Legrand It. Cannon, II. Le
grand Cannon, W. Bayard Cutting, Jacob
Lorillard, Jr., and a hundred of other
distinguished New Yorkers; L. Harrison
Dulles, Miss Butcher, Mr. W. G. Warden
and daughters, Philadelphia; Robert
Garrett rind wife. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore,
George J. Appotd, Baltimore; II. R.
Mallory and family. New York. Tha
hotels are crowded the to overflowing and
the season is greatest ever kuown.”
LYNCHERS CONVICTED.
three or rnr. principals to bf. hung and
ABOUT THIRTY OTHERS USED.
e tto. The first two named were the wife
md son respect ively, of Oleson, who was
Iragged from his bed and hanged by a
nob last November. About thirty other
persons who took part in the outrage
each. pleaded guilty to riot and were fined $100