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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES. *
VOL. M.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
4PPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the house, on Tuesday, Mr Sher
man offered a resolution, which was
agreed to, directing the secretary of the
interior to communicate ti the senate the
report of Jesse Spaulding, railways, the govern
ment director of Pacific as to
the general management of such railways.
Mr. llawlev gave notice that he would
try to callpp the Chicago world's fair
bill Friday!- - ** '' y"
The Montana ejection case was taken
up Tuesday, and Mr. Morgan addressed
the senate. lie was followed by Vance,
Hoar and Daniel. Without concluding
his speech, Mr. Daniel :md,> yielded for a mo
tion to adjourn. after an agreement
that a vote would lie taken at 5 o'clock
Wednesday, or earlier, if the senate
should be ready. The senate at 5:50 ad
journed. t „ morning hour,
At the expiration Wednesday, of the Mr. McKin
in the house on
ley, of the committee on ways and means,
reported the tariff hill, and it was or
dered printed and referred to the com
mittee of the whole. . Mr. Carlisle pre
sented the views of the minority, and
Mr. McKenna, of California, presented printed.
his individual vi ews. Ordered
The committee on elections called up the
contested election case of Posey vs. Par
left, from the first Indiana district. The
committee reports unanimously in favor
of the sitting member. Mr. Bergen, of
New Jersey, defen ted the action of the
committee, and a resolution confirming
the right of the sitting member was
adopted. Mr. Powell, of Illinois, called
up the contested election ease of Rowen
vs. Buchanan, from the ninth dis
trict of Virginia. A resolution which
confirmed the right'of the sitting mem
ber.
The MoutMijiaffection case was again
taken up ou Wednesday, Hildas Mr. Dan
iel did not claim the Hoot- to continue his
speech of Tuesday, Mr. Gibson addressed
the senate in liiVorof the Democratic side
of the question. Resolutions declaring
Wilbur F. Sanders and Thomas C. Power
“entitled upon the merits of the case” to
seats in the senate from the State of Mon
tana were agreed to by a strict party vote;
yeas 32, nays 26. Messrs. Sanders and
Power were immediately escorted to the
clerk’ll desk pv Mr. Hoar and Mr. W ash
burn, and the oath of office was administer
ed to them by the vice-president, and,
after a brief executive session, the senate
adjourned. and Power, the Montana
Banders new
senators, were in their seats in the senate
Thursday morning. Under the terms of
the resolution presented in executive ses
sesaion Wednesday by Mr. Hoar, Sanders
and Power were assigned by lot to the
classes of senators whose terms expire in
1893 and 1895. respectively. Sanders the Powers short
drew the long and
term. Amoug the petitions and memori
als presented was one by Mr.
Butler, from the Charleston board
of trade, protesting against the pas
sage of the Butterworth anti-option
and future bill; one by Mr. llurris, con
taining resolutions by the cotton aud
merchants’exchanges of Memphis, asking
that liberal appropriations be made tor
the work of the Mississippi river commis
sion. The bill making an appropriation Ala.,
for a public building at Tuscaloosa,
$40,000 (house bill), was taken from the
calender and passed. Also, house bill
to regulate the sitting of courts of the
United States within the district of South
Carolina (with amendments). Also,
house bill for the appointment and retire
ment of John C. Fremont as a major-gen
eral of the United States army, At 2
o’clock, the senate took up the house
joint resolution for the appointment of
thirty medical examiners for the oureau
of pensions, without reference to the civil
service law. Pending action ou this bill
the senate adjourned.
NOTES.
The secretary of the treasury has or
dered that Commander Bowman II. Mc
Calla be tried by court martial.
There is a difference of opinion republican be
tween the house and senate
caucus committees on the silver question.
The president, on Thursday.nominated
the following postmasters: North Caro
lina—George D. Smith. Hickory; \\ .
Lee Persons. Rocky Mount. Tennessee—
„eptha, T. W. Cole, Paris.
The following Georgia Wednesday: postmasters 55. J.
were appointed Ashley, Wilcox on county; Mrs. E.
Nixon, Chalk Washington county:
A. Wicker. er,
J. W. F. Woodall, Cowart. Bibb county ;
M. W. Dykes, McConnell. Cherokee
■ounty; Mrs. M. C. Moss, Moss, Banks
county. has himself
Colonel Lester proven a
splendid committee worker. He lias suc
ceeded in getting more and larger appro
priations in the river and harbor bill for
Georgia than she has ever gotten before.
Here are the figures: Brunswick. $35.000:
Cumberland sound. $112,500; Savannah,
$350,000: Darien, $25,000. Florida—
Apalachicola bay. $20,000: Pensrcola,
25,000: Tampa bay. $25,000; Key West,
$40,000. Alabama—Mobile. $350,000:
Altamaha river, $15,000: Chattahooche
river. $20,000: Coo-a river, $150,000:
Coosa river, between Wetumka, Ala., and
East Tennesseee. Virginia and Georgia
railroad bridge. $150,000: Flint river,
$20,000; Ocmulgee river. $30,000; Oco
nee river. $25,000; Savannah river, $25.
000 .
The great vaults of the treasury, in
which hundreds of millions of dollars are
stored have just been discovered to be
insecure. ■When Treasurer Houston came
into office he receipted for $771,000,000
from his predecessor. At present $160.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1890.
another, and $250,000,000 J of paper
in the third. Treasurer Houston,
a few days ago, conceived
the idea that these vaiuts were insecure.
He. therefore,.secured the services of an
amateur cracksman, that is a man famil
iar with the methods of burglars, to try
the paper money vault, in which $250.
000,000 of paper are stored. In just
seventeen seconds this man had made a
hole in the vault, and in sixteen minutes
he had made an opening large enough to
admit his body. This discovery created
a genuine stir in the department, and 8
scare message was sent to the house ap
propriations committee. A bill was
immediately prepared authorizing the
construction of new vaults.
Just as tiie tariff hill was to have been
reported to the house, the republican and
members again changed their minds,
at 11 o’clock Wednesday morning com
pletely changed two of the most import
ant items in the bill. Again hides have
been placed on the free list, and so has
sugar, hut in the latter ease the commit
tee has adopted a provision lookiug to the
payment of a bounty of two cents per
pound on the domestic product. The
majority report of the ways and means
committee, accompanying the tariff
bill, begins with the statement of the fi
nancial situation, and estimates that the
surplus at the end of the present fiscal
year will be $92,000,000, and deducting
the sum required to make payments on
the ceipts sinking fund, the net surplus $43,078,883. of re
over expenses will be
The estimated surplus of the next fiscal
year will be $43,509,522, which, with
the amount of cash now on hand aud
available, reaching $90,000,000, will jus
tify the reduction of the revenue in the
sum contemplated by the bill reported—
$00,930,920, and probably more inter- from
customs, und say $10,327,878 from
nal revenue, a total of $71,204,414.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCE*
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S and dixo.n’s line.
A gang of forgers of Italian and Span
ish bonds has been captured at Trieste.
The Mississippi State board of health
at Jackson on Tuesday ordered the quar
antine to commence at the port of Pauou
goula May 1st.
The Anniston, Ala., Uot Hind notes
that the clergymen of Birmingham kir- are
having a lively discussion over the
miss, which is being held in that city,
under the auspices of the Episcopal the
church. Twenty-three ministers of
city, at a conference, passed resolutions
denouncing the entertainment.
The cracker department of the Grubb’s
candy and cracker factory, at Nashville,
Tenn., was destroyed by fire Thursday
afternoon. They occupied two buildings,
the wareroom and store fronting ou doing mark
et street. The company was a
large business. The stock was valued at
$30,000, and the machinery cost over
$50,000.
A meeting of the New Orleans cotton
exchange was held Tuesday f• >r the pur
pose of considering the Butterworth bill.
President address, Parker, stating who that if presided, the bill became made
an
a law it would affect between $500,000,
000 and $000,000,000 yearly business and
have a serious effect on the trade and
commerce of this county. Resolutions
were passed strongly protesting against
the passage of the bill and calling upon
each member of the exchange to do his
utmost.
Tuesday was the first sale of lots at
New England City, Ga., a town estab
lished a few months since by New Eng
land people. The town is located four
teen miles south of Chattanooga. Sever
al hundred excursionists, from New
England, came in on a special train. sold,
Three hundred and fif y l“ts were
aggregating $188,000. Fuilv two thou
sand people were attracted to the town.
Most purchases made were by New Eng
land people. The lots averaged about
$20 a front foot.
ALLIANCE MEASURES.
DISCUSSED BT THE LEGISLATIVE COMMIT
TEE OF CONGRESS.
The national legislative Alliance com
mittee, composed of about a score ol
members of congress, met privately Tues
day night to discuss Alliance measures
before congress. Among the members
present were Mr. Turpin, of Alabama;
Colonel Clark Lewis, of Mississippi;
Messrs. Morgan, of Mississippi; McCiani
my, of North Carolina: Featherstone. of
Arkansas, and Bullock, of Florida. The
principal mutter discussed was the sub
treasury bill, and it was not finally de
cided whether to push it to a vote or not,
but every one present agreed to
push some measure w hich would pro
vide for the government to lend
money to the farmer. If not on the pro
ducts of his farm, on his land. The plan
which met with most favor was for the
government to pay off mortgages on farms
where they are now mortgaged to com
panies or individuals, and take in return
mortgages on the same at one per cent
interest per annum, also for the govern
ment to lend money to a farmer when the
application is made at one per cent, the
government taking a mortgage for the
same on the lands of the farmer. The
majority of those present thought this
would, perhapg, be a better plan to re
lieve the farmer than the sub-treasury
scheme. However, another meeting will de
soon be had, when some plan will be
cided upon, and a bill formulated and
introduced into congress.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
--
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FAK.UF.R,
GATHERED FItOM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
THE COUNTRY.
The Farmers' Alliance of the United
States have concluded to establish the
Alliance Agricultural Works at Ivon Gate,
Allegheny county, Virginia. The works
will employ from 800 to 500 hands, and
their products will go to every Sul>-Alli
ance in the country, representing 4,000,
900 members.
*% organization
The chiefs of the Alliance
throughout the United States, report to of
the New York Herald a membership
about 2,000,000: of these there are some
thin g over 1.000,000 votes, with the
mem liance tbership rapidly increasing. The land Al
is becoming a powt r in the
which will soon be felt in the political, ;is
well as the commercial world.
-jj *
The Elbert County, Ga., Alliances are
of determined to inform them ujam questions interest
to farmers protective legislation class. Therefore of vjtal they
as a re
solved :That the 1st Tuesday in May be set
apart as a day for the meeting of the
County Alliance with an especial view work to
formulating regarding a plan aud outlining a
as the same.”
*** *
The Dublin (Ga.) Pod says: “The Al
liance has been the pecuniary salvation oi
the farmers of this country. In the pur
chase of guano alone it has saved th<
people In this from two to ten dollars per ton.
farmers one purchase it has this saved the
of Laurens county year ovei
ten thousand dollars. May the Alliance
continue in the noble work, and do even
more good than in the past—which, no
doubt, she will.”
***
Congressmen ure everywhere anxiously
asking their farmer constituents “what
they want.” And these seekers after re
election are getting right down ou theii
knees and swearing to “do anything fos
the dear people”—if they can only find
out what the dear people “want.” It
our humble opinion a congressman whe
has not been able to find out what hi?
constituents need by this time had bcttei
stay ing at home and try his hand Exchange. tit pound
sand into a rat hole.—
* * *
One of our exebauges unya: “Tht
work goes bravely ou. Organizers hav*
been commissioned and sent into the
states of Michigan, Moutana, Wyoming.
California, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. Brother Ben Terrell, our nationa
lecturer, is now on a tour of the follow
ing Indiana, states: Wisconsin, Texas, Nebraska, Dakota, Arkansas, Colorado,
Kansas, Indian Territory and Missouri,
which will employ his time up to th(
middle of August. Our national presi
dent passed through our city on Monday
on his way south to meet some important
engagements with the brethren in tin
states of Georgia, Arkansas and Missouri.
President Polk informs us that the cause
is moving grandly forward all along tin
lines, and asserts that the cause is strong
er and the order growing more rapidly
than ever before in its history.”
* ¥ *
The Green county, Ga., Alliaueemefi,
at a recent meeting, adopted the follow
ing preamble aud resolutions:
“Whereas, Legislation in the past,hot!
state and national, has been largely of »
class nature, favoring in many instances
the interests of monopolies diametrically and trusts,
which we believe to be op
posed to the true spirit of our govern
ment; and
Whereas, We believe the agricultural ig
interests have been, to a large extent,
nored, and farmers unjustly taxed to pay
the salaries of legislators and others foi
services not rendered; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, the Alliancemeu of
Green county, Ga., pledge ourselves to
support no man for governor, legislature,
congress or other office of trust in the ap
proaching elections, who has not proved
himself to be in full sympathy with the
principles of our order, and who is not
avowedly opposed to the payment of the
“per diem” of legislators absent from du
ty, without providential give the cause, agricultural and who
will not agree to to
interests his best support, first hist and
all the time. And we do earnestly ap
peal to all the County Alliances through
out the state to pass similar resolutions,
and abide unfalteringly by them
Resolved, That we will stick to cotton
bagging, and that hereafter in purchas
ing supplies, such as corn, oats, guanos,
etc., we will give preference to such ar
are put up in cotton sacks.”
*%
It is learned from the officers of tht
State Farmers’ Alliance of North Carotins
that there have been issued ninety-three
charters to county Alliances, and 207 tc
sub-Alliances, of which latter only thirty
two have been returned. All the counties
save Alleghany, Dare and New Haven,
have county orginizations. Wake leads
in the number of sub-Alliances, having
fifty-seven, Chatham coming next with
fifty-two. The gain in membership in
the past year has been over sixteen
thousand. The state business agency of
the Alliance is doing an immense work.
It has furnished two sub-Alliances this
season twelve thousand tous of its special
fertilizer, and its sales of ohter supplies,
mainly thousand provisions month, average forty
dollars per The state
business agent says that other effects of
the sale of special brands of fertilizers
made for the Alliance at a special rate lias
resulted in a decline of estimates price#* charged for
the brands and he that this
season aione the business agenev has
saved the farmers over half a million dol
lars in the matter of fertilizers aione.
LABOR TROUBLES.
OR RAT STRIKES 1IF.IM1 INAUGURATED ROTH
at limit: axt) AiinoAD.
The embargo placed by striking carpcn
fers on building operations in Cliicagi
continue* effective. The veto on Inhot
extends not only to their own enift, hut
now embraces nearly nil the trades cm
ployed in architect irnl evening, work. At tin
close of work Tuesday a great
majority of the bricklayers, plasterers,
off lathers, indefinitely. painters and There plumbers were laid
was no mort
work for them. All lines of work had
reached the stopping without place, the beyond assistants which
they could uot go doing
of the carpenters. Nothing was
Wednesday. The “bosses” did not at
tempt to start up work.
A Pittsburg, yardmen Pa., dispatch roadmen says: Tin
strike of the and ou
the railroads leading into Pitt burg. I’n.,
has been praotically commenced. About
twenty-five union and non-union meu
have ipiit work in the Pennsylvania yards
aud in all the yards there are about twe
thousand who have left. A list of ten
grievances has Superintendent been given to every of com
panv now. Starr, the
Fort Wayne road, says he will not treat
with any persons except his own men.
Pennsylvania and Pittsburg expressed and themselves Western
roail officials have
in similar terms, and the men are exceed
ingly indignant. They say that thret
days is enough time for the
railroads to decide the matter, and
a general strike may be hundred expected at any
hour. Very likely five men mort
will leave work at once. A meeting houi was
belt! and protracted until a late
Wednesday be decided morning, and it strike will doubt- within
less to go ou a
twenty-four hours. At the present hour
it appears that the movement will as
suite colossal proport ions, and that the
strike will go to a limit heretofore not
thought possible, and that the bloody
scenes of 1877 may be repeated.
An Indianapolis dispatch of Wednes
day says: The carpenters’ conditions si l ike fair is ou for in
earnest, and the arc a
long, bitter fight. The situation is
changed by a meeting of contractors held
Tuesday night, at- which resolutions were
passed offering 27i cents per hour as the
standard price for t lie best workmen from
now until November 1st next, and nine
hours work, and the same wages until
1st April, with eight hours work. No
attention whatever wins paid by the con
tractors to the journeymen’s rcipiest that
a committee be appointed to confer with
ihc-etii.jji's committee.
The indications are that on May 1st
most of the soft coal miners of Illinois,
Indiana and Pennsylvania will go out on
a strike, and that after that the whole
supply of soft coal will be limited. In
view of this fact many of the railroads
are putting in large supplies of soft coul,
a recent purchase of the Atchison, Topeka
mid Manta Fe amounting dealers in Chicago to $75,000. have,
Many of the coal
within the last thirty hours, received or
der* that they cannot (ill within a month.
The employing painters carpenters, and plumbers masons, of
bricklayers, Tuesday night,de
Portsmouth, N. II., on
cided Unit ten hours should constitute a
day’s work. Wednesday morning, when
Anderson & Jenkins,carpenters, informed
thtiy thair men of the result of the meeting
left work in a body. Carpenters
employed by Win. A. Hodgson, and
Cd, painters employed by These W. J. Sampson firms &
ployed also the quit largest work. number of in em- the
men
ci;y in their respective lines. Indications
point to a general dispatches strike. from Vienna,
(Special cable
Austria, say: The strikes are multi
plying here and spreading throughout tlie
eupire. The slaters have joined the ceased. imi
s<ris, and building operations with have idle
The streets are thronged is men. in
The police protection forced for workers leave work -
Rtflieient. Men arc to
ai soon as the strikers approach. The
methods of the latter are not violent, but
extremely effective. Solicitation, per
uasion and covert intimidation an- cm
yloyed, and the socialist agents an
working industriously among the trades
vhich have not struck, stirring up dis
content and inciting the men to join the
novement.
LAID TO RE8T.
THK KL'.NKRAI. OF HON. SAMUEL J. RAN
DALL AT PHILADELPHIA.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says:
The funeral of Samuel J. Randall, second
of the fathers of the popular branch of
the national legislative body who have
been laid at rest in this commonwealth
within the present calendar year, took
pi at A) Thursday afternoon and was one of
the most silently impressive events wit
nessed in this city for many a day. There
was an absence of all outward demonstra
tion, but a look at the faces of the thous
ands who had gathered showed as w itnesses their of the in
last satl rites plainly that
ward feeling hail suffered a severe shock.
The funeral train from Washington
reached the city at 8 o’clock. When it
pulled up at the station, there
were awaiting it, drawn up in milita
ry style, large delegations from the
municipal council of the Irish N ational
League, M< ade Post No. ) Grand Army
of the Republic, Samuel J. liaridall Asso
ciatioD, the James Page Library Associa
tion, Continental Democratic Association,
Young Men's Democratic Battalion and
many friends of the deceased. When the
funeral train arrived the cortege at once
moved toward West Laurel Hill feme
terv, the casket ami he-.ir-e loaded with
Bowers. Rev. Dr. Chester, of Washing
ton. re'itcd the burial service, and the
casket was permitted opened so that thi pr« ihe
might be to take a look at
departed statesman. The absence of any
public demonstration, and In#* jwwflfDw
gathering of people of all walk- of life*.
marks Mr. Randall's funeral as one of the
no tab la ones in Philadelphia's history.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THTXGS THAT HA«*HN FROM DAT TO DAT
THROUGHOUT THK WOULD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Baltimore. Belgian block pavers are on a strike $2.50 it)
They want a raise from
to $4 per day.
The president, on Thursday, nominated
Ileury J. Ritchie as collector of oustoma
at St. Augustine, Fla.
The riotous coal miners at Ostran, Aus
tria. have compelled a complete cessation
of work in the mines.
Governor Jackson, of Maryland, has
appointed Edwin II. Brown, of Queen
Anno county, state treasurer.
It is said that Governor Fifer, of Illin
ois, will call a special session of the legis- fair
lature at once to deal with world’s
matters.
Over a thousand coke ovens wero shut
down indefinitely on Tuesday by the
Frick, Schoonniaker and McClure Coke
companies.
A syndicate with $200,000,000 capital
has agents at work buying up all the lith
ographic plants in the United States to
form a trust.
bonis Frankc & Co., silk assignment. importers,
New York, have made an
Mr. Frunke says it is not a failure, as the
firm has a good surplus.
The Detroit Hteel and Spring company,
(he largest concern of its kind in the
United States, has suspended nominal. payment.
Liabilities $800,000; assets
Over two thousand persons have signed
a petition for the pardon of the three
Bald Knobbers in prison at Ozark, Mo.
The wives of the men ure circulating it.
Nearly all the trade societies in Lou
don have signed a manifesto calling for 4tli a
demonstration in Hyde Park on May
in support of the eight-hour movement.
It is rep uted from Fort Worth that
New Orleans will probably be the ship
ping point for the company that propose
to ship 150,000 beeves annually to Europe
and elsewhere.
A dispatch from Ml. Petersburg,
Russia, says: The imperial palace this at
Orauienbuum, twenty miles west of
city has been destroyed by fire, burned Beven
of death. the palace servants were to
Oautamala advices are that fhe sleamor
Shake ilaral, bound from Man Jose for
Hamburg, went to pieces on Mm: rocks
near Acajulla. The cargo, consisting of
10,000 sacks of coffee, valued at $400,
000, was lost.
The butchers of Louisville, Ky., have
determined to buy the machinery and
make their own ice on account of the
high price of lake ice. They subscribed
$10,800 for the purpose at a meeting held
recently.
It is reported that inquiry into munici
pal finances of Home, Italy, reveals a state
of bankruptcy exceeding the worst anti
cipations. The government declines
further to assist in averting the crush.
Numerous failures are expected.
The department of slate has been noti
fied by flic minister of France that the
French government, on the 4th instant,
in order to prevent the importation of
arms and munitions of war into Dahoney,
declared a blockade of the Dahoney
coast.
At Dubuque, Iowa, the United States
grand jury has indicted President R. E.
Graves, and Cashier C. H. Harris, of the
defunct Commercial bank, which failed
for $500,000 in March, 1888. The
former is indicted for overdrawing and
falsifying his account, and the latter as
an accomplice.
A sad tragedy, enacted resulting in from extreme Russia,
poverty, was Moscow,
on Thursday. The widow of an army
officer, in dire want, became discouraged.
She and five daughters looked themselves
in a room and turned on the gas. When
found, all six were dead from suffoca
tion.
Immense coal packets at Honcsdale,
Pa., owned by the Delaware and Hudson
(’anal coin puny, were destroyed by fire on
Tuesday, together with 25 loaded cars
and two thousand tons of coal in the
schutes. The packets were about 900
feet long. Neatly 200 men were thrown
out of employment by the burning of the
packets.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, IV,
says: The city a few days ago appropri
ated $1,000 to be expended on the streets,
and authori/aid the employing of destituU
miners of the city. Eighty live men were
recommended by the charity committee,
but when they were informed that they
were to receive but $1 a day they refused
to go to work, demanding higher wages.
afraid of the bill.
how m’einlkt s tariff measure is < on
SIDE ft KL) ABROAD.
qq ie agitation in Paris circles, growing
out of an apprehension that the McKinley
tariff administrative bill, if it should be
com( . a | a ^ would have a serious effect
j pfgjted D t j, e business of exporting to the in
States, now lias its counterpart
Germany. Many of the men-hanU
' interested in the exportation of goods tc
America are seeking to bring influence*
p, ixiar for the purpose of having the bil
^ther -greatly modified or altogethei
withdrawn. They assert that the meat
UTf i( it «oes in the present form, wil
strike a fresh o
;
1 Resolved, never to do anything, which,
if I should see in another, I should count
a just occasion to despise him for, or to
think any way more meanly of him.
NO 89.
a monster Machine.
The immense armor plate bending ma
chine made by the Niles Tool Works, at
Hamilton. Ohio, for the navy yard at
Male Island, California, was shipped
over the Cincinnati, Hamilton it Dayton
ami Southern Pacific Railroads. The
machine was loaded upon eleven specially
built and extra-heavy flat cars. The two
largest castings weigh, respectively, 60,
lott and 60,200 pounds, aud the pounds. gross
weight of the train was 075,350
This train will he run through the en
tire distance, 3. toil miles,without rhaacs,
tlie distance being greater than the rntire
system of the Canadian Pacific. The
railroad eomp.on will not attempt to
make fast time, owing to the weight of
the castings. The whole train will he
run on a special boat at Snn Francisco
and taken up the Sacramento River forty
miles to the Hand. The freight, which
was prepaid hi little the Niles Tm I Works,
unnunted fo a move tlmn $10,000.
This is tlie longest distance any solid
freight train has ever traveled, and it is
the largest shipment of United one single mu
cliine ever made in the States.
STOCKHOLDERS MEET.
500,000 SHARKS OF THE I.. T., V. ft U. It. It.
hki’RKsented by proxy.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor
gia railroad stockholders met at Ktiox
villo, Tenn., Tuesday. Five hundred
thousand shares were represented, or sev
cuty-live per cent of the stock, all by
the proxy. Queen The and Crescent stockholders proposition approved and of
conferred full power on the directors to
act in the mutter, as well us to issue
$6,000,000 in bonds for improvements
and similar purposes. Tlie directors-were
also authorized to net on the Memphis
and Charleston railroad mutter.
VOTE OF PRE8BYTERIE8
ON TM ADOPTION OF THK REVISION OF
THK CONFESSION OF FAITH.
The New York Independent , gives re
turns of the vote of one hundred and
t weutv-six presbyteries the Presbyte
rian chur<'li ou the revision of the confes
sion of faith. These returns show that
eighty-two of presbyteries have voted in revi fa
vor thu revision aud forty agaiusl
sion and four have refused to vole. There
are yet sixty-six presbyteries to be heard
from, and indications are, says the Inde
pendent, that the vote in favor of revision
will nearly, if not quite, two-lhirds of
all the presbyteries.
A GLOOMY OUTLOOK. I
WORE BREAKS OF THF. MISSISSIPPI LHVEXrt
EXPECTED.
A I layoff Barn, La., special of Thursday
says: Threatening clouds and showers of
ruin has given us u gloomy look all critical. alonxj
the line, and the outlook is very
The river continues to rise, and the com
bined efforts of the United States, state
and paroehieal authorities, with the aid
ol our distre red citizens, seems inad
cqiintc to keep the levees above th -flood,
and the conditions are that the leveert
uiiiat givt hours, Wit;, at some points before
tuinv unless we h ive a fall.
BOODLER8 IN LIMBO.
UOHKUPT DITV OFFICIALS or MINNBAPO
LIS IN TROUBLE.
The result of the Minneapolis grand ju
ry’s two weeks’ investigation of boodle
charges was made, evident Monday when
bench warrants were issued for the arrest
of Aldermen John F. McGowan und Fred
Brueshnbcr, of the first ward, and City
Clerk Charles F. llaney. The chargee
a re bribery, or attempted bribery. The
aldermen are accused of soliciting money
for the location of streets, aud the Chi- city
clerk is alleged to have offered to a
cago company to deliver twenty-five eb
dermanic votes for an asphalt, paving con*
Vact if he was paid $7,000.
NEGROES IN CONVENTION.
RESOLUTION DECLARING IHF. DEFEAT OF
THK 111.AtR HILL A CALAMITY.
At the state convention of colored men
held on Thursday, at Richmond, Va., the
committee on resolutions reported a se
ries of resolutions, in which they declare
the defeat of the Blair bill by the senate
is a blow at popular education, express
disapproval of the acts of the present leg
l-liiture of Virginia in their effort* to
cripple the alreaili feeble provisions in
rje gro education in that commonwealth.
A BRAVE BOY
SHOOTS DOWN KU-KLUX WHO ATTEMPTED
TO WHIP HIS AGED FATHER.
A dispatch of from Doniphan, Mo., says:
Two a gang of four masked ku-klux,
who visited the residence of an old man
named Holland living on Pike Place,
nineteen miles southwest of here Satur
day night for the purpose of whipping
him, were killed by Holland’s 14-year-ola
son. They were identified as Ed Gilman,
•Jr., the son of a well-to-do farmer, and
Alexander Gatewood, who bore a rather
bod reputation.
NEGROE8 RETURNING.
THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE LATE EXODUS
TO THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA.
It is learned that a number of families
>f negroes who recently followed in wake
>f the exodus to the Mississippi delta
nd of their own accord paying their ex
am -es going and coming, have promptly
eturned to North Carolina from the flood
aland distressed districts.