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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.