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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VI.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOINQ.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
la the Senate, on Tuesday. Mr. Plumb’s
resolution, heretofore offered, for an in
crease of the treasury purchase and the
coinage of silver, was presented. resolution Mr. lie
Plumb consented to let the
over for the present, so as to give Mr.
Mitchell an opportunity to address the
senate.... Air. Mitchell addressed the
senate in favor of the constitutional
amendment proposed by him for the elec
tion of senators by a popular vote.
When he had concluded, his resolution
was referred to the committee on privi
leges and elections... .The conference re
port on the bill to regulate, the sitting of
United States courts iu the district of
South Carolina was presented and agreed
to.... The District of Columbia appro
priation bill was taken up. During the
consideration of the bill, Air. Morrill,
from the conference committee on the bill
for the organization, improvement aud
maintenance of a national zoological
park, reported that the committee had
been unable to agree, and he moved that
the senate recede from its position and
agree to the house amendment, which re
quires half of the expense to be paid by
the district government. After some
discussion the motion was agreed to and
the bill now r goes to the president for his
signature. Consideration of the district
appropriation bill was then resumed and
ended by the passage of the bill. After
executive session the senate adjourned.
In the house ou Wednesday presented morning,
Mr. Harmer, of Pennsylvania,
a memorial of the Alanufacturers’ club,
of Philadelphia, “representing American many
millions of capital invested in
industries, and many thousands of work
men, earning American wages, in favor
of prompt action on tariff legislation
w’hich shall check the importation of ar
ticles produced house by our own people.” into Re
ferred. The then went com
mittee of the whole, Air. Payson, of Illi
nois, in the chair, on the legislative question ap
propriation bill, the pending Dunnell, of
being on the motion of Air.
Alinuesota, to strike out the clause pro
viding clerks for senators. The motion
to strike out was lost—S’) to 87. Pending
further discussion, described by Air. But
terworth as “playful,” the committee
rose, and the house at 5:35 adjourned.
In the senate, on Wednesday, Air.
Chandler offered a resolution to adopt a
rule to and 1 expedite facilitate the taking public of votes business. in the
senate to
The resolution was referred to the com
mittee on rules. Mr. Platt presented the
conference report on the senate bill to
provide a temporary government for the
territory of Oklahoma. The reading of
the report, which is in the form of a
substitute for the entire bill, and covers
fifty-two The printed pages, occupied over an
hour. report was agreed to—yeas
50, nays 5. The bill now now goes to
the adjourned. president for his signature. The sen
ate
In the house, on Thursday, discussion
came up on an amendment by Amos Cum
mings to the legislative, executive aud
judicial appropriation bill to strike out
the appropriation for tlie civil service
commission. This would make it inac
tive, but would not abolish the commis
sion or the laws. However, it provoked and
a discussion which was rich, rare
racy all through, and lasted all day, hut
the amendment to cut off the appropria
tion for the commissions, was voted down
by 120 to 61.
On motion of Mr. Gray, the senate on
Thursday, again took up for considera
tion the house bill to transfer the revenue
marine service from the treasury depart
ment to the navy department. The
amendments reported from the com
mittee on naval affairs were agreed to.
Pending consideration of the revenue
cutter bill, Mr. Hoar, from the commit
tee on privileges and elections, reported
(as an original measure), the bill to amend
and supplement the election laws of the
United States and to provide for the
more efficient enforcement of such laws,
and it was placed on the calendar. Con
sideration of the revenue cutter bill was
resumed, but at two o'clock it was dis
placed by the land forfeiture bill. The
forfeiture bill was read and committee
amendments, after explanation, agreed to.
Consideration of the land forfeiture bill
occupied the remainder of the afternoon,
except the time spent in a brief execu
tive session. Without disposing of it,
the senate adjourned.
NOTES.
A state reception was given to the army
and navy by the president Tuesday night.
It was a quiet affair.
The senate has confirmed the nomina
tion of E. C. Weeks as United State*
marshal for the northern district of Flor
ida.
The sub-judiciary committee of the
house left Thursday night on the south
ern tour to investigate federal court offi
cials.
The republicans of the house and sen
ate on Wednesday again agreed upon t
basis for the preparation of a silver bill.
The agreement is in harmony with the
measure adopted by the senate caucus
committee, with one important amend
ment.
The federal election bill, reported by
Senator Hoar on Thursday, from the
privileges and elections committee, is a
very elaborate measure, and provides,
with great detail and minuteness, the
scheme of national supervision of elec
tions. It differs widely from the Lodge
biff, and it is essentially a government
supervisory measure.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, MAY I, 1890.
The members of the house committee
were in session for an hour Tuesday af
ternoon. The discussion showed that no
material change, in views had taken place
since their last meeting before the caucus.
No agreement could l>e reached, and upon
motion, the same sub-committee which
conducted the last negotiation was in
structed to confer again with the senate’s
sub-committee.
Assistant Secretary Ticlienor has writ
ten to the collector at Baltimore that on
an exportation imported of bagging manufactured
wholly from jute and exported
as covering of cotton in bales, a draw
back will be allowed equal to the duty
paid on imported jute used in the manu
tacture of bagging, less 10 per cent.,
provided duty that the shall average exceed allowance 11 un- 8-8
der any not
pounds of jute per bale.
By direction of Secretary Blaine, the
following message has been sent to the
various committees in tlie south that had
prepared to entertain the delegates to the
international American conference: “The
secretary of state desires to express liis
regret that the Southern excursion of the
international American conference had to
be abandoned, but there would have only
been one foreign delegate in the party af
ter leaving Richmond, and a great uncer
tainty whether the others would join
later. He thanks you sincerely for the
hospitality you extended to them, and the
trouble you have taken to arrange for
their entertainment, and hope that you
appreciate the circumstances and reasons
by which he is governed.”
The senate committee on agriculture
and forrestry, on Tuesday, had under con
sideration Senator Vance’s bill to provide
for a system of warehouses for farm pro
ducts throughout the country, to bo oj )CT
ated by the government, which is to lssue
its notes upon deposits of grain therein.
Colonel Polk, president of the National
Farmers’ Alliance, read a long which, argument he
in support of tlie measure,
mid, was formulated by the committee
appointed for that purpose by the con
vention of the National Farmers’ Alli
ance and Industrial Alliance, held in
St. Louis on December 8, 1881).
l)r. McCune followed Col. Polk, aud said
he felt perfectly confident the bill would
be reported favorably immediately, and
would soon pass both houses. However,
of the seven members of the senate com
mittee, it is quite well known that Sena
tors Higgins, Blair, Bate, George and
Jones will vote against the bill, and as
they compose all, save two of the com
mittee, it is not at all probable that Dr.
McCune is correct
A CONFEDERATE MUSEUM.
THE DAVIS MANSION IN RICHMOND TO BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.
The several committees of the Rich
mond, Va., city council, to whom were re
ferred the petition of the Ladies’ Holly
wood Memorial association, asking the
use of the Jeff. Duvis mansion for a
museum for confederate relics, had a
meeting Wednesday afteruoen. Itepre
sentatives from the different vet
erau organizations and the cham
her of commerce indorsed the
move. The committee unanimously
adopted an ordinance giving the ladies
tlie use of the mansion. During the dis
cussion, it was stated that one room in
the building will probably be dedicated
to each confederate state, to be used for
the preservation of their relics. It was
also intimated that an effort will
be made to have the remains of Mr.
Davis brought to Richmond, aud buried
in the old mansion.
DISASTROUS FIRES
THE BUSINESS PORTION OF GREENWOOD,
MISS., DESTROYED—OTHER BLAZES.
Fire destroyed the entire business por
tion of Greenwood, Miss., Wednesday
night. Thirty-three houses were de
stroyed, and two lives are said to have
been lost. The victims are given as
John Dorch and an unknown man ... .
John G. Wagner’s five-story block, 78
to 79 South Paul street, Rochester, N.
Y., burned Wednesday morning. Loss
on the building, $55,000. Weaver A
Co., shoe manufacturers, occupying and a
part of the building, lose on stock
machinery, $80,000; insurance, $57,000.
Langslow, Fowler & Co., leather, plush
and carpet manufacturers, lose $50,000;
two-thirds insured.
AN INDEPENDENT PA8TOR.
SUSPENDED FOR REFUSAL TO SUBMIT TO |
CHURCH AUTHORITY.
Rev. W. A. Harrison, for many years
pastor of the Third Presbyterian church
in Knoxville, Tenn , lias just been sus
pended from the ministry and pastorate
relations dissolved. Two of his elders are
also suspended. This action on the part
of the Presbytery was caused by the re
fusal of the pastor and the elders to sub
mit to the authority of the Presbytery for
some years past, but to act independently
of it. The church is one of the largest
and richest in the Southern assembly, and
much excitement exists over the case.
THE IMMIGRATION BUEREAU
ORGANIZES A BRANCH IN JACKSONVILLE,
FLA.—AN EXPOSITION TO BE HELD.
W. W. Pemble. commissioner of the
organization of the bout hern Interstate
Immigration bureau, arrived in Jackson
ville. Fla.. Wednesday, organized*the and in a verr
few hours first branch in
Florida for perfecting the union. A
great southern interstate exposition and
permanent traveling exhibits is to be
held in one of the large northern cities
in 1891. Branches will lie formed in
everv large eitv and town in Florida,
Boston or Chicago will probably * be the
city chosen for the exuoaition.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
THH COUNTRY.
It is asserted by the foreman on the
farm of the late Hon. Primus Jones, that
the first bale of cotton this year will come
from that, farm. He says the examples
and methods of Colonel Jones are being
strictly followed on that farm.
*
* *
The County Alliance of Gwinnett
county, Ga., favors the holding of pri
maries in the different militia districts to
nominate candidates for the general as
sembly, and for delegates to the next con
gressional convention aud for governor.
***
The cotton bagging factory for Ameri
cas, Ga., is an enterprise already assured
for that wide awake city. It is an Alli
ance necessity, and the thirteen adjoining
counties invited to tuke stock in the en
terprise should respond with alacrity.
*
* ★
A grand reunion of the Alliance of that
section of Georgia, aud the old soldiers
will be held jointly at Flat Rock camp
ground, Heard county, July 24th. Col’s.
Livingston and Northern will address the
Alliance, and Gov. Gordon, and Gen.
Phil Cook will talk to the soldiers, A
big time is anticipated.
** *
If the farmers Alliance continues to in
crease for a year or two more at the rate
at which it has been gaining during the
last twelve months it will soon be the
largest organization ever known if it sticks in this
or any other country; and to
gether and properly exercises its great
power it will be easily able to accomplish
such a revolution in the legislation of the
country as will result in giving the far
mer, not only his rights as a citizen, but
after breaking up the trusts and combines
which now rob him of much of his earn
ings, tion will also place the farmer in in posi
to become a legislator the inter
ests of his county and his claims.—Ex.
**.
Our farmers aro taking more real inter
est in their farms this year than we evei
have known before; there are more ter
races, and the soil is better prepared than
at the same time any previous year in the
history of Georgia. careful At observation. least, this is We oui
opinion after a this of things is
believe further that state
duo mainly to the Alliance movement.
Then let the movement that has brought
such a result go on in its proper sphere
until the “red old hills” of Georgia are
made to blossom as the rose, every farm
is free from mortgage, aud the inmates of
every home contented and happy.— South
ern Alliance Farmer.
The Southern Alliance Farmer (Atlan
ta, Ga.,) has the dangers following that to confronts say regard- tho
ing one of the
Alliance: If ull Alliaucemen will be true
to the causo and withhold their votes
from men who are not, and have nevei
been, in sympathy with the struggling
masses, and will support only those whoso
past records, not only in office but at
home, show plainly that their hearts are
with the people, and that they are ol
pure character aud worthy of confidence,
our success is assured. Our danger lie*
in division. Alliancemeu have their per
sonal friends induced among the politicians, them when and
may be to vote for
they know they are not in full sympathy
with us. Sectional, county, or town pride
should be left out of the question. Men who
are true to our interest are tho men to
support. As we have said before, simple
ability will not do, for if it was turned
gainst us it would do great harm. The
heart must be right. Wo can no more
afford to turn our legislation over to men
who servo the inone y powers than we can
afford to leave our c hildren’s inheritance
in the hands of a faro dealer. Being a
fanner or an Allianceman only, does
not fit a man for office, but being in full
sympathy with the people, and having
toe will and ability to work to their inter
est, does make a man worthy of support.
Where will you find such men? The
time when a few politicians in each
county, district or state, can meet to
gether and apportion out the different
offices is at an end. The people will take
a hand in this business and have deter
mined to have representation.
In Col. Polk’s argument before the
senate committee on agriculture at Wash
ington, on Tuesday, he sketched the de
cline in agricultural values iu the face of
the marvelous progress and development
of their industries and interests during
the passed decade, and insisted that
something should be done for the farmers.
He charged the fault upon the financial
system of the government, which had re
suited in high-priced products. suggested, The
remedy, Colonel Polk was
three-fold—first, restore silver to its dig
nity and place as money metal with all
rights of coinage and all toe qualities of
legal tender which gold possesses; second, direct
issue sufficient amounts of currency
to the people, at a low rate of interest,
to meet the legitimate demands of busi
nes* of the country, and which shall be
legal tender for all debts, public and
pnvate; third, secure to such issue equal
dignity with money metals, by basing it
on real tangible, substantial values.
Mr. Polk was followed by Dr. W. C.
McCune, chairman of the national com
mittee on legislation of the Alliance, who
addressed himself more particularly to
the merit* and details of the system of
warehouse* aa outlined in the bill. He
asaerted that merchandise thus stored
would not deterioate below the market
standard, and that the system had proven
feasible and practicable in California,
where the Grangers’ li.mU, m 1879,loaned
$8,000,000 on certificates issued to the
owned farmers and on wheat controlled deposited in warehouses
bv them.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALI.
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH AUK HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINK.
Northern capitalists are to establish a
paper bag factory in Athens, Ga.
Ground was broken Thursday at Bluff
ton, Ala., for the new building of the
University of the South.
The Davis Laud Stock company has
secured $8,000 for Aire. Davis, ami is
ready to receive additional subscriptions.
J. W. Craddock was committed to jail
in Henrico county, Va., Tuesday for at
tempting to wreck a train on the Chesa
peake and Ohio railroad on March 10th.
It is reported that in the past fifteen
months 71,000 negroes have left. Noith
Carolina. It is stated that this estimate
is made on reliable data and upon careful
investigation.
The first sale of the Pittsburg Devel
opment company took place Tuesday in
the new iron manufacturing town of Car
negie City, Va. All lots were freely
taken at prices largely in excess ol the
listed prices.
The Maryland legislative committee in
quiring into the malfeasance of ex-Statc
Tieistirer Archer, on Thursday discovered
$00,000 of tlie missing bonds which were
supposed to have been lost, The dcfal*
cation thus remains at $182,000.
Moses Harmon, editor of Lucifer, a
Tree love paper of Valley Falls, Kansas,
.was tried in the United Htatcs district
'court at Topeka, on the charge of send
ing obscene matter through the mails and
•lor convicted. him, but His without counsel avail. pleaded insanity
Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, on
'Tuesday, ifrom received the following appeal
Bayou Sara: “We have been over
Iwheimcd by the storm and rain; cre
tvasses are numerous along the front. Old
fMorganza levee has broken. Wend boats
lat once to save the people, or there may
(be great loss of life." Governor Nichols
at once made arrangements for their as
sistance.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Louisville,
Ky., says: W. P. Campbell, assistant
enrolling clerk of the Kentucky House of
, itypiesentntives, has sent a Davis, challenge editor to
fight a duel to Thomas 11.
of the Maysville Republican. Davis pub
lished that Campbell had left debts un
paid when he recently went away from
Augusta, Ky. Campbell threatens to kill
Davis on sight if the duel is declined.
A Wan Francisco dispatch says: One of
the most, severe shocks of earthquake ex
perienced here for a long time was felt in
this city and neighboring localities a lit
tle after 8:30 o’clock Thursday morning.
Tlie buildings were shaken perceptibly, their
and persons were aroused from
sleep. Plastering fell from the walls in
places, but no serious damage has been
reported yet.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch says: Per
haps the most elderly couple ever mar
ried in Virginia plighted their troth Wed
nesday at Milwood, in Amelia county.
The groom was Dr. P. N. Hudson, who
has reached the venerable age of seventy
seven, aud the bride is Mrs. Jane It.
Blair, aged seventy-one. She was the
widow of the late VVilliam T. Blair and
the youngest daughter of the late Niclio
las Mills.
All the carpenters, bricklayers, painters
nnd plasterers in Birmingham, organizations Ala., who
belong to the various of
their strike crafts, May 1st. will probably The strike go will out be on for a
more pay and shorter hours, if the
miners and laborers can be induced to
join in the movement, the strike will be
for eight hours. May 1st all the labor
organizations will unite in a grand street
parade, the demonstration to be for the
eight-hour movement.
A BOILER .EXPLODES.
INSTANTLY KILLING SIX M*N AND BEUI
OUftLY INJURING OTHER*.
A special from occurred Newcastle, Pa., says:
An explosion at Etna mill*
Wednesday morning, three men being
killed and six badly injured; two will
probably die. The flue end of a big boiler
collapsed, and in a moment the place was
drenched with scorching steam, Full
an hour was lost before the injurned men
could be rescued, and the last dead body
recovered._______
DROWNS H18 CHILDREN
and attemits suicide horrible < kim»
OF AN INSANE FATHER.
A well-to-do fanner named Morrison,
living two miles from Shelburne, Ont.,
after drowning three of his children in a
barrel of rain water, attempted to drown
himself in a creek. Horne of his neigh
hors found him lying by the creek in a
precarious condition. There is no hope
of his recovery. No reason can be a
signed for the tragedy.
----;— -—
There is a dog in tit.leom* that is f.
regular road funeral-goer. the cemetery u with » nwng funeral ou
the to a
he was seen to get up and trot along
beside the hear-' No mo,e was thought
of him until the grave was reached, and
there the big bnndle was seen hanging
on the outskirts of the crowd, juntas
much interested a- anyone I rom tliat
time on he has been a regular mourner,
and he goes to every funeral that, takes
place.
IF HE WERE PRESIDENT.
soanc VERY PITHY suggestion* by mk
JULIUS L. BROWN, OF ATLANTA, GA.
this The New York World asks the public il
question: ••What would you do
you were President of the United State C
Among tlie answers which have caused
most comment is one l>y Mr. .Julius I,.
Brown, of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Brown’s
answer contains * food for thought and
we here reproduce it from the issue of the
New York World dated Sunday April 18,
1890.
lie, In response to your question to the pub
“What you would do if you were
President of the United States?” 1 sug
gest some few things which are thorough
ly Utopian, because 1 will never be Pre
sideut, and because if I were party spirit
is too rife for either one of the present
parties to adopt, President them. United
If I were of the
States and I did not have a Congress
thoroughly in accord with me, 1 would
execute the laws of the United States im
partially, whether in Indiana or iu Geor
gia. If T were President, of the United
Stales and had a Congress in thorough
accord with me so that my recommenda
tions would be adopted, 1 would:
Fimt —Be .president of the whole
United Stut.es. 1 would not be President
of any party and would not be President
of any section. 1 would do all in my
power to liavo good government, and
to protect, defend, enrich and educate
our people. would levee tho Mississippi
Second —I
and Missouri Rivers and prevent disas
trous overflows, and would connect them
with the lakes and thus form a perfect
waterway through the centre of the
United States,
Third —1 would build gun factories
and foundries, forts, etc., und put tho
whole country in such a position of
thorough defense tliut wn would not be at
the mercy of foreign powers.
Fourth— 1 would build a large coin
plete, fend perfect, modern navy, so as citizens to de
our commerce, protect our
in foreign countries and resent insults.
Fifth I would improve our rivers and
harbors and make them available, for the
same reasons which induce private per
sons to improve their estates.
Sixth I would amend the navigation
laws so as to make the United Whites the
leading maritime nation of the world and
place our country’s flag back on the sens
from whence Admiral Hcmmes drove it.
Seventh —I would subsidize steamer
lines sufficiently to building provide ready trade and
cheap facilities for up a
with Mexico, Central and South America
aud the islands, iu all of which the bal
ance of trade is against us. which I would d< ■
this for the sumo reasons induce
privute individuals to donate rights of
way for railroads through their lands,
and when these lines were strong enough
to stand alone I would withdraw t he sub
sidy. would readjust the tariff,
Eighth —I things and lower it in
raise it in some
others, so as to thoroughly enable protect every
American industry ana this coun
try to produce everything it needed, so
that in case of wur we need not buy any
thing we desired from other countries.
Ninth -I would put everything on the
free list we did not produce, whether
diamonds or coffee. I would not dema
gogue about taxing luxuries.
Tenth —I would put books (except pi
ratical reprints of American books, which
I would engravings, not permit pictures to be and imported),
inn I ps, statuary,
am everything of that kifld which edu
cates our people on the free list. I would
make luxuries so clieup that the poor
could afford to have them.
Eleventh- 1 would provide by buildings general
laws for the erection of public
in every city liuving and a population of ten
thousand or more, would not permit
the Government to be a tenant in such
places, • Thus i would provide provide work for
American labor and for the con
sumption of American materials, No
business man rents a house when lie is
able to own one.
Twelfth I would conduct the general
business of the Government upon the
Maine economical principles the which conduct pro
giV-ssive business men use in
of their own affairs. I would try to get
the same work for the same money that
private persons do. 1 would prevent jobs
and thieving in public honest works. administration In a word, if
I would have an
I bankrupted the Treasury in the prose
cut ion of public thieves.
Thirteenth 1 would invite the emigra
Chinese, tion of honest who desired people, to whether become English citizens or
of this country. i would prevent the
ownership of lands by aliens. A man has
no right to have his life or property pro
tected by a government to which he owes
no allegiance.
Fourteenth l would provide by gen
eral laws- changing the Constitution if
neces sary so as to have uniform laws
upon the subject* of marriage, divorce,
lien*, mortgages, conveyances of real es-
1 tale and such matters a* are common in
business between persons of different
States, and thus prevent the confusion
which now exists.
Fifteenth I would assume that the
motive which impel* a man to fight for
his country was patriotism and not it de
sire for gain, and would reduce the pen
sion li*t and [iav pension* only to a poor
soldier absolutely needing if, or hi* poor
widow, who was his wife when he was a
soldier.
Sixteenth —I would extend (Charles Sum
ner * idea. I would repeal the laws pre
venting a Confederate soldier from be
coming an officer in the United Htates
army. I would erase the name* of the
battles in the late civil war from the flags.
I would destroy all battle flags. I would
take rare of the Confederate dead in the
same way to- the Federal dead are now
cared for. I would point with pride to
their valor, and I would glory in the fact
NO ;>o.
that they were equally American soldiers.
Serf))tanth —I would ap|ioint *0 man
to any local Federal office who did not
command the respect and confidence of
the people among whom he was lining.
Eighteenth—l would instil a love of
country instead of a love of party in the
hearts of our entire people, north, south,
east and west, so that uo matter’where
an American citizen niight’be, he would
say with pride, 1 am an American.
Nineteenth—-l would be roundly of cursed
by demagogues, those stirrers up strife
north, south, east uud west, who live,
move and have their being in sectional
aud party agitation, but I would ho hon
ored and respected by the great American
people who have the honor and well-be
ing of our whole country at heart and
who wish sectional bickerings to cease.
.Hu.tvs L. Brown.
Atlanta. Ga.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELES
GRAPH AND CABLE.
HI I NOS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
The striking carpenters of Chicago are
becoming riotous.
The gas titters of Chicago have decided
to strike on next Monday.
Tho society of engineers gave a grand i
fete at Brussels ou Tuesday in honor o
Stanley,
it. is rumored that, there nro serious dis
sensions in the French ministry, and an
early collapse of tlie cabinet is feared.
The strike of lusters at Brockton, Alass.,
ended '1 hursday, the firm agreeing to pay
one-quarter of a cent advance in wages.
A call was issued Friday for a meeting
of the executive committee of the repub
lican national committee to he held iu
Washington, May 7th.
A dispatch from Rome says the pope is
incensed at t he archbishop of Naples aud
the latter will he superseded by tne [ire
sent nuncio at Munich.
Malignant, diphtheria is epidemic in
the village of Vinning, Minn. Out of a
population of 150 persons, there bus been
twenty deaths since tho 1st of April.
The Maryland legislative committee ap
pointed to inquire into the matter of mal
feasance iu the office of ex-.Btute Treas
$183,401. urer Archer, has placed the amount at
In the court of geuetal sessions at New
York, ou Tuesday, Daniel Fiuiiigun con
fessed to a burglary for which his convicted, brother*
Ilcnry Finnigau, was tried and
last week.
It is reported from Fort Worth that
New Orleans will probably he thu ship
ping point for the company that propose
uud to sliip elsewhere. 150,000 beeves annually to Europe
State* Attorney Longonecker lias dis
missed the case against Woodruff, the
Crouin suspect, at Chicago, on the ground
that tiie State believes Woodruff’s confes
sion is a fabrication.
The members of the Into Pan-Amerl
cttii conference, now in Washington,went
to Mount Vernon Wednesday, on the
United Htates steamship Dispatch, as the
guests of Heeretury Blaine.
A strong Swedish expedition into tlie
interior of Afrien is to be started from
Johann London in May, under the establish leadership of
Ziichnssen. It will sta
tions along its route, to aid iu suppress
ing the slave trade.
Employes of the various railways iu
Loudon have been warned that they will
be dismissed if they absent themselves
from duty on May 1st for the purpose of
tukiug part in the demonstration which
the workingmen propose to hold on that
day.
The trustees of the American Cotton
Seed Oil trust at New York, on Tuesday,
formally retired from control of the com
pany, and turned its officers nnd property
over to its successor, the American Cotton
Oil company, laws which Jersey. is incorporated un
der the of New
The convention of working girls ad
journed their three days’ session in New
York on Monday, after formulating t ilans
for the extension of working girls’ clubs.
A plan is also under discussion, at a sup
plementary session, for the establishment
of a newspaper to lie known as the organ
of the working girls’ association.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
niivh : On Wednesday forces, under Yaqtii Gen
eral Hernandez, attacked the In
dians at I/is I'anons do Jubsihu and
Ijiconia, and after several hours of tight
ing routed them. The Mexican forces
lost one officer ami two soldiers, aud five
soldiers were wounded.
Five sisters, named Comovieroff, the
youngest 19 years old, committed suicide
ut. Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Ashes
found in their apartments showed that
they had burned a number of pajiers be
fore taking their lives. It is believed
tliat fear of arrest as nihilists led to the
commission of the deed.
A Pittsburg, railroad Pa., dispatch situation of has
says: The neveif
been more gloomy than at present. The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has
taken up the cause of the switchmen.
Tlie Brotherhood of Trainmen resolved
to cling to the switchmen in their de
mand-, aud lie adjusted. presented grievances of their
own to
A Glass Diamond.
Bloug'ner—“This stone in my breast
pin was a present from a friend in the
Kimberly diamond fields. South Africa.”
Snarleigh—“I didn't know there were
any glass works out there.”
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