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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES t YOL. VI. AT THE CAPITAL. WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON GRESS IS DOING. APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON— MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE ANIT ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. In the senate, on Tuesday, after the transaction of some routine business of little public importance, the consideration of the land forieiture bill was resumed. The debate on Mr. Call’s amendment wa* continued by Messrs. Plumb, Berry, Mitchell and Gall, i he McKinley bill passed with out division The custom? administrative bill was then taken up, read and amendments recommended by the committee were agreed to. Othei amendments were submitted by Messrs. Evarts, Dawes and West, and went ovei without action. The senate then ad journed. Tuesday, lively bout In the house, on a was indulged in by the Speaker and Mr. Mills, on a question of personal privi- bill lege .... The postoffice appropriation the calendar. was reported and placed into on committee of The house then went the whole on the bill providing for the classification of worsted cloths as woolens. The committee theu rose and reported of the Dili to the house. On the passage the bill no quorum voted, andtheie being view no quorum present, republican Mr. Dingley, in of the fact that a caucus was called for the evening at 7:30 moved an adjournment, which was carried. On Wednesdsy, after the reading of the journal, the house proceeded bill the to vote classifica- upon the passage of the for tion of worsted cloths as woolen cloths. The bill was passed— yeas 138, nays, 0, the speaker counting a quorum. The text of the bill is as follows: “Tnat the secretary of the treasury be, and he hereby is, authorized and di rected to classify as woolen cloths all imports of worsted doth, whether known under the name of Worsteds or diagonals or otherwise”.... Mr. McKinley, of Ohio, from the com mittee on rules, reported a resolution providing for the immediate considera of the senate service pension bill, to which the Morrill service pension bill may be ordered as a substitute, the ordered previous 4 question to be considered as at o’clock. Mr. Carlisle,of Kentucky,protest- of ed against the adoptionjof resolutions this character, which took away from the committee of the whole the right to consider many bills, and forced the house to vote upon them after a brief debate. Mr. McKinley argued that the resolu tion was justified under the present code of rules. The resolution was adopted, took and Mr. Morrill, of Kansas, the floor in Explanation and support of bis bill. This act of justice, he said, had been too long postponed. service If the government were to grant without a delay. pension it should grant it The total number of persons put upon the pension roll under the provisions of the bill was estimated at 440,000, at an an nual cost of $80,020,000. The object of tho bill was to render aid to every soldier over sixty-two years of age, to every dis abled soldier without regard to age, and to the widows of deceased soldiers who needed assistance. Mr. Jarsney, of Mis souri, opposed the bill because it made no discrimination between a soldier who served three months apd a soldier who served three years; because it made no distinction between disability arising from service in the army and disability resulting from the vicious conduct of the person to whom the pension was granted. The Morrill bill was agreed to as a sub stitute for the senate bill—yeas the 183, nays 71. The bill authorizes secretary of the interior to place on the pen sion roll the name of any of ficer or enlisted man of (50 years of age or over, or who shall hereafter reach that age, who served ninety days or more in the army, navy or murine corps of the United States during the war of the re bellion, and shall have received an hon orable discharge therefrom; said pension to commence from the date during of applica- the tion therefor, and to continue life of said officer or enlisted man, at the rate of $8 a month. All persons who served ninety days or more in the mili tary or naval service of the United States during the late war, who have been hon orably discharged therefrom, and who are now or may hereafter be, suffering from mental or physical disability, equivalent to the grade now established in the pen sion office for a rating of eight dollars per month, upon due proof of the fact, according to such rules and regulations as the secretary of the interior may provide, invalid shall be placed upon the list of pensioners of the United States at the rate of eight dollars per month. It also provides for a pension to the widow of any soldier when she shall arrive at the age of sixty years, or when she shall be without other means of support than her daily labor. Mr. Dolph, from the committee on for eign relations, reported to the senate on ■Wednesday the concurrent reselutions re questing the President to negotiate with the governments of Great Britain and Mexico with a view of securing treaty the stipulations for the prevention of entry into the United States of Chinese from Canada and Mexico. The resolu tion went over till Thursday, and the senate resumed consideration of the cus toms administrative bill. After consid erable discussion the bill was laid aside. The Oklahoma bill was corrected as indi cated in the joint resolution recalling it from the President. After executive ses sion the senate adjourned. Thursday, Mr. Mc In the house, on Kinley, from the committee on rules, re ported a resolution for the immediate consideration of bills reported from the judiciary committee in the following or der: Senate bill relating to trusts, house bill relating to copyrights, house bill re- BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1890. luting to bankruptcy, and such other bills ns the committee may call up. The resolution was adopted, and the house proceeded to consider the senate bill to protect tmde and commerce against un lawful restraints followed. and monopolies. Mr. A long running debate Bland of fered an amendment making unlawful any contract or agreement to prevent com petition in the sale or purchase of any ■commody transported from one state to another. Mr. Biund's amendment was adopted on a viva voce vote and the bill was passed in the same manner with a single dissenting vote... .Mr. Adams, of Illinois, next called up the international copyright bill and explained its provis- the ions. He said that since its report bill had been critically examined by a number of prominent lawyers and os a consequence it would be necessary to adopt some purely formal amendments to perfect the intent of the bill. Undents terms the American people would get cheaper literature, It would of the best class, than at present. also enlarge the privileges of American authors. Without acting upon the bill, the house, at 5:15 adjourned. NOTES. The president has vetoed tho bill to provide for the erection of an extension to the public building at Dallas, Texas. Representative Biggs, of California, on Thursday, intioducei in the house a bill to repeal the civil service act. A large number of applications for pensions arc coining up from the southern states from soldiers who served in the Mexican and Creek Indian wars. Tlie secretary of the interior estimates that it will require $88,80(5,752 annually to give a service pension to every survi vor of the late war not now on the rolls. The house and senate committees .on immigration and naturalization on '1 hurs day listened to Timothy D. Lee, special agent of the treasury department, upon la the subject of violations of contracts bor. During his speech he told of how Italians are supplanting the negroes in the South Carolina phosphate beds, work ing for one-fourth of what the colored laborers received. Several of the Georgia members have been served with a list of questions sim ilar to the one recently issued by an Ala bama Alliance and forwarded Col. Oates. It is presumed that answers will be made soon. The Aliiance und organizations legisla- are surprisingly tive proceedings alert Washington. watchful of A large at number of protests against the passage of the Conger bili came Thursday. A delegation hearing of Knights of committee Labor were given a before the on labor on Thursday. The Wade bill was indorsed with slight amendments. The bill provides that eight hours shall con stitute a day’s work for the all laborers of every class employed extraordinary by government, except in case of emergen cies m time of war, to preserve or pre vent destruction of human life, and tl ien they ure to be paid on the basis of eight hours per day. The Washington Star of Wednesday says: “The Democrats now have a case they may get into the Supreme court to test the constitutionality of the net of tho speaker in counting members who do not vote to make a quorum. They refrained trom voting on the Dingley worsted bill and the speaker it was passed counting by 188 affirmative It votes, is the the importers a quorum. resist the purpose of to operation of the bill, if it President’s is passed by the senate and receives the signa ture. By taking a test wise to the courts, when an attempt is made to collect the duty imposed on worsteds by the bill, they can get the question before the supreme court." A LIVELY TIME EXPECTED AS A RESULT OF TnE MANY MAY DAY DEM ONSTRATIONS. On Monday morning tho Boston Globe published an England, article showing regarding the the situa- labor tion in New demonstration to take place Slay 1st. It says that Boston and Worcester will be the main battlegrounds for the state. The contest will be for a working day of eight hours. The greater part of the 8,000 carpenters eight hours, employed they in Boston make will strike for but no demand for an increase of the hour rate of wages. They believe that a decrease in hours will cause an increase in wages according to the law of supply and demand, In several cities the plumbers, i bricklayers and Masons will demand nine hours. Quarrymen and granite cutters in Quincy will probably strike, as the bosses, while willing to grant the nine hour system will not agree to the price per hour demanded by the workmen. granite Strikes are Westerly, expected among the cutters at R. I., Concord, N. H., and Hallowed, Maine. The mechanics at Portsmouth, N. H., and carpenters at Portland and Lewiston, Me., demand nine hours. A dispatch of Thursday from Denver, • Col., says: The labor situation in Colo rado Springs is growing more complicated. decided Most of the contractors have to grant the demand of the carpenters for nine hours, with ten hour’s pay, but a few have held off, and the men say that unless the boss carpenters all concede the request by May 1st, there wiU be a gene ral walk out. The quarry and brick men are asked to supply no building material until the trouble is settled. The Washington, D. C., workingmen are growing restless and are threatening to join the eight-hour the stricke. It is re ported that brick layers, carpenters and plasterers will demand on May 1st that thereafter eight hours be constituted a day’s labor. Refusal on the port of the employers may lead to a general ■trike. Meanwhile attention is centered on the outcome of the movement is Chicago. ALLIANCE NOTES. WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS MEMBERS ARE DOING. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO TI1E FARMER, GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE COUNTRY. Tho Farmers’ Alliance of Kansas is or ganizing a campaign against Ingalls and protection. The Newton Couuty Ga. Farmers Alli ance passed resolutions Friday eadors.ng the sub-treasury plan, now belore gress. The Farmers’ Alliaac^ Exchange of South Carolina has been in operation two months and a half, and hits done a busi ness in that time aggregating $50,000. There are 130 county Alliances and about 2,810 county sub-Allianees, with a total membership of about 65,000 males and 20,000 females in the State of Geor gia. *** trememh boom The Alliance is on a us in Forsyth, Milton, Gwinnett ana Wilton counties, Ga. In Gwinnett alone there are forty sub-Alliance9 and a very large membership. *% twenty-eight States We now have and Territories organized in our grand esti Union, North and South, with an mated membership of nearly three mill ions.— Week ly Toiler. #** that Remember, Alliancemen, your en emies are now at work trying attempting to stir up strife among our membership, to blacken the fair numes of your chosen leaders. This is done to divide your forces and cripple your influence. Money and corruption go hand in hand when the enemy decides to ruin you .—Southern Mercury. *** is the Oppression beyond incentive endurance determined motive power or to resistance, and is clearly shown by the unprecedented rapid coining together of the industrial classes of Kansas, where the corn is fifteen cents a bushel nnd burned for fuel, and where in many coun ties eighty farms out of every hundred are mortgaged and foreclosures ninde at the rate of 200 a week in the State. Farm ers are slow to move, but when driven to resist the oppression, woo be to the op pressors.— Weekly Toiler. *** What, is the Alliance good for if it can’t accomplish something on this line? Is it any disgrace for it to go into politics for the protection of the needs farming do interests is to be- of the country ? All it to ware that it is not hoodwinked by arch schemers, who are sure to seek its influ ence for their own personal whole aggrandize ment. The prosperity of the coun try depends upon that of the farmers, and we wunt them to take hold of the govern ment and establish themselves on an en during basis of prosperity.— Ieetburyer, Leesburg, Fla. *% for Read a good word and a strong one the Alliance which we clip from the Middle Georgia Argue: “The people of Butts couuty are more united now than ever before on all questions. The Alliance has done more than any one thing to bring about this Btate of things.” This is just one of the many good things which tlie Alliance has done. A little later thu papers will say: “The people of Georgia united and the South are more thoroughly and finan for their mental, moral, social cial improvement than ever before, und the Alliance has done more than one thing to bring about this state of affairs.’’ The Alliance wants to do nothing but good, and that good for all .—Southern Alliance Farmer. * * * forth by Felix The following ruling Bet Committee Corput, Chairman Executive 8. F. A., iu the matter of five cents per capita required for dues to the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union, will be read with interest: “In order to meet the requirements of tho National body, the State Funners’ Alliunec of Georgia by resolution passed at its annual meeting on the 22d day of August 1880, increased the yearly dues of the County Alliances in the sum of five cents per capita, it becomes the duty of the state secretary to charge the same to the va rious County Alliances, arrearage on these increased dues will debar the county from representation as provided in Sec. 8, Ar ticle 2, ot :he constitution and by-laws for County Alliances.” *** Washington dispatches section say protests are coming in from every against the Butterworth “options” or “futures” bill, which pieces a heavy license fee upon dealers in futures, together with a tain tax upon speefied every articles pound or bought bushel of sold. cer so or Its object is to break up the speculative dealings or corners which have taken place in the grain, cotton and meat markets of l went years. That portion of the oill which relates to cotton, in place of relieving the farmers, only increases their burdens, and at the same time should the bill become a law, would terribly cripple one of the south’s most important industry, Under the man ufacture of fertilizers. the pres sold sent during practice the fertilizers winter months are shipped the and for en suing cotton crop. The farmer has not, as a rule, to pay cash for the same. To give a cash note would compel him to mark et his cTop by a given date to meet his obligations, a condition which the buyer would be quick to take advantage of to his detriment. What he does do is to give a cotton note, payable pound, in cotton »t an agreed valuation per but lince this is given before a plant is in the ground, it would not come under the ex- the king to see that legislation is adopted by the eortes for the regulation of labor, ^U. QUIET IN AUSTRIA. Vienna dispatches say: Despite the belief that the labor demonstration in this city would be attended by grave dis orders, there has, as yet, been no dis turbance ■ whatever, It is calculated throughout Austria and Hungary that one million men have struck, orha’te threat ened to strike. Over sixty which workmens’mect- resolution! ings were held, at all of were a dopted in favor of a working day of eight hours. 1‘ETITION OF SPANISH WORKMEN. Thjusan , ls of workmen assembled in Madrid, and after organizing a meeting, appointed delegates to present a petition to the eortes asking for the passage ol on eight-hour law. SOUTHERN NOTES. INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE SOUTH. GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA SON’S AND DIXON’S LINK. The congressional committee invosit gating the timber coses of Alabnma, were in session at Mobile Tuesday. Rome, Ga., is hurrahing over the fact that a $100,000 spieglo iron furnace is soon to be erected in that prosperous city. The house of William Holder, near Cumberland Gap, Tenn.,burned Wednes- and day night. Mr. Holder, his wife one child perished in the (lames. Six other children escaped in their night clothes. The town of Seneca, 8. C., was visited by the fire fiend on Sunday morning, and an entire block of buildings in the busi ness eontcr was laid in ashes within a few hours. Over 15,000 worth of property was destroyed. Twenty-three years ago Mrs. M. A. Schaeffer took charge of the Monroe, Ga., postoffice, and has held tiie position the con tinually ever since. in connection One of with most this re murkublo facts long tenure is that she has never lost a day on account of illness. Nearly all the leading merchants and im porters of New Orleuus, met Wednesday to protest against the passage of the McKin ley hill; A resolution was delegating adopted con- tho demning the bili and chairman to go to Washington to put the matter before congress. The labor unions and organizations seriously of Brunswick, Ga., have been agitating trie nine hour movement. This movement, as was decided at the last regular meeting of the building and trade council of Brunswick, will be put into effect on the first Monday in next Septem ber. Tlic steamer II. B. Plant, one of tho best known of the St. John's river craft, burned to the water’s edge Tuesday Bercsford, morn ing, in tlie middle of Lake 108 miles from Jacksonville, Flu., while on her way to Sanford. Three lives were lost, all colored. The men are supposed to have drowned while attempting to swim ashore. Mrs. Bailie E. Haynes, on Tuesday, filed a suit in the; Atlanta, Ga., City Court against the Western Union Tcle grnh compiyiy for $4,500. A message sent to her announcing her husband’s death, was made to read erroneously so that she did not know of his death until after it was too late to see his face again, she therefore sued for $-1,500. The river improvement and levee con vention met at Vicksburg, Miss., on Wednesday. Three hundred and fifty delegates from Louisiana, Missippi, and Mis- Ar kansas, Tennessee, Kentucky souri were in attendance. Resolutions to congress were adopted and that navigation the question is of best river aided improvement from national stand point by a an effective system of levees. A New Orleans Picayune Bayou Bars special says that the old levee in front of the hermitage and Pointc Coupel ride caved Wednesday and caused letting water against the new levee it to give away and the crevasse is now between 200 and 300 feet wide and widening. This break will prove disastrous to the river at West Baton Rouge and Ebervillc and also put grosse Tete levees to a severe test. At the recent meeting of the Southern Press association at Charleston, 8. C., a resolution was introduced by Hon. Patrick Walsh, of the Augusta, Ga., Chronicle, and unanimously adopted, urging senators southern to their representatives best indeavors and use to secure the defeat of the gov ernment introduced telegraph by scheme. A resolu- Pool, tion was Mr. 8. D. of the New Orleans Time*-Democrat, rela tive to government improvement adopted. of the MississioDi river, which was UNCLE 8AM WIN8. A CONTRACTOR SUES THE GOVERNMENT —AN INTERESTING CASE. Mr. w - F - Bowe, a contractor who built a number of hoases for tho govern mcn ^ °t the new barracks at Atlanta, Ga., brought sjjit in the United damages, States Circuit and Court to recover $10,000 on Tuesday the esse was decided against him. He claimed that he was damaged sum of $10,000 by the interference oi Captain Jacobs, the officer in charge, which he sued the government. The CMe wa * brought under the Drovisions of the act of congress of March 3rd. 1887, which provides that all claims against the $Lb00, involving and on amount $10,000, not less than not over except wt *at is known as war claims, may be brought in the U. 8. Circuit Court, and tried by the court without a jury. The bos been watched with a good deal Merest, “ it w a» the first to be tried in the United States under the new law. A QUIET DAY. MANX STRIKES INAUGURATED BUT RO RIOTS OR 1JLOODSHKD A8 PREDICTED. Chicago dispatch say: Mayday, with its demonstrations by organized iabor in belmlf of the eight-hour work day, lias come and gone, and the predictions of riot and bloodshed and an almost uni versal strike by the trades have not been realized. Labor, indeed, was in a great measure serted their suspended, trails but day those who de- do for the did not so for the purpose of taking up sticks and demonstrations. paving stones and Thousatidsof indulging in them riot quit us work for the dnv to march in tho great parade, but by far many more thousands made it a holiday. It was an orderly good-natured crowd and an orderly parade. four miles Tho long, marching and the number line was about of men in line was estimated at from 25,000 tc 00 , 000 . AT PHILADELPHIA. The journeymen carpenters of Philadel phia went on a strike Thursday morning, as would they do. had Their previously demand announced is for nine- they a hour working day, with pay at thirty-three cents per hour. A few employers, in cluding John Wunamaker, who employs sixty men, and Allen B. Ronrke, u promi nent builder, who lias 175 carpenters on his rolls, notified their men several day* ago that, beginning increased Thursday, their wages would be to $8.15 per day. The number of men thus affected is something over five hundred. A ma jority of the master carpenters, however, will resist the demands for an increase, lloughly estimated, three thousand men are out. TI1E DAY IN BOSTON. The strike of the carpenters of Boston, Mass., for an eight-hour work day, wiu formally inaugurated Thursday estimated morning. About 1,(500 men are out. It is that there are 2.000 men in the city who have boon granted eight hours by about 100 firms who ure not members of the Muster Builders’ association. These men have ion in the continuing approval of work. the Carpenters’ un ut a strike in rirrsnuno. Labor day in Pittsburg, Pa., was une ventful, and pcacw and harmony employed prevailed among branches employers business, and the cornice in all of save and tin work industry. Three hundred tinners came out Thursday morning for an advance of twenty-five cents a day, and seven firms have shut down. KNOXVILLE HEARD FROM. All the carpenters of Knoxville, Tenn., both union and non-union, are hours’ on a strike for eight hours’ work and ten pay, THE DAY IN LOUISVILLE. Some estimates place the number of workingmen in line in the great May day parade at Louisville, Ky., at ten thousand. made Tho the body of the procession unions wus up of various labor under their respective banners, QUIET IN NEW YORK. New York city’s end of the world-wide labor demonstration wus not a great suc cess, ns far as the numbers who attended the Unioq Square mass mcctiug was con cerned. It was not the meeting that the labor leaders expected 15,000 men. The meeting was under the auspices of the socialistic labor party. Reso lutions were adopted the fact by that tho meeting day which recited the had been fixed by the American Federa tion of Labor us the inauguration Tiiat of the eight-hour movement. the Interna tional Labor Congress at Paris, lust July, hud issued such a call to the workingmen of the world; that the eurpenters have 0 |>cned the eight-hour buttle. The eight hour demand is only temporary relief from the workings of capitalism; that nothing but socialism will solve the labor question; therefore, Resolved. That we aeinund that the hours of labor be re duced to eight. It should be decreed by statute—that in the struggle the ultimate object of the abolition of the wage system be not lost sight of. A GENERAL REPORT. Washington dispatches say: Up tc 10:80 o’clock Thursday night only attended two cases of labor demonstration with violence have been Prossnitz, reported. These were at Pesth, and at a small town iu the province of Moravia, Austria. No other has been heard from in Europe and not any iu the United States, al though demonstrations, with or without strikes, were made in almost every great center of population in the United States and Europe. A majority of these were tor shorter hours of labor; but in a great many eases a demand was made for in creased pay. Dispatches indicate that there were no labor demonstrations at Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Omaha, Milwaukee, Toledo. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Cleveland or Demonstrations, usually as incident to strikes, were made at a large number of the smaller manufac turing cities of New England, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. IN THE OLD WORLD. The procession of workingmen held at London on Thursday expected fell would fur short take of the numl^r it was part. The procession marched to Hyde park, where a number of speeches iu favor of the workmen’s cause were made. IN 1‘AUIS. M. Floquet received a socialist delega tion, bcaued by Gueste, which presented a memorial in favor of the eight-hour law. Crowds were gathered at various points throughout the city, but provinces perfect order was maintained. The were everywhere tranquil. THE PORTUGUESE WORKMEN. A manifesto was issued by the work men at Oporto, Portugal, in which they tL’s festo further says that the men will ask NO HI. eruption clause. The present practice and en ables the farmer to pay a part, often an important part of his indebtedness with his produce at a fair valuation, which the fertilizer manufacturer then converts into cash. Abolish this method, and the grower becomes a victor indeed, while the increased uncertainty of receiving his pay injures directly the manufacturers of the fertilizers. The Butterworth bill is one of two ira portant measures recently committee. reported from The the house agricultural lard bill. The other is the Conger men who favor the Butterworth bill, as a rule, oppose the Conger lard bill. Both sides want a day fixed fat the house to con- the sider the bill they favor, but want other laid asido. Thoso who favor the lard bill are very much opposed to the Butterworth bill, and the two factions of the houso are lighting each other's bill vigorously. For this reason it is believed by many that neither of the two bills will pass CURRENT NEWS. CONDENSED FROM THE TELE GRAPH AND CABLE. THINGS THAT nAPPEN FUOM DAT TO DAI Throughout the world, culled FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Cold weather bus delayed the cotton crop in Egypt. The carpenters’ strike in Chicago i» having tho effect on lumber of decreas ing sales. Three men were drowned by the cap sizing of a boat on tho lake at Newport, Vt., Tuesday. elected Lyman J . Gage was on Thursday night mission president in Chicago. of tho world’s fair com It is estimated that thsre lias been a decrease of $7,500,000 in the public debt since the first of April. Ex-Htate Treasurer Archer, of Mary land, was on Monday Indicted by the grand jury at Anmqiolis for embezzle ment. The French ministerial council on Tuesday in decided to maku retrenchments tho budget to the extent of 20,000,000 francs. been Thirty-eight of the Vienna rioters have sentenced to terms of imprison ment, three varying from eight months to yeurs. Reports received at Springfield uboul from many parts of Illinois say that three-fourths of the land seeded to wheat last fall is being plowed up for planting spring wheat, oats and corn. The annual report of the Southern Pa cific railroad shows that its gross earnings for last year were $40,843,207; operating expenses, ficit. $30,304,805. There was a de of $1)0,472 this year against U surplus of $1,1570,488 last year. An English Sala $85 jury damages lias given George Au gustus for that he as compensation painted a statement once a figure which had six toes on one foot, and that he was utterly lacking in tho quali ties that should distinguish an art critic. Tho secretary of State of Illinois has issued u license to the John lirown Liber ty Museum, at Chicago, to purchase and remove to Chicago the building known as John Brown's fort at Harpcrls Ferry. I he capital stock of the company is $180, 000 . 'Avrcs Dispatches Several of Thursday from Buenoa say: persons have lieen killed und many wounded in a revolution which lias broken out in Paraguay. Meigro details only have been received, as telegraphic communication is inter rupted. Mr. Vest’s bill, which lias been favora bly Iiidiun reported affairs, by provides the senute’s for committee the compul- on sory education of Indian children. TI 10 bill makes it the duty of the secretary of the interior to establish industrial Ismrd itig schools on every Indian reservation where the population of adults exceed five hundred. The Homestead I sink, doing business at the corner of Tenth avenue and Fifty third street, New York, shut down os Tuesday. Its affairs are now in the bunds of N. A. Chapman, who was con nected with the Western National bunk. Everyone will receive the money duo him. The bunk was not asked profitable, withdraw and the their de positors were to money. A heavy shrinkage in the imports of dry goous at New York for last week is reported. The entries footed up $1,885.- 728, and the amount thrown on the mar ket $1,02 0,7(53, against $3,007,'927 and $3,140,105 period respectively week. for she entries corre sponding last The of general merchandise aggregated $8,090,355, against $10,123,441 during the previous week. In the eortes, at Madrid, Spain, a bill was introduced Tuesday morning which prohibits the employment of boys under (en and girls under twelve years of age. The measure also prohibits all minors from being employed in mines, circuses. or in any unhealthy occupation. All holidays, Sundays and fete days are to be secured to such minors, and a maximum day’s labor is to be five hours. William Moore, paymaster of the Far rell Foundry company, at Ansonio, Conn., was arrested Wednesday aud held in $(5,000 bond charged on the that charge rnanip of embezzle- ulated ment. It is he week the pay roll, drawing $20 a for a number of ficticious employes, and charged the company nt the rate of $3.75 for other employes, while the men re ceived but $2.50. The large number of men employed and the frequent changes make an accurate estimate of the losses •inpossible. advertise with ^ ^ jfji } \j \j FAY