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TIE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VII.
The Bible was translated into six new
lauguages last year.
The San Francisco Chronicle avers that
street cries are one of the chief nuisances
in any large American city.
It is understood that all of the bank
note currency of the Italian Government
is engraved aud printed in tha United
States.
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Hon. James G. Blaine says that the
late General Schenck ivas one of the best
debaters in five-minute speeches evei
known in the House.
Free Italy expels correspondents who
fail to support in their dispatches the
financial credit of the country, exclaims
the Washington Star.
The curious discovery has been made
that every Governor of Iowa since 1859
is alive and hale aud hearty, and the only
Democrat among them is the present
executive.
It is saitl that nearly all the postal
clerks and carriers who become thieves
begin by stealing letters addressed to
lottery agents, which they know are al
most sure to contain money.
The Limbless League is the latest po
litical organization. It flourishes in
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, and
according to its founder, Arthur Jones,
has 2700 members who have lost either
an arm or a leg.
Some one has figured that there are in
Denver, Co!., thirty-one millionaires,
-whose aggregate wealth is $46,500,000,
und thirty-five semi-millionaires, whose
wealth aggregates $17,500,000, making
in all $64,000,000 owned by sixty-six
men.
Special efforts are being made by
Census Superintendent Robert P. Porter
to secure from county, city, town aud
village officials, a clear account for 1880
and 1889 of bonded and floating debt,
■sinking fund, cash in treasury and annual
interest pryments.
One of the finest pieces of work ever
turned opt at Mare Island Navy Yard,
San Francisco, has just been completed.
It is a whale boat built for King Malie
toa, of Samoa, to be presented to him
by this Government as a token of esteem
for his kindness to American officers aud
sailors at the time of the wreck of the
Trenton and the Vandalia.
In one place in Charleston, S. C., says
Harper s Weekly, the Stars and Stripes
were exposed to public view without
molestation all through the war. This
was in a family vault in Alagnolia Ceme
tery, the flag that enshrouded the coffin
of Midshipman Vanderhorat, of the
United States Navy, showing plainly
through the plate-glass doors of the
vault.
Dr. Norman Reed is a prominent phy
sician of Atlantic City, N. J. Lately he
gave the following as his views to a New
Yorker: “The great trouble with people
in the large cities is that the life they
lead causes their systems to run down.
Their nerves give way. That’s the state
of affairs I always find. They eat too
rftuch, they sit up too late at mg’av, >,ncy
‘fuss’ too much. ”
The New York Telegram says; A gun
with a calibre ot only one inch which
can send its projectile through three
inches of wrought irou and yet is built
on a principle which allows it to be
constructed in a few months promises a
further significant advance in the arts of
destruction. If the power of penetration
keeps pace with the increase in bore in
the Brown segmental wire gun the nation
will have an arm with which its ships
and forts can be rapidly equipped.
It is a fact, alleges the Atlanta Crntti
tution, that side-whiskered men are sel
dom seen in young and busy communi
ties. There is a good reason for it. Side
whiskers are expensive. They make a
man look dignified, and lead him to cul
tivate slow ways and a careful style of
costume. In order to keep up first-class
side whiskers, a man must have leisure
and money. If he gets up early and
rushes around town in a bob-tailed coat,
he will look out of place, and people will
stare at him with pained curiosity. At
lanta as yet has very few side-whiskered
men They will come in time. When
.
we have more wealth and leisure there
will be a lot of solid old fellows here
sunning 'their mutton chops on the prom
enade. But we must wait awhile.
BLACKSHEAR, GA. THURSDAY, MAY 22. 1890.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
Wn.VT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OK
THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
The Alliance is growing rapidly in the
Indian Territory. Over one hundred or
ganizations arc in working order now.
Fifty Alliances *** formed in
have been
Scdwick county, Kansas, the past six
mouths, with a membership of over 2,000.
*** in the
A golden sign of progress is seen
calm, intelligent, earnest planner in which
reforms aie being pushed by all organized
toilers.
*
* * Georgia and North
Tennessee, Missouri,
Carolina lead all other States in Alliance
membership. Missouri is in the lead with
2,900 unions.
***
The Alliance in Putnam county, Fla.,
tell the county commissioners thut they
must be more economical in the disposi
tion of the county funds.
***
The Fanners’Alliance of Lincoln county,
South Dakota, raised $10,090 to start an
Alliance newspaper with. They see the
importance of supplying the news with
out its being poisoned by passing through
the monopoly press.
***
Hon. L. F. Livingston, president has been of
invited the Georgia Farmers’ Alliance, Lee, president
by General S. D. Starkville,
of the agricultural college near
Miss., to deliver the annual address on
the 18th of June. The invitation was ac
cepted.
***
Cherokee is the banner Alliance county
in Kansas, having a membership of 3,
000. One hundred and twenty-seven
delegates, representing thirty-eight Sub
Alliances, attended the meeting of the
county Alliance at Columbus, April 3d.—
Nebraska Op in ion.
***
There is just one wny congressmen
should regain standing with the people
and that is to secure at this session the
passage of measures of relief. If they
don’t do it, then they should not object
to their constituents trying some one else.
— Atlanta, Ga., Southern Alliance
Farmer.
***
A letter from Secretary Turner at
Washington says the petitions in on like the
sub-treasury bill are rolling a
western snow storm. That's till their right, only bank
congress in with them es
cape is to pass it. Let every Alliance and
Nationalist club that hasnot already done
so kota' forward at once their petitions.— Da
Ruralist.
*
* sfs old
The Alliance is only a few weeks
in Alichigan, but already ten counties
are on the march. There is something
magic about the touch of the Alliance,
when you get into this army, now three
million strong, you feel that you are
shoulder to shoulder with the the “patriotic
liberty loving people” of partisanship country. und
A people who live above
love their country better than any haggle politi
cal party, and who would not
about the methods or names so long as
the people are freed from the grasp of
monopoly. — Alliance Sentinel.
*** * Farmers’
A delegation representing the
Alliance appeared before the ways and
means committee at Washington Tuesday
morning to advocate the passage of the
bill to create sub-treasuries in different
parts of the country for the reception of
staple crops produced by farmers. The
spokesman was Dr. O'. W. Maeune, chair
man of the legislative committee of the
Alliance, and editor of the National
Econo mint, a paper devoted to the objects
of the organization. The others present
were Alonzo Wardell, of South Dakota;
Benjamin Terrell, of Texas, national lec
turer; L. F. Livingston, president Humphrey, Geor
gia State Alliance; It. M.
general superintendent colored Alliance,
and J. J. Rogers, of the Virginia State
Alliance. In addition there was present
a number of members of Congress, prin
cipally from the Southern States.
*** address de
Dr. Mactmc began his by
scribing the depressed state of agriculture
which, be said, was the prime If cause the ot
the trouble in other pursuits. ex
isting conditions continued, he warned
the committee that labor would become
desperate and a great revolution would
ensue. History showed that wealth had
always lacked intelligence to meet in time
the necessities of labor, and on its part
labor had never adopted the proper means
to remedy the faults it complained Alliance of.
The objects of the Farmers’ was
mental, social and financial improvement.
At the St. Louis convention 2,000.000
farmers bad been represented, and in they the
had proposed the remedy in the set right out direction.
Dill as the first step
If it was rudely framed and the idea in
distinctly expressed, they relied upon the
wisdom of the committee believed to give it the
proper form, but they The they farm- had
found asked a remedy for and their ills. class legisla
ers no favors no
tion. They were now suffering from the
latter. They did not ask the enactment
of any unconstitutional measure, but as a
great debtor class, as men who had gone
out in the West after the war and laid the
soil under contribution with borrowed
money, they protested against the con
traction of the currency at a time when
I t D e ir debts become due, and asked that
j the conditions ^3 la- restored to what they
I - j™ 3 simpte.^
was questioned by mem-
hers ot the committee respecting the de
tails and probable effect of the sub-treas
ury bill. Alt. Bayne wished to know if
one effect would not be to encourage over
production. Dr. Maeune replied that it
would not. for just as soon as the fann
ers’ calling became more profitable than
others, there would he an influx of men
into that business, which would result in
i reaction and finally the restoration of
in equilibrium. To his mind, no fixed
volume of currency—no matter how great
—would meet the ueeds of agriculture.
It wanted an elastic medium. The farmer
sold his crops in the fall when prices
were the lowest and bought his supplies
before harvest when prices were highest.
Crops were marketed in tw»> or three
months of the year, and this marketing
annually caused a great stringency in
money. feared the would
Air. Flower that plan
lead to banking on live shoats, getting iron, lead
and silver ore. They were along
now in the latter direction at the other
end of the capitol. In time we would
have everything ‘‘in hock." in the
course of ten years, the government would
he nursing children and women workiug
in the field. The true remedy for the
farmers’ ills was the manufacturers’ plan,
They should regulate production. Raise
ouly enough produce to meet the people’s
wants, and thereby get fair prices.
Dr. Maeune proceeded to explain the
process proposed to regulate the
issue of produce certificates. He said
that the necessity for excluding
imports obvious if ' of the agricultural quality of the products^ certificates was
was to be preserved. Ihe certificates
would constitute the soundest ami host
currency in the world. Probably not one
ball of the $50,000,000 appropriation
asked for to put the new maehineiy m ae
tion would be required, but the sum
should not be absolutely at the minimum,
as in time it would be necessary to extend
the system to include nil of the products
ol labor not covered by patents. In cou-
1 ’• ; Ma< - unc /h«t the National
Alliance had and not sent these out petitions a tingle and printed de
petition, that
mands now pouring offerings in upon congress farmers
were the spontaneous of
of the United States, who were convinced
that they knew what they wanted and
were going to have it.
Air. Flower said, in commenting upon
the argument, that the farmer would do
well to manage his domestic affairs with
out government interference.
Among the Alliancemen present was
Ben Terrell, the lecturer. lie said: “We
do not trade with any party. We are
more tired of patriots sacrificing than the partisans. interest of the We are
Wo have nothing peo
ple with for party. the democratic got We to
do party. are
in favor of Alliance measures. Where a
state is democratic, \vu want to clout Mich
democrats as will work in the interest of
convention. measures promulgated The by the Alliance in
order will republican members of
this make the same effort to
send men here who are friends of a party.
Again, a candidate nominated by the Al
liance would be a class candidate, and
therefore would be ODDoscd.”
*%
Tho hearing of the Farmers’ Alliance
representatives was continued before the
ways and means committee Thursday
morning, Mr. Livingston, national lec
turer of the organization, taking up the
argument. He said that lie had found
much misapprehension in Washington
respecting tlie objects of the Alliance.
They had not beset congress, but, as Air.
Flower had suggested, they had been at
tending strictly to their own business.
A wrong impression—one without a w ord
of truth—was that the Alliance was clan
destinely seeking to displace the ruling
parties. The farmers had been told that
a proper adjustment of the tariff and of
the silver question was all that was
necessary for the farmers’ relief.
The tariff had nothing to do with the
measure recommended by the Alliance.
The tariff fixed the price of the far
mers’ purchases; the sub-treasury bill fixed
the price at which he sold his goods.
The alliance representatives had not been
insolent; at least there was no intention of
being insolent. They had talked plainly, asked,
straight from the shoulder. They
demanded—he was not sure about the
terms—that congress do what it could to
pass the sub-treasury bill. Fifty-eight
homes—farmers’—had been sold at auc
tion in Connecticut in one day this week
The farmers wanted relief, and they made knew
how to get it. 'I hey bad about up
their minds to let partisan Representative politics alone, Cle
for awhile at least.
ments, of Georgia, had sought to have
the farmers’ lands taken as security in
national banks. Somehow congress had
refused to do it. The national bank sys
tem must be broken up. The farmers had
to secure loans at excessive rutes of inter
est. There was no justification for that
under God’s broad heavens.
Air. Fowler asked if a manufacturer
did not have to pay some interest.
Air. Livingston replied that he did not.
There was difference between- watered
stock concerns and the farmer’s real es
tate, yet the latter was made the worst
security in this country. Continuing he
quoted President Lincoln’s peophesy that
corporations would be enthroned; that
the property of the country would be
concentrated, and that the republic itself
Would be overthrown. Thank God, the
last prediction had not been fulfilled.
But the others had been. One-twentieth
of the people of this country owned
three-fifths of the property. He also
quoted Garfield, Jefferson and Calhoun,
and said that what they had recommended
was what the Alliance asked. If con
gress refus'd to approve the sub-treasury
bill plan, then let it remove the restric
tions hedging in the national banking
system. The fanners would care nothing
about trusts and combinations, and the
concentration of money, if they could
hold their crops in the sub-treasury, and
were not compelled, as at present, to sell
them at stated times. He could thus
the speculators. It would be a
God-scad to this country to pass the sub
bill, for the reason, if for nc
that there would not be a bucket
left in the United States. The day
speculation in crops would he done
with, and the producer and eon
would lu> brought together. It had
charged that the farmers would form
trust. It was against the farmer's nature,
had to rush his crop to market. 11
went up an eighth of a cent every
would be seen hitching up his
the next morning. He would he
that one-eighth of a cent would
away from him. Then the farmer
would have but a year's privilege, while
had tweutv years. This plan was
held out as a perfect measure, All
was the result of a compro
The gentleman from New York
(Air. would Flower) had predicted that chil
be put to work in ware
and women in the fields. The in
was that men under the pa
government would he too lazy tr
Air. Livingston denied that such
result would follow. Could there he
government more parental than ours did
to hanks, he meant. He
favor parental government. If the
were opened to enterprise
Rn( j energy,tho fanner would lw satisfied,
I)„t the farmer had stood around waiting
lonij enough, lie had to have »elief; it
was a ground-hog ease. Sixteen millions
would bui , d al jf IKJ unre-houses the nl
wanted. What good were rivet
and harbor improvements to tho debt
r jdden, oppressed farmer? Never would more
than a thin! of the cotton crop be
ware-housed. When the certificates issued
on that crop came in they would meet
the needs of the wheat crop, and then the
tobacco crop, and gq on. There would
no j j K , cxcesft j ve changes in the volume ol
currency ^
jMr W(r n sked why the ware-houses
W(T( , t() \ }(i llge( | f or oa ts, wheat, corn, to
ba eco, and cotton? Why not put in the
|, t wool nud ricc an(1 cheese,, l\i md nork,
*
t( ,,
Air. Livingston replied that tho other
staples were protected by the high tariff—
seventy-five per cent for wool alone.
Air. Flower read a table to show that
staple crops had fluctuated more than
fifty per cent within thirty years, and ‘
asked if that did not demonstrate the in
stability of the proposed currency. .May
heaven have mercy upon this country
when a thousand millions of currency was
suddenly called in, ns it might be under
such fluctuations.
Air. Livingston replied Unit the fluctu
ations had been caused by t he fact that
th ■ farmers had been caused by the fact
thut the farmers had times—something been compelled
to sell crops nt adverse
the bill proposed to remedy. In conclusion,
he snid, that if the committee thought
(hut a landed basis was best, if they could
not accept the crop basis, let them put it
in. Do something to relieve the farmers.
Report the bill to the house in some
shape, so thut it could be acted upon.
Don’t make it a question of tariff, or of
I) iliticH, but let the bill stand on its merits.
THE PROGRAM
WHICH WILL HE CARRIED OUT AT THE UN
VEILING OF GEN. LEE’S STATUE.
Tho following are the details of the
ceremonies iii -idcnt to the unveiling ol
the equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, on Alay 29th: Gen. Fitzhugh with Lee
will l>e chief marshal of parade, staff.
(Jen. John It. Cooke, chief of
Among the assistant marshals will be
Generals J. B. Kershaw, of South Caro
lina; P. M. II. Young, of Georgia; Basil
W. Duke, of Kentucky; A. H. Colquitt,
of Georgia; A. M. Scules, of North Caro
lina.; Robert Ransom, Jr., of North Caro
lina; Cadmus M. Wilcox, of Alabama ,
Robert T. Hoke, of North Carolina; L.
L. Lomax, of Virginia; W. B
Talirferro, of Virginia; It. Lindsay
Walker, of Virginia; Mat W. Ransom, of
North Carolina; Thomas L. Rosser, ol
Virginia; W. It. Cox, of North Curolino;
Col. Miliary P. Jones, of Virginia; McGuire, Drs.
J. S. D. Cullen, and Ilunter of
Vu.; Generals W. B. Bate, of Tennessee;
E. Ilunton, of Virginia; James H.
Lane, of Alabama; William II. Payne, o'
Virginia; William It. Terry, of Virginia:
It. L. T. Beale, of Virginia; William Me*
Comb, of Tennessee; G. AI. Sorrel), of
Georgia; Tbos. L. Muinford, of Virginia;
Thomas M. Logan, of South Carolina;
Colonel W. II. Lewis, Palmer, of South Virginia; Carolina; Gen
eral A. AI. of
General Harry Hetb, of Virginia; the Dr. 8.
A. Goodwin, of Alabama, At un
veiling ceremonies Governor AleKinney
will eall the meeting to order. Dr.
Minigerode will lead in prayer. General
Jubol A. Early will be announced as
chairman, and the orator of the day will
be Colonel Wicher Anderson, of Rich
mond. The parade will be formed with
police at the head of column. Then will
follow the Stonewall band, marshals anc
assistants, distinguished guests volunteer in car
riages, veteran organizations, depart
troops, civic societies and lire
ment. General Joseph E. Johnston has
consented to unveil the statue.
HI8 HEART TRANSPOSED.
A MAN’B HEART KNOCKED OVER ON HII
RIGHT SIDE—REMARKABLE ACCIDENT.
In the circuit court at Birmingham,
Ala., on Tuesday, J. F. Davis was givet
judgment against the Georgia Pacific
Railroad company for $3,500 for the
moat tained. remarkable DavLs injury ever sus- the
was a brake-man on
road, and while riding on top of a freight
train was struck by a projecting rock
in the side of a cut. He was knocked
off and his heart was knocked over on
his right side. He lived, to the surprise
of the doctors, who pronounced it the
most remarkable case on record. They
say he is the only man living with bis
heart on tbe right side of the body.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
FROCEEDINOS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OCR
COMMON COUNTRY. —NOTES.
The house, on Tuesday, after transact
ing some, routine business, went into com- Illi
mittee of the whole, Mr. Payson, of
nois, in the chair. After considering
thirteen of the 15(1 pages of the bill, ihe
commit tee rose, n no t lie house, at 5:45,
adjourned until Wednesday at 11 o’clock.
In the senate on Tuesday Mr. Davis,
back from the committee on pensions, reported
the house substitute for the senate
dependent pension bill, with a written
report, and moved that the house substi
tute be nou-concurred in and a confer
ence asked. Agreed to. Messrs. Davis.
Sawyer and Blodgett were appointed The
conferees on part of the senate.
senate at 1 p. m., resumed consideration
of the silver bill, and Mr. Jones, of
Nevada, concluded the speech begun by
him Monday. He concluded his speech and
nt 3:15, having occupied in nil live
a quarter hours. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas,
next addressed the senate in criticism of
the pending bill. The bill then went
over till to-morrow. The executive ses
sion
On motion of Mr. Morris, of Kansas,
tho house on Wednesday insisted on its
amendment and to the senate dependent ordered. pen
sion bill a. conference was
The house then went into committee of
the whole (Air. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in
the chair) on the tariff bill. Mr. Bynum,
of Indiana, moved to reduce the duty
on common earthenware from twenty
five to fifteen per cent ad valorem. lie
argued that, taking this clause in con
nection >ith tlie customs administrative
bill, it would be found that the duty on
earthenware would be increased from ten
to fifty per cent. The debate was in•
dulgcd in by Messrs. Mills, Bynum and
McKinley. Wednesday the bill,
In the Senate on
with amendments, subjecting imported of
liquors to the States, provisions reported of the from laws the
the several was
committee and placed on the calendar.
The amendment is practically a new bill,
and provides that no State shall be hold
to be limited or restrained in its power
to prohibit, regulate, control or tax the
sale or transportation (to bo delivered
within its own limits) of any distilled,
fermented or other intoxicating liquors, have
by reason of the fact that the liquors be
been imported into any Statu from
yond its limits, whether there shall or
shall not have been paid United thereon any The tux,
duty or imp -rt to the States.
silver bill was then taken up, and Air.
Teller addressed the Senate. The ques
tion then went over until Thursday, Thursday. Mc
In the house, on Mr.
Kinley, of Ohio, from the committee on
rules, reported a resolution providing 11
that hereafter the house shall meet at
o’clock. After the reading of the journal
and tiie disposal of conference reports,
the house shall go into a committee of
tiie whole on the tariff bill; that the bill
shall be read through, commencing with
paragraph 111, and shall be open to
amendment on any part of the bill at the
following paragraph—HO aud that on
Wednesday next at 12 noon the bill, with
pending amendments, shall be discussion reported
to the house. After a long
the previous question was ordered —yeas
138, nays 102, and tiie resolution was
adopted—yeas 120, nays 03. Messrs,
Merrill, Sawyer and Yoder were appoint
ed conferees on the senate then dependent Into
pension bill. The house went
committee of the whole on the tariff bill.
The reading of the bill consumed tho re
muindcr of the day, and at its conclusion
the committee rose and the house, at5:15,
took a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening
session to be for the consideration of the
private pension bill.
In the senate, on Thursday, a number
of bills were reported from the commit
tees and placed on the calendar. The
Senate then, at 12:40, resumed eonsidcr
ration of the silver bill, and Mr. Teller
continued his argument, Mr. Teller
clued his speech at 3:20, having aboue occupied
three hours Thursday and two
hours Weduesduy. Mr. Coke next ad
dressed the senate in fuvor of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver. At the close
of Mr. Coke’s speech, the silver bill went
over till the next day. After executive
session the senate adjourned.
NOTES.
The senate, on Wednesday, confirmed
Stella R. Laird, of LaGrange, Ga., and
T. J. Watts, of Columbus, Ga., as post
masters.
The senate pensions committee, on
Tuesday, submitted u report recommend
ing that the senate do not agree to tin
amendments made by the house to the
senate dependent pension bill.
Col. L. F. Livingston, president of the
Georgia Suite Alliance left Washington
for his home Thursday night. He left u
good impression by his speech on the
sub-treasury plan, and made the average
Congressman feel better than for days.
The jmpressoin prevailed among the
Congressmen that the Alliance would
oppose the re-election of all who_ opposed Col.
the sub-treasury bill. However,
Livingston stated that the Alliance uie
not absolutely committed to that scheme.
If any one could show that it was imprac
ticable he wanted them to do so aud sug
gest some measure of relief to the de
pressed fanners.
The first poet laureate of England wat
John Ka^, in the reign of Edward IV.
the only perquisites of the office are
$500 a year and a quantity of wine taken
front the royal store annually.
NO 1.
NEW OFFICER8
OF THE NATIONAL UnOTnEKHOOD OF
BOILERMAKERS.
The national brotherhood of boiler
adjourned at Birmingham, of Ala.,
Wednesday, after following a session officers: three days.
elected the Jere
McCarthy, of Indianapolis, Ind.,
president; J. T. Mountcustle, of
Richmond, Virginia, grand vice-presi
dent; Pat. McGillen, William of Atlanta, Georgia,
secretaiy; McDonald, of
Hinninghain, grand treasurer; A. F. Bac
of Atlanta; ('. C. P. Patrick, of
Palatka, Florida, Richard Floyd,
of Lognnsport, Ind.; Ed. O’Bri
en, of Memphis, Tennessee; aqd
W. II. Murdock, councilmen. of Richmond, Virginia,
board of
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE,
18 GOING ON IN THfi
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OK OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DIHUATOllftS
FROM UNCLE SAM's DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE RHINOS.
Typhoid fever is epidemic in Cairo,
The National Convention of Charities
Correction met in Baltimore,
The international prison congress will
in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Mon
June 16th.
Riots have broken out in the vicinity
of Bilbon, Spain. Several miners 'have
been killed while resisting the gen
darmes.
A London, Eng., dispatch of Wednes
day, says: Anew cotton corner is Iteiug
created in Lancashire. A quantity cornered. of
American cotton is already
Prices are advancing.
W. H. M. Bistable, the Mew York
banker, who failed to account foi
$112,000 worth of securities placed with
his firm, has been lodged in Ludlow
street jail.
An Ashland, Pa., dispatch says: Thurs
day morning a fall of rock occurred in a
tunnel at Park No. 1 colliery, near Park
Place, killing two workmen and seriously
injuring another.
Hon. Richard Vaux has accepted the
nomination by the democrats of the third
Pennsylvania district, ns a candidate for
congress, to fill the seat made vacant by
the death of Mr. Randall.
About one hundred yard men and
laborers, employed on tfio Lowell system,
and the Bostqn and Maine railroad, struck
at Lowell, Mass. The yardmen want
$1.50 per day each instead of $1.40.
A dispatch of Thursday, border from line Eagle of
Pass, which is just on the
Mexico and the United States, says that
a revolution of considerable proportions Cuuhvilu,
is very imminent in the state of
Mexico.
The district court at Orinncll, Iowa,
has conformed to the decision of the su
preme court of the United States on the
‘‘original package" ease. It dismisses a
suit against the importers and sellers ol
liquors in original packages.
The reception, to Henry M. Stuuley, ip
London on Tuesday, was an enthusiastic
affair. The guests numbered two thou
sand. Thu Lord Mayor presented containing the ex
plorer with a u<il<l casket un
address from the corporation of London.
A dispatch from Rome, Italy, says: A
quantity of halistitc, the new explosive, tho
exploded Tuesday at a factory for
manufacture of arms and munitions at
Avigliana, fourteen miles west of Turin."
Fourteen persons were instantly kilted,
and many others injured, some fatuity.
The common council of Chelsea, Muss.,
at a meeting Tuesday night, reconsidered
its recent vote to petition owing the legislature the
for a change of name, to com
mon use in neighboring cities of the ex
pression, “Iicud as Chelsea,” and the city
will retain the name* Chelsea, thut it re-,
ceived as a town in 1740.
A dispntph of Tuesday from Berlin,
Germany, says: Naval Officers Warne
hold, Jluspolmuth and LevLbky have been
respectively sentenced to thirty, twenty
seven and one month’s imprisonment.
These officers were found guilty of having
accented bribes from contractors fo*
passing naval stores.
The Pennsylvania railroad said company be has
contributed a lurge sum, to $275,
000, to the world’s fair committee of
Chicago. 'Hie voucher for the amount
was made out at the general office of the
company, in Pittsburg, Friday, and the
world’s fair committee notified that the
money could Ire drawn upon at any time.
A dispatch-from Shamokin, Pn., savs:
By the explosion of the boiler of a loco
motive on the Reading railroad Tuesday
morning, Engineer Herman Hoglegonz
and Fireman Charles Kauffman were in
stuntly killed, aud Conductor George.
Yeager was probably fatally injured. Tne
engine was drawing a heavy train when
the engineer noticed the boiler leaking.
It exploded before means could be taken
to prevent it.
VOTE OF PRESBYTERIES.
ONE HUNDRED AND THinTY-THREp FOR
AND SIXTY-NINE AGAINST REVISION.
The New York Iwlfjxndent, publishes
returns from ali but live of the presby
teries of the Presbyterian church, show
ing that 133 voted for revision, declined <J9 againaj
revision, and 0 have to vote.
Most of the presbyteries not heard from
ir i- foreign. 2,332 ministers and elders have
voted against revision, and 3,334 minis
ters and elders have voted for revision.
Twenty-seven of the presbyteries against and cast a
unanimous vote— twelve fif
teen for revision.