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THE r BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VII.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
COMMON COUNTRY.—NOTES.
In the house, on Wednesday, tlic regu
lar order having been demanded by Air.
Enloe, of Tennessee. Mr. Groevenor. of
Ohio, rose to a question of order. He
ins sted that it was tlic duty of the
speaker at that time to lay before the
house bills and other matters of public
interest that had accumulated on the
speaker’s table. He himself had had on
the tab e for twenty-one days a bill which
could be passed in a moment. (He re
ferred to the bill to establish a national
park on the battle field of
Chickamauga). The speaker stated
that the gentleman from Iowa
(Air. Reed) presented a conference re
port which, oi course, had the preference.
Mr. Reed then presented the conference bill.
report on the “original package” it
The report leaves the bill exactly as
passed the senate, and is dissented from
by Mr. Oates, oi Alabama, one of the
conferees. After some discussion the
conference report was adopted. Yeas.
120; nays 93. The house then went into
committee of the whole on the general
deficiency bill, which elicited a general
discussion. Without disposition of the
bill, the cc mmittce rose and the house
adjourned.
On Wednesday, the senate bill grant
ing leave of absence to clerks and em
ployes in the first and second-class post
offices, was reported and placed on the
calendar. The senate then proceeded to
the consideration of the tariff bill, the
[lending question being on Air. Alorgun's
amendment to paragraph 127, page 24, in
regard to iron ore. Mr. Gorman resumed
his argument. Air. Gorman concluded at
2.45 o’clock, having occupied the floor
(but with frequent and long Interrup
tions; for four hours and a half. Air,
Morgan withdrew liis amendment in or
der to allow Mr. Gorman to offer one; and
Mr. Gorman thereupon moved to amend
by 60 reducing the duty Mr. on iron Plumb ore from moved 75
to cents per ton.
to amend the amendment by making tho
rate 09 cents per ton. Rejected. The
rest of paragraph 127 was agreed to as
reported by the finance committee. Air,
Vance moved to redude tho duty on pig
irou (paragraph 128) from three-tenths of
a cent per pound to $5 per ton, and
argued in support of the amendment.
Without disposing of the amendment tho
bill went over and the senate adjourned.
In the house, on Thursday, on motion
of Air. Bingham, adopted of calling Pennsylvania, the a reso
lution was on post,
master general transportation for copies of of the mails agree- be
ments for the
tween the United States and foreign
countries, the conditions upon which the
awards are made and rates of payment
lor service, The home then went into
committee of the whole, Mr. Pay son in tho
chair, on the general deficiency bill. Air,
Ohmic, of California, offered an amend
ment granting an extra month’s pay to
employees of the senate ana house. The
amendment was adopted—71 fb 43. The
bill having been disposed of, Hie agreed com
mittee rose, all amendments were
to, save that gmutiug au extra month's
salary to the senate and house employes,
and then the hill went Alurrell, over until Minnesota, Friday.
On motion of Air. of
the bill was passed unincorporated applying the interstate
commerce law to express
companies. The house then adjourned.
The senate met at 10 o’clock a. m.,
Thursday. After some preliminary
mornipg business, tho tariff bill was
taken up, the [lending question being on
Mr. Vance’s amendment to reduce the
duty on three-tenths pig iron (paragraph 128, pound page
251 from of a cent per
to $5 per ton. Rejected. Amendments
to paragraphs 129 to 131 were like wise re
jected. band, Paragraph scroll, 134, other applies iron to steel, hoop
or or or or
taxing it according to sizes; with a pro
vision that cotton ties shall pay two
tenths of a cent per pound. Mr, Coke
moved to make the duty on cotton
ties 35 per cent ad valorem, the present
rate, and addressed the senate in support
of that amendment. Discussion was con
tinued by Alessrs. Berry, Reagan and
Jones, of Arkansas, The latter yielded
to Mr, Allison, who presented the con
ference report on the sundry civil appro
priation lull, and asked that the senate
should act upon it. A long discussion
ensued between Alessrs. Dawes, Ed
munds, Dolph and Plumb, and the con
ference report went over without action.
After a brief executive session, the sen
ate, at 0 o’clock }>• m., adjourned.
In the house, on Friday, Air. Alutchier,
of Pennsylvania, was excused, at his own
request, from further services on the
committee on coinage, weights and mea
sures, and Air. Yaux, of Pennsylvania,
appointed to till the vacancy. The house
then resumed consideration of the gen
eral deficiency bill.
< In the senate, on Friday, Mr. Call of
fered a resolution, which was agreed to,
Instructing the committee on foreign re
la ions to inquire and report such meas
ure as may lie necessary for the protection
of citizens of the United States who were
formerly residents of Cuba and subjects
of Spain, against prosecution for offenses alleged by the
Spanish been government committed by them. The
to have
concurrent reoolulion, heretofore of
fered desire "by Air. Plumb, expressing
the of Congress for the removal
of the remains of the “illustrious sol
dier and statesman. Ulysses 3. Grant” to,
and their interment in. Arlington Na
tional cemetery, and requesting that the pres- emi
ident to convey to the widow of
nent man such desire, tendering to her.on
behalf of the nation, all necessary facili-
BLACKSIIEAR GA. THUUSDAY, AUGUST 14. 1890.
ties for suo:i removal and interment, was
taken up and agreed to. The conference
report on the fortification hill w.s taken
up for consideration. After sonic discus
sion the conference report w.ns agreed to.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the
pending paragraph hand, being No. 134. page
27, as to hoop, scroll or other iron
or steel. After a without lengthy discussion
the bill went over action. A
message from the president, in ref
erence to destitution among settlers
in Oklahoma, was read and referred
to the committee on appropriations.
Mr. Hoar, from the library committee,
repotted the senate joint resolution of to
accept irom Uie national encampment
the Grand Army of the Republic a statue
and pedestal of the erected late General in the capital, Ulysses
S. Grant, to be
provided that the receive design of the statue
and ped'stal shall the approval of
the joint committee on the library, and it
was passed. The senate 10 then adjourned. Saturday.
The senate met at a. m..
The rolleall show el that there in the
chimhcr twelve senators less than a <im»
ru;.„ The sergeant-atarms was directed to
request the attendance of absentees,and by
10:20 o’clock the presence of a quorum
was secured and business proceeded with.
Mr. Hoar offered the following the commit- rc ,olu
tion, which was referred to
tee on rules: “Resolved, That the rules
of the senate be amended by adding the
following: When any bill or resolution
shall have been under consideration for a
reasonable time, it shall be in order for
uny senator to demand that debate there
on lie closed. If such a demand be sec
onded by a majority of the forthwith senators pre- be
sent, the question shall
taken thereon without debate, and the
pending measure shall take precedence ol
nil other business whatever. If the sen
ate shall decide to close the debate the
question shall be put upon the pen
ding amendments upon which notiru
shall then be given and upon tht
measure in its successive stages accord
ing to the rules of the senate, but with
out further debate, except that every
senator who may desire shall be per
mitted to speak upon the measure not
more than once and not exceeding thirty
minutes. After such a demand shall
have been made by any senator, no other
motion shall he in order uutil the same
shall have been voted upon by the senate,
unless same shall fail to be seconded.
After the senate shall have decided to
close the debate, no motion shall be in
order but a motion to adjourn, or to take
a recess, when such motions shall be sec
onded by a majority motions of the senate. When
either of such have been lost,
or shall have failed of a second, it shall
not be in order to renew the same until
one senator shall have spoken upon
the pending shall measure, have or intervened.” one vote
upon he same
The tariff bill was taken up. Mr. Vance
made an amusing speech in ridicule of
the claim that the farmer derive! any
benefit of the tariff. The vote was at lust
taken on Mr. Butler’s cotton tie amend
ment and it was rejected by a strictly
party vote. Yens, 10; Days, 27. No
quorum being present, Mr. Aldrich moved
an adjournment, and the senate, at 3
o’clock, [i. in., adjourned till Monday at
10 o’clock, a. m.
In the house, on Saturday, on motion
of Mr. McKinley, by unanimous consent,
the senate joint resolution was pnssid,
accepting from the Grand Army Repub
lic a statue of General U. S. Grant. The
speaker then stated that the vote was
upon the ri solution of the committee on
rules, bate providing shall be in that order after two hours de
it »o move non-con
currence in the senate amendments to the
tion Indian appropriation adopted. On bill. motion The of resolu- Mr.
was
Whitthornc the resolution was referred
to the judiciary committee. under special The order, house
then proceeded, tho to
the consideration of senate amend
ments to the debate Indian terminated appropriation bill,
"When the a vote was
taken on Mr. Perkins's motion to noncon
cur in the senate amendments. This was
agreed to. Yeas, 159; nays, 2. The
house then adjourned.
NOTES.
Alexander The president, on of Friday, be nominated ministei
Clark, Iowa, to
and consul general of the United States
to Liberia.
Secretary Noble has approved the rec
ommendation of Superintendent Porter, ordei
submitted Friday, that the original population
directing a recount of the into of
the entire city of St. Paul, be put
execution. recommendation, Superintendent gives porter, detailed in hb
letter of a
account of his recent investigation which
shows that while, perhaps, a large share
of the irregularities were found in nine
specified enumeration districts, yet gross
errors in 35 districts render, in his opin
ion, a recount of the whole city neces
sary. An examination of the schedule
discloses among other irregularities, duplications the
fact that at least 4,000 of
names were made.
A SOCIALIST MEETING.
A GREAT GATHERING IN BRUSSELS—REV
OLUTIOXART SPEECHES.
A dispatch from Brussels says: Forty
thousand persons took part in the social
ist demonstration here Sunday. There
were many women in line. The troops
were confined to thdir barracks all day.
Police patrolled the streets, but every
thing was orderly, The route was
thronged with sympathetic onlookers.
They marched to St. Giles park, where
they were addresse 1 by leaders of the
movement. Delegates from the labor
and progressist parties met in tbe evening
and sent the following dispatch to King
Leop'id: You have asked what is the
country's watchword? It is “universal
suffrage.’’ Violent revolutionary speeches
were made by several delegates. It was
resolved to summon a congress to sit from
September 10th to the 15th to consider
the subiect ef a sreneral strike.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WIIAT IS BEING DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOR T1IE ADVANCEMENT OF
THE CHEAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
The Louisiana State Alliance met in
convention in Baton, Rouge, La., on
Wednesday.
*% Alliance work
Let no man let up on his
or enthusiasm on account of the warfare
between the greet Alliance and the poli
tician. It had to come, and it has come.
But brave men will not flinch.— l'K*
Great licit.
*** Georgia
The annual meeting of the
State Alliance will convene in Atlanta on
the 19th day of August, The session
will be held in tin; hull of representatives
in the new State capital. The meeting
will be an important one.
*
Goulbv Alliance, Calhoun county, Mis
sissippi, indorses by resolution the pre
sentment by President Polk and Messrs.
Macune, Warded, Livingston, and Hum
phrey, before ttic committcis of Congress,
of the sub-treasury bill.
*
* *
The Alliance of Alabama is increasin c-w
as rapidly in the number otf lodges an
membership ns at any timo'in its history.
The old lodges are also in good working
trim, and the membership’generally Zeal
ous and enthusiastic.— Alliance llerald,
Montgomery (Ala.)
***
The Union (Brookfield, Mo.) says:
“The matter of success or failure iw th<j
great industrial movement now going raff
rests wholly in the hands of the common
people. Have they the firmness to stand,
in opposition to the alternate threatening
and cajoling of their old political bosses,
and make an uncompromising and their fight for
theta natural rights rights as
American citizens?”
** * *
At a regular meeting of the Homo Alli
ance, No. 795, at Bonbum, Tex., the fol^
lowing resolution was unanimously
adopted: “That adopted we heartily by indore legislative the
manly course our
committee at Washington in tlio presen
tation of the sub-treasury plan before the
Ways and Means committee; fight and uutil that we
still intend to keep up the wo
get it or something better.” i
* *
The Bloomfield (Mo.) Vindicator puts
it thus: “The farmers want to know
why they have been discriminated
against, and while they create seven
eighths of the wealth and pay directly
and indirectly seven-eighths of the taxes,
that they can’t borrow $1 from the gov
ernment, while the national bankers can
borrow $350,000,000 to loah to the peo
ple at 8 to 20 per cent.”
* *
The Patrick Henry (South Haven Kas.)
says: The industrial question is an all
absorbing one. It covers a broad scope,
it is world-wide. It is testing our civili
zation, our intelligence mid our adminis
trative capabilities, as never a nation wus
tested before. It lifts ft bearing forcible, noon our
future, broader and more than
uny question which has agitated any peo
ple in the p'st. Have we national iute -
ligence, wisdom and integrity enough to
stand the test?
*%
Mr. Hayseed may bn a little thick
headed, but afer patiently thinking it
over, he can’t quite see the justice of leg
islation which permits national the government banks almost to
lend money to the
free of interest, and in addition to this
permits these same banks, along with its
manufacturers and other capitalists, tc
fleece him of the fruits of his toil, and
then to add insult to his injury, he is
admonished to be more economical, if he
would prosper .—National Alliance (Hous
ton, Tex).
***
Rural and Workman (Little Rook, Ark.,
says: The anti-trust bill has passed both
houses of congress and will receive the
signature of the president. it executed. The It next is
hard thing will be to jail get million of dollars, a
thing to a million
and most members of trusts are
dollar men. Rich railroad corporations
have made the interstate commerce law
practically no good so far as the people and
are concerned. It will lake wise
fearless courts, beyond the reach of of .cor
ruption to make the trust bill any
great good to the people.
* *
A perfect tidal wave is sweeping over
the South and West, and on its crest
floats the banner of the Farmers’ Alli
ance. Everywhere the grangers are corn
ing to the front, and it looks as if by
preconcertion they chose this year to ex
ert themselves and show their power. In
South Carolina the Alliance man is in a
fair way to overthrow the old gov
ernment; in Georgia and Tennessee
they will get the governorship ajid
came near doing so in Alabama, and iu
Mississippi it i" understood they will
control the Constitutional Convention.
In Texas, also, the Alliance and railroad
commission man is in the lead, while
they are making a desperate fight in the
great agricultural states in the northwest.
Where it will all end there is no telling,
but all good citizens will hope that the
farmer will be benefitted in the long-run,
for he feeds us all.— ifemj/lui Scimitar.
***
The Southern Alliance Farmer ' Atlanta,
Ga.) has the following: Allianeemen
who desire cotton bagging can buy it
through our State Exchange, and it has
also been decided that those merchants
who are in sympathy with uc in our fight
against the jute trust, and want to sup
ply tlieir customers with cotton bagging,
can buy ail they want from the Alliance
Exchange The brethren who desire to
have their home merchants baggiug, supply will
them with cotton
please inform them of this fact. The
Exchange has contracted for about
one million yards more than they have
ciders for, and arc anxious to have the
orders supplied, Ord* rs are coming in
daily and the amount of cotton bagging
ordered by the farmers up to date will
surprise the most sanguine Alliances supporter attend of
this movement. Let thq their trade
to this at once and have
agents or their merchants to send in or
tiers for cotton bagging.
A BIG STRIKE
INAUGUR ATED ON THE NEW YORK CENTRAL
AND IIUbSON RIVER RAILROAD.
A general strike upon the New York
Central & Hudson River railroad and tht
llarlem railroad, was ordered Friday by
the executive hoard of district 240.
Knights of Labor, with the authority ol
the general board, and soon after sever
o'clock in the evening all the members ol
the order from New York ns fur west at
l'lies, on the Central, left their places,
and traffic on the great road came almost
to a standstill. Reports of Sunday being
snv that new men are
employed and traffic is being resumed.
The officials claim that no further delay it
apprehended. There were many statu
meats made regarding the number of men
on the strike. The men themselves said
there were 8,000 or 4,000, while the rail
road officials maintained that there wen
but 300 or 400 out.
General Master Workman Powdcrly,
when asked his views concerning tin
strike.on the New York, Central and
Hudson River railroad, said that som*
time the employes since, it of was that reported line to being him that dis
were
criminated against, the discharged organized men
all being known as leaders of
labor. This strike is taken as a final pro
test against such discrimination whirl
had become unbearable Mr. Powdcrly
said that the employees of the road have
a perfect organization from New York to
Buffalo. All of these organizutio of ns are
not members of the Knights Labor,
hut their action is a concerted one and
there will he perfect unity. The order
to Quit work will he olievcd by all.
THE WEEK’S BU8INE88.
REVIEW OK THE CONDITION OF TRADE FOR
THEl’ASl' W EEK BY DUN A CO.
Dun & Co.’s weekly trade review says:
The present state of trade throughout the
country appears satisfactory for the sea
son, and reports are almost uniformly
confident in tone. Wool is more freely
bought, sales reaching 8,411,000 expected, pounds,
and a further decline is not as
quite liberal .orders arc coming for light
weight goods. Cotton goods move
fairly und the suspension having in
print cloth works is the
desired effect. The market for hides,
leatln r ami hoots and shoes is buoyant.
The crop outlook is on the whole, less
promising. Chicago reports that the
heat and dry weather is cutting down the
yield. In the other reports there is evi
dence of an irrgulurity of conditions. In
the south valley states too much rain
threatens cotton. The fall of 20 per cent
in wool abroad threatens proposed u great supply
of cheaper goods if the change
of duties fail, so producers hesitate.
The outlook depends largely upon the ex
tent of injury to crops, the action of con
gress regarding duties and foreign com
plications, which affect the demand foi
gold. Tim formation of u new Argentine
government may stop new demands for
gold from that quarter, and the banks of
England and France both gained the
gold last week, hut domestic exports of
products continue small and imports
large. week Timber
Business failures of the f or
the United States, 179; and t'.u.uia, 29.
Total, 208.
The Fishhook.
One interesting form of copper imple
ment is the fishhook. Those in the
Archaeological Museum at the University
of Pennsylvania will be readily admitted,
says Professor Abbott, to be admirably
adapted to their purpose, although the
barb bad not suggested itself. They are
copied from the early native bone fish
hooks. for I assume the useof copper was
of a later date than that of stone or bone.
They are essentially the product is of Ain
■rican skill, and not derived, us shown
when they are compared with the bronze
fishhooks of Europe, especially those
found in the lake dwellings of Switzer
land.
These are usually barbed; some are
double, and it is very rare to find one
that bus not a loop or some other device
for securing the line, a feature wanting
on tiiose from Wisconsin, but occurring
on one from New York made of brass
wire and doubtless copied from hooks of
European manufacture.—[New York
Star.
THE FLEECY STAPLE.
ITS CONDITION AS HEV 'JITED TO THE AO
MCTLTURAL DEPARTMENT.
The August cotton reports to the de
partment of agriculture has a slight ad
vace in the condition in the Corollnas,
Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana; a
fall of one point in Georgia and Florida,
of two in Alabama, four in Arkansas a-.d
seven in Texas. The general average is
89.5. The average conditions as follows
Virginia 98; Noith Carolina. 96; South
Carolina, 95; Georgia, 94; Florida, 90;
Alabama, 93; Mississippi, 90: Louisiana,
89: Texas, 62; Arkansas, 85; Tennes
s e, 93.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SI7MMAHY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM 0NC1.K SAM’s DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE RRINGS.
The bakers of Lisbon havo gone out on
strike.
Cholera has broken out in Madrid,
Spain.
The exodus of Jews from Russia has
com men ei d,
London Irishmen gave a banquet Wed
nesday night to Mr. and Mrs. O'Brien.
One hundred and thirtv-tive deaths
from cholera occurred in Mecca on Thurs
day.
St. Louis county, Missouri, is suffering
from perienced a protracted since drought, the worst ex-
1853.
Dense crowds of grasshoppers Tuesday. were
seen Hying over Mullock, Minn.,
They came from the north.
A dispatch of Thursday, from Cairo,
Egypt, Jeddah says: The deaths hundred from daily. cholera at
avernge one
The city of Berlin gave a fete nt the
town hall Tuesday night in honor of the
medical congress. There were 4,000
guests.
Column, president of the Argentine resign.
Republic, I Pellegrini has been compelled assumed the to presi
am has
dency.
The governor of Illinois has signed the
world’s fair hill. The bill having an
emergency clause attached will go into
effi et at once.
Original package houses in Kansas and
Iowa closed their doors Saturday in con
sequence of the passage of the original
package hill.
Under u law of 1794, Magistrate Mulli
grn, of Philadelphia, on Thursday, fined
three barbers for keeping their shops
open on Sunday.
The ameer of Afghanistan has sent an
ambassador to Russia for the purpose of
< (including a commercial treaty between
the two countries.
An official rough count by the census
bureau shows the population of Philadel
phia to he 1,044,894—an incicusc during
the last ten yeurs of 197,724.
The old factory of the Lue'cde Fire
Brick Manufacturing Company, iu Chel
tenham, suburb of 8t. Louis, burned Fri
day. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $40,000.
Tho farmers of Month Dakota say they
will not hnvo over five bushels of wheat
to tho acre; the oat crop will he no bet
ter; whi:e chance. corn, w ith favorable weather,
still 1ms a
The switchmen of the Mackey made yards,
at Evansville, Ind., Thursday, a
demand for nn Increase of wages, und
upon being refused, they proceeded tc
block the main track.
A dispatch, of Wednesday, Fifteen deaths from Pres- huvo
ton, Iowa, says:
occurred Imre within the last week and
seventy persons are now affected with
nil epidemic, which is of the nature of
cholera.
Harrison Werner, the 90-yeor-old
Ohioan, who undertook to roll a wheel
barrow fromCounclUville, Ohio, to Wash
ington City, is now very near his destina
tion, having been about four months on
the trip.
A dispatch from Evansville, Ind., snys:
The strike of tho switchm n in the Ev
ansville A Terre Haute freight yards bore
came to an end at noon Friday by the
company conceding all the demands of
the employes.
Nine of the thirteen companies consti
tuting adopted the Trenton, resolutions N . J., dish fire depart- nd
ment, to Sat
urday. Ibis step is the outgrowth of a
broil between commissioners. the department and the
oily fire
There appiars to be little doubt tlx.* a
Woman’s Denartment will be founded
the World’s Fair at Chicago. A plan for
a section to lie governed immediately by the formulated Woman’s
League will be
and presented to the commissioners.
A dispatch from Guthrie says . Thurs
day the first election in Oklahoma teiri
tory was hclu for mernliers of the legisla
ture. The indications arc that the Alli
ance wilhearry seven counties, but that
the contest will be close in the towns.
A rough count announced by the cen
SI1S bureau shows the jsqiulatiqn of flii
eitgo to be 1,098,0/0. This shows that
Chicago has a pooulation 53,082 in ex
cess of Philadelphia, city in population and therefore, in the Uni- is
the second
ted Htates.
Commenting on the execution of Keinm
ler at Auburn, Thursday, the New York
Sun says, editorially-: “The first duty
of the next legislature will is: to repeal
the electrical execution law, and ro.tore
the old method of administering the
death sentence by hanging.”
The centennial of the discovery of coal
in Pennsylvania will lie . celebrated in
ftepUtmOer next year. It was a hunter
named Philip Ointer who made the dis
covery on Maiieh Creek mountain, in
Carbon county, arid therefore the pro
posed monument will lie dedicated to hia
memory.
Exports of specie from the port of
New York for week ended August 9th,
amounted to $2,774,430, of which $1,771.
330 was gold and $3,100 was silver. All
the silver and $1,705,108 in gold went to
Europe and $0,108 in gold went to South
Amirica. Import* of specie during tho
week amounted to $158,901, of which
$50,020 was gold and $102,281 was sil
ver. •
The magnificent chapel according of Chapnltepoc, the
in Mexico, which, to re-
NO 13.
|sirts being received Irom the city of Mexico, Is
is held in sought after by Jay Gould,
great reverence by the Mexican
people, and since the fict has been made
public its that negotiations are
to sale, an intense feeling has been
aroused among the lower classes, who
object to the grand structure going out
of government hunds.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTE8 OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FI.OODS, ETC.
The first bale of new cotton for Louisi
ana was received in New Orleans Friday.
The first bale of the new crop of South
Carolina cotton was received in Charles
ton Thursday, from Barnwell county,
'I’he Anti-Lottery league met at Baton
Rouge, La., Thursday. I here were be
tween 400 and 500 delegates present.
The Texas cotton bale was sold at auc
tion iu Baltimore Wednesday, and re
alized $220, for the benefit of the Texas
Orphan asylum at Houston.
The Colored Farmers’ Alliance of
Burke, Columbia and Richmond counties,
in, with a capital stock of $10,000, all paid
will open an Alliance store in Au
gusta, O.i., in He | it ember.
A battle with knives was fought Hut
urdny at Tusennnln, La., between fam- in
ilies named Fairchild and Gaudy,
which two of the Gaudy boys and one of
the Fuirehilds received fatal wounds.
'Flie Anti-Lottery League convention of
Louisiana has issued an address to tho
people of the United States, and asks
their aid in bringing about such a na
tional legislation ns will break down tho
power of the lottery.
Tho citizens of Alexandria, Va., havo
filed an influential petition iu the senate,
asking to he taken Imek into the District
of Columbia, because of the onerous
taxes imposed upon them by Yirgiuia.
'Fhe senate has taken no action on the
petition.
In the State Farmers’ Alliance, held at
Montgomery, on Wednesday, Col. L. L.
Folk, president of the National Farmers’
Alliance, made an address, in which ho
said the democratic and republican par
ties were both side issues when compared
to the Alliance.
Engineer William Davidson and fire
man V 'll Bhuk were blown a fearful
distant..-, und terribly mid it is believed
fatuity bruised mid scalded, by the burst
ing of the boiler of a switch engine in
the Georgia Pacific yards at Birmingham,
Ala., Thursday morning.
The new Rome, Ga., Land Company,
with a number required of icuding citizens, holding huvo
raised the amount for
the North Georgia mid Alabama exposi
tion. This will bring largo exhibits of
stock from Kentucky. It promises to be
tlic best exposition ever held in Rome.
A syndicate of English Cumberland capitalist*, Iron
have Works, purchased which comprise the of
84,000 acres
land in Btewart county, Tennessee, 87.
000 of which nrc rich agricultural lands
and tho remainder mineral lands. The
company has u capital stock of $250,000.
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C.,says:
Rutherford college, one of the largest
non-dciiominationol colleges in the slate,
situated in Burke county, was totally de
stroyed by fire Saturday . The loss was
complete—about suspend, $10,000. but continue 'JJic college right
will not
ihcod.
8. 8. Jerome, general southern agent
of tho Armour Backing Company, says
that he is authorized to expend $200,000
to build a hundred-ton Ice factory at
Atlanta, Ga., to supply the storage houses
of the company at Atlanta, Chattanooga,
Knoxville, Augusta, Charleston, Savan
nah, Wilmington and Charlotte.
A dispatch, of Thursday, from Char- the
lotte, N. suys: The warfare of
Formers’ Alliance ami the Richmond A
Danville railroad against Senator Vance
grows apace, and it is exciting much in
terest. It appears tfmt the farmers de
terminedly oppose Mr. Vance because of
his stand on the sub-treasury bill.
A Lexington, Ky., dispatch,of Friday,
says; The recent heavy rains have great
ly im|»roved the corn crop, which wi II
average fairly with last year’s. Hemp,
which is an important production of this
section, is doing well, and the crop will
lie good. Tobacco will scarcely be one
hulf the usual average.
The Richmond county, Ga., delega
tion to the guliernatorial convention was
instructed Wednesday to vote as a unit
against any proposition to indorse the
sub-treasury scheme if submitted in the
convention; also to protest against the
incorporation of such a plunk in the plat
form of the Democratic [tarty.
A FLOATING MESSAGE
WHICH TELLS A 1‘ITTIPUL STORY OF THIR
TEEN DRIFTING ENGLISHMEN.
A Portland, Oregon, dispatch says:
Hunday morning u I toy pictced'up rowing in the harbor Sun
day which, a carefully sealed
bottle, upon being opened, was
found to contain the following letter,
written on hand: cartridge paper in a distinct
English
“English Bark Ship Edmoxt, Jcnr
23, 1890.—We are sinking very fasL
Our latitude and longitude unknown.
No conijm-s, no rudder, no hope. If this
reaches a human baud please notify Bailey
A Co., Hull, England, that we are thir
teen men aboard and all in a starving
condition. My mother, oh, my mother!
She lives on Hcdgcson street, Levitt
Terrace, Hull, England. Good-bye if we
are not rescued. John Dudlow.”_