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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, Bob Kennedy’s speech, in
which lie denounced Senator Quay Judas as a
convicted criminal and a second
Iscariot, was stricken from the permanent
Congressional Record. Wednesday censured tnorn
ing, and the Ohio mail was by a
vote of the house. The reso'ution of cen
sure reported from the judiciary commit
tee passed by a vote of 131 to 35. IIow
ever, Keunedy did not retract a word
he said. lie was allowed twenty nrin
utes in liis own behalf. and in
that time he asserted that the charges
he had made were true, and he felt confi
dent that the country would uphold him.
Not a single democratic paper had com
mented favorably upon had his commended speech, but
hundreds of republicans in the memorable
strongly’ his utterances had received thousands
speech. lie also
of letters from republicans all over the
country’ commending him for what he
had said. Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, from the
committee on foreign affairs, reported for in- a
resolution calling on the president killing of Gen.
formation relative to the
Barrundia, The resolution was adopted.
Iu the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. (which Frve
offered a concurrent resolution
was agreed to) directing the secretaries
of state, treasury, war and navy to ex
amine, report and recommend the action
of the international marine conference of
February, 1890. An hour was devoted
to bills ou the calendar unobjcctod adjust- to.
The house bill providing for the
ment of accounts of laborers, workmen
and mechanics arising under theeight product hour
law ;aud the bill to prevent the of
convict labor beiDg furnished to, or for
the use of auy department of the govern
ment, also the conference report of the
house joint resolution to increase the
number of the board of managers of the
National Home for disabled volunteer
soldiers and to fill vacancies in such board
were discussed at length, but all went
over without action, The senate bill to
pay to the personal representatives of
Captain John Ericsson $13,930, found to
he due him by a decree of the court of
claims iu 1859, session, was passed, the After ad- a
short executive senate
journed. Thursday, motion
Iu the house, on ou
of Mr. Lacey, of Iowa, a resolution was
adopted directing the clerk of of Arkansas, the house
to forward to the governor
a copy of the resolution declaring that
there was a vaeaucy in the second con
gressional district of that state, The
house then proceeded to the consideration the land for
of the conference report on
feiture bill. The conference report was
adopted. Conference reports was also
agreed to upon hills the granting widow a pension General of
$100 monthly to of
Hartranft, and for the relief of settlers
upon the Northern Pacific indemnity
lauds. Mr. Payne, of New York, chair
man of the special the committee Sillcot defal- ap
pointed cation, to called investigate bill defining
up the
Ihe duties of the sergeant-at-arms. The
-bill enables the sergeant-at-arms to make
a requisition directly upon the treasury
for the pay and mileage of members, and
constitutes him, in explicit terms, a dis
bursing officer, limiting his compensa
tion to his present salary. The bill was
passed. Mr. Boutelle, chairman of the
committee on naval affairs, reported enable a bill the
appropriating $1,000,000 purchase to nickle
secretary of the navy to
ore or nickle metal for the manufacture
of nickle steel armor, and asked for
unanimous consent for its consideration.
The bill was passed and the house ad
join nejL the tariff bill
The conference report on
was at last reported to the house late
Friday afternoon. It was, however, made
too late for action. Mr. McKinley gave
notice that he would call it up the first
thing Saturday. Friday, the
In the senate, on conference
report presented Thursday on the District bill to
establish Rock Creek park in the
of Columbia was taken up aud agreed to
and the bill now goes to the president for
his approval. The house joint resolution
appropriating $1,000,000 for the purchase
of nickel ore and nickle matte for naval
purposes having been received from the
house, was laid before the senate. The
resolution went over without action. Con
sideration of the calendar was resumed.
The house bill to authorize the construc
tion of a bridge across the Altamaha river
was passed: also house bill granting leave
of absence to clerks and employes in first
and second-class postoffices. land Home time
was spent in discussing the court
bill and the bill to amend the immigra
tion laws, but neither session, was passed. After
a brief executive the senate ad
journed. tariff bill finally passed the house
The
at 7 o'clock Saturday evening. The final
vote stood 152 to 31, Speaker Reed voting.
The debate over the bill lasted five
hours, and it was a regular field. day for
the members, nearly all of them getting
an opportunity to talk from one to five
minutes each, with the privileges of
Drinting the remainder of their speeches
In The Re ord. The- bill will be taken
up the first thing by the senate Monday,
and will probably be disposed of during
the day. will The probabilities law ith are the that presi- the
bill become a w
dent ...... s signature by , T Tuesday, , . and , that .,.
adjournment will not occur later than
Wednesday, day and named perhaps a* M-jor “ r *? Me- “
7 uesday. the resolution. in 1
Kinley s afternoon. >.,. ; c.. The p*’’' ’ “* e
house Saturuay senate
will pass the resolution, eittwr as;t is, or
BLACKS!I EAR GA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 181)0.
amended to rend Wednesday as soon us it
votes ou the tariil.
* In the senate, ou S iturday, the house
joint resolution authorizing nickel the secretary
of lhe navy to purchase the manufacture ore or
nickel matte for use in
of steel armor was taken up. The The joint
resolution was passed. resolution
calls for an appropriation of $1,000,000.
The senate resumed considers 1 ion of the
house bill to amend “an act to prohibit
the importation or hiring of foreigners
and aliens under contract or agreement its to
perform labor in the United States,
territories and the District of Columbia.”
The pending question being on Mr.
Plumb’s amendment, offered Friday, pro
viding that the act shall not apply to any
organization of musicians or orchestras.
The amendment was agreed to. A l-o
the amendment excepting teachers from
ils provisions. The bill went over with
out tinal action. ‘‘Unfinished bu iness”
was then taken up, being the senate bill
to establish a United States land court,
and it was recommitted to the committee
on private land claims, The house bill
for the adjustment of the accounts of
laborers, woiKtncn ana mecnantcs arising
under the eight-hour law was taken up.
Several votes were taken upon it, but
none of them showed the presence of u
quorum; so, after a brief cxec)o.»«j its
sion, the senate adjourned.
NOTES.
On Thursday a bill was introduced in
the house by Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, to
locate a branch mint of the United
States at Chicago for the coinage of gold
and silver.
The tariff conference had to deal with
4C4 amendments, many of them involving
cardinal differences of subject principle of bitter treat
ment aud many the a
controversy between conflicting interests. ‘
Mr. Lehlbach, on Thursday, committee reported
favorably from the house on
bostoffices and Dost roads, the senate bill
(with the appropriation reduced from
$140,000 to 100,000) fora public build
ing iu Tampa, Fla.
The‘president, ou Saturday, nominations: sent E. to
the Bu?d senate the following
Grubb, of New Jersey, envoy extra
ordinay aud minister plenipotentiary of Iowa, to
Spain; Edwin II. Conger,
envoy extraordinary Brazil. and minister pleni
potentiary to
The new lottery bill, parsed blow by con
gress, lias struck a most deadly at
the lottery companies. Prohibiting the
mailing of letters addressed to lottery
companies had no effect whatever; but
this new law will kill the elephant, for it
prohibits the mailing of any newspaper
containing a lottery advertisement.
The special house committee appointed Pension
to investigate the charges reconvened against Sat
Commissioner Baum was
urday morning to inquire into another
branch of the case connected >vith the in
ternal administration of the pension New
bureau, the course suggested by adjourned the
York Tribune. The committee
until Monday, when the examination will
be contiuucd.
The following postmasters were appoint
ed by tho President Saturday: Alabama
— Prelate I). Barker, Gebriio; Samuel
Mullen, Bessemer. Mississippi—William Nachen Fly,
S. Hamilton, Greenville; 1).
Water Valley. Georgia—Adam D. Hike,
Thomasville. South Carolina—Mrs.
Frances J. M. Sperry, Georgetown. With
drawn—Little J. Scurlock, Water Valley,
Miss.
The date when the tariff bill is to take
effect was made October (5th. February
1st next is fixed as the ultimate date upon
which goods deposited jn bond before
October 1st may be withdrawn >A the old
rates of duty. All of providing the paragraphs in
serted by the senate for ‘‘cus
toms commission” were stricken out by
conference. The reciprocity provision,
which was to take effect July 1st next,
is changed to take effect January 15,
1892.
The house committee of accounts on
Saturday begun an investigation *uto
charges preferred against the resolution Postmaster in
Wheat of the house, in
troduced by Mr. Euloe. The charges are,
in effect, that Wheat required from the con- the
tractor who carried the mail
house to the postoffice to pay h : m $150
a month from the contract price; also
that the postmaster has on his roll of em
ployes at $100 per month a Sir. Bradley,
who works in the government printing
office, and Bradley pays $95 of it to
Wheat's son.
AN INJUNCTION WANTED
AGAINST TENNESSEE COAL COMPANIES AND
DEALERS.
John Kuhm. United States district at
torney for the Middle Tennessee district,
under direction of the attorney general
of the United 'States, fifed a petition
in the clerk's office at Nashville Thursday
against companies owning coal or operating
mines from which is shipped to
Nashville and all local dealers selling to
the consumers, numbering three or four
dozen companies. The petition alleges
that a combination or trust exists between
the above corporations, firms and indi
viduals, to fix prices for the Nashville
coal market and thus monopolize and con
trol the coal trade in Nashville.
REMARKABLE TRIAL
OF A MAN WHO COMMITTED MURDER
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
One of the most remarkable cases ever
tried in anv court in this eountrv was
tnfc<1 *
in ( ieburae couaty fA : c ircuit
^ a{ Anniiton a fcw javs ago. Over
twenty ' Tears agoa man named Zater killed
*
anoth r Hogan in a row.
Zaner was arrested but his trial has been :
continutd from tcrm to teTai for lhe Jjast
tw veanj> aati now iie u ^ntenced to
a term of only oae year for his deed.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEWS OF THE t>RDER AND ITS
MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEING DONE IN’ TI1E VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOIt THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THE OllEAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
More than 10,000 people attended the
Farmers'and L borers’ Union picnic at
Compton Grove, near Independence, day Mo., for
on August 23. It was a great
the aroused Missouri soil tiller.
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zk -4*
]'crimps the numbers of the various
fnnneis’ association- are most completely
agreed and in demanding government regu- and
lation suppression supervision commeicial of railways, and
the of man
ufacturing trusts or ‘combines.”—
Youth's Cont]>anion.
*** organize
The call for the convention to
a state farmers’ league for New York,
which was held at Altamont, embodied
tinse words: ‘‘The unification of the or
ganization and the weldi g of the chain
of relationship with the body of farmers
of the state are of paramount importance prudent
at this time. The need is urgent,
counsel is expected, efficient practical aud
disinterested direction requited. Iu union
there is strength. Incomplete, established
and ha monieus union there is powerful
good. Time is a great factor.”
Tiie resolutions adopted by the Texas
Farmers’ Alliance convention ask con
gressmen to make laws preserving the
public domain for American colonization
only; that laws, both state and national,
he passed to regulate people; transportation and for unlim- for
the benefit of the
ited coinage of gout and silver to be sup
plemented by a sufficient volume of treas
ury notes, to supply the country without
the intervention of national banks; also
asking the state legislature to-specially
amend the land law so ns to open up the
western parts of the state for actual
settlers.
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* *
Farmers arc determined and emphatic aud
as regards representation in congress
legislature. How do they expect to se
cure it f Certainly not by sitting down
with folded hands. Let every farmer re
member that at the primaries and nomi
nating conventions the work must be
done. See that true blue fanners are
sent to conventions, those men who will
dare to present the name of a farmer and
fight for his nomination. There c-uo bo
no half-way measure that will answer.
We should understand that we have wily
politicians in all existing parties napping.— to deal
with, and must not be caught
American Grange Bulletin.
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Ilerctofoie in all (tails of the world the
farmer lias been no match for his adver
sary. lie has never held liis own against
the soldier or the priest, against tius poli
tician or the statesman. In the nine
teenth century lie is the slave, the serf,
the peasant or the proprietor, according
to location. American farmers arc face
to face with a crisis, They have
subdued a continent, and furnished tho
raw material for our factories, bread for
operatives, and manhood for our civiliza
tion. From all parts of this lund farmers
are coming together. Organization and
co-opcration arc the wonderful ideas that
have awakened them as never before.
They demand for themselves aud their
children an education equal to the best.
They insist on a fair share of the profits
of American industry.—Professor C. S.
Walker.
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The following letter has been sent out
to the sub-AIliances of Georgia by Presi
dent Livingston : much
‘‘it is a fact that we regret very
that the coinruct for cotton bagging did
not anticipate the extraordinary early
opening of cotton, and for this reason
cotton bugging is not on hand in suffici
ent amount, and will not be, unless the
fanners stop baling cotton for a short time.
The Exchange is sending out daily from
ten to twelve thousand yards, but
tlie demand is far beyond the supply, where
understand that iu some localities
cotton bagging cannot be had, Alliance
men are using jute from necessity, and
are threatened with expulsion. I advise,
under the circumstances, no charges those or
discipline be had, with reference to
using jute, but do all in your power to
hold our people to cotton or some other
covering than jute.
President Rogers, of the Florida A11 i
ance issues the following circular letter
to the county alliances:
“Whereas, At the last annual session
of the Farmers' State Alliance of Florida
die fo lowing resolution was unanimously
adopted: lU»oheJ, That the next annual
l> tw
fion of the State Alliance convene on the
third Tuesday in October next, at such
place as may ' be designated by the presi
dent.”
And whereas, The members of the or
der and citizens of Jefferson county have
made liberal inducements for said meet
ing to be held with them, therefore I, R.
F. Rogers, president of the Farmers'
state Alliance of Florida, do hereby tail
the annual session to convene in the town !
of M< uticel o on the third Tuesday in j
October n- xt, the same being the 2lst
dav of said month, at 10 o’clock a. rn.
Each county Alliance iu the State will
be entitle*! to two delegates as provided proposed
in the constitution of 1 t 89, the
constitution of 1890 not having been rat
hied by the required force.” two-thirds vote, is
therefore not in
*\
Prominent speakers and statesmen wdl
be invited to be prevrat on the days - :
apart for the entertainment of Alliance
people at th - Piedmont exposition, which
opens in Atlanta October 15th, and an
attractive programme will be made up
for each day. All of the sub-Alliances
of Georgia and other states will l>e ex
pected to he ou hand. The following
circular letter lias been mailed to A11 i
ancomen all over the country,by the man
agement :
“Atlanta, Ga., September 24. Dear
Sir: The 28th, 29th ami 80th of October
have been set aside by the management
of the Piedmont exposition for the recep
tion, of prom incut Alliatieemeti from all
puts of the country, and it is our earnest
desire to make these three days a bright
period iu the history of the Piedmont
exposition made of direction 1890. by Every effort will be
in tics the management,
and nothing will he left,undone to insure
ihe success of tiiis event, la view of
this fact, the management 1ms requested
me to extend an iuvitntiou to you to be
present, and trust tied you will tind it
convenient to be with us, .
• Very truly*yours*
James II. Wylie,
President and General Manager.
Charles Allfd I.D, Secretary."
NEWS OF IHE SOUTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
P1T11Y ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN THE
SOUTHERN states that will ENTER
TAIN THE READER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
The first farmers’ institute ever held in
Virginia Richmond. began its sessions Thursday in
Colonel William C, Carrington, who
served as tnuypr of Richmond, Va., foi
four terms, died in Williamsburg, Va.,
Thursday night.
Dr. C. W. Marline, of Washington, I).
C., chairman of the National Alliance
committee on Legislation, wus in Atlanta,
Wednesday, on his way to tho west.
The bank of Madison, at Jackson,
Tenn., suspended bank with Friday morning. $50,- It
was a state Liabilities, $200,000; a capital of
000. asssets $223,
000 .
ocratic A Charleston dispatch the seventh says: The dem
convention of district,
on Wednesday, renominated William
Elliott, iu the who Tuesday was expelled make from his seat
house t > room for
Thomas E. Miller. The renourination was
by acclamation. •
On the morning of the i‘2th a fire at
Waldo, Fiu., destroyed five frame build
ings owned by T. M. Cnuthen, L. Ren
ault and D. Hicks, valued at $5,900, and
stock of general merchandise, owned by
W. I). Ziegler, loss $5,000, and stock of
drugs, owned by L Renault, $2,0o0.
No insurance.
There are 2,105 farmers’ alliances now
in North Carolina, mi increase of 389
since January 7th. This is not so great
is the increase iu 1889, but. this year the
various alliances have gained new mem
bers, so that there is a great increase in
the order. The gain has been largely in
the west.
Twelve miles west of Birmingham, Ala.,
Thursday morning a party for the of engineers, Tennessee
prospecting for Railroad coal
Coal, Iron and company, struck
a vein of natural gas A hole lmd been
bored to a considerable d> ptli, when a
strong volume of gas burst forth ll was
ignited and burned freely.
A San Antonio dispatch ways: The
most prolong d senatorial deadlock that
ever took place in Texas is iu progress at
Mexia. The convention convened in its
third session, the two previous sessions
lasting several days. There have been
2,500 ballots taken, and the result
Wednesday is reported as being the warn*
as the beginung.
An attempt was made Thursday night
to wreck the south bound express train
ou the Louisville road, near Fnlkville,
forty miles north of Birmingham, Ala. A
number of crossties were piled across the
track. They were not heavy enough, and
the pilot of the engine knock'd them off
the track without derailing train-wreck- the train.
This is the third attempt at
ing od this division of the road within a
few days.
A dispatch of Sunday from Franklin,
N. C., says: 'Ihe citizens of Macon county
have voted for the issuing of bonds to
the amount of $100,000 for the purpose
of aiding in the construction of a railroad
through Macon county. These Ironds arc
to run for thirty years at 0 per cent in
tetest, which will be $0,000 per year.
The road will be built from the Georgia
or South Carolina line through Macon
county by Franklin, thence to the Mur
phy division of the Western North Caro
linn railroad.
THE DEAL MADE.
ALABAMA ai.lianckmen to get 4DVAN
ckb on their cot-iok.
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A dispatch from Montgomery says:
George F. Gaither, business manager of
the Alabama Alliance exchange, apnoun
nounced, over bis own signature, in the
official organ of the order in Alabama,
Thursday morning, that the exchange is
prepared to handle 5b *,000 bales of cot
ton, and is ready to advance $35 per bale
on insured cotton iu the warehouse. In
addition, he states that the exchange has
engaged a buyer who will buy cotton of
the Allianceinen for export, and when
members of the orders desire, will settle
with them after the s le of the cotton in
Liverpool, laying the price brought there
freight and insurance. It is claimed
that tin, will net the alhanccmen $5 more
per Ule for cotton than they now get.
that much, it us said, being consumed by
the middle men in ordinary transactions,
Large quantities of cotton are stored all
along the Alabama railroads awaiting the
arrival of the alliance exchange buyer.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
PKN8ED FROM NEWSY ‘ DISPATCUKS
1 ROM UNCLE SAM S DOMAIN AND WIIAT
THE CARLE RR1NG8.
A chemical , . , , trust . forming , , .
new is m
London.
A death from cholera has occurred at
Bristol, Kng.
Application was made to court, for in
New York, Thursday, for a receiver
the mgnr trust.
Total purchases o/ silver by the treas
ury department, under the new law, is
7,277,000 ounces.
The damage by the flood iu the de
pot tment of Ardeebu, France, amounts to
59,000,000 franca.
Turkish newspapers have been forbid
den to comment upon the affairs of ortho
dox and Armenian churches.
A dispatch Saturday from Gulesbuiv,
Illinois, says: Hog cholera is raging to
an alarming extent iu this vieiniUk
The warehouses of Liveri^ml arc
crammed with goods to be shipped to
the United States before October 1st.
U.hvurd Try an and George Barnard
wire killed bv bundling an electric light
were, at Wiuchcndon, Miss., Friday
night.
Telegraph operators and station agents
of the Chicago Eastern Illinois railroad,
between Evansville and Terre Haute,
went on a strike Thursday for an advance
in wages.
Total collections for internal revenue,
for the first two months of the fiscal year
of 1890-91, July and August, ngregutod
$25,502,30(1, against $23,070, 774 for cor
responding period last year.
A Vienna dispatch of Sunday, says:
One thousand mother-of-pearl button
makers have been locked out, which the
manufacturers believe threatens to stop
the entire trade with America.
Fowler Brothers’ (racking house, at the
stockyards, at Chicago, was the damaged by of
fire Sunday morn'ng to amount
$090,000. About 1,200 men and 100
girls arc employed by the company.
sive G. shipyard T. Davie, proprietor Canada, of the lias oxteu closed
at Levns,
all Ills works and dismissed 102 men, be
cause the Knights of Labor sought to
dictate to hint whom he should employ.
The executors of the late Samuel J.
Tilden have appealed from the decision
of Judge Beach, of the supreme court,
holding tin- Tilden trust clause for the
establishment of a large library in New
York city.
Fire on Friday destroyed part of the
plant of J. It. Davis Lumber Company, at
Phillips, Wis. The loss Several is estimated firemen from and
$75,000 to $150,duo.
citizens were badly burned while fighting
the flames.
A dispatch of Sunday from Melbourne,
Australia, says: The strike of the
shearers is a partial failure. Shearing is
nearly finished, and many fear they will
lose their wages if they break their con
tracts.
Eighty lace factories at Calais, France,
have closed in consequence of the strike.
At a meeting of 3,000 luce workers Sun
day, it was unanimously resolved to con
tinue the strike until the manufacturers
accept the terms of the employes.
!(< prescnbitives of leading boards of
trade throughout the country met in Chi
cago Thursday for the purpose organization of form
ing a national protection transportation shippers und
for the of mer
chants from unfair dealing or discrimi
nation on tho part of railways.
A Dublin dispatch of Saturday says:
There is no abatement of interest In the
trial of the conspiracy eases against the
nationalist leaders, now in progress at
Tipperary. The proceedings Friday cre
ated the very general impression deliberately tlint trying the
government was very
to prolong the trial as far as possible.
A Piladelphiu dispatch says: In the
case of peddlers of an English translation Sonata,
of Count Tolstoi’s “Kreutzer ”
who had been arrested on the charge of
selling«obseeue literature, Judge Thayer,
in the court of common pleas, Wednes
day, decided that the book is not obscene
and that the relators had committed no
offense against the law.
The amount of silver offered for sale to
the treasury Wednesday aggregated 388,
925 ounces, and the amount purchased
140,000 ounces, as follows: 25,000ounces
at $1,130; 90,000 ounces at $1.1325; 25,
000 ounces at $1.1375. Total purchases,
including Wednesday’s, under the new
law, have been 7,172.475 ounces, leaving
about 107,000 ounces to be purchased the
remainder of the month.
The census; bureau on Saturday, an
nounced the populations of cities aud
Jowns as follows: Charlottesville, Va • i
5,502; increase, 2,888, or 107.84 per
cent. Danville. Va, 10,285; increase,
2.759, or 30.08 (nr cent. Lynchburg,
Va., 19,779: increase, 3,820, or 23.94
per cent. Staunton, Va., 0,921; in
crease, 257, or 3.80 per cent. Selma,
Ala., 7,020; increase, 97, or 1.29 per
cent. Mobile, Ala., 31,822; increase,
2,090, or 9.23 j>cr cent.
The I/radon Tori'* predicts that the
McKinley bill will cut l»oth ways, and in
h manner surprising to its authors, ‘‘it
will do grave harm to America, and dis
locate the general iudus rii-s of the world.
America will be tin- chief sufferer in the
cud. Things elsewhere will adjust them
selves in the course of time to a new
course of trade, while America will be
li ft permanently paying higher prices foi
inferior goods, aud wasting her labor and
industrial energy in vain, and misdircct-
NO 20.
injt efforts in disregard of mutual ccouo
mic laws."
A Chicago dispatch says: The delayed
arrival of Grand Masters Sweeney, of the
switchmen, and Sargent, of the firemen,
is tending to precipitate a general strike
among the Stockyards Switching Associ
ation employes. Six switchmen were
discharged \\ ednesday morning, making
twelve in all who have been discharged
Burlington for refusing to work with Chicago,
and Quinev t on-union eniri
' j
„ is U , li( . v< , t i h * t nothing except
the | U . e8t ,, K .,, „[ counsels of Sweeney
»nd Sargent can prevent another tie-up
in the yards.
THS NATIONALISTS’ TRIAL,
DIIXON AND OBRIEN ARRAIGNED IN —
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
A Dublin dispatch of Thursday says:
As this was the day fixed for the trial of
Dillon and O’Brien, the streets of Tip
ple perary Interested were full in to the overflowing Nationalists with peo
case.
had thronged to towp from all adjacent
purls, many of thorn carrying the nu
tiouiil weapon, the shillaluh, and prepared
to use it if provocation would arise.
When the hour for the sitting of the
court arrived, tm immense crowd
had cu levied before the court
house, ready to rush iu the tno
meat the doors were thrown open. Tho
authorities thereupon decided not to open
the doors to the generul public, but to
admit only those who Mere immediately
intonated iu the trial. The crowd did
not take kindly to this treatment, but
pressed forward, trying to force a way
into the courthouse. The police stoutly
resisted, charging repeatedly upon tho
crowd, and using their clubs freely on
whoever happened to he in reach. Many
of their blows took effect, Imt the crowd
did not yield instantly. For fully
live minutes there was a stand-up
light between tho now excited throng and
the police. Many people were hint by
the policemen’s clubs. One man hud his
teeth knocked down his throat. Several
required surgical attention. Among the
wounded were Timothy Harrington,
member of parliament for Dublin, and
Mr. Halifax. Both had their heads cut
and came into the court with blood drip
ing over their coat collars and faces. At
last, however, the crowd was gradually
forced back, and the police mie
cecdcd in maintaining a clear
space in front of I lie courthouse.
At the outset, both Mr. Dillon and Mr.
O'Brien objected to being tried before
Resident Magistrate Shannon for personal
teasons. Judge Shannon refused to ad
mit tin-validity of their objections. He
knew of no reason why he should not go
on with the case, lie declared that he
would perform liis doty without bins.
Mr. Honan, counsel for the crown, then
proceeded to open the case for tho prose
cution. He reviewed the circumstances
which had led to the arrest of the nation
alists hack to tho time when tho
plan of campaign wus put in
force, which was in May, 1890,
The defendants protested against the in
troduction of evidence touching matters
that wcic anterior to the dates snccifled
in the warrants upon which they were ar
rested After considering these protests,
the court decided that tho prosecution
might produce testimony of a general
charaetei to prove the existence of a con
spiracy prior to the dales given in the
Wurrants, but that no evidence could be
permitted which i oncoming done the acts of defend
ants were anterior to to the
dates mentioned in tho warrants. Ad
journment was then announced until
Friday.
BUSINE68 OUTLOOK
AH REROUTED BY DUN & CO. FOR TIIE
PAST WEEK.
It. fi. Dun A (.'<>. report remarkable nr
tivity in business iu most of the cities of
the-country, und say that “liqidntioa in
nearly all kinds of speculation in comes to
the disappointment of many connec
tion with the largely increased supplies
of money, aud prepares the wav for
healthier trade in all legitimate brauches.”
Money is I (-ported to be interest in larger reduced, supply,
and the local rate of
but no inflation of prices has followed.
Imports have much increased by efforts
to get goods into tin country before the
new tariff goes into effect. The great in
dustries of the country arc decidedly uc
ti re. Business failures for the week
number for the United States 192, against
105 for the ‘- line week butt Vf-t
THE PAPER 8EI2ED
BECAUSE LOTTERY ADVERTISEMENTS WERE
FOUND IN IT.
A Montgomery dispatch says: Ihe
edition of the Age-Herald arriving in this
city Thursday morning by mail wots ex
amined by the postoffice authorities and
found to contain lottery advertisements.
The paper wan stopped and stored in the
postoffice. Major W. \V. Screws and F.
1*. Glass, of the Montgomery Advertiser,
were arrested Thursday for violating the
anti-lottery law in mailing the Advertiser
containing lottery advertisements since
the passage of the law. They gave bond
aud were icleaned.
THE COTTON CROP.
REPORT OF THE NEW ORLEANS EXCHANGE
REGARDING ITS MOVEMENT.
Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans
exchange, Saturday issued an official re
port of tiie cotton movement for the first
twenty-six days of the cotton reason. The
report show* that 250,000 bales have
come into sight during the past week, an
increase of 30,503 bales over this week
last year, and swelling the excess to date
to 191,458 halts.