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THE BLACKSHEAR TIMES.
VOL. VII.
PBESIBENT’S
MESSAGE.
HE FAVORS THE FORCE BILL.
MANY OTHER SUBJECTS OF NA
TIONAL IMPORT DISCUSSED.
[Note.— In order to save space weonlv
publish the most follows:] interesting parts of the
Message, as
Harrison on the Force Bill.
If any intelligent and loyal company of
Amorioau citizens were required to cata
logue the essential human conditions ol
national life, I do doubt that, with absolute
unanimity they would begin with free and
Honest elections, aud it is gratifying to
know that generally there is a growing
and non-partisan demand for better elec
tion laws, but against this sign of hope and
progress must be set tlie depressing and
undeniable fact that election laws and
methods are sometimes cunningly con
trived to secure minority control, while
violence completes tlie shortcomings of
frauds.
In my last animal message I suggested
that the development of the existing law
providing a federal supervision of con
gressional elections offered an effective
method of reforming these abuses. The
need of such a law lias manifested itself in
many parts of the country, and its whole
some restraints and penalties will be useful
in all. The constitutionality of such legis
lation has been affirmed by the supreme
court. Its probable effectiveness is evi
denced by the character of tlie opposition
that is made to it. It lias been denounced
as if it were a new exercise of
federal power and an invasion of the
rights of the states. Nothing could
be further from the truth. Congress has
already fixed the time for tho election of
members of congress. It has declared that,
votes for members of congress must be by
written or printed ballot. It has provided
for the appointment by the circuit courts
in certain cases and upon the petition of a
certain number of citizens of election su
pervisors anil made it their duty to super
vise the registration of voters, conducted
by the state officers, to challenge persons
offering to register, to personally
inspect and scrutinize the registry
lists and to affix their names to
the lists for the purpose of identification
and the prevention of frauds; to attend at
elections and remain with tho boxes till
the votes are all cast and counted. To at
tach to the registry li.sis and election re
turns any statement touching the accuracy
and fairness of the registry and election,
and to take and transmit to the clerk of the
house of representatives any evidence of
fraudulent practices which may be pre
sented to them. The same law provides
for the appointment of deputy United
States marshals to attend at tlie polls to
support the supervisors in tlie discharge
of their duties anil to arrest persons violat
ing the election laws. The pro
Visions of this familiar title ol
the revised statutes have been put into
exercise by both the great political parties
and in the north as well as in the south by
the filing with the court of the petition re
quired by the law. 'Tis not, therefore, a
question whether wc shall have federal
election 'law, for we now have one, and
have had for nearly twenty years, hut
whether we shall have an effective law.
The present law stops just short of effect
ivencss, for it surrenders to the local au
thorities ail control over the certification
which establishes the prima facie right to
a seat in the house of representatives.
This defect should he cured. Equality
of representation and the purity ol
the electors must he maintained, or every
thing that is valuable in our system of gov
ernment is lost. The qualifications of at>
elector must be sought in the law, not iu
the opinions, prejudices or fears of any
class, hov ever powerful. The path of the
elector to the ballot box must be free from
the ambush of fear and the enticements ol
fraud, the count so true and open that none
shall gainsay it. Such a law should be ab
solutely non-partisan anil impartial. It
should give the advantage to honesty and
the control to the majorities. Surely there
is nothing sectional ala.ut this creed, and
if it shall happen that the penalties of laws
intended to enforce these rights fall here
and not there, is it not liecanse the law
is sectional, but is known to be because,
happily, crime is locai and not universal,
nor shotfid it be forgotten that every iaw.
w betlier relating to election or to any other
subject, whether enacted by the state or by
the nation, has force behind it. The courts,
the court's marshal or constable, the posse
comitatus, the prison, are ali and always
behind the law. One cannot be jnstiy
• Versed with unfriendliness to any seotinn
or class wno seeks only to restrain viola.
tion of law and of personal right No
community will find lawlessness profita*
Vie. No community can afford to bare it
known that the officers who are charged
with the preservation of the public peace
and the restraint of the criminal classes
are themselves the product of fraud and
violence. The magistrate is then without
respect and the law without sanction.
The floods of lawlessness cannot be
leveled and made to ran in one channel.
BLACKSHEAR GA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11,1890.
The killing of a United States marshal
carrying a writ of arrest for an election
offense is full of prompting and suggestion
to men who are pursued by any marshal for
a crime against life or property. But it ts
said that this legislation will revive ani
mosities, and some have even suggested
that when the peaceful methods of fraud
tire made impossible they may be sup
planted by intimidation atul violence. If
tlie proposed law gives to any qualified
elector by a hair’s weight more than his
equal influence or detracts by so much
from any other qualified «leetorit is fatally
impeached- But if the law is equal aud
the animosities it is jto evoke grow out of
the fact that some electors have been ac
customed to exercise tlie franchise for oth
ers as well as for themselves, then these
animosities ought not to be confessed with,
out shame and cannot he given any weight
in the discussion without dishoner. No
chance is left me but enforce with vigor all
laws intended to secure to tlie citizen his
constitutional rights and to recommend
that the inadequacies of such laws be
promptly remedied. If to promote with
zeal und ready interest every
project for the development (> l
its material interests, its rivers,
harbors, mines and factories, and the
intelligence, peace and security render
the law of its communities and its homes,
is not accepted as sufficient evidence of
friendliness to any state or section. I can
not add connivance at election practices
that not only disturb local results, but rob
the electors of other states and sections of
their most priceless political right.
The McKinley Hill.
There is neither wisdom nor justice in
tlie suggestion that the subject of tariff re
vision shall be again opened before this
law lias had a fair trial. It is quite true
that every tariff schodiile is subject to ob
jections. No bill was ever framed I sup
pose that in all of its rates and classifica
tions had tlie full approval even of a party
caucus. Such legislation is always and
necessarily the product of compromise as to
details, and the present law is no exception.
But in its general scope and effect, I think
it will justify the support of those who be
lieve that American legislation should con
serve and defend American trade and
the wages of American workingmen.
The misinformation as to the terms of
the act which lias been so widely dissemi
nated at homo and abroad will be corrected
by experience, and tlie evil auguries as to
its results confounded by the market, re
ports, the savings hank international
trade balances anil the general prosperity
of our people, already wo begin to hear
from abroad, and from our custom
houses, that the prohibitory effect
upon importations imputed to tho
act is not justified. The imports
at the port of New York for the first three
weeks of November were nearly 8 per cent,
greater than for the same period of 1889,
and 29 per cent, greater than in tho same
period of 1888. And so far from being an
act to limit exports, I confidently believe
that under it we shall secure a larger anil
more profitable participation in foreign
trade than we have ever enjoyed, and that
we shall recover a proportionate partici
pation in the ocean carrying trade of the
world.
The criticisms of tlie bill that have come
to us from foreign sources may well be re
jected for repugnancy. If these critics
really believe that the adoption by us of a
free trade policy, or of tariff rates having
reference solely to revenue would diminish
the participation of their own countries in
the commerce of the world, their advocacy
and promotion by speech and other forms
of organized effort of this movement
among our people, is a rare exhibition of
unselfishness in trade; and on tlie other
band, if they sincerely believe that tlie
adoption of a protective tariff policy by
this country inure to their profit.and
our hurt, it is noticeably strange
that they should lead tlie
outcry against the authors of a policy so
helpful to their countrymen, and crown
with their favors those who would snatch
from them a substantial share of a trade
with other lands already inadequate to
their necessities.
There i* a disposition among many of our
people to promote prohibitory or retaliato
ry legislation. Our policies are adopted not
to the hurt of the others, but to secure for
ourselves those advantages tiiat fairly
grow out of our favored position as a
nation. Our form of government, with it*
incident of universal suffrage, makes it im
perative that we should save our working
people from tlie agitations and distresses
which scant work and wages that have no
margin for comfort always beget. But
after all this is done it will be found that
onr markets ate open to friendly
commercial exchanges of|enortnotts values.
From the time of ruv induction into office
the duty of using every power and influ
ence given by law to tlie executive depart
ment for the development of larger mTk> t«
for our products, especially our iarm pro
ducts, has been kept constantly in irund
and no effort has been or will he spared to
promote tbat end. We are under no dis
advantage in any foreign markets except
that we pay our workmen and workwomen
better wages than are paid elsewhere—
better abstractly, better relatively, to the
cost of the necessaries of life. I do not
doubt that a very largely increased foreign
trade is accessible to us without bartering
for it either our home market for such jn>
ducts of the farm and shop as oar own |.eo-_
pieeanjsupply, or the wages of onr work.ng
peojde
In many of the products of wood and
«•"«». and in meats and breadstuff*, «•*
have advantages that only need better
facilities of intercottrae anil transportation
to secure for them large foreign markets.
The reciprocity clause of the tariff «<•(
wisely and effectively opens the way to
secure a large reciprocal trade in exchange
for the free admission to our ports of cer
tain products. The right of independent
nations to make special reciprocal trade
concessions is well established,
and docs not impair cither
the comity due to othe powers
or what is known as the favored
notion so generally found in commercial
treaties. What is given to one for an ade
quate agreed consideration can not be
claimed by another 'freely. Tim stato of
the revenue was such that we could dis
pense with any import duties upon coffee,
tea, hides and the lower grades of sugar
and molasses, that the large advantage re
sulting to the countries producing and ex
porting these articles by placing them on
the free list, entitled us to expect a fair re
turn in the way of customs concessions
upon articles exported by us to them was
so obvious that to have gratuitously ttbun
doned this opportunity to enlarge our trade
would have been an unpardonable error.
There were but two methods of main
taining control of this question open to
congress: to place all of those articles upon
the dutiable list subject to such treuty
agreements as could he secured, or to place
them all presently on the free list, bnt sub
ject to the re-imposition of specified duties
if the countries from which we receive
them should refuse to give to us suitable
reciprocal benefits. This latter method,
I think, possesses great advantages. It
expresses in advance the consent of con
gress to reciprocity airangemeuts affecting
these products which must otherwise have
been delayed anil unascertained until
each treaty was ratified by the sen
ate anil the necessary legislation en
acted by congress. Experience has shown
that some treaties looking to reciprocal
trade have failed to secure a two-thirds
vote in the senate for ratification, anil
others having passed that stage have for
years awaited the concurrence of the lionse
ami senate in such modifications of our
revenue laws as were necessary to give ef
fect to their provisions. We now have the
concurrence of both house in advance in a
distinct and definite offer of free entry to
our ports of specific articles. The execu
tive is not required to deal in conjecture ns
to what congress will accept. Indeed -this
reciprocity provision is more than an offer.
Our part of the bargain is complete. Deliv
ery has hceii made, anil when the countries
from which we receive sugar, coffee, tea
and hides have placed on their free lists
such of our products as shall he agreed
upon as an equivalent for our concession.
a| proclamation of that fact completes the
transaction, and in tin: meantime imr own
people have free sugur, tea, coffee anil
hides.
The indications thus far given are very
hopeful of early anil favorable action by
the countries from w hich we receive <sir
large imports.of coffee and sugar, anil it is
confidently believed that if steam commu
nication with these countries can be
promptly improved und enlarged, the next
year will show a most gratifying increase
in our exports of breadstuff's anil proves
Ions, as well as some important lines of
manufactured goods.
Hills Cun.Limed Important.
In addition to the important-' hills that
become laws before the adjournment of the
last session, some other hills of tlio highest
importance were well advanced toward a
final vote, and now stand upon the calen
dars of the two houses in favored positions.
The present session has a fixed limit, and
if those measures are not now brought
to a final vote all the work
that has been done upoH them by
this congress is lost. The proper consider
ation of tliese.of an apportionment bil! and
of the annua! appropriation' hill will re
quire not only that tin working day of the
session shall be lost, but that measures ol
minor and local interest shall not lie al
lowed to interrupt or retafil the progress ol
those that are of universal interest.
In view of these conditions, I refrain
from bringing before you at thi* time some
suggestions that would otherwise he made,
and most earnestly invoke your attention
to the duty of perfecting the imjatrUnt
legislation now well advanced.
To some ot these measures which seem
to me most important, I now briefly call
your attention.
I desire to repeat with added urgency
the recommendations contained in my last
annual message in relation to the develop
ment of American Steamship line*. The
reciprocity clause of the tariff bill will be
largely limited, and its benefits retarded
and diminished, if provision is not content
poraaeousiy made to encourage the estab
lishment of flrst-elass steam corniotini
cation between our ports anil 'he
ports of such nations as may meet onr
overtures for enlarged commercial ex
changes. The steamship carrying the
mail* statedly and frequently and offering
to passenger* a comfortable, safe and
jpeedy transit Is the first consideration of
foieign trade. It carries the order or the
buyer, but not all that i» ordered
° r bought. It gives to. the
■ailing vesseis such cargoes as are not ur
gent or perishable, and indirectly, at least,
promote the important adjunct of com
merce. The/e is now boA in this country
and in the nations of Central and Mouth
America a state of expectance and confi
dence as to the increased trade that
will givs a double value to your
Am it utt unit Affair*.
The report of the secretary of ngrio*:!te.r«
deserves especial attention in vie-.v of fit
tact that tin- year has been marked in a
very nnnsiu.l degree by agitation and or
ganization among the farmers, looking io
tut increase in the profits of their business.
It w ill be found that the efforts of the de
partment have been intelligently and
zealously devoted to tho promotion of tie
interests intrusted to its care. A ve;v
substantial improvement in the mar! el
priiies of the leading farm products dunn
the year is noticed. The price of wheat
•advanced from til cents in October, 18$!*, tc
SM.(X)»i in October, 1890.
Corn from ill cents to 50*4 cents; oats
from lfiVi cents to 4:t cents; and hurley
from 63 cents to 78 cents. Mi nts showed a
substantial hut not so lurge increase.
The export trade in live animals and
fowls shows a very large increase. The
total value of such exports for the year
anding Juno 30, 1800. was $33,000,0<H), and
;lie increase over the preceding year was
rver $15,000,000. Nearly two hundred
thousand more cattle anil over forty-five
thousand more hogs were exported than
it the preceding year. Tho export
trade in beef products and in dairy
products was very largely increased, the
itemise in the article of butter alone being
from 15,504,078 pounds to 20,748,042 pounds,
and tlie. total increase in tho value of meat
and dairy products exported being 834,
AXIO.OOO. This trade, so directly helpful to
the farmer, it is believed, will be yet
further and vorv largely increased when
tlie system of Inspection uiiil sanitary sit
pervision now provided by taw is brought
fully into operation. The efforts of tlie
secretary to establish the healthfulness ol
our meats against the disparaging
imputations that have been put upon
•them abroad have resulted iu substantial
progress. Veterinary surgeons sent out by
the department are now called to partici
pate in tho inspection of the live cattlt
front this country landed at the English
docks, anil during the several months they
have been on duty no case of contagious
fffettro pneumonia has been reported. This
inspection abroad and the domestic inspec
tion of live animals and pork products
provided for by the act of August 30, 1H!I0,
will afford as perfect a guaranty for tlie
wholesonieness of our meats offered for
foreign consumption as Is anywhere given
to any foot} product, anil its non-acceptance
will quite clearly reveal the real motive of
any continued restriction of their uses;
and that having been made clear, tlie
duties of the executive w ill lie very plain.
The information given by the secretary of
the progress and prospects of the licet su
gar inilustty is full of interest. It has al
ready passed the experimental stsige unil is
a commercial success.
The area over w hich the sugar beet can
he successfully cultivated is very large
and another field crop of great value Is of
fered to tl»e choice of t he farmer.
The ftectotury of the treasury concurs in
the recommendation of the secretary of ag
riculture that the 'official supervision pro
vided by the tariff law for sugar of domes
tic production shall lie transferred to the
department of agriculture.
Government Telegraph,
The use of the telegraph by
the postoffice departnwnit as a means for
the rapid transmission of written commit
nications is, I believe, upon proper terms,
quite desirable. The government does
uot own or operate the railroads, and
it should not, I think, own or
operate the telegraph lines. It does, how
BVer, scent to be quite practicable for the
government to contract, with the telegraph
companies as it does with the railroad com
panies to carry at specified rates such com
munications as the senders may designate
lor this method of transmission. I recom
mend that sueli legislation be enacted as
will enable the postofliee department fairly
to test by experiment the advantages
of such a use of the tetlegraph.
Tlie Coast Defense*.
I concur in the recommendation of rim
secretary that that the adequate and regu
lar appropriations he continued for coast
defense works and ordinances. Plans have
been praeftc-Hj- agreed upon, and there
can ?*• o go 1 1 reason for delaying the
exeei tion oi them; while the defenseless
state of our tre l seaports furnishes
fin urgent reus n for wise expedition. The
e oiirageinetit that has been extended to
Hie militia of the states generally, and
most appropriately designated the •'Na
tional Guard" should he continued and en
arged. These military organizations cote
stitute, in a large sense, tlie army ol the
United States, while atiout five-sixths of
the annual costs of their maintenance is
defrayed by the states.
The New Census.
The enumeration of the people of the
United State* under the provision of March
1, 188!*, has been completed, and the result
will be at onee officially communicat' d to
congress. The completion of this decen
nial enumeration devolves upon congress
the duty of making a newjapportionment of
representative* among the several states
according to their respective numbers.
The Lottery Lsti.
The passage of the act amending certain
sections of the revised statutes relating to
lotteries, approved September Iff, 1890, ha*
been received with great and; deserv
ed popular favor, Tho jio* toffies
department and the department of
justice at once entered upon the en
forcement of tlie law with sympathetic
vigor, and already the public mails ham
been largely freed from the fraudulent and
demoraling appeals and literature emanat
ing from the lottery aompames.
prompt action upon this questho.
The South Atlantic and Gulf ports oecu
py a very favored position tow ai ds the new
and important commerce which the recip
rocity clause of the tariff act and the postal
shipping bill are designed to promote.
Steamship lines from these ports to some
northern port of South America will al
most certainly effect a connection between
the railroad systems of the continent
long before any continuous line of railroad
can be put into operation. Tho very large
appropriation made, at, the lost session for
the harbor of Galveston was justified, as it
seemed to me, by these admonitions. The
great northwest will feel the advantage of
trunk lines to the south as well as to tho
east, and of tho new market opened for
their surplus food products anil for many
of tliolr manufactured products.
Increase In the Currency.
The efforts of the secretary to increase
tho volume of money in circulation by
keeping down the treasury surplus to the
lowest, practicable limit have been unre
mitting and in a high degree successful.
The tables presented by him showing the
inorea.se of money in circulation during
the last two decades, unci especially the
table showing tlie increase during the
nineteen mouths he lias administered the
affairs of the department, are inter
esting and instructive. Tho increase
of money in circulation during the
nineteen months has been In the aggregate
${13,866,813, or about $1.50 per capita, and
of this increase only $7,100,000 was due to
the recout silver legislation, That this
substantial and needed aid given to com
merce resulted in an enormous reduction
of the public debt and of tlie
annual interest charge Is matter of Increas
ed satisfaction. There have been pur
chased mid redeemed since March fourth,
188 * 1 , four and four and a half per cent,
bonds to the amount of $211,832,430 mid a
cost of $240,020,741, resulting in tlie ;educ
tion of the annual interest charge
of $8,007,60*.), uml a total saving
of interest of $51,576,706.
Silver and the Silver Act.
The act directing the purchase of silver
bullion and the issue of treasury notes
thereon, upprovod July 14th, 1800, has been
administered by the secretary of the treas
ury with an earnest purpose to get into
wire illation at the. earliest possible dates tint
full monthly amounts of treasury notes
contemplated by its provisions, and ut
the Hume time to givs to the market for
silver bullion such support as the law eon
templates. The recent depreciation In the
price of silver has been observed with ro
gsot. The rapid rise in price which antlfcl
puted and followed the|passagoof the act was
influenced in some degree by speculation
anil the recent reaction is In part the result
of the same cause nnil in part of tho recent
momentary disturbance*. Some months of
further trial will he necessary to determine
Die permanent effect of the recent legisla
tion upon silver values, hut it is gratifying
to know that tlie increased circulation se
cured by the act lias exerted and will con
tinue to exert a most beneficial Inllinince
upon business and upon general values.
While It has uot been thought best- to renew
formally the suggestion of an International
conference looking to an agreement touch
ing tlie full use of silver for coinage at a
uniform ratio, care has been tuken to ote
serve closely any change In the situation
abroad, and no favorable opportunity will
be lost to promote a result which it is con
fidently believed wonid confer very large
benefits'Upon the commerce of tho world.
The recent monetary disturbance In Eng
land are not unlikely to suggest a re-exam
bialien of opinions upon fills subject, tier
very large supply of gold will, if not lost
by Impulsive legislation in tho supposed
fiitere.nt of silver, give us a position of Ad
vantage in promoting a permanent auil
lafe International agreement for the
free use of silver as a coin metal.
Tlie Uiai'nimsnt'i Revenues,
The revenues ol the government from all
sources for the tlsnul year, ending June 30.
1890, were $10,39*1,308,055, and the total ex
penditures fur the suine period were $36-
861,888,452. The postal receipts have not
heretofore been included in the statement
ot these aggregates, aud for the purpose of
comparison the sum of $0,088,209,782should
t»e deducted from both stilus of thcaccouut.
The surplus for tlie year, including the
amount applied to the sinking fund, was
$ 10,534,449,608. The receipts for 18!l0 were
$f,603,096,379 and the expenditures $15,-
739,871 ill excess of those of 188*9. The eus
toms receipts increased *583.584,288
and the receipt* from internal
revenue $11.725.181.89, while oil the side of
expenditure* that for pensions was 819,-
312,075.96 in excess of the preceding year.
The treasury statement for the current
fiscal year, partly actual and partly esti
mated, is as follows: ,
Receipt* from all sources $406,000,000,
total [expenditure $3(44,000,1X10, leaving a
surplus of $.52,000,000, not taking the pos
tal receipts into the account on either side
The loss of revenue from customs for tin
last quarter is estimated at $25,000,000, but
from tliit is deducted a gain ol
atiout $ 16,000,000 realized during the
first four months of the year.
For the year 1892 the total estimator*
receipts are $373,000,000, and the estimated
expenditures 357,852,209.42. leaving an esti
mated surplus of 815,147,790.58, which with
a cash balance of 52,000,000 at the beginning
of the year, will give $87,447,790 38 is the
sum available for the redemption of out
standing Wind* or other uses. The esti
mates of receipts and expenditures for the
poatoffice department being equal, are uot
included in thi* str.temeiit on either side.
NO :w.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TfIK
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE HEADER—ACCIDENTS, FIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
St. Alary’s church, at South Highlands,
a Birmingham, Ala., tiuburb, burned on
Wednesday night, lxist $5,000; fully
insured.
General (Quintus, of Alabama, who was
recently injured by falling into an un
protected street excavation in Washing
ton city, died Tuesday.
Four members of a party of settlers
from New Haven, Conn , were drowned
by Tohopekaiigns, the capsizing Florida, of a sail boat on lake
Tuesday.
On the 7th of January, 1891, the bank
of Opelika, Ala,, will increase its caprital
stock from $50,000 to $100,000. Both
of Opelika’s bank* arc in a flourishing
condition.
Tho will of Henry K. Ellyson, late of
tlie Richmond, Va,, Dinpatch, was pro
bated Tuesday. The estimated value of
the estate is $1110.000. He leaves every
thing to his children.
Tho Southern Lumber and Manufactur
ing Company, of Chattanooga, have made
an assignment. morning, It was announced indebtedness Tues
day Their
amounts to about $50,000.
An machinery Opelika dispatch ot Thursday mill says:
The for the new Hour is
arriving, aud the building is nearly com
pleted. It will be one of the most hand
some aud subatonti**! structures in the
city.
Dr. Thursday 11. M. Wilder, of Charlotte, N. C’.,
left evening for New York,
where he goes to study Dr. Ivoch’s con
sumption treatment. l)r. Wilder will
bring back witli him a quantity of tlie
wonderful lymph for local treatment if it
cun be secured.
The president, tho on Thursday, nominations: sent to
the senate following
Mrs. Anita 11. McKee, receiver of public
moneys, at Jackson, MW. Postmasters
as follows: Georgia Charles O. Force,
Valdosta; Mouth Carolina- -John G. Gat
lin, Darlington Courthouse.
Russell & Gibbon’s warehouse, ut Ncw
nnn, Gu., containing about consumed 1,300 by bales
of cotton, was totally tire
Tuesday evening. Duly about one hun
dred bales of the cotton were saved. The
total loss is about $00,000, $40,000 be
ing covered by iostiiancc.
The North Carolina Baptist Thursday, state mis- und
sion board met at Raleigh,
appointed 100 missionaries to curry on
the work in destitute Helds of tlie state.
Rev. J. I-. Lowe, of Rocky Mount, vu
appointed to take charge 'of the Sunday
School and colportage work.
A d is patch of Tliursday(itoin officials Raleigh, will
N. C., says: More railway
attend the meeting of tin*. Southern In
terstate Immigration Association at
Asheville on the 17th instant than ever
before assembled in the south. Secretary
Patrick says that every road will be rep.
resented.
The American Fibre Association oi
New York begun work Thursday on tho
Inundation for a building for a paper
pulp mill at Huntsville, AIm. The plant
is to cost $80,009. Pulp "will lie made
front cotton seed hulls, large lluutsville qmntitic*
of which are furnished by the
cotton seed oil mills.
A Chattanooga dispatch ol Tuesday,
sujs: .Major Boyd, of the United States
coast survey, anil n corps of assistant ,
are busily engaged in locating the bound
aries of the 12,000 acre tract of Cliieka
iimuga National park The government
has issued orders prohibiting the removal
of bullets and euntton-’ balls from trees,
etc.
The joint committees on corporations
of the Alabama legislature, oa Wednes
day, unanimously decided, after hearing
all the facts und legui argument, thut the
senate bill authorizing the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St, Louis railway to
build thi! Tennessee und Coosa River
railway east of said Huntsville, railway will be reported
adversely, aud be re
quired to build south from Huntsville.
The board of directors of the North
Carolina insane* asylum held Thursday. an impor
tant meeting at Raleigh on An
appeal was prepared for action by the
legislature in regard to provision for
mure patients. The asylum was built for
204, and now bus 296, A In sjiital admis- is also
asked for. The demands for the
sion of patients are more pressing than
ever before. The legislature is asked to
appropriate each year a sum for the con
Ktruction of the needed additions to the
buildings.
MORE RESOLUTIONS
AGAINST THE CONGER LARD BILL F.iSSEL
BY NEW VOUKEBS.
The New York Chamb*cr of Commerce,
on Thursday, passed resolutions that the
Conger lard bill, now before the United
States senate, was unwise and unjust, and
that all legislation on this subject should
be included in a general food adultera
tion act, which will'prohibit injurious
adulterations and insure the sale of non
injtinous article! of food for what they
are.
THE FURNACE EXPLODED
ASH EIGHT PEOPLE FSHERKD INTO ETER
NITY.
A blast furnace blew up at Joliet, III.,
Thursday afternoon, burying fifteen men
lx*neath the falling masonry and metal.
Eight bodies have been taken out so for.
This is the third fatal accident that has
occurred al this furnace.