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ErBscmmoN’. si.oo per annum.
The question of tba restriction of
Immigration wilt in all probability
;oma up f ir con .Monition by the Fifty
Brat Congress. It is a question which
liie New York Hail and Exprcaa thinks
nccils settlement badly and needs it
go on, and tha longer it3 solution is
delayed the more d.ffieult It promises
to be.
M. do Freycmct, tho French Premier,
says that the whole of the French army
will be annsJ with tho Lebel rifle in a
few weeks, a fact which, ho thinks,
may go a long way towards preserving
the pence of E nope. The factories at
fit. Etienne, Tulle and Gha teller suit
turn cut 6000 of thcie rifljs cvjry day.
The. see:o’, of how they are mado as
well as tho smokeless powder is welt
preserved notwithstanding German
anxiety to peneirat; it.
Tho A-gantine R public now cher
ishes the expectation that it will soon
have a stream ot immigration equal to
that which has enriched and still
swells the opulence of this country.
Daring tho first seven months of last
year the Argentine Republic received
157,681 imm grunts, and a total of
250,000 for the year. “Them figures,’’
-ays the Wash ington Star, “point to
the not distant day when a republic not
lets powerful than our own will in
el ide all tho States of South America
under its authority.”
A company chartireJ in West Vir.
ginia, with a capital of $1,000,000,
had for its object the manufacturing of
big steel guns on the Delaware river, ’
near Philadelphia, under , the , patents of
D-. J!. J. Gstiing, the inventor of the
rapid-fire gun that bears Ids mb.
Congress has made an appropriation of
$6,000,000 forlioavy guns, and the com
pany intend to make 6 8 10 an 1 12
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aod for naval warfare. They will bo
tent to government testing stations, and
if they come up ' to the requirements ’
they must be accepted. Dr. Gatling
has a system by which he claims guns
can bo made much quicker and cheaper
than by the present, processor, and he
rdone understands thn secret.
The Secretary of War will approve
the new design , . for .. a national , fl,g , pre
pared by tho Navy Department. The
new standard wid not present a vary
noticeable difference from thi present 1
star spanglsd banner. A* require ! by
act of C ngreis, the alternate red aud
white strips., representing the original
thirteen colonics , . remain . the , same. The
change is in the stars, the admission of
th# new States adding font more stars
and , necessitating ... a r.-arrangement . of ,
rue -whole group. Taffy arc arrange l
ip six rows of seven stars each, the sec
end, fourth ar.d six’ll rows beginning
midway , , between the two c. first stars
in
the row above each of these rows. Many
design j,, werejgjedLred at the war etc
pnrtroer.t from almoit every part of tho
country, every amateur * tigt being
anxious to improve this rare and patriot
ic opportunity.
The Hartford Courant is of the opin
ion that “all cities should beware ot
largo blocks of buildings nominal y
fire-proof, but which, as in tho recent
case at Boston, are «o constructed as to
be ready invitations to the flumes. Then
the method of fighting firei and espe
cially the moles of ogrosi from burning
houses should be imprivod. As to the
of fire compinics, it ought
Vt>e *u«wn that new modes of building
residences, offices, theatrci and hotels
demand Lew and better arrangements
for subduing, conflagra'i.inv Wash*
iff to Wia not atfffered as much from
fires a.jj'iany othir citiei. Rut this fact
shefitci not biin I tha city to the necej
sit? for improvements in all re-pects
demanded by wise vigilance before it
is visited by one o? thoio terrible
scourges that have befallen IJ.ston,
New York, Chicago and other largo
cities, and have also swept into the
limbo of the lost the property of wao ■ e
v Union.” Lages and towns in all parts of the j |
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A Remarkable Storm.
Advices from Australia bring an ac
count of a remarkable storm at L uth.
The thermometer was at 100 dsgren in
the shade, and a wind, accompanied by
rain and hail, swept ever the town.
H i! stones as large as cricket bails
crashed through ail the windows.
Merchants suffered severe los es by the
drenching of stocks. Nearly every bit
sheet iron in Matthiws II Jl, j ut
leted, was perforated b/caun c- of
a:d the Court Hou.e, the Rival
b'd and the Telegraph Hotel and other
hidings covered with iron roofs wore
^AureJ –id with holes. A number of
other small animals wore
^Hnied. aud gardens were stripped
^^^hcre vestige of shrubbery. 8:verai
unroofed by the win.I. Iu
notes five inches of rain fell,
rose three fa it. aud hailstones
^^Hed up twelve inches high
JHke Cotmtg fernowl *
YOL. II.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE flFTT-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT fiABJHSON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Iu the house on Monday Mr. Wickham,
of Ohio, introduced for reference, a bill,
the purpose of which is to prevent gerry
mandering representatives in the elected states. It provides fifty-second that
to the
congress shall be returned from the same
districts as similar representatives elected
to the fifty-first Blair congress. his
Mr. on Monday resumed ar
gument in favor of his educational bill.
He read extracts from reports of school
commissioners in New York, Connecti
cut, Rhode Tslaud and other states, show
ing public the bad state bf tilings there in a
school point of view.
Among the bills introduced for refer
ence, on Tuesday, was one by Mr. Pierce
vestigate to create an the agricultural depressed commission condition to in
of the agricultural present the
interests of country.
Mr. Hoar introduced a bill to pro
scribe in part the manner of the election
of members of congress, nud it was re
ferred to the committee on privileges and
elections, it provides that in all states
of the United shall States representatives districts to
congress be for the now
prescribed by law, until an apportionment
of representatives shall be made by con
gress according The to the census bill to be taken
in 1880. object of the is to pre
vent gerrymandering in the states. The
bill building appropriating Burlington, $100,000 In., for a passed. public
at was
The senate resumed consideration of
the bill to provide a temporary government
for the territory of Oklahoma. The
Blair educational bill was then taken up
and Mr. Blair continued his opening
speech in support of that measure. With
out concluding. Mr. Blair yielded to »
motionito proceed to.executive business.
and after a session for that purpose, tie.
s( . na tc house adjourned in
The met Tuesday’s Wednesday session. morning
continuation of De
bate tinned. on the proposed Mr. Morse, code of Massachusetts, of rules was
eon
in the course of a defense of flic proposed
code said: “The business men of the
congress for the last ten years shall
change, imd how shall you change it
ythout amending the rules that bind tie
bodv, j,; hand and foot (
tlu . scnnt e, on Wednesday, resoiutioi Air. Slier
man called up the concurrent
heretofore reported by him from the coin
mittee on foreign relations, congratulating
the people of the United States of Brazi
on their adoption of resolution a republican form them ot
government. The is in
words: “That the United States of Ame-r
ica congratulates ” tho people assumption oi Brazil oo
the , r ju t and of the
powers, duties and responsibilities of self
government, based on the free consent of
the governed andon their recent-idop,•ion
of a republican form passed of unanimously, government,
Tho resolution wus
Between 1,5*00 and 1,500 person* us
s «nbiod in the house galleries Wednesday
evening to Itsten to arguments upon the
pi . oposed code of ru j e s, and had the
pleasure of looking down upon about
thirty Missouri, representatives: Lane of Illinois, Messrs. Rogers -Hanseur of
of g’
Arkansa9> ringcr o£ Illinois,Brookshire Indiana, Wike of
0 f Indiana, Shively of
Illinois and Pierce of Tennessee, de
nouced the rulings of the speaker, while
they ,£. were defended by Messrs. Moore of
V( , Iara p 6 Hi r e, Bunnell of Minnesota,
Honk of Tennessee and J. D. Taylor of
Dhio.
NOTES.
The senate- on Thursday confirmed thi
nomination of Blanche K. Bruce to be re
corder of deeds for the District of Co
lumbia.
It iras not Atlanta’s colored lawyer, C
H. J. Taylor, as was reported, but li. wh< C
C. Astwood, ex-minister the to Higgs Hnyti, llousi
created the sensation at
Monday evening.
The president the has Sioux signed reservation, the proclaim! it
tiou opening
South Dakota, to settlement. Hehasnlsc
issued an order establishing land offices at
Pierre and Chamberlain.
Ail members were present at the cabinet
meeting Tuesday, including This Secretaries time
Blaine and Tracy, is the first
there has been a full attendance in several
weeks.
On motion of Air. Gibson, In the sen at,
on Monday, the bill appropriating public building $800,
000 for a site for a at
New Orleans was taken from the calen
dar and passed.
The secretary of the treasury, on Mon
day, sent to the senate a statement, of the
amount of Indian trust funds invested in
state bonds which have not been interest paid at
maturity, with the amount of in
default.
A sensation was created at the hotels Riggs
House, one of the swell ot
the • nt.itol. "ii Tuesday Ga.,
lOT) a colored lawyer of Atlanta,
took dinner there as the guest of Nat
McKay. A11 the guests will probably
vaca t(< on account of the affair.
Senator Blair has been consuming the
time of the senate for four days speaking tired
on his educational bill, He has the
senators out and the chances of the bill
passing are waning every day. working Indeed,
the opponents of the bill are
vigorously to defeat it.
A bill introduced by Senator Edmunds
Tuesday to is provide elaborate a public school aud system
fof Utah a most with compre
hensive measure and great mioute
nes# provides about all the legislation nec- in
essary for the conduct of school affairs
the Territory. One of the objects of tiie
bill is to diminish -Mormon influence.
Among the nominations sent to the
senate on Monday were those of Charles
Emory Smith, of Philadelphia, find minister to be en
voy extraoj-ftisfry and J. pieiupo Lee, oi
tentiary to Russia, Fenner
Maryland, to be secretary of legation at
Bio Janeiro. Mr. Lee is now chief clerk
oi the state department, appointed by
Secretary Bayard.
■feiesday, j#'*.* secretary of the treasury, on
issued a second call on the
lal bank depositories for a reduction
,flic balances held bv thpm,. to be
ton or before March i. 1890. Tfm
ZEBU LON, GA., TUKS1)A$ FEBRUARY 18, 1890.
first call, except that banks having but
small amounts to transfer have been asked
for the full amount iu order to close out
the transaction.
tin Saturday last Senator Ingalls’ mail
contained inches a small pine wrapped wide box. four
long, two inches nud a little
more than an inch thick. On being
opened the Cnion the box Metallic was found Company’s to contain ‘‘Star" one
of
cartridges, ink: with the following pills for inscription old cuff
in black “Election
or for Ingalls, from Jackson, Miss. Come
mil see us, Old Nutgalls."
The President, on Wednesday, nomi
nated to be census supervisors: third district. Vir
ginia—Frank Alabama—Jack W. R. Winston, Wilson, fourth dis
trict. South Carolina—Samuel J. Pointer,
first district; Delevau Yates, second dis
trict; F. W. Macusker, fourth district.
Mississippi—Edward Aldrich, first dis
trict; Joseph Ounsley, third district.
Georgia—Christopher C. Haley, first dis
trict; Joseph H. Thibadeau, third dis
trict; Marion Bethune, fourth district;
Isaac Becket, fifth district ; William A.
Harris, sixth district.
The senate, on Tuesday, confirmed the
following nominations: Robert Adams,
Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be envoy extraor
dinary and minister plenipotentiary to the
United States of Brazil, now credited t
the empireof Brazil. To be United S ates
attorneys: the Samuel W. Hawkins, foi
western district of Tennes
see; district IfughB. Lindsay, for the eastern the
of Tennessee; John Rubin, for
middle district of Te nnessec. To In
United States marshals: J. G. Wetts, foj
the western district of Virginia. Post
masters: 0. L. Pritchard, at Front Royal,
Vu.; C. (luirkin, at Elizabeth City, N.C.
The senate has confirmed H. O. Bush,
collector of customs at Charleston, S. ('.
United Stales Marshal*—A. E. Buck,
northern district of Georgia; B. W.
Walker, middle and southern districts ot
Alabama: John O. Slocum, surveyor-gen
eral of Florida. Postmasters—Alabama
—L. Cornish, Demopolis; C. W. Childs,
Marion; lb Perdue, Greenville. Florida
-J. H. Harden, Bartow; O. 8. Oakes,
Femandina. Supervisors Census—Missis
sippi—J. W. Chandler, second district.
Florida—J. W. Tompkins, second dis
trict. Tennessee W. (Hunt, first
district.
FARMERS NOTIFIED
TO SqrtD IN TIIEIR ORDERS FOR COTTON
BAGGING K“!l THE SEASON OF 1800.
The following request to the farmers ol
Georgia has been sent out by Hon. W. J.
Northern chairman of the committee or
on the cotton Georgia bagging: State Alliance, “At tiie held sesslou oi
at Macon
last August, the committee on cotton
bagging to provide was sufficient continued, supply with instructions of riW–fcn
a
bagging for the crop of the coming a
eon. A*. soon tlxbrcaft^r, «« <**» car
sion could be received from the different
Alliances throughout the state, called endorsing
this action, the committee was to
gether for the purpose of making suitable
arrangements for tho manufacture ol
standard cotton bogging, Hince that
time, the national convention at ftt.
ering Louis for adopted the cotton bagging ami urged as the its cov
next crop gen
eral use by the members of the, National
Alliance. I am now prepared to report
that manufacturers In this state, who un
dertook the supply of cotton bagging the
past season will supply farmers with
standard cotton bagging to be 44 inches
wide and to weigh no loss than 12 ounces.
The manufacture will not be commenced
until the mills have received sufficient
orders to justify the necessary changes ot
machinery. Orders will not be accepted
unless accomplished by a sufficient
and satisfactory either in guarantee negotiable for pay
ment, cash or paper,
Orders may tie addresse I to West Point
Mills at West Point, Ga., Crown Mills a*
Dalton, Ga., or Sibley .Mills at Augusta,
Ga. The Sibley Mills will supply the
necessary amount of bagging for long
staple cotton. Manufacturing I am advised that the Co
operative company, of De
Kalb county, Ga., John E. Maguire, gen
era) manager, will fill orders for cotton
bagging made at the mills of the com
pany on Yellow river. Prices will lie
named as orders arc received. The offi
cers of each county A Hiarice are requested
to make these facts known at once to the
members of their organizations and urge
prompt and proper action. Delay on the
part of farmers gave much trouble and
made much confusion during the last sea
son. All this can be, avoided by immedi
ate action as herein advised.”
FRANZ HEARD FROM.
AN INTERVIEW WITII HIM REROUTED FROM
LEXINGTON, TENS.
A special to the Courier-Journal from
Lexington Tenn.. gives an interview with
H. J. Fanz, the alleged victim of violence
at Aberdeen, Miss., about whom so much
has been said in the United States senate
recently. Fanz says: “I went to Aber
deen in October. After the death of Jef
ferson Davis in December, l went upon
the roof of a building and found a rope,
which I untied. I did not know then it
was the one which had the effigy of Sec
retary Proctor of tho war department. it had
When I come down I learned that
be?n reported that I said no effigy should
be hung while I was in town. Will Mc
Donald, a bricklayer, asked me about it,
and struck me across the nose and eye,
inflicting a slight wound. I concluded
to leave town, The mayor came and
asked me to stay, promising asked not me to protec- leave.
tion. Citizens also me
I went off on a night train. I learn that,
McDonald came to the depot to talk to
me but I did not see him. I did not
think much of it, and there was no cause
for all this fuss which has been raised. I
am a hot-headed democrat..”
A TOWBOAT SINKS
AND CARRIES SEVEN PEOPLE DOWN WITH
HER.
News comes from Memphis. Captain Tenn., that
t j, e towboat Port Eads, Nelson
p aT js, of the St. Louis and Missis
s jpp| VuIIey Trausporta'iou Monday morning compa- at
waa sunk
the new railroad bridge two miles below
that city. She carried a crew of about
forty men, and for a time the wildest ru
mors prevailed, and the loss of life
placed at from twenty-five to thirty-five
SOUTHERN INDIES,
Interesting news from all
points IN THE SOUTH.
9EN15RAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCE!
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S AND DIXON’S UNK.
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A general strike is threatened in the
Alabama mining region.
Seven hundred bales of cotton were
burned at a New Orleans compress Mon
day. Loss $80,000; insured.
The Alliance of Morgan oountv, Ala
bama, desires that a good lanyard be es
tablished in that county, aud promises its
support.
Thomas A. Edisafl, the inventor, is iu
Charlotte, N. C. He is there to examine
the mineral lands of .that section, and says
he may invest in soim- mine.
chant Benjamin F. Leudhnit, a general mer
doing business at assignment Lowell, Gaston
county, N. C., made an Wed
nesday $3,000; to Alfred Andrews, $2,000. Liabilities
about assets
The melon growers of west Florida
have perfected an organization known as
the Melon Growers’ Association of West
Florida. .Mr. D, O. Cross, of Inwood,
was elected permanent, secretary.
Northern News copies from Raleigh, large N. that
men are mulling purchase,”
counties. of piue lands Several iu Richmond thousand and Moore
acres have
been bought in the. past few days.
An attempt was made Saturday by the
Southern Express company's detective”
to arrest, the noted outlaw, Rube Burrows,
whom they had located their near Milton, Fla. and
Burrows learned of presence
made good his escape
The Dallas, Texas, courthouse, will
nearly all its contents, was burned Bator
day. District and county clerks’ records
imd contents of the county treasurer’s of
tire were saved in tire-proof vaults. The
loss is estimated at $<10,000; insurance
$40,000.
A dispatch from developments Raleigh, N. Monday says:
There was no new
in the oyster war matter. The course
taken by the authorities is firm and sensi
ble, and the matter will probably go into
the courts at once, so that the question ut
issue can be legally settled.
the The Chattanooga contract was Southern let Monday railroad for building rub
to
from Chattanooga, Term., to McLemore’s
Cove, iu Walker county. Gil, a distance
of twenty-five miles. The road will open
up forests of fine, timber and beds of iron
ore and coal.
There is u strong movement to have
the study of agriculture introduced into
the public schools of the rural districts ol
the South. Hon. P. J. Berekmans, of
Augusta, Ga., and Ifon. Daniel Dennett,
of fore Mississippi, public. are pushing the matter be
the
ifon. i’rimtis W. Jones, of Baker
comity, Ga., the extensive cotton planter
and “first bale” mail, died at: Atlanta.
Ua., on Sutfirdar. Mr. Jones served two
terms in the Georgia legislature, and had
the reputation of being one of the most
advanced farmers in the state.
President E, T. Barnes, of the Alliance
Peanut Union, who resides at Newsom’s,
officially in Southampton that the county, union has Va., resolved announce* that
the, minimum prices of farmers’ stock
of cleaned peanuts shall Tie 6| cents per
pound.
The directors of the Tampa, Florida, recently
Branch Alliance exchange met busi
in that city to transact invitation important
ness, and a general was ex
tended to all the sub-Allianccs m that
county to be present and discuss matters
pertaining to the welfare of the order,
Citizens of Mobile, Ala., on Wediiire dol
day, completed a quarter million
lar subscription to the preferred stock of
the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City
railroad, the amount needed to secure the
building of tiie road from Mobile to
Jackson, Miss., in one year from date,
Wednesday night all the jail prisoners made their in
Durham county, N. O., window
escape. During and the night a handed rear in tied
was broken, a key was fitted the door
to a long pole. The key
0 { the cells. The combination lock wns
unlocked and the prisoners released them
selvisi.
A dispatch of Wednesday, from Pied
mont, Ala., says: A great, crowd is here
from many states. 'The sales of lots camr
to $125,000. In addition to the works
heretofore announced, a hundred ton
furnace is secured. Main street lots were
sold up to $125 a front foot.
President. E. T. Stockhouse, of the
South Carolina State Alliance, has been to
Charleston to organize a svtb-Allianco in
that county, and now there is only one
.county in the state, Beaufort, that has no
‘Alliance. The total membership now
amounts to over 30,000, with a steady in
crease every month.
The trustees of the State Baptist Fe
male university, on Wednesday, decided
by ballot to locate it at Raleigh, N. C.
Durham had offered $50,000 and a site
for the college; Oxford offered $80,000
and a site; Raleigh offered $25,000 and
s site; Greensboro offered $10,000 and a
site.
At Jackson, Mississippi, postponed on Monday, the hill
the house indefinitely of the old
creating a new county of parts
counties to be called Jefferson Davis county,
by a vote of forty-five afterwards to twenty-nine, passed and bill
immediately Bolivar a
changing the name of county a
now constituted, to Jefferson Davis
comity.
A dispatch from Birmingham. AD..
All efforts to settle tlu: strike al
the Birmingham roiling mil! have failed.
President VVeib. of the Amalgamated
Association, returned to Pittsburg
Wednesday, his mission having been
fruitless. The company refuses to rec
agnize the association in any way, and
the men refuse to'Vi-.'c up their plan to
organize-a local lotigi The right now
promises to lie a long and bitter one.
A south bound special train, on the
Alabama Great Southern railroad, colli
ded with a north bound pjssengor train,
on Wednesday, forty miles south of Bir
mingham, Ala. Engineer Ed Doolittle,
of tiie passenger train, was killed in
stantly. Several passengers were severely
bruised, but none seriously injured. filled The
special ?^^^umi>oscd of sleepers
with societies cn route
A meeting of the manufacturers of yel
low pine lumber of Georgia was held at
the chamber of commerce at Atlanta, on
whose Saturday. product Nearly all of the larger mills
is shipped by all rail to
northern and western points were repre
sented. The purpose for which the meet
ing inspection, was called was primarily to regulate
to agree upon sales on a mill
changes basis, and to secure for the railroads such
in the present method of ship
ments as would correjt existing annoy
ances and delays in transportation.
HAWES CONFESSES
.-HAT JOHN WYLY KILLED MRS. HAWES AND
THE CHILDREN.
Dispatches from Birmingham, confession—a Ala., says
Dick Hawes has made a
full, free and frank, clean breast of the
horrible triple murder for which he is to
hang on the 28th. Hawes says that John
Wiley, of Atlanta, Ga., killed Mrs. Ilawcs,
May and Irene. The confession was mado
Friday night between six and seven
o’clock to Mr. James Hawes and
Sheriff Smith, aud the the story related
to them was a thrilling andjexciting one.
THE CONFESSION.
The following is “Well, the substance hud of
Hawes’ confession: I been
engaged to that lady in Columbus, aud
there never was a sweeter woman. Em
ma (his wife) had promised me to go to
her people In Colorado, and 1 had given
her the money. T was to put the two
girls in tho convent at Mobile. Well,
Thursday before I was married, Emma
was to give me the children and go. On
only Unit day refused I went to to tho but house, refused and to give she not
children. go, me
the I was to bo married to a
woman I loved wife. the next Tuesday, and
there was my What was I to do?
I was desperate. and, knowing That day I met John
Wvly, him well, told him
iny trouble. I was in deep trouble, and
he said ho could get them all out of tho way.
Then I agreed to give him two hundred
dollars to do it, and we. parted. On Sai
urdnv night, I went to the house again
and tried to beg Fmnia to go away, but
she refused to go. She and May and
Irene were all in bed undressed, and I
went away. On Monday I met John Wy
lie near the clothing store, and lie said .
'Dick, they’ll never bother about you again.’
lie started to tell me all it, and I
told him not to do it. That night I went
around by the home aud it was all dark. 1
Then 1 Went to Fanny Bryant’s home, and
that was dark, too. Then 1 got on the
train and went to Columbus and got
married, and that’s all I know 1 .
Immediately upon Hawes’ confession, tel
egrams were sent to Atlanta, asking
Wyly’s arrest. He was found and taken
into custody. Upon being questioned
he said that he knew nothing of the mat
ter, and could prove that he had no con
nection-with it whatever. He wns car
ried to Birmingham Saturday.
A DENIAL.'
When the train bearing Wyly reached
Birmingham, there was a big crowd at
the depot. Tie was hurried immediately
ID the jail When asked if he wanted to
see Hawes, he said: “Yes I do, and I
want to see him quick.’’ When the two
men were brought face to face, and to
Wyly’s question demanding to that know hr
what Hawes meant by saying
(Wyly) committed the crime, Hawes em
phatically denied that he ever said it.
Then the two men began quarreling, when the sher- and
the quarrel wns ended only
iff led Wyly away and locked him up.
Tim general impression is that, Hawes has
told the story simply to prolong his life.
RAILROAD WRECK8.
CARS DEMOLISHED AND A NUMBER OF PEO
PLE KILLED OR INJURED.
A special from Oonncllsvillc, Pa., says:
A through mail train from Baltimore, on
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, ran into
a mountain of snow three miles cast of
Ohio Pyle, Saturday evening. The en
gine and combination postal into the and river, baggage the
cat went over the bank
smoking ear followed half way. Tiie en
g.neer, fireman and baggage master Several were
seriously but not fatally hurt pas
sengers were more or less injured, is one will
die... .Another accident railroad reported on
the Chesapeake and Ohio at Big
Pen Tunnel, between Hinton and Lowell,
W. Va. A freight train, which was ap
proaching a signal station, ran into a
switch which had been left open. Before
the engineer could reverse his engine, it
had crashed into the signal river, and and pushed then
the station into New
plunged in after it. The tender followed
the engine, in the station wns a tele
graph operator. He, tho the engineer river and and
firemen, were carried into
drowned. The freight cars dispatch were piled up
nil over the track... A. from
Little Rock, Ark., says: Early Saturday attached
morning, at Dermott, an engine
to a train of freight cars, ran into a car
loaded with rails, causing a most frightful
wreck. Thro - men employed killed in and building others
the road were instantly conduc
serious]v injured. J. J. Costner,
tor, was arrested, charged with criminal
carelessness.
SEFFERING IN DAKOTA.
AN APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE FROM THE
DROUGHT-STRICKEN COUNTIES.
Hon. H. Tbelgeson, state commissioner
of agriculture for North Dakota, has just
issued an situation address in to the the drought-stricken public, explain
ing counties, the length, and making
at some an
appeal for assistance. 11c says the suf
fering for the want of provisions, cloth
ing, fuel and feed for stock in
several and needs counties authoritative is unprecedented, explana
some
tion. This explanation is, in brief, that
unfavorable seasons have prevented set
tlers in newer portions of the state from
becoming at, once self-sustaining, or them th,e
accumulation of any reserve to tide
over such misfortunes.
A PLUCKY WOMAN
During the third act of the opera oi
“Tiie Rose of Castile” at the Academy o!
Music in Richmond, Vi.., while Emma
Abbott was raised singing tiie a solo, crowded an alarm bouse, of
fire was in
caused by the, continued fumes of burning paper.
Miss Abbott her song, however,
during the coiirt/.-ritatiou that ensued.
NUMBER 12.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CARLE.
T1IINOS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAT TO DAT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
North Dakota’s great lottery bill was
indefinitely postponed by the house Mon
day.
Another ballot for speaker was taken in
the Iowa legislature Monday without re
sult.
Tiie first, session of the fourth annual
meeting of American newspaper publish
ers, was opened in New York Wednesday.
The switchmen on the New York Cen
tral railroad, at Suspension Bridge, N. Y.,
struck for an advance Monday.
The men indicted for pleaded attempting guilty to
bribe tho Cronin jurors on
Wednesday. Sentence lias not yet been
passed, Rouvicr that the
Tlic Paris announces
total government revenue for 1889 was
$014,200,000, and total expenditures,
$031,400,000.
The Philadelphia and Reading colliery, compa- shut
ny's North Ashland, Pa.,
down indefinitely Tuesday, throwing five
hundred men and boys out of employ
ment.
Emperor William, of Germany, hut
caused the exhibition an order of to portraits lie issued of himself, prohibiting hit
ancestors, or any of his family without
his sanction first being obtained. Hit
pictures were being put up with cigarettes.
The corner-stone which of Dr, in Talmage’s of new
tabernacle, is Y., course laid Mon- erec
tion in Brooklyn, N. was
day afternoon in the presence ot a large
congregation. The ceremonies were con
ducted by Dr. Talmage and his trustees.
A dispatch from Todden, North Dako
In. .says: Between 800 and 1,000 Indians,
credited to Devil’s Lake agency, are whol
ly destitute of clothing, and in the last
Mages of starvation. Unless furnished
with food, clothing and medicine at once,
the Indians will die like dogs.
The water has receded far enough to
permit a rough estimate of the damage
done by the recent flood at Oregon City,
Ore. While much of the machinery in
the mills is covered by sediment carried in
by the current, it is impossible to ob
tain a correct estimate of the damage, loss. it
is thought $150,009 will cover the
At New York, his Tuesday, decision Judge the O’Brien celebra
handed down in
ted sugar trust ease, He decided in sub
stance, that the company should bn allowed
to continue its business, but continues the
injunction restraining tho trust from
transferring its property, or doing an;
other acts that might interfere with tin
rights of the plaintiff.
Kvt|orJs “* h"u iSuWl" ,lie Jjf rtof New
¥ $348.’910
which $8,030 was in gol.f and
in silver; $1,300 in gold and $345,800 in
silver went to Europe, in and $1,730 in
gold and $3,610 silver $ent to South
America. Imports week of amounted specie at port $98,- oi
New York last to
927, of which $70,918 was gold and
$28,000 was silver.
A committee of the Canton Oyster ex
change, of Baltimore, was before the
committee of the legislature Wednesday, and
having care of the The Chesapeake favor bay the
its tributaries. of law which oyster will men stop the
passage a
catching of oysters, for any purpose, after
April 1st. Baltimore and neighboring
towns are becoming alarmed about the
possible loss of their oyster crop and
trade.
John Fitzgerald, of Lincoln, Neb.,
president of tiie Irish National league,
lias issued mi address to that organization
appealing for increased contributions for
use in what he believes to be the closing
fight in Great Britain—the impending
general parliamentary election. He uu
nounces the postp onement of the national
convention at Mr. Parnell’s national suggestion,
and calls a meeting Ht. of the J.ouis AYednesday, exec
utive committee at
April 16th.
Washington hall, a three-story build
ing at Patterson, N. J., used as the arm
ory of the First battalion National Guard
ot New night." Jersey, was destroyed will by probably fire Sat
urday The loss
reach $300,000. The building flames spread adjoining, to a
large three-story destroyed, entailing
which was entirely numbol
losses footing up to $20,000 on a
of families 'iving therein. The hall build
ing and the board of trade rooms, wit!
their valuable library, were completed; rifles
destroyed. In the armory were 800
and accoutrements, all belonging to the
state, and these, together with a Gatling
gun, were destroyed.
THE MORMONS DEFEATED.
SALT LAKE CITY IS NOW UNDER CONTIIOI
OF GENTILES.
A dispatch from .Salt; Lake City, Utah,
concerning the election there, says; Ev
erything is now quiet. Business has re
sumed its normal condition, and were it
not for the decorations upon the house*
of the Gentiles, there would be no indi
cation of the great political battle which
closed Tuesday night. Offlciul return*
give George A. Scott, Gentile, Yams, for mayor, Gen
a majority of 809; Louis II.
tile, for recorder, 539; J. B. Walton,
Gentile, for treasurer, 659; E. It. date,
Gentile, for assessor, 466; J. M. Young,
Gentile, for marshal,773. Tha remaindet
of the general ticket, including majorities fifteen
coiracilmen was elected by gives
ranging from 800 to 400. This
them control of the municipal council the
for the first time in the history-of concedt
city. Mormon organs while they
their defeat, specifically charge that it
was accomplished by frauds of thn most
flagrant character, and these they de
scribe in detail. There is submission. no suggestion,
however, of anything but
THE CASHIER SKIPPED.
AND CARRIED AWAY WITH HIM 25,001) OB
THE FIRM’S MONEY.
A dispatch of Monday from. Lancaster,
Pa., says: Ellis Bird, cashier toUg^HH of LinutfM
National bank is a defaulter
of considerable 25,000. His operation^^HHHH pin '
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COTTON STATISTICS.
NINE-TENTH OF THE COTTON HAS LEFT TBti
PLANTATIONS.
Cotton returns of the deportment of
agriculture for February gives local esti
mates has left of the the proportion plantation. of The the crop consolida- which
tion make 90.4 per eent, leaving O.tS pee
cent, to still go forward. About nine
tenths of the crop lias, therefore, bocti
reported in sight, or in small stocks unre
ported in the hands of country merchants,.
or in transit. The state averages ore ns
South follows: Carolina Virginia 87, Georgia North Carolina 90, Florida 80,
90,
98, Alabama 90, Mississippi 91,
89, Texas 92, Arkansas 90, Tennessee
The average date of the close of picking
is about the same ns last year iu Georgia,
is Mississippi, Louisiana the Cnrolinus, and Tennessee, Florida aud and
earlier in
Arkansas aud later in Alabama and Texas.
The average of county dates is December
12, ranging from November to January. oil
The proportion of seed sold to mills
has been found difficult to estimate,but is
apparently not much over twenty-five per
cent, and of the 1,000,000 crop, possibly The between largest- 900,
000 tons. pn I
portion by Georgia, reported Arkansas, is in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi,. followed
Alabama aud the Caroiiuns. The average
Cnrolinas state prices, aud as Georgia, consolidated, are; The
18 cents per bush
el; Tennessee, 17; Florida, 10; Alabama
aud Mississippi, 15; Louisiana, 14; Texas
and Arkansas, 18. Returns of quality are
Carolina, very high, and except iu Virginia and North
in Tennessee and Arkansas,
It is superior in all states of the gulf coast.
The per ventage of lint from seed cotton
is as follows: Virginia, 80; North Caro
lina, 81.5; 8outh Carolina, 32.7; Georgia, Mis-
32.2; sissippi, Florida, 82.8; Louisiana, Alabama, 32.5;
82.3; 82.5; Texas,
82.4; Arkansas, 82.2; Tennessee, 32.
The damage by insects was the gmdesUii
Arkansas and Texas. In Tx^Wli
ma, Mississippi, Tennessee and
Carolina it was general, but less severe.
Georgia and South Carolina suffered ics-\
The loss from the boll worm was in Geor
gia, Alabama, Lousiana and Texas greater
than that from tne caterpillar.
THE AGENTS ARRESTED
THE PEOPLE OF ENFIELD, S. C., OBJECT
TO REMOVAL OF THE NEGROES.
News comes from Raleigh, N. that
on Saturday, labor agent”, one for the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia,and
the other representing the Texas Central
railway, had a lively experience four at him En
field. They had secured about
dred negroes, whom they were taking
away on a special train. The white people the
there had said they would not permit
labor agents to continue their work of rive
removal of the negroes. Consequently and h
Mm** couple of men uncoupled train Hill the and cans Joim
stormed the signing
the agents, were arrested. Upon
a paper stating that lie would never re
turn to that section, IIill was released.
Jones secured bail and then took the tip
gross on to A, The case created
much stir. The sheriffs in that section
make all the negroes settle their taxes be
fore they leave, and some have had to pay
three years which were due, The agents
pay these taxes in all cases. .........
SEVEN BOY8 DROWNED.
THEY WERE TAKING A HIDE ON THE RIVER
AND THEIR BOATS WERE CAPSIZED.
A special from New Orleans says: A sad
accident occurred Sunday afternoon in
Carrollton, Miss, Eight aud eighteen, boys, between all
the ages of thirteen res
idents of the upper city, secured started two ves
sels and jumped into them out to
take a ride On the river. Their course
led them between two empty coal barges
lying at the head of Octavia street. There
was a strong current running at the time,
and despite their efforts, the yawls were
hurled by the current aguinst and the barges, of
causing both boats to upset seven
the eight unfortunate and youths drowned. were
thrown Into the river
Their names were: Frank Landry,
George Sampson, Willie Winters, Martin
Perirere, Louis D. Fulda, Alvye Falda,
Eddie Knecht. Wilton Bobby, the only
occupant of the boat who escaped, caved
himself by , catching on to one of the
overturned boats.
ALL DROWNED. {
AN ENTIRE FAMILY OF SIX PERSON cJNI>
A WATERY GRAVE.
The four children of Jacob R. Slater
were skating on the lake at Beunewster,
about six miles from Kingston, N. Y„
Sunday afternoon, when the ice, which
was but a few inches thick, gave way, into
and the little ones were precipitated heard by
tiie water. Their shouts were
the members of the family, who lived
near by, and the father and
mother rushed to the rescue. By the time
the parents reached the lake, the children
had disappeared beneath the ice. The
mother, frantic with the thought the of
the children’s peril, rushed upon
ice, which gave way beneath her weight,
and she sank below the surface. Mr.
Slater then attempted to reach his wife,
and he, too, was drowned. The entire
family is wiped out of existence.
THE GRADY MONUMENT.
OVER $20,000 RAISED—WHERE THE MON
UMENT WILL BF, PLACED.
The Grady monument fund has reached
above $20,000. The latest addition, re
ceived Saturday, through Cornelius X.
Bliss, was $1,005, from the New England
society. There has been much discu?x.ip!i
as to the most appropriate place for lira
dy’s monument. Almost everybody in
Atlanta was interested in the matter, and
almost everybody lias expressed The committee an opbi
ion on the subject. in charge
which lias the matter
rfdered every locality, have and iCEjJg/M
)y decided heart ofJJ to plan: -’**
very