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An exact copy of the United States
a!ion labor act has been introduced in
the House of Parliament at Ottawa,
Canada. The bill appears to he a slap
at the United State* for enforcing their
own act to keep Canadians trim work
ing across the border for a short tinu.
Tho eff'Ct of our stringent laws
against polygamy is seen in the settle
ment of 1,000 Mormon refugees from
tffa.1 .in Cauala. At present there is
no law ag j - the domte od
i< n, but t ament wilt os,
to introdu asuro making it »
punishable , The Canadians
view wit| i migration of Mor
mons to tl ry
s husband in
A Bosto lost her
recent di Then a broker ab
a Her
sconded v her money.
rugglos t. herself and her
» While she
four child r ior i!L
lying i penniless, says the
was of tig
Gibe, of tt he officers
law remove furniture in the
room excep on which a’e lay,
then took t out of th windows
and poured t of rater on the
fire at wliicl v girl was trying
to prepare medicine for her
mother. T roman died from ex
posure thJtvening and her little ones
were tur j out to shift for th«ja*«lve**
1
It is evident, observes the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, that the Nihilists in
Russia are again preparing for acme
great stroke such as that which ended
tho life of the Czsr, Alexander II.
There is the same feverish ac iv ty, the
frequent discoveries of plots and tho
dosperate acts of those who are caught.
No wonder that the Russian police
dread the Nihilists whoa a young girl
like Sophie Pjrovs'ti has the nerve to
give tho signal for throwing tho fatal
bomb that killed the Czar, and another
in Moscow shoots doivn the chief of the
secret police who came to arrost her,
and then takes her own life. Swift
death by her own hand was a far bettor
fate than exile to Siberia, with the
nameless indigniries to which female
prisoners are saUj-cted.
As fmilunoire coal nas come oi into
years to be uso.1 more and more exclu
sivcly for dom-stic purposes, it bus
grown to be a more accurate measure of
the consumption of fuel by tlie people.
Nobody will lie surpri od to learn that
the amount of coal used for purposes of
house-warming was surprisingly small
during the mild w.ntsr of 1889 Yet
the official figures are rather startling.
In 1888, except for the br.ef perio 1 of
the Maich blizz trd, the country expe
rienced little extreme coi l; yot tho an
thracite consumption in 1889 foil short
of that in 1883 by 3,111 958 tons.
This has been a serious affair for tho
coal companies, and all of them have
lost money at their business, but wo
tmpept that }he vaf ”'■» at a*■*¥** will not
'domplam. The ftniu ncr i finis it cx
trrmaly difficult to look at these mat
ters from the same point of view as tho
producer.__
A writer in the Njw Y ork World
rayi that M l Giaeral Grant ii reported
to be in gild physical health, Imt
mentally deprc.se 1. She seem* to he
in a continued state of lethargy, an 1
perfectly indifferent to current event-.
Books arenegkctcl, magazines remain
uncut and letters unopened. Sic is ex
cused to callers and accepts no inv.ta
tions, many of them being answcrcl by
messenger weeks after the event for
which they were iisuel. Sue re id s her
husband’s books over and over again,
and from their pages seems to g-tas
much enn'ort as a Christian from h a
Bible. The medallions, medals
and miniatures in marble and
carved meal once prized by
tbe illustrious soldier are re
garded with reverence, and in fits < t
abstraction she wilt sit for hours p i
iailing the one she happens to take up,
ruining her handkerchief or a lace
tidy in the operation. Whenever she
drives out the coachman goro to the
tomb and, if there are no visitors about
it, stops at tbe path, and his mistress
alights, goes to the entrance and stands
before it with her face pressed against
the iron bars. At the approach of
e I angers the sound of a whip-lash is
heard, the signal for th: lonely, sorrow
ing woman to withdraw. The most
devoted affection is manifested by her
children, from whom she receives all
manner of mementoes anl letters daily,
although she docs not write to any of
them. Of late she has been inconven
ienced by rheumatic pains in lier kuoes
and feet, milking it difficult for her to
wear leather shoes.
The Torn of the Wheel
First Tramp (encouragingly)—Ciecr
up, oi’ fel. We’ic down now, tut you
dunno how soon we may be on top
it’s only the turn of the wheel. -
Second Tramp loomilv)—It must
be a b!«m i M gjfi or- else it turni
mighty sley. iWH
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VOL. II.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTT-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRIBON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GF.NKRAL INTEREST.
In the house on Saturday Mr. Mc
Creary, of Kentucky, from the commit
tee on foreign affairs, reported a resolu
tion correspondence requesting from 1, the president m. any
r**
thc-regujar , «' armv ° /^ ,,*to the employment ‘ - in
jf Uoit d gtfttea o(
suinghtrctilc 1 the l>“ r l*> sc V ur
suing of i-A\JrLans tlx^-nitgd m . their rmds into
territories Sta tc*; „ nd llnv
ooTresp ' 0( .jin regard to the peepes-.’t
Chiricahua / the Apache and
, j n j ianH froul Mount
rifwiii Fort itm.^ndian -'barracks Territory, Alabama, Adopted. to
. .
Ihe moving hour was consumed in the
discusjftm of the,bill providing for the
cot 'tie 9$idsory attendance of witnesses land offices, be
registers and receivers of
frhich was passed. The house then, in
committee of the w-liole, resumed consid
eration of public buildli measures. A
great number of biffs for discussed. public
building committee were called up and and reported
The then arose
the bills to the house, which immediately
found itself in a small deadlock. There
was no quorum to pass the bills. Rend
ing further discussion the house ad
journed. privileges and
The senate committee on
elections, after a long session on Satur
day, considering the contested Montana
senatorahip, by a party vote decided to
recommend to the senate that Rower and
seated. Saunders, the republican senators, be
In the senate on Tuesday the attend
ance at the opening prayer wns so small
that a call of senators was ordered, and
after a quorum was thus obtained the
journal of Monday was read and approved.
The credentials of Senator Allison for his
new term, commencing March 4, 1891,
were read and ordered petitions to be placed presented on
file. Among the
and referred was one from Flor
ida asking a duty of one dollar
per box on foreign resolution Oranges.
Mr. Hoar called up the re
ported by him Monday for the exclusion
from the Record of sentences interpolated remarks
by Mr. Call iu the report of his
in the discussion with Mr. Chandler some
weeks ago. Mr. Call submitted some
remarks in his own vindication, and as
sured the senntc that he bad no intention
of violating its rule. A vote -was taken
on the resolution and resulted yens 27,
nays 11. No quorum. Without dispos
ing of the matter, the senate adjourned. made
In pursuance of the agreement Sat
Itr/lul’ tho jniliMn lifiil l o,i V.-*t1 . .. I L l.
day passed the committee of the whole,
came up Tuesday morning in the house
with the previous question ordered.
The bills were passed. They provide the for
the erection of public buildings at
following points: Cedar Rapids, Atchison, in.;
Chester, Pa.; Columbus, Ga.; Houlton, Me.;
Kan.; Alexandria, La.; Ind.; Baton
Lynn, Mass.; Lafayette, Neb. Also
Rouge, La.; and Tremont, an
increase in the limits of the cost of build
ings at Newark, N. J. Scranton, Pa.;
Troy, N. Y., Dallas, Tex., and Spring
field, Mo. The measure involves an ex
penditure of $1,845,000.. • Mr. Baker, of
New York, from the committee on terri
tories, reported a bill for the admission of
Wyoming. lie asked for the immediate
consideration of the bill which, under the
new rules, is a privileged measure. Tin
house decided to consider the bill, and it
was referred to a committee of the whole,
The first three-nuartersjof an hour of
the session of the house Wednesday
morning was consumed iu a desultory
discussion as to the status on the calen
dar of private claims reported from the
court of claims, but the speaker reserved
his decision. Mr. Cannon, from tbeeom
mittee on rules, reported a resolution, set
ting aside Wednesday and Oklahoma Thursday bill. for
the consideration of the
The resolution was adopted and accord
ingly the house went into committee of
the whole on the Oklahoma bill. Mr.
Kelly, of Kansas, offered an amendment
providing that a general status of Kansas
(instead of Nebraska) shall extend ovci
the territory, until after the first session
of the legislature.
NOTES.
The secretary of the treasury on
Wednesday received a conscience con
tribution of $20.25 from an unknown
resident of Charleston, S. (J.
It is given out that the republicans of
the house election committee on Wednes
day decided to unseat Louis W. Turpin,
of Alabama, and bring in their man (Me
Duffie) to take bis place.
Postmaster-Genera! Wanamakcr and
wife, accompanied by Mrs. Harrison,
Mrs. Russell Harrison and Mrs. McKee,
will leave Washington for a trip to Flori
da where they will spent about two weeks,
The senate on Wednesday proceeded the to
vote on the resolution to exclude from
the Congressional Record the interpolations of the
made by Mr. Call in the report
discussion with Mr. Candler on tbe 20th
of February. The resolution was agreed
to_yeas 36, nays 14.
Democrats in congress say that the sur
plus in the treasury has dwindled during
one year of republican administration from
$110,000,000 to less than $4 0.000,000.and
the spoliation of public funds everywhere
contemplated by the party in power will
not be long in reducing the “vaunted
surplus” * to a reminiscence
•
The sub-committee , on the world iv s f fair
made enoouragmg progress towards the
completion of their bill at Baturdriys
meeting. The Chicago visiting delega
t.on were present and the sub-committee
turned the bill over to them with iristnic
lions lo go over it very carefully, line hy
line snu suggest such changes as ,,, th-tt
opuuon were n«q to make the mea
sure meet the needs of Chicago.
The senate on Wednesday confirmed
the following nominations: Collector of
customs, J. E. Lee, St. Johns, I la., Dan
iei V. Booth, Mobile. United States mar
shals, Simon Mathews, southern district
of Mississippi; George 1. Cunningham, _
South Carolina; James \\ . Brown, wes
tern district of Tennessee; William K.
Craig, United States attorney, westen
district of Virginia. Post-masters, Mis
sissippi; W. F. . Elgin, Corinth; Virginia,
ZEBULON, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1890,
I*. 'McCabe, Leesburg; Parke AgneW.
Alexandria.
Representatives of the Florida orange
arowera appeared Before the ways and
means committee on Wednesday to request
m additional measure of protection for
their industry. J. E. Hartridge present during
ed their case in an argument,
which he dwelt at length of securing upon undue Ihe prac
tice by importers duty damaged fruit, lit re
missions of upon
believed that the duty should be fixed i t
♦ 1 per box, should and the provisions for from damage the
allowance be stricken
law.
Dr. McCune, a high officer in the al
liance. and editor of the National R«no
miet, told the committee on agriculture
that the allianeemon of tho South vs ore
divided on the compound lard bill. jp,
it. The .....i..■ southern fi v ,.,-.’.1 ,t. members, in,,; many opjmscU
said that however,
he was not correct; every
farmer in the cotton states was opposed
to the measure, as it was a direct attack
upon cotton seed, and would reduce their
value to almost nothing. All the efforts
of the southern men are bill now being ex
erted to smother the and committee.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS 8EOTIONB
OF THE COUNTRY.
The Mississippi Farmers’ Alliance has
$8,502.00 in bank at Winona.
*** Wrightsville,
O. 8. Meadows, of Ga.,
killed an Alliance hog that weighed 572
pounds, and sold for $48.86.
*** have
Tho Polk County (Ga.) Alliance
completed Rockmart a substantial their Alliance stone building at
for store.
*** established
An Alliance bank exclusively is being of
at Americas, Ga., members
of the order for Affiance purposes.
>* A
The Farmers’ and Laborers’ Union of
France do not meddle in politics. They
devote their work to co-operative and
technical matters.
***
A member of a sub-Allianca in Cobb
county, Ga., has been expelled for using
jute, and having his cotton ginned where
the ginner used jute.
***
Tho offensive and defensive alliance
of tho Farmers’ State grange and Knights (
of Labor, in Kansas’ masses the influence
of 125,000 members.
The Farmers’ Alliance, of BklgeHckl
county, 8. C-, has determined to establish
a Farmers’ Alliance Bank, to be located
at some railroad point in the county,
The shares are fixed at $25 each, to be
paid in live annual installments.
***
A few . the Alliance through
men motives, join and because they
speculative feel themselves financially benctiUed
can’t
all at once, they kick out. Such men
ought to stay out among the speculators,
for they are not lit for Alhancemen.
%’
The Plain Speaker, Superintendent of Orangeburg, T. 8.
0., reports that State
E, Pratt, of the Colorado National Alii
ance, is delivering addresses full of good
advice to the Sub-Alliances in various
parts of the State, and the negro farmers
appear to be benehtted by his advice.
A business A in Greenville, 8. 0.,
man
who dealt largely last year with members
of the Alliance through Business arrangements
made with the days County that of Agent., than re
marked a few ngo more
$18,000 worth of goods sold on time $101! tr
Allianceincn, there was lead than
past due and unpaid, and he considered
every dollar of that amount perfectly
good. ***
It would lie a shame upon the part o!
those who have gone into the Alliance tc
fail to carry out their obligations. question: Let
each member ask himself this
“If every member of the Affiance should
act as I do, would it lie a success ?” II
you are one of those weak-kneed sort you
will have to give it up as a failure. Then
why will you just, merely pretend to thing, be a
thing ? If you are then going make to be a
be it, and if not, no preten
tions .—Buchanan Messenger.
V made lard
The attempt being by pro
ducers to put a tax upon the compound,
or cotton oil defeated. lard, is an unjust alleged measure
and should be The sup
port of Southern Alliancemen to this
measure is fake. They are perfectly wil
ling that manufacturers of compound iard
should be made to put a i unmistakable
brand upon it, so that the people may
know what they superiority are using, and compound may be
able to see the of
or cotton oil Iard over the so-called pure
lard; but they will never favor this pro
duct bearing of a market, special tax and being
driven out the
***
The following preamble and resolu
tions were adopted by the DeKalb, coun
ty,. Whereas, The alliance movement is no ,
designed to advance the interest of o
man > or of a few men, but of doing th
greatest good to the greatest number; and
Whereas, It. w not a political and fishes organi- of
z^ion after the loaves
a “ d > olls .- ’ b " t ‘
nobler and higher in its aims l and
with the motto flying at its mast
« 1 rinci ' ]es not mKa ," but men with
1 . . ,' it) unison wit h ours,
Reg ly ed, That while there is no in
wbit i onon the members of the Alliance
^ . £ for or accentinir anv office
the ift of their fellow-citizens,
« unhMita tingly thYnUtanw condemn the idea that
J can use that of
t0 the af i van cing of his private po- of
ptical ends and his candidacy for any
fine f rom bailiff to governor; that we draw
£ j,between a man hearing aloft the
aiUance b anner as its chosen champion for
the advancement of its principles, and
one simplv using the alliance as a step
ning 6 stone to place and power,
Resolved, That we condemn any such
practice and deprecate any such action
tending .^corrupt roil degrade our
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THU WOULD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
At London, Wednesday evening, the
house of commons rejected the Irish land
tenure bill by a vote of 231 to 179.
The Illinois democratic central com
mittee has decided to cull a state con
vention, to meet at fnringfield “ on June
4th.
Tho influenza is raging at Teheran,
Persia, causing 70 deaths daily. Several
members of the shah’s household are
among the sufferers.
Several snow storms and frosts arc re
ported in England slid in various parts
of Europe. Among the regions visited
are Rome and Trurere.
The crockery warehouse of the B. C.
Clark Crockery company, at Kansas City,
Mo., burned Monday, with the entire
contents. Loss, $104,000; fully insured.
The United Statespteamer Washington, Iroquois, Tues- put
iu to Port Townsend,
day, having been blown about the in the
Pacific ocean in a disabled condition since
December 23d Jast.
A dispatch of Monday from St. Louis
states that ft large consignment of cotton
seed has been received in Oklahoma and
will be distributed among the settlors im
mediately. Planting will begin at once.
Report has it that; the large Of Baltimore packing
and canning establishments
have been secured by an English syndi
cate, or at least 95 per cent, of them,
whose output of goods amounts to if15, -
000,000 a year.
There was a York long meeting Thursday, of the and sugar be
trust in New on
fore it ended information interested that parties cash every
where had a divi
dend of two and a half per cent had been
declared for the present quarter.
It, came out in an English court a few
days ago that 100 worn-out horses had
just been and shipped Belgium, from that be used country in the to
Germany to
manufacture of sausage, and that such
shipments were a regular thing.
The five-story building owned and of the oc
cupied by and Stern, wealthiest Mayer clothing – Co., one manufac
turing largest firms in Cincinnati, was completely
gutted by fire Monday morning. The
loss is estimated at $450,000; insurance,
$250,000.
At New York, on Warden Monday, Keating, Deputy
Sheriff McCorry and
()f f , w ||ow street jail, were indicted by
tb e gram i jury on charges of bribery,
They were placed under arrest and taken
j^ffVt $10.TOiPiii TOBM***"
tJnited States Indian Agent; Wood has
no titi<;d a cattleman that in accordance
on i cr f rom the commissioner of
Int li un affairs, dated March 5,1890, In
wi u at onw , instruct the police to drive
from the reservation the cattle of all who
||M , - t f()r purposes under grants
m(u p, !|V t | lt , [ tu iians.
cashier of the
, lmnk at New York, ’ made was ar
^ Th<; am , 8t wns on
, iv6 indictments—three for forgery and
two for having received deposits after the
t)ftnk became insolvent. Bail was fixed at
*po 000 and be was remanded to the cus
tody of a detective until he could secure
bondsmen '
thirty-eight cotton mills at Fall
^18,500,000, Mass., with a cash capital of
earned and paid of $1,853,000 9.98
during 1889, or capital. an average Of the entire per
cent on their num
ber, thirteen mills, with $7,250,000 cap
ital, paid from 10 to 24 per cent, an nv
erago of 14 per cent.
A dispatch from Jefferson City, appointed Mo.,
says: Governor Frances has
Lou Y. Stephens, of Booneville, State
Treasurer of Missouri, to serve until the
second Monday in January, 1893. The
appointment was made late Wednesday
afternoon, and at 6 o’clock Mr. Stephens
appeared before Judge Block, of the su
preme court and took the oatl of office.
A London dispatch of Tuesday, says:
The official correspondence between Eng
land and Germany with regard has just to been the
coming labor conference
made public. Lord Salisbury, in Ids re
ply accepting the invitation of Germany
to send a delegate to the, conference, re
fused to jn any way lend bis influence to
the promt?-.'on' of the of hours the of proposed labor. legal re
striction
A remarkably bold and successful rob
bery took place at the courthouse at Wa
bash, Ind., on Thursday. While the
corridors of the building were deserted
during recess, (be county treasurer’s office
was entered from the main ball, and the
money drawer under the pay counter
forced with a pair of shears. Several
hundred dollars in checks, currency and
silver was taken. The thief then locked
the door and departed.
Exports of specie from the port ol
New York, for week ending March 8.
amounted to $106,129, of which $219.
930 was in gold and $646,199 silver. (If
the total exports $4,965 to in Europe gold tyjd and
*641,900 in silver went
$214,100 in gold and $4,299 iu silver
went to South America. Imports $473,- oi
specie for the week amounted to
426. of which $415,302 was gold and
$58,064 silver.
THE CZAR IN DANGER.
HF. IS THREATENED WITH ASSASSINATION —
A WARNING LETTER.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Rns
sia, says: The Czar lias received a
threatening letter from a woman who
signs herself “Tichcbikova." The write!
says that unless he modifies his reaction
nry policy, he will meet the fate of Peter
Hr., Paul I., and Alexander If A copy
of the letter was sent to each of the nmi
inters at the same and time. The conducting police are
extra watchful, aio an
active search for the persons suspected
of being implicated m the sending of the
'otter.
The Pacific anfa^dy Mail Steamship Company th« re
nrfy** » of for $*»,«» maintaining a year transoora Bom
. pacific railroads
^ *"'W K ' r *
RUSHING WATERS.
WESTERN RIVERS OVERFLOWING THEIR
HANKS AND INUNDATING THE LAND.
Flood news from various other points along
the Mississippi river and streams
Wednesday morning, is that White and
Black rivers, in Arkansas, are on a ram
page . Both are over their banks, and
overflowing the country on each side for
miles. Heavy rains have fallen, and
continue to fall, along these streams and a
general inundation is looked for. The
Black is n tributary of the White,
and the White empties into the
Arkansas just above the point Mississippi. where tho
latter pours its flood into the
At Fort Smith, on the Arkansas, a rise of
over e ighteen foot took place in twenty -
four hours, and at last accounts the swell
v, as proceeding rise, added to at minor a rapid Hoods rate, pouring The
great of all the small tributaries below Pert
out
Smith, will greatly add to the volume of
water in the Mississippi and below increase the mouth (he
of the Arkansas,
peril to the lower country. All railroads
in the vicinity of Fort Smith are suffer
ing from serious washouts or loss of bridges
and trains are abandoned temporarily.
At Batesville, Ark., the White river rose
eighteen feet Wednesday and is now ris
ing a foot per hour. At Greenville, Miss.,
the river stood forty-seven and a half
foot and still rising. along Latest the reports from
the levees principal Mississippi
side were that the levees
were still in good shape, but the
strain against them was increasing every
hour. At Arkausns City it has been rain
ing for about forty hours, and the crev
asse. in the levee above wide. tho city is now
about four hundred feet, The peo
ple are much alarmed at, the outlook, am!
some are seeking higher situation ground. At
Poplar Bluffs the is
serious, The rise in the Arkan
sas, west of Little Rock, is mi
prceedented. It is feared another
day will bring out. tho unwelcome news of
the water’s ravnges. The flood outlook
at Memphis, Tonn., is more threatoniug
than high at any previous began time excite since attention. the pres
out water to
The Arkansas and White rivers are pour
ing out an immense volume, and the situ
ation boiow their mouths is anything but
encouraging.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
BIRMINGHAM, DETROIT AND JOHF.SVILLE,
TnE SUFFERERS
A special from Birmingham that occurred says: Tht in
most disastrous fire ever
that city, broke out in a brick block or
19th street, at 2:80 Sunday morning
Tho losses and insurance are: E. E. Sow
ell, undertaker, on stock $15,000, build
ing $25,000, insurance $5,000; Misfii
Clothing company, loss $5,000, fully in
$3,000, insurance $!,000;’ Joe Frank. dam
wholesale liquor dealor, stock
aged by water, fully insured....
At, Detroit, Mich., Fire was discovered
Sunday morning in the rear of Gray –
Baffy’s six story brick furniture factory,
which was totally destroyed. The Car
roll – Hunter Chair company establish
ment, the Ostler Printing company caught am
Carroll Cigar manufactory, ground. This nex i
and were burned to the
the largest tiro Detroit has experience, fire, it
since I). M. Ferry’s seed store
January, 1886, when the loss ran inti
the millions. The total loss is estimated
at $250,000, partly insured.... Fin
broke out at Jonesville, 8. C.Sunday nigh
at 12 o’clock. The following stores wer. dr
burned: J. L. MeWhirter – Co.,
goods; J. L. Swink, Jr., groceries; loss is J. N
Lemnster – Co., drops. The esti
mated at $10,000, with some insurance
A COMPLICATED CASE.
A QUESTION OF TITLE TO A YOUNG LADY’l
HAND IN MAKKIAOE.
The register of deeds lor Guilford
county, N. C-, is confronted with a prob
lem which only the courts can solve. A
young lady of that county, who is very
charming, has two lovers, and it appears
was engaged to both. On Friday one of
the young men went to tho register for of
deeds to procure a marriage license
himself and the young lady referred to.
He was disappointed beyond expression rival,
when lie was informed that his
whose engagement was previous, had
filled a caveat emptor to prevent the issue
of the license. The register declined lo
issue the license uutil the courts had de
cider! the question of title.
WILL THEY COME?
SOME DOUBTS EXPRESSED ABOUT THE PAN
AMERICANS COMING SOUTH.
It looks like the southern trip decided of the
Pan-Americans will be a very
failure. Some doubts are expressed as to
whether they will go at all. Only twelve
of the delegates have accepted the Secretary Southern
Blaine’s invitation to take
trip at the expense of the government.
Twelve delegates have, declined, and the
others have failed to reply that, at all. excursion Diplo
mats, however, say the
must take place, no'matter how few will
,go on it, for invitations have been sent
out and acceptances returned.
A HEAVY SENTENCE.
AN EMBEZZLER OETS EIGHTEEN YEARS
AND IS FINED $120,422.
At Lebanon, Ohio, Saturday, Al. Gra
ham, former auditor of Warren county,
waa sentenced on his plea of guilty embezzling to ar
indictment charging him with
the. funds of the county to the amount
of $63,Ull. The aourt sentenced him to
be imprisoned in the penitentiary of $126,- foi
sightecn years, and to pay ft fine
122 .
WORKING FOR ANNEXATION.
ORGANIZATION LOOKING TO A UNION BE
TWEEN “UNCLE SAM” AND CANADA.
A dispatch front having Ottowa for its Canada, abject
says that a league
the union of the United States and Can
ada, has within a week founded forty
three subordinate leagues, with a mem
i )ers hij, 0 f 1 , 763 . MBMffif membership
n f Hie 5,000, all
NUMBER IG.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM AIL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL ritOORESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S and dixon’s link.
The Kentucky legislature, on Wednes
day, passed a bill calling a constitutional
convention.
Jacob Fuller, librarian of Washington died
and Leo university, Lexington, Va.,
Wednesday, aged seventy-live years.
Arrangement* uru being made for mVct
large excursions, through Virginia, oi
representatives ciation. of the New England asso
Matilda Ruby, a negro woman, died at
Ray wicl., Ky., recently, aged aged 123
years. Her mother died five years ago,
at tho age 135 years.
Five prisoners were enabled to escape
from jail at Moulton, Ala., recently
through their a big by hole torn lightning. in the roof ol
prison a bolt of
A fire occurred Tuesday morning by
which the Durham fertilizer factory at
Durham, N. C., was totally destroyed.
The total insurance involved is $17,000.
A dispatch of Saturday from Birming
ham, Ala., says: Deputy Sheriff Jackson,
of Lamar county, has been killed by Rube
Burrow, the noted train robber and out
law.
The Tuesday Tennessee enneted house of is representatives the
on what known ns
Dortch bill and cleesion bill, Myer’s bill registration into laws.
Carson poll tax
They had previously passed the senate.
The city authorities and board of trade
of Columbus. Ga., have united in tender
ing a memorial to the Ran-American c m
gross, setting forth the city’s advantages
and inviting the delegates to pay a visit.
The contract for the buildingof a com
plctc set of water works at Henderson, Lud- N.
C’., has been awarded to Mr. J. L.
low, of Winston. There are to be sixtv
eight hydrants, for which the town is to
pay an annual rental of $2,700.
At an enthusiastic meeting of citizens
at mittee Somerset, Miss., on Saturday, a com
tions was appointed to solicit build subscrip
for a stock company to a cot
ton factory. Tho legislature empowered
the city to subscribe $20,000. Capital
stock $250,000.
that The ex-Governor Chattanooga, Tcnn., of Nctrt Ohio, state? and
Foster,
his party will take tho Pudding Ridgt
property at Trenton, Ga., consisting land ol
aliout, 30,000 acres of coal and iron
at $1,100,000, as fast as the titles can bt
made out for it.
There is great excitement in the vicin
ity of Sorentain Head, Sumner coilhty,
Twin,..over the appearance deaths, and of there spotted
have been seven an
several new cases. Those who take it
live only a short time, eome dying ic
twenty-four hours.
The trial of ex President Holden nod
cx-Secretary indictments Pullen, at Memphis, Tenn.,
on two charging breach larceny, ol
embezzlement and fraudulent
t.nist, acquitted came to an end Monday, counts. Holden The
waa on all tho
jury found Pullen guilty on the first
count and fixed his punishment at fifteen
days iu .the work-house.
Seventeen hundred people attended an
entertainment Monday night at the Ven
dome at Nashville, Tenn., for the benefit
of the Jefferson Davis monument fund.
The Young Men’s Democraric dub had
charge of the affair, and fully $1,200 was
realized above expenses. Chief Justice
Turney, of the Tennessee supreme court,
delivered an address on the life anti char
acter of Mr. Davis.
Baxter Brotherion, a constable of Han
cock county, and three raftsmen were ar
rested at Chattanoogu, Tenn., Monday,
for stealing a raft of logs, valued at $1,000.
The four men cut the raft loose in the up
per portion of Hancock county, their in
tention being to float it to Chattanooga
and sell it. The owner of the raft discov
ered the theft a lew hours later, and swore
out warrants against the quartette, wlio
were placed in the county jail.
Tiie Atlanta ComUlution reports that an
attempt is being made to palm off on the
public a spurious volume of the Life and
Writ'iigs of Henry Grady, and says: “We
beg our exchanges throughout the Mr. coun- Gra
try, in justice to the memory of
dy, and in justice to his wife, his mother
and his children, to announce to their
readers that the only authorized volume
containing his life, his writings and his
speeches, is published by Cassell A Co,,
of New York, and edited by Joel Chand
ler Harris.”
A MINE HORROR.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE KILLED
11Y AN EXPLOSION.
A cable dispatch from London says:
A terrific explosion occurred Monday in
Moran Oollery, in Glamorganshire, three hundred Wales.
Latest advices are that
miners were entomed, and allj but Kill
were rescued from the working
nearest the main shaft. Most of those
taken out are unhurt, but several have
received fatal injuries. Eight bodies,
shockingly mutilated, have been recov
ered from the mine. Great excitement
V,:i caused at, the pit by a rumor that ap
peals for help could lie heard from the
entombed men. The rescuers were con
stantly succumbing to the effects of gas,
and were obliged to make a speedy retreat.
A STEAMER ADRIFT,
AT THE MERCY OF W IND AND WAVE FOR
TWO MUN I HA.
A telegram wns received at Iff" navj
department on Tuesday trom Com
mumlcr Bishop, commanding the I'nilco
States steamer Iroquois, announcing (hr 1,
arrival of that vessel at Port Townscu
Washington, on Monday, after having
been blown about the Pacific ocean in ;>
disabled condition since December 21
last. On that day, while on her way
from Honolulu to Samoa, her piston rod
broke and her machinery became dis
arranged and she was driven out to sa
Comfaander Bishop says that the on were
and has taken crew are coajgtnd all well and rf that ”' aiUMWl afLjajB
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A BROKEN LEVEE.
PASIC-BTIUCKKN PEOPLE FLEEING FOB
THEtn LIVES.
The levee broko at Sappiugton EIoop.
sixty miles ubovc Arkansas City, Ark., at
3 o’clock Monday afternoon. The
crevasse was forty feet wide and still
widening at the time of the last reports
received' The break occurred at a place
where the levee was largely foot and built of sand.
Thu water backed a a half, be
ing clear up to the top of the leveo at
the time of the break. The break waa
a complete surprise, there being no
appearance >•> '“»!««** in the levee up
to within a few minute’s'll the bout when
it occurred. Within twentjsfour hours
the whole of the river front, ’-faom j-ha
crevasse to the Louisiana line, wTTMte -
flooded. Tho whole of the Tensas basin
of Louisiana, consisting of four or five
parishes, will unquestionably rising be sub- and
merged. The river is rapidly,
the people are panic stricken.
THE TEN HOUR SYSTEM
DOES NOT WORK WELL IN THE VIRGINIA
COTTON FACTORIES.
A special from Petersburg, Va., Ettrick says 1
S00 operatives employed factories in the refused
and Battersea cotton to
work on account of the ten-hour system,
which went into effect in Virginia on
Monday and a reduction of ten per cent
■Mi their wages. It is believed that the
hands in all the cotton factories in and
near Petersburg will strike on account of
this new system, and the consequent re
duction of ten per cent on their wages.
DECIDED TO CLOSE.
ni li [OCX HOLDERS OK A RHODE
RANK TO RETIRE FROM BUSINESS.
The Stockholders of the Union bank ol
Providence, R. I., decided on Tuesday
to wind up the affairs of the lmnk. This
is the bank from whose vaults Toliol
Charles A. Pitcher stole all the cash in
June, 1888. He is now in a Canadian
jail. The bank recovered nearly all ol
the cash and securities that Pitcher stole,
but its affairs have not been in a flourish
ing condition for some time.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Dn. Knorr, of Germany, has made ft,
000,000 out, of anti-pyrine.
John D. Rockefeller, Secretary Tracy
and ox-Senator Platt were schoolfellows,
Joseph Biggar, the Irish Home Ruler,
left the bull! of his estate to his son Joseph.
Congressman Anderson, of Kansas, Amer- say»
that Jay Gould is the brightest man in
0 .
William T). Howells, th- novelist,
^
Annie Besant, tho well-known English this
Socialist, will shortly make a visit to
country.
Chief Justice Comets, of Delaware, is
too possessor of 6 feet 3 inches of stature and
a robust intellect.
The (icier of Commander of the Legion of
Honor 1ms bean conferred by France upon
l'erry Belmont, of New York.
Chaukcbv M. Depew is said to travel 500
miles on an average every weak. Besides'
this, betakes an annual trip to Europe.
Representative Rp.yburn, of Phila*
delphia, the successor of William D. Kelley
in Congress, is several times a millionaire.
General Benjamin F. Bctx.er is said to
be able to quote the Bible more freely and
more accurately than any other man in pub
lic life.
Andrew Lang, the EuglisU critic,seriously this
discusses the probability of coming to
country and making his permanent home in
New York.
EMPEROR William has conferred upon
Lawvor Charles Gibson, of St. Louis, the
grand cross of tha Prussian Order of the
Royal Crown.
Edward Burgess, the yacht National designer,
contemplates delivering, at tho
Museum at Washington, an illustrated lec
ture on yachts and yachting.
Corporal Tanner is said to ba making He an
abundance of money twelve in Washington. clerks and his
employs a force of
practice is worth at least $3(1,000 a year.
Charles Emory Smith is the sixth Penn
sylvanian in late years to be honored with the
Russian mission, his predecessors having
been Messrs. Boker, Curtin, Cameron,
Dallas and Wilkins.
Dr. Paul Niemeyer, the famous lecturer
and writer on hygiene, has died iu Germany. of
He aided Miss Nightingale in the editing
her “Notes on Nursing.” He was horn in
Magdeburg, March 9, 1S32.
DR. Carl Lumkoltz, of the University scientiflo
ot Christiana, who spent a year in
investigations among the cannibals of Aus
tralia, is on his way to New Mexico on an
other scientific expedition.
In a New York Court recently a son of the
late Emory A. Stores, the distinguished
Chicago lawyer and orator, testified under
oath that his father did not leave enough
money to defray tho funeral expenses.
In declining an invitation, Professor Hux
ley the English scientist, writes that il'S
deafness is growing on him, and that now
adays he is liable to become very tired and
loss his voice when he attempts to talk.
Sir Dinsilaw Manockjke Petit is a
Parsen gentleman who has given away
*1 090,001 in private charities. His latesft
benefaction is a gift of 100,000 rupees toward
the founding of a leper hospital at Bombay,
India.
Edward Bellamy and is cordial-mannered a magnetic-looking,
black-moustached and nine and thirty. na
tive of Massachusetts, Sandwich Islands and
He has visited the Backward,”
written a novel called “Looking
which has attained a sale of 200,000 copies.
The Tolling of the Bell.
The modern “tolling” is in many places
Bynunymou# with the passing bell, awl
the sexton is said to pass (lie bell when
he, sounds the melancholy funeral knell.
The true passing boll was, however, dying. rung
during the last moments of tha
Durand, in his “Rationale,” 1190, sttyst
“When any one is dying bells must b«
tolled that the people thrice may put fora up prayers.
Twice for a woman, man; he hath
for ft clergyman, as many l imes as
orders, and at the conclusion a peel on a
tin- hells to distinguish the quality of
person for whom the people are to i
up their prayers.” ancient custom. BMi
This was a very A
even mentioned by the
Hs gives llowing intof^l i i
—a relic
When tin ;
a slcerijfl si.st.eia i