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How small a placa tlie world is I
Ti.ree cr four y cats ago wo had a series
of brantiful red sunsets which were
caned, wo are told, by a volcanic
eruption in the Pacific. Now the
Soli on is started that tho iufl tenia
epidemic is tho result of tho recent
floods in Chinn. Tho ingenious theory
is tiiat tha fertile lend in tho valley of
the Yellow It ver Was coveted with a
deposit of alluvia! mud, and that in
this mud cotintlcss millions of organic
sports were dbvo:oped from the refuse
bf a dense population. Tlie germs
would be tarried by merchandise td
tlussia, whence the infection would bs
ear ned all over Europe and to every
part of the world.
The New York papers give \ri the da
iai’.s of one of those peculiar scenes of
horse car experience that, the Hartford
Courant thinks, help to mako metropol
itan life just what it is. It seems the
car was crowded, and a mm arose to
give his seat to an elderly lady. A spry
young woman e! id in an t took tho
place. Tlie man told her to glvo it to
the person for whom he waive! his
rights, but she replied that, she'd paid
her f ore and should keep the seat. In
dignant, he rem irked that he “supposed
the aristocracy run this car.’ Sho
cried out that he had insultod her. Tin
conductor ordere 1 him off tho car. Ho
^declined to g f>. C-induetor bit him
r witf* a car hook. Passengers screamed.
Policeman boarded tho car, arrested
both men, release 1 tin conductor, and
locked up the obnoxious follow who
had nude all tho trouble by trying to
be pMile to an elderly lady.
Judgo Lynch was more active than
the regularly.constituted courts last
year. For the Unite 1 States at large
there were ninety eight legs! hangings
during 1889. Against this iuiignilicant
burnber Judge Lynch rolled up a total
of ono humlrei and seventy-five. In
the South one hundred and thirty-nine
persons met their deaths at tlie hulls
bf the lyncher<. The North furnished
thirty-.ix such executions. “Tins,”
says the A lanta Cvn'iUtutiox., “is a
very black record. It is a bad one for
tha North aid a bad one for the S .uth.
But it reflects greater discredit upon
tho courtu. When judge), juries and
sheriffs do their whole duty people d >
not think about lynching. In sumo ex
ceptional cases J idge L/nch will nlwnys
put in his work even in ths must orderly
c mmunity. B it sec l case) are rare,
and a I lyucherr slioti d be prosecuted
to the full exleut of the law. Wucre
they are concerned in tho exceptional
cases altudod to they will never bo
harmed by a jury of thir pearu."
The people of Doylestown, Penn.,
think of reviving a reformatory device
which used to be in vogue in that sec
tion of the country some forty years
ago. It was called “the sobering ma
chine.” It was a simple and inexpea
• vuuff-ir. y-eX -v i*.xiictviX a salutary
punishment upon the evil-doers. It was
constructed by taking the front wheels
of a farmer’s wagon and nailing a large,
rough box on the axle. It was without
springs, and a ride in it was not soon
forgotten by the occupant. Whenever
a drunken man appeared ori the street
K-mt of the citizen! got out the sober
ing wagon, and, throwing him into tlie
box, ran him a mile or two out of the
town. The trip, which was rough and
exciting, always sobered off the reel pi.
ent of this attention, and thereafter he
regarded the vehicle with a wholesome
fear. Tho people of Drylestow.i wish
to restore this institution. The Chicago
Herald considers it “a remarkable thing
that, with an ever-present demand for
effective instruments of this kind, it
should ever have disappeared from
Pennsylvania at all.”
Tlm provincial government in session
at Quebec w.li be aske 1 by the govern
ment to pass a bill giving a free h-. ms
steal of 100 acres to every living fami
ly of twelve children of the satnj father
and Brother, This will impose a great
burden on the state unless estimates are
wrong. Families of the priz; s z: a;e
not infrequent among tho Ficncu-Cuna
d'ans, just as they were not tew in num
ber in the early history of this country.
Scm> interesting figures are presented
in c-mnection with tho proposit.on.
The Hon. Gideon Ouimet, ex-prime
minister of the provino of Q tehee and
now superintendent of public instruc
tion, is the twenty-seventh chil i of the
same father and m ther. Numerous
other cases of large families are giveu,
showing that the number of children
should be increa cd to fifteen or eight
ecn or else the government will be
flooded with applications for home
steads. But as the siz) of the families
increases the question arises: Are 100
acres enough of a farm on which to
euppo t such a number of people?
Phouid not a certain number of acres
be added to tho homestead, say ten, for
each child over the prescribed number?
These questions will be seriously dis
cussed.
jJtlit Countj) ottrnal ♦
VOL. II.
AT THE CAPITAL
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST COE
ORESS IS DOING.
AfPotXTMEltTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OP NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AMV ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In tho house, on Saturday, Mr. Lodge,
of Massachusetts, from the committee
on naval affairs, called up the bill It
transfer the revenue cutter service from
the treasury department to tho navy de
partment. order that the Pending decision be Considered of tho joint
bill must in
committee of the whole, the hour of 2
being o’clock arrived, and, public proceeded business
its suspended, the house tc
pay last tribute pf respect u> the mem
orv of Feeling William I). Kelley, of -Penusyl
vania. and eloquent tributes t.
his memory were paid by Messrs. O' Neil,
of Pennsylvania; Holman, Banka; Mills,
McKinley, Bingham, Wilson, of West
Virginia; Pennsylvania; McKeenv, Beckeuridgo, of California; lleily,
of of Ken
tucky: Kerr, of Iowa; and Rayburn, of
journed. Pennsylvania. The house then ad
fn the house, on Monday, bills wen
passed increasing from qS150,000 to
$300,000, the limit of cost of the publii
building t:t Sacrament.., Cal., ami fora
¥100,000... public building .Mr. at McKenna, Paris, Tex., of California, to cost
under instructions from the committee on
the eleventh census, moved to suspend the
rules and pass a bill authorizing the su
peri n tend cut of census to enumerate the
Chinese population in such manner ns to
enable him to make a complete and accu
rate descriptive list of all Chinese persons
who are in tlie United States at the
time of taking the census, and to give
to each person so enumerated a certifi
cate containing the particulars necessary
to fully identify him, and such certificate
shall be sole evidence of the right of the
person tube and remain in the United
States. The bill further provides penal
statutes against dispose Chinese such who certificates. shall sell,
transfer or of
The sum of $100,000 is appropriated to
carry out passed the provisions of division. the act. The
bill was without . . .On
motion of Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, (acting
under instructions from the committee on
foreign affairs), the rules were suspended,
and a joint resolution was passed re
questing the president to invite, the king
of the Ifawniian islands to select dele
gates in to Pan-American represent his kingdom
the congress.....
Mr. instructions Lodge, of Massachusetts, committee acting uudei
from tho on naval
iffairs, moved to suspend the rules and
pass the bill to transfer the revenue cutlet
the service from department. the treasury department u
navy Tho motion was
igreed to and the bill passed. The house
then, adjourned. Tuesday, and
In the senate, on hum •
di telv after morning business, consider
ation of the urgent deficiency bill was re
sumed. The remainder of the atucml
tnenls placed upon the bill Iv (lit
ippropnations ind several otl committee added were appropriating agreed to,
ers
.mail sums. The bill was then passed.
The Blair cdttca iona! bill was then taken
up at 2 o'clock, its “unfinishedbusiness,'’
md Mr. Hawley addressed the senate in
apposition situation to it. by Mr. saying Ilawlev that samracd
up the tw enty
two northern states did not want the liip.
Seven southern states had two senators
ach opposed to the bill distinctly, and
twenty-nine xpetted to vote against tlmt did it. That need made tin
states not
bill, and it. left twelve or thirteen more
to be accounted for. ..A number oi
senate bills, making the aggregate ap
propriation but dings iu of New $1,285,060 England and for tho public mirth
tlie west Denison were passed. and Waehita House Valley bill granting Railway
company the right-of way through In
dian territory, and several bills of loeqj
interest, were passed, nnd the senate,
a ter 6 o’clock, adjourned. Tuesday,
Li the house, on Mr. Rogers,
of Arkansas, the presented president a telegraphic the Colored pro
test from of In
dustrial Fair association of Arkansas
against the proposition to tax eolton seed
oil. Referred.... At the expiration of
the morning hour, the house went into a
committee appropriation of the whole on the pension
bill. Mr. Morrow, of Cal
ifornia, in charge of the bill (which ap
propriates detail, $98,427,461) explains its pro
visions in in reference to the gen
eral might subject safely of assumed pensions, that said the number that it
he
of pensioners would reach its maximum
about July 1st, 1894, when the expendi
ture would be $112,000,000 on that date,
Under the existing law the number of
pensioners on the rolls would be 756,600.
At the close of Mr. Perkin’s speech, the
committee rose and the bouse adjourned.
Iri the ltnu.se, on Wednesday, Mr. the
O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, presented of
remonstrance of the business men
Philadelphia against an increase of duty
• .n oranges and lemons. Referred. Mr.
Cooper, of Ohio, a member of the com
mittee on elections, called up 1he Mary
land contested case of Mudd against
Compton, it being agreed that debate
should be limited to six hours, at the end ot
which time the previous question should be
considered as ordered. After considera
ble argument, and pending a vote, the
house adjourned. having returned
Vice-President Morton
to Washington,after a two weeks’ absence,
occupied the chair at the of the opening ol
Wednesday's session number of petitions senate.
An unusually presented large referred, comprising
were and
some for and some against the Sunday rest
law; some for free coinage of silver and
several from labor unions against works
the employment United on government citizens.
of any but Suites
The resolution offered by Mr. Voorhcis
last Monday, as to 'he agricu'tural de
pression, was taken up and .Mr. Voorhees
addressed the senate in relation to it. lie
spoke of the deep strong current of anxie
ty, discontent and alarm and prevailing said that in
fanning communities lie
proposed to aid them in the inquiry as to
the causes of the existing depression.
The Blair educational bill w r as then taken
up as unfinished business, and Mr. Pierce,
of North Dakota, addressed the senate.
He hoped, he said, to have an oppor
tunity of Toting to postpone the bill till
the second Tuesday .....addressed in Decern er
next. Hr. Evarts the
senate m support of the h\l
Mr. Call:S{>oke jnfavor of the bill, lb
had voted for it before (he said) .'and
ZEBULON, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1800.
would do so now. He supported it be
cause it was a donation, without condi
tions other than such as had been con
tained in the agricultural colleges bill
nnd in the bill for experimental
stations. Hr. Hate obtained the floor,
an i the bill went over. Mr. Allison,
from the linance committee, reported
bteli, with amendments, house bill t i
(iimlify the laws (McKinley's in relation to udiniuie- P'e en .
lecl ion of revenue
tratio i bill,) and it was placed adjourned. on the
calendar. The senate thou
notes.
The grand jury of the District of Co
lumbia <’ n Tuesday indicted Charles E.
Kincaid for the murder of ex-Representa
tive Taulbee.
ted The president, on Wednesday, Virginia—George nomina
to be postmasters:
S. Smith,- Motion; South Carolina, Mag
gie ).. Carson. Aiken; Joshua E. Wilson,
Florence.
Mr. Sherman, from the committee on
finance, reported to the senate on against Tues
day a substitute for his former bill
“trusts,” iii restraint of production, and
it was placed on the calendar.
The following Georgia post-masters
Onmak, were appointed Warren Saturday: county; O. 1). Bitms, Slays, at
B. li. at
Phileaphate, Oglethorpe county; Levi
Stroud, at Yatesviile, l-psou cbuntW
Mr. Peunimau, of Brunswick. Gn., on
Monday, presented board a petition of trade to Secretary and city
Blaine from the
council of Brunswick, asking the Pan
Americans to take in Brunswick on their
southern trip.
Secretary Blaine has asked for a de
ficiency appropriation of $35,000 to de
fray the expenses of the international
maritime conference. The original ap
propriation of $20,000 was entirely inad
equate.
bill, The McCoiumns nnti-gerymandering
to nullify tlie effect of tlie Ohio re
districting act, will lie reported favorably
to the house from the committee on elec
tions of president and representatives, to
which it was referred.
The Republican members of the ways
iioi means committee have finally reached
an agreement upon the sugar schedule.
They No. have agreed standard to make down raw dutia- sugar
from 10 Dutch
ble at thirty-five per cent ad valorem, and
refined sugar above It! Dutch standard,
dutiable at forty per cent ad valorem.
Mr. Turner, of Georgia, on Monday re
ceived a telegram signed by the Albany,
Pine Bluff, East Dougherty and Walker
station, Gn., alliances, protesting against
the passing of the compound lard bill
He presented them to the committee and
made a strong bill. argument against the is pass
age of the However, there nc
hope. The bill is almost certain to pas-.
The house committee on agriculture,
on Monday, ordered a favorable report
on the (longer bill, refining aud taxiiu
com pound laid, with some amendments.
The report was not unanimous, and sev
eral of the committee will probably sub
mit a minority report. The committer
decided to print the numerous protests
against the bill with the arguments that
have been submitted.
A hitter fight- is being made against
Henry Cabot Lodge's national clectiou
law However,’Mr. bill by the southern representatives. that's he
Lodge says republicans what
expected, but that the are
determined to pass the measure The democrats in practi
cally its present unconstitutional shape, and only
< 1 iim that it is
lacks one feature of destroying the last
vestige Of the rights of the states and ot
the democratic party, and that it ought
to be entitled a bill to suppress tho dem
ocratic party in the south.
The Georgia congressmen, on Tuesday,
received Georgia, petitions protesting hv the against score the from all
over pas
sage of the compound lard bill; also tele
grams that colored delegations wanted fvom heard At
liintu and other (mints to be
before the committee. They are all closed late,
however, for the committee has
hearings. An effort was made to get them
to reopen. They refused, but the rnattet
will be considered, and a final answer
given. The South has been very late, in
coming to the front, but there is a Imre
possibility of defeating the bill if a very
vigorous light is made.
The civil service commission has in the
course of preparation a circular of instruc
tions to applicants for examination for
the appointment to the government de
partmental service. A considerable por
non of it is devoted to the discussion of
the question : “When connection may an appointment with this
be expected?” In
subject, it is learned that, while the quotas
of several eastern, northern and western
states are generally exhausted, those of
the southern states, especially ineligible--;
for appointment from the clerk being, registers, it is
are bv no means full, the fact
stated, that competent clerks who can
pass the necessary examination from either
Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas,
Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, North
Carolina, South Carolina or Kentucky are
reasonably certain of appointment.
Tho appropriations committee of the
house, on Tuesday, completed tlie fortifi
cation appropriation bill. The bill makes
a total appropriation of $4,521,007, being
$3,967,320 less than the estimates,
$8,288,084 more than the last bill, and
$599,678 more than the, of appropriation
made at the first session the last eon
gress. Tlic principal items are: Forti
fications, repairs and preservation. batteries, $1,221.- $150,-
600; gun and mortar
600 , divided as follows: Boston harbor,
$235,000: New York. $270,000; San
Francisco, $260,000; torpedoes, harbor, fortifi
defense, $280,000; armament of
cations, $1,050,635; gun factory at Wa
tervliet. X. Y., building and machinery,
$1,256,043; sites for fortifications. $500,
000, and the secretary of war is given
authority to institute condemnation pro
ceedings* to secure desirable sites.
CHINESE TO VACATE.
SAN FRANCISCO’S ORDINANCE FOR THEIR
COLONIZATION.
At San Francisco, on Friday, Mayoi
I-ond approved an ordinance recemly
passed by the board of supervisors Chinese pro
viding for the removal of the
population to a prescribed section in
South San Francisco district located on
the outskirts of the city. The Chinese
^111 test the constitutionality of the ordi
uance and will take no steps toward
abandoning the district until decided. the question
of its constitutionaEty is
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM TUB TELE
GRAPH AND CARLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN FROM DAY TO DAY
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Twelve hundred immigrants arrived at
New York, Tuesday.
Five hundred rolling mill men are out
on a strike at Pittsburg, Pa.
Yellow fever lias broken out in Campi
nas and Sao Paulo, Bio Janeiro.
Shocks of earthquake were felt in dif
ferent portions of Spain on Tuesday.
Cotton mills in England are stopping be
work, owing to the scarcity of coal,
cause of the miners’ strike.
Fire Tuesday night destroyed property
in Milford, Mass., to the extent of $180,
000; insurance about $30', 000.
The Illinois democratic central com
mittee lias decided to call- a state con
vention, to meet at Springfield on .little
4 th.
Jonathan Voting Scammon, founder of
the Inter-Ocean, died at itis home in
Chicago Monday; aged seventy-eight
years.
George J). Koscngarteii, founder of the
extensive chemical works of Kosengnrten
A Sons, Philadelphia, died in that city
Tuesday, aged 69.
The Christian and Mnsselmen clergy
have been prohibited from taking part in
the approaching election for members ol
the Cretan assembly.
A land slide at Trov, New York,Satur
day morning carried away part a of two-story flic city,
dwelling in the southern,
and three lives were lost.
The two houses of the north Dakota
legislature are not in harmony with each
other; in fact, it is quite otherwise, nnd
the whole matter seerns to bo the out
growth of the lottery fight.
The Bauerle (Mich.) company, Friday wooden
ware factory, burned early morn
ing. Loss $100,600, insurance $5(1,000.
A large number of bands were thrown
out of employment. Thu company w I
rebuild.
A successful test was made of the
Justin explosive cartridge Friday, at I’er
ryviile, Falls, N. Y. The test demon
strated that dynamite gunpowder could be. fired from
a force. rifle using ns the projectile
Dr. Harrison Wagner, whose numerous
suits against the Adams Express company
has attracted so much attention, has come
to grief. He was, on Wednesday, arrest
ed iri Washington, 1). C., charged with
forgery.
All members of the Brotherhood of
Railroad Firemen and ”'t'itiumen on the
t uiiWo and Ehs IIIxinifs j nili yhuI
lit, Danville, III., on Monday afternoon to
consider tlie advisabilty of a general
upon tiiat. road.
There was a long meeting of the sugar
trust in New York on Thursday, and be
fore it ended interested parties every
where had information that a cash divi
dend of two aud a half per cent had been
declared for tho present quarter.
The “Newark,’ last of the cruisers built
for the government by Cramp – Sons, of
Philadelphia, was successfully launched
afternoon. The vessel was
by Miss Grace II. Bautelle,
of Congressman Bautelle.
Kane county, Ill., courthouse was
Friday night, together with its
The comity records in tie
are believed to be safe. Eighteen
in the basement were removed
to a hotel, where they are closely guarded.
Senator Voorhccs will be tho principal
for Mr. Kincaid when he is put
trial Taulbee. for the Senator killing of Voorhees ox-Ropreecntn- had
has
long consultations with Mr. Kin
and lias marked out the line of de
Prosecuting-Attorney Davidson, ol
county. v...— -j, Mo., Mo., filed filed an an informal information ion
Justice Wagner Tuesday morning
ex-Htate J'reasurcr Noland with
state funds, Noland was
at the time, gave himself up,‘and
admited to bail in $5,000.
A special of Wednesday is raging from Henley, in Cor
Win., says: A and great-fire threatens heavy loss
mines a
property. Five perished. miners penned The bodies in tho
mine have
two have been recovered. I, OSS to the
company $100,000.
Tn a ease brought up from the circuit
of Rock county, Wis., the supreme
decided that the Bible had no place
our common schools. The opinion
was unanimous. The ease originated at
Edgcrton, where suit was brought to com
pel the school district board to prohibit
teachers from reading the Bible to
A special from Kirksvillc, Mo., says:
Fire destroyed the south portion of the
business block Saturday occupied morning. It star
ted front a building by B. T.
Lawk ins, dry goods. Loss $200,000; insu
rance $75,000. Lawkins is loser to the
amount of $30,000. The First National
bank building, with several other busi
ness houses, were completely destroyed.
John F. Plummer, the well-known
republican politician and dry goods mer
chant of New York, made an assign
ment Wednesday. The dry goods trade
was a good deal’startled when the failure
was announced. The liabilities are
stated to be $1,000,000. The firm is CMC
of the largest commission houses in the
business, and has been in existence many
years. Monday from Berlin,
A dispatch of
Germany, says it is stated there that both
Prince Bismarck and Count Herbert Bis
marek have tendered their resignations, accepted
and that Emperor William has
the resignation of the chancellor. The im
mediate and ostensible cause of tlie resig
nation is a divergence of opinion concerning between
tin- chancellor and emperor,
factory inspectors. Gen. Von Canrivi is
mentioned os the successor of the chancel
lor.
There are now five buil–ings^B____ the Sew and York fourteen m Cen
rooms along the Jine of
tral devoted to the use o£ the employes of that
road as places ot rest, recreation, education
and religious instruction. Yb intoxicants fin.i
a place in them, and the* are substitute's toe
the saloon. Thev have been erected or lease 1
by the men themselves .aided.by thcraibio*--,
and especially by Cornelius Vanderbilt.
THE KANSAS ALLIANCE
TAKES A HAND IN POLITICS AND WAItNt
CONGRESSMEN.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Kansas
City, Mo., says: TheFarmers’ Alliance in
Kansas is growing so rapidly, both in
members and perfection of organization,
that they have become a decidedly dis
turbing factor in local nnd State polities.
ished State Organizer trip Jennings lias just fin
up been a through the state, when
he has extending establishing the new Alliances
and scope of tlie organiza
tion. Every county nearly in tlffe whole
state is organized, and especially nearly
every farmer in each county is a membet
of the organisation. In local politics,
where their immediate interests are at
stake, Alliaueis have generally de
cided to support only their can
didates who coincide with their
views Tlie organization and adopt already their principles.
lias got its fin
ger in the national political pie. The
president dressed of the the Kansas Alliance has ad
to Kansas Senators and rep
resentatives, at Washington, a letter in
forming the fanners them that that is depression the belief among
the of agri
cultural interests is due to vicious legis
lation. The letter concludes thus:
the “Many attention of the questions that are receiving
of Congress are far Jess ur
gent than those upon which the
safet y of homo and the welfare of family
depend and people believe that the white
citizens of Kansas have some rights as
well as tho colored citizens in the South.
They believe that in tlie fallen heroes, belli
white and black, the past struggles fot
liberty, tions, and afford tho perpetuity wait of our institu
can to for one moment
until struggle the right of living heroes in the pre
sent for American homes, receive
some recognition of the men who have
been chosen to represent thorn in eon
greas. Behind these demands are more
than 100,000 ballots in till! StutL
of Kansas and the time is not far dis
tant, when legislators will heed the voice
of their constituents.” These indications
of opposition of the Alliance to monupo
lies are troubling the politicians and they
are becoming decidedly nervous.
UNDER FALLING WALLS.
TERRIBLE FATE OF SEVERAL INDIANAPO
LIS FIREMEN.
Fire broke out in the basement of the
and Bowen Merrill house, company's Indianapolis, wholesale Ind.,on book
paper at
Monday afternoon. Tlie location of the
lire prevented effective work on the part
of the firemen, and the flames quickly
made their way to the first and second
floors. The company carries an immense
stock, estimated at $125,000, on which
there is an insurance of $75,000. The
building Wassofi and Uo., adjoining Byrain stores of IT. P.
– and – Sullivan,
were damaged, but the - I...
be given. The firemen acemed completely
battled in their efforts to subdue tin
flames. The rear wall fell crushing sev
cral firemen. Probably eight or ten were
killed. Three of the bodies have been
taken from the ruins.
LATER
A great throng surrounded the ruins ol
the Iiowen-MerriU book concorn Tuesday
morning. An army of workmen were
busily engaged bodies carting of away tlie the dead debris and
to exhume t he
injured buried there. The list of the
dead as far us known are as follows:
Andrew O. Cherry, superintendent of the
fire alarm telegraph; George Faulkner,
engineer ruins; company 1, still pinioned engine in the
Espy Stormer, pipeman David
company 1, still in the ruins; R
Lowry, pipeman engine company 2, still
in tlie ruins; U. G. Glazier, substitute en
gine company 2; Henry D. Woodruff,
pipeman engine company 5; George W,
Glenn, pipeman reel company 10; Albert
Hoffman, pipeman company 10;
Anthony Volz, driver hook and 'ladder
company a, Thomas A. Black, truckman
hook and ladder c mpany 3; The in
jured number eighteen.
ORDERED TO SKIP.
PRESIDENT HARRISON’S PROCLAMATION TO
THE BOOMERS.
The president on Saturday issued the
following Whom proclamation: it May Concern: The
“To strip is
lands known as tlie Cherokee not
open to settlement. The bill pending in
congress and intended to provido a civil
government for the country known as Ok
lahoma does not provide for opening settlement, the
Cherokee strip or outlet to
and has not as yet received the vote of
the two houses of congress or the ap
proval of the president. The entrance of
settlers upon these lauds is unlawful, and
all persons are, hereby warned
against entering thereon. When the
fluid shall become open to settlement
prompt public notice will be given of the
fact, but in the meantime it is my duty
to exclude nil settlers therefrom, and
those who enter unlawfully will only in
volve themselves iu unprofitable trouble,
as they will be immediately removed.
“BenJamin Harrison.”
Adjutant-General Keiton, has tele
graphed General Merritt, at i ort Leaven
worth, Kan., to use troops, if necessary,
and with the prudence ns heretofore, to
iuforce the foregoing proclamation. This
order is sent by direction of the secretary
of war. It will probably take 8,000 sol
diers to drive thrqboomers from the strip,
a nd trouble is feared.
THE ALLIANCE BOOMING.
oroak6(*b* commissioned and sent into
many states.
A dispatch of Monday from Raleigh,
N. C., says: The organizers of the Na
tional Farmers’ aud Laborers’ union have
been commissioned and sent into the
states of Michigan, Montana, Indiana Wyoming, and
California, Iowa, Illinois,
Ohio. Bell Terrell, the noted lecturer, is
now ou a tour of the States of Texas,
Arkansas, Indiana, Wisconsin, Dakota,
Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Indian Ter
ritory aud Missouri, which will employ
his time up to the middle of August.
The president of the order, Colonel Folk,
goes south to meet important emergencies
iu Georgia, Arkansas and Missouri. He
says that the cause is stronger and the or
der growing more rapidly than ever be
fore in its history.
NUMBER 17.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FROM ALI
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
son’s and dixon’s line.
Secretary Tracy and party visited Nor
folk, Ya., on Tuesday.
The Pan-Americanists will leave Wash
ington on their Southern trip about tin
10th of April.
Gen. Jubal A. Early, on Tuesday, sent
his check for $1,000 to the Lee monument
committee, at Richmond, Ya.
Cola II. Peete, a dry goods merchant ol
Huntsville, Ain., failed on Monday. 11 is
assets are between $11,000 and $10,000,
and liis liabilities $7,500.
ties Reports from the great tobacco coun
in western North Carolina show at
least one-tliird of tho plants in beds hart
been killed by the cold weather of Satur
day night and Sunday.
The Southern Baptist convention will
meet at Fort Worth, Texas, in May next.
This is a large and able religious body.
It covers the territory from Baltimore tc
Baptists. Texas, and represents over 2,000,000
A blizzard pounced down upon
Charleston, fl. O., Sunday morning with
out warning from the signal office. In
twelve hours the mercury fell from seven
ty to twenty-four degrees, and everything
was frozen. The loss to the truck grow
ers will be counted in hundreds of thou
sands of dollars.
The decision rendered on Monday in
tlie case of John L. Sullivan for prize
fighting, in the Mississippi supreme
court, is tluit judgment is reversed and
the case remanded, and Sullivan is held
under his bond to answer to Midi in
dictments aa may be found at the next
term of the court.
At a meeting at Masonic hall, at Au
gusta, Ga., Monday night, the subscrip
tions to the new exposition company avert
increased to about $55,000. The total
amount to be raised is $65,000. A com
mittee of ten was appointed to nominate
twenty-five directors for the new compa
ny and report to a subsequent meeting.
river A here Vicksburg, fell four Miss., special iu says: The
inches the past
forty-eight hours. The river is falling
for the distance of twenty miles above
and fifty miles below Raleigh crevasse,
which is steadily widening and was
1,600 feet wide Monday morning. The
flood will submerge the fairest portion of
north Louisiana.
The Okefenokee swam]) has passed out
of the ownership of the state of Georgia.
It now belongs to a wealthy syndicate,
consisting olina; Marshall of Frank A. Phillips, Coxe, of of North Pennsyl- Car
vania ; II. fl. Little, of New Jersey; Gen.
i \ Mb of j), Georgia. v .»——^ ..-..i The f h.,|ii Ilur.ri£ paid . I'ack
son, price was
twenty-six and one-half cents per acre.
Tho Southern Press association will
meet in Charleston, 8. C., Wednesday.
April 30. The South Carolina Press as
sociation will meet there At thesame time,
and Henry Wntterson, editor of tin
Louisville Courier-Journal . will, on April
80, deliver an address before that body.
This joint meeting of the associations is
expected to he the largest assemblage of
newspaper workers ever seen in a south
ern city.
THE BOLD BOOMERS
ORGANIZING Foil ANOTHER RAID ON Till'.
CHEROKEE STRIP.
The Cherokee Strip Homesteaders’ as
sociation has issued a secret circular,dated
at Guthrie, Arkansas City, Winfield and
Coldwater, lCtts., March Uth, which re
cites that: “The administration having with
Hiven evidence of its entire sympathy clamoring fm
tlie thousands bId-bw
homes in the great domain, now WtiuHv
given over to the cattle barons, to the ex
clusion of many worthy settlers, it Inc
heon deemed expedient for association, prospective
settlers to organize object a the secret invasion of flu
having for its
Cherokee strip at a given time. Accord
ingly, on the 23d day of April, at 12
o’clock, a concerted movement of boomers
will be made on all sides oi
tho outlet, Wo have good will reason to
believe that the settlers bo un
molested if the movement assumes sutii
cient proportions.” The matter was
brought to the attention of the president that
on Wednesday and he advised a
statement be given to the press to effect:
“That no matter wlmt tho proportions the strip will of
the raid, the settlement of
not be allowed until it is made lawful,”
Tho patrol of the Cherokee strip by tin
forces of the United States army was be
gun Wednesday.
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HEMINGWAY’S SHORTAGE
missisbiuiTk ex-treakurer SHORT in mi
ACCOUNTS $315,012.19
A Jackson, Miss., dispatch says: Till
legislative committee finished its investi
gation of the accounts of cx-Trcasurct
Hemingway on Wednesday and presented
their report to the governor. The com
mitteosays: painstaking “After examination a thorough, compe- of tile
tent and and all the
books of the department, which utt–iiHiulc*,
vouchers thereof were
wc find that the ex-treasurer has not ac
counted for $315,612.19, nnd he is , ”'
debted the state for that amount. ’ < >1
to
course suit will be instituted at once.
The report of the committee would iudi
cate that the shortage occurred in his last
term. Colonel Hemingway will make
statement.
TO BE USED AS A MUSEUM,
TIIE HOUSE WHERE JKFFEKRON DAVII
LIVED IN RICHMOND, YA.
The Ladies’ Hollywood Memorial asso
datiou of Richmond, will petition the
city council to have the house occupied preserved by
Jefferson Davis during and turned tlie war the
from destruction over to
association to be used as a museum ol
confederate relies and a memorial hall.
The association invokes the assistance of
all who are interested in such an endeavor
and asks them to contribute to the enter
prise and furnish memorials ana relics of
the late war. to bo placed in the build
ing.
FRUITED EVERY TUESDAY
--AT -
ZEBULON, GEORpIA.
—BY
PARRY LEE;
A BrijEjlDID ADYEKTISma AGENT.
DISCUSSING THE TARE.
1TIE BAOOINI1 COMMITTEES CON.-TPERISa
TIIE NET WEIGHT QUESTION.
The Interstate and State bagging com
mittees held a meeting in Atlanta, On,,
on Wednesday, made by to Alliance discuss the demand td to
uc the ns 1’iug
:otton by net weight. The dele?- *t« , t'c
the convention were ns follows: \V. ft.
.Morgan, Arkansas; S, M. Adam;, Air.
batna; W. J. Yaaon,. Florida; ■ T, :i.
Adams, Louisiana; J. B. k Dines, Ml nri;
t>. 11. Alexander, II. Hunter, .rib
Carolina; E. T. Sm house, uth
Carolina; S. D. A. Ir^BhAlistor, mnme.au. . Texas;
K. )V. Coleman, W. 8. Mis
sissippi; J. P. Buchanan, LiviugsW^-'".
Tennessee; L. F. .1
Northern, W. L. Peek, 11. M. Pro n, .1,
\Y. Butts, Thbtnas E. Wynn, W. j. M.
Searcy, It. L. Burks, W. R. <5t eman,
Georgia. The object of the meeting win
to decide what demand tho Alliance will
in make. Liverpool As it with now stands, cotton in sold
the bale thirty pounds fare to
off. As cotton bagging with
ties weigh only sixteen pounds, and even
jute the farmer with ties weighs only twenty-four,
loses either fourteen or six
pounds of cotton on every bale lie Bclis.
The demand will probably be that, like
tobacco, sugar and other things, cotton
must he sold at net weight.
THE SOUTH PROTESTS
AGAINST THE PASSAGE RY CONOItEStt OF
THE LARD BILL.
Since tho report by the snb-coramitto«
of the house committee on agriculture, at
Washington, to a full committee taxing on tin
Conger bill, defining and com
pound lard, the committee has received
a number of telegrams from various
points in the south protesting against the
passive such legislation, <»< v.uwiaximj those compound lard; s:tfl
pruto-im,;
being regarded as a direct blow at theit
interests as cotton planters. One of
these telegrams is from the Augusta (Ga.)
cotton exchange, and says: “Augusts
cotton exchange, representing the in
terest of this cotton country, earnestly and
protest against the Butterworth
Conger bills, the effect of which will bs
to create a tax on cotton-seed oil. Those
bills, if passed, will crush the cotton
seed industry of the south, and are an
outrage and injustice on the every plantei seed
and merchant as welt as cotton
interests in the entire cotton planting
states. We respectfully protest against
any measure that will tend to put a tax
ou cotton-sped oil.”
JACK FROST’S WORK.
GREAT DAMAGE TO THE TENNESSEE Flint
CHOP BY THE FREEZE.
On account of the lute frosts, it L con
ceded by the fruit raisers of Tennessee,
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small. On the ridges and mountains of it the is
estimated that eighty per of rent apple
peach, and fifteen per cent the
crop is 1 failure. Grapes cut oil
crop a tot; arc
by tint frost, but may rewood nnd give a
good late crop.
THE MY8RTEY SOLVED
rnE.-IiODY OF A PAT CLERK POUND IS t ill
RIVER.
The found badly decomposed morning body in of the a man
was Monday east
ern branch of the Potomac river, at Wash
ington, I). C. Mrs. Jones, wife of Jico
jamin A. Jones, defaulting pay clerk ol
Major Goodloe, of the marine corps,
identified the. body ns that of her hus,
band who lias been missing since Christ
mas day,
CARNIVAL TIME IN RUSSIA.
Rich and Poor, Young and Old, All
Enjoy Festivities Next V/eek.
Carnival tmre at St. Petersburg is a
very peculiar time for a country like
Russia. Theliigh and low, rich and poor,
young and old give Carnival themselves week is the up en
tirely to frolic. one
preceding Masquerade Lent, bolls, dancing, nnd theatre
parties prevail among the rich, liut-neitUei
arc the lower classes of the cities forgot
ten at that time. The municipality be ol
every city causes huge lmrrncks to
erected ou tlie best available open space
inside the city limits, and in those bar
ra. •ks cheap comedy is enacted, all kinds
of curiosities and freaks are exposed, by
panoramas are displayed, and lust, but
no means least, “Punch and Russia, Judy” are
shown in all their glory—in just
as in England, the clubbing of the police- ol
man being the most popular feature
the show.
Great swings are also creeled, which
are patronized by the lower class, a« are
the mountains, These mountains are
over-seventy feet high. They .are built
of wood, with ice frozen on their sloping
sides. People ascend the mountain by a
staircase at the back of it, take a hire scat on
one of tho sleighs that are On anu
slide down to their utmost satisfaction.
All around the place extends an oblong
track, on which the rich merchants with
their families parade iu their best turn
outs. In Russia it is an undisputed fact
that the richest appointed turnouts and
the best trotting horses are owned by rich
merchants; very few people among thi)
nobility care about having blooded
horses, except some persons belonging to
the rather fast sets of the capitals, or nl-u
young guardsmen. winter ice palace built in
Last an was
addition to the other amusements, iu
the palace a hall was given, and mat: /
wealthy Russian magnates danced then .
In the country towns the amusements am
carried out on a smaller scale than they
are at the capital. widespread tho modes of
How very are
celebrating carnival obtaining in llm-p v
proper is shown by the fact that even U-->
Osetins, iu the far away mountainot i
Caucasus, eagerlv avail themselves of tl"i
least fall of snow in order to organize i
Viud of tobogganing in their own fashion.
Several of tho Indmi clt o's wlio
have b -eii vis t ug V, asli.t f.o:i ha «
been East b.Lre. They new
. improste .i with two tbtegs-the the
j aud t: , e gls . One of n
^ t}l0 “While man heap
Makes wagons go without
bo.ses nnd makes wind barn.”