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BUB3CHIPT10N, *1.00 PER ANNUM.
In a letter to the United States Sen
ate Secretary Blaine recommended that
congress appropriate $15,000 for the
purenaso of 10, 000 pages of historical
manuscript, caused by B. F. Stevens of
London to bo transcribed from im
portant documents in the archives of
European govern moats, bearing on the
Revolutionary War.
So-called Villagex of Liberty have
Sprung into existence in the outskirts of
Senegal, Africa, through the labors of
Lieutenant- Colonel Galiieni for the as
sistance of slaves. Slaves who are mal
treated fljo to these villages, and, on
arrival, are declared free. They are
assigned to some village and supplied
with food and land. Tho Village of
Liberty at Kayos has now 500 inhabi
tants who live happily and comfort ably.
In France tho manufacture of match*
es is a government monopoly, and as a
result the price for these necessary arti
cles is about ten time? as much as in
any other country, while the quality is
said to be proportionately bad. Al
though there has been a great deal of
opposition to this state of affairs, the
French Chamber of Deputies hm, al
most without a dissenting voice, de
cided to continue the monopoly for
soother year.
Ocean travelers have a direct interest
In ee.e reform ftiat does not- seem to
have come t>3foro the International .Ma
rine Conference at Washington. Tho
old system of “watch and w.itcY’ by
which bath officers and men cams on
duty every four hours, necessitates a
strain which tells severely up >:i any
man’s ability to keep his wits bright
for an emergency such as may occur at
any moment. Already one of the prin
cipal liuos has le l tin way i:i giving its
men longer hours of slop, reaping the
advantage of a better morale among the
crew, and increased confidence among
tlie passengers. What th -v have de
monstrated to be possible, the New
York Voice thinks should be male
compulsory.
The Photographic Society of Gmeva,
. SwitA-rlaftcL has just mido an. interest
ing experiment. It has been observed
in the case of mature married couple?
who have lived together for a long
period of years that, harmonious in
thought and feeling, and subject to tho
aame conditions of l.fe, they acquire a
strong facial resemblance. The society
took the photographs of seventy*eigh'
coup’cs to see to what extent ibis facia
resemblance prevails. The result, ac*
cording to a London paper, is that in
twenty-four cases the resemblance in
tho personal appearance of the husband
and wife was greater than that o
brother and sister; in thirty caf-es ii
was equally great; and in only* twenty
four was there a total absence of resem
blance.
The Chinaman, s*fs Atlanta Cm
stitution, is not what he used to be.
He not only neglects to keep his tirne
honored wall in repair, hut si-is out to
make breaches in other people’s wn’h.
Considerable flurry was created a'
St. Petersburg recently by the an
nouncement that tho Chinese gov ri>
ment had determined to construct a
railroad from Pekin to Girin, a town
near the Russian frontier. Ai a n-t- IT,
the Muscovites propose to strengthen
their Pacific fleet. The Chinaman is
just beginning to real in that with
mS*eru engineering the immense -popu
lation which is a burden to him at
home may be made formidable abroad.
The Chinese soldier fights with blin I.
insensible courage in war, and when
China puts her coolies to work on rail
roads nt 10 cents a day, she will spec 1
ily develop that vast empire at a co.-t
far below that of the snm i work in
other parts of the world.
The tremendous cost which theKu o
pean nations are under in keeping tlu m
selves prepared for war can be realize 1
from a recent statement in a German
newspaper as to what can be done in
the way of mobilizing tlie German
army. In less than seven days a little
over 1,400,000 men could be concen
trated on the frontier, Four or five
days later 800,000 more men would
form a second lino and back of these
•would be the landstrum, with about
1,500,000 on the first call, AT these
troops are thoroughly dulled aud armed
with the repeating rifle, The cars to
transport them arc ready and the coal
for the railroadi was laid in long ago.
- One can imagine, therefore, what the
^icxt war would be and at wlnt fright
ful co3t the preparations for it are
carried on. The New York Nem con
riders it almost as bad for the pcapio to
' j, a y for the maintenance of this enor
mous army as to suffer the consequences
which would follow a conflict w th
another nation maintaining a like force,
ft is a sorrowful condition of affairs,
AfeBT which there is no improvement in
-(sight, except that which may follow by
overturning the ruling classes who are
responsible for suc-h folly- ______
4 i ottrnal*
VOL. II.
AT T11E CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENTS BY PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OP NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
la the house, on Monday, Mr. Bender
Jon, of Iowa, from the committee on ap
propriations, reported back the urgent
thereto deficiency bill, with senate amendniehts
with the recommendation that
certain of these amendments be concur
red in and certain non-concurred in. Mr.
Henderson stated that the aggregate
amount carried by the senate amend
ments was $650,000. Amendments,
in Which th© committee recommended
concurrence, carried only $87,000. The
amount $24,720,000, appropriated which $21,874,000 bv the bill was for
of was
the benefit of the old soldiers of the
country. Tlie first bill called up, and
which was considered iu committee of
the whole, was the senate bill authorising
ihe establishment of a public park in the
district of Columbia, After a long de
bate an amendment was adopted provi
ding exceed that the total cost of land shall not
the amount of money appropriated
by tho bill - $1,200,000. Pending fur
ther action, the committee rose, and at 5
o’clock, the house adjourned.
Iu the Senate, on Monday. Mr. Hoar,
from the committee on privileges
and elections, reported four resol u
tions in the* case ol' persons claiming seats
as senators from the State of Montana
two of them declaring that ( larke and
Maginnis were not entitled to seats, and
the other two declaring that Saunders and
Power were “entitled on the merits of
the case, to be admitted’ to seats. A
resolution from minority of the commit
tec, making opposite declarations,were re
ported and all was ordered to
be printed, Mr. Hoar giving
uotice t hut lit would ask the senate
to consider them during the week
The bill to declare unlawful trusts and
combinations in restraint of trade and
production was taken up, and Mr. Tuque
addressed the senate, lie discussed the
constitutional points involved, and con
chided by expressing the belief that con
gress had the same power to reg
ulate inter-state commerce that the
states had to regulate their own commerce,
A long running debate, both for and
against the bill, followed, but it went
over without action... .Conference was
agreed to on the urgent deficiency bill,
and Messrs. Hale, Allison and Cockrell
were appointed conferees on part of the
senate. After a short executive session,
the senate adjouened.
In the house, on Tuesday, immediately
after the approval of the journal. Mr.
Gaudier, of Massachusetts, called up foi
consideration the World’s fair bill. The
bill was read in extenso. An amendment
was agreed to for the postponement of the
fair until An amendment was
adopted providing lady for the appointment perform such ol
a board of manager* to
duties as would be prescribed by the com
mission. An amendment was also adopt
ed providing that one of the members of
the board, claimed to be charged with the
selection of the government exhibit, shall
be chosen by the fish commission.
Among the bills introduced and re
ferred in the senate on Tuesday was on<
by Mr. Morrill to establish an educational
fund from the proceeds of public lands,
and one by Mr. Far well to give a pension
of $2,000 a year to tht widow of General
Crook, Also a joint resolution by Mr.
George to amend the molutinn so as to
empower congress to make all laws that
are necessary and proper to suppress com
binations iu restraint of trade or produc
tion, and to prevent transactions that
create a monopoly or increase or depress
the prices of commodities that are or may
become a subject of commerce among the
states or with foreign Wednesday, nations.
In the house, on Mr. Can
non, of Illinois, from the committee on
rules, reported a resolution making the
Wyoming admission resolution bill a special adopted order
for the day. The was
md the Wyoming bill then taken up. Mr.
Uurey, of admission Wyoming, the made territory a st rong which plea
for the of
tic represented, into the sisterhood of
states, the constitution and he defended and the provision extend- of
the territory Mr.
ing the right of suffrage to women.
Dockerry, of Mo., favored the admission oi
new population states as in rapidly as the increase warranted. of
the territories
Mr. Oates, of Alabama, said that no new
state had ever come into the union on
terms proposed in this case that women
were to have ihe right to vote and to hold
office. It was a delicate question and he
looked with great apprehension toward the upon the
growing tendency franchise. ex ten
lion of the right to iu
Mr. Morey, of Ohio, spoke support
of the bill, and advocated the civil and
legal enfranchisement of women iu all
states of the union. Mr. Mansur, of
Missouri, in the few moments which re
mained addressed himself to the country
if not to the house (for, on actual
:,ount, there were not twelve members in
flu ir seats.), and said that tin* slim at
tendance reminded him of the fact that
tin, house was bringing a state into the
union by the Caesarian operation, rather
than with the care and comfort which
surrounded the accoucbment of an hon
orable member of an honorable family.
The house then took a recess.
In the senate, on Wednesday, Mr. Mc
Pherson, from the committee on naval
affairs, reported a joint resolution au
thorizing the secretary of the navy to re
move the naval magazine from Ellis
island, iu New York harbor, and to pur
chase a site for and to erect a naval mag
azine at some other point, and appropri- and the
ating $75,000 for the consider purpo-c, it. Mr. Hi
senate proceeded amend to by appropriating -
cock moved to
the further sum of $75,000 to enable
ihe secret.ar of the treasury to improve
Ellis island for immigration purposes, and the
the amendment was agreed to anti-trust
joint resolution passed.. and . various .The formal
bill was taken up
amendments were made. The amend
ment offered Tuesday by Mr. Stewart to
insert the words, “or of the value of
money by which such cost may be advanced
■)T reduced," 1 wa> amendment agreed to, Air. it, which Horn
withdrawing add his words “gold to silver."
was to the or
Mr. Spooner offered an amendment to the
first section, giving courts authority, in
iddition to the other remedies, to MfUf
ZEBULON. GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1890.
any further in the business except to
wind up th’iv affairs. The legal bearing
and effect of the amendment, as well ai
ihe bill geneially, were discussed
by Vest Messrs. Spooner, Gray, Hoar, Mr. Stewart,
Offered Reagan, antendirient aild Eiistis. Butler
visions of an the hill stocks extending arid the banks pro
to
Adopted. Mr. F.ustis offerer! an amend
moot extending its provisions to cottdri
prints, steel rails, boots an 1 shoes, lead
and lumber. Adopted. On motion oi
Mr. Blair an amendment was adopted in
kinds eluding Woolen intoxicating goods ami whisky and all
of drinks? With
in the provisions of the bill
The bill, which had been considered all
the time sis in the committoo of tho
whole, was reported to the senate, acted where
all amendments have to be upon
again, and where other amendments may
be offered. After a brief executive ses
sion the senate adjourned.
NOTV.S.
By a vote of seven to five the house
committee on coinage, weights and meas
ures, Conger on Monday, the authorized Windom Chairman bill
to report silver
to the house with a number of amend
meat*,
The southern has trip of the Pan-American dux
congress been deferred fur ten
or two weeks. A few days ago it was
intended that the congress woilld start
south expected about complications April 1st, but owing the to un- fm
iu work
which the congress convened, they will
not l»e able to start before the 15th, and
po-sibly not until tin* 20th of April.
On Tuesday, the house committee on
elections disposed of two contested elec
tion eases, namely, Posey vs. Paret, first
Indiana district, uud Bowen vs. Buchan
an, ninth Virginia district. In both of
these cases the committee will recommend
that the sitting member be allowed to re
tain the seat, so that in the seven election
time eases passed upon by it up favored to the four present
the committee has re
publicans aud three democrats.
Major McKinley’s tariff bill, which wu.s
to have been presented on Friday to the
full committee, is not yet born, and there
is no telling when it will make its ap
pearance. ciates beginning Major McKinley fiud and that his asso
are to out; they
sides have att opposition elephant is on vigorous their hands. and intense, On all
und the committee is ttymg to hammer
tho bill into shape, and get it reported to
the house before it is emasculated beyond
recognition.
A brief Thursday caucus of republican senators which was the
held morning, nt
order of business, arranged by th * com
mittee appointed at the recent conference
wns aproved. This programme includes
the anti trust administrative bill, the dependent bill, pen
sion bill, customs
land forfeiture, bill, Jones silver bill and
hills for the admission of territories to
ihe union of the states. Besides these,
there will occur the debate on the
Montana election case, which will be
called up Monday.
An application from Mrs. Thomas J.
Jackson for a pension for the services of
her late husbaud, General “Stonewall* 1
Jackson, in tlie Mexican war, was filed at
the pension office Friday. General
Longstreet. was the witness. To the
above was added the affidavit of J)r.
Joseph Graham j who was present at the
marriage July 15, 1857, of Lieutenant J.
Jackson and Miss Mary Ann Morrison.
Mrs. Jackson will receive a pension of
$8 per month from January 2fi, 1887, the
date of the passage of the Mexican Vete
ran's Bill—some $804 up to this date.
Having once reopened the subject, of
duties on sugar, the republican members
of the ways and means committee find it
a hard matter to adjust them satisfacto
rily in Washington. On Tuesday the re
finers were in, force. There were a num
ber from New York, Boston, and
Philadelphia. They made a streu
uous protest against the action of
the committee in cutting and so maintained heavily
iuto the existing rates, all
that a twenty-five reining per cent, could cut was stand.
that the industry
On the other hand, about a dozen mem
hers of congress from the west insisted
that the duties must be still further re
duced .
About ten days ago' a New York papei
published a Washington special failure purport
ing to give the reasons for the of
the Harrison administration to recognize
General Longstreet, of Georgia, the has most
prominent ex-confederate who es
poused the cause of republicanism, that it
was alleged, among other things, voted
General Longstreet, had not. loj
Harrison and Morton. An old friend cl
General Longstreet \s, who had served or
his staff, and is himself a distinguished whethei
republican, wrote and asked him
the allegations referred to were true.
General Longstreet has written a most
noteworthy reply in which he with gives the th?
story of his identification re
publican party, recites the facts as to hi*
relations with the present administration,
and gives an inside view of the mean*
used by tho republican their organizations hold tlu ir
the south to maintain upon
spoils of office, without regard to the
public good or even the best interest ol
their party.
THE PRICE OF A LETTER.
4 RUSSIAN WOMAN WRITES TO THE CZAR
AND JR EXILED.
Mi. George Keenan, at Kansas City,
Mo., on Wednesday furnished additional
particulars in regard to the well known
Russian lady, Mary Tsebrikova, who b
about to be exiled to Siberia for having
written a personal letter, concerning Rus
sian affairs, to the czar. Mr. Keenan says
the lady is known in Russia as an able
aud talented writer upon social and polit
ical subjects, and has never been n revo
lutionist.
BISMARCK'S FAREWELL
THE MAN ov • 1HOK AMD lllA <’0 Hll)i
EMl'KItOll WILLIAM ADIEU.
A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says:
The farewell audience between the (inl
peror and Prince Bismarck was held
Wednesday morning. I The interview
lasted three-quartos of an hour. The re
tiring chancellor was heartily cheered on
his way to the palace by crowds which
had gathered along the route. The em
peror permits Bismarck t, retain the title
,f prince, with that of ’llL
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ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
MEMBERS ARE DOING.
HEMS OF INTEREST TO THE FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS
OF TliE COt NTRt.
The Alliance officials in Getirgia have
given that prompt denial to the Washington
story ‘.lie order intended to scoop up
all the Congressional districts this year.
The Farmers’ ■v*t
Alliance now has 70,090
members in ICansns, and is growing at tlu
late or 2,000 a month. It is ten months
yet until election. Ninety thousand votes
thrown one way will pi# the mischief
with the plans of the politicians .—Atebi
eon Globe.
From *** cheering
every county comes the
news that the Alliance is growing
stronger. Alliancemen are learning prac
tical lessons of economy and co-operation ;
those who had the courage and patience
to stand by the principles of the Alliance
are beginning .—Solid to reap tlie benefits of the
order South.
Why is that, *** pretending
it the journals
to be such friends of the Farmers’ Alliance
do not come out squarely and endorse tlie
sub-treasury plan ntid tho railway plat
form of the National AUignce, which de
mands that the railways must be con
trolled bv the peoplo in ihe interest of tlie
masses, and that the farmer should re
ceive same privileges as are accorded the
banks und bond-holders} You cannot
carry water on both shoulders any longer.
If you are with us say so, and if you art
not, show your colors .—Southern Farm
er j’ Alliance.
♦*
The Farmers’ Alliance is going ahead
with its own business,; “What have
they done?” think some for will ask. Read and then this
aud just a moment
you will answer for yourself: “They
have done a great deal for the laboring
this people.” time What did and gimoo sell it. selling for at
last year? what is
at now? Look at the difference in the
price of cotton lust full and last fall year.
Just look at everything in proportion ns
well as cotton and guano. J The principle
of the thing is enough for any man.—
Buchanan (Ga.) Meeeenger.
Neither the race problem nor sectional
difficulties intruded themselves at the
great national convention of farmers and
laborers at St. Louis. Delegates from
the Colored Farmers’ Alliance were re
ceived by the white Farmers’ Alliance
and interest matters pertaining to their Northerners mutual
were considered.
and Southerners, brothers . in the Alli
ance, clasped hands at (hat couvenfion
and left the thrill of fraternal fellowship
Which all the fierce blowing of dead em
bers cannot chill. If politicians will cease
meddling, the Farmers’ Alliance and In
dustrial Union Will solve the race problem
and re-tmite the too-iong estranged sec
tions of our beloved country.
President Polk of N. F. A. and I. U.,
knows more concerning the condition oi
the Alliance throughout the country than
any man in the South, and when ques
tioned as to Alliance matters, he said:
“Although the growth of the Alliance in
tlie South has been wonderful, the
growth of the order in the Northwest has
been still more phenomenal. In Kansas,
great strides are being made in the right
direction, and the organization has more
than doubled since the 8t. Louis convcn
tion. The farmers of the west, although
they are not troubled by any
particular grievance such as the
jute bagging oppression of the South,
still have great obstacles to overcome.
They feel the effects of the reduction in
prices, and they find it almost impossible
to make a living profit from their pro- tin
ducts. They arc trying to break
combination of the buyers, and I have no
doubt they will succeed. One feature of
the National Alliance assures me above all
else of it- success. building It is killing out sec
tionalism, and up a national
spirit which will lie a benefit to the whole
nation. ”
» *
Among the resolutions adopted at Alii the
recent Convention of the National
an ce, held at Atlanta, Ga. f was the fol
lowing: “Whereas, at New Orleans in
September, 1889, a conference was bah
between prominent representatives of the
cotton growers of the South and mem
hers of the cotton exchanges in the Uni
ted States, an agreement was entered into
which was to take effect on Ihe first day
of October thereafter, fixing the tare on
cotton covered bales at sixteen twenty-(out pounds,
and on jute covered bales at
pounds, which was satisfactory to Alli
ancemen. And, whereas, by the opposi
sition of several important cotton ex
changes this agreement xvas rendered a
nudety. Apd, whereas, this we invited the
cotton exchanges of country to a
conference on this same subject at which Hr.
Louis on Decembnr 5th, 1889,
they refused to notice by letter or other
wise. And, whereas, our president, CkJ.
L. L. Polk, recently urged upon these
parties to express their wishes or plan for
an adjustment of this question, at a meet
ing to he held in Atlanta, Ga., March 19,
1890, and only one reply was received
with encouragement,.and that from Mr.
James Tobin, of Augusta. And, where
as, after a careful consideration of the
whole subject in all its phases, we,
the presidents and accredited representa
tives of the State Alliances of the cotton
section, in conference asaemh'ed in At
lanta, Ga., March 19th, 4890. (lo unani
mously reaffirm the equity and justice ol
our demands on this subject; aud we do,
therefore,
Resolved, That we urge the Alliance
men of the cotton states to stand by the
action of tlie St. Louis supreme council on
the use of cotton bagging each Allianeenrun or any other
fibre than jute, and that
be, and is hereby instructed to dejrosit
said cotton-covered bales in warehouses,
to be provided, and, with liberal ad
vances, as can be had thereon, and to al -
low said cotton-covered bales th ere to re
main until the demands made shall he
complied with.
Resolved also. That your national and
state officials ability and do unceasing hereby pledge efforts their in be- ut
most
half of the people to obtain full and fair
'acilifiss fjr marketing their cotton.” * *
Resolved. That f 'l' r , 1
in th« cotton states that the outlook for
the manufacture an 1 aupp y of cotton
bagging is much better than for the pnsl
year and will probably be equal to the de
mand.
Resolved, That the state requested presidents oi
each Alliance or union be to as
sist in every possible way J. F. Tilman,
the national crap statistician, in securing
accurate ccod ruuortt.
Resolved, That the representatives assembled, do of
the cotloii States, hero as
esrt that tlib compound lard bill now
pending in eongrfess is untvise, special, the
and class legislation, and will increase
burdens of ouc class of producers and
only benefits a monopoly that by no means
manufacturers a pure article of hog’s lard,
and members of congress are requested hereby most
respectfully and earnestly to
oppose tlie passage of said measure.
L. ruts, president X. F. A. and I.
(J.; 8. M. Adams, president Alabama al
liance; IV. S. Morgan, delegate, Afkan
Has; IV. I. Vason, delegate, Florida; L.
F. Livingston, president Georgia Alliance
T, 8. Adams, president, Louisiana; G. B.
Dimes, delegate, Missouri; 8. B. Alexan
der, delegate, North Carolina; li. T.
Stackhouse, president, South Carolina;
IV. S. I). A. Duncan, delegate, president, Mississippi; Texas; J. R. B.
Coleman,
Buchanan, president. Tennessee.
TOUGH ON CANADA.
TUB EFFECT OP THR NEW l-NEBED STATES
TAB IFF ON HER TR ADE.
A dispatch from Ottawa, Out., the says:
It appears as if the framers of United
Stales tariff changes had studied the dis
tinctive products increased of each duties province of
Canada, and the on them
accordingly. The new schedule aims at
Ontario in file matterof barley
and apples at Quebec and New
Brunswick on horses and hay, anil at
Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
> .a potatoes and other vegetables. iu Nova
Scotia also gets hard hit the shape of
increased duties on fish. Those who have
looked into tlie details of the hew tariff,
think it is a direct blow at Canadian
trade with the United Stabs. Tho duty
on horses is now twenty per cent.; the
proposal is to raise it to thirty per cent.
Canada sent. Inst year 17,377 horses, val
ued at $2,1111,738, to the United
States. The increased duty is
leveled against that trade, aud
will fall most heavily on Ontario (lie horses and
Quebec, whence IB,000 of
were drawn. The duty on cattle, for
merly twenty per cent, i* to be raised to
$10 per head where the cattle are over a
year old, and $2 per head where less.
Canada sent 87,800 cattle, valued at
$488,20(1, to the United States Inst year.
The dut.v on these imports would be, un
der the old rate, $9,704. Under the now
rate it would reach, old, provided the Cattle
.ire n’l over a year $878,090. Eggs, the
HOW free, it is proposed dozen. to Canada’s tax (it
rate of five cents a ex
ports last ye air were 14,011,017 dozen,
-
The tax at five cents would be $700,000.
It is in barley that, the greatest damage
will be done. The present iliity on bar
ley is ten cents per bushel. It is pro
posed to increase the rate to thirty cents.
Lust year Canada sent 0,934,504 bushels
to the United States. The present duty
on this quantity is $993,450. The new
duty would aggregate $2,080,1150.
j. j, Bruner, editor and published proprietor ol
tin: Carolina Watchman al
Salisbury, died nt his home,in that town
on Sunday. lie was seventy three yours
old, and the oldest and one of the best
known editors in North Carolina, having
edited the Watchman regularly since
1850 .
FURTHER RESTRICTIONS
IMrOBED ON TRAVELERS TO THE DOMINION
OF CANADA.
The convention supplementary to the
tenth article of the treaty of 1842,between
Great Britain and the United States, con
cluded at Washington July 12, lHRff and
ratifications exchanged at London, March
II, 1890, was proclaimed on Tuesday. By
the terms of the. supplementary conven
tion, the provisions of the made tenth applicable article of
he original treaty are tc
the following additional crimes:
1. Manslaughter, Counterfeiting when altering voluntary.
2. or money, ut
tering terfeit or bringing altered into circulation coun
or money.
8. Embezzlement, larceny, receiving
any money, valuable security, or othci
property, knowing the same to have been
embezzled, stolen or fraudulently ob
tained.
4. Fraud by bailee, banker, agent, fac
tor, trustee or director, or member or offi
cer of any company made criminal by the
laws of both countries.
5. Perjury, or subornation of perjury.
(i. Rape, abduction, child-stealing,kid
napping. Burglary, house-breaking shop-
7. or
breaking. the of nations.
8. Piracy by law
9. Revolt, or conspiracy board to ship revolt tlie by
two or more persons on on
high sens, against the authority of the
master; wrongfully sinking or destroying do
a vessel at sea, tfr attempting high to so;
assaults on board ship on the seas,
with intent to do grevious bodily harm.
10. (,'rimes and offenses against suppression the
laws of both countries for tho
of slavery and slave trading.
Extradition is also to take place for
participation in any of the crimes men
tioned in this convention, or in tlie afore
said tenth article, provided the such laws partici- of both
countries. pation* he punishable Political offenses by expressly
are
excluded from it stipulated the operations that people of the
treaty, and is ex
tradited upon one charge shall not be held
to account for any other previously com
mitted until they shall have had an op
portunity to return to the country whence
extradited.
A NEW NAME.
THE COTTON OIL TRUST RKOKOANIZED As
THE COTTON OIL COMPANY.
Final steps in the reorganization of the
American cotton oil trust, at New York
have been taken aud on Tuesday dealings tlie
stock exchange admitted to its
common and preferred stocks of the new
corporation, the American Cotton Oil
company. The company now owns
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NUMBER 18.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CARLE.
THINGS THAT HAPPEN PROM PAT TO DAT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
PROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Incendiaries are at work in Bismarck,
North Dakota.
The influenza epidemic is raging In
Australia and New Zealand.
The New York court of appeals has de
cided that the electrical execution act is
constitutional.
The bondsmen of ex-State
Noland, of Missouri, have agreed to
tho deficit.
The students are rioting at 8f. Peters
burg, Russia. Revolutionary pamphlets the city.
have been scattered throughout
The bill to prohibit pool-selling passed
the Matylfthd legislature Wednesday, was
signed bv the governor, and by night all
ped-rooms in Baltimore were closed.
A large number of dealers in frtiifc
New York and have petitioned Washington, the committee
on ways means, at pro
testing against any increase in the ciutx
on lemons and oranges.
General Robert Gumming BchoncU,
congressman, soldier and diplomat, and
leader in public died affairs Washington a generation Sim- or
more ago, a I). G.,
day evening of pneumonia.
A London dispatch says: The great an
nual race between the boat crows of Ox
ford and Cambridge universities took
place on the Thames Wednesday thirty-three after
noon. The Oxfords won in
minutes, three seconds.
There was a long meeting of the sugar
trust in New York on Thursday, and bn
fore it ended interested parties every
where had information that a cash divi
dend of two and a half per cent had been
declared for the present quarter.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Burling
ton, Iowa, reports: portion Nearly800,000 of acres have
of the eastern the state
been burned by prairie fire not yet ex
tinguished. Several lives believed lost.
The fire was started by hunters.
A special from Canton, Ohio, says:
The Canton glass works, one -the largest
and most successful in the country, was
totally destroyed by fire Sunday $85,000. morning.
Loss $60,000, insurance Two
hundred workmen are thrown out of om
ployment.
Warrants were sworn out in the police
court, at Washington, l). C\, on Wednes
day, for the arrest of C. A. Newton and
J. J. Verser, upon the charge soliciting of violating
the civil service law in ami re
ceiving contributions from government
employe4-for jvJitirul purposes.
The supreme court of the United State
Oil Monday »iff rail'd tlve judgment district of the
court below from the eastern of
Virginia, granting a writ of habeas cor
pus to Wilson Lonev. convicted of per
jury. il was alleged honey swore falsely
In giving testimony in a contested dec
I ion clisc.
Both branches of the legislature ■jf
Ohio have passe l a bill providing worked that
railroad employes who have
twenty four consecutive hour-, shall not
resume till they have had eight hours*'
rest. Twelve hours arc to constitute a
day’s labor. The line for violation is
$150 in each case.
The will of the late J. Young Seani
mon, founder of tlie Inter- Ocean.
was admitted to probate at Chicago,
Tuesday. Mr. Scammon left an estate
worth $350. Before the great fire of
1871 he was worth a million dollars.
What remained after the tire was lost
in the panic of 1873.
A DAMAGING STORM.
SWEEPS OVER SOUTH CAROLINA SEVERA;
LIVES LOST.
A violent storm swept, over the north
ern, western Saturday and central afternoon. portions The of loss South
Carolina ot
ife was small, but several negroes wen
tilled in Sumter county, and a white mai
n Union county, by falling houses. A
railroad bridge over Broad river, nem
Spartanburg, was blown clear from it
i.ers,fivc minutes after a train had passed.
Many dwellings and stores lost roofs ano
spires. A Baptist church in Sumter win
blown down. Buildings were unroofed,
fences leveled, trees uprooted, and a Pres
byterian church destroyed in Chestei
county. 'There xvas a severe blow, will
occasional damage to buildings in Flor
ence, Spartanburg,Newberry and Charles
ton counties.
A CAMP PROPOSED.
EX-rOXFEDEKATK SOLDIER* OF NEW YORK
CITY WANT TO ORGANIZE ONE.
The ox-confederate soldiers of New
York city propose to inaugurate a camp,
of ex-mem Lens of the confederate army
and navy. Recently appointed a meeting with was held
and a committee this end
in view. A circular letter lias, as a result,
been sent out for this purpose. Among
other things the letter declares that tht
republic lias no more conservative ot
patriotic citizens side in than the those late who Ex-con- fought
on the other war.
federates are asked to meet, and renew the
friendships and maintain the sentiments
of fraternity born of tlie battlefield. hardships and
dangers shared on the It is
proposed uteo to assist, widows and
orphans of deceased comrades.
THE SUGAR TARIFF
RAISES A HOWL AMONG THE LOUISIANA
PLANTERS.
Tlie Louisiana Planters’ association
held a meeting at New Orleans on Friday
and adopted a series of resolutions pro
testing against a reduction of the tariff on
sugar without a corresponding articles; reduction
■■Ii all other duty protected being protesting changed
against specific the on sugar ad valorem tax, and
from to an
also against the standard standard, being raised
thirteen to sixteen Dutch color
test.
It 18 officially stated iu Paris that a tele
gram has been received from the Ccrngi
country, in tVest
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Me AOKicm/rnui, statistician com
ments ON THE SITUATION
American agriculture is treated by Sta
tistician J. R. Dodge iu the March report
of the department of agriculture. The
prevalence of low prices is noted and feel
ing of discouragement in rural circles
throughout the world is indicated. It is,
md has been, especially severe in Great
Britain, and is the subject of com
id lint, discussion and official in
vestigation in Germany, France,
Italy, add other countries. it J»
in monnrfhWs and republics, _ un*
present m*d
dcr diverse,ourreueicj economic sys
tems. Though the price’S-of implements, the
utensils and fabrics are a'»o lower,
farmer's inUre-t account is unreduced, and
his mortgage hinder to lift.
THE CAUSE OF LOW PRICES. referred ,
The the main cause of low prices is anil de
to incsofable law of supply
mand. Corn and wheat and over-productiotf. other staples
tiro cheap because of
Immigration lias increased the population
'>, 000,0110 in ten years. Iuter-eontinentad
areim have been carved into farms free to
tile natives and foreigners, opening mil
lions of acres to cultivation. Railroad ex
tension has stimulated production and
overwhelmed the cast with w estern pro
ducts. Speculation first .Tad utilizations!- •
terwnrils have prodmed results that
have astonished the world with a plethora
of bread and meat. The old world has
joined with the new to crowd the moun
tains, valleys, slopes and far-stretching in
plains of the continent with beeves,
tlu- haunts of the once countless herds of
buffalo.
Lu the more eastern ureas maturity of
beeves has been hastened by breeding and
feeding. how the An extended comparison shows
in progress of forty years, pro
dilution outrun the population in itt
wildest strides. It is shown that wheat
growing has become bread a philanthropic consistent with mis
sion the to low make cheap Britain, that
wages in Great
northwestern missionaries continue sowing
their seeds and floating their bread aero*
the waters, mourning for profits that do. nod
r -turn after many days. of the It world is suggested wheat; that
less tlmu a fourth out
that half of the people of Europe scarcely
know the taste, and that Asia, Africa,
South America and Australia all have
wheat to sell. Mr. Dodge says that while
there is an excess of production supplies of few ol
staples, there are insufficient
many other necessary products, and the
total absence of s< ores of others, which
should furnish profitable employment to
rural labor. There is too narrow a range
of cropping. Diversification is essential
to agricultural salvation. There are im
ports eostiug $240,000,000 products which per should annum, be
of a- ultural
pt,..«u, ,d here. These, are. sugar, ani
mals and their products, fillers, fruits
and nuts, barley, leaf tobacco, uud wines.
The farmers are suffering for the want of
the hundreds of millions of dolla s that
the sweat of the brows and dexterity of
hands might produce iu “raw materials”
for scores of old and new industries.
Depression more intense will result, it is
predicted, if the fanners continue to re
strict. their efforts, walk in the furrows
their fathers turned, and seek to live and
die in the same overdone and profitless
routine. Another serious cause of de
pression, lie says, is the exorbitant shafts
of farmer's products taken by middle
men and carriers. Speculators depress full,
prices when the when garners the farmers are have
and boom them
nothing to sell, as at present, The com
muuity is infested with the The pestilent of
sw arms of non-producers. and curse the
speculation sult of honest blights industry. consumes Leeches fasten re
on every product of labor and suck from
it the life-blood of profit. Men who pro
duce nothing, who neither toil on fauns
nor spin in factories, are absorbing the
wealth of the country, by combinations
without conscience, and Bervice without
equity.
Jefferson Davis Memorial Volume,
UY DR. J. WM. JOSES.
Wo learn from the publishers, Messrs.
£L 0. Hudgins – Co., of Atlanta, Ga.,
that tho D ivis Mem trial volume being
prepared by the populaT author, Dr. J.
Win. Jones, is rapidly nearing completion. leader oi
Since the death of the great- st
tho ‘‘Lost Cause,” there has been an un
preccdented demand for su h a work
and it is an assured fact that it will have
an enormous sale.
Messrs. Hudgins – Co., say they ex
pect to Lave 3 field in a
lew days so G
to wait.
Aside from ihe great love and admira*
tion on the part of oiu* Southern people fo*
tho dead hero, the fact that the talented
author is so well and favorably known
will doubtless cause the volume to be re
ceived with unusual lavor.
Those wishing an agency should writ!
at once to Messrs. H. C. Hudgins – Co.,
of Atlanta.
AN EDITORIAL JAUNT,
MEMBERS OF THE GEORGIA.FRESH A88<H jA
TION IN THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
The Georgia Press association arrived it;
Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday r morning.
They visited the sub-tropical exposition,
where they were received and shown
■ bout by Director General Moran, Secre
tary Adams and Representative Dilion.
President Dillon made a short speech Presi- of
welcome, which was replied to by
dent W. L. Glessucr. The editors iiu
guests of the Plant Investment company,
aud will be given a trip to Cuba by thal
company.
GREAT FIRE IN CHINA
l-’ll-'TEKN nr.SDUKD HOUSES IWIOVKI.
AND TWO I'EKSOSS KIU-E1'.
The city of Pekin, from China and
Japan arrived at San Francisco on
Wednesday, bringing advices that on
February houses 27th, destroyed about by 1,500 fire iu Japanese Tifitio.
were
ami seventy-eight were partially de
stroyed. Two persons were killed and
about tueuty-fivc firemen, more or less,
severely injured. On the preceding day
187 houses were burned in the city, and on