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f An Adelaido (Australia) daily paper
has in its employ three men named Day.
One of them is called Sun-Day, because
he is a clergyman, another being the
cashier, is called Pay-Day, while the
third, being a law reporter, goes by the
name of Judgement-Day.
A Michigan paper tells of a farmei
catching a fellow going out of his past
ture one night with a sheep on his back
and blazing away at him with a shotgun.
The paper naively adds that the fellow
dropped the sheep,went to Ann Arbor the
next day, and when he returned he had
• glass eye.
According to the Detroit Free Frees,
when a Government official in Russia is
snubbed, refused his blackmail or fails
to get the big end of a bargain ha de
nounces his man as a Nihilist, swears he
has seen him act suspiciously and away
goes the object of his spite to a fortress,
to die there or be sent off to Siberia.
In the lower house of the Prussian
Diet, Herr Szmula, a Pole, warned the
Government against ill-treating tho
Poles, who, he said, would be wanted
in the event of a war with Russia. He
declared that if they were embittered
against Germany, the founding of a new
kingdom of Poland would become pos
sible.
There appears to be no further doubt
about the destitution in North and South
Dakota, about which so many conflicting
reports have been published. Clam
Barton, the female philanthropist, made
a personal investigation of the subject,
ami declares that at least 5000 people
were dependent for subsistence on public
charity.
The volcano of Cohino, Mexico, has
been misbehaving itself badly of late,
and the inhabitants of six villages at its
foot are fleeing for their lives before the
streams of molten lava that are pouring
down its sides. The volcano’s intestines
have been growling wildly for three
months, and the eruption is expected to
be of a very destructive character.
From M. Topinard's observations on
the color of eyes and hair in 189,000
persons in Franco many interesting re
sults have been deduced. One of the
most curious is that a race formed from a
mixture of blondes and brunettes shows
the hereditary blondo element in the
eyes and the brunette in the hair, this
tendency accounts for the rarity of a
combination of light hair and dark eyes.
The assertion that the Americans— a pre
eminently mixed race—are fast becom
ing a dark-haired and blue-eved nation
is in accordance with this law.
London will soon have an opportunity
to see what manner of men the tiny little
fellows are who refused to make friends
with Stanley while ho was cutting his
w-ay through the forests, but 'lurked in
bushes and launched their arrows, slimy
wtm poison', as h<i~p!l-' : th^a:3ng! captured Among
the dwarfs that Stanley was one
whom Lieutenant Stairs, one of the great
explorer's white companions, took under
his wing, and he has him now in stock
in Zanzibar, waiting for milder weather
before venturing to ship him north. He
will be a great curiosity as the first re
presentative of the famous African dwarf
tribes to visit England, and it is hoped
he will fare better than hislittle brethren,
who have usually died even when taken
no further north thau Italy.
The rapid increase in the wealth, busi
ness and prosperity of the United States
during the last ten years is simply mar
vclous. Tire total wealth of the country
is now $71,459,000,000, equal to nearly
f1000 per head. This is an increase in
ten years of $18,000,000,000 or forty
two per cent. England's wealth in 1885
is given as $ 50 , 000 , 000 , 00 !), giving aa
average wealth per head of $1545. The
average in Scotland is $13in per head,
and in Ireland $565. The total wealth
of France is estimated at $36,099,009,
000. England exacts in taxes $20 per
head of population, white each individual
in the United States pays but $12.50.
America will pioduce 9,000,000 tons of
iron this year, while England's greatest
.production is 8,600,000 tons.
“Judging by the circulation of dream
'books,” said a New York publisher,
“education does not seem to make peo
ple any the iess superstitious, About tif
teen hundred different kinds of dream
books are in the market, ami all of them
find buyers, while the sale steadily in
creases about in proportion to the im
crease of people. Nor is the demand for
dream books confined to the poor. Wo
men with sealskins and diamonds come in
here to buy them, women whose appear
ance bears every evidence of wealth and
refined association. A woman who has
had some peculiar dream about her hus
band, child or lover wants to have it ex,
plained. She hesitates to tell her friends
about her anxiety, and the cause of it,
for fear they would laugh ot her, and she
does not care to send a servant on the
mission, So in she walks and buys a
dream book
pike Comttg Journal
VOL. II.
AT THE CAPITAL.
WHAT THE FIFTY-FIRST CON
GRESS IS DOING.
APPOINTMENT® BT PRESIDENT HARRISON—
MEASURES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE
AND ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
In the house, on Monday, Mr. Struble,
of Iowa, submitted the conference report
on the bill to provide a temporary gov
ernment for the territory of Oklahoma.
The bill, as agreed upon, changes the
boundaries of the proposed territory oi
Oklahoma, so far as to exclude from ter
ritorial limits what is known as tlie Cher
okee that outlet. the It is Indian provided, claim however, this
as soon as to
outlet is extinguished, it shall become
part of the territory of Oklahoma, with
out therein further legislation, and that the lands
shall be opened to settlement as
other lands in said territory. It is also
provided that jurisdicti on to enforce the
laws of the United States in tho Cherokee
outlet shall be conferred upon thesupre me
and district courts of the territory of Ok
lahoma. The reading of the report occu
pied one hour and a half. After a brief
discussion and but little opposition, the
report was adopted... .The bill appropri
ating vaults $33:1,500, to provide the necessary
and safeguards for the security of
public money in the custody of the United
states then called treasury, the was passed. in The order speaker for
committees a
motion to suspend ihe rules and pass
measure* on tlie calendar. Mr. Mor
rill, of Kansas, from the committee
on invalid pensions, called up the. bill to
pension prisoners of war. bill Mr. in Tarsncy,
of Missouri, opposed the an able
speech. Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, de
fended the bill. It was not so sweeping
as beneficiaries had been those represented. suffered It limited from
to who
disability resulting from confinement. It
was the duty of the government to care
for such men. Tho motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill was then put
and defeated. Mr. McKinley | iresented
the conference report on the bill to regu
late the sittings of the United States
courts in the district of South Carolina.
The house receded from its disagreement
to the senate amendment. The report
was adopted, and the house at 5:10
o’clock, adjourned.
In the Senate, on Monday, resolution Mr. Plumb di
introduced a concurrent
recting the secretary of the treasury to
increase the treasury purchase and coin
age of silver bullion to the maximum
amount authorized by the act. of Febru
ary 28, 1878, am] gave notice that he
would ask for its consideration Tuesday.
On motion of Mr. Hawley tho Senate pro
ceeded to consider the House bill to pro
vide for celebrating tlie four hundredth
anniversary of the discovery of America
by Christopher Columbus, by holding an
international exhibition of arts, indus
tries, manufactures nml product of soil,
mine and sea, Illinois. in tlie cit> of Chicago, amend- in
the State of The only
ment reported by the Semite < i ra nittec
is the insertion of a new section provid
ing for a naval review in New the York unveiling har
bor in April, 1893, and for
of the statue of The Christopher regarding Columbus the at
Washington. section
naval review was adopted, and is as fol
lows: “That the President is hereby
empowered and directed to hold a naval
review in New York harbor, in nations April,
1803, and to extend to foreign
an invitation to send ships of war to join
the United States navy in rendezvous at
Hampton Hoads and proceed passed—yeas thence to
said review. ” The bill was
43. nays 13.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, offered, Air. Plumb's in
resolution, heretofore for an
crease of the treasury purchase aud the
coinage of silver, was presented. Mr.
Plumb consented to let the resolution lie
over for the present, so as to give Mr.
Mitchell an opportunity to address the
senate.... Mr. Mitchell addressed the
Henate in favor of the constitutional
amendment proposed by him for the elec
tion of senators had concluded, by a popular his resolution vote.
When he
was referred to the commit tee on privi
leges and elections... .The conference re
port on the bill to regulate the sitting of
United States courts in the district of
South Carolina District was presented Columbia and agreed
to....The of appro
priation bill was taken bill, up. During Morrill, the
consideration of the Mr.
from fhe conference committee on the bill
for the organization, of national improvement zoological and
maintenance a
park, reported that the and committee he moved that had
been tumble to agree,
trie senate recede from amendment, its position which and
agree to the house re
quires half of the expense to be paid by
the district government. After some
discussion the motion was president agreed to for and his
the bill now goes to the
signature. Consideration of the district
appropriation bill was then resumed and
ended by the passage of the bill. After
executive session the senate adjourned.
NOTES.
A state reception was given to the army
and navy by the president Tuesday night.
It was a quiet affair.
The senate has confirmed the nomina
tion of E. Weeks as United States
marshal for the northern district of Flor
ida.
A committee of one democratic repre
sentative from each of the cotton States
met Monday night to decide upon the
best method of decided fighting the make compound poll
lard bill. They ascertain to their a
of the House and Tuesday, if have ex
act strength, they not a ma
jority, to work among the members, and
indeed do everything possible to defeat
the measure.
The members of the house committee
were in session for an hour Tuesday af
ternoon. Tlie dismission showed that no
material change in views bad taken place
since their last meeting before the caucu*.
No agreement could be reached, and upon
motion, the same sub-committee winch
conducted the last negotiation was in
structed to confer again with the senate’s
sub-committee.
Assistant Secretary Tichenor has writ
ten to the collector at Baltimore that on
an exportation of bagging manufactured
wholly from imported jute and exported draw
as covering of cotton in bales, a duty
back wilt be allowed equal to the
paid on imported jute used in the manu
facture of bagging, less 10 per cent.,
provided that the average allowance un-
ZEBU LON. GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1890.
der any duty shall not exceed J1 3-8
pounds of jute per bale.
Republican members of the house held
a caucus Monday night to receive the re
port of its committee on the silver ques
tion. Every one expected a lively time,
and the expectation was realized. half-past The 11
discussion rau on until
o’clock, when finally the entire subject
was recommitted to the caucus commit
tee. It became evident from several
votes on the minority propositions taken
during the debate opposed that the the republican Windom
members wore to
bill in the proportion of has two transmitted to one.
Secretary Proctor to
tho house the report of Quartermaster
General Robinson in regard overflowed to the district condi
tion of affairs in the
of St. James and Ascension Robinson parishes,Lou- that
isiana. General says the
situation is deplorable, and hundreds of
planters have lost will their crops,while thrown thou
sands of laborers soon be out
of employment. At Graudo Point, where
there were probably 60 to 80 families, tho
people escaped in skiffs, and the whole
precinct is underwater. Opposite the
levco break at Nita numerous poor whites
and colored people lost all but their lives.
He recommends instant action tending to
the relief of the sufferers by the United
States. There is liable to be parishe in St. James, total
St. Johns and Ascension a
of 5,000 persons destitute within the
month.
The senate committee on agriculture under
and forrestiw, on Tuesday, had con
sideration Senator Vance’s bill to provide
for a system of warehouses for farm pro
ducts throughout the country, to he oper
ated by the government, which is to issue
its notes upon deposits of grain therein.
Colonel Polk, president of the National
Farmers’ Alliance, read a long argument
in support of tlie measure, which, he
said, was formulated by the committee tlie
appointed vention of for tho that National purpose Farmers’ by Alli- con
ance ami industrial Alliance, Held in
St. Louis on December 3, 1889.
Dr. McCune followed Col. Polk, and said
he felt perfectly confident the bill would
be reported favorably immediately, and
would soon pass both houses. However,
of the seven members of the senate com
mittee, it is quite well known that Sena
tors Higgins, Blair, Bate, George and
Jones will vote against the bill, aud ns
they compose all, save two of the com
mittee, it is not at ali probable that Dr.
McCune is correct.
The secretary of State, on Monday
morning, telegraphed the special Captain train that Bourke, iu
charge of was car
rying the Pan-Amerfeans on their South
ern tour, to return to Washington from
Richmond, Va. This was done because
so few of the delegates desired to make
tlie excursion. Thirteen of the foreign
delegates accepted the invitation, but
only two of them—Martinez Silva, of
Columbia, and Zegurra, of Peru,—left,
Wasiiington with the party. The others
sent letters of regret, giving various
■ casons for withdrawing detained their ac- by
eeptance. Some were
important business; some were
called to New York by telegraph;
others had decided to start at once for
tlreir homes, aud the rest were ill or too
tired to make the journey. Several
promised to join the excursion at Rich
mond, Monday, but were unable to do so,
and the secretary of state decided that
tire number of those going would not
justify the expense of the journey, which
would cost as much as if the entire con
ference had gone. The secretary said
that lie sincerely organization regretted citizens that the of com
mercial and the
south who had made preparations to disap- en
tertain the delegates had to be
pointed, but felt that they would appre
ciate the circumstances of the which excursion compelled
the abandonment
THE TOWN DESTROYED.
ME PEOPLE SEEKING SAFETY FROM THE
RUSIirNG WATERS.
A special of Monday from Bayou Sara,
La., says: After most heroic struggle!
to save our city from the flood we had to
surrender to the great father of waters at
12:30 a. m. At that hour the guards re
ported that the levees had giv- n way. A
general alarm was sounded and the people
responded promptly to the call. All that
human efforts could do had been done
and at last the solemn cry went up all
along the line, “Give up men, we are
gone;” and then the confusion of the peo
ple can be better imagined than describ
ed. Every impromptu boat and raft irsa
brought into requisition; lanterns could
be seen everywhere, and the cries of men,
women and children attempting Not to bouse save
their effects escaped. was appalling. Nothing but a chaos
in town has
and destruction meets the eye at every
view.
AT CHICAMAUGA.
A GRAND RE UNION OF CONFEDERATE VE
TEIIANS ON THE FAMOUS BATTLEFIELD,
By order of Governor John B. Gordon,
of Georgia, general commander of the
United Confederate Veterans, there will
be hold in Chattanooga a general reunion
of all ex-confederates on July 8 , 4 and 5
next. The local locating committee appointed confederate for
the purpose of the
lines and commands on the battlefield of
Chicamauga invite all confederate soldiers
who participated in the battle to co-oper
ate with them on the 13th of May next
and succeeding days in tiie visiting proposed
work, tho object being that easily find com- and
rades at the reunion may
recognize the ground where they fought.
A TRAIN OVERTURNED.
SEVERAL GEORGIA RAILROAD OFFICIALS
INJURED.
The pay train on the Gainesville, Jef
ferson and Southern Railroad, Roadmaster containing
Superintendent Hemphill, Supervisor
Robinson, Treasurer Richards,
Bell, Engineer Stuib, of the Georgia
railroad; and General Manager Wilkins,
o' the narrow gauge; aud Route Agent
Hurlbert, of the Southern Express com
pany, was overturned Friday afternoon
near Jug Tavern, Ga., and all the officers
n imed were more or less injured. The
train was running about twenty-five miles
an hour, when, from some unknown
cruse, it turned over. The injured were
brought to Augusta and taken home on
litters. None of them are thought to be
d mgerousiy injured.
ALLIANCE NOTES.
WHAT THE ORDER AND ITS
HERDERS ARE DOING.
TTEMS OF 1NTKRK8T TO THE FARMER,
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS OF
THE COUNTRY.
The Farmers’ Alliance of the United
States have concluded to establish tho
Alliance Agr cultural Works at Iron Gate,
Allegheny will county, Virginia. The works and
their employ from 80 u to 500 hands,
products wifi go to every Sub-Alli
auce in the country, representing 4,000, •
U 00 members.
#**
Tlie chiefs of the Alliance organization
throughout the New the United States, report to
York Herald a membership of
about 2,000,030; of these there are some
thing over 1 , 000,000 votes, with the
membership liance is becoming rapidly increasing, The Al
a powir in the land
which will soon be fe t in the political, as
wed as the commercial world.
*
The * *
Elbert County, Ga., Alliances are
determined to inform them upon questions
of protective legislation of vital interest
to farmers as a class. Therefore they re
solved :That the 1 st Tuesday in May beset
apart as Alliance a day for the especial meeting of the
County with an view to
formulating regarding a plan and outlining a work
as the same.”
The Dublin *%
liance has (Ga.) pecuniary Post says: “Tlie Al
been the salvation ol
the fanners of this country. In the pur
chase of guano nlono it has saved the
people this from two to ten dollars per ton.
In ouo purchase it lias saved tlie
farmers of Laurens county this year ovei
ten thousand dollars. May tho Alliance
continue in the noble work, and do even
more good than in the past—which, nc
doubt, she will.”
Congressmen are everywhere anxiously
asking their farmer constituents “what
they want.” And these seekers after re
election arc getting right down on theii
knees and swearing to “do any tiling fot
tho dear people"—if they can only find
out what tlie dear people “want." Iu
our humble opinion a congrcssmtrn w ho
has not been able to find out what his
constituents need by this time had bettei
stay at home uml try his hand at pound
ing sand into a rat hole.— Exchange.
***
One of our exchanges says: “The
work goes bravely on. Organizers have
been commissioned and scut into the
states California, of Michigan, Illinois, Montana, Indiana Wyoming, and
Iowa,
Ohio. Brother Ben Terrell, oi’./hntic-al
lecturer, is now on a Nebraska,^Vrkansas, tour, of Sm: follow
Indiana, ing states: Texas,
Wisconsin, Dakota, audnlvtUsouri, ^Colorado,
Ktc sas, Indian Territory
which will employ his time up to the
middle of August, Our national presi
dent, passed thiough our city on Monday
on his way south to meet gome important
engagements with the brethren in the
states of Georgia, Arkansas and Missouri.
President Polk informs us that the cause
is moving grandly forward all along the
lines, and asserts that the cause is strong
er and the order in growing its history.” more rapidly
than ever before
*%
The Green county, On., Allianccmen,
at ing a preamble recent meeting, and resolutions: adopted the follow
“Whereas, Legislation been in the largely past,both of
state and national, has a
class nature, favoring in many instances
the interests of monopolies bo diametrically and trusts,
w hich wo believe to op
posed to the true spirit of our govern
ment ; and
'Whereas, We believe the agricultural
interests have been, to a large extent, ig
nored, and farmers unjustly and taxed to pay for
tlie sal rice of rendered; legislators therefore others bo it
services not
Resolved, That we, the AUiaucemenoi
Green county, Ga., pledge ourselves legislature, to
support no man for governor,
congress or other office of trust in the ap
proaching elections, who has not with proved the
himself to be in full sympathy is
principles of our order, and who not
avowedly opposed to the payment of the
“per diem” of legislators absent from du
ty, without providential give to the cause, agricultural and who
will not agree to
interests his best support, first last and
all the time. And wo do earnestly ayi
peal to all the County Alliances through
out the Hate to pass similar resolutions,
and abide unfalteringly by them.
Resolved, That we will stick to eottox,
baggisg, and that hereafter in purchas
ing supplies, such as corn, oats, guanos,
etc., we will give preference to such as
are put up in cotton sacks.”
***
It is learned from the officers of the
State Farmers’ Alliance of North Carolina
that there have been issued ninety-three
charters to county Alliances, and 207 to
sitb-Alliunees, of returned. which latter only thirty
two have been All tho counties
save Alleghany, Dare and New Haven,
have county orgraizations. Wake leads
in the number of sub-Alliances, coming having with
fifty-seven, Chatham in membership next in
lifty-two. the Tho gain been sixteen
past year has over
thousand. The state business agency of
the Alliance is doing an immense work.
It has furnished two sub-Alliances this
season twelve thousand tons of its special
fertilizer, and its sales of ohter supplies,
mainly provisions, average forty
thousand dollars per month. The state
business agent says that other effects of
the sale of special brands of fertilizers
made for the Alliance at a special rate has
resulted in a decline of prices charged for
the brands and he estimates that this
season alone the business agency has
saved the farmers over half a million dol
lars in the matter of fertilizers alone.
NEGROES RETURNING.
THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE LATE EXODUS
TO THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA.
It is learned that a number of fami ies
of negroes who recently followed in wake
of the exodus to accord the Mississippi paying their delta
and of their own ex
penses going and coming, have promptly
returned to North Carolina from the flood
ed and distressed districts.
LABOR TROUBLE8.
GREAT STRIKES BEING INAUGURATED BOTH
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The embargo building placed operations by striking iu Chicago carpen
ters on
continues effective. The veto on labor
extends not only to their own craft, but
now embraces nearly all the trades em
ployed of in architectural Tuesday evening, work. At tho
close work a great
majority of the bricklayers, plasterers,
lathers, painters and plumbers were laid
off indefinitely. There lines of was no move had
work for them. A U work
reached the stopping place, beyond which
they could not go without the assistance
of the carpenters. Nothing did was doing
Wednesday. Tho “bosses'' not at
tempt to start up work.
A P ttslmrg, yardmen l’a., dispatch and roadmen says: The
strike of the on
the railroadt leading iuto Pittblirg, Pa.,
lias been practically commenced. About
twenty-five union and non-union yards men
have quit work in live Pennsylvania
and in all the yards there are about two
thousand who have left. A list of teu
grievances has boon given to every com
Port pany Wayne now. road, Superintendent lie will Starr, of treat the
says not
with any persons except his own men.
Pennsylvania and Pittsburg expressed and themselves Western
road officials liavo
in similar terms, and the men are exceed
days ingly indignant. enough They lirae say that for three the
is
railroads to decide tlin matter, and
a general strike may be hundred expected at any
hour. Very likely five men more
will leave work at onee. A. meeting was
held and protracted until a late hour
Wednesday morning, and it will doubt
less be decided to go on a strike within
twenty-four hours. At tho present hour
it appears that tho movement will as
sume colossal proportions, and that the
strike will go to a limit heretofore not
thought possible, and that the bloody
scenes of 1877 may dispatch be repeated. of Wednes
day An Indianapolis The carpenters’strike is in
says: on
earnest, and the conditions are fair for a
long, bitter tight. The situation is
changed by a meeting of contractors held
Tuesday night, at which resolutions were
passed offering 37) cents per hour as the
standard price for the best workmen from
now until November 1st next, and nine
hours work, and the same wages until
1st April, with eight hours work. No
attention whatever was paid by tlie con- that
tractors committee to tho be journeymen’s appointed request confer with
a to
the union’s committee.
The indications are that on May 1 st
most of tho soft coal miners of Illinois,
Indiana and Pennsylvania will go out on
a strike, and that after that the whole
supply of soft coal will be limited. Iu
view of this fast many of the railroads
ftifj putting in large supplies of soft coal,
a recent purchase of the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Be amounting to $75,000.
Many of the coal dealers in Chicago have,
within Hie last thirty hours, received or
ders that they cannot till within a month.
The employing carpenters, masons,
Portsmouth. bricklayers, painters and Tuesday plumbers iiight.de ol
N. II., on
cided that ton hours should constitute a
day’s work. Wednesday morning, when
Anderson – Jenkins,carpenters, informed
their men of the result of the meeting
they left work in a body. Carpenters and
employed by Wm. A. Hodgson,
painters employed by W. ,1. Sampson A
Co., also quit work. These firms cm
ployed the largest number of men in the
city in their respective lines. Indications
point to a general strike.
Special cable dispatches from Vienna,
Austria, my: The strikes are multi
empire. plying here Tho and spreading have joined throne bout the th<
slaters ma
sons, and building operations have censed.
The streets are thronged with idle is men. in
The police protection forced for workers leave work
sufficient. Men are to
as soon aa (lie strikers approach. The
methods of the latter are not violent, but
extremely effective. Solicitation, per
suasion and covert intimidation are cm
ployed, and the socialist agents an
working industriously among stirring the trades
which have not struck, up dis
content and inciting the men to- join tin
movement.
A NEW BAGGING
SUCCESSFULLY MADE FROM THE FIBER OF
THE COTTON STALK.
Mr. Wm. E. Jackson, a young lawyei
of Augusta, Ga., has solved the jute bag
ging problem that has been a sore conten
tion with tho southern planter. Mr. Jack
son will furnish a covering for coni ton made
from the cotton stalk, thus verifying the
prediction of Edward Atkinson that every
part of the cotton plant would bo used.
By the making of bagging of the cotton
stalk it is estimated that about
three million dollars are put in the
planters’ pockets, and the gross sav
ings to the county are about three mil
lion dollars. Mr. Jackson has been work
ing for months with the idea of discov
ering a fibre that for article bagging This, would
compete with the jute by
treatment in his machine, he discovered
most appropriately in the stalk of tlie
cotton plant. The stalk is cut and
housed when mature. under It her is run heavy through
corrugated rollers pres
sure, with an eccentric attachment. Wa
ter is all the while carrying off Ihe foul
residue, of gum, pulp and skin.
Carding machines then prepare
the yarn for the weaving
machine, and Mr. worked Jackson, until keeping lie had
his labors a secret.,
a sufficient quantity and then went north
to experiment on the looms at the jute
bagging factory of J. C. Todd, in Pat
terson, N. J. That gentleman assisted
him, and for three days they worked.
The result is a roll of bagging that it
puzzles experts to detect among tho jute
lolls. One of the members of Ihe ex
porting cotton house of Doughty – Co.,
say? it would not be pronounced in other hun
than jute bagging by one man be uninflam
dreds. It is proven to
ablc. Mr. Todd, an expert in bag
ging, says it is all the southern planter
could desire in bagging. The jute people
have eyed askance the new candidate. It
is a shade darker, hut will not stain cot
ton. It runs about two and one quarter
pounds to the yard, but'ean be made
lighter. Seven and eight yards arc re'
ciuived for a bale.
NUMBER 22.
CURRENT NEWS.
CONDENSED FROM THE TELE
GRAPH AND CABLE.
THINGS THAT HAPrEN FROM DAT TO DAT
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, CULLED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.
Tho (striking carpenters of Chicago are
becoming riotous.
Tho gas fitters of Chicngo have decided
to strike on next Monday.
The society of engineers gave a grand of
fete at Brussels on Tuesday in honor
Stanley.
Iu the Austrian rcichsrnth, no Monday,
notice was given of 1,490 speeches to be
made during the budget debate.
murder Charles of E. cx-Kcpreseutalivo Kincaid, charged Taulbee with the in
Washington, was, on Monday, admitted
to bail in the sum of $ 20 , 000 .
Malignant diphtheria is epidemic in
the population village of of Viuning, Minn. there lias Out been of a
150 persons,
twenty deaths since the 1 st of April.
In the court of general sessions at New
York, on Tuesday, Daniel Finnigan con
fessed to a burglary for which his brother,
Henry Finnigan, was tried and convicted
last week.
It is reported from Fort Worth that
New Orleans will probably be the ship
ping point for the company that propose
to ship elsewhere. 150,000 beeves annually to Europe
aud
In the Brazilian cabinet, General Pers
coto of General assumes Constant, the war portfolio who becomes in the place min
ister of the new department of education,
posts and telegraplu.
missed States Attorney Longeneeker Woodruff, has dis- the
the case against
Cronin suspect, at Chica ago, ooAroft’o on the ground
that llio State fatitieres Yf twmfv*
sion is a fabrication.
In court in general term, tit Washing
ton, D. C., on Monday, celebrated a decision was
announced in the held the charge pan-electric of vio
case. The court
lation of agreement had not been sus
tained.
A strong Swedish expedition into tho
interior of Africa is to be started from
London in May, under the establish leadership of
Johann Zaclirissen. It will sta
tions along its route, to aid in suppress
ing the slave trade.
Squire A strike Co.’s was inaugurated packing at establish- John P.
– pork
day ment, morning. in East Cambridge, Between 700 Mass., and 800, Satur- all
but a few of the employes, includin t
teamsters, are out, and tho factory
practically shut down.
The trustees of tlio American Cotton
Seed Oil trust at New York, on Tuesday,
formally retired from control of the com
pany, and turned its officers and property
over to its successor, the American Cotton
Oil company, which is incorporated un
der the laws of New Jersey.
The convention of working girls ad
journed their Monday, three after days’ formulating session in plans New
York on
for tho extension of working discussion, girls’ clubs.
A plan is also under at a sup
plementary session, for the establishment
of a newspaper to be known as the organ
of the working girls’ association.
A Pittsburg, railroad Pa., dispatch situation of has Tuesday
says: The never
been more gloomy than at present. The
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has
taken up the cause of the switchmen.
The Brotherhood of Trainmen resolved
to cling to the switchmen in their de
mands, and adjusted. presented grievances of their
own to bo
The Inman line steamship “City of
Bostou” unloaded a part of her cargo at
her dock at New York, Monday morning,
without having entered the customhouse.
Iu consequence lire custom house author
seized ities stopped the vessel. the work Notice of unloading sent and tho
was
Inman line officials calling for an expla
nation. Iu default of this, confiscation
is threatened.
FIRING ON THE AGENTS.
ILLICIT DISTILLERS IN NORTH CAROLINA
SHOOT AT THE RE VENUE MEN.
Three weeks ago tho internal revenuf
agent at Statesville, N. O;, was informed
by a Wilkes county man named Lem
Wallace that there were five illicit distil
leries within a radius two miles in Wilke*
near the Iredell line. Wallace volunteered
to guide tlie officer to them. The agent
made an appointment nights with and him accompanied to meet
him four ago,
hy Deputy Collector Harwell, left States
ville for the meeting point. and The guide
failed to show up, the agent
and deputy rode on toward Wilkes.
They met Deputies Finnex and Mas
tin and two storekeepers. The party were
riding ulong the road with woods on one
side. Eight shots were tired at them m
quick succession by men in ambush. The
agent’s horse reared and fell back on him.
Keeping the horses between them and the
woods tho officers got away. This was
about it o’clock in the morning. The
agent’s horse was struck in tho jaw with
n rifle ball and the agent got a slug
through the brim of his hat. Harwell’s
horse got a load of buckshot iu his
shoulder. The agent was badly bruised
by the falling of his horse on him, but
was not seriously hurt. This is the first
occurrence of the kind in that section.
BATTLE WITH OUTLAWS.
THIRTY OUTLAWS, FORTIFED IN A BARN,
FIRE UPON SOLDIERS.
A. dispatch from Harlan Court
house, Friday Ky., says: morning, A decided fight oc
eured seventeen miles
cast of here, in Black mountain, between
a detail of state troops, consisting
and of sixteen privates, Pulliaa Lieutenant and Milton
Sergeant who fortified about thirty
outlaws, were in an old
barn. Five of the soldiers were wounded.
It is not known how many outlaws were
killed, as they still have possession of the
barn. A corporal was sent to Harlem
for reinforcements and lie brings this
news. Sharp lighting is expected. The
outlaws are well armed, well entrenched
aud determined. Some of them are un
der indictment. The militia have theii
blood up because of their losses and are
threatening vengeance.
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THE PIPES BUR 8 T.
NASHVILLE TESTS THE TOWER OS' TBB
NEW RESERVOIR.
Nashville’s new reservoir is now com
pleted, and recently water from it was
turned into the pipes tire running into the
central portion of city. The bottom
of the reservoir is above ths highest
buildings in the city. It had been esti
mated that at a pressure of 70 pounds to :
tho square inch some of the old water
pipes would burst. The latter expectation
was realized. A twenty-four inch pipe on
Vine street, between Church and Broad,
hurst aud a sheet of water three iiiebc* melt
thick and twelve feet wide forced
thiough three feet of lhaai–^mU 11
street, tearing a hole four
The stream of water weut forty feet into
tho air at an angle of forty-five church degreyfi-, and
It struck the now Christian
broke out all the windows, building. tearing up the R.
cornice aud flooding the
K. Page’s elegaut residence was also in
the line of the stream, and it suffered
thousands of dollars damage. The water
poured in at the front windows, and, as
the door leading to the flooded stairway was
closed, tho upper floor was to the
window sills and poured out at the win
dows. Carpets, furniture and everything
in roach were ruined. The dam igo is
estimated at $7,500. Judging from this
incident, engines will not be buildings necessary in to
throw water over the tallest
tho city.
SOUTHERN NOTES.
INTERESTING NEWS FRO. 1/ ALL
POINTS IN THE SOUTH.
GENERAL PROGRESS AND OCCURRENCES
WHICH ARE HAPPENING BELOW MA
SON’S AND DIXON’S LINE.
Northern capitalists are to establish n
paper bag factory in Athens, Ga.
J. W. Craddock was committed to jail
in Henrico county, Vil, Tuesday for at
tempting to wreck a train on the Chesa
peake aud Ohio railroad on .March lOtfi.
T. F. Wilson, secretary of the .Missis
sippi Agricultural college, committed
suicide Monday at Statkville, by shoot- No
ing himself t[trough tho heart.
cause given for the deed.
The first sale of the Pittsburg Devel
opment company took place Tuesday in
the new iron manufacturing town of Car
negie City, Va. All lots were freely
taken at 'prices largely in excess of the
listed prices.
Moses Harmon, editor of Lucifer, a
free love paper of Valley Falls, Kansas, district
was tried in the United States
court at Topeka, on tlie charge of send
ing obscene matter through the mails and
convicted. for him, but His without counsel avail. pleaded insanity
Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, on
Tuesday, received the following appeal
from Bayou Sara: “We have been over
whelmed by the storm and rain; cre- Old
vasses are numerous along the front.
Morganza levee lias broken. Send boats
at once to save the people, or there may
bo great loss of life.” Governor Nichols
at onee made arrangements for their as
sistance.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Louisville,
Ky., says: W. P. Campbell, Kentucky House assistant of
enr oiling clerk of the
Representatives, lias sent a challenge to
light a duel to Thomas 11. Davis, editor
of the Maysviile Republican. left Davis debts pub
lished that Campbell had from un
paid when he recently went away kill
Augusta, Ky. Campbell threatens is declined. to
Davis on sight if the duel
All the carpenters, bricklayers, painters
and plasterers in Birmingham, Ala., who
belong to the various organizations of
their crafts, will probably strike go will out be on for a
strike May 1st. The
more pay and shorter hours. If the
miners and laborers can be induced to
join in tlie movement, tlie str ke will be
for eight hours. May 1st all the labor
organizations will unite in a grand for street the
parade, the demonstration to be
eight-hour movement. Growers’
Tho South (. arplir.a Melon
association met at Blaekville, 8 . C., re
cently. They have secured a reduc
tion of rates from 43 3-10 cents
per hundred to 36 cents. This makes
the cost of transporting a ear load to
New York $ 86 , against $103.95 last year.
The South Carolina crop will bo small
this year. Well informed planters than say
that the acreage will not be more
half what it was last year.
Governor Stone, of Mississippi, Prof. on
Monday received a telegram from
Magnifier, of the Agricultural and Me
chanical college at Starkville, aud s taring Jh*t
the hooks, etc., of of that Secretary institution, Treas- who
urer Watson, suicide Sunday by sboot
comm itted on
ing himself thiough the heart, had been
examined and found correct, tallying
with the six thousand dollars in cash in
his hands. General depression is thought
to have caused tlie rash act.
The largest legal sale evor occurring in
Huntsville, Ala., to#k place amounting Monday at
the court house door, consisted to
$485,000. The properties sold
of three blast furnaces at Sheffield, Ala.,
and large tracts of mineral lands, mineral
rights in Walker, Winston, Fayette, Jef
ferson and Marion counties, Alabama,
consisting of about 75,000 acres. These
properties were sold to satisfy a mortgage
of tlie Central Trust company, of New
York, made to secure $ 1,400,0 0 of bonds
of the Sheffield and Birmingham Coal,
Iron and Railroad company.
HANDS OFF.
Alpine Tourist (to Swiss dairymaid)-- it
I say, my pretty inaid, how far is
from here down into the volley? you'll
“ If you don’t stop on the way
be there in a couple of hours.”
“ And suppose I stop with you a bit?”
“Then you’ll get wherever you’re’
going quicker.”
TUB TREACHEROUS SUSPENDER.
Jennie — Pshaw 1 There goes my
bouquet again. Have you a pin?
Charlie—Yes, but I need it more than
vou do.—[Epoch.
WILFUL WASTE.
“Did you stop at, Shew 9 the tailor’s?”
“Yes, “What and I gave him fits. fori” ’ You’ll
did you do that
never g«t ’em back.”