Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

—OF— PIKE COUNTY, SUBSCRIPTION, *1.00 PER ANNUM. 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. PRINTED EVERY TUESDAY -AT— ZEBTJLON, - GEORGIA, -BY - parry lee. A 8 M 1 BNDID ADVERTISING AGENT. 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.”