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The mercenary character of the mat
•imonial alliances contracted by titled
personages in Europe is illustrated by
the publication of some letters received
by a New York lawyer asking him to
arrange a marriage between some
wealthy American heiress and a scion
of the imperial family of Austria. An
Astor was preferre l, if oar existed still
unmarried, hut was not necessary, the
conditions being youth, wealth and
beauty, Large money was promised
tho lawyej in the event of a successful
match, and an intimation that a num
ber of officers in high position were
ready to secure similar servicer.
The young Emperor of Chiua is dis
playin g a goed deal of Vigor fts a re
former. Hu is inquiring into every do.
jiartment (f his Government, and is is
suing orders for the removal of abuses.
He recently published a deereo requir
ing periodical returns relating to tho
strength of the army, in order to pre
vent officers from drawing pay fur
troops which did not exist, IIo hn3
also abolished a largo number of un
necessary Government places ih the
provinces. He has attacked the Pekin
police force for their negligence and
has Ordered tlie provinces to reform
Ifteir police service. Altogether ho
bids fair to be a progressive and en
lightened potentate.
The Caucasian proprietors of tho big
steam laundries in tho United Sates,
representing $25,000, 000 in their plants,
have decided to drive the Chinese laun
drymon out of tho business, This de
cisiou has been precipitated by the at
tempt of the Chinese Six Companies to
purchase one of tho largest laundries in
the United States and run it exclusive y
by Chinamen. Statistics have been
‘ collected showing that 1300 Chineso
laundries in N;w Y-.rk city have de
prived 15,000 citlz ins of employment,
and that they were sending $40,001) a
week out of the country, One China
man does the work of eight girls, Tho
system to he adopted to run the Celest
ial lauodrymen out of the cnrntry is to
establish American laundries alongside
of the Chinoso latXMrics and lake their
custrm away by persuasion, by cutting
rates, and even by doing washing for
uotbing.
About every so of e i the public is
harrowed by reading that there are un
in stakablo pro; fs that some unfortu
nate person lias been buried alive, or an
account appears stating how a supposed
dead person ha- narrowly ctcaped this
terrible fate. The last case of this k.nd
occurred at Miunt Blanchard, Oh o.
The body of a young boy was prepared
for lunal, Lut fortunately sigto of life
were discovered bo fore he was put in
tho ground, and tho iiula fellow was
Boon on tho road to recovery, There is
no doubt, says the Atlanta Cm d tutwn,
that many premature intc: meats occur,
and that Dfiitp n valco up octa.ionally
to find them-elves under ground. In
such cises, the invention of a certain
Frenchman would ire a blessing. it
consists of a digger and spring attach
ment to a c; flin. At the least move
merit is of released, the » upposed 1 cojT s ^ 5J^ l 1 ag.
get an pierces tn„ heart.
No such invention would bo necessary
if due care were taken by the living.
This is a matter in which we are all in
terested.
A romantic episode in General Crook’s
courtship is related by hri cousin,
Frederick A. Crook. The General was
stationed at Cumberland, Me!,, during
the wir, and hit sweetheart, who was
the daughter of John Daly, proprietor
of the Gader Hotel in Oakland, was
temporarily living near Cumberland.
The Daly family were strong Southern
sympathizers, and a brother of Maty
Diiy was in the Confederate army.
Y< ung Crook secured a leave of absence
and called on his sweeeheart, spending
the night at the Daly home. About 1
o’clock he awoke to find a doz.-n bayo
nets at his throat and U.s room full of
Confederate soldiers. Crook surrend
er!, and before daybreak was on his
way to Libby prison, where he re
mained until exchanged three months
afterwards, The information was
given by Mary’s brother, who was one
of the captors. Since his marriage to
Mary Daly General Crook had been a
good friend to the young man, towards
whom he never displayed the slightest
resent merit.
A Difficult Operation.
“I can’t quits get that last idea of
yours through my hair,” said the bald
headed man.
“Nol” queried the other man, rym
pathetically. “I guess the idea is hav
ing a deuce of a time finding the hair
to get through.”
The Old, 01(1 Strife.
“That baby's always meddling with
things. I never saw such a child! ’ said
Mrs. Youughu-banJ.
“Takes after mother, I 1 '
your guess,
quoth Mr. Y. And then the fua le
gam — Bn rr.
JJike County
VoL It.
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WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
C0NGRES8.
PROCEEDINGS OF TUR nOUSR AND SENATE
BRIEFED—DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
COMMON COUNTRY,—NOTES.
After the reading of the jourua! the
house on Saturday went Into committee
of the whole, Mr, Grosvenor in the chair,
for the ftither consideration of the tariff
bill. Mr. Lanhani, of Texas, especially
antagonized the feature of the bill which
places a duty on silvev-lead tits, declar
ing that it Would have the effect of de
stroying tlie smelting industry of Texas
and neighboring states, and it would in
vite retaliation. Mr. Barnes, of Georgia,
addressed the committee in opposition to
the protective system bill. Ho urged
that before the war no one contended fot
protection except as an high incident to
revenue; that the preseut tariff sys
tem was a mere measure, but had been
continued during a period of twenty
live years of peace to the enrichment of
a few, and the impoverishment of the
great body of the people, and being that under
its operations wealth was concen
trated in tile hands of thfc prlvilcdged
class. This country and especially the
farmers of the country, were crying out
for relief and more markets. The only
hope of the country was in a reduction
of taxation on the necessaries of life, the
imposition of an income tax
for pensions, and an increase
of currency to an extent necessary for
business interests. Mr. the Andrews, of
Massachusetts, Cummings, opposed York, characterized bill. Mr.
of New
tlie present session of congress as a rag
ing sea of ravenous legislation. though The bill
struck at New York as she were
a viper or an unclean reptile. On behalf
of her millions of people he protested
against the passage of this bill. Mr.
Buckner, of Wisconsin, expressed his
disappointment at the bill. Instead of
relieving distress and correcting The blunders, commit
it greatly increased The both. speaker announced
tee then arose.
the lilies, following Mr. committee Georgia; appointments:
On Blount, of Pennsyl- on ap
propriations, banking Mr. Mitchler, and currency, of Mr,
vania; on and
Cooper, of Ohio; on railways canals,
Mr. Featherstone, of Arkansas; on tnerch
ant marine and fisheries, Mr. Springer, of
Illinois, The house then, at 5:45 o’clock,
took a recess until 8 o’clock Mr. Per
kins, of Kansas presided house over The the tariff even- de
big session of the
bftte was continued by Messrs. Chipman,
Of Michigan; Boatner, of Louisiana;
t alker of Massachusetts; Grosvenor, o
lino; Henderson, of Michigan; of Iowa; Wade Hayes,.0 of
lows: Bliss,
srsifir adjourned srssrs o'clock –
souri. The house at i 1
until 11a m Monday.
The army appropriation Dill was taken
ceding tip hv the Behatft on Saturday, the pre
questions being Mr. Hale's amend
‘ that alcoholic
ment providing no be and
liquor, beer or wine, shall sold
supplied to enlisted men in any canteen
or building in garrison amendment or military posts, it,
and Mr. Cockrell’s to
striking out tlie words “beer or wine.”
The latter amendment was disagreed to
was 80, nays 13; a strict party vote, Mr.
Sherman stating that in order to make a
quorum, and with some doubts, he voted
..... The hill was then passed. The
Senate bill authorizing the secretary of
war to purchase a lot in 8t. Augustine.
Fla,, .(the Hunt lot) for military purposes
was passed; also Senate hill granting
right-of-way across Doited States lands
in St. Augustine, Fla. The Senate then
took up the individual and passed pension all of them—185 hills on
the calendar
- -in a hour and a half. The Senate bill
for ft public building at Tmnpa, Fla., passed. (not
to cost more than $140,000) was
After an executive session the Senate ad
jourued. Monday
In the house, on morning,
Mr. McKinley the moved that limited the general
debate on tariff bill he to one
minute. The motion was agreed to (after
two roll calls), and the house went into
committee of the whole (Mr. Payson, of
Illinois, in the chair), on the tariff Dill,
No one desiring to occupy tlie one min
utc, the clerk proceeded to read the bill
by paragraphs for amendment, Mr. An
derson, of Kansas, offered an amendment
providing pend that of the duty president important may sus
the rntc on any
article when, in’his judgment, the pro
duction, manufacture or sale ol such
article is monopolized, or attempted
to be monopolized combination. or controlled A wordy by
any trust or
war was indulged in by Mr. Grosvenor on
the one side and Messrs. Mills and Mc
Millan on the other. This cross-firing .
was brought about by Mr. Grosvenor’*
declaration that two years ago the leadei
of the greatest and most cxtortional trust j
in the country came dark chamber to the capital, of tlie )
into the |
ways and means committee, and figura
tively took the majority of free ttia commit
tee by the head and shook sugar out
it. Mr. Mills regretted that anything
a personal character should have been
thrown into the debate. He had not
indended it. He had intended, and he
intended now, to discuss this question as
a question affecting the intend public policy of the
country. He did not to assail any
He did not believe any gen
tleman of the majority of the waya and
tneas committee had been attention improperly ap
proached. Finally the of the
house came back to Mr. Anderson’s
amendment, and it was adopted—8!)
to 70.
In the Senate, on Monday, Mr. Hoar,
from the judiciary committee, reported anti
back the house amendment to the
trust MB with an amendment. Messrs.
Vest and Coke stated, as members of
committee, that they did not concur in
the report, and Mr. Hoar explained the
effect of the action recommended. The
matter went over till Tuesday. The Sen
proceeded to the consideration of the
autherizing the issue of treasury notes
on deposits of silver bullion. Mr, Jones,
of Nevada, who reported the bill from
the committee on finance, addressed the
Senate in a lengthy speech in advocacy of
the measure. After executive session the
Senate house, adjourned. Tuesday, after
The on transact
ing som» routine business, went into com
mittee of the whole, Mr. Payson, of I1U-
ZFHULtJN, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1890.
nols, in tho chair. After consi.tr ng
thirteen of the 15(! pages of the bill, the
committee rose, nncl the house, at 5:45,
adjourned until Wednesday Tuesday at U o’clock. Davis,
In the senate ou Mr.
from the committee substitute on pensions, for the reported
back the house senate
dependent pension bill, with a written
report, and moved that the house substi
tute be non-concurred in and a infer
ence asked. Agreed to. Messrs. Davis.
Sawyer and Blodgett were appointed The
conferees on part of the senate.
Benate at 1 p. m., resumed consideration
of the silver bill, and Mr. Jones, oi
Nevada, concluded the speech begun speech by
him Monday. He concluded his
at 8:15, having occupied in all five and
a quarter hours. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas,
next addressed the (senate in criticism of
the pending bill, The hill then went
over till to-morrow, The executive ses
sion adjourned.
On motion of Mr. Morris, of Kansas it’s
the house on Wednesday insisted on
amendment, to the senate dependent ordered. pen
sion bill and a conference was
The lumse then went into committee of
tlie whole (Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in
the chair) on the tariff bill. Mr. Bynum,
of Indiana, moved to reduce the duty
on common earthernware from twenty
five to fifteen per cent ad valorem, Ho
argued that, taking this clause in con
nection with the custoiiis administrative
bill, it would be found that the duty on
earthenware would be increased from ten
to fifty per cent. The debate was in
dulged in by Messrs. Mills, Bynum and
McKinley. Wednesday the bill,
In the Senate on
witli amendments, provisions subjecting of imported laws ol
liquors to the reported the from tin
tlie several States, was
committee and placed on the calendar.
The amendment is practically a new hill.
aud provides that no State shall be held
to be limited or restrained in its power
to prohibit, regulate, control or tax the
sale or transportation (to lie delivered
within its own limits) of any distilled,
fermented or other intoxicating that the liquors liquors, have
by been reason imported of the into fact from be
any Mate
yond its limits, whether there shall oi
shall not have been paid United thereon auy tax, The
duty or imp rt to the taken States. and Mr.
silver bill was then up,
Teller addressed the Senate, The ques
tion then went over until Thursday.
notes.
\ series of hearings upon plans for the
improvement of the Mississippi committee river Monday, was
begun by the Senate
, f , on Wednesday c()n fi lmc and d
g tella jj p a j,- f ] „f UGrange Gu„
, f ^ ’ of Columbus, Gu„ as post- 1
,
^ 6enate , )ensi ons committee, on
Tufcsd Ml a>initted a report recommend
, £ tlmi the senate do not agree to the
ai endnieBts nJttde by the house to the
— The *r**. sub-committee ......*?» of the 11 oust elec
lions committee, which visited Arkansas
i investigate the Clayton-Breckenridgc
- contest, has returned to Washington,
i ^ precedented he committee in performed the number something of iin
exatnmn
tions made. During the thirteen days it
w,tH in Arkansas 1,100 witnesses worked were all day ex
amjned, and up to 11 The o’clock committee every nig it. Wit
i nesses were sworn in batches of ten, and
' the attorneys of each side rendered every
assistmce in their power to facilitate the
investigation. 'I hey discovered nothing
b«y<md the fact that a bad state ol leel-
1 jug between two political parties existed
that State. No shadow of evidence
, Brcckctindgc with the murder
. Connecting of unearthed,
his opponent, Clayton, was
| The superintendent of that the census has been has
issued an order, stating it
brought to his attention that city councils
and boards of trade in certain cities have
appropriated money to aid their census
supervisors in the enumeration of the
population. He, therefore, instructs the
supervisors positively not to receive any
such compensation, nor countenance, for
one instant, the payment of any sum of
money whatever, by municipalities, cor- the
poratiuns, associations, or persons, to
enumerators. He says that any supervisor with
of the census who is not content the
remuneration allowed by law (which is
double the amount The paid eleventh in 1880) should must
at once resign. suspicion. census To. toler
and shall be above
ate ties, any associations, action on the organizations part of municipali- mdi
or
viduals, no matter how for its powerful they tho
may be, which lias purpose
debauching, or which would even throw
the slightest taint upon the truthfulness
of tho returns, would, in his opinion be
nothing short United of a States, crime against the peo
pie of tlie
CEDAR KEYS' MAYOR
BEING HUNTED BY DEPUTY UNITED 8V»TE8
MARSHALS.
A ( j; e f „ atc h from Cedar Keys Fla., says:
Four d( puty United States marshals ar
rim j h( , re | at( . Wednesday night for the
purpose of arresting the mayor of the
city—W. W. Cottrell--and his city mar
shal—Mitchell—on the charge of assault
ing Customs Collector Pinkerton and in
terfering with him in the The prosecution of of
Government business. action the
Government authorities is the result
of a long series of outrages perpe
trated by Cottrell, in the most of
which he has been aided and abetted by
Marshal Mitchell. A genuine reign of
terror has existed here, the full details of
which will probably never be known
until Cottrell is safe behind the bars, for
the people do not. dare to liberty. speak against
him so long as he is at United
States officers succeeded in arresting
Mitchell Wednesday morning, but Cot
trell was apprised of their coming and is
now in hiding.
VOTE OF PRESBYTERIES.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-THREE FOI,
AND SIXTY-NINE AGAINST REVISION.
The New York Independent , publishes
returns from ail but five of the presby
teries of the Presbyterian church, show
ing that 133 voted for revision, tilt against
revision, and 6 have declined to vote.
Most of the presbyteries ministers not and heard elders from have
areforeign. 2,332 revi-ion, and 3,334 minis
voted against
ter and elders have voted for revision.
Twenty-seven of the presbyteries cast n
unanimous vote - twelve against and fif
teen for revision
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES.
NEW8 OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WIIAT It BKINQ DONE IN THE VARIOUS
SECTIONS FOB THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
1 ho Alliance is growing rapidly in the
Indian Territory. Over one hundred or
ganizations are in working order now.
Fifty Alliance* tiavc been formed in
Sedwiek county, Kansas, tho past six
months, with a membership of over 2,000.
i *
A golden sigu of progress is seen in the
calm, intelligent, earnest manner in which
reforms ni e being pushed by all organized
toilers.
> *
A * 1
Tennessee, Missouri, ^ Georgia and North
Carolina lead all other States in Alliance
membership. Missouri is in tire lead with
2,1)00 unions.
*
The Alliance in Putn un county, Fla.,
tell tho county commissioners that they
must be more economical in the disposi
tion of the county funds.
1’he Farmers' Alliance |*** of Lincoln county,
South Dakota, railed $10,000 to start art
Alliance newspaper with. They see the
importance of supplying the news with
out its being poisoned l»y passing through
the monopoly press.
-e *
:k *
Hon. L. F. Livingston, president has of
the Georgia Farmers’ Alliance, been
invited by General 8. I). Lee, president
of the agricultural college near Stark ville,
Miss., to deliver the annual address oil
the 18th of June. The invitation wks afc
cepted.
Cherokee is the ,*** banner Alliance county
in Kansas,-having hundred a membership and of 3,
>00. One twenty-seven
delegates, Alliances, representing attended the thirty meeting eight of Sub- the
county Alliance at Columbus, April 3d.—
A tbrnubi Onin wti.
There is just 1 one way congressmen
and should that regain standing with this session the people
is to secure at the
passage of measures of relief. If they
don’t Ho constituents it, then they trying should not object
to their some one else.
Atlanta, (fa Southern. A Ilia rice
farmer.
***
A letter from Secretary Turner at
Washington says afe the rolling petitions in on like the
sub-treasury bill That’s right, bank a
western snow storm.
congress in with them till their only es
cape is to pass it. Let every Alliance and
Nationalist club that, has not already dope
so forward at ones their petitions.— Da
kota Hiintlist.
***
The Alliance is only a few weeks old
in Michigan, but already There ten counties
are on the march. is something
magic about the touch of the Alliance,
when you get into this army, now three
million strong, you feel that you are
shoulder to shoulder witli the “patriotic,
liberty loving people" of partisnnsliipand the country.
A people who live above
love their country better would than any haggle politi
<url party, and who not
about the methods or names so long as
the people are freed from the grasp of
monopoly.-- Alliance Sentinel.
*%
Alliance A delegation appeared representing before the the Farmers’ and
ways
means committee at Washington the Tuesday of tlie
morning bill to advocate sub-treasuries passage in different
to create
parts of tlie country produced for by tlie farmers. reception The of
staple crops W. Macune, chair
spokesman was Dr. 0.
man of the legislative committee National of the
Alliance, and editor of the
Hemornid, a paper devoted to the objects
of tlie organization. The others present
were Alonzo Wardell, of South Dakota;
Benjamin Terrell, of Texas, national lcc
turc-r; L. F. Livingston, president Geor
gia State superintendent Alliance; If. colored M. Humphrey, Alliance,
general and J. of the Virginia Stale
J. Rogers,
Allianee. In addition there was present
a number of members of Congress, prin
cipally from the Southern States.
* '-k
* his add
scribing Dr. Macune depressed began of css by de
the state agriculture
which, the trouble he said, in other was pursuits. the prime If cause the of
ex
Isting conditions continued, he warned
the committee that labor would become
desperate and a great revolution would
ensue. History showed that. .. - dth had
always lacked intelligence u , meet in time
the necessities of labor, and on its part
labor had never adopted it the proper means
to remedy the faults (Ounplained, of.
'[lie objects of the Farmers-' Alliance was
mental, social and finam i d improvement.
At the St. Louis convention 2,000.000
farmers had been represented, and they
had proposed the remedy set out in the
mil as tlie first, step in the eight direction.
If it was rudely framed anti the idea in
distinctly wisdom of expressed, the committee they relied to give upon it the the
proper form, but they believed they had
foiind a remedy for and their i(Us. The farm
ers asked no favors no clnss legisla
tion. fihey were did now ask suffering from the
latter. unconstitutional They not the enactment
of any debtor class, njicasure, but, as a
great as mei'i who had gone
out in the West after thcjwar j and laid the
soil under contribution with borrowed
money, they protested ugainst the con
traction of the currency: due,/and at a time when
their debts become asked that
the conditions be resiorqd to what they
were when tiic money( was borrowed.
They asked justice, par- and simple.
Dr. Macune wa qucvtioned by mem
bers of the probable committee effiri inspecting of the the de
tails and t sub-treas
ury bill. Mr. Bayjrc wished to know if
one effect would dot be to encourage over
production. I t'f. Macune replied that farm it
would not, fe,{ just as soon as the
era’ calling tjccmric more profitable influx than
others, then,, would lie an of men
into that business, which would result in
a reaction and finally the restoration of
an equilibrium. To his mind,- no fixed
volume of currency—no matter how great
—Would meet the needs of agriculture.
W wanted an clastic medium The farmer
sSokl his crops in the fall when prices
were the lowest and bought his supplies
iictore harvest marketed when (trices in were highest, three
Crops were two fir
mouths of the year, and this stringency m’afketing in
Annually caused a great
money. feared that the would
Mr. Flower plan
lead to banking on live shouts, iron, lend
and silver ore. They direction were getting along other
now in the latter at the
end of the eapitol. In time we would
have everything “in tiock.” In the
course of ten years, the government would
he nursing children and women working
in the field. The true remedy for the
farmers’ ills was tho manufacturers' plan.
They should regulate iiroduetion. liaise
only enough produce to meet the people’s
wants, and thereby get fair prices.
Dr. Macune proceeded to explain the the
process of proposed produce certificates. to regulate He said
issue
that tho necessity for excluding
imports of agricultural of products certificates was
obvious if tho preserved. quality The the certificates
was to c(Institute be
would the soundest and bast
currency of' in the $50,000,000 world. Probably appropriation not one
half the
asked for to put the new machinery in ac
should tion would be absolutely required, bht the minimum; the Sunt
not be at
as in t ime it would he necessary to extend
the system to include all of the product*
of labor not covered by patents. In con
clusion Dr. Macune said thattho National
Alliance had not sent out a single printed
petition, and that these petitions aud de
mands now pouring offerings in upon of congress farmers
were tlie spontaneous
of the United Stales, who were convinced
that they knew what they wanted and
were going to have it.
Mr. Flower said, in commenting upon
tho argument, that the farmer would do
well to manage his domestic affairs with
out government, interference.
Among the Allinnccmon present was
Ben Terrell, the lecturer. He said: “AVc
do not trade with any party. We are
tired more patriots sacrificing than tlie partisans. interest We fire
of of the peo
ple for party. Wo have got nothing to
do with the democratic , party. We are
in favor of Alliance measures. Where a
state is democratic, wo want to elect such
democrats as will work in tho interest of
convention. measures promulgated republican by the Alliance in
Tire members of
this order will make tlie same effort, to
send men here who are friends of a party.
Again, a candidate nominated by the Al
liance would be a class candidate, and
therefore V-O- M be oor’’
THE PROGRAM
WHICH WILL BE CARRIED OUT AT THE UN
VEILING OF GEN. LETS’s STATUE.
Tho following are the details of the
ceremonies incident to tlie unveiling of
the equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E.
Lee, on May 29th: Gen. Fitzhugh parade, Lee
will be chief marshal of with
Gen. John R. Cooke, chief of staff.
Among the assistant, marshals will be
Generals J. B. Kershaw, of Koutli Caro
lina; 1‘. M. B. Young, of Georgia! Basil
W. Duke, of Kentucky; A, II. Colquitt,
of Georgia; A. M. Seales, of .North Caro
lina; Robert Ransom, Jr., of North Caro
lina; Cadmus M. Wilcox, of Alabama;
Robert T. Hoke, of North Carolina; L.
L. Lomax, of Virginia; W. Lindsay B.
TuUrfevro, of Virginia; R. of
Walker, of Virginia; Mat W. Ransom,
North Carolina; Thomas L, Rosser, of
Virginia; W. R. Cox, of North Carolino;
Col. Biliary P. Jones, of Virginia; Drs.
J, 8. I). Cullen, and Hunter McGuire,.of
Va.; Generals W. B. Bate, of Tennessee;
E. Hun ton, of Virginia; James II. of
bane, of Alabama; William Ii. Payne,
Virginia; William It. Terry, of Virginia;
R. L. T. Beale, of Virginia; WilliamMc
Comb, of Tennessee; G. M. Sorrell, of
Georgia; Tlios. L. Mumford, of Virginia; Carolina;
Thomas M. Logan, of South
Colonel W. li. Palmer, of South Virginia; Carolina; Gen
eral A. M. Lewis, of
Gcneral Harry Ileth, of Virginia; the Dr. S.
A. Goodwin, of Alabama. At un
veiling ceremonies Governor McKinney
will call the meeting to order. Dr.
Miuigerode will lead in prayer. General
Jubal A. Early will he announced as
chairman, and the orator of the day will
be Colonel Wicher Anderson, of Rich
mond, The parade will he formed with
police at the head of column. Then will
follow the Stonewall hand, marshals and
assistants, (listinguisKeiT guests -in car
riages, "civic velertm organizations, and fire volunteer depart
troops, societies
ment. General Joseph E. Johnston 1ms
consented to unveil the statue.
CROP REPORT
IS SENT OUT BY THE AGRICULTURAL J)S
FARTMEK-’ FORMAT.
Following arc the statistical returns oi
tlie department of agriculture at Wash
ington for May relative, to cotton conditions report,
tlie progress of planting andgermination; and Plant
affecting seeding in the Carolitias. In
ing is late except
Georgia it is scarcely up to the average
at this date, the delay being caused by
drouth, difficulty of plowing and slow
germination. From Alabama westward
serious delays have occurred from ex
cessive rains, which flowed over bottom
lands, and floods from the rise of great
rivers Replanting is necessary where
seed has rotted in the ground. A great
scarcity of seed is reported nearly seven-eighths in parts of
'Tennessee. Usually before close
of the cotton is sowed the of
April. This year only three-fourths had
been planted. Proportions in southern
states are reported as follows: Virginia,
55 per cent; North Carolina, 77; South
Carolina, 86; Georgia, 80; Florida, 87;
Alabama, 85; Mississippi, 05; Louisiana,
70; Texas, 75; Arkansas, 60; Tennessee, Missis-
57. Average 75.8 per cent,. In
sippi river bottom lands the floods, as
well as actual overflow, pushed prevent planting, the
which will be actively as wa
ters subside and the danger becomes lest
imminent.
CAUGHT AT LAST.
AIIKEST OF A BANK MESSENGER WHO STOLE
$41,000 TWO YEARS AGO.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: Edmund
Sturgiss Crawford, charged with having
,.n May 4, 1888, while messenger of the
American Exchange National bank, of
New York, stole $41,000, which was
given him to be conveyed to the Adams
Express company's office in that city, was
arrested Saturday on arrival at this port
ou the steamship Sign*, from Ruatan Is
land, Honduras,
NUMBER 25 .
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAf IS GOING ON IN THE
busy World.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS Ctftt
DENSE® FROM NEWSY DI8FATCHKI
FROM UNCt.fi SAM's DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE IlRlSGS.
Typhoid fever is epidemic iff Cairo,
Egypt.
Tho Iron Car Company, of Huntington,
Pa., made an assignment Saturday.
The use of the Kuasian language in the
schools in Finland lias been made conn
pulsory. Charities
The National Convention of
and Correction met in Baltimore,
Wednesday.
The American life insurance company,
of Philadelphia, dosed its dogrs Satur
day morning.
The international prison congress will
open in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Mon
day, June 10th.
The journeymen bakers of Pcsth, who
went ou a strike several days ago, have
resumed Work.
In a railroad accident, near Wyana, Ill.,
Saturday morning, three men Were killed
and many iujured.
Philadelphia capitalists will commence
immediately the construction of a million
dollar cotton factory.
The doctors of Warsaw, Russia, affirm
that, influenza h–s again made Us appear
arice in an acute form.
Workmen in the gas works of Berlin
and Hamburg went on a strike Monday
night, and the latter city was left in dark
ness.
Three ihousand employes of the Na
tional Tube Works company, at McKees
port, Pa., struck Monday for ten per
cent advance in wages.
A sensation has been caused in Russia
by the discovery that large and systema
tic th- fts of bombs and shells from the
magazines at Sebastopol have been going
on.
A London, Eng., dispatch of Wednes
day, says: A neiv cotton corner is being
created in Lancashire. A quantity of
American cotton is already cornered.
Prices are advancing.
W. H. M. Bistnine, tho New York
banker, who failed to account for
$112,0 00 worth of securities p laced with
his firm, has been lodged in Ludlow
street jail.
Hon. Richard Vaux has accepted the
nomination by tho democrats of the third
Pennsylvania district, as a candidate for
congress, to fill the seat made vacant by
the death of Mr. Randall.
About one hundred yard men and
laborers, employed on t' e Lowell system,
and the Boston and Maine railroad, struck
at Lowell, Mass. Tho yardmen want
$1.50 per day each instead of $1.40.
Tlie district court at Orinnell, Iowa,
has conformed to the decision of the su
preme court of the United States ou the
“original package” case. It dismisses a
suit against tlie importers aud sellers of
liquors in original packages.
Thomas Nestor Millccnacc, a Michigan, Michigan
lumberman, died at Bangs,
Monday morning of applexy, aged made 55
years. He was worth $4,000,000,
in (fine lands, starting in as a poor lum
ber chopper in the woods.
Tho reception to Henry M. Stanley, in
London on Tuesday, was an enthusiastic
affair. The guests numbered two thou
sand. Tiro Lord Mayor presented containing tho ex
plorer with a gold corporation casket of London. an
address from the
A. dispatch of Monday from Philadel
phia, says: Hon. Richard Vaux was
nominated by tin: third district demo
cratic convention to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Samuel J. Ran
dall. McAleer withdrew. Vaux was a
compromise candidate
A dispatch from Rome, Italy, says: A
quantity of bnlistite, the factory new explosive, the
exploded Tuesday at a for
manufacture of arms anti munitions at
Aviglianu, fourteen miles west of Turin.
Fourteen persons were instantly killed,
and many others injured, some fatally.
The weekly statement of the associated
banks show arvoft’ttse of $2,882,000 in
loans and $531,000 in deposits, and a de
crease, of $1,641,750 in the reserve and
$2,039,400 iri specie, with liltlSTctafte hold •«
other items. The hanks now
$1,485,975 in excess of the 25 par cent,
rule.
The common council of Chelsea, Muss.,
at a meeting Tuesday night, reconsidered
its recent vote to petition the legislature
for a change of came, owing cities to tlie com
mon use in neighboring of the ex
pression, “Dead us Chelsea,” and the city
will retain the name Chelsea, that it re
ceived as a town in 1749.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Berlin,
Germany, says Naval Officers Warne
hold, Haspelmath and Levibky thirty, have been
respectively sentenced to twenty
seven and one month’s imprisonment.
These officers were found guilty of having for
acce pted bribes bom contractors
passing naval stores. has
The Pennsylvania railroad company
contributed ii large sum, said to be $275,
000, to tlie world's fair committee of
Chicago. The voucher for the amount
w aa made out, at the general office of tho
company, in Pittsburg, Friday, anil tin
world’s fair committee notified that tin
money could be drawn upon at any time.
A terrific hurricane, accompanied by
an extraordinary fall of rain, swept over
Jefferson City, Mo,, Mondav afternoon,
doing great damage, to propmy. Several
public buildings wen- unroofed and many
mind I houses were blown down. In the
country northeast of there barns were de
molished and miles of fences leveled te
the ground. No lives were'lost in the
citv, and so far as reported, no loss of
life occurred in the track of the storm.
A dispatch from Shamokin, Pa., says:
By tlie explosion of the boiler of a loco
motive on the Reading railroad Tuesday
morning, Engineer Herman Hoglegouz in
and Fireman Charles Kauffmau were
stantly killed, and Conductor George
Yeager was probably fatally injured. when The
engine was drawing a heavy train
the engineer noticed the boiler leaking.
It exploded before means could be taken
to prevent it.
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THE WOMEN RESIGNED
BECAUSE THEIR OFFICIAL ACTS WERE RIDl- '
cm.ED RY MALE CITIZENS. ,
A Kansas Cifv dispatch soys: TI« ’
women who were recently elected officers
of Edge!ion, Kivusitx, have resigned,
owing to ridicule mid criticism to which
their official nets have been subjected, by
certain maf<? citizens. A special election
for mayor and other offices thus lefl
vacant witl be held tit onee. It Is bo lie rod
that tho women, whose administration ijas
on the wliole given satisfaction, will b«
ro-elected.
NEWS OF THE SOOTH.
BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTEfV'
ESTING NATURE.
PITHY 1TE»» FROM AI.I, POINT, HI 1HB
SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER
TAIN THE READER— ACCIDENTS, FIRM,
FLOODS, ETC.
A disastrous tire visited Madison, G*.,
Monday morning, Twelve busmen.
houses were totally destroyed,
Tlie first train of cast ire* pip Wedne,- c ever
shipped from the south was sent
day from South Pittsburg to Texas.
The fishermen’s strike Pensacola, Fla.,
has ended, and the men have returned to
work without obtaining their demands.
The Florida State Press association
convened in Lake City Wednesday. On,
hundred delegates were in attendance.
About fifty persons started on the ex
cursion of the Massachusetts Press^ Asso
ciation, from Boston to Norfolk, Va., . n
Saturday. Tuesday
An Augusta, Ga., dispatch of
says: The Aiken county, S. 0-, treas
ttrer is found short $1T,000 by the exam
ining committee.
The comptroller of currency has
authorized the First National bank, of
Cardiff, Tenn., to begin business with
a capital of $50,000.
The Texas prohibitionists nominated a
full state ticket Tuesday in their conven
lion ut Fort Worth. The convention is
opposed to woman suffrage.
The Louisiana Lottery company has
doubled its offer to the state, and now
offers $1,000,000 per annum for the priv
ilege of maintaining the lottery.
It is announced from Montgomery, will at
Ala., that Pennsylvania establishment capitalists of
once commence the a
cotton factory, to cost $1,000,000, in
Montgomery.
A railroad coup was announced at Lou
isville, Ky., Monday in the lease of the
Louisville Southern railroad by the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad.
The lease includes the Lexington exten
sion.
The British steamer, Propitious, sailed
from Galveston, Texas, on Saturday, with
3fi,000 bushels of corn from Kansas.
This is an experimental shipment for
Liverpool, and if profitable will be fol
lowed by others.
Governor World’s Fair Waterman executive has committee telegraphed at
tlie
Chicago, asking that ten acres of space
be reserved for California’s exhibit, and
promising that if the request is acceded
to California’s exhibit will be one of the
features of tlie fair.
Judge Simonton, in the United States
district court, at Charleston, S. C., on
Saturday, refused to transfer Deputy
Marshal Miller, of Lexington, charged
with forgery and felony, from the state to
tlie remanded United States the court. state authorities. The prisoner
was to
The transfer of the Cincinnati, Selma
and Mobile railroad to the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia, lias been com
pleted. Improved train service and
other important changes have been an
nounced. A through train service be
tween Cincinnati and Mobile will be put
on at once. —
A special farmer, from Talladega committed says: suicide _E. K. at
Turner, ft Wednesday night while under
bis home
arrest. He forged notes and a mortgage
on a neighbor arid was arrested at mid
night last night. The sheriff consented
to let him remain at home till morning
and during the night Turner took ten
grains of morphine.
A special from Chattaoooga, daylight, Tenn.,
says: Monday morning before
i two freight trains on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad collided in
a fog. Three colored brakemen were
killed, aud Engineers Thomas Gregory
and James McClarin; Brakeman 8. 8.
Dobl's and Conductor F. I). Knight in
jured. Eight ears were smashed and the
engine damaged.
A caissoS at tlie new bridge at Louis
ville, Ky., capsized Wednesday afte'-noon,
killing one than cDonald, and inV;“ ^fitcr,*%■»;, aattfSll
others. Ed M A :}
side the caissoiimlMnneen men were a. at"
work cementing the outside. C. P.
Mitchell, assistant superintendent of
work, was caught by a falling beam and
killed. Charles Saunders, and a carpenter;
Ed Branham, a corker, Joseph Wa
tlien, a corker, are missing. Ed McDon
ald, Tom Hennessy, Pat O’Brien, Ed
Griffin and William Khodcs are badly in
jured.
The Presbyterian general assembly It met is
in Asheville, N. O., Thursday. ministers
made up of an equal number of
and ruling ciders from seventy-one pres
byteries, covering the southern states.
The body embraces2,821 diurehes; 1,145
ministers; has over 161,000 communi
cants; over 100,000 scholars in its Sun
day schools and Bible classes, and gave
during last year, for all purposes, congre
gregational and benevolent, $1,612-
805. The commissioners will be en
tertained by the citizens of Asheville,
and a reception and banquet wili be giveru
them. 1 1
A NEW ROAD
PROJECTED TO RUN FROM KANSAS CITY TO
CHARLESTON. f
A Chattanooga, morning Tenn., application dispatch **f ao{
Wednesday for an the ineorporalio ;, us(a
filed for a charter
the Kansas City, Kailroad Chattanooga, AuF aa , a?
A Charleston company. tmgll 3
railroad Charleston, is projected S to C., run ajp> from ' A~i an 1 .i
City to in mineral, .
country rich
lumber. ApPv*; ®