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THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIRST
CONGRESS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE
BHIEFED— DELIBERATIONS OVER MAT
TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR
COMMON COUNTRY. —NOTES.
In the house, on Friday, Mr. Flower,of
New York, introduced a hill subjecting
oleomargarine laws of to the provisions of the
the several states. Referred. The
house then went into committee of the
chair, whole, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, in the
on the river and harbor bill. Mr.
Hitt, of Illinois, moved an amendment to
give take the city of Galena, 111., the right to
up the work of harbor improvement
there r-'lh plete dropped it, providing by the that government the city shall and
then receive $160,000. Adopted. When
the paragraphs appropriating $500,000
for the construction of tlve Illinois and
Mississippi Mr. Turner, (Hennepin) canal was reached point
of Georgia, made the
of order that the committee on rivers and
harbors had no jurisdiction over canals.
He said that on April 9th a communica
tion from the secretary of war, transmit
ting tlui report on the survey of the ca
nal, was referred to the committee on riv
ers and harbors, and there might he a
question as to whether tiiat reference
gave the committee jurisdiction. Fend
ing a decision, the committee rose. Tho
speaker appointed McMillin, of Tennes
see, as referee on the customs administra
tive hill, in place of Mr. Carlisle, ex
cused. The house then, at 5 o’clock, took
a recess until 8 o’clock, the evening private ses
sion to be for the consideration of
pension hills.
In the senate, on Friday, consideration
of the naval appropriations bill was
resumed. The discussion was participated
ia by Messrs. Gorman, Call, Blair and
Hiseock. Pending discussion the silver
hill was, at 2 p. in., taken up as unfinish
ed business and laid aside informally.
The tariff hill w as received from the house
arid referred to the committee on finance.
Ten thousand copies were ordered printed
for the use of the senate. Mr. Stanford
addressed the senate in advocacy of the
bill introduced by him some days ago,
agricultural providing for lands. loans by tho government on
At the conclusion of
Mr. Stanford’s speech, upou his motion,
the bill was referred to the finance com
mittee. Mr, Pugh gave notice of his in
tention to speak on the silver bill when it
comes up. The naval Discussion appropriation hill
was again taken up. was re
newed, lic going over questions of the pub
utility of navy-yards, of political scan
dies to which their management has given
rise, building of coast defenses, and of the policy
of up a strong navy. It was car
ried On by Messrs. Blair, ifiscock, it aw
Mr. ley and Dolpli. and placed A bill was reported by
Pasco, on the calender,
for the protection of actual settlers in
Florida on lands on which deposits of
phosphates have been discovered since the
entries were made. Mr. Faulkner gave
notice of amendment to the hill relating
to providing liquors imported that such into liquors prohibitory shall he states,
con
sidered as incorporated as a part of the
common mass of property within the state
(and subject to regulation, control and
taxation in the exercise of the state’s
powers. Mr, Call offered a resolution call
ing on thti president fo r information ns to
Stmdttig McLane, of an armed Cedar force from Keys, the Fla., revenue the
cotter at
forcibly citizens entry of houses surrounding and the pursuit
of in the country
and asked for its adoption. The resolu
tion went over. After executive session
the senate adjourned.
The house went into committee of the
whole Saturday, Mr. Burrows in the chair,
on the river and harbor hill Tin* j—'niin„
question was the point of order against
the Hennepin canal proposition. Mr.
Hatch, who of Missouri, warned the gentle
river, man that reptwente appropriation 1 the for Mississippi the Hen
an
nepin car, a I would he the death knell to
appropriations the future. for the Mississippi river in
The. amendment was adopted
the reducing appropriation from $2, < 00,000 to $1,000,000
the Mississippi for tho improvement head
of river from the of
the passes to the month of the Ohio river.
Mr. Blanchard explained that his amend
ment was due t.o the fact that congress
had, a few weeks ago, made an urgent
appropriation of $1,000,000 for understand- the im
provement of the river on the
ing lietnadein that a reduction of that amount would
the rivrr and harbor hill.
Pending Public further business action, the suspended committee
rose. was at
4 o’clock, tribute and the house proceeded late to
pay a to the memory of the
David Wilbur, of Ni w York. Eulogies
were pronounced Farquhar.of by Messrs. York Tracy, -McCor- Slicr
man and Now ;
mick of Pennsylvania, and McRae of Ar
kansas. .The house tiien adjourned. Mr. Wil
In the senate, on Saturday, obtained unani
son, of Iowa, asked and
mous consent that on Tuesday, bit’s after
routine morning business, the sub
jecting imported liquors to the provisions
of the laws of the several states shall be
taken up and continued until objected disposed of.
Mr. Stewart, at first to the
displacement of the silver bill, but finally
interposed no objection. Mr. Blackburn,
of Kentucky, then presented the creden
tials of John G. Carlisle as senator from
the state of Kentucky, for Beck’s unex
pired term which commenced on March
ft, 1889. Read and placed on file. The
naval appropriation bill was taken up,
the pending question being on an amend
ment to the report from the committee on
appropriations—to strike out tile item
of $50,000 for the improvement of plants
at tlm Portsmouth, N. II., navy yard.
After a long discussion the amendment
was disagreed to. Air. Coekerill moved
to strike out the provision for three sea
going coast-line battle-ships not to cost
more than $4,000,000 each. Debate on
this amendment consumed the remamdei
( of the afternoon and without action npoE
b it, or the bill itself, the senate adjourned.
The house on Monday was called to or
dcr by Clerk McPherson, and, on motion
of Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, was elected
speaker pro tem., and took the chair amid
applause. On motion oi Mr. Davidson,
of Florida, the senate bill was passed, in
i creasing to $275,600 the limit of cost of
the public building at Jacksonville, coimnit- Fla.
V The floor was then accorded the
Ve on the Disftict of Columbia. The
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and other local affairs of the district ol
no general interest were also passed. The
house adjourned.
The senate on Monday resumed consul'
erntion of the navy appropriation bill,
the pending question being on Air. Cock
rell’s amendment to strike out the pro
vision for t he construction of throe heavily
armed battle ships at a cost of four mil
lions each.
In the house, on Tuesday, Air. Hender
son, from the committee on United judi
ciary, reported a hill to establish a
States district court, to lie held in
Raleigh, N. C. Placed on submitted the calendar.
Air, McKinley, of Ohio, the
conference report upon the customs ad
ministrative bill. The report was adopt
ed—yens 127, nays 18. The house then
went into committee of the whole on the
river rious and amendments harbor appropriation making appropriations hill. Va
river for specified offered points and along rejected. the Mississippi Pending
were
a decision the committee rose and the
house adjourned,
Tho senate on Tuesday resumed con
sidcration of the bill subjecting imported
liquors several to the provisions the question of the being laws of
the states, on
the substitute reported Monday from the
judiciary committee providing their that li
quors so transported shall, when ac
tual and continuous transportation shall
have terminated, be considered as having
ceased to he subject* of commerce with
foreign and nations, and among the several
states, shall he a part of the common
mass of property within the state, and
he subject bill to its police without regulations. action....
The went over
The pointment vice-president Blackburn announced member the ap
of Air. as a
of Air. committee Carlisle on member appropriations, of the commit- and of
as a
tee on finance, territories and Woman
suffrage......The simplify conference in report on the the
hill to (he law relation to
collection of revenue, (the McKinley presented cus
toms administrative hill) was
Rnd agreed to. The law is to go into ef
fect on the 1st of August, 1890. After a
brief executive session, the senate ad
joumed.
NOTES.
The secretary of tlio treasury lias ap
commissioner pointed Henry C. Thrower as shipping
at Mobile, Ala.
Representative Flower, of New York,
offered in the house on Tuesday a joint
resolution amiropriting $250,000 toward
the completion of the Grant monument in
Riverside park.
lion. John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky,
ex-speaker appeared of the house of representa
tives. on the floor of the senate
Monday morning and was sworn in im
journal. mediately after the reading of the
Thursday Representative introduced Uhlrkc, of Alabama, the on
a resolution in
house to instruct the w ays and means
committee to report to the house for its
consideration by Monday the Farmers’
Alliance sub-treasury bill, nud that Tues
day June 10th be fixed for its considera
tion.
The house committee on commerce inis
directed a favorable report to be made on
the bill law amending permit the interstate railroad com
merce so as to com
attending panies to give reduced rates with to veterans amend
extending encampments, the privileges an
ment same to
veteran confederate soldiers.
stituted Supervisor* where of the census refuse have been in
persons to answer
question* Liabilities, relating questions to physical relatingto and mental
<1 or farms,
homes and mortgages, to enter in the
proper column the words “refused to an
swer.” All legal proceedings will he in
stituted by the Washington office through
the department of justice.
The house committee on elections, on
Friday, acted upon three and of the pending
contested election cases, the result
will probably he an increase of the rc
publican majority in the house by two
members. The cases decided were those
of Langston vs. Venable, from the fourth
Virginia district; Miller vs. Elliott, sev
enth South Carolina district, and Chal
mers vs. Morgan, second Mississippi the comrait- dis
trict. In the first two eases
mittcc will report in favor of seating the
republican contestants, Langston and
Miller; hut in tho Mississippi case the re
|»rt will he in favor of the sitti"g mem
ber, Mr. Morgan,
Without holding any formal conference,
the democratic senators have decided that
Mr. Carlisle should succeed Mr. Beck on
the finance committee, and the assign
ment committee will recommend to the
vice-president that he be assigned to equip that
committee. Coming to tariff the senate, question, am!
ped, to deal with the
coming over to Die senate in company
with the tariff bill, which he has studied
to attack, the democrats at once recog
nize at once, in defiance of senatorial
tradition, that, the proper place for him
was on the finance committee, where lie
can lead in the tariff fight. There has
been no controversy over given the question,
and Mr. Carlisle will ho an oppor
tunity to distinguish himself that no man
before him has had on entering and this tradi- dec
orous body, wedded to form
tion.
THE KEMMLER CASE.
THE SUPREME COURT DENIES APPLICATION
FOR A WRIT OF ERROR.
A dispatch from Washington, United States says:
The supreme court of the
on Friday denied the application of Kemmlcr, for a
writ of error in the case un
der sentence of death by electricity. The
court quotes the opinion in the Hurtado
case on the meaning of the phrase “due
process of law.” The change in the form
of death was within the legitimate sphere
of the legislative power of the state. The
legislature of the state of New York de
termined that it did not inflict cruel or
unusual punishment, and its courts have
sustained that determination. This court
cannot see that the prisoner has been de
prived of the due process of law. In or
der to reverse the judgment, this court
should he compelled to hold that the
court of appeals had committed an error
so gross as to deprive the prisoner of liis
constitutional rights. The court lias no
hesitancy in saying it cannot do this. It
is stated that Lawyer Sherman wid furth
er delay the execution of Kemmlcr by an
other appeal to the supreme court of the
United States. He claims that there was
stare mat xnetown was sw nwriT
ZEBU LON, GA., Tt) JUNES, 1890.
FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTE?.
NEWS OF THE ORDER AND
ITS MEMBERS.
WHAT IS BEINO DONE IN THE VARIOUS
MOTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THIS GREAT ORGANISATION.—LEGISLA
TION, NOTES, ETC.
The Alliance is a business institution
and should be used in a business way.
Alliance is A
The going through a orys
but tallzing he fatliful process just their now and they will can in
end to vows they
the come out on top.
The Arkansas A “Pass
Economist says:
the sub-treasury hill and tho work of the
spsculator is at an end. There will lie no
more corners on farm products.
*
* *
The Thomaston Times says the direct
ors of the Alliance store have decided to
establish a fruit canning will factory commenced at that
place, and that work ho
at once.
*** and
We now have twenty-eight states
territories organized in our grand union,
north and south, with an estimated mem
bership of nearly three mi lion.— Weekly
Toiler.
***
Farmers should stay away from the
loan agents. They charge you borrow, about 20
per cent on the money you be
sides making you give a mortgage on
your home.
There *** Alliances and
are 136 County sub-Alliances,
about 2,310 county with a
total membership of about 65,000 males
and 20,000 females in the stale of Geor
gia.— Southern Alliance Parmer.
** * and
At Deepwater, Mo,, the Farmers
Laborers’ Union and the Kuiglits of La
bor united on a city ticket and placed it
in the field; the result was the election of
their mayor, police judge, marshal, and
three-fourths of the city council.
Tlio Alliance warehouse at Griffin, Ga.,
has received nearly twenty thousand bale -
of cotton this season, it. lias $4,000 ill
bank, and has declared a dividend of for
ty-five cents per bale, which amount
goes to the members of the Alliance.
***
It is snid that tho Farmers’ Alliance
has saved the farmers of America $8,000, -
000 in twine, $2,501),000 on bagging, and
it is claimed tiiat through the operations
of the Alliance Exchange discounts have
been secured that will make tho amount
saved by farmeis $10,000, annually.
*\ why the
There is no reason on earth re
tail merchants and all honorable business
men should not join the producer* relief. The and
laborers in their demands for
merchant depends upon the patronage of
the farmer and laborer, ami whatever
tends to impoverish his patrons will in
tho long run impoverish him also. Yet
the doalcrs are regarding the efforts of
tho producers with little favor. In foot
they are endeavoring to discourage them
in their demands for justice. This is al
together unwise.— Ex.
The National Alliance A (Houston, Tex.),
organ of the Colored Alliance, 1 irints a
communication from South Carolina de
scribing the good work of the colored
order: I know that I don’t overstate the
facts when i declare that the Alliaueeliaa
been more to these people than a grand
second emancipation. Of cour»e much
remains yet to be done. We must stick
together; we must pay our dues and fees.
We have now in this State nearly one
thousand organized Alliances, and still
the cause rolls forward. 1 am satisfied
that the Alliance is the harbinger of
Christ’s grand coming.
The Farmers’ Alliance **.* and Industrial
Union docs not desire these to old injureany parties polit- stick
ical party, but if
up their hydra-heads and in thus their impede
our progress, they swelter number of individ- own
blood. Tho greater
ual adherents to cadi party 1 h right in
tlieir heart, but when the policies and
platforms of their respective parties are
dictated by such leaders as are now at
their heads, they prove a means of fur
thering the schemes of trusts, monopo
lies, bankers, railroads and speculators.
Make your party lie light and do right
or else leave it at the feet of its unholy
gods and idols.- Farmers and hthoren
L'nion Journal.
*
+ ¥ exchanges that Die
Wo see from our
Fanners’ Alliance are starting up enter- South
prises of every kind all over the
for the benefit of their members. This is
as it should be. The influence of this
great order is beginning to he strongly
felt by that class who seemed to think the
farmer their especial prey arid who
laughed in their sleeve when it was first
started, and before the end of 1890 they
will be wailing “time because prices,” they can usurious no longer
fleece him by in
terest, etc. Don speed the day when tnc
farming class shall be entirely free from
such thralldom.— TaUmtton New lira.
*** knowl
A case has recently come made to our surprise
edge where an Alliance a
party and relieved a brother who was in
need, doing it in a kindly way that
brought with it no sense of humiliation.
This"is brotherhood right. The which Alliance kindly should acts be a
real in
well as feelings should have fu.l arid free
expression, and where none should he
permitted to fall by the way. The man
who is helped is not by any means the
only one benefitted, for it is not a mere
sentiment, but a fact, that “it is better
to <rive than to receive.” As the feeling help
of Brotherhood grows, prominent this mutual leature
fullness will become a
of the Alliance. -Nebraska Parmer.
*** entered perilous
The country has on
times. The agricultural bankruptcy interests and are
threatened with ruin.
The power of money to oppress has,
through the manipulations of selfish men
and the treachery of your public it must servants, be
reached the point where
checked. Fortunately for the country
the people have been aronsed to an ap
preciation of the alarming situation. Out
i. based on their patriotism and
elect men to represent them whose lives
and records entitle them to confidence.
Such and only such should be elected to
our Legislature and to Congress.— Tht
Procrettive Parmer, (Raleigh, N. C.
***
A dispatch of Thursday from Wash
ington, L). 0., Says Mr. Clements has ad
dressed a letter to tho Floyd county, Ga ,
Alliance in reply to certain questions
formulated lie. declares by that that lie organization, in Ml sympathy in which
is
with their demand, except those which
suggest government control of railroads
and telegraph lines and the scheme of
sub-treasuries. He objects to those be
cause of tlio extraordinary expense that
thev would___entail, and because thus
would require tm> rmprnjTOTit tu ntOUS.
an da of partisans whose efforts would be
directed more in behalf »f tho political
success of the administration in which
they were employed the business rather than with for which the
promotion they might of he charged.
EIGHT DROWNED.
TOB TERRIBLE FATE OF A TARTY OF
EXCURSIONISTS.
A dispatch from Fall River,Mass.,says;
One of the saddest and roost heart-rend
ing city accidents in took which place has occurred Watuppa in this
years on lake
about 12:15 o’clock on Sunday afternoon.
A party ol twelve persons, among Sliem
two women and flvo children, hired a
There boat at the pond and wind went blowing out rowing. nud the
was ruffled. a strong The boat into which
water was
tho party embarked was a common flat
tomed one, the seating capacity accommodate was eight
and it was too small to so
many people. The party was observed
rowing to work their way toward shore.
This was difficult work, as the water was
rough and strong and the loud rowers of inexpe
rienced. XV hen the boat pleasure
seekers was within twenty feet of the
shore, one of tho children rocked the
boat, mid, without a moment's warning,
it capsized. which Henrt-rending heard by fireman cries Bullock, rent the
air, were
of tho but pumping they station, unable and James render Laffer
ty, were to as
sistance. In tlio meantime the women
were struggling in the water. Three or
foot parties on shore called to thorn to
cling to the boat, but their failing
strength and was children unequal sank to tho out task, of mid sight. the
women
Four of the parties had struck out for the
shore and succeeded iu reaching it in an
exhausted condition. bodies The following recovered were
drowned, their Wittles, being
later in the day: Samuel aged 50;
aged Airs. Wittles, aged YVittlcs, 45; Henry jr., aged Wittles,
10; Samuel 12;
Levina Buckley, aged 35; Fred Buckley, Willio
aged 3; Willie Buckley, aged 8;
Turner, aged ft.
A KENTUCKY CYCLONE.
OBEAT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, BUT NO
LOSS OF LIFE.
A Cincinnati Kentucky dispatch and says: Several
counties of some of the
more southern counties of West Virginia
were swept Friday night by a tornado.
Reports from Mount Sterling, Paris,
Lexington, Maysville, Nieholasville,
Cyntliiana, Corinth and other points are
to Die effect that dangerous Thousands storms raged
at Nieholasville, of dollars’
worth of damage was done. In Harrison
county, the tobacco crop was almost en
tirely ruined, and the loss will reach a
great sum. At Guynndotto, West Vir
ginia, the road leading to the ferry is
washed away, together with a portion of
the front streets, and a dozen building
lots. It will cost $35,000 to repair the
damage. All steamboats on the liver
were compelled to go ashore. At Ben
sons four houses were blown down.
Lexington tells of a storm of unusual
violence. Indefinite reports from Somer
set, Richmond, Woodruff and other
points tell of great damage to farmers’
property, but no loss of life.
THE COMMISSIONERS
AT LARGE OF THIS WORLD’S FAIR XI'-
1'OINTED BY PRESIDENT HARRISON.
The president Monday commissioners afternoon ap
pointed the world’s fair at
largo as followers: Augustus E. Bal
loe.k, of Massachusetts, -with Henry In
galls, of Maine, as alternate; Thomas W.
Palmer, of Michigan, and James Richard Oliver,
of Indiana, as alternate; C.
Kerens, of Missouri, nud Robert W.
Furnas, of Nebraska, alternate; Edwin
it. Ammidown, of New York, and
Gordon W. Allen, of New York, as al
termite; Peter A. U. Widener, of Pent!
sylvaniu, and John W. Obftlfant, of
Pennsylvania, alternate; Samuel M In
man, of Georgia, and William Lindsay,
of Kentucky, alternate; Henry
Bxcdl, of Texas, and Henry L.
King, of Texas, alternate; Murk L.
McDonald, of California, and Thomas lie
Burke, of Washington, as alternate,
also signed the commissions of com
missioners appointed and by territories, the governors includ- of
forty-nine "Oklahoma states and the District of Col
ing umbia.
AN ELECTRIC STORM
VISITS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA— 8EYKRAI
LIVES LOST.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says.
The heaviest rain and electrical storm
known in years passed Pennsylvania over a large, Friday sec
tion of Western
evening, doing great damage to property lives.
and resulting in the loss of several
Several deaths by lightning occurred, and
one engineer of a freight train was killed
on Die Nickel Plate road by his train
running into a chasm, where a bridge had
been Washed away.
BONDS WANTED
TO AID CHICAGO IN CONDUCTING THE
GREAT WORLD’S EXPOSITION.
The board of directors of the World’s
Fair have adopted a resolution special requesting meeting
Governor Filer to call a
of the Illinois legislature for July 1st to
cons dcr submitting to election popular proposi- vote at
the coming November a
tion to amend the State Constitution so
is to authorize Uni .city^of,Chicago to
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT 18 ^OING ON IN THE
busy World.
A SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON
DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES
FROM UNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT
THE CABLE BRINGS.
It is generally understood at Washing
ton that the Behring sea negotiations
have failed.
Waring Brothers, of Elkton, Ind.,
manufacturers of fertilizers, havo made
an assignment.
John Keenan, of 1884 “boodle” alder
man notoriety in New York, on Tuesday
gave bail in the sum of $40,000.
Collection of internal revenue for the
ten months of the fiscal year ending June
30, 1890 amounts to $114,546,276.
One of the New York Central freight
houses, night at Albany, burned Thursday
known. Loss $125,000; insurance un
Tho Weber Piano factory, in New
York, was gutted by fire Monday after
noon. Loss, $125,000; insurance,
$80,000.
The United States squadron Monday of evolu- for
tion sailed from Gibraltar
Tangier, whence it will sail for Rio dc
Janeiro.
Tho Iowa Indians, in Indian Territory,
have accepted the offer of the govern
ment for their lands. This will add 221,-
618 acres to the public domain.
J. S. Meadows, postmaster at Alina,
Arkansas, has been arrested on a charge
letters of stealing used registered letters. him. Decoy
were to detect
8. A. Kean – Co., of Chicago and Now
York, have taken $250,000 five per Chatta- cent,
thirty year Tenn.. bonds paying of tho thereof city of $258,127.
nooga,
An “original package” case has been
made at Henning, Minn,, by a saloon
keeper, who had no license, hut sold
original packages in defiance of the local
1 IMS.
In consequence of over-speculation England, in
timber and declino in prices in
the leading lumber firm of Smith, Wade
– Co., of Quebec, is in financial difficul
ties. Liabilities about $2,000,000
President Dear, of Mexico, places little
importance in the report of filibusters
crossing the line from lower California,
and says the Mexican government has suf
ficient forces to repeal any invaders.
Chilian A Washington members special the Pan-American says that the
of
conference have filed their formal objec
tion to the compulsory arbitration adopt
ed by the majority of the conference,
George Francis Train arrived at Taco
ma, Washingt n, at 7 o’clock Saturday
tlio night, having iu completed his days, trip thirteen around
world sixty-seven
hours, three minutes and three seconds.
An attempt was made, Friday night, to in
blow up '.lie Uaymarket monument
Chicago. A tin can of nitro-glyccrine
was placed on the base of the monument
and the fuse lighted, but the fuse charred.
At Canandaigua, N. V., Frank Fish,
who killed John Calliiia'n on the 26th of
January last, was sentenced to die by
electrocution at Auburn state prison dur
ing the week beginning July 13th.
A number of gentlemen, prominent in
political and literary circles of Marid, as
sembled Monday, and appointed suitable a grand obser
committee to arrange for a
vance by Spain of tho Columbus centen
ary in 1802.
The Paris Cicde publishes giving the a telegram of
from St. Petersburg, the of which detnils is said
a conspiracy, center the organization of
to he in Berlin, for Baltic a
rising against Russia in tho pro
vinces.
Advices A London dispatch of Ayres Thursday, says: that
from Buenos state
there has been an outbreak in Puerto
Allegro. In the conflict twenty-six sol
diers were killed. Forty soldiers were
injured.
The committee appointed to examine
the affairs of the defunct Bank of Ameri
ca, positors in Philadelphia, Tuesday reported their belief to that Die fifty de
on
per cent or more would he realized on
their accounts.
Dr. W. C. Ifatler, of Russelviltc, Mo.,
charged with the murder of one Sloan, an
Indian, in the Cherokee nation twenty
years ago, lias been convicted of man
slaughter. He is a prominent physician
of Russelville, Mo.
A Chicago paper says that by the com
pietion of three deals within Die past,
| ( , w days, tho schoolbook publishing
trust has been completed, ninety per cent
0 f n, H t entire business in the United
states having been taken in.
The Kansas City Star has reports from
grain men throughout Missouri, and says
oournging, that as a and whole the the indications dispatches are excel en
are
lent that this year’s wheat crop will equal
(hat of the past year, 30,000,000 bushels.
A special of Monday from Ottawa, says
the Dominion government have informed
the owners of sealing vessels on the Pa
cific coast, that they can offer no assur
i,ncc that their vessels will be free from
molestation if caught by American cruis
ers in the Behring sea.
An earthquake shock was felt in (he
vicinity of Tribes Hilt, N. Y., soon after
7 o’clock Sunday morning. The build
ings trembled, dishes in tho cupboards consid
rattled, and the inhabitants were
erably alarmed. The duration of the vi
brat ion was one second.
Michael Sheehan, imitate aged twenty-one Brodie
years, attempted to Steve
h_v jumping from Die Mohawk river
bridge, in Amsterdam, N. Y., Monday
afternoon. The distance was over 3x0
feet. Sheehan jumped head first, and
after striking the waterdid not rise again. _
Four aldermen ana seven cx-altlcrmcn
of DcsMoincs, Iowa, have been indicted
by the grand jury for wilful misconduct
in drawing from the city treasury illegally
sums aggregating $12,000. Most of them
gave bond for trial, and will claim they
had the right to the money as pay for
their services on committees.
A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says:
While a party, consisting of several army
officers and a number of ladies, was out
line* me* nt Tn/icrlo Y- . lljD-. hftil.fr.
NUMBEK 27 .
drowned. f>y si similar drowned. accident tit. Dan
zig, seven persons were
Lord Knutsford, British colonial secre
tary, lias received an angry address to the
Queen from the Newfoundland legisla
ture. The address protests in the strong
est bounties terms against French aggressions,
and smugglings, which it says
the English government declines appears to consent to tol
erate, titfd absolutely
to the arbitration of the lobster dispute.
TRADE REVIEW.
DUN A CO. S REPORT FOIE WEEK ENDING
SATURDAY, MAY Still.
R. G. Dim – Co.’s weekly review oi
trade says: Speculation in some lines is
active. The volume of legitimate busi
ness is greater than it has been at this
season in any pluvious year. Money is
comparatively easy mid commercial credit
undisturbed. The volume of business at
New York has been swelled by heavy
speculation, and at Boston sales of stock
are three times those of last year. But
bank clearings nt Boston, Philadelphia
and Chicago are twenty-nine while the per cent
higher than a year ago, outside of aggre- New
gate at all other points above lust
York is twenty-live per cent
year. Railroad earnings for May show
an increase of fifteen per cent, not
withstanding the heavy cutting of rates.
Labor strikes arc nowhere mentioned as
causing disturbances in trade. The great
iron industries also look better.
The cotton market good is supported Nothing by the fa
strong tone of trade.
vorable can that be reported of still the buying, woolen
trade, except makers are tariff
with the hope that a change at may
lessen foreign competition. Wheat lias
been strong, rising two cents with sales
if 38,000,060 bushels at New York, and
reports continue fair.
Corn has declined nearly a cent, and
oats have risen ns much. Pork products is
ire all a shade lower, and coffee un
changed. tnd 7-10; But oil selling has risen 12$ over 5 cents mid
cotton at over
dling uplands, recorded sales for the week
reaching 575,000 hales. In general the
prices of products are lower than a week
ago, and will naturally decline as the new
crop approaches. failures of the week number,
Business
for Hie United States, 190; Canada, 88;
total, 222, against 212 last week.
ILL-FATED JOHNSTOWN
AGAIN FLOODED AND CONSIDERABLE DAM
AGE DONE.
A dispatch from Johnstown, Pa., says:
A terrific thunder rain storm, and lightning, accompanied by
heavy rain occurred
there Sunday afternoon. The flooding fell in
sheets for about half an hour,
the streets, filling cellars, Railroad and doing a
great deal of damage. street,
in Cambria, is under water, floor in the water be
ing up to the first about fifty
houses on that street, Between Oonc
maugh and Johnstown the rivers are ris
ing will rapidly, do much hut damage. it is not thought they
A CASHIER’S THREAT
TO EXPOSE PROMINENT CITIZENS AS IMPLI
CATED IN Ills SHORTAGE.
A Binghampton, N. judgment Y., dispatch lead- oi
Tuesday, says: In the of
ing citizens there Thompson, is»shortage cashier in ac
counts of 0. A. of
tho variously suspended estimated Oswego from $20,000 National to bank, $75,
000. Bank Examiner Geteman, of Al
bany, rfj'jses to make any statement ami
Thompson is equally noncommittal, pushed ex
cept to declare that if to the wall
ho will expose two of Oswego’s most sub
stantial citizens, who arc implicated in
the shortage.
FLOORED THE DANCERS.
THE EFFECTS OF AN EARTHQUAKE SHOOK
IN MONTANA.
A dispatch hour from Friday Billing*, Mont., says .
At an early evening a very
severe earthquake shock was felt all ovei
this county. There were two separate
visitations. The inhabitants were con
siderahty alarmed, hut the disturbance
was not repeated. Two brick house!
were shaken down and considerable glas
shattered. A dance was in progress nt
the hotel. The severeity and of the shock
floored several dancers left the parti
in fright.
THE COMPANIES WIN.
GEORGIA ENJOINED FROM COLLECTING
TAXES FROM SLEEPING CAR-COMPANIES.
Upon argument in the United State,
Circuit Court iu Atlanta, Ga., Saturday
Die court gave decree perpetually enjoin
big Georgia from collecting tax unde;
provisions of the tux act of 1886, assess
ing a tax on “each company sleeping doing palace busi
ness” in Georgia “as a or
ear company.” The Pullman Palace and
the Pullman Southern Cur companies re
sisted the tax. The eases were of geiicr
id interest and importance, on account
of the legal principles involved, and the
lame amount of motU'V at stake.
A BIG AUCTION.
2,408 BEAL BKINS DISPOSED OF TO THE
HtOItF.SC BIDDER,
A San Franciaco dispatch says: Jff ar '
shnl O. Sparter, of Alaska,sold cn Thurs
day, in this city nt auction, 2,408 seal
skius seized in tlio Behring Sea last year
by the revenue cutter Brush, from illegal
Bi.-alers. Almost the entire lot was pur
chased by the North American Commer
cial company, the present leasee.? of the
seal fishing realized ground. $24,256, The which aggregate will
amount was
ho turned over to the United States gov
ernment.
Bow a Dog Saved His Blaster From
Humiliation.
An English manuscript author of spent hook twelve the years his
on the a on
tory of dead races. When it was finished
liis dog ate it up, and, in his despair, the
man almost died. Six months later he
discovered that he was all wrong in most
of liis statements and deductions, and that
PRINTED EVERY TOE.
-AT
ZEBULON, - - GEORGIA,
-BY™
parity LEE,
A SPLENDID ADVERTISING AGENT.
NEWS OF THE SOOTH.
BRIEF NOTE8 OF AN INTER
ESTING NATURE.
emit items rxcm all points in tub
southern states that will enter
tain THE HEADER— ACCIDENTS, TIRES,
FLOODS, ETC.
Tho Suburban Press association of
Massachusetts was nt Norfolk, Va., Mon
day.
Iu St. Louis it is claimed that the re
placing of horse cars by electrically pro
propelTed 40 cars cent. results in a saving cS fit
least per
Tuesday night at a meeting of Atlanta,
Gn., job printers and publishers an At
lanta branch of the United Typothctne of
America was organized.
A coltxn seed oil mill will be estab
lished in Jackson county, Ga. It will he
under the direction of Alliance. The
cost will he about $15,000.
Ben Myers, catcher of a colored base
ball club, while playing at Montgomery
Monday, was struck in tho mouth by a
ball thrown by the pitcher and instantly
killed.
John Cass and .Tames Cummings, farm
ers, near Stevenson, Ala., plucked and
chewed some poisonous herbs from the
river bank. Both died within an hour
afterwards.
Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, has
called an election for a successor to Sena
tor Carlisle, to be held on June 8lst.
There are a number of candidates, includ
ing Theodore Ilallam, formerly Carlisle's
law partner.
Governor McKinney, of Virginia, has
issued a proclamation ordering ail unveiling public
offices closed on the and day requesting of the citizens
of the Leo statute
of the state to refrain from secular em
ployment on that day.
Information was received at Raleigh,
N. C., Friday, that tho blackberry crop
will be short in the Piedmont section of
the state, where it is a source of large
revenue. So far as can be learned, it is
tiie first time there ever failed to be a full
crop of blackberries.
A dispatch of Saturday from Fort Val
ley, Ga., says: It is generally conceded
now that the peach in this entire section
is a failure, and witli the most favorable
circumstances not more than one-tenth of
the quantity shipped will he shipped from here
that was the past past season.
It is reported that the railroad line3
west of the Mississippi are to be com
bined into not over three great systems— and
the Northwestern, the Southwestern
the Middle divisions. The absorption of
the St. Louis an4 San Francisco by the
Santa Fe is regarded as a further step in
this direction.
A Chattanooga, Tenn., dispa'ch, confederate says:
The committee on the re
union, to occur there in July, has an
nounced that, on Thursday evening, July
3, an entertainment will be given in the
large tent, for the purpose of raising _a
fund to erect in that city an cquestrain
statue of General N. B. Forrest.
A hill has been introduced in Die Louis
iana house of representatives, authorizing
the governor to offer a reward for the ar
rest of Edward A. .Burke, late state teas
tirer. The act provides that Ed. A.
Burke must he delivered to the slate oi
Louisiana. It appropriates $10,000 out
of any funds in the treasury not other
wise appropriated.
Captain Anderson, of tho ship Oneida,
arrived at San Francisco Monday night 011
the schooner Mary Kimball. He reports
that his ship was wrecked April 28th, on
ilennine’s rock, Lanck island, in Behring
sea, and seventy-seven Chinamen lo-t.
The Oneida had on board one hundred
and ten Chinese and forty-five white men,
nearly all on the way to the salmon can
nery, on Lanck islaud.
A hill has been favorably which reported declares to
the Louisiana legislature combination in Die form
every contract, otherwise, conspiracy in the
of trust or or
restraint of trade or commerce, or to fix
or limit tho amount or quantity of any
article, commodity or merchandise to he
manufactured, mined, produced or sold
in the state, illegal, violation. and provides Bcvcre
penalties for its
A dispatch of Saturday, from City Spartan- Land
burg, 8. C., says: The Gaffney purchased
and Improvement company has
from the old Magnetic mineral Iron lands company in this
about 7,000 acres of
county for $60,000. For the past six
months iron capitalists from Pittsburg, mineral
Pa., have been quietly buying lands.
rights to property days adjacent the Magnetic to these Iron
In ante-bellum rolling
company operated furnaces and
mills on this property.
A BOLD ROBBERY.
k STAMP DEPUTY 18 RELIEVED OF A CIIKCK
$44,047.20.
A dispatch of Monday Early from Lawrence
rillc, Ky., says: last week T. B.
Patty, Ripley gave check to for Stamp $44,647.20 Deputy, in W. U.
a whisky. placed payment
for tax on Patty Die
cheek with others in a drawer in his
office. At night ho carried them to his
residence, where the time he kept receipt them. the Having check,
he no stamps at few days. to When he
held it a began
to issue these stamps ho found that Die
check was missing, and a’l search for it
proved value fruitless. missing, Several clearly other proving articles
of were
tobberj.
A SHAVE AND A DRINK.
NOVEL SCHEME OF AN ALABAMA BARBER
TO DBAW CUSTOM.
Ed Robinson opened a barber and sliop at
Columbiana, Ala., last week hung
out a sign, “Shaving 25 cents: a drink
while you wait.” Customers were given
a shuve and a drink for 25 cents. Co
lumbiana is a prohibition county and
Robinson was arrested charged with vio
lating the revenue law. lie was carried
to Birmingham, ou Friday, for trial. He
made a strong case, claiming that he
charged nothing for the liquor, but gave
it away to liis customers, lie was bound
over to the federal court_
The seven- weeks-old son of Mr- and Mrs.