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H t a O P H O <3 50 !ZJ r
VOL. V.
A STORM’S FURY.
Fearlni Havoc Wrombt Along the Sootl
** Atlantic Coast
Siivananh Torn and Sorrow-Stricken.
Havoc at Other Points.
A Savannah special says i Almost on
the anniversary of 1881, Savannah wan
swept Sunday night by one of the se
verest storms it has ever known. The
storm, which had been predicted by
the weather bureau for several days,
began early in the afternoon and in
creased from then on until it reached
the climax between IX and 12 o’clock
honrsina Sunday night, having blown for eight
terrific hurricane. It be
gan raining early in the morning, but
only in gusts. After the first fall it
ceased entirely for several hours, and
did not begin again until afternoon,
Then the work of destruction began
and lasted until the storm had spent
its force. At midnight all the wharves
along the river front and Ocean Steam
ship company and Savannah, Floriila
and Western railway wharves were
under water and the tide was still ris
ing rapidly.
A view of the city at daylight Mon
day morning revealed a scene of wreck
and ruin that surpassed that after the
great hurricane of 1881. ihe strums
Were impassable from the defan*.
Fallen trees, twisted roofs, masses of
brick, fences and broken limbs and
branches of trees, were piled across
the sidewalks and in the squares, and
broken wires hung in every direction.
It is impossible at present to estimate
the damage, ns the result of the storm,
but it was very general, and it is safe
to say that it will* go up in the hun
dreds of thousands, and perhaps high
er. the Nearly everyone, if not quite all
property owners in the city, have
been damaged to some extent, and
some to tho extent of thousands.
FIFTY MISSING.
The list of fatalities is gradually
growing, and it is impossible to tell to
what extent it will go. Several bod
ics of drowned persons were picked up
during the morning, and searches are
now being made for others who arc
d If y 0 ,f° a “ a! ‘“ e H mS *'*" ‘a rcsuH ‘
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of the storm
Fourteen people are known to be
dead, and forty or fifty others are re
ported missing, and it is supposed, as
nothing haa b,-^- heard from them,
that tlicir bodies will be found later.
A DOZEN VESSELS WRECKED,
Twelve barks and barken tines which
were anchored at quarantine station
were blown high and dry upon the
marsh, and some of them were earned
by the storm across the marshes on to
an island two miles distant from the
station. One of the vessels at Tybee
was completely capsized and three of
the clubhouses on the island were
blown entirely down. Others were
flooded and tho people sought shelter
wherever they could. The wires arc
all down and Savannah is almost shut
off from telegraphic communication.
QUARANTINE demolished.
The ruin at quarantine is immeas
urable. Nothing is standing where
one of the finest stations on the south
Atlantic was located except tho doc
tors’house, and how this weathered
the fearful gale is miraculous; the
wharves mme, the new fund
gating plant which has cost the city
much money is in the bottom of
the sea, and nine vessel, which were
waiting there for release to come to
the city are high and drv in
the marsh, and no doubt will be total
wrecks. The Cosniue was the only
vessel which managed to keep afloat.
FOURTEEN DROWNED.
TO. tngP.nI.ei.mind i»th. .it, She
•to o’clock Monday afternoon.
mght up about sixty passengers
cm I vW. Mr. Rever.-, one of them,
stated that four negroes engaged in
clearing the railroad tracks were
drowned. It is reported that eight of
the crew of a terrapin sloop which
went ashore on the south end were
drowned.
i HAVOC ON TYBEE.
The Hotel Tybee was considerably
damaged. Her verandas are gone and
so are the bathhouses. The Knights
of Pythias clubhouse was washed
away. Two of the cottages of the
Cottage Club are gone. The Butler
aouse is gone. Mr. Starr’s house
was washed into the woods. The
Rancho and Rambler clubhouses were 1
wrecked. The railroad track iB clean
ed out. Henry Green’s house was
burned. George Bossell’s cottage end was
swept out to sea. The north was
practically cleaned out. The water
swept with tremendous force over this
part of the island, railroad tracks he
ing carried from 200 to 500 feet.
ILL FATED charleston.
A Charleston special says; While
the record of terror and ruin wrought
by the great disaster of 1885 remains
unbroken, Charleston has again stood
in the track of a cyclone which has
shaken the old city to her foundation
stones. The damage to property can
notbctold and the lo* of Hie is uu
’The'citizens awoke Monday morn
ing and of gazed upon innumerable evi
deuces the hurricane which swept
over the city Sunday afternoon and
night. Uprooted trees, fallen roofs,
broken fences and in the less substan
of that section, swept up the coast and
“° r *ndVh h ^ftv hMd its te^ith hoping °
that the storm might pass her by
But the weather looked exceedingly
threatening Sunday morning,
from all quarters of the harbor they
hurried to safety. The largest vessels,
no lest than the smallest craft* sought
protection from tho the angry tempest. in
By 1 o’clock storm burst
all its fury. Several oasualities
" serious
to persons and much
i» reported, but a complete
^2l'Lpecthm ; nTan torv can onls- oftheTrritory be made after a
e*
; tending from the Ten Mile house to
tho Battery. Every wire in the city
was prostrated; thousands of trees
wote denuded of their foliage and
limbs blown entirely down. A hnn
dred houses were unroofed and a num
her of frame buildings wrecked. The
Charleston lead works were seriously
damaged, and the Charleston'neck property in the
neighborhood of was
; injured to the extent of 81,000,000. Ks
timates in the city are impossible.
Half of the streets are impassable on
account of fallen trees, telegraph pole*
. an d timbers. Serious fours are enter
tained for the inhabitants of Sullivan's
island and the coast. The former
,,]ac 0 was last heard from at 3 p. ffi.,
1 Sunday. Communication is m w sus
pended.
the blow at avmvsta.
An An ta (ln . ial 8avs .
Sunday ; night’s storm was the worst
t!lat e el vj8ited Augusta «ithin the
Meo u oct | on of tj* citizens, ft
was a violent wind storm, accompanied
by over three inches of rain which
fell down with great force. Men and
women were badly frightened and
filled with dread and fear of the re
suits. The roaring, blustering wind
traveled at a high velocity and swept
everything before it. It was a fright
ful night and made strong men timid,
People were not surprised upon look
ing out Monday morning to see trees
uprooted. Sidewalks were torn up by
the falling trees Electric light fire
alami and telephone wires were broken
down, and hanging signs were blown
away. All telegraphiccomninnication
wag shut off except to Atlanta. Crops
were badly damaged in the surround- down
ing country. Corn was blown
and cotton whipped out. There was
no loss of life.
AT BRlJN8WI0K '
Following in the wake of the fever
and tho famine, the elements heaped
destruction ou the ill-fated city of
Brunswick. Streets were flooded and
made impassable to pedestrians. Tbs
storm did not stop until daybreak
Monday morning. Thousands of dol
lars damage was done along the coast
The damage to the buildings in the
city is heavy.
ff.arfuu in Florida.
JackaonviUe Fla., was struck by
the ( . yc]onil about daybreak Sunday
moruing) w hich rapidly increased in
force and fury up to 4 o’clock p. m.
It traveled in a northwesterly direo
Won from the West Indies.
Jt first struck tlM-J 1 lotion coast at a
point south of Jupiter inlet. Its
course was still northwesterly, and it
traversed the whole eastern portion of
the peninsula, damaging property
more or less in a path forty to fifty
miles wide from the coast line west
ward.
In Jacksonville hundreds of trees
were blown down and scores of dwell
ings and public buildings were either
unroofed entirely or had the tin blown
from them. The most serious damage
was to the Park opera house and the
Ocean Street Presbyterian church.
At Mayport (month of Ht. John’s
river) all the buildings suffered more
or less, and the old Atlantic house was
demolished completely. At Pablo
bench the sea encroached upon ihe
railroad tracks and the premesis of the
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Augustine g reports the water
comi r^idences iD 0V< . r the sea wali and damn
« ; « and business blocks.
/ imaged, rMhtH and small
rrBft8 ",-telv vv ,. r ))ad]v or
destroyed Tha fate of other
localities in Florida as well as cf the
outside territory invaded by tho storm,
is still a sealed book. The wires are
down in every direction from Jack-
8 onv ill e and communication with the
otlt8id „ worl(1 was ausolutely cut off.
\ Columbia special eays •. All South
Carolina was in the very teeth of the
gtorm T he state weather observer
t hat nearly the entire early rice
( . r op has been destroyed and that cot
bm has been injured from 25 to30per
cent The crops in this section are in
g dl( ,tresaing condition. Corn anil
p((88 are ruined. Pasture fences have
beon blown away and the cattle are
8CMit ered everywhere. 'Barns and
rr jbs have been blown down, leaving
the forage exposed.
later fabtjcul
Specials of Tuesday from Savannah
state that the list of fatalities as tHe
result of Sunday s storm is rapidly in
<*«*»«»«• The Cl g °* ^ avan “ ah ’
which sailed from Boston Thursday,
M Afty hours overdue and no tidings
from her, whatever have been receiv
ed. The Savannah w one of the old
ed the ^city 'Thursday but^in :a rather
bad condition. Her captain
P ort « all along the coast
«■*•» Charleston. There were
cabin doors spars, mate and p
vessels of all kinds. Whether any of
Boston and it is not known who were
sf devastation. The entire island is still
sovered with water and several houses,
which were on the little farms across
ZEBU LON, PIKE CO., GA„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1803.
! the Had demolition Tybeeisland and been destruction Washed Could away ,
toot llftVC *>een much worse than it is.
Houses were blown down burned,
| washed «d. Six away lives and otherwise lost the demolish- island.
I were ou people
5 Numbers of colored on
! Hutchinson's island are missing, and
1 it is believed that many more jfjPSradot, perished,
A party, consisting of C. Wal
| George Schwarz, Harry Fender, Savan- j
ter Bobider pnd two others left
nah Sunday morning on a “maroon since,
and have not been heard from
Tho steamor Boellevue, sighted an
abandoned boat, bottom Up,
which the friends of those in the mi.
rooning party fear was their boat.
River men and others say that the full
list of those who were lost in the
storm will never be known except by
i the missing of those who fail to re
turn.
fifteen wrecks.
Fifteen vessels on the harbor and off
Tybee were More wrecked or badly dam
aged. than that number of
smaller crafts are missing and are be
j lieved to have been lost,
The loss of life at Charleston has
i ! been remarkably slight, considering to
the fearful ravage which was done
property in every roll quarter of the city.
The total death numbers six per
“<«», three of whom met death in the
j * D ^ three ou Sullivan’s island.
the damage done. |
Jt k difficult to give an estimate of !
the damage done by the storm. The
| following is a rough estimate: To
buildings, 8100,000; vessels wrecked,
| $150,000; damage to tho railroads !
leading out of the city, #100,000 : dam
age to the rice crop, $200,000. The
interior trilmtarv to Savannah is dam
aged probably to' tlieamouutof#l,000,- 1
000 or more, as the cotton crop over a
wide ^d territory nmny't,,^,^ lias suffered lust^te severely U
in
least one-fourth of the trees are des
troyed.
onf hunubed Kim ki>
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l( l ' 1 on 11 <ohh .
day . morning was more severe at Port
S.mmm.h, while H,^neighboring town '
of Beaufort was almost wiped away
The tidal wave struck Port Royal and
the damage to property is nothing in j
oompurison to the loss of life. Over j j
one hundred are known to have been
drowned and killed in Port Royal. ;
Beaufort, Seabrook and on Helena is- j
laud,
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DECIDING BY VOTE.
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Employes of Ihe I.oiiisvillc anil Sash
Resist a Cut in Wages. :
According to a previous arrange- [
ment the representatives of the differ
ent labor organizations employed on | j
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
system, met in Nashville, Tenn,, Fri- | |
day to count the vote recently taken
by the different divisions ns to wbeth- I ;
er they would submit to the ten per
cent cut in wages ordered by the ordered, road | |
and which, if not otherwise
was to go into effect on September the
first. The representatives were com
posed of the chairman of each organi
nation in their respective divisions di
and the general chairman of tbe ■
vision. The different bodies repre
sented were the engineers, telegraph
operators, conductors, brakemen,
switchmen, firemen and machinists.
By an overwhelming vote the employes
decided to resist the unconditional j
reduction in wages. The main point
of difference, it is leatueil, between the
railroad and its employes is the nam
ing of date for the between for the re
tszr£t–££zsz
It is not knou i, when they will present
to the management tho result of the
It is expected that the negotiations
will extend over several weeks.
CONFEDERATE „ CAMPS. „ , ntt
A Summary by States—One Hundred ,
New Applications.
Adjutant General George Morelaml
furnished a list of tho summary of
camps of United Confederate Veterans
bv states for the information of the
veterans and the public, and states
that applications for papers for organ
Nation have been received already
f rom over 100 new camps, which, he
believes, with the 371 now registered,
will, unless the stringency of the times
prevents, marshal the representatives
0 f 500 camps at tho Birmingham re
union on October 2d and 3d. He says
that the change of the date of the re
union to October 2d and 3d gives the
greatest satisfaction to every enthusi- portion
of tho south and a large and
astic meeting is expected. Missis
Texas, 127; Alabama, 50;
sippi, 37; Louisiana, 30; Florida, 26;
Fcntuoky, 24; Arkansas, 18 ; Tonnes
see, 15; South Carolina, 13; North
0aroHn8> 8 . Georgia, 7; Virginia, 7;
ok5ahomft> 4 . division of the north
WC8t) 2 ; Indian Territory, 2; Mis-
1 ; District of Columbia, 1.
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THE DEPRESSION SUBSIDING.
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j, anJf Business Men Opine That the
Worst 1. Over.
The New York Commercial Adver
in itg of Friday printed a
sgnt , ith the condition of trade in
j b f 8 be ^ “s e* se d and that the near fn- !
tnr6 w ju 8 P a decided improvement
iu al i lines of commercial and maim
l^b.dn*,
VICTORnOREEPEAL.
Free Coinage Defeated in tie House Dy
a o Vntn fulu U1 nf Zoo ti 1U IlU. lift
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TI|( , K | ail(1 Amendments Were All Voted
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Sbvbntebktb Day.—A t the close of
the routine morning business of the
senate, Friday, which comprised no
matter of public interest, except the
presentations the treasury of communications adverse from
legislation department, to
any special the in regard fo the
penalties on whiskey tax. Mr.
Hill addressed the chair Mid was roe
ognized. He yielded,Ttowever, devk’s to Mr.
Vest, who sent to the desk and
had read, a communication from the
director of the mint giving statistics
ns to the purchase, cost and Coinage of
silver. Mr. Hill then resumed the
floor. The announcement that Mr.
Hill was to speak once more
made the senate chamber the
focus of public interest. He spoke
for something over two hours. There
Was accorded him the.strictest atten
tiou from the start to the finish. Since
his sensational support of Peffer’s
resolution there has not been consid
.'ruble curiosity as to his real position.
He declared himself to be on the .lem
ocratio platform, and in favor of iiu
Conditional repeal. The pledge to bi
metallism was more than empty
words. Now was not the time
{ or experimental le^slation or the
d “ CU88 * on ot ‘ ho
' l t ‘'’ 1,0 T rBdlet< r ' ,, >
the . Sherman . ,act as e»,m as possible.
The™ would e no fllibust ng. Ho
mi * congress shmdd a.ljo.n n as som.
a» the iepn I as . <•"!• M
"'*« admirable m in*^
nn^i .
H ^ m of t!
Hie r ght , . ot tho . governor ot if a a stati «t »t e
? anKwl *' expiiata m fa 2 T
term, and not happen..ig V ''’“fl'*'*;
10 1 J,’ S ,’•« ' V ' V
. it m!oi! >p\
11111 |' from
HIia “ ", ftmd*' , ,,.... at, mils
and Allen mt tmtatled t« * uts J \ i 'i"
to be taken ill the third of those cases',
that from Wyoming, Mr. Beckwith
having resigned his appointment
more than a month ago. The remain
der of the day’s session was occupied
iu the consideration of tho bill allow
ing national banks to increase their
circulation up to the pair value of the
bonds deposited by them to secure
circulation. The amendment which
Mr. Cockrell had offered some time
ago to allow the redemption of the
#25,000,000 2 per cent bonds and pay
ment for them in a new issue of legal
tender notes was rejected by a vote ot
. ., „
Minetefnih *'•— 11 cua
luesday. r. ooi ees, c liurman o
the finance cominittee, repor et me t
to the house to >i repea ing a par
°* “h°rmau at " I1 an lumnu
ment ni the imfure o m «ti isti u e.
He asked t la e n ^ h. j ac on n
calendaraml gave "otic* that heshoMd
ask 10 sena e o an, i ip mini.t
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J ec IH ° ’ H m '”" 8 'A 1 , \u,, *
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Mr ht 1,1 "" . . .
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“ Giirdni'i
w 1 1 v< J.' ’ Li of
(t , , il i ? Lvor
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81 VL (J*. " sunk, i n o
unconditional repeal. g . Heals» lie also declared
the friends L ot temetalHs 1 imotalliM n sab w d 1 he h,
,
'' h '' >rif> '
_ . the ndintr
to delay the repeal l,y a contest over
free coinage. Durnig the delivery <
his speech Senator Gordon was give,
close attention by well-il Cl , ml
crowded galleries. He explained hts
position by stating that the Shorn.an
1bw J aH n °\
one foe of bimetallism.
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the house.
Seventeenth Day.-F riday was tin,
second day of the debate under the
five mimites-rule in the house. Noth
ing sensational transpired. Aside from
the speeches delivered by Mr. Burrows
a „d Mr. Springers there was none
that commanded the attentiun of the
members; and, indeed, these two
speeches were not listened to with the
interest they deserved. They day was
a day of calm—a precursor of the
storm to be precipitated Saturday. A
large number of members addressed
the house, but for the greater part
they wasted their eloquence on empty
benches. The silver debate was bo
gun promptly by Mr. Pendleton, dem
oerat, of Texas, who expressed his in
tention to vote for the free coinage of
8 ilver at any ratio that had been sug
gested, but at the same time he held
the purchasing clause of the
act responsible for the pros
e nt hard times. Others who
spoke were Mr. Bowers, repuh
K( „ dt(! in W of repeal; M, Dockery,
democrat,of Missouri,for free comagi ,
Mr. Cobb, democrat, ol Alabama, for
free coinage; Mr Marsh republican
of Illinois, Mi. Joseph, demount, ( ’ f
New Mexico; Mr Mooney, democrat,
the silver question was concln led
Saturday morning M-cfore the hour of
meeting, attracted by the announce
ment that the UG day of the great
silver debate was t,o be signaled by a
tho a»y' H proceedings. Under the
hour rule, ho said, the time in favor
of the bill would close with the mem
l, amlthe er ff ou time \ Wtwt in *” tho 8 *™ opposition (Mr. Wilson) to it
liy the member from Missouri (Mr,
assigned Bland). The Mr. first Wilson thirty minutes Mr. Clarke, was
democrat, by to
of Alabama. He believed
it tho duty of congress to fix the ratio
between silver anil gold at
16 to 1, Ho was followed by
Tom lteed, of Maine, the giant of
the republican party. Mr. Reed wns
never in better trim, and lifts never ;
delivered a speech to equal this one.
He demonstrated a broadness of views I
and it generosity of interest which
has seldom been heard from hftn.
After Mr. Reed came Mr. Deurmond,
of Missouri, in favor of unoondition
a l repeal, and then Mr. Williams, of
Illinois, who opposed repeal. Then
canie Private John Allen, of Missis
sippi, who delivered one of
the most humorous speeches of
bis life, He argued for fres coinage,
Mr, Cockfan, the Tammany orator,
tb en took tbo fi oor an( j made the
gl . patpst speech of his life and by lias odds
tbe strongest argument which yet
been made iu mthcr house of congress
j a favor of the Unconditional repeal of
tho 8hcrmau iaw Ml , Bland fol
lowed Mr. Cockrau. Several otli
pr W j ef speeches were delivered,
ft ft er Mr. Bland's, aiid thou
the debate was closed in a strong
twenty minutes’ speech by Mr. Wil
son, of West Virginia, the author of
tbl . rel „ !ttl biU . His most significant
utterance was that the administration
woultl) aft , r the repeal of legislation the Sher
man law, endeavor to enact
looking to the continued use of silver
as a money metal. At the night ses- ood
Bion ther0 w “ re 11 ,,umbet “ f fl
speeches ^ delivered, the principal one
^ K ’ tho NuW
York orator, and the groat debate Was
closed.
Frse< <iia*«B imreaieil.
Eiohteenth Day.—T he public gal
leries of the hall of the house of rep
resei >tatives were filled before ton
o’clock Monday morning, and many
^“^thThou" ' Zrwunding
The
t . t>rrillor8 nntl lobbies of the floor were
#lg0 witb R throng of people.
yy ben tbe ' speaker * commanded order
t IK)0I1 near | v eV erv seat in
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wa8 tni jid ’ au un ,
Ijd „nd’individual stakablo evidenci of general
interest iu tho matter
, . k, ' After tbn readiuu of the
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^ j fl „ t tho bar ,’ )f the house on
()f hig eollea ,, u( . ’by General Tracy,
ftm| wa88Woru j u ‘he speaker,
Th( , h the „ b( , gflD to vote on the
Bland free rainflg(1 811 i )fiti tute, fixing
the ratio at lfi to 1 at 12 o’clock, and
it was defeated—yeas 123, nays 225.
Flixtoen to one Ik believed to be tho
strongest substitute. The majority
against 16 to 1 was at least 30 votes
j,j„ ber Gian the anti-silver men
c jaimed. The 17 to 1 amendment was
defeated—yeas 100, nays / 240. On a
^ ^ ^ b Bideg the logg
of populist votes, the members of that
party withholding their votes, there
were several negative votes from those
who voted in favor of the ratio of 16 to
1- The 18 to 1 free coinage amend
ment was rejected. Yeas, 102; nays,
^ The 1» to 1 amendment was re
j oc ^ ed Yeas, 105; nays, 237. ihe
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20 to 1 amendment was likewise re
Yeas, 1H); nays, 220. On the
« ul,H Dtute reviving the Bland-Allison
the ^ for 180, agrinrt 318
-majority against, 77. In the final
vo te to repeal tho purchasing clause of
the Sherman act, the Wilson bill, the
n.Ju,,,„i,„ "n „„tk» M h.
would c U)) the house rules Tuesday
t he house, at 3 : 3 U o’clock, adjourned,
Ninftkf.nth Day-Tu the house,
TneKd afUil . a little routine business,
M r. (latchings called up the report of
th e committee on rules reporting rules
to govern tho house of the Fifty-third
congress. Mr. Reed twitted the demo
crate upon their partial approval of
tho rules of the fifty-first congress, but,
in a humorous vein, contended that
they had not gone far enough. Ho
then, in ft more serious manner, argued
in favor of the rights of the majority, maintied
which rights had been firmly
in the fifty-first congress. Then f or
the first time this session the speaker
took the floor, having called Mr. Rich
ardson of Tennessee, to the chair, and
replied to the criticisms of the gentlo
man from Maine. The debate was
continued by Messrs. Springer, Boat
ner and Hooker of Mississippi, who
contended that tho membership of the
committee on rules should he increas
e d. Mr. Pickier, republican, of South
Dakota, agreed with Mr. Hooker on
this point. Messrs. Gumming, Hep
burn, of Iowa, and Bryan also joined
j n the discussion. Then the subject
was dropped and Mr. Springer intro
duced a bill to provide for the coin
of tho seigniorage silver in the
treasury. Referred. The house at
«-15 o’clockadiourued._____
/-ages of ChopinBjjta. 'KSburg, Rnssi^
I tho following statin
• burgda 1 Y _ g g i ve s
|: the disease in
^ gov rl , meIlta dnring tho
p^t P weak: Orel, new cases 647, deaths
]3 G u of the Don, new eases
deaths 24; Viatka, new cases 47, deaths
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In 1874 all London houses were com
p,ii e d for the first time to N connected
„j tb .ewsr.,
Allairs of Goyenient ani Routine
tho llil/ ilUlwu tlnnsp and flilU uuUQlU QpnatP JJlOUiioouu, DiOTWPlj
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Notes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Tlicir General Welfare.
The committee on wavs and
„iu ” TT,? ! „„„„ «,» ,, rm nr' 4 .
T hearings T 1 n and wdl
„prlms ,jv in the course thereof to
and narties interested
Secretary u Carlisle V, , , sent to tlie , , noxise
Tlnlay a letter recommom mg nn ap
l*°Priatiun « SM«M»,*M)rt for continuing
* J * e * e 0 olIla 8 e of fractional srIvorcoins.
Ah 0 secretary asks that the approdm
tion be made available immediately.
The teeeefit ndtiees received by Sec
rctary Morton from one of Ids agents
in Europe, Mr. Mattes, fully affirm
previous reports regarding the short
age of certain crops, in sections of
Europe, which he represents is likely
to create u very large demand
for American forage crops, including
corn, although he does not think it
likely that much of the latter will be
Used ns a human food.
Saturday was a great day in the
house. It was a field day. There lias
not been such a day of oratory in this
branch for many years. All the great
orators of the body appeared The before gal
the footlights, so to speak.
lories were crowded to their
capacity. filled and tho Every interest seat on manifested the_ floor was in
the closing day of the great silver de
bate was intense The speakers were
the best that each side had to present,
The repeal men, however presented
the strongest men of the debate.
W«v«i ainjori.v 1» iheStante.
That the bill for unconditional re
pe»l « en ' lte » 1 nlto 08
certain ns that it will pass the house.
The-mpporters of the Voorhees bill
confidently claim eleven majority
Without the three new senutoas from
the western states, who may or ™ a Y
not be iti tlicir seats at this time. There
are eleven , senators . who . . have not . as yet .
annouced their final determina
tion as to how they will vote. Of these
seven are said to be wavering toward
unconditional repeal and four towards
the substitute. A great deal would ,.
uiBtmuc. A great aeai
seem to depend on the vote m the
house, the size and character of the
majority the Wilson bill receives. It :
is decisive and unmistakable, the sen
careful not to
The vote iu the house Monday for
the restoration of the Bland-Allison
act showed how tho delegations from !
the southern states really stand on
silver. On this vote the silver men j i
showed their greatest strength. The
vote in the delegations of the southern
states on the adoption of the Bland
Allison law amendment stood: I
mates. Yeas. ays.
....... 8
rji-lnwim'...... 5
ft ori ,ia.. cuccikik:
S 80 !!®!5......... 8
K–V.V.V. 6
4
Marymiul.......
Mississippi.....
8 c’amliiia.
Not a OC 1 1
hou li Carolina ................. C" - 1
[iVmu.aec........................ Oh *
viraUiia!!.'!!!',”.!.'!!.’!!".'.!’.'.'.’.!'. a 1
went Virginia.................... 8 2 u
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o».. ...... ...............
Hilwr",
®h* committee on finance
luesday morning decided to report
ltt ' m sena e 10 isou npia
~l.n.l.r, l» ..b.titotrf lor it. Tho
committee also resolved to set aside
the national hank circulation bill,
which is now unfinished business in
the senate in favor of the Voorhees
biU, and press the latter measure as
™Pl<»y as tho temper of the
^nate will permit. Hie di -
f er ™“ e between the house bill
a “ d *h 0 Yoorhees lull ^ is found _ in the
attachment to “ “ ' “ ‘ * "
B ra l>h declaring that it is the policy ot
the United states to use Dotni gom
ttU(1 B,lveras money mctuis, anu o
preserve the purity, tne program oi
“m committee, asmr as 11 coni i
pmtes tne setting asioeoi ine naiionai
”“ nK Wll, can omy no cwrieu >n
tnrougn tne aid or tne majoriiy iti uie
senate, im tne nauonai oana inu c u
not bo withdrawn or set aside save
through a majority vote in tavor ot
the consideration ol the repeal bill.
T. «’•!» «•!« BhIIIm.
A specia of Monday states that see
rctary Carlisle has ordered that too
United (States mints at inuadelpma
anil ban F rancisco ho fully manned
and tlio full capacity of both mint, be
utiiweil in thecoinago of goid buBira.
easnry i i cty i A,. hl ,
bullion, which^ ' 1n, is .“ a ^ part ’1 t t ie
g« #i K'O Gold
gold reserve of <^000,
bars cannot be used as currency, so
it lias been dix di 0 11 : t 1 r
^ ^ cotd into ^
g STUlSlS!
p b Sh,"t ,. * is steteMl be i'
ami 000 000
The San Francisco 1 imfoft mint will
n fized but matclv
L V* beinu in one^vanU where t has
Acting Director Preston visited PhHa
delplua Saturday and completed nr
rangemeuts with Huperin(e»dcnt Bos-
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1 T! P
Tbe Drift of Her Progress ant Pros-;
perity Briefly Noted,
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Pithy Paragraphs.
Wilmington,
•• . Friday and declared quar
•
Atlantn. and Columbus,
because of tho number of refu
•> from fever infected
, ace8
A JNasbville, ... ien ., I f Sat
.
unlay says : Witno r u g - ,
the proposition me ei 1 . ^
Mwnviue,, vnattanoog > • j
railroad nave, tnr g
izeil representati ves, 1 ■ thore
auction ot tne iu pe e « ■'
A Knoxville dispatch says: INews
comes from Sevier county ol a tcrrilio
freshet Monday. Pigeon river row
fifteen feet in two hours, and water
flowed two feet deep in the rtreew or
ScvierviUe. Growing corn along tno,
river has been greatly damaged.
Colonel Louis J. Dupree, one of tho
best known newspaper men in tho
south, and American consul to ban
Halvador under Cleveland s hretad
ministration, died at Memphis, Tenn.,
Monday night. He was sixty-eight
years old and until hir late sickness
has been editor of Ihe Memphis / f
Ledger.
The Columbia, H. C., Clearing House
Association night and perfected held a meeting arrangements Saturday lor
issuing clearing house certificates The
p] L an adopted was to issue ccrtihcatea
two-thirds value of. securities de
pos ,ted rnth the association, and to
j he am0 , lnt of 2 o percent of tho bank
ing capital,
An Austin, Texas dispatch says:
Cotton Ianterg tell a doleful tale
abont the eomlition of cotton, which
. g a „ fferi for rajn> and they assert
tbttt they will not make more than a bale
to six acres. Buyers are promptly price pay
ju for all offered, the ruling
bpin » 6J cent8 for mi ddling. Many
farm M wfnafl to takc this, and haul
thcir cotton home to hold for higher
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1 e8 ^
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_
ll «- v rh -S ft " d
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‘-■lnmte’ , National wdl a 8 “
within a few days. An mforma , nmet
tueky National 8 t 0 ,°K bank P ,l w.l "u b be 4 Ueld l eld to to
dl8cusa tb(! ® atter of re-opemng that
institution.
Tho liabilities of the Buchanan
River Lumber Company, of Wheeling,
\V. Va., which failed Saturday will
reach $ 200 000 with assets that will
, , Tho
more than cover that amount,
creditors are principally bunks that
hold the company’s paper. The con
cern was one of the largest in the state
and employed $ 1,000 men. made
thought an arrangement cun be
witli the creditor** to permit the works
to resume soon.
A. Jacksonville ... specud -if . m «
cyclone sa y 8 ■ 10 amago < o j A
was genera n , .
city and on the
but there was n
one point. Ihe « n roo ,, ing , of . tho tb
Presbyterian church and the opera
house m Jacksonville «>d otLjnuB
hotel, at > . ns 118 ln °.’ ' 1 Tho loss
Q00, ou.Hhi. 1. dWrib.W prob.Wj
among 500 people, in various amounts
A Montgomery special says: Josiah
Morris – Co., who suspended payment
tw „ weeks ag0> resumed business
Mond ay morning, and from the ho,te
of OI)( ,, ninK „„«! closing a heavy bum
ne88 wft8 done, the old customers of
t be bank coming forward to make do
po 8 i t8 and open their accounts with
the firm. This incident m the bnnk
jng history of the country is almost
wit i, ou t a parrallel. Ihe entire com
mun ;ty rejoices over the resumption,
The employes of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railway met m
n gener al mass meeting at Knoxville,
Tenn Saturday night to discuss the
. ( ordered
propo8al eu tin salaries as by
tfae reoe i verSi A committee corn
p08ed () f 0 ne man from each division
wag jj na ]] y appointed to wait upon
tb e receivers and ask the road to take
their salaries as a loan or state some
8 ppc jfi ed time as to when they would
^ restored. The committee was in
strncted to consult with the employes
at Atlanta, Macon and Selma, where
t he road lias other large shops.
The New Orleans Clearing House
Association met Thursday and took
action on the proposition made to is
clearing ^ house certificates for
8 ” ftb j, gH „ m blko the place ol cut
^ Th( , reoent action of the banks
j {t be p i anter8 without the money to
de“ed advi^ble. After discs,, n the
following plan was adopted: Issue ecr
til!cates of deposit to persons having
money on deposit, payable , them
selves or bearer, in sums of $•>, 810
#20 or more, and make the certificates
-
* S ‘ ,, " V -^ Thltta, J™ ^Ld St
President Thomas having prom- tho.
ige( j to fes^ofe pages as soou as
p$*»pw)y ! S hn«ft«W it.
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