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FAWNING TO NOP*1 CH4RITY TO ALL.
VOLUME IX.
DOUGLASVILLE, GEOBmA, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1881.
JSlUMBEJ
In Atlanta, Ga., Make the Wel
kin Ring with Protests
Against Coercion,
NOTABLE JUDGES, STATESMEN,
SOLDIERS, CLERGYMEN AND
(lawyers orate most
ELOQUENTLY*
Lovely Ladles Turn Oat Id (taretl Faroe
to Grace the Occasion.
Governor Gordon had been requested
to preside over the meeting, recently
held in Atlanta, Ga., to protest against
the proposed English coercion bill, and,
although seriously indisposed, consented
to do so. In calling the meeting to
order, he said that the vast assemblage
■was; present to express deep sympathy
for a great cause; a great cause grandly
maintained by a great people. “My
physical condition,” said he, “is such
that but for the very great sympathy I feel,
in the cause I would not be here to
night. I request Mayor Cooper to pre-,
side over the meeting,”
1 Mayor Cooper made a very short and
timely speech in assuming the chair, and
presented as the first orator, Col. Albert
Cox, who presented the following res-
olutions:
“As part of the Anglo Saxon race, im-
*•-' Viawt-f.vith the principles of English law
and liberty, we resolve,
1. That the policy propounded by
Gladstone and Parnell—home rule for
Ireland—has our profound sympathy.
Our own experience has taught us, and
we submit it to the world, that local self-
government is the keystone of the arch
of civil liberty and safety.
2. We. sympathize with all English
and Irish statesmen ancT patriots who op
pose the policy embodied in the “coer-
glcipn bill,” viewing that policy as sub-
vcraive of those ancient English princi
ples, that men accused be tried by a jury
of peers of the vicinage; that the freedom
JofjjMup»8gs bepreserved; that the right
peaceably to assemble, discuss grievances
and petition for redress be inviolate; and
that the writ of habeas corpus be sacred,
so that an honorable judiciary may
promptly adjudicate whether personal
liberty be restored or be forfeited to just
laws.
3. We express the hope that the signal
failure-of all other policies, will induce
the statesmanship of England once to try
- ilurpolicy of a generous - justice toward
Ireland,”
Gen. Colquitt, U. 8. Senator, said, in
a most eloquent address, that the prinei-
E al appeal.of the Irish is, that they shall
ave the privilege so dear to all Arneri-
* cans as their birthright, to be tried by
their peers. We love what is just and
what is right. There is hope that Ire
land will be rescued from the blow which
is is intended to be dealt her. ]ji the.
case of Ireland the moral sentiment of the
world will stand by and applaud Parnell
and Gladstone.
The gem of the evening wa's the mag
nificent speech of Judge Howard Van
Epps, and it was Said by competent
judges to be one of the m.ost eloquent
addresses ever heard in Georgia.
After a long introductory speech,
which was brimful of information about
Ireland and grinding laws. Judge Van
Epps traced the sources of Irish discon
tent, the remedies proposed, English ob
jections to these remedies, and the remedy
—coercion, now proposed by England.
.Irish discontent he said finds its source in
the infamous agrarian laws of the, coun-
try,*and in the aspiration of the Irish
people for local self-government,
jj Henry W. Grady made a short but stir
ring speech, and was followed by Rev.
Dr. Hawthorne.
Letters were ready from Senator Brown
and others, and the subjoined message
was sent by Cable to Gladstone:
“Gladstone and Parnell, London, Eng
land.-—The people of Georgia, at a mass-
meeting, presided over by Governor Gor
don, and participated in by both the
United States senators as well as judges
and clergymen, protest against the coer
cion of Ireland, and wish you godspeed
in your struggle for Ireland and human
ity” ;■
WILLING TO-MARRY ALL,
Ho Claimed to Have lOO Wives.
A handsomely dressed young man
boarded an elevated train in New York
recently.. As soon as it pulled out from
th^sfation he began wandering from car
"-t© car, looking at every lady with such
close scrutiny that some of them became
incensed and complained to the guards.
\Vhen he reached the last car he turned
and was about to return, when a guard
told him him he was drunk, and if lie
did not sit down and behave lie would be
put off a t the next station The young
man sat down, but as soon as the con
ductor left the ear he arose and addressed
the crowd, saying:
“That man has accused me of being
drunk and I wish to deny the allegation.
I am a member of the church and a teeto
taller. I neither smoke nor chew, I have
but one weakness, and that is an inor
dinate for the beautiful. I consider wo
men the most beautiful 'things on earth.
I adore them all and would like to man y
them all. If there is any ladv in.the car
who will have me I will get off at the
next station and make her my wife.” ’
By the time the young man had finish
ed the people in the car had concluded
he was crazy and a general rush was
made for the forward cars. On being
questioned he paid his name was Wallace
and he lived in West Thirty-fourth
street. He claimed he had 100,wives
and was getting new ones every day. An
officer took him home.
CAlTBRSmLE>l BOOM.
The Etowah Iron and Manganese com
pany have entered into an agreement
with the Cartersville Land company by
virtue of which the location of the works
of the former are assurred to the town,
and the immediate erection of a 150 ton
furnace promised.
LIVELY BOLL FIGHTING.
The City of Mexico is enjoying the
novelty of bull-fighting at night, the
arena being brilliantly illuminated with
electric lights. The illumination put the
bulls, in a fury, and the first bull, made
frantic, rushed at the picadors and in a
minute Was master of the arena, having
killed one horse and gored two others.
The net result of the first night was four
horses killed, several torn and’ crippled;
two matadors nearly killed and several
picadors disabled.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Judge Hancock sentenced Holmes K.
Puryear at Petersburg, Va., to be hanged
on July 15 next, for the murder of his
wife by poison. The crime was com
mitted in Dinwiddie county nearly two
years ago.
Jones 8. Hamilton, lessee of the peni
tentiary, and R. D. Gambrell, editor of
the Sword and Shield, had a quarrel at
Jackson, Miss. Gambrell was killed al
most instantly, having received several
shots in the head. Col. Hamilton is mor
tally wouncted, being shot through the
body. The cause of the unfortunate af
fair was an article in the Sword and
Shield, a few days ago, severely criticis
ing, Opi Hamilton’s private and public
character.
Six negro boys, thirteen to seventeen
•years old, were at the wharf of the Wil
mington, N. C., compress, preparing to
go across Cape Fear river to shoot rice
birds. One named Grant Best had bor-
• rowed a double-barrelled gun from a
negro man which, he says, had no caps
on the tubes, and he did not know it was
loaded. While in the act of blowing out
one ofcth’e tubes, the hammer fell and the
barrel discharged, killing instantly Ed
Smith and B. Fillyaw. Ben Connoly and
Ed Fillyaw were also shot and died soon.
When the Baltimore & Ohio Express Co.
gained the franchise of the Queen and-
Crescent route and invaded the territory
of the Southern Express Co., a war of
rates was predicted, and it has comei
The latter company made aeiit .of thirty-
five per cent in rafes on fruit and vegeta
bles to all western points.
The'' Richmond & Danville "Railroad
has assumed control of the East Tennes
see, Virginia & Georgia railroad. E. B.
Thomas, general manager of the Rich
mond & Danville Co., will have charge
of the East Tennessee Co., in the same
capacity, with headquarters in Washing
ton.- Henry Fink has been appointed
vice president of the consolidated com
pany, with office at Knoxville.
News of a terrible accident at Coosa
tunnel, on the extension of the Columbus
andWestem railroad, Ala., is at hand. A
white foreman and seventeen negro la
borers were at work in the tunnel, get
ting ready for a large blast. While ram
ming the blast with an iron bar a strata
of flint was struck with the iron, making
a spark, which ignited the powder. Of
the eighteen men only six came out alive,
and all of them were more or less in
jured.
The annual parade of the fire depart
ment of Columbus, Ga., was a grand af-_
fair. Champion No. 6 won the first, prize
in the colored companies’ contest.’
Deputy United States' Marshal Joljn
Knox, at Lexington, Ga.j arrestdl
fWiam Pope, colored. Adam is accused
of cheating and swindling, though he
claims to be blind*
Fire bugs in Macon, Ga., are giving
the police plenty of anxiety. Recently
Policeman Watkins caught Jim Williams
starting a fire under a house, but two
companions of the incendiary escaped.
Capt. Dawson, of the Charleston, S. C.,
News and Courier, has just returned from
Europe where he was decorated by the
Pope for using his influence as a journal
ist against dueling. His first action on
landing from the steamer was to sue the
New York Sun for libeling him.
The coroner of Cartersville, Ga. , held
an inquest over the body of a negro,
Babe Stafford, who died from the effects
of a blow on the head inflicted With a
post of a chair by one Dee - Stafford,
This was a most unprovoked murder, and
the accused will doubtless suffer the ex
treme penalty of the law.'
A shock of earthquake was felt at El
Paso, Texas, recently. It was percepti
ble in every portion of the city and so
alarmed the citizens that only invalids
and the helpless*were left within doors.
For probably two minutes proceeding the
shock, many persons recognized the dis
tinct and offensive smell of sulphur.
While the vibrations lasted, many articles
hanging on walls oscillated and some fell
to the floor, while plastering fell from the
fronts and ceilings of many dwellings and
business houses.
An elevator at Louisville, Ky., owned
by Brown, Johnson & Co., containing
hay, barley, rye, corn and oats, was re
cently destroyed by fiee. Loss $100,000 ;
insured. “
A party of eighty-three survivors of
the 57th and 69th .Massachusetts volun
teers, who served in the army of the Po
tomac during the late War, went to Nor
folk, Va., recently, by a Boston steamer.
The party was entertained by commit
tees of military and citizens.
Patrolmen Moss and McCullough' of
Atlanta, Ga., succeeded in reconciling a
husband and wife. They were approach
ed by Henry Hood, a negro who com
plained that his wife had eloped with
Jim McGinnis, and'that the pair had
come to Atlanta. Late^in the day they
came upon the woman at a house near
the cemetery, on Gullott street. Hood
was notified that his wife had been found,
and called at the city prison. The meet
ing resulted in a reconciliation.
A sensational wedding occurred* near
Holly, Tenn. James Smith some months
ago married the daughter of a widow
lady named Lea, and she being a poor
woman, everybody said it “was a good
thing for her, as Smith was considered
an industrious man. They lived togeth
er peacefully a month or two, when their
connubial bliss faded away. They sepa
rated, and a divorce was applied for and
granted at the last term of the court.
Several weeks ago, Smith again came in
the neighborhood, and hovered, around
the scene of his withered affections. They
Were this time, however, centered on the
mother of his former wife. They were
made husband and wife.
UNCERTAIN EARTH.
ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA BAD-
LY SHAKEN.
\ Volcano Appear) on a Mountain Crest in
Arizona.
An earthquake occurred at Tucson.
Ariz., and considerable damage was done
to buildings. Goods were thrown from
the shelVes of stores; 1 And many houses
were more or less cracked. The shock
was accompanied by a rumbling sound.
Many clocks were stopped and the entire
population of the city took to the streets,
terror-stricken. The courthouse cupalo
swayed like the ®ast of a ship in a tur
bulent sea, and the building itself seemed
as though It were toppling over. When
the shock strnck Santa Cathaliua moun
tain, great slices of the mountain were
torn from its side and thrown to its base.
Vast clouds of dust arose above its crest,
7,000 feet above the sea level, at three
different- points, from three to four miles
apart.
A volcano broke out at a point twenty-
two miles south of Tucson, in Total
Wreck mountains, and a volcano is in
active operation in San Jose mountains,
on the. border of Sonora, Mexico, south
west of Tucson.
A severe shock was felt at' Wilcox
The vibrations were from north to south
and lasted one minute and forty-five sec
onds.
Ten miles from Tombstone, a lake cov
ering an acre of ground was completely
dried up in twenty minutes, •Embank- :
ments along the New Mexico and Arizona
railroad were moved from their former 1
positions in many instances as much as
twelve inches.
A severe shock occurred, which extend
ed from Centerville, Cal., through Attgjl
zona and New Mexico to El Faso, Texas.:,
Patti taxed New York $80,000 for
six concerts.
Rev. J. W. Lee will preach the Com-
mencement sermon at Hiwassee College,
Tenn., and will also deliver the annual
address.
The popular fund for Mrs. J. A. Logan
has been closed. ’One hundred thousand
dollars was asked and $67,000 was given.
Hon. S. S. Cox is writing a book which
he will call“The Diversions of a Diplo
mat.” It will deal with his brief experi
ence in Turkey.
. llev. George White, wlio was lector of
Calvary Episcopal church, in Memphis,
Tenn., from 1858 to 1878, died recently
in the 85th year of his agis*^-
■rJbj, II Xatmum- of Latham, Alexander
& Co., New York,' has erected a beauti
ful, monument of Scotch granite at Hop
kinsville, Kentucky,- in honor of . the
Confederate dead who are at - rest there.
At the great anti-coercion meeting in.
Hyde Park, London, Eng., a huge coffin,
bearing Mr. Balfour’s name, was paraded
about and finally set up behind Mr.. Sex
ton as a sounding board during bis ad
dress'
Mart Anderson, the actress has de
veloped such vocal talent recently that
her friends are urging her to introduce
music into some of her well-known roles,
while some even advise the operatic
stage.
JohnS. Logan, who had charge of
tjie printing department of the railway
mail service, in the United States court
Souse at Atlanta, Ga,, . is dead. The re
mains were carried to Opelika,: Ala., for
interment.
Charles Kohler, who died recently
in San Francisco, went to California in
1852 as a musician, and in 1854 founded
the wine industry of that State, which
has grown to an annual consumption of
7,000,000 pounds of grapes.
Vienna has decided to erect a bronze
statue to Joseph Haydn, the execution
of which has been intrusted to the Aus
trian sculptor, Natter. It will be un
covered on the 31st of May, the seventy-
eighth anniversary of the composer’s
death.
During the reign of Queen Victoria,
there have been erected 6,500 buildings
for worship in the Church of England, as
against 3,000 by all other religious com
munications put together. Seven new
dioceses have been founded at home, and
sixty-two in the colonies..
Te Hen Hen has presented to the
New Zealand government for a public
park the “wonderland” of that country,
including the Volcano Tongariro, the ex
tinct volcano Ruapehu, Mount Ngarua-
hoe, and the hot-lake district, Te Hen
Hen is a great chief of the Ngatutaw-
haretoa Mabries.
The late Mrs. Catherine Van Renssel
aer, of Mobile, Ala., was the last
surviving daughter of Gen, Philip
Schuyler, Left ax orphan in childhood,
she was adopted by her aunt, Mrs. Alex
ander Hamilton, and after the fatal Hain-
ilton-Burr duel she went to live with her
uncle, the Patroon Stephen Rensselaer.,
Canon Liddon, replying to some com
ments on bis refusal of the Edinburgh
bishopric, writes: “I can sincerely say
that my' motive in declining the See of
Edinburgh was that which has led me
before now to decline higher English
preferment than I hold at present, name
ly, the belief that Lcould serve God and
His church better by declining it.”
John Ruskin is not a friend to the bi
cycle. He says: “To walk, to run; to
leap and to dance are the virtues of the
human body, and . neither to stride on
stilts, wriggle on wheels Or dangle on
ropes, and nothing in the training of the
human mind with the body will., ever
supersede the appointed God's way of
slow walking ana bard working.
Rev. D. H. Webster, wlio's now a
preacher in Illinois, is the author of the
famous song, “Lorena.’.V It was sung
everywhere on its appearance fifteen
years ago. Its origin lay in the rejection
by Miss Blockson, of Zanesville, Ohio, of
Webster’s addresses. Miss Blockson
afterward married' Judge Johnson, who
lately resigned from the supreme bench
of Ohio owing to incurable ill-health.
Solon Dean, a young man about thirty
years of age, of Elkton, Va., was found
dead near the Greene county line. His
body showed that he had been killed by
gun shot. *
Money PoniM&into the South for Mills,
Founanes^Mways, Etc*
A brewery is to be started at Florence,
Ala.
The Fountain Head Railroad Co. will
build a dummy railroad at Knoxville.
Tenn.
The Atlanta Gas Light Economizer
Co., capital stock §100,000,' has been in-
The Birmlnghan^Ala., Water Works
will builaf a :rqsi^Oir“with 1,000,000
gallons capacity. “
The Georgia Pacific Railroad Co. are
building a branch road from Birming
ham, Ala,, to Bessemer.
Magy men doing .business at Sheffield,
Ala;, are now living, in tents, and some
in the ad joining’ town of Tuscambia.
A company has been formed to build a
roiling mill at Florence, Alai. A site has
been selected and work will soon begin.
The Marietta~-& North Georgia Rail
road Co. will: change their road to the
standard gauge, and extend it to Knox
ville; Tenn.
Robert McCarroll has received the con
tract to build a pier for the U. 8. gov
ernment at Charleston, S. C. It will
cost $33,000.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. will
build a union depot and machine shops
at Fort Smith, Ark.„ and a bridge across
the Arkansas river;
Bush Bros, are testing their clay at
Chauneey, Ga., and- will, if it is satisfac
tory, erect a plant . with a capacity of
about 30,0.00 daily./- Y
The. Falls of Nfeuse Manufacturing
Co., at Raleigh, N. C., have built an ad-
. dition 40x75 feet, to their cotton factory
and added 40 plaid looms.
A. number of furnaces will be built
during 1887 and 1888. A number of
companies have latqly been organized to
build furnaces in Southwest ‘Virginia.
The East Alabama Railroad Co. have
increased their capital Stock from $2000,-
000 to $400,000, and have let the con
tract to grade the extension of their road
to Roanoke, 17 miles,
^ Mr. Steven^ a large 'builder and con
tractor of Birmingham, Ala., has secured
ground at Choccolocco, 8 miles from An
niston on the Georgia-Pacific rajMj&d for
a large brick plagt. - I
i of?^tS'eago,-.
have signer ; the .gob'ia. j'
Co.. immeaiiW 1 -'
Iy. 'Jefrig-
erator there. jf
The Clinch Valley'Railroad Co., re
ported as inaugurated, has been organ
ized. with Joseph LDoran, of Philadel
phia, Pa.,, as, president. The object of
the Company is to build the extension of
the Norfolk & Western Railroad from
Graham, Tazewell county, to a connec
tion of the Louisville & Nashville Rail
road, now being extended eastward from
Corbin, Ky.
FIGHTING POVERTY,
What Henry George and Rev. Dr. McGlynn
are Doing*
The anti-Povert-y society, of which
Rev. Dr. McGlynn is president and: Henry
George vice-president, held their first
public-meeting at Chickering hall, New
York. The hall was packed to overflow
ing, and on the platform were a large
number of leaders of the united Labor
party. The exercises opened with sing
ing by a chorus of fifty voices led by
Miss Mullier. Henry George presided,
and Dr. McGlynn, in addressing ’the vast
audience, said S “ I am intensely con
scious that we stand here to-night on a
historic platform. The founders of this
society, m years to come, will look back
Upon to-night’s meeting: with pleasure)
It is said a priest of Christ should not
stand here to speak of a cause which pro
poses to abolish this horrid crime of pov
erty, which is the injustice of man, in
violation of the laws: of God. I would
be recreant to my sacred priesthood if J
should falter to speak the word which I
am commanded by my Lord and Master
to speak.” At the close of the services
an anthem was sung by the choir and
audience. The society proposes to hold
a meeting every Sunday night:
DEATH’S HARVEST
In mCoal Mine Locatoaii; British Colombia.
A terrible explosion of gas took place
recently in a shaft of the Vancouver Coal
Co.’s mine, in which there were upwards
of 150 miners at the time. The first in
timation those on the surface had of the
explosion was a' terrific shock, followed
by an outburst of thick, black smoke
through the air shaft., The first explos
ion was quickly followed by a second
one, stronger than the first. It carried
pieces of wood, miners 1 lamps, etc., hun
dreds of feet in the air> in a few minutes
flames began to issue through the air
shaft with a loud, roaring noise. The fan
house soon caught fire and was quickly
consumed. The scenes around the shaft
head were most heartrending. Friends
of those imprisoned blow are looking
for the missing, but littje hopes are en
tertained for the safety of about 150
miners who are in the pit.
FORGOT HIS KINSFOLKS.
The will of Alexander Mitchell, the
millionaire banker who died at Milwau
kee, Wis,, recently, has been made public.
No approximation of tile value of the
estate is made, and the derma of the will
will avoid the filing of an inventory, so
that the exact wealth left by Mitchell
will never be known. is believed to
lie from fifteen to twenty-five millions.
The entire property, real and personal, is
left to his only son, John L. Mitchell,
after deducting several.trifling legacies,
leaving, but small sums to the rest of his
relatives. . . .V;
CillCAGO STRIKE.
OVer 5,0001 hod-carrifers of Chicago
quit work because they! cannot get an
increase in wages from! twenty-five to
hirty cents per hour, y
LABOR’S AGITATION
Strike* Ordered all Over The Country.
Bricklayers, bricklayers’ laborers and
carpenters, to the number of two hun
dred, have gone on strike in London,
Ont., for an increase of wages.
House .painters in all Wilmington,
Del., shops struck for $2.50 per day, a
raise of 25 cents. Two of the largest
employers have granted the increase, and
ana it is probable that others will follow.
All the carpenters in Washington, City,
numbering nearly 300, quit work to-day,
because employes refused to give them
the same wages for nine hours work as
they received last season for ten hours.
A large number of carpenters struck
at Hamilton, Ont., for an increase iq
wages to 22} cents an hour all around.
Printers in the Hamilton Palladium office’
are to be called out because the proprie
tors refuse to discontinue the use of
stereotype plate matter. The Palladium
is a labor paper.
The glass mixers and teasers, of Pitts
burgh, Pa., who struck' two weeks ago
for ten per cent advance, returned to
work at their old wages. The recent
decision on the coke question was the
principal argument against arbitration,
and the fact that the Knights of Labor
did not support the strike, left the men
without resources.
A general strike of the coke workers
of Connellsville, Pa., region is certain.
One-half of the men refused to go to
work, and others it is thought will strike.
The operators issued their ultimatum in
which they refused to make any conces
sion at present, but promised to consider
the matter as soon as there is an advance
in coke. They are preparing to close
down for a long and bitter fight.
Some of the hands employed by Mc-
Ginty & Co., on the public school build
ing at Athens, Ga., demanded an increase
of wages. The demand arose from the
fact that the hands employed by R. L.
Bloomfield on his Clayton street improve
ments Were getting higher wages. Mc-
Ginty & Co., acceded to the increase,
stipulating however, that work should
begin earlier in the day than heretofore,
ana'that the stopping time should be
later.
GLADSTONE’S REPLY.
Appealing to English Common Sense.
No member of the English House of
Commons rising to speak on the motion
that the conduct of, the London Times
Was a breach of privilege, in regard to the
charge against Mr. Dillon, and that the
House take no notice of it, Speaker Peel
put before the house the amendment of
Bir EdWajrd Clarke, solicitor general, that
the dgcJiijed to ” treat the -Times’
publication as a breach' of privilege, a
division %vas had, 297 voted for the amend
ment and 219 against it.
Mr. Gladstone moved an amendment
that a committee be appointed to inquire
into the' charge of willful falsehood made
against Mr. Dillon. He objected-to Lord
Randolph Churchill’s'calling him the
leader of the party of separation. He
perfectly understood why Lord Randolph
did not call it the: party, of home rule.
There was a future before Lord Randolph,
in which home rule plans might figure as
convenient to propose. [Cheers.] Turn
ing to the question of privilege, he said
it was unfortunate, that the government
proposed the present step against an Irish
member while inflicting upon the Irish
people, by means of a permanen t coercion
bill, the brand of perpetual dishonor.
He cited a number of cases and chal
lenged the government to establish a
single precedent where prosecution had
been ordered, without the House having
previously condemned the act upon Which
the prosecution was based.
EXCITEMENT IN FRANCE.
Young Men Parade the Street* of Pari*
and Sing Fatrlatie Songs,
A procession carrying a banner inscrib
ed, “To Berlin!’’ marched to the palace
of the Elysee, the residence of President
Grevy, in Paris, where it was dispersed
by the police. Another mob in the
neighborhood^ of Eden theatre, where
Wagner’s “Lohengrin” was being per
formed, shouted: “ABasI/AUemagneI”
“Down , with Germany 1’- “Vive La-
Franee!” “A Berlin 1” “On to Berlin!”'
“A"Bas Bismarck!” “Give us back our
clocks!” referring to Strasburg. A mob
composed of students and gamins march
ed about shouting. They halted in front
of the army and navy club and there cried
out: “Vive l’armee Francaise!” “Vive
Boulanger!” “A Berlin 1” Another mob
went to the building, occupied by the
Russian embassy, shouting, “ Vive La-
Francel” “ Vive la Russie 1” “ Vive l’al-
liance Russie-Francaise 1” The leaders
of this mob then proposed to their fol
lowers to march to the German embassy,
Place De La Concorde, singing the air,
“Lampions,” to the words of the song,
“Nos Pendules,” but it was stopped by
the police and turned away before it
could reach the German embassy!
DIPLOMATS QUARRELING.
Considerable friction and bad feeling
exists between the United States legation
and Consulate general, at London, Eng.,
the cause being the failure on the part of
the legation to include either the consul
general or his family in the official list
furnished by Mr. Phelps to the lord
chamberlain for court eutertainments.
Mrs. Wallen the wife of the consul gen
eral and her daughters are leaving for
the United States, and will be absent
from London throughout the whole of
the jubilee festivities. It is asserted that
the consul general thoroughly disaproves
of the repeated efforts of Minister Phelps
to throw cold water on the American
exhibition. ...
ABOUT CROPS.
The Western crops summary says: The
conditions in the main have been favor/
able for growing winter wheat. The
condition of spring wheat in Iowa, Minn
esota and Nebraska is reported to be good,
though rains are needed. The acreage in
Iowa promises to be fully as large as last
year, if iHlt Soinewhat larger. The mead
ows in Illinois; Indiana and Ohio are
thin i'.n-l slow in starting. Widespread
injury to clover farms in Illinois is. re
ported; owing to the injury from freezing.
NATIONAL CAMTAL NOTES.
Gossip About tbe President, His Cabinet
and Other Notables.
What Southern Men are Being Recognized—
Interesting Item* About tbe National
Drill, Etc., Etc.
THE NATIONAL DRILL.
There is a good deal of complaint com
ing to the capital from persons who had
E contemplated attending the national drill
over the action of the railroads which
have been offering excursion rates. It
is stated that a low rate has been adver
tised, but when persons go to purchase
tickets they are told that the rate applies
only to parties of twenty-five or more go
ing and coming in a body. Secretary
De Leon will endeavor to correct this
matter at once.
AMENDING THE RULES.
The civil service commission submitted
to the President-certain proposed amend
ments of rule 4, 6, 19 and 21 of the rules
for the regulation and improvement of
executive civil service: All of the pro-
E osed amendments were approved and
ecame-at once effective. These regula
tions will be applied to the war depart
ment, and after they have been tried in
that department, if found satisfactory to
the commission, they will be, applied to
the treasury department, and later to all
Of the other departments of the govern
ment.
WILL EJECT HIM.
F. Fenny and W.-H. Crosby, of the
National Hotel, filed a bill in equity
against Dwight Doolittle to dissolve
partnership and restrain the defendant
from interfering in the management of
the National Hotel. The complainants,
state that they sold Doolittle a third in
terest in the hotel for $20,000 in 1885 on
his representation that he had success
fully conducted a hotel in Norwich,
Conn. , on which his lease had just ex
pired. They charge that the defendant
seriously injured the business of tbe hotel
by his misconduct, quarrelsome temper
and impoliteness to guests.
I THE PRESIDENT’S INTENTION.
■United States Marshal McMahon, of
New York, says: “I had a pleasant chat
with the President and invited him to
attend the meeting of'the Society of the
Army of the Potomac in Saratoga on
June 22. He did not make a direct prom
ise, but gave me to understand that he
would certainly go, if possible. We are
going to build a new Home in California,
m Napa valley, and the President thinks
of going out there with us in September.
In fact, he said he desired to visit all the
Homes, and if he could find time this
,summer or fall.'WOuM make flnJ trip.” —
OUILTT OF BRIBERY.
Uriah Cornell Allen pleaded guilty in
the criminal court to two indictments
charging him with having offered a
bribe of a certificate of stock in the Pratt
manufacturing company, Valued at $500,
to James B, Rogers, an' examiner in .the
patent office, with a view to influencing
nis official action. Judge Hagner Sen -
fenced Allen to pay a fine of $1,500 and
to imprisonment in jail for eighteen days.
DEATH OF BIOGRAPHER
Frank H. Alfriond, assistant libarian
of the Senate, died aged forty-seven
years. The deceased was born in Rich
mond, Va., and for many years was a
prominent politician and journalist. He
was a personal friend of Jefferson Davis,
Secretary Lamar and other eminen t south
erners. Mr. Alfriend was the first bio-
grapli e r of Jefferson Davis.
VISIT OF A QUEEN.
Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, and her
suite, arrived recently. At Baltimore
they were met by-the Hawaiian minister,
Mr. Garter and Sevollen Brown, Capt.
D. M. Taylor, and Lieut. R. P. Rogers,
who were detailed by the 1 state, war and
navy departments tq extend the courte
sies of the government to the distin
guished guests, and were esc irted to
Washington.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The comptroller of the currenoy ha*
authorized the Chattanooga National
bank to begin business with a capital of
$800,000. The debt statement, just ia-
sued, shows tbe decrease of the public
debt during the month of April to be
$13,053,098.75. Decrease of the debt
since June 80th, 1886, $83,965,923.56.
Cash in treasury, $460,105,896.41; gold
certificates outstanding,. $94,434,485;
silver certificates outstanding, $137,740,-
43Q; legal certificates of deposit out
standing, $8,850,000; legal tenders out
standing, $346,681,016; fractional cur
rency (not including amount estimated
as lost or destroyed), $6,948,472,37.
Total interest bearing debt, $1,103,459,-
368.72. Total debt, $1,704,174,957.38^
Net gold in treasury April 30tiP^!f89
$180,902,431 or $,037,416 less than on
March 81st. Circulation of standard
silver dollars April 30th was $155,785,-
205 or $1,066,450- less than March 81st.
Notes,
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a third dividend of ten per cent
in favor of the creditors of the Exchange
National bank, of Norfolk, Va This
makes in all forty per cent on claims
proved, amounting to $2,888,986.
It is reported that Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland, the Presidents sister, will be
come a teacher in a prominent private
sohool for young ladies in New York.
about monuments.
Chinese Gordon is to hare a colossal
bronze statue in Trafalgar square, Lon
don. Yamo Thomycraft is the designer.
He will represent Gordon in a patrol
jacket, unarmed, with, a Bible in his
right hand and his foot resting on a
broken cannon.
John C. Breckinridge is to have a
monument, too. It will be unveiled at
Lexington, Ky., next October,
POISON IN MILK.
The wholesale milk poisoning which
occurred at Long Branch last summer
has conclusively shown for the first
time, that milk warm from the cow, when
placed in tight cans under conditions
which greatly retard the dispersion of its
heat, will Undergo change, with the de
velopment in the course of five hours of a
poison called tyrotjiBtison.
LATEST NJ
John L. Lewis, colored,
a trusted letter carrier for t’
Cincinnati, -0., was caught si
ey letters. He confessed his'guiit.
The crib in Lake Michigan is in a 7?
gerous condition and liable at any md
ment to collapse and cut off the wate:J
supply at Chicago, Ill. The foundations
are exceedingly shaky, and an ordinary’
gale of wind makes the structure rock
like a cradle.
Inconsequence of the refusal of Eu
ropean powers to take part in the Paris
exhibition, the French government will
postpone the opening until 1890, in order
to disassociate the exhibition from the
celebration of the hundredth anniversary
of the Revolution.
Editor McGuire, of the Mercury, o£y:
Quebec, Can., was sentenced to six *
months’ imprisonment and $200 fine for ’’
libeling Mayor Lamglier and his brother, y;
McGuire charged them with having re- p
ceived a large sum of money from a con
tractor-for securing a contract in connec- ■
tion with city work. „
The Western Export Association has
practically ceased to exist, although its “
organization is intact at Chicago. Many,
distilleries refuse to come into the pooh
They, therefore, decided to pay no as
sessments, pay no closed houses for the
coming month and to reduce the price on
whisky from $1,18 per gallon to $1.05,
decreasing the income of the pool $12, -
000 per day or $2,000,000.
The anti-German f eeling is so strong in
Paris that the proposed performance of
Lohengrin has been prohibited.
The Chinese government has ordered
that every foreign missionary must jhoiS|||
a passport from his own government, in
order that his nationality may be shown.
All other passports are,, declared invalid.
United States Marshal Mead has arrest
ed three men charged with robbing^the
express car near Tucson, Ariz. They are
named Barrack, Swain and McCussick.
All three were saloon keepers. . ,^-'-
Rev. Charles W. Ward, the Rngm-
wood, N. J,, rector, recently accused of
attempting to murder his wife, was found^
dead at* the home .of- Judge Drew,, his
counsel, at Rockland Lake, from an over
dose Of Chloral.
Wm. H. Vandefbilt used to return his /
personal property at $1,000,000/ Shortly /
after his death the same property was as
sessed at $10,000,000. The executors ,
offered to pay on $5,000,000 or move out y
of New York. A compromise of $8,000, y||l|||
000 has just been agreed upon.
The storekeeper' of the warehouses
known as Almacons de Deposits at Ha- ,
vanna, Cuba, has disappeared and is i
said to be a defaulter in the sum of
$500,000.
The Glasgow steamship, John Knox, .
laden with liquor, brick and rolling
stock, struck tbe reefs near Channel har
bor, at St. John's, N, B., and sank in
half an hour. Every soul on board per
ished.
The Hounslow gunpowder mills, at .
Hounslow, England, were destroyed by
an explosion, which occurred in the mill
ing room. One man was-killed. Much
damage was done to property ~1w——
neighborhood.
The royal commission at Dublin, Ire
land, for arterial drainage has recom
mended the expenditure by the govern
ment of $1,325,000 in improving the
river Shannon; $325,000 in improving
the Barrow, and $100,000 in improving
the Bann.
Advices from St. Petersburg, Russia,
state that the nihilists set fire to a police
station in that city and that eight police
men perished in the flames, while nine
teen others were more or less injured.
The day following a timber yard was de- :
strayed by fire and several workmen and
firemen were killed ' : - k-" 4
*asjw r H: Borges’s, Catholic^ bishd|L|if
Detroit, has resigned. The resignation ’“Vj
was sent to Rome six weeks ago, and a'
formal acceptance was received. Bishop
Borgess was consecrated bishop April
24th, 1870, and during his seventeen
years, incumbency has had many troubles,
especially with the Poles and French, ’
Before sending in his resignation, the
bishop promulgated a sentence of ex-
communication against all who were con
cerned in the Polish riots in connection
with the Stalbert’s church troubles a year
ago.
Six men escaped from the county jail
at Worcester, Mass., recently. George
A, Barton, who was serving a term for
polygamy, had been trusted to work in
the corridors and cells and had a cell key
during the day. He had a fight with
George French and both of them were
put in solitary confinement,, in which was
also another prisoner. The fight was a
part, of a plot. Three men bv the use of
Barton’s key, which had been concealed
in one of the/solitary cells, opened the.
doors and attacked the grated windows,
pried the bars apart, got into the .yard “i/
and over the fence and made their es
cape.
- Seventy y&chts have been entered for,/
the Jubilee rage in London, Eng., and /
it is probable that more will be added tq
tbe list of competitors before the entritj
m.- /.