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a % THE 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.- /.