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VOLUME IX t-AMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 28. I8!?8\ Np. 8. IPF j, deb. & Mower, of Newberry* Made the Race but Was Defeated, GAGE NO^ CIRCUIT JUDGE, -1(11 tli? Other Circuit Judges Wo* KUctQd-oOther Work of the Gen eral Assembly lit Detail. Bfcorlly efter noon Tuesday, the IQth, tire two honaei of the General Assembly met lu joint aesombly and proceeded to the election of eirouit judges andaqhief justice of the Supreme Court, whiott i suited as follows: Chief Justice? Iver, the present incumbent. Oirojflfc Judge/?~W. C. lionet, first o.irc Aldrioh, second oirouit; O. W. But J an, third oirouit;JR, 0. Wfttte, foAth circuit: Hon. Geo.^w. Gage, sixth/oir* cuit; Jas. C. Klughr eighth oirfuty, Judge Molver received 08 votes t< Mower's 61. i There was a great deal of political log-rolling about the judicial elections* especially in reference tQ the ohier Justioeeh?p' Eftorta were made to get Associate Justice tope, Col. AldrTeh and Senator Henderson to stand for the election, but each declined. Just be fore the eleotion occurred the friends of Senator Geo. 8. "Mowor put htm in the Eosi.tion of a candidate, and they worked ard for him, but it can bo seen by t^b ~ abov^ vote that JuHtioeMoIver received a bia voto above all opposition. ThWo was no ctfhteBt as far as the circufiit judgoaWpa were concerned, the prospective candidates having with drawn bofore thrVote was talcen and the inoumbonts .were ro-cloctcd. m^Below can be found the work of both houses of the General Assembly, in de tirfJr fr<fm day t<^day ; ! thesenate. Monday, 17th. --TheSenate acoepted an invitation to visit Olemson College Wednesday, I^eo'e birthday. - - ^-u The committee on county office* and ' officers reported favorably on Header eon's county government bill, which provided for a return to the old ay stem vi th county commissioners. Broxrn's pill to authorize universities and college^ of this /State to provide a course of etudv and confer the degree of liceutiato of instruction, which shall authorize their graduates to teach in - ih? free publio schools of the State v, iihout eiominatiou, passed its third reading atter considerable debate. The Governor transmitted to the Senate the finding of the court of in quiry into the disturbance between militia and students last summer on the South Carolina college grounds. Hendetson'8 bill "to facilitate and economize tho enforcement of the Ciriin-. iual lav in this State Came up arid was 'debated on pro and con at considerable length. The ayes and nayes were called for^nd resulted in the bill passing to its second reading by a vote of 10 to 14. Tuesday at noon was set apart as the day for %ne election of circuit judges and one chief justice. Among the new bills were: Dennis ? Toihako the drawing of iurprs public. Huddath? To amend seotion 1 of an act pro-fdin* for a new school district in . Edpafleld county and authorizing the levy and collection of a special school -tax therein by exoeption from said frahool distviot the plantations of A. Perry, D. L. Cato, Bonnet and Bortpn. Jeffries ?A joint resolution to require ; thatTiitttrsrs of Torkrflniop and Spar to estabTlsh Cgftrotee county. The following were the third reading . bills: Scarborough? To ampnd revised statute relating to patera of oircuit i judges at chambers/ Douglass ? to amend tri act to provide for. the elec tion j[f ptiblio cotton weigbifs end to l>rovide for their compensaUon. Lan caster. Orancebuhtf Oconee, Florence, Lexington and Abbeville asked to be excepted from the operations of the bill. Dennis --To devolve the duties of the m aster of Berkeley county upon the olerk of the court of common pleas. ? Tvvcbxt, 18th.? Ths extension of tb* time for payment of taxes to Feb. 20. and the introduction of a wide lire bill by Mr,_rGainaa wnre the feattufet of cue session of the Senate^hifth was neoeesarity short on account of having to meek at 12 m. in joint session with ;the UOttse for the purpose of electing s justice and judges. Immediately this duty was performed th? j adjourned uoti}13?; Thursday, e Governor notified ths Senate that came the.duty of the Legislature to elect a Comptroller-General rice Congressman Norton, resigned. He an nounced his appointment of Mr. Epion to that position. ^ The Governor also transmitted [oriel o*f Vrrumber af prominent ?lestOn gUtlsmen in relation ir xwara mcuraaya nmorr oi lelwa sndvsaoMssena?d iU on tu these vcrda: "Ibe. speak tot this all important imblie approbation suggested by the Ia addition to this a determined flglv { was m&dp 4g$in#t tho oitenslon of tbi , Urni for the payment of taxes, bu' ? whon it Ir'as put to a yae.and nay to to, it rgaulUrt;, *oas. lfljuayaifcX The, bill > to provide for a banking (4ucl insurauci CommiB?ioner w m killed. The threo liquor bills which won ; carried over from last y? jar oamo U| | under special order and were being ; debated wbeu, at tho suggestion o| ' Mr. Moses, they wore made the apecia! i order for next Tbufaday, awaiting suet ; liquor measures a? may oomo ova from the House. The object is to dia- J ousa tb# wbolo Question at th< j tAme time. / ? Thft House /bnouneot rosoluiion fix i ihg nett WMue'adny for the election o: aoompUoUer general, twO members o? ; tbo Statj^Soard of control and two di tho pduitontiary wai i to. he Senate concurred in tho Houm ; resolution urging tho Bouth Carollni j representatives In Congress to socun the passage of a bill leaviug the regu lotion of th$ liquor tiatllo to eaol State. ? This passed a third readiug: Mr.* Suddath? -A joint resolution t< reqnlre tbe oounty treasurer of Edge field county to pay over to the countj I treasurer of Saluda oounty certaii school funds and to authorize tin school officer of Saluda county to ap portion lud check Dut same, FmnAYj Slsx.? Mi\ Ragsdale'fi bill t( pre^W unjust discrimination again* the wizens of this Stato by railroac J rfomflh^feB with respect to tho oneratioi ' <%ud sohedulo of passenger trains, whic) was carried over from last seasiou.oami up in the Senate far' 'consideration un der special orde?>Cnd after considerable debate was pasawl to a second reading The measure provides that whou rail road companies operate fa9t veatibub trains for outsido travel which do no* atop at- every station in this State, th? said railroad com pi nrcs shall also pro vide for domestic travel la* operating local passenger trains b6 scheduled tha as far a* practicable they shall pass ov ery station each way between ,jtho houri of 7 a. ro. and 7 p. m. and shall stop a evory station for a time sufficient to le off and take on passengers;- A penalty of $100 attaches for eaon violation of th? law. . Henderson's bill to prevent traveling medicine vendors from plying their vo cation was defeated when it came y^pfoi a second reading. o> '^'"A . Buist's primary election law Dill cam* up fpr considerij&pn, but- was made i speolal order fcfrytf onday. Tbe bill to reqtire all the parents oi guardians to cotbpel their ohildren oi wardsH^jjtleod souool for eight weeki in eaoh year passed a third reading.' *. Tha Senate held its first night ses sion. Aldrich, of Barnwell,, made e ringing speech in favor of reform in tht jury system of this State. Aldrich, among other things, said, with great earnestness, that the long lis^ of liomi ciaes in thin State was not due to th< pistol, to whiskey, to lack of power ir judges to charge furies as to fact, bu> in tbe jury box. * Put roen of cbaraotei and those having a solemn roalizatioi of their duties on juriesTandj homicidei would bedtime fewer. . The only way t< do ibie would be to hare men expectihf no publio favor for jury commission ers. These two bills were killed; Sud dath? To amend act to provide for th< establishment of a new school distric in Edgefield oounty by excepting fron said school district tbe plantations oi E. A. Perry, D. S. Cato, ? Benet $n< ? Burton; Griffith? Making it -unlaw ful to endeavor to influence tba finding of jurors, and prvoiding a penalty foi violationa of this eel There ware a large batch of bills t< pass their eecond reading, most oft local character, after which the Senat< adjourned to meet at 12 m. Monday. THE HOUSE. Moctuy, llru> ? TheHousa ?ccer>tec an invitation to visit Glemson College Wednesday, Loe'e birthday. La?* cas ter's iHfcminating oil itwpeotion bill and Pattbn's street paring bill vara^amoDi /the meaeuraa that parsed to a thirc reading. So JTAfl A%feill repealing th? act requiriug rettnbi fr6ifi taxation from merchants. A number of new bill* ware intrpduoed daring the day. one oJ them being1 * bill to regulate taxation oJ doga in aia of the eohool fund and an other being Livingston's important measure changing the system of taxa tion upon telegraph, telephone, Ex press, sleeping car and kindred com padiea. . Bills sent to the Senate: The bill making the act relating to liens on landi and buildings for labor and material applicable to railroads; the bill to amend ihe dispensary law so as to pre-, vent the location of distilleries withio two miles of any church or public school; the bill t/require the super visoi or oounty crftomiseioners of Aiken oouoty to prjjfride f or tha dieting and roaintenance^of the inmate* of the coun ty poor hope and prisoner# confined io tha oouafy jail, and for prisoners at work 'Upon county ohaingang: the bill to amend section 131 {&466) of criminal oode of the. revised atatutee relat ing to attempt to poison; tha bill to ap* mrova the action of the town eounoil ol the town of Greenwood in the matter ot ! the contractor the erection of e-txrort house and jail foi*tho oounty of Green* wood; and to declare the bonds issued in pursuance of said contract a valid ,dabt of the towft.of Greenwood. The concurrent resolution, fixin* Feb. 19 as the day for adjourn mani : etna d^wae made the special oruar To* j ._fe5lr?, wee -ordered to a j and paviug of tlie sireetsi pttbhowaii ! and dllfeys of ?fitiod of tuis HUtd of 10;: I 000 inhabitants and upwards; to aniCni the act relating to tho pflWieatUm oJ j supervisors' reports ; to (tmend thr ootiu- . tyjrovovnment act in amotions 4 ami 27. ' ? Tq<* ioliowing wejre among tho com* j mittee reports unfavorable:. BUll tqw^: vido for an additional magistrate at cj near Treuton; bill to require the trees- ; urer of Edaeilold to turA over to the treo3uror or Greonwood eortain school fuuds; bill to after tho couuty line# oJ ; Greenwood by including tho counties t of Abbeville and ,M Tho Governor rent ft tnofcea&o to the , House CHlling attention to G6ttv^?; < Cradj's History of Koatli Carolina sua endorsing the work. On taction of Mirctaolt it tffts ieferrVJ to tho commit tco on education. The Governor also sent a message calling the attention Oi j the body to the fact that it had to elect i a Comptroller-Goneral at tbii)' session. | Thuksdav, 20lif.'~Mr. Winkler in- j troduced a concurrent Resolution in the j house giving an expression of opiuiou in the preamble, and calling upon the South Oaroliua delegation itt Congresa to urge the passage of tli& Tilltban dis pensary measure now pending 1$ tb$ Unitecl 8tates 8euate. The resolution was adopted without a word of dis cusHion. ^ , The resolution asking Mr. Barber, theattorney general, to prepare a llquo* bill was withdrawn. Next Wednesday wns fixod as the day for the election <>| a comptroller-general, two member of the State llonM of Control and two directors of " tbe penitentiary Th? memorial from tho Stato Good wloads Convention was presented audarrauge meats were marlo for the delegation from the convention to wait on the join! committee ffoni tho two houses. The tight of the day was over Mr. d? Loach's bill to put telegraph and ex press coin pauies under- the control '61 tho State railroad commission. It wa? amended so as to include telephone companies, and pnssod by a decisive toto. Mr. Reynolds' bill to reorganize tho engrossing department met it* death. . The arbor day bill passed. Mr. Robinson introduced a bill to re peal thfi^anti-free pass aot. Mr. Rey nolds has a new bill to- provide for sessions of the Supreme Conr.t once a month for nine months out of every ye#?. Mr. Rainsford, in a bill he pre sented, wishes to repeal tha act pro viding for the payment of township bonds feaudd in aid of railroads in the State. Friday, 21st. ? The most important matter to'develop in the house was the question of the public printing. After statements from Mr. Kinard, the chair man of the committee on printing, and Mr. Ely the, of the com mit tee, relative to the recent appointment of the eon of the former pablto printeiy Mr. Charles A. Calvo, Mr. Crum, later in the day, of fered a concurrent resolution providing for tho election of a publio^jwrter on Tuesday next, which was at once adopted. Duribg the day Mr. Ramsford s bill looking to a constitutional amendment providing for the election of judge* by the people was exhaustively debated and tben killed. A large number of bills, local in oharacter were ordfredto a third reading. Th$ prohibition bill, at the request of the author, was mads the spepiat order from day to day until disposed of. Mr. Sinkler's bill to do away with the death penalty for arson was killed. The house ran through its calendar pretty well sind there was no necessity for a night session. The following were given a second reading and ordered sent to the Senate: de Loaoh's bill to put express, tele graph and telephone companies under tbferailroad commission. Kibler's bill 1 to require tb*&ee publio schools to ob serve Arbor ?sy< tinkler's bill to do away with the death penalty for arson was Indefinitely postponed. The Senate sent a message saying it had killed the insurance oommis^ -rirtV' Wir ? " ?Harvey's bill to require the killing of sheep-killing dogs was tossed. Satukda*, 22d. ?The feature of the session of tbe faouee*>we* -the introduc tion of ? bili-by Pollock,1 of Chester field, looking to the control of original package agent's and agencies. The bill puts dispensers ant <J. P. agents on a footing and requires the agencies to give up 30 per cent, of their gross prof* its. W. S. Smith made a strong fight pn his bill to repeal the metropolian po lice act, whioh he characterised as most od noxious and contrary to the rights of self-government Wiokler took ihe po sition that itwaetffitfibk books merely io seuui s ^better enfoy6#ment and ob servance m law. On a roll call the bill was killed W a rote of 61 to W. 1 The bill to regulaU bu tiding ?frdl<?n MSO "ciations was discussed a while And then, the debate was odjournedTv*MeCul - lough's bill requiring notes and mort gages to be listed for taxation was dis cussed at length and then killed by ? Vote of 46 to 4#- -V A Great Authority on XvroltHlon. - ' There Is a sketch of "A "a peat Kgj:tt rattst,4' tbe late'ISdward- Drinker Cope, |n the Century. It (ft written by Henry Fairfield Osbo.ro. Prof. Osborn say*: His pioneer exploration came ear]/- UP] the age of Darwinism, when missing 1 links, not only In tbe human ancestry, but In tbe greater chain pf backboned (animals, were at the. highest premium, thus he waa fortunate in recocting the Clscotery ItL northwestern Kew Mexico of by far tbs oldest quadrupeds known, in flndjUig^jamoog tbese tbe most t?h era fcflf monkey, in describing to. World hundreds of links? In I between *TOtp,, IN A PARAGRAPH, I J Oe South. Atlanta i? preparing to colobrrta M Jtfay 5 and G ltd flomi-centeuuiul. Pulton Jfenderso'iy, colored. died in Kingdom. N, U, iu towlblo tfgouy from j hydrophobia. liegutald tHKoven ie eoriously 111 at Aiken, S. 0., haviug tfsdotgoiid a sur gical operation. 1 Tho Norfolk, Va., trucking season lma boon delayed by frost auu thcro is a boarcjtv of 6piuaeh At Marion. B. 0., ft negro Phot ami killed bis sweetheart because eho re fused to go to Georg;* with birn. ? C\ At GflttSttiOii, & leAdibe marebftnt of Mot) t gainer*. Ala , swallowod on?i ounce of caibolto acid and died from its effects. - Clarence ? Bartlett. aged 1?, has strangely disappeared froru the homo, in Norfolk, Va. , of his uncle, a wealthy contractor. Thore i? much aotivity at the Norfolk navy yard and a hundred Won havo returned to work in the construction department. Judge Thos. Itenrv Ilines, ei-ohiel justice of tho oourt of appeals aud ons of tbe most distinguished oitizons of Kentucky, is dead. Mr. Alfred Tucker, of Cabarrus coun ty, (N. C.) together with two associate*, has Slaughtered 1,600 rabbits siuce tho [ beginning of tbe soason. Mrs. Anita McKee, of Jaekeon, MiAn. , htti asked President MoKinlev to ap point bo* Collector of Internal Ksvenuo at New Orleans, Lrt. Dr. Tydemau, a distinguished re tired physioian of Knoxville, Tenn., who was woll known for his deeds of charity and beuovolenoo, died in Co lumbia, S. C. Tbo result of tho first ballot in the Tennessee Legislature for a Unitod State Senator resulted as follows; Mo Millfui 30, Turley 80, Taylor 10, It re quires 45 to nominate. Dr. O. B. Heimark, of Eagleville, Tenn., has been arrested, charged with grave robbery. Threats of lynching was. wade ana be was taken to Nash ville for safe keeping. Tbe Liberty Woolen Mills, at Bedford City, Va. , which has been idle for somo time, has boen purchased by New York and Philadelphia parties, and it is stated, will start it up at onco. Ono of the largest warehouses of Old Hurricaue Springs distillery, near Tul laboma. Tenn., has been destroyed* by fire. Noarli; ono thousand barrols^of whiskey worb also burned. Low about $75,000. Tho total number of smallpox caeca in Greenville, so says a statement in the Columbia State, signedyky O. C. Jones, chairman board of healxu, nurn bors 27; deaths 1, The statement elso says there is no danger now, as they havo tho disease under control. The Nortb. A mock trial by boys, ending in a hanging, ai Turner's Falls, Mass. , Al most coat Harry Jackson his life. A teacher at Matteawan, N. Y. , dis sected a xjat in the schoolroom and the cruolty^Booioty may prosecute her. The Lorrriine, (O. ) ohamber of coip merce will otter the government a free site for an armor plant on i>l&ck river, Although ho has fallen heir to ? fortune of 070,000, Policeman Delraar S. Gardner will remain on the New York force. ' Master Car Builders' and Masiei Mechanics' Association of the United States will convene at Saratoga, N. Y. , in June next John Mosher, of Fishkill, Y., drove three miles beeide a corp*o, not knowing that his companion, had died on the journey. -7~AlT eHorFwin bo made by Ihe New York Senate to find out what became of be 80.000,000 appropriated for improving the Erie Canal. "" Adlai E.. Stevenson, former Yioe* President of the United States, has accepted the position of Western coun sel of the North American Trust Com pany of New York, With a membership * in toe board of directors.,; Qn February 1st 114 looms in the Manchester (N. H.,) Cotton Mills will be slopped for an indefinite time. The cause assigned is the falling off in ths demand for print goods. There will also be a reduction of about id per cent, in wagftv, affecting afeont 80 per cent of *h? employ, on January 24th. J' MllCflUSiWH. The t^ondon engineers hava agreed to return to wcrk. * At Hot Springs, Ark., Jaok? Ever hasdt knocked out Eddie Donnelly >h the sixth round. General John M. Sohofleld thinks it would be a grave blunder not to annex the Hawaiian -Islands. The county of Lancashire, England, has 1,700 firme encaged in the cotton business, with- 79, 000,000 spindles. 'Dick Brandt, the supposed train rob ber and murderer, was among a dozen prisoners who broke jail at Benton ville, W-'"-" ? ?r:- " The stomachs of Conrad Beck, in St. Louis, and Mrs. E. Bestian, in Mil Gen, Eaton Sees in the Religion of . Joseph Smith a ? 4...? MENACE TO OUR INSTITUTION!), ' 05,000 Converts ftffCh Your, a Num ber Almost tucrcdlble, llealttco tto Nominal Members of 300,000. The Philadelphia (Pa.) Times says Ocn. Jobu Katou, of Washington, : D. C. / delivered a lecture, at Associa tion Hall, uiulef tho auspice* of tho ' Evaugolioal Alliance. He fools for lilt subject, " J he Mormons and tho Way to Suppress Them. " Ho said: "The ft^bject which I havo cho6eu tn*y seem an uunecesaary one, but the daugers it 1 threatens make its consideration most j important. Apcordiug to tho oftloial | accounts from the Mormoti Propaganda it lately received 05,000 converts tfaotl I ear? a number almost incredible. It us beside its nominal mombers 1500,000 : regular con^nunicants. "Tho Mormons, thouKh essentially ! the same as formerly, do not carry out , tho old plan of conversion. Thoy now . visit the houses of persons in pairs, and ; aro very similar iu thoir methods to the j followers 4>f Moody. They present a card on gaining admittance and pro ceed to enumoruto the articles of faith, I which, as they are written, do notBoom so extravagaut. They aro careful not to givo offence, And, having wou favor, can obtain * satisfactory hearing, Their hearcre, finding no objection to thoir mild, religious statements, be come less horrified, oftentimes becom ing member a of the Mormon Churoh in* spito of its atrooities. "The Mormon faith in itself is to be dreadod, but the probability of ite nn healthful influence is still worso, The State of Utah, though admitted into the Union by promising to abandon polyg , any, is now governed by ihe follow era of Smith, ana as their religion is uni-? regally adopted tho State will make no lews to destroy it But tho danger does ustoqAso here. Tho State of Utah has ihe rifjht to sond Wo Seuators to Wash ington. Two Mormons are, therefore, living at the Capital with their wives and admitted into our most roapeotable American aooioty. The danger of this is obvious. Moro than once social in tercourse has resulted in the ultimate oonrorsion of Christians to Mormonism. Many who have eottled or visited Utah began to worship iu thoso pagaD ohurohes becauso it was stylish to b? Mormons in that country, and ^hoir ruination eoon followed. "Another danger resulting in tho power of Mormonien in Utah In its po litical strength. Even now nothing conld be done in the Senate against it without being strongly opposed by the two Senators jnst mentioned. In the State itsejf no one but a Mormon will be received favorably. It is beyond doubt that Mormonism is spreading. They have reoently establish od two headquarters in Mississippi, one in Athens, Ala, ; one in Tennessee, and several in New York. New Jorsey and other localities near by. Evon our own State contains many Mormon con verts. They are now ereoting schools, academies and even universities to spread their infamous doctrixte. " Wife Murderer Hanged Edward Shannon, the wif^mur dorer, has been sentenced to be hangod on Fobruary Uth^. at Wlicatcm. 111. , by Judge Willis. jJJhannon is over 70 years old. 'He showed little emotion wjjou sentenced. Asked if he had any tniag to say* lie tremblingly rose and feebly, told .Vow he had sated the life of State's Attorney Wright, when he was a boy. This was the only plea fco mad ? for mercy. ~ J License Tax Regulation. The Virginia Senate passed the House bill to make it unlawful for *ny lawyer, physician, surgeon, dentist, oi any other person engaged in a profes sion or oalling, taxed by the laws o I this State, who has h;? residence in this Stftte, to practice hia profession in any oonnty or city of this Common* wealth under a license-tax from any other State or the yistriot of Colum bia. Flood In the Ohio. Laat wMk * terrible flood raged in 1 the Ohio rirtr, causing great damage to property. T. 8. Crow, a laltiman of North Vernon, Indiana, was drowned near French Lick, while trying to ford a swollen etresm. A farmer named Prury and hi* father were drowned while trying to ford the Cumberland riTer. The bodies were recovered three mileabel^w. ?'With a Pistol. Jafek Caldwell, a prominfftk and pop ular young farmer of M?okIiftbnr| oonnty. N. C.f ahot and instantly kill* ed himself in the room of ? friend with J whom ha- had spent the sight. Hia paind had been affected for some time. The itrfke la"SeW Ragfaad. T.". The first weak of the *otlen operatf-rea' | atrika to Mew flloaaa With tl firmly maintaiaiag th?ir ?e poeHtoaa." > UltAObTKKKT'S UBl'dllT' Activity in Hostnesa uuvl Iudustrt* Lines t?OTj'?*olly Kt'poffoil. Bradstreot's report, for past w?ok i nays: A laitfe uioa*urU <tf so li vity iu business ami industrial liuo9, In aoiuo instances, with previous records lurpaaaoJ, aud .vory gouo^nl steadiueae In ptlcoaof staplos, is perhaps the most nottfbl* feature of tbo trano situation this wook. Quotations of cereals show J the most aggroBsita slreugtn, vhilo those of souie mskosof pig betray rat Vr "*oro decided weakness that: they did a wee- ago. Mild weather is fro H'lontty montioritfd ** an iuflueuco to chock retail distribution ,<?>! soasouable Roods, ohieijy beoauso of tho fcffest on ooUCttry roads. Spring trado openj slowly, as nsual at this time of the year, put confldjtfce is still uu\m paired. The i.ujinstrial situation with the sin* gifl oloeption of tho cottou ifidustry > * one of oSiCMtojipl stioufltb. As y?S tho strikes in thiil brauolLof trade aro largely confined to MflMchusotto. ^Jon's wear woolens are moving fairly well. Ai tha Wast, distributive trade is slowly improving while at tho South a fair January tiade fsportod, par ticularly iu the Mississippi yalley. Good returns ffrom last year's l\ouM* 1 auu Biigar wep And expression iu high pricoa for sugar lands. The good re port from ootton precludes too heavy accumulation at primary points in spite of tho crop movemout. Mild weather in the Northwest affects the trade to somo extent. A poiut of in terest, however, is tho report that fur goods manufacturers usually shut down at this season, aro running full time on Alaskan t/rders. Business is Aotiva on the i'acitlo cofl<t*; California crop prospects have been improved 'by tho renmnt rains,' and shio and boat building is Tery active along I'uget Bound and at Portland. Quite a shrinkage in cflreal roporta are iudioatod by reports to lirad "flreot's this week. The total ship ments of wheat, Hour included, from tlio United States and Oauada, amounted to only 11,1)25,000 bushels agaiu&t 5,220,000 last week; 9,010,000 bushels in this weok a year ago; 8, 849. - 000 bushols in 1800, and 2,840,000 nusa els iu the tbiid week of January, 1805. Indian corn exports show a heavy fall ing oft*, amounting to ouly 0,480,000 buihols this wook, hgainst 4,401,000 bushels last week; 0.62U, 000 last year . and H, 102,000 bushola in the correspond ing woekof J800. A further falling off on tho numbor of btiaiiygas failures is roported in the Untied States this wook, the total being only ?00, ngainst\52;t last week; 129 this week a year ago; lil t in the week of 1890 ; 812 in 1805 and 008 in 1804. The figures in the Dominion of (Jauada ihow a I further falling off, amounting this week to only 40 against last week; 67 in iWl] 52 in and 48 iu 1804, but flightly exceeding thoae of 1805, which pumbor 08. ? VtKV. DR. TALMAC1K M^KRIKD. Mrs. Klenoro BlcCuteheon Collier, of X'ittaburA, tlio llrlde. Kcv. T. DoWitt To Ira ace, tbe noted divine, at Washington, and Mrs. Elon fo McCutoboon Collier, of Alleghany ty, Pa., were unitod in marriage on o 22d, at ihe HoCutcheon residence, No. 47 Jrwin. avenue. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. J. Robinson, J). pastor of the First United Pres by tei y*n Church . The weddilVg.whioli rnmo as a great surprise to the many Iricnds of thd couple, was. on account of tbe rocont death in the family, an ex tremely qiurtt nfl'air . Mrs. '1*1 tunge i? the daughter pf tbe lato James M. MoOtttcheon, of the big iron $rm of Lindsay A McCqtcbepji. Who was the Widow bf Obas. w. Collier, onlt eon of .Ttulsre P. H. Collier, She is 4') years old whilo her hnstymd is GO. The i>rosont Mrs. Taltnage is the rev trend gentleman's third wife, hie sec ond wife having dtod eoveral years ago. A Hevcrcnd Korger Saws Out of Jail. ltcv. Le&ho Cook, who has been con-v fined .in the Roanoke (Va. )' city jail, undor an indictment for forgery, tawed out andtaade good hia escape. ? The speoikl case on whioh he waa indicted involved, a check purporting to have beon signed by T. W. Wood A Son, of Richmond, and which Cook had cashed , during the meeting of ihe Baptist As sociation in Roanoke eotna months ago. He held a pastorate in Roanoke -for a short time. Cook is wanted in oilier places on similar charge*. Fatal Collision. Train No, 87, of the Atlantio Coast Line, from New York to. Florida, and train No. 62, local, from Charleston^ collided 80 miles west of Charleston. Two men were killed and a number injured. The collision was caused , by a confusion of orders. Since the above was written another of the ininred has died, making the total doaths three. The State Railroad Commission aays no wreck woald have occurred if oxdera had been carried out. Military Burial for ? Vrteran Mule. At Blum, Tec , military ceremonies were b#Jd at the burial of an old Cot * federate army male, which belonged to A. McCullough. The veteran beat! was 42 year* of age. Ita owner need it as a'caratry mount all through the war, and tn recent years exhibited Tt many soldi*?' reaafsaa. . kl??a ir itei f ltti aBWK* ' Nil IV UKUbANP Al'^UElIENSiy^t. Arrangements Hetn# Made In Diadem ford tor nerving Mtrihe Rations. Boston, (Special).? The ?uw total of the new features iu the j?jroKianuje of She textile troubles i* Iho shutting down of the Cabot Mill at Brunswick, Mq. , because of the desertion of holpiu 'sympathy with the striking weaver^ nod the auuouuciMiieut that a ?mall julll of the Social Manufacturing Com pany, at Woouaooket, It. 1., would be iihut down for p f* w days for lack of orders. But the mill trouble*, evident' if, are uot to be corrttned to HMtt TfftttBHi' for (he ?ido issuo brought up by labor legislation iu the Mauraohudetts Le^ ia< luturo. It will be remembered that tho Ark wright Club, iu reoommondiQg a cut iu wage*, laid stress upon tho compo tition of Southern mills. The club further urgod tb?i rupeal of thdfvfe etrictive measure* Ji\ force in Massa chusetts. ff ' >Vith the fl?St -inkling of an utieihpt to carry onl tuis recommendation la bor reprenentativeH in tuo House iu* troduced bill# for new legislation, for a 05-hour week, no ovortiiue for women and children, uud to investigate .the present textile situation, Along the line of battle from Now Bedford, Mavs., to Bewiston, Me., there was nbsolut? quietude. The btalo board of arbitra tion has sent Member Burry to the former place to seo if tho sVikera would not abandon tho lining issue, but t ho i outcome of hie errand is not known. In Fall Hirer the discontent, although entirely beneath the surface, isgrowing and tho mill officials know it and era apprehensive. Tho ovidenoo of stub bornness of the operatives iu defending their position is shown iu Biddefoni, Me?, where arrangements for serving i etrike rations of soup and food are be iuniUflde. There thq citizens, ovon to Chinese Ianndrymcn, aro contributing .money and societies aro offering ftid jihe strike may assume aouto ooudUiqns there sooner than at any other plaoe. judging from local indications. At Biddeford, Me. , an effort will bo ?made by tho officials of tho Pepporell and Laeonia Cloth Mills tostart and alt toxtile workers who desire to return to work under the 10 poP cont. cut can do so. The union men are almost positive that not enough will go buck to start nbo mills, < BIG COMPANY IN CORPORA TBI?. It Is to Do Itusfuese In Virginia anil the Rfj^ubHc of Venezuela. Mr, Wiokham has introduced a jbiJL in the Virginia Legislature to incor porate tho American Development Compamy of the United States, The act authorizes tho company to pur chase, own, cell, rent, lease, etc., any real, poraonal or mixed property in South America, and more especially to buy. lease, sell, rent, operate and gen^ erally to own and develop any eonefca sion, grant or franchisor street rail ways, bonded warehouse, catlle-paok ing, oold*Mj?ing, and shipping, rail roads, telegraph and telephone -lines; and to establish, operate, own, perpetu ate and generally to work, or oatue to be worked operated, mines, mills, fac tories , furnace*, electric plants, ?to,y ih the repnblie of Venezuela. In tbeStato of Virginia and in Venezuela the com I panv shall have power to do ft general banking business. The capital stock la | to be uot leee than $1,000,000, and may j be increased to 82(5, 000, 000. It i* said I the oorporatora have ample financial j baoking. ? The Greatest 'or ISarbeones.' The National Btook Q rowers' Cob baadjfla? which has been meeiinyafc Denver, Col. , baa prepared the inoit astonishing barbeone on record. That^ affair will oome off on the 27th, and the nieryi will consist of eight leaves, fotir buflalo, six elk. ten antelope, Ion r bearaji fatty aheop, ten pigs, two huudred opossum, tea barrels of pieklefe, baU o ton of oheese, forty barrels of awaat potatoes, three thousand loaves of1 bread and four hundred kegs, of j^eer. Fpr Federal Control of Quarantine, ;* Senator Vest, from the committee oa quarantine and public health, has re* ported a substitute- for Henator Coffrey'e bill providing regnl&tiona-fo* qu*rka*? tine. The bill as reported practically! places the control of all matters per/ala tng to the. quarantine eJFvlce *a th\ control of the Federal government. \ wui-fitar -tir- th9 tre*Ate.i Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, will not leave the Senate to Wtevpt ffiei fudgeehlp now vacant in hie State, the Washington Post. A dispatch from North Carolina ^ad suggested bun as the probable appointee. Killed by Gas Kxploslos. Forty persona were killed and eighteen injured by an explosiob of gas in on$ or the tnines of the I>onct' aaer Company, iir tliar~T*gsnfO|fUIs^ trict of Russia. ? . '