The McCormick news. (McCormick, S.C.) 1887-1894, March 29, 1887, Image 1
C“
VOL. I.
McCORMICK, S. C„ THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1888.
Stdtistifcs show that there afe 182,690 j T'r’tll) | n | 1? pypF f Y\TT7
chdrchcs, 92;000 fMflfsters ? and 19;000;- | IJ^lUilDUi v 1 VjLUit Ju
000 members in the United State!
Leading British military authorities say
that England's war resources are not
sufficient to withstand attack from for
eign foes.
springs tsro b king tar
Gilt F OF MUX ICO.
THE
<* tfu&
aroc nn d
The Dakota farmers who have survived
the blizzard are happy in the thought | to place in a in muer at once fre#ildcring
CRedvd By a YViud, That Deals Hi
Death Might aiid Loft.
The receflt gtorftj Which swept over
Georgia was dipped afwttrtd ffotti place
that the
fall will
atari. '•
moisture from the heavy snow
give the early wheat a good
Mr. Froude, the English historian, in
a recent ^ork asserts that the retrogres
sion of Jamaica and other British pos
sessions in the West Indies" has been so
rapid that the Government -*ia .seriously i it to part i;Ao two columns. One of these
fcsked to govern these pftcea by eottmis- fdBWffrMi H£ " ' l '"'
• 4 I va ley, an;
and sensational. From the fatal Visit id
Lumber City to the house-smashing in Cal
houn was a long distance, but the coun
try between was pretty well spotted with
smaller wrecks. The storm seems to have
blown up ffbm the Gulf, that fruitlul
nest of tornadoes, and, upon striking the
western border of Georgia, to hai 6 come
in collision with something winch cause 1
Sibri.
A scientist claims that the bituminous
coal field known a* the Pittsburg is
practically inexhaustible, according to
the exploration. There are 10,000,000
bushels of coal in the barges at Pittsburg
ftwiliting transportation as soon as the
rivers are navigable to the south and
Westward.
Tennessi
its wi
its fata?
the state
Game Warden Collins, of Connecticut,
comes to the defence of owls and hawks
by saying that the examination of over
200 specimens of these birds by miscro-
scopists proves that they live on small
birds, frogs, snakes, mice and grasshop
pers. The “small birds” are mostly
sparrows, and very few game birds are
eaten.
There is a marked decrease of mar-
•riages in England and Wales. In 1853
the number of persons married was at
tho rate of 17.9 per 1,000 of the popula
tion. This was the highest rate since
1838. In 1882 the ratio had dropped to
15.5, and from that period there has
been a continual decline, last year show
ing a ratio as low os 14.1, compared with
14.4 in 1885.
Francis La Flescho, of the Omaha
tribe, who is employed in the Bureau ol
Indian Affairs at Washington, is the
brother of .Inshta Theamba, and is three-
fourths, not full-blood or even half-
breed, Indian. Ia Flesche was edu
cated at the mission school of an Indian
agency in Nebraska, and was appointed
-Jty. Secretary Kirkwood^ to a placi
Indian Bureau. He has made an
clerk. On several occasions he has
as interpreter between his people and
government officers, and has also been
sent on several missions to his tribe.
An example of deterioration in values
is shown in the sale of the Great East
era for less than $100,009. * The origin
nalcoT of the vessel, was three and a
half million dollars, but she was a gigan
tic failure from the start. The building
of this ship, however, was of value in
demonstrating that there was a limit in
steamships in the direction of size. She
has been of use also in the laying of the
Atlantic (ablcs. While those who in
vested their money in building this ship
lost heavily in the venture^ they can
console themselves with the fact that
their loss was not altogether in vain.
Authentic estimates of the peace effect
ives stationed in the frontier provinces
of Austria, Russia and Germany show
that Russia has 815,500 men, with 689
field-guns; Austria, 38,000 men, with
ISO field guns; and Germany 98,200
men and 883 field guns. A comparison
of the military situation on the Russian
side of the frontier with that on the
German side, taking the forces within
territories of about equal area, shows
that the Russians within 119,311 square
kilometers b ave 123,275 men, 24,198
horses and 2,711 guns of all kinds, while
the Germans, within 119,456 square
kilometers, have only 81,714 men,
14,520 horses and 238 guns.
The cityof Mexico is madly devoting
itself to gorgeous spectacles, in which
the central a^ract.on is bull-fighting.
Sunday ia tho ehief festival day for this
sort of thing, and half a dozen “rings”
attract multitides. Saleri, a Spanish
bull-fighter, noted in his own country
for daring deeds, was impoited by Mex
ican enterprise to add zest to the Sab
bath circuses. He was “famous” chiefly
for that particularly reckless accomplish
ment which consists in infuriating the
wild beast and then evading its onslaught
by nimbly leaping over its head. His
first experiment at an introduction of
this into the Mexican Sabbath programme
resulted in his being gored to death.
"the Chattahoochee
across Calhoun into
e it went careening on
action. The other, after
in Lumber City, crossed
South and Nortfi Carolina,
and spent its force on the Atlantic. Con
sidering the extent of the disturbance,
:he fatalities were very few.
The day was the most beautiful one
of the Spring. It was perfect Spring
day, and wheu the sun went down there
was no indication of the storm, which
was then hanging over the country, and
the people with no thought of the dan
gers to which they were to be subjected
before another day came, sought their
homes. Tho disturbance commenced
about half past ten o’clock at night.
Then tho lightning began to flash. At
first, the flashes were at irregular inter
vals and were followed by loud rumbling
far away thunder, but. in a short time the
lightning became brighter and more rap
id, and the thunder louder, more dis
tinct and nearer. Finally, the flashes
became one continuous flame, and the
(hunder kept pace with it. So bright
and continuous were the flashes that any
portion of the country could be plainly
seen almost constantly by-those who were
up. Just as the electrical display was
most intense, rain began falling. At first
it came steadily in large drops, but in a
minute a perfect deluge ensued. Then
with the rain came the wind; it was in
tense/ It moved along only as a cyclone
caa move, and with it houses, barns,
fences and timber want down. It roared
and moaned and went by like a flash.
For ten minutes it continued, and then a
calm ensued. The wind moved from the
west to the ea9t, and went along with a
roll and dip, howling, whistling and
singing, until everybody was aroused.
Its velocity was intense, and houses
waved and rocked upon their foundations
until people, in many cases, fearing tint
their dwelling would go over, ran out
Reens & Malone, J. *L Horlan & Co.,
County Courthouse, Hue Foster,
Mrs. E. J. Simmons, E. J. Kicker, M. E.
Ellis, Daniel Ellis, T. M. Ellis, Samuel
Pullaln, O. N. Stow, A. W. Reeirt, I.
M. Ballou, J. M. Neal, Ferguson & Rob
ertson, H, F. Ferguson, Mrs. Norcissus,
Dr. J. JJ. Malone,N. J. Booz, B. G.Booz.
ThfW ^eavs ago there was a half-witted
colored girf iiTtlie place who professed
to be able to read into the future. She
would go up the side of the hill and stay
there alone hours at a time. One after-
fltterfi she came back very much excited
and told Several people that sho had secu
a strange fifghtt that something had
come to her and tfffd her that Calhoun
was to be destroyed by n cyclone, March
the 20th, 1888. She was -o ttjrqest, that
somebody wrote up the iucideilf, £nd it
She missed it only pne
the members of his fa mily were seriomly
injured. The bacon from Worley’s smoke
house was blown two i uiles away. The
storm was very severe along the Tennes
see river. .
SOUTHERN GOSSIP.
BOILED DOWN FACTS AND FAN
CIES INTERESTINGLY STATED.
NO. 25.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CONGRESSIONAL.
. the dre
cold rain.
n
e'north side of
tier upon the south
these tkro hills is n nar-
which the business houses is
ted. Tho hills are considerably
than the little valley, and upon
them the greatest destruction to property
and the loss of life occurred. The most
severe part of the storm—divided just
east of tho town and leaving the vale
untouched, swept the hills upon either
side. On the north side of the road and
just upon the top <>f the hill, Rafe How
ard, a negro blacksmith, had a house
which was struck with full force.
Howard and his wife were in one room
in bed, and their son, a boy of sixteen
years, was in another room. When the
wind hit the house it rose and dropped
back. Then it rose again and again
dropped back. Then the timbers began
creaking, and in an instant the roof
dropped in, the wails tumbled down and
the house was flat upon the ground,
completely ruined. Upward was in
stantly killed, and his bojy was severely
hurt; the wife escaped serious injury.
A barn near the residence of Mayor N.
A. MorSfc was levelled, also* a two story
house built by Mr. Morse dor Dr. Potter
of Macorf, who was to occutpy it in April.
Calhoun suffered the mo* of any place
visited by $he cyclone. About half a
minute beford it manifested 1 itself at Cal
houn, it struck the residence of Farmer
Gaines, about a mile and a half south
west of the town. He and! his family
were sleeping when the stoifm laid low
their house. Tfiey were covered with
debris, but were not seriously injured.
The first buildgig of my importance that
was struck was a saw-mill owned by Z.
D. Giay. This! was lcvelecfto the ground.
Another important staple has been
placed at the mercy of one of the pow
erful associations of capitalists known as
“trusts.” The Great Sugar Trust, re
cently organized on the principle of the
Rubber Trust, includes twelve of the
nineteen large refineries in the United
States—seven in New York, four in Bos
ton, and one in St. Louis. Each refin
ery has put its entire capital stock into
the Trust, taking certificates in payment,
and the organization controls millions
of capital. The pnrpose is the “regula
tion” of the production and price ol
sugar. Whenever production is too great
for the demand, or whenever theie is a
scarcity of raw sugar, certain of the re
fineries must shut down, and not start
again until the market improve
The wreck
Baptist chu
cously razed
ceiling fell a[
the pulpit, to
a ndw and. ban
complete. The colored
ear by, was sinuhltan-
c earth. The walls and
shed the benches and
nth. Hayne^s. hotel,
me building, was not
much damaged, but was tearfully
wi^ndhed and thrown out of position.
Th<? Western «£ Atlantic railro.aif agent’s
hotme, occupied by Mrs. Willingham as
a boVding house for school children, was
blowifc to atoms. Near by was (situated a
handstVue residence, belonging to N.
J Boaz, And rented to a lady. The roof
of this Louse was blown off, the
chimneys were broken to pieces,
and the window blinds blown away.
On the corner of the street was a one-
story framehouse, occupied by an aged
negro woman* named Mary Montgomery
and her two grandchildren. This was
literally liftecfoff the ground and shaken
into fragments, -and the oolorod woman
seriously hurt. Mrs. Dyer’s residence
was virttedbv thtf Atorm, and demolished.
At the time, it was unoccupied.
Tom, the truck man at the railway depot,
was in his bed and was Uowtn out intto
the darknes#, twenty feet Dr inore. fie
was severely cut in the head but will re
cover. The railway depot felt the fnry
of the storm. It is a large, substantial
brick building. Every ptrticle of the
tin rooting was blown off, and much of
the sheathing was unloosed. Heavy boards
were sailing through the pr, amd even
the thick' brick walls vere broken.
The general merchandise store of Hicks
& Engrams was destroyed, entailing a
loss of nearly $2,000. The Methodist,
Baptist and Presbyterian churches were
badly injured, and altogethfir the injury
to property cannot be less Iran $30,000.
The following is a partial lit of the suf
ferers* M. L. Mathews, Griff & Minis, J.
B T. Horrell, Himes & Kirg, J. N. Pat
rick, J. B. Johnson, W. M. Hughy,
Hicks & Pitts, Mrs. Pitts. G. W. Reed,
was published,
day.
The turpentine works
Holland, two 'miles ri'
City, were completely
still, commissary 'and and
shanty being blown away. Whid-
don was sleeping in a house with his
partner, and they rushed out to save
themselves, but had ran only a few steps
when the house was blown over on them
and crushed them so that they s- emed to
hare hardy an unbroken bone left in
their bodies, and were filled instantly;
all their Clothing was blown from
their bodies, except a small fragment of
Mr. Whiddon’s under vest. Two other
men, sleeping in another house, were
also crushed and killed by the house bc-
iug blown down upon them. Several
other persons were wounded and injured,
more or less seriously. There was a lar^e
lot of saw logs iu Sugar creek. The
storm blew the water out of the creek
and turned the raft in a perpendicular
position. The village consisted pf twelve
or fifteen buildings and two stores, and
there is not the rign of a house left. The
goods from the stores arc scattered cvcry^-
*Where. Bolts of calico and shoes and
groceries are to be found scattered in all
parts of the storm area. On the railroad
side track, before the cyclone came up,
there were several cars standing, some'of
them heavily loaded with lumber, but in
a few moments more they were one hun
dred and fifty yards away from the track
out in an old field. One of the most re
markable things that occurred was the
"switch target. It. was twisted off and
carried away as if it had been a mere
shrub. The turpentine distillery and saw
mills were completely destroyed, and the
lumber was scattered for one-lialf mile
around. There were about 1,000 barrels
of turpentine in the building, and these
were sent up like rockets in the air, and
some of them wero blown a half mile
and scattered everywhere.
In Lithonia a dozen other buildings
were injured, some blown entirely down.
The wind traefcj:*^, itfjjff|it|Wnf■ ilfifr
Tff! 1 son, and son-in-law
wore in a house when it was blown down.
Thi timbers fell upon them, and they
were all hurt. Boxby’s injuries arc the
severest aud it is believed that he will
die. His son-in-law’s back was broken.
Mrs. Sursin, living mar the town, was
struck by a piece of falling timber blown
from her house, and badly hurt. West
Point, LaGrange, Palmetto, New-nau and
Griffin, Pow der Spring, Marietta, Carters-
ville, Cave Springs, Rome and Cedar-
town did not suffer much. E. B. Hal
comb’s bouse, at Ackworth, was blowfi
down as well as the Baptist church, at
Tallapoosa.
The First Baptist church, (colored,) at
Gainesville, was blown down, as well as
Hood’s brick cotton warehouse at Har
mony Grove. Sims’steam mill, at Wash
ington, was unroofed, and a colored
church in course of construction at that
place was destroyed. A freight train
from Lula to Athens ran into a tree,
which had been blown across the en
trance to a cut. The smokestack and
whistle of the engine were knocked off.
A negro brakeman by the name of Bob
Reese was sitting on the top of a box car,
when the tree struck him in the back of
the head, killing him instantly.
Talladega, Ala., suffered badly. One
of the dormitories of the State University
for the deaf, dumb and blind, had its ga
ble end blown in, and covering the deaf
mutvs with the debris, breaking tlieir
beds into splinters without
seriously injuring the bo\s.
Two miles from Talladega the beauuful
iron bridge of the A. & A. R. R., span
ning Talladega creek, was piled by the
wind into a mass of ruins into the middle
of the stream. The storm seems to have
divided up iuto sectional cyclones, tak
ing various directions, switching, as it
wire, from the main body
cane which swept northwc
which passed o\ er the as
have been about twenty
and was sweeping above t
forty feet, as it carried awa’_ __
the dormitory and other buildings with
out touching the shrubbery.
Dispatches state that the hurricane
passed over East Tennessee. At and
near Lenoir’s much damage was done,
and several lives los 1 ;. The residence of
J. H. Williams, three miles east of Le-
hurri-
ind
Accident* on I.niul nnJ on Set*—New Kntp^--
prlscs—Suicides—R.cfl(aloits» TeiupMMfee
nnd Social Matters.
From six to twelve jnfthes of snefrw ^e]/
at Sherman, Texas, and buried sp$n/g
flowers and fruit tree blossoms. O^ue
day the mescury marked 72 degrees and
next it went down to 84.
an &-Co. ^bankers, of Aberdeen,
It is beliefJd the
fai!«^5 i^ro^fe^20%000. The, failure
affects’ merchants farmers, widows, or
phans :ffid a few colored people.
News was received at Ralei tik, N. C.,
of the cl^ath, last Saturday, of Rev. Dr.
Matthew T. Yatee, in China. He was
the oldest pf the ^prist missionaries,
having been in Chirta 42 years./
West Point, Ga., had q/nite a fire,
Wliidh started in W. W*>dd% store,
causing a damage of £20,000. The losers
are J. J. Crawford, drugsfl; Courser,
tailor; George N. Craft, po»nf©t)tioner; I.
M. 8cott, W. G. Shacfier an<^. Miller &
Harris.
Tom Powers, colored, wai. run over
and killed by the MontgCfme/y & Eufaula,
train at Cochran staticfci x Ala,, while
walking on the track. Ii^ lattemptingto
cross the cattleguard he i/ell across the
track, and the train ruD/tover his neck,
severing his head from hi |t»body.
An epidemic of mcask£t is iaging at
Buckingham C. H., Va. Whole families
are down with it. One family consisting
of a man, h s wife and fourteen children
ai*e prostrated, and an old couple, aged
Respectively 91 and 87, are down with
tup disease. A great m frny have died.
.\n attempt was mfcde to wreck; a
freijAdit train on the Grcienville & Colom
bia lRailroad, near Belt*ftn, 8. C. Engin
eer Kflnard was painfully wounded ffbout
his faefcin attempting to jump frqfcn his
engine. Several attempts ha^e been
made to- wreck trains at that jfolnt be
fore.
There is excitement at Durhaifi, N. C.,
growing oui of the arrest of a npinber of
liquor deuleiV, on the charge of violating
the local option law. A New Vork de
tective went flhere, and soon goteevidence
against a number of them. Attests fol
lowed, and tlij defendants were required
to give heavy Bonds for their aifpearance
at court.
Dudley
•n Judge
buperior
court, iu the I\\dUy Bulletin, their edi
torial charging tlaat Judge Clears grossly
dis>3*iminated between white and colored
people in court, a$id was Very abusive in
tone.
Two more of th«S indicted Bald Knob-
bers, at St. Louis,. Mo,, have presented
written confessions, to the sheriff. Amos
Jones and William Stanley follow John
Mathews in the ph}a for mercy, and man
age to wesve a stoffy showing their pres
ence had a ten^entsy. for a peace gather
ing. They accuife. Charles Graves of
being responsible,, with Bill Walker, in
the atrocious mynjers, while they used
every endeavor* to restore order and pre
vent bloodshed.
Judge John P. Bing died at hiarcsi-
dencc in Augusta* Ga. John P. King
-wvxs born in Barr<j n county, Kentucky,
in April, 1799. His. father’s famtfy moved
to Bedford county* Tennessee, when he
wws very young. He continued to reside
in Tennessee untjl he was about fifteen
years old, and thjen went to Georgia, for
a short in Columbia county, where
he had some relatives, and thenofc to Au
gusta, where hfc has resided ever since.
He is survived oy his wife and ttwo child
ren, the Marchioness Anglesey^ of Paris,
formerly Hon. Mrs. Wadehouy, of Eng
land, and Henry B. King, of Augusta.
■ ■ . —n i ■ -o
EUROPE’S BLIZZARD..
noir’s, was completely swept away, and
his wife c riied off in the wreck and
killed. The body of Mrs. Williams was
found next day in the Tennessee rivir,
where it had been blown. A few miles
distant, another dwelling was blown down
and a young man named Smith was kill
ed, and several other members of the
family injured. The next residence
struck by the storm was that of Geo. W.
Hardin. The building was totally de
molished, but the family escaped the
storm, then crossed a timbered ridge,
and tore up every tree by the roots in its
track. The homo of James Linginfolter
was reduced to kindling wood. Iu it
were James R. Smith, who was killed,
and a little daughter of Linginfolter,
who had a leg broken. The dwellings
of William Kmg and John Gideon were
blown down. Seven members of the
King family were badly injured, nnd two
of the Gideons were so seriously hurt that
they eannot recover. The house of La
fayette Prater was a total wreck, and
Jackson Prater was blown over the gar
den fence, but escaped wuth slight injuries.
The cyclone traveled in a northeasterly
direction. A bureau in the Williams
house was found half a mile from
where the residence stood. At London,
Tcnn., the house of George Moses was
completely destroyed, and ec;ery member
of his family badly hurt. Andrew Wor-
Uiy's house "was also carried away, and
A Ispavy blizzsrd has raged in the
southeast of England, ’fhe storm was
slight ill London, and in Spain the storm
was very heavy, especially in the north.
In the south of Sfmin, fl >ods are d<iing an
enormousl damage. The rising of the
Tiber, resulting from tho Tecent fall of
snow ha^jfloaded the lowfcr quarters of
Rome, floods are reported in Russia,
c aused bv the m< ItiDg of snow, and sec»
tions of the S -uthwcfeterti railway thrc'iti-
en to Haiti? are compelled
-to go speed. A violent snow
st >rai ri x ff ■die.Paris, France. All com-
municaiism by rail w ith Lille and Havre
was cut off.
THEY DECLINED.
The engineers on the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad at Decatur, Ala., re
fused to pull a fre : gUt train to which a
“Q” car was • attached. The car was
then taken out and tamed over to the
MenlpbUs & Charleston, whose engineers
also reflused to move it. I he Illinois
Central engineers at Jackson, Tenn., re
fused to pull a train until three Burling
ton cars were cut out and side-tracked,
which w r as done. At Fulton, Ky., the
company was obliged to refuse several
Burlington cars from the Chesapeake &
Ohio for the same reason. It is generally
understood on the line of the Illinois
Central South that the engineers will
handle no “Q” cars.
IMPORTANT, IF TRUE.
It is said that at a secret meeting of the
Atlanta, Ga., Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers, the question of a strike
had been discussed, nnd it is believed
that if the order comes through the proper
channels that the Atlanta brotherhood
will strike in support of the engineers on
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail
road.
JAY GOULD ARRIVES.
The yacht Atalanta, arrived off St.
Augustine, Fla., with Jay Gould and
party. Gould appears in excellent health.
The Atalanta came from Gibraltar and
Nassau, stopping at the Ctyoaiy island^
In the Senate, among the bills reported
irom committees aud placed on the cal
endar were the following: To encourage
the holding of a national industrial ex
position of the arts, mechanics and pro
ducts of the colored race in the United
States in 1888 89, and appropriating
$400,000 in its aid. Considerable de
bate took place on Mr. Blair's movement
iu behjdf of Confederate soldiers, Mr.
Virginia, appearing to voice
of the Southern members
"J|^Hpuid : “The Confederate Boldier
hai^^Wuly laid down the gautitlet of
war, and when he came out of the war
he had contempt for but two classes of
men engaged iu It—first, those who made
apologies; and second, those who de
manded them. Questions of great in
ternal strife and of great civil conflicts
never descended to personalities, but
wero governed by great philosophies of
human existence. He had no doubt that
the Senator from New Hampshire had
introduced the bill in a spirit of benevo
lence, kindness and generosity, bat it had
not been called for by any Confederate,
nor had it grown out of the demands of
public sentiment.” The Senate thou
passed bills to provide for the warehous
ing of fruit brandy; for the relief of
ironclad builders—the Perines and the
McKays; touching the grade of com
mander in the navy, and to correct an
order in relation to an appointment
therein (this was the case of Commander
Quackeubmch and caused considerable
debate) In the morning hour,
tne House resumed consideration
tion of the resolution assigning two days
lor the transaction of business reported
by the committee on labor. Opponents
of the resolution, led by Mr. Rogers, of
Arkansas, proceeded to obstructive
methods to. prevent action. Mr. O’Neill,
of Missouri, stated that lie was willing
to amend Gate resolution by ttrikjng out
the clau^% limiting the time of debate on
each measure called up. He would do
this, he said, in order to remove the pre
text under which the gentlemen were re
sorting to filibustering tactics.
^ will tell these gentlemen,” he said,
‘ Hhat you (indicating Mr. Rogers) have
talked out this morning hour; that you
have accomplished your purpose, and you
have simply been the tool that had been
used for that purpose.” Mr. Rogers de
manded that the -words be taken
u'j'urr.hwft rca
J'||*..UHU rnflftc eisrga aesK.,
Mu Cox, New York, move*! that the gen
tlemen from Missouri be allowed to pro
ceed in order, and the motion being
agreed to, Mr. O’Niel resumed the floor
amid applause. He said that the duties
of members of the committee on labor
were very arduous, and that gentlemen
on that committee were placed in a very
peculiar position, being liable to be de
nounced as demagogues and catering to
the workingmen whenever they brought
in a bill In the interest of labor. As
chairman of that committee, he had been
obliged to stand here for two days in an
e^brt to secure consideration of a num-
Ver of important labor bill, aud see the
time frittered away by men who, as
leaders of the House, should be first to
respond to the demands of the working-
for the right to be Heard.
Among bills of a public character that
were passed by the Senute, were the fol
lowing: To construct a road to the Na
tional cemetery at Corinth, Miss. To
settle and adjust the claims of any state
for expenses incurred by it in defense of
the United States during the War of Re-
beilicun. Appropriating $100,000 for the
erection in Washington of a monument
to/begro soldiers and sailors who gave
Vfceir lives for the preservation of the
government. To judiciously determine
the right of the United States in railroad
lands in Florida. There were altogether
fifty-five bills passed, a majority Deing
pension and private relief bills. Among
the former were two pensioning volunteer
female nurses during the War, at $25 a
month. Mr. Blair, from the committee
on civil service and retrenchment, re
ported a bill providing (;n appointments
to the civil service in certain cases) for
the pre’erence of persons who were en
gaged in the military or naval service of
the so-called Confederate states during
the. war of the Rebellion, and who were
■d therein, and were not dishonor-
lischarged therefrom In the’
on the motion of Mr. Neal, of
fssee, a bill was passed authorizing
the construction of a bridge across the
Tennessee River at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mr. Anderson, of Iowa, offered a resolu
tion for thd appointment of a special com
mittee of five members to investigate
railroad strikes and to report what legis
lation is necessary to prevent such ob
struction to commerce and distur
bance of the public peace. The reso
lution is accompanied by a long
preamble reciting that the strike of the
locomotive engineers on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy R«ilroad, ri suits
Vi an obstruction to interstate commerce
and puts in jeopardy public peace. Mr.
Wilkins, of Ohio, under instructions
from the committee on banking and cur
rency, moved to suspend the rules and
pass the bill authorizing the Usue of frac
tional silver certificates. After a great
deal of debate, the bill passed—yeas 178,
nays G7.
GOSSIP.
Col. J. II. Baxter, chief medical pur
veyor of the army, has been ordered to
Augusta, Ga., on temporary service.
Mr. Breckenridge has given notice that
when the proper section is reached, he
will move to reconsider the vote by which
cotton bagging was transferred from the
free list to the dutiable class with the ex
isting tariff of 1 1-2 cents per yard.
Justice Lamar delivered his first opin
ion in the supreme court immediately
after the decision of the Bell telephone
ease. He read the decision iu tho Mis
souri river packet company against the
Hannibal & St. Joe railroad. The judg
ment of the supreme court of Missouri in
favor of the railroad was affirmed.
The Senate committee; on postofficcs
aud postroads ordered unfavorable
INTERESTING DOTS ABOUT OUR
UNITED STATES> OFFICIALS
t»®*sif> About the White Ronte-Army and
Nnvy Matters-Our Relations With Otber
t ouuu-its and Nations.
on the bill to reduce the postage on seeds,
cuttings, bulbs, etc., to one cent for every
four ounces. The present rate is sixteen
cents per pound, while that of Canada is
only four cents. The purpose of the bill
is to place American seedsmen on an
eqttality w ith the Canadians so far as the
use of the United States moils are con
cerned.
The United States Supreme Court ren
dered a decision, which is the most im
portant in connection with telephone af
fairs—that Prof. Alexander Graham Bell
is the inventor of the telephone. Chief
Justice Waite delivered the i pinion.
The chief justice considered carefully the
alleged antic pation of Bell’s discovery
by Philip Reis. “Reis,” the "chief jus
tice said, “discovered how to reproduce
musical tones, but he did uo more. He
could sing through his apparatus, but he
could not talk,and from beginning to end
he has conceded this. No one of tne many
writers w hoso papers are found in the
record, claim more than this for Reis or
his discoveries, although his first paper
was published in 1861, aud Bell did not
appear as working in the same field in
scientific research until nearly fifteen
years afterward. No advance had been
made by the use of what he had con
trived or of his method toward the great
eod to be accomplished.”
KENTUCKY’8 TROUBLE.
Her State Treasurer is a Half a Mil'lon
Defaulter, and Runs Away.
Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, sus
pended the treasurer of the state, James
W. Tate, who is charged with defalca
tion in his office, nnd who has fled from
the state. The defaulting official has
been treasurer for twenty-one years. He
was considered the soul of honor, and the
news will prove a tremendous sensation
throughout the state. A later dispatch
from Frankfort states that an investiga
tion imrhediately instituted on the recom
mendation of Governor Buckner dis
closed a deficit in Tate’s office of $150,-
000, and that the irregularities seem to
run back eleven years. The discovery of
Tate’s shortage is a result of an examina
tion of his books, by an expert account
ant. The Governor has placed the treas
urer’s office in charge of Auditor Hew-
ett and Attorney-General Pardin. In his
message to the legislature, Governor
Buckner says he has reasons for believing
the deficit is large and that an immediate
investigation be ordered. In the House a
committee was at once appointed and or
dered to prosecute the investigation in
connection with officers in charge of the
office. Pending the investigation the
office will be closed. The state has
abundant resources at hand. All current
expenses, payments, dues, etc., will be
met without interruption or delay.
Treasurer Tate’s bond is for $300,000.
and the shortage is well .covered,
was obs r. 5r-vv* when he
unusual thing for him. Since
he has not been seen aud his whereabouts
is unknown. James William Tate was
elected Shite Treasurer in 1867, having
been nominated by the Democrats. He
has been re-elected continuously at each
election since, making his tenure of
office twenty years on August 81*t last.
In the last campaign Tate had no oppo
sition for the nomination. Everybody
laughed at the idea of opposing “Honest
Old Tate.” He received the Democratic
nomination for the tenth consecutive
time. His majority has always stood
among the largest on his ticKet, and
merry, honest, joky “Dick” Tate has
been one of the most widely known and
universally liked men in Kentucky. In
addition to being state treasurer, he was
commissioner of the sinking fund, and
was one of those entrusted with the man
agement of the state penitentiary. The
exact amount of h s shortage it is not pos
sible, as yet, to state, but it is anywhere
from $150,000 to $400,000. What has
become of the money no one can tell.
Tate never speculated nor gambled. He
is said to have been an extravagant liver,
but year by year the money has dropped
out, the shortage seeming to run back a
dozen yeara
FIRE IN FLORIDA.
WORLD AT LARGE.
FEN PICTURES PAINTED BY A
CORPS OF ABLE ARTISTS.
Hazeltiue’s spacious brick block at the
foot of Laura street in Jacksonville, Fla.,
built three yiars ago at a cost of $40,000,
was destroy, d by tire. For three hours
there was great danger of the fire spriad-
ing across L- ura street to the Times-
Union building and north to Bay. but
the heroic efforts of the firemen and citi
zens cheeked the flames. Total lo^s
about $180,000; insurance about $80,000.
It Was All Real to Him.
“No, sir, you can’t possibly realize
the devastation wrought by tho rabbits
in my country,” said tbe man from Aus
tralia, as he addressed a group in the
railroad waiting room. “You would
scarcely believe some things I could tell
you. They will eat nearly eveiything,
and what they don’t eat they tramp
down and destroy. They find a garden
and leave a desert. There is no check
ing them—nothing to do but to sit and
see everything you have swept away.
You can know nothing about it unless
you have lived there.”
“No, I suppose not,” said tho man
with tho large ears.
“Must be awful,” >iggested the man
with no overcoat.
“I can realize it all, though I never
saw more than a dozen rabbits in my
life,” said tbe tall, solemn-looking man
bitterly.
“You can?” said the man from Aus-
.tralia with a bad gleam in his eye. “Per
haps you have had experience with the
grasshopper scourge ?”
“No, sir; never.”
“General failure of crops—famine,
then?”
“No, nothing connected with agricul
ture. ”
“Then I must say you can have no
oonception of the scenes I have told of,
sir.”
“But I insist I can,” replied the tall
man, with a dark, revengeful scowl.
“Those scenes of devastation areas clear
to mo as if I lived in their midst. Sir,
I am a Methodist minister, and last
Thursday I finished laying in my stores
for the winter. That very night the do
nation party landed in our parlor aud
the clash of rapine was heard within our
quiet cottage. Huh! wouldst prate to
me of rabbits?” And with a hollow,
mocking laugh he arose and went over
to the ticket office window, aud in a
bitter tene asked when the train left for
Qghkoaho^yAicGffo
What i* Gain* on North, East and Writ
anil Acio»« tlic Wnti-r—The Coming En-
ropenn gtorin.
Crown Prince William, of Germany,
is quite s\ck.
lhe French government has decided
to cashier Gen. Boulanger.
The French Clfaralier of Deputies is
considering the advisability of authoriz
ing a lottery loan of 340,000,000 francs
to aid the Panama canal. In cons quence
of this movement, Panama canal shares
jumped up in pi ice.
A collision occurred at Cisco, Cal., be
tween two freight trains. Two engines
were attached to the trains, and all four
of the engines and a number of cars were
bad y wrecked. Engineer John Pickens
was killed instantly, and several others
injured.
Violent shocks of earthquakes have
continued in the province of Yunnan,
China, during the last three weeks, de
stroying many towns and an immense
amount of shipping at Kien-Chin. The
lowest estimate places the number of per
sons killed at 400.
Emperor Frederick sent his first mes
sage to the Prussian Lautag, which was
greeted with cheers, all uniting in the
cry, “Long live King Frederick l” The
phy icians advise outdoor exercise at
Wiesbaden. The emperor will probably
depart for that place in a fortnight.
Ex-Gov. Horace Fairbanks, of Ver
mont, died at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in
New York. He ventured out in the
blizzard in a close carriage, but, with jiis
naturally weak lungs, he caught a cold,
which rapidly grew worse, and developed
into pneumonia, from which he died.
Keely’s secret of the manipulations of
his mysterious motor, which he has
guarded so securely for many years, in
spite of the efforts for disclosure made by
dissatisfied stockholders of the Motor
Company, is at last to be divulged.
Judge Finletter handed down an opinion
iu Philadelphia, Pa., in the suit brought
by Bennett C. Wilson, who claims to
hold an assignment of Keely’s motor in
vention, made to him in 1869, which
grants an order for the inspection of all
the motor machines as made by Keely,
and compels him to explain the theories
of their workings to Wilson and such ex
perts as may be named.
LICENSE8 REFUSED
The Philadelphia, Pa., license court
at present engaged in the examination of
applications for liquor licenses under the
pew lie nse law, rejected more than fiftv
rim
CROWDED SOLDIERS’ HOMES.
The Number of Inmates Increasing—
Absolute Need of Legislation.
The annual report of the Board of
Managers of the National Home for Dis
abled Volunteers has been laid before
the United States House. The Presi
dent; Gen. Franklin, says barracks at
the Northwestern, Southern and West
ern branches hoye been erected during
the fiscal year, furnishing accommoda
tions for about 1,000 men. Every bed
in these additional barracks is now in
use and in every branch except, perhaps,
the Western, men are now using the
floor for beds. The average number of
inmates present during the last fiscal
year was 9,718, an increase in five years
of 2,080, or 44 per cent. The number
of deaths was 650, which is 61 per cent,
more than the death rate of men of the
same age in ordinary health. Gen.
Franklin says these figures show how
great is the general disability of the
members of the home and suggests what
the fate of the members might have
been bad not the fostering care of the
National home been tendered them.
During the past three years the num
ber of those admitted on aocounfc of
wounds received in action has materially
fallen off, while the number admitted on
account of age and disability incurred
since the war has increased, so that the
annual number of admissions continually
increases. The causes of increase will,
continue as tbe soldiers grow older, and
the membership must increase for an in
determinate series of yoars so long as
Congress famishes them means. The
existing branches are now filled to their
utmost capacity, and in the opinion of
the Board only one, or at most two, of
them should be further enlarged.
The report says if it be the intention
of Congress to care for all disabled sol
diers, entitled to admission to the home
under existing law, legislation will-*’
required, either to establish additioi
branches, materially enlarge existing
branches, encourage the States to estab
lish State homes or to make appropria
tion for outdoor relief for those soldiers
who cannot be admitted to existing
branches. Should Congress consider
that the present accommodations are
sufficient, the maximum number of sol
diers, who shall receive the benefits of
the homes should be fixed by law.
Not If She Knew It.
The door bell of the Vanity house
ranp- at about eight o’clock the other
night, and Mrs. Vanity said, excitedly,
to her husband:
“There. Charles, I just know that's the
furniture van coining with the new bed
room set wc bought to-day, and if it is I
just won’t receive it, that's all.”
“Why not?” asks Mr. Vanity.
“Why not?” repeats Mrs. V. “Do
you think I’m going to pay $175 for a
chamber set and then have it sent out
here after dark so none of the neighbors
can see it when it isjbrought in? Not if I
know myself, I don’t.”—Free
Press.
Rival Painters.
‘‘Talking about quick work,” said the
artist, “I painted a complete landscape
scene in three days recently.”
“That’s nothing,” replies the scrape-
grace.
“Nothing? I’d like to see an artist
who can beat it.”
“I have beaten it. I painted a com
plete town in one night.”—Lincoln
Journal.