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PlwEPT THE JUDGES. M'GOWAN.HUDSON, WALLACE AND 1ZLAR EEFEATED. Oary, Wattn, Towimend nnd llenot |th* New i.11? 111? 111? i, m of tin) Law--Judge Wltherapoou Saved, Perhaps, by a Nism der? The Vote* Indicating Cut and Dried Cnuoiirt or Machine ',%'<? l<?A Vuln At tempt at Postponement?8eiiHtor Mny ii. id Tackles the Augusta Exposition. Special to The Daiiy Nfrws. < .'hi.i-M iMA, 8. C, Dec. 1.?The legis lature today went out scalping for judges and as a result the reform mem bers now dangle at their belts the hirsute appendages of one anti asso ciato justice and four circuit judges." It was generally thought that the whole crowd w >uld be completely swept away but by some good luck Judge Withcrspoon, of the sixth cir cuit, saved his head. It is said Sena tor Pinloy, of York, the home of the jud^^^made himself very active in his support. It was stated on the floor that Judge Withcrspoon voted the reform ticket of his county, including Congressman Strait. This is denied by Senator Finley. As for his breth ren of the bonoh who stood for re election they were ovidontly standing in front of a cyclono and wero blown out of sight in short order. An effort was made by Cole Blcase, of Newberry, to postpone the election until a later day, but ho lost his mo tion and by the vote it was"clearly de monstrated that he was not running the whole shebang this time. The nominations for associate jus tice of the supreme court to succeed Justice McGowan wero. Speaker JoneB, Senator Ragin; Justice McQowan, by Representative Hill, and Lieutenant Governor Gary, of Abbeville, by Sena tor Hemphill, of the samo county. The vote resulted as follows: Gary 97, Jones 28, McGowan 27. The olection of circuit judges re sulted: First circuit, W. Christie Bonot, Abbeville, against Judge Izlar by a vote of 00 to 47. Mr. Bcnct is not a residont of tho circuit over which he is to preside. Second circuit, Judcre Aldrich re elected without opposition, being a "reformer." Third circuit, R. C. Watts, of Lau rens, elected over Judge Hudson and C. P. Townsend by a vote of 98 to Judge Hudson's 29 and Townsend's 7. Mr. Watts is not a resident of tho dis trict. Sixth circuit, Judgo Withcrspoon was re-elected over A. G. Brice, of Chester, and O. C. Jordan, of Aiken, by a vote of 78 to Brico's 18 and Jor dan's 4. In tho seventh circuit Attorney General Townsend was elected over Judgo Wallace by 94 to 40. This completes the list, the other three circuits in the State not being vacant by reason of expiration of terms of incumbents. Judge Hudson, no doubt, met his judicial death by the Tillmtin faction, owing to hi? decisions against tire liquor law. A banquet at the Grand Central hotel was given to Associate Justice Elect Gary tonight. Tho menu in cluded Roman punch and Imported wines from the dispensary. It is understood here that an ar rangement will be made by which all liquor cases will be heard in the supreme court together and on the same day. A day is to be assigned lor the purpose us soon as possible during tjie term of the court. Speaker Crisp passed through the city this evening on his way to Wash ington from Augusta. He displayed much concern at the result of tho elections for judges here and expressed regret at the upheaval in the judiciary of the State. CohUMiiiA, S. C, Dec. 1.?The house finished tho sonato salary reduction bill today and did a great deal more pruning. The pay of judicial ste nographers reduced from $1,200 to $1,000; the secretary of state from $2, 100 to $1,050. The salary of the clerk of?tho house was reduced from $8 to $0 a day; bill clerks from $5 to 4; en grossing clerks irom $5 to $4; book keepers in the treasuer's oftlco from $1.000 to $1,400; clerk of the secretary of state from $1,500 to $1,000. The bill will go into effect January 1, 1894. Rreprescntativo Blease mado a long speech against the election of judges todaj. He moved to postpone the election until the 12th. The motion was lost, 04 to 10. Julius E. Cogswell was elected reg ister of me8ne conveyances for Charles ton over four competitors. John. C. Mehrtons was the choico of tho Charles ton delegation. In tho scnato John Gary Evans moved to extend the privileges of the floor to Major Alexander and party, of Augusta, representing tho Augusta exposition compaay. Senator May field opposed its passage, explaiaing that it was intended as an advertise ment, and he didn't believe in such action. Evans started to withdraw the motion, as he said that it was simply courtesy, and he did not want it passed if any ono offored objection. Mayfleld be came wrothy and dcliverd a scathing rebuke to tho Augusta Chroniclo and Pat Walsh, who, ho said, was the spokesman of the town. During tho Denmark lynching tho course of the Chroniclo was open to criticism and the paper generally was vile. The mo tion was carried with three or four nays. Memorial exercises wero held in honor of the lato Senator DcsChamps, of Clarendon. Senator Wilson introduced a bill to compel corporations to pay their em ployees weekly in logal tonder. Tlio object of tho bill is to provent fac tories and such concerns paying in checks which are only exchangeable for goods in thoir own stores. Rail road, telegraph and express companies nie exempt from the provisions of tho bill. The senate adjourned until Tuesday. PlwEPT THE JUDGES. M'GOWAN.HUDSON, WALLACE AND 1ZLAR EEFEATED. Oary, Wattn, Towimend nnd llenot |th* New i.11? 111? 111? i, m of tin) Law--Judge Wltherapoou Saved, Perhaps, by a Nism der? The Vote* Indicating Cut and Dried Cnuoiirt or Machine ',%'<? l<?A Vuln At tempt at Postponement?8eiiHtor Mny ii. id Tackles the Augusta Exposition. Special to The Daiiy Nfrws. < .'hi.i-M iMA, 8. C, Dec. 1.?The legis lature today went out scalping for judges and as a result the reform mem bers now dangle at their belts the hirsute appendages of one anti asso ciato justice and four circuit judges." It was generally thought that the whole crowd w >uld be completely swept away but by some good luck Judge Withcrspoon, of the sixth cir cuit, saved his head. It is said Sena tor Pinloy, of York, the home of the jud^^^made himself very active in his support. It was stated on the floor that Judge Withcrspoon voted the reform ticket of his county, including Congressman Strait. This is denied by Senator Finley. As for his breth ren of the bonoh who stood for re election they were ovidontly standing in front of a cyclono and wero blown out of sight in short order. An effort was made by Cole Blcase, of Newberry, to postpone the election until a later day, but ho lost his mo tion and by the vote it was"clearly de monstrated that he was not running the whole shebang this time. The nominations for associate jus tice of the supreme court to succeed Justice McGowan wero. Speaker JoneB, Senator Ragin; Justice McQowan, by Representative Hill, and Lieutenant Governor Gary, of Abbeville, by Sena tor Hemphill, of the samo county. The vote resulted as follows: Gary 97, Jones 28, McGowan 27. The olection of circuit judges re sulted: First circuit, W. Christie Bonot, Abbeville, against Judge Izlar by a vote of 00 to 47. Mr. Bcnct is not a residont of tho circuit over which he is to preside. Second circuit, Judcre Aldrich re elected without opposition, being a "reformer." Third circuit, R. C. Watts, of Lau rens, elected over Judge Hudson and C. P. Townsend by a vote of 98 to Judge Hudson's 29 and Townsend's 7. Mr. Watts is not a resident of tho dis trict. Sixth circuit, Judgo Withcrspoon was re-elected over A. G. Brice, of Chester, and O. C. Jordan, of Aiken, by a vote of 78 to Brico's 18 and Jor dan's 4. In tho seventh circuit Attorney General Townsend was elected over Judgo Wallace by 94 to 40. This completes the list, the other three circuits in the State not being vacant by reason of expiration of terms of incumbents. Judge Hudson, no doubt, met his judicial death by the Tillmtin faction, owing to hi? decisions against tire liquor law. A banquet at the Grand Central hotel was given to Associate Justice Elect Gary tonight. Tho menu in cluded Roman punch and Imported wines from the dispensary. It is understood here that an ar rangement will be made by which all liquor cases will be heard in the supreme court together and on the same day. A day is to be assigned lor the purpose us soon as possible during tjie term of the court. Speaker Crisp passed through the city this evening on his way to Wash ington from Augusta. He displayed much concern at the result of tho elections for judges here and expressed regret at the upheaval in the judiciary of the State. CohUMiiiA, S. C, Dec. 1.?The house finished tho sonato salary reduction bill today and did a great deal more pruning. The pay of judicial ste nographers reduced from $1,200 to $1,000; the secretary of state from $2, 100 to $1,050. The salary of the clerk of?tho house was reduced from $8 to $0 a day; bill clerks from $5 to 4; en grossing clerks irom $5 to $4; book keepers in the treasuer's oftlco from $1.000 to $1,400; clerk of the secretary of state from $1,500 to $1,000. The bill will go into effect January 1, 1894. Rreprescntativo Blease mado a long speech against the election of judges todaj. He moved to postpone the election until the 12th. The motion was lost, 04 to 10. Julius E. Cogswell was elected reg ister of me8ne conveyances for Charles ton over four competitors. John. C. Mehrtons was the choico of tho Charles ton delegation. In tho scnato John Gary Evans moved to extend the privileges of the floor to Major Alexander and party, of Augusta, representing tho Augusta exposition compaay. Senator May field opposed its passage, explaiaing that it was intended as an advertise ment, and he didn't believe in such action. Evans started to withdraw the motion, as he said that it was simply courtesy, and he did not want it passed if any ono offored objection. Mayfleld be came wrothy and dcliverd a scathing rebuke to tho Augusta Chroniclo and Pat Walsh, who, ho said, was the spokesman of the town. During tho Denmark lynching tho course of the Chroniclo was open to criticism and the paper generally was vile. The mo tion was carried with three or four nays. Memorial exercises wero held in honor of the lato Senator DcsChamps, of Clarendon. Senator Wilson introduced a bill to compel corporations to pay their em ployees weekly in logal tonder. Tlio object of tho bill is to provent fac tories and such concerns paying in checks which are only exchangeable for goods in thoir own stores. Rail road, telegraph and express companies nie exempt from the provisions of tho bill. The senate adjourned until Tuesday. A BOY WHO 18 A UK HO. Ran His Elevator Up and Down In a Huru i in; Building to Savo Women? A Trouble some Dlaxe but Everybody Drought Out Safely. Ciiicaoo, Dec. 1.?The Hay Market theatre at Halstcad and Machson streets caught tire this morning at 10 o'clock. It proved to be oue of the worst fires which tho fire department has had to conteud with for many years on account of tho freezing weath er which caused sonui delay ia getting all the streams to play on tho burning structure. The front of tho huildiug, which was occupied by stores, saloons and ofllces of doctors, dentists, photo graphers, real estate agents, and jew elers, was coinplctely|guttcd. Tho fire wall which separates the theatre proper from the front of the build ing saved it from destruction. Tho only damage done to the theatre was caused by water which poured in Niagara torrents into tho foyer and part of the second balcony. Tho Iobb to tho theatre will not exceed $5,000. Tho estimated loss on buildings and contents will amount to $00,000. The total insurance is $122,500 on building and theatre, $75,000 being placed on tho former. Tho flames wero discov ered by tho janitor in tho portrait framing room of W. H. Gooding in the roar of tho fourth floor. The elevator boy, at tho risk of his life, car ried his car several times . from tho ground floor to tho top of the building and rescued the women from the flames, which were eating their way up to tho ropf. Ho hoatily . res ponded to the call of Mrs. Shea, wife of a dontist on the third floor, and after carrying her in safety to the bot tom of tho building ascended to bring other womon who were employed on the fourth and flfth floors, principally in the studio of William Morrison, theatrical photographor, on tho top floor. Tho last call made upon him was to bring Morrison down but when he had run his car to tho fourth floor he found the flames breaking into the elevator shaft and the danger of burn ing tho Jrope forced him to descend alone. Ho had got out of his car only two minutes when tho rope was parted by tho flames. Mr. Morrison escaped by way of the roof. KKKN WORK OF WHISKEY OWNERS. Taking Liquor Out of Itoml to be Exported and Imported at Present Rates of Taxa tion. Washington, D. C, Dec. i.?Tho treasury department figures show that in anticipation of a posBiblo increase in the internal revenue tax on distilled spirits considerable quantities of whis key aro being taken out of the bonded warehouses and exported and largo quantities of ucwly distilled whis key are also being placed in bonded warehouses to be redeemed hereafter at the present rato of tax of | 00 cents a gallon. The whiskey being taken out of bond is that which has been in warehouses near ly three years at the expiration of | which time the tax has to be paid. If exported, even though it should be sent no further than Bermuda, it can be imported at the pleasure of the holder at any time on payment of a duty corresponding to the tax at tho time of its depurturc, namely 90 cents per gallon. NOT A CHEERFUL. STATEMENT. Uncle Sam's Cash ltox Continues to Show Smaller Ralnnccs on the Right Side. By Telegraph to Tho Dally News Washington, D. C,, Dec. 1.?The official comparative statement of tho treasury receipts and expenditures of the United States issued by the treasury department today shows that receipts from custom houses have de clined for the first five months of pres ent fiscal year as compared with the receipts of corresponding months of | the last fiscal year $24,000,000 and for the same period and mouths payments on account of pensions have decreased $0,000,000 The debt statement issued this morning shows a net increase in debt less cash in the troasuty during November of $0,710,138. The interest bearing debt increased $180; the non interest bearing debt decreased $878, 850 and the cash debt decreased $7, 004,074. The balan?esof the several classes of debt at the close of business November 30th wore: Interest bearing debt $585,039,220; debt on which in terest has ceased since maturity $1, 980,880; debt bearing interest $374, 589,715; total $901,508,818.18. The certificates and treasury notes repre sented by an equal amount of cash in | tho treasury outstanding at tho , end of 'the month wero $559,229,- | 802, an incroaso of $11,010,441. The total cash in the trcasuiy was $784,820,435,85 The gold reserve was $82,059,049; net cash balances $12,240, 507. In the month thcro was a decrease in gold coin and bars of $21,155,048, tho total at the close being $101,122,228. Of silver there was an increase of $52, 122. Of tho surplus there was in nat ional bank depo tries $17,220,992 against $20,421,870 at tho end of tho previous month. Fatal Accident at the Augusta Itaces. Auousta, Ga., Dec. 1.?The races at the Augusta exposition track this af ternoon resulted as follows: 2.30 claBS trotting race "Anna M." won. Time 2.29 J. One mile dash won by Kceporc in 1.47. During the running race a horse by tho name of "Watch Me" bolted tho track, stumbling and break ing his neck and then falling on John Baxter, his rider, and fatally injuring him internally. Baxter is not expected to live through the night. Harry Hill Indicted and to be Sent For. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 1.?Harry Hill was indicted by the grand jury today for cheating and swindling. Tho prosecutor was J. II. Tolleson, wh o discounted a $2,300 note made by the whiskey company of which Hill was j president bofore ho fled last Juno. Hill , is under arrest in Cincinnati. Gov I ernor Northen issued a requisition for Hill and an officer left this evening for 1 him. TRADE HAS HALTED. THE IMPROVEMENT CHECKED BY TARIFF UNCERTAINTIES. Ueneral Keporte from the Country Nut Kncouraglng ? Everybody Apparently Awaiting Development??Money a> Glut In New York With Little Demand for it? Our Great BiporU Paying Debt* Due In Europe. Bi Telegra ? to Tb? I >>r lv New*. New .Youk, Dec. 1.?Dun's review will say : It can uot be said that boa* incss during the past week baa grown better or worse. For Homo days the gain in demand and in transactions whi&h had been previously noticed evidently continued. But afterward tariff uncertainties were thought to affect somo branches of business and, whatever the cause, there was clearly less trade. Money was everywhere ?abundant with rates comparatively low and tbo commercial demand was re markably small while the demand for speculation appeared to bo increasing. Reports of different branches of busi ness from different localities mentioned tariff uncertainties as the cause, but it will tako some time to determine whether tbo general tendency toward improvement has been checked or to what extent. Cotton is a shade lower as receipts from ktho plantations con tinue to exceed those of last year, in spite of the very positive estimates of a short yield; and the average guesses by operators on tbo Now Orleans cot ton exchange is over 700-,000 greater than tbo government estimate. Tho stocks of American cotton in sight are so large that they forbid any rise in prices. Industries aro waiting with visible uncertainty regarding tho out come of legislation and belief that the ponding tariff bill will or will not bo passed, affects action uh much as the judgments in regard to its effect if passed. At present the iron industry shows no gain in the world with tho demand for pig iron not urgent and Bessemer iron a little lowor, with no sales of rails at tho combination price and slightly lower priceB for somo finished products and rather scanty demand for any. Ir is questionable whether the working force employed is larger than it was a week ago. Tho cotton manufacturers enjoy a decided im provement because the market is in absolute need of more goods, but there is hardly any quotable chango in priceB. Tho vast accumulation of idle money seems to stimulato speculation, but it is not a good symptom. It shows a remarkable shrinkage in the volume of trado. Reports from all quarters make it clear that the demand for money is unusually light for the season. Rates aro exceptionally low and this helps to re duce the movement of gold which tho state of foreign trade now naturally causes. The domestic exports for four weeks from New York amount to $30,112.530 against $30,871,178, while tho decrease in imports is over $ 18,000,000 or 88 per cent, for the four weeks, so that tho excess of exports for the whole country must be large. But exchange bills against products are comparatively scarce. No gold comes this way, and heavy shipments of silver arc made to London. Apparently this country is paying off with its surplus products loans amounting to many millions which were offered in Europe to avert great disasters last summer. Hence it is that the condition of the treasury com mands attention with its total cash re serve down to $08,000,000 and its available gold only $82,000,000. Fail ures in tho United States for tho week numbered 278 against 238 for the same week last year and in Canada forty eight against thirty-three last year. Bradstrect's tomorrow will say: The thanksgiving holiday cut into the bus iness week, but it was not encourag ing when the volume of general trade is considered, bank clearings for this week aggregating fully 17 percent, less than last week and being 43 per cent, smaller than the total of the same week ono year ago which was thanksgiving week. Reports from some eastern industrial centres complain of manufacturers suspending operations to await tho outcome of the proposition to enact and put in operation a new tariff law within three months. Wool has receded from the improvement of last week to await, as reported, the outcome of free wool. Cotton mills in New England are meeting tho hand to mouth inquiry, but tho tone of tho market is better on account of tho re cent auction at New York on which belief rests that bottom prices have been touched. Trado in most lines at Baltimore in Novombei Utnged from 8" to 25 por cont smaller than one year ago. Tho clothing trade is unfavorable, collections are slower. Somo orders have been countermanded. Dry goods dealers aro beginning to tako account of stock. Iu Charleston and Chnttana nooga there have been no changes in commercial or industrial circles. At Atlanta trado is quiet nnd tho demand for dry goods is bettor. At Augusta cotton freights aro in fair demand but at low pricos. Business is quiet at Sa vannah where, there is a light demand for naval stores. Nashville reports a fair degree of activity and hotter collec tions. Idle industries aro starting up. A slight gain is also reported from Memphis. General trade at Mobile is quiet, but lumber mills in the vicinity arc doing well. Tho volumo of trade at New Orleans is smaller for Novem ber than for October, but at Little. Rock trado is reported fair for tho season. Overhauling the Now Tariff Bill. Wabhinoton, D. C, Dec. 2.?Assist ant Secretary Hamlin and tho Chiof of the Customs Divisions woro at wor?k. most of tho day in carefully examining from a practical administrative stand point tho administrative ciiBtom por tion of the new tariff bill. A number of ambiguous clauses havo been found. When these experts in custom mat tors conclude thoir labors, tbo Houso ways and means committeo will be given tho benefit of thoir research and the bill will be amended so as to make cloar and positive the provisions and clauees which now, in some cases at least, uro susceptible of varied con struction, TBK MAM WHO REPORTKI? FOR NO I'Til Kit N NEWSPAPERS. Death of a Veteran Worker in Congr?? A Victim or the HUv?r Debate In the Neust?. Washington, D. 0.,'Dcc. 2. ? Chas. J. Hayes, who since 1876 has been re porter lor the house of representatives, first with tho New York Associated Press and afterwards withltfue United Press, died this morning at his resi dence in Anacostia in this city. He was stricken with locomotor ataxa, a form of paralysis, during tin- prolonged session of the senate discussing tho sil ver bill, when he assisted his father, Henry G. Hayes, reporting the senate and house, and never rallied tho shock. "Charley" Hayes, as ho was universal ly called, was known to nearly every house man, and was liket1 and re spected by all, as well as by his news paper associates. He and his father have recorded all the events of history at the capitol for the last twenty years and they mado the reports of these ovouts, as well as of tho current work of the lmuse and senate which have been furnished to tho southern news papers. The younger Hayes' knowledge of parliamentary law was so accurato that ho was frequently appealed to by mem bers to decide knotty questions, and through all the bitter partisan strug gles of the reconstruction period, in cluding tho Ilaycs-Tilden controversy and later, the fairness and accuracy of his reports were never once impugned. NT! I.I, DOWN ON DIVORCES. The South Carolina Legislature 8tlckn to One Tradition at Least? The Uouse to go to Augusta?Judge Kershaw Official His torian of the Lost Cause. Soeclul to The Daily News. Columbia, 8. C, Dec. 2.?Divorces and the Augusta exposition furnished tho imncipal subjects of legislative consideration today. Tho aennto was not in session. At tho last session several divorce bills were bunched and referred to n committee,und the discus sion today was on tho committee bills. It was recently decided in the circuit court that tho South Carolina laws did not recognize the validity of a divorce obtained in another State and that a divorced person who married again was a bigamist in the eyes of the law of this State. It was to remedy this that tho bill was introduced. The bill was killed alter a vigorous dis cussion by a vote of 59 to 28. For an hour there was a wrangle over the invitation to attend the Augusta Exposition. Among the points raised wero that the free pass law prohibited the members riding on a train furnished freo by the exposi tion company and that the senate would have to concur. It was, how ever, determined that the house would go it alone, and that the members would leave hero Tuesday moruing next. Among the bills introduced today are the following: To appropriate $00,000 for the sia island sufferers; to appoint ex-Judge Kershaw a commissioner for the State to prepare for tho use of future histo rians of the lost cause a historical sketch of the cause and of the part that South Carolinians took therein, compensation to be $1,000. ROUOII ON RATS FOR THANKSGIVING. A Negro Doctors Diet nt an Alabama Hotel und Catches Several Drummers. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 2?A wholesale poisoning is reported from Fort Deposit tonight. On Thanksgiv ing day a Negro by the name of Nathan Lamb alias Scllars, had a grudge against Mr. F. M. Searcy, proprietor of the Houston House, and placed some "rough on rats" on the turkey after it had been set upon the table for the guests. Those who ato of it were suddenly taken sick. Next day the Negro put some of the poison in tho drinking water and upon some of the beef steak. The result was tho poisoning of Mr. Searcy, his wife and daughter, Miss McQueen, and several drummers. Two came very near dying from the effects of tho poison. The Negro was arrested and has confessed and Iiis trial is now pending. Lynching is talked of. RED CROSS TO THE RESCUE. Au Urgent Call for Relief tor the Sen Island Sufferers. Washington, D. (j.j Dec. 2.?A call for relief has been issued by the District of Columbia Auxiliary Red CroBs association in behalf of the suf ferers on tho islands along Nthc South Carolina coast. Miss Barton, national president of tho Red Cross association, has been working among these people for several months and her accounts of the destitution which she witnessed among the inhabitants arc most pa thotic. A committee sent to the houses and temporary places of shelter on these islands to ascertain tho number of the destitute and their exact condition and needs, reported to Miss Barton that it often happened that they could not gain admission, but could only com municate through servantsns tho per sons within wero naked. Contribu tions of money, food and clothing aro solicited. Nashville Flouring Mills Resume Work. Chattanooga, Tknn., Dec. 2.?Tho Chamborlain Mills is a recently organ ized company at Nashville, Tonncssee, with a largo amount of eastern capi tal. This company have acquired the three groat flouring mills formerly owned by tho Union mills known ns the Lanier, Nashvillo and Ameri can. F. P. Bronson, of St. Louis, has been elected goncrnl manager. Tho new company have already started one of the mills and expect to have all in operation in a few days. . This renewal of the flouring industry at Nashville indicates improvement oi trado in tho South. _ Crisp Gone Hack to Work. Auousta, Ga., Dec. 1.?Speaker ? Crisp left on tho noon train for Wash . ington today. WORK BEFORE CONGRESS MEASURES DEMANDING ATTEN TION OF SENATE AND HOUSE. Resolutions fur Cloture?Voorhees Likely to Neglect Ills Infant?The Bankruptcy [tin to be Pushed?Pre* Coinage Com ing?Tariff to be Given lilght of Way Over Kverythlng. Washington, D. 0., Dec. 8.?The sonnte caleuchir is full of business. There are fifty-six bills and seven mis cellaneous documents awaiting action and there are a number of other meas ures lying on the calendar Bubjcet to call. . Not much headway will bo made in tho senate, at least not until after the Christmas holidays. Tho most important bill on tho cal endar is senate bill No. 458, introduced by Voorhoes August 15th and referred to the committee on finance, which provides for the increase of national bank circulation up to the par value of bonds deposited to secure such cir culation. It is doubtful whether this bill will be called up again. Voorhees stated this afternoon that he would tako no steps in regard to any matter before his committee until there had been a meeting of tho committee, and this meeting will beheld on Tuesday morning at the usual hour, 11 o'clock. An early subject for discussion will bo tho proposed changes in the rules, which tho long debate on the silver bill brought to the attention of the senate and tho country. There are oightceen amendments now pending before the committee on rules, and that committee will meet to consider them at the earliest practicable mo ment. Tho great majority of these amendments are in the direction of eloturo and were introduced by sena tors as follows : Hill 5; Butler 1; Mills 1; Hoar 1; Platt 2; Lodge 2; Gallingcr 2; Dolph 2; Manderson 2, and Voorhees 1. Any report made by this committee recom mending eloturo will bo the Bignal for the opening of a prolonged and hot debate. In the house on Wednesday, Repre sentative Oates, of Alabama, will call up tho bankruptcy bill which will, under the rules, at the conclusion of tho first session come up as unfinished business. When tho general debate on this has lasted somo time. Gates will ask that it close in two days. After ward amendments will be in order and debato under tho live minutea rule will begin. Oates hopes to bring the measure to a vote in eight or ten days. He thinks it will pass and he will en deavor to have it voted on before other measures of more urgency gets the at tention of the house. The ways and moans eommittcce arc anxious to get the tariff bill upas soon as possible and expect to do so before the holiday recess. All other measures will then retire in the house and give the tariff bill the right of way. Chairman Sayers of tho appropria tion committee will have two or three appropriation hills ready for the house to act upon by tho end of the first week's session, but he will not oiler them for consideration if he sees that they will in any way antagonize the "all important" question of revising existing tariff laws. He notified Speaker Crisp that the sundry civil service and fortification bills arc com pleted. The house calendar contains some forty house bills and about fifty of a private character. Bland, who now contests with flol miin the right to bo called the oldest member of tho house, will endeavor to bring up the silver question at tho earliest day. A majority of the com mittee Oil coinage, weights und meas ures, of which ho is chairman, is in favor of free coinage and will report favorably a bill to rccnuct the coinage law of 1887. But tho silver question can not come up in the house until tho tariff bill is disposed of. At some time during the session, and as early as possible. Wheeler, of Ala bama, chairman of tho house committee tin territories, will ask the house to con sider tho advisability of admitting to tho Union as new States Arizona, Now Mexico and Utah. I IKKD 1iy A FLYING TKAIN A Disastrous Collision In tbo Heart of a Pennsylvania Town Following a Itusb Down a Mountain. White Havbn, Penn., Dec. 2.? This morning two freight trains col lided on tho Lehigh Valley railroad in the heart of tho town. A fire fal lowed, burning tho cars, and it is thought that at least three men wore burned to death. The flames commu nicated to Runhkc hotel, and one of the worst fires which has ever visited here in many years started. The train caino down the mountain at a good speed. When the end was reached just above the town it seems that tho engineer put on a full head of steam and the green trainmen failed to re lease the brakes, with tho result that the train parted in throe places. The engineer sped away with the portion of tho train, leaving tho other cars be hind. Tho freight train dashed into the stationary train and tho flames burst from the wreck. The flames spread to Runhke hotel near by, and from there tho fire spread to a livery stable. Fora time it looked as though the town was doomed, but a change in tho wind gave tho firemen the ad vantage, and the fire was gotten under control. COTTON KXPOKTKKK PAIL. Personal Assignments to Secure Special Liabilities but Klrut AsHets Very lnllrm. Richmond, Dec. 2.?The personal deod of assignment made yesterday by N. C. Brauer, of the firm of W. W. Brauer ?fc Co., the largest cotton ex porters south of Baltimore, was fol lowed by a similar ono to-day by W. W. Brauer, who manages the foreign part of tho business and is a resident of London. The property convoyed in tho trusts aggregates $05,000 and is to secure tho personal obligations of these gentlemen. The firm will not make an assignment as it really has no assets. The liabilities are not given, though known to be quite large, and the creditors aro New York, Baltimore and London parties. Tho failuro of tho firm is attributed to low prices and small markets and tho injury of stock carried abroad through the rough sea. AN OPAL WITH A HISTORY. Five Men win. Wore the Fateful Stone Overwhelmed With Misfortune. Sumo years ago u gentleman named Beard, who was one of tho wealthiest residents of Houston, was traveling on horseback from San Antonio to Austin'. In his saddlebags ho had a supply of provisions, liquor, etc., tho usual eom missary supplies incident to horseback journeys. A few miles from Austin he rode up to a treo tinder which lay a stranger, sick almost unto death. He asked Mr. Beard for assistance and was given somo piovisious and a generous draft of whisky. Tho fellow was suffer ing with a raging fever and realized tho necessity of getting to whero he could havo proper medical attention. Ho aBked Mr. Beard if ho could spure? him a few dollars, at tho sumo time drawing from his finger a heavy gold ring set with a magnificent opal, which shot forth Hashes of red, bluo and gold en light ns tho stonu whs moved. Mr. Beard took tho ring, giving tho mnn $8, which was about half tho chungo he had with him, promising to call on tho man in tho hospital in Austin, where ho hoped to hear fro u triends and would redeem tho ring. Air. Heard rode on, after making tho stranger as com fortablo ns possible Somo two or three days later ho went to tho hospital and found his man still vory ill, but ho had failed to receive tho expected remittance. Alter chat ting with him awhile ho took his de parture. When ho visited tho hospital uoxt tiny, ho found tho man was dead. Ho returned to Houston, forgetting all about the ring, except as ho happened to notico it. Tho second day i.'fter his return ho lost a lawsuit involving $80, 000. From this time everything ho touched proved unlucky. Ono day ho was in Austin gloomily meditating over his ill luck when his eye chanced to fall upon tho opal, which ho BWOars was emitting a yellowish green light and seemed to inoek at him. Liko a flash tho story of tho opal and tho ill luck that attached to a possessor came into his mind, and drawing tho ring from his finger ho started for tho Colo rado river, intending to throw it in the stream. On his way ho met a friend, tho sheriff of tho county, to whom ho communicated his intentions. Tho ollicer said it was a shamo to throw away such a magnificent gem and begged that ho might havo it in stead. Tho opal changed ownership right there, and three days afterward tho sheriff was shot and killed. Tho opal then passed into tho hands of a lawyer,who was thereupon unfortunate until ho died, and tho ring went into tho hands of tho fifth man, who soon went crazy. From this time Mr. Beard lost all traco of tho opal, after follow ing its history through the hands of five different men, all of whom met with inisfortuno as soon as tho gem came into their possession.?St. Louis Globe Democrat. Rouiu ami London. A correspondent of a contemporary gives somo interesting details, com paring tho value of land in tho city of London today with tho value of land iu ancient Rome. A business freehold property in the city, offered for sale by auction, was withdrawn at ?170,000. or ;it tho ratio of ?45 per foot. It appears that Hie houso of Clodius cost what would be ?119,470 of our money. Tho Roman palaces naturally fetched higher prices, whilo smaller houses cost less. Tho rosidonco of Crassus sold for ?28,000. On tho wholo it would seem that real property in Roino in tho time of the empire was almost as valuablo as it is iu tho metropolis now. In Rome, as in most cities during tho moditeval ages, tho houses wero not only places of busi ness, but also and chiefly private resi dences. The house of Clodius, for ex ample, besides its storerooms, where tho produco from hia ? unitry estates was kept for sale, contained tho usual apartments of a private mansion. The Maison Plant in at Antwerp is a fine example of a sixteenth century house, where under tho same roof were tho business offices and private apartments of the proprietor. As in England and the low countries, so in Rome, tho value of such 111 uses as plaecs of residence affected tHe juices they fetched in the market. Therefore the comparison with tho price realized for purely busi ness premises is in somo measuro un trustworthy.?London Land and Water. African Decoration. A tribe of West Afric an women, who nro forced to forego clothing on account of the heat, turn the entire attention of their personal decorative instincts to their heads, torturing their wooly locks into all sorts of fantastic designs. The "buffalo horn" is a favorite; tho lock hair hangs in tight ringlets, and the front is divided into two rolls, nnd wound around long curved shells which stand nearly upright from the head. Another popular design is u halo round tho head, formed of tightly braided lit tlo pigtails, which are hold in position by a hoop of wood, which encircles tho head. Tho hoop represents the nimbus of a saint, and tho little tails the beams of heavenly light.?Philadelphia Press. Moon IntiuonccM. Many superstitious beliefs as to tho "influonco" of tho moon Htill remain, oven in this last deeado of tho nine teenth century. In somo localities it is believed to bo unlucky to bo empty handed when ono first beholds the new moon, nnd ninong thoHamo pcoplo hav ing silver in tho.hands or gold in tho pockets is a "good sign." If ono is about entering upon an important un dertaking, ho had best defer proceedings until the moon is "fulling"-?that is, until B'jmo time between "now" and "full" moon. A IHflcronco. Bngley?Do you havo your clothes mado to order? Brace?When 1 strike a new tailor. With tho old ones they aro mado by ro jucst.?Exchango. A null For a Ood. Tho ancient Egyptians believed that tho spirit of their greatest god, Osiris, dwelt among them in tho form of a pure whito bull marked by a certain sign. Horodotus mentions two of these signs ?a black oaglo on tho back and a black forehead with a squaro of white in its center. Theso croaturos, when found, wero worshiped during lifo nnd mum mified after death. Tho Now York Historical society has ono of theso "bull gods," a fluo mummy from tho touiplo of Serapis.?St. Louis Republic TO STICK ON SUGAR. THE FIRST SYMPTOM OF DEMO CRATIC DISAFFECTION. Senator* who Promise a Fight Against tho Ways and Means Committee?They nt no Bounty but a Ulgher Duty ou Both Itaw and Defined. Washington, D. C, Dec. 8.? A proniiuent Soutbern senator, whose constituents aro interested in ^b.e pro duction of sugar, said this morning that a vigorous fight would bo made on the sugar schedule as reported by the ways and means committee when tho bill came before the senate. From what ho said it can be assumed that the senators from the sugar States will oppose the endorsement of tho bounty sysie n and will fight to the bitter end the tariff that has been fixed upon sugar. This senator stated that a de termined effort would bo made in tho senate to change the bill in this particular, so that the bounty feature will be eliminated and the tax of not less than 1| cents will he placed upon refined sugar, and \1 cents on raw sugar. The conditions of the sugar industry, ho said, were misunderstood by the people of the United States. The demands of the sugar growers were in accordance with the principles of the democratic party, for its adoption would result in the rev enue tarifi' admission of raw sugar free will enable refiners to import their pro duct, to thee xelusion of the domestic article, and was against every principle of tho taxation, from tho foundation of the government for the reason that sugar, has been on the dutiable list since 17U2 when it was placed there by Hamilton, and where it had remained down to the McKinley act. TBK VOTE ON ASSOCIATE JUSTICK. ItCHiilt of tho Itoll Call as Between Mc ?owiiii, Gary and Jones--A Good Tiling to I'axte Away l bo State. At 2 o'clock the slaughter began, the two houses being in joint Bcssion. The election was for an associate jus tice to succeed Justice McGowan. Messrs. Wilson and Moore were ap pointed tollers on the part of the sen ate and Messrs. Hughes, Carpenter and Johnston on the part of the house: Senator Ragin nominated Speaker Jones, Representative Hill nominated Judge McGowan, and Senator Hemp hill nominated Lieutenant Governor Gary. The vote resulted as follows: For Gary?Senators Abbott, Barton, Beasley, Brice, Brown, Durham, Etlrd, \V. D. Evans, John Gary Evans, Glenn, Harrison, Ilcmphill, Mayliold, O'Dcll, Peake, Ragin, Rcdfearn, Sanders, Stribling, Tnnmorman, Williams, Wil son; Representatives Anderson, Ash ley, Berry, Brazoale, Buist, Byrd, Cox, Crum, Dendy, Dennis, J. T. Dun can, ? Edwards, Farley, Felder, Folk, Foster, F. B. Gary, Graham, Gunter, Hammctt, Harvey, Jeffories, .Ionian, Johnson, Kennedy, J. D. Kinard, II. J. Kinard, Lancaster, Lemmon, Magill, W. H. Mauldin, McWhite, McLaurin, Mish?o, Nettles, Patton, Pearnian, Phillips, East, Rivers, Roper, Rowland, Skinner, A. J. Smith. J. L. Smith, Stal vey. Stokes, Sudduth, Tatum, Tindul, Waters, Watson, Watts, Whitman, Whitmiro, Wilborn, W. C. Wolfe, J. S. Wolil', Woodward, Youinans. Total !)7. For Jones?Senators Finlcy, Fuller, Magill, McDnniol, Miller; Representa tives Blackwell, Blcase, Bioland, Bruce, Brice, Carpenter. Carroll, Chandler, Davis, Du Boso, Elder, F.llis, Estridge, Hardin, Hough, Kirkland, Love, Laban Mauldin, Mitchell, Glivcr, Russell, Sturkio, Taylor, Vaughan, Yeldcll. Total 28. For McGowan?Senators Bighant, Buist, Jenkins, Moore, Mower, Sloan, Smytho, Verdior; Representatives Ba cot, Glover, Hamilton, Hardoe, Has kell, Hill, Hughes, Hydrick, Kelly. Knotts, Lofton, Lawrence, Manning, Moses, Rhodes, Sullivan, Thomas, Tupper, Von Kolnitz, Weston. To tal 27. Serious Fire in London. London, Dec. 2.?The lire which started at IIoultcr'b wharf, Dowgato dock, near the Cannon Street railroad station this morning continued until noon, causing a loss of many thousands of pounds. The firemen were unable to approach the site of the outbreak of the lire owing to narrow streets, which were covered with ice. Houltcr's warehouse, filled with printing paper was entirely gutted. He Proved to be the Itight Man. CONCORD, Ga., Doc. 2.?Lucius Holt, the Negro who was arrested yesterday at Concord on suspicion of murdering Arthur Reynolds, proved to be the right one and was found this morning hanging to a tree opposite the place whore ho committed the murder. His body was riddled with bullets and from its looks not less than one hundred bullets were fired into it. Both white and black seem glad that ho was pun ished in this way and hope that it will prove an example for others. The Elusive Hill Is Free Again. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 2.?Harry Hill, the Atlanta, Ga., alleged forger who was arrested here a few days ago, was dismissed in the police court today. It was established that Hill furnished bond in Atlanta to answer the charge on which he .s said to bo wanted next May and Judge Gicgg decided that he was not a fugitive. Freezing Weather In the Northwest? Sr. PAUL, Minn., Doc. 2. The weather in St. Paul and the rest of Minnesota yesterday was all the way from 20 te 88 degress below zero. In Manitoba the thermometer was 24 degrees below. |^K?J ? in' Czar's Gifts. Tho czar of Russia always carries with him, when ho visits bis wife's rel atives in Denmark,one largo trunk that is filled with valuables. Theso aro in tho shape of watches, diamond rin^s, various crosses and ribbons of minor or ders and purses of money. They uro nsod judiciously by tho czar to distri bute among telegraph Operator?, sta tionmon, policemen and other minor functionaries with whom tho emperor and his family come in contact. The advent of the czar is always horahlod with delight at Copenhagen. ELEVEN YEARS L AN INCIDENT OF GETTYSBUB PLEASANT SEQUEL. General Gordon Thought II? General Marlow to l)lo on tho 1) In 1803, but They Met Agalu Ington Iu 1874?Saved by nl>ev The advanco of tho Confe. of bnttlo commenced, onrly on ing of July 1, 1868, at Gottys infantry division commanded \\ General John B. Gordon of was among tho first to attack, jectivo point was tho left of the corps of tho Union army. The commander of that corps position so far advanced boy main lino of tho Federal ar whilo it invited attack, it ph beyond tho reach of ready supj the crisis of battlo camo to hi rush of charging lines more o than his own. Tho Confederate was steady, and it was bravely tho Union troops," who for tho li found themselves engaged in U tho soil of tho north, which uuti had been virgin to tho war. "a far cry" from Richmond to t burg, yet Lee was in their fro; they seemed resolved to welconi southern visitors "with bloody to hospitahlo graves." But tho flanks rested in air, and being its lino was badly broken, and its bravely rcsoluto defenso agai well ordered attack of tho Confe veterans it was forced to fall bnc Gordon's division was in mo double quick to seizo^md hold tago ground in pis front, from tho opposing lino had retreated, ho saw directly in his path the i ently dead body of a Union ofticei checked his horse nnd then from tho motion of tho eyes i\ that the officer was still living onco dismounted, and seeing tl head of his wounded Ionium wi in a depression in the ground under it a nearby knapsack, raising him at the shoulders f(I purpose ho saw that tho MooJ trickling from a bulletholo in the and then he knew that tho < been shot through'tho breast, gave him a drink from a flask of and water, and as he revived saidl ing over him : " I am very turryj you in this condition. 1 am Gordoj* 1'lease tell mo who I wish to aid you all 1 can." The answer came in feeblol "Thank you, general. 1 am Br] General Barlow of New York] can do nothing more for mot li ing." Thon, after a pause, "Yes, you can. My wife is at quarters of Genoral Moade, I ft vivo tho battle, please lot her kj 1 died doing my duty, General Cordon replied: "Y< sage, if I live, shall surely be your wife. Can I do nothiut you?" After a brief pause General responded: "May (Jod bless yo\i ono thing more. Feel in the pocket of my coat?the IcftbroaJ take out, a packet of letters." eral Gordon unbuttoned the bit ed coat and took out tin; pa seemingly dying soldier said please take out ono and road They uro from my wife. I wj her words shall bo the lust I heu] world." Resting on one knee at his eral Cordon, in clear tone; tearful eyes, read tho h tki reading of the letter ondcdj Barlow said: "Thank yoi| please tear them all up. I havo them read by others." General Cordon toro them] ments and scattered thorn on I "shot sown and bladed t| steel." Then, pressing Go] low's hand, General Gordonf goodby, and mounting Iiis In; ly joined his command. He hastily penned a noto niel of his saddle, giving C low's message to his \vif< that ho was still living, ously wounded, and infoJ where he lay. AddressingJ "Mrs. General Barlow, Meade's headquarters," 1 to one of his stall' and toldi a white handkerchief -?'.p(j and rido at a gallop towf my'S line and deliver tin Barlow. The officer proni tho order. He was not firf on being met by a Unionl advanced for that purpd was received and read, wj anco that it should bo stantly. Lotus turn from (left! capitol at Washington, wfl later, General Gordon li seat as senator of tho Uni was present at a dinner Orlando B. Potter, a rft congress from tho state, Upon Mr. Potter's intiM a gentleman with the ti Barlow, General Gordon] "Aro you a relative Barlow, a gallant killed at Gettysburg?'^ The answer was, " I Barlow who was killed] and you are tho Gem/ succored mo!" Tho meeting was bravo men?every i diers. I should add that husband's note, which hj ily delivered, Mrs. BaVlf the field, though not V her person, for tho n progress. Sho soon f< and had him borne | receive surgical attsr Through hor ho was enabled to of tho ' ? Kxcolsior tho splendid re achieved undei commander.?1 Mini Military stoj far as possible and tho conipon? able, not only inj also where praetij various services, plo, a ship might cessity bo armed, or might fill from stores service.?Nei