The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, October 05, 1892, Image 3

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MCKINLEY WAGES ] * ; - , BREAK DOWN. | * * ?-, history of the small list of bogus wage advances that now sup plies two parties with campaign material ? brief facts in re gard to each case. The Hon. John DeWitt Warner, oJ the New York Reform Club, has com pleted his investigation of the twenty eight cases wifcsre,. according to the American Economist and other high tariff authorities, wages bave been ad vanced in protected industries since October, 1S90. Trustworthy examiners were sent to each place to get the facts. Their reports were of such a nature that the Reform Club has published them as a number of Tariff Reform, and the New York Weekly World gave them a'fuli page. It will be remembered that the Re form Club hid prepared and published in the World and in Tariff Reform a list of nearly 500 wage reductions and lock outs in protected industries since the McKinley act took effect. The protec tionists who had promised higher wage; with the McKinley bill and had been shouting higher wages ever since, began sc' get uneasy because they could not tell anxious inquirers exactly where wage advauces had occurred. They be gan to search, feeling confident that wages must have advanced in many of the thousands of protected mills in this country. They sect out circulars to manufacturers asking them to report the per cent, that wages had been advanced in their mills since October, 1S90. In this way and in other ways they got together what purported to be a list of wage advances. Apparently it did not occur to the American Economist editor - (or if it did he was so anxious to publish the list that he did not consider the consequence of an exposure) that the man ufacturers might misstate facts, perhaps to get free advertising, or, it may be, to attract laborers to their mills. The twenty-three cases of "wage advauces" . were published with a flourish in the American Economist. Republican papers were not slow in copying the list. At last McKinley had been vindicated and the "free trade liars" silenced. But' tne one great fault with the list was that iz was short; indeed it was its brevity that betrayed it in more ways than ore. it not only exposed the meager results of great promises, but it offered induce ments to investigation which a more formidable list would have precluded. If the protectionists were attempting a game of bluff they should have made a list of several hundred advances?so many that it would be a very big and very expensive piece of work to make inquiry in regard to all. Bat twenty three cases were just enough to challenge investigation. If a few of them could be shown to be incorrect, the already small list would be diminished so that even Republican editors would be ashamed to publish it. It was not ex pected by Mr. Warner, when he began the investigation, that the whole list was a fraud and that he would, in the ma jority of cases, get wage reductions for his already long list. The following are the briefest possible summaries of the list, the quotations being from the American Economist's list of examples of wages advanced under the McKinley tariff, showing increased per cent. : "1. fiaskell & Baker Car Company, Michigan City, Ind., 10 percent." Wages were reduced from' 12? to 25 cents per day in 18S9, and restored 12$ cents in May, 1890. No change since the McKinley act took effect. "2. Woofer & Stoddard, Waiden, N. Y., 5 per cent." Strike in May, 1892, caused a read justment of wages by which some got more and otheis less?total effect not certain. ,43. Camden Woolen Company, Cam den, Me., 10 per cent." Four looms got a raise bee iuse they changed to heavier work; weavers earn ings were not increased. "4. Rider Engine Company, Waiden, N. Y., 5 per cent." No advances in ten years, but leduc tions of 10 and 12? per cent, since 1884. "5. Hawthorne Mills Company,Glenn villc, Conn., 15 per cent." One man advanced from $1.15 to $1.25 in July, 1892, and nearly ail oi the 200 employes reduced from 10 to 20 per cent, since 1S90. "6. Alfred Dolge, Dolgeville, N. Y., j 20 per cent." Alfred Dolge has for years had a sys tem of encouraging employes to work | for little and to expect more, by advanc- j ing the wages of twenty or tweaty-Sve cf his more industrious workmen a shil ling at the end of the year. In Febru ary, 1891, forty or fifty received this advance but in February, 1S92, no ad vance whatever occurred and many em ployes were disappointed. Numerous reductions each year fully offset these bunched and widely heralded advances. k'-7. Lake Superior Lumber Company, Sault St. Mane, Mich., 15 per cent." No advance at all was made in this planing mill; report was purely for political reasons. "S. J. C. Bass, Roxboro, N. C, 2j ; per cent." j? The two or three employes of this grist and saw mill never got less wages than i ji now. The report furnished amusemeut for neighbors, jfc" k*S. il. L. Chapman, White Pigeon, Mir:-*;., 15 ror cent.'" Ose of tue two employes here is r?.n apprentice and had h?s wa^es advanced to 50 cents per day from 25 cents. '-10. Baltimore and oi;;o Railroad i Company, Grafton, W. Va.,20 per cent." i No advances here, but tne few that I have not been discaarged by closing of foundries, etc., have had their wagesre duced i: the last vear from 62.25 to ?1.57. "11. Wiikins & Close, Mayfield, N. Y., 15 to 25 per cent." Mr. Wiikins says the report is false, as only the usual advances to new hands have occurred. "12. Close & Chr?stie, Mayfield, N. Y.. 15 to 25 per cent." Same situation a? No. 11. "13. Cantastota Knife Company, Can tastota, N. Y., 10 per cent." In 1831, by threatening to strike, the : employes got back about 10 per coot, of \ the 20 per cent, reduction maie four or five years ago. ' ?4. New York Knife Company, Waiden, N. Y?, 10 per cent." In April and in Jane, 1892, about two-thirds of the workers by ba7iaga uuion and bjt'nrearening to strike received i advances of fron 7 to 10 per cent. A general red::r;:ioa of 10 per cent, oc- i currsd in 1SS5, which the company j promised to replace if Harrison was ; elect? i. "i5, Tho v.astoa Knife Co npaay, Thomaston, Conn., 10 per cent." Same situation as at No. 13. "16. W. F. Epperson, Ladoga, Tnd., 10 per cent." Mr. Epperson's reply to t'ao Repubii? \ can letter sent him i* bein^ widely cir culated by Democrats. Instead of ai vancing waires he haa had to shut down I his heading factory part or the time. "17. Pittsburg Reduction Company, Pittsburg, Penn.? 10 per cent." J_ ine proprietor knew of no advances aud was surprised that such a report was made. "IS. Sultan Buggy and Carriage Company, White Pigeon, Mich., 10 per cent." ISo advances, but more work for the s? me pay. '19. B. Howitzer, Chasehurg, Wis., 10 per cent.*' Chaseburg has fifty inhabitants-^-Xo Howitzer there. 4'20. Enterprise Manufacturing Com pany, Manheim, Penn., 30 per cent." The girls making socks aud overalls at $2.50 to ?3 a week became dissatis fied and were irregular at work. The firm advanced piece prices from 35 to 45 centSj and from 11 to 15 coats per dozeu. 4'21. Shaw Stocking Company,Lowell, Mass., 10 per cent." The reduction by law of working hours from sixty to fifty-eight caused no re duction of wages of day laborers, but piece workers may earn less. "22. Kings County Kuiting Company, Brooklyn, Y., 5 per cent." The "ten or fifteen employes know of no advance. 4'23. Western Knitting Mills, Roch? ester, Mich., 15 per cent.'* Four apprentices were advanced; many others of the one hundred employes re ceived reduction} from 15 to 12J- cents per dozea. 4'24. Western Knitting Mills, Detroit, Mich., 15 per cent." Wages have not changed for eight years. 4'25. Lacgley & Davis, Oriskaay Faits, N. Y., 25 to 50 csnts a day." Two foremen and one apprentice ad vanced slightly; sis weavers and one finisher reduced from 11 to 16 per cent ; wages of other five employes unchanged. "26. William Carter & Co., High landsville, Mass., 15 to 50 cents a day." Five of ninety employes were advanced to prevent them from returning to Eng land. A few other chauge? in the mills were made because new machines were introduced. "27. McCormick & Co., Harris burg, Pcnm, 15 to 50 cents a day." Forty laborers whose wages were re duced from $1.20 to $1.10 last fall had the ten cents restored in June. Forty puddlers on February 15,1S92, were re duced from $4 to $3.50 per ton. Eighty five were thrown out in March, 1892, by the closing of one furnace. 4 '23. He (Joan De Witt Warner) should not forget the 25,000 employes in tne Fall River cotton mills, who had their wages increased on July 11." The legal change of hours from sixty to fifty-eight per week caused no reduc tion of wage3, because the employes were contemplating a strike to get back a reduction of 10 per cent in 1334. The Tariff a Tax. Senator James K. Jones asked the Hon. C. R. P. Breckinridge, of the House Ways and Means Committee, to prepare for the Hon. W. L. Terry, of Little Rock, a statement of the amount of tariff duties on a bill of goods bought by a representative farmer. In reply Mr. Breckinridge furnished an exhibit based on actual transactions between Mr. R. M, Kuox, merchant of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Mr. D. W. Branch, a farmer, who bought the goods. Mr. Breckin ridge explains that this is calculated upon the basis of copy from the books of Mr. Knox and upon the rate of taxes actually paid upon competing articles at the ports as provided by law. The bill, as it appears in Mr. Knox's books, is subjoined : 1SS7. Article. Cost. Tariff. Jan. 26 To cassimere suit clothes.S 11 00 S 4 00 2 pair brogans, $1.65. 3 00 75 Feb. 5 1 bell collar. 1 50 75 2pair plow lines.... 70 16 1 pair boy's brogans. 1 25 29 17 1 box axle grease.... 10 2 21 1 Avery plow. 3 50 1 09 2 buck boards, 50c.; 9 pounds nails. 6c... 1 05 29 1 bushel salt, 75c.; 1 pair misses' shoes, Sl.25. 2 00 63 March 8 1 pair shoes, SI .75; 1 pair hinges, 25c.... 2 00 50 1 vard waterproof.. 75 30 26 1 pair brogans. 1 60 37 2 yards calico, at 10c. 20 9 1 water bucket, 25c. ; 1 spool thread, 5c.. 30 9 April 9 11 pounds nails, 62.. 6 ) 14 22 2 bats, 65c.; 1 yard lawn, 50c........... 1 SO 51 20 yards stripe, 12><e 2 5'J 1 06 14 yards calico. 10c.. 1 40 60 3 yards jeans 50c.... 1 50 70 y. dozen thread. 40 13 12 yards ticking, 25c. 3 00 1 25 1 set cuos and saucers 75 29 May 8 1 kni-.e.. . 75 25 June S 2 pair men's shoes... 4 00 47 1 pair suspenders.... 75 20 24 10 yards bleached do mestics, 12KC. 1 25 54 July 25 2 suitsc.'thes, 57.50, $9 16 50 5 T9 2 yards oil cloth, 40c. 80 12 10 yards gingham 10;. 1 00 35 1 curry comb and brush. ic 5 Aug. 19 35 yards baz^m?. 9c. 8 15 1 05 1 bundle ties, $1.50; 12 lbs. nails, 5c. GO IS Sept s 14 lbs. nails, 5c. 7j 21 1 box axle grease, 10 lbs. soda, 10c. 20 6 16 35 yar.ls bagging, % lb. 8c. 2 50 95 1 bundle ties. 1 5'j 39 10 yards osnaburgs, He. 1 10 34 Oct. 24 1 suit jean^; clothss_ 7 50 2 07 2 wool hats, $L and $1.-0. 2.-0 1 02 1 boy's wool hat. 75 33 10 yards worsted. 2 Je.. 2 00 37 1*3 yards wor.st-^d, L7c. 2 -JO <j.; 1 set plaies. 05 :_'4 1 ;-et goblets. K3 :_>4 1 set kniv- s an 1 Jorks. 2 75 M 2 dish??, 40c an I 60c.. 1 00 36 35 yards bagging, ^c.. 2 80 1>9 1 bundle ties. :j 13 <r, $101 50 SO Projection a::d Wa-es. 4,Xo intelligent advocate of a protective tariif claims that it i3 able of itself, to maintain a uniform rate of wages?with out regard to fluctuations i:i the supply of and demand for the products of lab >r. But ic is confidently claimed that protective duties strongly tend to hold up wa^es and are the only barrier ag*;ost a reduction to a European scale/'?President Harrison's Letter. WAGES PER WEEK IV EUROPE. Free-trade lYotectfl J-"n_-'.-i:ii. Germany. Blacksmiths.>'.?.^> $4.0) Carpenters. '.'.75 4.11 Machinist:.. 9.<i0 4.60 Painters. 8.92 4.82 Mason?.h.UO 4.';7 Shoemakers. 6.00 2.95 Laborers. 5.29 8.11 CARNEGIE MEN ARRESTED. - I The Charges Against Them Are Asrgra- 1 rated Riot and Conspiracy. A Pittsburg dispatch says: Burge-s j McLuckie, of Homestead, went be:ore ; Alderman King, of th: s >u:h si le. Th?r j d?y afternoon, and made information ! .'.gainst Chairman II. (*. Frick, V.ce i Chairman Leischraan, Sec*etarv L j >v, Superintendent Potter and Messrs. ( urrv and Childs, all of \h>: Carnegie Stefl j company, limited, charging th m with ! aggravated riot and conspiracy. It is ! presumed the charge of riot is base 1 on i the attempt to land the Pinkertons oc I July Gth, the day of the riot. & cr< tary i L'.vej >y was arrested later in the d y, and warru.ts were issu d tor the othi r-. ; Informations on the same charge were : also made against lawrcace Phipps, W. 1 H. Correy. J F. Dover, Nevia itfcCon- ! uel'. Fred Prim r nu-i George Lauder, a i employ s f-f the Carnegie company, and Wiliian-? Pink-, rton, Robert Pinker ton, li. B. Mellon, John Cooper, C. W. Beddle, W. II. Burt. THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. Notes of Her Progress 2nd Prosperity Briefly Epitomizea And Important Happenings from Day to Day Tersely Told. A news special fr. m Austin, Texas, says: Governor Hogg issued a proc lamition. last Wednesday, quarantining again-t New York Mid other places where cholera now prevails or may here af er appear. A news special from Winchester. Va., says: Harry Smootz, **ho was s?ntenc d to be hanged Octob r 7th, for the mur der < f Miss Susie Farrall, of Sheppsrds town, in January, committed suicide at Charlestown Wednesday morning from a a do?e of morphine. It is not known how he obtained the poison. A Nashvil'e dispatch of Wednesday says: John B. Gunter, recently nomina ted for congress by the republicans of Hie fifth congressional district, lias de clined the honor on the ground that "There is no use running a republican for congress in this Gibraltar district of Tennessee democracy." A Richmond, Va., dispatch of Thurs day says: Lee Camp (,'otifedera'c Vet erans is keeping open house for Grand Army men who ere visiting the city. Ta bles with lunch are daily spread for thou sand--, while punch is being dispensed from a punch bowl out of which ever? president of the United States from Jeff eison is said to have draik. A Columbia, S. C. dispntch says: The state board of health on Tuesday estab lished a quarantine agninst railway lines entering the state. Unless the cboleri scare becomes m >re pronouncci the regu lations will re quire only a rigid inspec tion of all passengers and baggage enter in* the ftate, particularly from New York, and will interfere but slightly with trav.-l and traffic. The trustee3 of the North Carolina State Agricultural and Mechanical col lege at Rdeigh elected the following r.ew professors: B. Irby, of Georgia, profesor of agriculture, vice Chamber lain, resigned; Wallace Riddick, of Wake county, N. C , professor of m >tb coiatics ani practical mechflnisr, vice Kenealy, resigned; R. E N>bl*, (if Ala bama experiment station, was elected an assistant chemist at the fetation at Ral eigh. A meeting of the first mortgage bond holders of the Orange Belt Railway Com pany, of Florida, was held in New York City, Thursday, to consult upon the question of foreclosure of the mortgage on the property. It was decided to in struct the c mimittee to spare neither pains nor expense in cal'ing to account those responsible for the mismanage ment of the railroad. The committee was instructed to interven' and prevent the for* c'osure of the mortgage pending in the United States couitof Florida. A Jacksonville, F'a., dispatch says: Dr. Joseph Y. Porter, state health officer of Florida, was shown a report s nt cot from Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, an nouncing a death r.t Ne v Smyrna, Fla , *rom yellow fever, and siid: "I have no information of yellow fever at New Smyrna or a: ywhere else in Florida. If th? r .* was acre there or anywhere else in the stare I shou'd know it as - soon as discovered. The law in Florida is very stringent about reporting such cases. There is no truth in tiie dispatch from Wilmington A Savannah, Gi., dispatch says: H. M. Comer, president of the South Bound railroad, resigned Tuesday, and B A. Denmark was elected to succeed him. Mr. Comer's resignation is on account of duties as receiver of the Centra] railroad, which require his entire attention. The Florida Central and Peninsular stock holders have confirmed the lease of the South Bound and the work of building the South Bound to Florida will be^in at once. President Duval is now in Europe negotiating for money. Bondholders of Georgia Southern and Florida railroad met in the office of th : Mercnnt?e Trust and deposit Company at Baltimore Thursday. Three hundred and forty-nine bonds held in Baltimore were represented and 170 New York bonds. The meting was held to pro test against the issuing of receiver's cer tificates to build a branch Hue to Thom asville, Ga., f.nd for other purposes. A resolution was adopted instructing the Mercantile Trust and Dcp sit Company, tiu tees of the bonds, to resist the issu ing of receiver's certifica'es and in case the defaulted July interest be not paid to foreclose the mo tgaze. A News special of Wednesday says: Citizens residing on the government res ervation at Fortress Monroe, Va., have been thrown into a state of great axcite meut owing to a receipt of a general or der signed by the secretary of war pre r?'-rnp'oriIy < rdering that every hou*e in cluding Hygliaand Chamberlains new hotel to be vacated within fifteen days of the issuing e>f the order, which is dat ed September 14, 1*92, and further or dering the removal and tearing down of ail buildings at the owners' expense. An act of congress, dated March 18GS, gives the secretary lull power in this rnr-tter. Nashville, Tenu., has a real live king who has just been called to his home to mount the thro ie and restore order from the chaos now prevailing iu his kinydom. '! he. king's name is Momolii Massaquoi, and his country is Vey, which adjoins Siberia in West Africa. Momolu has been in Nashville for two years past at tending the Central Tennessee- collet and f.-ccuring a Christian education. He is twenty years o?J. He has just received letters stating that his father, King Be lah, has been kiiled in battie, and that 1rs mother had died of starvation. His people r.re in a desperate situation and he is urged to come at once and bri::g uil th< relief possible*. BURNED THE PEST HOUSES Because (hey Feared the Introduction of Cholera. A Nashville dispatch says: The conn- | tv board of health gave instructions ?hat j the pesthou^e four miles below Nashville, on th rive r bank, 1?: cleaned up in orde r j that they would be prepared t<> care j f>>r choleri cases shou'd the plague 1 retch Nashville; The pestho ;so was loc i ted near the thriving suburb of West i Nashvilie.and the people there were great ly alarm:- 1, as overfif y families live close :>y. Friday night they hei I >::? indien i tion meeting and appointed committees to try and secure promises tha? the pest house would ?"'?? be utilized. About th-: time the meeting adj turned some one set fire te> the pest house and all three build ! ings, each of which was 150 feet long, j w re destroyed. It would cost $4 000 10 replace them. j THE IAMS CASE. True Dills Found Against Three of His Persecutors. At Pittsburg, Thursday, true bills wen; found by the grand jury against Colonel II twkins, Lieutenant Colonel Str< at01 and Surgeon Ginn, of the Tenth reg m.?nt, N. G. P., for assault and battery u Private Iinrs case. Two indictments were re turned against each of the defendants. Iaai9, it will bu rera< mbered, w s hung up by the thumbs and afterwards drummed out of camp at Homestead for cheeri g when the news was received that Anarch arch ist Bergmau had shot II. C. Frick. TELEGRAPHIC GLEAN?. file News of tte Wurli CeMonsei Into Ply and Pointed Paragraphs. Interesting and Instructive to AH Classes of Readers. i no presbytery of Cincinnati in session Thursday, decided, by a large majority, to put on trial for heretical teaching, one of its members, Prof. Henry P. Smith, of Lane Theologietl Seminary. The trial will begin October 5th. A New York d spitch of Tuesday says: The board of health's 4 o'c'ock bulletin says: "No case of cholera in this city since the last bulletin. There is a sus pected case of a Chinaman, of Ko. 14 Mott street, who died to-day, and his body has been remov. d to the foot of East Sixteenth street for examination. A special from Cedar Rapids, la., says : Wednesday morning at 1 o'clock circulars were sent rut by order of the railroad telegraphers, ordering the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern men to go out at noon. Men were sent on every train on branches to notify day agents and all night men were notified by wire. A cablegram of Wednesday from Ber lin states that the bourse is much de pressed owing to Professor Koch's pessi mistic cholera views. Professor Koch believes that there will be a repetition of the epidemic in the spring and that the disease will linger for vears unless Ii'nm burg secures a copious supply of clear water. There was commenced at Toronto, Canada, Wednesday a ten day's session of the Pan Presbyterian A liance, or, to give it its full title, "The Fifth Genera! Council of the Alliance' of Reform Churches Holding the Presbyterian Sys tem." The 313 delegates to the Alliance represent a grand total of 3,003,209 com municants,78 branches of the church ami about thirty jationalities. A news spejial from Portland, Ore., says: Ihe principal busiuess transacted at the session of the sovereign grand lodge of Odd Fellows Tuesday was the election of officers for the ensuing year, as follows: Grand sire, G. F. Campbell, London. Ontario; deputy orand sire, J. W. Stebbins, Rochester, N. Y. ; grand secretary, Theodore A. Ross Columbus. O. ; grand treasurer, Isaac A. Shepard, Philadelphia. The largest conflagration that has ever occured on Long Island coast destroyed over one hundred frara? buildings at Rockaway Beach Tuesday, and left about one hundred and sixty acres a mass of ruins. The loss will range between $600, 000 and $1,000,000. The burned district includes both sides of Seaside avenue from L'mg Island railroad track and about half a mile north from Seaside avenue. ,m f A Saratoga, N. Y., c is patch says : The general term of the third department of the supreme court Thursday morning handed down a decision in th legislative apportionment eise of the people ex rel George C. Carter, of Utica, against Frank Rice. Secretary of State. The motion and app'icauon for mandamus and in junctions were denied and apportionment by ihc extra se?s on was declared cousti ?utional. The opposition by Mayhnm, P. J., and justice Ilcrrick. Justice Putnam expresses no opiuion, not having had time to examine into the case. A Washington dispitch siys: At a quarter of 9 o'clock Wedne-day morning the special train on the Pensylvania rail road, bearing the president with his afflicted wife, his son, daughter, grand children and other relatives and friends who have been at Loon Lake with Mrs. Harrison during her illness, drew into the station, and the long and sad journ ey, which had been undertaken with some degree of trepidation was ended. It had been completed, however, without any suffering or other ill-effect to the distinguished patient. Thirty minutes later she was resting easdy in her bed at the - bite house, her mind much relieved by reaching "home," for which she has been longing throughout the past several weeks THE CENTRAL'S AFFAIRS Will in all Probability be Straightened Out Satisfactorily. A special disp itch from New York says: Important steps were takeu Thursday in the direction ot securing the discharge of the Georgia Central receivers and taking up the fl >ating debt now held by Speyer & Co. It is also iike'y that the manage ment of the road will change hands, Pres ident Comer stepping out and being suc ceeded by C. H. Phin'zy, of Augusta, Ga. Formal -ict:on in the matter was taken at a full board meeting of the Georgia Cen tral directors held at the Fifth Aveuue hotel, whore a committee was appointed with full power to readjust the floating debt and. secure the discharge of the re ceivers. A full membership of the com mittee could not be found, but among those on it are: E. Rollins Morse, of E. Rollins M >rse & Bros , Boston: E. JDen nison, of E. W. Clark k Co., Philadel phia; F. M. Colson, of Wilson, Colsou & Co., B ilt! mo re; C. II. Phinizy, of Auau^ta. Ga. ; E. T. Woodward, presi dent of the Hanover bank of New York, and E manuel Lehman and II. B. Hollius, also of New York. It was gencally understood that be fore the committee was formally appoint ed that they had fully discussed the matter and all arrangements made to pay oil the floating debt and cuang.* the man agement of the company. AMPLE ASSET.-?. The New York Tribune, in i's isme of Friday, says : Tir- Georgia Centra.! management has been r.-v da ioniz 1 in the. las: year, in Xo veniber. 1891, when th Calhouu l>r th- r.s were still in the board <>: directors, th pressing needs of the company \v,re provided forby a loan m j de by a banking syndicate including Spevcr & Co.". Kub . J.-> h &C,o.. L. Von Hoff man & ('".. Hallgart* n .V Co, and others; a d one other wasm::d?: j?y tlu Mutual Lite Insur ant Company. In ! .1 uiuary ih Richmond Terminal influence iefi tho Calhouu brothers off the board of directors of ilie Georgia Cen tral i he s nug" to rc--organizo the Riehmond Terminal svpto n followe 1, b M i > March the Georgia Central was" pl-tce l hi 'l"1 hands of a receiver, and since thai tim-j the comp * ny has b-"ii manage?! by interests i> >-tl!?- i" the Rich mond T' rminal. Liti?ati 111 over tho lease <*f the Georgia Cen tral to the Georgia Pacil?; followed and a mass of 1-gal oompdea'ion arose which isstib un it > \t- \. I r is>\atd l>\ th=? friends of the Geor gia < . tr i tin' ; would not reOj'i'ro moro thin .*">," -o,0i n o 0.000 ; provide for the S;> vi r a i ! '-int loans and interosts on bond a i jr. |.?b:o in -s n >'a i i d fault. The assc s -if the c >:ir.'j. i\ are alleged to *> ample for the f : i -.n.; ! his rn ney. DEMOCRATS AND POPULISTS Of Wisconsin Vole in Favor of Fusion Between the Two Parties. A special dispatch from Douglas, Wis., says: At the evening session of tin- pe > pie's party convention, Wednesday night, up to 1' :3U o'clock the time was oecupie ; by de!egat< s in making speech* s foi ;t'iil against fusion with the demo erats At that hour a vote was reached, resulting in 27 to li) in favor of fu im. Great excitement en-ucd, and many dele gates left the hall, the bal m ce still bei ni? engaged in attempting to proceed with the business of tho convention. Under the rules of the fusion the proposition adopted i>v the convention is tin's: State democratic nominees for presidential e?ectoiS arc to be withdrawn aud We ivcr electors elected by populists. In consid eration of this conccs-ion the populists endorse the democra ic sttte nominees for governor, members of congres and WRECKED BY ROBBERS. There Were a Million Dollars on the Train but the Robbers Did not Get it. Passenger train No. 8 on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ft: road was wrecked by robbers three miles west of Osagc City, Kan., at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. 1 he train consisting of bag gage, express and mail car?, two day coaches,two chair cars ami three sleepers, w.-.s thrown over an embankment three feet high and tho first six Cars telescoped. Four persons were killed outright and twenty five seriously injured. Those killed ar>-: Frank Baxter, express mes senger, Kansas City ; J. Blumen thai, ex press guardsman, Mexico, Mo. ; James Chaddicks, fireman, Topeka; Ed Mayer engineer, Topeka. The wreck occurred at a small bridge which cro-ses a ravine. Th* re is a he-.vy down ?rdde and the train was running fully forty miles an boor. It was impos sible for the engineer to see the mipslaced rails in timr: to check the speed of the train and the coaches piled one over the other until the baggage and express cars were complete y hidden from view. Three Pullman sleepers remained on the track, but the other cars were completely de molished. The fish plates had been care fully removed and the bolts taken out and the spikes drawn from ten ties and the rail bent to the indde. Robbery was ucqestionably the object of the outrage. The tiain carried $1,000,000 in currency enroute from the Mexican Central rail way to its headquarters in Boston. The scoundrels d d not get the money. A section house at Barclay was broken into Tuesday night and a crowbar, wrench and sledge hummer were stolen. All of these t ;ols, j xcept the crowbars, were found, and the fish plates and bolts which had been removed were also dis covert d. The passengers were sent to Topeka. Some of the wounded, who could not be removed, were left at Osage City. Several of the passengers will probably die, but the attending physi cians will make no statement until the extent of their injuries can be examined into. SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS Meet in State Convention at Colambit Tlllman Nominated. The South Carolina state democriti' convention met at Columbia at noon Wednesday; full delegations pesi t I he primary e'< ?tions already h?-i-l hav ing settled the question of nominations for state officers except as to attorney general, in which there is only loc^l in terest, the greatest interess in the con venti >n hing- d on whether the state de mocracy wouhl align itself with the na tional democracy. The morning session was occupied m effecting p rmauent or ganization and rou ine work. Rjcess *as taken till 6 p. m. Upon reassembling the committee on plutform and resolutions reported the following: THE PLATFO?t-M ADOPTED. We, representatives of the democratic party of South Carolina, in convention assembled. d> reaffirm our alleg?nce to die principles of the party as formulited !>y Jefferson, exempli fi*d and illustrated by his successors in the leadership, and endorsed by our people in t - .eccnt pri mary election, and we pl-u "l our loyal cupp rt to the nominees of t .e national democracy, Cleveland an I Stevens >n. We denounce as unpatriotic and infa m -us the attempts which have been m tde to injure the credit and honor of the state, both at home and abroad. The people of South Carolina, con scious of their ability and integrity, are determined that every just obligation of the state shall be honorabiy and prompt ly discharged, and we boldly proclaim that upon this one subject there is no difference or dividon of sentiment among some of the states. The bonded debt of the state is small. Her resource-* are large and ample. In her phosphate deposits alone the state is rich, and since the liti g dion in regard thereto has been adjust ed, the monthly receipts from the phos phate royalty for the past two months were nearly sufficient to meet the interest on the debt itself. We earnestly recommend to the legislature to set apart by law any excess of the phosphate royalty after paying the annual interest on the state debt as a siok'ng fu-.d to b:; placed at interest and sacre ily kept and used for the purpose of pay ng the principal of the state debt. TILLMAX TICKET NOMINATED. Governor, Benjamin Tillman; lieuten ant governor. Eugene B. Cary ; secretary of stite, J. E. Tindall ; comptroller gen eral, W. If. Ellerbe; treasurer, W. T. C. Bates; attorney-general, D. A. Towns nd; superintendent of education, W. D. Mayfie d ; adjutant and inspector general H. L. Farley, were nominated as the state ticket by the Farmers' Alliance demociats, the regular democracy of the state. The result was received with tumultu ous cheering. The candidates who re ceived the nominations were then intro duced to the convention and made short speeches of acceptance. The election of president^! electors will result in the selection of the Tillmva ticket, the mem bers of which are pledged to support Cleveland and S*ephenson. Thccouven tioby a vive voce vote passed the fol lowing resolution : "We, the democratic party of South Carolina in convention assembled, desire to express our appreciation of the'patri otic services id the Columbia Register, its able editor, Mr. T. L. t-?autr, in behalf of the cause of true democracy und the righ's of the people. " After the transaction of some further routine business, the convention ttd? journed sine die. NEW TERMINAL DIRECTORS. A Committee Will Investigate the Pur chase of the Georgia Central. A New York special <>f Wedtvsday savs: The new directors of th" R eh mond Terminal have re-elected John A. Rutherford second vice president, A. J. Hohr, treasurer and assistant secretary. II. C. Crawford was elected general counsel, and the following new execu tive committee was anoointcd : W. S. Clyde, chairman; W. E. Strong, J. C. Maben, George F. Stone, T. V. R\an. Joseph Bryan and Edwin Packard. President Oakman has been instructed to appoint a committee of directors to in vestigate the past transactioi s of the: company, and the company's officiais have been n titled loco?operate with the receiver in suits brought to recover mon ey spent in buying Georgia Central. It was announced that the n ones of several new directors had been used without, au thority on the Calhoun-Whitney opposi tion ticket. THE DALTON'S NOT CAPTURED. The Report Denied by the Governor of New 3Iexico. A dispatch of Friday from Eipaso Texas, says : There ported capture of the Dalton brothers is probably without foun dation. Ex-Governor Ross, of New Mexico, telegraphs from Doming that nothing has been developed to justify tbe report, and as far as he Las been able to learn, the Dalton brothers and their gang of train robbers have not been seen in the territory. Simi'ar telegrams have been received from various points in New NEW TICKET IN ALABAMA, Toe TUM Party m Ms Followers Nats Tasir Men An Electoral and a Full Congressional Ticket Nominated. The state convention of the third rartyites and Kolb supporters in Ala bama was held in Birmingham Friday. It made nominations for congress in every district. The nominees are of men on the third party platform in opposition to the regular democratic nomiuces. The first work of the convention was the adoption of a resolution sending greetings to Tom Watson in h s fight against the organized democracy of Wall street and promising to meet him with nine congres-mien on the floor of the next congress who will stand on the Omaha platform. NOMINATED FOH COKGBESS. Nine candidates for congress were nominated as follows : First district?Dr. W. J. Mason, ot Monroe. Second district?Frank Baltzeli, ot Monter rnery. Third district?J. F. T?te, of Russell. Fourth district?A. P. Longshore, of .-he: by. Fifth district?W. M. Whatley, of Clay. Six'h district?John M. Davis, cf Fayette. Seventh district?William Wood, of Cul?m-m. Eighth district?Rev. R. T. Black well, of Madison. Ninth district?Joseph H. Parsons, of Birmingham. The electoral ticket next chosvn by the unanimon3 voice of the convention is as follows: State at Large?H. D. Simmons, of Macon, farmer and Kolb democrat, and J. M. Whitehead, of Butler, Kolb dem ocrat and editor of an alliance organ. First District?Dr. E. Harris, of Choc taw, farmer and Kolb democrat. Second District?E. J. Carlisle, of Pike, alliance democrat and alliance lecturer. Third District?S. S. Booth, of Hesry, Unit- d States revenue officer end inde pendent republicin. Fourth District?Philander Morgan, of Talladega, brother to Senator Morgan, farmer and Kolb democrat. Fifth District?John H. Porter, of Coosa, farmer and Kolb democrat. Sixth District?John B. Harris, of Green, farmer and Kolb democrat. Seventh District?George Gaither, of L ~'wah, former candidate for congress as a greenbacker. and who has never been a regular democrat: now chairman of the people's partv of the state. Eighth District?Thomas F. George, of Limes one, farmer and Kolb democrat. Ninth District?N. B. Stack, of Bibb, a miner and independent democra\ The platform adopted reads: Recognizing the sovereign power of the peo ple or' th<; Unit d States and of each state and ?.f each indiv Una: as a s-'-para e and compo nent part of ihe sovereign power, the JefiVr sonian and people's party of Alabama demand: 1. A free ball t and a*fair count. 2. That the rights < f the cit;zeus shall be en titled to more consideration and be as fully pr- tec"tdas the rights of capital. 3. That tree and unlimited coinage of silver shall b- anthoriz d by law and enforced at the earliest date possible. 4. That ihe amount of circulation shall be increase i to n >t less ihan 8?O per capita, each dollar to bo made the equal in value of every other dollar. 5. That a graduated inoome be authorized by ;aw and enforced at the earliest date possi ble. 6. That the facilities for transportation and comnmnica:ion o: the country shall be con trolled in t :e infe est of the people with justice and equity 'O their owners. 7. That Anieric:n> should own the lands of the country and alien ownership should be grad ually eirirnated so that every ci izen should have a chance to own a horn tree from extor tion and unjust exactions uf alien or homo mo nopolists. b- That the tariff should be reduced to the lowvst possible amount consistent with an eco nomical administration of the government with such incidental protection as c m be accorded to oujindustries by a wise levy of the same. 9. That charters of n.tioaal banks shall be repealed and a means p ovided, by wbif?h money shall Le is-ued direct ro the people with the safety in the security and lull indemnity to the government VERY GOOD TRADE Notwithstanding the Cholera Scare Throughout the Country. R. G. Dun & Cs. report for the p*8t week says: Chob-ra has landed aad the business or New York goes on exactly as if it had not. The cars are crowded with passengers and the streets are badly blocked with cartloads of merchandise, as they were this week one year ago, which moms that the heaviest trade ever known at this season is now in progress. The same is true of other cities, almost without exception, and the outlook for the fall trade is at all points regarded as exceedingly goo I. But many people are afraid that all other people will be afraid, and consequently the speculative markets decline. There has been much talk about the pesii'c ce as an excuse for low prices in breadstuff* and cotton. But the fact i9 that the mormon* stock brought over from last year afforded sufficient reason f t exceedingly low prices. In c -tton rhere has been heavy selling, and September options are below 7 cents, though prices for spot cotton are un changed. Trade at Louisville is improv ing; at Nashville. ?a'r, andat Little Rock satisfactory. \vh le at Montgomery caution prevails, aud at Galveston the late cotton 1 cr-.p cans s-low collections, though trade I otherwise improves-'. At New Orleans, business is only fair, and m n< y is in strong demand, but cot ton is Jo wer while sugar and rice are active and strong. Lou is more steady, the eutpu' September 1st being only 151,0*1$ to: s, against l??,136 tons on August 1st, and unsold stocks have been reduce i about 03,000 tons. I -, dry goo Is there has beeu a notable j increase in th number of buyers, and the ! market is more nearly bare of woolen j goods than it Ins boen for years, the me dium worsted and serge trades having the prefc ence. There is a heavy demand lor cottons, a ;d medium bleached goods are higher, with browns tirm. Carpets are strong r, and many mills demand an ad vain of 2j cents I l?espcc'ing cholera it is well to remem- j j ber that sanit try precautions are more I thorough lu i ever b-fore and at most ! [ foreign ci i s have sufficed to prevent the spread : the diso isc. Business failures throughout the coun- j try in the ! i-t <-v n days, as reported to K. <?. Dun vV Co., number, for the Unite i St :tes 15-i, against 210 last year. WILD CHOLERA RUMORS Affecting Chattanooga and Selina Vig orously Denied. Fri'dav, teli g: .ins i on Chattanooga, rei n., ant] Se'tui, Ala., which stated that cholera cases were developed in i a< h of th< s<- cities, were given publicity through the press Th" following tele grams. ;" .;. dal wer?; j?r niptly sent out: Gitattaxoooa. levin.-. Sept. 10." 1892.?Re port ab cri. c'nattanooga was never more fiee from in! . '; u- ;, > . and never before so v. .1 ri i to resi ; its introduction from tOK'ign pO tltS. "VilLTOS 1*. Ochs.* S:.i.h\. A a., s p:. 16, 1S92.?There is not a word uf ir::lh in the. report. Hon. H.H. Stew.rt. niavoi ci Seliua ail: "i ilou't know of a case ot - : sickness in Sol ma. The sani'at'y condition us good, the people healthy, j h re is n?) h m and n */ concern, i xcept sym- I pathyi'orth infect I cties and of the general I tiauneial distnrbaneo the ureadf al disease may croate in the TJnite i Statu-. I have never known, in a residence of twen?y-?x years io I Sel m a, the health to bo better. 'X here "is abac- j lutelv no grounds for suoh a report.* ''TMEfl-MAIUt ! CRASHED INTO EACH OTHER. Fosrleen People Lose their Lires in a Railroad Collision The Wreck takes Fire and Many of the Unfortunate Victims are Roasted. Special dispatches from Cleveland, 0., state that what will undoubtedly prove to be the most disastrous accident that ever occurred in the history of the Pitts burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railway, took place Wednesday morning at three o'clock in what is known as Brown's cut, * mile and a half from the village of Shreve, Wayne county, Ohio. Train No. 8, a fa?t east-bound passen ger and express train, collided at that point with the first section cf freight No. 75, west-bound. The passenger train was about one hour late and was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. It is stated that the engineer and fireman of the freight, while standing ou a side track at Shreve, fell asleep and were awakened by hearing a train rushing by. Thinking that it was No. 8, the engineer pulled out on the main track, and had just got under way when the trains met. The collision occurred on a sharp curve and in a cut where neither crew was able i to see the other train approaching. The engines came together with *uch j awful force that the mail car and smok ing car of the express were thrown on I top of the passenger engine and a freight j car filled with printing presses was > thrown over the freight engine. The passengers and trainmen, who escaped, say the accident had hardly taken place ! before flames burst forth and they be lieve that but two or three persons were killed outright, the others h iving been pinned down in the cars and slowly roasted to death. Thirteen burned and i blackened trunks have been taken from i the wreck. ! A Later Account. A news special of Thursday from Pitts- I burg says: I;is now definitely known that there were but two women and one ! child burned in the Fort Wayne rai'road ?reck at Shreve, instead of three women as first reported. This reduces the num- \ ber of dead to eleven. The charre i re- j mains of the women have beeu identified a* Mrs. F. Schalley, and her sister, Miss Campbell. Mrs. Schalley was the moth- j er of the child killed in the wreck. The Wieck was caused by a blunder, but who was responsible for it has not yet been developed. Superintendent Starr said there was no confusion of orders as there were no orders. The fire completely wiped out all trace of baggage ar-d ex press matter. Financial loss by week cannot he estimated. It is reported thit in the mail burned there was about ?S0, 000 in bills. This is only what was in ! registered packages. Express matter ; was all burned except thirty-six silver j bricks, worth at least $75,000. ' These; were recovered. There were possibly fit- j ty or sixty pieces of baggage destroyed, j but what their value was the company as yet do not know. LABOR COMMISSIONER PECK j - Charged With Misdomeanor in Burning j Public Records. j A dispatch from Albany, N. Y., says: j The committee tent by the national dem- j ocratic committee, comprising Hon. j Nelson Smith, J. Schoeohol?, ?. Ellety Anderson and Edward McSweeny, called j on Commissioner Peek, of the st ite bu reau of labor statistic*, Friday afternoon j and labored with him for over an hour to i secure the names of manufacturers re- j porting to him the effect of the tariff on their respective industries. They also asked to see the individual returns, but Peck held to his original statement that I he would show nothing but what was contained in his full annual report. The upshot of the matter w.-^s that the com ; mittee left for New York without finding j out anything at all. ; Police Justice Guttman late Friday af ternoon issued warrants for the arrest of Commissioner Peck and his steno- j j grapher, A. Rodders, charging him with j I misdemeanor in burning public records, \ consisting of circulars collected by him j from which he prepared his report on j the effect of the tariff on wages and pro duction. The warrants were issued un- j der the state code after the proceedings before Judge Guttman behind closed j doors. William Dennison, janitor of the pri- j vate house where Peck and Rodgcrs hive I rooms; a sei vaut girl and Miss Schaffer, | Clerk in the bureau of labor statistics, I gave testimony. Dennison testified to the arrival there two weeks ago of twen- ! ty-five large packages. He testified that j on Sunday last R?dgens told witness he j wanted to have the contents of the pack- | ages burned in the house furnace that j night. Dennison said that that was his | I night off. when Rodgcrs gave him $2 to j I do the work. He consented and shortly ! after 6 o'clock that night Dennison car- \ ried the packages down to the cellar from Peck's bathroom, and starting a j fire in the furnace kept feeding it steadi- j iy until twenty minues to 3 o'clock Mon day morning. They were of the same i color and size as the manufacturers' re- 1 turns._ GOVERNOR FLOWER'S PERIL. | - Some Miscreant Sends Him an Infernal | Machine. The life of Governor Roswell P. Flower ; was threatened by an infernal machine | sent to him at the Windsor hotel in New ; York city a couple of days ago. Fortun- 1 ately the governor suspicion* d the mys terious package and did not open it. The ; machine is now in the possession of In- j spector Sieers, at police hea ! quarters, to- j gether with its mechanical arrangements, j A large number of d :tectives have been ! put on the case. The inspector said if the box had been j opened, as was intended, an explosion j would certainly have followed. In speak- i ing of the matter, Governor Flower said: j "This is the first time anything of the < tort has happened to me. I am not at all upset, however. I suppose I have made ! ?orne enemies by calling out the militia, i but I must do my duty, and peace must be kept. All the infernal machines in ! the world would not make the slightest difference to me." A FERRY BOAT SINKS. Harrow Escape of Her Eight Hundred Passengers. A New York dispatch says: Passen-j gen on the South Brooklyn ferry boat, "South Brooklyn," had a narrow escape Friday. Eight hundred people were aboard on the way to toe city to w rk. The captain after leaving i he Brooklyn; side pushed the boat's nose up Butter-. milk channel, hugging Governors island bore because of the dredging in the channeL "While the boat was at high j peed she struck an obstruction and tore ; A hole in her side. Steam was crowded | on and the vessel rapidly run into the j slip, where by a hurried disembarkation, j passenger* landed before the boat sank. THE DAVIS MONUMENT, The Work of Its Construction to be Pushed Forward. Th". work on the monument to ex- i president Jeffers >n Da vis, :o be erected in or near Richmond, Va., is to be push- | ed forward with vigor. This is the de termination reached at a c nfVience held in that city Saturday afternoon between the committee app anted by General Gordon, of the United Confederate veter ans, and the officers of the Davis Monu ment association, of Richmond. i THE CLOVER. Some sing of the daisy and lily and rose, And the panses and pinks that the sommer time throws In the jrreen, grassy lap of the medder that lavs Bh'nkin' up at the skies through tiiesmishiay. days; But what is the lily and all of the rest ' Of the flow? *s to a man with a heart in his breast , . That has dipped brimmuf full of the honey and dew f Of the sweet clover blossoms his boyhood knew? _ ; I never set hevey on a clover field now, "H Or fool round a stable, or climb in th9 mow. But my childhood comes back just as clear and as plain j As the smell of the clover I'm suiS?tf again; \ And I wandered away in a barefooted* dream, Where I tangled my toes in the blossoms that gleam With the dew of the dawn of the morning of love Ere it wept o'er the graves that I am weep- * ing above. And so I love clover-?it seems like a part ; Of t~e saeredest sorrows and joys of my heart. And wherever it blossoms, 0! there let me bow And thank the good Lord as I'm taankitf Kim now; And pray to Him still for the strength when I die To go out in the clover and tell it goo iby, . And lovingly nestle my faca in its bloom f While my soul slips away on a breath of perfume. ?James Whitcomb Riley? PITH ?NDPOINT. The hammock girl is in full swing._ Philadelphia Record. Boycotting the baby?Putting him to bed at night.?New York News. Sparing the rod spoils the child be cause the rod makes the child smart.?? Boston Transcrint. The desirability of bonds depends on whether you hold them or they hold you.?Indianapolis News. Father?"What are you practising with my daughter now?" Music Master ?-"Patience."?Boston Globe. The lover that Anna kissed the other j night is afraid he will be arrested, be- ? cause he is a feilow-Annakist.?^few York News. "No, Beatrice, you are wrong; the 'trough of the sea1 is not put there for the purpose of watering the 'ocean grey hounds.' "?Statesman. "Ma, can I pLy on the piano?" "No,. dear; you might hurt it. Go next door and play on Mrs. Jones's. She rents her's."?Washington Star. The poor youth's brain be jan to whirl As he stooJ 'neatn the su iTs fierea glare, But ?e wiaked at a pretty Boston girl And she rroz3 him wit a a stare. ?New York Press. "Father," said a six-year old, 4'where is Atoms?" "Atoms, my boy? What do you mean?" "Why, the place where everything gets biowD to."?Bos ton Bulletin. Dinglebury loves his donkey, but when, that quadrupedal songster awakens his master at peep of day, Dingleburyj wishes, in his wrath, that Jack might' have a visitation of softening of the brayin'.?Boston Transcript. "3Iercy !" exclaimed Mrs. Homespun when she read in the paper that Jay Gould made ten cents every time the clock ticked; "I should think he'd be worried to death for fear the clock would run down."?Boston Transcript. Mm. Cashus declares that her husband did not marry her, but her moneys As the money is all gone, Cashus argues; that he must be a widower, and there fore Mrs. C. has no claim upon him whatsoever_Boston Transcript,. Bombay's Monster Dam? The most gigantic piece of solid, ma sonry that has been erected in modern time was finished in*the Bombay Presi dency last summer. The city of Bom bay, which is listed among the largest on the globe, having a population ol nearly a million, was in danger of being forced to undergo a wa'.er famine. The wise men called a meeting an** decided to build a monster dam, one that would inclose the entire watershed of the val ley, which drains .nto tha sea south of the city. The plans and specification* selected called for a dam of solid mason ry, pyramidal in general outlines, two miles long, US feet high, 103 feet ia: thickness at the base and thirty-one feet' at the top. In its finished condition it:. is reckoned as the acme of engineering skill. The top is provided with a beau tiful driveway twenty-five feet wide, pro tected on each side with concrete guards, each three feet in thickness and five feet high. It encloses a lake of vatcr eight ?guare miies in area.?St. Louis Repub lic. Another Eiffel Tower. The projectors of the London Eiffel tower have made very little noise that has reached this side of the water, but the enterprise :s going steadily forward for all that. The four enormous blocks of concrete that are to serve as founda tions are already in place. The tower will stand in the middie of a plot of 280 acres, in the neighborhood of Harrow on-the-Hill, one of the most delightful of London suburbs, where ornamental grounds will be laid out and fine coun try villas erected. Special features will be a gigantic restaurant, a theater, Turk ish baths on a gigantic scale, fine shops and winter gardens. There will be a miniature river, a large lake for boating purposes, and an abundance of lawn and woodland. The whole will be put in close and speedy communication with the metropolis by means of new lines of railroad. " The tower itself wiil bo 250 feet higher than its Parisian prototype. His Invention Secured His Pardon. A Germau artillery officer named Thomas, who in 1SS4 was condemned to eleven years" imprisonment for treason, has been pardoned by the Emperor in consideration of a valuable invention that he has made. He has devoted his leisure time in prison to the study of improve ments in artiliery, and invented a process for constructing cannon which is s;iid to be a wonderful advance upon the methods now in use. lie informed the prison authorities of his invention, and they in turn notified the Government. \ Officers belonging to the artillery branch of the service were dispatched to the prison, and to them Thomas revealed the details of the invention. They at once saw that the prisoner had made a most valuable discovery ?nd communicated^-^ thc knowledge to the War Department. So highly pleased were the officials of this department that they recommended the release of Thomas. _ In Maine a physician made gestures when giving a nurse directions for a patient, and hie horse, noticing them from the street, made straight for the J| window, thinking him?elf called to share in the consultation. He broke several panes ol'glass belore he ould. be eon- |gj troiied.