Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WITH MANY FLAGS FLYING Tie Iaisi?ps of Ten Nations are Drawn Op ii M R8T?8W. Hundreds of Guns Belch Forth in Noisy Salutes-A Grand Si?ht. All New York awoke Thursday morn? ing ta find a steady down-ponr of rain ushering in the day of the great naval pageant. In the night time a storm that had its birth Wednesday away to the "Westward, had stolen over the Jer? sey hills and wrapped the war squad? rons on the river, had settled down upon the city and blotted out the dark brow of the sea from the ken of people ashore. Along the Hudson cloud and water became one. The chilly north east wind added discomfort to some hundred thousand people who had ar ranged to view the grandest marine j spectacle ever presented on American j waters. CROWDING TO NORTH RIVER. Although it was legal holiday in town, the early morning crowds on the 1 elevated trains and surface cars, with i the crowds that poured into the city j from the ferries and across the bridges, did not look like holiday crowds. The ! rain did not keep them all at home, j however. There was a steady stream SANTA XABIA, FLAGS toward North river all the morning and hundreds of excursion boats, steam yachts, tugs and other crafts which had been pressed into service, were filled up with sightseers who were not kept at home by Farmer Dunn's disagreeable weather. Their patriotism and their enthusiasm carried them through the wet. RUNNING UP "OLD GLORY." "When 8 o'clock had arrived there were signs of activity on all of the ves? sels in the fleet from the flagships of each nation which indicated that orders were being issued to the fleet. A mo? ment later each vessel ran up a big American flag to the top of the main? mast and a big flag of her country fore and aft. The Spanish, French, Bra UNITJtD STATES ST?i zilian and Argentine ships ran up lines of streamers on their yards. Uncle Sam's white navy floated big holiday flags from each mast. All wore the stars and stripes. At 10 o'clock the United States vessels ran np bunting and the Briti sh, Russian, Italian Ger? man and Holland ships follow suit until all were in holiday dress. Just as everyone was expecting that the programme would be carried ont despite the storm, the announcement was made that the review liad been deferred. At 10:30 o'clock a. m. the signal boat Cushing started out from Thirty fourth street and running up along? side of each vessel in line, carried the nformation that the review had been TUE VESUVIUS, DY postponed until 2 o'clock. When the excursion steamers beard of this they put back to their docks and there WHS some grumbling among the passengers, who had been getting damper and j chillier as the time passed. WAITING FOR GROVER. President Cleveland, accompanied ; in a carriage by his wife and score tary, left the Victoria hotel at 1:05 o'clock p. m. Eight minutes later his party arrived at the foot of West ; Twenty-third street, where a thousand J men and women had stood in the rain for hours, who cheered him enthusi- i astically. The embarkation of the presidential party on board of the re- ' viewing lx>at, Dolphin, was a gorgeous affair. A handsome special landing place had been erected for the purpose j at the foot of Twenty-third street, the approach to which was carpeted and draped in bunting. FIRING THE BIG GUNS. As soon as the president stepped rm board the Dolphin the vessel tripped ? her anchor and fired one gun as a sig nal. This was responded to by a boom ; j which seemed tc shake the whole city. The double turreted monitor Mianto I noniah, lying at the rear of the port j column, fired for the first time in port . one of her huge ten-inch guns, charged j with nearly 200 pounds of powder, j Almost before the reverberations of ! this gun had died away in the distant j echoes, the whole fleet was called to j quarters, yards were manned and every j preparation made to receive the presi ! dent of the United States with becom I ing respect. ! As the Dolphin's bow came in line j with each man-of-war, "present arms" j was sounded on the bugle, the officers and crew saluted ; the bands struck up the national air and a national salute of twenty-one guns was fired by each ship. During the half hour or more j that the presidential progress lasted j this cannonading never ceased until \ more than sixteen hundred guns had j been fired. Towards the close of their booming the long separate identity had ! been merged into a gigantic roar, I while flashes of red-flame and dense sulphurous clouds of smoke were all the spectators on the shore could dis? tinguish. The firing began with the German flagship Kaiserin Augusta. It was taken up in a more ponderous mann?.i by the Dutch von Speyk, and the Spanish Infanta Isabel. It was fol? lowed by the Argentine Neuva do Julio and the Italian Etna. It was contin? ued by the American Charleston and the French Arethuse, followed by the ( ;HIP OF COLUMBUS. flagship Newark and Russian admiral's ship Dimitri Donskoi, and closed by Admiral Gherardi in the Philadelphia and Admiral Sir John Hopkins, in the nobie Blake. The intervals between the artillery exercises of the flagships were filled up by similar exercises on the part of the other vessels of the squadron. Following close in the wake of the Dolphin and getting the full benefit ' of the salutes, came the army steamer i General Meigs. bearing the honored j foreign guest of the day, the Puke of Veragua, attended bv General Scho ! field, of the army, and Bear Admiral j Belknap, of the navy. The only ships j permitted within the sacred lines du ! ring the progress of the presidential LMSUIP BALTIHOKE. review was the Monmouth, upon which ! were senators and members of con . gress, governors of states, newspaper j representatives and other invited : guests. j When the Dolphin reached the end of the line, in the neigborhood of ? Ninety-fifth street, she dropped an j chor and made preparations to receive ! the commanding officers of the foreign ! sqadrons who were presented to the i president by their respective minis j ters. Duly attired in full ceremonial uui j form, with cocked hats and swords.the j distinguished officers entered their !barges and pulled off for the presiden? tial vessel. Sir John Hopkins, the British admiral, was the first received. SAMITE CRUISER. He was presented by Sir Julian Pannce ! fote, the British ambassador. Next j came Vice Admiral Kozuakoff, the I Russian admiral, who was introduced by Prince Contakuzene, the Russian minister. Rear Admiral dc Libran, of France, was third, presented by M. Pa tenotre, the French ambassador. Then followed Rear Admiral Magna ??hi, of Italy, for whom Baron Fava did the honors. The Span? ish admiral. Sonor Y. Lono, though an invalid, did not fail to pay this cer? emonial mark of respect to the chief executive, and was followed by Rear Admira! Howard, of Argentine, Rear Admiral Norhona, of the Brazilian ri cot and the Moude-baired and bln?' eyed captain of thc German and Dutch steamers. These visits formed one of the most iut'-rcstin^ features of thc day. As nearly all the foreign officers spoke <>r understood English, tho orr** monies wereattended by uo stiff form? alities, but. it is said, were marked by cordiality and some degree of convivi? ality also. The president's reception lasted un til ? AO p. m. Then his flag was haul? ed down on tho Dolphin and when ashore, the guns of the entire fleet belched forth simultaneously. Each vessel fired twenty-one shots and the roar that ensued was deafening. "When it subsided smoke hung in heavy clouds over the river and the Jersey shore was invisible for some minutes. The admirals turned to their ships ; the steamboats which still lingered with passengers desirous of seeing all of the naval pageant went to their piers, and the ceremonies were over. SALUTED BY PRIVATES. As soon as the Dolphin passed out from between the anchored fleet the cordon was broken and private steam? ers and yachts rushed in. "When thc smoke had partially cleared away they REAR-ADMIRAL GHERARDI. obtained a magnificent view of the combined naval forces at close range. The flagships o? the squadron courte? ously returned the innumerable salutes tendered by the private steamers, and their offices seemed to heartily appre? ciate the interest their appearance created. SEARCH LIGHT DISPLAY. Inky darkness veiled the Columbian fleet at 8 o'clock, and not a sound was heard by landsmen from the anchored battleships. Suddenly a ray of light shot upward from the Philadelphia, lt was long and dazzling, and seemed to pierce the sky. For a moment it remained stationary, and then disap? peared. That was the signal for the scheduled display of the electrical search lights with which the war ves? sels are provided. Quickly following the Philadelphia's lead the American ships showed the many ways in which the lights are used in active warfare to protect them? selves from attacks of those marine terrors, torpedo boats. At times the projecting rays were concentrated at certain spots on the shore, then turned far up the Hudson, making objects plainly visible at a distance of five THE CUSHI.V?, TORPEDO BOAT, miles. Following came another signal, and simultaneously every light in the fleet was turned toward the zenith. Slowly the rays converged until they formed the apex of a brilliant silvery pyramid of incalculable height. Ex? perts say it could have been seen seventy-five miles in any direction. It was a sight never before seen and never to be forgotten by the land lubbers. In conclusion, the operators gave some examples of high art in ray projecting and describing various figures in the heavens. THE COLUMBIAN BALL. The Columbian ball at night at the Madison Square Garden was in respect to magnificence of decoration and ar? rangement and of the large number of the world-famed guests present, the most splendid ever given in the new world. Besides the president and hie advisers, chief legislative body of the United States and a Spanish grandee, who is the namesake and lineal descendant of ChistophfT Co? lumbus, there were tb 3 diplomatic corps, the admirals anti subordinate officers of every great naval power in the world, governors of neighboring states and famous army officers. It was, in fact, a gathering of celebrities, varied and so gloriously arrayed that the oldest and most traveled guest ac? knowledged that seldom or never be? fore had he seen a parallel to the gor? geous picture presented. The decora? tions of the garden were rich and elab? orate, eclijjsing in their magnfieence and elegance anything ever before at? tempted in the great auditorium. The large box 011 the center of the Madison avenue .end was occupied Irv his honor, Mayor Gilroy and suite. President Cleveland's box was on the right of the Mayor's. It was lined with white and gold, with delicate maiden hair ferns, roses and asparagus in beautiful design covering. The boxes occupied by the duke of Veragua and his party were on the left of the mayor's. The other boxes on the first tier and about the mayor's box were occupied by the members of the United States supreme court, the diplomatic correspondents and by Governor Flower and stall'. The arena boxes were occupied by the admirals of the foreign and American fleets and their at? tendant officers. Two bands furnished the music in the ba ll room. The doors STEKL-FaOTECTED CRUISES PB 11-A DELPHI A of the garden were thrown open at 9 o'clock and almost immediately after? wards the guests bogan to arrive. May? or Gilroy, as head of the municipality, and his wife, officially received the guests of the evening. They stood upon tie* reception dins and just be? yond them wm' stationed the commit? tee of 100 and the honorary committee, who escorted the more distinguished guests from the entrance to their boxes. ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER IT WILL PAY YOU. ?HRO?GHO??T Tl SOUTE. Notes o? Her Progress aol Prosoeritf Briefly Eoitoiizet And Important Happenings from Bay to Daj Tersely Told. Moses Brothers, who failed at Mont? gomery, Ala., two years ago, for a large sum and were placed in the hands of a receiver, are gradually paying their depositors. On Tuesday the bank paid another dividend of five per cent. At this rate depositors will be paid in full inside of the present year. Oh the farm of B. A. ftonea, four miles south of Aberdeen, Miss., Mon? days a Colored tenant and his wife left their three children-, all under five fears of age-, in the house alone and ?frent ont to work. During their ab? sence the house caught fire. All was completely destroyed. The children were cremated. j Fire Thursday afternoon at Wilming? ton, N. C., entirely gutted the large grocery stores of Stevenson & Taylor ! and B. W. Hicks, and also the build? ing recently occupied as a store, but which two Wilmington divisions of the North Carolina naval reserve had just occupied as an armory. Loss, 325,000; half covered by insurance. A petition for the appointment of a receiver for the Atlanta and Chatta? hoochee Biver Bailway company was filed in Atlanta Monday by attorneys j for the Short Electric Railway Com ! pany. The grounds in the bill are that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiffs $41,000 ; that it has failed to pay taxes, for street improvements and for its rails? Fire at Kelso, Tenn., Monday night, destroyed several business houses and the dwelling of Benjamin Thompson, a local merchant. While the flames were still in progress Mrs. Thompson erroneously supposed that one of her children was still up stairs and rush? ed into the burning binding. Her cloth? ing was ignited and she is dying from the effects of the burns received. A Jackson, Miss.- sj)ecial of Wed? nesday says : Mayor Chiles has issued a proclamation urging the people to contribute to the cyclone sufferers in Simpson county. Porty dwelling houses were blown down and thous? ands of acres of growing crops left fenceless. Five persons were killed : Thomas Amos and his two children and Elijah Husbands and a negro boy. Several persons are missing. A dispatch received from Tracy City, Tenn., Monday, states that the troops are retained there because of a dispatch from Bon Air mines to the effect that 1,000 miners are marching on Tracy City. While this is believed to be exaggerated, as a precautionary measure Governor Turney ordered the retention. The troops had made all preparations and were on the eve of departure for Nashville when the order was received. A special from N ew Berne, N. C*, says the excitement which prevailed among the citizens of that place and I James City has subsided at last, and on Thursday all the negro residents of James City signed leases by which they rent the property for two years from James Bryant, its lawful owner. The troops will be sent home at once. I Governor Carr will remain a few days. No more trouble is anticipated. There j are 554 families in the place. The will of the late John Schardt? cashier of the Merchant's bank, at I Nashville, was probated Wednesday. He directs that his indebtedness to the bank be paid in full out of the $80,000 j life insurance which he has transfer? red to the bank. The balance with all his real estate and personal proper? ty, he leaves to his wife. The will is dated two days before his death, and was witnessed by the president and I one of the directors of the bank. j It was developed at Montgomery i Ala., Wednesday, that the Southeast j ern Tariff Association has decided to : advance the rates of fire insurance in I the city on business property. At the j last meeting of the legislature a strong I fight was made to allow the people of j Alabama to insure property with com I panies having no representatives or office in the state, which would have ! tended to keejung rates down. This I legislation was defeated and the pro? posed raise will cause a sensation and much dissatisfaction. The eleven whitecappers of Carroll county, convicted of riot, were given the maximum of the law. All the men I save three have sentences of twelve i months each. Two of the Duke boys who turned state's evidence, are being j prosecuted in the United States court for conspiracy in that they assisted in the whipping of the Britts who had re I ported an illicit distillery. The eleven men will be carried to Donaldson's con rict camp to spend a year. All of them are able to pay a fine ?quivalent, to the year in the gang, but the law will not EIIOW it. At the democratic primaries in Raleigh, N. C., Tuesday there was for the first time an attempt to vote for a choice for postmaster. The result was decidedly negative and the plan failed. There were three aspirants for the position and while one was active in the primaries and had printed tick? ets the others took no part. The ac? tive aspirant got nearly all the votes cast. The experiment will hardly be repeated and the postmaster-general will probably make his selection in the good old way. The matter has excited, considerable interest at other points. A packa ge containing $1,239, sent by Paymaster Robinson, of the Georgia Central railroad at Savannah,Tuesday, to A. H. Stevens, agent of the railroad a>- Birmingham, to pay the salaries of the clerks, arrived, and when opened was found to contain strips of white paper instead of money. Examination showed that One end of the package had been can-fully Cut open and thc money extracted, the paper inserted and tlie package closed with thin court plaster. The express and railroad offi? cials ure making a rigid investigation, but no arrests have yet been made. In the United States court at Charles? ton, S. C., Monday. Judge Simonton signed an order directing Receiver ("omer, of the ('entrai railroad, to turn over to the Port Royal and Augusta Railroad Company all the property and effects of the Company in his possession as receiver of the Georgia Central. This decision, based on that issued at Savannah by Judge Pardee, places the entire property of the Port Royal am! Augusta railroad in the hands of Re- ] ceiver Averill, who was appointed in a I suit in the state court instigated by the ! majority of the stockholders of the Port Royal road backed by the state, i A new lniivi in the Gght against the j enforcement of the South Carolina dis- j pensary law, which is to go into effect July 1st, was developed at Raleigh, Saturday. A meeting was held by a number of leading merchants and property holders to consider the situa? tion, the counsel employed by the liquor dealers having advised that it would be useless to attempt to resist the law. Representatives of pretty nearly every society in thc city were present and it was decided to send cir? culars to the freehold voters of tho city, requesting them not to sign the petition of any person applying for tho position of state dispenser of liquor. BUSINESS REVIEW. Bun k Co's. Statement of Trade for Past Week. R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of trade says: Monetary doubts have overshadowed all other influences at "Kew York} but have not yet greatly affected trade at most points. Wheat has fallen 2 1-2 cents? with sales bf 40; OOOjOOO bushels here; corn 2 3-8c, bil 5 l-4c. and coffee 1 i-Sc. Wheat re? ceipts have been 2;50G,000 bushels at western ports in four days and Atlantic exports net six hundred thousand bushels. Pork j)roducts are somewhat lower, though declining less than corn. In the cotton market liquidation has continued, and with sales of 1,200, 000 bales here, the price Las dropped 5-16. The week's receipts from plan? tations are fully np to last year's and southern advices generally indicate some increase in acreage this year. Reports from other cities show con? siderable embarrassment from severe storms and the backward spring, vrith some signs of shrinkage in the trade from other causes. The tardy spring makes clothing quiet and the advance in shoes retards buying. The build? ing trade is active and the demand for lumber large, but sales for wood are moderate. Currency does not return as expect? ed and large sums are tie? up in fair preparations so that bankers are con? servative. Receipts of cattle, butter and barley increased moderately over last year, sheep 30 per cent., wool 33 while in cheese, hogs and flour there is a moderate increase ; dressed beef and oats 33 per cent., in corn and rye and in cured meats GO per cent. The weather retards trade at Louis? ville and at Nashville, Knoxville and Little Rock, business is quiet, at Co? lumbus very dull, but with improved collections, and at Atlanta fair for the season. At Mobile cotton is moving more freely, and at New Orleans sugar is strong but rice and other trades quiet with money in active demand. Collections throughout the country are at most points slower than usual and in such a condition that monetary stringency might occur if exchange with New York were embarrassed. Meanwhile exports of merchandise in April fall much below last year's,while imports increased nearly 20 per cent, so that the excess of imports, though it may not be half the $26,000,000 of March, is likely to be large. I The business failures occuring throughout the country during tho last seven days number 208, cempared j with a total of 200 the week before. GROWTH OF THE SOUTH. The Industrial Development During the Past Week. A review of ihe industrial situation in the South for the pa-?t week shows the organizati m of The Southern Leather Manufacturing Com? pany, at New Orle ms, La., with a capital of $2.rK),0C0, of thr; Fearls Oil Companv, Sisttrs vill?, W. Va., with a capital of $300,000; a $100,000 cotton mill at Opelika, Ala^ a $75, 000 oil company at Groeshcck, Tex., and a cot? ton mill company with S50,000 capital at Har? mony Grove, Tu. Thirty new industries were established or in? corporated for the week, together with twelve inlargrments of manufactories and twenty eight important new buildings. Among the new industries not referred to above, aro cotton compress, at Smi:hvil!c, Ttxas. electric light plantat West Point. Ga., flour and grist mill at Petersburg. Va., ice factory at Winston, N. C., foundry ana Machine ishop at Claren? don, Arkausas, wheel factory at Houston, Texas, mining company " with 330, 000 capital, at Augusta, Georgia, furni? ture- factory at Elizabethton, Tenn., ! lumber company at Crowley, La.', planing mills at Beaufort, N- C., Greensboro, Ala*. Little Kock, Ark., and Boral Hall, N. C., saw mil's at Gilmore, Ark., and Kerrvile, Tenn., shingle mill? at Bard, Ark., and Peck's Hill, Ala., spoke factory at Covington, Tenn., and stove factory at Dickson, Tenn. A box factory will be established at Thomasville. Ga., a pot? tery and a canning factory at Natchez, Miss. The enlargements reported for the week in? clude electric light plant at Chattanooga, Tenn-, fertilizer factory at Paradise. Fl*., oil mill, Dublin, Texas, tann?, ries, Cumberland, Miss., Flintstone, Ga., and Borne, Ga., cotton mill at Bock Hil), S. C-. furniture factories at Fort Smith, Ark., and Rome, Ga., spoke works at Humboldt, Tenn., and wagon works at East Point, Ga. Anson? the most important new buildings re? ported for the week aie noted the following: Court hotise at Clint? Ood, Va-, court house and jail at Griffin, Ga., court house at Hempstead, Texas, and Mumforcisvi le, Ky., and jail at Snnbright, Tenn. A warehouse* wi ll be erected at Lewisburg, Tenn., school buildings at Char lottsviLe, Va., ?nd Nashville, Te'?n., churches at Cleveland. Tenn., Petersburg, VJ., and Roa? noke, Va., depo s at Montgomery, Ala, and Nashville. Tenn. An innnr.ary will be erected st Louisville, Ky., and hotc's" at Humboldt. Tenn., and Tallahassee, Fla.-Tradesman, (Chattanooga, Tenn.) TO SHOOT GLADSTONE. Sensational Story Published in the Pall Mall Gazette. A London cable dispatch says : The Pall Mall Gazette in its issue of Thurs? day contained a most sensational ar? ticle, headed "Rumors of an Attempt to Shoot Gladstone," the tye used in the iteadlines being the largest in use for that purpose, The paper states that the alleged attempt upon the prime minister's life was made while Mr. Gladstone was walking through St. James' park at midnight last night on In's way to Iiis home, on Downing street. The accuracy of the report of the Pall Mall Gazette is doubtful. It is probable that the story is based upon tlie fact that a man who is now in custody on the charge of firing a re? volver in a public thoroughfare had in one of his pockets a notebook contain? ing a number of entries detailing the recent movements of Mr. Gladstone. The prisoner will be arraigned shortly :.nd his object in making these entries will be learned if possible. The arti? cle in the Pall Mall Gazette caused much excitement among the friends and supporters of Mr. Gladstone, and many inquiries from various parts of Iii-- country have been made as to tho truthfulness of the story. COMER RELIEVED As Receiver of the Port Royal and Augusta Railway. A Savannah, Ga., speeial says: Mr. H; M. Comer has been discharged by Judge Pardee as receiver of thc Port Royal and Augusta Railway company. This decision arrived late Saturday night and is quite fi lengthy one. set? ting forth tit length arguments, answers and petitions in relation to the same, and concluding with an opinion as to why Comer should be discharged^ by saying nothing as to the continuation <>t' Averill's appoint? ment. The opinion of Judge Pardee states that the quest ion of jurisdiction of the state circuit court of Richmond county in the appointment ot Mr. Av? erill, as receiver, did not require his consideration; thal court being tin judge ot its own jurisdiction, and it ie assumed for the purpose of this appli? cation that Judge Honey's court is fully seized of all the jurisdiction it bas exercised. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Happens from Day lo Day in the National Capital Appointments in the Tarions Depart? ments-Other Jiotes of Interest. ABOUT THE DEPARTMENTS, Hon. James G? Blount, of Georgia, mar he minister to Hawaii. He will, at leasts "DC in practical charge, if not actually the minister until all of the present troubles are settled: Everybody in Washington, who had the leisure and money to warrant a trip to New York left the capital Wed? nesday to see the naval exhibition which is to emphasize the opening of the big show at Chicago. Rarely has it happened in the history of this gov? ernment that Washington has been en? tirely deserted by the president and his cabinet. Such, however, was the case Thursday. New postmasters appointed in Geor? gia Wednesday were E. M. Carter, Carter's, Murray county; C. D. Har? per. Chelsea, Chattooga county; W N. Russell."Crow, Whitfield county; C. C. Landers, Livingston, Floyd county; Francis C. Peeples, Oakwell, Camden county; William Touchton, Pearson, Coffee county ; A. F. Elrod, Sonnersville, Gordon county; R. L. Hargrave, Spivey, Putnam county. The president Wednesday announc? ed the following appointments: To be government directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company : Henry F. Dimick, of New York ; Don. M. Dick? inson, of Michigan ; J. W. Doan, of Illinois ; Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia ; Joseph W. Paddock, of Nebraska. Otto Dobederlein, of Illinois, to be consul of the United States atLeipsic: David G. Brown, tobe collector of cus? toms for the district of Montana and Idaho. The net gold in the treasury Tues? day morning over and above the $100-, OOO, OOO gold reserve was $900,000. This accounts for the gold taken from the New York sub-treasu:ry for export dur? ing the day ; also for the gold offered and accepted from the Boston bankers. It does not, however, include the gold which was offered to the government from San Francisco and Roanoke, Ya. These amounts will appear in treasury figures when the actual exchange is made. Secretary Carlisle is much en? couraged at what he terms the patri? otic position taken by the Boston banks. The following appointments were announced Tuesday at the white house : L. F. McKinney, of New Hampshire, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Columbia ; Thomas L. Thompson, of California, to be en? voy extraordinary and minister pleni? potentiary to Brazil ; George William Caruth, of Arkansas, to be minister resident and consul general to Portu? gal ; John W. Wiley, of New York, to be consul at Bordeau ; Harvey Meyers, of Kentucky, to be commissioner from Kentucky on the World's Columbian commission ; J.. C. Sanders, of Georgia, to be alternate commissioner from Georgia on the World's Columbian commission. An Extra .Sosion. There will be an extra session of congress called not later than Septem? ber and possibly sooner. Buck Kil gore, of Texas, called on the president Wednesday morning and asked the point blank question. '''Why do you want to know?" asked Mr. Cleveland. '.'Because, if you are going to callan extra session," answered the congress? man^ "I want to rent a house before I go home and be ready to bring my family on when I come." "Your reasons for knowing are not very sinster," laughed Mr. Cleveland, "and such honesty should be met with honesty. Yes, there will be an extra session called, and I see no reason why the business men of the country should not know. It will be called between the 1st and 15th of the month, and if there is any special urgency, it will be called sooner." This is the first time that Mr. Cleve? land has stated positively that an ex? tra session would bc called. Lots of .Honey Needed. Postmaster General Bissell and his assistants are struggling with the usual problem how to get through the fiscal year with the growing demands of the postal service on the meager appropria? tions made by congress. The biggest appropriation outside of the salaries of postmasters, which are fixed by the law, is that for clerks in postoffiees, and the strain to meet the demand from the 65,000 postofiices of the country is something enormous. The increase in the appropriation this year over last was over $300,000, but appli? cations for assistance aggregating $2, 000 000 were on tile when the year began. Chicago alone asked for half the in? creased appropriation and New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore were not far behind her. The increase for the next fiscal year in this appropriation appears on its face to be $500,000, but $50,000 is knocked out of this to pay i ?or canceling machines, for which a I separate appropriation was asked. The allowance for the third-class offices has also been increased $20,000, and now stands at $620,000. These increases of about 3 per cent are only half the a\> erage increase of the postal business of the country, which of late years has been nearly double that of the popula ti on. _ CYCLONE IN OKLAHOMA. Sixty-Two People Dead and Many More Fatally Injured. A special from Oklahoma City, T. T., states that two distinct hailstorms, cy? clones and a waterspout combined to cause great destruction in Oklahoma ('itv Tuesday night. It is reported that sixty-two human lives we're sacri ftced. It is positive that forty were killed, while several were fatally and scores seriously injured. The damage to property is inestimable. The brunt of the storm was laid up? on the prosperous little town of Nor? man, on the Santa Fe road, about twenty miles south of Oklahoma City. At that point thirty-one people were killed, dozens injured and the town almost completely destroyed. There a pall has overspread the town, business is suspended and everybody able to render any assistance to the poor un? fortunates or towards removing the dead bodies, are out searching along ! the track of the cyclone. The people are frenzied and cannot give any estimate of their loss, and know nothing except to car for the dead and injured. Oklahoma City has responded nobly, and the mayor and principal citizens orgar.ized a relief corps and are at fche scene of destruc t ion. Further on the town of Downs and Keokuk Falls fared but little better, being nearly devastated, and scores of people injured fatally and otherwise, though the loss of lives, if at all, will not be as serious as at Norman, THE PROCLAMATION AWAITED That Will Pul inio Effect the Russian Extradition Treaty. A Washington special of Sunday says : Only one more step remains to be taken before the Russian extradition treaty goes into effect, and that is the issuance of the president's proclamation. All efforts to obtain the text of the treaty from the department of state have been futile, but the following synopsis of its provisions, obtained from a thoroughly reliable source, contains the salient points of the document : Article 1. The high contracting par? ties reciprocally agree to surrender to each other, upon mutual requisitions and according to their respective regu? lations ?nd procedure; persons who, being charged with of convicted of the commission in the territory of one of the contracting parties, of any of the crimes and offenses specified in the fol? lowing article, who shall seek an asylum or be found within the terri"Sory of the other. This shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, ac? cording to the laws of the ylace where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his or her ap? prehension and commitment for tho trial if the crime had been there com? mitted. Article 2. Persons convicted or charged with any of the following crimea, as well as attempts to commif or participation in the same, as an ac? cessory before the fact ; provided such an attempt or participation is punisha? ble by the laws of both countries, shall be delivered up in virtue of the provis? ions of this convention : Murder and manslaughter, when voluntary; for? gery and the utterance of forged pa? pers, includiug public, sovereign or governmental acts ; willful or unlaw? ful destruction or obstruction of rail? roads which endangers human life. Article 3. An attempt against the life of the head of either the goverment or against that of any member of his family, when such attempt comprises the act, either of murder or assassina? tion, or of poisoning or of accessory ship thereto shall not be considered a political offense or act connected with such an offense. . Article 4. In case the person whose extradition is demanded under the present convention is also claimed by another government, preference shall be given to the government whose demand shall be earliest in point of time ; provided the government from which extradition is sought is not bound by treaty to give preference otherwise. HAZING AMONG GIRLS. Outrageous Performance of a Lot of College Students. A special of Friday from Delaware, Ohio, says: The outrageous hazing performance of the students of the Ohio Wesleyan University is assuming proportions far greater than was antic? ipated. Some of the young students at Monetts hall, belonging to the uni? versity, caught the hazing spirit from the boys and fell upon some of their sister schoolmates. About twenty young women on Thursday evening got a strong solution of nitrate of sil? ver and proceeded to brand six or seven of their school friends on the neck, breast, arms and hands for the purpose, it is claimed, of so disfiguring them that they would be unable to wear evening dresses at the senior re? ception. This occurence, coupled with the outrage of the male students, has added fuel to the excitement. Some of the students set one of the frame buildings in the college camp? us on fire, and it was entirely con? sumed. HOW THE BOTS WERE BBAXDED. The fact has developed that the stu? dents who did the branding of the boys were not sophomores, but an ag? gregation of sluggers elected from the lower classes. One of the number, Mickey Harrold, is not a student at all, having graduated last year. The six voung men who were bound with ropes, burned with red-hot shov? els on their backs, and on each cheek, chin and forehead with the letters D. O. A., with a strong solution of nitrate of silver, put on after scratch? ing the flesh with a sharp-pointed, stick, are Joe B. Rogers, W. B. Brown and P. C. Wilson, of Delaware, Orlando C. Horn, of Dayton, 0., and Alben; Maustin, of Chattanooga, Tenn. The students were arrested Friday morning and taken before the mayor. The cases were continued until April 27th. and thev were released under bond of $500 each. A civil suit was commenced Friday evening by the vic? tims of the branding for 8100,000. The faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan uni? versity will hold a session to investi? gate the outrage. CONDEMNING GOV. TILLMAN. Negroes Pass Resolutions in Regard to the Denmark Lynching. About one thousand negroes, com? prising the better class of the colored population of Columbia, S. C., met j Thursday night and opened their guns on the Tillman administration on ac- j count of Tillman's action in sending the negro J*, hu Peterson before the mob at Denmark last Monday. The governor was severely condemn? ed and thc negroes were urged to strive for themselves aud not be submissive any longer. One speaker said they had depended too much on the gov? ernor : now they must look to them? selves. Resolutions wore adopted declaring that the white citizens of Barnwell county, where eight negroes wert? lynched several yearsago, had declared their disregard for law and order, de? cency and justice, by the brutal mur? der of an innocent man ; that Gover? nor Tillman's action in surrendering Peterson was unwarranted, unpreee- | dented and inhuman, knowing as he \ did the passion of snell an infuriated mob actuated by a diseased sentiment; that in the frequent lynchings of ne? groes throughout the state without proof of their guilt and the re? fusal of the officers of the law to bring a singh* lyncher to justice, together with tho governor having of? ficially recognized and sanctioned and legalized the court of Judge Lynch, we are warned that we need not hope for protection, and that the laws of this state afford none to the negroes. Before the meeting had progressed far politics were injected and the negroes were counselled to go hand in hand with the better class of whites in break? ing np the Tillman administration, that otherwise they would loose both liberty and lifo. HAUKY FURX?SS, the London carica? turist, ramarked the other day thar he rcry seldom caricatures a woman. Mr. Furniss went on to explain that on two I or three occasions when he had sue j cumbed to the temptation he had raised j a great deal of ill-feeling. From his ex- j perience he has arrived at the conclusion that women lack thc sense of humor. Jlen, he says, rare\y resent being quizzed, j Tis News ci tlie l^?^ Interesting and . la?traeiive *to Classes o? Beaders* '0 .<. ? - . Arbot day was ^prop?rof?j^'1 brated by the employes of ;.t?e m? al agricultural depst^n?^^j^^; the jd gonda l?V co? Th e fl City, afl -"ste?s_? two jj m0*fl ton .fl Jam? envflfl ipot? courts Bar A:sjJ been oj years. fl Atel ColumrflU bronze, was mona marble jDedesfl the lake at fl The figurfl t bronze fil and with it? an expenditure of fl A San Francisccfl : Colonel Claafl the Veteran's Hofl short in his accoufl and it may be $^,fl Home, located at I county, is an infl jointly by the stat? ernments for the afl disabled union soldfl There a big stifl at Guyanjuato, Mefl extensiv? The find fl American prospect^ properties bear-^ been worked by ihe^fl other race centuries jt of developing the mifl as soon as machinery* Cassville, county s<fl ty, Missouri, was qfl stroyed by fire '?fl Twenty-six _ buginesafl dozen dwellTifl^l^-fl banks, the newspapfl ber yards and threefl ed in the burned ?fl small drug store an? was all that was lefl part of the town, ifl $20,000. - ?? The Catholics of thjfl see held their centenial Tuesday. A great mab rM were present from alloJ| United States includhjl Cardinal Gibbon, offl bishops Byan, of NeB of Cincinnati; Bi? Washington ; Kapifl Meerschaert, of Indifl daguer, of Brownsvifl Bichmond; Gallaghjfl O'Sullivan, of Mo^fl Natchez, and Nevas^fl THEY Wi Wall Street Sharl Loose Theirs A Washington outward rovement of Tuesday $3,200,0?0we? $2,000,000 was dfcWH " treasury, the rest ha cut last Friday and SJ the offerings of. the ll ern banks the goldia depleted over two nu] These banks advid 85,000,00Q.of it ??r the reserve remajnfl four millions of freer It is now evidentj the country was di financial panic last) ment of treasury : have been the signal payment of them inj dent Cleveland's en? of Monday moraingr ment in gold would bel served to relieve fte t| in a large measure, ^ confidence, though ' remains stiff and averted. Conferences have Subtreasurer Jord! dents of the national York. Secretary Cad ious to have theni teq of the treasury as the] ern banks have don! their gold into the til greenbacks for it. a limited extant last They declare that now. They insist ment shall issue firtyj for a specific psr?od?" them marketable and th! shall be placed in Si fetch back some of from this country; thi banks would take the is believed by them- t? would tide the governnw the season of exports, the balance of traded vor. GEORGIA'S NEW] Governor Borthen W. S. Yeates as Tuesday morning1 appointed Professor] succeed Professor ologist. Soon after! was made the gook and confirmed it. passed by the l>oardJ geologist to select One of the troublt geological department geologist, Professor authority over the nw they were selected by; from the very start sion in the office, from bad to worse abolished the old soon as this had beejt' Norther, wrote to the? tute and asked that mended as state geok The officials recoma^ Yates, and subsequ? plying for the place.,; North Carolina, butT ted with tue Smiths? the last twelve veal curator of mineraloi to classify :J6,000 erais. He is also p? in the Columbian "Ci ington, and cornes^ ed, and will doubt ble man to the then has wired hil and has requested duty at once, as his] much needed.