The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, June 19, 1896, Image 6
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LATEST NEWS
IN BRIEF.
GLEANINGS FROM MANY POINTS
Important Happening*, Doth Home
and Foreign, Rlclly Told.
Southern News Notes.
Tuesday was generally observed
throughout Virginia us Memorial day.
In 1898 tho Southern Conference of
tho Christian Church is to meet in
lialcigh, N. C.
Tho Supreme Lodge of the Knights
of Honor met in Louisville, Ivy., in its
23d annual session Tuesday.
it is ruinoreu tnnt nnmict, t., is
to get the S. A. L. shops, which wuh
recently burned ?t Raleigh.
Rev. M. G. (r. Scherer, of Concord,
N. C., has accepted the presidency of
North Carolina Lutheran College at
Mt. Pleasant.
Louis Whitehead, George Johnson
and Jim Keddiek, three negroes, were
taken from the jail nt lJryan, Texas,
WeJuesday night ami hanged l?y a
niol>.
The Southern Railroad has recently
hauled three car-loads of melons to the
Northern markets, and in a week or
no the melons will be sent by the tram
loads.
A letter read in Richmond, Yn., recently
from -Mrs JOl'ersou Davis, says
she would gladly oe present during
the Confederate re-union at the Davis
mansion.
Hon. J. Sterling Morton, Secretary
of Agriculture at Washington, I). C.,
addressed the graduates of the I'uiverisity
of Tennessee Tuesday on the subject
of "Citizenship."
The United States cruiser Raleigh
passed out from New York at Sandy
Hook Monday on her way to Charleston
and New Orleans for the purpose of
taking tlie South Carolina and Louisiana
naval militia out to sea for instruction.
A. T. Verdery ami George Edmunds,
of Columbia county, Ga., living
six miles from Harlem, were brutally
murdered Wednesday night at
tho homo of Edmunds. They were
both attacked while asleep iu bed. The
murderer used a largo Htick which was
found in tho room. There is no elue
to the guilty party, and tho crimo is
wrapped in mystery.
Dr. K. P. Headles, of Danville, Vs.,
corresponding secretary of the Southern
Dental Association, has just issued
notices for tho annual meeting, which
will he held this year in Aeheville, X.
C., commencing tho iiNth of July.
This association is composed of leading
men in the profession from nearly
every State iu tho Union, and has perhaps,
tho largest membership of any
Dental Association in tho world. Dr.
John S. Thompson, of Atlauta, (iu., is
president.
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Northern News Items.
It will take $150,000 to make the
necessary repairs on burtholdi's statue
of Liberty in Now York harbor.
At Ottawa, Kons., Tuesday, seventeen
people were injured by tho falling
of a portico.
Rev. Dr. Dixon, tho Brooklyn, X*.
Y., noted baptist divine, has declined
the call from tho First Haotist Cluireb
of Atlanta, Cm. lie says ho will remain
in Brooklyn, where ho is doing a
splendid work 111 the cause of the
Baptists.
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Washington.
Secretary ?Unev has receiveii a
cablegram from Vice Consul Knight at
Capetown, saying that John Hayes
Hammond and the other reform leadera
had been released. Thev were
fined jJ2.~>,(?<K> with no banishment.
It is said that James I.aiitte Smith, a
clerk in the Washington postollice, is
the postollice clerk who sold the first
postage stamp and the lirst stamped
envelope ever issued by this Government,
and who registerek the first letters
that were presented for registry
when the system of mail perfection
was introduced m the t inted States.
He entered the postollice as aelerkj^
1847, and is now 7'J vearsold.
Foreign.
A Havana dispatch says that a train
which left San Nicolas with a number
of worsuien on board to repair damages
along the line of the railroad is reported
to have been blown up with dynamite.
Several workmen were injured.
Mrs. Annie I >yer, of London, F.ngland,
the bai>y farmer who was arrested
on April '.'tli, on ehargo of
murdering a number of infants eiitrus
leu m ne: care, was hauled in -NewRale
Weiliie.silaV. She was one of the
most extraordinary criminals in the
worhl.
>1 iseellnueoiis.
IIundreds of horses, sheep ami hops
ore dying <?t atuhrax in portions of
Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
The total visinle supply of cotton for
the world is 'J.ol J.Diili hales, of which
ii.O'iH.HOii hales are American, against
d.fi'iti, His hales and hales reopeet'vely
last year. Crop in sight,
C,81'J,oU'J hales.
Klecttori ofOllleers.
At Fort Monroe. Va.t the Southern StateFreight
Association elected the following of
fleers: I'rcsi.lcnt. Col. .1. I; Thomas, ol
Tiasiiville; vice-president. It. (i. F.rwin. ol
the I'lant System; commissioner. '".<1. II. S
Haiics, of Atlanta; secretary, J. II. M-'liill.
of Atlanta.
City lady (in the eountryi I got si
4ni]>sitie!it for the mows out here. 'I'll *
mails are so irregular! old-fashioned
grandmother I.a! So they was in my
young days. Ye couldn't inn' 'em at
Jill.? Milwaukee T! 1 u-' I N
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, THK PUTTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
A Synopsis of the I'rucceillngH of lioth
Houses.
Tin: SENATE.
HATCKDAY.
?n the Senate Saturday Vice-President
Stevenson announced his signature to several
hills, including the general deficiency anoroprlntin
hill and the filled cheese hill
The huildluKs where the House conferees refuses
to increase the limit of cost were those
at Kansas t'itv, Mo.; Savannah, On., and
Camden, N. J Mr. iluwlcy, ItopublloiiD,
inquired tvs to the Senate amendment
appropriating ?15,000 for a
oostoflleo building nt Fortress Monroe.
The House to expedite the delivery of imported
parcels and packages, not exceeding
?500 in value, was taken up and amended
and passed. The hill as amended merely
permitted imported merchandise, not Intended
f??r stile, to he expedited, the ex: ress company
giving hotel to lite government. Tin*
conference report on the naval appropriation
I'll! was presented at d rend. The amendment
reducing the r.utnher of new liattleships from
four to two is modified hy making the uumher
three and the price for armor plate, instead
of hoinK limited to ijdoO per ton is lira
ited to ? 12.). with 1n~tru<*ti')tiB to tlio Secre- |
turyof tho Navy t? inquire what a fair price
would be and to report at tlio next session of
Congress. ll. t?. tluthrlo win confirmed as
postmaster at Burlington. N.
MONDAY.
Tito Senate passed the now general dollcleiiey
Mil Monday in loss than throequarters
of an hour. Ordinarily a hill of
130 printed pages would have taxed tin'powers
of the reading clerk for at least two
hours; hut tho reading of this hill was completed
in half an hour. An attempt was ]
made by Mr. Harris. It mud 'rat, of Tennessee,
to have the claims under tin* Itowtnan act.
aggregating about half a nwllku dollars
placed in the hill; hut they wete ruled out on
a point of order and the hill was promptly
passed without amendirfent. Mr. Duuie), of
Virginia, introduce), and the Senate passed,
a hill impropriating to pay the Hi dintoud
Locomotive and Machine Works for
damage and loss iticurred in tho construction
of the armed battleship T< x.is.
TUESDAY.
Very satisfactory progr? -s in cienring up
the Olids and etuis Of leiflshiti\'e Woldt of ttio
session was made |.y the Senate Tuesilay.
Final conference reports on the naval
appropriation hill and on the Indian
appropriation lall were presented and
agreed to. In the naval bill a compromise
was made reducing the number
of battleships to three and dire ding tlia
no contracts should he made for armor plate
until after tho Secretary of the Navy shall
have inquired into the cost of manufacture
and shall have made a report to Congress.
Tho question of contract schools in tho Indian
hill was compromised on the basis of
allowing them (where there are no other
schools, to take their place) during the llsenl
vear 1837. A sunnlementarv dcflelenev bill
I ior compensation ami mileage of new members
of the House of Representatives was
passed. It appropriates about ?40,000.
WEDNESDAY.
In spite of the fact that it was generally
believed that Wednesday would bo tlio last
dav of the session, there was a rather slim
attendance iu the galleries, and the day's
proceedings were devoid of Interest or ox iteinent.
The following hills were passed:
Increasing the pay of letter carriers; to prevent
the transportation of spirituous liquors
under false names. The hill increasing the
pension of Francis K. lloovor was passed
over the President's veto. The latter part
ol the day's session was ocaupie! hy Mr.
Stewart, Populist, of Nevada, and Mr. liutler.
Populist, of North Carolina, arraigning
generally Congress and the administration.
A concurrent resolution for llnal ailjorumeut
Thursday at 1 o'clock was agreed to.
MUTllsIiAY.
The llrst session of the Fifty-fourth
Congress gently, and quietly, almost without
incident, glided into history Thursday, the
-hortest long" session of Congress, with
two exceptions, in the history of the government.
There was a marked difference between
the close to-day and that of the Fiftyilrst
Cot gross, the hist previous Ilepuhiiean
Congress. Then a hitter conflict raged between
Speaker Heed and the minority and no
olio of the latter was found to introduce the
usual resolution of thanks to the presiding
officer. To-day .Mr. Turner, the second
Democratic member of the committee on
ways and means, acting for the minority In
the absence .>i ex-Speaker Crisp, offered a
resolution thanking Speaker Reed for the
"ability, faithfulness and strict impartiality"
with which lie had discharged
lhe duties of his difficult position, and at the
suggestion of Mr. Docfcerv and other Demoi?r/\N
u*ii4 ft th?1 !?.. .<v_
I>r?*s.-i'>11 of heartiness ha -k of the resolution
might thereby li>> I'm;ilnusixt < 1. In tich-sin ;
remarks Speaker 11 I oflere.l his ul
vnitlou for th<< honor, saying, "The
thanks of tin- II uise of heprescntative-. is
always u high honor, hut is especially so at
th-- i-uil of a session whoro the Speaker litis
heon f jr-i-i! to say 'no' more tir.n-s. perhaps,
than in tin- history of any other Congres-."
lu the oourso of the session a nuiiilii-r of
private pension und relief hill- were pn.-sed,
au?l lt'ipp-seiitiitive.s I'itney, le puhlii-iui, of
Kansas, and Dockery. Iiemoerut, of .Missouri,
were appointed members on th-- | art f thill
>usso of the eonimission to sit during the
summer an t investigate the ehuriti-s of tinliistrl-t
of Columbia.
thi; house.
sAvrnn.iv.
In the nous-- Saturday the Senate lull to
regulate fourtii class mail mutt?-r was passed
upon motion hy Mr. Loud, Ueputdieuti, of
California. Tile great?r part of the afternoon
was devoted to the President's veto of
the unmoral detleleney appropriation hill. It
was vigorously attneked hy Messrs. Mahon.
of Keutueky. and Orosvenor. of Ohio, and
defended hy Messrs. Cannon, of Illinois,
iJoekery. of Missouri, and flayers, of Texas,
and finally sustained hy a vote of 170 to
Speaker Heed appointed Messrs. I'.van.-, of
Ki-ntin-ky. Hussell, of Connecticut. and McMillan,
of Tennessee, as House meuihers of
tie*joint congressional commission provided
for in the hill to repeal the free al-ohol
clause.
MoN|?\V.
'I'he House -at eight hours Monday in e-mtinuatlonoi
Saturday's ses.-ion: hy this parliamentary
li -tlon eontmuing in effect the
resolution of iast week, making in ord-r
motions to | a-s Mii-- under uspen.-ion of the
rules. I'ile H-Cise eonferei-s have offered II
enmpromise to the Senate eoutorees on the
Indian appropriation t ill whs -h will he .-! eepti-d
and fids '-ill togeih--r with the naval
Idli will he got out of tie- way early l'u-udav
morning. I'l-c- II :i<e will a-tr to tieformereonfi-rene
report, enttlng if npj r> prlate-n-for
- -iapia:i Indian .- nooi- at the
| end of the ||e\t lis. -|| ye.ir. With u i.fo'iso
| 111 11 i;;? n'l'p'iiii m i:t" uii'Wi >r i" i:ij
t tr.i"t"l t.> dm!" t?.. ?;.|ir |>r;ati<>?> a
vi-nly a- |'"-slbl" mrim.* tli i st tls.'al \".ir
l"tw""n t!n> various rn-itiiiisiti<>zi?. I h:will
ii'l tic s'M'tariaji -"hool ?(U"stion an I
ri'tn-iV'' tli>' '>;!' ur'-a! -tumhlin" Ifi.it
has for -"vral days -t "id in ill" way > ; a
Until -I'ttli'tni'tit of this |ii',.'*tiuii.
rri shav.
T'H"lay, tin* 'lay I?-f.?r?' whi>-h tV-nun'?is
i'oiill'l"titiy ox t" llnaiiv adjourn f"r
tiic s''f"l?>ii. tin' Hon-" .i|"'nt -ix arid a linii |
hour- in tli" ' >n.iid"rati"!i { a "ont"st"d
"i'"'tloii "a.-" Trtitiitin 11. \ldri"h. It"|'uM:< 1111.
vs. i(soar \\\ I ndi rwooil. Ii"ino"rat.
fr<'in tli" Ninth Alabama dlstri"t. Th"r" whs
"onsl'l'-ral'l" H"|'iihll"an o|>|iosition t" tli"
r''"oinui"n<lati"ii of and tli"
'resolution d""lnrlnK Aldrh'h "uttti"d t> hi|
fat was a^r?"d to hy h-ss tlian t'-n mnj rity.
th" vol" hi'ltiK llii yas: 11)7 nays. Th" tlnni
ooiif'Tt'ii"" r"j.orts on th" Indian ri|i|>ro|>rintl"
n hill.- W'-r" a^r""d to amid ajijilaus".
W M'NKSIi.W.
\V"dti"sday th" huslii"-s of tin- first s"ssio:i
of th" 1 iftv-lourth t'oim'r'-'s was |>ra"ti"ally
"li"lild"d hy tli" nut ofthftW' hodb's
ui'oii tlu'-iindrv "i>il and l)istri"t of Cidumhia
ii|>i'ro|iriati'ti hills, th" inly r"triitlnlnu
matt'-r-"f ililT"r"ii"" h"tW""fi th" two hou-"i
whi'ii th"v ni"t tiii- niorniiiu. To n""oml'll-li
this tin- li ?u-" vol' ! to "ohi'iir with
Hi" S "tint" in it-aai' iidiii' td- t" tti" siindrv
ivil lull aj.j r j riatimr, diri "t and foiitin
gent 6000,000 for certain public buildings.
Tbts vote?100 yens to Hit nays?demonstrated
wlutt hint been foarud would not tx? fouiul.
The Bunuteagreed with the House provision in
the District bill, cutting off appropriations to
religious, benevolent and charitable institutions,
amended so as to make the new policy
effective nfter June 30, 1837. Previous to
reaching this conclusion the House passed
many measures under suspension of the
rules.
TtimSDAY.
If tho first Bcssiou of the Fifty-fourth Congress
has been a "done-nothing session," ns
hod been predicted, the closing day of the
Bennto furnished a Uttiug culmination to tho
session. It was a day of Inactive, drifting,
laborious effort to kill time by doing nothing,
when. according to the concurrent resolution
agreed to Wednesday, the two houses were
to adjourn. Tho Senate wns called to order at
11 o'clock when the District of Columbia up
propriation bill was received and immediately
signed the Vice President, thus disposing
of the last of the general appropriation bills.
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Tho galleries wore almost deserted during
tho early hours of the session, hut when the
Vice-President delivered his valedictory
he had a good sized audience In the galierles,
though there were but twenty-live Senators
present at that interesting moment. As the
Vice-President uttered the lo.-t words. ,:nd
the gavel fell for the last time, there was u
faint outburst of applause, after which the
scene of many stirring incidents was left to
the pages and attendants until tho llrst Monday
In December next.
ANOT1IKK VETO. I
The I?roR|?lent Points Out Objections
in General Deficiency llill.
The President Saturday sent to the House
of lit presentatives his veto of tho General {
Deficiency bill. The French spoliation
claims, carrying over $1,000,000, the llowman
and Choteau claims, are tho principal
objections to the measure pointed out by tho
Pn'<id"ut. who. In his message says: i
"The uuplea-ant incidents which accompany
tin* use of the veto power would tempt
its avoidance if such a course did not iuvolvpan
ahaudotneut of t'oustitutioual duty, <
nn<l asseni to legislation for which the K\ecutive
is not willing to share the responsibility."
"I regret that I am constrained to disapprove
an important appropriation bill so
near the close of the present session of Congress.
I have, however, by immediate notion
of the receipt of the bill endeavored to
delay as little as possible a reconsideration of ^
this proposed legislation, though I am thus *
obliged to content myself with a less complete
explanation of my objections than d
would otherwise bo submitted. 11
This bill is in many of its features far removed
from a legitimate deficiency bill and
contains a number of appropriations which n
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<mt noticing in detail many of those Items, j
I shall refer to two of them which, in my ,
judgment, justify tny action in the prem- '
ises." '
The President then takes up the French
spoliation claims and after reviewing the j
basis and progress of the claims concludes:
"From that time the plan was conceived
to charge the government with payment of
these claims, they have abided in the atmosphere
of controversy. Every proposition
presented iu their support has been stoutly
disputed and every inference suggested in
their favor has been promptly challenged."
CHOI'S IN TItK SOUTH.
Weather Conditions Have licen <lcnerally
Favorable.
The following extracts are from the summary
of the weekly weather and crop bulletin
of the agricultural department at Wash
iugton:
Virginia?Richmond : Wet and rnther cool
weather, while retarding growth of gurdens
and truck farms, and delaying farm work,
hits been beneilcinl to grass and pastures; ,
corn line in all sections; wheat ripening and *
some cut; tobacco, a large planting and good
stand: potatoes unsatisfactory; rose-buds
increasing.
North Carolina?llalcigh: Abundant precip- :
Ration broke drought everywhere, cool,
damp weather caused some yellowing of cottoll
Itnd lice have iinm-nro 1 in mntiv nlnc-j c
l>;:t bulk i>f 'Ti>[i tin** :itul forming squares in <,
southern portions; wheat harvest in full *"
blast: Irish potato crop generally poor.
South Carolina -t 'olutubia: Well distrib-- *
uteil rains. ex->s-iv" in places, interfered .
with wheat and oat harvest and plowing,
hut generally henetitted crops in general; ^
cotton i>eeotnicg grassy, it i- Utnhiiig well ^
and sotue Mootns; li<*e have appeared; corn
heing laid I?v in excellent condition; sunshine
and dry weather needed for killing grass.
Georgia Atlanta: Weather very favorable,
except heavy raitis have retarded cultivation
a:.d wheat harvest in northern and central
portions; erops greatly improved and growing
vigorously; son: cnpiaiut of cotton
lice in southern portion; cotton beginning
to bloom and melon.- ready for market in extreme
southern counties,
Tennessee Nashville; llain Idmlering
clover having, also cultivation of corn ami
cotton, and many lields are grassy, but
these crops are in llm* growth where worked;
cotton fruiting well: tobacco generally
thrifty, but some trenching; potatoes, oats
and meadows improved; wheat catting half
done; much ru.-t.
COTTON C'IMMM <>\ IMTIONS.
I'uiisuitlly Good Ki'om Alahaiiui to
the Indian Territory.
The consolidated returns of reports to the
statistical division of the Department of
Agriculture for the month of .lime shows tho
State percentage of cotton as compared with
last year to be as follows: Virginia 107, North
Carolina 117. South Carolina 111. Georgia
lid. Alabama 1 i:i. Mis-us-ippi ill, Louisiana
lO'.i, Texas' lib, Arkansas l.'iO, Tennessee
pjs. Indian Territory ltil, Missouri
Did. <iKlahoina, 1'Jl. The general average
is l ir>."J, being 1 .d per cent, increase
iiViT tlie Miiv II... ........... 1!
_ . ...t, ...? III. i ?? ?4?'-<?* <*- ' UIHHtions
of the crop for .1 une 1 was: Virginia 111. "
North Carolina .' nth Carolina 1'7. Geur- '
gin .?.*?. Florida. Alruina, KM, Mississippi ^
101. Louisiana 01. ! \a> '.'J. Arkansas 102. "
Ti iiiif.-ii-o Us, Missouri rho general
acreage is 07.2. y
In the Atlantic States, in spite of dry *
weather in curly spruit, tin' crop is a lit'
tn* earlier tliau n-e.ai. l' ?or stands on a
count of iJr iijrtit. arc reported from two
counties in N >rrh ( ir"l:aa and South Carolina
and lro:n > . a . . ,ntios in Georgia; but
ibo plants ur" in lino condition as respect
both cultivation and growth through tins
region.
in Florida tlo* crop is late and stands arc
poor on account oS the excessive drought.
I'rorii Alabama. M .-isstppi, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Tennessee and Indian Territory,
the reports arc unu-n.tily encouraging. In
d xi- t he rtnd it ion.- have been less favorable
than in tin- Atlantic ami Gulf States.
ST. LOllSC i;i.(/l KM' DKNIKI).
No Special Session of the Legislature,
Says Governor Jones.
Governor Stone has notified Mayor Wal*
bridge, of St. Louis, that his request for a
special session of tie- legislature to appropriate
money for the reconstruction of the municipal
and State institutions damaged by the
tornado of May 1271li was denied. Governor
Stone says that the necessity is not so great
but that it . an wait for tho regular session
and in the meantime suitable temporary ?
quarters can be provided by the city,
Subscribe for tliia paper.
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CUR NAVY'S CRE
Tho United Rt^lei Ratllrfslilp Intllinn, N<
nuti Awultlug further Orders
THE BATTLES!
This Is tho greatest fighter of tho now nnv
of Now York frutn Hampton Roau.- a low daj
IIvo months.
10 PLAH THE NEW CITY.'
Governor Morton Names the Grcnicr
New York Commission.
MEN CHOSEN FOR THE WORK.
Complete Commission Stands fnlttically :
Republicans, 11 ; UritmeralP. -t-?All
Interests Aro l'rotcctctl?Srtli Low,
General Tracy, .Toliti 1-'. Diilon and
Comptroller I'ltcb Name:* tor New York.
Albany, N. Y.,.Tuno 10.?Governor.Morton
osterdnv named tho uino Commissioners
vho, witlt t!io six designated by law, will
Iraft a charter for Greater Now York. Tney
ire:
Seth Low. President of Columbia Collcgo
ind formerly Mayor of Brooklyn.
General Benjamin F. Tracy, onco Judgo of I
he Court of Appeals and Secretary of tho j
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A, ivsiuVUl lldi I UUUIIUIS- t
ration. ;
John F. Dillon, form-.'? Judge of the United
States Circuit Court.
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f'UTIt LOW. ,
Ho heads the list of Greater Cily Comrnia- '
stone re.) ]
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Ashbel I\ Fit eh. lawyer. Comptroller of <
ho City of Now York and formerly n luoin- :
ior of Congress. ]
General Stewart L. Woodford, lawyer and <
ince Lieutenant-Governor. ?
Silas B. Dutcher. banker, former Stato j i
iuperintendent of Public Works.
William C. I)?'Witt, lawyer, tortnerly Cor- ] <
oration Counsel of Brooklyn. ! <
George 31. l'inney, Jr.. District Attorney of 1 ;
Richmond Countv. j.?
Garrett J. Garret : jn, County JuJgo of <
(ueons County. i <
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Tho fl"?f fmir V?n? V.m*!? ? ?>,' il>.. ' /
oxt three Brooklyn. Pichmnmi ;:xi<i tjneens I 1
bounties n:i"li 11:iv?* <>ne ropre.sentsiti ve. The
ix mi-mbvin named m the Greater Now York
iw are:
Andrew II. Oroen, President of tho old ,
(renter New York Commission, formerly '<
fomptrnllor of the eity of M"W York. j
Campbell \V. Adams, State Knxrine. r.
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ANonrw a. cnr.v.y.
Originator of tho project and President of ,
tho old Commission.) ;
Theoiloro E. Hancock, Attorney-General 1
f tho State. I
William L. Strong. Mayor of N"w York.
Frederick W. Wurater, Mayor of Brooklyn.
Patrick J. Ghason, Mayor of Lout; Island <
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ATEST FIGHTER.
sir Lying In the IVarhnr of Jfetf T
from the Nary Urpartmtnt.
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[IIP INDIANA.
y so fnr completed. Rho r.rrivoil at tho Tor^
.'3 sinco. She lias boon iti commission anout
There are four Democrats on tho C .11mission.
They are Mayor G lea son, Mr.
Green, Comptroller Fitch ami Mr. Do V i.t.
Of the eleven llepub'.lcnus District Attorney
Pitiuey, of itioruon-.l County: County Judge
Garrotson. of Queens, State Engineer
Adams and Attorney-General Hancock
are organization moo. and General
Tracy, Mr. Dillon. Mr. Dutcher and General
Woodford are counted as friendly to tho orMm,
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MAYOR \V. t,. STRONG, OF NEW YORK.
[A member of the Gr"ntor Now York Commission
)
Mtiization. Mayors Strong and Wursb r and
Sir. Low arc considered ns anti-organization
Republicans. Tho appointment of Mr. Low
s said to havo been mado without tho approval
of the organisation. There is no Tamil.:
ny man on tho Commission. Mr. Fitch is
lot a member of the Tammany Hall organization.
Nino of tho Commissioners nro lawyers,
dessrs. Green. Fitch and Do Witt, by their
xporieneo in municipal office. and Mr.
jteou by his long and thorough study of
ho problems of consolidation, are considered
poculinriy llttod to nssist in mnkng
n charter for tho now citj*. Ex-Judge
Dillon is a recognised authority aud a
xrltor oT text books on municipal law,
ivhilo General Tracy is a leader at the bur.
I'ho youngest member of the Commission is
District Attorney George M. Pluney, Jr., of
it. George's. Richmond County. Mr. Pinnoy
tamo from San Francisco nine or ten years
igo, and studied law with Evarts, Choato <fc
B-aman. Notwithstanding the legal leaning
>f the Commissioners, counsel?probably two
ir three?will bo appointed to assist in tho
preparation of the charter.
All of tho gentlemen appointed by tho
Governor have been ardent advocates of
onsolidation, although Mr. Low was opposed
to Ih - p- sent law, as h" thought eoulolidntion
ought not to be effected until a
iKi.TT was Air. I. nv an 1 Orn rui
Tracy, who are credited to Now York
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GREATER NEW YORK.
.n i./ i.i.' novi-rnor, mivo always uecu
uouodon as Brooklyn men.
D-.itlei oT tl?i! Commission.
Under t!io terms of tho Greater New York
let, tills Commission must prepare a charter
for tlie greater ''ity, un<l submit it t> the
Legislature by February 1. ami sliall
ease to exist oil March 1 of the saum year.
L'ho Commission las.* power to niako complete
investigation of liio municipal corporations
to bi consolidate I: to subpiena an 1 swear
witnesses; to examine public records anil
documeiits of tin so municipalities, and to
inako any innulry which they may doom
accessary to the framing of a chnrtcr for the
greater city*. Tim Corn mission'may employ
counsel nml other persons that they may
ileem ne -rssary for the prosecution of tlm
work. The charter which the Commission is
harmed with training must ho onoofuntformiiy,
drawn tij>?.n the principle of unilorai
taxation for the entire consolidated territory.
Tho expenses of the Commission uro
lirnltc 1 to S-Q.o.OOfl, which shail l e raised by
tho cities of Now York and Brooklyn.
Swept by a Tornado.
A small manufacturing town of Wyotb
City, Ala., was mowed down like grass by a
tornado. Thirteen houses were razed, many
tarns and outbuildings swept away, trees
11proofed and fences and other obstructions
tilted into tho air and set down huudrods ol
,amis away. Perhaps eighty persons redded
in trio track <>f tlm storm, but by a
niracle only two were killed outright, aud
hivro were struck by lightning.
Justice Pipe, of Colorado, has rendered A
Incision that tho recent State law prohibiting
. ambling is unconstitutional.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB
JUNK 21.
Lesson Textt *'Th? Risen LortI,"
Luko xxlv., 3G-53?Goldeu
Text: Luke xxiv., 31
?Commentary.
SC. Teaoe bo nnto you." . Thus spake
Jesus ns Ho stool in tho midst of the disciples
ns they wore gathered together iu Jerusalem
on that llrst evening nftor the resurrection.
He appeared ilrst to Mary Magdalene.
then to tho other women, thento Simon
nnd to tho two who walked to Emmaus and
now to tho disciples with theso comforting
words. They might possibly think of His
words tho r.vght before tho crucifixion,
"Pcaco I leave v'dli you: My peace 1 givo
unto you" (John xlv.. U7). "Ho Is our
notice," and a mind staid on Him has perteot
peaeo (Eph. ii., 14; iRa. xxvi.. 3>.
37, .18. "Why uro ye troubled, nud why do
thought* arise in your hearts? TLoy were
frightened when thoy saw Ilitn. anrt He
asks, "Why?" for if they had behoved His
own words, or if thoy had believed the womou
who had seen Him that dnv. they might
have shouted for joy, saying: "Here Ho is!
Hero is our Lord!" Why aro we troubled
when lie says, "Let not your heart bo
troubled," and "See that ye bo not troubled?"
(John xlv., 1, 27; Math. x::i\\, G). Why do
thoughts arise when His thoughts to us aro
nil thoughts of peace? (Jer. xxix., 11).'
89. "it is I inysolf." "Jesus Himself"
(versos 15, 8G). "This ra*no Jesus" (Acts i.,
11). "The Lord Himself" (I Thess.lv., lfi).
"His own self" (I Pet, ii.. 24). How can wo
think of death, or soino great ovant, or even
the Holy Spirit, as being thfl same as "the
Lord Himself?" What tho difference wasbetwoen
tho body of Hash and blood in which
Ho died aud this body of flesh and bones in
which He now was wo shall know some day
when our bodies have become like His (Phil,
ill., 21). Wo aro sure that llis resurrection
body was material r.ad tangible, and in It He
con 11 walk and oat. Ours shall be liko His.
40-43. "Ho sliowed them Ills bauds and
His feet." Ami there they would see tho
prints of tho nails, evidence that Ho was tho
same Jesus who had beau crucified and that
tills was tho same bodythut Joseph and Nicodoraus
had carefully laid in the tomb. It is
not likely that tho resurrection body will
need to oat, but wo will in that, as in other
matters, bo able to "Do us occasion servo
us" to tho glory of God.
11. "All things must bo fuldlicd which
wore written in tho law or Moses, and in tho
groohets, aud in the Psalms, concerning
le." Oa tho way to Emtnaus Ho expounded
unto them in all the Scriptures tho things
concerning Himself (verso 27). May we remember
that all tho Scriptures concern Him,
and that all things must ho fullllled. If odh
should ask in what manner tho unfulfilled
jjitris uro iu ii ' minima, lei 1110 nnswor De,
exactl v after the fashion of tbo words already
fulfilled.
45. "Then opened lie their understandings
that they might understand thoScriptures."
Inasmuch in Ho is still tho very sumo Lord
Jesus, why not trust Him to open our understandings
to understand tho Kciiptures; ask
Ilim to read the book with us, and by His
S'lirit instruct us? When wo count upon
Him, lie will not disappoint us, for Ho has
given us His Spirit to guide us into all truth,
nn l who tcneheth like Him (John xiv., 20;
xvi., 13*. Job xxxvi.. 22).
40. "Thus it is written, nnd thus it behooved
Christ to suffer, nnd to rise from tho
dead the third day." Every detail of His
sufferings and resurrection, ns recorded so
fully in IV. x x i i.: I'-a. li it.: l's. xvi., nuil elsewhere,
was fulfilled to tho letter. When wo
s.nnd upon what is written, as it is written,
wo are on safe ground, but tho least adding
to, or taking from, or altering or weakening
or handling deceitfully Is nil forbidden.
47. "And that repentance and roaiission of
Bins should bo preanhed in His name among"
all Nations, beginning at Jerusalem."' This I V
fs why Ho suffered and died nnd roso again \ .
that Ho might ootuin etornal redemption for V
all who xvi 11 uceont Him. Up to tho time oC
His death the preaching was limited, with'
rare exceptions, to Israel, but after Ilis resurrection
the eommuud is to nil Nations inall
the world nnd to every creature. Tho
message now is that through this Man is
preached the forgiveness of sins, and by Hintall
that believe are justified from all things
(Acts xiii.: xxxiii.. 31'; x., 43).
4S. "And yu arc witnesses of the?i things."
A witness is one who is sworn to tell tho
| truth, tii' whole truth and nothing but tuo
j truth, tin i he must tell only wont ho knows
to beso, not wlt.it ho thinks or supposes or
Imagines. In Isi. xliii., 10. 12 wo real. "Yo
are r.iy witness s, snith tho Lord, that I tin
Hod." They and hoar I His voice, had seen/lis
works and were ipialiiled to L-car witness
t hat 11" w is tho only true God. The Lord
josus. i?v liis I Ho I'.'i'i wor Is an>l works, born
witness to tlm Father, an i no-.v wo, by our
lives and wo-Is iri 1 wonts. aro to b-nr witness
unto ilim that lto has servo i us. and
tli.it Ho o*. and that llo will do tha
satno for all wiio i> -liovo oa Him.
1?. "Ami behold 1 send I lie promise of My
Father upon you, Init tarry > in tlio city o?
Jerusalem, until yo l>o endue.1 witiit power
from on high." They bad received tlio
Snirit, they ha 1 boon with tho greatest of
tei ciiers for over two years, perhaps for
three years, nut in n- ui .Mud asps.mil endue
5m?at <>f the Snirit for service. Therefore
lie si'id. "Yo shall r wive tho power of
tho Holy Spirit coming upon you, and yo
shad be witnesses out > Mo" (Acts i., 8. margin).
Be. 01. "Wldlo Ho blessed them IIo was
narted from tluun and carried up into
boa von." S> F.noeh and Rlijiili were taken
up. body and soul, and so fill the saints will
ba taken at Ills coining. Wnon H" ca ne as
a bubo to li'thlohom, IIo brought blessing
to tlio shepherds, to whom the unguis told
the glad tiding.--, and now, us lie leaves the
earth, ic is with blessing upon His disciples.
Wherever Ho went Ho brought nlosaing. IIo
llim.-elf is tlio suin and nubstanco of all
bhwiug. 'I'linrefore wo intiy we'I sing,
"IJlesso i ba ill" Hod and Father of our Lord
Ja-us Christ, wlio hath blessed us with all
spirit Hid blessings in tlio hen veil.iuess in
Christ" (Kpa. i.. J.)
C2. f?t). "C-'ontiniiuliy in lit" tomplo, praising
iinrl ble.sir.g <i xt." Tiiey returned to
Jerusalem with great joy. How coilld til ay
when they r.oiually s aw Him leave them and
ascend into heaven, remembering that when
He died thoy were filled Willi such sadness?
Tho m crct of their joy is i'onn I in tho
uiesssigc ?.f the angel; whom IIo sent back to
from > i/ii Into heaven shall s ? eo:r.o In like
manner a* va have s"r'i lliin;; > into heaven '
(Acts i., li). Thereforo tiiuy i.'linliy wittn'ssivl
unto a ri- a Christ and joyluily ,
Availed fcv ilidiclura.?Lesson llelpor. ?
WON'T PAY $.*)"()<) INSURANCE//
Air. Westmoreland's Death Wns Not. ^
Accidental, Says Judge Newman.
Judge Newman at Atlnnta,On..delivered an
opinion intlia ease of Mrs. Matildn II. Westmoreland
against tho Preferred Accident Insurance
(,'ompany, sustaining the demurrer
of the defendant in Its refusal to pay 65,000
aeeident insurance to Mrs. Westmoreland,
whose husband died under n surgicnl operati.hi
from the effect of chloroform. The
judge held that the chloroform was ndminlstered
in tlie proper way by a skillful
surgeon, and that tho death was not duo to
aeeident.
Itouss Memorial Ilattle Abbey.
Tho committee at Nashville, Tonn.. to raise
funds for tho llouss Memorial battle Abbey,
in ease it should be located at that city, has
started to work. Oen. W. II. Jackson,
owner of 1 telle Meade, started off the list
with r'i,-r)Of), It is tho purpose to raise 6100,000
in leblition t>) the 6! 15,(100 already raised
there, till.- h.tier sum including the site.
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