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RALEIGHj N, C SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1897-
NO. 7.
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NEWS ITEMS CONDENSED.
FIFTY FIFTH CONGRESS
Condensed Paragraphs of Incidents
of Interest.
SWAMP LANDTO BERECLAIMED.
Fifty Thousand Acres of Valuable
JLand to be Redeemed State Board
of Agriculture.
Senator Maultsby, of Columbus
county, 'who has been in Raleigh, the
past several days attending the sessions
of the Directors of the Department of
Agriculture, is actively connected -with
the Colunibus Drainage Company,
'which has for its object the draining of
about 50,000 acres of swamp lands,
known as White Marsh.
The charter for the company was
granted by the Legislature of 1895, and
a renewal granted by the recent Gen
eral Assembly. Mr. filaultsby says that
there is every indication that work will
commence early in September. Steam
dredges will be placed in July.
The main drain channel to be cut will
bo 9 feet by 40 feet, a. 1 about 22 miles
long, extending from Bladen county to
the waccamaw nver. There are also
two lesser channels cut each of which
will be 8 feet by 24 feet, and extending
the same distance.
If the efforts of the company are suc
cessful in the making of those swamp
lands, available for farming purposes,
they will be capable of producing from
75 to 100 bushels of corn to the acre
for a hundred years without the use of
an ounce of fertilizerr
The Senator is quite confident of suc
cess in the enterprise. He appeared be
fore the State Board of Education and
was granted an extension of time for the
option which he has upon the land,
which is owned by the State. An ex
tension to 1900 was granted. There is
a suit pending in the Supreme Court
involving the title to the lands, but the
State Board has little fear of gaining
the case. Th case is entitled "The
State Board of Education vs. Samuel
Harrison."
The Drainage Company has already
placed orders for the steam dredges to
be used in the prosecution of their
work.
State Board of Agriculture.
The State Board of Agriculture met
Wednesday morning. The new offi
cials agreed on by the caucus were duly
elected, James M. Mewborne, com
missioner; J. L. Bamsay, secretary;
James H. Young, colored, chief fertil
izer inspector; J. E. Kelly, Ed Shoup,
James Sheek and J. M. Siterson, as
sistant fertilizer inspectors. The sal
ary of chief inspector was raised from
$1,000 to $f,200, and the number of
Assistants was increased by ono. m One
of the reasons given for the election of
Mewborne and the defeat of Dr. D.
Beid Barker, was that Mewborne was
elected two years ago but was knocked
out of the place. D. Beid Parker was
a Pritchard man. That was another
reason. .
A very destructive fire occurred at
Monroe Thursday. At 11 o'clock it
broke out on the cotton platform, near
the freight depot, and in just the right
place for the wind to sweep it across
the entire platform. It was some
time before the fire could be controlled,
and at least 250 bales of cotton were
burned, more or less badly before it
?as put out. The guano house of S.
L. Bundy was burned, with about 700
bags of fertilizer. W. S. Lee's guano
house was also destroyed. The Monroe
Cotton Mills, Brown Bros. , and Heath,
Morven & Co. owned most of the cotton
that was burned.
South eru Pencil Pointers.
Attorney-General Boyle has ruled
that the anti-trust law just passed by
the Kentucky Legislature applies to la
bor organizations.
The office of shipping commissioner
at Mobile, Ala. , has been abolished by
Secretary Gage, and the same action
will be taken with reference to the same
position at Brunwick, Ga.
Martin Wise & Fitzhugh, of Paris,
Texas, one of the largest cotton firms
in the South, assigns.
Mrs. Chas. A. Collier, wife of At
lanta's mayor, died at her home Wed
nesday of nervous prostration.
The Louisville Chair Company has
assigned. Liabilities are $60,000. It
is claimed the assets are much larger.
Col. John Churchill, owner of the
celebrated Chrtrchill downs, died at
Louisville. Kyv, aged 78.. He J eft an
ewtate yalved at $750,000 to his wife ana
child.
R; R. Biordan, formerly a Charles
ton (8. C.) journalist, but recently liv
ing in New ibrk, died at his residence
in the metropolis March 21. He was
a native of Virginia and 59 years old.
John D. Smith, a negro preacher,
was shot dead at Scottsboro, Ala. He
was charged with outraging the wife of
a white farmer.
At Houston, Texas, Walter Hughes
was shot dead in attempting to kidnap
a daughter of Frank Dunn, a wealthy
resident of that city. The purpose of
the would-be-kidnapper was to keep
the girl in captivity and demand $40,
000 ransom for restoring her to her
parents.
Geo. E. Bennett, formerly of
Pennsylvania, committed suicide at
Fayettevlle, N. C, by drinking four
ounces of laudanum. He left a letter
attributing his reason for suicide to a
faithless wife.
The commissioners of the town of
Butherfordton have ordered an election
to be held on the same day as the town
election, next May, to see whether the
town .will adopt the dispensary law
which the last Legislature passed. A
peculiarity in the enrollment of the bill
is that the bill states that whether a
majority af votes is cast for the law or
ngainst it, the law will be "in opera
tion." From present appearances the
advocates of a dispensary will have a
large majority of the votes cast.
Mrs. Lula E. Clayton, of Laurin
burg, has qualified as administratrix of
'her husband's estate. Mr. W. E. Clay
ton was the ill-fated engineer, who was
killed in the fearful wreek that oc
curred on the S. A. L. road last Thanks
giving Day. Mrs. Clayton has entered
suit against the company for $50,000
damages, and her case will be conduct
ed by Attorneys M. L. John, of Laur
inburg, and Frank McNeill, of Wil
mington. The case will be tried be
fore the Superior Court of New Han
over county.
In the Superior Court at Raleigh,
Thursday, John Groves, white, was
convicted of murder in the second de
gree and sentenced to 20 years in the
penitentiary. The crime of which he
as convicted was the killing of Henry
Wall, colored, on the 20th of January,
at Forestville, in this county. Notice
of appeal was given.
In the Superior Court of Surry county
Tht-rsday Ilobert Mosely was sentenced
to fifteen years imprisonment for man
slaughter. The crime of which he was
convicted was the killing of W. M.
Guyer about a year ago. Mosely is 30
J ears old and has a wife and six chil
ren. The election for aldermen at Wil
mington under the amended charter,
resulted in the election of three Demo
crats and two Bepublicans. Under the
amended charter, Governor Bussell ap
. points five aldermen, four of whom are
Bepublicans.
r All About the North.
Iron ore producers of Pittsburg, Pa.,
have made a cut of from $4 to $2. 65 per
ton.
Five children, all under 12 years of
age, were burned to death at their
home at Laddsdale, la., Wednesday
morning. ,
The bursting of a flywheel in the
Edsrar Thompson steel works at Pitts
burg, Pa., wrecked the building and
fatally injured two persons.
The large factory of the Acme Bicycle
Manufacturing Company, Beading, Pa.,
was burned Thursday, causing a loss of
$75,000, on which there is an insurance
of $50,000. Over 400 hands were ren
dered idle. The company will rebuild.
George Dixon, champion feather,
weight pugilist, defeated Frank Erne
of Buffalo, at New York Wednesday
night in the 21st round.
At Centre City, Minn., Tuesday
morning George Kelly was hanged in
the county jail for complicity in the
murder of Edward Paul and Jacob
Hayes.
Mr. Archie Baxton, of New York,
olerk to the Assembly of that State for
many years, will be appointed Second
Assistant Postmaster-General.
The handsome residence of the late
A. A. Cohen at Alameda, Cal., has
been destroyed by fire. When built it
was said to have cost, with its contents,
over $300,000. The total insurance on
house and contents was $155,000.
A sharp earthquake was felt Tuesday
evening at Malone, N. Y. Also at
Montreal, Can., a heavy shock caused
great alarm. Dispatches from various
foints in eastern Ontario report simi
ar shocks, but without any damage of
consequence.
The three most dangerous convicts in
the Joliet (111.) penitentiary escaped
Monday morning by Bawing the iron
bars of the window in two. They are
all noted counterfeiters.
At Center City, Minn. , George Kelly
was hanged for complicity in the mur
der of Edward Paul and Jacob Hayes.
Seven Chicago. 111. , women have lost
$25,000 by following an astrologer's ad
vice in wheat gambling.
Christian Kielnecker, of Philadel
phia, died in a hospital from blows re
ceived in a prize fight.
The Franklin sugar refineiy, at
Philadelphia, Pa,, will soon be started
up again, giving employment to i,ww
hands.
The directors named for the North
Carolina Bailroad are eight in number.
They are B. M. Norment, who is to be
presidnt; V. S. Lusk. C. A. Cook, H.
N. Butters, J. S. Anderson, A. W.
Graham, William Gilchrist and John
W. Graham.
Work on the Moore county and West
ern Railway has begun at the Concord
end. The outlook for railway construc
tion in the State is more promising
than in seven or eight yrars.
The Governor has appointed Eugene
D. Carter as police justice of Asheville,
to serve one year from May 1st.
Miscellaneous.
Valuable estates in Peru have been
destroyed by recent freshets on the
River Joro.
The Paris Figaro says the govern
ment will ask the Chamber ef Deputies
to vote a credit of $160,000,000 for the
construction of 45 new warships and 173
torpedo bocts.
The President has sent to the Senate
the nomination of Chester G. Brush of
Connecticut to be recorder of the gen
eral land office.
President McKinlev has granted a
respite to four men, who were to have
been hanged Tuesday at Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
Reports from "London to the New
York Times tell of shocking revelations
of the custom of wife and -husband
murdering in Austria and Hungary. A
chemist made the remark that all the
village cemeteries in Styriawere full of
arsenic.
Ian Maclaren is to be called before a
Presbyterian synod to give an account
of his alleged unorthodox holdings.
According to the War Office statistic8
Spain has sent, up to the end of 1896
198,047 men and 40 generals to Cuba.
The deaths in the field and from yel
low fever and other diseases were
four generals and 22,731 men and
officers.
Thei'saeof standard silver dollars
from the mints and Treasury offices for
the week ending March 20, was $357,
832; and for the corresponding period
last year was $422,650. The shipment
of fractional silver coins from March 1
to 20, aggregated $495,050.
The Philadelphia branch of the na
tional Republican League of Business
Men has requested ths former Postmaster-General,
John Wanamaker, to be
come a candidate for State Treasurer
before the next Republican State Convention.
Report of the Proceedings front Hay
to Day.
SENATE.
' Monday. The legislative session of
the Senate lasted about 40 minutes, the
arbitration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain being taken
np thereafter, behind closed doors. In
the short open session nearly 200 bills
were introduced and many others were
reported back from committees. In
cluded' in the latter were the "free
homestead" bill, and the immigration
bill, with the provision as to Canadian
laborer eliminated, both of which were
under consideration in the last Con
gressr the latter failing to become a
law owing to President Cleveland's
veto. The four great appropriation
bills, the agricultural, the Indiana, the
sundry civil and the general deficiency,
whioh also failed for lack of Mr. Cleve
land's signature, and which were re
Introduced and passed last week by
the House, were referred to the com
mittee on appropriations. . The House
joint resolution was passed extending
until December next the investigation
as to the use of alcohol in the arts, by
a joint commission of Congress.
Tuesday. The Senate indulged in
h almost one-sided denunciation of the
civil service law and its administration.
Only one Senator, Lodge, defended the
law, and the upshot of it all was that a
notion was agreed to, without a divis
ion, but amen led so as to instruct the
sommittee on civil service and retrench
ment to inquire and report whether the
civil service law should be continued,
amended or repealed. Turpie (Dem.),
of Indiana, made an argument in favor
of a constitutional amendment to make
United States Senators elected by the
popular vote instead of by the State
Legislatures. These bills were passed
by the Senate: Directing the Secretary
of War to furnish a thousand tents to
shelter and relieve the sufferers from
the flood in the Mississippi river; to
amend the act repealing the timber cul
ture laws. A constitutional amend
ment to make the 30th of April
inauguration day was introduced by
Mr. Hoar.
Wednesday. The Senate spent only
half an hour in open session
today, the remainder of the time
bein? eiven to the consideration
of the arbitration treaty, behind
closed closed doors. The agricultural
appropriation bill, one of the four
money bills that failed at the last ses
sion, was reported back in the shape in
whioh it passed the House last week,
and was placed on the calendar. It vill
be acted on at an early day.
The attack upon the civil service law
and its administration, whioh distin
guished yesterday's proceedings, was
followed up today by the introduction
of two bills, one by Mr. Allen, Popu
list, of Nebraska, for the repeal and
annulment of the law and of all execu
tive orders issued under it; and the
other by Mr. Pritchard; Republican oi
North Carolina, chairman of the com
mittee on civil service and retrench
ment, modifying it in its application to
the Government Printing Office.
While in executive session the Sen
ate confirmed the nominations of Bin
ger Hermann, of Oregon, to be Com
missioner of the General Land Office,
and Ernest C. Timme, of Wisconsin, to
be Auditor of the State Department.
Thttbsday. Among the bills intro
duced and referred was one by Mr.
Foraker, Republican, of Ohio, to pro
vide a modern organization of the ar
tillery of the army. Mr. Pasco pre
sented, in an amended form, the cre
dentials of John A. Henderson as Sen
ator from the State of . Florida, uudei
appointment by the Governor, until the
next meeting of the Legislature in
April next. Mr. Hoar stated that no
action had been taken by the commit
tee on privileges and elections in the
matter of the admission of Senators, the
appointment of Governors.
At 12:20, on motion of Mr. Davis, Re
publican, of Minnesota, acting chair
man of the committee on foreign rela
tions, the Senate proceeded to the con
sideration (with the doors closed) oi
the arbitration treaty. At 3 p. m. the
doors were re-opened and the unfin
ished business, the bankruptcy bill, was
taken up, the bill being read in exten
so. The reading of the bill occupied
exactly one hour. Some formal amend
ments were offered by Mr. Hoar and
were agreed to. Mr. Nelson, Bepubli
can, of Minnesota, offered a substitute
for the bill, which was also read in full,
and when it was concluded, the Senate,
at 4:20 p. m. , adjourned.
Three minor nominations only were
confirmed by the Senate, of local inter
est to New England and Ohio.
Friday. Mr. Gray, Democrat, of
fered a resolution for printing the re
cent decision of the Supreme Court in
the Trans-Missouri case. Mr. Cullom,
of Illinois, stated in that connection,
that he had received a large number oi
letters and telegrams, asking for print
ed copies of the decision and that at
least 1,000 copies ought to be printed.
Mr. Cockrell, Democrat. Missouri,
suggested that after the decision was
printed as a Senate document, addi
tional copies could be ordered, within
a cost of $500. . The resolution was then
agreed to.
Mr. Morgan offered a resolution
which was agreed to, directing the At
torney General to inform the Senate
whether any, and if so, what agreement
has been entered into by the President,
or any of the departments relating to
the future disposition of the Union
Pacific Railroad property, by sale or
otherwise.
A resolution was offered by Mr.
Lodge, Republican, of Massachusetts,
calling for copies of all papers and cor
respondence, diplomatic or otherwise,
on file in the State Department relating
to the arrest and imprisonment in Cuba
of two American sailors, Richeliu and
Bolton. A large number of bills were
introduced, among them one by Mr.
Quay, Republican, of Pennsylvania,
by request, to suppress pauperism; and
by Mr. Cullom, Republican, of Illinois,
to promote aerial transportation. At 4
o'clock the Senate adjourned until
Monday. ,
system, etc He was followed tjy Sep
kins, (Rep.) of Illinois, in favor bi the;
bill, and against it by Bell, (Pop.) of
Colorado. At 5 o'clock a recess was
taken until 8 p. m., when the continu
ance of the debate was hadV - -
Tuesday. The House had the second
day's debate on the tariff bill. The
event of the day was the speech oi : De
liver. He held the attention of the
whole House, Democrats and Republi
cans alike, for over one hour, and kept
his hearers laughing heartily nearly
from start to finish by his humor-,
ous description of the ; effects of
free trade, or tariff for revenue only.
His eloquent periods in advocacy
ind defense of the protective tariff
policy aroused his political associ
ates to a high state. of enthusiasm.
Other speeches en the bill were
made by Measrs. Gibson, (Rep. .) of
Tennessee; Lacey, (Rept) of Iowa;
Newlands, (Sil.) of Colorado, , the latter
of whom spoke as an opponent of the
Republican party's financial policy,
but as an advocate of protection. A
full measure of prosperity; he claimed.
would never be restored to the country
until the old-time parity of silver with
gold was re-established. The speeches
m opposition to the bill were made by
Dockery, (Dem.) of Missouri, who at
tacked the agricultural schedule, par
ticularly, and Mr. McLaurin, (Dem.)
of South Carolina, who advocated a
tariff on cotton and rice, and announced
his opposition to the policy of free raw
material. The Senate joint resolution
appropriating $15,000 to enable the
Secretary of war to purchase tents for
the houseless victims of the Mississippi
river flood was agreed to.
Wednesday Large audiences in the
the galleries, and an unusually large
attendance on the floor of the House of
Representatives, heard the third day's
general debate upon the tariff bill. The
principal speeches of the day were those
of Johnson, of North Dakota; Grosve
nor, of Ohio, and Evans, of Kentucky.
Republican members of the Committee
on Ways and Means, in favor of the
bill, and of McMillin, of Tennessee, the
oldest Democratic member, against it.
Other speakers were Fox, Democrat, of
Mississippi; Sims, Democrat, of Ten
nesee; Torry, Democrat, of Ar
kansas; Sayers, Democrat. of
Texas, and Maddox. Democrat, of
Georgia against the bill ; and by Adams,
Republican, of Pennsylvania, and
Walker. Republican, of Massachusetts,
in favor of it. The general debate will
be closed Thursday, when Russell, of
Connecticut; Dalzell, of Pennsylvania;
Steele, of Indiana, and Payne, of New
York, Republicans, members of the
committee on ways and means, and
Bailey, of Texas, the Democratic lead
er, will speak.
Mr. Brownlow, Republican, of Ten-
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nessee, introduced in tne nouse a um
establishing a department of com
merce, labor and manufactures.
Thursday. This was the last
day of general debate on the
tariff bill in the House of Repre
sentatives under the order apopt
ed last week but, because Mr. Bailey's
throat would not permit him to speak
this afternoon, an agreement was made
to give two hours to general debate
just before taking the vote next Wed
nesday, which will be occupied by him
self and Mr. Dingley.
The proceedings were unusually in
teresting, and they were listened to
generally by a large number of mem
bers and crowded galleries. Speeches
against the bill were made by Messrs.
Talbert, Democrat, of Pennsylvania;
Clark, Democrat, of Missouri; Mcttuire,
Democrat, of California; Gunn, Popu
list, of Idaho; Simpson, Populist, of
Kansas; Cox, Democrat, of Tennessee;
McRae, Democrat, of Arkansas; Burke,
Democrat, of Texas; Lentz, Democrat,
of Ohio, and DeArmond, Democrat, of
Missouri. In its favor speeches were
made by Messrs. Tawney, Republican,
of Minnesota; Dalzell,' Republican, of
Pennsylvania; Russell, Republican, of
Connecticut, and Payne, Republican,
of New York, members of the commit
tee on ways and means; and Crow, Re
publican, of Pennsylvania; Colson, Re
publican, of Kentucky, and Hawley,
Republican, of Texas.
At the evening session the debate on
the tariff bill was continued. Mr.
Skinner, Populist, of North Carolina,
in supporting the bill, said that if for
the past 25 years the Sonth had been
trying for protection as the North and
East had, it would today be the most
prosperous section of the country.
Friday. The - consideration of the
tariff bill under the five-minute rule,
for the purpose of amendment, which
it was expected would be strictly busi
ness, opened with the liveliest political
contest of. the session, lasting through
the three hours. ;
Promptly upon reading of the prefa
tory page of the bill, Mr. Dockery,
Democrat, of Missuri, offered an
amendment for the Secretary of the
Treasury to admit free of duty any ar
ticle the production and price of wnich
was controlled by a trust in the United
States. Mr. Dingley, chairman of the
committee on ways and means, made
the point that the amendment was not
in order in that place. The point was
sustained by the chairman, and his rul
ing was sustained by a vote of. 158 to
104. :-
In the course of the afternoon several
changes of duty were made, among
them being'an increase of half a cent on
the duty on carbonate of ammonia; an
increase from 25 to 40 cents a pound in
the duty on sulphuric' ether; and in
creasing the duty on the products of
pig lead from 2$ to 3 cents a pound.
At 5:15 p.m. the House adjourned,
having disposed of 9 pages of the 163
of the tariff bill. . .
Saturday. The House, in commit
tee of the whole, progressed even more
SlilFS LABOR STATISTICS.
Ben. R.lacy's Last Report as Labor
Commissioner.-
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.
The Pnreau's Report for 1896--Average
Wages The Employment of
Children In the Mills.
Carolina will be the foremost State In
this Union. We will have the most
contented labor and the time will soon
come when no child under 12 years will
be working in the mills, and none that
cannot read and write,
BRADSTREET AND DUN.
A QUICK HKAIUNQ
Wll.
Below we publish the last report of
the State Bureau of Labor Statistics for
1896. The first chapter of is de
Voted to agricultural statistics:
The figures given in chapter 1 are
based on replies from 855 representative
farmers, in the 96 counties.- The aver
age wagf s paid for farm labor are as
follows': Men $8.50 a month, women
$5, children' $3. Bations : averaging
$3.90 a month, and vegetables, fuel and
fruit averaging $2.80 are furnished,
making the actual figures $15.40. The
reports show that 65 counties produce
cotton, and also that the average cost
of producing a 400-pound bale is $22. 70.
Of this 65 per cent, represents labor
filone. Eighty-five counties produce
wheat, at an average cost of 60 cents a
bushel. Ninety-two counties proauco
oats at an average of 20 cents, and 53
produce tobacco, at an average cost of
$6.83 per 100 pounds.
When the question blanks were sent
to farmers the inquiry was made as to
whether they favored compulsory edu
cation. From 72 counties the reply was
"yes,"while 7 failed to answer and only
17 said "no." X-It is the first time this
inquiry was ever made. Of the 855
farmers who, as stated, made reports,
no less than 234 declared they favored
compulsory education. There had been
no agitation,' and the high percentage
of replies in the affirmative shows that
it is striking into the popular mind.
Chapter 2 is devoted to the cotton and
woolen mills. There are 189 of these,
located in 49 counties, Of these 80 per
the four counties of Ala
mance, Gaston, Mecklenburg and Ran
dolph, the two former having 20 each
and the latter two 14 each. Gaston has
101,331 spindles and Alamance 3,735
looms. In operating mills about 37,000
horse-power is used.
Of operatives employed in mills there
are 23,437, divided as follows: Men,
6,822; women. 10,567; children, 6,046.
The averasre daily wages are: Machin
ist $1.68, engineer, $1.46, firemen 86
pnt. skilled men 99 cents, unskilled
An R7 cents, skilled women 66 cents.
nnsbillftd women 47A cents, children 31
cents. In other words the skilled fe
male laborer does not get as much pay
as the unskilled man.
Of the cTown employes 81 per cent.
read and write, and of the children 664
per cent Of the children 1,788 boys
and 1,641 girls are under fourteen years
of age. The daily hours of labor range
from. 10 to 12. The Question of the em
ployment of children is an interesting
one. A gentleman who was getting up
some figures on the employment of
children asked half a dozen mill
employes their views as to the question
of non-emclovment of children under
14 in the mills and also the question of
compulsory education. He found all
the half-dozen bitterly opposed to both
ideas. He expressed surprise, and then
thev c-ave their reasons, which certain
ly are remarkable. They said that they
had been at all the expense incident to
thfl hirth and childhood of their chil
dren had clothed and fed them 'until
they were able to go to work, at 10 to 12
years of age, and that it was only right
that the children should be put to work.
in order that the parents might get
their money back. They further argued
that if they sent tneir cmiareu 10 scnooi
thev would eo off and mary as soon
as they completed their education, and
thus the parents would loose every
thiner thev had spent on them. The
renort savs this idea of raising chil
dren as an investment will strike the
f general public as new, but that is the
ight in which the average cotton mill
operative views the matter; in other
words, that a majority of the operatives
in the State so think. The report
makes the plain statement that all
children under 14 should be. compelled
tn n.ttand school.
At all the mills are schools, supported
in part, and in many cases entirely, by
kVA mill owners, many of these schools
being in session 10 months in the year,
ond these schools are first-class.
Tnhraries are in some cases provided,
and the owners seek to impress the em
ployes with the necessity for educating
the children, but as long as the latter
are able to earn a few dollars in the
mill it is impossible to keep then a"
school. Julian S. Uarr says it is not
the desire of the mill-owners to employ
child labor that it is generally forced
upon them.
The reports as to miscellaneous fac
tories are numerous. Seventy:eight
per cent, report the cost of living as
having decreased during the past year,
and. only one reports of an increase, the
reminder reporting no change. Siity
four per cent, report no change in
wages, 24 per cent, a decrease and 12
per cent, an increase. Seventy-four
per cent pay wages weekly, and 90 per
cent pav all in cash. Nearly 60 per
cent of" the factories made full time
rlnrinc the vear. and 80 per cent.
vatVmI 10 hours a dav. All save two
favnr nnmnnlsorv education.
Chapter 4 is on trades. The reports
Vnf amnlnvM f7 Tf,T cent, are
slowly in its consideration of the tariff I -weekly, 14 per cent monthly and
bill than Friday, having aisposeq oi 1fl cen eemi-montl ly eto.
only five pages against nine and a hall 77 cent in cash ftLd 23 per
the day before. The discussion too 1T1 trade and cash: 7 per centre-
a wide range, covering the proposition rt n increa8e in wages, 46 per
that the foreigner pays the tax under cent a decrea8e and 48 per cent no
a protective tana; that a auty on niaes change; & per cent make full time and
wouia De more DenencAm w mo Ko do not: 72 per ceuu wor
Weekly Trade Revlsw of These Two
Leading Agencies.
R. G. Dun A Co., in their weekly re
view of trade issued on Saturday, say:
Rarely have markets sustained such
surprises as they have received of late,
with so little loss. Foreign conditions
and London alarms, the collapse of the
iron ore combination, the destructive
goods in the Mississippi valley, and the
decision of the Supreme Court ngainst
railroad associations, have been used
to the utmost, but not even in railroad
stocks, has the result been important
With confidence that better times and
larger business are coming, men are
less disposed every day to throw "away
flood investments, and the very faot
that prices of products are low. is re
garded as a guarantee against much
further decline.- ; In all industries, also,
a number of mills, shops and hands at
work, gradually increases.
Cotton was helped up an eighth by
the flood, but' has lost half the gain.
Manufacturing is more hopeful. With
out change in prices goods were in
better demand, and sales of 500,000
pieces of print cloth result in a stronger
tone. The final dissolution of the lake
iron ore pool has been expected ever
since the Carnegie-Rockefeller deal,
and insures low prices for ore the com
ing year, though, perhaps, not lower
than in 1895. Prices are still ad
vancing, and of many kinds have risen
two or three times during the past
month.' The wool manufacture is stead-
ly increasing, but cautiously, as it is
too early to anticipate results from
changes which may bo made in
duties.
The failures of the week have been
291 in the United States, against 259
last year, and 50 in Canada, against 89
last year. '
Bradstreet s report says: "While
the week is not without favorable fea
tures, unfavorable influences have been
more numerous. Leading month mar
kets show no change. Merchantile col
lections are olow and the volume oi
funds offered is in excess of the de
mands for discounts. The tendency of
investments to improve haj temporarily
disappeared, under the influence of the
Supreme. Court anti-trust decision,
which' apparently threatens arrange
ments for the maintenance of railway
rates, as well a9 railway trades-union
activity, so far as it may affect inter
State commerce. The tendency a of
rioes is downward, quotations being
ower for wheat Indian corn, oats, cof
fee, cotton and for pig iron and steel
billets and the lower priced ore
Stormy weather, high water and floods
in the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri
river valleys, and in the country
drained by tributary streams, have in
terfered with interior trade.
"The bank clearings at 77 cities
throughout the United States are dis
appointing, the total being only $888,
000,000 for the week. 0.6 percent, less
than in the like week one year ago."
De Had of Appeal In Traffic As
sociation Case.
Attorney-General McKenna lift di
rected District Attorney McFarlano at
New York to take an appeal from the
decision of the circuit court of appeals,
delivered at ;New York last Friday, in
favor of the Joint Traffic Association,
om posed of Eastern trunk 1 in es. Th ia
case is. closely allied to that of the
lians-Missouri freight association, in
which the United States Supreme Court
last Monday held that the anti-trust law
waa constitutional. The same questions
are involved as in the Trans-Missouri
case with ' the addition that the J oint
traffic Association is charged with vio
lation of the anti-pooling clause of the
inter-state commerce act. The circuit
court of appeals held that the United
States had no right to go into court in
an attempt to dissolve the association
under either the anti-trust or inter-stato
commerce acts. It is contended at tho
department of justice that even the dis
senting opinion of the Supreme Court
did not sustain points sustained by the
circuit court of appeals.
When the papers in the appeal arrive
the Attorney-General .will ask the
Supreme court to advance the case
o that it may be heard at the present
term.
Another Road Draws Out.
The fit Louis and San Francisoo rail
road Thursday gave notice of with
drawal from all the trafflo associations.
bbth freight and passenger, in the West
and Southwest This action is taken
on account of the Supreme Court decis
ion on Tuesday declaring the lYans-
! Missouri Trafflo Association to be il
legal. So far no action has been taken
by any ox the car service associations.
Chicago Grain and Produce.
Chicago. Saturday. The leading
futures were as follows:
Wheat: . Open. Close.
March 721
May.. 721
July. 71
September 69
Corn:
March 23
May. 24
July.. 25
September.... 26 j
Uats:
March '. 16
May
July
Mess Pork :
May.
July ,
Lard;
May..
July..
Ribs:
May.
July.
16?
"I
18
8 65
8 70
417
430
4 60 .
4 62
860
8 70
20
80
4 60
4 62
HOUSE.
Monday. The tariff debate was fair
ly and regularly started in the House.
The reading of the bill occupied nearly
two hours and a half, although there
was no pretense on the part of the clerk
that he was following the text in full.
Dingley, (Rep.) of Maine, made the
opening speech, and it was an exhaus
tive explanation and defense of the
measure. Wheeler, (Dem. ) of Alabama,
asserted that the prosperity which the
people of the United States had enjoy
ed had been the result of their own in-
dustry and energy; not of the protective
than all the Juties in the Agricultural
schedule; that pig iron can be produced
in Alabama and Tennessee in competi
tion with the North and foreign coun
tries, with a smaller duty than $4 a ton
(although no motion was made to re
duce it) ; that trusts are, in the main,
beneficial to the consumers. As a re
unit of the dav's work, a few imma
terial changes were made in the chem
ical and earths, and earthenware sched
ules, proposed by the committee on
wavs and means.
Brazen Boarder (at dinner table) 1
can tell a fowl's age by Its teeth. Sur
prised Landlady But fowls have no
teeth. Brazen Boarder No; but I have.
-Texas Sittings.
fan hnnra a dav. 4 Per COnt WOTK 168S
than 10 hours and 24 per cent work over
10 hours. It Is interesting to note that
80 ner cent favor an industrial appren-
ticeshio system and 20 per cent oppose
it; and that 68 percent favor boys pass-
in? a common school examination on
entering a trade; 73 per cent" favor
compulsory education and 7 per cent
oDDosa it. A. E. McCausland. of Char
lotte, warmlv favors the establishment
of "trado schools," which are so suo
nessfnl in Enrone and in Massachusetts.
J. M. Odell. of Concord, the oldest mill
owner in the State, writes an excellent
letter, in which he says; "I am of the
oninion that if no labor laws are enact
ed it will not be very long before North
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Liverpool, Saturday. Futures
Closed quiet but steady.
March 8 6859
March and April. . 8 5859
April and May 8 5859
May and June 8 5859
June and July 3 5859
July and August 3 5859
August and September. 86(&57
September and October 8 50(&51
October and .November 3 4546
November and December 8 44 s
December and Jannary 8 43(&44
January and February
' ' New York Cotton Futures.
. NbwYork, Saturday. Cotton quiet
Futures closed steady.
Highest
March
April..
May.....
J une
July
August .
September 0 84
October
November 6 73
December ....... 6 74
January
February.
6 97
7 95
7 02
706
710
711
Lowest
.6 96
6 95
699
704
708
7 08
684
6 71
674
7 ,? A Rigid Investigation.
All of the circumstances connected
with the allegod plot to kidnap the
child of a citizen of Houston, and hold
it for ransom money, are so peculiar as
to call for the most rigid investigation.
The Waters Falling.
The latest reports from the flooded
districts. Along the Ohio, Mississippi
and Missouri rivers is that the waters
are gradually falling, and that the worst
is over.' '
Liable for Back Taxes.
The Supreme Court of Kentucky has
rendered a decision which may make
the banks of the State liable for $1,000, -000
back taxes.
Early Watches.
Watches were first called Nuremburg
egga; aome of them were five and six
Inches In diameter, as large as the
emaU-elsed cheap clocks now exhibited
in store window. They were first made
tn 144T.
News of the Flood.
Another break in the levee at Fifteen
Mile Bayou, nine miles below Modoc,
Ark., is reported. It is now over five
hundred feet in width and hourly in
creasing. Assistant United States En
gineer Notty states that in his opinion
all the White river levee system, from
Modoc south, will eventually go to
pieces'.
At Kansas City, Mo., the Missouri
river is within 28 feet of the danger line
and the indications are that it will
go at least one foot higher. The bottom
at the mouth of the Kaw river is over
flowed and the squatters have been
compelled to take refuge on the bluffs.
The Belt Line Railway tracks are un
der water in places and Berious trouble
Is feared. The Armour Packing Com
pany has a large force of men at work
to guard against damage by the expect
ed overflow.
Several more breaks in the levee at
Bird'B point have occurred and a cur
rent of water as strong as a mill race is
rushing through the center of that vil
lage. Already a dozen houses havo
been swept from their foundations and
It now looks as if there will not be a
building left in the place. Fortunately
the dwellers had ample warning and
removed most of their household goods
and merchandise.
With one exception, the bridge over
the Flint river, at Albany, Oa., there,
is not a publio bridge left in the county,
rhe iron bridge across the Kinchee-
foonee creek, recently built jointly by
Doughty ana Lee counties and costing
8.000 was swept away without a vestige
being left
Ducket Shops Win.
Judge norton, of the circuit court,
has overruled the. motion of the board
of trade of Chicago, the Western Union
Telegraph Company, the Gold and
Stock Telegraph Company and the Pos
tal Telegraph Company to dissolve the
temporary injunctions, restraining
these parties from detaching teiegrapu
wires from the place of busines of Har
ry E. Wyly and the W. A. Michel Com
mission Company et al ., and from re
moving "tickers1' and from cutting off
or in any wise interfering with "the
supply of information as has been here
tofore supplied.
In concluding his decision, the Judge
ays: "The defendant telegraph com
panies have been so long permitted to
continue to transmit to the publio the
'market news' and said telegraph com
panies have been so long employed by
the Dnblio so to do that said companies
may new be considered as agents of the
publio for that purpose, recognized as
inch by the board of trade. "
Free Silver Republicans.
A new political party .has been
launched in Nebraska. It is composed
f members who have heretofore affili-
ited with the Republicans, but last No
vember voted for W. J. Bryan for Pres
I ident pn the currency question alone.
The convention which met in Lincoln
. . s ri i
was not largely . auenaeu. inaries
Wooster, a member of the lower house
of the Legislature, was made chair
man. The present name Free Silver
Republicans of Nebraska was retained.
Judge D. D. Gregory, of Omaha, was
made the Nebraska member of tho Na
tional Gcmmittee and a State organiza
tion was -effected. Six Congressional
district committeemen were also select
ed and arrangements perfected for car
rying on an active campaign. Contrary
to expectations,. Mr. Bryan was not
present
Three Friends Seized.
At Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday the
steamer Three Friends, which arrived
in port Thursday, has again been seized
by order of the United States Court, in
accordance with the recent decision of
the Supreme Court, in If) libel case
pending against the byat The bend
was cancelled, after- which a deputy
marshal was placed in charge. The tug
will . be allowed to do towing on the
river, pending a trial of the case
aoainst it
nirTnlnlpSains iilf Cotton Mill.
At Birmingham the Avondale mills,
capital $500,000, were formally launch
ed Thursday night with $400,000 of (he
stock subscribed. At a meeting of the
stockholders B. B. Comer was elected
president and treasurer and David
Trainer, secretary and general manager.
The following were elected a board of
directors: B. B. Comer, Robert Jami
son, W. J. Milner, David Trainer and
M. V. Joseph, Birmingham; C. II.
Hutchins, Worcester, Mass.; D. M.
Thompson, Providence, It I. ; and J.
P. Wilson and H. 8. Chadwick, Char
lotte. N. O.