The News and Observer.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 66
TO! LAMEST (BE AMY TOOTH ©Mi® LOOM QMOOf„
SHERMAN ON FINANCE
RECOLLECTIONS OF FORTY
YLARB IN CONGRESS AND
TiiE CABINET.
SOME LONu-KEPT SECRETS T OID
Tl»e Feature of the Rook is its Extreme
Frankses* anti Rut L tilt* Attempt at
Literary Grace is Made—lt is an Ex
position of the Financial Policy of
the Republican Party»«Ci itleDm ol
Garfield anil His Nomination for
I*residen■ Grant's A d ministration.
Chicago, 111., Oct 18 —The intrigues
the jealousies and the traitorous knife
thrusts of the last half century of Amer
ican state c»aft are revealed in the tieiee
light of stern criticism in “John Bher
man’s recollections of forty years in the
House, senate and Cabinet,” just pub
lished in this city The fear that the
venerable Senator would reveal secrets
long kep from the public in his torth
coming work has been to an extent re
alined. Grant, Garfhld, BUine, Arthur,
Harrison and other Republican leaden
are spoiien of with unstinted praise for
their high pers mat worth or statesman
ship, buc each is, in guarded and covert
language, shown ia ti:e leas commend
able l'ght of scheming politicians, ihe
criticism is aimost- iuva iably implied
rather than direct, but it stands out
clearly in the work as a whole.
Owing to the expectation that the work
would be iu a measure sensational, and
the anxiety felt in diplomatic circles over
its forthcoming, frequent effort has been
made to gain information regarding its
contents.
Bat the Associated Press is enabled to
present to day for the first time, a re
sume of Mr. Snermsn’s autobiography.
As anticipated, the feature o f the nook
ia itsex reme trankness, the iu
which Mr. Soertnan has expressed him
self, showing the state: man rather than
the professional book maker. The wo k
is marked by clear cat sentences asn
biant expressions of opinion, and but
little a-tempt at literary" grace is made
The book is very evidently intended by
the author as an exposition of the finan
cial policy of tha Republican party, which
to a great extent is his owu, and about
the extensive elaborate history of Amer
ican finances is woven aaectoae an i per
soaal remmiscenoe replete with interest
to ev ry student of politics.
Owing to tae close association of Mr
She: ma.. and James A. Garfield, the
criticism of the nomination of the latter
for President of the United S‘a*cs i ;
perhaps one us the most striking tea ures
of the book. The author, while carefully
avoiding a direvt charge of treachery on
the part of the ex President, very signi
ficant'y makes it plain that Mr. Garfield
was uominaud ai a convention to which
hejiad gone as the trusted leader of the
Sherman forces. After showing, by the
publication of private letters, covering a
period of ye.rs of close political and
personal association that Mr. Garfield
was in reality his political protege,’ Mr
Sherman gives in detail the hist ry of
the qa'bna! convention of 1880 Follow
ing the account of his own straggle for
the nomi iatioa, he says:
“la time I became thoroughly advised
of wuat occurred at the Chicago Conven
tion, and had become entirely reconciled
to the result, though freqiendy after
wards I heard incidents and details
which occasioned me great pain, and
which to establish the want ot sincerity
on th3 of some of the delegates,
tended to show that for some time before
the meeting of the convention the nomi
nation of General Garfield had been
agreed upon.”
The sti g felt by Gar field’s defection in
I*Bo is inadvertently shown by a senti
ment expressed during the discussion of
the National Convention of 1892, where
the Senator remarks:
“From later developments, I became
satisfied that Harrison could be elected,
that Piatt and a powerful N w York in
flueruc would defeat him if nominated.
1 therefore preferred the nomination of
a new man, such as William McKinley,
hat b? had committed himself to Har
rison, and, according to my cole of
honor, could not accept a nomination
even if tendered him ”
When it wa3 remembered that B.aine
was als > a candidate for the Presidency
hsfore the convention that nominated
Gaifield, the significance of the follow
iag explanation on the part of Senator
Sherman o. why he was pot re-appointed
hf President Garfield as Secretary of the
Tres-u y is readily understood :
“In the latter part of Nov-raber, 1881),
Gan. G-rSeld came to Washington and
• iUed upon Mr Blaine, who, it was un
fierstood, was to be Secretary of State.
GarS 1.1 came to my house directly from
Blaine’* and informed me that ho had
tendered that office to Blaine and that
it was accepted. He said lhat Blaine
t .aught it won dnotbep ibtical wiadomto
•oa-aoue me ns Secretary of tr,o Treasury,
as it would be r-garded as an unfriendly
discrimination by other members of
Hay**’ cabinet. I promptly replied that
I agreed with the opinion of B nine, and
was a candid .te for the Senate.”
Hornething of the political scheming
that again resulted in the defeat of the
Ohio statesman in the National Conven
tion of 1888 and brought about tho n m
illation of ex President Harrison can
easily 1m? read between the lines in that
part of the work devoted to this strug
gle. In discussing the result Mr. Sher
man says that he becomes satisfied that
oe« delegate from New York controlled
the entire delegation from that State,
and between Saturday night, when the
■awn nation seemed certain to go to
' Sherman, and Monday morning, when
. the tide turned in favor of Harrison, a
corrupt bargain was made in the interests
of the latter, which secured him the
support of New York and gave him the
nomination. Continuing, the author
states in fairness to the ex-President:
“It is to tne credit of G u. Hkrrlfcon
to say that if the reputed brg ;in was
' made, it was wrh ut his eon?,eat at the
time.”
■ “On the eve of another National cam
pain in which * x President Harrison is
expires ed to figure prominently, Mr.
' Saerman does not iiosiiate to s f ate that
[ in 1892 he did not consider Hardison a
strong candidate. To his cold and ab
rupt manner, he attributes h s unpopu
larity at that lime.
“Space is devoted by the author to an
account of the important events of each
administration. Iu this connection, M>.
Sherman lays bare many of the jealous
ies, political bickerings and clash of nm
bitions that disturbed the harmony of
the party iu power. Os Grant’s admin
istration. he says it was a period of scan
dal and slander. Perhaps the severest
criticism of Gen Giant’s statesman: 1 ip
is fount', in the following ex ract from
Mr. Sherman’s work:
“Daring the entire period of Grant’s
administration, I was Chairman of the
Committee on Finance of the Senate,
and had to act upon all questions of tax
ation, debt, bat-king or finance, and had
occasion to talk with the President upon
s ich measures. But. he rarely expressed
any opinion or took any interest iu
tn* m ”
At the age of 72 years, Senator Sber
man recalls the affair over the attempt
to remove Chester A. Arthur from the
Coilectorship ot the Port of New York
with much feeling. The correspondence
bearing on the controversy, never before
published, is given in full, and Mr. Sher
man’s part as Secretary of the Treasury
is stated in detail. Arthur is shown up
in an unenviable light, and the attitude
of Roscoe Couklir.g towards the Presi
dent is caustica ly commented upon.
Die form-r’s nomination as Vice-Presi
dent, the Ohio statesman says, was the
whim of Uonkiing to annoy President
Haies.
Throughout that part of the work re
lating to President Hayes, Mr. Sherman
.-peaks in he highest praise of the chief
execu ive o ? tue nation.
As snowing the stinging criticism of
which he is cipable, the foilowiug state
ment made by Mr. Sherman at the time
toe impeachment proceedings against
President Johnson were instituted, is of
interest. He s.iid of Mr. Johnson:
“The truth is, he is a slave to hs
passions and resentm ;nts. No man can
confide iu him.
“1 regard him as a foolish and stub
born man, dub g even right things in a
wrong way, ana iu a position where the
evd that fie d <es ia immensely increased
by his manner of doing it.”
The views of Mr. Sherman on the
financial question are so well known that
it is not uec< s arv to repeat them. It is
sufficient to say* that he is consistent
All of the legislation on this subject
daring the last half century is carefully
recited and analy zed. The details con
cerning the passage of the act of 1873 are
fully recorded. In 1876, Mr. Sherman
prepared and delivered a speech on the
repeal of the resumption act of 1875,
w jica he says is the best presentation
he has ever ncen aole to offer in support
of the financial policy of the govern
ment, and especially m support of the
resumption of specie payments.
These extracts from me address are
quoted as indicating Mr. Sherman’s tbe
o y of money:
‘ All iaufiiigent men agree that every
great commercial nation must have both
a metallic currency and a paper curren
cy; the one as the standard of value by
wruch all things are measured, whicn
daily measures your bonds and notes as
it measures wheat, cotton and iand, and
also a paper or credit currency, which,
from ns convenience ol handlieg or
trausfer, must be the medium of ex
change in the great body of the business
of lire.”
‘ lam one of those who believe that a
United States note, Issued directly by
the government, and convertible on de
mand into gold coin, or a government
bond equal iu value to gold, is the best
currency we can adopt; that it is to be
the currency of the future, not only in
the United States but in Great Britain as
well; and that such a currency might
properly continue to to be a legal tender,
except when coin is specifically stipulat
ed for.”
Another extract from the utterances
of the author defines in a word his posi
tion on the silver question. After relat
i ing his axioms of sound finance, he con
clude;-:
“So that for all practical purposes we
i may regard gold as the only true stand
aid, tne true money of the world, by
which the value of all property, of all
i productions, of all credits, and of every
[ medium of exchange, and especially of
all paper mouey, is tested.”
, UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
' The Directors Decide in Favor ol Its
Removal to Richmond.
t Danville, Va., Cot. 18.—A special
1 meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Union Theological Seminary of the Pres
, bytenan church was heid here to-day to
’ consider the question of removing the
institution from its present location in
Prince Eiward county. The committee
, to report on pro ositions reported that
i Richmond had offered a site and in ad
dition $125,00 ) as a building fund, and
recommended acceptance, subject to the
t approval of the synods of Virginia and
} North Carolina. Tne recommei dation
was adopted and the synods will be
~ overtim-d to approve and authorize im
-0 mediate removal.
RALEIGH, N. C.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 19. 18 °
THE COMMODORE CASE
THE OFFICERS WILL BE TRIED
Ft R ENGAGING IN AN
ILLICI r TRAFFIC.
INTERVIEW WITH JUDGE RUSSELL
He Says the Neutrality Laws Were
Never Intended to Prevent our Own
People From Making and Selling
Arms Wherever They Pleased, and
That the Commodore Was Engaged
in a Log'tiimtte Currying Trade—
Mr. Aycock Was Not Censured.
Special to the News and Observer.
Washington, D. C , Oct. 18
United States Marshal O. J. Carroll,
of Raleigh, was summoned to Washing
ton a few days ago by Attorney General
Harmon concerning the seizure and sub
sequent release of the Commodore at
Wilmington, and a lengthy conference
was held between them. It is reported
that, the Attorney General was not alto
gether satisfied with the verdict, and
consequently ordered the re seizure of
the Commodore. The officers of which
will be tried on the charge “of engaging
in illegal traffic ”
Judge Russell, of Wilmington, who
has been eugaged as counsel for the
officers, in an interview, gives the follow
irg :
“The Commodore is a merchant ves
sel eng ged in a legitimate commercial
ven'ure. She has the right to carry
arms to Cuban insurgents. There is
nothing in the neutrality laws to pro
bibit the shipment and carriage of arms
or other war material to a nation of bel
1 gerents or insurgents engaged in war
of hostilities with a power friendly t > us.
It makes no difference whether the
Cuban revolutionists are an independent
nation, or a belligerent, or timply a
band of rebels. In either case our peo
ple have the right under the neutrality
laws to sell to them war suppl es and to
ship them and carry ihem, and to de
liver them, subject, of course, to the
right of Spain to seize and confiscate
them when they get within her jurisdic
tion. The owners and officers of the
Commodore have the right to make
public proclamation that th y are ship
png and propose to carry arms to the
Cuban insurgents, and there is no law
of this country to prevent them or to
touch them for so doing. The neutral
ity laws do forbid the ‘fitting out’ and
‘arming’ of any vessel with the in ent
that such vessel shall l>e empl y
ed as an armed machine to commit hos
tilities against a friendly p -wer and, as
to vessels, the law hath this extent, no
more.
“Theneutrality laws never i•?tended to
prevent our cwn people from manufac
turing arms and selling them wherever
they could be delivered on Dnd or sea
Our neutrality laws are substantially the
gam* as those of England. Dirir.g our
civil war English subjects sod vast
quantities of arms to oar so called
‘rebels’ and shipped them openly from
Bri ish ports through the blockade to
Southern ‘insurgents ’ Tae wharves
of Wilmington, N 0 , were loaded with
war material shipped from British ports
and run through the blockade and de
livered to those engaged iu war against
the United States Government. The
British port of Nassau swarmed with
these ships taking on war material to
be carried, and delivered to these same
American ‘rebels.’ There was no lack
of evidence to prove where they were
going. It was a matter of universal
notoriety at Washington, at London and
in all the capita s of the earth’s great
powers. Yet no British court or com
missioner or officer ever seized these
vessels in British waters or undertook to
interfere with their commercial ven
tures. Why? Because they were not
armed ships to be used against the
United States, but simply merchant
vessels engaged in commerce.
“Neutrality laws do not seek to pro
hibit all manner of aid to per Hons eu
gaged in hostilities with friendly powers
If they did then it would tie a on a*; to
have public mtsetings expressing syrnpa
thy with revolutionists or to send them
money, or for the public press to advo
cate their cause. The Caban junta in
New York is publicly soliciting and col
lecting money for the Cuban rebels.
They are epeuiy and publicly doing more
for them than could be done by a whole
fleet of steamers like the Commodore.
Why does not. Mr. Harmon, the harmo
nious, in his harmony with Spain jump
on this junta ? Suppose he tried a libel
on them
“As to the statement about the Attorney
General criticising or censuring District
Attorney Aycock, it is incred table. I
do not know Mr. Harmon, but 1 ilnubt
not he is a man of sense and a reputable
law .er. Ido not btfiieve that he seeks
to hold his subordinate officers censur
able for not accomplishing the impossi
11© ”
* * *
It is believed that the President will,
within a tew days appoint a Fish Com
mission. The duties have been perform
ed by the chief clerk, but the thirty days
has expired during which the office may
bo stiled by t< mporary designation.
Among the many candidates for the
position is Mr Stephen G. Worth, of
North Carolina
The position is an especially desirable
o’ e. Besides the salary, $5,000 a year,
there are many attractions, not the least
of those is the control of several fine
steam vessels.
* * *
The Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley
Railroad, it is reported here, wiil bo soid
under foreclosure of mortgage at an
early date. There are good reasons why
more roads bes'des the Southern would
like to b-o the purchaser. It is generally
conceded that the Southern will be the
purchaser for it would give that sjslem
the means of reaching the sea,also a line
through one of the best sections of the
State.
Tilers is rumor that the Norfolk and
Western railroad will not see the road
go at a mere song. Also the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad have a desire to own
the road. This would cause them to ex
tend their line from Lexington to Win
ston.
The “Commodore” Ca*e Closed.
Special to the News and Observer.
Goldsboro, N. C., Oct. 18
The investigation of the “Commodore”
case was closed this evening. One week
was granted the attorneys for the gov
ernment in which to file their brief, after
which Judge Seymour will render his
fiDal decision.
MISS BURNETT TAKEN HOME.
Annual Meeting of the Itoaaoke Rapids
Power Company.
Special to the News and Observer.
Weldon, N. C., Oct. 18.
Mbs Burnett, an accouut of whose
misfortune in jumping from the train
near Stoney Creek last night, appeared
in today’s News and Observer, was
taken to her home, in Charleston, last
night. She was doing as well as could
be expected. She had the very best at
tention given her by her physicians and
our eitiz ?ns
Mr. D. E Stan back, of the Roanoke
News, and bis wife, took in the Atlanta
exposition.
Messrs. Cohen and Habeleston, of
Petersburg; Maxwell and Chanler, of
New York, composing the Roanoke Rap
ids Power Company, held their annual
meeting Tuesday at Roanoke Rupids
Judge J. M. MulleD, of Petersburg, was
present.
Robb. B. Puraell, a merchant of this
place was run over and killed by an S.
A L. freight, under the shed to-night.
TIIE ROC KY MOUNT FA IR.
It Will i his Year be One ol the Rest In
its History.
Special to the News and Observer.
Rocky Mount, N. C , Oct. 18.
The fifteenth annual exhibition of the
Rocky Mount Fair Association will be
held Nov. 6,7 and Bat their grounds
lu re. During the past year many im
provement have been made, notably in
the race track, which at an expense of
several hundred dollars, has b.en made
faster. The chief attraction, as usual,
will bo the races. There will
also be bicycle races, and a big
tournament on the Bth. There will
be reduced rates on all the railroads.
During Fair week the Qieen City Ger
man Club will give two elegant dances
During the next few weeks there wdl
be three marriages, in which Rocky
Mount plays a prominent part: Mr.
Thomas 11. Battle to Miss Sallie Dortch
Hyman, of Henderson; Mr. Edgar W.
Smith to Miss Emma Arrington, both of
Rocky Mount, and Mr. J. H. Cuthrell to
Miss A mie Williams, of Tarboro.
PATCH EN TO BE THERE TOO.
Patchen, Gentry and Robert J Will
Race at Reidsville.
Special to the News and Observer.
Reidsville, N. C., Oct. 18.
Mr. James T Mray, Secretary of the
Rockingham County Fair Association,
received to day a telegram from the own
ers of the celebrated pacing horses. John
R. Gentry and Joe Patchen, in which a
contract was closed for them to race at
the fair hetfc-on the mile track of the as
sociation Thursday, October 31st, for a
purse of $1,500. This will undoubtedly
be the greatest racing event ever seen iu
any Southern State except Kentucky. '
Conductor Paysour Killed. -
Special to the News and Observer.
Lenoir N. U., Oct. 18.
John Paysour, a popular conductor on
the Chester and Lenoir Railroad was in
stantly killed last night while making up
his train. His body was carried to Lin
colnton.
A GRADUATED INCOME TAX.
Rut South Carolinians Refuse to Tax
the Dors.
Columbia, 8. C , Oct. 18.—In the
Constitutional Convention today an
amendment was adopted to the article
on taxation providing for the imposition
of a graded tax on incomes. The prop
osition to impose a per capita tax on
dogs caused more discussion than auy
other question of the day. Tillman
wanted to tax every dog sl, the proceeds
to go to the public schools, but the c- u
vention refused to adopt this or any
other amendment having the taxation of
dogs in view. A bill to compel banks to
pay a municipal tax on their capital
stock was defeated as the stock is sup
posed to be returned by the shareholders.
Among important actions taken by the
convention to night was the adoption of
a provision prohibiting counties and
townships from issuing auy bonds ex
cept for educational purposes; that the
State debt should not be increased ex
cept by a vote of two-thirds of the quali
fied voters; and that when such debt
was created tho bonds should run for
iot less than twenty nor more than
forty years. The section providing that
no debt contracted by the State during
the civil war should ever bo paid was
stricken out as being unnecessary at this
time.
Havana, Oct. 18.—A cyclonic disturb
ance is reported akmg the western part
of Cuba, with a tendency to reach Ha
vana and the coast of Florida.
fi CORNER IN COTTON
EXPORTS HAVE BEEN ARRES
TED IIY I HE ADVANCE
IIV PRICE.
THE WEEKLY TRADE REVIEWS
A New- Orleans Man is Hack ol Ihe
Deal in Cotton—Farther Gold Ship
ments Threatened by the Derange
ment ol Exchanges— The Iron Indus
try Still Rooming and Textile Manu
factures are Finding a Strong Mar
ket--Fa 11 ures for the Week.
New York, Oct. 18.—R. G. Dun &
Co’s. Weekly Review of Trade which
issues to-morrow will say:
“The events of the week are promising
in nature, thouga tho speculative mar
kets arenot entirely encouraging. The
great advance in cotton had arrested
exports and so deranged exchanges that
shipments of gold were fora time appre
hended, but the break in the market in
dicates that tho natural movement of
the product may soon be restored. The
halting of demand and moderate yield
ing of prices in the great industrial
markets show that a season of reason
able attention to natural conditions has
arrived, and gives hope that the future
demand will be more nearly proportioned
to actual consumption.
The cotton market has baen partly cor
nored for eaJy delivery by a New Or
leans operator and his followers, as it
has been twice in not distant years by
Liverpool speculators who ended in fail
ure. Tfie estimate of Mr. Neill, who
has been conspicuously correct ia judg
ing recent crops, indicate a yield of 6,-
800,000 bales, where most speculators
had expected much less and led many to
realize the meaning of 3,000,000 bales
brought over from last year. The
actual receipts thus far, only 17
per cent, less than last year from
a crop of 9,900,000 bales, fail to
support low estimates, and spinners h‘'re
and abroad with much unauimity, re
frain from buying largely at current
quotations. Until the price recedes
tar enough to bring out a liberal supply
of cotton bills, there will be a possibility
of gold exports for other merchandise;
exports are small, from New York for
two weeks, 10 per cent, less than last
year, with imports in the two weeks of
October 29 per cent. la r ger than last
year. In September, dutiable imports
were 54 2, and for nine months 53.8 per
cent, larger than last year.
Wheat does not go out freely, and the
attempt to advance prices on Monday
was followed by an immediate decline
The irou industry|is still fully eugaged
on old orders, buc new business is so
scanty that m*ny of the works are seek
ing it at some concessions in price, and
the ody large contracts have been at
1.75 to 1 80 for bridge plates quoted at
19 to 2 8 cents. Quotations are not
lower, though any good order commands
gome discount.
Textile manufactures have strong
markets for materials to support them.
But scarcely any advance is seen this
week in cotton goods, though the rise
for the month has averaged 4 4 per cent
and there seems such a halt as appeared
a month ago in iron producls
Fciilures for the week have,been 263 in
the United States against 253 last year,
and 46 in Canada against 43 last year.
IJrad’-lroetN Weekly Review.
New York, Oct. 18.- Bradstreet’s to
morrow will say:
There is less push to the gen
eral commercial movement this week,
indicated as much by reports from
eastern jobbers and others, whose trav
elers have returned from trips west and
northwest. There are, of course, note
worthy exceptions, Baltimore merchants
finding relatively more satisfactory trade.
This is largely due to the remarkably
favorable conditions at the South. In
general, the volume of business appears
slightly smaller this week, but with a
widespread, a though somewhat irregular
demand.
Throughout the west there are favor
able trade condition 8 , except north of
Missouri and Kansas where there is no
change from the previous moderate
volume, or where recent weather eondi
tions have checked trade somewhat. At
the northwest, “hold your wheat” senti
ment is spreading, but thus far does not
appear to have bad much effect.
Exports of wheat from both coasts of
the United States this week (flour in
eluded as w heat) amount to 2,400,000
bushels against 2,244,000 bushels las s
week, and as compared with 8,192,000
bushels in the corresponding week a year
ago, 2,709,000 bushels two years ago,
and with 3,270,000 bushels in the week
of 1892.
ISuuk f tearing* For the Week.
New York, Oct. 18. —The total bank
clearings for the United States for the
week ending October 18, as compiled by
Bradstreet’s with the percentage of in
crease or decrease as compared with the
corresponding week last year, were sl,-
161,032,062; increase 21 9.
Fifty Workmen Drowned.
Alexandria, Oct. 18. —A ferrybo t
havi‘ g sixty passengers on board collid
ed Jo-day near Cairo with a steamer
which was at anchor. The ferryboat
capsized and fifty of those on board of
her, mostly workmen, were drowned.
Cabinet Meeting Yesterday.
Washington, D. 0., Oct. 18.—All the
members of the Cabinet were present to
day at the first regular cabinet meeting
since last May. The session lasted about
two and a half hours.
price five cents.
j THE EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
St. Luke’s Day and Holy Communion
Celebrated Yeste r day.
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 18.—This
was St. Luke's Day and Holy Commun
ion was celebrated at Gethsemane church
before the two houses of the triennial
Episcopal Convention began their ses
sions, by Bishop Whitehead, of Pitts
burg, Rev. W. W. Battershall, of Albany,
aud Bishop Me Kim, of Tokio. In the
House of Deputies D. j au Hoffman pre
sented the report of the committee upon
consecration of the bishops, recommend
ing that the House concur io the nomina
tion of Peter Rowe, of 8 iult St Marie to
Bishop of Alaska. Ho reported that
there was some slight irregularity in the
message announcing the nomination of
Rev. J. M Francis to be Bishop of Kiota,
and no report could yet be made on it.
The House ot Bishops voted to recall
the message to the deputies announcing
the creation of the missionary jurisdic
tion of Kiota, Japan, for the purpose of
inserting the words: “Tho House of
Deputies concurring.”
The bishops were not prompt enough,
however, for the deputies voted to re
turn the ines age on the grouud that
they had no evidence that such a mis
sionary jurisdiction had been legally
erected. This presages a hot debate.
The deputies are jealous of their prerog
atives, and do not relish the action of the
bishops in going ahead with the nomina
tion of a bishop before the deputies had
concurred.
The special order of the day, the
Swedish orders, was indefinitely post
poned.
SHOOTING AT A LAKE WALK,
A North Carolina Negro Shooi* Four
New Jersey Coons.
Morristown, N. J., Oct. 18.— Five
persons were shot, one probably fatally
during the progress of a cake walk at
Fellowship, a small village ou the out
skirts of this town, about midnight last
night. The injured are:
WESSELS, Mrs. Chas., colored, shot in the
thigh, probably fatally Injured.
M’KIN, Chas., colored, shot in leg.
JONES, Allen, colored, shot in leg.
WHITAKER, Geo., colored, shot in log.
HARGETT, James, colored, shot in left
hip.
The shooting was done by Hargatt,
who came to this place recently from
Newbarn, N. C. He was intoxicated and
got iuto a quarrel with the musician.
The cake walk was held at the residence
of Silas Wessel.
While the fight was in progress Har
gett was shot from behind, He was
finally disarmed and am sfed. It is said
Hargett is wanted in North Carolina for
shooting his father in-law in M.iy last.
AN AGREEMENT AT LAST.
Contracts of the Railway Association
Take Effect Sunday.
New York, CDt 18—The convention
of the Southern Railway and Sreamship
Ass ciation, which has been goiug on at
the Waldort since Tuesday, has finally
resulted in an agreement between those
lines which were members of the old
Southern Railway and Steamship Asso
ciation and several other important lines
lhat were not members and whose ab
sence from the association materially
weakened its operations.
The last of the ncs-er-sary membors
were obtained late yesterday afternoon.
And the Southern States Freight Asso
ciation was organized to day by the elec
tion of Col. 8. H. Haines, formerly the
vice president of the Plant system, as
commissioner, F. B. Srahlman having
positively declined to allow his name to
be put in nomination.
The association contract takes effect
on October 21. The prospect for main
tenance of rates and of the revenue of
the Southern railway lines is said to be
better than it has been for years.
The agreement of the new association
differs in a few details from that adopt
ed by the old association last year. The
agreement contains a clause which en
ables any member of the new association
to withdraw after 60 days’ notice. This,
should dissatisfaction arise, may result
iu a speedy disruption of the new asso
ciation, as the withdrawal of five roads
would be sufficient to cripple it.
The penalty clause which form
ed a part of the agreement of
the old association was virtually
abolished by the new one and any line
in the present association has the privi
lege to insist upon an arbitration board
other than the one to be named to settle
any grievance it may have.
Msjor Stahlman was seen at the Wal
dorf to night. He readily ad mitred that
much contained in the agreement of the
new association was detrimental to its
future prosperity, but he doubted not
that a new era had opened for Southern
railroads and shipping interest*.
llurged llcrftel! For Lore.
Mount Washington, Ky., Oct. 18.—
Miss Nellie Easley, a handsome and
highly cultured young lady, 21 years
old, committed suicide last night by
hanging. She placed a rope over tho
limb of a tiee, cot on a chair, and plac
ing the noose over her bead, kicked t> a
chair from under her. Unreciprocate d
affection was the*:cause.
Htevenson in Atlanta.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 18.—Vice-Presi
dent Adiai Stevenson, accompanied by
his wife and daughter and Miss Ewing,
reached here this morning at 7:30 and
went direct to the Kimball, where a
suite of rooms had been reserved for
them. Mr. Stevenson will remain in tho
qity three days.