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Kiehes certainly make "themselves
v ings." i Vor rbs xriii, 5.
Begin the New Year rlghCby attend
ing Church, Sunday School, and ela.s
meeting tc-day.
The public debt has boon reduced
521,(XM),f)00 in months or 7,"i00,000
lens than under Cleveland. ,
Trinity Church, 'ew Vorkt ha an
income of "8,00U frciii it property.
The new beading to the able and
newsy Tticlnnortfl J'im?s is" attractive
and fitting.
General Master Workman Powdcrly
has rnuk'j an able plea for tho Austra
lian system and ballot reform.
The cotton crop of 1889, is the largest
ever grown. Unusually large average
bales and 7,2"0,000 of them aUthat.
"The Old l'resbmanM is tho title of; a
clever dialect 'poem by Mr. Edward A.
. Oldham, a native of Wilmington. It
up'p'ears in I Mike's Magazine.
The 'Charleston TATm and Courier re
'-member tho corps of bummers, the
tooting of South Carolina and the
'burning of Columbia, when it calls him
; "the old freebooter."
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, is
opposed to ballot reform to a pure
I ballot and no intimidation. We are
'.not surprised at this. Hill has also
opposed the Australain ballot law.
Poor little Iknny Harrison is mad.
lie went duck hunting and killed fi
ii-gro"s pig, thinking it was a raccoon!.
Ho sns it is a lie. Hut It is true al
tho .same and tho negro's name is Gil
bert Wooten.
Th' terrible ear-coupler puts in its
bloody work all tho year around. He
tween I'.Kh October, and 22nd Novem
ber lat,l(K) men killed and lo2 mamed
Himo crippled for" life total i(. This
!s given by tho Uailicay Aje.
fhink of a fjellow making a huge
trombone to be run by steam and of
two hundred horse-power. Awful!
Arthur Frothinghara, &cranton, Penn.,
has. .made one but has been enjoined
j from giving his wild concerts.
Tnero aro a great many thousands ol
iu'gio idlers anu drones throughout tho
South. They can bo easily spared and
agents would be of real fcervice.if they
-would take them to Kansas or Colorado
Or North. . s
f Here is a good reply to a Northern
lie.. The New Orleans States says :
5 "A Chicago paper says "it was, a
reen Christmas in '.tho north and a
bloody no in the south." Tho north
ern papers show, however, that there
were ten men killed in the north toone
In the south."
?l The. Philadelphia ttkgrqph, Itep.,
thinks 'the Republican 'Committee" is,
'giving too much attention to'the man
lfacturers who wish the present tariff
nites maintained or increased, and not
enough to consumers who may wish
hem reduced or abolished." That is
he sue of it. ''"v'.-.v ;
The Wah'mgU)n JSutinmil Democrat
l ives tho one reason why Harrison is
Ter welcomed when it says:
I The fact that General Ilarfison is
'.e Preshlent of t lie United Htates is
t one of the reasons why he is wel
m'd wherever he goes; it is abso
tely the onlv reason." , .
i . . '
Our - esteemed (contemporary, the
rHthiDif,; announces that Mr. James
Lloyd will be associated with the
iter, Mr. Powell, in the manage-
3nt of the paper. It says:
''Mr. Lloyd is a young, promising,
: .r.vmg gentleman, to tho manner
When the Maryland pirates came
into Virginia waters and robbed the
ryster beds what a fUM Rnd rt row Now
irginia pirates are at work in North
.roliua waters. The new Governor
! Virginia must keep them athomo or
ley might get hurt. The last New
kirn Journal says :
Tho Virginia o'ystermen are cr
inly engaged taking off oysters in
rgo numbers contrary to law, and
l law is certainly not enforced.''
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The lato Alexander Hamilton, of
ew A'ork, was seventy-four and. a
an to esteem. He was cultured, pol
hed and urbane. Th Evening 1'ost
ysofhim:
'Ho was above all things, however,
gentleman, and a gentleman of the
d schoolpolished, cultivated, punc
lious, hospitable and kind-hearted,
fastidious by far, andioo full of th
:miniscences of an earlier age, to feel
rmoil of modern politic, but "keenly
wrested in every movement for the
lniCv?? f0Iuwhic younger men
an heart and hope."
That is the kind of ; mi. th Bouth
Tt to koaor. "
' a ' r:vA
DEED OF. A MAXIAC.
AN INSANE MISSIONARY KILLS HIS
DAUGHTER.
A Soirtl foonhinpr Captured I ji ripp
prtnllnK If ItAlelh It Hklj the Lonjj
lrtf I'lnp Srt-tl on Natural Cla Iookrl
for In Chatham County Our .state Wtll
.AIvrtiil. .
MK5SKNGKJI UURF.AU. I
Halkigh. NVCan
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" WivTC. la. Powell, a Baptist preach
er, whq, us an independent mibionary,
went to Algiers North A frfca: from
North Carolina, ha in a. fit of insanity
murdered his-yoimgesttlatlghterVaged"
( years, there by cutting her throat
with a pocket knife, lie made an at
tack on his wife, who fled and thereby
saved her life. He had been in an asy
lum in Algiers, but having improved,
was allowed to go home and soon after
made this murderous attack. He is
now in an asylum in Algiers. Ilis wife
and four children are" very anxious to
get back to North Carolina, Itev-.-Mn 4
Powell was for a month some, years
ago, in the asylum at Raleigh. The
case is a very terrible one and will at
tract much attention all over the state I
m s " CtAnA Vv niti nnl nnl I
shiner in Wake, has been captured in
Cedar Fork township and brought here.
Dr. James McKee, Superintendent
of Health here, said to-day that "La
Grippe" is increasing daily in Ilaleigh,
just as he predicted. It is not so bad
in the South as In the North. The
climate has much to do with this, and
it is worse in large cities because of
the condition of the poor where peo
ple are so huddled together. One of
the sufferers here is Mr. Frank P.
Haywood, Jr., who ha3 many acquaint
ances in Wilmington.
O It is noticeable that La Grippe has
skipped the leng leaf pine sand hills,
which enjoy such peculiar exemption
from diseases of all kinds, but particu
larly from any involving the throatand
lungs. Prof. Kerr noted this and the
census reports also show that region
of the State enjoys nearly entire im
munity from such diseases.
A gentleman from Oxford said to
day that $'JOO,000 worth of build
ings were going up and under contract
in that progressive town.
Another gentleman observed that
the most prosperous section of North
Carolina to-duy is that from Oxford to
Winston. "
There will not be so largo a number
of pupils at the Agricultural and Me
chanical College this year as might be
expected, and for this the hard times
in the east are responsible.
Much interest is felt among members
of the Farmers' Alliance in regard to
the meeting of its State Executive
Committee here on the 7th, to elect
Col. Polk's successor as secretary.
The Masons, like the Odd Fellows
are rapidly growing in numbers. It is
said there are ittO aotive lodges, with
7,000 members. There are in the State
12,000 Masons.
The sheriffs are rather slow in mak
ing their settlements with the State
treasurer' They report however that
they do not have special difficulty in
collecting taxes. Of course the hard
times eflfcet' less than one-half the
State. Many sheriffs, of what are
known as the "tobacco counties,'' do
not have to pay their taxes until May.
A business man said to-day that the
people in this section were1 too much
depressed in regard to business pros
pects and complained too much. His
idea is that business is almost axgood
as it was .last year, and -that if good
crops i re raised 4hat the people wjll
.have more Vclear inonev" than before.
-VvThe tobacco acreage is to be increase
w. ui mibfuuniy. iiis learned mat
more small graih.is rn the ground than
ever before. This applies to tke entire
State, the commissioner of agriculture
'1' Jt'appears. probable tfiat natural gas
will be found at Egypt, 6 Chatham
county. Explorations in that direction
are now in pregress and tho expert ii
very sanguiue. v Such a'-discovery.wili
gi ve fvthat , section a I btf$nt f st;oh as it.
never before knew. "
Experiments are in progress at the
phosphate mills here, with acid phos
phate. Splendid results are obtained.
The phosphate rock from Castle Hayne'
is used, it is only a question of time
when the works will make their own
sulphuric acid. The pyrite- can be
obtained (rom Gaston Or from Chatham
county, in all probability: J
Coal is now being regularly shipped
from tho Egypt Imines. The company
which owns these mines will sell town
lots, and in a . very sensible .. way.,.. If
the person who is paying for them by
instalments dies, trie companv will re
fund the money paid or will make title
if the payments are completed.
The question is asked not infrequent
ly by the papers, "what is North Caro
lina doing towards making its resour
ces known V" So your correspondent
put that question to Emigration com
missioner Wilson to-day. Mr. Wilson
said the State is doing as much as any
other State,if there is no exaggeration.
That is against the habit and custom of
our people. No State has a more
thorough and systematic account from
nigh sources of its resources. : For In-
stance, Emmons1 work ' and KerrV
Vboth of which are exhauited) on its
geology. As to minerology, that is a
growing ubject,, of which om.-
In
iiew can aiwavsrhft siM
the ; o- verv ; Mwliont tt
ook of North Carolina
w . UOUU"
is a DODul&r
"igesi ol the
Emmons, m
marrow f. what
Mitchell, Chance, Julian!
w?eiS!ot and the authoritiei
wr,0D thw subject. : This
S t?Sk ni out ' on ippUcatiori
nt!lanVhl?n0fit3 liclSn. w
iisrforfe?espap,era- Thre w
also Jror.err s geological and toro
graphlcal maP?; & admirablekTf
;H;?Urti3 on th0 Woodj Plants,
edited and reported: rby Mr P ' M
Hale) and again m.LS
nsd fifth page!
FE0H WASHIKGT0H CITY- n
A North Carolina Preacher leinanU
drr Throurh the IlrltUh f InlMer
ltonl OAVrlnic.
Washington, Jan. 4. Bond offer-
tugs ruj crrj vi t ,vw, an rcgiw:rvu
t fours at K2fi and all acceentetL
Washington, Jan. 4. Sir Julian
Paunceforte, the British Minister, has
received petitions from Rev. T. M.
Joiner, of Holly. Springs,!?. C, for re
dress for in juries received on hlrrisejt
and -wife t the Tiands of amob"at Hol
ly Springs last month He states that
ho if;a British subject; that he and his
wifo.were giving religious and other in
structions to negroes at Holly Spring,
which fact, he says, so incensed some
of his neighbors that they broke into
his house and assaulted and maltreated
himself and wife. . The . crowd was
masked and many of their 'number
were ar Bed with guns and pistole. He
says he had previously been warnedxto
leave the place, but had refused to ao
sa..When the mob appeared at the
house, they discharged. a volley of bul
lets into the room where he and his
wife were sitting, wounding him in the
left arm, above the elbow, and also in
the left Irand. Mrs. Joiner ! received
three flesh wound in the scalp and was
knocked down by one of the men with
his fist. " J
j Joiner says ho appealed for redress,
first to the local authorities, and next
to the State authorities, but received
no satisfaction. He then came to
Washington with his wife to lav the
matter before the British Minister.
The latter is now investigating the
case, and expects to bring to it the at
tention of the Secretary of State as.
soon as he has received proper evi
dence. Joiner has been preaching in North
Carolina since 1869.
ICailroads in I'osiiewsion of Strikers.
Terre Haute, Ind.. Jan. 4: This
is the sixth day of the strike of all the
employes on the Mackey system here,
except the engineers and firemen,
causing a complete tie up. The strikers
claim that eight men, chiefly conduc
tors, have been relieved by Master of
Transportation Hurd, because of their
connection with the recent strike, and
demands an immediate suspension of
Hurd and the reinstatement of the dis
charged men. President Mackey re
fuses to, suspend Hurd, but offers to
take up the cases of tho discharged
men, whom he claims were re-moved for
cause, chiefly drunkenness, and person
ally investigate them, and if the men
have been harshly dealt with to rein
state them.
The strikers have possession of the
company's property, and prevented the
trains from being run on the first day
of the strike by pulling links and pins
and ordering the engineer and fireman
out of their cab; Since that time no
attempt has been made to get out the
trains, althought the company has im
ported men from St. Louis 3 take the
strikers places.
This morning one of the new men
was clubbed, and violence is feared if
the company attempts to get out the
trains. The company charges the
mayor with failure to furnish police
men to clear the property of the tres
passers and claim that the trains would
be handled if this was done. A large
number of factories are unable to run
because of the strike.
Henry W. Grady's Successor. 1
i Atlanta, Jan. 4. Clark Howell
was to-day chosen. by. the storkholders
of the Constitution Publishing Company!
10 sueceea me iaie nenry VV. ,Urauy
as managing editor. ; Mr. Howell was
formerly night editor and has for 'the
last year been' assistant1 to Mr. Grady
as managing editor. As much of ; Mr.
Grady's time has been devoted to pub-1
lie matters, Mr. Howell has been
closely identified with - the manage
ment of the paper. He is a. graduate
of the University of Georgia, and Was
twice a member of the State Legisla
ture. He is 26 years of age and served
his journalistic apprenticeship on the
New York limes and Philadelphia
Press. Captain- Evan P. Ho -veil and
WT. A. Hemphill are still at the helm
as editor-in-chief and business man
ager respectively...
The KnUTen Mystery.
Trenton, N. J., Jan. 4. There is
still no solution of the Kniffen - murder
mystery. The police take the ground
that little credit is to be given to the
burglary theory, and nothing sufficient
is voiced as yet to justify official action.
A youth named Lewis beely, who was
up with a sick horse in a stable in the
rear of-Kniffen's residence Thursday
night, is reported as saying that he
heard no noises of any kind during the
night.;" Dr. Kniffen. this morning re
fused to see the reporters; Miss Purcell
could not be seen either. She is said
to have recovered almost entirely from
her prostration. An autopsy . will be
made upon Mrs. Kniffen by the county
physician. "
Snow Sixteen Feet Deep.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 4. Tele
graphic reports to the office of the
Southern Pacific. Company state that
the rfallof snow on the Sierra Nevada
Mountains on the line of the Central
Pacific Railroad is unprecedented. At
Summit there is sixteen leet of snow
on a level and twelve feet at Emigrant
ap.L With- huge rotary plows the
road has been, in. general,' successfully
kept open for travel this winter. East
ern trains are now due for the past two
days, but it is thought they will reach
here to-morrow.
v; i ExpentiTe Indictment.
Muskegon, Mich.,- Jan.: 4. George
S Jacks, ex-United ,: States Deputy
Marshal, against - whom six: cases are
pending for burglary and larceny, was
convicted in the '.Circuit-court yester.
day of larceny in one of the cases. The
trial has '"been one olvthe most sensar
tionai ever held in lne city, and has
coat the county $15,000. ; l , ,'.u
LA GRIPPE.
IT IS STILL INCREASING IN BOTH
CONTINENTS-
School lo u y It The llmprr. An
Ktista m VlOTim of It;rat fatality In
New York tnil IWton'aar a Irth
In Twenty.foor Hour-M.iufrtart nr'
VItbIUhrnt Clod.
' Berlin, Jan. 1. The Khcob at
Halle have Uen closed, owing to preva
lence of inSuoza.-
.- Dowager Empress Augusta i
ts suHer-
ing Irom ira attack of influenza.
LONDON, Jan. 4. Ucnrv Chaplain,
President of the Board of Agriculture,
ha been - atUu ed by influenza in a
severe ;Iorm. He is confined to his
bed. t ,
The disease has made its appearance
in
xivipwi. me contagion mere is
eiiurei wiwawe o leiters mat came
from Russia. There are numerous
cases of the disease at -Birkhead and
Dorchester. The weather is muggy
and, conduces to the spread of the
disease.
New York, Jan. 4. Seven cases of
sudden death were reported at the
coroner's office to-day. For the twentv
four hours, ending at noon to-day, 234
deaths were reported, making a total
for the week of 1,102, an unprecedented
number for this season of the year.
The number of deaths reported tho
previous week was 762, showing the
prevailing epidemic has increased the
mortality in a large number of victims
to diseases of the organs of respiration.
Three hundred and sixty-two police
men are reported on the sick list to
day. Ten have died from pneumonia
during the week.
r Dr. Paul Hoffman assistant superin
tendent of schools was taken to Belle
vue hospital early this morning, a
raving maniac from the effect of an
attack of the Grippe, from which he
has been suffering the past three days.
He occupiei rooms at the Alpine flats,
at the corner of Broadway and Thirty
third street. This morning he waked
the neighborhood by firing a pistol in
the hallway of his lodging, and later
was found in the street flourishing his
revolver. He was taken first to the
station house, where he became vio
lent,' and thence to Bellevue hospital.
Hoffman was first attacked with influ
enza four days ago. During his sick
ness he had not been able to sleep, and
his landlord said to-day that he thought
the doctor must have taken something
to induce sleep, which had the effect of
unsetting his mind.
Frederick Hall, brother of Paulino
Hall, and a member of the "Brigands''
Company, died at his home this morn
ing from pneumonia, which began in
an apparently slight attack of pre
vailing. influenza.
Concord. N. H., Jan. 4. Captain
Rufus P. ; ides, a prominent Insur
ance and Gtid Army man, died to
day, aged 68. He was attacked with
La Grippe yesterday, which developed
into typhoid pneumonia in the evening
and, terminated fatally this morning,
he leaves a widow who is President of
the State Woman's Belief Corps.
Brockville, Ont., Jan. 4. The
works of the Smart Manufacturing
Company, the Mann Manufacturing
Comdany, and the Cossitt Company
have been compelled to shut down,
owing to tho large number of their em
ployees being ill with La Grippe.
There have been no fatal cases so far.
Buffalo, Jan. 4. The spread of
the influenza in this city shows no
abatement. Twenty-nine members of
the police force are laid up with the
disease. There have, however, been
but two fatal cases that can bo attrib
uted to the epidemic.
' Frankfort, Jan. 4. The influenza
is abating here ai-d at Leipsic. Two
hundred officials are ill with it at Wurz
burg.y Boston, Jan. 4. The number of
deaths in Boston this week reached
probably the unequalled number jf
327, of which 40 per cent, are due to
acute lung disease and traceable in
great part to the prevailing grippe.
The death rate is 40.77, whereas in the
corresponding week of 1SS9 the rate
was onlv 21. Go.
Big Contract for Steel Plates.
; St. Paul, Minn., Jan., 4. A Duluth,
Minn., special to the Pioneer-Press
says: One of the largest contracts for
steel ship plate ever made in this coun
try was concluded here yesterday by
Captain Alex. McDougall, for the
American Steel Company; with the
representatives of Andrew Carnegie.
The contract calls for about 5,000
tons of steel plates, making over $300,
000. It will furnish plates enough for
seven great vessels of the McDougall
type. An option was given to Captain
McDougall for steel enough for three
more vesselsand this will probably be
closed in a few davs, making the whole
order about $450,000. All these vessels
will be built there this year, and their
aggregate tonnage will bo over 30,000.
. The Grady Monument Fond.
Atlanta, Jan. 4. Among the sub
scriptions to the Grady monument
fund received to-day are the following:
Andrew Carnegie, of New York, $25f ;
John TV Woodman, New York, $100;
W. A. Russell, Boston, $50; United Gas
Company, Philadelphia, $200; Singer
Sewing Machine Company, $250; L. P.
Orant, $100, and others from the North.
The total now amounts to more than
$16,000.
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ITbito ld Price Go Up . ,
t. . Pitts 3UR0, Pa., Jan. 4. ThWhit
Lead Trust has recently advanced
prices on lead three-fourths of a; cent
per pound. In addition It' has made
t etter terms to jobbers based on the
quantity ; of goods handled. The ar
rangement is that the firm which haa-
VUUUa W
rebate larj, in proportion than is re
ceived by the firm handling 20,009
pounds.' ' -
CSIJI2S A5D CASUALTIES.
A Fatal AUnrhloutl Manlrr ai
$alrlde-.A Wit Mrtrr-4Hh.r Arl
Jrnt ami Crime.
SlKKRA CITY, Cal., Jan 4. A fatal
and destructive tnow lido occurred
hero, yesterday, by which ix vomro
and & yy were killed. Other pwtde
may die, ani several houses and Catho
lic churches were wrecked. The rlide
commenced at the Slerm buti4 f!um
and twept with 'terrific force down the
valley, carrying everything In Its path
before itj Stout trees were nappcd
off at the grtmnd like pine s-tick.
Several people had narrow e.capc
from death, iw the slide came without
the slightest warning. It l beiior,d
that a Chinaman and a littlo girl art?
still buried in the muss of fnov and
debris. Pears are entertained that
another slide ma3 occur at any moment
and the icopl are in a grt-at state of
anxiety. 'As soon as possible, after the
slide yesterday, a number of men began
tho work of digging out the unfortu
nates, who had been caught in it, and
in a few hours had taken out tho bodies
of Mrs. Kich, her two daughters and a
son; Miss Bran, of Downievillo .m.l
Mrs. I. T.!fooncy with her daughter.
Miss Kthcl Langston. The two lat
named were still breathing when re
moved from the snow, but all efforts at
resuscitation proved unavailing. The
search for others is still going on and
it is feared that more than now Known
have been swept out of existence in
the avalanche. I
New York, Jan. 4. In the German
quarter of tho eastern district of
Brooklyn Williamsburg, a double
murder was discovered to-day. Neigh
bors reported to tho police that no
member of a family named Franklin
had been seen sinco Wednesday. The
police broke into their rooms and
found Franklin sitting on his bed with
a revolver: in his hand; ho threatened
to shoot, and the officers backed out of
the room, j Franklin immediately shot
himself, j
The officers then entered tho rooms
and found I Franklin's wife and child
dead and Franklin dying. Tho wife
and child had been dead two or three
days. Franklin died this afternoon.
Lewistok, Me., Jan. 4. John Mc
Williaras, residing on Lincoln street,
Lewiston, iwho has been sick several
days, became insane to-day. Officers
tried to arrest him, but he escaped
from them, ran into the house, and
with an axe laid open the head of his
wife, killing her instantly. She was Ho
years of age, and leaves one child.
McWilliams was finally cantured and
the coroner is holding an inquest.
Fire on an Atlantic Steamer.
New York, Jan. 4. As La Cham
pagne, of the Compagnio Gcnerale
Transatlantique, was about to leave
this port for Havre this morning at 4
o'clock a slight fire broke out in her
cargo of cottOM. Somn of the female
passengers became frightened and in
sisted on leaving the vessel, but the
majority remained on board while tho
city fire department were mastering
the flames. The damage done was
aout $.500. The vessel has been de
layed. A Bridge Gives "Way Under a Train.
Hallettsville, Tex., Jan. 4.
Thursday night a freight train on the
San Antonio and Arkansas Pass Road
went through a bridge at this place.
There were twenty-two cars in the
train and all fell through.1 On the cars
were a dozen men. Up to last evening
seven had been taken oat, four of them
not seriously injured; fire have not yet
been recovered. It i3 reported that
the bodies of three dead men have
been found about seven miles below
here, floating On the river.
A Locomotive Jxplo4e.
Wheeling, W Va., Jan. 4. Kngine
No. 442 on iho Baltimore & Ohio Bail
road xploded at Benwobd Junction
this morning, making a , total wreck.
Engineer Cunningham was blown iS0
yards, and escaped with slight injury.
Fireman Tary was badly hurt. The
Western Union telegraph wires were
badly damaged at the scene of the ex
plosion, j i
Death from Kther A Boy Held for
Harder.
ATLANTA, Jan. 4 John Hughes,
traveling for Naumberg, Kraus, Lauer
& Co., of j New York, did in this city
last night;from the effects of ether,
given to enable him to undergo a sur
gical operation. .
Taylor Kendall, who was shot in the
head on Christmas dry by Herbert Mc
Laughlin,ldied to-day. McLaughlin is
held for murder. Both were boys.
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Four Men Darned to Ieatb.
Paducah, Ky., Jan. 4. Four log
gers were burned to death at Beebe
camp, up the Tennessee river, seventy
five miles from Paducah on Thursday
night, by their cabin taking fire. Two
of them were brothers named Dyer,
and others named Cotton and Somen.
It is supposed that they wre all intox
icated. The cabin ignited from the
chimney. ;
Fatal Boiler ExploUa.
Greenville, N. C, Jan. 4, Spe
cial. The boiler ml Samuel .Quiner
ly's mills, at Bell Ferry, exploded yes
terday. Dick Butts was killed and four
others were seriously wounded. The
explosion was heard eight miles.
iSpccUM
rata.
New York, Jan. 4. Exports of
specie from the port of New Y ork this
week amounted to $778,056; Of which
$31,672 was gold and ; tt96.&S4 silver.
All the gold went to South America
and t5 975 of the silver' went to
Euro p and $43,409. to South America
imports oi specie as tne port oi new
York this week amounted tio $159,994;
of which $129,4S9 wajr fold, and 005
F0RR3EVS
-ateof political affajrs
IN EUROPE-
i:rlilaC Tlm I .pri U rf.a
l4Utl ltMi..Th, rrma tri
i Trlra orflcr-.n.iy iiMrhui..nt.
:uun Jan. L; Mi Yui.MT.i
A StaU Council l convened ftf We
noday next. Priit HUrn.nn-k, tho iSn
still u.ring ttxnn the T.l r!?,vu m
neunUgia, Is certain to pr' t. Th
rcacmbUn7 c f tL- Kclcru; for ih
lat eventful da U ft r dfM:ttUn
and the rcorcnit-.g i,f UitidUgoira-'
tH'U tlrit genf nd minlMernl u.i ftirc.
The lending ituctlon N-f,n ihv lU U h
stag will Ih ihe inervrw of nUlitArv
ert-aitj and lh ikcUUt hi. Th
Vii'nnf Zfituh'j reminds th' mrr. '
party that th Uvnr ! opportune fr
grand mlly around tho ehan". lur. un.l
urge thorn not U f.itl to ifjH,lr u
their plav tin the Jln-t
Primv BiiTiarok'n UnV tt-ct.
declaration tf ihe foreign inicj of thr
Covtrnment prtiUtWly r:udo
during the dflwita on miliary cr. dlt
The attitude of 'the Government on th.
Seialist bill in inflexlb'i. The National
Liberals hare been hojoful that Prime
Bismarck would, the iv- f th-
hccond reading, accept Mich modiilca-'
tion as would enable thm to vote 1th
the Government without violating th; r
ncruples touching th" nrMtrary iwp-e'-of
the measures.
Some topiff. in vol jug delic.it.
phjw of the-Governinent eric, and
likely to bo exciting, will come l?forv
the I-indtug. One f them- will be Iho
consideration of tho disjHMition of thn
sum cnfisc;kU'd during the Kulturk
atnpf, and diverted inU the nVrx-l t-'r
vice fund. With! n ie'ent yo.r, the
replete fund has been o little uh J that
the name of it sounds, almost ancient.
The ventillation of the subjH't in the
LandUig U UKely to curtail tho execu
tive misuse of ths tnonc)M.
It i also thought that the Iindtag
will disapprove the Uutery pnjt in
regard to the monument of Krtiponr
Willinm. Tho purchaMj and demoli
tion of certain house in order to innk
a 8ite for the monument an neceary.
and the prospect of ruining monev fr
the purjo- by lottery, uhiU? it U no
doubt one form of making jtopularthe
subscription, is a form not much apt
proved by public opinion." It i U-licvud
the landtag will favor tho plan oi
direct purchase, the money to lw vot.t
by the State.
The year opens with a unircnuu
peace ehoruf, the Xntmmt fait aw;
declaring that external trnmiuillty ie
U guaranteed whil inUmnl tranqulli
ty depends entirely on the chnnicu-r of
the next Heichhtag, so that the nation
can vote for peaco by votlnjf into oftic
a Chamber k subwrvient to tho wilt t)f
thi Ch anchellor that it ahall nevwr
causoany irritatUn by dfffering with
him. And yet despite this lovely pros
pect of peace abroad and at homo upon
defined conditions, tho foreign oflle
itself wa.s never k prcvaded by a wn-e
of insecurity of the contlnunneo, of the
triple Alliance.
Bismarck's refusal to uniort Au
tria'a policy In Bulgaria a great
source of irritation and suspicion, and
Signor CriopiV ieriftet intriguing
for tho cession of Trentlno, Is another.
Crwpi is thought to bo a little disap
pointed just now. He hnd counW
ujxinjinother conference at FrIedHch-.
ruho at the close of the year. He at
taches very great importance to tbl
M)rt of repeated recognition of him, n
adding much to his prestigo among
$tatetmeri of Kuropo. Hbi scheme to
closo the year with uch on individual
conference was ujtby Hisman-k, who
holdH those favors at a high rale and
he advised Crispi that the, interview
would not be timely In view of tho
acute iealou)ie of Austria. Tlie pro
re?:s of the nogotlations for the mecllt
of Kmperor Williara and the C7-ir 1;:
the PloiMi frontier In April fntennlf.e
ofiicial anxiety and wachfulne-. in
Aufctria.
It in aid that Bisrnark already con
templates a very radical change of bas
in hi j hI icy, and sjHculaUM wjn &
large application of the idea of rare,
that wn.H the basin of hj many v;heau.'
and projects at the ierkKi when Alave
and lrainejere annexed uGvrmaiy.
Bin new appllcriilon of the theory of -bringing
all German rjxakitjg peoplu
under the German Cag would be at
the expense of Austria and Russia,
but for itussia there would be coiupen
ations. Tho policy in fact would with
out Austria as that empire now tand,
for Germany would take the Autn
Gerinan duchies.
ho ClrrMt Trtrat ri
Nkw YoitKv Jan. 4. The manager
of the New York house of Allen A
Ginter, at 23 Warren tree1!, potlti rely
denied to-day that he bad any informa
tion about the alleged ealo of their
cigarette factory at iUchmnnd.-Va.. to
a syndicate of New York and KnglUh
capitalists. .
The manager of the William 8. Kim
ball 6i Co., cigarette manufacturers of
Bocheter, waa seen at their New York
houie, 11 Warren street; he said b
bad heard of no syndicate trying to
buy up the cigarette business but be
did not beliere that Allen A G Inter's
factory had been sold '."There was no
probability, he paid , of a tnM la tha
cigarette business. ; .
Editor ffd for ZJbl. ... . .
Carukix, Pa., Jan'. ''4L Henry -K-PfelfTer
A Sons, editors and propris
Urs of the daily SmfneZ, of this city,'
were to-day arrested on tba oath of Dr.
Thomson, postmaster1 of this city, for
alleged libel. ' Damages amounting to
$10,000 are claimed. The Sentinel
charged that the postmaster, wbi! oun .
I ty Treasurer, wa a defaulter to tueex-.
tnt ox miDT Lootaanas vi uoiiara. i
accused were bound orer for theJr ap-.
peara&ce At court. .zr-f
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