North Carolina Newspapers

) THE MESSENGER i iJobllnhel In Three KUl- he DAILT M::-inNOEH WKKKLY MKsSKJfUKK, And the (lOT.IJHUOHO Trfn.crlpt-.Meeng-r. All three are Attractive F.ljjht I'se 1'aper. TO ADrERTJSERS : j ma xcioncR j Larger CtrrtUj tN may jVewrperer ta lae Slat. : V, t Vivian ITAHLISHED 1867, WILMINGTON. C SUNDAY, MAHCII 2. 18C0. PRICE FIVE CENTS I If ' rrfV vs sS u 1W A I I V I 1 II I'ISTUL-GKAI'US. rd Tcanyhon is convalescing. ;t didn't Call maul Chandler A 1;im1 'owing with milk arid l-Jj nili.s Hi : 8. hon- 1 1 tid the South for the World's defeated New Fair. Had if ; father Harrison at last is to a -",XM) monument, thanks to Atlanta Conxti'ution bays that in th- ncgroex are "to-day just V I ' i'V who )taiB H" WlTO ...... . - r-, , w i v is be in;; elected an honorary wr of innumerable associations :t.':ii i t.d '! u !h. It is .becoming a btate per- fi inua net Th,-r-'.-r.non a.nd lesson of Richard Hawk's li fo at told by himself on the ...-iM.it was "Whiskey and vile women i.roii 'bt him there.'7 Tin- bills before the present Congress alivady call or $700,000,000 beyond es timated revenue or ovrr a billion o -i-rs in all. The Hails are fine op jircurs and wasters. Hal lot reform has been killed in the Wc-t Virginia Legislature and the llads did it. Thry voted against it to a num. They want to do some more ballot stuffing and stealing, ' Kins.' out old fclapos of foul (lisr-asc, Kin;: o'il I lie ii.irrowiutf lu.-t of (old : Km, nil the invjiulirt: of tvkl, . Kin' m tin- lliou-..iiid yi;;rs of pc'.ic'. id t!i- ;int iii. in iind fi'-e l i, f 1 iitT lifurl. tltr kiinl'iT lmml Kiiiou! t hi: d,nUt)c.s of tlii-land J a i II III tlH' L"tlfll ttlat IS to tM'.' . i t TKNNYSON. A in-gro in Georgia outraged a white child from more him. died deed nt'd '., and then cut her throat t ar to eur. He will commit no hflli.-li crimes. The lynchers got lie v;is li tinged and his body rid with bullets, lie confessed the It is .eneouramg for reform to seo New-Kngland rotection manufactur ers petitioning ,to Congress for a repeal of the tariff tax on . certain ar ticles they use. They ought not to bo felfish, but to extend the samo favor to other industrijs. We regret to s-eo that tome of the companies in the State (uard aro not kept up to their proper strength. iNorin Carolina neeus ana must nave a strong, disciplined Stnto Guard, and the next Legislature should put it upon a permanent has-is. mi. t i l i i i ti ino I'uuaucipn la j'ns having ex hausted its political slanders now ac cuses the Democracy of being the au thors of the Louisiana lottery. It is a strictly Republican affair, and aids the rotten old party in election times. Bu Republican Dacota wants it. Mr. AM or w:i more liberal than we supposed. He gave some million dol lars of his 1")0 millions. Tho N. V. 11 raid in a poem on him says he was la man behind the millionaire 'l Ili-i sfatr v ih't'Js shoul.l hnl.l - statrly iu preciou i-Tort'-i !i" iutlliouairt' may die but not tho man." The Manhattan Club in New York ha rented the marble Steward man io:i for twenty years.' The Evening I'osi Mys the first live years the annual i-tobe t:'",Wo, during tho next live oars t7,000, and for the remaining period";M0,00. , In the annual debate' at Princeton TuVeiity, Mr. P.owdie Phin.y, a na tive of. Augus-tn. c;a., won the' prize uie interest on 1,000 ?aj: "lie is the irramlsnn The Chronidr i ine irrandson of TTm min Ysm...... a'x.,": V-"J a inueriis !1 tow tv. .iuu ora- T.vo gentleman deferred to us in xnauer oi pronounciation, we and a ap- i-caieu u uie nignest English author- ny3:nrmn,ith He pronounces the , lollows: rre-se-dont-pCoyious, goin- before in time. Pres-eent-cxaxnplc or ruJo-authority-doSe' be-h!?hare-P-ently- - - ue.M-rres -dented- Pre-se" i norc is a strong growing sentiment in irginia to let the negroes educate .i un cnuurcn. A Richmond dis- I' uta m 1 . Times says: "The ncrsistnnt. nnA : i . . "Him way to rnthe nee-roes nf tv,? ;oHordthe ftepub ht ca contests has s u rested i thi u d of ythov;t8"parlnff the hool -axes. There is a sentiment like that in the in- "win Carolina and crease. it is on THE STATE- CAPITAL DEATH FROM LAUDANUM FOR PAREGORIC. G VEN The Matter to le Officially Investigated llev. J 31. Atkinson's ltrIgnatlon Ac eetel Probable 8ale of Camp Ittiftftell Mouldi fur Couuterfelt Silver Iallars Found In an Old Hill Birth and Deaths. MESSENGKIi HUREAU, I ilALKlcn. N. C March 1. Albemarle Presbytery, at its called wibbion here, yesterday, accepted Rev. I)r J. M. Atkinson's resignation as pastor of the Second I'resbvterian Church, and he is assigned to the Church at Warrenton, to which ho is called. Gentlemen who came down from the west to-day miy that the rainfall in that part of the State has been excessive this week, but that no damage has as yet been done. They also say that the accounts of the damage done by insects to the small trrain is not so great as was believed, and that wheat is looking particularly well. It is probable that the sale of the State property in the eastern part of city, known as Camp Russell, will be made. It wasduring the war Pettigrew hospital, and afterwards was garrisoned until 1877. Yesterday the death of a little negro child in the eastern part of the city was caused by the giving of laudanum instead of paregoric. The matter is to be otlicially investigated. The drug gist claims that laudanum was called for, and that he put it up, affixing the proper label, bat; on the other hand it is said there was no label of the kind on the bottle. There are no new developments in the fertilizer disDute, and it appears that there is not s.o much strength in the pool as was supposed. The Netss and Observer will appear in a brand new dress next Tuesday. Raleig-h is a great place for newspapers and a parauiso for printers. More printing is done here, it is said, than in any place in tho South, of like popula tion. Dr. James .McKee, superintendent of health, tells me that the erippe has "had its iling" here, but it lias left its impress. While no deaths have re sulted from itdirectly, yet agood many have indirectly. lie says !) per cent of the people have had the disease, in varying degrees. The Daily Stale Chronicle is to be the same size .us that bright and admired newspaper, the Charlotte Chronicle. Some little boys while playing in Mordecai's old mill-house a mile north of here, found some moulds used in the manfacture fbogus silver dollars. A man who was ' ing to hide himself in tho mill scan . ". o boys so that they did not invest vte further. Tho postoffico building will be very much handsomer when the painters finish the - decoration of its interior. They are now busy at this work. During February there were twenty two deaths and sixteen births here. The latter number is printed from the reports made, which aro incomplete. The mayor will seo that tho regula tions regarding reports of births are strictly complied with. A party of sixty exdusters was at the o'clock, and it seems highly proba Central depot to-day, ready to leave to- ble that that will mark the limit of the night for Arkansas. Dresent flood. The railroads are under The delayed cold wave materialized i to-dav and there are sterna of a cold Sunday. It is learned that Winston is to have a first-class hotel, the net cost of which will be $7o,000. It will be in the west ern part of the town, giving lovely views of Winston and Salem and also of Pilot Mountain and the distant Blue Ridge. The Gov r to-day pardoned James Stone, a w...ie man, who in 1886, in Wilkes county, was convicted of being accessory to a murder and was given twenty years. The Judge and the So licitor asked the pardon, stating that there was grave doubt as to Stone's guilt. Indeed it looks very much like he was an innocent man. and it is hown quite clearly he was not present at all when tho murder was commit ted. v The farmers are now writing from various parts of the State, asking the names of the firms who have refused to pay license taxes on fertilizers save on protest. Arrangements will be made, if pos sible, to have this city represented at the music festival at Charlotte in June. Raleigh has some very talented musi cal people. I "The Villain Still Pursued." Richmond, Va., March 1. A young man named T. G. Wilson, employed as an operator in the Western Union Telegraph Office at Seattle, Washing ton, failed to appear for duty Tuesday morning. Investigation as to the cause led to sensational developments. A deputy sheriff had arrived from Vir ginia with a requisition on Governor Ferry by the Governor of Virginia for the young man's arrest on a charge of betraying a girl in Richmond. Wilson, since his arrival in Seattle, has become engaged to a prominent young lady of that city. He was warned of the offi cer's approach and skipped for British Columbia. The crime for which the young man is wanted isof old standing. Ho was arrested in Colorado, but was released on hnlnx rrvrmi . Th iMiinrl girl's father is bound to bring him to nrinir n i m t 1 i justice. The Stewart Mansion Leased. " New York, March 1. The lease by Manhattan Club of the Stewart Mansion at 34th street and 5th avenue, was ex ecuted to-day. The lease Is for a term of twenty-one years commencing to day, March 1st, at the following rental: For the first ;five years. $35,000 per year; next five years $37,500 per year, and $40,000 per year for the remaining eleven years. . WHITE CAPi AT B0CKINGHAI4. They Whip a Party of Mrn anl Women The Dam of the IUbrdell Factory Swrpt Away. CHARLOTTE, N. C.t March 1. A special to the Cltrfmicle says that on Thursday night a party of White Caps surrounded a txarding house, two miles from Rockingham, and severely whipped three women two colored and one white, also one white man and one negro. Another special to the game paper irom Rockingham, sixty miles east of Charlotte, bays tho stone dam ox the r, C , i ' -r, : iwueruei muis was iorn out irum uaaa. jus, 1 still hin at Providence Hos to bank last night, by the stream being pitai. Inquirv there this morning was pollen from a .twday. spring freshet, met with the statement that tho xuv uaiu wst r.Jtuw auu it win unvt? " I month to repiir it, pending which 200 operatives will be out of employment. Speaker Iteed Declines the Invitation. Washington, March 1 Just before the shootincr affair at the Caoitol ves- terday Speaker Reed showed to Rep resentative Stewart, of Vermont, a let ter which he had addressed to Repre sentative Caruth. I.Ir. Stewart thought the letter was too good to keep private and gave its contents to several col leagues through whom, in turn, it reached the press, to the discomliture of the Speaker. The letter reads as follows: "Dear Mr. Caruth; I shall not accent the invitation tendered me by the Blue Grass club. The reason is very simple. I notice that Jay F. Durham is its president. No.v Jay F. Durham assured me, dur ing the late disturbance, that if they had mo in Kentucky they would kill me. Knowing said Durham to be a journalist, his declarations to me im part absolute verity. I da not wish to be killed, especially in Kentucky, where such an even is too common to attract attention. For a good man to die anywhere is, of course, a gain, but I think I can make more by dying later and elsewhere. Yours truly, T. B. Reed. A Cyclone's Work. Birmingham, Ala., March 1. A special from Talladega, Ala., Drives an account of the storm which passed over there yesterday. It made a path about 100 yards wide, and destruction marks its entire course. Fortunately it did not pass through tho thickly popu lated part of the town, but the scene along its path beggars description. Houses were blown down and boards and even beams and rafters carried for a considerable distance. Trees were snapped off like pipe-stems or torn from the ground by the roots. Cows, horses and other domestic animals were killed and a number of people, living in tho houses blown down were seriously injured, but none fatally. The Ohio at a Stand. Louisaille, Ky., March 1. The river is almost at a stand, haviDg risen but qne inch in. the past six hours. At noon the mark showed 58 feet at the foot of the falls; 33 feet 4 inches at the head of the canal, and 31 feet in the chute on the falls. The Kentucky is at a stand and it is thought will be reced ing rapidly in a few hours. Cincinnati, March 1. Theriver:ha9 remained at 58 feet 8 inches since two no great disadvantage, to-day, and by Monday, at least, tbey will bo back in the Union depot and all freight will be moving as usual. Tbe Call-Chaudle Difficulty. Washington, March 1 This morn ing the Senate committee on privileges and elections decided to take up, at its next meeting, the Call-Chandler con troversy over the action of the former in revising his speech on the murder of W. B: Saunders in Florida before it appeared in the liecwd, making, as Senator Chandler asserted, material a change in the matter. It is said that Senator Call will impeach the accu racy of the reporter's notes before the committee and charge thut he failed to catch his remarks as delivered. ' Wicmico Liquor Men Protest. Salisbury, Earch 1. The liquor men of Wicomico couity met here Thursday night and drew up a series of resolutions protesting against the proposed change in the liquor laws of Maryland by wnicn the license is in creased from $75 to $150, and each li censed seller must have nine signers on his applicction instead of eight, as required by the present law, and no freeholder can sign more than one ap plication. - A Big Suit Discontinued. New York, March 1. Notice of the discontinuance of the big suit of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, against John Inman, was filed in Unit ed States Circuit Court this afternoon. It provides a discontinuance without costs to either party as against the other. Weekly Bank Statement. New York, March 1. The weekly bank statement is as follows: Reserve, decrease, i,tto,tuu; Loans, decrease, 54,bw,iuu; specie, decrease, 3.0640t; Lgai lenders, decrease, 51,900; deposits, decrease, 89,118,000; Circula- Uoni decrease, 14,100. The banki now bold $2,360,200, in cxet of th 2i mf I Ufc. rulO Fire at the Hampton Normal school Fort Monror, Va., March 1. The handsome frame building on Hampton Normal School grounds, constructed last year at a cost of $1,500, named in honor of the poet Whittier, used as a preparatory school for colored youth, was totally burned to-night; partly In- 8urd- n r Ttia ttiah n Durham hnvo nrrcirtw1 an offer made by their employers of an advance of five per cent, in their wages. WASHINGTON CITY. CONDITION OF EX-CONGRESSMAN TAULBEN SERIOUS. Bond OflVrlDt.-.i)bt Statement a orren "gain liefore the l'otofTW Com mttte Ills Attack on the Iotmnter GoermlSp1Urr lud Inline the In-Tltatlon-Tlir Call-Chandler ACalr. Washington-, Mar. l.-Ex-Repre-tentative TaulU-e, who was hot In the Capitol yesterday by Charles E. Kin - caid, correspondent of the w.ivfuunueni oi me louuviuo wountiea man bad n3uwd th ni.-ht n comfortably as could be expected, and that he was then resting easily. Hi sedition is regarded as serious, and a consultation over the case by the hos pital physician; will be held this after coon. Taulbee's son, for whom a tele graphic summons was sent yesterday, is expected to reach Washington this evening. Wasiuxgton, March 1. Dr. Nor- vln ureen, president of tho Western Union Telegraph Comnanv to-dav wjuHuucu iiis suiu'iiifinLres iflcun? infl pending postal telegraph bill before the House committee on Postofflees and Postroads. He said in the course of hi remarks that the Postmaster General, in his order fixing the rate for Government business, had made an order which the board of directors of the Western Union had decided was practically an order of confiscation of their business. The Doctor became somewhat ex cited at this point, and, looking hard at Postmaster General Wanamaker, who steadily returned tho gaze, ho ex claimed: "And vet he says that ho is cn firstrate terms with the telegraph company. He may congratulate him- eelf that he can smile and smile, and murder wniie tie smiles. We propose to controvert that order (fixing rates for Government messages) in tho Courts, and to demonstrate that it is not one-half of the cost of services. We have not received a dollar on account of Government telegraph service since last July; we would not accept "the rate. "One word more: I don't know wheth er I am right, but this is the way it looks to a man up a tree. This is a government of the people, by the peo pie and for the people. In -England and other Monarchical Governments, in Canada and in the so-called French Re public, the Cabinet Ministers are mem bers of the Legislative departments and act as members of tho Legislature. But in a constitutional form of govern. menta9 it is here, the Executive, Leg islative and Judicial Departments are nvdo independent Departments. - The President may recommend from time to time such legislation as may be needed. This proposed legislation has failed to receive his recommendation, although submitted in the Pustmaster General s report before nis annual mes sagre was sent to Congress. "I have never heard I efore that a Cab inet Minister may come before a com mittea to coach it and help his pet schemes through, when they have not i j i i t .,; ,i ' At this point Representative Ander son. of Mississippi, interrupted Dr. Green to call attention to the late hour and added that the witness' answers were argumentative and not respon sible. Representative Cram, of Texas, re marked that so far as coaching the committee was concerned, the Post master General had never spoken to him upon'the subject. When he, (the Postmaster General) was on the stand hi (Crain) had catechized him as close- lv as he had Dr. Green, because he wanted to vote intelligently upon the proposition. CDr. Green The Postmaster General has between 80,000 and 100,000 civil ap pointments to make and every member has two or threa in his district. Mr. Crain I am a Democrat and get none from him. My only objection to the Postmaster General is his politics. Then addres-ing himself to the subject of the pending bill, Crain asked if Dr. Green's objection was not based on the assumption that it provided for erec tion and maintenance of Government lines? Dr. Green That was what it amount ed to; that would be the result. Mr. Crain asked why Western Union opposed the bill if it proposed an im practicable plan? Dr. Green Because the fools are not all dead yet. A exeat many people would jump in to build telegraph lines without the assurance that they could make any thing. Mr. Crain remarked that this objec tion seemed to be that the Western Union Company would not be helped, but the people would be. Mr. Chandler (Committeeman) said that when the committee found that but 1,000,000 out of 59.000,000 people were using the telegraph, it believed it a matter of duty to see how its use could be extended. It was an improve ment upon the older system of mall I communication, and people thould be offered every opportunity to use it. Washington, March 1. Bond offer- intra to-day arrrofr-td 9.) 300: four and a halfs at 1.031; all accepted. The debt statement, issued to-day, shows a reduction of the debt during the month of February of $5,159,4S6 6C; decrease since June 30, $42,099,091.97; total interest bearing debt, S21,07,- f .Vr total dht nf oil IHnrfa 1 1.601. - 713,842 82; debt less available credits, $ i.034.o47.o29.4S; cash in the treasury, $622,673,15.10; legal tenders outstand- ivg 346.6S1,016; certificates of deposit outstanding, $10,230,000; gold certJfi- cates. $130,604,804; silTer certificates, 2S4. 176,262; fractional currency, $691,- I ' The threatened stiko of Bistiah miners will probably be averted. CONGRESSIONAL. The 1Iom lMri the AUtaat Secretary of War Bill ao4br Ca!te4 UkIUv Ca lbrferelhe IIou. I v AsiiiNGTo.v, aiarca I. liotrsn. After tho jaaage of a few private pen I Ion bM Mr. Cutcbeca, of Michigan. er . h . called up the Snate bill providing lor an Aitanl Secretary of War, which passed yeas nays 100. Mr. Houk, of TentCM-ec, called up the contested election caM! of Keather htone vs. Cat43 from the Srt district of Arkansas. Mr. Crm rtquoted that the case be not called up at the pres ent time. Monday, he said, was us pensioa day and there wa a iccial order for TueKlay and one for Wed nsdav; conequentlv, if tho eleclioo cae were now called up It diKrujlon would be disconnected. But Mr. Houk disregttrded the appeal and Mr. CrUp rai-setl the question of consideration. The House decided yeas 1S3, nays 122, to consider the election c;ise. The oneninir speech in favor of tho claims of the contestant was made by Mr. Haugen, of Wisconsin. At the conclusion of Mr. Haugen V speech, Mr. Outhwaile, of Ohio, took tuo r but, in view of tho small at- tendance - , an au journment, which motion was agreed to yeas J 14, nays 107. " AVilon Notr. Since my last communication, noth ing of special interest has transpired here, and I regret novV to have so little to offer, worthy of the space, which you so kindly give in your excellent paper. Business of all kinds, has been quite dull here for the last two weeks, the farmers in this section being busily en gaged in making preparations for their various crops. These it is believed will be more diversified than heretofore. Cotton, however, will still maintain the pre-eminence, owing to the Indebt-1 ednees of the county, and the inability of tho cultivators of the soil, to obtain the necessary supplies by mortcrainr any other crop. Tobacco, however, is comiDg to tho front, and nearly every farmer will plant a few acres. The site of the Tobacco are bouse has been secured, and work will soon commence upon it. It is to be a very larcre one. the lencth and breadth of which I cannot undertako to give Quite fabulous statements of its dlmen-. sions have already gone forth, and I might be accused of underrating its importance if I were to assign to it, anything like moderate dimensions. Tho selection of the old cemetery lot, for the site of the tobacco warehouse, is believed by many, who sympathizo with Shakespeare in tho malediction which ho pronounced upon too sacrc legious hand which may disturb his bones, to have been unfortunate; as it has necessitated the removal ol the ro mains of a large number of our dead, the friends and relatives of whom, bo in r unable to incur the necessarj ex penses, have been compelled to submit to what they deemed aneeaiessanu un- iistifiable invasion of the sanctity oftho grave. Many of our citizens visited rew Bern this week, to bo present at tho Fair, and have returned well pleased with tho "City of Elms" its refined and hospitable people, and the wonder ful exhibition of the resources of that highly favored region. Long may she ! . . 1 11.?. a( 4kn tl.Olinlij'l of the Old North State. The most remarkable winter, within the recollection of the "oldest inhab itant," departed yesterday ,and "spring time has come again, gentle Annie," and soon it may be 6aid, as an old Eng lish poet beautifully expresses it, "SDrinr. as she passes down the vale. Left her robe on the trees,and her breath on tte gai. The M IF SENG ER continues to grow in favor with our people. j The Ilillard Tournament. ! New York March 1. The longest and most montonous game in the bil liard tournament was played in Chlck ering Hall yesterday afternoon between Daly and Ileiser on the eight-Inch balk line, Daly led oft with tho white ball and scored. In the fifth inning he made 111, the highest run of the'game. When Heiser attempted to shoot for the eighty-first time in tho thirty-fifth inning he lifted the ball off the tabic. Both men were nervous and tho long game of 44 innings did not improve their tempers. Daly won tho game. Heiser scoring 402. The twelfth game wa played last night between Slofson and Cotton. SI os Km won, and Cotton made a score of 267. Death of a VeneraMe Man. Charleston, W. Va., March 1. Walker Sanford, an aged resident of Davis Creek. Kanawha county, died last night at the residence of his son. Rev. Van Sanford, after an nines ox about two months with la grippe. Ho was in the ninety-fifth year of hit age and leaves a family of nine children, ranging In age from O to 50 years, four of whom are ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a minister of the Baptist Church. A Laborer Good Fortune. Fort Wayne, March 1. Thomas Jones, for long years a porter in a hardware house in Fort Wayne, has, by the death of a relative in England, fallen heir to $375,000. It is the one eighth portion of an estate valued at 13,600,000. Jones has been a day la borer all bit life, and he takes his good fortune in a sensible manner. Tho Ohio Still Hlla;. Chicago, March 1. A dispatch from Evansriile, Ind., says : Tbe river Is still rising and Is now forty-two and a half feet, and Is rising at the rate of an Inch an hour. The railroads aro still experiencing tromble. Enterprise and Scuffletown, several miles above, are flooded and the inhabitants ha ro been driven to the hills. . Thousands of bushels of corn hare been ruined. ' FOREIGN NEWS. A DISAGREEMENT OCCURS IN THE FRENCH CABINET ! C a a r la V mm m m IJmU. r -j.i A fLrttl.h Menr ak mm.A t.K. i : t'-The (.nnn l tf(U..n emateat TryUc t It 1m-. CoacllUtlnc th- rr. I'AKI. March' I.M. lVr;ir;. Mm. r m . . . . Ill rrcaation a .v n u!t of tonal dtarxvmt-nt with VI. T:rf-.l Prlmo Mlnltr. t io!a Mln!ttri&! Council. It U vet unknown h!Kf hi dtvn.in to urrvridrr Ui jwrt'.nio i Coal. 'Tb - timi Will The rvpori of the U of tho 1!4uh fteatner g jcita U confirmed at Advice rvcclvcU aio that two hun dred live were UlThv t. arn-r Uruck a rtvk not shown on unr chart, at ' o'clock -lat nlL'ht. near Somcr t in Torrv Strait ni lh northern nirm- ity of Au'.mlla nnd Kink.' in thrvr rain- ultss. LONDON, March l.-MUr Abrhia Lincoln p?M'd a quiet nU'ht hut thrro is no material chango In M cotulitU n. up to tnls hour. 4 p. in., then hr tW rn nochango In the condition of tho i.v tlent. Dttplte hi weaknf. ho: ' of hh recovery I lill maintained. LONDON, March I. -A dcMvaUh re ceived here this morning .t,ite ttmi tho HritUh cteann-r Q not Li. which Killed from Coolatown, VfuiH-jtaml, on t ebruary IMh, for Iondon. ha Urn lost at ml a. Tho number of MnHt; drowned is not dcfinltolv -know n. but the despatch ;tyi a fcarfal number !er- lshed. 1 he Ouctla m a veM-i of 2,-t tons burthen. . She htul on Kiarl twenty-seven fird-ciat p u-m i.cer and a crew numbering one hundred m.il twelve; she hU had nmil for Koljind. to w hich the j The managers of tho lim teamer belorged nty that tkov do t;ot believe thnt he Las been !o-t. BUULIN, March 1. Tho rcult d tho vote in seventeen district, in which reballots were necensarv to elect mem bers of the Reichstag, I known. The returns from then uUtricti ohow'tho Socialists have gained fix mm! and the Liberals five. Br.ULXN, March 1(Copyi: uiir, i - Dy the results of the K-cond ballot, i !orUrd to-day, the diatrou tie ft at of the Cartel coalition Is confirmed and tho figures put in stronger light tho tri umph of the Liberals and ' Socialist.. rour districts In this city, in which the first canvass was undecided, have now been 'carried by the German Ulral. In two of these district the KoehlUtn. headed the pod on firet ballot. Their defeat now id only duo to tho comblna tioa of the other parties ugaiust them. Returns from tho province, .received up to this time (!i:50 p. m.) continue U disclose in every direction defeats of tho National Liberals and successes of popular candidates of various stripe. Perhaps tho most surprising feature of this activity of the popular element i tho lively reappearance of the olki party, or Democrats, In nil the district where the Socialists did not nut u candidates. Wo hall not have full and reliable returns to-night ; forthivo we must wait until Monday. Prince Bismarck U already actively planning and negotiating a reconstruc tion of a Government majority hv a ma nipulation of 'parties. In his new scheme the Centre party will replace tho National Liberal party n that stood In tho Cartel. Tho elections have resulted in a full restoration of the Prince's control over tho Emperor. Tho Chancellor never seriously intend ed to retire, but would have retired rather than have played tho part of a figurehead. His giving out of his pur pose to resign called the Eruperor'n at tention to the fact that that would br tho logical consequence of his tn-paral-Ing himself entirely from tho Chancel lor, and, doubtless, led him to reflect" upon what ho was to do without him. As soon as the adverse resuit of tbo elections was perccptiblo thl reflec tion must have loomed up as one of serious moment, and all this has led to the Kmperor'a unqualified adbc!on to tho Prince's projected parliamentary tactics. Daily, since the first ballot the Km peror and tho Chancellor haTe con certed on the scheme of playing the Centre party a the hcwls of tho Gov ernment combination. The first meas ure, showing the drift of tho scheme ti a revival of active relations with tho Vatican. In an Important dispatch Prince Bbmarck rcjuctU tbe Pope's opinions and bis recommendations as to the detail of restitution to theCath olic clergy of the sums heretofore so ?uestrated. He port alto credit the Im peror with having written personal ly to the Pope oo the close connection of bis proposed State socialism with christafn socialism embodied in the Papal allocutions. YlrxlalV BomU4 Itobt. IticiiMOND, Va., March 1. A reso lution providing for tie appointment of a commission to coifer with the bondholders with the view to a settle ment of the State debt In conformity with the provisions of the Biddieber ger bill, paiwod the Legislature to-day. IBaMball Xews. Charleston, March 1, Manager Mutrie and seventeen players of tbe New York League baseball club ar rived this afternoon by the steamer Delaware from New York. The only newa reported by Mutrie is that Tur ner fend Leham have been signed as pitch and first baseman respectively. MNOSSjSij4knpS,snnmn Tho Steamer CU4 flJUc We. Victoria, B. C, March 1. A letter has been received from Port Simpson stating that the missionary steamer Glad Tidings, . previously reported wrecked and a total loss, ha arrived said at that place. i ! ? 5 H t I ! I)