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7 T 4 - (I VOL. III. SALISBURY, N. C. "THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1890' NO. ' 38. -iL LL w U Jk JL JLo " 4 ' THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. WORK OF THE FIFTY-FIR8T CCNQRE88. PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFED DELIBERATIONS OVjJft MAT TERS OF MOMENTOUS INTEREST TO OUR COMMO.N COUNTRY. NOTES. In tlfe house, on Wednesday morning, on motion of Mr. " Forney, of Ala bama, a bill was passed authorizing the construction of a bridge over thd Tennes see river at Guntersville, Ala. The house went into committee of the whole (Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the chair) on the Indian appropriat ion bill. The commit tee was in session- but a few moments when it rose infi rmaljy to allow the house to receive a mcs;ige from the senate. As Secre tary MeCook announced the passage of the silver bill with certain amend ments, the democratic side of the fiOUe broke put in 'loud applause. Mr, Bland, of Missouri, immediately moved that the; ; committee of the whole rise in order that the house might aj oncy preyed to the considenit KiiT'V.f the "hid RiHndV.T'mn- .tion was, put and sas U-f atOd oua stanj ing vote bv V.) to 87. ConsidvTaTIoiri the Indi an lt appropiiation bjjl was then On points of 'order raised by continued. Mr. Cannon despite tjje .strenuous prO- tests of Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, and Mr Peel, -of Arkansas, the appropriations of $12,200 for the Creek Indians, $48,800 for the Pottawatomie Indians and $27,000 for the Mexican Pottawatomie Indians Wi-TC stricken from the bill. The com mittee then rose, the bill was passed, and the house, at 4 :45, adjourned. Among the petitions and memorials presented in the senate, on Wednesday, were several by Mr., Morrill against the increased duty on tin plate. .Mr. Mor rill, from the finance committee, reported .back the tariff, bill -and said it was not expected that it would be brought up for consideration carliar than a week from l Monday, j'ext. The table required by '-3iTTT-,tmb"s resolution would be ready, probably, within about four days. The bill was placed on the calendar. Mr. Eyarts gave notice that eulogies of the . late Representative Cox were postponed till Thursday of next week. Thesenate - then proceeded to the consideration of the legislative, executive andjudicial appropriation bill. The senate disposed of seventy pages of the bill and ad journed. In the house, on Thursday, the journal . having been read, Mr. Mills, of Texas;" objected to its approval on the ground that the clerk had not read it in full. The speaker suggested that the clerk had only omitted to read such portions as it is customary not to read, but he directed the full reading ' of the journal. The clerk proceeding', read that portion of the journal which disclosed-the reference oi the silver bill to the committee on coin ajje, weights and measures. During the - reading, Messrs. Mills and McKinlev-r-xnalnedsranding1, anxious to claim recog nition. The latter was- successful, and jjt'uioTed that the journal be approved. Upon, this Jhe demanded the previa fltlckiondeiB2p"Mrrliil!s protest that hejvft? enticed to FecdgTtioTi orrect TEe journal. Mr.jPprl tn n mips;fior nf rdpv. rAised n r rising . !OatTne journal conraineu Tiie iaecoru oi something which had iie"ver liapp'ened.aud which shpiiTiT nbrW in the journal. The caWr;' replied tnat tlt was fpj; ilie house to decide and directed the clerk to nll theroll. The previous question was yoleeV (h5vn yeas 106; nays ljj. The. following republicans voted with the democrats in the fae5ativct lessfs. Bar ton, Dellaven, fvelleT, K err, of Iors-a, Li nd, Morro y and Townsend, of Colo raao. Mr. Mjh was then recognized by .the spcaVr. He offered a resolution, re ' c itinfir that the order of reference made bV the sneaker referring the silver bill to te commmee ou coiuajj, weiguis aau mea sures wa9 incorrect under the rules of the house, and was made without authority under the rules, and resolving that the journal be corrected by striking therefrom Mr. Mills' resolution. , The motion to tA- .11 1 V 1 1 V 1 . I'll . LIUIJU 11 MiV 1. 11 1111V oie was iosi yeas, 113; naysjzti. ine juestion tnen recurreu on jnr. jiiiis res olution, and it was agreed to veas, 121: nays 117. Mr. Spriuger moved the ap proval oi the journal as amended, pend- - t " t . . f 11.. 1I..TT.'..1.. lug wmcn, on motion 01 air. iciviuioy, the house, at 7 o'clock, adjourned. In the senate, on Thursday, Mr. Quay's resolution, offered Wednesday, forbid-U- !inLr the sergeant-at-arma to remove any oi his subordinates before the 1st of Julv without consent of the senate, was taken up. lief erred to the committee on con tiugent expenses. The senate then 10 sumed consideration of the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill. All amendments of the committee on ap propriations having been disposed of, the out was open to general amendment. Mr. Paddock' moved to increase the salary of the commissioner of the general land of-tk-e from $4,000 to $5,000, and of assist- eonne;Wi!tsloll(i" from $3,000 to $3,500. rot ilit"'srl', bad not Inen decided at 4 es , the hoitr fixed for the memoria xcTcises of the two deceased New York" representatives,' Messrs. Nutting and Wil ber. The bill was laid aside. A message of the president vetoing the bill to change the boundaries of the Uncomphagre In dian reservation was presented, read and referred to the committee on Iudian af fairs. Also a message of the president in relation to reciprocal commercial treaties with the Latin-American nations. Laid on the table. Eulogies on Messrs. Nut ting and Wilber were delivered by Messrs. Evarts and lliscock." The usual resolu tions of regret and sympathy were adopt ed, and, as a further .mark of respect to 'memory of the deceased, the senate,, at 4 :4., adjourned. When the" house met on Friday the journal of Thursday's proceedings was not read; "and the speaker announced the pending question to be ordering the pre vious question. On a motion made by Mr. Mills, of Texas, to approve the journal of Wednesday, as amended, the previous mcstion was ordered yeas 12G, nays 122. Mr. McKinlev, before the announce ment of the vote, changed his vote to the affirmative and moved a reconsid eration. Mr. Tracy, of New York voted ' with the republicans. Re publicans voting with democrats in the affirmative were Messrs. Bartine, ter, De Haven, liermann, jxeiiey, -dTownsena, 01 toiorauo. f live for the purjose stated. j Mr. 3Iills moved to table the motion to reconsider. The motion to reconsider was tabled yeas 131, nays 129. The question then recurred on approving thej journal of "Wednesday's proceedings as amended. The motion to approve journal of Wed nesday as amended, was agreed to yas 132, nays 130. At the end of the second day's battle, over the silver bill," the forces drew off, leaving the situation of the bill Itself if that could be defined1 practically in the hands of the clerk of the committee on coinage. In the Senate, on Friday, the postoffice appropriation bill, and consular and dip lomatic apurouriation bill w:as reported and placed on the calendar! The con sideration of the legislative appropriation bill was resumed, the question being oc the point c i order made by Mr. AllisOE against the amendment to increase th salary of the commissioner of the land of fice from .$4, COO to $5,000, and of Je a sistant commissioner from !$3,$00 tc ?3. 500. The vlSejngt; submit td i lie question to tne senate, ana tne ametiflment was declared to be jri order ; veas .56, navs 14, The amendment was the question to agreed to veas 28, navs 10. I Mr Harris novecj to insTrt an item of 1,440 f6r a stipeTIntenden'Joj . senate stables. Ruled out. the motion by Mr. Dolpli to in. crcase the compensation of the surv'eVr-general-of Oregom from 1,800 to $2,500 WH.mnde the text of a speech by Mr. Allison against the general movement to increase salaries. Upon an '''appeal from the decision of the presiding officer, ruh ing out of order an increase off the salary of ope of the senate clCrkjs, "a dis cussion topk place, in the course of -which Mr. Plumb spoke of the extravagance of the senate in the matter of its- employes. The expense now, he said, was at least $100,000 a year more than they ought to be. The discussion was participated i: by Messrs. Dawes, Morrill, George, liar ris and Call. Finally the appeal from the decision of the chair was laid on the table.' The bill was then formally report etl to the senate, and the amendments made in committee Of the whole were agreed to. The bill -was then passed. . Mrr Edmunds offered a resolution, which went over till Saturday, for the appointment of a com mittee of seven senators to take into im mediate consideration the state of the ad ministrative service of the seniate, and to report as early as may be what measures should be adopted in respect of the great est efficiency and economy of service. The senate then adjourned. In the house on Saturday, j ; alter the reading and approval of Friday's journal, Mr. Blanel, of Missouri moved to recon sider the vote by which the yeas and nays were ordered upon Mr. McKinley's mo tion to table his (Mr. Bland's) appeal from the decision of the chair declining to entertain his motion to take! the silver bill from the speaker's table. He announc- etl that he desired to withdraw his appeal but Mr.'McKinley insisted on a vote,, so Mr. Bland's motion to reconsider was put and defeated -90 to 120! "Theroll was calleel on McKinley's motion to table Mr. Bland's appeal, and it prevailed yeas 146; nays 45. All of the free-coinage men, except Mr. DeHaven, who did not vote, voted to table the appeal. f, Finally, heavdon both sides of the question, Mr.- Mvinley move reel to taole 3ir Kiana s ap- V-Z- il&lyS speaker oecv?iqii hciiaiag the siTvTFb:ll to the coinage committee. the' veas and navs vere taken, i 1 esulting, feas 14Xuays f 17. So the appeal w"as lakj oh the table. The following repub licans vftted w ith the democrats against Mr. McKinlev's motion. Messrs. Baitine, Conuell, Dellavyn. Herman, Kelly, Mor row, Townseud and Funston. lhest democrats Voted with the repubiicaos it favor of the motion : Messrs. Buckalew, Diinphv, Fitch, Geissenhainer Maish, McAdoo, Mutchler, O'Ned of iiassacua- setts, Quinn, Wyly and Stahlntcker. Mr McKinlev, upon the announcement, said. 'So the apeal is tabled ana the 011 stands referred to the coinage committee.' Mr. Brewer presented the report of the appropriations committee on the seuatc amendments to the fortificatious appro priation bill. At his instancethe housf non-coneurreHl in the senate amendment? and 01 deretl a c nference. Thp house then at 3:30 o'clock adjourned! In the senate, on Saturday, the resolu tion offered Friday by Senator;Edmunds. for a committee of seven to take into con sideration the state of-the administrative service of the senate and to report what measures shoulet be adopted with respecl to the greatest efficiency and ejeouomy ol service, was taken up and agrejed to. Tht house bill supplementary to tjlie act oi March 22, 1882, in reference b bigamy, was taken un and r.asscd without divis ion. It provides that all the property lately belonging to funds 01 1 he .Mor mon church shall be devoted to the use and benefit of the public schools of thai state. The senate bill to establish an ed ucational fund, and apply the proceeds ol public lands and receipts from certain land-gant railroad companies to the more complete endowment and support of col lesres for the advancement of science and industrial education, was then! taken up and its. discussion '-occupied tie neatei part of the day's session. Mr.Pugh ouere an amendment to meet the condition o affairs of A'abania and other, states to provide that schools in which colored students are taguht -(whether called col leges or not) in agricultural arwl mechani cal arts may have portions of the money paid to them. A long discussion ensued -on 3Ir. Pugh's amendment. The bill and amendment went over without action. The vice-president announced iis the com mittee cm sc: ate administrative service : Messrs. Allison, Plumb, .Cullom, . Dolph, Washburn, Cockrcll aud Carlisle. The following senate bills were reported ad placed on the calendar: Authorizing the Mobile-, .Jackson and Kansas City Kail road company to cross certain rivers in Mississippi ; authorizing the .construction of a bridge across the Alabama river, near Selma. A!a., ly the Selma and ' Catawba Yallev Railroad company. I After the executive session the senate adjourned. XOTES. The river and harbor bill, as it passed the house, appropriates 19,073,94.3. Jutlge Stewart, of Georgia, has written a letter to Colonel Livingston, announcing that he would be ready in a few days to go to Georgia, and meet the Alliance chief on the stump The president, on Saturday, appointed large tc : Gorten the following commissioners-a the world's fair . at Chicago Wallen, : of New York, in the place of Edwin H. Api-indown, declined; Wil "V " iYm ' of Kentucky, in the place of Samuel M. Ihman, of Georgia. declined, with Patrick Walsh, of Geor gia, as alternate. ; Senator Call, of Florida, on Saturday, proposed the following amendments to the sundry civil appropriation bill: for twenty-five port lights along the inland passage from Savannah, Ga., to Fernan dioa, Fla., 4,000 : range lights for Fer nandina harbor $l,7o6; the light-house of Mount Cornelia, mouth of St. Johns River, $175,000. Mr. Blaine reiterated the statements he recentl7 made to a senator, regarelinir the McKinlev tariff bill. Mr. Blaine was talk ing on the subject the pending tariff bill Senator Blackburn turned to him him and said he w ished he was in the senate. "I wish so, too," responded the statesman earnestly. '-It is the most tlangerous if not the most infamous meas ure that was ever concocted by any part v. The men- bii-T. iSXt tn's liUl Av'11 ckthe repu 0llcan party. If I wereTn ?&eS. hllve'iny right aim torn out of its- socket than vote, tWibi"1 XatTdas nnich of a sensation ajHog the. republi L'aiis as the explosion xd a bomb. . OEATH AND DESTRUCTION "'ROUGIIT FA A YC LONE WHICH SWEPT OVEK ILLINOIS. A dispatch from Amboy, 111., says: A severe cyclone passed over the south ern and central portions of Lee county, Friday afternoon, leaving destruction and death in its wake. As near as can be learned-the storm made its first appear ance at a point fifteen miles west of the village of Sublette, at what is known as Blackburn Here!, where a number of cattle were killed. From there it pur" - d an easterly direction in a zig-zag urse, with a track twenty to forty rods 'v,ide, leveling everything before it. The storm crossed the Illinois Central road at Sublette, wipiug up eight or ten little buildings on the north edge of the town, and injuring some sev enteen persons, but none seriously. It next struck the little village of South Paw Paw, some twenty miles distant east of Amboy and ten miles east of Sub lette. The cycl&ne struck the place so suddenly and unexpectedly that no time was , left for preparation. In less time than it takes to tell it, the south ern part of the little village lay in ruins, wh do the piteous cries of the' dying and seriously injured were heard on every sidg. Within two miles of the place fourteen person were found to be dead, or so badly injured that they died soon after ward. In its work of destruction the next object-of attack was the Hunt school house. The school was not in session at the time, having deen dismissed, owing to the fury of the storm, but it being so great, Miss Maggie McBride and eight little pupils had been unable to leave the building. An observer states that when the wind struck this building it was carried up into the air for the dis tance of 306 feet, where it waf wrecked, anlost sight of. Neither teacher nor anof the pupils live tcy tell the. rtory. McBride was f oiiiidlit? fat,rw3 some" disJiincb awav from! where. the' buMTng stood. The pupils seem to iave taken another courses and all m . 1 . werey . tnrown into a creek near bv, and several of the little bodies were carried down the stream, but all were afterward recovered. Not a vestige of the building remained, even the stones in the fountiation belrisr taken out. Among .those killed are thl) daughterTof Aschel itrenti'ss, Isaac Berjy anel "William uuui, svus 01 .jus. vturie yniie, oea rnan Overkirk. George Rudolph, Peter Reanu? and George Bolaches. The last named eentleman also loses his wife and child, his house, not far dis tent being demolished. So far as can be learned this completes the list of thedeacl. Aside from the fatalities and injured the damage is exceedingly large, the storm passing as it did through one of the most prosperous and wealthy parts of the country. Competent judges place the damage in Lee county at from $150,000 to $200,000. DISGRUNTLED SOCIALSTS. ratv ARK MAO MEN DIS BECAUSE HONEST , W ORK AGKEE WITH THEM. A New York dispatch says: A split oc curred in the Central Labor union Sun day. The socialist delegate? withdrew, and formed a new central boely, which will be known as the Central Labor feel eration. Anticipating this action on the part of the socialist delegates, the conser vatives at the instance of the building traeles section, passed a resolution deny ing them the right of representation in the orisrinal organization. The war of wortls thus aroued was loud and vigorous, and for a time it looked as though the opposing factions would come to blows. The progressives were called ignorant foreigners, usurpers and nation-wreckers, while they in turn characterized the con servatives as boodle n, scab's anel profes sicHial politicians, -and dubbed the hall as "boodlcr -hall' . : WANT REPRESENTATION, -JOLOKiiD FEOl'LE PUT OUT iW MISSISSIPPI CANDIDATES. WILL A Jackson, Miss., tlispatchsays: A con ference of "colored men of this state Thurs day promulgated an address to their race in which they declare that the constitu tional convention to assemble at Jackson August 1.2th is designed bv the elemo- cratic party to abridi if not to praetic- ally destroy their huerties. that the nesroes, as .a race I hey declare should be rep- rescuted in the convention, and urge that negro orgamza. ions be at ouee formed in every county where they are in a majority and have a chance of election, with the view to the election of negro delegates. THE FIRST KICK. CHICAGO COMPLAINS THAT HER ENUMERATION IS FAULTT. CENSUS The Chicago Daily Xeic of Monday prints a number.of complaints indicating that the federal census is decidedly faulty so far as Chicago is concerned. The gist of statements giveh is that, whether from lack, of time, incompetence or negligence, a great number of families have been left un visited, and that the omissions axe pos- I sibly of such a wiroiesale character as to a fwrCft TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE BUSY WORLD. SUMMARY OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON DENSED FROM NEWSY DI SF ATCHJ?! FROM UNCLE SAM'S DOMAIN AND WHAT THE CABLE BRINGS. Chicago proposes to build' a railroad from that city to Birmingham, Ala. Seven census enumerators in Minneap olis, Minn., have been arrested for pad ding census returns. Jt is reported that the Mahdi has re leased all Europeans who were taket prisoneis by his forces. Every railroad in Cleveland, Ohio, is gd mail trains oston. Somen 'viile aud Cambridge, Mass., have struck for an increase of wrages. lfeidlebach, : Ickleheimer & Co., of New York, have ordered o00,000 in gold for export to Germany. ' Robert Bonner's filly Suirnl Wednesdaj trotted a quarter of a mile in 31 1-3 seconds, or at the rate of 2 :04 4-5 for the mile. It is stated that the .-English and French governments have exchanged satisfactory ?( mmunications regarding the Anglo German agreement. It is reported that the Mormons are gradually deserting Utah, and that be fore long there will be only a few of them left in the territory. The Pittsburg Tin Plate Record states :hat an English syndicate has appro priated nearly $1,000,000 to defeat the :iu plate clause in the MeKinley tarifl Dill. A dispatch from Calumet, Mich., says: Nearly a thousand miners walked out on a strike at Tamadack mine Tuesday. They demanded a ten per cent increase in wages and eigrit hours. A Berlin dispatch of Sunday says : Ilerr Wolff; Major Wissmann's commer cial advertiser, condems the Anglo-German agreement. He says the English jet everything, and will control Africa. Stanley says the director of a f)utch house recently told him that his firm now has thirty steamars on the Upper Congo, and that their house had bought $1,500 000 worth of ivory in the last two years. A dispatch from. Hamburg, Iowa, says: Three desperate' men 'with a lasso secured a $10,000 check from J. H. Stewart, the Kansas City .capitalist. Mr. Stewart is in a precarious condition from his rough usage. A Rio Janeiro, Brazil, dispatch says: President da Fonseca signed the new con stitution at a ministerial dinner given Sunday night. The-est of the constitu tion was approved W a cabinet council Saturdav. f. fh e switihmeii; conductors and brake men of the Clev?md & Pittsburg .rail road, at BellairAf., quit work Thursday for an advance. The strikers ui Cleve land seem to be weakening, as some of them returned returned to work. A special frorijheading, Col., says that one of the peaksvof Mount Shasta has disappeared. Thetop appears to have b-fen cut shorj off iad &haye. fallen into the crater below, the depth of which has never been penetrated by the ey' oT hian. The Hamburg-American steamship Co lumbia arrived at New York a few days ago, having i made the voyage from Southampton ife6 daj s, 15 hours and 51 minutes, this being the fastest trip be tween these two ports on record. A dispatch of Sunday, from Madrid, Spain, says : The cholera epidemic makes no progress. There are very few fresh cases either at Peublo de Rugat, Fenol lato or Mohtichelvo. The officials de clare that seventy-five per cent of those attacked recover. Following the example of the . brick layers, the . plasterers, hod-carriers and iron-workerf, of Cincinnati, have en dorsed the carpenters' strike and re fuse to work until the trouble is settled. Almost a general tie up in the building industry is the result. Exports Of specie from the port of New York for week eneled Saturday, June 21, amounted to $1,690,585, of "which $1, 531,585 was in gold ah f 166,000 in sil ver. All the silver and $1,531,585 in gold went to Europe; $254,400 of the gold shipped to Europe going to France, the rest to Germany, and $10,000 in gold went to South America. The silver went to London. Imports of specicc for the week amounted to $239,(22, of which $14,043 was in gold and $221,979 silver. A Raleigh, N. C, dispatch qf Saturday . mi 1-J- " says: inventor 1 nomas &a son is; u Mfore county taking options on gold mining interests. He t- ok one option on one thousanel acre. Mr. E iison will form a syndicate of English capitalists, which will commence work soon. This land li's on Deep river, and Edison will turn the rive r through it, and thus obtain water for gold-washing. t - A dispatch from Baton Rouge, La., says: When the house met Wednesday the speaker received from lsadore Xew man, presi3ent of the New Orleans stock exchange, a proposition from Benjamin XrwfTiisK of London. England, offering 1 million and a Quarter dollars yearly, for the same lottery privileges applied for by Johu A Morris, with the additional ten der of security for the payment ol tue amount annually to the state. A Cedartown. Ga., dispatch says: The rtw.r. .I--, iron furnace has' started, and our t eople are delighted. I or two years this " immense establishment has been' silent, .and business has been hampered somewhat by its failure to run With all its departments running, the pay ioll of the company will be $15,000:per month. The furnace makes a run every six hours, and the best 'pulity of iron in the south is made. . - The Chattanooga Times of Sunelay con tains an exhaustive statement regarding the crops of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, and it shows that the wrheat crop throughout the entire territory can vassai to be almost an entire failure. Corn, cotton and tobacco are in spleidid con dition"; yields promising to exceed tiat of last year. Of fruits there is about a half crop, anel grasses of all kinds are good. The. business outlook is encour aging . A Richmond, Va., disjatch of Thurs day, says : It is now understood that the American committee on the settlement oi tied up, and passenger e ue omv ones rjDmg.. .iuiK'.i-ir laborers of B Messrs. Cleveland anel Olcott aud the foreign bondholders committee in London have agreed on terms of co-operation, insuring the pooling of the bonds. It is ciuite likely that pending these negotiations there will be a suspension of coupon litigation in the state and United States courts. There is widespread discontent in Charleston, S. C, about the result ol the census enumeration. It Is said that hun dreds of families have not been counted. ' There are thirty districts in the citv, each 01 wnicn was caicujaicu 10 snow over 2,000 population. Some of these fall from 500 to GOO behind, imelit ejUKSd that this is causeel by the negngmue of tne enumerators. The last city "censils, J two years ago, gave a opuhition of 6: 000. It is thought that the present cen sus will show a total of not- over 55,00Q. NEWS OF THE SOUTH. BRIEF NOTES ... ESTING OF AN INTER NATURE. rrrnY items from all foints in the SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER TAIN THE READER ACCIDENTS, FIRES, - FLOODS, ETC. Memorial day was observed at Norfolk, Va., Thursday. A heavy thunderstorm passed over Jelico, Tenn., Thursday, St. Louis complains that, the census returns of that city are inaccurate. A steam pipe of a tug at Norfork, Va., exploded Tuesday, killing Captain Darby aud a fireman. The police authorities of San Francisco have decided to put a stop to prize fight ing in that city. Montgomery, Ala., celebrated the open ing of the Midland railroad by a grand banquet Wednesday night. Mobile, Ala., complains that the cen sus enumerators are overlooking a great number of colored people in their, couut. The court of appeals at Louisville, Ky., on Wednesday decided a case, which makes all bucket-shop dealings gambling. - The Kentucky court of appeals, on Tuesday, decided that the defaulting Treasurer Tate's bondsmen must make up the shortage. ' While, bathing in a small lake near Chipley Fla., Wednesday afternoon, Miss l$jta McMillan and Miss Xannie Calloway were drowned. j Hon. North Dickerson .was on SaturV day chosen by the usual majority to suc ceed John "Qt. Carlisle as representative in Congress tff the sixth Kentucky district. -5- - ... - - - - l ; Judge Gfeorge G. Junkin, of Chritians burg, Va., was on Tuesday, elected truS tee of Washington and Lee university, in the place of Colonel William Allen, deceased. The wavs and means committee of the Louisiana lecrislature has decided - to re port favorably pn the pjtnflfiftiU eaotfei tlonal amendrxJent to reifove trie capuaTl ffom Baton Rouge to NeTvv Orleans. A special from Jacksonville, Ala., re ports that arrangements. Tiave been com pleted for the establishment there of a steel plant, - with a capital of $700,000, f aid to he tlxe second of its kind in the world. . . i John C. Brain, agent of a wealthy English syndicate, is in Lynchburg, Va.. negotiating for the .purchase of nearly all Of the largest tobacco manufactories in the city. The state of Mississippi, in the circuit court at Jackson, has obtained a judg ment for $37,420 against Jones & Hamil ton, et al., late lessees of ttie penitentiary convicts of that state. 1 his is tor mat amount claimed to be due for 1885. A Raleigh, N. C, dispatch says: Exo dus agents arrived in the state Tuesday, and are distributing posters and papers among the negroes, setting forth the charms ofhe fair south. They will use evory efforr to secure a great movment of the negroes, beginning next November. The Annistoni Evening Neics learns ,from farmers that in all their experience In the cultivation of cotton tney nave never seen the crop looking sp well or orowing more rapidly than it is this year. The yield this season will largely exceed that of last, unless some unforeseen acci dent befalls it. Judge Henry W. Thomas died at Fair field Court House, Va., Sunday morning, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He was a member of the commission that visited President Lincoln in 1861, with a view to averting hostilities. For half a century he was une of the leading law yers of northern Virginia. Rev. Sam Jones closed a ten days' series of meetings at Richmond, Va., on Wednesday without a precedent in Vir ginia. It is estimated that 150,000 peo ple attended the services, and that thousands signified, their intention ol leading better lives. An audience of 10.000 invited Mr. Jones' to return to Richmond. A dispatch of Saturday from President Rogers, of the Florida Farmers1 Alliance, at present in Washington, addressed tc Hon. John F. Dunn, of Oeala, Fla., is to the effect that the National Farmers' Al liance and Industrial union will hold its next annual meeting in Oeala, instead ol in Jacksonville, as designated by the vote of the National alliance at the meeting held at St. Louis list December. THE OHIO STORM CAUSES A LOSS OF $200,00 ) TO PROPKTT LS' AND ABOUT CINCINNATI. The storm which did so much damage in Cincinnati Sunday appears to have ex tended over a wide area. Severe direc tion of property is reported from Love land, Hamilton, Milford and Batavia. Near the latter place the Ohio and North western railroad track was washed out and a bridge is gone. The new Rich moid and Riplev lost $10,000 each at Falmouth, Kv. Three boys fishing in a boat are missing, doubtless drowned, rovimrton. Bellevue. Davton and New port, Ky., had eighteen houses unroofed4 Thousands" of acres of wheat, just ready to reap, are laid flat, and the loss will be CTeat. It is safe to say that the loss n Cincinnati and within a radius of fifty miles amounts to $200,000. the Virginia debt, of which FARMERS' ALLIANCE NOTES. NEWS OF THE ORDER ITS MEMBERS. AND WHAT TS BEING DONE IN 1H3E VARIOUS SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OB THIS GREAT ORGANIZATION. LEGISLA TION, NOTES, ETC. " There is talk of erectinsr an Alliance J fertilizer factory at IJanovcr, Va. : 1 he Alliance in Missouri has sixty-fivj county organizations, and 2,1)00 Sub-Alliances, The Indiana State Alliance was izeel at Indianapolis last week. organ- Sever Illinois hundred delegates were present. organized a few weeks. since. One b one they fall into line. Weeelly Toiler. - - - ' 500 farmers in the eight coun ties contiguous to Griffin, Ga., have or ganized the Farmer's Banking Company. These farmers are the most substantial men in that section'Ttuel will constitute a very strong institution. The Farmers'Alliance of Lincoln coun ty, South Dakota, raised $10,000 to start an Alliance newspaper with. They see the importance of supplying the "news without its . being poisoned by passing through the monopoly press. The Alliance will do you good; it will do your children and your country good, then howr can you afford to let others do all the work without even your presence there to cheer and encourage the work ers. A lliance (Fla.) Farmer. The Alliance is still thriving in Texas; 2,750 sub-Alliances reported to the State secretary in the month of January. Dor mant Alliances reviving in many places, and many new enterprises being started in different sections. SteplieiiTille (Tex.) Headlight. "- .. - . - The- National Alliance, published at Houston, Ter., is the organ ,of the col ored Alliance. It makes glowing reports of the beneficial influence of the order among the Afro-Americans of the South. In the State of South Carolina alone there are 1,000 colore Alliances. Raleigh, N. C, Progremce Farmer. - The, Wecldy (Nashville,, Tenn.) says: "In answrer to ruany inquiries, we will say the constitution, by oversight ol the last State Union, dclfcs not say Avhen officers of county or subordinate unions shall elect their officers, buj accoding to precedent they shoyT " r . t.,. or July to serve onV 1' The Alliance 11 000 members. a1!, 4 K Car.ers are in it, and thP tl to take-politicF luc" UVV"B.US: They propose td u governor lavorin thPir viWa anAi prcs-ing ineir.ae M At. . 1 mn,ia mnn v.A.t!Bare?sionai aeie"ate - al Ait-rtxxvKJ-iree lJress. By a unannrKus vote of the executive committee of fc 3Ijnnesofa Farmers' Al liance it 'was .decided to hold a state con vention foi theiicTjinationof a state ticket at St. Paul, July 16th. The Alliance is strong in the state, a d this makes the result of the coming election a decided uncertainty. ; The Alliance will also be in the congressional fight. ' Word comes from Evansville that tht farmer and labor organizations in that portion of Indiana are connected for the legislature and congress, in order to in fluence legislation in their interest. There is considerable, uneasiness among the leaders of parties. It is said that there will be a great political sensation when nominations are made. The Alma (Kan.) Nem savs: "The professional politicians would give a good deal just now to know just how long this Farmers' Alliance movement is going to last, and just to what extent its members will holel together in "the-elections this Fail. They would better take up some oiner Dusmess ior a lew years watching the progress of affairs." ai w T f m A. while The Southern Alliance-Far mer says: "The effort, which, by some, is made covertly, to put the Alliance out of the Democratic party, won't work. There are no truer, nobler, stauncher Democrats in Georgia than Col. L. F. Livingston and Hon. W. J. Northern One of feem will be the next Congressman from the Fifth District, and the other will be Georgia's next Governor." The Industrial Union, (Quicksburg, Va.) says: "The grand army of Alliancemen is moving its forces steadily on to victory. The force of this powerful organization of the toiling masses is being felt all over the country, and it will be but a few 3ears until they will have redeemcel our country from the tyranical power of mon ey sharks and thieves who had been run ning the government, and robbing the entire agricultural interest of its just profit?. The Xat tonal Economist (Washington; says: "It would have been far better had Mr. Carlisle read the sub-treasury plan before writiug that letter. He would L have learned something alout the pro posed system, and could have written a letter more worthy the man and the posi tion he occupies. As it is, his comment; are the weakest and most puerile of them all, 'scd that K perhaps, putting it rather strong. Great men in something; dwindle down ep:ire small in others." Senator Carlisle- makes this pom-, against the sub-treasury bill: --f'That th - sub-trees uries will be a matter of federa- patronage, as all the officers and managers will be appointed by the Government It is strange that a man who holds fee hifh and honored position as Senator Carlisle should oppose, a bill which he evidently has not read. The bill plainly provides that the farmers shall elect the managers for the sub-treasury warehouses and then petition for their establishment. This is like all the other opposition. - Southern 'Alliance Farmer. 1 Thc Kansas Commoner says : . "There is J one jn-eat danger menacing the Farmers' v Alliance just one, , If It escapes that it ie nood for vcars or usefulness. Otner wise its time, is short and its labors are vain. The danger is disruption- eli vi sion lack of unity in purpose and action. -The efforts of the politicians , who are " . menaced by it will be directed to creat- -ing discord in.the ranks. If thet can di vide it they can defeat it; if it remains true to itself, and sticks resolutely to gether, all their attempts will fail elis mally. Perfect harmony in an organiza Hon so large and so wide-spread mav be difficult but it is essential. A chain Is e only a$ strong as is its weakest link, anjl the Alliance is weak in proportion ai there is contention or insubordination in its membership." . Answering some objections to thai sub-treasury bill, the Advocate (To peka, Kansas) among -other things says: "The sub-treasury bill has received such well-nigh universal approval from the farmers and laborers over the country that it simply serves to break the mo notony of the record when now and then :rstray, solitary Alliance dissent i3 heard. Now that the warehouse plan is fairly be fore the country as an impending- legisla tive measure, it is receiving that hostile criticisrjj which its foifhelers ,weil knew U would receive From tTie banking inter est, fro hi theloau and trust interest, the grain gamblers, and from all the politi crans 111 Congress and oiif, who are in the service of the money power. It docs not take long for an Alliance man to learn that any attitude toward this or any othei measure which causes him to part com pany with his own people and places him in line with the classes, who have become wealthy and powerful at the expense ol the prosperity of the masses, needs that careful study which will, without doubt, -lead to a reversal of opinion."" IMPORTANT DECISIONS. The following elccisions bv the judic iary committee of the Georgia State Farmers' Alliance are published for the information and guidance of the order: 1. The constitution is" explicit as to the term of office of president of the na tional and the state organization, restrict ing eligibility in each case to one term in succession, that is, two consecutive years the elections being annual. The con stitution is silent on the tpiestion as it re lates to the president of a county or a sub-alliance. Evielently the policy of the order is against a greater number ot successive terms than two in the office of president. - The rule, which governs as to national aud state presielent, applies with equal force to the presidency of county and sub-alliances. . 2. Alliances may be organized in cities tor the beneht of mechanics.: mat a mechanic isja-T z , ., " TT J apanese fans is in railroad ouerw.- , . , , . admiRsinn mtn r ... .. v0.o ti.- -Lt -vA"r?Push a auorers "J. e: . -erand carpenter sho themselves-ozvisectice ,3h cen eirne. .SS-r - sail departments, are eligible. Raihpad or -locomotive engineers and firemen are :.iecnanics, nd, therefore, eligible, r Respectfully submitted, .? Mart; V. Calvik, Cbrui'n J. C House bill No. 10553, introduced by Major McClammy, provides for the issu ing to the several states $30 per capita. -The fund so issued 4o the states is to be divided pro rata between thevarious townships in the different counties in the state. The money so issued to be loaned by the states to the people at 1 per cent per annum, the interest to be applied to the school fund. This would give North Carolina $53,000,000 to be loaned on the real property of the state and give the state an annual reve nue of $530,000. No person is to be allowed the loan of this' fund over $2,500. Preference to be given to those al ready mortgaged. The amount that would be due to any county, township, city, town or school district-can be easily as certained by taking the total number of inhabitants and multiplying it by 30. It is believed thflt the Sub-Trea3ury woulel give all the relief that this bill would, but if they fail to report favorably (as they will) for the Sub:Treasury, then we can say to the politician: Wc offered you our land, our produce, this was all we had to offer, and vou failed to give us relief. If your candielates will not pledge ' themselves to the support of the Subiy Treasury or any other form of relief, - we wili be forced to ask for candidates that will. Progressive Farmer. THE MINERS ALIVE, TUOUGH THEY WERE RKI'ORTED DEAD JOYFUL NEWS. r AT A dispatch from Dunbar, Pa., near the . scene of the Hill Farm mine disaster, in which it was reported that hfty men were . buried alive, says: ' Th'j imprisoned min-' - ers have been heard from. At 4 o'clock Thursday evenfng men working in the head of the entry, through which the rescuing party is working its way, sent word drrwn the eu'ry to keep quiet. Every one elitl so, and in a moment "pick!" "pick'." f6r a dozen timc came the signal from the inside. The men went to work with renewed vigor. Thc news that the entombed miners had been heard from spread quickly through- N o'ut the little mil ing town, and in a short time the mouth of the mine was crowded. Every one who hail friends in the mine was there. General Manager Ilazzard was seen late in the'evening. "You may say that there are men elown in-tho mine alive. They have been heard from. We . do not expect to reach them for many hours yet. They will betaken care oft Thev ' will stay there till an 'opening h made. -I have ordered a corps of physicians to be on hand ready for anything. We will reach thc men." ' , . - LATEST. ' " ' A Sunday morning dispatchjrom Dun bar, sava: The rescuing party has not reached the entoombed miners. Ttw'y. are worHng hard, but no one knows How' far they hflVe to go yet, and they areas much in the dark now as any time. They - ? may reach the men in a few hours, and i j - "i may be days before the Hill Farm mine ,i : h broken into. Hope has given way tej despaff. It is now seven day? since the . disaster, and few if any, expect to fincj; the men alive. The miners1 families are In destitute circumstances, and appeals' - r, or aid have been sent out. . r ' TREPARED FOR ANY EMEROENCT. . "Dudeson is very particular about hia dress. Why, what do you suppose he'.'... j did when our ship ran into tho iceberg V . 'Put on a life-preserver?" "No. His skates l" 1 I 7. ' I h -' V v .