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0 V - .(.V 1 w FUHUHEU BY. liOANOKE PUBLIgmKo'Co. "FOR GOD, TOM COUNTRY AND FOIt TRUTH." C. V. Acsbon, Business Manager.. VOL. II. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FEIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1890. NO. 15. ..,, n.:,. . I ... -rp-...i ...hi I . j . "' ' V ' . fx J " : . THE NEW .' -'ty. IT. Walker was mistaken for a deer and 'killed near Eugene, Oregon- Moses Moore, of Arizona, haagoneto New York to fee treated for hydrophobia, caused by the bite of a skunk. --Rockwell & Co,s tannery at North Claren don, Pa, -was horned. Loss$lOO,(K.r-Maiiie' has a population of 633,4.4. . Vermont's popu lation is 332,000, which is 23(1 teas than int880, Joseph A. Jargent, aged seventy-five, ond liin four-year-old son were killed near Orange , Aj'ass., by a train. Samael H. Beard, alaw. Vr, sixty years old, of Lcesburg. O., threw himself in front of a train at that place and was killed. His mind was unsettled. The first annual convention of letter carriers of the .United States met in Boston, one hundred delegates, representing sixty branches of the " organization, attending. Judge Horton, of Chicago; "has issued an injunction restraining the city authorities from interfering with the el.'ing of pools on the West Side race track. -7- Albert Beaumont, chief advertising agent 'of the Chicago Opera House, has been arrested on the charge of defrauding the proprietor. -rThe Westinghouse Company of Pittsburg Tefused to concede to the striking machinists, nd 2,500" of its men are now out. The Ohio i'armers' convention refused to place a terh ' jperance' plank in its platform or to make any expression on the tariff issue. Hume Clay, t)f .Winchester, Ky., charged, with forgery, it still missing. His liabilities will amount to - one 'hundred, thousand dnllars. Professor Alphonse Ffevre, an eminent Swiss geologist, ... ty'ed at Ottawa, Ontario.- Congressman John A1. Buchanan, of the Ninth Virginia district, was rvominated for Congress. A young man with.letters in his pocket addressed to W. C Yorlng, killed himself at Roanoke, Va. "f At a dance in tilasco, N. Y., an Italian was Itnurdercd, and another fafnlly wonnded. The rchooner Fannie L. Jones and the Two fannies sunk in Lake Erie. Both crews, with "'the exception o"f CaptE. C. Cummings, of the Fannie L. Jones, were saved. A man named Oxenham, of Wyotrrd u&.-GnCJ' wna tarred and feathered, J6r taking advantage of an irabe-' die woman. Mrs. Louisa Wilbarn, aged thirty-one years, who had been picking ber ries, was killed on the railroad track oear ficranton, Pa. A cloudburst, accompanied lay a. -violent electric- storm, played havoc at Baptd City, S. D., Sanford Clark being killed fcy lightning. A tavern at Heckert's camp, "near Dead wood, S. D.,was blown up by drunken -tramps. : The flint glass factories in' the West resumed. Henry Collins, aged nine teen, of Newark, N. J., attempted suicidt ipon discovering that his sweetheart was hit half-sister. Judge Jackson, of Cincinnati, dismissed the action of the Interstate Com. mcrce Commission against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for selling- round-trip tickets to theatrical companies without post ing the rates. "-In a collision between a pas eenger train and a freight, train on the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad William John ston, and J. C. Kennedy, postal clerks, were injured. George Mctter, a prominennt Re publican of Kanawha county, W. Ya., was shot and "seriously wounded while returning home from a primary; election. The work of counting the population of the United States will be finished within ten days. -The Anti-lottery, bill has been favorably re ported to the Senate. By the bursting of a waterspout over the Rockies the cabin of W. J. King and wife, at Boulder, Coi., wns swept away, and both drowned. E. P. G. Hall, representing himself as a contractor for the Nicaraugua Canal, traveling in the West for his health,, is wanted in Denver for passing forged drafts' on New York banks for nearly $5,000. --WiUiam Beaver, colored, aged twenty year) was lynched at Warren, Ark, for an attempted assault upon a young woman. News was received of the death of Warren J.Harris and Frank Gates, missionaries, at Sierra Leone, Africa, of fever, July 9.- E. W. B. Canning, the widely known educator and writer of prose and poetry, died suddenly' at Stockbridge, Mass., aged seventy-five. The Pesident has approved the Original. Package bill. Tin Senate has passed Sena, tor Plumb's concurrent resolution providing for the transfer, with Mrs. Grant's consent, to the remains of General Grant from New York to Arlington Cemetery. In Anderson, Ind., during a quarrel John Davis was killed and his adversary," James Bernfiel, fatally wound ed. It is estimated that there will be thirty thousaud men in line when Labor Day iscele brated in Chicngo on the first Monday in Sep tember. Seventeen families were rendered homeless by afire in Chicaso. -The garment cutters' convention in Rechester, ; N. . Yv adopted resolutions denouncing prison con tract work. There were 179 business fail ures i'i the United States and twenty-nine in . Canada the -past' week. George Westing house, Jr., says that the proper apparatus was not used in the electrical execution, which ac counts for the bungling in killing Kemmler. The Fr ers' Alliance uf Virginia has taken steps to establish n seaboard exchange Jo Norfolk. The Anti-Lottery LeagncCon vention of Loulainna-' hns issued ali address to the people and a memorial to the President and Congress, setting forth the evils of the lot tery concern and the dangerous power it wields. ...,(, KILLED IN BED BY A SNAKE. An AIbnu FirmfWki lu Find Ills Wife and Child Dead. Jasper Keith, a farmer, living in Winston county, Ala., awoke and found his wife and 8-nonths-old bube dad in bed by his side Their bodies were badly swollen, and coiled inone cornerofthe bed wasa inwonsin suake, vhose bite ia an tidal as thatof therat.tlesnake. During the nicht trie snake had crawled into the bed and had bitten Mrs. Keith and the child. Keith was so overcome with frrief and horror that lie f !l prostrate across the dead bodies of his iff and babe. This ni i-w"i the snake and it i truck at Keith, but it I"! caught in the sleeves of his jitfThtshirt ami ie eeuped the i',h stilts. JWluins; l-.s f'enJ, Keith catiuht ihp Kiink in his band nn.i l-m led it to t.lie t:,r 5. lore it tT striU- M ON THE LOTTERY. Earnest Appeal lj the Baton Eonge Convention. XAtnlslana'a Straggle Against the Great Gambling Corporation The Aid of ' the Hatlon InToked. ' ; The AnU-Lottery League Convention has adopted an address to the people of the United States, and a memorial to the President and Congress. The address says: -I Your fellew-citizens of the State of Lousiana, opposed to lottery gambling anil lottery char ters, assembled in convention at Baton Rouge, make to you this appeal for aid In the strug- fie they are engaged ia with a powerful gam ling corporation, which sits here among us, like a giant octopus, and stretches its arrets to the remotest hamlet in the land. For your sympathy they ask not, because that they have, this well they know by the unanimous voice of the free press of the country, which, untouched and untouchable by lottery influ ence, .has denounced, in no uncertain tones, the infamy we are combating . HISTORY OF TUB 10TTBBY. We desire briefly to state to you the facta, In 186Sthe carpet-bag Legislature of Louisiana, at the instigation of a syndicate of gamblers, formedin New York in 1863, composed of John A. Morris, Ben C. Wood, C. II. Murray and others, chartered the Louisiana Lottery Com pany with a capital of $1,000,000, giving it a monopoly of drawing lotteries in the state for 23y ears. This grant was obtained by bribery and corrupt means. At that timethe public regarded it with horror, and the men connected with it were pursued with publio and private condemnation and disgrace. For 10 years it maintained itself against constant legislative assault by similar corrupt means. In 1879 the legislature repealed this charter, a result accomplished by a majority of only two votes in the senate. This repeal was prac tically nullified by an injunction issued by Edward C, Billings, United States district judge for Louisiana, who held in thevery teeth of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States rendered in the similar case of Boyd vs. Alabama, that an immoral bargain such as this character, was a sacred contract protected by the constitution of the United States and binding upon the polioe power of a sovereign state. . The same legislature that repealed this char ter called a constitutional convention.. This convention was. attacked by the lottery people with money, with Judge Billings' decision, with promises to give up its monopoly to re tire from politics, and to allow a provision to be inserted in the constitution prohibiting all lotteries after January 1, 1895, and they wore given a new lease of life. . its Growth eiwE 189. Mark the result! They have practically en joyed their renounced monopoly by prevent ing very legislature elected since 18S0 from granting additional charters. Tho market value of their stock has risen from $35 per. snare in isytoi,zuuper share in 1S9U, so that now it is more than double that of the whole banking capital of the state. They have built op the original capital which was never sub scribed, and have accumulated an enormous surplus of unknown amount, while declaring dividends of 80 to 100 per cent, per annum, ana that, too, out of only one-half of the net earn ings; as the other half belongs to the lessees, Howard and Mprris; Definite information as to their list of stockholders, officers, profits and business affairs cannot beobtained, as they are kept studiously concealed from the public The scheme of their drawings hns increased from a monthly capital prile of $30,000 to a month capital prize of $300,000 ao4 a semi-annual prize of $tXX),000. Tho aggregate of the schemes of the monthly and semi-annual draw ings is the fabolons sum of $28,000,000 per an num, and the aggregate of their daily drawings is oyer$20,000,()00 more. They recei ve annually a million and a-quarter from the written poli cies sold on the numbers of the daily drawing, a part from the sale of the regular-printed tickets. They receive annually about $22,000, 000 from their monthly and semi-annual draw ings. CHANCES OF THE PLAYERS. The schemes of the last drawings are so ar ranged that they can sell 75 per cent, of their tickets, pay 10 per cent, for selling them, lose all the prizes provided for in the schemes, pay $1,000,000 for expenses and still make $3,000, 000 per annum. We make no idle assertion when we denounce these things as fraudulent. Even from a lottery standpoint this company offers to distribute less than 53 per cent, in prises. No authorized lottery on earth outside of Mexico is allowed to distribute less than 70 per cent -,' The chance, to win a prize of any sort in one of these drawings is about 1 in 30, whereas, if it were nu honest lottery it would be a least 1 to 10. These were the reason which induced two Postmasters-General of the United States to exclude it from the mails as a fraud ulent lottery. What is known as the daily drawing takes place every day except Sun day 313 per annum. The scheme is based on the tenary combination of the natural number from 1 to 78, and on some days lrom 1 to 75, giving in one case 78,076 and in the other 67, 525 different combinations of three numbers each. ;;:" ; r1;.; -. , The prizes paid are outof all honest propor tion to the cost of tickets or the chances of win ning. For instance.for a dollar ticket the chance of winning a prize of 85 cents is one in three; winning a prize of $1.75 one in 19, and of win ning a prize of $4.25 is one in 1,237. In addi tion to those printed tickets written policies or bets on the numbers of the daily drawings are taken at the fancy of the better, with percent age of from 22 to 41 per cent in favor of the lottery, y. v ' THE rO'AICY SHOPS. There are more than a hundred policy shops in the City of New Orleans where such tickets are written. They are placed at points where they waylay the wage-earner in his progress to and from his work. From, the best infor mation we can get the receipts of these shops average about $30 per diem. They swarm daily with slatternly women, barefooted chil dren. Moused workingmen, youthful clerks and household servants sent to market or on some purchasing errand. None but the poor and ignorant enter these direful doors. Some of thee shops keep "dream-books" and other stimulants to aid the superstitious in selecting lucky numbers. By daily repitition of play thousands of poor wretches become afflicted with the "lottery craze," and to gratify this, theft and embezzlement, enter innumerable households. We have the authority of the lottery that 93 per cent, of this enormous revenue of $22,000,000 a revenue greater than that of any live average States in the Union cornea from the people of this country, outside of the State of Louisiana, because its advo cate have the effrontery to use this fact as an argument for its recharter by the people of the State of Louisiana. Through the purchase of stock by its stock holders and friends it has obtained control of a large portion of the organized capital of the State, ljy the force and flitter of its money power it has warped the judgement and con. Ncit'Oi-e of many good people. It has caprared three-fourths of the i.oi.isi;;:!ii pretw, either Ity control of the capital invented, or by jjttr iKts. or ivy proprietorship.-: lis r ! iiitous business ia blazoned by advert i of winnings 'all. over the country t, i -. i i t-sas tirumla.tetl ft gambling traat in tens of thousands of ignorant and credulous persons from whom it monthly receives its enormous ilbgotten gains. Being itself ex cluded from the mails as a fraudulent lottery, it skulks under the individual name of its president the name of a national bank chartered by the National Government. It is estimated that one-third of the whole local mail matter that passes through the New Orleans postoflice is lottery mail, and that $30,000 per . diem in postal notea-and money orders are paid to its stalking-horse bank. ITS LATEST DEMAND. The temptation to hold oh to this power and to continue to amass this wealth has induced these lottery people to violate all their pro mises and pledges made to the framers of the constitution, and in pursuance of this broken faith they have precipitated tho present con flict by agitating for a renewal of the charter. Attempt has been made' to submit a constitu tional amendment to be voted on by the people in 1892, giving to John A. Morris, a member of the original gambling syndicate of I860, one of the original promoters of the Louisiana Lottery Company, and now its lessee and largest stockholder, and his un named associates, the exclusive privilege of drawing lotteries in Louisiana for 25 years from January, 1894, in consideration of the poTr.icnt to the State of $1,250,000 per annum. The statement of the proposition demon itrates the enormity of the crime involved in it .John A. Morris and his associates, who neither toil nor spin, who take but pay no honest wage, make no product, till no field, sow po crop, reap no harvest, whosdd nothing to the sum of human wealth or happiness, are to be authorized by a sovereign State for a paltry participation in the plunder to convert her territory tor a generation into a gambling snare for the unwary of this whole country and filch from them by fraudulent lottery schemes untold millions. . WHAT THE CONVENTION ASKS. This vast money power must be confronted, concludes the address. , The people of Louisi ana will do their part, but alone they cannot hope towin. Thepeopleof every State in the Union are interested in this conflict, and must contribute their aid. The convention recom mends the immediate adoption of an amend ment to the federal constitution prohibiting any State from chartering or licensing any lottery or gift prize, and abolishing those already established, and giving the Congress power to enforce the prohibition by appro priate legislation. Until such an amendment can be adopted Congress is asked to speedily enact the bill recommended by the President and the Postmaster-General to exclude lottery business and advertisements from the mails and express companies. DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. 1 An epidemio of diphtheria is reported at Dormansville, New York. Willi E and Freddie Preston, aged, respec tively, 9 od 10 years, brothers, and pupils of Girard College, -were drowned while bathing in the Wissahickon at Amber, Penna. A MINK explosion in Carbond, Washington, canned by a miner exposing a naked lamp, re sulted in the death of Henry J. Jones and T. B. Morgan. Another man was seriously in jured.' One-half the business portion and forty residences of What Cheer, Iowa.were destroyed by fire. The total loss is estimated at $100,000. The fire is supposed to be the work of an in cendiary. By THE explosion of chemicals in the office of the Denver Firebrick and Chemical Sup ply, in Denver, Colorado, a man in the build ing named Bosworth was killed and several passers-by injured. .- Mrs. James A. RoDlGAN.one of the people injured in the recent collision between the steamers Louise and Virginia, on the Patapsco river, died ather homein Baltimore. A daugh ter of Mrs. Bodigan was killed in thecollision. ' One thousand head of cattle are said to have died in Butlerand Elk counties, Kansas, from Texas fever, and the disease is spreading. It is claimed that 50,000 cattle, recently imported and represented to be from Arizona, really came from Texas. Dean and Field Dickerson, aged 11 and 8 years respectfully, sons of Freeman B. Dick erson, a well-known publisher of Detroit, were drowned while in swimming, at Star Island, St. Clair Flats. The elder lost his life while attempting to rescue his brother. . Captain Charles Rawley, of the schooner Jos. P. Macheca, of New Orleans,, loading off Livingston. Guatemala, while on the way in a sailboatto the schooner, with the Cam mandant, Judge of the post and two un known persons, with two Carib boatmen.were capsized during a squall, andall weredrowned except the two boatmen. Captain Kawley'a body was alone recovered. As A freight train on the Baltimore and Qhio was leaving Grafton, West Virginia, the middle-Dfthe train left the track and struck . i j . . . . .t- - i . i . . it sev4 p leaded freight cars that were on it at the tiapr The engine and several cars passed over (safely. A track hand, Merriman, who was stealing a ride between two of the wrecked caraj Escaped with a broken leg. x Among the :cars that went down was a huge tank full of crude oil, the consents of which were spilled in the river. The oil caught fire and burned for an hour' i condition"f cotton. What the Aagait Report of the Depart . mcnt of Agriculture Shows. The August cottons return of the Depart ment of Agriculture show slight advance in condition in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Missis sippi and Louisiana, a fall of one point in Georgia and Florida, of two in Alabama, four in Arkansas and seven in Texas. The general average is 89.5. It was 91.4 last month. Con dition is therefore still relatively high. The improvement in the Miississippi river bot toms is from rapid growth of late plantings of submerged areas. A fair stand, vigorous growth and abundant fruiting is generally reported. There are fre quent references to droughts, in some in stances of several weeks' duration, followed by sufficient rainfall, in some cases by exces sive rains. Yet there has been no general drought, and local estimates indicate small reductions of condition. One section of a country is reported dry, while another is too wet. Storms appear to hayu been quite local over portions of the cotton belt Sandy soils have been benefitted by rains which have damaged bottoms and clay uplands, and the drought, which has scarcely wilted the plants in heavy soils, has injured tho crop in light lands. There are fre'quent reports of superior promise, the bent for several years, in one county in Georgia the beat for thirty years. The only forms of injury reported are a ten dency to drop leaves and fruit after sudden changes from dry to wet weather, and an occa sional attack of rust. The caterpillar is not very prevalent, and has done little damage. The boll worm is somewhat more formidable in the Southwest. ;. ; The averagei of condition"! as follows: Virginia, 94- Jtorth Carolina, MB; South Car olina, 5j Ueorgia, 94; Florida,:: IXte Alabama, ;i.s; .uifwMsipiri yt i.h;im , Ii v. i ftFTY-FIRST CONGRESS, Fen&to Session. 177Tn Day. The conference report 6'n fha fortification bill was taken up- and agreed to. The conference report on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was then taken up and discussed until 4 o'clock, when a rote was taken. The report was agreed to. A further conference was ordered on the irrigation items, which had been postponed, and Messrs. Alli son, Hale and Gorman were reappointed con ferees on the part of the Senate. The tariff bill was then taken up, the pending paragraph being as to hoop, band, scroll or other iron or steel, to which Mr. Butler had offered an amendment providing that such hoops used for bailing cotton shall be taxed at the rate of So per cent ad valorom (the present rate). Messrs. Butler and Aldrich discussed this question at some length, and finally the bill was -laid aside without action. The Senate then adjourned. . i . 178tii Day. The Senate met at 10 A. M., but a roll-call showed that there, were in the chamber twelve Senators less than a quorum. The sergeant-at-arma was directed to request the attendance of absentees, and by 10.20 the presence of a quorum was secured and busi ness was proceeded with. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution to limit debate, which was referred to the committee on rules. The tariff bill was then taken up, the question being on Mr. Butler's amendment to paragraph 134, page 27, to reduce the duty on cotton-ties to 3a per cent, ad valorem; rejected. Mr. Plumb moved to reduce to 2-10 cent additional duty on hoops when cut into lengths for baling pur poses to 1-10 eent. As there was no quorum present, Mr. Aldrich moved an adjournment, and the Senate at 3 P. M. adjourned. 179tii DaY. The Senate met at 10 A. M., but a call of the roll disclosed the fact thai there were only 27 Senators present J6 less than a quorum. The sergeant-at-arms was directed to request the attendance of Senators, and by 10.20, a quorum having been obtained, business was proceeded with. The tariff bill was taken np, the pending question being on Mr. Plumb's amendment, to Paragraph 134, Page 27, to reduce the additional duty on iron, or steel hoops, cut to lengths for baling pur-' poses, from -10 to 1-10 cent per pound. The amendment was rejected. The tin-plate para graph was reached, and Mr. Vest moved to reduce the duty from the proposed rate of two and two-tenths cents per pound to one cent After some discussion the Senate adjourned. .. f 180th DAY.-rThe Senate got to business without the proceedings usually necessary to compel the attendance of a quorum. - Mr. Hale reported back the House bill to extend the census law so as to require information to be obtained from unincorporated expresscom panies. ; After a short .discussion the bill was passed without an amendment Mr. Edmunds resented the motion for a change of the rules y limiting debate on the tariff bill: laid on the table and ordered printed. The Tariff bill was then taken up, the pending question being on Mr. Vest's amendment offered yes terday reducing the duty on tinplate from 22-10 cents a pound to 1 cent (the prcsentrate.) Addresses were made by Messrs. Morgan, Daniel, Moody, Vanee and Gray. Withont concluding his remarks, Mr. Gray yielded the floor at 6 P. M., and the Senate, after a brie' executive session, adjourned. 1818T Da Y. In the Senate this morning the House amendments to the Senate bills to adopt regulations to prevent collisions at sea and to amend the act relative to shipping commissioners were presented, nnd - were, on motion of Mr. Fry, concurred in. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of execu tive business, and at 11.10 the doors were re opened. The tariff bill was then taken. np, the pending question being on Mr. Vest's amendment After some discussion the tariff bill was laid aside .informally and the House bill making appropriations for additional clerical force in the Pension Office was taken from the calendar ami passed. Ilonse Sesslont. lSfim Day. The House resumed the con sideration of the general deficiency bill, and after an unsuccessful attempt to recommit it the bill wns passed. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, from the Committee on Kules, reported abso lution providing that after the passage of this resolution it shall beiu order, alter two hours' debate, to move that the House non-concur in all tho .Senate amendments to the Indian ap propriation and to ask a committee of confer ence. Mr. Enloe, of Tennessee, raised the question of consideration in the interest, he said, of the private calendar. After some further uparring the House decided to con sider Mr. Cannon's resolution, and the pre vious question having been ordered upon it the remainder of the session was spent in de bating it. At last the question was taken on the adoption of the resolution, but no quorum voted, and at five o'clock the House took a recess until eight Nothing was done at the evening session. : v; : .: ' 187th Da y. Mr. Enloe asked as a question of privilege whether the Speaker the right to instruct the doorkeeper to prevent members from going out during a call of the House. Tho question w'as referred to the judiciary committee. The House then pro ceeded under the special order to the consid eration of the Senate amendments to the In dian appropriation bill, and after several speeches, the vote was taken upon the motion made by Mr.' Perkins to non-concur in the Senate amendments. This was agreed to yeas 159, nays 2. The House then adjourried. 188th DAY. The House proceeded to the consideration of the conference report oi the sundry civil appropriation bill. After a brief debate (in the course of which Mr. Dockery, of Missouri, predicted a deficiencyof between $20,000,000 and $28,000,000 ii the revenues of the govcrnnicntduringthe current fiscal year) the conference report was agreed to, and a further conference ordered upon the amend ments still in dispute. . The floor was then accorded to the committee on the District of Columbia, and the bill (known as the Atkin son bill) conferring certain privileges on the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company was taken up. The House adjourned, how ever, without accomplishing anything. ,y." v r 189th Day. The House was principally occupied in trying to maintain a quorum. On motion of Mr. Dingley the Senate bill was pascd requiring vewsels in collision at sea to stand by each other in order to prevent loss of life. It further provides that the com mander of each vessel shall make known to the other its name. It was amended in cer tain particulars and a conference with the Senate was ordered. On motion of Mr.,JJing ley, the Senate bill was passed providing that when seamen art- shipped by American ves sels in tho coastwise trade, or tho trade with Mexico, the West Indies and British North America, a written agreement shall be made, and that both seamen and vessels shall be subject to the laws regulating the mutual obligations of each in other cases. 190th Day. But little was accomplished in the House to-dny. - Several members made attempts to get unanimous consent for the consiueration of various bills, but someone always objected."; Finally Mr. Brewer, of Michigan, presented the conference report on the fortification bill, and after some discussion it was agreed to. - The Speaker laid before the House the Hcnate' bill for the relief of Nat McKay and the executors of Donald McKay, who seek compensation for work done upon the monitors. Mr. Spi inr, of Illinois, made the point of erdet that the bill must be eon aiaVred in comilaittee of the wholav-The Sneaker overriilcJie int of r !! n I lr. tir4n .r a p pt alwi-Oii i tui n i p i 1 1 i-iui ; . ; .- l--,-ir tin- - i Vf.!-. I !. I ; -' -i 21 ,. n a bare quorum, whlcn fllsapprnrcd when the vote recurred on sustaining the decision of the Speaker. The House then adjourned. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Pri.vck Beatrice is writing a book on lace, to be illustrated by herself. The Sultan of Turkey takes forty minutes to say his prayers in the morning. Sir Noel Paton, "the Queen's Limner in Scotland," is recovering from a serious illness. Mrs. Gladstone always attends meetings of Parliament when cither her husband or son Herbert is to speak. General F. E. Spinner, ex-Treasurer of the United States, is steadily sinking. He is now almost entirely blind. . Colonel Ikgersoix, it is said, believes that when he lives through February he ia safe for the rest of the year. . Mrs. Ormiston Chant says that she com plied with the demands of 1307 autograph seekers while she was in this country and never once lost her temper. William Groesbeck, the man who de fended President Andrew; Johnson in his impeachment trial, is at present living quietly near Saratoga. ' George M. Pullman, the millionaire pal ace car manufacturer, is said to work ten hours each day looking after his enormous business interests. The Duke of Portland has interfered to prevent the abuse of road horses that are allowed over his private roads, and has set down autocratically on Sunday traffic. W. S. Williams, of Cherokee county. Ala bama, is the father of twenty-eight children, the eldest of whom is forty-nine years old, the youngest six. Mr. Williams is seventy yean 'of age. . - . . .. Governor Francis, of Missouri, is still a young man. He is of medium height, with a portly figure, and he has a blonde mustache, light hair and blue eyes. His voice is well modulated and pleasant. Senator, Cockrell, of Missouri, is do scribed as a "tall, thin, sharp-faced, shrill voiced Senator, noted as the most excitabl man in the Senate and a good t ype of the old fashioned controversialist" The Earl and Countess of Pembroke hav had, "As You Like It" played in the quad, rangle of Wilton House, Salisbury, where it is said, !A Midsummer Nights Dream" was once played in Shakespeare's time. CoLOSEL Tom Russell Marsham., who has just been elected commandant of the Vif ginia Military Institute, is thirty-eight yean old, and graduated from that. institute in 1880, He is colonel of the first Virginia Cavalry. Stephen B. Elkins' mountain home in West Virginia is builton apeak from which a view of thirty miles may be had. The house is more like a baronial castle than a residence. The surrounding mountains are full of trout streams and game forests. Mrs. Winifred Sweet, of San Franciseo. is one of the most noted newspaper owners ol the West Her most important feat was t visit the leper islands of Moloki, in the II awa Han group, where no woman, except a few Sisters of Mercy, had ever set foot. TnE Duchess of Sutherland, the lady who accompanied the Duke and his friends on a yachting expedition in Florida waters before her marriage occupied for the first time Friday night a seat in the peeresses gallery in the House of Lords and was much observed. Mademoiselle Rose Maury, who illus-' trates for five of tho best Parisian journals, is the daughter of a station master in France, and a protege of Mr. Durny, Minister of Pub lio Instruction, who happened to see her sketching in the station when she was 7 years Old. s :;,:. Walter Webb, the second Tice-president of the New York Central Road, is a man of medium height and apparently slight figure, though in reality he is one of the most accom plished athletes in the city, i lie is especially noted as a light-weight boxer, Mr. Webb is about 35 years old. CABLE SPARKS. The Aletagaras are in a state of revolt at Cundahar, India. . One hundred and seventy-five deaths from cholera are reported iu Mecca. At tiie tenth international Medical Con gress in session in Berlin, five hundred Amer ican physicians are present. The total expenditures of the Panama Canal Company thus far amount to 1,813,000, 000 francs, while the assets are 16,000,000. Emperor William, of Germany, has been asked to espouse the cause of cremation by the cremation conference in Session at Paris. Emperor William of Germany is the guest of his grandmother, Queen Victoria of England, at the latter 's palace, Osborne House, on the isle of Wight. Sir James Ferguson, British under for eign secretary, stated in the House of Com mons that the British government could not Interfere with the Czar's treatment of He brews. ! ' The Appeal Court of France has sustained the sentence of six months' imprisonment imposed on M. Secretan for his question able operations in connection with the copper syndicate There was another explosion of fire-damp in the coal pit at St Etienne, France, where a great number of miners were killed recently, and in the second accident twelve men were seriously injured. EYRAUS, the murderer of the notary Gonffe, attempted to strangle himself in his cell in Paris with a rope made from strips of his shirt, but was saved by a warden, who was attracted by moans from Eyraud. ' France has sent an ultimatum to Daho mey demanding the cession of Kotonou and Whydah, and if the demand is rejected an ex pedition, to be composed chiefly of Senegaless and Arabs, will start for Aboraey in October. The people of Buenos Ayres are delighted at the downfall of President Celman, of th Argentine Republic, who, according to tht speech of General Roca, the leader of the op. position tj him, delivered in the Chamber ol Deputies, was opposed by every honest man in the country. While crossinc the street in Portsmouth. England, to enter the Admiralty House, Em pcror William of Germany, narrowly escapee from being knocked down by the horses at tached to an English admiral's carriage, which were approaching the Admiralty House. Tht Emperor recaped by jumping nimbly aside. In the House of Commons P. O'Briei stated that a poem by the poet Swinburne ie the Fortnightly Review was grossly caleu lated to incite the murder of the Crarf foi which production Mr. O'Brien asked it tht British government would, Wosccute the poet The Speaker of the House aUl that ParliaJ L ment could not control the poems of Swiijl wurue. - LAPT OrANBT, one of the aeknowledif bcautie of London and the future Duchef Rutland, is described by areeent London ir writer at "this tall and willowy-sifaaped fig with the 'head of a Greek "terra-cot ta, ..- , of a startied fawn, and tha -complexion tea-rose,-' who moves forward with a toi. di swain on: her well-cut Hps and a hang: TOR- Favorable Crop Reports from Thro: . oat the South and West Grain In the K'trlhwtit Not Quito Vp ( to the Mark Business Fatlarri In Site , United St tea and Canada. Special telegrams to Bradstrcet'i corrobo rate late favorable crop reports from the Soutl and Southwest and the rather unfavorable , grain reports from the West and Northwest Southern merchauta at interior distributing points are ordering with considerable freedom, owing to the se of the yields of cotton, ric and other product. In California wheat is threshing out bettei than was expected and it is predicted, that counting 7,900,000 bushels of wheat carried over, the State will have 33,000,00 bushel for export this cereal year. In Nebrsski there has been a little improvement in th crop situation, but rain is still much needed The wheat markets mave been more bullish on crop damage reports and prices are np t cents. IndianaeornhasbecuHkewiseafiV'cte and gains 38 cents per bushel; and oats, out ot sympathy, are 3 cents higher. Exports oc wheat, both coasts (and flour as wheat) equat 2,166V63 bushels this week, against 2,273.Jv? bushels last week, and against 2,056,000 busheli in the like week of August 18Si. ' A feature of the week has been the buoyancy of leather. Boot and shoe manufacturer have not thus far been able to secure a corns ponding advance, though it is unlikely thai additional orders will be taken ut former prices. Hides, too, are strong. , Cattle and hogs continue to come forward, at the West the former being- 50 per cent higher than lastweek. In hog product there has been an active demand and firm prices Grocery and hardware staples have shown a mederate degree of activity. Mercantile col lections are generally slov,except at the South, where little complaint is heard. Dry goods are in increased demand. Cotton goods prices are affected by the high cost of raw material.and very firm. Print cloths and brown and bleached goods tend upward. Some improvement is noted in the demand for men's wear woolens. Raw wools continue; weak, although rather more business has been done in leading seaboard markets. Worsted, and knit goods manufacturers are taking fait quantities, but cassimere mills are licht ta kerv. Texas wool has been sold at conctv'' - sJ 4alc. : : Rio coffee is fa higher on good dennus..' sn light stocks.1 Speculation is irrcguir.r r.r, prices show little change, Refined trv : ? l-16c lower. " Business failures reported to Jinn!.' numbered 151 in the United States this against 131 lastweek, and 173 thi week i year. Canada had 25 this wcekT turning : last week. The total number ot fai litres jn the United States, January 1, to date, is against 7032 ia like portion of 1 hf:, WORK ASD WORKi; A CALL has been issued for a State Cmive -;. Hon of the Union Labor party of Wiscoiii to be held in Milwaukee on September Sib. A NUMBER of leading Canadian and Amer ican lumbermen met at X-lrta'vn, Ontario, and discussed the depression in the ItrhLii'fttk-. The night switchmen in the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Daytou Railroad yards at Limn, O.iio, struck because the company took, off ono of the engines. The Cloak Pontmctors' Association inlsow: York have decided tocut loose from theCloaki Operators' Association, and hereafter jnako'. no distinctioirjjetwecn union and non-union men. ' t TnEpuddlers at the Reading (Pa.) Roilinif Mill, who struck a week ago because r.f the firm's refusal to nigti the Amalgamated Asso ciation scale, resumed work on their employ ers terms. The biennial tconvention of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joino-s"wa!) held in Chicago. ''There were in attendance 175 delegates, rep. escnting a xuembtetKhip of 77,000 carpenters. V 1 The strike at the rolling mill of the Cat.v wnqua Manufacturing Company, begun, fe e weeks ago, has ended, the men acceptitit; the sompany's proposition to pay the Philadel phia scale of wages. The advance of 30 per cent on all gar ments demanded by the New York cloak tuakcrs is generally beingcompromisod by tho manufactures for a general advance of 25 per sent The leaders of the union do not antici pate any serious trouble. The International Brotherhood of Ma ehinery Molders began their triennial session at Indianapolis, Indiana. One of ti chief topics of discussion was the propriety of aban doning the system of piece work. The fifth annual convention of the Mer chant Tailors' National Exchange was held in Boston. The annual address of the presi dent, James S. Bnrbank, contained references to the Tariff bill and to the smuggling of clothing into this country. ' The strike of the cigar makers nt Bine ham ton, New York, is now in its soventn week, and the prospects of settlement ore re mote. Arrests of strikers for disorderly con duct have been made, and counter-arrests of men who took the stri kers places have been made. A TELEGRAM front Mt. Carmel, Pa., reports nnusual activity in that sectionin opening np new coal works. A contract has just been awarded for the erection of a 'mammoth breaker on Big Mountain. Another structure, with a daily capacity of 1500, is to be com pleted by the Midvalley Coal Company by the first of next year. The new opcraiioua will employ 1500 hands. . BLAST FUKNAUE EXPLOSION. ' TUrc Employees Killed and Snornl In Jnrel by rfacaplng Molina ';eil. A, terrifio explwion with fatal irsulis oc curred at the Illinois Steel Works n, (-r J .diet. Blast furnace No, 2, sprung a Icr.k, nnd t molten metal ran out anddown into generating steam which caused f! -" The metal was blown in all di- off the top. of tha furnace building. j?" John Novak andO1 were blown outof m have not yet been ' bo horribly bony hour. Tim-M" head and mplovir- 'a