Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1890 — Page 6

gkpttMSnm, Gxo. E. Marshall, Publisher. EENSSELAER. . INDIANA

A Minnesota paper has been calculating what dividends the English syndicate who have bought out the Minneapolis flour mills, will draw from their productions per day. Leaving aside all speculative estimates, the figures of the actual total capacity of the eight mills which have passed under British control are 38,575 barrels of flour per day. This means the control of the food of millions and peace in America, no matter how the Anarchists of Europe may make a war. It is said the pension agents will “work” the census for all there is in it. A great deal of information will be got about the surviving Union soldiers, and, it is claimed, will put the pension agent on the track of many who might be induced to apply for tile benefits of the disability bill, or the age section of the Morril bill, or the special cases In which existing chronic disease might be urged as a result of service. There would certainly be “millions in It” if the agents could get names or 'addresses. But there’s the rub. In 1870 the Canadian government negotiated with the United States government for a reciprocity treaty on the basis of the cession for a term of years of the Canadian coast fisheries' to the Americans, the freo uae.of their canals, the free navigation of the St. Lawrence. the assimilation of customs and excise duties, etc. The question is being revived now that every one of the Canadian Provincial Governments that indorsed a resolution in favor of unrestricted reciprocity wilhtheUnited States have recently been sustained by the people. The Canadians think that reciprocity is a winning policy. Senator Stanford’s utopian scheme to lend money to farmers at 2 per cant might be widened a bit. He only wants the government to take as security unincumbered land. Wouldn’t it be a better idea to adopt the French Mont de Piete idea—lend money to anybody on an article of value, but limit the annual interest to a reasonable figure? A lot of national pawnshops on a largo scale would boa great and good thing for the impecunious. Tho gilt balls of Venice need not swing above the doors, and the attendants need not be of the ten tribes. Mortification aud humiliation would be reduced to minimum witli the goverment as one’s creditor, and industry would be stimulated by the knowledge that a 2-per-ocnt interest doesn’t necessarily forfeit the article “put up” as collateral. Congress proposes, says the New York World, to treat the results of the deliberations of tho Pan-American Congress with scant courtesy. It invited the American republics to send delegates to Washington. It appropriated $75,000 for the expenses of Congress. It authorized tho Socrtrtary of State to treat with these powers. JThe invitation was accepted Delegates came to Washington from seventeen republics. They deliberated seriously and industriously for several months, and embodied their conclusions on the important questions considered in elaborate reports. The representatives of Mexico and the Central and South American republico thought they were rcaiTv transacting international business, but the Ccxof the government which invited them hits apparently thrown their recommendations into a waatepaper basket without even doing them thb honor tb read them. If the work of municipal annex-' ation and absorption in this eoufitry wero as 'easy as it is in England, France or Germany, the United States would now have the second city in. the world in population. New York by the census just taken has over 1,600,000 inhabitants. Brooklyn lias 1,000,000 more, while the other towns ad- ■ 1 -I.— ' * joining the metropolis, including those in Kings, Queens, Richmond and lower Westchester counties, and the cities west of the Hudson and near New •York Bay, have almost another 1,000,000. The big collection of cities and villages in the Bri’ish metropolitan district called London have a little more than 4,000,000 Inhabitants, while rthe American metropolitan district, which is as compact, homogenous and as allied in interests And pi ratio us .as that on the other Bide of tae ;\t- - ilantic, has a population aggregatin'ft,600, 000.

Gratifying to All.

The high position attained and the uniwrealacwptanfo and approval of the pleasant liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, ae the most excellent laxative known, illustrate the value of the qualities on whioh Its sneeess Is based, and are abundantly gratifying to the California Fig Syrup Company.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Chicago has finally concluded to hold the fair on the lake front. An attempt was made on the 24th to burn the Grand Union Hotel, N. Y. Natural gas and oil have been found ip the westefxrpaTTsrMahoning"county, O. At a special election at Batavia, 0., local option was defeated by a majority of twen-ty-eight. Four men were killed in a battle between the Smith and Messer factions in Knox county. Ky. Seventeen men were wounded by the explosion of a cupola in Cassidy & Adler's foundry in New York. Tin mines of fabulous value have been found in San Bernardino county, Cal. An English syndicate has secured them. Two men were blown to atoms on the 24th by the explosion of the Laflin & Rand powder works at Mountain View, N. J. A strike on the railroads at Lexington, Ky.,. has caused the destruction of hun dreds of car loads of perishable freight. T. M. B. Cook, a widely known Republican politician of Jasper county, Miss., was assassinated, on the 25th, by political oppo nejits. The accident ~oh the lake at Red Wing. Minn., bj which more than a hundred lives were lost was vastly due to the overloading of the boat, John P. Bucbahan, the Democratic nominee for Governor in Tennessee, was a Confederate soldier and is a first cousin of President Buchanan. Captain i William Ellington, a famous Union scout, and his son W. E., were murdered in Arkansas a.few days ago. No particulars are at hand. Great excitement prevails. The American schooner William Rice has been burned at sea. The whole crew, consisting of sixteen persons, perished. The vessel was on a voyage from Cape Ann to Ireland.

John Harris, the largest man in Illinois, died Saturday night at his home near Tuscola. He was seventy years of age, and his weight for many years past has been between 600 and 700 pounds. The proposed boycott of Northern goods by the South in case the election bill becomes a law, is being seriously agitated. Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has written a letter favoring such proceedure, Talman, the Farmers’ Alliance candidate for Governor of South Carolina, refused to speak at Charleston the:24th, though pres, ent, declaring that he feared assassination. A guard accompanies him all the time. Minnesota and Nebraska Republicans held State conventions and nominated tickets on the ‘24th. The platform endorses the administration and all enacted and proposed measures of the party in power. A South Dakota Judge holds that the' Supreme Court “original package” decision does not only apply to that State, the enabling act for its admission having been passed subsequent to the interstate com-* merce law. A r iot was narrowly averted at Marion S. C., when a correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier denounced Captain Tillman, leader of the Alliance men, as a liar whilethe latter was addressing a political meeting. B. F. Spinney, of Colorado Springs, Col., was kidnapped by a Texan to whom he owed $2,000, and carried into the mountains and held for ransom. A brotherinslaw craised the money and followed Neither has returned and both are believed dead. North Dakota elevator men, impelled by a tax which proves onerous, will refuse to store the new wheat crop, and, as a consequence, the producers, having no place of storage, will be obliged to sell at the price offered by middlemen. The crop is “very large, and the farmers will suffer greatly from this action. . ■ j. The Brotherhood of Railway Firemen of Hartford passed resolutions favoring the passage of the bill pending in Congress requiring all railroads to use automatic brakes and couplings oh freight trains he resoluti ons also pledged the members of the brotherhood to do all In their power to prevent trainmen from working on. Sunday. B. S. Loventhalc& Co., of Nashville, have opened an original package liquor house at Russellville, Ky., a town which has local prohibition. Their men were arrested, but gave bond, and the outlook is that they can not be forced to close. The citizens held an indignation meeting, and passed a resolution asking Congressman Goodnight to vote for the bill counteracting the original package decision. syivania railroad struck a two-horse team and a driver at a crossing near Herr's Station, Pa. The driver and team were killed instantly. A gang of laborers who were constructing a sewer at the roadside became so frightened at the accident that they let go their h6ld on a large cast iron pipe. The pipe fell into the ditch and upon two men, killing one and fatally injuring the other. There is no sentiment in Savannah, Ga., as far as can be ascertained,, in favor of the scheme indorsed by Governor Gordon to boycott the business men or the North in the event of the passage of the Force bill. Savannah business men dre trying to arouse a sentiment among the business men of the North against the h&l. Their Board of Trade has passed resolutions with that end in view, and these resolutions as a circular are being (sent over the country. V The recent trial of several bfficials and employes of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, in Chicago, for violation of the provisions of the interstate-commerce act, demonstrated the weakness of the law and that railroad corporations, as such, could hot be reached under the penalty section of

the law. Attorney Ewing, who prosecuted | the case, has been in correspondence with Senator Cullom upon the subject, and has proposed a substitute for the section, intended to remedy the defects existing law. This substitute has been under consideration by the Shnate committee on interstate-commerce and was , favorably discussed. The committee has also under consideration the preposition of. Chairman Walker to. legalist, under the supervision of the Interstate Commission, the pooling of competitive interstate

! freight traffic, and Senator Gorman’s bill to require Canadian railroads desirous of engaging in traffic originating in or billed to the United States to first secure a license therefor from the commission, which license may be revoked or suspended on proof of failure to observe the provisions of the interstate act. All these propositions were favorable received, and would doubtless be reported to the Senate if there was a chance of securing action at this session of Congress. They may be reported at some future date anyhow-.-FOREIGN. Bismarck has been warned not to publish the letters he received from Emperor Frederick. Sjo great is the depreciation of Spanish paper money in Cuba, that gold is quoted at $2.43, while flour is selling at $12.25, gold, per barrel. ' -: Mr. Parnell has performed one of his amous disappearances, and nobody knows where he. is. „J3e_Js--not- expected to be heard from again before November. It is reported that the Princess Elizabeth, of Austria, will embark during August on a yachting tour, in the course of which she will visit the American coast. Dr. Parker, the eloquent but eccentric pulpit orator of London, announces that he has withdrawn from membership in the Peace Society on account of the refusal of the recent congress of the Society to open its sessions with prayer. News has jU3t been received confirming reports of the success of the Salvadorian forces beyond the frontier in Guatemalan territory. The San Salvador army hhs now gained six battles and has captured quantities of arms and ammunition. Many have been killed and wounded on both sides. The San Salvadorian forces are now pushing their way into the interior of Guatemala, and are meeting with success every step. Great enthusiasm prevails. The intention is to overthrow the govern? ment of President Barillas before coming to any agreement with Guatamala. San Salvador is determined to free herself from the yoke of Guatamala, and assure her own liberty and independence.

WASHINGTON.

Sneak thieves entered the cottages of Vice-President Morton and Attorney Bliss at Saratoga, on the 18th, and robbed them of SIO,OOO worth of jewelry. Congressman Walker, of Missouri, died at Washington on the *2oth. Fifteen delegates of the National glassblower's association convention presentee* to Chairman Morrill, of the Senate Finance Committee, through Lewis Arrington, president of the association, a request that duties laid by the House bill on glass bottles be retained. Wine and beer bottles, he said, are imported into this country and used in cities where glass factories stand idle, while the foreign goods go by in loads. Small bottles, one ounce and less, are being brought into this country and sold for less money than the home manufacturer pays for the labor which makes them. Republicans' at Washington announce that they will return to Indiana to register, that they may not be debarred from voting. Superintendent Porter said Wednesday that it would be some time before he would be ready to send out the checks for the payment of the enumerators in the State of Indiana. At present he is busily engaged examining the accounts and pay* ing off the enumerators in the large cities East, beginning with New York, and it will probably be at least a month before checks can t>e prepared and sent out for Indiana enumerators. .Congressman Hemphill, of South Carolina, who led the fight of the Democrats in the House against the Lodge erection Bin, said to a correspondent, Thursday afternoon : “So far from being opposed to the election bill, I honestly would like th Senate to pass it, and would like t<j see the bill become a law before the next congres* sional elections. The Farmers’ Alliance is playing such havoc with our party in my State that nothing short of the Lodge hill would rally the party and save us from an overwhelming defeat. I admit that was bitterly opposed to it, hut I now see in t tt»e only hope of my party against complete disintegration and political ruin.” Dr. Mary Walker, the eccentric Washington female, it has been discovered, broke her leg more than a year ago and is -a-eanfigmed gsls,ooo for her medical services during tho war has been introduced in Congress.

TWIN BABIES CRUSHED TO DEATH

Mrs. John O'Meara, the wife of a wellknown contractor, of St. Joseph, Mo., Wednesday morning, caused the death of her twin daughters, aged about three months. Mrs. O’Meara, who is a woman weighing 190 pounds, arose early, and taking the babies from their cradle placed them in bod beside herself. After playing with them a while asleep. On awakening she was borriflod to find both babies crushed anddead. The grief of the mother was terrible. Her ories attracted her husband, who was steeping in the next room, and he found her pressing the little ! children to her bosom and wailing piteously. Mrs. suddealy throwingjthe i baoies to the floor; sprang to her dressing- | case, and grasping. aa oWamental dagger plunged It into her bosom. She is now in j a critical condition. It seems that Mrs. j O’Meara, while asleep, rolled over on the sleeping babies and crushed them to death.

LOSS OF LIFE.

Several fatal accidents were reported on the 22d. No. 44 Front Street, Cincinnati, a tenement was burned at 11 o’clock at night. Four persona. «ps known to have lost their lives, several Jjrere injured and a number have not bean accounted for. A C. R. I. & P. passenger train plunged through a bridge near Limon, Col. Twelve or fifteen persona were injured. Seven persons were kUlod to * Dakota cyclone. Two were ttrie* near Ghent, Minn., by a cyclone. Two men were killed in a freight train collision at Antlgo, Wis. '"' t

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

An oil gusher has been struck at Monk* pelier. The Northern Prison is overcrowded with convicts. •• . . The Farmers’ Alliance will start a cosoperative store at Anderson. There is a scarcity of houses for residence purposes at Evansville. Indiana corn has greatly improved under the influences of the hot weather. E. V. Brookston was nominated fpr Congress at Terre Haute, on the 22d, by acclamation. • -f Deposits of bog iron ore, 65 per cent pure, have been found on the Farley farm, near Broad Ripple. Freeman Cooper, a prominent attorney of Kokomo, has disappeared, owing $17,000, a large part of which were trust funds. Henry Otten,Jnear Richmond, on Saturday evening, while harvesting oats, fell in front of his reaper and was fatally mangled. _ - The State base ball league, consisting of clubs at Anderson, Muncie, Peru, Kokomo' and Ft. Wayne, has collapsed for the season. J. N. Watts, of Pulaski county, has a son twelve yearseld weighing 334 pounds, and another of five years who tips the beam at 130 pounds. Excavators in an old vault at Ft. Wayne found three mail sacks from the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway that had been cut and rifled. Fifteen'hundred men are employed in the Pennsylvania railway shops at Fort Wayne, and on Saturday evening 218 of them were notified that their services were no longer needed. Ex-Lieutenant Governor R. S. Robertson and wife, of Fort Wayne, celebrated their silver wedding on Saturday evening, and it was a marked social event. Numerous congratulatory telegrams were received. John Settle, of Muncie, was sandbagged by a couple of strangers who asked him for a ride as he was returning home Wednesday night. He was found unconscious by the roadside. He had no money about him at the time. A curious aceident occurred on the road near Fredericksburg. A traction engine broke an exposed gas main, and the gas was ignited from the furnace. The engineer, Chris. Wetzel, and a boy were ens veloped in flames and seriously burned. Gotfried Ramp, a prominent farmer living six miles west of Bedford, committed suicide Tuesday night. He took a tracechain, climbed up in a small tree, tied one end of the chain around a limb, the other end around his neck, and then jumped off. Royal Tyler, employed at Tyler’s planing mill, in Muncie, in doing some figuring leaned his right arm on a little circular -saw on a table, and-in-an instant a gash over an inch deep and fifteen inches I.OLg was torn from his elbow to his hand, making a horrible wound. The Republican State Central Committee held a meeting at Indianapolis on the 24th inst. Party workers in considerable Aum. bers were present. The State convention was fixed for September 10. The ratio of representation was fixed at one delegate for each 200 votes cast for Harrison. □Considerable excitement has been created at Columbus by the County Board of Equalization. On account of the extreme high taxes the tax duplicate in the towns ship is short of last year’s assessment by $200,000. Every business man in the city has been cited to appear before the board. While a eon of Dr, George R. Green, of Muncie, was digging awell on his father’s premises he struck a bed of medium hard salica clay, filled with a yellowish bright glittering substance, looking very much like gold. It stood the test of nitric acid, and samples have been sent to chemists for further examination. Saloon doors have swung wide open in Columbus on Sundays for many years, but diT”lhe“ 2(l£H"THe”Mayor enforced the law, and even beer wagons were stopped from delivering supplies. Few back doors swung upon their hinges in consequence of the Mayor’s order, and it was the “dryest” "Sunday”ever knownTn that city.' The following county populations are reported under the new census: Vigo, 49,836; Tippecanoe, 35,169; Clay, 30,402; Montgomery, 27,822; Clinton, 27,580' Boone, 26,416; Putnam, 21,430' Hendricks, 21,030; Parke, 20,243; Fountain, 19,046; Morgan, 18,555; Monroe, 17,629' Owen, 14,907; .Vermillion, 13,130; Warren, 10,829. A peculiar case 6f hereditary deformity came to notice at" Columbus, on the 24th. There is a family residing in Brown county, throe members of which have six-toes on each foot. It is claimed by one of the senior members of this family that this deformity can be traced back through three generations. All the members of this family are robust and healthy.

There was a convention of farmers and workingmen held at Evansville on the 34th to nominate a candidate for Congress. The convention deliberated all day, and finally nominated Col. J. S. Wright, of Spencer county. The resolutions indorse, in a modified way, the single tax idea, woman’s suffrage and equal wages for women Workers in all fields of labor, buttheyare silent on the liquor question. For some time Florean McFeely, a twelve-year-oid boy at Crawfordsville, has been complaining of a pain in hie side. His father examined his side and found a dark, hard substance just under the skin. Making a slight incision, he was surprised to fiud a fish hook firmly imbedded in the flesh. How it got there is a mystery, but it must have b«en working around in the boy’s body for quite a while. The Farmers’ Alliance, of Vigo county, held a convention on Saturday, and placed s ticket in tbe.field, headed by O. P. Smith and Samuel Col tern for tbe Legislature. A number of the members were manifestly opposed to this separate political action and withdrew from the convention. Reset* lutions were adopted in sympathy with the declaration of principles enunciated a- the Indianapolis meeting of farming representatives. A terrible explosion' of a threshing engine occurred on the farts of Jas. Marrow on the 21st, near Princeton. Andrew Creteinger was killed outright. Charles White has since died. Thomas Mohan, the engineer, had his leg shattered, was i&V tern ally injured and scalded. He can not

recover. Hugh Marrow’s head was crushed. He can not recover. Sam Sweeppywas badly scalded. Several horses were killed. The wreck is complete. Patents were issued to Indianians on the 22d as follows: J- L. Brandt, Terre Haute bathheater; A. N. Hadley, Indianapolis corn harvester; P. J. Kern, Frankfort’ vehicle spring; J. F, Mains, Indianapolis, bag lock; E. T. Morgan, Dublin, wire fence machine; D. M. Parry, Indianapolis, short-turning vehicle; Q. A. Poston, New Salem, straw stacker; W. E. Pullen, Indianapolis, shirt waist and garment supporter; H. Wiese, Fort Wayne, feed cutter. Conductor Chas. Wood, of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railway, had a thrilling experience on Saturday evening while his'freight train was crossing the great bridge over the falls of the Ohio, A ladder gave way and he fell downward, but he managed to grasp an iron brace of the bridge, where he hung suspended 100 feet above the water while the train passed. He was missed, and just as he was on the point of giving up in dess pair, to fall into the rapids below, his fel-low-trainmen appeared and lifted him into* safety: The following census totals of Indian towns are made Terre Haute, 31,458; Lafayette, 16,283; West Lafayette, 1,204; Crawfordsville, 6,076; Frarfkfort, 5,950; Brazil, 5,907; Bloomington, 4,020; Lebanon, 3,691; Greencastle, 3,521; Martinsville, 2,686; Attica, 2,317; Spencer, 1,925; Covington, 1,894; Rockville, 1,687; Danville, 1,550; Williamsport, 1,022; Newport, 569; Clinton, 1,368; Dana, 563; Lado ga, 862; Darlington, 465; Waveland, 654: Rosedale, 871; Montezuma, 654- Harmony, 1,010; Carbon, 511; Knightsville, 1,149; Clay City, 1,014; Colfax, 731; Rossville 596; Kirklin, 551. The closing session of the State Board of Equalization was held on the 24th. The report of the assessment of the railroad property in Indiana was completed. Marion county’s valuation is Increased from $3,078,378, last year, to $3,885,745; Lake, from $3,858,445 to $4,055,800; LaPorte, from $3,246,322 to $3,340,269: Porter, from $2,720,094 to $2,829,171, and Allen, from $2,678,675 to $2,850,673. These counties have the largest assessed valuation. Perry .county, with $63,613, has the smallest assessed valuation. The total valuation has been increased from $66,241,532 to $69,762,674. An attempt was made on Saturday night to assassinate Charles Hargus, a prominent farmer of Knox county, as be was returning from Edwardsport, where he had been attending an Odd Fellows’ lodge. He was on horseback. Just as he was crossing the I. & V. railroad track some one fired upon him from an ambush. The first shot took effect in his right arm, part of the shot passing through the fleshy part, then lodg. ng in the arm. A second shot, fired as the horse bounded over the railway embankment, missed him. The wound is seriousand will disable Mr. Hargus for months. Robbery is the supposed cause of the at tack. =~

EXCURSIONISTS IN GREAT PERIL.

Steamer and Barge Almost Swept Over Niagara Falls Saved by a Knot in the Anchor Chain. One hundred and fifty excursionists —men, women and children—on the steamer Ella H., narrowly escaped going over falls Tuesday. The boat runs between Port Day and Buekhorn IslandTuesday, owing to the low stage of the water, she was qbliged to run around Green Island. Just as she was rounding the Island in the swiftest part of the river at that point the engine gave out. The anchor was heaved overboard, but it failed to catch for some distance, dragging along on the rocky bottom. When it did finally take hold the boat was under such headway that the bulk-head to which the uawser was attached was torn from its fastenings. Whermearly the whole eh attt hM bben run out the end became knotted fn the hole in the bulwarks and held the boat. The trouble with the engine proved to be a defective valve, which was soon repaired, and the boat was again got underheadway but so great was tbe force of the current that it took flfteeiFminutea to get to where tbe anchor had caught, a hundred feet up stream from tho boat. There were about one hundred and bfty passengers on the steamer and in the pleasure barge attached to it. There was a terrible scene of confusion. Women fainted, the children screamed and men bade each other goodbye. The boat was only a short distance above the falls when it stopped. Tbe Senate passed the sundry civiLbil) on iSe- 19th. TfcSPHouse, considered the original package measure.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, July 20, 1890 ’ GRAIN Wheat. | Cora. Oats. | Indianapolis.. 2 r’d 8S lwßß 2w 37 a r’d 80 2ye37% Chicane — 2 r 86 3 ‘3a SIX ' I:-.; .49 • Cincinnati..... 2.r’d 86 89 81 , 8t.L0ui5...... 2 I'd 87. .86 3i X “ 57% New York 3 r’d 99 44 - 37 Baltimore • 92 45% MX Philadelphia. 2 rti 91 49 40% Clover Seed T01ed0........... 88 89% 85 860 Detroit. iwh 90% 88% 88% 7.117. Minneapolis : 88 Louisville ;.. 'L..; urn stock. Cattus— Export grades [email protected] Good to choice shippers 3.70<g4.i0 Common to medium shippers..... 3.00(93.50 Stockers. MO to 850 1b.3.25(93.25 Good to choice heifers... 3.10(93.,0 Common to medium heifers..... 2.2&(92.*b Good to choloe cows. 2.t bjt) ».oo Fair to medium c0w5...,, 1 . 3.20(92. M) Hogs— Heavy.....;. 8.85(33.75 Light........ 8,75(93.85 Mixed [email protected] Heavy roughs 2.75<§3.25 Sxwr-Goodto choice 4.35^4.75 * Fa rto medium.... 8.50(9 1. 00 } if WBCXLLAHXOUS. Eggs lOe. Butter, Creamery 20@3J; Dairy 1,, i.ood Country I’C. Feathers, 860. Bee* . wax, 18(320; Wool 80(335, In washed 23; Poultry, Hens 9c. Turkeys 80 roosters 3 clover seod3.2s®3ja

OPPOSE THE ELECTION BILL.

Banthern People Declare Emphatically Against lt» A meeting has been called by several of the snb-alliances of the Farmers’ Allianc * in Houston and other counties, Ga., at which meeting it is proposed to adopt resolutions to send to all eounty Alliances, urging the systematic boycottingof Northern products in case the force bill becomes a law. The President of the Worth County Alliance makes the suggestion that no cotton be sold to Northern mills, but that it be sent to England direct. Captain Clark, of the Merchants’ Bank, of Rome, Ga., and head of the largest wholesale house in the city, and who has for years been buying dry goods and shoes in the North, unhesitatingly pledges himself to the boycott. Public meetings are reported as being held in all the smaller towns throughout the south, at which the boycott plan Is indorsed. The Atlanta Constitution editorially urges Southern merchants who are ordering goods from the North to make their orders conditional, and to distinctly stipulate that the orders are to be canceled if the bill passes. The Northern trade centers will thus be made toappreciate the gravity of the situation. The Constitution adds: ‘‘Ourarrogant enemies will make the mistake of their; lives if they decide that the Southern! people are half-hearted or indifferent.! Better turn this fair land into a desert than have it plunged into endless race 1 troubles, or resting under the curse of negro denomination.” There is much alarm at New Orleans, over the prospect of the passage of the ! Federaljelection bill,[and there is a general demand that some action be taken in . regard to it so as to nullify the law should j it pass. But there is a wide diversity of ' sentiment as to what that action should i be. There seems to be an even division oni the subject of a boycott of Northern products. About half the people want a! convention called to arrange a course ofi action, so that all the South can act to-j gether in fighting and defeating the law. The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions declaring in favor of the proposed convention. The States and Delta warmly support the boycott proposi-j tion, and urge immediate action in calling! the proposed convention. The Picayunethinks that a boycott against the North! may become necessary, but that it is premature to propose it now. The Times-Democrat opposes both boycott and convention as being sectional and savoring too much of secession times. It expresses the opinion that the force bill can be beaten and nullified without a con-, vention. At Birmingham, Ala., on the 24th, several hundred Republicans held a meeting] and adopted a memorial giving many rea-| sons why the election bill should not hel passed by the Senate. This memorial will! be signed by several thousand Republicans! and forwarded to the Republican Senators at Washington. Dispatches from various sections of the< South show that there is a general feelingi of opposition to the force bill, but that* there is more or less opposition to the pro J posed boycott.

NATIONAL CONGRESS

The Senate on the 21st passed these hills!: Authorising' construction of a pontoon: bridge at Quincy, Ill.; for relief of settlers 1 on railroad lands. The bill to transfer ths revenue marine service to the Navy De-i partment was considered. The tariff bill: was taken up and Mr. Voorhees delivered; a speech in opposition to It. He characterized it as a financial monster, every claw and tooth of which had been carefully inspected and found to besound and reliable. Mr. Voorhees spoke of it as an astonishing fact that in the fourteen schedules of duti* able articles the only reductions made were in the schedule relating to sugar and molasses—which, in the light of the proposed bounty to sugar planters, was no reduction "at all—and In the section relating to wines, spirits and other beverages. In every one of the twelve schedules the tariff taxes had' been increased. In regard to woolen goods that increase amounted to $15,000,000 a year. There was no pretension, Mr, Voorhees said, that that increase was put on for the sake of revenue. It Was simply an instance of protection run mad hnd developed into a Chinese wall of prohibition. He devoted some time to Carnegie, and condemned free sugar and protected tin. The House on the 23d passed the “orig* inhl package” substitute for the Senate bill by ayes, 170; nays, 38. The substitute is as follows: ‘‘That whenever any article of commerce is imported into any State from any other State, territory or foreign nation, and there held or offered ffir sale, the same shall then be subjected to the laws of each State: provided, that~ib discrimination shall be made by any State in favor of its citizens against those of other States or territories in respect to the sale of any article of commerce, nor in favor of its own products against those of like character produced in other States and territories; nor shall the transportation of commerce through “any State be obstructs ed, except in the necessary enforcement of the health laws of sueh States.” The House then took up and proceeded to des bate the bankruptcy bill. The Senate on the 23d considered the Indian appropriation bill. The House resumed debate on tho bankruptcy bill. The Senate on 'he 24th resumed con sideration of the Indian appropriation bill. An appropriation of $150,000 for the support of Indian schools was agreed to. Itis conceded that this will inure to the Catholo teachers. After further amendment the bill passed. The House passed the Torry bankruptcy bill after defeating the “voluntary bankruptcy bill,” offered as a substitute. Owen, of Indiana, voted in affirmative. Bynum, Brookshire, Cheadle, Cooper, Holman, Martin, Parrott and Sburly in the negative, The Senate on the Jl6th resumed consideration of the tariff Vll. ~ Vance, Plumb, McPherson, Aldrich, Sherman and Allison discussed the measure. Petitions were presented against the passage of the Federal election bill. The Hpuse filibustered all day.