Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-03-27
VOL. VIII. NO. 20.
GENERAL NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
About twenty missionaries sailed from
New York city in the Inman steamer ''City
of Chester" to Join Bishop Taylor, OF the
Methodist Episcopal church. IN Africa
About year ago Bishop Taylor, with vol
unteer company of missionaries, went TO the
west coast of Africa to commence the Worl
Of Outstanding the natives The party re-
manned on the coast near the mouth of the
congo rlFer5 becoming accl1mareu before
they commenced their march into the int
riOr- Several weeks ago Bishop Taylor
made q call for more volunteers. 1t was IA
response to this call that the party on the
'Dhester' sailed. The company viii be d.
vided into two or three parties and viii es-
tablish line Of stations across the CONT
nent- Besides the work OF eVangil1ZatlOus
the missionaries viii teach the natives 70
read, and women VIII be taught to sew and
the men instructed IN trades. The party
carried with them sealed instructions from
Bishop Taylor. They viii probably travel
roo miles into the interior of Africa. They
took with them a large amount of supplies,
including canned goods Of every description,
and agricultural Implements, RATS packed
in sections, and to be used IN conveying
their provisions down the river during their
journey into the interior, were amOng the
outfit There was large gathering OF cIer-
gymen and laymcn prominent in the Meth
odist church, at the dock to see the mission
aries of.
The monumen. committee, of Montgom-
EENs AitL-a nave received from uEnE45OA La
Wis, eI-president of the cOnfederacys letter
officially accepting the invitation 10 lecture
in Montgomery in behalf of the monument
10 be erected on the capitol grounds there,
IA memory Of the Alabama soldiers who died
IN the civil war. MIR. Davis vail be there
about the last of April. His lecture will be
delivered in q large warehouse, with a seat
ing capacity of nVe thousand people. He
Will lay the corner stone of the monument,
which vii. cost $4,000, of which $4,000, or
enough TO complete the pedestal, has already
been raised. John w. Daniel, of Virginia
has been invited to deliver an address on
that occasion. All men who bore prOmi-
nent part IN the civil and military service of
the confederate government have been in
Vlted to be present to meet Mr.. Davis,
also many prominent men IN the north and
eX-union generals not now in active service.
All of the Alabama state troops, some thirty
companies strong, wall be there and invita-
tons viii be sent to militia companies of all
the states north and south. Great interest
in the occasion centers IN the fact that on
the porch of the capitol building there Jeff
fersOn Davis took the oath of office as presi-
dent of the confederacy, and that govern
mant was there organized.
Special kilograms to Bradstreet's CONNER
cial agency report but slight improvement
IN the movement of general merchandise
throughout the country, with the exception
of the increase in eastern traffic of Califor-
MA railways, owing to the cut rates at st.
Louis and points west. There is continued
stagnatiOn and Impotence manifested in
business centres throughout Kansas and
Texas, owing to the continuance of the
strike. Prices moderately active, on de-
mand, seasOnable goods are reported from
Cleveland, Detroit, Burlington, Iowa, Chi
cagO and Kansas CITY. At eastern ceut8rs
business has not improved, but Is equal IN
volume and promise to that of a week ago.
In general it has been uneven, but the most
strength shown IN dry goods. The general
industrial situation has not improved, and
the gtrHEHz of the EDuL nFuaEgarn railway n
pioyes, Of the coal miners, OF the textile mill
operatives continue. The strike at Pitts
burg Of ], 200 employees of the national tube
works ana ls0JO CLOAK ana suit makers at
New York bring the grand total of those
now on a strike up to 55,OOO
The secretary of the interior has rendered
a decision in the eX-parte case of James
Baird, reversing the decision of the com
missioner Of the general land Office, of No
vomber u, 1885, which held that under sec
ton 2,261 of the revised statutes, a person
entitled 10 but one presumption right could
not, after perfectlng one presumption right,
be permitted to commute his homestead
entry into a cash entry under section z, 30l
OF the revised statutes as this would be
equivocal to a second exercise of the same
right IN respect to interests involved. This
decision is regarded by land office officials
as the most important public lands decision
made by the interior department in many
years. The secretary of the interior says
that he concurs IN the construction of the
statute as construed by his predecessors, to
the effect that the law was intendedtO secure
to those who had heretofore availed them
selves of the presumption right, the benefit
Of the homestead law in addition thereto.
DR.. Green, presidentof the Western Union
Telegraph company, continued his argu-
ment before the postal committee. Mr..
Warner requested DE. Green 20 state the
nature Of the relations between the Western
Union and the Central Pacific. he replied
that the Western Union paid the Central Pa
citc 100000 per annun, and took all the
receipts along the line Of the road The
railroad company had also free use Of the
Western Union lines on the lines OF the road.
That arrangement embraced the Southern
Pacific from San Francisco TO FL PasO.
DR.. Green then read a brief reorganization
Of the points made by himself IN his testi-
mony yesterday.
In the district court at Palestine, Tex,
the Missouri Pacific Railroad company fled
q petition in a suit against 1O+ members Of
the Knights OF labor, alleging that they, to
gether with about 100 more, had cOnspired
to prevent the running of trains over the
international a. Great Northern road, and
the proper working and management of the
railroad shops; that they were not employees
OF the company, but were tresspassers who
assembled on the premises of the company,
and by dint of persuasion or intimidation
prevented those in the employ of the COM
pauy from discharging their duties, and that
by their interference, etc, the company has
with prayer for an injunction against the [
defendants, which was granted
Receiver Sheldon, of the Texas Pacific, /
received by telegraph a report of the inter /
view held at Marshall, Tex, between United !
States Marshal Reagan and j. A. Carbie, /
superintendent at Marshall, and commit [
tee of the Knights of Labor from Goulds- |
bOro. The committee wanted Mr. CarbIe to !
make statement IN the case OF the man I
Hall, whose discharge caused the trouble. ]
Mr. ftaF1TA declined To make eEafaT~ he
fore the committee, or to recognize it in any I
way. The marshal told the committee that /
he was in charge of the road, and that if Mr. |
Carbie had accepted the proposition to arbi /
trates he would have been arrested on the /
spot for contempt OF court.
The president has sent the following nomi- /
nations to the senate: William i. Trenholm, 4
lima, TO be comptroller Of currency in the /
place of Henry Cannon, resigned; John ii. /
OEerly, of Illinois, to be civil service com
missioner in the place of William j.. Iren-
holm, nominated TO be comptroller OF cur
rency; @. Lyman, Connecticut, new chief
examiner Of the civil service commissioner
ia the place of Dorman ID. Eaton, resigned. i
The president said that the three men
named were selected without recommend
hons, and solely on his personal knowledge /
Of their character and capacity. All of them
are now IN the public service.
Senator Blair, from the committee on
pensions, Unsupported q bill TO provide that
every person specified under the several
clauses enumerated under section 1888 or
the revised statutes, who served six months
.n the military or naval service during the
war of the rebellion. and who was hOnOrably
who is, or shall become disabled
from any cause not the result of his own
gross carelessness, shall, upon making
proofs of the fact, be placed upon then pen
sion rolls at a rate propOrtioDate TO the de-
of "a sarfH .