The Charlotte Democrat., 1897-02-25
Brief GIimpses
at the General News.

The new Belgian Minister, Count
de Lichtewelde, has been presented
to the President.
The bill to prohibit the sale of
cigarettes in the state of Alabama
has passed the house. The opposi
ton was led by Mr.. Waller,,who
made a spirited fight against the
passage of the bill and succeeded in
tacking on an amendment exempting
cigarette tobacco. The law only
applied to manufactured cigarettes
and cigarette paper.
1t is stated that President Cleve-
land, Secretary of State Olney, and
Edwin F. Uhl, now Minister to Ber-
lin, will form law partnership in
New York. Mr.. Uhl's son is au-
therity for the statement.
The lower house of the Kansas
State legislature has Killed the bill,
/! giving women the right to vote for
presidential electors.
The woman suffrage amendment
was lost IN the Nevada Assembly by
a vote of Is to 5.
The somewhat celebrated gold
bond Injunction suit in which w.
J. Bryan. as the plaintiff, sought to
restrain the mayor and city council
of Lincoln, Nebraska, from deliver
ing $534.500 refunding bonds, with
a gold clause attached, to ex-City
T: easurer Stephenson, was today
| decided by the supreme court, and
Mr., Bryan's position was sustained.
| Minister DupuY de LONE, Spain's
representative in this country, has
announced the startling principle
that Spanish officers have tight to
board American boats and search
them without consent of the boats
officers.
Rev John B. Culpepper at the
Washington Street NJ. E church,
Kansas City, Mo-, caused a sensation
by proposing a tax on bachelors.
"When a man is % and unmarried,' %
said he, che ought to be taxed $10O;
when % he should be taxed 5000.
The tax should be increased $l0O a
year until he is thirty. Then, if he
is not married, he ought to be put in
the penitentiary. The average man
who lives to thirty unmarried is not
fit to marry pure woman"
. Major Sidney Root, who was sent
abroad as confidential purchasing G
. agent of the Confederate government
died recently in Atlanta, Ga.
"The additional power conferred
upon the umpire by the new baseball
: rules ought to cause Tom Reed tc
rise to his feet and execute a pro-
found bow," says the Journal.
The Herald special says that the
new tariff schedule on sugar will bt
so favorable to the trust that, fearing
5 a scandal, Dingley is holding the
schedule back until the last minute
= There now remains but one build
ing and loan association in Knoxville
. that has not made an assignment
This is the Peoples Building ant
Loan association, of which r. r
Swepson is president
Maj. J. Hoge Tyler has announced
, himself candidate for Governor oi
; Virginia.
= Mrs. Booth-Tucker of the Saliva
tion Army is confined to her room
+ in the army headquarters. New York
suffering from fever and exhaustion
B. o. Flower, late editor and pub.
fisher of The Arena, Boston, Mass
e and Mr.. G. Seldom Smart, former
= business manager of that magazine
: have been arrested on a charge Of
the embezzlement of $4,000 each
= from the property.
e By decision of the Secre tarv oi
: Interior the great tract of swamp
e land in Florida known as the Ever
Y glades, comprising about 2,242,S0
i acres, is conveyed to the State ol
Florida.
e The House has passed a bill o
4 considerable Importance to the arit
regions of the West 1t opens t.
t use and occupation all the reservoir
!, sites reserved by the geological SUI
vey. There are 1873 of those site
J. scattered throughout the arid coun
: try and this act will enable them t
e be put to practical use by individu
q ais and corporations. The confer
euce report On the Legislative, execu
f tive aud judicial preparation bill
n was adopteu.
t A dispatch to the Cologne Ga
. zette from Vienna last evening say
Y that most of the powers have acced
: ed to Germany's proposal to block
ade Piraeus, the port of Athens, il
f order to curb the warlike impulse
o of Greece.
A war Of cut rates between tn
= American Biscuit Company and tn,
d New York Biscuit Company begar
t in Chicago and will extend through h
b out the country.
b At the Auditorium Hotel, Chica
b go, the American Institute of Min
ing Engineers is in session
The arbitrary tactics of the Popu
= lists in the Kansas House of Repre-
e sentatives, who rode roughshod owe
" the Republican minority, caused
]. Wild scene IN the Capitol at Tope
d ka.
The Governors of the New Yorl
Stock Exchange, at special meet
ing yesterday afternoon, took up tn
vexed question of how 10 proven
the bucket shops and the Consoll-
dated Stock and Petroleum Ex
, change from getting its official quo
tations. The sentiment prevail
that the Governors should abb ogate
"a or rather discontinue, the contrac
= with the Gold and Stock Company
u and plan was discussed which will
% - curtaiI the number of printed slip
of stock transactions issued by th