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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1893
Page
4
A dialogue features Little Boy and Accepted Sufter as they discuss marriage timing. The boy notes the bride has not named the day yet and jokes about long engagements, claiming her prior engagements were brief.
The Senate debates swamp land suspensions in Florida, passes pension and agricultural bills, and honors late Senators Kenna and Craig. House actions include Alabama election case, anti option failure, and sundry civil and diplomatic appropriations amid conference reports and tributes to departed lawmakers.
In the house Monday members rallied around the demand for regular order as they waved bills near the speaker’s desk. The Indian appropriation bill passed under suspension of the rules, and the civil appropriation bill went to conference with amendments to be formalized.
A Topeka dispatch reports the Populist administration plans a sweeping purge of Republican officers from the Kansas militia. More than 100 commissioned leaders to be discharged and replaced by populists loyal to orders, while building a force far larger than the Kansas National Guards. Men drill nationwide, awaiting guns to arm this expansive movement.
The President accepted a position at Leland Stanford University California to deliver a series of lectures on constitutional law starting in October. He had contemplated the offer for weeks before finalizing the agreement.
Kansas Supreme Court rules the Republican branch is the legal legislature and Douglass becomes Speaker. The verdict, delivered by Judge Horton, settles that only certified members may organize the house and that the Douglass house was properly constituted. Populists vow protest but decide to yield and merge both houses under the ruling.
A collage of oddities and notes from ancient and modern times. Rabbits priced two for a nickel in Nevada. Romans built Holland dikes. Charlemagne wore silts gowns worth $8000. Copper cents weigh heavy. Priests carried Spanish sheep to California in 1773. Samuel Richardson wrote in full dress. Tiger skin length records. Petrified-root cottonwood near Atchison. Eye color sighting and marksmen. Ishpeming rats defeat traps. Australian colts priced for military use. Maximinus grinding stones with fingers. Greene Me Serenaders band notes. Caned tomatoes once fifty cents, now seven. Bankruptcy in Acadia Mines for unpaid debt. Tribes and Noah flood legends. Deluge stories varied by tribe. A Sandlant birth triplet with £15 gift. Flower badges of nations. Tabasco lizard skins shipments and slaughter estimates. Live oak naval use and ships history.
Columbus report states Governor McKinley faces rising liabilities from the Walker failure at Youngstown now listed at 200000 dollars. The narrative portrays him as innocent yet blamed for endorsements and for signing notes, with public sympathy nationwide and renewed scrutiny of his finances.
A Washington dispatch notes J C Courts, clerk of the House committee for appropriations, submitted a statement showing appropriations for the current session totaling 513 733 085, later increased to 519 273 447 by Senate bill changes. Figures by category include Army, District of Columbia, Diplomatic and Consular, Military Academy, Sundry Civil, Legislative, Navy, Pension, Agricultural, India, and Post Office with amounts listed for each.
Chicago dispatch reports Trustee H. Hf. Kobisan plans to cease opposing McKinley supporters and accepts any funds raised to cover Major McKinley’s 93000 dollars in liabilities. A one dollar contribution scheme gained strong support in McKinley’s state after initial objections.
A Thursday special from Marksville Louisiana reports a Tuesday cyclone that killed two people Max William Brouillette and a child of Mr Liborde. Forty injured some seriously. two Baptist churches and many residences and businesses were demolished. Timber and uprooted trees mark former homes amid heavy rain for two hours. Parish witnessed widespread ruin.
Chauncey Depew recounts a story of a young lawyer rising to a $7000 salary and advises establishing a “tis but” box to curb spending. He notes that disciplined saving allowed the man to amass $15,000 by retirement, enabling a solid practice. He mocks excess and praises frugality in a public lecture setting.
Naturalist G. W. Duns collected rare insects and ferns on Mount Tamalpais. Among finds are sindlendron rugosom beetles that bore into alder and die after laying eggs, and blue boring insects called oregonen sis platyems. About $100 worth of specimens were recovered. most will go to the World's War exhibit.
Opinion piece by Jenness Miller warns against excessive window coverings and advocates more natural light. She argues sun exposure improves health and beauty, criticizing fashionably curtained rooms as dull and unhealthy for households and women.
The excerpt argues that women must preserve delicacy and self possession, condemning loudness and bad manners as immoral. It asserts that good breeding equals good sense and urges women to maintain grace and restraint to inspire reverence in men, warning that boldness may be punished as life imprisonment for missteps.
Excerpts from Street & Smith's Good News reflect light vignettes on dogs and chess. A boy discusses a prize dog’s usefulness while a professor plays blindfold chess and Austrian schools teach chess in public education. The piece ends with a domestic scene about savings for families and a mother scolding a son for football.
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