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tuntttrc YOL. *ix. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 24, 1877. WASHINGTON. KELLOGG TO BE BEPOHTRP ON. PnUcrton €Me»'ConHld«rifiK Wicker* •ham—Wcxlc»n Aw«ir»l -HhorC 4'aht- ne |...Won't Pardon Kpli Holland— (’omnilttee Report Fstorably on llll- Hard, and UafhroraMy on Naadford —Attempted Removal of Northrop-. Republican Can cm* on Adjournment —Anal.vMU of Reunmptlon Repeal Tote***Cleorvld nnd the Noutli ttener* ally J*olld fbr It. PATTERSON CASE. Washington, Nov. 23.—The argu ment in the Patterson habeas corpus ease continues. Patterson is in at tendance. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS. In the Republican Senatorial cau cus which convened at noon, Conover had not put in an appearance up to half past 12. WICKERSHAM. The Postoffice Committee of the Senate gave further consideration to the case of Wiekersliam, nominee for Mobile postoflioe, but reached no con clusion. The indications are theeoin- mittee will report in favor of confir mation. Mr. Evarts had an interview with tlie sub-committee of the House on foreign relations on the distribution of the awards of the Mexican Mixed Commission. It is thought the com mittee will not report in full to the Commission until next session. The Committee on Privileges nnd Elections voted six to three in favor of seating Kellogg. They set the Eustis case for Monday, and directed Butler and Corbin, from South Carolina, to prepare their cases forthwith. Cincinnati, Nov. 23.—A Son An tonio, Texas, dispatch says Gen. Ord yesterday received an official copy of the order of President Diaz to General Daleon, on commanding the Mexican forces on the border to repel invasion by United States troops by force, and General Trevino lias been ordered to the Rio Grande with 2,600 troops to carry out the orders. General Ord has telegraphed to the President for another regiment of cavalry. Mean time the recognized Mexican Minis ter is expected, and tlint ordinary diplomacy will solve the question. • CABINET. Short cabinet and unimportant. won’t pardon E1*1I. The Attorney General refuses to recommend the pardon of Eph Hol land, of Cincinnati, convicted of elec tion frauds. HILLIARD FAVORABLE. The Star says the nomination of Hilliard, of Georgia, Minister to Brazil, before the Foreign Relations to-day the committee agreed to report favorably on it. Stanley Matthews voted with the Democrats, otherwise an adverse report would have be-n made. ATTEMPTED REMOVAL OF NORTHROP. Strong efforts are making to move the Radical Republicans of South Carolina to have the President with draw the nomination of Northrop as District Attorney for tlmt State. (Which one?) PATTERSON’S COURSE. It is stuted on most eminent author ity that the action of Senutor Patter son in the Butler-Corbin contest is in ■ accordance with his views expressed long before his present troubles came upon him. COMMITTEE REPORTS. Tiie Committee on .Foreign Rela tions of the Senate resolved to report favorably on Hilllardandunfavorably on Sanford for Brazil and Belgium. REPUBLICAN CAUCUS resolved not to adjourn while any executive business is on its docket or in the hands of the Senute Commit tee. PATTERSON CASE. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Washington, November 23.—The hearing of the Patterson habeas corpus case continues. Gen. Connor, Attor ney General of South Carolina, will conclude the argument to-morrow. Great interest attaches to the ease, involving on one side the District of Columbia as a citadel of refugees ; on the other the privileges of Senators and Congressmen. • SMELLS. The Judiciary Committee of the House commenced considering abridgement privileges on Represen tative Smalls, who is detained in the South Carolina jail. The proceedings to-day did not go beyond a documen tary statement of the case. CONSUL OF DENMARK. De Huger Smith is recognized Vice Consul of Denmark at Charleston. ANALYSIS OF RESUMPTION REPEAL VOTE. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Washington, November 23.—An analysis of the vote on the Repeal Resumption shows: 28 Republicans voted aye, 30 Democrats nay, Missis- sissippi was solid, Missouri, I) to 2; North Carolina, solid; Ohio, 10 to 7; South Corolina, 1 to 2; Tennessee, 7 to 2; Texas, 5 to 1: Virginia, 8 to 1; West Virginia, solid; Alabama, solid; Arkansas, solid; Colorado, solid nay; Florida, ltol; Georgia, solid; Illinois, 13 to 7; Indiana, solid; Iowa, 2 to 0; Kentucky, solid; Louisiana, 2 to 2; Maine, solid: Maryland, 4 to 1; Min nesota, Michigan, New York, Ne braska, Oregon, Rhode Island, Ver mont, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire and New Jersey all solid nay; Pennsylvania 13 to 22. FORTY-FIFTH* CONGRESS. and redeem nnd cancel the greenback currency.” That all that portion of the act ap proved January 14th, 1876, entitled an act to provide for the resumption of specie payment, which reads as follows, to-wlt: And whenever, and so often as circulating notes shall be issues! to any such bunking associa tion, so increasing its cupital or circu lating notes, or so newly organized as aforesaid, it shall lie tlie duty of the Secretary of tlie Treasury to redeem tlie legal tenders of tlie United States in excess only of three hundred mil lions of dollars to tlie amount of 80 per centum of the sum of national bank notes so issued to any such banking association as aforesaid, and to continue such redemption us such circulating note are issued, until there shall be outstanding the sum of three lmndred million dollars of such legal tender U. 8. notes and no more; and on and after the first day of Jan uary, anno Domini, 1879, the Secre tary^' tlie Treasury shall redeem in colli tlieU. 8. legal tender notes, then outstanding, on their presentation for redemption at the office of tlie Assist ant Treasurer of the United States in tlie city of New York, in sums of not less than fifty dollars, nnd to enable tlie Secretary of the Treasury to pre pare and provide for tlie redemption in this act authorized or required, he is authorized to use any sur plus revenues, from time to time, in the Treasury not otherwise appropri ated, and to issue, sell and dispose of at noteless than par, iii coin, either of tlie descriptions of bonds of the United States described in the net of Congress approved July 14th, 1870, entitled an act to authorize the re funding of tlie national del it, with like qualities, privileges and exemp tions to the extent necessary to carry tliis act into full effect, and to use the proceeds thereof for tlie purpose afore said, be and the same is hereby re pealed. / Vote, 130 to 120. Tlie vote is more sectional than political. The House adjourned to Tuesday. Dr. G. D. Stand I ford's View* on th« Tex mi Pacific. Louisville, November 21.—In an swer to u communication addressed to him by the lending and substantial business men of Louisville, relative to ills views on tlie Texas Pacific rail road, E. D. Standiford, ex-member of Congress and President of tlie Louis ville, Nashville nnd Great Southern railway, publishes a letter in to-mor row’s Courier-Journal, which will at tract much attention. He regards the early completion of the road a neces sity in which every citizen is inter ested, and thinks the good it will do Texas, New Mexico, California nnd Arizona greater than that which would he afforded Russia should she conquer and annex Turkey. TIKKO-RINSIAN WAR. FEAR THAT ENGLAND MAY HE DRAG GED INTO THE MELEE. Manchester. Nov. 23.—The Guar dian publishes tlie following from its London correspondent: The recent success of the Russians in Asia and tlie probability they will soon achieve as decisive victory at Plevna, have brought hack the Government to Hint state of anxiety into which they were thrown by tlie Hint raid across the Balkans. The feeling these events provoke in the minds of the Minis ters is to be gathered from the tone of tlie papers that support the Premier’s foreign policy. These journals are daily vehemently demanding the ac tive intervention of England. For two or throe days the air lias been full of tlie most sinister rumors. Itis stated tlie Premier lias informed tlie Russian Minister that if Adriano- ple be taken and Constantinople jeopardized, there may be such an outcry in England as to make'war on tlie part of this country inevitable. Information of tills declaration lias been sent to the Russian headquarters, and has made a strong impression there. In these circumstances there is some reason for feeling the euontry may he dragged into tlie present con flict. T'he further ground for such apprehension is affected by the fact that within the last few hours orders have been issued for the immediate preparation of an army corps. A warlike policy will meet much oppo sition, and it is hard to forecast wliat will be tlie popular verdict. In these circumstances it would not be sur prising if the Government took tlie form of stating the grounds of their conduct, and inviting tlie arbitrament of the public opinion of them. , [Note.—Excepting the statement of tlie Conservative organs, whieli clamor for intervention, whieli is cor rect, the foregoing must be accepted witli great reserve.] QUESTION OF MEDIATION. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Constantinople, November*23. Tlie Turkish ambassador at Vienna lias sounded Count Andrassy on the subject of mediation. The Count said mediation was inopportune and would be disadvantageous for Turkey. FRANCE. A Defaulting Secretary at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, O., November 23.—A dispatch says J. F. Call ng, Secretary of the Western Insurance Company, is behind $14,000 in liis accounts. Tlie company was made secure by mortga ges on his property, nnd removed him. INDICTMENT FOUNT) AGAINST A TRAIN WRECKER. A dispatch from Harrisonburg, Va., says an indictment was found yester day against DeWitte Ettinger alias Glover, charged with wrecking the railroad train ofthe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, on Saturday night. The chief witness is Isaac -Powell, who was present and saw Ettinger do tlie work. No indictment was found against either Powell or Ludhnltz. Ohio IiMurniM’e Comiuinte*. Special to Enquirer-Sun.J Columbus, O., November 23.—At the meeting of the representatives of tlie Ohio Mutual Fire Underwriters here, thirteen companies were repre sented. A resolution was adopted declaring that tlie rates of stock com panies now doing business in Ohio are entirely inadequate, and agree that the mutual companies there rep resented shall do less business, if nec essary, rather than accept such low rates’. Jury Disagreed. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Chicago, November 23.—Tlie jury In consideration of tlie whiskey cases disagreed, Nine voted in favor of the Government, three for tlie de fendants. The question in dispute was whether tlie evidence showed that complete immunity had been promised. Cincinnati and Coffee Broker*. Cincinnati, November 23. —A number'of coffee dealers at tlie meet ing resolved to resist tlie efforts of New York brokers to control the shipment of coffee from that city and a determination to tie expressed to look to points furthe’r South for their supply of that article, unless Nov York brokers recede from tlie rule adopted in regard to recovering and adopted In shipping. H«U0 Repeal* Ibe Hesompl ion Aet by 133 vole* lo 130. HOUSE. Washington, November 23.—'i’lie g reat interest in the House to-day was He bill to repeal tlie resumption act There were fourteen amendments pending when the House begun to vote, and all of them were negatived except one offered by Fort, of Illinois, as a substitute, and which hud actu ally been accepted by tlie Committee on Banking and Currency. The hill was finally passed’by n vote of 133 to 120. The following is the text of the hill unend tlie title so us to read, “A bill to repeal nil tlint part of tlie aet approved January 14th, 1875, known as the resumption aet, whieli author ised the Secretary of tlie Treasury to dispose of the United States bonds What I* lie Up To r Providence, R. L, November 23. Capt. Carson, of tlie United States cutter Samuel Dexter, now lying in Bristol Harbor, this morning stuted he felt unauthorized to make any statement regarding his special orders and duties. ‘ He said: “There is a suspected craft, and here is a Govern ment steamer; draw your own infer ences.” • — —■ BA .VA S. Tenth K«llunnl Hunk to Wind Up. New York, Nov. 23.—The stock holders of tlie Tenth National Bank have resolved to wind up. Reasons are tlie dullness of trade, difficulty of procuring “remuniative” of discount in safe loans. CHICAGO BANK GOES INTO LIQUIDA TION. Chicago, Nov. 23.—The Central National Bunk closed doors, and will go into liquidation. • Colored Man llang. Baltimore, November 23.—James Rosebuury Hawkins, colored, aged 20 years was hanged at Towsentown, Baltimore county, this morning at 9:30 for an atrocious assault ui>on Ida Schaefer, a school girl, Jaged 13 years, in April Inst. In a letter to his father and mother he made n full confession of his guilt. Sentenced to he llmiir. Washington, Nov. 23.—Nelson Arden, colored, convicted ofthe mur der of a storekeeper in Borlic county, North Carolina, was sentenced to death. The jury consisted of seven colored and live white. Doe* (he Marshal Lack Resolution. Paris, November 23.—The Moni- leur closes an article with “We fear the Marshal lackH resolution." THE CABINET SETTLED. Paris. Novemhei 1 23.—Tlie now ministry as definitely constituted is as follows: President of Council and Minister of War, Gen. Grimuudet de Koch- bout. Minister of Foreign Affairs, tlie Marquis de Bauovill, Minister of tlie Interior, M. De Welclie. Minister of Justice, M. Lepelctier. Minister of Finance, M. DutiUeuL Minister of Commerce, M. Oseune. Minister of Public Works, M. Greff. Minister of Public Instruction, M. Faye. Minister of Murine, not yet recom mended. physician dead. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Paris, November 23. — Sanveur Henry Victor Bonvier, a French physician, is dead. MIMSB TUB EIBBEEB. An Army Ofllcer'11 Npree In Nt. Louis. Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.] St. Louis, Nov. 19.—In May last, Lieutenant Frank 8. Hinkle, of the United States army, at that time con nected with the quartermaster’s de partment of Fort Leavenworth, came to St. Louis, nnd during his stay be came enamored with tlie charms of Nellie Suvidge, tlie keeper of a maison de joie at Eleventh uml St. Charles streets, where it seems he made his temporary headquurters. Having thus squandered in debauchery what ready casli lie had with him, lie ran the remainder of the spree on tick, which continued until his hill had assumed sueli formidable proportions that tlie fair inamo rata broached tlie subject of a settlement. The young officer drew a draft for the amount claimed, five hundred and twenty dollars, first having affixed the indorsement of Capt. Hoyt to tlie paper, which was drawn upon the United States suli- treasury. This draft, tlie next day, was presented to tlie sub-treasury for payment, when it was repudiated as worthless. Subsequently, upon com plaint of tlie government officials of the Treasury, Lieutenant Hinkle was arrested, and lias been conflnedjn jail ever since, a period of nearly six months. This morning he was ar raigned in the United States Court for sentence. He was represented by an attorney who addressed tlie court in his favor, and asked that Ills honor would exercise some leniency in tlie ease; in the first place, because of the uniform good character the prisoner had hith erto home; and, secondly, in view of tlie fact that he had already served a term fully commensurate with his offense, whieli was committed, not with tlie intent to defraud the Gov ernment, hut was a sort of semi-in sane freak, arising from a desire to pacify the siren to whom he had be come indebted through the influence of strong drink. The attorney pre sented tothecourt several letters fron the commandingoffloerof Lieutenant Hinkle, giving him an irreproachable character for honesty, gallantry and good-heartedness. Judge Treat perus ed tlie letters, and said that in view of what the prisoner hud Already suf fered, and of tlie excellent reputation given him by those who knew him best, lie would give him the lightest sentence possible. He then proceeded to sentence him to three months im prisonment in the county jail nnd a lineof one dollar. THE I.IBEBIAX K.TOIUH. A General Mtateiuent from the Direc tor* About the Nqiiey which They hay la on Hand, and Abont the Mhlp which la Certainly hot on Hand. B. F. Porter, Jr., President of tlie Liberian Exodus Association, in a letter to tlie Charleston News and Courier, endeavors to explain why the ship, which should have been at the port of Charleston on Thursday for tlie conveying of persons to Libe ria, did not make her uppenrance. He says: “It was owing to tlie misap prehension of the Board of Directors. In this there are at least sixty thou sand persons who had signified their intention to tuke shares, indicating an amount equal to six hundred thou sand dollars, fifty per cent, of which expected to have had paid to us immediately; and from the repre sentations of local agents, we made our honest und sanguine calculations, and, had the number necessary paid up tlie shares at the specified time, we would have had tlie ship ready for them to-day; hut these parties having failed to do so, as a natural result we are unuhle to start altera tions us soon us anticipated. “All tlie funds that lmve come into our hands are still held in trust, both in bank and in four per cent, gold bearing bonds. \Ve were ready to make a purchase of the sailing vessel ‘Mercury,’ nnd visited our friend, Mr. \V. B. Smith, to make final arrange ments, and learned from him that she had been charted to another party until January. "At a special meeting held on tlie 14tli instant, tlie President of the L. E. A. was instructed to negotiate with tlie lirmof Smith & Co. tor the ship Owego, should siie he a suitable vessel for our purpose, and the price within our present rage. Should we fail in this, we will probably be con tent to await.the return of tlie‘Mer cury’ in January, unless in the mean time an eligible offer he made to us. “Every wise observer knows, Every watchful gazer sees, Nothing grand or beautiful grows, Have by gradual, slow degrees. Ye who toll with n purpose high, And fondly the grand results await, Murmur not, as the hours go by, That the season Is long, the harvest late." Commenting upon the above the editor of the News nnd Courier very sententiously remarks : "Tills is very good as far as it goes. But ‘fine words butter no parsnips,’ and we dare spy tt good many of tlie poor colored stockholders would have preferred to wait for President Porter’s poetry until after the arrival of the promised ship in tlie Promised I,und,ami mean time to have a plain statement in figures of how much money lias been received, and where tlie bonds and casli are now deposited." by the map itself. Assuming, us we are disposed to do, that these maps were constructed immediately before or in the time of Ptolemy, they are very interesting as the earliest speci mens extant of cartography. They at all events embody the state of geographical knowledge nt the early period of Ptolemy, and present at once to the eye what it would require a close and laborious examination to make out by u perusal of tlie work it self, which bus never been translated into English. P. B. Chaii.hi. BVI.I.ETM IX A !•! I.I.MIX CAR. The Noom or Horn. The following calculations concern ing the moons of Mars in Scribner for December have been made by Lieut, Sturdy, of the Naval Observa tory, with the approval of Prof. Hall, the discoverer: \Ve might nt first conclude that tlie inhabitants of Mars, if such there be. would witness tlie extraordinary sight of two brilliant moons passing each other in the heavens above them, but a little further reflection will show that to all intents and purposes Mara has but one practical moon, nnd that as far ns light reflecting is concerned tlie outer is a most useless attendant. Tlie inner moon being fifteen miles in diameter and 3,500 miles away would from the surface of Mara sub tend an are of 23’, which would give it an apparent size of about throo- limrtcrs of our moon. Now tlie outer one being but eleven miles in diameter and 12,000 miles away would subtend but about 3' of arc, and as the naked eye, that is, the human eye of tills earth, can hut barely see a celestial object which subtends 1' of arc, it follows that to the inhabitants of Mars their outer satellite would appear to be a little larger than Mars does to us. We may therefore conclude that for the people of Mars there is but one practi cal moon, und that that one rises in the west. Again, supposing that this inner la rise on a certain evening The PO|»e*S 11 fill III. Rome, November 23.—The Pope has suspended audiences on account of his sickness. * Gale In Uniflnnd. Liverpool, November 23.—A gale was violent yesterday. The White . . , . . Slur Line steamer Britanie, almost I the 1 resident ot tin the only vessel tlmt would go out of graphical .‘society, the Moray that left on Wednesday, has returned for shelter. Fire nt Italyil. London, November 23.— telegrams from Liverpool says infor mation received here says a great fire is raging at Baliui. Ptolemy's Hay of The World. Tlie following interesting letter from Mr. P. Du Chailiu accompanies a very curious map, which is publish ed in Harper's Weekly of tlie 17th. Mr. Du Chuillu points to tlie knowl edge which the compiler of this map had of the origin and course of the Ni'e ; and it would he curious if tlie later explorations ofthe Congo should be verified by tlie old map maker who lived some one hundred and thirty-eight years after the birth of Christ : Ptolemy’s Map of the World.— This map of tlie world is interesting ns showing the conception whieli the geographer Ptolemy had, in the second century of our era, of tlie globe, and wliat was then known of the Continent of Africa. It is from a very fine copy of tlie geography of Ptolemy in tlie library of tlie Ameri can Geographical Society of this city, printed in Rome in 1608. There is n this edition n series of maps which were appended to manuscript copies of Ptolemy, still preserved in Vienna and nt Venice, to each of which manuscripts there is a statement, also in manuscript, that tlie maps were delineated by Agathodiemon, of Alexandria, uccordliig to, the eight books of tlie geography of Ptolemy. This is all that is positively known respecting the origin of these interesting maps. Ptolemy flourished in the first half of tlie second century of our era. It is assumed from internal evidence in his works that lie was in Alexandria and made observations there A. I). 139; nnd Agathodiemon, the delinea tor of the maps, is supposed by some to have been a contemporary of his, who was in Alexandria nt that time. Agathodiemon, a mechanician, Is known to have lived in Alexandria in the fifth century of our era, nnd lie is by some supposed to have been the author of these maps. This, however, is questioned by eminent liicnl scholars, and the more general belief is that they were either copies, or a reproduction with addi tions, of maps made by Marinus, of Tyre, the immediate predecessor of Ptolemy, nnd from whom he derived a very lurge part of his geographical information. Marinus shares with Krastotlienese and Hipparchus the distinction of being one of the three founders of the mathematical geography of the ancients. He corrected the errors of his predecessors, and fixed tlie deter mination of many places left uncer tain by previous geographers. It is known from the statement of ancient writers that he constructed maps upon a new method, which entlrly displaced those previously in use. He studied with great cure the works of the previous geographers, and the journals then existing of voyages, collcctinga large amount of materials, which lie used with great discrimi nation, and embodied in a work, un fortunately lost, of which we know littleexcept what is stated in Ptolemy. Tlie strong probability that these names were the production of a co- tempomry of Ptolemy is heightened by tlie fact that nothing comparable to them could have been produced during the Middle ages, when carto graphy and geographical knowledge wore in a very low state. The map of Africa is especially interesting, as thethreolakes represented thereusthe source of the Nile have been confirmed by the discoveries of Bruch, Speke mid linker. These lakes were omitted on all maps after tlie time of I). Anville —about tlie middle of the last century —as belonging to imaginary geogra- pli; ami when Chief Justice Daly, ■ ‘ “ ■ • American Geo- iiilled attention some years ago to tlie fact the Lake Ukerewe (Victoria N’yanza) of Speke and the Mwutun Nizi (Albert N’yun- zn) of Baker were simply rediscove ries, having been known in the time of Ptolemy, his statement was receiv ed with general incredulity, especially in England, until it was vindicated moon should at (i o'clock, it would set in the east at 1 Hi. 34m., and rise nguin In the west at 5h. 9m. the following morning- set again atl01i.43m.in the forenoon to rise once more at 4h.l8m. in tlie after noon, nnd so on. Tims to tlie men of Mars the moon rises twice in the same night. Let us see how his monliglit nights would compare with ours. Suppos ing his moon and ours to rise at II o’clock in the evening. At 0 o'clock the next morning wo would have had nearly twelve hours with our moon above the horizon, while the Mar tians would have had light from theirs but 0h. 26m.—tlint is, counting from (1 o'clock in the evening to (1 o'clock the next morning. But on the other hand, the Martians have their moon every night, which is a boost we on ciwtli cannot make. There is still another Interesting phase of Mura’s moon. Speeding through its orbit in 7h. 40m., each quarter will consist of but lh. 65m.; thus, as in tlie former ease, supposing it to rise at 0 o’clock in tlie evening and at that instant of time to be full moon, nt 71i. 55m. it will hove reached its last quarter, at 91i. 60m. it will lie new moon, and ut llh. 46m. eleven minutes after setting, it would reach the second quarter. Thus in one night tlie Martians will see their moon passing through all tlie pliuses, which with us and our moon require more than 27 days. From the Srw Orleans Times, Sorembcr 111.] The Pullman sleeping ear which reached the city on Tuesday night, attached to the train ducat HI o’clock, was uhout four hours before that the theatre of astlrring Incident, uml that It dill not tcrininateinatragcdyseeniH miraculous. When tlie train stopped ut Uhnttuwu, il took aboard a Air. Charles Lee, IiIh wife, child und ser vant, who bestowed themselves in the sleeper. Directly after leaving the station Lee’s wife requested the sleeping ear conductor to give her a glass of water —u modest request to lie sure—hut Lee seemed to think otherwise, for, abruptly rising in his sent, with nil angry look, lie suddenly delivered a powerful blow upon his wife’s face, exclaiming at the sometime, “Ah, I heard you. nnd I’ll teach you better than to flirt with other men.” Before the few other passengers fairly understood wliat the row was about, Lee hud*whipped out a six-shooter, and, pointing it al Ids wife, threatened her with instant death in ease she offended again. Al this juncture Mrs. Hall—a little, but a brave woman—who sat near by, at tempted lo pacify Lee, and so lar suc ceeded that he consented lo sit down, hut almost directly jumping up ami carrying his pistol in hand, he swore he'd hunt up and kill the sleeping car conductor who hud gone into the forward car—and away lie rushed wildly in pursuit. He had no more than readied the platform of the conch and shut the door than lie quickly turned, anil pressing the muzzle'of his pistol against the car door window, deliv ered three shots in rapid succession, the bullets flying viciously down tlie ear aisle, but as luck would have it, hitting no one—the only approach to injury being a bullet hole in Mrs. Hull’s dress, that Italy being the only one of tlie passengers who stood her ground, the rest having tied for shel ter to u state room, at the first note of deadly danger. Having fired his three bullets, Leo continued his pursuit of the sleeping car conductor. Meanwhile Mr. Mike Norton—the only gentleman passenger in the sleeper—arming himself, set out after Lee, determined to save (lie sleeping ear conductor, if possible. Mrs. Hull, with quick woman's wit, pulled the hell rope sharply, und tlie train con ductor hurrying therefore to tlie rear of the train, soon met Lee In full sail after the sleeping ear conductor, and at tills moment, too, Mr. Norton com ing up, Lee was captured, disarmed and guarded, while a telegram was forwarded to tlie city requesting tlie attendance of an officer upon the arri val of the train. Lee gave no further trouble, and upon ills arrival at the city depot was handed over to a po liceman. He is said to lie a man of violent m.jji fectly delicious !" said Bah, lifting the napkin to hang over the banket, fondly regarding the little round loaf that lay inside. "Leave some smell for mo!" com manded Betty, rushing back to get her fair share of tlie spicy fragrance. The pug noses sniffed it up luxuri ously, and tlie bright eyes feasted upon tlie loveliness of the cake, so brown and shiny, with a tipsy-look- ing B in piecrust staggering down one side, instead of sitting properly atop. "Ma let me put it on tlie very last minute, and it baked so hard I couldn't pick it off. Wo can give Belinda tlint piece, so it is just as well,” observed Betty taking the lead, os her child was' queen ofthe revel. “Let's set them round, so they can see too,” proposed Bid), going with a hop, skip nnd jump, to collect her young family. Betty agreed, and for several min utes both were absorbed in seating their dollH about the table, for some of the dear things were so limp they wouldn’t sit up. nnd others so stiff they wouldn't sit down, and nil sorts of seats hud to lie contrived to suit the peculiarity of their spl tics. This ardu ous task accomplished, the fond mam mas stepped back to enjoy the specta cle, which, l assure you, was an im pressive one. Belinda sut with great dignity ut the bend, her hands gen teelly holding a pink cambric pocket- handkerchief in her lap. Josephus, her cousin, took the foot, elegantly arrayed in a new suit of purple nnd green gingham, with his speaking countenance much obscured by a straw lint several sizes too large for him; while on either Hide sat guests of every size, complexion unu cos tume, producing n very gay and va ried effect, as ait were dressed with a noble disregard of fashion,— h'rom “Under the Lilacs,” by Louisa M. Abbott, in St. Nicholas, for December. 4 ^ q In plain English, tlie papers that speak of the magnificent opportuni ties this State (Texas) presents to tlie newcomer lie, anil lie in u very gratu itous, criminal way indeed. The un varnished truth is, llial our labor market is already stocked lo overflow ing, and every i'resh arriving train hut adds to the miserable multitude in our midst that suffers, starves anil finally lights its way hack East again. Before the door of nearly every house in lids dtv there daily begs a swarm that would sudden the heart of a Hatyr.—Dallas ( Texas) Herald. Olftet lo llto Gnu'vn Awnrd. Halifax, Nov. 23.—The Fishery Commission gave their decision to day according Great Britain $5,500.- iHHi. It was a majority award. Presi dent Deforacand Sir A. T. (hilt, agree ing, and Judge Kellogg, U. S. Com missioner, dissenting. Went her. Caoutchouc Making on the Amnion. [Scribner for December; **From the Atlantic to the Andes.”] Narrow paths lend from tin* hut through tlie thick underbrush (o tlie solitary trunks of the India rubber trees; and as soon us the dry season al lows, the woodman goes into the seringal with a hatchet in order to cut small holes in the bark, or rather in the wood of the caoutchouc tree, from which a milky white sup begins to flow through an earthenware spout fastened to the wound. Below is a piece of bamboo which is cut into tlie spape of a bucket. In this way lie goes from tree to tree until, upon IiIh return, in order to carry tlie material more conveniently, he begins to empty the bamboo I buckets into a large calabash. Tlie contents of this are poured into one of those great turtle shells which on the Amazons are used for every- kind of purpose. He at once sets lo work on the smoking process, since, if left to stand long, the gummy par ticles separate, and tile quality of Hi India rubber is hurt. This consists subjecting the sap, when spread out thin, to the smoke from nuts of the Urucury or Uauassu palm, whieli, strung, to say, is the only thing that will turn it solid at once. An earth enware "howl without bottom," whose neck lias been drawn together like thut of a bottle, forms a kind of chimney when placed over a heap of dry red-hot imls*so tlmt tlie while smoke escapes from the top in thick clouds. The workman pours a small quantity of the white rich milk-like liquor over u kind of light wooden shovel which he turns with quick ness, in order to separate tlie sap as much us possible. Then lie passes it quickly through the dense smoke above the little chimney, turns il about several times and at once perceives the milk take on a grayish yellow color and turn solid. In this wuy he lays on skin after skin until tlie India rubber on each side is two or three centimeters thick and he considers the ptaneha done. It is then cut upon one side, peeled off'the shovel nnd hung up to dry, since mueli water Ims gone in between the layers, which should dry out if ]K>Hsil)le. The color of tlie pluuclm, which is ut first a bright silver gray, becomes more and more yellow and at last turns into the brown of caoutchouc as it is known in commerce. A good workman can finish in tliis way live or six pounds nu hour. The thicker, the more even, und the freer from bubbles the whole mass is, so much tin* better is its quality mid higher tin' price. I!i].«■ Ilr(I Irtini tlie Trmek. New York, November 23. -Tlie American Jockey t'lull’s investiga tion of the charge of fraud made In relation to the match race between the colts, Higgins and Piper Hcid- iHsposition, ami tills disposition was on Tuesday aggravated by drink to a more than ordinary high tempern- Tiiere was another interesting feat ure of the scene which would have puzzled any lint those well acquainted with (lie manners and customs of dolls. A fourteenth rag baby, with a china head, hung by her neck from the rusty knocker in the middle of the door. A sprig of white and one of purple lilac, nodded over her, a dress of yellow calico, richly trimmed with red flannel scallops, shrouded her slender form, a garland of small flowers crowned her glossy curls, and a pair of blue hoots touched (oes in the friendliest, if not the most grace ful, manner. An emotion of grief, ns well as surprise, might well have thrilled unv youthful breast ut such a spectacle, for why, oil! why, was this resplendent doily hung up there to lie stared ut by thirteen of her kindred? Was she a criminal, tin- sight of whose execution threw them fiat upon their bucks in speechless horror. Or was she un idol, to lie adored in that humlde posture? Neither, my friends. She was blonde Belinda, set, or rather hung, aloft in tlie place of honor, for (his was her seventh birthday, and a superb hall was about to celebrate the great event. All were evidently awaiting a sum mons lo the festive board, but such was tliepcrl'cct breedingof these dolls that not a single eye out of the whole 27 (Dutch I Ians had lost, one of the black heads from his worsted countcnuncciturned fora moment to ward the table, or so much us winked, us they lay in decorous rows, gazing in mute admiration ut Belinda. She, unable to repress the joy and pride which swelled her sawdust bosom till the seams gaped, gave uil occasional bounce as the wind waved her yellow skirts or made tile blue hoots dance u sort of jig upon the door. Hanging was evidently not a painful operation, for she smiled contentedly I lo,di ed us if the red ribbon around her neck was not uneonilbrlably tight; -therefore, if slow sollbeation suited her, who else had any right to com plain? Son pleasing silence reigned, not even broken by a snore from Dina, tlie top of whose turban alone was visible above the coverlet, or il cry from the baby Jane, though her Imre feet stuck out in a way would have produced shr less well-trained infant. Presently voices were preaching, and through whieli led to a side path came two little girls, one carrying a small pitch er, the other proudly hearing a basket covered with a napkin. They looked like twins, but were Mot -for Mali was a year older than Hetty, though only an inch taller. Both had oil brown calico frocks, much the worse for a week.'s wear, hut clean pink pinafores, in honor of the occasion, made ii|i for that, as well as tlie gray stockings und thick hoots. Both hud round rosy faces rather sunburnt, pug noses somewhat freckled, merry blue eyes, and braided tails of hair hang ing down their hacks like those of tlie dear little Kenwigses. “Don't they look sweet?" cried Bali, gazing with maternal pride upon the left-hand row of dolls, who might ropriutely have sung in chorus, Washington, November 23.—In dications: For tlie South Atlantic and EastGulf Strtes, rising or station ary barometer, southwest to north west winds, nearly stationary tem perature, mid partly cloudy weather succeeding the ruin iii the ('urolinas. APOLLINARIS NATURAL' Mineral Water. HIGHLY EFP 1*1 HVFHENT ! DU. HUNTER MdlUIKF. Rblmioml (.Surgeon to late Stonewall .luelcsoti)—” Healthful and lellglitfnl to drink. Valuable in Dyspep- iiillHl ( lellglitfnl bev- AM A. II AM MON It—“Far superior to grateful and olutely pure aif ‘tin mi. wii Vichy mi. alfkeojl. loo.mis fresh I iiif, •oto I ilie I’ltOF. IYANKLYN, London. Eng.—‘‘Impreg- iinted only with Hs own gas.” Dll. K. It. CI'AHI.EE .“t'sei'al ami very agree- able.” Oil. AUSTIN FLINT. IHt. F. N. OTIS-“Health- ful, and well suited for Dyspepsia, and lite dls ifSIo III (Joilt.” Oil. .1. MARION SIMS.—‘‘Not most - Bladder and To be bud of i Druggists ami throughout tin e Merchants end Water •<l States, an * FRED’K DEBARY & CO., II ami WAKICK'S STIIKKT, no'2H eotiliin NK» YORK. THE WORLD’S STANDARD tlmt eks from a heard u|e t he arch FAIRBANKS SCALES RECEIVED HIGHEST MEDALS AT World World World' World World World World rair, London Fair, New York Fair, Paris : Fair, Vienna i Fair, Santiago, Cliili.. i Fair, Philadelphia... .1851 .1853 .1807 .1873 .1.875 .1870 Fair, Sidney, Australia... 1.877 ALSO SOLE AGENTS FOIl MILES* ALARM MONEY DRAWERS. HANCOCK'S INSPIRATORS. ter known for stall Ma rine al I . lie OSt'II.I.ATIMi l"l Ml’ (OIII'lM's Pl’MI’S, FAIRBANKS 6t CO., ill I IliiMiihv.y, New York. aal I (I'JtuMMwIni It.v IllliSni A 1IHCHT. Valuable Heal Estate at Auction. i Til o'clock on Hie llrsi Tuesday In l)e- ,\ ccinlicr next, will la- sold to Hu- liishesl approp \\ c u LOT nick, run on the last day of the fall meeting ul Jerome Park, resulted in the expulsion from Jerome Park course of LotigsUitt' und Drennon, owners of the colts, and of the well known jockey, Barbee. The cose of I abandon. Spillman ami other jockeys, are held “Tlie cake can lie < in abeyance. I lix the children. 11 “Very nice; hut my Belinda beat- them all. I do think “lie i- thesplen- dldest child that ever was!" And Betty set down the liu-kct o> run and embrace tile suspended darling, just then kicking tip her heels with joyful ot, und 117 fe, •eel. <>n lit’- I.. 1C with live rot ells of water in high. . row... the desirable Wiled by Mrs. Mary * t 10 inches on noli hr; while we does smell j>er- Tliis lot is •hurdles uml *■ neighborhood. Nov. 1st h—”1,1