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CAROLINA.
The Political Peneeutien - The Con
vict Syetem—A Serious Accident—Sen
tence Day.
(Corres. Chronicle and Conetitutiona'ust )
Columbia, S. C., April 4, 1883.—The
newspapers in this State have taken up
the suggestion, made in this coirespon
deoce some weeks since,that the Governor
should convene the Legislature in extra
session for the purpose of making an ap
propriation for the defense of the people
being persecuted tn the United States
Courts, and they very generally approve
the suggestion. The Governor may con
sider that this is not one of those “extra
ordinary occeasions” which authorizes the
Executive to call an extra session, but un
less these persecutions cease it might be
• • well for the Legislature,when it does meet,
to make an appropriation in advance for
such expenses l , for it is now reduced to a
certainty that all rcanagers of election are
to be arrested, and at least stand an ex
amination before a.United States Commis
sioner, even if thev are not sent up to the
court for trial, end ns the people are un
able to bear the large expense necessarily
incurred in defending them selves, the State
may find trouble in procuring managers of
election at all unless she affords them al!
the protection they require. The United
States government fully protects all of its
officials. It dcesn’t matter what offense
they commit against State or municipal
law’s, if arrested for misconduct the Dis
trict Attornev at once has the case trans
ferred to the United States Court for trial,
and he defends them there, and there cer
tainly can be no reason why the State
should not do likewise, especially when
her officers are innocent of the charges
against them.
The present ay-tern of hiring out the
convicts of the State is meetirg with
almost universal condemnation by the
people and the pros. It is pronounced
brutal and inhuman and contrary to all
the higher principlesand refinements cf
civilization, and it is considered a reflec
tion upon the Christian character of the
people. While all of this is certainly true,
and I endorse every word of it, the ques
tion arises what is to be done with these
people at present ? The Legislature made
no appropriation for the support of the
penitentiary, but required it to sustain it
self, and in addi’iou to this maintain 230
convicts at work on the canal snd expend
in this enterprise $15.0C0 of its earnings
The accommodations within its walls are
not sufficient to utilize the entire convict
force, and if all those now hired out were
to be withdrawn it would not only decrease
the revenue of the institution, but add a
large amount to its current expenses, so
that it might be seriously embarrassed
The director’, or some of them, and I
think a majority of them think that all the
convicts should be kept employed within
the walls of the penitentiary, and the
superintendent strongly favors this plan,
but they all realize that it can not be done
until farther preparations for carrying
this plan into effect can be perfected, and
I am sure that this will be done at the very
earliest' practicable time, and what many
people now consider a reproach upon oar
good name will be removed.
Rev. Dr. George Howe met with a seri
ous accident on Bunday afternoon while
out riding. The bolt connecting the front
axle with the carriage was broken and the
‘ horses moving off the Doctor was thrown
violently to the ground, sustaining a frac
ture of the right leg above the knee. He
was taken home and has received every
attention that the best medical skill can
give. Dr. Howe is chairman of the facu'ty
of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary
of this city, and is professor of Biblical
literature in that institution. Ho is in
his 81st year and last year the semi-cen
tennial of his connection with the Semi
nary was celebrated. Although advancod
in years his mind retains its youthful
vigor, and in the ordinary course of events
he has many more years of usefulness
ahead of him. He has many friends in
this State and throughout the entire South
who fervently hope for his speedy and
complete recovery.
Mondav was legal sales day in this coun
ty. bnt there were very few sales, the
sheriff selling only two lots in the city and
the master one.
The prisoners convicted last week were
sentenced on Monday. One party convict
ed of assault with intent to kill, was fined
S2O and costs or two months in the county
jail; one for stealing live stock, one year in
the penitentiary; one for house breaking,
two years in the penitentiary; one for grand
larceny, two years in the penitentiary; one
for burning stack of hay in the night time,
ten years in the penitentiary, and the same
party for carrying concealed weapons, one
month in the penitentiary, and one for as
sault with intent to kill, $25 and costs or
two months in jail. Richland.
Spartanburg County.
Among the tax duplicates made out by
the county auditors for the next tax, ab
stracts of which have been furnished the
Oomptroller-General, the following are the
figures for this county: Number of acres.
600,490: real estate, $4,670,980; personal
property, $2,363,350; total, $6,934,330;
polls, 4.142; total tax, including polls,
£109,132 95.
Edgefield County.
Jtonitor.* The fruit crop will not be a
total failure. Some orchards will yield
nearly a fall crop while others will have
but a light sprinkling. This is about the
way our information places it. Glad it is
no worse.
.Advertiser: “Will our Hussars and
Rangers go to the fast approaching
Schuetzenfest in Aiken ? We fear not, in
asmuch as we have not heard of either
company drilling or practicing in a long
time. And still we hope they will. Their
riding is the finest in the world; and we
should be very proud to see it illustrated
before the hundreds of wealthy and dis
tinguished Northern people now in
Aiken.*'
Fairfield County.
Work has been begun on the short rail
way, which is to connect “Rock City”
quarry with the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad. It will be about four
and a half miles in length when completed.
The work is being rapidly pushed forward,
and it is thought will be ready for use in
the course of two or three months. The
quarry contains an inexhaustible store of
the finest granite, and with a railroad for
an outlet, it promises unlimited . develop
ment.
Aiken County.
On the 17th and 18th of April the
Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor and
the State Dental Association meet in Aiken.
—On the 29th March an old colored mao,
Daniel Hickson, who was miller at the
mill of Owen Aiderman, Esq., in this
oounty, was burnt to death. It seems that
the old man had been sick and was left
alone in the house, while his wife went to
the mill, some three hundred yards dis
tant. When she got to the mill her atten
tion was called to a suspicious smoke at
the house; whereupon she ran to the house
and found her husband lying upon the
floor, wrapt in flames. She procured a
bucket of water and threw it on the burn-
F ing man and extinguished the fire, but it
Rjr? was too late, as he never spoke afterwards.
' It is a matter of conjecture as to how he
[ft naught on flre,
GEORGIA.
The Crops—The Artesian Well—Politi
cal Matter*.
(Oor. Chronicle and Conaritut onalist )
Midville, April 5.-As your valuable
paper is always ready to promote the ma
terial it ter eat of our common count ry in
everything pertaining to its prosperity, I
will give you a few items of news from the
grand oil county of Burke.
The agricultural interest of this section
of the ccunty is as well advanced as ould
he expected from the backwardness of the
spring. Corn is generally coming up and
the farmers will begin in a few days to
plart cotton. I do not think that there
will be as large an area planted in cotton
as la*t year, owing to the low price.—
Farmers are beginning to learn to diver
aify their crop?. A notable instance :
Captain F. A. Jones and eon have planted
one hundred acres in melons, from which
they expect to realize a handsome profit
on lands heretofore planted in cotton.
Our planteis have found out by bitter ex
perience that the “all cotton programme”
is not the Aest. ’*.*:.
Midville and vicinity are rejoicing over
their success in an artesian well. The
water has been analyzed Ly Prof. H. C.
White, State Chemist. The principal in
gredients are sulphur, soda, potash and
magnesia, making it, in the language of
Prof. White, “a very pure, good and
wholesome drinking water.” It is a bless
ing to this community, than which none
could be greater. It has already increased
the valae of real estate here since several
persons have applied for lots. With such
wells here and there ever this county the
value is inestimable.
While there is no political excitement in
this eection, it is generally conceded by
thoughtful men that Col. Boynton “is the
right man in the right place,” and it is
confidently believed that he should be
quietly nominated at the approaching con
vention in Atlanta. J. J. D.
The Nameof the County—Superior Court
—Visiting Lawyers.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Warrenton, Ga., April 4.—lt was sug
gested to me to-day that Warren is of suffi
cient importance to have a weekly corres
pondent to the Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist. The people of Warren are plain
people, looking not so much to matters
that concern others as to things which in
terest and concern ourselves. Warren
county tonk its name from Major General
Joseph Warren, of revolutionary fame.
He was born at Roxbury. Mass., in 1741,
act! graduated with honor at Harvard Uni
versity in 1759, and in 1776 he became
one of the most uncompromising and de
termined enemies to the Stamp Act. His
orations on the massacre of the 3d of
March are the very breath of patriotism.
He took his commission of Major-General
four days before his death, in the ever
memorable battle of Banker’s or Breed’s
Hill. The revolution developed not a
more knightly soldier, nor a more zealous
patriot, nor a more intense lover of coun
try than he was; and in the death of no
man did the friends of the colonies sustain
so great a loss as in hie. Warren county is
worthy his name.
The Superior Court is in session here
now. Among the visiting lawyers, I no
tice Major Cumming and Mr. Brandt from
yoor city. Your pspular and handsome
agent, Mr. Mitchell, is also here, making
friends for himself and for the paper he
represents. In fact, Warrenton is full ot
life this week. Besides the interest usual
ly manifested during court weeks, we have
agents of the “Wizard Oil” company, who
give us free concerts three times each day.
They pay the ladies of Warrenton the com
pliment of being the me st beautiful of any
they have seen in the South, and no coun
try can boast of prettier women than we
have in this South-land of ours. X.
Oglethorpe County.
Hail fell Sunday in portions of Ogle
thorpe, to the depth of four inches, and
was qiite large.
Dougherty County.
Lightning struck the depot at Docker’s
Station, Sunday, knocked down the chim
ney and split open one end of the house,
doing considerable damage.
Fulton County.
Captain John Miledge says that forty
five of the Governor’s Horse Guard will
have their own horses by the drill of Thurs
day evening next.
Rockdale County.
Mrs. Farmer, a lady living at Lithonia,
was severely gored by an infuriated bull,
one day last week, and was so seriously
injured that her recovery is considered
doubtful.
Newton County.
Nfar-The grand jury found 128 true bills
at the recent term of oar Superior Court.
There has probably never been anything
like that number found at any term of our
court since the Indians raised their last
war whoop in our park.
Bartow County.
__ A little negro boy, named Joe Watkins,
was burned to death on Col. T. C. Battle’s
premises last week. The child—three
years old—was left by his mother alone in
hei- house. His clothes caught, and be
fore any one could reach him he was so
badly burned that he died two days after
ward.
Walton County.
News— Half the men in Monroe will go
to the convention in Atlanta next Tuesday.
Every man in town is doing his best for
Maj. McDaniel.
Mrs. Berrien Upshaw, of this county,
has sold 116 pounds of butter in four
months from two small cows, besides using
as much as the family needed.
Harris County.
John Cox, Who killed his brother-in-law,
Wm. Thomas, in Harris county, Saturday
night, had a preliminary hearing on Mon
day, and wasoemmitted to await a trial by
the Superior Court. He is now in jail at
Hamilton.
Bibb County.
One of the hotels yesterday expelled a
young lady of a prominent Southwest
Georgia family from its hospitality on
account of her fast goings on. She raised
quite a racket about the passenger depot
last night. It is a sad case.— Graphic.
Coweta County.
Herald: There is a geod old colored
woman living in this town who several
years ago was totally blind, but whose eye
sight has been almost entirely restored, she
says, by constant prayer. —The family of Mr.
McDade were made very sick, (probably
poisoned) yesterday, by eating pies made
of dried peaches. They exhibited every
symptom of poison, being for a short time*
deathly sick and vomiting freely, which
soon brought relief.
Oglethorpe County.
Echo : “The dogs of this section have
commenced to die of a strange and hereto*
fore unknown disease, their tongues be
coming swollen so that they cannot eat.—
Mr. B. B. Williams, who shot the negro
near Winterville, an aooount of which we
gave last week, has been bound over in a
bond of SI,OOO, charged with an assault
with intent to murder. He shot the ne
gro four times instead of three.—On Sun
day morning last a very severe hail and
wind storm passed over the northern and
eastern portions of this county doing con
siderable damage to grain. In the neigh
borhood of Winterville we hear the hail
stones lay on the ground an inch or two
deep.”
VIRGINIA.
A tracker living near Norfolk has al
ready “pat out” 630.C03 cabbage plant 1 .
Several parties from Michigan have re
cently purchased farms in Sussex count7.
A Fredericksburg manufacturer Jias
shipped ia the past three months $50,-
UOO worth of plows.
Ths town of Bowling Green, in Caroline
county, is beiugrapidlv improved ty new
buildings and the influx of Eettlers. It
has several large male and female schools.
There are n°arly one hundred pers ns
in Gloucester, King and Qieen and King
Henry counties Virginia, between the ages
of eighty and one hundred years, who are
in good health, and of sound mind. These
persons are all natives.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington is to have a city delivery of
postal matter.
At Stout’s and Monroe the bail on Fri
day fell in immense quantities, and the
passengers described the lumps of various
sizes, from a marble to a base ball.
Ground wan broken for a new furnace st
UranßerYfT NfrthCe.rfmta? on March*'
31. The great mine at Cranberry is
looking good, and they have about 5.C03
tons of ore on hand. They recently ship
ped ],500 tons of the ore to Allentown
and had it made into pig, and it turned
out fir.-t class Bessemer pig, whiffi cannot
be excelled in the country.
The Beaufort Telephone says: The whal
ing crew at Shackelford’s Banks struck a
bonanza on Friday last. A school of black
fi-b, or cowfish, averaging about ten feet
in length, camo inside the harbor and
were chased ashore on the banks, ten of
them being caught. The blubber was soon
stripped from them, and the process of
manufacture of oil commenced.
FLORIDS.
Pensacola wants a bonded warehouse,
Pensacola is to have a new bank which
will open for business in April.
It has been estimated that not less than
20,000 people have visited St. Augustine
this season.
Mr. A. Simon, of Monticello, planted
sweet potatoes in January and now has
tubers eight and nine icches in circumfer
ence.
The number of bearing orange trees on
the Halifax river is estimated at 300,000.
New groves are being planted all the
time.
Nearly every foot of land west of Palatka
as lor out as Penial has been bought up,
and new settlers are making improvements
continually.
Funds enough to build the Sanford and
Eustis Railroad from Sanford to Wekiva
river Fla., twenty miles, have been sub
scribed. The line will be continued to
Ocala.
Leesburg is sadly in need of a large saw
mill. At present the demand for lumber
is large and the supply is extremely in
adequate to the wants of the rapidly in
creasing population of that place.
The limes-Union says: Last week Mr.
W. H. Pillow shipped 4,023 quarts of
strawberries North. He has previously
shipped 18,713 quarts making the total
shipment~to date 22,736 quarts.
ALABAMA.
The oat crop in most ports cf the State
is reported very premising.
A branch of tbe Pensacola and Atlantic
Railroad is to be built to Elba.
Cotton planting is progressing very ac
tively in many parts of the State.
Messis. Enslen & Smith have opened a
coal mine about two miles from Birming
ham.
A farmer in Lowndes county has a cot
ton field of one hundred acres, on which
he is putting fifteen hundred dollars’
worth of fertilizers.
There is no doubt about Montgomery
being on a genuine boom. Many small
factories, in which labor is the chief ex
pense, are springing up in all parts of the
city.
Two miles south of Montgomery, Mr.
Glass has 220 mulberry trees and seventy
thousand worms are at work in the first
and second which terminate in the
gaudy silk. He expects to reab'zs a profit
this year of three thousand dollars.
The business of Guntersville is reported
very fine and steadily on the increase.
The number of business houses is double
what it was a few years ago. The post
master says the money pissing through
his hands' for money orders during the
pastyear was forty thousand dollars.
TENNESSEE.
Knoxville has forty doctors and seventy
five lawyers.
Shelbyville and Murfreesboro are now
connected by telephone.
Three hundred barrels of Irish potatoes
have been planted this spring in the Cul
leoka district of Maury county.
Ten of the coke ovens at Spring City
were completed last week, and the com
pany are about ready to begin making
coke.
It is thought that the Knoxville Water
Company will have their works in opera
tion by the first of May.
The new saw mills have jast been built
on Cannon’s cieek, one by Polk Roberson
and B. F. Boyd, in Sequachee Valley, near
Sequachee College.
State Comptroller P. P. Pickard an
nounces the scholastic population cf the
State to be 549,170, and the school fund
for the various counties as amounting to
$68,321 29.
Though the area of square miles in Geor
gia *’s one-fourth larger than Tennessee,
this State has the advantage over Georgia
in population by exactlv 179 souls. No
other two States in the Union approach so
near to each other in population.
LOUISIANA.
The parish of Varmillion is almost out of
debt.
There are fifty money order offices in this
State.
An ice factory is one of the many wants
of Opelousa.
Farming operations are briskly going on
all over the State.
There is a good prospect for the oat crop
in St. Helena parish.
Lake Charles has a shingle factory that
turns out 30,000 bunched shingles.
The ten mile branch road from New
Iberia to the Louisiana salt mines is rapidly
approaching completion.
Four hundred thousand shad will short
ly be placed in the Atchafalaya river and
Bayou Leonard, in this State, by the Unit
ediStaUs Fish Commissioner. .
MISSISSIPPI.
There are now between 700 and 800
te&ms at work grading between Kosciusko
and Aberdeen, and it will not be many
months before those two points are in di
rect railroad communication.
There is not a delinquent tax payer in
Choctaw oounty this year.
A colored youth stood second in the
competitive examination at Vernon last
week for the West Point cadetship from
that district.
The M. and T. Railroad pays a privilege
tax of $1,002 86 every year to Panola
county.
The Magnolia Gazette says: “Mr. 8, M.
Simmons, of this county, has a son 16
years of age who raised last year eight
bales of cotton from eight acres of pine
land without any fertilizers.
Everything points to a good fruit crop
on the coast this year.
AUGUSTA, GA.,-WEDNESDAY APRIL 11, 18b3
DISGRACEFUL SCENES
DURING THE B ALL^t’TIN G FOR
MAYOR IN CHIIAGO.
Polling Placets Located itb.Bar Rooms—
Fights and Drunkenness the Order of
the Day—What MayotUlarrison Has
to Say.
(By Telegraph to .)
New York, April 4--J tpecial from
Chicago this morning, oojgyerning yester
day’s election, says : “New before in the
history of Chicago weiei&uch shameful
scenes enacted at an electisp as disgraced
some of the precincts. Jfespite the fact
that an order h id been i’sqed for the clos
ing of all saloons during hours,
there was not a single samon in the city
closed. Polling places were located in
saloons and while the ballots were being
received through the side window the
front door was swinging all day, while
. over the
precinct oOlrtßßSßiid was located?
in a barber shdp ors State street,
between two saloons while the eec
ond story of the whole block appeared to
be one continuous house of di'order. All
day long the sidewalk was thronged with
a most forbidding crowd of thugs, thieves
and sluggers. Respectable colored peo
gle who ventured among them with Carry
tickets were not allowed within sight of the
polls. The polling place for the fifth pre
cinct of the First Ward was in the rear of
a saloon on State street. The election no
taries bad their places in the saloon. The
bar was patronized steadily all day while
the policemen moved in and out with the
surging crowd of State street roughs.
There were several murderous affrays dur
ing the day. the most prorsrinent cf which
was a terrible assault upon Geo. Y. Roun
tree, a co’ore4 barber, by a negro despe
rado named Macon Pointer. Rcuntree was
stabbed in tbe abdomen and will die. His
assailant was arrested. Carter A. Harrison
received the congratulations of his friends
in the council chamber at midnight. Turn
ing to the reporters he asked them to go
to their offices and tell their editors that
abuse and vituperation would not do. The
papers had vilified him and the people
had rebuked them by sustaining him with
an?ejorityof lO,COO He then referred
to the clergy who preached politics from
the pulpit. Carey, his opponent for the
mayoralty was a good insurance man but a
very poor judge. If he end other gentle
men in the reform movement would now
come to him and consult as to city affairs
he would be glad to listen to them and
consider their opinions. After this he in
tended to allow no low dives in the city
and as to gambling it would have to be
carried on behind darkened slats. The
mayor then bade his friends good night.
The Vote in the City.
Chicago, April 4.-Later returns from
the city election show the following Demo
cratic majorities: Harrison, for mayor,
10,000; Gunnell, for city attorney, 12,-
003; Dunphy, for treasurer, 3 000. Ten
Republican and eight Democratic aider
men are elected, leaving kbe eticaplexion of
Council 21 Democrsfxsand 15 Republicans.
Election in St. Louis.
St. Louis, April 4.—At the election
yesterday for members of the municipal
assembly, the Democrats elected 5 mem
bers to the upper house and the Republi
cans 1. To tne lower house the Demo
crats elected 15 and the Republicans 11.
Two Independent Democrats were also
elected. The vote was light and there was
not much interest taken in the election.
Another Account.
St. Louis. April 4 —Of the five Council
men elected two are Democrats, two Re
publicans and one an Independent. The
preposition to fund the city debt was car
ried.
Denver's City Government.
Denver, April 4.—lncomplete returns
indicate that ex-Gov. John L. Routt is
elected mayor, together with the whole
Republican city ticket, with the probable
exception of the city attorney. Governor
Routt was compelled to accept the nomina
tion as the only man who could unite the
Republican factions and beat both opposi
tions. He received a majority over all.
LITTLE RHODY.
She Rejects Sprague and Elects the Re
publican Candidate.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Providence. R. 1., April4.—Thereturns
indicate the election of Bourne, Republi
can, as Governor, by 2,000 to 2,500 ma
jority. Sprague’s vote is lighter than was
anticipated.
PETER COOPER.
Sketch of the Veteran’s Life—Cause of
His Death.
(Bv Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New York, April 4.—Mr. Peter Cooper,
who died in this city this morning, cele
brated his 92nd birthday on February
12th, when there was quite a social gath
ering at bis house. He had been ailing
for some time.with, a slight cold and on
Sunday he was compelled to remain in his
bed. His family physician was at once
summoned and on his arrival discovered
that his patient was suffering from a severe
attack of pneumonia. Mr. Cooper’s ad
vanced years were a great drawback to his
recovery. About two o’elcck Ibis morning
be called his son, fx-Mayor Cooper, and
Mrs. Abram 8. Hewitt, his daughter, and
her fam4y to his bedside, saying to them
that he knew he had not long to live and
that they must become reconciled to this
fact. His death occurred exactly at 3, a.
m., and he remained conscious up to the
time of his demise and made several re
marks in regard to family affairs. Mr.
Cooper was born in this city on February
12th. 1791, and lived a life full of honors
from his early boyhood.
RICH DEVELOPMENTS.
How Texas' Legislators While Away
Idle Hours.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Austin, Tex., April 5.—A special com
mittee of the lower branch us the Texas
Legislature met here, yesterday afternoon,
to investigate the charge of corruption
made by tbe Texas Siftings against the
House, in connection with the bill propos
ing the leasing out of the State convicts
for ten years. Joe Walker, a politician,
testified that one of the lessees had quar
ters in a private building vhere poker
was played by members of the Legis
lature and friends ©f the lessees.—
'The witness had J?een there frequently.
Whiskey, cigars, ’wine, eta, were free.
Sometimes one of the lessees was host and
sometimes a member of the Legislature
was master of ceremonies. The witness
mentioned the names of several Senators
and Representatives whom he had seen
there. He testified to having offered the
proprietors of the Democratic Statesman
SSOO if they would cease their opposition
to the penitentiary lease bill. He did not
have SSOO of his own, and was not inter
ested in the lease, but expected the lessees
to reimburse him some way.
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ABONG THE PALMETTOS.
Dr. Sims' Wife tn Court as a Witness-
Homicide Near Columbia.
(Special to Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Columbia, April s.—Doctor Sims’wife
was in court tc-day, and Sims’ counsel,
Messrs. Johnson, of Union, and Abney of
Colombia, raised the legal objection that
she could not be compelled to testify
against her husband. Solicitor Bonham
opposed the point and argued that the
State could force her to give evidence.
Judge Hudson reserved his decision until
to-morrow. Mrs. Sims is an unwilling
witness. It is probable that the court will
decide that she can be put on the stand
but can refuse to answer any question pro
pounded if she desires.
Joseph B. Oliver kiHed J. R. Williamson
about twelve miles from Columbia, this
morning. He immediately surrendered
himself t© Trial Justice Kinder and was
H > e tG < h * vc
kiiledT wHwHm io self-defense, tut tas
-for the killing or the circum
stances connected therewith are not known.
Richland.
He Define; the Prerogatives and Duties
of the United States Commissioners in
Such Cases—Affiants' Charges Must
Be Known Not to Be Frivolous.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Charleston, April s.—ln the United
States Circuit Court, to-day, after repre
sentation by the counsel for the defend
ants in the election cases, cf the frivolous
and unwarrantable character of many of
the recent political arrests, Judge Bond
addressed an official letter to the
clerk of the court in which he says:
“It has been brought to the attention
of the court that in several instances
in cases for misdemeanor, tbe United States
commissioners have issued warrants of
arrest upon affidavits made upon infor
mation and belief merely, without any
inquiry as to the source of the affiant’s in
formation or grounds of his belief, under
the impression that the commissioner, had
no right to make such inquiry. No war
rant of arrest or seizure lor any offense
against the laws of the United States upon
mere belief or suspicion of any person
should be issued. The court desires that
yon inform the commissioners that it is
not only their prerogative bnt (heir duty
to examine into the source of the affiant’s
information and the grounds of his belief.
If other proof is at hand or accessible it
should be had and examined. The issuing
of warrant" of arrest and seizure is not a
mere ministerial act, but a judicial func
tion, and should not be done until the com
missioner’s judgment is satisfied, and
the court desires the commissioners also
to know that for the safety and protection
of the community and the orderly conduct
of the judicial proceedings, all processes
issued by them, except under extraordina
ry circumstances, ought to be served by
a'Marshal of the United States or his dep
uties.”
OLD ENGLAND'S PENNIES.
Yearly Report of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer—Facts and Figures.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
London, April 5 -In the House of Com
mons to-day, Mi Hugh 0. Childers, Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, laid before the
House the budget tor the financial year
ending March 31,1883. The total reve
nue for the year was £89,604,000. This
exceeded the estimate by £4,069,003. A
decrease in the consumption of spirits had
made a reduction from that source of
£5,000,000. He said the total expendi
tures had been £88,906,000, showing a
surplus of £98,000. The expenses
of the war in Egypt, including
amount contributed to defray the cost of
Indian contingents were £3,896,000.
There fell to the present administration of
the government an inheritance of £7,850,-
CO3, war charges, which had been paid out
of taxes of £10,703,000 for war charges,
He said he had no arrears whatever to re
port on account of the war expenditure as
incurred by tbe present government. For
the coming year he estimated that the ex
penditure would be £85,789,030. The
national debt was reduced the past year by
about £7.100,000, and he expected to make
a further reduction this year of about SB,-
000,003. He further said that he expected
to see the debt reduced during the next
20 years by £172,000,000. He estimates
that the coming year would bring a gov
ernment revenue of £88,480,000, giving
a surplus of £2,691,000 provided the ex
penditures did not exceed the estimates.
Mr. Childers proposed, among other re
ductions, that a provision be made looking
toward a reduction in the rate-for tele
grams sent anywhere inland to six pence
each. This tbe first report of the popular
new Chancellor, was received with much
favor in the House and at its conclusion he
was complimented with loud and prolong
ed cheers.
THE PRESIDENT’S FLORIDA TRIP.
The Journey Begun Yesterday in a Pri
vate Saloon Car—How the Chief Mag
istrate Moves.
Washington, April s.—President Arthur
having appointed the Postmaster-General,
is now free to begin his journey to Flori
da, and he proposes to leave Washington
to-morrow at 11:25. He will travel in
Mr. Frank Thomson’s private car,
tbe same one, by the way, that re
cently conveyed Mr. Charles A. Dana, of
the Sun, as far as St. Louis, on his way to
California. It has been used on several
occasions by the President, having been
placed st his disposal by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. As it stands in the
Baltimore and Potomac station, it looks
very much like an ordinary coach,
differing only ia having an observation
platform at one end. Inside it is divided
into two saloons, furnished as parlor and
ditiig-rocm. The parlor ia richlyj car
peted and is supplied with comfortable fur
niture in old gold plush, and the curtains
are all green and gold. The dining
saloon, which is arranged to furnish sleep
ing berths for several passengers, is hand
some and cheerful, but not at ail extrava
gant in its fin ish. The President’s state
room is between the two saloons. The car
is in charge of Steward Joseph Green, who
has been in the employ of the Pennsyl
vania company for nearly twenty years.
A commodious pantry at one end of the
car is stocked with a supply of good things,
large enough to protect the President for a
few days from the hardships of Southern
railroad dining-rooms. If the train keeps
to schedule time it will reach Richmond
to-morrow, soon after 3 o’clock in the
afternoon; Petersburg about an hour
later; Weldon, North Carolina, just be
fore 6, Goldsboro at 8:30, Wilming
ton at 11, and will be at Charleston
Junction outside of .that city, on Friday
morning, about 630 o’clock. Savannah
will be reached, a few minutes after 11 on
Friday morning and Jacksonville, Florida,
at 530 on Friday evening. The President
will stay over night at Jacksonville, and go
up the St John’s rivet to Sanford on Sat
urday morning.
THE PLOTS THICKEN.
THE IRISH DYNAMITE POLICYMIN
ENGLAND.
Startling and Alarming Discoveries and
Happenings In England Yesterday—
Irisli-Americans and Their Work In
Great Britain—lnteresting Develop
ments Now To Follow.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
Birmingham, April s.—The premises oc
cupied as a nitro-glycerine factory were
taken two months ago by an Irish-Ameri
can, who gave the name of Whitehead.
He had purchased glycerine and acids'for
the manufacture of explosives. He was cap
tured. In connection with tbe foregoing,
a dispatch from London says:The exciting
events of the day have crowded on each
other so fast their importance could scarce
ly be realized until the later hours of night
admitted of complete summing up. Tbe
happenings include the unearthipg at Bir
mingham of the most important dynamite
ruin breeders in London and one in Bir
mingham, an attempt on the government
magazine in Ireland and the reception cf
an incendiary letter in London. The excite
ment over these occurrences was not con
fined to government offices, but was appar
ent to the most casual observer on the
street. The prompt and active pre
cautionary steps which were taken by
the government officials were highly
commended on all sides. Net only
were the postoffice and neighboring gov
eminent property put under an in
creased guard, but the royal residence at
Windsor was supplied with a large force
of sentinels who were sent thither in a
private and unostentatious manner. This
was rendered more necessaiy because it
was known to the government officers that
late last night, in connection with the dis
covery of the dynamite factory at Birming
ham, a report was received that some con
spirators were already on their way to
Windsor from Birmingham. It is stated
with someconfidence in official circles, that
there is reason to believe that the whole
incendiary and dynamite conspiracy, both
here and in America,will soon be laid bare
and that the number of arrests will shortly
increase. It is 1 arned that tbe man first
arrested last night near Fleet street, had
engaged rooms on Southampton street, at
the corner of the Strand, giving the name of
Ormund and stating that he was a medical
student. Subsequently he said that his
correct name was Norman. His accom
plice, who carried a box of explosives to his
lodgings, is believed to be one of the two
men arrested at Lambeth, to-day. One cf
these men bad in his pockets and sewn up
in bis clothing, a large sum of money, a
portion of which was reported as being
American. Street rumors made use of
many American names and connected
many Irish Americans with the plots. One
of the Lambeth prisoners had secured
lodgings, by the name of Wilson. Norman
undoubtedly came direct from Birming
ham. The place where he was stopping
was just over tbecffice where is printed
tbe court circular. A gentleman of that
street recently received letters containing
threats, tlie origin of which he has now no
difficulty in tracing to the prisoner. The
fourth arrest of the day was that of Henry
Daller who was taken into custody this
evening. He came from the United States
oily two weeks ago. He was found at the
rooms of the American Exchange and made
no resistance when informed of the er
rand of the officers. Daller was con
fined in jail at the Scotland Yard.
There was no less sensation in the House
of Commons when these arrests were an
nounced than elsewhere. Sir Wm. Har
court, Home Secretary, in a brief speech,
outlining the facts, confirmed what had,
up to this time, been meiely rumor, that
Norman had been put under arrest. He
added that one hundred and fifty pounds
of highly explosive liquid had been found
in Norman’s quarters and that it was
stored in skilfully devised rubber bags.
He also confirmed the discovery of the
dynamite manufactory at Birmingham and
gave the particulars of the affair. He said
farther that a considerable amount of the
same kind of explosive had been discover
ed in the rooms of the Lambeth prisoners
and that a part of the money on one of
these men was in American bank notes.
Whitehead has been remanded for one
week at the request of the Home Secre
tary. At his examination evidence was
given showing that the police detectives
had followed Norman, who was arrested in
London from Whitehead’s house, in this
city. The prisoner assumed an air of su
preme indifference, and refused to parley
with the officers of the court, or even to
answer questions.
At the approaching trial in Dublin of
the prisoners charged with the Phoenix
Park murders the photograph of a man
named Tynan, recently alluded to by the
name of Tyner, will be produced. This
photograph has been identified by James
Carey, the informer, and three other
persons as that of “Number One.” It is
stated that a portion of the money with
which Tynan was entrusted for distribu
tion, can be traced to the Invincibles. The
government is in possession of an affidavit
to the effect that Tynan and “Num
ber One” are identical. The Crown
solicitor will strongly oppose the request
which will be made by the accused for the
postponement of the trial. Peter Carey, a
brother of James, has been accepted by
the government as an informer.
The Central News says the rubber bags
found in Norman’s quarters contained
nitro glycerine in sufficient quantity to
blow up any town in the kingdom.
The police believed Norman was en
gaged in the plan to carry out the
dynamite doctrines of O’Donovan Rossa.
The Woolwich authorities pronounce the
compound found at Lambeth to be nitro
glycerine and identical with that found in
Norman’s quarters. Gallaher’s portman
teau was packed with explosives.
It has been definitely decided that
neither Mr. Parnell nor any of the mem
be.s of the Irish parliamentary party will
attend the convention at Philadelphia.
OTHER FOREIGN NEWS.
Socialists and Nihilists—Another Treaty
The French Squabble.
Rome, April s.—lt is stated that the
governments of Italy and Austria have
given their assent and affixed their signa
tures to a treaty, by the terms of which
each empire guarantees to the other com
plete integrity of territory. Although
Germany is not directly and by signature
a party to this treaty, the document con
tains clauses in which it is mentioned that
her approval has been given.
St. Petersburg, April s.—Developments
of tbe utmost importance are expected in
connection with the forthcoming great
trial of the Nihilists in this city. It was
originally believed that this trial would be
the last of its kind on the list Recent ar
rests have, however, made other Nihilist
trials probable, and it is the present in
tention to arraign newly discovered plot
ters either before the coronation of the
Czar, which will occur in May or June, or
directly after that event. The accused
have, with these exceptions, already plead
ed guilty of belonging to a party which
they assert ia in fact, as well as in name,
‘The will of the people.”
Km, April s.—The names of the four
TERMS—S2.OO AYEAR.
Socialists arrested here Tuesday, while on
their way from the Socialist Congress in
Copenhagen are Bebel, Dietz, Aurer and
Ne an nine ter. Although they were mem*
bers of the Riechstag, their papers were
seized and confiscated to the State. The
shrewdest efforts of the police did not
succeed in extorting from the prisoners
any oral evidence against their party, and
they were finally released.
Paths, April s.—The report of an inter
view with Gen. DeGallifet, which was
published in Le Solcil yesterday, has creat
ed a profound sensation. Gen. DeGalli
fet, according to Le Sole'd, declared that all
the heads of the departments and sub
directors of the war office are sycophants
of the Communists and that the decree in
regard to the autumn cavalry manoeuvres
was prepared with the assistance of Radi
cal journalists. Gen. Thibaudin, he said,
had recently given him his word of honor
that he should not be deprived of any
dignity. To day Gen. DeGallifet has
published an open letter in which he im
peaches the accuracy of this interview. It
is generally understood here that the com
promise by which the question of the
cavalry manoeuvres was allowed to drop, is
merely to be considered as a postpone
ment cf the rapture in the Cabinet until
th* m^h erWUS iU
Kiel, April s.r—The government will
doubtless seek justification for the arrest
of the Deputies to the Reichstag pending .
the session of that body, by dec'aring that
the men arrested were under suspicion of
having imported contraband writings into
Germany.
It. Petersburg, April 5.—A local chief
of police, as well as other persons who
contributed to the ccmfort of those mem
bers of the crews of the Jeannette and
Rodgers who were saved, and who extend
ed courtesies to them, have been decorated
by the Czar as a mark of his gratification
at their kindness.
Madbid, April 5. —The government au
thorities have decided not to enlarge the
liberty already allowed Maceo, the Cuban
refugee, as they are in possession of in
formation that he intends to return to
Cuba when he is liberated.
London. April 5, —A treaty between
Germany and Spain for commercial protec
tion and mutual advantage, has been
signed by both governments.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Germany and Spain have come to a final
agreement in regard to the conclusion of a
treaty of commerce, each power having
made concessions.
The London Standard says, that on ac
cpunt of the threatened division in the
Irish pirty it is probable that Mr. Parnell
will not go to America.
The stsamahip Werra which arrived at
New York from Europe, Tuesday night,
brought 755,000 francs and $550,000 of
American gold coin and bars.
A dispatch from Moss Point, Miss., says
four other persons, who were injured by
the explosion at Griffin’s mill Tuesday,
have died, making seven deaths in all.
Five hundred laborers of the Shamoken,
Sunbury and Lewisburg Railroad, who
struck Monday for an increase of wages
resumed work yesterday at the old price
$1 25 per day.
The principal pier at Nice was entirely
burned yesterday. Only the iron frame
work of the bridge which connected the
pier with the land, remains. The loss is
estimated at $1,000,0C0.
In the trial at Raleigh, N. 0., of Marion
Carland for the murder of Long at Ashe
ville, yesterday the jury disagreed after
being cut over a week and were discharged
at the end of the term of court.
Ex-Senator Thurman fell on the steps of
his residence in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday
evening and broke his left arm, between
the elbow and shoulder. It is not thought
that there will be any serious result.
Ingham and Gresn, the murderers of
Cash Millet, were banged by a mob of 35
masked men at Hastings, Neb., Tuesday
night. It is net known what was done
with Babcock —the other murderer.
Simon Philippart, a famous and daring
speculator, was arrested in Pa is Tuesday,
upon representations made by the Belgian
public prosecutor that he falsified accounts
at his bank. His extradition to Belgium
will be demanded.
The races announced for yesterday at
New Orleans were postponed on account
of rain. The entries made yesterday for
to-day’s races are declared off, and the en
tries for the third day’s races were made
again yesterday afternoon and will be run
to-morrow.
The State Board of Agriculture of North
Carolina decided yesterday to make a full
display of the State products at the fair of
the New England Mechanics Institute, at
Boston in September next. An ample ap
propriation will be made to secure an ad
mirable display.
The race for the great Northampton
shire stakes, run yesterday in London,
was won by J. Banbury’s five-year-old
brown horse, Glenluce; Ph. Cooper’s horse
Sun of York, second, and LeFevre’s five
year-old black horse, The Glider, third.
There were six staiters.
Early yesterday morning a disastrous
fire occurred at Greeley, 50 miles north of
Denver. N. W. Hall, hardware and furni
ture, sndH. B. Jackson,dry goods, suffered
serious or total losses. The Union Bank
building and the Masonic and Odd Fel
lows’ halls were destroyed. The loss is es
timated at $150,000.
Col. John Cardwell, editor of the Aus
tin (Texas) Statesman, published a card
in his paper yesterday in which he calls
Major Ohenowith, a member of the lower
House of the Legislature to account for
some criticisms he made on Cardwell’s
conduct in relation to railroads, and de
nounces him as a deliberate liar and cow
ard. A duel is apprehended.
The Washington and Western Railroad
was offered for sale in Alexandria. Va.,
yesterday evening. A bid of $350,000
by a person who refused to say in whose
interest he was acting, was refused by the
commissioners. Oakes Ames’ interest
then offered $347,000, after which the
property was withdrawn and the sale post
poned till May 9th.
Col. Forsythe reports that he has lost the
trail of the Indians in the Chiricahua
mountains. Mexican advices report that a
marauding bind has been driven from So
nora into Arizona, but before crossing the
line the savages killed 52 people south of
the Mexican boundary. Nothing has yet
been heard from Captain Black’s com
mand.
Some boys were playing around an open
man-hole of a sewer in Baltimore yester
day, when one of them threw a li-hted
match in the sewer. An explosion of gas
immediately followed, which tore up the
street, shook the walls and loosened the
foundations of the neighboring houses.
While the workmen were clearing the de
bris out of the sewer yesterday afternoon
the bodies of two boys, aged 5 and 6 re
spectively, were found. They had been
playing in the street when the explosion
occurred.
A telegram received at the War Depart
ment yesterday, reports that Chief Spieohe
and the Creek Indians, Who recently left
their reservation have igone into camp
with the Camanche*, 30 miles west of the
Sac and Fox reservation. The peaceable
Creeks will hold council with the seceders
to-day and if the latter refuse to return
to their reservation and are supported by
the other tribes, all available military
force at Forts Reno and Sill will be need
ed. Major Bates of the Twentieth Infantry
has been directed to call on the com
manding officers Reno and Sill for
troops, if necessary.