Newspaper Page Text
I '
j~a / '
Wcklii (£lji*oiurte $ (Constitulionalist
£::i::i±:: :?£} consolidated march it, hot.
MAIL AND PRESS.
GEORGIA.
MtDaffie County.
• Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Thcmion, Ga., April 18. —The nomina
tion of Col. McDaniel gives universal satis
faction throughout thia county. Every
one is satisfied that he will make ao honest
and upright Governor and will fill the
place of the lamented Stephans with credit
to himself and to the State.—Spring has at
last set in and farmers are busy planting
cotton.—A difficulty occurred this morn
ing on the plantation of Mr. L. Curry,
about five miles from town, between Mr.
Curry and a negro mm, whose name I
have been unable to learn. The negro at
tacked Mr. Curry with an axe and was shot
by Curry with a double-barrelled gun. The
negro’s wounds are not thought to be se
rious. X.
Columbia County.
Sentinel: "We notice that cotton is up
on several fartn« near Harlem and small
grain is heading.”
Chatham County.
Times : “It is repotted that steps will,
soon be taken to organize an ice IKffi
__ tory in f.nr Ibis w gratifying' >fl
the* extreme, nriton
. jaiiiKra.’“ r.
than it is now fur
**Elbert County.
Srndh: “A fifty thousand dollar
is to be erected at once at Anthony
Shoals, on Broad liver on the Wilkes side,
sr- we are reliably informed by one of the
, owners of the property. We are also told
JL that efforts are being made to purchase
the Thompson factory place for the pnr
<” pose Os reconstructing that factory.”
Cobb County.
/ -Journal: “Thurflday evening John N
Bavis and William Gann, while fishing in
, Chattahoochee river, found the body
''of an unknown negro man on an island in
the river. An inquest were held by Coioner
Z W. K. Root, bnt no facts were obtained
leading to the identify of the negro or how
i * he came to bis death.”
Dougherty County.
and Advertiser : “ Artesian water
is hauled out into the country by the bar
rel, for family use. A representative of
the A T etos and Advertis :r dran\' some nine
.F miles from the city yesterday.—The farm
ers report that the crops are growing with
. unusual rapidity. They have had fine
■ growing weather during the lust fortnight,
i and the young crops have thus taken a
r good start.”
I. Greene County.
Herald: ••Farmers say they have good
’ stands of corn where planted, notwith
# Standing the continued cold, wet weather.
I —There are seven different cotton planters
represented at Union Point this season.
’ .This is pretty good for a small town.—The
crop seems to have bid defiance to
TNhe froat and cold weather and we still
xve plenty if the trees do not shed their
er in the season.”
Snmter County.
r I Republican : “Tnesday morning, about
’|«lX o'clock, Gue H arris, a colored workman
at Davenport’s cotton seed oil mill, in at
targytitig to clean the lint from the gin.
Ipt fekjpeft hand caught in the revolving
|||MkWfl, and before the machinery could :>
his hand and arm was sawed into
■ ribbons. He was escorted to a surgeon,
■ who dresved his wounds. He may proh-
■ the use of his left hand if it is
| not amputated .* *
B* Hart Bounty.
B “We are very glad to learn that
|1 Di, L L Turner will start a good stock
■ fwfm nn his Derritt place. This is an en-
H, in 'he right direction, and we
■ hope the doctor will make a grand sne-
Bl nV it. —Prof. Parker used the hickory
H 'oh ilfteen cf his school boys in one day
B 'fiUi week This, however, is uncommon
H with him, for he usually controls his
■ Tlchool without resorting to the lash.”
|g Calhoun County.
IB Albany Advertiser: “Mr. Hester, from
Morgan. Calhoun county, was in the AV»"s
■ ™ I Advertiser office yesterday, and gave a
■ very gratifying report of affairs in that
■locality. He says there is plenty of corn,
SH>pd any quantify of hogs —that great atteu-
BBtJon is being given to the raising of hogs.
acreage in oats is not so great, but
jgß-tahat there is is very fine. The acreage
is much smaller than heretofore,
quite an interest in truck farming is
Hhpaa nites ted.”
Hall County.
■ Miners are getting as thick as
|H*ob : fis in the spring about here, and the
|Hmines are active. This will be a lively
Htnmmer among the manipulators of the
ores. Let the stamp mills crush,
|HiB our sentiment.
BH The annual meetiner of the stockholders
■w the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern
Company will be held at the of
fice of the company, in Gainesville, Hall
bounty, Ga., on Thursday, May 3d, 1883.
The stockholders will be conveyed to and
from the meeting over the road, free.
Upson County.
Jfctcs: “We had a pleasant call from
Mr. Geo. T. Mitchell, one of Upson’s live
at-home farmers on Wednesday last, and
were shown by him a sample of sugar
made by him that will compare favorably
With any ten pound to the dollar sugar in
the market. He stated to us that he had
ebout one hundred and fifty pounds, the
product of one-sixteenth of an acre. He
finds the produoti''n of sugar to be more
profitable than buying it, and by making
tie calculation, taking his figures, you
will see that it pays a great deal better
than cotton.”
Thomas County.
Enterprise : Sunday night some enter
prising burglar successfully burgled the
safe of Mr James Anderson, of Ocblocko
nee, and carried off about $1,700 of that
gentleman’s money. He must have been
an expert villain, and this was evidently
not his first experience in the safe-robbing
line. He cut two holes in the safe just be
low the lock, and then with a hammer suc
ceeded in knocking loose the combination,
after which the rest of his task was easy.
He helped himself to the money at his
Ibiaure and made his escape.
Cowet* County.
Herald : The following comparative state
ment of the amounts of corn and meat
shipped to this place during the two years
ending April 1, shows a very gratifying ex
hibit. Between April 1,1881, and April
1,1882, there were shipped here 3,283,532
pounds of corn and 1,412,867 pounds of
mebt; while only 485,064 pounds of corn
•nd 311,485 pounds of meat were shipped
from April 1, 1882, to April 1, 1883.
This shows that the farming community
tributary to Newnan is in a much better
condition as regards supplies than it was
last. year. The nearer a farmer comes to
raising his own hog and hominy, in this
belof States especially, the better it will
’ Newton County.
an early hour on Sunday
Tnomiug Covington was thrown into a
ferfiMexcitement by the announcement
thaiMr. W. T. King, our former express
agfflrtat Covington, had been shot during
Saturday night. In a short while large
WtObefs of our citizens were hurrying to
the 4oene of the tragedy, which was on the
yaDrra*; but ft sbhit distance west of the
•X. ~
depot. An investigation of the mat‘er
developed the fact th it Mr. King had left
his room, in the depot, some time between
1G and 11 o’clock Saturday night, and had
walked to a point un the railroad. Noth
iig more was seen of him, by his
friends, until daylight Sunday morning,
when he was found lying in the ditch be
tween the track and the embankment at
the side of the road, some three or four
hundred yards from the depot, in almost
an insensible condition, with an ugly goo
shot wound in his left arm a little below
»he shoulder, his arm broken in several
places, as if struck by something heavy,
and his body cold and badly bruised. Mr.
King has been rational since Sunday fore
noon, but fails to give a clear account of
the affair, whether purposely or through
inability, we cannot positively say. The
njatter is clouded in mystery, and may
never be clearly known as to how it oc
curred, or who his assailants were.
PALMETTO STATE.
RAILROAD PROJECT.
Prosper tsof the Union, Gaffney City and
Rutherford Railroad.
(Special to Chronicle and
GAFfNXT, S. C. April 10.— Ek
were held to-day on the subscription to
Gaffsey City and Rutherford
Railroad. E’’ght thousand dollars was
ttnanimonply voted by the town of Gaff nt y
City, and the sixteen thousand dollars
voted for by the Limestone township was
carried by a large majority, almost unani
mously. The voting on the subscription
of one hundred thousand dollars by Ruth
erford county, N. C., is to take place cn
the twelfth of May. Union county is
moving into line with encouraging pros
pects. T. S. F.
TWO FIRES.
Work of the Fiend in Carolina This
Week.
(Cor. Chronicle and Constitutionalist.)
Riege, S. C., April 17, 1883. — About
one o’clock last Sunday night a tenement
house belonging to Mr. Sumpter Boat
wright, burnt down. The colored people
who occupied it barely got out alive, sav
ing scarcely anything from the flames.
They affirm it was set on fire by ether
colored people who are unfriendly to
them. The wind was strong, and the resi
dence of Dr. Dußose being not far off to
windward, was, for a t ime, in great danger
To-day at 12, m., the house recent’y oc
cupid by Dr. Luke Smith, near Ward’s
was discovered to be on fire. Mr. Gregory
who occupied it had just cune in to din
ner. The flames broke out on the roof. A
very high wind was blowing and it is
supposed that the sparks from the
kitchen stove pipe, which was lower than
the roof of tha house, were blown under
the shingles. Nearly all the things were
taken out of the house. It was not in
sured It was owned by Dr. LeGronin.
He was making arrangements to build a
new house and the slimes have save ’. him
the trouble of removing the old one, and
left him quite a bed of ashes for fertil zers.
There may be some compensation for the
inconvenience of doing without the old
house just now. Uni?.
Fairfield County.
Heirs : Reports from the country are to
the effect that the farmers are badly be
hind in preparing and planting their
crops. As yet very little corn has been
planted, and it is now about cr near the
usual time for planting cotton. It is need
less to say that the condition of affiirs re
ported is not attributable to the indolence
of our farmers, but to the unusually bad
and inclement weather for the past two or
three months.
Abbeville Ceunty.
Press and Banner: “Mr. Thos. C. Seal
has sold a half interest in the Alston cor
n< r lot to Mr. M. A. Carson, of Hodges.
The Alston house is to be rolled back, and
a new three-story brick hotel, with stores
below, is to be put up at a cost of SIO,OOO
or $12,000. This will add much to the
town, and our people will be glad to wel
come Mr. Garson’s money and enterprise
which, together with ‘.hat of Mr. Seal’s,
will give us a permanent improvement.
Spartanburg County.
• Herald: “The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Asheville and Spartan
burg railroad was held in this city last
Friday, with a large attendance of stock
holders. By-laws were adopted and en
order made that a mortgage for five hun
dred thousand dollars be issued. This
amount, it is thought, will be enough to
build and equip the road to Asheville.
Work will be commenced itnmediately.
The following officers were elected: Pres
ident, R. G. McAden; directors, W. A. In
man, T. M. Logan, Joseph Walker, A. L.
Reeves, A. O. Haskell, Frank E. Tavlo ,
and John Richards; attorney; D. R. Dun
can.
VIRGINIA.
A company has been formed to work a
valuable bed of plumbago discovered in
Stafford county.
The Staunton Vindicator says that Geo.
W. Freed, of that county, has made $30,-
000 since the war by farming. He came
out cf the army without a dollar.
A Culpepper farmer, three years ago,
bought a flock cf sheep, for which he paid
three hundred dollars. From that flock he
has since realized two thousand one hun
dred dollars and has on one farm two
hundred lambs.
The colony of Hebrew refugees from
Russia, about seventy-five in number,
which was established at Waterview, Mid
dlesex county, last October, is in a flour
ishing condition and likely to become the
nucleus of a populous settlement.
Virginia has $1,590,000 in her treasury.
Seven! gentlemen of Alexandria went to
Loudon county last week to examine the
soapstone mine that was recently discov
ered there, and upon their return a com
pany will probably be organized for the
purpose of working it.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Raleigh wiil soon have another church
of the Christian denomination.
Farmers report wheat as looking well
and tobacco beds blooming about Winston.
The houses in Wilmington will be num
bered by the Ist of May, when the free let
ter delivery will begin.
The Hickory Press says : “The largest
hawk that we have heard of was caught by
Mr. A. M. Corpening, on his premises, oh
the 24th ult. It measured 46 inches fro m
tip to tip.”
Says the Henderson Gold Leaf: “Three
more Swiss emigrants bought land near
Ridgeway last week. It is also stated that
fifteen other families are now in New York
on their way to the same place.”
The mines at Ducktown are to be put in
operation as soon as possible, and one
thousand hands are to be put on the rail
road from that point to Cleveland, in order
to complete the road-bed within a year.
Says the Edenton Enquirer : Messrs. Rea
A Co caught a rock fish Monday last that
weighed 42 pounds, the largest one that
has been caught this season. The catch of
fish has greatly caught increased daring
the past week. We learn that Dr. Cape
hart caught at one haul on Monday last
500 shad and about 7,000 herrings.
FLORIDA.
Forty town lots were sold in Bartow last
week.
Monticello is laying new sewers for
drainage
Six thousand baby alligators are sold in
Florida every year.
Nearly 19,009,030 feet of lumber has
been shipped from Pensacola this sea
son
Valuable mineral fertilizer has been dis
covered to exist in great quantities all over
Hillsboro county.
A Florida gentleman spreads muslin un
der bis orange trees to citch the blossoms
when they fall. He will convert then into
perfumery.
The number of bearing orange trees on
the Halifax river in Florida, is estimated
at 300,000. New groves are being plan
all the time.
The cypress timbers on the St. Johns
river may be said to be almost inexhausti
ble. In quality it will compare favorably
with that of any other locality in th©
world. .
A large amount of orapge_wine is new
being shipped North thjeugh Jacksonville.
On Fridaj.huft.thO'W'aycross,train took oct
sfcventears caseaand of the wine.
It wns cacßigned to parties in New York
and Naw Jersey, and was manufactured at
St. Augustine.
ALABAMA. r
Gadsden is to have a military company
with fifty members.
Farmers in the vicinity of Huntsville
are complaining of rotting com.
A $169,000 factory will be crested at
Len Island Shoals, on tho Coosa river.
A gar-fisb, five feet long, weighing six
teen pounds, was caught a few days ago in
the Alabama river.
There will be only half a peach crop
around Talladega, but thsapple and pear
trees will give a full yield
Messrs. David and Robert Spence have
started a goose farm, with five hundred
geese, at the Pond Spring place, Talladega
county, Ala., the o’ j-ct being to supply
the market with feathers.
Two miles south of Montgomery, Mr.
Glass has 220 mulberry trees and seventy
thousand worms are st work in the first
and second steps which terminate in the
gaudy silk. He expects to realize a profit
this year cf three thousand dollars.
lENNESSBE.
Dandridge, Tenn., has an agricultural
implement manufactory.
In one trade in Chattanooga SB,OOO
worth of tanbark was sold.
A rich deposit of silver has just been
discovered nine miles from Gainsboro,
Tenn.
A resident of Woodbury, Tenn., hut 30
years of age Las just been married for the
fourth time.
An English company has purchased
90,000 acres of iron lands in East Tennes
see. They supply a capital cf one million
dollars, tod will erect furnaces at once,
giving employment to three hundred men.
P. Wallace McKittrick, president of the
Silk Growers’ Association of America, has
offered commissioner McWhirter f»rty
thousand silk worm eggs for distribution
in Tennessee for the purpose of experi
menting in silk culture. The commis
sioner has accepted the proposition, and
will have them soon for distribution.
MISSISSIPPI.
In Jefferson county planting operations
are two weeks ahead of last year
West Point has donated $6,009 for the
right of way to the Chattanooga, Aberdeen
and Northern Railroad.
Farmers are reported all over the State
to be paying more attention to fertilizing
their lands than ever before.
Mississippi has 1,479 manufacturing
establishments, with a capita! of $4,727,-
090; value of products, $7,518,302.
Within a radius of five miles of Crystal
Springs there are 100 acres in strawber
ries, 85 in Irish potatoes, 100 intonntres,
10 in onions, 100 in peas, 125 in beans
and about 2,000 in perches.
TEXAS.
The small grain crops of Texas are grow
ing finely.
A large sugar refinery is among the pro
jected enterprises of Galveston,
The Texas and Pacific Railroad is greatly
enl irging its machine shops at Marshall.
The Marshall, Texas and Northwestern
Railroad Company is to be reorganizid at
an early date.
Col. W. C. Clark, of Jack county, has
lost 700 of 1,200 sheep on his ranche
since December.
The Gould railroad is building a pas
senger depot at Dallas, which is designed
t .• be the finest in the South.
A cattle raiser in this State requires fifty
miles of wire fence to inclose his planta
tion along the line of the Texas and Mexi
can Railway.
NEWS CONDENSED.
(Bv Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
The Parliament building, Quebec, was
burning at 9 o’clock last night and will
probablv be a total loss.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee, of Ohio, yesterday, decided to hold
the next State convention in Columbus on
June 21st.
A Littie Rock, Ark., dispatch says in the
United States Court, yesterday, judgments
were taken, aggregating $70,000 against
the Memphis and Little Rock Railway
Company as organized, for interest on
mortgage bonds by citizens of New York
and New Hampshire.
In the French Chamber of Deputies, to
day, M. Tirard, Minister of Finance, intro
duced a bill providing for the conversion
of 5 per cent, rentes into per cents. In
his speech advocating the bill he explaied
that 34.000,000 francs would annually be
saved if the bill was passed.
In the southern portion of the Choctaw
Nation. Indian Territory, Wednesday,
John S. Lenox, a Texas desperado, at the
head of a band of outlaws, surprised
United States Marshal D. H. Lyman, who
wiis in charge of some prisoners, and
killed him. The outlaws then set the
prisoners free.
In the United States Court, at New Or
leans, yesterday, the government obtained
judgment against F. J. Herron, surety on
the official bond of Gen. J. B. Steadman,
internal revenue collector for that port in
1867 and 1868, for $10,060, with inter
est from the date of the judicial demand.
Steadman’s shortage is placed at $359,900.
His counsel excepted to Judge Billings’
charge tojthe jury.
During a discussion in the Italian
Chamber of Deputies, to-day, on the sub
ject of tobacco culture, Signor Magliani,
Minister of Finance, declared that the
government firmly intended to encourage
the home cultivation of that plant and
would grant large bounties for the pur
pose; but the people, he said, must not de
lude themselves with the idea that Italy
would ever overcome American competi
tion in this branch of agriculture.
A dispatch from Lynchburg, Va., says:
The lynchers of Bob Crockett, the Wythe
ville murderer, have warned Robert May
ers, the alleged accomplice of the former,
to leave the State by the 24th inst. It is
said Crockett confessed his crime before
being hung and implicated Mayers. The
latter denies any complicity and publishes
a card in the Enterprise to-day defying the
lynchers and expressing his willingness
to surrender to the authorities and have
the fullest investigation.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY APRIL 25, 18b3
SCENES IX C«BT.
INVINCIBLES GIVING TyJE LIE TO
GOVERNMENT WITR«SES.
iHcfdtntH at the Trial of Jke Invinci
blesk Yesterday—What Said and
Dowe— The Prisoners C«me>ing the
Witnesses in Lan
guage-How the Trials Atte Progress
ing.
(By Cable to the
Dvblin, April 19. an
other of the men charged witOpartici pal
ing in the murders of J/3rd Cavendish and .
Mr. Burke, was plaefeu on trial this morn- ,
icg, Messrs.Bullivanand Jiclnemey were
appointed by*4he Cou> t to conduct the j
defense of jte jris4)ners, J.udgt O'Brien
having complied with the’rt. '.He3« Messrs.
Webb and Adams to be
ther duty in defending” thb accused men.
jury then sworn in. Oae of the
members isaParnellite. It is consequently
expected that the jury will fail to agree on
a verdict. The evidence of witnesses for
the Crown was mostly a repetition of that
given in the cases of Joe Brady and Daniel
Curley. Jam.es Carey swore that the con
spirators had resolved to murder Colonel
Hrillen and Burke in consequence of an
artie’e that appeared in the Freeman's Jour
nal, speaking of the desirability of- a thor
ough change of the officials at Dublin
Castle, wbiebhad become an Augean stable.
This same statement was made By Carey
at the preliminary examination of the pris
oners and was then declared by the FYee
man's Journal to be due to the fact that E.
D wyer Gray, the owner of that paper, when
chairman of the municipal committee had
charged Carey, who was town councillor,
with conspiracy.
London, April 19. Lynch also said in
his statement at the hearing of the dyna
mite prisoners that he arrived in London
on the 22d of March. His first act was to
take a letter he had written to Gallagher
to Bowles’ Exchange to inform the latter
of his arrival and where he could be found.
He saw Gallagher on the 27th or 28. h of
March, and walked with him past the scene
of the recent explosion in the government
offices at Westminster. When he asked “Is
that what we aregoing to do?” Gallagher
replied. “Yes, and it won’t be child’s play
either.” They passed half way over the
Westminster bridge, when Gallagher, who
had been viewir g the houses of Parliament,
remarked, “They wiil make a great crash
when they come down.” Gallagher here
jumped to his feet and shouted, “You in
famous liar.” The Witness continued
Returning, they passed Scotland yard,
and Gallagher said, “That is the head
quarters of the
down too.” Gallagher said he was staying
at the Charing Cross Hotel and gave the
witness £7, saying “Don’t run short, the
old man will provide for us.” On April 2,
Gallagher told the witness that he wanted
him to go to Ledsam street,Birmingham,
and inquire for Whitehead and Cell him
that he (Lynch) had been sent for material.
He had never heard of Whitehead before.
He went to Birmingham that morning.
Before going Gallagher gave him £5 with
which to buy a respectable trunk to put
the stuff in. He went to Whitebead’s
factory where he saw Whitehead and a
boy. (The boy was here put in the wit
ness box and identified by Lynch.) Lynch
said Whitehead put him in the way of
procuring india-rubber bags in which to
carry nitro glycerine. The witness con
firmed all the evidence given at the hear
ing last Thursday as to Gallagher having
called for him under the name of Fletcher.
The witness said that when Whitehead
was loading the nitro glycerine into the
rubber bags he told him that a man had
that same morning taken 60 pounds of
the liquid. He asked Whitehead what
the liquid was and was informed that he
would soon know. Whitehead hereshouted
from the dock, “You lie, you traitor.”
The witness said Gallagher met him in
London when he returned from Birming
ham with the nitro-glycerine. He had
never seen any of the prisoners before ex
cept Gallagher and Whitehead. Both of
these men had spoken of sending another
man to London, but they did not mention
anv name. The examination was then
adjourned until to-morrow. The witness
spoke in a weak and indistinct voice and
at one point of bis evidence he appeared
as if about to faint At the conclusion of
his testimony, while the depositions were
being read, he did faint, and had to be re
moved from the court room. In the course
of his testimony concerning his New York
club experience, Lynch said he did not
know O’Donovan Rossa personally, but
heard that he had been to the club room.
He was always spoken of there as the “old
man.” Bernard Gallagher has made a
statement to the effect that he is a native of
Scotland and returned there from America,
to work as an iron moulder. His brother,
Dr. Gallagher, paid his passage but he
was ignorant of the doctor’s business.
Bernard says he is not a Fenian or a mem
ber of any secret society. He declares
that he was in Sing Sing, N. Y., at the
time the explosion occurred in Glasgow,
with the causing of which he is charged,
London, April 19.—1 n the House of
Commons this afternoon Sir Wm. Har
court, Home Secretary, asked Sir Herbert
Maxwell not to put his question as to
whether Peter Tynan, “Number one” was
in New York and whether his extradition
would be demanded, as it might be preju
dicial to public interests.
At the banquet given by the Central Con
servative Committee last night, Lord Salis
bury and Sir Stafford Northcote delivered
addresses. They expressed a mutual de
sire for amity and deprecated the attempts
to snatch victory by means of shady tac
tics and to make mischief by statements
relative to an imaginary jealousy among
the conservative leaders.
The Times correspondent at Paris says
an agreement between Germany, Austria
and Italy was reached in June last at which
time the triple note was drawn up guaran
teeing the respective territories and mari
time rights of the three countries against
aggression. The agreement is to last for
six years.
St. Petee c bubg, April 19.—The trial of
18 prominent Nihilists ended here to-day
and resulted in the conviction of all the
prisoners. Six were condemned to death,
2 to life-long servitude, and the remainder
to terms of imprisonment varying from 15
to 18 years. Those sentenced to suffer
capital punishment are : Bcganovitch,
who laid the mine in Little Garden street
for the purpose of blowing up the Czar;
Saveli Z'atopolsky, implicated in Hart
mann’s attack on the late Emperor in
1879; Michael Gratchefsky, one of the as
sassins of the Czar; Telaloff, participator in
the attempt to blow up the imperial train
at Alexandrofsky in 1881; Klimenko, an
escaped political prisoner, who was sub
sequently arrested with Gratchefsky
and a retired naval officer named
Bontsevitch The two sentenced to
imprisonment for life are Stefanvitch,
who escaped from the prison at Kiefi where
he had been confined on the charge of
having organized the revolt of thirteen
districts of peasants at Tehegrin, and
Smirnitskaya, a priet’s daughter. Several
more Nihilist leaders have been awested.
It is stated that amon£ them is the
known female Nihilist, Vera Sasstilitch. .
It has been resolved to hold another
trial of Nihilists at Odessa previous to the
tima fixed for the coronation of the Ozar.
Twenty persons will be arraigned on the
charge of propagating Nihilistie ideas
among workingmen. Fifty persons fcasg
been arrested for Nihilism daring last
weeJ-J They include military
young ladiesl teachers, students, working
men and soldiers.
Madeid, April 19 —At a cabinet meeting
to-day, during which the budget was un
der consideration, the Minist- rs discussed
the expediency of submitting to the United
States government the propriety of reduc
ing its duties on sugar imported from the
Antilles. In the Senate yesterday it was
suggested that the government should
earnestly endeavor to conclude a treaty of
commerce with the United States.
London, April 19.—A« box containing
powder was found to-day in the rear of
the Times office. A train had been Ijd
for the purpose, it is supposed, of effect
ing an explosion at a convenient moment.
It was at first reported that a fuse was at
tached to the box and that it was burning
when the discovery was made.
London. April 20.—Sir
cote unVeiled the statue of Lord Beacons
field in Parliament Square to-day. A
large concourse of people was present at
the ceremony,notwithstanding the weather
which was unpleasant.
It is reported that Admiral Baldwin will
go to Cronstadt in the Vnited States
steamer Lancaster, and from there to
Moscow, where he will represent the
United States government at the corona
tion of the Czrr.
e i *
VARIOUS KLADS OF DRUNKARDS.
(Chambers Journal.)
Some men seem to become drunk sud
denly, giving no previous indication by
thickness of articulation or unsteadiness
of gait; this being commonly the case
where mental excitement from other
causes—as a heated discussion—prevails
at the time. The most dreadful and as
tounding cases are afforded by those
unfortunate people who are never
sober. How they manage to survive
so long as they do is a mystery. There are
men who have been perpetually under the
influence of liqnor for twenty or thirty
years. Os course, the brain must have be
come permanently injured, so that we
may infer that the drink these persons
now take has little or no real effect
on them, and that their state would
be just the same without it. Others,
aj.a n, systematic and punctual drunk
ards of regular habits, men who take
their quantum and are put to bed un
conscious every night, yet are capable
of attending to their business in the most
extraordinary manner. These, as a rule,
never exceed a given amount by so much
as a glass, and do not suffer so much as
intermittent drunkards, at any rate not so
soon, for the inevitable consequence is
only a little longer deferred. The writer
knew an old doctor in Jamaica who used
to av?r that the climate was the finest
in the world. “Yellow fever, sir?” he
would exclaim—“not a bit of it! A
vulgar chimera ! A malicious libel on us !
The fact is, it’s the vicious irregular
drinking habits of the neople here that
kills ’em. Look at me ! I drink a bottle
of brandy svery night, and have done so
for thirty years. I get tipsy seven times a
week in an orderly and decent manner,
and I’ve never had yellow fever nor a day’s
illness ” And to all appearance he was a
fine healthy man of 65 or 70, with a beard
as white as snow. Yet he was carried off
suddenly by a trifling indisposition, inci
dental to the climate, and it was found on
examination of his papers after death that
helwas only 52.
It does not by any means follow, either,
that because a man is never intoxicated he
may not be drinking too much. Men em
ployed in the great breweries in London,
espeeirily the draymen, consume an enor
mous quantity of beer. The daily allow
ance which their employers give them
is a very large one, but they rare
ly confine themselves to that; and the
draymen, in addition, get much gratui
tously from the customers to whom they
are always delivering the casks; so that ten
or fourteen quarts is no exceptional con
sumption for one man; yet they are not
drunkards, in the ordinary sense of the
term. The very nature of their work
necessitates the employment of none
but steady men, strength being also
a sine qua non. But if one of these men
should break a limb, or get confined to
bed from any other accident, he is almost
sure to get delirium tremens; asd a scalp
wound frequently kills him. Brewers’
men are notorious in hospitals as being the
worst cases for operation, being prone to
exhibit all the most dangerous complica
tions which fetter the success of surgical
treatment.
—r
THE A., E. & C.
Endorsement of the Present Survey.
Editor Chronicle and Constitutionalist :
Please allow me space for a few re
marks in regard to the survey of the A , E.
& C. Railroad that has recently been
made. I have lived in Columbia, Lincoln
and Wilkes, and I am perfectly familiar
with the topography of the counties,
and if the surveyor had spent years on
this survey he never could have placed it
where it would be more convenient for the
farmers of Columbia, Lincoln and Wilkes
en masse. There’s not a farm in Columbia
that is more than nine or ten miles from
the A., E. &0. or the Ga. R, R. It crossed
Little river as near half way be
tween the Savannah and the Wilkes
line as could have been done with
out measuring, and lucky for the good
people of Lincoln, a direct line to Elberton
placed the survey through the centre of
the county, and there is not a farm in Lin
coln that is more than eight or nine miles
from the survey. Some of the stockhold
ers of Wilkes oppose the survey and have
called a meeting cn the 21st to protest
against it, which I think is very wrong, for
it must be remembered that the Georgia
Railroad has a branch running to Wash
ington, the county site, and there is only
a small corner of the county that is de
prived of the conveniences of that road.
The surv y crossed the road leading
from Danburg to Lisbon in one mile
of the Wilkes line and sixteen miles
from Washington; and this plainly shows
that it is but eight miles from the
farthest farm to a railroad. With these
facts before us, we can see that Wilkes
will be benefitted as much as any county
on the line, as four-fifths of the stock taken
by Wilkes is in less than five miles of the
survey. I think it advisable for the presi
dent and directors to remember that the
stockholders of Columbia, Lincoln and
Wilkes took stock in this road expecting to
be benefitted by the conveniences of the
road, and not simply to invest in railroad
stock to have a road in eight miles of
Washington to cut off freight from the
Georgia Road. It is an assured fact that
more than two-thirds of the stockholders
are in favor of the present survey.
C. R. Ramset.
Hanburg, April 17, 1883.
—
difference of opinion.
Virginia Governor is Thwarted by the
Court
Richmond, Va., April 19.—The Supreme
Court of Appeals of this State to-day ren
dered a decision in the case of the Medical
College of Virginia. This is the case in
which the Governor removed the old board
of visitors of that institution and appointed
• new board. The court is of unanimous
opinion that the Governor had aright to fill
vacancies that might occur in the old board,
but that he had no right to create vacan
cies by removal in order to fill them. So
the college remains under the seme man-
THE NATION’S CAPITAL.
NEWS SENT FROM AND VIA WASH
INGTON.
Progress of the Star Route Trials—The
Counting of the Money in the Treas
ury-Personal Mention—The Indian
Troubles Out West.
(By TelegraDh to the Chronicle.)
Washington, April 19. Seven hundred
recruits are now on their way to the regi
ments in Arizona, New Mexico, and the de
partment of Columbia with a view to the
possible necessities of an Indian campaign.
Secretary Frelinghuysen to-day ex
changed with the Spanish Minister rati
fications of tlie trade
between States and
Spain.
*A special dispatch from the headquar
ters of Gen. Crook, at Wilcox, Arizona,
says: ‘Gen, Crook, with two hundred
Apache scouts and one company of cavalry,
will move into the mountains of Mexico
next Sunday and the Mexican troops will
co-operate with him. Fears are entertain
ed of a fight between th© Apache scouts
and the “Rangers,” from Tombstone, wflo
are reported to be on their way to attack
the San Carlos Indians.”
The count of the cash in the Treasury
was completed to-day. Everything was
counted by a committee appointed by
the Secretary of the Treasury, and then
turned over to the representatives of
Treasurer Wyman and again counted. The
books of the Treasury remain to be ex
amined.
Gen. Hazen to-day telegraphed to
weather observers in the West Indies
that after the 30th inst., no more reports
on cyclones can be made, owing to the
failure of Congress to make appropria
tions for purposes. Stations there will be
abandoned.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs
presented to the Chamber of Deputies
yesterday a draft of the convention con
cluded between France and the United
States, fixing the indemnity for losses sus
tained by French subjects during the
civil war in America.
In the Stir Route trial to-day, Mr. Ker,
began' summing up for the government.
It is thought his argument will occupy
several days.
The statue of the late Professor Henry,
first Secretary and Director of the Smith
sonian Institution, which has been erected
on the Smithsonian grounds, was unveiled
to-day with appropriate ceremonies, in the
presence of a large concourse of spectators,
including many persons distinguished in
the social, political, literary and scien
tific world. Chief Justice Waite unveiled
the statue and President Noah Porter, of
Yale College, delivered an oration on the
life and character of Professor Henry.
A dispatch from Hermosilla, Mexico,
says a detachment of the troops which fol
lowed the Apaches from the southeast
Uras had several running fights with the
Indians from Uras to Gambias, and claim
ed to have killed nearly the whole band.
After losing the trail of the rest some of
the soldiers visited Gambias where a Sol
dier who was in the campaign last
year recognized a whi‘e man who was with
the Indians at that time acting as chief.
In one of the fights this soldier was wound
ed and left on the field for dead but was
conscious. From his description of the
Apache chief it was thought to be
L.* N. Streeter, formerly United States
agent and a most desperate character.
For more than two years he has been the
leader of a band of Apaches. His capture
proved the sold : er was not mistaken in the
man. Gov. Torres ordered him to be
brought to Hermesillo, but it is doubt
ful if he will be alive when the
order reaches the troops. A dispatch
from Bower says the Tombstone Rangers
crossed the railroad track to-day at Dragoon
on a fresh trail, heading for San Carlos.
Gen. Crook has ordered 300 scents to be
in readiness for a long scout into the Sierra
Madres.
FUTURE OF THE COLORED R ACE.
Views of Fred Douglas on the Subject.
Washington, April 16, 1883.—One of
the principal features of the emancipation
d»y celebration here was a meeting to-nigbt
at*the Congregational church at which
Fred Douglas was the orator. He dis
cussed the present condition and the fu
ture of the negro race in this country,
politically and socially. With regard to
the latter branch of the subject he said :
“What is to be the future of the colored
people of this country? Three different
solutions to this difficult problem have
been given and adopted by different classes
of the American people—first, colonization
in Africa; second, extinction through pov
erty, disease and death; third, assimila
tion and unification with the great body
of the American people. I do not look
for colonization either in or outside of the
United State?, Africa is too far off, even
if we desired to go there, which we do not.
Removal to any of the Territories is out of
the question. We have no business to put
ourselves before the bayonets of the white
race. We have seen the fate of the Indian.
As to extinction, the prospect in that direc
tion has been greatly clouded by the cen
sus just taken, in which it is seen that our
increase is ten per cent, greater than that
of the white people of the South.
Bat One Destiny.
“There is but one destiny.it seems to
me, left for us, and that is to make our
selves and be made by others a part of the
American people in every sense of the
word. Assimilation, not isolation, is our
true policy and our natural destiny. Uni
fication for us is life; separation is death,
i We cannot afford to set up for ourselves a
political creed apart from the rest of our
fellow-citizens.”
DISCONTENTED WORKINGMEN.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
The married men among the striking
bricklayers of Chicago are being compelled
to accspt the terms of the builders, driven
to it by the long lockout.
The cigar-makers of Chicago have given
i formal notice of their intention to strike
on May 7 against certain firms in that city
I who have not acceded to their demands.
The journeymen plasterers at Pittsburg,
Penn., last night decided to'demand an
increase in the wages from $3 to $3 50
per day after May. They say they will
strike if refused.
The cigar makers union of Wheeling
W. Va, yesterday resolved to demand 25,
cents per thousand, advance on all grades
iof cigars. The manufacturers will refuse
and a general strike is expected.
A general strike of the coal miners of
Hickory Valley, Ohio, began yesterday
against a reduction of wages amounting to
30 cents a day. The Akron Iron Compa
ny has closed its works. The miners at
Straitsville are out.
The places of a large number of the
striking tanners in Pittsburg were filled
with non-union men yesterday. Last night
the strikers gathered around the tan
neries and indulged in riotious demon
strations. The police prevented a serious
outbreak.
A Pittsburgh dispatch says: The rail
road coal operators yesterday morning
unanimously decided to reduce the min
ing rate on April 23 from cents to 3
cents per bushel. The miners will meet
next Tuesday. It is thought a strike will
TMS-42.00 AYEAR.
CURRF.YT COMMENT.
Fair Warning,
(Chicago Tribune.)
Mrs. Carlyle bitterly regretted haviag
married an author. Young ladies who have
a newsaper reporter on their string cannot
be too cautions.
Very Strange.
(Atlanta Star.)
Considering that the Macon men now
claim McDaniel as their candidata it is
strange that they opposed him to the end
in the conference committee.
A New Version.
(Boston Globe.) J
A Scotch, parson said, so oewhat sarcas
tically, of a hard drinker, that “he put
an enemy in his month to steal away his
brains, bnt the enemy, after a thoroughly
protraced search, returned without any
thing.”
Uncompromising Truth.
(French Fun.)
“Is it a sin,” asked a fashionable iaiy
of her spiritual director,” for me to feel
pleasure when a gentleman says I am hand
some?” “It is, my daughter,” he.replies
gravely; “we should never delight in false
hood 1”
A Small Donation.
(Washington Post.)l
If there is no better way of disposing of
the excess of four cents in the cash ou
hand at the Treasury, why not make it the
nucleus for a fund to indemnify Mr. Hayed
for the money he expended in shutting
Cassanave’s mouth ?
The Difference.
(Inter-Ocean )
Nilsson is censured for assailing bald
headed men. And Nilsson is certainly un
just. A bald-headed gentleman, unlike a
bald-headed lady, can not hang his bank
hair on a chair-back, and put it on and be
pretty again whenever he wants to.
A Bad Bird.
f Steals wheat,
! Eats few moths, e
i Makes too much noise,
I Picks off blossoms,
The Sparrow -j Eats early lettuce,
j Drives off useful birds.
Disfigures buildings,
I Befouls gutters,
I Can’t sing.
His Own Monument,
(Detroit Free Press.)
They are talking in New York of build
ing a monument to Peter Cooper. He
forestalled these post mortem honors. He
built himself one. If any of the Money
Bags who keep their strings tight, want to
loosen them, let them take up Cooper's
work and extend the great Institute which
he established, where any person may
obtain a practical educational outfit for hia
life.
Editorial Wrangling.
(Ohattanoogi Times.)
For our part—and we probably speak the
sentiment of the press generally on this
head—while we condemn the so-called
code of honor, we would prefer a square
stand-up flghtto carrying on a low, vitupe
rative personal contest in the columns of a
newspaper. The public have no interest
in the personal affairs of these editors, and
they should settle those matters outside of
their professional transactious.
A Sop For Geo. Williams.
(Washington Post.)
A writer in the Colored Independent, of
Wilson, North Carolina, referring to the
scraps of Federal patronage doled out to
the black Republicans, says : “There are
too many of our leading colored men
making themselves contented with little
boot-black positions.” That comes very
near the literal truth. Scores of respecta
ble colored men in this city, who hold de
partment posit ims, actually black the
boots of their respective chiefs.
Beating the Tom-Tom
(Baltimore American.)
The hoodlums of Waynesboro, Ga., did
not know what they were doing when they
mobbed Loo Chong &Co., and drove them
out of town. These Chinese merchants
have made an international grievance of it,
and the Celestial ambassador at Washing
ton demands an apology and redress. The
Emperor of China has an army of a million
men and an iron clad fleet of three hun
dred guns. We have not navy enough to
say * boo !” to a third rate Samoan chief
tain with a fleet of canoesand sampans,
Watterson’s Janus Face,
(Nashville American.)
Vanderbilt & Co. receive eight and ten
per cent, dividends on $180,000,000, pro
duced by two railroads which cost $40,-
000,000. Vanderbilt & Co. can crush out
all competition with their rascally system
called “pooling.” This is very beautiful,
says the beautiful reformer Watterson, per
fectly lovely, in fact. No monopoly in it,
oh do 1 The law must not lay a finger's
weight on this elegant process by which
Vanderbilt & Co. enrich themselves. The
men who risk their money in steel, iron
and cotton plant —they are the only mo
nopolists. They are “tariff robbers,"
“thieves,” “plunderers of the people,”
says Watterson.
Southern Poets.
(N. 0. Times-Democrat.)
As for our Southern poets—Where are
they? Paul Hnyne, by resolute persever
ance, has obtained a moderate position
upon the declivity of the mountain of
Fame and clings to it by hard holding on,
but he is almost a solitary example, Ran
dall wrote one poem, which immortalized
but hardly enriched him, and has since
been at work in journalism, which gener
ally neither immortalizes nor enriches any
body. O’Hara wrote one poem which will
live forever ‘on Fame’s eternal camping
ground,” and wasted the rest of his life in
war and politics. Harry Flash shone like
a meteor in a few brilliant lyrics, end has
since given his heart and his hopes to
wholesale groceries.
Made a Mistake.
(New York Times.)
Mr. Bayard made a mistake in going to
Chicago to “stand upon the highlands of
vision.” He appears to better advantage at
a distance in the semi-obscurity of the Sen
ate Chamber. As a specimen of political
respectability and personal dignity for his
party to point with pride, when accused of
producing only a low order of leaders he
has rendered and can render appreciable
service. As a statesman challenging the
confidence of the country by his utterances
on great matters he is a failure. The de
sire of the American people for character
and capacity in the candidates for the Presi
dency next year is very strong. It cannot
be satisfied with the south-east wind which
Mr. Bayard furnishes.
Alabama.
(Birmingham Age.)
When the civil war came upon us, where
was Alabama compared to some of the
other states of the Union which were wise
enough to encourage and protect a system
of diversified industry? How was she
prepared to defend herself in that great
struggle? She could not make a gun, or a
cannon, or a wagon, or clothes for her sol
diery. She could not take care of herself
in war, neither can she in peace, if her
people do not turn their attention to some
thing else than farming. What effects this
miserable policy of discouraging manufac
turing and diversified industries, has had
upon the State, Senator Morgan told the
Senate of the United States when he said
that nine out of every ten farmers in the
State were “mortgaged for every dollar
they are worth.” And we insist that this
state of affairs has been brought about by
I ha teachings of Southern free-traders.
. ——ir ’ ... V -•••