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THE TALK OF "TIIEON.”
A CLASSICAL LETTER PROM A CLAS
SICAL TOWS.
A Mecca of Convention#— The Vacant
Chair In the University-Jug Tavern
Read—ProgretvlVe Athena—Chan
cellor Lipscomb—Coming Com
mencements.
[Correspondence of the Chronicle. 1
Atsems, Ga., May 28 —This city appears
to be the Mecca of conventions. There
has hardly been an interval cf two weeks
since the first of April that some conven
tion or association has not convened here.
The Pharmaoectical Convention met here
and was bar q netted by the city; the doc
tors asfemtlei and the Opera House con
tainfd good cheer and hearty welcome for
them one night of their visit; the Teach
ers’ Association followed, and the hospita
ble halls and doors of the oity were thrown
wide open; the editors swelled the list and
were made merry and glad by an excursion
to the falls; and yesterday the Women’s
Missionary Society of the State convened
in the First Methodist Church. When
they leave us we will Lave nothing of the
kind to look forward to, eave a small asso
c?a‘ioo w’Jeh 1 ~~ * - ~'.Lle in October.
True, .L r. -.c .. «.junmencements com-
ing on, but they have come with such peri
odical regularity that the entertainment of
the gay throng on those occasions is looked
upon as a solemn duty, net as an occasional
pleasure. It would surprise your readers
to know how well the colored people enter
tain their ae social ion s. One met here a few
weeks ago—a religions body of some two
hundred delegates and every one of them
was provided with a home, and in some
cases the entertainers were known to draw
their wages a month ahead in order that
their guests might live upon the fat of the
land.
There is some speculation here about
the vacant Chair cf History and Political
Science in the University. As yet no ap
plication has been made to the secretary
of the Board of Trustees, but various
names have been suggested in the public
prints, and in conversation, as suitable
gentlemen to fill the vacancy. We learn
that the probability is the Chair will ba
divided and Agriculture, which was tacked
on to the department of History a few
years since, without any regard* for the
fitness of thinss, will be made a separate
Chair, and in all probability be offered to
Dr. W. L Jones, rs Kirkwood. Dr. Jones
was at one time Professor of Chemistry in
the University, and was esteemed one cf
its ablest members. Os late vears he has
< been editing the Southern Cultivator, an in
fluential agricultural journal, and by taste
.and education is well equiped to perform
Rhe djities of the Chair. The History Chair
wilbebard to’fi'l.^W»<coolly as it had
such an able cccupafit a fewebort weeks
ago. Several names bare been mentioned
io connection with the vacancy; J>ut the
trustees are somewhat petit
no man can foretell their ft. ''’CM
L A prominent citizen assured ns the I
V qdhef day that the Athens and Western
t Bailroad, more familiarly called the Jog
Road, will surely be built. More
'necessary amount
*for hw remark; but when we rememoer
how loDgJtjeaa beforer the North‘astern
was completed, we ate afraid our friend is
too sanguine. We hope, however, he is
Correct in his saying, for if a city ever
needed one more railroad, this town is
sadly in want of the Athens and Jug
" Tavero line. It is very hard to raise
money here for such purposes. Most of
the people seem to be satisfied with the
modicum of prosperity they'are now en
joying, and are fearful lest trying to make
“well enough” better they will really
hurt their condition. But to set these
off there are some half a dezm or more
energelic, go ahead merchants who, when
they see a thinfl is necessary, will do
it, and may be after all these plucky, pub
lic spirited citizens will connect the hard
soil of the University town with the more
pliable clay of Jug Tavern.
They have an ice factory up here now,
and the price of ice prospectively aston
ishes the citizens. Thewriter remembers
the time when Fl'scb, now of Augusta,
eold ioe at tbe remarkably low figures of
ten cents per pound. It was in the days
when transportation was high and there
were no i’e factories nearer than Balti
more. I don’t think Mr. Flisoh’s profit,
even at that price, paid for the loss in
weight from melting. Now tbe price is as
low as it can be one hundred pounds de
livered at your door for sixty cents. The
factory is owned by northern men, and is
located near ♦he Northeastern depot.
The Ben Hill property, which was pur
chased some months ago, by Mr. Leonard,
of Syracuse, New Turk, is once more on
the market. He purchased it for ?6.G00,
and is anxious to dispose of it or exchange
it for a plantation. It is tbe finest r«d
- decce in this part of Georgia, and was
built by 001. John T. Grant, of Atlants, at
a cost of over $20,060. Too large for the
purposes of an ordinary small 'family and
expensive to keep in repair, it is a house
that will not sell very readily. But it is
an elegant place, and deserves a better fate
•than to be continually on the market fcr
sale.
The venerable ex-CNrancellor (Lipscomb,
whose illness was announced in your col
umns, has considerably improved—so much
<eo as to be able to resume his literary
labors, The doctor has not ’been to
Vanderbilt -University in some eighteen
months—being ton feeble to perform his
labors there. But by the aid of -bis pen
he still keeps up his connection with that
University, where be is an Emeritus pro
fessor of Mental Philosophy. He takes
great delight in lecturing to the young
ladies of the Lucy Cobb Institute’-upon
•the playa of Shakspeare, and has remarked
that there is mote satisfaction in lecturing
before young ladies than before young
men, as the former not only look as if thev
understand but do, whereas the latter only
appear it? do so.
Two brilliant social events will take
fdace in ibis city on the sth and 6th of
une respectively the Presbyterian
church tbe scene of both. A charming
and pre'ty young lady, with eleven female
friends, will, on &e sth of the next
OMatb, accompanied by gal lav t gentle
men, slowly march down the centre
aisle of the old The ceremony
. which will make a young Celumbia
♦ county farmer bappv will take place
at 12:30, p m.. after which tbe young
oouple will go North and spend their honey
moon at tbe great watering places of that
section. On tbe evening of the 6th a
prosperous young business gentleman of
the city will wed onset the reigning belles
This, too, will be a church wadding, and
Athens society, which has not enjoyed a
acene of this sort for some time, hails with
Crdonable pleasure these two oasises in
e social desert There are all kinds of
rumors about other couples, but it is so
often the case that these rumors prove
false that it will not be wise or proper to
mention them. It can be said, however,
that aome are alarmingly sensational, and,
whether they will be consummated or not.
have at leas* afforded endless talk, and fed
the hungry tongue of gossip for many a
a week.
I The commencement season will soon be
npoD ÜB, About the middle of the next
CONSOLIDATED MARCH 17.1877.
month the sweet girl graduate will begin
to read somebody's composition on ‘'Faith,”
or “Hope,” or “Charity.” or “Woman’s
Rights,” and the fond mother in tones
audible all over the house, will tell how
much time Mary spent on that essay,when
if tbe truth was known Mary’s papa well
nigh went crazy concocting the thing. Fe
male commencements are queer affairs
anyhow, but are nothing o the com
mencements at tbe University. There the
boy s generally write their orations—we
have heard some which were escribed to
none but the parties themselves—and then
proceed to deliver them in the most re
markable manner. It ia a fact, strange as it
may te tn, that much of the bad elocution
in the college is due to excessive timidity.
The young speakers have told us that fre
quently they do not know what they are
gay.ing.and ignorant oftbat.it is no wonder
that they touch their hearts when they are
talking about tbe devil. The present set
of a’udents will in all probability not labor
under this disadvantage. By-the-way all
the institutions of learning are enjoying
great prosperity here. The institute un
der tbe able management of Miss Ruther
ford was never in as flourishing a condi
tion, and the University for the fir-it time
in y c ars has over two hundred names on
its register. The Brown donation will
next term increase the number to over two
hundred and fifty, and the old days of
crowded lecture halls and well filled dor
mitories will come again. Theon.
MRS. PICKEVB' ADDRESS TO THE
WOMEK OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Edgewood, April 26, 1883.
To the Women of Carolina :
As your Vice Regent representative in
the “Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association,”
I can no longer defer a direct appeal
to yon for assistanco in raising funds
with which to restore the rcom at
Mount Vernon assigned by the Coun
cil to the State cf South Carolina.
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland,
Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, Con
necticut. New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Illinois and the District of Co
lumbia are now each represented by a re
stored and furnished room in the mansion.
Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Ala
bama will complete their rooms during
this summer. I feel sure that it
is owing to my own hesitancy and reluc-,
tance tbat Carolina is last in this work of'
commemorative love, but I bad neither
the heart nor the courage, amid the gloom
of her own bitter necessities, the strug
gles of her burdened people, to ask aid for
any object, however worthy, outside of
her immediate interests. Yet, now tbat
her woeful night is past and the dawn of
a happy prosperity begins, I am embold
ened to make this effort to enlist that
devoted love and pride of State so charac
teristic of her daughters in days gone by—
those heroic days in which, counting
naught the cruel past, they gave their all
of life and love and fortune, “so vainly yet
so hoiily,” to sustain in honor and dignity
her faith, her truth and her rights. I
scarcely need to remind yon that it was a
daughter of Carolina, Miss Pamela Cun
ningham, who, with broad intellect and
strong heart, called to the women of
, 4he land to co-operate with her to
fthis hallowed and historic spot
Hoti” desecration and decay. In the
(generous response that came from tbe
common heart of the country, the work
I of Mrs.Chosi mt, yout* first Vice Regent,
and the lady managers in their respective
-A - ** ’UH'SgIU'
States by act of Congress, thus concen
trating the work of the respective Vice
Regents in their efforts to restore from the
mold and dust of time the home of
Washington, and admitting a laudable
1 State pride into the harmonious whole.
To Carolina was given the “breakfast”
; or “morning room,” and it is for the pur
pose of restoring thia room to its original
1 beauty that I call upon the daughters of
• Carolina for aid. 1 have adopted the
> precedent set by your first Vice Regent,
’ Mrs. Chesnut, of a lady manager in each
> district, whose collections will be sent to
Mayor Courtney, of Charleston, who kind
ly consents to act as treasurer of the
> fund. Lucy H. Pickens.
HE\RT WOUVDB AND PISTOL SHOTS
A Mother’s Attempt to Panish -the Man
Who Jilted Her Daughter.
New York, May 29.—0 n Sunday even
ing Mr. George Wilson, Jr., was shot at in
Far Rockaway by Mis. Benjamin B. Mott,
( wife of a prominent resident of Woods
' burg, in the township of Hempstead, L.
’ I. The shooting caused much excitement
in the place. It appears that Mr. Wilson,
who is twenty-six years old and who keeps
a furniture store in Brooklyn, was until
' some time ago paying his addresses
’ to Miss Lillie Mott, daughter of Mrs.
' Mott. He took the young lady to
’ balls and parties, and her family
looked forward to their marriage. It was
a surprise to the residents of Woodsburg
’ when they learned recently that Mr. Wil
-1 sod bad married a Moes Heffner, and tbat
' the young couple were spending the honey
moon at Far Rockaway. It soon became
‘ noised about that Mrs. Mott had made
! up her mind to punish Wilson at the first
opportunity for trifeing with the affections
i ot her daughter, and it was expected that
‘ the punishment would take the shape of a
cowhiding. Mr. Wrtson managed to keep
‘ out e f the way of Mrs. Mott until Sundry.
‘ Their meeting then appears to have been
not entirely unexpected on Mrs. Mott’s
part. She carried a bulldog pistol, and
this she discharged at Mr. Wilson. The
’ -shot did not take effect. Mr. Wilson did
net wait to ask explacations, but made tbe
best use of his time in getting to a safe
' distance. As Mrs. Mott was about to take
a second shot, James F. Cronin, a witness
of the occurrence discerned her. There
JW<-re many people in the street and Cronin
was warmly rebuked for interfering. Yes
terday an effort was made to get Mr. Wil
-son to make a complaint against Mrs.
Mott, but be kept hiaaself secluded. A
suit for heavy damages for breach of
promise is threatened.
Mau*.l S. Trottiog SKost.
Hertford, Conn.. May 29.—Mr. ‘Wil
liam Turnbull. Dan Msec and a >few
; friends came np from New 'York to-day to
witness the daily work of Mr. Wanderbik’s
horsesnow at Charter Oak Park. Athaif
,, past two o’clock Bair, after having given
Maud her warming up exerci&e, sentherfor
a practise mile. Without a break she pass
ed the half mile post in and aooom-,
pliehed the mile in 2:16. Among the crowd
of <wo hundred or so there were -several
watchholders who made the time
but the majority of tbs timers were stopped
at dead 16. Bair beKeves the mare was
never so good as she ia at present, and he
thinks she could have done the mile in
2:13 eemly. Be says it was the fastest
mile ever trotted in tbe month of May,
and be is m pleased with Her work that be
feels confident eke will we in condi'.ioa
to go for the 2:08 record in a few weeks.
The day, with its frequent showers and
high wind, was not favorable for speed.
Later in the afternoon Maud 8 was hitched
with Aldine, and the pair made tbe mile
in the time for the last quarter be
ing 33t$ seconds. Early Rose was driven
a mile in 2:22.
Fighting.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Guayaquil, May 30.—There was fight
ing in the river a little above Guayaquil
thia morning,
THE GRE4T_MAN TRAP.
HUMAN BEIWGS CRUSHED ANDTRAM
PLED TO DE A I H.
.Novel Bat Fatal Accident on the Brook
lyn Bridge—X Panic-Stricken Crowd
Madly Rushing and Crushing—
The Cause of the Panic—Po
lice to the Rescue.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
New York, May 30.—A terrible accident
occurred on Brooklyn bridge at half-fast
four o’clock this afternoon. The bridge
was crowded to its utmost capacity. Qo
the platform at the New York tower tAe
jam became so great that many p. *v
fainted. A cry of distr /s was raised and
a dreadful struggle /began between
the panic-stricken -''crowd A num
ber were, it is reported, crushed to
death. Ia the end tbe crowd coming
from the Brooklyn side prevailed and
rcsbed toward the New Vork anchorage,
trampling down everything in its way.
Men, women and children were trodden
under foot and falling down the steps
leading to the tower platform, were buried
under a mass of struggling humanity
many feet high. As soon as the news of
the disaster was conveyed to the New York
station by the onset of the panic-stricken
crowd, tbe police were called and the bridge
was closed. The work of removing the
crushed and wounded then began. A
number were taken to the City Hall police
station and others to the Chambers street
hospital. Tbe police report that at least
ten or fifteen persons were killed, but as
yet it is impossible to say who or how
many. Os the seven wounded who are in
the Cby Hall fetation, one. B. Reichers. a
cir ar maker of No. 335 Delancey street,
is now dying. The excitement at the en
trance to the bridge is intense.
Particulars of the Great Catastrophe.
The Brooklyn bridge received a dreadful
baptism to day. In the crash that occur
red, apparently by an accident on the New
York anchorage, a number of persons,
mobtly women and children, were crushed
some to death, some fatally, and still
others severely. A scene of terror reigned
for fully 15 or 20 minutes tbat baffles
description. When it was ever cartloads
of wounded and crushed human beings
were taken out of the New York entrance
of the bridge A small mountain ot
torn and abandoned clothing was gath
ered up by the police. The accident
occurred on the New York anchorage,
where the solid bottom < f the middle foot
way ends and two flights of seven steps
each, with an intermediate landing, lead
up to the plank walk of the span, between
the New York anchorage and tbe tower.
It was shortly after four o’clock. The
bridge was crowded from one end
to the other so tbat there was hard
ly elbow room on the footway. A wo
man who was ascending the lower flight
of steps stumbled and fell on the landing.
The crowd pressed upon her and she
shrieked. Bridge Officer Fredrick Bich
ards, who was on the plank walk above,
seeing her danger, elbowed his way to the
spot and lifted her up. The crowd closed
upon them both and they went down.
With a desperate tflort Officer Richards
got upon hie feet once more, dragging
th* woman after him. She screamed
in despair and fright afid the crowd
below pressed toward the spot
SSfegL
Those on the approach below thff' gn’P?
were carried forward in a solid mass.
Many stumbled and were unable to resist
the pressure from behind. The crowds
nassed over them from above. The crowd
coming from Brooklyn was carried
to the edge of the steps and then fell
over and down upon the struggling mass
below. A terrible struggle for life began.
Men and women fought with the strength
of despair against each other. Escape was
impossible, with the pressure from both
sides growing at every shout of anguish
tbat went up from the dying and those
who saw diath before their »yes. Fear
and despair on the ore side, curiosity
on the other, fought for mastery. The
frightful cru c h was denser than ever when,
after nearly fifteen minutes, a score of mil
itia men of the 12th Regiment, led by
Lieutenant Hart and Sergeants Conldock
and Costello, marched up the approach to
ward Brooklyn. Tbe yells of the crowd
attracted their Attention. At the foot of the
steps the wall of human bodies was piled
high. The dfnse mass surged about
it and in it. The soldiers saw two police
man vainly struggling against it. Sergeant
Couldock took in the situation at a glance.
At his word of command his men scaled
the fence and railroad track separating
them from the foot-walk and wedging into
tie mass of people near the scene
of disaster and drove back the crowd at
the New York entrance at the muzzle cl
lhe'rguns. It fell beck slightly, and the
militiamen, following up the advantage
gained, forced it back until the approach
was cleared. Then forming across the
foot-walk. They prevented the crowd
fro'u passing back, while as many of their
number as couid be spared ran toward the
scene of the accident to help in extricat
ing the dead and saving the living.—
The alarm bad meanwhile been given
at the bridge entrance. A general call
for all hospital ambulances was sent out
and policemen were hurried over upon the
bridge. From their station beside the
city hall tbefiremen of the Hook and Lad
der Company followed to assist. The
crowd on tbe foot walk above the steps wa<=
constantly receiving accessions and still
pressing on and over the heap on the an
chorage. Thebodies of the dead and dying
lay here so fbm'y wedged together tbai
to extricate them was next to impossible
To beat back the crowd was equally ito
possible. Relief was possible only by
making room for the crowd to spread side
ways. It was quickly done. Willing
hands tore away the iron railing dividing
the footway from the railroad track cn
both sides, and dragging those who were
nearest in the crush through the open
ing. Room was made for the police
men to reach the frightful heap o1
human flesh, and the work of clear
ing it away began. As soot as a por
tion cf the obstruction was removed from
the steps, the crowd was eased and a nor
tion were let through to the New Yorh
station. The rest were forced <>aek until
all the bodies had been taken away. Along
the iron fenees on the<ootway ox the rail
road track an-d on the carriage way on
both sides of the bridge the dead and
wounded were laid. Many were dead when
extricated from the heap, and otters
were more or less terribly ityured.
They lay six. and ten deep, those
in the lower tier being dead. The clothes
were torn from the body of <more than cne
in the attempt to get them aut. All were
hstress, many shoeless, and &n others the
clotfces hung in Five women, all
dead and trampled into unshapely masses,
were taken t-om the bottom of the heap.
One woman had beea seen in ihe crush
holding a screaming baby above the heads
of the erowd. As she herself weot down
some man took the baby. It was not
found. It is said that the man had been
seen carrying the dead baby away, but the
police had no account of it. Baby cloth
ing scattered about gave evidence enough
that weak infants had been in the crush.
The woman, whom Bridge Officer Richards
had helped to hsr feet at the beginning of
the crush was saved. Richards also es
caped death by a desperate effort. In
speaking of the occurrence afterward he
said there was no chance of^estoring order
AUGUSTA, GAWVEDNESDAY, JUNE 6. 18b3.
from the firs*; that the first wrs
the death knell of many in
The crowd grew at cnce
able and so dense that a cf
any kind was impossible. J®a :l &rowd.
’ forced by the constant iinMnjpi and
from the side,
weot over the s'eps like * (Sttaraot,
and once star'ei they fell until the walk
lay piled with bodies to the of the
steps, and then went over and ieU, down
bpyond it. A dead Lo
Sing-was taken from tbe the
heap. Carls were pressed
on the New York feide they
arrived, and the dead an nred
wfre hurriedly driven out City
Hall, where they were laid
station in the basement. AmbuO®|then
arrived and those who yet were
taken to the hospitals.
besieged the station and ambulances to
learn the fate of the missing oneaßear to
them. There were heartrendingswnes at
the police stations when a bodyjwjusraeog
nized by friends.
An.ample force of police tc
of the New York entrance as t-o“ as pos
sible after the accident. Tbe middle foot
way was closed to travel, and |he current
of those anxious to cross was turned into
’ the down-stream wagon track. Apparent
- ly no measures were taken at theJßrosk
lyn end to etop travel. Rumors t&t the
bridge had fallen and that hundrals had
s been crushed got afloat. Th*, dead
that were pulled out from und®neath
human avalanche on the anchorage were
‘ black in tbe face, showing they han died
from suflocation. John Stucb, a Grand
; Army man,of Kotte’s post, helped five girls
. from tbe cr.wd where they were j&amed
in tightly. A big man, apparently«a Ger
man, was pushing Item and strtfggling
with them on the bridge as if his only pur
pose was to get them down to save himself.
A crowd of roughs pressed on behind the
crowd, coming from Brooklyn and fought
their way through it with, oaths
• It was said that thieves profited by the op
[ portunity and helpei precipitate the catas
trophe Their chances were unlimited
When the approach was cleared at last it
was literally covered with articles
of clothing and personal property
Ia» andoned in the struggle. They were
i viewed with amazement by £he people
j coming over from Brooklyn who bad cot
j heard of tbe disaster. In the excitement
,of the crush Wm Oxford, aged 45, a
, drunken man, deliberately jumped from
tbe bridge approach into William street
and received severe internal inju
ries. The place on the bridge where
the accident occurred is the dan
ger spot in the structure* To persons
! who are looking out over the scenery, as
they pas* either way. it is a certain and
i most perilous trap. In a crush like the
one of to-day, it is a terrible danger spot.
, Many said to-day they had feared such
[an occurrence at this spot. At the
. Chambers street hospital lay ' the
bodies of twelve of those who per
. ished by the disaster. Those already
identified were as fdMbws : George Smith,
, aged 45, of 41 Watts street, carpenter
identified by his wife; he was alive when
brought to the hospital, but died shortly
j afterwards; E'len Riordan, aged 45. of
I No. 36 Montgomery street—identified by
her son; Maude Crawford, aged 33,
jof 37th street, -near Broadway-she
, is the wife of Charles Crawford, clerk;
j Jas. O’Brien, aged 40, of 88 Latgbt street
I —he was a delivery clerk ip the employ
, of the Pennsylvania Railroad ’’gnipanv.
niani, Turkish
(. Sherwood, aged 35, of Bridgeport, Conn :
B Ah Lo Sing, aged ISO; Maggy Sullivan,
] ased 13, of 115 Monroe stree 1 .; Eliza
Karters, aged 66, of Jersey Oity; Sarah
I Hennessy, aged 22, of 190 Washington
avenue. Two men yet remain unidenti
fled.
In the evening the coroner empanneled
a jury which viewed the bodies of the dead
and the ir quest was fixed for Satuiday. A
revised list of the dead and injured, ob
tained shortly before midnight from the
hospitals and stations, embraced twelve
dead, eleven of whom had been identified,
and twentysixinjured, some badly, otners
less seriously.
DOGS FIGHTING ON THE STAGE.
BloodlaoundH Forgetting TKeir Parts in
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
New Yobk, May 30.—A scene took place
in Beverley’s Brooklyn Theatre last night
which was not down in the bill. Jay
Rial’s “Uocie Tom’s Cabin” was being
played, and, in addition to the actors,
two Siberian bloodhounds were on the
stage to take part in the perform
ance. These bloodhounds recently ar
rived from Cincinnati, and their rcgu
ular negro attendant was not with them.
Before their introduction to the stage
last evening they had a quarrel in the
stable in which they bad been locked up,
and fought it out until they were sepa
rated. The forced separation displeased
them very much, and they apparently re
solved to renetf the battle at the first op
portunity. When brought upon the stage
to pursue the slaves, George and Eliza
Harris, they showed a decided disinclina
tion to become slave hunters, and as
they approached the foot-ligbts they
sprang at each other and allowed the poor
slaves to escape. They fought ferociously,
and in their* struggle rolled over into
the orchestra. The audie&ce became
greatly excited, and the play, of course,
had to be stopped for the moment. Mr.
L. F. Spencer, one of the actors, who was
representing the character of Phineas
Fletcher, Mr. McConnell, the matagei*
and two others, jumped from the stage to
the orchestra, and after a long struggle,
separated the brutes. The fight did not
end, however, without severe injury
to Mr. Spencer, who was bittA ty
one of the hounds in his right hand,
wfaieb prevented him from continuing his
part of the performance, and the charac
ter which he represented had to be assum
ed by Mr. H. 8. Duffield. When the
hounds rolled into the orchestra the
leader and his assistants adandoned
their instruments and gave the animals
a wide berth, but as soon as order was
restored they returned to their usual seats
and the performance was resumed. The
two houndswill not be allowed to appear
again this week.
ORGANIZATION.
The Fertiliser Manufiicturerg Handing
Together.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Baxxemosx, May 30.— A meeting was
; held in this city, to-day, for the organiza
l tion of a national association of those en
gaged in Che manufacture and manipu
lation of chemical 'fertilizers. Col.
W. H. Trenholm, of Charleston,
8. C., presided. There were delegates
present from Massachusetts, New York,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia. A constitution was adopted pro
viding that only manufacturers and man
ipulators can become members. The or
ganization was not completed and another
meeting will be held to-morrow. The ob
ject, as stated at the meeting, is to protect
the trade from oppressive exactions which
exist in some of the States and to protect
the trade from the influence of middle
men.
li the man who delivers a declamation
through the telephone 3 hellocutionist ?
BAYARD AND M’DONALD.
AN E’STERN CHIEFTAIN AND A
WESTERS STATESMAN.
Democratic Views of the Important
Tariff Question—Key-Notes for
> the Campaign of 1884.
Wilmington, Dei. , May 23 —“The more
important the question the greater the ne
cessity in dealing with it gravely and
worthily, and anything like finesse or the
appearance of finesse or trick in dealing
with such an issue as a tariff for revenue or
a tariff for the protection of certain classes
of our citizens will greatly weaken the party
resorting to it."
“Quite independent of the economy to
the Treasury and incidental benefit to
American producers and manufacturers
which is to be affected by a higher or low
er rate of tariff taxation, is the more pro
found question of political right and pow
er to lay any public burden upon the en
tire people for the benefit, profit or ‘pro
tection’ of private individuals,”
“If this claim be admitted as one of
right, then privileged claskesdo exist in
this country, and although titles may not
be allowed by the Constitution, yet all the
advantages and privileges of rank will be
obtained without the name.”
“I know of no position more impregna
ble, and upon which it is more important
for the Democratic party to form its lines,
than that public property cannot be taken
for private use under any pretext.”
“The Constitution of the United States
and of every one of the States so united
provides for the taking of private property
for public use only upon the rendition of
“just compensation” to the owner-but
nowhere in thia country and nowhere
where free institutions have recognition
can the sovereign power take public prop
erty for private use or the private property
of A to be bestowed upon B with or without
compensation.”
“The only ground upon which any indi
vidual can be deprived of bis property
is to benefit the community, and whenever
such an exigency arises he must (under
our guarantees) be first justly compensa
ted.”
“The Jorm, of the exaction is immate
rial-as much so as the place—and a tax
collected in the interior, or at a man’s
residence, or at the seaport of entry and
under a tariff law —an excise or a direct
tax law—it is al! the same, and to be justi
fled must be in the name and Jor the use of
the government of the United States.”
“ With this principle once laid down,
the rate of taxation will be easily measured
by the public exigencies, and such a spec
tacle as was at the last session
of Congress—of a handful of men repre
senting private interests and controlling
and moulding public laws of taxation to
suit those interests - will never again be
tolerated by honest public sentiment.”
“ The excise system can be so arranged,
I am sure, as to do away with the army of
spies and agents, and the detestable in
quisition practised under present laws. A
tax upon the ascertained capacity of a still
can be substituted for the host of political
storekeepers and gnagers and armed mar
shals who now constitute the chief power
of the Radical party in many States. And
a sensible reduction of the rate of tax to a
true revenue point would accomplish a
vast reform and give great relief.”
-gRv Vor* our‘civil
removal*
fruits, and if we continue to make menv
salaries and means of living dependent
solely upon the capiice and favor of the
' executive branch, we will see such men in
high office as suit the office-holding class
and not the people, or their interest or
honor. Yours, sincerely, T. F. Bayabd.”
Senator McDonald’s Views.
Indianapolis, May 22, Ysß3.
Joseph Pulitzer. Esq :
Mx Deab “-ib I earnestly def ire to see
1 you successful in your new enterprise, and
am confident that the energy, enterprise
and ability you have di-p'ayed in the
other fields of journalism will command
success in this larger field to which you
have extended your labors.
With us this is the off year; we have no
elections of any kind this fall, and there
is absolutely no political agitation in our
State, except such as arises from being in
terested spectators of the political con
flicts in other States. I feel a strong con
viction that the political tides which set
in in favor of the Democratic party last
year will continue until the party shall be
triumphantly successful at the next Presi
dential election.
The tariff issue connected with the gen
eral subject of revenue reform will neces
sarily be an important question in all fu
ture political contests until it is settled
upon the doctrines of the Constitution
and the principles of sound political
■ economy.
We may be some times reaching a so
ultion of the question, but as the public
mind comes to be enlightened it will not
be satisfied with any tariff that has not
for its leading purpose the raising of
revenue for the Government; nor with the
details of any tariff law in which the du
ties laid upon foreign merchandise shall
be above the revenue point.
> With my best wishes for your sucess,
and also for the success of the cause we
;both so earnestly support, I am, truly
yours. J. E. McDonald.
fc,ooo WHEELMEN IN LINE.
A Picturesque Parade of Bicyclists In
Jew York.
Nbw York, May 29. - The third annual
meeting of the league of American Wheel
-1 men took place here to-day. Bicyclists
from all parte of the country arrived in
town yesterday to participate in the
parade. The business meeting was held
iin the morning and was attended by over
' 503 members of the league in uniform
IN. M. Beckwith, of the Citizen’s
club. New York, was elected presi
dent for the ensuing year. The re
. ports of the treasurer and corresponding
secretary showed a prosperous financial
condition of the organization, and a large
increase in membership. The roll now
contains 2,13) names. It is estimated that
fully 2,000 wheelmen took part in the pa
rade. The column extended from Sixtieth
street to Seventy-sixth street, and pre
sented an interesting spectacle as the
wheelmen stood by their machines clad in
their picturesque uniforms waiting for the
word of command. The sound of the bugle
gave warning, and at the word “mount”
every man leaped upon his bycicle and the
line of march was taken up in double file.
' The procession moved slowly down Fifth
avenue to Fifty-ninth street, preceeded by
a detachment of mounted police. Here
I the column counterwbeeled and moved up
! Fifth avenue to 116th street through
I Seventh avenge, down through the west
side drive in Central park to Fifty-ninth
street, back to Seventy-second street and
to the Riverside drive, where the wheel
mea stacked their bicycles and were pho
togmphed in a group. The procession
then disbanded. The route along which
the precession parsed was thronged.
Yellow Fever.
(By jMegraph to the Chronicle.)
Halifax, N. &■> May 33.—Her Majesty’s
war ship Mallard, which arrived here to
day, bad several pases of yellow fever on
board while at Jamaica. She had a yellow
flag flying while coming up the harbor.
CURRENT COMMENTS.
Consolatory.
(Boston Globe.)
Don’t fret yourself envying the rich.
Nine times out of ten they are nnhappier
than you.
Frozen Facts.
(Philadelphia Times.'
First ice man —“Any mean people on
your route ?” Second ice man—“l should
e»y so; meanest set I ever run across.
Why, three out of five families keep
scales.”
The Negro.
'Chattanooga Timee.;
The destiny of the American negro is
not extinction by decay. He is here to
stay, and becoming numerous at a rite
that suggests the very gravest problems
for moralists, statesmen and educators to
solve
Progtess.
(New York World)
At this moment, when Ingersollism is
rampant everywhere and the faith in a
beneficent and omnipotent Providence is
growing dim, it is gratifying to observe
that an opera bouffe company has come to
grief a}, Chicago. , . .
Discretionary.
(Boston Herali.)
A will dated many years ago is on file
in Virginia, in which the testator states
his desire that his executors will bury
him “in the plainest manner possible by
the side of my dear wives whichever may
be the most convenient.”
Bill Arp.
(Constitution.)
Sometimes Bill Arp touches a tender
spot in nature. When he suggested to his
bosom partner that they were growing too
old to go to picnics, the alacrity with
which that worthy lady got ready and went
was characteristic of her sex.
Value of Litigation.
(Inter-Ocean.)
An estate has just been finally distributed
in New York, which has been in the Sur
rogate Court of that city for over 30 years.
When the will was proved, in 1851, the
estate was valued at between $503,000 and
$1,000,000. The heirs got $70,000.
A Marvel.
(N. Y. World.)
There is but one professional humorist
in the South who writes in a Caucasian
dialect. He calls himself Bill Arp, and his
home is in Georgia. He has just distin
guished himself by writing an essa? on the
tariff question, which is quite facetious.
A man who can do that ought to be deco
rated.
Mystery Explained.
(Exchange.)
While more boys are born than girls, it
is a singular fact tbat there is a surplus of
female population. It is easily accounted
for. Fooling with toy pistols playing base
ball and falling off cherry trees, all boyish
pastimes, are six times " more hazardous
than wearing corsets and jumping the rope
503 times in one inning.
An Old-Time Christian.
(Chicago Tribune.)
The late venerable Bishop Peck, of the
MethodisbtJSpiscoDal Church, made prac
tical his teaching that there were more en
during riches than houses and bonds. He
gave away all his earthly possessions while
isintzlo the Syracuse University. “I have
*±" —fe-teu-w*
si f ’ r o C?*’ o’r 0 ’ r g whßr e I shall have
.^ cT9 - q -ejUsAV-A kind that wilj suit
—r. than any oOTftwr-- mawrai
things.” it--
The Same Old Story.
(Herald.)
A Washington dispatch says that “Presi
dent Arthur was indisposed yesterday, end
did not leave his room until a late hour.”
Ah, yes; we have been there, Chet. Let
us feel your pulse. Yes, yes—the same
old story. Here, Cbet; take this:
R. Brom, potass., iv. gr.
Aqua distil., iii. oz.
Opii. tine., ii. sc.
Half wineglass every two hours.
It never fails, old man; it never fails.
Arbuckle.
(New York World.;
The death of Arbuckle, the cornetist, re
calls the fact that most of the men who
make an inordinate use of the lunes and
buccinator muscle perish early. Ned Ken
dall, the great bugler, died before his
prime, and it is believed that the intense
pressure upon the lungs caused by blow
ing bigh-keyed instruments, predisposes
performers to pulmonary affections. Ar
buckle’s disease was pneumonia. Brother
Talmage and the men who perform on
’tubas and heavy bass wind instruments
seem to enjoy exemption.
•Tit for Tat.
(Charlie Murray.)
Mr. William Henry Hurlbert, late edi
itor-in-chief of the World, told me the other
night at the Union Club that all the stories
about the present ownership of the World
are false. “Joe Pulitzer,” hesrid, “isn’t
worth a dollar. Mr. Jay Gould got the
World from Tom Scott as make weight in
a railroad trade. Recently Mr. Gould had
a trade with Mr. John Pendir in cable
properties, and he unloaded the World on
Mr. Pendir in the same way that Mr. Scott
originally unloaded the paper on him.” I
know that Mr. Hurlbert believes this story
to be true, and be is cer ainly in a position
to know the facte in the case.
How to Cultivate the Foreign Market.
(Springfield Republican.)
George C. Tanner, our consul at Liege
and Verviers, finds it useful in his office to
keep files cf all American newspapers re*
ceived, and to keep an index of their ad
vertisements, so that when he is asked for
reference to American dealers in any
I branch of trade he is able to supply the
want. He says he has had 2O n letters of
inquiry in six years, io « hich he has thus
been able to give an intelligent answer.
He thinks the government ought to pro
vide American newspapers as part ot the
outfit of its foreign commercial agencies.
The practice introduced by Mr. Evarts of
making our consuls commercial mission
aries and reporters is undoubtedly bring
ing to our manufacturers and merchants a
vast literature upon the foreign market,
and helps to expand our trade. Consul
Tanner has recently had a call tor Ameri
can ber (which give the Belgians good
satisfaction), and thinks our furniture
might be marketed over there.
Banging the Bang..
(Chattanooga Times.:
Rev. Mr. Williamson, of Baltimore, late
a delegate to the missionary convention at
Waco, Texas, took in the Indian country
-Choctaws, Cherokees and Creeks-and
on his return he told his congregation
about Indian customs of dress, etc. One
of the most intelligent Creeks told him that
his mother, who had carefully watched
the civilized style of dress the Indian wo
men adopted, observed that only a few
years ago they used to comb their hair
over on their forehead, and then chop it
off over their eyebrows. Now, she said,
they wear their hair combed back like
civilized ladies. Mr. Williamson said : “I
did not say a word about our American
ladies' bangs, did not tell him how I hated
bangs, but it made me wonder as to who
were the more advanced in civilization
some of our Baltimore banged ladies or
the Indian women who have long since
dropped the bangs.” The congregation
smiled, and several of the young ladies
looked like they wanted to pull their hats
down over their bangs.
TEaMS-$2-00 A YEAR.
THE BOYS IN BLUE.
BRINGING FIAJWEBS FORDEADSOL
DIERS* GRAVES.
Tile Northern People Decorating the
Resting Places of I heir Dead Sol
dier Boys—lmpressive Services-
General Holiday North-
President Arthur and
the Celebration.
vßy Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Washington, May 33.—Decoration day
was observed here in the usual manner.
All pnbile business was suspended and
the city was comparatively deserted, the
greater part of the population being drawn
to the cemeteries in the suburbs. The
procession was formed in the forenoon,
comprised of Grand Army posts and
bands of music, which marched to the
National Cemetery, at Arlington, where
most extensive preparations had been
made fir the celebration. The programme
there occupied nearly the entire after
noon and included the decoration of
the graves and monuments, music, the
reading of a poem and an oration by Maj.
Lambert, of Philadelphia. At the Bol
diers’ Home cemetery, the proceedings
were under the General Sturgis,
Governor of the Home, and Generals Sher
man, Sturgis and Ayres headed the deco
rating committee. The proceedings here
were nearly a counterpart of these at the
Arlington cemetery with the addition of
a salute fired by the Second Artillery. Ser
vices on a smaller scale were held nt al!
the cemeteries in the vicinity whiqh are
old enough to have been used! for inter
ment during the war. In New York the
services began at 7:30 in the morning.
All the banks, exchanges and public
buildings closed and procesions, speeches,
and decoration ceremonies have contin
ued all day and are in progress to-night.
At Cincinnati, Baltimore, Cleveland,
Boston aud Chicago the services were even
more impressive than in former years.
In nearly every town and city in the North,
large enough to have a burying ground,
services have been held. The celebration
in New York was more general than ©ver
before. President Arthur reviewed the
procession from a stand erected in Madi
son square. Several members of the Cabi
net occupied the stand with him, also
Gen. Hancock and a number of other offi
cers of the army and navy.
Richmond, Va., May 30. Decoration
day was observed here by a parade of tffe
colored military and civic societies, which
proceeded to the National Cemetery, below
the city, and decorated the graves with
flowers. Phil Kearney Post No 10, G. A.
R. went to Fort Harrison this morning and
decorated the graves in the eemetry there,
and this afternoon underthe escort of Com
pany D. Ist, Virginia Regiment, proceded
to the cemetery near Richmond, Company
D, carrying with them beautiful floral con
tributions. This was done in acknowledg
ment of the action of the Phil Kearny post,
which, on Confederate Memorial Day,
went to Hollywood with the First Virginia
Regiment, and placed a magnificent monu
mental floral design on the grave of Gen.
Geo E. Pickett Lee.
Pbtbbsbubg, Va., May 30. Federal me
morial day was observed hereby the closing
of the different government offices. This
afternoon the graves of the soldiers buried
in the Poplar Grove Cemetery near this
city and those of the National Cemetery
near City Point, were decorated with flow
era. A large number of persons partici
pated in the 6xe lc i sea>
NewOblbanC3Q. —The jwaves ia
Chalmette oeu>r_, v to-day
by tnetor. a. x./axX Inecommitiees assooTa
tion of the army of Tennessee and the
Mexican war veterans. A heavy rain in-'
terfered with the ceremonies.
A CONFEDERATE BATTLE-FLAG.
Presented to The Washington Artillery
By Gen. Beauregard.
New Oeleans, May 29.-To-night the
battalion of Washington Artillery celebra
ted their annual reunion. The occasi
on was taken advantage of by Gen. G. T.
Beauregard to place in the keeping ol the
first bottle-fi-sg of the war. Ths trophy
has an ii Greeting history. It was the
handiwork of Miss Hetty Cary, a Balti
more belle, who was a refugee in Rich
mond, and who made it out of her own
silk dresses cut up for the purpose. Miss
Cary afterward married Gen. Pegram,
of the Confederate ermy, who was killed
in battle three days after the wedding.
She is now a school teacher in Baltimore.
The flag accompanied Gen. Beauregard un
til the close of the war, when he sent it to
Havana for safety. It has quite lately been
regained by the General (and deeming the
veterans of the Washington Artillery safe
custodians of th© relic), he instructed
Judge Alfred Roman, his old time adjutant
and present histoiiao, to present it to the
veterans, which was done in a feeling and
finished address.
The gift was accepted by the veteran Col.
J. B. Walton, who commanded the battal
ion in two wars. A banquet followed.
Regular toasts were drank to the President
of the United States, the army and navy
of the United States, the Louisiana State
National Guards and Gen. Beauregard.
The first toast was recsived with enthusi
astic cheers and drank standing.
ALIBAM4 VS. GKORGI4.
Great Cock Maia Soon to Come Off at
Fort Gaines.
(Eufaula Times.)
Beginning next Monday, and lasting
four days, there will be fought at Fort
Gaines, Ga., a series of cock fights, in
which almost all southwest Georgia and
adjacent Alabama is interested. Those
taking part will come from Jernigan,
above Cuthr er*. Georgetown, Fort Gaines,
Clayton, Abbeville, and every cross-road
between these points, besides quite a
number of sporting men from a dis
tance. Eufaula will send down a
delegation of a dozen or less. The
scribe was put on the track of about a
dez-n Saturday, but would not “give it
away you know.” Eufaula has sixty birds
on the ground. We fear our spotting
friends will walk back from Fort Gaines as
they did once before. This main, as we
understand it, is to decide the champion
ship between Alabama and Georgia. The
Times will have a reporter on the ground.
The exceedingly Sunday school look which
the aforesaid reporter will wear will not
give away his business and probably be
the last man on the ground who would be
taken for an editor of a sporting column
in a newspaper.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR,
Observations of Newspaper Men as to
His Physical Condition.
Washingtom, May 30. Certain news
paper writers are getting alarmed again
over President Arthur’s physical condition,
and are circulating stories of hie apparent
ill health. Says oneto day: “When Presi
dent Arthur walked through the railway
station at Sixth street, on his way to New
York to attend the opening of the Brook
lyn bridge, I observed a pallor on his face
that surprised me. He did not walk like
a man in the best of health. I notice that
the New York reporters speak of the pale
ness of his features on Wednesday. They
state that he became very tired on that day
and that he remained in bed until a very
late hour on the following morning. The
President seems to be not well. Doubtless
he needs a period cf complete rest. It is
one of the miseries of a President’s life
that such a thing is impossible,”