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THE OHIO DEMOCRACY
JK>GE HOADLY NOMINATED FOR
GCH’BRVOR,
Strong Se«*tew«f the Ohi» Dem>cr.tlc
Convention Yenterday—Some Oood
Work Done—The PlatFrrm r nd
It* Important Contents Po-
Htteal Sews No«e«. J
■— f'
(By Telegraph to the Chronr ole.}
cratio State Convection nret at ten ofoleok
thia morniorg. There is ■» krger crowed
here than was ever seen before on any Mtr
ilar occasion and the oren home wts
filled to Ha utmost. The weaather
sultry wnd’ rainy. The cot teat between
Ward ■»« *Eoadly (or Gtrvortor was wag 3d
fiercely d«riog the arernfajr boor*. The
mittee. ’All preHwtnerj organisation
being t»;apeoFed with, Hon. ‘Tobn
McSweotoy, of Woofttar. «« in
trod wce£ as pennon ant cbciKaan.
As nr. eoeimitteea were-ready to report, the
convention proceeded to notninst.ons.
Effortsw. ere made to proceed to bal'd ting
without Domioatiettfl.. 'tut after a long
wait. Senator Tharmar. crowded tn. the
g'atf a juiid the wild est enthnsiasce. T. L
Poweli nominated General Durbi® A/ard,
and. seconding Powell, Thurman made an
able iprea for the reeognttion of the-eervices
of Gen. Ward, and warned the convention
against tying themeelvos to anyone issue,
and « nounced that fee party hod always
been arrainged against sumptuary legisla
tion wnd should continr.e in that way. Ihe
natste., of Messrs. HsaGly and Gedde.3 were
then presented in 'the order named.
TrowLle was reached • on the fl ret' ballet
when Butler county was called. Thia
conni; had a divided delegation end the
result was a call of counties to do away
with the unit rule, which was carried amid
great confusion, showing the strength of
the Hiding candidates to be about even.
»v.e First BalU’Ctar a. NoukiaM >.
The ballot was not completed until 1.30
o’clock and resulted ns follows: Hcadly,
290 f Ward, 206; Geddes, 77, and Deaver,
4.
The second ballot proceeded untii But
ler owr.nty was reaeteC, when the-3ame
trouble again ensued. After the eaK> had
been concluded some -changes begin. • for
Hom 9 v and the greatest excitement pre
vailed, the delegatee oLmbing over -each
other and storming the platform. Before
the result could be announced,a moticn to
nominate Hoadly by aeclammation wae car
ried. He had in the neighborhood of -SSO
votes—3l9 being necessary to a choice.
Hoadly Accepting tfe<’ NomAnallen
Judge Hoadly soon appeared and ac
cepted the nomination in a b ief address,
during which be reviewed his connection
with-the party, and said that, although be
had wandered at one time with-the Ee
publicans to fight the battles of the colored
race, the-Democracy was broad enough to
receive him again. He ecteemed it a great,
compliment to be nominated over store
worthy candidates, and believed that that,
convention would place men on the plat
form whose leading principles were per
sonal liberty, self-control in temperance
matters and license system.
The-convention then proceeded to the
nomination of a Lieutenant-Governor and
John G. Warwicj, of Stark county, was
selected by acclamation. Before the baito)
was concluded Dewitt Coalman, of Port
age county, the other candidate, was with
drawu.
Gen.'Ward was brought i® and made a
speech, in-which he severely rebuked the
party for failing to recognise his thirty
years’ service. Not to be daunted, he an
nounced himself publicly asa candidate
for United -States Senator. A-epoech by
Judge Geddes was in somewhat a different
strain, though both pledged fealty to the
party.
The PlaCtTowm -Submitted and Adopted.
Before the other nominations were
made, the Committee on Resolutions sub
mitted a platform which was adopted.
Fi ret.it affirms the principles of the party as
expressed in the primaries and State and
national platform in regard to personal lib
erty, and the true (unction of good govern
ment by the great founder of the Demo
cratic pa*, ty - Thomas Jefferson the ap
plication of these principles to our
present condition demands the pu
rification of the (public sources, the
punishment of robbers of the pnblic
treasury, the finalisation of all pnblic
burdens, the arrest of the profligacy and
extravagance tbat corrupts the administra
tion of pnblic affaire, and a total change in
'the policy that baa so Jong been pursued
by the Republican party of favoring indi
vidual and class interest at the expense of
the laboring and wealth producing people
of the country; it repeals a previous de
claration for stable money, a gradual ex
tinction of the public debt, and the pay
ment of pensions to disabled soldiers,
their wives and orphans.
Secondly—lt favors a tariff for revenue
limited to the necessities of the govern
ment. economically admisistered and so
adjusted in its application as to prevent
unequal burdens, encourage productive
interests at home and afford just compensa
tion to labor, but not to create or foster
monopolies.
Thirdly—lt condemns the action of the
last session of Congress in reducing the
tariff on wool.
The fourth section is as follows: "The
De'cooratic party is, as it always has been,
opposed to sumptuary legislation and un
equal taxation in any form and is in favor
of the largest liberty of private conduct
consistent with the public welfare and the
rights of others, and of regulating the
liquor traffic and providing against the
evils resulting therefrom by a judicious
and properly graded license system.”
Fifthly —The platform condemns the
prison contract labor system.
Sixthly. It maintains that the protec
tion of the government is due to ail Ameri
can oitixens, native and foreign born,
abroad as well as at home.
Seventhly—lt re-affirms the resolutions
of the State conventions of Ohio in 1880,
1881 and 1882. and of the Democratic
Notional Convention of 1872, 1876 and
1880, demanding a thorough reform
and purification of the civil ser
vice and charges tbat the Republi
can party has violated every pledge
it has heretofore given for the re
form thereof and has failed during its
long administration of the government to
■correcteven the meet crying abusesand
-demands; therefore a change in the execu
tive administration «f the government
itself is a reform first of all necessary, as
made more manifest by the recent Star
Route trials, thereby ousting corrupt rings
confederated to protect crime and prevent
tha punishment of criminals, and by sc
doing to make it possible to again punish
fraud and theft in the public service.
Where They Wait * U. «. Senator.
Concobd, N. H., June 21.—The Legisla
ture, in joint convention, at noon, to-day,
balloted for U. 8. Senator as follows:
Whole number of votes, 324: necessary to
* ehotoe, 163; Rollins, 113: Bingham, 119;
Stevens, 17; Patterson, 29; Briggs, 29;
Marston, 11; Prescott, 2; Scattering, 4.
Two pairs were announced. Mr. Rollins
sustained a net lose of 10 from yesterday.
Patterson gained 5. Briggs gained 3 and
Prescott 2. No ballot will be taken until
Tuesday next.
WHAT<OTHER« SAT OF US.
Shattering *Oplnton Fwfreged by Ow
•Contemporerj-.
t Jacktr nville Everrtrrg Herat! )
We publish elsewhere, with much
pleasure, e prospectus of the enlarged
• and improved Chbwkle and Constftu
' honalist, of Augusta, Ga., one of the most
esteemed, and certainly the most olas-'c of
our South arn contcanroraries. This splen
did paper is the oldest of t-outhern jour
nals. It is the result of a consolidation
effected some five years ago between the
Chronicle and Srrtrisix, established in
1785, and the Ooxe nrrmoK ali-t,
established in 17(Y>. The two papers
were each nearly one hundred years
old when they were united into one, and
the ancient and honored name of e»eh was
properly retained.
The present journal is the joint r roperty
of Hen. Patrick Wciah and the children of
1 SSI/jyS jSMfclf'Lt Ttlllinii hfn
up fimm the n 1
and influence. Tie has also worked his
way into the inspect astd cocif dence of
Georgians, wad rias one of the tn«st promi
nent pubfce man in our -sister 'State, fre
queutly mentioned for Governor, and cer
tain to wia the prize some day.
Gregg Weight, now dead, was reckoned
at h\s death the. tersest end abk3t political
writer in the State. A brilEaut journal
istic career wae cut short by fals early de
mise.
At presecat Jactes R. Eindaik the incom
parable correspondent, and one cf the most
eeholerly es-writers and poets, is editor of
the Chsvwioi® and CoNscttutionaijst.
His editorials are brilliant and eloquent,
and are widely* quoted all over Che country.
Pleasant A. Etovall, the next in rank on
the editorial staff, is the most promising
young writer ic Georgia Nev ar aiming at
the sensatfoDcl, always conscientious and
accurate and full of noble purpose, his pen
is at once the purest and caost classic
among the younger journalisto of Georgia.
Randall himself is not a better master of
pure and elopaent English -than Stovall.
If bis health is spared we look to see him
at the very top of tbe profession in Geor
gia. Hon. Martin V. Calvin is another
member of the’CHßONicEE’sstttT, and there
are few clearer thinkers and-vzrite.rs in the
State.
The consoliSoted papers here each had
a long and honorable career, interwoven
with the growth and development of Au
gusta and tbe State. They- have alw tys
maintained a high standard of journalism,
and both in attiquity and in purity and
power of record the consolidated sheet de
serves to rank first in the aristocracy
of Southern journalism. There is no
brighter and abler paper in tbe South.
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Sir Spencer St. John, the British en
voy to Mexico, has-sailed for his new post.
Governor Butler has ordered out the
National Lancers ito escort hiea to and
from Harvard College on commencement
day.
- Mrs. Scoville, sister of Chas. Quiteau,
the divorced wife of -Scoville, who defend
ed Guiteau, was. yesterday, authorized to
change her name to Howe.
—James Tice, acleak in CampbeH’sulore,
at Prospect, Tenn., was killed with an axe
last night and the stove robbed. Three ne
groes were arrested. While the inquest was
in progress a mob took-one of the negroes,
Wesley Warren, out «of jail and hung
him. The others wete
—E. L. StewMlT Wronaut inted e
an ascension at Fayette, Mo., ’on
Monday, in an old hot air balloon, whicih
bnvet when it had attained a height of
about ‘2OO feet, the balloon and aeronaut
came down with a rush and both plunged :
into Borne Femme creek. Stewards body j
was recovered.
- A Pittsburg dispatch says: Eighty five
per cent of the creditors of Graff, Benaett
& Co, held a meeting this afternoon and
decided to grant the firm an extension of
three years, forty per cent to be paid,
within 16 months. Work will be contin
ued in the company’s mills as usual.
—A Havana dispatch says: "The total
stocks of °ugar at the principal ports of the
island, on May 31st, were as follows: 69,-
286 boxes, 181,242 hogsheads and 149,-
405 bags The exportsfiom and consump
tion on the is’and. from January to May
31st, weie 49,783 boxes, 368,907 hogs
heads and 98,496 bags. The above shows
a total of 410,614 tons of %ugar made on
tbe island up to May 31st, against 516,-
959 tons for tbe same period in 1882.
Mrs. Nickerson, who recently had a de
cree of divorce from her obtained by her
husband, M> jor Nickerson, in Philadel
phia, set aside on the ground that it was
procured by fraud, has begun suit for the
custody of their children. She has also
begun proceedings to have set aside the
conveyance of her former residence to
Nickerson’s second wife, whom he married
the day after his fraudulent divorce was
obtained.
—The Williamson & Stewart paper com
pany, of St. Louis, has made an assign
ment to J. P. White. The assets are SI 52,-
090 and are subject to a deed of trust foi
nearly SIOO,OOO. The company which
had a capital stock of $50,000 comprised
Charles Stewart, Joseph E. Lawton, Geo.
Lane and Frederick Williamson. Wil
liamson says the immediate cause of the
failure was the threat on the part of
Lawton to apply tor the appointment of a
receiver. Fsr five years the firm had sus
tained heavy losses. He says the liabilities
can be placed at $219,500,0f which SIOO,-
000 is preferred. The assets are placed
at $202,385, including open account’,
$96,000; stock, $96,000, and bills receiv
able, SIO,OOO.
MISS JULIA FLISCH.
Quite a Compliment te An Augusta
Young Lady.
[Special to the Chronicle.]
Arums, June 20.—Miss Julia Flisch
was elected essayist for the alumnae re
union of the Lucy Cobb Institute next
year.
John Gibson’s Sons Sustain a Loss.
Ptttsbubg. June 21.—The Post’s Belle
Vernon, Penn., special says ware
house number two and three, attached to
John Gibson’s Son’s, distillery, at Gibson
ten, Penn., together with ten thousand
barrels of whiskey, were totally burned
this afternoon. The fire started in ware
house No. 2 from a lamp exploding
in the hands of an employe and
before the flames eould be controlled
they had spread to No. 3, and both
were entirely consumed. The loss is
$500,000, on which there is large insu
rance. At about 5 o'clock a second explo
sion occurred and fifteen persons who per
sisted in getting close to the burning
building were more or less injured, but
□one were killed.
The Trial and What Was Elicited.
Mansfield, La., June 21.—The prelimi
nary examination of the Jenkins brothers
for the murder of J. Line Borden i- in
progress to-day. The testimony shows
after Borden hid been shot down and was
appealing to Jenkins not to shoot him
again, Jenkins walked up to Borden’s feet
*as he laid on the sidewalk and deliberately
fired the fatal shot into Borden’s forehead.
The evidence was not concluded when
the court adjourned until to-morrow,
TECHNOLOGY.
visrrrwG the schools w htoes-
TttY AND OF ARr,
A Trfp Through Cooper Institute—-Its
History and Its Work- '~et <l For
SnCti Training In the South*
The Conclusion of the
Committees
.[Gor/eepcndence of the CJaronicle. I
New’Tork, June 13 —W'hen Gov. But
ler bad concluded his remarks on the
early policy of Massachusetts as to higher'
ednactlon, wbieh ‘policy Tits Excellency
•wroeeily declared was founded in unwis
dom—Judge Wilsor, of the committee,
submitted thia interesting fact, to wit::
That a similar policy was engrafted upon
Georgia when Emory College, Mercer Uni-■
varsity and Oglethocpe College were •
Pnor to itxrt time the State
lege, langui hed. Tbe inauguration of
the colleges named gwve a new impetus
tcKpgher educatK/E. lightof the re
sults, which were tb« out some of that
■pelicy, Jndse Wtteou-submitted that the
plan of educating from tke top downwards
•seemed to have been coeoeivediu wisdom.
Ba that as it may, it is nedeniabk. that the
•ojatem of independent schools, which -
were feeders to ‘theßtale College and the
other colleges a>3ntioced, were of the
highest order aed productive of the
•noblest results. Those schoOiJ were
adapted to' the times. The policy itself
Somonatrated the wondrous power of edu
cation -education erf 'themoralsa-3 well as
-cf the intellect.
The foregoing tflaaheL -through the
writer’s mind, this worni&g, as tke com
mittee wended its way to *the Cooper In
stitute The rounds -were being made
under the leadership-of the accommodat
ing and learned curator, Di. J. C. Zschos,
when Hon. Abram 8. Hewitt appeared
uuon the scene, conducting Mr. M ther,
rrf Manchester, Eng., who, a
Slovbl Commission, is engaged in a mis
sion similar to that with which tbA>com
mittee from the Georgia Horse of Repre
sentatives is charged.
»au 1859 Mr. P-ter Cooper gave the
property known as Deeper Institute, con
ditioned thatit should foe "fonuver devoted
to the instruction and improvement of the
inhabitants of the United States in practi
cal science and art.” Ee was himself o&a
of the six trustees of the institution. Mr.
Cooper’s death made somewhat remark
able a provision in tbetwust dee& that
first-vacancy in tbe Boacd should not be t
filled. Peter Cooper was <a philanthropist. ,
He generally acted under his promptings
and when left to himself invariably per
formed a timely service - tfoe chief objects
of which was the betterment of the con
dition of that great middle class which is
conservatively ambitious, eating its own
bread, working with its ows hands—the
best cf -eitizers and the truest of patriots.
The writer will not soon forget with
what delight he received’inforajation seven
or eight years ago, to the effect that Mr.
Cooper contemplated purchasing the Lime
stone Springs property in Spartanburg
county, S. C , with a view # to establishing
at tbat point a branch, or a fae simile on a
modified scale, of Cooper Institute. Nor
will he forget how sadly he
waa when it .lyas tained .that
tent ion, which had tPmost ripened into a
purpose, had been abandoned'' Your cor
respondent gave the readers of the Chron
icle the facts at the time and he always
believed that Mr. Cooper had been dis
suaded from hie first resolve.
The subject was mentioned to Mr. Hew
itt to-d»y and the expressions of regret re
peated. Mr. Hewitt said tbat Mr. Cooper
felt that some’ ody ought to do something
for the South and he bad set about doing
it himself. Mr. Cooper was too eld, it was
said, to embark in new enterprises of tbe
character mentioned and he was persuaded
to dismiss the subject from his mind. The
writer believes that every good thought,
every holy ambition, every high and pa
triotic resolve, every prompting to philan
thropic deeds, is inspired of God, and that
one falls short of his duty when one fails
to cherish and put the same into execu
tion if possible of Accomplishment;contra
riwise, that be who, by persuasion of
other means, contravenes the purposes of
the philanthropically disposed becomes
himself responsible for the failure.
Would that this big-hearted, true man had
been left to his original purpose ! How
timely the thought which filled his mind !
How wise of him that he should have re
solved to inaugurate in the Booth an insti
tution of learning more nearly allied to
the wants of the people than any class of
schools, next to the public schoo's. And
yet the proposed departure was so new
tbat the failure of the scheme did not ex
cite public attention to any perceptible
extent, if, indeed, at all. With these ficts
and reflections in his mind, your corre
spondent found especial plea‘ure in keep
ing abreast the committee in its observa
tions and inquiries as. with eyes and ears
wide open, it passed leisurely from one
department to another of Cooper Institute.
One reads on every hand the first great
thought, which constitutes the foundation
stone of the institution, namely, to ca er
to the intellectual wants and-to facilitate
the improvement of the working classes.
This .'•chenae includes both sexes. Here
the eyp, the ear, the hand, the imagination
is instructed. Here we have an evening
school of science and art; an English de
partment, which embraces rhetoric and
elocution, oratory and debate; an art
school for women, wherein drawing, paint
ing, photography, wood-engraving and
normal teaching is taught; an amateur
class; and a school of telegraphy. This
fall a school of phonography will be or
ganized and operated. In this latter school
instruction in the nee of the type-writer
will be imparted. The art school and the
schools for telegraphy and phonography
are for women exclusively. Applicants
must be at least sixteen, and positively not
over tweaty-fou* years of age.
The number of pupils who attended the
various classes of tbe scholastic year just
closed was 3,917. Os these, 1,169 entered
the evening scientific classes; 1,797 the
evening art classes; 496 were admitted to
tbe woman’s art school, and about the
same number declined for want of room;
200 were admitted to the men’s
literary class and an equal number to the
class in elocution; 55 were admitted to the
class in telegraphy.
Throughout this institution, one finds
instruction and construction combined. *
The young men who come within the walls
and under the instruction of Cooper Insti
tute go out into the world full panoplied.
That is proper but your correspondent '
has enjoyed the duty of inspecting this in- •
stitution, because its distinctive work
seems to be to "give the girls a cnance.”
Here girls— youtg ladies, if you please—
may perfect themselves in telegraphy,
phonography, the use of the type-writer,
the art of decoration, drawing, designing,
engraving in wood, etc.
The graduates of the Woman’s Art
Schoo’, (spring of 1882) and the present
members of the free school returned $27,-
247 94 as earned by them. One young
woman, who left the art school last winter,
teaches drawing twenty-five hours a week
in eijht New York public schools, at two
dollars an hour ! The accomplished prin
cipal of the art school, Mrs. Susan N. Car
ter, reports that, in looking over the ac-
AUGUSTA, .GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 18&3.
counts, she finds a large number of young
ladies who (whilst pupib) earn enough to
pay for their clothes and incidental ex
penses.
Many of the graduates have positions
that are both lucrative and influential One
at tbe bead of the Decorative Art Society of
New Orleans has a salary of $l5O per
month, and earns nearly as much more by
entra work. The aiternoon pay-class
(amateur) itself earned about $3,600.
Ihe registry for new candidates for tbe
Woman’s Art School is opened March 14
5f eat h year; applications for admission
into the other echoed should be filed in
September of year. No expense
whatever is incuwl by the pupils except
for the purchase of textbooks and drawing
materials. The amateur class was organ
ized in consequents of the great pressure
for admission to the instruction 'of the
Institute and tbe Offer of. many to pay for
their instruction. Th.s class meets in the
afternoon, out of jegnlar hours, and each
pupil pays a ema’l|*te&a» compensation to
the tethers for -xtr’' work*
uted $200,000. *hi!e y« in iffe, towards
an endowment fund, will he left
SIOO,OOO additional, and his children, in
accordance with szhat was understood to
be his last wishes, will contribute SIOO,-
000 during 1884. ■,
The sum of $1,603,61417 has been
expended on tbefonilding and on educa
tion by the Trustees during the past
1 twenty-three years. i”
This afternoon ’Messrs. Barris, ’Wilson,
•’ Eason and Calvin of the committee called
lon Gen. John B. Gordotft-a man sans
' peur et sans repnsins —at hia office on Nas
-1 sau street. The gentlemen, were warmly
* welcomed by„ the General Ind by his
* scholarly son, 4 Mr. Frank Gordon, whose
admirable letters from to
tbe Atlanta were so highly
■prized bv those who had the good fortune
to read them.' In fee centre ot this busy
city our distinguished fellow-citiz a n and
Isis promising sons are among the basiest
and the most energetic. The call, of
course, was made in a private capacitv,
though the committee might properly
enough have honorari itself by Jcslling
officially oq one whose sword fiwhed
brightest whefre the foaitle raged fiercest in
tb« dark days of war and who has n<ever
had a thought that was net in svmpatby
with the progress and >welfare of our peo
ple. Gen. Gordon regards the mission of
the eommitteo as one of the most import
ant hi which the State ‘has ever charged
her citizens to engage. A-achool of Tech
nology is, in his opinion, one of thp
things most needed, ,if not absolutely
the ont, thing needfnl for ’Georgia to-day,
and for<eech of tbe Southern States. The
Generali literally lull to utterance. He
has no fiesire to make speeches any- ?
where, osl any but he would es-
i teem it a 4uty— an exalted privilege-to
speak on tsje necessity which exists in
Georgia anfi the South for eehoets of the
class alluded to. His attention was first
drawn to the matter during his stay in
Boston, some years ago, as the guest of the
Commercial Club of that city, and his
heart and min 4 has been full of tbesubject
from that qay to the present; The Gen
eral takes wo sn advanced, position in
favor of opening new spheres sos usefulness
to women throughout the Bouo|l So be it
The conclusion of the whole matter is
left to the committee. The subject is
fruitful and ins- iriog. Wp stall see
whether the committee presents a report
at once practical and exhaustible.
1 M V. O.
The P wer of tlie “ Chronicle ” Acrosa I
the River.
[Special to the Chronicle ]
Columbia, 8. C., June 21.—1 n my letter
of the 19:h instant, I furnished you a short
sketch of Col. D. P. Duncan, of Union,
and nominated him for Railroad Commis
sioner. To-day Gov. Thompson appoint
ed him to that position, and the Chroni
cle is entitled to the credit of having first
named the successful candidate.
Richland.
THE LION A>D « HE LAMB LIE DOWN
TOGETHER.
The Blue and the Grey Drinking and
Making Merry—Speaking, Banquet
ing, Marching, Frolicking and
Sight-Seeing.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Hartford, Conn., June 21.—The Wash
ington Light Infantry, of Charleston, S.
C., arrived here from New Haven, this af
ternoon. A salute of thirteen guns was
fired in their honor. They were received
by the First Regiment of the Connecticut
National Guard, and escorted to the regi
mental armory, where addresses of wel
come were made by Mayor Bulkley, Col.
Barbour, of the First Regiment, and
Gov. Waller. Mayor Courteney, cf
Charleston, and ex-Attorney General
Youmans, of South Carolina, respond
ed. Another address was made by
Joseph L. Barlow, of this city, on behalf
of the visitors to Charleston in 188’, to
which State Senator Buist, replied. The
city was handsomely decorated along tbe
line of march. The Charleston flag flies
from tbe City Halt staff and the citadel fUg
(ri Charleston from on of the staffs of the
State Capital. The Palmetto flig is twined
with the Connecticut fhg at the armory
and elsewhere. The visitors were warmly
applauded along the route of the proces
sion. To night receptions were given by
Col. Barbour, Mayor Bulkley and ex-Lien
tenant-Governor Bulkley. The city offi
cials, prominent citizens and many officers
of the military organizations of the city
were present. To-morrow morning the
guests will visit the Cheney silk factory,
at Manchester, and io the afternoon they
will be shown around the city. In the
evening there will be a general reception
at the First Regiment’s armory and later
the Governor’s Foot Guards and the Put
nam Phalar x will keep an op n I on e un
til the time of departure 2:3J o’clock
Saturday morning.
New Haven, June 21. The Washington
Light Infantry cf Charleston, 8. C., to-day
visited Yale College, being received by
President Porter, who made a short ad
dress. The principal industries of the
city were also visited. The visitors left for
Hartford at 1 o’clock, accompanied by the
members of the reception oommi . tee from
that city.
Providence, Jure 21. - The Continental
Guards, of New Orleans, paraded this af
ternoon under the escort of the First Light
Infantry and at a subsequent banquet
Governor Bourn made an address of wel
come. A banner was presented to tbe
Continentals on behalf of the Infantry Reg
iment, in receiving which Senator Mars
ton, of New Orleans responded. To-night
the Continentals gave an exhibition at
Providence Opera House.
Hog Meat on ’Change.
Chkiaqo, June 21.—The excitement of
the past few days on ’Change was followed,
to-day, by a season of comparative qniet.
Trading in all commodities is again nnr
sually heavy, but the market is steadier,
with the exception es pork, which fluctu
ated wildly during the greater part of the
session, but closed at about the closing
figures of yesterday. No additional fail
ures have been reported.
“RICHMOND ROVING.
GOV. JEXKIWS AND THE STATE
ROAD QUESTION.
How He aß| l Major Wallace Fulled
the. Road Out of the Mire—Cobb
County—lnteresting Fac'a and
Figures, Concerning the Do
main—Dots, Deings. and
Sayings.
[Special to the Chronicle ]
Marietta, Ga , June 20.—Major Camp
bell Wallace, one of our Railroad Commis
sioners, gave me, yesterday, a very inter
esting and characteristic incident of the
late Charles J. Jenkins, which strikingly
exemplifies the man, and is a good con
tribution to the narrative of an uncom
mon career and an unusually noble char
acter.
Mr. Jenkins became Governor, in
1866. the State Road was the most per
plexing difficulty of his administration. It
had been wrecked m fee wiiri. It was
patched up by the Federal authorities and
had been run by them. Everything about
it wav incomplete and defective—the road
bed insecure, the iron wbrn out The
bridges were makeshifts ready to tum
ble down, the rolling stock worn
out and inadequate and the en
gines cheap, worthless concerns. Belong
ing to the State, the road as a polit
ical machine, was the refuge of politi
cians and the nursery for young political
sprawn. There was always a remarkable
demand for places on the road in good
times, but the war leaving everybody im
poverished, about half of tbe people were
applicants for positions. Gov. Jenkins
had a large trunk full of applications for
theoffices of the railway. It can well be im
agined that with as conscientious a man as
Gov. Jenkins this troublesome piece of
State property, in good times a hard pro
blem to handle, should at the unfavorable
period of wbieh we write, have been infi
nitely embarrassing. Gov. Jenkins applied
to Col. Win. M. Wadley and Col. John P.
King—Mr. Wadley then controlling the
Central Railroad, and Mr. King the Geor
gia Railroad- to recommend a suitable
superintendent to take the heavy respon
sibility. These gentlemen recommended
Major Campbell Wallace. Major Wallace
was a sort of a refugee from Tennessee,
then farming on the line of the State road.
He had valuable experience as a railroad
manager connecting with our Georgia sys
tems. He had handled the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad with
marked ability and decision during the
war, showing a wonderful skill in moving
large bodies of troeps, and demonstrating
(especially that he had a will of bis own,
and absolute fearlessness in doing what he
conceived to be his duty. Major Wallace
felt keenly the reverses of the war, and
had settled down on his farm to recuper
ate his fortunes and get the quiet he
needled. The offer of the superintendency of
this important road to him, a stranger, as
it were, and a new comer in Georgia, was
a Surprise, and he deliberated carefully
before taking it. The conference between
Gov. Jenkins and Major Wallace over the
matter was a characteristic one on both
sides, and finely displayed the peculiar
traits of the two men. Gov. Jenkins ex
plained the matter fully and stated that it
was giving him more trouble of inind than
any other subject connected with his gu
bernatorial duty. He told Major Wallace
of his applying to Cols. Wadley and King to
suggest a proper railbJiJ man, and oi theif*
choosing him, and he asked him to take
tbe place. Major Wallace asked him if he
was aware that several Rraries of citizens
if Georgia desired to run this railroad,
who knew nothing whatever of the busi
ness, and who would curse the administra
tion of Gov. Jenkius, fore and aft, if he
failed to put them on the road. The
Governor pointed to his big trunk packed
with applications and significantly replied
tbat he was fully posted on that point, but
asked Maj Wallace if he specially cared
whether his administration would be
abused on this account. The Major
frankly replied that he should be pro
foundly indifferent to it. The Governor
laconically responded, "So am I.”
Maj. Wallace then stated that neither be
nor any other railroad manager could af
ford to take hold of this road, and could
succeed in putting it on its feet unless he
could select his own corps of skilfall and
experienced railroad subordinates, and
cease running the road as a school for po
litical graduates. Tbe Governor warmly
assented to this policy, and, with earnest
emphasis and stronger language than he
was generally accustomed to use, he blurt
ed out a strong reply, the purport of which
was:
"Mpj. Wallace, take the road and do
your duty, and let my administration take
care of itself.”
He took the management of the road and
was sustained to the letter by Governor
Jenkins. Tbe Governor recommended
one prominent gentleman to Maj. Wallace
for a certain place, but the Major frankly
told tbat gentleman he was not qualified
for it, and his appointment to its duties
would not be in the line of his policy.
The gentleman then said he did not des’re
the place under such circuits ances and
commended the refusal, and from that day
to this a warm f iendship has existed be
tween the two. Major Wallace, with the
sharp humor natural to him, had a caird
placed cn bis door stating that for tbe
present the State Road would close opera
tions as a nursery for educating joung
railroaders.
This whole matter illustrates Governor
Jenkins’ absolute conscientiousness and
courage in guarding tbe public interest.
Tbe good 'feeling between Gov. Jenkins
and Major Wallace has remained strong
and increasing, and the latter had ar
ranged to visit the ex-Governor in his ill
ness, when his death prevented.
I am writing this letter in a cool ve
randah of the Marietta Hotel, kept by my
long time friend, Mr. A. F. Fletcher, than
whom there is no better hotel keeper in
the South. Marietta is both a delightful
summer and winter resort, and this hotel
with its comfortable rooms and always ad
mirable fare is. a leading factor in the
attractiveness of the place. Marietta is
beautiful and healthy. It has handsome
residences and a social people. Five pas
eeng*r trains pass here to and from At
lanta at different and most convenient
hours under the enterprising State Road
management, so that practically Marietta
and Atlanta ate one place, so closely are
they connected by the useful iron track.
Cobb county, of which Marietta is the
county site, is one of the best counties of
the State. It was created and laid out in
1832, when the Cherokee country was
first organized into some ten counties. It
was named after Judge Thomas W. Cobb,
of Columbia county, a most eminent law
yer, a Congressman in 1818, State Sen
atorin 1823 and 1824, and Judge of the
Superior Court.
The census of 1880 showed that Cobb
county had a population of 20,748 people
and in 1870 only 13,814, an increase in
the 10 years oi 6,934. Strange to say
there was a decrease in 1870 from 1860
from 14,242 to 13,814. The males in
1880 were 10,202, females 10 546/ males
from sto 17 years of age 3.416, and fe
males 3,243; males 18 to 44 years 3,469.
The whole property of Cobb in 1880
was $3,338,479; real estate $2,042,647;
personal property, $1,295,838; farms, 1,-
896; improved land, 91,261 acres valued
at $1,932,192; farm implements, $104,-
851; live stock, $315,532; repairs, $lB,-
314; Fertilizers used, 89,912 tons; farm
productions, $1,088,879; horses, 1,263;
mules, 1,861; oxen, 242; cows. 2,537;
oiher cattle, 3,485; sheep, 2,544; bogs,
12,304; pounds of wool, 4,973;
milk, 682; pounds of butter, 216,307;
manufacturing establishments, 93; manu
facturing capita), $537,133; bands, 597;
wages, $120,778; materinl used, $999,-
253; products made, $1,353,322,
The farm productions were 406,730
bushels of corn; 57,621 oats; 80,617
wheat; 13,092 bales of cotton; orchard
truck, $26,114; Irish potatoes, 1,385
bushels; sweet potatoes, 15,613 bushels.
Only 58 bales oi hay are reported in this
grass country, against 13,092 bales of cot
ton. This does not look right.
Os the 20,948 people, 14,734 were white
and 6,012 colored, an increase from 10,-
593 white in 1870 and 3,217 colored.
The home born people were 18 444; South
Carolina settlers, 1,196; Norih Carolina,
298; Alabama, 234; Virginia, 139; Ten
nessee, 118, and foreigners, 64.
The State tax was $14,352, and county
tax, $15,023; town tax, $3,877; whole tax,.
$33,252; conntv debt. $9,035; bonded,
$6,000; floating, $3 035.
Cobb county has 13 mi .ilia districts, No.
Coxes*i 042* 807 Merritts 1 354 * 898
Marietta, 5,461; 911 Gritter, 1,200: 991
Big Shanty, 1,463: 992 Lemons, 1,011;
1,017 Oregon, 1,241; 1,202 Smyrna. 1>
CB7; 1318 Red Rock, 660; 1,319 Post
Oak, 650.
The Comptroller-General’s report of
1882, the best published, shows that Cobb
in tbat year had 2,105 white and 586 col
ored polls, 2,691 altogether; 201,750
acres of improved land worth $1,612,025;
town property worth $636,055; money,
$367,746; merchandize, $182,875; cotton
factories, $230,000; cattle of all sorts $246, -
474; aggregate property $3,785,774 sn
increase from 1880 from $3,338,479, or
$44«,295, a handsome enhancement for
two years. The real estate in 1882 was
$2,258,291, an increase of $205,644 in
two years. Personal property u as in 1882
$1,527,483, an increase es $231,645.
The colored people in Cobb own 4,574
acres of land, worth $28,425, and other
property, the whole running te SSB 961.
The Chattahoochee river runs through
Cobb, and there are many fine creeks. The
river and creek bottoms are fertile. The
uplands are mulatto and gray. Gold has
been found in several localities, and
iron, lead, copper, talc, soapstone, plum>-
bago and quartz abound. The healtb
fulness of this county is fine, and there
are numerous instances of longev ty.
Among the leading early settlers were
Taliaferro McAfee, Oaborn Mulline, Daniel
Reid, Isaac Grey.Thomaa Hairston, Daniel
R Turner, L. Simpson, Mathias Bates,
John L. Moore, James Anderson, Josiah
Massey, William C Greene, Simon Strick
land, Reuben Benson, Allen A. Winn,
Archibald Howell, S. M. Maloney, J. D.
ohewmake, S. Young, William Mayes,
Robert Lemon, William Guess, Martin
Adams, Bradley Smith, Jackson Gregory,
William W. Duncan, Lerna Kirkley, John
Rjwe, G. W. Winter, Thomas Pritchard, Al
fred Edwards, Wiley Roberts, James Foot,
George W. Gober. William B. t’rane, John
B. Brookman, T. H. McClusky, P. M. Oli
ver, Thomas Whitehead, Robert Groves
and D. Moore.
There is quite an interesting Indian tra
dition that at a ball play, when the Creek
and Cherokee Indians were engaged against
each other, the territory covering the coun
ties of Cobb, Paulding and Polk was
wagered on tbe game, and was won by the
Cherokees.
THE “SHORT CUI” AND PROBABIL
ITY OF ITS BUILDING.
What the Wilmington and Weldon
Stockholder* Did Concerning it—
The Directors Empowered to
Act in the Mat ter— Dividends
Declared by the W. and
W., ana the W., C.
and A.
(By Telegraph to tbe Chronicle •
Wilmington, N. C , June 21.—A special
meeting of the stockholders of the Wil
miogton and Weldon Rtilroad was held
here, to-day, to consider the ques’ion of a
new railroad from a point near Wilson, on
the Wilmington and Weldon Road, to
Florence, on the Wilmington, Columbia
and Augusta Road. After much discus
sion, the matter was unanimously referred
to the Board of Directors, with full author
ity to act. The proposed road is what
is known as the short cut, as its
construction would shorten the time be
tween the poitts named about two hours.
The whole of the line has already been
surveyed and the right of way purchased,
and the opinion is general here that the
road will be built.
The directors of the Wilmington and
Weldon Road have declared a semi-annual
dividend of three per cent., payable July
16th. *
The directors of the Wilmington, Co
lumbia and Augusta .Railroad have also de
clared a semi annual dividend of three per
cent., payable July 10th.
IRISH AFFAIRS AND INCIDENTS.
(By Cable to the Chronicle.)
Most of the Irish bishops have given
thorough adherence to the Pope’s recent
manifesto.
The Irish Times says the government has
given James Carey the informer, the op
tion of proceeding to one of the British
colonies or of being released and allowed
to remain in Dublin without police pro
tection.
Io the inquiry which is now in progress
at Mulligan, in connection with the mur
der of Mrs. Smythe, in April, 1882, an
informer testified tbat an assassination so
ciety had been started by Michael and
John Fagan, with the object of removing
tyrants and bad landlord’s. Among those
who had been named by the society for
removal were two gentlemen named
Smythe and the Earl of Longford, and two
of the prisoners were deputed to execute
the sentence. The eight prisoners, charg
ed with complicity in the murder of Mrs.
Smythe, were present at a meeting held
in March, 1882. outside the house of the
mother of the Fagans.
Big Burning and Enormoa, Explosion-
Salt Lake, City, Jane 21.—A ffre,
this morning, consumed Clawson,s wagon
depot, the old council house and Sav
ages art gallery. The loss is estimated at
$109,000. During the fire a heavy explo
sion of powder occurred, demolishing
plate, ftiaos. window, sashes and doors.
and causing further damage to the
amount of S2O 000.
Bad on the Watermelon*.
(Albany News.)
The excessive and continued rains tbat
fell throughout southwest Georgia during
the first two weeks in this month, have
proven very damaging to the melon crop.
Many of the young melons fell off the
vines and rotted during this rainy spell,
and the early crop was thus cut off con
siderably.
The injury to the crop seems to be gen
eral throughout southern and southwest
Georgia. A postal card received, yester
day, from a prominent truck farmer at
Dixie, Brooks county, says: "The rains
have hurt the melon crop all through here.
We will hardly get ene car load from six
acres unless there is a change for the bet
ter.”
TERMS—S2.OO A I EAR.
DRIVEN MAD BY A GHOST.
A WOMAN’S LKAP THROUGH A WIN
DOW.
Ton ng Moore and His Mother See Tito
Face of the Dead Father and Hai
band—Three Persons Made Mad ,4
by One Night's Experience. j
Snydertown, -June 19. —Last night Mrs.
Moore, a widow, who lives with her young
son in an old dilapidated house at B ush
Valley, near here, was startled by hearing
a shriek, followed by agonizing yellu, in
the room next to hers, occupied by
her son, a youth about sixteen years
of age. In a fright she ran into the
room and found the boy almost dead with
fear and trembling in every limb. She
quieted his fears and questioned him,
and after considerable delay he told her
> that about twelve o clock, while listening
to the furiously raging storm, he was
startled by seeing through the dim bght
of a lamp which burned in the room a
. window. Almost pt. tab
“ l”htning li h O by 4reeive'i •
the man to be thoae of Us,father, who was
killed in the mines '
the shriek that had so startled his mothffWj
he sank on the bed and the intruder fled
hastily. .» **•
gThe Mother Sees the Face.
When the mother bad beard his story
she turned her gaze toward the window
and beheld the identical face pressed
against the pane. With a terrific yell she
sprang to the window, and raising the
sash jumped through, striking the ground,
twenty-five feet below, with terrific force
and injuring herself fatally. The shrieks
and moans of the young Moore
brought a few neighbors to the spot,
and they carried the limp body of
the woman into the house and after a
few hours’ labor succeeded in bringing
her to sensibility. As soon as she fixed
her eyes on her son she burst into a vio
lent fit of laughter, in which the son
t joined and which lasted until both fell to
the floor exhausted. On the part of young
Moore the fit of laughter was then followed
by violent spasmodic attacks. He foamed
at the mouth, barked like a dog and made
vicious snaps at those who attempted to
quiet him.
Madness Epidemic.
A young farmer named Herrick went up
to him and, while attempting to quiet
him, caught hold of his hand. No sooner
had he done so than he too was ijized
with fearful spasms and wriihed on the
floor in intense agony, exhibiting the
peculiar symptoms manifested by the
others. The few other neighbors who had
come to the scene were so badly scared as
to be of little assistance, and they fled
precipitately, leaving the three maniacs
alone in she rooms. Mrs. Moore was stark
raving mad and rood the two young men
were busy at work demolishing the fur
niture and striking one another. One of
the women who had at first rushed to the
scene ran home and returned with her
father, an old army sergeant qamed Bill
heimer, who ran into the room and,
grasping Herrick, threw him to the floor
and, putting his foot upon his breast,
bound him with the bed ropes. He then
secured young Moore in a like manner.
Mrs. Moore was bleeding from the wound i d
received from falling otjt of the window
and lay on the floor inseusfbje. Lifting .
her tn his arms Billheimcr carried the wo- *
man to the open air, the storiM having
ceased.
A Physician In Attendance.
One of the neighbors had mounted a
horse about one hour before and ridden at
full speed across the rough country road
in search of a doctor. After a long search
he found one and brought him to the
stricken family. The young man Her
rick was taken home by his father in
the morning and another physician
attended him. No hope is en
tertained of Mrs. Moore’s recovery.
Her son was unusually violent this
morning and could scarcely be held by
four men. The case has occasioned much
excitement among the farmers through
out the neighborhood. Mrs. Moore’s hus
band was killed in the mining region five
years ago. She and her son are practical,
steady people. Young Herrick is not so
violent, but arrangements are being made
for his removal to an asylum. Mrs.
Moore was in a sinking condition this
evening, and she will hardly live until
morning.
Old Tilings Art Beat.
(Carolina Spartan.;
The people of Georgia are trying to
adopt the word "cuke” for cucumber.—
Now this may be shorter to write and
save a little ink, but it does not give fall
expression to the thing like the old South
Carolina word cowcumber. When our peo
nle cease to say " inguns and cowcum
bers,” life will not be what it was.
A Source of Danger.
(New York Herald.)
We are extremely sorry that the World
has been represented as in sympathy
with Mahone and the Virginia Readjusters
because we have laid down what we un
derstand to be the broad, catholic, essen
tial principle of Democracy. We detest
Mahone and all that he represents in pol
itics, but the fact that be has arrayed the
negroes of Virginia under his banner does
not justify the Democratic party there or
elsewhere in inscribing on its banner,
* Cursed be Canaan.” The spirit which
A Flood of Lard Oil Light.
(New York Tribune.)
The speculator replies that gambling in
grain, provisions, cotton and other pro
ducts is not contrary to the public welfare.
It makes "a larger market, and thus con
" duces to steadiness of prices, so that
" c nsumers lose at one time, and produ
" cers less at another, than they would
" otherwise lose.” A performance like
that of McGeoch’s casts a flood of light
upon this reasoning. The prolonged hold
ing of prices at a fictitious level, and the
violent fall of 20 per cent, in an hour,
were equally harmful to every legitimate
public interest. From first to last the
public suffered, and only a few speculators
bad any chance to gain. Yet public opin
ion does not seem ripe for the application
of any effective remedy.
Beware of the Poker Player*.
(National Republican.)
Paymaster Wasson’s explanation to the
court martial shows simply that he was a
very poor but sanguine poker player. He
nearly always lost, but he hoped “his luck
would turn,” but it didn’t, and having
once started down hill, "everything seemed
to be greased for the occasion.” The de
ficit in hi? accounts, at first about $2,000,
grew to $5,000, and no doubt would have
kept increasing had he succeeded in con
cealing it for a time longer. Maj. Wasson’s
experience is not a new one, and it only
goes to confirm an impression, already
quite general, that a poker player is not a
safe person to handle other people’s money,
ostracizes a man on account of his color
regardless of intellectual and moral qual
ifications may very easily extend its
enmity to the Teutonic, the Celtic and
the Latin races. We do not battle for
that kind of "Democracy.”