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Affairs iu Georgia.
How il t you f eo l now •
The Count Johannes B’Gormanne was
gl -,b e r on Christmas day. Ho was in Tennes
see, eight leagues from a bar-room. In his
romantic way ho calls it isolation—which is
good.
A Gilmer county man,who went to a corn-
aliucking the other night, took too much
bug-juice, fell down in the road and was
frozen through. If he Jivas it will bo a
great disappointment to the worthy Coro-
A Henry county mulo ushered in Christ
mas eve by slapping a colored citizen on the
left jaw. The burial was celebrated in the
usual eulivening manner.
The dwelling house of Mr. W. C. Bryan, of
Stewart county, wa9 accidentally burned the
other day.
An Atlanta man who got a sky-rocket
under him will keep his bed for a few days.
He had a good deal of fan, though.
A negro burglar broke jail in Preston the
other day.
The Postmasler at New Bridge post office,
in I .urnpkin county, has been arrested for
robbing the mails.
An attempt was made at Newton, Baker
county, one night last week to assassinate
and rob Mr. W. G. Engles, a merchant of
that place.
Carrollton has contributed another family
to the well-known cemetery of the Sonth—
Texas.
As near as wo can remember they have
burglars in Covington.
The city editor of the Augusta Constitu
tionalist does not hesitate to apologize for
tho harsh manner in which he criticized our
paragraphical criticism of the recent de
plorable duel near that city. We sincerely
trust that our friends of the Constitutionalist
will nevermore misinterpret our motives.
The Augusta Chronicle says that last
Thursday morning as a freight train on the
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
was moving over a high embankment about
thirteen miles from Charlotte, three of the
cars were thrown from tho track and down
a bank, a distance of about fifty feet. In
one of tho cars were several kegs of powder.
These exploded soon after the cars reached
the bottom, and set fire to them. The cars
and their contents, consisting of cotton and
freight, were entirely destroyed. The pas
senger train due at Augusta at 9 a. m..
Saturday moruiug, was detained on account
of the accident, and did not reach the city
until twelve o’clock.
The gin-house of Dr. James McDonald,
of Pike county, was burned the other day.
This is probably the thirty-sixth. But as
there may be somo doubt about tbe matter,
we gladly refer it to Dr. Janes, tbe State
Commissioner of Agriculture.
Blakely is bragging over its negro school.
Oglethorpe county is preparing to lay in
a fine crop of oats. Wheat has already
been largely sown.
Col. J. T. Blount, of Talbot county, is
dead.
All the fools are not dead yet. A Madison
county man has been allowing a negro fe
male “conjurer” to doctor his wife, and now
the latter is nearly dead.
The Atlanta Herald gives the tale of a
wolf: On the down train from Chatta
nooga there was quite an exciting scene in
the baggago car between baggage master
Hunt and a chained wolf which was beiug
brought down. At Chattanooga a man from
some of the Western States got aboard tbe
train. He had, chained about the neck, a
very large yellow wolf, which he was travel
ing with. The brute appeared to be docile
enough while in charge of Txis owner,
although to a stranger his fierce eye and
grinning teeth were sufficient to keep one
at a distance. By considerable pulling and
kicking and jerks the man succeeded in get
ting him aboard, and putting him in
the baggage car, where he was securely
chained in one corner. As might be
well imagined, the baggage master did
not fancy such a companion in his car
alone, and protested against tho act; but
was repeatedly assured that the wolf was
perfectly harmless and would attack no one.
Thus the baggage man’s fears were allayed,
and the train started. It leaves Chattanoo
ga before light, and the baggage-master
was left alone in his car with his gaunt com
panion. The train bad njt proceeded a very
great distance before it became necessary
fur the baggage-master to adjust some
pieces, which he proceeded to do. In mov
ing about he either forgot the presence of
ihe brute or depending upon what the owner
had said in regard to his vicionsness, went
too near his worship,which, of a sadden made
a spring at Mr. Hunt and seized his coat
tail. Turning to fight the animal off, it seiz
ed him in another place tearing his coat half
off. Mr. Hunt fought tho wolf off and
made his escape into the next car where
he iuformed Conductor Bell of what had
taken plac6. That officer felt outraged
at the danger to which his subaltern had
been subjected, and started in to dispatch
the brute, but thought it best to inform its
owner of what had transpired before pro
ceeding on his revengeful errand. Tho pro
prietor of tho one-horse menagerie was
aroused and informed of the situation, and
told that he mast mako reparation for the
damage done, or he would be short of a
wolf very soon. He offered to console the
injured party by saying that the wolf was
playing, and that it frequently tore his
clothes off in these little playful antics. But
this did not restore tho rent garment or
allay tho anger of the baggage master, who
insisted upon his making good what the
beast had made worthless. After consider
able parleying and bickering they finally
compromised on ten dollars and fifty cents.
After that the wolf had the car pretty much
to himself the balance of the trip.
Columbus Enquirer of Saturday : Yes
terday afternoon we were made acquainted
with the circumstances of an attempted sui
cide. We called to see the afflicted family,
&tul found them not disposed to be communi
cative. Tho subject of trouble was stubborn,
and refused to be interviewed, but the wife
and daughter told us some of the circum
stances. It seems that a man named Horace
Hendricks recently came to Columbus from
Florida, and engaged in any kind of busi-
*1.. . r V. A n (1 Wl r □ Ilk A ll 11 If
J ness that come” to hand. For some little
while he has failed to secure any work,
and has been gloomv and cross. His de
voted wife did all she could to cheer his
drooping spirits, and anticipating that he
intended taking bis life, watched him by day
and night. Yesterday, while everybody was
making arrangements to celebrate the
Christinas holidays, he decided to take the
life tnat had been* given him, and went de
liberately to work to accomplish bis de
termination. It seems he counted upon the
chances of detection, and closed every ave
nue to detection. He went in the rear of
the dwelling house, and into an old smoke
house, and then tried to hang himself.
He might have succeeded but for the noise
he made in kicking over the box upon
which he stood. In his struggles the box
was knocked over, and his wife’s attention
was attracted by the noise. She hastily
placed the box in position and calling for
her daughter to bring a knife, succeeded in
cutting him down before strangulation oc
curred. With the assistance of a neighbor
bis almost lifeless body was conveyed into
anil
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
riRllt 01 thnnc^f, r - a / ew minatei * he was all
SI susMnsSn 8 R » faC6 Was by
Irdfv PeDi a ne t a ”. d re »by P so^for i Thecoi1
the ' responsibilities 40 of "'thia^world by
l e Ad 0 ?“ g v,. t0 ‘“-■'f-destmcUon H,s w ^
“sh ac't 8h The are Un f l bl ° t0 acconnt for the
lit a. . Th y saJ ' the 7 are totally i-»nor-
ant of any cause that would lead him tiTsuch
a c °“ clln ?‘ on ’ bnt aD intimate fr?e“d sa^tt
results from an inability to not enouVh
We tCk V 00 gr ,?‘ f ° ndne “ 9 »hi“ky
We think from all we could uather that
poverty and whisky were the prime clusesll
ind° hfo beca ? fle h e . drank too much whisky-
* much whisky because he thought
“ °° woak - , Sach conduct wa B a nice
Lnnstmas present for a wife!
Atlanta Constitution: The report in yes
terday s Constitution of the terrible tra^jdv
ThJ,il 0 ,l Uble d t a . tb on tbo Lino Railroad
Thursday night, created considerable of a
sensation. During yesterday morning the
remains were visited by numbers or cSions
spectators. They were found just as they
of tho ee w»Al ft ' th ," uth , er lyin K to one side
of the track, and the dead baby near her
covered with her bonnet. The foelm-
generally among those who viewed the
mutilated remains of the
- . . --—— woman was
hL? “^“tion against the hus-
baud. Tlio railroad in tho vicinity pre
sented a horrible spectacle. The track
and cross-ties were covered with blood and
fragments of clothing, and the body itself
was mangled from the neck to the hips.
Coroner Kile was Boon notified of the oc
currence, and visited the spot at an early
hour in the morning with a jury. The in
quest did not occupy much time. Several
witnesses were examined, among whom
were the engineer and fireman of the train
and whose statement relative to the oc
currence, we have already published. The
jury, after an investigation, came to the
conclusion that tho baby had never
been born alive. Competent medical
tests were made, and it was found
that it had not breathed. A
verdict was returned in accordance with
the facts, exculpating the husband from
murder so far as the child is concerned. A
very different conclusion, however, was
reached respecting the death of the weman.
The jury were satisfied from the evidence
laid before them that there was strong
ground to suspect foul play, and consequent
ly found that the woman came to her death
by being foully dealt with at the hands of her
husband, William Armor. They thou re
turned to the city, leaving the bodies in
charge of the Coroner, who saw that they
were decently buried. The police kept ja
sharp lookout for tho husband, Wil
liam Amor, Thursday night, and were
fortunate enough to arrest him
early yesterday morning. He was found at
his house in tho suburbs of the city. He is
a large, powerful looking negro, and bore
his arrest very quietly. He was taken to
the station house, and there locked up.
During the morning he was visited tv a re
porter to learn what he had to sav. He
talked very freely, bnt reiterated his* story
about his wife’s walking on the track, anil
his being unable to pull her off before the
train struck her. He was asked how it was
that so powerful a man as himself could not
pull her out of the way of the train, but
gave no satisfactory answer. With respect
to tho child he denies that it was born be
fore tho train killed the mother. He ad
mitted, however, that his wife was near her
confinement, and yet undertook to walk
from this city to Buckhead, a distance of
about seven or eight miles. He stated fur
ther that they had been married several
years, and had two children- His wito’s
name was Ellen. Yesterday even
ing the prisoner was carried before
Justice McConnell to stand his pre
liminary trial for murder. The court
was crowded with spectators. Mr. Wright
appeared for tho defense. Six witnesses
were examined for the State, most of whom
were upon tho train at the time of the acci
dent. The only new fact of interest which
was developed boro very strongly against
the prisoner. It that his wife and
himself had been quareliing on tbe day
of the tragedy. That night they loft
home, bnt not together. After some
hours, and past midnight, tho husband
returnod, aud asked of some one in
the house where his wife was. He was told
that she had gone out. This conversation
must have occurred immediately alter the
husband had got back home irom tho spot
’ his
where he had left the mangled form oi
wife. After giving a full hearing to both
sides Justice McConnell committed the
prisoner to jail without bail, to answer at
the next term of the Superior Court to the
grave charge of wilful murder. William re
ceived the decision of the court with appa
rently but little feeling, and wa* at once car
ried off to the jail by the officers who had
him in charge.
Grant, the Pope, and the Schools.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Something must be done. That some
thing is to vote for the schools and
against the Pope. After the election we
are comparatively safe. The country has
been frequently saved from the encroach
ments of tbe Jesuits in this manner. A
Republican victory always diminishes the
swelling of the Pope’s toe. It acts like
an ointment administered to it. These
Republican politicians, who are so vigi
lant in behalf of the Bible and the
public schools, are themselves not Chris
tians. Their knowledge of the Scriptures
is chiefly derived from what they hear of
them rather than actual reading. But
this doesn’t make any difference. It is
easy to be religious and not pious. How
much easier to be concerned for the
cause of religion and yet have no relig
ion ! But in this class of politicinns, we
beg leave to be understood, we don’t in
clude General Grant. It is bnt fitting
that he should be the choice of the cler
gy. He has always led a pure and godly
life; his habits are known to be irre
proachable ; he never drank or used to
bacco in any form; his lips are never
profaned by an oath ; he has a horror of
a horse-racer ; he is regular in his attend
ance at church; his leisure hours
are devoted to earnest religious dis
cussion with eminent bishops, doctors
of divinity. There is a propriety in call
ing upon Grant to save our religion and
our schools. He has already saved our
Union. We know, therefore, that he is
capable of great things. His patriotism
stands out as brilliantly as his piety. He
has always been devotedly attached to
the American eagle. The initials of his
name, by a singular coincidence, stand
for the United States. He is eager for
the contest to commence with the Pope
aud the Jesuits. He threw down the
gaantlet to them in his powerful Des
Moines speech. We never saw the
Pope’s big toe swelled as it was by him
in bis annual message. There may pos
sibly be other men who can save the
country and preserve the Bible and the
schools. None, however,cau do it as well as
Grant. This we freely admit. There
may bo those whose prejudices are against
a third term. But better a third term,
better a life time, than that we should
fall under the dominion of the Jesuits!
When we fully understand that we have
either to take Grant again or have no
Bible and no schools, we must be counted
for those who are school aud Bible men.
When tbe Democratic party nominates
the Pope for President and tries to divide
the school fund among the religious sects,
to pull down the school houses and burn
the Bible, then tbe Enquirer will come to
the front and shout the battle-cry of free
dom ! We wouldn’t allow any Republi
can to excel us in zeal. There is a large
element of true Godliness in our compo
sition, although to a superficial observer
it may appear to be latent and not fully
developed.
Next to supporting President Grant
the first duty of the American Senator,
according to Bishop Gilbert Haven, is to
demand their rights for “men lawfully
married’’ who “are serving to-day in jails
and chain-gangs, and dying under the
lash of their legal task-masters, for no
other crime than marrying the women
each loved or that loved him.” We do
not understand. Where are those har
rowing goiDgs-on permitted? We are
particular in demanding information, be
cause the Bishop has had another afflatus
of the spirit of prophecy, and announces
to the Senators, who, holding the govern
ment in their hands, neglect to use it for
the liberation of these martyrs to mar
riage, that “God will wrest it from them
and give it to others if they fail to keep
step to His demands.” If Bishop Haven
is going on in this way, shaking thunder
bolts at Congress, we have at least a right
to insist that he shall make it plain what
he requires.—N. Y. Tribune.
The following verdict was recently ren
dered by a coroner’s jury at Middletown,
Conn.; “ Timothy Donovan came to his
death by hanging at his own hands, while
making an insane experiment, without in
tending to destroy himself, but acciden
tal,”
Y
TIIE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
SOUNDING THE STKAITS
DOVER.
OF
The Tunnel Under the British Chan
nel Only a Question of Time
and Money.
IMMIGRATION TO MEXICO.
TUNNEL UNDEB THE BBITISH CHANNEL.
New Yoke. Dec* aiber 27.—M. Lavalley,
President of the French Society of Civil
Engineers and inventor of the powerful ap
paratus which contributed to the rapid con
struction of the buez canal, an
nounces that fifteen experienced
soundings have been made in the
straits of Dover and in none of them
were the results unfavorable to the feasibil
ity of boring a tunnel to join Franco and
England, and M. Lavalley adds that all the
engineers are agreed that the completion of
the project is only a question of time and
money.
A RUMOR COBBECTED.
Washington, December 27.—There is no
foundation for the rumor in St. Louis, Mo.,
that Mr. Mariscal, the Mexican Minister,
has made a contract with Gens. Shelby and
Bacon, of Montgomery, for immigrants to
Mexico. Mr. Mariscal says he has no in
structions to enter into such agreement,
and there is no official agency for immigra
tion to Mexico established in this country.
DESTBUCTIVE FIBE.
Jacksonville, III., December 27.—The
stock yards and sale stables of Coward A
Thompson, together with a large quantity
of hay, corn and oats, and Mrs. Fay^s dwel
ling, were burned on Saturday nigbt. The
total loss is $20,000. The latter was insured
for $1,500 in tho Franklin of Philadelphia.
The fire was undoubtedly incendiary.
COBBESPONDENT MALT HEATED.
London, December 27.—Herr Benner, a
correspondent of the Schlesischi Zeitung, in
Bosnia, has been arrested, imprisoned and
maltreated by the Turkish troops. The
Berlin Foreign Officer is asked to interfere.
DENIED.
Madbid, December 27.—The death of
Dirodas is denied.
A First-Class Scoundrel on the Road.
A man named Wharton, alias Jack-
son, is on the road. He is a ladies’
man. Courting is his trade, winning his
his luck, promising to marry his play,
and never marrying his game. He has
been very successful in this pursuit. He
started tbe business three or four years
ago in Louisville, under the name of
Wharton. His outside pretension was
books—sometimes agent, sometimes ped
dler. Then one day he ran off with Miss
Mattie Raymond, a respectable girl of
Louisville. Under promise of marriage
he took her with him to Chicago, and
tho couple lived there. Mattie’i
father did not believe that every
thing was right, and in about
year went to Chicago to see about
it. He found that Wharton was known
everywhere, save at home, as Jackson,
and that he then had a Mrs. Jackson liv
ing in the suburbs. This Mrs. Jackson
was a Chicago banker’s daughter, whom
the scoundrel had lured away from home.
Raymond learne«U that his daughter had
never been married to the man, and he
took Mattie home to Louisville, and back
to his heart. To escape arrest, Wharton
fled from Chicago, and left his Mrs. Jack-
son pining there without home or friends.
The banker refused to receive his daugh
ter back, and she lives for just one purpose
—to pursue her supposed Jackson and
bring him to justice. Eight months ago
Wharton alias Jackson, appeared in At
lanta, Georgia, and soon made the ac
quaintance of a blooming widow who
had wealth and a big son. Jackson was
about to marry her when the banker’s
daughter stepped in md spoiled that
game. ' She sought an interview with the
widow and told her all about Jackson—
how he had committed crimes in Ger
many and robberies in Chicago, and laid
his track waste with ruined reputations
everywhere. The widow did not thank
her informant for the interest she had
taken in dashing her dream of happi
ness ; refused to believe the story, and
told Mrs. Jackson to go about her
business and attend to it. She went and
attended to it. Undaunted, Mrs. Jack-
son sought the widow’s big son, and told
him all about bis prospective step father.
The boy collared the man on
the first opportunity, smashed his
face, and blacked his eyes, and
kicked him pretty well all over.
He then drew a pistol, and made Jackson
march before him to the depot—got on a
train just starting and leave town, with
out settling up his affairs with the widow,
or even bidding her good-bye. The train
went towards West Point, and the next
day the Chicago banker’s daugh
ter followed it in order to keep an eye on
her betrayer. She promises to perform
her one mission in life with fidelity, but
it will be well enough for the girls to be
ware of any one who might possibly be
Wharton alias Jackson.—St. Louis Re
publican.
Shocking Double Tbagedy.—Port
Jervis, December 23.—Captain George
H. Decker, a prominent tanner and lum
ber operator of Liberty, Sullivan county,
a short time since failed in business,
owing to the depression in the leather
and lumber markets. Since then he had
given way to melancholy, which, it is
said, was increased by the conduct of
his wife’s mother, who, since the change
in Captain Decker’s circumstances, had
continually upbraided and abused him.
The Captain’s wife was the widow
of a former Sheriff of Sullivan county
and a very estimable woman. On
Thursday last, his mother-in-law having
been severely chiding him for bringing
ruin and disgrace upon his wife and her
family, Captain Decker was noticed to be
more than usually dispirited. Towards
noon he was seen to enter his house, and
shortly afterwards the report of a pistol
was heard. Several persons rushed into
the house and found the Captain lying on
the floor in a pool of blood and his wife
gasping in a chair, holding her head with
her hands. A revolver lay near the pros
trate husband, and a razor was in his
hand. Ho had shot his wife as she sat in
the chair, and then cut his own throat,
severing all the arteries, and dying almost
instantly. His wife was not dead, and at
last accounts was still alive, although in
a critical condition. The ball had entered
in the back part of her neck, and has not
yet been found.
Evening Telesrams.
PREMEDITATED MURDER.
Follies of the Northern Methodists.
MASSACHUSETTS COTTON MILLS RE
DUCING THEIR PRICES.
BABCOCK
AND THE
BING.
WHISKY
The Livelinetui of Africans in Liberia.
Fatally Bubned at the Alt as.—The
New Orleans Picayune of Sunday says:
On the 8th instant several young ladies,
all attired in pure white raiment, visited
St. Mary’s Church, oj Chartres street, a
short distance below Jackson square, to
enroll their names in the Society of En-
fants-Marie. Each one wore a flowing
veil, and each held a lighted candle.
While they were at the altar one of the
postulants accidentally brought her can
dle in contact with her veil, when the
gazy substance blazed like powder. She
ran down the aisle, half crazed with
fright. At the same time another young
lady was discovered to be in a like situa
tion; she too ran, frightened out of her
senses, but a young man succeeded in
quenching the flames. Fire had done its
worst, and Friday evening Annie Julia
Planchard, fourteen years old, passed
away forever. She was a beautiful, lovely
child, daughter of Mr. J. J. Planchard, a
member of the New Orleans bar. The
other unfortunate will recover.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, December 27.—Tbe Execu
tive office will be closed to general visitors
till January 3, and tbe War and Navy De
partments will close at noon daring the
week.
The President has recognized Frederico
Granados as Vice Consul of Spain at Savan
nah.
Tho demand of Hnbbard, of San
Francisco, assigned in 1870, has a
claim for goods destroyed by tbe
Alabama, to Osgood & Stetson,
to secure a loan of five hundred dollars.
Hubbard claims the assignment was collat
eral to secure the loan. Osgood A Stetson
claim it was a bona fide purchase, which view
the Alabama Claims Commission sustained,
and ignoring Hubbard, award Osgood &
Stetson $9,00U. Hubbard’s attorneys have
filed a bill for injunction to prevent tbe pay
ment of the award to Osgood & Stetson.
Alluding to the Inter-Ocean's publication
tbe Star says : “General Babcock this morn
ing called upon Secretary Bristow aud
stated, with considerable force of rhetoric,
that the publication, in so far as it concern
ed him, was a malicious falsehood.” To a
.Star reporter be stated : “It is an infamous
lie from beginning to end.”
Tbe Comp troller of tbe Currency calls for
the condition of the national banks on tbe
close of business, Friday, December 17.
WASHINGTON WEATHEB PBOPHET.
Washington, December 27.—Probabili-
ies : For the Sonth Atlantic States sta
tionary or rising barometer, cooler, cloudy
and possibly rainy weather, with south and
eaBt winds.
For the Gulf States falling barometer,
southeast winds, warmer, cloudy and rainy
wsather.
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley falling
barometer, increasing southeast winds,
warmer, cloudy and threatening weather.
For tbe Middle and Eastern States, sta
tionary or rising barometer, north aud
eaBt winds, partly cloudy, warmer weather.
For tbe canal region, from Now Jersey to
Virginia, the temperature will remain above
freezing.
The rivers will continue rising, with dan
gerous floods from Cincinnati upwards.
“PBEVIOUS CONDITION” IN LIBEBIA.
Washington, December 27.—Information
has been received that several native tribes,
encouraged by tbo success of tbe Giebro
tribe near Capo Palmas, made an attack re
cently on tbe settlers in another part of Li
beria, but were vigorously rppulsed. A pri
vate letter says tbe peace of tbo republic is
somewhat disturbed by tbe question
of color. President Roberts is much
embarrassed on this account, tbe
fact of bis not being of full African blood
being objectionablo to many who are. An
intelligent negro, from tbo West Indies, is
tbe principal agitating spirit, who seeks to
establish a political color test, taking tbe
side of tbo blacks against those of light
complexion. The more orderly of the Libe
rians would rejoice if they conid be relieved
of the loader iu this course of mischief.
PREMEDITATED 2IURDEH.
Harrisbubg, I’a., December 22,.—Hamp
ton Miller, aged 19, shot his step-father,
Thomas Morgan. Morgan bad been to a
lodge meeting and was shot in tbo back
while packing bis books. Tbo murder was
premeditated. Four weeks ago be received
a letter warning him to.be.cirefal, as a mem
ber of a certain society bad been depntied
to kill him if he came in his way. Tbe
writer expressed a willingness to do it, and
said : “For God’s sake, keep out of my
way ; f->r I must do it if there is any show.”
It is believed the wife was cognizant of the
plot to kill her husband.
METHODIST FOLLIES.
Boston, December 27.—The trial of Abra
ham Jackson, a woll known stock broker,
for forgery, commenced at tbe Methodist
preachers’ meeting to-day. An effort was
made to have placed before tbe public a paper
setting forth tbe views of tbe meeting with
reference to tbe third term, and tbe
speech of Bishop Haven, but it failed.
DEAD.
Quincy, III., December 27.—Hon. W. A.
Richardson died to-day of paralysis. Col.
Richardson served three terms in tbe na
tional Houso of Representatives, and was
elected to fill the vacancy in tbe Senate oc
casioned by the death of Stephen A. Doug
las. He was sixty-four years of age.
burned.
Hastings on the Hudson, December 27.—
The Hudson River Sugar Refinery, owned
by Kattenborn, Hopke, Offerman & Dasher,
was burned. Loss $500,000; insurance less
than $300,000. One hundred aud fifty per
sons are out of employment. Two were in
jured.
SPANISH NOTES.
San Sebastian, December 27.—Owing to
tbe vigorous bombardment of Hernani by
tbe Carlists the situation there has become
critical. It is thought probable that the
garrison will be compelled to evacuate un
less promptly reinforced.
reduction of wages.
Lawrence, Mass., December 27.—Tbe
Pacific Mills, employing 5,200 workmen,
gave notice of a reduction of ten and fifteen
per cent, tbe first of January. Tbe corpo
ration announces it is obliged to make the
reduction or stop.
A SAD CHRISTMAS.
Berne, Switzerland, December 27.—
During the celebration of Christmas in a
school-house at Killekan, Canton of Dargon,
tbe floor fell and eighty people were killed
and fifty more or less hurt.
infanticide.
Providence, December 27.—Phillip Gal
lagher, while drunk, in attempting to kick
his wife, killed his year old child in her
arms.
suicide.
New York, December 27.—The bodies of
two men, aged 25 and 45, were found near
Newark, N. J. They are supposed to have
committed suicide.
Shall We Have a Convention to Frame
a New Constitution ?
Editor Morning News :
As the time is near at hand when the
General Assembly of the State must con
vene, and as the queslion of calling a
convention will doubtless be presented
again for the consideration of that hono
rable body, I propose fa lay before tbe
public some of the reasons why a con
vention has not been called heretofore, in
order that the responsibility may rest
where it properly belongs. The first
great opposition to this measure origina
ted in Atlanta. The press of that city,
the municipal authorities, the citizens
and the able Representatives that they
have chosen for the Legislature, have had
a great deal to do with its defeat. They
are not willing that the people should
say where the capital must be
located for fear of its removal from At
lanta. If they know that the people
would select their city as the place they
would favor the call for a convention.
The interests of the State and their
interests are two entirely different ques
tions. While as a citizen of Georgia I
am proud of the material wealth and
prosperity of Atlanta, yet I do think, in
all candor and truth, that her people
should show a little disinterested patriot
ism and aid the honest men of the coun
try in throwing off this infamous Radical
incubus that was fastened on the people
by fraud and rascality.
Another source of opposition to a con-
“0. A. U.”
.Secret Societies
in Politics
Light.
-Let Us Have
It is not surprising that the country
should be astounded at the exposure in
the Herald of the society known as the
“O. A. U.” For some time past there
have been rumors about the growth of
this organization, its purposes and its
leadership, but they never took serious
shape, because our people, who have a
good deal of common sense, could not be
lieve that in this enlightened time free-
thinking and fair-minded Americans would
go up into a darkroom and bind themselves
together with grips and passwords and
oaths to stimulate religious excitement,
to force a third term upon the people
under the pretence of “uniting the Prot
estants against the Catholics” and “sav
ing the schools from the Pope.” The
history of all secret political societies in
America has shown that our soil is not
congenial. They grow rapidly; sometimes
they have threatened to overshadow the
land. But the growth was like that of
the gourd, and sure to go down in a night
before the rising sunshine of a virtuous
public opinion.
We do not share in the objection to se
cret societies which is urged by many
thinkers even when they confine them
selves to social objects. We have some
times thought that social intercourse and
charity could be served as well by socie
ties with open doors as by those which
meet with ceremonies and passwords and
lodge rooms. But the imagination enters
largely into the pursuits of men, and if
our people choose to become Masons, Odd
Fellows, or even members of the Colum
bian Order, and call themselves “Knights
Templars,” “Sachems” or “Descen
dants of Solomon;” if they find com-
. . , , .. „ . , fort in these harmless games and exhibi-
vention is to be found among the officials tions, far be lt from us to deny them
SLAIN POBKEBS.
Cincinnati, December 27.—Hogs slaugh
tered to a number, 328,950; same time la9t
year, 328,265.
DROWNED.
Lawrence, Mass., December 28.—Nettie
Smith and Ann ConliD, aged nine andeleveD,
wore drowned by the ice breaking.
While California produces eight million
gallons of wine, the home consumption
does not amount to more than one million
and a half of gallons. In first hands the
wines are known to be absolutely pure,
for which reason they are extensively imi
tated by a fraudulent article abroad, or so
adulterated as to entirely lose their origi
nal virtue and flavor. For these reasons
the foreign demand for the article is
much more limited than it should be.
Married in Tahiti.
The San Francisco Chronicle has the
following account of the marriage of an
American Consul to a Tahitan Princess:
; A marriage in the very highest tier of
social life has been one of the quiet sen
sations lately transpiring in Tahiti. On
the 27th of October Dorrence Atwater,
United States Consul for the Society
Islands, was united in the holy bonds of
wedlock to the Princess Moetia, daughter
of a Chiefess of Royal blood. The
marriage was conducted by the civil au
thorities, Dr. Bonnet, Mayor of Papeete,
officiating. No cards and no cake. The
Princess Moetia is a very accomplished
young lady, speaking English and French
as fluently as she does her native lan
guage. She is besides wealthy in her
own right, being owner of the historical
palm groves of Faaa and other lands. She
is also the lessee of Scilly Island, valu
able for its pearl fisheries. Her mother
owns half the Island of Morea (the para
dise of Elmed, as old navigators call it,)
and extensive possessions on the Island
of Tahiti. Moetia has three brothers,
splendid specimens of South Sea chiefs.
The youngest, Narii, is about nineteen
years old, six feet two inches in height
and weighs two hundred pounds, and as
straight as an arrow. They were edu
cated in Europe, but, like all South Sea
chiefs, they believe in native customs
and habits. Their mother has equal
claims to rule with Queen Pomare, but
has never asserted her rights. The
father of the family was an English Jew
named Salmon, a lawyer by profession,
and a very able man. Soon after he ar
rived in Tahiti he married the wealthy
chiefess mentioned. As to Mrs. Atwater,
her many friends will wish her much joy.
She has been fortunate in securing a
young, gallant, and intelligent husband,
and he has been equally fortunate in
capturing the handsomest and wealthiest
girl in the South Sea Islands.”
A letter froiy Fayal, one of the Azores
Islands, holds^ut this incentive to immi
gration: “Here you get a bottle of wine
for six cents, a meal for eight cents,
board by the day twenty-five cents, while
fifty cents will buy as much as five dol
lars wifi in th© States,”
of the State.
The Constitution provides for the ap
pointment of three Supreme Judges,
who shall hold their offices for twelve
years, and a Judge of the Superior Court
for each judicial circuit (and there are
twenty circuits), for a term of eight years,
and the Judges of the’Superior Courts are
required to hold two sessions annually m
each county in the State, which must
necessarily bring them in contact with
the principal part of our citizens, and
afford them a fine opportunity to operate
upon this question.
The history of the past shows that when
power is once placed in the hands of men
they are unwilling to give it up, and
reason teaches us that those honorable gen
tlemen, as a general rale, would not be
willing at the expiration of four years to
undergo the trouble, expense and hazard
of again seeking another appointment;
consequently we do not expect them to
favor a convention, but, on the other
hand, to oppose it. I have no doubt but
that they often counsel their fellow-
citizens to be quiet, that nothing better
can be done for the present, and we must
accept the situation. But the principle
is a bad one; the Judges will become
careless, indifferent, and, at times, im
perious. They should be held account
able to the people at least once in four
years for the deeds done in office, and no
kind of logic can be produced that will
show that they should be more highly
favored than a Governor or a legislator.
There is still another source of oppo
sition which at one time was a very for
midable one. It comes from the home
stead men. In 1874 when this question
was pending before the Assembly of tbe
State many of the members opposed it
because they said their constituent» were
in debt and if a convention was held they
believed that the three thousand dollars of
realty and personalty would be reduced,
which would fore** them to meet their
obligations and tht& would operate disas-
terously to their interest. In other
words, we must hold the three
thousand dollars in specie, and
let our creditors who trusted
in time of need suffer. That was the
argument. But I am glad to know that
such flimsy apologies are giving way be
fore the inroads of better logic, for men
are beginning to learn that a law which
protects the citizen who does not respect
his contracts is a bad one, and leads to
demoralization. Besides they are begin
ning to find out that it is driving capital
from the State, that money cannot be
borrowed only at high rates of interest,
that almost every article of prime neces
sity has been enhanced in value on ac
count of it, and that the people will con
tinue in debt and to defraud their credi
tors so long as it remains a part of our
constitution
Another objection was urged with con
siderable vehemence against the call, and
that was the expenditures that would be
required on the part of the State to meet
its demands. Every individual who has
examined thisg question or watched
the legislation of the State for the last
three years, must be satisfied that the
principal part of the work of our legis
lators is wholly worthless to the peop-
ple, aud that annual sessions are
unnecessary and result only in a
waste of the public funds. Let us, then,
have a convention, so that the constitu
tion can bo changed, and bi
ennial instead of annual sessions be held,
and the local legislation, which consumes
so much time and money, be confined to
the courts. Such a change will result in
lessening the expenditures of the govern
ment, and materially aid in relieving the
tax-payers of the State.
Echols.
The Noble Band of Third Termers.
In the multitude of Congressmen there
were eighteen who stood firm in the day
of peril. They faced not only the onset
and furious affront of the enemy, but the
certain knowledge that they would be
seen by the country to have sold them
selves respectively for messes of pottage.
To danger and shame alike indifferent they
stood nobly by the great source of Execu
tive patronage. An examination of the
composition of this forlorn hope of the
third term may have some interest. It is
made up of four classes of persons. There
are Northern men resolute for spoil ;
there are Southern men who believe that
the offices they may secure will be of
tangible value, but who doubt if this
can be said of the national freedom
and constitutional precedents ; there
are carpet-baggers : there are “cullad
pussons,” who were slaves before the war.
The negroes are Charles E. Nash, Lou
isiana; Jo3iah T. Walls, Florida; Jere
miah Haralson, Alabama; John R. Lynch,
Mississippi; John Adams Hyman, North
Carolina; and Robert Small, South Caro
lina. People who were born in slavery
and received political rights but yester
day, as it were, can scarcely be expected
to comprehend those problems of national
politics on which this topic turns; while,
in common with their race, they tend to
carry hero worship to deification. Their
vote, therefore, is natural, and they with
unconscious instinct favor a form of
government that would certainly be
better for them than any other
form, because it would put them in a
political tutelage not greatly dissimilar
from slavery. G. Wiley Wells, of Mis
sissippi, and Solomon Hoge, of South
Carolina, are carpet-baggers, while John
D. White, of Kentucky, and Alexander S.
Wallace, of South Carolina, are South
erners to the manor born, so far as
known. Both the latter have probably a
lively sense of official favors to come.
Naturally the carpet-baggers have, like
the cheap shops, “only one price,”
which is—all they can get. Wells, of
Mississippi, has had his pay in ad
vance, for all the Federal patronage
of Mississippi was recently trans
ferred to him from Governor Ames.
Of the eight others, California, New
York, Iowa, Illinois, Maine and Vermont
have each one to be ashamed of, and
Michigan has two. “Mail contracts” ac
counts for one, a*d the Internal Revenue
Department knows most of the others.
Five of these men are natives of New
England States, and the New York mem
ber is a Scotchman. Of this eight there
are three who “didn’t mean to do it
that is to say, who voted for the third
term for some other reason than because
they are in favor of it. It is to be hoped
the reasons were satisfactory—and sub
stantial,—AT. Y. Harold.
But when secrecy enters into politics it
offends the genius of our institutions.
The excuse for such a society is the effort
to overcome tyranny by a union of the
friends of freedom. This was the excuse
of the leaders of the Republican move
ment in France and Italy under the old
Bourbon reigns. History shows that it
would have been far better for the people
to have submitted even to the reign of
the Bourbons than to permit the
government to pass into the pos
session of irresponsible secret clubs.
In a republic like America, or in
any free country indeed, where there is
liberty of press and speech and action,
the secret society is in itself a confession
of weakness or wrong intent. Suppose
that some of our citizens, spurred on by
the fervor of deep religious conviction,
believed that there was a movement on
the part of the Catholic Church to inter
fere with the schools or take possession
of the country, can they not do as much
towards antagonizing that influence m
the open air, through the public press
and platform and the pulpit, as in a dark
room ? If the Catholic Church were a
paramount body in America we might see
a reason for Protestants to organize aud
protect their religion. This is not the
oase. The Catholic Church is only
a fraction—a moderate fraction—of our
people. It is not a growing church with
us, except as it grows from emigration.
So far from its controlling the country
there is a latent Protestant feeling which
makes it impossible for any Catholic to
be elected to any national office. Mr.
Kernan found this when running for
Governor, and with the exception of
small, isolated sections like New York
and St. Louis, and New Orleans and Bal
timore, there is not a part of the country
where the Catholic faith is an advantage
in the race for preferment.
Therefore the allegation that it is ne
cessary for Protestants to form into
secret political society to “arrest the
machinations of the Catholic Church” is a
lie. There have been movements of this
kind before, and every one ended in dis
aster. It was seen that the men who
inspired them were not earnest, God
fearing, religious men, but shrewd poli
ticians who, knowing how deeply seated
m the Anglo-Saxon heart is the sentiment
of respect for religious institutions, sum
moned up all the bitter memories of
the past for political ends. The dis
aster which betell Know-Nothingism
and Native Americanism, the con
tumely that is visited upon all who
took part in that erratic movement, was
so widespread, that for the last genera
tion, at least, every honest politician,
without regard to party, has made it a
fundamental maxim that to attempt to
bring religion into politics or to control
political action by secret societies is the
lowest kind of demagogism. Therefore,
when we see this attempted, not by small-
beer politicians seeking place in tbe Legis
lature or the Board of Aldermen, but by
the President of the United States himself
and the heads of a great political party,
we feel that we are in the presence of
a danger the gravity of which cannot
be exaggerated. We see the Presi
dent of the United States and the
leaders of his party in accord. First we
had the Des Moines speech, in which the
President practically said that the agi
tation of religion was about to take the
place of the agitation of slavery. Then
we had Mr. Blaine’s letter throwing the
firebrand of ‘ ‘free schools and no Popery. ”
Then came the President’s message, urg
ing the anti-sectarian amendments to the
Constitution. Then came Bishop Haven’s
pronunciamento in favor of Grant for a
third term. All these events which ap
peared isolated and inexplicable at the
time, become plain in the light of present
disclosures. Instead of a curious and
eccentric political movement, we are in
the presence of one of the most formi
dable conspiracies against the liberties of
the country that we have seen during the
lifetime of the Republic.
Of course it will be said that the Ameri
can people have too much common sense,
too much devotion to the flag of tbe
country, to be carried away by these mid
night secret lodge conspirators. This
feeling of over-confidence has been the
beginning of disaster to many countries.
The history of liberty in every land shows
that a free people must show eternal vigi
lance. If they allow the slightest de
parture from the cardinal principles of
fraternity and equality aud independence,
if they allow the least invasion of consti
tutional prerogatives, there is no know
ing where it will end. It is like the
crumbling of the dyke which only
precedes the coming in of the sea.
So far from this secret society being
the isolated freak of a few addle-pated,
idle politicians, it is a part of a vast plan.
It moves on to its purpose. It assumes
every day a newer and a graver shape.
In the light of this exposure of these
lodgeR, grips and oaths, we now see the
meaning of the Ciusarism agitation, of
those violations of the constitution
which were pardoned to the President
because of inexperience, of the growth of
the military power around the White
House, of the steady corruption of the
public service, of the robbing of the
Treasury for partisan and political ends,
of the debasement of tbe Senate and the
ostracism of leading Republicans. It is
all plain and clear. It is our duty as
citizens to strike it down as treason to the
Republic, be ieving, as we do, that when
secret societies, are necessary to “protect”
our liberty or religion, neither of them
are worth saving.
A WAGGISH CROW.
The Diversions of a (Mischievous Domesti
cated Pennsylvania Bird.
[From the Reading (Pa.) Times.]
A lady in this city was the owner of a
pet crow called “Jim,” whose history she
gives as follows: Sitting in the trunk of a
tree beside the cabin of a wood chopper
in the Alleghanies I first saw him. He
was too young to fly, and, only partially
covered with feathers, looked so queer,
so helpless, and withal so mischievous,
that I bought him, tied him in my hand
kerchief, and, hanging it on the pommel
of my saddle, rode twenty miles home.
It was the amusement of all the family to
fill up “Jim Crow,” which meant to take
pieces of bread, clover heads, and indeed
anything, drop it in hi* wide-open month
till his craw, his throat and his mouth
were filled. There he would sit with his
bill wide open, unable to shut it
till the food slowly digested, then
commenced his “caw, caw, caw.” With
the wings came—what the quiet twinkle
in these black eyes foretold—mischief,
sly and deep. He delighted going into
the cook's room, where careless habits
made that place a paradise to him. He
would gently put his bill under the lid of
her sewing box and turn off the cover on
the floor—and then the fun began. The
needles were all carefully stuck over the
bed one by one. The cotton was hid in
the wood-house, and the scissors nicely
tucked under the pillows in the room
quite removed from the scene of his
labors. The wax and thimble were
dropped into the aquarium, and, after all
this delicious fan, he one day took a little
pot of hard pomade in his bill and hopped
to the edge of the veranda roof, ate the
pomade with evident relish, and then
dropped the glass pot on the stovepipe
below with a satisfied air at its demoli
tion. He then flew down and carefully
picked up each piece and put it In the
grass.
During the short illness of one of tbe
family, regularly at 9 a. m. “Jim Crow”
hopped along the verandah roof, gave a
quiet tap on the closed window, and, on
being admitted, gravely brought with
him to the bedside and laid on tfie table
a chicken bone or leg, or something
equally tempting. Seeing that he was
duly observed, he would ruffle up his
feathers, make himself appear like a large
round ball of black feathers, “caw,” and
then open his mouth wide for a part of
the invaiid’s breakfast. After stirring up
things for half an hour or more, opening
the clock, picking at the hands, stopping
the pendulum, dropping the soap in the
water pitcher, and taking all the pins out
of the pincushions, he would take his
leave.
The fish in the course of time disap
peared in the aquarium, and although all
the haps and mishaps of the house were
attributed to demure little “Jim Crow,”
no one suspected that he was the cause of
the fish mystery. One morning he was
discovered taking a bath in it, and a fish
breakfast afterward. The mystery wa3
solved, and when the aquarium was emp
tied there came to light two thimbles, a
pair of scissors, a penknife, and a spoon.
To carry away small chickens, drop
them into holes, and cover them with
dirt, was his intense delight, and when
he saw a distracted hen rushing madly
about the barnyard, some one looked up
“Jim Crow” and went to the rescue.
After a day’s fishing, we were cleaning
the fish on the race bank. One little fish
was thrown into the water. A duck quickly
seized it by the head, and “Jim” took the
tail, and then they pulled and pulled for
a few seconds. The scene was exceedingly
amusing, for “Jim” planted his little black
feet firmly on the edge of the bank, and
was slowly drawn into the water, holding
on to the fish. As soon as he found that
he was getting in too deep, he let go his
hold and flew to a tree to take his usual
revenge in scolding, and with his head on
one side he scolded till all the fish were
cleaned. Jim’s scolding consisted of a
succession of guttural sounds, said over
and over, with a very solemn face and
mounful mein, and has moved many peo
ple to hearty laughter, because it was so
intensely droll. While he was quite young
he was tyrannized over, and all the fowls,
large and small, had a pick at Jim. But
one day he took a long straw in his bill
and chased the geese, who fled before
him. and Jim reigned supreme from that
day, and often repeated the scare, we
thought, for his own amusement.
Jim’s strong point was butter, and on
churning days Jim stayed at home and
behaved himself. He could eat half a
pound; but one day he ran bis bill
through a pound, and tried to fly away
with it. He was caught rolling over and
over the floor with it, and from that time
he was banished.
As the summer faded into antumn Jim
stayed away more and more from home,
and occasionally would return with friends
evidently showing them around. One
Sunday afternoon the attention of the
family was drawn to vigorous cawing on
the veranda roof. There was Jim, with
three friends, all cawing. They solemnly
walked in at the cook’s window and re
mained in the room some time, keeping
up their conversation. When they left,
all movable things were found overturned
and the room left in the state Jim always
left it. The pleasures of that place had
no doubt been described by Jim to his
friends, and he had brought them along
for a frolic. His visits from home be
came more and more extended, but when
ever he came he scolded as much as ever,
and seemingly tried to talk. He would
sit before the house and deliver long
harangues on subjects and in language
too abstruse for us lo comprehend. One
rainy September day he sat for hours on
the apple tree delivering, it most have
been a farewell address, for when night
came he flew away and never came home
again. •
A THRILLING STORY.
Immersed in a Cistern Under Cirruin
stances of Intense Excitement—Oar
Child Drowned, and Narrow Escape «i
Father, Mother and Son.
After fourteen years of exclusion, a
scramble for the little patronage that be
longs to the House of Representatives
was to have been expected, especially as
the Republicans had set the example of
the most proscriptive partisanship in
every branch of the public service. But
there are some features about this rush
for office that are quite unseemly, and re
flect anything but credit on those who
engaged in it.
Old Kentucky has been compromised
badly. George M. Adams, an ex-mem
ber and a back-payster, was elected Clerk
of the House. He appointed his ancle,
Green Adams, an ex-member from Ken
tucky, as chief clerk. He also appointed
John B. Rice, another ex-member from
Kentucky, as Librarian to tbe House.
And to cap the climax, John D. Young, a
fourth ex-member from Kentucky, has
been appointed a messenger to wait on
his former colleagues.—AT. Y. Sun.
Strange Hallucination.
The Louisville Courier-Journal de
scribes one of tbe characters of that city
thus: “One of the most extravagant con
ceits peculiar to a deranged mind belongs
to a poor fellow who may, during every
twenty-four hours, be seen at regular
times standing about the railroad depots
m Louisville. For several months past
he has believed himself to be the General
Superintendent of the railroads leading
into the city. What is most peculiar
about the fellow is that he is not puffed
up with the arrogance with which men
of his imagined importance are ordinarily
vested. Punctuality and close attention
to business is his motto, and with a
consciousness of performing simple
duty, he feels that he can afford
to be unassuming. In his madness
there is method. He has the schedule
of every railroad committed to
memory, and is on time with* the arrival
and departure of every train at the vari
ous depots in the city. At 2:10 p. m. he
is at the Short-line depot to see that the
Cincinnati train gets off all right; a few
minutes later he is at the Jeffersonville,
Madison and Indianapolis and Ohio and
Mississippi depots, and thence he goes to
the Nashville depot, thus making the
rounds until all the trains have arrived
and departed. As it is above the dignity
of so importantjan official to command the
subordinates in person, he is never known
to give an order, but contents himself
with standing around the platforms,
watching every movement of the em
ployes. After the arrival or departure of
a train the countenance of this queer
creature lights up with an expression of
supreme satisfaction, and without saying
a word to any one complacently puts his
hands in his pockets and walks away
with an air of indifference and self-im
portance.”
Spencer port, December 22. 1875.—
One of the saddest and most thrilling
affairs ever known in this section oc
curred on Saturday last in South Greece,
a few miles from this plact\ the full par
ticulars of which have been received here.
The family of John Preneg -ast, a poor
bnt industrious blacksmith, lives in that
village. Mrs. Prenegrast was engaged in
washing on Saturday morning, drawing
water from a cistern situated under one
of their rooms in the rear of the house.
The opening to the cistern was left
uncovered, Mrs. Prenegrast drawing
the water up with a pail attached
to a rope. The apartment she was
working in adjoins that over the cistern,
and around her were playing her two
children, one a little boy about three
years old and a little girl Jess than two.
Busy at her work the mother did not
notice that the youngest had gone from
the room, and did not miss her until she
left her tub to go to the ci. tenr to draw
some more water. The little girl was no
where to be seen. She called its name,
but received no answer. The cistern was
her first thought, and she rushed to the
opening, which is about two feet square,
and dropping on her knees, peered down
through it into the darkness. To
her horror she saw her baby strug
gling in the water. Without a
moment’s thought the agonized mother
let herself down the opening to the
water below. The water was not over
two feet deep. Grasping the child in her
arms she found that it was not dead bat
unconscious, and needed instant atten
tion to keep it alive and restore it. It
was impossible, however, for the poor
mother to get out of the cistern, but,
thinking that she might drag herself out
unencumbered with the child, she threw
it up through the opening to the floor
above. Bnt all her attempts to climb
from the cistern were unavailing, and she
called loudly for aid. Presently her little
boy came toddling to the opening, hear
ing her faint cries, no doubt.
THE BOY JUMPS IN.
He peered down into the cistern, but
his mother made frantic appeals to him
to go away and to call some one to her
aid. The little fellow, frightened at the
situation of his mother, either jumped or
fell into the cistern. The mother took
him from the water strangling and
choking, and succeeded in restoring him.
She then tried to put him up through the
opening, but made three attempts before
she succeeded. By superhuman efforts
she at last managed to grasp the edge of
tbe opening with her hands and drew her
self up so that she could see her little
girl, but no further. The child was still
gasping, but died while her mother was
looking at her, helpless to render aid.
When she put her little boy out of the
cistern she had made him understand
that he must go tell his father, whose shop
was some distance away.
ALARM OF THE HUSBAND.
The little fellow did as he was bid, but
he could not make his father understand
what he wanted, but the blacksmith,
knowing from the dripping clothes and
excited manner of his child that some
thing was wrong, hastened to the house
and found his little daughter lying dead,
and his wife hanging on to the edge of
the cistern, the intensity of her grasp
pressing the blood out from beneath her
finger nails and forced it in streams from
her nose and mouth. As soon as she saw
her husband enter she gave a scream of
agony and swooned away, falling back
into the cistern. Mr. Prenegrast imme
diately jumped in after her, and, while
he kept her from drowning, was unable
to get her limp and lifelesB body
from the cistern. To add to the terror
of his position he had to use
all his power of persuasion and authority
to prevent his little boy from jumping in
with his parents, and conid not induce
him to leave the spot to call aid, he
standing in dangerous proximity to the
opening, screaming in his childish ter
ror. It was several minutes before Mr.
Prenegrast, by sprinkling his wife with
water and chafing her temples and wrists
as best he could, brought her back to
consciousness, and some time before she
was able to help herself. Finally, by his
aid, she drew herself out of the cistern,
and her husband succeeded in reaching
the room with little difficulty. Dr. Buell
was sent for in hope that the child might
yet be restored, but life had been extinct
some time. Mrs. Prenegrast is lying in a
critical condition, being almost crazed
with grief and ill from the excitement
and exposure.
IS THE ARMY TOO LARGE l
The Hew House Evidently Thinks So—
Probabilities of the Skeleton Establish
ment Bel nr Further Reduced.
Washington, December 23.— Talk with
influential Democratic Representatives
leads to the conclusion that the army is
doomed to a reduction to 15,000 men,
with a corresponding and perhaps greater
r duetion in the number of line and staff
< fficers. The appropriations for the
uilitary establishment for the current
-cal year are $28,554,987 79, and the
uunates for next year amount to $33,-
097,178 50. These sums are exclusive of
the expenses of the War Department pro
per, for which $1,219,237 was appropri
ated this year, and $1,240,508 asked for
next year. To these should be added
$427,165 appropriated for armories
and arsenals this year (the estimates
for next year are $917,218); $815,000
.'jr fortifications and works of defense
(estimates for next year, $2,044,000) ;
$42,500 for buildings at the Military
Academy (estimates for next year, $89,-
000); buildings under the Quartermaster
General for which no appropriation was
made this year, but for which next year’s
estimate is $500,000, construction and
repair of military telegraphs, $88,000
( estimates for next year, $45,000) : sur
veys for military defenses, $30,000. (esti
mates for next year, $50,000); expenses
of military convicts, $40,000 (esti
mate for next year same
amount) ; publication of the offi
cial records of the Rebellion, $50,000
estimate for next year same amount);
support of the Leavenworth Military
Prison, $61,688 15 ^no appropriation for
this year); support of National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $898,733 44
(no appropriation for this year,; and per
manent appropriations under the War
Department, $625,000 (estimates for next
jear, $510,000;. This makes the entire
cost of the military establishment, War
Department, etc., this year, exclusive of
geographical surveys and improvements
of rivers and harbors, conducted by offi
cers of the army, the enormous sum of
$31,391,889 79, and the amount asked
for next year is $40,143,385 65.
By a reduction of the army to 15,000
men, and a corresponding or greater re
duction in the number of officers, a
saving of about $4,500,000 can be made
in the pay and traveling and general ex
penses of the army, and nearly $1,000,-
000 more in the cost of subsistence.
Carrying oat the same ratio, the cost of
the Quartermaster’s Department ought to
be reduced $2,000,000, and the cost of
clothing $500,000. No appropriation
will probably be made for the armament
of fortifications, thus saving $75,000
(the amount asked for for next
year is $1,250,000), and the appro
priations made for 1876, for which no
estimates for next year are made, amount
to $223,917 79. This would reduce the
cost of the military establishment proper
about $8,300,000, or to about $20,000,-
000, instead of $28,500,000, which is its
cost for the present fiscal year. The ex
penses of the War Department can,
doubtless, be reduced to $1,000,000, and
the following items will either be struck
out altogether or very materially re
duced: Armories and arsenals, costing
this year $427,165: fortifications, $815,-
000; surveys for military defenses, $30,-
000; buildings at the Military Academy,
Ac., Ac.
There may be some opposition to a
further reduction of what is already a
skeleton of an army; but the fact that
the government has had troops enough
to keep many companies, and sometimes
whole regiments in the South during po
litical campaigns, will be pointed to as
proof that 10,000 men can yet be spared,
and the army still be large enough for all
necessary uses.
“Jane !” yelled the poet Tennyson to
his housemaid, one bright morning last
September, “I wish you would clear the
hat-rack and lock things up around here;
I expect a party of Americans this after
noon.” And perhaps our people are a
little too much given to gathering souve
nirs.
An Italian paper broadly calls Morton
a “demagego” desirous of keeping up
bad blood between the North and South.
Demagogo—pass the word.
‘‘Pay on Demand. ”
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
Entering a saloon on Larned street
west, the other day, a man laid an old,
spavined fifty cent shinplaster on the
bar, and called for beer.
The bar-tender surveyed the old relic,
turned it over, and replied :
“Dot isn’t so goot as some prown pa
per.”
“Do you go back on the Government
of the United States?” demanded the
stranger.
“There is dot government?”
“Right there, sir. The Government
of the great United States of America
issued that shinplaster and agreed to re
deem it.”
“I never heard about dot,” replied the
bar-tender, pushing the money away.
“ Well, I’ll make yon hear of it mighty
quick if you don’t hand out the beer and
give me my change.”
“ You mean somedings. You start a
row ?”
“ Yes, I mean something. I’ll have the
United States Supreme Court in this bar
room in les’n half an honr, and before
noon I’ll have you poking your nose be
tween iron bars.
“ Vhat I does, eh?”
“ You refuse to take that money.”
“But it ish no goot.”
“ What did you issue it for ?”
“ I didn’t makes no money.”
“Wasn’t that money made by the gov
ernment ?” demanded the stranger. “Who
is the government?” Why, the people,
of coarse; I am part of the government,
you are another part, and so on. I aided
to issue that money, and so did you, and
we promised to redeem it. Now, you
rake in that promise to pay, and give me
my change, or Ill get np the biggest law
suit you ever heard of.”
“Who shall take him of me?” inquired
the bar-tender, as he picked up the
money.
“Any one you offer it to, or he’ll be
liable to a suit for false pretenses. Go
right up to the Post Office with it, demand
silver, and if they won’t exchange yon
can get a lawyer to shut the shop up.”
The man took it and handed out the
change and the beer, and as the stranger
passed oat, he called to his wife and
asked :
“Say, Katrina, what you tinks now ?”
“Some more taxes, Henry.”
“No more daxes, but I am some of der
government, and you are some of der
government, and der baby in der gradle
is a leedle pit of der government, and I
shall get some new gloze and vote for my
self to go to der gommon gouncil !”
A man who had been nearly talked to
dc.ith by loquacious barbers went into a
stop the other day which he had never
patronized before, and handed one of the
artists a card bearing the words “Give
me an easy shave.” Tbe barber motioned
Kim to a chair, and then, taming around,
\rinked at his fellow-laborers, and said :
“Here’s a deaf and dnmb un, boys;
wants an easy shave.” “Well, if you
gash him he can t talk back,” replied one
who was lolling in his chair, waiting for
“next.” “No ; you bet he can’t,” re
turned the first. “An easy shave be
bio wed-’ Why, he’s got bristles on him
like a Texas boar, aud bis skin looks
tougher than a canal mule’s.’’ The boys
laughed, and the operator, who in the
meantime had lathered the man’s face,
indulged in further comments aS he urged
the razor over the facial territory before
him. “What a nose that is,” said he.
“If he should sneeze, where would I be ?
Well, his cheek is harder than a razor-
bone.” “Do you want us to help hold
his nose back while you go over his lips,
Jobnny ?” asked anoth< r of the idle
razor-wielders. “Don’t know but I will
want a little help.” “Be careful and
don’t drop your razor down his ear, or
you’ll lose it,” admonished another.
“What a dirty head he’s got,” observed
Johnny, as he ran his fingers through the
man’s hair. “I say, some of you fellows
write a card, and ask him if he don’t
want a shampoo.” The card was written
and presented to the man, who shook his
head at it, and the job being finished, he
rose from the chair. “It’s all right,
boys,” said he. as he laid down his fifteen
cents. “I didn’t mind your talk any. I
could stand it first rate so long as you
didn’t say a nything about base ball, third
term or the whisky ring frauds.” He
disappeared, and those barbers sat down
and thought about him.—Chicago Times.
Mosby, of Virginia, Wendell Phillips,
of Massachusetts, Sam Bard, of Alaba
ma, Gil Haven, of the Methodist Church,
and Custom House Duganne, of New
York, are the most distinguished advo
cates of the third term. Wendell Phil
lips can attend to the oratorical part of
the business; Sam Bard to the editorial
part of it; Bishop Haven to the ecclesi
astical put of it; and A. J. H. Duganne
to the comic part of it. Bat a poet is
needed for it. All great movements re
quire to be stimulated by the incanta
tions of a poet. None of the men named
is a first-class poet—not even Bard. We
believe Duganne has written poetry, but
his poetical fires have gone out. We
nominate the great obituary poet of
Philadelphia as the proper man to fill
the vacancy. Let G. Washington Childs,
A. M., try his hand at an obituary poem
for the third term.—N. Y. Sun.
Sudden Death from Chlobofobm.—
The wife of the Right Hon. Hugh Child
ers, a prominent liberal and a member of
the Gladstone Cabinet, died very sudden
ly on December 1 st, while visiting at Mr.
Dalgetty’s place, Lockesly Hall, in Hants,
England. Early in the morning Mr.
Childers spoke to his wife, and receiving
no answer he went remnd the bed. She
was lying on the pillo w face downward,
with her head between the pillow and the
side of the bed, and, in her hand was a
four ounce bottle which had contained
chloroform, but was then empty, or near
ly so: a strong smell of chloroform per
vaded the room. A small “drop” glass
and a glass stopper were found under her.
Mr. Childers felt near the heart, and dis
covering no pulsation he called his
daughter and alarmed the house. A phy
sician was at once sent for, but life h«*d
been extinct about two hours. It had
been her custom to keep in her room
small bottle containing eight
or ten drops of chloroform, from which
she would take a sniff, though often for
months together she had no use for it,
and he knew as a matter of fact that she
had none in her room for the last two
months. She dreaded sleeplessness as
totally prostrating her. Mrs. Childers
had brought the bottle of chloroform with
her from the town as a matter of precau
tion, as she would be away till the end of
January. It was in tbe wash-stand drawer
on the Monday night, and he supposed
that, being restless, she got out of bed
got the drop glass and chloroform, ami
the night being bitterly cold, carried them
back to bed, intending to measure the ten
drops. The bottle had a glass stopper,
and she probably went to sleep with the
bottle in her hand, and the heat forcing
the stopper out, the contents flooded the
bed. The physician was of the opinion
that if the bottle had had a cork instead
of a glass stopper, Mrs. Childers would
now have been alive.
The negroes down in Texas may be
pretty good thieves, but they can’t hide
worth a cent. When anything is lost,
strayed or stolen in any locality, all the
detectives have to do is to tAiV seriously
about it to every negro they meet. They
find the right man through his ignorance
and incapacity to take care of himself
It isn’t fair to take this mean advantage
of the untutored mind of the poor Afri
can. A watch was lost at Houston the
other day, and there was no clue whatever
to :ts disappearance. A detective went
round talking to the negroes about the
watch. At last he met a shaky fellow
who was very nervous under search. The
detective told him that he was the man
he wanted, and that the only way to save
himself from immediate lynching by a
mob was to go with him to where he had
buried the watch. Sure enough, he had
buried it at the foot of a tree, and was
very glad to dig it up and stand his
chance of being tried for the theft in the
usual way.
Shingles.
Cypress Shingles,
IJ'HB BEST IN THS MAHKBT, are no. being
■n»4eand lor aaJo from » to 17 per K, at
KITSTONB SHINGLE COHPAirrs MILL, on
til. OuaL foot of WHttam street, Savannah.
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K.