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A LETTER IN RHYME.
Quite recently Mr. John W. Sutlive was
aeg ted to write a New Year’s address for
ibe carriers of the Morning News. From
letter accompanying tho same we make
£e following extract:
j-vnu.: Dear Sir—It is with pleasure
I .-ratify my friends in any measure.
Ueuc«-, in complying with your last request,
If 1 please yon. I please myself the best.
Sac h as it is I hand you the address,
If ba-1 for the waste basket—good, the press—
I've touched but lightly public phiz or fact—
1li tilings require a large amount of tact;
You must know what to hit, who, where and
when,
And get biowed up for being too smart—then.
I ve t «uched Babcock a little, likewise Grant,
And all their friends who will admit they rant.
I've touched but lightly the CentenniaL
The thing's got old—almost bi-ennial,
And after this 'twill be perennial;
if tis not broke twill be brnt-ennial;
1: Grant goes' in 'tis a DeiU-etmial;
dr if the nigger, a seen f-ennial;
To some ’twill be a good (r/if-eunial;
Or otherwise ’twill be penf-ennial;
'Twill be to hash houses rent-ennial;
T„ Philadelphia God-wnf-ennial;
To military folks toit-ennial;
For twaddling gush a big rent-ennial;
To many a purse a sad irenf-ennial;
And, on the whole, a ten ccnt-ennial.
Affairs in tteoreia.
The presence of eggnogg in tho mails has
somewhat delayed the Georgia papers.
Hence tho lack of news in this depart
ment.
The Comptroller General says he regards
Mr. A. J.|Strickland, of Pierce county, as
one of the very best tax-collectors in the
State, and says his insolvent list is the
smallest of any of the counties. The in
solvent list alluded to is only three dollars
and thirty-six cents.
Mr. John McCall, of Liberty county, is
dead.
Mr. Frank Roberson, of Wayne county j
who was recently thrown from his horse
and injurfd. has since died.
An attempt was made in Macon the other
night to assassinate and rob Mr. G. B. Rob
erts.
Macon had a regular April thunderstorm
the other day.
An Augusta lad of unsound mind, named
John Haley, shot young David Callahan m
the head the other day.
A negro man was killed on the Perry
branch road the other day, while attempting
tojamp from the train.
An incendiary fire burned the crib ot Mr.
J. T. Redding, of Monroe county, together
with five hundred bushels of corn, one night
last week.
We regret exceedingly to learn of the
death of Mrs. L. C. Slade, of Eatonton, and
we tender to our old-time friend, her hus
band, our Bincerest sympathy. She was a
most amiable and accomplished lady, and a
devoted wife.
A negro cutting scrape occurred in Macon
on Saturday night.
An inoffensive negro boy was stabbed and
killed on Friday night, in Augusta, by a
white boy. The latter is in jail.
The Augusta Ch) onicle says that on last
Saturday, about three o’clock, as two little
girls, one aged seven and the other four,
children of Mr. John Byrnes, were walking
along the pavement on the south side of
Broad street, between Marbury and McKin-
nie streets, near their father’s store, in that
city, they were attacked by a cow. The ani
mal picked up the oldest child on her horns
and ran out into the street with her. For
tunately, two young men, Messrs. James
Davis and Joseph Brislehan, saw what was
taking place, and immediately running out
into the street, resened the little girl from
the infuriated cow. She was carried into her
mother. It was then discovered that she
had been serionsly injured, the horns of the
cow having inflicted a painful wound on her
person. A plays ician was at once sum
moned and the wound dreesed. She was do
ing very well yesterday afternoon. It is
supposed that the cow was excited by the
noise of fire crackers in the s.reet, as she
always had been a very gentle animal pre
viously. The cow was standing on the
pavement waiting to get into her owner’s
yard when the little girls approached her.
Macon Telegraph: The colored First Bap
tist Church is singularly unhappy in the
way of getting up disturbances. We have
had occasion several times to notice riotous
conduct on the part of its members, and
had hoped that we should have no more of
the same sort. But on Sunday night
another fight occurred inside the church.
The police were summoned and were
promptly on the spot, but the offenders
made their escape through the windows and
the officers did not ascertain who they were.
No arrests have been made. We think the
authorities will soon find it necessary to
station a detachment of police in that
church to suppress riots.
Augusta Constitutionalist : In a modest
dwelling on Reynolds street, we found lying
on & boa, yesterday, an old man in whom
the dame of life was still flickering, bat the
chances appeared to be the poor old man
had not many hours left to spend on this
earth. He was conscious, and gave intelli
gent signs and words to those around him
of his family, who were standing near his
bed. His name is Jacob Whalley, and from
au examination of the records and conver
sation with him, it would appear that he was
born in 1770, which would make him just
one hundred and five years of age. He was
born in Barnwell District, South Carolina,
and until 1858 carried on the active duties of
a farmer. In that year he ca:ne to Augus
ta, and has resided here continuously ever
since. Ho was a soldier in the war of 1812,
and was stationed on Coles Island. His teeth
have been remarkably good. He has used
tobacco and liquors sparingly. For the past
two weeks he has suffered from dropsy, and
for two days has been unable to take any
nourishment.
Florida Affairs.
Swepson is coming to the surface. Wher9
is Littlefield? *
Holland’s eqnity of redemption doesn’t
seem to amount to much.
H. 3. Harmon, the negro who was recently
indicted for forging scrip in Alachua county,
ib writing advisory letters to his race. Har
mon is a bad egg.
Rev. Father Allard, a Catholic priest, for
merly of 8t. Hyacinthe, Canada, ilied in
Key West recently.
Judge Wright, of the Jefferson Academy
at Monticello, pretends to want a bell. We
thought there were belles enough around
Monticello.
Mr. George D. Morris, formerly of Monti-
cello, died in Texas recently.
The municipal election in Monticello
comes off on the 10th of January.
A movement is on foot to organize a Dem
ocratic club in Jacksonville. We trust it
tnay be successful.
A Jacksonville man is the happy recipient
of a postal card from his wife containing
fourteen hundred words and no postscript.
Jacksonville has been indulging in the
luxury that is supposed to lurk in the sport
of bear-baiting.
Tampa wants mail s teamship connection
with Pensacola.
^alls, negro, (declines a renomination to
Congress. Walls evidently wants to take
time by the fetlock.
McLin, ot the Sentinel, who deserted from
the Confederate army, and who was beaten
in the streets of Tallahassee by Judge
Cocke,
18 engaged in slinging some very
■choice epithets at the Morning News,
J - H - E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
^ Captain John Padget, of Jackson county,
F •• Throngh Mr. Geo.
* J r of Sanford, we haTe received a
to n B r\ r , l0 o f Pinea PP le ' kin <31J presented
b ' V Mr - Bosley, of Orange county. This
ruit has attracted much attention in the
city. We are informed that Mr. Bosley has
thlB ? e&r weighing eight pounds,
Fat^hVt v, 6 V° W PrCparill K some for the
‘ . ha8 three apples on one stalk.
I alatka is pining for a tinner.
r T hG „ Florida A aricntturist sayB that the
Lake George, Eustis and Gulf Railroad, to
connect the interior of Sumter county with
Lake George, on the St. John’s river,
is steadily progressing. Major Drake
has succeeded in procuring a number
of convicts from the penitentiary, who are
now working on it. This line 'will open
some of the best lands in the State, which
are fast filling up with a fine class of immi
grants. It will bring the lake region of that
and Orange county within twenty-fonj
hours’ communication with Jacksonville,
whereas at present it takes three days. A
large number of orange groves in that sec
tion are now coming into bearing, jujd an
outlet like this is much required. We re
commend this line to the notioe of capital
ists as one that must eventually turn out
profitable. Large tracts of State lands can
be bought in this region at one dollar per
acre, which will be worth from ten dollars
to twenty-five dollars per acre as soon as
the road is completed. Now is the time for
wealthy men to take hold and make it a
success. The present managers are enter
prising, intelligent men, and will not flinch
from what they have begun. Still, they re
quire help, which we would gladly see ex-
tended them.
Joey Brown was in Palatka the other day.
Captain Edward Dexter was drowned at
Key West the other day.
It is estimated that the imports of Key
West for the last two months amount to
$23o,000. The exports for the same period
amount to $2G1,000.
The Palatka Herald says that a gentle
man who has no land interest on the upper
lakes says that tho lands on Lake Harris
are the best that he has seen in East Flor
ida. The scenery is unusually beautiful and
attractive. FroBt seldom, if ever, injures
the sugar cane ; it tassels, and grows fifteen
feet in height. Lake Harris connects with
Lakes Griffin and Hustu». The timber
around the lakes is tall and stately. Fine
fish in abundance abound in their waters.
The section is healthy and is rapidly filling
up with new settlers, and will in a few years
become one of the most interesting settle
ments in the country.
Tourists to Florida should remember that
pickpockets travel on the cars the same as
other people.
Robberies are not at all infrequent in Kev
West.
Five young ladies of Key West took the
black veil the other day.
Stearns has been hopping around Jack
sonville lately.
General Sanford has just returned from
Europe.
The Key West Dispatch (Rad.) thinks the
Jacksonville Union won’t work with Cheney
behind the curtain.
The Democratic Executive Commit
tee of Jefferson county met the
other day and passed reso
lutions to the effect that the State Execu
tive Committee call a convention of the
Democracy of the State at an early day, for
the purpose of a thorough reorganization
of the party, the selection of delegates to
the National Nominating Convention, and
the nomination of candidates for State
officers; and that the State Convention
should be held sufficiently e&rlj in 187G to
enable the nominees of the party to thor
oughly canvass every county in tho State.
Under the head of “Stearns and Grant,”
the Jacksonville Press says : “There is one
striking point of similarity between the two
great men above mentioned, and that is the
pertinacity with which they cling to their
favorites and boot-licks. Nothing can shake
Grant’s confidence in the honesty of the
crooked whisky General Babcock, and noth
ing can weaken the faith entertained by
Stearns in the integrity of LeCain, of Ocala,
the man of many indictments. We have
been informed that a petition for his remo
val, numerously signed by the leading citi
zens of Marion countv, of both parties, sent
to the Governor, has been totally unnoticed.
Sell-ns possesses the one virtue of adher
ence to his henchmen. He is, however, ex
ceedingly unfortunate in bis selection of
subordinates.
MonticeUo Constitution: There are so
many rich specimens of absurdity and ras
cality commingled in the courts of our Con-
go-Dogberrys, under the Radical adminis
tration of the laws in Florida, that we let
most of them pass without notice, but now
and then we cannot resist the temptation to
baud some of them down to posterity
through our columns. One of the despised
class of poor white men, utterly beneath the
notice of his magisterial dignity, owned a
E air of steers that a distinguished “justice”
ad long cast his covetous eyes upon.
We say distinguished, for many of his
former acts have been given by us to the
world, and excited laughter and indigna
tion, and as an endorsement of them he has
recently been reappointed to office by the
Governor. The young man was charged
with the commission of a crime, and upon
an examination was released upon his
personal bond. Some time afterwards he
was notified by the Squire aforesaid that
the Governor had sent down word that the
bond must be settled np, and if the young
man did not have the money, the Squire
would take the steers, make the matter all
right, and the case would never be beard of
again. The young man objected, but was
told that resistance would be useless, and
that an attachment would be made upon
tbe steers next day if they were not sur
rendered. The animals now graze in the
Squire’s pasture 1
Jackson vide Press: The opinion of the
Supreme Court of the United States in the
railroad case has just come to hand. We
find it in the Floridian. The court stops
the sale of the road by Anderson & Co., and
tho other Pensacola and Georgia bondhold
ers, under the decree which they got in the
United States Circuit Court. The court
decides that the trustees of the Internal
Improvement Fund have the right to sell
tbe road, under the decree which they have
got in Duval Circuit Court, to collect tbe
balance due on the sale of tbe road in 18G9.
(This amount is -about $600,000.) That
the trustees are not bound to pay the
money to be raised by the sale to the
bondholders, but may invest it in other
bonds named in the law. This is an open
ing for fine pickings by the Radical carpet
bag ring. The court further decides that as
the State Supreme Judges advised Governor
Reed that the law which authorized the
bonds was not contrary to the constitution,
such opinion must be regarded as con
clusive, unless (the case which is now be
fore the State Supreme Court has this point
in it) the State Supreme Court otherwise
decides. Holland is left out in the cold; his
title is not treated as having any force
against the State. He is also enjoined from
asserting possession, etc. The right of the
State to get the road put in possession of
somebody for its security is also provided,
and when the proper officer or person comes,
the court says it will order its Receiver to
turn over th*e property.
Valedictory address of Col. B. F. Wardlaw,
retiring Master of the Florida State Grange,
Patrons of Husbandry : Worthy Patrons of
the Florida State Grange—My term of office
expires with this session of the Grange. I
am about to vacate the Master’s chair for
my successor, a position which I have held
for the past two years with mingled feelings
of pleasure and pain. With pleasure—in
the proud consciousness that I have been
engaged in so noble a cause ; pained—that
though I have labored faithfully and fear-
lesslv without allowing myself to be swerv
ed in «be slightest degree from duty by
any influence whatever, though I have
fallen far short of accomplishing what
might have been done by one more expe
rienced. But I did my utmost. My whole
soul has been interested in the cause, and
though I may have committed many errors,
peraaventure (for who would not?) they
have been errors of the head and not of the
heart. My earnest desire is that I may be
followed dj one far more competent, and
who will be fcuch more successful in hurry
ing on the graLd and glorious results which
await our noble order. In thus taking leave
of mv brothers atff sisters, I caimot find
words to express the gratitude of my heart,
the thanks for their w»r m and cordial sup
port their kind indulgeLce, their charitable
forbearance, as well as tfeir generous aid
in aU my feeble efforts. To those who have
so warmly solicited me, both ku person and
bv letter, to permit my name to be used for
re y -elecUon. f thank them kkdly, and
though I most respectfully decline vas I do
not desire the honor,) s’ill I am notAtbe
fess under obligations to my friend* -for
their kind approval and distinguished copL
BV TELEGRAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
OBSTRUCTIVE FIRE.
SEVERAL BUILDINGS BURNED AT
JASPER. FLA.
Terrillc Powder Explosions.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News,]
Jasper, Fla., via Live Oak, December 28.
A terrible fire has broken out here, origi
nating in J. F. Sherwood & Son’s pack-
room. The building i3 entirely destroyed.
A part of the stock is saved, and all is in
sured. The next building, tbe property of
W. S. Rice, and the office of W. F.
Staten is also destroyed. The next to
go was file building of W. S.
Rice, and tbe store occupied by
E. R. Smith. The house is entirely destroy
ed, bpt the goods arq partly saved. JTiie
next was the store of Mrs. Z. Hately, occu
pied by W. R. Yates. The building entirely
destroyed but the goods mostly saved. No
one was insured except Sherwood. The
building occupied by him was tho property
of J. L. Smith, which is also insured. The
powder explosions were terrific, but no one
was hurt.
Noon Telegrams.
THE CHICAGO WHISKY FRAUDS.
How the Government Compromises
with Criminals.
A FEMALE PERJURER IN JAIL.
FRANK
MOULTON STILL
BEECHER.
Cuba and the Foreign Power*.
CUBA AND THE FOREIGN POWERS.
New Yobk, December 28.—A special to
tbe Herabl from London says : Officials in
Madrid having refused to forward the fol
lowing dispatch, it was transmitted to this
city through another source: “There
are indications of the near advent of
serious diplomatic complications. There
is a strango rumor afloat in trustworthy
quarters which alleges the near advent of
European intervention in Cuba. The na
tions which may coalesce for this purpose
are not named. The United States Govern
ment is probably forewarned of the fact, as
1 am assured that lengthy dispatches iD
cypher are passing between Madrid and
Washington.”
SPANISH NOTES.
London, December 28.—Tho Times gives
prominence to the following : “We are glad
to be able to corroborate the contradiction
of the statement that Spain has violated the
obligation of neutrality by enlisting Italians
for tbe army of Cuba.”
A Paris dispatch says that Queen Isabella
has the measles.
A Madrid dispatch confirms tho death of
Derodas.
The army from Catalonia, numbering 40,-
000, has arrived at Navarre.
LOUISIANA LOTTERY.
New Orleans, December 28.—The golden
drawing of the Louisiana Lottery took place
yesterday. Tho following numbers drew
the principal prizes : 582 won one hundred
thousand dollars; 16,709, fifty thousand dol
lars; 2,249, twenty thousand dollars; 11,105,
ten thousand dollars: 3,918 and 18,408 each
drew five thousand dollars, and the follow
ing twenty-five hundred dollars each : 768,
1,898, 6,004, 11,470.
STEAMBOAT SUNK.
Memphis, December 28.—The Minneola
from Cincinnati hither struck a hidden ob
struction forty miles above here and filled
and turned over in five minutes. Twelve
cabin and ten deck passengers were saved
by life-boats and by clinging to the wreck.
All bauds were saved. Tbe boat is a total
loss.
A PERJURER.
Utica, December 28.—Mary Davis, upon
whoso evidence ILoderra Freedenburg and
her son were condemned to death Decem
ber 31st, for murdering an aged cripple,
confesses that she swore falsely at the trial.
She and her grandmother, Mrs. Freeden
burg, have been committed for murder.
THE WHISKY SWINDLERS.
Chicago, December 28.—The Times has
information that District Attorney Bangs
has received instructions from Washington
to allow all parties under indictment here
for defrauding the government to plead
guilty and to insure their immunity from
the poniteutiary.
THE POPE’S NAME DAY.
Rome, December 28.—Yesterday being the
Pope’s Name Day, there was a series of re
ceptions at the Vatican. The members of
ihe Papal staff and their commanding of
ficers received the Pontifical benediction
kneeling.
BEECHER’S DOOM.
New York, December 28 Frank Moulton
has instituted suit against Henry Ward
Beecher for S50,000 damages. The com
plaints set forth malicious prosecution. Mrs.
Tilton will be a witness in the case.
A CANARD.
San Francisco, December 28.—News from
San Diego says that the reported revolution
at San Rafael is a canard.
dead.
Richmond, Va., December 28.—Lewis D.
Crenshaw is dead, aged 58.
Evening Telegrams.
OLD HUMBUG HAVES'.
TERRIBLE TORNADO
THOMAS.
IN ST.
CAPITAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Killed by a Catamount.
A correspondent describes the terrible
fate of Jackson Frailey, a veteran old
Pennsylvania hunter, who started out from
Martinsville on Wednesday of last week
with two comrades on a hunting expedi
tion. The Welch Mountain in the vi
cinity is heavily timbered and surrounded
by great swamps and ravines, in which
bears, catamounts and other wild animals
are plenty. The hunters did not return
on Wednesday night, nor was anything
heard of them the next night, and their
friends determined to dispatch searchers
to find them. On Friday morning twenty
stalwart woodsmen started to search for
the missing men. At about 10 o’clock
the body of Frailey was found nearly
covered up in a snow drift near the foot of
the mountain. His clothing was torn off
from his throat to his knees, and his face,
neck, breast and abdomen were terribly
lacerated, seemingly by the claws or
teeth of a wild animal. Nothing further
was found until the party reached
Tamarack swamp. While going about
the swamp one of the men found Frailey’s
rifle standing against a tree. Both barrels
were empty. A short distance to the
right, in a hollow, was the body of an
enormous catamount. It was covered
with wounds, one beiDg made by a rifle
ball, and the rest plainly by a knife.
The snow having been scraped away
about the tree against which the rifle
stood, the hunter’s knife, a long clasp
knife with a buckhorn handle, and pieces
of his clothing were found. It was evi
dent that there had been a fearful strug
gle, for the ground was covered with
blood for several feet around, and the un
derbrush was bloody and broken. The
search was resumed, and the other two
missing hunters were at last discovered
alive and well, though they knew nothing
of the fate of Frailey until now, he hav
ing separated from them on the first day
out. Frailey was known throughout
Pennsylvania as the Nimrod of the State.
He has followed hunting and trapping for
thirty years, and had killed over 2,000
deer, 243 bears, 25 catamounts, 3 panth
ers and unnumbered wolves and foxes.
rilimeuta but to all I distinctly and moat. he as ked. ‘I am,’ replied tl
unequivocally say I c,mid not accept ^though v WeUj s j r , I object to the ruling,
unanimoufllyre-elected. Then, once again
nermit me to tender my most cordial and
iuLrtfelt acknowledgments, with an earnest
desire for our future continued prosperity.
A Michigan Court Incident.—The
Adrian (Mich.) Times relates this story :
‘A dramatic incident occurred in Justice
Steams’ office this afternoon during a de
lay in a suit. A well known bibulous in
dividual, with a professional appellation,
was giving the Justice his ideas of what
a court should be, and the court ordered
Officer Kimball to remove him from the
room. He didn’t propose to go, until he
saw the officer start, and then he went out
and yelled through the glass window,
asking if the court was mad. He went
down stairs and returned in about two
minutes, when Justice Steams again or
dered him out, ‘Are you ruling here ?’
the court
and you
eft*'t throw me out of this court,’ he
yelled, as he started down stairs, on see
ing tie officer coming for him.”
A New Orleans Editor Shot and In
stantly Killed.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, December 28.—The amount
of additional national bank notes issued
since November 1st, is $1,761,280, and the
total amount since the act of July 14th, 1874,
$12,715,975.
Ex-Governor Newell, of New Jersey, Pres
ident of the National Council of the Union
League of America, has issued a notice
countermanding the meeting ordered to be
held in Philadelphia next month, and con
vening the sub-committees at the Astor
House, in New York, on Thursday, January
6th. at noon.
There was no meeting of the Cabinet to
day, and unless something special occurs
there will be none this week.
The retirement of $644,550 of legal tenders
is ordered ou account of tbe national bank
circulation usual during tbe month. The
outstanding legal tenders is now nearly
$372,000,000.
Theodore M. Yale will succeed Colonel
Bangs as Superintendent of the Railroad
Mail Service. ’ Bangs’ resignation takes ef
fect in February.
The general postal union treaty is going
into operation in France on the first of Janu
ary next. Tho post union rates of five cents
per half ounce on letters, two cents for pos
tal cards, two cents for newspapers, nacn, if
not exceeding four ounces, and two cents
per two ounces for other printed matter and
patterns of merchandise, will take effect on
the date named, for correspondence from
the United States addressed to France and Al
geria, and also for correspondence addressed
to Spain, including the Balearic Isles, the
Canary Islands, tho Spanish Possessions on
the northern coast of Africa, and the postal
establishments of Spain upon the western
coast of Morocco. The postal union terri
tory will then include the whole of Europe
without exception, together with Asiatic
Russia, Asiatic Turkey, and Egypt, and of
course the United States also.
Zaulo Poole, the child acrobat, has been
taken from the custody of his brothers and
placed in that of Mr. Gatcha, President of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, until a suitable borne can be pro
vided.
The Post Office Department has received
the following cable from the British Post
master General: “Money orders advised on
lists from the United States largely exceed
the usual amount. Please remit £30,000 on
account.”
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, December 28.—Probabili
ties: For the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
continued northwest to southeast winds,
falling barometer, warmer, cloudy and
rainy weather.
For Tennessee and Ohio, falling barome
ter, southeast winds, warmer, cloudy weath
er and light rain or snow.
For the lower lakes, Middle and Eastern
States, falling barometer, northeast to
southeast winds, warmer, partly cloudy and
rainy or foggy weather.
For the canal region, from New Jersey to
Virginia, temperatures remain above freez
ing.
The lower Ohio river and tho Mississippi
will coutine rising.
HUMBUG HAVEN.
Cincinnati, December 28.—The regular
weekly meeting of the Methodist preachers
considered the Bishop Haven matter. One
of the first resolutions offered was one de
clining to express an opinion on tho third
term, and deploring Haven’s course. An
other set, expressing amazement and alarm
over such small matters, and denying Ha
ven’s right to speak for the whole church,
and utterly opposing any connection of
Church and State, were also presented.
There was a lively discussion, and finally
the whole matter* was laid on the table,
which is probably the end of the affair here.
CANADIAN NOTES.
London, Ont., December 28.—The Cham
ber of Commerce passed a resolution recom
mending the adoption by the government
of policy incidentals protection as the most
beneficial for the country under present cir
cumstances ; also for the renewal of recipro
cal trade relations with the United States.
St. Cathebine, Ont., December 28.—The
Italians at St. David’s,whom the contractors
brought out to work on the canals, have
joined the Stone Cutter’s Association and
refuse to work until the scale of prices is
accepted by the contractors.
AUDITOB THAYER.
Albany,N.Y.,December 28.—Tbe Board of
Commissioners of the Canal Fund adopted
a requisition upon the Governor to suspend
Francis S. Thayer, Auditor of tho Canal
Department, and to appoint a suitable per
son to perform the duties thereof if it shall
appear to him that Thayer has violated his
duty in regard to the public monies.
FROM PENANG.
London, December 28.—A special from
Penang to the Times says the English now
bold all tbe important points in the neigh
borhood. The Maharajah Lela has taken
refuge in Siamese territory, and tho British
power is supreme. Only the murderers of
Mr. Birch are m arms.
THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Montgomery, December 28.—The Ala
bama Legislature met to-day. The Govern
or’s message is devoted entirely to matters
of State interest. He makes no reference
to national affairs. A report from the com
missioners to settle the State debt will be
made in a few days.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Montpelier, December 28.—A train on
the Vermont Central Railroad, running
thirty miles an hour, was thrown from the
track at Middlesex by a broken rail, and two
Pullman cars and another car were thrown
down an embankment fifteen or twenty feet.
The wreck was very general, and several
were seriously hurt, but none were killed.
FROM ST. THOMAS.
St. Thomas, December 16.—The Dutch
war steamer Princess Mario arrived on the
12th and left next morning for Cur&coa.
It is rumored that questions between Hol
land and Venezuela will be settled diplo
matically.
legislator killed.
New Orleans, December 28.—E. L. Pier
son, a member of the Legislature from
Natchitoches, was shot and instantly killed
on Sunday by Mr. Cosgrove, editor of the
Vindicator: The difficulty grew out of the
abuse of Pierson by Cosgrove in his paper.
TERRIBLE HURRICANE.
Madrid, December 28.—There was a
dreadful hurricane on the Philippine Islands
on the 30th of November. Two hundred
and fifty lives were lost and 3,800 dwellings
destroyed. Many cattle perished, and the
crops are ruined.
arrested.
St. Paul, Minn., December 28.—Jonas F.
Brown has been arrested, and had a stock
of $35,000 at Minneopolis seized for failure
to make returns and pay the special tax as
rectifier.
tweed’s bail.
New Yobk, December 28.—Judge Dono
hue decides that the recognizance of
Tweed s bail on the seven recent indict
ments for felony are forfeited.
tweed.
Quebec, December 28.—Two detectives
were on the track of a person whom they
believe to be Tweed. They were obliged to
abandon the chase for want of funds.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
Si $—Eight Hundred Thousand Pound*
Dead Weight on Florida—Introducing
.Hr. Swcpson With Ili* Little First
.Mortgage—A Perilous Voyage—Story of
a Hundred Dollars—Playing With Fire—
Amusements on Christmas—Impediments
to Navigation-^!lood as Far as it Goes—
Marine.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, December 27, 1875.
VOL AN S LIQUID IS IN NUBIBUS.
Savonarola thundering forth in the
streets of Florence the invective against
tyranny, “If men will be thieves let them
be honest thieves,” strikes us at first blush
as uttering a solecism of the widest pro
portions. But the tumultuous reformer
merely intended to make a distinction be
tween that species of villainy which daz
zles us by its very boldness and the ras
cality which takes refuge behind a trans
parent mask of rectitude. The Louisana
scalawags of 1866-70 were an instance of
the former. They were consummate
robbers but they never^rofessed to be
anything else. The facts outlined below
will at least indicate some representatives
of the latter class, who, while endeavor
ing to conceal themselves under a veil of
integrity, are deeper in the abysm of ir
redeemable unrighteousness than their
more courageous contemporaries. When -
Dibble and associates controlled the J. P.
«fc M. Railroad, an inscrutable fusion
was accomplished between the inter
ests represented by Dibble and the
antagonistic claims of Swepson and
his compeers. It was always a mat
ter of wonder why Swepson, with
his six or seven hundred thousand dollars
in P. and G. bonds coalesced with the
other side. The consolidation having
been effected a charter was obtained for
the Tallahassee and Chattahoochee end
of the railroad, and all the surroundings
appeared as smooth and unbroken as
jujube paste or a reconciliation of lovers.
Time flew on apace; the four mil
lion bond bill was passed and
anon came an avalanche of suits
and counter suits, terminating
in a quasi victory for the State
with the recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court, and eventuating
in a debt of four millions to be liquidated
by the denizens of this peninsula. The
debt is a hard, relentless fact—a certain
ty. How about the road ? The astound
ing truth is gradually disclosing itself
that Dibble and associates executed to
Swepson as the price of his support, a
first mortgage bond for twelve hundred
thousand dollars on all that portion of
the road lying west of Lake City, and
that by virtue of the lien thus secretly
created, Swepson—we beg pardon—Mr.
Swepson is the virtual owner of the cor
poration and its franchises. The exist
ence of this document has never been
widely known, and with the full knowl
edge of its force and validity liisbee,
Steams, Cheeky Chinny and other
rogues give the State a fraudulent
first mortgage for four millions,
and succeed in fastening the load
upon the people. The lien of Swepson
is entitled to priority, and if there is any
penitentiary within the confines of this
great Republic, Randall and his fellows
should be entitled to it. Property owners
in this province will be compelled to pay
the four millions; Swepson will reap the
benefit from the road. A few of the
Radicals hoped that Swepson would for
get all about his ownership, and are
groaning because there is no likelihood
of his making a fool of himself by doing
anything of the sort. The rotund wire
puller, Conant, will fail to realize an ex
pected fortune from a finger in the pie.
Off with your hats, gentlemen; hail to
Swepson—Mr. Swepson.
THE SCHOONER FLORIDA.
This vessel is, at the present writing,
engaged in discharging her cargo as rap
idly as possible. The hay in the hold is
found to be entirely ruined, and almost
the whole load of lime is in a badly dam
aged condition. The fire has not been
completely smothered out as
hoped, but is still burning in differ
ent portions of the hold. The position
of the crew at sea during ten days of
travel and suspense was terrible in the
extreme. The combustion below gen
erated such an intense degree of heat
that the sailors were unable to rest even
upon the hatches. In laboring to remove
seme of the valuables from the cabin tbe
sulphurious fumes which belched forth
therefrom necessitated the greatest speed
to prevent suffocation, and frequenly a
sailor fell almost insensible on the
deck upon coming out of the cabin. They
were compelled to leave the schooner’s
nautical instruments below and mark out
a route upon the trackless deep to Florida
without any of the usual apparatus or
guides, and sighted land in the vicinity
of St. Augustine. Every interstice from
which smoke was discovered to be issuing
was promptly sealed hermetically, as it
were, with a kind of putty prepared with
lime, and the Captain deserves the most
unstinted praise for not abandoning the
Florida to her, at that time, probable fate.
REMOVAL OF OBSTRUCTIONS.
It is gratifying to notice that the
Council is disposed to allow no barriers
to exist on the streets that may inconve
nience pedestrians or conflict with the
right of way which belongs alike to citi
zens and visitors. Actuated by this spirit
the authorities have ordered the imme
diate removed of the obstructions at the
foot of Hogan street, embracing a
fence and one-story warehouse. This
will improve the outlook in that quarter
of the city, and afford a desirable avenue
to the river. Open the balance of the
thoroughfares, gentlemen, for instance
Ocean and Newnan streets. It will entail
the expenditure of a few dollars, but the
outlay will be returned tenfold.
LAKE HARNEY AND TITUSVILLE RAILROAD.
Messrs. Pathen and Fox, two veteran
railroad men of the North, have just in
spected the above projected enterprise
and report themselves to your corre
spondent as being favorably impressed
with the feasibility and advantages of the
prospective line.
THE STEAMER LIZZIE BAKEE.
The wrecking steamer B. J. Baker
reached this port on Saturday, and will
proceed at once to the bar for tbe pur
pose of raising the Lizzie Baker, of which
there are some hopes of success.
HOLIDAY RECREATION.
Under the auspices of the St. Augus
tine Yacht Club the Indian prisoners will,
on Wednesday next, effervesce in a buffalo
hunt, war dance, etc. A yacht race will
be one of the features of the day. The
steamer Hampton will make excursion
rates to St. Augustine and back.
NEWS AGENCY.
Mr. D. E. Roselle has secured the news
agency of the Atlantic and Gulf and Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroads
between Savannah and Jacksonville, thus
enabling passengers to get the Morning
News and Northern papers on all trains
either way.
behind time.
The mail due here at 7:45 a. m. ap
pears to be fated to delay. On two
occasions last week it was an hour and
fifteen minutes in arrears of the schedule.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrivals tor week ending this day-
steamer B. J. Baker, Norfolk ; schooners
Louisia Smith, New York; Florida, Bel
fast, Maine ; Mary McCann, Porto Rico
Nellie Trim, Martinique ; H. A. DeWitt,
Havana. Departures—Brig Charles A.
Bovey, Havana; schooners James K.
Lawrence, Puerto Cabelio: Frank A.
Magee, Demerara; Belle Russell, Phila
delphia; Annie P. Chase, Katie Ranger
and Wm. H. Phare, New York.
Adbianus.
THE
RAILROAD WAR IN THE
NORTH.
deduction of Rates to Western Points—
Excitement Among Shippers.
[From the New Y ork Commercial Advertiser of
December 22d.]
The sudden reduction of the rates on
freights from this city to the West,which
went into effect this morning, has caused
some excitement among shippers, whose
clerks were this morning to be seen trav
eling from one fast freight office to
another, along Broadway, for the pur
pose of .ascertaining the tariff of rates to
the various points in the West. Those
who held contracts were anxious to know
whether the reduced rates would apply to
them, or if they would be compelled to
pay the rates as specified in their con
tracts. On this question the freight
agents were not able to give any definite
answer; but one thing they positively
declined to do, and that was to make any
contracts by the tariff that is now in
force. One freight agent said that he did
not believe that the reduction of the tar
iff would increase the transfer of freight
by one thousand tons during the season ;
but he thought that the merchants of
New York would now be satisfied that
the railroad companies leading out of
New York were willing to protect the
mercantile interests of this city. The
following is the new freight rate sched
ule :
The following story is told of a mem
ber of Parliament who, wishing to con
ciliate an old neighbor, a voter, sent him
a pineapple from his hot-house. “I hope
you liked it,” he said to the old man,
when he met him a few days afterward.
“Well, yes, thankee, pretty well. But I
suppose we sort of people ar9 not used
to them fine things and don’t know how
to eat ’em.” “ How did you eat it, then ?”
asked the M. P. 11 Well,” said the man,
“we boiled ’em.” “Boiled it!” sighed
the M. P., thinking of his pineapple.
“ Yes, we boiled ’em with a leg of mut
ton.”
A Son Beats His Father.—John Vogel,
a lad of eighteen years, residing on Kos
suth street, Union Hill, N. J., peddled
goods for his father and realized §15.
Instead of handiug over the money he
got terribly drunk, and when he arrived
home insulted his father, and said he
intended to keep the money, as he had
earned it. The father remonstrated,
whereupon the young brute gave him a
severe thrashing, and then fled from his
home. The police have not been able to
arrest him.
“What can you say of the second law
of thought?” Student: “It cannot both
be and not be. For example, the door
over there must be either shut or open.
It can’t be both shut and open.” Tutor:
“Give another illustration.” Student:
“Well, take the case of another door.”
BIDDING FOB VOTES.
There is undoubtedly something rotten
appertaining to the management of the
affairs of the extinct institution, the
Freedman's Bank. An influential depos
itor to the extent of one hundred and
thirteen dollars, of the yellow persuasion,
who resides within a short distance of
this city, has recently had cause to con
gratulate himself over his good fortune.
His ideas in regard to the Freed
man’s Bank are speedily becoming
as pretty as a sunny Christmas day
in consequence of the kind treatment he
has received at the hands of the com -
missioners. A check for one hundred
dollars on his deposit of one hundred and
thirteen is not exactly fair to the other
creditors, but it is precisely the amount
paid the colored politician now under
consideration. Affidavits and witnesses
are accessible when required.
HOW FAIR, AND YET 80 FOUL.
A considerable number of gratuitous
sports were announced for Saturday at
the Moncrief Race Course. There was to
be a vast deal of amusement at a very
trifling expense, and a crowd of expectant
pleasure seekers assembled at the
rendezvous at the appointed hour only
to be requested to contribute an
admission fee, which was not men
tioned in the bills. The entertain
ment, for some unexplained reason
lagged, and the audience experienced
the pungency and poignancy of that
glittering line, “the waiting time my
brother is the hardest time of all.” They
continued to look for the fun until nearly
dark and then disgusted and vexed dis
persed one by one. The originator of
this swindle accumulated about seventy-
five dollars of other people’s money
which should be forthwith thrashed out
of him.
INCIDENTS OF CHRISTMAS.
Without expatiating upon the fact that
it can be substantiated by indisputable
chronological data that the Redeemer was
born at Bethlehem over eighteen hun
dred and eighty-one years ago, we will
agree that Christmas of 1875 was as fair
as a snowy rose-bud in a maiden’s tresses.
The hour was diversified by several mini
ature wars and the ordinary number of
petty disturbers, but on the whole the
time passed pleasantly and merrily away.
Some of the establishments on Bay
street were neatly decorated with
rustic devices and presented a re
freshing appearance. Midnight mass
was held at the Catholic Temple and
largely attended. The scholars of the
various Sunday schools indulged in the
time-honored Christmas tree, and all over
the city the spirit of enjoyment held sway.
The steamer Hampton was handsomely
adorned, and her officers performed the
agreeable at every landing on the river in
right royal style. In the morning a two-
oared boat race occurred between the Ka
tie, Hanson, Hayes and Thorne, starting
from the railroad wharf to one mile buoy
and return, resulting in a victory for the
Thorne in seventeen minutes.
The Indiana prison for females con
tains some remarkable criminals, accord
ing to a correspondent who has lately
made a tour of the institution. One of
the most notable of the inmates is Mrs
Fannie Morris, who has been an opium
eater for twenty years. Before being
sentenced to jail she sold everything in
her house for opium. Even the bread
upon the table, the feathers in her pillow,
and the very clothing upon her back were
sacrificed. Her husband was compelled
to abandon her and take the children
with him. When all was gone she began
to steal articles of clothing and sell them.
So terrible was her appetite that for two
weeks prior to her arrest for grand lar
ceny she swallowed one hundred grains
of opium per day, which far exceeds
any of De Quincey’s exploits
this direction. Mrs. Morris is now in
good health, but the wrinkled, shrivelled
features, the sunken eyes and the shat
tered mind show how thoroughly disease
got in its work. She has been well
educated, and in her youth was very,
pretty. Among the life-prisoners are
several, the history of whose crimes is
horribly fascinating. One of these is
Aunt Sallie Hubbard, better known as
“the Wabash murderess.” Seventeen
years ago, while she and her husband were
living alone in a retired part of Wabash
county, a man, accompanied by his wife
and three children, asked permission to
sleep under their roof for one night.
They had come from Canada, and were
going to Illinois. They were strangers in
Indiana, and, in passing through the vari
ous towns along their way, had made
few acquaintances. On the strength of
these representations the little family was
taken iD, and exhausted by the day’s
journey they retired at an early hour. It
was their last sleep. Eager to obtain
large sum of money which the old man
had inadvertantly exposed, Hubbard and
his wife cut their throats and buried
them in one grave under the floor of the
cabin. Several weeks afterwards the
bodies of their victims were discovered,
and Hubbard expiated his guilt on the
gallows. Aunt Sallie was sent to the
penitentiary for life. She :s now an old
woman, 70 years of age and upwards, but
at no time has she confessed her guilt.
Her Bible is her constant com
panion, and leisure hours are
spent in exhorting new comers to
lead a different life. Mary Longmaker, a
life-prisoner, has looked through grated
windows for thirteen years. She poison
ed her husband with tartar-emetic. Mary
Adams is another husband poisoner, and
although the evidence against her is most
convincing, she firmly adheres to her
plea of “not guilty.” The most singular
case, perhaps, is that of Mary Jane Hawk.
She was riding with a young fellow who
had been paying her some attention,
when the latter, discovering that he was
pursued, leaped from the carriage
and concealed himself in a neighbor
ing wood, leaving the girl in possession
of the team. When the pursuers came
up with her, Mary Jane was informed
that the horse and carriage had been
stolen, and unless she revealed the name
and hiding place of the young man she
would be held as the thief. This she
stoutly refused to do, and, as evidence of
her pluck and affection, submitted to live
a term of years in the penitentiary. She
is not over “sweet sixteen,” and seems to
have more than ordinary intelligence.
There are at present 143 inmates in the
institution, and everything about them is
as clean and cheerful as in a private res
idence. Indeed, except when the grated
doors in the prison wing are in sight, one
would hardly suspect be was in a prison.
Population of India.—According to
the last census, British India had a popu
lation of 190,563,048, distributed over an
area of 904,049 square miles, or 211 per
square mile. There being, however,
much jungle and waste land in some
parts, the population is in reality much
denser, Bengal counting 397, the North
west Provinces 430, and Oudh 468 to
the square mile. Including the States
governed by native Princes, India has
1,450,744 square miles, with a total
population of 238,830,953 souls. Of the
population of British India 140,000,000
are Hindoos, 40,000,000 Mahommedans,
and 9,000,000 Christians, Parsees, Bud
dhists, etc. The Christians number 900,-
000, of whom 250,000 are Europeans or
of European descent. There are 26
languages spoken in Hindostan. As re
gards occupations, India counts 1,236,000
government servants; 629,000 are em
ployed in religious and hospital service;
there are 30,000 fanatics and fakirs, 10,-
000 astronomers, 5 conjurors, 465 exer
cisers and 189,000 persons devoted to
education, science and literature, 518 of
whom are poets; 33,000 are employed in
the courts of justice, 73,000 are doctors
and 218,000 are professors of fine arts,
which include rope dancers, snake charm
ers, etc.
CITIES.
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Fourth Class. |
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Chicago, III
30
25
20
20
13
Cincinnati, Ohio
30
25
20
20
15
Cairo, Ill
3a
32
26
26
19
Columbus, Ohio
34)
25
20
20
15
Dayton, Ohio
30
25
20
20
15
Evansville, lnd
40
39
32
30
23
Fort Wayne, Iud
30
25
20
20
15
Grand Rapids, Mi2h
30
25
20
20
15
Indianapolis, lnd
30
25
20
20
15
Keokuk, Iowa
65
55
45
40
;;3
Kansas City, Mo
I u
S5
62
55
40
Kalamazoo, Mich
30
25
20
20
15
Louisville, Ky
39
34
28
26
23
Logan.oport, lnd
Lafayette, lnd
39
30
25
25
20
20
20
20
15
Milwaukee, Wis
30
25
20
20
15
Memphis, Tenn
73
63
52
45
37
Nashville, Tenn
56
4S
39
36
30
Newark, Ohio
30
25
20
20
15
Pittsburg, Pa /.
Peoria, Ill
30
25
20
20
15
60
50
41
37
23
Quincy, 11]
65
55
45
40
33
Richmond, lnd
34*
25
20
20
15
St. Louis, Mo
Terre Haute, lnd
Zanesville, Ohio
43
31
34)
36
26
25
31
21
20
31
21
20
25
16
15
At the office of the Grand Trunk Rail
way in this city it was stated that nothing
official had been received from the chief
office in Montreal, but it was stated that
the Boston merchants became very ex
cited this morning when they heard that
the rates had been reduced in New York
below their tariff, and were clamoring for
a further reduction on the freight rates
from that city to the West.
There seems to be little doubt that the
cutting of rates among the trunk roads
to the West has fairly or rather unfairly
set in again, and we fear with great
earnestness if not with desperation.
As far back as February last we
wrote in the Commercial that it was se
riously to be apprehended that the com
petition would inevitably become be
tween about three or four hundred mil
lions of English capital involved in
bankrupt roads in Canada, New York and
Ohio, and our American solvent lines;
intimating, as we did, that our own
sound corporations, like the New York
Central, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore and
Ohio, would have the worst of the fight.
And why ? For the supposed reason that
the broken down lines could afford to do
business cheaper than the lines which are
expected to pay dividends to their stock
holders.
We do not, with the facts transpiring
in the last day or two before the public,
deem it necessary to argue this point.
The Grand Trunk of Canada, the Great
West-m of Canada, the Erie of New
York, and the Atlantic and Great West
ern of Ohio, have engulphed nearly four
hundred millions of English capital. The
cost may not have been so much, but this
is the nominal total of stocks and bonds
on the four concerns.
They are all bankrupt, but it is not in
the nature of things that they should look
to do business on some sort of terms. If
they have to do it at a cost in expenses of
85(®90 cents on the dollar of the gross re
ceipts the net is so much gained out of a
desperate investment, while the other
trunk lines cannot afford to compete on
such terms, without falling back upon
their well established local traffic or else
reducing their dividends—or withholding
them altogether, as in the case of the
Lake Shore.
In this fight the New York Central has
the best show, because of its four tracks,
steel laid for the greater part. Tbe Penn-
sylvaniaRoad and Baltimore and Ohio have
also large local advantages to fall back
upen. But it is to be seriously apprehend
ed that the Lake Shore connection of the
New York Central and the leased lines of
the Pennsylvania running into Cleveland
and Chicago and Cincinnati must be
seriously compromised by the desperate
competition for business openly avowed
by the Canada, the Erie and the Atlantic
and Great Western Roads. To add to
this embarrassment north of Lake Erie,
the new Canada Southern comes in ready
to do business as cheap as the cheapest
of the rival lines. As why should it not
It has nothing of credit to lose, and a
small something in the way of paying
part of its bonded interest to gain.
The stock speculation this morning was
again Bearish. The fancies started off
with a slightly improved demand, but it
was soon found that the Lake Shore
movement was casting, as it did yester
day, a cloud over the whole market.
When this movement shall have culmi
nated either way there will no doubt be a
better speculation in the other Western
roads, and in Telegraph and Pacific Mail.
The sales of Lake Shore, after opening
at about 59, ran down before 11:30 a. m.
to 58£<®58i per cent.
DRIED BLACKBERRIES.
One Hundred Thousand Pounds Annually
Sold in a Southern City.
The Nashville (Tenn.) American says:
“ Although occupying a subordinate rank
in the industries of the age, there is none
which admits of improvement and devel
opment more than the trade in dried
blackberries. Insignificant though it may
seem in the eyes of many, fortunes have
been made and lost in the business. Dur
ing the year now drawing to a close over
one hundred thousand pounds were sold
in Nashville, the bulk of which was
shipped to New York, Philadelphia and
other large cities. The local demand is
not very extensive. There is sueh a small
expense connected with the gathering
and drying of the berries that those
who carry on the business generally
realize a handsome profit. There
are thousands of women, boys and girls
who are glad to pick them fresh from the
bushes for a few cents per gallon. The
berries are then dried in the sunshine in
the same manner as other fruits. The
process requires about three days or long
er, according to the temperature of the
weather. As soon as the berries become
shriveled, they are placed in sacks and
sent to market. They are purchased by
dealers, who generalTy'sEip them as soon
as possible, providing they have orders
to fill. If not, they are stored in a dry
place to await a call. Very frequently
the remaining juice becomes dried up,
and when such is the case, the dealers
lose money. The prices paid this year
ranged from six to ten and a half cents,
generally advancing half a cent at a time.
At ten cents per pound, the sum of
§10,000 was realized from berries which
to many appear useless after having
passed the age of juiciness. Over eleven
hundred dollars was paid to one man this
year by one dealer for 11,362 pounds of
berries gathered for him. The pickers,
instead of remaining idle, tackled all the
blackberry bushes near and far, and made
money as long as there remained a berry
on them. On every farm in the county
where blackberry bushes are found grow
ing, they are cut down to give room for
corn, grain, etc. The farmer thinks he
is making money by so doing, yet if the
ground be of a sterile character, and the
grain, etc., does not grow well thereon,
it would have been much better to have
allowed the bushes to remain and line
the domestic purse with dollars realized
from the sale of the berries. When
carefully dried, blackberries are said to
retain their original taste better than any
other fruit.”
Staring Death in the Face.—The
Scranton Republican of Friday has the fol
lowing: “The passengers on a train on the
Lehigh and Susquehanna road, yesterday,
were startled by the thrilling situation of
a young woman upon the track, a little
way from the Piston station. It appears
that she was walkiDg along the road, and
by some mishap, bad her foot caught be
tween two rails. This, in the presence
of an approaching train, made her posi
tion most alarming. She grew white
with terror, pulled at her foot with all her
might, and struggled to free herself from
what seemed to her a fearful fate. At
length, as the train approached nearer,
she managed, by a superhuman effort, to
tear her foot away from between the fatal
rails, leaving the shoe that had been on it
behind, and hastening away in sheer ex
haustion from the spot. We could not
learn her name, but those who witnessed
the incident will long remember that
woman’s agony as she seemed to stare
death in the face.”
New Remedy fob Burns.—There has
been in hospital for many months a case
of extensive burn, in which different ap
plications have been tried. Every new
dressing succeeded well for a time, but
soon it ceased to prove of advantage.
The last agent that has been used, and is
used at present, is salicylic acid. The
effect is more beneficial than that obtain
ed by any of the former remedies. The
method of using it is to form an emulsion
with olive oil, one part of the salicylic
acid to sixteen parts of oil. This mixture
is painted over the ulcerated surface once
or twice a day. It gives rise to a slight
smarting sensation when first applied,
but that soon passes off.
The Russian Debt.—The funded debt
of Russia in English money stands at
£273,780,000, and the unfunded—con
verting the rouble in both instances rt
3s. Id., although the paper rouble stands
always at a considerable discount—
amounts to £156,219,000, the larger part
of which bears no interest. The entire
amount owing by Russia on home and
foreign interest bearing bonds, and on its
depreciated inconvertible paper currency
thus stands at about £430,000,000. For
the population and wealth of the country
there is a paper circulation of about £130-
000,000, exclusive of the Treasury
notes. These figures do not, however,
embrace all the sums for which Russian
credit is pledged, there being besides
about £40,000,000 due by the railways,
the interest on which is guaranteed by
the State. Add this sum to the total
debt of the State, and also the amount
outstanding (£1,470,000) of the two issues
of land mortgage bonds for which the
State is in some sense responsible, the
sum due by Russia altogether reaches
£470,000,000. Even this does not appear
to include all tbe last £15,000,000 bor
rowed in England, France and Germany.
A Footpad’s Daring Robbery of
Stage.
[From the Bakersfield (Cal.) Gazette.]
Last Saturday night, as the Los Angeles
stage was approaching Caliente, it was
stopped by a footpad, who presented
arms, and demanded Wells, Fargo &,
Co.’s treasure box. which was handed
him, and he secured about two thousand
dollars in money. Last Monday night
the stable of Mr. Fountain, in Caliente,
was broken open and a valuable horse
stolen. Tuesday morning J. B. Foun
tain, a son of the owner of the horse,
came down to Bakersfield and reported
the facts at the Sheriff's office, and that
afternoon Deputy Sheriff Mahnnn started
out to hunt up the thief, if possible. He
soon got on the track of the horse,
whose foot was somewhat peculiar
in shape, and followed it.
Wednesday morning he ascertained
that the rider had stayed at a sheep camp
the night before. He pushed on. and in
the afternoon came in sight of his man.
About 4 o’clock in the afternoon he came
upon the robber, and, after moving on
him strategically for a short time suc
ceeded in capturing him without diffi
culty. The fellow saw the officer and his
companion some distance behind him
and pushed ahead to reach an old abode
where he intended to make a stand, but
the officer, surmising his intention, hur
ried forward and overtook him. The
thief was thrown off his guard by the
officer making inquiry about some pre
tended criminal that he professed to be
in search of, and he covered him with his
pistol before he was aware of it, when he
threw up his hands and dismounted
without offering the slightest resistance.
On being searched a small three-inch bar
rel Ballard deringer was the only weapon
found upon him. Secreted in his clothes in
various places the officer found $1,294 30,
as follows: $620 50 in greenbacks, $75 in
gold notes, $85 15 gold and silver coin,
and $13 65 in loose change. Between
$80 and $90 in silver was tied behind his
saddle. The money was found put up in
packages just as it left the express office,
and the greenbacks were -wrapped in a
Los Angeles newspaper. This clearly
fixes the robbery of the Los Angeles
stage, last Saturday night, upon this man,
whose name he gives as Robert Kirtland.
The fellow has a broken leg, caused by
stepping over tunnel No 4, on the S. P.
Railroad, and it is really astonishing that
in his condition he could do the work he
did. When it is considered that the stage
was robbed by a man with broken leg
and with a little pocket, single-barreled
pistol, it becomes ludicrous. Officer
Mahnrin brought hia man to Bakersfield
Wednesday evening, a distance of thirty-
four miles, and lodged him in jail. The
capture was made at Comanche Pass, near
the old Tejon Reservation.
Hans Platzer’s Prescription.
[From the Virginia Enterprise.]
Hans Platzer, as is well known to all of
our people, is a man not easily excited.
Hans generally takes things cool. It is
very seldom that any single, small mishap
disturbs his equanimity. “Dare is already
too much bodder in the vorlt; what for
should I allow a little ding to worry my
prains?” is what Hans generally says.
The other day, however, he was in an
other humor. Hans keeps a saloon, and
had probably on this day been visited by
an unusual number of thirsty but impe
cunious persons, otherwise we are at a
loss to account for his dissolute behavior.
A man entered Hans’s place of business,
and resting his elbows on Hans’s bar, said
to Hans as follows; “I am quite unwell—
have been unwell for some time, and am
under the doctor’s care. The doctor
tells me that I must take a stiff
whisky toddy about twice a
day, but I have no money; now couldn’t
you let me have a couple of toddies twice
a day ? I wouldn’t ask it but that the
doctor has said I must have it.” Hans,
who had been resting bis elbows on his
counter opposite his customer, began to
swell up before he heard him half
through. When he had heard all Hans
seemed almost too full for utterance.
The case seemed to him one to which it
would be hard to do full justice. He,
therefore, two or three times strolled up
and down behind his bar, a distance of
six or eight feet, then suddenly facing
his customer, thus exploded; “Why
don’t your doctor told you dat you must
take mine watch ? Why don’t he told you
dat you must took dat overcoats hangm’
dare on de wall ? Why don’t he told you
dat he must took a mool (mule; ? Why
don’t your doctor told you dat ? Pecause
your doctor is one tarn fools! Now I
berscribea for you (starting around the
counter) : you youst take a vaIk a couple
of times.”
Wealth of the Itulhsehilite.
The combined capital of the Roths
childs is stated by Emile Bnraoof, the
well-known publicist, to ha« aitamea m
the present year to the almost incaic
ble sum of seventeen billions of fiance,
or $3,400,000,000. The significance ot
these stupendous figures, says the h ew
York Hun, may be rudely conceived Dy
comparison, but there is nothing in the
history of private wealth with which they
can be compared. The capital of the
B; rings, the estates of Lord Dudley, tne
M-irauis of Bute and the head of the
family of Grosvenor being relatively to a
humble category, to which the city of New
York has contributed the fortunes of As
tor, Vanderbilt and Stewart. The financial
re.- ources attributed to the Rothschilds
can best be measured by contrasting
them with the funded debts cf the richest
countries on tbe globe. The capital of
this house, as estimated by M. Burnouf,
is about equal to the whole funded debt
of Great Britain, or that of France, and
considerably exceeds the national debt of
the United States. A single century, or
the possible span of one man s life, has
sufficed for the accumulation of this
fortune and the rise of its authors
from a shabby rookery in Frankfort
to the financial domination of Europe.
At ihe period of Rothschild’s first
decisive triumph on the London Exchange
—the day alter Waterloo, just sixty years
ago—John Jacob Astor was already a rich
man. The great fortune which the latter
bequeathed is not believed to exceed at
present fifty millions of dollars, while the
inheritance of his Hebrew contemporary
has been swollen to more than sixty times
that sum. Although its territories are
not to be found on any map, and the
names of its representatives are sat off
with no princely dignities, nevertheless
the house of Rothschild must be reckoned
among the foremost war sustaining and
world-compelling powers of the earth.
Troops Asked For—An Interview Be
tween the President and the Texas
Delegation, .
■Washington, December 24.—Several
members of the Texas delegation, headed
by Senator Maxey and Representative
Hancock, called upon tbe President to
day to urge him to take some more effect
ive measures to protect the Rio Grande
frontier from Mexican depredations.
They explained the whole situation to
him, and told him what, in their judg
ment, ought to be done. There are now
on that frontier about three thousand
United States troops, consisting of two
regiments of cavalry and two of infantry.
The infantry and one regiment of cavalry
are colored, and are reported by
their officers to be very inefficient
for tbe service required of them.
Indeed, except for garrison duty
they are almost worthless. It was
suggested to the President that these
troops be withdrawn, and their places filled
by white cavalry. The President referred
to the proposed reduction of the army,
and said that the present force was not
sufficient to occupy all the territory need
ing protection, and if the army is re
duced, it will be necessary to withdraw
troops from territories where new mines
are about to be opened, and where new
comers need protection. A greater force
on the Rio Grande is cut of the question.
He did, however, suggest that some in
fantry already there might be temporarily
mounted, but was reminded that the ob
jection based on tbe inefficiency of the
colored troops would still exist. The
President did not seem able to give the
Texas delegation much encouragement
that he would be able to afford people
living on the frontier of their State much
better protection in tbe future than in
the past.
One of Grant’s Agents.—Colonel John
F. Barrett, who was commissioned the
other day by Attorney General Pierre-
pont to go to New Orleans and investi
gate the whisky and cotton frauds, seems
to be another brilliant specimen of what
is now known as the “Grant group.”
The Superintendent of Police at New
Orleans, on Barrett’s arrival, gave orders
to his force to watch him as a dangerous
and suspicious character, and the Attor
ney General, learning of this, sent word
that he should be protected by the Fed
eral authorities. The appointment of
Barrett on such a responsible mission is
a disgrace to tbe administration, but it is
in keeping with President Grant’s singu
lar predilection for disreputable char
acters. The Albany (N. Y.) Express, a
Republican paper, cannot stand such an
appointment, and thus tells what it knows
about Barrett:
“Colonel John F. Barrett figured some
what notoriously in this city a few years
ago. He was discharged from the De
partment of Public Instruction, where he
was for some time employed as a clerk,
for theft. Thereafter he victimized sev
eral of our citizens, and, things becoming
too hot for him here, he went West, and
swindled people in Rochester, Buffalo,
and elsewhere. Then he went to New
York, and for some time lived by black
mailing and swindling operations. Fi
nally he brought up in New Orleans,
where, from having been a vehement
Democrat, he suddenly became a vio
lent Republican, obtained the confidence
of onef of Louisiana's carpet-bag Govern
ors, and swelled out into a good deal of
seeming importance.—Courier-JonmaL
A Distressing Case of Want.—The
New York Evening Post states that the
entire fortune of Mr. John Blake Wash
ington, of Summerville, South Carolina,
was swept away by the civil war, and
himself and family are now reduced to
ibe necessity of depending for the very
means of subsistence on the charity of
their friends. Mr. Washington is the
only living grandson, bearing the sur
name, of Colonel William Washington,
tde hero of the battle of Eutaw Springs,
who was a first oousin of General George
Washington. The Post says Mr. Wash
ington’s present distress is not owing in
any wise to wilful idleness; he has made
every effort during the last few years to
embark in some kind of business, but
in vain. Mrs. Washington, his devoted
wife, has opened a children’s school, but
thus far has succeeded in getting but two
pupils, each of whom pays the miserable
fee of two and one-half dollars a month.
The country about Summerville is swarm
ing with ignorant negroes, and the white
minority are generally too poor to send
their children to a select school.
Mr. Plimsoll has secured immortality
already, whether he ever has a monument
or not. A short yellow band, painted
amidships, about six inches below that
which has always been regarded as the
ship’s water-line, which is being put
upon British vessels by order of the Board
of Admiralty, is called by the sailors
Plimsoll’s mark.” It will make a con
siderable difference in the amount of
cargo which it will be lawful for the ship
to carry.
General Sherman, in his speech before
the New England Society, pleaded for
the continuance of the regular army aa a
school teacher might plead for the blessed
public schools. The General is perfectly
willing to return to private life whenever
the country wills it, but he can't help
feeling far down in his heart, that it will
be a calamitous day when he lays off his
sword and abandons the pay of a Gen
eral. —Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Failure Caused by a Defalca
tion.—The New York 1'riMine states
that the failure of J. A T. Pearsall, large
fruit dealers of that city, heretofore an
nounced, was caused by the defalcation
of Henry Comstock, the book-keeper,
who had been with the house nine years.
The senior member of the firm says Com
stock’s habits were good, and he was
careful in the performance of his duties,
and he was trusted implfujtly. For a
number of years, however, he has pur
sued a system of gross fraud. How much
he embezzled in the form of cash from
the daily sales is unknown, bnt by refer
ring to the books it has been discovered
that he has stolen $52,000 from the
regular cash account, and covered the de
ficiency by fictitious entries in his books.
His frauds were discovered about two
months ago, but not until after he had
fled to some place unknown to his
employers. Investigation fails to reveal
any trace of dissipation in his career. He
was about thirty years old, a member of
the church, had a wife and four children,
and lived in Brooklyn.
The negroes down in Tezas 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 talk seriously
about it to every negro they meet. They
find the right man through bis 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 its 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,
A Fiendish Act.—Mr. Bergh’s aeent
at Highland Falls, New York, arreSLl a
man named Paul Hansom for cruelty to
animals. It appears that the wretch
petted a quantity of turpentine over tbe
htnd parts of hm horse and deliberately
S P°°- beast washorr,
bly burned. Hansom was tried before
Justice Abbey, who sentenced him to tbe
Chmtge county common jail for one hun-
dreodays and to pay a fine of twenty-fi v&