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otion will be held in Savannah on WEDNES-
W Y, May l«th, at 12 o’clock M.
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J. II. ESTILL, President,
i], }i. (laBANiss, Rec. Sec’ty.
Affairs in Georgia.
lnC ff question has arisen in boarding-
• oM0 ethics: What remedy has a tliird-
;, ( r lodger, armed with nothing but a red
jmnel shirt and an empty ale bottle, against
ijohntliomis cat who is telling his love in
the entry-way at three o’clock in tho morn
ing?
The first number of the Way cross Head-
y has corno to hand. Dr. Daniel Lott is
proprietor and Dr. W. B. Folks editor.
We trust that it will receive that success
uhicli it seems to merit.
The eleven able editors of tho Atlanta
dilution are constrained to remark:
UThere it agrowing feeling, especially in
Tiideu circles, against the readoption in the
National Democratic Convention of the ab-
jnnl two-thirds rule.” What Tilden oircles,
p rt v? Moreover, will the eleven able ed
itors inform us whether the “ Tiideu cir-
t.ei” alluded to have any connection with
the rings discovered by the Griffin News
and the Atlanta Commonwealth ? «
Cramp got away with a colored bather
oe ,r Montezuma recently.
" rhe'faihotton Standard got out an extra
ont of respect to the haoging of Ed. Sally.
Bust is threatening the wheat and oat
crops of Stewart county.
Itisannounced, as something out of the
liual routine, that a Montezuma man is
wearing a beaver.
A little child of Mr. W. H. Davison, of
Snmter county, fell from a piazza the other
lay and killed herself.
The dwelling-house and other buildings
on the place of Mr. Wm. Dsry, of Sumter
rounty, were destroyed by fire the other
day.
A Macon county man caught a cat-fish
iud a swamp owl on a “set-hook” recently.
The Atlanta Constitution says that Charles
and Edmund Kelly were brought to that
city on Tuesday in irons. Edmund was car
ried that night to Jackson county for trial
andfbarles was turned over to the chain-
gang from which he escaped. Edmund Kel
ly states that his crowd did not fire at all.
He ran away from Charles and Busby when
they were attacked by twenty-five or thirty
men. He was pursued by about forty men
and shot in the back. Busby escaped.
Charles was wounded in the neck, stomach,
thigh and in both hands. One shot struck
him in the stomach and almost passed
through him. He was struck by thirty
tnckshot and bears wounds in numerous
places. He talks cheerfully enough, and
qys that he will escape again if he can.
The Waynesboro Expositor complains
that we credited one of its editorials to the
Eatonton Messenger.
The Macon Telegraph states that Mr. John
J. lloaser, who lias for some years been
serving in the capacity of express messen
ger between Savannah and Macon, has re-
signed his position for the purpose of en
gaging in business in Eatonton. The Ex
press Company thus loses one ot its most
faithful, trustworthy, efficient and con.
Hsntious employees, and one whose plaoa
it will be extremely hard to fill.
The Waynesboro Expositor is striving
manfully for the first place. It gives an ac-
eonnt of a chicken which was hatched on
the place of Mr, Tomlin, in Bnrke county,
that is almost round—its head coming
abruptly from the middle of the back—the
tpperpart of the bill stands at an angle of
forty-five degrees laterally from tho lower
portion of the bill, and the eye—it has only
one—is underneath, on a line with the low-
fi part of the bid. This darken runs abont
t*® yard as glibly as any of the rest, and
Wos to have a keen appreciation of tho
amenities practiced by its fellow chickens.
Macon doesn’t like for the dogs to have
Attics in the park.
The Talbotton Standard says that nearly
T <ry farmer in Talbot county is planting
Cc# this year, in view of the erection of
‘-Oman’s rice mill. Mr. G. himself is
fanting ten acres of upland and lowland
an, J eipocts to make fifty buehels per
There is also a good deal of this
'finable grain being planted in the adjoin-
■S counties of Taylor, Marion and Harris.
'* r ;e part of the mill is already mannfac-
kml in Savannah.
&v. Benjamin Roberts, said to be the old-
minister of the Washington Baptist As-
ioo ‘lion, i 3 dead.
Saudersville Herald : On last Tuesday
6r ' were six mules sold by the Sheriff at
average of $72 per head. Two wagons
J] >old, one large wagon for $5 25 and a
jU * er ono f° r ill 75; 1,500 acres of land,
o f x>d, level farming land, confessedly
|".Y- 16 * arms in the county, was sold
,0)0—jless than four dollars per acre.
' fwm is richly worth $15,000. The
'■ sought to have brought, at least, an
' r, 8e of $150 a piece.
£ Ah‘ 8USta ' 8 lrou * , i ec * w ith burglary in the
ytittn'"^ Journa ^ : Judge William S.
j .. 48 u -doubted’y the finest oats in the
V, n'• ~i hl ,‘ i8 > i f his whole crop is equal
C “®P‘ e sent, to oar office last week,
t. L, , sent us two specimens—ODe of
NtheJL°• year before last, and tho other
crop—showing the difference
tiUnrY, 11 * ' b ? P r °dnots of laud indifferently
tatoiwti Pj° we( l> and that which is
Wtk furtllized and intelligently culti-
"apwili C - * a,m l'le sent ns ot the growing
kxtv lUs "‘‘“out accident, produce between
J wd BOVouty busbfcls ^ the aore<
Berdd: “Within the last
4,0 tod ,.. e , e boon out in the northeast-
•ttetnU, **{“?* Part °f the county. We
Wee that » “ “o crop prospects and re
ntal. T1 e,r oable to make a favorable
? w boat and oat crop are both
Atlarger n?l ever . moro promising. There
fjt bee n ; °f small graiD sown than
JJfifin a’,, "aslungton, in any given year
The boction of the oldest inuab-
I'stoahj. com appeart healthy and
Sto4There Is a larger aefeage
J 4 *' nnc e , \ Cl i rn cro P than has been any
^ oX Tt i! te war ’ The cotton is gen-
tt'JOnt nUnt-? 0 V* 1111 ev- ident falling off in
J" bit tfir. J' w °nid, however, be het-
Jffitedin® “ttfitry lf one-half the lands
*“ 111 corn." u "ore plowed up and plaut-
k, t .‘ l4 ted As we have hereto-
r^tth e deht.. r i 1 . u bf eU10 .Court has decided
exemption? 8 ‘he' nght to waive home-
hat aud , an °ther important
a^mthe b CB rendered. It is that
fieu d6ren dtrs l it & v t i Uller w b‘ ch the deed
i* not UlL ° ld ’ aud r iRht to home-
^wi e th7 ay .’ Ho ; 1,1 taking
YS the hr»t .u?- a W4l ver of homestead
^‘“J MurvTn 8 , 1 ,? 11 ’ be carefal not to
Which the '“t^rtty
hencelurih tr, U « have deter-
& PPly to m who seek
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH. FRIDAY, MAY 5. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
their suffrages for offices of honor or profit.
We have not the slightest enmity against
them as individuals, but we frankly admit
that we intend to show them no quarter in
their capacity of public officials, or as can
didates for office, when we have proof or
good reasons for believing that thev are en
gaged in practices not befitting an honest
Democrat, and are conspiring to deceive
the people in order to promote their private
interests.
Thomson Journal: We rejoice to learn
that tho Sage of Liberty Hall is gradually
but surely regaining bis health. To all true
patriots, and all who sincerely hope for a
restoration of a constitutional government,
this will be gratifying intelligence ; bat to
the would-be statesmen, who can never fill
his hat, but are so eager to fill his official
shoes, the wonderful vitality of the Great
Commoner, and the exalted position ho
holdB in the hearts of bis countrymen, are
absolutely disgusting.
Sandersvilie Herald: A gentleman of clear
head and sound judgment, and a large tax
payer, while witnessing the sale of propertv
under the Sheriff's hammer going for a mere
soDg,said to ns: “There ought to be a law pro
hibiting the legal sale of property after tho
first of April until the first of November.”
This is a correct view of the subject. Let ns
have such a law; the present system of
selling property for debt aud realizing
nothing tor it is like killing the goose that
laid the golden egg—the debtor is ruined
aud creditor is unpaid—the farm sold after
the crop is planted or the horses and mules
taken from the plow during the crop mak
ing season aud sold may cause fertile acres
to lie uncultivated.
Messrs. T. J. Smith, H. N. Hollifeld, J. T.
Youngblood, S. J. Smith, Thos. Warthen, T.
E. Brown and T. O. Wicker, of Washington
county, have issued the following circular:
Tho Washington Comity Agricultural So
ciety is desirous of holding a' fair this year,
that shall exceed all others of previous
years; in order to do this, it is proposed to
make it a District aud not a County Fair,
and our friends in Middle Georgia are
most earnestly and cordially invited to
assist ns in our undertaking, and we
assure them that we will meet them
on equal terms and do all in our
power 10 make it a decided success. The
State Society will hold no fair this year,
therefore we feel confident that if we unite
the whole of Middle Georgia in the further
ance of our object, and obtain lor our dis
trict fair tho undivided support of the
friends of agriculture, then success is cer
tain. The premium list shall be a liberal one,
and our society will transfer all articles for
exhibition from the Central Railroad depot
to the Fair Grounds, and return tnem again
at the close of the exhibition at its own ex
pense. We respectfully ask the friends of
agriculture in Middle Georgia to respond to
this call, and meet ns in convention in San
dersvilie on the third Tuesday in May next
to prepare a premium list, appoint commit
tees, and make such arrangements as will
insure the success of our undertaking.
South Carolina Affairs.
Mrs. Rosa Lewis, of Anderson, is dead,
aged 89 years.
Mrs. M. B. Casey, of Due West, died last
week in Due West, leaviug an infant only a
few honrs old.
An effort is being made to establish a new
mail route from Easley Station to Anderson
Court House.
Governor Chamberlain has appointed
Major William Stone to be Attorney Gen
eral in the place of the Hon. S. W. Melton,
resigned.
Over one thousand colored people in
Greenville, having signed a pledge to drink
no intoxicating liquors between January and
May, 1876, there was a grand procession of
the brotherhood on the 1st of May.
The bar of Anderson, in behalf of the
farmers, have requested Judge Cooke not to
hold spring conrt at that place.
Greenwood, Abbeville county, has a flour
ishing Democratic club of over one hundred
and forty members.
Mr. Bnfns Oates, of Pickens, is dead.
The dry ticket has carried the town of
Easley.
Mrs. Rebecca Clinksoales and Mrs. M. R.
Casey, of Anderson, are dead.
The Slabtown Club in Anderson county
disapproves of the primary system of elec
tion for candidates.
Mr. Wm. M. Lovell, one of the County
Commissioners of Anderson, died on last
Saturday night at Belton.
Last year a gentleman in Marlboro made
237 bales of cotton, averaging 400 pounds,
from 231 acres of land.
, Five hundred fish were canght last week
for a fish dinner, at Carraway’s mill pond,
in Georgetown county.
The petit jury panel of Marlborocontains
nineteen whites and seventeen colored.
The bar of Charleston, with a few excep
tions, have signed a petition to Judge Beed
to “ stick,” and announced their determina
tion to sustain him therein at all hazards,
and never to recognize Whipper as Judge.
A very heavy storm passed over Darling
ton last week. A residence belonging to
Mr. J. W. Parrott, and the bam and stable
of Mr. B. S. Josey, were blown down.
Eleven thousand one hundred and six
pounds of mail matter passed over the Bel
ton and Walhalla route daring the last thir
ty days.
The extensive mills of Mr. O. 0. Barr,
near Edgefield Court House, with gins, saws,
stoneB, machinery, etc., was entirely de
stroyed by fire on Wednesday night.
Westminster, Oconee, has elected the fol
lowing Council: Intendant—Miles N. Chap
man. Wardens—J. W. Zimmerman, A. Ed
wards, J. B. Barns, J. P. Reeder. All “dry”
but Mr. Reeder.
A crowd of fifty-five convicts—fifty colored
and five white—passed through Charlotte a
few nights ago on their way to the work on
the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad.
North Carolina utilizes convict labor.
Mr. Moses Levi, recently elected Inten
dant of Manning, refused to serve, and a
new election took place on the 2d instant.
LaBt Saturday morning, before day, the
residence of Captain J. Thomas Lowrey,
near Yorkville, was burned to the ground.
Only a portion of the furniture was saved.
The’ insurance was small and the cause of
the fire unknown.
The first thunder storm of the season
passed over York county Monday afternoon.
In the neighborhood of Blairsville an old
house was blown down and a negro boy,
who had taken refuge in it, was killed. At
McCounellsville rain fell in torrents, accom
panied with a great deal of hail. Fortu
nately growing vegetation sustained but
slight damage.
Tuesday evening, the 25th ultimo, two col
ored men named Henry Brown and Scipio
Kinloch, employees at the Kiawah Mining
and Manufacturing Company, while on their
way to their homes on Cohrs’s plantation,
about ten miles from Charleston, were met
by a band of oight colored men, who, with
out provocation, commanded them
to take off their coats and then whipped
them unmercifully, after which they robbed
them of all the provisions they were carry
ing home, and otherwise abused and mal
treated them.
Marguerite Bellanger.
A Paris letter to the Philadelphia Tele
graph says: I suppose that there are
many of your readers who will remember
the scandal created by the unveiling of
the attachment of Napoleon III. for Mar
guerite Bellanger—a revelation which
was made by the publication of the Em
peror’s private papers after the flight of
the Empress from the Tuileries. At that
time, thip famous, or rather infamous,
woman occupied an elegant hotel on the
Boulevard Haussman. She was then ex
tremely attractive looking, of a delicate
and almost refined type of beauty, recall
ing singularly enough that of the Em-
nress though her origin and mode pf life
hatfboth been of the vilest. After the
downfall of the Empire, she re
tired to a charming chateau in
Touraine, which, with its adjacent
lands she owed to the munificence of
her Imperial lover. A year at two later
she married an Englishman. The mar
riage did not prove a happy one, and was
shortly after dissolved by mutual consent,
the lady agreeing to allow her husband
twenty thousand francs a year so long as
he refrained from coming near her. She
now lives a comfortable and jolly life as
an independent clgitelaine, and occasion-
“y visits Peris for a peep at the gay life
ofthe metropolis. She has grown stout
and common-looking, and every traoe of
her singular and ethereal beauty has dis-
SsDsaeSSSs
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BY TELEGRAPH
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THE MOKMING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
WESTERN CHRISTIANITY.
Incendiarism Openly Approved and
Endorsed.
INTERRUPTION OF CABLE COMMUNI
CATION.
The situation in 3Iexlco.
CHRISTIAN BARBARISM.
San Francisco, May 4.—The 8outh Saa
Francisco Anti-Coolie Club and Young Men’s
Universal Reform Society held meetings
last night and passed resolutions endorsing
the destruction of the Chinese quarters in
the town of Antioch, and advocating a sim
ilar course in this city unless the Federal
Government should take immediate steps to
abate the evil. Highly incendiary speeches
were made and letters read from societies
in the interior of the State seeking the co
operation of the San Francisco Anti-Coolie
organizations. The Sergeant-at-Arms of the
Young Men’s Universal Reform Society
had received a telegram from New York
saying that 2,000 stand of arms could be
delivered here at ten days notice. While
such talk aud action are universally repro
bated by the great mass of thinking people
in this city, there can be no donbfc that it
meets the approval of a large aud danger
ous class in the community, and that in the
event of no action being taken in the matter
by the General Government, there is grave
reasons to fear serious disturbances here at
no distant day.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
Havana, April 4.—The steamer City of
Havana has arrived from Vera Cruz, bring
ing dates to the 23d ult. General Alatorre
is. at Tehuacan directing the campaign in
the State of Puebla. Eighteen thousand
regular troops are operating in the States of
Vera Cruz and Puebla and the valley of
Mexico. The policy of the revolutionists is
to avoid a fight. Fifteen thousand revolu
tionists are roaming in detached bands
through the State of Oaxaica. The Vera
Cruz, Puebla aud Morelia Railway, between
Vera Cruz and the City of Mexico, continues
uninterrupted. Four thousand pronuncia-
dos are scattered along the line ot the road
aud have destroyed thirteen bridges. The
capture of Mataraoras by Diaz is not con
sidered important. The Tioo Republics
says while the interior States remain
faithful, the movement of Diaz will have no
influence on the revolution. Gen. Escabedo
is at the head of flve thousand veteran troops
marching against Diaz. The defeat of the
latter is expected, and the government has
arranged to prevent him from crossing the
Rio Grande at any point between New La
redo and the mouth of the river.
CABLE COMMUNICATION.
New York, May 4.—There is difficulty
with the cables between Nova Scotia and
Newfoundland and Heart’s Content.
It is ascertained that the cable broke some
where between North Sydney, the terminus
of the Western Union lines and Placentia,
a short distance this side of Heart’s Con
tent, where the deep sea cables were landed
at about five o’clock last evening. There
were two lines from North Sydney to Pla
centia direct, one of which is two hundred
aud eighty and the other three hundred and
eighty miles long, also two lines from North
Sydney to St. Pierre, and the same number
from the latter place to Placentia.
Both of tuese and one of the direct wires
above mentioned, breke a few days ago,
since which time vessels have been engaged
in grappling for the broken ends. No test
had been made up to midnight by which
the exact location of the last break conld bo
ascertained. The French cable broke about
two hundred miles this side of Brest, on
April 26, and has not yet been repaired.
Thus all communication with Europe, ex
cept by the direct cable, has been tempo
rarily suspended.
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
Washington, May 4.—A. G. Riddle has
written a bitter letter to Blaine charging
him with traducing the memory of G. W.
Knowlter, Riddle’s son-in-law.
Miss Sweet, pension agent at Chicago, is
called before the Civil Service Committee
on a charge of haring divided her salary
with Benjamin H. Campbell, Marshal of the
Northern District of Illinois. *
The Committee on Naval Expenditures
examined at great length Benjamin H.
Cheever. the noted financial agent. Secrecy
is imposed upon all parties.
The Printing Committee of the House
having concluded they cannot impeach Pub
lic Printer Clapp, who is an officer of the
Senate, will try to have him indictei for
alleged irregularities.
treasure trove.
New York, May 4.—The divers have re
covered another sum of $5,000, in gold, from
the wreck of the Schiller, making an ag
gregate of $290,000 saved of the $300,000
shipped on the vessel.
FROM SPAIN.
Madrid, May 4.—Congress by a vote of
226 to 39, rejected the amendment proposed
by the Moderatoes against tho religious
toleration clause.
JERRY BLACK.
Pittsburg, May 4.—Judge Jeremiah S.
Black writes to the Post declining to be con
sidered a candidate for the Presidency.
Evening Telegrams.
THE HACK KIVEK JETTIES
A Temporary Injunction Granted by
Julge Bradley.
NOTES FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Summary of Yesterday’s Congress
ional Proceedings.
Grnnt Declines to Give Information of
Ills Bums.
THE BACK EIVEB JETTIES.
Washington, May 4.—The motion in be
half of the State of South Carolina for a
preliminary injunction against the Secretary
of War to stop the obstruction at the cross-
tides in the Savannah river, now in piocess
of erection by the Engineer Department,
was heard this morning by Mr. Associate
Justice Bradley, Mr. Trescot and Mr. P.
Phillips arguing the motion in behalf of
the State, and Mr. Solicitor General Phillips
contra. The Judge, while expressly declin
ing to express any opinion on the merits of
the case, held that the questions raised were
so grave as to require full and thorough
consideration by the whole court, and that
it was the obvious interest of all parties
that the work should not be continued,
when the question of the rights and inter
ests of the parties concerned were unset
tled. He would, therefore, grant the pre
liminary injunction, expecting the conrt to
take the necessary orders to fix the earliest
time for a final hearing, and such testimony
as might be necessary.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, May 4.—The Attorney Gen
eral has returned.
The impeachment trial attracted a slim
crowd.
Secretary Chandler declines to famish
papers regarding William McMickim’s ap
pointment as Surveyor General of Washing
ton Territory—first, on account of an Execu
tive order, and, second, ho is investigating
McMickim himself.
Private dispatches report the Oregon dele
gation for Blaine.
The Judiciary Committee appointed Hnt-
ton, Ashe and Lawrence a snb-committee on
Blaine.
Chsever’s testimony before the Naval
tee is p ' about indirectly hear-
tha: Mrs R< on got a fifty thousand
oilar present f » inducing her husband to
transfer the nav. l funds abroad from Baring
Ru t-, to Jay Co< . McCullough A Co.
NSW OBK NOTES.
New Yoke,
and < .ghtb an
of Commerce,
President
At3oVock
Tei-gri
' iv 4.—At the one hundred
i ai meeting of the Chamber
' D. Babcock was elected
s afternoon the Western
Company received infor-
ic a 11;: fthi .‘able which has been under-
. repairs fc some days paBt, between
j • ro- and P.acomia, will probably bo in
>: ion this evening, thus re-
1, uj,.cation with Europe by the
i cable.
VI late Barney Williams’s will was pro-
1, ted to-day. He distributed his property
iui.org his various relatives.
BBSGHED.
i >i ■ ob, N. H., May 4 —The Cocheco Print
lYorks, after four weeks Bhut-down, have
resumed.
BDBHED.
New lorMay4.—Jas.McDonald'!livery
staole i’i Brooklyn, with 16 horses, was
CONOBESSIONAD.
Washington, May 4.—In the House, in
committee of the whole, Vance spoke in
favor of his bill paying contractors in the
8outh prior to 1861. He made a patriotic
appeal for the burying of all sectional ani
mosities tnd bitter recollections caused by
the war, and proclaimed the loyalty, patriot
ism and good feeling of the people of the
South.
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, testified to that
good feeling, and related his experience in
the South last year, and how on decoration
day the graves of the Union soldiers were
strewn with flowers as profusely as those
of the Confederates. He would say to those
of the gray as well as those of the bine, pre
serve every memento of yonr valor and your
sacrifice for the welcome day when all
the people will treasure every memento of
American courage, skill and sacrifice made
in that great war. [Applause on Democratic
side.] Vance thanked Kelly for his gener
ous words.
The resolution to appropriate $9,000 for
the expenses of Gibson’s New* Orleans Com
mittee passed.
The concurrent resolution that Congress
adjourns from the 9th fo the 12th passed.
Blaine, of Maine, offered a resolution di
recting the Committee of Ways and Means
to consider at once some measure for the
relief of the country from the threatened
scarcity of fractional currency.
The message from the President declining
to furnish the Honse with information as to
his various absences from Washington was
read, and was received with cool disdain on
the Democratic side, and with evident en
joyment by the Republicans.
At the conclusion of the reading, Randall,
of Pennsjlvania, moved that it be referred
to the Judiciary Committee and printed,
and it was so ordered.
McDougaU, of New York, then offered a
resolution instructing tho select committee
for the investigation of Federal offices in
Louisiana to make a full and complete in
vestigation of the circumstances attending
the assassination of M. H. Mitchell and
David King, on the river, particularly as to
whether the cause was or was not ol a po
litical character.
llandall—While that is a State matter, I
hope no one will object to the resolution.
Beebee, ol New York, desired to have an
investigation also into the killing of two
negroes and the wounding of eight others
at the late election at Indianapolis.
Townsend, of New York, remarked amidst
mack uproar that the Republicans carried
the election and the Democrats killed the
niggers.
MacDongall declined to yield for Beebee’s
amendment.
Levy, of Louisiana, on behalf of the peo
ple of that State, invited a thorough inves
tigation into the killing at Red River. Mac-
Dougall’s resolution was then adopted.
In the Senate the chair laid before the
Senate the report of the Quartermaster
General, in answer to the resolution of the
Senate relative to the Western and Atlantio
Railroad in Georgia, which was ordered
printed.
William A. Young was appointed telegraph
operator to the Senate. •
Sherman presented the remonstrance of
manufacturers and dealers in tobacco
against any change in the present packing
of tobacco. Referred to the Committee on
Finance.
The Committee on Commerce reported
favorably on the bill to exempt all vessels
engaged in the navigation of the Missis
sippi river and its tributaries, above the
port of New Orleans, from entrance and
clearances. Placed on the calendar.
Morrill submitted a concurrent resolution
that Congress adjourn from the 9th to the
12th. Without action the impeachment
trial was resumed. Both parties, in view of
a possible adjournment for the Centennial,
proposed to adjourn the court to the 15th.
The Senate, by a vote of 22 to 38 re
fused. Blair opened the argument
against jurisdiction, quoting various
English authorities, and cited sev
eral instances where the resignations
of Judges stopped impeachment. Lord fol
lowing, claimed that the body had jurisdic
tion, aud that an officer conld not resign to
stop impeachment. He qaoted from a num
ber of legal authorities in support of Mb
views, and concluded his argument at five
o’clock.
WASHINGTON WEATHEB PBOPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Officeb,
Washington, May 4.—Probabilities :
For the South Atlantic and East Gulf
States, falliDg barometer, easterly to south
erly winds, and generally warmer and partly
cloudy weather will prevail, with possibly
rain in the latter.
For tho West Gnlf States, falling, followed
by rising barometer, warmer southwest shift
ing to cooler northwest winds, generally
cloudy weather and rain areas. *
For Tennessee ana the Ohio valley, rising
followed by falling barometer, warm south
erly to northeast colder winds, cloudy and
raiify weather.
For the Middle States, falling, followed bv
rising barometer, winds shitting to westerly
and northerly, slightly warmer and gener
ally clear woather, except in the interior.
The lower Tennessee river will continue
rising.
FBOSI OMAHA.
Omaha, May 4.—A recent arrival from the
Black Hills reports a great scarcity of pro
visions. Flour is $22 per sack in Custer
City.
Judge Dillon, of the United States Dis
trict Court, in the case of Moore, assignee
in bankruptcy, vs. the Mutual Life Insur
ance Company, decides that its loans on
real estate (some half million dollars) are
usurious, aud the penalty provided in the
statute must bo inflicted on the company.
The decision involves the loan of two to
three millions of dollars in this Stats'.
THE ST. LOUIS CROOKED.
St. Louis, May 4.—The complete consoli
dation of all indictments and counts in the
indictments standing against the distillers,
rectifiers, gaugers and storekeepers, was
to-day effected, with the consent of all par
ties concerned. The government counsel
reserved the motion for sentences until a
future day. A number of gangers and
storekeepers were notified, however, to ap
pear in court to-morrow, and it is not im
probable that they may receive sentence.
for the centennial.
Paris, May 4.—Several Deputies, on the
strength of documentary evidenoe in their
possession, expressed apprehensions to the
ministers that the delegation of French
workmen to Philadelphia would chiefly de
vote their attention to politics, and have
urged the government to refuse the pro
posed grant of $20,000 for enabling them to
visit Philadelphia. The French, Belgian
and Russian members of the Centennial
jury will leave Havre to-morrow in the
steamer Amerique.
DEAD.
Springfield, Mass., May4.—Benjamin F.
Bowles, of the firm of Samnei Bowles & Co.,
publishers ot the llepuhlican, died in Paris
to-day ot Roman fever.
CANAL BREAK.
Taov, N. Y., May 4.—The break in the
canal at Port Schuyler, emptying it between
WeBt Troy and Albany, will be temporarily
repaired to-morrow. .
THE QOETHE.
London, May 4.—The-propeUer Goethe,
before reported as returning with a pro-
E oiler lost, was seen sixty miles from Land’s
nd with sails set.
RAILROAD CASUALTY.
Salt Lake, May 4.—A Central Pacific
train ran off the track near Promontory
Point kiiliDg the engineer and fireman.
THE EXTRADITION TREATY.
London, May 4.—Nothing is known at the
American Legation of the abrogation of the
extradition treaty.
It was the Democratic Legislature of
New York, elected with Governor Tilden,
which hastened to clinch the resumption
act of last year by enacting that nothing
but coin dollars of the United States
shall be legal tender in that State after
January 1, 1-879. The New York Times
speculates on the contingency of the
Federal law being repealed and the Stale
law remaining in force, and proceeds to
argue in extenso that, if the worst comes,
resumption can be secured in a constitu
tional manner by the action of the States
alone. This new found Radical reliance
on action by States, as the control of
Congress slips from their hands, is re
freshing. Now let all the States that
want gold set up their standard, qnd the
greenbacks will be driven West and
South into those States that want green
backs. It would be a clever arrangement
all round. Let New York start the “con
stitutional” ball as soon as she likes.—
Nashville American.
LETTER FROM ADRIAN US.
The Kecuea ef Alachaa—A Thief Sai
maaiac Ilia Own Jary—Fanny ( oallli
at Gaiaeaville—The Vlleat Plead of All—
About Tap-oaraphy—Political Indura
11 on —An Acquittal—A Contradiction—
Clooe of Two Hotela.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
President Grant’s standard for men of
reputation for Cabinet officers was never
very high, as the following found in the
Sixth Iowa Supreme Court Reports will
show:
Stevenson agt. Belknap.—This was an
action by the plaintiff to recover damages
for the seduction of his daughter by the
defendant. Exception was taken on the
trial to instructions given to the jury by
the conrt at the request of the plaintiff,
and the refusal of the court to give cer
tain instructions for the defendant. The
jury found for*the plaintiff in the sum of
$3,000. The judgment of the lower oourt
Fernandina, May 1, 1876.
The scene is laid in Alachua county on
this occasion. Daring the last State
campaign that Radical pigmy, Dennis,
and the nigger blister Harmon wei e can
didates for the same position—that of
Senator for Alachna and Levy—and have
ever since remained inexorable and bitter
enemies until recently. Dennis, the vic
torious curmudgeon, controls all of the
Stearns appointments in the two appen
dagea mentioned, and, in conjunction
with the County Commissioners of Ala
chua, discovered that H. S. HarmoD,
while aoting as Clerk of the Cir
cuit Court, had, true to his thievish
instinct^ been guilty of the gri
and most bare-faced frauds. By Har
mon's ingenuity forgeries and the raising
of county scrip had been perpetrated, and
the notorious pilferer of legislative enact
ments had also indulged in extensive em
bezzlements. Certificates of county in -
debtedness had been altered from their
original sums to thousands of dollars in
the aggregate. The minutes and stubs
which the statutes require the Clerk to
keep had also been fraudulently trans
formed in order to make them correspond
with the scrip in circulation. An indict
ment for forgery was found by the grand
inquest for Alachua county at the fall
term of the Circuit Court at Gainesville.
The malefactor eDjoved a trial and the
jury failed to agree. Before the spriDg
term of court no venire for jurors in
conformity with law was drawn. About
three weeks previous to the date set for
Harmon’s second trial the irrepressible
nigger, whom I hope nobody will defend,
appeared at Gainesville from Tallahassee,
where he had been practicing law, and
was immediately constituted Deputy
Sheriff, with the promise of the Sheriff
alty, as is generally conjectured, on the
condition that he would support the po
litical ambitions of the marvelous Leon
ard G. Dennis. On the day fixed for
Harmon’s trial the court room was crowd
ed to repletion, according to arrange
ment, with a rabble as black as the
charcoal of chqos, when the Judge ascer
tained that he would be forced to take the
jurors from the bystanders. Theconse
quence was eleven niggers and one white
man, and seme of these dismal jurymen
have admitted that they had been notified
by Harmon two weeks before to be on
hand to serve. Some of them were even
summoned by Harmon, and some by
Barnes, the subservient Sheriff of Alachua.
The case loomed up, and the assistant
counsel to aid in the prosecution, asked
for a continuance, upon the ground that
the State was ready at the last term, and
that the prisoner was not in attendance,
and that a bench warrant had been issued
for him and yet he did not appear, and
that in consideration of the fatal fact that
no regular venire having been drawn it was
but too evident that a trial under all the
surroundings would be merely a judicial
pantomime. Arnau, the State’s Solicitor,
a Radical rapscallion and hypocrite—bat
not the only one—a fellow who erstwhile
in his peregrinations waddled under a
pamphlet from which he made frequent
quotations to prove the absence of soul
in the nigger, but who now consorcs with
them in their nocturnal Union League
meetings, of coarse announced his in
tention to put the case through. Notwith
standing the strenuous opposition and
threatened retirement of the associate
counsel, the eleven niggers blackened
themselves still further by joining with
the other man in acquitting the
prisoner triumphantly. Arnau appa
rently did not endeavor to make out
his case. The minutes and stubs show
ing alterations and forgeries were not
introduced in evidence, albeit they had
been before the jury in the former trial.
Barnes, the quondam sheriff, has resign
ed, and Harnnm has been appointed and
has developed as a shining orator in favor
of Marcellus, the ponderous, and Dennis,
the diminutive. The respectable people
of Gainesville and Alachua are universally
disgusted. Please not fo ask me to re
tract. I never do so.
A HORRIBLE FIEND.
The deciduous branch of the Radical
party which flourishes hereabouts is en
titled to the onus of having produced the
very incarna'ion of fiendishness in tfie
shape of F. W. liedmon, a nigger
Justice of the Peace by the grace of
Stearns. Two indictments for forcible in
cest have been found against this repre
hensible imp, and notwithstanding the
fact that one of them was placed upon
record over three years since, he has been
permitted until lately to dispense justice
as of yore under the benign protection
accorded him by M. L. Stearns, “Gub-
ner.” This violator of his own children
is now incarcerated, but the master who
granted him an unpardonable immunity
from the consequences of his crime for so
long a period may be expected to inter
pose executive clemency in his behalf. It
is the unanimous impression on both
sides of the qnestion, on both sides of
the question, sir, (vide the right Hod.
Noodle Calibun, of Bugtown, for full ex
planation of “Both sides of a question”)
that Redmon has reached the pinnacle of
wickedness and diabolism, and a speedy
retribution should be meted out to him.
Is it not a voluminous sermon upon the
immaculateness of the Radical head-
centre that this indefensible scoundrel
should have remained at liberty for over
three years after his guilt had been con
clusively established, and continued to
exercise his functions in his judicial ca
pacity ? He is a fit companion for other
culprits that are happily not unknown.
QEOOBAPHICAL OUTLINES.
It is good for a student to study the
geography of every other country but his
own, and this seems to have been the
invariable rule with the genius who in
vented a large proportion of the United
States mail routes by water. Some of
these routes as advertised are almost in
credibly absurd by reason of the hu
miliating ignorance which they display
concerning practicability. In manufac
turing these affairs the fabricator gen
erally includes places to which no vessel
drawing less than eight feet of water can
journey with “ports” which no craft of
draught of more than eighteen
inches oan enter. Hence the ser
vice is injured more or less, for
it follows naturally that a dug-out light
enough to ride upon a heavy vapor is not
the institution, to proceed to sea in. It
operates against the effectiveness of the
service in a great degree, and the world
has made sufficient progress in the sci
ence of navigation to authorize a rigid
abandonment of such dangerous and ex
pensive stupidity. This is merely an in
timation, which is subject to elaboration
by somebody else.
VEXATIOUS INDIFFERENCE.
The citizens of Amalia Island complain
loudly, one and all, of the irregularity of
the incoming mails. Letters and papers
are frequently three or fonr days behind,
and the matter is rapidly assuming the
proportions of an unbearable nuisance.
The evil is in part attributable to the
illiterate mail agents, in part to stolidity,
and in part to the postmaster
at Fernandina, who seems to consider
the office a mere sinecure, and devotes
considerably more attention to political
wire-pulling than he does to his legiti
mate duties. His woful lack of all dis
position to be accommodating, even in
the slightest particular, is abundantly
demonstrated by his supercilious conduct
in respect to delivering the mails after
they have arrived. Should the train be in
arrears fifteen minutes or so, this pro
voking kenclunan of the Radical party
will not exert himself to further the dis
tribution of the mail until after a lapse
of twelve or fourteen hours. Small
that the people of this plaoe
CASE OP J. C. BOCKENER.
On the occasion of the trial of Julius
C. Rockener at Fort Meade, on the 20th
ultimo, for the killing of Hilliard Jones
in December last, the jury acquitted the
defendant of the charge and he was re
leased. We are informed that the evi
dence was of such a positive character as
to exonerate the accused absolutely and
completely from any felonious motives as
the author of the homicide. His vindi
cation by a jury of his fellow-citizens of
Polk county will be beard of with
genuine thrill of pleasure by his numer
ous friends. ,
A MALICIOUS FABRICATION.
We are authorized to state that the
report which has been circulated assidu
ously in Savannah and Jacksonville by
interested parties to the effect that the
steamship Valley City has discontinued
her trips between Key West, Tampa and
Cedar Keys is entirely without founds
tion. The Valley City was indeed com
polled to miss one week in March on
account of boisterous weather on the
Gnlf, but no Captain, entertaining any
regard for the lives of his passengers,
would have ventured to sea under such
circumstances.
CLOSE OF THE ST. JAMES.
The popular mansion, the St. James
Hotel of Jacksonville, on Saturday ex
tinguished its lights for the last time
during the season, and closed its doors.
Mr. Campbell has simply added to his
host of admirers as a host, and his ac
complished adjutant, Mr. Hackett, has
won many friends who will miss his
charming semi-rotundity sadly from their
midst. The past season at the St. James
has been satisfactory, and not unprofit
able.
THE GRAND NATIONAL ALSO.
McGinley shut the doors of the Grand
National last week and left abruptly for
the Kimball House, at Atlanta. A mag
nificent array of well wishers anxiously
await McGinley’s coming the coming wiu-
ter again. Mac, you will observe, is
coincidence. Adrianus.
Negro Equality.
Editor Morning News :
No subject is fraught with so much in
terest's the one we now approach. It is
true we are, more or less, under the dic
tation of the Northern people, who insist
by their laws and by their ballots that the
negro must have social and every kind of
equality. But, unfortunately for us and
for the world, they know less about the
negro than we do.
Our forefathers were content with the
evidence of the senses on the subject of
the negro. To this we might add a little
of the philosophy of nature, which
teaches that there are creatures of all
kinds, and for every purpose under the
snn. They accepted the palpable theory
that there are degrees of men, as well as
orders of animals, and relied upon the
senses to point out these degrees. They
thought that the evidence that a negro is
a negro was just as good as the evidence
that a hog is a hog. In this they were
not mistaken.
It would not be safe to venture rashly
with this subject. Neither would it
be safe to disregard the teachings of
nature, and the manifest laws of the miud
and body. To be guided by the senses,
in studying the world around us, is the
natural and inevitable law of the mind.
And to make nature the foundation of
our philosophy is the true and only way.
Our fathers were not at a loss for a moral
guide in so important a matter. To them
nature was morals, and morals not found
ed on nature was false philanthropy. We
will not broach revelation. The religious
aspect of the question has beeD and will
yet be discussed.
False philanthropy seeks to elevate the
negro above his place at the expense of
the Caucasian. The negro is fitted for
hard labor by his physical form and
quality, while the white man is not, and
suffers physically from its effects. Hard
labor is a burden to the Caucasian, both
in mind and body. But fools laugh
when wise men talk. The world demands
hard labor from a certain proportion of
its people. It must ever be furnished.
Now, is the white to be compelled to
work for or with the inferior negro; or,
has not nature rather assigned to the
latter his place ? In fine, is the
Caucasian to command the service
and hard labor of his brother,
while he divides with the negro his offices,
his emoluments and his honors ? No,
righteous Heaven!
Let us seek the glorious task of elevat
ing the white man. He is susceptible of
it. Nature fitted him for a noble sphere
of action. He can be educated and re
fined, and restored to the image of God.
The white man, we repeat, can be made
worthy of his high calling. The negro
has none. He is no more a white man,
or his equal, than a bear is a horse. These
are careful words. The lesson is drawn
from nature itself, that the white man
and the negro were not made equal.
‘ I slap your spirit on the snout ” if it
tells me to take the negro into social
equality or to wed him to my children.
An abolitionist is a genuine ass. He lacks
the wit be should have drawn from the milk
of his natural mother. But a perverted
faith is capable of doing anything, and
it has accomplished the overthrow of
Southern institutions and American prin
ciples. Who can conceive the perfect
degredation to come from negro equality ?
'' I would rather be a dog and bay the
moon ” than such a citizen. It is need
less to add that the extinction of the
whits race would be the result.
Leon.
A Sermon Stopped by the Police.
The Rev. L. H. Johnson, the ex-Con-
gregational minister who preaches an
anti-Beecher religion, began open air
services on the steps of the Brooklyn
City Hall yesterday morning, and with
two assistants, who sang songs and dis
tributed tracts, attracted a throng. He
had no permit, and Sergeant Martin, ot
the Washington street police, ordered
him to move on. He began a sermon on
the curbstone of the sidewalk in front of
the new Park Theatre, and blocked up
the street again. He waved his hat and
talked excitedly. Inspector Waddy or
dered him to move on. Johnson said
that he was sent of God to preach, but
the Inspector insisted that he must not
create a disturbance or obstruct travel,
and made him move on. A half hour
later the same officer fonnd him talking
to a throng in Bridge street, and again
stopped him. In the afternoon Mr. John
son preached in Leffert’s Park.
“Henry Ward Beecher,” he said, “is
regarded as a great sinner because he is
alleged to have committed terrible
crimes. I have no doubt of his guilt.
Bnt on account of the money and the
fame that his talents have brought to
Plymouth Church, its congregation back
him np, and use every device to avoid
investigation and conceal his moral black
ness. When I was in the Congregational
Church I presided over a congregation in
Ohio. I was told that I must not expose
the covetuousness and hypocrisy of some
rich members of the congregation, but
must shape my utterances of the gospel
truths in a way that would not be offen
sive to them. I would not so restrain
myself, and these men opposed me. But
I got alo'ng until I endeavored to oust
two spiritual mediums. They were in
affinity with Beecher, then one of the
ruling powers of Congregationalism, and
I was worsted.”—New Tort Sun.
THE BIG SHOW.
What the Trip will Caat the Railroads
and Nteaaaboats
In giving a few days since the details
of a grand total of $487,000,000 in bonds
and currency, reported burned by the
Treasury, bnt for whifeh no satisfactory
vouchers can be found, we remarked
that the stealage was probably confined
to the currency, as any bonds re-issued
would betray themselves in seeking in
terest payments. The Washington cor
respondent of the Chicago Tima, now
states that overpayments of interest have
been detected on more than $200,000 of
bonds, and that the detection of dupli
cate coupons is ooi
till after they are paid.
Iu a general way, the trunk lines of
railway and their Western and Southern
connections have agreed upon a reduction
of twenty-five per cent, on Centennial
excursion tickets, bat the Eastern lines
have not as yet determined upon such
liberal dealing with those desirous of vis
iting the big show. Indeed, at a meeting
of Eastern ticket agents in Boston, on
Wednesday last, the representatives of
two or three roads emphatically stated
that they were “not going to cut down a
cent or even go to the expense of having
excursion tickets printed.”
the southern roads.
All the network of Southern railroads
is practically pooled together for through
business, under the name of the “Great
Southern Mail Route,” and this combi
nation, represented here by Mr. C. E.
Evans, is in 4he general twenty-five per
cent, reduction. In addition to this, to
further encourage travel, Mr. Evans has
now before the directors a proposition
looking to a still farther reduction of
fifteen per cent, from through rates to
parties or families of ten or more, and
this, it is understood, meets with favor
able consideration. While the travel over
this route would seem to be most natu
rally directed straight to the exposition,
by rail, leaving New York out in the cold
as an after consideration for the caprice
of each individual traveler, Mr. Evans
has incubated an ingenious way for bring
ing Southern visitors to New York, and
by a means which, will without doubt,
greatly enhance the delights of their
journey. At Norfolk, a point to which
all the travel by the various lines of
the Great Southern Mail Route will
easily converge, he expects to make ar-
rangements with the Norfolk line of steam
ships, by which passengers will be brought
around from there by sea to this city and
from here shipped to Philadelphia, via
the Pennsylvania Central or New Jersey
Central roads, at the same redaction
which they make to other lines here,
and all at the same price to the Southern
traveler as if he were pushed through by
rail. This arrangement would cost the
Southern railroad combination a little
more, but the added advantage of
change from the monotony of railroad
travel to twenty or twenty-four hours of
ocean voyaging, with the chanoe to visit
New York, would doubtless divert the
great mass of travel from the Southern
States in this direction. The Norfolk
line has now five new sidewheel steam
ships, and professes to be ready to run a
vessel daily each way if circumstances re
quire.
Mr. Evans says that from conversation
with Southern merchants who have vis
ited New York this spring, he is satisfied
that everybody in the Sjuth who can
raise money enough to get to the Cen
tennial will be sure to come, both blacks
and whites. The Southern roads have all
added largely to their rolling stock, in
anticipation of an increase of at least 100
per cent, in the travel. Not only day
cars, but “sleepers”—which are the chief
anxiety of Northern railroad officials—
they will have m abundance, as
the proportion of travelers de
manding them in that section of
the country is not 20 per cent. The col-
ored travelers will have separate cars,
as they now prefer to have, whatever
their fancies for self-assertion used to be
and the cars built for them are so arrang
ed with extra wide spaces between the
seats, that they can be transformed easily
into a sort of rude “sleepers” at night.
The prices of first-class excursion tickets
for the round trip, as near as can now be
determined, will be about as follows:
New Orleans, $60; Memphis, $45; Chat
tanooga, $38; Mobile, $55; Nashville, $37;
Jacksonville, Fla., $60; Jackson, Colum
bus and Meridan, $60; Vicksburg, $6;
Atlanta, Macon and Rome, $35; Selma
and Montgomery, $50; Columbus, Ga.,
$50.
STEAMBOATS AND STEAMSHIPS.
The New Y’ork and Charleston Steam
ship Company has as yet made no reduc
tion, but will, Mr. Quintard, the Presi
dent, states, if requested to do so, by
Southern railroad lines. Even if such
request is not made it will probably issue
excursion tickets on the basis of a reduc
tion of twenty-five per cent., which will
put the price of round trip tickets be
tween New Y'ork and Charleston at thirty
dollars. The railroad feeders for this
line at its Southern extremity are the
South Carolina, Greenville and Columbia,
Georgia, Macon and Augusta, and North
eastern Carolina Railroads. All have
already agreed to the proposed redaction.
The Old Dominion Steamship Com
pany have as yet made no other arrange
ments than announcing their fitting up
of the Isaao Bell with added state room
accommodatiou, for charter by excursion
parties from any point to Philadelphia
aDd return, with the privilege for the
excursionists of using her as a hotel
while under contract at Philadelphia.
Reduction of rates on excursion tickets
by the regular vessels of the line is, how
ever, contemplated, and when agreed
upon will be announced in due season.
On Garrison’s New Ycrk and Savannah
line no reductions are anticipated. There
is already a direct line between Savannah
and Philadelphia, upon which it is ex
pected the Centennial excursionists will
generally prefer to go.
C. H. Mallory <fc Co. say that they do
not expect any extraordinary travel by
their Texas line on account of the Cen
tennial exposition, as the railroads will
carry passengers at low rates in little
more than half the time they take. Nor
on their Fort Royal line will they make
any redaction, as the present tariff is
quite low enough.
Miraculous Powers Claimed for Catho
lic Relics.
There is in West Hoboken, New York,
an institution known as the Monastery of
the Fassionist Fathers, where it is as
serted some special healing merit is found
in ancient Catholic relics.
There is a chapel attached to the mon
astery, and here the Fathers have labored
for nearly twelve years building and
raising funds and adding to their pro
perty. For many months it has been
claimed by Catholics in this city that
some startling miracles have been
wrought by relics in possession of th^
Fathers, and, whether there is any
worldlinesa in it or not, the monastery is
now having an excellent “run” in the
miracle line. The head of the institution
is an Italian known as Father Vitalian,
and a very pleasant-speaking, genial, po
lite gentleman he is too. Strangers are
always welcomed. Yet his language
sounds strange to th6 average American
ear. He claims that the power of heal
ing belongs to the church, and has de
scended to it direct from the Apostles.
The relics are chiefly of St. Paul of the
Passion, who died in 1775. He is de
scribed by the Father as follows: “He was
a wonderfully holy man to whom the
Lord gave many visions, showing him in
a vision at one time while at prayer that
the Passionists should have their houses
in England. * * * We believe that the
relics of this holy man, who has been
duly canonized, have the efficacy to work
cores for diseases in those who come in
the spirit of faith and prayer.” He gives
many instances of miraculous cures for
rheumatism, paralysis, and epilepsy, and
there is no doubt that hundreds of devout
Catholics are resorting to the plaoe for
cores every week.
The Mysterious Death of a Lady at
Chelsea, England
The cable has already reported Ui9
sudden and mysterious death of a lady at
Chelsea, in London. The English papers
now supply details of the drama. The
London Standard of April 18 baa the
following : “Owing to the hurried man
ner in which the information concerning
the death was collected it was almost im
possible to glean accurate particulars, but
public feeling in the locality having now
somewhat subsided a statement approach
ing at least toward the truth can be put
forward. It appears that the age of the
deceased is about thirty-six or thirty-
eight, instead of twenty-six, and her chUd
is a boy about four years of age. The
deceased, Mrs. Porter, had resided in the
neighborhood for some years past,
and was always known as a quiet,
amiable lady, who wore a profus
ion of valuable jewelry, and whose hus
band was traveling on the continent,
as two letters found, which are now in
the possession of the police prove. Abont
a twelvemonth ago she took the honse
No. 26 Maude Grove, for three years, her
landlord being Mr. Cliff, who resides next
door, and whose family were on the most
intimate terms with Mrs. Porter. For
the last fonr months their lived with the
deceased a man and a woman known by
the name of Wallace. Mrs. Porter's little
boy was in the habit of calling them
‘uncle’ and ‘aunt.’ The deceased
was described as a weak, feeble woman.
On Thursday morning last she was taken
suddenly ill, and the female lodger went
for Dr. Whitefield,who, on being told bis
presence was urgently needed, at once re
paired to the honse in question. On his
arrival he found Mrs. Porter suffering
from what he considered a bilious attack,
and prescribed accordingly. Later in the
day he paid another visit, and saw one of
the two servants, who told him that Mrs.
Wallace had said that ‘Mrs. Porter had got
over her fit and was quiet now.’ Daring
the evening the father of Mrs. Porter
called, and knowing that Mrs. Porter was
unwell, her landlord paid her a visit, and
sat with her for some time. In the course
of the conversation he advised her to re
move her ear rings, which were set with
diamonds, and were of great value. She
accordingly did so, placing them in a
handkerchief, with her gold watch and
chain, and putting them under her pil
low. Mr. Cliff having retired, the de-.
ceased was left alone with the two
lodgers and her little boy, who sat beside
her on the bed, and who began to cry.
On one of the servants ascending the
stairs Mrs. Wallace called out, ‘ Y’ou
need not come, she is better now,' mean
ing Mrs. Porter, whom the girls thought
haid had a fit. Afterward, as has already
been reported, after a cab had arrived
and taken the lodgers to Charing Cross
Railway station, with their luggage, one
of the servants entered the room and was
horrified to observe her mistress almost
insensible, but attempting to speak. In
a few minutes afterward assistance ar
rived. Dr. Whitefield also came, but his
efforts were of no avail, as the poor
woman had breathed her last. It was at
first thought that she had died in a fit,
from the statements made, but on closer
examination it appeared probable that
chloroform bad been administered. One
of the servants stated that on entering
the room the first time she smelt a pecu
liar odor which she should never forget.
On examination of the place it was found
that the drawers had been turned over,
the parcel of jeweliy had been abstracted
from beneath the pillow, every ring, of
which there were four or five, including
her wedding ring, had been taken from
her fingers, and a splendid Indian shawl
was missing. An account was given by
the little boy, who is a most intelligent
little fellow, regarding the conduct which
he witnessed. He says: ‘ I saw uncle
(meaning Wallace) throw mamma down
and take her rings from off her fingers.
When I cried aunty gave me an apple and
took me down stairs, and said if I was a
good boy she would buy me a bun.’ ”
There is not much danger of His Holi
ness the Pope coming tj want in his old
age. Last year the “Peter’s pence” and
jubilee indulgences netted him $4,000,-
000. The Emperor Ferdinand,of Austria,
left him $3,000,000, as heir of the Duke
of Modena he can calculate on an income
of $50,000 a year; Lord Ripon gave him
$50,000 outright; a Belgian convert,
$40,000; and a pious old lady, recently
deceased, $100,000.
When Mark Antony threw himself upon
the “dear remains” of his loved Csesar in
a Pittsburgh theatre the other evening
he struck the “eorpae” fair in the
■tomnh, which had f >e affect of doubling
it “* *
Horrible Religious Fanaticism.
Neosho, Mo., April 25.—Last Saturday
night iu the neighborhood of Thurman's
lead mines in Newton county, Missouri,
the attention of some neighbors was at
tracted to the house of the Rev. Mr.
Lynch by loud and unusual noise in the
way of shouting, singing and praying,
and upon going to tho house the doors
were discovered barred on the inside.
Admittance was refused by the inmates,
and the doors were broken open, when
the BhockiDg spectacle of a nude mnn and
woman stood erect on the floor. The
man proved to be the Rev. Lynch, a min
ister of some peculiar sect that ap
proximates Mormonism in all respects,
except they hold it to be wrong
to have more than one wife; the
other, the woman, was ascertained to be
Mr. Lynch’s wife’s sister, about twenty
years old; upon the bed a plank was lying
on which a beautiful child two years of
age was lying cold in death with its skull
mashed in. Lynch, the father of the
dead child, told the intruders that his
child had for some time been possessed
of the devil, aud that they had destroyed
and cast out the devil in obedience to the
special injunction of the Lord. At the
time he and his sister-in-law were chant
ing hymns over the pale face of the inno
cent babe, its mother and a man whose
name I could not learn were down in the
brush near the house shrieking wildly
and praying to God. The Rev. Mr.
Lynch and his sister-in-law were taken
into custody and brought to this place
and lodged in our county jail.
I repaired to the jail this morning and
had a long interview with the prisoners,
especially the yonng woman. She would
converse freely on all subjects except the
murder of the child. She was bom in
Arkansas; her name is Celia Lavina
Treace. She is now twenty years old,
and is really a handsome young woman.
At seventeen she became the mother of a
girl child, now living with one of her
sisters in this county, and some two
months since she added another illegiti
mate to her family. She says that a dis
tinguished minister of their church at
Neosho county, Kansas, made a slight
departure from the recognized dogmas of
the true church by adding free love to the
original doctrine. That she was misled by
him; that said divine is the father of
her boy babe, now two months old.
The child is in jail with her. So far she
refuses to eat. She says that she will
not eat for forty days and nights. I told
her the child would starve. She replied
that the Saviour of the world was in the
Mount that long and lived afterward.
The prevailing opinion here is that the
prisoners are crazy, and their insanity is
confined to religious hallucination. Mr.
Lynch seems to be familiar with the Old
Testament, and insists that he was ful
filling the requirements of Scriptuie
when he killed his little girl. It is an
ottering to God for sin. He imagines
himself Abraham, and feels that he must
prove his faith in God by sacrificing hia
child.
The examination of ' the prisoners was
held before Joseph Hewitt, Esq. The
defendants made no defense, and were
committed for murder. The mother of
the dead child is afflicted with the same
delusion that seems to have fallen upon
the prisoners.—St. IjOuis Republican.
The Gospel of Gush—Beecher Telling'
Another Story of Which he Is the
Hero.
“ When I was in Roxbury last week,’
said Mr. Beecher yesterday morning, “ I
saw three children looking longingly into
a candy and gingerbread shop. When I
spoke to them, they drew away from me
and dared not utter a word. ‘ Children,’
said I, ‘would you take some candy if I
gave it to you ?’ and I thought I saw
a relaxing eye in one of them, so
I hustled them all into the shop, and
forthwith each had a supply of oandy
and gingerbread. Then they showed
their good breeding, for they thanked
me, which is more than a good many city
children would have done. Now, these
children were not mine: I did not know
whether they deserved candy and ginger
bread or not, for I had never seen them
before, and the probability seems to be
that I shall never see them again. Bat
my natural Jove for children led me to
treat them, for I cannot bear to see hun
gry little ones watching the window of a
cook shop and unable to get in. This, in
a very small way, exemplifies God's affec
tion for his children; not in proportion to
their deserts, bnt oat of his own great
love.”
Fifty-three persons were propounded
for membership in Plymouth church yes
terday—nine women and eight men by
letter, and twenty-three women and thir
teen men by profession of faith. After
the prayer meeting on Friday evening,
snch of those about to unite with the
church as desire to will be baptized by
immersion. “Because,” said Mr. Beech
er, when making the announcement yes
terday, “it is just as good as baptism by
sprinkling; for, after all, it is not the