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Tlie Georgia Press Association.
jie innaal meeting of the Georgia Press Con-
enI , on Will be held in Savannah on WEDNES
DAY, May 10th, at 12 o'clock M.
Tickets over the Ce ,ira’ Railroad can be had
on application to I he President of the Association.
J. II. ESTILL, President.
H. H. C'abaniss, Rec. Sec’ty.
Affairs in Georgia.
The Georgia editors will probably visit
Booavonlure and Thunderbolt on Wednos-
d,y afternoon.
1. A. Lutes, formerly connected with the
Pearson Pioneer, is in jail. Lutes is the
who was arrested in Key West some
as tho murderer of Senator John-
party
time ago
ion.
Col. E. Y. Clarke, one of the eleven able
editors ol tho Atlanta Constitution, has ro-
centlv got into the habit of making Colum-
buB his headquarters. His movements are
exceedingly mysterious.
i newly married Macon lady complains
tbit she cannot find in the literature of
eookery a recipe for making coffee. She no
doubt has grounds for her complaint.
Personal in Griflin .Votes.- Whidby has
bis peculiarities. With the reader’s per
mission we group together this additional
item from his gifted pen. “The belie of
Calhoun street will goto the picnic at Stone
Mountain to-day.”
Col. Sawyer, of the Romo Courier,will not
attend the Press Convention.
The invitations to the press excursion to
Tybee,issued by tho Morning News, were in
tended to include every Georgia editor. Those
»ho have reoeived no formal invitatiefh will,
tie trust, attribute the fact to inadvertence.
An invitation to editors of daily newspapers
was not considered necessary.
We regret to learn from the Eatontou
Messenger of the death of Colonel W. T.
Young, of that plaee. He was not only
well known in Putnam county, hut had a
wide circle of Masonic .acquaintances
throughout the State.
The eleven able editors of the Atlanta
Constitution scout the idea that there are
any political rings in Georgia. We trust,
that the eleven able editors are correct,
t’ap ain J. Lindsey Johnson will represent
the Home Courier at the Press Convention.
A Barnesville thief was mean enough to
rob the baptist Church the other night. He
even got away with tho organ.
Mr. John Dunlop, of Atlanta, was married
recently to Mias Grace Roddy, one of tho
moat charming and accomplished young
ladies of Forsyth.
Ono thousand one hundred tons of com
mercial fertilizers have been Bold in Eaton
Ion this season.
The Rome Courier says : Mrs. Mary
Hazleton attained her hundred and second
year on tho 2d instant. She is still hale and
hearty—with more vigor of spirits and
mind than many octeganarians, a*<l gives
promise of several years yet to come. _ She
speaks of visiting the centennial. She has
seen a great deal of the world, having trav
eled in her younger days extensively in
Europe, and she yet retains many pleasant
recollections of her travels.
Columbus wants a better water supply.
Mr. DeWitt C. Garrett, of Colnmbus, is
dead.
The Louisville News and Farmer has en
tered its Bixth volume.
The religion of the Rev. W. W. Fleming,
ot the Blakeley News, is evidently of a
serious cast. He promises to play the char
ted of the lighting parson at the nex t
Trees Convention.
The eleven ablo editors of the Atlanta
Constitution unanimously remark: “There is
no mistake but that Dr. J. H. McLean’s
Btreugtheniug cordial and blood purifier is
the spring and summer remedy. It will
nuke you robust, healthy, strong and vigor
ous, give vitality and purify yonr blood.”
The Eatonton Messenger has entered upon
its tenth volume.
CoL Acton, the able agent of th 0 Atlanta
ostitution, is said to have been discovered
asleep on the sidewalk in Thomaston the
other day. It will thus be seen that the most
talented intellects need repose.
The Columbus Enquirer says that dnring
the cotton week ending Frinay night, the
astern railroads of, Alabama brought to Co
lumbus, ea route for Savannah and New
*ork, 251 hales cotton—81 from Mobile, 100
from Montgomery, 50 from Vicksburg. The
total through movement by this route since
September 1st, is 35,017 bajes—9,217 from
Mobile, 7,091 from Montgomery, 11,308 from
Selma, 5,491 from West Point, Opelika, etc.,
■ -b from Vicksburg, 204 from New Or-
55 by North aad South Railroad. The
' J tal movement Iasi season was 34,781.
Daring same time the Mobile and Girard
■abroad has brought up 9,479 through,
gainst 4,902 bales.
The village of Stockton celebra ted May
“ U unusually enthusiastic and appropriate
trteeiT’ W '*^ ‘ d ’ 8s TIelen Van Geisen as
Columbus} Enquirer: Friday morning, a
'Wo* two o’clock, the alarm of tire
®G& TCn : -^e fire was firBt discovered by
lat ’? J* 19 front of the roof of the dol-
r° °f A. Back, a one story brick house
u,r ® tor Y back j on the west side of Broad
g.jRandolph and St. Clair streets,
to stii S t? Be Ph 9w slept in the rear room
ter , “ ac k "rent in his store at a qnar-
. r past one. " - ■ • - -
V jumping
fevY
I*,.,,, 1190 la a very few moments after
lame ~ l ? eo ’ er ed. Stock here was not
adioinir,™ u bre 00 ‘bo south took in the
bvj t 9 000 story brick building, occupied
toMdi li o' W , 00d ’ faDC >- groceries. A
Ljtt, , h , ‘J 19 latter’s stock was saved,
fits l, r i,.i b9 ““tidings were entirely burned,
ia» alone standing. Bothbelong-
itnali brill ■ * Curtis. The roof of the
ahghttv 1 „ lc ? house on the south was
li; f" r “ ed ' .This also belonged to W.
the uortl, *i 8t& l ed l l* a h re on the south. On
‘•e-store 1,. 8 !“? destroyed the roof of the
Joe g v |,rick building belonging to Mr.
* boot* ails o 1 occu pied by Wells A Curtis as
h sired ti ' 06 8t9re - The stock was most-
HofoftL flames extended to the
41 au insn™ omiB S brick building,occupied
Sage u ( l 60ll ? ce b Y D- F. Wiliox. The
iLij bv te 8 “U'ldiDg was not heavy.
Staked thTV wooden cornices the fire
datratd’,, J! 00 ’ °f Jones’s bnilding (now
^ 11 attained immense dam-
f to.oon nu, d W8 fe r , probably to the extent
i°*6pU i t>“ 9 “rat floor is occupied by
fioael, iawellrrl ?. r , 5 ’ S ood8 > and Wittich A
r^Uirjvj.j, (the goods of whom were
u I’' 8 jairs as offices and
5**her ■Atth This bnilding, to
rn 1 - is ownl , at , occu P ied by Mr Wil-
wooden hi! ib e Garrard estate.
^ ldit >es aSr?“^ e “ ‘bo rear of these
£atly tel, K , ed ' ‘be. want of water was
n?*5 rn <, and So. 5 exhausted six
S a ciai,.-„ ‘ ‘wo. The latter then
He and hia nephew escaped
on a shed ana thence slid
p i* cistern +1 a ane latter tnen
Phenixwnl as ke P l fi^d by the
I &way. wo rka, some fourthundred
fe 1 C L pla ;l tff0 streams for
J* J* & V. works kent did - K aUa QtVrvioe.
.f^ro, ^ « r « an ln coBsantVtream
IS. and the for h - 0ag t aver ? line
S' Joseph fcI‘ n c b«K« did sjMen-
tewn a ? on their^stoet- 61 h . l d *20,000 illtar-
;b° in the Knnti? k ’ value d at $30,000—
°f North im r “ Muttul . *5,000 In-.
A*5,000 Ni«i“ e T noa - * 5 .«» Fireman’s'
I Asf ‘bvr 1 ? 8urwice - They havet
on BroJ -t'i 8 J 01 ? «>« Eppingl
0&d itr99 ‘.l between 0 J. j
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Moffett’s and Frank Johnson’s, and are
now arranging them in the best order pos
sible for drying. None of their goods were
burned, but all were more or less consid
erably damaged by the smoke and water,
lhe loss is fully covered. What it
is cannot now even be estimated.
Wells A Curtis had $10,000 insurance
Jf™ s Stock of shoes valued at $20,000—
*3,000 in Georgia Home; *2,000 Pho nix, of
Brooklyn; *5,000 Southern Mutual. Then-
total loss is about *6,500. They carried their
stock into the Virginia store, on Broad
street. They are greatly damaged bv smoke
and water, in addition to some of the stock
being consumed. Everything is being ar
ranged to go immediately into business.
Joseph Kyle had *5,500 on his store, valued
at *7,000—$2,500 in the Georgia Home
$3,000 Underwriters of New York. Loss about
*500. J. J. AW. R. Wood were insured *2,100
on their stock of groceries, valued at *3,000
—*600 in the Hartford Inauranco,*500 in the
Pncenix, of Hartford. Loss about *2,500 ;
salvage Dear *500. They have moved into
Johnston’s old hat store, on Broad street.
Wittich A Kinsel, insured *17,500 on jewelry
valued at *20,000—*5,000 in tho .Etna, *5,000
New York Underwriters, *3,000 German
American, *2,500 Home of New York, *2,000
Westchester of New York; *1,500 on loase of
store. Nothing was lost except it be stolen.
They are located in E. E. Yonge’s hat store,
on Broad street. Mr. Garrard, executor,
had *10,000 on a three story bnilding valued
art *18,000; *5,000 in the North British and
Mercantile, and *5,000 in tho National. His
loss is about $5,000. Blandford A Gar
rard had insurance on their library for
*2,000, valued at *3,500, in tho North Brit
ish and Mercantile. No loss. A. Back had
$3,000 on bis dollar store ‘goods; *1,500 in
the London, Liverpool and Globe; *1,500 in
the People’s Insurance Company. Total
loss is not known.
lhe Wool Trade.
[From the Philadelphia Manufacturers' Gazette.]
It would be difficult to select from the
list of our depressed industries any one
branch of business, and confidently assert
that it has suffered more than any other
lit TUUPH
-TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
THE METHODISTS IN COUNCIL.
Summary
of Congressional
ceediugs.
Pro-
PKEFEKENCE OF THE GEORGIA
DELEGATION.
THE MURDERER OF MABEI. YOU NO.
PIEGAN-PBIL. DETAINS THE LONG
HAIRED CUSTER.
A CONCHES* OF LAWYERS.
THS METHODIST COXFEBKNCK.
Baltimobe, May 6.—Bishop Harris pre
sided at the opening of the conference this
morning. A communication from the Bish
ops was read expressive of pleasure and
gratification at the manner in which the
fraternal messengers from the last general
conference had been received by the General
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church,South. The paper was adopted and
ordered published with the address of the
Bishops.
Rev. J. Lanahan presented a communi
cation signed by certain members of the
Methodist Church in this city, which was
referred to the committee on the book
concern. It states or represents the New
York concern in a sound and safe
financial condition,bat thero should be a bet
ter income than eight per cent, from the
million invested. The Western book eon-
in the general prostration of trade, but • cer ^ 48 P r8c ‘ lc ally insolvent. The church
1 needs bnt one printing and publishing
certainly in the traffic of wool and woolen
goods and the manufacture of tho latter
are among those which have received
some of tho hardest blows and a backset
scarcely exceeded by the experience of
any. The failures among the manufac
turers have been so numerous that they
might almost be said to be general, and
the failures among dealers in wool and
commission houses for the sale of woolen
goods have been numerous. The causes
of this condition of the trade are various,
and reach primarily back to the war,
when the stimulus to the production of
woolen goods was numerous, and for
tunes were then made which have since
been gradually dwindling down, until
they have ended in bankruptcy. With
the close of the war production of goods
should have been curtailed, but this was
not done, and manufacturers, by the aid,
and in many cases at the express entrea
ty, of the commission merchants con
tinued to produce goods which were not
needed, losing money all the time but
with hope that a favorable time would
come which never came. Thus large
consumption of the raw material kept up
the price of wool for a time. It gradually
declined, it is true, but only after manu
facturers had lost so much money that
they were sadly crippled, and the past
year has resulted in the breaking down
of so many of them that it will take
years of prosperity for this industry to
recover.
There is now a forced reduction in the
consumption of the raw material which
is toiling heavily upon the price of wool,
and this will be more seriously felt by
producers this season than ever before.
Nearly all the speculators in wool have
lost money for several successive years,
and it is not probable that they will take
hold of it unless at much lower prices
than have prevailed since the war.
Dealers will act with extreme caution,
and few of the manufacturers are in a
condition to buy in anticipation of their
wants even if they were disposed to do so.
With such an outlook the prospect for
wool-growers to obtain any considerable
profit over the actual cost of production
is not very flattering, and it is not impro
bable that the longer they hold their
wool the worse they will be off, for
whatever the opening prioe may be, it is
likely to be higher than later in the sea
son. The production is conceded to be
fully as large as last year with more of
the last year’s crop left over than there
was a year ago, while the indications are
that the consumption will be less, so that
there will be steady accumulation of
stock pressing upon the market. The
only possible relief would be a foreign
export demand, but snch is the depress
ion of business in Europe that this is not
likely to occur. The lower prices which
prevail for woolen goods may increase
the consumption of them, but there is
already a large surplus on the markets,
and many kinds are selling far below the
cost of production, so that their fabrica
tion is not likely to receive much stimu
lus from this source unless much lower
prices should prevail for the raw material
tnan has yet been mentioned.
A sacramental chalice, to be presented
to Archb shop Purcell, of Cincinnati, by
the laity of his Diocese on the fiftieth
anniversary of his priesthood, which oc
curs May 21, has been manufactured in
Newark, New Jersey. The Advertiser
describes it as follows: “ It is of solid
gold, eighteen carats tine, weighing seven
handred pennyweights, is ten and a half
inches high, and is valued at four thou
sand dollars. Around the bowl of the
cup are thirty half-carat diamonds, sim
ply and chastely mounted. On the ba.ia
is a diamond cross, and above an etching
of Peter, which is flanked by two large
amethysts, incrusted with diamonds.
Two other amethysts, similarly orna
mented with diamonds, interrupt shields
between admirable engravings of St.
Paul and the Virgin. On the centre of
the standard a row of smaller amethysts
surrounds the central swell. The bowl is
of dark red gold, and there are green,
yellow and light red gold colors placed in
wonderful contrast and harmony. Bnt
the real beauty of this work of art is in
absolute grace of proportion. The chas
ing is exquisite in its idea, outline and
the strange effect it has upon color and
light and shade. ”
Charlotte Cushman’s Will.—The will
of MiBs Charlotte Cushman bequeaths
$1,500 a year to her brother Charles, and
the same amount to her friend Emma
Stebbins. She gives to Rosalie and Mabel
Muspratt, nieces, of Liverpool, England,
.$750 a year each, to be made $1,000 in
case of marriage, to three children of her
half nephew, $111 each a year, and to
Sallie Mercer, her servant, $500 a year
and the use of a house in Philadelphia
rent free during her life. Mr. Edward C.
Cushman, her nephew, isjmade the re
siduary legatee.
Determined Suicide by a Boy.—James
M. Fair, a boy fifteen years old, a mem
ber of the family of Mr. Tyler Watts,
who lives on Union avenue, Jamaica,
committed suicide yesterday in the most
determined manner. His father died
some time ago leaving him $17,000, and
it is reported that the greater part of
this sum has been lost by mismanage
ment. This preyed upon the boy’s mind,
and last evening he constructed a kind of
seaffold in a coal shed and deliberately
hanged himself.—N. Y. Post, 29fh.
Fatal Bite from a Rat.—A telegram
from Ann Arbor, Michigan, says that Mr
Josh G. Leiand, a prominent resident of
that city, died on Thursday from the
effects of the bite of a rat. Some days
Dreviously he attempted to kill a rat, and
it bit him on the hand. The hand and
arm commenced swelling, and continued
to swell until they reached an enormous
size Death resulted in about a week.
Mr. Leiand was seventy years old.
A Whole Family Drowned. — On
Monday last, while Orson Boyd was
fording the Delaware river, near Port
lervis New York, one of his horses
stumbled and ptilled his mate down with
him By this accident the wagon was
overthrown and Mr. Boyd and his entire
family, consisting of Mrs. Boyd and three
children, were pitched into the river and
drowned. m m ^
A bov at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
printing and publishing
house. The periodical department of the
Western concern, as now constituted, is a
constant and increasing source of loss.
Three ministers and three laymen were
appointed by the Bishops under a resolu
tion of the last General Conference, to pre
pare a succinct code of ecclesiastical
jurisprudence and procedure, em
bracing the general principles applica
ble to church trials. The committee,
he said, were unanimons in adopting
the preliminary chapter, but were not of
one opinion as to the code. The chairman
was instructed by the majority to present a
report, and Dr. Mily would present a mi
nority report. Both reports were presented
and ordered printed.
The hour for receiving fraternal messen
gers from the British Wesleyan Conference
having arrived, Rev. Dr. Tosse, of New York,
introduced Rov. W. B. Pope, Professor of
Theology in Didsbury College, Manchester,
England, and Rev. P. Newman introduced
Rev. Jas. Harrison Begg, President of West
minster Training College, London, the col
league of Prof. Pope. The entire confer
ence rose on the introduction of the messen
gers. The answer of the British Conference
of 1875 to the address of the General Con
ference held in Brooklyn in 1872 was pre
sented by the messengers and read by the
Secretary.
The answer is one of cordial fraternal
greeting and encouragement, succinctly re
viewing the great work of the church, its
steady progress and rapid increase in both
hemispheres.
Professor Pope then addressed the con
ference. His address was able and eloquent,
eliciting frequent outbursts of applause
from tbe conference and the vast assembly.
Referring to the Centennial as common to
the nation and Methodism in the United
States, he said : “You and me are alike gen
erous and Christian enough to rejoice to
gether in the great event which, a hundred
years ago, displayed the hand of Providence
in making you an independent people, great
in yourselves and strong in the prophesy of
larger greatness. We knew full well that no
act of independence can make yon, in the
deepest sense, independent of England.
We hold you by an indissoluble bond.
The blood in your veins beatB time to the
pulsations of our hearts, and ourB beats time
to yours. But, after all, your Centennial is,
as has been fully shown, a religious festival
at the foot of tbe heavenly throne. Yon are
bent on superadding to yonr national and
civil rejoicing a great tribute to Him who
took up yonr national independence into
His council for the government of the
world. May He accept yonr tribute and
sanctify your national year to the increase
of grace in your hearts, households, minis
try and common work.”
Rev. Dr. Begg followed in au interesting
and able speech, after which the conforenco
adjourned.
The concluding portion of the paper pre
sented by Dr. Lanahan in the conference
this morning in reference to the book con
cern having been sent to the Associated
Press, the following is furnished the press
by the parties whose signatures are at
tached:
“The statement of the insolvency
of the Western Methodist Book Concern, at
Cincinnati, contained id the memorial pre
sented to the General'Conference through
Dr. Lanahan, and given to the As
sociated Press, is utterly untrue. Its assets
are *503,285 73 in excess of its liabilities.
Its net profits the past four years were
*80,686 05, and the concern is nnombarrassed.
Its business has been constantly supervised,
and its assets and accounts -carefully exam
ined and estimated by the committee of
three bnsiness laymen appointed by the last
General Conference, namely : Amos Shin-
kle, James P. Kilbreth and It. A. W. Braehel,
whose separate report fully corroborates
the report of the book agents.
(Signed)
“Hitchcock & Walden, Agents.
“Amos Shinkel,
“Robert F. O’Neal.
“Chas. W. Rowland.”
The signers allnded to are C. Herbert
Richardson, John Miller, John Baer, Jesse
L. Warfield.
congressional notes.
Washington, May 6.—The chair laid be
fore the Senate Committee a document from
the Secretary of the Treasury regarding tho
tax on capital and deposits of savings insti
tutions.
In the impeachment proceedings Junks
and Hoar, on behalf of the managers, ad
dressed the Senate. Knott, who was unwell,
will conclude his argnmout Monday, when
Black will conclude and the Senate will take
up the question of jurisdiction.
In the House, Moyne was seated.
Vance offered a resolntion directing au
enquiry regarding the lease of public offices
at Ashvilie, N. C. Adopted.
A resolution authorizing the use of tents
and camp equipage for the veterans of the
wars of 1812 abd Mexico at the Centennial,
was passed.
The Military Committee reported a bill
to promote the efficiency of the army with
amendments. It was ordered printed and
recommitted.
Gnnter introduced a bill for the disposi
tion of the Hot Springs reservation.
Gibson—To establish marine schools at
Wilmington, N. O., Charleston, Savannah,
Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston.
The post office appropriation was re
sumed. The clause abolishing the carrier
system in cities of under 40,000 inhabitants
was discussed, bnt without action.
A bill introduced by Hewitt to-day ex
empts from stamp tux savings institutions
having no capital stock and doing no other
bnsiness than investing.
FRENCH NOTES.
Paris, May 6.—The Committee on the
Budget have approved the grant for send
ing a delegation of workmen to the Centen
nial exhibition at Philadelphia, but rejeoted
the amendment of M. Flouquet requiring
the Minister of Commerce to consult with
the workmen’s associations relative to the
selection of. persons to be sent. The com
mittee wish the Minister to have full liberty
of choice. The government approves the
proposal.
The government has ordered all Mayors
who are not members of the Municipal
Councils to be removed from office.
M. lticard, Minister of the Interior, has
sent a ciroular to the prefects ordering them
to permit the fullest liberty in regard to the
sale of newspapers.
THE SAMOAN MINISTER.
San Francisco, May 6.—A dispatch has
boon received here from Washington dis
placing Foster, the American Consul at Sa
moa, and appointing James M. Coe, who
arrived here to-day by the steamship Zea-
landio from Fiji, he having been taken there
from Samoa as a prisoner on board of the
British war vessel Barracouta. The dis
patches arrived in tims to go by the schr.
Ada May, which sailed a few days ago, but
owing to some misunderstanding she left
without them. A steam-tug was sent
in pursuit of the schooner but failed to
overtake her. The dispatches will be sent
by the next vessel.
congress of lawyers.
Philadelphia, May 6.—The United States
Law Association, through its President, H.
Charles Ulman, of New York, has made ar
rangements for a congress of the leading
lawyers throughout the country to convene
at Philadelphia on the 20th, 21st and 22d of
June. The object is to adopt measures
looking to a unification of the laws of the
several States effecting more especially the
commercial and domestic relations, and for
the general expression of opinion regarding
SENTENCED.
St. Louis, May 6.—In the United States
District Court this morning, affidavits show
ing facts in the mitigation of the offences of
John T. Howard, Louis Ketterman, John A.
Mead aDd R. B. Jones, were read to the
court, and brief remarks were made by
counsel for the defendants, and on behalf of
the government. Sentence was then passed
as follows : Lonis Ketterman, ganger, six
months in jail and one thousand dollars fine
John T. Howard, ganger, John A. Mead
ganger : R B. Jones, storekeeper, and Hen
ry Armstead, storekeeper, each fifteen
months in the connty jail, and one thousand
dollars fine.
FROM SPAIN.
Madrid, May 6.—Congress has, by a vote
of 163 to 12, rejected an amendment to tbe
constitution which proposed that Dissenters
should be restricted to private worship,
The Ministers of Justice declared that Dis
senters would enjoy the same civil rights as
Catholics.
San Sebastian, May 6.—The Committee
of the Municipality have refused to allow
delegates sent to Madrid to negotiate with
tho government relative to ihe fueros upon
the basis proposed by the Prime Minister,
Conovas Del Castillo, that the Basque prov
inces and Navarre must submit to conscrip
tion and pay taxes like other provinces.
THE AFRICAN METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Atlanta, Ga., May 6.—The General Con
ference of the African Methodist Chnrch
adopted resolutions of thanks to the man
agers of the Centennial for recognizing the
Sabbath.
Resolutions of fraternal greeting were
adopted and fraternal messengers elected
to the Methodist Church North, Methodist
Chnrch South, African Methodists of Zion,
the Colored Methodist United Brothren of
Christ, the British Methodists, Protestaut
Methodists, and True Wesleyans.
A telegram of fraternity was Bent to the
Baltimore Conference.
THE MALAGA OUTRAGE.
London, May 6.—A special to the Times
from Madrid, says the outrage at Malaga,
in which a British subject, a sailor belong
iug to Gibraltar, was shot and allowed to
bleed to death on board the Clementina,
contraband vessel, by Spanish revenue offi
cers, proves to be worse than at first as
sumed. The victim was buried without
post mortem examination, and the Spanish
authorities refuse to inform the British Con
sul of Mb name.
vsiotf PACIFIC.
New York, May 6.—A World special says,
Gen. Huuterscom has begnn the investiga-
of the Union Pacific Company, under the
Tarbox resolution, and has discovered in
the testimony of an officer of the company
that thero is on the books of the company
shortage of *247,000 of first mortgage bonds,
and *110,000 of government or second mort
gage bonds. The committee will begin the
investigation of Blaine’s alleged connection
with it.
MARINE NEWS.
Plymouth, May 6—The steamer Frisia,
which sails to-morrow for New York, takes
the most of the passengers of the Goethe
which put back disabled. The steamer St,
Laurent, from New Y'ork, landed here forty
passengers of the Dominion Line steamer
Ontario, from Liverpool for Quebec, who
were off that vessel May 3d in latitude 47:30
north and longitude 24:30 west. The Onta
rio was leaking.
M’EEE AND MAGUIRE.
Washington, May 6.—Wm. McKee arrived
from St. Louis with his counsel, and will
present his petition for pardon within a day
or two. The only response to the applica
tion for pardon made to Mr. Dyer in behalf
of McKee and Maguire, was received by the
Attorney General to-day by telegraph, and
is to the effect that Col. Dyer had seen the
Judge and they could do nothing at pres
ent.
FROM LONDON.
London, May 6.—In the Honse of Com
mons, Mr. Disraeli, replying to a motion for
the production of papers relative to the
Russian conquest of Khokand, said the gov
ernment did not regard the natural develop
ment of the Russian Empire with jealousy,
He believes the understanding between
England and Russia was never better than
□ow. The motion was withdrawn.
MABEL YOUNO’S MURDERER.
Boston, May 6.—A motion has been filed
for a new trial in the case of Pi
per, who his been convicted twice
for the murder of Mabel Young. The
motion is founded upon tho alleged finding
of another bat similar to tbe one said to
have been used by Piper. The motion will
be argued on Monday.
A LAND CLAIM DECIDED.
Omaha, May 5 In the Circuit Court yes
terday Justice Miller rendered a decision in
the case of the United States against the
Burlington and Missouri Railroad in Ne
braska, involving title to 150,000 acres of
land lying on tho north side of the road
confirming title of the road thereto and dis
missing the bill.
THE OERMAN-AMERtCANS AND THE CENTENNIAL
New York, May 6. —The German-Ameri
can Independent Citizens Association passed
a resolution denouncing the action of the
Centennial commissioners in closing the
exhibition buildings on Sunday as contrary
to the spirit of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and the liberal spirit of the age
THE CENTENNIAL.
Philadelphia, May 6.—A meeting of citi
zens has resolved that the opening of the
Centennial exhibition on Sundays would do
much to promote every object for which the
exposition is held, without endangering any
public interest whatever. A committee was
appointed to call further meetings.
CONVICTION OF AN EMBEZZLER.
Norfolk, May 6.—In the United States
District Court, Rockford B. Stephens, late
Doputy Collector of Internal Revenue for
the fourth district of Virginia, was con
victed of the embezzlement of two thou
sand dollars. It is expected Judge Hughes
will pass sentence on him next Wednesday
. FROM ROME.
Rome, May 6.—The official gazette au
thoritatively "denies the reported conference
between tho foreign diplomatists and several
Cardinals, which was Btated to have taken
place with a view of ascertaining the best
means of ending the conflicts between vari
ous states and the church.
NEWMARKET RACES.
London, May 6 —The race at Newmarket
to-d&y, for the 1,000 guineas stakes, was won
by Count F. De La Grange’s cb. f. Camelia
the same owners, ch. f. Allumette, was sec
ond; and Mr. A. Dj Montgomery’s b. f. La
Teine third. Thirteen ran.
FROM MONTREAL.
Montreal, May 6.—The Miner re and
other French journals urge that'if a gen
eral amnesty is granted by the Qneen in
connection with her assumption of the title
of Empress it should be extended to Biel
and Lepine.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, May 6.—The President went
fishing to-day.
On and after Monday checks on the United
States Treasury will be paid in silver if
desired.
Mr. Kerr has gone to Richmond. •
CARDINAL M'CLOSEEY.
New Y’ork, May 6.—Cardinal McCloskey
is rapidly improving. He is still at Seton
Hall College, but expects to return to New
York in a week or so and resume in part his
ordinary dnties.
THE MURDERER OF GREGG.
Augusta, Ga., May 6.—Bobt. McEvoy,
who killed Capt. J. J. Grrgg, at Granite-
ville, S. C., on the 20th of April, was tried
at Aiken yesterday and convicted of murder.
He will be sentenced at nine o’clock on
Monday.
A DUBLIN CREW FOB PHILADELPHIA,
London, May 6.—The rowing and boat
clubs of Dublin University have organized
a joint crew of four for the contest at Phila
delphia. The crew practices daily and are
already in capital form.
NEW YORK NOTES,
New York, May 6.—The women’s Centen
nial Union have raised *21,161 in this city
for the woman’s pavilion at the Centennial
exhibition.
The jury for the seven million snit against
Peter B. 8weeney was selected to-day.
FROM THE ANTIPODES.
San Francisco, May 6 Advices from
Sydney report severe earthquakes on March
20th in South Australia, and on April 11th
in New Zealand. Some buildings were
damaged in the former. No loss of life is
reported.
THE GEORGIA DELEGATION.
Augusta, May 6.—Tho Georgia Demo
cratic delegation are uncommitted and will
vote for any good man that can be elected.
Bayard is the most popular.
pound guilty.
Watertown, May 6.—Frank Rattan, for
the murder of Sarah Conklin, was found
guilty of mnrder in the second degree and
sentenced to imprisoment for life.
SILVER.
Washington, May 6.—Government deposi
tories have been directed to pay current de
mands in ooin to an amount equal to the
silver on hand when the special resumption
act passed.
THE TREATY AF* gGATION DENIED.
London, May 6 Mnoe was stated in the
Honse of Oor ’ -
the United SI
THE TURCOMANS AND THE CZAR.
London, May 6.—The Russkimir states
that 30,000 Turcomans, recently assembled at
Mertandt, determined to solicit Afghan
help lor a holy war against the Czar.
CUSTER.
New York, May 6.—A Herald special from
Chicago says: “Custer, en route for his com
mand, is detained here by Sheridan under
instructions from Washington.”
SPLICING THE CABUL
New York, May 6.—Communication with
Europe by the Anglo-American cable is re
stored, and business transmitted as nBnal.
TEE MINING TROUBLES.
Cleveland, May 6.—All is quiet at the
mines. The strikers continue to hold out
and the military to remain under arms.
COKE ELECTED TEXAS SENATOR.
Galveston, May 6.—Gov. Richard Coke
has been elected United States Senator for
Texas.
REWARD FOR AN ASSASSIN.
New Orleans, May 6.—Five thousand dol
lars reward is offered for the Conchatta as
sassin. Twitchell is still alive.
THE GOETHE.
London, May 6.—The Bteamship Goethe
reached Plymouth with all the blades of her
propeller gone,
HOW THEY STAND.
Augusta, May 6.—The Republican delega
tion stands: 13 for Morton, 7 for Blaine and
Bristow, and 2 for Conkling.
BURNED.
Paris, May 6.—The college at Charleville
and its library was destroyed by fire. The
damage is $200,000.
DEAD.
Washington, May 6.—Joseph MacFarland,
a Washington correspondent, is dead.
THE INDIANAPOLIS RIOT.
Nrgro Repeaters the Cause of the Blood
shed—A Terrible War of Knees In the
Streets.
[Indianapolis Special (May 2) to the Cincinnati
, Enquirer.)
Throughout the day several encounters
had taken place, but nothing serious oc
curred till about six o’clock, when a Re
publican on horseback rode to the Fourth
ward, where negro repeaters were col
lected, and called oat recruits to stop a
riot against the Republicans in the Sixth
ward, several squares off. At once- a
crowd of about sixty colored men, armed
with clubs and in part with revolvers,
made a rush for the scene of supposed
conflict, ready to spill Democratic blood
in any quantity on order. On nearing
their destination they were met by sev
eral of their white captains, who made
an attempt to quell this mob vio
lence. The two parties came to
gether on Illinois street, near the Grand
Hotel. The negToes were loud and
furious, and the Democrats hot and thirsty
to get even for outrages endured all day.
It was impossible to control the violence
when started. An immense crowd bad
gathered and closed in around tbe negroes,
who beat a retreat up Ulinois street in
scattered ranks. One shot started the
fray. Firing became general on both
sides, the police taking part with the at
tacking party. Seven were injured, all
negroes, three fatully, one of whom, Wil
liam Brown, was shot through the heart
and died instantly, and the other two,
Andy Carter and Jacob Green, are now
at the point of death, and will expire be
fore morning. Carter had his bowels
horribly cut with an immense bowie-
knife. No arrests have been made as yet,
it seeming impossible to fix the crime.
The effect upon the negro population
was ominous. They gathered in Buck-
town and swore to gut the Sentinel office.
Governor Hendricks ordered the Sheriff
to arm a body of one hundred and fifty
men, and they stood ready for service in
the State House offices. Mayor Caven
got Tom Browne and others and har-
rangued the negroes, and finally succeed
ed in quieting the commotion. This
bloody conclusion of the day was not un
expected, but the disgrace is keenly felt
by both "parties. The Republicans to
night raised two thousand dollars to
prosecute the instigators of the riot, thus
intending to make capital out of what
they claim a murderous and unprovoked
assault. Both sides are to blame. The
election is a most disgraceful finale to
the Republican ruffianism, and is no cri
terion of the way the State will go in the
fall.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Jeema Blaine, of Maine—Somethin*
About tbe Centennial—The <<enlal Olive
—Hill and Toombs—Morgan Rawls.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News,
A Girl that “Does Sums” iu Her
Sleep.
[From the New York World.1
Jennie Lawson is a member of the second
class in the Eighteenth street female
grammar school. Friday last a number
of arithmetical examples were given out
for eolation, bnt three of them, in per
centage, requiring long processes of divi
sion, resisted all Jennie's efforts to secure
the correct answer. This circumstance
seemed to distress the child, and, after
working through them again and again
without success, she went home de
termined by persistent effort to find out
where her error was, and she continued
to strive until long after the rest of the
family had retired. Toward midnight,
her mother, who slept in an adjoin
ing room, called, to her daughter
that she had better go to bed,
lest she should be late in rising the
next day. The girl at once retired, and
in a few moments was fast asleep. About
an hour afterward, Mrs. Lawson was
again awakened by a sudden noise in her
daughter's bedchamber, which was then
in entire darkness. She called, but re
ceiving no answer, arose to see what was
the matter. Jennie was eitting at her
desk, and had apparently just completed
some work on her slate, the noise having
been made by the falling of a ruler from
the table to the floor. The girl was
fast asleep. Mrs. Lawson did not wake
her at that time, and on the following
day it was after noon before the girl
could be roused from the deep sleep in
which she seemed to be. Upon awaken
ing, Jennie spoke of the problems,
and expressed her intention of making a
further trial at their solution. Upon
getting the slate ahe found them com
pletely solved in her own hand, each line
neatly ruled, and the figuring without
the slightest error. At this she was
greatly surprised. Her last knowledge
of the puzzling examples was of leaving
them unsolved on the night before. Of
her performances in her sleep she knew
when awake absolutely nothing, and her
mother not having mentioned the inci -
dent, left her the more bewildered. Yes-
terday the girl brought the work to
school and related the incident attending
it to her teacher. The room was entirely
dark, the girl soundly asleep daring the
working ont of the test examples. She
had never before shown any symptoms of ‘-pe,
sleep-working, nor have any of her rela- »^ g.
tives been so affected.
Washington, May 3, 1876.
JIM BLAINE.
Bally Blaine, of Maine, appeared in
new 'role yesterday. Having received
more kicks than coppers of late, he now
seeks to pour balm upon the wounds of
debate, and humbly confessed that he
had transgressed the rules of decency and
fair-play. This, apropos of the resolu
tion rescinding that portion of the cen
sure of the last House on John YouDg
Brown, of Kentucky, which charged him
with prevarication. Blaine eulogized
Brown as a most honorable man, and ate
humble pie to an extent almost beyond
belief.
“The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be;
The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he."
By the way, Blaine has made another
“personal explanation”—has whitewashed
himself again. And yet not a word
about Mr. Harrison, whojhas reiterated,
amplified and substantiated the charges
against Blaine with documentary proof,
and has named other witnesses to verify
his statements. Mr. Harrison, I am in
formed, is a man of wealth, character
and position, and he is moreover a Re
publican, and cannot therefore be accused
of partisan malice. Bnt Blaine says he shall
make no more personal explanations, and
so I presume we shall be left in ignorance
until Mr. Tarbox gets his investigations
under way, when we shall see what we
shall see. Still, it is very cruel in Blaine
to keep us so long in expectancy. Evi
dently he has been taking lessons from
Forney. The public were anxious to
know about that $25,000 of Pacific mail
swag pocketed by Forney, and yet he
went »n writing letters from Europe
about the theatres, literature, etc., and
did not once mention the transaction in
question. Since his return he has lec
tured here and elsewhere, but though im
portuned by the newspapers to do so, he
has said not a word concerning that
$25,000. Blaine is equally dumb on
th*subject of Harrison and Harrison’s
charges, but we shall no doubt soon have
Harrison here to speak for himself.
Meanwhile Blaine’s reticence and his
shrinking from an investigation will be
regarded by most people as a confession
of guilt. As a Presidential candidate he
is now a dead cock in the pit. A Boston
man says: “Mr. Blaine will never be
President, and perhaps the people of
Maine will even excuse him from service
in Congress in future. Should he retire
ere long into private life he will bo able
to live very comfortably on the handsome
fortune which he has acquired in public
life.” Yale, Blaine.
THE CENTENNIAL SHOW.
To-day week the Centennial show will
open to slow music in the person of the
President, Congress, and the big wigs of
the nation, and the harvest of the Phila
delphia hotel and shopkeepers will be
gin. The general impression is that their
great expectations will not be fully
realized. In these hard times people are
not disposed to be fleeced and swindled,
nor can they be made to believe that
allowing Philadelphia to pick your pocket
and rob you of your eye-teeth constitutes
a test of loyalty and patriotism. Pennsyl
vania has bled the country so loDg through
a protective tariff that the citizens of
other States have reason to feel toward
Pennsylvanians as Sydney Smith said he
did toward a Quaker, after the repudia
tion of the Pennsylvania bonds, in which
he had invested the whole management
of his establishment, from its {inception,
reminds one of the fable of the spider
and the fly; and I don’t believe the flies
are goiDg to walk into the “little parlor”
to any great extent. In that case, no
doubt, we shall have a lobby here impor
tuning Congress to make up a goodly
deficit.
OLIYE.
Olive Logan is a handy woman to have
abont the House. She cannot only keep
the pot a boiling with her pen, but when
occasion offers captures a President, and
secure a most desirable office for her
“Inseperable, ” as she terms her husband,
who is otherwise known as Wirt Sykes.
He was yesterday nominated as Consul to
Florence, and Olive will of course see to
it that the Senate confirms him promptly.
Apropos of Olive a paragraph is going
the rounds to the effect that her
blonde locks are turning grey—“silver
threads among the gold,” you know. I
am inclined to think this a slander, for I
am told Olive’s golden hair is rot her
own; and who ever heard of a blonde
wig turning grey? However, perhaps I
had better say nothing about it, at least
not until after Olive and her “Inseper-
abie ” have started for Florence. They
have been spending the winter here, aDd
Olive has been swinging a lively quill for
the Chicago Times and New Y'ork Graphic.
TTTT.T, AND TOOMBS.
The fact that Ben Hill and General
Toombs appeared as opposing counsel in
a cotton case before the Supreme Conrt a
week or two ago was stated at the time.
I am lold Ben has won his case. And
now I hope the talented rural editor will
not rise up and charge me with concoct
ing a conspiracy against the member
from the Ninth district.
MORGAN.
Yonr conundrum, “ What is the mat
ter with Morgan ?” may be briefly an
swered. The answer is—nothing. Mr.
Rawls has not been invited to step down
and out of his position under the Clerk
of the House, newspaper reports to the
contrary notwithstanding, and is daily
attending to his duties in the serenest
possible manner.
CHISHOLM.
Senator Robertson has introduced a
bill for the relief of Sarah P. Chisholm
and Samuel P. Chisholm, of Beaufort,
South Carolina, which was referred to
the Committee on Claims. Carlos.
Bbiqandage in Sicily.—Not merely on
the Continent, bnt in Sicily as well, a
strong hand will be needed. Recently
the corriera which runs between Reggio
and Cosenza was stopped and robbed of
all the mail bags; fortunately, there were
no passengers, otherwise mnrder would,
in all probability, have been added to
robbery. Later still we hear that a party
of brigands entered the Commune of
Oniliana, in the Province of Palermo, and
attacked the house of a person c tiled
Barranca, mortally wonnding both him
and his wife. Atrocities have for some
time been committed in the Province of
Catania, without the aggressors being
discovered; bnt now we are told that fif
teen important arrests have been made at
Catalfirone of persons implicated in most
of the grave offences committed in that
neighborhood.
Y’e( the chances of escape from all ade
quate and deterrent. punishment are so
great, through the false compassion of
the mnltitnde, the weakness of juries,
and the hair-splitting scruples of courts
of appeal, that the arrest of hundreds
would afford no guaranty of pnblio se
curity. The Italians may find ont their
error later, bnt at present the tendency
is to restrain delinquents in white gloves
and with doles maniere.—London Times’s
Naples Correspondence.
A Chicago man who was knocked over
an ash-barrel for calling a St. Louis girl
darling dnek,” got np and humbly ex
plained that he meant nothing endearing
A Centennial Candidate.
Mount Pleasant, Fla., May 6, 1876.
Editor Morning News:
Excuse me for suggesting some more
pretty good material - for a Governor of
yonr State. Right across the “Georgia
“in Decatur county, lives Mr. Joe
Sundy. Last year he cultivated, with
one horse, sixteen acres in com, the same
in cotton, and also a good crop of sugar
cane, potatoes, ground peas, oats, etc.
He made four hundred buBhels com,
eight bales cotton, ten barrels syrup,
killed meat enough to do him, and to
sell. He made this crop with the help of
one boy, whom he paid in provisions raised
on his place. And, better than all this,
he is a granger, and his wife had a pair
of bouncing twins a few weeks ago. Vote
for him. I think he is entitled to at least
two terms in the Gubernatorial chair.
Floridian.
Can the Democracy Win Without Ohio
and Indiana!
[Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot]
As in the past the Presidential election
of this year will be practically decided in
October. The great States which vote
then will determine the result in Novem
ber. Pennsylvania, it is true, will be no
longer a factor in producing this political
result, but the rule still remains, and
1876 will prove no exception to it. If
the Democrats lose both Ohio and In
diana they have no chance of success in
November. If they carry both of these
States their candidate will be chosen by
an overwhelming majority. If they car
ry but one of them the field will be hotly
contested, but Democratic success will
be achieved after the severest struggle
the Republic has ever known. Politi
cal history points this moral too plainly
for practical men to ignore it now,
and it would be suicidal to initiate
policy, adopt a platform, or nominate
candidates from any other standpoint
but that which recognizes this expe
rienoe. The reasoning of those who
argue that we can lose both Ohio and
Indiana in October, and still carry the
oountry in November by adding the elec
toral votes of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut jo those of the entire South
is based upon the sheerest fallacy. It is
the argument of those who forget com
mon sense and the logic of events in their
personal devotion to the interests of a
particular candidate. It is not warranted
either by the history of Presidential
elections or by the probabilities of the
future. No Presidential election has ever
been carried against the voice of the Oc
tober States. Pennsylvania, when voting
in Ootober, was universally recognized as
the battle-ground. No President has ever
been eleoted by the people without Penn
sylvania, and none is likely to be. The
State has ceased to vote in Ootober, but
the plaee of conflict, like the march of
empire, has moved westward. Her fatal
power still exists, for the causes that
shape the destinies of parties in Indiana
and Ohio in October will oontrol and di
rect the vote of Pennsylvania and that of
New Jersey in November.
For full forty years the October States
have piloted the way to safety or disaster
in the November election. In 1874 New
Y’ork was carried by a majority of 50,317
votes, but in 1875, under the influence
of the sinister result in Ohio, the
Democrats carried New York by but
13,559 votes. With both Ohio and In
diana lost in October, power and money
would be concentrated in New Y’ork to
our utter discomfiture. Are the relations
of our brethren who lead there so kindly,
each to the other, that the Democratic
party can afford to trust to that State
alone the future of the organization ?
Will it pay to subject ourselves to the
jnst charge that the South have dictated
terms to the Democracy of the North at
the expense of the faithful men of the
West and of Pennsylvania? Rut what
of the Democratic chances in Virginia
and North Carolina if we lose both Ohio
and Indiana in October ? Are the De
mocracy assured of their electoral votes ?
In such a contingency, every corrupt ap
pliance, every form of executive control,
and the very energy of desperation will
be turned upon the Sonth, and upon
these States especially, to coerce or buy
their electoral votes.
The risk is too great for reasonable men
to incur. If the Democracy lose both
Ohio and Indiana they lose not only the
President but the lower House of Con
gress. We must judge the future in the
light of the past. We must recognize the
fact that the policy, platform and candi
dates that will suit New York and New
England may not suit the great middle
belt of States reaching from Missouri to
New Jersey. While preserving the tradi
tional policy of the Democratic party it
must be qualified in the interests of the
whole people and not of a class. We must
remember the vital necessity for a plat
form which, while carrying Ohio and
Indiana, or one of them, in October, will
sweep the indispensable Keystone State
to the side of the Democracy in Novem
ber. The sympathies of their people are
alike, their opinions concur, their busi
ness interests are identical, and they and
the Sonth are in national accord. The
Democracy can carry the election with
Indiana or Ohio and Pennsylvania and
New Jersey added to the South. They
cannot carry the country, and will lote
the lower house of Congress at the same
time, if they do not recognize and act
upon the fact that the October States are
the Thermopylte of the conflict, The
Presidential problem is solved by securing
a candidate who can carry Ohio and In
diana. Who is he ? Where is he ?
The
Still
The Wealth of the Candidates.—
On the Democratic side, if the nomina
tion be one of the five principal candi
dates, a poor man will not be taken.
Tilden is probably the wealthiest of the
five. He is put down at $4,000,000 or
$5,000,000. Judge Davis is the possessor
of more than $1,000,000, and Thurman
is very rich. Bayard is well-to-do, al
though not a millionaire. Hancock has
some property it is said. Of the Repub
licans who are prominent candidates,
Morton is said to be the poorest, and
Blaine is undoubtedly the richest of them
alL Conkling is possessed of something
over $100,000 part of which he, like
Blaine, has made in railroad speculations.
He is also largely paid by several wealthy
corporations. Bristow and Hayes are
both “well-off.” The former has proba
bly $100,000, and his wife has received a
legacy of $150,000 within a’year. Hayes
is richer than Bristow. It is doubtful
whether Mr. Wheeler, of New York, is
Anti-Catholic Movement
Aetive.
[New York Son.]
We learn that the Republicans in Wash
ington are spreading broadcast over the
country, as a political document, a ser
mon of the Rev. J. P. Newman, the pas
tor of President Grant, and the same cler-
gyman who by the President's appoint
ment recently traveled around the world
to examine into the condition of Consu
lates. This sermon is entitled “Religious
Liberty; A Free Church in a Free Coun
try." Like another pamphlet, which, as
we understand, also proceeded from the
pen of Dr. Newmss, and which bore the
title of “Vaticanism in Germany and in
the United States,” it is aimed at the
Roman Catholic Chnrch, and breathes a
political rather more than a religious an
tagonism.
The Narional Republican Committee,
composed of gentlemen in both branches
of Congress, and other conspicuous
friends of President Grant, furnish the
money for the circulation of these docu
ments; and they are distributed under
the direct management of Mr. J. M. Ed
munds, Postmaster of Washington, and
especially known as the particular inti
mate friend of Mr. Chandler, the Secre
tary of the Interior. Hundreds of thou
sands of these pamphlets were sent into
Ohio last fall, and into Connecticut and
New Hampshire this spring.
If it has been supposed anywhere that
the great demonstration of hostility to
the Catholic Church of which President
Grant sonnded the keynote in his famous
speech at Des Moines, has been aban
doned or relaxed, the supposition is en
tirely mistaken. It is evident that the
attempt to identify the whole Republican
party with this hostility is now to be
urged more vigorously than ever. This
is to be done doubtless, not only because
it is believed that a great weight of polit
ical strength may be added to the resour
ces of the party through the effect of the
anti-Catholic sentQnent, bnt also it is
that by raising such an issue into greater
and greater prominence, public attention
may be diverted from the almost incredi
ble corruption of the government, and
from the enormous and pi easing dangers
which that corruption brings upon the
country.
An Ohio Fabmeb Murders His Son
and Hides Him with Leaves.—About a
week ago John Baumerick, a farmer re
siding five miles from Forrestville, Ohio,
while working in a field with his son and
daughter, aged respectively fifteen and
seven years, became very gngry at some
work the son had just completed, and
seizing a hand-spike, struck him on the
head, knocking him senseless. Then the
demon seemed to have fnlly taken hold of
him. He repeated blow after blow, until
the poor victim sank down, his head a
mass of quivering gore. Before life was
extinct he carried the dying boy to a pile
of logs and covered him with leaves and
brush. He threatened his daughter with
similar treatment if she divulged the se
cret. Inquiries being made for the boy,
he answered by saying he had ran away
from home. Baumerick is in jail.
DOM PEDRO MEETS AN INDIAN.
Aa Interview with m Plate Chief, from
Which the Brazilian Knperor Csiaee
Oft Second Beet.
A correspondent who accompanied Dom
Pedro II. and the Brazilian imperial party
west from Salt Lake City relates the fol
lowing incident in the San Francisoo
Chronicle: At each station where the
train stopped for any length of time, the
Emperor jumped nimbly from the oar
and strode up and down the platform,
gazing at everything there was to be
seen, and returning the stares of the
little throngs with interest. At Hnmbolt
station the most amusing occurrence of
the trip took place. Natchez, Chief of
tbe Fiates, who with a number of his
followers, had ridden on the train from
Winnemucca, pressed with a leering grin
up to the side of the imperial car, and
hailing the conductor, cried out, “Hie
you ? were you capiten ? Y’ou savae. I
look him ; me capiten, too.”
The Emperor emerged from his car,
and observing the Piute Chief with the
grinning face laughed audibly, and asked
him what tribe he belonged to.
Natchez answered the question civilly,
and smilingly reciprocated with the fol
lowing: “You savee, what tribe you capi
ten ?”
The Emperor did not deign to commu
nicate the desired information, but an
swered with a chuckle. He asked him
how many papooses he had, illustrating
his question with a motherly undulating
movement of his locked arms. Natchez
held up two of his fingers, aDd with true
Indian persistence asked the Emperor the
same question: “Capiten, papoose you
how muchee ?”
He was answered only by an imperial
laugh, whioh evinced a hearty apprecia
tion of the humor of the scene. The
Emperor continued his inquiries, most of
which were aimed at the numbers, con
dition and disposition of the Piute na
tion, and ended with inquiring:
“ Natchez, how many squaw you got ?”
The Indian chief distended his eyes,
and throwing up his arms with a ringing
laugh, remarked to the bevy of by
standers :
“Oh, he capiten, he bad man ; he
talkee squaw; he heap bad man.”
The Emperor returned into the privacy
of his car amidst a roar of laughter,
above which the melodious roar of
Natchez was readily distinguishable.
Egyptian Villages.
[From the London Times’s Massowah correspon
dence.]
The Sheik of this particular village was
well dressed, in Oriental fashion, had a
house of many rooms, and even glass
windows. He gave me sherbet and coffee,
and then took me round his village. The
mud huts are all built one against another,
like the cells of a beehive, save where
they are divided by the little lanes that
run through the villiage. I chose a
hut at random, and asked if I might
go in. “Yes,” said my companion, “bat
it is very poor, and there is nothing to
see.”
We went to the entrance, these huts
having, as a rule, no doors. An old
woman—at least she looked old ; but the
women are old at forty—barred the
way. I offered money, but that was not
enough to overcome her feelings that her
house was her castle, where no Christian
should enter, and the sheik had to insist.
One small room—mud walls, mud roof,
mud floor—was all we found. Four bricks
made a small fireplace, but there was no
fire. A small basin of maize, five water
jars, an earthen pot for artificial hatch
ing of chickens, a cock and three hens, a
small heap of sacking by way of bed
clothes, constituted all the furniture of
the house. Four yards by five was the
extent of the house, and this was partly
taken up by a raised dais of mud, which
serves as the family bed in every fellah
habitation. A family of four lived in
this space. The head of the family was
considered pretty well-to-do by the fellah
world, as he is the owner of five feddans
(acres) of land.
I tried another house, taken similarly
at random. It was still smaller and more
pitiful than the last. The mud bed occu
pied half the space. Three yards by one
was my measurement of the rest. A
water jar and a reed pipe were all the
signs of habitation. There were no boxes
or cupboards in which other goods or
chattels might he hidden. A family of
three, laborers on the lands of others,
lived here. I have seen pigs better
housed in England.
Practical Repudiation in Illinois.—
In the case of the court house bonds at
Macoupin county, Illinois, the United
States Court required the supervisors to
levy a tax for paying the interest. Then
came the defiance of the order by county
officials, theD the imposition of a fine by
the court, and finally the payment of the
fine by the half-triumphant officials out
of the county funds. These proceedings
have been supplemented by an action on
the part of the Newark SavingB Institu
tion, as holders of $100,000 oourt house
bonds, against the supervisors, to hold
them in damages for refusing to levy the
tax. United States Judge Drummond,
sitting at Springfield, deorees instead of
for {he amount of interest due, the pay
ment of which had been hindered by the
action of the defendants, nominal dam
ages and costs, the Judge holding himself
to be controlled by an uureported decision
of the Supreme Court that nominal dam
ages only could be allowed in such a
case.—New York Express.
A quarrel of fifteen years’ standing,
between Horace Maine and Amasa M.
Maine, brothers, so serious that they have
not spoken to each other during all the
time, was settled recently in Norwiob,
Coud., by the intervention of Judge Fos
ter. A suit brought by Horace to recover
$2,500 from his brother for slander was
pending. The evidence was all in and
the lawyers were about to “sum up,”
when the Judge called the plaintiff and
defendant aside, and after a consultation
during which the three mingled their
tears, it was agreed that the matter
should be referred to the lawyers and the
Judge. Both brothers finally signed an
agreement to end the suit where it was,
and also to drop other suits that were
pending between them, and to live as
brothers should.
There are some typographical errors
under which the philosophic editor can
mutely “suffer and be strong.” Butin
the Columbus Times's report of memorial
day ceremonies, it is made to say: “After
the prayer Miss Mamie Kivlin and Mr.
Joe Estes sang “Guide me, oh Thou
Great Joseph.” Whether this refers to
the Great Joe Brown, we do not know,
but if it don’t, we can imagine one irate
Georgia editor in search of that composi
tor with a can of dynamite in one hand
and a sledge hammer in the other.—
Nashville American.
pottos.
..-10 have been adjudged bankrupts, upon their
own petition, by ihe District Court of said Dis
trict. EDWARD M. HABERSHAM,
mayl-M,3t Assignee, etc.
In Chicago, on Thursday, Anthony
Gehring, a newspaper carrier, after de
livering his papers, went to the honse of
his mother, dropped his bank-book, con
taining a note requesting a decent burial
and pardon for what he was about to do;
then went home, shot his wife, killing
her instantly; then shot and killed him
self. They were Germans, and married ^ _ .. .
only eight months. Gehring wss of £££?iSl'
Petition for Incorporation.
S TATE OF GEORGIA-Chatham County.—
To the Superior Court of said County : The
petition of M. J. Solomons, J. H. Estiil, B. F.
Grant, J. S. Tyson. G. C. Freeman, J. C. Row
land, J. T. Ronan, C. N. West, LeRoy Myers, J.
L. Hardee, £. J. Acosta, E. A. Laffiteau and S.
Gazan, of said county, respectfully sheweth that
your petit'oners, with such other persons as may
be associated with them, desires to be incorpo
rated by the corporate name of “THE RELI
ANCE MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCIATION,” un
der the constitution already adopted by them for
their government. That the object and business
of said association is the accumulation of a fund
by the savings or shares of the members thereof,
to assist them in business, or to enable them to
purchase for themselves, respectively, such real
estate as they may deem desirable. That the
amount of capital to be employed by said asso
ciation is TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOL
LARS, of which Twenty-five Hundred Dollars
have been actua ly paid in, but said association
desires to be allowed to increase its capital to
FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, said
increase to take place from time to time, under
the loperatien of its constitution aforesaid; that
its place of business is Savannah, in said county;
and that they desire to be incorporated for the
period of twenty years, with the privilege of re
newal at the expiration of that time.
And your petitioners will ever pray, Ac.
WALTER G. CHARLTON.
Attorney for Petitioners.
Filed in office, April 15th, 1S76.
GEO. P. HARRISON,
apr: 7-M,4t * Clerk S. C. C. C.
NOTICE.
JN the District Court of the United Slates for
_ the Son’hem District of Georgia. At
gosta, this 28th day of April. 1876.
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned of
his appointment as Assignee of Beall, Spears Jc
Co., and of Albert H. Beall and of Joseph H.
Spears, of the city of Augusta, in eaid District,
rno hav
NOTICE.
rpo WHOM IT MAY CONCERN .'-Take no-
A tlce that I have applied to the Ordinary cl