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Affairs in (leorsria.
Ihe Georgia editors will be known to-day
bv rose* in their button-holes and diamond
nhirt-studB.
Ibe CouDt Johannes B’Gormanne will
weS r what is known as the Thomas county
ruffle-
The editor of the Augusta Chronicle has
already predicted that no business will be
transacted at the Press Convention. It
leems to be had weather for nominating
(iovernors in Augusta.
Adam Ashley was killed on Friday last by
another negro, Louis Howard, both of them
employed in the Fortieth Miiitia District,
Tattnall county, by Ryals & Tillman, lum
bermen, at whose settlement the killing
occurred. A dispute about their rations
was the cause of the murder, Ashley having
made some remark which caused Howard
to stab him with a knife in the throat, se
vering his jugular vein, and killing hito in
stantly. The murderer immediately fled to
tbe woods and escaped.
Colonel Mumford, of tho Talbotton
Standard, stopped long enough at Millen
yesterday to destroy four dollars’ worth of
victuals and a mint julep. This entitles the
Colonel to a foremost place among Georgia
editors.
Capt. Triplett, of the Thomasville Times,
will attend the e citors’ meeting in the char
acter of a granger.
The Sandersville Messenger strains itself
to remark ; ‘‘Just about now, when vegeta
tion is making itself ap-PABENT, it may be
well to remark that the most unpalatable
vegetables are pa’s nips.”
A Jones county man who had the audacity
to have $280 about the house, now has a
good deal less. It was borrowed by a gov
ernment nigger.
Her. H. U. Turner, colored, doesn’t seem
to prosper as a politician. The negroes
gravitate towards carpet-baggers.
Col. Henry D. Capers is accused of pla
giarism in the Sunny South. It seems that
tbe Colonel appeared as a poet.
A Monroe county cow has produced twin
calves.
Colored physicians don’t seem to have any
chance at all in Middle Georgia. Dr. Tom
Smith, of Macon, a physician by profession
and a colored man by occupation, went over
to Milledgeville the other day and was
mobbed by the negroes. He has had some
of them arrested.
Hr. Thomas D. L. Byan, of Pulaski
county, is dead. He was a brother of Mr.
Charles Byan, of this city.
A white man and a buck nigger occupied
tbe same sleeping-berth on a Southwestern
Railroad train the other night.
Mrs. Bennett, wife of Mr. Bichard Ben
nett, of Forsyth, is dead.
A nigger in the recent Radical convention
inAtlanta remarked that *‘de carpet-baggers
an’ scalawags got all de molaments.”
Mount Zion Baptist Church, of Tattnall
county, warns the public against the arts
and insinuations of one C. T. Mosley, who
has been for several years the pastor of that
church.
Kendrick was still in jail at last ac
counts.
A man who robbed the Baptist church in
Forsyth has been arrested in Macon.
The Hinesville Gazette asks : Why is it
that so much of the timber now carried to
market is classed as refuse ? In Savannah,
at least one-th ird is declared refuse, and, in
Darien it is not much better. Many rafts
that are carrit d to market are equally di
vided—one-hn If pronounced good, and the
other half refuse. The timber is uot worse
than it used to be, nor is less pains taken in
getting it up. This is working a heavy loss
upon the cutter, for it costs them as much
to get this refuse timber to market| as any.
The secret lieB in this : nearly all of thiB
refuse timber is trimmed and sold as first
class. Many buyers assert that they make
more money on the refuse timber than on
the good.
Forsyth (Monroe county) Advertiser:
From all portions of the county comes the
fheering intelligence that the grain crops of
sm'all grain are very promising. The acre
age is larger than for years past, and the
extra attention given the crops in the pre
paration of the soil and fertilizing, together
with favorable seasons, have given our
farmers a prospect unequalled for years.
The mould is reported as having attacked
the wheat generally, but many think that
the damage from this will be slight. Tho
rust has not yet appeared, at least we have
not heard any report to that effect. Monroe
county will have a large quantity of wheat
.'or sale and shipment after retaining a sup
ply home consumption. This begins to
took like a return to the good times of long
ago when the people “ lived at home.”
Lumpkin (Stewari county) Independent :
The report* of rust in the grain crops Btill
continue to be received, a. n£ t it now cer*
tain that the yield ot wheat ^od in many
places that of the oat crop, will be 7^ry much
cut off by the prevalence of that disease.
There are, however, many crops of each
which are very fine and wiii yet bring forth
rich harvests. Dr. J. A. Thornton, near
this place, has a field of wheat which is
fi^ceptionably good, and stands breast
to a tall man; it is new in the
~ 4ough” and free trom any disease calcu-
to injure it. Mr. M. L. Everett also
■b»s & good field of wheat on his lot in town,
while several others are looking forward to
birveat for an abuudant yield of oats from
*neir{patches. Corn is receiving its first
plowing, and a * a general thing is consid
ered to be very good so far, although it is
■mall for tho time of year, owing to the back
y* h received by the freeze in March.
has been extensively planted, as
usual, now demanding tbe attention
°f the ho * The cool weather loh
lowing the Tuesday last rather
aakes the young iook P aIe and b1c S:
*7, but a few davs sunshine will
g? f^nvigovatf and ‘S/EK
fhe foregoing embraces atn^** ** aau
said of crops at this time.
oA correspondent writes from Sy -
driven county, May 5, as follows : 8cr. t,u
™perior Court, Kon. H. V. Johnson,
aS ge ’ P re »idil%, closed Us labors
adjourned last night, after a
“sion °f. four days. There were a
JL 81 m any civil cases disposed of during
m ’ and also two important criminal
one of which had been pending for
. time, and had become a
of great expense and an-
yance to the public. Although it is
tenet. t y ln tll e season to judge
ob«eri. a .. ut £ he crop prospects, yet from
the ,ation and information obtained from
brivht • ers > 1 Should judge them to be
con.oi m .*bis county. There has been s,
the e &m °unt of fertilizers used by
raruti n,er8 of this county, purchased,
con, • on tb® cotton option plan. The
Mnoi, 18 Btua "> but has a good color,
ton , c ?? not be said about the cot-
jn.t „ . 6 greater part of the crop is
as , U P> and the planters have not
this ™ cured ‘heir standB. I cannot close
tenti,?n m J nun ' c a tion without calling the at-
toedne. F° nr readers who have children
1 ’til. -in t0 the advantages offered by this
SH*;, Crania is one of the healthi-
taL .n Vll !V ea iu Georgia. There is no
w*pi*tmn like that incident to larger
Lu; 8 K ltad youth astray. No intoxicating
ai e permitted to be cold in the
tfiiiif; tl16 aoclet ' r ' good, and church
ara an ' U9 Methodist and
ted , aptist ,«i(, .rch in the place.
Corn. #°- exeell ei>t wgh schools, with full
PiinJi J ‘“tractors. Rev, \V. C. McCall is tho
serve. of . one of the schools, and he de-
ceaa 3 i5 r t at cre< ht for the energy and sne-
school ; ‘ attend8 bis undertaking. His
with him ^“Ptete in all its appointments,
ture-r?!f lf as teacher ia general litera-
ttuuicai de ™ dim eutal branches, and the
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Florida Affairs.
When the Lake City girls fight they para-
chnte each other. In making this remark,
it is not onr deliberate intention to send
the veteran McCalium to his cyclopedias.
There is a rumor that Walls will be for
Conover in the next campaign. The proba
bility is that Walls will he led by whichever
carpet-bagger or scalawag that lays hold of
his proboscis first. If Soap-Fat 8tearng is
at all spry he can easily secure Walls’s sup
port.
The Lake City lakes will soon be studded
with sail boats.
The farmers of Columbia county are ad
vised by the Reporter to plant more peanuts.
Finley evidently wants them to study for the
Georgia Legislature.
The editor of the Palatka Herald now en
joys his usual health.
An Englishman named Upton was married
to a colored woman in Palatka the other day.
The woman had several hundred dollars laid
by, and now the negro men denounce the
alliance.
The Palatka Herald is after Judge Goss.
It is now denied that the Oclawaha is get
ting low.
St. Augustine is munching green corn,
tomatoes and sixteen-pound beets.
Rattlesnakes are plentiful in the neighbor
hood of St. Augustine.
A flock of pink curlews was seen near 8t
Augustine recently.
A correspondent of the Cedar Key Jour
nal says that “the Mobnino News has re
commended a whole string of candidates”
for Governor. The Mobnino News has
done nothing of the sort. But we would
ask in this connection if Judge R. B. Hilton,
of Tallahassee, wouldn’t make a good Gov
ernor ?
Judge Thomas F. King, of Alaohua, is
spoken of as a Democratic candidate for
Governor; also tho name of Colonel J. L. F.
Cottrell. Both are good men.
Gainesville is going to have anothor elec
tion for Mayor.
Mr. Julius Rockenor, charged with killing
Hilliard Jones in Polk county, was found
not guilty.
Mr. Fred W. Hoyt, a versatile and vigor
ous writer, has become local editor of the
Jacksonville Sun.
It is said that Walis, through the influence
of Simon B., is to be appointed Postmaster
at Key West. Now let the Soap-Fat man
appoint Josiah to a Circuit Judgeship.
“A Mexican Veteran” writes aB follows
from Manatee Court House, April 18: At a
meeting of Mexican veterans, held at Mana
tee Coart House, South Florida, an associa
tion for this State was formed and organ
ized, and Hon. W. W. McCall, of Lake City,
was elected President and Col. Benj. F.
Harris Secretary of tho Association for
Florida. Col. McCall will write to onr Sena
tors in Congress to apply to the railroad
companies in behalf of the veterans of Flor
ida for free passes over the roads, which it
is understood has been granted to those in
California and Texas. This will give these
old soldiers an opportunity of witnessing
the grand scenes at the Centennial, and he
a testimonial and appreciation of their gal
lant services in the war with Mexico.
Gen. Robert Bullock for Governor of
Florida.
Bbooksville, Hebnando Co., Fla., )_
May 3d, 1876. f
Editor Morning News:
As every one has a suggestion to make
as to who would be a good standard-
bearer for the Democratic party in our
next gubernatorial race, please allow me,
through your columns, the same privilege.
If the convention will nominate Gen.
Robert Bullock, of Marion county, its
nominee would obtain a solid vote in this
portion of the State, at least, and it
would be a brilliant instance of putting
“the right man in the right place.” A
motto, by the way, Floridians have
evinced a wonderful proneness to wander
from. Knowing Gen. Bullock, we are
partial to him ; being stock-men we are
partial to his name; and—as is the
“Dear Public’s” right, you know—we sit
in judgment and render the decision that
he is no such “ unco calf ” as has fat
tened in official stalls in this State of late
years. Elmoee.
Death on the Stage.
Anne Brewster writes from Rome to
the Philadelphia Bulletin a graphic ac
count of the death on the Btage of a popu
lar Italian comedian, Antonio Petito, one
of the wittiest, drollest, cleverest Pulci-
nellas ever known. Indeed, Petito took
the old dry dust aud bones of the tradi
tional character, and put new life into it
—he recreated Pulcinella. His pieces
were his own ; there are thirty-two dif
ferent ones that he composed. Poor
Pulcinello Petito ! He is dead, and, as
Moliere, he died on the stage. He had
been active only a minute before, con
vulsing the house with his clever wit.
He stood in the narrow wings of the
stage, talking with his old friend De
Angelis, who always acted the female
parts for him. The play was “La Donna
Bianca,” and old De Angelis
was trigged out absurdly in
the caricature of an old odalisque.
Petito was vibrant with success. He
loved his business; threw himself into it
heart and soul, and was always fresh and
sparkling. Petito was telling De Angelis
how he intended to act a new character
which he was planning. “I mean to do
it without a mask," he said. Just then
the summons came, not for the front of
the stage in mimic life, but for the un
known eternity. He gave a groan and
fell as if he had been shot. There was
a moment of agony; it was over instantly.
The bell had rung for the curtain to go
up; De Angelis’s scream of horror and
cry of grief were heard all over the house,
and every one orowded to the spot.
There was a great hustle and bustle, and
the audience wondered what could be tbe
matter. After a few moments an actor
stepped forth, sobbing and crying, and
told them the horrible story—Petito,
their beloved Puloinella, who had just
given them suoh. hearty, happy laughs,
had fallen stone-dead. The sorrow was
universal, and in a little while every the
atre in INaplos was shut, and every one
crowded to St. Carlion.
Gbave Chabge Against an Officer.—
Mrs, Catharine Ross, a woman of rather
comely appearance, was arrested in Jer
sey City on Wednesday and gave bail
. *-,re Justice Warner to answer a trivial
’•referred against her by Mrs.
irLtinir* C" Wednesday night as she
Keating. G- ^ onatable sheri .
7“ pined at her house No. 238 Fifteenth
street, accompanied by Daviu
represented himself as a Deputy a- 8 ™ 1 ’
and said he intended to arrest her again
on the same complaint. She informed
him that she had already given bail, when
he made an indeient proposal and said he
would not execute the warrant if she
oomplied with his request. Mrs. Ross
indignantly ordered the pair out of tne
house, when Sheridan attempted to force
her to accede to his wishes, but she re
sisted so vigorously that he could not
Accomplish his purpose. The two then
arrested Mrs. Ross and kept her confined
in the Second Preoinot Station-house all
nieht. Yesterday morning Justice War
ren was informed of the facts and im
mediately released her bhend “ a “ d
Quinn were subsequently arrested on
Justice Warren’s warrant and held to
answer charges of assault ^d battery and
false imprisonment.—N, X- oun.
The last number of Puruh has one^of
Tenniel’s most striking^cartoons. He has
taken his theme from Alaadin, *nd pic
tures Mr. Disraeli as a gorgeous Oriental,
with the old cynical leer on his face,
offering the Queen, who for this occasion
Sifted young and comely an ini£>-
‘ujiii exchange for a royai diadem, the
Lgend betow "being, “New Crown, for
BY TELttiPl
-TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE RECENT EXPLOSION.
Particulars of the Salonica Outrage.
Debut of the Gentle Anna Dickinson.
THE SALONICA OUTRAGE.
Paris, May 9.—From the details of the
outrage at 8aionica received here, it ap
pears that the United States Consnl in
terfered for tho protection ot the Greek
girl who waa the innocent cause of the
disturbance, and conducted her to the
Consulate in a carriage. An excited mob
thereupon surrounded the Consulate, and
the French and German Consuls, who were
brothers-in-law, and both related by mar
riage, to the American Consul, believing
him to be in danger, proceeded to his as
sistance, and on the way thither were at
tacked. The Italian Consnl informed the
Governor of the state of affairs, and he sent
troops to the relief of the American Consu
late, which was besieged by the rabble.
London, May 9.—A special dispatch from
Berlin to the Pall Mall Gazette says: Ger
many has accepted the Porte’s offer to give
satisfaction for the Salonica outrage, pro
vided the promises be carried into effect im
mediately.
HOR8E-CAR ACCIDENT.
New York, May 9.—A horse-car fell from
the elevator at Hoboken by a false start.
Two person* were killed.
There were twenty-seven passengers on the
street-car which fell from the elevator at Jer
sey City Heights last night.. None were killed
ontright, but four received injuries which
may prove fatal, aud ten others were hurt,
the most of them seriously, bat not dan
gerously. The cause of the accident is at
tributed to the carelessness of the truck
man who rang the bell for the engine to go
ahead before the car bad passed safely over
the truck.
THE RECENT EXPLOSION.
New York, May 9.—The contractor at
Bergen tunnel, where the explosion took
place on Saturday night, says he saw
twelve or thirteen tunnel men come from
the direction of Hoboken on Saturday nighty
and go up the Hundred Steps. After they
reached the top of the hill he heard the re
port of a pistol, and soon after the explosion
occurred. He did not dare to go out, as he
*vas afraid of his life on account of the
strikers. He stated that the iron door of
the magazine *as found in Elysiam Fields,
two miles distant, yesterday afternoon.
ADJOURNED.
Washington, May 9.—Both Houses ad
journed without transacting any business
The entire legislative, judicial and execu
tive departments have gone to the Centen
nial. There have been no committees in
session, and everything is adjourned to
Friday.
dead.
New York, May 9.—Peaach N. Ruben-
stein, the condemned murderer of the Jew
ess Sara Alexander, died this morning at
10 o’clock, in his cell at Raymond street jail,
Brooklyn. The cause of his death was gen
eral debility.
FROM CUBA.
Havana, May 9.—Senor Jose Canova del
Castillo is appointed Director General of
Finances for Cuba vice Senor Vigil.
There have been moderate rains through
out the island.
THE CONFERENCE.
Berlin, May 9.—The approaching con
ference between Prince Gortschakoff, Count
Andrassy and Prince Bismarck, will be held
at the latter’s official residence.
RISING.
St, Louis, May 9.—The river has risen
with unusual rapidity and is still swelling at
the rate of an inch and a half an hour. The
levee is nearly submerged in low places.
GENTLE ANNA.
Boston, May 9.—Anna Dickinson’s ap
pearance in h&T play, “Crown of Thorns,”
was a success.
RESTORED.
New York, May 9.—Communication with
Europe by the Anglo-American cable ia now
restored.
Evening Telegrams.
THE NORTHERN METHODIST CON
FERENCE.
Summary of Yesterday’s Proceedings.
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE IN
BROOKLYN.
Some More Talk Abool Ben Bristow.
THB METHODISTS IN COUNCIL.
Balt'mobe, May 9.—Bishop Merrill pre
sided to-day. General J. B. Weaver, of
Iowa, Baid it was publicly charged on this
floor yeBterday that a large amonnt of
money was stolen from the funds of the
church, and he asked a suspension of the
rules to offer resolutions providing for a
special committee of seven to investigate
the charge and report to the convention.
On motion of Dr. Hatfield, it was laid on
the table.
Dr. J. P. Newnan submitted the follow
ing:
Resolved, That the Committee on Lay
Delegation shall consider and report on the
propriety of so amending the constitution
of the church, whereby duly elected lay
delegates may vote in the lay electoral con
ference on all proposed alterations of re
strictive rules. Referred to the Committee
on Lay Representation.
J. S. Smart, of Detroit, submitted a reso
lution that all papers in reference to the or
ganization of separate conferences for
whites and blacks be returned to the confer
ence from the Committee on Boundaries,
and be referred to the Committee on the
State of the Chnrch. He said the action of
the Committee on Boundaries was final, and
giving the matter to tbe Committee on the
State of the Church would bring it under
the supervision of the conference. Adopted.
Bishop Janes announced that the fraternal
delegates from the British Wesleyan Chnrch
would now take formal leave of the confer
ence. Bev. Wm. B. Pope and Bev. J. H.
Bigg then made farewell addresses, and bid
the conference a warm farewell. Dr. Pope
said he would oarrv home an affectionate re
membrance of his visit here, aud he
hoped the apparent entanglement would
be woven into a beautiful garment.
Dr. Bigg, in his farewell, took occasion to
advert to and comment on the school and
social questions. He had not referred to
these questions on Saturday last in his in
troductory address, because he did not feel
like it. He was aware of the difficulty hero
on the question of education. In England
they were divided on many things, but by a
large majority they were agreed on the point
that there was no laws of the land which
prohibits the use of the Scriptures iu the
schools of the land. (Applause.) This is
the testimony he should bear to this con
ference. Tbe education question for Eng
land is one thiDg—here it is another. Ihe
oommon schools had origin in Christian
energy. He would now present a paper,
and for doing so had obtained the con
sent of the Bishop. Mr. Bigg then pre
sented fhe address of the Wesleyan
Society for securing tbp repeal of the con
tagious diseases act to the Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1876.
This question bad received gome local con-
-’•’oratiou in this oountry, With them it
was a serfons one. Mr. Bigg then took »
farewell of the conference. The address
was referred to a special committee of seven
to be appointed. —.
A communication from Rev. J. A. Duncan
and L. C. Garland, fraternal delegates from
the M. E. Church South, announcing their
presence in the city and their readiness to
appear before the conference at aDy time
designated was read. The letter stated
that Bev. Lovick Pierce, a fraternal dele-
t ate, and who was the author of the ad.
rossof the ohurch South to this confer
ence, would not be present, being detained
by infirm health. •
Dr. Walden said on 21st of May a hundred
years ago an annnal conference was held in
Baltimore, and moved that a special com
mittee of five be appointed to make arrange
ments tor suitable commemorative service.
Adopted.
THE CBOOKZP.
)k[EW York, May 9.—The grand jury ol
the criminal branch of the United States
Court presented thirty indictments, the
most of whieh are understood to be against
the crooked whisky men of high standing-
The warrants will be Berved to-mdrrow,
when tbe details will transpire.
FBOM BOSTON.
Boston, May 9.—The Supreme Court de
cide! that the Old South Church can be
told, and that the ten hour law is oonatitu-
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, May 9.—Ex-Congressman
Smith, of Louisiana, who leaves for home
to-night, reports that the members of the
Senate and House Committees on Railroads
have agreed to report that the eastern
terminus of the Texas Pacific shall be
changed to Vicksburg, or the North Louisi
ana Bailroad shall be subsidized as the
Vicksburg branch. The railroad ticket sell
ers of the South reached here this morning,
en route to Philadelphia to attend the open
ing ceremonies of the Centennial exhibition
as gnests ot Col. Foreacre, of the Virginia
Midland route. Nearly every Southern city
is represented in the party, which is under
charge of W. D. Chipley, General Southern
Agent of the line. The party breakfasted
this morning at tbe Beiay Station by invita
tion of the Baltimore and Ohio Bailroad. ■
The Star says: “Secretary BriBtow is
again the target of slander. It is now
charged upon him that he suspended pro
ceedings against John Bnckner, who was
Collector of Internal Revenue at Louisville
and defaulted to the extent of $100,000, be
cause Mr. Moth, the foster-father of Mrs.
Bristow, who died reoently, leaving Mrs.
Bristow a handsome legacy, is on the bond
of tbe defaulter, and to proceed against
bim would involve the estate. It is farther
said that tbe matter has been quietly in
vestigated by the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
The impeachment presented against Bel
knap sets forth that he was Secretary oi
War on June 6th, 1873, at which time a cer
tain question, matter, canse or proceedings
were pending in relation to the ap
pointment and retention in office of
the trader at the post of Fort Sill
in the Indian territory; that be dii.
unlawfully,wilfully and corruptly accept and
receive the sum of $1,700 from one Caleb P.
Marsh with the iDtent to have his decision
or action on the question pending influ
enced, and did appoint one John S. Evans,
and retain John S. Evans as post trader in
consideration of having received said sum.
WASHINGTON WEATHEB PBOPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Officeio
Washington, May 9.—Probabilities :
In tho South Atlantic and Gnlf States
during Wednesday rising followed by sta
tionary or falling barometer, cool or west
winds backing to warmer southwesterly and
clear weather will prevail.
In the West Gulf States, Tennessee and
Ohio valley lower barometer, wanner south
erly winds veering to west or northwest in
last sections and clear or partly cloudy
weather.
In the Middle States, rising, followed by
falling barometer, winds gradually backing
to west and south, warmer, clearing and
partly cloudy weather, except occasional
light rains in the northern portion.
The lower TenDess.ee river, the Missis
sippi at Cairo, and the Ohio at Paducah,will
continue to rise.
Cautionary signals continue along the
New Jersey coast and at Kitty Hawk aud
Cape Hatteras.
NAVAL EXPENDITCBES.
New Yobk, May 9.—The sub-Committee
on Naval Expenditures, ia session at the
Astor House, examined Jno. Roach, ship
builder and contractor. The examination
continned six hours. Roach gave a detailed
account of his transactions with the gov
ernment duriDg the past ten years. He de
nied having improperly influenced officials.
He claimed that all his transactions were
fair and above board. He had paid politi
cal assessments once, and contributed to
the election of Got. Hoffman. He gave in
this way about as much to one party as the
other.
COOLNESS OF AN ACTOB.
Bbidgepobt, Ct., May 9.—During Barry
Sullivan’s performance of Richard the III.
a dense smoke rolled from the stage. Tbe
panic was arrested by the aotor crying out
that tho fire was out. The smoke increased
aud tbe play wa; stopped, and the audience
found their way safely down the narrow
staircase from the second story. The fire
was iu a basement adjoining the building.
VIGILANTES IN BROOKLYN.
New Yobk, May 9. -The Brooklyn Super
intendent of Police was notified that a Vigi
lance Committee had been organized in that
city to hunt up burglars and murderers,
i’he committee styles itself “Lafayette
Tribe, Camp No. 1, of the city of Brooklyn,
organized 18th September, 1869.” The po
lice are hunting tbe matter np.
to suspend.
Lowell, May 9.—A portion of the Mor-
rimac Print Works will suspend for a few
days owing to the overstock in certain de
partments.
QUASHED.
Milfobd, Pa., May 9.—The rain last night
extinguished the forest fires, which had
already destroyed thousands of acres in
Pike county.
LAUNCHED.
London, May 9.—Tbe iron-plated war
ship Temer&ire was successfully lauched.
LETTER FROM ADRIAN US.
Am Iapeadlnf CmmIIcImd—A Threatened
Csaalaallaa mf Conover and (Stearns—
Slaioa pad Mareellao—Carvtnc a Shoul
der-Additional VIales—Noise as aSefen-
tllc matter—marine.
(Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, May 8, 1876.
GOOD, IF TBUE.
Here is a thrilling legend of the fash
ionable persuasion: Amidst the dense re
cesses of a wood where bounteous beauty
spread itself around, upon the margin of
a brooklet stood, or rather npon the
snrface of the ground, a smiling cottage
of the quaintest build—say, have you
ever seen a cottage smile—that ever
languished on a farm well-tilled for many
a fertile acre even for a mile. One would
not notice that ’twas very strange or
different vastly from the usual style, but
close inspection would produce a change—
spoke a mystery even from its
it
The Centennial and the Sabbath,
The decision of the Centennial Com
mission, that neither the buildings nor
the grounds shall be open on the Sabbath,
has provoked a burst of intense feeling
in Philadelphia, according to the New
York Times's correspondence. A mass
meeting of indignant citizens is to be
held in State House square to protest
against the decision, and it is predicted
that the Commissioners will be called
some very hard names. In the first place,
it appears that in this business, as in a
good deal else, the Centennial Commission
usurped functions which did not be
long to them. Having utterly failed to
do their own work they how attempt to
seize authority delegated to another
oommittee. In the second place, their
illegal action is looked upon as most in
judicious aud unkind. It is certain that
the poor man who wishes to see the Cen
tennial may not be in a condition to give
up his pay for one day even. The toiling
hundreds of thousands in Brooklyn,
Jersey Cit£, New York and other cities
have, now no other alternative. And
when times are so hard, and masters
only seek an excuse to discharge
employes for whom they have in fact
no use, there must be a disinclination to
apply even for a holiday, for fear the
boss might take it amiss and give them a
perpetual send-off. So that by this
action they shut out from the humaniz
ing and improving influences of the Cen
tennial those very classes who are suffer
ing most from the hard times, and most
liable to be brutal and callous from
despair. Now, if tbe exhibition were to
be open on Sundays, those who have the
afternoon of Saturday as a holiday (and
the majority have) would be able to come
down to Philadelphia on that day, and
spend all Sunday in the pleasant Fair-
mount Park, wandering from one new
delight to another, and from surprise to
surprise.—Boston Post.
Centennial Mistakes.—The Centeno
nial Board of Finance will not take ad
vice. They have rejected the almost uni
versal demand for season tickets or re
duced prices for single admissions, and
an equally stroDg protest against the
“dead-head” system. Unless their pro.
gramme, as announced, is relaxed, the
fair will have been put in the way of
being a financial failure. Since the
Board of Finance have obtained $1,500,-
000 from the government, money seems
easy to them; but they will find it ex
tremely tight with the public. We per
sist in the opinion that the reduction of
the admission fee to twenty-five centB or
the issuing of cheap season tickets, good
for two or three days, would greatly re
dound to the profit of the show. The
Commissioners now begin to see their
mistake in not securing pledges of half
fare from all the ra ; ’road companies be
fore the exposition had progressed so far
as to be a oertainty. They are trying
now to coax the roads to oome into this
arrangement; if they fail, the suoccss of
the exposition will be endangered still
more seriously than by an adherence to
high entrance fees and “dead-head” tick
ets.—N. T. Journal of Commerce.
Mr. Lorrimer Graham, American CodsuI
at Florence, was a courteous apd kindly
gentleman, whose house was a centre of
refinement and culture, where all hia
countrymen were received with a rare
and generous cordiality. As an officer ha
was respected by all for his worth and
integrity; as a gentleman simply hia
olaims to the highest social position were
universally acknowledged. His wife waa
a lady of rare gentleness and grace. But
j^r. Graham died. And the President
has appointed as his successor Mr. Wirt
Sykes, a pepy-a-liner of uncertain repu
tation, better known as the husband of
Qlire Logan, a woman who has been
known m an an tress, a lecturer, a writer,
and a toady and sycophant st the White
Bouse, The worst feature, perhaps, of
this matter ie that the body that rejected
the nomination of Mr. Uiohard A. Dana
will confirm that of Sykes.—Baltimore
Ornette.
tile.
Christina and Paulo were its inmates
then, that’s at the time to which we refer
ence make, and these two beings in this
little den rejoiced as much as Gourmand
o’er rare steak. Alas for happiness, alas
for peace, alas for all that lightens up
life's pain, alas fur comfort, not to speak
of ease, this bower’s attractions vanished
like rain. Once when the storm king
expressed his ire upon a night that was
replete with woe, a little offspring slipped
into the fire and returned t’ ashes, as
mortals often do. The wild wind wailed
a dirge around the house, the trees
bent low and sighed an elegy, an agod
feline tried to catch a mouse, but
with an impulse sudden fell
cockroaches issued moaning from the
crevices, a swarm of pismires took
funeral march, even the flies began
mournful breeze, and the industrious
spider formed a shroud-like arch. The
unconscious parents were slumbering
when death o’ertook the baby in such
abrupt way they might be slumbering
still if a wide wreath of midnight insects
had not made things play. It seemeth
fitting that a veil be drawn upon
the sorrow and • the grief
these bereaved people who awoke
at dawn to find a matter troublesome as
fleas; and ever after on that fatal eve—the
anniversary thereof of course we name
—spectators could behold a dark blaze
leave the chimney top—a crimson, blood
red flame. ’Tis said that this was baby’:
life, which flew spontaneous at the bid
ding of some sprite high into space,albeit
that no wind blew and no fire was ever kin
died on that night. The ruddy glare would
form fantastic shapes; an erubescent form
was sometimes there, so we are told,
by one who always gapes in wonderment
upon the sight whene’er the night is
clear. Faulo and Christina are no more,
but still the legend is a thing of life and
liveth an inscription on the door relating
to that ancient man and wife. Now,
will not be disputed that if this myth is
not exactly Slavonic it is nevertheless ex
traordinarily enticing, and as faithful
chroniclers we are compelled to an
nounce that it is pregnant with other
insurmountable drawbacks. In the
first place, there never was such
a person as the Paulo or Christina
to whom the above alludes, in the
second place they did not have any house,
and in the third place no child of theirs
was ever consumed by the flames. This
aromatic poem, however, is useful as
illustrative of the tendency to invent
upon a very slim foundation, and the
powerful idiots who imagine that the ir
repressible carpet-baggers of this region
mean all that they say when they abuse
their henchmen Stearns and Conover are
doomed to a bitter disappointment, as
they build upon a very precarious foun
dation. As near as we have been
able to fathom the purposes of
the Radical miscreants, the ticket
is expected to be Simon B. Conover,
“Doctor Conover,” for Governor, Mar
cellus L. Steams for Lieutenant Governor.
It is understood that the saponaceous
Steams has been making overtures to the
Conover faction with this object. It is
to be trusted sincerely that the negotia
tions will be completed, for it would be
difficult to create a set of candidates who
will be more certain of an overwhelming
defeat by the Democrats than these two
whipsters, linked together.
ANOTHER FRIENDLY TILT.
That inevitable nuisance known as
Rotten Row. looms into prominence once
more under circumstances of a sanguinary
nature, as usual. This resort for the
scum of the city has been an intolerable
pest for time immemorial, and tbe in
mates should be expelled for. their noisy
demonstrations and almost habitual
drunkenness, and ail frequenters should
be promptly imprisoned for being caught
there, or the whole establishment should
be wiped out of existence. This row
of shanties is filled with the low
est order of negro gambling hells
and bar-rooms, and is clearly an abatable
evil. On Saturday night two niggers,
designated as McCoy and White, impro
vised an altercation, and soon extempo
rized a fight, which enlivened the sur
roundings considerably, and fairly caused
the locality and McCoy to howl. Victory
had inclined to the side of White, but
the other pugilist argued within himself
that even if he had been thoughtless
enough to venture forth, unaccompanied
by his precious razor, a butcher shop
was within convenient reach, as also
was a ponderous cleaver. This murder
ous weapon McCoy at once proceeded
to take on, and lost no time in taking it
on hia opponent’s left shoulder with suffi
cient force to inflict a dangerous wound.
McCoy betook himself away instanter, and
White to a physician went without delay.
He is now doing as well as could be ex.
pected or suspected, and is doubtless
looking for his departed foe with a razor.
Should they meet there will be some more
Republican fun.
MALL FACILITIES.
It is understand that the residents of
oertain portions of South Florida are
suffering great inconvenience on account
of the lack of proper mail facilities. The
people of that region are by no means
singular in their misfortune, and it seems
decidedly more pleasant sometimes to
have no mails at Ml than to be tantalized
with the irregularities which prevail all
over the State. There is, we are in
formed, one mail route which might be
advantageously established, viz: from
Tampa to Alalia, to Manatee, to Sara
Sota. The places named are becoming
settlements of no small importance,
and the denizens are clamoring for
some of the accommodations which
are the concomitants of good govern
ment. Here is a glorious opportunity of
fered to an enterprising genius to make a
reputation for himself by bringing tbe
question successfully before the authori
ties and securing their action in the mat
ter immediately,
AN AWFUL NOISE.
There ia a glut in the canine market
hereabouts, and the dismal howl of the
cur is heard at all hours of the night. It
has been energetically remarked that
there is nothing better than a good dog
for certain uaes, and the antithesis of the
proposition is that there is nothing worse
than a howling*” purp” for no use
at all. If some inventive hero
woqld discover a process whereby the
supply of dogs in the land contiguous to
this corporation could be materially de-
creassd, the benediotions of an afflicted
oommumty would be hia by right of con
quest. If I ever have an enemy, which
is very improbable, and it is impossible
to obtain a terrible revenge with com
fortable readiness, it is my intention
to invest liberally in a yelping
Jacksonville beast, and hire a stable for
the animal in close proximity to the man
I desire to provoke. It would undoubt
edly be ihupense amusement to lean
against a fence on the opposite aide of
tbe street (rnd observe tbe consternation
of an enemy at the horrible hubbub en
gendered by an adjaoent dog throughout
the livelong night. There ia fan even in
noticing a hound bey the moon on such
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived during the week ending this
day—Schooners M. W. Drew, Camden,
Maine; Marcus Edwards and Como, New
York. Departures—Schooners Lizzie
Mayer, Belle Crowell, Lena Breed, Annie
L. McKeen, Hattie Card, Flora Wood
house and Governor, New York, and A.
Hayford, Boston, Mass.
Ad BIANUS.
AX036 THE H0O9IERS.
A Few Stray Notes from “ Simon.’’
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
St. Louis, Mo., May 3, 1876.
After a month's sojourn among relatives
in Hoosier land, I return southward
much improved in health if notin temper.
But, after all, what use is there in fret
ting ? And yet it is one of the foibles of
our nature. We are dissatisfied because
everything around us is not as we would
have it. Tbe principal cause of this,
when honestly ferreted ont, is selfish
ness. Some Mordica has failed to re
cognize our claims to position. Con
soling myself with this explanation, I let
the Hoosiers flaunt the “bloody shirt,
and let them retail in detail both the
real and imaginary “horrors of Ander-
sonviUe” to their hearts content, for
this is the stock in trade of
the party of high moral ideas;
without this capital they would be bank
rupt. The only salvation of the party is
to prevent another rebellion; hence the
principal mottoes upon their banners:
“The Great War Governor”—“Anderson
vilie”—“Down with the Rebels.” It is
strange what an influence an imaginary
its knee; rebel ghost has upon some minds. It
r *•■- gj ves them “horrors all over,” the night
mare and other disagreeable sensations.
Politics rules the hour. Indiana will be
one of the hardest contested fields in the
Union, and the vote will be close.
The weather has been very open all
winter. There has not been snow enough
to protect the wheat,and consequently the
crop will be short in the Northern part
of the State. They have had a great
deal of rain, and the roads have been im
passable. Wagons could c not reach the
city, and hence nothing could be brought
to market, and the consequence is that
everything is crowding in to such an ex
tent now as to ruin the price. There are
thousands of bushels of Irish potatoes,
large and fine, that can be bought in and
around Fort Wayne from ten to twenty
•cents per bushel. Owing to the same
causes, bad roads and open winter, there
are thousands of pounds of good hay
stacked in the meadows, really not worth
moving. There is no market for it—no
body wants it. A great deal of that which
was baled and shipped did not pay actual
expenses. It must rot where it is.
In the western part of the State
passed through the celebrated Kankakee
swamps. For miles on either hand you
can see nothing but the low, marshy
prairie, too wet to cultivate and too boggy
to herd cattle on, they seem almost use
less. To drain them would require an
amount equal to the value of the land,
and hence they are left, like our great
Okefenokee. It is left to raids of the
sportsmen and curiosity hunters. In
portions of the swamp there is a dismal
appearance, which induced the “white-
hatted philosopher of New York city,”
many years ago, while on his way to
Lafayette, to deliver an agricultural ad
dress, that if John Banyan could have
only seen Kankakee he would have had a
better conception of the “Slough of
Despond ” which he so graphically de
scribes in his celebrated book, the Pil
grim’s Progress. After we pass Valpara-
sio we come upon another waste of
waters, extending for miles on either side,
until we reach the shores of Lake Michi
gan. Then we pass through the most
poverty-stricken land in all the West.
Sandhills and scrubby blackjack is all that
can be seen, and one old man aboard the
train, who had been through the section
often, remarked that it was so poor that
even fleas couldn't live there. As we
neared Chicago, the whole face of the
country was changed into one of fertility
aud beauty.
Chicago is of wonderful dimensions,
for everything within fifteen or twenty
miles is called Chicago, although a mile
or two may intervene between the settle
ments. But notwithstanding all this
bravado, it is a magnificent city. Its de
velopment has been the wonder of the
age. The great fire has proved a bless
ing as to energy and improvement. The
burnt district, under the ordinary process
of improvement, would not have reached
its present magnificent appearance in
twenty or thirty years. I do not sup
pose any city in the United States sur
passes Chicago in her superior hotel ac
commodations. I have seen nothing, even
at Saratoga, that excel in convenience and
comfort the hotels in Chicago. But I
did not intend to write a eulogy on the
city. There are many things about it
that are attractive, and there are some
things not so lovely. The Daily Times
seems to take the lead in the newspaper
line. I j Although an Ishmaelite, with his
hand against every man, and every man’s
hand against him, Storey fights bravely
and successfully. It is a live paper, de
voting more means and energy to collect
news than to protect its morals. The
city has won not the most enviable repu
tation in matters of divorce. It is a
regular mart, where divorces are bought
aud sold at any pried? A regular
brokerage business is carried on in them,
where parties can have their conjugal
infelicities ad j usted in the shortest notice
and in the most approved style. I was
somewhat amused at a rencontre between
a Chicago lady aboard tbe train and a
gentleman who was speaking in un
measured condemnation of this feature
of Chicago life. With her sharp ringing
voice she remarked, “Sir, you do us great
injustice. Do not suppose that every
lady or gentleman either who lives in the
city want to be divorced—they are not
all Mrs. McDonalds. There is as much
virtue and conjugal fidelity in Chicago as
in any other city of its size.
It is the profligates from other
places that crowd in here to take advan
tages of her miserable laws that gives us
such a bad reputation abroad. No, sir,
you will find as many pure-hearted wo
men and harmonious households in Chi
cago as in any other part of the world.
I could not help applauding the woman’s
energetic defense of her home, while her
adversary retired in confusion.
I reached this city, St. Louis, last
night, after a continuous ride of two
hundred and eighty miles, and when
once rested may resume my notes.
Szmon.
Who Sent Steinberger to Samoa!
[From the St. Loots Republican.]
“ Washington, May 2.—Official docu.
ments sent to the House to-day by the
Secretary of State show that Steinberger
was not authorized or empowered by the
United States to form a government in
Samoa, or to pledge the United States to
sustain in any way, directly or indirectly,
any government that he might assist in
forming.”
Explanations are now in order. There
are two or three well known and well
established facts in connection with this
business. Previous to his embarkation
in the enterprise which has made him
notorious, Steinberger was a roving ad
venturer, with little to lose, either in
cash or character. It is said that he had
been a friend and boon companion of the
President when the latter was a lieutenant
in the army and stationed on the Pacific
coast. But be this as it may, Steinberger
was oonveyed to Samoa in a United States
ship of war, which remained with him
until he had succeeded in forcing his so-
called “constitution” upon the natives.
It was understood that the commander of
the vessel had received orders to support
Steinberger in his demands upon the Sa
moan king by a detachment of marines,
if necessary ; and some extra cannon and
ammunition were brought from San
Franoisco to be used as reinforcements,
should the occasion require such addi
tional arguments. In the negotiations
which preceded his appointment to
the premiership and virtual sovereignty
of the islands, Steinberger represent
ed himself as an agent of the United
States, which aided him very materially
in the accomplishment of his designs.
One of his first acts was the sending of a
special messenger to Washington an
nouncing the oomplete success of his
mission. Every newspaper in the coun
try had something to say about it, and all
assumed that it was a government affair,
and intended to prepare the way for the
annexation of valuable territory in the Pa
cific ocean. If the statement now sent to
the House by Secretary Fish be true, then
why was it delayed so long'! Six months
or more have elapsed since Steinberger
thrust himself and his “constitution '
upon the Samoans, and yet not a word of
repudiation or reproof has issued from
the State Department until the usurper
is dismissed in disgrace. While it seemed
probable that he would retain his place
and power, the government allowed the
impression to prevail that he was its
agent and representative; but as soon as
the news of his failure arrives Secretary
Fish hastens to say that he “was not
authorized or empowered by the United
States” to do anything he has done.
Now we are prepared to believe that
Steinberger is an arrant knave, but not
that he is the consummate fool which
the Fish story would make him out to be.
If he had no authority to establish a sort
of protectorate over Samoa, why was a
government vessel employed to carry him
there ? Why was that vessel used as his
headquarters while he was negotiating ?
Why were the vessel’s guns and crew
ready to sustain him, if he needed such
support ? Did he forge the orders
which the vessel’s commander obeyed ?
Did he play a grand confidence
game, which might cost him his
life, without any cards save his own
impudence ? The supposition is as ab
surd as iffls incredible. Steinberger did
have authority, and was empowered to go
to Samoa. There can be no doubt of it,
and the long delayed denial of the State
Department is merely a clumsy attempt
to dodge a disagreeable responsibility. It
is reported that among the deposed min
ister’s papers was found a letter from
Babcock, then the President’s private
secretary, discussing the plan and object
of the enterprise, and the terms upon
which it was intrusted to Steinberger.
Whether such a document exists or not,
Babcock is probably fully posted
iu regard to the conception and
management of the scheme, and
could famish an interesting narrative
concerning it. He was the President’s
adviser and agent in the Domingo mat
ter, and when the bubble exploded would
be quite likely to serve in the same ca
pacity in the Samoan job. We hope the
House will take Secretary Fish’s declara
tion for just what it is worth—which is
nothing at all—and proceed to investigate
for itself. And the first step in the in
vestigation should be this question pro
posed to the Secretary of the Navy: “By
what authority and in obedience to whose
orders was Steinberger taken to Samoa in
a United States ship ?”
Another Enemy to Cotton.—Says the
Natchez Democrat, 30th ult.: We have
been informed that snails, or snugs, are
doing considerable damage in the conn-
try by cutting np the young plants in the
gardens and the cotton in the fields. The
snail is a new enemy of the cotton plant,
we, in a thirty years’ experience in cotton
planting, having only within compara
tively a few years past heard of the cot-
ton plant being seriously injured by
;hem. The cutworm has at times been
rather destructive to the stand of cotton
during our experience, and we remember
to have been told by an old resident of
the country that the present system of
sowing the seed thickly in the drill was
adopted as a safe-guard against the
depredations of the cnt-worm. The
snail, however, we have always been ac
customed to look upon as a rather dis
gusting bnt an entirely innocent inaect.
We presume we will therefore have to
apply tbe development theory to this
sluggish reptile and recognize the prin
ciple bo applicable to the human race,
that as he progresses he becomes more
rapacious.
In view of the frightful increase of in
fanticide it will be a matter of puhlic
congratulation that a conviction has
taken place in our criminal court; a
woman who neglected her infant at birth
from whieh .death resulted, having been
found guilty of m«7i.i«nght»T — Wash
ington Star,
Centennial Narrowmindedness.
The authorities of the Centennial ex
hibition at Philadelphia have laid down
two laws which will go far toward de
creasing the attendance and toward mak
ing the thing ridiculous. One is that the
exhibition must be closed on Sunday; the
other is that no tickets will be sold, but
that each applicant for admission must
present himself with a fifty ceDt note or
silver half dollar. No equivalent for this
will be accepted. A man cannot go with
his wife for a dollar; he must provide
himself with two fifty cent notes. Five
ten cent notes will not be received. Two
quarters will be rejected with scorn;
no proposition concerning three fif
teen cent notes and a nickel will be en
tertained. The law is, a single fifty
cent note or no admission. It may be
said that it is easy to provide oneself with
a couple of fifty-cent notes, but this will
probably turn out quite otherwise. Fif
ty- cent notes will immediately be at a
premium. They will be caught up and
held at au advance. There will be in all
probability booths established near the
entrances, where fifty-cent notes will be
sold. The result may be that a
stranger visiting the show will be
compelled to pay sixty cents in
stead of fifty for his admission. He will
present himself at the gate with two
quarters, and will be ordered away, and
will be compelled to hunt around for fif
ty-cent note brokers. It will be a very
humiliating thing to see shops aronnd the
entrance displaying the sign: “Fifty-
cent notes sold here.”
This would seem a ludicrous piece of
petty tyranny and of bad management,
but it shows a temper that makes it the
reverse of laughable. It shows that this
great gathering of the nations is to be
managed in the most narrow-minded,
provincial and petty spirit. Instead of
being, as all expected, a broad, cosmo
politan rallying point, where all races,
creeds and nationalities could meet on a
friendly footing, it is to be a place for
tbe exereise of small tyrannies, and for
the explanation of Sabbatarian mor
alities.—Baltimore Gazette.
A Batch of Criates And Confessions.
James M. Skelton la a hard- working,
thrifty farmer of Spencer county, near
Rockport, Indiana. He is married, and
had lived on his farm ten years, during
which time be had thoroughly established
a reputation for peace and quietness and
respectability. James L. Casey was a
boy of seventeen years of age, a native of
the county, and had been a farm boy for
Skelton about eighteen months. Lately
Skelton discharged Casey from his em
ploy, and both knew pretty well why; so
did Skelton's wife. Casey went to work
ror Joseph Murray, a neighbor of Skel
ton’s. He ought to have moved far
ther away, bnt youth is thoughtless.
Some time since Skelton met Oasy,
and charged him with abusing his eon
fidence saying that Mrs. Skelton had
confessed. Then the thoughless youth
also confessed, before a witness, end
promised not to do so any more. This
seemed to satisfy Skelton, and he went
away without any symptom of violence in
act, word or demeanor. The other day
Murray weDt away from home a short
distance and left Casey plowing with a
pair of mules. He came home and saw
the mules wandering about the field, bnt
no Casey. Murray found the plow some
distance from the furrow, and discovered
indications that the team had rnn off
and broken away. In the furrow where
the plow had finished its work he found
the body of Casey, with bis head and
face horribly cut, and his forehead
smashed in, apparently with the pole of
a hatchet. Every wound of the six or
seven was a death blow. The Skelton
scandal was known to a few and those
few suspected Skelton of the murder.
One of them went to Skelton and told
him how he had done it. He described
to Skelton his route to the field and re
turn, gave the position of Casey when
the first blow was dealt—standing be
tween the plowhandles, leaning back
against the round—the position a man
would naturally take approached from be
hind. Skelton was thus given the im
pression that he had been seen, and con
fessed that he killed the boy. He was
arrested and indicted for murder. His
neighbors feel great sympathy for him.
A Strange Occurrence.
As Mr. William Smith, a shirt manu
facturer, of No. 683 Broadway, was on
his way to his place of business from his
residence, No. 33 Washington square,
yesterday morning, and while passing the
comer of Mercer and Fourth streets, he
felt a sensation as though he had been
tapped on the head with a light cane.
Taking off his hat and examining it he
found a bullet hole, evidently made by a
small conical ball. Feeling of his head
discovered that he had been shot and that
the bullet had lodged beneath the skin,
causing a slight wound. Mr. Smith went
to the drug store at the comer of Fourth
street and Broadway, where the bullet
was extracted without difficulty. It is
supposed that the.bullet with which Mr.
Smith was wounded was fired from au
air-gun, as no report of fire-arms was
heard. No person in the vicinity saw the
shot fired, and although Capt. Van Du-
sen, of the 'Fifteenth Precinot, was
standing on the opposite comer when the
shot was fired, and at once made an in
vestigation, no clue to the person who
fired the shot has been obtained. The
whole affair is shrouded in mystery, and
Mr. Smith cannot conceive why he
should have been assaulted, but believes
that the shooting was accidental. De
tective Slevin has the matter under in
vestigation.—N. y. Sun.
This in the City of Churches.—
Ellen Johnson went to the Charity Com
missioners’ office in Willoughby street,
Brooklyn, Saturday, with her four small
chddren. Their condition denoted the
worst degree of poverty. She said that
her husband had abandoned her, and
that she could not work and attend to
the children too. She asked for charity.
One of the political clerks showed her
into a cheerless room, and apparently
forgot all about her. She remained there
four or five hours without anything to
eat. Her children cried piteously for
food. She went to Judge Walsh’s court
and asked to be commit! ed to the jail as
a vagrant, that she might get something
for her little ones to eat. She said that
her youngest child was almost dead, and
the moaning cry of the babe confirmed
her stoiy. Judge Walsh gave a court
officer two dollars and sent after food for
the family. He th6n committed them to
the jail for three days, and sent an officer
to look after the husband. The charity
officers were smoking and cracking jokes
in their office while the suffering family
were in the hack room.
Conkling Under Fibe.—But little has
been said heretofore reflecting upon
Conkling's integrity and uorightness as a
public man, but now some rather ugly
stories are being circulated. According
to the Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Ccmmercial, it is charged,
among other things, that he is interested
in the success of an electrical patent and a
patent for time-lock safes, and that in or
der to further and protect his interests in
those patents, he was instrumental in
having appointed the present Commis
sioner of Patents, ex-Representative Du
el], of New York, and that for a similar
purpose a practical telegraph operator has
been assigned to duty in that, branch of
the Patent Office in which examinations
of electrical patents are made. As an in
vestigation will, of course, be ordered, it
may now be said that all the more prom
inent Republican candidates for the
Presidency are under fire. Such is the
penalty of disreputable political associa
tions. The people demand reform, and
that no guilty man be permitted to es
cape.—Nashville American.
A New Game of “Pokeb” with the
Heathen Chinee.—The steamer Crocus
has landed eight hundred and fifty China
men in San Francisco. On the passage
they were horribly ill-treated. The (Cap
tain of the vessel, when questioned,
churlishly remarked that “striot discip
line ” had been enforced. He said: “ The
fellows would be continually coming on
deck, and wouldn’t go below when order
ed. So to make them go without too
much violence I got some long pokers
made, which I kept in the furnace red
hot all the time. It operated to a
charm. When the Chinamen would
get obstreperous all I had to do
was to order out my poker men, when
they would scamper below very quickly.
I did not have to touch tbe same one
twice I can tell you.” The Captain
langhed, says the reporter, as though re
membering some ludicrous incident. The
Chinamen thus kept crowded beneath the
decks mast have suffered terribly, and
upon that point the Captain said: “Most
of the trouble we had on the trip was
when the fellows were below. I turned
hot water on them once or twice, bnt
generally all that was necessary was to
fire a revolver over their heads. They
are a cowardly set, and are heartily afraid
of a revolver.” The prejudice against
Chinamen is so strong in California that
the Captain’s brutality is not censured
there.
The grasshoppers in Indiana are begin
ning to crawl ont on the fences and prac
tice for the Centennial. There teems to
be very little long disease among them
this neaaon, and they aB “toot” foe Heo-
There was a thrilling incident on the
Kansas and Missouri bridge at Leaven
worth the other day. Two men who
appeared to be very drunk were crossing
the bridge from the Missouri to the Kan
sas side. About the middle of the bridge
they got into a quarrel and commenced
knocking each other about. The fight
was observed by several spectators on
tho Kansas shore, and they saw a sight
worth seeing. One of the men knocked
the other clear off the bridge and he
somersaulted through the air sixty-five
feet to the surface of the water. How
far he went under nobody knows, and
nobody ever expected to see him alive
again. But he soon rose and swam
ashore, and scrambled out of the Mis
souri flood uninjured, and perfectly so-
her. Soon as he saw what he had done,
the victor ran with all his might back to
the Missouri side, and he is probably
running yet away from his supposed
murder. The other refused to state the
cause of the quarrel or give names. He
also went back to Missouri after hia
friend, doubtless to finish the fight.
Post-trader Belknap confidently expects
to be acquitted, even though the Senate
should assert the competency of its juris
diction. It is not difficult to understand
the ground work of this faith, for it must
have been evident to all who have noted
the progress of events, that the prelimi
naries for such a result have been in pro
gress for some time. The Republican
party cannot, at this time, afford to carry
any such additional load, as the impeach
ment and conviction of a member of the
Presidential Cabinet, and especially not
upon such charges as those preferred
against Belknap. His acquittal will cause
little surprise, not because the country at
large does not believe him guilty, but
because Republican success in the Presi
dential campaign must not be imperiled
by hia conviction.—Philadelphia Chroni
cle.
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