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t „E DEATH and BUflIAL, OF JIM
BLAINE,
Who killed Jim Blaine?
I, says “Our Joe,”
With mv arrow and bow,
1 killed Jim Blaine.
Who saw him die ?
I, says Sam Bowles;
lie was fhot full of holes,
And I saw him die.
Who’ll toll the bell ?
I, save Ben. Bristow,
With my bully fist, oh;
Yes, I’ll toll the bell.
Who’ll dig his crave ?
I, Halstead, Field Marshal;
To Bristow I’m partial,
So I’ll dig the grave.
Who’ll preach the sermon ?
I, says Dick Smith,
The ‘‘iruly good” myth, ,
I’ll give him a sermon.
WhoM sing the psalm ?
I, says Rutherford H-jyes,
My forte is to praise,
And I’ll sing the psalm.
Who'll be the chief mourner ?
1 will, says Morton,
With my bloody shirt on,
I’ll be chief mourner.
Who’ll bear the pall ?
I will, says Washburne;
With my watch-dog sash on,
I’ll carry the pall.
Who’ll see him rise ?
No one, says Roscoe,
He’s deader t’ian Moscow,
Jim Blaine never’ll rise.
Affairs in Georgia.
One of the eleven able editors of the At
lanta Constitution has interviewed R. Boots
Bullock. 11. Boots made no important re
velations.
The best ten-pin players in Augusta pull
off tboir shoes when they play. At least
that is the style in which Colonel Gregg
IVright, of the Augusta Chronicle, shoots
the balls.
Bullock wears a nosegay and side
whiskers. He ought to have on bracelets.
A Georgia editor had a hole shot in his
ear the other day, notwithstanding the fact
that, time and again, in this column we have
warned our brethren of the State press to
carefully fold up their ears before they go
into a fight. It is all very well for a rooster
to engage in battle with his wings down,
but until editors learn to use their ears as
successfully, their auricular appendages
should be packed in as small a bundle as
possible.
Weil, the eleven able editors of the At
lanta Constitution onght to be satisfied now.
Some scissors fiend has attributed one of
their joint paragraphs to the Mobbing
News. It is well the name of the writer has
been suppressed.
A correspondent at Long Fond claims that
the farmers are only planting enough cotton
for table use.
Borne Philadelphia humorist is sending us
copies of the—we had nearly said newspa
pers—copies of the publications of that city
with the hotel advertisements marked.
Lochrane, who is known in New York as
the Irish cherub, has telegraphed Bullock
from some point out West that he would de
fend him. Bullock says this shows that
Lochrane is true bine—which is a deuced
queer expression to use about a man who
always looks as though he were bathing in
a flood-tide of blnshes.
Henry W. Grady will get out the first
camber of his Sunday Telegram in Atlanta.
We trust he will make it pay.
General Gartrell, of Atlanta, seems to
have his hands full of criminal business.
Ho is of counsel for both BAllock and Blod
gett.
Bullock says he has no doubt if the ques
tion of hiB bail had been left open a few
hours “there would have been, if necessary,
two pages of names attached to the paper.’
Ob, nobody doubts that. Atlanta is the
place where Kimball got the endorsement
of two thousand prominent patriots.
The Augusta Constitutionalist seems to
favor Tilden. This seems natural. Had
there been no canals there would have been
no Tilden, politically speaking.
The reporter of the Constitution, who had
an interview with Bullock, takes the trouble
to announce that when he got through he
bowed. Since this fact has become, as it
were, public property, we would like to ask
if the reporter bowed of his own accord or
whether he was asked to do so by Bullock :
because there are some reporters bo stiff in
the hind-legs that they have to be struck
across the stomach with a folded umbrella
before they can be made to unbend.
We invite particular attention to the fol
lowing paragraph which has been going the
rounds lately. It needs explanation : “Of
thirty newspapers in Georgia who have ex
pressed a preference for Governor, twenty-
three favor Colquitt, two favor Hardeman,
and one favors James.”
A perusal of the following statement,
»hich we find in the last number of the
Wadley Enterprise, is calculated not only to
oause a feeling of sorrow and pity, but to
m *ko those who are nursing King Cotton
'bis year tremble and grow pale. Bead it,
fellow-citizens, farmers and grangers, and
'hen go and—plant more cotton : “There
uere men at Bartow ihe other day actually
ctTtng because they conld not get corn,
^hii indie ites the truly distressed condition
01 °ur Banner State. It is a sad sight to
8ec 'be heart of the strong man wrung to
*e«s for the want of the staff of life to feed
bis wife and children.”
Bullock says he will never unlock bis lit-
*lt tin-box. This is too bad.
This is probably sarcasm on the part of.
‘ht Atlanta Times : “ We are informed that
e ei -Governor will not be tried at this
t6r ® of the court.”
Bibb county raises oats six feet nine inch-
he Constitution reporter who talked with
n .°ck *°‘'i that worthy that his opinion on
htt.onal politics would be of some import-
Well, if R, Roots is to bo made an
facie of i e t nB bear f rom him in re8 p ec t to
6 fraudulent bonds, aDd the State Road
6 ' Bg8 > and other little matters of inter-
o the robbed and plundered tax-payers
01 U6 °rgia.
Hon. M. Eugene Thornton is engaged
giving the finishing touches to his cele-
fated novel "Sylvester Lester.”
ne Cl y piato1 didn't like the way a Macon
»ent° Care8Bing il the other day, and it
tie ” ’ Btn k‘ D S another negro in the an-
i,L, u s ays he gees no signs of the
he to ^ ^ 8 k* r ' ” ' n Georgia. This is because
'bat ha ' n power ‘ During the whole time
'be of 'f CUpietl tbe executive chair by vir-
Uet- * “° gua election, and upheld by bayo-
hone-t * JU8lj did a Ku-Klux, and every
CGeorgian was a nigger-killer,
ezt - to ,:be 'ib* a Columbus man is to
drawthIT Und rutaba S» twnip raw, and
The r&peneB of your conch about you,
“ rindnwt"' the Columbus chains
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MAY 23. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The Atlanta Times states that on Satur
day the Dalton accommodation and an
extra freight train collided near Giilam’s
Mill, injuring seriously Jas. Bell, engineer
on the extra, and John W. Jackson, fireman;
also, ernshing fireman Jas. Harris’s ankle,
and crushing flagman F. L. Eddy’s left
knee. Conductors Ransome and Rape, and
engineer Squires and others were slightly
injured. The accident was caused by the
oversight of conductor Rape, a conductor
of great experience. He states that he had
lost sight of the accommodation schedule.
None of the passengers were hurt. Both
the engines are badly damaged, and both
tenders crushed, one sitting up in a box car
and the other in a baggage car.
“Sox” in the Augusta Constitutionalist:
The Commonwealth of Wednesday an-
nounced that Carey W. Styles, formerly of
the Albany Aews, had purchased a leading
interest in that paper and would assume
chief editorial control yesterday ; but there
seems to be some hitch in the matter, as
the paper now announces that the announce
ment was premature. I am not advised as
to the prematureness, but presume that the
Colonel mapped out a course through the
campaign that was not exactly in accord
ance with the proprietors’ ideas.
Macon Advertiser : At the recent conven
tion of the Georgia Press Asrociation, Mr.
Estill, of the Savannah Mobning News, was
made the recipient of a beautiful Biiver
water set, consisting of a pitcher, waiter
and two goblets. The presentation speech
was made by Col. Styles in an earnest,
appropriate manner. Mr. Estill’s reply was
replete with suggestive and encouraging
facts for the Press of Georgia. He stated
among other things, that he had taken the
trouble to get specimens of almost every
country town paper in the 8tates of Illinois,
Ohio and New York, and upon comparison
found the odds to be decidedly in favor of
the papers of onr own State. This was a
source of no little surprise to the members
of the press, and augurs well for the future
of our State. It was understood by the
members of the association that the present
was made Mr. Estill, not on account of his
services as their President or for his prince
ly hospitality only, but for his uniform and
constant kindly bearing toward them.
We take from the Darien Timber Gazette
the following particulars of the sinking of
the steamer Clyde, on the Ocmulgee river,
a short dis'auce above Lumber City, of
the which mention has already bebnma'de in
Mobning News: “The steamer Clyde struck
against a log about 12 o’clock on Friday last,
a mile above Scuffle Bluff, Ocmulgee river.
As soon as she struck Captain Day backed
her stern on a sandbar and the current
brought her bow around. As soon as this
was done Capt. Day put part of his crew at
work taking out freight, while the others
went to work to stop the hole and pump her
out. A temporary wadding was soon ar
ranged and the leak was stopped, and Capt.
Day had great hopes of saving his boat,
but about 3 o’clock Saturday morning the
strong current washed the wadding out and
the boat again commenced to sink and
was under water in three minutes. Wooden
pumps were made, and people from all parts
of the country came to assist, but it was no
The crew of the boat were worked
down and the wood had given out just as
the wadding gave way. Several attempts
were made to try and raise her afterwards,
bat with no success.
“The steamer Halcyon left Darien Wed
nesday for the wreck, where she will take
on tne freight and finish the route under
taken by the Clyde. The Clyde was owned
by Captain Day and Messrs. A. A. Sharp and
Win. J. Jarvis, of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, and was valued at $12,000, There
wab no insurance, and of course she is a
total loss to her owners. All the freight
was saved.”
Florida Affairs.
The Soap-Fat man, it seems, has delayed
his overtures to WallB too long.
Cheney quotes from J. E. Bryant’s paper
with evident unction.
The yield of the peach crop in Columbia
county will be about one-half this season.
If honest Northern men are in favor of
honest government and opposed to the
thieving carpet-baggers, they can join the
Democracy. There is no earthly reason
why the Democracy should reform itself 11
suit the squeamishness of a few men.
The editor of the Lake City Reporter has
been eacing rice grown in Columbia county,
and cleaned by Columbia county rice
machines.
The Tribune learns that several of the
Grange Lodges of Hernando county are
taking into consideration the feasibility of
getting up a fair this fall, and trusts the
adjoining county Granges may be induced
to join in such an enterprise. Let the
lodges nnite and appoint a committee to see
what the citizens of Tampa will do in aiding
the undertaking, and make arrangements
for having it some time in December.
The Jacksonville Union says that in look
ing up material for his guide book, J. L.
Edwards has come across an old folio book,
being, according to the title, “A description
of EaBt Florida, with a Journal kept by
John Bertram, of Philadelphia, Botanist to
His Majesty for the IToridas,” and was
printed in London in 1769.
The papers are still after Hicks for remov
ing McLean.
There may or may not be truth in the
rumor that the Democrats of Florida pro
pose to run Judge R. B. Hilton, with his
Tallahassee resolutions as a plaiform. He
is a good man, and we are quite certain
they couldn’t get a better platform. Judge
Hilton is evidently not a reformer, but be
lieves that true Democracy combines not
only all the essential principles of reform,
but something more besides.
The Stearns clique suffered defeat in
Marion county recently.
The Jacksonville Press says the Cedar
Keys Journal has been impaling Westerfelt,
another of Stearns’s Justice of the Peace,for
an atrocious assumption of authority. This
Westerfelt is the same sapient wiseacre who
arrested, a few months ago, two Northern
entomologists for a violation of the game
laws.
An occasional ripe peach finds its way into
the editorial paunch at Ocala.
Lake Harney has already begun to ship
watermelons.
The colored Radicals of Hernando county
are growing exclusive.
St. Augustine has green corn.
Palatka expects a large banana crop.
The Eerald says that the sweet orange
bears fruit certainly from the planting of
the seed without manure, and very little at
tention in seven years. It is not definitely
known how much over one hundred years a
tree will live and bear fruit, nor how many
thousand, with good attention, it might be
made to bear.
Crop 8 7X m \ free occasionally.
p Q 8te *art county are good.
loose from them for fear of injuring his
chances ot being renominated. If, however,
he would, with that left arm of his, cut
loose from the thieves about him,
none would support him more ardently than
himself. He said in 1874 he was the regular
nominee of the Republican party for Con
gress—reoeiving almost the unanimous vote
of the convention. A set of men in hiB
own party conspired with the Democrats to
defeat his election and thereby destroy the
Republican party. Prominent among the con
spirators he said was Senator Dennis. They
had succeeded in their schemes and a
Democrat was now occupying his seat in
Congress. He said that Governor Stearns
sustained these conspirators in office, and
he deserved to be pnnished for his treachery
to the party. This was not all. He retained
bad men in office in his county—men known
to be dishonest—men who had been con
victed of raising scrip and plundering the
public treasury. [Voice in the gallery—
same way in this county, brother ] Walls
said as to himself he had always been a Re
publican, was now, and always intended to
be until fifty more thieves joined the party,
and then he was going to quit it. He said
he was going as a delegate to the Madison
Convention, and he would say to the Gov
ernor to his face that he intended to defeat
his renomination if it was possible for him
to do so.
South Carolina Affairs.
The memorial ceremonies in Chester were
qnite imposing. The procession was half a
mile in length.' General W. A. Walker was
the orator of the dav.
Great dissatisfaction is said to prevail in
Marion over the removal of 8. J. Bethea,
Esq., Dr. Dozier, and other trial justices,
and the appointment of other persons said
to be unfit for the places.
The premises of Mr. Wm. F. Wilks, of
Timmonsville, were robbed on Sunday
during the absence of the lamily.
Alph Ruff, one ol the gang who robbed
and murdered Mr. Hayn6 Reed, at Pomaria,
has been sentenced by Judge Northrop to
twenty years in the penitentiary.
The corn prospects in Marion are not
good; cotton is better.
The communion meeting at the Dae
West Church laBt week was a solemn and
impressive occasion.
Hutto, the man who killed the Marshal
of Allendale some time ago, and who has
been in Beaufort jail for several monthB,
was sent to Barnwell last Monday to be tried
for murder.
Sumter produced the snake with four
teen rattles and a button that has not been
killed.
In sixty-two cases the Treasurer of Ker
shaw county has been eDjoined from selling
lands for the ta^es of which bank bills were
tendered.
Mr. Wesley Gasque’s little child was bit
ten in Marion last week by a small rattle
snake, but by the nse of the plant “rattle
snake’s master,” steeped in milk, it was
cured.
Reports from the farmers say that the
rust has made a bold attack npon the wheat,
and the prospects of this crop are not good.
Mr. John Kennedy and Mr. S. T. Jackson,
of Chester, are dead.
Mr. James Peckham, formerly a citizen
of Columbia, and a warden in its early days,
died recently at Sand Point, Florida, in the
eighty-first year of his age.
Anderson farmers are complaining of rust
in wheat. The rust is confined to the blade
so far, and permanent damage is not anti
cipated. The oat crop looks promising, and
recent r&inB will improve the prospect.
Two negroes confined in jail at Darling
ton, awaiting trial on the charge of burg
lary, made their escape on laBt Sunday
night.
Court is in session in Lancaster. On ac
count of the insecurity of the court house,
it is held in the African Zion Church. Judge
Mackey made an apology to the grand jury
for his manner to them at last conrt.
Sandy Pinckney, colored, who was a body
servant of Col. L. M. Hatch, in the Florida
war, and served in the same capacity during
the late war, with the i'wenty-third South
Carolina Regiment, is still alive in Charles
ton, and loves to recount his adventures.
Mrs. Pickens, of Edgefield, has gone to
Washington to attend the annual meeting of
the Mount Vernon Association. This Asso
ciation has a Vice-Regent for each State.
Mrs. PickenB is Vice-Regent for South Caro
lina.
Governor Chamberlain, on account of a
conflicting engagement, will not deliver the
address before the literary aocieties of New
berry College. General A. C. Garlington, of
Atlanta, we are informed, will deliver the
address for the yonng gentlemen of the
college. The General is a native Carolinian.
Dr. Alexander Evins died of consumption,
in Spartanburg, on Sunday last, after twenty
years of suffering. He was born in 1802,
and practiced medicine, was Senator from
Pendleton, and afterwards Commissioner in
Equity and Senator from Anderson, and was
a delegate to the first Bine Ridge Conven
tion, in 1836.
Isaac Turnage, who killed R. F. Rowell
two weeks ago, in Kershaw, is still at large.
It is reported that be lias been seen several
times since the perpetration of the crime,
and has, ever since, been in the neighbor
hood where he was first lonnd by Rowell
and Allen.
On Wednesday afternoon a daughter of
Mr. John Keelt, living in St. Philip street,
Charleston, was struck in the temple with a
brick thrown by a colored boy and very se
riously injured. Wednesday she lay insensi
ble, and her recovery is doubtful. Three
colored boys were arrested on the charge of
committing tho deed. The child is fourteen
years old.
Darlington Southemor: On Tuesday even
ing last, W. D. Purvis, of this county, was
arreBted as the murderer, or one of the mur
derers of Alfred Rush. He was taken be
fore Trial Justice Holloway, of TimmonB-
ville, where he was identified by Rush’s wife
as the one who fired the gun. Purvis was
brought to town in charge of a State detec
tive and committed to jail.
A. H. Howard, colored legislator from
Marion, deems himself insulted by the para
graph going the rounds that be sits with his
former master in the Legislature and then
goes home and works as a carpenter and
eats in his kitchen. He says: “As far as I
am concerned it makes but very little differ
ence with me what my friends may say
about me; where I take my meals or how I
take them, thank God that I have lived to
see the day when some of my aristocratic
friends are' glad to take their tools and go
along by my side to earn their daily bread,
I denigh this, for I have been home to-day
to my farm ever since the legislator ad
journed.”
St. AuguBtine Press: We have seen the
rose bush in the handsome garden of Dr.
L. B. Paeetti. that bears a curious and new
variety of roses. The bash is the Bame as
&Dy ordinary rose bush, but the rose itself
blooms entirely green instead of red, white,
pink, etc. It is a wonderful curiosity, and,
from all we can learn, there is but one other
bush of its kind in this State. It was re
ceived from tho North among a variety of
roses. Leaving the rose bush, we were
shown a double yolk hen’s egg, and in
formed that for three years—uninterrupted
only by its setting—the hen had laid an egg
of this kind. The bnsh and hen are really
deserving of a space in the Centennial.
Palatka Herald: Some people are begin
ning to say that we shall have a rainy sea-
B ion this summer. Weil, be it so, we need
it A three months tropical rainfall has
not visited this section in seven years, ex
cept daring the gale of 1871, which lasted
forty-eight hours. This falling off of rain
is somewhat remarkable. Swamp lands on
the river which for years have been covered
with water, more or less, stands from two
to three ieet above the water of the river.
The very dryness of all these swamp lands
are tempting to speculators, and we hope
that speculators will invest in it. But let
the bona fide immigrant beware, and keep
off of it. It may all be covered with water
in less than three months.
A* the recent Radical convention of Ma
rion county, speeches were made by Stearns,
Dennis Wails and others. We take the fol-
tewteg sketch of Walls’s remarks from the
Ocala Banner: He was followed bv ex-
Congressman Walls. He said he was a dele
gate to the Madison Convention, and he
said it distinctly, and he wanted it to be
understood that he would oppose the re-
nomination of Governor Stearns, and ‘hat
he didn’t want that ar offioe either.
He wouldn’t have it if he was elected
to it by the unanimous vote of all the people
$ the State. He would tell them why he
onnoaed the renomination of Governor
Bums. He believed the Governor at heart
a good man. bnt he was anrrounded by a
vtrtrerj bad men, and wa. afraid to eat,
On his late trans-continental tour of
observation Dorn Pedro declined visiting
Salt Lake on Sunday, preferring to see
the people in their every-day clothes and
pursuits. He went to the theatre in the
evening and saw part of the Prophet’s
large family in the opposite box. He
knew Brigham’s face by portrait, and was
probably not astonished at the strong
likeness several young girls in the box
bore to it. But he observed that many
other people in the audience had a family
resemblance to the same picture. This
could not be easily accounted for, but
he explained it in the most charitable
way. He regarded it as a most striking
instance of ther moral influence possessed
by the Prophet expressed in stamping
his features directly upon the popula
tion. This phenomenon has been ob
served by other travelers in Utah, bnt
none of the rest of them have ever ac
counted for it so sweetly. A moral power
that is so impressive upon an unknown
number of the people is beautiful.
The Sioux Wab on the Black Hills.—
New York, May 19.—A Cheyenne die.
patch of May 18 says a party of forty
men attempted to reach the Black Hills,
led by Billy Patterson, a well known and
intrepid plafhsman, and the best armed
of any who have entered the Indian
country. They were forced to return,
and arrived here to-day. Their march
both ways was a series of fights. They
were first attacked on the 7th on Hat
creek. On the same day they were sur
prised at Indian creek, 74 miles south of
Austin City, and fought, for four hours
with the Sioux, under a chief mounted on
a gray horse, and, therefore, supposed to
be Little Bigman. He and another savage
were killed, and also several horses.
Henry Lenz, a Dane, was scalped and
buried by the savages, fearfully mutila
ted, the sinews torn out of the nose and
ears cut off. Capt. Eagan, after re-
toward Fort Laramie, in obe-
le to orders has again moved forward
[arch of prowling bands.
BV TURAPI
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
GRANT SPLITS CP HIS CABINET.
Old Simon Cameron’s Son Comes In.
MANTON MARBLE DISPOSES) OF
THE “WORLD.”
The Dream of the Black Hills.
SALE OF THE “WOBLD.”
New Yoek, May 22 The World publishes
the following : “After the New York Demo
cratic Convention at Utica had adopted a
platform reaffirming the Syracuse platforms
of 1874 and 1875, and had presented the
name of Governor Tilden for President to
the National Democratic Convention soon to
meet at St. Louis, Mr. Marble accepted an
offer from the undersigned, which had been
open several months, for the purchase of all
of the shares of the stock 61 the World
Company, and the transfer was effected last
month.
“(Signed) Wm. Henry Hcrlbjcbt.”
FRENCH POLITICS.
Paris, May 22 In Saturday's supple
mentary elections for members of the As
sembly, Girande, Republican, was returned
from Melle.
The reported election of David, Republi
can, from Anch is incorrect, only one mem
ber was returned from there, viz: M. Pey-
rousse, a Bonapartist.
Prince Jorome Napoleon, who was re
cently elected deputy from Ajaccio, has
written a letter to his constituents in which
he says: “The Republic exists. Patriotism
imDOses it npon us. I accept it loyally and
unreservedly.”
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, D. C., May 22.—Probabilities:
In the South Atlantic and East Gulf
States, rising barometer, northerly to east
erly winds, cooler, cloudy or partly cloudy
weather and rain areas will prevail.
In the West Gulf States, rising barome
ter, southeast to northeast winds, cooler,
partly cloudy weather and occasional rains.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, rising
barometer, north to east winds and consid
erably cooler, partly clondy weather suc
ceeding occasional rains in the former.
In the lower lake region and Middle States,
rising and high barometer, brisk and high
northwest to northeast winds, diminishing
in force in the former, with decidedly cool
and partly clondy weather, succeeding rain
along the coast.
Cantionary signals from Savannah to
Eastport.
THE METHODISTS.
Baltimore, May 22 In the Conference,
Bishop Merrill presided. The Book Concern
Committee presented a report that the
Southwestern Christian Advocate be placed
under the management of the New York
book agents, with an annual allowance of
$2,000, to be an official weekly paper.
Adopted.
Rev. Dr. Dnnoan, fraternal messenger
from the Methodist Episcopal Church Sontb,
took leave. He briefly addressed the house,
connseling the most cordial fraternity and
Christian bearing between the churches
North and South. His affectionate and
brotherly reception by this Conference was
deeply gratifying, and would be appreciated
by his chnrcb.
HEAVY HAIL STORM.
Morristown, N. J., May 22.—The hail
storm killed chickens and birds on the
gronnd. The ground was covered with hail
stones, some of them six and three-quarter
inches in circumference. Not a green
house, hot-bed or Bkylight escaped, and
many stained panes in the churches were
broken. The storm did not reach the great
fruit-growing regions.
Gayville, Clay County, Iowa.—Many
, houseB were torn down and wrecked by the
1 storm. The hail lies several inches deep,
' and some of the stones are three inches in
diameter.
THE BLACK HILLS DREAM.
New York, May 22.—A dispatch dated
with Col. Royal’s column at Bear Spring via
Cheyenne, W. T., May 21, says the troops in
moving northward frequently meet parties
of returning miners, all of them discour
aged and reporting many Indians on the
road from the Black Hills. The trail is
strewn with the graves of mnrdered white
men.
GERMAN POLITICS.
Berlin, May 22.—The railway bill passed
to a second reading in the Prussian Piers.
The bill making the German language of
ficial throughout Prussia passed its third
reading in spite of the vehement opposition
of the Polish Deputies.
SEVERE STORM.
Newton, N. J., May 22.—A severe hail,
wind and rain storm of three honrsjdnra-
tion occurred here yesterday afternoon,
causing damage to buildings, stores and
gardens in town to the extent of about $25,-
000 and to bridges in the county $2,000.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 22.—Robert
Burrows, a moulder, formerly of Cleveland,
Ohio, shot himself through the head last
night, killing himself instantly. He had
been away from work and drinking heavily
for two or three weeks.
splitting up the cabinet.
Washington, May 22.—Nominations : At
torney General Pierrepont to be Minister to
England ; Secretary of War Taft to be At
torney General, and Don Cameron, a son of
Simon, to be Secretary of War.
THE SICK MAN.
Vienna, May 22.—The mental condition
of the Sultan causes grave apprehensions.
He is subject to delusions, fearing he will be
burned alive or poisoned.
FOR CUBA.
London, May 22.—The Times's Madrid
special says 3,000 troops are marching and
three crack cavalry regiments are nnder or
ders for Cuba, to sail September 1st.
SUGAR HOUSE BURNED.
London, May 22.—The sugar house at
Greenock, Scotland, and 2,000 tons of raw
sugar were burned yesterday. Loss £50,000.
Evening Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Grant’s Cabinet Split Confirmed by
the Senate.
ENGLAND AND THE EASTERN
QUESTION.
REPORTS FROM THE RELIGIOUS
ASSEMBLIES.
Heavy Hail Storm la the North and West.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, May 22.—Barnum’s creden
tials were presented and he was seated.
A petition from A. M. Clapp, Congres
sional Printer, was presented to the effect
that he is an officer of the Senate, and that
g reat injustice has been done him by the
ommittee on Printing in the House of
Representatives ; that the books of his of
fice are detained from him by that commit
tee, and that no opportunity was given him
for an explanation of the charges before
that committee. Referred to the Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections.
The bill for the relief of C. H. Peterson
passed.
In the Honse, Kerr’s leave of absence was
extended five days.
Tncker presented a resolution directing
the President to inform the House whether
he has official information regarding the
violence and danger menacing American
citizens in the Ottoman Empire, whether
steps had been taken for the protection of
such citizens, and requesting him to take
measures to insure such protection. Adop
ted.
Hooker presented a joint resolution of the
Mississippi Legislature in favor of the pas
sage of the Texas Pacific Railroad bill.
Hancock introduced a bill providing for
mail steamships between the United States
and Brazil.
Gibson introduced a resolution for the
appointment of commissioners looking to a
mutually beneficial treaty with Brazil.
The Committee on Rules made quite a
long report, closing with resolutions, 1st,
that the office of door keeper be vacated by
Its present incumbent, and, 2d, that the
duties of door keeper be devolved upon the
sergeant-at-arms until farther ordered.
Adopted.
The amendment to the naval bill by White-
house largely reducing the pay and person
nel ot the navy was defeated by a vote of 72
to 74.
THE PRESBYTERIANS.
New York, May 22.—In the Presbyterian
Conference a resolution was adopted that
an honr be appointed for prayer and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for pros
perity during the last one hundred years of
the nation’s existence, and that the people
of Brooklyn be invited to participate. A
committee was appointed to make arrange
ments. The Cimrch Board of Edncation
reported the board clear of debt. There
are 222 theological, 218 collegiate, and 18
academical students on the rolls. Dr.
Erans, of Dayton, made an address, in which
he stated that more attention should be
paid to the habits of some of the candidates.
The Baptists and Methodists were more
strict than Presbyterians. Presbyterian
students smoked, chewed and attended
places of amusement. Rev. Dr. Speer
thought this was an nnjust reflection on the
chnrcb, and the brother should not make
such a statement to be spread over the
whole church, when the case probably be
longed to his church. If there were any
snch among the students they should be
expelled. The report wag adopted.
FENIAN AMNESTY.
London, May 22.—In the Honse of Com
mons to-day Mr. Disraeli, in reply to a
question by Mr. Maurice Brooks, Liberal
and Home Rale member for the city of
Dublin, as to whether the Premier intended
to advise the Queen to extend mercy to the
persons imprisoned for breach of allegiance
to Her Majesty, stated that only
fifteen persons remain in custody within
the category of Mr. Brooks’s question.
After a lengthy explanation, showing that
two of these are convicted of murder, and
that six are in English prisons, and the re
mainder in West Australia under military
surveillance merely, Mr. Disraeli said that
considering the circumstances he cannot
now recommend the granting of amnesty.
Mr. John O’Connor, lower member for Mayo
oonnty, who is also a Liberal and Home
Baler, under a motion to adjourn, strongly
protested.
ENGLAND AND THE POWERS.
London, May 22.—In the House of Com
mons Disraeli, replying to a question, said
it was the truth that the government was
unable to concur in the proposal of the
Northern powers for the pacification of the
Turkish provinces, and that it was impossi
ble to publish the terms of the proposal un
til it had been formally oommunicated to
the Porte.
JAY GOULD AND HIS TRICKS.
New York, May 22.—An order was granted
returnable to-morrow requiring Sydney Dil
lon, Jay Gould and Mr. Osborne to show
cause why a mandamus should not issue
compelling them to attend the meeting of
the Directors of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company and vote for the election of offi
cers. The complainant is Rnfns Hatch,
who declared that respondents persistently
and studiously absent themselves from the
meeting.
grant’s nominations.
Washington, May 22.—In the Senate the
nominations were referred to the commit
tee, and reports were made immediately
and without debate. The three important
nominations were confirmed. These ap
pointments surprised every one, especially
that of Don Cameron. The nomination of
Pierrepont read, “in place of Schenck, re
signed." Pierrepont hopes to bo at St.
James before the Winslow extradition mat
ter is finally concluded.
WINSLOW.
Boston, Mav 22.—A special dispatch from
Ei
London says England’s last note abandons
the objections to the surrender of Winslow
based npon the British act, and relies only
npon the treaty, arguing that the treaty
gives an implied stipulation that the pris
oner is liable for the extraditable offense
only. The Cabinet was surprised to find
that some of the crown advisers support
Mr. Fish’s denial of the implied stipulation.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, May 22.'—Confirmations:
Pierrepont, Taft and Cameron; also, An
drew J. Evans, Attorney of the Western
District of Texas; Nathan Goff, Jr., Attorney
of Western Virginia ; and Andrew W.
Wheeler, Postmaster at Danville, Va.
Secretary Chandler disavows any inten
tion of trying to make an impeachment case
against Thompson, who was Secretary of
the Interior before the war.
MINE EXPLOSION.
New York, May 22.—A special from Rich
mond reports an explosion at the Old Mid
lothian mines, killing eight. The mine is
700 feet under ground. There were five
white and three colored killed.
THORNTON.
Washington, May 22.—Sir Edward Thorn
ton declines compensation for acting as um
pire in the United States Mexican Mixed
Commission. A suitable testimonial will be
presented him by the government.
THE LIQUOR LAW.
New York, May 22—There were five hun
dred arrests in the enforcement of the li
quor law yesterday.
MR. PENDLETON VINDICATED.
Testimony of Judge Advocate General
Dunn—New Facts In the Case.
Washington, May 16.—The Commit
tee on Expenditures in the War Depart
ment to-day examined Judge Advocate
General McKee Dunn in regard to his
connection with the payment to Hou.
Geo. H. Pendleton of the Kentucky
Central Railroad claim. General Dunn
entered into a long explanation of the
claim and formed it through all its suc
cessive stages, from the time it was first
presented till it was finally allowed.
General Meigs was present daring
General Dunn’s examination, and after
wards the testimony was read over to him
by the stenographer. He declared that
he was perfectly satisfied therewith, and
had no statement to make on behalf of
himself. Gen. Dunn claimed that he
had given the case a more patient exami
nation than was usual with claims of
this kind. He was spoken to by Mr.
Pendleton but once in regard to it,
and then it was a simple inquiry
from Pendleton as to when his report
would be ready. To this Dnnn replied
that he did not intend to hurry, bnt
would take ample time to enable him to
make his examination exhaustive. Gen.
Dunn claims that the papers in the case
show that the claim was never rejected
by Secretary Stanton or any of his succes
sors. It was reported on adversely by
Quartermaster General Meigs, and this
report was approved by the Assistant
Secretary of War, but within a few days
thereafter the case was re-referred to the*
Solicitor of the War Department for his
opinion thereon. Dunn also claims that
after the case was passed upon by Gen.
Meigs, material evidence was presented
by the railroad company. The conduct
of Mr. Pendleton, he said, was unusually
delicate in the matter, and the case was
decided entirely upon its merits, not one
word being said by him or anybody else
to influence the action of the department
thereon.
Stopped by Highwaymen—The Deed
Supposed to be Done by the James
Brothers.—Galveston, May 19.—The
News's special reports that another daring
stage robbery has occurred on the El
Paso. One stage and two hacks full of
passengers were stopped by three high
waymen on the open prairie, eighteen
miles west of Dallas. Before finishing
their work, another hack full of passen
gers came up. On being ordered to stop,
the driver pat whip to the horses and
escaped. Several shots were fired by the
robbers, and one of them followed the
hack some distance. The fire was re
turned by the passengers, bnt no one was
hurt. As soon as the robbers secured the
booty, which amounted to $7,000, they
shot their own horses, mounted the best
ones belonging to the stages and rode off
towards the Indian Nation. From the
description given, it is supposed that
they were the same who recently captured
the San Antonio stage.
Later.—Information just received
states that ten men were in pursuit of the
robbers, and only ten minutes behind
them early this morning on the Graplaine
prairie. From the descriptions given, it
is supposed they are the James brothers.
The entire country is aroosed, and their
capture is considered certain.
THE SHAWNEETOWN HORROR.
Grant is willing to require Blackmailer
Campbell to refund the money extorted
from Miss Sweet, but he will not remove
him from office. Campbell is nnder fire.
He levied blackmail on a woman who was
filling her dead father’s place as Pension
Agent. He was guilty of what would be
called mean and cowardly by any sneak
thief or confidence man in Chicago.
Finally, be was unfortunate enough to
snffer exposure; and Grant very proper
ly requires him to make restitution. And
why gratify partisan malice and a licen
tious press by removing him 1 Is it not
much that he has paid back the money?
It is.—N. I. Sun.
Itia.
Farther Particulars of th« Lon of the
Pat Cleburne—A Thrllllnc Statement hr
One of the Survivors.
[From the Evansville Jonmal.)
The cause of this explosion mast for
ever remain one of the unexplained mys
teries. The first engineer, Walter F.
McElhinny, who was on duty at the time
of the accident, was one of the best, most
careful and thoroughly reliable engineers
in the profession. He came toEvansville
with Captain Dexter on the Charley
Bowen, in November, 1858, and learned
his profession under the immediate care
and supervision of his cousin, Mr. B. W.
McReynolds, the present engineer of the
Idlewild. He has been almost constantly
employed as engineer on the various
packets since 1858. Last summer he
quit the Arkansas Belle, of which boat he
had been engineer for more than four
years, and engaged in the grocery busi
ness in Independence. Last March he
again went on the Cleburne at the earn
est solicitation of Captain Grammar, who
selected him to fill what was regarded as
a difficult position, on account of his well
known exemplary habits. Everything
goes to prove there was sufficient water
in the boilers and low steam at the time
of the accident. An evidence of the
sufficiency of water is the great number
of scalded persons, and the great quantity
of water that was thrown on the Belle.
Mr. McElhinny was about thirty-seven
years of age, and leaves a wife and three
children. He owns his present home in
Independence, and was possessed of a
life policy of $3,000, also a member of
the Knights of Pythias. In conversation
with Capt. Grammar just before the boat
started, everything was in perfect order,
and working like a charm.
PLATFORM OF THE OHIO DEMOC
RACY.
No Forced Inflation, No Forced Contrac
tion, bnt a Sound Currency Kquul to the
Wants of Trade.
The following are the resolutions
adopted by the Ohio Democratic Conven
tion in Cincinnati last week :
JAS. LARUE s EXPEBIENOE.
Probably the most thrilling experience
of the dreadful disaster was that of
James LaRne, the first mate of the
Cleburne. He had gone to bed in his
stateroom in the texas, immediately in
the rear of Capt. Fowler’s room. He
says he did not hear the explosion, and
when he awoke was falling through
the timber and everything crashing
around him. He felt the fire against
his feet, and drawing them up found
that he was tightly wedged in between
the timbers. He then tried to loosen the
planks, but unfortunately could not find
a hole through which he could even get
his head. Giving up all for lost, he turned
over and resolved to inhale the flames
and perish at once, rather than die by
degrees and be roasted in the flames, which
were fast and furiously crackling and
roaring around him. Just then he heard
the voice of his galla'.t but helpless Cap
tain calling out: “LaRae pull me out—I
am burning to death!” With almost
superhuman strength he broke down tho
partition and caught Captain Fowler by
his clothes, but found it impossible to
get him through. By this time the mat
tress on which Mr. LaRue lay had caught
fire, and placing his left hand beneath
him he found that he was lying on top cf
the heater. Another desperate struggle
for freedom and the planks gave way and
he crawled out through the darkness and
debris. By this time Captain Fowler’s
piteous voice had ceased and perhaps his
spirit had taken its flight forever. As he
was scrambling up through the dark,
LaRue came upon Alex. Porter, the
second clerk, sitting just above the steam
drum, his feet literally cooked. Seizing
him with his disabled hand, with his
other he worked his way upward, and
finally reached the hurricane roof and
carried Porter aft and down the stairway
to the yawl. Xb he passed down the aft
stairway he heard the screams of the lady
passengers, and rushiDg back to a state
room he seized a quilt and wrapped it
about his body, and gathering the women
in his strong, brawny, heroio arms,
helped five of them—three lady passen
gers and the two chambermaids—down
the nursery into the yawl.
the dead and missing.
So far as could be ascertained the killed
and missing number fourteen, and the
history of their death may be told as
follows:
Captain Dixon Given Fowler, com
mander of the Pat Cleburne. He had
been feeling qnite unwell in the early
part of the evening, and retired to his
state-room in the texas, leaving the boat
in command of Charles Cotton, the sec
ond mate, it being his regular watch. He
was asleep when the explosion occurred,
and went down with the timbers,
“through the hot black breath of the
burning boat.” His body was not recov
ered, and is supposed to have been con
sumed in the flames.
Richard Partridge, express agent on
this line for fourteen years, was also in
his state-room jnst above the boilers. He
was never found, and must have been
killed instantly. His pantaloons, con
taining bis safe keys, were found in the
texas of the Belle after the explosion.
Walter McElhinny, the first engineer
of the Cleburne, was on duty at the time.
He was badly scalded and burned, and
blown into the water, from which he was
rescued by a farmer who was rowing
about the wreck in a skiff. He was taken
to a neighboring farm-house, and after
wards removed to Shawneetown, where,
after several hours of intense suffering
from internal injuries, he died about noon
yesterday.
Wm. Mann, Jr., of the firm of Wm.
Mann, Jr., & Co., of Lewistown, Pa.,
celebrated hardware merchants and man
ufacturers, was among the lost. Mr.
Mann was well known and highly
esteemed in Evansville, and had just
completed a business visit to this city.
He will be recognized by many as the
manufacturer of the celebrated “Red
Warrior Axe.” His body was found on
the hurricane roof of the Belle, dressed
only in his night clothing, and with the
sheet of his bed wrapped around him, at
once the winding sheet of sleep and
death—the sleep that knows no waking.
Charley Cotton, the second mate of
the Cleburne, was on watch at the time
of the accident, superintending the
boat’s landing. He was blown into the
river and drowned.
Mr. Mattison, an old gentleman of Pa
ducah, was making the round trip. His
body was not recovered.
Conrad Wambach, musician, was
probably burned to death, and his body
was not found. He lived in Ev&nsville,
and leaves a wife and four children. He
was brother-in-law to Peter Schulz, 310
Second avenue.
Louis Scott, colored, second pantry
man, was blown overboard, scalded and
drowned.
The second barber, colored, name not
ascertained, was also lost.
Four colored roustabouts were lost,
names as follows: Aaron Jones, Gabe
Price, Taylor Green, and Alex (sir-
name unknown). They were all from
Evansville.
Marshall Webster, colored, deck pas
senger to Cairo, was also lost.
A Physical Phenomenon.—Miggs felt
the change in the weather, and, to coun
ter-suit the cold, got himself into a con
dition which he facetiously styled “tight
as a tied-back.” He also got too weak to
smoke his cigar and shoved it down into
his coat pocket without extinguishing the
lighted end. As he caromed toward
home he suddenly flinched and began to
spin around like a loose button cn a bam
door.
“Fire 1 murder! police 1” he yelled.
Several parties rushed up to him and a
policeman skinned the coat off Migga's
back and stamped out the fire which was
consuming the tail of the garment.
“What’s the matter ?” asked a party.
“Matter’s fire, zat’s whazzer matter!’
said Miggs, as he shivered and scratched
his thigh.
“How did you set yourself a fire ?”
“Who zed I set myself on a fire ? Zink
I’m a blessed fool, eh ?”
“No! no! how did your coat get
afire ?”
“Great fizzerkill femomener! Reg’ler
built femomener—case er spontanjus
konbushun—see!”
The crowd didn’t exaotiy “see,” but we
hope Miggs made it perfectly clear to
iiw liiggi when ]|0 Kftoiiod
Resolved, That, recognizing the duty of
the Democratic party as the time-hon
ored champion of the rights of the many
against the aggressions of the few to ex
press its purposes in the pending cur
rency oonflict without reserve or equivo
cation, we declare that we shall urge
against ail opposition, come from what
quarter it may, measures to effect the
following objects:
First. The immediate and uncondi
tional repeal of the Republican resump
tion law.
Second. The defeat of all schemes for
resumption which involve either contrac
tion of the currency, perpetuation of
bank issues, or increase of the interest
burden of the debt.
Third. The gradual but early substitu
tion of legal tenders for national bank
notes.
Fourth. The issue by the General Gov
ernment alone of all the circulating me
dium, whether paper or metallic.
Fifth. No forced inflation, no forced
contraction, but a sound currency equal
to the wants of trade and industry, to be
regulated in volume and gradually equal
ized with gold by means of appropriate
legislation, such as making it receivable
for customs, and interconvertible at the
pleasure of the holder, with a bond-bear
ing interest not to exceed 3:65 per cent.,
payable in gold, so that the volume of
currenoy shall not be determined by the
pleasure.or caprice of either Congress or
the banks.
Sixth. A graduated income tax to meet
at least the premium on gold needed to
pay interest on the public debt.
Seventh. Resolved, That public policy
and the sense of common justice require
that the silver issued by the government
should be a legal tender in payment of
all debts, public or private, and that we
demand the unconditional repeal of the
so-called silver act, so far as the same
limits the amount for which said silver
coinage shall be a legal tender.
Eighth. Resolved, That we are in favor
of a tariff for revenue only, and we de
nounce the Republican scheme of re
sumption as intended, and, operating
through a large increase of the bonded
debt a sudden and enormous contraction
of the currency, to double the burdens of
taxation, rob debtors of their property,
paralyze commercial and productive in
dustries, cast laborers out of employment
and fill the land with want and misery,
for the wicked purpose of doubling the
value of money securities and subjugat
ing the mass of the people to the impe
rious sway of a money obligarchy.
Ninth. That the Democrats of Ohio
present to the Democracy of the other
sovereign States of the Republic the
name of William Allen as the choice of
Ohio for the Presidency.
Tenth. That the delegates-at-large to
the St. Louis Convention, and that the
delegates appointed by the Congressional
districts are hereby requested in the Na
tional Convention to favor Ihe nomina
tion of William Allen for President and
use all honorable means to secure his
The Gbartlr Effect* Fallowlaa the Drtak-
•( Bleed oe a Remedy for DUeaee.
In the current issue of the Woodhull
& Clajtin’s Weekly appears the following
rather novel proposition: “Wanted—
Fifty acres of good land in a healthy
locality, as a free gift to five women,
where they can have ten acres each, to
born their own selves into individual
selfhood. They have each one hundred
dollars, and intend to put this land under
the highest culture, and will raise fruits,
fowls and bees, as their specialty. Any
one having such lands that belong to the
spirit world, and is willing to aid in this
enterprise, will please address ‘Mission,’
this office, immediately. They say that
they can build a cabin upon it until they
can do better. Would like to be located
in Western New York or Pennsylvania.
They mean to teach Woman’s Mission by
practicable labor; but, be it understood,
their work is first to born themselves into
an understanding of their own needs by
getting in position where they can gene
rate their own life forces from mother
nature.” The Nashville American thinks
an explanation from the Weekly as to the
process by which women “bom their own
selves into individual self hood,” and the
peculiar agricultural properties of “lands
that belong to the spirit world,” would
be, to say the least, intensely edifying.
One of McKee’s Jurors Suing fob
Damages—Decision in Civil Suits.—St.
Louis, May 19.—Hugh F. Summers, of
Pike county, one of the jurois in the
McKee trial, who was charged with having
prejudiced the case, has filed suit against
the Globe-Democrat for various articles
published in that paper defaming his
character, for which he claims $50,000
damages.
Two civil suits against the sureties of
J as. Busby, one of the whisky ring dis
tillers, were concluded to-day in- the
United States District Court, the juries
bringing in a verdict in each case for the
fall amount of the bonds, $10,000 in all,
Suits of a similar character against the
bondsmen of other distillers and rectifiers
will come on as rapidly as possible, and
District Attorney Dyer |expects to realize
about a million dollars for the govern
ment from them.
According to late mail advices a fresh
gold fever has broken ont in Australia. A
new “find” has been reported in the pro
vince of New South Wales, and, as usual
under such circumstances, the inhabitants
in the vicinity are reported to be in a
state of lively excitement The reports
that come to us have a good deal of the
flavor of “gold craze,” and yet, unless
the Australian papers have exaggerated
the facts, the “find” is of no little im
portance. A report says: “The field is
narrow but thirty miles in length. The
alluvial gold is in patches, but lumpy.
The quartz reefs show enormous quanti
ties of gold in them. The field is eighty-
five miles south by east from Byerstown
and one hundred and sixty miles from
Cooktown. The National Bank has pur
chased the first large parcel from the al
luvial field.”
Just before Admiral Nelson went to sea
for the last time he spoke to the painter
West of his “Deathof Wolfe,” and asked
him why he did not produce more pic
tures like that. “Because, my lord,”
responded the painter, “there are no
more subjects.” “D—n it,” said the
sailor, “ I didn't think of that,” and
asked him to take a glass of champagne.
“ Bnt, my lord, I fear your intrepidity
will fnmish me with another such scene;
and, if it should, I shall certainly avail
myself of it.” “ Will you ?” said NelsoD,
pouring ont bumpers, and touching his
glass violently against West’s; “ will
you, Mr. West ? Then I hope I shall die
in the next battle.” He sailed a few days
after, and within a year West had on his
easel the “Death of Nelson.”
A Stabtling Rumor—Was Wagner
Guilty ?—A dispatch to the Boston
Journal, dated Portsmouth, May 17, says
it is rumored that one of the Swedish
women who lived on Smutty Nose Island,
Isles of Shoals, and died a few days since,
made some startling disclosures on her
death bed, which, if true, will create a
sensation throughout New England. This
woman, as the report has it, confessed
to her relatives, in her dying moments,
that she killed Annette and Christine
Christenson, the two women who were
so horribly murdered one April morning
in 1873. Louis Wagner, a Prussian fish
erman, was arrested, tried and convicted
of the crime, and last year he was exe
cuted in the prison yard at Thomas ton,
Maine.
Cheek.—Somebody asked Dom Pedro,
after his return from California, what he
thought was the distinguishing charac
teristic of our people, sad he promptly
answered: “Eet eez—ah, vat yon call eet ?
Ze ‘sebeek.’ ”
[From the Albaay Argus.]
Blood drinking has beoome quite popu
lar of late years, and many invalids daily
visit the abattoirs of New York for the
purpose of drinking the warm life blood
of the ox. It is a fact—not so generally
known, however—that this appetite for
blood increases upon those who indulge
in it. Women, who at first quaff with
repugnance and some horror a wine glass
of the warm crimson gore, gradually
acquire a craving for it, and take down a
tumblerful with evident relish. Parties
under this blood spell almost invari
ably manifest a desire to try the effects
of human blood. Two cases of this
kind have been reported in New York.
A young lady belonging to a respectable
family suffered in health while devoting
herself to her -academical studies. Her
medical attendant, who vouches for the
truth of the story, suggested blood
drinking. Permission and the necessary
privacy were secured at the abattoir.
Salutary effects were not long in follow
ing. The palor left her cheek, her fram9
became more robust, and in ten months
she gained fifteen pounds in weight.
From having been a pale and uninter
esting looking girl she developed radiant
beauty, and she married the assistant of
the medical advisor who saved her life.
Well acquainted with the means by which
she had been restored, her husband en
couraged her natural curiosity respecting
the effects of various kinds of blood; and.
probably quite as much for the purpose
of his own professional information as
for the gratification of her own wish, he
opened a small artery in his leg and per
mitted her to suck the vital tide. An
inordinate mania for her husband's blood
forthwith supervened. He gratified the
craving again and again until disgust for
her became the predominant feeling of
his mind, and after he had done himself
a great amount of physical injury, he
bade her a final adieu and sailed for Peru.
The wretched young wife now lies on a
sick bed, and almost entirely subsists on
blood brought her from an abattoir. She
is a monomaniao on this subject, and had
she opportunity would undoubtedly be
come a vampire, and banquet perpetually
on human blood. The other case was
that of a woman of twenty-five threatened
with a decline. By the advice of a phy
sician she took four times a day a table-
spoonful of cod liver oil mixed in a wine-
glassful of blood. The woman was re
stored to health, but while she left off
taking the oil she continued the dose of
blood. At this time her husband has met
with an accident on the railroad, and by
this means his wife got a taste of his
blood; and from that time she became
irresistibly impelled to repeat the taste.
Absolute restraint had to be resorted to,
to stop her. She was brutalized by her
unnatural indulgence.
Gov. Tilden’s Weakness in New York.
[From the Nashville American.)
In an elaborate article, a few days ago,
the New Y’ork Herald endeavored, by
some rather ingenius figuring, to show
that the State of New York would be the
real battle ground next November, as the
candidate of neither party conld win
without carrying it. This was naturally
regarded as a lift for Governor Tilden so
far as the political influence of the
Hera Id is generally supposed to go—
which is not so far as some are apt to
imagine. Though regarded as a close
observer of the situation, and a shrewd
analyzer of the motives and movements
of party leaders, its speculative guess
work is too often accorded undue weight
in estimating the chances of a campaign.
If the Herald meant that the Democrats
could not succeed with Gov. Tilden as
their nominee its views have certainly
undergone very serious modification
within the past few days. The dissen
sions among the New York Democracy
have grown to such serious proportions
as to defy the utmost efforts of the Gov
ernor and his friends to either repress or
conoeal them.
Here is the pass to which matters have
come, as stated in the Herald of Satur
day:
“If Governor Tilden cannot conciliate
the opposition in this and other States it
will be better for him to forego his per
sonal ambition and to use bis best efforts
to insure the selection of a candidate as
nnexceptionable as he himself would be
if be could command the earnest and
sincere support of the convention. Be
fore the convention nominates Mr.
Tilden or anybody else it should assure
itself that its candidate is acceptable to
the Democracy of his own State. In a
long canvass divisions and distractions at
home must necessarily impair a candi
date’s strength elsewhere and would be
likely to work irreparable mischief to the
party. There is at present a decided oppo
sition in this State to Mr. Tilden’s nomi
nation. It reaches beyond any local dissen
sions and embraces many of the most
efficient and reputable politicians in the
Democratic party. It must be removed
or the nomination of Mr. Tilden would
be suicidal. Possibly it may be concil
iated, but if it should be found impossi
ble to remove it, Governor Tilden has
only one wise course open to him. He
must not force his own nomination, even
if he should be enabled to do so, for that
wonld mean the defeat of his party, the
sacrifice of reform and the continuance
of the Republicans in power. His hon
orable role in such an event will be to so
nse his strength as to secure the adoption
of his own views and the carrying out of
his own policy by some other trustworthy
candidate.”
And the Sun of the same date puts it
quite as strongly :
“At present a very serious division ex
ists. We are at a loss to understand why
the feeling of dissatisfaction with Gov.
Tilden should extend to so many influ
ential men in his own party as it now
reaches. Can anything be done to heal
the differences, at present fraught with
mischief and danger? What the Gov
ernor needs above all other help at pres
ent is some able, prudent, peace making
friend. Has he such a friend ? The kind
of man required is very rare, even in poli
tics or diplomacy. Isaac Sherman dbuld
do it. Perhaps Allen C. Beach could; but
it is said, unfortunately, that Mr. Beach,
though once a forward friend of the Gov
ernor, is now one of the very men who
require to be conciliated. What can be
done ? ”
No wonder we are told from Washing
ton that the Western and Southern Dem
ocrats in Congress are “dismayed” at
the thought of a split in the party in
New York. It is underrating the gravity
of the disagreement to say that it is only
“ Boss ” Kelly’s doing, and that Tam
many will have to “ knuckle under.” A
large proportion of the “ many influen
tial men ” to whom the Sun refers do
not belong to that organization. Tbeir
grounds of objection to Mr. Tilden lie
deeper than a mere fend of factions;
they are not to be “conciliated,” where
principle is to give way to expediency,
or the interests of the party made sub
servient to those of any one man—even
if that man be Gov. Tilden.
We have heretofore indicated other
points of Mr. Tilden’s weakness; and
now, if his greatest lack of strength be
where it should be strongest—at home—
how can the National Democracy court
defeat by placing in the field a man who
is actually beaten before he enters the
race ?
The President and the Poet.—It is
said that President Grant took offense at
the bronze owl that serves as a door
knocker to G. W. C.’s house in Phila
delphia, thinking it had been pnt up for
his especial benefit. It is said of the
Poet Laureate that he enjoyed a hearty
laugh, and then explained: “You see,
Mr. President, the owl is the true bird of
poetry, and you ought to have one in
your house. When Brother Orville would
come iH and say, ‘Lyss, I’ve sold another
post-tradership,’ the owl would strike up,
‘To-who-to-who-to-who-o-o ?’ Don’t
you see the point?” “Well, yes,” re
sponded the President, “I see the p int,
and will take a little of it, George, if you
please;’’ and thus the Grand Exposition
was opened.—Pittsburg Post.
“Gil” Haven was on the platform of
the Forty-second street railroad depot
the other day and spoke these words:
“I didn’t care how much people talked
against the President—they’d talk against
their sainted grandmothers—but when I
saw him taking his whisky without any
water in it, I ceased praying for a third
term.”—Brooklyn Argus.
A Dutch Amazon, Miss Merkus, a
wealthy maiden of twenty five, of mid
dle height and prepoeseeaing appearance,
is fighting in male attire on the insur-
arot side in £