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Affairs in Georgia,
jhe mails for the last two or three days
hare brought a fresh supply ol Tilden lit
erature into the State, with “Please insert
aod send hill” marked thereon; and yet some
. t b e papers that are for Tilden, are abus-
- cf . James for electioneering in a similar
manner. Fellow-citizens, what is sauce for
t be Georgia goose is sauce for the New
York gander.
i majority of our State exchanges seem
to be for General Colquitt for Governor.
gome of the Georgia editors are puzzled.
Xbev used to call Bullock a bandit, and they
maid do so now but for the fact that they
have read dime novels enough to know that
a regular journeyman bandit doesn’t wear
grayish pauts, mutton-chop whiskers, and a
rose iu his button-hole. These things are
(bough to confuse anybody.
The Griffin News is of the opinion that
Colonel Avery is the author of tbe letter re
cently published in the New York Herald
abusive of Governor Smith. If the News
mil critically examine tho letter he will dis
cover two important facts: First, that it
vas not written by Colonel Avery, who can
not conceal his style, and, second, that it
vai written by some one not well acquainted
with Georgia matters.
The editor of the Waynesboro Expositor
still accompanies hiB walking-stick to pic
nics.
Plnm-hunting parties are very popular in
Kiddle Georgia. Everybody seems to be of
the opinion that the luxury of scratching
for red-bugs is something to be eagerly
sought after.
Bnllock says he is delighted with his re
ception in Atlanta. But suppose he had got
his deserts ?
ffe are glad to know that arrangements
have been completed which will enable Col.
Carey W. Styles to take entire editorial con
trol ol the Atlanta Commonwealth. While
his style of writing is not so bitter as it was
a few years ago, it is every whit as keen, as
fearless and as vigorous. Unvexed, as he
will be, by the cares of the business manage
ment, we shall expect him to do some really
briiant editorial work.
The editor of the Waynesboro Expositor
has seen cotton six inches high,
A Waynesboro negro had a tournament
with a moccasin the other day.
Tbe farmers of Washington county report
tbe stand of cotton the best they ever saw.
The better the Btand the lower the price.
The citizens of old Liberty are thinking
seriously of celebrating the 4th of July in a
formal manner.
John H. James has as much right to offer
to subscribe to newspapers for electioneer
ing purposes as Tilden has to offer to adver
tise in them for a purpose.
Religions excitement haB been the means
of causing a Waynesboro negro to lose what
little sense he had.
Two little orphan children passed through
Atlanta the other day, having come all the
way from FultoD, Arkansas, in charge of
the railroad conductors. Their destination
is Durham, N. C.
The sensation at tho Atlanta Constitution
office the other day was a coach-whip snake
with two well-defined feet. We can’t
imagine anything novel in this fact. Every
body except scientists and lawyers knows
that a snake is deformed unless it has fonr
feet. We have seen snakes with as many as
six aud even ten feet—in length.
There will soon be Frost in Florida.
James E., of Waynesboro, will, in future,
make that State his home,
Ei-Treasurer Jones’s bondsmen consist
of Paul Jones,'Sr., Dr. Alexander, Dr. Henry
Wilson and W. P. Ormo.
The Atlanta Commonwealth Publishing
Company have applied for a charter to run
twenty years, with a cash capital of ten
thousand dollars paid in.
The Quitman Reporter notes increased
activity in the turpentine business in that
section.
The dwelling-house of Mr. J. B. Creech:
of Quitman, was discovered to be on fire
the other day, but the flames wore fortu-
nately extinguished.
The reapers are whetting their scythe-
Wades.
Sir. Benjamin F. Fuller, an old citizen of
Talbot county, is dead.
The Columbus Enquirer pertinently re
marks : “ft is the current belief in Georgia
that Hi Kimball shared iu all the pickings
°f Bullock, yet he occupies a position of
boner and trust in Atlanta. Bullock is
brought hack. Wealthy men at once be-
wme his security. Are they also partners ?
Where does Atlanta draw the line of respec-
tability—simply the possession of money?
h certainly looks strange, yet not a single
Piper of Atlanta has a word of comment.’’
Personal in Butler Herald: “Uncle Billy
eed, on attempting to walk out of his door
st Sunday night, missed tho steps and fell
ec tbe ground. Ho received a severe in-
JPU, though it was not a serious one.
fiele Billie is a high-toned old gentleman,
lD d we hope to soon Bee him on onr streets
•gun.”
The bold burglar is at work in Talbot
county.
I Henry Callier, one of the oldest and
^•at beloved citizens of Talbot county is
"e make the following extract from a
^hvate letter detailing a most terrible
‘‘amity that- occurred near Blackshear on
nesday: “Yesterday afternoon I went to
s Satilla river with my wife and Miss
^ Wadley, of Screven, and Miss Daisy
o* ei |’ Milledgeville, and little Ada
tkT’ danKhtor of Dr. H. J. Smith, of this
*’ an<1 m T daughter, Marie, a child, like
‘-with, of about twelve years. My wife
with the young ladies and the children
bath * r * D nver > an< T there, putting on
1L ” bosses, Miss Owen and the children
*Uh *j l ° td ° water wa ding, while I went
boat eS! ° ^ dton ‘ “y man servant, in a
out t i ' 5 * 1 at anotber place near by, but
hou° T ' tW They k a< T waded about half an
r and my W1 f c called them out, and
Ada i* 6 * 6 com * n B & long the beach when little
it,*, 081 u6r footing, and, probably being
doew frightened, fell off into water too
bear i** * ler hei Rkt. Miss Owen being
bsii,,, ; tr ! cau Rkt her as she sank, and
very" 0 Urn Beiz# d b y tke child, were both
depth \r * n . water entirely beyond their
help ‘ . ywife aj d daughter cried out for
boat' wkich 6 -^ 1 * 11 ’ Jeese ’ lea P e( T oat °T the
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH. FRIDAY, MAY 26. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
ouvic, »uu
b«r 0Ter the intervening hill to tbe
‘“•taut Jk anRed int0 tke water just at the
He sei,,.,i , en Mias Owen rose to the surface,
to the beach 1 by th<i h “ r ‘ and dra SRed her
Be then »»■ W &n uncon scious condition.
! P°t from »t m v Bam for 80m6 time over the
but little a i * C 116 rescued Miss Owen,
gradually' ™ rose aRaia - ° wen
ao 'quiu.! < ? Vered c °nsciousnes8, and Is
Smith was » 0r ^ d ' Tde body of little Ada
buried this af^J^ night ’ Md
was touching the shore, and
Quitman Reporter: The fire fiend broke
emt in the barn yard buildings of Mr. K. B
Wooten, two miles west of Quitman, last
Monday afternoon. When first discovered
the fi,e was in the corn crib, and there
being a good deal of fodder and other com
bustible matter in the building th% flames
soon spread beyond control. Mr. Wooten
an “ kis hands were off in the field at work,
and Miss Wooten was the only person about
the place, and she was unable to do
anything without assistance. The corn
crib, fodder &od oat bouse aud buggy Bbed
together with about twenty-five bushels of
corn, three or four hundred pounds of fod-
der and ten wagon loads of new oats, were
entirely consumed. Five head of hogs,
which were under the crib, and a buggy
under the shed, were also destroyed. We
learn that Mr. Wooten estimates his loss at
about four hundred dollars. The origin of
the fire cannot be accounted for.
Columbus Enquirer : We copy an inter
view of a correspondent with tho notorious
Bullock, whom “Sharp and Quick” Hulbert,
aided by bayonetB,counted in as Governor of
Georgia, and who was forced from the po
sition and ignominionsly fled from the State
as soon as the blue coats with their Spring-
field muskets were refused. He knows of
nothing wrong. He prances around At
lanta with a boquet in his hand. Men worth
a million went on his bond for $13,000. It
is very singular all were contractors on reads
“State aided” by Bnllock. The “ex-
bayonet-put-in-Governor” knows what
he is doing. He intimates he has
his tin box, but promises he
won’t “peach.” That makes easy the Dem
ocrats who fawned upon him in secret. 0
that their names could be revealed and de
served shame meted out to them! Bullock,
in his placidity, gives it as his opinion if the
Democrats nominate Church, of New York,
for President, they may elect him. The
bayonet-put-in-Governor has cheek, plenty
of it; but the Democrats whose names are
in his tin box have more. Now that he is
here, what is to be done with him ? He has
demonstrated he has powerful monied
friends.
Augusta Chronicls: Judge Peeples, of At
lanta, has made a special charge to the
grand jury on the subject of vagrants, and
the charge is warmly praised in that virtu
ous city. They are “thriftless, shiftless
vagabonds,” “dependent upon trickery,
begging, sponging and stealing,” are
“morally debased, wholly depraved and
vicious,” are “negro loafers and lazzaroni,”
have been “outlawed by the State,” and
“should be driven to the fields.” True,
Judge Peeples and good people of Atlanta.
Drive the vagrants to the fields, by all
means. But what are you going to do
witli the “thrifty” vagabonds who
lived by “trickery and stealing;” who
were “morally debased, wholly depraved
and vicious;” who were political “lazza
roni;” who foisted themselves upon the
people by fraud and force ; who plundered
the tax-payers without shame or stint; who
corrupted citizens and debauched the press;
who have “been outlawed by the State”—
what shall be done with these ? Alas, these
are received by the good people of Atlanta
with open arms; these find scores of
“wealthy and respectable citizens” to go
upon their bondB and save them from
prison; these are tendered public receptions
and banquets; these it is impolitic to pun
ish. Drive the vagrants to the fields and
take the robbers by the hand.
Florida Affairs.
Even the babios in Florida cry for this
column, and tho grown people write letters
when it fails to appear with its accustomed
regularity. This is as it should be.
It is probable that the Soap-Fat man is
just now experiencing all the feelings of a
boy who, essaying for the first time to walk
abarn-rafter lengthwise, reaches a point
under which he knows the hay is very thin.
Somehow or other McLin and Cheney
can’t quite agree with Judge Cooke in re
gard to divorces.
If the people of Florida can’t get General
Finley’s consent to run for Governor, they
might turn their attention to Judge B. B.
Hilton, of Tallahassee. The Judge has a
platform.
The Monticello Constitution spells Cheney’s
name with two e’s. A more picturesque
way would be to spell it like an Englishman
—with a “hay hand two hesses.” Though,
of course, we leave that matter altogether
with Col. Fildes.
Where is that $37,000 in blue scrip ?
We intend to cast no insinuations, bat
isn’t it about time Purman had put in an
appearance ?
They say Hieks feels mighty good since
he has beheaded McLean. But then Hicks
is a man who will feel good on the slightest
provocation.
How would Wi!k Call do for Governor ?
We rarely ever hear his name mentioned in
this connection.
Walls says he has got a pickle in soak for
the Soap-Fat man. This is equivalent to
saying (hat -Josiab has soared on Marcellas.
If it wasn’t for hurting Dr. Babcock’s feel
ings, hanged if we wouldn’t nominate
brother McCallum for Governor.
When a Jacksonville man goes up the St'
John’s you may know that the mainspring
of his liver is out of order.
There seems to be no inclination on tho
part of Col. Jora Giry, of the Cedar Key
Journal, to invite “Belle Boyd” back to
that place.
It is said that Harney Riohard has named
his cream mare’s colt after McMurray. Isn’t
this taking nndne advantage of an innocent
and entirely helpless animal.
Josiah T. Walls, colored, doesn’t seem to
have a turn for politics. Had he remained
independent, as between the Stearns and
Conover factions, the negroes, who will have
a majority in the convention, could have
done no less than nominate him for Gover
nor.
Pensacola challenges the country on a
fourteen pound beet.
A telegram from Fernandina says that on
the 22d the Spanish bark Rosa del Tnero,
Captain FeneUos, while being towed ont of
the harbor by tug-boat Gladiator, was run
aground on the north breakers. It is re
ported the cause of the accident was the
breaking oi the tiller rope on the tug.
Efforts were made to save the vessel, which
could have been done, bnt the ship’s haw
sers were not strong enough and broke, and
the vessel will probably prove a total loss.
She was loaded with lumber at St. Mary’s
and bound for Montevideo. The Captain
has applied to the Spanish Consul at New
York for instructions.
The Jacksonville Union says: “The gentle
spirit of Miss Ella Sullivan, of Savannah,
passed away last Sunday morning, about five
o’clock. For two or three weeks past she
has been suffering from an attack of brain
fever, which defied medical treatment. Her
friends were summoned, and her lamented
departure has occasioned the keenest suffer
ing among a large circle of relatives and
acquaintances. The funeral services took
place at the Baptist Church, and the re
mains were followed to the grave by the
Good Templars, of which body she was a
member. The burial services of that order
were conduoted by General John Tyler, Jr.,
Chaplain.”
Mr. John P. Whitnev, of the St. Augus
tine Press, passed through Savannah yes
terday on his way North for the summer.
Purman says Stearns swindled the ne
groes while ho was agent of the Freedman’s
Bureau. Old Soap-Fat ought to be ashamed
of himself.
Mr. Tilman White, of Jacksonville, in
jured himself severely in tbe ankle with an
adze the other day.
Jacksonville will never have any real hap
piness withont a city park.
Conover haB arrived in Florida with his
oavalry spurs on.
In Jacksonville, a town nigger tackles a
country nigger wherever he finds him.
On emancipation day a crowd of Talla
hassee darkeys took charge of Jacksonville
and celebrated the anniversary by waUoping
every polioeman that showed his nead.
They are having lively times in Pensacola.
The Gazette says that on Saturday night, as
Mr. 8. 8. Leonard was closing the door of
his"grist mill in Milton, a stranger, who was
lying in wait for him to come out, struck a
blow at him with a slick or lightwood, evi
dently taken from the pile of cord wood near
at hand. The stick struck the lintel of the
door above Leonard’* head and broke in
two. Leonard turned, saw another mao
Inside the door, bat
before he oould secure it, it was
burst open, aud he ran to a door on
the other side of the mill; before he
could open that the enemy were upon him,
and, grappling with him, threw him down
and robbed him of a pocketbook contain
ing six hundred and eighty dollars, tearing
out the pocket and a portion of the pants.
They then darted away and escaped. In
the other pocket were fourteen dollars tl aft
they did not look for. The sum in f hfl
pooketbook bad been received that even nit
in a business adjustment, and the robbid
evidently knew of the transaction. Mr«
Leonard was closing to go to Mr. Lawrei M
Mayo's store to deposit the money, ti aft
merchant having an interest in the amount
as the settlement was for joint account.
Mr. Leonard saw enough of the man who
struck at him to know that he waB a white
man, and the other he knows to be a negro,
as he felt his wool while they were strug
gling in the mill.
The same paper says that on Friday Mr.
George Marquess, a young gentleman of ex
cellent character and high standing waB
shot by a young man by the name of Hmote,
and at the time of this writing, lies at the
point of death. So far as the particulars
conld be learned, the shooting was an act of
unprovoked and murderous violence. Hinote
was on a drunken spree, making himself
generally offensive, and approached Mr.
Marquess, who declined to talk with him,
and gave him to understand that his famili
aritieg were disagreeable. This provoked
Hinote, who drew his pistol and shot Mar
quess, the ball entering on the left side of
the nose, below the eye. The surgeons have
been unable to trace the direction taken by
the ball or ascertain whether it has entered
the brain. Hinote was arrested, and the
public indignation was so general that there
was much apprehension felt lest Judge
Lynch should take the case iuto his own
hands.
The Gazette also say s that on Tuesday of
last week a Mr. Fern Jernigan was brutally
murdered by a man aud his two sons, named
Odom, near Milton, Santa Itosa county.
There was some difficulty about a lot of
sheep. Jernigan claimed that the Odoms
had penned several that belonged to him,
and in duo process of law, in company with
the Deputy Sheriff, was taking possession
of the same, when the latter fired upon him
and threatened the life of the officer—both
of the latter being unarmed. Jernigan fell
at the second shot, and the Odoms sur
rounded the body and swore that the dying
man should not have medical attendance,
and that he should die like a dog where he
lay. After his death the fiends sent word
to the county officials that they were in the
county and defied arrest. The entire male
population of Milton was summoned as a
posse comitatus and the woods were
thoroughly scoured, but at last accounts the
Odoms had not been captured.
3andford Journal: A few evenings sines,
while a number of young men, including
the junior editor, were out in tho shoal wa
ter of tho lake soiniug for minnows, a large
alligator made his appearance close by.
Discovering them by, he immediately struck
ont for deep water, making a great splash
ing. Our dog, Prince, being along, the
young men hissed him after the ’gator, and
he went with a will. He jumped on the
back of the monster and quite a skirmish
ensued, the dog being under water part of
the time. Finally the running fight carried
them out in deep water out of sight in the
darkness, and the dog was gone fully ten
minutes before he returned. The first in
stance on record of a dog whipping a big
’gator in his own element.
THE CENTENNIAL.
“Will You Walk iuto my Parlor f” said
the Spider to the Flv.
The Philadelphia North American, a
paper notorious for its relentless hostil
ity to the South and its supercilious,
taunting arrogance towards the Southern
people, thus announced the opening of
the Centennial exposition:
The Centennial now opened, gains its
brightest flowers in the friendly reunion
of all the States. Here at last the bitter
disputes of three decades and the bloody
arbitrament of one, find their adjustment
in a-; cordial fraternity that celebrates
what is equally dear to every State and
citizen, contemplates advantages that
have no narrower dimensions. The na
tion gives its authority to the day and the
event; and every State and every Territory
participates equally in the glory and will
participate in the gain. The original
commonwealths are present as when, one
hundred years ago, they staked all for a
less hope than this reality; and their first
great reunion defends the early Union
and witnesses descendants larger and
stronger than they were, looking ration
ally to a greater development and to
greater power under the same principles.
LOUISIANA AT THE CENTENNIAL.
The New Orleans Democrat accom
panies a half-page cartoon with the fol
lowing description of “Louisiana at the
Centennial”:
Our artist this morning presents the
readers of the Democrat with a striking
illustration of the true position of Louisi
ana at the Centennial, and her products
during the era of reconstruction are
graphically delineated. A short time
since a number of gentlemen of this city
sent on to the Centennial as the products
of this State, a number of alligators,
rattlesnakes, bullfrogs and other reptiles.
These, under the reconstruction policy of
the Republican party, have, indeed, been
some of the principal products of Louisi
ana, but the chief products of the State
under the present regime, have been of
a more rancorous nature, and our
artist has given a fair sample of them.
The chief figure in the engraving on
our first page represents Louisiana. The
figure is the creation of genius. It rep
resents a beautiful woman in chains and
ragged robes, her face hidden wiih shame
in her shackled hands. The whole aspect
of the figure is fine, conveying the idea of
humiliation and shame. Kellogg, the
usurper, is represented leading the
wretched woman to the national jubilee,
and is waving his hat in exultation over
his victim. Packard and a negro are
whipping up the fallen and helpless
creature, and urging her on to the festi
val at which her happier sisters have
assembled. In the rear follows a cage
containing the Returning Board, driven
by Chief Justice Ludeling; next follows a
cage containing a number of our negro
law makers, driven by Warmoth, and
then we notice among the articles em
braced in the procession the election law,
fraudulent bonds, the midnight order,
Louisiana election returns and hand
cuffs.
Readers of the Democrat does not thi s
picture truly represent Louisiana and
her products at the Centennial ? What
has the hundredth anniversary of Ameri
can independence given us but degrada
tion for our State and these bitter and
shameful things ? If Louisiana is at the
Centennial of American Independence,
she is there in the person of those who
are a disgrace to her and who reflect dis
honor upon her; she is there, if there at
all, in rags and chains, and because she
has been driven there by the whips and
kicks of those who* rule over and dis
grace her. Louisiana at the Centennial
is indeed a bitter, burning, infamous lie.
sous OBAPES.
The Philadelphia North American is
disgusted with the Southern lack of Cen
tennial enthusiasm. It now says:
In some parts of the South, where the
news of the reconciliation has not yet
reached—owing, perhaps, to the had con
dition of the roads—the inhabitants look
askance at the Centennial, simply be
cause it is “Nawthern.” They feel as
the old lady in Georgia did when her
neighbor told her that the “Yankees had
got the Alabama claims.” “I’m glad on
it,” cried tbe good old soul, who wasn’t
quite clear as to what an Alabama claim
was, but who evidently considered it
something dreadful; “I’m glad on it, an’
I bef* it’ll kill every one on ’em.'
TO—
THE HORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
POLITICALS NOTES.
Gathering of the Radical Clans in
Convention.
JUDGE LYNCH As A MAHKS.HAN.
The Ravines Guarding the Black Hill*.
RADICAL CONVENTIONS.
Springfield, III., May 25.—The platform
remits the currency question to the National
Convention. Beveridge addressed the con
vention endorsing Blaine. A resolution de
claring it impolitic to send Federal offioe-
holdors to the National Convention was re
jected.
St. Louis, May 25.—The platform declares
for coin, or paper convertible into coin.
The delegation stands: Blaine 14, Morton
12, Bristow 3, and Conkling 1.
St. Paul, Minn., May 25.—The platform
declares for hard money, or its equivalent
in paper convertible into coin, and that
Blaine is Minnesota’s prond preference for
President. A resolution instructing the
delegation to vote on all questions as a unit
was lost.
Topeka, Kan., May 25.—After debate
from ten to twelve o’clock, resolutions de
claring Blaine the first choice passed. Sena
tor Ingalls will be supported for Vice Presi
dent.
THE BLACK HILLS.
Cincinnati, May 25.—A letter from Z.
Mott, one of a company of Cincinnatians
who left for the Black Hills some time ago,
dated at Kearney Junction, May 21st, states
that the Indians are on the war path and
killing miners at a fearful rate. He says
out of forty-two men at Dearwood twenty-
seven have been killed by the savages, and
five other men were killed and scalped
within three miles of Caster City. There is
plenty of gold, he says, northwest of Custer
City, but it is impossible to get at it on
acconnt of the Indians.
THE LONDON STOCK MABKET.
London, May 25.—The uneasiness felt re
garding the Eastern question is affecting
all classes of securities. Those of govern
ments directly within its influence suffer
most, but the whole market is flat. Turk
ish and Egyptian bonds are to-day at the
lowest point yet touched. The firmness of
the rates of disoount is attributable to the
same cause, bankers preferring loss of busi
ness to risk locking up money for a consid
erable period at a time of such uncertainty
and uneasiness. The supply of money avail
able for short loans is very large and is not
in demand at any price.
CATHEDBAL CONSECBATION.
Baltimobe, May 25.—The debt of the
Cathedral having been paid by Archbishop
Bayley, the oonsecration occurred to-day.
Among those present were Bishops Gross,
of Savannah, Becker, of Wilmington, Gib
bons, of Richmond, and Horne, of Wheeling.
The building was interrupted by the war of
1812, and was de-licated in 1821 by Arch
bishop Marechal. It cost a quarter of a
million.
THE MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS.
Laniiso, Michigan, May 25.—In the
Democratic convention two sets of resolu
tions were offered. The money resolution
of the platform adopted is as follows:
“Leaving the details to onr Legislatures, we
re-assert that coin is the only money recog
nized by the traditions or the Democratic
party as warranted by the constitution.” The
delegation stands 16 for Tilden, and 6 for
Hendricks.
THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIANS.
Bowling Green, May 25.—The Cumber
land Presbyterian Conference has decided
that the Roman Catholic Church is not or
thodox, consequently its baptism is invalid,
but the matter must rest finally with the
church session to which the candidate ap
plies for admission.
JUDGE LYNCH SHOOTS.
Charleston, May 25.—Four men who
murdered a husband and wife, and attempt
ed to burn tbe honso, in Abbeville county,
were taken from the Sheriff and shot iu the
presence of three hundred people. One
hundred shots were fired.
ARRIVED.
Albany, May 25 The twenty United
States prisoners convicted in North Caro
lina of whisky frauds, have reached the
penitentiary here and been Allotted their
several tasks. Their terms range from one
and two years.
SPAIN AND THE POPE.
Rome, May 25.—A meeting of Cardinals,
the Pope being present, resolved that rela
tions with Spain will not be formally sus
pended, but the Nuncio at Madrid is to be
granted an indefinite leave of absence.
baptist convention.
Buffalo, May 25.—In the American Bap
tist Convention, Rev. W. B. Sears, of Vir
ginia, presidas.
FIBE.
London, ilay 25.—Seven houses have
been destroyed at Bristol, and the fire still
rages. The firemen are powerless.
FROM BOSTON.
Boston, May25.—The liabilities of Beard,
Moulton A Daniels, clothiers, are estimated
at $200,000. The assets may reach this sum.
ASCENSION DAY.
Paris, May 25.—This being Ascension Day
it is observed as a holiday on the Bourse,
Evening Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESSIONAL PRO
CEEDINGS.
The
Religions Conferences and As
semblies.
CONTINUATION OF THE COTTON
GOODS AUCTION.
The Radical
Politicians
Horns.
Tooting Their
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, D. C., May 25.—Probabilities:
In the South Atlantic States, lower barom
eter, east to southerly winds and slightly
warmer, partly clondy woather will prevail,
with occasional rains.
In the Gulf States, Blight changes in pres
sure and temperature, generally cloudy
weather aud rain areas.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, falling
aud stationary barometer, winds mostly
from the northeast and southeast, slight
changes in. temperature, partly cloudy
weather and rain areas.
In the Middle States, rising followed by
falling barometer,winds shifting to the north
and easterly, generally cooler, partly cloudy
weather and probably occasional rains.
The Missouri river below St. Louis will
continue slowly falling.
FRENCH POLITICS.
Pabis, May 25.—The police have seized
Henri Rochefort’s paper, the Droit de
I'Homme.
Minister Dufaure concluded his answer to
the interpolation in regard to Minister
Ricard’s circular stigmatizing as factions
the hopes of the Monarchists as follows: “I
therefore say in reply to the interpolators,
let ns report the fidelity of our opponents
to their convictions and hopes, but combat
all conspiracies.”
THE FIBE BXCOBD.
Pittsburg, May 25.—The Keystone coffin
works, with two thousand coffins, is horned.
Loss $20,000.
London. May 25.—The Bristol fire is con
trolled. The loss is heavy. It was the most
extensive fire that ever visited Bristol.
Fall BrvEB,May 25.—The Pocasset Manu
facturing Company's mill canght fire, bnt
the flames were extinguished. Loss $3,000.
THE SILK SMUGGLES.
New Yobk, May 25.—Lawrence, the silk
smuggler, pleaded guilty to the indictment
charging him with the forgery of Custom
House entries, covering substantially tbe
charges for which extradition was demand
ed. The prisoner was remanded for sen
tence, and hailed. Pierrepont’s visit to New
York had reference to this case.
JUSTIFIED.
Boston, May 25.—Two years ago H. W.
Edmunds, paying teller of the Second Na
tional Bank, was discharged because he
could not account for ten thousand dollars,
Tbe money was found to-day in a crevice of
the safe, into which it had slipped.
FTT.T.an BY A FREIGHT TRAIN.
Cincinnati, May 25.—A freight train kill
ed Mrs. Jennie Brace and daughter, who
were on the bridge near Danville, Ill, Tbe
train knocked tbe girt off the bridge fifty
feet.
THE ALABAMA BADS.
Montgomery, May 25.—The Republican
Convention did nothing yesterday. It re
assembled this morning and nominated for
Governor, J. C. Bradley; for Secretary of
State, T. T. Ailing ton; for Treasurer, B. M.
Long; Auditor, G. P. Plowman; Attorney
General, B. S. Hepiin; Superintendent of
Education, P. J. Glover. Delegates at Large
to Cincinnati: G. E. Spencer, Charley Hays,
Alexander Curtis and Alexander White were
elected. The districts elected sixteen dele
gates, half white and half colored. A
dispatch was received from Bradley
declining to run for Governor. James
Clarke was then nominated. A resolution
favoring the resumption act was adopted.
A resolution authorizing the Executive
Committee of the two wings of the party to
agree, if possible, on a State and electoral
ticket, and make snch changes as are neces
sary to accomplish the object, was adopted,
bnt no authority was given to change the
delegation to Cincinnati. Extract from the
resolutions: We earnestly admire the entire
career iu public life of Hon. O. P.
Morton, of Indiana, in his advocacy of the
great and vital principles of the Republican
party and measures destined to receive
their practical application in the affairs of
the government. Mr. Morton stands promi
nent before the country for the ability,
courage, and constancy he has displayed.
Resolved, That we commend Hon. O. P.
Morton to the favorable consideration of
onr delegation to the National Repnblican
Convention.
All resolutions were adopted unanimously,
except the ones relating to Morkm.
An amendment was offered declar
ing the delegates Bhould go untrammelled.
The amendment was voted down by a large
majority. Another amendment was offered,
adding )Sbe names of Conkling and Blaine.
This was overwhelmingly defeated. The
resolutions were then adopted as reported
by the committee, of which Alex. White,
late Judge of Utah, was chairman. Tbe
convention then adjourned. The conven
tion was overwhelmingly for Morton, and
the entire delegation, with the exception
possibly of two delegates, will support him
to the last. The delegates appointed by the
other wing laBt week are uninstructed.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, May 25.—In the House, the
Emma Mine Committee reported. Its con
clusions are that it was not proper for the
American Minister at the Court of St. James
to connect himself, as a director, with the
Emma Mining Company; that General
Schenck’s relations to the vendors of
the mine were of such a character as
to cast suspicion on his motives and
subject his action to unavoidable crit
icism. While the committee does not
believe him guilty of any frauds,
bis subsequent specnlative dealings in
shares of tbe company were not compatible
with bis diplomatic situation. The com
mittee, therefore, recommend the adoption
of a resolution declaring Mr. Schenck’s ac
tion as ill-advisod, unfortunate and incom
patible with the duties of his official posi
tion. The report went over.
The Committee of the District were di
rected to inquire how a copy of the report
came to be published in the New York
Tribune and Evening Star. The Chairman
stated that the paper had not been consid
ered more than an hour, aud had not been
adopted by the committee.
A Democratic caucus was announced for
to-night.
In the 8enate, the bill for the relief or
Wm. Kale, postmaster at Knoxville, was re
ported favorably and placed on the calendar.
A bill was introduced removing the politi
cal disabilities of Thomas H. Williams, M. D.
THE PBZ8BYTERIANS.
New Yobk, May 25.—In the Presbyterian
Conference, an "overture on promiscuous
daDcing, deploring tbe practice and regret
ting Dartie3 for such dancing by members
of Christian families and counseling the
church to arrest the evil was adopted.
There was a discussion, during which Dr.
Talmage rose and said he had telegraphed
to Dr. Moses Hoge, of Savannah,
asking if steps could be taken
by this assembly to meet the views of
the Southern Assembly in promoting uni m
between the Church North and the Church
South, and received a reply that any spon
taneous resolutions of onr Assembly would
receive most respectful consideration. Dr.
Talmage then offered a resolution settieg
forth that all expressions ol an offensive na
ture between the two sections of the Presby
terian chnrch be bnried, and tbat the hands
of invitation be stretched to their South
ern brothers to unite with them in fraternal
rela'ious, and requesting the Assembly at
Savannah to send two delegates to the
meeting in Brooklyn, advising them of
their departure, and promising to seDd two
delegates to Savannah so that both bodies
would not adjourn until the churches on
earth and in heaven have begun a jubilee of
glorious consummation. After disenssion,
the resolution was referred to the Committee
on Correspondence.
THK DBY GOODS AUCTION.
New York, May 25.—The sale of dry
g oods of the Amoskeag Manufacturing
ompanv, Naumakeag Steam Cotton Com
pany, Stark Mills and Langdon Manufac
turing Company, advertised to take place
this morning, attracted an immense con
course of buyers. The first lot, Amoskeag
fancy shirtings, was knocked down at 11
cents. A lot also, consisting of
Amoskeag shirtings, brought 11! cents,
and a lot of Amoskeag 3-3 blue
stripes quickly reached 9|c., and then went
off in orders of five, ten and twenty cases.
The fonrth lot of Amoskeag, 6-3 bine
stripes, sold for 10Jc. Massabesic 3-3 blue
stripes brought 9c., and Massabesic 6-3
bine stripes easily commanded 10jc. Lot
7, Amoskeag A. C. A. ticking was started
at llic,, at which price a large order was
taken, when the rest went off at
16fc. The following lot, also Amoskeag
ticking, was eagerly received and ths bid
ding very spirited till lOjc. was reaohed,
when it stopped, and amid an uproar equal
ing anything ever heard in the Stock Ex
change, orders were poured in upon the
auctioneer too thick and fast to be attended
to properly.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, May 25.—A letter is pub
lished from Pierrepont to Gibson, stating
that the question of immunity for Seelye
had been presented to the Cabinet, but ths
President had been notified that several
members of the New Orleans Committee
were not in favor of immunity, and it was
not deemed best to grant it.
Nominations: Jas. A. Bnlan, Consul to
Florence, vice Wirt Sykes, withdrawn; Geo.
W. Patten. Marshal of West Virginia.
The Elections Committee have decided to
refer the case of Buttz vs. Mackey, from
South Carolina, back to the people.
The Conference Committee on the diplo
matic appropriation bill had a session to
day.
James Wiles, of New York, has entered
snit against the trustees of A. G. Sloo for
hall the million dollars awarded for a mail
contract.
The fall Judiciary Committee decided that
the sub-committee should not receive hear
say testimony, bat that Caldwell, who is in
Enrope, should be summoned.
BLAINE’S BONDS.
Washington, May 25 In the private
session of the Judiciary Committee, Mc
Crary moved that the sub-committee, in
continuing the investigation, should not re
ceive hearsay testimony except to the extent
of the name and residence of any person
alleged to have some knowledge of the
matters under investigation. After con
siderable discussion, tbe resolution was
defeated hy * strict party vote. A resolu
tion was adopted that tbe resolution au
thorizing the snb-committee to conduct the
investigation did not authorize any investi
gation. The question was the corrnpt use
tbat had been made of bonds nnleBS related
to tbe Little Rock bonds which came into
the possession of the Union Pacific Railroad
Companv.
patriotic.
Washington, May 25.—The President has
issued his proclamation reciting the joint
resolution of Congress recommending as
semblies of the people in their respective
counties and towDB, and canse to be deliv
ered on the Fourth of July a historical
sketch of the county or town, to be filed in
the Library of Congress and elsewhere,
with the intent that a complete record may
be obtained of the progress of our institu
tions during the past centnry of their exist
ence.
THIEVING CADETS.
Annapolis, May 25.—Nine cadet midship
men, of tbe seoond and third class, are re
quired to resign or suffer ejection for steal
ing the stock of a gentlemen’s famishing
goods drummer, deposited in one of the
rooms.
THE TURF.
Baltimore, May 25.—In the selling race
for all ages, one and three-fourth miles,
Picolo was the favorite. Picolo won, Sider
second, Resolute third; time, 3:11.
ENGLAND AND THE POWERS.
London, May 25 —The press comment
favorably on the attitude of the government
toward the Berlin conference.
A Centennial chronicler says he was
much affected the other morning by the
spectacle of a United States Senator on
the fifth floor of a Philadelphia hotel
trying to sponge the beer stains ont of
his shirt front.
Shooting reflection by the Brooklyn
Argus: “The last vestiges of the old
Boston elm are gone, bnt Banker-hill
monument and the Adams family still
survive.”
The Pnblic Schools in Florida.
Editor Morning News:
Live Oak, Fla., May 19, 1876.
Now, let us consider the management
of the public schools, and see if this ques
tion cannot be looked into by the proper
authorities, and the needful remedy ap
plied to correct the evils which I sincerely
and truly believe exist. First, I ask the
authorities to look at the expense—the
figures—that it costs the people of this
oounty every year—an average of twenty-
seven hundred dollars for the past six
years, and in one of these thirteen hun
dred dollars were assessed, over and
above the amount demanded by the
Superintendent. This money is collected
from the tax-payers for the ostensible
purpose of educating the children
in the county, of all classes and
color, between the years of six and
twenty-one. It must not be lost sight of,
in the outset, that the tax-payers—those
who pay the money—are greatly in the
minority, and so, also, are the children
of these men and women. A minority,
then, pays the money to educate the
children of a majority. The school
law is unequal and unjust in this, and
it Bhould be so altered as to give an
equitable return to those who pay the
tax. The children of the largest tax
payers should have a better grade of
school than the children of those who
pay but a nominal or no school tax. Then
again let the money which is colleoted of
the white tax-payers go to the education
of the children of the white tax-payers,
and the money collected of the colored
tax-payers for the purpose of education,
go to the maintenance of the schools for
colored children, in the same way, ac
cording to grade—those who pay the
most tax to have the most schooling.
While such a system would be compul
sory, it would be equitable and the people
would complain less. Compulsion is the
order of the day with the governing class;
these wish to compel us to do everything.
They would die a natural, political, snd
every other sort of death, if
the governed classes were only to
act upon the principle of perfect
passiveness and submission. They could
not, under such a condition of things,
make a successful appeal to ignorance to
keep them in power. Then let us do
away with so much resistance; yield in
some measure to these exactions, but in
sist upon an admixture of equity with the
force, and we will have a better state of
feeling, one towards another, and a better
condition of things generally.
In the next place, the management is
bad, very bad. I was passing the street
through Live Oak the other day and saw
the Superintendent of County Schools
sitting on the platform of the railroad
company vomiting as though he had
taken something exceedingly nauseous
into his stomach. I inquired what ailed
the old gentleman, and was informed that
he was intoxicated. I have made yet
other and more extensive inquiry into
this matter, and I sincerely believe it to
be true that George R. Thralls, Superin
tendent of County Schools, Assessor of
Taxes and Justice of the Peace, was
drunk and vomiting on the railroad plat
form at the time specified. Now the
school system is compulsory ; it compels
us to pay for the education of the chil
dren of those who pay no tax, or, at
least, a nominal tax. Does it also iutend
to have us compelled to be supervised by
a man who is seen vomiting in the pub-
lio highway from the effects of taking too
much whisky in his stomach? Surely
our salaried masters will not drive us
down into this degradation with our little
ones. How humiliating the thought that
our children are to be provided with
learning from such a source! It is not a
crime to get drunk, but a decent regard
for the position of Superintendent of
County Schools should deter any man
from a public display of beastly intoxica
tion and our salaried masters from forc
ing such a man upon the tax-payers
of any county in Florida. Again,
the Superintendent, I learn incidentally,
is paid $4 per day for visiting and
examining the pnblic schools. Well, if
the old gentleman should keep sober, and
not get too much under his shirt bosom,
some days he has it in his power to make
$16 per day; all he would have to do
would be to visit four schools and pocket
the $16; this much he may have done in
Live Oak. Those teachers who are em
ployed by the Board of Public Instruc
tion to teach the white schools are fair
scholars and capable. Upon this branch
of the subject there is no cause for com
plaint. But when one looks into the
merits and qualifications of the colored
teachers, he cannot but deplore the waste
of money that is expended in paying
these people. The Board may say they
do the best they can, but I beg to differ
with these gentlemen, and that I shall be
constrained to tell some of their doings
to the world that would open somebody’s
eyes to the importance of employing a
better class of colored teachers than some
of those heretofore employed.
I conclude this letter, Mr. Editor, as I
have one on a former occasion, by Baying
that I don’t intend to write a word of
falsehood in regard to any man or woman.
It is not my object or wish to misrepre
sent any man or woman, and should any
proper explanation be demanded through
your columns, the parties aggrieved can
and Bhall have my proofs. I say this
much to satisfy all parties that my object
is not to calumniate—there is enough
truth, without resorting to falsehood, to
satisfy any candid mind in the State that
the evils complained of need remedying.
If you permit me to do so I shall go for
ward with the work before me, and I
think it just possible that men, and
women too, will be more careful when
they come to see what is in store for
those who violate the rales of decency
and propriety because they are in office.
Yours, Figures.
One of the strangest stories that ever
beguiled a winter’s night was that of the
disappearance of a stone bouse in Lon
don while its owners were journeying in
the Holy Land. This could scarcely hap
pen in these days of telegraph and steam.
Neighbors who saw the great gate taken
away, the furniture removed, and every
brick and stone carried off in broad day
light, never imagined the workmen were
robbers, and so did not interfere. But,
that strange things happen in New York
as well as London, was demonstrated
beyond a doubt this spring. On that
part of Fifth avenue which faces Central
Park, an expensive brown stone front
house in a nearly unoccupied block, was
ranted by a showy man calling himself
Capt. . It was furnished thoroughly
and elegantly by some down-town up
holsters, pictures, bronzes, etc., were
added, great hampers of wines and pro -
visions were brought, an ice man,
a butcher, baker, and grocer were
engaged, and the whole establishment
ready for its occupants. An old gentle
man, a neighbor, with nothing else to do,
amused himself by looking at the con
tents of the house, and one day penetra
ted the kitchen,where he found plumbers
taking out the range, who said “the Cap
tain didn't like it, and had ordered a
different patent.” The family failed to
come for a fortnight; the ice man, the
butcher, baker and grocer came for
orders, but found no customers. Finally,
tbe neighborly old gentleman told a
policeman he thought there was some
thing wrong about that bouse, and so
there was—for on opening it, it was
found entirely empty. Not only the fur
niture was gone, but the mantles, grates,
range, furnace, everything portable, was
missing. And where is the gallant Capt.
? Gone to keep a stylish boarding
house at the Centennial.—New Tork
Sun.
Tilden’s Tactics—Subsidizing Southern
Newspapers.
[From the Augusta Chronicle.]
It has been freely charged in the North
and West that Mr. Tilden, or Mr. Til-
den’s friends, were using money freely
for the purpose of securing his nomina
tion for the Presidency at St. Louis. In
the South, especially, it has been asserted
that money is being used for the creation
of public sentiment in favor ef the New
York candidate. The object of such a
partiality for the South is easily ex
plained. It is known that the South will
present no candidate at St. Louis. It is
known that the South has suffered so
long and keenly from the corruption and
tyranny of Radical rule that her peo
ple, throwing aside all predilections
and prejudices, will support the
Northern Democrat who appears to have
the fairest prospect of success. If then
the Southern people can be persuaded
into believing that Tilden alone can be
elected their delegation at St. Louis will
vote solidly for him though they might
prefer the nomination of Bayard, or
Hancock, or Hendricks, or Thurman, or
Black, or Eaton, or Allen, or Seymour,
or Church, or Palmer. Such a belief
could only be created with the assistance
of the press. Unfortunately there are in
the South some papers of limited circu
lation and waning fortunes that have
not the moral courage to spurn such
overtures as were made by the emissaries
of Tilden. Unfortunately, too. there are
other papers in the South that see no
thing improper in such transactions, and
which have fattened on bribery and cor
ruption. We presume that it was not
diffioult for such journals and the agents
of the New York candidate to strike
bargain. Whether they did or did not
some very suspicious circumstances have
been noticed recently. Papers that
few short months ago were pronounced
in their opposition to the nomination of
Tilden and the dictation of New York are
now loud in their praise of the former
and altogether silent about the latter.
Y’esterday we received a letter from
parties in New York which shows clearly
and indisputably to what means the Til—
denites are resorting in order to create a
public sentiment in the South favorable
to tbe nomination of their candidate.
The writer sent to the publishers of the
Chronicle and Sentinel a slip of paper
containing extracts from live “leading"
Northern and Western newspapers, all
favoring the nomination of Gov. Tilden,
and attempting to prove that he is the
strongest man in the field. We were
requested to publish these extracts in our
weekly edition as “quoted reading matter,'
and to charge the senders for the same.
We shall be more liberal to the New York
parties than that. We shall publish the
notices in daily, tri-weekly and weekly
editions free of charge. Notice number
one reads as follows:
“We believe now that success Is impossible
without New York, and we are going to get New
York by nominating Tilden. We don’t Uke him
as well as a Western man, but that is not the
tiling. We fear a Western ttihh cannot carry
New York or any other Eastern State, so we drop
the West and go lor Tilden.”—See Cincinnati
Commercial.
The Cincinnati Commercial, is nomi
nally an independent but really a Radical
organ, and has no more right to speak
for the Democracy than the Devil has to
speak for the Christian religion. If it
ever published tbe above it did so for
the purpose of inducing the Democrats to
nominate their weakest man. The second
notice comes from Kentucky:
‘A ticket composed of Tilden and TUnrman
would be the most powerful in - America, if the
ambition of friends could make the necessary
concessions. It in clear that New York, with
her five millions of people, is indispensably nec
essary to a Democratic victory: and if Ohio
should aid with Thurman, or Missouri with
Broadhead, for sccon I place, the nomination
would strike terror into the disorganized ranks
of the Republians.”—Louisville Courier-Journal,
Dem.
The credit is a falsehood. The Courier
Journal claims to be independent. It
has made some money by runurng a gift
enterprise, and is usually for sale to the
highest bidder. It supports Tilden now
beeau-e it is to its interest to do so, just
as it would support Allen or Hendricks
to-morrow. The Pacific slope is also
called upon in the interest of the Reform
Governor:
Thousands of Republicans would vote for
Tilden, as opposed to almost any other promi
nent Republican aspirant than Bristow, and
Democrats ail over the country would vote for
Bristow should their own party nominate a man
less distinctly associated with the work of re
form. The great mass of independent voters
would vote for either of these candidates should
bnt one be placed in nomination.—San Francisco
Call {Rep).
The Call is professedly a Republican
paper, and there is a maxim of war which
applies with equal force to politics:
First find out what your adversary
wants and then—don’t do it.” If we de
sire a Republican candidate we can obtain
one at Cincinnati.
The voice of the South is supposed to
be heard in the following:
•The papers both West and South are almost
unanimous in the expression of the opinion that
to carry the election in November, New York
must be secured, and that Governor Tilden is the
only Democrat who can certainly carry New
York. This being the general feeling, Tilden’s
nomination appears to be a certainty.”—-V. O.
Sentinel and Guide.
The above looks a good deal like a case
of false pretenses. If there is such a
paper in New Orleans as the Sentinel and
Ouide, it is a stranger to our exchange
lists, and we have never heard its name
mentioned before. We know something
of the Picayune, the Times, the Dee, the
Bulletin and the Republican, but we con
fess to utter ignorance of the Sentinel
and Guide. If there is such a paper,
however, its capacity for lying is some
thing wonderful to contemplate. The
papers in the West are nearly all opposed
to Mr. Tilden’s nomination, and only a
very few journals in the South chant his
praises. The Tildenites in New York
would leave the ohapter incomplete if
they failed to show that their favorite is
the choice of his own State. They ac
complish this fact by publishing the fol
lowing extract:
Since Mr. Bayard Taylor says that the
Centennial opening makes him “prond
and satisfied as an American,” the Ro
chester Democrat thinks the
dollars hare not beei
Though there are several Democratic states
men who might be named whose candidacy
would go far to asBnre the people of the earnest
ness of the party, it seems to us that only one
has been brought prominently forward who has
been so thoroughly identified with political re
form as to be able to lilt the party up into the
confidence ot the people. That man is Governor
Tilden. The feeling of the people is that the
country would be safe in his hands as the Execu
tive.”—.V. Y. Tribune.
The Tribune just now, unfortunately
for Mr. Tilden, does not happen to be
very good Democratic authority. Since
the death of Horace Greeley it has been a
journalistic prostitute, ready to bestow
its favors upon any one who would pay
for the same. For some time past it has
been sounding the trumpet of Mr. James
G. Blaine, and in the intervals of its dal-
lianoe with the Man from Maine makes a
raid upon the pocket of the reform Gov
ernor. The Tribune is wholly destitute
of influence, and its favors, like those of
the class which it so closely resembles,
do more harm than good to the re
cipients.
We presume Mr. Tilden’s friends will
deny that Mr. Tilden himself has Dad
anything to do with this advertising
dodge, or else will claim that it is an in
vention of his enemies. The truth of the
first plea can be easily tested. If the
second is offered some evidence must be
offered in its support.
SCIEimriC SPIRITUALISM.
Mr. Blabap Explades tbe Spirit of Katie
Kla S .
Ghastly Rubbish in a Gabbet.—Three
weeks ago Mrs. Margaret May moved into
the small two story brick house, 65 Grand
street. Yesterday afternoon, as her young
son was removing furniture to the attiu
bedrooms, a little boy with him spied a
square hole opening into a little dark
garret still above. “I will see what is in
that hole,” said the child, and he clam
bered through. He found a lot of rnb-
bisb; rags, bits of old garments, bottles,
papers, and a human skeleton, 1 ‘a boy of
five years,” said the French woman, Mrs.
May, and a full grown arm of a woman,
cut off at the shoulder. There was a
child's calico dress, with short sleeves and
low neck, which, with the rags around it,
seemed to be glned together with blood.”
“They seemed as if they had been baked,”
said tiie old woman, “so dry, no blood,
no smell; conld not have been there less
than two years; perhaps a great many.”
The skeleton and the detaebed arm were
taken to the Morgu trN. Y. Sms.
[From tho New York World.]
The “trial of Spiritualism and its
agencies,” and particularly those of its
agencies which pretty lbs. Annie Eva
Fay lately manipulated so succrafolly in
this city, was carried on by MifrW. Irving
Bishop, at Ohiokering Hall, last evening,
in a oonsiderate and gentlemanly but
thoroughly convincing fashion. Mr.
Bishop, whose abilities had some time
ago became known to a number of gen
tlemen in New York, before whom he had
given exhibitions, had been requested by
them to give a public exhibition in view
of pretty Mrs. Fay, who had hoodwinked
Professor Crooke and the Royal Scientifio
Society of England, and her numerous
like who were springing up in her train
with rather alarming luxuriance. Dr.
Hammond, Rev. Wm. R. Alger, Professor
Draper, Dr. James Wood, Rev. Dr. Got-
theil and Mr. Wm. Fullerton were among
those who signed the call to Mr. Bishop,
and he consented to give a public exhibi
tion in aid of the city poor through the
agency of St. John’s Guild, naming last
evening as the time and Chickering Hall
as the place.
The numbers who flocked to see Mr.
Bishop were astonishing. The hall was
packed beyond the point of oomfort,
many standing along the walls and in the
aisles, and people were turned away from
the doors for want of room. Mr. Bishop
was introduced immediately on the con
clusion of Dr. Hammond’s remarks—a
young gentleman of evident suppleness,
with slender waist and long, pliable
hands and wrists. Dr. Mott and Rev.
Dr. Deems were called upon the platform
to attend to the tying, and Dr. Sands and
Rev. Dr. Gottheil were subsequently
added to this committee. The tying of
Mr. Bishop was carried out in a manner
precisely similar to that in which Mrs.
Fay was bound—the knots without
doubt, however, being forced together
with more unction, since it was not
possible to waste the same sym
pathy upon a fresb, rosy, young
male, who laughed and winked one eye,
that pale, delicate, pretty Mrs. Eva nat
urally enforced. The cotton bands were
tied about the wrists so tight that the
flesh rose round about them, and the
knots were sewed together. Then tbe
experimenter was placed upon a stool
back against a light Japanese screen,
from which two wings projected forward
slightly, and his wrists and neck were
bound fast to iron rings and staples and
his feet were lashed together by a rope—
all precisely as Mrs. Eva was accustomed
to have it done. There was no doubt of
the perfectness of the tying or of the
impossibility of Mr. Bishop’s escaping
from it. The committee were perfectly
satisfied.
The first performance had a name pla-
garized from Mrs. Eva’s collection, “Sil
ver Bells without a Belfry,” “The En-
chanted.Cornet” and “The Tambourine’s
Transit.” These articles were placed
upon the operator’s knees and a cloth cur
tain drawn across the screen from wing to
wing, while the piano on the platform
was made to give out a soft accompani
ment. The committee, with their hands
upon their knees, and their eyes focused
with startling intensity upon the screen,
held their breath as the curtain was drawn,
when sure enough upon the instant the
spirit of “Katie King,” which was the
spirit that Mr. Bishop avowedly employ
ed, kicked up a hulaballoo that would
have made Mrs. Eva and her “Will'e”
green with envy. #Out came the tambou
rine upon its transit, which was very nar
rowly by the head of the Rev. Dr. Deems,
and the silver bells were discharged, one
after the other, at the person of the aston
ished Dr. Mott, and midway in all the
confusion the voice of the performer was
heard crying for light, which, turned on
from a mighty calcium the instant the
curtain was dropped, revealed him sitting
just as he had been left, cool and winking
one eye. It was very cleverly done and
every one was astonished, and Mr. Bishop
got a round of applause that shook the
house. After that he performed one
after another all the tricks that pretty
exposed Mrs. Eva has in her repertory.
“Celestial Ties,” “The Gordian Knot,”
“The Spirit Carpenter,” “The Marvel
lous Shot Test,” “The Goblin Glass,”
The Phantom Hand” and “The Old
Oaken Bucket” trod the miraculous one
upon the heels of the astonishing other.
The audience was delighted at beholding
a scientist perform the rites of Spirit
ualism better than one of its own high-
priests, and its delight was noisy and con
tinuous.
And when the last trick had been com
pleted the curtain was taken away, the
wings of the screen were straightened
out, and in full view of all the people and
illuminated by a strong light, Mr. Bishop
performed the spiritual wonders all over
again. One would scarcely believe it,
not to see it, but his supple bauds, used
simply from the wrist, did everything
and with extraordinary quickness and
ease that Miss Eva could only do with
the help of supernatural “Willie.” Mr.
Bishop offers to do anything that any
medium will do after having seen him do
it three times, and in case he fails he
stipulates to give five hundred dollars to
St. John’s Guild.
Not Any for Him.
This is the season when advertisements
of refrigerators and ice-chests spread out
in a newspaper like a mortgage on a
small corner lot. It was advertising in
tho Free Press that attracted a Nankin
farmer into Detroit and into a Woodward
avenue hardware store yesterday. When
he mentioned the fact that he would like
a refrigerator, the proprietor weloomed
him with a sunny smile, and the clerks
cheerfully barked their shins against the
stoves as they flew around.
‘Will you look at these ice chests?”
asked the proprietor as they came to a
long row.
'What do I want to keep ice in a chest
for?” growled the farmer. “What I
want is something to keep provisions
cool and nice in hot weather.”
“Well, here you have it. Here is the
best refrigerator made.”
The farmer opened the doors, looked
the box over and around, and seemed
much pleased with it. Presently he in
quired :
“What’s the principle of the thing—
how does she cool off the provisions ?”
“You put your ice right in here, shut
the box and away she goes,” was the
reply.
Ice!” gasped the farmer.
‘Why, of course. Y'oivcan’t run a re
frigerator without ice, can you?”
The farmer turned without a word,
walked down stairs and out to his wagon,
and was getting in when the hardware
man hurried up and asked:
“What’s the mattei ?”
“Do you think I’m a four-cornered
fool?” howled the agriculturalist. “Do
you think I’m going to buy that high-
pneed provision asylum and then keep
loe, too ?”—Detroit Free Press.
A Frightful Spectacle.—A ten-mnle
team, drawing lumber, while coming from
the vicinity of the lake, this morning,
went over the grade near the head of
King's canyon. The driver sprang from
the saddle, thereby saving his life. Ho
then stood still, a horrified and speech
less witness to one of the most terrible
scenes possible to imagine. The mules,
wagon and lumber pitched downward in
one confused, rolling mass, nearly two
thousand feet into the bottom of tbe
gorge, wild cries from the crushed and
mangled animals rending the air as they
were hurled madly down the steep moun
tain -side, nntil, when nearing the bottom,
and life becoming extinct, the agonizing
sound ceased, and all became silent in
death. The man says that after the first
hundred feet had been passed the entire
mass became hidden in a great cloud of
snow torn up and scattered through the
air, but that he could distinctly hear all
sounds proceeding from the white cloud
as it rolled swiftly onward, until it struck
the bottom of the canyon with a crash
like that of an earthquake.—Nevada
{Cal.) Tribune, May 5.
The Southern Presbyterian furnishes
some instructive figures showing the
comparative cost of certain “unneoessa-
ries,” from which it appears that the
country pays $70,000,000 annually for
dogs, $610,000,000 for tobacoo and
$2,200,000,000 for intoxicating liquors.
The figures are given for the purpose of
contrasting the respective items with the
sum annually paid in salaries to ministers
of the gospel, which is given at $6,000,-
000 only.
Another piominent candidate for Gov
ernor of North Carolina announces him
self : “I will heare announce myself as
candidate for the guvennnt election Nex
fool AI will give Eqnelnght to all yome
respectfully Rev. James Anderson cot-