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' J. H. ESTILL,
Savannah, Ga.
Affairs in Georgia.
. jettled fact that the railroad from
j!' '.'4 to Knoxville will be bnilt at no dis-
**1? •
Io the Twentieth Senatorial District the
• DS &re the nominees of the Oonstitn-
L invention: Baldwin, Capt. T. F.
twell aud Judge F - c - Furman 5 Washing-
ljI. II L. War then and Dr. H. N Holli-
seld
Hancock, Col. C. W. Dubose.
Aue^r
, man and a boy nearly grown were
ffDed in the Chattahoochee, near Mr. E.
£ BciT*i la5t Saturday, while fishing. One
, bodies was recovered Sunday and
’ ^ 0 nday. A Coroner’s inquest was held
ever the bodies and a verdict rendered in
-Jordan^ *ith the above facts.
Mr A. C. Ladd, the lime man of Atlanta,
., ijjppy, having received the contract for
lurching four thousand barrels of lime for
ibeCnstom House at Charleston. He was
^awed ten cents a barrel over a bid for
jiortliern lime.
* Troop county has organized a Western
fcorgia Fair Association, the object of which
isto diffuse information pertaining to agri-
c3 tare, mi-nufactaring and stock raising.
v craLd mass meeting was held at Eaton-
ton on Saturday. The nominees of the con
vention wire fully sustained, and Putnam
county is “ail right on the goose.”
Bi;hop Pierce delivers ths literary address
it the LaGrange Female College com
mencement.
yeriwether county boasts of a piano 533
rears old. As tbe first piano was not made
till IT' S, Frofessor W. H. Peck, of Atlanta,
inclined to doubt the antiquity of the in
strument. We occasionally play upon these
old instruments, but invariably find them
out of tune.
Let us have cheap light!” i6 the exclama
tion of the Augusta people.
The manufacturing interests of Georgia
je beinc developed. The Chronicle and
ConMitutc' ralist says : “There seams to be
do doubt that a large cotton factory, with a
capacity of thirty thousand spindles, which
oav be increased to one hundred thousand,
fill" sor-n be erected on the site of the old
Conledtrate Powder Works.”
S&vs the Sandcrsville Herald : “A young
aaD living six or seven miles from Louis-
nlie, Jefferson county, of fine charafcter,
while on a fishing excursion on Saturday
list, finding the boat sinking, jumped over
board, and was drowned.”
Th Sandersviile Herald says: “The five
«e,ks drought through which we have pass
ed has not, we suppose, injured the corn or
cotton crops. The later oat crop and gar
dens have suffered considerably. We may
derive comfort from the old saying ‘a dry
May for a good crop year.* ”
The Burke Superior Court adjourned
itbout taking action on the lynching of
Ed. Welsh, the negro, murderer. This brief
interview of Judge Gibson is from the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist : “Repor
ter—What did the grand jury do. Judge,
about the lynchiDg ? Judge Gibson—Oh!
that was all a mistake of the newspapers.
There never was any negro lynched in
Burke county. He was never committed to
jail, at least uo commitment could be found.
It ie all a mistake, don’t you see. The grand
jury did nothing about the matter.”
Says the Covington Star, which is usually
well informed: “The number of applicants
for the position of Marshal have been legion,
and the contest over the appointment has
been a lively one,many goodDemocrats being
among the numoer. When it was given ont
at firs! that the President would appoint the
person named by Senators Gordon and Hill,
we bad some hope that a Democrat wonld
be appointed; but when Gen. Gordon named
a cumber of good men aDd Hill refused to
assent, we felt that it would result in the
reappointment of Maj. Smyth. With the
lights before us we are forced to the con
clusion that Mr. Hill is responsible for the
appointment of a carpet-bagger instead of
a native born citizen. In fact, it appears to
be one of the worst results of Benhillish-
neis we have yet seen.”
The Sunder Republican says: “At the
time we write (Friday night) our city and
cuuntyare suffering'very much for ram.
Gardens are parched and vagetabes stunted
to Buch an extent almost to be beyond the
power of recuperation by abundant rains in
the* future. It has been nearly four weeks
since any rain has fallen at this place. We
have been having strong winds, which ren
der the mornings and nights very cool.”
Chronicle and Constitutionalist: “A Cobb
county woman, who moved to Kansas a few
years ago, writes back that she has done
about as well out there as she could expect
ender the circumstances. She has buried
three husbauds, and bad two pairs of twins
*nd the small-pox.”
New flour has made its appearance in Au-
8U8t&. The Chronicle says : “We received
yesterday from Messrs. John M. Clark & Co.,
1 barrel of ‘Gilt Edge’ flour, ground at
their mill from new wheat, grown by Mr.
llalroyd on his plaoe near this city.
” e also received from George T. Jackson &
Co. & barrel of ‘Gold Medal’ flour ground
Jt the Excelsior Mills, by Mr. Peter May,
hj-ad miner, from wheat of 1877, raised by
Grimauld, of Richmond county.”
our people have abstained from running in
debt more than in former years. This por
tion of onr county is improving verv much,
and is beginning to attract the attention of
Northern orange growers. Already seve
ral men of capital have purchased
lands suitable for the business
and have put out groves. Others are pros
pecting, and seem to be well satisfied
with the county. We have a delightful cli
mate and perfectly healthy. No chills or
feyerB of any kind prevail here. The only
thing we need to develop this county is a
railroad. We have strong hopes of one, but
from Governor Drew’s veto I presume he
must think the people of South Florida have
no business with a railroad; but I predict
that, despite hia efforts to prevent we will
certainly have a road. This place has
undergone considerable improvement,
and among its enterprising citizens the name
ot Mr. D. M. Blue deserves mention. This
gentleman has by his energy and ability
erected a fine saw mill, with grist and gin
nery attached; and in connection with his
large mercantile interest, is driving a profit
able business. There are still a plenty of
good lands suitable for either farming* or
lruit growing; and a few men of capital
might yet find room here with the assurance
of being remunerated for their labor. The
culture of rice is receiving eome attention,
and with suitable machinery for cleaning it,
large qnantities might be raised on the
margin of rivers and reclaimed lands which
abound here.”
From Chattahoochee county, Florida, we
have received the following items, which we
publish, at the same time stating that we
gladiy publish in the News all such live
items as are sent by such well known cor
respondents : “A eon ot Mrs. Rawls, near
Mount Pleasant, aged about ten years, was
bitten by a moccasin a few days ago and
died shortly afterwards. The oat crop of
Gadsden county is very good. It is now
being harvested. Oats six feet high was
exhibited in Quincy last week. A fine spe
cimen of wheat was also exhibited, which
shows what can be raised in Florida.”
A conespondent of the Jacksonville Sun,
writing from Fernandina on the 29th of
May, says: “An attempt to burn the Nor
wood House was discovered this morning
about eleven o’clock. Fire was found in
three bureau drawers in different parts of
the house, but fortunately was discovered
before it had gained any headway, and was
extinguished. Ia the bureaus were found
quantities of paper saturated with kerosene.
There is no clue to the incendiary at this
writing. The discovery of the fire caused
great excitement, as a very strong wind was
blowing at the time, and had the flames
gained any headway the destruction of
property would doubtless have been great.”
This is what a correspondent says in ref
erence to shipments of stock and vegetables
from Columbia county: “If the railroad from
this point to Live Oik would reduce its
freight upon live stock by tbe car-load to
about $12 50, maev loads could be obtained
annually. As it is* the price is $20 per car
load, so that shippers drive their cattle to
Live Oak when shipping to Savannah, and
horse drovers take off their stock at Live
Oak, thus entirely depriving the road of
that class of business. A reduction would
benefit all classes.”
THE MORNING NEW?.
WAK NOTES.
Tbe Czar to lake Command of
Russian Army.
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A REVIEW OF THE SITUATION.
THE CONDITION OF THE TURKISH
ARMY.
Reported Defeat of the Russians.
[By Cable to the Morning News.)
Berlin, June 2.—It is stated that the
Czar is willing to undertake the chief com
mand as Emperor William did in the Fran
co German war. The Danube will be
crossed the day after ibe Czar’s arrival on its
banks, probably June 16th.
Rumors of endeavors to bring about a
pacific arrangement before au important
battle has taken place deserve little credit.
They are certainly piopagated for the bene
fit of stock jobbers.
London, June 2.—The Times’ corres
pondent at Paris says: “It is now well
known what the real difficulties of the situa
tion are: Russia can ouly escape the more
threatening consequences of her under
taking by promptly and energetically limit
ing it. It is evident that the day Servia
takes part in the war or the Roumanian
troops cross the Danube,Austria will occupy
ono or both principalities. Then the real
Eastern question will commence. Certainly
Russia is doing-her utmost to keep Servia
back. The difficulty raised as to the com-
maDd of the Rumauian troops is only large. Rice is dull and rather lower for
some extent due to the knowledge that the j
next dividends will be paid; but whatever 1
be the special reasons here and there for a :
rise, the excited character of this week’s ad
vance is no donbt owing to the absolute
necessity of the bear operators closing their
accounts, because they oonld not afford to
lose any more money. Inde-ed, several op
erators have exceeded that limit, and four
teen defaulters have been declared at this
settlement. The feature in American se
curities has been a little easier. The mar
ket rate was 2£ per cent, for three months’
bank bills. The settling days on the Stock
Exchange were marked by some demand
for short loans, and the rates were generally
steady.
TURF NOTES.
Cincinnati, June 2.—In the mile dash,
Charlie Gorham wuc; Mallagorda second,
and Bill Sanders third ; time, 1:45L In the
Ohio Derby, for three year olds, mile and a
half dash* McWhorter won; Good Fellow
second, &Dd Commodore Parisotta third;
time, 2:40. In the mile heats, Emma C.
won in two straight heats ; time, 1:47 and
1:46.
New York, June 2.—At the Jerome Park
races there was no pool selling, but book
making was very brisk. In the three-fourth
mile dash Janet Morton won, Parole sec
ond, Cyclone third; time 1:174. In the one
and one-quarter mile dash Capita won, Vic
tory second, Fugitive third; time 2:11$. Ia
the one mile dash for three year olds Bom
bast won. Cardinal Wolsey second, Glen Dud
ley third; time 1:46. In’the one and a half
mile dash Athlene won, Rappahannock sec
ond, Partnership third; time 2:43. In the
one and one-qnarter selling race Ambush
won, Fraud second, Red Coat third; time
2:14.
THE MINCING LANE MARKETS.
London, June 2.—The Mincing Lane mar
kets during the week hare beeD quiet, owing
to the withdrawal of public sales on Wednes
day and Friday as usual, during the Epsom
race week; transactions, therefore, have
been limited. Coflee has quite maintained
the improvement except for the finest qual
ities, arrivals being heavy. The supplies
brought to public sale have’ however, chiefly
found buyers and the deliveries continue
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Dill—Drought—Rained Crop*—Meat nod
Corn from the West—City New* («o*.-ip
-Ex-Gov. Bollock Returned—Death of
Jndce reeplea—A Good Man Die*—
Final Paragraphs—Convention .Matters
—Judge Bradley Come* and Cioe*—
“Justice to Whom Justice is Due’*—
Judge Hayden Not Censurable.
[Special Correspondence Morning News.]
Florida Affairs.
A correspondent from Micanopy, Florida,
tuder date of the 30th ult., says, in effect,
that the Weekly News takes well through-
0a ‘ that section, and that “Misguided,” the
^nal which has been running through the
®€veral issues cf the paper, makes up what
l * lacking for a “ first class weekly newspa
per.”
^ terrific stdrm • id Reported as having
last week at Fernandina. No damage
bti been reported, and our press dispatches
made no mention of the storm, the ac-
CvHQtB of which we g6t from the Jackson
tille Sun.
C&ptam W. A. Turner, living about ten
northward of Lake City, has dis-
Co *ered upon his place a white substance
Ambling chalk or plaster when dried.
^b»n firat taken from the ground it is
ibout
as soft as ordinary cheese. It con-
very little lime, and grows hard from
ei P08nre to the air. It could be pressed
t Q to brick, and would make an excellent
tolling material.
Early peaches will be shipped from
jumbia county this week.
*- Q a mandamus case before Judge White
dweek, against the County Commissioners
^ E-on.it was held that the
c -‘tied to all commitment fees (as against
stables), and that they must be paid by
Southern ‘‘Barbarism.”
The Philadelphia Press informs its in
telligent constituency that “the South is
approaching barbarism,” and that unless
the Federal Government again goes into
the missionary business the States com
prising the late Confederacy “will speedi
ly lapse into a condition but little removed
from that of the Ishmaelitish Society in
the desert.” The Press should look at
home, and take the beam out of its own
eye before attempting to extract the mote
from its neighbor’s optics. We venture
;o assert that au examination of the re
cords will show that more crimes have
been committed in the city of Philadel
phia, during the past year, than in aDy
three Southern cities; and more crimes
committed in Pennsylvania, during the
same length of time, than in any three
Southern States. There cannot be found
the whole South, from Virginia to
Texas, a region so utterly lawless, so given
up to murder, arson and robbery, *ns the
“Molly Maguire’Tocalitv in Pennsylvania.
We admit that some portions of the
Sou h are not as morally healthy as they
ought to be, but they are quite as healthy
as could be expected when it is remem
bered that they have been for ten years
under Republican rule. Those States
that have been longest free from this
curse are the most peaceful and prosper
ous, while those lately emerged from
bondage are the worst—a fact which
speaks for itself. We suggest that the
lf>ast the Republican organs can do is to
be patient, and give the Southern people
time to recover from the effects of Re
publican policy. Carpet-bagism and
negrophobia cannot be overcome in a
day.—St. Louis Republican.
The State of Georgia shall ever re
main A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN UNION ;
THE PEOPLE THEREOF ARE A PART OF THE
American NATION; every citizen
THEREOF OWES PARAMOUNT ALLEGI
ANCE to the Constitution and Govern
ment of the United States, and no law
OB ORDINANCE IN CONTRAVENTION OB SUB
VERSION THEREOF SHALL EVER HAVE ANY
binding force.—Sec. 33, Constitution of
Georgia.
Were a Constitutional Convention to be
held for no other purpose than to remove
the above disgraceful sham from our con
stitution we would favor it for that. It
is con‘ended that the war settled the
question of States rights. This is a mis
take. The sword settles permanently no
principle of government, and while the
question of secession was settled for the
time by the war, that of States rights
was not at stake in the contest. In proof
of which the Republican element of the
last National Legislature was even more
unmistakably States rights in character
than the Democratic portion of that
body. It was onl 7 the trucaleDC Y of
the non-representative body of illiter
ate negroes, non-resident adventu
rers and a few plunder-seeking na
tives, backed by the ready-yielding
sword, that footed upon the people of
Georgia an instrument called by cour
tesy a constitution of the people, an in
strument which a large portion of the
bona fide people of Georgia were denied
the right of participation in framing, or
ratifying after it was framed, and which
they swore to set aside when they had
wrenched from usurpation the power
that rightly belonged to them.
Centralism, too, plainly shown in the
section above quoted, is not nor has
ever been contended for as a result of
the late conflict by the Tic tors. Then
why retain in our constitution a clause
which receives the contempt of our po
litical enemies and is a standing insult to
our manhood ?—Elberton Gazette.
another effort to prevent the Roumanian
army from crossing the Danube, but Russia
has no longer much influence over the Ser
vians whom she abandoned aad humiliated.
An early exploaio i in Servia may therefore
be feared. The Czar sees this. It is said
if he joins the army It will be to arrest it
after tne first victory, to negotiate rapidly
with the Sultan and finish the war before it
develops these threatening complications.”
A correspondent in Vienna states that
the reported reoapture of Ardahan is
believed in that city. It was ef
fected, it is alleged, by the former garrison,
who had taken tne road io Ba^um, but un
expectedly turned back and taken the Rus
sians unawares, made a sudden dash on tbe
town, and succeeded in dislodging the Rus
sians.
The limes' Constantinople correspon
dent, having just returned irom a
close inspection of Varna, Rustchuk and
Skumla, says he cannot conscientiontly re
port much iu favor of the military authori
ties. The private soldiers are undoubtedly
good and patient, but are execrably fed. The
officers, with a few striking exceptions, are
not equally good. Abdul Kerim Pasha, the
commander-in-chief, is old and in bad
health. The troops are well armed,
the cavalry especially so, and fairly
housed. The hospital arrangements are not
worth mentioning, and there is much sick
ness and scurvy accruing. A vegetable diet,
lately iasued^at the request of an English
doctor, has proved beneficial. Chloroform
is greatly needed. Throe-fourths of the
officers are newly appointed, and have had
no previous training. The general fault of
the army is a lack of organization and slow
ness. Some of tho officers, however, are
most able and hard working. At Varna the
Austrian General Strecker works day and
night. Only one English officer is in the
army, and he is merely a captain of cav
alry.
A Reuter telegram from Constantinople
has the following : “Mure Softas have
been arrested and sent to their native
places to prevent disturbance in the capi
tal. Two thousand laborers have been em
ployed to work upon the Stamboul fortifi
cations.”
Tasv! Pasha reports from Sukumkaleb,
under’date of May 29, that four battalions of
troops, with some Circassians, defeated the
RUfSians posted between Suknmkaleh and
Kataio, capturing eight mounted cruus and
a quantity of ammunition. The Russians
threw seventeen guns into the river Kodra,
and destroyed the bridge after them.
The leading article in the Times says:
“Little war news has reached us within the
last few davs. There are vague reports of
improbable events. There are rumors such
as continually arise during a war, of a dispo
sition to negotiate, but the campaigu in its
main features is not marked by any new in
cident. The elements fight against the
Russians. A persistent deluge of rain pre
sents greater obstacles to their advance
than the Turkish armies. Rarely has war
gone so slowly forward.”
Bucharest, June 2.—The Chamber of
Deputies have passed the Ministerial bill
for the issue of $6,000,000 in treasury notes,
secured upon State bonds of double that
value. .
A special dispatch from Berlin to the 2 all
Hall Gazette says : “Russia refuses all appli
cations of British officers to accompany the
armv as spectators. The British Military
Attache at St. Petersburg has, after confi
dential inquiry, recommended his country
men not to repeat or press such application.”
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Abbest op a Kailboad Pbesident on a
Charge of Fbato.—Late on haturday
afternoon May L’dth, F. E. Hinkley,
President’of the Chicago and Paducah,
the Chicago and Iowa and other roads,
less well known, was arrested upon the
charge of conspiring to defraud, and put
under $50,000 bail. The com 1; lamant,
Mr Fisher, of London, a wealthy English
man and heavy bondholder m the
Chicago and Paducah Koad and who
~ reoresents about §1,000,000 of the bonds
Sheriff 18 alleges that Hinkley went to
EnglandTn ’l873f and by means of false
the
county.
well known
United States revenue
g, iaier Bache sailed for Washington from
“■ l _ ^’Jgu-tino on Tuesday last.
Cr ‘ 0lWll ^ 8 ' a Qding the cold weather
j ^ c °ra and cotton in the vicinity of
are * ooli * n K very well. Many
tim ' PBare D0W plowing corn tor the last
‘ J, and are planting chufas and peanuts.
lip 1 COutr act for tho building of the hotel
tod Jrt ^ LOr S e Island has been given out,
house will be completed July 1st.
e Jac ksonviile Sun thinks that one of
wants of tho State is a-“re-
representation concerning the amount
already invested in the road, ‘bcai'lit
sssnss
which will not work.
Wo think so, too, and ad-
1 School.”
Tlf a p yer t0 ttke a scllolar8hi P«
• ^esacola Daily Heiald thinks that
. ®itua‘ e d in West Florida, and Sam
’ “° Wen * to a picnic, says :
T «ieXatn-A* “^ ho c an paint—
I 1 1u i.a imagination boast
I can Cr , eati0!1 * hue* like hers ?
fnii t , x them with that matchless skill,
4 ^b b n rCtbTow?r"’“ ,lppe;ir8
writing from Alofia, un
to I V.” May 28th, Bays: “We have up
crnrV the moBt favorable spring
_* ‘“st farmers have eDjoyed for
hit and tho crops of corn, sugar
'b'lndtoi antl peas all promise au
W i, ‘ y ’eid this year. Consequently
fcaf [ *} rejoicing among the farmers.
1D K looks prosperous, and I. think
President of the American Ladiea Com
mittee had a private audience with the
Podo in the hall of the Vatioan, a. six
p m.’on Sunday evening. A “umbero
e °^rtb^d M ^r e other B di^r
Several addresses and numerous private
„ere made. The Pope received
offering portable chair, and re-
nlfedto he epeeches in quite a gay ht,-
mor He was afterward earned out to
the promenade.
A New Hampshire woman, widowed by
hue for the damage done to bun.
Bntler and That Colorado Land,
THE WAR TAX ON FOREIGNERS
IN CUBA.
tbs HOURS’ LABOR
[By Telegraph to the Morning News.]
Washington, June 2 —The Star says :
“Hon. E. J. Ellis, of Louisiana, writes to
us io regard to au allusion in the Star of
May 28th, to his views of the organization
of the Forty-fifth Oougress : ‘I have never
made auy reference to the strength of Col.
Blackburn or the Hon. Milton Sayler in the
Gulf states. I have uevor spoken of Co).
Blackburn as the candidate of the BourboDS,
uor have I apoken of or criticised his views
with regard to the administration. From
mv knowledge of that gentleman’s views and
of him, I imagine there is but little differ
ence between his political opinions and my
0< G, n. Butler says he holds the Ooloralo
land as collateral for *30,000 loaned by him
to Col. W. H. Craig.
Hherman orders tho Custom House hours
from 9 a. m. tod p. m., and the Secretary of
War directs th-t uot more than ten hours
be exacted from working meD, except in
emergencies.
The quarterly report of. navy Paymaster
Batiaue has been traced to ex-Secretary
Robeson’s wine cellar. Batine had forward
ed his accounts to the Navy Department
packed in a brandy box.
H. W. Henley has been appointed poat-
master at West’Point, Miss.
The State Department has advices from
Matrid that the war tax in Cuba, levied on
foreigners, has been reduced from thirty to
twenty-two and a halt per cent. The reduc
tion will apply to the incomes of citizonsof
the United States.
Tho American vessel William Dougiass,
held for a violation of certain p irt regula
tions at Baracoea, Cuba, has been released,
ami the tine remitted as an act of comity.
Judge R. B. Carpenter, of South Carolina,
is here after the District Attorneyship of
that State.
There are six applicants on file for tfie
Collectorship of Customs of Charleston.
General Logan declines the Collector of
Customs at Cnicago.
George Schneider, of Chicago, declines the
Swiss mission reoently offered him.
Tho administration has intimation of
General Anderson’s willingness to succeed
General Kockran as Collector of Revenue in
the Consolidated Lonsiana District.
It is ascertained that no'hing but the
mission to Brazil has been offered to Logan,
which he declined. .
General Sherman has gone to Harrisburg
on a short visit.
ENGLISH POLITICS.
Our Mexican Relations.
pulp w^rks of
3 burned. Loss
PACKARD DANGEROUSLY ILL.
REVIEW OF Till. LONDON MAHK.ETF.
LONDON STOCK MABKET.
London, June 2 —On the Stock Exchange
the movements this week have had no ref
erence to political events. The investment
of securities show a further advance, be
cause money ie easy and thelemployment for
it scarce. In speculative securities there
has been a rise not embroken but still very
marked, and outside the markets there is
no peiceptibie reason for it. The extraor
dinary high price of consols can perhaps
be accounted for by the scarcity of other
good investments in stocks, and, as regards
the recent rises, to the general knowledge
that British funds are nearly always bonght
np before the belf yearly dividends fall due,
and the price of Bnsesan stocks, which is
high compared with what it lately was, U to
caagoes. Brown and middling sugar has
fallen about sixpence per cwt. in many cases,
bnt there is now some increase in the de
mand for refining. West India crystalized
remain firm. Numerous cargoes have been
reported off the coast, and several have been
sold for the United Kingdom and neighbor
ing continental ports. An inquiry still pre
vails for Ameriea. The tea market does
not present any new features. Common
grades of Congou by auction met with a
steady demand. Saltpetre and other special
articles are dall.
ENGLISH POLITICS.
London, June 2.—In an article on Mr.
Gladstone’s Birmingham speech, tbe Times
complains that neither the speech nor the
resolution adopted by the meetings tells us
what we are to do. “If,” says the Times,“they
had spent the whole day m singing national
hymns and dancing national polkas, they
could not have addressed themselves less to
the particular faculty now most taxed in tbe
Eastern question.” The Times also finds it
' remarkable, almost incredible, that neither
in the Birmingham resolution nor in Mr.
Gladstone’s speech, is there any recognition
of the material fact that Rnssia and Turkey
have now been a whole month at war. The
subject throughout ia discussed as if it was
still under negotiation and only required
England to put on a bold front and be
true to herself to bring it to a happy con
clusion.”
BURNED.
ITttsbdrg, June 2.—The
Markle & Co.’s paper mill are
forty-five thousand dollars.
The Pittsburg Steel Castings Works were
burned down this morning. The building
was iron clad. About twenty thousand dol
lars’ worth of patterns were destroyed. The
fire caught from the gas furnace. Lose
seventy-five thousand dollars.
New Yobk, June 2.—Farther particulars
from the upper peninsular confirm the de
struction by fire of Oneta, Mich. Seven
hundred people have been rendered home
less. Property to the extent of one hundred
thousand dollars has been destroyed.
THE MEXICAN TBOCBLE8.
Washington, Jnne 2.—The unexpected
change in the Rio Grande border policy,
taking control from the State Department
and virtually trusting the whole affair to
Gen. Ord's discretion, excites tbe filibuster
ing element. They seem to think that Gen.
Ord has private instructions to act with
vigor, and that some kind of' war with
Mexico is determined on. It is known that
the managers of what is called the Sonora
movement has two of his most trusted aids
following Gen. Ord to the border to watch
events and for other pnrposes.
AFFAIRS IN OBEECE.
Athens, June 2.—After Prime Minister
Coumoundowros had explained the pro
gramme of the Cabinet in the Chamber of
Deputies to-day, the Chamber, despite the
opposition of tbe government, resolved, by
a vote of seventy-five to sixty-three, to hold
a secret sitting to-morrow. The early down
fall of the new ministry is not improbable.
LONODN EXCHANGE.
London, Juno 2.—The Stock Exchange
showed to-day a decided preponderance of
sales and a general reduction of prices.
Towards tbe close there was a slight rally in
some stocks, bnt in a majority of cases
prices elose at about tho worst point of the
day. The flat quotations on the Paris
Bourse increased the depression.
MABINE DISASTEB.
Jacksonville, June 2.—The schooner
Frank E. Stone, from Indian T.iver for this
port, was wrecked in a gale on Monday last,
on Mosqnito Inlet bar and Wm. Refinberiek,
formerly of Indianapolis, Jesse Lynn, of Co
lumbia, S. C., and another passenger from
the same, place wore lost.
UNITED STATES NAVAL MOVEMENTS.
Post Royal, S. C., Jane 2.—The United
States steamers Ossippee, Commander
Bruze, and Essex, Commander Schley, and
the United States monitors Ajax, Com
mander Eastman, and Lehigh, Lientenant
Durand, have sailed for Norfolk.
MUBDEBBD BY BOBBEBS.
Mobbistown, Pa., June 2.—Two bnrglars,
while entering the honse of Samuel Roder,
at Blue Bell, Montgomery eonnly, last
eight, were surprised by Mr. and Mrs. Ro
der. A scuffle ensued, during which one of
ibe thieves shot and instantly killed Mrs.
Roder. The men are at large.
PAST SCHEDULE.
Wilmington, N. C., Jane 2.—The fastest
schedule oi the Wilmington and Weldon
Railroad goes into effectjto-morrow. The trip
from Wilmington to Weldon will be made in
about five and a half hours, the stoppages
on the entire road of one hundred and sixty-
two miles being limited to fourteen minutes.
BELEASSD.
Memphis, Jnne 2.—A. Woodward, late
county trustee, arrested in San Franoisco
reoently, charged with embezzling $180,000
of the oouuty fuuds, was released from cus
tody this morning. His bondsmen have
paid some $40,000 or the amount.
THE WAR SUPPLIES.
New Yobk, June 2.—Four steamers sailed
for Europe to-day. Among their freight
were 170,000 bushels of corn, 70,000 bags of
wheat, 40,000 boxes of cheese, 2,000 bales of
cotton, 3,000 packages of butter, 2,000 cases
of canned goods, and numerous other items.
7RZN0H AFFAIRS,
Pabis, June 2.—M. Dnberdier, President
of the Municipal Council, wsb arrested last
night, charged with insulting President
MacMahon. Thirty-eight new administra
tive aDpolntments and ten dismissals are
published.
THE OOTTON SPINNERS.
London, June 2.—The cotton spinners of
Oldham have held a meeting preliminary to
a general meeting of the trade, to consider
the advisability of working on short time in
view of tbe depressed state of the trade.
BBIGAND CHIEF KILLED.
Palermo, Jnne 2 The brigand chief
Leone and his band were snrprised by
gendarmes in Aliminasa. Leone and two
followers were killed.
postponed.
Plymouth, Jane 2.—Tbe departure of
the chancel iiqnadron is indefinitely post
poned. The cruise will be confined to the
Xnglish coast.
BAILWAY accident.
Scranton, Pa., June 2.—Four passenger
trains were crashed on the Lehigh Valley
road. One person was killed and eight fatally
hurt.
A FORGERY.
Columbus, Ohio, Jnne 2.—Gen. Garfield
pronounces a letter originally published in
the New Fork Sun from Hayes to Garfield a
forgery,
BATES REDUCED.
Chicago, June 2.—The Lake Shore Road
has reduced its passenger rates to New York
to fifteen dollars.
PACKARD DANGEROUSLY ILL.
New Orleans, June 2. — Ex-Governor
Packard is dangerously ill cf oongestive
chill.
THE ELLENTON TRIAL.
Charleston, Jnne 2.—The Judge is still
waiting for the verdict in the EUenton con
spiracy case.
Atlanta, J une 2.—Dry, dusty and dis
agreeable weather still prevails, whieh
makes merchants look blue and farmers
“awfully down in the mouth.’ -
The drought, cut worm and cold nights
have played sad havoc with the yonng
and growing crops, and unless some re
lief is soon had the farmers will give up
in despair.
Although the figures show that Atlanta
has received from the West and Tennes
see an excess of 777,728 pounds of hog
meats during the past four months over
same period last year, thereby indicating
that our farmers are not raising their own
supplies, new blocks of stores are being
erected here in a style suitable to “flush
times.”
But the meat question is not the only
indication of a ruinous policy. Farmers
who raised an abundance of corn
last year, but sold it for about fifty cents
a bushel, are now paying over a dollar a
bushel for corn not as good as they sold
months ago at half that price. Is it pos
sible to prosper under such a reckless
policy ?
CITY NEWS GOSSIP.
Judge John Co lier and Major George
Hillver are spoken of as the most promi
nent lawyers to fill the place made vacant
by the death of Judge Peeples. As Major
Hillyer has a large and lucrative practice,
with ott er important business interests
demanding his attention, I doubt if he
would accept the appointment. Judge
Collier is more likely to be the man, if
either is appointed.
“R. B. Bullock” is all the record that
ex-Governor Bullock placed upon the
register of the Kimball House, where he
is now stopping, and curious persons, as
they read it, say, “Ah !” This is inter
preted as meaning that they are in donbt
as to whether Bullock belongs in New
York or has come back to Georgia to
stay.
At all events, lie is in fine condition
and gcod spirits. He arrived yesterday
noon, and after dinner called at the Capi
tol and paid his respects to Gov. Colquitt,
and also made known to Attorney Gen
eral Ely that he was here and ready for
trial. I endeavored to “interview” him
at the Kimball House, but ho declined to
discuss his affairs. I learn from promi
nent officials here, however, that the
cases will probably all be not prossed, or
continued by the State, for want of evi
dence to convict. Bullock will press the
matter to a final issue.
DEATH OP JUDGE PEEPLES.
The death of Judge Cincinnatus
Peeples, which occurred at ten o’clock
last night, from Bright's disease of the
kidneys, was not unexpected in this com
munity, as the deceased has been in
feeble health for months past, and un
able to attend to his judicial duties. His
associates of the Fulton bar meet to-day
to pay the usual honors to his memory
and arrange for the funeral.
Few men were more respected in this
State than Judge Peeples, whose many
noble traits of character had endeared
him to all classes of men with whom he
had occasion to associate. He resided,
at different periods, in G.inesville, For
syth, Athens and Atlanta, in all of which
cities he has left “works” that will praise
him within the “city gates” and keep his
memory green in grateful hearts.
Savannah should revere his memory for
his noble advocacy, while a Senator from
Clarke county, of measures looking to the
improvement of State institutions, and
for his earnest efforts in behalf of the
completion of the Atlantia aDd Gulf
Railroad, running as it does through a
section of the State in which be had
never lived, and in whose prosperity he
could have bad no mere personal interest.
Despite his feeble health in late years,
Judge Peeples, dying ere ho had reached
the age of fifty, has left behind a record
full of industry and starred with noble
achievements for his State and his raoe.
PINAL NEWS PABAOBAPHS.
The Thirteenth district sends two
preachers as delegates to tho proposed
Constitutional Convention, Rev. George
F. Cooper, of Sumter, and Elder John li.
Respess, of Schley county.
The latter gentleman is a Primitive
Baptist preacher of marked culture and
rare ability, and there will be few coun
ties in the State represented by a clearer
headed or more polished delegate than
Elder Respess.
And it is settled that we are to have a
convention. Even the leading Radicals
are obliged to confess that opposition to
the measure is uselees, as the people are
determined to s- cure honesty and econo
my, and retrenchment and reform through
the sute means of a new constitution.
The strictures on Judge Hayden, in the
oaid headed “Honor to whom Honor ia
Dne,” were uncalled for, as he had al
ready corrected the error referred to, and
for which he was in no way responsible.
He is an old and respected citizen of At
lanta, although now residing iu Florida,
and this card does him great injuxtlce.
The family did all that they were ex-
peoted to do for Jake Stafford while in
jail, and always believed him innocent.
It was not the business of Judge Hayden
to do more than jhis, and the public here so
understand. I reported the facts in the
case, and did not praise Mr. Jeffries
above Mr. Glenn, as I heard the latter
gentleman's argument complimented as
highly as that of the former. I try to do
justice to all parties.
Judge Bradley (8 x 7) *has come and
gone as quietly as a geniie fall of snow in
the night. Nobody got excited, hardly a
score of persons visiting the court room
at anyone time, and the noted President
maker was undisturbed in a peaceful flow
of judicial business by a crowd of specta
tors anxious to see so noted a personage.
In response to telegrams from interest
ed parties, Judge Bradley deferred action
in tbe Florida railroad cases, which be
was expected to act upon here on Wed-
nesday, until he reaches Mobile, Ala.,
where he is to hold court this week. The
motions will then be heard by him, in
case they are not withdrawn.
A historian of Atlanta, in the last New
York South, states that all msnufactur
ing enterprises about this city are pros
perous except the soap factory. “This,”
he says, “has not been entirely success
ful.” Some people might call this a
dirty fling at our people. But worse than
this, he follows up the “poison water”
scare with the statement that “a coffin
mannfactory, established a few months
ago, has already developed into a large
and successful enterprise.” I only under
take to say that this is a grace joke, and
perhaps I ought not to re-hearse it here.
Chatham.
Washington—The Changes or Sixteen
Years.
Washington, May 30.—Editor Morning
If sics: I arrived in this city about two
weeks ago, after sn absence of sixteen
years, and I propose briefly to notice some
of the changes which have taken place in
the “city of magnificent distances” daring
that time. On Pennsylvania avenue and
other principal streets the plain, sub
stantial brick buildings of sixteen years
ago appear, to a person riding in the street
cars, to have been transformed into
stately palaces trimmed with brown stone
and marble, elaborately carved, which
upon inspection proves to be galvanized
iron, so skillfully painted in imitation of
tbe more enduring material as to deceive
the casual observer, while t' interior of
the buildings remain as thej j. Near
ly all the vacant lots of sixt - years ago
on Pennsylvania avenue, ana the princi
pal streets, are now ornamented with
buildings of neat and imposing appear
ance, and all elaborately trimmed with gal
vanized iron.
The old, rambling board shanties,
called market houses, at the oorner of
Seventh street aDd Pennsylvania avenue,
an! in “The Northern Liberties,” have
disappeared, and are replaced by sub
stantial, conveniently arranged and com
modious buildings, every way adapted to
the purposes for which they were in
tended, but they are no better supplied
with the necessaries or luxuries of life
than were the old shanties, and
very few of the stalls are now occupied
by the same persons who occu
pied them sixteen years ago. The same
is true of the places of business in every
part of the city, not one in fifty being
conducted by the same parties now who
conducted Jhem then. A few have made
fortunes and retired from business, a
large Dumber have failed and left the city,
and a much larger number have died.
The capitol grounds have been en
larged, the beautiful English elms and
silver leaved poplars have disappeared,
and the grounds are now under
going a process of radical recon
struction. The beautiful naval monument
at the entrance on the west side of the
capitol building has also disappeared, and
a new movement is being erected in
Pennsylvania avenue, near the western
entrance to the Capitol grounds, which,
when completed, will doubtless be a mar
vel of artistio skill and beauty. Two
colossal figures, one said to represent
History and the other America, have al
ready been placed in position. America
is reclining on the bosom of History and
weeping. What she is crying about
seems to be a question not definitely set
tled. Some say she is mourning the loss of
her naval heroes, and others that she is
weeping because of the decline of our
navy and the destruction of our commer
cial mnrine, which has resulted from the
ruinous policy which has been pursued
by the party in power for the last sixteen
years.
Sixteen years has made no change in
the Washington Monument. Not a stone
has been added to it since the memora
ble night (not day) when a ’ Know-
Nothing mob destroyed the head
stone sent by the Pope as a contribution
Lo the erection of a monument by the
people of the United States in honor of
the ‘’Father of his Country.” And now
a ring has procured a sham report from a
so called board of engineers that the
foundation of the structure is incapable
of sustaining nny additional weight, and
therefore the best that can be done is to
take (he matter cut of the hands of the
Monument Society and turn it over to
Congress and give the ring a con
tract to procure a new site
and erect a new monument, which
will cost the people untold millions
of dollars, the lion’s share of whieh will
find its way into the coffers of the ring.
A fair sample of the operations of the
ring politicians, by which the people's
money is transferred from the Treasury
to the pockets cf men who ought to be in
the penitentiary, occurred only a few
days ago in this city, by which a paving
contract of some #150,000 was let for
#42,000 more than responsible parties
proposed to do the work for, all of which
will be thoroughly ventilated in due time.
Sixteen years has brought about an
other very remarkable change. A news
paper printed south of the Potomac can
not be found in any book Btore, news
depot or hotel in the city of Washington;
the consequence of which is that no news
from the South reaches this city until
after it has passed through the process of.
manipulation, habitually aDd systemati
cally employed, by tho conductors of the
press in Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia
and New York.
Another change is that a majority of
the seats in the public parks are occupied
by seedy, dilapidated looking negroes,
while the passages in the government
department swarm with elegantly dressed
and apparently well fed mulattoes, who
are known to be drawing the pay and
supposed to be discharging the duties of
messengers.
Washington being supported almost
exclusively by officeholders and shoddy
contractors, it may safely be said that it
is about finished and ready to he fenced
in and painted. Savannah.
CHRISTIAN COMFORT.
We knew it. We knew we should boob
hear again that Nicsic had been re vic
tualled. Next tbe dreadful Ssouptchina
will break upon onr ravished ears.—Mew
Orleans Times.
Attempts at Suicide.—Two attempts
St suicide were made by women in the
cells at the Washington City central
guard-house on Monday night. The first
was by Lizzie Wilson, a low character
from Baltimore, by trying to haDg her
self with a handkerchief. She was dis
covered ju<-t as she was choking, having
tied the handkerchief around her neck
and to one of the bars in the cell door.
About two hours afterwards Eden Ale,
who was in the opposite cell, attempted
suicide by setting fire to her dress. The
fire was put out before she was much
damaged.
Getttno a Good Hand.—The London
school board is laying great stress upon
the necessity of its scholars acquiring a
good style of penmanship. This is quite
proper. Many a young man has got
(from bankers and others) large sums of
money by means of slever handwriting.
It is tree that soma of these yonng men
have also got a term of penal servitude
afterwards—but that was because they
did the ifrita thing in the wrong p!
Bra Boiler !• Pitkin In Ills Ilaor of Trial
—A Sarcastic lodoroemeot of the Sioolta-
ern Policy.
A New York Folly.
The new State House at Albany, N. Y.,
is the finest example of that architectural
folly the people of this oonntry have
been addicted to to be found in the land
—unless we except the Macoupin county
(Ill.) court house. It was to have cost
#4,000,000, but there has been actually
expended on it upto this time $7,723,000,
and it is estimated that to complete it
on the original plan will require $5,000,000
more—making the total cost $12,723,000.
The edifice covers three acres of ground;
there are to be six elevators for hoisting
members to their chambers, and a num
ber of dining halls and kitchans for their
accommodation when they are hungry and
thirsty. The expense of heatiDg, lighting
and cleaning the edifice is estimated at
$250,000 a year. And yet the structure
is now said to be a failure ; the walls and
pillars are so heavy as to darken the halls
and make the interior damp, and the
rooms are badly ventilated. Gov. Rob
inson. in vetoing the appropriation of
$1,000,000 for proseouting the work,
speaks of it as “a great public calamity,”
saj a it is more than twice as large as it
ought to be, and “is without a parallel for
extravagance and folly.” In fact, it is so
generally admitted to be a failure that
tbe idea cf abandoning it unfinished is
seriously talked of. It is argued that it
would not be worth the money needed to
complete it, and had better be turned
into a quarry to draw building material
from tnan carried to completion.—St.
fjouis Republican.
In reply to the letter of oomplaint from
United States Marshal Pitkin, of Lou
isiana, who is about to be decapitated.
Ben Butler writes a consolatory letter, in
which he says:
“One fault which I find with your let
ter is that you do not make sufficient
allowance for the political necessities and
entanglements by which good men are
compelled to do that which they would
rather not do. It is an open secret here,
as I am informed, that Col. Wharton,
your competitor, aided by Mr. MeVel
on* of the commissioners at N"~ n
leans, very largely in getting a port J
the members of the Republican LegiA—
turo to desert from Packard aDd go over
to Nicholls, by which a returning
board Legislature was put under the
oontrolof Nicholls; then that Legislature
enabled the commission to advise, that
as the Legislature had recognized the
Nicholls government, the President was
bound to withdraw the troops. It is also
asserted that $2,000 was to be paid to
leading deserting legislators, and only
$200 to the disguised, in the latter case,
in the shape of mileage; so that Mr.
Johnson, a colored man, speakiDg out of
the innocence of his heart, said on the
floor of the House that all he wanted was
to get his mileage and go home. It is
also assertod that Col. Wharton was the
instrument selected by Mr. McVeigh to
do this piece of businese, under his
promise of being made Marshal, if he
successfully accomplished it.
“Now, Wharton performed his side of
the bargain, and I think you are very un
reasonable in objecting that the adminis
tration should carry out their side of it,
or at least do the best they can so to do.
It ought to satisfy Wharton that they
have asked you to resign, and you won't;
and, therefore, they have done the best
they could to make good McVeigh’s bar
gain, and, as they can't, Wharton ought
to be satisfied; precisely like my friend
Gen. Garfield, who, having done his best
and succeeded in electing Mr. Stanley
Matthews to the Senate at the request of
the President, as it is said, on agreement
that the President would make him
Speaker of the House of Represeutatives
—will have to be, and ought to be, satis
fied with a fair, honest and hearty en
deavor on the part of the President to do
all he can to make him Speaker. If he
fails, Garfield will have nobody to blame
but himself for not remembering that ‘a
bird in hand is worth two in the bush.’
“Now, my dear Mr. Pitkin, I call upon
you by the love you bear the Republioan
party and its principles, in memory of
the many sacrifices you have made during
and since the war as a Union man in
Louisiana, for the safety of the country,
and not for the sake of holding office
under the United States, not to throw
any impediments in the way of the
President’s fulfilling all bargains which
hia subordinates made as necessary in
inaugurating his Southern polioy which
is to be of so great and incalculable ad
vantage—not only to the party whioh
you love so well, but also to tbe country
—for the unity and purification of which
you have given the best days of your man
hood. I write thus to you because I
thought I detected in your note what
seemed to be an unreasonable complaint
that you are to be sacrificed. Remember
that Abraham was about to sac-iflee his
only son Isaao, the ohild of his old age, to
what he believed to be the will of God
and the necessities of his people; and the
Good Book does not make mention of any
unreasonable complaints or outcries of
Isaac on that occasion; and so, w hen you
find that the President, in obedience to
the call of his oountry, and the public
exigency for its pacification, deems it
neoessary to sacrifice you and take away
your offioe, and give it to one who wore
the gray when you stood in blue, you
ought not to kick and squirm any more
tbau Isaao when he Jay upou the altar,
under the knife of his father Abraham.
I am sorry that I cannot write you any
other words of oomfort and oousolation,
but suob as I have I bequeath unto you.”
To this 'sarcastic letter Mr. McVeigh
has written a reply, from whioh wo ex
tract the following pointed paragraphs:
“Sib—I have just read your letter in
the New York Times. Your ‘informant’
happens to have told you the exaot oppo
site of the truth in every statement re
specting me.
“ Col. "Wharton did not aid rue at New
Orleans, but was one of the adherents of
tbe Packard Government to the end. He
did not manage or transact auy kind of
bu-iuess for me. He did not receive any
promise from me in respect to any office.
I have not asked the President to appoint
him Marshal. So much for that portion
of your letter.
“ Where I am known I do not need to
deny tbe silly story about the use of
money, or to declare it to be, as you well
know it to be, a base and cowardly false
hood. For those who do not know me
perhaps I ought to add that, apart from
any repugnance on my own part to the
crime, there were two practical difficulties
in tbe way of my committing it—I had
no rnoDey of my own to spare, and it is
only a military oommandant of New Or
leans in time of war who can safely ap-
propnate any considerable quantity of
the property of others to his own nse.”
Proposed Arctic Exploration.—An
ticipating that Congress at its Dext ses
sion will make the necessary appropriation
of $50,000 for the proposed expedition
to the Arctic seas, Cept. Howgate, of
the signal service, wishes to make this
summer such preparations as will facili
tate the starting of the main expedition
in tbe spring of 1878. He wishes to
sehd north a small vessel, under the com
mand of Capt. Tyson, formerly of the
Polaris, to gather the season sledges,
dogs, etc., which will be needed by the
expedition itself. To carry out this
plan, $9,000 to $10,000 must be raised
by subscription. A whaling outfit will
be provided, and it is believed that the
catoh of oil—whale and seal—will repay
the whole cost of the expedition. Capt.
Howgate appeals to the business men of
New York and elsewhere to help him to
raise the sum needed for the outfit. Only
$3,400 in cash is wanted; $500 of this
amount the Captain himself subscribes.
It is a curious hot that the tempersnoe
“Murphy movement” of Ohio is march
ing on eastward, having taken possession
ot many towns m tbe interior of New
York Sute. Its ohampions and oonverts
wear blue riboons in their button holes,
whieh oonspicuoos separation of
selvea from the world's
Tho “Mexican Question.”
The only Texas border raids of which
we bear are reported via Washington; the
Texas papers and the general press dis
patches are strangely silent about them.
We would complain less of the govern
ment monopoly of this exciting intelli
gence if the administration would be a
little more free in imparting its special
Texas news to the public. But it gives
us no particulars—only generalities. We
are told day after day that the border
outrages continue, but are without de
tails ot the numberof killed and wounded
or cattle stolen by the Mexican
raiders. The Cabinet are bolding daily
meetings to oonsider the “Mexican
question,” whioh has all at once become
the leading topio in government circles.
Though the people are kept in ignorance
of the causes and extent of the troubles,
it 6eems that tbe President and his ad
visers deem the situation on the Rio
Grande extremely critical, and are pro
ceeding to adopt those measures whioh
usually precede war. They propose, it
is said, to notify the Mexican authorities
that if they do not stop the forays of the
outlaws over the line the military com
mander in Texas will be instructed to
chase the robbers into Mexico and pnEish
them wherever found. If the border trou
bles were as serious as represented, and we
believe them to be greatly exaggerated—
they could best be quelled, as we have
often showD, by an active force of
mounted State troops. These Texas is
prepared to furnish, if tbe Federal Gov
ernment will pay a part of the whole of
the bills. But the administration is look-
ing about for something to divert atten
tion from its political perplexities, and
also to supply work for au army which
has nothing to do and no excuse for
being; and this “Mexican ques
tion,” if not invented, ia magni
fied out of all due proportions
for the purpose. Mexico is too poor
and waak to fight us. War with that
povyor is iut imminent as it would be if
she were united and strong. She will not
resent the invasion of her soil by Ameri
can troops in pursuit of thieves, and she
would cheerfully pa,’ if she were able for
damages inflicted on the Texans by her
predatory bands. It is not a coming
needless war against which we deliver our
warning, but the movement to keep up
the army to its present force and to main
tain the old appropriation bills. That is
the chief object of raising tho “ Mexican
question ” at this tima.—Mete York Jour,
nalof Commerce.
“Do you drink?”
of the Woman’s '
Union to tbs
JmIom of o Grave.
John Ducboslay was s Bohemian from
Bohemia, and not one of tbe wandering
tribe who have taken the name Bohe
mians. Ducboslay was a prosperous
tailor. A few years ago he mimed a
widow, and tried his best to make her
forget her former husband. But the wo
man had a memory that would not be
blotted out by any amount of present
living affection. She was in the habit of
visiting her first husband’s grave and
strewing it with flowers and watering
them with her tears. Ducboslay did not
like these marks of undying affection in
his wife. They were uncomfortable acts
and made him melancholy. The
other day the wife prepared
to go to the cemetery to make
her customary offerings of flowers and
tears at the tomb of her first spouse.
She asked her husband to go along with
her and participate in these memorial
exercises. Ducboslay refused to go, and
appeared to be more than usually annoy
ed at the request. The wife went alone,
and did what she doubtless thought was
her duty, as well as tbe bent of her heart.
Duchoslay went into his room, and bolted
the door upon himself. When the wife
returned froth celebrating her memorial
day she found said room door locked,
and could get no answer from within.
The door was forced, and there hnng
Duchoslay by a skein of black thread to
the top of a wardrobe, quite dead. Du
choslay was jealous of a grave. Mrs.
Duchoslay abandoned a living husband
for the memory of a dead one, and tbe
result is she has two darling graves now,
upon whioh to bestow a wealth of flowers
and tears. Her cup of happiness ought
to be full.—St. Louis Republican.
Who Made Onr Present Constitution.
For the edification and information of
some of our anti-convention friends, we
give the names of some of the crowd
that made the present Radical military
constitution of Georgia:
G. W. Ashburn. J. E. Blount, Jno.
Bryson, of North Carolina.
Foster Blodgett, of Georgia.
John E. Bryant, N. P. Hotchkiss, C.
C. Richardson, Simon Stanley, F. ®.
Welsh, of Maine.
R. B. Bullock, Henry G. Cole, of New
York.
Goorge F. Burnett, of Tennessee.
J. C. Carson, of Maryland.
Walter L. Clift, Samuel F. Gove, of
Massachusetts.
Benjamin Conley, of New Jersey.
Charles D. Davis. A. L. Harris, E.
ltigbee, of Vermont.
W. L. Goodwin, cf Ohio.
John Harris, of Pennsylvania.
The above are the names of a few
the vultures who came to Georgia after
the war to develop the resources of the
country. Then we had thirty-six ne-
grses in the convention, headed and con
trolled by such colored individuals as
Aaron A. Bradley, Mose H. Bentley,
Tunis G. Campbell, William Gilford,
Philip Joiner, Romulus Moore, and oth
ers of the same stripe. Besides the
thirty-six negroes, there were ninety-two
delegates in the convention that were not
native Georgians. Are the people willing
to live under such a constitution, made
by such a crowd as composed the conven
tion of 1888 ? If they are, we are de
ceived, but will cheerfully submit to the
will of the people.—Griffin Mews.
I.
of
A person who definitely calls himself
an “American citizen” has addressed to
Mrs. Hayes an open lotter decorated by
these mouth-filling expressions: “Wash
ington society of late years has largely
given tone to political society throughout
the country. For some years past Wash
ington society has been as bad as polish
ed society can well be. It has oorrupted
publio morals and fostered dissipation
everywhere. This is a terrible charge to
prefer against those usages and cere
monies which the President's wife largely
controls. By its extravagance it has done
muoh to produce individual bankruptcies
and general distress. It is not easy to
estimate tbe financial, social and moral
mischief that has sprung from a debauch
ed society at the national capital. I am
sure, madam, that I speak for thousauda
of thoughtful citizens, without respect to
‘party, in thanking you fervently for the
immense, the incalculable good to the
oountry which will be wrought by the so
cial reform you have inaugurated."
Baltimore has a strange case of mania.
Capt. J. Frank Lewis is a member of tbe
Oity Council of Baltimore and is a very
popular man. The other night ho went
to his lodge of Knights of Pythias, ap
parently in good heal h and spirits.
During tbe session of the lodge he rose to
his feet and it was supposed be was going
to take part in a discussion. But he said
nothing and kept his fe-t without chang
ing his position for an hour and a half,
until the lodge closed. Then some of hia
friends spoke to him, but he was dumb.
He would not leave the hell, and his con
dition became alarmiug. Physicians were
sent for. He was with great difficulty
overpowered and carried out of the hall
and taken home and put in bed. He was
afterwards taken to an insane asylum.
His case attracts a great deal of attention
among the members of the medical pro
fession who are acquainted with all the
systems. They call it acute mania, but
are at a loss how to treat it.
Aems Landed in Cuba.—A quantity of
arms and ammunition was recently landed
in Cuba and is now in the hands of the
insurgents. These supplies were sent,
some moLtlis ago to Greenville, N. J, t
where they were secreted in the house of
a German gentleman. Tbe Cubans sub
sequently learned that Spanish detectives
were aware of their plans, and according
ly they took no Bteps to ship the conceal
ed articles. Lately, however, they suc
ceeded in placing the supplies on board a
lug at Bayonne, from whieh they were
transferred to a schooner, which took
them to Florida, where a small craft con
veyed the cargo to its destination. After
landing its cargo tho oraft set sail for Ja
maica, where it arrived safely, evading at
night a Spanish cruiser. The insurgents
rejoioed greatly on receiving the arms and
ammunition.—AT. Y. Tribune.
A new coating for the bottoms of iron
ships consists of brown paper attached
by a suitable cement. It is said that
weeds and barnacles will not adhere to
paper, and that the upecjal cement by
which the paper is secured may be ap
plied cold, hardens under water, is
unaffected by comparatively high tern -'
perature, and possesses great tenacity.
A plate thus protected on one side has
been immersed for six months, with tbe
result that the protected side was found
clean, while the unprotected metal waa
covered with rust and shell fish.
It was Sunday evening, and tbe party
were playiDg at cards in m Harlem bar
room. They quarreled, and John Speil-
man stabbed Culeb Delos Weeks thirteen
times. In General Sessions on Monday,
Judge Sutherland said, “It seems to me
that the grand jury took the law into
their own hands when it refused to indict
the prisoner for murder,” In the same
court, yesterday, a witness testified that
the proprietor of thetarroom held Weeks
while Speilxaan stabbed him. Yet the
jury’s verdict was, “not guilty."—AT. Y.
Sun.
A naughty student ot Rochester Uni
versity has made Prof. O. H. Robinson
very unhappy. The publishers of thirty
or forty newspapers received a postsj
card with this message : “Please sand
daily for one year. Will remit goon.
Addreas Prof. O. H. Robinson, Roches
ter University.” The processor was
somewhat alarmed when be found these
newspapers swelling his mail every
morning, and still the wonder grew when
bills for the yearly subscription were,
presented.
War helps a great many trad’jp. a pa
per concern in Ohio has au order for two
hundred and fifty tons o£ paper for cart
ridges for Turkey, suit*, a Pennsylvania
town is shipping .bent six hundred tons
to Europo as fast as it can be made, also
for cartridges.
He was making a call, and they were
talking of literature. “ The Pilgrim’s
Progress,” she remarked, “alwaysseems
to me painful. Ot oourse yor. have read
Bunyan ?” He aaid he had one on each
foot, and they troubled him a good deal.
—Moneich Bulletin.
There is trouble in tbe usually happy
Republican family of Ohio. Acting Gov.
Irnor Young has been kept busy travel
ing between Columbus and Washington
to oonfer about the situation with the
Fraudulent President.