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p^t’ Savannah. Ga.
Affairs in Grorffifl.
i I >vJ Hotel, of Macon, situated
L^r corner of Mulberry andThird streets,
hitha crash on Monday afternoon about
f‘ :l *’ viock. l hc property was owned by
r CI . ", D mpsty. and at the time ot the
Fden t "workmen were engaged in making
“' ’i i r, i airs. The building was a three
D<?e ! r ick sTncture erected some thirty or
fnr .v rears ago*
The’Her- i: bcrt F - Jtekaon, Jr., the new
. "fe;. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Macon,
. , rl naliy on the discharge of Ilia
BfnR* LU
Sunday morning.
Tjjp ttlania correspondent of the Coinm-
L u writes tliat a now daily will
| k ,k appearance iu the former city
..'k: Tiiura 1 i\. or tbo succeeding Monday
■ I will be called tho Atlanta
| and will be edited by 13. F. Sawyer,
Lf Borne, who says he has $12,000 snb-
' j, and that “tho ainonot is daily in-
|crci?i D £*
AflR nstian8 arc now ploughing the waters
L , the ragiuff canal in boats propelled by
I team, anil Mr. Armstrong is experimenting
u.tba view to supercede horse, mule and
■ ; wer. Several gentlemen, including
I. r , took a ride up the canal in the
| % tic steamer Monday afternoon. They are
* * t jjti e d that small steamers will be able to
|v:rk with advantage on the canal.
Mr. Whit Davis, formerly Sheriff of Tick-
| enJ county, is the contractor on tho new
Imiilroute from Gumming to Jasper. Ser-
|Tice is to £° on the first Friday in Septem-
Iber next.
A lightning rod peddler was struck by
J i^btoiog and knocked out of his wagon io
I Washingtcn county on Tuesday ]&9t« So
I «o learn from the Sandersville Herald. He
l n9 R ot killed, but it looks as if he was
••hoisted with his own petard.”
Mm i; ere, a grown sou of Mr. J. Reese,
J of Lincoln county, went in bathing with
| Several other young men last Sunday, in the
mill jM.nd of Mr. Seaborn Mosely, and was
I drowned, lie had swam across the pond
I twice and was swimming too third time,
when ho was attacked, it is supposed, with
I cramp*.
Dr. Georgo I). Couch, of Baker county,
| who weut to Washington city some time
it 0j fur the purpose of being examined by
the United States Commissioner of Surgery,
passed the board all 0. K. and secured a
I position in the Navy Department.
Agomlemau who lives near Monroe, in
Waltou county, killed an eel one day las*
| week measuring thirty-two inches in length
and seven inches around the body. While
| crossing a little stream of water he discov-
, eredhia eelship in the water and throw a
plow, which ho carried in his hand, at it and
hDed it.
Mr. P. II. Brewster has retired from the
editorship ot the Cherokee Georgian, pub
lished at Canton, and tho editorial tripod
will be occupied by Mr. Q. J. O’Shields and
D. F. Payne.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger an-
j nounccs the death of Mr. John Jeffers,
which sad event took place Monday morn-
in;: : “He was a member of the First Geor
gia Battalion, aud served with them twelve
months. IIo was one of the number of
Bragg’s command, at Pensacola, that en
gaged in the famous dariDg expedition on
Santa Kosa Island against Fort Pickens, in
the e&riy part of the war. He afterwards
joined the Oemulgoe Rangers, under Oapt.
T. G. Holt, and was badly wounded in tho
leg at the battle of Chicamauga. He suf-
fered great pain fiorn the wound, until near
■ four vears after the close of the war, he was
compelled, to save his life, to submit to the
amputation of his leg. lie died fromgon-
j eral debility, which followed.”
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutiona
ls says: “Last Suuday morning the passen
ger train ot tho Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad, coming south, ran over a
young white inau named Dick Arthurs at
Gramteville, ami completely severed his
heal from bis body. Subsequent investiga
tion showed that the man had a bullet hole
through Lis head. This led to the suspi
cion that Arthurs had been murdered aud
then placed on the track, in order that tho
train might run over the body and thus
avert suspicion.”
The Augusta and Macon delegations to the
* 08la! Convention, which meets at Old
lomt Comfort, Va., to-day, left Monday via
the Chari t:e, Columbia aud Augusta Raii-
[, * -I,be Augusta delegation consists of
the following named gentlemen: J.
Black, W. E. Jackson, D.
L. bright, Z. McCord, W. Daniel, Pat
rick Wa^b, G,*o. w. Crane, J. V. H. Allen,
))■ W. M. Timb-rlake, John M.
Oar ;, M. A. Stovall, Geo. T. Barnes, W. T.
jades*, Jno. B. Moore, J. M. BurdcU,
Austin Mullarky.
The J' or.son Journal says : “Little Char
lie Carden, infant son of Mr. George Hill, of
this c .uuty, came to his death last Sunday
j -kut by an overdose of morphine auminis-
. d by ltd liurt-o. It seems that a bottle of
Qainioe was on the mautlepieco and another
|K)Uh- containing morphine was sitting near
oi l« e nurae » through mistake, gave the
mid an overdose of the morphine, which
faulted in its death about nine o’clock on
die night named above.”
Lh same paper has the following
ot a terrible death by acci-
ental burning: ‘-A little ten or twelve-
K-ar-oli daughter of Air. Joseph Mc-
' et ’ Representative of Dawson county
u* tbe , ^ tat0 Logislatnre, wont with
J!fu mo,her t0 m dk. After milking, her
mner gave her the milk, with the instrnc-
oa to take it to the house and strain it;
- e gomg by the waab-nJace to get some
1 lies. It being too dark to see to put the
ik away without a light, the little girl lit
af up and set it upon a chair near the ta-
»ana passing by it her dress caught on
(•.burning her clothes off of her, literally
hnn ^ * lbr a ^‘ ve * She ran out of the
tno.i 0 1 llie yard feQ ce, screamiDg for her
m «• r ’ ^ ut ^ er mother did not reach her
um 11 render her any assistance. She
dlcd almost immediately.”
P er lj* n County Hexes says: “The
dftd A ' y va ” EEKLY News has recently ad-
i? Lew fealur o to its already many
iicocies—that of an agricultural de-
I ^ent, aoly and carefully edited by Capt.
tr bryan, of Thomas county. The
a, EKI Y > Wll h its literary and agricultural
rpi!? 1r l V eill6 » an ^ its able corps of cor-
nrm?* entB from vari ous poiuts of interest,
i-s.;>nably makes it one of the best
weeklies published in the South.”
lni?« Lin # Co1 ? C0Qn, y on last Sunday the fol-
w i’. fata l shooting affair took place, in
c,r! C u a yoUD 8 man named Jim Martin shot
ivUied another young man from Abbe-
wern C0 ? nl *’ “I 5 seems that there
several youngsters together at or near
on,.?, • when three of them began a
the if tiie said Martin, advancing all
- Hue towards him, undone attempting
Dor£? W *r a p . igto1 or knife from his hip
to at ' -'J^hnkept retreating, telling them
in n °t want to fight. They
int. towards him, one saying we
V°, k ; in y°“. when Martin drew a
en “ t ; an ? ^ rc ‘d at one of them, the ball
thrnnii? '. a . 8 ^ a^ove the abdomeD, passing
njohf „ j 11 ™.* He lingered until Sunday
bon. . aQd ? led * The quarrel originated
T) ®°mething about a young lady.”
the ? of . the ^ewnan Herald has quit
the rnin* r , edltoria l for the higher work of
that inn* 8 ry ‘ 81ys tlie la8t issue of
Pastor nf D *t ]: .‘‘Having been appointed as
Bur^ churches in the Whites-
Pa.tnrif CU1 *’ ? r ?-entcr the work of the
§en Kr .,, ; wb ich is more congenial with my
ing;i”‘? B! 'y tli,u any ot(,er calling. Hav-
Ptct t ^ nt U "' Ilt y years iu the ministry I ex-
Cient ni^ ntl ^ ue in is as loDg as I have guSl-
■ eo ‘ Plivsical ability.
Wililant^Wo Gazelle sayB: “Judge
“eciion whose Dame in this
>n iv. .I*/ 7 ?? n , ym of 8t6rlin S integrily,
openn.i . , t<J 'Valthourville, where ho has
tiiataii r • ofli ce. It is needless to say
iot. a,ne . M entrusted to Judge Flem-
*‘ 1 Learnin eC . ive a '* tliat attention which
Jwuisb 5“®’ ‘alents and long experience can
H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
constitutional convention.
Eleventh liny*. Proceeding*—lteport ol
Elnnl Itevi.ion Committee on Exerulive
Uevnrtment— Important < hanxes—Bill
of Hiahl. Discussed nnd Amended—
Stirring Mpeeche. of Judse A. K. Wrl*ht
nnd Jndxe J. D. Jlnthews.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.3
Atlanta, July L';i.—Fresident Jenkins
called the convention to order at ten
o clock, pursuant to adjournment on Sat
urday, and prayer was offered by Hoy. E.
J. Henry, of Fannin.
After the reading of the minutes,
Colonel Guerry, of the Twelfth
district, moved to reconsider the
action of Saturday on section 8 of the
bill of rights. Captain Guerard, of the
First district, made a similar motion in
regard to another section, but the
motions were Voted down.
General Itob8rt Toomb3, Chairman of
the Committee of Final Revision, pre
sented the following report, which,
having been revised and reprinted from
its original form, as presented by the
sub-committee, I give to your readers at
this time. It lies over, however, twenty*
four hours, under the rule, before being
ready for the action of the convention :
EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINAL RE
VISION OF THE CONSTITUTION ON THE
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE EX
ECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Mr. Toombs, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Final Revision, makes the fol
lowing report:
ARTICLE rv.—EXECUTIVE.
Section I.
Paragraph I. Tho Executive Depart
ment shall consist of a Governor, Secre
tary of State, Comptroller General, and
Treasurer.
Par. II. The executive power shall be
vested in a Governor, who shall hold his
office during the term of two years, and
until his successor shall be chosen and
qualified. He shall not be eligible to re-
election after the expiration of a second
term for the period of four years. He
shall have a competent salary, established
by law, which shall not be increased or
diminished during the period for which
he shall have been elected: nor Bhall ho
receive within that time any other emol
ument from the United States, or either
of them, or from any foreign power.
Par. IIL The first election for Gov
ernor under (his Constitution shall be on
the first Wednesday in October, in the
year 1880, and biennially, thereafter, by
tho persons qualified to vote for the mem
bers of the General Assembly. Said
election shall be held at the places of
holding general elections in the several
counties of this State, in the manner pre
scribed for the election of members of
the General Assembly.
Par. IV. The returns for every election
of Governor shall be sealed up by the
managers, separately from other returns,
aud directed to the President of the Sen
ate and Speaker of the Ilonse of Repre
sentatives, and transmitted to the Secre
tary of State, who shall, without opening
the said returns, cause the same to be
laid before the Senate on the day after
the two houses shall have been organized;
and they shall be transmitted by the Sen
ate to the House of Representatives.
Par. V. The members of each branch
of the General Assembly shall convene
in the Representative Hall, and the Presi
dent of the Senate and th8 Speaker of
the House of Representatives shall open
and publish the returns in the presence
of tho General Assembly; and the person
having the majority of the whole number
of votes given shall be declared duly
elected Governor of this State; but if no
person have such majority, then from the
two persons having the highest number
of votes, who shall be ia life, and shall
not decline an election at the time ap
pointed for the Legislature to elect, the
General Assembly shall immediately elect
a Governor viva voce-, and in all cases of
election of a Governor by the General
Assembly, a majority of the votes of the
members present shall be necessary for a
choice.
Par. VI. Contested elections shall be
determined by both Houses of the Gen
eral Assembly, in such manner as shall be
prescribed by law.
Par. VII. No person shall be eligible
to the office of Governor who shall not
have been a citizen of the United States
fifteen years, and a citizen of this State
six years, and who shall not have attained
the age of thirty years.
Pvr. VIII. In case of the death, resig
nation or disability of the Governor, tho
President of the Senate shall exercise the
executive powers of the government un
til such disability be removed, or a suc
cessor is elected and qualified. And in
case of the death, resignation or disa
bility of the President of the Senate, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives
shall exercise the executive powers of the
government until the removal of the disa
bility, or the election aud qualification of
a Governor.
Par. IX. The General Assembly shall
have power to provide by law for filling
unexpired terms by a special election.
Par. X. The Governor shall, before he
enters on the duties of his office, take the
following oath, or affirmation : “I do
solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may
be,) that I will faithfully execute the of
fice of Governor of the State of Georgia,
and will, to the best of my ability, pre
serve, protect and defend the Constitu
tion thereof, and the Constitution of the
United States of America.”
Par. XI. The Governor shall be Com
mander-in chief of the army and navy of
this State, and of the militia thereof.
Par. XII. He shall have power to
grant reprieves and pardons, to commute
Densities, remove disabilities, imposed
herein, or otherwise, by law, and to re-
mit any part of a sentence for offenses
against the State, after conviction, ex
cept in cases of treason and impeach
ment, subject to such regulations as may
be provided by law relative to tho man
ner of applying for pardons. Upon con
viction for treason, he may suspend the
execution of the sentence, and report
the case to the General Assembly, at the
next meeting thereof, when the General
Assembly shall either pardon, commute
the sentence, direct its execution, or
grant a further reprieve. He shall, at
each session of the General Assembly,
communicate to that body each case of
reprieve, pardon, or commutation
granted, stating the name of the convict,
the offense of which he was convicted,
the sentence and its date, the date of the
reprieve, pardon, or commutation, and
the reasons for granting the same. He
shall take care that the laws are faithful
ly executed, and shall be a conservator cf
the peace throughout the State.
Par. XIII. He shall issue writs of elec
tion to fill all vacancies that happen in
the Senate.or House of Representatives,
and shall have power to oonvoke the
General Assembly on extraordinary occa
sions, and shall give them, from time to
time, information of the state of the
Commonwealth, and recommend to their
consideration such measures as he may
deem necessary and expedient; but no
law shall be enacted ot called sessions of
the Legislature, except such as shall re
late to the object stated in his proclama
tion convening them. „
Par XIV. When any office shall be
come vacant by death, resignation or
otherwise the Governor shall have power
to fill such vacancy, unless otherwise
provided by law; and persons so ap
pointed shall continue m office until a
successor is appointed agreeably to the
mode pointed out by this Constitution, or
by law, in pursuance thereof.
Par XV A person once rejected by
the Senate shall not be reappointed by
the Governor to the same office during
the same session, or the recess thereafter.
Par KVI The Governor shall have
the revision of aU bills, passed by both
Houses, before the same shall become
laws, but two-thirds of each House may-
pass a law, notwithstanding his dissent,
and if any bill should not be returned by
the Governor within five days (Sunday
excepted) after it has been presented to
him, the same shall be a law, unless the
General Assembly, by their adjourn
ment, shall prevent Us return. He may
approve any appropriation, and disap
prove any other appropriation, in the
same bill, and the latter shall not be
effectual unless passed by two-thirds of
each House.
Par. XVH. Every vote, resolution or
order to which the concurrence of both
houses may be necessary, except on a
question of election or adjournment, shall
be presented to the Governor, and, be -
fore it shall take effect, be approved by
him, or, being disapproved, shall be re
passed by two-thirds of each house, ac
cording to tho rules and limitations pre
scribed in case of a bill.
Par. XVIII. He may require infor
mation, in writing, from the officers in
the Executive Department on any subject
relating to the duties of their respective
offices. It shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor, semi-annually, and oftener if he
deems it expedient, to examine, nnder
oath, the Treasurer and Comptroller Gen
eral of the State on all matters pertaining
to their respective offices, and to inspect
and review their books and accounts.
The General Assembly shall have au
thority to provide by law, if existing pro
visions are not sufficient, for the suspen
sion of either of said officers, from the
discharge of the duties of his office, and,
also, for the appointment of a suitable
person to discharge the duties of the
same.
Section II.
Par. I. The Secretary of State, Comp
troller General and Treasurer shall be
elected by the persons qualified to vote
for members of the General Assembly, at
the same time and in the same manner as
the Governor; they shall be cornmis-
sioned by the Governor, and hold their
offices for the same time as the Governor.
Par. II. Their several salaries shall be
fixed by the General Assembly, but shall
not exceed the sum of t wo thousand dollars,
each, per annum, and shall not bo in
creased, or diminished, during the period
for which they shall have been elected.
Par. III. The Treasurer shall not be
allowed, directly, or indirectly, to receive
any foe, interest, or reward, from any
person, bank, or corporation, for the de
posit, or use, in any manner, of the pub
lic funds, and the General Assembly shall
enforce this provision by suitable penal
ties.
Par IV. No person shall be eligible to
the office of Secretary of State, Comp
troller General, or Treasurer, unless he
shall have been a citizen of the United
States at least ten years, and shall have
resided in this State at least six years next
preceding his election, and shall be at
least twenty five years of age when
elected. And the General Assembly may
by law require that any of said officers
shall give bond and security for the faith
ful discharge of their duties.
Par. V. The Secretary of State, the
Comptroller General, and the Treasurer,
shall not be allowed any fee, perquisite
or compensation other than their salaries,
as prescribed by law, except their neces
sary expenses when absent from the seat
of government on the business of the
State.
Section III.
Par. I. Tho Great Seal of the State
shall be deposited in the office of the
Secretary of State, and shall not be
affixed to any instrument of writing but
by order of the Governor or General
Assembly, and that now in use shall be
tho Great Seal of the Slate, until other
wise provided by law, which shall be im
pressed direc'ly upon the instrument to
which it is affixed, and not upon wax, as
heretofore.
Section IV.
Par. I. The Governor shall have
power to appoint his own secretaries,
not exceeding two in number.
Mr. Gignilliatt, of the Second district,
introduced an ordinance, which was re -
ferred to the Committee on Redaction of
Judicial Districts, providing for twenty
judicial circuits and regulating the time
of holding courts.
Mr. S. F. Keller, of the First district,
presented a minority report from the
Committee on Public Institutions, in re
gard to the agricultural and other bureaux,
and on motion both reports (the report
of the Chairman, S. W. Harris, abolishing
the bureau, was published several days
ago) were referred to the Committee of
Final Revision.
Mr. Perry, of the Seventeenth dis
trict, introduced an ordinance to legalize
and make valid certain decisions of the
Supreme Court.
On motion of Col. Simmons, of the
Twenty-second district, payment of one
dollar per day was ordered to several
subordinate officials.
Leaves of absence were granted Mr.
Robertson of the Thirty-fifth, Mr. Lof
ton of the Twenty second, and Mr.
Swanson of the Thirty-seventh district,
on account of pressing business or sick
ness.
Gen. Toombs then moved to take up
the report of the Committee on the Bill
of Rights for adoption, or amendment,
which motion prevailed.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINAL RE
VISION UPON THE REPORT OF THE COM
MITTEE ON BILL OF EIGHTS.
Mr. Toombs, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Final Revision, begs leave to make
the following report:
To perpetuate the principles of free
government; insure justice to all; pre
serve peace; promote the interest and
happiness of the citizen, and, through
the protection and guidance of Almighty
God, to transmit to posterity the enjoy
ment of liberty, ,we, the people of
Georgia, do ordain and 63tablish this
Constitution.
ARTICLE I.
1. That all government, of right, origi
nates with the people, is founded upon
their will only, and is instituted solely for
the good of the whole; that magistrates
are their trustees and servants, and at all
times amenable to them.
2. Protection to person and property is
the paramount duty of government, and
shall be impartial and complete.
3. All persons born, or naturalized, in
the United States, aud resident in this
State, are hereby declared citizens of
this State, and it shall be the duty of the
Legislature to enact such laws as will pro
tect every person in the full enjoyment
of the rights, privileges and immunities
due to such citizenship.
4. No person shall be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, except by due pro
cess of law.
5. All men have the natural and ina
lienable right to worship God, each ac
cording to the diotates of his own con
science, and no human authority should,
iu any case, control or interfere with
such right of conscience.
0. Every person charged with an
offense against the laws of this State
shall have the privilege and benefit of
counsel; shall be furnished on demand
with a copy of the accusation, and a list
of the witnesses on whose testimony the
charge against him is founded; shall have
compulsorv process to obtain the testi
mony of his own witnesses; shall be con
fronted with the witnesses testifying
against him, and shall have a public and
speedy trial by an impartial jury.
7. No person accused shall ba com
pelled to pay costs, except after convic
tion, on final trial.
8. No person shall be put in jeopardy
of life, or liberty, more than once for the
same offense, save on his, or her, own
motion for a new trial after conviction,
or in case of mistrial.
9 No law shall ever be passed to cur
tail, or restrain, the liberty of speech, or
of the press; any person may speak,
write and publish his sentiments on all
subjects, being responsible for the abuse
of that liberty. , . ,
10. The right of the people to be se
cure in their persons, houses, papers and
effects against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated; and no
warrant shall issue but upon probable
cause, supported by oath, or affirmation,
particularly describing the place, or
places, to t e searched and the persons or
things to be seized.
11. There shall be, within the State of
Georgia, neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, save as a punishment for
crime, after legal conviction thereof.
12. The social status of the citizen
shall never be the subject of legislation.
1”. The writ of habeas corpus shall
not be suspended.
14. Excessive bail shall not be re
quired, nor excessive fines imposed, nor
cruel and unusual punishments inflicted;
noc shall any person be abused in being
arrested, while under arrest, or in prison.
15. The power of the courts to pun
ish for contempt shall be limited by
legislative acts.
16. There shall be no imprisonment
for debt.
17. The General Assembly shall have
the power to provide for punishment of
fraud.
18. Banishment beyond the limits of
the State, as a punishment for crime,
shall not be allowed.
19. A well-regulated militia being ne
cessary fer the security of a free people,
the right of the people to keep and bear
arms shall not be infringed, but the
General Assembly shall have power
to prescribe the manner in which arms
may be borne.
20. In all prosecutions or indictments
for libel, the truth may be given in evi
dence, and the jury in that, and in all
criminal cases, shall be judges of the
law and the facts. Whipping, as a
punishment for crime, is prohibited.
21. No bill of attainder, ex-post facto
law, retroactive law, or any law impair
ing the obligations of contracts, or any
law making any irrevocable grant of
special privileges or immunities, shall be
passed.
22. In cases of necessity, private ways
may be granted upon just compensation
being paid by the applicant. Private pro
perty shall not be taken or damaged for
public purposes, without just and
adequate compensation being first paid.
23. All lotteries, and the sale of lottery
tickets, are hereby prohibited; aud the
prohibition shall be enforced by penal
laws.
24. Treason against the State of Geor
gia shall consist in levying war against it,
adhering to its enemies, giving them aid
and comfort. No person shall be con
victed of treason, except on the testimony
of two witnesses to the same overt act,
or confession in open court.
25. No conviction shall work corrup
tion of blood, aud no conviction of trea
son shall work a forfeiture of estate.
26. The legislative, judicial, and execu
tive powers shall forever remain separate
and distinct, and no person discharging
the duties of one shall, at the same lime,
exercise the functions of either of the
others, except as herein provided.
27. Laws of a general nature shall have
uniform operation throughout the State,
and no special law shall be enacted in any
case, for which provision has been made
by on existing general law. No general
law affecting private rights shall be varied
in any particular case by special legisla
tion, except with the free consent in
writing of all persons to be affected there
by, and no person under legal disability
to contract i3 capable of such free con
sent.
28. Legislative acts in violation of this
Constitution, or the Constitution of the
Cored States, are void, and the judiciary
shall so declare them.
29. The people have tho right peaceably
to assemble for their common goed, and
to apply to those vested with the powers
of government for redress of grievances,
by petition cr remonstrance.
30. The people of this State have the
inherent, sole and exclusiv e right of regu
lating their internal government, and the
police thereof, and of altering and abol
ishing their Constitution and form of
government, whenever it may be neces
sary to their safety and happiness.
Mr. Hammond, of the Thirty-fifth dis
trict, secured a grammatical correction
by transposition, in the preamble, which
will be discovered by comparing the
original with the perfected copy.
Judge Harrell, of the Twelfth district;
Hon. Joshua Hill, of the Twenth-eighth
district, and Judge Wright, of the
Forty-second district, reconstructed the
first section, anl the second section
passed without amendment. Judge
Wright proposed a new section making
lobbying a crime, defining its character,
and authorizing the Legislature to pro
vide punishment for it. He sustained
his position in a strong and vigorous
speech, in which he skinned alive the
lobbyists present. He subsequently with
drew his amendment, and will offer it in
a different form to-morrow momiDg. It
should be adopted.
Mr. Tuggle, of the Thirty-seventh dis
trict, Judge Mathews, of the Thirtieth
district, and Mr. Bass, of the Forty-second
district, amended the third section, aud
the fourth section was adopted without
change.
Colonel Ingram, of the Twenty-fourth
district, wanted to add a new section in
regard to trial by jury, but it was, on mo
tion, tabled, and the fifth section taken
up. This section created the liveliest
and most interesting debate of the morn
ing.
Judge Mathews, of ths Thirtieth
district, made a most eloquent, and,
in some portions, grand speech in
favor of more freedom in religious mat
ters.
Hon. Joshua Hill, of the Twenty-
eighth district, offered an amendment to
Judge Mathews’ amendment, and Mr.
Wells, of the Tenth district, desired to
change the words “all men” to “all per
sons,” but Mr. Pace, of the Twenty
seventh, said “inep” was a generic term,
and included women.
All amendments, on motion of General
Toombr, being tabled, ex-Attorney Gen
eral Hammond offered two additional
sections, which cover the points dis
cussed, and which were unanimously
adopted. This action changed the num
bering of the sections which followed,
and section six then became section
eight.
Mr. Ingram, of the Twenty-fourth
district, at this point moved that the
hours of meeting and adjournment be
nine a. m. and one p. m., and four and
seven p. m., but Gen. Toombs objected,
as the committees wish to hold afternoon
sessions, and the motion was withdrawn.
Mr. Bachlott moved to adjourn to 9
o’clock to-morrow, but it was voted down
with emphasis.
President Jenkins presented a commu
nication from New York bondholders in
regard to bonds, and Mr. Ellington, of
the Thirteenth district, introduced a me
morial from the citizens of Montezama,
both of which were referred to their ap
propriate committees.
Section eight (new numbering) was
then taken up, and Col. Warren, of the
First district, proposed to amend so that
persons charged with crime could be tried
separately when so desired. This propo
sition was, however, on motion of Judge
Bristow, of the Nineteenth district,
tabled.
The ninth section w«.s adopted, and
Mr. Key, of the Twenty-eighth district,
proposed to amend the tenth section
so that no man in a criminal case shall be
a witness against himself. Mr. Bass, of
the Forty-second district, also wished to
amend so that no man shall be allowed to
testify in any case in which he may be
interested. Both amendments were voted
down, and the section adopted.
Sections eleven, twelve, thirteen and
fourteen were adopted without change,
but section fifteen was amended, on mo
tion of Mr. Key, so that in time of peace
no soldier shall be quartered upon any
family, aud in time of war, only by order
of a civil magistrate. This amendment
was adopted by 63 yeas to 49 nays.
No changes were made in sections sixteen,
seventeen and eighteen, although a strong
effort was made by Mr. L. J. Winn, of
the Thirty-fourth district, to secure an
amendment to the eighteenth section, that
the Legislature shall provide by law for the
imprisonment of debtors who do not un
cover their property. Mr. Hunt, of the
Twenty-second district, opposed, and
Judge Augustus lteese, of the Twenty-
eighth district, favored, in a shorter
amendment, this proposition. Captain
Guerard, of the First district, made a
forcible speech in support of the measure.
He wants to go back to old-time princi
ples of honest dealing. Heel marks are
now in the direction of honesty, and he
wanted to reverse the order and have
toe marks point that way, even if the law
had to be evoked to make men face in
the direction of honesty. It was a sound
speech.
General Toombs suggested that the
convention had more important business
than making collection law3—that of es
tablishing great principles of fundamental
law. Let the Legislature attend to the
minor matters. On motion of Colonel
Nisbet, of the Twenty-eighth district, the
amendments were tabled and the section
adopted, as the nineteenth section pro
vides for the punishment of fraud.
Colonel Holcombe, of the Thirty-ninth
district, called attention to the fact that
the hour of adjournment (one o’clock)
had arrived, and the convention adjourned
to nine o’clock to-morrow.
It has been a rainy day, yet the galleries
were pretty well filled, and great interest
was manifested in the stirring speeches
of Judge Wright and Judge Mathews.
They are both orators of great force and
impressiveness.
The following report has been revised
and amended by the general committee,
and is now ou the Secretary’s desk for
the action of the convention :
r.EPOBT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINAL RE
VISION OF THE CONSTITUTION ON THE
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON COUNTIES
AND COUNTY OFFICERS.
Mr. Toombs, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Final lievision, makes the fol
lowing report:
ARTICLE I.
Section 1. Each organized county
shall be a body corporate, with such
powers and limitations, as may be pre
scribed by law, not incompatible with
this Constitution. All suits by or against
a county shall be in the name thereof;
and the metes and bounds of the several
counties shall remain as now prescribed
by law, unless changed as hereinafter
provided.
Sec. 2. No new county shall be created.
Sec. 3. County lines shall not be
changed, unless under the operation of a
general law for that purpose.
Sec. 4. Nobounty site shall be changed,
or removed, except by a two-thirds vote
of the qualified voters of the county,
voting at an election held for that pur
pose, and a two-thirds vote of the Gen
eral Assembly.
Sec. 5. Old counly organiza ions may
be dissolved and merged with contiguous
counties by a two-thirds vote of the
qualified electors of such county, voting
at an election held for that purpose.
Sec. C. The county officers shall be
elected by the qualified voters of their
respective counties or districts, and shall
hold their offices for two years. They
shall be removed on conviction for mal
practice in office, and no person shall be
eligible to any ot the offices above referred
to, unless he shall have been a resident of
the county for one year, and shall be
qualified to discharge the duties thereof.
Sec. 7. Whatever tribunal or officers
may hereafter be created by the Legisla
ture, for the transaction of county mat
ters, shall be uniform throughout the
State, and of the same name, jurisdiction
and remedies, except that the Legislature
may provide for the appointment of com
missioners of roads and revenue in any
county.
This report will be taken up aud acted
upon as soon as the bill of rights is com-
pleted'Rnd adopted. Chatham.
THE UP COUNTRY.
Slimmer Keaorm ef Georjria—A Pleasant
Land and n. Spicy l.etter.
[Correspondence of the Morning News ]
A case of alleged poisoning by tho
uilantus tree has been reported to the
New Haven Board of Health. The victim
is a girl of twenty, and claims to have
been poisoned while lying on a lounge
near au open window and looking at the
tree, distant some four yards. The
eruptions nearly closed one eye and
covered one side of her face and body.
This side was uppermost. The side she
was lying on was not affected. Regu
larly every time the tree flowers she
breaks out and sometimes the eruption
takes place when the leaves are shooting.
The odor of the tree is not stronger than
usual. The patient is not feverish and
has no increased pulsation. Her temper
is not affected, and she has a good appe
tite. The irritation is only on the surface,
and she has no other symptom of poison
ing. Trofessor Brewer,in the course of the
discussion which followed, said that, as a
rule, persons once poisoned by a plant or
tree were ever afterwards especially sen
sitive to it. He had seen in the newhpa-
pers cases of poisoning by the ailantus
tree, but had never known of a case in
his own experience. The tree had ex
isted in England about one hundred and
thirty years, and in France one hundred
and twenty years. It has existed in this
country for a long time, and thirty or
forty years ago was spread by the desire
for a quick-growing tree to take the place
of the elm, which was subject to ravages
by worm*. In Brooklyn an enormous
numbor of these trees were set out, but
afterwards cut down. The result of the
discussion was a vote directing the owner
of the tree to remove it, and ordering in
vestigations to prepare a basis of action
to be taken next year before the trees
bloom.
A Distressed Nobleman.—A tramp
came along the other day, and confided
to the impressible better half of a farmer
on the road tLiat he was a Count, who
was traveling through the country in this
humble way seeking a true heart which
he might win and take back with him to
share the revenue of his immense estates
in Italy. He begged that she wouldn’t
mention the fact, as it might interfere
with his cherished plan of being loved
for himself alone. She promised not to
say a word about it, and invited the
Count to stop with them all night, giving
him the best bed in the house and the
seat nearest the beefsteak at the supper
table. The meal was quite a revelation
to her in the matter of the table habits
of the nobility of Europe, but the dis
covery she made in the mprning was still
a greater eye-opener. His Lordship had
departed in the small hours, taking with
him, probably as cherished souvenirs, the
larger portion of the bed-linen, the farm
ers’ best boots, an old horse pistol, and
half a ham. He left a dirty, scrawling,
misspelled note, stating that he must
away, as his passionate longings for the
true heart of which he was ever in search
would not let h:m rest until they were
united. The farmer loaded his shot guD,
took the road, and was gone two days,
but didn’t find the Count. He must have
gone back to his estates in Italy.—Bridge
port Standard.
The Silver Question in America.—
While reticent as to the coarse he in
tends to pursue in preparing for specie
payments, Secretary Sherman has stated
very fully his views on the silver ques
tion, which is again coming into promi
nence. What Secretary Sherman appears
to propose is that the United States, fol
lowing the example of the Latin Union,
should make silver as well as gold a legal
tendtr to any amount, and seek to main
tain the two metals at an equal value by
restricting the coinage of whichever
one may become depreciated. And for
uch a proposal ther6 could surely be not
time less opportune than this. In face
of the diminished and fluctuating value
of silver, the artificial policy of the Latin
Union has completely broken down, and
it has only been by closing them against
that metal that these States have been
able to prevent their gold from being
driven out of circulation by an influx of
depreciated silver. Under a bi-metallic
system the coinage of full value will in
evitably be displaced by that which has
become depreciated, and the only method
by which gold and silver can be kept per.
manently side by side is by reducing sil
ver, as we have done, to the rank of a
“token,” or subsidiary coinage, available
only for payments to a small amount,
though still kept up to as high an in
trinsic value as circumstances will per
mit.—London Economist, July 7.
There is talk of erecting a memorial to
the painter Gainsborough, and the
London World suggests that “a bas re
lief representing the search for the miss
ing picture of the Duchess of Devonshire
would be most appropriate, and the
colossal figure of Gainsborough holding
aa empty frame would worthily crown
the monument. ”
Blue Ridge Mountains, Union Coun
ty, Ga., July 20.—From Savannah to
Gainesville along the railway, and then a
day of mountain staging, and you are at
the Porter Springs, a delightfully located
place on the southern and eastern slope
of the Blue Ridge. There are a number
of medicinal springs on the grounds,
which seem to be all that could be de
sired by the invalid or the pleasure seeker;
but finding the place rather over-crowded
at the moment, this writer, with several
other gentlemen, decide to relieve the
genial proprietor of their presence and
so struck out for a terra incognita across
the mountain range. Comfortable quar
ters and a kindly welcome were readily
found at the home of Captain Francis M.
Williams, a good Confederate soldier,
member of the Legislature aud King
Bee generally among the people of
this section. The place is located
in a little cozy nook upon the northern
and western side of the range, and at the
bead of the Tocoa river. The streams
here run north, the valleys open north,
up is down and vice versa, so that anyone
coming from tne south side of the moun
tains must stand on his head in order to
get things right. When one gets up in
the world, say three or four thousand
feet, is it not allowable to look down pa
tronizingly upon those in the low grounds
of sorrow yonder by the sea ? At all
‘ events, it is beyond expression pleasant
when one, who during many weary
months has had soul and body held to
gether only by the strong arm of that
veritable good genius, the “big medi
cine” man of Savannah, finds himself
able to go it alone, foot loose and fancy
free ; and so, also, it is a pleasant thing
when one who has long been harrassed
by business care3 and wearied out by
continued struggles with that fickle jade,
fortune, finds himself without the
“shop” on his back, free from all care
and toil, wandering at his own sweet
will, taking no thought for the morrow
and caring not a “tinker’s imprecation”
whether school keeps or not, whether the
Russians have captured Artichoke (?) or
if the Turkeys (perdition seiz9 them)
are gobbled or gobbling—well, then, just
this is the position of the writer hereof
at this present’moment.
As the mountains stand round about
Jesusalem, so they surround us here. On
every hand are knobs and ranges, from
the tops of which extended views may be
had for many miles in every direction.
All in among these peaks are little shel
tered nooks widening into fertile valleys.
There are beautiful streams and rapids,
and cascades and murmuring brooklets,
and bubbling springs of pure cold water.
The larger streams abound in the real
mountain (or speckled) trout, which are
not found in the streams just over the
mountains. It is the very backbone of
the State here, and vertebuo in the shape
of valleys and water courses divide just
here—on the one hand tending south and
east, on the other north and west; some
times the respective sources are so near
together that one can easily see both at
the same time.
There is good food in abundance and
living is very cheap. There is pure and
rich cream, milk and buttermilk, fresh
butter and delicious wild honey. There
are no locusts, but there is plenty of that
other evangelical food, chicken.
The mountaineers are a hardy race, and
friendly and hospitable to an extreme.
They are great walkers, will travel easily
many miles in a day, and the longest and
crookedest miles you ever saw. Their free
swinging walk is in marked contrast to
the shuffling gait of their prototype, the
low country “jracker.”
To the seeker after health, or real com
fort and*pJeasure, such places as this are
infinitely superior to the fashionable
watering places, and it passes this writer’s
comprehension how any sensible being
can go to Saratoga, for example, where
there is nothing to do but drink nasty
water and hold dress parade, nothing to
see but a lot of shoddy “trash” strutting
about like so many peacocks. However,
every one to his likiDg; there is room
for us all. Our Georgia resorts are
rapidly filling up, and year by year our
people are learning to be content with
that which is our own. We have here
mountain and valley, and seashore and
woodland, equal to anything on the At
lantic side of this continent. Shall we
not thea when we go abroad for change,
or health or pleasure, seek these near by
and leave our money among our own
kindred where it will do most good?
Any one who will look round Kim a little
may easily find all that he can desire
close at hand, better and cheaper and
more abundant, than at the more distant
resorts of those soi disant aristocrats of
the God and morality region. R.
Oriental Gambling.
[Condon Globe.]
The “gentle Hindoo” and “mild Mo
hammedan” have, it seems, invented be
tween them a perfectly novel sort of
gambling. In cne quarter of the inter
esting City of Ajmer there is a bouse oc
cupied by some soothsayers who are
credited by the public with the faculty
of foreseeing changes of weather. They
are represented to be remarkably accu
rate in their predictions, owing to long
practice m their profession. Outside the
residence of these worthy seers a crowd
of natives assemble every day for the
purpose of betting on the chance of a
downpour. After the “straight tip” has
been purchased from one of the prophets,
the buyer commences bellowing, after
the manner of “list men” on English
race courses, that he will take
or lay certain odds about the fall of rain
within a given time. The ordinary quo
tations are sixteen to one against heavy
rain comiDg down within twenty-four
hours, eight to one against a light shower
happening, and longer odds in both cases
as the time is reduced. When the
weather happens to be exceptionally va
riable. the whole street becomes blocked
by an excited throng of gamblers, and
the prophets do a smart business in
‘straight tips.” It appears that the seers
themselves very often join in the amuse -
ment, and back their respective opinions
with the greatest pluck. As the hour ap
proaches for the majority of the bets to
be decided, the more nervous gamblers
are heard offering their chances of win
ning at a heavy discount. This allows
the weather prophets an oppontunity of
hedging” at considerable advantage, and
it frequently happens that the book of an
old seer will show a certainty of gain,
whether rain falls or not.
A TORNADO IN NEW JERSEY.
Roofs Torn Off, and Hopscs Moved from
Their Foundations—A Barn Lifted as
Though It Had Been a Mere Balloon—
Devastation In the Track of the Storm —
Tree* Snapped Like Twigs.
The reader is not called upon to be
lieve the following romance of the fire at
St. John, N. B.: An Ohio woman, Mrs.
Mary Hale, age and residence unknown,
sent in a package of clothing destined
for the relief of the sufferers a suit once
belonging to her son, who had run away
from home some two years before. In it
she inclosed a note to the following ef
fect : “These are the clothes which
belonged to my dear boy, who, for aught
any one except God knows, may now be
suffering in the burnt city. May they fall
into the hands of some one who needs
them, and may some one else help my
son when he may need.” It is needless
to say that by return mail she received
the following letter: “Dear Mother—
Your offering and the letter inclosed came
direct to me, little as you thought they
would. I am very needy now, although
the old clothes, which are too small,
cover my nakednef . Should you think
it worth while to • aid me money enough
to bring me bacl to Ohio and the old
home, I will nevei give you or father any
more trouble by my waywardness. My
story is too long to write ; how I have
wandered daring the past two years, but
I am now heartily tired of it, and only
thank God that yonr line and the pack
age came to me as they did.” It is
needless to say that she sent the money.
One of the severest and most destruc-
j tive tornadoes that ever visited New Jer-
| sey swept over Elizabeth on Thursday.
A few persons in the lower wards, look
ing away to the southward, saw the
tempest sweeping over the fields and for
ests with extraordinary velocity. In an
instant the air was filled with tho rem
nants of broken house tops, dismantled
and ruined barns and outhouses, over
turned chimneys and flying birds, pieces
of fences, railings and overturned roofs.
All day the sky had been overcast with
thick, dark clouds, and from the zenith
soft dropping showers fell through a
leaden atmosphere. The shower was of
unprecedented power, and it was said by
many residents in the city that never be
fore had they seen such a tremendous
waterfall in so short a time. Soon the
rain ceased, and only a few large drops
pattered upon the pavements and the
streets. Every one thought that tho
storm had died away. In a moment
thereafter, persons in the street, looking
upward, saw the dark storm clouds gather,
and a lurid glow shone over the mass of
clouds. In an instant a heavy,
rolling, rushing sonnd was heard
in the far southwest, the for
ests toward Staten Island Sound bent
low, and a whirlwind of mud and broken
tree-branches and flying shingles were
hurled through the lower wards of Eliza
beth city. Persons in the street had
scarcely time to run hastily to their
dwellings before the whirlwind rushed
over them.* The tornado passed almost
in a moment, and at that time a scene of
devastation and ruin was left in its track.
Tho course of the tempest was not more
than one hundred or three hundred feot
in width, and its course from Staten
Island Sonnd to Newark bay was les3 than
five miles in extent. In the woods great
trees were snapped like twigs, and huge
branches were torn and swept through
the air. Fields of grain were borne off
and scattered in clouds for several miles.
As the storm approached the southern
limits of Elizabeth, it wrought its greate st
havoc. At the house of John Doran, car
driver, at 628 Elizabeth avenne, the
tempest passed between the house and
the rear yard, tearing the fences into
pieces. A coop of fowls in the extreme
rear of the yard escaped damage, while
the railing within a distance of a yard or
two was broken into splinters. At the
residence of Mr. Myers, next door, a
small rear house was broken and carried
away, and a clock in the kitchen was
borne from the mantel and shattered
against the opposite wall. Several win
dows were also broken, and the frag
ments scattered over the floor. A looking
glass was smashed into flinters.
“The storm,” said Mr. Doran, “came
up John street from the southeast, and
the first thing that it did, as I noticed,
was to take off the roof of John Nolan’s
barn, which is about three hundred feet
from here. The whole building was car
ried completely away, and fragments of
the roof and the posts and floors were
scattered all along the street for many
hundred yards. The tin roof, rolled up
into a ball, crushed over the tops of
several houses and landed in the centre
of my orchard. It struck on one side
and then turned a somersault and struck
against my piazza, knocking the floor
into a cocked hat and smashing the posts
into kindling wood. It swept all my fine
pear trees and garden truck, and you
could almost wade knee deep in pears
and green grapes after the roof struck.
You can’t form any idea of the force of
that roof. I wonder it didn’t take away
the whole house. That roof must have
been twenty-five by thirty feet in dimen
sions. It took eight men this morning
to lift it off my piazza, and then think of
a wind taking it three hundred feet above
the housetops. It was a shingle roof and
all whole when it sailed away.”
At the Eller House, at High street and
Elizabeth avenue, the wind swept through
the front hall, and, striking a heavy
panelled oaken door in the rear store,
knocked it into a hundred pieces. Not a
piece a foot in length could be found
after the storm.
The chimney of the Moravian Church,
about a hundred feet away, was torn
away, and the flying bricks were hurled
in every direction for three or four hun
dred feet.
On every siie, near the Eller House,
buildings had been raised from their
foundations and twisted in all directions.
Hundreds of men were employed, yester
day, with jack screws and other prop
ping irons in putting them back to their
original foundations. Fred Lind’s house,
in Seventh street, was almost completely
turned around from its site, but not a
beam or post or rafter was misplaced.
Mr. Lind’s barn was smashed into
kindling wood, and the pieces were dis
persed over many hundred feet.
When Mr. Nolan’s bam roof went off,
several persons who saw it sailing away
intact described it as a huge balloon that
appeared to be rising and falling and
diving in mid air.
At Richard Niew’s house, at High
street and Elizabeth avenue, a great
brick chimney was knocked into a hun
dred pieces, and the fine iron railing
sailed away after the bricks. Owen Far-
relly, &t 710 First avenue, saw his tin
roofing rolled into strings and fly away
toward Newark bay. Miss Nolan was
trying to dry shirts and other garments
on her line in her garden, at Second
avenue and High street. When the
whirlwind struck the clothes line, the
clothes and line went up into the air,
and sailed off a mile and a half to the
woods, near Newark bay. On the long
bridge over the bay, a party of fishermen
saw the clothes and clouds of shingles,
which they described as flocks of crows
rising and falling as they went on to -
ward the woods. Said one man: “ I
thought the sky was raining down all
sorts of underwear and any quantity of
old clothes and shingles.” Aside from
the more important changes along the
course of the storm were the uprooting
of numberless trees, the entire de
vastation of crops, and the destruc
tion of many fences, signs, roofs,
and lightning rods. Nearly the
whole heavy side board fence of a great
brick public school at High street and
Elizabeth avenue was overthrown and
borne nearly a block away. Mr. Egan’s
barn at High and Seventh streets was
lifted up and whirled almost entirely
around. It escaped with little damage.
A remarkable feature of the tempest is
that no one was injured, although several
persons had narrow escapes. In Mr.
Sauerbrun’s barn several children were
sporting on the hay only a moment be
fore the building was swept from its
foundation and utterly demolished. Mr.
Sauerbrun’s milk wagon was whirled
away, and when it was found there was
hardly a piece that had not been smashed
in fragments. In one place a coop of
poultry was taken bodily from a yard,
and the owner has not yet found a mem
ber of bis flock. Only one person was
greatly alarmed. A negro, who was going
along the road from Paterson, heard the
roar and saw the dust of the oncoming
hurricane. In great terror he clasped the
trunk of a tree and was tossed on every
side for a moment or two, but he main
tained his hold until the storm passed
away.
Rats Set a Steamship on Fire.
[San Francisco Chronicle.]
The Pacific Mail steamship Granada
! arrived yesterday from Panama. A rn-
mor was circulated yesterday that the
Granada was a few days ago ret on
iiro by one of the i hinese crew, bat a
Chronicle reporter, after a thorough in
vestigation, found the report to be un
founded. There was a fire, however.
At 3:15 a. m. on Monday last, while the
ship was beating against a heavy wind
and running sea about forty miles off
Point Concepcion, some Chinese
sailors, who were asleep in their
hammocks over the forward
hatch, were awakened by smoke. At the
same time the watch on deck discovered
dense smoke issuing from the hatch. An
agile Mongol ran abaft and informed
first officer Hart that the ship was on
fire. Simultaneously the boatswain, also
a Mongol, violently rung the fire-bell.
First officer Hart is afraid of fire. He
has been burned out several times, and
was on the Japan when that steamer was
burned off the Chinese coast about two
years ago. Qe has for years made it his
habit to have the hose placed on the deck
every night at eight o'clock. Pushing
forward he found that the ship was in
deed on fire. The Captain was instantly
notified, and Hart, seizing an axe, chop*
ped a hole in tho batch and called for a
small-sized volunteer. A Chinaman, stark
naked, sprang forward, and Hart ordered,
him to take the hose and go below and
extinguish the fire. The almond-eyed
tar bound a wet towel over his face and
obeyed with alacrity, and Hart, who is a
large man, enlarged the aperture and fol
lowed. Seven Chiu amen went down af
ter him like monkeys, and the pumps
were manned. The engine was stopped,
and, ceasing its task of driving wheels,
commenced forcing water. By this time
the passengers, alarmed by the unwonted
tumult and the clanging fire bell, were
hnddled. half naked, on the deck in a
panic. The women shrieked, and the
sterner sex felt decidedly shaky. The
exploring squad below decks groped their
way through the suffocating smoke to
the store-room in the foreLold, where
they found the fire. The pumps were
already working, and in three and a half
minutes after the alarm water was play
ing on the flames, and m three and a half
minutes more the blaze was extinguished.
The origin of the fire was certainly very
curious. In. the store-room was a barret
of matches in paper boxes. Rats are re
markably fond of phosphorus. This outre
taste caused the fire. It was found that
rats had gnawed their way through the
walls of the store-room and into the
matches, and in their nibblings at the
lucifers the attrition of their teeth ignited
them and created the blaze. Insurance
men state that the majority of the in
stances of fire by “spontaneous combus
tion” are really caused by rats nibbling at
matches.
The Nathan Mystery—The Insane
Coachman of the Family—An Im
portant Hint*
[From the Philadelphia North American, July 19.]
The Nathan murder in New York prob
ably evoked abortively as much detective
research as any cause celebre known to the
profession. There is a curious history
connected with the tragedy that has
never been printed, and that forms an
interesting study in connection with the
case. When the crime was still fresh in
the public mind a report was circulated—
and it was claimed by those who told it
that there was foundation far the rumor—
that the police knew the murderer and
had him in custody. The report was that
Mr. Nathan’s coachman was known to be
insane, and that his hallucination was
that Mr. Nathan owed him one hundred
thousand dollars. His peculiarities in
duced his discharge, and he got no other em
ployment. It will be remembered that the
murderer got into the bouse through the
area way. The coachman had been in the
habit of so entering the house surreptiti
ously. For several nights prior to the
murder the coachman had slept about the
wharves on the North river, near the
shipping. Nathan was murdered with a
“ship’s dog,” a heavy piece of iron used
on ships. In taking valuables from the
safe a lot of medals were taken. An ex
perienced criminal would have known,
besides furnishiag a clew to delect him
with, that they were base metal and
worthless to him; but they were just the
glittering bauble that would attract an
ignorant and insane person. The man
was arrested. He accounted for his
whereabouts for several nights before and
after the murder, but not for the night of
the murder. He was detained in custody
by the police sixteen days and then sent
to the asylum on Ward’s Island, but no
mention was made by the police even of
the arrest. It was rumored also that the
Nathan family, being satisfied that the
man was the murderer, and that no con
viction could follow on account of his
insanity, withdrew the reward, the police
consenting because a young man not con
nected with them, who worked this
branch of the case, claimed the large
amount of money offered for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer.
They are telling a new story of Ma-
cready. The great tragedian was playing
Macbeth in the provinces. The actor
who had rehearsed the Messenger in the
last act was found to be ataent when
called. A “super” was sent c n to speak
the Messenger’s lines : “As I did stand
my watch upon the hill, I looked toward
Bimam, and anon me thought the wood
began to move.” Macbeth: “Liar and
slave!” Super: 44 ’Pon my soul, Mr.
Macready, they told me to say it.”
Dr. Chapin says $150,000,000 are an
nually epent in New York city for spiritu
ous liquors. Dr. Chapin’s ohar&cter for
veracity is good, but he ought to furnish
the figures behind this calculation.
The Men Whom Hayes has Rewarded
for the Fraud or Counting Him In.
[From the Raleigh Observer.]
These are ths men, be it remembered,
who stole the electoral vote of Florida
from Mr. Tilden and gave it to Mr.
Hayes, and Mr. Hayes Knows the fact.
These are the men who committed,
knowingly committed, forgery and per
jury, and Mr. Hayes knows it. He is
obliged to know it. All the departments
of the government of the State of Florida,
her Legislature, her courts, and her
Chief Executive have at different times
examined and revised the aotion
of the returning board, and have
pronounced it false and fraudulent. To
suppose, therefore, that Mr. Hayes is
ignorant of the perjuries and the for
geries committed by this returning board
of Florida is to suppose him an idiot, and
that no man has yet charged him with.
Knowing, then, that these men are per
jurers, knowing that they are forgers, in
short, that they are scoundrels of the
deepest dye, what is Mr. Hayes’ treatment
of them. It is simply this : He assigns
to each one of them a position of high
honor and lnerative emolument. Ex-
Governor Stearns he makes Commis
sioner in charge of the Arkansas Hot
Springs Reservation, a position in which
he must handle hundreds of thousands of
dollars. McLin, the Secretary of State,
he makes Judge of the Territory of Utah,
and Cowgill, the Auditor, he makes Mar
sha] of the Territory of Dakota. The
only member of the board to whom ha
has not given both honor and profit was
that excellent gentleman the Democratic
Attorney General, Mr. Cocke, who so
strenuously protested against the villain
ies of his Radical colleagues.
Leading clergymen in the Church of
England have recently been interesting
themselves in the aims of the trades'
unions. They have held several con
ferences with the most intelligent repre
sentatives of the working classes, and
have also heard the arguments of the op
ponents of trades' organizations. Mr.
Donlton, cf the Lambeth potteries, told
them almost a fortnight ago that he con
sidered it unwise for the clergy to mix
themselves up with the existing contro
versies between labor and capital, the
employers and the employed, who were
subject to the laws which invariably
regulated all industry, especially that
of supp'y and demand. Their duty,
he said, was to deal with tne working
classes morally, and to elevate them
by religious influences. Trade unions
tended to reduce all workers—the best
and the worst—to one dead level, and he
thought it monstrous that any combina
tion should be formed, or rather any con
spiracy should be organized, by any body
of men against any man for making the
best use of his own gifts in the exercise
of skilled labor. Mr. Mnndella, on the
other hand, argued that the clergy could
not fulfil any of their sacred duties more
effectively than by acting as mediators
and peace-makers between the employers
and employed, by bringing capital and
labor face to face, and by urging arbi
tration aa a remedy for strikes and ail
disagreements. Mr. Mnndella was un
doubtedly right. A clergyman ought to
know what the working people in his
parish are thinking, saying and doing;
whether they lov6 their work or loathe
it: what they are dreading and hoping
for.—N. Y. Tribune.
When General Grant sailed away fr
Ostend, Britannia wiped her eye. a
remembering her Telemaqne, fane
herself Calypso, who ne pouvait se ci
soler du depart d’ Ulysse.—Globe De
•rat. O yea, but when the late li
Lemuel Strabosh sailed from Honol
for Pwitahokai, the Sandwichers,
membering their Pcikoh ametope
fancied themselves Blak&rapakecio
who kokcre nock pong de j acketack
nechesmatu periksdipredykei. This i
well-attested fact.—Burlington Haicb