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SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
“(O.nK UNTO ME.”
A sweeter song than e'er was sung
Hy i>net. pri**st or sages:
\ tv. >ng which thro' all Heaven has rung
Ami down thro* all the ages.
A precious strain of sweet accord.
A n..ie of eh**er from Christ our Lord;
*Li-t' as it viorates full and free.
O grieving heart, "Coine unto Me.
O wise provision, sweet command.
Vouchsafed the weak and weary;
A friend to find on either hand,
A light for prosjiect dreary.
A friend who knows our hitter need.
Of each endeavor taking heed;
Who calls to even- soul opprest,
‘ Come unto Me; I'll give you rest.”
“Come unto Me.” The way’s not long.
His hands are stretched to meet thee;
4 Vow still thy sobbing, list the song
Which everywhere shall greet thee.
Here at His fe.-t your burden lay.
Why m ath it bend another day.
Since One so loving calls to thee.
••Oh: heavy laden, come to Me?”
A sweeter song than e’er was sung
By poet, priest or sages;
\ s.'.ng which thro' uil Heaven has rung
And down thro* all the ages.
ll".v can we tu.n from such a strain,
i >r longer wait to ease our pain?
nil! draw us closer. Lord, that we
Mav find our sweetest rest in Thee.
Eleanor Kirk in Congregationalist.
Georgia Affairs.
The Constitution says: “The future of Atlan
ta as a manufacturing town is simply immense.”
N,, doubt of it, if the colored men of Augusta
don t raise the money and put up and set in op
eration their proposed factory before the long
delayed Atlanta Steam Cotton Factory turns its
year-old, silent spindles.
The Standing Committee of the Diocese of
Georgia unanimously consent to the consecra
tion of both Drs. Eccleston and Seymour as
Bishops of West Virginia and Springfield. Ill.,
respectively.
About eight o'clock Tuesday night the large
blacksmith and wheelwright shop belonging
to Kev. W. H. Thomas, at Waycross, one mile
east of Telwauville, was discovered on fir**, and
in a short time was destroyed with all its con
tents. The origin of the fire was supposed to
Ik* accidental.
The gas lamps at Simmons’ waste factory in
Augusta are lit by electricity, by means of a
Bunson battery placed in the factor}- and
even- gas jet in each of the large rooms of
the building is lit instantaneously. We have
no doubt that this process will come into
general use, and effect a great saving to gas
companies and other corporations using gas
for lighting ptirjioses.
The coming crop of county fairs next fall
promises large results, ns there will be more
than ever before in the history of Georgia.
It is a good sign, and we hojie that they will all
b** abundantly successful.
The city expenditures of Athens this year are
on<* thousand and sixty-one dollars less than the
previous year, indicating economy, retrench
ment and a strict udherence to the new consti
tution.
Tin* excursion rates from points West to
Florida adopted by the convention of railroad
men recently hold in Macon, went into effect
Tuesday, and au increase in the travel South
ward from the West may be expected.
The Constitution says there are fewer houses
to rent in Atlanta now than before in years.
There is hardly a first class residence on the
list.
The Athens Banner announces the death on
Friday last of Mr. R. S. Shemwell, one of the
oldest and most esteemed citizens of Athens.
He was ninety-three years of age at the timt
of his death, and was buried by the Masons, of
which order he was a bright and exemplary
member.
W. M. Mercer, Tax Collector of Webster
county, had $1,700 stolen from him recently.
Wright, one of the prisoners who broke jai;
in Rome some two weeks since, was arrested b;.
Deputy Sheriff Saiinonds and Bailiff Jackson,
about eight miles above Subligna. He after
ward made his escape.
Floyd county makes a good financial show
ing. The total assets on hand January 1, 1878.
was $42,8 W 55; and the total liabilities of th
county, including probable expenses of the
year, are $1^,961 71.
The Montezuma Weekly has not been shut ofl
by the Sheriff, as stated in one of our Georgia
exchanges last week. It comes to us as bright
os the new year, and if the Sheriff has had any
thing to do with the concern, it lias been to
improve it in several particulars, and he”ught
to get hold of other of our exchanges who
need his master hand.
Leah Lloyd, daughter of C'apt. T. P. Lloyd,
of Macon county, while sitting alone in a room
at her grandmother’s (Mrs. CarmiehaeD, on the
morning of the 7th inst., had an epileptic
spasm and fell in the fire, and was burned
severely in the right shoulder, arm and face.
Madison wants a fire company, and we see
no reason why sh** should not have one. All
that is necessary is a little public spirit, a good
deal of self-abnegation, hard work, and very
little J hanks. Yet a fire company and a fire
engine are handy things to have in every w* II
regulated community.
On Saturday night last daring burglars broke
oj>en and refilled the store of Mr. Drew, at
Baughville, eight miles west of Talbotton, in
Talbot county. The robbers went systemati
cally to work, took away the facings of the
front windows, entered, secured their booty,
and left undiscovered, although the store is aot
more than twenty yards from an adjoining
building and within a stone's threw of a dwell
ing house occupied.
A meeting of salaried men was held in Macon
<in Saturday and adopted resolutions protesting
against the tax on salaries of one thousand
dollars and upwards imposed by the City Coun
cil Tlxt* tax is one per cent, on such salaries.
The city police of MiJledgeville are hereafter
t > be uniformed, an ordinance to that effect
having passed the City Council.
At a meeting of the Farmers’ Club of Bald
win county, held at the City Hall on Saturday-
last. the following delegates were elected to the
State Agricultural Convention, which meets at
Anu-ricus February 12th, viz: S. Whitaker.
L Carrington and John M. Edwards.
-Mr. (J. Gunby Jordon, the present Chief of
th*- Columbus Fire Department, has sent in his
letter of resignation to the Board of Control,
bis business arrangements preventing him from
giving that attention to the office which its im
portance demands.
8ome of the fanners of Monroe county are
■fearful that the oat crop sown in the fall was
killed by the recent cold weather. We trust
®ot. as this would be quite a calamity.
The debt of the city of Forsyth is about ten
thousand dollars. The ad valorem tax has
b*-**n one per cent, per annum for some years.
R is the intention of the present Council to
bond the debt, having the bonds to run from
one to ten years, and thus reduce the tax to
on«*-half of one per cent, per annum.
A recent decision of the United States Circuit
Court gives the county authorities of Monroe
vounty upwards of three thousand dollars from
the estate of b. Pye & Son. which will prove
quit** a lift for the county in these depressed
monetary times.
The nint h annual in feting of the stockholders of
th** South Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical
Ass." iation was held at Tliomasville on the 9th.
An interesting report from the President, E. T.
T,av i < '. Wa - S read. The Secretary's report showed
the receipts of the spring fair to have been
*179 i) t and the receipts of the fall fair 54.-
9o. a balance « as shown in the hands of
the Treasurer of $175 60. The following
gentlemen were elected Directors: E. T.
[’ avis - J- 8. Smith, O. H. Cook, Jay
Hirshinger, A. P. Wright, T. C. Mitchell, J.
Harvin, X. R. 6pengler, Dr. S. J. Jones,
H H. Sanford, J. G. Dekle, B. F. Hawkins, Dr.
8. Bower, Reuben Bowen and K. L. Taylor.
h*M r*’*^ 1 ^ Birectors, subsequently
elJ* , A )L Tv T - Davis was unanimously re-
Tavhl Trident, Dr. S. J. Jones and Mr. K. L.
8- G. Mcl^don
TCi* liainesriUe Southron savs: “Mr. J. J.
Court • worth y one-legged Clerk of the
very just point against the business men of
that enterprising city: “What has become of all
the merchants of Atlanta? We learn that two
newspaper men and two lawyers are to be sent
to Washington tor the purpose of representing
the commercial ieterests of the city at the
National Exj>orters’ Convention, which meets
orvthe 22d inst. We have no objection to the
gentlemen only on th** gronnd that they arc iiot
Kufflr-iently interested to give the subject under
consideration the same attention that a bona
fide merchant would give. This and nothing
more.”
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist says:
“We understand that the city is full of va
grants. especially negroes, who have come
from the country to roam about, and whose
subsistence must be largely and surreptitiously
drawn from the industrious and employed.
Meanwhile farmers are lacking in help and
offering great inducements to laborers.”
A Savannah man has sent ten dollars to the
editors of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist
enclosed in the following letter: “Savannah.
January 14, 1878.—Being interested in the pros
perity of your city, and admiring the tone of
your editorial contained in your Issue of the
Ml of January—"The City's Credit”—I here
with enclose post office order for $10. M.”
The Athens Banner says: “A difficulty oc
curred in Lexington last Friday night between
Mr. Powe and Mr. McDaniel, which resulted in
the death of the latter. We understand the
two gentlemen met in a barroom, and after
some words were passed, of an insulting char
acter. Mr. McDaniel drew a knife and ap
proached Mr. Rowe, whereupon that gentle
man pulled his pistol and fired, killing McDaniel
instantly. IJquor was the cause.’'
The Baltimorean says: “The Savannah News.
one of the most enterprising as it is one of the
ablest dailies in the entire South, comes to us
enrolled in a new dress from top to toe. It is
also announced by the editor that the News is
now worked upon a new double-cylinder Hoe
press. No man has labored more assiduously
for success than its worthy proprietor, Mr. J. H.
Estill. and we congratulate him upon his
achievement. Our former lellow-towasinan,
Mr. Beale H. Richardson, is connected with the
News, and the local department of the pa]>er
shows that Baltimore can turn out good jour
nalists. as well as fast-sailing clipper ships.”
The Atlanta Constitution says: “For several
days |>ast Dr. J. A. Tavlor. one of the oldes'
citizens of Atlanta, has been lying at the point
of deatn at Hot Springs, Arkansas, whither he
went alxiut three weeks ago to seek a remedy
for rheumatism with which he has long been
afflicted. A few davsago he was stricken with
paralysis and steadily sank, until Monday night
at H}Xo’clock, when he died. A telegram bring
ing the sal news was received about 10 o’clock
• in tb*-night of his death, and the announce
ment will carry grief to his many friends in
this city. The "remains will be brought to the
city by Mr. Walter Taylor, son of the deceased,
who left the city last "Saturday, but by a delay
at Little Rock, did not reach ms father Ik*fore
he died. To the afflicted family we extend our
sincere sympathies.”
If any of the realers of the Mornino News
has l«>st a small yellow trunk, the following
item from the Augusta Evening Xetrs will indi
cate its wherealxiuts: “A small yellow trunk
was found in the canal yesterday, near the
Crescent Mills, by Mr. Butler. The trunk had
been rifled of its contents before being thrown
into the water. It was carried to police head
quarters, where a collar button, pencil head
and pipe case were found in it.”
The Butts County Argus says: “There are
not less than a dozen families lietween here and
Griffin, a distance of twenty-four miles, who
are selling out, lock, stock and barrel, prepara
tory to emigrating to the far West. Some of
these people are apparently in good circum
stances, and why they have been seized with
the mania to go West and commence life anew,
is a problem we are unable to solve.’’
This is what the Sandersville Courier says
about the present appearance of the Savannah
Mornino News, daily and weekly: “This ster
ling and princely daily has been paying us
• 1 any visits in an entirely new dress since the
first of January. Although it ha 1 * stood for
years foremost "in the front ranks of Southern
>urealism, its late improvements certainly
place it veiy far in advance of its former en
viable position. The weekly is now enlarged,
and is. we lielieve, the largest weekly in the
Gulf Stat«*s.”
Florida Affairs.
During the past six months the internal rev
enue collected in the district of Florida amount-
3d to $97,442 20, being an increase over the
unount collected for the same time in 1876 of
$27,713 82, which is owing, probably, to the
larger number of cigars manufactured, the
demand having been greater for those made
in Florida, in consequence of the strike of
the cigar makers at the North.
The Florida Supreme Court was in session all
of last week at Tallahassee, and owing to the
ibsenee of lawyers from all parts of the State
not a single case was tried, which indicates re
markable leniency of the bench and a general
laches of the bar.
The store of A. B. Hussey, at Orange Springs,
>ii the Ocklawaha, was burned Saturday night,
with its contents. The origin of the fire is not
iscertained.
The Postmastership change at Fernandina is
held in abeyance, as the commission of the pre
sent Postmaster has some time yet to run.
TH* indications arc that Putnam county is
destined to become the richest county on the
St. John's, as its inhabitants exhibit a spirit of
ro-aheadativeness consonant with the progress
of the times.
The Gainesville Cavalry Company, in com-
tiand of Captain S. C. Tucker, spent two days
n Sugar Foot Prairie last week in drilling and
•xercising, and. notwithstanding the inclement
.veather, a large number were present.
During the year 1877 seventy-seven marriage
ieenses were issued in Marion county, con
clusively showing that the issues of 1878 have
been duly considered by the good people of that
■ounty.
The steamer Roekaway, which rocked away
from Savannah in a very mysterious manner,
was recently sold at Jacksonville for three
hundred dollars. She had been lying in a sink
ing condition at the wharf for some time.
Amelia Island exhibits signs of improvement.
Not a week passes without the presence of
-t rangers seeking future homes. The island
has great advantages for the agriculturist.
A prisoner arrested at Callahan on Wednes
day last, leaped from the train while in motion,
and succeeded in making his escape.
There are thirty-three schools in Putnam
county, and seven out of that nunjber are col
ored. There are at least one hundred boys and
girls in the county that owe their present ad
vantages to this liberal system of education.
Mr. Pratt, editor of the Palatka Herald,
‘.’hairman of the Board of Education.
Steps have been taken towanls the erection
of a cotton factory in Gadsden county. The
enterprise is said to be in good hagds—gentle
men who fully apprehend the work they Rave
undertaken.
At a recent meeting of the City Council of
Jacksonville the Mayor stated that “he posi
tively knew of two parties now in the city who
threatened to burn certain buildings in the
city.” It seems strange that the parties have
not been arrested and held for their good be
havior.
The City Council of Fernandina has passed
an ordinance appropriating twenty-five hun
dred dollars out of the revenue of the city for
the present year, for sanitary improvement
and in order to secure means for the present
completion of the important work, a subscrip
tion is called for from the citizens, the amount
subscribed to be refunded as soon as the reve
nues are collected.
Another operator is to be added to the pres
ent force ot i&e telegraph office in Jackson-
ille.
A deranged prisoner confine* tu ‘he jail at
Fernandina died on Tuesday night from U.e
effects of cold. Though well provided with
blankets, he was.iq the habit of throwing them
off and sleeping uncovered,
The First Florida light Artillery of Jackson
ville numbers fifty-five members, with the fol
lowing officers: Captain, George C. Wilson,First
Lieutenant, Franklin Jordan: Second Lieuten
ant, Theodore Ball: Third Lieutenant. R. N.
Ellis: First Sergeant, II. Ernest Murphy; Sec
ond Sergeant, Henry A. L’Engle; Ordnance. W
Cox; First Corporal, Byron E. Oak; Second
Corporal, G. W. R. Reynolds.
The financial statement of the city of Fer-
nandina for 1878 shows amount of liabilities to
be met the iw.C-^nt year $.8-269 10, and the
revenue covering the $8,502 20, leaving a
balance in the treasury of $s» iO.
From all accounts Columbia county farmers
have made more sugar and syrup the past year
than will be required to supply the demand of
home consumption. Many of them have as
much as twenty barrels for sale.
Moses Jerry, colored, was shot and Instantly
killed by James H. Keen, on Thursday last,
near Lake City.
There is a large schooner at Manatee, from
Boston, with freight for that place.
Pensacola harbor was visited last week by a
storm which was very destructive to shipping.
The Gazette says fifty thousand dollars is
probably an inside estimate of the amount of
loss and damage.
F. I. Wheaton. Esq., has been removed from
the position of assistant State Solicitor by
Judge Archibald.
The Pensacola Gazette says that the city
election on Monday was quiet and orderly.
The Democratic and Conservative ticket was
defeated by a combination with the Radicals
of certain "dissatisfied or interested elements—
late of the Democratic aud Conservative
party.
Th*'Volusia, County Herald says: “A speci
men Ham measuring sixteen and a half inches
around, and weighing three pounds, was taken
well which is now being dug at Mr.
Alluding to the condition of Mr. John Morris
sey, the Sun and Press of Tuesday says;. "For
the four days previous to yesterday the Hon.
John Morrissey was in a very critical condition,
and Sunday he was much worse than he has
been at any time. Yesterday, however, he was
considerably better and late last night was quite
comfortable. It is now thoaght that the danger
is passed, and that in a few days he will be able
to leave his room."
Says the (Ocala) East Florida Banner: “The
Savannah Morning News, the ablest and most
successful newspaper in the South, is meeting
the fate that usually awaits newspapers of like
tendencies. On New Year's day it made its ap
pearance in a new dress gotten up in the latest
style of the art. The News has ever been a
positive and consistent newspaper, and spares
neither pains nor money in obtaining the news
from all parts of :he world. It is a paper
crowded with ideas, and will now. more than
ever, meet with the hearty congratulations of
the press and the people of the South.”
The Florida Immigrant divides the State in
this way: "East Florida—composed ot the
counties of Suwannee, Columbia, Alachua,
l>?vy. Baker. Nassau, Duval. Bradford. Clay,
St. John's, Putnam and Monroe. West Flor
ida—composed of the counties of Escambia,
Santa Rosa. Walton, Holmes, Washington,
Jackson and Calhoun. Middle Florida—com
posed of the counties of Gadsden, Liberty,
Franklin, Leon. Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison,
Taylor, Lafayette and Hamilton. South Flor
ida—composed of the counties of Hernando,
Sumter, Orange, Volusia, Brevard, Polk, Hills
boro, Monroe and Dade. '
The following from the Lake City Reporter
shows the factory facilities of East and Sliddle
Florida, and will interest those of our numer
ous readers who take a broad view of the future
manufacturing developments of the State:
"The interior sections or East and Middle Florida
afford ample facilities for the erection and suc
cessful operation of factories of every descrip
tion. Being the centre of cotton production,
both sea Island and' upland, the counties of Co
lumbia, Suwannee. Bradford. Baker, Madison
and Hamilton would prove a most profitable
section in which to run a cotton factory.
These counties, besides their little swift running
streams, have dotted everywhere lakes with
an inexhaustible supply of water. A careful
survey of these lakes will show a good
fall or decline from the one to the
other in nine out of each ten. By canaling be-
l .veen them any desired water force can be ob
tained. To demonstrate this fact, and to show
that the water supply of these lakes are inex
haustible, we point to the ‘Enterprise Mill.'
owned and conducted by C’apt. A. J. Smith, on
the Jeffrey Lake, two miles from our city. This
lake was canaled in 186b and the mill erected the
same year. It has been in constant operation,
the water continually flowing ever since, still the
difference in the water mark of the lake won t
show two inches. The Enterprise Mill is in
constant use, sawing lumber, cleaning rice
• running the celebrated Eureka rice ma
chine of Columbia countv invention!, gin
ning cotton, etc. As we before stated, nine
of these lakes that are so numerous in our sec
tion can lie utilized to any desired water power
in eveiy ten. W.* need the money that we jiay
as a difference between what we could purchase
at factory and the pnee we pay (or in other
words the jobbing and freight interest we now
»>ay) to remain at home and circulate. We can
nave our cotton factories, our tobacco facto
ries. paper factories, and in fact every kind of
factory, with but comparatively little expense,
then why not have them? It is a good and
profitable investment for capitalists.”
Golden Rules.
The person who first sent these rules to
lie printed says truly that if any l>oy or
girl thinks “it would be hard work to
keep so many of them in mind all the
time, just think also what a happy place
it would make of home if you only
could.’'
1. Shut •'very door after you, aud with
out slamming it.
2. Never shout, jump or run in the
house.
3. Never call to persons up stairs, or
in the next room; if you wish to speak to
them go quietly where they are.
4. Always speak kindly and politely
to servants, if you would have them do
the same to you.
o. When told to do, or not to do, a
thing, by either parent, never ask why
you should or should not do it.
6. Tell of your own faults and mis
doings, not those of your brothers and
sisters.
7. Carefully clean the mud off your
boots before entering the house.
8. Be prompt at every meal hour,
‘J. Never sit down at the table, or in
the parlor, with dirty bauds or tumbled
hair.
10. Never interrupt any conversation,
but wait patiently your turn to speak.
11. Never reserve your good manners
for company, but be equally polite at
home and abroad.
12. Let your first, last and best friend
be your mother.
A Christmas swindle on an extensive
scale was brought to light in Birming
ham, late in December. A firm of wine
merchants hired a shop for six weeks,
engaged three or foui clerks, and adver
tised in the principal newspapers in Eng
land,Scotland and Dublin. Their specialty
was a “renowned one guinea Christmas
hamper.” As a special inducement to
purchasers, the advertisements set forth
that with each double hamper, the price
of which was £2, would be presented a
-mail casket, containing samples of three
choice liqueurs iu cut glass models of
ordinary decanters. The Lumpers
were "to be sent to all parts
of the kingdom on receipt of
a post office order. So skillfully were
the arrangements carried out that in
nearly every instance the newspapers
gave credit to the firm for the extensive
advertisements, aud in the course of a
few days the swindlers began to reap a
rich harvest. Confiding people from all
parts of the country transmitted post of
fice orders, anil it is stated that as many
as forty and fifty a day were received.
Subsequently an account was opened at
one of the "banks. The applicants for
the Christmas hampers at length became
troublesome, and would not be put off
with assurances that the articles had been
sent, and “that our carman has just been
dispatched with them to the station.”
Complaints were received by the police,
and the bubble burst with the arrest of
one of the swindlers. Among the papers
seized was a list of two huudred news
papers in which the hampers had been
advertised. .
Home Conversation.—Children hun
ger perpetually for new ideas. They
will learn with pleasure from the lips of
parents what they deem it drudgery to
study in books; and even if they have
the misfortune to be deprived of many ed
ueational advantages, they will grow up
intelligent if they only enjoy in childhood
the privilege of listening daily to the con
versation of intelligent people. We
sometimes see parents who are the life of
even' company which they enter, dull,
silent, ami uninteresting at home among
their children. If they have not mental
activity and mental stores sufficient for
both, let them first use what they have
for their own households. A silent home
is a dull place foi y/^ung people, a place
from which they will escape u they can.
IIow much useful information, on the
other hand, is often given in pleasant
fajj;i!v conversation, and what uncon
scious, tMH impellent, mental training in
lively, social argumexH, .Cultivate to the
utmost graces oi conversation.
Suicide of a Former Cotton Bro
ker. -r A man giving the name of Thomas
Kiernau, but who*-'-; real name was Ter
rence M. Flynn, died tu a Ncv ^ ork
hospital. Saturday, from the effects pf a
dose of Paris green, taken with suicidal
intent during a fit of despondency. Dur
ing the war Flynn made a large fortune
in the cotton brokerage business, but was
forced to suspend by" the “Black Friday
crash.” after which he went down hill
rapidly. He got a position on the police
force.* but w"as discharged for some
“crookedness.” and then changed his
name to Kiernan. and led a shiftless life
until the day of his death.
BY TELEGRAPH.
nizht' iil5 OIn ? to 3Ir - E - Merritt’s on Friday i from the — - ^ —r ■
• t ‘ w hen near the door, caught ids \ Swing's saw mill, one day last week. A vein of
hrtLvL 50 way and fell to the ground, 1 petrified shell was struck at about thirty feet
11 til** Ivina , 1 .l — .or >
■ James Higgins, an iron worker of South
[Stockton, England, had to lower a charge
of ore, etc., intoilie furnace. It stink,
and he seized a sledge hammer, leaped
ujion the material and struck a violent
blow, when in a second's space man and
mass fell into the furnace. There was a
choked groan, nothing more, and though
the blast was at once thrown off and the
furnace cooled, not an atom of the body
was recovered. The Coroner was called
but could find no excuse for an inquest,
but a priest read the prayers for the dead I
[over the fatal aperture.
lit u time that the shallow and lying pre-
jtense that President Hayes has no personal
aims to serve in his appointments was
dropped. The fact is patent that he is
trying to create a party of his own, and
to strengthen it by his selections for offi
cial positions; and it is equally evident
that he has been imposed upon by the
worst set of political tramps and yaga-
1) nds that ever disgraced an adminialra
tion docket.—BepubUcu n.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
.1 SAD SCEXE OF DEVASTATION.
The Situation Sonth of the Balkans.
PHILIPPOPOL1S EVACUATED AND
ORDERED BURNED.
TROUBLES
FORMA.
IN CALI-
Congressional Proceedings.
FATAL RAILROAD DISASTER.
Hartford, Ct. , January 16.—An ex
cursion train returning from the Moodv
and Sankey meeting at 10 o’clock last
night, went into the Farmington river.
Two engines, one baggage ana passenger
cars went down. Five dead bodies, two
men and three women, have been re
covered. A large numt>er are yet in the
wreck. Twelve physicians have gone
out with a relief train from this city.
The accident at Tariffville occurred at
the trestle bridge crossing Farmington
river, just west of the village. The
train was bound for Millerton, and car
ried passengers for all stations between
this city and that place, who came in to
attend the Moody and Sankey meeting.
Two engines, baggage car aud three
passenger coaches went down at
the western end of the bridge, the
engines reaching shore aud three cars
breaking through ice in three feet of
water and one car resting on the end on
the pier. Seven bodies had been recov
ered up to 2 o’clock this morning, and it
L almost certain more are in the wreck.
The wounded may be numbered at forty,
among them several seriously. Special
trains-from Winsted and Hartford, bear
ing surgeons, reached the scene at half
past 1 this morning. Soon after the acci
dent the factory and church bells were
rung and citizens rallied, doing all that
was possible. The bodies were taken on
planks or nidesteads across the ice to the
Tariffville side.# The wounded and dead
were mostly put on the Hartford special
A few were left at Tariffville and Hart
ford, and the train took the rest round by
Plainville, on the Fislikill and Canal
Roads to New Hartford, on the Western
Road.
TIIE SITUATION SOUTH OF THE BALKANS.
London, January 16.—If the dispatch
of yesterday to Reuter, from Constan
tinople, statin^ that a great battle had
been fought Monday between Tatar Ba-
zardjik and Pliilippopolis, that fighting
was resumed Tuesday, that Suleiman
Pasha afterwards took up position near
Philoppopolis and ordered the inhabi
tants to leave that town, and that the
Russians have reached Chirpan and
are marching on Y'eni Mahalgre,
is correct. The remains of the only
Turkish field army south of the Balkans
is in danger of capture or annihilation
l>efore the armistice can be concluded.
Chirpan is about thirty miles east of
Philippopolis and less than ten miles
from the road and railway ovei which
the Turks must pass to reach Adrianople.
The statement that the Russians have
reached Chirpan is not improbable, as
there is no Turkish army between
Chirpan and Kizanlik to hinder
such a movement. The utmost terror
and disorganization prevails throughout
the country between Philippopolis and
Constantinople. The panic-stricken fugi
tives continue to crowd towards the
capital by thousands. Only a small
per centageof them are men, and many
thousands are detained at Chorlu on
account of the recent railway accident on
the line leading to Constantinople.
The Turkish Government and English
Relief Committee have great difficulty to
prevent wholesale loss of life from hun
ger and exposure.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, January 16.—The Senate
at 12:15 proceeded to vote on the pending
question to refer the resolution of Mr.
Matthews in regard to paying bonds in
silver to the Committee on the Judiciary,
and it was rejected. Y eas 19, nays 31.
The Committee on the Pacific liailroads
commences hearing arguments on the
Texas Pacific Road and its several
branches on Friday.
The Collector of Customs at New Or
leans is still an open question.
The subcommittee of Foreign Rela
tions of the House having special charge
of the diplomotic relations with Mexico,
will have a meeting l>efore that of the
full committee, anu will ask that further
witnesses lie subpoenaed. They will de
lay their final report to the full commit
tee for ten days or two weeks,
FAILURES.
Montreal, January 16.—C. Fraser &
Co., fish and oil dealers, have failed for
fifty thousand dollars.
Chicago, January 16.—Chestnut &
Dubois, bankers, at Cortinsville, have
made an assignment. There is no state
ment of assets and liabilities, but it is
said all the creditors will be paid.
New Y'ork, January 10.—A special
from Montreal says the extensive brass
foundry and plumbing firm of Robert
Mitchell A Co. is in financial difficulty.
Their liabilities are estimated at $120,001).
The assets will be large.
Chicago, January 16.—John F. Wear
& Co., dealers in paints, oils and drugs,
have failed.
AN IMPROBABLE STORY.
London, January' 16.—The Daily Tele
graph has a special dispatch from Con
stantinople containing the improbable
<tory that Austria is opposed tq separate
peace and intends to support the treaty
of Paris, and further, that she wishes
that Turkey should leave the grave
questions affecting European interests
open for consideration at a conference of
European powers. This communication,
says the Telegraph's dispatch, is regarded
here as a sign that there is an under
standing between England and Austria.
MINING TROUBI.ES in CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, January 16.—A Vir
ginia City dispatch says ; “Owing to the
recent embroglio between the Alta and
Justice mines, a number of hired fighting
men hjive been sent down to the level on
which the connection between t$ie mines
is momentarily expected to be made.
Trouble is expected when the drifts meet.
LONDON SHIP IRON CONTRACTION.
London, January 16.—The Consettc
Iron Company, tLe Jare^st makers of
ship plates in’the world, Tiave blown out
one of their blast furnaces, and the men
employed at another furnace received
notice that their services will not be re
quired at the end of a fortnight.
PHILIPPOPOLIS EVACUATED AND OR
DERED BURNED.
London, January 16 —TJ^ Standard's
Constantinople dispatch reports that
Philippopolis was evacuated and ordered
burned. Ajadcs and Kamabad are
burned.
THE CUMBERLAND COAL INTERESTS.
Baltimore, January 16.—A prelimi
nary meeting of mine owners and others
interested in .Cumberland coal appointed
commissioners to devise means for com
peting with the Philadelphia combina
tion.
MINISTERIAL lliANoKS
Petersburg, January 16.-^Mr. Geo.
n. Boker, United States Minister, hand
ed the Emperor letters of recall. Stough
ton, who succeeds Mr. Boker. presented
his credentials.
HEAVY MORTALITY.
Alexandrly, Januaiy 16.—The aver
age daily mortality from cholera at
>Fecca, to 31st December last, was sixty.
At Jeddah the average daily mortality
was thirty-eight.
UNSUCC ESSFUL BALLOTING IN KENTUCKY.
Frankfort, Ky.. January 16.—The
Democratic caucus had twenty-tour bal
lots, the general average being—Williams
43, Lindsay 38, McCreary 18, Knott 18.
WISCONSIN SENATORIAL CAUCU8.
DeMoines, January 16.—The Republi
can Senatorial caucus has renominated
Allison.
A SAD PICTURE OF DEVASTATION.
New Y’ork, January 16.—A special
from Norfolk, Va., sajs: “The whole
Roanoke river country has been laid
waste by the recent floods and presents a
startling scene of devastation. Those
who have been up and down the river
say the farms along its caurse for one or
two miles back are nearly destroyed.
Farm houses, barns and stables swept
away, and fences destroyed, all things
portraying the general ruin caused
by the water. The complaints of the
farmers are heartrending and real. The
floods have ruined them and left them
destitute of means to recommence life on
their barren .and wasted lands. The pic
ture L a piteous one and must be seen to
be realized. The Roanoke again com
menced rising to-day.
DEATH OF A BANKER.
Paris, January 16.—Phillipe Ilottin-
guer, the head of the banking firm of
Hotlinguer A Co., is dead
DEATH OF SIR WM. STERLING MAXWELL.
Venice, January 16.—Sir Wm. Ster
ling Maxwell is dead from typhus fever.
A Golden Wedding.
The San Francisco Call of December
19th contains a detailed and interesting
account of the golden wedding, cele
brated in that city, of Mr. and Mrs. John
Scott, formerly of Baltimore. The Cali
says: “Fifty years ago yesterday, at 7
o’clock, in the morning, Mr. John Scott
and Miss Elizabeth Littig were married
at the residence of the bride’s parents, in
Baltimore, Maryland. The interesting
and impressive ceremony was performed
by the late Rev. Joshua Wiles. The
bride on that interesting occasion was
attired in a plaid statin gros de nap dress,
with slippers to match, and the bride
groom was. dressed in a black Quaker
suit, which he possesses at the present
day. There was one bridesmaid, who is
*till living. After the ceremony
the newly married couple and their
relatives partook of a wedding
breakfast. and the bridal party
then entered their carriage and were
driven to Washington. In those days the
only public conveyance was the stage
coach. After a pleasant ride all day the
couple reached Waterloo in time for din
ner, and arrived at Georgetown early in
the evening. They stayed in that pre
cinct of Washington, as the accommoda
tions were letter than those at the capi
tal. President Adams was holding a
levee on the evening they arrived, and
the newly married couple were presented
to His Excellency by Col. Little, a mera-
l>er of Congress at that time. Mr. Scott
came to this coast in 1874, since which
time he has made six trips across the
continent. He is still hale and hearty,
and active on his feet, walk
ing most of the time, and enjoying
life. His wife is also fresh and young ir
spirit, and, although not so active as
her husband, is still enabled to partici
pate in the enjoyment of the pleasures
of this sphere. She is an accomplished
lady in every sense of the term. Her
paintings show that she is a good
artist, and, in the prime of life, she
excelled in vocal and other musical
accomplishments. Mr. and Mrs. Scott
are the parents of eleven children, six of
who are living at the present time. Of
these, four reside in San Francisco, as
follow’s: Irving M., Henry T., Mrs. Or-
rick (Mary F. Scott) and Mrs. Edwin
Scott, who married a gentleman of the
same name. The old couple have had
twenty-four grandchildren, all, w’ith the
exception of seven, being alive at the
present time. Most of them reside in
Maryland. ’’
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Why Mrs. Thompson Ran in to See
Mrs. Hayes.
1 he cabinet ladies are all matter of
fact, practical women. To illustrate: A
few days ago several ladies were calling
on Mrs. Hayes. They were engaged in
pleasant chat when the door opened and
the usher announced Mrs. Thompson
Mrs. Iia3’cs advanced; introductions fol
lowed and were acknowledged by a bow.
Mrs. Thompson walked toward the
w’indow r overlooking the lawn and said:
“Mrs. Hayes, where do they pasture
your cows ? T ’
“Really,” said madame, quite over
come by the cow question, “I can’t tell
you.”
“Well, I can,” returned the wife of the
nautical man; “they pasture them on that
fi**ld, and it’s full of garlic—just full of
it. This morning we couldn’t use the
cream; the coffee w’as ruined, and I don’t
for the life of me see how you and Mr.
Ha\’es can stand it. I’d make the men
go out there with case-knives, if I were
you, and cut it all up. It would not be
the work of an hour. W'hy, I could dc
it myself if I had time.”
“I’ll speak to th«* steward. Mrs. Thomp
son, and see that it is attended to. Come
and sit dQwip”
“Oh, no! I only ran over to ask you
about the cow pasture, and must go.
Good-bye! Good morning, ladies!” and
off she went.—Washington Letter to Oin
cinnati Enquirer.
ENGLAND AND THE CZAR.
Letter on the Earopean Crisis From
the Earl of Dnnraven.
To the Editor of the Xeic York World :
Sir—As you were good enough to find
a place on a previous occasion for the
frank expression which, as a British sub
ject and a member of the British Legfe
fature, I thought it not improper I should t *°. n ^ n< ^ rec>t ^"- Germany nul y indeed
* - • - ^— not unnaturally feel jealous of any
Italian crimes have a deep dye quite
naturally, for it is not ice water, but hot
blood that courses through the veins of
the people of that sunny land. Stabbing
is the commonest of crimes in Naples. A
few weeks ago a tailor, who had lieen
jilted, happening to meet in the streets
his sweetheart, her accepted lover and
her mother, seized a pair of shears, and,
in a frenzy of passion, stabbed the three,
one after the other. In a Calabrian vil
lage dwelt in abject poverty a wretched
creature with a miserly instinct. He
secreted in a chink in the wall three soldi
—a sum equal to an English penny. His
son, a lad of thirteen, happened to find
the coins, and went cut to buy bread with
them. The old man, going to the wall
to gloat over his treasure, found that the
hole was empty, and when the ln»y came
in forced him fa confer the theft. Over
come with rage, the savage father carried
the lad to the fire and held his hands in
the flames until the lingers were burned
off, and then threw him on the ground to
bear the torment alone.
A correspondent of the Chicago Tri
bune, discussing the question whether the
scriptural texts on the subject of hell
should be accepted literally, asks whether
the following verses of the New Testa
ment mean just what they say:
“And these signs shall follow them
that believe; In My name shall they
cast cut devils; thev shall speak with
new tongues; they snail take up serpents;
and if they drink any deadly thing it
shall not hurt them; they shall*lay hands
on the sick and they shall recover.”
He says that he is keeping v. bottle of
prussic acid on his shelf for any believer
who is willing to test the literal truth of
the above lines.
The Index, of Boston, says that Trini
ty Church. New Y’ork, owns city prop
erty worth seventy millions of dollars,
ana supports 764 liquor saloons and 96
disreputable houses, and annually evades
taxes amounting to a million and three-
quarters. It may lease property which
is sub-let to liquor saloons, but it “sup
ports” nothing of the kind.—Hartford
Times.
A wise Chicagoan, knowing that bor
rowed money not only does^ not come
back, but often makes the borrower dis
honest, wrote in liis will: “I further ad
vise my sister and brothers to make no
loan to aqy relative, cither with or with
out security. I recommend that such as
sistance as* they render to relatives be
rendered by absolute gift, rather than by
loan.”
Bonner Buys Another Fast Horse.
A special from Milwaukee says: “Robert
Bonner, of New Y’crk, has* purchased
the trotting horse Mazo mania, for $20,-
000. ” Bonner seems to be affected with
a fast-horse mania.
It cost $210 for the hire of carriages to
bring President Hayes and Vice Presi
dent Wheeler to the capital on inaugura
tion day, and for the use of the Senate
Committee of Arrangements on the same
dav.
The expenses of the Belknap impeach
ment trial were $I3,il6.
make of my views as to the present grave
crisis in the affairs not of my own coun
try alone but of Europe, I venture to
hope that you will permit me. now on the
eve of my return home to reinforce with
all the earnestness I can throw into the
matter, your brief observations made in
the World of this morning upon the as
tounding intelligence that Russia is nego
tiating with other States of the Baltic for
the exclusion from that sea of the war
vessels of all non-Baltic powers. Of all
the New Y ork journals I have seen, the
World alone estimates this extraordinary
proposition at its proper value, and fore
casts its inevitable issue should it be
adopted, in an eventual war to the
knife between the two powers which
must now conspire as apparent friends
to cany' it out, if carried out it is to be.
Of course the “Baltic States” in such a
proposition stand simply for Russia and
Germany', and equally of course, as I
must believe. Prince Bismarck’s price
for a co-operation with Russia in such a
plan must be the co-operation of Russia
with Prince Bismarck in the annexation
of Holland. It is absurd to talk of a
cordial and honest alliance between two
such powers as imperial Germany and
imperial Russia, and the only things
really to be considered by those who
would anticipate the probable course of
either of these powers at this juncture
are the present and prospective advan
tages which either of them may hope to
secure from any measure now proj>osed
against the coming of the inevitable
death grapple with the other which
sooner or later must occur. Two great
powers in Europe,and two only', have deep
and continuing interests of antagonism to
Russia. These two great powers are Ger
many and England If Russia is steadi
ly- drifting down the Black Sea to a great
collision yvith England, she is drifting as
steadily down the Baltic to a great col
lision with Germany'. If this storv of an
agreement between Berlin and St. Peters
burg to convert the Baltic into a Russo-
German lake, with Scandinavia con
demned to be the all}’ and instrument of
whichever of the two empires can best
play its cards, should prove to be well
founded, we may assume that Prince
Bismarck thinks it wiser to secure Hol
land as an Atlantic base of naval power
for Germany to-day, with the help of
Russia herself, than to leave Germany to
rely’hereafter, when her.struggle with
Russia comes, on the friendship and alli
ance of England. Prince Bismarck could
hardly be blamed for this. It must be
remembered that he saw the Crimean war
in 1854, and also that he made a journey
into France in 1870, during which he may
have heard Frenchmen comment upon
the value of England as a friend in need.
If, on the other hand, this story’ turns
out to be unfounded, we may' "assume
probably' that it has been set afloat noyv
in pursuance of a determined effort on
the part of Prince Bismarck to arouse
England thoroughly and make her active
ly co-operate yvith Germany at the pres
ent moment in imposing such a peace
upon the Eastern combatants as shall best
meet the vieyvs of Germany and least
damage the interests of England. Y’ou
will perhaps have observed that the storv
originated in Berlin, where stories of this
kind are not apt to originate without the
knowledge, at least, of the German
Chancellor.
That of late the English and the Ger
man governments have been in close and
confluent ial communication with one
another seems to me quite beyond doubt,
aud although it is rash to apeak at all
positively when everything is so mist}'
and contradictory in regard to the pres
ent condition of Europe, I cannot but
believe that resolute action on the part
of England in the East at this time will
definitely decide Prince Bismarck and
the German Government to act with
England, and in the way of restraint
upon Russia. I believe just as firmly
that irresolution on the part of England
in the East will as ck-finitely decide
Prince Bismarck to act with Russia, and
to the disregard alike of the honor and
of the interests of England. Why notr
Why should a German Chancellor con
cern himself about English honor and
English interests if Englishmen give
themselves no trouble about them? One
thing is clear: Turkey is fast ceasing
,to be a factor in the European balance
of power. The military situation has <3$
changed during the n.»st few weeks as to
make it certain that grave material
changes in the European political system
are near at hand. What shall they be?
And what power hits ^ch a r t interest as
England iu knowing w hat they are to lie
and in determining alike their extent and
their direction?
There are two contingencies at hand,
and only two: Either Russia w ill object,
and object successfully, to fair terms of
peace proposed by England in the interest
of Turkey and to* preserve Turkey as a
political fact, or Turkey in despair will
make a private arrangement with Russia
at the expense of England in the East.
The Turkish atrocities agitation alone
has made the latter contingency, in
finitely the yvorse of the two for England,
possible. The former contingency means
war between England and Russia, unless
the Turkish atrocities agitation has in
deed shaken England fairly off the v**ry
foundations of b<‘* and her
gloiy-
It would not mean war between Eng
land and Russia, of course, if Russia
were actuated at this stage of the story
by the intentions by which she originally
professed to be governed. Russia dis
claimed all projects of aggrandizement.
She went to w’ar solely because she could
not listen any longer with indifference to
the moans and cries of the dow’ntrodden
rayahs of European Turkey. She has
certainly contributed to relieve thousands
of Bulgarian Christians of the burden of
their sufferings. The potential wretched
ness of many generations has ljeen packed
into the compass of a single year. But
Russia now has other ana jfider views.
It is not enough for her to have made a
solitude and called it peace. She per
ceives the hand of destiny beckoning her
as it beckoned Mahommed II. of old to
the shining domes of Byzantium and the
snowy' mountain passes of Armenia.
Shall she obey the summons? Can Eng
land permit i)**r to obey’the summons?
So far as anything short of the virtual de
struction of the Ottoman Empire is con
cerned, this question may be easily an
swered. But England cannot allow' the
keys of the Levant to pass into the mo
nopoly of a great power unless she
means tq abdicate her own position as a
great power.
As to the national aspirations of Sclavs,
Greeks and Bulgars, these are matters
which interest England almost not at all.
Only one power need concern itself great
ly about these, and that is Austria.
Austria is more interested in the
new distribution to be made of the pro
vinces hitherto under Turkish rule than
any other power. The form of govern
ment to be set up in the territories march
ing with her Croatian provinces is of
vital importance, and she will do her
best, no doubt, tq pi-evtoit any prepon
derating influence adverse to her from
being established upon her borders.
Whatever form the new state of thincs
is made to assume, Austria must ia^ist
that the neutrality, respectability and
power of self preservation of the new
comers shall be sufficiently guaranteed.
If the old lodgers are to be turned out the
new occupiers must find good references
to satisfy their neighbor—Austria. Any
strong representation of Russian
men is among the inhabitants of~the
Danubiau provinces would be a
perpetual menace to the AustroHunga
rian Empire. Germany has, practically
speaking, nothing whatever to do with
the Ea-tem question. In these .railroad
days the importance of the upper Danube
as a means of commqnieuticoi is much
diminished, and a question of the owner
ship of the lower portion of the river’s
course cannot affect her to an appreci
able extent. She is not in the same boat
with the other nations and has no cause
to shove in her oar, and if she grasps the
rudder-lines it is not because she is of
necessity* one of the crew, but because
she considers herself especially good at
steering just at present. Prince Bismarck
might just as well claim to lie a Sachem
of Tammany as declare himself especially
entitled to a hearing on the Eastern ques
marked increase of territory or influence
on the part of Austria, though her
nervousness would be quite uncalled for.
She may wish to see Russia adopting more
and more earnestly the role of an Asiatic
power, forgetting that in these days of
easy transportation and rapid transit men
ana money from the East can without
difficulty be utilized in the West. No
three-cornered arrangement entered into
by Russia, Austria and Germany would
lx* tolerated by England, and it seems to
me quite preposterous to suppose that
Germany will ever make war without
perfectly adequate reasons for doing so.
If Austria’s bundle is composed of some
what brittle and inflammable sticks, in
the German faggot the materials, though
tough, are none too firmly bound
together. A war undertaken to benefit a
people professing the Greek religion
would be looked upon with abhorrence
by Bavarians, Saxons and the populations
of other Roman Catholic States, and an
attempt to force participation in it upon
the empire might undo in a moment the
mighty work which, wrought out
patiently through so many anxious years,
culminated in that ever-memorable scene
at Versailles when the King of Prussia
assumed the style and title of Emperor
of Germany. Moreover, Germany is not
over rich. The international game of
poker as played in Europe, where one
nation thinks nothing of seeing its neigh
bor’s armaments ana going a few hun
dred thousand men and a dozen iron
clads or so better, is an expensive pas
time. The indemnity was virtually noth
ing more than a forced loan made with
out interest by France, and has, it is said,
already dribbled back again into the
economical p<xkets of that recuperative
race. The strain of a great struggle is
slow in wearing off. even from the vic
tor’s limbs, The instincts of race were
powerfully calk'd into play during the
Franco-Prussian war in bringing about
the unification of Germany, but German
sympathy cannot lie enlisted with Russia
on that account. The Catholic element,
too, which lias given the Bismarck gov
ernment already so much trouble, would
lx* exasperated anew by the shedding of
German blood in the cause of a Greek
Czar.
Meanwhile France must be considered.
There is no reason, to lie sure, why she
should act in behalf either of England or
Turkey or Austria. But why should she
act in lichalf of Germany or of Russia ?
A temporary occupation of Egypt hy
England, if necessary to secure the neu
trality of the Suez Canal, would scareely
be resented by France at this time. She
certainly cannot desire to see Russian in
fluence made paramount in Syria or
Austria supreme in the Levant; neither
would it be convenient for her African
colonies to permit the Mediterranean to
be turned into a Russian Take. The
same causes which decided her action be
fore the Crimean war are still powerful
enough to modify it. France, I believe,
will not, if she can possibly help it, in
terfere in the East in any way.
As to Italy, she is so largely represent
ed along the Mediterranean shores that
her tongue, in a debase^ form, has In
come the littoral language of the Levant;
hut it cun matter little to her with whom
she trades, and the weaker the Levantine
powers are the better for her. If diplo
matic action ends in a universal appeal
to arms, Italy will lx* iua position to light
if she likes or lie quiet if she likes. Like
the United States during the Napoleonic
wars, she may strike in for the carrying
trade, and lx happy on the principle that
when “knaves fall out honest men come
by their own.” In fact, it is almost im
possible for any two or more nations to
combine in any scheme of aggrandize
ment or to act conjointly to the detri
ment of the rest if one strong power
stands forward now to maintain public
law. The interests involved are so nu
merous and so divergent and cross each
other in so many directions that the na
tions are pulled in v"r;uu» vvu} ; h, are all
in turn mutually attracted and again
repelled. No two of them united in a
policy of aggression can pull wholly and
evenly together. Russia suvs she wants
to secure the well-being of certain Chris
tians iu Turkey. Is it necessary to this
that she should have commaml of the
Dardanelles, the B^sffiiqrus i4 nd the head
u liio iiupnrates Valley? It is not;
and I believe it is England s
business to sec that she does not get it.
Russia, on the otflor hand, c&unot per
mit Austria to overbalance her among
the new states or dependencies which
are to be raised up from the broken rem
nants of the Turkish Empire. Germany
certainly has nothing to gain directly in
the East, but Germany as certainly has
no Interest in seeing either Russia or
Austria too much strengthened. It is
plain the three Euperors cannot pull to
gether. Much has indeed been said about
a triple alliance and about au understand
ing between the three Emperors. It is
to lie sincerely hoped such an under
standing exists; for if the Emperors un
derstand each other they probablv alpo
understand their respective peoples,* their
national agnations, temperament und
"requirements. Because a man "happens
to be an Frnpdor he does not cease to be
a German, a Russian or an Austrian, and
the days of simply dynastic combinations
have passed away forever. If Russia is
bent on consulting Russian objects in the
terms of peace I believe that England
can checkmate her now by resolute
action, and that Germany will be with
England if England takes* such action.
And I am your obedient servant,
Dunraven.
Slaughtering the Buffalo iu Texas
The town of Griffin, Texas, is supported
by buffalo hunters,and is their favorite ren -
dezvous in this section. The numlxr of
hunters, on the ranges this season is esti
mated at fifteen hundred. One can see
at Griffin a plat of ground of about- four
acres covered with buffalo hide^ spread
out to dry, besides a large quantity piled
up for shipment. The.>e hides are worth
in this place from one dollar to one dollar
and sixty cents each. The generally ac
cepted idea of the exciting chase iu’buf-
falo hunting is not the plan pursued by
the men who make it a regular business.
They use the needle gun with telescop •.
buv the powder bv the keg. the lead in
bulk, and the shells, and make their own
cartridges. The guns in a party of hun
ters are used by only one or two men.
who say they usually kill a drove of
thirty or forty buffaloes on one or tw •
acres of ground. A* soon as one is killed
the whole herd, smelling the blood, col
lect around the dead body, snuffing and
paw ing up the ground, and uttering
singular noise. The hunter continues to
shoot them down as long as he can re
main concealed, or until the last animal
“bites the dust.” The buffalo pays no
attention to the report of the gun* and
flees only at sight or scent of his enemy.
The others then occupy themselves in
“peeling.” Some of these have become
so skillful they offer to bet they can
skin a five or six year old bull in five
minutes. The meat is also saved and
sent to market, and commands a good
price.
Shooting an Unarmed Man in the
Back.—One of the most cowardly and
cold-blooded murders we have everchron
icled occurred on Wednesday of List
w’eek a few miles from Wood ville. Miss.,
near the residence of Mr. J. B. L. Primm.
Mr. Ben. Yaiden, the unfortunate victim
while hauling his cotton to a gin. was met
by Mr. Frank Graves, lietween whom
and the former gentleman a feud hail ex
isted some time. Graves, we learn, told
Vaiden he was going to kill him, win
upon Yaiden informed him (Graves) that
he was unarmed, and even pulled out lib
pockets to show him, hut when Mr.
Primm and Mr. Yaiden’s father turned
their heads. Graves raised his rifle and
shot Yaiden dead, and then fled for parts
unknown. Mr. Yaiden was said to lx
an honorable gentleman, and hud a host
of friends. He leaves a father and two
sisters to mourn liis loss,—Grenada{Mi*s.)
Sentinel,
firorcrUg and ^roiistons.
FLOUR, FLOUR.
WF. HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OP
Sew Georgia Flour
PIT UP EXPRESSLY FOR OUR TRenv
WHICH WE ARE OFFERING AT THF *
FOLLOWING PRICES:
H* If flocks Foley &. Co.’s Choice «» i-.
Quart*'!- sacks Folev & Co. s Choice \ jfl
Half sacks Foley & Co.’s Choice Ex Family *» m
Ouar. sks. Foley A Co.’8 Choice Ex J S
Half sack* l ow A Co. '* Choice Family So
Quarter sacks Foley & Co. s Choice Family 93
We have also just received the celebrated
TOWN TALK BAKING POWDER.
Sea Foam.
M
dec8 Tu.Th&Stf
For oak- hy the pound or iX”' *°
F. FOLEY & CO.,
2? Barnard st.
FLOUR, FLOUR.
« ■ ily 1
Half sack choice Family I lour
Whole sack choice Family Flour.
_ Mr*. Mariam Bern', of New Durham.
N. H. a highly respectable widow lady of
sixty-five years, was shot and instantly
killed on Wednesday in her own house
J)y John L. Piukhani, who had been cm
ployed by her to do some chopping, and
for payment of which there had been
some dispute. Piukham then fled, lie
was soon after found half a mile down
the road with Ids throat cut, hut it is
thought not fatally, lie is supposed to
have been under tile influence of liquor.
A mean man, who felt obliged to make
a present to it lady, saw a statuette iu a
crockery store broken into a dozen pieces,
and asked the price. The salesman said
it was worthless, but that lie could have
it for the cost of paekiug ip. a box. lie
sent it to the lady w ith his can 1, con
gratulating himself that site would imag
ine it had become mined while on its wav
home. The effect was not what was ex
pected, for the tradesman had carefully
wrapped each piece in a separate paper.
An Indian Killer Dead.—Liver
eating Johnson, the terror of strolling
Indians in the Upper Missouri river
country, is reported killed. lie once
ate the liver of an Indian against whom
he had a revenge, and from that inci
dent got his name. His pastime was
killing Indians, and he is credited with a
Moody roll of the c',„iu victims of his
hatred larger than any other man who
lived ou the frontier.
Judge Lyxcii in Louisuxa.—< )n Tues-
dav night week a negro named Rice was
taken out of jail in St. Francisville, West
Feliciana, by a party of white men and
hanged. Rice was charged with killing
Thomas West, Democratic candidate for
Sheriff, a few days bafore the election in
November, 18Tfl. He fled to Pointy, ( ou
pee, hut recently returned, gflvo himself
up and was lodged iu rail at St. Francis
ville.
janlS-NATeltf
$1 no
200
.. 3 50
’S
FRENCH PRUNES.
COX'S GELATINE
FRESH YEAST CAKES.
BUCKWHEAT.
GEORGLA SYRUP.
CANNED PUMPKIN.
A. M,
declO-tf
■V C. W. WEST’S.
HEADQUARTERS
—TOR—
POULTRY, EGGS, BUTTER,
GAME, ETC.,
—AI»D—
(iiiiii'f: family iikwhies
Orders delivered with promptness and free of
draya^e.
KlLLOUGil & COLLINS,
159 CONGRESS STREET.
jan^-tf
FLOUR^HAMS!
\Y TF ; j IIS , t . receiv«*d a car load of GEOR-
. ,, FLOLR, which we will retail as
follows;
Half sacks BFj4T FAMILY at $2 15.
Half sacks CHOICE FAMILY at $1 90 amt $2
Qi lart. r sacks BEST FA MILY at $ I 10
Quarter sacks CH<>ICE FAMILY at 95c. and «1
best sugar-cured HAMS at 14^c. per pound.
A. C. HARMON A (().,
*11 WHITAKER STREET.
dec!5^twtf
SEED POTATOES!
|| | BBLS. PURE VERM< >NT EARLY ROSE
SEED POTATOES.
ioo hi»is. jackson white potatoes.
100 bbis. PEERLESS POTATOES.
100 bbis. CHIU POTATOES.
100 hb!s. EARLY GOODRICH POTATOES.
100 bbis. PINK EYE POTATOES.
250 bbis. PEACH BLOW IDT A TOES.
Warranted all PURE seed. No mixed stock.
For sale by
P. If. WARD & CO.,
janll-tf SAVANNAH, OA.
C HEEK and WHITLOCK’S FLOUR.
BELLE OF LOGAN FLOUR.
DOOLEY’S RAKING POWDER,
A choice assortment of GREEN and BLACK
TEAS.
'IPER TIEIDSIEC’K CHAMPAGNE
NC R! H CAROLINA APPLE BRANDY.
CE AMPAGF CIDER on draught.
Agents for KRUG A CO.'S CHAMPAGNE.
Howe A Hubbell’s WELCOME WHISKY.
Also, a choice assortment of GROCERIES,
ALES, WINES, LIQOURS and CIGARS, at
JAS.
oct26tf
MeGKATH & CO’S.,
17 WHITAKER STREET.
ISUNHHIES.
SnorLD Hate Died Sooner.— Cale
donia county, Vt., is greatly excited over
the recent discovery that Hon. J. D. Ab
bott. who was entrusted with a large
amount of funds of widows, farmers,
and estates, and who enjoyed the utmost
confidence of the community, is a de
faulter in many thousand dollars. Im
mediately upon his exposure he attempt
ed suicide by taking poison, and it is
thought will die.
Victor Emanuel's Last Words. —The
Tanfulla, of Home, reports that Victor
Emanuel said on his death-bed: "I have
always felt affection and deference to
wards the person of the I’ojx'. If \ have
personally displeased him lam sorry, but
in all my acts 1 have, aiwavs had the con
sciousness of having fulfilled my duties
as a citizen and a prince, and of never
having committed anything contrary to
religion.” .
A locomotive ran over a good deal of
human experience near a freight depot in
Kansas City on January 3. A switch
engine with three baggage ears was back
ing rapidly, when a man rushed from a
side-crossing and disappeared beneath
the wheels; and when the train had
passed, the mangled and quivering body
of Captain Kottwitz was found lying
across the rails in a pool of blood. ’ He
was an officer of the Russian Inmcrial
Guard during the Crimeqn war, and was
wounded during an a-sault upon the Re
dan. He was sent home to his father's
estate near Moscow, and enjoyed the
pleasures of a young nobleman until he
rejoined the Imperial Guard. His Colo
nel was arrested for a political offence,
and sentenced to the Siberian mines for
life. The Captain and eleven officers con
spired to effect the release of the Colo
nel, but the plot was discovered
and the ring-leaders were sen
tenced to death. On account of his
high rank his sentence was commuted to
service for life in a Cossack regiment in
Eastern Siberia. He escaped from the
military prison at Moscow, made his
way to the Black Sea, and passed into
the Turkish dominions. He arrived in
New York in 1863 and joineel the Seventh
\ olunteer Regiment, serving until the
close of the war. In 1870 ht went to
Rome and made au unsuccessful effort
tq s{*:u«: a pardon from the Czar. The
death of his grandtaother cut off his an
nuity, but guve him $20,000, with which
he returned to the United States and
settled in Kansas. His fortune went to
waste in a lan • speculation, and he was
thrown upon his own resources, which
finally failed to keep him out of debt.
He spoke seven languages; he was a
graduate of Heidelberg; and he had two
unpaid board bills in bis pocket yiiten he
dashed out his brains
The Mordroal street car conductors
laugh at the shaking of a bell punch, and
so tlte directors compel them to advertise
their dishonesty by tarrying cash boxes
slung around 'their nccis. The passen
ger places (he money on the lid of the
box, the conductor presses a spring, and
it falls in. If the conductor touches the
money with his hand he is discharged.
“I'll bet I make him break it in a
week,” said a Troy vouth when he saw
a companion, urged by Us betrothed,
take the pledge at a public temperance
meeting. The effort was successful, and
when the young man came to his senses
he was so much mortified that he went
upon a spree which ended with his death
in a few day*.
The sale of pews in Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, last Monday, shows a falling
off in the income of the establishment.
Last year the total receipts for premiums
and rentals were $47.3iHi 30, this year
they ar- $36,1)04. As Mr. Beecher took
one of the two dollar pews he is proba
bly anticipating a reduction (u his in
come.
At New Albany, Ind., on Monday Jos.
Nichols and Nannie Woods were mar
ried. The bride was dying of consump
tion, and when her last" hour approached
was received into the church, took the
sacrament and sent for her sorrowing
lover, to whom she was united. An
hour later she was dead.
\ PPI.ES, TURNIPS. CABBAGES. ONIONS,
i Y LEMONS, FF.RRIS’ SMOKED MEATS,
Now
& CO.
BUTTER. CONDENSED MILK. etc.
landing from steamship City of Macon,
janl&tf C. L. GILBERT
C1IFFEE.
5,000 1
David Babcock,
BAGS COFFEE, per American brig
direct from Rio de Janeiro.
Now landing and for sale by
jan8-tf WEED A CORNWELL
li It*.
ioo Bbis. ciioicefLoriba syrup
FOR SALE UY
If.
sep!2-tf
MYERS & BKOS.
VRUSTON CUNNINGHAM.
WM. H. HEWES.
CUNNINGHAM A IIEWES,
Grocers & Ship Chandlers,
Corner Bay and Drayton Streets,
SAVANNAH.
oct26-3ir
JOHN LYONS,
Agent for the following:
BALTIMORE PEARL HOMINY COMPANY.
I y Cantrell & Cochran's Imported BELFAST
GINGER ALE.
— ALSO—
Headquarters for PIPER HEIDSIEOK CHAM-
PAGN E. and the celebrated B YKER WHISKY,
octtt-ly
•Tin Soofiiifl, &(.
CONTRACTOR
-FOR-
An Ohio lover inadvertently, while ask
ing the blessing of his future father-in-
law, said that the girl was worth her
weight in gold, and the future father-in
law, a confirmed bi-metalist, refused his
consent aud chased the lover uif the place
rfith a pitchfork
Galvanized Iron Cornice Work.
MANUFACTURER OF
Tin, Sheet Iron & Copper Wares.
DEALER IN
Stoves, Tinwares, Hardware
-AND
House Furnishins; Goods.
hrnall Girl—Mamma, give j nur some
more pie ? Mamma (who wants the
small girl to say “please")—I don’t hear
you. my child. Small Girl—Give me
some more pie? Mamma—I don’t hear
you. my child. Small Girl—Oh, mamma,
you must be near-sighted in the ears.
All babies bom in the Oneida <N. Y.)
community arc taken from their mothers
at their births and handed to other women
to rear. Jxc. ehhth therefore, will ever
Kr.hw own mother, for they arc all
owned ht common.
At Hereford, England, the other dav a
tailor was sentenced to four months’ im
prisonment and twelve lashes for wilfully
ncilecting to maintain his family. At
London on the same day another man
got foyir months without" the whipping
for having assaulted his wife within au
hour of her confinement. In order to
protect her infant the poor woman clung
to her assailant and was thus dragged
out of bed.
In Woonsocket two young gentlemen
of about nineteen were "walking with two
young ladies of about sixteen, when
some one “stumped" the rest to get mar
ried, and within a few minutes they all
got married.
Paved from the Gallows.—Gover
nor Vance has commuted the sentence of
two colored men, who were to have been
hung for murder in Mecklenburg
county, N. C., last Friday, to imprison
ment for life.
dec31-tf
lf7 BROUGHTON STREET.
/endfrs.
G K ATE
—A>'D—
MISERY FE.YDERS!
HOLSHAAVS.
dec25-tf
HARD \} ARF.
1 Aft TONS SWEDES IRON.
KJU 150 tons REFINED IRON.
75 tons PLOW STEEL.
300 dozen AXES.
1,500 kegs NAHA
4,000 pairs TRACES. ,
Lore tegs