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Jiu ANDERSON, IttY JO, JIM.
Jim Anderson, my jo. Jim, *
When first we were acquaint.
Vou hadn't kalsomined yourself
With pugilistic paint.
But now your jaw is oiled, Jim,
You're telling what you know.
And I am shaking in my shoes—
Jim Anderson, my jo.
Jim Anderson, my jo, Jim,
We planned the fraud thegither,
And Dromised that we never would
Go back on ane anither;
We juggled tb“ returns, but James,
Jim-James, how could you blow
And peach on me and Rutherford—
Jim Anderson, my jo?
Jim Anderson, my jo, Jim.
I promised we would jwiy,
But you despised a clerkship at
Three dollars every day;
<Jl.l Evarts should have sent you off
Consul to Callao—
But hindsight isn’t foresight much,
Jim Anderson, my jo !
Jim Anderson, my jo, Jim,
Twas not a fair divide;
You stole the mule for us, and then
We wouldn't let you ride.
And Stanley M. is sick, Jim,
And Hayes is lying low.
Ami I'm the deadest sort of duck,
Jim Anderson, my jo !
V 1'. Times' Confidential Letter from John
Sherman to Jas. E. Anderson.
Georgia Affairs.
Walker county is out of debt, and lias-
$1,SX) in the treasury. Besides this, the
court dockets, both civil and criminal, have
very few eases on them; there is no prop
erty under a Sheriff's levy; the people are
nearly wholly out of debt; stock and crops
arc in a good condition, and everything is
looking remarkably well. This is certainly
a line showing. And in addition to it all,
we learn from the Lafayette Messenger that
■such a tiling as a tramp is seldom seen,
and peace, plenty and quiet prevail. ”
A negro man named Frank Fluker, well
known in Quitman, lately captured an alli
gator by diving for him in a pond and grab
bing him tightly around the tail. The
•gator made desperate efforts to escape, but
Fluker held on, and with the assistance of
some of "the boys” succeeded in landing
Id- prey. The animal measured nine feet
in length, and Fluker’s perseverance was
rewarded with a splendid feast on alligator
tail.
The Rome Tribune most emphatically be
lieves in encouraging home enterprise. It
-eecntly said that “Atlanta, notwithstanding
], er boasted enterprise and position as the
metropo.'' 8 t * ie South, has to send Capt.
Jackson all ^ ie way to New York to have
fatigue jackets b.’ ,Ut for the Cadets - If the
Captain, in the langm.”*® of ° ur correspond
ent, wasn’t too d-d fas.* id * ous ’ ^ maybe he
could have been suited in Ron.' a -
The Middle Georgia Argus staw^* ^ a
citizen of prominence and means has in coD_
temptation the building of a cotton anu
wool factory somewhere on the Ocmulgee
river. It says: ‘‘As soon as the contempla
ted enterprise nears a focus, we will give a
full account of it.”
I’rgent appeals are still being made for
charitable assistance to the sufferers by the
late storm in the interior of the State.
Many families living in the track of the
wind, hail and rain are totally destitute. This
is a good opportunity for the exercise of
philanthropy and charity.
Mr John Morrison, a prominent citizen
of Augusta, and for many years superin
tendent of streets and drains in that city,
died on Sunday night. K idney disease and
rheumatism were the causes of his demise.
A darkey convert in Oglethorpe, says an.
exchange, stole a suit of clothes to be
baptized in the other day.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger says
that on Sunday night the down passenger
train on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
run over and killed a negro man a mile and
a half beyond McVille, almost cutting him
in twain just below the breast. He was
sleeping on the track.
On Tuesday night at a colored festival in
Macon, a difficulty arose between Obe Wil
son, a barber, and George Gray bill, in which
the former cut the latter quite seriously.
Wilson was arrested.
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitution
alist says that in the latter part of May last
a mad dog running through Mr. W. C.
Frazer’s place, near the city, bit a little ter
rier belonging to Mr. Frazer. The terrier
went mad soon afterwards, and bit a horse
on the head. The terrier died in a short
time, and on Sunday the horse, which went
mad after it was bitten, also died.
Rome Courier: “ A United States warrant
was issued against one Robert Morris, at
Ctarkesville, Georgia, on tbe 3d of Decem
ber last, for passing counterfeit balf dollars
on or about the 29th of August last, and the
warrant was placed in the hands of the
United States Marshal, but the said Morris
succeeded in Tteepipg out of his way. Fi
nally the warrant was placed in the hands
of William Strange, Deputy United States
Marshal, who learned that he w$s on guard
duty at the Dade coal mines, and went up
there after him, but found he had left and
gone to Polk county. He then sent the
warrant to J. H. Lumpkin, Deputy United
States Marshal, and requested him to go
after him, which he did, and arrested him
near Cedartou n Thursday, and brought him
here that night and lodged him in jail.
Walker County Messenger: “The wheat
made in this section of tno country can be
used by the mills and placed upon the mar
ket at least one month sooner than Die
wheat made in the West and farther north,
and while it is true we have not made a very
large crop in this section of the county, yet
from the best information that we can get
upon the subject, there is a very large crop
made throughout the country, and when the
present crop is placed upon the market the
price of wheat will doubtless be lower than
it has been for man}' years. In view of this
fact, we are of the opinion that our farmers
would do well to place their wheat at once
upon the market,' if they can do so. and
realize the present price of wheat, which is
no doubt very much in advance of what it
will be two months from this date.”
Ch/Vnicle and Constitutionalist: “Colonel
Henry D. Capers is in the city, and is stop
ping at the A u f? us t- a Hotel. He is here with
the view of tutting one of our volunteer
companies to go to Greenbrier White Sul
phur Springs. Virgin*, on the 12th of Au
gust, which will be the occauioi) of the an
nual ball of the Lee Monumental 4 eflOC * a '
tion. There will also be a prize drill par
ticipated in by a number of companies.
The tickets from Augusta to the Springs
and return have been placed at the lo\v rate
of ten dollars each.”
Under the head “Save Your Surplus” the
Atlanta Planter and Grange thus gives very
good advice: “What an abundance we
should enjoy in Georgia if every family in
the country could evenly distribute their sup
plies through the whole year. Fruits and veg
etables by hundreds of thousands of pounds
weight, probably tons weight, are destroyed
and wasted in the summer months because
our people are not prepared to take the
pro per steps to save them for times of
scarcity. But fruits and vegetables
may be packed away, some, in salt,
some in brine, and any of these in
jars closely sealed. Tney need not
be the 4 Fruit Jar ’ of the stores, but any
glass or stone vessel that can receive tfce ar-
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
MrUeM** ^. Pt , very hot - 8nd then b8
f ‘ nV ght ' 80 °. f eg? 5 w,| leh are so waste-
fully consumed in the spring and summer
If eggs are gathered fresh and packed down
to salt, on their small ends, and covered
with an inch or two of salt as thev are St-
the I wil1 ke ep perfectly sweet
We hare packed and Shipped
In dcr 88 88 fl ' e barrels of eggs
J" “ d ,re8ted as we here pre-
order ’” Uley haVe re8ched mark ‘-t in first rate
Three prisoners, two named Ehodand one
named McDermott, made a most remarkable
nulw 6 f «°“ L,ahlone ga jail on Monday
S * ys “By the traces
Is ' , ., COneIude that instruments
through the means of which they regained
their liberty were a crow-bar and a coal
chisei. These tools were doubtless slipped
to them through the openings in the win-
dow grates. The first thing then in hand
was to prize off the hinges of the cell door,
which was of wood. This done, they were
in the main room of the jail, and had only to
burst through the front door to be out in the
open air. To do this much skill, ingenuity
and physical strength was required. The
door had double shutters. The inner
one was composed of iron bars
closely laid across each other, and
the outer a thick, heavy wooden
block covered with sheet iron. The inner
shutter was fastened by means of a latch
made secure by a padlock locked in be
tween the two. This, however, did not dis
courage the prisoners, but with a few shav
ings cut from a plank they made a light and
succeeded in unlocking the padlock on the
outside of the iron door. This is the most
mysterious thing connected with their
escape. We cannot conjecture how they
could possibly have gottou to the lock on
the outside, when the bars composing the
door were laid so closely to each other, and
this too without bursting a single bar. After
getting through this door they broke the
bolt of the next lock and then they were
free.”
The Buena Vista Argus relates the follow
ing strange account of snake-charming:
“Mr. J. S. Rogers informs us that while he
was feeding his stock, on Sunday morning
of the 2d inst., his attention was attracted
by a squirrel on the ground whose strange
actions interested him. He approached
near, and the squirrel apparently disregard
ed bis approach. He soon discovered a rat
tlesnake about three and a half feet long in
front of the squirrel. He watched the two
awhile, and noticed that the squirrel moved
nearer to the snake. Nearer and nearer he
approached the snake, continuing its strange
actions, until the snake opened his mouth
and seized him. After the snake had partly
swallowed the squirrel, Mr. Rogers seized a
long pole to kill him. The pole struck a
limb, when the snake threw the squirrel
from his mouth and jumped at Mr. Rogers,
a distance of six or eight feet. A second
stroke Killed the snake, as he was apparent
ly preparing for another leap.”
Ajwriter from Appling to the Hinesville
Gazette, on the increase of sheep raising in
this State, says: “Sheep raising is attract
ing a great deal of attention in this county;
those who have been investing their surplus
money in sheep say that it pays better than
any other property. The range is remark
ably good for sheep, and still there are
hundreds of acres of unimproved lands
without sheep grazing upon them. The
worst enemy the sheep has is the canine
tribe, but the dogs iu this county, when
strolling about, are generally considered as
outlaws ami are put out of the way.”
Middle Georgia Argus, 13th: “Last Sunday
morning, during services at the colored
Baptist church, a cutting affray occurred
bet wen Jim Tauner aud Clem Worthy, two
young mokes of no ordinary African mettle.
Tanner sliced Worthy in four or live places,
one across the abdornen, which, it is said,
came near disemboweling him. We did not
learn the origin of the difficulty. Tuesday
morning Sheriff Curry was after the cuttist.”
The Augusta Evening Sexes tells of the
shooting or a womau by a man near that
city, as follows: “In Harrisburg, just above
the city, about twelve o’clock Saturday
night, a difficulty of some kind occurred be
tween Robert Scott and Ellen Shinall, in
which the latter was shot in the thigh by
the former. Afterward the woman declared
she was in the wrong and declined to prose
cute. The wound is not serious.”
Florida Affairs.
A writer to the Tampa Tribune claims that
Florida is rich in mineral resources. He
says that coal, hard and soft, iron, petro
leum and bi-sulphuret of iron certainly ex
ist there, and that the Legislature could not
do better than make a liberal appropriation
for a thorough geological survey of the
State.
The Marianna Courier complains that the
conditi*^ n roaiis and streets within
the corporate' Umits of that town is awful >
and it wants the town authorities to take
cognizance of this important matter.
There are over one thousand tw o hundred
acres planted in watermelons in Florida for
market purposes.
According to the Palatka Herald the up
per Ocklawaha presents one of the most
attractive routes to be found in the United
States. The lake scenery is we " worth a
visit from New York. The climate is nearly
perfect. The country presents great in
ducements to permanent settlers, and it is
sincerely hoped that hardy, enterprising and
thrifty commifliities will rapidly fill up and
develop the country.
The proposed Constitutional Convention
is the main subject which at present absorbs
the attention of the Florida State Press.
Many papers oppose, but a majority seem to
favor the move.
From the Ocala East Florida Banner we
learn that the stockholders of the Ocala,
Silver Spring and Gulf Railroad Coin puny
held a meeting at the court house last Mon
day for the purpose of electing a Board of
Directors. A resolution was adopted re
quiring ten per cent, of the amount sub
scribed to he paid in at once. The President
was authorized to employ z competent en
gineer to have the road surveyed, and re
ceive plans and bids for the construction of
an improved tramway. This road has been
talked of for a number of years, but it is
now assuming a shape which promises some
thing more than “ street talk ” and news
paper gossip. The officers are gentlemen of
means and have taken hold of the road
simply for the reason that the increase of
their business forces them to do so, and it is
believed that some sort of a road will he
laid down in time to take off the present
crops.
“We'll bet cigars,” says the Florida era-
rent “that Orange county can show a greater
variety and finer fruits, more vegetables,
prettier flowers, handsomer men and sweeter
girls and more of them, considering the
time the county has been settled, than any
county in this or any other State.”
Hon. William Archer Cocke will, it is
said, be put forward as a candidate for the
United States Senate, vine S. B. Conover,
when the Legislature meets,
Base bail is the chief topic of eouvcr.a
tion among the young men of Feraandina
just now.
Say. the Quincy Herald : “We may ex
pect that the fair next fall will be one of the
best ever held in the State. Oar people are
aroused, and seem determined to show
what can be done in Gadsden county. The
management is in excellent hands. All the
arrangements and details will be carefully
attended to, so nothing shall be wanting to
make everything complete. We expect to
seo more people in Quincy during the fair
than have been gathered here at any one
time since the war. Oar people arc deter
mined that our County Fair shall be ahead
of anything ever seen in the State.”
Jacksonville Sun and Press: “A corres
pondent, writing from Green Bay, which >s
oil the line of the railroad between Sander
son and Olustee, states that on the night of
the 13th, Henry Miller, while, intoxicated
got into a difficultv with Lewis EUis. Miller
cut Ellis three times on the face and head,
and Ellis, while down under Miller, drew a
pistol and shot Miller in the left side, about
bno filch below the lower rib. The ball, a
Vo 22, is mill i” Miller, who has bled none
externally, and win probably die from the
wound. Ellis’ wounds are unimportant.
The Tampa Tribune draws a glowing pic
ture of the delights of Florida life. Itwants
to know “Who can be indifferent to -he
blessings of a home in South Florida, where
every luxury can be had with a little indus
try? Fish, oysters, game, and fruits of every
variety are as accessible to the table of the
industrious poor man ax to that of the me
tropolitan millionaire. The climate is as
favorable to the robust farmer as ft is *o
the feeble invalid. The water is pure, and.
the soil is good enough to satisfy any prac
tical farmer. It does 6eem that Providence
has showered His favors on this flowery
laud. He has pointed It out in various ways
as the Eldorado of America, and the ultima
thule of the wildest fancy.”
The-Key West Bispatch relates the follow
ing “sad accident:” “From ourPunta Rassa
correspondent we learn that the mail boat
(an open sloop boat which had previously-
capsized three times; left that place on Fri
day, the 31st ult., for Fort Ogden, carrying
the Northern mail aud having as passengers
s colored woman, named Susannah Carr, and
her two children, one aged between one and
two and the other four years. Off Cape
Hayes on last Saturday evening a flaw struck
the boat and capsized her, thereby losing
the mail and everything on board, and pre
cipitating the occupants into the water.
The mail carrier succeeded in grasping
the youngest child, while Susannah held
on with one hand to the boat and
with the other to the eldest child.
The carrier told her to remain where she
was and he would endeavor to cut the rig
ging and right the boat, and made his way-
over the bottom (the boat was keel up) in
order to accomplish this, but Susannah
either lost her hold or became frightened,
and sank with the eldest child to appear no
more. The mail carrier succeeded in un
stepping the mast and righting the boat and
partly lreeing her of water with his hat, and
at the same time minding the little baby,
which or. reaching land he left in charge of
Mr. Bartholf, Postmaster at Charlotte's Har
bor.”
The Pensacola Gazette chronicles the
death of a colored man named William
Morton by drowning a few days ago, as fol
lows: “It seems that Morton, who could not
swim, was bathing with Keyset Kelker,
Tom Smith and Moses Cephas, all colored:
that one of the latter remained in the river
and two went into the flat, seized Morton
anu threw him overboard to their comrade,
who was to sustain deceased in the water
and give him a lesson in swimming; but
Morton sunk before the other could get
hold of him, and was quite dead when his
body was recovered. Judge Landrum, ex-
oflicio Coroner, held an inquest, and the
verdict was death by drowning, caused by
the carelessness of Keyser Kelker, Tom
Smith and Moses Cephas. The parties were
intimate friends. Morton was a member of
the Santa Rosa Guards, and Captain Geo.
Montgomery claimed the remains, which
were interred with military honors, the com
pany defraying all expenses.”
A writer to the Orange Countg Reporter
gives some very interesting details of a trip
lately made by himself in company with
some friends up Lake Okeechobee. Ilis en
tire letter reads like the adventures of the
Sw iss Family Robinson. Among other things
he says; “On the trip we captured between
400 aud 500 plumes, 2 coons, 2 wild cats, 2
mammoth rattlesnakes, 4 deer, and turkeys
I will not enumerate; but I can assure your
readers that the deer and turkeys were
killed in a county where they are so plenti
ful that the County Commissioners do not
choose to publish the game laws. The
largest alligator killed on the trip was killed
by Arthur Dougherty, measuring II feet 4
inches. The most successful deer shooting
was by myself, killing three large fat bucks
in as many minutes, one at 309 yards dis
tance; next best shot by McQuaig, killing a
fine doe at 272 yards with the same rifle, a
Ballard breach loader.”
General Sherman’s Mistake,
-Yeir York Star.
When Mr. John F. Mines, of Utica,
put liis well-primed and loaded petard
under the political coat-tails of the dig
nified Roscoe Conkling, and set it on,
the consequences of the explosion were
profoundly relished in all sections of the
country. Since that time the Olympian
victim of this surprise has been busily
engaged gathering up the scattered frag
ments of himself aud reconstructing his
shattered anatomy, but he has not thus
far recovered his faculty of speech.
That, however, has nothing to do with
our present purpose. It will be re
membered that one of the most in
teresting of Mr. Mines’ disclosures was
in reference to an interview which
took place between Conkling and
President Grant, when the latter
was collecting troops in the vicinity of
Washington to consummate by force what
the Republican managers ana the return
ing board thieves had planned through
fraud. Grant was in a gloomy frame of
mind, and the cause of his despondency
was a statement made to him by General
Sherman. The latter had said that the
army could not he relied upon to seat
Mr. Hayes; that there were many ardent
Democrats in it who believed that
Louisiana and Florida had been fraudu
lently manipulated, and therefore it
would not be expedient to attempt to use
them for the object which the President
had at heart.
This opinion of General Sherman ex
pressed scarcely sixteen months ago. de
serves to be considered in connection
with the following analysis of a portion
of his speech delivered at West Point
day before yesterday:
“He spoke of Mr. Hayes as having
come from Ohio and alluded to the chief
incidents of his civil aud military career.
Reverting to the agitation and excite
ment growing out of the investigation of
the alleged electoral frauds and the
threatening possibility of an attempt to
unsettle the President’s title to his seat,
General Sherman’s language was strik
ingly significant. Mr. Hayes, he said,
appeared to many to be a mild mannered
gentleman, and so he was, but the
General gave his listeners to understand
that Mr. JJayes was also something more,
lie said that if the time should come
when he would be required to defend his
right to the place he occupies he would
be found to have the requisite nerve and
determination; he knew his right and
dared to maintain it; and what was more,
the army, sworn to defend the constitu
ted authorities, would see to it that he
was sustained in the effort. ”
AYe find nothing inconsistent with his
communication to Grant in the above, if
it be admitted that the Democratic rank
and file of the army regard the Presiden
tial question as legally settled by the
electoral commission; but we do find
much in it to lament on the score of good
taste and common sense. The allusion
to the matter at all was entirely out of
harmony with the occasion. It was so
maladroit and far-fetched as to ex
pose the General to the suspicion of
toadyism. There was nothing in the
time, the circumstances or the place, to
justify it. It is no part of the General’s
duty to seek to make proselytes in the
army for any political party what
ever. He boasts of standing aloof
from polities liimself, and yet he de
liberately encourages those under him to
a contrary course. AVe regret to say that
the hero of the march to the sea grows
more garrulous as he grows older, and in
proportion as he grows more garrulous
he becomes less regardful of the obliga
tions of reason and propriety in his public
addresses. There is no danger that the
young gentlemen at West Point will
ever be called upon to defend Mr. Hayes’
title by arms, and therefore such intima
tions as the General threw out deserve to
be remembered only as warning speci
mens of the absurdity of which an old
gentleman may be capable when talking
under the agreeable influences of a hearty
dinner.
There was a time when a great many
people in this country regarded AViUiam
Tecumseh Sherman as a lunatic. AA'e
have never given in our adhesion to that
theory, but we arc willing to declare that
he is now open to the charge of being a
fool. His recent speech lief ore the
Alumni Association of West Point
stamps him at once as a disturber and a
man unfit to wield the baton of General.
Alluding to the possibility of an attempt
being made to disturb Mr. Hayes’ title,
be declared that Mr. Hayes, although a
mild mannered gentleman, would be
found to possess the nerve to maintain his
right if it was assailed, and that he would
have the support of the artry. It is time
for this loose tongued warrior to be in
foi med that the tax payers of the coun
try have hired him to kill people when
they give him orders. His threats are
entirely out of place. It is all well
enough for his brother John to talk about
war and revolution, for he is probably a
criminal and his tail is in the trap. Gen.
Sherman’s efforts to create the impres
sion that the Potter investigation is a
declaration of war should be sternly de
precated. lie ought to be locked up in
the guard house until he ceases to be a
disturlier of the peace.—Baltimore Ga
zettel ^
According to tire London Morning Post
“ the recent hanging of John Kellocher
cost the Town Council of Perth £117 17s.
fid.” Jack Ketches must he scarce in
Scotland. If eveiy hanging is to be as
expensive as John Kellocher’s, there will
soon be a call for the abolition of capital
punishment in that portion of yueen
Victoria’s dominions.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Conflicting Statements Regarding the
Eoropean Congress.
A MENACING LETTER TO LORD
BEACONSFIELD.
FINAL COLLAPSE OF THE COT
TON OPERATIVES’ STRIKE.
Minor natter..
By Cable to the Morning Sews.
CONFLICTING STATEMENTS IN REGARD TO
THE CONGRESS.
Berlin, June 18.—Statements of the ac
tion of the Congress are contradictory.
Some'correspondents assert that Salisbury
proposed the admission of Greece and sup
ported his proposal iu a speech, which oc
cupied the entire setting. Others declare
the subject was not discussed at all. It is
stated that wheu Count Andrassy Introduced
the question of the boundaries of Bulgaria,
he made an earnest speech, unring the
division of the European basis of nation
alities, thus rendering reform and regenera
tion possible without severing their con
nection with the Porte.
The next sitting of the Congress is on
W ednesday.
COLLAPSE OF THE COTTON STRIKR.
London, June 18.—Detailed accounts con
firm the collapse of the cotton strike, but it
is evident that a strong minority of the
operatives still favor resistance. The
masters executive committee has resolved,
as a precautionary measure, to recommend
a reservation of power to renew the lockout
on shortest notice.
ASCOT RACES.
London, June 18.—In the races on Ascot
Heath to-day Verniert won the gold vase,
Glengary the Prince of Wales’ stakes, and
Chesterton the Ascot stakes.
A MENACING LETTER TO BEACONSFIELD.
London, June 18.—Lord Beaconsfield,pre
vious to quitting London, received a menac
ing letter. He sent it to the Berlin police.
ROME ELECTIONS.
Rome, June 18.—In the city elections the
Catholics elected two out of twelve muni
cipal councillors.
CLOSING PROCEEDINGS OF CON
GRESS.
The Atlantic Yacht Club Regatta.
THE WORK OF YOUTHFUL FIENDS
IN NEW YORK.
AFFAIRS 0\ THE RIO GRANDE.
General News Items.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, June 18.—Both houses re
mained in session until after three o’clock
this morning.
To-day in the Senate, Mr. Kirkwood, from
the conference committee on the resolution
of the House returning to the Senate the post
route bill, which the House refused to con
sider on account of one of the Senate
amendments being in the nature of a
revenue bill, reported that the committee
had been unable to agree and the report
was laid on the table for tne present. The
amendment referred to is that allowing
foreign books through the mails free of
duty in accordance with the terms of the
International Postal Treaty.
The conferees on the part of the Senate
proposed to waive all discussion concerning
the questions of privilege at issue between
the two bouses and consider the bill with
the Senate amendments, but the House con
ferees declined to agree for tbe reason that
they do not possess power under the resolu
tion of the House to consider the bill or its
amendments without enlargement thereof.
The Senate resolution extending the time
for final adjournment to Wednesday at 8
p. m. was concurred in.
The Senate passed a resolution to extend
the session until six o’clock Wednesday eve
ning. Consideration of the sundry civil ap
propriation bill was then resumed.
The Senate amendments to the resump
tion repeal bill have been nonconcured in
by the House for w ant of the necessary two-
thirds majority, so that the bill fails. The
Senate amendments were to make green
backs receivable for four per cent, bonds
and customs duties.
The Senate agreed to the amendment to
the sundry civil appropriation bill appropri
ating five and a half million dollars to pay
the award of the Halifax Fishery Commis
sion if, after correspondence with the Brit
ish Government on the subject of the con
formity of the award to the requirements of
the treaty and to the terms of the question
thereby submitted to the commission, the
President shall deem it his duty to make the
payment without further communication
with Congress.
After adopting numerous amendments,
the Senate passed the sundry civil service
bill.
Mr. Gordon called up the bills to remove
the political disabilities of Wm. A. Carswell
and Larkin Smith, of Georgia. Passed.
Confirmations : Sumner J. Kimball, to be
General Superintendent of the Life Saving
Service; E. Jeffords, District Attorney for
the Southern District of Mississippi; Wm.
Rayden Edwards, Consul General at St.
Petersburg; Postmasters, Robert M. Tindall,
at Okalona, Mississippi, and Wm. W. Dew-
hurst, at St. Augustine, Florida.
The internal revenue bill was received
from the House, aud having been read by
its title, Mr. Withers moved to lay it on the
table for the present aud printed, his object
being to have it considered without refer
ence to a committee. Mr. Sargent objected
to a second reading to-day, and it was laid
aside under the rule forbidding a second
reading until to-morrow. Mr. Ransom ap
pealed to the Senator to withdraw his ob
jection, but Mr. Sargent said he could not
do so. He made his motion intelligently
and in the interest of his constituents.
The discussion upon the amendment to
the sundry civil approriation bill for the
payment of Southern mail contractors for
services rendered prior to the war was con
tinued. Spencer submitted an amend
ment providing that any jiart of the
appropriation of - $375,000 appropri
ated for that purpose bv act of
March 3d, 1877, not required lor the pay
ment of said mail contractors, shall be used
to enable the Postmaster General to con
tract for a mail steamship sendee betweeu
New York and Rio de Janeiro
and New Orleans and Rio once a
month from each port, and to pay
for such service thirty dollars a mile.
Ruled out upon the point of order that it
was general legislation.
The Senate finally agreed to the amend
ment directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay Southern mail contrac
tors for sendees rendered prior to the
war, wdth amendments providing that the
claimants shall give bond for a return of the
money to the United States in case it
shall subsequently be discovered that the
claims were passed by the Confederate
States; and also that any claimant who shall
receive payment from the United States after
having been paid by the Confederate Gov
ernment, 6haJl be punished by fine and im
prisonment.
AFFAIRS ON THE RIO GRANDE.
Galveston, June 18.—The Sews' Fort
Clarke social says: “ A party from the Rio
Grande reports that Conales, with three
hundred regulars, pressed ali the men and
horses he could find in Piedros Negras and
started up the river to intercept Shafter,
who crossed the river Saturday. It is re
ported that McKenzie has been obliged to
return to this side, owing to scarcity of
water. Col. Shafter was also recalled.”
ATLANTIC YACHT CLUB REGATTA.
New York 4 June 18.—In the annual re
gatta of the Atlantic Yacht Club yesterday,
the yachts were divided into four classes,
the course for the first two classes being
forty miies; for class D thirty-two miles,
and for class E twenty-four miles. The
winners were Triton, Intrepid, Imperia and
Dolphin. The latter won the prize in her
class on time allowance.
YOUTHFUL FIENDS.
New York, June 18.—Three boys, of
ages from ten to twelve years, were ar
rested last night, charged with placing
a large paving stone on the track of
the Elevated Railway so as to precipitate
the train from the track. Its escape was
miraculous, as each car of the train jumped
the obstruction. The train was full of pas
sengers, and much consternation prevailed.
INDIAN HOSTILITIES CONTINUED.
San Francisco, June 18.—Reports are
that Indian hostilities continue. The
Indians are burning buildings at Stein
^fountain. Three columns are ready to
move on the hostiles position. Settlers at
White Horse hourly expect an attack.
NOMINATION.
Washington, June 18.—Wm. W. Dew-
hurst has been nominated as Postmaster at
St. Augustine, Fla,
FAMILT POISONED.
Nashville, Tenn., June 18.—Tbe family
of D. H. Bailey, a prominent merchant here',
were poisoned' by eating food which it is be
lieved some person had put arsenic in before
it was cooked. The quantity was so large it
acted as an emetic.
SEVERED HIS CONNECTION.
Philadelphia, June 18.—Anderson, so
prominent as a witness in the Potter investi
gation, has severed his connection with the
Sorth American.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
MOVEMENTS OF HOSTILE
DIANS IN THE WEST.
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(jnestion of Admitting Greece
to the Congress.
ACTION OF THE UNITED STATES
BOARD OF TRADE.
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CORRESPONDENT.
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Dr. Irvine—Dr. Allen.
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INTERNATIONAL BOAT RACE
Genera) New. Items.
MOVEMENTS OF THE INDIANS.
San Francisco, June 18.—A special dis
patch from Portland, Oregon, says about
live hundred hostile Indians liav'e started
toward Camp Harney in this State, and that
they are receiving accessions as they march.
General Howard has given instructions to
send Miles’ command, now en route, to
H&ruey with all possible haste.
San Francisco, June 18.—A Silver City
dispatch says the hostiles have left Stein
Mountain and are moving towards Harney
Valley, thence to Matthews' Agency anil
Snake river, and will probably keep on until
they effect a junction with the Columbia
river Indians, which addition to their forces
will, they calculate, enable them to sweep
the country. Camp Harney will probably
he captured to-morrow, and it so there will
be a terrible slaughter of the whites con
gregated there for protection. Nothing has
been heard from Howard since yesterday.
If he does not effect a junction with Stew
art's forces the party accompanying him
from Camp Lyon could easily he captured
by the Indians.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., Juue 18.—Indications
for Wednesday:
In the South Atlantic States, falling, fol
lowed by rising barometer, warmer to brisk
south winds, shifting to cooler north and
east, partly cloudy or cloudy weather and
frequent rains will prevail.
In the Gulf States generally, higher pres
sure, nearly stationary temperature, variable
winds, clear aud partly cloudy weather, with
occasional rains.
In the Middle Atlantic States, rising fol
lowed by falling barometer, variable winds,
mostly from north to east, with cooler fol
lowed by warmer cloudy or partly cloudy
weather and rain areas.
ADMISSION OF GREECE TO THE CONGRESS.
London, June 18.—It is understood that
the representatives of England moved
for the admission of Greece at yester
day’s sitting of the Congress, and
the representatives of France moved
that the Greek delegates be admitted
to enter into direct relations with the Con
gress, but the debate was continued until
the next sitting. England will insist upon
a vigorous limitation of Bulgaria to the ter
ritory north of the Balkans.
the board of trade.
New York, June 18.—At a meeting of
the United States Board of Trade to-day,
Leslie O. Brooks, President of the Board of
Trade of Mobile, nas chosen President.
Thomas Clyde, of Philadelphia, Fred. A.
Potts, of New Jersey, 8. Y. Tupper, Presi
dent of the Chamber of Commerce of
Charleston, 8. C., and Chauncy J. Filley,
President of the St. Louis Board of Trade,
were chosen Vice Presidents. The Law
Committee was instructed to prepare a new
bankruptcy hill.
the international boat race.
London, June 18.—The Shoewacaemctte
four, of Monroe, Michigan, which came
over on the Alsatia to compete for the Hen
ley regatta, landed at Southampton to-day.
The London and Southwestern Kailway
Company placed a saloon carriage at the ser
vice of the crew, and conveyed their boats to
London free of expense.
THE TOBACCO TAX.
Washington, Juue 18.—The representa
tives of tobacco manufacturers here, owing
to the near close of Congress, have con
cluded to allow the bill to lie in the Senate
until December, when they expect to press
it, with April 1st as the time for the reduced
rate to take effect.
FIRE.
New Y'ork, June IS.—A fire in Beeden’s
bakery this morning cut off the escape of
the employes and occupants by the stair
ways. Daniel Connor was terribly burned,
and Beuj. Megs and Dennis Kelly severely
injured by leaping from the windows.
THE OREGON ELECTION.
Portland, Oregon, June 18.—The latest
election returns undoubtedly elect Thayer
for Governor. His majority will range from
forty to seventy. The Legislature on joint
ballot will have a Democratic majority of
twelve.
DIED.
Albany, N. Y., June 18.—Congressman
Quinn, of this district, died to-dsy.
Mobile, Ala., June 18.—Ernest Beyer, of
Cleves, Germany, one of the leading cotton
buyers of the United States, died to-day of
apoplexy.
WEST INDIAN AFFAIKS.
Havana, June 18.—Gen. Gonzales has
been re-elected President of San Domingo.
Campos has Issued a proclamation, promis
ing oblivion for the past and the enlarge
ment of political representation.
gortschakoff’s condition.
Berlin, June 18.—Gortschakoff was un
able to attend Bismarck's dinner last night.
Cure for Colds in the Head.—The
London Spectator says; It would seem
that the cure for those worst of small
nuisances, colds in the head, which Dr.
Ferrier suggested in the Lancet, might
prove to be a remedy of very great value.
It is a snuff—a white powder—composed
of the following ingredients: Hydro-
chlorate of morphia, two grains; acacia
powder, two drachms; trisnitrate of bis
muth, six drachms—the whole making
up a quantity of powder of which from
one-quarter to one-half may safely be
taken, if necessary, in the course of
twenty-four hours. Dr. Ferrier says
that witli this snuff he has twice cured
himself of very violent colds, indeed, by-
taking trisnitrate of bismuth alone, which
is a very powerful remedy for catarrh of
the mucus membrane, aud is the most
important ingredient in this snuff. Dr.
Ferrier mentions two other persons who
were cured of violent colds by the same
snuff, and to these instances we may add
that of the present writer, who, having a
very violent cold coming on, with the
sensation of weight in the temples and
the usual disagreeable feeling in the
throat, as well as ordinary catarrh, made
trial of Dr. Ferrier’s remedy one even
ing, and got up on the following morning
completely free from cold, which has not
since recurred. The snuff, instead of
increasing the tendency to sneeze, almost
immediately begins to diminish it..
The Seventeen-Year Locusts,—The
seventeen-year locusts have put in an ap
pearance in Canton and vicinity, and
many fears are entertained concerning
the damage they may do the trees, and
the superstitious are worried over the ap
pearance of a letter “W” on their wings,
the same as in 1861. In that year they
appeared in large numbers in Union
township, and the writer remembers well
how completely they stripped the trees
and bushes of all foliage, and also the
much dreaded “W” on their wings,
which at that time was considered by
many to be a direct warning from the
Creator of the impending civil war; and
some people are just wild enough to con
strue their appearance now, with that
same letter on their locomotive appa
ratus, into a warning of approaching
war; and the sensational articles pub
lished in the daily press of the country,
giving glowing accounts of the warlike
preparations of the Communists and the
crazy antics of the Democratic politici
ans in Congress, all go to convince these
light-headed persons that their super
stitious views are correct. The noise
they tbade in 1861 was construed into the
word “Pharaoh,” and much talk was in
dulged in and great misery of mind
created among those who believed in Di
vine warnings, scourges, etc. They make
the same noise now.—Canton (IU.) Regie
ter,
Macon, June 17, 1878.—Editor Morning
Xews: As life advances, the influences about
us tone down the ardor of our natures. The
enthusiasm of our youth departs, and with
a calmer and maturer judgment we look up
on things of the world. There was a time
in my own history when the opportunity of
writing up the Commencement exercises of
a Female College was esteemed a grand
privilege, and the responsibilities regarded
as overwhelming. To-day I take a different
view of the subject, and while my interest
is not in the least abated In these “ charm
ing creatures just budding tato worn
hood," still I look upon them as school girls,
and measure their attainments by a very dif
ferent standard. Therefore, whatever 1
shall say of them, must be taken with the
understanding that I mean schoolgirl excel
lencies.
On Friday night last the Sophomore class
o 1 the Wesleyan Female College gave us an
exhibition of their attainments in elocu
tiunary reading. There were ten young
ladies selected out of a class of thirty-three,
the choice being made solely on their pro
ficiency in the art of reading, to represent
the class before the public. They are all
quite young, and to fill with their voices
the large and densely crowded chapel was
no easy undertaking. Notwithstanding the
embarrassments of the evening they
measured up to the expectations of tneir
teachers and proved themselves equal to
the occasion. I but repeat the opinion of
many of the older attendants upon these
exercises when I saj- it was among the
best, if not the very best Sophomoric ex
hibition ever given iu connection with this
institution, and they have beeu going on for
nearly forty years.
The selections were varied, and the girls
seemingly entered into the spirit of the au
thors from whose works they read. Their
movements and behavior before the public
uas natural, nothing strained, although
in point of style some of them were quite
dramatic. This class has been under the
immediate training of Prof. Howard W.
Key, son of Dr. J. S. Key, well known in
Savannah. If all his teachings are marked
by similar thoroughness, he may certainly be
set down as a success. It affords me pleas
ure to hear this testimony to an excellent
teacher and worthy Christian gentleman.
Savannah was most worthily represented in
this class byMiss Annie Lester, whose graceful
movements on the stage, as well as the clear
and dlstict enunciation of her words, called
forth expressions of commendation on every
hand.
SUNDAY SERVICE.
The announcement that Dr. R. Irvine, of
Augusta, would preach the commencement
sermon insured a large attendance, for the
fame of this celebrated divine had preceded
his coming. But all other influences con
tributed to swell the crowd. Mulberry
Street Methodist Church is the most ca
pacious church building in die city, and to
Its usual sitting capacity hundreds of chairs
had been added. These were all filled,
and every available portion of standing
room was occupied, aud yet many were
compelled to go away because there was
no place for them.
The choir, under direction of Professor J.
S. Newman, furnished excellent music for
the occasion. The services were opened th
reading the first hymn by Kev. Dr. Evans,
of Atlanta; then followed an earnest prayer
liy Dr. A. J. Battle. President of Mercer
University. Dr. Irvine then came forward
into the pulpit, and conducted the remain
ing exercises. His text was the last clause
of the 23d verse of the 2d chapter of James:
“And he (Abraham) was called the friend
of God.” The learned preacher announced
that for reasons perfectly satisfactory to
himself he had abandoned the delivery of
the sermon specially prepared for thi3 occa
sion. He claimed for it higher literary
merit than the one he preached, but his pur
pose had been changed, and he proceeded
to give a sermon on ‘‘Friendship,” the rela
tion existing between Abraham and his
God. In the analysis of “friendship,” he
made the following points:
1. The foundation was mutual good will.
2. Mutual good will grew into mutual
affection.
3. Mutual love or affection resulted in
mutual confidence.
4. Mutual confidence resulted in the most
intimate communion one with another.
These points were most eloquently and
clearly elaborated, and most beautifully
illustrated by biblical incidents. His de
livery is earnest and his logic convincing.
He is an impressive speaker and yet it is
somewhat difficult to ascertain wherein his
power lies. He held the vast audience fot
an hour, without any signs of weariness.
He has just enough of the foreign accent
left to mellow and round off his sentences.
He has wonderful pathos In his
voice, and the vast crowd was more
than once brought to tears by his
vivid descriptions. As a commencement
sermon in the popular sense it was unique.
Its singularity consisted in the absence of
evdrything like literary display—in its
deep spirituality—in its fervid gospel tone.
As a gospel sermon it was a grand success,
because it reached the hearts as well as the
minds of the congregation. It awakened
thought aud quickened dead consciences,
aud no doubt lifted many up to higher
aspirations. The congregation dispersed
with expressions of delight and satisfaction.
The graduating class of 1878 can never for
get the impressions of that hour, and if Its
teachings are carried out they will lead to a
higher and a better life.
At night another large crowd gathered at
Mulberry Street Church to hear the lecture
of Kev. Young J. Allen, D. D., on China.
He has spent nearly twenty years as a mis
sionary, under the auspices of the M. E.
Church, South, at Shanghai. When the
late civil war came on he was cut off from
all intercourse with the Missionary Society,
and was thrown upon his own resources for
support. By a mysterious providence the
government of China established at that
time a college in Shanghai for the purpose of
instructing young men in foreign lan
guages, preparatory to filling offices in for
eign countries, and Young J. Allen was
chosen to preside over this institution,
although he had only been in the
empire about nine years. Thus ample sup-
f ort was secured for himself and family,
n this secular employment he was not un
mindful of his religious obligations, and
the first class of young Chinese that passed
out of the institution, fifty-two In number,
adopted in theory, if not in practice, oar
Christian doctrines and civilization. He has
trained over three hundred from that time
until his leaving for America. The Chinese
government, appreciating his worth, has
sept him in constant employment, and he
has translated into their language the his
tories of all the European nations, as
well as that of India and Asia. He has
just concluded the translation of a scientific
course of school books, to he used in all the
schools in both China and Japan. They are
going through the press now. In addition
to this he publishes a weekly magazine in
the Chinese language, which circulates
throughout the empire with the endorse
ment of the Emperor. It contains moral
and religious articles, and seeks to convey
such instruction and information as is most
needed. A series of articles on natural re
ligion in this paper so charmed a Japanese
philosopher, that he obtained from his Sov
ereign the copyright of publication for thirty
years: and the Sovereign, so pleased with
the book, ordered at once the publication of
ten thousand copies, to be distributed to the
schools throughout bis realm. Dr. Allen
presented many Interesting facts and Inci
dents of Chinese life, but I have not space
to reproduce them. He expects to return
soon to China and his life-chosen
work. His presence here is in answer
to the demands of his Conference—the
North Georgia, where his membership re
mains—who elected him as a delegate to the
late General Conference which met in At
lanta. The citizens of Macon have been
highly favored by the exercises of yester
day.
THE JUNIOR EXHIBITION.
According to custom ten young ladies are
selected every year to represent the Juffior
Class. This class numbers fifty-one, and
the young ladies are selected according to
proficiency in composition. Therefore, those
who appear before the public are the best
the class contains. This year the class sus
tained themselves well, the greatest diffi
culty being the want of voice sufficient to
fill the hall. There were but one or two
who could be heard at the outer door,
yet all spoke very distinctly. This is one of
the excellencies of their training.
To-night the Senior Class begin to read
their essays and will continue until Wednes
day noon.
SIDE NOTES.
Prof. H. W. Key has resigned his profes
sorship of natural science in the Wesleyan
Female College here, and goes Into the Co
lumbus Female College at tbe opening of
its next session. It is not known yet who
will be his successor here.
Judge Jackson it is said is greatly missed
at the collegejn the “cheering department.”
In vain the twelTe-year-old follower looketh
for the movement of his cane and umbrella.
Rev. J. W. Burke, who only runs two or
three bookstores aud newspapers, wd is in
charge of a circuit, has been appointed by
Bishop Pierce Presiding Elder of the Macon
District, vice Kev. J. O. A. Clark, who has
been appointed agent for Wesley Monu
mental Church, of Savannah.
There were over two thousand excursion
ists from down the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad in the city to-day. The rain has
been falling incessantly ever since their ar
rival. They left at 5 o’clock after a most
unpleasant "day. Jack Plane.
MISS FRANGE IN COURT.
Begging OH Ihe Amateur Highw ay
man whom She Chased, Caught
aud Pitied -He Proves to be a VIoat
Respectable Vlan with Relatives In
Plenty—Praises for His Young Cap-
tor.
Xew York World, 16th.
Miss Lulu Prange, who on Friday in
Clinton avenue, Brooklyn, pluckily ran
down, captured and subsequently for
gave a man who had robbed her of her
pocketbook, came into her father’s store,
at Xo. 1,355 Fulton street, yesterday af
ternoon, all aglow with animation and
excitement.
Well, Lulu," said her father, who is
a pleasant-faced German—long enough
in this country to have liecome thoroughly
Americanized—and who is the proprietor
of a trim and well stocked boot and shoe
store, “what heroic thing have you been
doing to day ?”
Miss Prange opened wide her blue
eyes, and then seeing the World re
porter, blushed a little, bowed and sat
down close by her father on the sofa.
She was, she said, “a little bit tired,”
for she had been on her feet ever since
daylight. -‘Indeed, I couldn’t sleep,”
she continued; “that poor man’s face as
he stood trembling with my pocketbook
in his hand haunted me all night. All
the time I was running after him I was
thinking of nothing but my loss, for to
tell you the truth I had a ring in that
pocketliook (Miss Prange blushed a little)
which I wouldn’t have lost for any
thing. Do you know, sir, that man
was brought up a gentleman,
and he was starving. Ilis rent was
due to-day. His wife was sick. He
had no money to get a doctor; no bread
in the house, nothing. I got up early
this morning and went right down to see
poor Mrs. Hollis. And then we went
around to the court. The court room
was awfully full, and we had to wait.
Mr. Hollis’ brother had arrived from New
Haven—a nice looking man—and his
cousin, Mr. Holbrook, of Clinton avenue,
was with him. Meantime they had sent
for Assistant District Attorney Wern-
berg, and when be arrived I was called
up. I told how I chased the poor man,
and how he ran; and while I was telling
it I heard somebody in the court room
say, ‘If she don’t send that man up I’m
very much mistaken.’ I turned half
around, and I said loud enough for
everybody to hear, ‘I wouldn’t be here if
I wasn't forced to, and I want everything
done for him that can be done to get him
free.’ Then, when I had finished my
story, the poor man was called up. He
could hardly walk. aDd couldn’t speak
above a whisper. He told the Judge that
he didn’t know what made him take the
money, and that while he was running
he wanted to give it back to me all the
time. The Judge looked as if he was
uoing to cry, and as for me, I was cry
ing as hard as I could. The Judge beck
oned the Assistant District Attorney and
talked with him. I felt as if they were
going to hang me. Presently the Judge
said that if the District Attorney would
consent to it he would accept a plea of—
what was it?’
“ Petty larceny,” said Mr. Prange.
“ \"es, petty larceny. He would let
the man go. I thought he meant Mr.
Wernberg, and I watched to see what he
would do. But it turned out that the
Judge meant Mr. Catlin. So that it was
necessary to go down to the City Hall
and see him. I said I’d go, too. It
seemed to me as if we would never get
to the City Hall, but the District Attor
ney was a good man and at once gave us
a paper which he said would make it all
right. And then we hurried back. As
we came into the court room, poor Mr.
Hollis said to me, ‘ I suppose it is all
over,’ and the tears came into his eyes.
You ought not to cry,’ I said ; ‘ you are
stronger than I.’ ‘ But I don’t Believe I
am,’ he answered, and I couldn’t help
laughing. And then he turned perfectly
white until I thought he would fall. The
Judge, looking very solemn, called him
up to the desk and told him that the plea
of petty larceny was accepted and that
he could go.
“Poor Mr. Hollis; he could only bow
and bow. ‘Don’t thank me,’ said the
Judge: ‘thankthat young lady,’ and then
the crowd pressed around me, and half a
dozen gentlemen pressed their cards in
my hands. Wasn’t it funny? Here’s one
of them from a perfect stranger.”
Miss Prange produced the card of an
editor, on the back of which was written
in lead pencil: ‘ Accept the admiration
of one who speaks for many in praise
of your courage, pluck and womanly
generosity."
“I squeezed out of the court and fol
lowed Mr. Hollis and his brother to the
bouse. I can’t tell you about the meet
ing between the man and his wife. I
only wish you could have seen it. Even
the babies seemed to know what was the
matter. When I got home I found half
a dozen letters from people offering to
do something for the poor family. So I
started right out, and have seen the
writers of most of them. Some of them
have giveD me money, and one or two
promised to send groceries and provi
sions. It was too funny about a photo
grapher on Fulton street. He sent me a
card asking me to call, and when I got
to his shop he proposed that I should
have my pictures taken, aud said he
would sell them for the benefit of the
poor family. Did you ever hear of such
a thing ? ’Of course I wont.’ I said ‘I
thought you wanted to give me some
money, or I shouldn't have called.’ And
then the poor man looked rather sheep
ish, and putting his hand in his pocket,
gave me a dollar. ”
“And here,” said Mr. Prange, holding
up a sheet of paper, “is another interest
ing document she has received. ”
“O, never mind about that,” said Miss
Prange, trying to get the letter, but her
father insisted it should be shown. It
bore the name of a man ic public life,
and was as follows;
"Miss Lvlc Prange: Pardon the liberty I
take in addressing you this letter. I do it from
positive admiration of those qualities which 1
believe you possess, judging from the accounts
I have read of your late adventure, viz: Pres
ence of mind, coolness, courage, and last, but
not least, a true womanly heart responding to
the relieving of distress among the poor and
needy. It strikes me really as one of the most
sublime cases and combinations of circum
stances of which I have ever read or heard.
The chase, the investigation, the pardon, and
then the magnificent charity, combining with
the most beautiful characteristics of true wo
manhood with the gallant dash of a cavalry
officer Allow me to congratulate you most
sincerely, and had I a sister who could boast
such an achievement I should worship her the
balance of my life.
“Most respectfully and admiringly your un
known friend, .”
Mr. Francis W. Holbrook, a first
cousin of Hollis’, lives in a pretty threc-
story brick house at No. 218 Carlton
avenue, not five blocks from his cousin’s
residence.
“I am angry enough to spank Theo
dore,” he said.. “I knew he was poor,
but to think of my own cousin starving
within a stone’s-throw of my house is too
bad. Theodore Hollis has been ever
since he was born, a patient, hard-work
ing, moral man, devoted to his family
and possessed of the kindest heart in the
world. lie was bom in New Haven, and
is now about thirty-nine years old. His
father was well known in New Haven as
Captain Hollis, is a Royal Arch Mason
and has for years been City Sheriff. He
is always nominated by both parties. He
is not worth much money, but he has a
comfortable home, which he owns.
Theodore went to clerking it in a grocery
store in New Haven when he was twelve
years old. Having no bad habits he had
by the time he was twenty five
saved up over three thousand dollars,
was married (his wife is a Connecticut
girl who lived before her marriage near
New Haven) and owned the house he
Jived in. About eight years ago he was
persuaded by several parties to give up
his business, and go with them to North
Carolina to start a saw mill. He lost
eveiy cent he had. Then he returned
to New Haven and went to clerking it
again. Finally the firm failed, and tnen
began the poverty which has brought
him to this. About two years ago he
collected what money he could and came
to Brooklyn, taking rooms on Allantic
street. lie thought he could get a place
in the grocery business; but month after
month passed Py, and finally, he tells me.
he was obliged to pawn things. His
wife’s wedding presents went one by
one; his watch, and. in fact, all they
had. One of the best hearted fellows in
the world, he was also very proud, and
concealed his real position from all his
friends. I met him one of the coldest
days last winter in Broadway. * Why.
Theodore,’ said I. ‘ where's your over
coat? * Well, Frank,* he answered,
‘you know I always did hate an
overcoat, and I thought I’d kinder
walk brisk to-day, and do without
it’ At that very moment it was
in pawn. I was just going to lunch
at the time, and I asked him aloug. He
said he'd have some crackers and milk,
I rather suspected he was a little short
so I ordered a big dinner, and he ate it
like a starving man. But I never
imagined things were in such a state at
home. I never thought he was hard up
for spending money. He tells me now
that one day he had just ten cents on
Saturday night, and bought with that
sum fifteen little cocoanut cakes and
afterwards sold them at the corner of
Court street for a penny a piece with
which he bought three loaves of bread.
For the last year he has been trying to
make a living"as 'longshoreman at twenty
cents an hour, but he is weak aud deli
cate and the work was took heavy for
him. None of liis family in New Ilaven
have dreamed of this state of things, anil
his brother Clifford, who keeps the Ilolly
Coffee House, near the New Ilaven
depot, utterly broke down this morning
in court. "
In conclusion, Mr. Holbrook said that
he had no doubt they would be able to
obtain a good place for Hollis in a few
days.
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EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA.
The Colored JlethodlstM Oppose It
strennonnlY, and Cite .Vlau)- Cogent
Reasons.
Boston Globe.
The committee of the Methodist
African Conference, to whom was re
ferred the question of African emigra
tion, have prepared and presented a long
report, in which they condemn the
scheme emphatically. Among the rea
sons assigned is that of climate. The
climate of Africa, they hold, is more de
pressing and not so favorable to the de
velopment of the possibilities of the
colored people as that of America. The
prospects of a peaceful settlement and
colonization in Liberia they deem quite
practicable. The report cites the resolu
tions adopted at a meeting of the free
colored people in Asbury Church, New
York city, iu 1834, in which mutual
congratulations were expressed that
the contest in the United States
was ‘ 'not for landed territory, but for
freedom; the weapons not carnal, but
spiritual; where the struggle is not for
blood, but for right.” Here, tiie com
mittee claim, is the best chance for the
religious and political freedom of the
colored people. In the language of the
Asbury Church gathering they cry out:
“Le no man remove from his native
country, for our principles are drawn
from the Book of Divine Revelation, and
are incorporated in the Declaration of
Independence.” If these men could so
talk in 1834, wheu slavery existed, how
strong must have lieen their faith, say
the comm’ttee, and how, they ask. can a
conference of the church in 1878, after
foity-four years of toil and lalior, fail to
denounce those who are manifesting such
a lack of confidence in God as to advise
an exodus of the colored people ?
Schools and colleges are now open to the
colored populatibn ; land can be pur
chased cheap ; railroads, school houses
and churches, the telegraph and all im
provements of modern times are ready
to exercise their influence to iierfect the
civilization of the colored people. All
that is required, the committee agree, is
to exercise at home the same frugality,
industry, sobriety and Christian virtues
that would be needed for success abroad,
and the black man will find bis true
home in the United States.
Carbolic Acid for Coughs and Ca
tarrh.—The London Medical Record
gives the experience of Dr. Moritz in the
use of carbolic acid spray in catarrhal
diseases of the respiratory organs. Hav
ing had much to ao with carbolic acid,
and especially the spray, he noticed that
the bronchial catarrh with which he was
frequently troubled did not occur, and
that, if it began, it was soon arrested. A
colleague of his, Dr. Asseldelfft, made
the same observation. Dr. Moritz used
the spray of a 2 per cent, solution of
carbolic acid. He first tried it on two
children in whom the commencement of
whooping cough was suspected. After
the remedy had been used two days, the
slight catarrh whicli was present came to
a stand still, and in a few days disappear
ed. In several children with measles the
cough was diminished, and the nights
were more quiet after the use of carbolic
acid spray. In two surgical patients
also, whose lungs were in a suspicious
state, the cough entirely disappeared
during the frequent use of the spray.
The carbolic acid does not set as a cau
terant, for dilution produces beneficial
action, and it is not demonstrated that it
exerts any chemical action of the false
membranes, as some have thought. It
appears most reasonable that it acts as a
parasiticide, destroying the proto-organ-
isms which constitute the fundamental
part of the false membranes, and which
exist in the circulatory system, since the
local alterations are more than the ex
pression of zymotic influence.
At the recent state ball the Princess of
Wales wore a beautiful dress of pale
blue satin, nearly covered in different
shades of geraniums, which formed an
entire tablier; several veils of tulle fell
over it, and seemed fastened to a small
quilted satin train by bunches of ger
aniums. The corsage was richly studded
with rare gems and flowers. Tiie diadem
which her Royal Highness wore was
resplendent, and several rows of pearls
fell over her shoulders, and a row of
matchless diamonds encircled her throat.
The Duchess of Teck wore a most unique
toilette in satin, of the color called vert
mousse, intermixed with magnificent
brocade of pale cream, and bouquets of
roses and leaves in the tints of the vert
mousse; the jupe and corsage were drap
ed in scarves of finest Brussels lace
drawn up with large tiger-lilies. The
Duchess of Manchester was beautifully
dressed in a Princesse robe of white
satin, drawn up over a jupe of tulle,
with branches of white magnolias ami
green leaves, and profusions of diamonds
on the corsage. The Duchess of Suther
land looked beautiful; she wore a dress
entirely composed of black tulle, with
large Arum lilies, relieved by magnificent
jewels. _
The Strakosch Scandal.—A Chicago
Tribune reporter yesterday had an inter
view with the mother of Miss Clementina
Smedley regarding the suit brought by
that young lady in New York against
Max Strakosch for alleged attempted se
duction and breach of promise. Mrs.
Smedley reiterated what the daughter
charged in her complaint, saying that
Strakosch had promised to mam- the girl,
but was to give her first as good a musi
cal education as she could receive in this
country, and then finish it at Milan. The
girl applied herself to studies with the
matrimonial object in view. She says
her daughter is as smart a girl as lives,
and as pure as an angel. She has be
longed to Christ Church, Chicago, for
sixteen yeara, and is now twenty-four
years of age. Airs. Smedley says Stra
kosch engaged himself to her daughter
in January, 1874.
Bishop Cheney was also questioned,
and said that Miss Smedley was a mem
ber of Christ Church, aud had always
been considered a faithful Christian wo
man. The Bishop had the greatest con
fidence in her, and believed that the
charges against Strakosch were true to
the letter.
The water wagtail which last year
built its nest on the framework under
neath a third-class railway carriage on
the London and Southwestern Railway
has returned this spring to her old quar
ters, and has reared a fresh brood of lit
tle ones in her strangely chosen habita
tion. The bird and her young ones make
a daily journey of forty miles.
The best is the cheapest. Dr. Bull's Baby
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most reliable medicine for babies. Price 25
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