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(Jeorsria Affairs.
Mr. Ed. T. Byington, of Fort Valley, has
located in Cochran, and proposes soon to
establish a paper there.
The Hartwell Sun is not satisfied with the
way in which Mr. Stephens was “organized”
in the Eighth district, and still regards him
as, more or less, an Independent. It claims
that even if Lester be elected in the Seventh
honors will only be easy. The Seventh will
gain a Democrat, but the Eighth will elect
an Independent.
A swain, supposed to have been in love,
purchased a vial of laudanum in Albany on
Tuesday last and drank it. The very unro-
mautic stomach pump and emetic saved his
life. He was from Worth county, and the
Albany Xerox refuses to give his name.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Southwest Georgia Industrial Association
will be held at Albany on the second of Au
gust, to take into consideration the matter
of paying dividends to stockholders. It is
thought very naturally that a promised
dividend of 7 per cent, on the stock would
stimulate the enterprise, and give tone and
strength to the institution.
The Quitman Rejxyrtcr wants a clean sweep,
from Congressman to Coroner.
The editor of the Jonesboro New* re
marks' that this is his year for a silver wed
ding, He doesn’t intend to have one, how
ever, as he fears he will not receive presents
enough to pay for the supper.
The Atlanta Cadets have returned from
their most enjoyable visit to Richmond, Va.,
and were cordially welcomed back home by
their friends and fellow soldiers. A very
interesting incident marked their departure
from the ex-Confederate capital. Just as
they were boarding the train a gentleman of
Richmond presented them with a battle flag
which bore upon one side the coat of arms
of Georgia, and on the other “McIntosh
Guards, 19th January, 1861.“ The flag, the
gentleman said, belonged to a Georgia com
pany who had fought in Virginia during the
war. It had been captured by the Feder-
als in a battle and subsequently re
captured by him. He requested the Cadets
to take charge of it, and keep it until they
could turn it over to the McIntosh Guards
or the survivors of that organization. His
wishes will be complied with.
The corner of Marietta and Broad streets,
Atlanta, was enlivened by a fierce and fear
ful female fight ou Tuesday last between
two Amazons about the color of Mr. Ste
phens’ proposed goloid dollar. After they
had afforded sufficient amusement to the
lookers-on the combatants were arrested.
Mr Stephens’ remarkable light weight has
prove** a blessing and life preserver to him.
While attending a political meeting in
Washington, Wilkes county, on Thursday,
the stand from which he spoke fell with a
tremendous crash. Says a special to the
Auirusta News: “A thrill of horror went
through the crowd when it was known that
Mr. Stephens fell with it; but he was
quickly raised and held up to sight, and
when it was announced that he was unhurt
cheer after cheer rent the air.”
a colored woman, named Mar\- Nicks,
has been arrested in Augusta for threaten
ing to set her house on fire. She is sus
pected of being insane and has been sent to
the Freedman’s Hospital.
The Augusta News learns that on Monday
two men near Millen, on the Central Rail
road, had a difficulty which resulted in each
of them drawing their pocket .knives and
hacking away generallj'. Both were, at last
accounts, reported to be in a dying condi
tion.
An undertaker was forced to enter a vault
in Warrentou on Friday last to prevent the
•explosion of a burial case from gas genera
ted by the body which it contained. His
disagreeable task was suceessfully accom
plished.
Charles Terry, a colored barber of Colum-
ous, walked all the way from Troy, Ala., to
his home, a distance of nearly one hundred
miles,because some one in that tow n charged
him with a debt of thirty cents.
Governor Colquitt has offered a reward of
two hundred and fifty dollars for the arrest
and evidence to convict Andrew C. Irvin,
who ic charged with the murder of his wife
In Upson county.
The Augusta Chronicle reports the sad
death by drowning of Robert E. Lee Hitt,
son of Mr. Wm. M. Hitt, of that place, on
Thursday afternoon. He was bathing on
the Carolina side of the river with two young
companions, when he got beyond his depth
•and was drowned. He was only thirteen years
•old, and his companions were each younger
than himself, one being only seven. His
body was recovered after some search and
•every effort made for his resucitation, but
without avail.
Thursday, at 6:15 a. m., just after Mr, W.
F. Grace, of Macon, had opened his store,
•Jim Anderson, a notorious negro thief,
walked in and asked for a pound of tobacco.
While it was being weighed Anderson
slipped a box of cigars under his coat. Mr.
Grace saw and collared him. A tussle en
dued. Result: Landing of Audcrsou in the
barracks, and at 10:45, just four hours and
thirty minutes from the time he committed
the theft, he was sentenced to eleven months
on the chain gang.
John Scarborough was seriously bricked
on the head by George Hughes, in Macon,
Thursday. Jealousy. No arrests so far.
An old gentleman from the rural districts
blew out his gas at the Lanier House,
Macon, Thursday night. The window of
iiis bedroom was open, so he didn’t die, but
he didn’t sleep much, and was very weak
the next morning. He couldn’t imagine
what it was that smelt so badly all night.
Always turn off your gas on retiring.
Hawkinsville Dispatch: “The explosion
•of an empty barrel is something unusual,
but on Monday aftcrnoDn an instance of the
kind occurred at the place of Mr. Henry
Waterman, on Pine Level. His brother
Maurice was preparing barrels to receive
the wine then being pressed at their vine
yard. The barrel that exploded had only
two or three days previously been thor
oughly washed inside, the head board taken
out, and the barrel left in the sun. The
head was again inserted and so left. When
it became necessary to use it, Maurice held
a lighted sulphur match to the bung hole,
to destroy any obnoxious gases that might
have formed.” There was more gas than was
■expected,and in au instant there was a terrific
explosion and much confusion. Maurice
was burned considerably, and Miss Alice
Waterman, standing near by, was slightly
wounded by a piece of the barrel, bid no
serious injury was sustained by any one.”
The Toccoa Herald pays us this compli
ment: “The Morning News is a leading
newspaper, not only in Georgia, but also in
Florida and other Southern States. We ad
mire the News, because of its unwavering
stability and unflinching integrity,”
Augusta Chronicle: “At a meeting of the
directors of the Enterprise Factory, held
yesterday, a resolution was adopted author
izing the President, Major George T. Jack-
son, and the Superintendent, Mr. Davis, to
proceed North at once and ourchase the
new machinery for the mill. Their- gentle
men left last evening for this purpose. Tim
new machinery will double the capacity of
the mill, giving it about thirteen thousand
cpindles. Yesterday 101 was offered for
-Enterprise Factory bonds, an excellent in
dication of what people think of the in
stitution.”
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger, 26th :
“Yesterday morning about two o’clock the
confectionery of Mr. Robbert Waggenstein,
on the comer of Fourth and Hawthorne
streets, was burglariously entered and a lot
of good things, consisting of tobacco, cigars,
cakes, candies, etc., w'ere abstracted. No
clue to the thieves.”
The Hartwell Sun learns through private
sources of a shocking tragedy which occur
red in Franklin county a few days ago. It
says: “A man by the” name of Dove had
given his little daughter a task to do—hoe
ing in the field. Upop going to the field
and finding she had not finished her task,
he struck her on the head with a hoe and
killed her. We get this from a reliable
source, and presume it is true.”
Albany News: “Our business men antici
pate an active trade for Albany the coming
fall. Everything promises well. Our plant
ers are not much i» debt, and will claim
tneir own money for the growing crop and
spend it at home. Merchants are preparing
to lay in heavy and well-selected stocks of
goods, and will be ready to supply all de
mands. Albany should control even more
trade than she ever has, and persistent and
systematic advertising is the way to do it.”
Jonesboro Xeics: “At the barbecue at this
place, on the 19th instant, a colored man,
who engaged freely in the dance was
prostrated by the heat, and went to give an
account of his stewardship on earth—the
only death from sunstroke in this county
yet reported.”
The Jonesboro News is despondent over the
present crop outlook. It says: “The farmers’
prospects have been reversed. Two weeks
ago all was bright; now all is dark. Some
say tlieir corn is cut short by half, some say
they will not make a bushel per acre, others
say they will not make half a bushel to ten
acres. Cotton nearly as bad. The drouth
has not been so great of itself, but the ex
treme heat and the drouth together burned
up the vitals of vegetation. We can hardly
believe that the change has been so great
as reported, and as there is some appear
ance of rain now we hope to hear better
news soon.”
Macon Telegraph: “We learn that the
Route Agent on the Macon and Augusta
Road has been appointed, and the choice of
the Postmaster General has fallen on Col.
Bulow Campbell, of Atlanta. The selection
of Mr. Campbell is a most appropriate one.
He is well known throughout the State, hav
ing been Private Secretary under Governors
Jenkins, Brown and Smith, and each time
filled the important and responsible position
with gred) ability. He will do faithful ser
vice for Uncle Sam,”
Atlanta Constitution, 25th : “ Yesterday
morning, about four o’clock, a small child
was left at the house of Minnie Mitchell,
who resides sixteen miles from this city, in
DeKalb county. At the hour above men
tioned a man knocked at the door of the
house, and, upon its being opened, he band
ed the child to Minnie with the instruction to
keep it until he returned. He left a quantity
of clothes with which to dress it and fifteen
dollars to pay incidental expenses. The
man is ngt known to the woman who has
the child thrust upon her, and appears to be
a stranger in that section. The baby was do
ing well at last accounts.”
The Griffin News advises the farmers of its
locality to if hedge off” as follows: “It is a
well established fact that the drouth and
the excessive hot weather for the last two
or three weeks has materially injured and
cut off the com crop. If it was to rain
now the crop would be short. Therefore,
the farmers and everybody else who has a
patch of available land should prepare it
and have it ready when it rains to sow in
turnips. The turnip crop can be made to
supply the falling off in the core crop to a
great extent. A few acres well prepared
and sown in turnips will produce enough to
fatten several bogs, and help winter the
cow s—thus saving corn. No crop that can
be raised in this climate is more profitable
according to the labor required to cultivate
it than the turnip crop, and the land can be
prepared and the crop planted at a season of
the jvar when farmers have nothing else to
do. Now, gs the com crop will be short,
we think it wouid b.e wise for our farmers
to hedge or wedge in with a large turnip
crop.”
Quitman Reporter; “There are over thirty
thousand head of sheep owned in Colquitt
county, which give to her citizens a clear,
clean profit of over twenty thousand dollars
per annum. Let us suppose that the
average amount of wool clipped from each
sheep Was three pounds per head, and the
number thirty thousand, the aggregate
would be ninety thousand pounds, which,
at twenty-four ’cents (rather under the
average price), would produce the nice little
sum of twenty-one thousand six hundred
dollars. There are at least twenty thousand
dollars worth of beef cattle sold out of the
county per annum, which is also a profit.”
According to a Cuthbert paper on last
Tuesday afternoon a strange pheno
menon was witnessed in that town. A
volume of smoke, which lasted bqt § mo
ment, was seen to rise up from the ground,
in the centre of the street on south side of
the court house, as if coming directly from
the earth. It was noticed by several gentle
men, who are at a loss to explain the
mystery. The spot was immediately ex
amined, and neither a hole nor sign of fire
was to be seen anywhere. Possibly it was a
cloud of dust raised by g slight whirlwind.
WILHELJIINA SECGEIAKLb SjUJ.-
CII>E.
Tlixins a I*oi.. potion
cd by One of tlie Novel* Sjhe bad
KCcad.
New York Sun.
\Y ilhelmina Stsegelcke, an attractive
girl of twenty three, dic-d at 11;30 p. ir
on Sunday, in her brother’s home at 329
.Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, from the
effects of a poisonous draught which she
made and drank on last Wednesday af
ternoon. Her brother, John II. Secgei-
cke, is the proprietor of the Carlton
House, and for two years his sister lived
with him. They came from a family
near Hamburg, Germany, that, except
in his own branch, was distinguished for
the number of physicians, lawyeis and
soldiers that came from it. The girl’s
early life was saddened by her father’s
intemperance, the insanity of one sister,
and tin. unhappy marriage of another.
She was of a morbid turn of mind, and
brooded much over the family troubles.
She came to this country three years ago
with her aged mother, who died soon
after her arrival.
Wilhelmlna s’as engaged to a sailor,
and she hoped to marry him, hut as his
ljfe led him on long voyages, in which
he was absent most of the year, she an
nulled the engagement at his request.
Then she took to reading. She could
speak and read English but little, and
sought principally" for German novels.
She was fond of exciting literatuie, and
her thirst for it never seemed satisfied.
On Wednesday afternoon she went to
a grocer's and bought three bundles of
matches. Ip secret she scraped the end
off each match until she had enongh to
cover the bottom of a goulut. Then she
added water and carefully mixed the
potion, and then drank it. It was some
time before she confessed that she had
taken poison, am] then every effort was
made to save her.
On Saturday she was able to sit up,
and on Sunday she was strong enough
to look about again for her books. On
Sunday evening she grew weak, and be
gan to vomit blood so copiously that
it gushed from her mouth as though a
vessel had burst. The physician could
not stop th.e hemorrhage, and after he
saw its extent he gave up all hope. The
girl smiled when she was tofei that she
was about to die. She said that she
would like to have a German priest pray
with her, but it was too late then to se
cure one. Tkpn she said to her sister :
“You will pray for me, won't you, and
you will forgive me'/ I did not want to
live.” Just "before midnight she died
with a smile upon her lips, which re
mained after death.
The girl is said to have taken the
notion of phosphorus poison from one of
the novels which she had read. Her
sister, Sirs. Secgelcke, says she seemed
to think death was her best friend, and
she would speak of characters in the
stories she read whose troubles were
ended by death. The book she last read
was a story ic German entitled “The
Unlucky Ope. ’ It contained a second
story entitled “Rosteinicbt.Sire was
taciturn, and did not chat about wbaf
she read, but her sister says that she was
a model of gentleness and kindness.
“An enthusiastic citizen of the United
States," says the London World, “went
on the Fourth of July to a preiniere at
one of the theatres in Paris. He at
tracted the attention of the house by un
furling tfee Stars and Stripes in the gal
lery. This was first applauded, but
he was soon requested to withdraw the
‘spread eaglG,’ as it obstructed tfee view
of the audience.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
FOREIGN TELEGRAMS.
Evacuation of Shurnla Completed.
DETAILS OF THE TERMS OF THE
SURRENDER.
Negotiations Between Turkey and
Greece and Austria.
GERMANY AND THE VATICAN.
Proposed Resistance to tlie Occupa-
patlon of Batouni.
Bu Cable to the Momina News.
EVACUATION OF SHUMLA. COMPLETED.
London, July 26.—A Vienna dispatch to
the Times says: “The evacuation of Shumla
was carried out on the 20th inst. in the best
order, the Russians entering the city amid
the huzzas of the Christian people. Pre
vious to the surrender the following conven
tion was agreed to : The Turkish
troops to leave the fortifications,
taking their side arms, guns and
munitions of war, and going to Varna
by highway, places along which, at present
occupied by the Russians to be, during the
time of march, evacuated by them, in order
to avoid possible collision.' For the main
tenance of order the Turkish local police
will remain in the fortifications, as will
also the artillery corps to guard the
guns. Occupation of the fortifications by
the Russians to be carried out as they are
evacuated by the Turks. All artillery and
war material to be the property of the Sul
tan, and remain in charge of the Turkish
corps until arrangements are made for trans
porting it. The Turkish civil authorities to be
replaced by Russian officials. Meanwhile,
until the new arrangements are completed,
Kaimokam, with six Turkish officials, will
remain in the fortifications to superintend
the affairs of the Sublime Porte. A com
mittee of Ottoman staff officers will also
be kept to direct and transport war material.
The Russian military authority engages to
protect the Mohamedan population.
FICTITIOUS REPORTS.
London, July 26.—Details of the origin
of the recent outbreak of natives on the
Island of New Caledonia, as given in an
opposition dispatch, printed in New York
on the 12th inst., and which attributed it to
certain offenses committed against the
women of the Bonlowpari tribe by French
Communist convicts are fictitious.
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY AND AUS
TRIA AND GREECE.
London, July 26.—A Constantinople dis
patch announces that the Porte has decided
to give the Greeks the territory from Zagora
to Magritta. This includes Volo and Phar-
sala, but not Tricola or Janina. The nego
tiations are proceeding. All reports agree
that the negotiations between Austria and
Turkey are proceeding favorably.
RESISTANCE TO THE OCCUPATION OFBATOUM.
London, July 26.—The Manchester Guar
dian's Constantinople dispatch says: “Ad
vices from Batoum state that the Lazis are
preparing to resist Russian occupation of
that place. Russian evacuation of positions
about Constantinople will commence three
or four days hence.”
GERMANY AND THE VATICAN.
Berlin, July 26.—The Ultramontane or
gan, the Germania, says : “ An early under
standing between the Vatican and Germany
is highly probable.”
BESSARABIA TO BE SURRENDERED IN AUGUST.
London, «[qly 26.—A Bucharest dispatch
says : “The Bessarabia will he surrendered
to the Russians in August.”
YELLOW FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
The Pot er Investigation.
BEFORE THE POTTER COMMITTEE.
Atlantic City, N. J., July 26.—Before
the Potter Committee, General J. II. Sypher
was recalled and testified that he was at the
Republican Convention in 1876 that nomi
nated Packard for Governor. There was
considerable opposition to Packard and great
dissatisfaction with the State government.
Many Republicans were opposed to the bayo
net policy. During the canvass some promi
nent Republicans were so much dissatisfied
that they took no part in it. St. Mary’s
parish, where the witness resided, was very
peaceable. He had heard of violence in
qtfcer parishes.
Ex-Representative Morey iestj£ed that the
fact of intimidation in the so-called l - bull
dozed ” parishes was not disputed. He was
satisfied by personal Inspection that Eliza
Pinkston had been dangerously maimed.
Witness was one of the Republican coun
sel before the returning board. Butler
closely interrogated him. Witness said that
on the face of the returns Nicholls and Til-
den electors received a majority of votes;
that fCtftiDiDg board threw out enough
votes 10 elect and after this threw
out 1,512 votes to elect the Ha*e< electors.
The rumor got out that there was this
difference.
Question—Had you not been proceeding
on the basis of the Packard vote at the
time.
Answer—In the management of the case
before the board we generally took Packard
as the basis.
Witness said, in answer to Butler, that
the condition ol things was earnestly and
anxiously discussed t>y prou^e;:! politi
cians and the visiting statesmen and the
Republican counsel for the returning board.
Butler put the question because he said it
had been sworn to. The question was not
discussed.
Without concluding with Morey, the com
mittee adjourned until to-morrow. •
NOMINATIONS.
Cincinnati, July 26.—J. C. Burrows has
been nominated for Congress by the Repub
licans of the Fourth district of Michigan.
Jesse Harper was nominated by the Green-
backers in the Fourteenth district of Illinois.
Judge Wm. Allen declines the Congres
sional nomination by the Republicans oi the
Fifth district of Ohio.
73E STEAMSHIP TOKIO SPOKEN.
New York, July 2»i.—A dispatch from
San Francisco says* the Pacific mail steam
ship City of Tokio was spoken at seven
o’clock this morning, two miles out.
YELLOW FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, July 26.—The President
of the Board of Health Teports twenty-
three cases of yellow fever up to la6t night,
with thirteen deaths. Ten are convalescent.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGES BY RUS
SIANS AND BULGARIANS.
Quarantine Declared Acainst New
Orleans.
ANTICIPATED RESULT OF THE GER
MAN ELECTIONS.
FATALLY SHOT FOR A TRAMP.
MOB LAW IX AVASKIINGTOX.
CIRCULAR OF LIVERPOOL COTTON
BROKERS.
General News Items.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., July 26.—Indications
for Saturday ;
In the South Atlantic States, clear weath
er, followed by increasing cloudiness and
occasional rains, \jrarm southerly veering to
colder westerly winds, falling followed by
rising barometer.
In the Middle Atlantic States, increasing
cloudiness and rain, warm southerly veering
to colder northwest yvjnds, falling followed
by rising barometer.
In the Gulf States, partly cloudy weather,
occasional showers, winds mostly southerly,
stationary pressure and temperature.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, cloudy
and rainy followed by clearing weather,
warm, southwesterly veering to colder north
erly winds, and rising barometer.
LATE CHINESE ADVICES.
San Francisco, July 2tj.—The City of
Tokio brings news from Hong Kong to June
22 d.
United States Minister Seward sailed by
this mail under orders to report at Washing
ton for examination.
The question of Coolie emigration to Peru
is still c6mplicated,,notwithstanding Peru
vian protestations.’ The Chinese authorities
are suspicious, and place every obstacle In
the way of departing laborers. Attempts to
transport them on a large scale are thwart
ed. In some way emigration to Cuba will
be prevented.
ANTICIPATED
THE GERMAN
RESULT OF
ELECTIONS.
London, July 26.—The Tunis' Berlin cor
respondent estimates the result of the elec
tions next Tuesday for the German Parlia
ment will be the return of all, or nearly
all, the one hundred and forty-four
Ultramontanes, Poles, Guelphs, Lor
raines, and other irreconcilable ene
mies of the government. The Liberals
will probably lose and the regular Conser
vatives gain* about thirty seats, which will
leave one hundred and ’forty-five Liberals
and one hundred and seven Conservatives.
The Liberals will thus retain the balance of
power, and will be ready to support the
government as hitherto if the government
will respect Liberal principles.
LIVERPOOL COTTON BROKERS’ CIRCULAR.
Liverpool, July 26.—This week’s circu
lar of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ Asso
ciation says: “Cotton has been in good
demand throughout the week. Most de
scriptions have slightly advanced. Ameri
can was in good ereneral demand and quota
tions advanced l-16(d>^. Sea island was in
improved request, chiefly for medium
grades of Florida, for which prices are said
to be hardening. Futures are quiet, with
prices scarcely varied.”
HORRIBLE OUTRAGES BY CHRISTIANS, SO
CALLED.
London, July 26.—A Times Constantino
ple dispatch says the British embassy has
received an official report of the continued
wanton destruction of Mussulman life and
property in the Phillippopolis district by
Bulgarians and Russians. The reports are
well substantiated. The horrors are so
atrocious and revolting that their publica
tion must create the conviction that unless
a remedy is found the new condition of the
country will be more deplorable than when
under Moslems.
MOB LAW IN WASHINGTON. -
Washington, July 26.—A mob of whites
and blacks assaulted several laborers at
work e:- eavating the ground for the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing and forced them
to desist work. The men were working for
seventy-five cents a day, which the mob
would not allow. A strong police force is
required to preserve peace. One man, who
insisted on working, was badly cut.
QUARANTINE AGAINST NEW ORLEANS.
Pensacola, July 20.—Ten days’ quaran
tine has been established by rail and water
against New Orleans.
Mobile, Ala., July 26.—Mayor Duffee
will issue a proclamation to-morrow quar-
ranting New Orleans on and after July 27th.
Through travel on trains from New Orleans
will not be interfered with.
ship with passengers and crew lost.
New York, July 26.—A letter from Auck
land, N. Z., June 25th, says: “The British
ship Locliard, from London to Melbourne,
was lost near Cape Otway June 1st. Sev
enteen passengers and the crew, numbering
thirty-two, were lost, except one lady pas
senger and one of the Qpew.”
NEW RUSSIAN LOAN.
London, July 26.—The St. Petersburg
Golos says: “Russia is about to negotiate
with the Rothschilds a loan of four hundred
million roubles, at the rate of five per cent,
interest, issue price to be eighty-five.” This
statement is probably false, or the amount
is exaggerated.
FATALLY SHOT—GREAT EXCITEMENT.
Whitehall, N. Y., July 26.—Charles
Long, of this place, while fishing in Lake
Champlain yesterday, was fatally shot by
Edson Derrick, of Dresden, who 6ays be
thought Long was a tramp endeavoring to
steal bis geese. There is great excitement
and lynching is threatened.
CUBAN EXILES IN JAMAICA.
Havana, July 26.—The steamer Fernando
el Catolic has arrived from Santiago de
Cuba, with one hundred and twelve Cuban
exiles from Jamaica. Four hundred Cubans
remain in Jamaica aw’aiting transportation
to return to Cuba.
RECEPTION TO THE COLUMBIA CREW.
Paris, July 2t>. -An ^formal reception
was given the Columbia crew at the Ameri
can headquarters of the Exposition this
afternoon. President Barnard made the
welcoming speech.
ARRIVED.
San Francisco, July 26.—The City of
Tokio has arrived. She broke her
crank-pin, and has been under sail for thir
teen days. The Chinese Ambassador and
suite are on board.
REDUCTION OF SALARIES OF CUBAN OFFICIALS
Havana, July 26.—A decree is published
reducing the salaries of public officials.
It begins with the salary of the Captain
General, which is cut down fifty per cent.
HANLON-ROSS' BOAT RACE.
St. John, July 26.—The bad weather
causes the postponement of the Hanlon-
Ross race until to-morrow.
NAUTILUS SPOKEN.
New York, July 26.—The little sail boat
Nautilus, from Boston for Havre, was
spoken on the 22d in latitude 48, longitude
29.
iiLBLERER HANGED.
Canton, N. Y., July 26.—Bresnahan was
hanged to-day for the murder of Michael
Daulthier in April last.
DEAD.
Baltimore, July 26.—Thomas Kelso, a
prominent and wealthy citizen, is dead,
aged ninety-four.
“Wire Pulling.”
Atlanta Constitution.
\Yc- copied ypsteyijar for the purposes
of comment and illustration a paragraph
from a communication in the Savannah
Recorder charging that the mention of
Col. W. T. Thompson for Congress was
the result of wire pulling in Atlanta. It
appears that Colonel Thompson demand
ed the name of the author, which de
mand has drawn torth a letter from Mr.
Jphif McLaughlin, who acknowledges
the authorship, hut disclaims any inten
tion of offering an affront to the editor of
the News.
The paragraph to which Colonel
TIlCII2p son Particularly' objected was
the one which we quoted in regard to
the ‘ vyire pifflmg ” in A tlanta. Mr :
McLaughlin entirely disclaims any in
tention of leading the public to believe
that the editor of the News was a party
thereto, “as it was done without his
knowledge, by partial press friends, and
then ventilated in the Constitution” We
hasten to aid Mr. McLaughlin in correct
ing his absurd blunder b} r assuring him
that there was no wire pulling whatever.
But one person in the wide world knew
that the paragraph suggesting Colonel
Thompson’s name had been or was to be
written until it fell into the hands of the
compositors who put it in type. More
over. having an inside knowledge of all
the facts in the case, we can assure him
that the mention of Col. Thompsons
name in connection with the Congres
sional race in the First district was in
tended simply and solely as a pivot upon
which to hinge an exceeding small
but sincere tribute to his faithfulness,
his consistency and his devotion as a
Democratic editor. We assure Mr. Mc
Laughlin that this is the extent of the
wire-pulling at this end of the line.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
;i Jack Plane ” on his Travels—Cool
and Pleasant Weather — Summer
Visitor**-"-Excursions Par and Near
—Emory College—Personal Go««dp—
About ^riddle Florida—Final Para
graphs — Elegant Specimens of
Printing from the Franklin Print
ing House—Congressional Gossip—
Being and .Ylaking Congressmen.
A Lady Struck .and Killed by
Lightning.—On Sunday afternoon last
a cloud gathered in the west and rapidly
overspread the horizon. It was accom
panied by heavy thunder and vivid light
ning. When the cloud began to gather
the dwelling house of Louis II. perkins,
in Spaniard’s Neck, was open to catch
the breeze, the day being a very warm
one. The family at once proceeded to
close up the house, Mrs. Perkins being
up stairs and Miss Ann Cahall on the
first floor. While thus engaged a cur
rent of electricity struck the eastern
corner Gf the house, tore away the cor
nice, and running down the corner post
to the lower part of the house, tore away
in its progress the weather-boarding and
the plastering. When it reached the
lower floor the current left the corner of
the house and passed oui into the room
and thence out a window. Miss Ann
Cahall, who was at the time in the lower
room fastening it up, was struck by the
current and instantly killed. She was
about forty-five years of. age and was a
very highly esteemed lady. The house
is considerably torn.—Centrenlle (\fd.)
Observer.
Monseigneur Dupanloup has made a
stirring appeal for the Joan of Arc me
morial—ten windows in the Orleans
Cathedral and the restoration of the ex
piatory monument. He writes: “To us
she is a warrior, a victim and likewise a
saint.” A jury' will decide upon the
plan, and the cost is estimated at $30,-
000. Every one who subscribes or col
lects $20 will have his name inscribed
in gold letters on marble tablets in the
Cathedral.
The Chicago Times had a' touching re
port of an execution in Georgia headed
“The Aerial Waltz.”
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Atlanta, July 25.—Your traveling cor
respondent, “Jack Plane,” who has been
drinking mineral water and snuffing the
mountain air up on the Atlanta and Charlotte
Air-Line Railway, dropped in on me yester
day, but came in with a slow and heavy step.
Well, if traveling about and having a good
time, as he does, will result, as is threatened
in his case, in making me a rival for Colonel
Acton and “ Fatty ” Harris, I prefer to stay
at home, work hard, and become the physi
cal counterpart of “Aleck” Stephens.
With the exception of one or two hot
days, we have had very pleasant weather,
with delightfully cool nights. In fact there
are a number of summer boarders at the
Kimball House, including Major L. Mims
and family, Col. Willis Hawkins and family,
Mrs. Plane and family, and several charm
ing' young ladies. This gives an array of
female society that makes the ladies’ par
lors unusually lively and attractive.
Excursions to and from Atlanta are re
markably numerous, and extend in all direc
tions, and without limit as to distance. Mr.
Thomas Nunan, the enterprising Passenger
Agent of the St. Louis and Southeastern
Short Line, is getting up an excursion to
far-off Colorado and Minnesota, to leave on
Thursday next. This will also give an op
portunity to visit Nebraska and the Indian
territory. Governor Brown’s trip last year
has created quite an interest here in the
wonderful scenery of that hitherto unknown
region.
EMORY COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT.
I met Bishop Pierce at the Kimball House
on his return from Emory College, and was
glad to hear of the success of that excellent
institution, in which South Georgia and
Florida students always win honors. The
Bishop is overworked and tired, and has
gone up the Air-Line Railroad to rest and
recuperate among the springs and moun
tains of that attractive region.
I also shook hands with the Rev. Young
J. Allen, D. D., L.L. D., who was departing
for China, carrying with him from his alma
mater the well deserved title of “Doctor of
Laws.” His Chinese translations and edu
cational labors make him eminently worthy
that honor. Nor did Emory College err in
its bestowment of the same degree upon
the Hon. Gustavus J. Urr, our excellent
State Superintendent of Education. A
more modest and laborious public servant
it would be hard to find, or a man of less
show and more solid acquirements. He
does his work quietly and well, and his new
honor will make him none the less modest
and laborious.
ABOUT MIDDLE FLORIDA.
During my several visits to the “Land of
Flowers,” from Chattahoochee Landing to
Lake Jesup and Cedar Keys, I saw a variety
of climate, soil, production, and people.
Middle Florida presented the greatest at
tractions for diversified farming and a
climate sufficiently cool to give activity to
the human body. No more delightful cities
can be found than Quincy, Tallahassee and
Monticello.
One of the most accomplished young
ladies of the latter place (who reads the
Morning News very closely), thus refers to
tlie fine crops in that section, in a private
letter just at hand: “The farmers are in
excellent humor, and are very cautious
about going into debt. Even the negroes
do not get more than they are compelled to
have. This gives me great hopes of Florida
in the future. Gqdd crops and strict econo
my will free her people from debt and bring
permanent prosperity thereafter.”
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Messrs. J. P. Harrison & Co., of the
Franklin Steam Printing House, Atlanta,
have laid several college catalogues upon
my table, all of which reflect credit upon
their well stocked establishment.
The catalogue of the State University is a
magnificent specimen of the kif?hest e $ _
celience in the art of printing, and is an
other evidence that it is not necessary to
send to Chicago or New York for the best
style of printing.
Dr. James B. Baird, Secretary of the
Medical Association of Georgia, has handed
me a copy of the “Transactions” of the last
annual meeting, which he has prepared for
publication with great care and literary ex
cellence. Drs. J. C. LeHardy, Taliaferro and
Baird, with others, have valuable papers i n
this volume. The printing and binding adds
largely to the already high reputation of the
Franklin Steam Printing House and is
greatly admired.
There is condderabie wire-pulling done
here, in Atlanta, especially when the Legis
lature is in session, aq4 your correspondent
sees and bears a good deal of it. But the
report of “wire-pulling” here in favor of
the veteran editor-in-chief qf the Morning
News for Congress the First district, has
certainly escaped my argus-eyed vision, al
though! should be supposed to have a
small “finger in the pie” that was being
baked.
Of all places in the world to “put up a
job” for an old man for office, Atlanta is
the last one to be selected. The city and
county committees are officered and run by
very young men, the same class hold a good
share of the offices, the young men elected
Senator Hill, and they don’t spend much
energy or sympathy on old men. if “Major
Jones” has been “pulled” in this city he is
the first old veteran (except. Kzzar( ,.
who has succeeded in accomplishing that
object. Although I firmly believe that “ne
thaf majteth a good newspaper is greater
than he that rnleth a city,” or goes to Con
gress, I think that the editors who make so
many Congressmen have a right to an occa
sional or accidental selection from their own
ranks. It doesn’t require any more physical
energy or mental power to be a Congress
man than it does to create one editorially.
Chatham.
AN INSANE MURDERER’S STORY.
Praying Five Hours a Day and Re
ceiving Divine Orders to Kill His
Wife.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.
Private Houses to be Lighted for
Next to Nothing.
New York Evening Post.
On June 25 last a patent was granted
to a Mr. Sawyer in this city for a system
of dividing a current of electricity in
such a manner that light could be dis
tributed to the different rooms of a pri
vate bouse or other building. If a cur
rent of electricity is made to pass through
a very small piece of carbon, the size of
the lead of a pencil, an intense light is
given forth for a few seconds. Then the
oxygen of the air enables the heat to
burn np and destroy the carbon. The
only way known to prevent the so-called
combustion from taking place is to keep
the carbon in a vacuum, or in perfectly
pure nitrogen. For experiments it was
a very pretty plaything, but no practical
use could be made of it. It was impossi
ble to make any reservoir of transparent
or any other substance that was imper
meable to the air, and there were impuri
ties in the purest kind of nitrogen
attainable, which after a time
spoiled the carbon. The patents issued
by Mr. Sawyer are for methods of her
metically closing the glass jar in which
the carbon is placed, and for a means of
chemically purifying the nitrogen. Both
these ends have been successfully ob
tained, it is asserted, and at No. 4 How
ard street, in this city, one of these lights
may be seen in operation. The glass jar
is about the size and shape of an ordi-
lamp chimney. The wire- from the elec
tric machine enter at the bottom and
connect with an inch-long^et of carbon.
The jar is hermetically sealed and filled
with nitrogen, absolutely pure. As soon
as the current is sent through the wires
the carbon becomes brilliant and intense.
The light given is pure, white, not try
ing to the eyes, and with not the slightest
flicker. It is said that the electricity pro
duced by one horse power will be suffi
cient to light by this system any room or
house requiring aboqt forty 69 s 'burners.
To furnish this electric current to pri
vate houses it is proposed to have reser-
voii s of electricity in different parts of
the town, just as we now have gas reser
voirs. The cost of putting the wires
into the house is trifling compared to
the cost of gas pipes, and the electric
lamps will not cost more than two dol
lars apiece. When qncp in plate they
need hever be touched. No cleaning
will be necessary, no matches will be
used, and finally there will be no danger
of tire. Unlike the more powerful lamp
for the Times building, there will be no
necessity of ever changing the carbons.
Ip factories or buildings'-'where steam
{lower is used the electricity can be gen
erated on the spot. The cost of elec
tricity to private houses will scarcely be
worth mentioning.
Special Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
Hancock, Wis., July 18.—The Wau-
toma (Waushara county) Argus to-mor
row will contain the following particu
lars of a horrible case of wife murder
perpetrated almost a week ago,but which
has only now come to light:
For many years we have had living in
this vicinity a man named Hezekiah
Whitney, who has been a good enough
citizen, but who has had many mental
peculiarities. For many years he was
given to drink, but seven years ago a re
iigious excitement sprang up in his
neighborhood, in which he became in
terested. He gave up bis drinking hab
its, and entered with just as much in
temperance upon the practice of religious
rites and ceremonies. He soon began to
believe that in all he did God gave him
special directions, even to the most trivial
matters of business. He seems to be as
rational as he ever was upon all other
matters. For some time he has had an
occasional spell of being ugly, during
which his behavior has been so violent
that his wife and daughters have fled to
the neighbors for safety. Last Friday
Mrs. Whitney, accompanied by her
brother, W. G. Rogers, of Oasis, came
to Wautoma to see if measures
could not be taken to place him where
he could do no harm, but no action was
then taken in the matter. Mrs. Rogers
stated that he said God had dug a grave
for two of his family, and he had got to
kill them. Nothing more was thought of
this until Sunday, when word was brought
to town that Sirs. Whitney had hung
herself. The facts, as far as ascertained,
are as follows: On Sunday morning Sir.
Whitney got up and built a lire, and went
to the barn to milk his cows. His wife
got up and put the food over the fire to
cook for breakfast. The daughters got
up and took the breakfast-getting in
hand, and the mother went out, saying
she was going to the barn, ten rods dis
tant. Whitney soon came in, the break
fast was put on the table, and the wife
not coming in, she was called, and no
answer being received the father and
daughters ate their breakfast, and then a
chapter ip the Bible wqs read and a
prayer spoken. The mother not yet hav-
ingjarrived, the little girl (Atta) started
out to look for her. She soon found her,
half sitting, half leaning, her back
against an oak grub about one and one-
haif inches in diameter, one hand resting
in her lap, the other on the ground.
Around her neck was tied a rope such as
is used to tie cattle in their stalls, one
end being tied in the fork of the grub,
about four feet from the ground. The
tender bark showed no signs of any
weight having rested on it, and the soft
ground was entirely free from any evi
dence of a struggle such as is usual in
cases of hanging. The little girl told her
father, who ran and got the body and
placed it on the bed and chafed
it, , expressing g helief (hat she
would soon come to again. The horse
wa3 hitched to the wagon, and the
girls drove three miles to Mr. Rogers’; he
summoned his neighbors and went to the
house. Whitney told the party that if
they went in they were dead men; hut
threats of tieing quieted hjp,-
Upon the arrival or Mr. Spaulding, a
Coroner’s jury was impanelled. Drs.
McIntyre and Whitman examined the
body. They found it much discolored
about the ntok, a few marks on the back
and hands, and the neck broken. The
mark of the rope was visible upon the
neck, but no evidence that any force had
been exerted on it, its mere presence
being shown by a faint mark of the
strands on the discolored flesh. Below
the rope mark was plainly Visible a mark
aboqt three inches long, and appeared as
if the edge of an inch hoard had been
violently pressed aguinst It. McIntyre
expressed the belief that her neck had
been pressed on the edge of the manger
in the stable, and her neck broken by a
violent wrench. A verdict of death by
breaking the vertebra of the neck by being
pressed against a hard substance by some
person unknown to the jury was brought
in.
Since the examination by tne jury
search has ueen made all
premises. Near the place where the
body was found a grave pgrtigljy dug
was discovered}, in the barn marks of
teeth were found on tlie edse of the
manger which correspond witS the teeth
of the dead woman, and were doubtless
made by her when he placed her neck
upon the edge qf the board in an en
deavor to prevent him from doing so.
There is no doubt that he took her and
placed her neck across the manger, and
broke her neck by the strength of his
powerful arms, then carried her over a
brush fence, whigb is Itf-tween tne barn
and the place where she was found, to
the little bush and there tied her up la
order to throw upon her the suspicion of
suicide.
Th ”re are doubts about his 'nsquity,
some thinking it puf on, mners thinking
it genuine. He has- diligently worked
his farm this summer, but claims to have
prayed five hours a day. In fact, he
seems to be sane enough except for his
“religion.” He claims that God tells
him just what to do, and that he is de
termined to do as bid. He is now in
charge of an officer, and application has
been made to get him into the Insane
Asylum at Oshkosh.
A VARIETY ACTRESS’ SUICIDE.
Curious Circumstances Surround
ing tUe Death of a .Vlember of the
Klee Evangeline Troupe.
Rednctii of 25 to 33perct.
GRAY & O’BRIEN
New York Times.
Ellen McCall, or Ingham, as she was
better known, a variety actress recently
attached to Rice’s Evangeline troupe,
committed suicide yesterday at No. 469
Fourth avenue, under peculiar circum
stances. On the 8th inst. her mother,
Mrs. Mary McCall, was arrested in this
city and taken to Buffalo to stand trial
on a charge of receiving money packages
addressed to Mrs. Ingham. She claimed
to have been married to Henry H.
Ingham, who she said had deserted her.
By her previous husband, McCall, she
had seven children—three boys and four
girls. Lizzie, the eldest, is a variety
actress, at present an employe of the
Rice Evangeline troupe. Ellen, the
second daughter, was 17 years of age.
She performed minor characters for
some time in Meech’s Academy of Music,
Buffalo, before joining Rice's troupe.
Her engagement with the latter company
terminated on Thursday last, anil she
came at once to New York to take charge
of her mother's household, which, dur
ing the latter’s enforced absence, had
been left in care of her younger sister,
Maggie. Ellen and Maggie were greatly
annoyed with warts on their hands. They
used nitrate of silver to remove them,
but only succeeded in increasing the dis
figurement. In this dilemma Ellen sent
Maggie, on Tuesday, to Benjamin W.
Dryer’s drug store to get a remedy. The
clerk gave her some prussiate of potash,
but warned her to be careful with it,
saying that the quantity was sufficient to
kill twelve men. This frightened Mag
gie, and deterred her from using it, but
Ellen had no such scruples. She wrapped
the remainder in a piece of paper, and
laid it on a little corner stand.
Ellen took her mother’s arrest much
to heart, and gave way to fits of ilespon
dency whenever the subject was men
tioned. She characterized it as an out
rage, and appeared to feel keenly the old
lady’s sufferings, and the disgrace which
she thought must attach to the entire
family. Another matter over which she
fretted a great deal was the fact that they
were behind hand with their rent to the
extent of twenty dollars, and the land
lord was pressing them for payment.
When these subjects did not occupy her
mind, however, she was cheerful, and
even gay, and at no time gave any indi
cation of suicidal intent. Yesterday
morning she arose and did the fas“!y
washing. Her sister Lizzie, who had
come on from Bqstqn, and was spying
at Schuler’s Hotel in East "Fourteenth
street, called at the house) and,
after a short visit, took Maggie
out with her to buy her a pair of shoes.
After making their purchase they went
to the hotel. This was at 10 o’clock. A
few minutes later they received word
that Ellen was dying. They hurried to
No. 469 Fourth avenue, but she was dead
before they arrived. Beside the hsd on
which she lay was a cup (ontaiuing a
liquid, with a stick of wood in it which
had evidently heeu used to stir it. The
shelf was searched and the package of
prussiate of potash was missing. It was
still there when the two girls went out.
Deputy Coroner Dr. Miller was notified
and took the depositions of Maggie Mc
Call and of Mrs. Hannah Dodge, who
occupies apartments on the same floor,
and who was called in by Ellen’s young
brother, too late, however, to obtain any
statement from the dying girl. Neither
could throw any light upon the motives
which actuated the suicide further than
those detailed (dwe,
It was subsequently ascertained that
Ellen was engaged to he married to a
young man of respectability and means,
named Edward M. Roop, a manufac
turer of paper boxes at No. 754 Main
street, Buffalo, fir. Miller took charge
of several letters from him to her, and
also one which she had written but had
not posted in reply to his last. In this,
which is dated July 15, he SD;aks of
having seen her mother, ycho, lie says,
has been lionorcUy discharged and in
tends ming her prosecutors for $5,000
damages for false imprisonment, aod
, -Mr. Ingham for support He adds that
a c° “ le 1 she is in voqd health and speaks of re-
i tore " turning to New York on the following
day preparatory to removing her family
to Buffalo. Ellen’s letter is dated 4 a, m.,
July 17 (yesterday). In it she says:
“It’s not dgylight yet. I cannot sleep.
* .* * * I'thank you very much for
going to see poor mamma. I have wor
ried myself sick about her. Ed.. I won't
forgive you for not writing to me before
this. When I don’t hear from yoq every
other day I think you dqn’t loVe me any
longer. Oh ! Iki.,' please don’t keep me
waiting for a letter. Ed., if mamma
takes the children to Buffalo, I cannot
go. 1 made an arrangement with Mr.
Rice for the next season, and I cannot go
Wjli on my vc,ru. You know I must
I wqrij f u r diy jiving; but Ed., you don’t
know how 1 long to see you. ”
In a half completed draft from which
the above was elaborated, she made use
of the following additional expressions;
“How much she must have suffered )
Was she put in prison? My God: I hope
not. I wish she wo.pld conie home. Ed.,
please tell hvT 1 cannot live any longer
without her.”
WILL OFFEB
DURING
WEEK:
THE COMING
1 fill PIECES VICTORIA LAWNS, 36 to 38
1 UVJ inches wide, at 10c., IStic. and 25c. The
latter good value for 30c. to 35c.
10-t LIKEN SHEETING reduced from ft 50
to $1.
LINEN PILLOW CASING reduced from $1
to 75c.
LINEN PILLOW CASING reduced from 75c.
to 60c
ZD dozen Ladies' Brown Unbleached LISLE
THREAD HOSE, at $3 per dozen, cost JO to
import; sizes, 8. SU. 9 and inches.
50 dozen Gents’ SUMMER UNDER VESTS, at
25c., 40c. and 50c.; sizes. 38 to 43: a creat job.
30 dozen Boys’ and Misses' GAUZE VESTS;
sizes. 1,8 to 34, at 30c., former price 50c.
A job lot of Ladies’ SUMMER VESTS. 50c.,
much under value.
Full line of Gents' JEANS DRAWERS.
75 dozen Gents' Brown HALF HOSE, 35c.,
30c. and 35c.. very fine
50 dozen Gents’ Heavy English HALF HOSE.
25c. and 30c., usual price 40c. and 50c.
100 gross fine PEARL BUTTONS, 1314c. to 25c.
per dozen, not over half cost jof importation;
usual price of such goods 25c. to 60c. a dozen
6-4 liLUE FLANNEL SUITING, Si 50 per
yard.
100 pieces yard wide printed CAMBRICV new
styles, at 33 per cent/off former prices. Some
beautiful SHIRTING PATTERNS amongst
them.
5 cases. 12,000 yards, STANDARD PRINTS,
best brands, fast colors, at 5e. per yard. These
are far superior to any such goods oifering
at 5c.
too dozen LINEN HUCK TOWELS at 15e.
worth 20c.
60 dozen LINEN HUCK TOWELS at 20c.,
worth 26c.
75 dozen LINEN HUCK TOWELS at 25c..
worth 35c.
50 dozen LINEN NAPKINS, 75c. a dozen
usual price 90c.
Groat jobs in NAPKINS, from $1 to $2 50 a
dozen.
BLACK GRENADINES—50 pieces good
quality at cost.
AH. Wool Colored GRENADINES and Silk and
Wool Colored GRENADINES reduced from 60c
to 37t4<\
100 pieces American and Russia CRASHES,
from 5c. per yard to 30c.
3,000yards DRESS LINEN BOURETTES, at
12t£e., reduced from 25c.
To open early in the week:
Job lot (soiled) LACE NETTING, at 50 per
cent off usual price.
Lathes’ LAWN WRAPPFJiS. DRESSING
SACQUESand UNDERCLOTHING, full line in
stock.
Our entire stock Children’s P. K. LINEN
LAWN SUITS at 10 per cent, off cost.
GRAY* OBRIEN.
jy9-tf
875,000 WORTH
—OF—
Stajle aDi Fancy Dry Goods
—AT—
REDUCED PRICES!
Who was the Spooney?—Mrs. Jenk.s
was interviewed on her arrival home by
a reporter of the New Orleans Times,
who asked her—“How were you treated
by the members of the press in Wash
ington?” She replied, “Well, at first 1
read much of what they wrp,te ( but in a
short time I didn’t, and therefore it was
passed idly by. There is one thing I
want to tell you, however. Quite a
yoHth, some reporter, came to see me to
interview me, and after blushing a good
deal and asking a number of questions—
without gaining any knowledge, I gssqre
you—he bowed himself put. 1 after
wards heard he had got quite soft and
spooney about me, and the next day
wrote to me for my photograph. In or
der to gratify the little boy I sent it
(laughing).”
Clarence Hosier, of Laporte, Indiana,
is a queer criminal. He was a clerk in
the Laporte post offioe, and stole money,
so he confessed, in order to get the
means to dress well. “The first I took,”
he said, “was twenty-five dollars to buy
a dress suit. I belonged to the choir of
the Episcopal Church, and the rest were
getting new clothes and my means would
not admit of tqy buying them, so I took
the money. I belong to the Episcopal
Church, and never took a dollar without
vowing on my knees never to do so
again. Then, "at length, when I could
not withstand the temptation any longer,
I would vow to do it once more and then
quit. I never wept to bed without say
ing my prayers.” When Mr. Hosier
dons convict stripes he will probably re
gret that he was not content to dress
within his income.
A Brakeman Shot hy a Tramp.—
The Troy Press of Saturday says: “On
Thursday a brakeman on a freight train
on the New York Central, between
Utica and Rome, was shot by a trapip.
It appears that a tramp eo{ on the train
and refused to get off when told by the
brakeman. The train was stopped and
he had to he put off by force, and in the
attempt the brakeman gave the man a
black eye. The train started up and the
tramp drew a pistol and shot the brake-
man, the ball entering under the chin,
making a very dangerous wound. The
ball had not been found at last accounts.
The tramp was aircsted qt Rome, and
wiy fee feeld to await the result of the
injury,’’
An Austin woman got mad at her
husband and casually remarked tq him
“I wish I could see you on your bier,
you infgmoui wretch.” He went down
iuwa and got drunk as a lord, and when
he went home he was greeted by his wife
with, “Drunk again, you brute." “5,'a
my d-d-dear; only on nyr h-beer as vou
’spressed a wish to see ine.”—Austin Re-
oe&U.
A Young Lady's Lover Stabbed in Her
Presence.
Baltimore Gazette, 33d.
Captain Delanty, of the Southern po
lice district, yesterday took into custody
a young man named Yi’iibuc Brogimier,
living at 86 South c'afrolltou avenue, on
a Charge of cutting with intern to kill
Edward F. Anders, aged eighteen, re
siding with his parents at 361 North Gay
street. Mrs. Anders, the boy’s mother,
stated to a representative of the Gazette,
who called upon her, that her son had
been for son>e time visiting Miss Jennie
Brogqnicr, a sister of the accused. An
ders” parents recently expressed their ob
jections to the growing intimacy between
the young couple and admonished An
ders that he must discontinue his visits.
This, it is said, excited the indignation
of young Broguni?r, and several days
ago he called at Anders’ house and
warned him not to visit his sister again,
adding that he (Brogunier) would kill
him if he ever called upon
Miss Brogunier again. A few days
ago the young lady left her home,
and took up her residence with her
aunt, Mrs. Swann, at 73 Parkin street.
On Sunday night last, as supposed by a
preconcerted arrangement, Anders
called on Miss Brogunier at Mrs. Swann’s
residence tor the purpose of spending
the evening. While seated on the sofa
with the young lady, in the front
parlor, blissfully ignorant of impending
danger, the door "was suddenly opened
and Brogunier entered, excitedly ap
proaching Anders and clutching him
by tbe throat without speaking. Anders
sprang to his feet, and a short struggle
ensued, during which Anders was cut
undey the left arm with a knife, the
wound being two inches in length and
one in depth. After tbe cutting Brogu
nier, it is said, suspected that Anders
was armed, and springing back, ex
claimed: “Don’t shoot!” He then fled
from the house. Anders was assisted
Home in a very weak condition from loss
of blood, but after having his wound
dressed by a physician recovered, and is
now out of danger.
The discovery has just been made at
Lisbon, in the palace of a young count
who bears a historic name, of a com
plete installation for the forgery of Bank
of Portugal notes. The arrest of the
young noble, who has been led into
crime by his love of luxury, has caused
great excitement in the city. A very
clever German lithographer prepared
the stones, and the notes were concealed
at q country house near Cintra, twenty-
nve kilometres from Lisbon.
TAMLL offer his entire stock, which will he
7» found to contain such attractions in
VARIETY. QUALITY and PRICE as will
merit the attention of close cash buyers, wliose
examination is respectfully invited. For the
better guidance of such I will give a few quo
tations.
ASK FOR THE GOODS.
HAVE THEM IN STOCK.
PM
.% inches wide, only 10c. p^ r yard, kchk! value
for l^c. per yard.
Imported and IfeHiPStic LAWNS in new an*!
select styles,
SWISS and VICTORIA LAWNS at K)c., 12Wc .
lAc., 20c. and 25c. per yard.
WHITE PIQUE 5*. v 8c., 20c. and up.
150 p^oe* COLORED CAMBRIC, blue ami
\v*zbe stripes, 36 inches wide, 5c. per yard.
BLACK GRENADINES from 15c. to 75c.
CHECK GRENADINES and DAMASSE very
cheap and rich.
Bf*ACK ALPACA. BLACK CASHMERES,
BLACK BOMBAZINES, BLACK FRENCH DE-
LAINE BLACK HENRIETTA and TAMLSE
CLOTHS, and in fact evoytbte kept in a first
class
looming Department!
at the lowest possible prices. However, I wouI<i
respectfully surest to those needing 1 anythin#
in the above line to come prepared to pay a
Utile more than cost for what they may need.
To Sell Cioodn for Cost and Pay a
Hundred Ceuta on the Dollar*
la a Thins that Can’t
he Done.
DANIEL HOGAN.
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BROUGHTON STREET.
Change of Location
B.FMEIA&C0.
INTENDING TO REMOVE
ON OR ABOUT THE
1st SEPTEMBER NEXT
TO OUR
So disgusted was a farmer who had
taken a two-horse load of com to Dallas,
Texas 4 on learning that the buyers would
pay no more than thirty-five cents, that
he paid forty-five cents to drive his wagon
to the middle of the toll bridge and there
solemnly emptied the grain into the river.
NEW STORE,
NOW BOLDING ON
Broughton Street,
FOUR DOORS EAST OF WHITAKER,
DESIRING TO OPEN THERE, AS FAR AS
PRACTICABLE, WITH AN
WE
HAVE DETERMINED, FROM
DATE, TO MAKE A GENERAL
Reduction in Prices
IN ORDER TO
Close Out Goods
NOW ON HAND.
B. F. MENNA & CO.,
157 Broughton Street.
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