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SAVANNAH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Georgia Affairs.
DuPont was submerged with water during
last week’s storm. No other damage,
as far as the Oktfinokian knows, was
done in the county.
Aunt Lucy Mathis, an old and respected
colored woman of Rome, died there a few
days ago* She was one of the oldest
inhabitants of that city, and in her
humble way did a great deal of good during
herlifoasa voluntary nurse for the sick.
The Courier says she was iudeed a good Sa
maritan.
The workingmen of Rome propose to get
up a workingman’s party with a platform
which the whole State will cheerfully in
dorse. They propose to band together and
give ten dollars each in aid of the Memphis
sufferers. A National Greenback Labor
party on such a basis as that would be
popular.
The Thomasville Timex urgently appeals
to its fellow-citizens to put in its biggest
licks and beat Brooks county at the coming
fair. It paraphrases the celebrated remark
of “George Francis Train at the battle of the
Nile,” and says: “Thomas county expects
every man and woman to do their duty by
the Fair.”
Drucilla Givings, a negro woman of At
lanta, and about sixty years of age, dropped
dead from heart disease Thursday. When
found she had a pipe in her mouth, which
she was smoking at the moment of her de
cease.
Two Atlanta boys, aged twelve and thir
teen years, started out on a tramp from their
home to California a few days since. After
they had reached Norcxoss, a distance of
twenty miles, they were overhauled and
brought back.
During the storm Thursday night a por
tion of the B. <fc A. Railroad, near Jamaica
-iution, sixteen miles from Brunswick, was
washed away.
A correspondent from St. Mary’s, Camden
county, writes us as follows under date of
September 12th: “We have had the heavi
est storm and highest tides that we have
experienced here for years. Many valuable
shade trees are down. One cow was killed
by the falling of a tree. One chimney and
a number of fences were blown down. The
magnificent flower garden of Mrs. John
Collier wa* overflowed by sea-water, and is
probably ruined. ^ he has the greatest va-
rietv of choice flowers of any person in this
section, and is perfectly devoted to her
floral children. It is still cloudy, but the
wind has shifted to the southwest. The
weather is cooler and more pleasant than
for some days past.”
The death of young Herbert Landrum in
Memphis is spoken of with great regret by
the press throughout the State.
The Darien Gazette learns that the plan
ters on the islands lost heavilv by the recent
storm. Their losses# it is told, will be fully
fifty per cent. “But for this untoward
event,” says that paper, “our planters would
have realized a handsome sum, as the rice
crop this year was an unusually heavy one.”
The Timber Gazette declares that rents
must come down in Darien.
The storm ‘which passed over Valdosta
and that section last Wednesday, accord
ing to the Times, did considerable damage
to open cotton and sugar canc. Aside
from this, little or no injuries have been
sustained.
Among many other thing* needed in
Brunswick, the Seajtort Appeal thinks a good
City Hall, centrally located, is one of the
most urgent.
Trices for cotton picking have risen from
thirty to fifty cents per hundred in some
localities pf Thomas county.
Miss Styles, daughter of Colonel Carey
W. Styles, is preparing a lecture on “The
Georgia Cracker,” which she will deliver
during the coming season. It is said to be
a brilliant effort.
The Augusta Chronicle says that it w*s
reported on Saturday that Hon. A. II. Ste
phens has been quite ill at Crawfordville,
having had a hemorrhage. Dr. Steiner was
telegraphed for, and went up iu the morn
ing to Liberty Hall, but advices from there
Saturday evening stated that the invalid
was much improved. It had been an
nounced that he was to speak in HarJem
next Friday and at Appling probably on
to-day—Monday.
At a primary election for delegates to the
Newnan Convention to nominate a Con
gressman from the Fourth district, Hon.
Henry R. Harris’ delegates carried Carroll
county by five hundred majority. There
was some dispute over the Carroll county
delegation when the convention was in ses
sion in Columbus, and it was thrown out.
This election was to settle the matter, and
it is, therefore, a gain to Mr. Harris, who
now goes into the convention upon jts
reassembling at Newnan with 35^ votes se
cured. Thirty-eight are necessary to a
choice.
The question whether or not a one-legged
or one-armed man should be punished like
any other man has of late been greatly ex
ercising the minds of two colored citizens
of Albany. After a hot discussion, at
which no conclusion was reached, the de
cision of the matter was left to the Albany
Advertiser in the following epistle, which
we clip and publish verbatim:
“August, 19th, 1878.
“Dear Sir, Mr Judge 1 or We have
Been ou a spute or spuU'roent talking About
crippel men or meus that is l or We wants
to Know from you If A one 1 leg or A one
Arm or one Anns Man Bee or Be found
guilty of Larcenv. What Will Become of
them* or them Men or such man \v ill the
Laws or Jaw Bind them to the I’en y or
Chains or Cham gauge as Long as a harty
Man
“1 says that a one Leg ora one Arms roan
or mans should Be Punish as If he had
Both Legs or Both Arms
“And thees thee men Who 1 *Va£ speak
ing With they says not so they thinks A one
Arms or a onn Leg ought not to Be Punish
like one that iia<i or hath his full Lims. NV e
could not deside it aod so I Write to you to
Lad us in the Light of tfcos or thou they
case Write soon and .Answer our Letter
Vendor direct your letter Leary Caihpnu £ a *
“your respectful '■
Greensboro Herald: “A meeting of citi
zens was held last Friday evening to devise
means for the assistance of the sufferers
from yellow fever in the Western cities.
The City Council was requested to contri
bute one hundred dollars from the City
Treasury., and a committee was appointed
to solicit contributions from the citizens.”
Washington Gazette: “The death of a lit
tle six mouths old child of Mr. W. W. Hu-
guley, who lives about seven miles from
town, occurred last Tuesday morning in the
following singular manner: The mother left
it in bed when she arose to go about her do
mestic duties. Thinking it was sleeping
nicely, she did not go to it for an hour or
two. But, painful to relate, when she did
look into the bed she found that the child
had fallen between the bed and the wall and
was fastened there head downward. It had
been dead for some time.”
Valdosta Times: “ We learn that M r -
Twiggs Clyatt, of Clyattyille, was shot in
the mouth last Saturday night by a drunken
negro who was pranking with a loaded
fistol. The ball went through the lower
ip, knocked out a tooth, and lodged in the
tongue. It was cut out, and Mr. C. went
right on with Jhis business.”
Hartwell Sun: “A man in Hart county
had twenty-seven children, and he and his
wife are still alive, hearty and well. We
heard a gentleman, who stopped out of a
storm at the house of our Hart county friend,
say that he was amused at the old lady call
ing up the children and counting them as
they came in the house. There are a dozen
counties near the Air-Line Railroad in Geor
gia that could raise boys enough in the next
twenty years to whip any country on earth
except the United States.”
Columbus Times: “Last night about nine
o*’clock two negroes stopped at Dave’s beer
saloon on Oglethorpe street and asked for a
glass of beer. The beer was given them
and on leaving the saloon they halted at the
door and began to be boisterous. Dave or
dered them off, when one of the negroes re
plied with some impudent language and made
a grab for Dave’s watch. He caught the
chain, which, however, broke, and on Dave’s
blowing a policeman’s whistle, the negroes
disappeared down the street. A broken
watch chain and crystal was all the damage
resulting from the affair.”
Brunswick Appeal: “Hon. John C. Nicholls
addressed the people of Pierce during the
session of their Superior Court last week,
announcing good Catholic doctrine, to-wit.:
That if elected he means to represent the
interest of the whole of the First Congres
sional district in Congress. That is true
Democratic doctrine.”
The Atlanta Constitution records an ex
ceedingly sad and fatal accident to a little
fellow of that city, Leon Silverman, ten
years of age. The details of the unfortu
nate occurrence are as follows: “Young
Silverman, with one or two of his friends,
while on their way home, met a street ear
driven by John Heilderbrand, near the cross
ing at Peters street. Silverman,with a view
of getting a ride, jumped on the front plat
form of the car while the mules were trot
ting along at a pretty good rate of speed.
The driver, observing him jump on, cut at
him with his whip. Silverman, iu endea
voring to avoid the blow, made an effort to
jump off, but fell and rolled under the car.
Before the driver could put on his brakes
the rear wheels of the car passed over
the left leg of the boy above the
kuee, crushing the bone and mangling the
flesh terribly. Judge J. D. Cunningham,
with one or two other passengers, picked the
wounded boy up aud carried him into the
residence of Mr. Johnson, which was situ
ated just opposite. The news of the acci
dent spread quite rapidly, aud very soon a
large crowd of sympathizing friends gath
ered at the house to learn the particulars.
The boy was made as comfortable as possi
ble by laying him on a mattress, and Dr.
Willis F. Westmoreland was sent for by Su
perintendent E. C. Peters, who arrived upon
the ground shortly after the accident occur
red. Dr. Westmoreland arrived quite prompt
ly, and upon making an examination it was
ascertained that amputation was necessary
as the only means of saving the little fellow’s
life. While the preparations were being
made to take the leg off, the little sufferer
laid there exhibiting pluck aud gameness
that would have been creditable to one
much larger aud much older. When the
arrangements hud been perfected, ether was
administered by Dr. Westmoreland, who
was ably assisted during the whole affair by
Drs. Dan H. Howell, T. W. Gordon and Dr.
J. L, Pin,son, City Physician of the First
ward. The operation was performed in a
most skillful manner, the limb being taken
off within a very few inches of the hip. The
patient was relieved from the stupefying
effects of the drug and recovered quite
rapidly. When the little fellow had fully
recovered he complained of feeling chilly,
and a mustard poultice was applied to his
chest with a view of putting warmth in his
body. The circulation of his blood
was found to be very weak, aud stimu
lants were applied to give him relief. The
injured child gradually lost strength and
sank until 10 o’clock last night, when he ex
pired. r ihe ^ccjdent is greatly to be de
plored. The deceased Fas a bright little
fellow aud was very popular ajuqng the
scholars of Walker street school, which he
attended. The driver of the car, Mr. John
Heilderbrand, is a man that has the reputa
tion of being one of the best and most ca
pable drivers in the employ of the Street
Railroad Company lie has been in their
employ for the past five years, and has
borne a good character. Shortly after the
accident occurred the driver was arrested by
Policeman Nat West, who will retain him
in custody until to-day, when an inquest
Will be held and a decision arrived at.”
To the Homeopathists of the United
States.
New Orleans, September 7, 1878.—iu
the treatment of yellow fever in past
epidemics, as in tfre present scourge, which
is decimating our fair city , tl^e homeopathic
practice has shown highly favorable results;
henca, for humanity’s sake, should be
more liberally extended to our suffering
people.
We are doing all in our power ir» the
present emergency, but our means, limited
to local sources, are sadly inadequate to
meet the distressing demands daily increas-
E
lug.
General contributions from aoroa4, sent
to other associations, are applied to the sick
throusrh allopathic practice, those of the
afflicted desiring homeopathic treatment de
riving little benefit therefrom.
To reach, to aid, and to save some of the
many who desire and solicit the latter treat
ment, we captidajly appeal to the kind
charity and generous tiigevoienee of the
physicians, associations and friends of the
practice, hoping and believing that we shall
receive such immediate attention and assist
ance as this most worthy of causes fully
merits.
Remittances made through any public chan
nel to the undersigned officers, at the asso
ciation rooms, !-,S Canal street, will be
promptly acknowledged au.1 Judiciously ap
plied. Albert Voorhees, President
C. G. Fisher, Secretary.
We fully indorse and add our solicitations
to the above.
■Times G. Bei.den, M. D.
A. }S. HE VILLENECVE, M. D.
Bicuahu AxijEtx, M. D.
>— ==r-
Terrible Domestic Tragedy.—For
some time past a German farmer of
Parma, Ohio, named Umsinger, has been
almost insanely jealous of his wife, as all
of Jiis neighbors think, without any
cause. Last Thursday evening this jeal
ousy came to a terrible climax. He made
threats against the life of his wife and
child and struck the former several
blows with a gun. She finally escaped
to a neighbor’s barn with the child, and
secreted herself la tjje barn. The next
the neighbors saw was limsingpr’s barn
on fire, and rushing thither found the
house also in flames, and his dead body
lying between. It seems he had set his
barn, house and straw-stacks on fire, and
then shot himself through the heart,
Killed While Playing Horse with
a Gun.—Mr. Abner P- Styles, of Spring-
field. New Jersey, loaded Jiis shot gun
heavily several days ago to shoot a wea-
zel. He left the gun standing in a cor
ner of the dining room. Wednesday
morning, while Mr. Styles was sick in
bed, his little five-year-old son began
playing horse with the gun. He lashed
it with a whip until the end of the whip
was wound around the gun. The gun
then fell against a chair, and the boy
pulled on the whip in such a way as to
raise the trigger and discharge the gun.
He was killed.
A Cheese Filled with Arsenic.—
Caroline Geife, of New A ork, a
young married woman, fine looking,
lias been arrested at the instance of
her brother, a lawyer, who
charges that she sent a cheese filled with
grsenic to her mother’s house, intending
to poisofi her mother and brothers so as
to obtain their property. The brother
was the only one who afe of the cheese,
and nearly died as the result. So touch
arsenic had been put in the cheese, how-
pyer, that his stomach threw it off. The
woman denies having made or sent the
cheese.
■ ■ ■ ■ ♦ v~.:—
Poisoned by Supposed Mx mi rooms.
—Mrs. .Edward Lewis, a buxom young
widow of Winchester, Ya., and her two
children, were poisoned recently bv eat
ing toadstools, which they mistook for
edible mushrooms. Mrs. Lewis gathered
the supposed mushrooms in anticipation
of having a dinner party. Her visitors
were prevented from coming and
she an,d her children ate the dinner.
Both children are dead, and the lady is
not expected to live.
A man named Thomas Webster, of
Westmoreland county, Pa., brought suit
recently against Rev. T. N. Eaton,
Methodist clergyman at Jjrownsville, for
marrying his (Webster’s)'daughter t.o a
man named Cummings, without the
consent of her parents—she being a
minor. The cose was arbitrated at
Uniontown the other day, and the plain
tiff was awarded the statutory penalty of
£50.
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
A Terrible Day in Memphis Saturday.
THE RISE A SE ELSEWHERE.
CONTINUED AID FOR THE SUF
FERERS.
Frost Reported in Grenada, Cairo and
Chattanooga.
DISASTERS BY THE LATE STORM.
Wheat and Corn Crop Report.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD CASE.
General News, Foreign and Domestic
A TERRIBLE DEATH RECORD IN MEMPHIS.
Memphis, September 14.—The weather
has taken a change, it is feared, for the
worse. The nights are cool and the days
warm. The number of new cases may rea
sonably be expected to continue large.
Forty-six deaths were reported up to noon,
making ninety-one for the twenty-four
hours ending at noon. Death is taking
many of our best citizens. Colonel 8.
Knowlton, acting Postmaster, died this
morning, alsoJ. C. Ward, Eagene D. White,
son of Rev. Geo. White, Earnest Cleaves, J.
J. Sears, Rip Gales, Miss M. B. Page, Philip
Erbe, Rev. J. T. Early, A. T. Thompson and
Mrs. Holste, mother of the Holst Brothers.
Horace H. Briggs is very low.
Later.—To-night’s reports show an in
crease in the death rate. One hundred and
twenty-seven deaths are reported, of which,
however, ten should have been reported last
evening, leaving to-day’s mortality one hun
dred and seventeen, of which forty were
colored.
Among the deaths are Henry Steinkup,
John Walsh, P. B. Stewart, John C. Gee, A.
Jesche, Dr. Nugent of St. Louis, Dr. Har
lan of Hot Springs, and Mr. Jarvis, drug
clerk from Nashville.
None of the resident physicians made re
ports of new cases to the Board of Health
this evening.
Dr. Saunders, President of the Board of
Health, J. Harvey Mathes, of the Ledger,
and Hon. John Lougue and wife are report
ed convalescent.
About noon a foul stench was discovered
in the neighborhood of the Mosby tfc Hunt
block, on Front street. A negro policeman
was detailed for the purpose to make an
examination of the premises, and in one of
the rooms discovered the dead and decom
posed body of II. L. Waring, cotton buyer,
who had evidently been dead several days.
AID FOR THE YELLOW' FEVER SUFFERERS.
Washington, September 14.—Contribu
tions for the fever sufferers are still being
reported from all sections of the country.
New York, September 14.—The Southern
Relief Committee of the Chamber of Com
merce decided to send to New Orleans the
following : $3,000 to the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association, $2,000 to the Catholic Sis
ters of Mercy, $1,000 to the Hebrew Benevo
lent Society and $2,000 to the Peabody Be
lief Association; $1,000 to the Howards at
Ilolly Springs: $8,000 to the Memphis Relief
Association, $1,000 to the Catholic Relief
Society, $500 to the Hebrew Benevolent So
ciety, and $500 to the Sisters of St. Mary,
Memphis.
Lynchburg, Va., September 14.—A part
of the donation of Lone Jack smoking to
bacco, contributed by J. W. Carroll for the
benefit of the yellow fever sufferers, sold
to-day for $233.
San v. Francisco, September 14.—The
matinee at the California Theatre to-day for
the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers
netted $2,700.
Atlanta, Ga., September 14.—The sub
scriptions for the yellow fever sufferers
amount to over $5,000.
Montgomery, September 14.—The con
tributions to date for the yellow fever suf
ferers amount to $6,000.
Ne^v York. September 14.—Cardinal Mc-
Closky has ofdgre.d a collection in all the
churches of his diocese on Sunday, the 22d
for the fever sufferers. He also exhorts all
Catholics to unite iu offering up fervent
prayers to God that He in His great mercy
may be pleased to deliver His afflicted peo
ple from the scourge under which they
a#3 DOW suffering aud arrest its desolating
progress.
A SLANDEROUS STATEMENT REFUTED.
Washington, September 14.—The JW
yesterday published an interview with Dr.
Ramsey, one of the physicians returned
from Memphis, ;n which he stated that he
had been authentically informed that white
women have to take negro men for nurses
or go without, and that such negro men
nurses have taken advantage of their help
less vxciUu*.
Mr. Keating, editor of the Memphis Ap
peal, having his attention called to the staler
meat, pronounces it utterly untrue, and
adds: “No man, white or black, would be
allowed to breathe a second breath after
such a crime became known. No such
crime has been coiaimtieff. yVhite women
have not been reduced to the necessity of
taking negro men for nurses. The state
ment is a libel upon the negroes of Memphis.
All honor to them; they have done their duty;
they have acted by us nobly as policemen,
and as soldiers, as w r ell as nurses. They
have responded to every call made upon
them, iu proportion to their r.qmbers, quite
‘as promptly as the whites. A few of them
threatened trouble about food at one time,
but they were at oncp suppressed by a com
pany oi citizen soldiers of their own polo**.
The colored people of Memphis, as a body,
deserve well of their white fellow citizens.
We appreciate and are proud of them.”
THE FEVER IN CANTON, MISS., AND BATON
ROUGE, LA.
New Orleans, September 14.—A Canton,
Miss., dispatch say6:
“The total number of cases to date is
three hundred and fifty-three, deaths fifty-
four: new cases in the last twenty-four hours
thirty-four, deaths seven. Dr. Cage, one of
over physicians, was taken down*,this morn
ing. A hospital has been established. We
are managing the fever as best we can with
a limited number of physicians and nurses.
Thanks to friends everywhere for liberal aid.
“[SignedJ Rout. Powell, Mayor.”
Baton Rouge, September 14.—The fol
lowing is the official statement of cases re
ported is the twenty-four hours ending this
morning at 9 o'clock :
“ Deaths one, new cases forty-two. I otal
deaths to-date, twenty-seven ; total cases,
four hundred and thirty-three.
' Sicnedl “ J. W. Dupre,
’ ‘ v “ Health Officer.”
THE FEVER AT GALLIPOLI**, OHIO-
Gallipolis, O., September 14.—The list
of the sick in the fever district has been re
duced since yesterday by the death of Win.
Walker and the Cladius brothers.The remain
der are improving, with the exception of
two, who will hardly live through the
night. Hugh Rymals, who lives three miles
below town, was taken sick. The doctors
have not yet determined if it is yellow fever.
The weather is mild. There are no cases in
the citj’. _ , . , .
The’steamer John Porter departed this
morning in search of her runaway barges.
Finding them, she will go to Pittsburg.
THREATENED RAID ON CHRISTIANS.
f'ONST^NjiNOPLE, September 14.—The
Mussulman* of the surrounding country
threaten to make a descent on jsrzeroun)
aud plunder the Christians when the Rus
sian troops leave the city. The Armenian
Archbishop of Erzeroum telegraphed Mr.
Layard and M. Fournier, British and French
Ambassadors at Constantinople, asking that
steps be taken for the protection of the
Christians. •
THE FEVER IN GRENADA—A SLIGHT FROST.
Grenada, Miss., September H* — P r -
Woolfolk, of Paducah, died yesterday, af
ter an illness of one week.. Six other deaths
to-dav and two new cases are reported.
Dr.' Veasey, of New' Orleans, aud Dr. Henry
Stone of Natchez, are the only physicians
here. * They are going night and day.
1'bej-e was a slight frost last night.
MOUKHYAK tfAaHA-’s MISSION A FAILURE.
Athens, September 14.—"The mission cf
Moukhtar Pasha, sent to Crete to endeavor
to pacify the island, has failed. The Ore-
tans rejected all proposals made by the
•Porte and refused to enter into any arrange
ment looking to the establishment of re
forms in the administration.
discharged.
Pottsville, Pa., September 14.—John
Deane and James Noon were discharged on
a writ of habeas corpus in the case of the
murder of Patrick Stanton, killed ingoVOTP
ber, 1869. Anthony Munley aud Anthony La-
rey were held in $3,000 bail.
ONE THOUSAND TONS OF ICE FOR THE FEVER
SUFFERERS.
irABDiHER, Me., September 14.—A move
ment is on foot to r*is4i one thousand tons
of ice among the ice merchants and compa
nies in this vicinity, for the fever sufferers.
Six hundred tons have already been secured.
DISASTROUS FIRE—ASSIGNMENT.
Lewisbuhg, A/a.. $Jc£Member 14. The ag
ricultural works of James S. Marsu were to
tally destroyed by fire this morning. The
loss* is estimated at $100,000; insurance $10,-
fifiO. Marsh made an assignment this morn
ing.
EFFECTS OF THE RECENT STORM.
Washington, September 14.—Dispatches
from various points in Virginia, West Vir
ginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and as far north
as Canada, give accounts of destructive
gales, accompanied by heavy rains, causing
extensive damage to railroads, canals and
other property, and in some instances loss of
life. Much anxiety is felt in Richmond,
Va., owing to reports from Lynchburg that
the water iu the James river is rising rapidly.
A number of merchants doing busines in the
lower part of the former city near the river
are removing their goods in anticipation of
a swamping freshet. The Staunton river
bridge on the Virginia Midland Railroad,
between Lynchburg and Danville, two
bridges over the Roanoke river between Sa
lem and Big Spring,and one at Dry-Hollow on
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad,
have been washed away. A dispatch from
Covington, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, says Jackson river is higher than
at any time before, except in November last.
Cincinnati, September 14.—Advices
from all poiDts in Ohio, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania indicate that the storm of the
past two days was the most severe ex
perienced for years. On the line of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad serious dam
age was inflicted. A fireman, brakeman
and engineer were killed by washouts. The
bridge on the Pan-Handle route was washed
away and a freight train flung into the stream.
The engineer and fireman have not been
seen since. No traius passed Steubenville
on the Pan-Handle, Pittsburg,WheeliDg and
Kentucky, or Cleveland and Pittsburg
roads. The Ohio, at Steubenville, rose six
teen feet in twenty-four hours. Eight inches
of rain fell in the same time, and at Youngs
town, Ohio, seven inches. At three o’clock
yesterday morning the residents on the
streets in the vicinity of the Mahoning river
were being removed from their dwellings in
boats. On Mahoning avenue the water was
eight feet deep. Several small dwellings
were swept away like drift w r ood. The
County Commissioners state the loss to the
county in ruined bridges will reach one
hundred thousand dollars. The following
were almost totally destroyed: Brown, Bou-
uell Co.’s rolling mill, the Morse Bridge
Works, Dingle & Co., Lumberman Nimrod’s
furnace, aud C. Andrews’ furnace. At Me-
chanicsville, near Plainesville, Ohio, the dam
gave way and a number of houses were
inundated. At Salem a bridge fell with an
engine and two care upon it. The engineer
and brakeman were severely injured. Near
Alliance, Richard Teeters, engineer of a
coal train, bad both legs broken and the
fireman was severely injured by running
into a chasm left by a bridge which was
swept away. The Kanawha river is higher
than in the flood of 1861 and is still rising,
overflowing a portion of Charlestown, W.
Ya., and the Kanawha valley, sweeping
with it the new 6teamer Advance and num
berless lumber rafts, etc,
THE WHEAT AND CORN CROPS.
Washington, September 14.—Returns to
the Department of Agriculture indicate an
average of 87 in the condition of the wheat
crop against 92 in September, 1877. The
redueiion is mostly due to disasters to the
spring crop in the northwest. A preliminary
examination of the returns indicates the aver
age breadth sown in 1878 about one-sixtb
greater than in 1877. This will more than
compensate for the loss from the decline in
condition, and will probably bring up the
yield to the popular estimate of 400,000,000
bushels.
The average condition of the corn crop is
93. against 96 in August, slightly above the
condition in September, 1877, which was 91.
The crop held its own In the northern por
tion of the Atlantic slope and on the Pacific
coast, slightly improved in the States north
of the Ohio and fell off 2 per cent, iu the
States west of the Mississippi. The South
ern States as a whole fell off about 3 per
cent. Of nine hundred aud twenty-one
counties reporting, two hundred aud fifty-
two show a full average, two hundred and
seventy-eight above and three hundred and
ninety-one below.
THE CUBAN SUGAR CROP.
Havana, September 9.—A Cienfuegos
newspaper publishes a report, said to be of
the most reliable character, to the effect
that this year's sugar prop will amount to
275.485 tons, of which quantity about 100,-
000 tons will be consumed in the islaud.
The balance will be mostly exported to the
United States.
The production of molasses amounted to
108.485 tons, of which the greater part was
exported to the Ameripan-British provinces
and the United States. As the total of ex
ports from January 1st to July 31st amount
ed to 1165,117 tons of sugar and 91,735 tons
of molasses, the balance remaining at the
different ports of the island must amount
to 160,368 tons of sugar and 167,500 tons of
molasses.
THE STANDARD SILVER DOLLARS.
Washington, September 14.—The circu
lar issued to-day by the United States Treas
urer takes the place of all other circulars,
and names one hundred and twenty national
banks as designated depositories to he sup
plied by the Treasury upon their applica
tion with the staudafd silver dollars from the
mint, free of expense. It is expected the
coin furnished as above will be put in
circulation by being furnished to public dis
bursing officers, manufacturing establish
ments, other banks and hankers for distri
bution in like manner by them, and gener
ally where it is to be used as current mon
ey. As many of the standard dollars will be
paid on salary account, as the employes are
disposed to take,
AQUATIC.
London, September 14.—A race will take
place to-day for five hundred dollars a side,
over the course between Putney and Mort-
lake, between Joseph Sadler and John Haw-
don. The latter belongs to Newcastle-on-
Tyne, and L agea twenty-three. He came
out th 187'Q 'and was'tlie witiner of second-
class sculls in the late international regatta.
Howdon ti:v§ engagements now with £ums-
den and (Jannon.
Later.—In the race to-day between Joseph
Sadler and John Hawdon, the latter won by
four lengths.
STEAMSHIP COLLISION AT SEA.
Boston, Septembor 14.—The steamer
Wm. Crane, which arrived here on the 13th
from Baltimore, was run into at 8:30 a. m.
on Wednesday, off the Capes of Delaware,
in a fog, by the steamer Gulf Stream, from
New York. The Crane was struck amid
ships,.on the port side, and had her main
rail and bulwarks broken. Two boats were
broken m pieces Jffid the davits damaged.
The Gulf Stream lost her bowsprit and had
her bows damaged considerably.
ILLICIT DISTILLERY DESTROYED.
Nashville, September 14.—Collector
Woodcock has received a letter announcing
the destruction of one of the largest illicit
distilleries yet found in this district. The
still is of four hundred gallons capacity, and
the distilling apparatus is valued at one
thousand dollars. It is located near a place
coiled Sneaktown,in a neighboring county.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD CASE.
Baltimore, September 14.—The South
Carolina 7 railroad c^se was before Judge
Bond to-day. Messrs. Lord, Si montori, Na
than and other counsel made arguments. It
is probable the arguments will be concluded
on Tuesday or Wednesday.
NEW ORLEANS FEVER REPORT.
New Orleans, September 14. — There
were three hundred and nine new cases and
fifty-nine deaths during the past twenty-four
hours.
HEAVY FROST IN CAIRO, ILL.
Cairo, September 14.—No new cases of
fever have been reported. A heavy frost is
reported in the low bottom lands around the
city.
NOMINATION.
Bordentown, if. J., September 14.—The
National Greenback Labor party of the First
district nominated Benjamin F. Thompson
for Congress.
light frost.
Chattanooga, September 14.—There was
a light frost last night.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
THE YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
Buffalo Bill Shoots a Boy.—In tlie
concluding act of the play of “May
Cody” at ford:a Gram) Opera House, ip
Baltimore, Wednesday night, "Buffalo
Bill” (Mr. Cody) fired a pistol which
happened to be" ioaded with a ball car
tridge. The bullet struck a youth named
Michael Gardner, who was sitting in the
upper gallery leaning over the railing,
lie made do outcry, and the discovery
was not made until the audience had left
the theatre. He then came i)own from
the gallery with sGme of his companions.
It was found that the bullet had entered
the upper part of his chest, near the
shoulder. The hall has not yet been
found and the w'ound is considered se
rious. ^
Young New York.—Henry Redline
and Mary Tierney, fifteen years old,
in adjoining houses in .Brooklyn, Jf. Y.
Henry was smitten with Mary, hut Mary
preferred another hoy. In consequence
of this the two children fell out on Mon
day night, when Henry stabbed Mary in
the arm with a pocket knife, for which
ungallant act he ; wm arrostea. Charles
Lydecker, nine years of age, of Ninth
avenue, and William Mather, aged four
teen, of West Fifty-third street. New
York, quarreled about a young girl on
Tbufsday. Sfatljer fired a small pistol
at Lydecker, wounding him in the fore-
head. In the South such gallantry would
be considered precocious barbarism.
The Situation at New Orleans, Vicks
burg and Other Places.
GENERAL MILES’ COMMAND SAFE.
THE CHINESE EMBASSY.
A BRACE OF SIBDERS IN MAS
SACHUSETTS.
Havana Steamers Overdue—The Late
Hurricane in Cuba.
Miscellaneous* matter*.
THE YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
New Orleans, September 14.—Ten
nurses leave for Holly Springs in the morn
ing. The 6ick telegraphers are reported in
an unfavorable condition, but not without
hope of recovery. At Southwest Pass one
new case was reported to-day. The conva
lescents are doing well. The following
comes from Canton:
“I traveled yesterday twenty-five miles in
different directions of the surrounding coun
try. There is unmistakable yellow fever in
families having no communication with the
town. I found one dead and another dying.
My strength and courage are still unabated.
“[Signed] J. J. Lyons, M. D.”
The deaths include twenty-three children
under seven years of age. Among the new
cases is Charles N. Welch, an insurance
agent. Dr. Stone did not leave for Holly
Springs. He is 6iek and confined to his
bed. Dr. Metcalfe, who, during the illness
ef Drs. Pratt and Miles, had charge of the
Charity Hospital, will go in the morning to
Dry Grove, Miss. Of new cases reported
to noon to-day several were many days old.
The doctors report cases in bulk when they
have time. Physicians have reported
twenty-three cases, some five days old.
There were twenty deaths to 6 o’clock p. m.,
and about one hundred and twenty new
cases. The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion report new cases to-day ninety-two,
deaths three; the Howard Association, new
cases, three hundred and thirty-four.
Holly Springs, September 15.—Colonel
II. \V. Walter, a prominent citizen, was
taken this morning and, much against his
will, was put iu bed as a yellow fever pa
tient. Colonel Kiuloch Falconer, Secretary
of State, aud who has been here working
all the while, takes his place on the Belief
Committee. Of the original seven of this
committee, only two are left, but to-day
General Frank Walker, with Mr. Falconer,
were added to it. The death list to
day Includes Mr. Potter, Mrs. Robert
Hastings Samuel Kimball and Dinah
Ingraham, colored. The new cases are:
George Matthews and wife, Anderson Chil
ton, Willis Jackson, Miss A. C^uiggins,
Charles Welsher. Mr. Mai sis’ son, Miss
Glassy, Mrs. Foreman, Mrs. Goldstein and
son, Daviu Lee, Bateman Cook, Catesby
Hubbard, of Louisiana, Mrs. Maggie Mac-
Len and child, of Memphis, Stephen Knapp,
Betty Murdok, Annie Wills, Mrs. O’Neill,
Miss Laura Deemy, a nurse from New Or
leans, Mrs. Dr. Willis, Mrs. W. S. Feather-
stone, Robert Cochrane.
The number yet to fa}l are not far from
five hundred, mostly poor people entirely
dependent. At our headquarters we have
endeavored to meet all demands and re
spond without partiality. Calls upon us
constantly increase. Drs. Gourrier and
Bailey, of New Orleans, and Drs. Manning
and Swearingen, of Austin, Tex., Mr. Shel
don, of the Can’t-Gefc-Away Club of Mobile,
have doue all the work during tho past few
days that was possible, our home
physicians having fallen in the harness.
Dr. G. W. Saul, of Georgia, arrived to-night
iu company with four volunteer nurses from
Texas. We express to our friends every
where prayerful thanks for their generous
assistance. May God bless them. The only
minister here is Rev. Father Lamy, of New
Orleans, who hesitates not to cross the
ihresholds of the humblest. The Presbyte
rian and Baptist ministers are both conva
lescing. [Signed] W. J. L. Holland,
Chairman Relief Committee.
Vicksburg, September 15.—The weather
is clear and warmer. There was a slight
frost yesterday morning northward in the
Mississippi bottoms. The fever here is
abating in new cases, but the deaths con
tinue very large. There were twenty-two
to-day—sixteen white and six colored.
Among them is Rev. Father Vitello.
This makes the second priest who
has died here within two weeks—
Fathers McManus and Vitello. Bishop
Elder is reported convalescent, but
is extremely weak. His recovery will
be slow. Right Rev. Bishop LeRoy has
been here for several days. Rev. Mr. Gal
loway is again convalescing after a relapse.
Rev. Mr. Bryce and Captain E. C. Carroll,
superintendent of the elevator, are also
among the convalescent.
Terry, Miss.. September 15.—There are
twenty cases qi feyer at Ijry Grove, five
miles from here.
STEAMERS OVERDUE—THE HURRICANE IN
CUBA.
Havana, September 14.—No tidings have
yet been received cf the steamer Santiago
de Cuba, from New York, which has been
out for ten days, and much anxiety is felt
for her safety. The Carondelet, which left
New York on the 7th of September
overdue. The UOy ^ L York, which ar
rived yesterday afternoon, reports that she
passed the Carondelet about’ one hundred
and fifty miles from New York. The City
of New York experienced a hurricane, last
ing forty hours, while between Cape Hat-
teras aud Charleston, and stove in her boats.
The weather at Havana has been tem
pestuous and very rainy during the whole
week. The hurricane did the most damage
in the Eastern and Central departments of
the island, not so much by wind as by caus
ing inundations. According to reports ar
riving here the damage to the cane fields is
not very serious.
GENERAL MILES NOT SURROUNDED.
Chicago, September 15.—The official re
port of General Miles regarding his recent
operations with the Banuocks disproves the
story that he had been surrounded, and
states that on the 4th inst. he surprised the
hostiles wjtfi the result* telegraphed from
here Thursday night. Eleven Indians were
killed aud thirty-one prisoners and two
hundred ponies captured. Captain Ben
nett, of the Fifth Infantry, ana two friendly
Crows were killed.
HELP FOR THE SUFFERERS FROM GALVESTON.
Galveston, September 15.—The state
ment in some of the papers that Galveston
had contributed nothing to the fever suffer
ers is incorrect. The contributions from
Galveston for that purpose so far amount to
between $8,000 and $10,000, and the com
mittee is still working. Thus far eighteen
nurses and three physicians have been sent
to Memphis and vickabbrg, and by the train
to-morrow ten additional nurses go forward.
THE CHINESE EMBASSY.
Washington, September 15.—Consider
able interest in official and diplomatic cir
cles is felt over the coming presentation of
the Chinese Embassy to the President, It
is intimated that the Minister wjll ask that
the same privileges be allowed Chinese in
this country as are extended Americans in
China, and that the same protection be af
forded them.
AUSTRIA COMMENCED OFFENSIVE OPERA
TIONS.
Belgrade, September 15.—The news
comes from Bosnia that Austrian reinforce
ments have commenced offensive operations
against the insurgent intrenchments on the
banks of the Save. Fightiug so far has
been indecisive. Trustworthy reports show
the Austrian losses between the 4th and 9th
of September to be about one hundred offi
cers and three thousand men.
THE TICONDEROGA TO GO TO SEA.
Portsmouth, N. H., September J5.—Or-
der§ have been received to get the United
States steamer Ticonderoga ready for sea.
She will be the flag ship of Commodore Shu-
feldt, now Chief of the Bureau of Equip
ment and Recruiting. She will have a rov
ing commission, also a band.
ACTION IN BEHALF OF GREECE.
London, September 15.—Private advices
from Rome received in Paris, state that
Germany defers making any definite propo
sition for joint action in behalf of Grfeece,
in consequence of the opposition of Eng
land and hesitation of Italy.
A MASSACHUSETTS HORROR.
Worcester, Mass., September 13.—Isham
Lewis (colored) became infatuated with M’SS
Hannah Courtney, aged nineteen, and, be
cause she repelled his advances, laid in wait
for her last evening and cut throat.
Lewis esqape<U
ANOTHER MASSACHUSETTS HORROR.
Boston, September 15.—James H. Cohen,
while drunk this evening, became enraged
at his wife for refusing to get beer for him,
and fatally beat her on the head witb a
plate.
At a special Greenback-Labor Conven
tion at Scranton, Penn., on Tuesday, the
Greenback delegates of Lackawanna
county were ignored in making up the
county ticket, thp result of which is a
teud between the Greenback and Labor
factions which threatens a disruption of
the new party in its stronghold.
The Greenback Party.
Baltimore Bulletin.
The election in Maine affords indubi
table evidence that the Greenback party
is no longer a local one, and that there
is danger lest it should assume formidable
proportions in other parts of the country.
Unlike the Know-nothings, this new
party makes a real, not a fact’tious issue
in politics, and it becomes every one to
formulate in his own mind precisely
what that issue is, in order that he may
not act or vote in the dark when the time
for action comes.
The Greenback platform is not that of
Judge Thurman by any means. Judge
Thurman is at war with the national
banks. He wants the national bank cur
rency retired and greenbacks substituted
in their stead. He opposes further con
traction of the currency, but he at the
same time wishes the paper currency to
be made convertible with gold and silver.
His platform, therefore, like Senator
Bayard’s, like the platforms of the
National Democratic and Republican
parties, looks to resumption, looks to a
currency resting upon the substantial
basis of the precious metals, a currency,
in other words, representing what is the
definite product of labor. The precious
metals doubtless have a value iu use,
but their value in exchange (and the cer
tainty and non-variable character- of
that value) grow out of the amount of
difficulty that people have in procuring
them; in other words, out of the labor
cost of their production. This charac
teristic of all the wholesome currency
platforms must l>e carefully remembered.
But the Greenback platforms distinctly
and universally repudiate this notion of
a convertible currency. They expressly
declare that they do not want a currency
which derives its value from the fact
that it represents, and is ultimately ex
changeable into, gold and silver coin of
a certain weight and fineness. On the
contrary, they declare for “absolute”
monej’—money which has a fixed kyisla
tice value for purposes of domestic ex
change, that value being supposed to
rest upon the national credit. But this
money is not to be convertible into any
thing except government securities and
government dues.
This distinction is made very clear in
the platform of the Butler party in
Massachusetts, adopted yesterday, after
the success in Maine. This platform
declares in favor of the establishment of
“abnotute money, and the volume thereof
to be maintained at a fixed rate per capita
by a constitutional amendment, so that
permanent justice may be done to all
men by having general values remain
the same. ” The wildness of this absurd
proposition is one thing—the fact that it
is seriously maintained by the Greenback
party is another thing. The Butler plat
form further:
“Jtexolml, That we demand the immediate
repeal of the resumption act, so that the
periodical carnivals of bankruptcy may for
ever come tp an end, and’that our national
wealth be made the fixed and reliable foun
dation of our monetary system, forever ban
ishing from America the idiotic proposition
of making commodities of shifting value,
and articles of merchandise like gold and
silver a basis for money, a basis that ever
has, as in 18X5,1836 and 1857, and ever must,
periodically slip out from under such a mone
tary’ system, thereby destroying it and plung
ing the country into ruin and bankruptcy, a
basis that even England has never been able
to maintain for any great length of time,
although she is the creditor nation of the
world.
“Jtcsolved, That the United States shall
never issue any more interest bearing bonds
unless the same are authorized by the direct
vote of the people, and those issued during
the war of the rebellion shall be paid as fast
as they mature, according to the terms of
the contract which authorized and created
that indebtedness of the people, and what
that contract is shall be submitted to the
decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States, aud that all subsequent acts,
which impair and change the original con-
traet, are hereby denounced as creatures of
corruption and repudiation that must be re
pealed.”
In other words, the Greenback parly
refuse to have a currency that rests upon
commodities of fluctuating value, like
gold and silver, (which are determined
in value by the labor cost of extracting
them and putting them on the market.)
but want a currency resting upon “the
national wealth” as “the fixed and relia-
able foundation of our monetary sys
tem.” At the same time (to show the
inconsistency of such platforms) they de
clare “land and labor” tol»e “thfe sources
of all wealth. •’ iiut, as land cannot be
made a medium of exchange, labor, or
the commodities representing it, must be
that medium; and gold and silver are the
very commodities, the products of labor,
which are least fluctuating in value, and
which have, therefore, been settled upon
by the common consent, wisdom and ex
perience of mankind, as the instruments
of cxrb»2ge. How can the Greenback
party consistently repudiate gold and sil
ver and yet believe labor to be the source
of wealth?
The rest of the Butler platform, as is
the case with all the other Greenback
platforms, deals with the labor question in
a way’ which we have not space to consider
at present. The currency feature is the
most immediately important matter.
The platform declares that the act of
1869 must be repealed, as having been
corruptly procured, and that United
States bonds must be paid “as fast as
they mature.” in “absolute money.”
This, then, is the programme. It
means inflation. It means repudiation.
Stripped of its verbiage that is all that it
does mean, besides national bankruptcy
at the end of the downward plunge.
How is it possible for such an issue to
find favor in the sight of the farmers,
the most conservative class in the com
munity? It is because all the legislation
of late years has been adverse to the
agricultural interest, has killed their
profits and driven them into debt. They
are now trying to take their revenge by
a policy which will end in their cutting
their own throats. As the New York
Bulletin says:
“The Greenback issue appeals specifically
to the agricultural interest. That class of
citizens are very generally in debt for money
borrowed upon their farms. Their loan;
were effected when the gold prem;- am was
high; in other words, when, greenbacks were
worth from fifty to ninety cents on the gold
dollar. The appreciation of greenbacks to
par involves, first, a decline In the prices of
farm products, thereby inducing a partially
diminished ability on the part of the farm
ers to pay the interest and principal of
their debts; and, second, the making
of such payments in a currency
of greater va'lue than they received
when they borrowed. To the farmer, thus
situated, the Greenback party offer to again
depreciate the value of the paper currency,
either by making it irredeemabe fiat serip,
or by so augmenting the volume of United
States notes as to effect a fresh suspension
of specie payments. In either case the
farmers would have an opportunity of pay
ing their debts in a depreciated currency,
and would obtain higher prices for their
products. The new party present this temp
tation to the agricultural class; and t(i(i
Maine election affords us the first evidence
as to how the bait is likely to be accepted.”
But the short sightedness of this must
be apparent when we observe that the
farmer, in order to prosper, must sell
more than he buys, must receive more
than he pays, and therefore is interested,
even more than the workingman, in hav
ing the best (i. e. the most universally
exchangeable) currency. His wages and
his interest can never amount to as much
(in the general average) as ’ the price he
receives from the sale of his products.
In any event he must sell those products
at gold rates—why should he be debarred
from receiving payment 1 for them in
gold?
b —
A Berliner taught his dog to howl
when Bismarck's name was mentioned;
in the seclusion of the prison cell he
wishes he hadn’t. Carl Otto Su-
perezynski, when the Emperor’s health
was proposed, did not fill his glass. As
his father was dying and his mother had
taken to her bed. ill anxiety, he
was let off with three months’ imprison
ment.
Another Stewart heir has turned up,
this time at Proctorsville, Vt., in thp
person of an old man named Alexander
Stewart, who says he is a cousin of the
merchant print*. His claims have b^en
placed in the hands of a lawyer, and it
is intimated that their justice will be
recognized by Mrs. Stewart and Judge
Hilton.
THE PESTILENCE.
The Awful Conditfou of tlemphlu-
Filluvia of the Plague—A Returned
Roctor’a Thrilling Narrative.
Dr. William T. Ramsey, one of the
physicians who went to Memphis with
the corps of Washington nurses, has re
turned to Washington in company with
Dr. T. P. Pease and Mrs. Wallis. The
following brief interview with Dr. Ram
sey discloses some of the horrors and ne
cessities of that plague-stricken city.
Dr. Ramsey said: “Before reaching
Memphis—even when five miles out—the
air was laden with the yellow fever poi
son, and as we approached the city the
stench was absolutely sickening. Dr.
Pease and myself went to the Peabody
Hotel, the only one now open, and were
shown into a room from which a dead
body had just been removed. Vessels
of black vomit were standing about the
room and the bedclothes had not been
changed. The hotel itself is a perfect
pest-house, and victims of the disease
are in two-thirds of the rooms. Sulphur
pans are kept burning in the halls, and
tlie clothes, bedding, etc., are constantly
disinfected, but they cannot get help
enough in the hotel to do one-half what
ought to he done. "
“How many trains a day, doctor?”
“Two at present; but all commerce
has ceased and business of nearly every
kind is suspended. The people have no
heart to a’tempt any regular business,
and could not if they would. Even the
liquor saloons for the most part are
closed, and the provision stores as a rule
are empty.”
“What seems to be their greatest
need?”
“Provisions, clothing, physicians,
money, nurses and medicines about in
the order named. The best thing that
can be. done now is to send plenty of
provisions and clothing. Tho negroes
and many poor whites for a region of
one hundred and fifty miles around Mem
phis have flocked in there, hearing they
could get something to eat; and as for
clothes, hundreds of poor people are
going about the streets, especially col
ored women, with hardly anything o-_ at
all, The sights in this- resect are dis
tressing.”
“Are they disposed to be peaceable?”
“So far no serious outbreak has oc
curred, but the better classes are in con
stant terror of a riot. The city is in the
hands of colored police altogether, and
while they behave very well, there is still
a lurking fear on the "part of the whites
of some additional evil.”
I IV IT!
The Gloom in Washington.
A Washington special to the New
York World says; “An atmosphere of
deep and all-pervading gloom has pre
vailed in the departments to-day. The
occasion for this melancholy was the re
sult of the election in Maine. The vic
tory of the Greenbackers affected the
spirits of the Secretary of the Treasury.
He found partial consolation, however,
in the fall of the premium on gold to
one eighth of one per cent. At the Re
publican Congressional Committee rooms
grief was everywhere apparent. The
Star Spangled Banner which floats daily
from the roof as a signal for the clerks
to pay political assessments was hauled
down. All of the committee’s rooms,
excepting the reading room, were closed
and the laborers given a day’s holiday
out of respect to the memory of Mr.
Hale, Chairman of the committee, who
was defeated for Congress by Mureh, the
Greenback candidate. ExSecreiary Robe
son waited in the hall for two hours in
the hope of obtaining some cheering news,
but, on the other hand, his fears of the
worst were confirmed. ‘We shouldn’t
have minded it so much,’ said one of the
committee’s clerks, ‘if it had not been
for the loss of all of those Republican
soft-money speeches sent to Maine, which
he might have used to some advantage in
the West. We thought we could get the
Maine Greenbackers tq vote our ticket by
giving them a little soft-money sawder.’
No dispatches were received at the
Democratic Congressional Committee
rooms from Maine, and the mem
bers of the committee are all out
of town. Ail interest here in the
election seemed to be centered on Hale.
The defeat of the principal whipper-in
of the Republican party was entirely un
expected. and it produced a great com
motion in the ranks. It is thought that
his relegation to private life will cost the
Republican Committee several thousand
dollars which otherwise would have been
collected from department clerks who
have withheld subscriptions in order to
learn which way the political current is
drifting. Hale's defeat will break Blaine's
organization on the Republican side of
the House. ”
1 Mysterious Crime in the Suburbs
of Boston.—Still another horror has
been added to the long catalogue of dark
and mysterious crimes for which Boston
has been noted. The victim was- a wo
man, respectably dressed and about fifty
years of age. Her name has not yet been
discovered, and, of course, there is no
clue to the murderer. The scene of the
tragedy is almost the same as that of the
Leehan murder, the lonely track of land
that lies along the Black Bay containing
portions of Boston and that part of
Brookline known as Longwood. The
body was found last Tuesday night, hut
the officers kept the matter private until
Friday morning, when the town was
thrown into a fever of excitement by the
discovery. As soon as the medical exam
iner was summoned he proceeded to hold
an autopsy, and the facts proved beyond
doubt that the woman was outraged,
murdered and the body thrown into the
basin to hide the crime forever. But it
floated to the surface and the fiend w^o
so ruthlessly butchered the defenceless
woman knows that his d‘:eu of blood is
known. The police authorities haye
made every effort to discover if any wo
man i» missing in Boston, and several
people have called at the morgue to try
and identify the body, but so far nobody
has been able to do so. No clew what
ever has been discovered by which the
detectives could start out to find the
murderer.
Falling Headlong Into a Cata
ract.—On Saturday last Mr. George
Compton, proprietor of a boardinghouse
near the Delaware Water Gap, visited,
ia company with his wife and daughter,
the Bushkfil Falls, a mountain cataract a
few miles away in Pike county, Penn
sylvania. The party stopped to rest at
the head of the falls, and, moved by
curiosity, Miss Compton walked to the
edge of the rocks, and, leaning over,
looked down into the water, one hun
dred and twenty feet below her. As she
did so she lost her balance, and, uttering
a piercing scream for help, fell headlong
into the rocky abyss. Her father hur
ried to the foot of the falls, and, plung
ing into the water, succeeded in rescuing
the girl alive, and a pbysieiaq was im
mediately summoned, who. pronounced
her injuries of a fatal nature. The giil
was by this time unconscious, and her
body was bruised and mangled from
head to foot. She was taken to her
home, and at last accounts was slowly
sinkinf; with no possible chance of re
covery.
The unfortunate career of Miss Kate
Mason, a Newport young lady who fig
ured in New York police courts some
months ago in the role of a detective,
was closed on Tuesday by death in b ne
of the hospitals of that city. At the ex
piration of the term of her confinement
in New "York she returned to her home,
but found that her family had removed
to Boston. A relative denied her admis
sion. The police station again received
her, and finally the institution where she
died. Her brother and sister were pres
ent at her death- 8he related that" she
had been ruined by a Newport million
aire.
The Greenback organ in Auburn, Me.,
advises the Greenbackers to “spot every
deserter,” and if a single Greenback
committee sells out tar and feather them.
That certainly would he a good way to
make a committee stick.
MILLION YARDS HAMBURG EDGINGS,
. at 3c., 5c., 6c., 8c., 10c. and l2t<c.
A BANKRUPT STOCK.
3,000 yards WHITE SWISS MUSLIN, at 12Ua,
worth 25c.
6-4 WHITE ORGANDIE MUSLIN, at 35c., re
duced from 50c.
1,000 yards 4-4 FRENCH ORGANDIE, plain
white, at 25c., former price 50c.
100 pieces PLAIN VICTORIA LAWN, yard
wide, reduced from 20c. to IS^c.
300 pieces CRASH TOWELING, at 5c.
300 dozen HUCK LINEN TOWELS, at $2, sold
at $3.
100 dozen GENTS’ HEMSTITCHED LINEN
HANDKERCHIEFS, at 25c. each, usual
price 45c. to 50c.
200 dozen LADIES’ HEMSTITCHED HAND
KERCHIEFS, at $2 50, reduced from $3.
10 pieces BLACK CASHMERE, this season’s
importation, at a great bargain.
10 pieces BLACK SILK, the richest and heaviest
ever offered by ns, at 40 per cent, off cost
of importation.
100 pieces BLACK ALPACA, 25c. aud Oui
30c. goods equal any ever offered at 50c.
Beautiful Blue Black.
10 cases WINTER PRINTS, at 5c.
4-1 BLEACHED SHIRTING, at 6^c.
Gray & O’Brien.
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BARGAINS!
y^OR the balance of the Summer 1 will offer
my ENTIRE STOCK OF FOREIGN AND STA
PLE DRY GOODS AT GREATLY REDUCED
PRICES. I specially invite attention to the
following lines:
100 pieces choice PRINTED CAMBRIC, yard
wide, at 6J4c., reduced from 10c.
150 pieces BLEACHED SHIRTING, yard wide,
at 8e., reduced from 10c.
60 pieces PILLOW COTTON, from 10c. yard
up.
100 pieces PRINTED LINEN LAWNS, at 6**?..
reduced from 12£4c.
75 DOZEN
Completely Finished Shirts,
At 90e. each. These are made of Wamsutta
Shirtiug and Richardson’s Celebrated Linen,
and consequently are as good as can be
bought.
100 DOZEN
Gents’ 4-Ply Linen Collars,
At $ 1 65 dozen, former price $2 dozen.
250 DOZEN
M’S FMCY HALF HOSE,
Striped and Solid Colors, reduced at least 15
per cent.
GREAT BARGAINS in Ladies’ and Gent*’
NECKWEAR
MATTUSO! MATTING!
150 rolls fresh imported MATTING, m white
and red check. Will be sold much under
regular value.
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B.F.McKENNA&CO.
DRY GOODS.
Removal, Removal.
B. F. ME.V.VA & CO.
WOULD INFORM THEIR PATRONS THAT
they have removed to their
NEW STORE,
137 Broughton Street,
BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKER STS.
WHERE THEY WILL BE GLAD TO SERVE
THEM.
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