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Savannah Ga.
Keorsia Affairs.
„ ur Atlanta correspondent informs U6
that on
Friday night last a lot of dogs made
, raid »P on
Colonel Richard Peters’ sheep
farm
Calhoun, and killed nine valua
ble merino sheep and maimed nearly twenty
, cep a nd Angora goats. In the morning
S L ' of the dogs were tracked and killed
if' Mr . Richard Peters, Jr. Dr. W. H.
Froward, L\ 8. A., who was visiting Mr.
1* the time, informed our correspondent
that be
sight.
fearfu
la!
pecui
farm
ary
before witnessed such a hor-
Some of the sheep and goats
y mangled. As many little
also perish from the death of the
safe to say that Colonel Peters’
loss will be great. His sheep
most valuable in the South, and
josed to be as safe a3 it was possi
ble to make it. Will the Legislature now
pve u; a stringent dog law?
° Mr. Dave W. Appier, General Agent of
Central Railroad and Ocean Steamship
Company of this city in Atlanta, has pre-
ted the Gate City Guards with an ele
gantly framed picture of the steamship
(iate City, which occupies a conspicuous
place in their handsome armory.
i Three additional companies of the Fifth
United State, Artillery have been ordered
to McPherson Barracks, Atlanta, for ^he
hot season. The Thirteenth United States
Infantry Irom Jackson Barracks, Louisiana,
'o back to Atlanta for the summer
v. Dr. II. II. Tucker, editor of
Indts, of Atlanta, has gone to Sara
toga Springs, N. Y., to attend the anniver
saries of the Northern Baptists. He will
reach the sermon before the American
Baptist Publication Society, and will no
doubt give them a discourse of rare beauty
and force.
Reports to the Commissioner of Agri
culture, from all parts of Southern and
Southwest Georgia, indicate the spread of a
fatal disease among cattle, and heavy
losses are reported. Dr. Janes is investi
gating the matter, and hopes soon to stop
the epidemic.
Mrs. M. E. McCullough, who, as we men
tioned yesterday, has been indicted by the
Burke grand jury for an assault with in
tent to murder her 6ister-in-law, and whose
trial was set for Thursday in Burke court
through her counsel pleaded guilty to t
mere assault. This plea wa6 accepted by
the Solicitor, and Judge Snead sentenced
her to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and
will also
The Rt
A committee of Atlanta citizens have been
busy of late in preparing certain amend
ments to the charter of that city to be sub
mitted to the Legislature for its approval.
The main features of the proposed changes
arc the issuing of new bonds to meet the
floating debt of the city, and to make ar
rangements to discharge the principal and
Interest on these bonds at maturity. The
rate of interest is not to be over 7 per cent,
and the bonds are not to be sold for less
than par. The Constitution, however, is of
the opinion that 7 per cent, is out of the
question, and that 5 per cent, would be an
amply high rate, aud It thinks the city could
even successfully iloat, at par, a 4 per cent,
loan. New water works are also to be in
corporated, and it is proposed to charge all
persons doing business in the city, and who
do not pay an ad valorem tax on merchan
dize, a tax not exceeding $200.
Annie Glanton, an industrious old negro
woman about sixty years of age, was burned
terribly and fatally in Atlanta on Friday
last. She was a washerwoman, and finding
some difficulty in kindling a fire, procured
a gallon of kerosene for that purpose.
While pouring the oil on the coals suddenly
the can exploded, and she was enveloped in
flames. She lingered in great agony until
Wednesday, when she died.
The Ilawkiusville D'uqyatch learns through
a letter from the First Assistant Postmas
ter General that a new post office called
C’ookstown has been established in Wilcox
county, and Mr. Normon E. Mitchell has
been appointed Postmaster. The new office
was named in honor of Gen. Phil. Cook,
The Grilliu News is still eagerly anxious
for the establishment of a cotton factory in
that city.)
A squau of sixteen men is to be organized
in Albany to drill at the various fall fairs in
the contests for prizes. No man is to be
allowed to join unless he is fully six feet
high. The News thinks they will make a
splendid appearance, and will not fail to
carry oil the laurels.
'A e have received a copy of the Corsicana
'Xbsercer, published at Corsicana, Texas, an
nouncing the retirement fromrihat paper as
“fighting editor,” etc., of Mr. C. E. Van-
Hoin. and the succession to that position of
Air. li. M. Johnston. This is Mr. Rienzi
Johnston, formerly of B&inbridge, and an ex
reporter of the News, who has a good many
acquaintances in this section and in the
State at large.
The first cotton bloom has begun to come
in. Mr. W. I. Sherrer, from near Pineville,
MarioD county, brought ou Thursday last to
the office of the Buena Vista Argus a cotton
stalk sixteen inches high, on which was a
bloom beginning to open.
The Washington Gazette says that it is
passing strange that at some places in that
county there is the greatest abundance of
fruit on the trees, while at others there is
literally none at all. The only way by
which this freak can be accounted for is by
the altitude of the land. On the high places
the fruit is found, and it is supposed that
the dry winds saved it from dampness during
the freeze last spring, while in the low
places the frost was unmolested in its de
structive work.
The Northeastern Profress (Harmony Grove)
mentions a singular occurrence which befel
Major J. J. Shepard, of Banks county,
lew days since. He was about to step in his
b uggy when his right thigh bone suddenly-
snapped. It was a case of spontaneous frac
ture. Major Shepard had long suffered pain
In his right leg, but he thought it was only
riieumatism.
The latest society sensation in Atlanta is
the marriage of Mr. George' Schaefer,
young merchant of that city, with the eldest
daughter of i* r ofessor William Henry Peck.
The happy event occurred on Wednesday
last.
■^n indignant correspondent of the Au
Kusta .V s wants to know who in thunder
lt Was that first introduced the English spar
row into that city.
A man calling himself William Thomas
fias been arrested in Cochran and placed in
on suspicion of being one William
omas Spell, who lately poisoned his wife
!,J North Carolina. He answered fully to
^ le description given of the murderer by the
* orth Carolina authorities. When arrested
o declared his innocence, but acknowl-
^ &ed that he was from North Carolina.
The Enterprise says that all the circum
stances point to him as the guilty man. He
Ca me to Cochran about a month ago.
^ ^ Laurens county hen has laid two hun-
Ur ed eggs i n two hundred days, and still
gives
aQ d set.
Relearn from the Macon Tdcgraph and
r that Thursday morning about two
cutt ing affray occurred in Mil-
ea geyille in which-Mr. James A. Greer, a
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
resident of that place, was seriously cut in
the back in two places, the blade of the
weapon penetrating to the cavity and inflict
ing a dangerous wotind. The cutting oc
curred in a sort of affray on the streets be
tween several parties, and it could not be
definitely ascertained by whom the cavoting
was doiie. Scvera 1 of the parties engaged
in the affair had been drinking. A man by
the name of Westbrook was arrested, but
sub&quently released.
The following account of an outrageous
and murderous assault we get from the Mar-
rayCenndy Gazette, published at Spring Place:
‘On last Saturday, five miles north of this
** i Ce * ii WO }' oun £ men by the names of Frost
Allen, prompted by an old grudge,went
to the field where James Barnett and an old
lady were at work, and began a murderous
attack upon them, using a gun and knife
upon Barnett freely and a huge rock upon
the old lady, breaking her jaw, leaving her
apparently dead in the field. Barnett, by
almost superhuman efforts, disentangled
himself and escaped to the woods, being
fired at by the attacking part}*, where he
laid concealed until midnight, amid a gen
eral neighborhood 'Aarm for his safety. We
understand that Frost and Alien have made
good their escape, being hotly pursued.’'
The Buena Vista Argus says : “Strange
freaks of wind appear to be getting frequent
of late. Last Sunday week, a gust of wind
struck the place on which Mr. vVarren Belk
lives aud capered about the premises furious
ly for about two minutes, opening doors,
blowing out sashes, scattering shingles off
the dwelling, felling garden fencing and
trees, and then flew away as if ia mocker}'
of the sport, leaving scarcely a trace of wind
on adjoining farms. Last Friday night similar
antics were displayed, about a mile from
town, where Jerry Butt (colored) resides,
and after scattering fencing, shaking the
bouse and scaring the inmates, bounded off
without injury to any one else.”
The Standard sums up the attractions of
Talbotton as follows: “We can boast of
two steam mills, two blacksmith shops, two
millinery stores, two dentists, four doctors,
ten lawyers, forty summer loafers, one bil
lion fleas, ‘nary’ mosquito, ten thousand
lice dogs, ‘nary’ goat, five hundred town
cows, one negro that never wears 6hoes,
three shoe shops, one tannery, one barber,
twenty farmers, six hundred hogs, one livery
stable, one drayman, four liquor dealers, six
dry goods stores, one drug store, one hard
ware store, three grocery stores, one wood-
shop, 60.000 cats and two newspapers.”
Then it asks: “Now, if Talbotton is not an
Ywerenterp rising town, tell us what is.”
Atlanta Constitution: “About five or six
years ago a Canadian named Tabb was in
Atlanta working for McNaught & Scrutchin,
for a moderate salary, and was just like any
other clerk In k the city. The other day this
same Tabb actually inherited a fortune
equivalent to five million dollars in our cur
rency, aud a dukedom throw’n into the bar
gain. He is reported happy in his new
wealth aud honor, and while most of his
Atlanta friends are as plain aud as poor
as ever, we congratulate Mr. Tabb,
‘Duke Whatever-his name-is.’ ”
The following paragraph appears in the
Covington Enterprise oil last w'eek: “A New
ton county man carried three crazy negro
women to the Asylum at Milledgeville one
day recently, and on account of the institu
tion being overcrowded, they were refused
admittance. The party in charge of the
lunatics was compelled to return them to
the authorities of Newton county. Imme
diately after their arrival they were placed
in the county jail. What disposition will
be made of these unfortunates we know
not.”
Dublin Ibsl: “On last Saturday Bill
Wright, colored, one of the tenants on Dr.
Hicks’ place, in this county, went up about
Tenuilie In Washington county, and walked
in between another young darkey and his
dusky sweetheart, when the Washington
county beau drew his pistoi ecd shot Bill’s
brains out.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
Eiliugliam County Sunday School
Convention.
Editor Morning News: We had the pleasure
of being present at the Effingham County
Sunday School Convention on Wednesday
last. It was a grand affair. At iea^t twelve
hundred persons were present: nearly one-
half of them children. One who merely
sweeps along on the cars would hardly sup
pose that from these palmetto flats so many
nice, refined and educated youth could be
gathered. Their songs were delightful,
and their speeches indicated taste and cul
ture. Their good order and entire demeanor,
even of the smallest children, is the result
of good training, and that careful home
education in which the true gentleman and
lady receive the first heart culture and
gentility of manner so necessary to fit them
for the public walks of life.
This old county has long been famous for
her highly moral and pious households.
She has 6ent out worthy representatives to
bless other communities. Savaunah num
bers them by the score, men and women,
who constitute one of the most important
elements in church and 6cgjety. Those who
know the records, ormaytroubie themselves
to inquire into the history of this country,
will find that we speak not the words of
flattery. , ..
The Lutherans, the oldest organization in
the county, has long stood as a breakwater
against infidelity. The Baptists, infused with
a spirit from on high, have induced many to
be buried unto baptism and begin a newer
and higher life. The l&thodists, coming
not in word only, but in the demonstration
of the Holy 8plrit, have numerous ones to
arise and testify of His work-in the answer
of a good conscience toward God and mau.
This gathering will unite more firmly the
wings of Christ’s advancing army against
the powers of darkness and the works of the
evil one. . ,
The mottoes inscribed on their banpers
are significant: “in God we trust,” “Sow
in the morn thy seed,” “God is love,
“Charity (love) thinketh no evil,” “Jesus,
I my cross have taken,” “The cross, the
crown,” “The rainbow of promise.”
Mr. ReDpard closed his lecture and the
interesting illustration on the blackboard
with the names of all the leading denomina
tions, so written that when he had defaced
all the names of sects there was left in the
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The spirit of the illustration is a good one.
We glory in Christ above the name of our
sect or special church party. In Christ we
arc all one. If we arc not m Christ we are
not counted, for He is all in all. Let every
good work be encouraged Forbid none
who really are casting out evil spirits in the
name of Christ because, forsooth, they are not
of our party. We hail with joy the advan
cing tide of Christian unity and their united
co-operation against the common foe.
The time is coming when bigotry and
church exclusiveness will be a thine of tae
past, covered amid the debns of demol
ished walls. , ,
The day passed without a cloud. Every
face shone as in Joyous expressions of love,
the spirit uniting and inspiring each sons
of Christ. May a new impu.se be given to
each oliicer, teacher and pupil, and may all
live to see another such day of triumph for
the youth of oid Effingham^
Guyton, May .50,1879.
EVENING TELEGRAM*.
CIVIL WAR AMONG TIIE ZELl’S.
A Franco-American Banished from
France.
THE ANGLO-AFGHAN TREATY.
THU
III MIS-J ATI KS
CASE.
JirBDER
UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPH COM
PANY' FORMED.
The Epsom and Newmarket Races.
ITUftcellaneoua matter*.
The Princess and the Colonel.
A dispatch from Montreal, May 20, says:
After returning from church yesterday
the Princess invited Colonel Austen, his
wife and daughter to her private parlor,
where they were most graciously receiv
ed The visit of the Thirteenth Regi
ment was alluded to by the Princess,who
congratulated the Colonel upon the visit,
saving that she and the Governor-Gen
eral had been very much pleased. She
was sure it would only tend to promote
closer national feeling. Her Majesty
and herself feit the honor that had been
done them by having so many noble
Americans celebrate the < j?oea.. s
day, and sincerely hoped the
was only the forerunner of many Amen
can regimeule who would visit Canada
in succeeding years. Colonel Austen
thanked the Princess for the honor done
himand *e regiiM^ { The^ o^ve d ha(1 bei , a absent'a loty
w?l't e to Mra P aGd Mis.s Austen, and spoke while from Albany, he suddenly returned
mlcatedly 3 of the- good that would un- and was seen walking up the aisle of his
™ .-ter. r»nt nf this* warlike
questionably arise out of this warlike
exchange of social fellowship.
The Galveston News says the fact is
admitted all around that em.^ation to
if not coming to an abrupt cio-c,
do evidence of a desire to stop laying * ucas, n The emigration
agimts 1 of ° the rail roads are all di^our-
aged Real estate in Texas has dome-
elated in value the last two years fully
eight per cent.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
OpriCE of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., May 21.—Indications
for Saturday:
In the South Atlantic States, lower pres
sure, stationary or higher temperature,
southerly to westerly winds, aud generally
clear weather.
In the Gulf States, stationary or falling
followed by rising barometer, southwest to
southeast winds, nearly stationary tempera
ture, partly cloudy weather aud local rains,
followed in the southwest by cooler north
erly winds.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, falling
or stationary followed by rising barometer,
variable winds, cooler partly cloudy weather
and local rains.
In the Middle Atlantic States, lower pres
sure, increasing southerly winds, veering to
westerly or northwest, higher or stationary
temperature, cloudy or partly cloudy weath
er aud local raius.
CIVIL WAR AMONG THE ZULUS.
London, May 30.—A telegram just re
ceived from South Africa, dated Maritzburg,
May 14th, says civil war has brokea out
among the Zulus, and a great battle was
fought on the 11th near Springpost, between
the people of a powerful Zulu chief named
Mationa aud the forces of Cetywayo. The
former bad resolved to surrender, and were
on their way to the British outposts
when they were attacked by Cetywayo,
defeated and driven back with great
slaughter. Mationa escaped, but a brother
of Cetywayo, who had joiued him, is re
ported killed. Cetywayo then collected all
his forces aud took up a strong position at
the fork of White Uuikelosi river, where he
has a swamp in front and the highest moun
tains of Zululand behind. Here he will
await the British advance.
TUB UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
New York, May 30.—Articles of in
corporation of the Brooks Underground
Telegraph Company were filed in the
County Clerk’s office to-day. The route is
from Dey street and Broadway, under the
river, to Jersey City and Philadelphia, and
from the same starting point to various
places in this State, and all over the United
States. The capital stock is fixed at two
million dollars, two thousand shares of one
thousaud dollars each. The incorporators
are David Brooks, Philadelphia, five hun
dred shares; Anson Stager, Chicago, seven
htfndred aud fifty shares; Norvin Green,
New York, seven huudred and flfty shares.
The association is to continue flfty years.
THE ERUPTION OF ETNA.
London, May 30.—The eruption of Etna
increases in force. The quantity of ashes
thrown out is less, but the volume of vapor
has greatly increased iu density. On Wed
nesday night a number of brilliant balls of
fire were thrown to a great height, f.nd
burst aloft like rockets emitting a fiery
shower. A stream qf lava is flowing ap
parently in the direction of the town of
Kaudazzo, but the exact line has not yet
been verified. During the whole of Wed
nesday night loud reports like the rolling of
artillery were heard.
TDM EPSOM AND NEWMARKET RACES.
London, May b0.- The great three years’
old filly race which was run fqr the < >aks
stakes at the Epsom summer meeting re
sulted iu a victory for the favorite,Lord Fal
mouth’s bay filly, “Wheel of fortune.”
The winner of the thousand guiocap
stakes at the Newmarket first spring meet
ing was W. J. Ansou's bay filly Coroman
del. “J. J.” got the second place, the Duke
of Westmiuster’s brown filly “Adventurer”
the third. There wern eight runners. The
distance run was a mile aud a half.
DECORATION Da Y IN THE NORTH.
Washington, May 30.—Decoration day
was observed at Arlington and the eur
rounding soldiers’ cemeteries. Mr. Hayes
inaugurated ihe ceremonies at Arlington by
ulacing a wreath on the tomb of the “Un
known.-* The address was delivered by
Congressman tveif*V» of Ohio. Dispatches
from other points meutio* appropriate ob
servances of the day.
THE HINDS-JAMES MURDER CAS^.
Baltimore, May 30.—The Judge of the
Criminal Court denies the application to
release on bail Denwood Hiuqs, indicted
for the murder of Isaac James iu April
last. Harry Iliuds, also indicted, is re
leased. A change of venue has been
granted to Baltimore county.
FRANCO-AMERICAN BANISHED FROM FRANCE.
Pakjs, May 30.—II. Lacoste, a Frenchman
naturalized iu the United States some years
ago, has been expelled from France for re
nouncing his nationality without perform
ing his military duty. Mr. Noyes, United
States Minister, fruitlessly endeavored to
secure a revocation of the order.
FATALLY SHOT.
Cincinnati, May 30.—Villle Black, of the
firm of Villie Black & Co., wholesale to
bacco dealers of this city, was fatally shot
this morning by a negro whom he had dis
charged from his employ,
.. THE ANGLO-AFGHAN TREATY RATIFIED.
London, May 30.—A dispatch from Simla
says the treaty of peace between Great
Britain and Afghanistan was ratified to-day.
A salute of thirty-one guns was fired in
honor of the event.
PAROLE WIN8 AGAIN.
London, May 30.—Parole won the race
for the Epsom gold cup. Alchemist was
second and Primrose third.
Paterson’s Prodigy—A Broth of a
Boy.
Paterson, X. J., boasts a baby pro
digy by the name of George Lee, who,
according to all accounts, is entitled to
be regarded as the wickedest seven-yuar-
old-un in the United States. He has a
bead as big as that which crowned the
shoulders of Daniel Webster, a heart
that seems to have made a covenant with
the devil, and a capacity for strong drink
which excites the belief that he will yet
eclipse the fame of Zach Chandler him
self.
During his moments of sobriety—for
he is not always as drunk as a Lord or a
Congressman—this remarkable stripling
absorbs knowledge with a facility only-
equaled by that with which he absorbs
whisky. Ilis memory is so prodigious
that after listening to a temperance lec
ture, he can repeat it almost verbatim.
He has, too, his moments of inspiration,
when he pours forth wit and wisodm to
the amazement of all listeners.
It is related during a recent visit of ex-
Governor Bedle to Paterson, that distin
guished jurist was so astonished by the
hoy’s language, logic and elocution, that
he presented him with fifty cents as a
token of his admiration. The lad was
advised to take it to his mother, list
promptly replied: ‘'No, sir-ee; I regard
this as a providential suggestion to go
aud ‘beer up.' ’’
His doting mother has been obliged on
several occasions to consent to his incar
ceration, but he has always .managed to
convince his jailers that—
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Fior iron bars a ca£e.
It is encouraging to learn that a united
effort of the Paterson clergymen is under
discussion with the object of bringing
this prodigy to a realizing sense of the
error of his ways, and of fitting him to
relieve eventually the dearth of great men
in American public altai.s.
lt is recorded that one Sunday Gov-
favorite church with his large party of
friends. The eloquent clergyman was
iatfie midst of reading the Scriptural
selection, and just as the long-missed
and much gazed-at Governor readied his
pew, the good preacher loqdiy cried,
"Rejoice with me for I have found the
steep I had lost!” It is believed that the
governor wished at that moment that his
favorite presjeher were not so good an
elocutionist.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Weather and Summer Renorta— Por-
ter Spring* — Catoosa Spring* —
Minor TopIc»-Slc kne*» and Death
— The Seminole Indian* — Final
Paragraphs.
Special Corresponaence of the ilomina News
Atlanta, May 29.—We are having de
lightful weather, and picnics and excur
sions are the order of the day.
Our neighboring summer resorte are pre
paring for a good business the present sea
son, and the Air Line and Kennesaw routes
are offering liberal rates.
Porter Springs, or e of the most desirable
resorts on the Air Line, is already advertised
In the Morning News, and I can as
sure your readers that Mrs. Cannon is fully
competent to keep a first class house. She
is assisted by her brother, Dr. Reynolds,
and her son, both of whom are popular and
efficient hotel men.
Mr. B. W. Wreun is to open Catoosa, on
the Kennesaw route, with John C. Poole, of
Savannah, as the general manager. Of
course I need not say anything in his praise
to your readers, as they have long known
him as a prince of hotel clerks. Mr. Wrenn
has r.o superior in the way of energy and
public spirit, and he has set his heart upon
making Catoosa Springs as attractive as it
was in its palmiest days.
MINOR TOPICS.
General Andrew Hickenlooper, the Re
publican candidate for Lieutenant Governor
of Ohio, is President of the Cincinnati Gas
Light Company, and was a distinguished
officer on the staff of General J. B. McPher
son, who fell in the bloody battle of Atlanta,
July 22, 1864.
It is apparent that there will be consider
able local legislation from Fulton county
during the July session of the Georgia Gen
eral Assembly. Several amendments to the
city charter of Atlanta are being prepared,
one of which proposes an issue of (Garrard)
bouds to redeem the present bonds at a low
er rate of interest. Also, another providing
for an increase of the revenue of the city.
There is on exhibition at Phillips *fcCrew’s
book store a very fine crayon portrait of
Past Eminent Grand Commander W. II.
Tuller, of this city, a most gallant 8ir Knight
and bright Mason. This excellent picture
has attracted much attention from the fact
that it is the work of Miss Libbie Tuller. an
accomplished daughter of 8ir Knight Tul
ler, and yet has all the appearance of having
come from the studio of a professional ar
tist. Mrs. Tuller is a woman of sterling
worth and rears her daughters to usefulness
and domestic virtues.
SICKNESS AND DEATH.
Death seems to have made a sudden at
tack upon the homes of medical men in this
city. On Sunday last there were lying dead
a d*octor (Goodman) in one family, a doc
tor’s daughter (Bradfield) in another, and a
doctor’s wife (Pinckney) In still another.
It has been quite sickly here during the
past month, owing to damp, chilly weather
of an unusual character. Of the deaths
noue has been sadder than that of Rev. R.
C. Foute’s little daughter, Eloise, a lovely
child that many of his old parishioners in
Savannah well remember and mourn her
early decease.
The death of Mrs. Dr. Charles Pinckney is
a severe aifliction to her family, as Is also
the death of Mrs. Col. L. P. Grant. When
quite a young man Colonel Grant came to
Atlanta from Maine, and was associated
with the late J. Edgar Thompson as engineer
in constructing the Georgia Railroad. Mr.
A. Williams then owned a large part of
what is now Atlanta, and his daughter Col.
Grant wedded nearly thirty six years ago.
She was in every respect a noble woman,
and as wife and mother has left behind a
rich legacy to her afflicted family. She was
the mother of Capt. John A. Grant, former
ly Superintendent of the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.
THE SEMINOLE INDIANS.
The readers of the Morning News are
not unfamiliar with the name of “Captain
Pratt,” who brought the wild Indians to
irort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, and
there sought to civilize them for usefulness
after a return to their tribes.
Of late he has been with the Indian youths
sent to HamptoD (Virginia) Institute to be
educated at government expense. A recent
order, however, details him to visit the Semi
nole Indians in the everglades of Florida,
and report upon their present condition,
Captain Richard H. Pratt Is a first Lieu
tenant in the Tenth United States Cavalry
(Flipper’s regiment), was born in New York,
and appointed to the army from Indiana in
1867, having served in the Indiana cavalry
during the war as Captain, which brevet
rank he now holds. His connection with
the Indians at Fort Marion brought him Into
general notice, and his earnest and hopeful
interest in the work of christianizing the red
man won many influential people to his nip-
poft. Ulz jrfsent mission is worthy of
commefiefatrOu.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Dr. H. V. M. Miller is to deliver his cele
brated lecture on “Jenkins’ Ear” at the
Opera House to-monow night, iu the “High
School Course of Lectures.” lt created a
sensation in Rome.
Northern illustrated papers publish pic
tures of the wife of Capt. Ed. Cox in the
act of attempting to jump out of the court
house window when the verdict was ren
dered. As Mrs. C. never left her chair, nor
attempted to jump anywhere, this sensation
is spoiled.
The military in this section of the State
are waking up. In addition to the ap
proaching encampment of the Fifth Bat
talion at Griffin, and the encampment at
Rome, there is to be a grand military festi
val at LaGrange. The Atlanta companies
are Invited to all, and find it hard to choose
between the places.
The numerous friends of Mr. James P.
Harrison, State Printer, the Franklin Steam
Printing House, and Christian Index, will be
rejoiced to know that he has safely re
covered from his recent severe and almost
fatal illness, and is again at his office attend
ing to business. Chatham.
Almost as Clever as Capt. Williams.
London Telegraph Correspondence, May 17.
The following, taken from the Russian
Gzas, furnishes another suggestive illus
tration of the way things are now man
aged by the St. Petersburg police. This
journal writes.
“Our police are themselves entirely to
blame for the impunity with which the
Nihilists arc enabled to carry on their
outrageous and high-handed proceedings.
Here you have an instance of their intel
ligence. A short time ago a physician
named Kadian, who had highly distin
guished himself during the receDt Russo-
Turkish war, was arrested on suspicion.
He had previously gained some notoriety
in connection with the Kasan affair.
Nothing, however, could at that time be
proved against Dr. Kadian, and in fact
no evidence of an incriminatory charac
ter could be adduced to warrant his in
carceration. He was therefore released.
When on this second occasion he came
again into the indiscriminating hands of
the St. Petersburg police be was
at once imprisoned, and for some
occult reason his sister, the Prin
cipal of the Convent School, and there
fore a nun. was also arrested and con
fined in the jail with him. Now the
Convent School is under the immediate
and special patronage of the Grand
Duchess Catherina. Hearing that the
directess of her school had been arrested
this august lady immediately proceeded
to the bureau of the Third Section in
order to ascertain upon what grounds a
nun had been forcibly arrested and im
prisoned. On arriving at the police office
the Grand Duchess dispatchod her pri
vate secretary, Michaelow, to make the
necessary inquiries respecting the princi
pal of the Convent School. This gen
tleman had no sooner stated the pur
pose of his errand than he was ar
rested and actually dispatched to
prison. The Grand Duchess waited
patiently for some time, and then sent
her attendant to look for the Secretary.
This messenger was also detained, and,
for making inquiries about the sister of
a suspected person, was sent off under
arrest. The Grand Duchess, unable to
comprehend what had happened, drove
home and sent to the police a notifica
tion of the inexplicable disappearance of
hef private secretary and her attendant.
The police made due inquiry and found
the secretary, Michaelow, who was
speedily with his patroness. The at
tendant, however, could not be dis
covered. The police assured the Grand
Duchess that the Nihilists had most
probably captured the attendant and
kept him in hiding. Only after three
days had expired was the poor man
recognized among the number imprisoned
in the piincipal jail.”
OUR WASHINGTON LETTI®.
Experimental Tea Growing: in the
Sooth—Senator Whyte of Maryland
— llaye* Overdoing: the Veto Bull*
ne**—The Gubernatorial Nomina
tion in Ohio—The (-rant Ring: Di*-
q: ran tied-With Thurman a* their
Candidate the Democracy have
Nothing: to Fear— Haye* will Sign
the Subsidiary Coinage Bill—The
Warner Silver Bill-Sir. Knott’*
Answer to Haye*’ Vetoe*.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Washington, May 29*—The cultivation
of teas in the South appears upon the first
test not to have been altogether flattering.
Le Due, Commissioner of Agriculture, aud
a party of officials sent from the Agricul
tural Bureau, have just returned from Balti
more where they went to witness the curing
of American teas grown in the South. As
early as I860 the attempt to mise tea in the
South was made. Then a large number of
growing plants were sent to Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina b the .4 gricul-
tur&l Bureau. The war coming on t'r.u- plants
were lost sight of but gre\- W: i. Last
fall one of the Arm of Gillett t C of Bal
timore, made a trip through h South, at
the instance of LeDuc, to ascertain if tea
could be cultivated successfully in that sec
tion. As a result of rhis tour a barrel of tea
leaves was sent to Baltimore last week from
Georgia. The leaves had been plucked out
of season, and fermentation having set in
they were rendered useless. Last Monday
another barrel was received from South
Carolina. One-third of this barrel was in
fair condition. The experiment was made
with these. The leaves were put in a wire
sieve and steamed. They were then passed
through a clothes wringer to extract the
tannic acid. The structure of the leaf was also
destroyed by this process. No care was
taken to retain the shape of the leaf, how
ever, but the mass was put in an ordinary
pan and dried. This process was productive
of a delightful aroma, and a leaf somewhat
resembling the teas of India. From the
leaves thus procured some tea was brewed.
This was the first native brewed tea of this
country, and is said to have had a remarka
bly fine flavor. LeDuc is enthusiastic over
the result and says he will call the
attention of Congress to the matter and ask
for an appropriation to experiment exten
sively in the South with tea. It takes about
four years to grow the Diants. Others who
were present at the experiment were not
near so enthuiastic as to results as LeDuc.
Some time ago Senator Whyte, of Mary
land, wrote a letter withdrawing from the
contest for a re-election next fall. Since
then letters have been received by him
from all parts of Maryland protesting
against his withdrawal; and now al
though he has not rescinded that
letter, advices from Maryland state that
his friends iu the primary elections to select
delegates to the State Legislature are put
ting up men pledged to vote for his re-elec
tion. They are making strong headway.
8enator Whyte’s opponent is Gorman, Presi
dent of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
who is supported by Senator Groome and
the officeholding class in Maryland. All the
Baltimore papers take sides against this
class, going so far as to call it a corrupt ring
that must be broken. It is hoped here that
it will be broken, for Senator Whyte has
more friends than perhaps any other
member of the Senate. He is besides
one of the most indefatigable as well as one
of the ablest men in that body. It is to be
hope<! that he will bp rpturned.
Hayes’ veto of the legislative bill was sent
to Congress to-day. It is characterized by
the same partisan*arguments that were the
earmarks of its predecessors. It attracts but
little attention. Vetoes in the hands of
Hayes have become so common as to
fulfill Senator Beck’s prophecy that
“ Hayes’ vetoes will be made
cheap.” The Democrats may hold a caucus
and probably may not. At the present date
the final upshot seems to be pretty well de
fined. There may be some additions, and
there will be some fighting, but Congress
will adjourn not later than June 20th, and
when it adjourns provision will h»ve been
made for the army and for the legislative,
executive and judicial departments. 8ome
restrictions as to the use of the army and of
supervisors and deputy marshals will be
addecl. The party that will contend for al
lowing tjiese appropriations to fail have
not strength enough to accomplish
anything. It Is a significant fact that John
G. T hom P son i Sergcant-at-Arms of the
House, who knows as well a3 anybody what
Is to be done, has notified rqerpbers of the
Hoqse to fill out blanK8 for their pay for the
months from July to December, in order
that he may send them the money at, thejr
homes. As this moupy comes out of the
legislative bill lt would be impossible to dis
burse it if the bill should fail. The majority
of the Democrats, notably the Southern
Democrats, think that the issues be
tween the two parties are sufficiently
made up, and that they can stand
before the people in their positions a
ionzer than t.H» can j n thelr5 X hc
latter are becoming quite nervous, and be-
giq to leaf tnat Hayes’ backbone is perhaps
a little too stiff for the good of Radicalism.
The nomination of Foster—“Charley” Fos
ter—by the Ohio Republican State Conven
tion, as the leader of that rarty in the next
gubernatorial rape, Is regarded with mixed
feelings by the Republicans and with unmixed
feelings by the Democrats. There is no
questioning the fact that the nomi
nation is an endorsement of Hayes’
administration, for It was well
known that Foster was the candidate
of the administration and John Sherman.
The Grant men are disconcerted in that
Taft, their candidate, did not receive the
nomination, for the nomination of Foster
insures a Sherman delegation from Ohio
at the next Republican National Conveu
tion. They are a little dazed that their
boom at the first jump turns out to be pretty
much all boom and no solid shot. The
Democrats are satisfied that Foster is to be
their opponent. With Senator Thurman to
lead on the Democratic side, uniting as
he will the Greenback element with
the Democracy, there is little to fear.
The election In Ohio will be one of
much importance. It will be the
key note to the Presidential contest for one
thing ; and for another it will be the first
test with the people of the issues between
the two parties, which have been so clearly
defined by this session of Congress. It is
needless to say that it will be one of the
hottest political battles ever fought in this
country.
The amendments to the subsidiary coinage
bill, adopted by the Senate in its passage of
that measure, will be concurred in by the
House, and Hayes will sign the bill. It will
prove a measure of considerable relief to the
countiy; and to Mr. Stephens belongs the
principal credit connected with its enact
ment.. In its present shape the bill simply
provides that the silver coins of a smaller
denomination that one dollar shall be a
legal tender to the amount of ten dollars,
and shall be redeemable in lawful money.
At present these coins are only a legal
tender to the amount of five dollars and are
not redeemable. The consequence is that
they have become a debased currency, and
tbe small traders who get large quantities
of them have to unload to brokers at a
discount. When they become redeemable
by the government these coins will not be
at a discount, and all loss on account of
their possession be avoided. It is not ex
pected that any large quantity of this sub
sidiary coinage will he presented for re
demption, as there is no more of it in cir
culation than is needed for the onvenience of
trade; and a character being given it by the
bill, it will be as good as “lawful money,”
which phrase includes gold, the standard
silver dollar and legal tender notes.
The Senate Finance Committee will, on
Tuesday next, take up the Warner silver
bill as it passed the House. It may not get
out of the committee, and if it does its
chances of passing the Senate are small,
while its chances of being vetoed, if it does
pass the Senate, are certain.
Pryor H. Coleman, who is now confined
at McPherson Barracks, Atlanta, aud
whose case has attracted universal atten
tion, will, in accordance with the recom-
mendatiou of Attorney General Devens,
have his death sentence commuted to im
prisonment for life by Hayes. Secretary of
War McCrary says he has not decided yet
where the sentence will be served out, but
that in all probability Coleman will be sent
to Albany, New York, where other Southern
convicta are sent.
Judge Knott, Chairman of the House
Judiciary Committee, says he will have the
reply to Hayes’ two army vetoes ready for
submission to the House in a few days. It
will be a very elaborate document: will dis
cuss pretty freely the States right question
and the abuse of the executive power by
Hayes. Potomac. *
Mrs. Benner, the widow of the brave
Lieutenant Benner, who died of yellow
fever while in command of the steamer
John M. Chambers, complains that her
pension (£>40/ is too small, and Repre
sentative Springer is going to try to
have it increased to 11,800 a year.
THE DEFAMATION OF TEXAS.
Tlie New Y'ork Baby Show, like the
“Prettiest (iirl Exhibition” about $ year
ago, turned out to be a miserable swindle,
and the mothers of the little darlings are
now looking for the manager who ran
off with the “gate money.”
The Greatness. Fertility, Virtues and
Happiness ot the State.
Correspondence Xeic York Sun.
In the "Sunbeams’’ column of the Sun
there is a paragraph which reports
Bishop Gilbert Haven as saying that
“Texas is all that it is reported to be for
lawlessness," and Bishop Haven credits
a nameless Judge with a description of
Texas “by a saying current there,” that
husbands call upon their wives for then-
revolvers when they start to prayer meet
ings. Then comes the Bishop’s summary
of “the tragedies which came under his
notice daring a brief visit. ” This summa
ry is the Bishop’s rehash of sundry news
paper narratives of criminal casualties
occurring at various times during the
past six or eight months, in widely sepa
rated localities. What Bishop Haven
means by “a brief visit,” aud the phrase
“came under his notice," it would be
hard to tell. But if both expressions are
to be taken in their ordinary significa
tion, the reverend Texas visitor is a self-
convicted false witness. It would re
quire months of toilsome travel to visit
the several scenes of the events he al
ludes to, if one were to set out with that
express purpose in view, and it is palpa
bly impossible that any man could have
witnessed two or three of them, which
happened almost simultaneously, five or
six hundred miles apart, in sections not
penetrated by railroads.
The truth is that Bishop Haven has
drawn upon his imagination and his large
fund of preconceptions for his facts.
When he gets upon the subject of Texas,
which he classes as a Southern and there
fore an anti-Grant State, he forgets what
he actually did see, if he visited it, or at
least fails to tell us of it.
What is the meaning and what the ob
ject of the persistent detraction of the peo
ple of Texas to be heard in the mouths
of such men as this Bishop? What have
the people of Texas done to them to jus
tify wholesale and retail defamation?
Nothing, except sturdily persisting in
voting the Democratic ticket.
Texas is the largest State of the Union.
To say this, however, does not give the
mind a fair idea of its vast area. Nor
are we much helped by the figures when
we read that its land surface is 274,350
square miles. An ordinary map will not
give a true conception. It is only by a
process of comparison that this can be ar
rived at. Texas is about as large as twelve
of the thirteen original' States, North
Carolina being the one excluded from the
computation. It is 1,038 square miles
larger than the combined superficies of
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir
ginia and Ohio, with the District of Co
lumbia added. It has 34,000 square
miles of territory more than France,
Corsica included. Tl;e German Empire,
with its accession of Alsace and Lor
raine, would have to add nearly 27,000
square miles to compete in measurement
with Texas. Indeed, if Texas had not
seen fit to abandon its status as a repub
lie, it would to-day haye no’ insignificant
place ip the family of independent sove
reignties, especially if the extent of jts
domain were considered,
The census taken iu 1870 accredited
Texas with 818,579 inhabitants. The
average annual increase from immigra
tion since has been over 200,000. Last
year the number of immigrants was
over 300,000, as the books of the rail
roads penetrating the State, and those of
the steamship lines, will abundantly
prove. It is safe to compute the present
population at 2,500,000. Now, with this
population scattered over this vast terri
tory, it is not wonderful that the proven
tion or punishment of crjrp.e is more
difficult than it is in more compact com
munities. Offences Involving violence
naturally have more space for action
and therefore greater chances of immuni
ty. Nevertheless, the criminal calendars
of Texas wifi compare favorably with
those or any numerically equal people on
the face of the globe. There are more
burglaries committed here in the eity of
New \ orh iu a month than there are in
Texas in a year. The same may be said of
larceny of every grade, if the cattle thiev
ing by Mexicans and Indians on the Rio
Grande border be left out of the count.
And there is no comparison as to arson,
forgery, false p r t_-U:nccs. malpractice,
omer felonies. \ decern man in
the Twenty-ninth I’olioe Precinct runs
almost as much risk of being clnbbed
here on the streets, by policemen, as he
does of being insulted or maltreated by
roughs or desperadoes in Texas grog-
genes. The State has laws prohibiting
tbe carrying of concealed weapons,
which are rigidly enforced in the denser
settled sections. She has a local option
law under which the sale of intoxicating
beverages is inhibited in many counties
and townships. As to robbery and murder,
suppose one were to compile all the cases
occurring during a year in any section
of the United States of equal popula
tion, if Texas would not be shown to be
a very Arcadia in comparison, she cer
tainly would have no reason to be par
ticularly ashamed of herself. And if
some Texas divine were to make such a
compilation, and then claim that the
tragedies all came under his personal
notice, what would be thought of his
truthfulness?
The defamers of Texas seem to forget
or ignore the fact that four fifths of the
people who live there now formerly lived
in the older Slates, and that their habits,
manners and morals are essentially such
as they acquired where they were born
and bred. To accuse them as a coinmu
nity of excessive lawlessness is to accuse
tbe whole Union at second band, besides
being unreasonably unjust. It is a busi
ness in which no fair minded man will
engage.
Texas is not Paradise; neither is it
Pandemonium. It comes as near being
the former, however, as does any other
section of the Union. It has an equable,
temperate climate, avoiding the extremes
of heat and cold. It is comparatively
free from malarial and miasmatic exha
lations, and is in all respects a healthy
country. Its soils yield a variety of pro
ducts not to be found elsewhere. The
valley of the Nile does not exceed them
in fertility. Side by side in the same
fields one may see growing cotton, sugar
cane, maize, wheat and all the cereals
vegetables of every variety cultivated in
tbe United States, and an abundance of
native and cultivated fruits, while in the
surrounding natural meadows countless
herds of meat cattle, sheep, horses, and
other domestic animals graze and grow
fat, needing no food winter or summer
other than the perennial grasses. To
crown all, the lands are cheap, and mil
lions of families now impoverished by
the harder conditions of life elsewhere
may find there homes which nothing but
idleness and improvidence can prevent
from becoming happy and abundantly
provided for. Why should this fair
prospect be spoiled for them by indus
triously circulated lies? The newspaper
press of the country, which is made the
medium for the circulation of absurd
stories about Tex»s, is remiss in its mis
cion of promoting the right and the wel
fare of humanity if it does not provide
an antidote for the poison distilled from
malignancy, prejudice, and abased self-
interest. _ Dallas.
Rather a remarkable breach of promise
case has been tried in London. Mr.
Jackson contracted to marry Mbs Paris.
Subsequently he became insane, where
upon Miss Paris sued him for not mar
rying her, and has actually recovered two
hundred and fifty dollars. The Lord
Chief Baron ruled that the action could
be maintained, and that the defendant’s
lunacy did not make e bit of difference.
It was argued that so far from being in
capacitated for marriage by his lunacy,
he all the more needed a wife to take care
at him! The thing was settled upon
pqreiy abstract principles. It was noth
ing that poor Mr. Jackson couldn’t be
married; that no clergyman would marry
a maniac. It was shown that Mr. Jaclf-
son was rapidly recovering, aid when
restoreu to his senses might marry Miss
Paris; but that didn’t change the verdict
Miss Paris got her two hundred and fifty
dollars.
A NEW COTTON PROCESS.
What the “Clement Attache
Capable of.
Norcrem Correspondence Atlanta Constitution.
On the Air-Line road, near Westmin
ster, South Carolina, there is in success
ful operation, a “new process” cotton
mill, which has been qu ietly at work a
little over one year, mailing money for
the proprietors, and turning out a thread
of the most superior quality.
The machinery for this new process is
known as the “Clement attachment.” and
is the invention of a Mr. Clement, of
Tennessee.
A few days ago I took the morning
train and crossed over into South Caro
lina, for the especial purpose of investi
gating this new enterprise, was welcomed
by the Messrs. Stribling and shown
through the mill. The machinery is well
arranged, and working splendidly in all
its parts. The proprietors have large
views of the prospects of this new indus
try, and of the great benefits offered
through it to the cotton States. I was
much impressed with this intelligent
statement of facts and important claims
for the cotton process.
Mr. J. V. Stribling, the conductor of
the Westminster mill, is quite a youtig
man. has decidod mechanical genius ana
much practical sense. The Clement at
tachment having attracted his attention,
he investigated it at once, and was so fa
vorably impressed that he induced his
father and the other neighboring fanners
to invest with him, and the present West
minster mill is the result of his energy
and skill.
It is located on a small creek or branch,
with a capacity of about six or eight
horse power. The building is a cheap
one, frame, undressed, with two stories
and a basement. The machinery for
driving the mill is all in the basement.
A single band, and it boxed, turns all tbe
factoiy machinery above, which consists
of. first, on the upper floor, the cotton
cleaner. This is a boxed cylinder with a
hopper into which the cotton in the seed
is poured. The cylinder makes 1.200
revolutions in a minute, and being armed
with spikes, thrashes out all the dirt and
trash, leaving the cotton as white as
when it first dropped from the boll. It
i« now weighed iu a small pair of scales
and placed in regulated quantities on an
endless apron, or fpgil tabje. and
conducted dotfp a chute, to the
Clement attachment on the second
floor, where it strikes a 84-saw
7 inches in diameter, making only 150
revolutions to the minute. The saws
differ from the ordinary saws in bstag
much more delicate, shorter and more
pointed, does not cut the lint hut gently
pulls it from the seed, and at the saiqe
time rids it from all motes. An improved
brush now rt moves the lint from the
saws in its natural and comparatively un
tangled stale and delivers it to the main
card cylinder, the periphery of which
traveling faster than the periphtt'ry of
the brush, thereby relieves the brush of
the lint as rapidly as received (and in this
lies ;he great secret of the invention, for
by this arrangement in working seed cot
ton one card is enabled ta do five times
the work done in working bale cotton).
(Mr. Stribling is daily in receipt of let
ters from ail parts of ihe country, some
of inquiry and some doubting the state
ment made above. To all such he makes
answer, “come and see.”]
The lint is next taken from the re
volving cards by a set of chopping combs,
then the small drawing, and eab motion
is used to reduce the sliver to the proper
size for working off on the drawing
frames. The carded roils now beam the
Clement attachment and uic ready for
the spinning r— me . then for the reel.-,
the bunj/i and bale press and for market,
All the machinery begjdjs ihe Olcraen'
attachment « the same as used in ail
other POtton factories,
The Westminster mill femplovs six
country girls, one boy and a superinten
dent. The hands cost an average of $7
per month, they finding themselves. The
building cost $700, tlie water dam and
fixtures $300, the machinery $2,500; to
tal investment, $3,500.
Here are Mr. Stribling’s figures for
liabilities and resources for the past
twelve months, and it should be taken
in consideration that this was the first
year, and that the difficulties which al
ways attend new enterprises had to be
contended with:
LIABILITIES.
150.C00JtG.seed cotton at 2*je.S),125 00
Operation anl contingent
expenses 1,500 00—$5,625 00
RESOCttCES.
46,000 tits, yarn at 15c $6,900 00
3.600 lbs. waste at 4c 14t 00
3,000 bus. cotton seed at 15c. 450 00—$7,491 00
Net profit $1,769 00
It is claimed for the new cotton pro
cess:
1. That it will do away with the gin-
house, cotton press, bagging and ties and
much hauling.
2. That it will dispense with the many
clippings of the middle men, such as
speculators, weighing and marking, s‘.or
age, insurance, commissions, etc.
3. The great margin (between the raw
material and the fabrics) which has en
riched the North, will be saved and spent
at home.
4. That it will employ a large number
of women anil children whose labor
otherwise is valueless.
5. That it will increase largely the
population of this c ountry as well as the
amount of money in circulation in our
midst, and afford better school and
church facilities.
G. That it will enhance the value of
reai estate and increase the demand for
the products of the country.
7. That it will draw capital and ma
chinery from the North to this section.
8. That the new process can be run
profitably on a small scale, and still more
so if the business is enlarged.
9. That it will build up the stations
and small to ads along the railways as
well as various points throughout the
country where waterpower can be found,
and where fuel is cheap for making
steam; these places will spin the yarn
from the cotton in the seed and ship to
the market cities where more cosily ma
chines will lie erected for manufacturing
the more complicated fabrics.
10. That the cotton States, nu longer
hewers of wood and drawers of water
for others, will list: the means with which
God has blessed them, and enter into a
new era of prosperity unequalcd before in
this or any other country.
They claim all this and much more
that time nor room in the Constitution
doe9 not suffice me now to telL
Who will disprove the statement of
facts in this article? The claims, are they
not reasonable, are they not tangible to
tbe people of tlie cotton States, especially
to. the more elevated and healthy regions
where the white and more intelligent la
bor predominates, and where weak can
be carried on for three hundred days in
the year? D. U S.
The Suicide of a Dashing Cavalht
Officer.—Lieutenant Charles M. Car
row, of the seventh cavalry, U. S. A.,
committed suicide in his hotel in St.
Louis last Monday, as heretofore stated
in the Star. He placed a large Colt’s
revolver to his head, pulled the trigger,
and fell back a corpse. He wi>s very
well known in this city. The Si. Louis
papers give no cine as to the cause
of the suicide. It is learned from
his acquaintances here, however, that
his connection with a certain married
lady of St. Louis, whom he met in tbe
Virginia mountains last summer, lfd to
the commission of thp act- He was in
this city shortly before his death, and
through General Robinson took out an
insurance policy for five thousand dollars
in the Equitable Life. The policy was
sent to him in York) but he re
turned iU remstng to pay the premium,
lie was a handsome, dashing soldier,
and very popular.— Washingtor. Star.
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Miss Cummins, who saw the shooting
of Porter at Marshall, Texas, a few
months ago, will be at the trial. She is
in a condition of nervous fright and.
dreads assassination. She is convinced
that Currie’s brother and other relatives
would stop at no means to defeat justice,
What It All Means.
Aetc Orleans Democrat.
The New York Sun calls attention to
the following passage from Webster's
immortal oration on the completion of
the Bunker Hill monument, which de
scribes. with the spirit of prophesy, the
existing condition of affairs. A e give
the extract, with the Sun's interpola
tions:
' ‘Quite too frequent resort is made to
military force; anil quite too much of the
substance of the people is consumed iu
maintaining armies, not for defense
against foreign aggression, but for en
forcing obedience to domestic authority
Standing armies are the oppressive iu
strument for governing the people in the
hands of hereditary and arbitrary mon
archs. A military republic—a govern
ment founded on mode elections [like that
of Ilayes—Ed.], and supported only by
the sword, is a movement indeed, but a
retrograde and disastrous movemeut,
from the regular and ol 1-fashioued mon
archical systems.
“If men would enjoy the blessings of
republican government, they must gov
ern themselves by reason, by mutual
counsel and consulation, by a sense and
feeling of general interest, and by the
acquiescence of the minority in the iciU
of the majority, properly expressed [as by
the repeal of the army at the polls—Ed ];
and above all, the military must lie kept
according to the language of our bill of
rights, in strict subordination to the civil
authority. Wherever this lesson is not
learned and practiced, there can be no
political freedom. Absurd, preposterous
is it, a scoff and a satire on free fojms of
constitut ional liberty, for frames of gov
ernment to be prescribed by military
leaders [like Grant and Sherman—Ed.]
and the right of suffrage to be ererrised at
the point of the sieord. ”
Whon Webster gave utterance to this
vigorous language the country was, as
now, in a state of profound peace. But
the regular army, then maintained at the
public expense, was scarcely one-third as
large as it is to day. At that time we
had quite as many forts to garrison os to
day, and our Indian frontier was even
more extensive and quite as dangerous
as now. At the time he spoke no such
military interferences with pivil au
thority, as made up the hUtovy of the
Grant adrqini-iraiion, had ever been at-
terapted pi this country. The issue upon
which the presence of the army at the
polls is justified, the right of the Federal
Government to manage and supervise
Congressional elections, had never been
heard of at that time. Ou the contrary,
the State control, even as to tho manner
cf its exercise, over the electoral fran
chise was university recognized, und
Congress had not seen fit to enact any
election laws whatever.
What would Webster say had be wit
nessed the uses to which the army has
been put in these latter days? What ap
prehensions would he have felt at the
present enormous and costly military es
tablishment, supported with the people’s
money, to be held in reserve for the po.
litical purposes of a partisan adminis
tration?
The pending army appropriation bill
calls, in round numbers, for twenty-
seven millions of dollars, to provide for
the support of twenty-five thousand
troops. Besides clothing, food and shel
ter, which are provided by the govern
ment free of charge, each aoIJier costs
the government not 1,-sa tnau eleven hun
dred dojlara » year.
After reciting this fact, the Sun very
pertinently asks, what number or aver
age farmers, skilled mechanics and la
borers ma]to UUs much u year ? Tbe
very nest of them do, not average over
$3 50 a day, which amounts at the end
of the year, there being six working d«-'
in the week, to but $1,093 hnd this
only in ease (if eoasian' employment and
Without aeduv“ on j Qr a g ; n g| e day lost
“y t'.'icness or other causes. Out of this
the farmer or mechanic has to support
himself and his family, pay rent, ex
penses in case of sickness, and for a
thousand other things which are supplied
to the soldier he helps to pay to overlook
him at the polls anil disarm him of the
only weapon of defense tbe poor man
has, his vote, to protect his liberties and
vested rights. This is the hard pan of
the issue now before Congress, and which
the people will have to finally pass upon
in 1880.
A Challenge of Free Suffrage.
St. Louis Republican.
Ex Secretary McCulloch begins to dis
trust universal suffrage. In his last lec
ture before Howard University, while art
mitting that it has generally worked well
in this country, he ventures the opinion
that “it is by no means certain it will
continue todoso. The time of trial will
come when those who have no interests
at stake will be a controlling majority in
the rural districts as they are. now, in
the large cities, and when, as may lie the
case, bad men are the leaders of political
parties.” In Boston the taxes are paid
and, of course, the property owned by
one fifth the population, the other four
fifths paying only a poll tax. While,
therefore, one-fifth own the $000,000,000
wealth in Boston, the other four
fifths, owning no wealth, own near
ly all the votes, and may dictate
the legislation that protects property.
At present this dangerous power of tlie
non-property holding class is held ia
check by the conservative classes in ‘he
rural districts of the State, but when the
rural population shall become divided
like that of the city, into a minority of
property owners and a majority of mere
voters—then, he thinks, will come the
strain. Universal suffrage, he asserts,
“can be permanently trusted only where
property is widely distributed, where a
majority of the voters have interests to
be protected. Votes are a conservative
power when cast by men whfi have in
terests to protect; in other hands they are
dangerous. I should foel that our re
publican institutions rested on a firmer
basis than now, if our agricultural lands
were divided into small holdings. ”
These statements are indisputable, but
they apply only to one portion of this
country. In the Eastern States the
tendency towards the menacing condi
tions whioh the ex-8ecretary seems to
apprehend is steadily going on. It is tlie
rural classes who live on farms, not the
artisan classes who dwell in cities, that
migrate to the West, and this migration
is gradually shifting the agricultural
lands of those States into large holdings,
and diminishing the conservative vote
that now restrains the power of the non
property holding majority in cities. In
the West, on the other hand, lands arc
so cheap that any industrious and thrifty
man may become a proprietor. These
lands, purchasable at one dollar to
ten dollars per acre, unite the very con
servative rural classes who are being
rooted out in the East, and so Western
society grows stronger and more stable
by the very causes that are making East
ern society more insecure.
The ex-Secretary recognizes the im
practicability of reducing lknd oWDer
ship in the East to small holdings, and.
therefore, he turns for a remedy for the
threatened evil to a limitation of suffrage.
“The safety of property and of our form'
of government,” bP says, “can only be
permanently oeeured by such a property
qualification for voting as will prevent
those who have no interest in the State
from controlling its affairs. [Applause.]”
Next to the boldness of this challenge of
free suffrage, the most curious feature is
that it should be applauded by a com
munity that la laboring to give the con
trol of the Southern States into the hands
of the non-property holding classes.
The Grand Canon of the Arkansas is
nine miles in length, being the narrow
winding way of the river through gran
ite, the walls rising in many places to
the height of 3,300 feet. This rock-bound
river pathway was discovered by the
Spanish missionaries as early as 1642.
From that time it is not known that any
animal life passed threngh it until the
summer of 1870. Last "week a train of
cars on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Raiiroad made the passage. Along
the palisade that forma the northern
boundary of the gorge, and about tea
feet above the boiling waters, the en
gineer has carved a road bed.
Special Bargains This Week
Great Mucin in Prices.
{MX & O’BRIEN.
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BLACK GRENADINE.
PIECES Damasse GRENADINE, 75a, 85c ,
_ _ and 90c., /ormer price $1, $1 25, $1 50.
20 pieces BL \CK TAMb>E, all wool, 40 inches
wide, at 50c.
i5 pieces Pure Black MOHAIR ALPACA 25c.,
former price 4Oc. and 50c.
13 pieces Black UliENA! INE LINING SILK
50c., sold everywhere At 75c.
DRESS LINENS.
43 pieces Bourette DRESS LINEN reduced
from 25a to 1 '-‘M»c.
54 pieces TOILE ECRU, all linen, at 10c , usual
price 25c.
27 pieces Slate and Brown LINEN. 36 inches
wide (A. & It.), o.t formerly 25a
LINEN SHEETING
from the well-known house of Richardson
Sons A Owden, 10-4, 11-4, 12-1.
PILLOW CASE LINEN,
4 3 and 50 inches wide.
23 webs Richardson Family LINEN, 36 inches
wide, at 3Cc., 35a and :-8c.
TABLE DA.11 ASK,
8-4, 9-1 and 10-4.
iXJO dozen DA.VASK TOWELS, job lot, 25c.,
former price $4 50 per dozen.
125 dozen very hue HUCK TOWELS, 25a
LADIES’ LINEN SLITS,
300 LINEN SUITS at one-half cost of manu-
fat ture.
BOYS’ AND YOUTHS’ SUITS.
100 BOYS’ SUITS, all wool, ages 4 to 7 years,
$3 00, W' >rth at least ^4 50 to $5 00,
20 dozen Children’s CALICO SUITS, age 3 to 7
years, -°-5c each.
GENTS’ GAUZE VESTS.
Long and short sleeves, 38 to 44, 50a, 60c., 75c.
Cartwright tk Warner's English regular made
GaUZE VEST, 38 to 41, long and short
sleeves.
GENTS' BLEACHED JEANS DRAWERS.
24 dozen at 45c. and 50c.
15 dozen fine extra finish 60c. and 85c,
LADIES’ GAUZE VESTS, high ntc- long
sleeves, low neck short sleeves, all sizes.
MISSES' GAUZE VESTS, fuUline, finest goods,
no seams.
55 pieces pure MOHAIR, latest and most deli
cate shades, 12>£e., former price 25c.
LACE BUNTINGS.
Job lot 100 pieces evening Shades, 25c., former
ly 35c. and 40c.
100 dozen Ladies’ Balbriggan HOSE at $1 50
box.sizes 8 inches to 9^.
Children s Colored SOCKS and ^ SOCKS.
The largest and greatest variety of FANCY
COLORED HOSE for Misses and Boys
ever offered by us, at prices to insure
satisfaction.
100 pieces RUCHING from 5a yard up.
25 pieces TORCHON LACE, 30 pieces BRETON
LACE.
100 dozen Imitation Patent VALENCIENNES.
5,000 yards HAMBURG EDGING, just received,
at prices much below value.
GENTS’ AND BOYS’ STRAW HATS.
10 cases open THIS DAY, 5Cc. and 60c. each.
GRAY &
myl9 if
B. F. McKENNA,
137 BROUGHTON STREET,
BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKUR ST8L
WHITE GOODS.
IAA PIECES WHITE VICTORLA LAWNS,
Ivv just received from New York auction,
at 10c., 15c. and 2l)c., worth 50 }>er cent,
more ihau these prices.
50 pieces BISHOP LAWN, at 12toc , worth 20c.
20 pieces WHITE ORGANDIE at 15c.
100 CROCHET, BRIDAL and other WHITE
QUILTS, from Si upwards.
20 pieces LACE Mo.SQUITO NETTINGS, 3
yards wide, 12, 13 and 14 yards in length,
prices according to length of piece.
DRESS LINENS.
10 pieces remaining of LINEN BATISTE, 40
inches wide, reduced from 25c. to ‘JOc.
60 pieces 1-4 BROWN DRESS LINENS at 15c.
and 20c.
20 pieces 7-8 BROWN DRESS LINENS at 10c.
50 pieces 7-8 BROWN GRASS LINENS, to ar
rive this week, prioe 10c.
A variety of Slate Colored LINING LINEN8.
DRESS GOODS—REDUCED,
BLACK grenadines, at 20c. formerly 25c.
BLACK GRENADINES, at 30o. formerly 50c.
All our BLACK GRENADINES at reduced
prices.
BLACK ALPACAS, at reduced prices, 15c., 20c.
Fine ii-ACK MOHAIRS and liRII.LIANTIKES,
at 40c. and 50c., formerly 65c. and 75a
Handsome Black all wool BAREGE DE
LAINE, at 37*$c„ worth 50c.
Handsome Black CAMEL’S HAIR GRENA
DINES.
CORSETS, CORSETS.
Fall lines of popular CORSETS at popular
prices. New additions to this stock by
every steamer.
SHIRTS, SHIRTS.
Full lines of QUAKER CITY SIGHTS, made
of best materials and in best manner, war
ranted to fit.
Full lines ot Improved QUAKER CITY 75c.
SHIRTS.
SUMMER UNDERWEAR.
My stock of GAUZE MERINO UNDER VESTS
is full and complete, containing several
qualities aud all sizes for Ladies’ Children
and Infants.
Ladies’ UNDER VESTS, from 25c. up.
Gentlemen's UNDERVESTS, long and short
sleeves, at 25a, 40c. and 75c.
Also, a full line of Gentlemen’s Cartwright &
Warner regularly made GAUZE UNDER
VESTS.
HOSIERY AND GLOVES.
I have added rnanv Novelties to my stock of
Children’s HOSIERY and am offering great
inducements in prices.
I have received 50 dozen more of those 25-cent
White and Brown Extra Long BALBRIG
GAN STOCKINGS, for ladies.
Full line of Gentlemen’s Brown and Fancy
BALBRIGGAN and LISLE THREAD HALF
HOSE—Boys’ HALF HOSE.
LACES, BUTTONS, NECKTIES, Etc.
BRETON LACES, real and imitation.
TORCHON LACE8, a great variety, from 5c. up.
HAMBURG EMBROIDERIES, many thousand
yards, from 3c. to $1 per yard.
ITALIAN LACES, a large assortment of widths
and patterns, by the piece or yard.
Ladies' white Embroidered MUSLIN TIES.
Ladies’ White GUIPURE COLLARS, new, 10c.
Ladies’ White GUIPURE TIES.
Ladies' 2, 3, 4 and 6 Button LISLE GLOVES.
An extensive assortment < f Fancy BUTTONS.
PARASOLS—Just received, a large lot of
Handsome PARASOLS, will be sold at low
prices.
Gentlemen s FRENCH BATHING SUITS,
* FANS. FANS, FANS.
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, Shingles,
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A fresh supply of DESTRUCTION AND RE
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HIGHER EDUCATION.
BURIED MILLIONS.
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A lot of those popular LAP TABLET’S.
RECEIVXD BY
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132 BROUGHTON STREET.
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Choice Old Sercial.
TUST RECEIVED, a pipe of OLD SERCIAL
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>y “Senegal” via Lon
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Habersham's Son & Co. This wine was select
ed by the old house of Newton Gordon, and i*
very dry. The attention of connoisseurs hi
called to this superior importation.
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-OU 200 boxes ASSORTED CLARETS.
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