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Georgia Affairs.
ii n ,r to the Independent, Lumpkin
• ro'liK O a larger ami greater variety of
•> in any place of its size in the State.
0 be presumed that sheep are scarce in
pkin.
e k ave received a cotton plant raised on
'arm of Dr. R. G. Norton, at Egypt,
hicli is nearly two feet in length and
very fine condition generally. The
has tifteen acres in cotton, all' of
i- equally as good as the sample sent
, If be meets with no set back he will,
• realize a handsome return from
r , All crops around Egypt are re
in fine condition, and the far-
. time are very busy freeing their
ions from grass, which got a decided
; them during the recent heavy rains,
aturday night last a negro in Colum
ned another with a large butcher
3 a fit of jealousy. A white woman
. ca usi, and an investigation into the
(ows a state of affairs existing in a
of that city which demands the
attention of the grand jury. The
rr hopes that it will lead to the break-
of a den of vice which is a disgrace
Tbt- -1 < ' rtis< 1 eomplains that Cedartown
infested with sneak thieves, and offers
a year’s subscription and a chromo to the
tmaa who “ will bust a hole in one of
♦hem with a load of buckshot.”
At the last session of the Legislature two
Et-asures were introduced of more or less
interest to the State at large. These were a
bill to Jay a direct tax on dogs, and another
to tax whisky ad valorem after the manner
of the Moffett register. These bills will
cjmc u'' before the Legislature at its coming
•vision in July on a final reading, and will
» be lost. We see from the Atlanta
' ,„ that lion. Gustavus J. Orr, State
' , '**ioner, has been actively
dee-
elf a 11
1 favor of both these
measures, as it is proposed *> *** the Pro
ceeds of the revenue from them t0 Public
school fund of the State. That pa^r 8tat€ *
that Mr. Orr has, since the 1st of Mare* 1 *
visited thirteen counties, iu all of which,
except four, he has obtained full and strong
recommendations iu favor of both laws pro
posed. He believes that the great mass of
the people iu this State are iu favor of them.
The Macon Central Georgia Weekly says
that duriug the war Hon. Henry Watterson
was editor of a paper in that city called the
Southern Confederacy, and that one Sunday
afternoon, while in a tit of desperation, be
was with difficulty restrained from throwing
himself into the Ocmulgec from ‘‘Lover’s
Leap.” This is a story we never heard be-
* : >re of the now distinguished editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal.
We have received No. 2, volume 1, of the
Seminary Signal, published at Gainesville.
It is published by the Literary Societies of
the Georgia Baptist Female Seminary at that
place, and is a well printed and really cred
itable production.
It is reported that Athens is soon to have
a Radical paper, to be edited by a negro.
Ihhlonega Signal: “On Thursday evening
of last week w.' were shown by Messrs. C.<
M. Moore and E. V. Mullinax a nugget of
pure gold weighing 24 dwts. and 18 grains,
which they found at their raiue about three
quarters of a mile from town, on what is
known as the Tan Yard Branch. A few
more ‘finds’ like this one would soon fatten
a lellow.”
If sheep raising is to be an industry in
Georgia, the legislature must consider
seriously the dog question. The Calhoun
Times, in its last i<sue, says: “The dogs have
been playing havoc with Col. Richard
Peters’ fine merinos the past week. One
morning there were found two dead on the
place, and several more desperately man
gled. A watch was set over the flocks and
tire dogs were killed in one evening. Seve
ral were followed to their homes and were
killed by their owners. If our next Legisla
ture can't nave the wisdom to enact a good,
wholceonie dog law, and these worthless
prowlers are allowed to rua indiscriminately
over the country, and valuable property at
their merer, then there is little encourage
ment for the farmer who wants to raise
stock. The people of this section peed and
want a dog law.”
A correspondent of the McDuffie Journal,
the subject of the mineral resources
ctiou of Georgia, says: “ Lin-
y, as you are aware, is bound-
ee sides by rivers, and gold
to exist in considerable quan-
&il of the land adjacent to
ms, and on much of other and
al portions. Unfortunately, but
>eeu done to develop the wealth
on. The Sale mine, which is the
at has a Wall street reputation,
about two pounds of gold per
mine was well known and profit
ably worked at several different periods pre
vious to the war. It was reopened by Dr.
Laue, who now has control, and who hasfur-
mshed a large percentage of the brain that
has brought out the yellow ‘truck.’ Northern
capital is not needed near so much as thor
ough, scientific and practical knowledge of
mining. Your old frieud Colonel J. Bel
knap Smith, who has perhaps done more to
advance the mineral wealth of this section
than any other mania the counties adja
cent to him, has, it is reported, sold his in
terest in the Magrader mine, and will, it is
to be hoped, direct his energies to some
new field, where his knowledge and long ex
perience will make it prc fitaDle. The Ma-
ffnidermme is conceded to be one of the
very oust j r . the South, and it is to be hoped
**at the new purchasers will develop its
toll capacity and value. One thing badly
needed is a correct map of this portion of
Georgia and the mineral belt of South Caro-
una adjacent. A map giving accurate in-
urmation and kuown to be authentic, would
eatly enhance the value of land, and
°uiq, perhaps, do much to bring tha hid-
aen treasure to the surface.”
The Walker County Mcssetiaer learns from
&me authority that the negroes in that
■ ion are holding secret meetings at which
lio? St 5tn DQels to prevent their delibera-
us Irom being disturbed by eaves drop-
Prh- 1 il to know what it means,
th* k ks is some Radical deviltry at
^ bottom of it all, and says: “There is no
ln Georgia, or in the South, where
colored people are more secure id their
Ther ? Privileges as citizens than this,
bor 2 a 11 .mited demand only for the la-
afair • C01ore<i people, and they are paid
Ujk r f° r their labor, and throughout
th*«ro 0Unt - ’ an ^ especially in this place,
,r uted kindly, humanely, and with
• „" ,^ 0n rideration than any place that we
ha . ly ed or visited since the war. As a
prooi °f this statement, we will only in
duce ti. they are allowed to hold their
funeral se^ces in the churches of the
Whites, and are' juried in the same cemetery
*ith th fcir white Neighbors.”
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Florida ..'fairs
Governor Drew has app^o^d Geo. F.
Esq., to be Justice of “eace of
f^-stown, in the place of R. H- Striug-
k>q., who has left the county.
. jr ^ a is ahead on cotton blooms. The
the season have been sent us by
• E. Barrett, of Madison. Of these two,
0p£De(] on the Zfth of May.
correspondent informs us that the semi-
ersT 1 meetin? of thc Florida Fruit Grow-
• 3 -association will be held at Tailaliaosee,
^huncncing \Yednesday, June 4th. The
^utive board of the Florida Agricultural
Mechanical Association have a called
at the same time and place. The
fcc ut.ve boards of the two associations
arr&n K ei nent the time, place and
^uitioaaon which the State Fairs are held.
Matter will be considered and decided
ltthi 3 meeting.
-^urianna Courier reports a singular
^' M aland sink in that vicinity on Thurs-
PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 3,
ESTABLISHED
As one Hastings Lewis, colored,
^ Plowing °n the Bryan plantation there,
earthg aV8 way under hi3 horse, a valuable
w - tr i and his own property. He managed to
6ave his plow and one trace, but the horse,
collar, bridle, harness and other trace went
down, never to be recovered again.
The citizens of Tallahassee are deter
mined to have a tire engine since their court
house was burned. Such a machine is now
considered as indispensable to the future
safety of the city.
It is believed that notwithstanding the
severe cold in April last the peach crop of
Gadsden county will be even a little better
than the average.
Messrs. L. A. Hardee, J. B. Talliaferro,
Gus Kennedy, W. H. Footman and Zack
Haddock were the gentlemen who were
fined twenty-five dollars each for applauding
in the court room when the verdict of not
guilty was rendered in the Hull case. They
all, except the latter gentleman, whose fine
was remitted, paid up most cheerfully. They
thought twenty-five dollars was nothing
compared to the discomfiture which the
Radicals would experience when they re
ceived the news of the result.
The Tampa Tribune reports a very large
waterspout which was observed in the bay,
about two miles from that town, Monday of
last week in the forenoon. It appeared as a
large black and slightly bent column reach
ing up skyward, with a black capital of
expanded cloud. It seemed to be station
ary, and lasted some fifteen minutes.
Mr. Berry Crews, of Polk county, had a
fine hor^eTbitten by a rattlesnake nine and a
half feet long last week. The Tampa Tri
bune says the horse was cured with snake
weed.
Tampa has a twelve year-old miss who
fabricates the most beautiful shell work.
In ten days she has made and sold six dol
lars worth of these fancy articles, and in the
past year twenty-seven dollars worth. This,
we learn from the Tribune, she has accom
plished at her leisure moments when out of
school, of which she Is a constant attendant.
This work she does merely to gratify her
artistic taste and naturally industrious dis
position, as her parents are in independent
circumstances.
The Quincy Journal says: “We understand
that Mr. Stokes, who lives on the Ocklocko-
nee river in Liberty county, cut a bee-tree
la6t week from which he extracted thirty
gallons of strained honey, sixty pounds of
good wax, and one colony of bees, which at
the market price here would be $34 30. To
the bee culturist Liberty county affords
more advantages than any other in Middle
Florida. As a grazing or stock raising
county it has no superior in the State. Cat
tle, sheep, hogs, etc., can be raised there
with little or no expense.”
Speaking of the verdict of “not guilty” in
the case ot Hon. Noble A. Hull, the Florida
Union 6ays: “The verdict of the jury declar
ing Hon. Noble A. Hull ‘not guilty’
rendered this evening, will be received with
satisfaction throughout the entire State.
T’hose who have known him long and inti
mate? u - an<1 appreciated the exalted integri
ty of his c^a 0101- * Eave never for a moment
doubted his inu^ence. but such herculean
efforts had been made secure his convic
tion, and to create a pubHc sentiment
against him, that some feared a mistrial,
but ju6tiee has at last been vindicated and
Mr. Hull now stands before the world as an
innocent man. He has stood the fiery ordeal
to which he has been subjected nobly, and
comes out with not even the smell of fire at
taching to hfs person.”
The Pensacola Gazette of the 27th ultimo
gives the following account of a mysterious
homicide which has occurred in that
vicinity; “Sunday last a man named Ward,
an old resident of Walton county, was going
up the Choctawhatchie river in his boat,
when he saw on the bank, about twenty
Diiles above Point Washington, the burning
fragments of a boat. He landed and dis
covered near by the mutilated remaios of a
white man. who had been shot with buck
shot, whose head aQd one arm were severed
from the body and whose bowels had been
ripped up. Ward recognized the remains as
those of a man named Childers, a contract
ing logger for Dr. J. N. McLean, of Point
Washington, owner of a saw mill, who had
paid Childers a draft which was cashed in
Freeport the day before. Ward made all
speed to Freeport and reported the matter,
and the Sheriff, accompanied by General
Wm. Miller, at once went to the place,
found the burnt remains of the boat, but
did not find the body of the man. Thus
rests the case so far as our Information
goes, and which is from an entirely reliable
source. Childers had been in that part of
the country about a year.”
The Jacksonville Union thinks there is
something wrong in the arrest of General
Littlefield at the Instance of the North
Carolina authorities, and fears that it was
brought about to prevent his giving testi
mony in the railroad yases, which would be
detrimental to the claims of that State. It
says: ”VVe cannot understand, with the
lights now before us, the arrest of General
Littlefield; it is to us a strange proceeding.
If the Governor of North Carolina had sent
a requisition to Governor Drew soon after
the latter went into office, it would have
looked all right, for we know North Caro
lfna tent requisitions after requisitions for
General Littlefield while the State was under
Republican rule, and all to no purpose—be
was not given up. If, therefore, a requisi
tion been sent soon after the present
administration wept into power, it would
have surprised no one. ngt this was not
done' The railroad suits were sending,
aud General LituCS-Jffs evidence and
slstauce were valuable, and >nrffi
suffers him to remain unmolested un.” ne
had given all the aid possible in securing
something out of the railroad litigation,
and that, too, with the understanding that
he was to have immunity from future ar
rest, but now, on the eve of the settlement
of the railroad suits, ho is arrested. It
does not look fair, and we are more and more
convinced that the North Carolina authori
ties are acting in bad faith.”
Tampa Tribune: “Col. J. L. Meigs is
prosecuting the work of surveying our chan
nel with his characteristic energy, and we
understand that, so far as he has gone, he is
of the opinion that with a comparatively
small expenditure of money a channel of
eleven feet depth can be secured from the
mouth of the river to deep water in the bay.
In fact, we learn through Maj. Galphin that
Col. Larkin Smith says that Col. Meigs has
led him to infer that a very gratifying report
will be made concerning our channel.
Hayes oil the Iniquity of Frauds at
Elections.
Courier-Journal.
One of the prominent features of the
message of ' Hayes, vetoing the legisla
tive executive and judicial appropriation
bill ’ is the space he devotes to a disserta
tion on the iniquity of frauds at elec
tions, which he asserts the federal elec
tion law was designed to prevent. fcer
mons on thc evil of election frauds have
a very comical look, emanating from that
source, as Hayes is himself a product of
such frauds. The whole history of the
origin and operation of the election law,
and especially the supemsor feature
of it which was the work of Johj
Davenport and ’ Conkling. shows
•hat in gestation and parturition
the measure was soaked with fraudu
lent intent. Announced by the Repub
licans at first as a measure d^guBdU.
“protect” ihe negro in the South, half
of the horde of supervisors.and consta
ble operated in New A ork in Hit), and
of $235.1)31 used to “protect the ballot,
about $250,000 wore expended chiefiy in
New A ork and Pennsylvania, where the
Republican party was weakening. Three
• Kmsaud Federal constables were em-
toyed in New York city alone, to.prevent
Democrats from voting. In IB/8. Hie
number of marshals employed in New
V -k and Pennsylvania was about three
'-von hundred, and one thou-
thousanu were employed in
sand and sixty-- ono were spent in
the'North’*$00 in ^ South.
The *215,000 were distributed among
rouo'na set of scrubs as could be picked
up fn the slums of Northern cities to pay
them for doing Kepubhcan «impa.gn
work and preventing democrats
fmm voting. Davenport, m New
A'ork arrested thousands of voteis
Lora, ui the polls,
withmit wkrram and without the
Xulow of evidence that they were guilty
shadow 01 evi ef These vot ers
"ftbssstjAZi ssa
Sevens, 11 who urged ^waftbe
Uw U woTks which Hr. Hayes asserts
er-protec^^imS
3K? Half Jmon dollar
thus lasU , ne and d . s
to run Jm »<=P onents of that party
£$WSrlt$I message can not van
thc facts.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Trouble Between Aleko Pasha and
the Porte.
TRIAL OF MISS DUER IN MARY
LAND.
PLENTIFUL RAINS IN INDIA.
Cetywayo Retiring Before ilie
British.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, June 2.—In the House,
under the call of States, many bills are be
ing introduced and referred. Among them
are the following:
By Mr. Wise, of Pennsylvania—For the
taxation of promissory notes, bonds and
mortgages, and making it unlawful to exact
more than five per cent, interest for the loan
of money.
By Mr. Sandford, of Alabama—Prohibit
ing the funding of United States bonds
payable in currency into coin bonds.
By Mr. Lowe, of Alabama—To substitute
legal tender currency for national bank cur
rency.
Among the bills introduced and referred
was one by Mr. Springer, of Illinois,, prohibit
ing any soldier stationed within two miles of
any place where a special or general election
of a Representative in Congress is being
held, from leaving his barracks for any pur
pose except that of relieving guard, or cast
ing his vote on the day of election.
This bill provides that on the day ap
pointed for a general or special election of
representatives in Congress uo soldier sta
tioned within two miles of any polling place
shall be allowed to go out of the barracks
except to mount or relieve guard or to vote,
when he shall return immediately.
Mr. Roberts, of Louisiana, Chairman of
the Committee on Mississippi Levees,
moved to suspend the rules and pass the
bill for the appointment of a Mississippi
River Commission for the improvement oi
said river from the head of the passes near
its mouth to its head waters. Passed—
ayes 129, nays 20. It provides for the ap
pointment of five commissioners—three
from the engineer corps and two from civil
life—who shall take into consideration and
mature plans for the improvement of the
Mississippi river and report the same to
Congress. One hundred and seventy-live
thousand dollars is appropriated tq meet the
expenses of the commission.
A bill also passed appropriating $20,000 to
provide for the representation of the United
States at the Australian exhibitions of 1879
and 1SS0.
The House then adjourned.
Iu the Senate, Mr. McDonald being ab
sent, the consideration of hia resolution
was postponed.
Mr. Blaine gave notice of a proposed
amendment to also to refer to the
committee on alleged election frauds some
facts iu regard to the Southern districts
referred to oy him on Thursday last.
Mr. E lmunds called attention to what he
alleged was the unfair way in which ex
parte charges were printed for public infor
mation by thc Wallace Committee so as to
be mistaken for established facts.
Mr. Wallace defended the source of the
committee and a debate ensued,participated
ia by Messrs. Edmunds, Dawes, Thurman
and Blaine.
Mr. Thurman said one-sided statements
were also made public as evidence by the
Ivu-Klux Committee in the South. Portions
of the testimony bearing against Democrats
f^und their way into print, and not the rest.
He ravered making all testimony public,
and letting the people judge for themselves.
The morning hour having expired, Mr.
McDonald’s resolution went over, and the
House bill to amend the acj, making appro
priations for the construction of certain
works on the Great Kauawha and Kentucky
rivers, and authorizing the Secretary of War
to use part of the appropriation in the pur
chase of suitable sites, was then considered
and passed, after which the Senate ad
journed.
THE TRIAL OF MI8$ DUER.
Snow' Hill, Mo., June 2.—In the trial
Miss Duer to-day Judge Irvin announced
the ruling of the court ou the question
before them. He said it was unnecessary,
and perhaus not proper, for the court to
indicate irl what V/ay testimony adduced had
influenced their minds diuerestly from the
way it had impressed counsel. The Ct,urt.
after a full consideration, thinks that all
declaration* offered in evidence made by
the deceased duriug the last week of her
sickness must be admitted, ail conditions
necessary to make them admissible having
concurred. Judging from the evidence be
fore them in reference to declarations made
anterior to that time the court is not satis
fied, aud therefore will not receive them.
Mrs. Geo. Truitt being called and not an
swering, Mr. Page said under the ruling ot
the court James Hearn, the deceased's
father, aud Urs. Truitt were only witnesses
to the dying deciaiations the State had. aud
he would call Mr. Hearn on Ihe stand, re
fccrylug the right to call Mrs. Truitt, who
was sick in bed to-day.
TROUBLE BETWEEN ALEgO pASffA AND THE
PORTE.
London. June 2.—A Vienna dispatch to
the Times says concessions of the Governor
General Aleko Pasha to the populace in not
hoisting the Turkish flag aud not wearing
the fez cap, have produced a very bad effect
at Constantinople, especially on the Sultan,
who eeoitii to attach far greater importance
to these matters tha^i his ministers. The
Sultan is said to be determined to insist on
hoisting the Turkish flag. It is said stringent
instructions to that effect have already been
sent Aleko Pasha, and it is also iutended to
lav the case before the powers. Aleko’s
conduct is ionsidered insulting, and as the
fi ; st step iu a movemep, 4 which in the end
will render the Porte’s authority ajtogether
illusory. This fear seems not altogether
baseless, as the agitation commenced in
favor of a native commander of militia,
which points toward a denial pr limitation
of the Sultan’s treaty right to appoint militia
officers.
PLENTIFUL RAINS IN INDIA.
Calcutta, June 2.—There has been plen
tiful rain here aud iu the neighborhood
during the past week, doing much good.
Reports have not yet been received from the
outlying district, but there is every reason
to believe the rainfall has been general.
CETYWAYO RETIRING.
London, June 2.—A dispatch from Cape
town to the Timts says the information that
King Cetywayo has burned thc royal kraal
and retired to northwest Zululand, with a
large army, is officially confirmed.
SVfiMNli TELEGRAMS
VIRGINIA NEGROES APPLY TO
BE MADE JFKOlvS.
THEIR APPLICATION DENIED.
Disastrous Fire iu Shreveport.
SIR. HAYES APPROVES A BILL.
Death of General James Shields.
itlisceilaneouM Telegrams.
PETITION OF RICHMOND NEGROES DENIED.
Richmond, Va., June 2.—Judge Chris
tian, of the Hustings Court, to-day gave his
answer to the petition of a committee of
colored citizens, asking him to summon as
jurors all persons entitled to serve, aud
whose names may appear upon the poll
books, without discrimination between white
and black men. The petition was pre
sented in conformity with a resolution
adopted by the convention of colored people
held in this city May 19th, for the purpose
of considering measures for the amelioration
and improvement of the condition of the
colored race, etc.
Judge Christian, in answer, says, after
caini and deliberate consideration, he con-
curs fullv the reasons given bv his prede
cessor the late Jjffce Guigon, for refusing
the petition asking that colored persons ac
cused of crimes oe tried by colored jurors.
The form and substance of the present pe-
t“ on however, being different, and the laws
fo sun iu .smut juries in this court having
beeu changed, he deems it necessary to give
a somewhat different answer. He quotes
from laws prescribing the qualifications of
jurors and the manner in which they 6ball
be summoned: says there can be no question
that the State has a right to prescribe the
mode iu which jurors 6hall be selected
and summoned and trials conducted in its
courts This he sustains by numerous cita
tions of high legal authorities, including
Judges Marshall, Storey. Taney, Chase,
Waite, and all Judges and text writers who
are worth quoting both before and since the
adoption of the recent amendments to the
Federal Constitution, and he claims that
the State of Virginia having exclusive
right to do so has through its Legis
lature conferred on him the duty of
furnishing lists from which juries
in his court shail be taken. He recognizes
the equality of the colored people before
the law, and that they are liable to serve on
juries, and says he will summon them for
such service when he deems it best for the
proper enforcement of the laws of the
commonwealth. The only principle which
has governed, or will hereafter govern, him
in the discharge of the duty of selecting
jurors is that which will enable him to com
ply with the law, and at the same time
secure the best material for its proper en
forcement.
On this point he 6aye: “When I find that
I can best do this by selecting colored
jurors, I will do so, but not till then. If I
were disposed to do so. it would be simply
impossible for me to select all persons en
titled to serve, and whose names appear on
the poll books, as prayed for In the petition,
and at the same time comply with the law,
which law says I must select only such as I
think will qualify as jurors. There are
hundreds in this city, both white and col
ored, of whom I have no opinion ose way or
the other, persons whom I can never aud
never will select, knowing nothing of
their qualifications. If I were to
select some colored jurors now, with
hundreds of more intelligent white
persons liable to jury duty that 1 know of to
select from, such selection would be made
simply because they were colored, and as
was well said by my predecessor, I would
then be applying qualifications condemned
by the spirit, at least, of the fourteenth
constitutional amendment and the -civil
rights bill.
“Nothing that I have said or done, or can
say or do, is needed, and no additional legis
lation is necessary to render colored citizens
more liable under the law than they now
are to jury duty. E lucation, elevation of
character and legal qualification are the only
things that I know of necessary to render
persona liable to such duty in this court, and
my experience has taught that the first two
prerequisites are not attained by admittance
to the jury box, but must be had be
forehand. No one appreciates the col
ored people of this community more
highly than I door sympathises more deeply
with them in any grievance that they may
labor uuder. I was reared iu their midst
and hope to die with the same surroundings,
but I Jo not understand from their petition
that they have been aggrieved by anything
I have done, except I have not compelled
them to bear one of the burdens to which
law has made them liable.”
Iu conclusion, Judge Christian says: “As
before stated, I have in the past selected
the best material I could find liable to dis
charge the important trusts to be confided
to them, and I expect to do the same in the
future, with an eye single to what I under
stand to be my duty under the law, and
what I believe to be the best and highest
interest of all classes in the community. I
will file their petition and continue to put
only such persons on the jury as I think
well qualified, a9 the law requires me to
do.”
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of ths Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., June 2.—Indications
for Tuesday:
In the {South Atlantic States, slowly fall
ing, followed by rising barometer, warm
southerly wind^, shifting to cooler west and
north, partly cloudy weather and local rains.
In the Gulf States, higher pressure, north
erly winds, backing to westerly, cooler, fol
lowed by warmer, clear or partly cloudy
weather, with local rains in the East Gulf
States, and winds possibly shifting to south
erly over the southwest.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, rising,
followed by falliug barometer, cool north
westerly winds, backing to warmer south
west, aud occasional rains, succeeded by
generally clear weather.
In the Middle Atlantic States, higher pres
sure, variable winds, cooler, with partly
cloudy weather and local rains.
DEATH OF GENERAL SHIELDS.
Ottumwa, Iowa, June 2.—General Jame9
Shields, late United States Senator from
Missouri, died suddenly in this city last
night.
Gen. Shields was in h‘s usual health Sun
day, and wrote several letters after 6 o’clock
in the evening, but just before retiring
complained of a pain ia bis chest, and
shortly afterward said to his niece he was
dying, and in thirty minutes expired, sit
ting in his chair and remaining conscious
to the last. His remains will leave here
to-night for his home in Carrolten, Mo.
TIIE ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN PERUVIAN AND
CHILIAN VESSELS.
London, Jgne 2.—Vice Admiral Seymour,
of th<? British navy, in a letter to thg Morn
ing ICst. says the facts concerning the rer
cent naval engagement off the Peruvian
coast are that the Peruvian iron clad turret
ship Huascar sunk the Chilian wooden ship
Esmeralda, and the Peruvian armor plated
snip Jndenendencia, in pursuiug the Chilian
wooden ship ^avadopga. ran on a reef and
was tvrecked.
DISASTROUS FIRE )N SHREVEPORT.
Shreveport, La* June 3.—A fire broke
out at one o’clock this morning iu the gro
cery and bakery of C. D. Thenard, on the
levee, which entirely destroyed three two-
story brick stores and damaged three ad
joining. The occupants were Hall & Din
gle, Abel Dreyfus, J. H. Stephens, J. C.
Soape, Grigg Ford, and Hiram & Sooney.
Loss $65,000; Insurance $52,900.
THE MANHATTAN BANK BOBBERS.
Nbv York, June 2.—No new develop
ments to-day in the Manhattan Bank bur
glary ease, 'i he hearing will gc ou in Jef
ferson Market Court this 'afternoon. The
police are confideut of the conviction of
Hope, Dobbs, Slevln and Relly, Rnd the
speedy arrest of the other three parties
known to be participants in the job.
RUSSIAN loan.
St. Petersburg, June 2.—A ukase has
|Wn issued instructing the Minister of
Finance to issue Z flve Der cent, ipternal
loan at 92% for the nominal amount 3.
three hundred million roubles, to cover the
expenses of the late war. Subscriptions
will open on the 5th inst.
bark damaged by a collision.
London, June 2.—The bark Dorothy
Thompson, which arrived at Newcastle,
from Bull river, S. C., on the 14th of May,
had her port bow stove in and sustained
other damage by a collision in the port of
Newcastle.
REVOLUTIONISTS HUNG.
St, Petersburg, June 2.—Four revolu
tionists, one of wheni was a Prussiau sub
ject, and one an unknown man, believed to
have been the conspirator Antonoff, were
hanged at Kieff on the 26th of May.
DEATH OF AN EDITOR.
Fredericksburg, Va., June 2.—D. M.
Ream, editor of the Culpepper (Va.) Times,
who was shot by G. W. Jameson in an elec
tion quarrel on May 22d, died thi6 morning.
APPROVED.
Washington, June 2.—The President has
approved the bill to prevent the introduc
tion of contagious and infectious diseases
into the United States.
OUR FASHION LETTER.
The New Spring Coxtumes — The
Latest .tfandate of Fashion—The
Panler-CoNtumea for the Street
Dresaea for Country Reaorta-Mitt*
aud GloTest— Ifllxcellaneoua.
Colored Preachers on Tobacco.—
The Zion African Methodist Episcopal
Conference of New Y’ork State, at its
seventh day’s session yes erday, adopted
a report urging the total abstention from
intoxicating drinks on the part of the
members, saying that seven eighths of
the.poverty aud crime of.this couutiy
was due to liquor. The clergy, it saia,
cost the country $20,000,000 a year,
lawyers $80,000,000, criminals $100,000,-
000, and strong drink from $300,000,000
to $600,000,000. The Committee on
Tobacco reported that its use by ministers
was very unbecoming to the dignity of
their position, the purity of their bodies,
and the sanctity of their lives. A num
ber of clergymen disagreed with the re
port and upon the impropriety of the
use of tobacco, and the document was
returned to the committee for revision.—
JV. T. Sun, 28th.
A Foolish Boast and the Result.—
George Coburn had a discussion with his
brotlier-iii law in a St. Louis barroom as
to how much whisky an able drinker
could put down at a draught. Coburn
felt sure he could drink a “schooner”
beer glass full, andjoffered to make the
attempt if his relative would pay the
cost. The glass held more than a pint,
and the bartender, perhaps knowing btet
ter than others the quality of the liquors
that he sold, warned Coburn that the
quantity was sufficient to kill a man.
“Pshaw! that’s only a drink for a child,”
said Coburn, and poured all the whisky
down his throat without stopping to
take breath. He was prostrated within
a few minutes, and soon died.—New
York, San.
A Magnetized Watch.—A lady in
Madrid, Me., who carried a valuable
gold watch, was in a house last summer
when it was struck by lightning. The
watch stopped at the time, and, although
jewelers have repeatedly examined it
and pronounced it perfect in every
particular, it cannot be made to move.
It is so magnetized that watchmakers
say no part of it could ever be made to
do duty if taken out aud put into another
set of works. —Springfield {Mass.) Union.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Nctcs.
New York, June 1.—The gowns whioh
for weeks past we have seen and admired
on wire figures, turning them round aud
round, and smoothing down the trimmings;
and the bonnets, which we have grown
enthusiastic over, on tall wooden
stands, which were sure to go
tumbling over if we took the least liberty
with them, are now out in full force, at the
concert, the theatre, and on the promenade,
led away by sparkling brune and blonde
beauties, who are making the most of these
bright fresh days, which must soon be
followed by intense heat, and the summer’s
exodus to the country. And how very dif
ferent the neW costumes appear now that
they have become inhabited, displaying
their graceful outlines and coquettish
draperies to far better advantage.
All costumes are more or less voluminous,
but there are various modifications in ar
ranging the drapery. Fancy basques with
out a sign of panier on the hips, but a great
deal of bunched up drapery in the back, are
worn by many, while still more wear the
pouf on the hips and ia the back, not in an
exaggerated form, but as a graceful acces
sory and as the latest mandate of fashion,
whose behesU must be blindly obeyed.
Large, stout people have looked forward
with fear and trembling to the Introduction
of paniers le6t they should increase their
dimensions. All tuch apprehensions and
fears may be dismissed, for ln the hands of
a skillful modiste the paDiers may be so art
fully arranged as to actually conceal exces
sive fleshiness much better thau the perfect
ly fitted prlncesse corsage, or the slim styles
ever could. The bouffant drapery about
the hips aud iu the back may so entirely
disguise the figure that it is very dubious
what is real and what is simulated ampli
tude, so that the advantage is on the side of
the too stout or too slim figure, while the
happy medium or perfect figure is always
perfect in any style.
DRESSES ON THE STREET.
The promenade presents a wonderfully
gala and joyous appearance. Every one
looks bright and animated in their new
plumage, and very gorgeously arrayed are
some of the fair sex, looking as charmingly
quaint and old-fashioned as a belle of the
eighteenth century, as though they had just
stepped out of some old portrait to take a
stroll down Broadway to see what this new
fangled world was about. Gentlemen turn
to look at these new-fashioned, old-fashioned
belles, and ladies gaze after them till they
are lost in the crowd. For these ultra fash
ionable toilettes, with their striking contrasts
and coquettish draperies, going away like
wings at the sides, are still a novelty on our
city streets, and conspicuous among the less
showy but eaually elegaut costumes.
A distingue toilette in the most extreme
style, which received its full share of ad
miration on the promenade, had the short
petticoat of blue aud cream white striped
satin, with fans of plain blue satin let iu at
short Intervals around the bottom. The
short, round-pointed bodice and overskirt,
was in cream colored cashmere, the latter
looped away very short and in full paniers
over the hips, and very bunchily draped in
the back, disclosing the petticoat to the
waist line in front, and very high up on‘the
sides. The big fascinating poke bonnet in
leghorn was lined with shirred blue satio,
with a cluster of large creamy roses on the
left side. The outside was tastefully trimmed
with long, blue waving ostrich plumes,
creamy roses, and Breton lace strings.
Parasol in blue and cream colored stripes,
with a large striped bow tied into the handle.
The finishing touch to the toilette was a
most antique looking round bag made of
the blue and cream striped satin, drawn
together with strings, and carried on the
arm to hold the purse and handkerchief.
These arky looking bags are the tip-top of
style, and to be minus one of these fash
ionable appendages is to be considered a
little behiud the times. They are made to
match the dress, and when in plain mate
rials the monogram is embroidered on one
side. They are used for church, yisitiug,
shopping, and ou all important occasions,
to give the wearer a finished air. They do
add an old fashioned witchery to very young
ladies; but older ladies cauoot carry them
off with exactly the same charm and grace.
\Ve must confess that in some instances they
look a trifle prim and precise, suggestive of
Dorcus clubs and knitting work. Indeed
they are fag simiies of the dress-up bags
that our great great grandmothers used to
carry their knitting wort in when they went
out to spend a long afternoon with a neigh
bor. Some of these bags are made fiat,
ornamented all around with small tassels,
but round ones are the most approved by
the elegantes.
But to return to dresses. The really ele
gant costumes for city streets are iu combi
nation of several materials in the same color.
As the vest and front breadths may be of
pleated silk or satin, with revers of pekiu,
and the basque aud drapery of cashmere,
all matching iu color, aud rendered effective
by the contrast in fabrics, while the bright
ness js seen in the bonpet. in a bunch of car
nations or a cluster of gay roses. Other
charming dresses have the accessories In
damask silk in small designs and delicate
colors, which looks like embroidery.
An unusual quantity of elegant black cos
tumes are seen on the streets, which are
universally becoming to old and young,
wii.Ii ZZlt ,ace about the throat,
fastened with a gold bar, and the hat or
bonnet lighted up with a few bright flowers,
while the black parasol is trimmed with a deep
ruffle oflace, and lined with bright silk, as
cardinal, old gold, and ln gay plaids and
stripes. A pretty fancy is to have the para
sol in solid black, with a border a little
above the edge in satin ribbon two inches
wide, finished with a jaunty bow, indin
the most brilliant of colors.
DRESSES FOR COUNTRY RESORTS.
In bold contrast with costumes for city
streets are the coquettish watering place
toilettes, where the most showy of combina
tions and the brightest of colors are en reijle.
The city belle, In breaking away from the
restraint and conventional routine of city
life,can hardly be too picturesque and bizzare
for the blossoming country, for garden par
ties, lawn tennis and archery, where gay
butterfly costumes are most effective, flit
ting here and there over the green, velvety
lawns, and through the tangled woods.
Thus all colors, hues and tints are softly
harmonized, or sharply contrasted, and
made as bright and picturesque as possible.
Gay chintzes, batistes and foulards
are made still gayer by bows and loops
of bright ribbons, lodged ln every avail
able fold and angle. Soft flexible buntings
in light shades are made dressy by bands
of colored embroidery, used for flounces,
ruffles, plastrons and other ornamental parts
of the dress. A great deal of gold brocad
ed, or gold embroidered galloon and small
gilt buttons are most effectively used to
trim the darker shades of bunting, as gen
dannes, blue, deep ecru, and black. And
lastly, bunting dresses are made gorgeous by
bias bands, fichu collars, panier scarfs, and
poufs ofjgay Madras handkerchiefs. Erqui-
site diapnanous and semi-diaphanous dresses
are conspicuously displayed in all the lead
ing stores. Most charming are the lawns
and batistes in solid colors and delicate
tints. Nothing could be prettier than the
very light gray batiste, with the jacket, pan
ier scarfs, aud flounces, trimmed with
Breton lace, with jabots of the same lace
down the front and sides of the dress, and
loops of light blue satin ribbon plentifully
mingled with the lace. Another dress ex-
acfly the same was ornamented with pink
and garnet ribbons mingled. Delicate pink,
pale blue, ecru, and lavender lawns have
butterfly jackets, panier overskirts, and
several small flounces edged with pleatings
Of Breton lace, and long loops and ends of
6atin ribbon on various parts of the cos
tume. Touches of bright ribbons are placed
everywhere; plain ribbons, double-faced
satin ribbons, brocaded ribbons, all these
are employed to brighten, embellish and en
hance all parts of the toilette.
mitts and gloves.
With the revival of old fashions lace
mitts are included, and are shown in all
colors to match the costumes, and will be
very njuch worn for mid-summer. With
shoit elbow sleeves they are very attractive.
The long lace wrists are held in place by an
elastic, and display a plump arm and
jewelled hand to great advantage. Black
lace mitts are admissible with any toilette,
therefore the most worn, and really the
most becoming to the hand, the contrast
making it look fairer, yet delicate
tints harmonizing with light summerish
dresses are really exquisite. Lace gloves
are also shown, w’ith half fingers and entire
fingers, and are awkward and ugly looking;
yet we have known ladies to buy "them and,
Stranger still, to wear them. Lisle thread
and silk gloves are now made with kid
finish In appearance and fit, and with the
full complement of buttons, and come in all
gray and mode shades, so serviceable for
shopping, traveling and country rambles.
In kid gloves the most stylish are very long
wristed and excessively plain.
In dresses of quiet colors the gloves are
selected to match, but for dresses of gay
hues contrasting colors are chosen. For
black toilettes any neutral tint may be worn,
and many ladies prefer black, which makes
the hand look smaller than any other color.
Lavender and lilac, old time favorites, are
again in vogue for wearing with black
costumes.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Coquettish little breakfast caps ore made
of bright bordered handkerchiefs caught In
the front and back w|£h clusters of narrow
ribbons. Others have the centre of sheer
white muslin caught up in a puff and the
edges trimmed with pleatings of Breton
lace.
New and dressy pocket handkerchiefs have
a border a finger deep in red, blue or pink,
scolloped and embroidered in flowers and
stars in various hues, and are quite stylish.
Others are in fine linen leaves, In white,with
a great deal of colored embroidery, and cor
respond with the gay jardiniere dresses,
which will rage during the summer season.
New chemisettes, with cuffs to match,
come iu solid pink, blue, cardinal, etc., to
wear with morning dresses and traveling
suits. Their reign will probably be short
lived, as very few can wear them with be
coming effect.
Wide leather belts are having an unpre
cedented rage. The latest is in sealskin,
very broad, studded with small gold headed
uails. Gentlemen do not take kindly to
this fashion, and aver “that if thc girls
don’t quit wearing these abominably wide
belts, squeezing will become one of the lost
arts, as uo man of delicate feelings likes to
embrace a leather trunk, even if there is a
girl inside of it.” Lady Bug.
LET \ Ell FROM EFFINGH AM.
The Recent Heavy Rains — Back
ward Crops-Tlie Conllict with Gen.
Gra«» — Fertile Laudn and Good
llealtli—Tlie Deacendantiv of the
Salzburgers.
8i’KINgfield,Ga., June 2.—Editor Morning
News: We frequently see in the Morning
New^ communications giving flattering ac
counts of the climate, soil, productions,
health, etc., of counties in various sections
of the Empire State. Notwithstanding the
old adage that “self praise is half slander,
I beg space for a few items, which facts
will substantiate, concerning old Effingham.
As the “deluge” visited all parts of the
State, it is evident this county was not
exempt. It has rained almost iucessantly
since the commencement of the vernal sea
son. However, the rain has abated, and we
still float ou the ocean of time. In conse
quence of the exceedingly cold and wet
spring, crops are generally thrown back,
the grass exceuted. The farmers have
waged war against this mighty enemy, aud
from present indications will be the victo
rious party, ultimately destroying the foe.
As iu ail sections of country, Effingham
has some very poor land; nevertheless,
there Is as fertile land iu the county as can
be found in any other section. Hence, suc
cessful farming can be carried on here as
well as anywhere. The principal crops are
provision. However, the fleecy crop is not
left out of view. It is a prevalent idea that
all the southern portion of Georgia is un
usually sickly. Some of the mountaineers
have pronounced it “a perfect death hole,”
which is surely a great mistake. The health
of Effingham will compare with any county
in Georgia. The writer will venture the as
sertion that the mortality of the county
(the population considered) is as little if not
less than any other county in the State.
The longevity of many citizens is sufficient
to prove the above statement. The M. D.’s
have to follow other pursuits, their practice
being insufficient to warrant them with a
support.
Many of the citizens of Effingham are
descendants of the Salzburgers, who were
among the early settlers. Most of these
honest people colonized in Savannah and at
Ebenezer, which latter place was finally
abandoned, nothing remaining to mark the
sacred grounds except the cemetery and
church with its aacient spire, the bells of
which send forth their echoing sound as in
days long past. This sacred 6pot is in full
view of the Savannah river.
The descendants of the Salzburgers are
now scattered throughout the Slate, but
still entertain a reverence for their ancestral
home. The morals of our county are unsur
passed, as the many houses of worship indi
cate. There is one remarkable fact in
the history of Effingham worthy of mention.
It bears date with our beloved Union. In
1776 it was formed into a coqnty $nd named
in honor of Lord Efijogham, an English
nobleman. The county, therefore, is cele
brating the one hundred and third anniver
sary of its existence. Education is not at
as high a standard as it should be, yet there
is a gradual improvement iu this particular.
The picnic season has again returned; may
pleasure accompany its many admirers. The
circulation of the News is gradually in
creasing in qqr midst. May the time be
forthcoming when it shall he welcomed to
every fireside. A. B. K.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The ConcluM!onn of the Democratic
Joint Csucu«-The .4ppropriallon
Bilim to be Passed with Certain
Remtrictloua.
Special Correspondence of the SfczrJmjlfews.
Washington, Mayht.—The joint caucus
committee oi the two houses of Congress
met to day. All of the twenty members of
the two committees were present except
two. There was a long, free and earnest
discussion of the situation, of the political
outlook and of what the future programme
of the party in Congress should be.
The programme determined on is that
which has, time and time again, beeu out
lined In your special rerortc frem Washing
ton. That programme In brttf is that
the array, the legislative and judicial de
partments shall be provided for with cer
tain restrictions. A sub-committee was ap
pointed to draft a bill to carry out this
programme, which, as heretofore stated,
will take the form of au extension for
twelve month* of appropriations for
rue present fiscal year. The restrictions
will be that in the legislative biff there will
be no appropriation ior deputy marshals or
supervisors; and the use of the army at
the polls will be prohibited. These provi
sions will not repeal any legislation, their
effect being only temporary. At the next
session of Congress the nght can be re
newed if thought advisable.
Senator Thurman led off in the meeting
to-day by saying that the issue between the
two parties on the use of the army, super
visors and deputy marshals was fully made
up, and that there was no use p^^uing
those matters any further. All present
agreed with him. The bill to repeal the
jurors t#3t oath is also a part of the pro
gramme, aud will be passed, Botomao.
Poisoning by Wholesale.
New York Post.
The frightful slaughter just wrought
at Island Pond, Vermont, by an alleged
criminal folly of a man named Horace
Cheney will direct attention to a source
of danger which in rural districts espe
cially is too habitually neglected.
Eleven children have died so far from
drinking, it is said, the water of a brook
running through a village called Newark.
Five of these children, named Aldrich,
belonged to one family, and their
mother has become insane. A number
more are ill, but it is hoped no more
will die. The cause of this fearful ca
lamity has been traced in part, and there
is little doubt that the responsibility
will be placed where it is justly due,
The chiidren attended school close by
the fatal brook. Up stream, and
close by, was planted last season
a field of potatoes. Upon these
Paris green was freely used to de
stroy potato bugs. The top3 of
the vegetables were afterward thrown
into the barnyard of Horace Cheney.
From this barnyard to the brook a drain
had been built. But there was an older
source of pollution than this. In the
spring of 1878 the same man had buried
a colt on the edge of the brook, and it is
said that the running water washed out
parts of the rotting carcass. A Mr. Simp
son, who has since lost a child, one of tlie
eleven we have named, objected to the
colt’s being buried by the brook. Cheney
then moved the body, but only to re
place it in a swamp no more than fifty
feet aw'ay, the water from which ran
into the brook. How far the malefic
effects of the water drank by these
children have been due to the Paris
green, and how far to the decomposing
flesh of the buried animal, can only be
shown by the careful analysis which we
are assured is now in progress at Boston,
and the results of which will soon be
made public.
Iu New York on Wednesday after
noon, Mary F. Hearn fell in a fit and was
run over by a street car in Christopher
street, receiving injuries for which she
died in a few hours. August Pleuger,
driver of the car, was arrested.
The Latest Veto Message.
Baltimore Sun.
The message of the President vetoing
the legislative appropriation bill went to
the House of Representatives yesterday.
The message repeats the points insisted
upon in the previous vetoes. The Presi
dent regrets that Congress did not give
greater heed to his objections to political
clauses being appended to appropriation
bills; but, as his reasons for not signing
this bill go. much deeper than the mere
form of the proposed legislation, this
branch of the subject may be dismissed.
Enough has been said about this point
already. The bill to which the President
objects repeals the obnoxious features in
the Federal election laws (as embodied in
the Revised Statutes) relating to the em
ploy meat, powers and duties of super
visors and deputy marshals in connection
with Congressional elections. The Presi
dent contends that “the true meaning and
effect of the proposed legislation is
plain.” The supervisors are retained,
but no power is left them. As he says:
“The supervising of elections will be re
duced to mere inspection, without authority
on the part of the supervisors to do any act
whatever to make the election a fair one.
All that will be left to the supervisors is the
permission to have such oversight of the
elections as political parties are in the habit
of exercising without any authority of law,
in order to prevent their opponents from ob
taining unfair advantages.”
If this trivial objection were the only
one which the President has to the
clauses in question the message would
not be worth discussing. Congress has
the exclusive power to decide upon the
election of its members, and what super
visors might do or fail to do would not
weigh at all in the premises. What
right has the President to assume that
one political party, in power in the
States, would be disposed to conduct the
Congressional elections more fairly than
the opposite political party in power in
the Federal Government? What right
has he to assume that the permanent, or
derly, salaried constabulary and police
of a State would be more likely to show
a more partisan disposition and manifest
more unfair conduct than the occasional
deputy marshals, appointed for this
occasion only, without discipline or ex
perience, and all of them mere partisans
in the election to which they are sent to
“keep peace at the polls?” The position is
untenable as soon a3 stated. But the
President further says the object of
the bill is to destroy any control what
ever by the United States over the Con
gressional elections. This, he says,
has been the leading argument for the
passage of the bill, upon the ground
that these elections are exclusively with
in the control of the States. To the
contrary of this, thc President opposes
the 4th section of article 1 of the Con
stitution, and also the fifteenth amend
ment, claiming that these aie the provi
sions of the Constitution which insti
gated Congress to pass the comprehen
sive election law of 1800 and the en
forcement act of 1871. Nevertheless,
peaceable and fair Congressional elec
tions, fully expressive of the popular
will, were held in this country from the
adoption of the Constitution, in 1789,
up to 18G0, and iu all that pe
riod of eighty one years Federal
election laws were not even asked
for. Were the elections which
sent Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Benton,
Quincy Adam.*, Quitman, Lovejoy, J. It.
Giddiugs and the rest more corrupt than
the elections since the laws of 1866 and
1871? The President dwells upon the
coi nipt elections in New Y"ork in 1866,
without the election laws, but forgets en
tirely to dwell upon the still more cor
rupt elections in Florida, Louisiana,
Alabama, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and
South Carolina since those laws were
adopted. But the crucial defect of the
message is the assumption which runs
through it, from beginning to end, that
the “government” of the United States
can have more interest in the preserva
tion of the fr£e4am purity of con
gressional elections than the people of
the States themselvea, who have no
safeguard whatever, so far as
the General- Government is con
cerned, except what they find
fair and equitable representa
tion in Congress. In fact tl?e legislation
in the first place seems to be based on
the monstrous idea tliat there is neces
sarily enmity between the States and the
General Government, or, at least, that
their interests are at direct opposites in
an election. Nothing could be more
mischievous or false than this idea.
Upon this point the President himself
uses language which most effectually re
futes his position, f A r in this very mes
"c he says most forcibly:
“The great boviy oi the people of all par-
tie. want free aud fair elections. They do
not think that free elections mean freedom
from the wholesome restraints of law, or
that the place of an election should be a
sanctuary for lawlessness and crime. On
the day of an election peace and good order
are more necessary than on any other day ;
of the year. On that day the humblest
feeblest citizens, the old and the infirm,
should be and should have reasdn to feel
that they are safe in tfiu exercise of their
most responsible duty and their most sacred
right ao members of society—their duty and
their right to vote.”
That is precisely the point. Why as
sume that free elections are a matter of
greater concernment at Washington than
to the nine million voters in the Con
gressional districts? Tliat the irrespon
sible mob of deputy United Suites
marshals, and the r,ripy, Lave more
at st:i*e |ir free elections than
our forty-six million of freemen?
Why assume that Mr. Ilayes and the
gentlemen around him at Washington
know and feel more strongly the need for
purity of franchise than the whole body
of citizens. The President suggests that
at a regular session of Congress there
will be uo factious opposition to proper
modifications of the election laws. The
people really demand no more. They
are not opposed to election laws in the
abstract, but they are opposed to the
present laws, as impolitic, unjust and
dangerous. Aud they are opposed in
equal measure to the position of the
President when he assumes that the re
peal of the present laws implies hostility
to any “wholesome restraints of law.”
It is a mistake to assume that it means
any such thing.
The Interoceanie Canal.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Paris International Canal Congress
has carefully considered six routes for a
ship canal across the isthmus, connect
ing the North aud South American con
tinents. Our government has done thc
most complete work in surveying routes
for the purpose, and that by way of Nica
ragua has been pronounced the best ov
high American authority, and was favor
ably considered at Paris. It is one hun
dred and eighty-one miles long; involves
less than seventeen miles of canal excava
tion and requires a dozen locks, the re
mainder of the route lying through Luke
Nicaragua and Lake Managua anil the
San Juan river, which is full of rapids.
The canal by this route would cost
$125,000,000.
It is now announced that the Techni
cal Committee of the Congress have d< -
cided to report favorably on the Panama
Aspinwall route, which is the shortest of
all. The Isthmus of Panama is thirty-
nine miles wide at its narrowest point.
Lieutenant Wyse, of the French army,
has just completed the survey of two
routes there. One follows the valley of
the Tuyra liver and one of its
branches and over the divide to the
the Caguirri river, which empties into the
Atrato. The canal by this route would
require twenty-five locks. Wyse has
also surveyed a route from the Tuyra
river, which empties into the Gulf of 8an
Miguel on the Pacific side, eastward to
Acanti on the Atlantic side, where a har
bor will have to be made. This route
requires a tunnel eight miles long, one
huudred and eighteen feet high, a width
of fifty -two and a half feet at the bottom
of the canal, and of sixty-five feet at tlie
water line. A canal by this route will
cost $100,000,000.
The route from Panama to Aspinwall
would partly follow the course of the
Chagres river, aud involve one tunnel
and uo locks. The objection to the Nica
ragua route is that Lake Nicaragua is 120
feet above the sea at low tide, and we
observe in the last issue of the Panama
Star, just received, that the water in the
lake and connecting rivers cannot be de
pended on. The Star says:
Suppose this wonderful canal made, and
its harbors safe from the tornadoes which
ravage the Mosquito coast on the one side,
and from the storms of the Pacific on the
other. Is it impossible that a canal built
through a highly volcanic country, such as
Nicaragua, might Itself one day be seriously
damaged by volcanic action ? In addition
to this, it must be borne in mind that our
knowledge of the water supplv furnished
by the lakes of Nicaragua is egeetdiugiy
imperfect. For months of the year, during
the dry season, the aiguaut of water pass
ing through the San Juan river from
Lake Nicaragua to the ocean is scarcely
sufficient to float a common river steamer,
and sometimes not even a canoe can make
the trip up the river without immense
trouble. Were there a superabundance of
water in Lake Nicaragua at all seasons this
would not be the cafe. It has been asserted
to us by an American gentleman who has
resided many years in Nicaragua, and who
has been devoted to scientific pursuits there,
that Lake Nicaragua is gradually shoaling,
particularly at its southern end, & r -d khat
the rainfall in Nicaragua is decreasing. At
San Carlos, where, in the early days of
Nicaragua transit, steamers of considerable
size could come alongside the wharf, pow
there is not water enough for a small boat.
The cutting of a canal to the Pacific will
practically be tUe opening of another outlet
io Lake Nicaragua: what the effect will bo
is a question for scientists. Cbann-ls to
both oceans will irameasnra’uiv Increase the
drainage from tim talre, where now it is
limited i£ He volume.”-
These are quite serious objections, and
if a canal from Panama to Aspinwall
can be constructed for $100,000,000,
with a length of only forty miles against
one hundred and eighty-one miles by
Nicaragua the verdict must be ia favor
of Panama, taking into consideration
also the great saving of time to vessels
through the absence af locks. The
Panama route is evidently the shortest,
cheapest and most practicable.
The Paris Congress means business,
and the interoceanie canal will be built,
and Americans must have a controlling
interest in it if possible. The great ad
vantage to commerce is apparent. Such
a water route will materially checkmate
the extortionate career of the trans conti
nental railroad monopoly. Gould and
Huntington will not be able to control
the international water route. It will
force a reduction of the tariffs of
the Central and Union Pacific Rail
roads. The distance saved from
New Y'ork to San Francisco for
ships is 14,000 miles; to Sh.apghai,
11,600 miles; to Canton, 40,900 miles,
and to Calcutta. 0,600 miles. It \z esti
mated that a toll of $1 50 a ton, and $10
a head for passengers will yield $8,500,-
000 the first year. The traffic would
certainly equal that of the Suez canal,
which cost $86,000,000, is ninety-two
miles long, and does a business of from
$6,000,000 to $9,000,000 a year. The
shortening of the sea voyage by the con
struction of the Amsritiaif interoceanie
Canal will “avo not less than $36,000,000
tette trade of the United States. There
is little doubt that when tho route is fully
decided on, the stock wiil be speedily
taken up, and the work will be rushed
through.
Household Recipes.
Salt Fish are quickest and
freshened by soaking in sour milk.
Fish may be scaled much easier by
dipping into boiling water about a mil?
ute.
Fried Porkstf.aks.—These are much
nicer to the taste if sprinkled with pow
dered sage before frying.
Honey Cakes.—Three cups of honey,
four cups of sour milk, one half cup of
butter, soda to sweeten the milk; mix
rather stiff.
Cocoanut Pudding.—Make a com
mon corn starch pudding and add one
teacup of cocoanut, and vanilla to flavor.
Eat with foam sauce.
Ginger Nuts.—Two cups molasses,
one cup sugar, one cup shortening, one
cup buttermilk, a tab’espo >nful soda
and a tablespoonful of ginger. Mix as
soft as you can roll, and bake.
Ground Tea.—A French chemist as
serts that if tea be ground like coffee,
immediately before hot water ia poured
upon it, it will yield nearly double the
amount of its exhilarating qualities.
Mixture to be put in Between
Layers.—The grated rind and juice of
one orange, whites of two eggs, two cups
of sugar; spread between the layers and
frost the top of the cake.
Tapioca Pudding.—Halt cup of tapi
oca soaked in one quart milk two hours
before baking; little salt, sugar and ex
tract lemon to suit the taste, and a few
raisins; bake slowly till the custard is
done and you have a nice dish.
Impure Rain Water.—It is worthy
of notice that two ounces of borax will
clear a twenty barrel cistern of rain
water that lias become impure. In a few
hours the sediment will settle and the
water be quite clear for washing pur
poses.
Rusty Nails.—If you have the mis
fortune to wound your foot or hand with
a rusty nail, you have only to smoke the
wound with burning wool or woolen
cloth. Fifteen or twenty minutes in the
smoke will remove all pain from the
worst class of inflammation.
To Fix Pencil Marks So They Will
Not Rub Out.—Take well skimmed
milk aud dilute with au equal bulk of
water. Wash the pencil marks (whether
writing or drawing) with this fluid, us»ng
a soft camel’s hair flat brush, avoiding aU
rubbing. Place upon a flat board to dry.
Plain Eggnog.—The yolks of nine
eggs, beaten to a cream, with six spoon
fuls of fine sugar; add half a grated nut
meg; stir in a large tumblerful of wine;
mix well; beat the whites to a stiff froth
and add to the yolk and wine, with three
pints of rich milk. This makes enough
for twelve persons.
Embroidery. — Embroidery silks
should be dipped iu weak ammonia be
fore using, in order to set the color, and
articles embroidered, or knit in worsted
should never be washed in anything
Stronger than bran and water. A little
ox gall mixed with the water will keep
the colofs from running unless the work
is rubbed or wrung.
Lemon Pies.—Take three good lemons,
roll them until soft, take the juice out
into a dish, pick out the seed, chop
the peel very fine, chop oDe tcacupful
of raisins, add the whole together, with
one and one-half cup of molasses; stir it
well, put in a little water and flour; do
not hurrying thc baking, as it will run
out. The above will make two delicious
pies, with a rich paste.
Corn Starch Cake.—Rub well to
gether one cup of butter and two cups
sugar: add the white of six eggs beaten
to a froth. Stir in one cup of sweet
milk, two cups of flour in which have
been thoroughly mixed two teaspoonful9
baking powder, or two of cream of
tartar, and one of soda. Flavor with
lemou; lastly, stir in one cup of com
starch. The above makes an excellent
cake.
Curry.—Take cold chicken, turkey or
cold lamb, cut in small pieces and put in
a frying pan with about a pint or more
boiling water; let it stew a few moments,
then take the meat out, thicken the
gravy with a little flour, add a teaspoon
ful of curry powder, pepper and salt to
taste, and let it boil up once; have some
rice boiled whole and dry, put it around
the outside of the platter, and in the
centre put the meat, and throw the
gravy over the meat, not the rice, and
serve.
Potted Meat.—Remove all gristle, •
hard pieces and fat from some cola roast
or boiled l»eef, and any remnants of
tongue or ham, mince it very fine and
pound it in a mortar, with a little butter,
a little gravy, well freed from the grease
and a spoonful of Harvey’s or Worces
ter sauce; beat it to a smooth paste,
seasoning during the process with
pounded cloves or allspice, mace or
grated nutmeg, salt aud a little cayenne,
put it into pots, press it close down and
cover it with clarified butter*
Napoleon Soup.—Take a shin of
beef or cold beefsteak, or roast meat of
any kind, add the same quantity of grated
carrots, which gives flavor and a nice
color, and add turnips, potatoes, a
little brown flour, plenty of salt and pep
per, a little garlic, half an onion and
some parsley. Boil two or three hours,
and strain after all is cooked. This will
be found a delightful soup. This soup
should be kept on the range all the time.
Throw in ends of meat and poultry, out
side leaves of cabbage, green tops of cel
ery, etc.
Some years ago a native of Camajore.
in Itaiy, emigrated to America, leaving
behind a wife and two children. After
a time he sent home to them, through
the priest of his native place, twenty
dollars. A few months later on this re
mittance was followed by a second, this
time two hundred dollars; and at inter
vals afterward other sums were sent,
making altogether a total of over five
thousand dollars. The priest, however,
never gave the money to those for whom
it was intended, but ’kept it for himself,
sending for the woman, and telling her,
with many consoling reflections, that her
husband was dead. At the same time he
wrote to the man, informing him that
his family were dead, sending also with
his letter an official certificate of their
death. After a time the man married
again, and a short time ago, having
prospered in business and become
wealthy, he determined to revisit his na
tive place. In due time he arrived with
hi9 second wife and family at Camajore,
and went to the principal inn in the town.
As he was walking out one day a boy
begged of him. Something in the ap
pearance of the beggar seemed to be fa
miliar. nd, questioning the bov, he
found that it was his own child, and that
his wife was living with the two children
he had left behind;, m the greatest pov
erty. The priest, thus detected in his
wickedness, endeavored to compromise
the matter by offering to pay the twenty-
five thousand lire, but the authorities de
clined to allow it, and proceedings
against him are now pending.
As an incident of the celehration of the
silver wedding of the Emp-ror of
Austria, 877 prisoners whose offences
were committed through indiscretion or
poverty were paidoned, and ten uni
versity donations were made by the
Emperor, amounting to 300,000 florins,
and providing yearly forty purses of 200
florins each for poo^ctUvleuia and twenty
free places in schools for officers’
daughters.
National Quarantine.
New York Journal of Canute>$e.
We print to dny the text of the na
tional quarantine bill as it has p;iss«l
fx>th houses of Congress. No more im
portant and far-reaching measure bss re
ceived the assent of the Federal Legisla
ture in many years. It is extraordinary
not only in its immediate extension of
tlie central power over certain rights and '
duties hitherto exclusively assumed by
the States, but still more as an entering
wedge for otbsr encroachments. Every
word of it is fraught with meaning for
the politician and publicist as well as for
the shipowner and merchant. The bill
is so artful and insidious in phraseology
that probably some Congressmen who
voted for it did not catch its entire pur
port. On its face it looks innocent
enough. It might be mistaken by the
careless reader for something merely
auxiliary to the local systems of
quarantine now in force. But
it is far more. Under it anv exist
ing quarantine establishment may be set
aside. Even the one in New York—the
model of its kind—will hereafter (if the
President signs this bill, as is now ex
pected) live only on sufferance. For the
National Board of Health would have
only to declare that in their opinion the
New York quarantine is insufficient and
it would then be the duty of tho Presi
dent to order the board to frame ad
ditional rules and regulations for the
emergency. The enforcement of these
would devolve in the first instance on the
local authorities. But if they failed to
enforce them (of which the President
would be the judge) that duty would then
be assigned to Federal officers. It rests
wholly with the National Board of Health
and the President to replace every
local quarantine system and agent witn
those of the Federal choice. With a
partisan Board of Health and a Presi
dent wielding this power, in an exciting
political campaign aDd when sectional
prejudices run high—say against New
York—we can easily imagine the conse
quences. In this possible abuse of au-
thority lies the only serious danger.
Properly directed, the machinery pro
vided by the bill might be productive of
great good. One of its results would
unquestionably be beneficial. It would
stimulate locid authorities to estab
lish or improve quarantine systems,
and make them so efficient as to
leave the Federal power no decent
excuse for supplanting the n. It would
be the fault of a community if it Invites
the National Board of Health and the
President to manage its quarantine busi
ness. The best thing in the hill is the
last section, which limits its operation to
four years. If it works badly in that
time we shall hope to prevent Its re-en
actment—a task far easier than to pro
cure Its repeal. It is after all only an
experiment. Perhaps that thought will
make the National Board of"Health
more careful not to misuse their powers.
We sincerely trust that the fears aroused
by this bill may prove wholly unfound
ed, and the measure be worth far more
to the public than the $500,000 which it
will cost to put it iu operation.
Burning Gunpowder to Preveitp
Infection.—A correspondent writes us
from the Sandwich Islands, saying that
during a long life spent in tropical fever
districts he has been able to escape infec
tion and miasma by the use of gunpow
der, supplemented by a few simple pre
cautions against sudden changes of tem
perature, sunstroke, bad water and the
like. He uses no water that has not been
boiled and afterward kept from air
intact, but hia main reliance is upon the
practice of burning a thimbleful of gun
powder in his bedroom and very small
quantities in his trunk, wardrobe, etc.,
so as to keep his clothes in an atmos
phere feebly charged with gunpowder
gaa In Madagascar, Reunion, Mauri
tius, the east coast of tropic Africa and
other fever-stricken lands he has found
such simple means a sure preventive of
epidemic diseases, and he has thereby
been often brought ta the philosophic
reflection that gunpowder is destined to
invert thc aim iutended by its fabrica
tion.—.Scientific Amenran.
A clue has at last hc-en found to the
robberies of late very prevalent from
charity boxes in the Paris churches. In
one of the churches, the other day, an
individual was noticed, at the most sol
emn moment of the celebration of the
mass, dipping a piece of whalebone as
siduously into a poor box. As coin after
coin emerged from the aperture in rapid
succession, as though conjured up by the
magic wand of the unknown appropria-
tor of the money, the beadle thought fit
to call in a policeman. The end of the
whalebone was found to be thickly laid
over with glue. In this way the myste
rious robberies were accounted for, as
letters were found on the prisoner
proving that he was a member of a
society earning a very handsome income
by the simple method described above.
Its central offices are at Geneva; it has
an administrative council, a finance com
mittee and many branch establishments.
Each member usually brings into the
common fund $100 a day at least.
Conway vs. Hayes.—The Baltimore
Bulletin says: “A painful question of
veracity has arisen between the Rev.
Gen. Conway and President Hayes as to
the President's recent statements to the
Rev. General on the subject of the negro
exodus. Sad as it may appear, we are
inevitably forced to the conclusion that
either the President or the Rev. General
has—misrepresented the facts. Mr. Hayes
denies that he promised government aid
or encouragement to the movement, or
that he ever expressed any opinion on the
subject. Meanwhile the Rev. General
Conway continues to ‘lecture’ on the
subject with as much assurance as if he
really had the President’s indorsement,
and affects to regard himself as a martyr
to the cause, simply because some of the
newspapers accept the President’s state
ment in preference to his own.”
“What is the mean temperature, to
day?" asked one perspiring citizen oi
another yesterday. 'Well, I really can't
say,” was the reply, “but it’s certainly
very mean. ” The mien of the questioner
showed he had doubts as to what the
other might mean.
Waiter Trevalyan, the late English ad
vocate of temperance, -silled his $2i),OUO
stock of wine to the Royal Society, for
scientific purposes.