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Geonria Affairs.
\ letter from Perkins Junction Informs
that after a drought of several weeks
‘ , ’have fallen in that locality, and
crop5 are all looking well
James Everett, locomotive engineer on
Western ami Atlantic Railroad, was
ht to Atlanta on Monday night in a
tate = of insanity. He left that morning in
charge of bis engine attached to a freight
but when near Adairsville his fireman
discovered that he was out of his mind. It
singular fact that the engineer for
whom Everett used to be fireman is now in
the Iusanc Asylum. Another engineer on
lhl8 road became insane a few years ago,
but died soon after.
Our Atlanta correspondent writes us that
Bishop Beckwith, Rev. Dr. Tucker, Dr. J.
y Logan and Dr. V. H. Taliaferro, all emi
nent scientists, have succeeded in waking
op
the “City Fathers” of Atlanta to vigor-
oUS efforts to protect the health of that
The “Tree of Heaven” is to be cut
, and efficient Board of Health
one hundred dollars
city-
down, a new|
established, one hundred dollars per
mouth expended in disinfecting the streets,
sewer traps are to be put in, old sewers Im
proved and new ones built, strict sani
tary police regulations enforced, and
other means resorted to for the purpose of
siviug Atlanta from epidemic diseases.
This work has been demanded by impend
ing dangers.
But one idle negro In Talbotton. Good.
A letter fiom Mr. V. H. Brown, at Ogee-
chee incloses us some five cotton blooms,
the first he has heard of in that neighbor
hood. He reports crops generally as good,
though about two weeks latter than last
vear. Most of the planters are plowing corn
for the last time, aud will soon have nothing
to do but look after King Cotton. They are
all in hope of getting better prices next fall.
Damaging rains fell in the southeastern
portion of Talbot county on Monday, the
‘.nh, doing much damage to ditches, fences
and to the growing crops.
Mr. John Treanor, an old citizen of Mil-
ledgeville, and who had resided in that city
for forty years, died there last Thursday
night. He was a merchant, and was at one
time interested in a commercial house in
this city.
Tne blackberry crop in the neighborhood
of M.illefigerllle is a lallure, and the average
darkey there is iu despair.
Xollie Jackson, a young colored girl of
Columbus, drowned herself in the Chatta
hoochee, from the foot of St. Clair street,
Monday morning. The cause of the rash
act is unknowu, but it is thought the
Corouer's investigation will furnish a clue
thereto.
Dr. 11.1*. liidon, of Forsyth, is in favor of
building a second institution for the Insane
in the northern part of the State. lie will
present the matter at the next meeting of
the Legislature. ^
The Home Courier is pained to learn of
the death of Col. N. J. Bayard, a former
citizen of that city, at his late home in
Maltiand, Fla. According to the Courier his
age was some eighty years, and seldom has
there been so long a life so well filled with
good works as was his. lie moved to Rome
from Savannah about the year 1850, was for
many years agent for the Planters’ Bank of
tarumah, was always a leading spirit in
pebiic enterprises, and especially active in
the navigation of the Coosa. He was a
most exemplar? Christian, and one of the
main pillars in the Presbyterian Church. In
generosity to all charitable objects and be
nevolent enterprises he had few equals.
A special from Atlauts to the Augusta
Atuu, dated Tuesday, says that the passen
ger train on the Air-Lice Road, which left
there Monday afternoon, ran over a man,
supposed to be McCall, a lunatic, near
King’s Mountain, in South Carolina, about
2 o’clock that morning. His throat was cut,
and it is supposed that he wa9 murdered
and then placed upon the track.
It may be a matter of surprise to many to
lcr-:> that orange trees are propagated in
Augusta and sent to Florida orange groves.
Yet, says the Augusta Aem, “Mr. Berck-
m&ns, out at his Georgia Nursery, is con
stantly shipping young trees to Florida.
This may be termed an instance of “ship
ping coals to Newcastle.”
The Sandersville Courier wants a special
law for tramps. It reasons that seveml.of
the States have enacted very stringent tramp
laws, and Georgia should follow suit. It
is true, it says, that we have vagrant laws,
and tramps are certainly vagrants, but it is
often difficult to make out a case against
them, as the law now stands. The law on
vagrancy should either be amended or a
special act should bo passed to suit this
class of vagrants. L nless there is stringent
legislation on this subject, the whole State
*111 he hooded with these worthless vaga
bonds, who prefer to live by begging aud
stealing rather thau labjr for an honest
living. The subject should engage the at
tention of the Legislature at one.
The annual distribution of prizes by the
^iety for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, to drivers who have taken good
care of their horses or mules during the past
year, took place in front of the City Hall,
Augusta, yesterday afternoon &t five o’clock.
Forty-stven prizes were distributed as fol-
l°w« ; Fifteen to drivers owning their horses,
twenty-seven to drivers not owning their
teams, and live to drivers for discontinuing
Hie use of the check rein on horses.
Talbotton Register: “Mr. J. B. Gorman
has been presented by a prominent and in
fluential citizen of Cartersviile, the most
valuable and interesting cabinet of Georgia
jhinerald ever collected in the State, except
specimens presented by the Hon. D. W.
• Peacock to the Smithsonian Institute at
Washington. Among this beautiful collec-
°u Georgia ores and minerals are speci
mens of gold, hematite ores, ferromanga-
mica, stone coal, colored variegated
™ &r tde, lead ore, gray iron ore from Bartow
uuty, /. nk, asbestos, needle irou ore from
vj^rtvffle, garnet from Paulding county,
hhk oxide of copper from Habersham
ounty, baryta for adulterating lead, roof-
& * , ate aiu * other specimens, which re
quired years or’ care and labor to collect.”
Colonel Frobel says it is 138 mile* by the
hattatiooehee river from the Western and
Auantic Railroad bridge to West Point, and
r>, eDtv •’b miles to Columbus. A four foot-
^»anne!, he thinks, can be arranged easier
. a , n ,! n ' st people think. Georgia, Alabama
Lav - ,ri '? a are equally interested, and they
ta H e 81x Senators and twenty-two Represeu-
0*f. He thinks they ought to get $100,-
Ir °tQ Congress next December, when
enveranff harbor bill is perfected. He
Un Care ( u:iy examined 30 mile* of the dia-
ce - He urges the people to take action
824 Ket up petitions.
M*//' ?* GTosland, wr.ting to the Albany
says that 1 here seems to be an or-
♦v band of sheep thieves operating in
Western portion of Dougherty and in
lirni h I 11 ' 1 ‘ VIlte hell counties. Mr. Cros-
off 0 u ite a number of sheep driven
' aiul been utterly unable to find
L: . a „ l , r;lCe of them. He says if lb y had
Cf-rt.i i » by dogs, or by disease, he could
hm n - v ,J ;av e found their carcases or their
U, ^ He says that Mr. Frazer, of Mitch-
i ' ^ lost In the same way 275; Mr.
8m-, r f \ bout SW: Mr. Jenkins, 200; Mr.
< ab °ut 100; Mr. Land, 15»; General
and °!k orhisson ’ 250; Mr. Eiswald, 100,
W , . * 1 mounting to thousands. The
sWra* lu J ;x P lica ble, and no trace of the
}/ ° r * le Sieves can be found.”
w ild land investigation now
•ciu- ei ‘ slr '^ Atlanta, the Dispatch of that
: “ ^ w <*k r-f the Wild Land
dailv teidioag, and a report of the
j details uninteresting to the public,
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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
fr t L e ,l„ t n“ t 'n eV K° to show the numberless
oeor e ‘ ?i aTe i een Perpetrated upon th.e
people of Georgia. The committee are
“ work and no time is being wasted.
hey meet early in the morning, work until
untn e slT &n e’‘i tte t dI ^ n . er resume their labors
thnronJh ° c } oc ^' Tlle Investigations are
thorough and minute, and when ready to
report t° the Legislature will show the
SSPJOW ° f <lollars the State has
been swindled out of, into whose hands it
has gone, and why it is retained. It is a
>e undertaking, and probably some of
the mud-sill facta will never be reached. If
were to cloee their labors
hey have done enough to forever
merit the support and good will of their
constituents, for they have traced the
!u!’n" e L”; 0 certain parties’ hands,
and wl.l be able to show the State where it
“Last Saturday morning about seven
o clock, writes a correspondent of the
Thomasvllle Enicrprix, “Mr. B. H. Wlther-
Ington, an old citizen of this county, who
“VC? near tlle railroad, seven miles west of
Boston, was run over by the tie train and
it Aill? 11 the following circumstances :
Mr. \\ uaerlngton bad occasion to cross the
railroad about the time that the train passed,
&& a part of his farm is on the opposide side*
to where he lives. There being an up grade
in the road over which the engine could not
carry the train, it was forced to back to
replenish steam sufficient. Mr. W was
seen crossing the field in the di
rection of the road, and being
near the track thought, perhaps, that he
could cross before the cars reached that
point, and endeavoriug to do so was struck
by the cab and hurled to the track. In fall
ing he was caught by the wheels and both
feet and one arm were completely severed
from the body and the bowels tom out and
scattered on the road bed. This is quite an
unfortunate affair, but no one can be
blamed for it, as the engineer, in conse
quence of the train going backward, did not
see him, and could not have given any warn
ing had he seen him, because of the short
ness of the time that the deceased was on
the track.”
The Griffin News says: “It was gravely
stated a few weeks ago In the Covington
papers that a citizen of Newton county had
fallen heir to *80,000,000 by the demise of a
kinsman in England. It now transpires
that two families in this city are heirs of
the deceased millionaire, who died child
less and, as far as known, Intestate. The
Griffin heirs have engaged the legal services
of a prominent law firm in this city who are
in correspondence with Hon. Judah P. Ben
jamin in reference to the matter. Our
friends are certaiu of getting the
English ducats, and have already
assumed the airs of the bondholder,
aud are looking around for suitable
investments. In the most friendly manner
we suggest to these buoyant heirs to keep
cool. While we have little doubt that the
wealth is lying over In England waiting their
claim, still our own experience with several
princely fortunes we have received from
Englaud in the same way, reminds us to re
mark that it is sometimes w’eeks and mouths
before American heirs come into its posses
sion. John Bull has such an aversion to
seeing British coin carted away by Yankees
that he rigidly scrutinizes their claims. We
hope to see a part of that *80,000,000 in
Griffin yet.”
Milledgeville Union and Jiecorder: “We
shall al ways .feel that the removal of the
capital by the military in the first instance
was a usurpation of power, an injury to the
8tate, and an injustice to the people of
Milledgeville. Against the subsequent se
lection of Atlanta as the capital, by a vote
of the people, we have no word of com
plaint, although we do not believe it was the
desire of a majority of the tax payers. That
question is settled, but the fact remains that
some sort of remuneration is due to the citi
zens of Milledgeville, who bought property
here with the pledge of the State that Mil
ledgeville should remain the capital. We,
however, place our claims for the utiliza
tion, for the educational purposes, of the
valuable property located here, upon more
general aud higher grounds, viz: the
public good. It must be plain to any man
who has been honored with a seat in the
General Assembly that intermediate schools,
feeders to our universities, and a higher
business education than that afforded by our
common schools, to those who cannot at
tend the universities, is demanded in our
educational system. The idle public prop
erty here offers facilities such as no people
ever possessed before for the establishment
of 6uch a school. We cannot believe our
representatives will neglect such an oppor
tunity and leave the public buildings here
to go to decay. The memories of the past
and the hopes of the future alike demand a
liberal aud enlightened consideration of the
subject.”
Colonel John T. Grant and Colonel Charles
A. Nutting, who were the securities on the
first bond given by Captain John Jones as
Treasurer of the State during Governor
Smith’s administration, and against whom
a jury rendered a verdict for $92,500 a short
time since in Fulton Superior Court, will
apply to the Legislature to be relieved from
their liability on the bond, on the ground
that the bond was given as a temporary
bond, and so received by Governor Smith.
They have issued a circular to members of
the Legislature, in which they set forth two
bonds given by John Jones as Treasurer-
one signed by Grant and Nutting as security,
and another 6igued by John A. Jones, A. R.
Jones, 8eaborn Jones, Batt Jones, Henry L.
Beuniug, James W. Russell and J. D. Wad
dell as security. They state in this circular
that they proposed to prove during the trial
that the bond they signed was given as a
temporary bond and that the second one
was a permanent bond.
TO THE NORTH POLE.
The Jeannette Ready for the Ben
nett Arctic Expedition.
San Francisco OaU, June 8.
Lieut. George W. De Long, U. S. N.,
who is in command of the Bennett Arctic
expedition, arrived at the Palace yester
day morning. He stated to a representa
tive of the Call last evening that the
Jeannette was nearly ready for sea, and
he hoped to get away by the 20th of the
present month. He expressed himself
as being somewhat in doubt as to the
passage through Behring’s straits of Prof.
Nordenskjold in the Vega. He hopes that
the cablegrams to that effect are cor
rect, but fears they are not. Capt. Bar
ker, a resident of this city, who was
wrecked on East Cape in the fall of 1875,
and remained among the natives duriDg
the winter, says that in February of each
year the ice moves to the northward
from the shore. Taking this view Lieut.
De Long thinks that Nordenskjold may
have succeeded in getting out as report
ed. James Gordon Bennett will proba
bly not come out here prior to the sailing
of the Jeannette. The Navy Depart
ment has not as yet designated any ves
i-el as a convoy to the expedition, but it
is probable that the Alaska will be select
ed for that purpose. J. C. Morrison, of
New York, has brought out most of tbe
crew and there now remains but seven
men to be selected for the expedition.
The pay for seamen is $25 per month
for firemen $30 per month The
following named have been already en
rolled and signed the articles for the ex
pedition : W m. Dunbar, ice pdot, a na
tive of New London, Connecticut; >\ al-
ter Low, machinist ; Herbert Uzch, of
Boston, seaman; August Goertz, of the
North of Germany, seaman; G W.
Boyd, an American, coal Adolph
D.urien, of Berlin, seaman; Henry Wil
son, a Swede, seaman; P. E. Johnson, a
Swede, seaman; Edward Storr, a
German, seaman; John Londerbock a
German, coal passer ; L. Menir, an Ameri
can seaman. The Jeannette is pro
nounced to be in superb condition, and
Lieut. De Long looks forward with con-
tidence to a successful result to the expe
dition.
Scenery from Pn£ *’ 8 . P ^Lr l
in it upon the summit of Pikes leak,
nearly throe miles above the level of the
sea, and at the highest point of human
habitation on the globe m the gray
dawn of the morning, wa . tc n h f in #
nearanee of the great orb of light as it
riLs above the horizon emitting its bright
aud golden rays u P°. n jlU™ e2£
and plains, is one of the grandest scenes
in the whole book of naturewh'chcan
not fall to charm and fasemate the he
holder Thunder storms on the peak aro
alarmingly terrific. The atmosphere is
Kv charged with electricity, and at
times y the whole mountain h>p appeare
like one immense sheet of flame, fhe
supplies for the station, consisting of
^Bout three thousand pounds ofpro
visions and family stores, also twei»ty-
-m^tUaM
footed donkey in loads of about two
“TdeUrorod r^ station. Truy
Times.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELE0RAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Status of the Legislative Appro
priation Bill.
EMBARRASSMENT OF A BOSTON
COTTON HOUSE.
Italian Villages Destroyed by Earth-
quakes.
miMcellanecu* Newi Items.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, June 18.—In tbe Senate,
the Mississippi river improvement commis
sion bill was taken up.
The Mississippi river improvement com
mission bill was passed with the Senate
amendments providing that the commission
shall consist of seven members, three from
the engineer corps, one from the coast and
geodetic survey and three from civil life.
Two of the latter are to be civil engineers.
Messrs. Chandler, Platt. Morrill and Sauls-
bury were tbe only Senators who voted nay,
The army appropriation bill was taken up,
the pending question being on Mr. Blaine’s
amendment prohibiting all carrying of arms
to the polls at Congressional elections.
Mr. Beck resumed reading documents to
show that there was military interference at
the polls in Kentucky in 1805, and went on
to denounce the law under which the out
rages were possible. A long, desultory and
unimportant debate followed, in which sub
jects were discussed as remote from the
pending bill as Southern school books, the
behavior of Indiana troops in the Mexi
can war and the attitude of New England
with reference to the admission of Texas.
At 9:30 the Senate was still in session, the
Republicans absenting themselves to prevent
a quorum, and no prospect of adjournment.
The House resumed in the morning hour
the consideration of the bill prohibiting
political assessments. Mr. Hostetter, of
Itidiana, who has charge of the bill, insisted
on the previous question, as the Republicans
declined to fix any time for action on the
bill before next January. The Republicans
declined to vote, thus leaving the House
without a quorum.
The morning hour having expired, the bill
went over without action.
Mr. McMahon, from the Appropriations
Committee, reported back the judicial ex
penses bill with the Senate amendments, and
on his motion amendments Nos. 2 and 3
(verbal) were concurred in, and amendment
No. I (excepting from the bill 3732 of the
Revised Statutes) non concurred in.
Mr. Atkins, of Tennessee, submitted the
conference report on the legislative bill,
which was agreed to.
A debate ensued ou tbe bill reported by
Mr. Stephens from the Coinage Committee,
Mr. Morton, of New York, making a long
speech in opposition thereto.
Mr. Fort, of Illinois, the original intro
ducer of the bill, spoke in favor of it. The
bill finally went over until to-morrow, when
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, will close the de
bate. Adjourned.
THE LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATION BILL.
Washington, June 18.—The committee
of conference on the legislative appropria
tion bill reached an agreement this morning,
and their recommendations will doubtless
be adopted by both houses to-day. The
principal motion in controversy was the
House amendment making an allowance of
$125 for each Representative and Senator for
stationery used or commuted during the
present extra session. The House conferees
receded from this amendmeut. They also
recommend concurrence by the House iu the
Senate amendment striking out the section
concerning the payment of tbe claims of
laborers under the District of Columbia
Board of Public Works.
BOSTON COTTON FIRM INVOLVED.
Boston, June 18.—The Herald says: “B.
R. Smith A Co. y cotton dealers, 21 Central
street, lu this city, are involved in the
affairs of B. R. Smith & Co., cotton dealers,
of New York, whose failure was reported
yesterday. Each firm consists of three
partners, but E. R. Smith and J. M. Smith
are members of both concerns, so that the
two houses are very intimately connected,
being In fact generally regarded as one. The
Boston house is as yet without auy definite
knowledge as to the amount of the liabili
ties, as they were nearly all contracted in
New York. It is thought, however, they
will not aggregate one hundred thousaud
dollars.”
DIED—ACQUITTED.
New York, June 18.—Washington Dur-
brow, one of the oldest merchants on the
Cotton Exchange, died yesterday.
Iu the trial of Commissioner Hayt and
other officers of th^ International Trust
Company, on the charge of publishing aud
circulating false statements in reference to
its assets, the jury returned a verdict of ac
quittal.
villages destroyed by an earthquake.
Rome, June 18.—There was a violent
earthquake yesterday near the town of Act,
in Sicily, seven miles east of Catania. Five
villages in the vicinity are almost wholly
destroyed. Ten pereous were killed aud
several injured. The inhabitants of the dis
trict are lleeing cn masse.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
Washington, June 18.—The Senate
Democratic caucus met, and, ou motion of
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, adjourned without de
bate subject to the call of the Chairman.
FAILED.
London, June 18.—Matthew Dickie, trad
ing as Bowles & Co., cotton spinner at
Stockton, has failed. Liabilities, £61,000.
liVEN1NG TELEGRAMS,
YOUNG MEN’S NATIONAL CATH
OLIC UNION.
The Louisiana Constitutional Con-
. volition.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF AN
ALABAMIAN.
The Great Walking Match.
Minor Matters.
THE YOUNG men’s NATIONAL CATHOLIC
UNION.
Richmond, June IS.—The Catholic Young
Men’s National Union met here to-day in its
fifth annual convention. Before proceeding
to business, the delegates attended divine
service at St. Peter’s Cathedral, where sol
emn high mass was celebrated by Rev. F.
Jausseus, Vicar General of the diocese.
Right Rev. Bishop Reang deliv
ered an eloquent address, iu the
course of which he extended a hearty wel
come to the visitors on behalf of the Catho
lics aud the State. After divine sendees
the delegates proceeded to Cathedral Hail,
where the convention was called to order by
the National Secretary, Juan A. Pizzini, of
this city. All the presiding officers being
absent, Chairman pro tem. Jas. E. McKen-
ny, President of McGill Lyceum, at Rich-
m<K)d, was introduced and welcomed the
stSngere lu brief but cordial terms to the
hospitalities of the city. After the appoint
ment of various committees and other pre
liminary business, the convention adjourned
till to-morrow morning.
The members of the convention are the
special guests of the McGill Lyceum, aud
are being handsomely entertained this after
noon. They visited numerous places of In
terest in carriages, and to night will attend
a complimentary concert at Mozart Hall.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., June 18.—Indications
for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, northeast
winds, slightly cooler, partly cloudy weather,
occasional rains, stationary or falling ba
rometer.
In the East Gulf States, northerly winds,
stationary temperature, partly cloudy
weather and falling barometer.
For the West Gulf States, warmer south
erly winds, falling barometer, partly cloudy
weather and o<«ca8ional rains.
For Tennessee aud the Ohio valley, fall
ing barometer, northeast to southeast winds,
partly cloudy and warmer weather.
For the Middle Atlantic States, diminish
ing northerly, followed by variable winds,
warmer and partly cloudy weather, with
falling barometer.
attempted suicide.
Cincinnati, June 18.—A special dispatch
gays: “E. A. White, sixty years of age, a
wealthy planter from near Selma, Alabama,
attempted to commit suicide at Evansville,
Indiana, yesterday. He had married a
young wife, who recently eloped with an
other man. White came Noyth with his body
servant, inteudifig to secure a honje away
from tbe scene of his disgrace, and becom
ing despondent, he seized a razor and cut a
gash in his throat before bis servant could
6tay his hand. He was removed to the hos
pital, where he tore the bandages from bis
wound, and now lies in a critical condition.
LOUISIANA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
New Orleans, June 18.—In the Constitu
tional Convention to-day the reports pre
sented by the committee on the State debt
were recommitted. Several petitions on the
subject were referred to the same com
mittee.
Sections of the ordinance regulating taxa
tion were adopted. Section three provides
that the taxing power shall only be
exercised to carry on and maintain
the State government and public institutions,
to educate the children of the 8tate, to
pay the principal and interest of the public
debt, suppress insurrectiou, repel invasion,
or defend the State in time of war, to sup
ply the citizens of the State who lost a limb
or limbs in the military service of the Con
federate States with substantial artificial
limb6 during life, and to levee purposes.
THE GREAT WALKING MATCH.
London, June 18.—At 4 o’clock this after
noon the scores of the pedestrians were :
Brown 281 miles, Weston 271, Ennis 180,
Harding 109. There is every reason to ex
pect a close race between Brown and Wes
ton. The latter has astonished everybody
by his performance thus far. He looks
fresh, and is confident of winning.
MEASURES TO RKDRES9 AN OUTRAGE TO A
SPANISH VESSEL.
Madrid, June 18.—The government has
ordered energetic measures to obtain satis
faction from San Domingo for the outrage
of the Spanish flag in the arrest last winter
aud the subsequent execution of two in
surgent Dominican Generals, who had taken
refuge on board the Spanish vessel at Puerto
Plata.
A SPANI9H VESSEL FINED FOR DEFYING
CU9TOM HOUSE OFFICIALS.
Pensacola, Fla., June 18.—The United
States school ship Wachussett, has arrived.
The Spanish brig Dilageute, whose master
defied the custom house officials and was
brought to order by the revenue cutter, has
been fined five hundred dollars.
EVADING THE QUARANTINE.
Havana, June 18.—Among the vessels be
ing cut out of the regular Gulf ports by
quarantine, are four Spanish steamers which
have gone to 8t. Andrew’s Bay, and are now
loading cattle. It is thought that the reve
nue cutter will leave to-day to rectify the
matter.
MISS ELLEN CUMMINS.
Iler l*re»eiit Pitiable Condition.
A Philadelphia spocial to tbe Chicago
Tribune, under date of the 15th inst.
says: “Ever since the shooting of Por
ter aud Barrymore, in Texas, Miss Ellen
Cummins, the actress in defense of whose
good name these gentlemen suffered, has
been in a bad way from nervous prostra
tion, and her condition two weeks ago
was such that even her physicians had
little hop<yof her recovery. It was pub
lished in tbe Dramatic News last week
that she was penniless, and by this means
John McCullough and JohnT. Raymond
learned that she needed assistance. Al
though her financial affairs were not at
such" a terribly low ebb as repre
sented by the publication in the News,
Mr. Raymond telegraphed at once that
he was willing and ready to assist her.
To day Mr. McCullough stepped into
the Continental Hotel, where he has been
stopping for nearly a month, and left
word that she should not be called upon
to pay any bills, but should have every
attention. He also shouldered her doc
tor’s bill, w hich has assumed big propor
tions. Miss Cummius will not go to
Texas to testify at tbe trial of Currie,
which begins next week. Her physi
cians advise her that to do so would be at
tbe cost of her own life. Although uearly
six months have elapsed since the affray,
of which she was the unwilling witness,
and Porter the victim, she has not since
that time had one night of uninterrupted
sleep. No sooner does she close her eyes
than the most terrible dreams assail her.
In these nightmares despair at being un
able to escape from some threatening
pistol or the bodies of half a dozen peo
ple bathed in blood are the prominent
and horrible features. Frequently at
night she springs screaming from her
bed, aud, still sleeping from very ex
haustion, rushes through her room until
wakened by her attendant. Unless she
is much better her physicians will strictly
prohibit her going to Marshall at all.
Excitement on a French Race
Course.—A performance not in the pro
gramme claimed attention at the races
at Auteuil, near Paris, France, Monday.
The great steeplechase race gained addi
tional interest by tbe presence of several
English horses, one of them being
Jackal, said to be tbe property of tbe
Prince of Wales, though entered in
friend’s name. Prince and Princess
were present, with Lord Beresford and
other English and French notabilities,
and the concourse of spectators was an
immense one. Wild Monarch, owned
by tbe Marquis de St. Sauveurs, gal
loped in the winner, though the race
itself wa9 little heeded, owing to a fire
breaking out on one of the grand stands.
A little puff of smoke appeared just at
the critical point of tbe race, aud tbe
fire spread so rapidly that ii was with
the greatest difficulty that the spectators
escaped, several being trampled upon
and senousiy injured, though fortunately
no lives were lost. The stand was con
sumed. Amid the horror and confusion
the race came to an end entirely un
noticed.
A Monstrous Conspiracy.—MriJ
Louisa Pierce, a white lady, was ar
rested near Raleigh, N. C., Friday,
charged on the oath of three colored per
sons with having murdered her two in
fant children by burning their bodies in
the fire-place of her house. On the ex |
animation it was shown that the bodies
of the twins, which were born dead, were
not interred for three weeks after birth
on account of the reports in the neigh
borhood that Mrs. Pierce had destroyed
them. The whole story wa9 a monstrous
conspiracy. The defendant was dis{
charged, and three of the witnesses
against her were sent before the grand
jury to answer charges of conspiracy and
perjury. Mrs. Pierce is a Northern
woman, who came South a few years ago
and married Wm. E. Pierce, a respecta
ble citizen. No motive for this conspi
racy against her can l>e imagined,further
tli in that it is said some of the negroes
concerned were known to dislike her.
A most unique trial of skill is to take
place in Philadelphia this month. A
worthy Episcopalian has given three
hundred dollars, which is to be spent in
prizes to be given to the young students
of divinity who can do the best
reading either of the services
of the church or the scriptures. Stu
dents from five of the seminaries will
compete for the prizes. Nine gentlemen
are to sit as an examining board, and
with this select congregation before them
tbe young orators are to exhibit their
gifts and graces.
Domestic Geometry.—There is one
poor boarding house keeper who is going
to lie just perfectly miserable for the
next week at least. She has a new set
of servants, and green servants are such
a vexation ! They haven’t the faintest
idea of geometry, and it takes the aver
age landlady at least a week's careful
drilling to teach them how to arrange
the tablecloth in such a scientific manner
that the holes will be under the butter
dish, the caster and the coffee-urn.—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A REMARKABLE TRIAL.
The Hill-SimmoDi Harder Case —
Character of Female Witaaasea— A
Large Number of ^tarried Neo
Brought Forward—Startling De
velopment* — Improbable State
ments and Flat Contradiction*—
Prisoner’* Statement—Final Para
graph*.
The British peers who are at present
owners of race horses, and who take an
active interest in horse racing, are the
Dukes of Westminster and Hamilton,
the Marquis of Hartington, the Earls of
Falmouth, Rosebery, Wilton, Rosslyn,
Cork, Fitzwilliam, Sefton, Strathmore,
Viscount Dupplin and Lord Vivian. In
1864 the Jockey Club had as members
twenty privy councillors, of whom seven
were Cabinet Ministers and two had been
twice Prime Ministers, Derby and Pal
merston.
Two Jews, the first ever sent there, are
at the Quebec prison of St Vincent de
Paul. The officials were at a loss how
to provide for their spiritual wants, and,
says the Montreal Gazette, “to settlp the
matter they were given the choice of em
bracing tbe Prote>tant or Roman Catho
lic faith. After a little consideration they
decided to attend the former chapel.”
Special Corresponaence of the Mominq News.
Atlanta, June 17.—On Wednesday of
last week the trial of Samuel H. Hill was
commenced, and on Saturday night the evi
dence was announced as “all in” by both
the prosecution and the defense.
A more remarkable case was never before
a jury In this country, and during the pro
gress of the trial the court room was densely
packed with spectators. The crime itself,
the disreputable character of the female
witnesses, and tbe large number of married
men involved with them, made the rush of
spectators a very mixed crowd.
THE PARTIES INVOLVED.
All the parties immediately connected
with the affair were from the middle classes
of society. Job.n R. Simmons kept a drug
store out on Decatur street, was a popular
young fellow with the “boys,” being a fire
man, an Odd Fellow, a Red Man, and a
member of the Atlanta Cadets. He was
also quite popular with the ladies in his cir
cle of society, and with women of a loose
character.
Samuel H. Hill is some thirty-five years
old, was formeily in the employ of the
Southern Express Company, but the last
few years sold ice and fish, aud then visited
fairs with a “wheel of fortune.” He was in
the latter employment when his family
trouble broke upon him. His brother
Mayor of Chattanooga, and he has some
very respectable connections, although he
seems not to have brought himself up to
their standard in his course of life during
the past few years. Nothing, however, was
shown against him in the evidence produced
other than his connection with a “wheel of
fortune.”
Some five years ago Hill married Miss
Toccoa Spinks, a pretty and well grown
girl of fifteen, with the consent of her par
ents. The father works in the Air Line
Railroad yard, and Is a plain, honest man
who has been careful in the rearing of his
family, as the girls are rather attractive
appearance and manners. Hill and his wife
boarded with the family until last summer,
at which time he went to housekeeping.
Soon after this he began to visit fairs, going
te Newnan, Macon, Brunswick, Balnbridge
and to Florida. During these absences he
seems to think that Simmons seduced his
wife and destroyed the sanctity of his
home. For this, on the 31st of January, he
shot Simmons in the barroom of the Na
tional Hotel. Up to that time I had never
seen or heard of either party, or of the im
pending difficulty. 1 reached the spot very
soon after the shooting, and saw that Sim
mons was dying, aud that he could not
make any statement of the affair.
THE PROSECUTION.
The State simply proved the killing of
Simmons by Hill, and then rested their case.
Later on, in rebuttal of evidence for the de
fense, the Solicitor General introduced wit
nesses to show that Mrs. Hill was leading a
bad life before Simmons made her ac
quaintance, and therefore Hill was not jus
tified in killing him.
By women of ill fame and by respectable
married men who associated with them at
certain places, it was shown that Mrs. Hill,
from November to January last, visited dis
reputable places in company with these
women and men, and passed under the name
of Miss Effie Etheridge. In many respects,
however, her conduct was more guarded
than that of the other women.
It was also proved by women of ill fame
that Mrs. Hill said she was seduced two
years ago by a photographer on Whitehall
street, and that 6he was frequently at se
cluded places or houses of assignation with
other men than John R. Simmons. Tbe
spectators were astounded at the exposures
of her conduct made by these witnesses,
and many times during the progress of the
testimony there was intense excitement in
the court room.
THE DEFENSE.
Some of the statements of the witnesses
against Mrs. Hill were discredited and oth
ers weakened, but much remains nncontra-
dicted. It is too evident that she was for a
time leading, although rather secretly,
“fast life.” A married brother of Simmons
was also in the crowd she associated with.
But the evidence of all witnesses clearly
proved that John R. Simmons was the cen
tral figure in the events that aroused the
Injured husband to avenge the wrong done
him through his trusted and idolized wife.
It was with John R. Simmons that she left
her husband’s house, as she supposed, for
ever, on a Saturday night, and went with
him to a house of ill-fame and took rooms.
It was Simmons who, on the next Monday,
when search was made for her, sent her
back to her husband.
But this was not the last feather that
broke the camel’s back. Hill, believing his
wife’6 story, and loving her more than his
life, forgave her, and again made her in
the eyes of the law a virtuous woman. Her
parents having moved some eight miles into
the country, Mrs. Hill went out to visit
them for a few weeks, and while there Sim
mons again attempted to obtain control of
her. After riding by the house thrice with
out success, he at a later period sent her i
note by a negro boy. Mrs. Hill at once
wrote to her husband in Atlanta, and he
quickened his efforts to find the man who
was thus pursuing his wife.
THE KILLING.
It was proved that Rill did not know Sim
mons, that he even spoke to him in his own
store, and was told that he was in New
York. As Simmons knew Rill he was able
in this manner to mislead and avoid him.
Having been warned that Hill was in search
of him to kill him, he replied that he was
“fixed for him,” and appeared careless of
the result of a meeting.
Up to this time Hill bad never suspicioned
his wife, and he accepted her statement in
regard to Simmons. In addition, he did
know that it was through Simmons that his
wife had been returned. He also knew that
after he had condcftied her offense and put
her in a virtuous home in the country, it
was Simmons who attempted to seduce her
from that home. In the eye of the law he
saw full justification for killing the man on
sight.
Friends testified to his efforts to identify
Simmons, and to his distracted and excited
manner while making the prolonged search.
Finally, on the 31st of January, he found
Simmons alone in the bar room of the Nation
al Hotel taking a drink, and fired upon him, a
single ball entering qnder the no6e, produc
ing death in a few hours. Hill walked out
on the street and surrendered himself to the
police, simply announcing that he had killed
the distroyer of his home.
TERRIBLE REVELATIONS.
Every female witness (some half dozen
or more) was shown to be a woman of bad
character, although but few of them had
been publicly recognized as such. It was
proved by their own testimony that they
had at different times lived in respectable
neighborhoods in all parts of the city, and
associated with respectable families, there
by endangering, and, in some instances,
ruining the characters of virtuous female
associates. It was shown, also, that some
of these more reputable women were vile
procuresses, preying upon weak minded
wives and widows and young girls, and
leading them astray. As Judge Hillyer sor
rowfully remarked, it opens up a fruitful
field for the next grand jury to cultivate.
Nor was this all. Married men of re
spectable standing, with grown or growing
families, unblushiugly testified to their fre
quent association with these vile women at
disreputable places. Mechanics, whose
families are compelled to economise in
their household expenditures, testified that
they freely spent money on these women
for carriages, wines, balls and other luxu
ries. One of these married men was a
brother of John R. Simmons, and with him
and a disreputable woman, Mrs. Hill, closely
veiled, and under the name of Miss Effie
Etheredge, went in a carriage to a ball at
the West End Brewery, attended only by
females of bad character. But very few
unmarried men were brought to notice by the
trial, and intense excitement followed the
presentation of such a large array of mar
ried men; and the other fact, more impor
tant and dangerous, that the vile women
unearthed by their testimony, can rent
rooms or houses—or have done so—in any
respectable portion of Atlanta. Hereafter,
however, it is hoped they will be “spotted”
by the neighbors, who will have this trial
to give them warning against such danger
ous females.
THE ARGUMENTS OF COUNSEL.
The prisoner was furnished able counsel
by his brothers and other influential rela
tives, and had his case conducted with mark
ed skill. Solicitor General B. H. IIU1, Jr.,
was also furnished several assistants by the
father and brothers of the deceased. Both
sides, therefore, exhausted every resource
before finally closing the testimony. There
was a good deal of rebutting and sur-rebut-
ting, until Saturday night brought an end to
tpe testimony that grew viler and viler, and
more false, as it progressed.
Monday morning J. B. Goodwin, Esq.,
opened the argument for the prosecution,
Mid spake nearly three hours, followed by
Col. Tom Glenn, for the defense, in a speech
of still greater length and ability. Hoke
Smith, Esq., replied for the prosecution,
with vigor and plainness, and was several
times interrupted by the prisoner, who has
grown more and more excited as the trial
has progressed. Wm. Bray, Esq., is now
speaking for the defense, to be followed by
General L. J. Gartrell, who will make a
grand effort for the prisoner. Judge Hop
kins anti Judge Wright will not speak. So
licitor General B. IL Hill, Jr., will close the
argument with a powerful speech for the
prosecution. It is doubtful whether the case
will get to the jury before to-morrow morn
ing. Public opinion anticipates a speedy
verdict of “Not guilty,” although the pris
oner has been prosecuted with relentless
vigor and unusual ability.
THE PRISONER’S WIFE.
The central figure in this most exciting
trial has been the young wife of the pris
oner. Except when certain testimony unfit
for ladles to hear was being given, Mrs.
Hill was at her husband’s side. He always
met and parted with her by kissing her m
an affectionate manner.
No testimony offered against her has
shaken his faith in her story to him, and he
repeatedly told his counsel to let him be
hung if by so doing his wife’s honor could
be vindicated. “Save her,” he said, “and
let me perish.” She is not very handsome
in face, but has a tall, graceful figure, and
is a most fascinating young woman. In
court she kept closely and heavily veiled,
and was dressed with rare modesty and
good taste. Her mother, who is hardly
forty years old, was with her some of the
time, and was dressed in deep mourning.
A singular feature of the case is the tes
timony that for two months before she left
her husband’s house, Mrs. Hill, as Miss
Effie Etheridge, was going to disreputable
balls at the West End, and to other bad
places with loose characters. And yet the
best people in her neighborhood came npou
the stand and swore to her “good character”
—(it should have been reputation) up to the
time that her husband shot Simmons. Some
few, however, had heard of her leaving
home and coming back again. In New
York such a thing would not be remarkable,
but in a city of the size of Atlanta it seems
wonderful that such could have been tbe
case. Gossip, the result of this trial, says
such things are of frequent occurrence here.
Near neighbors do not know it, but parties
in other portions of the city have oppor
tunities to observe them.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Notorious John E. Bryant—Des
perate Efforts to ReriTe Radical
ism in Georgia — Henry Ward
Beecher Ft Id Omne Genu* Give
Him * Character —The Congres
sional Situation—Odd* and Ends,
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
I intended to hold this letter back until
the case was acted upon by the jury, but the
verdict will reach you by telegraph in time
to appear in the same issue of the Morning
News, so I mail it to-day. A large part of
this letter has been written iu the idea that
it would be dated after the close of the trial
which the reader should understand.
The prisoner made a statement to the jury,
under the law, which occupied an hour and
a half iu its delivery. Some parts were very
dramatic and eloquent, and he frequently
argued his case with rare ability. His wife’s
story to him, as he repeated it, is not credited
by the public, although he firmly believes
every word of it. He is really insane In his
affection for and confidence in that wife
who has 60 cruelly deceived aud wronged
him.
Among the female witnesses of bad re
pute, several of whom have been members
of good society in the past, was one not un
known in Savannah and Florida. She is
from one of the best families in Tennessee,
a cousin of a distinguished lawyer engaged
in the case, and at one time was a belle in
fashionable circles. Although rapidly sink
ing under the inroads of consumption and
heart disease, she shows traces of her former
beauty and culture. While on the witness
6tand she was compelled to retire for medi
cal attention and stimulants. The hardest
heart in the court room grew sad and tender
at the sight of this poor creature, not poor
in purse, but iu everything that can make
life endurable and eternity desirable. There
have been many remarkable scenes con
nected with this strange trial, but none sad
der than the appearance of Mamie Scruggs
on the witness stand.
Chatham.
EASTERN PAGEANTRY.
Tbe State Funeral of tbe Late Tong
C hili, Emperor ol ( bins.
Celestial Empire.
The remains of the late Emperor of
China, T’ungChih, and the late Empress,
have been conveyed to tbeir final resting
place at tbe Eastern Tombs—a distance
of about 240 li from Pekin. Our corres
pondent saw tbe procession pass by
peeping through a hole about tbe size of
a half crown, cut in a curtain, no for
eigner being permitted to witness tbe
proceedings. He says: “When I first
arrived, a long string of slovenly-looking
baggage wagons were jolting heavily
along the road. They came trailing
after one another in most ad
mired disorder; now two together,
now two or three in a line, and now
a long break, after which a solrary
cart would drag itself into view. Mean
while, a coo’ ; e stood in the road and
busied himseiL, as best he might, in keep
ing the thoroughfare in order. Ever and
anon a horseman ia a long and tlowin<r
red robe aud yellow tufted cap woula
pass across the field of vision, riding an
ill-groomed pocy. These men form the
Lwan-yi Wei, or Guard of State; and
had they ridden iu a compact phalanx
they would have presented a handsome
and striking appearance. Rut there was
no attempt id riding in ranks. Soon
there appeared a group of AJanchn
archers, armed with huge bow’s
and well-filled quivers. But there was
no uniformity of color in their dress,
any more than order in their inode of
E rogress. One man would be dressed in
rown or purple; another in blue, hand
somely embroidered; a third, perhaps, in
brilliant silver gray, looking from a dis
tance almost white; and they all trotted
or cantered or straggled along, according
to the pace each man preferred. Then
came another detachment of the Guard
of State; and then a heterogenous Col
lection of mandarins, gorgeous in every
variety of tint and button and peacock’s
feather, ambling martially along on their
scraggy, ill kept ponies.
At last the appearance every now and
then of yellow coverings and badges an
nounced the near approach of the im
perial party. Suddenly it burst into
view. First came a brilliant staff of
princes, nobles, and high officers of statp,
resplendent in yellow silk tunics, scarlet
girdles, and gleaming silks, riding gayly
along and forming a guard of honor to
the three imperial chairs The order of
procession from this point was as fol
lows; The Emperor, !>orne by eight
coolies. Her Imperial Majesty Tsze an
Tuan-yu K’ang-yi Chao-yu Chuang-king
Huang T’ai IIou, Empress of the East,
commonly called the Empress Dowager;
Her Imperial Maiesty Tsze ch’i Tuan-yew
K’angch’ipg Chaohoh C’Uuang thing
Huang T’ai Hou, Empress of the West,
commonly called the Empress Mother;
the Princes and Princesses of the im
perial family, riding in yellow wooden
carts; retainers, lictors, apparitors,
soldiers, etc. •
The Empresses sat bolt upright, look
ing straight before them. They are mid
dle aged, well preserved women, with
hard, stolid faces, and an expression
which suggts's the idea of cold rigidity
of purpose. The principal features of
tbo little Emperors'face are a somewhat
projecting forehead and a pointed chin,
He was dressed in a sombre color, as half
mourning for the late Emperor, who had
adopted him as his younger brother.
Prince Kung occupied one of ihe yellow
covered cart3. The Imperial family
are privileged to ride in carts
the wheels .of which are set far
back; Rie object of this pe
culiar c6n8truction being to modify tbe
jolting. It is a characteristic fact that no
one under the rank of a prince of the
blood is permitted to enjoy this alievia
tion. The twenty-first day of the moon
—otherwise the twelfth of April—was
selected by the Astronomical Bureau as
being particularly auspicious for the
commencement of the journey. In plain
fact, however, it was a fearful day—one
of the very worst sort. There was a
strong wind blowing, and the sand storm
which arose was such as to make the
whole atmosphere, a lurid, reddish yel
low.
The other day Mrs. Spence, of La
Crosse, met with a peculiar accident and
one which promises to be a serious one,
About a week ago, while in the garuen,
some unknown insect got into the lady's
ear ’ and caused a buzzing sensation,
which lasted several hours/ fiance then
t^e car and head have become very paicr
ful, a-»d medical okill seems to be of lib
Uc avail in alleviating her sufferings.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Ninos.
Washington, Jane 17.—Jno. E. Bryant
comes to the fore again. He comes out in
the same old connection—the insane pro
position to revive the Republican party in
Georgia. Jno. E. is here. He had not been
in town six hours before he began work.
That work is of course to “raise money for
the cause.” “The cause” of course repre
sents Jno. E.’s proposed paper—or
he may have started that paper for
all we know here. Jno. E. to-day
commenced a tour of the different govern
ment offices and dropped upon the table of
each official of any size whatever, and upon
the table of each so-called Southern Repub
lican, a seven page pamphlet. This pam
phlet is something unique in its way. It is
headed “The SoutheniFroblem—Us Nature
and its Solution—The Work that is being
done in Georgia—^Tbe Views of Distinguish
ed Gentlemen.”
The pamphlet starts out with—“The At
lanta Publishing Company of Atlanta, Geor
gia and other Republican orginizations
that State have requested me to visit the
North and solicit aid from those who are
willing to assist them in the effort
strengthen the Republican party in Georgia,
improve the condition of the people, and
thus assist in the settlement of the diffi
culty that has so long existed between the
people of the North and South. They seek
to accomplish this result by the publication
of a newspaper, the—(I won’t give him the
benefit of free advertising by giving the
name of the newspaper)—and by public ad
dresses.
Jno. E. then discusses “the Southern
Problem,” saying that the civilization
the North is unlike that of the South; the
former modern and American and the latter
feudal. “The Democratic party at the South
is the champion of feudal ideas; the Repub
lican party at the South should be the
champion of American civilization.” Under
the head of “The Solution of the Southern
Problem,” Jno. E. bolds forth that “much
has already been accomplished towards
permanent settlement of the ditfi
culty between the North and the
South ; but a great work remains
to be done. In the North but eight per
cent, of the population above ten years of
age, are unable to read or write; in the
South forty-two per cent, of the same age
are Illiterate. The Republicans could not
successfully enter upon the discucslon of
questions affecting the interests of all the
people of the South until the old issues—
opposition to slavery, the preservation of the
Union, aud the citizenship of the negro—
were settleiL Those questions having been
settled, we may now press such issues as tbe
protection of the life and rights of the citi
zen, including the ballot, and tbe education
of all the children in free schools. Thus the
dividing line between parties maybe shifted
from that of color to oue of civilization. In
stead of a conflict of races, there will be at
the South one of civilizations. This result
will be accomplished as soon as the
commonalty have trained capable lead
ers. Then will the civilization of the
South be like that of the North; then will
the people of the South and the people
of the North be one people, and
sectional feeling will disappear and peace
will prevail. This important result can be
accoutpitched within a few years if a wise
policy is pursued. But the Republicans of
the South must receive assistance from their
more properous brethren at the North, who
have a powerful press, great wealth, and a
controlling influence with the pulpit, the
bar, the schools, and society.”
Jno. E. next gives “my own experience.
He says that iu 1874 be was a candidate fot
Congress in the Savannah district. On ac
count of the “bitterness” he was unable to
canvass or hold Republican meetings in
some of the counties, etc., etc. Iu 1876
Jno. E.’s pamphlet says he was again the
Republican candidate for Congress in the
same district. “I was unable to organize
and canvass the entire district, because I
was unable to secure the necessary as
sist&nce, and not because of the opposition
of the Democracy. I decided, however, to
organize and canvass as many counties as
possible, to show that with proper effort
the district could to carried, by tfte count
by pursuing the line of policy advocates
by me. I was able to organize and canvass
but eight counties out of nineteen.
Jno. E. then gives a grossly perverted
statement of the vote in that canvass. His
appeal proper for aid concludes thus
“Having been elected Chairman of the Re
publican State Committee, I decided to re
move to Atlanta, and assist in establishing a
Republican newspaper to advocate my line
of policy. In 1877, the Atlanta Republican
Publishing Company was organized, and
Commenced the publication of such a paper.
We find it impossible to continue our work
unless we can receive aid from friends at the
North. We do not need very much assist
ance from them; but we appeal to them to
give us the small amouut which is necessary
to enable us to continue the contest on the
line explained above.”
Appended is a separate appeal from the
Atlanta Publishing Company, couched in
the same veiD, and a number of letters com
mending Jno. E. These are from Rev. II
W. Bellows and the members of the com
mittee on political reform, all of New York
from the President ami Vice Presidents of
that Radical Grant club—the Union League
of Philadelphia; from Durtuan B. Eaton,
tfie alleged civil service reformer ; Joseph
Seligman, the Radical banker and furnisher
of money to Radical campaigns; Henry
Ward Beecher, some Uostou Radicals, and
others. These letters all commend “ the
cause,” and prediot an upheaval iu Georgia
politics.
The letter of Henry Ward Beecher is like
Artemus Ward’s kaugaroo, “Amoosln."
It is as follows:
“Mr. Bryant’s general purposes for the re
cuperation of the South will commend
themselves to all men of broad charity and
far seeing views. These purposes rest upon
the following fundamental truths:
T. The difference between the North and
the South was one of civilization; that of
the North being essentially democratic; that
of the South being essentially aristocratic
or feudal.
“2. War is, In its nature, only destructive,
and never can be anything else. It has
simply destroyed the feudal civilization of
the South, and left not a new one but only
the ruins of the old.
“3. The North owe it !p. the South and to
themselves to complete in peace the work
begun in war. This is not merely a duty of
brotherly kindness, but one of fidelity to a
plain duty. Having destroyed the old, we
are bound to do what iu us lies to replace (t
with the new.
“4. This work is one that must, in the na
ture of the case, be carried on not by the
bayonet, bat by peaceful means; and it can
best be done not by missionaries sent down
by the North, though this may be done with
care and delicacy, but by co.-operatlng with
those in the South \yho are already iu sym
pathy vfith Dpmocratty kjeas ana institu
tions; especially in aiding a free press, a free
school, and a free pulpit
“From what we have 6een of Mr. Bryant
and his paper, we judge that he and his
journal are well calculated to promote this
work in a kindly and Christian spirit, and
are worthy the co-operation and substantial
aid of those in the North who are willing
and able to co-operate in this peaceful cam
paign of ideas.”
Your correspondent regrets being com
pelled to give 60 much publicity to ^no. E ,
but Georgia should know exactly what he is
scheming (or, And the Republicans in the
State should be made cognisant of that fact
that in pretending to revive the party Jno.
E. is begging money for bis own pocket.
From here he will go to New York, Boston
and other Northern cities on bis mendicant’s
tour. Judging from his first day’s work he
will not be phenomenally successful.
At the present writing there is nothing
new in the Congressional situation, except a
tacit understanding by the Democratic
managers to try ana adjourn next Tuesday.
Hayes, as you already know, will veto ihe
judicial bill, and will probably be left with
out any money to run the courts. There
has been no change yet from tbe last
utterances from the White House that he
will sign the two other bpja. By tfce way,
if reports *^etr|je, Rayes begins to chafe
under the demand of the stalwarts for
a veto of the army and legislative bills. He
is quoted as saying in substance that it will
not do to go too far—even when he is pushed
by the backbone givers. The number of the
Republicans who say the same thing are in
creasing dally. The only objection to the
legislative bill has been that It could not be
understood. And now the accounting offi
cers of the Treasury s y that it is perfectly
intelligible. This pricks another Radical
bubble. The stalwarts and their press have
been howling about legislative fat-chunk in
this connection.
OtlDfl ann ENDS.
Captain £ads writes to a friend here that
he will not leave the jetties until he secures
a depth of twenty-six feet in the channel at
the mouth of the Mississippi. He expects
to accomplish that number of feet in a few
days, and draw another $500,000 from the
Treasury.
The House Committee on Elections has
decided that the sitting members from Iowa
shall not be disturbed in their seats.
The clerk of the same committee has
carefully collated the testimony iu the Hull-
Blsoee contest and sent it to the Govern
ment Printer. The funds of that official
having run short, he cannot print this testi
mony and accompanying papers until the
new appropriation is available. Therefore,
the contest will not be considered at the
present session, and when it is considered
by the committee short work will be made
of Bisbee.
The idea of a fast mail service on the
Mississippi river has been abandoned be
cause the company that was to conduct that
service can make no headway in selling the
stock it proposed issuing. Potomac.
A STRANGE ROMANCE.
A Question
v— A Legacy if
THE UREAT FIRES IN RUSSIA.
The Terrible Work ofNIhllUt Band,
of Incendiaries.
London Timea.
St. Pktf.usbi ko, May 29.—There can
hardly be any doubt tbat many of the
numerous fires now spreading distress
and desolation through the land are the
work of incendiaries belonging to tbe
“small but determined bands'' of terror
ists, who, not sufficiently satisfied with
the knife and revolver as a means of ter
rifying us, are now resorting to a very
old form of expressing discontent and
spreading terror. There is no official
proof yet to hand that these fires are due
to revolutionary instigators; but the re
cent capture of two persons Dear Kieff
with Oraini bombs, a quantity of com
pressed gun cotton in small pots, fuses,
and other suspicious material in tbeir
lodgings, is very good testimony of the
fact. The great fire at Orenburg was
foretold by proclamations distributed in
the town the day before, and a panic has
since been caused in Samara and other
places by similar threatening announce
ments. A great many arrests have been
made on suspicion at Orenburg, Perm,
Irbit and Uralsk.
At Perm there has been no less thau
eight different large fires within five
days. Besides conflagrations in these
and other large towns, there are daily
reports of villages burnt to tbe ground
coming from all parts of the interior. It
must not be thought, however, that these
are all, or even perhaps in great part,
the ac'ion of revolutionary incendiaries;
for a very large number of fires, breaking
out as soon as the hot weather sets in. is
a yearly occurrence in Russia, where the
constructions of wood, especially in the
villages, the general carelessness, and the
lack of good fire extinguishing apparatus
are the principal cause of hundreds of
habitations being so often swallowed up
by tbe flames before they can be got
under control.- Last summer the total
number of fires was 3!i,li29, entailing a
loss of nearly 04,000,000 of roubles. This
year the outbreak has been so sudden,
and has already reached such propor
tions at the beginning only of tbe fire
season, that there can be no question as
to the participation of the revolutionary
party, if it can be called a party, in this
new calamity. Indeed, while I am now
writing, we receive the news of another
batch of conflagrations.
To day, at .Moscow, there have been
two different fires, with an estimated loss
of 140,000 roubles. We learn, also, that
two hundred of the best houses in KleU,
a town not far from Orel, has been
burnt, as well as the Ural Cossack fore
posts of Zamtchalofka and Irtek, and
several Bashkir villages. In the govern
ment of Ufa one hundred and eighty-six
peasant houses havo been destroyed in
ess than twenty four hours. Near Vo-
roncj three villages were almost entirely
consumed a few days ago. These are
only a few cases which I take at landorn.
All the principal towns of Eastern Russia
have suffered, to say nothing of the rural
districts. The poverty and distress among
the rural sufferers especially are enor
mous, and if this Dew plague of fire is to
continue at the same rate at which it has
begun, the country will be in a bad state,
indeed, after such a heavy addition to its
other misfortunes. The insurance com
ponies are overwhelmed, and as a great
deal of their property is, I believe, re
insured in English and other foreign
houses, the effects of the pressure will
not be felt by them alone.
In Law—A
9400,000.
London Globe.
A very curious bit of romance comes
to us in a gossiping letter from an an
cient city iu tbe west of England, it
appears that an old tradesman of that
place, who had for some time been suf
fering from the effects of a paralytic
stroke, came to London a few months
ago for the benefit of his health, and in a
few weeks married the landlady of the
house in which he lodged. He made a
marriage settlement and a will in favor
of his new wife, altogether ignoring his
children by a former marriage. In a
few weeks the old man died, and there
the matter would have ended but for
some very extraordinary after circum
stances. One of the executors of the
will—a legal gentleman living in Lon
don—went down to the city for the pur
pose of attending to the trusts
under the will, and in looking
over the papers of the deceased
discovered that several years ago the
latter would have inherited property of
the now estimated value of about 4120,000
if tbertTias not been a “missing link”—
the marriage certificate of his grand
father and grandmother—in his pedigree.
No proof whatever of this marriage
could be found, and so all expectation of
ever acquiring the property had van
ished from the mind of the deceased.
The executor, having leisure on his hands
and being interested in the affair, fet
about making inquiries and searches in
the matter, the result being that last
week the proofs of the marriage were
discovered at a village church some few
miles distant. The question now re
mains to be settled whether the property
goes to the widow—the old man's sole
heir—or to the heir at law—his oldest
son. Whether the widow’s claim is
barred by the statute of limitations or
not is a question that will have to be set
tled by the Judges at Westminster. It
would be a fitting climax to the story If
this large property, by a single stroke of
the pen by an old and feeble man, should
be diverted from his children and his
family into the hands of one who was a
total stranger to him six months before
his death.
A Rose by Any Other Name, Etc.
Tbe Republicans of Ohio are rather
unlucky in the name of their candidate
for Lieutenant Governor—Hickenlooper.
The New York World of Saturday gives
the following amusing account of the
perplexities into which it has thrown the
country organs: “One paper in Minne
sota declares boldly that ‘Foster and Lop-
penliickcr will sweep the State by sixty
thousand;’ another, in Illinois, cries,
'We personally favored Taft and Foster,
but the old Weatem llra, rre will come out
solid for Foster and Pickleehoker;’ a
third—and this in Ohio—says in oil the
majesty of great black letter, ‘Foster and
Hoppenkicker—beat them who can;' a
fourth, in Iowa, protests that ‘Fos
ter and Poopenhickle will awake
such enthusiasm as the Buckeye Slate
has rarely resounded with;” the head
lines of a fifth, in Wisconsin, are, “Two
glorious men—Foster and Pickenchooper
—the nominees ” a sixth, and again in
Ohio, declares that “the Democracy can
find no ticket to successfully oppose Fos
ter and Pickylooper;" a seventh, also in
Ohio, hoists, along with an eagle and an
American flag, “Our stalwart standard
bearers—Foster and Choopenlickeran
eighth, still in Ohio, announces a “mass
meeting to ratify the nominations of
Governor Foster and Gen. Pooklehicken,"
and yet another, in l’ennsylvania, where
it fairly rains jaw-breaking names, enthu
siastically yells at the top of its type,
‘ Tiger for Foster! 'Rah for Chickle
picken!! ’ It is, perhaps, not a very im
portant matter, still it would avoid con
fusion if the Republican editors and
orators would meet in convention and
agree to shout for the second man on
their ticket under one name, whether it
be Hekeukioper, Loppcnhicker, Pickle-
choker, Hoppenkicker, Poopenhinkle,
Pickeucliooper, Pockyloopen, Choopen
licker, Pooplehickeu, or Chickiepicken.
General Hickenlooper by any other name
will be beaten just as easily, anil it will
be better for the family to have him
dropped under an alias. ”
The Cotton Spinners' Strike.
.Veto York Herald.
In spite of some unanswerable facts
that they themselves knew of, and agai nst
the advice of every sensible outsider who
sympathized with them in their strait
ened circumstances, the Fall River cot
ton spinners have struck- With the pay
they were receiving they were earning
more, and were more nearly solvent than
some of the mill owners. Some of them
came from mills that have never yet paid
for themselves, let a'.one the matter of
returns to the stockholders, and their
statement of the outlook for cotton
prints shows how painfully ignorant they
are,and how they have been humbugged
by their leaders. We say leaders, hecause
the idea of a spontaneous strike at a large
manufacturing point like Fall River can
not he ontertained for a moment,
large number of the operatives are from
New England families, and the thought
of lounging in idleness for weeks for the
mere chance of getting better pay after
ward is one that could scarcely lake pos
session even of a very ordinary Yankee.
Striking, however, has in England—
from which country we have imported
a great many cotton mill operatives—be
come a regular business, so far, at least,
as the management is concerned, a strike is
determined on beforehand by a few men,
most of whom have social or official in
fluence among the operatives, and the
movement is carried through the various
stages of dissatisfaction, discontent, mur
muring, discussion, anger and qhstinscy
without the operatives imagining that
any one bqt themselves are at the
bottom of it. Tbe management is as
skilful, wily and unscrupulous as that
of a political wirepuller, and the honest,
stupid, indignant fellows, wko imagine
themselves at the front, »R really being
dexteroqsly iod by the nose. The world
—eyen the workingman's part of the
world—will say that if men will be such
fools they deserve to .uffer for it, but
unfortunately the principal sufferers are
not men. Thousands of women and
children must dumbly, helplessly suffer
for the blunder that the Fall River
men committed so enthusiastically last
night, and what they, particularly
the wives and mothers, will suffer
through anxiety, fear, hope deferred and
affection that cannot do what it would
for its own, is beyond the power of the
men to realize. The men who disap
troved of the strike, yet took part in it
decause their gqild Seemed to demand it,
should learn at least this much of com
mon sense—that when a business is at
the mercy not only of proprietors, hut of
ignorant, aeitish and vicious demagogues,
the best that can be done with it is to ex
chance it for some other.
A Lesson asdaHiht.—A well known
liberal clergyman relates that lately talk
ing to some youngsters od the coming
vacation and diverging into the necessity
of kindness to animals, he Incidentally
remarked: “I^qys are often cruel to frogs
aud Uunia- I remember when a boy of
wickedly filling up a toad with fire
crackers and then lighting the slow-
match.” He was horrified to see this re
mark received with the liveliest emotions
of interest and delight, and utterly pros
trated as he passed out at hearing one
urchin say to another, “By jings. that's
new note. Wont we have fun blowing
up the bull paddies down in the medder!”
Boatur, Commercial.
Zach's New Rebellion.—Mrs. Hale,
daughter of Zach Chandler, has become
the mother of another child, and Mr.
Chandler has again given her bis check
for $20,000,as he nromised to do for every
child bom tQ her: Mr. Chandler talks of
applying to Congress for relief. At the
time he made the offer be was not ac
quainted with his son-in-law, and he had
more confidence in his daughter than he
has now. They have seemed to conspire
against the old man, and it is believed
that his bod temper toward the Demo
crats and rebels is caused by this con
stant drain on his bank account —Hedalia
Democrat.
The Philadelphia murderer, Parr, who
cheated the gallows last Tuesday by
taking a dose of strychnine in the court
room just liefore receiving his sentence,
certainlv did not make anything by the
trick, lie died a more shocking death
than the gallows would have inflicted, as
the following statement shows:
An instrument had to be applied to get
his mouth open, and he was nearly stran
gled before he could lie made to swallow
au emetic. After the stomach pump had
been worked vigorously for nearly an
hour, the sufferer was filled with raw
whisky, and, while his head was being
bathed with ice water, he was lying on
the floor, every muscle twitching, and
his face terribly contorted under the in
fluence of strychnine. AU through the
night the dying man laid on tbe floor of
the court house ante chamber, ;iust where
he was laid when brought out of the court
room at noon. His eyes were closed, and
his groans could be heard from, any part
of the court house. Several times he
struggled to throw off the hea.y woolen
blankets which were wrapper! around
his half-naked form. The terrible effect*
of the most violent of poisons cad not
passed away, and there was hardly a
moment that he was not seized with a
violent paroxysm of pain, each one
seeming more violent than the last.
About J o’clock the physicians tried to
force milk down his throat, and with a
great deal of difficulty succeeded in
making him drink nearly a pint of this
nourishment. These half dozen men,
through the long hot night toiled unre
mittingly by the light of a simple oil
lamp to save the life of this craven
wretch, that he might sufferfor his crimes
on the gallows; but shortly after 3 o’clock,
it became evident that he could not out
live the night. lie sank slowly, and
about 0 in the morning, in a spasm of
frightful agony, he died. His death waa
horrible beyond expression. An hour
after the body was removed to the morgue
for a post mortem examination it had
swelled to twice its normal size, and
turned almost black.
The condition of things in the semi-
barbarous kingdom of Burrnah seems to
go from bad to worse. A cable dispatch
several days ago announced that the
King bad murdered several more of the
royal Princes, and a correspondent writes
to the London Daily News from the Bur
mese capital that “the King keeps him
self gloomily shut up in his palace, and
is said to go on drinking steadily, though
Had to say, as a cynical man here ob
serves, be does not drink hard enough to
give good hope of a speedy attack of de
lirium tremens. He lias done away with
the old order of Lct-pay-yin-dan-tha.
pages of honor, and has instituted a new
bodyguard of youths of his own age, the
qualification for which seems to be a taste
for brandy. This new class is dead against
everything English, and clamors for war
immediately. The younfj monarch is
>lso already petticoat ridden. He mar
ried two sisters, the younger of whom
lets entire authority over him and makes
him do exactly as she pleases. She also
is very bellicose, and would have an in
stant march ou Rangoon. But the young
King has hardly yet forgotten tbe wiser
counsels of the Ministers and hesitates to
embark on what they have assured him
would be his instant ruin. What may
shortly happen is, however, terribly un
certain. It seems probable that England
will be compelled to interfere.
A That? Mysteky.—The Reno, Ner.,
Gazette of the 5th inst., contained, under
the caption of “A Train Mystery,” an
account of a woman, supposed to be in
sane, jumping from the train the night
previous, some distance west of Blue
Canon. Although the facts were reported
from hearsay, it has since been ascertained
that they were, in the main, true. The
woman, whose name is Mrs. Emerson,
was traveling East with her husband,
and jumped from the train whilif it was
under full headway. The conductor re
ported the occurrence on reaching Blue
Canon, and a party of men started out
to search for her. They found her early
the next morning. The only injury she
had sustained was a severe cut over the
eye. Her husband claims that she is
insane, but the men who found her say
she showed no signs of insanity. Mrs.
Emerson asserts" that her husband is
taking her to the East to place her in an
insane asylum, a fate that she had rather
suffer death than submit to.
There is a Justice of the Peace in West
Alexander, Pa., who has married 1,-400
couples.