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J. H. ESTILL.
Savannah Ga.
Georgia Affairs.
l*..n charges a license of $2,500 for
ih-cc of selling liquor in that town
::art or less, and $2,000 for selling
•unts more than a quart. The re-
r. l.ihition of the whisky traffic,
i- great rejoicing In Berrien county
turpentine “has rise.”
- CoDine committed 6uieide by
L ' himself in the Alapaha river, near
. k. B-rrien county, on Monday of
k. lie got up during the night and
it, since which time nothing was
him until Wednesday last, when
it - were discovered. He had been
r a long time,
first instant Mr. J. A. Chappell as-
iiti rial control of the Upson Enler-
i lished at Thomaston. lie says he
m:dntain friendly relations with all
n n of the Georgia press, and that
will, in polities, be Democratic, In
n from the Chronicle that Mr. An-
.nigan, night watchman at the
aetory in Athens, met with a seri-
•nt a few days ago. lie dropped
-*ol accidentally out of bis hand
truck the Iloor it discharged so as
the bone «*f one of his legs. It was
first that the injury would neces-
iiitatiou, but it is hoped now' that
cover without so painful an ope
it man Free Proa says that “tater
nd cane banking” is the order of
:»t now in Brooks county,
rcc, of the Blue Spring district,
uty, is the champion poultry aud
..f tne South. According to the
Journal she has sold over
Ired dozen eggs tLis year, lias sel
red, and has raised about four
liickens.
!»day last, says the Telfair South
a Mr. Gay, of Laurens county
. MacVille with a bale of cotton
unloading it at the depot it was
I hat the bale was burning, the
: from the inside. Investigation
.d a large cavity was burned
curb the bale. The application
faiitd to extinguish the lire eu
he cotton was sunk in the creek
o-year-old son of James Rider,
v miles from Dalilouega, was
i«i/, fatally burned on last Mon-
'. The clothes of the child
re, and be l eing alone iu the
crrible work was done before
■ould rescue it. The little one
ring without any hope of re
ampton Weekly says that Mr. Sam
;>n ol«l resident of Henry county,
i ids fixty-third year, and is still liale
rty, held a family reunion at his
uthuaday. Fifty-four persons were
all of whom were his children and
.iidreu. The Weekly says “he giv<
■ •f many years yet of usefulness.”
• »Lii V. Evaus, the largest man in
•unity, died at McDonough last
lay morning. At the time of hi:
death he weighed 350 pounds.
* Maud Harris, an estimable young
who has been teaching school in Mou
rn;, tv for several years past, swooned
an 1 died suddenly at the residence of
. Bonder on Tuesday last, the 4th
rt disease was the cause of her
. L
11.
pronounces
of ;h,
•vson, colored, made a speech at a
ceting at Mt. Maria, Lowndes
few days ago. The Valdosta
the whole affair
iwson having told the reporter
r that be had, in all his rouuds
ss, collected only fifty cents to
vpeases to Kansas; that now he
Ids last speech and his last
• the Tune* greatly regrets, for
and all like birn^to go to
an>a< a? soon as possible. It even wants
■ c people of the county to take the
-•Hrhand, and raise the means ueces
cy to st-nd him off.
Mr. T. W. Ayres has sever d his connec
ts with the Franklin Regist -, having sold
James 6. Dor".ah and George
hese gentlemen will hereafter
uties of editors and proprietors
IN Pt
P.W
Th.
usta races have been postponed
ry 0th.
the rate of taxation in Liberty
I be sixty-five cents on the one
Jars. A considerable reduction
i from the Hinesville Gazette of an
[.nine heroism on the part of a
> --f Liberty county, which is
the highest possible praise. A
-1 girl in the employ of the young
a-ided in Walthourvillo, acci-
i';gtit on tire last Wednesday. The
ut hesitating a moment seized the
tempted to extinguish the flames,
• desi<t until her hands were crisp
ing. I'nfortuuately her noble
*e lu vain, and the little girl died
•Wph C.
c - tin
, has
the guard who shot and
n camp near Augusta a
been committed for trial
unit:
that
i ext grand jury of
will present the venders of
aud Polio Gazette, on the
' u,ul ‘bat they are obscene publication:
- o. l : r ,, named Abe Morrison made
• • ffort to murder his wife near
!> M iav last. He quarreled with
> night, and on Monday morn
E ' Jt tip e.uly, went out, waylaid her in a
: '•• fractured her skull with a
.- 1 '- i ' : ' *'• He then made liis escape, fleeing
“ tl - , ‘ Brunswick road. He is a bad
Z??’ t-iough a cripple and quite old. His
; w<j unds are vef^ serious.
^ - ni n turned Adams was riding with his
' ' ou ar Fairburn, Campbell county,
‘light, when he drove his horse
h. The wagon fell on the man
i' r - - k. g of nails striking the man on
v r •• aud killing him. The child re-
, ^prisoned under the wagon for
* * .rs with his dead father, and when
^ JV, -red he was almost dead from fright
*^7 r ." Griffin Sun: “Joseph E. Brown
, i" opIe to hurrah for him because,
' - object iu prosecuting the Co-
r > * Mt ‘ r6 was to save them. We
t)ri ' r 1,Je llu P resgiou that the lives of
t; e ^■ ° 11 crs were saved because of the
^.^•^‘‘‘nent of their counsel, and be-
T w * rt * proven to be innocent. It
‘•j- ro . ar “- v 'Evolves upon the prosecutor
4 brteoner’s guilt, but in this case
»i. bv n" 10 save the Columbus prisoners
tt.to lIie 1> * an adopted by Mr. Stephens,
,{ ,roVu lljeIr Innocence. This was
jv. 5 ^. Uoih i '- and ex-Governor Brown did
l -je Columbus prisoners, though
>1 %, “• Geven years afterwards, that he
fca tstephi
pbens a«serta that the Colum-
? Mfcd^ lrr ? were innocent of the crime
•Qfp., ’ "e cannot thank Mr. Brown
"5b*1 j n cu t V n K fbem before a military trl-
^ethp.«, lae ferocious manner he did,
1 Was al l make believe or not.”
^ J ‘Jh Georgian: “On Sunday
iTf.n ,uxe Q nknown party entered the
chae and set the prisoners free.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The jail was entered by unlocking the out-
aide door and boring the lock out of the in-
side door with an auger. The perpetrator
of this affair is hid in a cloud of mystery,
It seems there had been two keys to each oi.
these locks, and one belonging to the out
side door was lost. It is supposed that
some one in possession of the lost key did
the opening. The only prisoners were the
Messrs. Ilattens, one sentenced to nine
months in the chain gang for sheep stealing,
awaiting^ an answer to a petition for a new
trial. We have nothing to offer as to who
is responsible for this. No one we suppose.”
McDonough correspondent of the Henry
County Weekly: “ On last Friday night a
week ago, a remarkable meteor passed over
this county, appearing iu a southwesterly
direction, and going diagonally across to the
northeast. Those persons who witnessed its
flight give a most glowing description of its
appearance and beauty. About 8 o’clock p.
m. it appeared near the western horizon,
and rose rapidly towards the moon, which
was shining in meridian splendor. The light
was so brilliant as to eclipse the shadows
cast by the moon, throwing the shadows
from an eastern iuclinatibn to a western as it
passed by, making the figures of trees and
houses imaged on the ground by the moon’s
rays appear to tremble as if the moon itself
was in commotion. After reaching seemingly
the position of the moon, it diverged into
two flaming bodies, moving rapidly to the
northeast, where both 6eemed to pause an
instant, and then burst Into many shining
fragments. About one minute after its dis-
appearauce a heavy distant nmbling, as of
thunder, which lasted probably two minutes,
was heard by many of our people. Some
assert that the windows of their houses rat
tled, as if from the slight 6hock of au earth
quake. Upon the whole, it was a remark
able occurrence, and for a short time caused
considerable uneasiness.”
Fort Valley Advertiser: “A high toned
tramp, who represented himself to be a civil
engineer, applied at the hotel last week and
made arrangements for a month’s board,
saying that his son would be in town the
next daj', at which time he would ‘pay In
advance.’ After getting supper, lodging
and breakfast, he disappeared very mysteri
ously, without settling his bill, and has not
been heard of 6ince. His name is Hunter,
and we understand he hunted around among
several private houses and tried to get
board, promising at each place to ‘pay in
advance’ as soon as his son could arrive.*"
Forsyth Advertiser: “On Saturday Forsyth
was a scene of busy activity. Cotton came
in from all directions, and tilled the weigh
ers’ platforms so that the streets were
utilized and they were soon tilled. The up
ward tendency of the market is bringing the
staple iu rapidly. Good prices and honest
weights are always to be had in our market,
hence its popularity. A great deal of cotton
is still in the fields aud is being picked out
as fast as it opens. For once New York is
helping prices up, notwithstanding the
heavy receipts.”
Hinesville Gazette : “Mr. A. O.VanBrackle,
the efficient Treasurer of Bryan, besides
taking care of the money of his fellow citi
zens, looks after some sheep of -bis own.
Not long ago he saw a large bird swoop
down upon a full grown sheep, aud, after
killing him, fly off. Mr. V. loaded his gun
with buckshot and hid himself in a con
venient place. The eagle, for it was an
eagle, soon returned for his breakfast. The
buckshot did the work, and his stuffed skin
which Mr. V. kindly gave us, will soon
hang iu the Gazette office. It measures seven
feet from point to point, and three feet
from beak to tail.”
Macon Telegraph: “On Sunday afternoon
in a bouse oti Fifth street, a woman by the
name of Mary Franklin died suddenly while
sitting in a chair. She had been suffering
with heart disease for some time past, and
on the day of her death had been complain
ing more than usual. She had, however,been
attending to her domestic duties, having
prepared breakfast and dinner. Several
persons were In the room. She had
just been arranging something about
her head at the bureau when she
turned, took a scat in a chair and died
almost immediately. It was some seconds
before those who were In the room realized
the situation, as the body remained in a
sitting position and was afterwards taken u:
and placed upon a bed. The Coroner, Mr. J
P. Chapman, was notified, but on investiga
tion found there were not suspicious circum
stances to warrant holding an inquest. The
woman was about uTt^r yeart of age, and
was the wife of Henry Fraukiin, who about
two years since was struck by lightning near
the Macon and Brunswick Road, and nearly
killed, the mules he was driving being 6lain
by the same stroke of the electric fluid.’"
Says tho Athens Chronicle : “ A colored
man named Jerry Jones, a well digger by
trade, fell into a well last Thursday in
rather a surprising manner. Jerry hail been
engaged to clean out Mr. Jim Saye’s well,
w’bich is somewhere Id the neighborhood of
fifty or sixty feet deep. On examination
Jerry found bis rope too short. He then
lengthened the rope by splicing on another
)!ecc, but failed to tie the splice very firmly,
n attempting to descend, and when about
half way down, the splice slipped apart,
letting its human freight fall to the bottom
of the well. Jerry was considerably bruised,
but bis injuries are not conddeied very
serious.”
Florida Affairt*.
The Apopka City Citizen regrets that its
editorial brethren of Jacksonville are
unloving and unkind to each other.” It
also says that the South Florida banana
crop is the finest that has been known in
that section for years.
The editor of the Palatka Herald has been
elected an honorary member of the “Alliga
tor Club” of Jamestown. He acknowl
edges his 6ense of the high honor, and says
he is proud to be a member of a club called
after an animal to which he has always been
specially devoted.
According to the Sun t Gainesville wants
money, a large trade, a large number of
visitors, more Immigrants, more buildings,
more growth and a bank.
Mr. S. B. Wilks, of Waldo, Alachua
county, Informs the Gainesville Sun that be
realized an average crop of from 35 to 40
bushels of upland rice per acre on his place
this season.
The Jacksonville Breeze has been per-
itted the pleasure of tasting a Japanese
persimmon, which measured four and a half
ches iu diameter. That beats the old
style persimmons all to pieces as far as size
oes.
The Madison Recorder says : “The failure
of the cotton crop this year was damaging,
o a great extent, to the interests of our
farmers, but somehow or other they manage
to keep cheerful faces.
A blind negro man was arrested in
Gainesville a few days ago on the charge of
having stolen one hundred dollars from a
colored brother. The only evidence against
him on the trial was that he had eight dol
lars and thirty cents in his pocket. This
might have been something very unusual,
but the Judge did not think it evidence
sufficient to convict, so he dismissed the
asc and discharged the prisoucr.
About fifty negro workmen at the Black-
water lumber mills, near Pensacola, are on
strike for higher wages. A few days ago
they came up in procession and waited on
the proprietors with their ultimatum, iu
which they said that the mill company
need not send off for other hands, for they
ould not be permitted to work if they
came. The Pensacola Gazette says: “ As
Simpson *fc Co., the proprietors, have seve
ral million feet of lumber piled up for
shipment it may be that one side of the
difficult/ will get tired of the strike before
the other does.”
Fernandina Express: “ We were shown on
Wednesday last by Capt. Richardson, of the
elegant little steamer Flora, a genuine deer
skin, pure white, with the exception of a
small spot in the centre of the forehead,
which is the usual deer color. The white
deer is exceedingly rare, and was formerly
regarded with great reverence by the In
dians and superstitious persons. The one
in question was killed near King’s Ferry
some time ago, and the skin presented to
Capt. R.”
Gainesville Sun: “It is generally sup
posed that in this (Alachua) county, parti
cularly, the yield of cotton is not nearly up to
the average of the times before and during
the war. Of course, more acreage is planted,
but the yield per acre is considered much
inferior to the yield per acre in what are
frequently called ‘the good old times,
liere is doubtless much truth in this belief,
and there are good reasons for it. In those
times all the lands in cultivation were com
paratively new, and farmers, almost as a
general rule, opened new land every year,
rom this land the yield was good,
low the farmers open but little new
land, and they plant, as they have
been doing from year to .year, cot
ton on the same old land. The*land is worn
out,’ or exhausted by that particular crop.
This difficulty has not been at all prevented
by the use of fertilizers. Oar fanners sel
dom enrich their lands. The lands are not
only very much impoverished by that par
ticular crop, but their fertility and produc
tive capacity for any crop is greatly impair
ed. The rernedj- is to change crops. On the
field where cotton has been planted let corn
be grown, or let something substitute cot
ton. Use borne made fertilizers. Assist the
recuperation of your lands, and with this
treatment the naturally productive lands of
Alachua will produce like the lands of Ca
naan after one of the sabbatical years.”
Palatka Herald: “Hon. P. P. Bishop in
forms us that his orange crop on Orange
Lake will be larger than it was last year.
The late heavy rains have not damaged the
crop, very few have split, and this Is the
testimony of orange growers generally. It
is gratifying to know that the orange pros
pect is good, with a market to correspond
the coming winter.”
On the subject of the manufacture of
paper from the fibrous plants and grasses of
Florida, the DeLand Agriculturist says: “We
have a mine of wealth in our fibrous plants
which will one day attract attention. It will
pay to cultivate agaves and sisal plants for
the purpose and also ramie and jute, but we
want more people first; the country is not
nearly populous enough to bring out these
things yet. The climate is suited to them
and 60 is the soil. The people in some parts
of California are finding out that jute cul
ture is better paying than wheat, aud are
turning their attention to it. Those mil
lions of dollars that are leaving the United
States to pay for bagging materials and
cordage must be kept here, and Florida is
the State that is going to furnish the sup
ply.”
Says the Marianna Courier: “On the second
day of the fair, the 20th, there will be a re
union of the Sixth Florida Regiment. Those
who battled for the sacred rights of our
Southern cause, though lost,and reluctantly
gave up their arms to a foe less ehivahous
though victorious, and whose hope all went
with the surrender, will gladly hail many of
their old comrades, who they have lost sight
of since the dark days of war. General
Finley, who gallantly led them to battle anil
to victory on many a bloody field, will ad
dress the few of those remaining of the
grand old regiment. The laying of the
corner stone of the monument to be erected
to the ‘loved and lost,’ under the supervision
of the ladies of the county, and the address
tcxbe delivered on that occasion by General
Finley, will be one of great interest, and
will be attended by a large concourse of the
people of the county.”
Monticello Constitution: “We understand
that, by direction of Mr. Yulee, the Waciesa
river has recently been thorough^- surveyed,
and it has been ascertained that by a small
outlay of money it can be made navigable,
by small steamers to its head, about five
miles below Waukeenah. From twenty to
twenty-four inches of water cun be obtained
the entire route until it enters the Aucilla,
which is navigable to the Gulf for steamers
of considerable draught. It is understood
that a company will be organized at
once, under the general incorporation
law of this State, for the purpose
of utilizing the waters of the Wacissa river
in the interest of navigation; and it is ex
pected that when a steamer and necessary
barges are placed on the river, the planters
aud merchants in that section of the coun
try will ship their produce and receive their
supplies via the Wacissa, Cedar Key and
Fernandina. The enterprise is commend
able; it will remunerate the capitalists who
invest their money, and certainly prove a
great convenience to the public. We trust
It will proye successful.”
Orlando Reporter: “We counted one hun
dred and sixteen sets of cane crushers in
town la6t Monday, at work on the new: crop
of cane just comiDg in. They were worked
by both sexes, from the small bareheaded,
barefooted boy and girl, to the stalwart
man and buxom country lass. Talk about
the sweets of orange growing, it is nothing
In comparison with cane chawing.”
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE ALBANY FAIR.
Opening Day—FIn^ Weather and a
Good Exhibit.
No Visiting Statesmen Wanted.—
The New Orleans Picayune speaks as
follows of the proposed visit of North
era speakers to aid the Republican cam
paign in Louisiana:
‘The visiting orators whom the Radi
cals propose to send to Louisiana, osten
sibly to discuss politics, really to give
opportunity for excitement and race col
lisions tor use as electioneering capital
next year, appear to be much needed by
Judge Beattie and his forlorn band just
about these days. He needs the services
of Sherman, Blaine. Conkling and
Wheeler, who are used to all the arts by
which the spirit of a party may be
aroused to a malignant hostility. He
needs help in arraying the colored peo
ple of Louisiana against their white
neighbors, employers, and fellow church
members. He requires assistance in his
efforts to make the negroes believe that
Southern white men are all their enemies
except himself and a small squad of office
holders and office seekers. Alone, or
even with the help of local aspirants, he
is not able to reawaken the spirit of
1872; he needs the help of orators prac
ticed in slander, skilled in working mis
chief, and Schooled iu all the arts of
stirring up strife and setting communities
at loggerheads.”
Tire Romance of a Hair.—The ro
mance of a hair comes from Vienna. A
loor girl with beautiful hair went to a
mrber to sell it. He tried to make a
close bargain, saying hair was plentiful
this year, and declared he could only
give her eight tlorins. The little
maiden’s eyes filled with tears, and she
hesitated a moment while threading her
fingers through her chestnut locks.
Finally she threw herself into a chair
and said: “Then take it quickly.” The
barber was about to cut off the tresses,
when a gentleman sitting in one of the
chairs interrupted him and spoke to the
girL “My child,” said he, “why do
you sell your beautiful hair ?” “My
mother has been nearly five months ilh* I
can not work enough to support us
Everything has been sold or pawned,
and there is not a penny in the house.’
“No, no, my child ; if that is the case, I
will buy vour hair, and cive you one
hundred florins for it.” lie gave the
poor girl the note, the sight of which
dried her tears, and he took tip the bar
ber’s shears. Taking the locks iu his
hand, he selected the longest hair, cut it
off, and put it carefully in his pocket-
book, thus paying one hundred florins
for a single hair. He took the poor
girl’s address, in case he should want to
juy another at the same rate. This
charitable gentleman is mentioned as the
head of a large industrial establishment
in Vienna.—■New York Star.
New York tiie Pivotal State.—
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Independent
Republican, furnishes a table, which it
says is “the best that can be done in the
way of presenting a table of the electoral
vote of 1880 favorable to the Republican
party.” It gives as certain Democratic
States all the Southern States and In
diana, making 153 electoral votes. In
the doubtful States it places Connecticut,
New York and New Jersey, with 50 elec
toral votes. claiming the remaining North
ern and Western States, with ICG votes,
as certain for the Republicans. There
are necessary to a choice 185 votes, which
the Republicans will not have, even if
the 15 votes of New Jersey and Connec
ticut be added to their ICO, unless they
get New Y’ork, and which, and more, the
Democrats will have if they get New
York. That, in fact, is the only State
they want to make their election sure.
Hence the Inquirer regards New York
as the battle ground, and it concludes
that “ nothing but hard, intelligent work
from now until the day of the Presiden
tial election will avail, and even with all
that the result will be in doubt.”
Princess Lobcovitz, while taking her
usual walk from Krimic Castle, Bo
hemia, three weeks ago, was accosted
by two gypsy women, who asked for
alms. The Princess took her portmon-
naie from her pocket, and handed them
a few small silver coins. But they were
not satisfied with the amount; and, while
one of them snatched the portmonnaie
out of her hand, the other made away
with a large gold medallion which she
had around her neck. The Princess was
so surprised by their audacity that some
time elapsed before she recovered her
self and called for help. The beggars
were by that time in the thickest of the
woods.
Monte Jim and Hen Brown played a
heavy game of cards, at Eagle city, Colo
rado. They quarelled when there was a
stake of $2,000 on the table, levelled
their revolvers, and fired three shots
apiece. Jim was killed, and Hen may
not recover. The money is in the hands
of the Mayor of the town.
Special Telearam to the Morning News.
Albany, Ga., November 11.—Beautiful
weather aud a good attendance mark this
the opening day of the Albany Fair. The
exhibition of agricultural products, conn
try cattle, horses, sheep, swine and poultry
is very large, and among the race horses
present are some of the most noted in the
State.
The fair promises to prove one of the
grandest successes of the season. Excur
sion trains are being run on all roads, and
there is hotel accommodation for all.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
A DESPERATE FIGHT WITH IN
DI>NS IN MEXICO.
Two Fires Raging In New York.
THE BOSTON LONGSHOREMEN’S
STRIKE SUCCESSFUL.
DESTR rexn 'E STORM AXD TORXAJ) 0.
Telegraphic Poles Cut Down.
DESPERATE FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
Galveston, Tex., November 11.—The
Sews contains the following special dispatch,
dated El Paso, Texas, November 10: “A
desperate tight took place yesterday at Can-
dalaria Mountains, fifty miles south of bere t
in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, between a
band of Indians, numbering about 200, and
a party of fifty men from Cariza, New Mex
ico. Thirty-two of the latter were killed
and eighteen escaped wounded. The In
dians are the same party that Major Morrow
was after. They came from the Florida
Mountains by way of Glosman’s Lake to the
Candelaria Mountains, where the party in
pursuit of them was surprised by the In
dians concealed behind rocks. The fight
lasted all day.”
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN NEW YORK.
New York, November 11.—A fire broke
out In the large paint works at 414 Bleeker
street, this morning, which is a five-story
brick building. The flames spread so
rapidly that the second and third
alarms were immediately sent out.
At the present- writing the fire is still
raging, and the firemen have not been able
to get it under control. A fire broke out
simultaneously with this on board the
steamer Bristol, lying at Pier 2S North river.
This fire Is also still burning.
DESTRUCTIVE STORM AND TORNADO.
St. Louis, November 11.—A tornado de
stroyed the railroad and other build
ings at Pageville Saturday. Two
persons In the building were injured,
one fatally. Strasburg was also
visited by a storm, and the church and four
stores, three dwellings and a blacksmith
shop there where levelled to the ground.
Several - persons were injured, but none
seriously.
TELEGRAPH POLES CUT DOWN.
Bordentow’n, N. J., November 11.-
Twenty-two poles of the American Union
Telegraph Company were cut down yester
day afternoon, near Newtown, about three
miles from this place. No arrests have been
made.
A SUCCESSFUL STRIKE.
Boston, November 11—The Halifax and
Savannah steamship lines have yielded to
the demands of the longshoremen for ad
vanced pay. It Is thought all the lines will
to-day agree to the advance.
adjourned.
Memphis, Tenn., November 11.—The
Howards adjourned sine die last night.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
BRITISH DISAPPOINTMENT AT
BEACONSFIELD’S SPEECH.
Inquiry into the Champion Collision.
SETTLEMENT OF THE BANQUE
EUROPEANNE.
BARK PICKED UP AT SEA.
DISASTROUS TORNADO.
A United
States Conrt
Trouble.
Clerk In
THE NEW YORK FIRES.
minor Telegrams.
DISAPPOINTMENT OVER BEACONSFIELD’S
SPEECH.
JU>ndon. November 11.—A tone of disap
pointment pervades the comments in the
morning journals on Lord Beaconsfield’s
speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet last
night. It was anticipated that Beaconefield
would throw some light on the relations of
England with Turkey and the future of
Afghanistan, and on the chances of the
dissolution of Parliament, but the conclud
ing sentence of his speech Is accepted in
some quarters as negativing the idea of dis
solution.
The Tunes points out the absence of any
reference to the Eastern question, or to the
Anglo-Turkish convention, and says : “But
if the speech Is not exciting, It is not dis
turbing. The explanations offered by Sir
Stafford Northcote, Chancellor of the Ex
chequer, respecting the finances, will com
bine with Bcaconsfield’s account of the re
vival of trade to produce a reassuring im
pression.”
The Daily News warns the Liberals not to
take this indifferent assurance too seriously,
aud says that it is capable of various inter
pretations, and was probably intended to be
60.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal observer,
Washington, D. C., November 11.—Indica
tions for Wednesday:
In the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
southeast to southwest winds, stationary or
slowly falling barometer, slight fall in
temperature in the western portions, In
creasing cloudiness and areas of rain in the
last named district.
In the Middle States, southerly to wester
ly winds, falling barometer, rising tempera
ture, increasing cloudiness and rain, except
partly cloudy weather In the southern por
tion.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, sonth
to west winds, falling barometer, slight fall
in temperature, threatening weather and
rain.
A UNITED STATES COURT CLERK IN TROUBLE.
Cincinnati, Nbvember 11.—Special Agent
McComb’s investigation into the accounts of
Clerk Ambrose, of the United States Court,
reveals increased peculations. Among other
things, in two patent cases appealed to the
Unlted States Supreme Court he cut out prin
ted leaves of the attorney’s brief, pasted the
>roper certificates to them, and charged 5750
u each case. Objection being made to this,
he reduced the bill to $500 each, which was
paid, but no entry thereof was made in the
emolument returns. If the t>rief had been
copied in full, the bill should not have
amounted to $400.
INQUIRY INTO TUB CHAMPION COLLISION.
Philadelphia, November 11.—Official
inquiry will be instituted to-morrow by act
ing British Consul George Crump into the
causes of the collision of the Champion and
the Lady Octavia. The court will be con
stituted as follows: President, acting Con
sul Crump, in the absence of any higher
British officer; Wm. Brockie; Capt. John
Rowell, of the steamship Strathmore, of
Glasgow; Capt. Thomas Roy, of the ship
Esther Roy, of Maitland, N. S., and Capt.
Thomas Webster, of the bark Whittington,
of Lancaster.
BARK PICKED UP AT SEA.
Philadelphia, November 1L—Captain
Flaherty, of the Red Star Line steamer Ze-
land, reports that on November 8, in lat.
33:3 N.,ion. 6:1:35 W., he picked up the bark
Royal Arch, of 8underland, which had been
abandoned by her master and crew. She
was loaded with salt and merchandise. Her
sails and rigging were all In proper shape.
She had but two or three feet of water in
her hold, and her pumps were in good
working order. The first mate and seven
seamen of the Zeland were put on board
with directions to sail for New York.
TWO HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED BY INDIANS.
Chicago, November 11.—A special from
El Paso, Texas, reporting the fight with
Indians, mentioned in a Galveston News
special, says these Indians have killed more
than two hundred persons within the pest
six weeks.
SETTLEMENT OT THE BANQUE EUROPEANNE.
London, November 1L—A Paris dispatch
says: “The settlement between the Banque
Europeaune, which has now frankly accept
ed all of Phillipart’s operations and the
outside brokers, begun yesterday, the
necessary money for the liquidation of his
indebtedness having been obtained from the
Credit Lyonnais, under quarantine of the
syndicate formed among outside brokers,
and in pledge of which some thousands of
Credit llobllier and tramway shares have
been lodged with that Institution.”
THE NEW YORK FIREV.
New York, November 11.—Tne Bleecker
street fire was brought under control at
half-past one o’clock. The police estimate
the losses, in the absence of any means of
fixing them, at about sixty thousand dol
lars.
The fire on the steamer Bristol burned
through a portion of the deck before it was
extinguished. The steamer’s officers state
the loss will probably not exceed one thou
sand dollars.
SOUTHERN HONORS TO GRANT.
Cincinnati, November 11.—A special
from Louisville states that the Southern
Historical Society, representing the ex-Con-
federates, met last night, and resolved to
extend a cordial reception to Grant when
he visits the city. They expect to turn out
in a body.
disastrous tornado.
St. Louis, November 11.—Northwestern
Arkansas advices say a tornado passed
through a part of Crawford county Satur
day, destroying nearly everything In its
course, killing several persons and wound
ing others.
THE KELLOGG-SPOFFORD CASE.
" Atlanta, Ga., November 11.—The United
States Senate sub-committee on the Kellogg-
8pofford case leave for New Orleans Satur
day. Senators Hill and Vance leave from
here and wfl! be met at New Orleans by
Senator Cameron, of Wisconsin.
TOE LONDON STOCK MARKET.
London, November 11.—The stock market
is stagnant. The settlement which begins
to-day absorbs attention. Turkish securities
are very flat in consequence of disappoint
ment at Lord Beaconsfield’s speech last
night.
THE NEW YORK ELECTION.
Auburn, N. Y., November 11.—Irregula
rities in Cayuga county returns will delay
the-official canvass until to-morrow night.
THE SANDERSVILLE FAIR.
The Last Two Days of the Bxlilbf
tlon—Vlnlt of Governor Colquitt,
and the Reunion of the Twenty-
Eighth Georgia Regiment—The
Gove-nor’a Address to His Old
Comrades—A Fine Display and Ex
cellent Attendance—The Exhibi
tion a Complete Success.
Sandersville, November 10.—Editor
Morning News: As your readers have been
informed by telegraph, Friday last was the
great day of the Central Georgia Agricul
tural Fair held at Saudersville. The at
tendance was immense, and the weather all
that could possibly be desired. Many
guests were present from Washington and
adjoining counties, and the number of per
sons were estimated at from two thousand
to two thousand five hundred.
As anticipated, Governor Colquitt arrived
on the grounds a little after 10 a. m. He
was greeted by the large crowd present in
the warmest and most cordial manner, and
^veiy one felt both honored and gratified by
%Is visit. Soon after his arrival the remnant
of the veteran Twenty-eighth Regiment of
Georgia Volunteers assembled, and Col. D.
B. Evans, of Sandersville, introduced the
Governor In a short but happy speech. The
Governor then proceeded to deliver an ad
dress to the assembled visitors, and more
pecially to his old comrades in
arms. He spoke of the pleasure be felt at
meeting them again, and hoped that so long
as any of the old participant* in the bard
scenes during the war lived, they would feel
sincere, true and undying friendship for
each other. He paid a*toeauttful tribute to
the women of the South, and urged upon
the Southern farmers to devote their earnest
attention to the cultivation of home pro
ductions, since through them alone can the
South rely ou becoming prosperous and in
dependent.
In this strain the Governor continued for
some time. lie was attentively listened to
throughout, and at the conclusion of bis ad
dress received loud and enthusiastic ap
plause, and Howell’s Battery, commanded
oy Captain Isaac Hermann, fired in his
honor a salute of eleven guns. In addition
to the members of the Twenty-eighth Regi
ment present there were also on hand many
members of the old Sixth Georgia, both of
which regiments were in the Governor’s old
brigade.
The display In all departments Was very
fine. That of live stock was especially
excellent, and there were some of the finest
animals from Washington county I have
ever seen. Space will hardly admit of my
giving a detailed account of the exhibition.
Not only in the stock, but in the agricultu
ral, mechanical and ladles’ departments, the
display was all that could be desired, and
the association have good reason to be proud
of their success.
Some of the most noted racers in the State
were present on the grounds, and the racing
was highly enjoyed.
The first was a running race, half mile
heats, a sweepstakes, not included in the
regular programme. Entries: Boyer’s
“Lady Gay,” Bland’s “Sallie Moffet” and
Hughes’ “Bill Jones.” The race was won
hu “1.5
bv “Lady Gay” in two straight heats. Time
51 and 52K-
The first regular race was a running one,
mile heats, best two in three, purse $300.
entries, “Coloael Sprague,” “Buckshot”
and “Empire.” “Colonel Sprague” took
the race In two straight heats. Time 1:48,
1:47K-
In the trotting race, free for all, mile
heats, best three in five, purse $300, Boyer’s
“King Phillip,” Bland’s “F. B.,” and
Hughes’ “Ross” were entered. The race
was won by “Ross” In three heats. Time
:31K, 2:41, 2:46.
On Saturday, the fait day of the fair, the
same fine weather and favorable circum
stances which had marked the preceding
days continued. The attendance was even
larger than was expected, the crowd enjoyed
the display in the several departments as
mnch as ever, and the closing day was in
every respect a complete succese. The
races were especially enjoyable and were as
follows:
The first was a mule race, mile heats, best
two in three. The entries were J. Barrow’s
black mule “Mike McCarty,” Barrow Bros.’
brown mule, “Rhoda Malone,” Smith <&
Co.’s black inale, “Last Chance,” and Raw-
ling’s 6orrel mule, “Champagne Charley.”
It was won by “ Mike McCarty ” in two
straight heats, “Rhoda Malone” second and
Champagne Charley” third.
The .next was a sweepstakes, for a silver
service, given by the agent of America’s
finest whisky, “The Private Stock.” The
entries were Isaac Blnnt’s “General Beaure
gard” and H. W. Jackson’s “Ida.” It was
won by Beauregard in two straight beats.
Thus ended the Sandersville Fair for the
year 1879. In this hasty sketch many mat
ters of interest have necessarily been
omitted, but suffice it to say the occasion
will long be remembered with pleasure by
all who were present. The genial, whole-
souled hospitality of the citizens of Sanders
ville, in which your representative was a
large sharer, Is especially worthy of
mention, and to their hearty co-opera
tion with the management Is largely due
the success of the exhibition. The Improve
ments in both their town and adjacent
country are very manifest, and I trust that
the Central Georgia Agricultural Society
may meet with the fullest encouragement in
the years yet to come in their laudable ef
forts to develop the material interest s of
their section.
A clergyman’s wife had impressed
upon her Tittle boy the necessity of eject
ing the skins of grapes, and a few day’s
afterward she told him the stoiy of
Jonah and the whale. “The whale is a
very large monster,” said the mother,
“and he swallowed Jonah.” “Did he
swallow other men too?” asked the little
boy. “Well, I suppose he did,” con
tinued the mother, who was somewhat
in doubt; and while she was hesitating
about the continuation of the story, the
boy interrupted, “And, mamma, did he
spit the skins out, too?”
John Nieuman, an old fanner, was
found murdered in his barn, at Passaic,
N. J., on Saturday morning last Every
thing showed that a desperate struggle
had taken place. Suspicion fell upon the
old man’s son, who lived on the pre
mises, and he was arrested. On the way
to prison he made several desperate at
tempts at escape, but was finally lodged
in jafl.
Conkling planted and Beecher watered
for Comellism in Brooklyn, and the peo
ple of that city of abused churches re
sponded by giving an increased majority
for the whole Democratic ticket—Phila
delphia Jimct, Ind, Repub.
LETTER FROM ALABAMA.
Fair* and Horning News Publica
tions—The Central Railroad and Its
Numerous Branches—A Juvenile
Atlanta—Troy as a Cotton Harhet—
Some Practical Socceitlons-The
East Alabama Fair—Eufsuia an
Her People—Pinal Paragraphs an
Personals.
Special Oorresjxnutenc* of the Morning News.
Union Springs, Ala., November 10.—
Haring “done” the Atlanta Fair, the 8tate
Fair at Macon and the Eufaula Fair, at all
of which the Morning News establishment
has made a fine exhibit of its various publi
cations, your correspondent is now en route
to the Alabama State Fair at Montgomery.
Speaking of these publications, I met
Georgia editor of ripe experience and ac
knowledged ability at the Eufanla Fair,
who pronounced the Morning News “the
model paper of the South, handsomely
printed, ably edited and always reliable.”
The Jasper Centennial issue of the News
he considers “the greatest feat in Southern
journalism,” and expressed no surprise
when I told him that a second edition had
to be printed to meet the public demand.
Some of your readers may think I am off
my “beat” in my present journeying?, but
such is not the case. There was a time
when the Central Railroad was a puro’y
Georgia corporation, and covered only the
territory of that State. But it long ago ob
tained an interest In the Western Railroad
of Alabama, from Columbus to Montgome
ry, Ala., and later still It leased the Mobile
and Girard Railroad, from Coiambus to
Troy, Ala. By this latter transaction it se
cured a direct line from Savannah to one of
the best cotton points in this State, with no
competition except from Union Springs.
During the past year Col. Wm. M. Wad
ley, by one of his masterly strokes, pro
cured the Montgomery and Eufaula Rail
road, from Eufaula to Montgomery, thereby
destroying all competition at this place,
where the two roads cross each other. Now
Savannah has two routes direct from this rich
cotton growing section of Alabama to her
grand steamship lines. Under this new
state of things 1 find that the people here
are talking more than ever before about the
“Forest City”, and her awakened public
spirit and enterprise. The merchants of this
section are having their goods shipped from
New York via the Savannah steamships, and
a growing trade is also being cultivated
among them by Savannah commercial tour
ists.
mi>or TOPICS.
The Central Railroad ought to be called a
’trunk” line, for no railroad In the South
has more “branches.” Taking the route
from Macon to Eufaula as a sample, It is
easy to get an idea of the extent of territory
it covers. At Fort Valley a main line goes
ou to Columbus, while a branch runs to
Perry. At Smithville another branch goes
to Albany, where still another branch ex
tends to Arlington. At Cuthbert there Is
a branch to Fort Gaines, on the Chatta
hoochee river, and at Eufaula a branch goes
out to Clayton.
Iu addition to the Macon aud Western
Railroad to Atlanta, with several important
branches, Captain W. G. Raoul, son-in-law
of Col. Wadley, is General Superintendent
of the Southwestern Railroad and Its numer
ous branches. Although 6till a young man.
be has reached the front rank of able ai d
successful railroad managers. It was this
fact no doubt that led Col. Wadley to add
to bis already burdensome duties the gen
eral superintendency of the Mont
gomery and Eufanla Railroad after Its
recent purchase. The depots at Eufaula
and Union Springs have been consolidated,
and passenger trains now run through from
Macon to Montgomery without change of
cars or conductors. Passengers from Savan
nah, therefore, have but one change in
going to Montgomery. The old Southwest
ern conductors, Messrs. Dasher, Smith and
Bass, take the places of the former con
ductors from Eufaula to Montgomery. This
consolidation of agents, conductors and
train hands makes quite a reduction in the
cost of running both roads.
~ A JUVENILE ATLANTA.
Should Atlanta search the South for a
child to adopt, If It were desired to have a
marked resemblance between parent and
child, the “Gate City” would unhesitatingly
select for that purpose the city of Troy,
Ala., which is a miniature edition of At
lanta.
True It is that the Trojans do not blow
their “horn” as vigorously and persistently,
yet they have all the push, vim, assurance
and hopefulness that characterize the most
■ingnine Atlantese. Tell a Trojan that the
business part of the city is being over-built,
and be will laugh at you. He expects to see
the place double its present size during the
next ten years, as it has done in the past ten.
I went there to edit the Troy Messenger in
1870, at which time there was a solitary brick
dwelling in the place. After a few months
a double brick store was erected, and then
followed others, the result of a destructive
fire on the square. At the present time,
nearly all the numerous business houses are
brick, and there are also two large brick
hotels. The City Hotel, so long kept by
Mrs. R. II. Park, is one of the best hotels
in the South, and is generally patronized by
Savannah cotton buyers and commercial
tourists. Messrs. II. Bendbeim, J. F. Gull-
martin and J. Wise were there on Saturday.
Mrs. Park is universally popular with the
traveling public generally.
There is one peculiar feature about Troy,
and one that 1 have often commended. Her
young men have no superiors In business
talent. Within the past ten years a score of
older merchants have retired from active
business in favor of young men, some of
whom were school boys when I first knew
them. To-day they are merchants whose
energy and business qualities have given
new life to the place, helped greatly to
double the size of Troy, and made her future
bright and hopeful. Capt. Henry D. Green,
formerly of Columbus, now a banker, has
*iven Troy five or six years of his superior
business talent, and mnch credit is due him
for her present prosperity. His accomplished
wife has also been the leading spirit in the
erection of a handsome little Episcopal
church edifice.
TROY AS A COTTON CENTRE.
No city of its size In the South equals
Troy as a cotton market. When I went
there in 1870, a few weeks before the ad
vent of the railroad, there was no such
thing as a warehouse in existence. To-day
there are four fine brick cutton warehouses.
When I left here, five years ago, there were
but two, and neither of them expected to
make money until one or the other closed
up. Yet all four of the warehouses are
doing a good business the present year.
It is expected that about thirty thousand
bales of cotton will be shipped from Troy
this season, an increase of several thousand
bales over last year. There has been a
steady gain lu the receipts from the open
ing of the first warehouse in 1871. A6 soon
as the railroad was completed the merchants
of this city reached out iu every direction
after cotton, aud drew here year after year
the trade which bad been going to other
points. They came a corps of cotton buy
ers, small at first, tut increasing each sea
son, which gave a new impetus to the cotton
business at this point. Among the buyers
there now is Mr. J. F. Guilmartiu, of Sa
vannah, who is a worthy representative of
your city, to which a large portion of the
cotton has been shipped. If there is a de
crease in future shipments, it will be well
for your cotton men to ascertain the reason,
and take steps to secure their full share of
the fleecy staple from this important point
of distribution.
SOME PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
It must follow, as a matter of course, that
Troy is a great cotton market, having not
only merchants to traffic for the staple bat
brokers to pay cash for the same, there is a
great amount of merchandising carried on.
This being the case, It also follows that com
mercial tourists are frequent visitors to that
city.
To this aspect of the case I desire to call
the attention of Savannah-wholesale mer
chants and manufacturers. There is no rail
communication to Troy that is not controlled
by the Central Railroad, therefore no other
city can hope for better or more favorable
rates of freight for the same distance. Nor
do I believe other cities can sell some lines of
goods any cheaper than Savannah. Messrs.
Ludden <fc Bates’ drummer has sold twenty
flan os and several organs In Troy against
Ively competition.
Is it wise, therefore, for your city to be
content merely with a share of the cotton
trade of Troy ? I think not. A few enter
prising firms in Savannah send their drum
mers to Troy In the ordinary way. But can
not a united effort be made to influence a
Urge amount of trade from Troy? I think
special exertions in this direction would not
R rove fruitless of good results. A city so
ill of live and successful merchants, and
where nearly thirty thousand bales of cotton
find a ready market, is a field* worthy to be
cultivated by the wholesale business nooses
of Georgia’s great seaport city. Let them
at once seek to occupy and hold it in future
by a scale of prices that will defy competi
tion on the part of more ambitious and pre
tentious cities.
THE EAST iT.nuifi FAIR.
President H. Hawkins and his associates
of this Fair Association are jubilant over
their success this year, as the exposition
dosed on Saturday with a large attendance
and unabated interest. A recent increase
In the capital stock of the association also
assures greater success next season.
My wife was especially pleased with the
“Ladles' Department” of the fair at Hart’s
Hall # some features of which attracted
general commendation. Mrs. J. M. Spur
lock, wife of the General Superintendent,
took the premium for the largest and finest
display of preserves and pickles. Miss
Melissa Glover was awarded premiums for
elegant crewel work and home-made silk,
in the cnlture of which she is bnt a novice.
Mr. Wm. J. Minderhout, representing the
mnsic house of Ludden «fc Bates, of Savan
nah, occupied a prominent place in the
hail with his fine display of pianos, organa
and sheet mnsic, and afforded a rich musical
treat dally by his expert performances on
the piano and organ. So great was his suc
cess in Eufanla that he packed up on Satur
day night and started for the Alabama State
Fair in Montgomery, where Savannah enter
prise and vim will be equally as well en
couraged.
EUFAULA AND ITS PEOPLE.
I intended to give your readers some in
teresting gossip about the old town
Eufaula and her noted public men, but that
ubiquitious correspondent,Col. H. H. Jones,
of the Macon Telegraph and Messenger,
slipped in ahead of me with a most read
able letter to his paper on the subject, and
where he puts in bis editorial sickle it takes
a sharp-eyed gleaner to gather up an;
lint headless or discarded straws.
It.would be. impossible, however, not to
mention Gen. Alpheus Baker, the silver^
toegued and golden-mouthed orator of
Alabama, who has just returned from a
successful lecture tour In Canada. I was
charmed with his genial humor as he related
to a circle of distinguished gentlemen, at
the fair, some of the most marked and
pleasing incidents of his trip. One thing is
certain. General Baker has come back with
a better knowledge of the Canadian people,
and in consequence he expresses a much
higher regard for their manners, customs
and laws.
Nor should I forget my pleasant visit to
the Times and News office, where I saw old
familiar faces. Editor Shropshire, who
seems to have had a finger in all the news
paper ventures of the past ten years, now
presides over the consolidated papers, and
is as lively and as hopeful as ever. He
wields a ready pen, and knows all about
editing a good paper. Mr. Ed. Black, for
merly of tbe News, and son of its old pro
prietor, the lamented John Black, Esq , is
foreman of the establishment, and is patting
it into apple-pie order. A. A. Walker, Esq.,
President of the Enfaula Publishing Com
pany, Is tbe energetic and capable business
manager and backbone of tbe concern, and
has put his shoulder to tbe wheel with a de
termination to succeed. The success of the
Morning News establishment has inspired
him with new zeal, and in addition to his
weekly and trl-weekly, he proposes to pub
lish the Sunday Times and News, and make it
a handsome paper.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Arrival of Members of Co:
Prospect of a Lively Session—What
Radicals and Democrats Say—Sale
of Public Lands—Dropped Arons the
Bolls of the Republican Associa
tion for Telling the Truth.
Special Correspondence of the Momina News.
Washington, November 10.—Members of
Congress are becoming rather plentiful with
us now. Congress assembles in three weeks
from to-day, and stray committees author
ized to sit during the recess are coming in
for a final meeting before the members as
semble in regular session. We have had a
stray member or two every week during the
recess—he was here to “transact business for
his constituents”—and nearly every one has
fallen into the hands of the interviewer.
Now the mania for the Interview has In
creased, and any member, no *natter
is ft, a
leans who it has been my fortune to meet are
than usual of one wayof'lhfnfcfbg
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Although we are having a drizzling rain
this morning the special train is well filled
with passengers bound to the State Fair at
Montgomery. There is a certain class of
; >eople that never postpone their visit to a
: air on account of the weather, bat go in
rain as well as in sunshine.
Capt. John G. Smith, who has been rail
road agent at Eufaula for tbe past ten years,
and is perfectly familiar with cotton move
ments, expresses the opinion that Eufaula
and other points on this line will not receive
as many bales as last year, owing to bad
crops. Some of the merchants, however,
think the farmers are holding back consid
erable cotton for next msnth.
Your correspondent was under many obli
gations to Mr. E. R. Qutllian, proprietor of
the Clayton Courier, during bis stay in that
pleasant town. Mr. Q. went to Clayton
some ten years ago and established the
Courier, which he has placed upon a sub
stantial basts by his industry, energy and
economy. An excellent wife, now quite ill,
and two Industrious boys have had no little
to do with his success.
Not only in Enfaula, where numerous
handsome brick blocks have been erected,
and in Troy, of which I have written in
another part of this letter, have I seen evi
dences of increasing prosperity, but at
nearly every station new stores and hand
some residences meet the eye, and cbaBe&ge
the truth of the oft repeated assertion that
we are growing poorer every day. Even the
small bnt progressive city of Troy now has
as elegant residences as can be seen in Sa
vannah and Atlanta. Underneath all this
outside show of wealth there must be some
kind of prosperity. It is folly to suppose
that all this growth and display is based
upon credit, and will in tbe end swallow
Itself np in a financial whirlpool. Let us
hope for better results and labor for a
nobler end. Cuatoak.
A Great Improvement in Cotton Gin
ning.
Baltimore Sun.
The history of machinery in connec
tion with industrial pursuits and the
revolutions it has wrought at different
times is very interesting leading. It was
in 1792 that Eli Whitney, while studying
law in Savannah, and residing with the
widow of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, at the
Mulberry Grove plantation, observed the
clumsy workings of the primitive roller-
gin of the period, by which no more
than a pound of seed cotton could be
cleaned in a day. Whitney set to work
and invented ~tke saw gin, that famous
machine which, while it brought much
litigation and little profit to the inventor,
built up the cotton power of tbe South,
raising the product from 2,000,000 pounds
in 1791 to the enormous crop of the
present year, 5,000,000 bales of 450
pounds each. A new process of ginning,
called the “Clement attachment,” is now
upon trial at the South, which, if it
succeeds, as is expected by the
sanguine observers of its operations,
will once again revolutionize cotton
culture and manufacture and place the
irofits of the great staple where they be-
ong, in tbe hands of tbe producer. This
new machine compares with the original
Whitney gin as the old-fashioned thrash
ing machine compares with the latest
improved combined steam thrasher
and cleaner, which receives the sheaves
of wheat from the field, separates straw,
jrain and chaff, and delivers the wheat
n bags ready fanned for market. The
Clement attachment takes the seed cotton
fresh from the field, cleans and dusts it,
separates the seed without breaking or
tearing the fibre, “coaxes” the “lint” into
I mrallel lines, each fibre drawn out to its
: ull length and laid side by side with all
tbe other fibres, combs it into long, thin
rolls, cards it, and then spins it into yarns
of any required fineness. It is, in fact,
a gin which repudiates the tearing
operation of the old saw-gin and pre
serves the staple uncut ana intact. Its
motion is said to be gentle and persistent,
instead of rapid and violent, and the
value of the product is thus greatly in-
sed. The value of this new inven
tion, when perfected, to the planter is
difficult to over estimate. Raw cotton
now averages about ll£ cents in bales,
while cdtton yarn is selling for 174 cents
about. Allowing for the slight increase
in cost of manipulation by the new pro
cess, and the planter who sells yarns in
stead of raw cotton will still realize an
advance of 50 per cent, in the price he
gets for his staple. The Clement ma
chinery is costly, and perhaps intricate,
the machine itself fetching $600. while
all the appliances, steam engine, etc., will
bring the cost of the apparatus for the new
process above $2,000. Ou large planta-
tations it will pay to have tbe machine,
*" it works as represented, even at this
price. Smaller planters, by imitating
the co-operative system of tbe cheese ana
dairy farmers of the North, can easily
get cheap use of the machinery and have
their work excellently done by expert
mechanics at a very small cost. Cotton
houses, where cotton could be ginned,
spun, haled and stored, might he built
at convenient central points, upon rail
roads or navigable rivers, ana all the
neighboring planters could confederate
to establish such depots and equip them
with the machinery, or, as is done in the
case with wheat thrashing in tbe North
ern States, enterprising men might buy
1 he machines and go from plantation to
plantation with their own engineers and
operatives, ginniog tbe cotton at a fixed
price. If this new process should justify
the expectations entertained of it, it wiil
simply revolutionize the cotton manu
facture. New England factories will
be deprived of one source of profit, but
will be more than compensated by the
fact that the success of the new process
will remove Europe from all chance of
competing with the United States in the
cotton manufacture. When cotton yarn
is spun on the plantation fi^ *
become an import—'*
nearest
if he, does V' n
district, finds willing journalistic ears into
which to pour his views on every conceivable
question. The principal objective point in
seeking the member is to find out what be
thinks is going to be done at the next
session. The Democrats and the Republi-
among themselves politically. The Repub
licans, as a general role, predict that the
next session after the recess for the holi
days is going to be remarkably lively politi
cally, and that there is going to be plenty of
opportunities for Republicans to whoop
np the stalwart issue and make
a solid North. They openly express
the determination of precipitating upon
every possible occasion a fierce political de
bate, and of making it as bitter and as vin
dictive as possible. They do not intend to
attempt any Important legislation, they say,
except to help along the different appro
priation bills—they are always ready to vote
away any amount of money—but to leave
the inauguration of important legislation to
the majority. They will fight against this
legislation most likely, they say, no matter
what its character may be. This
is a minor consideration to them, how
ever. Their all in the next session seems to
be based on the hopes of again opening np
sectional debate.
The Democrats have business principally
In view at the next session. They express
the determination to do work and make the
session short and mainly a business one.
The principal business to be accomplished
will be the revision of the tariff on a liberal
basis—no protection for one section of the
country in order to enrich it, while the
money that goes to enrich that section comes
from the rest of tbe country. It is a great
and difficult task, but one demanded by
three-fourths of tbe people of the country,
and it is intended that the demand shall be
fulfilled. The rich high tariff protectionists
might as well take note of this fact. They
probably have already done so and are pre
paring to accomplish tbe defeat of anything
that looks like a revision of the tariff.
They will have a Lard fight. The bill to
prevent political assessment of officeholders,
which is now on the House calendar, will
also be pressed. But little in a financial
way will be attempted—except, perhaps,
the passage of a bill to allow the Treasury
Department to resume refunding operations
in 1880. The internal revenue laws will be
amended in some particulars for the good of
the country. Above all there is to be no
sectional debate if it can be prevented. The
Radicals only want such exchange of chin
music to misrepresent all that is said on the
one side, and perpetuate their hold on tbe
government hv appealing, to the worst feel
ings of the North. This lesson has been
learnt, and it is intended that there shall be
no repetition of the useless debates of last
session. Tbe fight with Mr. Hayes will not
be renewed, but as heretofore stated in this
correspondence, there will hardly be an ap
propriation made for special deputy mar
shals.
The above is the gi6t of what the Repub
licans and Democrats say as to the next
session. Something may turn up at any
time, after Congress re-assembles, to knock
some of these calculations in the head.
They are of interest, though, as showing an
outline of what each side intends doing.
SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS.
Mr. Hayes to-day issued a proclama
tion announcing for public sale at the land
office In Montgomery, Ala., February 14th
next, certain public lands in that State. The
lands to be sold are those that were thrown
open for public purchase under the act of
1876. Some sales under that act have been
made, bnt large tracts remain to the govern
ment. The land office officials say much of
it Is valuable.
TOE SAME OLD CROWD.
Our somewhat weak but noisy friends of
the so-called Republican “ Association ”
have just turned out one of their members.
Mr. Allan Rutherford has been dropped
from the rolls of the association. He was
a member of the precious crowd, bat sud
denly became sour because he was not pat
on a committee. He went to Wilmington,
Del., for some purpose or other, perhaps to
raise the wind. lie took the occasion to
have himself interviewed bv the Wilmington
Jbst. In this interview he said the “Associa
tion” was composed of bummers and dead
beats, who were only keeping together for the
purpose of gettlnga few crumbs and a little
pap from John Sherman and tbe rest of tbe
administration. The “Association” read
the interview and came to the conclusion
that there was ton mnch truth iu it. They
solemnly considered tbe matter and decided
to bonnee Rutherford. So that individual
will no more receive the solace that the “As
sociation” grants. Potomac.
AN AWFUL RAILROAD RACE.
Hill by BaralagOU
Mile* la LcmTbu
Twelve niaotes.
Dunkirk (X. Y.) Correspondence of the Nhw
York Times.
By a locomotive explosion on a Weft-
era railroad a few days ago, the engineer,
John Davison, was killed. Davison wm
one of the oldest engineers in the coun
try, and was for several years on the
Buffalo, Cony and Pittsburg Railroad,
where he had one of the most terrible
experiences that has ever been recorded
in the history of railroading. Hia death
recalls that night of peril to every one in
A Powerful Electric Eel.
Galignani's Messenger.
M. Marcy, who has for some years
been engaged in the study of these veiy
singul ir aquatic animals, has announced
to the Academy of Sciences that he has
received a living specimen of the gym-
notus or electrical eel from Pern, and
that it is lodged in his laboratory at the
College de France, where, bye the bye,
any visitor is admitted to inspect ir.
The gymnotus is that peculiar fish which
at its w pleasure gives electrical discharge?,
and thereby stuns the animal it desires
to make its prey. Its principal home is
in the rivers and lagoons of South
America, where it is the terror of
all other animals, not even except
ing the cayman, the American
crocodile. One of these eels two
metres in length can give a shock which
will reduce to powerlessness the oxen
and horses that comedown to the stream
to drink at the points it frequents, and
thus render them an easy prey to their
aquatic enemies. Man himself, though
not so sensitive to the shock as tbe other
animals, is still liable to very serious in
convenience from its effects. 31. Marcy
has found, during his investigations, that
a gymnotus of a metre in length has an
electrical surface of about six hun
dred square feet, equal to a very
powerful battery. The animal, ow-
ng to its length and the supple
ness of its body, can produce different
electrical effects according as it is in a
straight line, convex, or concave as re
gards its prey. Its general mode of pro
cedure is to form a semi circle and place
the fish it is intent on in the diameter of
the circuit. When the discharge is de
livered, the prey, as if struck by a thun
derbolt, is rendered powerless; the gym
notus swims around it. as if to be as
sured of the efficacy •>( the shock, and
then swallows its victim. These are not
the only fish which possess the singular
power of launching electrical discharges
on their prey or on their enemies. 31any
others are known, but far inferior in
force to the terrible gymnotus. Among
them are the torpedo fish and some spe
cies of skate which inhabit the coasts of
Great Britain and France, and some
other species found in the Nile and Sene
. . .
this part of the State, although it
never ceased to be related in minutest
detail at all gatherings of railroad men
where the dangers of the footboard have
been the topic.
From Maiyville Summit to Brocton
Junction of the Lake Shore Road the
distance is ten miles, but owing to the
numerous sweeping curves in the rail
road, the distance by rail is fourteen
miles. The grade for that distance is
nearly eighty feet to the mile. TTie
Cony Road extends into the Pennsyl
vania oil regions, and ten years ago
carried large quantities of petroleum.
On the ni^ht of August 17, 1869, Davi
son's engine was at the Summit with a
train of one box car, six loaded oil cars,
and one passenger car. The box car
was next to the locomotive, and the pas
senger cars were at the rear of the train.
The engineer had started the train, and
it had attained good headway, when he
discovered flames issuing from one of
the oil cars. He whistled down
brakes, and the coaches were cut loose
from the oil cars, which were quicklv
uncoupled from the box car. The engi
neer then pulled on down the hill, to get
out of the reach of the burning cars, in
order to save the locomotive and the
other car in which were two valuable
trottffcg horses and their keepers, on the
way to Cleveland. He supposed the
brakesmen would put the brakes on the
oil cars, but in the excitement this was
not done, and they followed the locomo
tive, gaining headway every moment.
Before the engineer had taken in the sit
uation, the ou cars, every one of them
now ablaze, came dashing upon him
around a curve. They crushed into the
box car, knocking in one end of it, but
singularly enough, neither that nor any
of the moving cars were thrown from the
track by tbe collision. The engineer and
fireman could have escaped all danger by
abandoning the locomotive, but, as Davi
son said when asked afterward why he did
not pursue that^course.they had $20,000
worth of tbe company’s property in their
charge, and they were determined to save
it if possible. According to the engi
neer’s stoiy of the incident, be saw there
was to be a race for life between him,
with his engine, and the flaming cars,
under no control. He said that when the
oil cars struck the one in which the
horses were the poor animals actually
screamed with fright. Davison pulled
the throttle-valve wide open, and he de
clared that the}' fled down the eighty-
foot grade so fast that the engine could
not pump. The keepers in the car next
the oil cars climbed up to the opening in
the end of the car. and with faces pale
as death, begged the engineer to “give
her more steam.” They could see the
blazing oil cars through the* broken end
of their car, and it seemed to them that
the}' gained at every turn of the wheels.
The engineer said that when he struck
the sharp curves at the ljghtning speed
at which he was going he expected
that his engine would leave the track and
be hurled down the mountain side. The
night was very dark. The engine
thundered along faster than any engine
ever ran in this country before or since,
through woods and deep rock cuts, and
on the edge of high precipices. The
horses were stamping and neighing with
terror in the box car. and only a few feet
in the rear was the flying mass of flame
rushing down the mountain like a tre
mendous meteor. The blaze from the
thousands of gallons of burning oil was
more than sixty feet in height, and
lighted up the woods and rocks and
crooked road for miles. The whole
heavens were illuminated, and from Broc
ton the sight of the great conflagration,
apparent!} flying through the air, now
hidden for a second by a cut or a piece
of wood, and then leaping out again and
towards the sky like a huge fountain
fire, i3 described as having been
awful in its grandeur.
The idea of engineer Davison was to
call for the opening of the switch for him
at Brockton Junction, so that he could
run on to the Lake Shore track, where
the grade was ascending, and where he
could soon get out of the way of the
burning cars through their having lost
the propelling power of the decline of
the Summit grade. It happened, how
ever, that the Cincinnati express on the
Lake Shore Road would be due at the
junction when Davison's engine reach
ed there. To add to the terror of the
situation, a west bound Lake Shore
freight train was at that moment running
to pass the junction before the arrivid
of the express. There was only one
thing to do, and that was to whistle
for the switch, and take the chances
of the freight getting out of the way, and
the express being flagged or late. The
engineer knew that he must have been
seen from Brocton Junction, by the light
of the burning oil, in his life or death
race down the mountain, and that the
railroad men there understood the peril
of the situation and would be prompt to
act. He whistled for open switch. He
and his firemen then bade each other
goodbye and awaited the result. The
freight train gained the siding out of
their way. The switch was opened, and
they tore on up the Lake Shore track,
past the depot and through the village, •
aud were soon out of the way of
the burning cars. The latter
gra lually came to a stop. The
e"trine and box car were stopped
within a hundred yards of tbe Lake
Shore express, which was both late and
signaled. When Davison and Lis fire
man found they were out of danger they
fainted on their engine. The horses in
the box car were ruined, and their keep
ers were taken from the car unconscious.
The oil tanks burned for three hours
after they were stopped. The most for
tunate circumstance of the whole affair
was the uncoupling of the passenger
cars from the oil cars at Summit. They
were filled with passengers, and if they
had remained with the burning tanks
would have been wrapped in tbe flames
in a very short time, and there would
have been no escape for the passengers
from a most horrible fate. It was just
nine o’clock when Davison pulled out
from Mayville Summit. When he was
taken from his engine, sixteen miles
from the starting point, it was not yet
twelve minutes post the hour.
Bitmsn Capital Coming to Ameri
ca.—In the coarse of the next five years
a vast amount of British capital will find
its way to this country, where branches
of English business houses will be estab
lished, while in many cases the main
business will be transferred here. We
may see this to-day in New York, where
shops are constantly being established by
Englishmen. The great dry goods houses
are largely represented by them. The Eng
lish capitalist feeling an absolute security
in our public finances, will more
and more pour those hoards which
is at his wits end to know
he
how to invest into associations
conducted by his own countymea here,
and the benefit will accrue to Doth coun
tries. The present trouble in England
will thus tend to bind even
commercial .
A Female Soldier.—Private Manot-
ti, of the Eleventh Battalion. Italian Ber-
saglieri, though long confined to the
room by illness, refused to be carried to
i>*e hospital. Ultimately, on being
rcibly-removed thither, the soldier was
discovered to be a woman. She joined
i he army during the war of 186G to ena
ble her brother to remain with his wife
mid six children. She had pievious.y,
bring very strong, worked in the mines.
A t Custozza she won a medal for bravery.
The King has conferred on her a decora
tion, and sent her home with a pension
of 300 lire.
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