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<«eoi’sin Affairs.
tk- W.irrciiton Clijqicr records what was
■I jjjjrj. fatal accident a few nights ago.
w r j*. Swain by mistake gave to his
onlv a few weeks old, a dose of
•'•i.haiita for soothing syrup, and but for
iv—iiv m'-dical assistance the child would
\n - \odus meeting was held in Griffin
>,v -roes last Monday night. It was
i,v one L. \V. West, a very iutelli
!•••!, t f,' 1 ,r*-d man, who told his hearers that
uhm- people of the South were the best
, r ... i, *i,f colored people had, and that the
f .:, rr ,i j -op'.e of Georgia had progressed
, . ur . ;..i accumulated more property than
1C 5 ,.v oiLcr State.
■i u ,.-t ollice at Powelton has been done
aiV u/ti. The Sparta Tshmadite pro-
L , u! .this action of the Post Office De-
an outrage on the citizens of that
Kiilroad Commissioners having or-
fne Amerieus Republican favors
the appointing of proper persons to confer
v:h the commissioners, and make known
totLctu the wants of that, point. A public
i._C ' f the business men of Amerieus
ho.I Wednesday afternoon to consider
Ah,.u. ; , n days ago Frank Randall, son of
tiit riipr.-intcndentcf the Columbus factory,
... ui.fortunate as to have his hand
caught in some machinery in the factory,
4 i,,; u:.c of his lingers was severely mashed,
un Saturday last the sufferer was threatened
w::!. jaw, and it was decided to ampu-
i: j tired linger. After the operation
lie c -i.jiiiued to grow worse, and on Tues
day !:i-:ning he died. He was a bright, iu-
ttilr/ei.t l> lifteen years of age.
stv.-rai citizens of Georgia, including
Ri.! ,\-p and the editor of the Covington
.v./r. haw gone to Westminster, S. C., to
jnvt— igate the Clement attachment. We
are j''t«ni!> < d a full report of the result of
their labors ou their return.
Wc ha* v received a copy of the first issue
of a new paper just started in Atlanta and
tailed the Atlanta Universal ist, Rev. W. C.
Bowman, editor. If will, it Eays, always
strive for w hat it believes to be right, aud
wih he independent in all things save
theology. In that it will fearlessly advo
cate universalism, and take its stand
on the broad principle that every soul will
eventually be saved.
The Taibutton Standard is in favor of pro-
hibitiuir the whisky traffic in Talbot county.
The Columbus I'inics learns from a gen
tleman in the neighborhood of New Hope,
Alabama, that a disease has broken out
among the negroes there, and several deaths
Lave <M.Mied. It is something similar to the
black tongue, and makes short work with
its victims. It is to be hoped the disease
will not cross the river into Georgia.
Mr, Joseph Davis, a celebrated hunter of
Eflingh.irn county, met with quite a serious
accident a few days since, while out hunt
ing He was riding liis horse at full speed
through the woods endeavoring to flank a
deer, when suddenly his bridle rein broke,
and. about the same time, his horse stum-
tied and threw him violently against a tree,
iajurUu: him seriously. Dr. C. J. Burroughs
was immediately sent for and administered
to the relief of the sufferer, who at last ac
count? was getting on well, and is in a fair
wav
rec
•very.
Several parties in Macon sat up until one
a. m. Wednesday night watching for Pro
fessor Tice’s promised display of meteors.
They were greatly disappointed, as was also
a w ae of a youth who struck the alarm bell
hoping to get up an excitement, but who
himself struck by a policeman, and
marched off before he could carry out his
ideas of fun.
Three marriages took place in Atlanta
ivt Wednesday.
Jerry S:a:iiey, a colored man employed on
the Afr-l.ine Railroad, was run over and
killed at Saluda bridge, near Greenville, S.
C., Tuesday afternoon by the passenger
train due in Atlanta at 10:30 p. ro. It is
sahi ;haj .! t-rry was asleep on the bridge. lie
uas a " ife living in Atlanta.
We learn from the Marietta Journal that
Alma, twenty months old, little daughter of
fh W. Dobbs, living on the Cherokee road,
•fas fatally burned on last Tuesday week.
The mother had stepped out doors, leaving
the child alone, when the little toddler got
hold of the brooin aud, placing it in the fire,
rauseil it to blaze up, aud the flames com-
mumcated to the clothing of the child. Its
brought the mother to the rescue,
little oue was burned so badly that
Sparta /.«///,uzdilr: ‘‘Many of the Southern
pq-r- an- praying ‘peace to his ashes’—
•-.mini; /fachariah Chandler’s. Nobody
/ J ' ;n , !i : ' way is going to bother his
they will have"all the ‘peace’ to
bcii ib: y ^re entitled. ‘As he had lived—
IlV’ l a - 1 .^ kroil—So died the pirate—Cor
'iii!e>ville is having some trouble with
,. er ( -‘ t y Couueil, and the Southron says: ‘*If
. l ? e Council has got so much greater
‘“•m the people that they are under no obli-
to hear the petition of sixty or
‘cveajy .,f our best citizens, wouldn’t it be
e,J, 'Ugh to elect a Council made over a
mil « taller lust?’’
Waynesboro Journal: “Thebuild-
-‘ i *- u f ;i railroad from Waynesboro to the
thi VaiU1 lfi rlver is Heir.g quietly discussed in
““county. The distance is twelve miles,
a there are no natural difficulties in the
a . v There is no doubt but that the road
* ' Je Kreat benefit to Waynesboro
•jE-lthe whole count3’ of Burke. We could
. eu compete with Augusta in freights, and
a decided advantage over all the way
—tions on the Central Railroad.”
Tae Amerieus Republican publishes an ac
count of a terrific combat between a cow
Jf'f an alligator, which has been fmnished
t OV "a irentlpman frnm Dnr»lvt ,?
but
K Dv ” a gentleman from Dooly:” ** On last
j-aturday lie (the Dooly gentleman) was
Asking for gome of his hogs that he had
for several daj-s, and had neared the
*. r when he heard a cow bellowing. Upon
to the bank of the river and looking
in n °f ) f ,osite 6i<ie ke saw, on a sand bar,
Alligator, a cow and a young calf. The
~mptor Lad the cow and calf between itself
th tlj * e river - He made a dart for
,; ca 'f. when the cow rushed be-
M’hii 0 aa( I a fearful fight ensued.
*K aile th is was raging the calf got into
e woods and faj:ed about, bleating
P-iuntivi
mivdy. The alligator was not more
fnn 18c , Veu f cet long, and struck at the cow
uousiy with its tail. The cow avoided
of these blows as possible, but yet
Reived quite a number, one of which
Th* m 11 er r °Ik n S over for about ten feet.
diaLl gator rushed upon her with open
a ^d tried to seize her by the nose,
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
but she was up in time to catch it upon the
huvu under the throat, and threw it oyer
backward, and before it could eet another
lick at her, or defend itself, she was on it
again; tossimr it high Into the air, it fell
iuto the water with a splash, and did not
venture to the land again. The cow, after
rushing around looking for her enemy, ran
to her calf and made tracks through the
woods for home, looking back occasionally
to see if she was pursued.”
In an article on the funeral of the vener
able Dr. Lovick Pierce, which took place in
Columbus last Tuesday, the Enquirer-Sun
says: “That was a grand old man whom we
laid away- in the cemetery yesterday. Nearly
a century had Rev. Dr. L. Pierce lived. In
St. Luke Church the scene was impressive.
Hundreds of all persuasions assembled to
honor one in death who had so long been a
remarkable teacher. The Superior Court
had adjourned for the occasion. The old
and young united In paying respect
to the dead patriarch. Children and
grandchildren of the deceased
were present, and a number of
ministers of the church whose life
Dr. Pierce’s years have measured. Many
associations and recollections around
blended with the tender memories of the
departed Christian. Many of the oaks in
the beautiful yard were planted under his
own supervision and some with his own
hand. The rich notes of the organ recalled
the incident that he among the elder
ministers favored the introduction of har
mony that could serve the worshipping
heart in praising the Most High. Rev. Dr.
Haygood preached the sermon. It was elo
quent-grand. Eyes unused to weeping
shed tears at the beautiful tributes, true and
touching.”
The following serious and painful occur
rence is reported in the Butler Herald: “We
learn from Dr. Smith that on the 3d instant,
about seven miles from Butler, a Mr. Joseph
Spivey met with a serious accident. It
seems that while cutting in the woods some
distance from the house of Mrs. Reves, with
whom he is living, as a tree that he was cut
ting was falling, Mr. Spivey attempted to
get out of the way, but unfortunately stum
bled. As he did so, the end of the falliug
tree jumped back, striking both his legs,
breaking the right leg in two places, and
pinning Mr. 8. to the ground beneath. This
occurred about three o’clock in the evening,
and he was not discovered until about dark,
by which time he had managed to extricate
himself by removing the earth with his
hands. Being in his shirt sleeves when the
accident occurred, and the wind being cool,
aud he wet with perspiration from cutting,
he suffered very much from cold. Dr. Smith
did not reach him until about twelve o’clock
in., the next day, and then had to go off
some distance to make a box for his leg. It
was thus about two o’clock p. m. on the
4th before Dr. S. could begin setting the
leg. The operation was successfully per
formed, however, Mr. Spivey manifesting
great nerve and resolution during the ope
ration. Mr. Spivey is now doiug well, and
as he is a young man he is expected to
speedily recover.”
Augusta Eem: “Judge Snead, in the
court room this morning, ordered that no
person be allowed to go near the prisoners’
box without permission, stating that a razor
aud a bottle of vitriol had been found in
the possession of a prisoner convicted yes
terday. On investigation, Mr. T. C. Bridges,
the jailer, stated that a razor was found
Just night on the person of Bill Jones, a
colored boy convicted of burglary, and also
that a bottle of vitriol was found in his cell
this morning. He did not have either when
lie left the jail yesterday morning, aud it is
he’d that some friend or accomplice fur
nished them during yesterday, as the pri
soners’ box is located just where specta
tors stand to watch the court proceed
ings. The intent of the possession of a
razor and a bottle of vitriol seems clear, and
the probabilities were freely discussed at
the court house this morning. By calling
the guard to the cell, the dashing of the
vitriol in his face would so burn, blind and
injure him, that the prisoner could easily
foice or cut his way out. This speculation
seems most probable aud plausible, and its
consideration shows how important it is to
iruard prisoners from outside assistance in
any attempt to escape. Judge Snead’s
prompt action and order to keep spectators
awav from prisoners is in keeping with his
usual praisewortbj’ course, his watchfulness
for the interests of society, the maintenance
of law and order and the dignity of his posi
tion.”
Under the heading “A Rebel Cotton Lie,”
the Columbus Enquirer says: “The sta
tisticians in the North are showing that the
negroes cannot be treated as the ‘bloody
shirt shriekers’ assert, for it would be im
possible for the South to raise over five
million bales of cotton annually. The
gentlemen, Bostonians, prove that it is an
absurdity to suppose that such a quantity
could be gathered were the laborers con
tinually shot at, aDd, through fear, spent
half their time in the woods and running off
to the thickets. The stalwarts, to sustain
tbeir allegations, vow that so much cotton
has not been raised—that it is ‘all a rebel
lie.’ Wouldn’t the bulls have a happy re
joicing if it were true?”
The Marietta Journal, says: “We have seen
a letter from Mr. O. P. McRoberts to Mr.
Tom Irwin, of this place, in regard to a rich
and valuable gold mine, now undergoing de
velopment, adjoining the famous Kellogg
gold mine In Cherokee county. He is work
ing thirty feet under water, and the ore
brought out, he says, would captivate the
most fastidious and the richest ever seen iu
that section—lumps the 6ize of an egg yield
ing two hundred pennyweights of gold,
every piece of ore large, shining particles.
This is indeed a ‘tenstrike,’and" shows the
rich treasures buried iu the bills of North
Georgia, only needing capital and persistent
industry to bring it to the surface and make
wealthy the country.”
Says the Berrien County News: “Titus Ste
vens, a colored citizen of Worth county, is
one of the many of bis race in this State
who have acquired by honesty and industry
a comfortable competence. When at Worth
court last week, we were informed by sev
eral prominent citizens that he owns two
lots of land, two mules, two horses, a con
siderable number of cattle and hogs, a gin-
house and cotton press, and has surrounded
himself with pleqty of everything to gladden
the heart of the farmer. In addition to all
this, he is a good Democrat, a good citizen,
and is weii liked by his white neighbors.
We commend the example he has set to
those of his race who do not think there is a
living for the colored man in Georgia.”
Empress Charlotte’s Retirement.
Homey's Progress.
Since the Empress Charlotte, after the
disastrous fire at TirvuereD, has resided
at the Chateau de Bouchot, her health
has improved. She is allowed complete
liberty, not only in the chateau, but in
the park. The Queen of the Belgians
is devoted to her sister-in-law, and visits
her almost daily. The Empress has one
remarkable peculiarity, she never speaks
in the first person, but alwa\*s uses the
abstract substantive on (they or it) : On
desire, on veut, on exige. But affable
and gracious to all, it is seldom that she
goes beyond expressing a wish, “on de-
sire.” . , .
She takes a great interest in the fami
lies of the farmers and cottagers on the
estate, and when inquiring about them
says: * “ It is wished to know if they are
well or happy,” or she will mention to
the gardener that “ it is remarked ” there
are leaves in a certain alley that should
be swept away, or that some alteration
has been nicely done. Her meals are
served with the same ceremony as at
court, and she always prepares for them
by making a change in dress. When
“ LTmperatrice est servie” has been an
nounced she enters the room and takes
her seat, after making a ceremonial cour
tesy to her suite, composed of the Gov
ernor of the Palace, the medical attend
ant, and the ladies in waiting. Her ap-
peti e is excellent, and her conversation
is always sensible. There are subjects to
which she never alludes, and which, hut
for occasional fits of abstraction, one
might think -were now completely ban
ished from her mind. On the whole she
leads a life of quiet, calm and happy.
This is the latest telephone story. A
proud grandmamma, who has only just
been promoted to the honors of that
happy relationship, is awakened in the
head of the night by the inexorable bell.
“Mamma, dear,” comes to her the fright
ened voice of her beloved but inexpe
rienced daughter. “I am sure baby has
the croup. What shall I do with it?”
Grandmamma replies that she will call
the family doctor, and be with her in a
moment. She awakens the doctor, and
tells him the terrible news that she has
learned from her daughter. He in turn
requests to be put in telephone commu
nication with the anxious mamma. “Lift
the child to the telephone, and let me
hear it cough,” he commands. The
child is lifted, and it coughs. “Thats
not the croup,” he declares; and he de
clines to leave his house on such small
matters. He advises grandmamma also
to stay in bed; and, all anxiety quieted,
the trio settle dow» happy for the night.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
LATEST NEW YORK ELECTION
RETURNS.
Sonthern Congratulations to Grant—
A Probable Radical Falsehood.
EXCITEMENT CAUSED BY TEE AC
CIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A GUN.
FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.
WRS. M. POTTS ATTEMPTS SUI
CIDE.
Foreign News Item*.
LATEST FROM THE NEW YORK ELECTION.
New York, November 13.—The Sun has
received official returns from fifty of the
sixty counties in the State. A close com
parison between these and the unofficial
returns from the other ten counties indicates
that Hoskins, Republican, for Lieutenant
Governor, has defeated Rotter by about
1,100 majority. Carr, Republican, for Sec
retary of State, is elected by nearly the same
majority. Wadsworth, Republican, for
Comptroller, will have an increased
majority over that of Hoskins.
Ward and Wendell, Republicans, are
also elected as Attorney General and Trea
surer. The majority for Horatio Seymour,
Jr., (Democrat), for Engineer and Surveyor,
will be toward 10,000. Jno. Kelly’s vote is
increased over previous estimates and will
reach 75,000.
New York, November 13.—An Albany
special says the official returns from all but
a few counties show Hoskins’ majority to
be 1,330, Carr’s about 2,000, and W’endell’s
about 3,000.
SODTnERN CONGRATULATIONS TO GRANT.
Chicago, November 13.—The Daily News
having invited the Governors of States and
prominent Southern men to send congratu
lations on Grant’s return, received a num
ber of such congratulations, including one
from Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, one from
Gen. Longstreet, and the following from
Hon. Robert Toombs:
“ Atlanta, Ga., November 13.—M. E.
Stone, Editor: Your telegram received. I
decline to answer, except to say present my
personal congratulations to Gen. Grant on
his safe arrival to bis couutry. lie fought
for his country honorably, and won. I
fought for mine, and lost. ’ I am ready to
try it over again. Death to the Union.
“ [8ignedJ R. Toombs.”
FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.
London, November 13.—Meyer, Schlinz
«& Co., silk merchants, of Lyons, have fail
ed. The liabilities are £50,000.
If Elliott is successful in the match with
Boyd he will visit America to row Hanlan
or would join in a race with Courtney and
Hanlan for the $0,000 purse.
London, November 13.—Heavy gales oc
curred yesterday at Scarborough, Liverpool,
Kirkwall and Dundee, causing some dam
age to shipping.
By an explosion of fire damp yesterday at
Short Heath Colliery, near Wolverton, six
men perished.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF MRS. POTTS.
Philadelphia, November 13.—Mrs. Mat-
tie Potts, who recently completed a walk
from Philadelphia to New Orleans and re
turn, attempted to commit suicide last night
by placing her head upon a railroad track.
She was observed in time and her suicidal
purpose frustrated. Letters were found
upon her addressed to the New York Herald,
Baltimore American, Charlotte (N. C.) Ob- !
server, Atlanta Constitution aud New Orleans
Times, stating, among other things, that
poverty and failure to find employment led
to the act.
THE FOREIGN COTTON MARKET.
Manchester, November 13.—The market
is again very strong, and in florae instances
higher. Producers hesitate to enter upon
new engagements in view of the rapid rise.
Common buyers purchase cheap lots readily,
but. transactions at full prices are few.
London, November 13.—A Liverpool dis
patch says there is au exceedingly active
demand for cotton at a general advance in
prices. The demand is doubtless the result
of the improved condition of trade at Man
chester.
FIRE IN NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, November 13.—A lire last
night in the auction clothing store of A. «fc
L. Levy, corner Magazine and Gravier
streets, caused a loss of £50,000. It
was fully insured, as follows: £10,000 in
Marshall J. Smith’s Agency, §5,000 in Teu
tonia, $5,000 in the Sun Mutual, $5,000 in
the Merchants’, and $5,000 in other com
panies.
M. L. Huggins’ tobacco manufactory, ad
joining Levy’s store, was badly damaged.
It was insured for $9,000 in the Manhattan
and Mechanics’ and Traders’.
A DISASTROUS GUN SHOT—FIGHT WITH IN
DIANS.
Galveston, November 13.—A News spe
cial from El Paso says : ‘‘This evening a
gun iu the hands of a negro was discharged
on this side of the Rio Grande, and the bul
let killed a Mexican and wounded a boy in
Piedras Negras, on the opposite side, caus
ing great excitement in the latter place.
The negro escaped.”
A report reached here of a fight occurring
a week ago between Indians and Americans
in the vicinity of the Sierra Mojada mines.
Fourteen Americans were killed. No names
or details given.
DETAILED FOR SPECIAL DUTY.
Washington, November 13. — Second
Lieutenant Edwin B. Bolton, Twenty-third
Infantry, is detailed as Professor of Military
Science and Tactics at the Mississippi Mili
tary Institute, Aberdeen, relieving First
Lieutenant W. P. Vose, Second Artillery,
who is ordered to ioin his battery.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
INVESTIGATION OF THE CHAM
PION DISASTER.
Arrival of the Rescued Crew of the
Rojal Arch.
A TURCO RUSSIAN ALLIANCE.
SENATOR CHANDLER’S SUCCES
SOR.
Tlie Maine Legislature.
lives from the sinking steamer, though not
knowing whether our own ship would float
or not. On going below we found the bows
in between the decks stove in, and
the ship cut down under water three feet
on the port side. The water tight bulk
heads prevented the ship from foundering.
The Captain consulted with the eecond
mate and myself, and we decided to return
to the Breakwater rather than proceed to
New York In our crippled ship.
Ferguson was plied with questions by
members of the court, hut insisted he had
no time to get ont of the steamer’s way
after seeing the green light a second time,
and scarcely half a minute elapsed after
this before the collision occurred. In all,
ten minutes only passed between the time
of first seeing the green light and the col
lision. The night was dark, but the atmos
phere clear.
The inquiry will be resumed to-morrow.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal observer,
Washington. D. C., November 13.—Indica
tions for Friday:
In the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
southeast to southwest winds, nearly sta
tionary temperature and barometer, and
partly' cloudy weather, with local rains, in
the southwest.
In the Middle States, partly cloudy and
slightly cooler weather, northeast to south
east winds, and stationary or slowly rising
barometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, south
erly to westerly winds, partly cloudy weath
er and light local rains, with slight changes
in temperature and pressure.
THE CREW OF THE ROYAL ARCH.
London, November 13.—The crew of the
British bark Royal Arch, before reported
abandoned at sea, have been brought to
Liverpool by the steamer Minnesota, which
sighted the Royal Arch off Nova Scotia.
The crew reported the vessel leaky, and
that they had been at the pumps several
days, but the pumps were then choked, and
one of the men had been washed over
board and drowned. The steamer sent a
boat to take off the crew, but the weather
was so rough that the men were compelled
to jump into the sea and were hauled into
the boat by a line.
THE TURKISH CABINET AND A RUSSIAN AL
LIANCE.
London, November 13.—A Constantino
ple dispatch says there is a strong tendency
on the part of the Turkish Cabinet to enter
into an active alliance with Russia. It is
said the Sultan has been won over to the
views of the Grand Vizier and Osman Pasha,
who especially advocate a close understand
ing with Russia.
THE MAINE LEGISLATURE.
Portland, November 13.—It Is reported
to-day from Augusta that the State authori
ties have certificates prepared to 6end out,
giving seats to seventeen Democratic Sena
tors and eighty-five Representatives, thus
giving them a majority and a quorum in case
the Republicans retire.
SENATOR CHANDLER’S SUCCESSOR.
Detroit, Micii., November 13.—Gov.
Crosswell this afternoon appointed Fer
nando C. Beaman United States Senator to
fill the unexpired term of the late Senator
Chandler.
REPRIEVE REFUSED.
Harrisburg, November 13.—The Gover
nor refused to reprieve Charles Drews and
Franklin Vichler, the Rober murderers, who
are to be hanged at Lebanon to-morrow.
“NOT GUILTY.”
Lebanon, Penn., November 13.—The jury
in the Zecbman murder case, after being out
twenty hours, returned a verdict this morn
ing of not guilty.
ALBANY FAIR.
TOE CHAMPION DISASTER INVESTIGATION.
Philadelphia, November 13.—The inves
tigation into the causes of the Champion
disaster was resumed to-day. James Fer
guson, first officer of the Lady Octavia, tes
tified to having rollowed the sea ten years,
during which time he had been mate of
three vessels. At two a. m. of November
7tb he had charge of the Lady Octavia’s
deck, when she was sailing barely three and
a half knots per hour. At 2:40 I walked for
ward and saw both my lights burning
brightly and the lookout at his post.
I then walked up on the poop and
in a few minutes noticed a green light on our
port bow. Thinking it was a sailing vessel,
I took the hearing of the light, which was
N. N. E. I finally saw, with the aid of night
glasses, that the vessel approaching had a
masthead light, which burned very dimly,
and yet a few minutes later discovered her
red side light. The first light I saw was the
greeu side light. I was standing to the
weather side of the wheel, and about three
minutes after saw the green light. 1 then saw
the red light, the former being shut out en
tirely, and I made sure she was going astern.
I saw the red light about t wo minutes, and
said, “It must be a New York tugboat, go
ing to 6peak us.” I said this because I
thought she was going around the lee quar
ter. Then she shut out her red light and
Bhowed her green again about three minutes
after I saw the light first. She appeared to be
sheering about. She was either badly steered
or altering her course. When she put out her
red light and 6'nowed the green, I was al
most certain there would be a collision,
more or less, and before I had time to do
anything 6he struck us end on, a little abaft
the stem. When she struck us I was on
the weather side of the wheel. It was a
heavy shock and caused me to stagger, and
when I was going down off the poop I met
the master, who ran forward on the fore
castle head to see which vessel was most
damaged. I looked over the bar, "f course,
and the first thing I saw was the steamship
in actual contact with us. One of her an
chors was lying on the top of our stem.
The appearance of the steamer when I look
ed over was a confused mass of casks and
broken wood. I only heard one man cry
for help. I left the forecastle head at
once. The order was given to lower
a boat, back the yards and haul down
the fore and aft sails at once. All
hands were on deck and the order was
carried out. The master being in charge of
the ship, gave orders for the carpenters to go
below and see what damage the ship sus
tained, at the same time dispatching the
Ship’s boat, which was In the davits, to save
The First Day-Tlie General Display
— Special Exhibits—Welch Jc
ITI itch el I—Mayer & Glauber—Mrs.
Golinsky—Albany and VXer Pro
gress.
Albany, November 12.—Editor Morning
News: The fourth annual fall fair of
the Southwest Georgia Industrial As
sociation opened on yesterday with
the best general display that has
ever been made In Southwest Georgia.
The departments are fuller, and the articles
are of a better quality than ever broueht
here before. This especially Is true in the
domestic quarter. Farming implements are
greatly increased in number, while In many
departments goods were arriving until a late
hour last night.
The floral exhibition increases in attrac
tiveness every year, and according to the
estimate of our lady friends, it Is exceed
ingly lively this year. I was foolish enough
once to allow myself to be placed upon a
committee to award premiums at a fair.
Wisdom is the result of experience, and I
paid a high price for the privilege of tying a
blue ribbon on several articles. Afterwards
I wrote “Nevermore.”
Oue of the most elaborate and tastefully
arranged displays of millinery goods that I
have ever seen anywhere is that made by
Mrs. B. Golinsky in thejnain hall. Every
thing from a ribbon bow to an elegant silk
dress is profusely and most tastefully ar
ranged. The blending of shades and col
ors is complete and the effect is charming.
Messrs. Welch & Mitchell have by far the
most extensive display of jewelry and
notions from their extensive hook and jewel
ry store that they have ever made. It always
has been superb, but this year they excel In
this department. Messrs. L. E. & H. E.
Welch, from their drug store, have also one
of the finest collection of articles ever
brought on the grounds.
Messrs. M. Mayer & Glauber, with their
usual enterprise, have' filled up one whole
wing of the building with the various
articles from their mammoth establishment
in Broad street.
The Singer Sewing Machine Company
have a number of their best machines on
exhibition.
W. W. Collins, of Macon, makes a fine
display of buggies, carriages and wagons
from his extensive establishment in Macon.
Messrs. Gunnison & Fleming makes a fine
display of their hardware and crockery, and
it commands universal attention.
The floral department is well filled, and
there are many rare specimens among them.
The crowd was small on yesterday, but
the cars are coming in this morning well
filled. The scarcity of money greatly inter
feres with the attendance upon all fairs in
this section. President Welch is full of hope
as to ultimate success. Surely the associa
tion has done everything that could be ac
complished to make the exhibit worthy of
patronage. Their premiums are liberal, and
the entries excel in number and variety any
former exhibition.
The crops,although short, are much better
in this section than in the counties below
here. The farm exhibits, although not what
they ought to be, are a great improvement
over those of last year. The general tone of
feeling is better even than it was a few
weeks ago. The cotton has not rotted in
the boll to the extent that many had sup
posed. Even the black bolls, so unpromis
ing, are now opening under the warming
influence of the hot sun of the past two
weeks, and much more cotton will be gath
ered than the farmers anticipated a
month ago.
Albany continues to Improve in spite of
the depression in business. Being a com
peting point in transportation, having three
railroads and the river, a great deal of cot
ton and produce find a market in order to
take advantage of through rates. The
city is increasing in commercial importance
every year, and the enterprising merchants
are reaching out after trade in every direc
tion. It is in the centre of the-most fertile
farming region of Southwest Georgia, and
will always be a most desirable point for
business, aud is claiming the attention of
many who are looking for homes in the
South. There are several strangers here
now taking in the fair and investigating the
productions of this section.
Jack Plane.
A Bloodless Duel vrrm Hatchets.—
How ex-Uni ted States Senator Spencer
and C. P. Hall, of Denver, CoL, once
fought a duel with hatchets is told in the
current number of the Boulder (CoL)
Courier. The difficulty occurred at a
social gathering. Hall sent the chal
lenge, and Spencer named the hatchet as
the weapon, because when a boy he had
practiced how to hurl a tomahawk.
George Bressler, a Denver blacksmith,
made two hatchets for the duelists. On
the field neither would apologize, but be ;
foie either had been hurt the seconds
prevailed upon them to shake hands and
quit. --
Kicked to Death by a Horse.—Mr.
J. P. Hine, a merchant of West Lebanon,
Pa., was instantly killed on Saturday. A
team, which had been standing in front
of his store, started to run off, and Mr.
Hine attempted to catch the lines which
were trailing on the ground. Just as he
reached for them one of the horses
kicked him in the chest; he fell to the
ground and immediately expired.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Tbe Scramble Over (he Chairman
ship or the National Republican
Committee —That Famous Tele
graphic Uie—The Message and Re
ports— Capt. Eads’ Troubles.
RECEPTION TO SENATOR BAYARD
A Warm Greeting from Old and New
Friends—Grand Procession and
Brilliant Illumination — Non-Po
litical Character of the Reception—
The Senator in the Hands of His
Friends—Speeches of the Occasion,
etc.
report. McCrary will recommend that the
army be Increased to 25,000 men, not count
ing those detailed on special service.
CAPTAIN BADS AGAIN.
The Attorney General expects to submit
in a few days his decision on the question
whether the channel secured by Captain
Eads, at the mouth of the Mississippi, has
been maintained in accordance with the
spirit and letter of the law. This question has
just been formally submitted to the Secreta
ry of War, and upon the result will depend
the payment of the one hundred thousand
dollars per annum in quarterly installments,
the first being due. The letter to the At
torney General states that all the pay
ments for creating the channel having
ended in July last, the question of main
tenance then beguu. It is charged that
for twenty days the maximum channel of
twenty-six by two hundred feet at the bot
tom, and a central depth of thirty feet,
was not maintained. This Is controverted
by an admission that there was a non-main
tenance of but one hundred and ninety
hours, and tnat at different periods and but
temporarily.
The geueral tone of conversation in au
thoritative quarters is that the channel was
maintained for all practicable purposes of
commerce; that the shoal at the head of tbe
pass, by law, Is required to be navigable to
a depth of twenty-six feet, which renders
the thirty-foot channel of no Importance to
the matter under consideration, and that
there Is no necessity for more of a channel
at the mouth than to admit vessels of that
draft. The decision may therefore be an
ticipated favorably to Captain Eads.
Potomac.
SAID TO BE THE LATEST.
Farther Proof tlisit It Is Well to Keep
Your Eyes Open In New York.
Hew York Sun.
At Broadway and Duane street, on
Saturday, the butt of a cigar lay on the
sidewalk, and a thread of purple smoke
went up from its ashes. A well dressed
man, wearing a silk hat that showed
evidences of recent hard usage, was
eyeing the half consumed cigar, and was
evidently making up his mind to recover
it. He had every appearance of a drunken
man. Keeping his eye on the stub, he
straightened himself up, pulled his tall
hat down over his eyes, and stooped to
reach the cigar, smiling complacently as
he extended his hand toward the butt In
the meantime many persons had halted,
and when the wind caused the cigar to
roll away just as he was putting his fin-
f ers on it, the knot of observers laughed.
'he man again straightened up, and he
frowned indignantly on those who were
around him. He looked at the staff on
the tower of the Western Union build
ing, and up and down Broadway, as
though in doubt whether he could again
attempt to recover the cigar. Then he
pulled his hat over his eyes once more
and renewed his effort. He fell on his
knees, pitched ©ver on to his face, arose
to his knees again, and poised his hand
over the coveted butt. The knot of ob
servers had been increased tenfold, and
bets were offered that the cigar would
again elude him.
Suddenly the interest of the throng
was turned in another direction. A man
shouted, “Stop thief! I’ve lost my
watch!” and a woman cried out that her
pocketbook was missing. About this
time the man who had been an object of
so much interest was also missing.
“Go on, go on,” said a policeman to
the crowd. “That’s the latest trick.”
Chicago Times: “The increase in the
cotton crop South is reported at 500,000
more bales than in any preceding year.
The increase in cotton is expected to
yield $20,000,000 more than last
year. The tobacco crop is 12,-"
000,000 lbs. over last year, and
the sugar 200,000 hhds. greater. 1 -
This surplus is valued at $40,000 over
the product of last year. On the other
hand, the West is thought to have
20.000,000 bushels of wheat, and from
80,000,000 to 100,000,000 bushels of corn
more than ever before, and the hay pro
duct is also larger this year than for
many years past. Cattle will probably
go over previous years’ production; the
price of grain is large, and meat produc
tions realize fair value.”
Professor Reamy, of Cincinnati, thinks
that, “ other things being equal, equally
healthy and vigorous women cannot with
impunity pursue continuously and for
so long a time severe mental or physical
work as men.”
Special Correspondence Baltimore Sun.
Wilmington, Del., November 11.—
Since his return home Senator Bayard
has scarcely appeared on the streets, his
time having been almost entirely taken
up with the reception of visitors, old
friends and others. He said to-day that
he had received so many kind words and
so many congratulatory letters and mes
sages that he felt almost overwhelmed. He
spoke with great feeling of the reception
which had been tendered to him on the
part of bis fellow-citizens of his native
city. When Mr. Bayard arrived home
so unexpectedly last Friday there was a
keen expression of disappointment and
regret by the whole community, as it
broke up the elaborate programme
which had been laid down for meeting
him at the depot. Subsequently the ar
rangements were consummated for a tes
timonial of respect, which was wit
nessed this evening. Mr. Bayard,
although inflexibly opposed to parade
and ostentation, on this occasion placed
himself in the hands of his friends, and
it was impossible that he could be other
wise than gratified. Within the last day
or two efforts were brought to bear from
partisan sources to induce Republicans
to abstain from participating, but they
met with poor success, as among those
prominent in the affair were numerous
leading Republicans of the staunchest
degree. Dr. Bush, who made the address
of welcome in lieu of Mayor Allmond—
who was too ill to be present—has always
been known as a pronounced member of
that party. Shortly after dark this eve
ning the streets commenced filling up
with people getting ready to take part in
the demonstration. There was a large
accession of visitors from the rural dis
tricts, including members of the Dela
ware Legislature and others, and also a
number from Philadelphia and from tbe
contiguous towns.
[We omit the correspondent’s account
of the immense procession, the brilliant
illumination of the city, the popular de
monstrations of enthusiasm, and the im
posing scene at the densely crowded
Opera House when the formal reception
took place.]
A few minutes after 8 o’clock Stator
Bayard entered from the rear of the
stage, escorted by members of the
reception committee. He was attired in
full dress suit, and wore a sprig of
geranium in his buttonhole. As he ad
vanced down the stage the entire audi
ence rose and cheered, and the band
played “Hail to the Chief.” The Sena
tor bowed his acknowledgment in that
earnest and impressive manner which so
pertains to him. Dr. Bush came for
ward, took him by the hand, and de
livered the following address of wel
come:
DR. BUSH'S ADDRESS.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Washington, November 12.—It Is prom
ised that the question of selecting a succes
sor to the late Senator Chandler as Chair
man of the National Republican Commit
tee, will develop a lively little scramble
among Presidential aspirants. Each Presi
dential aspirant in the party wants his own
particular henchman at the head of the
National Committee. Conkling, for Grantj
wants Cornell put in; Sherman wants Fos
ter; Blaine wants William E. Chandler; and
so on down the list. As neither of the
candidates are on the best terms, the skir
mish for the place will be lively. It Is
more than probable that it will be a good
deal of a fight. The advantages that would
accrue to a candidate in having his boss
striker at the head of the committee are
manifest. The biggest machine of them all
would be under his control.
THAT TELEGRAM.
Speaking of the Chandlers' reminds me of
what I heard Williamee say in a general
conversation in a hotel lobby not long since.
It will he remembered that during the steal
of 187G he and Zachariah Chandler were In
Florida fixing things. The following tele
gram, signed “Z. Chandler,” was received
by the Campaign Committee here: “Hayes
has 185 votes and is elected.” This was
before the count had been made In either of
the disputed States. That telegram has be
come famous. It has been hanging framed
in the rooms of the Republican Committee
here ever since, and since the death of Sena
tor Chandler, has had black crape festoon
ed over it. What Williamee said was that
the dead politician never wrote,the tele
gram. “We were in the midst of the count,”
he said, “and everybody was telegraphing
to Mr. Chandler for something definite. He
had nothing definite. Becoming worried, he
turned to me and asked that I send some
thing and sign his name to it. I hastily
penned the dispatch,which has been so often
quoted, and signed Mr. Chandler’s name to
it. I never thought of it afterwards until I
returned North and found what I had
written politically famous.”
THE MESSAGE AND REPORTS.
Mr. Hayes has about finished his message
to Congress, and the heads of departments
have complete! their annual reports. At
the Cabinet meeting next Friday Mr. Hayes
will read his message and the Cabinet offi
cers will submit synopses of their reports.
Some of them will be particularly interest
ing, though most of the documents, ex
cept McCrary’s and Devens’, will
be long. Hayes’ message will refer to
the prosperity of the country and the revival
of business, and also get in a whoop for the
Republican party for bringing about (?) re
sumption. Be has also put in something
of the recommendations from the reports of
his advisers. The portion of the message
which refers to foreign matters will be de
voted to the everlasting fishery question,
which has been reopened.
John*Sherman,In addition to recommend
ing the discontinuance of the coinage of the
standard silver dollar, will also contain an
other important recommendation—that
some legislation be euaeted providing for a
resumption of refunding operations by the
Treasury. He has prepared a bill that 16
acceptable to him, the draft of which will
be included in his report. Secretary
Schurz will devote mo6t of his lengthy
6creed to an attempt to prove that the War
Department was not responsible for the
recent Indian outbreak. He will also refer
to the large increase in the sale of public
lands, and consequent increase in the num
ber of settlers. Secretary Thompson will
deliver a long essay renewing his last year’s
recommendation that a board of admiralty
similar to that of the English service be ap
pointed to act in conjunction with the Secre
tary of the Navy in the government of the
nav3% Postmaster General Key will recom
mend, owing to the success of that service,
an increased appropriation for enlarging
fast mail facilities. Attorney General Dev
ens’ document will be mainly devoted to “In the absence of the Mayor of our city,
routine. The Secretary of State makes no who is disabled from attendance here by sick-
ness, I have the honor this evening to welcome
you, sir, after your absence from our shores,
to our beloved country, to our State and to our
city. We have come together here as your
fellow citizens, without any other distinction
whatsoever, to show our respect for you, not
less for your private virtues than for your
public services, and it is proper that we should
say to you that we are glad to have from our
State a representative in the National Senate
who so ably and honorably sustains the repu
tation of that body, which, of all others, should
hold forth to the world the character of our
great republic. If that high court of legisla
tion is right, the people will stand by it; if
wrong, the people must rectify it or we are
undone. For the lack of the principles
of righteousness and true patriotism, which
only can sustain a government, great
nations have declined and fallen into ruin;
and we feel that virtue, which stands first
upon the escutcheon of our country, is essen
tial to our prosperity; and it Is no small satis
faction to us that you, sir, have inscribed your
name beneath that motto, and have shown in
your place in tbe Senate that you were re
solved to defend the right as you regarded it,
even when the angry waves of opposing
forces threatened to overwhelm you. For this
stern adherence to principle we are here to
express our thanks and our sympathy with
you. and our trust that the God of our fathers
will eive to you and to all our legislators true
wisdom regarding the best interests of this
great people, who seem to us w be set for a
noble purpose before the world, and whose
downfall would be the direst national calamity
the world has ever witnessed. **
MR. BAYARD’S RESPONSE.
Mr. Bayard responded as follows:
"Mr. Chairman—Ladies and Gentlemen—
Fellow Citizens—Friends All: My chief desire,
and my main effort at this moment is to let you
simply and clearly understand the quiet, deep
and sincere happiness with which this wel
come, so spontaneous and expressive, fills my
breast. Strong language is not needed, nor u
it often used, where really strong feeling seeks
for utterance. Nor shall I seek the aid of rhet
oric or extravagance of phrase to convey to
your hearts the simple message which beats in
mine for deliverance. This is the town where
I was born, as was my father before me, and in
this room is many a face well known to me
from my childhood. In full view of those who
now surround me my life has been lived and
my incomings and outgoings all known. When,
therefore, the judgment of such a court comes
to be passed after a full half century of trial
and experience in private life and in public
service, and it is rendered m sentences so full
of generous approbation, affection and respect
as your worthy aud venerable chairman has
addressed to me. what must be my emotions,
and how full to overflowing must I feel my
cup of blessings and of honor.
4 For this occasion is not called for by official
proclamation: it is not an outburst of the
friendly but fierce zeal of political enthusiasm.
It is not commanded by authority nor suggested
by any design of commercial or pecuniary ad
vantage: it is merely the natural flow of kind
feeliug between human hearts, checked and
pent up in its daily action for a little time by
our separation, only to gather new and stronger
headway when that separation was ended, and
our hands could again clasp each other. As a
rule real feeling fears to show itself, lest its
genuineness should be questioned, but there
are times and moments when it is well to throw
off the veil of reserv e and give free rein to the
ImpuLe of friendlv feeling.
“I feel, and surely you who hear me all feel,
that we are here in an atmosphere of loving
kindness, longing only for peace on earth and
good will to man, and no cloud of doubt, or
taint of distrust or suspicion intervenes. Ah,
what an armor is friendship! What shield or
buckler so protective? What are the stupen
dous iron clads of Great Britain, the marvel
ous artillery of Prussia, and the vast military
establishments that prop up European thrones,
maintain dominion and keep crowns on heads
and often heads on royal shoulders, draining
the land, as they do, of the fruits of industry
and labor, and devouring the substance of the
peoplef What are these compared with the
cheap defense, the unbought security which a
republican citizen feels when he is surrounded
by tlie atmosphere of law, the breath of a self-
respecting, self-governing community of free
men? For the triumphs of violence are tem
porary and leave the true work of government
to be afterwards performed, and with greater
difficulty.
“This summer I have been looking across
the Atlantic, thinking of the country I could
not see; contrasting what I did see of the daily
lives of men and women in other lands witn
that of my own, and when so often I heard
‘labor with a groan and not a voice,’ and real
ized tbe abuses and injustice of class privilege,
whereby the insidious bar of humb'e birth was
kept, and fastened on men fro n the cradle to
the grave, I turned, as if for purer air, to the
American States, where the noble equities of
humanity are acknowledged and respected, and
where the one great and essential equality, the
equality of opportunity, is secured to alL And
experience and reflection, with increased op
portunities for comparison with other countries
and systems of government, bring me only to a
higher appreciation of the generosity, justice
and moral grandeur of the principles upon
which our own was founded.
‘But my sense of admiration for our system
of government was accompanied by an appre
hensive realization of the conditions under
which only it can be practically and perma
nently maintained. And the conviction grows
stronger and clearer daily that such a govern
ment can only be maintained by the exercise
and employment of the higher and better
qualities of human nature. It is a government
of laws emanating from popular will, but that
will must be for Honest and worthy ends, ac
complished by honorable means. It is con
trolled by public opinion, but that opinion must
be the intelligent result of knowledge carefully
acquired, and deliberation, and not the un
stable froth of tumult and gusty passion. And
to make public principles secure they must be
. on private honor; the wishes of an
intelligent and upright constituency must be
reflected by intelligent and npright representa
tives. A faithful representative should rather
displease his constituents than consent to that
which injures them. It is his duty fully and
freely to account to them, but not to conceal
his true opinions for fear of their displeasure,
for his enlightened conscience cannot be disre
garded without injury to them and his entire
loss of usefulness.
“To maintain this government of ours, such
are some of the conditions, and it is upon the
self-protecting elements of society that we must
relvT As Burke, the great Irish statesman and
philosopher, finely said, ‘Flattery is not friend
ship. and to mislead is not to serve.’ The line
of my public service, to which our friend. Dr.
Bush, has so kindly alluded, has been in assist
ing to cany on the National Government of the
grand Union of 8tates, among whom so con
tentedly and securely our little Commonwealth
is anchored fast. Whenever I have spoken or
voted in the Senate for new and stronger ties of
union between the sections or the States, have
I not echoed the voice of Delaware ?
When schemes of financial unwisdom,
or something worse, threatened to awaken
the credit or tarnish the plighted faith of
our country, and my vote and voice were heard
in unyielding opposition—did I not then echo
the voice of Delaware? When the insidious
poison of false money and a vicious currency
were proposed, and I stood in uncompromising
attitude demanding ‘honest dollars for honest
men’—did I not echo ihe voice of Delaware?
And when I plead for an indissoluble union of
indestructible and coequal States, do I not
speak in the voice of Delaware? And when I
snail prove faithless to such things; when the
welfare aud the happiness of the whole coun
try and of every State shall be shrunk into a
narrow and fatal devotion to the interests of a
section, or of a policy of animosities which
must destroy the spirit of American union and
nationality—then I shall no longer be worthy
of vour confidence, nor a true representative
of the State of Delaware.
“I have an ambition to confess to you—i» is
possess the unsuspecting confidence of the peo
ple of Delaware, and to retain it. I wish to
make our government strong, and the best way
is to make it wise, honest an x just; that it shall
be loved in the North and in the South, in the
East and in the West with -‘that perfect love
that casteth out fear.’ I cannot forbear, at the
risk of prolonging unduly these remarks, to
join with you in joyful gratulation upon the
recovery of confidence in all the groups and
circles of dependent industries in our country;
to join with you in grateful acknowledgment
of the bounty and favor of Providence in so
blessing our 'basket and store,’ when He has
seen fit to drown In floods the crops in the Brit
ish Islands, and in large portions of Europe.
“Truly we are a favored people, and in the
full tide of that prosperity that seems fairly to
have set in. let us, while availing ourselves of
it, keep a sharp eye upon the dangers of over
trading and wild speculation, from the results
of which we have so lately suffered. With
prudent counsels, well-considered economies
and steadily prosecuted reforms, with suspi
cions and ill will between our own people dis
couraged and put an end to, we shall have be
fore us an era of prosperity which should
gladden tbe heart of every man who loves this
country. Pardon this long speech, and accept
the thanks I have so feebly expressed, but yet
so deeply feel.’’
EFFECT OF THE SPEECH.
Mr. Bayard spoke with slow deliberation and
with an intensity of feeling. He was listened
to with au affectionate and eager attention,
only interrupted by marked demonstrations of
approval. The perfect good taste of both ad
dresses was evinced in the absence of anything
which might savor of a partisan harangue. At
the point where Mr. Bayard said that his one
ambition was to possess the unsuspecting con
fidence of the people of Delaware until he
died, the applause was renewed several times,
followed by three enthusiastic cheers for Thos.
F. Bayard. When Mr. Bayard concluded and
sat down the band played, with touching effect,
“Home, Sweet Home. ’
GENERAL HANDSHAKING.
Dr. Bush then invited any of those
who desired to shake hands with Mr.
to come forward and do so. The invitation
was availed of by every one in the house, and
for half an hour the Senator was kept busy in
responding to the salutations of his constit
uents. He did not, like the great silent man
who maj* be his opponent in 1880, allow his arm
to take the pump-handle twist and preserve a
stolid and impassive countenance, but gave to
every one who approached him a cordial,
manly grip and a beaming smile. Very many
of the ladies who passed along would make
pleasant remarks.
INCIDENTAL.
An interesting little incident occurred which
was observed by very few, but which is well
worthy of mention. Two little girls, evidently
in the humbler walks of life, but qu te pretty,
stood irresolutely near the Senator for some
time, with their fingers in their mouths and
their eyes cast down, anxious to approach him
and yet too modest to do so. After a while Mr.
Bayard's glance lighted upon them; he ex
tended his hands with reassuring words, and
the little damsels, putting their hands in his,
walked away much delighted.
The ceremonies at the Opera House were
then closed, and the crowd instantly dispersed.
AT THE WILMINGTON CLUB.
Later in the evening your correspondent had
the pleasure of meeting Senator Bayard with
other gentlemen at.the handsome rooms of
the Wilmington Club. Many of tbe distin
guished citizens of Delaware, slready men
tioned, were present, besides others, including
Representative Hiester Clymer, of Pennsyl
vania. CoL Wm. Hemphill Jones, Clerk of the
House Committee on Ways aud Means, and
who was formerly Mayor of Wilmington, and
Josiah Lee Johnston, of Baltimore In con
versation with your correspondent, Mr. Bayard
was frank in his utterances, as he always is.
He said to your coiresnondent that he
saw nothing to discourage the Demo
cratic party in the outlook for 1880. He
reminded me of several conversations with
him prior to his departure for Europe, when he
had predicted the exact results of the late
elections, in consequence of the peculiar atti
tude of the Democratic party leaders in New
York and Ohio. He spoke of Gen. Ewing as a
gallant soldier and an able man, and his per
fect confidence that had Ewibg conducted the
canvass on other than financial issues he would
have been elected. He expressed his regret at
the death of Senator Chandler, with whom his
personal relations had always been agreeable.
He said that he and Mr. Chandler always
paired, and they did it without asking any
questions, as they were pretty sure to be op
posed on everything that came up. On the
question of the finances there was the excep
tion, as there Mr. Chandler was solid as a rock.
?e present
[r. Bayard
Another Coal Oil Horror!
Tallahassee Floridian.
It becomes our plainful duty to chroni
cle another of those distressing casual
ties, which will occur in our midst, now
and then, as long as kerosene oil is
handled and looked upon as a harmless
thing.
Sunday morning about 9 o’clock, just
out of the city, the wife of Mr. James
Buruess entered her kitchen to do some
cooking. The stove had a fire burning
in it at the time, and was already hot.
The hinges on one of the stove doors be
ing rusty, she proceeded to pour upon
them kerosene from the can in order
to loosen them. No sooner did the oil
come in contact with the heated iron
than it was inflamed and the flame
at once transmitted to that in the can,
which exploded, throwing the burning
fluid over the person of the unfortunate
lady. The noise of the explosion, to
gether with the screams of the victim,
brought Mr. B. in from the yard to find
his wife wrapped in flames. He tried to
get her to the well, where there was a
tub of water, but in the confusion she
did not comprehend his wish. He
then hastened to bring the water
to her, while she ran through
the house and fell in the hall.
Here he attempted to smother the flames
by rolling her in bedclothes, but failing
in this, brought a bucket of water and
threw over her, which finally extin
guished them. She was terribly burned
from the waist down, her lower limbs
and one arm being almost in a crisp.
Her sufferings necessarily must have
been very great. Dr. G. W. Betton was
immediately called to her side and did
all in bis power to alleviate her suffer
ings, but thinks her recovery doubtful.
It has been but a short time since she
was thrown from a wagon and had her
arm broken, since which time she has
been haviDg chills and fever, which has
left her system in but a poor condition
to combat such a shock as the present.
Mr. B. has just recovered from a tedious
spell of typhoid fever and is in but an
indifferent state of health himself. Truly
misfortunes have fallen heavily upon
him. At this writing Mrs. B. is thought
by her husband to be some better, and is
resting tolerably easy, but what the pro
bable result will be cannot be ascertain
ed. This is truly a sad affair, and a fear
ful warning to those accustomed to hand
ling the dangerous fluid.
One of the most popular of American
humorous writers once remarked of
puns—a form of witticism the idiotic
abuse of which has brought it into ,
general discredit—that it was a most apt
method of disclosing novel relations of
ideas as well as of words, and that puns
not infrequently reveal not only a sig-,
nificant kinship but a primitive though
forgotten identity when the same collo
cation of letters or sounds now. signifies
widely different thoughts or things. Wit
of any kind should be always self-
evident. It should assert itself without
the aids of vocal emphasis or italic types.
A joke is not jocular when it needs to
be explained. The humorist referred to
said that a pun was never tolerable un
less it made some kind of sense indepen
dent of its being a pun. He gave tbe
following as a model instance: A lady
gave a poet a pipe of wine. He sum
moned some of his brother versifiers to
assist in broaching it, and the event was
duly celebrated in melodious pentame
ters, concluding thus:
*Ta torn they praise hoc pipe and pipe her
praiaer.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN KIDD.
The Notorious Pirate’s Trial
Execution Reviewed.
The solemn session of admiralty was
that winch met at the Old Bailey, in
May, 1601, when Captain Kidd and nine
others were arraigned for piracy and
robbery on the high seas. All were
found guilty except three, who were
proved to have been apprentices. Kidd
was also tried for the murder of his gun
ner and found guilty. The men pleaded
variously, and two of them had undoubt
edly surrendered themselves within the
time limited by the proclamation Col.
Pass, the Governor of West Jersey (now
the State of New Jersey, adjoining that
of New York), corroborated this state
ment. It was shown that they had not
surrendered to a commission of four
specially sent out for the purpose, and
they were condemned to die. This was,
as far as the writer can judge, a
hard case. Another seaman, Darby
Mullins, said in his defense
that he served under the King’s
commission, and had no right to disobey
any commands of bis superior .. „ . i
that, in fact, the men were
to question his
wtrald destroy all aiScipnLe; and that
even if unlawful acts were committed,
the officers were the persons to answer
for it, not the men. He was answered
that serving as he did only entitled him
to do that which was lawful. He replied
that the case of a seaman must be bad
indeed if he were punished in both cases,
for obeying and for not obeying his offi
cers, and that if he were allowed to dis
pute his superior’s orders there would be
no such thing as command on the high
seas. This ingenious defense availed
him nothing; he had taken a share of the
plunder, and had mutinied, showing no
regard to the commission; and further,
had acted in accordance with the cus
toms of pirates and freebooters. The
jury brought him in guilty with the rest.
Kidd’s defense was not strong, as a mat
ter of legal argument. He insisted that
he had been more sinned against than
sinning. He said that he went out on a
laudable employment, and bad no occa
sion, being then in good circumstances,
to go a-pirating; that the men had fre
quently mutinied; that be had been
threatened in his own cabin, and that
ninety-five deserted him at one time, and
set fire to his boat, so that he was dis
abled from bringing his ship home, or
the prizes he took, to have them regu
larly condemned, which prizes, he said,
were taken under virtue of his commis
sion, they having French passes (false).
A witness, Colonel Hewson, spoke highly
of his previous reputation for bravery.
So much of his own statement was doubt
ful or false that be was found guilty.
When the Judge put on tbe black cap
Kidd stood up and said: “My Lord, it is
a very hard sentence. For my part, I
am the most innocent person of them all,
and have been sworn against by perjured
>ersons.” A week after the bodies of
vidd and six of his men were seen by
the passers-by on the river,hanging high,
suspended by chains, a warning espe
cially to tbe seamen of and entering tbe
port of London not to turn pirates.
The End of the World.
Camille Flammarion, the French
scientist, thus expresses himself in La
Correspondance Scientifique, regarding
the ultimate fate of our globe:
The earth was born; she will die.
She will die either of old age, when her
vital elements shall have been used up,
or through tbe extinction of the sun, to
whose rays her life is suspended. She
might also die by accident, through
collision with some celestial body, meet
ing her on her route; but this end of the
world is the most improbable of alL
‘She may, we repeat, die a natural
death through the slow absorption of her
vital elements. In fact, it is probable
that the air and water are diminishing.
The ocean, like tbe atmosphere, appears
to have been tormerly much more con
siderable than it is in our daj\ The ter
restrial crust is penetrated by waters
which combine chemically with the rocks.
It is almost certain that the temperature
of the interior of tbe globe reaches that
of boiling water at a depth of about six
miles, and prevents tbe water from de
scending any jower; but tbe absorption
will continue with the cooling of the
globe. The oxygen, nitrogen and car-
jonic acid which compose our atmos
phere, also appear to undergo absorp
tion, but slower. The thinker may fore
see, through the mist of ages to come,
the epoch, yet afar off, in which the
earth, deprived of the atmospheric aque
ous vapor which protects her from the
glacial cold of space by preserving the
solar rays around her, will become chill
ed in the sleep of death.
'As Henri Viyarez says: ‘From the
summit of the mountains a winding
sheet of snow will descend upon the
high plateaus and the valleys, driving
before it life and civilization, and mask
ing forever the cities and nations that-
it meets on its passage.’ Life and hu
man activity will press insensibly toward
the intertropical zone. St Petersburg,
Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, Con
stantinople and Rome will fall asleep in
succession under their eternal shroud.
During very many ages equatorial hu
manity will undertake Arctic expeditions
to find again under the ice tbe place of
Paris, Lyons, Bordeaux and Marseilles.
The sea coasts will have changed and
the geographical map of the earth will
have been transformed. No one will
live and breathe any more except in the
equatorial zone up to the day when the
last family, nearly dead with cold and
hunger, will sit on the shore of the last
sea In the rays of the sun, which will
thereafter shine here below on an ambu-
lent tomb revolving aimlessly around a
useless light and a barren heat.”
The Shrewd Traveler.
As the train leaves the depot a young
man leans over the bacK of my seat and
asks me what I paid for my ticket. I tell
him and he chuckles. He bought a ticket
of a scalper, and is a dollar and a half
ahead of the railroad company. He pities
me because I do not know how to travel,
and I blush and feel cheap in the presence
of his superior sagacity. The conductor
comes along. He punches my ticket
with a ready, unquestioning acceptance
that makes me an honest man, and I feel
proud. He takes tbe shrewd young
man’s ticket, and gazes at it with an
awful scrutiny.
“Where are you going?” he asks the
young man.
The j’oung man gazes at him with the
unflinching glance of a citizen who
knows his rights and the railroad law.
“I am going to Indianapolis,” he said,
defiantly, “and that ticket is good until
it is used.”
“Certainly,” replied the conductor, ap
parently greatly terrified by the young
man’s defiant attitude, “of course it is;
but it’s got to be used on its own road,
and as this is a Wabash excursion ticket
of last summer, from Peru to Lafayette;
you'll have to get on a Wabash train and
go to Lafayette to use it. Fare, please.”
And the young man read the ticket
carefully, and paid his fare, and planked
down the extra ten cents for having no
ticket. He has gone into the smoking
car now, and has his head out of the win
dow, but I can hear him swearing with
startling energy and appalling grammar.
—Bob Burdette, in Hatekeye.
San Francisco is probably the most
cosmopolitan city in the United States.
An English traveler lately visiting there
writes: “I had my boots blacked by an
African, my chin shaved by a European,
and my bed made by an Asiatic; a
Frenchman cooked my dinner, an Eng
lishman showed me my seat, an Irish
man changed my plate, a Chinaman
washed my table napkin, and a German
handed me my bill.”
New York Evening Poet: “It is esti
mated that seven of the important po
litical cases before the United States
Supreme Court will be dismissed with
an opinion that that body has no juris
diction,”
The Notorious J. E. Bryant Comes
Ont In His True Colors Before at
New Eacland Audience—OaMHet-
ode Herod.
Macon Telegraph.
We have before us a copy of the
Providence Evening Press of late date,
which, under the heading “The Negroes
Mercilessly Persecuted and Murdered,”
gives the particulars of a meeting held
in the Central Baptist Church, for the
purpose of “considering the condition of
the Southern States,” eta, etc.
Col. J. E. Bryant, of Atlanta, ^reoigia,
was introduced by the President, Hon.
H. C. Barstow, after prayer by Rev. B.
P. Raymond, and spoke as follows:
“In the South there is no liberty, such aa you
understand it here. In some sections the man
who utters the commonest sentiments in rela
tion to the negyo would bq killed. There is a
great amount of hatred and social ostracism.
The negro in many sections is without the pro
tection of the courts in his civil rights. Since
the war twenty thousand negroes have been
murdered, and but one man engaged in killing
them has been hanged. In the South to-day
those who assist the negroes are considered ms
low as the latter ana are almost as much sub
ject to danger. The speaker here alluded to a
preacher who had been shot in the pulpit while
uttering what we consider to be the most com
mon religious sentiments. Why are these things
so ? It is because a war of ideas is going on m
the South. A different type of Christianity
prevails in the South from the religion that
Prevails here. Slavery here i* and has been be-
ieved to be a sin. In the South slavery has been
and is believed to be a blessing to the negro. We
are also different people. This difference may
be traced to the period of this country's his
tory when the northern and southern portions
of the country were first settled. In the North
the love of civil and religious liberty has pre
vailed: in the South the love of gold. Still the
battle of ideas goes cn. What is the remedy?
There is only one way by which a change c*n
be produced, and that is by creating a public
sentiment among the whites of the South in
favor of the protection of the negroes. It is
only a question of time and work. We can do
it iffwe go to work persistently and constantly.
We must do this work by organizing the peo
ple, by public addresses and printed matter.
We are pioneers in this work, and our present
field is the empire State of the South, Georgia.
This work can be done. We can bu*’-* up a
party in the South in favor of American ideas
as against feudal ideas. I make an appeal to
you to aid us in this work.”
We doubt if any single paragraph in
the English language ever contained a
greater number of shameful and un
blushing falsehoods. The very fact that
such a pestilential creature is allowed
asylum, and permitted to go at large in a
State numbering eighty thousand Demo
cratic majority, is the best possible refu
tation of his absurd statements. But, of
course, this is only one more shake of
the “ bloody shirt,'’ which is now the
only flag, and sole hope of the Radical
North. We print the above, that even
our colored brethren may give it the lie.
Sweet Potato Sngar.
The California correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes that a new variety
of sweet potato is being cultivated in
Kern county, the extreme southeastern
corner of California. They call it Ocean
Queen. Picked specimens weigh from
15 to 18 and 22 pounds. The yield is so
great tbat they are fed to hogs, which
thrive amazingly and make extra pork.
Recent tests suggest that they will make
better and cheaper sugar than beets. Dr.
Stockton is organizing a sugar company
to utilize his large crop as well as
his neighbors’. This gentleman made
last year 125 barrels of luscious table
syrup from watermelons. The profit
realized encourages him to largely in
crease the product this year, and to make
it a permanent industry. He has farmed
grain in this State long enough to know
there is no money in it. He finds also
that it does not pay to mill raw beets.
But he believes if the roots be cut and
dried by modern methods that the pre
sent sugar factories would be profitable.
He gets one gallon of syrup from eight
gallons of melon juice by his crude
method. While syrup pays so well there
is no inducement to make melon sugar,
even if it would crystallize* which our
American varieties do not. But seed of
the right kinds abounds in Hungary.
A Fatal Shirt Button.—The death
is announced at Heidelberg of Dr. Adolf
Sander, who was formerly in large prac
tice as a physician in Diberfeld and its
neighborhood. One rrorning in 1874,
while dressing, he coatrived in some way
to get a shirt button between his teeth.
Unconsciously, while laughing, the but
ton slipped into the back of his mouth,
and thence into the larynx. All the ex
ertions of his surgical friends to remove
it were vain. It was ascertained that it
sank into the right lung, which soon be
came irritated. SpittiDg of blood en
sued, and he was himself looking for
ward to his death as not very remote.
He removed to a villa he had near Frank
fort-on-the-Main to pass his last days in
quiet. Here he was surprised by a vio
lent fit of coughing, accompanied by
spitting of blood, in a paroxj’sm of
which the button was ejected. His
health rapidly improved, and in a few
months,regarding himself as quite cured,
he resumed his professional work, and
endeavored to gather up the threads of
his former practice. But last year un
mistakable symptoms manifested them
selves that the lung had not fully recov
ered from the presence in its substance
of a foreign body for several months.
He spent the winter in the south of Eu
rope, but returned almost worse than he
went. He gradually wasted away, and
sank a few days ago.—London Times,
October 27.
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