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CARNATIONS.
All the Year Round.
p.low, winds of summer, on the grass
< »f meadows green n;y love must pass
What time he comes to me;
H in<, sun of summer, on the way
Yh it » e. full-hearted, takes to day
Toward our te sting tree.
Sir.-. happy lark, in God s blue sky,
I .: thou thy thrilling voice on high,
In carol strong and clear;
Fing. lark, and 1 will sing with thee,
l*ccause good thirgs have come to me.
Because love's life is dear.
t: , ius • my sometimes lonely heart
Is low-elected to a part
Among earth's favored few;
15. • iuse my lately empty hand
tilled to-day by love’s command
With blossoms of love’s hue.
because I wear upon my breast
,: - 11-over my lover loveth best,
The flower he gave to me;
A dark carnation, velvet red,
Uv moonlight gathered fioin its bed.
When none was near to see.
A sweet carnation, whose perfume
Is richer even than it% bloom
Of kingly, crimson hue:
And as the flower is sweet above
lt> summer fellows, so his love,
More than most love, is true.
I wear my blossom o'er my heart,
Content to take the meeker part
lu all love’s days to come:
Content to fare in quiet ways.
Afar from rumor’s blame and praise,
In sunshine of sweet home.
I wear my flower upon a breast
Fast throbbing now with love's unrest;
But calmly flowing tim*»,
That reaps the harvest of the years.
Will temper all love's smiles and tears,
To harmony sublime.
I wear the flower love's hand hath given,
I stand beneath God's azure heaven,
With sunshine in my soul;
No cloud upon my summer day,
My lover on his happy way—
Ah, heart: this bliss is whole.
Full well I know the summer sun
Is dim when summer days are done;
But for life's winter hours
We two will pluck the crimson bloom,
j. nd thence distil the rich perfume
Of love's carnation flowers!
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The Su
Georgia A Hairs.
cr Republican says that Americas
needs a place of worship for Its Roman
C;’. hollc population, a chapel and a priest,
a synagogue for R* Israelitish citizens, and
a < -ramodious house dedicated to the musce
—call it a temple, a hall, or a theatre—for
ever} body.
The Ares wants some of the rich men of
Griffin to give that town a public park.
Governor Colquitt has offered a reward of
one hundred dollars for the capture of
George Walker, colored, charged with the
murder of Gus Reeves, colored, In Talbot
county, on the lSlh of August last. No
description of the alleged murderer is pub
lished.
The Southern Templar, a paper published
in Atlanta, and devoted to the cause of tem
perance and prohibition, In Us last issue
publishes a call for a National Prohibition
Convention, to be held at Cleveland, Ohio,
on the 17th of June next, for the purpose of
nominating a candidate for President and
Vice President of the United States. The
TanpUxr wants the Prohibitionists of Georgia
to hold a State Convention for the purpose
of appointing delegates to said convention.
The Milledgeville Recorder 6ays that on
Monday morning last, about eight o’clock,
six negro children were crossing the Oconee
river above Tre&nor’s Mill, in a bateau, in
charge of a negro man. The boat had
reached the shore uu the city side when
some of the children seized a limb and cap
sized the boat. All the children were res
cued by the man in charge of the boat ex
cept one named Johnnie Ware, who sank
so quickly that he could not be saved. The
children were on their way to school. The
boy who was drowned was about six years
oil, and a son of the man who was killed
last year by the falling of the Oconee bridge.
The Columbus Enquirer has at last been
made happy with a telephone, and the ex
change, which has been so long looked for
in that city, is to be put in general opera
tion now in two weeks time.
On Sunday night last the lightning struck
the corn crib of Charles Wingfield, colored,
who lives near Thomson, and fired it. The
McDuffie Journal says that before the flames
were discovered they had made such head
way that it was impossible to save anything
but the wagon, and that in a damaged con
dition. He lost all of his corn, plows, gear,
etc., which places him in a bad condition for
the present crop.
A farmer In Hancock county has some
pigs that have been caught several times
sucking the cows on his place. The Sparta
1 ' inaelite says: “This Is queer, but it is un
doubtedly true.”
The Wiregrasc Watchman 6ays: “Appling
uuty’s exports annually amount to nearly
three million of dollars. Who says that the
wiregrass ain’t able to take care of herself?”
| The Cumming Clarion reports that on
nday last, while Mrs. Ruth Patterson^
wife of II. L. Patterson, Esq., of that place,
v. is standing near the fire her dress became
united, and when she discovered It she be
came greatly excited and started to ruu,
anu, but for the presence of her husband,
the consequences would doubtless have been
f ri »us. Fortunately he caught her and ex-
t : <:uished the fire, burning his hands pretty
k verely in so doing. Mr6. Patterson had
her han-ls somewhat burned, but otherwise
1' uninjured. She certainly made a narrow
escape.
Mrs. Henry Cranston, whose husband is
wi ll known and deservedly popular in Au-
- u -*a, died suddenly in Atlanta last Tues-
KLy. &he was an estimable lady, aud leayes
KffiUe a large family to mourn her loss.
The Rome Tribune says that late last
Tuesday evening a party of citizens from
Livingston district, of Floyd county,
wrought in and turned over to the proper
fcu'borlties a negro boy, eighteen or twenty
pears of age, named Joe Sheldon, who at-
t anted an outrage on Mrs. Mary E. Camp,
* highly respected lady of the above
named district. The negro is now in jail
a ‘ Lome awaiting trial.
The Marietta Journal says that last Friday
■ Mr. Adams, the driver of the Marietta
Mill wagon, was urging the team
across the bridge near the mill, the bridge
pave way, and wagon, mules and driver
Wrii* crashing to the bottom of the creek,
falling a distance of thirty-three feet. Mr.
Adams was badly bruised and a splinter
pierced his flesh, making a painful though
r *ot serious wound. The wagon was coui-
pletely wrecked, but the mules escaped in
jury. The Journal thinks that the recent
heavy rains probably damaged the bridge
somewhat, acd one or two decayed timbers
precipitated the disaster.
Mr. John H. Ilodges has retired trom the
Irwlnton Southerner and Appeal, leaving his
brother, Mr. Charles R. Hodges, sole editor
and proprietor.
Columbus Times: “ We are not much
F'ven to telling snake stories, as our neigh
bor Dennis might consider it an infringe-
IueDt on his territory, but when we get a
tood one, and that told by a minister whose
'‘•raclty is above reproach, we feel warrant
ed to repeat it. Such is the case in the
present iustance. A gentleman Informed a
lune * reporter yesterday that near his house
Moi
Pa
in Harris county, four yellow striped snakes
were feunil last Suuday after the hail, and
the probability is that they were killed by
the fall of the hail. They were all in a pile,
and he is unable to account for the proximi
ty, unless they were huddled for mutual
protection.”
Say6 the Monroe Advertiser: “We hear it is
rumored that the Census Supervisor of this
district will appoint Republicans and Inde
pendents, exclusively, as enumerators. We
are not willing to believe the report, how
ever. Mr. Johnson was endorsed bv some
of the most Influential Democrats in'the dis
trict, and we think they have a right to ask
that competent enumerators, without re
gard to party, be appointed. If he does this
we will not complain.”
“Up in the neighborhood of Mt. Zion, in
Hancock county,” says the Spurt*Ishmaelite,
‘there are numbers of mounds, that are
thought to be of Indian origin. Mr. D. T.
Underwood showed us last week a portion of
the skeleton of what Is supposed to have been
an Indian. The recent heavy rains washed a
gully through one of his* fields, lying on
Beaver Dam creek, and the remains were
exposed to view. With the skeleton, which
was mostly decomposed, was found a num
ber of beady of limestone formation and
curious in shape—corresponding to the de
scriptions of the ‘wampum’ of the Red men.
In another place on the same plantation,
there was found an Indian pot, containing
what seemed to be the tmics of a small
child. There is much in that portion of the
county to repay the search of the antiqua
rian.”
Henry County Weekly: “Dr. Peek tells of
an old negro named Jim Ingraham, living
near Wynn’6 mill, who is undoubtedly the
oldest person in the State—or perhaps the
United States. He is a native African, aud
the bill of pale given to his former owner—
now long since dead—shows him to be one
hundred and twenty-seven years old. He Is
quite infirm, and totally blind, yet exhibits
an amount of energy and vitality that is
truly wonderful. Dr. Peek says that, even
now, be can make as good a bark collar as a
mule ever looked through, and really seems
to enjoy the occupation. The facts here
stated can be fnbstantiated by indubitable
proof, chief among which is the bill of sale
referred to above. P. S.—We have no evi
dence that Jim ever belonged to George
Washington—he of Father of-bis Count.rv
notoriety, we mean—but presume he did.”
Columbus Enquirer: “In talking with a
farmer on yesterday on the subject, of guano
and its almost universal use in this section,
he remarked, ‘Yes, even the Hardshell Bap
tists are using it this year.’ Being ome-
wbat surprised at the remark, and having
some curiosity, we asked him If they had
not before used it as much in proportion as
any other denomination. He said he did
not know, but that all the Hardshell Bap
tists in his neighborhood had been opposed
to using it. and bad not done 60 until this
year. We a^ked him why was it. He re
plied: ‘I don’t know, unless it Is that they
are a very conscientious and exemplary peo
ple generally, and did not want to interfere
with the workings of Providence in provid
ing for cotton, corn, etc , to grow.’ ‘Are
you not *o disposed, too?’ we asked. ‘Oh,
yes,’ said he, ‘but guano helps mightily to
make crops, if they are worked well.’ ”
That’s but another way of putting the old
truism: “Providence helps these who help
themselves.”
The Montezuma Weekly asks “Where are
the mechanics of the future to come from,”
and says : “If the question had been where
all the clerks, lawyers and doctors of the
future are to come from the question could
have been ea*ilv answered. They are on
every corner, behind every counter, out at
fiome on the farm waiting until they get tall
enough to see the customer over the coun
ter. They are marching up and down the
streets of our towns and cities ‘waiting for
something to turn up.’ They are every
where. But. where is the young Southern
mechanic ? Echo answers where ! We do
not find him in our village work shop. He
Is not seen building bouse*. Comparatively
there is none of him. We fear that the
average young man of the South had
rather measure calico at fifteen dollars a
month or eke out a miserable cx'sfence as a
one-horse doctor or lawyer than to shove a
jack plane at two dollars a day. If we are
to have any native white mechanics twenty
years hence, it is high time that a move
should be made in that direction.”
Under the caption “Serious Folly,” the
Sparta Ishmadite says: “Last week Eddie
Hobby, son of Mr. Duke Hobby, was plow
ing in his father’s field, when a negro man,
named Adam Lawson, passed through the
field on his way to a pond near by, on a
hunting expedition. When Adam got with
in a few yards of Eddie, the latter held up
his right hand with the palm extended to
wards the hunter, and said, ‘You can't hit
that’—indicating his right little finger. The
negro raised bis gun and it went off. The
little fellow’s finger was so badly mangled
that it had to be taken off. The work was
performed by Dr. Burt. Mr. Hobby says
Adam is a good negro, and he is satisfied
that the shooting was purely accidental.
Adam carried Eddie home after shooting
him, and appeared to be exceedingly sorry
for the mishap. One of the shots lodged in
the boy’s ear, and two of them glanced his
face. This may have been an accident; but
iu that view of it, the fool killer ought, not
to mak ' any delay in claiming Adam as his
own. There is no excuse for tarrying at ail
in the matter.”
Lumpkin Independent: “On Thursday of
last week Miss Nancy Willis, daughter of
Mr. Thomas Willis, of the Antioch district,
was fatally burned. Miss Willis was stand
ing with her back to the fire, when her cloth
ing caught, and in a moment blazed up over
her head. She immediately ran out of the
house into the open air. Her mother seized
a bucket of water with which to ex
tinguish the flames, but having been
sick, the fell in attempting to over
take her daughter. Her clothiDg was en
tirely burned from the body, and her back
was literally baked. Miss Willis lingered
In mu?h agony, aud on Thur-dsy last we
were informed that death relieved her of
her sufferings. Miss Willis was eighteen
years of age, and was a most estimable
young lady. Some years ago Mr. Willis had
the misfortune to lose a younger child in
the burning of bis dwelling. The family
have the sympathy of the entire neighbor
hood.”
The following instance of a sudden and
horrible death is related in the Macon Tde-
araph of yesterday: “At two o’clock yester
day morning, as the Mecon and Brunswick
passenger train was nearing Baxley on the
upward trip. Captain Sharpe, the conductor,
as usual, called the name of the station, in
order to allow passengers for that point, of
whom there were several, time to make
their prepara’ions foi leaving the cars. A
man named Jones was among the number,
and lay upon a bench asleep. He arose,
passed down the car, out through the door
on the platform, apparently to get off. In
stead of waiting, however, for the train to
stop, or of passing down the steps, he
walked upon the little platform wnich lies
above the coupling, turned and stepped off
into the darkness between the two cars.
The brakeman caught at and succeeded
in catching hold of him. but was unable
to retain bis grasp. Down unto death
beneath the thundering train went the un
fortunate man, and in a few moments was
but. a mass of broken bones and mutilated
The wheels did not pass over the
body. He was caught by the truck and
doubled up alor.tr the cross ties nntfl the
train stopped. He was alive when picked
up but died In an hour. No blame cau
attach to the road or its officers for this un
fortunate death. About the dead man were
found fragments of a whisky flask. It is
supposed that, being In a stupor from drink
and dazed by the lights, at the found of
‘Baxley’ he rose and walked out on the
platform, and thinking himself opposite
the steps, and the train at a stand-still, took
the fatal step.”
The Americas Recorder offers “a nut for
Northern Radicals to crack” as follows. It
savs • “The following facts have come to
our knowledge. AVe know them to be true,
and are fully prepared to verify them at any
time ■ There Is a negro living not many
miles from Americus who. since the war,
has gathered together, by honest toil, a
compentenev ; he has a good home, all ne-
ecssary improvements, and stock to ruu his
farming operations. By meeting his obliga
tions promptly he has established a first-
class credit, and can borrow all the money
he wants at any time in either Americus or
Columbus. Last year one of bis young
masters In the days of slavery, with
whom he romped and played when they
were boys together, got Into financial
trouble. He was compelled to have
Nnmp money to perfect some important
financial arrangements. He called upon the
colored boy of Ids youth, now a prosperous
farmer, for aid. This most honorable and
worthy colored man promptly came to a
bank In Americus and borrowed the money
needed by bis former master and let him
have it, without interest, until such time as
he may be able to pay if. Last winter the
bank note which obtained he money was
promptly paid at ma'urity by this colored
friend. We would like to give the name of
this most honorable and upright eaored
citizen, but for obvious reasons we withhold
the names of all parties concerned. But
such incidents should go far towards
proving to all lair minded Northern men
Uiaf there Is no antagonism between the
white people of the South and their former
slaves. ’ ’ .
Catherine de Medici Is quoted as haring
asserted that the highest thing to be said in
praise of a w oman Is that she can cook a
I good dinner.
BV TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The British Steamer Sjria Aban
doned at Sea.
BRITISH COAL MINERS’ STRIKE.
Presidential Preferences of the Bos
ton Radicals.
FULL-FLEDGED CHINESE-AMERI
CAN CITIZEN.
Democratic Senatorial Caucus.
Congressional Committee Notes.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, April 8.—In the House, un
der call of the committees, bills were re
ported and disposed of as follows : By Mr.
Barber, of Illinois, from the Committee on
Claims, for the relief of Henry C. Deabnea;
placed on the private calendar. Also, for
the relief of the German National Bank of
Louisville, Ky.; placed on the private cal
endar.
A large number of bills were reported ad
versely from the Committee on War Claims
and laid on the tabic. The House then weut
Into committee of the whole on the army
appropriation bill. Considerable discussion
ensued as to the point of order raised by
Mr. Kiefer, of Ohio, against the supple
mentary section which the Committee on
Military Affairs proposed to add to the bill
to prevent the use of the army at t*ne polls.
The Republicans generally held that the
Committee on Military Affairs had no juris-
distion over the subject matter of the bill,
and that the proposed supplementary sec
tion did not reduce expenditures, as it must
to be in order.
The chair ruled that, the proposed amend
ment would reduce expenditures aud was
therefore in order.
Mr. Conger appealed from the chair’s de
cision, but it was sustained by a vote of 103
to 92. After considerable discussion of the
question, whether general debate should be
allowed on the bill, the Republicans claim
ing that such had been the agreement, the
House adjourned.
In the Senate, the morning hoar was oc
cupied with unimportant buxine s. At its
expiration, Mr. Saulsbury said he would not
interrupt the debate on the Ute bill today
by calliug up the Kellogg-Spoilord report,
but would call It up on Tuesday next.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the bill ratifying the Ute agreement.
Arguments for and against the bill, and
covering the Indian question generally,were
made by Messrs. Dawes, Williams, Butler
of South Carolina, Coke and others. Mr.
Butler opposed the bill as one which tem
porized with and postponed the
settlement of the Indian question. He
opposed it because it did not do away
with the present expensive and disastrous
Indian policy, which had already cost one
hundred and 6eventy-nine million dollars in
annual appropriations, and thrice that sum
for expenses and losses through Indian
wars. He would not vote for any bill which
recognized the independence of tribal or
ganizations. ne would recbgnfze the Indians
only as individuals subject to the 6ame laws
as white men.
Mr. Coke said he thought Mr. Butler’s ar
gument tended to the support rather than
the overthrow of this bill, and no measure
was ever brought before Congress which
proposed to make such a radical change iu
the Indian policy as this. It would leave
only the shadow of tribal relations in ex
istence. He also was opposed to the present
Indian policy, and favored the transfer of the
Indians to the War Department, but since
that could not be accomplished, he would
accept this bill as a remedy for many of the
existing evils. If it failed in all else, it
would, at least, avert a disastrous war. After
some further remarks by Messrs. Teller,
Vest ar.d Hill, the Senate adjourned.
BRITISH STEAMER SYRIA ABANDONED AT SEA.
New York, April 8.—The steamer Gel-
let, Captain Kuhleween, from Hamburg,
which arrived yesterday, reports that
on April 4, at five o’clock in the
morn, latitude 41:35, longitude 59:38,
she met the British steamer Syria, Johnson,
from New Orleans for Liverpool, with her
rudder lost, her stern-post and main and
discharge pipe broken, together with other
injuries which rendered the vessel entirely
unmanageable. The Captain came on board
and asked to be taken in tow. We gave
them our steel hawser and took one
of her eleven-inch hawsers, secured them
well and started slowly ahead. The Syria,
not being under control, went from one side
to the other, which finally parted both haw
sers. Finding it impossible to tow the vessel
»e signalled Capt. Johnson to that effect. A
boat with a portion of the Syria’s crew*
with their luggage then came on board, and
soon after Capt. Johnson, who made every
effort to induce bis men ora portion of them
tore’uru to the ship, but all refused, and
also refused to do duty on the Gellert in
case any of her men would volunteer to go
with him and try to save his ship. John
son then applied to Captalp Kuhleween
to give him some men. Kuhleween sent an
officer and engineer on board the Syria to
examine her. They reported that in their
opinion it was not safe to send the men on
board, as the vessel could not possibly float
much longer. Consequently Kuhleween re
fused the men asked for.
The Syria was then abandoned by the en
tire crew except Captain Johnson, who re
mained on board aDd again asked for men
to help save the vessel, which was refused.
Johnson, at last seeing the utter uselessness
of his remaining aboard alone, consented to
come aboard ihe Gellert, and all were
brought to this port. The Syria’s cargo
consisted of five thousand bales of cotton
and two hundred tons of oil cake.
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE NOTES.
Washington, April 8.—The House Com
mittee on the Judiciary discussed at some
length this morning the question of the
power of the Senate to originate appropria
tion bills and,pending discussion, adjourned.
The House Elections Committee will hold
a session to morrow to take action in the
case of Yeates V. Martin, of North Caro
lina.
On Tuesday next reports on the Donelly-
WasLburn case will be presented to the
committee, and Representative Manning
expresses the Intention of immediately call
ing the matter up in the House, with a view
of reaching an early vote upon the merits
of the case.
The House Committee on Ways and
Means to-day adopted the Carlisle bill
amending the interna! revenue laws In rela
tion to whisky distilleries and ordered a
favorable report to be made upon it to the
House.
The House Committee on Military Affairs
has appointed a sub committee to investi
gate the recent hazing of Cadet Whittaker,
of South Carolina, at West Point.
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAUCUS.
Washington, April 8.—The Democratic
Senators met in caucus to-day, which was
nominally called to consider the order of
business with a view of arranging matters
for an early adjournment, but really for the
purpose of considering the Spofford-Kellogg
case. No action was tsken, and the caucus
adjourned to meet at four p. m. if the Sen
ate adjourned in time, if not to meet In a
day or two. Sentiment was iu favor of post
poning the ca6e until the appropriations bill
passed and other necessary legislation had
been attended to.
A FULL-FLEDGED CHINESE-AMERICAN.
Chicago, April 8.—A special from Fon du
Lac, Wis., says : “There was a novel fea
ture at the municipal election here yester
day. Sing Yan, a native of China, took out
naturalization papers and cast his first vote
as an American citizen. He has lived here
for two years, has learned to read acd write
English, and has discarded his Chinese cos
tume, still, however, retaining his queue.
He is the only one of his nationality in this
section.”
COAL MINERS’ STRIKE.
London, April 8.—Eighteen hundred pit
men of the South Helton and Morton col
lieries, in Durham, have struck in conse
quence of a refusal of the managers to put
out the usual average board sbowiDg each
man’s earnings, as the men have been re
stricting their labor for the past fortnight,
so that their earnings went below the county
average.
PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCES OF THE BOSTON
RADICALS.
Boston, April 8.—A caucus was held In
all the wards of the city last night to select
delegates to the Republican convention to be
held at Worcester on the 5tb. Returns from
all but two wards indicate a preference for
Sherman as first choice, with the chances of
Grant and Edmunds about equal for second
choice.
THE WALKING MATCH.
New York, April 8 —At 12 o’clock the
score stood: Dobler356, Hart 356, Pegrara
339, Howard 326, Allen 322, Krohne 308,
Williams 299, Merritt 294, Hamoaker 275,
Jaybee 133.
At 2 o’clock the score of the leading con
testants in the walking match was as fol
lows: Hart 365 miles, Dobler 365 miles and
X lap, Pegram 349 miles, Howard 336 miles.
FRENCH CATHOLICS CONFORM TO THE LAW.
Paris, April S.—The Bishops at the head
of the Paris Catholic University have de
cided to conform to the law as embodied in
M. Jules Ferry’s educational bill by altering
the name of the institution to that of “The
Catholic Institute.”
SUICIDED.
New’ Orleans, April 8.—Alfred Wilkins,
of Magnolia Miss., suicided here yesterday,
taking prus?ic acid. He was ruined by dis
sipation.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
FOREIGN' AND DOMESTIC ITEMS.
The Emperor Declines to Accept
Bismarck's Resignation.
WHY THE CHANCELLOR WISHES
TO RETIRE.
Tlie Liberal Successes in Great
Britain—Bulldozing Charged.
Cotton Seed Cru*Iien»’ Convention.
BISMARCK’S MOTIVE IN RESIGNING—THE EM
PEROR’S REPLY.
London, April 8.—A Berlin correspondent
of the Times says there is much difference
of opinion as to Bismarck’s motive in re
signing the Chancellorship. The corres
pondent, however, Insists that Bismarck’s
vexation is due not 60 much to
rejection of the stamp tax as to
the obviously unfair and irregular way In
which an adverse vote is recorded against
the three most powerful States
Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony. In the out
voting of these kingdoms by a coalition of
petty States, headed by Wurtemberg, the
Chancellor had a painfully practical illustra
tion of what might be accomplished in
questions of infinitely greater moment than
the imposition of stamp duty, and he there
fore seems to have resolved to take time by
the forelock and deal with the evil in its
inception.
Berlin, April 8.—The Emperor William
has replied by the following Cabinet order
to Prince Bismarck’s request for permission
to retire from office: “I certainly do not
ignore the difficulties In which you may be
placed by a conflict between the duties im
posed upon you by the Constitution and
your responsibility. I do not feel inclined to
relieve you of your office, because you be
lieve yourself unable, In a particular case,
to carry out the task allotted to you bv
the Constitution. I must, on the contrary,
leave it to you to submit to me, and sub
scquently to the Bundesrath, proposals cal
culated to bring about a constitutional solu
tion of the conflict of duties of this descrip
tion.”
THE WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., April 8.—Indications
for Friday :
In the South Atlantic States, cloudy
weather, northeast to northwest winds, sta
tionary or higher temperature and barome
ter.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, warmer,
partly cloudy weather, winds mostly from
northeast to northwest, and stationary or
lower barometer.
In the West Gulf States, rain areas, fol
lowed by clear or partly cloudy weather,
warmer northerly winds, and rising followed
by falling barometer.
In the Middle Atlantic States, warmer,
partly cloudy weather, possibly followed by
rain areas, southwesterly winds, generally
shifting to northeasterly, and stationary or
lower barometer.
THE LIBERAL SUCCESS IN GREAT BRITAIN—
BULLDOZING CHARGED.
London, April 8.—Liberal successes in
the English aDd Scotch counties increases.
Surprise is occasioned by the borough elec
tion*. A Liberal majority, independent of
the Home Rulers, is now a«sured. Up to
this time there have been elected 300 Lib
erals, 191 Conservatives, and 39 Home
Rulers. Specific charges of Intimidation
and undue influence exercised by pub-agents
among Lord Derby’s tenantry are published.
MORTUART.
New York, April 8—Mr*. Daniel 8.
Dickinson, widow of the late United States
Senator, died this morning.
The funeral of Mrs. Deufcb, who was
said to be a grand-niece of President Van
Buren, and who died recently from an over
dose of' opium, took place here to-day in
the presence of a few friends.
COTTON SEED CRU9HERS’ CONVENTION.
New York, April 8.—The Board of Mana
gers of the Produce Exchange at their meet
ing to-day appointed S. W. Knowles and
Caleb A. Dwyer delegates to represent the
Excharge at the Cotton Seed Crushers’
Convention to be held at New Orleans next
Tuesday.
STEAMSHIP IN DISTRE33.
New’ Orleans, April 8.—The steamship
Rio Grande, of the Mallory Line, from New
York for Galveston, has arrived at Port
Eads, with a loss of her rudder post and
shoe. She will be tow^d to Galveston.
fire—loss $75,000.
Waterbury, Conn., April 8.—The office
In the building connected with the exten
sive works of the Benedict & Benonham
Manufacturing Company of this city was
destroyed by tire to day. Loss $75,000.
WAR VESSELS FOR CHINESE WATERS.
London, April 8.—The St. Petersburg
Herald announces that Russia is about to
difpatch five large war vessels to the Chinese
waters for the protection of Russian In
terests.
A VICTIM OF OPIUM.
The Sad Deatli of ITlr*. Dentch—Cn-
riouH Features In the Can©-The
Story Which She Told.
New York Post.
Dr. B. C. Miller, of the Metropolitan
Hotel, reported at the Coroner’s office
this morning the death from an overdose
of opium of Mrs. Deutch, whom he had
attended at No. 234 West Eleventh
street. The history of the woman’s life
and death as told by the doctor to Coro
ner Knox is remarkable. Some six
weeks ago a stranger who said that his
name was Newhall, and that he did
business at No. 90 Broadway,
called upbn Dr. Miller at his office
and asked if he would undertake to
cure a confirmed opium eater of the
habit. The patient, he explained, was a
lady. The doctor called upon the pa
tient at No. 215 East Twenty third street.
He found a young woman of not more
than thirty years, of culture and intelli
gence. Mrs. Deutch was anxious to en
ter upon the course of treatment pro
posed, but had many misgivings as to
her strength. She finally put herself
under treatment and improved rapidly,
but a dispute w ith her landlady brought
about a relapse.
Dr. Miller was hastily called last Fri
day to No. 234 West Eleventh street,
where he found Mrs. Deutch in a highly
nervous condition. She then declared
that Newhall w’as her husband and that
Deutch was bis name. She said that her
maiden name was Van Buren. ner
father was Dr. Peter Van 3uren,
of this city. Sl^p then said that her
family was estranged by her mar
riage, which she said had resulted very
unhappily. She also declared that her
husband had secretly procured a divorce
from her. She exhibited to the doctor
letters purporting to-be from her brother.
Gen. T. B.Van Buren, Consul-General to
Japan. The writer accused Deutch of
wrecking his sister’s life and happiness.
Dr. Miller heard all this with amaze
ment. In his presence Mr. Deutcli’s
treatment of his wife had always been
kind.
On Monday evening he was summoned
to see Mrs Deutch. When he reached
the house she was under the influence of
opium. During Sunday she had twice
tried to send out for an ounce of lauda
num, writing a prescription and signing
Dr. Miller’s name to it herself, but each
time her intentions had been frustrated.
On Monday morning she rose, slipped
out unobserved and obtained the drug.
Strict search was made for the poison in
her room by the doctor, but none could
be found, and it was believed that she
bad swallowed all which she had bought.
Scarcely had he left, however, before she
drew forth a bottle containing more than
an ounce of laudanum, which she had
concealed in her bed clothes, and drank
it. When the doctor arrived at the house
again last night she was dead. It was
reported to him that Deutch, the bus
band, bad left. He then reported the
matter to the police and the Coroner,
who will hold an inquest. One of Mrs.
Dvutch’s brothers is said to be Judge
Van Buren, in Chicago; another a lawyer I
in this city. • 1
OIR WASHINGTON LETTER.
An Inundation of Revenue Gaocera
for the South—The Kaymoud-Hill
Cane—A Persistent .'Han—Approprl 1
atlons for Government Surveys.
Svecial Correspondence of the Morning Xeics.
Washington, April 6—A party of twenty
four revenue gaugers passed through the
city last evening. They are baund to North
Carolina and South Carolina. It is also
stated that some of them will go to Georgia.
It is announced from the Treasury Depart
ment that they go to the States mentioned as
a mere change of the scene of their duty. It
is not, however, announced that the gaugers
now in North and South Carolina and Geor
gia are to be sent to the West where the
delegation of twenty-four comes from. It
is stated outside of the Treasury Depart
ment that this goodly body of gaugers Is
entrusted with work for the alleged Sher
man boom. The outside statement seems
to be founded on the most fact, and, as it Is
In pursuance of the plan of Sherman in
prostituting the government patronage to
serve his own ends, it is, ten to one, the
correct view of this exodus.
THE RAYMOND MATTER.
Hon. R. T. Merrick, in behalf of Senator
Hill, to-day moved in the Circuit Court of
this District to strike the case of Raymond
against Senator Hill from the calendar, on
the ground that Raymond, in a letter over
her own signature, had stated that Lockwood
was not authorized to enter the suit for
seduction, and did so against her protest.
Mr. Merrick said, further, that on the day
that declaration was prepared, Raymond
aud Lockwood had a very lively and angry
controversy as to filing the suit, and the
plaiutiff demanded that the papers should
be surrendered up to her aDd not filed. Mrs.
Lockwood refused to surrender the papers,
and late In the afternoon of that day filed
the same, against the protest of the plaintiff,
and called around her the reporters of the
press and gave them the infamous libel with
which she was about to soil the records of
the court in order that it might go forth to
the public. The declaration sets forth as the
cause of action an alleged seduction of the
plaintiff by the defendant, a complaint which
if true—and in this case it is false—would
not, under the well recognized rules of law,
and under the decision of this court, ren
dered in another case, in which Mrs. Lock-
wood also appeared as an attorney, const!
tute a cause of action: “And I am satLfied
that had your Honor known the nature
of the case at the time you were asked
to allow it to be brought In forma paupe
ris, you would not have granted the per
mission. I have several affidavits in my
possession bearing upon the general mat
ter out of which this case grows, but as
they do not directly affect the merits of
the’question as to the attorney’s authority
from the plaintiff to institute it, I do not
deem it necessarv to file them in support of
this motion. There may be an occasion
Hereafter to bring them forward. These
affidavits establish conclusively, and to my
entire satisfaction, that this case is one of
the manifestations of conspiracy azainst
the defendant, organized by a combination
of some of the lowest and most debased of
people uniting with some who are notin
appearance quite so degraded; but alto
gether they constitute a small band of the
lowest and basest and the iufamous and
prominent. In my judgment this woman
(the plaintiff) is their instrument, either
innocently on her part or with guilty knowl
edge. I believe, in the enjoyment of present
and the hope of future pecuniary reward.
She is, I believe, now in this city, and If she
desires to reinstate this case, or bring an
other, she can come into court and submit
her proposition. I will add that the affi
davits which I have referred to show the
object of this conspiracy is wantonly to in
jure the moral character of the distin
guished gentleman who is the defendant
and to Impair his political Influence in his
Senatorial capacity in regard to matters
now pending before councils of the nation.”
* The belief advanced by Mr. Merrick that
Jessie Raymond is back in town is correct.
She arrived here last evening with her
“Tommy.” It. is not known what she in
tends to do. It is pretty certain, however,
that she will not bother Senator Hill again,
but may be useful as against Lockwood and
those back of her who are supposed to have
attempted to blackmail the Senator from
Georgia.
A PERSISTENT MAN.
A competitive examination to fill some
twenty five clerkships in the pension office
caused by an Increased appropriation for
clerical force ha* just been closed and the
appointments made.
The man who proved second out of the
two hundred and sixty-three who were ex
amined is an old gentleman of sixty five
years. lie has been around Washington for
the past four years trying to get. a govern
ment place. He had not sufficient influence
to come in off-hand,but has devoted himself
to attempts to get into either the pension
office or the interior department, in the ex
aminations which Carl Schurz alone of all
the Cabinet officers maintains in filling va
cancies. The rules established by Schurz pre
clude any one over forty-five years old from
entering as a competitor for the clerkships
to be filled. Upon every occasion that there
has been a competitive examination by
Schurz the old gentleman of sixty-five has
appeared as an applicant for a permit
to be examined. He has always
been refused because of his age. In the
examination just closed he did not appear
in person. He got Senator Hill,of Colorado,
who is friendly to him, to apply for a permit
in his behalf. Schurz. forgetting the name
of the old man. gave the permit, and made
it “special.” In the examination he came
out number two of the two hundred and
sixty-three examined. When the papers
were sent to the Interior Department for
the issuance of appointments to the best
twenty-five, it was discovered for the first
time that number two was the old man of
sixty-five. Matters had gone so far, how
ever, that It was impossible for the depart
ment to draw out; so the old gentleman
was to-day appointed a clerk In the pension
office under tbe increased appropriation.
GOVERNMENT SURVEYS.
Under the bill passed at the last session
of the Forty-fifth Congress, the various
government surveys were consolidated un
der the geological survey of Clarence King.
The Wheeler surveys had until then been
very extensive west of the Mississippi.
Lieutenant Wheeler of the army, who had
charge of the latter survey.*, is trying to get
back to h!s work. He has convinced the
Secretary of War that it would be well to
continue that work; consequently, Secre
tary Ramsey has recommended an appro
priation of $75,000 to defray the expenses
of such survey for the next fiscal year. The
Chief of Engineers, U. 8. A., concurs in
this recommendation. Potomac.
One of Maximilian’s Companions
Killed.—The Philadelphia papers state
that tbe man who was run over and killed
in that city Friday, on the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore liailroad, has
been identified as Prof. Louis Binel, a
French teacher of languages and a lecturer
on French literature. He had pupils in
Wilmington Del., and it is supposed he
had entered the depot yard to take a
train and slipped and fell. He was about
58 years of age, and was a native of
Normandy. During the Crimean war he
was the correspondent of the Journal cUs
Debate, of Paris. He was selected as one
of the commission which accompanied
the ill-fated Emperor Maximilian to
Mexico’, and acted as his direct legal
adviser upon the provision of the Code
Napoleon,m which he was deeply versed.
After the execution of Maximilian,
Miramon and Mejia, Prof. Binel came to
the United States. He sacrificed a large
estate by bis devotion to the imperial
cause and he was almost penniless when
he reached this country. In Phila
delphia he soon found aquaintances, who
assisted him iu forming classes, and he
became the owner of a valuable property
in Germantown.
Foreigners for the Peninsula.—J.
Thomas Budd, of Middletown, Del., is
the promoter of a scheme to colonize
1,500 foreign families on the peninsula,
and has arranged to co-operate with the
New York Emigration Society. It is
proposed to divide large tracts into farms
ranging from ten to one hundred acres,
and give the immigrants a series of years,
not exceeding ten, for their terms of
payment. As soon as a sufficient number
of persons have been secured a number
of Mennonites from the Volga will be
brought here direct, and landed at New
Castle, from whence they will be dis
tributed to their new homes. The
advantages of the peninsula by tbe
fruition of this scheme are so manifestly
beneficial that the Philadelphia, Wil
mington and Baltimore and the Eastern
Shore Railroad Companies have volun
teered to aid Mr. Budd; in fact, have
made arrangements by which satisfactory
transportation can be effected.—Elkton
CMd.) Democrat,
COMMERCIAL LAW.
Trading cn Options —Important
Decision.
New York Commercial Bulletin.
We acknowledge the receipt of the
full text of the charge by Judge Gresham
to the jury in the case of Williar et aL
vs. John W. Irwin, recently before the
United States Circuit Court, at Indian
apolis, and involving the collection of
debts due on speculative contracts for
grain. The case, as has already been
announced in the Bulletin, was decided
in favor of the plaintiffs, after a closely
contested trial lasting six days, ex-Gov.
Hendricks being the attorney for Messrs.
Williar, who are in the Baltimore grain
trade. The defense claimed: 1. That
the alleged sales of wheat, on which
plaintiffs claimed a balance, were not
within the scope of the partnership bust
ness of Irwin & Davis—that they were
the individual transactions of Davis with
the plaintiffs; and (2.) that said sales
were wagering conti acts and void. This
second point being the most important,
the charge deals mainly with its consul
eration. The Judge said:
“On their face, these transactions are
legal, and the law does not, in the ab
sence of proof, presume that parties are
gambling. A person may make a con
tract for the sale of personal property for
future delivery which he has not got.
Merchants and traders often do this. A
contract for the sale of personal property
which the vendor does not own or pos
sess, but expects to obtain by purchase
or otherwise, is binding, if an actual
transfer of property is contemplated. A
transaction which on its face is legiti
mate cannot he held void as a wagering
contract by showing that one party only
so understood and meant it to be. The
proof must go further, and show that
this understanding was mutual—that
both parties so understood the transac
Mon. If, however, at the time of enter
ing into a contract for the sale of per
sonal property for future delivery it be
contemplated by both parties that at the
time fixed for delivery the pur
chaser shall merely receive or pay
the difference between the contract aud
the market price, the transaction is
a wager, and nothing more. It makes
no difference that a bet or wager is made
to assume the form of a contract.
Gambling is none the less such because
it is carried on in the form or guise of
legitimate trade. It is not sufficient foi
the defendant to prove that Irwin &
Davis never understood they were to de
liver wheat in fulfillment of the sales
made for them by the plaintiffs. The
presumption is that the plaintiffs ex
pected Irwin & Davis to execute their
contracts—expected them to deliver the
amount of grain sold, and before you
can find that the sales were gambling
transactions and void, you must find
from the proof that the plaintiffs knew
or had reason to believe that Irwin &
Davis contemplated nothing but a wager
ing transaction, and acted for them ac
cordingly. If the plaintiffs made sales
of wheat for Irwin & Davis for future
delivery, understanding that these con
tracts would he filled by delivery of
grain at the time agreed upon, Irwin A
Davis were liable to the plaintiffs, even
though they meant to gamble and noth
ing more. ”
Kacc Aptitudes.
Baltimore Sun.
Of ail the magnificent speculations and
gorgeous dreams of Earl Beaconsfield,
none have awakened a deeper interest in
the minds of the thoughtful or been more
frequently jeered ai by the frivolous than
his forecastings of the future of Oriental
races. Ilis thoughts on this subject,
while clothed and clouded in a sort of
Turneresque atmosphere, are undoubted
ly deep and sincere. The visions of his
Tancred and other novels have been
realized in the acquisition of Cyprus and
the coronation of the Empress of India,
and the control of the Suez canal may
easily be adjusted to some yet undevel
oped scheme for the accomplishment of
the dream which restores the focal point
of empire to Syria. Beaconsfield sees in
the Oriental mind aptitudes and ten
dencies restoring to it all its ancient con
trol in the domain of conquest, of specula
tion and of art. More practical thinkers
fancy that they discover in some of the
Oriental races peculiar aptitudes for the
conduct of business and the accumula
tion of property and wealth, which are
strong enough to put the Western and
other races at a continually greater dis
advantage as the competition for the
trade of the world gets to be more severe
and exigent. In Africa and amongst the
Malays the Arabs from Muscat and
Zanzibar have secured almost an entire
control of business. They reap all the
profits of the trade in cloths, in pearls,
spices, ivories, gold dust and slaves. In
the farther east, in Siam, Burmah,
the Phillippines, Oceanica. on the Pacific
coast everywhere, in Australia and Cali
fornia, Chinese labor and Chinese traders
are pressing, with their untiring compe
tition and their remarkable thrift, all
the other races, and the end of that
truggle is yet afar off. In Europe and
in this country, on the other hand, the
Hebrew race, still essentially Oriental in
tradition and habit of thought, is com
peting very actively and successfully in
every branch of trade and traffic with
the other races. In Germany there is
to day a race excitement based upon the
consciousness that in many lines of busi
ness the Teuton cannot sustain a success
ful competition with the Hebrew. In
banking especially the Hebrew ■ have such
gra«p upon the money power that
Germany is, as Bismarck has phrased it,
‘financially strangled.” Probably some
of Bismarck’s sense of strangulation
proceeds from the fact that the Hebrews
are opposed to the increase of debt and
taxation for the aggrandizement of the
“war power,” they being persistent
friends of peace and the peaceful pur
suits by which men grow richer and more
free. This i3 the case the world over.
Bismarck’s organs iu Germany are dis
cussing the “Jewish question,” and his
magazine, the Qremboten, has given some
interesting facts about the distribution of
the Hebrew race throughout the world
and the proportion of business which
they control. They do not number more
than seven oreight millions, all told, only
about a fifth or sixth of the whole resid
ing outside of Europe. In Germany
there are not more than GOO,000, yet they
monopolize many of the most important
and lucrative lines of business, furnish
ing 85 per cent, of the bankers. In this
country our Hebrew fellow-citizens con
trol and direct many of the most valuable
fields of trade and enterprise, and the
sphere of their influence and operations
is constantly widening. This growing
preponderance is easy to explain, and
the solution is much more to the credit
of the Jewish race than that of their
competitors in business. Natural and
acquired aptitude and race instinct have
much to do with it, of course. The Jew’s
business habits are the results of im
memorial inheritance—of a process of
natural selection and survival of the
fittest The Anglo-Saxon who makes
money usually leaves it to a son whose
chief ambition is to spend it; the grand
children of our rich men are nearly
always poor. But the rich Jew's son
gets richer; hisgiandson is apt to become
millionaire. The Anglo Saxon races
waste much in their homes. The Jew,
their equal in enterprise, industry and
business scope, practices economic habits
which keep his expenses always within
his income. He is liberal, but not ex
travagant. He repudiates asceticism as
heartily as unthrift, enjoys himself
always and in many ways without let
ting such things intoxicate him, and is
the only real cosmopolite, whether re
garded in his pleasures and icsthetic
aspirations or in his business combina
tions and economies. Business with the
Hebrew is a science, and, like every other
science, is founded upon a rational appli
cation of the economies of nature.
FIGHTING FOR CUBA.
Three Expeditions Already Snceess
Hilly Lauded on the Island.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The point of departure of the Cuban
expedition, reported by the Spanish au
thorities to have been organized in this
country, still remains a mystery. It is,
however, believed by the Spanish offi
cials that the men have already sailed on
one of the regular steamers to the West
Indies. The Washington authorities,
when informed of the scheme, took mea
sures to suppress it, if possible. The re
cruits assembled at a small New Jersey
village, and probably intended to sail for
Cuba from Lewes, Del., but the port of
sailing was afterwards changed. The
Spanish Consul General Preserved about
the matter, and will give no information.
A Cuban gentleman.at present residingin
New York, who is intimately connected
with the organizations of Cuban patriots,
said last evening that it would mani
festly be impolitic to disclose anything
concerning the plans of his countrymen.
He was free to say, however, that the
hope of freedom for Cuba had not been
abandoned, and that fresh plans were
being matured. Three expeditions have
already been sent out, and the leaders
and their followers have established
themselves in different parts of the
island, where they are enlisting recruits
and organizing a government. This
gentleman gave the assurance that no ex
pedition would be started from the
United States. The Cubans believed, he
said, that they have the popular sympa
thy of this country. They are, there
fore, adverse to doing anything that
might compel the government to inter
fere with them. On this account, no
more expeditions will be likely to start
from any point in the United States.
SHOOTING AFFAIR
YORK.
IN NEW
A Virginian’* Revenge.
The ice bridge which the Southeastern
Railway recently constructed over the
St Lawrence river, at Montreal, to al
low the passage of freight, is still in good
condition, and is considered safe for two
weeks yet.
The Kellogg Case.
Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
Unless some unforeseen accident or de
sign should prevent, the case of Senator
Kellogg will be considered in open ses
sion of the Senate within a very brief
period. The writer is familiar with the
testimony and has personal knowledge
of many of the chief actors in this re
markable drama. No such monstrous
infamy has ever been recorded in the
annals of this government as the Kel
logg regime in Louisiana, and what
ever may be the fate of the sitting
memlier, the Committee on Privileges
and Elections have done a mighty work
in laying bare one of the foulest
scandals of the century. We are of the
opinion that no worse maD, politically,
exists than Wm. Pitt Kellogg and that
the system he received from Warmoth
and improved upon considerably
is the supreme of baseness. The mau
himself is shrewd, cunning, devious, un
scrupulous and foul. He has waded
further and deeper into the mire for the
compassing of his purposes than any
politician we have any record of in the
United States. The tap root of his sys
tem was and is corruption, reeking with
filth and leprous with lies. The cloud
of witnesses he summoned at New Or
leans and afterwards at Washington,
with but few exceptions, confessed their
infamy and almost gloried in it. The
negroes and quadroons especially did
not hesitate, when caught in flagrant
falsehood and forced to swallow it, to ex
cuse themselves on the ground of justifia
ble perjury. They had a code of immor
ality horrible to contemplate, a code
that embraced mendacity as the eleventh
commandment when used for partisan
political purposes. Some of these men,
like Jeremiah Biaeklmrn, were ministers
of the Gospel, so-called. They preaehed
against lying, and yet made Baron Mun
chausen or Eli Perkins appear lo be mira
cles of veracity. In every instance they
distinguished between ordinarv lying and
lying for Kellogg and the Republican
party. The one they thought highly
criminal; the latter specially pleasing to
Almighty God. Many of the white men
summoned by Mr. Kellogg were no better.
They were usually traitors to both par
ties and infamous beyond expression.
The report made by Senator Hill, and
read in the Senate, is a powerful sum
ming up of the whole case, and yet,
we should say, it is mild com
pared with the speech that gentle
man can deliver when the matter
comes up for serious determination. We
do not wonder that Kellogg attempts to
discredit the testimony, ana, if rumor be
correct, has also essayed to ply his char
acteristic arts in an effort to injure the
man who will conduct the cause against
him. What Senator Hill says about the
condition of affairs in Louisiana, as dis
closed by the testimony, is true. What
he says concerning Kellogg’s abuse of
his power as Governor to vitiate the fran
chise for his own individual and party
benefit is equally veracious. Proof of
conspiracy between Kellogg and the re
turning hoard is ample, anil that “by the
use of the Metropolitan police and
of United States soldiers, he pre
vented by force the lawfully elected
members of the Legislature from going
into the halls of their respective bodies,
and forced in those to whom he had cor
ruptly given certificates of election; that
members of the Legislature, in some in
stances, were held in their seats by force
to make a quorum when he was being
voted for as Senator, and all who voted
for him were bribed by him to do so. In
many instances money is proved to have
been paid to the members directly. In
other cases they were bribed by appoint
ments to Federal offices.” Conclu
sive evidence 13 furnished to dem
onstrate that “the joint convention
of the two bodies which elected
Kellogg consisted of eighty-three per
sons. Of this eighty-three, thirty nine
immediately received lucrative appoint
ments to Federal offices; nearly all in
the custom house at New Orleans. In
this connection the report remarks;
Your committee are not authorized to
say, and will not say, that the President
and certain of his Cabinet were willing
parties to the corrupt use of the public
offices; but they feel constrained to say
that if they had been willing parties
they could not have been more accom
modating and compliant to the sitting
member.”
The retention of such a man iu his
seat is a travesty upon justice, and oan
only be accomplished upon the plea of
res adjudicata, or by the degrading ad
mission that there was some bargain or
other, which cannot be made clear with
out damage to some men who are now
above suspicion. So far as the first
point, of res adjudicata, is concerned,
Mr. Hill's report completely demolishes
any such flimsy pretense. As to the
bargain or understanding, whereby
Kellogg was allowed tc be seated, we
will not believe it unless there shall be
proof more convincing than the circum
stantial eviiience already produced, and
the testimony of Conover, which is
poisoned at its source. If there was
such a bargain, who were parties
to it? Is it not disgraceful, if true?
The admission of such a charge by any
Southern Democrat would consign him
to a worse than political limbo, and we
hesitate to credit the assumption. It is,
in our opinion, utterly untrue, impossi
ble of proof, and we more than suspect
only another of Kellogg's tricks, where
by he hopes to escape condemnation by
suggesting that there could, in any con
tingency, be Senators as shameless as
himself. We protest against this attempt
to make it appear that Kellogg holds his
seat by a huckster among Democrats,
and we cannot accept the idea that he
will continue to hold it by the tacit, if
not open, consent of men who can hard
ly justify this creature without con
demning themselves.
George C. Randolph, who claims to be
a native of Virginia, and a descendant
of the old Randolph family of that State,
entered the pawn shop of William Simp
son; Jr., in New York, Saturday after
noon, and after some words with Simp
son, shot him twice, once in the face and
again in the back, as MSimpson turned
away from him. The trouble dates back
to 1878. Then Randolph accused Simp
son with having had too intimate rela
tions with his (Randolph’s) wife. He
sent Simpson many threatening letters,
and Simpson had him arrested. Simpson
told Justice Bixby that before that time
he and Randolph had been paying atten
tions to the same young woman, a Miss
Timberly, and that these visits werecon
tinued on Simpson's part until she became
Mrs. Randolph. Then he ceased to see
her, and Randolph began to send the
threatening letters. Simpson said that
he paid Randolph a thousand dollars and
took a receipt releasing him from all
further claims. Then came another let
ter demanding fifteen hundred dollars
more to pay for the home Simpson was
said to have broken up, and threatening
also to shoot him on sight if it was not
paid. Then Simpson had Randolph ar
rested. He was indicted, but the case
was patched up in some way and Ran
dolph was released. After that Simpson
paid him more money, three thousand
dollars in the aggregate. , Randolph
charged that Simpson was constantly
visiting his wife and sending her loving
letters. Simpson would say nothing
about it. Randolph’s letters and threats
have been keDt up, and Saturday he
went to Simpson in person, in the
former’s pawnshop, and began to have it
all over again. Simpson refused to talk
with him and sent out for a friend. Ran
dolph, thinking an officer had been sent
for, out with a revolver and put a bullet
through Simpson’s mouth and another in
his back. Simpson was taken to the
hospital and afterward to his home. He
is seriously hut not fatally hurt. Ran
dolph was arrested. He repeats that
Simpson destroyed his home and refused
to further recompense him.
HIS SCOTCH LASSIE.
The Girl That Prince Leopold May
Marry,
from
A Britai, Rettsai..—The walkers
who are competing this week for the
O’Leary belt at Madison Square Garden,
N. Y., met on Thursday. J. Woods, of
Jersey City, one of the contestants, said
that his sister was very sick, and was
likely to die before or during the walk.
He askeefthat he be allowed to withdraw
from the race, and that his entrance fee
of $500 he returned to him. Seven of
the walkers voted against giving him his
money bock, and he cannot get it.
A Settler's Thrilling Escape
Indians.
Just below Kanawha Falls in West
Virginia, writes a correspondent of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, is an over
hanging rock of immense size jutting
out about one hundred feet over the
seething whirlpool, and about the same
height above. This was once the scene
of a remarkable adventure. The Indians
were in hot pursuit of Van Bibber, a set
tier and man of distinction in those early
times. He was hard pressed, and all ac
cess to the river below and above being
cut off, he was driven to this jutting
rock, which proved to be the jumping
off place for him. He stood on the rock
in full view of the enemy above and be
low, who yelled like demons at the cer
tainty of his speedy capture. He stood
up boldly, and with his rifle kept them
at bay. As he stood there he looked
across the river—saw his friends—his
wife with her babe in her arms, and help
less to render assistance. They stood as
if petrified with terror and amazement.
She cried at the top of her voice: ' ‘Leap
into the river and meet me!” Laying her
babe on the grass, she seized the oars and
sprang into the skiff alone. As 6bc
neared the middle of the river her hus
band saw the Indians coming in full
force and yelling like demons. “Wife,
wife,” he screamed, “I’m coming; drop
down a little lower.” With this he
sprang from bis crag and descended like
an arrow into the water, feet foremost.
The wife rested on her oars a moment to
see him rise to the surface, the little
canoe floating like a cork, bobbing about
on the boiling flood. It was an awful mo
ment; it seemed an age to her; would he
ever rise? Her earnest gaze seemed to
penetrate the depths of the water, and
she darted her boat farther down the
stream. He rose near her; in a moment
the canoe was alongside of him, and she
helped him to scramble into it amid
shower of arrows and shot that the baf
fled Indians poured into them. The dar
ing wife did not speak a word; her hus
band was more dead than alive, and all
depended on her strength being main
tained till they could reach the bank.
This theyjdid, just where she had started,
right where the babe was still lying,
crowing and laughing. The men pulled
the skiff high up on the sand, and the
wife slowly arose ami helped to lift Van
Bibber to his feet. He could not walk,
but she laid him down by his babe, and
then, seating herself, she wept wildly,
just as any other woman would have
done under the circumstances. That
babe is now a grandfather, and that rock
is called • ‘Van Bibber's Rock” to this
day.
Roasted to Death by the San.
London Telegraph.
Dr. Schweinfurth, in a lecture which
he recently delivered at the Berlin Geo
graphical Society on the subject of his
latest explorations in Central Africa, gave
his hearers a thrilling account of the
mode in which capital punishment is in
flicted upon criminals by the Al Quadjis,
a small tributary off shoot of the great
and powerful Djour people. The male
factor condemned to die is bound to a
post firmly driven into the ground in
some open place where no trees afford a
shade, and is there slowly roasted to
death—not by any artificial means involv
ing a waste of fuel, but by the natural
heat of the sun’s rays as they reach our
earth in its equatorial regions. To pro
tract his sufferings and to {avert his too
speedy end by sunstroke, the ingenious
Al Quadjis cover their erring compa
triot’s head with fresh green leaves,
which effectually shield his brain from
Phoebus’ darts. No such protection is,
however, accorded to his body, which
gradually dries up, shrinks together, and
ultimately becomes carbonized. One
chance of salvation is open to tbe roast
ing man, while as yet he is not completely
“done to death.” If a cloud pass be
tween the sun and his place of torment
be is at once cast loose from his post and
becomes the object of popular reverence,
as a mighty magician in whose behalf the
supernatural powers have deigned di
rectly to intervene. But clouds seldom
interfere with the administration of jus
tice on the days chqsen for public execu
tions by the Al-Quadji authorities; at
least, that appears to be Dr. Schwein-
furlh’s experience of African weather as
far as it bears upon the judicial roasting
of malefactors.
A Staktllxo Visitor.—'William Arc
Donald and his family, consisting of wife
and two boys, living in a log cabin in
Pine Nut Valley, were suddenly startled
a lew nights since, about midnight, by
the sudden crashing in of the roof and a
large pile of dirt that began falling on
their bed. The old man jumped up, lit
his candle and found two huge, shaggy
limbs a straddle of one of the rafters.
He seized a sharp axe, and, getting his
family away from the bed, with a single
blow at each he severed them from the
body, the animal in the meantime roar
ing with rage and pain and being una
ble to extricate himself from the logs
and poles that held him a close prisoner.
In his struggle one of the rafters broke,
and the family rushed outside of the
house. A rille standing at the door, the
old man grabbed it as they went out;
this happened to be loaded. They con
cluded to build a big fire, and when fair
ly burning the glare and the heat attract
ed the animal to the door, and it proved
to be a monstrous cinnamon bear. His
growls and groans were frightful, and
the old man finally raised his rifle within
ten feet of his head and fired, and the
huge brute was dead.—Bodie (Cal.) Newt.
Harvard's Chinese professor is very
much entertained at Cambridge,although
he cannot be said to be as yet a sparkling
talker. His knowledge of English is still
small, and he extremely dislikes to be
addressed in “Pidgin English.” He ap
New York World.
Another blow about to be struck at the
Roj al Marriage act, if we may trust the
rumors which reach us of tbe be
trothal of Prince Leopold, the youngest
son of Queen Victoria, to the most bril
liant beauty and greatest heiress of the
current season in London, Miss Frances-
Evelyn Maynard, the oldest daughter of
the late Hon. Charles Maynard, of Essex,
who predeceased his father in January,
1805. Lord Maynard, as descendant of
the great lawyer, died three months after
his son, when his titles became extinct
and his great estate passed to his eldest
granddaughter, the young lady who is
now said to be engaged to Prince Leo
pold. Miss Maynard has just entered
her 19th year, and on her presentation at
a recent drawing room held by the Queen,
she seems to have taken London by
storm, not only by her extraordinary
beauty, hut by a grace and stateliness
which are not always the leading charac
teristics of British debutantes. The
fashionable chroniclers went into ecsta
sies over the way in which she made her
“curtsey to the Queen,” an operation
which is very apt to disconcert the most
self-possessed of young women when it
has to be performed in a robe with a
sweeping train, and under the concen
trated stare of a small regiment of her
sister women. She is said also to be as
accomplished and amiable as she is lovely
and graceful, aDd as she comes into es
tates valued at £30,000 a year, the rents
of which have been accumulating for
her ever since her grandfather's death in
1805, it must be admitted that Queen
Victoria might do worse for her only
bachelor sou than to provide him with
such a bride. Miss Maynard's mother,
who is a granddaughter of the Duke of
Grafton or the time of Junius, married
after Mr. Maynard's death the present
Earl of Rosslyn, High Commissioner to
the General Assembly of Scotland, who
represented (Juecn Victoria at the first
marriage of King Alfonso of Spain. This
now allegiance with the aristocracy less
than forty years after the House of Lords
solemnly invalidated the marriage of the
Duke of Sussex to Lady Augusta Murray,
ought to make the bones or George IIL
rattle in the vault. The Royal Marriage
act, passed iu 1772. is still the law of the
land, however, and as Prince Leopold is
new in his 27th year, he falls under the
operation of the clause requiring the
consent of Parliament to his nuptials.
Fortunately for Miss Maynard, the Print*
is reputed to be one of the most estima
ble and intelligent of his race,and fortu
nately for the taxpayers of England, it
will hardly be necessary to vote an in
come for his bride.
The Political Change in England.
NashviUe American.
The unexpected defeat of the Conserva
tives in the reccDt elections creates a new
interest in the political situation of Great
Britain and of Europe. With the defeat
of what is called the “Government”—
that is, the Parliamentary' committee
called the Cabinet, or Ministry, some
fifty heads of departments, crown law
officers in England, Scotland and Ireland,
go out of office. All of the executive,
only a small part of which is the Cabi
net, or, strictly speaking, “the Govern
ment,” goes out with »he loss of a sup
porting majority. While the Queen is
nominally the executive, the real execu
tive is a committee, appointed by the
Queen nominally, but, in reality, by the
Parliamentary majority, not by direct
selection, but by acknowledged leader
ship. This is a form of government
which has grown, having its beginning
in the eighteenth century, although the
real germs and the origin of the system
may be traced much further back in the
rise and progress of popular government
iu England.
All this government by parliamentary
committee exists without a line of law
or a syllable of written authority. Even
the announcement of the appointment of
a new “Government” is not officially
made, as if England would preserve the
idea that popular government exists, in
spite of, and not with, the assent of the
crown. One who should pretend to un
derstand the British Constitution would
display greater hardihood than any of
her writers on the subject. Hence, one
cannot pretend to precise accuracy. In
the present case two men are spoken of
as possible Premier—Lord Granvilie and
Lord Ilartington. Since the election of
itself is not a decisive test, we think it is
not obligatory upon the Ministry to
resign until a decisive vote is taken upon
some dividing measure of public policy;
but the course is, we believe, to go out
upon the defeat of tbe party. This does
not, as in our defective system, imply a
change in all the offices throughout the
system, but only of those which are sup
posed to be necessary to the “Govern
ment” in power, in order to enable it to
carry out its policy, a system to which
the United States will have to come soon
or late. Probably not above a hundred
changes are made in the civil service by
the coming in of a new administration.
The civil service exists in England for
the country and not for a party."
It matters not which one of the lead
ing Liberals is the recognized Premier,
the policy of the party will be substan
tially the same, and present indications
are that it will long commend itself to
the British public. The dissatisfaction
in Germany, Austria and France and the
undisguised delight in Russia over the
Liberal success, show already that abroad
it is taken to mean the abandonment of
that wise foreign policy which has given
England new prestige abroad and turned
to her the eyes of all Europe, Russia ex
cepted, as the one power able to preserve
the peace, or in war to resist the en
croachments of Russia, and by her posi
tion outside the circle of continental
politics, to weld into one all the elements
of opposition to radicalism as well as to
acquisitive disposition of the Demon of
the North.
In a moment of weakness, through
hard times and depression in business,
England has barely overturned a wise
and progressive administration—progres
sive abroad, and, perhaps, too conserva
tive at home. It is probable that & gov
ernment coming in under such circum
stances, with a narrow majority, will not
long be able to hold power. Perhaps the
only way the Liberals can maintain
themselves is by a vigorous policy which
shall go beyond the imperial policy
of Lord Beaconsfield, and thus win
the support of the country. Such a
policy on the part of the Liberals
is perhaps an impossibility. It is
more likely that a party which came
into powe r on a popular outcry against
the wise measures which have been de
rided under the name of “jingoism,’’will
give a weak support to a policy which it
is obliged to take for at least partly ac
complished. It is obliged, for instance,
to take up the Afghan case where it was
left off, and to patch up some sort of ar
rangement. takimr for accomplished what
has been done. There are obviously at
least two lines open here, to go on with
the policy as it is begun, or to stop and
leave matters as nearly as possible where
they are. To retrace the steps taken to
give up Cyprus, to abandon Afghanistan,
to leave the Transvaal to the Dutch
Boers, is an obviously impossible policy.
As to foreign policy, the new govern
ment will he obliged to take for accom
plished ail that has been done, and there
lies the danger. Will the British publio
accept, for the bold and progressive
policy of Beaconsfield and ilis promise
of further vigorous measures the mild
policy foreshadowed by Gladstone and
Harrington, and actually applied by the
Gladstone government when in power.
If home questions could be made to take
the place of foreign policy, the Liberal
party might stand a better chance of
success, but it is obvious that Eng
land cannot, for years to come, fail
bestow an almost undivided at
tention upon foreign relations—if
for no other reason, because she is “ in
blood stepped so far, that, though she
wade no more, returning was as tedious
as to go o’er;” she is, in brief, so far ad
vanced in a policy of conquest that it
would unsettle the world for her to aban
don her Asiatic policy, and the only way
not to abandon is vigorously to pursue it.
It may weil be doubted, then, whether
the Liberals have not gained one of those
barren and short lived victories which
have before secured to temporarily de
feated administrations a longer lease of
power and proved a source of strength
rather than weakness.
The ' ‘Temperance" people of Ohio un
authorized by law, break into gin-mills
and knock in the !ji ads of barrels and
casks, and wkt n a barkeeper puts dyna
mite in a beer keg and a temperance man
c 0 r gets too much scatiered to be worth a
pears at dinner parties in charming attire I funeral, the barkeeper is called a delibe-
of silk and satin. 1 rate murderer.