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«« second Claw Matter.
T)lK boad to sloiberland.
.ad to Siumberland,
oes the baby go?
^trauht throueh mother’s arms
in is sit *<ing low.
o drowsy " I^and of Ned,”
•• lullaby.”
lamb* art* safe in the fold,
vening sky.
-ht frown, clean and v/hlte,
.•} sweet and fair;
thing the tangles out
,• ii. golden hair;
,1 satiny feet,
• id the s ocking free;
!•; together clasped
cr’s patient kuee.
.rds that are drowsily lisped
r Shepherd’s ear,
. -nly a mother can place
. f her baby dear;
head which nestles at last
mother’s breast,
ijjJaby. soft and low,
*>ugof rest.
■ •!'*ser »te hltif-veined lids
a<l to Sluml.erland
le traveler hies.
way. through mother’s arms,
.• babies go
ul City of Siumberland
.ii Is sinking low.
Georgia Affairs.
X:ic (irillin Xnas states that In a dwelling
ic hat ci'y, occupied by negroes, occurred
t terrible death by burning, on last Friday
Lit!.!. Several negro children were hud-
,jj r j around the fire place, when one of
♦hem ventured too near, and its clothing in
sg u-tant became ablaze. The flames rap-
ii’.v spread over the child, and before as-
B*anee could reach and rescue it the fire
►id done its fatal work. The child died
octanti> from its terrible burning.
The Sandersville Mercury reports a very
singular freak of lightning which occurred
Id the lower part of Washington county
W-due-day evening. Three bolts of
lii’btDiug struck in rapid succession three
jree pine trees standing within tec feet of
tarh other. It is said that lightning never
rdkes twice in the same place, but, as the
X’r. urj remarks, this was very close to its
"n account of the inclemency of the
v-ather the decoration of the graves of the
lmfederate dead in Rome was postponed
until the 10th of May.
The increased business of Home makes it
necessary that the banking capital of that
city shall be increased to $75,000.
The Montezuma Weekly brings forward
the came of the Hon. L. M. Felton, of
Macoi* county, for the Democratic nomina-
t'on for Congress from the Seventh dls-
The Montezuma Weekly 6ays that the
buMne - outlook for that town is quite
promising, and If everything moves along
i« smoothly as at present, it will enjoy a
boom the like of which has not been seen
lor many a day,
Ttn seems to be the season for storms,
<td s ? a day passes but we have to record
tie occurrence of one in some section of
tie country. The lh•'order states that oh
Mm !.iy last a heavy rain, accompanied by
»aid aud hail, passed over Amerieua. Quite
a .umber of trees and seme fencing were
thpwn down, and the hail did considerable
tUvHge to the growing cotton. It is feared
tha the damage in the adjacent country is
veH great.
Tie Thurnasville Enterprise says: “On
Thu^day last the house of Mr. W. M.
Broths, in Boston, was 6truck by lightning.
His \ife was in the store and his children
oo thi back porch when it was struck, and
thou^i the children were knocked i ff the
porchjhey were not hurt, nor was the house
muchbjured.”
Thejfefferson Forest Neics is anxious for a
railroai through the ceutialpart of Jackson
county, it wants a road built from Jeffer-
*»d to (kiotsvilie immediately, and claims
that sui^ a road would double and quad
ruple tMvaiue of the lands along and near
the ruut^ and therefore that every farmer
within tip miles of the liue may safely take
<ock in fee road. It says : “So soon as the
line is pitied iu running order, emigration
will flow ti, and not only land, but every
home proju^t will be enhanced In value,
capital qn flow in, new industries will
spring upj-eeources of the county will mul
tiply, dtuijcapilal will become productive,
and the uter courses will soon become
vocal witlthe spindles of small factories or
Ucmeut altachments.”
I he Coders Weekly thinks that General
P. Alexander, President of the Georgia
Kill road, i,“a wonderful man."
The ijylfenia Telephone counted twenty-
one able-bldied men standing around a
"ell kuoRiJfishing place In Scrlven county
one day las week. It thinks this as bad on
crops as a jretty heavy drought.
The curias scene of a Jewish and Chris
ten cungrejation attending divine worship
together Wai witnessed in CUttibert recently.
llvnson,a ltabbi, preached there on Sun
day of last Meek in a Presbyterian church,
and the Cutlbert correspondent of the Ar-
lingtou Arft efice says the church was filled
to overflowing, the regular choir furnishing
the music. The Doctor based his discourse
upon apartpf the 1st chapter of Jonah,
and for ue«rly two hours eloquently and
learnedly sp&e of the sins and errors of the
uiueteeuth emtury. He touched upon evils
in matters of religion, politics, commerce,
etc*., anil portrayed vividly the condition of
society in Euiope which was rapidly becom
ing permeated with the spirit of free
thought that Roald ere long crumble into
dust every proud throne in continental Eu
rope. Dr. Dens>n regarded atheism and
infidelity the parents of nearly every sin,
and that the Christian world aud orthodox
Jews had several battles to fight to vindicate
the truth of Gcri’s existence and to bring a
world of ignoiince and superstition to love
God supremely, and walk iu the paths of
truth aud virtu* continually.
Colonel James H. Blount, present mem
ber of Congress from the Sixth Georgia
district, has written a letter to the Macon
TtUyraph and Mtiotenyer positively declining
to again run for Congress. The Telegraph
greatest regret at Colonel
Biuunt’s ^termination. It says he will be
S^Jy missed in the councils of the nation,
&nd it win be very difficult to supply his
place.
Au old colored woman named Penny
Cone was knocked in the head with an axe
a ud killed in the upper part of Bryan coun-
- on -he 10th iost. The woman was eighty
}tar= old,and the deed was committed in day-
Kht. She was staying on the place of a
colored man named Jim Cone, and it is sup
Posed that one of Cone’s boys killed her,
80 as to create an excitement and secure
a job to watch the farm,
fhlfi is the second murder committed in
jr van county in the past four weeks, the
victims in each case being colored women,
Wj, l in both instances the murderers are
top posed to be negro boys. The suspected
Parties in both cases are now in Chatham
tounty jail.
Grops in Bulloch county are all reported
£°°d, except the fruit crop. The fruit trees
, ave suffered more or less from the late
IfosU,
—
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, APRIL 29. 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
_A Conyers correspondent of the Augusta
Cttmucfc says: “The census of 1870 gave
680 Inhabitants. The census of
1880 will probably give us a population of
over^.jOO. Notowu on the Georgia Rail
road has made such rapid strides. No town
can show such material improvement. We
have forty five business houses, most of
them substantial brick buildinge; two car-
w* e / actor ^ e8 i two weeklv papers, five
churches, and (several good schools. A few
weeks ago nine barrooms were open; now
there are only three. This is due to the
prohibition movement.”
The recent storm in Rome stirred up all the
poetry ia the soul of the Rome CVurier. It
thus describes the scene : “Last Sunday
night we witnessed a grand display of ele
mental commotion. About half-past nine a
cloud of portentous appearance lay along
our horizon, apparently stretching from the
Coosa river in Alabama to LaFayette, Geor
gia. We stood for half an hour upon a hill
top and gazed with admiration, and with
dread of the storm’s power, upon as grand
an electric display as our eyes ever wit
nessed. Throughout the whole cloud’s
length, which we estimated at full forty
miles, the lightning’s flash was almost inces
santly visible, threading in and out of
the dark, seething mass of clouds, or
darting back and forth as a weaver’ shuttle
from side to side, with an occasional wan
dering streak that would make its way out
la the distance, sometimes coming near
enough fox the loud peal to ring with shriller
toue than the deep bass of distant ye‘, clearly
audible thunder. Th^se, with the constant
monotone that attended the heart of the
storm, made the diapason of the eubllmely
grand orchestra, whose music inspired a
sense of awe, and whose majesty stilled the
pulse of levity and lifted the soul to
thoughts of nature and through nature up
to nature’s God.’ ”
Augusta Evening Xeics (Tuesday»: “Geor
gia Railroad stock has been extremely sen
sitive to-day. Orders have been received
from other markets for two or three hun
dred shares. Early this morning stock was
offered at lO’J'o, but later on it became very
firm, with 103 Did and no one offering any
amount of it at anything under 105 to 10«.
The general outlook indicates a considerable
rise, and many say it will soon bring 110.
No one 6eeras disposed to 6ell to day at any
price. Many partu s who were trying to sell
yesterday at 10*3 will not put a price on their
stock to-day. Central continues quiet but
Brin. All iaformutloa received leads us to
think this stock will soon advance very ma
terially. There seems to be a much better
feeling in all securities, and brokers seem
more cheerful. Money is much easier, and
this is mainly the cause of the firmness in
securities generally.”
Rome Tribune: “ Sunday night our city
was visited by a severe rain and windstorm,
but with the exception of breaking the
limbs from trees, no damage was done. Our
surrounding hills protected us from the full
force ot the storm, but our neighbors were
not so fortunate. Considerable damage was
done in the surrounding country. At Dal
ton, where the wind bad a full sweep, the
Seltna, Rome aud Dalton Railroad transfer
freight shed was blown dowD, two engines
damaged by part of the roof falling iu at
the round house, the roof of the car sued
Was damaged, the steeple of the Cumber
land Presbyterian church toppled over, the
roof of a house adjoining was taken off,
and numerous chimneys swept away. Judge
McCuteben’s house had the roof blowu
partly off. and Col. L N. Trammell lost a
valuable mule, which was killed during the
storm. Perhaps we 6ball hear of further
damages when our upper Georgia exchanges
come In.”
Says the Conyers Weekly: “ Marcell us
Thornton has retired from the Crawfordville
Democrat. Marcellu6 was a promising coun
try editor, and the bitter and relentless war
fare which he waged against the King’s
English struck even the boldest critics with
awe.”
Sylvania Telephone: “A short while before
the recent heavy freshet an honest., hard
working negro living near this place planted
his sugar cane crop in an old cow pen on the
side of a hill. The rains came and the floods
descended, and washed his cane out of the
ground aud into au adjacent pond. The
next day a certaiu perplexed darkey could
have been seen anxiously looking in the
water for a large quantity of sugar cane,
which he found and agaiu consigned to the
tender mercies of mother earth.”
Macon Herald: “A day or two since a
little colored boy, a son of Champ Bryant,
who lives in Collinsville, died from inflam
mation of the brain, caused by a blow from
a stone thrown at him by another small
darkey, whose name we have not learned,
lie suffered from the cfft-cts of the blow
about a week, when inflammation took
place and caused his death. Owing to the
extreme youthfulness of the slayer, uo steps
have been taken in the matter by the parties
concerned. Serious accidents occur fre
quently in the ‘rock battles’ indulged in by
small boys, ami parents should see that their
little sons keep out of such dangerous
play.”
Macon lelegraph: “There are in the asy-
um at Milledgeville two singular cases of
persons suffering from lunacy. One of
them is an old man, the other a boy sixteen
years of age. Being violent at times these
two unfortunates are confined iu separate
cells, the floors o f which are of thick Geor
gia pine, the walls of brick aud two feet
thick, cemented on the inside. Strange as
it may stem, two or three nights aiuce the
boy picked splinters from the floor and with
them—in one night—picked an opening
through the wall large enough to admit his
body. He was caught half way out of the
hole. There are upon the walls three places
which have been repaired, all opened in the
same way. The old man keeps himself per
fectly naked. He, too, has picked through
the walls in the same manner. The nails
from his fingers are worn away, and he has
but two teeth left In his head, the others
having been broken out lu his efforts to
draw nails from the floor after he had
E Icked the wood from around them. The
oles were all made in the walls in one
night with splinters obtained from the
floor.”
Under the heading “An Electric Freak,”
the Louisville Courier says : “During the
heavy thunder about two o’clock last Mon
day the lightning struck the telegraph wire
somewhere between the Louisville office and
the river and in an iustant the current of
electricity found its way into the office, a
part of the heavy charge descending
through the office wire, and badly iujuring
the relay. Mr. Lettice had just connected
the ground wire, which carried off most of
the curreut and prevented any serious dam
age to him or the instrument. He says the
report was loud and sharp like that of a pis
tol. Several of the posts on the line be
tween here and the river arc badly torn up.”
An English Opinion of Senator
Bayard.
rail Mall Gazette.
Mr. Bayard does not apparently seek
tlie Presidency of the United States, but
it is evident that he is willing to accept
it if it comes to him. His views, there
fore, are a matter of some concern. His
vigorous assertion of the Monroe doc
trine in connection with the Panama canal
project initiated the recent demonstra
tions in liis favor, and has won for him
the sympathy of the patriotic party. He
has established a more reasonable claim
on public gratitude by his bold stand for
honest money. He has thereby alienated
support within his party, for ’the Green-
backers form no inconsiderable section
of it. But, on the other band, he ha9
attracted to himself and to his
party—so far as it identifies itself with
him—a mass of respectable opin
ion which the reluctance of the
average Congressman to deal with any
question, how'ever important, likely to
■’cause dissension.” has offendid. Mr.
Tilden regards him as so formidable a
rival that he has lately sought to preju
dice his cause by drawing attention to a
speech delivered by him in 1861. It is
in tone similar to many speeches deliv
ered about the same time by men—Mr.
Tilden himself for instance—whose loy
alty to the Union is undoubted. It is a
plea for calmness and patience—a pro
test against rendering reunion hopeless
by precipitating war against the seceding
States. The publication has led to much
discussion of the circumstances of the
time, and opinion in the North is still so
sensitive that Mr. Tilden’s coup must be
pronounced a success. But it has dam
aged Mr. Tihien himself with those who
wish to see “war records” and “sectional
issues” disappear from politics.
Lost in Trying to Save Life.—On
last Thursday night the north wind drove
a vessel, name unknown, on the reefs at
Morrison’s Slide, four miles below Huron
City. On Friday moniing the life saving
crew, from station No. 2, attempted to
rescue the crew of the vessel. When
about a quarter of a mile of the vessel
the life boat was swamped. The men
clung to tlie submerged boat, but, chilled
by exposure and exhausted, dropped off
one by one, until Capt. J. B. Kiah only
was left. He finally drifted ashore with
the boat.
BY TELEGRAPH.
evening telegrams’
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Inauguration of the New British
Ministry.
ARREST OP THE BLOWER CP OF
THE WINTER PALACE.
Plague and Famine iu Russia.
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS nF.T.n
YESTERDAY.
Newmarket Bueei.
COSGKKSSIOXAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, April 28.—In the Senate,
Mr. Blairto submitted a resolution calling
on Mr. Hayes for copies of correspondence
between the United States and Great Britain
relative to the alleged outrage upon Ameri
can fishermen-at Fortune Bay. Adopted.
Bills were introduced and referred as fol
lows :
Bv Mr. Maxey—For the relief of David
G. Burnett, late President of Texas.
By Mr. Morgau—To enforce the observ
ance of the Constitution of the United
States In regard to elections of President
and Vice President of the United States.
Referred to the select committee on that
subiect.
Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, presented a
report of the majority of the select com
mittee appointed to investigate the accounts
of the Treasury Department. Mr. Ingalls,
of Kansas, presented a minority report.
Mr. Davis, in some remarks upon the results
of the committee’s labors, said the books of
the Treasury Department showed many and
great discrepancies, amounting in some
years to nearly $100,000,000. Most of them
appeared in the years between 1860
aud 1871. In November, 18T0, the Register
of the Treasury, by order of the Secretary,
changed the figures and amounts as pre
viously reported to Congress, so as to ap
parently increase the public debt by ten
million dollars. In 1873 there was a similar
change of twenty millions, and in 1874 of
seventy-five millons. In 1870 the figures of
the Register and Secretary agreed. Now
they largely disagree. The testimony
shows that three items, amounting to
$0,293,827, wfre added to the public
debt by order of the Secretary,
when none of said three items appeared on
the Treasury books. A comparison of the
debt statements for 1809 and 1870 shows
that the public debt, instead of being de
creased as it should have been by the drop
ping of the Pacific Railroad bonded debt,
was increased between ninety and one hun
dred millions. The erasures aud alterations
on the Treasury books amount to thousands
and affect hundreds of millions of dollars.
Leaves are cut from books and not account
ed for, and warrants for millions of dollars
are missing and cannot 'oe found.
Mr. Ingalls, in behalf of the minority of
the committee, said the majority had failed
to discover a Biugle fact that had not been
known to Congress aud the country since
1871. All of the discrepancies referred to in
the majority report have been repeatedly
explained and 6hown to be corrections, the
result of careful revision and analysis of the
Treasury books, by competent clerk9 in the
Secretary’s office. The alterations and era
sures referred to are Innocent, and were
rendered necessary by errors and omissions
Incident to all business transactions.
Mr. Dawes, the other member of the
minority, confirmed Mr. Ingalls’ statements
aud said the good name and credit of the
government were being unwarrantably as
persed.
The Senate then resumed consideration of
the Indian appropriation bill. The amend
ment of the Senate Committee providing
for a continuance of the Indian Commis
sion, abolished by the bill as it came from
the House, was agreed to, and without final
action on the hill, the Senate adjourned.
In the House, under a call of committees,
Mr. Cox, of New York, from the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, reported a bill for
the appointment of a commission to ascer
tain and report a basis for a reciprocity
treaty between the United States and the
British Colonies. Placed on the House cal
endar.
Bills were reported from the Committee
on Public Buildings aud referred to the
committee of the whole for the erection of
public buddings in Augusta, Ga.; Green
ville, S. C ; Key West, Fla ; Oxford, Miss.,
and Dallas, Graham, Jefferson, Tyler ami
Galveston, Texas. Bills were also reported
as follows:
By Mr. Persons, of Georgia, from the
Committee on Agriculture—A bill recom
mending the continuance of the United
States Entomological Commission.
By Mr. Robinson, of Massachusetts, from
the Judiciary Committee—A bill to divide
the State of Louisiana into two judicial dis
tricts.
A resolution was adopted appropriating
$3,000 to defray the expenses of the Com
mittee on Mississippi Levees.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the bill amending the internal
revenue laws, which was explained by Mr.
Carlisle, of Kentucky. After disposing of
ten of the eighteen sections of this bill the
committee rose and the House took a recess.
The evening session is to be for the con
sideration of a municipal code for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
POLITICAL CONVENTIONS HELD YESTERDAY.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 28.—The Demo
cratic State Convention met in the Opera
House to-day. All hope of a compromise
between contending Philadelphia, or
Wallace, and Randall delegations being
at an end, matters were very lively
all the morning Jn the hotels and com
mittee rooms. Great difficulty was
experienced in gaining admission
to the hall of the convention, and a large
number of special doorkeepers were on
hand. The Randall people appeared to have
thorough control of all entrances to the
hall, and many visitors received their ticket
of admission before those of the
delegates were Issued. *So strict were
the doorkeepers that it was Impos
sible for telegraph messengers to
pass in and out, and great difficulty was
experienced in reaching the telegraph office.
Wbeu Speaker Randall entered the hall he
was greeted with most enthusiastic cheer
ing. He had not been elected a delegate,
but appeared as a substitute. Senator Wal
lace was also present as a delegate.
About one o’clock Speaker Randall bad
another short interview with Senator Wal
lace, which ended in an agreement to com
promise the dispute between their respec
tive factious by appointing a committee to
whom all differences should be referred.
At ten minutes past one o’clock the conven
tion was called to order, and Mr. Cassidy
announced that he brought glad tidings
to the convention and to all the
people of the commonwealth. He said
the leaders, at the last moment, had agreed
upon a plan to adjust all differences in
Philadelphia in a manner creditable to the
entire Democratic party. He then named a
committee, to which he 6&id all contests
would be referred without debate. Speeches
were made by Messrs. Randall, Wallace and
others, after which the convention took a
recess until five o’clock, at which time the
committee of six, appointed to settle all
contests, will report.
The convention reassembled at five
o’clock, but the committee of six was not
ready to report, and it therefore took a
further recess until eight o’clock.
Columbia, 8. C., April 28.—The Republi
can State Convention met in the hall of the
House of Representatives at noon to-day.
A temporary organization was effected with
closed doors, no reporters being admitted.
E. W. M. Mackey (white), of Charleston,
was elected temporary Chairman, and Harry
Noah ( white), or Richland, temporary Sec
retary.
Later.—The convention reassembled at
half-past two o’clock. The officers of the
temporary organization were elected to
serve as permanent officers. One hundred
and twenty delegates were present, forty
whites and eighty colored. The Committee
on Credentials reported that there was no
legally elected delegation from Lexington
county, and that there was a vacancy in the
Richland delegation and Horry county was
unrepresented. Harry Noah was chosen by
the delegation to till the vacancy from Rich
land. H. L. Shrewsbury, colored, of Ches
terfield, offered the following resolution,
which was adopted by a large majority,
there being but few dissenting votes :
liemAved, That the delegation to represent
the State of South Carolina in the National
Republican Convention at Chicago to nomi
nate candidates for the ofllces of President
and Vice President of the United States,
are hereby instructed and solemnly pledged
to vote as a unit to the end of the contest
for the world renowned and most available
candidate, U. S. Grant, and that upon all
questions arising in said convention they
are earnestly recommended to vote in like
manner, to the end that the true interests of
the constituency they represent may be
subserved. _ ...
Columbus, O., April 28.—Tbe Republican
State Convention convened in this city to
day, and effected a permanent org aniza “U n
by the election of Hon. Benj. Butterworth,
of Hamilton, as permanent Chairman, ine
Committee ou Platform reported resolutions
which instruct the delegates at large, and
request the district delegates to vote at Chi
cago for Secretary Sherman, and to use all
honorable means for his election. The reso
lutions were agreed to with cheers.
Hartford, Conn.. April 28.—The Demo
cratic State Convention was organized in
this city to-day by the election of Thos. M.
Waller-'as permanent Chairman. After the
selection of delegates at large to the Cin
cinnati Convention, the Committee on
Resolutions reported a platform favoring
adherence to the Constitution and respect
for its limitations, denouncing the elec
tion of Hayes as a fraud, and calling for the
nomination of a candidate at Cincinnati
who will unite the party.
THE new BRITISH MINISTRY.
London, April 28.—The Standard says :
“Beaconsfleld took leave of the Queen yes
terday. The following appointments were
finally made : Duke of Argyle as Lord of
the Privy Seal; Earl of Kimberley as Secre
tary of State tor the Colonial Department :
John Bright, Chancellor of the Dnchy of
Lancaster; the Marquis of Ripon, Viceroy
of India. He was offered the Viceroyalty
of either Ireland or India. The report that
Lord Derby was offered a seat in the Cabi
net is untrue. The absence of the ad
vanced Liberals ha«, after long negotia
tions, been met by conceding a 6eat in
the Cabinet to Mr. Chamberlain, who will
probably be President of the Board of
Trade. Sir Charles Dilke accepts the posi
tion of Under Secretary for the Foreign
Department. Earl Spencer will be Lord
President of the Council instead of the Duke
of Argyle, as reported yesterday. It is offi
cially announced that the late Ministers
will go to Windsor to-day by the 12:15 p. m.
train, aad the new Ministers by the 1:10 p.
ra. train. Lord Cranbrook attended the In
dian Office for the last time yesterday.
The TiiTies states that the Earl of
Kenraare has been appointed Lord Great
Chamberlain, Earl Sydney Lord High Stew
ard, Earl of Cork and Orrery Master of the
Horse, Mr. Shaw Lefevrc Secretary to the
Admiralty, Mr. W. P. Adam Chief Commis
sioner of Works and Buildings.
THE WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
OrFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSERVER,
Washington, D. C., April 28.—Indications
for Thursday :
In the South Atlantic States, northeast
veering to southeast winds, warmer, cloudy
weather, with rain, and falling barometer.
In the Gulf States, southerly winds,
warmer cloudy weather with rain, and fall
ing barometer, preceding a storm centre in
the southwest.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley,easterly
winds, warmer, cloudy and rainy weather,
with falling barometer.
In the Middle Atlantic States, falling
barometer, warmer southerly winds, cloudy
weather, and in the interior possibly occa
sional rain.
ARREST OF THE BLOWER-UP OF THE WINTER
PALACE.
London, April 28 — A St. Petersburg dis
patch say6 : “ There is reason to believe tbe
missing workman who had been lodging in
the basement and under tbe guard room of
tbe Winter Palace until the day of the ex
plosion, was arrested here Saturday. His
name Is 8he7itch, a Lithian, and a nephew
of the Governor of the province of Katonga.
He was placed in the palace by the Execu
tive Committee 6ix months before the ex
plosion. He has confessed the deed. Three
other arrests of higher rank have been
made.”
NEWMARKET RACES.
London, April 28—The race for two
thousand guineas stakes for ihree-year-oid
colts and fillies at Newmarket first spring
meeting to-day was won by tbe Duke of
Beaufort's black, or brown, colt Petronel.
The Duke of Westminster’s chesnut colt
Muneaster, second, Ii. C. Naylor’s bay colt,
The Abbot, third. Seventeen ran.
PLAGUE AND FAMINE IN RU9SIA.
St. Petersburg, April 28 —The plague
has appeared in the Volsk district, in the
Government of Sar&toff. The famine also
prevails in the Don district. Granaries are
empty, and there Is an absolute dearth of
money. There are many deaths from star
vation in various portions of the country.
congressional nomination.
Cincinnati. April 23.—The Fifth District
Democratic Convention have nominated B.
F. Lefevre for Congress.
LETTER FROM BRUNSWICK.
Decoration Day—Cincinnati Excur-
Mlonifttft- Preparation* for tlie Com
ing Fair— Proapect of u Fine Rice
Crop— “Tlaiatle” and that Railroad
Project.
Brunswick, Ga., April 27.—Etlifor Morn
ing New: Yesterday, Decoration day. open
ed clear and delightful, and at an early hour
in the afternoon the Fair Grounds present
ed a gala appearance. A large concourse
of the citizens had assembled, and innu
merable children in the gayest summer cos
tumes and bedecked with boquets of ail
sized and most fanciful designs, thronged
the grand platform of Floral Hail, where
the brass band, with their showy uniforms
and Implements, were stationed, enlivening
the scene by their inspiring music while
awaiting the order of the day.
At 5 p. m. the command to form was
given by Captain W. J. Bee, marshal of the
day, and beaded by the band playing “Safe
In the Arms of Jesus,” and “Shall we
(iather at the River,” the long line of the
procession, followed by a number of citi
zens in carriages and buggies, began to
move 6lowly tow:o-d Oak Grove Cemetery.
Tbe sight was impressive and beautiful.
Arriving at the cemetery the whole assem
blage gathered a.’ound the speaker’s staud,
where prayer wab offered by Rev. Mr. Myers,
the Methodist minister. The band then
played “Old Hundred,” with splendid
effect, when Mr. Alf. Cowatt arose and
gracefully presented the speaker of the day,
Col. Carey W. Styles.
Colonel Styles advanced, and as he com
menced the opening remarks of his address,
it became evident at once that there could
have been no fitter man chosen to speak on
this occasion. One who, as a leader in the
gloomy days of that fratk ldal conflict, was
promiuent among our people, his appearance
brought up in the memories of many of his
listeners thrilling reminiscences of the past.
Ilia remarks were eminently* appropriate,
patriotic and sensible. He related a series
of amusing incidents connected with a re
cent visit to Cincinnati, in his illustration
of the fraternization of the sections, anil
earnestly advocated the wisdom at'd business
policy of the obliteration of the scars of the
conflict. Upon the conclusion ot Colonel
S.’s speech, the band struck up -“Dixie,”
aud followed it by “Columbia,” the
new national anthem, and played
other airs while the ladies anil chil
dren decorated the soldiers’ graves.
At sundown the entire gathering had
disappeared, and thus another anniversary
had been patriotically, prayerfully and lov
ingly dedicated to the memory of our fallen
heroes, and silence reigned in the city of
the dead.
A delegation arrived here Sunday evening
of the Cincinnati excursionist6, and were
received by the Mayor and a committee of
E rominent citizens. They were serenaded
y the brass band during their stay, aud
were quite agreeably impressed with our
city. They left on Monday eveising for
Macon, where they will rejoin the main
body of the excursionists and proceed home.
Active work is being done by all inter
ested in the coming fair, and there is no
doubt of its being a success. A great many
visitors are expected, and the attractions
are numerous.
We have had a few showers since my la6t,
and vegetables make a greatly improved ap
pearance. The rice crop Is doing finely, and
the planters are confident of making an ex
tremely good crop, provided there is not too
great a rain fall during May and Jane.
There is a splendid opening here for a rice
mill, and a number of good sites available.
A mill located here, say by a factor who
can control the crops of the adjacent terri
tory, would be a paying investment. In
the first place, all the rice grown on the
Altamaha and Satilla rivers could be flatted
here, thus obviating the chartering of Ball
ing vessels, and at a cheaper rate
of freight than by steamers, and,
once manufactured, it is readily placed
in a market with every facQity for immedi
ate shipment and low freights to any point.
I suppose “Thistle” has quashed the pro
jected railroad from Darien to some point
in the adjoining State of Georgia because
Stacy wanted the raft hajids to come here
to trade. At any rate the fiend who thus
disturbed tbe natives over there seem6 to be
silent, and let us hope that like some of our
Brunswick malcontents, “Thistle” can con
gratulate himself on having sat down on
something. He ought to live here. How
ever, Ijjmistrust that Darien will never ride
on the cars unless Brunswick’s Interests
impel the building of a road toward that
ambitions city. Yours as usual,
Glynn.
Made Mad Instead of Heart
Broken.—At White Mills, Wayne coun
ty, Pa., a case of insanity, caused by
love, came to liirht Thursday, Miss Susan
Schenck, eldest daughter of Charles D.
Sclienck, of that place, being the victim.
The lover was a young Virginian. He
went to New England recently and there
died. The news of his death was kept
from the young lady until the belief that
he had deserted her overturned her rea
son. She will be sent to an asylum.
LETTER FROM COYLE DOUGLAS.
Early Spring In Gotham—The Flow
er (alrlM—Floral Indoor Decoration
-“The Gardens of Gal In Their
Bloom*’—.4 Pretty Woman a Rara
A Tin—Lack of Style In Drena-The
Toilet Vlaak for tbe Complexion—
The Sommer Ntay-at-HoraeCuMtom
Becoming Popular—Attraction* of
Che Academy of Design—.’Wl** Flor
ence White, the Young Actre**—
Notable Literary Ladle*— Jlr*. Cro-
ley, ’’Jennie Jane”—^Ir*. Vlary
Vlapes Dodge, Editor of “St. Nicho
las*’—^11** Booth, Editor ol “Har
per’* Bazar.”
Special Correspondence of the Morning Netcs.
New York, April 2L—Although it is but
the tag end of April, Gotham begins to
experience a foretaste of the fiery heats of
the Northern summer. The sun shines down
on brick walls and brazen pavements with
as fierce a glare as though the sands of the
Great Desert reflected it. The earliest and
the sweetest reminders of spring weather
and blossom time are tbe street flower girls
with their dainty trays and. baskets. They
are met with on every corner, In the rotundas
of hotels and the vestibules of amuse
ment halls, where they reap a harvest from
the sale of button hole bouquets. These are
the prettier because they ffre the outdoor
sigus of that 6weet, sudden miracle that
comes upon us unawares, though we wait
and expect it, like the birth of the snowdrop
and daffodil, that break through the garden
mould in a night’s time with so much joy
for us as though we were unprepared for
the beautiful surprise. No people spend
money more lavishly upon flowers for in
door decoration than do the New
Yorkers. The smallest affair In the
way of an entertainment is made the
pretext for avalanches of costly flowers and
plants. This extravagance has been carried
to an absurd height. A few evenings since
a children’s fancy ball was given at a
wealthy residence, where the floral orna
mentation footed up nearly four hundred
dollars ! The ball room, 6upper room aud
smaller apartments were beyond the power
of pen to describe. The grand stairway
was carpeted with moss and the banisters
completely hidden beneath a bank of ex
otics.
The lace covered couches in the dressing
rooms were wreathed aud garlauded, there
were movable ferneries everywhere, and in
toxicating odors like “the gardens of Gul
in their bloom.” It was beautiful—it was
delicious, but It was fearfully extravagant.
What has become of the pretty women of
Gotham? or are there any, or have there
ever been any ? Perhaps the ragged edge
Jw a winter season is Dot the most propitious
time to observe them narrowly, but be
yond an Isolated case of beauty here and
there, a pretty woman Is a rara avis
in a New York crowd. Neither is the
New Yorker without reproach in the
matter of “style,” notwithstanding
the religious belief of tbe outside million
that on the subject of tasteful dressing a
New Yorker is without sin. There is a dash
and “loudness” in her most studied efforts
that is painfully apparent to au eye not edu
cated up to the New Yorker’s standard. To
such, the typical woman of the section can
not but appear mannish and fast, innocent
In intent though 6he be, Inasmuch as she
walks with a stride, talks loudly, and is
utterly destitute of a complexion. This
latter fact is distressingly patent, but a new
invention is slowly gaining favor, which
may yet prove a boon to these society belles
who only have entire trust in their charms
by gaslight.
Ibis invention, under the proprietary
rights of one Mad. Rowley, Is a toilet mask,
and Is literally what its name implies—a
close, flexible, glove-fitting mask, silken in
texture and of a flesh color, designed to be
worn during sleep. It is composed of ma
terials imported from South America,
is impervious to air or moisture, and acts
from that reason as a bleaching and purify
ing agent. It is also charged with certain
medical properties, acting upon roughened,
harsh skins, it is claimed, like a charm.
As it is perfectly harmless and has re
ceived the cordial approval of such scien
tists as Profs. Doremus, Silliman and
Wayne, it is expected to suj>ersede the use
of lotions and other deleterious compounds,
and briDg joy to the hearts of those hitherto
dependent upon cosmetics.
Amongst persons in the habit of leaving
the city during the heated term, the stay-
at-home custom will become a growing
one, no doubt, tbis summer, as many such
families have already announced their in
tention of being “at home” and keeping
open bouse to such friends as may follow
their example, and remain in the city dur
ing July and August. This custom
was inaugurated last summer, more
generally among the families of
professional men, who have discovered
that fitting up costly wardrobes and paying
euormous hotel kills does not pay in the
end. As the business portion of mankind
are not at liberty to summer out o? town at
their own pleasure, what Is more convenient
than for a gentleman socially inclined, to
drop in after business hours u|>on a fair
friend, to be ushered into a shaded, cool
parlor, there to be met by the household
divinity in the freshest and daintiest of
gossamer robes and ribbons, who is
ready to serve him, after that
charming English fashion, with
the five o’clock refreshment of Iced tea,
fruit and saudwiches. What wonder that
he calls with astonishing frequency and
finally becomes such a slave to the habit
that he doesn’t want to break his chains at
all ? It is poesible under these circumstances
that when the summer wanderers return and
compare notes the “best times” will be
found not to be altogether on the side of tbe
absentees.
The Academy of Design is open for Its
yearly exhibition, and is thronged with the
world iu motley. Here one may come and
loiter and gaze upon art, high, low and in
discriminate, and be edified or bewildered
or revolutionized, as the case may be.
Doubtless the one who enjoys this gazing
most is the happy, inartistic, insensible
creature who has no fine artistic chords in
his picturefque soul to be jarred,
and feels called upon for no critical
opinions, but who loves a picture for the
personal pleasure it gives him and the story
It tells to bis own mind and heart. A most
remarkable coincidence is to be found
in two pictures with identically the same
title—“A Symphony in Black aud Yellow”
—by different artists, treating the same sub
ject in the same manner, aud separated from
each other by a single picture which hangs
between them. Tbe subject is a sans culotU
in ebony, gazing with a peculiar mixture of
wonder and delight at a gorgeous, tremen
dous sun flower.
A picture which was readily sold on the
opening day lor a thousand dollars is by a
St. Louis arti6t—Eichbaum, the catalogue
has him. “Whistle and I’ll Come to You,
My Lad,” is the title, and it represents a
gloomy-faced little country lass poised on a
genuine country fence waiting for the ex
pected whistle.
“Building Air Cattles” is another charm
ing creation by Mr. Bellows. A half-grown
lad—presumably at the age when boys arc
emerging from jackets and getting awk
wardly into coat-tails—i6 sitting on a wall
overgrown with creepers, with a winsome
young girl beside him, to whom he speaks
earnestly. She is looking away from him
with a far-off, wistful look on her face,
while he paints with boyish fervor the
glowing future even at the doors, it Is full
of the tender poetry of youth in its first
blush, and Is almost pathetically sug
gestive.
A large portion of the theatre going
populace of tbis city is loud in its praise of
a young actress who took the public by
storm after a stage experience of one week.
This is Miss Florence White, of Louisville.
Ky. Two years ago at a public trial o? the
talents of the assembled elocatlonists of
Louisville she bore off the gold medal.
Sbortly afterward she left her home, a
lovely, dark-eyed, shrinking girl, to enter
upon her artistic training in this city.
Thus far she has nothing but success to
chronicle. The critics are united in ascrib
ing to her genius of undoubted quality.
She is a passionate lover of her art, which
absorbs her whole time and thought. She
is the second lady in her troupe, which is
now taking in tbe provinces. In the autumn
she will open at the Union Square, and after
ward will travel through the South.
One of the busiest and most energetic
women In the city of New York is Mrs.
Croley, “Jennie June.” She is a model of
industry and usefulness to her generation.
She edits Demurest'* Monthly, writes society
letters for half a dozen y>apers and fashion
letters for as many more, fulfills the duties
ot the President of Sorosls, supervises the
education of her children and discharges
her duties toward society generally. She
has the clearest head, the most practical
mind and readiest pen of any woman in tbe
East. The Croley residence is her own, the
product of her writings, and here she re
ceives her friends on Saturday evenings, the
only occasions in her busy life when she is
free. In appearance she is a plain-looking
little woman with very short-sighted blue
eyes, and a manner that somewhat suggests
a large reserve of nerve force. Plain and
practical in dress, she hardly looks what she
is—the apostle of high art in the adornment
of her sex.
One of the very prettiest and most vouth-
lul looking matrons to be fouud in Gotham
i* Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, the editor of
St. Nicholas. Her fair, sunny face Is as
smooth as a girl’s, and it is difficult to realize
that the tall, handsome young man who is
her constant attendant Is her son.
Miss Mary L. Booth is another lady who
makes literature pay. She receives five
thousand dollars a year for editing
Harper's Ba:aar, and fills the office with
as much dignity and justice as though
she wore a Prince Albert and a beaver.
It is said she is particularly hard upon her
own sex, and tosses their luckless effusions
Into the awful waste basket with an unnat
ural delight. She likewise is “at home” on
Saturday evenings, and receives all the
notable literary people in a very charming
Informal way. These instances would seem
to amply demonstrate that there are a few
women in the world abundantly able to take
care of themselves. Coyle Douglas.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Savannah River Poatal Service-
Proposed Southern Fast Hall Ser
vice—Lieutenant Bateman Still on
Special Duty —Georgia Improve
ment*—Shipments to Cuba—Tybee
Island Light House, Etc.
Special UorrtsiKmdence of the Morning New.
Washington, April 26.—The Post Office
Department publishes a daily bulletin of or
ders affecting the postal service. The bul
letin to-day contains under the head of
“Steamboat Service Established” the fol
lowing :
“Route 15099. Savannah to Augusta.
From 8avannah by Sisters (n. oj.Parachucla
(n. o.). Hudson’s in. o. •, Briar Creek (n. o.),
Cohen’s (n. o.), Ilerschman’s Lake (n. o.),
Burton’s (n. o.), Johnson’s in. o.), Stony
Bluff i n. o ), Griffin’s (n. o.), Hancock’s (u.
o.), and Martin’s (n. o.), to Augusta, 280
miles and back, 1 time a wreek, by a sched
ule satisfactory to the department, and not
to exceed CO hours running time. From
July 1,1880, to June 30, 1881.”
The letters n. o. in the parentheses indi
cate that there are now no post offices at
these landings. Post offices will, however,
be established at these points before the
mall service between Savannah and Augusta
goes into operation, and postmasters ap
pointed to fill them. In addition to those
mentioned, a number of other offices on the
new route will be established. Savannah
aud Augusta and Intermediate river points
will be the more closely connected, and such
connection cannot but result In material
benefit to all places concerned.
southern fast mail service.
Several Southern Representatives will
have a conference in a day or
two with Col. Thompson, Superintendent
of the Railway Mail 8ervice In regard to the
proposed extension of the fast mail sj’stem
in the South. I had a talk with Colonel
Thompson t>aay on this subject. He is
very strongly In favor of the extension to
the South of this useful branch of the postal
service aud of the necessary appropriation
to carry It Into effect. Judge Key, Post
master General, is heartily in favor of it, as
be is in everything that tends to benefit the
South, the many reports derogatory to him
notwithstanding. Colonel Thompson said
that beyond the simple fact that there
would be a conference with South
ern members on this subject,
there had been nothing developed. He did
not know to what points it would be urged
that the fast mail service be extended, and
until he did could give no idea of the cost
or of the saving in time. Savannah, Jack
sonville and Charleston, he could safely as
sert, would be Included In the benefits of
the system to be urged upon Congress for
adoption. After the conference, definite
data as to the proposed extension and of
the reduction in time between different
points can be given. If members of Con
gress from the South properly handle this
matter the system will become an estab
lished fact. The proposition involved is
so fair and so just that not even Conger, of
Michigan, would vote against an appropria
tion.
LIEUTENANT BATEMAN.
Lieutenant Bateman, of tbe revenue ma
rine service, is in the city. He arrived yes
terday from Atlanta and has Informed your
correspondent that the late Georgia Repub
lican Convention had very much more than
a lively time. He dined last evening with
Secretary Sherman, and it is to be supposed
that he gave an account of his stewardship
of the Georgia Republican party. By the
way, speaking of the recent menagerie at
Atlanta, there has been a broad laugh here
over the manner in which the delegates
howled for the “spoils.” Republicans, as
well as Democrats, say that tbe true charac
teristic of the Southern Republican was most
accurately depicted in the Atlanta Conven
tion, which characteristic is to try and come
In for as many loaves and fishes as possible,
no matter who you support in securing
those delicacies. It might be stated that
Lieutenant Bateman has not resigned his
commission.
GEORGIA IMPROVEMENTS.
Representative Nicbolls was before
the House Commerce Committee
which has in charge the preparation of the
river and harbor appropriation bill. He
urged upon the committee the necessity of
liberal appropriations for Savannah and
Brunswick harbors, and that provision be
made for surveys of Romney marsh, Jekyl
creek. Aitamaha river, Canoochee river, and
of the Savannah river from Savannah to
Augusta, with a view to appropriations
based upon the surveys made. In urging
liberality towards Savannah harbor, Mr.
NichoJla cited tbe recent railroad con
nections and combinations, and stated
that Savannah would soou be, if she is
not already, the first port of impor
tance in the South, with tbe exception
of New Orleans. It was therefore necessary
for the benefit of Northern, Southern an»l
foreign commerce, that every facility be
afforded ships for entering and clearing the
harbor. To accomplish this end, a liberal
appropriation for clearing out and
improving should be made. In regard to
Romney marsh, he said that the importance
of cutting through It was equally as great
to the General Government In facilitating
inboard transportation as to the States of
Georgia and Florida. An expenditure of
(‘even thousand dollars would secure a
depth at all tides sufficient for the steamers
passing over It. A eurvey would, he was
confident, establish this statement as a fact.
On the Altamaha he said a great commerce
was being developed which would justify
the small appropriation necessary to open
ing it up to Macon and Dublin. The ob
structions in the 8avannah river between
Savannah and Augusta coiiid he removed at
small expense, and thus make that river
one of the great lines of traffic between the
seaport city and the manufactories
of Augusta. Rates of transporta
tion between the two would be
greatly reduced Cotton could be shipped
down—as by removing the obstructions in
the river more steamers would be put on—
at & great saving to planters. The Canoo
chee, he said, tapped a large turpentine and
timber district, and its Improvement would
very largely increase the exports of those
commodities through Savannah. As to
Brunswick, he cited the importance of that
port, and warmly urged an appropriation to
carry out the jetty system of improvements
inaugurated there. Mr. Nicholls spoke at
length on these points, and created a very-
favorable impression on the committee. If
he does not get all that he asked the fruits
will be at least most substantial.
SHIPMENTS TO CUBA.
The following circular, just issued by Sec
retary Sherman to collectors of customs and
others, is ot interest to Savannah and tbe
section covered by the News :
‘The attention of this Department has
been invited by the Government of Cuba,
through the Department of State, to the
fact that manifests of merchandise from
the United States, presented by masters of
vessels to customs authorities in the Island
mentioned, are not always correct In their
description of the goods referred to therein,
or as to the statement of the quantities of
such go >ds. It ie suggested by said gov
ernment that such errors may sometimes be
occasioned by the fact that the master's
manifest, in some cas^s, Is made out from
the shipper’s manifest, tiled at the time of
the exportation of the merchandise, and
that * it would be an excellent thing if,
when the Captains make out their manifests,
they should do so according to tbe bills of
lading: since, as the marks, weight, contents,
and kind of merchandise, with numbers, are
to be therein stated,’ the exporters would
not commit the errors for which penalties
are provided by the laws now in force in
Cuba. It is reported, further, that for some
time past manifests hare reached custom
houses in Cuba, printed with tbe ‘New
American priming machine or type writer,’
and that the words which they contain are
often so indistinct as to endanger the inter
ests of the Cuban Treasury, and to cause
trouble to masters presenting them. The
information contained herein should be
brought to the notice of shippers of mer
chandise to Cuba, and also to that of mas
ters of vessel# engaged in trade between
that place and the United States, to the end
that they may take such measures as may
be found practicable to obviate any cause of
complaint in the respect mentioned.”
TTBZE ISLAND LIGHT HOUSE, ETC.
Mr. Nicholls has the most positive as
surances that an appropriation will be made
for the rebuilding of the light bouse on
Tybee Island.
The Post Office Department has ordered
the establishment of special mail service
between Mil 1 worth,Alachua county, Florida,
from Newmansville. The post office at
Toligate, White county, Georgia, has beeu
re-established; also that at Chlpola, Cal
houn county, Florida. Potomac.
Freach Surname*.
London Daily .Vetcs.
An amusing subject, not without his
torical interest of a higher kind, has just
been taken up by M. Loredan Larchey,
who has published a curious and sug
gestive dictionary of French surnames.
He gives the etymology of twenty-two
thousand distinctive titles recorded on
the official registers of Paris, and his
high reputation as a scholar is a
guarantee that his imagination has not
been permitted to outrun his facts.
Menestrier, in his learned work on the
origin of armorial bearings, showed
nearly two centuries ago that
there was hardly a single one
among the Hebrew, Arabian, Sax
on, or German proper names then
in common use but had a meaning signi
fying something. Perhaps the original
names of all countries had a very close
resemblance, and M. Larchey cites an
illustrative anecdote in support of this
theory. A Sultan of Muscat, who sent
for an Italian physician, was informed
that the doctor’s name was “Vincenzo.”
“Vincenzo,” muttered the Sultan, “I do
not understand. Vincenzo is not a
name.” “It is the same name as ‘Man-
sour,’ ” replied the physician, who had
some knowledge of the Oriental lan
guages; “it signifies victorious.” “Yeiy
well,” observed the Sultan; “you shall
be called ‘Sheik Mansour.’ ”
The literature of this branch of study
has not unnaturally become as contradic
tory as it is voluminous. The student,
however, who follows M. Loredan Lai
chey as guide, philosopher and friend
will find some guesses at truth worth re
membering. The name of Abbema, so
familiar to art in recent years, is derived
from Abraham. Tadema is the same as
Thaddeus. Abeilhrd. the hapless lover
of Heloise, signifies Bee-herd. Albani,
dear to opera goers, is a name of Lan
guedoc, meaning white. The lordly
title of Albemarle is the same as that of
Aumale. They both signify white marl,
rich earth often used as manure.
Alice and Adelaide are the same
name. Arago, the name of the French
philosopher who looked so steadily at
scientific truth, means good eagle. Ar
thur, our fabled King, and Martel are
one; they mean hammer. Auber, fa
mous in music, comes from Aubert,
which is Albert. Aubigny, the French
title of the Duke of lUchmond, means
White’s Domain. Audiffret-Pasquier,
the impetuous orator, means old sweet
meadow, an interpretation which would
find little favor with the Bonapartists.
Bennett, the name of the enterprising
proprietor of the New Y'ork Herald, and
of the Earls of Tankerville, is a form of
Benedict. Bernheim, aud presumably
Barnum, a name likewise prominent in
America, is derived from Berinheim, the
village of the warrior.
Biron, the original form of Byron,
means squint. The ancient Italian
princely name of Borghese signifies
merely citizen. Boucicault, the name
of a popular dramatist, and the founder
of the “Bon Marche” in Paris, means
fat man. Brandon, a Ducal title once
coupled with that of Hamilton, means a
erson born on the first Sunday in Lent.
requet, the name of the famous watch
maker, signifies boatmen. Capet means
light, headstrong and obstinate. Capoul,
name of the celebrated tenor, means lit
tle head. Carey*, a name much talked
about lately, signifies carrier. It be
longs to Franche Comte and to Switzer
land. Cassagnac means the chestnuts, a
name often given to country houses both
in France and elsewhere. Daudet.name
of the most popular of the modern French
novelists, is a form of the Hebrew David.
The English Dent ami the French Dentu
are the same, both noble names of Latin
origin, going far back in history and
claiming descent from Curius Dentatus.
Ellisseen, Ellison and Eliot are derived
from Elias. Erckmann, a cognomen
twin born with Chatrian, means a sin
cere man, and, indeed, there is no want
of frankness iu his books. Gambetta,
being interpreted, signifies little leg.
Garibaldi means brave spear. Goupfl,
the came of the picture dealer, means
fox. Gounod comes from galan, to sing.
Halevy, the eminent composer, joined
the initials of his other names to that of
Levy. They were Henry Aron. Hoche
and Hugo are the same name; they mean
noble-hearted. Hugo may also be
translated as intelligence. The name of
Victor Hugo would then signify victori
ous intelligence.
M&cM&hon means the son of the Bear.
It is the same name as that of Crains in
France and Oreini in Italy. The charm
ing name of Millicent, so often given to
women in the Puritan times, is an ab
breviation of inille sanctis. 3fortimer
and Mortemart are names brought home
bv the Crusaders from the Dead Sea.
Murray may mean mulberry from mure,
or marah from maruis. The splendid
name ot Napoleon is derived frem
Napoli. Its oldest form (1199) is writ
ten Napolione. It means Neapolitan.
Niel, a name as famous in Britain as in
France under various forms, is an abbre
viation of Daniel. Patti comes from
patre, shepherd. Pothuan, name of the
gallant Admiral who has held so many
offices of State in France, and is now Am
bassador in London, signifies thick lips
in the patois of Laniruedoc. Itenan
means friend. Rothschild may signify
red shield or glorious hero (hrod, glorious;
hild, hero), or it may be derived from
the Danish Town of Roschild, which
seems most probable, for the Israelitish
family names in modern times have very
generally been taken from places rather
than from distinctive peculiarities. The
Ducal title of Chandos, the French
names Sand, Sandeau, and the Huoga
rian Sandoz, are forms or abbreviations
of Alexander. Sarcey, the name of the
vivacious dramatic critic, signifies
switch. Sardou, name of the playwright
and academician, comes from Sacerdos.
Sibour, the Archbishop of Paris, who
was killed at the barricades, bore an old
German name, which signifies victorious
protector, ^imson, Simpson, and Sam
son are identical. Thiers comes from
Theodore, as Thierry from Theodoric.
It is also the name of a place. Thumas,
Danmas, Dumas, and Thomas are forms
of the same name. Trochu means troop.
Finally, the name of the novelist Zola
means grass. Its more correct form is
the Italian Zolla.
THE EXCAVATION OF TROY.
Tbe Work Completed by Schlleman
- Tbe Result Graudly Satisfac
tory.
Witchcraft in Russia is a profitable oc
cupation, but accompanied by great dan
gers. Last year, near the city .of Tikh
vin, a woman was burned as a witch.
Now, in the city of Saratoff, a whole
peasant family is to be tried for the mur
der of a sorcerer. The circumstances of
the case arc these: A peasant known to
be a sorcerer was invited to a wedding
ceremony, and treated with the utmost
attention, in order to dispose him in fa
vor of the young couple. The conjurer,
however, looked dissatisfied, and when
the young pair were lying at his feet sup
plicating his mercy, the mother of the
bride instantly began to cry out as one
possessed with an evil spirit. This was
looked upon as a bad sign for the newly-
wedded couple, and their relatives fell
on the sorcerer, killed him on the spot,
and mutilated his body so shockingly
that it could hardly be identified.
Trouble in a Convent School.—
The pupils of the Ursuline convent, at
St ilartin’s, Brown county, Ohio, have
been sent to their homes two months in
advance of the usual time, on account
of the appearance among them of a sin
gular nervous disorder with epidemic
tendency. It manifested itself in nervous
twitchings, and, while not ot an alarm
ing character, was so serious as to war
rant the dismissal of the school. It is
said that it yields readily to treatment
when the pupils are separated.
Schlieman's Letter to St. Petersburg Golos.
I have just returned from Asia Minor,
where I have at last finished that dig
King out of Troy which I l>egan in 1870.
During ten years I have struggled with
great difficulties, among which, perhaps,
the most troublesome has been the lar_re
amount of debris under which the
ancient city was buried. It has been
necessary to dig down and dig up the
ground for more than sixteen yards
below the surface. But I am fully re
compensed for all my trouble. I found
the remains of seven different ancient
cities, the last of them was the Ilioii ,f
Homer. That city was built by the
-Yolians, banished from Greece by tbe
Dorians in tbe eleventh century before
our era In one of the buried cities I
found many statues of Minerva with
the owl s head, whence her name of
Ulaucopis. In another city were found
many images of tbe divinities. But tbe
most interesting and important of all
discoveries is, of course, the city of
King Priam. Every article found in the
ruins of that city bear unmistakable
signs of Laving been destroyed by fire
and in a time of war. There were dis
covered many remains of human bodies
in full armor. I dug out and cleared
away the debris from the entire wall that
surrounded the city and also from all the
principal buildings. Now I am finishing
a large volume in English describin,
with full details all my discoveries am
containing two hundred illustrations of
the most important of the discoveries.
My Trojan collection is now in London,
but at the end of this year I shall take it
to my villa in Athens, which is fire
proof, built only of marble and iron. I
Lave received large offers for my collec
tion from the Ynited States, England.
France and Germany, but I cannot part
with it for any money in the world.
ON T11E BORDER LAND.
Caaea or Suspended Aulmatlen
Narrow Escape from Kelus Burled
Alive.
The Bridgeport Scientific Society had
a crowded house Monday evening. The
rush was unprecedented. The interest
centered in papers and a discussion on
suspended animation and premature
burials. The principal contribution to
tbe exercises was a paper in which the
Rev. Mr. Emerson, a Congregational
minister of Stratford, gave a detailed
account of his narrow escape from being
buried alive years ago, wbile in a state
which had every appearance of death,
but which was really one of trance.
It was in 1889, while "Mr. Emerson was
preaching in the West. He was seized
with violent chills, from which he par
lially recovered, but had a relapse, and
then sank so low to all appearance life
was extinct. The neigbltors came and
laid him out, watchers sat up with tho
supposed corpse and the funeral was ap
pointed. His mind was very clear, and
Le seemed to have a vision of a divine
being before him who told him he would
recover. He soon began to recover, and
with the aid of efficient nursing the life
currents were soon again in motion in
their normal state. This paper was read
by Dr. Powers.
Other interesting recitals of instances
of resuscitation from supposed death or
premature burial were also given. Mr.
Clarence Sterling narrated two such
cases, telling first of the experience of
Captain John Nevel, liis great grand
father on bis mother s side. In the year
1800 Captain Nevel fell dead, or at least
was taken up for dead, and arrangements
were made for his burial. His wife alone
refused to believe that life had departe i,
and on the day appointed for the f uneral
refused, much to the indignation of tbe
other members of the family, to allow
him to be buried. Her wishes prevail
ing, the supposed corpse was removed to
his bed and watchers appointed. After
six days Captain Nevel spoke and soon
complete resuscitation was effected. He
lived after this for nearly ten years, when
he again fell in the same manner as before.
The body was kept for four days, and
decomposition then ensuing it was
buried.
The second case given by Mr. Sterling
wa3 that of a young girl well known to
his family. Her name he said he should
not mention. She died or apparently died
in New York city several years ago, af
ter having been in delicate health for
some time, and was taken to Tarrytowu
aDd placed in a vault. Tbe coffin con
taining the remains were set upon a shelf
in the vault. Several years afterward
when the vault was next opened, a girl s
skeleton lay near the dixtr, and pieces of
the broken coffin, which bad fallen from
the shelf, were scattered about the floor.
There were stains, believed to tie blood
stains, upon parts of tbe coffin and
around the room. Tbe natural explana
tion of these circumstances is that the
girl, coming out of her trance, caused
the coffin to fall from the shelf by her
struggles, and. being thereby liberated,
died a horrible death from starvation
while struggling to escape from her pris
on. Mr. Sterling’s graphic narrative of
this case so affected one of the ladies in
the audience that she fainted.
Mr. II. S. Maxim uext contributed the
story of a case of resuscitation. He
once had a room mate in New York
named Samuel Lawson, who one day re
ceived a dispatch announcing the death
of his father at Montreal. 1 oung Law
son immediately started for Montr al to
attend the funeral, but on account of a
delay in bis arrival, cr in the arrival of
some cf the other relatives, the funeral
was postponed one day beyond the time
appointed. On this, the fourth day after
death, the coffin lid was raised to allow
tbe son to take a last look at his father's
face. The supposed corpse at once
showed signs of life, a few minutes later
spoke, anu eventually recovering, lived
afterwards for ten years.
Mr. G. C. Waldo read an interesting
paper from Applelun'n Science Monthly
on “Premature Burials," and Mr. J. D.
Candee a brief paper written by Dr. Par
sons, of Brooklyn, on tbe remarkable
case of Mollie Fancber. of Brooklyn.
HTDBornoniA Plague.—A special
dispatch to tlie Cincinnati Gazette, from
Corydon, Ind., April 3J, says: Some two
months ago the Gazette correspondent
gave an account of the raid of a hydro
phobiated dog in Taylor township Har
rison county. The dog attacked every
animal it encountered, and the result is
that the township is now enjoying a
regular plague of hydrophobia. Dogs,
hogs, cattle, and several horses bitten t>y
the rabid dog have since developed clear
ly defined cases of hydrophobia of the
most malignant type. The dog passed
through a territory over fifteen miles in
extent before he was killed. In the past
week many animals by the terrible dis
ease have been killed, but in many in
stances not until they had bitten others.
So far the people have escaped, but many
of them have had to flee for refuge to
houses or fcuces when attacked. W. II.
McRea, a farmer; was compelled to
climb a tree to save himself from a dog.
There is a great deal of excitement aud
a general slaughter of dogs in the town
ship.
CounUng the Vote.
Mr. Charles Nordhoff, special corre
spondent of the New York Herald, has
this to say of the plan agreed upon by
tbe Senate Committee for regulating tbe
electoral count:
“ Tlie plan agreed on by the Senate
Committee on Rules regulating the elec
toral count is so much better and fairer
than the old twenty second joint rule
that it is to be hoped that it will be passed
bv the vote of both parties in both
Houses. The twenty second joist rule
was framed and adopted by the Repub
licans when they possessed a large majori
ty in both Houses. It provided that if
objection was made in joint session
to counting the vote of any State
it should be excluded, unless both
Houses, sitting separately, should
agree to count it. The late Sena
tor Morton said of the rule: ‘It ia
the most dangerous contrivance to
the peace of the nation that has ever been
invented by Congress—a torpedo planted
in the straits, with which tho ship of
State may at some time come into fatal
collision,’ and he desired the reversal of
the rule—namely, that no State should
lose its vole, except by tbe concurrence
of the two houses. Now this, which
Mr. Morton urged as what ought in fair
ness be done, the Senate Committee
have now resolved on. The Republicans
used the twenty-second joint rule, with
the power it gave them, to throw out
States by tbe vote of one bouse as long
.as they bed control of both houses.
When they lost control of the
House of Representatives they repealed
the rule, as it could no longer be used by
them for partisan purposes, but omitted
to agree upon any substitute, and then
left the whole question at sea in 1S7C.
The Democrats now have control of both
houses. They might take advantage of
the Republican precedent and readopt
tbe old aud iniquitous twenty-second
rule, and it is creditable to them that
they do not propose to do so. They pro
pose a measure instead, which was advo
cated by the late Senator Morton, and
which it is very desirable shall be adopt
ed by both liouses at this session, and if
possible by the agreement of both par
ties, for on the adoption of some such
measure may depend the orderl^ount-
ingof the electoral vote."
Tut Gentleman Wins.—If you
speak the right word at the right time; :f
you are careful to leave people with a
good impression; if you do not trespass
upon the rights of others as well as
yourself; if you do not put yourself un
duly forward; if you do not forget tbe
courteaies which belong to your position,
you are quite sure to accomplish much
in life which others with equal ability
tail to do. Tbis is where the race is not
to the swift nor the battle to tbe strong.
It is where you make people feel that
you are unselfish and honorable and
sincere. This is what society is looking
for in men. and it is astonishing how
mnch men are able to win self respect
and success and usefulness who possess
these qualities of good breeding. It is
almost the turning point of success in
practical life.—Boston Herald.
Suicide i k a Boy ok Twelve.—Mat
thew Thomas, sgcil twelve, stepson of a
silk operative named KirscLbaum, living
in Union street, Paterson, N. J., was left
at home in charge of younger children,
yesterday afternoon, by his parents, his
father being at work iu New York and
bis mother in the mill. When the latter
returned, at (i:30 o'clock, she found him
playing in the -treet and the younger
children in the bonse. She scolded him
for his neglect. The boy immedialely
went into a room in the basement, where
his brother, aged five, and two infants
were, mounted a chair, tied a handker
chief to a nail over the door, put a noose
about his neck, and kicked tbe chair
away. His mother had in the meantime
gone out again, and on her return, in
half an hour, discovered the boy hang
ing. He was taken down and physicians
were called, who. finding his heart stil
beating, though feebly, kept up artificia
respiration for half an hour without
effect.—Acte York Sun, 24</i.
Shot by a Biiakeman.—As a freight
train on the Hudson River Railroad was
passing Sixty-ninth street, New York,
where there is a high bank at one side of
the track, about half past five o’clock on
Saturday afternoon, Charles Karon,
aged thirteen, threw a stone at a brake-
man who was standiug on the rear plat
form of the last car and then turned to
run. The brakeman drew a pistol and
fired at the lad, the shot taking effect in
tbe back of his neck Ho fell to tho
;round, where he was found lying, and
deeding badly. He was sent to the
Roosevelt Hospital. It was said at tho
hospital that the bullet could not be re
moved from tbe boy’s neck, and his re
covery was very doubtful. The boy was
one of a gang of roughs who were in tho
Labit of stoning passing trains.
A very old man was attacked by a
bull dog al Burtonville, Miss. He
climbea to the top of a fence, but tbe
beast jumped high enough to reach his
legs and pull him down. He defended
himself as well as he could with his cane,
but was finally killed by the dog.
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