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- t-nouia t»e »d<1n****ed,
J. H. ESTILL,
Savannah Go.
second Claw* flatter.
Ttnn»” a ”
x sfc<ON O Til kMTOPSIS.
i HENRY STODDARD.
, u weVould; but. what we must,
. up »lu* sum of living:;
. „ h more and lisa than just
.axii n and in giving.
. .• to han*is that sought the plough,
the soldier v brow. •
tin* city holds, whose feet
v, m ' *i*u its t-t -ny highways,
, r with its loneliest street—
vra> s are never my ways.
eP . 1 hope, my grave will be.
n . stead: In that old, gray town,
- \ane is seaward blowing,
-,,-f garden srr.-tehesdown
Wh«-r•• tie* tide is flowing;
• li.-v he, their «ails are furled,
i - that go about the world.
•!i it little country house,
t M.f. with pines in-side it;
trees, with unfruitful boughs,
rdl, with weeds to hide it;
ei s. °r orrfy such as rise
: poor things, whi?h all despise.
van• ry home: Can I forget
• • c.-i of thy sweet trifle*?
: i w vines that clamber yet,
— blooms the bee stiil rifles?
. - ,1 * blade berries, growing ripe,
the woods the Indian Pipe ?
;he man who tills his field,
itent with rustic lal»or;
I ,cs to him her fullness yield,
what uny to his neighbor,
tvs. sound nights, O can there be
liore rational aiul free?
nintry life of child and man.'
l.oih the be>t. the strongest,
ill the earliest race began,
1 hast outlived the longest,
ities perished lous» ago;
t* first farmers were we know.
s our Babels, too, will fall,
.. >, no lamentations,
i her Earth will shelter all,
i feed the unborn nations;
id the swords that menace now*.
t*u be beaten to the plough.
A hor
wof
Georgia Affairs.
so became so frightened, at the appear-
a colored boy in Dougherty county a
s ago tlia* It s ran away, fell headlong
:u»np, and broke one of his hind legs,
rse must have be ?n a fredt importation
—
n i .if
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH. MONDAY, MAY 31, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
f* Nort
Demo
ast Tli
ratlc convention h»ld In Lee
rsday resolutions endorsing the
f ex-3overuor Brown to the
enate ad interim were adopted.
fazette flies L-ster’s flag from
isthead.
in Iter Gazette says: “The pre-
e river may now he expected,
i the Calund/us Timet that on
th* bottom seemed to have
the clou is.’ We al k> see from
n Augusta tluit the Savannah
e Jitli instant three feet in the
nty-four hours, showing con-
•• have h id general aud heavy
* w iter shed of our river and its
will enable the cutters to putf
tin- course of the next fifteen
i i iiv juantitiesof timber now
a - need since our last report.’’
n-v ill- Gazette's timber quota-
* •■k : Square—600 average, 50
•rage, $S 00a9 50; 800 average,
u average, 310 50all 50; 1,003
U12 00; 1,100 average, 12 00a
erage, 312 00aH 00. Scab— 300
i8 00 : 400 average, 0i)a9 09;
* <X>alU 50; GOO average, 310 00a
:> tie thinks that by this time every
lan^Sftd child in McIntosh county
in favor of a railroad from Darien to
epo
The Athens Manner says: “Our devil is rais-
Z a kittenThat is a great deal better than
"the kitten to be raising the devil.
The Augusta News says that Mr. Jones S.
avLs. i. .v Superintendent of the Enterprise
i?t*.ry, has been appointed Superintendent of
the Sibley Mills. This is a fitting compliment
to the nun who inaugurated the enterprise
who lias superintended the building of
•ral larger factories than any in*Augusta.
will actively superintend the work, which
begin at once. His Honor Mayor May hav-
been notified by President W. C. Sibley
tiiattb- • unpany is uyw ready to take charge
of the Lind sold by the city on the old powder
Th- Brunswick Advertiser complains that we
redit-d one of its articles to the Appeal. If
ft It was a pure inadvertence, and we will
promis- to make our usual amends in such
xses Tlie first good thing we see in the Ap~
N w e will credit it to the Advertiser.
The Macon Telegraph says that notwith-
Anling the heavy rains of last week the
irmersin that vicinity are progressing we J
with their work A great deal of the cotton
hi" already been eh pped out, and much more
aid have bean if hands could have been
tt^i. There has been a great scarcity this
soa..f negroes willing to work, for though
there are plenty of them about, they prefer to
Db about the city to going out to hoe cotton at
eventy-flve cents per acre. There is a
quantity of grass in some sections, but
here prudence and industry have prevailed,
•-'K* damage has been dune, and the far-
> are well up with their work. But little
u * )6en 'l ine on swamp land, in consequence
freshets in the river, but with good
this week nearly all such land will be
‘ ant **L It thinks that, taking all things into
’Mideratioa, while there is not much to be
•hied over, there is no need of despair in Bibb
aunty.
Twenty-eight rattlesnakes have been killed
on 8t. Simon's Island in three months this sea-
lf c t>iore*I folks are going to have a big
' during the encampment at Rome. They
ma ^ arrangements to entertain fourteen
vj base ball clubs, who will enter a contest
for a Sou ph ze .
The first cotton bloom” is beginning to
^ine m quite lively.
The dwfllins: of Mr. A. T. Oliver, in the east-
a !■ rtion of Americus, was destroyed by fire
«>n Friday morning. It is not known how the
originated, but it is supposed through a
ctive Hue. The house cost $5,509, and was
-ed for $2,300.
e Americas Republican tells a story of
a man in the country was Just about to be
•n by a rattlesnake, when suddenly the
**Ptile saw a toad hopping toward it. It im
^diate’y let tin* man alone and went for the
ind now that man —who we presume is
t a cousin of General Washington—says
:s his lire to that toad, and if America is
a Q Empire, and he is raised to the nobility.
^ *ill have for his coat of arms a rattlesnake
*1, or, wl h a frog argent in its month, the
^ °f the frog sticking out and kicking out
^pant.
A rattlesnake was seen lying near the band
in the park at Macon last Friday, and tne
* "jruph warns visitors, and especially cbil
flrea ’ 10 be careful how they walk about that
*^?bborhood.
flake's block” in Macon was sold on Friday
^ f °r $28,090. The original price of the
^P'-rty was $60,000.
Atlanta Constitution has opened up on
Georgia Western Railroad again.
According to Sholes’ Directory, the popula-
* J£ ‘ of ilacon is 20,202.
is stated that General Gordon will speak
Augusta next Friday and in Waynesboro on
^Orday.
li&ThomasviUe Times says this story is
ru *‘ : “Passing down Jackson street,
Bf.f-'^y.oight, just behind a colored man,
&*f 0 i> . ll ‘ UJ su * deni t stop and turn back.
•Hark nr.!L n ^ so, however, he made a cross
il ground and spit in it-or at it—as
^ 100 ^wk to knock the gross out. We
asked him the reasou for such action. He re
plied: ‘You see. boss, it’s bad luck to turn
mck widout makin’ a cross mark and spittin'
in it. I’se ^oin’ to swe my gal, and if I didn't
do it she might go back on dis nigger.’ ”
The following story told by the St. Simon's
Brunswick Advertiser's “dotter,” sounds pretty
tough, but the Advertiser vouches for it, saying
that its correspondent is a lineal descendant or
George Washington: “Last Monday as Mr. F.
II. 8> mpson (sawyer; went to gig back his car
riage. the forward head block caught the end
of apiece of scantling 2x6 inches, 27 feet long,
and drew it over on to the saw with such force
*liat It shot forward horizontlluy like an arrow.
It passed through a plank partition .seventy feet
from the saw, knocked down a pile of saws
and passed through asixty inch saw 1x6gauge,
and one-fourth of an inch thick. Then
after going through the rear wall of
the mill, ninety feet from the starting point, it
fell upon the transfer skids, breaking off a
piece six feet long, the other twenty-one feet
cutting through a rider three by four inches,
like a cannon ball, fell obliquely into the basin,
one hundred feet from the mill, from whence
it has never ret >rned. Our imaginative friend
at our elbow suggests that before this it has
brought up in China, and that the celestials
have made it into chop sticks with which to
dish up and eat their rice, well pleased with
the terebiuthinate odor emitted from the
yellow pine. It is estimated by Superintendent
D B Stallings that this missile wens at the
rate of a mile anil two-thirds per minute.”
The Democrat reports a horrible ease of in-
fantici ie rear Bambridge as follows: “On Sun
day night last, six miles from this city, on the
west side of the river, a white woman named
Mary Merkerson. gave birth to an infant. She
was living with the family of a Mr. Elmore
jNichols. The infant was dead, but suspicions
as to how it met death were aroused, aud Coro
ner Kerr was notified. H•• took Dr. Harrell and
a jury and repaired to tho scene. Dr. H. ex
amined the infant’s body, and found tho head
badly beat and battered up, aud from the
bruises on the legs and anki*-a it looked as if
the unnatural mother had tri^d to heat its
brains out Indian fashion. An autopsy showed
that the child had been born alive. The verdict
was given in accordance with these facts, and
the woman was arrested and lodged in jail. At
this writing she is quite sick and suffering
terribly, bhe is described by Coroner Kerr as
a rather good-looking woman of twenty-two
ye irs of age. It is said that she tied Clay
count}’ for a similar crime. Comment is un
necessary.”
Albany Advertiser: “A few weeks since we
alluded to the discovery' of numerous relics by
Mr W. 8. Bowles, upon his place in Mitchell
county. A number of sjiecimens have been
brought us, many of which show that the land
from where these pieces were removed was
once the bed of an ocean. It is well known
that the pine forests of this section are a cons
parativtdy recent formation, having emerged
from the ocean, or the water having receded,
ages after the lands of anoth ir period had
|Hissed through the various stages of growth,
and wh’ch are now covered with a growth of
oak aud hickory. The wonders of the earth’s
formation make a most fascinating study,
showing the wisdom and power of the great
God of nature in bringing forth by gradual
gradation from a chaotic mass once covered
by water ami enveloped in steam, this
beautiful world wth the perfected living
organisms and vegetation of the present
ago. Among the articles are specimens of
coral, sr>ouge, masses of barnacles, oyster
shells, and many singular masses of shells all
united by the action of lime in the soil iuto solid
rock. In addition are specimens of petrified
wood, such cecar, etc., of later formation,
most likely than the marine growth. Grouped
with these are relics of the Indian occupancy,
or of tint forgotten and pre-liistoric race the
moi Id builders, who. occupying the country
lveforo the red men. who, starting from the
golden sh rest f the I’acific and multiplying in
numbers after countless generations swept like
a deluge over America, devastating the homes
of that industrious but now unknown race,
and finally, totally annihilating them, leaving
no memento of their presence save a few relics
of their cunning workmanship in ston.-t which
are generally ascribed to the Indians. There
an-stones cut in various shapes, a part of a
hand-mill, such as is now used by savage races
f«.r grinding grain, flint arrow heads, stone
pipes and other similar curiosities.”
A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle
publishes in that paper the following scathing
arraignment of the Railway Commission: "The
Commission has issued seven or more circulars
of chang»*s since the first schedule of ‘Just
and Reasonable Rates' for the railroads of this
State, and we are told there are more to follow.
We desire to make two points: 1st. If the first
schedule was ‘Just and Reasonable’ for the
people, it mud have been unjust aud unreason
able for th» roads, as these changes baveal-
wars been in favor of the roads. The Central
Railroad, for instance, has been graciously per
mitted to add 20 per cent, to the ‘Just and Rea
sonable Rates ’ Twenty per cent, deducted
from or added to the income of a railroad is an
immense amount of money and of vital im
portance to a large number of pe pie. and
yet the power to do this thing is lodged in the
hands of three men. These radical changes
Iwithout cause indicate an ignorance of rail
road matters, and go to prove that the Com
mission :s not equal to the task it 1 as assumed
In the space of a few weeks, and with no
change in the condition of the c uutry, or in
the price cf labor or materials, or in the value
of the currency, rates which are pronounced
just and reasonable are, with a single stroke of
the pea, increased twenty per cent. If they
wage right in the first instance, injustice has
been done the people in the change.
If they are right now, injustice was
don© the road. Both cannot be right,
and if these propositions are correct,
it follows that incompetency begat one or the
other. 2d. If the circulars continue to increase
it will be the duty of tbe Legislature to furnish
©aeli merchant of the State with a clerk to
keep the run of the changes. If a merchant
now desires to know how much freight he is to
pay ou a certain road, he Las to lo .k at the
first issue of ‘just and reasonable rates’ and
then at seven circulars to show that the first
was not ‘just and reasonable.’ These frequent
changes will not inspire confidence on the part
of either the railroads or the people, as to the
skill of the Commission for the purposes for
which it was constituted.”
“The late directors of th© Macon aud Bruns
wick Railroad, consisting of Colonel Georg© S.
Jones. Colonel W. H. Lofton and Dr. E. A.
FlewelleD. have," says the Macon Telegraph,
“been collecting up back dues, anil on yester
day paid into the Stat- Treasury $10,000 more.
These gentlemen are still nvndful of the trust
confided to them, and will, it is thought, be
able to pay to the State $10,000 more before
they have a final settlement. There are sev
eral matters yet in dispute, but in a way of
adjustment that will be satisfactory to all
parties. When their work is done the directors
wid retire, with the consciousness of having
done their duty, anil will receive the approval
of the entire- State.”
A FREAK OF NATURE.
POLITICAL STRATEGY.
FIRST MOVE OF THE ANTI
fclKAN'TITES AT CHICAGO.
.Tleeting of tlie Republican National
Committee A New Rule to Be
Adopted—The CliairmauMlilp.
By Telegraph to the Mominy Setct.
Chicago, May 30.—Sixteen anti-Grant
members of the Republican National Com
mittee held a meeting last evening, and
after a long discussion, decided that on the
assembling of the committee on Monday
they would have a rule adopted, that in the
preliminary organization of the convention
all questions should be decided by
individual roll call, and that contested
delegations should be excluded. The
sixteen gentlemen who came to this con
clusion state that they have word from six
teen other members of the committee con
curring in their resolution. Senator Came
ron, Chairman of the committee, was notified
of their action, w ith a request that he give
the fullest a c surance that the instructions
of the committee shall be impartially car
ried into effect. The meeting determined
that should he not do this to the satisfac
tion of the majority of the committee, action
would be taken for his removal from the
Chairmanship.
St. Ix)Uis, May ?0.—It is authoritatively
stated here that the National Committee of
one hundred, provided for by the Republi
can Third Term Convention, held on May
6th, have been appointed and that the names
of the gentlemen composing It will be an
nounced at Chicago in the event of the
nomination of General Grant.
THE MILLERS CONGRESS.
Grand Exhibition at Cincinnati—
111 ITIacliluery — Grain — Dialin-
“Ulahed Speakers. Etc.
By Telegraph to the Homing Betas.
Cincinnati, May 2fJ.—Preparations are in
a forward state for the International Millers’
exhibition, to begin on Monday next and
continue one month. The Power Hall of
the Exposition building is filled with mill
ing machinery from this country and Eu
rope. Samples of all grades of grain
from the leading markets of the world will
be on exhibition. The Congress will be
composed of delegates from all boards of
trade aud commercial organizations in the
country, and will meet here ou Juue 2d aud
3d. At the opening exercises of the ex
hibition addresses are to be made by
Lieutenant Governor Hickenlooper and Geo.
Baiu,President of the Millers Association,and
responses by Alderman Hadley, of Loudon,
aud by Joseph Von den YVyngaert,of Berlin.
SPOILING FOR A FIGHT.
Ari'cut of Two Belligerent Vir
gin lau n.
By Telegraph to the Morning Xeics.
Richmond, May 29.—Wm. L. Roy all, edi
tor and owner of the Commoniccalth newspa
per, and Wm. H. Beveridge, of this city,
were arrested to-day on a charge that they
were about to commit a breach of the
peace. The arrest was in consequence of
the appearance ou the streets ol printed
placards, the contents of which the city pa-
S ers had refused to publish, and iu which
Ir. Beveridge inveigbs in the most scurril-
lous language against Royall for having “on
several occasions written me [Beveridge] up
in your [Royal!’•] sheet.” Both were ad
mitted to bail in the sum of $1,000 for their
appearance before the Police Court ou
Monday.
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
Fears Entertained for a Party of
Settlers.
k .Mountain Suddenly Sinks Out ol
Sight In the Ground.
The following is translated from the
La Union JOeinocrata, of San Louis
Potosi: .
Adjacent to the hacienda of Santa
Catarina, about twenty leagues to the
east of this city, a very remarkable freak
of nature has occurred, the facts con
cerning which we have received from a
gentleman who visited tlie scene. Ou
the 7tli instant the people of thcjiucienda
and vicinity were aroused by a startling
noise resembling thunder. L pon assembl
ing to see what was the matter, it was
soon discovered that a small mountain
in the immediate vicinity had sunk into
the earth, and it must have gone out of
sight like a flash. Our informant, with
others, made observations aud learned
that the aperture thus opened was 200
metres in length, 150 in width and its
depth from 130 to 150 metres. It was
with great difficulty the rim of the cavern
was approached, as all about there were
great yawning Assures which threaten to
open still wider. To miss a step there
was a danger of finding a grave in the
depths beneath. Some stones, weighing
about two pounds each, were thrown
into the cavern, and it took from nine to
ten seconds before they struck the hot
tom their contact with the surface be
neath making a great report After these
brief observations the exploring parties
retired hurriedly from the scene, as the
earth was trembling and shaking as if
upon a balance. The location of this
strange phenomena is situated in the
tierra calieute (warm region) and mes-
quitesand palm trees flourish a Uh'.uL
Whenever any portions of tlie earth .long
the rim of the cavern fell into the depths
immense clouds of whtle dust issued
forth This dust was carried about by
the winds and made all the trees in the
vicinity perfectly white, speculation is
rife as to whether the mouutam sank
owing to earthquake influences, or was
the result of gas explosion. It coulu not
be attributed to the former very
as no shocks were felt in the neighbor
hood.
Naturalists who have been exploring
Borneo assert that in the stems of cer
tain plants found there are galleries
tunnelled by a species of ant, and that
the presence of the ant is essential to the
existence of the plants, for unless at
tacked by the insects when young the
plants soon die.
Where there is a weakness of the Throat
or LuDgs, a Cold neglected may be all that
is required to establish a lingering and gen
erally fatal disease. Even where there is
no special tendency to Bronchial or Pul
monary trouble, a severe Cold, left to take
care of Itself, often plants the seeds of a
serkms complaint, sure to be developed by
subsequent Indiscretions. Tske especial
care of your health, therefore, from the
very earliest symptoms of a cough or cold
by prudently resorting to Dr. Jayne * Ex
pectorant, which will soothe and strengthen
the bronchial tubes, allay inflammation, and
cleanse them and the lungs of ab irritating
substances. An ounce of prevention is bet-
ter than a pound of cure.
my29 S.MiW&wlt—dlpw4p
By Telegraph to the Morning Xeirs.
Laramir City, May 29.—A large body of
Indians are reported near Illinois creek.
The entire party of men, women and chil
dren, numbering about thirty-five, at Hoi
den’s camp, packed up and retreated to
Pickham’s, in the north end of tfie park,
where they are fortified. Tflej are poorly
armed, and great fears are entertained for
them. There are about seven hundred
miners and prospectors iu North Patk, and
the Indiaus will probably kill many of them
before they get together iu eullicient num
bers to oppose them.
THE .MEXICAN AWARDS.
Secretary Kvarta to Arbitrate
Tliereou.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Washington, May 29.—Over one million
of dollars of the Mexican awards are now
tied up in the State Department through
injunctions and other legal proceedings
growing out of the controversies of at
torneys over their fees in the cases. Secre
tary Evarts has decided, as he is empowered
under the law, to take the matter out of
the bauds of the courts and arbitrate upon
the claims himself, with a view to securing
the immediate distribution of money to
parties interested.
THE FISHERIES QUESTION.
InMtrncliona to tlie American Mlulfc"
ter.
By Telegraph to the Morn ing Neicr.
Livbrpool, May 29.—The London cor
respondent of the Liverpool Courier says:
“lion. James Russell Lowell. American
Minister to England, has received instruc
tions or advices from Secretary Evarts rela
tive to the fisheries question of a much more
amicable character than the reports pre
sented to Cocgrt-sa.”
nos on to the brave dead.
Memorial Day —Oration- Beautiful
Floral Decoration*.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
New Orleans, May 30.—Memorial day
at Chalmette was celebrated by a salute, an
oration by the lion. W. R. Whitaker, a
military display, aud music by the Thirteenth
Infantry Band. The attendance was larger
than ever before, and the floral decorations
were very handsome. Among the most at
tractive were the contribntionaof the Wash
lngton Artillery, Continental Guards aud
the associations of the army of Tennessee.
NEW YOKE QUARANTINE REGU
LATIONS.
Southern nnd Gulf Port. Required
to Show Clean BUI. of Health.
Tty Tcleffraph to the Morning Xeics.
Xiw Yohk, May 3U.—The Health Officer
of this port aunognees that all vessels eo
tcring the port of New York from New
Orleans, Ssvsncah, Charleston. Mobile, lial-
veston, Key West and all (luif ports, with
out a clean bill of health, will be subjected
to a quarantine of observation on and after
the first day of June.^
Rea rue v and the Sau Francisco
Workingmen.
San Francisco, May 29.—Last night the
Workingmen, headed by a band, escorted
Kearney from his house to the Sand Lots,
where a very large crowd gathered. Kear-
nev addressed them in his usual style, an
nouncing his intention of taking up the
agitation where he had left it, and making
It more bitter than ever.
Sentence* Commuted.
St Petersburg, May 99.—All the sen
tences of the Nihilist prisoner* at the W ci-
mar trial have been commuted. Mtchaeloff
and Sabourotf have beep fentenced to twenty
and fifteen years at labor iu the mines re-
sDectively. Dr. Weimar and Trostchutsky
were sentenced to ten years each at labor
in a fortress. All the other sentences were
greatly reduced.
fflurderer Handed.
Wheeling, W. Ya., May 29 -Peter Ktne,
ir., was executed at Woodsfle d, Oh to,.yes
terday for tho wurder of David TriaMjla
September last. The writhes of the rnur-
derer on the gallows were horriole.
Dangerously Ill*
New York, May 29.—John Brougham, a
well known actor, is dangerously and
rapidly sinklug. His physician says there
is no possibility of his recovery.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MONEY
MARKET.
New York Stock Market—A Decline—
Large Stock Transaction*.
By Telegraph to the Morning New*.
New York, May 29 —The stock market
ruled weak in the early dealings, and prices
declined ^ per cent., the latter in
W’estern Union. Subsequently a firmer feel
ing prevailed and a recovery of to
took place, the latter in W’estern Union, but
during the afternoon speculation again be
came weak, and a reaction ranging from ^
to % per cent, ensued, the market closing
quiet at a decline. Transactions aggregated
‘JiO.OOO shares, including Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western 31,900, Erie 25,000, Lake
Shore 63,900, Northwest 7,900, Nashville and
Chattanooga 4,000, New Jersey Central 28,-
500, Northern Pacific 5,000, Ohio and Missis
sippi 13,000, Pacific Mail 11,200, St. Paul
0,300, Western Union 28,800.
London, May 30.—The Economist of this
week says: “The rate of discouut for bank
bills for sixty days to three months is 2%
per cent., and for trade bills sixty days
to three mouths 3% per cent. Tne
stock markets on Saturday and Mondav
were influenced by the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway and Mincing Lane fail
ures. On Tuesday, most of the depart
ments, except the American, were stead
ier. The foreign stock market
has been supported throughv, it the week
by the buoyancy of the Continental bourses.
Russian and Hungarian 6tocks were espe
cially firm, in consequence of the purchases
made by Continental cliques to prepare
the market for the forthcoming new
loans. As the Stock Exchange settle
ment drew to a close, the light rates
for the continuation of high class securities
showed money more easily obtainable than
was anticipated, aud the tone became much
more cheerful, dealings being entered iuto
at a higher level of prices for tLe new
account. In colonial government stocks,
Canadian 6 per cents are higher.
In foreign stocks, United States
bonds are higher. South American
are generally inanimate, and Paraguayan
and Mexican arc lower. Home railways,
though not closing at the worst, are lower
on the week, the fall being solely due to
speculative operations. Canadian railways
have fallen in sympathy with United States
railways, but not extensively. Iu American
railways Readiug shares are 13d. lower and
mortgages lid. to 22J. New Jersey Central
shares have fallen Income bonds 3i.,
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio 5d., Erie
preference 4d.,and Perkiomen bonds 27%d.”
GERMANY AND THE VATICAN.
DlsruMslonof tlie EccleMlaMtical Dill
In tlie Prnnlan Diet—The Pope’*
Personal Wishes Regarding; tlie
Bill.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Berlin, May 29.—The debate in the Lower
House of the Prussian Diet w*as resumed
to-day. Herr Von Puttkammer, Minister
of Ecclesiastical Affairs, said he had no ob
jection to the amendments limiting the
period of operation of the bill, If they did
not change its principle, lie declined to
produce any more documents in the matter
to the House, as those already published
placed the question in a clear light. Re
plying to the criticisms of Dr. Volk,
ex-Minister of Ecclesiastical Affalra, Herr
Von Puttkammer emphatically denied that
the bill implied any wavering in the views
of the government as to the sovereignty of
the State, or the least intention of feebly
withdrawing from the ground of the un
changeable adherents of the existing
laws. The welfare of the State, he
declared, required a large-hearted con
sideration of the evils existing in the coun
try. lie believed that even if the bill was
rejected, it would be impossible to oblite
rate the advantage produced by its intro
duction, as it would demonstrate that the
government had done its uttermost to re
store peace. The bill waa referred to a
committee of twenty-one.
In the debate on the Church bill
in the Lower House of the Prus
sian Diet, Herr Puttkammer, Minister
of Ecclesiastical Affairs, stated that when
the Curia issued its last negative reply, the
contents of the bill were not known. That
the measure, he said, might fall on fruitful
ground, the government had submitted
the bill to the wise consideration of the
Ho’y 8ee.
London, May 29.—A Berlin dispatch says
it is understood that the Pope, personally,
wishes the part? of the Centre in the Prus
sian Diet to abstain from either moving
amendments to or voting upon the Church
bill.
INTERSTATE ROWING MATCH.
Anticipated Sport—Splendid Conrie-
?iuiuereu« Entrie*.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
New Orleans, May 30.—The following
crews have arrived to take part In the Inter-
State rowing regatta: the Pensacola double
scull Cohoes; the double and single 8hoe-
wacaemette four: the Hillsdale four and
double, aud the Burlington four. The races
will commence Wednesday on Lake Pont-
chartrain, over one of the very best courses
known, being free from currents.
The Sioux Chief* and Their Yonus
Barbarians at School.
Carlisle, Pa., May 29.—Spotted Tail,
Red Cloud, American Horse, White Thun
der, and other chiefs, on a visit to the In
dian school at the old barracks, are delighted
with the management of the institution, ex
cept in one particular, the rule providing for
the punishment of serious misbehavior by
imprisonment iu the guard house being dis
tasteful to them. fhe meeting of the
chiefs who have children in the school with
th»-ir offspring was very affecting. “Two
Strike,” who has two boys in the Institution,
aud Spotted Tail, who has four boys and one
girl there, warmly embraced their children.
Friday morning the chiefs were conducted
through the several school departments, and
gave the exercises the closest attention.
In the afternoon they were conducted
through the various workshops connected
with the school, and at night interesting
chapel exercises were had. The chiefs
will remain here three or four days. Spotted
Tail and Red Ciouu have sent congratula
tory telegrams to their friend* in D&kotah
Territory.
Kcarne) , a Blatantlnm.
San Francisco, May 20.—At the “Sand
Lots” to day Kearney announced that he
would leave for Chicago on Wednesday to
attend the Greenback Convention. If the
platform suited him he would stump the
State for it, and if the WorkiDgmen did not
like il he would organize a party ic its sup
port. If the platform proved unsatisfac
tory to the California Workingmen they
could confine themselves to local issues.
Bicycle* to the Front.
Providence, R. I., May 30—Bicycles to
the number of over one hundred have
reached Newport In readiness for the “meet”
to-morrow. Twenty-nine clubs, from differ
ent cities, are represented. Meetings held
to-day decided on an organization to be
formed to-morrow which shall be called the
“Leagueof American Wheelmen.” A parade
and banquet is the programme for to-mor-
The Georgia Senatorship.
Augusta, May 29.—Governor Colquitt’s
appointment of ex-Governor Browa to fill
the vacancy created by the resignation of
Senator Gordon causes confusion among
the Democrats of Georgia. Tne friends of
lion. Joseph B. Cumaring, of Richmond
county, ex-Speaker of the Georgia House
of Representatives, will press him for Sena
tor to fill Gen. Gordon’s place,at meeting of
the General Assembly in November next.
English Labor Trouble* Settled by
Arbltratfou.
Liverpool, May 29.—The arbitrators in
the dispute between the dock laborers and
employes regarding the men’s claim for an
advance of six pence per day on wages have
agreed upon an award, by which the men
will receive the advance demanded for
three months, after which the matter will
be open for reconsideration.
——
Keroicue Explosion on Shipboard*
Philadelphia, May 20.—A barrel of
kerosene exploded to-day on the English
ship Sophia, lying at a pier in the Delaware
river. The vessel took fire, and the clothea
of five persons on board ignited. Two ap
prentice boys and a seaman,while in dames,
jumped overboard and were drowned. The
other two were seriously but not fatally
burned. The fire on the vessel was soon ex-
uugwifhod,
The C’hlllan-Peruyian Uar.
Rio Janeiro, May 30.—The Chilians have
taken Tacna and are rapidly marching on
Arica.
the west point outrage
THE COURT MARTIAL FIND
AGAINST WHITTAKER.
He 1* Arre«ted and Placed In Con
finement.
By Telegraph to the Homing News.
West Point, N. Y.,*May 29.—The Whit
taker court met to-day in secret session,
and made np its final report, which was
agreed upon and signed by all the members
of the court. The report, after reviewing
the facts aud evidence in the case, gives
the following conclusions:
First—The court is unable to believe that
such slight wounds as Cadet Whitaker re
ceived could have been inflicted by persons
in the manner and under the circumstances
described bv him.
Second—It does not see why a man. with
his surroundings and in his condition and
frame of mind, a3 shown by his own evi
dence, should have submitted to an assault
such as is alleged without summoning as
sistance during the assault or immediately
thereafter.
Third—It believes a peraou tied as he
was and left as he claims lo have been,could
have readily released himself should he
exert himself to do so.
Fourth—From the testimony of the post
surgeon aud others the court Is compelled
to believe that Whittaker was neither asleep
nor insensible when he was examined on
tho morning of April 6, but that he was
feigning.
Fifth—The court Is not able to discover
any motive that any person other than
Whittaker could have had In making such
an assault, and there Is no evidence what
ever to warrant belief that aDy other person
did it.
Sixth—It believes that the hair clipping,
flesh cutting aud binding could have all
been accomplished by Whittaker himself.
The theory that the note of warning is an
Imitation of Whittaker’s writing is, in the
opinion of the court, untenable. The se
vere test to which experts fn handwriting
were subjected and their positive testimony
place It beyond doubt that Whittaker him
self wrote the note of warning, and that
therefore he is not ignorant of the person
or persons engaged in the affair.
The latter conclusion is strengthened by the
fact that half of the sheet of paper on
which this note is written is found in Whit-
taner’s possession.
The following is the opinion of the court:
“After the strong array of circumstantial
evidence, from the testimony of experts in
hand-writlug, and from the conflicting state
ment* of Cadet Whittaker, and the lack of
veracity evinced by him in certain cases
during the inquiry, as shown by the evi
dence, the court is of the opinion that the
imputation upon the character of Cadet
Whittaker, referred to in the order con
vening the court, in the official reports of
the commandant of c*det3 and the post
surgeon, is fully sustained.”
When the report was sent to Gen. Scho
field and carefully read by him, he caused a
letter to be addressed to Col. Laselle, com
luandant of the corps of cadets, directing
the f rrest of Whittaker and placing him iu
confinement in his room. The order was
promptly carried out, and Whittaker will
remain under arrest until his case is dis
posed of. and the guard will keep him un
der surveillance.
The Crop Pro*pcc£ in Ireland.
London, May 29.—Correspondents state
that no better seed time has been expert
enced in Ireland for many years than now.
The crop is healthy aud well advanced, and
an unusual area ha* been sown in potatoes,
which come up well, as new 6eed have been
extensively used, and it is hoped the crop
will be sound and plentiful.
Decision In tlie Lewis Will Case.
Newark, N. J., May 29—Chancellor
Runyon this morning decided the Lewis
will case against the claimants, and in favor
of the United States Government, holding
that Lewis was of sound mind when he exe
cuted the will, and that he had no relatives
who could claim K a* his legal representa
tives. ^
'I he Situation In France.
London, May 29.—A Paris ditpatch says:
“The political sky seems to be clearing up.
The great labor strikes In the provinces are
ended, the Commuuiat demonstration has
been abandoned by all but a handful of
fanatics, and the attack in the Chamber of
Deputies ou the Prefect of Police mustered
only thirty-one votes.”
Trial of the New Orleans Incendia
ries.
New Orleans, May 29.—The District
Attorney to-day filed information against
five prisoners arrested as accessories to the
burning of the cotton on the ship Iron Cross.
The prisoners will be arraigned on Monday,
aud the trial begun next week.
A Boat from a Foundered Steamship
London, May 29.—The fourth boat of the
British mail steamship American, which
foundered on the way from Northampton to
tlie Cape of Good Hope, arrived at Madeira.
The fifth missing boat only contains one
quartermaster and four so amen of the
steamer. ^
Powder J1I11 Explosion.
Giibnt, May 29.—An explosion in a pow
der mill occurred at Watteren, eight miles
southeast of here, by which several persons
were killed or injured. Tea bodies have
been found.
The GoM-Kyan Prize Fight.
Pittsburg, May 29.—The proposed fight
between Goss and Ryan for the heavy
weights championship has been arranged to
take place within fifty miles of this city ou
or before Wednesday next.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
Toronto, Ont., May 29—The boiler of
the steam saw mill of McCauley it Jarvis,
at Winnepeg, exploded yesterday, causing
the death of one man and the injury of
several others.
A correspondent of the L’tica Herakl
reports ex-Governor Hoffman as saying
that one day near the close of his term he
was sitting in the executive chamber
when a strange man entered, unannounc
ed, and unceremoniously seated himself.
Iu a moment he extended his hand, in
the palm of which lay a somewhat bat
tcred musket ball. “Governor,•’ said be,
“that musket ball killed my brother in the
streets of New York, It was fired by one
of the militia, who were acting by virtue
of \ our order-*. I regarded you as my
brother’s murderer, and over his dead
body swore that I would take the
same bullet that killed him and with it
kill you. I have many times started to
make good my vow, but each time de
ferred it. For certain rcasotfs I have
made up my mind to let you live,* but I
want you to know that you owe your life
to me, and continue to live entirely by my
sufferance.” The man then quietly arose,
picked up his hat and unconcernedly
walked away. The Governor, this writer
says, admitted that the episode startled
him; but when asked by a prominent
Democratic Senator what he would do
again in an emergency similar to that of
July. 1871, he promptly replied: “I
would do precisely as 1 did before.”
Many Deaths from the Heat.—The
heat Thursday was excessive all along
the North Atlantic coast. At Jersey
City, Robert King, of New York, was
sunstruck, and died in one hour. A
freight train on the New Jersey Central
Railroad was abandoned near Long
Rrancb. Its entire crew was prostrated
by the heat. At New York the exces
sive heat of the last three days has made
the death rate double what it waj two
weeks ago, most deaths occurring among
children and old people. Six fatal and
thirty two severe cases of sunstroke were
reported in New York and Brooklyn.
A second fatal case is reported in Jersey
City—Patrick Mooney, a laborer. Mich,
ael Holden, an immigrant, just arrived
from Ireland, died at Newburg, N. Y.
A coroner’B jury found that death wa3
superinduced by injudicious drinking
ice water. At Peekskill, N. Y.. one
death is reported. At Newton. Y.,
the thermometer registered *03 degrees.
The heat and continued drought are
causing great alarm among the farmers
on Long Island. Wheat, rye and other
crops are blasting, and will prove fail
ures unlegs rain falls soon. On Thurs
day the thermometer stood at 100 degrees
in the shade.
It was & brisk two hours conflict between
the baby and the colic, with all the doubts
In fayor of the colic, until Dr. Ball’s Baby
Syrup put In an app^rance. Of course the
baby was safe in less than teu minutes. A
twenty-five cent bottle did it, myiil-lt
Senator Brown.
Editors Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist : The recent appointment by Gov
ernor Colquitt of ex Governor Joseph E.
Brown as United States Senator to succeed
General Gordon has been much discussed, but
for the most part iu & spirit of passion rather
than in one cf calm reason. There has been
much condemnation, and the object of this
communication is to ask if that condemnation
has been deserved. As I look at it, the test of
this, as of ail other exercises of the appointing
power, is this: Is the appointee a man capa
ble of serving the public interests efficiently in
the position to which he has been chosen, and
was his appointment animated by proper mo
tive*?
No man can deny but that ex Governor
Brown is a man eminently capable of render
ing this State *r»xvl service. In mental power,
the Senate of the United StaU-s, brilliant as
that assemblage is in intellectual luminaries,
does not contain his superior. For forty years
he has been prominent in the public affairs of
our own Sta:e. and from this long experience,
is deeply versed—probably none better—in the
history, the legislation, the present needs, and
future destiny of th.s commonwealth. Con
sidered simply from the standpoint of utility. I
will venture rho assertion that, it put to the
vote to-day, the people of Georgia would say
that, however tnev mar disapprove certain
portions of his public life, his competency is
beyond all qu*stion.
now. being competent to serve us. is it likely
that he will setve u*? My own judgment is
that the most powerful inducements that can
operate on the mind of man are now stimulat
ing Senator Brown iu the direction of tne best
interests of Georgia. He is now advanced in
\ears, and his present office is probably the
last he will ever hold. Each other high public
position in the State h&s been his. tor many
years he received the constaut favor and sup
port of the people of Georgia. At lost their
patiis diverged. The popular favor w hich had
so long waited upon him, was converted into
hostility. He fed from political grace, and that
fsll still raukles in the public soul You and I.
Messrs. Editors, and all our people stood the
storm, and at last, by the kind favor of Provi
dence, emerged into the sunshine. Whereas,
we were once bound and captive, we are now
free. Our smile is political life, and our frown
puolio death. How sweet that approval; how
terrible that reproof ! Take an old man.
whose only ambition now can be to bask, at
the close of his public career, in the same radi
ance of popular approbation which gilded his
early days: and, O! can we imagine a more
powerful incentive to stir him up to prodigies
for the public weal. I have watched the course
of Joseph E. Brown since the redemption of
Georgia, and whenever a Macedonian cry for
help has gone up from our people he has sped
to the rescue as jf he yearned for an oppor
tunity to purchase his peace. When the grasp
of the roober was up**n the electoral vote he
hastened to Florida and there risked health
and life in his efforts to save that State
o our lawfully elected Democratic Presi
dent. If others have forgotten, I at least
btill remember how* he plead and worked for
us as long as he could stand, and when at last,
confined to his bed by pneumonia and forbid
den by his physician to make any exertion,
disobeyed those instructions and, at the risk of
his life, whispered argument after argument
to his a:nanuen*is in behalf of our cause. No
thing but an iron constitution saved him. and
even then his c mvaleseeace was so slow that
a trip to some salubrious Western region was
necessary to lit him for business again. Still
further do I remember that when the or
ganized Democracy was engaged in a death
struggle with Iudependentism ju Felton’s
district, this sain* man poured forth all his
energies in behalf of the party and against its
insidious opposers. The spirit which led him
to these exertions will still more powerfully
animate him on the broader arena of the Fede
ral Senate. It is impossible but that he must
long for a reconciliation with hi* people. His
course in Florida and Georgia proves it, and it
is my fij m persuasion that in his new position,
he will, if an opportunity be afforded him,
make hercule an efforts to beDeflt this State.
He is under bond, a* it were, to rehabilitate
himself, and under that mighty stimulus will
outworx any dozen other men.
Now, was his appointment animated by
proper motives? It is said that there was a
trade; that Gen. Gordon sold his honor for
m<>ney, and that Gov. Colquitt betrayed his
trust for influence, ex-Govercor Brown being
the purchaser in the one case and the bargain
er in the other. As to General Gordon I hardly
know how to expres* my views. When I be
hold that erect, soldierly figure: when I hear
that clarion voice, as resonant as if it were once
more aJxrnt “to set battalia in the field;” when
I look upon that honest, open brow, and see
that ch**ek trenched by battle; when memory
brings back those burning words in Lee’s last
great extremity. “My corps is worn down to a
frazzle, but I am ready to lead them wherever
you say," it seems an insuperable incongruity
to believe that this man has deliber
ately given himself over to political
harlotry, and in ccld blood adopted
a life of public shame. If he wanted to sell
himself, why vacate the Senate ? The seventy
odd men who constitute that body hold impe
rial powers within their grasp. There can be
no legislation without their acquiescence, and
yet upon legislation the entire monetary inter
ests of the United States depend. In a five
years tenure of such majestic authority what
illimitable opportunities for immoral gain :
And yet all this the venal Gordon resigns in
opl**r to accept a railroad attorneyship, which
in his to-day, and to-morrow may, at the bid
ding of a Board of Directors, lie taken away.
The curule chair, with its dirty millions, i« re
signed for a few clean thousands, and yet we
are told that the transfer is proof incontcstible
of a rile trade.
Ah: but. says some one. if Gordon did not
trade. Colquitt did. Colquitt Is the Governor
of Georgia; he aspire*, as he has a right to do,
to be Governor again. While thus aspiring,
the supreme law of the land makes it hi* duty
to appoint some one United States Senator.
What appointment can any candidate make at
which some man would not cry, trade? Sup
pose ht* had appointed Heischel V. Johnson;
would it not have been said Johnson was your
competitor for the seat you now hold. His
friends were not jour triends. What a shrewd
trick to appoint him and thus conciliate his
supporters, not to «p-ak of thus making an op
portunity to appoint in his stead, as Judge Of
the Middle Circuit, some henchman of yours to
work for you down In the wiregrass.
Or, supi*ose again, he had appointed Lester,
orGartrell, or Ilardernan. or Underwood, or
Augustus Reese, or any other of the many op
posing candidates for tlie Governorship, would
not the Fame cry of trade have arisen? Would
it not have been argued that such an appoint
ment was a base prostitution of a public trust
to private gain? That two bird* had been
killed with one stone; that, on the one hand, a
strong man had been gotten out of the way,
and upon the other, that man’s friends were
to go to the competitor who had appointed
him?
Let me repeat that, until slander perishes
from among men.no official who seeks a re-
election can make an appointment at which
animadversion will not uprear its scaly head
No President has ever dyne it_ no Governor has
ever done it ami in foreign lands no Ministry
has ever done it. “Cans’t thou escapt? ca
lumny?”
A trade implies a consideration, and what
has ex-Governor Brown to give? The same
men who say in one breath, his influence, in
the next denounce him as a political pariah,
who has neither connection nor friends. Again,
a bargain implies a thing tradeiL and what is
the subject matter here? A few days’ honorary
s-*at in the Senate-a mere complimentary
nomination—an unsubstantial title—tendered
on the one hand and accepted on the other in a
spirit of amity.union and good-wilL On the soil
or Ohio in tho West, and of New York in the
North, our Governor has publicly stated that
political proscription was dead in Georgia, and.
that strong in their own niapT.anhjdiy, tne
people of this State, forgetting past difference*,
were now ready to hold out the olive tranch.
No one, so far as I am aware, ever questioned
vhe propriety pf thes*.! sentiments, and yet
what is the temporary appointment of Gov.
Brown but a reduction of them iuto practice?
_ SCkZOA.
Trying to Burn Out Dancers.—
While a ball was being held iu the Ave
nue House, Jersey City heights, Monday
night, two attempts wero made by in
cendiaries to set fire to the building.
When the first alarm was raised the pro
prietor found that a lot of paper had
been placed in the cloak room and set on
fire. The fiaines were extinguished
without trouble. At 2 a. m. another
alarm caused much excitement among
the dancers, and it was found that a fire
had been started in tfie lodge room on
the upper tioor, and that the wood work
was blazing. The flames were extin
guished with a loss of about $200. There
is no doubt but that both fires were of
incendiary origin, and the case is being
investigated by the police authorities—
y<eui }ortc Tribune, 261 A.
“Closed on account of a wedding,” is
a familiar sign in Paris. It was to be
read three weeks ago on the shutters c?
a jewejer’; shop in the Faubourg Mont :
martre; but, as no signs were shown of
the establishment being opened again,
the neighbor- grew suspicious, and com
municated their fear to the commissary
of police, wno finally entered the shop
nnd found it despoiled of the whole stock
of jewelry, said to have been worth
$100,000. The jeweler and his wife had
disappeared, leaving a multitude of debts
unpaid, sotne of which, being for goods
supplied, are of considerable amount.
The absconding tradesman had paid no
rent, and had not even defrayed the ex
penses of his shop furniture.
It is ft curiotio not generally
known that at a certain point \n the
L’pper Columbia, close to the water's
cage, the fine wind is continually travel*
ing up stream in one eternal procession.
Talk of the great army of Xerxes on the
march—what was that to the myriad
battalions that pace the marge of the
mighty river? In comparison with these
tiny travelers what are the “leaves of
the forest when summer is green ?'’ This
sand is being continually washed ashore,
and as the water falls-awav with the
dearth of the season it dries, is ta^en up
by the winds, carried hack up stream, is
blown into Hie water and makes another
voyage, and so the work of transporta
tion back and forth, by land and by sea,
goes on forever and ever.
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL POL
ITIC8
Gathering of Clan* at Cklcaxo-Ma-
uceuverlu: for Position—Dolus* at
the Graul, Blaine and Sherman
Headquarter*—Trad Ins on the Vice
Presidency-A Lore to the South,
etc.
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
Chicago, May 28. —The trains today
brought in large additions to the crowd
already in Chicago, preparatory to the
meeting next Wednesday of the Repub
lican National Convention. The new’ ar
rivals to-day included thirty or forty
delegates and numerous hangers on.
Canvassing and wire pulling is now in
full blast. The attendance from Ohio
far outnumbers that from any other
State, and, so far as outside appearances
go. there is more activity at the Sherman
headquarters than at any other. The
Grant and Blaine men are dome their
work with locked doors, aad the Blaiuc
managers particular^’ are wearing very
mysterious countenances whenever they
make their appearance in public.
Betw’een fifteen and twenty of the
colored delegates from the South are
here, and they are mostly corraled at the
Sherman headquarters.
The Grant managers are charging pub
licly that money i< being corruptly dis
pensed from both the Sherman and
Blaine headquarters, while they say
that, so far as they are concerned, there
is no need to spend money, even if they
were so disposed. To the contrary of
this it is asserted that the Giant mana
gers are laboring to work up tbe rough
element iu their interest. The sergeant-
at-arms or head doorkeeper of the con
vention building is a Grant man, and
has, it is said, appointed as his subor
dinates none but Grant men.
There is much quarreling about tickets
of admission to the general public, of
which, perhaps, eight or ten thousand
will be issued, and tbe Grant people, it
is said, have control of this.
Prominent Illinois Republicans op
posed to Grant are proclaiming, with
? ;reat vehemence,that it will be impossible
or him to carry his own State, and Ohio
Republicans, of equal prominence, from
Governor Foster dowu, assert the same
with regard to Ohio. Don Cameron,
who was taken quite sick late last night,
wa3 able to get around this afternoon,
and he and the other Grant managers
laugh contemptuously at the»3 state
ments, and say it is a transparent game
of bluff.
The Blaine men were in high glee to
night over information, which they said
was reliable, that there were eight of the
Ohio delegation who would disregard
instructions for Sherman and vote for
Blaine on the first ballot. Governor
Foster himself expressed some appre
hensions on this score. It is understood,
by the way, that Governor Foster and
several of his confidential friends have
an idea that he may be the dark horse,
aDd the action of 1870 may be repeated
in putting Ohio’s Governor in nomina
tion.
As to the Vice Presidencj’. at least a
dozen names have already been men
tioned, the majority of w hom are from
the South, including General Wickham,
of Virginia. It is claimed that if Grant
is nominated and Wickham put ol the
ticket with him Virginia is certain to be
carried. Mr. Keogh, the Secretary of
the National Republican Committee, who
has been here for ten days, and is an
ardent Grant man, unhesitatingly pro
mises all the delegates as they come in
that if they will nominate Grant North
Carolina will go for him by ten thousand
majority. It Ts suspected, however, that
down in their hearts the Grant men do
not really think their candidate would
run any better in the South than any
other Itepublican nominee. Pinchback,
of Louisiana, has been the loudest Grant
mau around. He offered to bet three
thousand debars, but did not show the
money, that Grant would be nominated
and elected.
The subject which it is supposed will
be the most delicate and difficult to come
before the convention in the preliminary
stages is tbe unit rule. Whether it shall
be adhered to or broken, no matter which
way decided, it is apt to cause trouble.
The contesting delegates from Cook
county, Illinois, who will demand ad
mittance, will also be a thorn of disturb
ance, as on this and perhaps on one or
two other questions the victory will be
apt to rest with the Blaine or (he Grant
element, according as one or the other
may show the most nerve and assurance
Evidences of distrust are becoming
visible between the friends of Grant ana
Washburne. Despite the assertions of.
Washburne that he was not a candidate,
and had nothing to do with the move
ments here in his behalf, Grant’s friends
have been suspicious of him for a week
past, and the suspicions of his insinceri
ty were very much heightened when
Washburne headquarters were establish
ed to-day in the Grand Pacific Hotel.
The Blaine men are very much excited
at a rumor that the Exposition Had, in
which the convention is tfl qaeet, will be
thrown open ou Monday night, to give
Senator Oonkling an opportunity to
make a speech in behalf of Grant, as it
seems the National Convention, which
has the control of the building, refused
to allow the use of it for the anti third
term meeting. Mr. Wm. E. Chandler
and several of the Blaine managers im
mediately . entered a formal protest
against the building being used for any
such purpose.
Ex-Governor Warmouth, of ^ouisana,
arrived this evening. He belongs to the
regular delegation freup that State. Ho
says he i- tbp only man iu the delegation
for Blaine, and tuat Grant is his eecond
choice. lie s^ys ;t is 3II bo*h about the
Republicans parrying any of the South
ern States under any circumstances.
Jere Haralson, of the Baltimore custom
house, who is here as a delegate from
Alabama, says the same thins.
The crowds at the Palmer House evince
much curiosity in watching a Georgia
colored gentleman hy the name of Guar-
les, who is now practicing law in New
York, and who is here in the Interest of
the Sherman boom. Mr. Quarles is in
tow of ex Sheriff Daggett, of Brooklyn,
who is a New York delegate who intends
to vote for Sherman. Quarter is very
black. He weare a blue coat, an open
shirt with a big brilliant pin stuck in
it, light pants and kid gloves. A sen
sation was creatcdwben he marched into
the big dining room of the Palmer House
to-night arm in-arm with Mr. Daggett,
and took a seat directly opposite tp. Afrs.
Don Cameron and Jrfra. Levi Morton.
The guesVs dropped their knives and
forks and started, and the colored wait
ers gathered in groups and watched and
chattered, and maDy stalwart Repubii
cans, to whom su^h a ^pectayle was rath
er new, did not express much admiration.
HOW NEW YORK SWELTERS.
Effect* of the Torrid Temperature—
Suffering among all Claaae*.
A Larq£ Sunday School Preces
sion.—The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Sunday
School Union on Wednesday celebrated
its fifty-first anniversary by the usual
parade, preceded by exercises in the
churches, and foHowed by icecream and
strawberries for tbe children. Ail day
long the streets resounded with the strains
of music, and the sidewalks were crowd
cd with well dressed people, anxious to
participate in the celebration. A feature
of the celebration was a procession, in
which fifty thousand members of the
schools participated.
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Beast BqUer g&id at Cheyenne, W. T.,
while en route to the Pacific coast, last
week, that he did not contemplate sup
porting General Grant. In reply to the
suggestion that the Greenbackers w’ould
nominate him (Butler) for the Presi
dency, he said: “I? they only give us a
good platform the honor would be most
worthy.”
“Yes.” said the New Hampshire
farmer, who cam t e to Boston, and getting
steered against a faro bank, iost ^80, for
which he gave a $100 bill and received
$20 in change, $5 of it bad money; “1
intended to keep that $100 for bogus
patent dealers, but I had to use it to
make that $15 out of those wicked
gamblers,”
No relief came to hot and parched
New York Thursday. The temperature
was as high as on the preceding day,and
much suffering was caused. The breeze,
however, was somewhat stronger than on
Tuesday, and in the evening made the
burden of the excessive heat a little Jess
terrible. At two o’clock Friday morn
ing there wus no assuring sign of a cool
wave or of rain. There were several
cases of sunstroke. Two fatal cases
were reported in Jersey City. The
highest point reached by the mercury
was 94. At night the benches in many
of the parks were fully occupied by
persons unable to obtain sleep in their
own stifling habitations. This was
especially true of Washington square and
the Battery. At the latter place hun
dreds of people lay stretched along
the wall at the water's edge or on the
benches, or sneaked behind the bushes
aud reposed on the sward. The number
of thr>6e who took their rest in the open
air Thursday night was also large. Ap
parently the mosl wilted portion of the
community Thursday was the Broadway
police squad. With a becoming sense
of the decorum due to their public office,
and with the fear of discipline before
their eyes, the patrolmen kept their coals
buttoned and suffered greatly. They
complained of their heavy hats, and they
were by no means the only persons who
suddenly came to the conclusion that a
change of head gear was advisable. The
hatters’ shops in the lower part of the
town did a heavy business in summer
goods all day, and the proprietors of
stores containing genii men's furnishing
goods could not remember to have done
so much business in one day for years.
Everybody seemed intent upon purchas
ing summer underclothing. Those even
ly balanced and philosophic persons that
make a principle of sticking to their
winter garments until a certain day in
midsummer had cause to rue their deler-
mination. The workmen at Burling slip
mopped their perspiring faces with the
sleevesof their thick woollen shirts, and
found it necessary to take many a brief
respite in the course of their toil.
By ail classes the heat was severely
felt, out, perhaps, in no quarter did it
produce more emphatic expressions of
dissatisfaction than at the docks of in
coming steamers. Passengers who only
two days before stood on the deck of the
vessel, muffled with wraps, to view’ the
passing icebergs, now found themselves
in the torrid zone, and the work of un
strapping their effects for the inspection of
the custom house officers became doubly
exasperating. The heat, however, was
no more severely felt, on the whole, than
on the preceding day, for although the
thermometer was at a higher point during
the morning, a pleasant breeze and a
slightly more humid atmosphere sub
dued its scorching effect.
SWINDLED BY A GIPSY.
The Same Old Trlclt of Warding Off
a m jMtcriou* Spell.
New York Star.
Sarah Smith, the gypsy who was ar
rested in Jersey City on a charge of re
ceiving money under false pretenses, was
arraigned before Justice Peloubet Wed
nesday, and was committed in default of
$500 bail. Mary Kennedy, the domestic
who made the complaint, testified that
she was accosted by the gypsy, who
asked if she had any crockery that
needed mending. The servant replied
in the negative, when the gypsy
alarmed her by catching her
hand and staring Intently in her face
and saying: “You’re in trouble. You
have an enemy in New York who has
consulted gypsies, and has put a charm
on you to make you ill.” The name of
a young lady with whom the domestic
is acquainted was me tioned, and she
agreed to have her fortune told for fifty
ceuts. The gypsy asked for some salt,
then for the garter off the domestic’s left
limb, for the stocking from the same leg,
a pen, bottle of ink, writing' paper, a
cup of tea, a fine china cup and saucer
from the mantelpiece, a cake of per
fumed soap, and finally Mias Kennedy’s
pocket book.
These articles, she said, were necessary
to work tbe charm which would defeat
the threatened attack of ricknes9 ar
ranged by her New York enemy. After
reciting some unintelligible words and
making queer gestures, the gypsy said
that she couldn't work tbe charm that
would counteract the influence of the
enemy’s spell, udIcss she had tbe girl’s
pocketbook. After carefully placing the
other articles in a capacious bag, and the
f tortemonnaie in her pocket, the gypsy
eft, stating she would return again.
The pocketbook contained $14, and the
gypsy on her ne*t visit inrormed her
victim that it would require an additional
to perfect the charm. This her vic
tim dia not have, but she tendered a
$5 bill which the gypsy accepted, with
the remark that it might possibly do.
When the gypsy appeared in the vicin
ity of her victim’s home, possibly to
extort more money, Miss Kennedy eon
eluded she had been swindled, and
caused the womau’a arrest.
The defense of the fortune teller is
that the servant’s trouble arises from an
indiscretion, and she used the money in
saving the girl from disgrace. She also
claimed that her accuser offered her fifty
dollars if ahe would prevent the exposure
of her shame. Miss Kennedy denied
this.
The counsel for the gypsy made appli
cation for her discharge, as there was no
evidence of her having obtained the
money by misrepresentation. The Judge
held otherwise. He thought the salt,
garter and stocking trick was done to
deceive, and deckled to hold the prisoner
for trial,
TWO BRAVE WOMEN.
The ex Queen of Naples is living with
her husband quietly iu Paris. A corres
pondent writes that she has nothing to
occupy her time but her toilet aud her
horses. “She will lave her hair dressed
four times a d*y kill time, and keeps
five m&ivU, although she does not receive,
and goes nowhere save to her sister’s, the
Duchess d’Alencon’s. Her great pleasure*
however, is riding, and she is even a
finer horsewoman ths^n the Empress of
Austria. Dui ing had weather she went
every day to the circus or hippodrome,
and latterly has actually been taking
lessons how to do circus tricks on horse
back, a servant throwing hails to her
which she catcher going at full gallop
and leaning back so that her head almost
touches the horse’s tail The poor King
aands by admiring and ever at hand to
see that his beloved consort, whom he
worships as a goddess, meets with no
harm. When not reading, dictating
letters, or watching over his wife, whom
be tends as a child, the ex-King is at
church—generally the Madeleine-^and
the poor of his arrondissemeat have good
reason to bless big name a d pray for his
long continuance. A § o’clock punctually
the Queen retires every evening.”
Mrs. Fraser, mother of the Bishop of
Manchester, died in her eminent son’s
palace, a few weeks ago, aged 87. In a
speech a few months since, the BishoD
told fiis audience that his father lost most
of his means in iron works, and died
soon after, leaving seven children. His
mother said, “I cannot give my boys
money, but by denying my seif I can give
them all a good education.” She did so,
aud he didn’t know how she managed it.
She wa* row paralyzed, speechless, help
less; but every day when he went into
her room and looked into her sweet face,
he thought gratefully of ail he owed to
her.
A small boy has been struck by light
ning in Mechanics’ Falls, Me. He was
sitting under a Balm of Gilead tree. The
tree was splintered, and the boy was
seized with nausea. When the urchin’s
clothes were taken off there was found
on his body an imprint resembling the
trunk of the Balm of Gilead tree, with
buds and branches.
flow They Prevented a Wholesale
Jail Delivery la Pater*on-An Ex
citing; Affair.
An attempt was made by some of the
prisoners Thursday morning to* break
.from the Passaic county jail, in Pater
son, N. J. Edward Cross and Samuel
Mulligan were sentenced on Monday to
State prison, the former for six and the
latter for five years. They knocked an
old silk weaver senseless as he was at
work in his house on the Little Falls
road, some months ago, and robbed his
looms of the handkerchiefs that were
upon them. Owing to the heat of the
day Jail Warden Buckley Thursday
morning allowed the prisoners a chance
to walk about the main corridor of the
jail. It is the custom to keep those sen
tenced to the State prison in close con
finement. Mr. Buckley opened the door
leading from the office into the corridor
to let in a man who had been doing some
work outside. As he did this, and while
he was standing in the doorway. Cross
sprang upon him and grappled him around
the neck, while Mulligan seized him
by tbe arms and tried to help Cross. As
Cross grasped the warden he exclaimed,
“I’ve got him!’’ There was immediately
a great commotion among the prisoners,
but, with a few exceptions, they stood
aloof and did not take a part in tlie strug
gle that ensued. It was evidently not
a preconcerted plot, or they all might
have made a dash and escaped. It is
thought that Cross and Mulligan had
made it up between themselves to
take an advantage of this kind
the opportunity offered, A desperate
struggle ensued, which, according to all
accouuls, lasted for lHteen minutes.
Koinali Nyman, who is in jail under in-
■li.q_nw.nt for tho murder of his father,
ha" tvery opportunity to escape, but
instead of doing that he posted him
self fit the door and render
ed efficient service in preventing a gen
eral stampede. Another prisoner named
Patrick Murtagh, convicted of assault
aud battery, also rendered the Warden
assistance. Several others went to the
help of the attacking party. The War
den did not lmve his revolver with him,
and could only protect himself with his
fists. Mrs. Buckley, the wife of the
Warden, was up stairs with her sister,
Miss Mattie Wiley. They saw’ Tiers, a
prisoner, escaping, and, hearing an unu
suul noise down stairs, ran down to see
what was the matter. They found the
struggle in progress, and pitched upon
Mr. Buckley's assailants. Mrs. Buckley
seized Mulligan and attempted to hold
him, while Miss Wiley belabored Cross.
The young ludv is about sixteen or sev
enteen years of ag* ? very c h nder and
the blows she < u or the u l.l tace
of Cross had n _ more inapn ion than nipt
with a feathe res
to pinching, and gave Cross seyc • i’
marks on the face tual be will carry c r
some time. In the meantime tbe pris
oners were getting rather the st the
Warden, and w’ere pushing him towards
the door, with a prospect of making
their escape, after all. But Airs. Buck-
ley was equal to the emergency. She
sprang upon the struggling crowd with
all her weight (she is a very stout wo
man), aud with the assistance she got,
pushed them inside the door and locked
them in, her husband and a 1. This
stopped the danger of the prisoners mak
ing their escape, and they soon let go
their hold of the Warden, for they did
not seem to desire to harm him any more
than was necessary to secure their es-
cape. _
Shark Stories from the Pacific Coast.
San Francisco Chronicle, May 3.
Dr. Swan, the 9urgeon of the Pacific
Mail steamship Colima, which arrived in
this port a few days ago from the
isthmus, reports an incident on the trip
worthy of mention. He says that while
the Cdlima was lying at Acapulco, on
the trip up, she anchored one day close
to the steamship China. Some of the
hands on the latter baited a hook and
caught a shark of the man eater variety,
about fifteen feet long. The shark was
pulled up and cut open, and in the buliy
was found a human arm entire, just as it
had been tom by tbe monster from tbe
shoulder. There were also found in the
maw of the shark the heel and toes of a
human foot. The remains had evidently
l»een swallowed but s short time. The
arm was the left, and upon it was plainly
visible the initials tattooed in Indian ink,
“A. H. U.” Aoout ten days previous to
the taking of the shark a sailor from a
British brig then lying in the harbor,
while under the influence of liquor, fell
overboard and was lost. It is supposed
that the shark had Icen feeding upon
the body a short time before his capture.
San Jose Joe, tbe monster shark of
San Jose de Guatemala,was recently seen
by the C*pta\n of the China. This shaik
has for many years been the terror of the
coast from San Jose de Guatemala to
Punta Arena. He has been so frequently
seen that he is as familiar to the mariners
of that coast as its most perilous head
lands. He is said to be forty feet in
ength, and is extremely ferocious, hun-
man kind being his favorite prey. Captain
Seabury, of the China, is ready to swear
to forty two feet and over, having once
seen'Joe passing behind his vessel, which
is forty-two feet in the beam,and the head
and tail of the shark extended past either
side of the vessel. The Captain of the
South Carolina and Captain Witeberry
bear testimony also *0 the shark’s being
forty feet long. Ii. years
“Joe,” as he is Known ulialoug u.t,
has devoured half a . * indsomt
years ago the Guat G remittent
offered a reward of 1 to . y on* wno
would kill the d<;’ 1 .
shot a couple of - ' u*. i 1 irp..< ?:<<:
thrice, bul survive
Still roams his old haunts looking
his favorite morceau.
Speaking of sharks, report has just
come to hand setting forth the informa
tion that one of his family, evidently a
first cousin to Joe, as he was thirty feet
long, and probably weighing five tons,
was caught at Soquel beach, on Friday,
the largest ever caught on that coast. It
was a species known as the basking
shark.
A school teacher was endeavoring <o
ascertain the extent of her children’s
knowledge of numbers. On the question
being a^ked “Would you rather have
three paper bags with two oranges in
each, or two paper bags with three or
anges in each?” all but one little fellow
expressed themselves as without prefer
ence. The teacher asked this pupil for
his decision, and he was persistent in
liking the three bags. His reason for
this was: “Sol could have more bags
to bU9t •”
At Kernevel, in Germany, tho other
day, just as a religioua procession was
entering the church, the beU hung in the
tower, weighing half a ton, came down
with a tremendous force, crushing
through three floors on its way, and fell
at the feet of the man who headed the
procession bearing the banner. A mo
ment later and a fearful catastropho
would have been the result. As it was,
no one was hurt.
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