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Georgia Affairs.
General Gordon will address the citizens of
Wayne and adjoining counties on the pending
political issues of the day at Jesup on Thurs
day next, the llith in3t.
The people along the immediate section of
country interested, want a mail route from
Hawkinsville to Sycamore, in Irwin county,
with post offices at Holt’s in Wilcox, at
Peek's store in Dooly, and at Deep Creek in
Wilcox. Congress will be petitioned this win
ter to authorize the establishment of such a
route.
A new boat is being built for the Ocmulgee
river. The Hawkinsville Dispatch says Mr.
A K Fisher has now in process of completion
at Wei born’s ferry, twenty-five miles above
Hawkinsville, a boat one hundred feet in
, ; i, t * itli a capacity for carrying four hun
dred and fifty lades of cotton. It will be ready
in a few weeks, and when loaded will draw
three feet of water.
According to the Elberton News the Grange
movement is rapidly building up in Elbert
< imty. That paper learns that the Dove’s
< ’reek Grange initiated seven new members a
f.-.v .lays ago at a called meeting, and will
initiate seventeen more at the next regular
meeting. The order is rapidly increasing in
other portions of the county.
The Dalton Citizen says: “We are having
bowers almost daily, and the farmers are
busy turning land for their next crop. There
j s novv ft© best corn crop in this county which
has been made since the war. In consequence,
old corn has gone down to forty cents per
bushel, an occurrence which is the first since
the war. It reminds us of ante-bellum’ times.”
The North Georgia Citizen was Rhown a day
or s<> ago, at the jewelry store of E. E. Brown,
in that place, a small double-case gold watch,
which was recently ploughed up on the battle
field of Chickamauga. The watch was in an
excellent state of preservation, but little
rusted, and, when repaired, will be os good
time keeper as it ever was. It originally cost
about one hundred dollars.
The Dublin Post mentions a colored man in
Laurens county who is a worthy example to
his race. He is a preacher who has recently
contributi *1 $100 to a new church in his coun
ty The Post says of him that he started even
with the world at the close of the wir, but by
hard work, economy and close attention to
business, he now owns a good plantation, a
( .unfortable frame house and a horse and bug
gy. His credit is as good where he is known
as any roan's, and be is able to give a hundred
dollars in cash to the good cause lie represents.
Tlic Marietta Journal states that four ne
groes are now in jail in that place, charged
with having made criminal assaults on white
ladles ia Cobb county. The Journal remarks:
“This thing must stop.”
On Saturday night last Mr. Hill Sandeford,
of Burke county, died at his residence at the
advanced age of seventy-four years aud four
teen days
lk.th Governor Colquitt and Mr. Norwood
were received with great eclat in Columbus.
The Governor was met at the depot by deputa
tions from two Colquitt clubs—one white and
one colored-and by the Columbu3 Volunteers.
The Times says: “At 9:35 the train rolled in
amid the yells of all, and the crowd, one mass
of WU4 enthusiasm, pressed on the coach, and
Georgian noble Governor was literally dragged
from the cotu;h to the carriage assigned to him,
and the cavalcade took up its line of march to
the residence of A«ijor a. M. Allen, where he
spent the night. On arriving at Major Allen’s
residence be was called out and made a brief
address to the assembled multitude, thanking
them for the honor they did him in thus wel
coming him, and stated that as he was very
much wearied he would bid them good night.
The Reception Committee of the Colquitt Club
were then presented to the Governor, and as
sured him of their hearty support. Ob the ar
rival of the train Mr. Norwood got off at the
rear end and was conducted to the reception
room of the depot, where he waited a few min
utes till the Colquitt party had passed on. He
was then driven to the Central Hotel, preceded
by the Eagle and Phenix Brass Baod and fol
lowed by a large crowd. During the line of
march Roman candles and rockets were fired.”
West Point cadet vacancies exist in the Sec
ond. Third, Eighth aud Ninth districts of Geor
gia. The appointments will be decided by
competitive examinations.
Among the forty-five speakers now stump
ing the State of Indiana for the Republican
party, we find the name of James Atkins,
Esq . late Collector of the port of Savannah,
who is announced to speak in six towns. His
last speech is to be on the 12th inst.
The Calhoun Times thinks it remarkably
strange that a red haired couple in Gordon
county have black haired children.
The Calhoun Times says that Mr. John Dor
sey, of Gordon county, is like Ca?mr's wife,
and therefore what he says cannot be doubted.
He informs that paper that he has a tomato
vine that measures twelve feet in height and
twelve feet and f*mr inches across the top. and
has about one thousand or twelve hundred
tomatoes on it. He says that anybody who is
doubtful can come and see it.
EUijay Courier: “Mr. John B. DeBoard In
arms us that lie is of the opinion that he has
Mind an infallible cure for hog cholera, and
aft<T losing several with that disease, has cured
eight or ten by the use of kerosene oil and tar.
H'-takes a lump of tar about the size of a
partridge egg and forces it down the throat,
and gives about a tablespoonful of kerosene
oil oti'.v? or twice a day for three or four days.
He ha* never lost any after treating them in
this way.”
Rome Ikiily: “We learn that the run off on
the S. R. and D. R. R. Tuesday afternoon was
caused bv some one driving an iron spike some
thret* ,,r four feet in length into one of the
' reties, and before any idea of danger, the
ciigirv was thrown from the track. It is
tm'light that a tramp who was ejected from
t-i» train the day before was the one who per-
lormed the fiendish act, and if caught, he
should be deal: with to the very fullest extent
the law. Hanging is too good for a man
who would do such a hellish act.”
Says the Brunswick Seaport-Apveal: “Again
our Glynn county jail falls under public cen
sure The building.besides being a^disgrace to
‘be county in appearance and in its comfort
less condition, is utterly unsafe, and has only
the name of a prison. It is about as easy to
or»*aK . u t of it as to break in, and enterprising
prisoners remain in it only' so long as it suits
'btui. On Sunday night last George Mattox
ana Sardy Jones, both colored, the former
ioagv,\ f,-) r hog stealing and the latter for horse
stealing, tore away the grating from the win-
<h>w to their cell and walked out and away to
unknown.”
Calhoun Times: “Cotton pickers are going
be scarce this season. Men are out hunting
bands already, but with little success. La?t
it was almost impossible to get cotton
j c a nd a considerable amount was lost in
r* e field for want of hands. Why don’t the
arcners get together and petition Col. Fon-
* ne to turn a tide of industrious and honest
iass or foreign Immigrants into this county ?
la ”°nng classes have been going West
m the last four or five years, until there is
not one-fourth enough to supply the demand."
: few days since Abram Har-
iB°n colored, came to Atlanta from Jackson
vounty, for the purpose of paying a visit to
'ffle relatives who are residing here. The fol-
^win s night after his arrival in Atlanta he
j moea out of bed and showd signs of being
^is relatives managed to keep him
Wet until the following day, when be was car-
ha to r * ie station house for safe keeping until
. be sent home. Yesterday afternoon
l?cw John Hildebrand, of the police force,
7 *or Jefferson, Jackson county, with Harri-
w| ?° ha * become fo completely deranged
wild that he had to be roped and shackled
^prevent his escaping or doing himself per-
■otul injury.”
' J writes to the Atlanta Constitution an
w-Vu? anec H° t ® illustrative of “the way in
—ri Lh Norwood got his nomination ” He says;
other day after Norwood had made a
"peech at Newnan, and made, it is said, a few
converts (to Colquitt) the irrepressible Jim
.'“[’[oickael, of Coweta, was called on for a
Among other good things he told how
Sot his nomination. He said some
colored folks were talking about special
P,yjdence, when one said. ‘I don’t believe in
77 * or -' said he. Tse be enpraying dese many
J ears and axing for de good Lord to send me
vae ob ole massa's fat gobblers, but aldo I
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Bitters.
prayed and looked for de Lord to send him on.
he nebber comes. Den I jest conclude I quit
praying and go for dat gob bier myself and den
you bet he comes in.’ So Mr. Norwood had
been praying for many years for the nomina
tion and it no comes, then he just goes after it,
then it comes.”
Dalton Citizen: “Mr. John L. King, a citizen
of this county, was killed at Spring City
Station, on the Cincinnati Southern Railroac,
on Monday last. He was employed as a
carpenter on the road, and it is supposed he
was endeavoring to remove some obstruction
from the railroad track as a train of cars ap
proached. when he was struck by the engine
and so injured that he died soon after. His
remains were brought down the road on Tues
day morning and taken to his late home near
this place for Interment.”
On Thursday last a young colored man
named Dub was drowned in the river near
Hawkinsville. It was supposed that he fell in
while endeavoring to make his escape from
his employers with whom he had entered into
a contract, but which contract he had broken.
Nothing more was seen of him alive, and, says
the Hawkinsville Dispatch, “the matter was
gradually dying out, when, on Saturday last, it
was reported by Mr. Millard Pmith, who was
eneaged in fishing some baskets and
trout lines below town, that be had
seen the body of a colored man
lodged on the west bank of the river. The
point on the river was accurately described,
and a dray and some colored men were sent
down the river to bring the body to town. The
dray soon returned with the body, which pre
sented a sickening aDd ghastly spectacle, and
hundreds of colored people assembled to look
upon the remains as the dray stopped near the
jail. The body was taken to the colored peo
ple’s cemetery, on the edge of the swamp, and
there left exposed, for the prey of dogs and
wild animals. This was a piece of most shocking
carelessness or gross neglect of duty to the
dead and the living. Coroner James Coody
arrived and held an inquest about midnight.
Mr. Pleas. Lovejoy, who was the foreman of
the jury of inquest, informs us that dogs had
attacked the corpse and bad eaten off the
flesh on the face until recognition was im
possible. No witness was able to testify that
the bodv was that of Dub, the colored boy
drowned. The jury returned a verdict simoly
to the effect that the deceased had coine to his
death by drowning, name unknown, etc.”
Irwinton Southerner and Appeal: “At the
semi annual meeting of the State Agricultural
Society, that took place in Cuthbert during
February last a committee was appointed to
examine into the merits and demerits of the
Clement attachment. Two of this committee,
Colonel Sproule and E. Heyser. in a communi
cation to the Carroll County Times, state that
tbey visited the establishment of Messrs. F. A.
Bame3 & Co., at Senoia, Coweta county, Ga ,
on the 7th ult. Tbey examined the machinery
and followed the whole operation through,
from the cleaning of the seed cotton to process
No. 10, when the cotton was turned out thread
for market. They state that the machinery
comple’e ready for starting, excepting th^ en
gine, cost $4,010. The attachment used 500
pounds seed cotton in twelve hours, producing
150 pounds of yarn, worth about IS cents per
pound. Eight hands, costing $4 50 per day,
perform all the labor. Counting the waste in
the cotton, the interest in the investment, in
surance of three j>er cent, .wear of the machin
ery, and all running expenses, they say that
Mr. Barnes has a net profit of a lit
tle over three dollars per day of
twelve hours. Ihey are not of the opinion
that it is practicable for farmers to manufac
ture yarn from the staple on their plantations
with farm laborers. And while they are not
prepared to say that the Clement attachment
is a.'l that is needed for the South, since it has
been clearly demonstrated that when capital
and skilled labor is abundant, that it is most
profitable to manufacture cotton in large es
tablishments. yet they do heartily recommend
the introduction of small establishments in
every village and town throughout the coun
try, believing that the Clements attachment is
a safe investment to our capitalists and
planters, and will be a source of pros
perity to our Southern country, by furnishing
the means of support to needy and worthy
people, to-wit. women and children, and by
saving much of the freight, expenses of bag
ging and tits, insurance, commissions and
many other incidental expenses, which con
stantly flow away from the cotton section, but
should be retained at home to give comfort
and support to the planting community. In
our own county, we once heard talk of the
Clement attachment, but tliat must be a dead
note, as we have not heard it sound in manj -
days past.”
OUU WASHINGTON LETTER.
Tlie Censns—South Carolina to be
Investigated —Polities Generally—
The Canvass in Indiana—Political
Assessments.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Washington, September 8.—The Republi
cans who have been howling about the large
and fraudulent increase in the population of
the South, as shown by the returns of the late
census, have finally dropped into crying fraud
in South Carolina only. They have found
their position in regard to the other Southern
States so palpably untenable that they have
abandoned it. General Walker, Superintendent
of the Census has all along, been very dubious
as to the charges made, and has regarded
them as partisan and for partisan purposes
only. He has been so worked upon by the
Republican howlers, however, that be has
come to the conclusion that there were frauds
in South Carolina, and says that he will take
steps to rectify them. To this end he has sent a
special agent into the State to investigate.
The agent will, of course, do as he is expect
ed-report wholesale inflation of the census.
But sti 1 the census returns as received do not
show more voters than when Hayes was de
clared the choice of the State for President in
167*5. It is a foregone conclus on. however,
that in ob- dience to the Radical howl a new
census of South Carolina will be made. Gen.
Walker, in view of the demands made upon
him by Republican managers, cannot fail to
do less. The returns from tne other Southern
States are not questioned. That is significant.
It is evident that ia order to make something
for campaign purposes out of the “wholesale
frauds" at first charged by the Radicals, that
there must be something done; so they pitch
upon South Carolina, knowiogthal they cannot
do anything in any other State. The whole thing
is for campaign effect only. To such ends is
even, such an important matter as the tak
ing of the census prostituted under Republi
can rule.
POLITICS GENERALLY.
That Alabama and Arkansas should go Demo
cratic was known beforehand: equally it was
known that Vermont would be Republican.
There is nothiogyet that looks like a test of pub
lic sentiment in any election held. The States
which have voted have been so overwhelming
ly one-sided that they amount not to a straw
even. There will be nothing definite, either
the one way «r the other, until Indiana
holds her election in October. The
politicians who come Into the city from every
where, give any opinion that you want. Re
publicans are conndent that Indiana is theirs;
and Democrats know that they will carry the
day. The same is true of the reports that are
received at the headquarters of the two parties
here. The Democratic Committee knows posi
tively that Indiana will be in the Democratic
column; and the Republican committee is cer
tain that Indiana Is theirs.
Aside from all political talk for effect the
leaders on each side will, after saying they are
hopeful, tell you that Indiana is very close, and
that her verdict will practically settle the
question of the Presidency. The prestige that
she will give to the winning party so soon be
fore the great electionwill,almost to a certainty,
name whether Hancock or Garfield shall be
elected. Consequently the big fight is being
made there. No State was ever so thoroughly
canvassed by these two parties as Indiana now
is The Democrats do not really think they
will carry Maine, although the majority of
the Republican party will be reduced. So all
eyes are on Indiana. From what the Demo
cratic leaders say, aside from their hopes, I
think that Indiana will give a Democratic
majority, but a small one. As goes Indiana so
goes the Presidential election.
POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS.
The Republican Committee has gone along
bleeding the government employes of cent
per cent. It is an old story, and not worthy
of repeating. As has been done ever since the
party has been in j»ower, bulldozing collectors
go around and demand money or the clerkship
of the poor devil assessed. But as I said, this
is too old a subject to be referred to—except
by comparison. The Radicals have claimed
during this campaign and asserted over and
over again, that the Democratic employes of
the House and Senate have been assessed for
their pro rata. It is a lie. Such is not the
principle of the party. It gets its campaign
money without bleeding anybody. There is
not a clerk or employe at the capitol who has
been assessed, and there is not a clerk in any
other department of the government who has
not been called upon for his money or his po
sition. Potomac.
LETTER FROM FCTNAM COUNTY.
FLORIDA.
The Crop Prospect—A Word for the
Hero of Olustee—The Political Out
look.
Putnam Hall, Fla., September 5.—Editor
Morning News : As you continue to desire in
formation in regard to the crops, I will give
you a brief note concerning the prospects here
now. When I wrote to you in the spring crops
looked very flattering and continued so until
we had a drought in June and July, which in
jured the cotton very much. Some corn had
made all that it would then, but late
com was badly cut off. The greatest injury,
though, has been to the cotton. After it had
recuperated from the drought some, the rust
put in its appearance and some fields
are literally ruined. Not more than
one-half of a crop will be realized.
Cane and cotton, I think, are about on an
average with other years. We have been vis
ited with a storm of rain and wind, which
lasted three days and nights, doing much more
damage to cotton. With a few more draw
backs, we farmers will be in as bad a fix as you
Democrats of Georgia are While I have
thought of the matter, permit me to say hur
rah for Colquitt'. We remember Olustee, and
sincerely hope Georgia will remember the
hero of that battle, too. by giving him a rous
ing majority when election day comes.
Our own political horizon is all bright and
fair. Bloxham, Finley and other noted speak
ers are putting the wheel In motion, and when
it stops Bloxham will be Governor and our
other men in their “posish.” J. P. W.
THE VERA CRUZ.
LATEST FKOM THE ILL-FATED
STEAMER.
Arrival of Three I?Iore Survivor*
ou the Steamer Magnoiia—A Re
port that Fourteen Person* have
been Washed Afthore on a Raft at
Titusville, Florida—The Report
not Credited at Jacksonville—The
Crews ol the “Long Reach,”
“Ada Slmonton” aud “New Re
public” Saved.
Special Telegram to the. Morning News.
Jacksonville Fla., September 10.—The
schooner Magnolia arrived at this port this
afternoon, bringing John Connell, coal
passer of the Ill-fated steamship VeraCruz,
and the two other passengers heretofore re
ported at New Smyrna. It is not yet posi
tively known who these two passengers are,
but they are supposed to be, one t O. P. Silva,
a young Brazilian, and the other a Cuban,
about twenty-five years old, who lost his
wife in the disaster.
The Magnolia also brought the crews of
the schooners Long Reach and Ada Simon-
ton, and of the bark New Republic. The
latter was bound from Brunswick, Ga., for
Rio Janeiro, with lumber. All of the crew
were saved.
The report of the landing of fourteen
euivivors of the Vera Cruz at Titusville
(eiven In the Associated Press dispatches
published below) is not credited here.
Titusville is on Indian river and in the
vicinity of were the other survivors came
ashore.
[The following is the Associated Press
dispatch alluded to In the above special to
the News.]
New York, September 10.—Geo. R. ColJ
well, of the Board of Underwriters In Wall
street, received the following to-day from
Henry J. Titus, agent of the Underwriters
at Titusville, Fla.: “A negro and a white man
were washed ashore, also a life raft contain
ing twelve persons. The white man was
much exhausted.”
The following extracts from letters re
ceived by Charles Dannls, Secretary of the
New York Board of Underwriters, from
Henry F. Titus, representative of tbe board
at Titusville, Fla , and vicinity, reached the
office of Alexandre & Sons early this morn
ing, and were given for publication:
“September 2,1880—Two persons, one
of them a negro, came ashore with life pre
servers at this point, and report that they
left on a steamer from New York bound
to Havana. When off Cape Canaveral the
6teamer was struck by a gale. The
cabiu was taken overboard, with many
passengers. These two persons came ashore
by the aid of life preservers. The white
man was injured and so exhausted that he
could not give any information, and the
negro did not remember the name of the
steamer. The negro said the steamer had
horses on board when she left New York.
This will doubtless give you a clue to the
name of the steamer.”
Several persous who had friends or rela
flve6 on board the doomed steamer who
called at the olliee to day had their hopes
revived by these communications, all of
which were received at No. 31 Broadway
about noou. They left ou hearing the
good news, hoping that those dear to
them were among t.he fou.teen fortunates
who have escaped watery graves. The
steamship City of Alexandria, commanded
by Captain Dakin, and which Is a sister
vessel of the ill-fated City of Vera Cruz,
left her pier at this City for Havana and
Mexican ports yesterday afternoon, but in
accordance with orders received from
Messrs. Alexandre & Son her commander
dropped anchor in the lower bay on account
of bad weather, and the vessel laid there
until 7:30 o’clock this morning,when she rc
sumed her journey.
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC MAR
KETS.
The Liverpool Cotton Review—The
Minc ne Lane Market-The Man
chester Cotton market British
Grain Trade—New Kork Stock
market.
TIIE GROWING COTTON CROP.
Report or the Memphiit aud Galves
ton Exchanges.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Galveston, September 10.—The Galves
ton Cotton Exchange has one hundred and
thirty-four replies from ninety two counties
of which seventy-five report favorable
weather duriog the month aud fifty-nine un
favorable. Sixty-two report the weather
more favorable than last year, twenty-one
about the same, and fifty less favorable.
Seventy five report the crop fruiting well
and shedding. Forty report the present
condition of tbe crop not as good as
last year, eight about the same, etghty-6lx
better, one reporting 15 per cent.; two 25 per
cent : three 33 per cent.; six 50 percent.;
one 60 per cent., and fix 100 pur cent, bet
ter. One hundred and thirty-two report
picking as commenced; two as not com
menced; sixty-one report that pick
ing will become general on Sep
tember 1st; fifty-eight on September
9th; thirty-eight on September 10th, and
twenty-six on September 15th. 8ixtv-eight
report the damage from worms aud boll
worms as follows: Six, 100 per cent.; two,
15 per cent.; three, *20 per cent.: eleven,
25 percent.: one, 30 percent ; eleven, 33
percent.; thirteen, 50 per cent, damage.
One hundred and eight report no injury
from shedding or rust; seventeen, some in
jury from shedding; nine, Injury from rust.
Some counties that report serious damage
by worms, also report that, notwithstand
ing this, the yield will be greater than that
of last year.
Memphis, September 10.—Tbe crop re
port of the Memphis Cotton Exchange for
the month of August embraces one hun
dred and thirty-two responses from points
in West Tennessee, North Mississippi and
North Arkansas. One hundred and nine re
port that the weather has been generally
unfavorable, as compared with last August;
fourteen report it as more favorable; thir
teen about the same and one hundred and
five as much less favorable.
Cotton Fruiting.—Fifty-one report form
ing and blooming well: thirty-four moder
ately well; forty-seveu not well, twenty-
nine report the plant retaining the boll well;
one hundred aud three reports 6enous shed
ding of torms and young fruit. On uplands
the top crop is generally reported as almost
entirely lost.
Condition of the Crop.—Ten report it in
very fine condition in all respects; eighty in
good condition as to cultivation; eleven as
excessively grassy; and thirty-one in bad
condition as compared with last month.
It is represented at 15 per cent, less favor
able than at the same time last year.
Picking.—The reported average date of the
commencement of picking was August 27
last year; this year, the average date when
picking would be general was September 9.
Worm Depredations.—One hundred and
seven show no material damage by worms;
twenty five report some boll worms, but the
aggregate damage is trifling.
Damage by Dust and Shedding.—Thirteen
report no damage by rust or blight, and
eighty nine report very serious damage. The
damage is reported at 10 to 15 per cent.,
averaging 16 per cent.
Miscellaneous —In Tennessee and Missis
sippi there was eevere loss in August on the
top crop, which is almost an entire loss.
On bottom land everywhere there is much
complaint of too rank a growth of the
plant at the expense of the fruit. Tbe late
planted cotton will not average half a crop.
BRITISH LABOR TROUBLES.
Cotton Weavers Threaten a Strike-
Nail Makers on a Strike.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
London, September 10.—The Tunes tbi6
morning says: “Throughout Northeast
Lancashire, deputations of operative
weavers had interviews with their employers
yesterday, demanding an advance of wages.
One of the Blackburn employers, running
eight hundred looms, promised five per
cent, advance in six weeks. Another said
he would grant the advance If the others
did. It is stated that IJ&slingden will be
selected for the strike, but a feeling is gain
ing ground that tbe movement will collapse.
The masters at Accrington unanimously re
fused the advance.”
A strike of 28,000 nail makers of East
Worcestershire and Staffordshire began to
day, in opposition to any further reduction
of their wages, which they allege have al
ready been reduced twenty per cent.
Found Murdered.
Galveston, September 10.—A special to
the News from Fredericksburg says Tom
Warren, a well known freighter, was found
on Thursday murdered, twelve miles north
of Fredericksburg, an axe having been sunk
to the helve in his skull.
Nervous, sleepless and overworked find
rest and nourishment in Malt Bitters.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Liverpool, September 10.—This week’s
circular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers
Association 6ays: “Cotton was quiet early
in the week. On Wednesday the demand
increased and there was some advance In
prices, which were firmly maintained.
American has improved in demand during
the last few days, and quotations for low
middling and uplands were raised 1-16J.
In sea island the business was moderate
and prices were unchanged. Futures open
ed quiet and declined 1 16al-32d. Since
Monday the tone of the market Las been
steadier and prices have gradually hardened.
Tbe final rates show an advance of l-32a
l-16d.”
London, September 10.—The MinciDg
Lane market is rather dull. There has
been but little variation in prices.
Trade reports from various parts of the
kingdom show some tendency to improve,
and a corresponding movement here may
follow, but a period of infatiou like that
of last autumn la regarded as Improba
ble. Tea 16 firm and a fair business is done.
There were comparatively small offerings
of China at public sales. The finest Indian
sorts at auction sold slightly dearer. Coffee
is unsettled, and prices occasionally favored
bu3*ers. The Netherlands Company’s sale
went at from X cent to 1cents under
valuation. Good ordinary Java is quoted
at about 39)^ cents. Stocks at the chief
European ports show an important decrease
for August. Deliveries keep steady and
moderate, prices appear likely to restore
confidence. Rice is auiet ana featureless.
The few cargoes whicn have arrived off the
coast have been sold at barely previous
prices. Beet sugar, of the new crop, sold
for delivery rather under last rates. The
market for cane sugar on the spot is Inac
tive. Several cargoes have been sold In the
United Kingdom ports. Dry reiiued and
French loaves are rather dearer, while pep
per is in speculative demand at slight im
provement. Black is firm at last rates.
Cloves recovered part of recent decline.
Cochin ginger slightly lower.
The Manchester Guardian, In its commer
cial column, says : “The market continues
quiet, without sign of improvement. The
hardening tendency in the cotton market
has no apparent effect. Producers as a rule
are verv willing to sell at Tuesday’s
rates. Yarns are especially dull. There
is exceedingly little inquiry for Xudia
goods, and orders in the market for China
are freauently accompanied by limits little
below the lowest rates at which it is possi
ble to buy. The home trade is unimproved,
but buyers In the various departments ex
press themselves hopefully in regard to
business.
A leading grain circular says: “There has
been more general steadiness in the grain
trade, and less disposition of sellers to make
further concessions. Many of the wheat
markets are firmer, though still lacking
activity. The number of cargoes at calling
ports was reduced to thirteen, which were
steadily held. On the spot aud in neighboring
markets since Tuesday there was a mode
rate br.sinees in wheat at full currencies of
that di.y. Corn was quiet, and unchanged.”
To day’s market was thinly attended with
a quiet tone,and there was a moderately good
consumptive demand. Tuesday’s prices
ar* repeated for wheat. Flour is inactive
and unchanged. For corn there was a
restrictive inquiry, and it barely realized
the currencies of Tuesday.
New York, September 10.—The stock
market opened firm and advanced from
to % per cent., but subsequently fell oil
from Y to 1^4 per cent., the latter Kansas
and Texas. During the afternoon there
was a firmer feeling and an Improvement
of from Y to % per cent, was recorded. In
late dealings, speculation was very irregu
lar,and the market closed unsettled at a frac
tional reaction from the late advance. Trans
actions aggregated 245,000 shares, including
Delaware, Lackawanna anil Western, 30,700:
Delaware aud Hudson, 3,500; Erie, 28,600;
Hannibal and St. Joseph, 6,300; Kansas and
Texas, 20,000; Lake Shore, 10,400: Louisville
and Nashville, 1,100; Michigan Central, 4,-
800; Manhattan, 5,000; Northwest, 10,600;
New Jersey Central, 13.000; Ohio and Mis
sissippi, 6,800; Pacific Mail, 14.000; St. Paul
and Omaha, 4,500; Union Pacific, 5,000; Wa
bash and Pacific, 10,000; Western Union,
7,500.
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.
Panama Wants a Navy—The Central*
American Republics More Inclined
to Peace—A Peru-Bolivian Con
federation.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Panama, September 1.—Congress passed
a law, June 27th last, authorizing the es
tablishment of a national navy, and em
powering the Executive at once to proceed
to procure necessary vessels for the service,
both on the Atlantic and Pacific. One
million dollars is set apart for necessary
immediate purchases, and one million per
annum is appropriated uulcss Congress
should determine otherwise.
News from the different republics of Cen
tral America is more favorable to peace. A
decree has been published by Gautemala
exempting the New Orleans and Balize
Steamship Company from the payment of
tonnage and anchorage dues.
El Ftruana, the Peruvian official newspa
per, says the project of a Peru Bolivia con
federation has been unanimously and enthu
siastically accepted by the people
without distinction of political par
ties, classes or social condition. As
soon as the executive power presented
the protocol of June to the National
Assembly united in Lopaz, they hastened to
name a commission of twelve of their most
important members in order to pass their
opinion on them.
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
Surrender of Two Hundred Slonx—
More Expected to Surrender—Sit
ting Bull’s Followers Leaving lilm.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Chicago, September 10.—The following
was received at headquarters here to-day :
‘St. Paul, Mikn., September 9.—To the Ad
jutant of the Military Division of the Missouri,
Chiccu/o, J’lir-ois: The commanding
officer at Fort Keogh reports a big raid and
two hundred Sioux Indians surrendered at
that post yesterday.
“[Signed] Terrt,
“Department Commander.”
The general opinion at headquarters is that
the remainder of the Indians, being tired of
roaming about and fighting,will shortly sur
render, and that Sitting Bull will find him
self without any following.
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
Convention to Discuss the Develop
ment of the Mississippi Valley.
By Telegraph to the Momina News
St. Louis, September 10.—Gov. Phelps
has appointed the following gentlemen as
delegates for ihe State at large to the State
Convention to be held at New Orleans, Oc
tober 13tb, for the purpose of discussing the
uestion of the Mississippi river, and the
eyelopment of the commerce of the Mis
sissippi valley; Wm. Hyde, managing editor
of the Republican, Josh McCullough, man
aging editor of Uie Globe-Democrat, J. R.
Cundiff, proprietor of the Times, Carl Dae-
nezer, proprietor of the Anzieger des Westerns,
A. S. Mitchell, proprietor of tbe Standard.
Cities and commercial bodies are also to be
reprseented In the convention.
Congressional Nominations.
Louisville, Ky., September 10.—The
Democrats of the Tenth district renomi
nated E. C. Phistir for re-election to Con
gress.
Oswego, N. Y., September 10.—The Re
publican Congressional Convention of the
’vrenty-fourth district, held at Oneida to
day, renominated Joseph Mason, of Madi
son county.
The Arkansas Debt Repudiation
Amendment Adopted.
Chicago, September Ip.—The Journal's
correspondent from Little Rock, Arkansas,
states that the debt repudiation amendment
to the State constitution is adopted by sev
eral thousand majority. The reverse was
previously reported.
The enormous sale of Dr. Bull’s Cough
Syrup has had the effect of bringing out
numerous similar remedies; but the people
are not so easily Induced to make a trial of
the new article, when they value the old
and reliable one—Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup,
sepll-lt
THE SEAHAM HORROR.
THE SAD RESULTS OF THE CA
TASTROPHE.
Seventy-Six Widows and Two Hun
dred and Eighty-Four Orphans—
One Hundred and Sixty-Two Men
and Boys Missing—The Number
Known to be Killed One Hundred
aud Forty-Seven-A Clue to the
Origin of the Fire.
POLITICAL MEETING IN TATT
NALL COUNTY.
The Action of the Majority of the
Convention Indorsed—Tattnall
will give Colquitt More thau a
Two-Thirds Msjority.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
London, September 10.—The explosion
in the Seahan coal mine made seventy-six
widows and two hundred and eighty-four
orphans. A large proportion of the victims
were single men. A dispatch from Seaham
says: “At 2 o’clock this morning, the first
of the victims of the disaster were brought
up from the mine. Before all the bodies
could be removed, the fire again broke out
and was not extinguished until 7 o’clock.
One hundred and thirty is the lowest
estimate of the dead, and it Is estimated
that four hundred horses aDd ponies are in
the mine. The bodies of twelve men which
have been brought up are frightfully dis
figured. There are eleven more bodies
near the pit shaft. It «vlll J>e some time
before the bodies can be recovered, and
some may never be found,as they are buried
under the debris of the explosion. Another
fire has commenced in No. 3 shaft at the
ventilating furnace. This will delay ex
plorations.
A dispatch from Seaham compiles a list,
from which it appears that 162 men and
boys are missing. The latest official state
ment places the number of killed at 147.
A broken Dary safety lamp has been
brought up from the main seam, aud it is
believed it will throw some light on the
origin of the disaster.
THE FIRE RECORD.
Destruction of Tobacco Works in
Louisville—Large Quantities of To
bacco Burned—Steam Flour Mills
Destroyed—Rurulugofau Elevator.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Louisville, September 10.—At 2:30 this
morning a fire broke out in Finzers Bros,
tobacco works, the contents being highly
combustible. The engines failed to eheck
the flames, and a brick building five stories
high, was burned out in half an hour. It was
filled with leaf tobacco, and a lare quantity
of manufactured plug was stored in other
parts of the building. Several sharp
explosions from the bursting of barrels
tilled with gasoline were heard during the
fire. N. Finzer6tated that the establishment,
as it stood, was worth upwards of $100,000,
but he could not say how much stock was
In the house. He tnought. however, there
was somewhere between $60,000 and $100,-
000. The Insurance was $62,000 or $72,000
Several small buildings adjoining were
burned, involving a loss of $10,000.
Charleston, S. C., September 10.—A fire
last night destroyed Quackenbosh’s Steam
Flour Mill, No. 126 and 1*28 East Bay street.
The loss is about $14,000. The building was
insured for $5,000 and stock $4,500.
Jersey City, N. J., September 10.—The
large floating grain elevator “Scotia,” of the
International Elevator Comp iny, laying at
the Red Star dock, foot of Grand street,
took lire this morning and burnt to the wa
ter’s edge. Loss $30,000; fully insured.
Perry’s Mills, Ga.. September 8.—Editor
Morning News: On Monday, September 6, a
very large gathering of the citizens of
Tattnall county was had in Reidsville.
Resolutions indorsing the action of
the majority of the Atlanta Convention, and
indorsing Georgia’s worthy son. Governor A.
H. Colquitt, were offered to the assemblage,
and I feel safe in sa3'ing there were not twenty-
five voted against the resolutions. They were
carried (the resolutions) enthusiastically. The
voice of Tattnall spoke loudly that day.
To-morrow Hon. R E. Lester and others are
to address the citizens in Reidsville. and while
our people admire Colonel Lester, there is a
princ pie involved in the whole matter that is
greater to us than personal friendship. I am
sorry so many good men are carried away, and
I fear are influenced by personal considera
tions. This should not be. Colquitt will get
three-fourths of Tattnall county. 8.
ANOTHER STEAMER FOUNDEItED
A Carso Valued at $112,000 De
stroyed.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Boston, September 10.—A private dis
patch received heTe dated St. John, N. F.,
states that the British steamer Anglia. Capt.
Garvle, from Boston, Septemper 2d, for
London, foundered at sea on the 6th inst.
All hands were saved. The vessel and cargo
is a total loss. The cargo consisted of three
hundred and thirty-eight live cattle, grain,
provisions, etc. The whole Is valued at
$112,000. The cattle were insured in Cana
da. No particulars of the disaster have
been received.
Long Island Races.
SnEEPHEAD Bay, L. I., September 10.—
The weather is pleasant and the attendance
fair. The track was rather heavy. In the
Jxmg Island St. Ledger stakes, for a mile
and three quarters, Luke Blackburn had a
walk over.
In the autumn sweepstakes for two-year-
olds, three quarters of a mile, Brambaletta
and Bonny Lizzie crossed the line, running
a dead heat for the first place, Spark, Lady
Roeeberry, Topsy and Compensation com
ing in In the order named. Time 1:22.
In the third race, free handicap sweep-
stakes, one mile and one furlong beats.
Blarney won the first heat, Krupp Gun sec
ond, Jericho third, Don Sparling fourth, Fe-
rida fifth, Turfman distanced; time 2:02Y-
Ferida won the second heat, Jericho second,
Blarney third, Krupp Gun and Don Sparling
several lengths away; time 2:04Y« Ferida
took the lead in the third heat aud was never
beaded, winning by two lengths; time2:05Y-
The fourth race, a handicap steeple chase,
short course, Disturbance won, Captain
Franklin second, Lizzie D third, Pomeroy
fourth. Time 3:52Y- Dandy fell at the
second jump, and Judith’s jockey fell off.
Vermont Election Returns.
White River Junction, Vt., September
10.—Returns have been received from two
hundred and thirty eight towns on the
Gubernatorial elc-ctioD, leaving three to be
heard from. The Congressional vote has
been received from two hundred aud thirty
towns. A clerical error was made here on
Wednesday evening in compiling the vote
for Governor in the Third district. The cor
rection of that error and numerous others,
made by sending in unofficial figures,reduces
Farnham’s msjority considerably below that
reported. Careful revision gives Farnham’6
majority at 25,182, being a Republican gain
of 1,402 over 1876. The towns to be beard
from will not increase this majority materi
ally. The town representatives are two
hundred and five Republicans and sixteen
Democrats, as far as heard from.
Mere Idle Gossip.
London. September 10.—The statement
of Herr Yarnbubler that the conclusion of
the Austro-German alliance was due to the
fact that Russia made overtures to France
for an alliance against Germany, which was
communicated to Prince Bismarck by M.
Waddington, and the further assertion of
Herr Varnbuhler that Gambetta compassed
M. Waddlngton’s overthrow for discovering
the Russian overtures, are declared by the
Republique Francaise to be mere idle gossip.
Tbe Austro-German Alliance.
Berlin, September 10.—A dispatch says ;
“Herr Yanbucler, the Intimate friend of
Bismarck, addres-ing his constituents, said:
‘The conclusion of the Austro German al
liance was due to Russia last year making
overtures to France for an alliance against
Germany, which overtures were communi
cated to Bismarck by M. Waddington.’ ”
Severe Storm In Paris.
London, September 10.—A violent storm
occurred In Paris on Wednesday. The
Cathedral Notre Dame ana the ruins of the
Palais des Thermes, built in the fourth cen
to r y by the Emperor Julian (“the Apostate”)
or by tbe Emperor Constantine Chlorus,
were strupk by lightning, but only a few
6tones were dislodged.
Bogus Doctor Maker Arrested.
Philadelphia, September 10.—A dis
patch from Port Huron, Mich., states that
a Dr. John Buchanan, bogus diploma
dealer, who was thought to have committed
suicide by drowning some weeks ago, was
arrested last night at St. Clair, Mich., and
will be brought back to Philadelphia.
Flashes from tbe Wires.
A Paris dispatch states that the death is
announced of M. Jules NIcolet, an eminent
French lawyer, at the age of 61. He had
been retained as leading counsel for the
Jesuits in their actions against the govern
ment in the courts.
A Vienna dispatch 6ays the powers have
resolved to carry out the naval demonstra
tion in Turkish waters. It is thought cer
tain that Dulcfgno will be ceded to MGnte-
negro.
Arkansas election returns are coming lp
rapidly, bqt do not vary tbp results indicated
heretofore.
The Joint Discussion.
Macon Telegraph, 8th.
An account of the tilt in this city on
Monday eight between the two candi
dates for Governor has already appeared
in these columns. Our object in allud
ing to the affair again is to record an
earnest protest against the shameful and
disgraceful treatment of Governor Col
quitt by a portion of tbe Norwood men
in the audience. After Senator Nor
wood had been patiently listened to for
an hour and a half, in a speech of the
most aggressive character, without the
slightest interruption or disturbance,
his opponent was introduced by Captain
Bacon, and began his oration. For a time
he was heard with comparative com
posure, but when the Governor began to
show the fallacy of Mr. Norwood’s state
ments by the logic of incontrovertible
facts and statistics; when one by one his
assertions were triumphantly disproven;
when he carried the war into Africa, and
mercilessly touched up the political and
war record of his antagonist—some of
the Norwood crowd could not face the
music, and deliberately set to work to
drive General Colquitt from the stand.
To accomplish this, the voice of the
speaker was drowned in a succession of
deafening yells and calls and cheers for
Norwood. Pert questions and insulting
remarks, too, were continually hurled in
his face, boon the racket was so great
that it seemed that Bedlam had been
turned loose, and the Governor, after
breasting the tumult with heroic firmness
any equanimity, was forced incontinent
ly to come to a halt.
Captain Bacon strove with all his
might, as the presiding officer of the
meeting, to restore order, but his efforts
were unavailing. In vain he cried out,
“As a Norwood man, I tell you that
such conduct will do Mr. Norwood more
barm than one hundred thousand
speeches. I entreat you to remember
that Governor Colquitt is your guest.
Have you no respect for the high office
and position of the speaker?’’ But it
was like “singing psalms to a dead
horse,” and the shouts and din continued
with increased violence. Others of Mr.
Norwood’s friends also exerted them
selves to restore order, but although
towards the close, after the Governor had
resumed, the noise was somewhat less,
yet, not for a moment was it discon
tinued. Through it all Governor Col
quitt showed the nerve and firmness of a
Spartan, and his address, despite the un
toward surroundings, was masterly and
conclusive. He is certainly a speaker of
great ability and force.
WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE ?
For the honor of our fair city we are
glad to state that the bulk of tbe inter
ruption and noise during tbe delivery of
Governor Colquitt’s speech was, for the
most part, confined to about 250 persons
huddled closely together, and who ap
peared to act in thorough concert. The
most respectable of Mr. Norwood’s
friends, like Captain Bacon, express
great chagrin and mortification at the
treatment Georgia's noble Governor re
ceived while the guest of the city aud
cdtitled to every possible courtesy and
kindness.
Nothing could have been more un
fortunate for them and the cause of the
minority candidate. The insults and
disgraceful treatment Governor Colquitt
received on the Macon hustings will win
thousands of votes for him m all the
rural districts of the State where he is
so much trusted and beloved. Already
have we beard of quite a number who
were either opposed to him or undecid
ed, but now announce their intention to
vote for Colquitt. Of all tbe arguments
in tbe world bulldozing and persecution
are the poorest.
THOSE SOUTHERN CLAIMS.
Speaker Randall Replies to Secre*
tarj Sherman.
At a Democratic mass meeting in Phila
delphia. on Friday night last. Speaker
Randall delivered a telling speech, in the
course of which he referred to the recent
assertion of Secretary Sherman, at Cin
cinnati, that a Democratic victory at the
Presidential election would bring about
the payment of Southern war claims to
an extent that would bankrupt the Unitei
States Treasury in a single year. Mr.
Randall showed that the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution declared
any claim for the loss or emancipation
of any slave shall be held illegal and
void; that the amendment has been ac
quiesced in by all the people, and that
General Hancock, in his letter of accept
ance, promises that in case of his
election the three amendments to
the Constitution growing out of
the late war shall be enforced. Mr. Ran
dall also said that the Republican party
originated all the legislation ever enact
ed into laws for the payment of claims
of this character, that the Democratic
party have always resisted the payment
of these losses, and the “Confederate
brigadiers” joined fully in this opposi
tion. The law creating the “Southern
Claims Commission” was passed by a
Republican Congress, and prior to 1876
the Republican party had actually paid
of the Southern claims more than $100,
000,000, and Senator Morton, of In
diana, in a speech made in the
United States Senate, advocated
their payment. The Committee
on War Claims in the Forty
fourth, Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Con
gresses made their payment under Demo
cratic authority practically impossible.
Mr. Tilden, four years ago, declared it
was not the purpose of his party to pay
any such claims. Senator Hill, of Geor
gia, Representative Davis, of North
Carolina, and many other Southern
statesmen have made speeches in Con
gress against the recognition by the gov
ernment of such claims, and most all the
Southern Representatives acquiesced in
their statements, for the simple reason
that most of them were jobs, and it may
be added the Southern people themselves
were not at all interested in them.
A BALL OF FIRE.
How Fire Tons of Red-Hot Metal
Jarred the Nerves ot an Ohio Vil
lage.
A Welshman was on exhibition in
London for some days as a faster. He
was to forfeit $50 for every day he
tasted food during two weeks. A w*tch
was organized, and the publio wore ad
mitted on condition of purchasing drinks.
The man made a strong attempt to carry
out liis undertaEing, but after six day's
he fell from ihe sofa in a state of coma,
and only revived when fed.
An Eloquent Description.
Few things in this stale world surpass
the following, from a Chicago Tribune
report of a phase of the Knights
Templar festival: “At this iuncture
the drum major was busy. His feet
rose and fell with the regularity of
quartz crushers, and his back was as
straight as the Garfield ticket, and his
bear skin as towering and fluffy as a cat’s
tail in spring time, and his whole person
as refulgent and superb as a Courier-
Journal sketch of Hancock, and his
gaunleted left hand glued to his hip, and
his gauntleted right hand to his staff,
sawing right and left for dear life. Then
he reached the second line of review
and prepared to salute. First he raised
the staff shoulder high and wobbled
it four times like the walking beam of
Pullman’s Corliss engine. Then he re
versed it, and gave one gilderfluke to the
right and two noadabs to the left, twirl-
the knob seven times, flung the
staff twenty feet in the air, and made a
motion as if he were going to turn a tri
ple somersault before it came down again.
Instead of this, however, he caught it
deftly, tucked it under his right arm, shot
out his left horizontally, crooked his el
bow and laid the back of his hand on his
brow, and thus paid his respects. And
he did all this with such skill, rapidity
and pride that the small boy’s shrill cry
of “O looker him, Jimmy! My eye!
don’t he look like a biled lobster nor
nothin’'.” subsided into a whisper, and
the Grand Master himself felt a secret
thrill of envy at superior power, and the
spectators dropped their chins and mop
ped their faces, and exchanged opinions,
and seemed to feel sorry that the l>e8t f
the brightest and most soul inspiring
part of the procession was soon over.”
A Storm of Flies on the Hudson.—
A storm of flies was encountered on the
Hudson river on Saturday afternoon,
similar to the one recorded in the Lon
don Telegraph as having been seen at
Havre a week or two ago. The steamer
Martin, bound south, encountered the fly
storm between New Hamburgh and
Newburgh. It was, seemingly, a great
drift of black snow, and it reached
southward from shore to shore as far as
the eye could reach. Thcj-e were mill
ions upon millions of the flies, and they
hurried northward as thick as snow
flakes driven by a strong wind. They
lodged upon the’ clothing of the passen
gers of the steamer, and were minutely
examined. . They were long and black
and had light wings, and the cloud must
have been miles in length. The steamer
Mary Powell ran into the fly storm off
Haverstraw, and First Mate Bishop
states that in all his steamboating expe
rience he never saw such a Bight.
Stanley Carver, a young man well
known in Baltimore, was to have been
married, but, though many friends con
gregated at the residence of
the youpg lady, bringing presents
to the value of several hnndred dollars,
One day during the summer of 1819
the Due de Berry,taking a walk in Paris
with his wife, was reluming towards the
Elysee when a heavy rain shower came
ou. The two promenaders took refuge
under a portc cocltere already tenanted by
a young man with the appearance of a
clerk, who had an umbrella. When the
storm had abated the Due stepped up to
the youDg fellow and asked whether he
would mind lending the umbrella. The
other was suspicious, but the Due per
sisted, aud asked its owuer whether he
would mind offering the lady his arm as
far as her residence. The clerk willingly
agreed to do so. That individual, gar
rulous by nature, soon opened a conver
sation by the query as to whether his
companion lived in the quarter they
were then in. “Quite close to here,”
replied the Duchess. “It is a splendid
quarter, Madame, plenty of luxury and
very comme il faut. In fact, it is tbe
grandes dames quarter, with nothing but
Duchesses and Marquises in it, with
their dresses all worked in gold. “Quite
so.” Just at this moment they arrived
at the Elysee, the guard, of course, pre
senting arms in due form. The pro
prietor of the umbrella was beginning to
stammer out some excuse when the
Duchess cut him short by thanking him
very heartily and stated that she would
not forget it. Before the expiration of a
week he received from his acquaintance
of the Elysee an umbrella richly adorned
with silver.
Scarcely less astonishing than Dr.
Tanner’s recent feat of fasting is the con
diiion of a young lady, the daughter of
the Mayor of Grambke, a village near
Bremen, who is said to have been fast
asleep ever since the second week in
January with the exception of a few
hours of semi-wakefuluess at intervals of
from six to eight weeks. An interesting
account of her extraordinary state is pub
lished in the Hanover Courier. It ap
pears that she lies, plunged in a profound
slumber and entirely unconscious of all
that goes on around her, night and day,
reclining on her left side, warmly cover
ed up and with a light gauze spread over
her head. Nourishment, chiefly in a
liquid form, is daily administered to her,
which she swallows without awaking for
a second. She is a pretty, slender girl,
of a pallid complexion, but she does not
lose in weight duriDg her trances of from
forty to sixty days, and when awake ex
hibits a cheerful disposition and an eager
desire to perform such small household
tasks as her strength enables her to ful
fill. Her father is a well-to do man,who
has consulted several eminent medical
men in the hope of discovering some
remedy for his daughter’s abnormal con
dition, which etails serious inconvenience
and constant anxiety upon the other
members of his family, but all efforts
hitherto made to keep the unlucky girl
awake have resulted in total failure.
A Baltimore journalist, who went into
the country to spend a vacation, hap
pened to stray into a village church,
where the clergyman was telling his
rural audience what to do to be saved.
Suddenly a colony of polecats which had
pre-empted the cellar of the building,
scattered their fragrance on the receptive
air. Never was a sleepy congregation
so instantaneously and simultaneously
aroused. The children wriggled and
giggled, the ladies betook themselves
vigorously to their fans and smelling
bottles, the men frowned and said bad
words under their breath. Even the
horses out in the churchyard pricked up
their ears, while they gave loud snorts
of disapproval, and the dogs howled
their indignation. The rector, dear good
man, never faltered. He stood at the
open window, where each successive
emission of the diabolical effluvia envel
oped him in all its original undiluted
strength. \s the highly scented waves
rolled in and struck him, he could not
restrain his convulsive gasps, but steady
ing himself by the altar rails, with a
fortitude before which the shining ex
ample of the early martyr pales, he
ceased not to call down wrath on the
evil doers.
guests, after par
taking of the feast, left for their homes.
At a repent concert \t was the subject of
remark that in what fine “voice” tbe 6lngers
were. In commending his good jndgment,
the leader will pardon us for whispering
that he always recommends Dr. Ball’s Cough
Syrup for clearing and strengthening the
voice. pepU-lt
A “pilgrimage” to Lourdes of some
000 or 8,000 people set out recently
from Paris. As early as midday the
believers in the healing powers of the
miraculous waters began to assemble in
large numbers outside the station and
formed an encampment in ihe court
yard. A large proportion of the crowd
consisted of cripples and invalids, who
arrived on crutches or were carried in on
mattresses and stretchers. The place
had the appearance of a gigantic open-air
hospital. lnva.lic|s wpre reclining all
over thp ground, innumerable women
with sickly looking babies crowded the
entrances to the station, while priests,
sisters and the organizers of the pil
grimages, wearing red crosses, flitted
about from group to group to maintain
order and to arrange for the departure of
Jhe extraordinary gathering.
While a lawyer was traveling by stage
in New York with the wife and daughter
of a General in the United States army
the young lady said to him: “I asked
pa the other day why it was that they
built the front wheel of thv wagon
smaller than the hina wheel. He said
the? buxlt it smaller so that it would run
faster than the hind wheel to keep out
of the way. Can you tell me, Mr. C\
The lawyer stammered and hiushed, and
sMd iuade It smaller so that it
would run easier and it was fashionable.
The old lady came to his relief by say
ing that it w^s not the province of the
professional gentlemen to answer ques
tions pertaining to mechanical trades.
Two Iowa boys were amusing them
selves by throwing a heavy ramrod as
high as they could. One of them met
his death by the missile descending with
the velocity of a bullet and penetrating
his head.
Cleveland Leader.
About midnight of Saturday. Caledo
nia, Marion county, was visited by a ter
rific thunderstorm, accompanied by hail
and the most vivid lightning, flash fol
lowing flash in quick succession. There
had been a political meeting here that
evening, and the people from the neigh
boring villages and surrounding country
were detained by the storm. Suddenly
the sky appeared as bright as noonday,
in fact fine print could easily have been
read, so great was the light, but strange
to say the light was steady, not flash
after flash, as it would have been had the
light been caused by lightning. A deafen
ing roar was heard, continuing to be
come louder as the light became brighter.
Gradually the roaring changed to a hiss
ing, sparkling sound. It is needless to
say the people were frightened, and, upon
running into the street, a ball of seeming
fire came moving through the air from
the northeast. The ball seemed to be at
least twenty-five feet in diameter. As it
neared the earth the heat could plainly
be felt. The body struck the earth just
north of the village and buried over one-
half of itself in the ground. Good judges
estimate the weight at three to five tons,
but the heat is yet so great that it is un
comfortable to go nearer than thirty or
forty feet. It looks like a mass of pig
iron. It was visited by hundreds yester
day. The gentleman who owns the land
on which it fell has been offered $300
for it.
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with Cuticura Shaving Soap.
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A girl was found nailed to a plank, so
that she could move neither hands nor
feet, and floating on the Y'angtse river,
in China. Beside her was the head of a
Buddhist priest, and some coins. An
inscription said: “This money is pio-
vided for her coffin when she is dead.”
She belonged to a wealthy family, and
her two brothers, petty mandarins, used
this cruel treatment because she married
the priest whose head was on the plank
with her.
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TUTT’S
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER.
Loss of Appetite. Nsoso*. bowulsoostire.
?(^5etjui!j"wTtTra gull seru^je^Tm
ofbody
Pain
cTmaoo^^xOTtion ofbody or mind,
memory^wTtEaiSEn^o?EAvTng^Sectea
somu^iat^wesrineMjjDiEzjSSiTFiut^EL
in a: at tho Heart^l^otTTe?oretS^^yesT
Ye|WskiD L JatAache. Kestisssneaa si
IF THESE WARMINGS ARE UNHEEDED,
SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED.
TUTT’8 FILLS are especially adapted to
•uch eases, on* dose effects such a chase*
Of feel ins ■» **tonl«h the ■ujfem.
A Noted Divine says:
Dr. TUTT:—Dssr Sir; For ten yesn Ih*v* tea
s m*rtyr to Dynpep*)*, Oonatipition sadPU**. LMfe
Bprinc your Pill* w«r* raocmnwiwUil; I used them.
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body to Take *n Flesh, thus the system u
Bosrlshe J, and by their Tonlo Action on the
DIsestive Orient, Bernier Stools erepro-
dneed. Price 88 ccnt^, 811 Msrray fft-> n Tt
TUTP5 HAIOfE.
G*eT Haul p* Wmkxss chenced to e OcoeeT
Bnecx by e dne£ epplioetioo of thU Dr*. It 1m-
pert* e Neturel Color, ecte Inatenteneooely. Sold
by Drocziete, or wot by expreee on reoeipt 0/(1,
Offioe, 35 Murray St, New York.
mylS Tu,Th,S?y
JSostrttfr’iS fitters.
KOSTETTERJ
Fitters
Though Shaking Like an Aspen
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With the’chills and fever, the victim of mala
ria may still recover by using this celebrated
specific, which not only breaks up the most
aggravated attacks, but prevents their recur
rence. It is infinitely preferable to quinine,
not only because it doea the business far more
thorouglJy, but also on account of its perfect
wholeeomeness and invigorating action upon
the entire system.
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers gener
ally. sep2-Th.8,«tTuwlm
fpfrtarUiS.
DIAMOND SPECTACLES.
T HESE Spectacles are manufactured from
I “MINUTE CRYSTAL PEBBLES” melted
together, and are called DIAMOND on account
of their hardness and brilliancy.
Having been tested with the polariscope, the
diamond lenses have been found to admit flf-
Iteen per cent, less heated rays than any other
I pebble. They are ground with great scientific
accuracy, are free from ohromatic aberra
tions, and produce a brightness and distinctness
of vision qot before attained in spectacles.
Manufactured by the Spencer Optical Manu
facturing Company, New York.
For sale by responsible agents in every city
in the Union. F. D. JORDAN, Jeweler and
Optician, Ls Sole Aeonl for Savannah, Ga., from
whom they orjy be obtained. No peddlers
empioyej. Do not buy a pair unless you see
the trade mark mhl6-Tu.Th.S&wly
Do You Want Specks ?
^pHE
TA<
near and far
pockets.
largest and best assortment of SPEC
lCLES in^the^ckjp. Single glasses to see
; suit all eyes and a’l
P. LINDEN8TRUTH,
22 Jefferses street.
Sartwss, ftr.
E. L. NEIDLIN GER
DEALER IN
Saddles, Bridles and Harness.
Bugsy Harness
Of all descriptions.
ADDLES,
English and American, Northern and Home
manufacture.
Trunks and Traveling Bags,
RUBBER AND LEATHER BELTING.
Prices as low as the lowest. C. O. D. orders
carefully filled.
E. L. NELDLINGER,
^ 150 St. Julian and 153 Bryan street
2 Prizes of
$2,500
5 Prizes of
-. 1,000
20 Prizes of
500
100 Prizes of
.. 100
200 Prizes of
50
500 Prizes of
20
1,000 Prizes of
10
Take Notice!
This is the only Lottery ever voted on by the
people of a State, and under a late decision of
the U. S. Supreme Court at Washington, is the
only Legal Lottery now in the United States, all
other charters having been repealed or having
no existence.
\ SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN ▲
lA FORTUNE. NINTH GRAND DISTRI
BUTION, CLA88 I. AT NEW ORLEANS,
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 14th. 1380—124th
Monthly Drawing.
Louisiana State Lottery Comply
This institution was regularly Incorporated
by the Legislature of the State for Educational
and Charitable purposes in 1868, for the term of
Twenty-Jive Years, to which contract the invio
lable faith ot the State is pledged, which pledge
has been renewed by an overwhelming popu
lar vote, securing its franchise in the new con
stitution adopted December 2d, A. U. 1878, with
a capital of 91,000,000, to which it has since
added a reserve fund of over $350,000. Its Gkand
Single Number Distribution will take place
monthly, on the SECOND TUESDAY. It never
scales or postpones. Look at the following
Distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE, $30,000
100,000 Tickets at Two Dollars Each.
Half Tickets, One Dollar.
LIST OF PRIZES.
1 Capital Prize $30,000
• 10,000
5,000
5,080
5,000
10,000
. 10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Prizes of.. $*.<0.... 2,700
9 Approximation Prizes of.. 200.... l.SUO
9 Approximation Prizes of.. 100 ... *00
L857 Prizes, amounting to $110,400
Responsible corresponding agents wanted at
all points, to whom liberal compensation will
bervaid.
Write, clearly stating full address, for further
Information, or send orders by express, or in a
registered letter, or money order, by mad, ad
dressed only to
5L A DAUPHIN.
New Orleans, La., or same person at No. 319
Broadway, New York, or
JNO. B. FERNANDEZ.
Savannah. Ga.
All our Grand Extraordinary Drawings are
under the supervision and management of
Gznerals G. T. BEAUREGARD and JUBAL
A EARLY. augl 1-W.S.wATeMw
===24th===
POPULAR MONTHLY DRAWING OF THE
Commonwealth Distribution Co.
AT MACAULEY’3 THEATRE,
In the City of Louisville, on
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30,1880.
THESE DRAWINGS, AUTHORIZED BY
THE LEGISLATURE AND SUSTAINED BY
THE COURTS OF KENTUCKY, will occur
regularly on the LAST DAY OF EVERY
MONTH, Sundays and Fridays excepted, for
the period of FtYE YEARS.
The United States Circuit Court on March 31
rendered the following decisions:
1st -THAT THE COMMONWEALTH DIS
TRIBUTION COMPANY IS LEGAL
2d—ITS DRAWINGS ARE FAIR.
N. B.—This company has now on hand a
large surplus reserve fund. Read the list of
prizes for the
SEPTEMBER DRAWING,
1 Prize $ 30,000
1 Prize 10,000
1 Prize 5,009
10 Prizes, $1,000 each 10,000
20 Prizes, 500 eacb 10,000
100 Prizes, 100 each 10,000
200 Prizes, 50 each 10,000
600 Prizes, 20 each 12,000
1,000 Prizes, 10 each 10,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Prizes, 300 each 2,700
9 Prizes, 200 each 1,800
9 Prizes, 100 each 900
1,960 Prizes 112,400
Whole tickets, $2; Half Tickets, $1; 27 Tickets,
$50: 55 Tickets, $100.
Remit by Post Office Money order. Registered
Letter, Bank Draft or Express.
To insure against mistakes or delays, cor
respondents will please write their names and
places of residence plainly, giving number of
Post Office box or street, and town, county and
State.
All communications connected with the Dis
tribution and orders for tickets should be ad
dressed to R. M. BOARDMAN, Courier-Journal
Building, Louisville, Ky.. or 307 and 309 Bread-
way, New York. JNO. B. FERNANDEZ,
Agent, Savannah, Ga. aug31 Tu,Th,SJLw4w
Jiuramer (goods.
PORCELAIN LINED, BLACK WALNUT
WATER COOLERS,
HIP AND SPONGE
BATH TUBS,
HARPER’S
F1 y Traps,
WATERING POTS,
ROUND AND OVAL
Wire Dish Covers.
FOR SALE BY
OORffiCK HOPKINS,
my4-tf
167 BROUGHTON 8TRXXT,
AGATE-IRON
WATER COOLERS
—AT-
CRAWFORD & LOVELL’S
HARDWARE HOUSE,
155 BROUGHTON STREET.
&br;ad.
* * N °
o v
11, IB,
Winns, &x
Pure Blackberry Wine & Brandy
FOR SAKE AT
Ii. C. STRONG’S Drug Store,
JySS-tf Cor. Bull and Perry street lace