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Georgia Affairs.
A party of three colored men were fishing
week near Long Island when the boat up-
-t. 7woof the party succeeded in reaching
bore, but the third was drowned. The Bruns-
, Advertiser has not been able to learn his
The Brunswick Advertiser says there is no
ndurtry now taking hold of the mind of the
pie of that section more thau that of the
Lit i vat ion of upland rice. It thinks there is
,1-obably more money in it than any other
•roj) except svamp or tide-water rice.
The St. Simon's correspondent of the Bruns-
*-irlc Advertiser writes that Colonel Fremont,
,• the United States Engineer Department, has
L n , r-.gaged for the past few days in sur-
,, ving Jekyl creek for the purpose of obtain-
nj^an appropriation for dredging the same,
rh . \ ill expedite very materially the transit
: steamers through the creek.
It is stated that the people of Clayton county
Ln- indigna t over the verdict of “not guilty”
,, i , j,,. case of the State vs. Samuel B. Cook, one
of i e alleged participants in the recent infa
mous Clayton ccunty outrage. They are still
^■incensed over the affair, and many be
lt despite the verdict Cook is not inno
cent. The result will lie that the other prison
ers confined in the county jail on the same
, i:ar^e will have a fair and impartial, but thor
ough and searching trial, and if not clearly in-
mcent will be punished.
The 1 homasville Times is of the opinion that
there is one spot at auy rate where Cclquitt
an 1 Norwood men can meet in perfect harmo
ny uud unity of sentiment, and that is at the
circus.
The Atlanta Constitution publishes a long
a count of the difficulty between Dr. J. G.
Westmoreland and Mr. Julius I. Brown in that
city, and shows how' it w'as that the hostile
meeting arranged between them was pre
vented. It seems that Dr. Westmoreland,
afi"r his arre*t, gave $5,000 bond to keep the
peace, but left for the field in spite of his bond.
After this, Mr. Brown was arrested just as he
was about leaving the city, and Judge Tanner,
to prevent his following Dr. Westmoreland’s
example, placed him under a bond of $25,000
that lie keep the peace, and not leave the State
for a hostile meeting. This effectually put a
s‘op to the duel. S^xid Bar Ferry, near Augus
ta, had been selected as the meeting place
Before the duel was arranged for Hon. B. H‘
Hill and Col. G. W. Adair made every effort to
adjust the differences between the two gentle-
men, but without effect. Col. I. C. Avery was
the second of Mr. brown, and Mr. Howard
Williams that of Dr. Westmoreland.
The trial of J. M. Walker, who, some months
op), shot and killed Mr. Mansfield, his rival for
the Mayoralty of Jonesboro, was concluded on
Friday last. The jury brought in a verdict of
not guilty, it having been shown by the evidence
that the dee 1 was committed in self-defense.
Mr. J. D. Alexander has sold out his in
terest in the Griffin News to Mr. C. A. Niles,
ami will go into another line of business. The
fourth estate will bid him adieu w'ith great
regret. Mr. J. I. Miller, formerly of Atlanta,
has also purchased a halt interest in the paper.
The Grifiln News says: “The great tide of
cotton that is now beginning to flow into this
town, is very encouraging as an indication of a
prosperous season Our cottou men and banks
find their time fully occupied in moving the
incoming crop.”
The Darien Gazette reports but four vesse’s
in that port at present, and says there have
been no arrivals for several weeks. The fol
lowing are the Gazette's timber quotations for
last week: “Square—fOO average, S7 50&8 00;
7average, $8 V0a9 50; SOOavarage, $9 50a20 50;
SOO average, $10 50all 50; 1.000 average, $11 00a
1 - 1,100 average. $12 00al3 50; 1,200 average,
ial 1 00. Scab—300 average, $7 00a8 00 ; 400
&' erage, $S C0a9 00 ; 500 average, $9 OOalO 50;
Gtrn average, $10 OOall 00.
A number of prominent citizens of Darien
have published a card strongly opposing the
abolition of the present system of governing
that eity by Commissioners, and re-establish
ing the old system of Mayor and Aldermen.
The Tribune is of the opinion that rents in
Rome are too high, and that unless they are
reduced the city's interests will be materially
affected.
A number of j ourneymen barbers in Colum
bus propose to strike for a change in their
wages after October 1st. They want a slid
ing scale established, by which they will be
recompensed for their labor in proportion to
the business done by the shops in which they
are employed.
General A. R. Lawton spoke at LaGrange
last 1 hurt day in the interest of Mr. Norwood.
A special to the Columbus Times says that the
attendance on the occasion was not large, as
not more than seventy-five or eighty persons
were present. The General also spoke at Lex
ington, Oglethorpe county, on Friday.
Mr. Robert L. Bass, an old and esteemed
citizen cf Columbus, died at the Perry House
in that eity last Thursday morning. He was
sixty-one years of age, ard, with the exception
of one year that he lived in Macon, has been
a resident of Columbus since 1841.
Thn Atlanta Constitution says that last Fri-
dav Mr. John McIntyre, who lives seven miles
* r ;hi the city on the Flat Shoals road, was in
Atlanta and engaged three men to go home
with him and pick cotton. The men were June
Luffin. John Coppage and Bud Broom. The
; Ir left Atlanta together, but when six miles
from tin* city. near Sugar creek, on the Flat
road, the men put into execution a
robbery which bears all the marks of having
br- n de iberately planned. At the place men-
Mr McIntyre was struck on the head
»ed down; a member of the party
while a third held a
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
ceeded iu obtaining, was the prime incentive,
which led Benjamin Franklin Brimberry into
the folds of office bestow era/’
The Athens Banner is jubilant over the pros
pects of Georgia. It says: “The State of
Georgia and the South generally have now be
fore Aem a better promise of prosperity than
they have had since 1860. The cotton crop, in
spite of the increasing difficulties which attend
free labor, has been growing larger from year
to year, and yet the price has not decreased in
proportion. This year, the fleecy staple has
come to maturity two or three weeks earlier
than usual, and if the frosty weather should
be delayed as it was last year, an immense
crop will be gathered. From present prospects,
it is going to bring fair prices, and a large crop,
with fair prices, wifi give the Southern people
the grandest impulse towards permanent pros
perity that they have had since the disasters
of war came upon them With the prosperity
of the planters comes prosperity to all others,
and everywhere signs of this are to be seen.
Men are getting out of debt, and are having
surplus money to educate their children, im
prove their homes, and give their families
more of the comforts and advantages of life.
Altogether, the outlook is cheering. Let us
thank God and take courage.”
The St. Simon's correspondent of the Bruns
wick Advertiser writes that paper that ‘last
week the island was full of droves of beautiful
little birds, the name of which seems to be un
known. We are told that for many years they
have been recognized as the very first advance
guard of the large droves of birds going South
at the end of summer. These beautiful little
harbingers seem to be so exceedingly sensitive
in their delicate organization as to render them
eminently befitting barometers,betokening afar
off the very first breath of sear autumn. They
are beautifully striped, longitudinally, with
alternate layers of black and white, and about
the size of the tomtit. They stopped with us a
few days, seemed busy feeding upon insects on
the trees, and their exit was as quiet and sud
den as their coming.”
“A gentleman of this city,*’ says the Macon
Herald, “who had occasion to go in the country
Friday, informs us of a remarkable sight that
met his eyes—being the first time he ever saw
it. Two negroes were seen in a field picking
cotton and holding an umbrella over them
selves. The novelty of picking cotton under an
umbrella is something refreshing. What will
negro labor do next?”
The Rome Daily tells of an outrageous act
recently perpetrated by some villain who would
be adorning the Dade county mine-if he had
his deserts. It says : “Wednesday evening
about seven o'clock, as the west bound train on
the Western and Atlantic Railroad was going
at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, some
villain threw a rock at the tram which shatter
ed both the glass and window. Mrs. M. A. Ne-
vin and her little daugh er, of our city, were
returning home on the same train, r ud if it had
not been that the force of the rock was spent
in breaking the glass and window, one of
them would have been seriously, if not fatally
hurt. Before any one exactly knew what had
happened, the train had gone so far i hat the
dastardly coward, who evidently had some
enemy on board, was out of sight. If caught,
he should be punished most severely.”
Rome Tribune: “A most distressing death
occurred in the city Friday. It seems that Mr.
James A. Thomas, a ***nt of Cincinnati,
has been suffering with c ->nsuoij>tj on f or some
years, and several daL?. t p° left home to
visit his brother. Col. V • J- M. Thomas, a cot
ton merchant of Rome. H e arrived in the cit3*
at half-past eleven o’cl ock Friday, and in an
hour he breathed his la.-L This sad death will
be received with regret by the many friends of
the family in Georgia.”
Augusta Chronicle: “For two or three days
it has been whispered about that a robbery
had been committed about the post office.
Several boxes were found with glasses broken,
indicating that entries had been forced frcin
the outside, and important mail matter taken
out. The boxes of the Commercial Bank, of
Mr. Z. McCord, ar.d other large establishments,
we hear, have been rifled, and checks taken
out of letters. Mail matter has been found in
different parts of the city, giving evidence of
the depredators, but as yet no clue has been
obtained. Detectives are at work.”
and ;
caiuibr and choked him,
tma* in readiness in case c
curing fifty-four dollars, the robbers beat a
nast >’ -'' treat, having been frightened by an
?PP r ' whing wagon. Mr. McIntyre was not
ourt much out surrendered when he saw that
f^i'iinee was useless The robbery occurred
on f the principal highways leading into
' ' at ten o'clock in the day time, and is
a F*-*ce of remarkably bold rascality. Two of
m* men. June Ruffin and John Coppage, were
arreste-i that night and are now confined in the
station house.
t!ie Thomasville Times: “We regret
, ,UUc P to learn that I>r. Hitch, of Brooks
ounty. has announced himself as an inde-
1 : ‘“.candidate fer the Senate against Mr.
but h - ^ r - H*tck is a clever gentleman,
«i Lr *i S wr0D S now—badly wrong. We un-
that lie expects to receive the sup-
U'f ; tlu ‘ Colquitt men in the race. He may
hir V<? support in Brooks, but we put
un and his friends on notice now that the
tl ' ; nien in Thomas are going to support
;' regular nominee, Mr. Denmark. We have
our 1 '' 11 ' State politics from
’ r e. unty m-itters. and we intend to
- i me in Senatorial matters. We have
‘™ IPe trouble to interview a number of
* Colquitt men and find that they
^ the idea of supporting Dr. Hitch or any
ri-endent. It is not the style of Thomas
eanH-J 1>em Hiracy. With a prominent colored
ateth*' W m fi*^d for the Sen-
ev - n V reoo ^ nize tlle vital importance of
n ■' Ut? rnocrat standing by the regular nomi-
n.-^hey are going to do it. If Mr. Den-
Thom«^d^ eate< ^ brooks county will do it. not
B to the Radical nomination of Mr.
dUiHr.- r l mberry tor Congress in the Second
. Ti ct - l he Albany News and Advertiser says:
pr,; ‘ “Oniination of B. F. Brimberry for Con-
dav ' y , tlle Republican Convention yester-
- only one of the many blunders com-
. tea hy the Republican party in Georgia of
h^.nV, ars w ®Aker white man couJd have
i n h jP‘ ;lce d in the field. There is just enough
sufp !n 10 make Democrats active, and an in-
“ m amount of consistent Radicalism to
i-C" activity on the part of Republicans.
nu f-rry s participation in the Camilla riot
th*- vt course « be brought prominently before
tu-eil j °* colored men, upon whom he en-
a . d L -l ,en d® for support. His hot-headed
da® ““compromising Democracy in the early
tnV- i- ^construction, and sudden change
mv*m a }j sn ^ nee( j ex plana tion, and it will
ane* - cu lt ta «k to explain aw.tv that erriev-
Jn « thing is quite certain, Mr. Brim-
DoihL cannot control the colored vote of
berJrt i rty c° n ®ty. He is too well remem-
livin® i***' There are those among them yet
Cimiii . ° tasted Brimberry's Democracy at
„ , ‘ 1 * n ’68. and who have sufficient intelli-
p ° know and understand that no love of
du<*"f ublican party could possibly have in-
i.nf * s su daen change from Democracy;
wui u.at greed for office, which he has sue-
Democratic Meeting in Liberty
County.
Hinksvillk, September 15.—Pursuant to a
call made by Wm. Hughes, Etq, Chairman
Democratic Executive Committee, a large con
course of citizens assembled this day at the
Court House, and, on motion, Hon. Ben Darsey
was unanimously elected Chairmau, and J. O.
Davis, Jr., requested to act as Secretary.
On motion of T. W. Winn, Esq , a committee
of five were appointed to draft rules for the
government of the meeting. The Chair ap
pointed the following committee, to-wit: Hon
Jno. L. Harden, H. C. Parker, T. W. Winn, Jas.
Townsend and F. J. Delk.
The meeting took a recess for the purpose of
raising a Hancock and English flag and hearing
an address from Capt. S. D. Brad well, our can
didate for elector from this district.
After the address the Committee on Rules
reported through their Chairman the follow
ing: That upon deliberation they recommend
the adoption of Cushing's Manual with Rob
erts’ rules of order, and the following addi
tional rules:
1. All speeches, save on a question of privi-
lige, be limited to fifteen minutes.
2. On all rules not provided for by the fore
going, viz: Cushing’s Manual and Rules of Or
der, the rules of the House of Representatives
shall obtain.
On motion the. citizens present unanimously
resolved themselves into a Hancock and
English Club.
By resolution the two-thirds rule was adopted
by a very small majority.
After a recess or a few minutes, Gov. A. H.
Colquitt was introduced,and for more than two
hours spoke to an immense audience, who
showed their appreciation of him by their
frequent applause.
Mr. W. M. Garrard being introduced made a
lengthy address to a portion of the citizens
ana was greeted with applause.
The Chairman of the Senatorial Convention
reported that they had nominated Mr. W. R.
Gigniliiat, Sr., as the Senatorial standard
bearer, which was ratified by this meeting.
On motion it was resolved that we go into a
nomination, and by resolution the Chairman
appointed the following committee to select a
candidate for the Legislature, to-wit: F. J.
Delk, J. A. Smiley, A. B. Daniel. J. M. Darsey.
D. A. Smiley, W. Hughes, W. Delk. T. J Har
rington, W. A. Kennedy, J. Axtell. F. J. Chap
man. H. S. Andrews, and J. S. Blount.
The committee retired, and in a few minutes
reported, through their Chairman, that Dr A.
B. Daniel was the unanimous choice for Rep
resentative, which was received with great
applause, and, on motion, the meeting ratified
the nomination.
On motion, Hon. John C. Nicholls was unani
mously indorsed for re-election to Congress,
and the thanks of the meeting tendered Capt.
Brad well for his eloquent address, and the pro
ceedings of this meeting requested to be pub
lished in the Savannah Morsisg Ntws. Savan
nah Recorder and Hinesvi'le Gazette.
Bexj. Darsey, Chairman.
J. O. Davis, Jr., Secretary.
IMPORTANT POSTAL ORDER
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE
LOTTERIES.
Lottery Dealers Excluded from tlie
flails—Order of Asuistaut Post*
master Hazcn In Reference to
Kentucky Lotteries—The Grounds
on Which His Action Is Based-
Prospect of a Legal Fight.
TROUBLE IN BUENOS AYRES.
The National Troops Eject the mem
bers from the Legislative Hall
No Disturbance—The Wheat Pros
pect.
By Telegraph to the Mornina News.
London, September 18.—Buenos Ayres
advices to 24th August, received by way of
Lisbon, are as follows: “On 21st August the
national troops entered the Provincial
Chambers and ejected the members of the
Chamber of Deputies at the point of the
bayonet, posted double sentinels at the
doors, and closed the Legislature by order
of the National Government. A
great crowd of people collected
on the street, bnt there was
no disturbance. The Senators and Depu
ties adjourned to the Municipal Hall and
issued a manifesto to the people, which
failed to elicit any manifestation of popular
feellDg. The city remains quiet. Munici
pal and provincial affairs are administered
by General Bustillor, ou behalf of the Na
tional Government.
The weather is fine and there is an excel
lent prospect for a wheat harvest.
Political Nolen.
Schenectady, N. Y., September 18 —
Hon. George We6t, of Balaton, has been
nominated for Congress by the Republicans
of the Twentieth district.
Memphis, Tenn., September IS.—Colonel
Thos. A. Hamilton ha6 announced himself
as an independent Republican candidate
for Congress from this district. The regu
lar Republican Convention to make a nom
ination will meet at LaGrange on Monday.
St. Louis, September IS.—CoL Macbeth
has withdrawn as the Republican candidate
for Congress in the 8ixth district. This
leaves Waddell (Democrat) and Hazeltine
(Republican Greenbecker) in the field.
Buffalo, September 18.—non. H. V.
Pierce, Representative in Congress from
this district, has resigned.
Milford, Pa., September 18.—At a Demo
cratic primary election here to-day Hon. G.
H. Rowland, ex State Senator, was elected
for the nomination to Congress from Pike
county, in the Eleventh district.
Greensboro, N. C., September 18.—Col.
J. R. Wiaston, whose candidacy was for
some time in doubt, has announced his de
termination to run for Congress ;n the Fifth
district as a candidate of the Greenback
party.
Tlie Coming Trotter.
Chicago, September IS.—At the Jockey
Club Park to-day, Maud S. trotted a mile in
2:10%; the first quarter in 34 second?, the
half in 1:04%, three-quarters in 1:36 and
the mile in 2:10%, carrying two pounds
over weight and ln the face of a strong
wind.
A prominent merchant of Holly Springs,
Miss., writes under date of November 19,
1S7T; “Tutt's Pills are doing mighty won
ders in this State, and are becoming more
popular every day. Their sale exceeds that
of every other pill combined. They are
peculiarly adapted to malarial diseases, and
all our physicians prescribe them In their
practice. L H. Axiiey.’*
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Washington, September 18.—Third Post
master General Hazen to day issued an or
der intended to exclude from the mails all
registered letters and letters containing pos
tal money orders addressed to several firms,
alleged to be engaged in conducting fraudu
lent lotteries at Louisville and Covington,
Ky., and New York city. The order
is prefaced with the following
citations from legal decialons, and
opinions bearing upon the question, and
also with the reasons assigned tor issuing it :
“Whereas, The Supreme Court of the
United States, in deciding the case of John
B. Stone et. al., vs. the State of Mississippi,
declared that the contracts which the Fed
eral Constitution protects are those which
relate to property rights, and not to
government rights. Lotteries belong
to the latter class; they are a
species of gambling, and wrong in their
influence: they disturb the checks and
balances of a well ordered community.
Society built on such foundation would
almost of necessity bring forth a population
of speculators and gamblers, living on the
expectation of what chance might award
them from the accumulations of others.
Certainly the right to 6top them is a govern
mental right, and to be exercised at all
times by tbo?e in power at their
discretion. Any one, therefore, who
accepts a lottery charter does so
with the Implied understanding that
the people, In their sovereign capacity and
through their properly constituted authori
ties, may take it back at any time when the
public good shall require, and this whether
It be paid for or not. He gets in legal effect
nothing more than a license to continue on
terms named for a specified time, unless
sooner abrogated by the sovereign power
of the State. It is a permit good as
azainst existing laws, but subject
to future legislation or withdrawal;
and whereas, the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, by an act en
titled an act to repeal all laws granting loi-
teiy privileges, or franchises to any person
or corporation, approved March 30, 1878,
enacted that all acts and parts of acts of the
General Assembly of this commonwealth,
containing any grants or lottery privilege, or
franchise, be and the same are hereby re
pealed, so far as they relate to such grants;
and, whereas.the Hon. P. W. Hardin, Attor
ney General for the State of Kentucky, in
response to an inquiry from the Post Office
Inspectors, states in a communication dated
Frankfort, Ky., August 24, 1880, as follows:
‘In response to the first question, as to
whether the so-called Kentucky Lottery and
the Commonwealth Distribution Company
are legally chartered, and have they any le
gal standing, I answer emphatically
no.’ Now, therefore, It having been
represented to me that R. M. Boardman,
at the Courier-Journal building, Louisville,
and 309 Broadway, New York, and T. J.
Commerford, 212 Broadway, New York,
and W. Porter, 127 Broadway, New York,
are engaged in conducting a fraudulent
lottery, to wit: ‘The Commonwealth Dis
tribution Company,’ and that M. J..Rich
mond, of Covington, Ky., and G. Upping-
ton, No. 599 Broadway, New York, are
engaged in conducting fraudulent lotteries
to wit: ‘The Kentucky State Lottery,’
and, being satisfied from the evidence be"
fore me that the said parties are so engaged,
and that 6aid Commonwealth Distribution
Company and Kentucky State Lottery are
each a fraudulent lottery for the distribution
of money by lot, chance or drawing, and are
each a scheme and device for obtaining
money through the mails by means
of false and fraudulent pretences,
representations and promise?, I do
hereby forbid the payment by
Postmasters at Louisville, Kv., Covington,
Ky., and New York, N. Y., of any postal
money order drawn to the order of said
persons, or either of them, or to either of
said lottery companies.”
The order also instructs Postmas
ters at Louisville, Covington and
New York to return all registered let
ters which shall arrive at their offices direct
ed to these parties to the Postmaster at the
offices at which they originated, with the
word “fraudulent” plainly stamped upon
the outside of such letter.
THE PORTE’S TROUBLES.
The Protest Astalimt the Naval
Demonstration—KIza Panha’s Re
turn to Scutari—Dulclgno Occupied
by the Alhanians-The TurkiMh
Troop* Expelled—Vice Admiral
Seymour Demand* a Categorical
Aumver in Regard to the Surren
der oi Dulciguo.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
London, September 18.—A Constantino
ple dispatch says: “In the protest against
the naval demonstration, telegraphed to
the Turkish diplomatic representatives
abroad on the 16th instant, the Porte fur
ther asks the powers to guarantee that the
naval demonstration shall not take place if
Dulcigno is surrendered. The note em
bodying the foregeing has been com
municated verbal’y to the Ambassadors of
the European powers here.”
A Vienna dispatch says: “Riza Pasha, the
Turkish commander, has, it is reported,
returned to Scutari. This certainly does
not open the prospect for the immediate
surrender of Dulcigno.”
A dispatch from Rigusa to Reuter’s Tele
gram Company says: “ Eight thousand
Albanians have occupied the town and
fortress of Dulcigno, expelling two bat
talions of Turkish troops, who formed the
garrison. Rizi Pasha, the Turkish com
mander, not haviDg received instructions
from the Porte to oppose the Albanians by
force, withdrew to Gcviza.”
British Vice Admiral Seymour, yesterday,
sent a letter to Riza Pasha, who was to be
at Scutari to-day. It is asserted that the
letter requires a definitive categorical reply
in regard to the surrender of Dulcigno to
the Montenegrins.
THE LATEST COTTON RETURNS.
NECROLOGY.
Death of the Associate Judge of the
Supreme Court of Alabama—De
mise ol tlie Lord Chief Baron of
the Court of the Exchequer. Eng
land.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
New Orleans, September 18.—A dispatch
from New York announces the death in that
city, last night, of Judge A. R. Manning,
Associate Judge of the Supreme Conrt of
Alabama, nis remains will be interred at
Perth Amboy, N. J., the Judge’s old home
stead.
London, September 18.—The Right Hon.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Lord Chief Baron of |the
Court of the Exchequer, died at Brighton
yesterday. The deceased was born in Lon
don in 1796.
Norwich, Ct., September 19.—Hon. La
fayette S. Foster, formerly President of the
Senate, and acting Vice President of the
United States, died here this morning after
a brief Illness.
THE PANVPRESBTTEBIAN COUN
CIL.
Report* from the Several States—
The General Condition of the Crop
—Damage from Worm* In Some
Portions-The Average Ifteld.
Bv Telegraph to the Morning Newt.
New Orleans, September 18.—The
Democrat publishes to-day morning tele
graphic reports from fifty-two central points
in the cotton districts of Alabama, Arkan
sas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Geor
gia, Tennessee and Texas, giving the con
dition of the cotton crop up to September
17:
Louisiana.—Returns from twelve parishes
report favorable weather In all but one.
Six report rotting of the boll and decreased
yield in consequence. Four report labor
sufficient for the cotton likely to open, and
one reports it deficient. Two estimate the
yield at half a bale per acre,
and one reports half as much
as last year, and one a change since last re
port. The boll worm has made Its appear
ance in four and caterpillar in one. In
several places the weather has improved
during the last two or three days.
Arkansas.—Returns from four districts re
ceived show the crop has been damaged by
rain in three. Half a crop is estimated in
one-, labor scarce in two and plenty in one.
The crop Is opening well in one, and pick
ing going ahead well in one. The yield is
half a bale to the acre in one county, two-
thirds in one, three-fourths of a crop iu one
and one third ln another.
Mississippi.—Returns from seven points
report fine weather since last report, and
five report unfavorable. Some reports com
plain of losses from rain equal to from 20 to
35 per cent. One estimates the yield at five
hundred pounds to the acre, one at one
thousand, and one at a bale to four acres,
lacking has progressed well lu two, and is
retarded in two by rain. Labor is in de
mand. Two report the forms shedding in
one county.
Alabama.—Returns have been received
from nine dietrlcts. Three report the con
dition of the crop unchanged 6iuce last re
port. Five report favorable weather, four
unfavorable and two bad weather early in
the week, but improved 6ince. One esti
mates one third of a crop, one two-thirds,
one three-fourths aDd one one-half. Worms
have appeared at three points, in one of
which they have inflicted little or no dam
age. One reports labor scarce, and four la
bor sufficient. Five report picking good,
four damaged by storm, and in one cotton
Is opening well.
Texas.—Reports are received from six dis
tricts. Excessive rains are reported in five,
and fair weather ln one. Disasters by
worms are reported from three counties,
and no worms in one. The prospects are
not so good in one, about the same ln one
as last week, and one reports no change.
Georgia —Reports from two districts have
been received, in both of which worms have
inflicted serious damage, with the loss of
half a crop In one and 10 per cent, in the
other. One reports too much rain, and the
other the crop opening rapidly and two days
earlier than last year. The change is general
in Northern Georgia and Alabama.
Florida.—Returns from two points show
no change in one and more favorable
weather in the other section. The incom
ing cotton generally shows the effects of the
late storm.
Tennessee.—Reports indicate favorable
weather and cotton opening rapidly, with
sufficient labor. The estimated product is
four hundred pounds per acre.
MARKETS,
FORIEGN AND
MESTIC.
DO
English MLoney inarket—Stocks De
pressed in Consequence of the
Movement of the European Fleet
—The New York Stock Market—A
Day of Fluctuations.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
London, September 18.—The Economist
this week says: “The rate of discount for
bank bills at three months is 2% per cent,
and for trade bills at three months 2% per
cent. Stocks, with a few marked excep
tions, have been irregular, with trilling fluc
tuations. The movement of the European
fleet in the Adriatic cause uneasiness and
distrust and a feeling of depression, which
the Continent Bourses ehare. American
securities are lower on New York advices.
Home railways were weakened by adverse
traffic returns. Bank shares, foreign mines
and water companies’ stocks are higher.”
New York, 8epteihher 18.—The stock
market opened firm, and in the early deal
ings the general list advanced % to 1 per
cent., but subsequently declined % to 2%
per cent., Western Union and Iron Moun
tain showing the most weakness. During
the afternoon an advance of % to 2% per
cent, was recorded, except in Ohio
and Mississippi, which fell off 1
but at the close there was a reaction of
per cent. Nashville and Chatta
nooga declined 5% per cent, early In the
day, recovered 2 per cent, and closed at a
reaction of 1 per ctnt. Transactions aggre
gated 138,230 sharep, including Erie 16,900,
Hannibal and St. Joseph 12,600, Kansas and
Texas 2,800, Lake Shore 59,000, Lake Erie
and Western 7,500, Nashville and Chatta
nooga 23,000, Ohio and Mobile 26,600, 8t.
Paul 9,800, Wabash and Pacific 16,400,
Western Union 11,200.
THREATENED LABOR TROUBLES
IN OHIO.
Preparation* lor Meeting in Phila
delphia—Interesting Programme
for the Occasion.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Philadelphia, September 18.—All the
arrangements have been completed for the
meeting of the Pan-Presbyterian Council,
which commences in this city on Thursday
next, the 23d instant, to continue until Sat
urday, October 2d. The programme for the
government of the Council has been
prepared, and will consist of three
sessions each, morning, afternoon and
evening. The regular sessions of the Council
will be held ln Horticultural Hall,and about
three hundred delegates are expected to
attend from all parts of the world. During
the sessions of the Council, a meeting will
be held in the ball of the Young Men’s
Christian Association on Tuesday, Septem
ber 20th, at which, addresses will be given
Id the German language.
The popular prejudice against proprietary
{remedies has long since been conquered by
the marvelous success of such a remedy as
Dr. Bull’s Cough 8yrup. Used everywhere
by everybody. Price 25 cents. sep20-lt
Republican Ohio Down on Negro
Laborer*—A Mob of Miner* to
Drive the Negroe* from Work—The
Governor and Adjutant General
Appealed to.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Columbus, September IS.—Governor Fos
ter and Adjutant General Gibson this after
noon received telegrams from parties at
Corning, Perry county, 6tatlng that they
feared serious trouble might occur there
during the night by reason of an attempt
being made by a mob of over one thousand
miiiers from Straitsville and Shawnee to
drive the colored miners away from that
locality. The operators have armed the
colored miners and propose to protect their
property if possible. In case of a regular
call fcy the proper officials troops will be
6ent to Corning.
THE MAINE ELECTION.
AClo*e Contest— Plalstcd’* Plurality
118, Under Certain Contingencies
—Six Fusion Town* to be Heard
From.
THE FRENCH CABINET.
THE CRISIS SOLVED BT THE
RESIGNATION OF PREMIER
DE FREYCIXCT.
Resale of a Cabinet Council—Three
Ministers Withdraw their Resig
nations—Premier de Freyclnct
Formally Reslgus—The Religious
Decree* to be Enforced—Letter to
the Archbishops.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Portland, Me., September 18.—Four
hundred and ninety-seven towns give Davis
73,416, Plaisted 73,000, scattering 338; Davis’
plurality 416. Six towns to hear from gave
last year Davis 61, Smith 27, Garcelon 201;
Fusion plurality of 167. Deducting that
Davis will have a plurality of 249, which Is
89 short of a majority, supposing there are
no further gains or losses.
Boston, September 19.—A special to the
Hergld last evening from Portland 6ays :
“The latest returns received at Democratic
headquarters from four hundred and nine
ty-six towns give Plaisted 73,493 and pavis
73,542. Six towns are to be heard froqa
which gave in 1S79 a Fusion majority of
167. The returns will give Plaisted a
plurality of 118 if the towns to be heard
from vote as they did last year.”
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Paris, September 18.—The Rapj>d states
that a circular will short)}' be addressed to
the various unauthorized religious congre
gations, requiring them to submit them
selves to the provisions of the March de
crees. At this morning’s meeting of the
Ministerial Council M. Constans, Minister
of the Interior and of Worship, M. Caseout,
Keeper of the Seals and Minister of Justice,
and General Farre, Minister of War, ten
dered their resignations. A second meet
ing of the Council will he held at the
Palace of the Elysee, nnder President Gre-
vy, this afternoon.
The second meeting of the Council at the
Ualace of the EJy6ee this afternoon lasted
from three until half-past six o’clock. All
the Ministers were present, including those
who bad tendered their resignation. An
agreement was arrived at by which the
Ministerial crisis has been adjusted. The
following is said to be the basis on which
harmony was restored: M. Constans retains
full liberty of action regarding the
March decrees, which he will execute
at the time and in the manner he considers
most suitable, without other delay than is
required to give the Prefects the necessary
instructions. The official journal of to
morrow will contain a letter from M. Con-
staas to the three Archbishops, stating that
the declaration signed by the religious con
fraternities cannot take the place of the
demand for the legal authorization pre
scribed bv the March decrees. The Minis
terial crisis being averted, President Grevy
will return to Jura to-morrow.
The letter of M. Constans, Minister of
the Interior and Worship to the Archbishops,
declining to accept the declaration signed
by the religious confraternities as a substi
tute for the demand for authorization, says:
“The government willingly takes note of
the resolution manifested in the de
claration to disclaim any solidarity
with political parties or passions, but as
regards the hope expressed bv the declara
tion, that the government would allow the
communities to continue the work iu which
they are engaged, he declares that the
object of the second decree of M irch 29,
was precisely to put an end to the toleration
which the communities desire to see main
tained, and to substitute for It a return to
the legal state of things.
The Ministerial crisis recommenced
this morning, because of the diverg
ence of views between M. de Freyclnct
and M. Constans, relative to the application
of the religious decrees. President Grevy
has again been obliged to postpone his de
parture for Jura, and will preside at a Cabi
net Council to be held at 3 o’clock this af
ternoon.
The La France states that Premier de
Freycinet has definitely tendered his resig
nation.
Paris, September 19.—M. Jules Ferry has
been charged by President Grevy with the
formation of a new Cabinet. M. De Frey-
cinct has sent the following letter to Presi
dent Grevy:
“After mature reflection, I have come
to the conclusion that the Cabi
net cannot be reconstituted as it
stood yesterday. There are serious
doubts of its duration. Between sev
eral of my colleagues and myself
there exist divergences of opinion which
leave no room for the hope that accord may
be maintained, even at the cost of mutual
concessious. Such a state of things, If
prolonged, would be Injurious to the in-
teres a and tranquillity of the country. Be
lieving that my retirement will offer the
most prompt means of solving the crisis, I
beg you to accept my resignation.”
President Grevy, on receiving this letter,
summoned M. de Freyclnct, and in conjunc
tion with several other Ministers, tried to
induce him to recall his resigna
tion, hut M. de Freyclnct refused,
and President Grevy finally accepted the
resignation. Soon after, Ministers Con
stans, Cazot and Farro had a long conver
sation with President Grevy. Ultimately,
M. Jules Ferry Was charged with the forma
tion of a Cabinet. Regarding this sud
den change in the position of
affairs since Saturday, when the dif
ferences of opiniou between M. de Freyclnct
and his colleagues appeared to he compro
mised, It has transpired that M. de Frey-
cinct had a further consultation with Minis
ters Constans and Cazot, during which it
became manifest that the agreement, which
was established at the Cabinet
council, was unreal, and that the diver
gence of views between M. de Freyclnct
and his colleagues was Irreconcilable. The
Soir says M. Jules Ferry has already offered
the Ministry of Marine to Admiral Pothuan.
Several papers consider that the Cabinet
crisis will necessitate an early assembling of
the Chambers.
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
Preliminary Sessions of Congress-
Railroad Concessions—Confession
of an Assassin—General Diaz Co be
Premier of the Cabinet—Mexican
Advance in Parliamentary Dis
cipline.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Havana, September 18.—The German
mail steamer from V'era Cruz brings advices
from the City of Mexico to the 10th. Presi
dent Diaz has finally settled the propositions
for railway concessions. He will concede
the road to the Pacific coast to the Palmer
party; the road to El Paso to the Simon
party, and the road to Laredo, with
a branch from San Luis Potosi to
Tampico, to the Southern Pacific
Railway Company. This arrangement
has caused much dissatisfaction among the
various railway interests. General Palmer
wanted the road to El Paso for a connec
tion with the Denver Road. The Vera Cruz
Railroad Company Is greatly excited, be
cause the Tampico branch will cut off half
of their business. The arrangement may
still be changed, a6 President Dlax has not
yet signed the papers.
The assassin of Wm. H. Greenwood, for
merly chief engineer of the Denver liail-
road,hus confessed his guilt, but the motive
for the crime remains undiscovered.
The Revolutionists under Ramieriez were
badlv defeated in Sinaloa on the 6th inst.
The people of the whole country believe
that if another revolution were attempted,
its success will be possible.
Rumors that General Diaz will be Premier
of the Cabinet of the incoming President
Gongales, have gratified the people, because
It would ensure the perpetuation of peace.
The preliminary sessions of congress have
A LIVELY CAMPAIGN IN PENN
SYLVAN I A.
General B. F. Butler's Speech at
Pittsburg—Tbe Failure of Hayes'
Administration — Tbe Pennsylva*
nia Ploppers—Telegram from Gen<
eral Hancock.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Pittsburg, September 18.—Gen. Benja
min F. Butler and Col. John W. Forney
arrived in this city this afternoon. Paul J
Carson, ex-Deputy Sheriff, together with
number of other colored men, called upon
Gen. Butler, who, In response to a speech
by Mr. Carson, 6ald he had done nothing
but what he conceived to be his duty ln
a war which was not begun for the
emancipation of slaves, because, as all
would remember, at the first proclamation
of President Lincoln the troops were called
out to retake and repossess the United
States of property which had been seized
from them,and to execute the laws. After
reviewing his career from 1860 to 1865, he
continued : “For the sixteen years since the
war I have acted with the Republican party
in the hope that they would extend that
protection to the colored men of the South
that I deemed ought to be done. I tried to
f et it done in Congress, but it was not done.
fought ln the campaign for Hayes ln 1876
under the promises of the platform and the
party leaders that it should be done, and
what is the result? The very first act of
Hayes’ administration was to turn over the
States of Louisiana and South Carolina,
where it was claimed that there were Re
publican governments elected by negro
votes, or else Hayes was not elected. Hi
gave the governments so elected over to the
Democrats, and from that hour, for four
years, not one thing has been attempted
to be done in behalf of
colored men, nor indeed anybody else.
There has been, It is true, a little attempt to
stop the Illicit distilling of whisky and
brandy In the South, and a few men have
been caught and let go, and some men have
been killed by the lawless distillers, and
their murderers have not been punished, so
that there has not been proper protection
for the men who live down there.
That being so, in the best interests of
the South and the best interests of the col
ored men, I propose to have a change,
the Republican party cannot provide this
protection in sixteen years, I do not propose
to allow them twenty. General Hancock
ha? said that he will enforce the 13th, 14th
and 15th amendments in their letter and
spirit, and nobody who knows him will
doubt that he will stand by
if elected and given the power,
nobody dcubts that the Democratic party
will have the power to protect the negro If
they get into power, and their leader has
said he will do so. I propose to try this
experiment for four years, and then, if the
Democrats cannot do better than Hayes has
done, I shall turn round and help kick
them out at the end of four years. One
Thing is certain, I cannot be more power
less during the next four years to give col
ored men proper protection, than I and
every other man has been iu the past.”
At the Republican Floppers meeting, held
Here to night, the following telegram from
General Hancock was read:
New York, September 18. — To
General A. L. Dearson, Diltsburg: I have
not had time to answer by mail your letter
of the 14th Inst. The occasion you write
about will be of special interest. The com
position of your meeting will Indicate that
the remains of sectionalism and bit
terness are to be buried; that
living issues are to be grappled with, and
that we have a growing party covering all
sections and embodying harmony, freedom
of opinion and fair expression through the
ballot box.
“(Signed) - W. 8. Hancock.
The Runslau Tekke Expedition*.
St. Petersburg, September 19.—The
Golos, referring to the secrecy maintained in
regard to the objects of the Tekke ex
peditions, says: “That in view of
England’s change of policy, the execu
tion of Russia’s Intention in regard to
Mero is no longer necessary. It will
only be necessary to keep a part of the
steppe as a warning to the Tekkes In the
future.” The.article concludes ae follows
“Enough of victories and annexations ! Let
Russia devote herself to internal develop
rnents.”
An Attempted Assassination.
Jersey City, N. J., September 19.—This
morning before daylight, as Christian Rob
erts and Wm. Redder were walking down
Jackson street, Hoboken, they heard a shot
gun discharged, and at the same time
felt that they had been shot t
Roberts in the back and Redder in the legs.
They saw a man running away, and sub6e
quentlv Anatole Brache was arrested and
identified as the person who did the shoot
ing. No cause Is assigned for the act.
Servian Brigands Invade Hungarian
Territory.
Belgrade, September 10.—A band of 300
Servian brigands has crossed to the Hun
garian side of the Danube. A battalion of
troops has been ordered to bar their way
toward the interior. Much alarm is felt
among the traders of Western Servia, be
cause of the recent large increase of bands
of robbers.
Destructive Fire lu Las Vegas.
Denver, Col., September 19.—A fire at
East La6 Vegas on Saturday afternoon de
stroyed a whole block, including nearly half
of tbe business portion of the town. About
500 people are rendered homeless. The loss
is estimated at $200,000, nearly all of which
is heavily insured.
Another Sea Horror.
London, September 19.—The steamer Au
rora, from Oporto bound for Southampton,
has foundered at sea. Fifty persons were
drowned.
The Monitor Jtepublwano attributes this
pacific tendency to the advance the Mexi
cans have made In parliamentary discipline,
and to the postponement of debate upon
the double credentials given by the Spates
of Jalisco, Zacatecas and.Vera Ciuz, which
will create serious questions.
AVeather Indications.
Office Chief Signal Orsbrveb, Wash
ington, September 10.^Indications for Mon
day :
In the Middle States, southerly to west
erly winds, partly cloudy weather, and lo
cal rains, with slight fall in temperature and
stationary or slowly falling barometer.
In the South Atlantic 8tates, partly
cloudy weather, southeast and south to
west winds, with slight changes ln tempera
ture and barometer.
In the Eastern Gulf States, partly cloudy
weather and slight variable winds, slight
changes in b&rometes^md slight fall in tem
perature.
In the West Gulf States, southerly
winds, shifting to north and ea6t, partly
cloudy weather, and areas of rain, slight
rise in barometer and stationary or; slight
fall In temperature.
In’.Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy weather and areas of rain, south
west to northwest winds,lower temperature,
and slight fall followed by rising; barome
ter.
|t is asserted that Misses Kellogg, Abbott,
Oates and our other famous songstresses
manage to keep their voices clear by the U6e
of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup. Price 35 cents
a bottle, sep'^O-lt
THE LABOR qUESTION IN ENG
LAND,
Short Time Movement in Oldham—
The Lancashire Strike Condemned
at Manchester—The Operative*
Firm in their Stand*
By Telegraph to the Morping News.
London, September IS.—Some Oldham
mills will commence the short time move
ment on Monday. Fresh adhesions to the
movement continue. The maximum work
ing time will be four days per week.
Manchester, September 13. — Public
opinion here generally condemns the strike
of the operatives. The resolutions adopted
by the Central Committee of the Masters
Association yesterday refusing the offer of
the Wages Committee of the Lancashire
Weavers’ Association for the arbitration of
the wages dispute, that in a short time will
be adopted,etc.,will be submitted to a gener
al meeting of the trade on Tuesday next for
confirmation. The AccrlDgton operatives
are paying a levy of two pence per loom to
the fund for the support of the 6trike. The
payments are made readily, and the leaders
of the strike are confident of success.
Fire ln Nashville.
Nashville, Tenn., September 19.—A. F.
& E. T. Noel’s grain and flour warehouses
was destroyed by tire to-day, with 1,000
bushels of flour, 6,000 bushels of wheat, and
a large number of 6acks, two car loads of
wheat, two mules and four trotting horses.
The loss is $30,000; insurance $15,500.
Mr. Norcross’ Attack on the Colored
People.
Atlanta Constitution.
It is impossible to account for the rest
lessness of Mr. Jonathan Norcross. Not
content with the failure of his effort to
organize a white Republican party in
Georgia, to be composed, as he said, of
men who had refused to vote cjn account
of their prejudices against the colored
people—not satisfied with the rebuff he
received in the recent Republican Con
vention—he has now issued an address
to the Republicans of Georgia. It is a
very ponderous and elaborate document,
and its preparation must have cost Mr.
Norcross considerable pains. It is
a credit to his industry and patience, and
likewise to his perseverance, though he
certainly must be aware that his publi
cation will hqye not the slightest eltect
upon any colored voter ip the State.
Mr. Norcross sets forth the informa?
tion that all reforms are brought about
by minorities, and apparently to prove
, - , - . this refers to tbe election of Dr. Felton.
been held peacably, contrary to expect.,, Emory g peer and Mr Stephens _ j t ^
been heretofore supposed that these gen
tlemen were elected bv a majority or^the
people, but it seems there is some mis
take about the matter. We have no time
to review the labored essay of Mr. Nor
cross, nor is it necessary; but w^ dc
desire to call the atteutipa v*f intelligent
colored people to the statement made by
Mr. Novpross to the effect that, in hi»
op nion, some of the negro leaders have
been bribed and bought “by the Colquitt
party.” They have sold themselves out,
Mr. Norcross says, for a mess of pottage.
“Mark such men well,” he continues.
“Mark how they smell Look well at
their fine clothes.' 1 The logic of this is
that negroes who wear decent clothes,
and support Colquitt, are bought and
bribed. At any rate they are offensive
to Mr. Norcross’ olfactories.
No * Mr. Norcross cannot conceal his
prejudices against the negroes. There is
no greater Bourbon in the State than he,
and a colored man who is intelligent
enough to know hjs duty as a citizen
—who is intelligent enough to know that
Governor Colquitt represents the pro
gressive Democracy of the State- is offen
sive to Mr. Norcross in the iast degree.
“Mfirk how they smell!” A colored man
who is perfectly sure of his own interests,
and who will not allow himself to be ledj
as heretofore, by designing white Repub
licans, is in Mr. Norcross 1 eyes, capable
of being bought and sold like sheep in
the shambles. Jery well. Let Mr. Nor
cross proceed with his campaign. We
propose to notice it only for the oqrpcme
of defending the colored people against
tbe unnepesary and unjustifiable attacks
which he seems disposed to make upon
theqi.
Nervous debility, weakness and decline
prevented by a timely use of Malt Bitters.
EVICTION IN IRELAND.
An Exciting: Episode Iu tbe Recent
Troubles.
The New York Times ha3 the follow
ing very interesting story from Dublin of
the progress and result of a noted Irish
eviction:
Dmi.ix, Aug. 28.—There is not in any
of Charles Lever’s rollicking fictions of
Irish life and character anything more
thoroughly racy of the soil than is to be
found in the facts which bring to an end
a remarkable chapter in the strange,
eventful story of the Ireland of to-day.
It is the stirring story of the Kilburry
eviction.
The scene of this true tale of life in
Ireland, in this year of grace, is laid, very
appropriately, in a romantic Tipperary
valley. Here, ou a large farm, dwelt
the Meagher family, of the respectable
farming class. Representatives of this
family had been in tbe place for genera
tions as tenants holding a lease. Things
went on comfortably with them until the
hard times came. The rent fell into
arrear year by year; the landlord was
pressing for his money; the tenant could
not or would not give it; then the land
lord wanted his land, and this the tenant
resolutely refused to yield. Now a
fierce struggle commenced for the po
ssession of the land. The owner bad
the power of the law on his side, and the
tenant had popular spmpathy ami practi
cal support on his. The landlord brought
his forces on tbe ground m the shape of
the Sheriff, bciliffs and police. The
tenant garrisoned his house with neigh
bors, and barricaded it so securely that
£Ee small legal force dare not attempt to
take the place by storm. The Sheriff
discreetly retired from the field. The
Kilburry contest had now attracted the
attention of the landlords and tenants
throughout the country. It was regarded
as a test case, and accordingly was
watched with excited interest by the two
classes now face to face in open war.
Here was a landlord who couldn’t get
either rent or land; here was a tenant
who defied the law and the landlord.
A second descent was made on the
tenement house in the rich vale under the
shadow of Slievenamon. This time a
powerful force of police invested the
place, and a resident Magistrate came
out with the riot act in his pocket. The
garrison in the house was likewise a large
one; a determined crowd of men and
women was there armed with all kinds
of weapons from a revolver to a rolling-
pin, and for the purpose of harassing the
enemy there was a large supply of boil
ing water on the premises. The Sheriff
knocked at the door and demanded
possession in the name of her most
gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria. A
shower of boiling water from an upper
window answered him in the negative in
a very practical fashion. Then the resi
dent Magistrate rode to the fortress with
the riot act in his hand, ready for read
ing, and called upon the garrison to sur
render, or take the consequences, which
he warned them would be serious. The
garrison, represented by a young peasant
in a flannel jacket, appeared at a window,
said something unparliamentary about
the riot act, and told the Magistrate to
take the place if he was able. Two scal
ing parties were told to attempt to effect
an entrance through the windows, front
and rear, while the main body of the
forces battered at the doors with the
butts of their rifles. The scaling parties
found it hot work between boiling water
and bludgeons, and pitchforks, pokers,
scythes and reaping hooks. A dozen con
stables took a long ladder and rushing at
the hall door with it as a battering ram
made a breach in the outworks, through
which the invading force swarmed. The
garrison retreated up stairs and made a
stand on the first lauding; driven from
there they retreated to the next landing
and there made another obstinate stand.
By this time one of the scaling parties
succeeded in entering through a back
window, and the end of the tight was
that the garrison was overpowered and
made prisoners of war. They were hand
cuffed and led away captives.
Now the indignation meetings set in.
Fierce demonstrations were held in the
neighborhood, at which a solemn vow
was made that the farm from which
Meagher was evicted should be allowed
to lie waste until he was restored to its
possession. It was thoroughly under
stood that the man who would take that
farm or work on it in any way for the
benefit of the landlord or himself, would
do so at the risk Qf his life. No man
took that risk. As soon as Meagher, his
wife and retainers were liberated on bail
to take their trial at the ensuing assizes, a
band of men, armed, accompanied him
to the old home at night, expelled the
care keeper who was put in charge, hav
ing previously sworn him not to under
take that sort of work any more, and
reinstated Meagher in possession, swear
ing him to hold it against all comers.
Here now was the landlord exactly in
position in which he found himself at the
commencement of hostilities. Again the
landlord put the legal machinery at work
for the purpose of again expe’lling this
terrible tenant. Blood was up to fever
heat on both sides now. The farm-house
was put in condition within and without,
to resist a prolonged siege; it was amply
provisioned, and was garrisoned bv a
band of braves that threw themselves
heart and soul into the work. The crops
on the farm were now ripe and needed
cutting, One bright moonlight, night a
swarm of peasantry came on the ground,
and the next day, as if by magic, that
farm was bare; the crops had been cut
down by hundreds of reaping hooks and
scythes and carried away to neighboring
barns. This extraordinary harvesting
feat was, of course, accomplished in the
interest of the tenant who was fighting
his landlord.
If a novelist were writing on imaginary
incidents like these, he would find it
absolutely necessary to wind up with a
tragedy. There wouldn’t seem to be any
other natural way out of it. If he had
the literary daring to make all these des
perate doings end up, not in a fierce and
fatal fight for that fame, but in a jolly
drinking bout on tbe spot, by the con
tending forces, at which the landlord and
the Sheriff and the resident Magistrate
anti police were ‘‘toasted*’ in champagne,
he would surely be censured by the
critics for constructing an outrageously
improbable denouement. Yet this and
much more was what really did happen.
It came about in t^U way. "through the
instnimept H lUy of the friends of the land-
iofd ana tenant a treaty of peace was
signed on the following terms:
One of the two years rent due hy the
tenant to be forgiven< the annual refit of
the fsrih ti) be permanently reduced from
i512 to £400 per annum^ the landlord to
expend £'300 on guoh improvement in
drainage as the tenant may determine on.
The tenant appears to have the better of
the peace compact, which probably the
landlord was induced to accept on the
principle of “anything for a quiet life.”
The chapter in this remarkable
di-acqa is the strange one. The scene is
laid in the same farm house in the rich
Tipperary v^Rey. The dramatis persona
aje as before—the tenant, his wife, and
liia followers; the Sheriff, the agent, the
Magistrate, and the police. This time,
however, the Sheriff and his forces are
not scaling the walls of the besieged
dwelling or battering at its barricaded
doors. Tney are seated in the bost parlor
at the hospitable board of the tenant, on
which a champagne luncheon is spread.
Mrs. Meagher, the tenant’s wife, is doing
the honors of the house, supported at
the foot of the table by her husband.
This party, ao very strangely mixed, is
gathered to celebrate the treaty of peace
above mentioned. They have a good
time of it. Instead of the crack of the
rifle there is heard the pleasant popping
of champagne corks. Everybody’s
health is drank in sparkling wine and
there is much spontaneous speechifying.
The tenant proposes the health of the
landlord; the agent responds in suitable
terms and then rises and proposes the
health of the hostess and the host. The
letter, visibly affected, expresses ac
knowledgment for his wife and himself.
The tenant asks tne company to drink in
bumpers to the health of the Sheriff—
the man who had the boiling water
thrown over him. The Sheriff, a gush
ing little man. with his hand pressed to
his left ribs, protests that he is now enjoy
ing tbe happiest moment of his life.
Special bumpers are swallowed in com
pliment to the Magistrate and the police.
When the feast was ended a local brass
band escorted the guests to the railway
station.
Bloody Shooting Affair iu Missouri.
A fatal shooting scrape took place in
front of the court house at Farmington.
Missouri, ou Mouday, in which MeMul-
lin, Sheriff, and Henry Horn, a noted
desperado, were the participants. There
appears to have been an old fued be
tween them, arising out of the frequent
arrests of Horn for violations of the law.
It is said that Horn came to town with
the avowed intention of killing the Sher
iff, for he expressed as much to several
parties. He also tried to shoot another
man at the fair grounds and was only
prevented from doiDg so by the interfer
ence of friends. The facts of the homi
cide are as follows: McMullm and Horn
were standing on the sidewalk on Maiu
street. Horn was a little under the in
fluence of liquor and McMullin was try
ing to get him to desist in the
use of obscene and abusive language.
Horn then started across the street, say
ing something and pulling his pistol at
the same time. McMullin followed about
five steps and Horn had crossed about
two-thirds of the street, when he sud
denly turned, taking deliberate aim at
McMullin, who immediately brought his
pistol in position. Horn then fired, strik
ing McMullin n ar the nipple on the
right side. McMullin returned the fire,
hitting Horn’s little finger, who fired an
other shot, strikiug McMullin in the ab
domen. McMullin fired again, striking
Horn just below the nipple, but fortu
nately for him his suspender buckle
kept the ball from penetrating
his body. Had it met no obsta
cle, Horn would have been no
more. Horn fired again, missing Me
Mullin entirely. McMullin then shot
him through the thigh. Horn fell, and
raided his pistol to shoot again, but see
ing his adversary on his feet ready to
give another shot, he threw up his pis
tol, saying: “I give up: I am dying,
whereupon McMullin stood over him.
saying; “Y'ou have also done the work
for me.” McMullin then walked off
»nd would have fallen had not his friends
assisted him to his home. McMullin
will die. The sympathy of the commu
nity is with our Sheriff, who was killed
in the discharge cf his duty. He is
about sixty years of age, and leaves an
interesting family to mourn his loss.
Horn is in jail.
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MY I3IPORTATIONS OF
A GREAT FENIAN CRUISER
A Wonderful Invention lor Destroy
ing tlie Brltisli Navy.
Many months age Mr. Holland, a
teacher at St. John’s school, in Pater
son, N. J., began to construct a subma
rine boat. He selected an isolated spot
on the Passaic river above the falls to
prosecute his work unmolested. The
news was soon circulated al>out the
neighborhood of what the schoolmaster
was doing, and many curious persons
visited the spot. But nothing could be
learned about the boat, and the school
master would give no information. The
construction of the boat was continued,
and experiments were made with it,
but no one witnessed either except a
few close-mouthed persons, among whom
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mitted that he was paying the bills for
the inventor, but would say nothing
more. Public curiosity was whetted by
the impossibility of obtaining any in
formation about these mysterious doings.
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himself of the visitors, he caused to be
announced that on a certain day he
would give a test of the working of the
boat. Many postponements followed,
until one day, when a large number
called to see the promised experiment,
the boat was found full of water,
and it was said that the test had
been made on the previous day and
the boat had proved a failure. Recently
the schoolmaster disappeared from his
favorite haunts, but curious develop-
have followed. The trial, it was said,
was a success; the supposed capitalist’
whose name was concealed, proves to
be John J. Rreslin, the Treasurer of the
O Donovan Skirmishing Fund, and the
absent schoolmaster is now in New Y'ork
building another and larger boat. The
opinion prevails in Paterson that it is a
dangerous craft to be employed in
destroying British vessels of war when
the contemplated stride made for Irish
independence.
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Two mines prepared for the assassina
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on tbe line of the Emperor’s journey to
Livadia. One of these was on the rail
way in the Ekaterinoslav Government,
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and sixteen versts on the railway to Sim-
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BY KATE O. RAIFORO.
“To the shame of Our common humanity,be
It confessed, that it is too often the fate of men
of distinguished ability to be most undeserv
edly and unworthily carped at and slandered.”
Oh, what is it that Gordon seeks from Colquitt
to obtain?
Of Georgia’s sons what can he ask, and ever
ask in vain*
If to a base man he could stoop to be a baser
tool.
The statesman we have reverenced declares
himself a fool:
We’ve given him high honors; we’ve crowned
him with our bays:
We've called him Georgia's noblest son, and
sounded loud his praise;
If he from glory’s heights hath stepped to be
a truckling slave,
The Georgian we have honored but proves
himself a knave.
“Why should Gordon dictate what Georgia’s
sons should do?"
Ho led our arms in battle when round him
bullets flew!
Where cannons roared he bravely led—where
sabres flashed he stood 1
To Georgia’s sons he now appeals, appeals for
Georgia's good:
Y'ou followed him in battle, in peace is he less
great?
You crowned him in the Senate, why scorn him
in the State?
Has he fallen from the pinnacle where late he
stood so high?
Li he a fool and rascal, that out on him yon
cry!
In the heat of bloody battle who could like
Gordon lead:
Again his rallyiog cry is heard in Georgia's
hour of need:
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bloody fray;
Then listen once again to him, while he calls
on you to-day:
Oh: thsme upon you, Georgia's sons, who
would thus defame
With basest innuendoes our Gordon's stainless
name:
Will you not hearken to his words who late
you placed in power?
Will you forget his years of toil, in this tumul
tuous hour?
From Carolina’s verdant vales, from Louis
iana's plains.
There comes a shout of love to him, who broke
the tyrant's chains:
Let every honest Georgian then join the hom
age that is done
Alice by North and South to him old Georgia’s
peerless son:
Jtaup, September 16, 1880.
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