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WITHOUT A SONG.
If thou coulds't watch with me!
The sky would smile with rosy lips of eve,
And her blue eyes would twinkle In their
mirth—
Would clap her hands of cloudy whiteness,
tiU *
The dream-joy echoes would resound to
earth.
If thou coulds't wait with me!
The twilight’s vespers would come all too
soon—
The glorious stars would creep out unawares;
Tne snowy bird of peace would hover near.
And throw white shadows over drowsy cares.
If thou coulds’t weep with me!
I think the bitterest tears would leave no
stain—
The thunder clouds of grief would smile
away;
, » r 1 would welcome them, to welcome thee!
I j greet the storm, if it but brought the
day!
Ah, Absence! Felt invisibleness!
Thou break’st, all unseen by stranger eyes,
The dearest chords of Nature. Oh, so hard!
The hearts may throb the same sweet, sad
refrain,
Dut tis without Its song—a broken chord!
Christine Phayre.
Hicben-Eichen," September 13, 1880.
Georgia A flairs.
On Tuesday last Messrs. John F. Bates. 8. J.
Heath and E. A. l’erklns. were nominated by
the Democrats to represent Burke county in
the Legislature.
The Augusta News makes the telling cam
paign point that “the negroes of Florida are
not voting for Governor Colquitt, the hero of
Olustee." Well, hardly, as a Florida voter has
nothing to do with voting for Georgia’s next
Governor. But the “negroes of Florida” will
vote very extensively for the Democratic “in
dorsee” of their own State, Hon. W. D. Blox-
ham.
If the Neios and Advertiser only had 8100,-
Oun, it would establish a bank in Albany right
away.
A young man by tho name of Bright, from
South Carolina, while working at Mr. Hack's
mill, near Jesup, was badly cut by a saw on
Friday last. “It appears,” says the Jesup
Sentinel, “that he was in conversation with a
frien 1 when the mill started up, and hastening
to get to his position, tripped and fell against
the saw. The fingers of the left hand (some
say the hand itself) were cut otf, and his body
was also badly cut. He was in this condition
all day without a physician.” Subsequently a
physician was procured, who amputated the
injured hand at the wrist, and dressed the
wound. At last accounts the sufferer was do
ing well
A correspondent of the Buena Vista Argus
writes that paper that five children and the
wife of Mr. James Bridges living near Poin
d- xter, Schley county, were poisoned last
Friday morning. Mr. Bridges left early that
morning with cotton for Amoricus, and soon
after hie departure one of his daughters,
while sweeping the floor* suddenly fell. Two
of the children were then sent for one of the
neighbors, and on their way home one of them
fell in the road an i was carried home by an old
negro man. When the neighbors arrived they
found five of the children and their mother
down with poison, and two of the children were
having convulsions. Medical attendance was
immediately summoned and the attack was
pronounced to be poison from arsenic or
strychnine. It is thought that the poison was
put in the well bucket, as those (and only those)
who dram-of the fresh water were affected.
They are all now out of danger, The perpe
trator of the de»d ^ unknown.
The Rome BuUtiin tbiuks there is oniy one
thing lacking to the prosperity of Rome, and
that is a good cotton factory. It says that for
such an enterprise there Is certainly a good
opening in that city, and with the splendid
water power and every facility for such an en
terprise afforded, it is really strange that capi
talists neglect this opportunity for a first rate
investment. It hopes it will not be long before
the sound of the spindles will be heard.
The Banner asserts that there is more brass
horn to the square inch in Athens than In any
other town In Georgia.
“On last Friday,” says the Talbotton Regis
ter, “a little negro boy was killed at the gin-
house of Mr. J. Tom Smith, near Box Spring.
While playing about the running gear, his head
was caught in the cogs of the baud wheel and
crushed to pieces. He was killed Instantly.”
The Covington Star says: “There was a
slight frost about Covington on the morning of
the 16th of September. We believe this was
the earliest we have ever known frost in this
8 action.”
Dr. John G. Westmoreland, of Atlanta, is
announced as a candidate for the Lower House
of the State Legislature from Fulton county.
The Macon Telegraph is thoroughly disgust*
edwith “‘Coup’s’ mammoth and unrivaled
circus.” It thinks the devil fish especially the
biggest fraud of the season.
Bill Malone shot Anthony Burke severely.but
not dangerously, in Atlanta Tuesday night.
The cause of the affair was that Burke grew
jeal-ms of Malone's intimacy with his wife,
and assaulted him (Malone), whereupon
the Utter drew a pistol an! fired with the
above result. All hands colored.
They are running a wet and a dry ticket in
Laurens ieounty. Tho county will go largely
for Colquitt—so the Dublin Post says.
The Waynesboro Herald understands that &
white man was taken out, in the lower part of
the county, and dressed off with a buggy trace.
The castigation was for 111 treatment to his
*ife. The occasion may have been ample for
the punishment. But this is a sort of lawless-
hess that should be nipped in the bud.
The Express announces the death of Col.
Janies C. Young, one of the best citizens of
Carters'ille.
Talbotton Register: “Public attention has of
>ate been directed to Talbotton and Talbot
county, on account of the real prosperity of
•ur people, and the'steady strides they are
in the race of progress. Our farmers
turned over a new leaf.'and do things
• u.ewLat after a modern fashion, realizing
■“ a: . ls poor economy to let lands run to
"ecus and waste, when by proper care they
tuade to yield profitable returns every
1 nder the heading “A New Character in the
.ottou Helds,” the Griftln Eeu-s says: “We
Qo not refer to any new variety of the cotton
j r . rn 1 or insect, but to a type of the new cotton
darkey. The old type is familiar to every
rea de r , and is a prominent feature of
D j?'bellum life. The old type was a jolly,
jonai, polite darkey, well fed. who went to
S 5 * 10 ® ftelds with a song and a shout. He
45 for the heat of the summer sun
ws cm tus inseparable companion, the mule,
could take his nap under its vertical rays
contentedly as under the shade. The char-
passed away with the end of the South-
fcgime. Since that day the new character
i!h? . n “ low, y forming, and the new type is
n™ . bv an incident witnessed in Bibb
county last week. A Macon gentleman, having
v-ca-iuii to go into the country last FrT-
rrj' ^w* two negroes leisurely picking cot-
and cautiously holding an umbrella over
«»eir heads. Pretty soon it will come to be
^"FPiated in the contract with employers that
«acti darkey must be provided with a rashioua-
r le umbrella, with a fan attachment, and a
owier fly machine to keep of the flies. To
mese will probably be added a sufficient quan-
lio ice coolers to provide the cotton field
aoorers with ice water. The only Incongruous
ature of the new arrangement will be tbe ab-
any provision for the comfort of the
wiJIf' f tiat wort hy animal should be provided
t at * r HaKt an umbrella and a patent fly pro-
fetor. 1 he new type will furnish material for
‘he cartoon fiend.”
Post: “The piles of cotton, turpen-
« “ e a ?h r osin lying at the boat landing await-
“6 Shipment, and the mountains of goods
U P° D the banks of the river every time
n or b°at arrives, gives Dublin the air of
» Prospective city at least.”
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1880.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Says the Americus Republican ; “On Monday
morning about one o’clock the residence of
Mr. Joe E Stewart, at Stewart s crossing, on
the Southwestern Railroad, about four miles
from town, was destroyed by fire, Every
article of furniture and clothing, together with
the kitchen, furniture and provisions, was
burned up. Mr. Stewart and family were ab
sent, on a visit to Dr. J). Bagiev, the father of
Mrs. Stewart, and there was no white person on
the place. Mr. Stewart supposes that the house
was first robbed and then fired. The loss is
about twenty two hundred dollars, and is quite
a blow to the loser, as there was no insurance
upon it. He is a hard working man, and It will
rtlin him unless friends lend that assistance
which should be granted to ibe unfortunate.”
Tho Buena Vista Argus wants the press to
“pass him around,” and says: “Last Friday &
man, who appeared about fifty years old. and
weighed about two hundred pounds, florid
complexion, dark eyes, fharp Roman nose,
with crippled right hand, and saying his name
was Adkins, came in our to wn and claimed to
be In distress. He said he had got into a diffi
culty with a Republican in West Point, and
had to knife him He had left hurriedly, with
out money or clothe*, and was trying to make
hi§ escape to Florida, where he could take
shipping to some foreign country for safety,
and he begged for help. He appealed as
an unfortunate man, and as a Mason,
but he failed to realize anything by his frater
nal fraudulence. He.wanted to get to Mr. C
C. Humber, a friend near Lumpkin, In Stewart
county, where he said he could get help. He
was soon mistrusted here, but succeeded In
hiring Mr. K. J. Jordan to eend him to Mr.
Humber’s, with the assurance that the stable
hire should be paid there. When the driver
drove up to Mr. Humber's mill the man, seeing
Mr. Humber, got out of the buggy, and when
the driver handed Mr. H. a note the traveler
took to the swamp, and was chased for about
a mile, but was not ovei taken. Mr. Humber
wrote back that he had seen the man before,
and that he was a full Hedged scoundrel ”
Louisville Courier; “The prisoners incarcer
ated in the jail in this place and charged with
the Cornwell murder, as stated last week, are
to have a hearing to-day upon a commitment
triaL As to the probable guilt or innocence of
tbe accused parties we are not prepared to
venture an opinion, but tbe case will be, at any
event, an important one and much interest will
be taken in it, not only by the interested par
ties but by the public generally. The prison
ers are held under a very grave charge, as the
crime of which they are accused was a most
brutal one, and if they are committed and
upon trial convicted the full penalty of the
violated liw should be inflicted. On the con
trary, if they are innocent and can establish
their innocence upon a fair trial and close
scrutiny of the case, the law is ready to restore
them to liberty.”
Atlanta Constitution: “Last Friday night
one week ago. as the Air-Line passenger train
going to Charlotte was emerging from the deep
cut about three hundred yards the other side
of Toccoa station, a pistol ball was fired
through the train and came near ending Cap
tain McCooI’scareer as a railroader. As soon
as the railroad authorities in Atlanta were no
tified of the shooting, Messrs. Bill Jones and
alike White, tw*o or the best detectives in the
South, were put upon the case. Ou Saturday
White went to Toccoa and began an investiga
tion, which culminated yesterday ia the arre3t
and imprisonment of Steven Blair. Hair de
nies the charge but at the committal trial yes
terday Detective White produced such a chain
of evidence that the Justice committed him to
jail to await the action of the grand jury. The
accused, it is said, does not bear the best repu
tation in the State, and since his arrest, al
though he was not suspected before, every one
who knows him is of the opinion that White
has caught a gui ty man.”
Waynesboro Herald: “About daylight on
Friday morning of last week Mr. John Carpen
ter went to the gin-house and grist mill of Mr.
L. D. Chance, neir Munnerlyn, to commence
work. Inside he found an unexpected guest
in the person of Armstead Green, colored.
Armstead, without explaining the status of
affairs, attacked Mr. Carpenter with a piece of
scantling and escaped. The thief has been ar
rested and now in jail awaits trial on tbe
charge of burglary, and assault with intent to
murder.”
The C'artersvilie Express indulges in a snake
story as follows: "Mr. J. J. Murphey. living
near Manning’s store, in this county, while out
on Lis farm a few days ago, found a large rat
tlesnake lying near a cliff of rocks. He en
deavored to kill the snake, but it got in among
the rocks and made good its escape. Mr. Mur
phey then went to his home and got a gun
and returned to the cliff, and finding the snake
lying near a large opening in the rocks, shot
and killed it. Thinking that the snake he first
saw was larger than the one he had killed, and
that perhaps there were others there, he placed
six steel traps near the entrance and went
home. In a lew days he went back to the cliff
and to his surprise found three large rattle
snakes in the traps. This is a snake story, but
a true one.”
A Brother’s Anger.—At Galesburg,
Illinois, Monday morning, the relatives
of Miss Chase, who, in a state bordering
on insanity, married a disreputable negro
named Dan Monroe and has been seques
tered by her relatives some days, brought
her into town where, with her three
brothers and au uncle, she entered a
train to go to Peoria. Monroe, who had
been released from jail, where he was
confined for theft, appeared on the plat
form, and walking defiantly up to the
party, said, “Good morning, brother
Horace,” whereupon the young man ad*
dressed knocked him down, borrowed a
revolver,opened fire and chased the negro
through the crowd, when the latter tried
to escape. Monroe also had a revolver
in his hand all this time. Monroe was
hit in the arm, evidently with a spent
ball, as he was not hurt, and a bystander
named Crocker was severely injured by
a shot. The negro eventually escaped.
Much excitement is manifest among the
negroes, who all side with him, and
among the white population, whose sym
pathies are on the other side. A con
servator has been appointed for Miss
Chase in Chicago, whither she will be
taken.
A Modern Miracle.—Stamford, Ky.,
is just now excited over a wonderful
cure which has been accomplished with
out the aid of doctors or medicine. Miss
Mary McAfee, a young lady, who has for
seven years been confined to her bed with
spinal disease, and who had despaired of
ever tret ting well again, was visited by
Mrs. H. T. Harris a mother of Zion, and
exhorted to pray with faith and she
would be restored. She read her many
of the promises in the Bible to those who
pray believing that they shall receive,
ending by joining her in long and touch
ing supplication. They read and prayed
for some time. Suddenly the young lady
felt her pains cease, her strength re
turned, and she forthwith got up and
dressed herself and went about, telling
what great things the Lord had done for
her. Those who knew of her former
condition, and who saw’ her afterward,
could hardly realize the evidence before
their eyes. Mrs. Harris is a devout
Christian woman, aud has been the in
strument of several other cures almost
as remarkable. The above can be sub
stantiated by hundreds of citizens.
Grant Offered Another Mining
Presidency.—A New York dispatch
says: “General U. S. Grant has ar
ranged to have an interview on his arrival
in this city with some gentlemen in
terested in the Ortez mine, in New
Mexico, to discuss the proposition winch
has already been made that he shall ac
cept the Presidency of that mine. The
pleasant experience of the stockholders
of the San Pedro and Canon del Agua
Company, in Boston, in unloading their
stock at treble its cost, upon the strength
of the tender of the Presidency of that
company to General Grant, is sought by
other companies now that General Grant
has declined that offer. He has been
over the property of the Ortez mine, and
is only doubtful about its value on ac
count of the scarcity of water, and if he
can be satisfied that water can be got
from a neighboring river by an easy
method it is thought he might accept.
A proposal has been made to him which
would greatlj’ restore his alleged depleted
finances.”
THE STATE CAMPAIGN.
DiniTHERiA Spread by a Cat.—
Three deaths from diphtheria have re
cently occurred iu the family of Bald
win Gordon, who lives at the beach op
posite Patchogue, L. I., under very re
markable circumstances. Some time
ago a cat, which bad been owned by a
family, several members of which were
suffering from the disease, was taken to
the Gortlon house. While playing with
this cat a little child of Mr. Gordon was
bitten in one of its fingers. The wound
caused intense pain, and was soon fol
lowed by a soreness and ulceration of
the throat, which a physician pronounced
to be diphtheria. Others of the family
were taken with the disease, and two of
the children died. Mrs. Gordon, who
was recovering from sickness, was
seized with the disease and died. It is
reported that still another member of the
family has died. Physicians believe that
the cat was suffering- from diphtheria
when it bit the child.
Headache, dizziness, sour eructations of
the stomach, bad taste in the mouth, bilious
attacks, palpitation of the heart, pain In the
region of the kidneys, despondency and
forebodings of evil, are the offsprings of a
torpid liver. For these complaints Dr.
Tutt’s Liver Pill has no equal. A single
dose will convince anyone.
ANOTHER FALSE CHARGE RE
FUTED.
Tbe Governor Stamps It Out as Ef
fectually as He Haa All tbe Best—
A Cruablne Reply and Complete
Vindication—Tbe Colquitt Cause
Everywhere Gaining Ground.
Special Telegram to the Morning News.
Atlanta, September *23.—Gov. Colquitt,
in to-morrow’s Constitution, stamps out com
pletely the worst attempt yet made to strike
him down. Col. Ban. Yancey to-day, over
his signature, charged that Governor Col
quitt drew, in 1872, the sum of $75,000 from
the State for the Agricultural Society, and
never accounted for the money. Governor
Colquitt presents from the Secretary of the
society, Col. Malcolm Johnston, a certified
copy of the Treasurer’s account, in
1872, showing that the Governor paid the
money promptly to the Treasurer, and it was
disbursed as approved by the Auditing Com
mittee. The Governor is crushing in his
brief letter touching upon the injection of
this calumny into the campaign just before
the election, after feur years’ silence since
he resigned the Presidency of the society.
This matter will greatly hurt the Norwood
cause.
The news received here from all sources
is everywhere favorable to Colquitt’s re-
election.
THE PAN PRESBYTERIAN COIN
CIL AND THE UNITARIAN
CONFERENCE.
TbeSermon atMluwlr HhII IIunIucmm
Meeting at Horticultural Hall- Ad-
drena of Welcome to tbe Couudl—
Tbe l iiitarian« at Saratoga—For
eign Delegate*—Reltglou* Liberty
in England Quefttloncd-Greetlng*
of Mac cheater Students of Unita
rian Colleges.
Bu Telegraph to the Morning News.
Saratoga, September 23.—At tbe morn
ing session of the Unitarian Conference
Rev. E. H. Hall, of Worcester, read an
essay on the Bible, after which the Presi
dent of the Conference, E. R. Hoar, in a
few remarks, welcomed P. W. Clayden and
C. D. Badland, delegates to this'body from
the British and Foreign Unitarian Associa
tion. Mr. Clayden made a few remarks
with reference to the work aud condi
tion of the denomination iu Europe.
He said: “Freedom to worship
God secured in this country, bad not
yet been attained in Eugland, and gave a
statement regarding the burials bill and the
great contest going ou against tbe rule of
the Established Church. C. D. Badland,
the other delegate, spoke briefly under
great feeling, and gave the greet
ings of the students la Manchester
College to the American Unitarians. The
Rev. Geo. F. Piper, Secretary of the Uni
tarian Sunday School Society, reported that
society as prospering and doing as much
work as its funds would sustain. There are
250 Unitarian Sunday schools, with 5,000
teachers aud 25,000 pupils. Tbe Business
Committee reported in favor of au appro
priation of $50,000 for missionary work
during the coming year.
Philadelphia, September 23.—The Pan-
Presbyterian Council assembled this morn
ing in the Academy of Music, which was
crowded with people from parquette to the
dome. The opening sermon was preached
by the Rev. William M. Paxton, of New
York, from the text, Matthew, eighth chap
ter, second verse. The first business meet
ing was held in Horticultural Hall this af
ternoon, when Dr. William Breed delivered
an address of welcome. At its conclusion,
the Rev. Dr. Calder Wood,of Edinburgh, was
elected Chairman of tbe meeting. Some
unimportant business was transacted, and
the council adjourned until 7:30 p. m.
At the evening session, w’hich was opeued
by prayer offered by the Rev. Jos. Stratton,
D. D., of Nltcbcz, Miss., there were three
papers read, the first on the subject of
“The Ceremonial, the Moral and the Emo
tional in Christian Life and Worship,” was
by P,of. Roswell D. Hitchcock, D. D., LL.
D., of New York. Principal liobt. Rainey,
of Edinburgh, read the secoud paper, who?e
subject was “Modern Theological Thought.”
Principal G. M. Grant, of Kingston, Cana
da, read the third and last of the evening’s
papers, its title being “Religion in Secular
Life.” The session closed at a quarter be
fore 10 o’clock, with the benediction pro
nounced by Rev. Dr. Stratton.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN
FRANCE.
The New MinUiry-An Under Secre
taryship of Foreign Affairs Created
—The ministry of Worship and In
terior Divided—A Peaceful Foreign
Policy—The Religions Decrees to
be Euforced.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
London, SeptembertS.—A Paris dispatch
to the Pall Mall Gazette says: “The Council
of Ministers has resolved to create an
Under Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs. It
is certain that the Cabinet will make no
change in the foreign policy of the govern
ment, but it will execute the religious
decrees.”
A Paris dispatch to the Tunes says: “It
was intended that if M. Jules Ferry, now
Premier, was unable to liod a Minister for
theportfollo of Foreien Affairs and had to
take that office himself, he should be suc
ceeded in the Ministry of Public
Instruction by M. Deves, President
of the Republican Left in the Cham
ber of Deputies. It is now understood
that a Ministry will be found for M. Deve.%
ami to that end it is proposed to detach the
Ministry of Worship from that of the In
terior, and Invest him therewith. M. Deves
is the Deputy w ho prepared the vote of con
fidence iu the government’s, enforc
ing the laws relative to the religious
orders, so that his accession would
be a gain to the Parliamentary
strength of the Cabinet as regards the meas
ures against nou-authorized orders. As M.
Barthelmy S*. Iliilalre, the new Minister of
Foreign Affairs, is seventy live years of age,
there is au idea of assisting him by the cre
ation of an Under Secretaryship of Foreign
Affairs.
Paris, September 23 —The decrees ap
pointing the new Ministers have been ga
zetted. Papers of all shades of opinion
agree that the appointment of M. Barthelmy
S:. Uiliaire as Minister of Foreign Affairs
Is a guarantee of a pacific policy.
NEW YORK CITY DEMOCRACY.
The Unity of the Party iu the City
aud County of New York—Amica
ble Arrangement Between Tam
many and “Irving Hall.**
Bv Telegraph to the Momina News.
New York, September 23.—The sub-com
mittee of the regular Irving Hall Democracy
this morning adopted the following resolu
tion:
“Resolved, That In the judgment
of this committee, It would be ju
dicious and magnanimous to ar
range amicably between the Democratic
organization of the city ana county of New
York aud Tammany Hall, the question of
j their respective representation at the Demo
cratic Convention to meet at Saratoga on
the 28th, and appear on the occasion as the
delegates of an earnest and united con
stituency.”
Tbe committee appointed to hold a
conference with the Tammany Democrats
also met to day to arrange the details
for the selection of a united delegation to
Saratoga, but it was determined to take no
final actiou uutil after the final conference
with the Tammany committee on Friday.
It is understood that the delegation will be
divided equally between the two organiza
tions. The regular organization have two
delegates and Tammany one in half of tbe
diotrict, aud Tammany two and the regular
orgauizitlon one iu tbe other half.
OHIO LABOR TROUBLES.
The Corning Strikers Fire upon the
Pickets—Tbe Fire Returned, but
No One Hurt—A military Company
Believed.
By Telegraph to the Momina News.
Columbus, September 23.—The pickets at
Corning were fired upon by the strikers last
night. They returned the fire, but as far as
can be learned no one was injured. It is
said that most of tbe miners living at
Corning would return to work at a
sliding scale of prices but for fear of
vengeance from their associates in the
miners union. At the suggestion of the
Sheriff of Perry county, the Lexington
Guards, who had a skirmish with the
strikers on Sunday last, were to
day relieved from duty and ordered
home. Two other militia companies
will remain on duty for the present. Tbe
miners held a secret meeting at Straltsviile
to day, but nothing as to their conclusion
has been made public.
SUFFERING IN KANSAS.
The People of Several Counties
Suffering for Food—Failure of tbe
Wheat and Destruction ol the Corn
Crop—Help Solicited.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Des Moines, Iowa, September 23.—Levi
JohnsoD, of Norton county, Kansas, is here
soliciting aid for tbe people in Phillips,
Sherman, Decatur, Sheridan, Rawlings and
other counties. In Norton county eighteen
hundred people are In absolute want of
food. The wheat crop in all the above
name counties failed, and in June was
plowed up and planted in corn, which has
been destroyed by worms. A public meet
ing will be held this evening to procure
supplies.
The Cheyenne Indians Demonstra
tive aud Threatening.
St. Louis, September 23.—A dispatch
from Denison, Texas, says : “The Cheyenne
Indians in the Indian Territory are mani
festly greatly discontented, and are becom
ing disorderly. A few days ago a band of
about 300, with war paint on and well
mounted, visited the agency near Fort Reno
and were very demonstrative and threaten
ing, and slapped the agent In the face. Au-
other party ls reported tc have gone through
the commissary stores at Wichita Agency
recently. Tbe cause of the trouble is said
to be the insufficiency of food.
Arrest of a Mississippi Postmaster.
Meridian. Miss., September 23.—John U.
CahlH, late Postmaster at Buckatuna. Miss.,
was arrested yesterday by Post Office In
spector John A. Gabrael, charged with
opening registered letter3 In his office, also
with paying debts, buying goods aud pay
ing for them in postage stamps, contrary to
the law forbidding postal employes to do
so. Cahill waived examination and was
bound over to appear before the United
States Court at Jackson, Miss., in Novem
ber.
The Disabled Steamship City of
Chester.
Queenstown, September 23 —The steam
ship City of Chester arrived off Roche’s
Point atont 11 o’clock this morning. Six
cabin and seventeen steerage passengers
and the mails were landed, after which the
City of Chester proceeded to Liverpool in
tow of a Liverpool tug. Her progress ls
very 6low.
Specie Arrival at New York.
New York, September 23.—The steam
ship Amerique, from Havre, brought one
million dollars in francs.
Consumption of the long tissue must
6teadily Increase by the retention of the foul
corruption. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup pro
motes gentle expectoration, and gives great
relief to those suffering with consumption.
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THE CITY DEBT OF MOBILE.
meeting of the Commissioners,
Bondholders and Tax-Payers- A
Settlement on the Bawls of One Per
Ceutu,m on the Value of Property
Within City Limits.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Mobile, September 23.—At a meeting of
the commissioners of the city of Mobile,
bondholders and tax-payers, to-day, thefol
lowing was adopted:
Resolved, That as citlz-ns and tax payers
of Mobile, we desire that the commissioners
of the city of Mobile shall make a settle
ment with the creditors of the late city of
Mobile as favorable to them as practicable
on tbe basis of taxation on property within
the limits of the late city of Mobile of one
per centum on tbe value of said property.
The commissioners will meet the creditors
in the city of New York on the 14th of Oc
tober.
THE DISASTROUS LAND SLIDE
IN INDIA.
The Cause of the Disaster—Enor
mous Fall of Kalu-Hotel Com 1
pletely Burled.
By Teiegravh to the Morning News.
Bombay, September 23 —Details, which
have just been received, of the recent disas
trous land slide at Naini, Tal Bengal, show
that the accident was the result of a
terrible rain storm, which lasted
forty hours, and, iu the course
of which twenty-live Inches of rain fell.
The enormous mass of water pouring down
into the town from the surrouding hills
loosened a great avalanche of earth, which
fell upon Victoria Hotel, completely bury
ing it with thirty natives aud a number of
police and laborers.
THE IRISH CATHOLIC BENEVO
LENT UNION.
They Refuse to Drop the Word
“Irish’*—President Kceley, of
Richmond, Hc-elected.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Wilmington, Del., September 23.—At
the session of the Irish Catholic Benevolent
Union to-day a proposition to drop the word
“Irish” was defeated, only two societies
voting in its favor. An amendment pro-
vidlne that the Irish Catholic Benevolent
Union and the German Catholic Verein shall
hold their sessions at the same time and
place was also defeated. A. M. Keeley, of
Richmond, Va., was re-elected President.
Elinor Political Notes.
Boston, September 23. — Hon. C. P.
Thompsou has written a letter, formally ac
cepting the Democratic nomination for
Governor of Massachusetts.
Salt Lake, September 23 —The Liberal
or anti-Mormon party last night nominated
A. G. Campbell for Delegate to Congress.
Indianapolis, September 23.—The Su
preme Court to-day overruled the petition
lor a rehearing in the co6e involving the
validity of the constitutional amendment
fixing the time for holding the State elec
tions.
Worcester, Mass , September 23.—The
Democrats of the Ninth Congressional dis
trict have nominated for Congress Maj. M.
J. McCafferty, of WTorcester.
Baltimore, September 23.—The Republi
cans of the Second Congressional district
to-day nominated Hon. E. H. Webster, of
Harford county, for Congress.
Newark, September 23.—The Democrats
of the Sixth district have nominated Edwin
Bolbach, Sr., for Congress.
Jamestown, N. Y., September 23.—
The Democratic Congressional Convention
of the Thirty-third district to-day nominated
Professor H. A. Balcan. of Westfield, for
Representative.
Weather Indication*.
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, September 23.—Indications for
Friday :
In the Middle Btates, winds shifting to
northeast and southeast, increasing cloudi
ness and areas cf rain, stationary or slight
rise in temperature, and stationary or slowly
falling£barometer.
Iu tbe South Atlantic States, northeast
to southeast winds, partly cloudy weather,
areas of rale, with slight changes in tem
perature, and in the northern portions fall
ing barometer.
In the Gulf States, Tennessee and the
Ohio valley, easterly to southerly winds,
slight rise in temperature, partly cloudy
weather and light rains, with nearly station
ary barometer In the first and failing barome
ter In the latter districts.
IN THE ICE FIELDS.
THE FRANKLIN SEARCH EX
PEDITION.
Tlie Party Picked Up at Depot
Island—A Winter Exploration In
the Extreme North—The Bones of
the Unfortunates of the Sir John
Franklin Expedition—Interesting
Details of Arctic Explorations —
flow Cold it Was—One Hundred
Degree* Below Freezing Point,
A Labor Strike In Russia.
8t. Petersburg, September 23.—A tele
gram to the Golos from Smolensk says:
“Three thousand workmen In a factory at
Jarzen recently struck work In conse
quence of a reduction of wages, and have
since committed great excesses. The Gov
ernor, Chief of the Gendaremle and the Pab-
lic Prosecutor have gone to the scene of the
disturbance, and troops have already been
dispatched thither.”
WTiite, soft and velvety hands follow the
use of Cuticura Medicinal Soap.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
New York, September 23.—A special to
the Herd’d from New Bedford, Mass., gives
a long account of the progress of the Frank
lin search party, under the command of
L'eut. Frederick Schwatka, U. A., who
were picked up by Captain Baker, of the
bark George and Mary, of New Bedford, at
Depot Island on the 1st of August,
they having returned to that point
from their sledge journey to King
William Land, on the 4th of March of the
present year. The 6ledge journey was the
longest ever made through the unexplored
Arctic region, both as to time and distance,
the party having been absent from their
base of operations in Hudson Bay eleven
mouths and four days. During that time
they traveled 2,819 geographical or 3,251
s'atute miles. It was the only sledge
journey ever made that covered the entire
Arctic winter. The winter was pro
nounced by the Esquimaux as one of
unusual rigor. This fact was attested bv
the freezing of Rowe’s Welcome throughout
its entire extent from shore to shore, even
below the latitude of Whale Point. The
natives at Depot Island and Wager river ex
perienced much suffering In conse
quence of the severity of the sea
son, which precluded successful hunt
ing, and several deaths occurred
at. both places. The mortality was attrlbu
table to tbe intense cold and famine. The
expedition, however, successfully withstood
the greatest amount of cold ever encounter
ed by white men in the field. On January
3d, 1880, the thermometer sank to 71 de
grees Fahrenheit,or 103 degrees below freez
ing point, and during the entire day it did uot
rise above 69 degrees. During sixteen days
the average temperature was 200 degrees
below freezing point, aud during twenty-
seven days It was below 60 degrees. All
this time the party traveled, in fact, they
never halted & 6ingle day on account of the
cold. During the summer and fall of 1879
they made a complete search of King
William Land and the adjacent mainland,
traveling over the route pursued by the
crews of the Erebus and Terror, upon their
retreat toward Back’s river, and while so
engaged, the party buried the bones of all
those unfortunates remaining above ground
and erected a monument to the
memory of the fallen heroes. Their
retearch established the mournful fact
that the records of Franklin’s expedition
are iost beyond recovery. The party found
many traces and some remains of the Frank
lin expedition, among them tbe bones of
the third officer of the Terror, Lieutenant
John Irving, which were identified by
the prize medal in his open grave. The
relics of the Terror and Erebus were brought
back by the party. They lived for a portion
of the time on sealskin diet, and otherwise
adapted themselves to the habits of the
natives of the country, suffering many hard
ships. but being uniformly well treated by
the Esquimaux.
THE LOTTERY CASES.
Tlie Order of tbe Assistant Post
master General to be Tested—
JI01I011 for a Restraining Order to
be Itlade.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Washington, September 23.—The Post
master General has received a telegram to
day from the Postmaster at Louisville, in
forming him that a motion will be made
before Judge Baxter at Knoxville to
morrow, In behalf of the agents of the Com
monwealth Distribution and Kentucky
Lottery Companies to restrain the Post
master at Louisville from obeying the
recent order issued by acting
Postmaster Hazen prohibiting the delivery
of registered letters and money orders to
the agents of these companies. Postmaster
General Maynard, after receiving a tsle-
gram, conferred with the Attorney General,
and, aa tbe result of the conference, the
United States District Attorney at Knox
ville was directed to secure a postponement
of the case until the necessary briefs and
pa&ers should reach him.
The question which will be at issue before
Judge Baxter is the same which is involved
in the case of the Louisville Lottery Com
pany, set for argument before the Supreme
Court of the United States on October 13ih.
The Post Office Department officials will
await the decision of that court, confident
that tbe action of the Postmaster General
will be sustained.
A REVOLUTIONARY event cele
BRATED.
Tarrytown Celebrates the Capture
of .Vlajor Andre—Speech by Hon.
N. J. Tildcu—Unveiling the Andre
Statue.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Tarrytown, N. Y., September 23.—The
celebration of the capture of Andre took
place here to-day. The weather was pleas
ant aDd tbe streets were crowded with peo
pie. Fully fifty thousand persons witnessed
the military parade at noon and the unveil
ing of the Andre statue. Samuel. J. Tilden
was President of the day, aud made
a brief address reviewing the early military
history of the country and the circumstances
of Andre’s capture. Tnis evening the pub
lic and private buildings are illuminated and
a grand display of fireworks is in progress.
THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Weak and a Declining Tendency-
Western Union and Coal Shares
Leading the Downward Mlovc
meat.
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
New York, September 23.—The stock
market opened weak, and in the early deal
ings declined }£ to 2 per cent., the latter in
C.,C. and I.C. Subsequently,prices advanced
}£ to 1 per cent., and later fell off % to \%
per cent. After midday a firmer toue pre
vailed, and an advance of to \)>i per cent,
was recorded, but in the final dealings
speculation again became weak and the
market closed at a reactlou of 4^ to l’< per
cent. Western Union and coal shares lead
ing the downward movement. The total
sales were 257,000 shares.
Affairs in Sooth Africa.
Capetown, September 23.—Twelve hun
dred Basutas attacked Mohaleshock on the
20th inst., and 5,000 attacked Mafeteng on
the 21st inst. The fighting continued all day
at both places. The Rebels were ultimately
repulsed. The loss of the Colonial forces
is not yet known.
Serlons Disturbance In Canton.
London, September 23.—A Shanghai spe
cisl reports a serious disturbance In Canton.
Europeans have been threatened and are in
a state of alarm. Tbe Catholic mission has
been attacked. The military has been call
ed out, aud several of the rioters have been
killed and wounded.
DULCWNO.
The Leading Inhabitants Protest
Against the Cession—The Monte
negrin Advance to be Resisted
Forcibly-Rlza Pasha Urges Sub-
mUslou and Threatens Force—The
Advance of the ITIoutenegrins—The
Russian Fleet Ready for Action.
The Commander-In-Chief In India.
London, September 23.—The Times says:
We understand that when the post of
Commander-in Chief in India becomes Va
cant it will be offered to General Sir Neville
Chamberlain, G. C. B.”
Fatally Injured.
Petersburg, Va., September 23.—While
driving from his home in Dinwiddle county
to this city yesterday, Ben Westmoreland,
aged twelve years, was thrown from his
wagon and fatally Injured.
Weaver, the gymnastic Green backer,
has taken heart again. He says he didn't
carry Alabama nor Arkansas, but he is
dead sure to carry Mississippi. It is the
opinion of 3ome eminent, though Un
charitable, authorities of that State that
after a few months he won’t be able to
carry even his . sorrow and disappoint
ment without splitting his back bone.—
y. O. Times.
Beware of new remedies advertised for
coughs and not waste your money for a trial
when you know that Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup
has stood the popular test for thirty years.
Price 25 cents. Bep24-lt
By Telegraph to the Morning News.
Scutari, September 23.—Thirty-five of
the leading inhabitants of Dulcigno have
presented a protest to the foreign Consuls,
declaring that their fellow citizens will nev
er consent to be detached from the Turkish
Government, and if the Montenegrins at
tempt to advance they will be repelled
forcib’y. Several of the Consuls refused to
accept the protest.
Two Catholic and two Massulman mem
bers of tbe League have goneto Fusi to
urge the mountaineers to assist in the de-
ferse of Dulcigno.
In consequence of Admiral Seymour’s
ultimatum, R!za Pasha has urged the League
to submit to the cession of Dulcigno,
threatening in the event of refusal to resort
to force and to ask reinforcements from
Constantinople.
Ragusa, September 23.—News received
from Cettinje says that iu consequence of
R’.za Pasha’s lack of vigor, Montenegro has
been advised by one of the powers to pro
ceed to action, and the advance of the
Jlontenegrins on Dulcigno would commence
} ester day.
London, September 23.—The London cor
respondent of the Manchester Guardian
says : “lam informed that six of the best
vessels of the Russian Pacific squadron have
been ordered by telegraph to hold them
selves in readines§ to return immediately to
the Mediterranean, in the event of the
Dulcigno affair taking a serious turn, and a
rupture occurring between Russia and Tur
key. The remainder of the squadron would
follow as needed.”
Ragusa, September 23.—In accordance
with the decision taken at a council of the
Admiralty yesterday Admiral Seymour has
sailed for Cattaro, whence he will proceed
to Cettinje, for the purpose of ascertaining
personally the position of the Montenegrins
for future action, with respect to the occu
pation of Dulcigno.
Constantinople, September 23.—The
Porte has issued a fresh note protesting
against the naval demonstration, and again
declaring it to be an exercise of armed
pressure contrary to the rights of the
Sultan.
London, September 23 —A dispatch from
Cettinje announces that Admiral Seymour
has arrived there. The Commander-in-
Chief of the Montenegrin force to operate
against Dulcigno has arrived at Suturman
to hold a conference with Admiral Seymour.
Paris, September 23.—A telegram from
Dulcigno Antivara declares that notwitk
standing denials, the statement that the Al
banians drove the garrison out of Dulcigno
on the 17th inst. is confirmed.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Washington Light Infantry and
the military Reunion iu Atlauta —
A New Counterfeiting Dodge—Peo*
pie Who Are Paid by the People—
The Vera Cruz Disaster to be In
vestigated.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Washington, September 21.—The Washing
ton Light Infantry corps is the crack military
organization of Washington, and it is definite
ly settled now that it will participate in the
grand reunion to take place at Atlanta, Geor
gia, In October next. At present the corps con
sists of about one hundred and fifty men, rank
and file, and it is thought that about seventy
five or more will make the trip to Atlanta. They
are fully uniformed, and equipped with both
fatigue and dress uniforms, and are armed
with the improved needle guns.
Military organizations generally have all,
and cjuite frequently more, officers than the
regulations call for, but such is not the case in
this instance. Tne Washington Light Infantry-
have what would be called a complement of
commissioned and non-commissioned officers
for a company of thirty-two men. Col. Wm.
G. Moore, who was formerly a Paymaster in
the regular army and private secretary to
Pre.-ident Johnson during his administration,
is the commanding officer with the rank of
Captain. The First Lieutenant is Wm. N.
Dalton: the Second Lieutenants are Burton R.
Rosa, Matthew Goddard and J. S. Miller. One
of the color Sergeants of the corps hails from
Georgia, and, as I understand, filled a similar
position m one of the Georgia regiments during
the late war.
In October. 1873, the command visited Rich
niond. Va., and was the first military organiza
tion from the North to pay their respects to
the capital of the Southern Confederacy. In
June, 1875, it attended but one celebration else
where.
i he corps is not up to its usual standard in
the manual of arms, which is caused by the
unusual large number of recruits they have
had to take in lately, as quite a number of the
old members became dissatisfied with the re
sult of an election held a few months since,
and withdrew. It is expected that outside the
regular body of men, at least three or four
hundred people, friends of the corps, will go
with them to Atlanta to attend the reunion.
A NEW COUNTERFEITING DODGE.
The manner in which pieces of paper gotten
up as advertisements in the shape of United
States notes, and imitations of coin made for
the same purposes, were passed upon ignorant
people in the backwoods as genuine money,
caused the passage of an act by Congress
making it a punishable offense to issue such
semblances of notes and coins. The attention
of the secret service has just been called to a
dodge which those engaged in making bogus
use of tbe advertisements referred to have
lately resorted to. While there is
law against the manufacture of such
articles there is none that prohibits
their importation. Specious imitations of
gold aud silver dollars, having just enough
on them t^* detect by close scrutity that they
are supposed advertisements cf alleged foreign
firms, nave been imported into this country.
The secret service are informed that they
are to a considerable extent made use of
to swindle, especially to derraud ignorant emi
grants just arrived. A number of cases have
come to light where emigrants have been
swindled by means of these bogus imitations of
our coin out of sums as high as 885. The
attention of Congress will, when it reconvenes,
be called to the fact that another law is wanted
in the shape of a prohibition of the importation
to this country of any advertisement or other
device, being resemblance to our notes or coin:
and there is no doubt that the law will be en
acted. There are so many foolish people in
this world that are unable to lookout for them
selves among small cheats that Congress has
to stop and put an end to the materials upon
which the cneating is done, when it pertains to
anything national in character.
PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID BY THE PEOPLE.
Officers of the government are paid to at
tend to their duties. 1 hat they do not attend
to them under Republican rule is well known.
It has been the practice for government offi
cials to go out and make a few speeches during
the campaign. This practice was denounced
in its infancy, but the Republicans keep it up
even under this “reform administration:” It
is perhaps a sign of the straits to which the
Radical party is put that this year there
are four times as many paid servants
of the people who are prostituting their
offices to engage in campaign work No
man who has tbe least influence
at home and can make a speech is allowed to
be idle. They go off with tneir pay going on
ail the time, and in many cases their expenses
paid out of the public Treasury, ani howl on
every stump for a continuation in srealing-or,
in other words, for reform. Omitting the
smaller lights, the list is quite imposing of
those who openly defy the majority of the
people. There is Mr. Hayes, Secretary of
State Evarta, Secretary of the Navy Thomp
son. Secretary of War Ramsey. Attorney Gen
eral Devens, Secretary of the Interior Schurz,
Postmaster General Key, Secretary of the
Treasury Sherman, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Raum. First Comptroller Law
rence, Assistant Attorney General Freeman,
Sixth Auditor McGrew, Fitih Auditor
Eia, Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bell,
Supervising Inspector of Steamboats Dumont.
Chief Cleric to Kauai Clark, Recorder of
Deeds in the District of Columbia Sheridan,
Collector Thomas, Assistant Secretary of State
Hoy, General Sherman, aud nearly all of the
g overnment officers situate in the several
tates Those employes here who are not big
enough to speak are aiding the Radical party-
in its campaign by sending of documents by
“voluntary'' subscription, and by seeing that
everybody who can be counted on to vote the
ticket, whether entitled to a ballot or not, is
provided with means for transportation. Never
was the big power in its army of government
employ* s, that the Republican part? have at
its back, so fully and unscrupulously used.
THE WRECK OF THE VERA CRUZ.
The wreck of the Vera Cruz is to be investi
gated. General Dumont.Supervising Inspector
ieneral of Steamboats, to-day B&td that the
local supervisors would shortly commence the
investigation. From the way he talks the in
vestigation will evidently be only to conform
with the law,which requires that an inquiry be
made in all cases of the kind. General Dumont
says that there is no doubt but that the Vere
Cruz was a first class vessel in every respect,
and that she was only loet on account or the
terrible gale in which she went down. He says
also that he doos not think her officers were in
any way to blame. The vessel was admirably
handled and only went down because the gale
such that no craft of her kind could have
lived in it. Potomac.
Representative Upson, of Texas, who
is now in Washington on his way to In
diana and Ohio, says the Democrats will
certainly elect five if not the whole six
of the Representatives from Texas. The
Greenbackers have a possibility of carry
ing tho Fifth district, but it is not at all
certain. The canvass in Texas is quite
lively, as there are many Independent
and Greenback candidates in the field,
but the opposition to the regular Demo
cracy cannot be united.
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
Culled From Our State Exchanges
According to the Constitution betting
in Atlanta is no longer on the final result
of the Gubernatorial election. It is now
coqftned to Colquitt’s majority alone.
On this there are bets that it will range
from ten to fifty thousand.
Monroe Advertiser: “It is a matter of
great gratification that Gov. Colquitt’s
friends are quiet and undemonstrative in
their work for him. His supporters
naturally conclude that the people of
Georgia have made up their minds as to
how they will vote, and to be continually
blustering about prospects and beseigin^
the people with political harangues, is
worse than useless, for it will engender
hard feelings. Their aim is to have all
the tramped up charges against the
Governor promptly answered, and then
let the people vote as they please.”
Ektrly County News: “We have been
told by a colored man that there are two
or three white men in this town engaged
in the dirty business of circulating the
‘convict catechism.’ even since it has been
condemned by Norwood himself. If
tnere ever was a baser electioneering
dodge than this we do not know it”
Atlanta Critic: ** If Uncle Jonathan
Norcross tells the truth, the Norwood
crowd is in a bad fix. He says that
Jewell, the Chairman of the Republican
Committee, is desirous of seeing Mr.
Norwood elected. Any man that Jewell
desires elected is sure to be defeated.
Uncle Jonathan should not have given
Norwood away in any such manner, be
cause Mr. Norwood had promised to
‘favor’ him and his party, and it looks a
little ungrateful.”
Eatonton Messenger : “ ‘Put it down
my Norwood friends! Put it down
—that Putnam county will give Colquitt
at least one thousand majority.”
Madison Madisonian: “Two colored
emissaries working in the interest of
Norwood, scattering his convict cate
chism throughout this and adjacent
counties, became strapped last Saturday
and were eagerly liuntiDg up the Nor
wood club to get its aid in replenishing
their collapsed money bag. The were
exceedingly anxious to get back to At
lanta that day, as they had pulpits to fill
on the holy Sabbath.”
Lumpkin Independent: “TheNorwood
followers in Lumpkin number just seven
votes and about as many boys. One day
this week one of the voters and two of
the younger ones surrounded one timid
Colquitt man and proposed to take a vote
of the group. The vote stood three for
Norwood and one for Colquitt. There
upon the Norwoodites raised a little yell
—the first and only one we have heard
them make this month. The Colquitt
man was glad to afford them the oppor
tunity, and enjoyed their enthu
siasm as much as they did
themselves. ” The Independent also
says: “The ‘convict catechism’ was evi
dently gotten up by some Radical with
a view to win votes in the North, and
the author or authors cunningly gulled
the Norwoodites into adopting this Radi
cal document so that it might be qnoted
as Democratic authority—charging pecu
lation in office and barbarity to our
Democratic State administration. The
wonder is they succeeded in finding,
even ou the Norwood Committee, a
Democrat so green as not to discover
the purpose of the author. But they
did, and thus this infamous circular
now tloats around in the North as Demo
cratic testimony on the corruption and
cruelty of Democratic rule and Georgia
justice.”
Rome Courier: “Hon. Augustus Re
liable Wright was airing his w eloqueuce
and showing his wisdom on the post of
fice corner a few days back, and after
excoriating Mr. Norwood for voting for
and taking the back salary, he proceeded
in stilted style with hackneyed phrase,
so familiar to the people here, to discuss
the bond question, and dropping down
to State affairs, he charged Gov. Col
quitt with signing the Memphis Branch
Railroad bonds! ‘A parcel of us
manipulated Coiquitt, you know,’ or
words to that effect was his insinua
tion. ‘Colquitt!’ said a bystander; ‘you
do not charge Coiquitt with signing the
Memphis Branch bonds, do you? Jim
Smith signed, or indorsed them, while
he was Governor.’ ‘Is that so?’ ‘Yes.'
‘The great spoons!’ said the Hon.
Augustus Reliable Wright, and he
folded his tent and silently stole away,
and is now ruminating upon the ‘feeble
ability’ of some people to tell the truth
even ‘with the best intentions.’”
Thomasville Times: “The Chicago
Inter-Ocean, one of the most influential
as well as one of the most vindictive
Radical papers in the West, has secured
a copy of the Norwood party’s convict
catechism, and they are goiDg for the
Southerners with gloves off. Just as w
expected. That famous document will
furnish the Radicals campaign thunder
of the bloodiest kind. These indiscreet
followers of the Hon. T. M. Norwood
must feel very comfortable when they
see their catechism being used against
Hancock throughout the North and
West. The mischief has been done.
The foul slander has gone too far to be
recalled, and the Democratic party will
have to suffer by it. But we’re much
mistaken if the Democratic party in
Georgia docs not hold to strict account
the authors of the catechism.”
Talbotton Register: “The speech on
Friday last of Hon. Grigsby E. Thomas,
of Columbus, in reply to the Norwood
address on Thursday of Col. Blanford,
was enthusiastically received by a large
audience. His presentation of the is
sues of the campaign was forcible, con
vincing and eloquent. He took up the
oft repeated charges against Governor
Colquitt and refuted them in a most logi
cal manner. These charges, with which
the ears of the people have be^n dis
gusted, are merely the Uot spawn of par
tisanism seeking its own elevation
through the defamation of an honest
man and Christian Governor. Tbe acts
of Colquitt’s administration bear the
closest scrutiny, they are matters of
general note, accepted and indorsed by
the entire order-loving people of Geor
gia. Mr. Thomas received many com
pliments for his masterly speech ; he is a
fine orator and a prominent lawyer of
the Columbus bar.”
Monroe Advertiser: “In the speech of
Judge Warner, in Mem wether county,
he asserted that he resigned because
Governor Colquitt had intimated that
his decision was a partisan one. The
aged Judge says as he could not render
such a decision as would please the Gov
ernor, or suit his corrupt purposes, he
would resign and allow Colquitt to ap
point some Judge who would serve him
and obey his wishes. Now no one be
lieves Governor Colquitt wants to control
or in any way influence the decision of
the Supreme Court; but, admit that
what he says is true, is not Judge
Warner forsaking the trust confided him
by the people, by resigning and allowing
a ‘corrupt’ Governor to pack the court
with corrupt Judges? According to his
own confession, Judge Warner has for
saken a responsible trust, and there is no
excuse for it,”
A correspondent of the Griffin Neirs
says one of the best signs of the con
temptible manner in which Governor
Colquitt has been attacked, and that the
people would not submit to it, is shown
>y the fact that his enemies now claim
that they never sympathized with the in
famous persecution of him. Governor
Colquitt was ridiculed for the interest he
took in the cause of religion, and when
his opponents found that the people
would not tolerate this, they turned tail
and said they never countenanced such
charges. They got out the miserable con
vict catechism, and when the negroes
took it up as an insult to their race, Mr.
Norwood went to the extent of saying,in
his speech at Griffin, that when he first
saw it he disapproved of it, because it
was not the truth. In their wild course
they have charged the Governor with
every possible infamy, but when the
sober sense of our conservative people
rose up indignantly, they took tbe back
track and denied all responsibility. In
their dire extremity they go so far as to
say that the Governor and his friends
originated these reports. Was there
ever such brazen impudence ? The idea
of a man charging himself with conduct
that would make himself an object of
scorn, contempt and loathing, and. if
true, would make him a worse criminal
than any one in prison to-day, is too
absurd to consider.
Griffin News: “The Griffin Sun,
which is as reliable in its political state
ments as any Norwood organ, very
gravely makes the charge in its I«*st
issue that Governor Colquitt and General
Gordon were both leading members in
tlie Ku Klux. The -Sun neglects to
charge in addition that both of these
bloody-minded gentlemen administered
poison to their respective grandmothers
aud cut off the heads of several of their
little children, and committed midnight
murder on several of their fellow citi
zens. Let us have all the charges. ”
Eatonton Messenger: “There is no
hiding the truth that Norwood’s recep
tion was utterly devoid of enthusiasm,
even amoDg his supporters. Gordon's
stay from the beginning to the end was
oue ovation. Norwood’s speech made
absolutely no converts to himself, and
lost him several of his former support
ers. Gordon enthused the friends of
Colquitt, put their ranks in a solid front,
and gained several additions. Norwood
spoke to a gradually diminishing crowd
of two hundred and fifty, Gordon to a
concourse of something like one thou
sand, who heard him gladly to the end,
and were sorry when he stopped. These
are facts that no :nan can disprove. ”
Milledgeville Union and Recorder: “We
have beeu through many hotly contested
political campaigns in Georgia—two no
tably, that between Cobb and McDonald,
and that of Jenkins and Johnson a few
years previous—and we know what it is
to be mistaken in calculations as to re
sults. But we never, in all our lives,
saw. cr heard, such wild assertions as
the Norwood men are making. We ac
count for it in two ways: First, they are
nearly all young men—never having cast
a vote in Georgia for Governor, where
the contestants were both high toned,
honorable men, they have no balance
wheel to keep them on a right level:
secondly, they do not understand the
great conservative heart of the people,
which beats silently, but carries with its
pulsations life and strength to every arte
ry and muscle of the body politic. The
young men will learn a valuable lesson
on the 0th day of next October.
MAINE IN NOVEMBER.
Hancock Several Thousand Votes
Stronger than Plalsted.
Augusta (Me.) Corr. Philadelphia Times.
How will the Fusion victory affect
Hancock’s chances in Maine is the Ques
tion most discussed. The fact that Han
cock is confessedly several thousand
votes stronger than Pl&isted is almost a
sufficient answer. The Democrats now
expect to carry Maine in November, and
the Republicans agree that if Plaisted’s
majority is what it appears to be it will
be hardly worth while to make a strug
gle against the tide. This success has
brought to the Fusionists the hope
of permanent control of the State,
and with that prospect in view
and the general belief among
them that Hancock will get in with
out Maine, they are not likely to pull
apart. In fact the malcontents are com
ing already and claiming credit for he
roic efforts in behalf of Plaisted. The
Democratic and Greenback leaders in
Maine bad a very thorough understand
ing on the Presidential “blank” long ago.
The Greenbackers were to have the can
didate for Governor, two Congressional
candidates and four of the seven elect
ors, and the Democrats to have three
electors. Under this arrangement, des
pite the kicking of some cranky Green
backers who objected to havingIhe State
committee nominate the electors, the
present Fusion electoral ticket was
placed in the field. There will
be a convention of Greenbackers
this week, under a call made long ago to
pass upon these nominations, but in
view of Monday’s election it will not
amount to anything. The Fusionists
generally have caught the Hancock fever,
and there are many Republicans wko are
ready to join them. Welded together by
such a surprising success, and reinforced
by thousands who voted against them
Monday, their confidence in giving Han
cock Maine’s electoral vote is not viry
unnatural. Nothing but hard work and
liberal use of money can prevent it, and
the Republicans must have a good long
rest before they are ready for either.
General Plaisted’s position is not gen
erally understood, but I feel safe in say
ing that he prefers Hancock to either
Garfield or Weaver and certainly thinks
Hancock a better stick than Weaver to
break the head of the Republican party.
Himself second to no other Maine soldier
in distinction, he knows and admires
Hancock, and has appreciated all along
the effect that a Fusion victory in Sep
tember would have upon Hancock’s
chances. All of the elements of the
Fusionists are, therefore, likely to crys
tallize for the present about the Demo
cratic candidate for President, if indeed
their help is now necessary to elect him,
as Republicans here, in their desponden
cy, very much doubt.
THE WORST OF AGONIES.
Horrible Death of a Little Boy Iron
Hydrophobia.
Providential Gift of a Hat.
The Literary Churchman gives an
amusing anecdote of Mr. Hawker, an
English vicar, who was walking one
day on the cliffs near Morwenstow with
the Rev. Mr. W , when a gust of
wind took off Mr. W ’s hat, aud car
ried it over the cliff. Within a week or
two a Methodist preacher at Truro was
discour sing on prayer, and in his sermon
he said: “I would not have you, dear
brethren, confine your supplications to
spiritual blessings; but ask also for tem
poral favors. I will illustrate my mean
ing by relating an incident that hap
pened to myself ten days ago. I was ou
the shore of a cove near a little insigfi-
cant place in North Cornwall named
Morwenstow, and about to proceed to
Bude. Shall I add, my,Christian friends, j
that I had on my head at the time a
shocking bad hat—that I somewhat
blushed to think of entering that harbor '
town and watering place so ill adorned |
as to my head’ Then I lifted up a j
orayer for covering more suited to my I
lead. At that solemn moment I raised
my eyes and saw in the spacious firma- 1
ment on high—the blue ethereal sky—a 1
black spot. It approached—it lareened ;
—it widened—it fell at my feet, ft was
a brand new hat by a celebrated London
maker! I cast my battered beaver to the
waves, my Christian friends, and walked
into Bude as fast as I could with a new
hat on my head.”
Another distressing case of hydropho
bia, the third that has occurred in Lan
caster. Pa., during the past 9even weeks,
terminated Saturday in the death of the
victim, little David Ziegler, the six-year-
old son of Frank Ziegler, a laboring
man. About the first ot last August the
little boy was severely bitten in the lip
by a dog belonging to his father, which
was lying upon the porch in front of the
house, and which the lad playfully struck
in the face as he was passing. The dog
had exhibited no signs of the rabies.
Although the wouud wa3 an ugly one.
the lip being so badly lacerated
that it was necessary for the at
tending physician to sew it up, no
serious consequences were antici
pated, and the injury healed satisfac
torily. On Wednesday’ the boy
complained of feeling unwell, and was
alternately affected by severe chills and
high fever. He was unable to eat, his eyes
Ik came greatly dilated, and he strenu
ously resisted taking the liquid medicine
which the physician prescribed and
which it req :ired sonic force to adminis
ter. the little sufferer shuddering visibly,
and frequently screaming. On Friday
afternoon Dr. Foreman, who was the
attending physician, pronounced the case
to be one of hydrophobia, and his diag
nosis was confirmed by Dr. Atlee, who
had been called in consultation. A South
American vegetable poison called “cu-
care,” claimed to be a specific remedy
for the disease, was administered by
means of injection under the skin
of the arm, and appeared
to produce a ticncficial effect,
but the relief was only temporary, for
during the night the spasms increased in
force and number, and from midnight on
till five o’clock Saturday morning, when
death relieved him, he was in continuous
agony. The sufferer imagined the room
to l»e full of horrid forms, and the most
trifling objects assumed shapes that were
menacing himself and his mother, for
whom he appeared to manifest the utmost
solicitude. Imploring her to flee from the
danger in which she was placed, and
shrieking with terror. At one time he
jumped as high as the head-board of the
bed, and toward the end it required the
united strength of two men to hold the
suffering child on his couch.
Recruits for Salt Lake.
New York Herald.
Among the steerage passengers of the
steamer Nevada, of the Guion line,
which arrived at Castle Garden Thurs
day, were 338 Mormon converts from
foreign lands, en route to Salt Lake
City. Elder John Rider, one of those in
charge of the modern saints, said that
the party consisted of 147 Scandinavians.
134 English and Scotch, 40 Swiss and 17
American saints, the latter being return
ing elders who have been abroad as
missionaries. The converts were distin
guished from previous batches who have
arrived here by *4he large numlier of
children accompanying them. Few of
the women were either young or comely.
A number of very old people were in the
party, several between the ages of seven
ty-five and eighty years. An incident of
an exciting nature took place in the
Garden just after the Mormons had been
landed They were crowded together at
one side of the rotunda, in keeping with
their invariable custom of holding aloof
from the Gentiles, when one of the mis
sionaries of an orthodox denomination—
one of those permitted by the Commis
sioners of Emigration to attend daily at
the Garden—approached a knot of the
saints and soon got into a discussion re
garding polygamy, a doctrine fer which
The missionary expressed the utmost ab
horrence. One of the English Mormon
converts was defending the creed when
the missionary interrupted to ask the
question :
“Do you know, young man, by whom
polygamy was established?”
“Certainly,” was the reply, “by God
Almighty himself.”
“You are wrong, young man,” the
missionary replied, “you are indebted *
for your doctrine to Cain, the first mur
derer!”
Upon this the missionary, it is said,
was roughly seized by the shoulder and
ordered away by one of the Mormon
elders. An angry crowd of Mormons
quickly gathered and there was some ex
citement. The missionary quietly re
treated in the confusion.
A Message from Sea.
A singular instance of the action of the
wind and waves is brought to the atten
tion of the New Orleans Picayune by
Mr. Charles Crossman, keeper of the
Sabine Pass. Louisiana, lighthouse. He
enclosed a slip of paper found September
7, 1880, on the beach two miles from that
point, in a hermetically sealed bottle,
bearing the following inscription:
“May 9th, 1878. Ship ‘Hesperus,’in
approximate latitude 31 deg. 38 min. N..
longitude 34 deg. 34 min. W. Finder
kindly report to Royal Geographical So
ciety, London, for ocean currents. Cast
off by C. L. Wraggc, F. IU G. S. (Aus
tralia to London.)”
This little messenger has been two
years and four months making its way
to the Louisiana coast The ship had
rounded the Cape of Good Hope, sailed
northward along the coast of Africa and
was south, a little west, of the Azores
Islands when the bottle was committed
to the waves. Its route was a circuitous
one. The Hesperus at the time was only
a few degrees north of the great equato
rial current setting from the coast of
Africa to the coast of America. Being
caught in this broad westerly stream,
the bottle moved nearly due west into
the Carribbean Sea, and thence north
ward off the coast of Y'ucatan, and as it
came within the influence of the Golf
Stream, was driven ashore by the wind.
A Melancholy Suicide.—A Read- j
ing (Pa.) dispatch states that the wife of i
G. W. Kemp, a wealthy farmer of Berks j
county, Sunday afternoon drowned her- 1
self by jumping into the Ontelaunce
creek, near their home. She was insane
upon religious matters. Two years ago
she cut her throat with a razor in the
attic, but her life was saved. Later she
severed an artery with a razor while in
the woods, but timely medical aid pre- 1
vented her death. She was closely
watched afterwards. Sunday afternoon
she was sitting on the verandah of their
country home with her husband and chil
dren. Mr. Kemp went to the barn a few
moments, and as soon as he had his back
turned, the wife embraced her little ones
and then rushed to the river, took off her
shoes hurriedly, and jumped in. Her
body was recovered a few minutes after
wards.
Grumbling Against Queen Vic
toria.—The departure of the Queen for
Balmoral has not only led to a deal of
grumbling, but has excited some severe
comments, which is not wonderful, con
sidering the great inconvenience that
Her Majesty's residence in the remotest
depths of Alierdeenshire occasions. At
least two Cabinet Ministers must attend
the Council for the speech, and these un
lucky officials will have to be absent
three days from London, and to spend
forty hours in traveling, which is rather
hard, considering that the Ministers ap
pear, without exception, to be worn out
aDd in need of repose. Moreover, the
delay will necessarily involve a pro
longation of the session. In Prince
Albert’s time this sort of thing was un
heard of, as, of course, being a practical
man he realized the propriety of the
sovereign remaining in proximity of the
capital during the titling of Parliament;
but Lord Beaconsfield’s abject subservi
ency to royalty has demoralized Her
Majesty, and it would be well if tho
matter were placed before her in its true
light—London Truth.
A Belgian Baron Dies among Con
victs.—A convict died recently in the
hospital on Blackwell’s Island who was
serving out a • term for petty larceny
under the name of Harry Howard. It m
now claimed that he was Baron Herman
de Reiffenboro, whose family reside in
Brussels, and are known throughout
Europe for their wealth and high con
nections. He came to this country fif
teen years ago, well supplied with money
and with letters of introduction to some
of the best New York families. After
some time he married a domestic in a
family he was in the habit of visiting,
and assumed the name of De Laurie.
Both his wife and he became dissipated,
and when he had spent the remnant of
his fortune the pair at last drifted into a
tenement house in the midst of a colony
of ignorant Italians, for whom the Baron
wrote letters to friends, and thus secured
a pittance. He began also to associate
with thieves, and on June 11 was sen
tenced to the island for theft.
As a sample of the opinions of depart
ment clerks on the probabilities of the
result of the Presidential election, it is
said that a War Department clerk, who
has been in office for some fifteen years,
publicly offers to wager $25 each on
New York, Indiana tmd Pennsylvania
going for Hancock.
Teachers, authors and others of sedentary
habits highly prize Malt Bitters.
A noth worthy arrival in New York is
Yong Ying Zmg, a prominent Chinese
merchant and general manager of the Chi
nese Steam Navigation Company at Can
ton, representing twenty steamers, one
of which, the Ho Chung, left San Fran
cisco a few days ago.
The report is that the stock of the
American Union, whose consolidation
with the Western Union is said to be
Gould’s object in securing control of the
latter, has risen Trom 52, the price at
which it was placed on the market a
fortnight ago, to 72.
Fourteen thousand seven hundred per
sons are now employed on the Pennsyl
vania Railroad, and "the New York Cen
tral Railroad has 12,000 employes.