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Georgia Affairs.
The Conyers Examiner states that Mr. Jos.
McDonald, a candidate for 8heriff in Rockdale
county, took nine drachms of laudanum last
Monday morning, and but for the promptness
of a skillful physician, Dr. J. A. Stewart, he
would in all probability have died. That paper corded
. t.:Trt enmo nrA inpllnpd tn thlnlr ha asvtf .u
Fears for the Florida Orange Crop—
The Coldest Weather In Tears—
Railroad Trains Delayed — The
T hermome trlcal Variations at Dif
ferent Places,
tfiylvvv i- - -
Jacksonville, Fla., December SO.—The
thermometer fell 46 degrees from 12 o’clock
yesterday, standing 19 degrees aoove zero
this morning. All the oranges hanging on
the trees in thlsctty are frozen. It is feared
that the fruit up the river is badly damaged.
About a third of the crop has been gather
ed, and it is not known yet
what Id jury the trees have sustained. It is
^the. coldest day recorded since the Signal
Office was established here in 1872. in 1857
the thermometer showed sixteen degrees.
The pumps are all frozen this morning, and
the people are relying on the well* for
water. It is still freezing in the shade at
midday.
A dispatch from Sumter county reports
that the fruit and trees are not injured.
PHiLADBLPaiA r pecember 30.—Last night
says while some are inclined to think he meant
self-destruction, from the fact that he had two
phials of the same drug, one of which bo took,
Mr. McDonald affirms that he had no such in
tention: that he took the medicine to ease the
pain of a severe attack of neuralgia.; from
which he was suffering very much. Ha says
he fully intended to tell his family, when he
went home, what he had done, but by the
time he reached home he was so overcome by
the influence of the drug that he lay upon the
bed and fell asleep almost instantly.
The Macon Telegraph learns that on Satur
day last an affray occurred in Jasper, between
two cousins named Kelly, resulting in thedeath
of one. Eight years ago there was a fight be
tween the Kellys and another party, in which
two of the family lost their lives. In this last
difficulty the son of one of the dead men killed
a son of the only surviv or of the affair of 187*2.
The Coffee County Gazette says that Mr. R.
J. McDonald, of that county, made this year
eighteen hundred pounds of seed cotton, and
twenty-five bushels of corn to the acre,
without the use of commercial fertilizers.
In addition to the above, he male a fine era?
of cane and potatoes. “This,” says the Ga
zette, “shows well for the all at-home form
ing.”
On Monday morning last Mr. Thoma3 F. Gra
dy, of Atlanta, was fo.und dead in his bed in
the Wilson House, in that city. He had been
indulging somewhat in dissipation, but it was
not thought to a-serious degree, and when he
retired Suuday night was in apparently good
health. His death occurred during* sleep. Mr.
Grady was an Irishman by-birth, but hadlived ’
many years in Atlanta, where he was well
known and had many friends.
The Rome Courier states that the Columbus
an 1 Rome Railroad has been extende* ‘ Co
Hood, in Harris county, ten miles further frem
Columbus. The increase of busL.e's .is rtf
markable. The road has carried into Columbus
7,414 bales of cotton since the 3irt of August,
1879, against 2,812 for the same t. : me th^pre
ceding year. That other business has aI$o in
creased very largely is a reasonable supposi
tion. And all this grows cut of an extension
of only ten miles.
Mr. Charles H. Me ilock. the editor of the'
Sylransa Telephone, was married on the 23d
Instant to Miss Sailie C. Lawton, a daughter of
Colonel John Lawton, of South Carolina. The
Rev. Joseph Lawton officiated. The occasion
was celebrated with great eclat at the residence . nightfall,
of the bride’s father. —
The house of Mr. James T. Walker, in Scriven
county, eight miles from No. 5J4 Central Rail
road. was destroyed by fire last Friday.
Says the Cochran Enterprise: “Moses How
ard. a soiled African of the masculine way of
arranging things, scented Christmas in the dis
tance on Monday evening, and too much snif
fling procured a title to a berth in the c da-
boose. The Deputy Marshal oper. ed the door
about night ana told him to go in peace. He
‘stood on the order of his goin ,* and instead
of stepping off quietly he pounced on Mr. Gil
bert for a fight, and but for the lively use of
his club that gentleman might have‘come out
second bes r . it took three regular knock
downs and ‘spilling of blood’ and *jiist a little
outside help’ to get the darkey into quarters
again."
eral days ago near Oak Hill, in Newton coun
ty, between Dr. Dan Scott and his father-in-
law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law. Mr.
8cott and his wire having separated, the above
parties went to Mr. Scott’s for his wife’s furni
ture. etc., when some unpleasant words passed
between Mr. Scott and Willie Sharp, his
brother-in-law, which resulted in Scott'shoot-
ingat Sharp twice, and in trying to shoot
again the father in law. Sharp, knocked the
pistol out of Scott’s hand with a rock, and the
mother-in-law struck r cott on the forehead
wich a stick. At ths juncture Willie
Sharp struck him on the head with a maul,
fracturing the skull, from which injury, we
have been recemly informed, Mr. Scott will
hardly recover. This is a horrible affair, and
is greatly to be deplored. We give the facts
rroveas they were stated to da.”
Conyers Examiner: “Still the tide of emi
gration flows. Every day this week the trains
have been crowded with emigrants going
West. List Tues lay another squad left Social
Circle. From what we learn, tae majority of
these emigrants are of that class who are in
debt largely, principally to the merchants,
and, we presume, hav- run the credit business
about as long as they could well do so. Some
are now leaving the country, seeking Lome* in
the West, settling on government lands in
North Alabama, leaving their creditors with
both ends of the bag to hold, and it empty at
that. If this be true,, we are better off without
than with them. We wish all that class would
leave this country, and make room for good,
clever, hon u st people, all of whom we cordial
ly invite to settle among us. In Georgia—the
‘garden spot’ of the South—we have plen*y of
room for you, and our inducements are just as
good ss those of any other country.”
Christmas passed off very q*iietly indeed In
Rome. The Courier reports only two cases of
lawlesness, as follows: “About two o’clock
Sunday morning a young gentleman of this
citv went into the restaurant of Bob E. Jen
kins, colored, and a difficulty ensued thepar-
ticulars of which we have failed to learn, and
several shots were exchanged. The young
gentleman was hit in the second finger of the:
right hand, without breaking the bone, and a
ball passed through both iappeljr of his coat
without touching his person. Un Sunday night
a white man from the country, whose name
we did not learn, took a stand at the .door of
the restaurant named above, and as a certain
negro came out made a sweeping cut with a
pocketknifein his back, cutting same tenor
twelve inches through all his garments, but
not touching his person. The man was ar
rested and lodged la the calaboose.”
The Albany Hems end Advertiser chronicles
•■he following homicide in Worth county: “On
Christmas eve, at Warwick, Worth county, a
"fficulty occurred between Mr. W. J. Ford.
-.--Sheriff of the county, and Mr. Bartlett
itory, son of J. H. Story. allofWonh county,
rhich resulted In thedeath of young Story.
e particulars of the unfortunate affair, as
.e learn from gentlemen who came to the
ity from that neighborhood yesterday, are
- as fo’lows: There was an old grudge
g between the two parties, and on Fn-
. they met at Warwick. Story was standing
a crowd talking, when Ford walked up awl
oped. Story turned to him and said, ‘You
.j»G--dd-nsccu drel,’anddrewhtspistol,
ord then drew his weapon, and they com
menced firing. They stood only about uve
set apart, and made a desperate fight, each
ne firing three shots, eveiy ore of which took
Sect. Ford was shot in the arm and just
bore the right nipple, Story received a ball
his stomach, one in his rignt side and afotal
through the centre of his forehead. When
Ms last shot was fired Story ran into Ford and
raw him down; Ford was too much weaken-
to off ir resistance. Mr. Chase Lippitt, who
itDess**d the fight, then rushed up and drew
ory off of Ford Story’s hold was only a grip
death, for hi breathed his last white upon
e bodyof his enemy. Mr. Fora wM^taken
'me at once, his wounds dressed, and^he wlu
■obably recover. Mr. Story was buried *t
iy. Ford is aoout 28 years of age; btory was
*>ut 21. B th are members of respectable
untiles in Worth, and the sad occurrence ^
■-Iversally regretted in that county*. It is s*Jd
either party was In the least under the influ-
sce of liquor.” .
On the subject of cotton seed oil manufao-
:re in the couth, the Scientific America*
“The industries of the Southhav- nines
close of our civil war. been
•rant directions, while soi
hes have attained a degree -
- never dreamed of in the davs of slavery,
of these is the manufacture of . the oil of
in seed and the art of refining the same,
which it is made as sweet as olive oil, and:
l only used as 8'ich in the United States, but
now largely exported to Italy, to. compete
fc ffie native olive oil. which is a staple arti-
It is there used for adulterating the
>vo article, and then It is exported again
genuine olive oiL This has already b*-
>e a serious matter, as of the sx.
ion gallons of cotton seed ■oil
were exported from the un-tea
during the last year, the greater
ioa west to Italy. The Italian t Govern
‘ therefore, la order to check this »<*“>£
n, has imposed a heavy auty upon ice
'rtation of cotton seed oil from the unite"*
The exportation, which in 1877 ana
was about one and a half million gal.ons
y#ar, reached in 1879 nearly rix miilion«,and
•will be surpassed in 1880. Our homecon-
"ption of the article is over jtwo mill on gas
per year. Mississippi and ■ Louisiana each
Georgia, two each; together f<
•nt 4:0,000 tons c_
yielding thirty-fii
tundra i and ”*
M of seed. Tin
gjng qualities,
COLD SNAP. &&IK sooth afbica.
A GENERAL FREEZE ALL OVER
THE COUNTRY.
decilne.'anaiitT'd’clock' this morning ..
marked 5 degrees below zero. It was reported
still lower 2a various parts of tLe city, but
whis was the official report at the United
States Signal Office. At 10 o’clock this
morning it had risen to zero. At Wilming
ton, Del., it, touched 8 below. Reports from
exposed places along the Bine Ridge
on the Lehigh and ScbnylkQl re
gion, show an average tempera-
!? re t 5? 14 tp 22 degrees below,
the latter being reported at l^nhartsvllie,
Pa. In the same reg'on most of the coun
try roads are blockaded by snow. Farmers
are pulling down fences and driving through
the open fields on account of snow drifts
making the roads impassable.
Chicago, December 30.—The mercury
was rising all yesterday afternoon, and at
midnight had reached as high as zero, with
the chances favoring milder weather. To
day light snow was flying in the air. At
present advices indicate warmer weather to
the westward and colder weather eastward.
The cold spell has been more severe and last
ing than any for eight years, bat It has been
singularly free from casualties. Railroad
trains are arriving quite late on all the
roads, being in some cases six hours behind
time. Considerable difficulty is experienced
in handling freight and live stock, so that
receipts have materially decreased at the
stock yards.
Louisville, December 30.—The Signal
Office reports that the temperature here
yesterday morning stood 7 degrees below
zero, and at no time daring the day got
higher than 5 degrees below. At midnight
It was at 2 degrees below, with a brisk
southwest wind and clear weather.
. Galveston, December 30 —At midnight
the .thermometer stood 21 d<
zero here.' A Special froth San Antonio
says last night was the coldest on record
there. At 8 a. m. the thermometer stood at
Ip degrees above zero and the ice was two
inches thick. The water pipes are frozen
throughout the city and. many burst. The
new water tanks along the railroad are
frozen; delaying trains. At Dallas the mer
cury dating the day fell to 4 degrees above
zero, and at Corsicana to 6 degrees above.
Wilkssbakbb, ?a<,-December 30.-=Tbia
was the coldest morning of the season. The
mercury stood at 10 degrees below zero.
There is but little snow on the ground.
Danville, SX. t December 30.—The
weather is the coldest ever known here.
Snow fell all day yesterday and until after
nightfall. At»T-'p. m. the thermometer
stood three degrees above zero; at 9 o’clock
two degrees below. At midnight four de
grees below, and at 6 o’clock this morning
twelve degrees below.-
New: York, December 30.—At'7 o'clock
this morning the mercury at New Orleans
stood 22 degrees above zero. a fall of 8 de
grees; at Galveston 21 degrees above, a fall
of 3 degrees; at Vicksburg, Miss ,-16 de
grees above, a fall of 1 degree; at Jackson
ville, Fla., 23 degrees above, a fall of 27 de
grees; at Cedar Keys, 22 degrees above, a
fall of 32 degrees; at Augusta, Ga., 8 'd©-
grees above, a fall of 35 degrees; at Mont
gomery, Ala., 8 degrees above, a fall of 15
degrees; at Charleston, 8. C., 15 degrees
above, a foil of 28 degrees; at Norfolk, Va.,
We learn,” says the Conyers Examiner, 10 degrees above, a fall of 18 degrees; at
“that quite a serious difficulty occurred sev- Wilmington, N. C., 11 degrees above, afall
llh have, since
i extending ^iq
S 6 of P lSpori
of 16 degrees; at Knoxville, Tenn., 2 de
grees above, a.fall of 9 degrees.
In New York city the morning has been
intensely cold. At 12 o’clock the mercury
at Hudnutt’s steod 1 degree above zero.
The weather at Rondout is clear and the
thermometer eight degrees.below.zero.
At Albion the weather is stormy and the
thermometer ten degrees below zero.
At Borden town, N. J , the thermometer is
ten degrees below zero.
At Redbank, N. J., the railroads are
blocked and the thermometer is 9 degrees
below.
At Newbnrg, N. Y., the thermometer is
12 degrees below.
At Seagirt, N. J., the thermometer Is 6
degrees below, with a snow drift eight feet
deep.
At Asbury Park, N. J., the thermometer
iaJ2.degrees below zero.
At Freehold, N. J.. the railroads are all
blockaded and the thermometer 10 degrees
below zero.
At Lewes, Del., the trafns are snow bound
and the thermometer 4 degrees below zero.
: At Poughkeepsie* N. Y, the thermometer
is 20 degrees below zero.
A Buffalo special says the snow storm
still continues, with no immediate prospect
of abating. It is one of the severest ever
experienced. All trains on the New York
Central Railroad which should have gone
East this morning have been abandoned.
Cincinnati, December 30.— The Ohio
river closed here at five o’clock this morn
Jng, and the- news. received here indicates
that It is frozen over solid for quite.a dis
tance below. The sky is hazy and the
thermometer at noon registered 20 degrees
above zero. ^
8t. Louis, December 30.—The river was
gorged some miles below the city last night,
and the ice stopped running In this harbor
about 10:30 a. m. The weather is much
milder to-day, with Indications of a thaw
b< liso Brjlhch, N. J., December 30.—The
thermometer was ten degrees below zero
here thU moraine. At Fair Haven at six
o’clock a. m., It was fourteen degrees
below. The wind Is very high and the rail
roads are generally blocked with heavy
drifts of snow. . • - . „„
Poughkeepsie. N. Y-, December 30.—
The evening train on the Rhinebeck and
Connecticut Railroad was thrown from the
track bv a broken rail near Rhinebeck this
afternoon. Four or five men were Injured,
but none it is thought fatally. . J.
Washington, December 30.—It Is intense
ly cold here this morning. Between. 11
o’clock last night and 7 this morning the
minimum temperature was 7 degrees below
zero, at 7 a. m. 4 below, and at 11 o’clock 2
Charleston, 8. C., December 30 —The
temperature this morning, was lower
than It has been since 1835. The
minimum temperature recorded by
the Signal Offlk is 13 degrees
above zero, and reporta from other parts of
the city bordering on the water front give
the minimum at 12 degrees. .. .In
1S35 the lowest point reached was
9 degrees above zero. In 1S71 uie
lowest was 19 degrees, wM. up
to this time was the lowest point since
1835. To-day has bean dear, but intensely
cold. The streets and even the saltwater
ponds In the city are frozen baro, and every
body ie enjoying this rather novel condition
of-thtngs. At this hour (1:30 p. m.)the
thermometer registers 27 degrees,
Chattanooga, December SO —The mer
cury fe'I last night to three degrees below
zero in thtedty, the coldest weather here
for four years. The ground Is covered
with enow to the depth of four Inches, but
“S^K^T^rDSember 30-Th.
(r wesiber to' - —
here in sevi
The^ou^d'w^coverid'with enow, and
ter slelgbing has not been known here
^RicHMONor^A., December SO —The
weather heri to-d.y i. the widest J.ln«
January 18th, 1857, when the thermometer
reached eight degrees below zero. To-day
at sunrise the mercury marked the same
figure. Snow lies very thick on the ground
’ W^NOraN* NC? December 30-The
co™ve r°<£-ched here last night. T^e
? ffii^^cemher »-The cold-
j coldest experienced
I year*. The thermometer at
Attempt to Capture
New Governor of tbe
Lonoon, December 30.—A dispatch from
Capetown to the Daily Telegraph says: “The
Boers formed two camps near Potefstroom
on the l?tlr instant, and on the 20th 200
mounted Boers and 1,000 foot attempted to
capture a fort which was occupied by 300
soldiers. They advanced to within two hun
dred yards of the fort, but were repulsed
by shot and shell. 8even insurgents were
killed and many wounded. Paul .Kroger
held a council C f w »r 0 n the 22J Inst., when
it was decided to starve the garrison but.”
Sir Hercules G. Robinson, the newly a;
pointed Governor of the Cape of Goo
Hope, will sail today from Southampton
for South Africa.
A telegram to the War Office from Pieter-
ssffi-sfcss.srsss.its
Commandant Raffe and twenty men, who
were occupying the court house at Potefs
troom. It is rumored that the Boers oc
cupy Pretoria, and that the troops have
retired to the fort.
The Daily Sim, discussing the plan which
has been mooted by leading members of the
Legislature and citizens of Capetown, to
send Chief Justice Sir John Devllliers,
President of the Legislative Council,
Commissioner to the Transvaal, says: -
4 ‘Should the alternative of finding some
means or compromise knd reconciliation be
deemed worth entertaining, this propo
sition might well offer the beat possible
means of bringing about a just solution.
The reasons for considering such steps are
veiy strong Indeed.”
■A. Berlin dispatch to the Morning Ib*t says
the Dutch Government is about to make an
appeal to the farmers of the British nation
in favor of the independence of the Trans
vaaL n-mntt &*-'■ f
A SPECK IN THE EAST.
Trouble Brewing In Albania—
Strained Relations of the Albanian
League and the Porte—Ignomini
ous Fall of a Rotten Fabric Pre
dicted.
London, December 30.—A letter to the
Ball Matt Gazette from Constantinople, dated
the 24th inrtant, says: “There.are ominous
signs of a coming storm in Albania. Th
relations between the Albanian League
and the Porte are excessively strained.
The League, has outlived the Mul
tan’s liking, . but it ‘ has also
outgrown his power. Dervish Pasha has
already been compelled to 6end three bat
talions of troops to TusI, ostensibly to in
sure the safely of the boundary commission,
but really to check the disaffection
among the Christian tribes, which
was stimulated by the recent . ar
rest of the Prince of the Miridltes.
Should a disturbance arise at other points his
resources Would be severely taxed, and
when the mpment arrived In tfie eyes of ithe
League for concerted action throughout Al
bania, the whole fabric of Turkish rule, sap
ped by tbe Porte’s own intrigues, would fail
ignomlniously. It is difficult to forecast
how soon that moment will arise, but the
fact that Greece, considering herself for
saken by the powers, is turning her eye to
Albania for assistance ■ and has Bent emissa
ries to negotiate with tbe league against the
common enemy, is pregnant of the gr&Vest
dangers for the Ottoman Empire.”
Constantinople, December 30.—The
Porte is about to address a circular to the
powers containing propositions at present
secret, the acceptance of which it Is believ
ed can alone avert a conflict between ljar-;
key and Greece.
FINANCE AND TRADE.
The New York Stock Market—Cir
cular of Uae Liverpool Cotton XSro<
ken’ Association.
New York, December 30.—The st
market was characterized by a buoyant t
almost throughout the day, and prices
vanced sharply on the general list. '
special features were North western,St. Paul,
Union Pacific, Western Union and coal
shares. The advance ranged from : X
to per cent., and with the exception’of
Michigan Central reacted 1 per cent; .The
highest quotat ions were current at the cloee,
Western Union rising L per cent., declining
2 per cent., and closing at a recovery of 1$£.
Ohio and Mississippi preferred advanced 4
per cent., fell off 5 per cent., and recovered
3 per cent. The- total 1 sales were 446,000
shares.
LivrmpooL, December 20 —This week’s
circuit* of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’
Association say*: u- “The cotton' market,
which closed firm on Thursday of last week,
reopened on TuesdaV with a good demand,
which continued to-day (Wednesday),
and quotations are generally unchanged.
American was In good request
at unaltered rates. Sea island was in ffir
demand and steady. Futures, which closed
dull and barely steady last Thursday, re
opened quiet, prices declining 1 32-a 116j.,
which decline was recovered to-day, the
market closing steady.”
AMICABLY ARRANGED.
The Louisville and Nashville Hall
road and the Southern Express
Company—Suits Withdrawn
Nashville, Tenn., December 30.—'
solicitor for Robbins B. 8mith appeared
fore the Chancellor mad consented, at
cost of said Smith, to withdraw tbe
heretofore filed to enjoin an increase of
capital stock of the Louisville and Nasty
Railroad Company, and also consented to
the dissolution of the injunction heretofore
granted against an increase of Bald stock,
and that the proceeding for contempt
heretofore instituted against the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad “Company
should be discharged. All suits and differ
ences between the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company and the Adams and
Southern Express Companies have beep
amicably arranged^ upon a .basis eminently
satisfactory to the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company;
Weather Indications.
Office Chief 8ignal Observer, Wash
ington, December 30.—Indications for
Friday: . , j
In the Middle States, clear or fair
weather, northwest to southwest winds,
rising barometer, and tlight rise In tempera
ture.
In the South Atlantic States, dear or fair
weather, north to west winds, low, but
slowly rising temperature,and slight change*
In barometer.
In the East Gulf States, slightly warm and
partly cloudy weather, northerly winds, be
aming variable, and stationary or slowly
Tailing barometer. ‘ ,
In the West Gulf States, generally cloudy
weather, occasional light rain or, snow, a
slight rise in temperature, falling barome
ter and northerly winds, becoming variable,
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, sllghtr
ly warmer and partly cloudy or clear
weather, winds generally from southwest to
northwest, and stationary or slowly faUing
barometer.
The Whittaker Court Martial.
Washington, December 30.—-The court
martial In tbe case of Cadet Whittaker ha4
been ordered to convene at West ^ Point on
Tuesday, January 18. The toUowtoH is the
detail for the court: Brigadier General N. A.
Miles, President of the court; Colonel H. A.
Morrow, of the Twenty-first Infantry: Lieut.
CoL Pinckney Lujenbeel, of the First In
fantry; Lieut. Col. J. JL Brannon, of the
First Artillery; Major Lewis Merrill, of tbe
sixteenth Infantry; Major A. B. Gardner,;
’ Judge Advocate of the court.
Killed troile BealatloK Arreet.
Jhsrleston. 8. C-, December 30.—A;
Kdal to the Nan and Courier reports that
^WriiSrSrWu.v^^M;
been Issued tor stealing a hale .of cotton,-
resisted, and cut and shot a
named Bateman who atten
him, and was then ihot and kBledhy an-
other deputy,
serious.
-Work on the 1
Pabis, December 30.—The first
ment of engineers and workmen w
iary 5th to prepare for the c<
e Panama canal.
are
THE IRISH AGITATORS.
PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE STATE
TRIALS ABATING.
of the Attorney
r Speech—Temporary Bar*
racks Being Fitted Up-!
London, December 30.—The correspond
ent of the Times at Dablin says: “Public in
terest In the Irish State trials has considera
bly abated. There was little or no excite
ment in the neighborhood of the court, and
a large number of the Irish members of
Parliament who attended yesterday (Tues
day) did not appear to-day^ 7 ’
Barrack accommodation in the country is
Insufficient for the increased number of
soldiers, and . temporary barracks
will be fitted up at Bathkeale,
county Limerick, and Ennesly, coun
ty Clare, for a detail for detachments
of infantry, each comprising two officers
and fifty men. Another detachment will
be sent to Loughrea, countyJ&alw&y, as soon
as the quarters lor them have been pro
vided..
Fresh cases of “Boycotting” are continu
ally reported from Ireland. A large meet
ing was held at CronghwcU, county Gal
way, last night, to protest against the State
Iirosecntions.
Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlin,
President of the Board of Trade, has re
ceived a letter from Dublin threatening the
livee of himself, Mr. Gladstone and Mr.
John Bright, If they continue to oppose co
ercion.
Dublin, December 30.—Proceedings in
the State trials continue to excite little in
terest. Mr. Law, Attorney General, con
tinued his speech. He dealt, with the
speeches of Messrs. Dillon, Biggar, Sullivan
and Brennan, advising the peoplq to pay
only Griffith’s valuation, and declared that
the traversers had conspired to inaugurate
red Republicanism and Communism.
Mr. Law commenced the reading of sev
enty seven extracts from speeches of the
traversers, showing that they all counseled
the people to withhold their rent. He then
quoted the judgment of Chief Justice Cock-
burn, to the effect that . a . con
spiracy was " the act' of* two or
more persons combining to-injure a third
party, and it was not necessary that the
acts done should oe criminal. A mere com
bination to effect civil Injury would be within
the law. He wished to read the opinion of
Daniel O’Conner on a proposed strike of
farmers against the rent roll, but this was
not allowed by the court. Mr. Law pro
ceeded to explain the punishments which
the traversers advocated for those who took
evicted farms, and declared that one of the
traversers baa been continued in his poet as
the paid agent of the Land League,
after having held persons up
by name to popular execration
and murder. He dwelt with much effect
upon the point "that the traversers had given
prominence to the statement that if thirty
thousand persons were enrolled in the Land
League, no army could enforce the land
laws. Mr. Law’s speech was not concluded
when the court rose.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Reantimi Snow at Last- Christmas
Dinner—Minor Topics — Personal
and General—In. the Same Boat-
Some New P ablleatlons—101—1001
—1881—Scattered Items of News-
Final Paragraphs.
Atlanta. December 29.—Webavahad wether
and weather and whether, bat never in my
recollection such a day as this. Forth:
week itbas Men trying to snow, and this
ing Atlanta awoke to find tbe effort a fin
cess of vast magnitude and considerable stay-
here-ativeness for the present.
Everywhere there was about a foot of
and In many places it was drifted from two to
three or four feet My sumn
almost hidden from view In a huge drift that
banked up around it during the night,'
was a dreary sight fora sufferer from an
tack of epizootic that has terminated in rheu
matism. It is some consolation,
know that nearly half the people in
One of the worst jokes of th* day irthat of
seme fellow who this morning registered at
the Markham Hons a as “John Smith, author
of Beautiful Snow.” A committee of indig
nant citizens was orgau'zod to ‘ *
and lynch him at .once.- It is
thing to l» made a. joke, of
Northern visitors awoke with
for
by strangers,
amazement this
MARINE DISASTER.
Two British Steamers With All
Bands Lost.
London, December 30.—The British
steamer Garnet, of Dundee, was wrecked
in the North. Sea during the gale of the 12th
Inst., and all"hands, cumbering seventeen
persons, perished.
A British steamer, supposed to be the
Montgomeryshire, from Cardiff bound to
Singapore via tbe Suez canal, has been lost,
with ber crew of thirty men, on the coast
of Portugal.
Killed by a Cask Explosion.
Memphis, Tern., December 30.—This
morning while John Bruens, a German, 25
years old, employed by the Memphis Brew
ing Co , was coating' tbe inside of a cask
with brewery pitch, the cask exploded, kill
ing Bruen and slightly injuring two oth** s.
Floods In Bolland.
Amsterdam, December 30.—The dykes
between Nleuwknik and Vlymen, in the
province of North Brabant, are broken, and
eighteen villages are flooded. . The damage
by the inundation Is impiense. A commit
tee for the relief of the sufferers has been
formed.
A Missing: Train.
Fredericksburg, Va., December 80.-
The dally train on the Richmond; Frede
ricksbnrg and Potomac . Railroad left this
place on Wednesday morning at 7 o’clock,
and up to this evening has not been heart
from. ^
Brief Telegraphic Summary.
Joseph White, worsted spinner, of Brad
ford. England, has failed.. Liabilities
£75,000.
It is at the Importers and Traders Na
tional Bank of New York, and not the
National Park Bank, where the Interest
on,the Alabama bonds will be paid.
During a drunken row in Halifax county,
Ni C., last week, Georee Tucker stabbed
with a knife and killed John William John
son . Thus far the murderer has el uded ar
Brigadier General R. B. M&rcy, Inspector
General, and Colouel Jno. G. Barnard, of
the Engineer Corps were yesterday placed
non tbe retired list, to date from January
1,1881. * ~
James; Johnson, an aged colored man.
wasyasterdayfound frozen to. death near
Atles Station, Va., nine miles from Rich
mond, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
way. His faithful dog was found on his
body and had to be removed by force.
The Chicago Council has passed an ordi
nance requiring manufacturers of anti-Huff
cheese, butterine, oleomargarine and other
articles of the kind to stamp their products
plainly with the name. Tbe penalty is $50
for each violation and confiscation of the
goods.
At Monday’s meeting of the Brooklyn (N.
Y.) Board of Aldermen a resolution was
offered providing for a license fee ofJ|5 for
each Chinese laundry in the city. An
amendment was adopteji that “licenses be
granted only to citizens of the United
8tates.”
At a meeting of tbe Bolton cotton mas
ters Thursday night, it was unanimously
decided to reject any demand of the operar
tives for an advance of wages, as maxivof
the masters are working at a loss. Thi
operatives gave notice for an advance
yesterday.
Tbe Russian Government has issued a de
cree reducing the import duty on salt, in
creasing that on foreign goods, imposing a
tax on trade guilds, and doubling tbe stor
age dues on merchandise deposited in the
government warehouses. The decree will
take effect on toe 13th of January next.
The President has not yet selected a suc
cessor to Judge Woods In the United 8tatei
Circuit Court as Circuit Judge for the Fifth
Judicial Circuit. The more prominent ap
plicants who are being pressed by their
friends for the position are 8amuel F. Rice,
of Montgomery; BL F.'Slmrall, of Missis
sippi, and Judge Settle, of Florida.
Opposition to tbs . Canadian Pa
cific.—It seems doubtful whether the
Canadian Pacific Railroad will be built
after all. There will be great opposition
to it in the Dominion Parliament, be
cause the subsidies and privileges grant
ed to the syndicate are so enormous.
The total amount of subsidy to.lhe syn-
dicatc is estimated at seventy seven mil
lions of dollars, and is composed of the
following items: All the-work done Ity
W ~ BBf
trans
ferred to the syndicate and become
the property of the company forever;
twenty five millions of dollars is to be
paid in ca9b, and a like sum is ’ to be
turned over to the syndicate in public
lan dr upon whichland grant bonds to
the same amount may be issued. In ad
dition to these,'the syndicate has the pri
vilege of rejecting all swamp or barren
lands through wbich the rauroad- may
pass, and select other landsmen which
ts are to be issued in the fertile belt
on January *
grants are to oe issueq in me fertile belt.
These concessions. It is urged, are entire.
]y disproportioned to the risks incurred,
and it seems questionable whether the
Dominion Parliament will ratify the con-
tract.
Colored Labor nr the South.—The
colored labor of the South, as a class. Is
to day better paid, more steadily em
ployed and more uniformly free from
want than the farm labor of the Worth
they felt sure that all snow and
ice hallieen left behind.
There Is one good feature about this scow
storm: It has covered the dirty, unsightly
streets of Atlanta from sight for one or two
day8, and toe more vigorous citizens are
having some fine sleigh rides. But the patrons
of the street cars, who have no carriages, are
sufferihg from the effects of long **
through the deep snow and chiling
Worst of all, to some classes', will be the
awful condition of the streets after this great
foil of snow begins to melt. Our streets were
never before In such bad condition as on yes
terday, and no one can tell how much worse
they will be when the snow melts.
OCR CHRISTMAS DINNER.
Atlanta has seldom seen such a winter or
Christmas as the present. Still the hotel* gave
their usual big dinners. At the Markhan
House the entire force of the Constitution
office sat down to dine by invitation of Messrs.
Huff & Brown, afid^hey Ailed a table the whole
length of the dining room. CoL T. C. Acton,
the genial traveling agent, presided, and ex
cellent speeches we>e made by Foreman Mo
ran and Editor Bruffy. It was a joyous occa
sion for the happy typos, who partook of a
royal feast of good things. - •
The bUl of fare of the Markham was entirely
original in design, and surpassed anything of
the kind ever-put on a hotel table, in this re
spect. One page contained an elegant litho
graphed combination picture of the old time * . -
tavern or Inn, the stage, soiling vessel, and Rob «'E. Lee, who.
canal packet of that age. Then came the S’ate- ’
ly hotel (Markham House), the fast steamship,
railroad trains an^ 4 * 1 w **--
day, all executed
artistic style. Verses In explanation were fur
nished by “Sidney Herbert/’ and also the fol
lowing “Christmas Greeting” for the second
page:
“ A Merry Christmas” to all who with us dine
On this birthday of a royal Prince divine;
Here at our tables spread with lavish hand.
Let every heart with joyousnesa e: 1
O happy day! that blessed our childish ye
With earthly joys, without earth’s bitter
tears.
Long may we live to welcome thy return.
Before our lamp of life nhn.il cease to burn.
MINOBTOP.C8.
The William Lowndes Ca houn referred to in
connection with toe John C. Calhoun who was
drowned In California, and published in the
Morning News of Monday, is net Mayor W.
Lowndes Calhoun, but another lawyer named
William Loundes Calhoun.
In giving toe number, of convicts from tbe
leading counties in the State, in a recent letter.
I did not go below twenty, which accounts for
my failure to include Floyd countv. I heartily
indorse all the Rome Courier says on the sub
ject. and accept its amendment giving toe
medal to that county.*
The Atlanta Rolling Mill, now the Georgia
Iron Works, 6eems to be an unfortunate enter
prise. It Is now advertised to be sold at public
outcrv for State and county taxes due, but
unpaid, for the year 1879. This property has
been sold so often and bad so many misfor
tunes that it finds it a difficult thing to suc
ceed.
The General Assembly, just before adjourn
ment. authorized a committee to examine the
new Code now being prepared by Judge Geo.
N. Lester and Walter B. Hill, Esq., of Macon,
one of the most accomplished young lawyers
in Georgia. The work is to embrace the acts
of the Ju^y session, at which tune the commit
tee will make I's report.
The Griffin News is not alone in wanting the
Savannah. Griffin and North Alabama Railroad
extended from Carrollton to Rome or ths Ala
bama coal fields. A bill is now before the Gen
eral Assembly for a charter to extend the road
to Rome. This done and Griffin will see
route opened across her border
growing cotton, coal and iron
•me, a city whose business growth
and energy is really wonderful.
ALL IN THE SAME BOAT.
The New York Herald is publishing the letter
written by C *
the Second
Ga., January
Samuel ;Cooper, Adjutant General United
States Army, at Washington, asking what he
should do in regard to Governor Joseph E
Brown’s demand for the surrenderor the Arse
nal and*the withdrawal of the United States
troops from toe State, which was then seced
ing on her own responsibility.
Ic is true that Governor Brown was a little
ahead of time in his secession movements, but
the Herald must also remember that Captain
Arnold Elzy, who was a Marylander, was
afterwards commissioned a Major Genera! in
toe Confederate army; and Colonel Samuel
Cooper, who was a Virginian, resigned as Ad
jutant General of the United States army, 1
and was aDDOinted to the same Dosition. but
with the higher rank of Brigadier General, in
the Confederate army. This was one of toe
very singular features of secession as It affect
ed Southern army officers then on duty. Not
a few were placed, as in'tott Instance, in a
peculiarly embarrassing situation.
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
My thanks are due Hon. Seth French, the
efficient Commissioner of Immigration for the
State of Florida, for a copy of the second
edition of bis elegant pamphlet, “Semi-Tropi
cal Florida,” published for free general dreu-
In many respects it is a handsome and
valuable publication than the first
edition, and will accomplish a great -deal of
good for the attractive, “Land of Flowers.”
One feature Is commendable, and that is the
modesty of ths Commissioner, whose name
nowhere occupies a conspicuous place in the
pamphlet.
I am also indebted to .ah esteemed friend in
Savannah for a copy of his beautiful volume,en
titled “Family Memorials,” a handsomely got
ten np book of over three hundred pages. Its
mechanical execution is an honor to the Hoax-
News 8team Printing-House, and will add
largely to Its already extended reputation far
book publishing of the finest quality. Mr.
Theodore J. Elmore, the author, has well per
formed the labor of gathering up the “family
memorials” of his near and dear kindred.
While toe volume is a strictly private affair,
therein much in prose and verse from Mr.
Elmore’s chaste and prolific pen, which an
outsider can re*d with interest and profit. It
Ts a pure and graceful tribute laid upon the
family altar b? a sou and brother whose whole
life has been worthy the noble aims to which
it was so early.consecrated by a noble Chris
tian mother’s prayers and teachings.
101- 1W1 and 1881.
A Western
cock’s vote in
be read backwards
it being 225,52? But this cannot well bq alone
without turning each separate fig are in read
ing it backwards.
Our venerable and honored Secretary of
State, Colonel N. C. Barnett, has called my at
tention to the fact that 2881 can bo read any
way—backward. forward, or updde down.
The figures are the same In any position. This
led me to look into toe matter, and it seems
that the same thing occurred in the year 101,
and 1001, but can never occur again, as they
are the only figures that can be read both ways
without change of front.
SOME 8CATTEI
General Toombs said in court the other day
that when he * '
Cicero, but nc
times referred
I met the Rev-8/ W. Marston, D. D., at the
arkham House last week, and he reported
vring done a good work in 8avannah in his
Institute for Colored Preachers. The attend
ance WMMarge, and the attention given was
srewill be lively times in certain circles
toe first of
0*4 Comm:
goes into '
era’ half fayel
on toe torse cents per mile schedule by
newspaper says General Han-
[n Indiana, as officially declared,
tackward and forward the same;
The Texas emigration is greater this winter
tan last season, and hundreds are leaving al-
—‘ dally for that State. Georgia needs —
ration agent duly authorized to
wholesale depopulation qt the State bv
agents. There is a low against soliciting emi-
am
sor Harris give
FINAL FABAGBAras. .
Judge Woods feels highly flattered by toe
high commendation, given him, by Southern
lawyers, and will probably succeed Jostle*
Bradley on the Southern Clnmit, keeping his
residence in this city.
The Fulton county
patriotic and his counsels wise. He averted
innumerable evils, and I have ever honored
him forhfoconciliatory course.
Mr- T. W. Garrett, toe effleieufc Master of
TraMportation on the Atlanta and Charlotte
AirLuto Railway, has already adopted
suggestion ia regard to cutting telegi
wires in esse of a gm»gb up or detention
tween stations. HO now runs a telegraph
operatoron all fast mail trains for th>t pur
pose. This prevents any extra delay in
of accidents between telegraphic stations.
Some fifty Northern and Western people en
route to Florida are at tbe Kimball and Mark
ham Houses to-day, and the heavy storm fills
them with an earnest desire to get away from
here on toe first tiain, **id they don’t on
the order of going. Hereafter, Atlanta will
game operator, but
every winter, as this season has been unusually
severs.
Pickpockets mid confidence men flocked 1
to the grand (?) military reunion, and som.
them remained to operate upon travelers p
ing through the Union Depot here. Onr vigi
lant police, however, have arrested several,
who are now under sentence to the peniten
tiary, and.the business Is nearly broken up.
Occasionally a countryman
train by a share confidence;
the pickpocket has become
CHATHAM.
A LIFE-LONG SOLDIER. .
Resignations of SontMem Army
Officers and Ca
Dead—Tbe genii
Junior Survivor—A. Soldier-
Continent—An Ardi
—In tbe Confederate Army—In the
Egyptian Service—At Heme Again.
Atlanta, December 27.—During the latter
part of the year 1880 and the early part of the
year 186l. it having become evident that a con
flict was to arifo between the North and the
South, a number of officers of Southern birth
tendered their resignations and retired from
the regular army. Several of the cadets at
the West Point-Military Academy (including
General P. M. B Young, of Georgia,! left that
institution and returned to their respective
homes in the Southern StatasV A few cadets,
however, continued at the academy until their
class (of 1861) graduated, after which they re
signed and joined the Confederate army.
ABMT RESIGNATIONS,
Among the most distinguished officers
aclve service, who resigned from tbe army,
were Brevet Brigadier General Albert Sidney
Johnston, then Colonel of the Second Cavalry,
and Quartermaster General Joseph E. John
ston, who had been Lieutenant Colonel of the
First Cavalry, and Adjutant General Samuel
Cooper. Next in Importance were Colonel
Robe* t E. Lee, who bad been Lieutenant Colo
nel of the First Cavalry, but
nel of the First Cavalry, but was then on duty
in Washington, and Colonel Thomas 1. Faun-
tleroy, commander of the First Dragoons. The
next and lost officer of toe highest rank was
Colonel William W. Loriog, of the Mounted
Rifles. All these distinguished soldiers were,
in a broad sense, cavalry officers. Major W.
J. Hardee, of Georgia, was also a cavalry offi
cer, and Major William Henry Talbot Walker,
of Georgia, aa infantry officer. The above
named include about all the field officers who
resigned, but a score or two of Captains t
Lieutenants followed them, and not a few
came Generals and Lieutenant Generals in the
Confederate army.
THE BSBOIC DEAD.
Of the first mentioned gallant soldiers but
two are now alive. That grand Captain of
modern times, Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston,
fell in battle while bravely leading his army to
victory, and Major General William Henry
Talbot Walker was killed at the head of his
advance guard as they were about to move
against the enemy. After being terribly and
almost mortally wounded in the Florida cam
paigns and in the Mexican war, this chivalrous
soldier survived to be finally killed by a sing e
bullet from the skirmish line of the enemy.
All the others died from natural causes i
removed from the dangers and conflicts of
war. Of toe Captains and Lieutenants who
have also fallen in battle or died in peace I
might refer to such eminent soldiers as Hood.
Stuart, Van Dorn. Hill, Pickett, Bragg, Ma-
gruder, Chilton, Bee and Lomax, all of whom
became distinguished Generals in the Confede
rate army. The t vo survivors to which I have
referred are Geu.:Joseph E. Johnston, at pre
sent a member of Congress from his native
Stale of Virginia, and Major General William
W. Loring, now back amidst the stirring scenes
of bis early career as a “boy soldier” in Flori
da, after forty yean* absence on other and
more exciting battlefields, both in this and
foreign lands.
WS SENIOR SURVIVOR.
Of General Joseph E. Johnston I have al
ready written a short sketch, first published in
the Detroit Free Press, and c pled therefrom
by a large cumber of newspapers, including
the Savannah Sunday Telegram.
J-ince that time General Johnston has been
elected to Congress and served nearly two
this fact I wish now to refer.
Two years ago, standing in my office in this
city, and pointing through the open window to
the old battlefields about Peachtree creek, be
descr.b?d with great clearness the terrible
flzht of June 27th. fthe last attack made by
Sherman upon Johnston’s entrenched forces
in front of Atlanta.
As I gazed UDon the light, fragile figure
ifore me, so erec\ dignified, quick of motion
and compact with firmness, I could hardly
believe that as far back as 18J6 Lieutenant
Joseph E. Johnston was a conspicuous staff
“ aimyinthe
ated into the“ Fourth Artillery 'from^Wesl
Point in July, 1829. A correct mode of life
and a strong will power, by the grace of
have brought this great soldier and f_
Virginian gentleman to the enjoyment of a
ripe and serene old age oT undiminished
fulness and honor.
HoodinhisffiH __
hi* last service being under General Joseph E.
Johnston, at Bentonville. N. C., just before toe
surrender. It is a singular fact that his first
fighting was done in 1836. in Florida, in the
same army with General Johnston, and his last
fighting, on American soil, was done nearly
thirty years later with that same officer.
Ef THE EGYPTIAN SERVICE.
Some years after the dose of the civil war
the Khedive of Egypt secured the services of a
number of officers who had distinguished
themselves in the late war, and who were then
In without lucrative employment. Among these
were General Graves, General Loring. General
Field and Colonel Lockett, formerly of the
Confederate army, and all of whom are again
residents of the South, having retired from the
Khedive’s service. -
General Loring at once took high rank in the
Egyptian army, and commanded a large por
tion of the forces for six t ears. Including Alex
andria and the coast fortifications, and for a
time the naval operations. Being second in
command, he was also conspicuous In the
Abyssinian war,participating in the two battles
of that campaign. For his gall«nt services in
Egypt the Khedive bestowed upon General
Loring two Turkish decorations, the highest
ever conferred upon a foreigner.
AT HOME AGAIN.
When secession first commenced, General
Loring held a most desirable life position as
Colonel of the “Mounted Riflemen,” with
favorable chances for promotion by arduous
and valuable frontier services. Had he re
mained in the regular army after the civil war
came on, his promotion would have been
prompt and continuous.
But he preferred to give up all that was Un
assured to him, and cast in his lot with the un
certain fortunes of his own State as a part of
the Southern Confederacy. In that service he
commanded regiments, brigades, divisions,
corps and armies, and always with credit to
himself and honor to the Confederacy. He
came as near as any one could to hearing the
first and the last gun of the war fired in ectual
has the ®p-
of sc
And yet.
THE JUNIOR SURVIVOR.
During my visit to the Florida State Fair, in
Jacksonville, last winter. I had the pleasure of
meeting Brevet Brigadier General George
H. BIat>e, U. 8. A., now on the retired list, i
whose rather rotund and fresh appearance did
not indicate that he was a Lieutenant of Dra
goons in 1835, and a participant with General
Johnston in the Florida campaigns.
But Imagine my surprise when he introduced
me to Gen. William w. Loring and remarked
that they were comrades in the Florida war.
I had heard much of General Loring in con
nection with his Egyptian service, and was
more than glad to meet him. Unlike General
Johnston in personal appearance, he has all
the energy and vivacity that still cha
that great soldier in his old age. Of
height, rather robutt form, full
fresh countenance. General Loring
pearanceof a healthy, happy ms
forty years of age.
A BOY-SOLD I
tge to say, this same now vlg-
i-looking -veteran -w ff —*
fought the bloodthirsty Seminofes in
some forty-four years ago, according to Gen
eral Blake’s interesting narrative.
Although born fn North Carolina, he
a resident of Florida in early childhood, where
his martial spirit developed itself as soon as
“war’s rude alarms” surrounded his home. At
the tender age of fourteen years young Loring
tt^Indian, in the rants of tS*
During the year 1836 this “BoyrSaldler," os he
as then called, foimht with General Finley at
Wahoo Swamp, at Withlacoochee, and other
points in East Florida where active
operations were being carried on. Th
lag year he served with the gallant
° f **■?“*■ I” "Wo*
Peace, however, goon closed the early mili
tary career of this “born soldier” (as General
William 8. Walker very appropriately calls
him), and he was lost sight of in the public eye
until six years later, when, having attained his
legal majority, the people or 8t. John’s county
eleoted him to the General Assembly of Flori
da, in which he served with ability and seal for
During the early part of 184fi; jostss
Loring had closed his legislative term, the War
. rtrqeut at Washington authorized the or
ganization of a regiment of ^Mounted Rifle-
STth. 1846, he was commissioned a
his regiment, and at once
military career, tbe" for
results of which his vivid fan
fully anticipated. Born to
anticipated: _
no difficulty in at
, ler for three cents a
pet mile schedule by Mezico. Aftercattioeb]
Mexico. After c
Cruz, General 8cott 1
Cerro Gordo, and ii
as in certain circles woe,, commanding his
’4 si which time the 2 ^ruz to the c*pt«re ef tba City of Mexico. He
■Vera Crux, of Bio.del
of Contreras. Churu-
and of the City of
wSSitg
, e gradf crediuohfa offl-
««. inStedlne Harney. Piympton, L '
Childs, and other gallant spirits who
tapiaiQ Atqnnr, on sseptemver I’tb,
ApBCSS THE CONTINENT.
Washington wascaSed upon to provide more
CoL Loripg wagopSeUd to tSsdoty, to full
or hardships and perils, apd marched his regi-
fuh ranks, anfi accompqn'pd hr a
train of three hundred six-xqule teams, a dis
tance of more,than two thousand fire hundred
mfies, across toe continent to Oregon: At that
tone, J.think, tbjs *** greatest march of a
military force on record.. It was through a
wild and uninhabited country for a large por
tion of the distance.
Onhis arrival In Oregon hewas assigned to
command of the Rio frontier, and dur-
lce Ta&ra'in which he held thzt eom-
emedeefoliCeloneiiniass.thejMrfof-
„ and hostile
to time with £
mountains, Biva
another mat march of nearly two- thnnwnwi
miles to Utah Territory, where he was asso
ciated with that then superior military com-
in history as the “Harmon War.” Thia
arduous campaign dosed the more acliye
career of Cokmcl Loring in the United States
army. S3 soon after ha was granted a twelve
months' leave of absence, and made a tour of
Burope and the East, a trip which served to
give him a chance to study the armies of
Ucrtag his absence the regiment of “Mount
ed Riflemen" retained its headquarters at Fort
Union, in New Mexico, and when Ool. Loring
hew Mexico. This being in the early part of
18*1, he soon resigned his command and his
commiasion in th, army, and cast in Us lot
with toe bon them Confederacy. Of his old
comrades in the regiment who remained in toe
army I might name inch well known Gene
as Gordon Granger. John P. Hatch. W,
Averell, Alfred Gibbs, Andrew Porter and B.
ft. Roberts. Of those who, like Loring. felt it
their duty to follow toe fortunes of their na-
Uve States, I might also mention such dlttin
gubhed soldiers as Gen. O. H. Maury, of Vlr-
■
Loring In the
being ct
ruary 15.
record that I And of General
federate army is that of his
Major General Feb-
But previous to this he had
„—antly in Western and In North-
Virginia, taking General Lee’s old
I with General “Stonewall” Jackson.
His eminent abilities were thus early
acknowledged by the Confederate Govern
ment. as his promotion was considerably in
advance of that of many of the most distin
guished officers then in the service. One of
the first to espouse the Southern cause, he was
one of its most intrepid defenders on the
General Lorine
The war over, and the Confederacy de
stroys J, a host of such professional soldiers as
General Loring found themselves impover
ished, and without the means of securing em
ployment. Some became insurance agents,
others secured places on railroads, while a
few, like General Pickett and General Magru-
der. failed to succee 1 permanently in any un
dertaking, and finally died objects of charity.
General Loring found a way out of his finan
cial ti oubles in the service of the Khedive.
Within the past ten years, however, the peo
ple of tbe South have been more liberal in the
bestowment of public offices and honors upon
the gallant soldiers who fought her battles for
independence. This has given rise at the
North to the cry of “Confederate Brigadiers”
in Congress. It is true that Gcrdon, Vance,
Hampton, Mergan, Forney,Chalmers, Mahone,
Ransom, Johnston and Wheeler were Con
federates, but they all ranked higher than
“Brigadiers” in the army, and in Congress
have ranked full as high as statesmen as have
some of the Northern and Western “Briga
diers.”
Gen. Loring’s name has been mentioned ia
connection with the approaching election of an
United States Senator from Florida, which
fact has led to the addition of these final para
graphs. Gen. Johnston, toe only officer of
high rank who resigned from toe United States
army with him, and is still alive, is now a
Representative from Virginia, and it would be
a most singular coincidence if Gen. Loring
were elected a Senator from Florida. Of bis
claims for that position I have nothing to say,
because the mattef Is one that lies beyond my
jurisdiction as a correspondent From scat
tered military works and official records in my
possession I have hastily glanced at the life
long and checkered military career of this
gallant one armed hero of many ware, and
briefly grouped together a few facts of *
to the Florida readers of the Mobniko ]
not to the general public. Sidney Herbert.
House i and Lots far State Bights In
a Patent Churn.
A few weeks ago a man from the
East came to the village of Ellenville,
N Y., and exhibited a butter churn.
He visited a number of well-to-do far
mers and business men, and after show
ing tbe many advantages of bis inven
tion, be set about selling State rights
and territory for its exclusive sale.
Being introduced and recommended by
leading citizens be found no difficulty
in effecting sales. Many, daxzied by
bis wonderful stories of wealth,
sold their bouses, lots and
other property and - invested in
tbe patent right Mr. Eli DuBois
traded bis bouse for tbe right to sell tbe
wonderful churn in the Slate of Texas.
A few days ago the agent left town with
about ^40.000 in' money and-deeds and
bills of sale of considerable otber pr<
erty, aggregating at least $70,000. Sir
bis departure it has come to light that
the people who havo invested have been
badly victimized. The agent bad sev
eral local references who claimed to have
invested considerable in the speculation,
but whom it turns out hfld not invested
a cent, and merely allowed their names
to be used. Several lawsuits and proba
bly arrests for false representations will
be tbe outcome.
Color In the Cabinet,
Workington. Poet.
Although but little has been said dur
ing the past few weeks in relation to the
demand of the colored Republicans for
a place in General Garfield’s Cabinet,
there has been no damnation of feeling
on the subject. There has also been a
good deal of work performed, in a quiet
way, for the purpose of raising the
necessary amount of pressure.
All the objections urged by Republi
can statesmen and politicians have been
promptly and ably met. The demon/
of tbe black Republicans is based on
equity. They show that to their fealty
General Garfield owes bis election. They
show that the German Republicans have
bees distinctly and conspicuously re-
sed in-the -disposal of patronage,
call for equally fair treatment, and
threaten to use the balance of power
eir possession for the destruction of
the party if they are denied their request.
The matter will soon be put before
General Garfield by a delegation of tbe
leading colored men of his party, and be
will be compelled to take the responsi
bility of deciding it ^ *
A South Pole ExBKnmos.—Follow
ing tbe example of otber nations, the
Italian. Government is about to equip
and send out- a polar exploring expe
dition, but to the Antarctic instead of
tbe Arctic region. The leader of this
South Polar expedition Is Lieutenant
Bove, wbn accompanied Professor Nor-
denskjold in the Yega during the cele
brated . northeast pusage around Asia.
The expedition will attempt to extend
the discoveries made by Sir James Clark
Ross, of tbe British, and Captain Wilkes,
of our navy, and will also seek new
zuano island and sperm whale resorts.
They will use steam power, and hope to
solve acme Pf the: mysteries of the sup-
»?d Antarctic continent, which is a
volcanic region. Tbe Mozambique
latorial current flows stronely towards
the South. Pole, and may open 9 Ttfg
through theme very far tPfttb,
tt? iMeuS" ot'fcilwii Ladle*,
zrnepe Safe Sidney and Liver Core Is
the remedy th** wtU cure toe many dlaeaaea
peculiar *0women. .HeadaebeB,-nenrelgta,
FIRE IN EUFACLA.
About 800 Bales of Cotton Go Vp In
Flames-Toutt Loss $75,000-In
surance $50,000.
Daily Bulletin, 25th.
Eufaula was visited this morning by a
most disastrous conflagration, caused Ity
some thoughtless person throwing fire
from a Roman candle into the Alabama
warehouse of Mr. R. Q.. Edmondson.
The fire was discovered Ity a policeman
about 1 o’clock, but before the fire de
partment could get to work the whole
interior of the warehouse was in flames,
as, of course, the cotton burned almost
like powder. Of the 800 bales of cotton
in store not one was saved—indeed not a
pound of it. The warehouse and Its
contents were wholly consumed, but the
books and papers of the concern in the
office adjoining the warehouse were
saved.
The fire from the warehouse then com
municated to the dry goods warehouse
of Messrs. Ber£m2£r, £tnuiss & West,
and that too, yrtSFa heavy wholesale
stock of dry goods, was also consumed,
only a small portion of the stock, in a
damaged condition, being saved, 'piis
firm lose heavily in the goods that were
burned and in having their entire stock
turnc d topsy turvy and damaged by be
ing hurriedly moved out
Weedon & Dent, wholesale druggists,
suffered a loss of fully $4,000 in haying
their large and entire stock of goods tom
to pieces and piled up in rude and ir^*-
criminate mass, and in having so n
articles in their line of goods broken
destroyed. Covered by insurance. ;
Bray & Bros, also lost three or four
thousand dollars in a similar way. The
Enfaula National Bank is also a lot
but lightly, in having Its office fumil
removed and drenched with water.
Mrs. Chitty and daughters, and Miss
Lizzie Roberts, milliners and dijess-
makers, are losers by having their goods
all disarranged and their apartments
flooded. M. M. Barringer suffered
some lo3s in hurriedly removing a
portion of his stock and getting them
wet.
Mr. D. M. Seales lost twelve bales of
cotton; Dr. W. A. Mitchell several bales
and Weedon & Dent two; besides a
number of others whose names we could
not learn at present.
The total loss by the fire is estimated
at no less than $75,000, on which there
is probably about $50,000 insurance.
The firemen did well, and to them arc
we indebted for the whole block of build
ings left standing on tbe north side of
Broad street to day.
Mr. Quinn Edmondson will go imme
diately into the old warehouse just north
of where he has been burned out, and
will rebuild at once.
A WESTERN DOGBERRY.
cure for my troubles.
thinking it would do me any good.
first dose I took relieved m* very much—
it was so decided an improvement I began to
put confidence ia what my neighbor had said
to me. In one week after taking the REGU-
I was as strong and hearty as I ever
to dear up. Iwas
Hlwts looking so
I think it is the best to*ng I ever
took for Dyspepsia, without any exception. It
did me so much good I was determined I would
give you my testimony without being acked
for it. Youzs respectfully,
Henry G. Crenshaw.
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San Francisco Chronicle.
In Department No. 11 of the
Court yesterday morning, Foy b’xt, a
Chinaman, was arraigned for sentence
for the crime of grand larceny, he having
stolen some jewelry and diamonds from
his employer, for whom he was working
as a house servant When hia case was
called his attorney urged in mitigation
that this was his first offense so far as
known. It would be a very great hard
ship to send him to the State prison,
where his queue would be cut off to
within an inch of his scalp, for al
though white persons do not deem it a
disgrace to have their hair shingled, the
Chinese consider themselves forever os
tracised by their own countrymen if they
losi their queues. The attorney, there
fore, asked the court to send the prisoner
to the county jail is charge of Sheriff
Desmond, who would not cut his queue
off. Judge Freelon said he was aware
that it was ont^of the regulations of the
State prison to shingle the hair of pris
oners on the day of their entry, but it
was also a rule of that institution to
allow the queue of the Chinese prisoners
to grow if his deportment while there
was satisfactory. He said he would not
subject the prisoner to the disgrace of
being discharged before he should have
time to grow another queue, but would
fix the tenn of sentence so that by the
time he should cease to hoard at the
expense of the State his queue might be
sufficiently long to suit the most
ing Chinaman. He, therefore, sentenced
the prisoner to seven years in the State
prison.
The South's Development.—It is
time to stop impeaching the South’s de
velopment, for the census of 1890 is
hound to far exceed the figures of 1880.
both in population and material re-
The tide of immigration ia
trickling that way; the small fanner has
taught how the whole section is to be
brought under profitable cultivation.
Minerals of all kieds are Icing smitten
from the Blue Ridge backbone,and busi
ness is driving sentimental politics to
the woods. Great lines of rail and water
communication are also giving now life
to the commercial centres, and, now that
the South has a foretaste of the possi
bilities of its resources and capacity for
money making, it is hardly possible to
overestimate the results. — Springfield
(Jfate.) Republican.
Killed
Hei
er, living |in West Cleveland, Ohio,
went in search of a rabbit which he
had seen run into a hedge on his father’s
place a few days ago. As he entered
the hedge he tried to part the brush with
the butt end of his gun, the muzze held
close to his breast, and both hammers
cocked. The trigger eausrht in one of
the branches, discharging “the. gun, its
contents enteringhisbreast Death was
instantaneous. He was 33 years old,
and was to have been married that night
to an estimable young lady.
_ ■■—t—=i
Two women lawyers will take part as
counsel in the trial of Geo. A Wheeler
who choked bis sister-in-law to death in
San Francisco. Mrs. Clara Foltz has
been engaged to assist the prosecuting
attorney, and Mrs. Laura Deforce Gor
don to assist the defense. The two wo
men were once close friends, sleeping in
the same bed, but lately a coldness spraog
up between them. In the recent politf
cal campaign they were rivals on the po
litical stump.
In 1011 Holland offered a reward of
25,000 guilders (about $10,000) for the
discovenr of that northwest p
which Professor Nordenskjold 1
. in our day, accomplished,
offer was long forgotten, but it was
never recalled; and it is now probable
that Holland will pay the promised re
ward to the successful explorer, little
though he dreamed of the possibility of
such compensation when he started on
his enterprise.
A tremendous beating of gongs has
been kept up night and day-for weeks
In the house of Feng Chan Sung, a
Chinese merchant of San Francisco.
This is done to drive out a devil who
has been pestering Song’s pretty wife.
She says that the monster has lustrous
green eyes, red hair, blue skin and a
yellow tail. He comes to her in the
night, and is an exceedingly audacious
fellow. The din has not yet dislodged
him,
The hark Fontabelle. Capt Nixon,
wa* wrecked on the Falmouth (Eng.)
reef on the 10th insl. Capt. Nixon and
wife, and also Captains Hopewell »"l
Worley, of the harks Medina and Dun
dee. who had gone on the Fontabelle to
Tender assistance, and the entire crew of
the Fontabelle were washed overboard.
Sn 4, We preserver, her
son ana Mr. Martin, the -were
saved. The others, six in aH, perished.
on His Wedding Day.—
enry Thompson, a well known garden-
, living |i& West Cleveland, Ohio,
FRESH GAMED GOODS.
T>OSTON BAKED
Jl> mac
BEaNS. Frot-h BAKED
reah CODFISH BALLS,
. ENG'-ISH BRAWN. CORN*
BEEF, Fre«h MACKEREL. Fresh LOBSTERS,
Fresh SALMON. Fresh CRAB MEAT, fresh
CLAMS. FISH CHOWDER, Mnrtard and To
mato 8AKDINES, MILK CHOCOLATE, larjre
assortment of PRESERVES an 1 JELLIES only
95c. per pail. Try them. For sale by
C. M. & H. W. TILTON,
31 WHITAKER STREET.
Sanssy & Harmon’s old stand.
SMOKED TONGUES.
FLORIDA GUAVA JELLY.
SPANISH GUAVA JELLY.
EXTRA FINE OLIVES.
FINEST OLIVE OIL.
CELERY SALT.
CRYSTAUZED GINGER.
PRESERVED GINGER In Jars.
PICKLED OYSTERS.
A^M. & C,'W, WEST’S.
dec23-tf
HOLIDAY
DELICACIES.
rpRUFFLES. JELL IF?.
± MINCE MEAT. EELS in eellee.
PISE APPLE CHEESE, MUN8TEB.ROQUE-
FORD. NEUFCHATEL and SWISS CHEESE.
RAI>INS, CURRANTS.
CITRON. CAVIAR.
CHERRIES, PEARS.
AlJiONDS, WALNUTS. FILBERTS. PECAN
and BRAZIL NUTS, etc, at
NCBOliS LM8 & BRO.’S,
19 BARNARD STREET.
Christmas Goods!
T> AI8IKS, CITRON, CURRANTS.
XL NUTS, CANDY, MINCE MEAT.
JELLIES, PRESERVES, ORANGES, AP
PLES.
FANCY CRACKERS, all kinds.
WINES, WHISKIES, BRANDIES. CHAM
PAGNES. etc.
FIRE WORKS. FIRE CRACKERS.
w ' tock in too city at ths
BRANCH & COOPER.
declO-lm
KB, CMS, Ml.
lOO Bbls. Pore Apple Cider.
25 BBLS. WHITE BEANS.
500 SACKS LIVERPOOL SALT.
50 BBLS. PURE CIDER VINEGAR.
POTATOES, OKIOK9, ETC.,
ALWAYS ON HAND AT
L. F. NELSON & CO.’S,
d©cl»f
176 BAY
JUST ARRIVED,
CITRON and CURRANTS.
RAISINS.
BRANDY PEACHES.
A foB assortment of JELLIES.
A fan assortment of PRESERVES.
20 different kind of FANCY BISCUITS.
For sale by
J. A. HERSCHBACH & CO,
30 WHITAKER STREET.
golidatt <Bwd$.
FEW GOODS.
JUST OPENED A NEW LOT OF
FANCY GOODS
HOLIDAYS.
A tail stock of CHINA DINNER. TEA
OTTAM Hkk rbth, Sets of
TABLE GLASSWARE
RODGERS* TABLE CUTLERY, SILVER-
PLATED WARE, eta, at
CROCKERY HOUSE
JAS. S. SILVA,
* '140 ^
HOLIDAY GOODS.
fNELLULOID, CORALLINE and- FLORENCE
V SETS. ODOR CASES. TOILET and MAN
TEL SETS, VASES. FANCY BOTTLES, Eta,
M prices lower than ever offered in thfc city.
Call in and be convinced.
SCHfflHtES & nit,
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