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,iet'.cr>- J. H. ESTIUU,
Savannah.(la.
' >Jt ,! ie poai mate la Na
a rise* Hatter.
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Georgia A flairs.
. ;i irarns that parties mining
i r r >m Seneca, found, twenty
. j surface, seventeen diamonds,
~.a [ to the African diamonds.
[li [ r ,uneed by Fox & Cos., of New
r , n ,, one weighed twenty-six
1 Tv- ; -? part.' - was an Englishman,
* t ... a ill one for 'gators around
’ r a .nuts of the slaughter
..s i'th at description put forth by
f" • straigf.t. One was caught
,r was n.ssoed, an3 a third
r [; ,. ; :i ;ttfr was reported to have
•Us and ends to have set
, held at Eastman on Fri
/, jj ir a. W. P. Eastman and James j
i r --r- Oecte.l delegates to the rail
f-r-ation died for Tuesday in Ameri
s p K-cJriek, of Tall>it valley, one
weiri threshed two hundred bushels
fr m fur acres. Hs has a field of
’u i Mates that during Collector
ijlji, ,t rat ion of four and a half
..- i. mired illicit stills have been
u iid .iestr ved. There are fifty-nine
; -ries in the district, and the
rur'.r • engage 1 consists of seventy-two
t ;, a < .• a reports that a terrible
fctt ha;|cued >n Mr. Hainbright’s farm,
- : h >,f Ringgold, on Tuesday. A
uaei Ha"u< Henderson was cut almost
(ijs hr i n.oular saw, which was running
jjp.r.l. His head was split in twain,
air'u; ig ■ either side of the saw, and
. ■ ' the ribs cut open, leaving
ar expose-:. Both hands were cut off.
epp s- ihe stepped on one of the little
jthatii “ tached to the carriage, and
•„re-.v : . n the saw, which quickly ac
> ej terrible work. He leaves a wife
l.sv • Iren. The same paper states
■ : Mr- Ambrcse Bartley was drowned
-Jfcrrei. near Coliutta springs, a few
dgo S',-- hid gone on the mountain in
lof pink root and gensing, in company
girl, and, when returning home in
rrang. rite -Upped from a precipice and
sc, the sream below. Her little companion
jo*erless to render her assistance, and
gforturntfe woman quickly drowned. All
t the little girl remained, desolate and
by i:.-* -i ie of the corpse, which was
eg am >pg - une drift wood a few feet off.
it ruing dawned, the girl returned
fc a distance of five miles, telling, on her
Hh the sad story.
fciiianv correspondent of the Constitu
••ivst'.at P. M. Slaughter, in charge of
rwrment work on the Flint, reports
laiafa ,ry progress between that place
St!, imam the way of dredging, blast
er,Mmving obstructions from the chan
U: ier orders from the department at
Barton he has recently visited in person
t .nties contiguous to the river between
xyai.d Montezuma, in order to obtain ac
fcani reliable statistics of the amount
■anracter of freights in the way of cotton
•: products that will be likely to seek
r transportation to market. He was sur
t. g ’heamount of cotton produced along
f'er portions of Dooly, Sumter, Lee and
’... and the inconvenience and expense so
meurred by the planters in hauiing the
ong distances to the railroads. All this
< rr ni-died by opsning up the Flint to
so ii. which he regards as a fixed fact in
ear future. He regards the Flint as one
>::uest inland s‘reams we have, and des
become a most important and valua
rt ry of commerce, at least as far up as
■mma.
AY. L. Peck, of R 'ckda’e, has shipped by
ess to the Commissioner of Agriculture at
Bn, and also to Washington, D. C.. the
sew tiour ef the season, made from the
it crop of 1881. Tnis flour is ground from
it raised upon a five acre plat which pro
si twenty-eight bushels per acre,
etaibotton Register reports that on Fri-
rairg last the large and elegant two
r rvsidenoe of Mrs. S. A. Carter, three
s-• f Talbotton, was burned. It seems
Sr- Carter had been burning sweepings
■ .X i.rs fireplace; had left the fire, and
s '. n> tiling more of it until the roof of the
i* was discovered to be on fire. It is
ki: ti.it some of the dry stuff in the
was cirried up the chimney flue,
-n ! ■ Igment in the dry shingles, wkich
iy ignited. It is said that the house
teired for 3-1.000.
titlinta Post Appeal is authority for the
t.ent tint Coi. L. P. Grant, one of the
i "iI,. Qi iaeers in Georgia, says that it is
coasense’’ to talk about a canal from
-littahoochee to Atlanta. Col. Grant
' '-at about twenty miles from Atlanta the
c ' ciiee is -ii feet lower than Atlanta.
*: -int a > ,ve Gainesville it is about on a
Atlanta.
-f Ar.:t;gtoa Advance learns that Sir. Bort
-1 ’imposed of his interest in the con
r -the extension of the railroad to
t 0 Messrs, Rawls, Price and Single-
I *ho are moving things up at a lively
* they think they will be ready for the
*>■ to commence laj ing the iron about
Atlanta Post-Appeal states that the city
-ta -i! for damages. Several days ago
■Setia-Tiy way going home along Decatur
Be accidentally stepped into a hole in
' and fell so as to seriously sprain
“tiie and produce contusions on other
kof hi- body.
'* Augusta Chronicle reports that on
•’'*l. wfaiie a party of boys were bathing
katal, near Sibley Mills, one of them,
Irwin Evans, aged about sixteen, was
"a- -tanding. He fell into deep
it- i. as he was unable ta swim, sank to
** iu. The other boys, who were much
t" iin Evans, were afraid to go to his
and he drowned before them. The
, f lB afterwards recovered and an inquest
'--irles Ivey, of Gordon, as we learn
, t ‘‘wiiiton Southerner, shipped a lot
't*Aest) New York Slay 30th, which were
, ‘ 10 i'erage of SCI per bushel,
i* ,<T id Constitutionalist: “Augusta
g '!•- f-.iiowing factories in its limits or
- , m *les. all of which, however, may
j, p a ' Pit l'erty belonging to it: Au-
V :>•" ,r r. '-'o.OcO spindles; Enterprise,
I- Mills. 5,000; J. B. Connelly’s mill,
|.'-luinierviile Mills. 4.(00; Slbleir Mills.
t Uranitevnle Factory. 33,000; Langley
McCoy's Mill. 1.000; total. 140.000
[these may be added the King
-, - ' spinules, making a grand total
ic , spindles. These mills have a total
t.t '-’ -15,000, and when the Sibley and
I jtc” utv completed will employ about
curative*. a s a general rule there are
dependent upon each operative.
; , n, cis named would, therefore, have
■/,’V I‘eopie dependent upon them. The
.: • " “V mills will thus add fully 10,000
yupuiation.'’
J*> tisriii e [tUpatch: “On Friday last
*2.i “• c °hred, rtached Hawkinsville
he. “ s *-hce of about ten years in Liberia.
ago a large party of colored
►s* Hawkinsville for Litx-na-a country
them as the ‘land of promise'—
V miles across the ‘bnnv deep.’
b-.*', r -y Were Cie-iar Brown and las wife,
t. ~| r and grandmother of Elijah Gor
kt*’ .j ‘ttatiny,’ and two uncles and two
k| was then only about eight ormne
a k‘ Ke is now abont eighteen or
1 °f ***■ hits some educ ition,
h a great deal about Jjis life in Lt
<k>. , 9ar Brown and his witp are dead,
* iii,“ n! ' y haa also passed away, and his
k. ‘7: tt '>d two aunts have also foupd
u that far off land. ’Lige'p’ father is
'W. don . a well-to-do colored man of
f ot! Christinas Charles sent
“Ry dollars to pay his passage from
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
Liberia to New York The vessel was forty-one
days on the trip—the distance estimated at five
thousand five hundred miles. ‘Lige’ says that
the emigrants on reaching Liberia take the fe
ver, and many of them die. Nearly all of them
would return immediately if they had the
money. He describes the climate as very
warm—no difference between summer and ■
winter. Coffee and ginger are the only money
cr ps. The people live on fruits and ‘casa- (
das,' a kind of root something like the sweet
potato These crops are never gathered, but i
taken from th ground as they are wanted for i
food. Ploughs are not used In the cultivation of 1
the land. Lige savs a cotton seed planted !
when they arrived, ten years ago.made a large i
stalk, which grew like a tree, and was still j
growing and bearing cotton when he left. The I
people have no stock. The natives subsist In I
a nude stale—living upon the natural products
of the land, and are separated by tribes, which !
hate each other and are continually at war. ;
He does not think the country is improving I
any, as the main efforts of the immigrants af
ter they have seen the country are devoted to
plans or means to obtain money to return to i
the United States on. But we saw last Mon
day a letter from Prince Williamson to his !
father, oid Jim Williamson, of this county,
telling.him thet Liberia is a great country, and
advising all the family to fix up and go out
there ”
LaGrange Reporter: “Stock in the A & W
R. R. has been selling at $l4O tp *ls', until last
Saturday nearly all of It was in the hands of
the directors, when It bounded up to the faucy
price of $237 per share. The sto kholders who
disposed of their shares feel that the directors
have done them an injustice by not apprising
them of the value of the shares The thing is
somewhat complicated, and we do not under
stand the situation fully enough to advance
comprehensible views regarding the action of
the directors. At any rate, the directors, who
had be n elected by the stockholders to man
age the finances of the roa<i, were eager to
buy the shares at *l5O. A widow in LaGrange
was advised to sell. anl by doing so lot SB,OOO.
Many regret that they sold. A few parties are
speaking of instituting suit against the direc
tors. but whether or not they cin realize any
thing by so doing we do not know.”
Bulloch Banner: “Sheriff Thos. H. Waters
resigned his office on last Saturday. He ex
o-eta to enter the mercantile business in Cobb
Town. Tattnall county, with Mr. Kit Pu-rish ”
Eastman Times: “A few days ago while Mrs
John Burch, of Laurens county, was hreaking
some guinea eggs in a dish preparatory for
cooking, she was greatly surprised on empty
ing the contents of one egg to find that in ad
dition to the usual white and yolk, that it also
contained a small egg about the size of a com- !
mon bird egg. with a perfect shell, and about -
the shape and color of a guinea eeg. This egg |
(the small one) was exhibited to the writer by I
Mrs. B . from whom we obtained the above ’
information, and who told us furthermore that !
there was nothing specially noticeable about {
the eg? before breaking it, except that it was :
larger than the average guinea e?g.”
Bulloch Banner: “Not long since Mr. John
Bird put a rifle ball In the head of a ‘gator’
measuring eight feet three inches. The ‘gator’
when shot was in the mill-pond of Mr. A. J.
Bird, and Mr. John Bird was at lea't a hundred
yards distant when he made the shot.”
Macon Telegraph. 11th inst: “Yesterday a
little negro girl offered for sale at KzzMl’s, a
diamond cravat pin, of which she could give
no account, other ihau that she was to sell it for
two dollars. Mr. hzzell immediately took it in
charge and notified Lieutenant \V>lie cf the
police force, au officer was sent to the girl's
home and she was arrested, the then stated
she bad found the pin m front of Mr. Uicero
Tharpe's house. Inquiry revealed the f„ct
that it had been lost mere by Mr. Charles Bart
lett in March last, while getting into liis
buggy.”
Dublin Post: “Dublin turned out eit masse
on last Weuuesday to witness the launching of
the much taiked-of boat w’hich Mr. A. B. Tap
ley had invented and built at Scarborough’s
shop in Dublin. It was to be propelled by a
lever, geared to the paddle wheels. While it
was not exactly a success as tried for the first
time, a good many believe it can be improved
and made to do good work.”
Newnan correspondence of the Constitution:
"The remains of a little child, which were
buried twenty-two years ago, were removed in
our cemetery and placed by the grave of its
father. Meredith Kendrick, a promising lawyer
of this place, who was killed in the Confede
rate service. 011 taking the plate from the
top of the metallic coifln,*hrough the glass the
child was seen with every feature just as per
fect as the day it was put in the giave. In its
hands was the little bouquet of flowers which
was put there upon its burial day, perfectly
preserved. Its cheek was slightly more florid
than when buried. The child was not buried
until three days after death, and was then
brought from Fayetteville to this place for
interment ”
Valdosta Times: “Mr. Henry Banks and
others will apply to the Legislature for a char
ter for the Milltown Branch Railroad. We
know nothing as to the particulars of the
project, or as to what point it is proposed to
strike the savannah, Florida and Western
Railway. We suppose, however, at Naylor, it
beiug the nearest point, fcuch a road to Val
dosta would be a benefit to the place, and
steps taken in the right direction in time
might secure it. We have private assurance
that the road will be built."
Columbus Enquirer-Sun, ICth inst.: “Yet
terdey Mr. John W. Threikeld, steward of the
poor house, was found dead near that place by
the side of a branch. He was in his shirt
sleeves, and was iu a sitting posture by the
side of a tree w hen found. Au inquest was
held over the body yesterday afterm, on, and
the verdict of the jury was that he came to
bis death from natural causes. It is p esumed
that he died of paralysis of tbe heart.”
Americus Recordtr: “Mr. Guilford Gunter,
of Dooly, relates to ns the sad death of a crazy
old lady in that county. She came from this
side of tne river, above here. Her habit was
to go from house to house and spend the night,
unless ehelter was refused A few nights ago,
in the vicinity of Vienna, she lay down by a
burning log to sleep, and during the night
took Are. She was found dead next morting.”
Arlington Advance: “We saw this year’s
corn last Wednesday which was ripe enough
to be ground into meal. It was raised by Mr.
Jas. Taylor, who lives on Dry Creek, in Early
county. Hesays he plan ed a pint of it on the
15th cf March, and on the first of this month
gathered seven and a ba r bushels ready for
mill.”
AtlieDs Banner. “A few days since, Madi
son L’avis, Surveyor of Customs of the port of
Atlanta, received a blank bond for S'j.OOJ to be
filled. Without any trouble he found four of
the best and most substantial citizens of
Athens, who readily sigued it. This is very
creoitable to the appointee. The bondsmen
are Messrs. R. L. Moss, James White, Pope
Barrow and Goodloe H. Yancey.”
Americus Republican: “Dr. Thomas H.
Stewart, the Ordinary of Sumter, has a dogfof
more than ordinary qualities. He possesses
sense, so to speak, like a man. A few days
ago Jack, tne dog, went into the corn field
tit-re the hands and the doctor’s children
were succoring corn. After watching them
for a while Jack, tired of idleness, went to
work to. He would lake hold of the succors
with his mouth, and failing to break them off,
would scratch them off. His work amused
the others, but he was earnest and persistent
in it ”
Meriwether Vindicator : "Burwell McGe
hee, colored, who ran off Jast February a year
ago because of a charge against him for
gambling and robbery, has been at large ever
since. Recently our sheriff heard that he was
living near the railroad bridge over Flat creek,
in Troup county, and that he defleJ arrest.
East Saturday night a party went to his house
and hailed. Burwell came to’he door with a
double-barrel shotgun. He told the party he
had heard of their coming, and was prepared
for them. Said he might be arrested in pieces,
but could not be carried off entire. During
the parleying, one of the parties, with a long,
heavy stick, got within striking distance of
uurwell, and by a well directed blow stretched
the boasting bu ly on the ground. Two or
three attacked the prostrate darkey at once,
and he was soon seem ed, brought to Green
ville and lodged in jail to await the August
term of the Superior Court.”
Americus Republican: “Americus has re
ceived. over the Southwestern Railroad up to
date, about two hundred and forty car loads—
twenty-flve thousand pounds to the car—of
corn, and four thousand six hundred tons of
guauo. Asa set off for this she has shipped
over thirty-one thousand bales of cottou.”
Atlanta Post-Appeal: “Postal cards and let
ters received from every county in the Btate
indicate a tremendous temperance boom.
Counties are already holding meetings and
selecting delegates to tbe State Temperance
Convention, to be held in Atlanta on the
fourth of July, and tbe prospects are favora
ble for a large convention, composed of the
best men in the State. It is generally under
stood that the convention will prepare an
address, asking the Legislature for a general
local option law, but it is quite probable that a
minority address will be issued in favor of
total prohibition. Politicians in the Legisla
ture will recollect that their term of office
expires with the end of the July session, and
many of them will be in favor of staving off
definite action on the temperance question in
order to make it an issue iu the cimpzign of
next year.”
Americus Republican: “On Wednesday night
Mr. George W. Horne caught an alligator on a
set hook, made for the purpose by James Ellis,
of this city, and attached to a eli&in, baited
and put in the river near where these animals
come out to depredate on his hogs. The 'gaitor
measured twelve feet in length, and weighed
over three hundred pounds."
1 Vireqrats IVatchman: “On Friday last Mr.
L C. Oliver met witn a serious and almost
fatal accident. It seems that while on a drift
of timber to Darien he stopped at Gray’s land
ing for the purpose of spending a short time
with his family. Preparatory to making a
fresh start he got into a bateau with his gun
charged with bqck shot; that he placed the
gun in an incUned rosiijon, either against a
seat or the bow of his boat; that he com
menced to piace therein also a few plank
which he designed to u*e for scaffolding; and
that by indiscertion or mischance,
shoved one of them against his gun,
thereby causing it to explode, and himself to
ke almost instantly killed. Two shot entered
his right side, and one just beneath his right
nipple, neither of which have as yet be.n ex
tracted. As soon as possible after the melan
choly accident. Dr. Mobly was summoned to the
Side of Mr. Oliver, who did al) that medical skill
could suggest to alleviate his pain and prolong
his life. Mr. Oliver is a highly appreciated
citizen, and we express tbe unfeigned hope
that he will recover from thia terrible accident.
However, at this writing, we regret to record
the fact that his condition is exceedingly pre
carious."
On June *29 the Pope intends to pro
claim peace between the church and Rus
sia, the establishment of the authority
of the Roman Catholic Church in Bos
nia and Jler/egovina and the organiza
tion of the Catholic Chprch as t}ie na
tional church of the §plY?’
CAPITAL GLEANINGS.
COLLECTOR WADE AND THE
DRUGGISTS.
How They Evade the Law-Plain
I natractions—Pitney Under Fire
Reluctant to Tell What He Knows
—How One of Honest John Sher
man’s Little Suppers Was Paid For
—Lights for Port Royal Sound.
Washington, June 12. — Revenue officials
in different parts of the country are con
tinually sending in complaints against drug
gists and others Indiscriminately selling
and keeping exposed for sale unstamped
packages of cologne waters and bay rum.
When approached on the subject the deal
ers invariably plead in extenuation of their
conduct ignorance of the law; notwith
standing the fact that they had been fur
nished with full instructions on the subject.
The latest complaint on the subject comes
from Collector Wade, of the Savannah, Ga„
distiict, who reports several cases and, sug
gests that the diuggtsts should
be required to furnish a statement under
oath of their sales of perfumery and cos
metic articles, with a view to assessments
of the taxes omitted to be paid by them.
He also asks for instructions in the pre
mises.
In reply the Commissioner calls the Col
lector's attention to sections 3435 and 3437
Intied States Revised Statutes, also to
special number 145 revised and to the
regulations concerning assessments,
and says: “ You will observe
that in making these assessments the law
limits the Commissioner to a period of not
more than two years after the sale of these
articles. No other positive or definite in
struction applicable in all cases can be
given in regard to the precise mode of
obtaining proper information and of
estimating tbe amount which has
been omitted to be paid. In cases
where parties have failed through
ignorance of the law and of their liability
they have voluntarily furnished the Collec
tor with the precise number and value of
packages sold unstamped. The correctness
of the amount thus reported may be verified
by sn examination of the books of the
manufacturers or dealers when practicable.
In cases where tbe manufacturer fails to
voluntarily render such statements, the Col
lector may ascertain tbe amount by an
examination of the books kept by the manu
facturer or dealer. In case no books are kept
the Collector may estimate tbe amount by
the best information he can obtain, i see
no reason why you should not immediately
proceed in seme or all of these ways to
ascertain the amount of taxes that these
druggists have failed to pay by stamps on
ih>.Re ariiclee.”
O L Pitney, the custodian of the Treas
ury Department, and the apparent head of
the ring that has been for years stealing
from the contingent fund of the Treasury,
has been before the committee that is in
vestigating the aforesaid stealings several
times. He bss answered questions in a
general way, and has given such informa
tion as he desired to the committee. The
o.fcer day the committee put him on oath
and then began to question. Pitney refused
to answer. He would not say anything un
der oath. The committee will await the re
turn of Secretary Windom from Minnesota,
before taking any steps as regards his
refusal. It looks very bad,for Pitnev,
et al., that be refuses to make oath about
his transactions. It is bad enough anyway,
but the refusal puts a worse phase on it.
Before the oath was administered to Pitney
he was asked about sn item of thirty-five
boxes of candles, which appear on his
hooks, but which were never received. The
Teastry Department uses gas altogether, so
the discrepancy in the purchase of so many
candles naturally attracted attention.
When asked tvbat became of the candles,
P tney cocked his legs on his desk and said;
"Oh, they were not candles !” “What be
came of the money he wa3 asked. “Oh,”
he said, with his thumbs in tbe arm holes
of his vest, “the money went to cover the
expenses of a little supper given bv Secre
tary Sherman to the officers of the Treasury
Department, about a month before the Chi
cago Convention.”
The following notice to mariners has been
issued by the Lighthouse Board: “Notice is
hereby given that, on and after August 1,
1881, two sets of raDge lights will be shown
to mark the channel leading into Port
Royal sound from seaward—the first to
guide through the southeast channel, and
the 6econd to guide up the mala channel.
The first range will be composed of two
fixed red lights, established on Hilton Head
Island. The second range is on Paris Isl
and, and is composed of two fixed white
lights.”
WINDOM IN CHICAGO.
A Talk on CUeap Rate* to the Sea
board Water Routes and Fi
nance.
Chicago, June 11.—Secretary Windom
arrived today, and was introduced on
'Change at noon, in company with Mayor
Harrison and other prominent citizens, and
was received with every manifestation of
friendship and enthusiasm. He made a five
minutes address, in the course of which he
reverted to the magnificent and unparalleled
development of the agricultural industries
of this country, gave some facts as to the
growth of this city and surrounding sections,
and strongly endorsed the scheme now un
der way of connecting the Mississippi and
the great lakes by means of the Hennepin
Canal. He referred to bis efforts in Con
gress in behalf of the improvement of the
water ways as a means ot cheapening trans
portation and theieby regulating railroad
rates, which sometimes become exorbitant.
He assured the grain men of the Northwest
of his hearty sympathy and his sup
port of any plan of this kind to
cheapen rates to the seaboard on the pro
ducts of the farm He referred to the suc
cess cf the refunding operations and said
that the good times, which are now upon
us, would seem to have come to stay. It
was by no means sure, be said, that such
was tbe case, but we shall be forewarned of
their departure,and tbe signs will be a grow
ing extravagance of living,reckless specula
tion, spendthrift habits, and the turning of
trade from our shores, thus sending away
our riches Instead of increasing them.”
CRIME IN TEXAS.
Harder and Robbery Under Cover
ofa Storm—Road Agents at Work.
Galveston, June 11.—A special from
Graham says: “J. E. Martin, a prominent
merchant of Belknap, was called out of his
residence night before last by three un
known men, who led him half a mile away
and shot 11101. They then proceeded to
Martin’s store, robbed it of all they could
carry off,and escaped under cover of a furi
ous Storm at the time prevai.ing.”
A special from Gainesville, Texas, says ;
,[ lAst Friday evening the etage of the Over
land Transportation Company was robbed
while passing through Block Hollow, thir
teen miles from here, by masked men, who
obtained a small amount of money from the
passengers and one thousand dollars from
the malls. W. E. Smith, the mail agent,
yesterday arrested W. R. Brown, a well
known stock man in Montague county. He
is believed to bo the guilty party.”
Galveston, June 12 — A dispatch from
Houston says: “Jack Dempsey, a wheel
wright, was shot and instantly killed by W.
H. Phiilipj, an express messenger. Dttnp
sey fired at Phillips, who ran up stairs, fol
lowed by Dempsey. Phillips procured a pis
tol, and, returning, fired and killed Demp
sey. Pnillips has surrendered himself to
the authorities.”
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal observer, Wash
ington, June 13.—Indications for Mon
day:
In the South Atlantic States, warmer, fair
weather, northeasterly winds, becoming
variable, stationary barometer.
In New England and the Middle 4H an^c
Btates, slightly warmer, fair weather, vari
able winds, mostly southerly, and stationary
barometer.
In the East Gulf States, fair weather,
light variable winds, and nearly stationary
temperature and barometer-
In the West Gulf States, fair weather,
southerly winds, and stationary tempera
ture and barometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio Valley, fair
weather, winds mostly southerly, nearly sta
tionary temperature and barometer.
French Politic*.
London, June 11.—A dispatch from Paris
to the Reuter Telegram Company says: “In
the Cabinet council yesterday the proposal
to hasten the date of the elections was not
opposed. They will probably be held at
the commencement of the second fortnight
In July If the Bureaux of the Left in the
Chamber of Deputies, who will’ be invited
tg discuss tbs proposal to-day,consent to Jt.”
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1881.
The dead lock.
Another Futile Hal lot—The Rrlbery
Inquiry —'Conkllng’e View of
Things.
Albany, June 11. —The committee met
at 9:30 this morning. Francis N. Bangs, of
New York, appeared as counsel for the
committee. He said he had had no oppor
tunity to consult with the witnesses, and
felt himself unfit to enter upon this investi
gation at this time. He thought counsel on
the other side would agree with him that it
would expedite matters If there was a recess
taken till this afternoon so he could be al
lowed to prepare himself for the case.
After some discussion, Wm. K. Trimble,
a member of the Assembly from the Twenty
first New York district, was sworn and
testified that he had a conversation with a
gentleman named Edwards at his room be
tween 8 and 10 p. m. on Tuesday last. He
said : Edwards came to my room, walked
in and sat down, and introduced the Sena
torial question. He asked me why I con
tinued to vote for Conkling and Platt, when
there was no chance of electing
them. I told him I did not agree
with him. He asked me what
my expenses were. I said be
tween *2,000 and *2,500. He said If tbe
friends of. Depew would pay these expenses
would I not change my vote ’ I told him
that 1 would not, that If 1 changed my vote
It would be for other reasons. This con
versation was interjected into a general
conversation. I understood him to mean
by my expenses my election expenses and
expenses here. That was all the conversa
tion I had with him.
To Mr. Brooks—l meant when I told him
I would not change my vote unless some
arrangement was made, unless there were
-some other combination of candidates
agreed upon by my party. My opjnion of
Edwards was that which would be yours
or any other honest man’s—that he was a
rascal.
To Mr. Srott—l have seen this man Ed
wards several times durlDg the session;
don’t know his first name.
To Mr. Shanley—l cannot say how I first
met Elwards.
To Mr. Scott—l have heard he was a lob
byist.
To Mr. Skinner—l have reason now to be
lieve be is.
Mr. Raines, a member of the Assembly
from Ontario county, asked permission to
ask witness a question, and he was permitted
to hand the question to the committee for
consideration.
Mr. Carpenter asked the witness if he was
advised to make his statement before tbe
committee rather than rise in the House and
make it.
Witness—No, sir.
Mr. Carpenter—Did Raines advise you to
make a statement here?
Witness—Raines told me that I had bet
ter make It, to the committee and not In the
House. Witness here left the stand.
The committee adjourned to 9 o’clock
Monday morning, in pursuance of a resolu
tion which had been previously adopted,
with an amendment to ask permission of the
House to sit during its recess.
The joint convention met at noon, Presi
dent pro tern. Robertson presiding, and
proceeded to vote to fill the vacancy in the
United States Senate caused by the resigna
tion of Roscoe Conkling. The result of the
vote was as follows:
Jacobs 29 Cornell 8
Conkling 23 Folger 1
Wheeler 1 Lapham 7
Rogers 141 Tremaine 4
There was no choice.
The convention then voted for Senator
to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna
tion of Thos. C. Platt, with the following
result:
Depew 38 Kernan 29
Piatt 22 Cornell 7
Folger 3 Lapham 2
Crowley 2
There was no choice. The convention
then adjourned to 12 o’clock Monday.
New York, June 11.—An evening paper
says ex Senator Platt made a Hying visit to
his home at Oswego after leaving Albany.
Conkling, soon after breakfasting, left the
hotel, and later went to the office of a law
firm with whom he is interested in elevated
railroad cases. He did not meet any local
politicians, but told one of bis associate
counsel that he was now convinced that
there would be no successor to himself
elected by the present Legislature. As to
the bribery cases he said there were a num
ber yet to be heard. Conkling said also he
would return to Albany next week, and
would fight tbe matter out to the bitter
end. He thought now the better way
would be to allow the voters to pa6B upon
the question at the fall election.
WIND AND HAIL.
Terrific Ntorm In tbe Weat-Loa of
Life and Property.
Abilene, Kans., June II.—A storm, ac
companied by rain and hail, struck Solomon
Valley Thursday evening at 5 o’clock, at
Belvlt. A great deal of glass was broken
out of the windows, but the fury of the
cyclone was the greatest at Solomon City,
where nearly all the glass was broken from
the north windows and a number of houses
destroyed. No lives were lost. Four
miles northwest of that town Dennis
Morgan and his sister were In
stantly killed and their house totally
destroyed. At Bennington, on the Valley
road, twelve miles northeast of Solomon
City, a farmer named Frothingbam, his
wife and hired hand, were killed and the
house completely demolished. In the same
vicinity three stone farm houses were blown
down, but the imitates were In the cellars
and escaped without serious injury. A
large number of houses and barns along the
valley between Solomon City and Minne
apolis, a distance of 20 miles or more, were
blown down, but further loss of life is not
yet reported.
St. Louis, June 11. —Additional particu
lars of the tornado in Kansas night before
last are that the 6torm extended into Lyon
county and did great damage to crops,
buildings, fences, etc., all over that part of
the country. The town of Americus, near
Emporia, is almost entirely destroyed, every
building In it being more or less damaged.
The United Presbyterian Church was liter
ally torn to pieces, and the Methodist
Church was blown from its founda
tion and almost totally destroyed.
Beveral houses in Emporia were
blown down and fences and other property
seriously Injured. The north and east ad
ditions to the State Normal School were un
roofed and the walls partly torn down.
VVneat just ready for harvest and other
crop3 everywhere in the track of the storm
were either blown away or beaten into the
ground by the bail, an immense quantity of
which fell during the storm.
Southwest Missouri seems to have been
visited by the same storm. The wind was
not severe, but immense bail-stones fell
over a large area of country, and did great
damage to crops and window glass. A
water spout broke in Little Valley, in Borey
county, in which is situated the town of
Seven Star Spring, and before the
people could reach the surround
ing hills a torrent of water rushed
down, taking with It houses, household
goods and animals belonging to those living
near the springs. Three women, a man and
seven small children were swept away by
the flood, but fortunately they all lodged
in bushes and were rescued some hours
later.
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LIGHTNING’S FATAL WORK.
A Han Struck While Crossing a
Bridge—Two Ladles Killed In a
Carriage.
Peoria, 111 .June 12,—Reuben F. Brown,
a farmer, while crossing the river by the
iron bridge last night, was struck by light
ning and killed. His son who was with him
escaped uninjured.
Galveston, June 12. —A dispatch from
Henrietta says; “Qn Thursday, while the
family of W. B. Hutchinson were returning
in a carriage from a visit, accompanied by a
Miss Cox, a thunderstorm came up. Miss
Lissjle Hutchinson and Miss Cos? were in
stantly killed by lightning, and Mrs. Hutch
inson was fatally Injured. Mr. Hutchinson
and one of the children were stunned but
soon recovered.”
Hv’nnewells, Kansas, June 12.—Andrew
D. Robeson, nephew of ex Secretary Robe
son, of New Jersey, was instantly killed by
lightning this afternoon. He had just re
turned from Hunnewells to his farm near
the city and was unsaddling his horse in
the barn.
The French Elections.
Paris, June 11.—At the meeting of the
delegates representing the four groups of
tbe Left in tbe Chamber of Deputies, M.
Bardoux moved a resolution requesting
President Grevy to fix the date for holding
the general elections for the 17th of July.
The Extreme \jtt ot the ReDubilcan Union
agreed to the resolution, but the Left Cen
tre required time to consider it, jjo §ctlop
W tikjn,
THE UNITED KINGDOM.
REPOSTED FEXIAN CONSPIRACY
The Dynamite Plotter*—What Rous
Knows of Them—A Prescription
That the ’’Times” Want* Tried—
Tbe Origin of the Recent Riot—Tbe
Telegraph Employers and Their
UrleTancea—A Demonstration in
Cork.
London, June 11.—The Daily Telegraph's
correspondent at Chester reports that the
police have received a communication
from the government stating that the
Fenians in America have detailed a number
of men to destroy buildings In various cities
in the United Kingdom, Including Chester.
The Times, remarking on the growth of
carelessness In Ireland, says: “One experi
ment, wh‘ch is most obvious and most cer
tain to succeed, remains untried. If one
mob of Fenians or Land Leaguers, or of
whatever other title, were just for once
not tuffered to have its own way, its
appeal to force met and overcome, and
if tbe mob were dispersed and
forbidden to reassemble, the conse
quences might be happy in the
extreme. One victory of law would be tbe
signal for others. Objections to such an
experiment are obvious, but not conclusive.
The forcible dispersion of a mob in Ireland
would be certainly tollowed b> a howl
from their Parliamentary friends and
schampione. The Irish press, which is
silent over the Injuries to the police, would
be eloquent in these we are .new supposing,
but the Land League would receive some
thing very like is death blow and might
Itself fall into the contempt with which the
law is now treated In Ireland.”
Liverbool, June ll—McKevitt, who
who was arrested for alleged connection
with the Town Hall plot, is a native of War
ren Point, county Down. He ha 6 been em
ployed as a dock laborer in Liverpool since
1870. Roberts is a native of Glasgow, of
Irish parentage.
New York, June 11. —O’Donovan Rossa
denies all knowledge of the two men ar
rested In Liverpool for attempting to blow
up the Town Hall, and says the undertaking
was not instigated by the Fenian brother
hood in America, or he would have known
all about It. But he says he Is sure the plot
grew out of the same spirit that animates
the organization of which he is a member.
Rossa is editor of United Irishman , and he
says the books of that paper show the name
of McKevitt, of Liverpool, as one of its
agents, and he is of the opinion that what
ever document referring to him was found
on McKevitt when arrested was connected
solely with the businets of his newspaper.
Cork, June 11. —The rioting here Thurs
day night originated in the police arresting
eight persons who were concerned in the
drunken disturbance at tbe races. What
followed was the result of an attempt to
rescue the prisoners, which gave the mob a
favorable opportunity for attacking the po
lice. The feeling of the “roughs” against
the police and soldiers was shown by fre
quent brutal assaults upon individuals found
alone.
Liverpool, June 11, 4:30 p. m.— The ex
amination of the men captured in the at
tempt to blow up tbe Town Hall yesterday
morning took place to day. The prisoners
were charged with damaging the building
with intent to commit murder, and also
with laying an explosion with intent to
damage the building. The man who at
first gave the name of Roberts bas since bis
arrest given it as McGrath. A strong force
of police were present at the examination.
Only persons having business were ad
mitted to the court.
London, Junel2. —At the meeting of 12,000
postal telegraph employes of London, held
last night, resolutions were passed calling a
national conference of telegraph clerks, to
be held In Liverpool In three weeks, and
pledging the meeting to abide by the de
cision of that conference. Another resolu
tion was unanimously adopted, agreeing to
strike, if that, course of action should be
decided upon. The meeting resolved to take
immediate steps to bring about the total
cessation of overtime work, which appears
to be a grievance, as also the statement
made in the House of Commons by the
Right Hon. Henry Fawcett, Postmaster
General, that overtime work is often volun
tarily submitted to, and that when volun
teers are not forthcoming it is fairly
allotted bv ballot.
Cork, June 12 —Fifteen hundred people
aßsemoled to-day in Mill Street, county
Cork, but made no attempt to hold a meet
ing. A large force of military and police
was drafted for service in the town. The
people formed a procession and marched
through the 6trets with bands playing and
banners flying. There was no speaking ex
cept by a priest, who advised the people to
quit the town quietly.
THE UTAH DELEGATES.
Campbell to Fight Cannon In the
Court*.
Salt Lake City, Utah, June ll.—Learn
ing that Clerk Adams, disregarding Gov.
Murray’s certificate, had placed Cannon’s
name on the roll of members of tbe House
of Representatives, Mr. Campbell yesterday
brought suit in the Third District Court here
to establish the fact that Cannon is not a
citizen and was Incapable of becoming one
at the time he claims to have naturalized,
and to annul and declare void the bogus cer
tificate of naturalization upon which he dt
pends. because it was fraudulently obtained
and is not a part of the records of any court,
but is such certificate as was after sold in
those times, nearly thirty years ago, by the
clerk for three dollars without any pro
ceedings beiDg had in the court. It will be
shown that when Cannon’s certificate pur
ports to have been issued he had not resided
in this country five years, or one year, and
was, therefore, not entitled to be natural
ized under the statutes, and this certificate,
besides being void on its face, in the absence
of any legal record of his naturalization, is
voidable because no court could legally
have issued it at that time, even if it had to
desired.
ROLLINS’ SUCCESSOR.
Tbe New Hampshire Supreme Court
011 tbe Senatorial Question.
Concord, N. H., June 11.—The opinion
of the State Supreme Court on the question
whether *fet existing Legislature has the
power anßfight to elect a person to repre
sent tbe State in the Senate of the United
States for the term beginning March 4th,
1883, which was sent to the Senate yester
day, recites that the next Legislature
having no existence until June, 1883,
cannot elect a Senator for the full
term of six years, beginning March 4, 1883.
Therefore, a refusal of the present Legisla
ture to elect a Senator for that term would
be a violation of the constitutional right of
the State to be represented by two Senators
chosen by the Legislature thereof for six
years, such refusal leaving the State for
three months represented by ODly one Sena
tor chosen by Its Legislature, and would be
as plainly unconstitutional as similar refu
sals leaving the State for all time without a
Senator chosen.
BUTCHERED BY NATIVES.
An Italian Exploring Party Malta*
cred in Alrlca.
Aden, June 12—News has been received
here that the Italian exploring party which
started from Aeeab Bay, Abyssinia, consist
ing of a subaltern officer, twelve sailors and
four soldiers, have been massacred In the
interior. The particulars are not known.
Rome, June 12.—The government has re
ceived news confirming the report of the
massacre of the Italian exploring party in
Africa. The victims are a lieutenant and
twelve sailors who landed at Assab on a
mission from the Italian Government,
THE CHICAGO FASTER.
Grlacom’* Second Week of Starya*
tfon Closed,
Chicago, June 11.— At noon to-day John
Griscom, at the end of his second week’s
fast, weighed 175 pounds, a loss of
pounds in the last twenty-fonr hours, du
ring which his only nourishment was thirty
two ounces. In two weeks he has lost
pounds. To day he appears bright and
cheerful, and does not complain of any ill
effects from his self-imposed fast. His
pulse was regular at 72, temperature
99 1-100 and respiration 18.
Fatal Explosion on a steamer.
Cafe Henßy, ' y a., June 12.—8 y the ex
plosion of the boiler of Baker’s wreck
ing steamer this morning fireman Frank
Was Instantly killed and James Turner and
§am Ward were badly scaled. The steamer
was just getting up stefagj when the ex
gojjoMccunreO. she tr being towed to
CLAY COUNTY, FLORIDA.
A Novel Meeting—The Green Cove
Spring and Melrose Railroad—lts
Advantages Set Forth—Hardships
of the Lack of Transportation—The
Lake Region—Wealth of the For
ests—The March of Progress—Light
Ahead.
Melrose, Fla., June 6. — Editor Morning
News: At a meeting of the Green Cove Spring
and Melrose Railroad Company, held at Mel
rose on the 2d Inst., the books of the company
were opened for subscription and one hundred
and thirty shares of stock, at one hundred dol
lars each, were promptly taken.
The people here are fully aroused to the ne
cessity for the construction of the road, and
seem determined to build it. If Jacksonville,
where the main advantages of the road con
centrate, and Green Gove Spring, its eastern
terminus, will evince the same substantial in
terest in proportion to their superior wealth
and advantages in this splendid enterprise, this
most desirable section of East Florida will soon
be emancipated from the blighting curse of a
stagnant transportation.
By formal consent the members of the com
pany, with the assembled citizens, accepting
an invitation from the gentlemanly and ac
commodating officers of the Waldo and Melrose
Canal Company’s fine steamer, the F. R. Lewis,
to an excursion across the lake, concluded to
heighten the interest and enjoyment of the oc
casion by ocening the boons and discussing
the enterprise aboard the boat.
In her spacious saloon the meeting was
called to order by Maj. A. F. Vogelbach, and
Gen E. Eirle.oneof the directors,b-ing chc.3er.
Chairman, presided with his characteristic
dignity, and gave us an eloquent and most en
couraging address. The General cirae to
Florida for the benefit of Mrs. Earle's health,
who was suffering from pulmonary affliction,
twenty-nine years ago, and located where he
now lives, on a lovely eminence overlooking
Lake Santa Fe. The restoration of his wife’s
health, hi& success as a planter before the war
and as an orange grower and prosperous citi
zen since, amply attest the wisdom of his
course. Yet at the time of his settlement here
his post office was Palatka. and his nearest
tracing post Black Creek, thirty miles distant.
In alluding to the e and other facts showing
the marked changes in the years that have
elapsed, he was “proud to congratulate the
country upon its great progress; felt that the
future of the lake region was as
sured: that the construction of the road from
Melrose, on the Santa Fe Lake, to Green Cove
Spring, on the t-t. John’s river, a distance of
twenty-eight miles, was alone lacking to open
up to dense and rapid settlement one of the
most valuable sections of the State.”
R. W. Davis, Esq , of Green Cove Spring, one
of the most promising young lawyers in the
State and an honor to the country, in a clear
and forcible speech, so logically portrayed the
feasibility and economical construction of the
road as to convince the most skeptical old
fogv in the country that (unless Mother Ship
ton’s prophesy is fulfilled) in a short while we
shall be enabled to place our cotton, oranges
and earlv vegetables aboard the great steamers
for the North at Jacksonville in less time than
it now takes to get them aboard the cars on
the Transit Railroad at Waldo, ten miles dis
tant.
'1 he Waldo and Melrose Canal Company’s
line, under the superintendence of that most
efficient engineer and accommodating gentle
man, Captain Ned E. Farrell, has done much
for our relief in easy transportation, but ex
pedition cannot be secured that way. East
ward ho! our star of progress wends her way,
and a connection with the St. John’s at Green
Cove is indispensable to establish it. Now
from eight to twelve days often elapse before
our perishable vegetables are received in New
York and Philadelphia. Then we shall com
plete the shipment in forty-eight hours from
Melrose.
Our vegetables this season have not paid for
the seeds that were planted, and a growing in
dustry has been ruthlessly smothered, and
cannot revive until we get direct and rapid
transportation.
Dr. H. A. Vogelbsch, originally from Phila
delphia, on the occasion of our meeting made a
most hippy and forcible speech, delineating in
his peculiarly felicitous style the gratifying up
ward tendency of the lake region. He is de
lighted with his new home—so are all who ever
have tried a year’s sojourn at Melrose. The
first ten miles of the new route eastward from
Melrose (its western terminus) intersects the
far-famed iake region, a section unsurpassed
for its beautiful scenery, elevation, h> althful
ness and adaptability to semi-tropical fruit
growing and grape culture by any other por
tion of the State.
Our lahesare numerous, and beautiful be
yond comparison, while the intervening hills,
with their verdant slopes, are everywhere cov
ered with valuable pine timber. Further east,
toward Green Cove, the face of the country is
less undulating Fewer lakes occur and occa
sional creeks will require short trestle work
constructions. The farming lands are good
and the timber very valuable. In the opinion
of O. A. Buddington, Esq., and other compe
tent and experienced judges, who have a per
fect knowledge of that portion of the route,
there is an abundance of pine and cypress
t : mber contiguous to the proposed route to
construct and equip the entire road, and as
soon as the road is fairly commenced, of
course, this vast body of merchantable timber
will be cut and shipped to the different mar
kets of the world, and thereby render the
whole enterprise self-sustaining. The road
will divide Clay county almost equally, and
open up this hitherto neglected and unappre
ciated county to the settlement of an enter
prising and industrious class of gardeners,fruit
growers, farmers and mechanics from abroad,
who would speedily develop her dormant re
sources.
Oraoge groves, vineyards and winter gardens
where the choicest vegetables may be grown
for shipment with assurance of being re
ceived in unexceptional condition in the great
Northern and Western cities; rice and corn
fields, cotton patches anl acres of sugar cane
and sweet potatoes will take the place of the
endless glides of unremunerativa wiregrass.
Saw mills will be estab ished to cut for foreign
commerce the millions of feet of the beauti
ful and highly prized yellow pine lumber.
Stores will be erected and filled with various
supplies tor the accommodation of the people.
New industries will arise, and new avenues of
wealih and prosperity developed. White
cottages will take the places of the
cabins of the primitive settlers, and Clay
county—from her eastern to her western
borders—will be filled with busy, active, in
telligent human enterprise; for the iron
horse, that great civilizer, has magic power to
change desolation to prosperity, and to con
vert an unproductive waste to a smiling
garden.
Now, we can conscientiously invite the im
migrant, if be is a worker, to come along and
help us take stock and work it out; if he is a
capitalist to put in his money and push the
work ahead to his own interest. M.
JUDGE LYNCH AT WORK.
The Mnrder of an Old Man Swiftly
Followed by the Pursuit, Capture
aud Hanging of the Three Murder
ers.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., to the
New Orleans Democrat says: “News of a
horrible murder in Sevier county, accom
panied by swift retribution on the part of
Judge Lynch, reached this city today.
An old man named R. F. Hall left his
home, intending to visit relations in the
adjacent county. Upon reaching the ford
on Rolling Fork creek he found the waters
deep and dangerous and hired three negro
men to put him on the other side. The
negroes had heard of him, and on learning
his identity resolved to rob him, as
they believed him wealthy and that he
had a large sum of money with him.
They set on the old man and a terrible
struggle ensued on the banks of the creek.
Hall was soon overpowered and robbed, the
thieves, however, obtaining only twenty -five
or thirty cents. Enraged at the smallness
of the sum, and fearing the consequences
of the assault, they decided to complete
their work and destroy all traces of the
crime. With this determination they
strangled the old man, and tying heavy
weights to the body flung it into the creek.
The remains floated down the creek, and
were shortly found lodged In the branches
of a fallen tree.
“The discovery aroused the neighbor
hood, and an old negro gave a clew to the
murderers, who meantime bad taken to the
woods. Bands of men at once set out to
hunt them. The ringleader was captured
first. He admitted his share in the murder,
but said he was drunk and did not know
what he was doing. He was taken to the
creek, and, despite his yells and pleadings,
was hung to the limb of an adjacent tree.
“Pursuit of the remaining two murderers
was continued, and they were overhauled
last Tuesday night, many miles from the
scene of the tragedy. Their captors hur
ried them back to the hank of the stream,
where ropes were procured, and soon the
wretches were dangling in the moonlight
from the limb of a tree.
“the murder and sequel has created a
whirlwind of excitement in the Immediate
neighborhood of the scene, but the action
of Judge Lynch Is generally approved.”
New Vorfc Stock Market,
New York, June U.WThe stock market
opened generally firm, and in the earlier
dealings an advance of to per cent,
was recorded, St. Louis and
New Albany, Northern Pa
cific, Western Union and Western Union
ex certificates leading the upward move
ment. This was followed by
a reaction of y % to IU per' cent
But speculation soon became strong again
and at the second board the market became
quite buoyant, and an advance of to 4
per cent, took place, which was most
(narked in Memphis and Charleston, Union
Pacific, Western Union and Canada South
ern. In the late dealings there was a frac
tional reaction, but the market closed
generally firm. Sales *o-dsy aggregated
—-
for short dresses the trimming most used
Is Valenciennes lace. No other lace Is half
10 pretty for white dresses.
KEENE'S FOXHALL.
CARRIES OFF THE (IRANI) FRIX.
The Great French Race—Two to
One Against the American—Win
ner by a Head—The “Sportsman”
on the Result.
Paris, June 12.— The grand prize race
was won to day by J. R. Keene's Foxhall,
Tristan second, Albion third. The contest
was very close between the two first, par
ticularly on the home stretch, Foxhall beat
ing Tristan by a head.
The weather was fine but sultry. The
various roads to Longues Champs were
thronged with vehicles. A great many
drays were conspicuous bearing flags. Tbe'
attendance was immense. President Grevy,
ex Queen Isabella and Ministers Constans,
Maguin and Ferry* were present. Henri
Rochefort, the Dake of Hamilton, Prince
Soltykoff and Marshal McMahon were in
the paddock. Owing to a recent rainfall
the course was in excellent order. Two
to one was the best price obtainable upon
Foxhall. Albion and Tristan were well
supported. Long prices were obtainable
upon tbe remainder or the field. It may be
truthfully said that Foxhall was in front
throughout the race and despite the effort
of Richer, who brought Tristan up with a
great rush at the distance. Foxhall won by
a bead amidst tumultuous applause from the
Americans, who seemed to go quite mad,
aDd the waving of the stars and 6tripes
from many drags.
In the preliminary canter Casimerc and
Albion appeared to go best, although Fox
hall was greatly admired. After one false
start the horses were sent on their journey.
Foxhall and Tristan took the lead, but
Archer pulled Tristan back and Dublin
became second. Alternate running was
then made by Foxhall and Dublin,
followed by Fiddler, Leon and Albion, with
Forum and Tristan next and Cassimer last,
until going down the hill, about half a mile
from home, where Foxhall still held
the lead, with Fiddler second, Dublin being
beaten. Foxhall and Fiddler were attended
by Scobell,Tristan and Albion. In this order
they ran to the distance, where Tristan join
ed Foxhall, and the pair ran a superb race
home, Foxhall, who stayed longest, win
ning by a bead. Four lengths separated the
second and third horses. Fiddler was
fourth, Bkobeli fifth, Royumont 6ixth, Fo
rum seventh, Dublin eighth, Cassimer
ninth, and Leon last. Time 3:17
The betting at the start was two to one
against Foxhall, three to one against Al
bion, four to one against Scobell, and five
to one against Tristan.
London, June 12. — The Sportsman says
“that the Amvlcans have a great deal to
be proud of in securing both the Derby and
the Grand Prlx, but nobody will begrudge
them their success.”
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
The Cuban sugar crop of the present year
is estimated at 464,000 tons, against 529,-
500 tons in 1880.
A special from Marshall, Texas, says in
the District Court on Friday R. L. Jennings
was acquitted of killing W. 8. Coleman.
A fire broke out in the arsenal at Carls
krona, Sweden, a few days ago. Many
shells exploded, and great damage was
done.
Advices from Buenos Ayres dated May
15th, received at London by way of Lisbon,
announce the withdrawal of the Chilians
from Lima.
A special from San Antonio reports ten
men killed in the southwest In a fight be
tween rangers and a band of cow thieves.
There are no details.
A dispatch from Durban at London an
nounces that the Boers have surrendered
the persons charged with the murder of
Malcolm during the war.
Robt. Paragal, while bathing in the river
at. New Orleans, was drowned. His brother,
Lovell Paragal, in attempting to rescue
him, was also drowned.
Chas. Sutter, a Dr. Zeigler, and another
man name unknown, died in New Orleans
from sunstroke Saturday. These are the
first cases there this year.
On the night of May 17 there was an
earthquake lu Hayti. Rain fell in torrents
at the time. Several land slips occurred,
and many cattle were killed.
There was a renewed shock of earthquake
In the island of Chios Saturday, which
overthrew the minaret and ruined several
houses. Two men were injured.
A dispatch from Geneva state there was
a very perceptible earthquake shock in the
valley of the upper Rhone on Thursday,
which extended as far as that city.
The Russian commission to elaborate a
scheme for reducing the payments to which
peasants are liable for the redemption of
their lands will hold its first sitting on
Tuesday.
A special from Austin, Texas, says: “The
Court of Appeals has affirmed the verdict
of murder in the first degree with the
death penalty in the case of Williams, of
Tom Green county.”
A special from Houston says: “Harry Erp
was arrested here yesterday charged with
having committed an outrage upon the
person of a little mulatto girl, May Lee,
near Glenwood, on Friday night.”
A petrified forest has been found in the
hills near Calaveras Valley, Alameda coun
ty, California. One silicified trunk, which
lies exposed, is about twenty feet long and
seven feet in circumference at the base.
A young mm named Vostie Kilvir, em
ployed in Rock Island Arsenal shops, fell
from the third story to the ground, a dis
tance of fifty feet. His skull was broken
in two places and the body was found
breathless.
Important coal discoveries have been
made in Arizona in tbe Guadaloupe Moun
tains. Troops have been sent from Fort
Bowie to the coal beds to protect the pros
pectors from Indians who drove off the
original locators.
Hon. A. M. Kelley, of Richmond, is put
forward by the Petersburg Index-Appeal as
ah available Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Virginia. Mr. Kelley is one of the
most eloquent speakers and brilliant writers
in the old Commonwealth.
"John Booth, a farmer liviDg in La Grange
county, was driving a load of wheat to
Lima, Indiana, accompanied by bis son
Frank, aged 12 years. The boy fell off the
wagon, which passed over him, causing
death almost immediately.
The sloop-of-war Yantic, which had been
sent to Merida to investigate the seizure
of the bark Acacia, arrived at Key West
Saturday, and reports that the Acacia had
been surrendered to Captain Anderson be
fore the Yantic’s arrival at Merida.
The heirs of a man six months dead, in
North Attleboro, Mass., unable to find the
papers containing the records of his prop
erty, dug up his body and found them and
S6O in money in the pocket of the molder
lng coat in which he had been buried.
One hundred and twenty children have
died recently at Luddingtou, Michigan, of
diphtheria. The total population of the
place is 4,000. The schools are closed, and
police are stationed at houses where sick
ness exists to prevent ingress or egress.
M. Henri Say’s new yacht Batagne
sailed from Baltimore Saturday for Fortress
Monroe, whence she will proceed to Ber
muda. Before sailing Rev. McCoy, of St.
Mary’s Btar of the Sea Church, blessed the
yacht according to the rites of the Catho
lic Church.
A startling levelation was mqd? by the
experts who examined the hqll of the Vic
toria at London, (jut. A large hole w
found stoye In the bottom, coo firing
theory that she sunk thro"u pure leakage
Where the hole wae knocked In there is no
evidence, but it was probably on the nas
sage to Springbank,
The Thirteenth Regiment, of Brooklyn
havQ decided to attend the celebration of
tbe Ydrktown Centennial, leaving Brooklyn
Qctober 16, stopping in Washington on the
17th, going thence on the 18th to Rich
mond, where they will be the guests of the
First Virginia Regiment, and with that
regiment they will proceed to Yorktown.
A special from Nashville, Tenn., says:
vlob Welch, the notorious moonshiner who
nearly killed revenue officers Davis’and
Campbell early last December, and who
was captured by Davis on Walden’s Ridge
near Spring City, Tenn., about May 28th!
and shot while attempting to escape, died
of his wounds in jail Saturday morning.”
M. Nikolus Rubinstein (tied lately in
Paris, about the seme time as a Russian
Baroness. It U reported that their bodies
were sett to. Russia by the same train. At
yerlffi llie coffins were accidently changed,
with the result that while Rubinstein was
quietly interred at Riga, the body of the
unknown Russian Baroness was committed
to the earth with all the pomp and circum
stances of a public funeral at Mostow.
The singular effect qol a rattlesnake bite
are exhibited on the person of George Han
sen, f narrodsburg, Ky. Five years ago
he Was bitten by a rattlesnake in the left
eye. The eye Immediately swelled and
went out. The other eye became blind in a
few hours. He was bitten on the 10th of
August, and every year at that time bis
head swells to an enormous size. Hanson
saved his life by drinking freely of whisky
after he was bitten. *
ESTABLISHED 1850.
LETTER FROM THOXASVILLE.
The Crop OaUook-The Oet Harvest
Wool—The Proposed Provision
Crop Exemption —The Railway
Commission Watermelons and
Freights—Work for the Legisla
ture.
Thomasvillb.J une 10.—Editor Morning Newt:
We have plenty of dry weather. Crops are as
clean as a ball room, and, though three weeks
later than usual, the present outlook is en
couraging for a good yield. Oats are all cut,
and the yield has exceeded expectation.
We see loads of them daily on the streets of
Tbomasville for sale, and occasionally seme of
the knowing farmers bring in some corn and
fodder, which they had stored away for hard
times and big prices, and find ready
sale of it. The wool clip has been
good, and sells here readily at thirty cents.
There is more demand now to have the thieves
punished to protect wool growers than for
the passage or the dog law. The stolen sheep
In Thomas and Colquitt counties will number
ten thousand. Bome of the “sheep lords” have
been badly wooled. Wool and blackberries
will keep things going until horse apples and
watermelons come in. After that a few
peaches, sand pears and grapes will be on tbe
market, which together with the gardens, will
make things meet until the gathering or the
crops. We have passed the starving point.
I was glad to read the notice of an application
to the Legislature to pass an act to protect
from levy and sale all provision crops in Geor
gia for three years. While I am utterly op
posed to all stay laws, yet I think such a law,
protecting for a few years the provision
crops, a necessity, and the only one that will
bring solid relief to the country. It will be a
hardship more to the merchants than any
other class. They have magnanimously risked
all their capital to sustain the agricultural in
terests of the country. In fact, but for the
merchants the planters could not have made
crops at all, except in rare instances of pru
dence and dogged economy by the smaller
number of planters, who made more provisions
than cotton, and who were not much in debt.
The planters generally are badly in debt.
Many of them must succumb. Much the
larger number of them can work out if they
can grow and make larger provision crops for
the ensuing three vears, and be protected from
levy and sale. The surplus crops over and
above the support of the farm, in that time,
will pay them out of debt. It will require the
utmost economy to do it, but planters, as a
mass, have become entirely convinced that
they have pursued the wrong policy in not
planting and raising larger provision crops,
and have determined to plant less cotton. To
enable them to do this, they must have their
provision crops protected against levy and
sale.
To force sales by the Sheriff, the property of
a very few planters would sell for enough to
discharge their indebtedness. The property of
a vast majority of them would not, it forced
to sale on the block, pay half their indebted
ness.
The profits paid on provisions are extremely
large, and but few planters can pay out. If
forced to plant cotton and buy provisions. Tbe
debt will increase annually, and finally the loss
will be larger, with no hope of payment. Will
it not be better at the end of the three years,
for the merchant, and the country at large, if
the planters are given a chance to recuperate,
instead of selling them out by forced sales, and
thus lose half or two-thirds of the debt? Two
thirds of the indebtedness of the country is for
provisions, and it will continue, if planters are
forced to raise cotton in excess of the necessi
ties of life. With this law in force,
merchants would deal in provisions only
to supply the demand of non-producers.
Planters would have no occasion to buy them,
but.on the contrary,have them forsale. It would
cheapen provisions, because of less demand.
The non-producer looks to the farmer for his
daily food, and when the fanner ceases to
raise provisions and becomes a buyer, it un
hinges the law of supply and demand, and
brings ruin and distress in the land.
Best of all, when merchants cease to sell pro
visions to farmers on credit, it forces the farm
er to raise them from necessity. This will be
the entering wedge with the merchants to
break up the credit system, which is the curse
of the country. The profits on provisions are
so large, and their sale so certain, with no
loss by remnants, that the merchants have, to
a large extent, encouraged it, and are blamable
to this extent for this large indebtedness. And
they should enceurage any law calculated
to rid the counliry or the evils growing out
of this credit business, and that will bring back
legitimate pursuits with the producing class.
A smaller business with a certainty Is prefera
ble to a much larger trade with the profits on
book accounts and notes, with valu-less mort
gages and a strain of muscle and brain, to meet
bank notes given for corn, flour, bacon and
hay, which can and should be raised at home.
Protect the farmers three years in the raising
of provisions and refuse to sell them on a
credit, and at the end of that time the country
will be out of debt and rejuvenated in every
department of trade and commerce.
We have a Railroad Commission to look after
the Railroads and say what charges shall be
made on freights, and how much profit the
roads shall make, and to value their property,
and to say to the weaker ones: “If our man
agement don’t suit you and you make any fuss,
we will close you out, or you can quit the busi
ness. Do as we order, or we will give you the
best spanking you ever had. You must report
to headquarters, or we will put you under ar
rest and make you mark time, or tie vou up by
the thumbs. We are the great I am. Do you
hear!”
There is nothing like having a commission
to look into everything. I want the Legislature
to make a mercantile commission, bank
commission. livery stable commission,
hotel commission, cotton factors’ commission,
warehouse commission, doctors’ commission,
lawyers’ commission, dentist commission,
mill men’s commission, tar, pitch and turpen
tine commission. Make them all produce
their books and papers and prove they make
nothing above “just and reasonable compen
sation."
I heard a watermelon man talking about
the railroads and bloated bondholders the
other day, and he was under the impression
that the bondholders owned the railroads and
made out the rates of freight on watermelons.
I told him he was greatly mistaken. That the
railroads owed the bonds for money they
had borrowed to build and equip the roads,
and that the roads had to pay seven par cent,
interest on the money.and finally paythe bonds,'
and that they had to make the money on the
earnings over and above the expenses of run
ning the road. He said the Commissioners had
told the roads if they could not run the t oad
for nothing, that they must sell it to somebody
that could; that he worked hard to make his
watermelons, and he did not intend to be
cheated out of any freight, and if the road
charged him any freight he would report them
to the Commissioners,
I want to see the Legislature take the Com
missioners in hand, and make a law to govern
the Commissioners instead of the Commis
sioners making laws to suit them
selves and to govern the people. Let
equity be done to all, the roads
and the people who support them. It is not
constitutional, right, nor a republican form
of government to induce persons to place
their money in the building, equipping and
running these huge enterprises, under charter
ed privileges, and then take the property en
tirely out their oontrol and management,
and place it under the management of irre
sponsible commissioners, who are not inter
ested in its prosperity or welfare, and control
It by force aDd dictation, regardless of the
rights and interests of its owners
This is violative of the great Magna Charta,
which guarantees to every man life
liberty, property and the pursuit of happi
ness. Yours, h, y. H.
►•>> '
Stocks In Londooi
London, June 11.— The Economist this
week 6ys the rate of discount for bank
bills, sixty days to three months, Is 1 % per
cent., and for trade bills, sixty days to
three months, jper cent. Since the
holidays the principal business in the stock
market has been a reduction in the specu
lative account necessitated by the banks,
whic.h are now preparing their half yearly
balance sheetf, calling in a portion of
the heavy loans they recently made on
stocks. This naturally caused a general
decline on speculative securities, although
in most Instances the relapse is quite small
as compared with the previous rise, Tbe
Paris Bourse received a slight cheek from
the rejection of the serntfm & HsU. lrt''
affairs attracted mush attention
week, but the define in * ““
>• Indian gold mloei
relanssi S* 1 * „ they have since sligbtly
in !>'' iCere was father a decided drop
- * -•> shares at the close upon the recent
uiscoveries relative to the possibility of
storing electricity. The list of new com
panies this week is almost as numerous as
ever, despite the holidays. Their total
capital is £2,057,500, and Include several
goldmines. A Greek 7W per cent. loan of
£4,800,000 will be offered next week at
74. A New South Wales 4 per
cent, loan of £2,050,000 hss been
twice covered. Russia will issue £5,000,000
worth of 4 per cent. Treasury bonds on
Tuesday next. American railways have
been irregular, but all the le&dlDg stocks
are lower. Amongst others Oregon and
California certificates have fallen. Central
Pacific shares and Ohio and Mississippi 1
point, but St. Louis Bridge preferred have
risen 5, Cairo and Vincennes preferred 3,
Bt. Louis and San Francisco preferred 2,
and Oregon Railway preferred 1. The Cana
dian Grand Trunk Railway Company has
published a prospectus of an issue of £2,-
500,being the balance of Its ordlnarv
stoek for Increasing the carrying capacity
of tbe road.
Ex-Senator Whyte to the Front.
Baltimork, June 11. Wm. Pinckney
Whyte,ex-United States Senator,was to-day
nominated by the Democratic Conserva
tive party as tbeir candidate for Mayor of
this city. Mr. Wbyte had previously been
nominated by a “half-breed” party of gen
tlemen styling themselves a “Committee of
One Hundred.” The election takes place
in October.”
Coatly Brooklyn Fire,
New Yobk, June 12 Excelsior
Btore, No. 80 Atlantic Dock, Brooklyn, with
20,000 bushela of gyaffi, was burned this
forenoon, ga wa& also the Urge stationary
grain elevator fronting on the basin. The
loss U about ninety thousand dollars.
JUDGE LYNCH.
▲ Negro Strang tip In North Caro*
Una and a German Hanged Ik Mle*
so art.
Danville, Va., June 12.—John Taylor,
the negro who committed an outrage on a
respectable white lady in Rockingham
county, North Carolina, on Friday night,
was taken out of Greensboro jaU early this
morning duriDg the eclipse of the moon by a
body of disguised men, who hanged him to
a tree In the woods. A la r ge number of
persons visited the scene of the lynching
to day. No clue to the lynchers has yet
been obtained.
St. Joseph, Mo., June 12.—A German
named Reimbeimcr, who shot a man named
Angel, robbed him of two hundred and fifty
dollars, and then escaped on one of Angel’s
horses, was captured and placed in jail. A
mob afterwards broke in, and Relmhelmer
was taken out and hanged. Angel Is slowly
recovering.
The Detroit Post and Tribune, a Radi
cal concern out West, thinks that there
is “much in a name, ’’ and in noticing
the fact that Robert Lee Longstreet, son
of the former Confederate General and
present Radical officeholder, had de
clined a cadetship at West Point, thinks
it is lucky for West Point, and that the
name wouldn’t add much honor to
the roll. Now [which [is the name to
which he refers, Lee or Longstreet? If
the first, the Detroit man is an idiot. If
the second, he is* a sensible man—
Mobile Register.
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until October 1, 1881; and passenger transport
tation facilities will be perfect to meet the de
mands of, and tender comfortable service to,
all intending tourists ana the public generally
to the various points reached by said lines.
For tickets, time tables, etc., from Savannah,
inquire of W. BREN, Special Ticket Agent No.
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tourists and the public generally, to the various
points reached by said line.
For tickets, time tables, etc., from Savannah,
inquire of tbe City and Depot Ticket Agencies
of the Central Railroad,
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WilmiDgton, and by all lines via Augusta, un
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