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DON’T HOUKOW TIIOIBLE.
Don't borrow trouble.
Don’t borrow trouble, nor meet it half way;
Sufficient to all are the ills of to-day;
Misfortune, reverses and trials may come;
E'en those we deem the most happy have
some.
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With asoects forbidding, habiliments rough—
But wait till he's here, and unheeding his
frown.
Meet boldly the onset and battle it down.
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And can only be canceled by suffering again
1 he ills we thus borrow by prophetic fears.
Baptizing th < record in sorrowing tears.
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Don’t borrow trouble—it springs in each path,
A harvest that beareth an aftermath:
D plan eth itself with a plenteous seed.
And is gathered in sorrow by hearts that bleed.
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Don’t borrow troub'e. nor gloomily weave
A harvest of tears in a shadowy sheave;
But, rather, come forth from the dark and the
night.
And garner the blossoms that grow in the light.
Don’t borrow trouble.
Don’t borrow 'rouble.
Don’t borrow trouble; on hillside and slope.
For the climbers who always look upward in
hope.
B.ight 11 >wers spring up with a heavenly
bloom.
Unknown to the realms of despair and gloom.
Don't borrow trouble.
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Don’t borrow trouble; be sure, in the sky.
The light will burst forth when the clouds have
gone by;
Be hopeful and brave, and patient and soon
Will shine out a glorious gl rddening noon.
Don’t borrow trouble.
Georgia A flairs.
The Cedartown Advertiser says that on
Friday last a Mr. Pittman seriously cut Mr. B.
B. Carter. The former wantei the latter to
punish his children for some trifling offense
towards Pittman’s children, and he did not go
about it promptly enough to suit Pittman.
Our Eastman correspondent, under date of
September 3t>th, writes: “Our citizens met to
gether this morning at the Methodist Church
to b .ild religious services in memory of our de
ceased President. This evening all the busi
ness houses in town are closed in honor of the
late lamented James A. Garfied. At 3 o’clock
this afternoon, in response to a call by the
Mayor. C B Murrell, for a citizens meeting, a
considerable number of ladies and gentlemen
assembled at the court house, and by a rising
vote unani nously adopted suitable resolutions,
offered by Mr. J. F. DeLacy, upon the death of
the President. Maj C. R. Armstrong was elect
ed permanent Chairman of the meeting, and
J. Bishop. Jr., was made Secretary. The reso
lutions were warmly and feelingly seconded
and supported io speeches by Messrs. H. Fisher,
P. A. Jessup, D. M. Roberts, J. B. Johnston, J.
Bishop, Jr., and L. A. Hill. The meeting then
adjourned, under the sound of music from the
Cornet Band.’’
The Berrien County Sews announces the
death at Militown of Rev. Nicholas Talley, of
the Methodist Church, at the age of 84 years.
Bob Williams, an escaped convict, who was
captured near Fort Valley on Friday, and who
was put upon the traia of the Central road to
be brought to Atlanta, escaped from his guard
on Friday night by slipping his fastening and
jumping from the train between Lovejoy and
Jonesboro.
Conyers Weekly: “That dread disease, diph
theria, has b' come epidemic in Walton county,
and proves fatal in almost every case.”
Sylvanla Telephone : ’ We are informed that
a party in this county, a short tine since,
picked six and one-half bushels of scupper
nong grapes in one day without any assistance.
We think he must be ’the boss’ grape picker.”
Augusta Chronicle: “The City Court of
Richmond county has been formally organ
ized. Last ftaturday Judge Eve was sworn in
by the Governor, and on vesterdav Solicitor
Dugas took the oath of office before Judge
Eve. The Sheriff and Clerk of the Superior
Court are ex officio Sheriff and Clerk of the
City Court The County Court is defunct, and
all its unfinished business goes over to 'he City
Court. The first term of the City Court will
be held next Monday.”
Atlanta Post-Appeal: “While at Decatur
last Thursday Captain Connally learned of the
sale of a mule by on* Docd, who was identified
by the man Wilmouth. who -vas reported in
the last i>sue of the Appeal as having been
arrested for robbing a church, and suspending
the integrity of the sale on such reccom
mendation. he began an investigation which
resuited in another visit to Decatur on Friday
and the arrest of Dodd by himself and Captain
Baeby. Dodd and Wilmouth w-re tried
yesterday for horse stealing and held in $V 0
bonds. The mule, which belonged to a Mr.
McKlroy. was found by Captain Connally
thirteen miles from Decitur and returned to
its owner.”
Cedartown Advertiser: “One night about two
weeks since, out at Brooks’ Mill, in the north
east edge of the county, a party of Mormon
elders attempted to hold services at the house
of a convert, and just as all were ready to
begin, a general uproar was bearl without
which plainly told that parties had come to
put a stop to the proceeding:*. A number of
shots were fl ed. but nobody hurt. The elders
were preparing to get away in haste when they
were met by one of the invaders, who plainly
informed them that the good citizens of the
neighborhood had made up their minds that no
more Mormon meetings would be permitted
in the neighborhood. The elders fled and will
doubtless steer clear of that quarter for the
present at least. It is said they nad succeeded
In making quite a number of converts among
the lower classes in the neighborhood.’
Columbus Enquirer: “If there is one charity
more divine thaii another it is that whichi gives
the benefit cf homeland home life and cul
ture to little children deprived of all these by
the necessities or vices of parents ’Of such is
the kingdom cf heaven,’ aaiu the Good Master,
as He took a little child in H.s arm* aad bless
ed it. Like unto heaven is purity and inno
cence. But left to run in the streets, to have
few or anv of the comforts of home, to be left
with the teachings of profane men. how soon
th* innocence is bani bed and the punty
marred, I>oubly bie*t would be the hands
which reach out to pave both innocence and
purity. These thoughts are suggested from
hearing three men on the street yesterday
teaching a lad of not more than three or four
summers to swear. As he would repeat the
most vile oath after them the men would
laugh m nr uchglee. and think it smart in the
boy. It they knew the crime of which they
were tuiity their hearts must have been made
of adamant, or they would have hung their
heads for shame.”
Columbus Enquirer: * There is a gentleman
in this city who is a regular subscriber to the
Enquirer Sun. and who has been one of its
constant readers for a long time. Every morn
ing one cf our carriers, who is a perfect little
gentleman and strictly attentive to his business,
ha thrown the paper on this subscriber's por
tico. A few days ago the gentleman of whom
we speak had a relative, a little boy about the
nme size of our carrier, to visit him. The
little ‘country cousin’ was up bright
gad early the next morning, and
waa atandirg on the portico
when the ca-n-r came along and threw the
paper at his feet. The hi tie fellow picked it
up, threw it in the street, and marching out to
the sidewalk informed the carrier that ’he
didn’t come to town to be insulted in no such
way by a nttie city upstart, and if |,e wanted
anything he could get It. They wer- about to
•hitch’for a fight, when the gentleman came
out and matters were explained. ‘Well' said
the bov. ’I thought that you had to go to the
poat office to get p ipers. but it’s all right. And
thus a fight was prevented."
Atlanta Post Appeal: “Early yesterday
morning, as officer etroud was on his wav- to
breakfast, he found a coat, pants and vest on
the sidewalk. He picked them up, and began
a near h for anything that would ideatify the
owner, but he found nothing except a package
of letters, signed ’Jimmie.’ indicating the
home of the owner at Louisville. The officer
started to the police house with the clothes,
bat had not proceeded far when he was hailed
by a voice, which said: 'bay, are them
clsthesT' And upon being answered in the
affirmative, ‘Jimmie’ made his appearance at
Savannah morning News.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
the window wrapped in a bed quilt, and in
formed the policeman that he had retired the
night before and left bis clothing on a chair
near the window, from where they were re
moved by a thief, evidently, as the pockets
were divested of all the valuables, only the
letters remaining. ‘Jimmie’ did not say how
much he had lost, and the officer returning his
wardrobe to him, he took off the bed quilt and
arrayed himself like a sane man should, went
out and made a draft on his house, and con
sumed the day la swearing subduedly to him
self as he held a consultation with his imagina
tioo to who the fiend could h&ve been.”
Our Brentwood correspondent, under date
of heptember 25. writes: “A terrible attempt
at murder was made last about one mile
from this place, on the person of an aged ne
gro, Toney Houston employed by Messrs. D.
Bj Wartley & Cos. on their logway. The would
be murderer, Marshall Bryant, was also em
ployed by the firm, who. after being paid off,
wept wita Toney to Messrs. Roberson & Moo
dy’s store, where Toney gp°nt five dollars of
his wages. On their return Marshall struck
Timey with a stick, knocking him down, then
rifled his pockets, taking fifteen dollars the old
man had reserved ro carry home to his family.
After he killed him, as he thought,
he drew him about fifteen yards from the rail
road. and placed the body behind a log. Bry
ant th-n returned to the mill and waited for
the train bound for Macon, in which he took
passage for parts unknown. I learn that be
fore he came here he bought a mule from a
gentleman in the up-country on time, and
afterwards refused payment. The owner tried
to take the mule, but Marshall refused to give
up the mule, and cut its throat. The owner
then had him arrested, but he made his escape
and came down here. Marshall is said to be
a noted scoundrel.”
Florida Affairs.
The Quincy Herald relates an attempt at
grave robbery in that town the other night.
The metallic case in which a young man from
Canada, a Mr. Miliedge, was buried two years
ago. had been taken up and attempts made to
break it open. This seems to have been a fail
ure, it was hastily returned to
the grave and covered only a few inches under
the earth. The corpse was found to be well
preserved, and the town authorities caused it
to be reinterred properly as before.
Captain J. D. Green has complimented the
Pine Level Advocate with a native bunch of
bananas containing 340 fingers.
Mr. H. B. Stevens, of Ocala, has invented a
machine for sorting oranges, manageable by
one man. It places those of the same size in
one receptacle.
Articles of incorporation have been filed by
Messrs. D. E. Maxwell. F. B. Papy and E. W.
Agnew for a railroad from Leesburg to Indian
river. This will be a branch or extension of
the Tropical Railroad, thus connecting Fernan
dina with Indian river. If this is constructed,
it will render the Indian river country accessi
ble and within easy reach from the North, and
greatly enhance its rapid development.
Ex-Governor Drew contributed 8,000 feet of
lumber to floor the Florida Exposition building
in Atlanta.
Betty Fisher, a colored woman, in Apalachi
cola, fell down in a fit and expired Sunday
evening.
There are over $20,000 worth of new build
ings and repairs now in progress in Palatka.
Eighty drunks is the best Palatka could do
for the month of August, according to the
Marshal's report.
Palatka agrees to board and lodge one thou
sand visitors this winter at one time. They
can all have single beds too if they wish.
Every fellow that can lift an axe in Alachua
is cutting crossties for shipment North.
It costs a fellow just twenty-five dollars to
sell a drink of liquor in Palatka on Sunday.
The price in Jacksonville is fifty dollars
The citizens of Pine Level have called for a
public meeting in the interest of growing vege
tables for Northern markets.
The Hamilton Times says the caterpillars
have ruined very many fields of cotton that
promised well two weeks ago. Including Mr.
Nathan Bryan's. The depot platforms at
Jasper are piled up with cotton seed for ship
ment.
Pensacola is looking for the arrival of the
machinery for an ice manufactory to be in op
eration by the Ist of December.
Six vessels are at quarantine in Pensacola,
which is eight miles across the water from the
city. No more cases of yellow fever have been
reported there, and the city is in a healthy con
dition.
The Madison Recorder thinks the sugar cane
crop will be very short.
Dr. Lester, recently suspended as Health Of
ficer of Key West, has been reinstated.
There is said to be a gain of 9300,000 in taxa
ble property in Columbia county this year
over last.
A Jacksonville colored man has subscribed
$2 to the Florida display at the Atlanta Expo
sition. We knew a colored man who subscribed
SIOO to carry on the Confederate war against
the North.
The Apalachicola Tribune says: "Chatta
hoochee is the name given to that elegant new
steamer of the People's Line. We have been
informed that this steamer will arrive at this
port from Pittsburg about the 10th of Novem
ber.”
Of the Southern Parmer's Monthly the
Quincy Herald says: “It is difficult to imagine
how a farmer can get along without it, if he
wants to keep up with the latest methods in
agricultural affairs. ‘Work for the Month’ is
alone worth the subscription price.”
Ocala Banner : “A goodly number of Ken
tuckians passed through town the past week
on their way to Hernando and other southern
counties. They seemed to he well to do peo
ple-some of them wealthy. They were im
mensely pleased with Ocala and mrrounding
country, and some of them think they will re
turn and settle here.”
Augusta Chronicle: “After the first of Octo
ber, proximo, Mr. John Temple Graves will
have the management and editorial charge of
the Daily Florida Union, at Jacksonville,
Florid a Mr. Graves is one of the most bril
liant men in Georgia He is gentleman like
and energetic, and wields a facile pen. We
are glad that this new field h>s opened up to
Mr. Graves. We are confident that he will
prove himself worthy of all it promises and
ready for all that it may require To the press
of the ’Land of Flowers’ he will prove an sc
quisition, while Jacksonville society will have
added charms in Mr. Graves and his excellent
and accomplished wife.”
A correspondent of the Fernandina Mirror,
signing himself “A Roving Englishman,”
referring to the projected eaual across Florida,
savs: ’ The iueeption of this great work can
not be much longer delayed, and I write with
some special knowledge. Not only is the
government of this country anxious to make
and possess it, but three great European corpo
rations (two French and one English) are all
straining for this great commercial prize,
which, in less than two years’time, and with
an expenditure of less than ten millions of
dollars, would conduct the traffic of thirty
thousand miles of rivers and navigable waters
to one of the beat harbors on the Atlantic
coast, and free forever (and only by its means)
the gigantic commerce of the MisissipDi
valley and the great West from the enormous
tax unavoidably levird now by insurance
companies for the navigation of the Bahamas
and the reefs of Florid a”
Sumter Advance: “Quite a freak of nature
was discovered this wek in digging a well at
our residence, now being completed. Butler
Dabney, employed to do the work, struck hard
clay about fifteen feet below the surface. He
had worked through four or five feet of this
clay, which was very hard, when, to his sur
prise, his iron crowbar suddenly disappeared,
followed by half of the bottom of the well He
was not long in leaving that mysterious well,
and it is almost a miracle that he did not cave
in with the crowbar. A large number of citi
zens went to witness the cause of the
disappearance of the crowbar, and found
at the bottom of the well a sub
terracean pool of cool, clear, soft and
very palatable water. Placing a long ladder
in the well, we descended to examine this won
derful pool, and found it to be perfectly round.
measuring twenty-five feet in diameter The
depth of the water is from twelve to fifteen
feet as far as examined, and from the
surface of the water to the oval wall above, is
from one to three feet, so that it is no trouble
for a person standing on a ladder to obtain a
good view of it without getting wet. This un-
pool m tw**Dty-thre© feet below the
surface, and eight or ten feet of the end of the
building extends over it.”
A Curious Law.— A curious provision
of the criminal code of Germany, for
which there is no analogy in English or
American legislation, makes deliberate
homicide, where it is perpetrated at the
request of the victim, a lesser grade of
crime than murder, and places it within
the discretion of the courts to impose as
low a sentence as three years’ imprison
ment for the offense. Under this law a
miller’s apprentice of Berlin has just
been sentenced for cutting his wife’s
throat. He was out of work and mon
ey, and he and his wife formed the reso
lution to commit suic de together by
taking poison. His wife, however,
drained the cup containing the mixture
alone, leaving none for him, and after
awhile begged him to kill her at once, to
put an end to the suffering that ensued.
He complied with her request by mak
ing several gashes in her throaty This
state of facts was deemed sufficient to
warrant a sentence of only four years
imprisonment.
Provided the great organs of the body are
not Irreparably injured, there are few dis
eases that Tutt’a Pills will not cure. They
concentrate the vitality of the system. The
Liver, the Spleen, the Heart and the Kid
neys are brought into harmonious action
and health; long life and vigor of mind and
body follow their use. The first dose often
patient.
BACK TO THE OLD HOME.
THE GARFIELD FAMILY RETURN
TO MENTOR.
Carious Crowd* Watching Their
Departure—Thousands Nilll View
ing Cleveland’s Pnneral Decora
tions—The Spot Where the Victim
Day Still a Centre of Attraction.
Cleveland, O , September 27. Mrs.
Garfield, her children and “Grandma” Gar
field, accompanied by Private Secretary
Brown, General Swaim and Colonel Rock
well and their ladies, were driven to the
Uttion Depot this morning In closed car
riages, where a special train bad been made
up to take them to Mentor. The train con
sisted of a baggage car and the
elegant Pennsylvania Railroad coach that
brought the party from Washington.
They wended the'r way quietly through
the crowd that thronged the depot and en
tered the car. The ladies were all heavily
veiled,so that they escaped the curious gaze
of the crowd. A few minutes after eleven
o’clock the train started for Mentor.
Crowds still linger about the park, and so
many are continually passing through
the pavilion that a force of police
is necessary to night to pre
vent confusion and guide the curious
spectators in line. Although the body has
been removed to the cemetery the thousands
of peop e seem not to tire of gazing on the
place where the remains lay, and where
most of the floral decorations, though some
what withered from the heat, are yet left.
Electric, calcium and gas lights still Illumi
nate the scene.
GUITEAU’S TRIAL.
To be Indicted In New Jersey as a
Precautionary- Measure.
Red Bank, N, J., September 27.—The
legal authorities of Monmouth county had
addressed the Attorney General of the
State and the Attorney General of the
United States upon the propriety of filing
counts before the grand jury of Mon
mouth county, at its meeting next Tuesday,
against Guiteau for the murder of Presi
dent Garfield. It is held that the waiver of
a Coroner’s Inquest by the State
does not deprive the grand jury of this
county of Its power to Indict and try the
criminal. Also that the criminal law of
New Jersey does not disqualify a citizen
from serving on a jury simply because he
has expressed an opinion of the case to be
tried. If Attorney General Stockton, of
New Jersey, and Attorney General
MacVeagh consider that the
trial can be held here
the prisoner will be brought to New Jersey.
The County Prosecutor of Pleas, Hon. John
Ltnning, of Monrnou h, has decided to file
before the grand jury an indictment against
Guiteau simply as a precautionary measure,
so that If the Washington authorities deem
it best to have the trial in New Jersey, there
shall be no gap left for the escape of Gul
teau by legal quibbles under the law of the
District of Columbia.
FEARS OF A RESCUE.
Friends of the Captured ITllssoarl
Train Kobbers threaten to Release
Them—Bloodshed Feared.
St. Lens, September 27.—Last night
Governor Crittenden received a telegram
from Independence, stating there was dan
ger of a mob breaking into the jail and
rescuing the train robbers confined there,
and asking that repeating rifle 6 and ammuni
tion be sent out at once. A dispatch to-day
stys; “Governor Crittenden, accompanied
by eight marshals, arrived at Independence
this morning, and is In attendance at the
trial of Ryan, one of the Glendale train rob
bers. It is the opinion of the people that
in the event of Ryan’s conviction an attempt
gwlil be made to rescue him. Much excite
ment prevails. The court room Is crowded,
and the streets are lined with people from
the notorious locality known as ‘Crackers’
Neck,’ who watch every movement of the
marshals with great interest. A detach
ment of the Craig Rifles Is in attendance.
Should a rescue be attempted much blood
shed will ensue.”
THE STAR ROUTE THIEVES.
Their Trials to Go On—Col. Corkhlll
Oat of the Case.
Washington, September 27.—The star
route cases will be presented to the grand
jury next week. It Is now stated that the
Post Office Department officials say that all
the evidence Is In necessary to convict, and
they are ready for a trial at any moment.
They speak very slightingly of District
Attorney Corkhlll, aDd hint that the recent
postponement of the cases was due to him
alone, and that It is possible that he may
be under the influence of the star route
jobbers. The burden of the prosecution
has been taken out of his hands and will
rest with ex District Attorney Bliss, of New
York, and the other special counsel em
ployed by the government. The star route
thieves have, through thetr many Influen
ces, endeavored to Induce President Arthur
to call off the prosecution and let It drop
gradually and surely, but the President has
ordered that the prosecution go ahead and
convict all who are guilty in that big steal.
THE APACHE TROUBLES.
Gradual Surrender ol the Hostile*.
San Francisco, September 27.—A dis
patch from Camp Thomas, dated September
26, says: “Twenty-five men, women and
children came from the hosttles and surren
dered. They were disarmed and placed
under guard. Quite a number of hostile
bucks came Into the reservation last night
and gave themselves up to the military.
Later reports from Apache this after
noon announce the surrender of another
ba’ch of hosttles, forty-five in number.
Still later advices from the agency say that
the hosttles, who last week refused to sur
render, have come In and have been con
fined by the military. There are not
thought to be over forty-five hosttles of the
euttre number that are not prisoners. The
outbreak, which at one time promised to be
serious, is about over. A military commis
sion to try’the murderers will meet here in
a few days.”
Wreck and Death on the California
Coast.
San Francisco, September 27. — A dis
patch from Spanish Town, Ban Mateo coun
ty, says: “The ship Holesburg, from New
York, loaded with railroad Iron for Oregon,
struck a rock at Halram beach at midnight
Monday and went to pieces. Of her crew
of twenty-four persons, nine men, with the
Captain and one boy, aged thirteen, were
drowned. The bodies have not been recov
ered."
Pointing a .floral.
New York, September 27.—Tbe Board of
Manager* of tne National Temperance So
ciety to-day adopted resolutions of sorrow
at the death of the late President Garfield
and sympathy with his family.* The resolu
tions al6o commend the example of the de
ceased in following the precedent set by bis
Immediate predecessor by excluding intoxi
cating beverages from the table of the
White House.
A Desperado Killed.
Durango, Col , September 27. lke
Stockton, one of the leaders of the notori
ous Stockton-Iskrldge gang of desperadoes,
who Is wanted In New Mexico on the
charges of rape, arson aDd other crimes,
was fatally shot yesterday while resisting
arrest.
Important Railway Consolidation.
Little Rock, Ark., September 27 — The
Directors of the Paramore Narrow Gauge
Railway met here to day and consolidated
the Missouri and Arkansas Lines. The
length of the line will be over 1,600 mllea,
Its terminus being the City of Mexico.
Mrs. Lucy E. McCormick, Covington, Ky.,
writes: “My constitution was completely
shattered by rheumatism. I suffered in
tensely; stimulants only gave me temporary
relief. I tried Brown’s Iron Bitters. It has
cured me completely, and I believe perma
nently. After using two bottles, I felt bet
ter and stronger than ever I did In all my
life before."
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1881.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
A Car Load of Gunpowder Ignited
in Council BlaflT—Great Destruc
tion Wrought.
Council Bluffs, lowa, September 27.
At five o’clock last evenlDg, just at the close
of the Garfield memorial exercises, the city
was shaken to its very centre by a terrific
explosion. Instantly great volumes of
smoke were seen to ascend In the south
western part of the city. An Investiga
tion of the cause of the explosion
disclosed the fact that on Saturday last a
car load of gunpowder, billed as common
blasting powder, reached here over the
C., R., I. & P. R. R . on its way to Denver,
Colorado. The Union Pacific Company
refused to receive the dangerous freight,
and the car was returned
to the railroad yards, when from some
causo It exploded with fearful force last
evening. The concussion demolished the
company’s round house and repair shops, of
brick, and the freight house, of frame, be
sides forty or fifty freight cars, and dug a
hole In the ground fifteen feet deep and
forty five feet in diameter. Large windows
In all parts of the city were shattered to
pieces, pieces of plastering torn from houses
and havoc strewn in all directions. Win
dows were even broken by concussion In
Omaha, on the opposite side of the river,
and as far as Missouri Valley Junction, twen
ty miles north of us. The loss will foot up
several hundred thousand dollars.
COLLIDING TRAINS.
Serious Sinasb Up on the Riclimond
and Petersburg Road.
Richmond, Va., September 27.— The
fast mail train bound South
and the Northern bound mall
train of the Atlantic Coast Line, collided
laet evening near Chester, on the Richmond
and Petersburg Road. Both engines &Dd
baggage and mall cars of each train
were badly smashed. Fortunately no one
was fatally hurt. Postal agents Roukers
and Hawkins were severely hurt,
and several others sustained slight
Injuries. The engineers and firemen of
both t.raius saved themselvesby jump
Ing off. The accident Is attributed to
disregard of orders on the part of the con
ductor and engineer of the northern bound
train, which should have remained at Ches
ter until the fast mail train had passed.
CHARLESTON FLASHES.
The Walsh-Tnraer Shooting—The
Coming Electric Light.
Charleston, 8. C , September 27.—The
Inquest on the body of James D. Turner,
who was killed yesterday by James F.
Walsh, has been postponed until to mor
row. The affair creates considerable ex
citement here. Walsh claims that he shot
Turner in self-defense.
The City Council, at its meeting to night,
granted p‘rrnislon to the United Srates
Electric Light Company to run their polls
and wires through the streets. The com
pany have applied for a charter, and
Charleston will enj >y the electric light in
the near future.
The Korkiown Centennial.
Fortress Monroe, Va., September 27. —
The preparations for the centennial cele
bration at Yorktown are being pushed for
ward, and will, no doubt, be completed, as
far as the limited means at command will
admit, In ample time. Oue company of
engineers, In charge of L'eut. Townsend,
and a ba'tery of ar'illery, under command
of Capt. J. R. Myrick, are now employed in
clearing the grounds for the encampment
of the troops. Capt. L C. Forsyth, of the
Quarterin ister’s Department, is also on the
grounds airangtng for an ample supply of
fuel, forage, etc., and also looking after
the water supply for the encampment.
The arrangements for the accommodation
of vi6ltorr, so far as Yorktown is concerned,
are vtry meagre, and those coming from a
dis'acce will have to depend chi' fly upon
the steamers upon which they arrive for
meals and sleeping accommodations. There
are but three small hotels in the town, with
accommodations for not more than one
hundred in each.
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, D. C., September 28—Indications
for Wednesday:
In the Bouth Atlantic States, fair weather,
winds mostly southerly, stationary barome
ter and temperature.
In the Eist Gulf States, partly cloudy
weather aud possibly local rains, east to
south winds, stationary or higher barome
ter, and stationary temperature.
In the West. Gulf States, partly cloudy
weather and local rains, southerly winds,
higher barometer, and stationary or lower
temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic States, partly
cloudy or cloudy weather with local rains,
south to west winds, falling followed by
rising barometer and slightly lower tempera
ture.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy or cloudy weather with local rains,
southerly veering to cooler westerly winds,
higher barometer.
New York Stock Market.
New York, September 27.—The stock
market opened strong and higher, but was
simewhat irregular in the early dealings.
At first, speculation became stronger, and
toward noon prices took a sharp upward
turn, the highest figures of the day being
current shortly after midday. There was an
Improvement from Saturday’s closing quo
tations, ranging from % to 3% per cent.,
the latter In Alton aad Terre Haute, ditto
preferred, Reading, Hannibal and Bt. Joseph
preferred, Peoria, Decatur and Evansville,
and Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
being also prominent therein.
During the afternoon speculation was fe
verish and uneasy,and became quite depress
ing in the late dealtrgs. The final sales show
ed a decline from the highest point, ranging
from % to 3% per cent,., the litter In Alton
and Terre Haute, ditto preferred, Hannibal
aud St. Joe, Michigan Central and Oregon
and Nevada being also conspicuous In the
downward movement. Transactions ag
gregate 389,735 shares.
Brighton Beach Races.
Brighton Beach, September 27—The
first race, a mile and a half, Brambaletta
won, Kitty Clark second. Battle third. Time
2:44
The second race, seven-eighths of a mile,
Viola won, Bride Cake second, By-the-Way
third. Time 1:30.
In the third race, a mile and quarter, Va
grant .won, Woodraft second, Enniskillen
third. Time 2:11.
In the fourth race, a handicap steeple
chase, King Dutchman won, Major Wheeler
second, Lizzie D. third. Time 2:52.
The Flyers at Louisville.
Louisville, Ky., September 27.—The
fall meeting of tbe Louisville Jockey Club
opened to-day with a heavy track. The
first race, a dash of three-quarters of a
mile, was won by Frenchle Shy, Leona
second, 81y Dance third. Time 1:20%.
The second race, two miles, was won by
Fellow Play, Hegiaz second, Lizzie 8. third.
Time 3:343*.
The third race, mile heats, was won by
Ada, Jack Haverlv second. Pride third.
Time 1:46)*, 1:47%, 1:51%. Jack Hav
erly won the first heat.
Socialists’ Congress at Barcelona.
London, September 27.—A dispatch
from Barcelona says that the International
Socialist Congress has assembled In that
city, with five hundred delegate attending.
It has appeared that the terms of tbe mani
festo are to be sent to all the Socialist socie
ties. A communication from a number of
Russians in London concurs In the objects
of the Congress. The President and Secre
tary of the Congress have been arrested for
expressing their approval of the proceed
ings of the Nihilists.
That Insult to Mahone.
Washington, September 27.—1n the
United States Court at Alexandria, Virginia,
to-day the ease of W. M. Carmichael,
charged with sending to Senator Vance a
scurrilous postal card about Senator Ma
hone, was postponed until January next.
Alabama’s Tribute of Sorrow.
Selma, September 27. —Specials to the
Times from every leading point In Alabama
show that yesterday was universally ob
served. Bells were tolled, funeral guns
fired, memorial services held, and every
where the sentiments of grief were marked
and widespread.
Improper medicines only aggravate human
diseases. Don’t experiment with your health.
If you don’t just know what ails you, use
Brown’s Iron Bitters. It will strengthen you
and assist nature in removing every symp
tom of distress.
THE STATE CAPITAL.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AD
JOURNED.
Final Proceedings of the Two
Houses—No Changes in the Con
vict Lease System—The fflotlon to
Reconsider the General Temper
ance Rill Voted Down—A Number
of Pleasures Disposed Of—Compli
ments to the Chatham Artillery—
The Opera Honse Rioters—The
State Road Lease.
Atlanta, Ga., September 27.—1n the
House, the first motion for reconsideration
was on the general temperance bill lost
on Saturday night. Messrs. Stanford, of
Harris, and Norton, of Hancock, favored,
and Mr. Bull, of Troup, opposed the motion,
and It was voted down almost unanimously
amidst great applause.
The second motion for reconsideration
was the resolution In regard to the State
Road lease. Mr. Hammond, of Thomas,
said be had not fully made up his mind In
regard to the matter, and, In order not to
postpone the desired adjournment to day,
he would withdraw the motion.
Mr. Adderton, of Sumter, for the same
reason withdrew the third motion, which
was to reconsider the action of the House
on the convict lease rl passed on Saturday
Dlght. General applause followed, as the
House was determined to adjourn to-day.
The following Senate bill 6 were parsed.-
Amending section 1377 of the Code, de
fining quarantine jurisdiction.
Amending the act in reference to the ap
pointment and duties of the Btate Librarian.
Amending the act enabling purchasers of
railroads to form corporations.
Regulating the granting of diplomas by
medical colleges.
The House concurred in the Senate’s
amendments to some House bills and re
jected others, and concurred in the follow
ing Senate resolutions:
Asking Congress to grant further aid for
edncational purposes in the South for both
races.
Also, for a larger appropriation for river
Improvements In Georgia.
Also, for a United States mint at Dahlone
K*-
Also, forbidding the accepting of United
States three and a half percen t. bonds from
Colonel Cole In payment for the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad.
Also, accepting the appraisement of
Messrs. Whittle, Robertson and Klbbee of
the value of the old capltol, Atlanta to pay
that sum.
At the afternoon session resolutions of
fered by Mr. Dußignon, of Baldwin, in re
gard to the Yorktown Centennial, were
unanimously adopted. One reads :
“ Resolved , That we learn with pleasure of
the intended visit of the time-honored
Chatham Artillery, of Savannah, which
organization has come down to us from
the days of the Revolution, and which now
has in its battery two guns captured
at Yorktown, and presented to them by
General Washington himself.”
Another of the resolutions requests the
Governor to call the attention of the other
military organizations to the patriotic action
of the Chathams and suggest that their no
ble example be followed.
The last business of the General Assembly
was In regard to the claim of $1,600 of J. P.
Harrison, State Printer, for which two com
mlttees of conference were appointed. The
last committee recommended SSOO as a
compromise. The Benat,e adoped this
recommendation, but the House spent some
considerable time debating the matter, and
finally adopted It —yeas 65, nays 46.
The Senate having again taken up the
convict bill and reconsidered Its action,
leaving the original Hawes bill, as printed
In the newspapers, open to action by the
House, Mr. Barrow, of Clarke, moved thjit
the House recede from Its previous action
and pass the Senate bill.
Messrs. Miller, of Houston, and Hunt, of
Spalding, vigorously opposed this motion.
Mr. Dußignon sustained Mr. Barrow’s mo
tion, and the House receded by a vote of
62 v p as to 38 nays. The act of receding
passed the Senate bill.
Messrs. Hunt, of Bpalding, and Jernlson,
of Bibb, made the point that 88 votes were
required. After considerable debate the
matter was tabled, and the Hawes bill de
clared constitutionally passed.
The afternoon session was prolonged to
half past eight o’clock, at which time the
General Assembly adjourned tine die.
Speaker Bacon said this had bqen the
hardest working Legislature he had evo
known. Twelve hundred bills had been
considered in the House. There had been
no Idling, but hard work. The people sent
In this mass of bills and desired action upon
the same, and the members had obeyed
faithfully and well.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
Mr. McWhorter moved to reconsider tbe
Senate’s action on the Btate Road leaso reso
lutions adopted on Saturday.
Mr. Guerry made the point that they
were Senate resolutions, had passed the
Senate, gone to the House and been passed
by that body, which removed them beyond
the control of the Senate.
President Boynton ruled the point well
taken, but Messrs. McWhorter and Price
appealed from the decision of the Chair.
The Senate sustained the Chair by y.-as 25,
nays 10. This, with tbe House’s actloD,
leaves the matter just where it was—in the
hands of the Governor to refer to the At
torney General and veto the resolutions.
The Senate passed the following House
bills:
Incorporating the Red Line Steamboat
Company of Rome.
Amending section 326 of the Code.
Regulating tbe granting of diplomas by
medical colleges.
RegulatlDg tax sales by municipal cor
porations.
Fixing and determining the taxation of
land divided by countv lines.
Changing the fiscal year.
Chartering the Gainesville, Blairsvllle and
State Line Railroad.
Abolishing the Scrlven County Court.
Chartering the Savannah Freight Tram
way Company.
Author zing Thomaston to Issue bonds.
Regulating the letting out of contracts
for tjidges, court houses, etc.
Repealing the act creating the office of
Land and Immigration Agent, held by
Frrancis Fontaine.
Changing the time for revising jury lists.
Providing for the payment of solicitors'
Abolishing the Troup county court,
insolvent costs in Hancock county.
Paying the printing bills of the Railroad
Commission.
Abolishing formally the office of State
Geologist.
Toe Senate refused to pass the House
bill regulating the sale of pistols, etc.
Also the bill prohibiting the distillation of
grain into whisky in Georgia this year.
Also tbe bill requiring Ordinaries to record
marriage certificates and secure their return.
At the afternoon session the Senate passed
the House bill authorizing Coroners, Sher
iffs and others to give dead bodies unclaimed
to medical colleges under the direction of
the Governor.
The Benate In executive session confirmed
Frank L. Harrison as State Librarian for four
years, In accordance with the bill Introduced
by Mr. Parks, and defeated, after lively
debate, the substitute for the con
vict lease bill prepared by the
conference committee of the Senate and
House, which leaves the convict camps just
where they were before the General Assem
bly met, no reforms having been adopted.
A motion to rescind the Senate’s action in
regard to the State Road lease was tabled on
motion of Mr. Denmark after a speech by
Mr. Guerry.
The leaders in the riot at the Opera House
yesterday were fined twenty five dol
lars In the Recorder’s Court to-day. All
was quiet after ten o’clock last night.
Tbe Cotton Corner.
London, September 27.—The Times this
morning says : “Good authority calculates
that with a week’s stoppage of two
thirds of the trade 60,000 bates
would be left in the hands of tbe
cotton corner at Liverpool, which explains
why the corner was not materially affected
by tbe recent steppage, that number of
bales being small compared with the amount
cornered.”
MANCHESTER,Beptember27.— At a meeting
to day of the Yorkshire cotton spinners and
doublers, representing 900,000 spindles, it
was ur antmousiy resolved to work four
days weekly for four mouths, commencing
forthwith.
A Cowardly Murder.
Memphis, September 27.—W. T. Bo’eter
w-u shot and killed at Scranton’s Landing,
A k tnsas, twenty miles below this city, last
night, by Deputy Sheriff Jere Wood. The
two men quarrelled on Sunday over a busi
ness transaction. Boteter came to Memphis
yesterday,and on his return home last night,
as he stepped ashore from the steamer, was
shot down by Wood.
Terrible Loss of Life.
Millions of rats, mice, cats, bed bags,
roaches, lose their lives by collision with
“Rough on Rats.” Sold by druggists, 15c.
A DIAGNOSIS.
Dr. Hamilton Describes tbe Late
President’s Wound—Tbe Ball Not
tbe Cause ol Death.
Washington Star.
Dr. Hamilton, In conversation with a New
York Tntrnne reporter, has dictated the fol
lowing : “The ball entered the inter-verte
bral space on the right side, between the
last dorsal and the first lumbar vertebra, at
a point very near the transverse and oblique
processes ; that Is, obliquely from behind.
It passed s little downward and forward,
penetrating the body of the first lumbar
vertebra; escaped from the vertebra very
near the middle In front, and was found a
little to the left of the body of the vertebra,
lying under the lower margin of the pan
creas and nearer its posterior or dorsal
aspect than interior, behind the peri
toneum, and therefore outside the cav
ity or the belly. The ball was
encysted, completely surrounded by a firm
cspsule, which Invested It entirely and
closely, the capsule containing nothing but
the ball. Perhaps a grain or two of white
tenacious substance attached to one point
of its inner surface which was not easily
removed by the edge of the knife, and
which may be fouud under tbe microscope
to consist of a drop of desiccated pus, or it
may prove to be the leaden stain occasioned
by the oxidation of the surface of the ball.
It also contained a small fragment of black
materia], perhaps three-quarters of an Inch
in length and an eighth of an inch In
breadth, which under the microscope may
prove to be a piece of cloth, but the exaet
character of which has not yet been de
termined.
“Perhaps distant one or two inches, and in
this neighborhood there could be felt dis
tinctly under the finger Innumerable small
substances, like grains of sand, of greater
or less magnitude, which have not yet been
submitted to microscopic examination, but
which were supposed to be minute frag
ments of bone torn away from the broken
vertebra and thus widely disseminated In
the adjacent tissues. The blood sac was be
hind the peritoneum, but the autopsy re
vealed that It had ruptured into the cavity
of the peritoneum, probably just before
the occurrence of death, and at
least a pint of blood coagulated was
found In the peritonei cavity. The abscess
spoken of In the official report of the au
topsy was not In this region precisely, but
somewhat more to the right, between the
liver and transverse colon. No connection
was discovered between this and the exter
nal wound made bv the bullet, and there are
no means of knowing whether It communi
cated with the original track at some earlier
period In the history of the case or not. It
may have done so, and become subsequently
closed, or it mav have been the result of the
extension of inflammation from the original
track to the adjacent tissues. There was no
lesion of the llver, recent or ancient, Indi
cated in the autopsy.
“It is evident from this account that the
presence of the ball in the situation in
which it was found was the immediate
cause of death, as it was completely en
cysted, and must have long since ceased to
cause irritation. The small fragments of
bone and the great lesion of the lumbar ver
tebra are the pathological facts which alone
could endanger the patient’s life. This
lesion of the vertebra the surgeons had do
means of repairing, nor could It have been
repaired save by the processes of nature.
The small fragments of bone, if they
should prove to be such, widely dis
seminating in the adjacent tissues, cer
tainly could not have been removed by
any surgical operations. It was determined
by the autopsy that the necessity did
not exist for removing the ball, or, In other
words, that had there been no other lesion
It might have been carried for many years
without causing death, or even Incon
venience. Still, it may be proper to inquire
whether by a surgical operation the bullet
could have been safely removed. If it had
been arrested by the spine, or even lodged
in the substance of the spinal column, pos
sibly with a bold and very extensive dissec
tion it might have been safely reached and
extracted. It is questionable, however,
whether the history of surgery furnishes
anytxvmpleof success under the circum
stances now supposed. But the fact is that
the bullet traversed the spine and lodged
at a point some distance removed from
It, passing miraculously through vari
ous vital structures which surround
the anterior and lateral walls of the ver
tebra. The front of the spine in the region
traversed aad both of its sides presenting
toward the Interior of the belly are literally
cow red by Important blood vessels, arteries
and veins, the most Important nerves of the
body, including the sympathetic or gang
lionic system of nerves, also the nerves of
common sensation and motion, and by sym
pathy inclining the great thoracic duct
through which nutrition from the alimen
tary canal is conveyed to the heart. The
Injury of almost any one of the foregoing,
excepting the nerve* of common sensation
and motion, would Inevitably destroy life,
and In the midst of this plexus of arteries,
ve'ns and lymphatics the surgeon would
have had to carry his knife in search of a
ball, the situation of which has only been
revealed by the autopsy. There were no
po'slble means of knowing the situation of
the bail during life, as it gave no indication
of i’s presence; nor could It possibly have
beeD reached and recognized by any form
of surgical probe. That death would have
been immediate, and the inevitable result
of any such daring adventure is almost
absolutely certain. However much we, In
dividually or collectively, may have made
ourselves liable to just criticism In the
matter of diagnosis or prognosis, and what
ever doubts may be entertained by medical
men as to the propriety of the treatment In
certain respects, I cannot believe that one
Intelligent surgeon will hereafter think that
at any period in the progress of the case
the ball or the fragments of the bone which
it sent before It could have been success
fully removed. Nor, indeed, that any
serious attempt in the direction would
not have resulted in speedy death. Viewing
the case In the light of our present knowl
edge, I am prepared to affirm that surgery
has no resources bv which the fatal result
could have been averted. This was the sad
consolation which I felt justified in giving
to the grief-stricken wife and family, and
which ail my associates believe we can give
to an afflicted people.”
The Anglo-French Commercial
Treaty.
London, September 27.—The Manchester
Guardian's dispatch from Paris says: “The
Anglo French commissioners for the revision
of tariffs discussed the subject of cotton
yarns yesterday. There are complaints as
to the manner in which the French com
missioners received delegates representing
this branch of English industry.
Conhllngltes Bolting.
Utica, N. Y., September 27.—At the Sec
ond Assembly District Convention to-day,
William 8. Barlett, of Clinton, an anti
stalwart, was elected Chairman by a vote of
40 to 8. The eight stalwarts Immediately
withdrew and elected a contesting delega
tion to the State Convention.
Tbe Land League’s Funds.
Dublin, September 27.—At the weekly
meeting to day of tbe Land League it was
announced that £969 had been received
since the last meeting, of which £SOO came
from Victoria. Mr. Parnell denied that any
members of Parliament were paid by the
League.
Bay State Unlversallsl*.
Springfield, Mass., September 27.—The
State Universallsts’ Convention opened here
to day with a large attendance. Rav. C. W.
Biddle was chosen President. The reports
of the Secretary and Treasurer showed the
condition of the church to be prosperous.
Cholera In Meeca.
Alexandria, September 27.—The Sani
tary Commission has received a telegram
from Djlddab, in Arabia, announcing that
cholera has broken out among the pilgrims
at Mecca.
A Coatly Canada Fire.
Dundas, Ont., September 27. —A fire this
morning burned tbe Dufferln Hotel and
nearly the entire block in which it was
situated. Loss $25,000.
The Garfield Fond.
New York, September 27 —Tbe fund for
Mrs. Garfield now reaches $321,251 86.
A Horrible Story of Cruelty. —An
extraordinary and almost u>credibl
story of cruelty comes from Jersey City,
where a mother is charged with delib
erately starving her child to death, and
announcing its death, providing a coffin,
and actually arranging the body as if
for burial before it had breathed its last.
When its condition was discovered, star
vation was so far advanced that life
could not be saved. This remarkable
parent is charged by her own sister with
having lost three other children in the
same way.
Every horse owner caring the least for his
stock, believes in St. Jacobs OJ.
THROWN INTO THE RIVER.
NOVEL ACCIDENT ON THE
CANADA SOUTHERN.
A Transfer Boat Strikes a Wharf
and Plunges a Sleeper In the Wa
ter—A Passenger Coach Half War
Over —Panic and Confnslon —Fears
That All Were Not Rescued.
Detroit, Mich., September 27.—A pas
senger train of the Canada Southern Rail
road, due here about one o’clock this morn
ing, while belDg transferred across the
river from Amherstberg to Grosse Isle, met
with an accident. The transfer boat was
run with such force against the dock at the
island as to throw forward the sleeper,
which ran along tbe track on the boat, and
plunged headlong into tbe water in the
slip. The passenger coach Immediately
behind It was also forced forward, and the
forward trucks went over the end of the
boat. The coupling between this coach and
the one behind did not break, however, and
the car hung over the end of the boat at an
angle of forty-five degrees, and one end
just touched the water.
The engines of the boat were at once
reversed, and as It backed away from the
slip, the sleeper, which had fallen into the
water, rose and turned over on its side,
the tracks attached to It having gone to tbe
bottom. All was confusion. The passengers
In the sleeper clung to the side out of the
water, and tried to break through the
windows, and cried for help. Sixty or
seventy others, who were in
the passenger coach behind,
were panic stricken and rushed pell mell
for the end of the car farthest away from
the water. Some of them clambered out at
the side and fell into the water. Others
of the passengers, who stood on the deck of
the boat, saw the danger of those in the
stream and plunged in to rescue them as
soon as possible. The passengers and train
men clambered on tbe top of the coach fal
len In the water and broke in the windows,
pulling out the drippiDg occupants.
When all in sight had been rescued it was
found that of the fourteen passengers in
the sleeper three were missing. The dark
ness of the night, the confusion and the
fact that nearly all the passengers were
strangers to each other, make it possible
that all were rescued, but it also leaves
painful uncertainty as to whether there are
not several persons drowned. Six passen
gers went down with the car, but were res
cued with the exception of a man named
Bloom, who occupied Section 11. A care
ful search for him was made, but he had
not been found at last accounts.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
Father Sheehy and four other suspects
have been released from prison,
French mariners have committed out
rages on British fishermen at St. John’s, N.
F., cutting out nets, turning craft adrift,
etc.
Three Bishops of the sect of Old Believ
ers, in Russia, who have been imprisoned
in the monastery at Susdal since 1856, have
been released by order of the Czar.
A Syracuse dispatch 6ays: “The Repub
licans of the Becond A?Sf-mblv district of
New York have elected Frank Hiscock and
four others, all Garfield Republicans, as
delegates to the State Republican Conven
tion.
A train on the Valley road was ditched
near Breckville, Ohio, by a fallen tree on
the track. “Doc Drum,” a train boy, was
badly scalded, and Engineer Vightly hurt.
The train load of 200 passengers escaped
without injury.
The Russian ukase recently issued to
facilitate the declaration of a greater or le6B
state of siege authorizes Governors during
a minor state of siege to prohibit public
or even private meetings and close all* trade
or Industrial establishments.
Frederick RettiDger, aged sixty-five years,
was found drowned in the canal In Wilkes
barre, Pa , recently. It Is said that parties
there have Insurance to the amount of $70,-
000 on his life. The Coroner will hold a
post-mortem examination.
The boiler of the steam threshing ma
chine at work on George Caldwell’s farm, In
Thurlow, Ont., exploded a few days since,
killing Andrew Lloyd, Mr. Malcolm, Mr.
Anson and Miss Viola Caldwell, and seri
ously injuring Mr. Caldwell, H. Garvin and
Charles Gerkin.
Dickey, aged five years, the son of John
Holmes, and Maggie, an adopted daughter,
while gathering coal In St. Louis, upon
aslackinHaifling’s coal mine, sank through
the heap Into a smoldering fire, and were so
badly burned that the boy died Saturday
night. It is not believed the girl can live.
The noted outlaws known as the Williams
brothers appeared recently in Pike countv,
111., having escaped from Wisconsin, and
Sheriff Roberts, of Pike county, and Sheriff
Lammis, of Calhoun county, 111., assisted by
two men named Churchman and McNabb,
started In pursuit. The posse overtook the
men near Fox creek, Missouri, when the
outlaws shot and killed Sheriff L&mmis and
wounded McNabb, and then escaped down
the Mississippi river.
Owing to the continued drought, the
wood fires In Northwestern New York are
still spreading and causing great destruc
tion. Much of the soil being peaty, the fires
burrow to a depth of two or three feet, and
the crops and railroad ties, as well as trees,
fences, telegraph poles and farm b uildings
have been destroyed. The burninu district
lies along the railroads between Buffalo and
Rochester, and Buffalo and Batavia.
Edward Malley’s store, at New Haven,
Conn., has been attached for $60,000 on two
suits, one for false imprisonment of his
brother, William Malley. of Ansonia, and
the other for notes due Edward J. Malley,
Michael Malley, Edward J. Carroll and
William Malley. After the attachment
Carroll offered to settle for $2,500. Then
Edward Malley had CarroU and Michael
Malley put In ia.il about midnight for false
attachment. The other Malleys were not
found, though searched for. Efward Mal
ley is the father of Walter Malley and an
uncle of James Malley, the two young men
now under arrest on the charge of com
plicity In the murder of Jennie Cramer.
Terrible Hurricane and Earthquake
at Elmira, N. T.
Elmira. September 25.—A terrible hurri
cane struck this city this afternoon at 4:30,
accompanied by a severe storm of rain. A
vast amount of damage was done in about
two minutes, the duration of the storm.
Entire roofs with their heavy timbers were
blown hundreds of feet. The Rathburn
House was unroofed. The spire of Heddlng
Methodist Church was blown across the
street into a yard. About two tons of
brick were deDOSited in the organ of the
First Presbyterian Church. Several brick
buildings had holes blown clear through
them, scattering the bricks In
all directions. The river bank is full
of the debris of roofs blown from
buildings, including chimneys. Immense
oak, elm and maple trees were snapped at
the roots like pipestems. Almost every
street is impassable from the trees blown
across them. Workrmen are busy with axes
and teams, clearing away the ruins, and the
firemen have been c&lled out to care for en
dangered buildings. Mr. 8. A. Manwearing
was blown from his buggy and seriously in
jured. The spire of a church was blown upon
a house adjoining and crushed it in, fortu
nately injuring no one. The roof of the
palace car shops was blown clear over the
freight office several hundred feet. The
streets were full of people, and the greatest
consternation prevailed. The storm was
preceded by an earthquake, and now there
is a perfect calm. The rain fell so heavily
that the pipes were insufficient to carry oil
the water, and immense damage was done
to furniture by water entering the houses.
The damage in this city alone will reach
thousands of dollars.
Texan orTkx^an. —One or two Texas
papers appear to wish to revive the ques
tion whether a citizen of Texas should
be called a Texan or Texian. Some
forty years ago the latter term was gen
erally used, but custom has long since
settled down in favor of Texan. There
is no precise rule applicable to the case,
and some smart philologist may yet get
a law passed to change the spelling of
the name, as has been done in a neigh
boring State, where Arkansavv has been
made to take the place of Arkansas.
That State, however, neglected to state
whether its citizens shall be called Ar
kansawers or Arkansawyers. Webster
says sawyer is a corruption of sawer,
and anew law may be necessary to fix
the correct thing as to the name of the
citizens of our sister State, if not for
those of Texas. There was once a
soldier-poet who wrote the word Texi
cans in order to make it rhyme with
Mexicans. The San Antonio Times says:
“A number of Arkansians,” etc. This
seems to he hardly as fit' a word as either
Texans or Texians. —Galveston Neuss.
ESTABLISHED 1850
Facts and Anecdotes About General
Garfield.
Marshal Henry, of Washington city, tells
one or two very interesting incidents re
lating to the life of the late President
during the few days preceding his murder.
He says:
“I was riding out with the President and
Harry Garfield on the Wednesday night of
that week. The President talked about a
great many thiDgs, and said a great deal
about his wife’s recent illness. Speaking
particularly of Dr. Boynton’s services
during the hour of Mrs. Garfield’s peril, of
the doctor’s prompt response when sum
moned by telegraph, and of his untiring
efforts night and day to ameliorate the suf
fering of the oaMent, he said, In a tone of
voice which I shall never forget, to his son,
‘Harry, I want you to remember your Uncle
Silas as long as vou live.’ ”
One of the habits of the President for
many years was the writing of a private
diary, and he has left a number of volumes
of these diaries, which are about six by
eight inches in size. He did most of the
writing in these himself, though when very
busy he dictated the entries to his secre
tary. The last entry he made himself the
night before he was shot. Under the date
July Ist is written: “Brown returned to
day,” and, after a few more notes, were the
last words, “Cousin Cordelia died to-day.
Retired atl2o’clock.”
It will be remembered that Private Secre
tary Brown returned from Europe the night
before the President was shot. The “Cou
sin Cordelia” spoken of was Mrs. Arnold,
who was fatally Injured by the accident in
which the late President’s undo, Thomas
Garfield, was killed near Cleveland. The
Marshal says the late President has left sev
eral boxes full of papers and documents,
which will probably be examined some day
and edited for publication.
In some reminiscences of President Gar
field, contributed to the Boston Journal by
Ben Perley Poore, is the following:
“The short time that the Garfields occu
pied the White House before the assassina
tion was a continued scene of domestic en
joyment. ‘Grandma’ Garfield had, until
she returned to Mentor, an honored place
at the family table, at her son’s right hand,
and was always waited on first, whoever
else might be present. On the other side of
the President sat Jamie, who was his
father’s pet. Harry, the oldest bov, always
sat next to his mother, and then Miss Mol
lie, who is approaching womanhood;
then Irwin and little Abram,who is but nine
years of age. Mrs. Garfield Is a believer in
good fare, and there was always an abun
dance of wholesome, nutritious food, with
good coffee, tea and milk. Flowers from
the conservatory adorned the table at every
meal. After dinner President Garfield used
to indulge in a game of billiards, having
promptly restored to its place the billiard
table banished by Mrs. Hayes. Occasion
ally he would indulge in a cigar, and he
was not adverse to a glass of champagne or
Rhine wine, or lager beer,although he drank
temperately and without hypocrisy. He
liked as night came on to take a gallop on
horseback, and he was a fearless rider.”
The International Cotton Exposition.
Railway Age.
Among the great movements of this
stirring period, few will attract greater at
tention this year or have a more important
bearing on the future of our country than
the International Cotton Exposition which
will open at Atlanta, Ga., October sth. It
is to be an illustration of the progress this
country has made in agriculture, manufac
tures, commerce, science and the arts dur
ing the five years that have passed since the
Philadelphia centennial was closed to the
public. Industrial enterprises in the form
of expositions have become since that time
factors of no mean importance to the busi
ness of the country. The people of the
Northwest have learned by the brilliant ex
perience of our Chicago Exposition and by
the similar exhibitions that are annually
given in other great centres to appreciate
the value of these modern aids to all depart
ments of industry and labor. But the Inter
national Exposition that will open at At
lanta, will be unlike any other this country
or the world has ever seen. It may be
called mi generis for its uniqueness and pe
culiarities. It was originally intended to
promote the interests of the cotton planters
of the South, and the cotton mills and man
ufacturers of the rest of the country; but
%io sooner was the plan presented to the
public than the wise heads of our commer
cial centres saw that it admitted of great
development, and gave a long desired op
portunity to place before the people of the
South a complete picture of our diversified
national industries. Director General Kim
ball and his associates were the right men
to appreciate this grand idea, and it was
adopted, and arrangements made to carry
it into practical effect.
The railway companies of the United
States are exponents as well as leaders of,
and more than any other class in this coun
try believe in progress. The great lines of
the South saw at a very early day that the
Exposition would give them a chance to
place before the capitalists of the world
such a display of the natural resources of
the regions which they traverse as would be
likely to lead to numerous investments and
to the development of the mines, and the
utilization of the forests, of that vast and
richly endowed region. They, therefore,
made arrangements with the Director Gene
ral to furnish them with space on the Expo
sition grounds in which they could exhibit
collections of minerals, lumber, forage
plants, agricultural products and everything
else found adjacent to their lines, which
would support human beings and fur
nish the raw materials for their employment.
So soon as this plan was made public, it ex
cited universal attention and interest—other
roads joined with those that had conceived
the plan, and, as a result, the entire coun
try south of the 40th parallel will be com
prised in these displays. Everything north
of the Gulf of Mexico and the Mexican ter
ritory between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, south of the line named that is
worthy a place in the Exposition will be
there; and all these exhibits will be so
skillfully arranged and classified that who
ever sees them will be able to tell at a glance
where anything in which he is especially in
terested can be found. Nothing like this
has ever before been attempted, and we are
not surprised to learn that some of the
heaviest capitalists of this country and Eu
rope have determined to vislit the Exposi
tion and to make these railway exhibits a
matter of careful and thorough investiga
tion.
The Star Route Swindlers.
Boston Post.
When the star route iniquity was
brought to light the new Postmaster
General was held up to the country as a
first-class reformer. The country was
almost ready to tender him a public ova
tion. The guilty parties were paraded
before the country with a flourish of
trumpets, and the details of their trans
actions scattered far and wide through
the public press. In order to make
thorough work of it anew prosecuting
officer was employed, who was said to be
possessed of unusual skill in criminal
laws, and a man of uncommon vigor
and promptness in the discharge of his
duties. The adminisrration was claim
ing special eclat, and at first seemed to
have earned it for its improvement over
the preceding one. Time went on, but
nothing was dote to briDg the offenders
to justice. The court and juries sus
pended their functions, and there
was a general scatteration of the per
sons accused to parts unknown.
This dilatory conduct attracted wide
attention, and the people began
to wonder why the wheels of justice
moved soslowly. Then went dispatches
in the form of “official bulletins” all
over the country, that when the court
should reassemble in the fall swift and
sure and exemplary punishment would
be administered, and with an impartial
hand. The country was patient and in
general trusted in these assurances. Our
readers have seen by our Washington
correspondence what all these demon
strations have amounted to. This vigor
ous prosecutor has allowed his grand
jury to go off for another vacation of
weeks. The Postmaster General is away
from his post at the time appointed for
following up the investigations, and
also his assistants, relied on to give effect
to their discoveries. What excuse or
apology is to he pleaded for this dis
regard of the public demand and ex
pv'ictation?
If British energy is not aroused Brit
ish trade will receive a death blow here,
as we now receive from the Yankees car
riages, organs, furniture, timber, doors,
windows (a box frame is sold here for
less than 1 can buy the timber), plows,
axes, hatchets, spades, nails, locks,
hinges and general ironmongery, gar
den seats, india-rubber hose, perambula-.
tors (much prettier articles than anything
I have seen from the old country), and
lately I see a large quantity of saws; in
fact, English hardware in general is
being rapidly driven from these parts.—
Australian correspondence of an English
paper.
COTTON PICKERS.
Three machines Exhibited ■ the
memphta ttotton Exchange* a
Memphis Avalanche.
Yesterday was a field day at the Cot
lon Exchange for cotton pickers, models
of no less than three being on exhibition
at one time, viz. : Hutton’s cotton picker,
of Memphis, the Pugh gin saw picker,
of Covington, and Dr. Dooley’s cotton
picker, of Forrest City, Arkansas. A
sketch of the first two has been given in
the Avalanche. Of the third it is
claimed by Dr. Dooley that one man and
two horses or mules are all the help
needed for the machine. The driver
sacks and throws the cotton overboard
as the machine goes from turn to turn.
This machine will gather no bolls, limbs
or trash, except the leaf trash adhering
to the open bolls. All the dirt and dust
will be shaken off. He has been work
ing every possible plan to gather cotton
by machinery, and says he has found
none that will compare at all with the
one he has patented. It can be used as
soon as enough cotton is open to justify
running it. If all the cotton is open,
the machine can pick eight acres
per day, or as fast as it can be
driven by the team. He say no machine
can ever succeed that gathers bolls, limbs
and trash. His calculation is that each
machine will cost to build it #IOO, and
a margin to manufacturer of SSO. It
will sell for $250, allowing him SIOO on
each machine. He thinks at $250 for a
machine every man raising fifty acres of
good cotton will save the cost
of the machine and expenses on
the first crop, and the machine
will last ten years if carefully
handled and preserved. He has had
several applications for a machine at
SSOO for this season; but he will not be
able to put up but one machine by Octo
ber 15. His aim was to begin manufac
turing at Memphis, but he says the mau
facturers in this city could not do work
as small as his spindles of steel; there
fore he is now on his way to Cincinnati
to get one manufactured.
Whatever may be the outcome of the
various cotton picking machines already
patented, it is safe to say that the in
ventive genius of the country will yet
accomplish the construction of a ma
chine that will pick cotton, which will
be as great a boon to the South as the in
vention of McCormick’s reaper was to
the Northwest.
Drain Development and Moral Char
acter.
London Lancet.
It is not surprising to find the unlearn
ed in things medical unable to under
stand that brain development, which of
course is generally a matter of heredity,
determines character. Such, however,
is, and must needs be, the fact. Wheth
er the mind is something outside mat
ter which acts through or by the brain,
as a musician may use a musical instru
ment, or whether, as some think, what
we call mind is simply brain function, it
should be manifest on consideration that
upon the quality and conformation of a
man’s brain must depend his mental ca
pacity; and, consequently, also, his
characteristics, both intellectual and
moral. We are not disposed to urge spe
cialties of development as excuses for
conduct, because, given an average
degree of intelligence and fairly
strong will power, the individual
is clearly responsible for bis ac
tions; but it must not be forgot
ten that his instincts of right or
wrong, and the faculty of judgment
with which lie distinguished between
good and evil, will be acute or dull in
proportion as his brain is developed. The
mind is in a large sense the character of
a man, and as directly dependent on the
physical growth of his brain as the speed
of a race liorse is dependent on its
muscular development. This is not
sufficiently recognized, and because it is
not we every now and again find silly
remarks in print such as the following:
“The convolutions of the brain may have
something to do with the difference be
tween mediocrity and genius, but at
present they are not recognized in the
law courts, and it is difficult to see how
they can be;” with such weak and wide
moral reflections as that “it would be
scarcely satisfactory to a pickpocket to
have his brains (sic) examined, in order
to prove to those he left behind that he
really could not help being a thief 1”
And yet the facts arc sufficiently plain
and simple, so plain and simple that any
one should be able to understand them.
Vice Presidents and their Prede
cessors.—lt is not entirely unreasonable
that Vice Presidents, selected as ours
have been, should uniformly reverse
the general policy of their immediate
predecessors. Tyler did it; Fillmore
did it; Johnson did it, and Arthur is
reasonably certain to do it. And why?
The answer is simple and logical. Vice
Presidents represent nothing. They are
nominated to meet some present and
accidental political necessity, generally
resulting from the nomination of the
Presidential candidate. They, therefore,
represent no great sentiment in the party,
and they become ciphers in the adminis
tration. Tney gravitate into estrange
ment because they are voiceless; the dis
appointments of the party naturally
cluster about them until they become
the central figure of the opposition, and
when they succeed to the power that dis
regarded them they fall into the arms of
those who were not in sympathy with
the elected President. As long as Vice
Presidents are subjected to the ordinary
laws of human nature they will be the
natural antagonists of the President, his
policy and his friends.— Phila. Times.
An Old Woman’s Advice.
Aunt Rachel, writing to the Cincinnati
Enquirer, says: “When you feel unwell and
tliink you must take medicine, for goodness
sake ‘get the best.’ If you need a remedy
that will make you regular in your habits,
give you a good Datural appetite, make your
skin clear and smooth, and remove all spots
and blemishes that indicates ill health; if
you wish to be free from mental depression,
fretfulness, peevishness, wakefulness and
other disorders, use Brown’s Iron Bitters.
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No other preparation makes such light, flaky
hot breads, or luxurious pastry. Can be eaten
by Dyspeptics without fear of the ills resulting
from heavy indigestible food. Bold only in
cans by ail grocers.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO.,
New York
BORACIIME!
A SUPERIOR
Toilet and Nursery Powder,
And a sure cure for
Prioltly Seat
AND other eruptions of the skin. A grateful
powder for the bath. Nicely perfumed and
put up in large packages at 25c. each. Manu
factured by the SOUTHERN FLOWER PER
FUMERY COMPANY. For sale by the Princi
pal Druggists of the eltv.
Busby's Anti-Electric Alarms and
Call Bells
CAN be attached to any door knob, and ad
justable as an alarm or caU bell. Every
housekeeper in this community should have
one. It is a protectlo^^i^snea^tiiieves.
York near Bull street,
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