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"XENDIfiO TCIK OLD FLAG.”
BY WILL CARLETOS.
In the silent gloom of a garret room,
With cobwebs round It creeping.
From day to day the old flag lay—
A veteran worn and sleeping.
Dingily o.d, each wrinkled fold
By the dust of years was shaded:
Wounds of the storm was upon its form;
The crimson stripes were faded
’Twas a mournful sight in the day-twilight,
1 his thing of humble seeming.
That once so proud o’er the cheering crowd.
Had carried its colors gleaming:
i-tamed with mould where the braids of gold.
That had flashed in the sun-ray's kissing;
Of faded hue was its field of blue.
And some of the stais were missing.
Three Nor-hern maids and three from glades
Where dr, .ms the South land weather.
With glances kind and their arms entwined.
Came up the stair together:
They gazed awhi e with a thoughtful smile
At the crouching form before them;
With clinging holds they gras.ed its folds.
And out of the darkness bore them.
They healed its scars,and found its stars,
And brought them all together
(Three Northern maics and three from glades
Where smiles the South land weather);
They mended away through the summer day.
Made glad by an inspiration
To fling it high at the smiling sky
On the birthday of our nation.
In the brilliant glare of the summer air.
With a brisk breeze round it creeping.
Newlv bright through the glistening light.
The it g went grandly sweeping;
Gleaming en 1 bold were its braids of gold.
And flashed m the sun-ray’s kissing;
Red, white and blue wer- of deepest hue.
And uone of the stars were missing.
Georgia Affairs.
Stewart county has ordered an election to
decide the fence question in that county.
In Georgia and Florida there seems to be a
general movement toward the Atlanta Expo
sition. That is right. It will probably be long
before we have another chance at a Southern
World’s Fair.
Mr. George I. Seney has offered to send his
check for five thousand dollars to build a
chapel at the Lucy O-bb Institute if the citi
zens of Athens will subscribe four thousand
dollars.
The Griffin Sun wants a man for Governor
who won t need any ‘ vindication.” Take your
torch, most ancient philosopher—a big one—
and start out very early in the morn.
A young man giving his name as Henry Fox,
and claiming to be from Georgia, recently
committed suicide at Vincennes, Indiana, by
plunging down from the drawbridge upon the
rocks below. He was found before life was
extinct and carried to the hospital.
After the first of July, Lodges of Odd
Fellows will transact their business in the
third degree.
The first cotton planted in this country was
in 1721, in South Carolina. The plant was dis
covered growing wild on the island of Hispani
ola ; also, as far north on the banks of the
Mississippi as the thirtieth parallel of latitude,
and it has been proved to be indigenous to the
soil of the loa-er latitudes of North America.
W. Ellitt, is 1790. gathered the first successful
cotton crop in £outh Carolina, and within a few
years cotton cultivation became general in the
extreme Southern States.
Our Bpringfleld correspondent writes: “Mr.
W. B. Mallette has one pea stock that measures
twenty-five feet across. Near the root the
stock is three inches through. This mammoth
pea vine is at Marlow, No. 2% Cjutral Rail
road.”
The Post-Appeal, in a serio-comic report of
the Atlanta riot, is severe upon th* manage
ment of the ceremonies of the day, and says _
“with execrab;e taste,” black and white were
mingled together in the procession, which,
though long and handsome, called forth shouts
of laughter, from the ridiculous fact that
while at the front the splendid band of the
Fifth Artillery vert playing a dirge, the negro
band, near the centre, were blowing in the
most spirited manner, “The Girl I Left Behind
Me”
Our Spread, Jefferson county, correspon Jen t
says not more than one third of a cotton crop
will be harvested in that county. He also re
ports the total destruction by fire of the resi
dence or Mr. James Hudson, near Btellaville,
o i the 2*th instant, without Insurance.
A correspondent writing from Hidville. Bui.
loch county, says the corn crop in that section
will be from two-thirds to three fourths. Cot
ton about half a crop.
The increased rates of freights granted by
the Commission to the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad will take effect on the first of
Oc-ober. That company is shipping all freights
from Florida and Southwestern Georgia for
the Atlar.t t Exposition free of charge.
Rome Bulletin: “Seven miles west of the
city of Rome. Floyd county, upon the farm of
Major Z B. Hargrove, a fine quarry of oil. or
whetstone has been discovered. Parties !who
profess to know and have examined this stone,
say that it is of superior quality and well
suited to the manufacture of either oil or
grindstone. A sample will be sent to the At
lanta Exposition.”
Augusta Evenino Nevis: “We are requested
to announce tha', owing to the sickness of
Captain Gearing, the naval battle and fire
works display advertised for to-morrow even
ing will be postponed for a few days. Due no
tice will be given when the exhibition will come
off. In the meantime the arrangements will
be completed for the entertainment."
Rome Courier: ‘“the bill appropriating a pro
rata of the fund donated to the Slave of Geor
gia by the United States Government to a col
lege of acrkulture and mechanic arts at
Rome has passed safe y through, at last, and
is now a law. Ihe only condition imposed is
that the city shall erect the prop-r buildings.
This is the condition in the bill donating tbs
lands to the Mate, and one that Dahlorteg*.
Thomasvilie and MiJedgevilio have oompl.ed
jrith.”
Walton .Vries says; “Diphtheria is
raging in Gwinnett, near Dr. Freeman’s A
seat lenten from that section tells us rix child
ren have died right at his door in the last ten
davs \n eye witness says he never saw a
more distressing scene of suffering than the
five little children of Mr. Janies Tow Gr. a 1
down at the same time with diphtheria. They
are all better now.”
Augusta Evening A'evs: ‘‘A wholesome
warning may be taken by ladies who have a
desire to use fig leaves for household purpose#
by the experience of two ladies in au_ u*ta.
One used the fig leaves for straining preserve#,
and the other iu dr ng or cleaning dress goods,
and the hands of both were badly poisoned.
The suffering of both parties was interne, and
the inconvenience and trouble occasioned very
•treat.-’
Augusta Evening Hetea: “Willie Bibb, who
is aactentist. and who has been for threeyeaia
watching tfte movements of Capt. Hart’s bee
farm at Uni-a! Point, has discovered that the
bee is not very busy after all. He is just like
some folks— always buzzing around, getting a
taste of the sweet* and enjoying himself. He
finishes making honey in about six weeks, and
loafs all the rest of the summer.”
Atlanta Constitution: “Yesterday evening
two men, who were engaged in digging a well
near the boulevard, were badly injured by the
premature discharge of a blast. Ihe men had
just finished tempering the blaw and were
about to leave the well tor safety when the ex
plosion occurred. Both men were badly in
jured. and it is thought that one of them will
loee the use of his eyes. The oal with which
they intended firing was placed too neirthe
fuse, hence the explosion. Dr. Dean rendered
the necessary surgical aid The men are
known as Cumst-ad and Weaks.”
Atlanta Constitution: “On Saturday lat
about twelve o’clock in the day. Mr. Merritt
Head, son of James M. Head, who lives near
Logansville, In Gwinnett county, attempted to
take bis own life. He is a young man, about
tweaty > ears of age. and it is said he attempt
ed to take his 1 fe by trying to drown himself
several times curing last summer. On Satur
day last he went to his room a few minutes be
fore IX m and took a single-barrel shotgun
.loaded with bird shot, and placing it under his
Satmnah Panting Pern
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
hin. pulled the trigger and emptied the toad
in the roof of his mouth, the shot passing
through his tongue and lodging in the upper
part of his head. The physicians called to at
tend him picked out all the shot that had not
been buried too deep, and he is yet alive, but
od Tuesday he was worse and not expected to
live.”
Oglethorpe Echo: “A number of cattle are
being carried from this county to Augusta, but
the prices paid there make it a losing business
to the drovers. We heard of one man who lost
J4O on a lot of cattle he carried there.”
Atlanta Post-Appeal: "Last night about 7
o'clock Mary Deerman, a young white woman
living in an alley opposite Gholstin's flouring
mill, attempted to take her life by swallowing
a dracm of oil of tansy. The inmates of the
house knew nothing of her purpose until she
fell on the floor in convulsions, when they gent
for Drs. Parks and Udell, who administered
antidotes, and after two or three more convul
sions the woman was relieved of the agony of
poison. She is ciente, and it is supposed
she took the drug for the purpose of produc
ing abortion or death. She is still in a critical
cond tion."
Thomasvilie Enterprise: "About one or
two o'clock on! last Thursday morning
Mr. P. W. Leek, who lives four miles
east of Boston, discovered his cotton
house on fire. The building and con
tents. about three bales of cotton in the seed
and about sixty bushels cotton seed, were de
stroyed. Mr. Leek is certain it was the work
of an incendiary. Ob Tuesday night previous
be discovered someone at his stables, who re
fused to halt. He supposed the party to be
trying to steal his muies, and when the fellow
ran off he fired at him It is probable that the
same party fired the cotton house.”
For the information of candidates In his dis
trict Hon. H. G. Turner, member of Congress
for the Secondjdlstrict, publishes the following:
Applicants for the West Point cadetship are
required to be between 17 and 22 years of age,
at least five feet high, free from any immoral
or infectious disease or any deformity that
would render them unfit for military service.
Ihe applicant must be well versed in reading
and writing, including orthography, arithmetic,
the elements of English grammar, descriptive
geography, particularly of this country, and
the history of the United States.
General Grant.
Montgomery Advertiser.
“A man is judged by the company he
keeps.”
There was never a juster standard by
which to measure the calibre sod character
ot a man; and yet it would be unjust yet
to judge that President Arthur does not
mean to rise above the level of General
Grant in the high effice upon which he has
just now entered.
Ominous as it may appear to see this no
torious patrontst of corrupt rings, this cen
tral figure of the third term revolution, to
early and conspicuously accompanying the
new President; yet it may be more the re
sult of accident or of former friendship and
association than from any purpose of Presi
dent Arthur to be guided by so dangerous a
counsellor. It may seem strange, Indeed,
that. General Grant should be so prominent
a figure since the death of the late Presi
dent. He is arm in arm with President Ar
thur at Elberon, accompanying him to New
York ; then seen again among the high
officials of the government in the funeral
journey to Washington ; keeping In com
pany all the while with President Arthur,
and then at the ceremony of the inaugura
tion.
It is announced that the President already
is looking troubled and care-worn.
No wonder; the gravity of the situation
is immense—the responsibility prodigious.
Never before baa President Arthur had
such a demand made .upon his firmness;
never was such a test made of his man
hood. He cannot fail to see and appreciate
that it is absolutely necessary for him to be
rid of Grant and all bis tLird term fol
lowers. For he is forced to see that the ad
mission of Grant to his councils Is simply
•o open the door again to Brady and
Belknap and Dorsey and Babcock and
Lindaulet Williams, and the whole host of
scoundrels that swarmed around Grant and
are ready to crowd Into whatever place he
may be suffered to enter.
Gnut undoub’edly Is the most dangerous
man iu America—dangerous to the liberties
of the people aad the honest administration
of the government. It is not because of
his brilliant intellec’; for he is notoriously
stupid. It is not because of his sobriety;
for he is proverbially otherwise. It is not
because of his good faith; for President
Johnson proved hlui a falsifier in the pres
ence of his whole Cabinet. It is not be
cause of his truthfulness; for when last
year he went from the hospitalities and
kindness he bad received at the South, In
vent ured at Cairo and elsewhere to read
the truth as be had seen it, and had written
It, to the crowds that gathered to
see him, and yet in a few weeks thereafter
all over the North wherever Mr.
Conkling carried him, he stood, ss
well he could, before va6t crowds, and in his
maudlin words went back on the truth be
bad told, and slandered the South as he did
Gcd. Hancock, to bis heart’s c-intent, and
to the delight of those who trained him. He
is dangerous, not because his own admtuts
:rations were honest and able, for they were
the most corrupt and pitiable that ever dis
graced a civilised people. Au eminent
citizen, Benator Vest, of Missouri, In a late
letter quoted from Gen. Grant’s recent ut
terance “that pensions must be paid to none
but Union soldiers, and aeks what ‘drug’
can have so change i the speaker since his
words at Cairo and Bloomington, wheu he
paid tribute to the devotion to their country
of those who wore the gray? The language
of Grant is an insinuation of the basest sort,
for ex Confederates have neither asked nor
thought of pension suits.”
And yet for all that, It is simply like him
to make such insinuations.
He Is dangerous, because of bis untamed
ambition fer power and bis insatiable greed
for gold. He is dangerous, because of the
• range Infatuation for him and bis ways
that possess so large a portion of the North.
He is the recognized head centre and tool
of the imperialists. And the imperialists,
though still now, are not dead. Conkling
la coming to the front Again. Cameron U>
waiting and watching. They failed at Cin
cinnati in opening the way to the throne;
but they showed the spirit that possessed
them. It Is the spirit that clings with the
tenacity of death to its purpose.
President Arthur must see that It Is a duty
be is compelled to perform, no matter what
it may cost him, to be rid of General Grant
and all that Grant implies.
Th-re is no honor to President Arthur nor
sAe.y to the country In the psth of the
imperialist.
The Wreck on tbe Pacific Coaat.
San Francisco, September 28. —The
name of the ship reported lost last night
waa not tbe Halensbure, but the Alice Buck,
from New York. A dispatch from Spanish
Town, twenty five robes from here, says
she struck oa Hovean’a Rocks, two
miles below, at ten minutes past
twelve o’clock yesterday morning, ard
Is a total wreck. Ten out of the
twenty-four men on board were
drowned. Tbe ship had been leaking for
two days, and her Captain signaled for a
tug, evidently intending to put into San
Francisco for repairs. On Monday he
sjolte the steamer Oceanic*, and got bis
coarse to San Francisco, but by eome mis
calculation steered northeast aDd shortly
after midnight struck with an awful crash
on the rock, not over fifteen hundred feet
from a high bluff. The two mates and part
of tbe crew were instantly panic stricken,
and jumped from tbe ship Into tbe sea, and
were not seen again. Tbe Captain and the
rest, of the crew, with life-preservers
on, left the ship, which was fast breaking
up. Some reached the shore, assisted by
tbe people on the bluff. The rest were
picked up by the steamer Salina. Captain
H.rmlcgsin'was picked up, after being in
the water nine hours, supported by two
life preservers.
Faiber Nbecby’s Prison Life.
Dublin, September 28. —Father Sheeby,
in replying to questions of reporters who
iuiervtewrfl him at the League rooms, com
plained of the sanitary condition of Kll
inair,bam jail, which, he declared, was con
ducive to blood poisoning, and said the food
was unfit for human use. He strongly con
demned the land act.
Another American Victory on the
British Turf.
London, September 28. —At the New Mar
ket first October meeting to-day tbe
Granby stakes, for two year olds, was won
by J. R. Keene’s bay colt Golden Gate, Le
fevre’s brown coltNtekel second, Crawford’s
bay colt, by King Alfred out of Supa, third.
Only three ran.
Forster Dsnooueed.
Dublin, September 28. —Father Sheehy,
who has just been relea-ed from Kilmalu
ham jail, visited Naas to-day, where be was
received with enthusiasm. Replying to ad
dresses from the various public bodies, h*
said that Mr. Forster’s name would go
down with hate to future generations of
Irishmen.
Great Fire In Moscow.
Moscow. September 28—A fire which
commenced last evening in the Merchants’
Bai.r in this city, ha* already destroyed
twenty warehouses in spite of all efforts.
The conflagration is still raging.
Catarrh ol the Bladder.
Slinging, smarting, irritation of the uri
nary passages, diseased discharges, cured
by “Buchupalba ” Druggists. Depot, Os
ceola Butler, Savannah,
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
ALLEGED PLOT TO KILL PRESI
DENT ARTHUR.
A Cock and Bull Story that la Dis
counted—A Boom for the Rev. \V.
W, Hick* of Fragrant Tlemory-
Geueral Young a Candidate for
Secre ary ot ihe Senate.
Washington, September 28.—The Rev.
W. W. Hicks, who is as familiar as a church
spire to the readers of the News, has turn
ed up again. He has bten preaching here
for some lime in a small congregation, which
broke eff frem the regular branch of a
church In Bouth Washington. He devoted
bis memorial sermon to the late President
the other day principally to a denunciation
of Hayes for abandoning the Southern Re
publicans.
Oa the heels of this sermon there follows
a boom for Hicks for a place in the Cabinet
of President Arthur. God fare the mark!
Of course, there is no probability whatever
of Hicks’ being elevated to that extent.
There is more probability that he will be
bounced by his congregation as soon as
they find out the kind of a man he Is. Col.
Jack Brown, of Georgia, and a few others
have the Hicks Cabinet bocm under their
cursing. They have called upon Presi
dent Arthur ard urged that Hicks
be appointed Postmaster General. This
aspiration Is certainly the sublimity of
cheek. There are some who thiok that
Hicks Is only working for notoriety’6 sake,
but the facts are that he is working with a
real hope that he will become Postmaster
General.
President Arthur received King Kalakaua
this morntug. The President was engaged
all the morning with his correspondence up
to noon, when a constant stream cf visitors
set in, including several members of the
Cabinet.
General P. M. B. Young, of
Georgia, is among the cmdldates for Sec
retary of the Senate under the approach
ing Democratic organization of that body, to
succeed Colonel Burch, deceased.
A government employe by the name of
Baylv, In search of notoriety and a charm
by which to hang on to his position, went
to police headquarters yesterday and told
of a scheme to assassinate President Ar
thur, which he overheard two men discus
ing iu front of his lodgings the other night.
He made an affidavit to this effect, and
filed It with the police authorities. The
latter threw It In the official waste basket.
Bayly has communicated his great dis
covery to the local newspapers, and a sen
sation is attempted to be made of It. It
cannot be true. Bavly does not mention
any names nor doe 6 he give any informa
tion of an at all definite character. The
police have sat down upon his story and
pronounce, after an investigation, that
there la no plot to assassinate the new
President, nor any subsiance of anything
substantial or trustworthy !n Bayiy’s state
ment.
THE ATLANTA EXPOSITION.
Preparations lor Ihe Opening Al
most Complete.
Atlanta, September 28. —The programme
of the ceremonies at the opening of the Ex
position on Wednesday, the sth, has been
completed. The ceremonies will be ex
ceedingly impressive. A large number of
representative citizens from every part of
the United States have accepted invita
tions to participate. Full de
tails will be given to the press
In a dav or two. Most of the buildings are
finished, and exhibitors are rapidly putting
their displays In shape. The city is fast
filling with visitors. The prices for enter
talnment at, hotels, boarding houses and
private dwellings range at. about the same
rates as at Philadelphia during the Centen
nial. Thursday, October 27th, has been de
elded upon for Governor’s day, and all
State Executives are expected at the con
clusion of the Yurktown celebration to visit
the Exposition here before returning to their
homes. The First Connecticut Regiment
and other military organizations are expect
ed to take part iu the exercises of that occa
sion.
Entertainment l Visitor* at York
lwn.
Washington, September 28. —Rumors
haviug arisen regarding the inability of the
managers of the Yorktown celebration to
provide subsistence for the vast crowd ex
pected to attend, the Commissioners desire
to state that so far as the invited guests of
the ComrnUftoners, visiting military and
Masonic bodies are concerned, the arrange
ments have already been perfected, by
which they will be comfortably accommo
dated at Yorktown. These alone are ex
pected to number 25,000. In addition to
this four hotels of good size are
being erected on the grounds of a capa
city to feed from 10,000 to 15,000 guests.
The smaller restaurants in the town will
accommodate fully one-half as many more.
They will probably be able to lodge ten
thousand pereone. The Commissioners say
besides this an hourly ferry service has been
arranged between Yorktown and Fortress
Monroe, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond,
West Point and Williamsburg, all of which
points are within a few hours’ sail. The
Commissioners are confident that there will
be no difficulty In procuring lodging and
subsistence for all who desire to attend the
celebration.
Big Blaze in Danville.
Danville, Va., September 28.—This
moralng at daybreak a fire broke out in 8.
H. Holland’s brick building on Union
street, which was entirely con.-unied, build
ing and contents. The lower part of tbe
building was used as stores, tbe upper part
as a tobacco factory and for tobacco storage.
The fire originated In the store of Grief
Banister (colored). The loss Is estimated at
$63,000. Insurance $53,000. S. H. Holland’s
Insurance on the building was $12,000. which
does not quite cover his loss. Holland
A Hickey’s Insurance on their
stock of tobacco in factory, esti
mated to have been worth $13,000,
Is only $3,000. Paul C. Venable’s stock of
tobacco stored is insured for $24,000, which,
It. U estimated, will cover his loss. A. M.
B:uee & Co.’s loss on their stock of goods,
insured for $4,000, 19 estimated at $5,500
A. M. McCoy’6 (colored) loss ou goods, cov
ered by insurance, $2 500. Grief Baimister,
colored, on stock of goods in store Insured
for $5,000, which Is estimated to cover his
loss. Holland’s tobacco warehouse, ad
joining the burnt bulldior, was damaged to
the amount of about SI,OOO on building and
stock; fully insured.
Tlie New York Stock Market.
New York, September 28 —The stock
market opened Irregular, but In the main
weak and lower. In the early dealings there
was an advance of % to 1% per cent., the
latter in Manhattan Elevated, but at the
first board the entire list became weak, and
a decline of % to % per cent., was recorded,
in which Alton and Terre Haute common,
St. Paul, Central Pacific, Union Pacific,
Hannibal and St. Joseph preferred, East
Tennessee, and Louisville and Nashville
were most prominent. This was followed
by a rally of % to % per cent, snd at noon
by a further decline of % to 1% per cent.,
Lake Erie and Western and Michigan Cen
tra! leading therein.
During the afternoon speculation was fe
verish, and unsettled on a slight fluctuation,
but In the late dealings there was a general
improvement In prices, ranging from % to
1% per cent., Elevated railroad stock being
most conspicuous in the advance. In the
final sales some shares reacted a fraction,
but the market closed fairly firm. Sales ag
gregated 276,361 shares.
Tbe Moclallsta’ Coogress.
London, September 28.—A Moscow tele
gram says: ‘‘The representatives of Russia,
Germany and Auetria at Berne have ad
dressed a note to the Swiss Government,
asking it to forbid the holding of a univer
sal congress of Socialists at Berne. Mean
while, as a counter-stroke, the Socialist*
seem to have circulated the report that the
congress will not take place.”
This afternoon the whole of the baztar,
except a fw shops, la burnt to the ground.
The fire still continues. The damage is
enormous.
Later. —The damage by the fire is esti
mated at 2,500,000 roubles. All the proper
ty destroyed is insured.
An Old Woman’s Advice.
Aunt Rachel, writing to the Cincinnati
Enquirer, says: “When you feel unwell and
think 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 natural appetite, make your
skin clear and smooth, and remove all spots
aud blemishes that Indicates ill health; if
yog wish to t>e free from mental depression,
fretfulneas, peevishness, wakefulness and
other disorders, use Brown's Iron Bitters.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1881.
COLE’S LATEST MOVE.
Formation ot the Virginia, Tennes
see and Georgia Air Line.
Nxw York, September 28.—A contract
was signed to-day between E. W.
Cole, President of the East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia Rail
road Company (the two Seney-Cole
roads, 1,400 miles), J. H. Tiler, President of
the Norfolk and Western Railroad Com
pany, and F. J. Kimball, President of the
Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company, em
bracing in all 2,138 miles. This unites per
manently these properties under the name
of the Virginia, Tennessee aad Georgia
Air Line. Presidents E. W. Cole
and F. J. Kimball, constituting an active
committee for these lines, have appointed
Henry Fink General Manager of the united
lines. They penetrate seven States, to wit:
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia.
Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia,
with all rati routes to the East via the. Vir
ginia Midland and from Norfolk to Mem
phis; Norfolk to Meridian, Miss.; Norfolk
via Rome, Atlanta and Macon to Bruns
wick, Ga., on the Atlantic and Florida;
Louisville and Cincinnati via the Knoxville
and Ohio dlvis on of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Railroad, and Into
North Carolina bv another division of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
road.
THE TURNER TRAGEDY.
A Singular Verdict—Walsh Released
on Ball.
Charleston, Septemb3r 28.—The jury
of inquest in the case of the Turner homi
cide returned a verdict that the deceased
came to bis death at the hands of persons
unknown to the jury. Inasmuch as Walsh
himself told the officer to whom he surren
dered himself that, he had shot Turner, and
has never denied the shooting, the verdict is
generally regarded with some surprise. As
soon as the verdict was rendered Walsh
gave ball In the sum of SIO,OOO and was at
once released from custody.
Jerome Park Races.
Jerome Park, September 28. —The first
race, one aud one eighth miles, Sly Dance
won, Checkmate second, Ferula third.
Time 1:59%.
The secoud race, for maidens, three
fourths of a mile, Regicide won, Itaska
second, Clarance third. Time 1:18%.
The third race, a free handicap sweep
stakes, a mile and a half, Thora won, Fair
Count second, Monitor third. Time 2:39%.
The fourth race, a welter handicap sweep
stakes, gentlemen riders, three quarters of
a mile, Spark won, Pilgrimage second, Sir
Walter third. Time 1:20.
The fifth race, a selling free handicap,
Marathon won, Clarence second, Duke of
Montrose third. Time 1:45%.
The sixth race, a handicap hurdle, a mile
and three-quarters, over seven hurdles,
Day Star won, Ingomar second, Frank Short
third. Time 3:29.
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, D. C., September 28 —lndications
for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic Btates, fair weather,
southerly winds, stationary barometer and
temperature.
Iu the Gulf Btates, partly cloudy weather
and local rains in the western portion, east
to scu'h winds, stationary or lower
barometer, stationary temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic Btates, partly
cloudy .weather and local rains, easterly
veering to cooler northerly winds, sta'lonary
or higher barometer and temperature.
in Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy or cloudy weather, with local rains,
variable winds, rising, followed In western
portion by falling barometer, stationary or
lower tempera ure.
Tlie Garfield Fund.
New York, September 28 —The projector
of the fund for Mrs Garfield, in a card re
ferring to the suggesriou that some of the
money be given the dead President’s
mother, stales ihat under the terms of the
subscription papers sect out, not a cent of
the sum subscribed can be diverted to any
other uses than those specified in the sub
scription papers. That is, for the President’s
wife and children. He has this afternooD
recelred two checks, one for SSOO and one
for $250 for Gen. Garfield’s mother, which
he will forward with any other sums
received for her or Invest as she may prefer.
The fund for Mrs. Garfield now reaches
$354,675 67.
Louisville Jockey Club.
Louisville, S. p ember 28 —The first
race, three-quarters of a mile, was won by
Lost Cause, Baunterer second, Mistrial
thiid. Time 1:20.
The second race, one mile anu a half, was
won by Annie G., Edison second, Guy third.
Time 2:47.
The third race, one mile, Bell of the High
lands was first, Pope Leo second, Elixir
third. Time 1:49
The fourth race, one and a quarter miles,
was won by Juanita, Matagorda second,
Fatinitza third. Time 2:16.
In consequence of rain, the track was
very heavy.
Bloody Tragedy in a Prison.
Nashville, September 28—A convict
named Bob McKmley, with the assistance
of another convict named Kearnev, broke
open the cell door af James P. McMUlen in
the penitentiary last evening, and, after
cutting him In the head with a hatchet,
kicked him off the walkway to the stone
floor, a distance of eight feet, breaking bis
leg McMillen attempted to escape, when
McKinley ran down and cut his head to
pieces. McMillen showed signs of lunacy
to-day, and cut McKinley and Kearney
with a knife while they were trying to se
cure him, and they killed him out of re
venge.
A Terrific Earthquake.
London, September 28 —A dispatch from
Rome to the Times says: “The destruction
caused by the earthquake In Abruzzl far ex
ceeds anything Indicated by the first reports.
The Archbishop of Cbietie appeals piteous
ly for help. He says the disaster Is only
comparable to that of Casamacciola Over
one thousand houses are uninhabitable, and
the remaindir are more or less fissured.
Four fifths of the population are shelter
less.”
Tbe Spinners and (be Cotton Corner.
London, September 28.— The Secretary
of the Association of the Cotton Spinners
has received a number of replies to the cir
cular, issued last week, inquiring whether
the spinners were prepared to stop the mills
for a further period. The replies are prin
cipally from out of the districts of Cheshire
and Derbyshire, and are, with few excep
tions, In favor of a further stopping of
a week.
Saving Crops In Ireland.
London, September 28. —A Dublin tele
gram to the Timst, says: “Tde emergency
committee have upwards of two hundred
laborers engaged in saving crops in various
parts of the south and west. Many thou
sands of pounds worth of valuable crops
have already been saved. The Property De
fense Society have over three hundred
laborers similarly engaged.”
niHourl Kx*Confederates.
Bt. Louis, September 28 —A special from
Moberly, Mo., says: “The city Is crowded
to overflowing to witness the reunion of the
ex-Confederates. Over two thousand vet
erans formed In line and marched to tbe
Fair Grounds, where ex-Governorßeynolds
delivered an address. A permanent organi
zation was effected, and ex-Governor Mar
maduke was elected President.”
A notber Stalwart Defeat.
Cazenovia, N. Y., September 28.—Toe
Madison couDty Republicans to-day elected
anti-Conkling delegates to the State Con
vention and also to the Senatorial Conven
tion.
Underground Telegraph In Ger
many.
Berlin, September 28 —The subterra
nean telegraph system connecting 221 towns
and cities of Germany Is now complete.
Tbe Sobbing of the Bell*.
(Midqight, September 19 SO, 1881.)
The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death
news svary where.
The glumberers rouse, tha rapport of the Peo
ple
(Full well they know that message in the dark
ness.
Full well return the gad reverberations).
The passionate toll and clang—city to city,
joining, sounding, passing.
Those heart beats of a Nation in the night.
—Walt Whitman's forthcoming book.
The Coroner’s Inquest in the case of
Frederick Retttenger, found drowned in
the canal at Wtlkesbarre, shows that he fell
into the water In a fit of delirium tremens.
The Insurance men deny that there la a
heavy insurance on hie life,
KEYSTONE DEMOCRATS.
A RINGING PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Tbe State Convention—Balloting
for Sta'e Treasurer—Stirring Calls
fer Honest Government and Citi
zen*’ Rights— Waste. Plunder and
Monopolies Denounced.
Williamsport, Pa., September 28.—The
State Convention was called to order at 12
noon by Chairman Dell, of the State Central
Committee, who appointed a number of
Sergeants-at-Arms and Doorkeepers.
The proceedings were opened with prayer,
aud after the appointment of a number of
secretaries, tbe roll was called and creden
tials were presented. On motion, W. U.
Hensel, of Lancaster, was unanimously
chosen temporary Chairman. He was
greeted with most hearty applause and
acknowledged the honor in olglowlng speech,
making pathetic reference to the recent
death of the President. He declared
that time bad vindicated the capac tv
of the Democracy to maintain the true
principles of government. His speech was
repeatedly applauded. A proposition fir
ing the order of business was presented by
Mr. McGowan, of Philadelphia, and called
forth extended discussion. The conven
tion then appointed the usual committees
on organization and adj’ourned until 3p. m.
The Committee on Organization met after
wards, Col. Duff in the chair, and agreed
to make the temporary Chairman perma
nent. They also decided to have a Vice
President and Secretary from each Senato
rial district. The temporary Secretaries
are also to be permanent.
The convention re-assembled at 3 o’clock.
Mr. Oakes, of Philadelphia, war admitted
as a delegate from the Twenty seventh Sen
atorial District. The report of the Commit
tee on Permanent Organization was pre
sented and adopted. It provided that Mr.
Hensel, temporary Chairman, should be
made permanent Chairman. Mr. Hensel
was again applauded. The report of the
Committee on Resolutions was read and;
adopted as follows :
Jtesolved, That we, the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania, lu convention assembled,
declare first for the preservation of the
Constitution of the United States, home
rule, freedom of elections, for resistance to
revolutionary changes teudtng to consolida
tion or empire, against the election of any
person to the Presidency for a third term,
agaiDSt the presence of troops at the polls,
against the appropriation of public money
for any purpose but the support of the
government, and against class legislation,
which despoils labor to build up mo
nopolies.
Second. That the Democratic party, as
of old, favors a constitutional currency of
gold and silver in all forms, and that the
coalition with repudiators merits the con
demnation of honest people. The refusal
of the Republican administration to accede
to the Democratic demand for a further re
duction of tbe rate of Interest on the na
tional debt subjects the government to the
needless expeise of millions of dollars an
nually.
Third. That in view of the exposure of
extensive frauds in the Postal and Treasury
Departments under the last Federal admin
la’ia’ion tbe people demand ths prompt
and unfaltering prosecution of the thieves.
Tbes : Buccets' ul operations prove that there
will be no real reform In the management
of the departments of the Federal Govern
ment without a sweeping change therein,
since civil service reform will only begin
with|the return to the Jeffersoniau tests for
office holders of honesty, capability and
faithfulness to the Constitution.
Fourth. That in the administration of the
Government, of Pennsylvania the Republi
can party baa encouraged, practiced aud
shielded the spoliation of the Btate Treas
ury, misuse of the public funds, bribery of
Legislators, undue favor to corporations
and monopolies, and an unnecessarily nigh
rate of interest, on the State loans, shame
less prostitution of the pardoning power, a
system of wholesale waste an J peculation In
the ordinary expenditures of the govern
ment, and an harassing, plundering exer
cise of municipal franchises and abuse of
local trusts.
Fifth. That the arrogant, corrupt and
personal domination controlling the Re
publican party in this Btate, and sup
pressing honesty and iodependence in that
organization, dictated the policy, platform
and candidate of its last State Convention.
In view of these facts we hereby reaffirm
the following resolution of the Democratic
State Convention of 1879 :
That the recent attempt under the per
sonal direction of the ruling Republican
leaders to debauch the Legislature by
wholesale bribery and corruption and take
from tbe Commonwealth $4,00o.0d(), for
which Its liability had never teen ascer
tained, Is a fresh and alarming evidence of
the aggressiveness of corporate power and
collusion with tbe political rings, and should
receive the signal condemnation of the peo
pie.
Sixth. That the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania, regardful of the State’s honor
and its interests, pledges Itself to * just ap
plication of public moneys to toe public
service, to economy in governmental ex
penditures that the people may be lightly
burdened and the purity of the administra
tion preserved, to the abolition of all use
less offices and the lopping off of ad super
numerary officials, to the lowest practicable
rate of Interest ou tbe State loans, without
regard for the advantage of eynd'eates or
speculators, to sleepless vigilance against
the growth and exactions of
monopolies, to watchfully guard
the public interests against, the
peculations of great transportation com
panies, to be above the fundamental law
governing all else within the borders of the
State, to the vigorous collection of all taxes
lawfully laid upon corporations chartered or
doing business lu Pennsylvania, and to in
vestigate Into the correction of, aud punish
ment for, tbe frauds and waste which have
for years permeated various departments of
the State government under Republican
control.
Seventh. That no monopoly or exclusive
right in the forces of nature In grants of emi
nent domain, In the diffusion of Information
among the people by telegraph and associ
ation for furnisblDg dispatches to the press,
or the grant of privileges affecting the dally
business of the citizen can or ought right
fully to exist under our form of government.
These are at all times to be subject to such
legislation and control as the rights and
interests of the people demand. That this
delegated power of Congress to regulate
commerce among the States and the reserve
power of the States to regulate the same
within their borders, should be forthwith
exercised to prevent unjust discriminations
by common carriers against individu
als and localities, and all the pro
visions of the constitution of Pennsylvania
relative to the exercise and abuse of corpor
ate franchise and the duties of common
carriers to the public shou'd be enforced
without delay by appropriate legislation.
That all governmental power should be
used In the restraint of monopolies and not
in aid of them, and simple snd speedy
remedies should be provided by
leg<6latlve enactment by which any
citizen injured In his business
may in the State and Federal courts by
due process of law have quick, certain and
adequate redress for corporate wrongs.
That vested rights must be protected and
respected, and that great corporations,
warring between themselves, to the Injury
of public Interests and their own share
holders, mu9t be regulated and controlled
by wise and effective laws. That franchises,
the property of the people, shall be granted,
and exercised solely for the public ben, lit,
and subject to immediate and
absolute forfeiture by due process
of law when used for oppression or extor
tion, or when otherwise abused- No corpo
ration can be above the people or the law.
We thus reaffirm the ancient doctrine of
the Democratic party, and mo6t cordially
Invite OHr fellow citizens of whatever party
to join with us In carrying out the princi
ples and policy we hereby announce, to
tbe advocacy of which we pledge ourselves
un’tl the right g'nail pri vail.
Resolved, That all good, citizens, regard
less of party affiliations, sincerely mourn
the death of President Garfield, and that we,
as representatives of more than 490,000
Democratic voters, express their Individual
and collective grief at the calamity w hich has
befallen the republic, their sorrow and sym
pathy wbh the d'lme-tlc affliction of the
President's stricken household, and their
execration of his assassin and of the mur
derer’s foul crime.
The following names were then placed in
nomination for S’ate Treasurer; P. 8.
Ntwmver, < f Fayette: Col. P. Jf. Guthrie,
Edwatd T. Kerr, Orange Nobie, of Erie; J.
P. Bo'gert, ot Luzerne; Hon. J. M. Hackett,
of Northampton; Jno. 8. Davis, of PblladeJ
phia;Col.D S.Dlssenger.of Northumberland;
H. B. Plumer, of Venango, and Hon. J. H.
R is?, of York. Two ballots were ta
ken without choice, and at 0:30 p. m. a re
cess was taken till 8:30 p. m.
The convention reassembled a few min
utes after 8 o’clock and resumed balloting.
Newmyer waa withdrawn after tbe first
ballot, Hackett after tbe third. Rose after
tbe fourth, and Dissenger after tbe fifth.
BEN BUTLER’S AFFLICTION.
How the News of Hie Son’s Deatb
Was Conveyed to Him and How
It waa Received.
Correspondence St. Louis Republican.
General Butler has received a severe blow
in the death of his son Benjatmn, and those
wbo have met him since bis bereavement
say that his tense and rugged nature has
been relaxed and his robust temper much
mellowed. He had expected to Introduce
his boy Into practice at the Boston bar this
fall, and to have shaped his future so that
he could lu time come into the large and
lucrative law business which his father has
built up. The General expected that his
son would keep alive the name of Ben But
ler and would keep in existence the place
of that name In the legal profession. These
hopes have all been dashed to earth. After
an Illness of ten days, in which the kidney
disease which seized Lieutenant Butler
made curiously swift progress, the young
man died at Bay View, his father’s country
seat. General Butler was absent In bis
yacht, America, and he came sailing up to
the wharf at the edge of his grounds the
day of his boy’s death. The yacht, which
had been refitted, had behaved splendidly at
sea, and as she came Into harbor !n a spank
ing breeze with dash and spirit her owner
was as proud as anew huaband. He stood
out upon deck as she was moored, and cast
his queer eyes toward the wharf, where he
saw his former partner, Mr. McDonald, his
chief clerk, Mr. Fox, and several others
standing. He cheerily called out to them
that he supposed that they had come down
to steal a ride to Boston in his yacht, and said
he would ffe glad to have their compaay
if they behaved themselves. Then
looking up he saw the flag over his house at
half-mast. “What,” he said, In astonish
ment, “the President is dead!” He observed
that his friends did not answer, and as he
looked from one to another, he saw by their
solemn facea that something bad happened.
He seemed puzzled, for he had left his son
In good health, though delicate, but as if
by premonition he quickly asked, “How’s
Ben?” No one dared to tell him that his
favorite son was a corpse. Mr. McDavltt
took his arm and said, “Don’t be alarmed,
General.” The shock seemed to shake the
old man like a blow from a strong battery.
He did not say another word, but walked
Into the house and took a seat by his dead
boy, and sat for some time holding his
lifeless hand. He seemed to find no ex
pression for his grief in tears, and bore his
pain in silence. The sight of the old Gen
eral stauding ride by side with his son Paul,
who is dwarfed in stature, when the body was
lowered Into the grave was one that moved
many to pity and some to tears. The Gen
eral’s wife, who was until the hour of her
death the pride and joy of his life, died in
his presence under a Burgical operation in
the Massachusetts Hospital. His only chil
dren now are his daughter, Mrs. Adelbert
Ames, wife of the ex-Governor of Missis
sippi, and Paul. The General Is worth over
$2,000,000 now, and is, through his close
attention to his practice, rapidly adding to
his fortune.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
The Transvaal Volksraad have rejected
the proposed convention with England.
No progress has been made towards pay
ing the war indemnity imposed by Chili on
Peru, as Peru still refuses to cede any terri
tory.
At the firing of a cannon in Tarrytown,
N. Y., a man named Newman was instantly
killed and a man named Sutton mortally
wounded.
A fire at Bryan, Texas, Tuesday night de
stroyed one of the principal business blocks
of the city, Including the post office and all
its fixtures. No estimate at hand yet as to
the total loss.
A train carrying a construction party on
the Des Moines and Northwestern Rail
road, in lowa, ran off the track, near
Greenbriartown, killing three men and in
juring thirty others.
David Graham Drummond Ogilvy, Earl of
Airlie, representative peer of Scotland, and
member of her Majesty’s household, died
suddenly of congestive chill at Windsor
Hotel, Deliver, Col., recently.
A. S. Niles, who murdered James Single
ton near Lincoln, Cal., and concealed his
body in a well five years ago, the discovery
of which was recently reported, committed
suicide in j*il by cutting his throat.
The baby elephant attached to Fore
paugh’s show, which was born in Philadel
phia March 10, 1880, now weighs 1,000
pounds. When it was weighed 6ix hours
after its birth it weighed 213 X pounds.
Thomas Saunders drew a large knife
across the stomach of Mrs. Busan Brornlev,
with whom he boarded, in Brooklyn, N. Y ,
and then cut his own throat. Mrs. Bromley
died instantly and Saunder3 will probably
die.
The national bank at Luxembourg has
been clOed by the government. The bank
had to go into liquidation on account of bad
bills. Tne working classes hold 3,000,000
of francs in its notes, and there is great ex
citement.
The steamer City of Winnipeg, while be
ing transferred from the R and and Assini
bo n>' rivers to Saskatchewan, was totally
wrecked while In tow of tbe steamer Prin
cess during a storm on Lake Winnipeg. The
loss is $lO 000.
“Ham” White, alias Burton, a notorious
stage robber, has been sentenced at Pueblo,
Colorado, to Imprisonment for life. His
Isst offense was the robbery, single-handed,
of a stage coach containing twelve men,
near Alamosa, Colorado.
Senator Slater, of Oregon, was, at last
accounts, at his home at LaGrange, in that
State, about fifty miles from the nearest
tele graph station. It is said that “if given
notice of the call for the extra session he
could reach Kllton, on the Central Pacific
Railroad, in four days.”
John B. Sherman, one of the bondsmen
of ex City Treasurer David A. Gage, of Chi
cago, has compromised with the city by the
payment of $30,000. Gage, it may be re
membered, Invested city funds in a subur
ban land speculation, and was unable to
settle a balance of $500,000.
A ticket scalper, named Lamm, has been
arrested in London, Ontario, on a charge of
forgery In Detroit. He consent* dt>go to
the latter city without waiting fo - extra
dition papers. It is estimated i>nat the
Flint and Pere Marquette Railway has lost
$25,000 by ticket scalping operations.
The boiler in Hoff & Haidman’s saw mill,
three miles south of Traekwocd, Arkansas,
exploded recently, and Mr. Hoff and two
employee—Francis H. Johnson, from Illi
nois, and W. H. Halliday—were killed.
Several other persons were injured, but none
of them seriously.
About the end of last month William T.
Branch, financial manager of the American
Transfer Company of Pennsylvania, disap
peared from his home in Bradford, and an
examination of his accounts showed a “de
ficiency” of SIOO,OOO. Detectives were set
on his track, and he was arrested in To
ronto. He is held for extradition.
The whaling bark Legal Tender has ar
rived at Ban Fransclsco, irom the Arctic re
gions. She spoke the revenue cutter Cor
win. The Corwin landed on Herald Island,
which was explored, and subsequently took
possession of Wrangel Land for the United
States. No signs of human habitation were
found, the country being utterly sterile and
desolate, and no traces of tbe Jeannette
were discovered on either Herald Island or
Wrangel Land.
A Waterloo. —Mr. Conkling sus
tained a Waterloo on Saturday in the
election of delegates to the New York
Republican State Convention. Conven
tions were held in the second and third
districts of Westchester county, in
Greene, Rockland, the third district of
Rensselaer, second of Ulster, second of
Orange, first of Saratoga, the first of
Steuben, and in Chemung county. Of
the forty-one delegates chosen, thirty
four are strongly anti-Conkling, only
three are pronounced stalwarts, and the
preferences of four are unknown.
Among the delegates are such promi
nent anti-Conklingites as Collector W.
H. Robertson and General N. M. Curtis.
Two of Mr. Conkling’s most staunch
supporters, Assemblymen Carpenter
and Baker, were defeated as delegates.
A swindler who passed himself off in
New Orleans, some months ago, as Capt.
Beuvier Tempest, of the royal British
navy, has recently been operating very
successfully in Denver and other places
in Colorado. He lives like a prince, is*
able to ‘ beqt” his way through the
world while honest men have to pay;
gets into the best society and swindles
everybody, men and women, whom he
chooses, and manages to make himself
the toast of all the toadies and tuft-hunt
ers. The strangest part of the wh tie af
fair is that this fellow’s victims al ways
allow him to escape. They become so
much infatuated with him that they
cannot be induced to prosecute the
sharper.
KENTUCKY’S METROPOLIS
COYLE DOUGLAS’ CORRESPON
DENCE.
Woe’* Solemn Splendor—Mourning
the President Governor Black*
barn’* Fulfilled Prescience—Tbe
Week’* Round of Attraction*—
Louisville’s “Zoo”—A Pining Bear
and a Lonely Eagle—Mythical Mice
and a Fabled Sparrow—Kentucky
at Yorktown.
Louisville, Ky., September 26.—The soft
September sunshine streams down upon the
trappings of woe that flutter like sable banners
in the early autumnal wind now beginning to
take into its tones that plaintive whisper that
seems to have been breathed upon the strings
of AColian harps, making a fitting dirge for the
funeral train passing through the land.
Ever since that solemn midnight when the
tolling bells pealed out clear, deep and
strong on the night air, aDd a great hush fell
upon the thronging crowds in the streets,
and quiet sleepers woke and turned upon
their pillows, saying shudderingly : “His soul
la passing,” there has seemed to be a spell
upon everything. Groups of sad faced people
gather in the streets and talk in low voices.
It seems like one’s own dead that makes us
heavy at the heart, and asks us for the balm
of tears and prayer.
Strange we did not recognize in ourselves
the love we bore our President until it throbbe 1
out over his prostrate form, and spends itself
above his coffin! How the great warm Southern
heart went out to that bed of patient anguish,
and,standing face to face and soul to seal with
those who watched around it, felt truly that
in such sublime sorrow there is no North and
no South—only our oountry—our whole coun
try.
This is Memorial day, and the minute
guns have broken the silence at regu
lar intervals sine* the salute at
sunrise, and will continue until ’sun
set. Business is generally suspended and
funeral services held in many churches. At
the Warren Memorial Church (Presbyterian)
there was a union meeting at the hour of the
funeral services in Cleveland, the spacious
building being so crowded there could hardly
be found standing room. Large numbers par
ticipating were members of President Gar
field’s denomination. There were present
ministers of all sects, together with the Rabbi
of the Synagogue. Sunday morning and even
ing were devoted to ximilar exercises in the
various churches of the Disciples, and on Sun
day afternoon all Episcopalian congregations
met at Christ Church, where the service for
the dead was conducted by the aged rector,
Dr. Craik. and the music was superbly ren
dered. Mozart’s Requiem was given with
effect, as well as the Mozart hymns, the "Dies
Irae” and "Recordaro” swelling out with
thrilling power.
All public buildings and many private resi
dences are handsomely;draped. The Courier-
Journal building is heavily festooned, the
marble pillars at the entrance tastefully wound
and looped, and above it all sits the statue of
Prentice, like a calm, impassive marble Fate,
looking cut upon the weeping nation with
stony eyes. All churches of the sect of Disci
ples in the city are dressed in mourning, the
Fourth and Wa nut, having the most considera
ble membership in the city or State, being
more elaborately arrayed 'than the others.
There are heavy festoons across the frieze of
the portico, and the Corinthian columns are
enwrapped, aud the draping extends down the
Fourth street side. In the cenlre of the
loops and folds in front is a Large picture of
the President wreathed with crape. iDSide
the sombre hue is relieved by white streamers
here and there and beautiful and elaborate
garlands of flowers.
The pulpit and altar are in heavy mourning,
and on each Bide of the latter is a small table
covered with black, on one of which is a broken
column of white flowers, and on the other an
anchor. Back of these is another
taller table, upon which rests an open Bible iu
white flowers with the words in violets. "The
rock on which he stood.” Above the altar is
another picture of th* President surrounded by
wreaths of immortelles. All the work about
this beautiful temple was done by the hands of
the congregHtion. Xu this church ort that terrible
Sunday after the shooting, when all waited
breathlessly, expecting each telegram to
announce the President’s death, the morning
services were dispensed with, and the grief
and anxiety of the whole congregation seemed
to be translated into one deep and fc-rvent
prayer. The paetor. Rev. B. B. Tyler, who was a
warm personal friend, spoke of the viclim
with streaming eyes and tremulous voice, and
from all parts of the building came answering
sobs and iow-murmured prayers. The first of
the proclamations for a day of fasting and
prayer was made by the Governor of Kentucky,
but when the appointed day came around
there was ruch au apparent improvement in
the condition of the President that it was
mainly turned into a joyful thanksgiving.
Nevertheless, in the face or all this. Governor
Blackburn, iu all interviews upon the subject,
declared emphatically and confidently iu his
professional character that the wound was
necessarily fatal from the start and no sur
gical skill could work his cure. With the
fluctuating hopes and fears he constantly
reiterated his opinion, and the event has but
too sadly proved its truth. The Governor left
yesterday for Cleveland to attend the funeral,
as did also DcMolay Commandery of Knights
Templar to take part in the Masonic portion
of the cortege.
Under otner circumstances this ought to be
gala week in Louisville. It is race week, fair
week, and the Exposition in full blast. There
was but a slim attendance at the opening of tbe
Jockey Club fall meeting. Memorial day strikes
out one from Its calendar, and it will conse
quently continue in session a day longer. Ihe
city is overrun with strangers from every
where. This is the very best and brightest
time for people at a distance to visit Louisville,
and they are quite generally aware of it,
and come in legions Excursion par
ties to visit the Exposition secure
cheap railroad rates, and, for a month in the
autumn, the streets are a bewildering maze of
linen ulsters and valises. And the visiting
stanger has such an innocent air about him—
such an appearance of trying to look perfectly
at homo, and thereby convince you he has been
here all the time, and ino “greeny” cn the
subject of sight-seeing. This is the first year
in many that we have had an agricultural fair
for the county of Jefferson. It used to be an
institution, but the Fair Grounds rose in value
as the city extended towards them, and
they were sold :r. oarcels for suburban
villas. This year the Fair opened at the Louis
ville Zoological Gardens, which merit in them
selves something more than a passing mention.
Several years ago a prominent and wealthy
citizen owned a large tract of land in the south
ern part *f the city, or rather some distance
beyond the southern confines. It brought him
nothing, and was eating itself up with taxei,
when at last the Jockey Club grounds were
laid off not a stone's throw from it, and the
owner with several friends, also wealthy and
prominent citizens, conceived a bright idea and
divided it amongst the lot. Why shouldn’t the
city buy the land aud have a zoological gar
den? The bright thought was cautiously de
veloped in a newspaper suggestion. It took at
at once. Why shouldn’t we have one? The
land was the main consideration—as to the
zoological department, the animals would
doubtless drop in of themselves when they
got an inkling of the magnificent enterprise.
So these public spirited citizens proceeded to
“whoop it up” in season and out of season;
they blew the trumpet in the Council; they
talked it in the Board of Trade, they whispered
and babbled it on ’Change, and as much drop
ping wears away the stone, the city finally
put $20">,000 Into the citizen's wdling hand and
became possessor of an inchoate Zoo. It was
handsomely laid out with a fine driving track
and amphitheatre and judge*' stand, but the
zoological collection somehow increased slow
ly. True, what is there is very excellent of its
kind, and quality is to be more considered nere
than quantity. There is a solitary young bear
chained to a stump, upon whom visitors are
supposed to gaze with mingled wonder and
terror. Young Bruin does all he can to make
up for lack of other company, and howls with
the vigor of a half dozen healthy bears. Still
he looks lonesome.
Then there is a superannuated bald eagle;
how he came there is a mystery, unless he was
seeking a place in which to end his days in
peaceful seclusion; but he hang* his head in a
most dejected manner, and altogether appears
to be very much ashamed of himself. It was
also reported at one time that a sparrow hawk
and a pair of white mice had been added to the
rare collection, but they are never seen. Per
haps they got away. This is Louisville’s two
hundred thousand dollar Zoological Garden,
the fame of which has gone abroad to the ut
termost ends of the earth.
The terrible, scorching drought in this region
waa broken about two week* since by gentle,
steady, soaking rains, that were simply deli
cious. The poor, burned grass and shrubbery
took heart and shot up with fresh greenness,
but the weather has turned a Homerear.lt back
to summer heat, and the cry is again for more
rain. The people of Nicholas county have
given warning that sot one bushel of corn goes
frem their county to a distillery, and they
pledge themselves to stick up to their word,
too. They are determined that in the scarcity
of this season that bread shall be tbe first and
only conride-ation.
Many companies of militia leave the smaller
surrounding towns in gallant trim for the
Yorktown celebration, to tbe shame of the
Louisville boys. It wa3 said that two compa
nies of the Louisville Legion would represent
us there. There was a called meeting for the
consideration of the subject, but only a hand
ful responded, and there was no organization.
There are delinquencies in the subscriptions
and the uniforms are ragged, as they always
are, for the Louisville boy will play soldier as
long as he can hold his uniform together, and
so the Yorktqwn jubilee for us is off,
Coyle Douglas.
Friday evening two men entered the
shoe store of Jonathan Q. Garrett, at
Westchester, Pa., and stole a tin box con
taining bonds and other papers represent
ing the value of $13,000, and about SSO
in gold. A man named Michael Haley
was arrested on an outgoing train charg
ed with the theft. As soon as he saw the
officers enter the car Haley threw a box
out of the window, which, upon exami
nation, waa found to contain the stolen
papers.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
MUMMIES OF EGYPTIAN KINGS.
Details of the Finding of Thirty—
Valuable Papyri also Discovered.
A Cairo letter to the London Time*
says:
“Besides being memorable for the ap
pearance of the comets, the year 1881
must ever hold a high place in the an
nals of Egyptological discovery. M.
Maspero, the recently appointed Direc
tor of the Boulak Museum, is at the
present moment in Paris, actively en
gaged in preparing for publication the
texts of the pyramids of the fifth and
sixth dynasties, which were opened last
spring at Sakkara. The forthcoming
number of his ‘Receuil’ will contain the
entire text of the pyramid of King
Ounasi, the last king of the fifth dynas
ty.
“But the saying that ‘it never rams
but it pours’ may now be fairly applied
to archaeological discovery. Long
before the savants have had time to
peruse, ponder over, or profit by the
wonders unearthed at Sakkara they are
now suddenly overwhelmed with a
fresh supply of material in the form of
the largest papyri yet known, and by
the apparition of the mummies, with
all their mortuary appendages and in
scriptions, of no less than thirty
royal personages. This discovery which
has just been made calls for special
interest 'in England, for among
the thirty royal mummies
are to be found those
of King Thutmes 111. and of King Ram
ses IL It was the former who ordered
the construction of the obelisk which
now stands upon the Thames embank
ment, and it was the latter who, two
hundred and seventy years afterward,
caused bis own official titles and honors
to be inscribed upon its faces beside
those of Thutmes 111. These two mon
archs now lie side by side in the Boulak
Museum, and even the flowers and gar
lands which were placed in their coffins
may to-day be seen encircling the masks
which cover the faces of the deceased
just as they were left by the mourners
over three thousand years ago.
“Last June Daud Pasha, Governor of
the Province of Keneh, which includes
the ancient Theban district, noticed that
the Bedaween offered for sale an unusual
quantity of antiquities at absurdly low
prices. The Pasha soon discovered that*
the source of their hidden treasure was
situated in a gorge of the mountain
range which separates Deir el-Babari
from the Bab-el-Malock. This gorge is
situated about four miles from the Nile
to the east of Thebes. Daud Pasha at
once telegraphed to the Khedive, who
forthwith dispatched to the spot Herr
Emil Brug6cb, a younger brother of Dr.
Henry Burgsch Pasha, who, during
M. Maspero’s absence in Paris, is in
charge of all archaeological excavations
in Egypt. Herr Brugsch discovered in
the cliffs of the Lybian mountains, near
the Temple of Deir-el Bahari, or the
‘Northern Convent,’ a pit about thirty
five feet deep, cut in the solid rock ; a se
cret opening from this pit led to a gallery
nearly twoliundred feet long, also hewn
out of the solid rock. This gallery was
filled with relics of the Theban dynas
ties. Every indication leads to the con
viction that these sacred relics had been
removed from their appropriate places in
the various tombs and temples, and con
cealed in this subterranean gallery by the
Egyptian priests to preserve them from
being destroyed by some foreign inva
der. In all probability they were thus
concealed at the time of the invasion of
Egypt by Cambyses.
“Herr Brugsch at once telegraphed
for a steamer which on Friday last safely
deposited her precious cargo at the Bou
lak Museum. The full value of this dis
covery, of course, cannot as yet be deter
mined. The papyri have not yet been
unrolled, or have the mummies been un
wrapped. Conspicuous by its massive
gold ornamentation, in which cartouche*
are set in precious stones, is the coffin
containing the mummy of MautNedjem,
a daughter of King Ramses 11. Each of
the mummies is accompanied by an ala
baster canopic urn, containing the heart
and entrails of the deceased.
“Four papyri were found in the gal
lery at Deir-el-Bahari, each in a state of
perfect preservation. The largest of
these papyri, that found in the coffin of
Queen Ra-ma-ka, is most beautifully
illustrated with colored illuminations.
It is about 1G inches wide, and when
unrolled will probably measure from 100
to 140 feet in length. The other papyri
are somewhat narrower, but are more
closely written upon. These papyri will
probably prove to be the most valuable
portion of the discovery, for in the pres
ent state of Egyptology a papyrus may
be of more importance than an entire
temple, and, as the late Marietta Pasha
used to say, ‘lt is certain that if ever
one of those discoveries that bring about
a revolution in science should be made
in Egyptology, the world will be indebted
for it to a papyrus.’
“No less than 3,700 mortuary statues
have been found which bear royal car
touches and inscriptions. Nearly 2,000
other objects have been discovered. One
of the most remarkable relics is an enor
mous leather tent, which bears the car
touche of King Pinotem, of the 21st
dynasty. This tent is in a truly won
eerful state of preservation. The work
manship is beautiful. It is covered with
hieroglyphs most carefully embroidered
in red, green and yellow leather. The
colors are quite fresh and bright. In
each of the corners is represented the
royal vulture and stars.”
King Kalakaua Wants a Lot of
New Subjects.
It is not uncommon for subjects to
lose their King or to get rid of him; but
a monarch still upon the throne and yet
in danger of losing his subjects is some
thing of a novelty. This seems to be tbe
position of King Kalakaua, of the Ha
waiian Islands, who arrived| in New
York on Friday. In the course of
an interesting conversation with a
reporter of the New York Even
inrj Post, his Attorney General, Mr.
William Armstrong, said that “the
native element” of the islands
“cannot survive long, having been de
stroyed by such civilization as came to
them on the whaling ship* of New Eng
land ;” that “nothing can save the peo
ple;” that “few children are born, and
still fewer live to grow up.” One
object of the King’s travels is to find
some other people to take their place.
We often hear of infusing fresh blood
into a nation, and the beneficial effect of
immigration is beyond doubt; but repeo
pling a country outright i* a different
experiment. Naturally enough no more
New England whalers are wanted, and
it is questioned by Attorney General
Armstrong whether Englishmen or
Americans are fitted by their constitu
tion and habits for the life of a tropical
climate. Of all the men who have been
examined as to their qualifications the
Portuguese settlers in the Azores seem
to be the most satisfactory. Fifteen
hundred of these have been secured and
a thousand more have been ordered, and
it is to be hoped that before long the
islands will be comfortably full The
further and official denial of the report
that the Hawaiian King was looking up
a market for his kingdom was scarcely
necessary. As Attorney General Arm
strong says, it would be as reasonable to
talk of Mayor Grace’s selling the city of
New York.
A Bit of History.— Ajmong the late
President Garfield’s papers will probably
be found a little memoranda from Roscoe
Conkling to him, in pencil, written in
the hall of the National Convention at
Chicago, in about these words:
“My Dear Garfield— lf there is to
be a dark horse in this convention there
is no man whom I would prefer before
yourself. Conkling.”
The reply was this:
“My Dear Conkling— There will be
no dark horse in this convention. lam
for Sherman. J. A. Garfield.”
This was pending the great struggle
and just before the mighty tornado
which carried Garfield into the Presi
dency—and the grape.— Dayton (Ohio)
Journal.
A Yellowstone Bear Story.
Letter to Ban Francisco Bulletin.
The Fire Hole Hotel is located on the
west side of the lower basin at tbe foot
of the mountain, near a good spring of
water, and from which can be had a fine
view of the valley. Marshall, the pro
prietor, has a thirty years’ lease from the
g overnment, and will add to his house
as the business of the public demands.
This is the only house in the Park be
side the one at the entrance.
is a wild and solitary place to spend
the winter, which Marshall and his wife,
with a young lady companion, did for
the first time last winter, and in this con
nection he told me a bear story. He said
that after visitors ceased coming to the
Park.last fall he went to Virginia City
for his winter supplies, leaving his wife,
children and the young woman in charge
of the place. Near the house, in the
rear, was situated a dug-out or root
house, where he stored his potatoes, etc.,
to keep them from freezing, and to ven
tilate which he used a joint of stove
pipe. One morning during his absence
his wife looked cut of the window and saw
a bear pulling down the pipe and trying
to dig into the root-house, in which they
had also stored most of their provisions.
The women were at their wits’ end as to
what course to pursue. They at first
threw tin cans from the windows and
managed to disturb Brum for a few mo
ments, but be soon relumed, as he had
already sniffed the good things of that
ground cellar, and he did not propose to
be scared off with tin cans. Mrs. Mar
shall, brave enough to be left alone, did
not intend to have all of her provisions
taken before her eyes, and proposed to
load the rifle if her companion would
tire it at the bear, which being complied
with, a good charge was placed in the gun,
which was laid across the window-sill
and discharged at his bearship, but the
aim not being accurate, it did not
strike him iu a vital part, although
his actions showed that he was hit. He
retreated to the hillside, sat upon his
haunches, took a view of tho situation
and then disappeared in the bushes,
where he remained. The women were
not satisfied, and they went after that
bear— a very imprudent thing, to say the
least, but nevertheless they went, for (as
they expressed it) they were afraid he
might come back again in the night, and,
as they were satisfied he was wounded,
they wanted to finish him. Loading the
rifle again, they went cautiously up the
hillside, until they discovered the bear
standing in a small clearing, when the
women prepared for action by laying the
gun across a log and taking delib
erate aim, hitting the animal behind
the foreshoulder, when he came rolling
down the hill. The women did not stop
to see whether the bear was rolling or
running—they imagined the latter—and
both ran for dear life, dropping the gun
as they went for the house, which they
reached before casting a glance in the
rear. When safe iujthe house they took
a view of the situation, and could see
bruin doubled up and giving his last
kick. He finally became quiet, and they
ventured out and got possession of their
gun, which was loaded and a third charge
put into the bear to make sure he was
not playiDg ’possum. When Marshall
came home he weighed the bear, and
found it brought down the beam to 350
pounds. He tells the story of the action
of the brave women with a great deal of
pride, and the young woman who did the
shooting has become quite a heroine.
A Portable Electric Lamp,
London Spectator, 10 th.
On Monday, while the mechanical
section of the British Association were
discussing the means of using the elec
tric light in coal mines, Mr. Swan, in
ventor of the “Swan lamp,” made a
remarkable statement, lie produced an
electric lamp of two candle power, quite
detached from any wire and portable,
which could be kept lighted for six
hours by a two-cell Faure secondary bat
tery. The weight of the battery would
not exceed ten pounds, and to charge it
afresh it would only be necessary “to
place it for a time, in connection with
the wires of a dynamo, near the pit’s
mouth.” The battery and lamp need
never leave the pit. Sir J. Hawkshaw
greatly approved this lamp, and well
he might. The germ of a portable and
handy electric lamp, unconnected with
any wire, and fed at intervals only as an
oil lamp is, must lie in that rude speci
men shown. A portable electric lamp
with a strong light would be one of the
greatest inventions of our day, and make
a hundred enterprises possible which are
now avoided. It would materially alter,
to begin with, all the conditions of
mining, tunnel making, and work in
sewers or under water ; while it would,
if reasonably cheati, be the greatest of
modern contributions to domestic com
fort. What is wanted is a portable light
which will burn a week and can then be
recharged at a distance, so that a private
house need not be corn*cted with any
system, and fitters med not be sum
moned.
The Boy Train Robbers—Something
About Their Victims
A Little Rock dispatch gives some
further particulars of the lute train rob
bery on the Iron Mountain Railroad. It
says: “Among the passengers on the
train were H. B. Stuart and R. D. Head,
Judge and prosecuting attorney of the
circuit in which the train was robbed,
and both of whom were fleeced. Stuart
is a brave man, but was unarmed; he
endeavored by all means in his power to
make the passengers fight, and tried to
borrow a revolver. A number of passen
gers besought him on their knees not to
make disturbance and have them all
killed. Dr. Isaac*, of Illinois, an old
man who was robbed of seventy dollars,
cried to the boys that he was ashamed of
them, young men entering on such a
career of crime. He told them if he had
a walking stick he would chastise them.
The boys laughed at him, took all he
had, and told him to go and starve.
Several invalids en route to Hot Springs
were also robbed, one old fellow losing
all he had saved iu years with which he
had hoped to be cured of disease. His
grief is terrible. A Johnson county
merchant,en route to Little Rock to buy
goods, lost three hundred dollars, and
turned back at Prescot, and went home.
That three boys could rob a train,
passengers and officials, still causes
astonishment.”
Daring Deeds of Desperadoes Sup
posed to be the Train Robbers. —A
special dispatch from Shreveport to the
New Orleans Times says: “In the early
part of this week five young men enter
ed in the daytime the store "of Heyman,
at Collingsburg, Bessier parish, and pre
senting pistols to all therein, compelled
the clerk to give up the keys to tne safe,
and then robbed it of all the money on
hand. They continued their way to the
Red Land, same parish, and did like
wise there; thence to Walnut Hills, Ar
kansas, where they added more booty
to that already gotten by robbing the
store of Wolff, leaving, saying they
were going to Hope Station, on the Iron
Mountain Railroad. It was supposed it
was their party who robbed the north
bound train near Hope Station on
Thursday night.”
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