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- in?erreoifr fears.
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gk a sudden mis* of tears.
t,<ee bat n> longer
- dreams that enervate;
t . -ry no crows stronger,
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if sort ;t el! at last.
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- <-t in>e* that gre*t the fear.
>t>!(rf earth are stealing.
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he<T{U Affairs.
j- T fca. ieru formed in Rome for the
r -r -f .ntroducirg the electric light in
- rusts AVw-s reports that on Thursday
. - 1- .r Dearir g. on the Geo-gia Road,
i .iebre*. c i.-red. was run over and
a voo-1 train The engine passed
* 1 rat h p H lired about two hours.
<its for ;ht- location of the John P
u'* -urin_* Cjnipany, of Augusta,
•perm at in the minds of the
■- - if ’ha’ e I'erpriae. The Eccning Sens
Kt. - < -at \ h ee fine sites on the canal are
and to the c r i any, one (f forty acres,
- 'li- located, ri ht on the Augurta and
i: • R>-*J. and ihYotner two also on that
Mat sat i*ar- r the nty Ttoita.
i: to the Eomt-'Will ef. the Floyd
* ■ i.. fllhcg up for t\p regular spring
i -des'h of Mrs. Barrow, of Mr. Pope
■' w, tn- nher of the Legislature. is an
t !. S- Visa most lady, and
ka< sahusttaad ani five children to mourn
h<*<it! -e f ew’uf our State exchanges v h*ch
•r ■•• i-i during Ciristmas week are nn
t-a . f birreo of Interesting news i mt
j-r, • i.-r of making Sew Year's calls is to
h ' served ia Col.iui us next Monday.
T - Nrwnan Herald says that a man by the
nw of Kite was shot in the left side last
-lay by Bartow Sewe I, near Red Oak
fa a. The . IfH -ilty was about stock in the
t- Kite U dangerously wounded, and Sewell
S- James Spfl era died at his home near
E-i'.-r last Mon lay from a strokeof paralysis
' ■ .mi'll* E quirtr: •F -r months O lone)
Thornton hss enjoy-~d the di.titiguisbed honor
of * at the lea er of the Independent mov*
in ti -orgia In an untboughted moment an
or-*' fs •ts friend made claims for Mr rpeer
to that nxal’e p -iuon Now comes the Rome
OWtrirr and satslhu Senator Dugrar is the
man This is too bad. In the language of
Capt Core ran. ‘Yes. dern It, it’s too bad.’ ”
•, vv.,l—- y night la.” says the Walton
CoS'-fy ridrifr. when Professor Leon's open
air performance was in full Mast on our streets,
the alarm <f rire was sounded. Little atten
tion was jwiJ to it at li at by the large crowd
as e nb e : t.. wi ness the rope walking, but a
rod fy. > . rid light ron attracted the attention
of the Crowd to th scene of the cor flrgration
-a leg- tarn and stable*, fll.ed itn forage,
n Mr. Eli Smith's lot in the rear of his resi
- Two mul-s and a buggy were taken
ihe sab esand saved, but everything else
they contain and was burned”
N man Urrald: "One day last week, as Dr.
'•’tight an fa i’y, of Waihalla.it. C, were
[*< :ng acres-to the Carrollton depot in the
Ii hack, which was uncomfortably full,
r was pr-a-el ope>n a< and bis daughter
> tn-* ground, the wheel ng over her
► Just ai>ve the knee and breaking the
b Toe young la -y was about nineteen
t-i-o age. but wasq ite small because of ill
S: was ta.en to the Virginia House,
a fractu e was st auc dressed with the
ce ot D*. Pedly. Dr Wright has a
- on the Ge rgia ami Pacifi • Railroad,
a was en route for VarTollton when the acci
irred. The young lady was feeling so
•'fable next day that the famiy pro
- n their iourcey.”
f ibe Uaineeviiie, Jefferson and Southern
tic r-dthe Fidette says: “3his road is pro-
C' ugfavorab y. Th- work of track layi. g
- - mg n satisfactorily. and the company
ra-. on hand about two hundred tons of rails
od about m much more on the way from
i. They also have ample cars for
- r con purroses. About twenty-seven
- >-• the graiirg have tieeu completed, and
ve nearly enough ties to comp ete the
f *- ! The remain-ier of the grading-four
* r a hi'f mil- s near Jefferson, *nJ five and a
s 'oeiweou Hos-ntonand Jug Tavern
•- graded and the tie* i u on it ss rapidly
eta im-n s are paid in by the stock
's. i which t ere is an ample sufficiency
m. letc the grading and put on the ties.”
> ‘ ' m County Vidette: ‘"Dick Robertson,
-;i *s< vr ligwd before Justice Pender
r Wf-doe-iday last, under a charge of
- *ajr r ibberjr, and, in default of bail of two"
' ' d*> Ur*, was committed to j til to await
•Vh uary lerm of our Superior Court. It
ared fr ra the evidence that Mr. t-herod
Ml was pa* in* back of th- stores in this
! * e early on Monday night iast, and, while
■ r Spring street, was k (voted down and
Mr Everett tr ade outcrv and the rob
" 1 -•!. k"U>k up thU s'reet until he reached
net. near the Lanier House Mr. R. M.
' * iro heard the outcry, pursued and in
ed the robber and tear ed his identity.
m all probability, wo down in th coal
* fore the violets bloom again. He was
sful in getting only a small sum of
•v ebrut two and liars we learn) and a
► k-'sntfe and handkerchief.”
me CVmrier grows enthusiastic because
? id uoty took the p ige at the Exposition
’h- best bale of cotton raised in Georgia,
* ‘ We hive alluded several times with
o tt • fact th it the e is but one other
v ig Georgia that produce* more cotton
-re El yd. and that other county is
. us Ktojd broadside. This fact
made n an hy the last census, and It
* t riplo'ed the antiquated idea that the
• r portion of th- Mate possessed all the
■tat cotton lairds It is now be omiog wed
**—n that Korin Georgia t- be'ter adapted to
* cw hi ration and production of the great sta
• •‘ an any other portion of the t tate. and
* ■ t a c reat portion of her soil L* pet uliar
• - : ••• ; i ..f ail t e grasses
it vl' anug-s, our section is soon des
k- the po-tino which is hers by right
k"e* to make up tie Eden of the
Is —d, we nay say that she is already
* ' tg briskly to the fror.t,”
* Mac n TtUyraih and Messenger pub
- - - ’lm f-1.. wiKig 'sir guUr presentiment:”
i few days aro the drummer for a Macon
**■ ’ nae was in Hawki-svilie. After trass
i.ia Lu-ima* he went to the hotel, and
/'■ ,! t ght had a strange dream He dreamed
* ' was absolutely neceasarv for him to
*’ i on-e toaao'ter town, Cuthbert. but for
*'' owson his dr-am gave him no satisfsc
: was only vl ,rnt that soms wee sms'
* as om-naailiiut him to turr hi* course
t-> f'u’b -ert. The next morning the
upon h m that he oetermined
>• c- h:s programme an * proceed at < nee
Plsor *c-oniingly he came b-ek to
** n d by a -trance chance met oue of
. * r *r "f tia house at the depot. He
irtrned over the orders he received and
- : o'. I to and his r mpioyar
Ttie employer pooh-poohed the
- :i.- drummer was determined anl got
- a rth western train. He rot into Cu*.h
- ck-ck. and about the first news
■e*ra was that -toe of bis custom-r* had
. robbed the night before and owed the
j.,' ' * targe am Hint The merchant has
I cl °* d U P Comparing u J e*. the
- usd tha the safe was turned and
* ey stolen t b *ut the same time bo
. T ”’** *** t-hs-u dgo tofn hbert. As
'' 'tentative is a moo reliable man, here
• gicai problem to be solved.”
f i übta-. and a f*y or two ago a short ac
a k isdrupie nuj-der in J. ties county
’ *T*- I, I**" 1 **" *•<' t'rtrgrapk of I huradsv
II foHowmg additiooai particulars of
Tbe report which we gave in yes-
*- * *"*•* ,h * bloody affray in Jones
‘-my. on night, was verified y. ster
' Sf parties that tare near the rceoe. The
*wi>b*e that tut few thought it
*• w * found it n-ceesary to make a
***‘*fW t ** , *. Mr Rulmd T. nows,
*”C luma---;y v-sterdav morning, WiA
tt M*o authentic Informa
* a ***** saMsgeo (ba< Urere wga>raethiog
“ day a geoiigjpah
Elunl <>*. about ten tnilen
•Jwve Uuaton, who pte the detail* <-f the
§arattwlt gputuing Item
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
tragady. which are as follows: On Mon
day night there was a colored
<i*nc* at Dick Richards' place, near Round
Oak. Two or three young white men were
there, one of whom was Jark William Gray,
and one a Mr. Green. Mr. Gray became In
some war involved in a quarrel with one of
three colored brothers, boh. Alexander and
H* nry Jackson. The quarrel ended in a fight,
in which Gray was fatally stabbed. He sank
t < th- floe r. and while his lifeblood was eb
bir g away, opened fire on his assailants, one
failing dead at his feet, and one dropping at
the door. The third brother managed to get
out of doors and died a few hours later. In
the mean:ime Gray bad crawled to the door
ami managed to get on the steps, where he
died. He was buried Tuesday af ernoon As
far as we can learn whisky was, as usual, the
cause of the trouble.”
THE OCEAN STEAMSHIP COM
PANY.
A Few Kemarka About the Preeerl
onaiiewa of Steamship Stock-1> Any
"nitride** be Itlade Let It NotEu*
danger "(be Old Ceutral.**
Editor Morning Xtw: I have been but a
looker-on in Venice during this excitement
on tbe Central Railroad question, viz:
whether the company shall or shall not
stock the Ocean Steamship Company pro
perty through certificates of stock, some
times called debentures. Those claiming tbe
ieeulog of the stock as proper use assn
argument that this property yields 1300,000
net income, and that, therefore, it repre
sent $3,000,000 of property which
should be divided. Nothing in the shape
of a dividend paying investment
Is so precarious as that of steamboat
stock. Few of the advocates of this large
“divide,” as i’is ca'led, recollect the large
dividends paid thtr‘y years ago by the New
York and Savannah Steam Navigation Com
pany, a line of steamships that were far
superior In style and speed, for that period,
to these of the Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company, for this; from a 5 percent,
quarterly dividend (30 per cent, per annum)
thsy suddenly dropp-d to nothing, and the
fortuna’e holders of the stock finally lest
their original Investment. Fewer still rec
ollect the Georgia Steamboat Company, a
line (for that dag) of palace boats running
to Augusta. Besides their flue boa's, they
owned large and valuable property both
here and in Augusta; this large dividend
paying stock, af er running up in value to
$3,000 per share from S3OO par value, ended
n disaster.
In Issuing these debentures or 6 per cent,
guaranteed scrip for this steamship prop
erty tbe directors should weigh well the
possibility of disaster to this precarious
speefes of property. Look for an tns’ant
and see what disasters could arise by “fire"
to one part of the property and water to
the other; two or three accident# could al
most sweep away the existence of the in
vestment, and would you have the direc
tors issue guaranteed stock for this
property, that wPI rank ahead of your solid
old tcrip i*sued forly odd years ago, and that
has passed through three financial panics
and a destructive war? If those who favor
a “divide” be correct in their figures (and I
am assuming that they are), let a scrip
be issued that will rank behind your solid
scrip, and let there be no guaranteeing
of dividends, but let it 6tand like other
certificates; when money has been made
let it receive a divi nd, but when there is
no money to pay a dividend with let it pass
until the company has made it. This will
give the present ehareholoer* a “divide” If
there is this “surp’us undivided property,”
and the issuing of 'ueh certificates will m t
endanger the tdid scrip ot the old Central,
tiuch is the advice < f one
Bitten bt Steamboat Stock,
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY. .
Three more small failures were declared
on the London Stock Exchange yesterday.
Mrs. Kennedy Gray ded in Chicago on
Tuesday of hydrophobia. Bhe was bitten by
a large dog three months ago.
Herman Willing, ex-Treasurer of Lee
county, lowa, has been tndicted for the em
bezzVment of county funds to the amount
of SIO,OOO while he was in office.
Henry Gibson, a prominent coal dealer of
B'oomlugton, 111 , in passing through a
neighbor’s barnyard, was attacked by a
vicious and gored In thß abdomen. He
died in a few minutes.
Special dispatches from St. Petersburg
announce that defalcations amounting to
million* of roubles have been discovered in
the custom house at Taganrog, and that all
the oflic’als therein have been arrested.
The proprietors of Towne’s Hotel, at Bel
lows Falls, Vermont, have been sud under
the personal liability act for $30,000 for
selling Honor to one*Peter Good, of West
minster, Vermont, who, it is alleged, died
suddenly In consequence.
In consequence of the newspaper reports
that Prince Bismarck is about to appeal to
the powers to consider tbe Pope’s proposi
tion, it t s-mt officially stated from Berlin
that Germany will take no action in regard
to the Papscv which can be cons'rued ss
encroaching upon the rights ot Paly.
Louis 8. Ward was arra'gned in New
York recently to answer the charge of at
t-mpMng to ex'ort SI,OOO, by threatened
exposure, from Joseph A. Wnite. He was
committed for further examination. It is
supposed that be was only a tool in the
hand* of others. More arres’s are expected
to follow.
Michael Golden, an inmate of the Phila
delphia House of Correction, struck Joseph
Preston, one of tbe guards of the institu
tion, on the btek of the head with a shovel,
itfi'eting Injuries from which, the physician
says, he cannot, recover. The men were
wotklng in the House of Correction grounds
when the assault was committed. Golden
at once fled, but was captured.
Ole Thompson, a well-to do farmer of
Jacksonville township, Chickasaw county,
lowa, was found on tbe farm of his son-in
law with bis bead near'y severed from his
body. Wnen last seen alive he was with his
nepoew, who wag named after him, and
who lives with the old man. Hts daughter
saw the nephew riding off aloDe, and he
has not since been found. The family are
Norwegians.
A' Crfsfield, Md , a few days ago Thomas
Tavlor and his twelve-year-old son hd a
difficulty "i h John Chelton, during which
Taylor drew a knife and cut Chelton, and
also himself slightly. The bov fired three
pistol shots, all of which took effect, but
did little damage. Chelton then struck
Taylor with a fence post, breaking his chest
bone. His recovery is considered donbtful.
The bov fled.
Mr. Armstrong. the Commissioner of Im
migration for Htwall, who accompanied
Klrg Kalakoa in his recent tour of the
world, reports that Immigrants from the
East Indies are not to beyleslr-d. Javanese
Immigrants he thinks would be valuable.
They are not an emigrating people, and
Europeans are not likely to come to Hawaii
as contract laborers when they can secure
homesteads In other parts of the world.
Portuguese ItnmlgraMon from the Azores Is
considered the best that can be obtained.
The recent rains have swollen the rivers,
both in the East and West. At Troy and
Albany, on the Hudson rlv-r, the docks are
flooded, and portions of the track of the
Troy and Boston Railroad, on the Hoosac
river, are under water. The Upper Dela
ware Is also rising, and at Milford, Pa , the
water is ten feet above its usual height
Log* and sawed lumber are strewed along
Its banks. Two million feet of logs esc-ped
from Young Woman’s creek Id’o the West
Branch of the Susquehanna, but were
caught in the boom at Lock haven.
At Canton, Ohio, two men, by forcing
open a window, galn-d an entrance ln’o
the back part of the residence of Ju'lus
WbJtlcg. a wealthy property owner.| Whit
ing waa ‘awakened when the door of his
room was forced open, but one of the men
covered him with a revolver while the
other took from ur der bis pillow a diamond
solitaire pin, worth SI,OOO, and agold watch
worth $l5O As the robbers departed,
Julius Wolting, Jr., who wa In another
room, was awakened, and he fired several
ahots, but with no effect.
At Laiicv Junction, eighteen miles from
Santa Fe, J. J. Harlao, a railroad employe,
and a bartender named Harry Kesner, bad a
diffi-upy In a saloon, when Kesner pulled a
pistol and commenced firing. Harlan drop
p*d on his knees behind the at->ve, but
before he could pull his pistol K-sner had
tired two shots, neither of which took effect.
Harlan turned loose and fired four shots in
rapid succession, all of which took t fleet In
K-sner’s breast, abdomen and right arm.
He emptied the remaining two charges of
his ptstol without effect and expired.
Kidney Disease Cared.
Christiansbcbg, Va , 1881.
Buffering from kidney diseases, from
which I could get no relief either from
medicine or the prominent phvsictans of
our country, I tried Brown’s Iron Bitters,
which pared me completelv. A child of
mine recovering frop scarlet fever had no
appetite, and did not eeeta to be able to eat
at all. I gave him Iron Bitters with the
happieet results. J. Kile Montagu*.
CENTRAL R. R. DIVIDENDS.
INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL E. P.
ALEXANDER.
A Surrlnct Statement ot tbe Plana
and Purposes of tbe General and
bis Frleuda—Tbe Ni-ekholders ot
tbe Central Can and Should Have
Larger Dividends—lncome Bonds
Based on the Earning* of the Ocean
Steamship Company Proposed to be
Issued—Nothing tn be Done, How
ever, to I- Ja re Central Stock or
lllllltale % gainst the I merest ol tbat
Corporation, the City of Savannah,
or the Stale of Georgia.
Knowing the widespread interest now felt
in this community over the loDg talked of
plans of General E P. Alexander and his
friends to secure increased dividends to the
stockholders of the Central Rtilroad Com
pany—based upon the earnings of tbat cor
poration and of the Ocean Steamship Com
piny—we yesterday afternoon called upon
General Alexander, at the Screven House,
for the purpose of obtaining from him such
information regardlrg his proposed pro
gramme as he might see fit to give. We
found the General in fine humor, exceed
ingly pleasant and affable, and not at all
dismayed at the prospective infliciion of an
interview.
Having made known the object of our
visit, and requested the General to give us
as full a statement as he might deem proper
of his purposes, what he desired to accom
plish, and how he proposed to consummate
his object, be replied;
I am glad of an opportunity to correct,
some of the grossly false reports and accu
sations which have been circulated about
the wishes of those stockholders of the Cen
tral Railroad whom I represent. I cannot
believe that a single stockholder, who has
no personal motive, and is simply anxious
to see his stock and the property so man
aged that its market price shall always re
present Us real value, will for a moment
object to what those stockholders wish
to do when their desires are
truthfully represented. Ia the limits
of an interview I can only state
what is proposed, and what Is not proposed,
very succinctly, and cannot enter upon
details and arguments as fully as I would
be glad to do. Yet even a few plain words,
I trust, will be sufficient to expose the false
assumptions of our purposes, which have
been set up as men of straw to be demol
ished by argument and invective, and thus
to arouse prejudice and opposition.
In the first place, then, I wish to say that
I do not represent any foreign corporation
li what I am endeavoring to do, or any
interest whatever antagonistic, tn the slight.
e*t. degree, to the commercial prosperity of
this Btate or city. I represent only a large
body of stockholders in the ‘Jentral Rtil
road, the majority of them citizens of Geor
gia, and stockholders according to their
means, many of them for very many years.
In the next, place we have never proposed
or desired, and do not now propose or de
sire, any change whatever in the executive
officers of the comp my. No man in the
Sta'e knows their worth, tbelr honesty,
their faithfulness, the high rank they have
won In tbetr profession, and the skill and
devotion they bare brought to the service
of the stockholders, better or appreciates
It all more highly than I do. I doubt if
many know it or appreciate it one-half as
much, simply because I have bad the rp
portunlty for many years of being In con
stant contact with them, and knowing the
difficulties against which thev have had to
con'end. Neither is it. proposed or desired
now to Interfere with their executive man
agement in the slightest degree. They are
to be as untrammelled in ibis respect as
they have ever been.
And, in the next place, it is not pro
posed to load the company with one dollar
of fixed charges, to embarrass it in times of
depression of business, or to hamper its
credi' in the slightest degree.
Nor in tbe last place Is it proposed to
evade ant legal obligation to the South
western R .11 road stockholders und°.r the
lease of that, road to the Central; but,, on
the contrary, to provide for the fettling
authoritatively of anv questions that may
arise aDd the giving them their legal dues
to the last cent.
These are the objectionable measures we
have been falsely accused of having in
view, so far as I have heard them.
I will proceed now to state wbat. our real
obj cts are, and to illustrate brltfly the rea
sons for them, giving some of the reasons
first.
In tbe first place, everyone will recognize
thst any piece of properly sold “ihrown in”
with another piece of property never brings
Its full value. A saddle “thrown in” in the
sale of a horse is usually a saddle viven
away. A growing crop, or horses, mules,
plow*, etc., 60ld with a plantation seldom
add to the price of the plantation one-half
of 'heir real value.
Now, the Central Railroad owns land,
wharvi-s. docks, compresses and steamships,
of great, present value, and of still greater
prospective va'ue, but the only evldeuee of
ownership which the stockholder has is in
his Central scrip, and consequently this
property Is “thrown in” when he sells the
latter. He cannot sell such property sepa
rately, and, like the saddle sold with the
hor*e, it is given away when the latter is
sold.
Now, we propose to take the saddle off
the borse, or to Five a separate evidence of
ownership in the steamship and wharf prop
e tv, for each stockholder to set his own
value upon, and to keep or sell as pleases
him best. It will not detract one dollar
from the remaining value of his Central
Railroad stock, for that has never yet had
one dollar of dividend from tbe earnings of
this steamship property, or ariy other advan
tage but what was incidental to the control
of business by the steamship line, and all
of that will remain untouched.
But in doing this it ie not proposed
either to embarrass the steamship com
pany by placing fixed charges upon
It, or binding It to pay dividends when it
does not make them. We will be content
to get them when it does make them, and
win place the evidence of ownership in the
shape of an income bond, the principal pay
able only at the pleasure of the company
(should It ever wish to retire them), and the
Interest only when It Is earned. The com
pany can theu safely carry Its own insur
ance, as It does now, the only risk being
that if it should lose a steamer the holders
of these bonds might lose a year’s interest.
But we believe that the present large
earnings of this property, and Its
Increasing business. which already
calls for more and larger steamers,
will not only pay 6 per cent, annually on
five millions of bonds, but will provide a
handsome surplus besides. But whether It
does or no‘, the company wtli not be called
on to pay more than it makes from year to
year, after providing for whatever expenses
and contingencies may arise, or may be
deemed necessary to be provided for by the
board of directors from time to time.
And this suggests another argument, and
a very strong one to my mind for the Issue
of euch a security, ics'ead of allowing
—as has been "s cges*ed by some—
the steamship earnings to go into
ihe Central Railroad treasury, and to be
paid out only aR dividends on Central Rail
road stock. Whenever there is a large
surplus of money tn a trrasury the tempta
tion to spend it lioeraliy iu improvements,
which are not absolu ely essential, and
which yield little or no return to stock
holders, becomes almost irresistible. Having
some pracMcal experience In such matters
I can sp-ak from oersonal knowledge and
consciousness. Fine depots, extensive
grounds, double tracks and such conve
niences appeal strongly to the pride and
comfort which any manager of a
railroad may legitimately feel and
daire in the handling of his busi
ness. But the stockholders will derive
the most income from their property, when
to counterbalance this natural tendency to
go ahead of absolute necessity In our ex
p -nses, boards of directors and executive
officers can be made to feel and see plainly
that preterit money out of their stockholders'
pockets must pay for eiery convenience and
every improvement.
Q —Oa what basis do you es'lm&te the
steamship property as worth five millions
of dollart ?
A.—On the basis of Its earning power.
Last year It earnt and over S3OO 000 net, after
paying all expenses and applying at least
SIOO,OOO, as I am informed by Mr. Wadley,
to new wharves, docks, and other additions
to its property, which will increase Its im
m-dla'e present earning power.
Q —Does this appear In their reportf
A.—ifo; because the company has never
kept a construction acccunt, but has built
and paid for all its present valuable prop
erty cut of Its surplus earnings from year to
year.
q —Do you regard a construction account
necewarjf • ...
A —Yes, I do. I think all amounts should
represent exactly the truth, and when
money has been spent In construction and
Improvements the accounts should show it.
Q —What dividend would the $5 000,000
Income bonds proposed to be issued on the
earnings of the steamship company allow*
A.—lt would allow a dividend of 45 per
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1881.
cent, to the Central Railroad stockholders,
and 36 per cent, to the Southwestern stock
holders If they are entitled to share In this
dlvldeod of the steamship company. I
think the 45 per cent, should be given the
Central Railroad stockholders, and the
rights of the Southwestern stockholders
should be determined by a friendly pro
ceeding in the courts. If it Is decided in
their favor the 36 per cent, for them, having
been reserved, can be given to 'hem at once.
If they are not entitled to It, the Central
Railroad stockholders could then divide
that, which would give them about 25 per
cent. more. Of course any question of
fuch serious importance, the board would
prefer to have decfded in tbe courts to re
lieve t‘ em of any responsibility.
Q —Da you think the issue of the steam
ship company’s bands would diminish the
market value heretofore set upon Cenlral
Railroad stock *
A —I don’i think it would In the slightest
degree, for the reason that the Central Rail
road stockholders have never heretofore
received a dollar from the earnings of the
steamship company, aDd neither the public
nor the stockholders have ever fully appre
ciated the value of the wharf property,
compresses and steamers of that company.
They have not been looked on by tbe side of
the Central Railroad property as any more
than the saddle Is usually to the horse, and
even the value of the road Itself, I think,
has never been fully appreciated by it own
board of directors. Two years ago they
were willing to lease it for 6 and 7 per cent.
It has, this year, paid 8 per cent., after
spending 6 per cent, in permanent improve
•menr, and had considerable surplus besides,
all o* which was from the year’s earnings.
Q—D > you think it could have paid a
larger dividend this year ?
A.—lt certainly could have paid a larger
dividend, and ought to have done so, I
think. It could have paid % per cent,
more to its stockholders without increasing
the dividends to the Southwestern stock
holders at all. I urged strongly upon the
board to do that much at least, and I think
they should every year strain a point when
necessary to make the Central dividend at,
least as high as it can be made without
increasing the dividend to the BuUth
western stockholders. Otherwise the
Southwestern receives a larger share of the
profits of the company than they are en
titled to receive under the lease contract—
that is to say, under the lease contract the
Southwestern is entitled to eight-tenths of
the dividend pa and the Central, but if the
Centra! receives less than 8% per cent, the
Southwestern stockholders receiving 7 per
cent, will receive more than their eight
tenths.
Q —Wbat dividend do you think the Cen
tral Railroad can safely continue to pay if
your programme is carried out?
A —I think Central stock, on its own mer
its, can pay easily 8% per cent, per annum
I base this on the present business of the
road, with an ordinarily economical man
agement. The road has on hand assets, In
stocks and bonds of other companies, ex
cluding the Steamship Company, fully equa:
in value to its whole bonded debt.
Q —Da you feel sanguine of jour ability
to carry out your proposed programme?
A.—l have every hope of doing so. lam
sure I will succeed by a very Urge majority
if the stockholders understand exactly what
is wanted and will consult their manifest
Interest. I have sometimes illustrated ex
actly what I wanted to do by saying that
there is no means at present of giving the
earnings of the company to the stockholders
except by dividends on tbe stock, and that
dividends cannot be made larger than 10
percent.., which will only give them $750,-
000. It is as if the stockholders owned a
cow, and only had pails enough to carry
home a certain amount of tbe milk,
and tbat amount a smaller one than the
cow has heretofore frequently given. lam
tow simply endeavoring to provide another
pall to bring home more milk whenever tbe
cow will give it. If it is not brought borne
for the children the calf will get it —the calf
In this case being extra fac lities, finer de
pots, double tracks and such things, which
yield little or no income. I think the
s’ockholders will all approve this providing
pails to bring borne a more liberal supply
of milk whenever the cow will yield it, and
so preventing the calf from getting more
than its fair share.
This seemed to cover all the points of in
terest Involved in the proposed programme
of General Alexander and tbe stockholders
whom be represents. So, thanking the
General for so freely and fu'-ly giving us the
information asked of him, the interview was
brought to a close.
A TRIPLE COLLISION.
Terrific Smaab Up on ibe Pennsil*
vaiilm Railroad.
Philadilphia, December 30.—There was
a terrible railroad accident on the Pennsyl
vania Riilroad at Christiana, between Phila
delphia and Lancaster, this morning. A
West bound freight train broke loose,
and another train ran into it. A
smash ensued, and soma afterwards another
freight train came along and ran into the
wreck and the whole mass took fire. Two
men were burned to death and two or three
ii jured badly, one beyond recovery. An
other man is m'ssiog, supposed to be some
where in the wreck.
IVeatber Indication*.
Office Chief Signal Obsebvek, Wash
ington, D. C., December 30 —lndications
for 8 lturday:
In the Boutb Atlantic States, colder, clear
ing weather, westerly veering to northerly
winds, and higher pressure.
In the Middle Atlantic States, colder,
part’y cloudy weather, occasional light snow,
westerly winds, and higher pressure.
Ia tbe East Gulf States, fair weather,
winds mostly northerly, and stationary or
higher temperature.
In the West Gulf States, warmer, fair
weather, light variable wind*, mostly south
erly, and lower pressure.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley,
partly cloudy weatner and light snow, fol
lowed by clearing weather, winds mostly
westerly, stationary or higher temperature
and pressure.
Dissecting a Small-Pox Victim.
Keokuk, lowa, December 30 —There is
considerable excitement here over the fact
that between thirty and forty medical stu
dents have been stricken a Ith a disease tbat
is pronounced by the President of the Board
of Health and several prominent paystclans
to be small pox. It appears that a * ody
received from Chicago was used in the dis
secting room of the medical college, and
that the subject had died of small-pox.
Tliree Workmen Tarown from a
Scaffold.
Cincinnati, December 30.—The scaffold
lng oi the cornice of the State National
Bank fell last evening while four men were
on It. One of them fell into a window, but
the other three fell to the sidewalk, a dis
tance of sixty feet. Henry Wefel and John
Evans were Instantly killed. John Wefel,
the c ontractor, suffered injuries from which
he cannot recover.
Hanged In Sonih Carolina.
Charleston, 8. C , December 30.—Gabrll
White, a negro, was hanged at noon to day
In Walterboro, for the murder of Frederick
Bellinger, colored, in 1879. The cause of
the murder was jsilousy about a woman.
When the trap fell White’sneckwas broken,
and he died without a struggle. His pulse
ceased in ten and a quarter minutes, and In
twenty minutes the body was cut down.
A HUbmond Blaze.
Richmond, Va., December 30 —A fire oc
curred last ntgbt In W. B- Hor*mans <v
Co.’s spice and coffee mill, destroying the
three upper stories of the building. Rich
ard Ada mo’ bakery, ad j fining, wt.s damaged
by water. The to al loss Is about $8,000;
two thirds Insured In home qpmpaniee.
Another Texaa Stage Bobbed.
Galveston, December 5)0 —A G*!nesvllle
special sayt! ' “Another stage robbery oc
curred near the notorious Black Hollow last
evening. The mall bags were rifled of valu
able packages. The robbers were young
lads. The authorities have no ciue to the
perpetrators.”
Perils of the Ball.
Jersetvillb, Ind., December 30.—A con
struction train on tne Bt. Louts, Jer-eyvllle
and Springfield Rdlway was wrecked near
Newburn last night. John Beeihaugwas
killed and several other laboresrs were In
jured, though not seriously. The accident
was caused by an obstruction on tbe track.
Six at ■ Birth.
Ban Francisco, December 30—A Los
Angeles dispatch s*ates that Mrs. Cruz,
living at Florence, Los Angeles couniy,
gave birth yesterday to six perfectly formed
female children.
Good for the Women.
Many lad es suffer from an extreme ner
vous seml-hysterical condition. They have
disturbing dreams, exciting muscular start
ings, peculiar painful symptoms of night
mare. They lie awake and suffer the brain
to be flighty when that weary organ ought,
according to nature, to be asleep. Brown’s
Iron Bitters give sweet repose and quickly
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WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT.
THE ASSASSIN’S IRON CHEEK.
Hl* Impudence Unchecked—Tbe
Prosecution About Through—
IHore Damaging Evidence-A
Wrangle of Counsel—Scovllle
Scores a Triumph.
Washington, December 30.—The court
room was literally packed this morning. As
soon as Gulteau reached his seat in the dock
he shouted out: “Some of the leading pa
pers in America consider me tha greatest
fellow they have met in some time. At 8
o’clock last night I received a telegram,
which I will read for the edification of this
audience and the American people.” He
then read:
"Mr. Charles J. Guiteau, Washington. D.
C.i All Boston sympathizes with you. You
ought to be President.
“(B!gned) A Host of Admirbhs.”
PausiDg a moment, he then branched off
into a rambling harangue, ending by saying:
“I shall submit my name to the
next Republican Convention. I shall
expec; to be before it. There are only two
men in the country who want me hung.
Oaeis Judge Potter, who expects to get
five thousand dollars from the government
if I am convicted, and the other Is Corkhill,
who expects to get baunoed, and who knows
I am the cause of it.”
Dr. K 'oupsler then took the stand and
Mr. Scoville r< eumed his cross-examination.
The witness did not believe in temporary
Insanity in the sense that a person could be
insatie and wholly recover in an hour. He
believed Sickles was sane, but Coles, who
shot Illscock at Albany, was undoubtedly
insane.
Col. Corkhill announced that he had but
one more witness to introduce on the part
of the government, and he inquired of Mr.
.Scoville how much time he would want to
consume on the surrebuttal.
Mr. Scovil'e replied that he had several
witnesses, whose names were presented
s'nce he closed the case, and he would ask
the court to permit them to be sworn on the
ground of pewly discovered evidence mate
rial to the case.
Colonel Corkhill wanted to know what he
expected to prove.
Mr. Scoville replied—“We have evidence
to eff-r relative to the state of the prisoner’s
mind just before the shooting.” He also
stated tbat he would probably require all of
next week upon the rebuttal.
Mr. Davidge objected to a reopening of
the caee, and Mr. Scoville insisted that he
did not desire to delay ihe trial, but the
prosecution had consumed weeks with the
experte, and he did not propose to be cut
short in the matter of time.
Mr. Scoville suggested that the jury be
allowed to separate and go home upon
parole, not to speak of the trial during their
absence from court, giving as a reason his
solicitude for the health of the jurymen,
which was likely to become affected by
their close confinement. Considerable dia
cussioa followed, which was cut short
by the fori man’s saying that the jury
did not, care to separate, but de
sired reasonable opportunity for fresh
air and exercise. The discussion
between the opposing counsel continued for
sorno time, with considerable acrimony,
when, finally, Mr. Scoville in rep'y to Col.
Coikhill surprised every one by making one
of the best and most impressive speeches
that has been heard in tha court room since
the opening of the trial. In earnest and Im
pretf ive language he vindicated the conduct
of the deftn-e, and severely rebuked the
course of the District Attorney tn his un
seemly efforts to muzzle and drive the de
fense from -court.
ome manifestation of applause followed
the conclusion of his speech, but it was
qul-k'v checked by the court.
Dr. John P. Gray, Medical Superintend
ent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum,
then took the stand. Witness bad made
the study of insanity his business since
1850, and In that time had treated or inves
tigated twelve tnousand cases of insanity.
He had never seen a single instance where
the onlv indication of insanity was an
exhibition of immorality or wickedness.
He did not believe in what had been called
“moral insanity.” It was impossible to
dissever mental unity so as to locate an
Impairment of the moral nature that was
not, accompanied by an Intellectual deterio
ration. Insanity, in itself, bad no more
tendency to excite to crime than muralgla
or any other disease. “It puts nothing new
into a man’s nature; it only perverts what is
already there.” Dr. Gray stated that he
made a thorough, complete and satisfactory
examination of the prisoner at the jail, and
at the request of the District Attorney gave
at some length the details of his examina
tion and of his conversation with the
prisoner.
Witness hadirq iired of the prisoner in
regard to his alleged inspiration and asked
him if it came to him in the form of a voice,
or vision or a direct command, and his
reply was: “No; it came into my head as a
conception, and I relied upon it until I re
solved tbat it was justified by theeltuation ”
Witness then atked ibe prisoner how thl*
statement accorded with his theory of in
spiration, and his reply was: “My inspira
tion was in the foim of a pressure con
stantly upon me to commit tbe act.”
Gulteau —“Tnat’s all there is in the case.
Short and to the point. You can talk about
it six years if you want to.”
Dr. Gray continued the st.ory of his inter
view with Guiteau, with occasional com
ments by the latter of assent or dissent, but
not to the extent of an annoying lnterrup
tlor, until the adjournment.
Tbe New York Stock Market.
New York, December 30 —8 hare specu
lation opened, In the main, % to per
cent, higher than yesterday’s closing prices.
The early dealing* were marked by an ad
vance of 1 to per cent, for the general
list, Canada Southern. Wabash common and
preferred, Western Union, Denver and Rio
Grande and Missouri Pacific being most
prominent therein. Between tbe first and
second boards the general list sold down %
to 2 per cent., Canada Southern leading the
downward movement. In the late dealings
the general market, though somewhat ir
regular, was In tbe main firm, and rose
to I>6 per cent., while Nashville and Chat
tanooga sold up 2% per cent. In the final
dealings the general list fell off a fraction,
but the market closed fairly firm. Transac
tions aggregated 410,000 shares.
British Breadstuff's.
Liverpool, December 30—A leading
grain circular says: “Wheat Is gradually
becoming firmer, and all branches of the
trade are improving. Most of the spot mar
kets were dearer and some shillings better;
for Cargoes of first arrlvalss there
is some advance; other cargoes are
firmly held. Oa spot since Tues
day wheat was in better demand and
advanced a penny. Corn was dearer. At to
day’s market there was an average attend
ance. Wheat advanced Id. Flour was In
good request and sometimes 3d. higher.
Corn advanced Id.”
Cotton Scales for a Gallows.
Little Rock, Ark , December 30.— A
special to the Gazette from Texarkana says:
“This mornlog at two o’clock a maD named
John Bmlth was shot and mortally wound
ed by one Geo. Berry. Smith had never
seen Berry before. Berry was arrested, aDd
whtle on his way to jail, was taken from the
officers by railroad men, who tried to hang
him on a pair of cotton scales. The scales
being too low, they turned him over to the
officers again, and declared that if Smith
dies they will hang Berry to eight. Smith
is dying and Berry will probably be lynch
ed.”
Cotton In Liverpool.
Liverpool, December 30 —This week’s
circular of* the Cotton Brokers’ Association
“Cotton was In good demand, and
prices were generally maintained. Ameri
can was In fair rt quest, and prices were un
changed. In sea Island sales were mod
erate; and prices unchanged. Futures open
ed dull and declined a sixteenth on Frldav,
but after the holidays the decline was re
gained. The Improvement, however, was
short lived. The market closes flat and
generally 1-161. below last week’s rates.”
IBanebeater market
London, December 30— The Manchester
Guardian In its commercial article this
morning says: “There is some business in
all departments but It does not reach an
average. Prices are fairly ateady. P, eesing
sellers are randy met with. Buyers are not
inclined to enter into large engagements.
There is no speculative action.” 1
A Wife murderer Hanged.
St Louis. D cember 30 - fam. H. Irb, a
German, who murdered hfe wife, was exe
cu:e<l in the city jail this morning In the
pn eer.ee of nearly.three hundred persona.
Erb slept eoundiy until nearly half-past
four, when he arose and ate a slight break
fast, afterwards passing much of tbe time
in pray- r. No unusual Incident occurred at
the scaffold. He was dead In five minutes.
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THE PLYMOUTH RIOT.
Prompt Response of tbe military—
Tbe Negro Roughs Subdued.
New York, December 30.—A Raleigh (N.
C ) special says the following telegram from
Msyar A. D. Gaylord, of Plymouth, was
received at the Executive Department here:
“There is an unprecedented riot in this
town, and I am unable to suppress it by the
civil authority of this county. I earnestly
appeal to you to order several military com
panies to be here at the earliest time pos
sible to suppress it. There are now three
hundred negroes here, ail armed with guns.
Tbej are defying the law all round.”
Governor Jarvis being at Greenville in the
eastern part of the State a telegram was at
once sent, to him by Private Secretary
Dudley. Later a telegram was received
from Governor Jarvis, stat'ng that he had
ordered Lieutenant Colonel John W. Colton,
of the First Regiment, and two in
fantry companies of the North Caro
lina State Guards to Plymouth. A tele
gram was also received tendering
the services of the Pasquotank Rifles, of
Elizabeth, to quell the rioc. Gov. Jarvis
may, possibly, go to Plymouth In perron, if
special need should arise. Troops to tbe
number of 500 from the eastern part of the
State can be sent. Matt. Wilson, the leader
of the black rioters, was tried for a similar
offense at the last term of the Superior
Court.
Norfolk, Va., December 30 —No further
reports of violence from the rioters have
been received from Plymouth, N. C., but the
town is still in a state of intense excite*
ment and apprehension. Governor Jarv.s
is en route thither, and has telegraphed the
proper officers in that section of the State
to repair to the town and institute an imme
diate and thorough investigation. The ser
vices of the Pasquotank Rifles of Elizabeth
City have been accented to aid in suppress
ing the trouble. This and other military
companies will arrive to-day.
Raleigh, N. C., December 30 —The Pas
quotank R fits, of Elizabeth City, who were
ordered to Plymouth by sp>cial steamer,
have, doubtless, reached there. The Edge
combe Guards have gone from Tarboro.
The military will be under command of
Lieutenant Colonel Colton, of the First
Regiment of State troops. He is an officer
of coolness and capacity. The rioters are
thought to be men from the immense ehln
gle swamps of that section. Governor Jar
vis is at Greenville, Pitt county. There is
no telegraph line to Plymouth.
A dispatch to the News and Observer says
that troops have arrived at P.ymouth.
Sheriff Spruill, with twenty armed men, re
stored quiet. Fiv * arrests were made and
the parlies sent, to jail in Edenton, across
the s<. und. O her ar r ests will follow. The
murderer of Mr. Butler is still at large. No
further trouble is anticipated. Governor
Jarvis has gone to Plymouth, and Solicitor
Grandy has been asked to meet him there.
CONFEDERATE SPECIE.
Tbe Latest Explanation of tiie Dis
posal of tbo Treasure.
Washington, December 30.—The fbst to
morrow will publish a letter over a fictitious
signature, the writer of which claims to
have been a clerk in the Confederate Treas
ury at Richmond, and as 6uch to have ac
companied the specie from Richmond to
Charlotte, N. C., leaving Richmond on the
night of April 31, 1865. The amount
taken the writer does not know,
but thinks it must have been very large.
At Danville, Va., the treasure was on April
3d taken from the car and placed In the
bank vault, where it remained until after
Lie’s surrender. Then Secretary of the
Treasury Trenholm, knowing there was no
further hope of success for the Confede
racy, ordered that a portion of the specie
be paid to redeem Confederate notes at the
rate of a dollar in specie for seventy In cur
rency, and the writer claims that he saw
immense sums of specie thus paid out,
being himself one of the- fortunate ones.
After Lee’s surrender what remained
of the specie was sent, to Greensboro, where
$39,000 was paid to Johnston’s army. Here
also a.l the officers and clerks of the govern
ment were paid off in gold tn sums ranging
from fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars
each. The writer having assisted in preparing
the pay roils for the purpose, was himself
again a beneficiary, presumably, as he de
scribes the methods he and others used to
conceal their treasure.
What then remained was taken Bouth
ward, but the writer parted company with
it at Charlotte, and. therefore, had no per
sonal knowledge of it, but he scouts the
possibility of Jeffer9on Davis having profit
ed by a single dollar.
The writer in a private note gives his
name aDd address as C G. Addison, Prince
George’s county, Maryland.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Htffl Kill* Her Kilobaud and
Cm Her Own Tbroaf.
Littlb Rock, December 30 —List Friday
night at Benton ville, Ark., a man named
Eson Bolin was killed in hi 6 bed, and fcls
wife confessed to shooting him. Bhe justi
fied herself by saying that Bolin had killed
two men, was a horse thief, had lived by
theft in every place where they had been,
had threatened her life at various times, and
on two r.cca ions had drawn a knife
on her, and that her life was most miserable
with him. Her statements were made In a
cool and unmoved manner, while the dead
body of the man was so near that she might
have touched it. The jury’s verdict was
that Bolin died at tbe hands of his wife.
Three of their children were tent to the
poor house, and the was permitted to take
the younger son, three months old, to jail
with her On Monday she borrowed a knife
from the jailer, ostensibly to rip up a dress
to make over for her chtid, but instead cut
her throat, and died in a few moments.
The Week In mtoelns Laue.
London, December 30 —lu Mincing Lane
business is almost nil because of the holi
days. Beet root sugar is firmer. The other
kinds are slow. R-fined is steady. Coffee
is dull. Tea is quiet but steady. Rice is
slow of sale at previous prices.
Gooe Down In <he Gales.
London, December 30. — One coasting
steamer and two Eteamers engaged in the
Mediterranean trade were finally given up
vesterday as having fcuudered duriDg the
November gales. The probable Joss of life
involved will aggregate 110.
A Lawyer “Gone Wrong ♦
Milwaukee, December 30. Gottlieb
Engel, a prominent Jewish lawyer, has ab
sconded. He i? a defaulter and forger to a
large and as yet unknown amount, princi
pally trust funds and funds of societies of
which he was Treasurer..
murdered by Thieves.
New Yobk, December 30.—Louis Henlr,
aged forty, a saloon keeper at No. 144 West
Twenty-six h street, was murdered this
morning in ihe hallway of his house by
some unknown persons, supposed to have
been thieves.
Through the Bf, Qoibard Tunnel.
Geneva, December 80—The trial trip
through the Bt, Gothard Railway tunnel
yes'erday was highly successful, ine time
occupied in the passage of the train was
fifty minutes one way and thirty-three
the other.
Registry Clerk Howard Released.
Atlanta, December 30.—W. H. Howard,
Assistant Registry Clerk in the post office
here, had a preliminary trial yesterday on
the charge of stealing registered letters,
and was released.
A Texas Fire.
Galveston, December 30.—An Acqullla
special says: “Yesterday morning a fire
broke out, destroying foqr stores and one
residence. The origin of the fire is un
known.”'
Sexton Keats Schaefer.
New Yobk, December 30 — Tbe game of
billiards bet ween 8 xton and Schaefer last
night for $5 000 and gate money was won by
ths former. Sexton 600, Schaefer 576.
A Convict Kljle4.
Galveston, December 2f) —\ special
from Sulphur Springs states that while E.
P. Veer, a convict, was attempting to es
cape from the guards of a construction
train to-day, he was shot dead.
The Nlexlcan Southern.
Citt or Mexico, December 30.—Port
Anton Liaardo, the Qiilf terminus of the
Mexican Southern Railroad, haa be. n open
ed for the foreign coasting trade.
A Delaware millionaire Dead.
Philadelphia, December 80 —<jol. H. 8.
McOomb, of Wilmington, Delaware, for
merly actively engaged in the Southwestern
Railroad enterprise, died here to-day.
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A Bazar of Lively Business Compe
tition and Many Social Attractions
—Hot Coffee, Tea and Cakes Freely
Dispensed—magnificent Displays of
Hare Jewelry and Furniture—
Pianos and Organa and mnslc In
tbe Air—Also Jay tor’s Famous
Perfumery—Paintings, Statuary,
Bronzes and Pbotograpbs.
Atlanta, December 29.—1 come now to the
last of the collective exhibits, and in some re
spects the most attractive portion of the Ex
position. Thousands of visitors care but little
for tbe agricultural displays, the mechanical
exhibits or the cotton factory operations.
They want something more varied, dazzling
and sociable. The Art and Industrial Hall of
fers all these attractions, b* ing in the strictest
sense a busy and bustling bazar.
And then it affords such a nice resort for
lovers and young people, there being lots of
cozy retreats where the course of true love can
run smooth. Jewelry exhibits suggest engage
ment rings, and clothing displays hint of wed
ding suits. The young people lounge about
show rases, sit In easy chairs at the furniture
displays, and lean lovingly upon the O'gans
ana pianos in the music department. They
prefer this kind of music to that of the cotton
spindles in the main building.
Entering the hall from the east end the vis
itor finds a small half-circle vestibule well filled
with exhibits The centre Is occupied by a
lrge display of marble statuary and monu
ment*. and around the sides are carpets, flower
pots, pictures, etc. In one corner the Louis
ville. Ky„ Lithographing Company exhibits Its
finest specimens of work, and Mr. N. O. Geo
gbegan very po’ltely distributes an elegant
colored chromo, in oil, to each visitor as an
Exposition souvenir.
Inside the main hall a dazzling display of
t'rass furniture occupies the centre, followed
by patent invalid chairs, dental chairs and
goods, and other similar displays. On the left
the tobacco men exhibit their wares, while on
the right the newspaper and book pub ishers
have their displays. Mesrs. J P. Harrison &
Cos ,of tbe Franklin Steam Printing House,
have exhibits that rank with the best from the
North and West, and have been awarded sev
eral premiums for rare excellence. Their law
book printing is unrivalled.
Descending several steps into the new build
ing. which joins the two old ones together, the
visitor enters a larger and more attractive
department, the one made so famous on ac
count of the rivalry between jewelers and
coffee dealers. Atmore & Bon make a fine
di*play of mince meat, Btevecs. Lawshe, the
Waltham Watch Company, the Jaccard, of S’.
Louis, and others, are running miniature jew
elry stores, and Dr. Walter A. Taylor, of this
city, makes a rich display of perfumery and
fancy goods, his famous "Premium Cologne”
taking the prize. It is a remarkable fact that
this Atlanta cologne is wholesaled from North
ern cities back to Southern dealers in large
quantities.
Near this stand is the “Little World,” a most
ingenious mechanical wonder, which, with the
‘‘Glass Hen.” are the only legitimate side
shows connected with the ' Exposition. The
former shows a minature world of little
people busy with the industries that create the
wealth of nations, while the latter proves that
chickens can be hatched without the aid of a
mother hen, the substitute being a steam
heater.
One of the marked attractions in the centre
of this part of the hail is the showy and state
ly Hong, or tea shop, from Japan, where the
courteous representatives of Messrs Martin
Gillet & Cos , of Baltimore, daily dispense the
most tempting sample cups of their renowned
r ’He-NoTea.” Nearly opposite Is the equally
attractive coffee bszar or Messrs. C. Levering
& C0..0f Baltimore, where Mr. A. C. Silberman
so politely furnishes visitors with dainty cups of
their delicious “roasted coffee,” which carried
off the prize. These two exhibits have proved
a “real blessing" of a substantial character to
visitors.
The same Is also true of Mr. Jack W.
Slappy’s daily dishing out of Thurber's excel
lent coffee Messrs H. K. & F. B Thurber.
the extensive New York groc- rs, make a very
large and elegantly arranged display of "food
Sroducts.” and Mr. Slappy and his assistants
ave treated visitors with marked liberality
and courtesy. In fact, this display, like Jac
card’s and the Japanese Tea Hong, has been
one of the main features of Art Hall.
I should also mention In this connection the
exhibit of the Rumford Chemical Works, of
Providence, R. 1., where Horsford’s bread pre
pa-ations are displayed, and light rolls, fresh
and warm, freely served to visitors by a moat
attentive and efficient colored female at
tendant. These rolls and Hecker’s excellent
buckwheat rakes, also freely dispensed at the
Centen' ial Wind Mill, are aprvopriate com
panions for the tea and coffee above men
tioned.
Another attractive display is that of James
Pyle’s celebrated New York ‘ Pearline” for
washing purposes, which Mr. C A. Russ, the
effic ent manager, has had In charge of Mr.
Ward Johnson, a young gentleman whose uni
form politeness and strict attention to his
business have won for him a host of friends.
He has distributed free thousands of valuable
samples of ‘ Pearline,” thus enabling the pub
lic to test its merits without cost I am p Articu
lar ia noting thi* and the preceding exhibits
b cause of this generous course toward the
public For three months all these displays
have daily given away an immense number of
samples, which has made Art Hall a point of
substantial Interest. Messrs. Phillips & Crew,
of this city, at their extensive music display,
have also given away thousands of samt-ie
sheets of music. Tbe J. & P. Coats and the
Clark “O. N. T.” thread displays, and the Bow
ker Fertilizer Company have been equally 11b-
There a'e numerous ready made clothiDg ex
hibits, one of the finest of which is tbat of A.
O. M. Gay, the well known Atlanta clothier]
who has very justly been awarded a premium
for bis elegant display of clothing and gents’
furnishing goods. The display of refrigera
tors, lamps, boot* and shoes, soda fountains,
umbrellas, cblnaware, sea bean and shell jew
elry, etc., is varied and attractive, aDd occupies
conspicuous places in the main part of the
ball.
Passing down a short flight of stops, the visi
tor is ushered into the west end of the Art Hall,
where music holds her court on one side, and
elegant turniture and house decorations on the
other. The Chickering, the Knahe. the Stioff
and other noted pianos, and the Estey, the Ma
ron & Hamlin, and rival organs are there dis
played and played In numerous styles and with
spirited rivalry. At all hours of the day the
scene is animated and attractive.
On the opposite side the visitor is dazzled by
the gorgeousness and extravagance of the par
lor furniture and house decoration displays
Parlor suits worth over a thousand dollars each
are not common In Georgia, and country visi
tors are bewildered at the plush, velvet and
satin, and the rosewood and ebony decorated
in gilt. Mr. Peyton H Snook, the great At
lanta furniture dealer, has created a demand
for such costly suits by his remarkable energy
and success, and well deserves the premium
awarded his exhibit.
In the annex to Art and Industrial Hall,
which forms the west entrance, is a very ele
?ant billiard room, where the exhibit of bil
lard tables is made. Near the door is a large
display of oil stoves, some In operation, and
visitors are frequently treated to hot biscuits
and roast turkey. A fine display of “granite
Iron ware” occupies the centre, and makes a
good show.
Coming back to the east end of the Art Hall
the visitor can ascend a staircase to the galle
ries, from which a desirable visw is had of the
displays below and the constant movements of
the crowds The galleries are given up to vari
ous exhibits, from pianos and trunks down to
the most delicate feather jewelry
The display of photographs is quite larce
W ' As usual Mrffl
eArtf?.?. - - T 1 makes a really meri
,bT*u,tiful display of tho various
styles, ana holds his own against home and for
eign artists Of oil paintings there are many,
£:„!LF a . i ? ers^ ni * *1- of Augusta, exhibiting
several attractive ones, including portraits of
General Oglethorpe and Hon. James Haber
sham, two of the great men In Georgia’s early
histoyy. Mr. Eugene C. Chrichton, of Atlanta.
SK? ,* onie yer 7 meritorious specimens < f
his skill in penmanship and crayon drawing
His fancy pen work is tbe best of the kind that
I have ever seen executed by a young man He
is a born artist in this respect.
The display of needle work of ail kinds is
quite small Mrs. Green B. Roberts, Unac
complished wife of the veteran express messen
ger, of Atlapta. exhibits a oeautirul crocheted
coimterpane. which has taken the prize Mrs.
C. M. Braumuller, who haa recently returned
from Europe, where she perfected herself in
ihe art. makes a magnificent display of deco
rated china, painted, gilded and fired, in her
own elaborate studio. She has a future full of
rich promise as an artist in china decorations.
Mr. E. H. Craige, of New York, ex
-2? 0 ® 1 valuabl Oil portrait of General
Robert E. Lee, wnich. aside from its artistic
merits, has ari interesting history, and is con
sidered a m desirable piece of property.
Little Annie May Kaine, eleven years old, the
charming little daughter of J. 8. Raine Esq
a well known insurance agent, exhibits some
really excellent paintings for so young a child
and has been rewarded for her artistic labors
by the high commendations of many thou
sands of visitors.
The galleries are also made attractive by dis
p ays of antique bronzes, steel engravings and
lithographs, Joldjig tfeds, chairs and uphol
stery goads. Mcßride s rich exhibit of crockery
and glassware, aDd O. L. Braumuller’s musi
cai display as the representative of Messrs.
Ludden & Bates’great Southern music home
in Savannah. From the “branch house’’ in
At anta a most creditable exbinit ig maae, ona
that shows the ample resources and facilities
of this widely-known firm, whose displays at
fairs, expositions, etc., are never second to
those of any rival h use.
As I commenced th-s letter by a reference to
visitors who find more pleasure in Art Hall
than anywhere e’ee on tk** Imposition grounds,
so 1 closert hasimilar reference. Thousands
of visitors have found their chief delight in Art
Hall and their pleasantest recollections of the
Exposition will cluster around that soon to-be
deserted building.
The other and more substantial and practi
cal class of visitors will think but little of the
frivolity and dazzling exhibits of Art Hall, and
constantly refer to the grand exhibits of woods
and in the Railway building, and the
wondprrul improvements in cotton manufac
turing and agricultural implements seen in
the main building and its annexes.
Thus have both the visionary and the extrav
tke practical and tbe prudentbeen
provided for in the make up of the Exposition
The variety has given all classes something to
adtn . r t,? nd **? tatisfled with, and only the
most sfl y and weak minded have failed to
hi bits. 80111 * KOO<I from *b* TAriofisex
. In i5?J. , S5 B*s* a HVpf all the awards
in whioh Booth Georgia and Florida has anla
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ESTABLISHED 1850.
THE FRENCH WAR DEBT.
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Ita Magnitude, and Bow the Bor
den Waa Taken Ofl the Nation.
Paris Dispatch to London Times.
M. Mathieu Bodet, who filled the post
of Minister of Finance from July, 1874,
to March. 1875, and whose name is thus
associated with one of the most critical
epochs of French financial history, has
just published two portly volumes on
“Les Finances Francaises de 1870 a
1878” (Hacbette). The subject is inter
esting in the highest degree. The war
and the insurrection had left France al
most crushed under a total additional
debt of no less than £520,000,000,
£9,240.000 being the amount of the bur
den added by the vagaries of the Com
mune. The invasions of 1814 and 1815
left the country a legacy of no
small dimensions, viz: £99,200,000,
but this was not a fifth part of
the charges which resulted direct
ly from the war of 1870, without
reckoning the increase of the ordinary
army and navy estimates, which, after
the invasions of 1814 and 1815, were
even reduced from 500,000,000 francs to
208,000,000 francs. Tbe meeting of the
vast increment of expenditure entailed
by the event of 1871 was one of the
most marvelous financial feats on record.
A loan of 2,000,000,000 francs was con
tracted in 1871, and another of 8,000,000, •
000 francs in 1872. Notwithstanding the
enormous increase of taxation about to
become necessary, French and foreign
capitalists offered for the first 5,000,000,-
000 francs, and for the second upward of
43,000,000,000 francs. The government
had at the same time, and without delay,
to create new taxes to meet the new bur
dens consequent upon these loans, and
upon the reorganization of the vast mili
tary material and service which had
been shattered by the war. Twenty
eight million pounds sterling of new
revenue were needed to do this.
M. Mathieu Bodet describes how, with
a heavy heart, yet resolutely, the gov
ernment set about this ungrateful and
painful task. For four years they la
bored at it without flinching. Year
after year came dispiriting deficits. The
long discussions on the tax on raw ma
terials proposed by M. Thiers and re
jected by the National Assembly will
still be remembered. The scheme of
new taxes was at length completed in
1875. The ease with which they have
been borne, the ever increasing surpluses
which have made the post of Minister of
Finance such a grateful one to M. Mat
hieu Bodet’s successors, have since then
been the wonder of Europe. Although
the ordinary expenditure has been in
creasing, taxes have been remitted, and
already £12,000.000 out of the £28,000,-
000, which had to be added to the bur
dens of the country, have been dispensed
with. This history is told by M. Mathieu
Bodet with spirit, and the narrative has
the additional attraction of being the
work of one who was an eye witness of
the incidents he relates.
A Bigamist Confronted by Two Wives.
New York World.
"Colonel” Walter H. Chase, principal
of the High School at Huntington, Pa.,
who is charged with bigamy, was ar
rested at that place on Saturday night
on a bench warrant, after indictment, by
Detective Richard O’Connor, of the
District Attorney’s office, and brought
to this city. He was accompanied by
one of his wives. Mary J. Chase, wife
No. 1, who makes the charge, was mar
ried to Chase on February 22, 1876, at
Springfort, Michigan. On October 1
last Chase was married in this city to
Alice C. McElroy, a school teacher of
Medway, Massachusetts, who had run
away from home, by the Rev.
Robert Collyer. It is said that he
has a wife at Waltham, Mass,, and two
or three more in other parts of
the country. Chase claims to have been
on General Howard’s staff during the
war, and co have been wounded at the
battle of Gettysburg. The police say,
however, that the wound was received
during a brawl in a liquor saloon in Chi
cago. He was at one time principal of
the High School at Waltham, and at the
time of his arrest held a similar position
in Huntington. He wss compelled to
leave Medway, it is said, in consequence
of charges made against him that he had
attempted to corrupt some of the pupils.
"Colonel” Chase is thirty-six years old.
Two of his wives met at police headquar
ters Saturday, and it was as much as the
detectives could do to prevent them
from attacking him.
The extravagant sensationalism of
some of the popular preachers of New
York would be amusing if it did not so
closely border upon 'sacrilege. Their
Christmas discourses illustrate their
strange striving for effect. Mr. Henry
Ward Beecher is reported to have said
that when the final day shall come the
name of Gladstone will be written close
to the Saviour s. Mr. Robert Collyer is
recorded as naively remarking that he
trusted there was no harm in question
ing the literal truth of the story of the
birth of Jesus as found in the sacred
book of St. Matthew. Rev. D. Newton
appears &a observing to his hearers
" You believe to-day a little more firmly
in Christ because Mr. Frcthingham. is a
little more inclined to believe in Him.”
Dr. Bellows seems tp have been moved
to state that the dogma of the church as
to the return of the Son of Man upon
the earth in His human form had now
sunk to a mere tradition.
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