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Tx>*t ard Found, 10 f- ' Vo diners ,-, r l-s that 30 cent*, hy Post Office Order, r rToress, at onr risk, nsertion of any adver v- . -*■ cifled day or day*. nor . nmheretf insertions with hy the adyertiser. ... v 11. however, have their it-rrior.s when the time ~, hnt when accidentally left - -f j portions cannot he r - ;<j for the omitted lr . . rTf-t to the adyertiser. lM he a,tdressed, - All 1" J H. KPTITX., “sven-ah. Go. , f<J at the Pt Office lu Na ndi riss nr” 1 ” c-anria vnalrs. , . . Tt o?ro desperado who knocked . f Talbot county and libera “ ‘ r s in the jail, has been over - while sitting in h<s j { in Hook, in the lower ninth '' 'Vriwether county, last Sunday p„f*-ng to the right of his spine • , - the right hip. The wound, 1 . ,r. y fatal, is exceedinely " J n . i.as as yet been suspected of *V -n.ht u'ciock Wednesday night Fcott h ,.. t K hr: while in his house, near ' .‘j’ tl y „. nv unknown and disguised par {'■■ was wi ur.Jed in the side, but cot V. . : k-hear & McKay, cf Ihomas , u f twenty acres in Btrawle-rriea, and j or.. - large return* from their crop. irr . r - rersc nflmd in the t-'parta jail .. a j,..-.. in the wall of their cell, and, r- a r eof their blankets, let themselves , . ro r broke with the last one. who, -f lowing the others, reported the t -. j -t)th“.'heriff. yfu-jfr . ago a burglar succeeded in ef < - re.;, entrance into the smoke house of j re W H. I id. who resides in East Rome, and - u r -l *'' wi’h two hundred pounds of meat „ j twenty ral’ons of syrup. t :> . ~ -g of S. A. Tolbert, in Greensboro, tssf-i'err 1 and robbed on Wednesday night, yr. J*’ P. Hanison, of Atlanta, had two j:. v-hio-• ws stolen from bis farm on the * r l-u-- : r id Tuesday night, which were ti: at . The hides were found, but as y there is no trace of the thief. Asian named in Wilkes county, is rted 1.1 have married tue wife of aconvict j i: . .W•,• r. wao is serving a life sentence Fi- n.V ;L'tt r: ‘ Little Lora, daugh ar. met i'h a very seri : •-i •}- bv piercing her eye , ;t . i;- if sci sors. with which she wag •. ’-i int of the scissors penetrating ye ju;t in the edge of the - he cannot tell at pres f the iiijury, but has some h . rl- • tt.e ittlegirl will not entirely lose i;--e ier r.ii'lieofor; “Last Monday . n v a colored sixteen year ol<l r . ,f tlieThi-ii district, while bearing off luru er, stepped tver the circular saw r ' c war in moti n. The teeth catchi g v. vci " his le't foot at the instep and ••■••bft ‘eg. be-ides inflicting gfatfkd cut®. The wound ti f i iv.* a' las' accounts, but will cer ait- j : <•: - irrive his iojiiries.” K iSth: “George Trammell was ly .iftemoon under a warrant : •sih r an. chareing him with warraat alleges that TrasasaaU - uia flne gold watch andeb -in, nii;-d .• -j George was carried before * in] km. and the parti*B not be . f i,l, the case wras continued s in_- the defendant being in lun era b <nd of $300.” Au.->*a.V -v 21th “At toon to day a seri rc 1 o.i Broad street, oppo . i a which Mr. Wto Paint . -i*e i and injured A horse tied am alley n-ir K' gers’ store broke loose and into Broad street, and, plunging *. -tre t, upset a buggy in t Hr P i -r was driving. Mr. Painter's knech'i not , in but as bis buggy was turned iw he ws tadiy bruised in the fall.” m A. ii ; id .tdrerfiser.'dtth: “Yesterday a z - *un-e Ji n Miller and Charley SilCrf t* • colored lab >rers on Mr F. L. tniattoo. near thiscity. had a difll (Bityiow.. s ' used their kmvee. They v irse trough and Charley ) n Miller to the field and M :rr wa badly cut just under thr iler i.iudv and was brought to town - *" for repairs. Walker received otiy i slight sr iund n the face.” s-r.v-v.-r l i/nii.-lfor; “On Sunday night, t. •; t:. n- : ic Kvans, of the middle Ninth tfenct wt.- :ivj w.in Mr Z B. Reid, near (hhaod. was shot at>out # o'clock while re t* in his buggy. The ball struck if. s i.vercoat. nhMh was fo<ded .on the tewf and passed t-..- 'iff, ,t in >evend places. Mr. Evans had her home from church ■■l tly ri i / h iinc when fired upon. 1 ' the would h- assassin has yet been Ditaand.” k A-irrrtiter nnd Appeal : ‘"The -n t iy. Cape Anthony. HFtured tl is week a seventy barrel whale, t>ut fcl- ir harbor. This will certainly 1.. t ws figure a little on srrels, about 2.130 gallons ' -i . - How is thnj f rone xi - u.. uncerstanti that quite a shoal i were playiag about the i y this week One of our pilot boats non* them and watched their rtey ere : iing a good time gener- A-y.atddid -ci • loud bellowing.' 1 - l v .'ith: “OnSaturday last Mrs. i laughter, of Marianna, who f —n > - , g friu.da in this ci>y left for • mer Wylly. When they ugthey had occasion to r -of their trunks and it could e t uni. nor has any clue to its where s oe-n reached yet. It was put on the ’ .1 cage wagon, and It is w th the baggage of some j -i --riv mistake, who will return * - rv nuir.e i much valuable cloth- Kf >li! l"*elry, aio.. eg the latter two gold • , irteU§: “On Sunday last, 1 * v.V;i* Ellis committed an as “ 'fT Amis (v! colored and all re ■ nwardi’ p aw. near town), t painful ec 1 s rious injuries. Her jTV 1 s *- ■ --ht before Judi?e McDaniel *yaay last upon a warrant charging them jwMsaui: an j battery, and. after a prelimi v: ' er- hound or-r to appear at the mtr Court—the bond of * 1 '* r twenfv-flve dollars and -at fl'tjr dollars. The woman r t'ily injured that she had to be court room on a stretcher. ' -am the origin of the difficulty.” Anr * "nd Advertiser: “At last the roe d'-ranfred French 1 ' ;n !in the woods in Worth y . ' ‘Has been confined first in the e - . Uiea in the county jail of this t,*. • o’“d up and her identity and Hr. W. E Atwater, i liaLuaiie Aayium. at a;*,.' . " j rriM in the city yesterday. rr ss a Mrs. Oareese, 1 ■ • - .x-oia, in tiiat ter husbnnd. and who tar, j. itiea within the first ■tit-'*, r- "'** ’ r h ‘ r 'rap fsonment. The u -1 ciring the Christmas holi " .a l wanderel in the woods thus fc>. ‘ '■* ov-r tour hundred miles be * ' 45 wpuired a few days since.” lrj‘ ;T ' “Monday last ii .'lit Roberts flushed four :v . Vr f " r * with'n a few hundred bs.. ~ “ !'tlm r's house The tur - >rt distance, when one ix 'A s-parated from the other ' -rs took alter him. Messrs. c.tving on horse*. The tt ’tie od Calmer plantation - “ r ‘ •' place, crossed the road fe took across a big new ■ 2U the Lane four.mile plan . Boyce fldMifil nlare to L *■ - 1 crossing through J>r.Hunters ' -f into Mr. T. M. Green’s caught hint. The total 4 . . 1 “ turkey was seven or eight ri!r ‘ almost the entire distance. ' a short space once or twice.” • -’lth: “Bob Hall, alias r was called for yesterday by •* .. in . of Houston county. Bob J- i c way robbery, hia partner in ht’?T- 8 rl * c *° the penitentiary for ersonal appearance cor r, tne description given of the as &T’ured by Mr. G, L. Abner •4. e- wiiiie burglaruing the store *v.- • ." , I,n upper Oglethorpe street, " st h in.st, and who it will be •ftsi .. J' ' :l oed from them before they v'tard house, though Mr. Abner *S*y Mr. Abner was sent for 8 ... . • and recogn aed him at _ tie anxious to vindicate bis s'-s u ‘ 1 '* Bob’s shirt taken iff, Jch ;■ " '. f ll ndto be full of shot, the *i i • :i •••’' v not yet healed Officers *> i 1 le th;' he is the buck who - -win Beach’s ppeketbooklast k • v '''. rise: “As announced s?* i leg erected on the , - ’ ! JeiTerwon mroots. by i. v 3s- ■. < mn:unity, waa dedica *r TV • ■ Augustine on last b -.’tv •. H . , “ jn was private, but was W. if. Gross, Bishop “O Re*. J. L. Hugon, of ** C C. who -. ,tX <$ the <*hurdft. After the Sr WAS fill*, to overflowing, k: 0 * 1 th t tickets had been issued to pUaf, V a cowd. Mass was celebra . , t Pteai lied by the Bishop. The K by a choir composed as a K_„ rant, frganlst; Mrs W. E. >Uri WUMmSrSi M? Übbjr; ptfltming J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. of this place. Mrs. Mock, Mi-s Thornbury, Mr. F.gan and Mr. Honssy, of Albany. The small number of Catholics here have labored hard and have succeeded in erecting a very neat and tasty bui ding, and one that reflects credit on their taste as well as their efforts and labors in putting up the building.” Brunswick Advertiser and Appeal: “On Tuesday last, as Mr. James Whitlock, yard engineer of the East Tenne-see, Virginia and Gr-o-gia Railroad, was transferring the engine Georgia, recent y purchase by Mr. J. H. Mc- Cullough, of this city, from the East Tenessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, from the ‘old depot’ to Mr McCullough's dock, he met with an accident which cost him his life. He was on the engine A. H. Colquitt, with the Georgia coupled to it (both backing), having with him Mr. St Clair, the fireman, w hilst the yar • mas ter was on the Georgia Leaving the old de pot, he increased his speed, and, by tbetime he passed Mr. Rlsley’s place, was moving, from ail accounts, abou thirty or forty miles an hour. Just beyond this point, where the track be gins to curve, his engine left the rails, and, before he could either shut off steam, re verse his lever or put on air-brakers, capsized and became a perfect wreck. The tender was thrown completely over and ends reversed, and the engine itself thrown across the track, burying the engineer underneath it. Mr. Ft. Clair held on until the engine capsized, and then escaped, he knows not how, somewhat bruised and slightly scalded with steam. A negro > oy who had been enjoying a free ride was hurled into the air and came down with a cut hand. The engine Georgia stuck to the track as long as there was any track to stick to. and was finally stopped by running into the wreck of the Colquitt, and, strange to say, her only passenger, the yard master, was not scratched, although her tender was somewhat bunged up.” Athens Banner: “According to Henry Grady—and no one will deny that Henry knows —we are to have anew cotton factory at AJhens. In a letter to the Constitution, from New York, he says: ‘A cotton factor, with a capital of $1,50 ,0.10 will be built near Athens this year A business firm of this city with connections in Atlanta has taken $50',000 of the stock, and the mill will bear the name of the head of this firm. It will be the largest m’ll in the Btate. The .stock is all taken ’ I* tins the Inman Company, which, a shor - time since, expected to build a factory at Augustaf Whoever the company may be, Athens will give them a cordial welcome.” Atlanta Constitution, 24th : “Among the pas sei gers who were leaving the city on the State Koad train was an elderly gentleman from Gwiarett county, named Perkins. His general appearance plainly indicated the fact that he was not up in the wicked ways of the world and marked him as a subject for the sharper He was en route to Round Rock, Texas, and was supplied with a through tick-t to that point as well as with an abundance of money to see him there and back. Long before the train was ready to pullout from the car shed Mr. Perkins entered the coach aud took a seat. In a short time a young man well dressed came in and sat down near him. Soon the two began conversing, when the young man an nounced the fact that he was going to Round Rock. Texas. This pleased Mr. Perkins, and the two instantly became friends, aud Mr. Per kins was told ail about Round Roce by his new* friend, who claimed to reside there. Jus: before 'he train started a young man with a handful of papers came into the coach and going up to Mr Perkins’ con pan on ask-d him if his name was Jones, Upon receiving an affirmative answer he drew a bill from his pocket and said. My name is Adams. lam engaged at the express office. Here is a bill for some goods you have shipped to Round Rock, Texas; we must have the money. ISA), or the goods cannot go.’ 'ls that so?' re sponded Mr. Jones as he drew from his pocket his purse. ‘Hut the manager told me 1 could pay at the other end. However, one time is as good as'another.’ Just then the conduc or shouted all aboard.and the express clerk called upon Mr. Jones to hurry. Him Mr. Jones an nounced that he had but $1 oin money, but handed the clerk a $l,CO<) United States bond and asked th* clerk for the change The clerk did not have the change, but suggested that Mr. Perkins cmld change it. Mr. Perkins could not. Then Mr. Jon-s said: ‘Take this bond and let me have sllO unt‘l I see my wife, who is in the sleeper. I will then return it and get the bond. Mr Perkins took the bond. It was new and c*isp. and had the appearance of being good. U>* put it in his pocket, and gave Mr. Jones sllO in bank notes. Sir. Jones gave these to the express clerk, wli > was moving toward the door ofthe moving train Mr. Jones followed, asking for his receipt He and the clerk dis appeared through the coor, and wuh them went Mr Perkins’ sllO. Before the train reached the fair grounds Mr. Per i r s began to wonder where Mr. Jones was He was not uneasy, however, for he had a SI.OO- U ited States bond. With this thought he pulled it from his pocket and began looking at it At first it locked all right, but a close scrutiny disclosed the fact that it had never been signed, and was consequently worthless. Captain Bagby La* the bond and Mr. Perkins’ descrip tion of (he express clerk and Mr Jones He hopes scon to have the two confidence men al-o.” KRIEF .NEWS SUMMARY. A large buoy, sup nosed, tom marks upon It, to beloDg to the United States Lighthouse Department, has been washed ashore at Land’s End. The discovery is reported of a “rich gold bearing belt” In Chtlcot county, British Columbia, above the sixtieth parallel of latitude, just back of tbe Alaska line. The Presbyterian churches of Chicago have appointed committees to confer with other churches, “with a view to closing tbeaties od Sunday, and putting a stop to indecent performances.” In Qaice’s mills, Rancocas, New Jersey, a few deys ago, a mill baDd named Scott was caught between two large wheels revolving in opposite directions and was literally torn apart, his arms and feet being pulled off. The east wind and the severe cold of the past few days have jammed the ice in the river at Quebec, and several persona have crossed on foot. It Is believed that the ice bridge is a fixture for the rest of the win ter. All the gambling hells in Chicago were closed a few nights ago for tbe first time in the history of that city. One of the largest of the dens was shut by tbe police in the afternoon, and the paraphernalia confis cated. Tne House Committee on Naval Affairs have agreed to the report of its sub commit tee recommending an Immediate approprl ■- tion of 9 10,000,000 to begin the construction of anew navy. A sub committee was ap pointed to prepare a bill in accordance with the views embodied in the report. The House Committee on Private Land Claims have agreed to report favorably a bill for tbe Issue of laud scrip to Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines in lieu of about thirty-seven thousand acres of land in Louisiana, hereto fore claimed by her as heir to General Gaines, the title to which has been judicial ly confirmed to other parties. William B. Twombly, while crossing Lake Champlain on tbe ice with his 13-year-old son and als year-old girl during a furious snow squall, drove his horses and s'eigh Into an open piece of water. Mr. Twombly wa9 picked out unconscious, and his son, who was kicked by one of the horses, was dead when taken from the water. The girl was uninjured. THE EGOMANIAC. A Rumor that He Had Been Shot Unfounded. A Washington dispatch, dated February 24, says it was rumored on tbe street this afternoon that Gutreau, the assassin, had been shot. The rumor was unfoundedl as at 1 o’clock the egomaniac was taking his exercisa !o the corridor and anxiously watching the door leading to the rotunda for visitors, in tbe expectation of selling photographs or autographs. He is confined on the east side of the south wing of tie jail, does not look so shabby since he donned his new suit of blue cloth, and In the afternoon, when he 13 allowed tbe use of the corridor lor pedes trian exercise, walks In a lively way, and seems to be rapidly regaining bis spirits and fleet). A 8 h* B been hereto fore atated, whenever he is kept to himself foy a few days he goes down in health and becomes feverish and ill-natured. Allowing him to see visitors occasionally he soon regains his tone. Among the few persons admitted to see him yesterday were two ministers. The most of 'he conversation with them was as to bis improved looks and bis photographs. He took one oi the fac similes of the flat tened bullet shot at him Uy Bergeant Mson, and, bolding up a photograph and putting himself in position, satd it was perfectiy wonderful that the ball should have made such a good likeness. The ministers had sotae little conversation of a spiritual ebar*- seter with him, in which he said he was a Christian and was endeavoring to live as one. As w*e leaving he passed out a card on which he badf written; “I offer this sentiment: The Republicm party, ©reck ed by Garfield: saved by Gulteau’s inspire tion and Arthui ’s statesmanship ” He does not seem to be inclined to talk of his case much now, and such conversation with visitors is prohibited. Commercial Oneness of the World. —Each day’s experience adds new proof of the commercial oneness of the world under modern methods and appliances, PaT 5 * seemed quite a distance off and totallv disuni;*” l with America a month ago. but we awoke one morning suddenly to learn that she was r<_„ v our next door .neighbor.-—Afcte York Finan cial Chronicle. Melon? .Tien. “WeUfl* Health Renewer,” greatest reme dy on earth for impotence, leanness, sexual debility, etc. fll, at druggists. Depot, Os ceola Butler, Savannah. BISHOP LYNiH DEAD. A Long Life or Usefulness Ended. Charleston, 8. C , February 26 —Right Rev. Patrick N. Lynch, Roman Catholic Bishop of Charleston, died this morning:, aged 65. He was consecrated in 1658. Bishop Lynch was much beloved by all classes In the community, and w%s eminent for his scientific learning no less than for his theological attainments. The death of Bishop Lynch was a surprise and a shock to the entire community, and the announcement was received by all classes with profound regret. He had undergone a surgical operation In Boston In 1877 for a complicated disease of the kidneys, which, however, afforded only temporary relief, and, although his physicians warned him that a continuance of the labors imposed on him by his position was dangerous to his life, he labored to the end. Saturday afternoon about five o’clock he was suddenly thrown in f o a comatose state, and his physicians having been sent for an operation was performed without giving relief, and he continued to sink until 10:30 this morning, when he breathed bis last. Sine* the war Bishop Lynch has nearly paid off a debt of over $200,000, which hung over the diocese, and has expended and furthered the interests o? the church by his administration. The Veryß-v. D. J.Quigley, the Vicar General, has charge of the diocese until the new Bishop Is appointed. The remains, to-day, lay in state in the episco pal residence and were visited by thousands of persons of all classes and sects. This afternoon at six o’clock they were conveyed in solemn procession, headed by the clergy, to the Cathedral chapel, where they will lie in state until Wednesday next, when the last rites will be held. Invitations have been telegraphed to Cardinal McClos key, who Is expected to be here, and to Archbishop Gibbon and all the Bishops in the province of Baltimore, which includes the dioceses of West Virginia, Richmond, Wilmington. Del., Savannah, Bt. Augustine and North Carolina, and a namber of oth ers. The remains will be interred by the side of Bishops England and Reynolds in the Cathedral Cemetery. THE UTAH PROBLEM. A Protest from the mormon Legis lature. Salt Lake City, February 26 —The Legislature yesterday adopted a memorial to Congress, the opening paragraph of which Is as follows: “We, your memorialists, of the Legislative Assemtily of the Territory of Utah, respect fully represent that in consequence of base less rumors and monstrous exaggerations the peop'e whom we represent have been placed In jeopardy and are now threatened with deprivation of the right of local self govern ment. Persons, whose aim Is to gain con trol of this now wealthy and prosperous territory and manipulate Its finances, have succeeded in arousing the ire of the clergy, aud through them the anger of many peo tde against the large majority of citlz-n* of Urab, and thus pressure has been brought to hear upon your honorable body, which shows its rff-cts in the proposed measures, containing provisions utterly at vsrisnee wi’h the fundamental principles of republican government and which, while ostensibly aimed at the marriage relations of but a small portion of the people, will, if carried into effect, deprive the whole Terri tory of 'he vested rights secured to It. by the organization act and the Constitution of the United States.” The memorial then denies at ereat length everything ever charged against, the Mor mons. and amuses the representatives of the Federal Government in Utah o' every sppeies of wrong doing possible to officers or men. DEAD IN A DITCH. A quack Doctor to Have Been murdered iu Virginia. Petersburg, February 26.— From infor mation received here it is supposed tha' a foul murder was committed In Southampton county last Friday nigh', the victim being Samuel Hill, a quack doctor. When found Hill was In his night clo’hes lying in a ditch near his house. There was a bullet bole In the back of his neck, ar o'her In his back and an abrasion of the skin on the forehead, as if caused by tbe blow of a heavy cudgel. The bouse ii which Hill livad was found burned to the ground. Some days previous to the mur der a colored patient for whom Hill had prescribed died. It was charged that be had been poisoned by Hill, and the suppo sition cow is that the doctor was murdered by the dead man’s friends. TROUBLE IN TEXAS. A Lynching, and a Demand for the Puniahmeut of the Lynchera. St. Louis, February 26 —A special from Gattsvlile, Texa9, says that a few days ago a mob in the western part of the county took a young man named Dering, under ar rest on suspicion of horse stealing, from an officer and lynched him. Yesterday one hundred armed men from the neighborhood of the victim’s home came Into town and demanded that the parties engaged in the lynching be arrested, or they would take tbe law in their hands. The Sheriff then arrest ed Bob Leverett and his two sons, and Is now alter several more of the lynching mob. Weather Indication*. Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash ington, D.C., February 26. —Indications for Monday: In tbe South Atlantic tt'ates, cloudy weather with local rains, winds mostly easterly, stationary or higher temperature and lower pressure. In the Middle Atlantic S'ates, fair weather, followed by Increasing cloudiness, warmer, south rly winds, stationary or lower pressure. In the Gulf States, cloudy weather with loca' rains, winds mostly easterly,' station ary or higher temperature and lower pres sure. In Tennessee and Ohio valley and Lake region, cloudy weather with local rains, winds mostly southerly, stationary or higher temperature and generally lower pressure. Steamer Burned— Four Drowned. Vicksburg, Miss., February 26 —The steamboat Bertie Clalborn was burned to the water’s edge to-day a' Whiting Lake Land log, S'eele’B bayou. Her cargo, consisting of 166 bales of cotton and 300 sacks cotton seed, was totally destroyed. The loss Is $15,000. The insurance Is not known. One negro man and three children were drowned. The Chlnste Problem. Ban Francisco, February 26 —Prepara- tions are being made for a grand mass meeting, irrespective of politics, to be held here Saturday afternoon, for the purpose of expressing the sentiment of the substantial business men or the community in favor of the anti-Chinese bill now pending in Con g.~e;s. The Survivor*. St. Petersburg, February 26 —Lieuten ant Danenhower, who Is still suffering from an affection of the eyes, has been forbidden by his physician to start for Bt. Petersburg until the weather gets warmer. Tde re mainder of the survivori of the Jeannette will therefore start without him. The War on Polrgimy. Knoxville, Txnn., February 26. A large anti-Mormon mass meeting was held to-night at the opera bouse. Resolutions were adopted denouncing polygamy and demanding its suppression by Congress. Tbe meeting was addressed by ex Postmaster General Horace Maynard and other promi nent citizens and ministers. Big Ulnae al Mijr-i'i. Augusta, Ga , February 26 —A fire at U&zey’s originated In the rear room of the Crickmire House. The house and stock were consumed. The stock was insured. Two other stores were destroyed. The loss is serious to a small community. Only one business house js lefj. standing. Jail Breaking lu Tex**- Galveston, February 2fi. —A special from LaGrange says that the Jail there was broken open on Friday night, and od* J. M. g M -**on was killed by Deputy Sheriff Rn kln. One prisoner For ail pulmonary, urinary and digestive diseases, and affections of the heart and brain, use Brown’s Irofi Bitters. It strength ens every part, and cures by its soothing and refreshing effect. SAVANNAH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1882. SATURDAY IN THE HOUSE. Woman SufiTrege— IHetrlc surer Coin age—Steamship Subsidies—The Pos tal Appropriation Bill Passed. Washington, February 25.—1n the House the Committee on Rules reported a resolu tion for the appointment of a select com mittee of nine, to which are to be referred all petitions, bills and resolutions asking for the extension of suffrage to women and the removal of their legal disabilities. Mr. Houk raised the point of order that under the rules the resolution must lie over one day. The Speaker overruled the point of order and the resolution was adopted by a vote of 115 to 85—almost a party vote. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, from the Com mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, reported a bill to authorize the coinage of sliver dollars and fractions tberrof of full standard value on the metric system. Re ferred to the committee of the whole. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, from the Com mittee on Post Offices aud Post Roads, re por’ed a hill to provide for ocean mail eer vice be'ween the United States and foreign ports. Printed and recommitted. The H'>use then went Into committee of the whole on the post office appropriation bill, ad amendment was adopted that there shall be no more official stamps printed, but that, all correspondence on official busi ness shall be transmitted in penalty envel opes. Considerable discussion ensued over the motion to strike out of the clause appro priating ba'f a million dollars for necessary and special facilities on trunk lines the words “on trunk lines,” so as to leave it in the discretion of the Postmaster General to secure special facilities on any line. The amendment was rejected without division. The committee arose and reported the bill to the House. A amendment authorizing the Postmaster General in the case of sub letting of mail contracts on star routes, to declare the original contract forfeited, and to enter into a contract, with the sub-con traetor. Agreed to—ll 2to 79. The bill then passed. The House at 5:15 adjourned. THE LAND ACT. Tbe Proposed Committee of Itiqulry Criticised. London, February 25 —ln the House of Lords last evening Lord Salisbury stated that the objects of the committee appointed to inquire into the workings of the land act had been misrepresented. He said it would neither try the Land Commissioners, nor seek to repeal the act. Any change must be in the direction of redressing the wrongs of landlords rather than diminishing any thing which the tenants may have acquired by the act. The Daily News points to the tignificance of certain remarks of the Marquis of Ltnds downe, who is no votary of the land act. He pointed out that the committee, formed mainiy of the landlords, was not likely to be regarded as a very impartial tribunal to Investigate the workings of the ad devised In the interest of tenants. The Times says a House of Lords committee cannot possl bly arrive at any useful conclusion. It is already hopelessly discredited by the fact, that, it does not represent, the House of Lords, but only a section of it. The House of Commons went into a committee of supply at 6 o’clock last even ing, when the Iri*h members seized the op portunity to attack Mr. Forster’s adminis iration of coercive action. Oi a discussion of tbe vote for the Irish constabulary, which was ul'imately carried by a vote of 183 to 18, the sitting was prolonged till #:2O o’clock this morning. VIRGINIA’S JUDGES. Five Selected—Tlie sixth Vacancy Disputed. Richmond, February 25. —The General Assembly to-day elected five Judges of the Bupreme Court. Night before last the Democrats nominated aDd voted for their candidates in each case, except in the ease of Mr Hinton, who was elected to succeed Judge E. C. Burks. The Democrats claimed that the term of servlet of Judge Burks would not expire on January Ist next, as did the terms of the other four Judges, and that he had nearly six years yet to serve. They, therefore, refrained from voting, and a considerable amount of skirmishing around for absentees had to be done before a quorum of each house could be obtained. In the Senate, members submitted a pro res' against the election of a successor to Judge Burks, because they did not consider 'hat. the time had arrived for 60 doing, and they were so sustained in this belief by the Supreme Court i'self. They asked to have the protest spread upon the journal, but It was ruled out of order by the President pro tem., and an appeal from bis ruling wa6 taken, which was discussed until adjourn ment without action. French Politics. Paris, February 25.—1n the Chamber of Deputies to day, M. Gabelet, Minister of the Interior and of Worship, replying to M. Pradon, said the reports that the members of the dis.-oived religious confraternities had returned to France, were inaccurate or exag gerated. He said measures have been taken to uphold tbe decrees for their dissolution. The bill introduced by M. Lirard, Minister of Commerce, rela'ive to imported English goods, was adopted without discussion. It authorizes the prolongation of the present treaty till May 16. The June meeting of the St. Leula Jockey Club. St. Louis, February 2*.— Two hundred and fifty-four entries, representing Ken tucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Colorado, Illi nois, Michigan, Louisiana, lowa, Alabama, Texas, Ohio, Mississippi, South Carolina and the District of Columbia, have been received for the stakes to be run at the June meeting of the St. Louis Jockey Club. A Railroad Gap to be Cloned. Cincinnati, February 25.— The contract for building the gap of fifty miles in the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas Railroad, belongtug to the Rrlaoger system, extend ing from Arcadia to Shreveport, was to-day signed here by the contractors, Messrs. Rogers, Rexford <fc James, of New York and New Orleans, whose office is at Shreve port. The road is to be completed by No vember 1,1882. Tbe noTrmenl for short Time. London, February 25. —The Secretary of the Blackburn Cotton Spinners’ and Manu facturers’ Association, which includes the Blackburn, Accrington, Darwen, Hastlng den, and several smaller towns, has received twenty nine replies to the circular proposing short time. Of these, twenty-three are favorable to the movement. From the Overflowed Diatrict*. Skipwith, Miss., February 25—W. F. Anderson &Cos , who have been working for a few days repairing the "worst places in the levee, say the reports of high water and the condition of the levees in this part of the Mississippi bottom are partly un founded. The Ben Lamond levee, so often reported broken, Is still intact. Conkllnu’a Appointment to tbe Su preme Bench. Utica, N. Y., February 26. —Oonkling will not be Interviewed. His friends can only say the nomination by the President was a surprise to him, and he appeared, so far as there was any appearance at all, to be avoree to its acceptance. The World’* Cotton Bupply, New York, February 2Jj—The total visi ble supply of Gotton for the world Is 8,134,- 105 bales, of which 2,457,919 is American, against 2,926,450 and 2,491,096 respectively last year. Cotton mill* Burned. London, February 25.—E. A. Hargreaves’ cotton mills, at Patricoff, Lancashire, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is £65,000. Five thousand bands are thrqwp ojjtof cm plovment. Colliatou lu tbe Black Sea. London, February 25.—A dispatch from Constantinople says the Russian steamer Wes'a has b, en sunk In a collision In th* Black sea. It Is said all on board perished. Bad Weather. Rio de Janeiro, February 25.—Bad weather, both here and at Santos, damaged the roads, causing considerable reduction lu the arriyals of coffee from the interior. The Loss by the Recent Wheeling Fir*. Wheeling, W. Va., February 25.—The k>.6 by yesterday’s fire Is f40,00o; Insurance I had severe I"!:* 8 oI W l * nd trouble ; was unable to get any medicine £? doctor to cure me until I used Hop Bitters, and they cured me in a short time. —A Dis tinguished Lavtxss of Wains Cos., N. 1., THE AUTOCRAT’S REALM. The Nihilists* Trial—Fifteen Expect ed to be Doomed. London, February 25. —A Bt. Petersburg dispatch says: “In the trial yesterday Isnieff declared that he prepared the dyna mite used lu the mine at the Winter Palace, but did not know for what purpose it was intended. Emlllanoff declared that all the statements of the deceased Goldenberg were untiue, and that Gen. Melikoff, when at the head of affairs, was in direct commu nication with the Nihilists through a lady. Hereupon the Minister of Justice ordered a protocol drawn up on this Important point.” A dispatch from Bt. Petersburg by way of Berlin says: “During Thursday’s proceed ings at the trial of the Nihilists several of the prisoners made very full statements, and In consequence of their admissions many of the witnesses were excused from further attendance. It appears that Trlgoni had only a very slight connection with the pro ceedings of the Nihilists, being merely aware of their designs. “Suchanow, during his examination, drew such a vivid picture of the abnormal social conditions that had driven him, an honor able, sensitive maD, to a career of crime, that even the Judges were deeply affected. “Jakimova acknowledged the truth of the charges brought against her. “Jenecker, who is uneducated, admitted being a terrorist, but was unable to define the aims of that party. “Merksloff continued his endeavors to incriminate bla associates. All of the ac cused declared that they were Socialists, and were willing to carry on a peaceful propaganda, but that they had been driven to ilipgal acts by the government’s cruelties. It is believed tbe judgment will be delivered on Monday, and that fifteen of the prisoners will be condemned to death.” Bt. Petbksrdrg, February 25 —The Her ald says : “Precautions have been taken to prevent, henceforth, high Russian public servants from taking tbe liberty of discuss ing matters of State policy on their own ac count. It is hoped this authoritative an nouncement will induce the foreign press, aud especially the press of the neighboring empire, to cease using hostile and offensive language towards Rus*la.” St. Petersburg, February 26.—1n the Nihilist trial on Thursday Meljanoff, who is charged with throwing the fourth bomb at the late Emperor, proved by the evidence of witnesses that he was at home on the 13 h of March until 5 o’clock in the after noon, andjwas informed of the assassination by the occupants of his house. The case for the prisoners was concluded at 2 o’clock In the afternoon, when tbe reading of the documents connected with the charge was proceeded with by desire of the prisoners and concluded. M. Mouraviefi commenced for the prosecution on Friday. The Min ister of Justice is present dally. New York Stock market. New York, February 25 —Share specula tion opened strong and }4 to 2 per cent, higher for the general list than the closing prices of yesterday, the latter for Houston and Texas and Alton and Terre Haute, while Richmond and Danvile was 4 and Boston Air Line preferred3 percent, higher. During the entire forenoon the market was irregular and unsettled, the most important changes taking place in Louisville and N*shville,;whlch advanced o}£ and reached 1% per Nashville ana Chattanooga, wuicb advanced 2 and fell off 1 per cent ; S'.. Louis and San Francisco preferred, which advanced Hannibal and ct. Joe preferred 2. Alton and Terre Haute pre ferred Ohio Central 1%, Memphis and Charlesti n I>£ per cent., while St. Paul de clined 1 and Richmond and Dauv.lle 4 per cent. At noon there was a general downward tendency. Between the boards the market recorded an advance of %to 1 % per cent, Louisville and Nashville, Hanmoal and St. J > preferred, Wabah preferred, Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific being the most prominent in the downward movement. In the late dealings the market sold up to 4 per cent.., R chmond and Danville, Louis ville and Nashville,- Lake Shore, Missouri Pacific, Wabash common and preferred, Nashville and Chattanooga, Denver and Rio Grande, and Erie common being the most prominent in the advance. Richmond and Danville fell off 2 aud Lake Shore % P* r cent. In tbe final dealings the market closed strong, at about the highest figures of the day. Transactions aggregated 450,000 shares. Stock* lit London. London, February 25 —The Economist says : “The rare of discount for bank bills, sixty days to three months, is 3% to 3% per cent., and for trade bills, sixty (lays to three months, 4% to 43< per cent. Tbe speech of G-nerai Skobslt ff has counteracted the good effect of the reduction of the rates of dls count by leading European banks. The feellDg of uneasiness has Increased, both in Germany and in Austria. Prices showed a tendency to revive on Friday. “In Americans Louisville aod Nashvillede cllned 14, St. Louis and San Francisco pre ferred 10, Ban Francisco common and Cairo and Vincennes common preferred 6 each, Denver and Rio Grande and Wabash pre ferred 5 each, Wabash ordinary and St. Louis Bridge preferred 4 each, Erie prefer red, Ohio and Mississippi and Oregon and California preferred 3 each, Central Pacific, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern 2 each, Anglo-American cable 1, deferred pre ferred 2, rollon Futures m New York. New York, February 25. The Post's cotton market report says . “Future de liveries at the first call sold 11 to 13-100 dearer. The second and last calls showed a further improvement of 6 100 to 7-100, and after the call the inquiry was brisk enough to enable sellers to obtain still 4 100 to 5 100 higher prices. Then the demand fell off and sellers had to give way a few points. Thts led to a revival, and the sale* of the day sum up 182,000 bales. The mar ket closed firm, March to September in clusive 20 100 to 23 100, higher than yester day. The chief buying has been for cover ing, but as usual speculators profited bv tbs movement and helped on the advance.” Fstused to Strike. Bolton, February 25.—A ballot of cotton operatives as to the advisability of striking for an increase of 5 per cent, in wages re sulted in 327 votes for and 1,103 against the strike. Notices for an advance In wages were, therefore, at once withdrawn. A BLAST FIRED BY LIGHTNING. Several Workmen Injured by a Premature Exploalon. New York Times. 222. A number of persons who passed th* gates at the Hoboken ferry last evening re ported to officer Flattery, who was off duty there, that forty men had been killed at one of the shafts of the Dew tuunel of the New York, Qatario and Western Railposd lu Weehawken, by an eiploeion. The Bto>y went from month to mouth till it had be come generally reported all over the city and Jersey City. Wherever Inquiry was made the number of killed was variously stated at from twenty three to forty. A re porter of the 7\mes went at once to the scene of the accident and learned that there had been an explosion at shaft No. 1 of the tunnel, but that, so far from there having been the appalling loss of life reported, no one had been killed, though about half a dc*en men had been Injured. The blasts at the tunnel ere fired by elec tricity. During the thunder storm just be fore six o’clock last evening the ligh’nlng struck the wires and exploded the charge In one of the blasts. About ten men stood near at tbe time preparing to fire the blast, and six of them were struck by flying frag ments of rock. Louis Falk, tbe foreman of the laborers, was badly cut on the head and shoulders. 4 man named Curley, another named Connolly, and James Lynch, with two others whose names could not be learned, were also somewhat Injured. Lynch was removed to St. Mary’s Hospital in Ho boken. His skull is thought to have been fractured, and he may die, but the physi cians hope to save his life. Tbe others were taken to their homes and med'cal at tendance was procured. At one o'clock this morning men were at worfc In the 6baft as though nothing unusual had happened there during the day. Brutally Murdered.— A dispatch from Rice, Texas, dated the 22d iast., says that “the community was shocked this morning at the announcement “of the murder of J. W. Norris, postmuster and a leading merchant. About po’clock two men came to Norris’ house, and asked him to go to the store and sell Ibew some goods. In 7 a ‘fety moments hjs wifp heard two pistol shots, but thought it was nothing more than coun try boy* leaving town, Her husband soon staggered into the house, saying that tbe two men had shot him and that they were strangers to him. He died im mediately after this statement. The murderers iTS iarge, but every effort is being made to ferret out their iden tity.” WATERMELON CULTURE. The Value of tftie melon Crop—Sug gestions as to Tbelr Cultivation. Editor Morning Nsws ; To the person wedded to the “all cotton” system of planting, the culture of watermelons no doubt seems to be worthy of very slight consideration. Yet when it is known that hundreds of thousands of watermelons grown in Richmond county alone (without calculating the large number grown in other portions of this Btate and of Florida) are annually ship ped from the city of Augusta, a faint idpa of the value of that crop can be formed. It is a crop that matures and is mar keted at a time when money is scarce with the average farmer, and is very valuable on that account alone, without taking Into con sideration the question of great profit when well grown Of course, like other crops, the price obtained is regulated bv the law of “supply and demand.” and ttrobablv to a much rreater extent than crops that are loss perishable. I propose, with the permission of the con ▼ention, to give the mode of cultivation that prevails in Richmond county. Georgia—the county so long and so justly celebrated for the large size and fine quality of its watermelons In mv opinion, the best land for a melon patch is a sandy loam, and. if possible, select a piece that has been “Ivjng out” and has grown up in broom sedge or young pines. Plow it thoroughly during the winter, haying first burned off the grass, as the ashes of the grass seem to correct any acidity of the soil. “Lay it off” twelve feet one way. by ten or twelve the other. Dig a hole about eighteen Inches or two feet in diameter and about ten or twelve inches deep, drawing the top soil out on one side of the hill and the subsoil out on the other side. All this operation can be done during the winter or early spring. As early as possible in the winter prepare a com post of about three-quarter stable manure and one-quarter cotton seed, to be used as a fertili zer for the melons. About the middle of March put two shovelfuls of this compost, together with a small handful of some good ammoniated superphosphate, in the check already pre pared, and mix it all thoroughly together with a hoe. Then draw in the top soil, thrown out when digging the hole, and make the hill up in shape of a cone. Throw two furrows each side of the hill with a turn plow. lapping the earth around the base of the cone to prevent water from settling around the hill and thereby leaching away the manure. The patch is now ready for planting, and aa soon as all danger from frost is past, take a hoe or rake and knock off the top of the cone, leveling the hill down to about two or three inches above the surrounding surface of the land. This is done in o’der to have a fresh seed bed and to kill any weeds or grass that may have started around the hill. Plant about six seeds in each hill the first time, aud in a week over the patch again and press in with the finger three or four more. This is done in order to insure “a stand” and to p-ovide against any late frost, as melons are Injured by cold weather, and it would be better to dig up any that, have been so checked in their growth and plant the hill over again than to allow them to remain and struggle along only to produce a very inferior specimen at last. As soon as the plants are large enough to admit of stirring the ground around them, hoe the hill thoroughly and thin out to two, and as soon as they have formed four or five leaves thm down to one plant, to the hill, if you desire large size melons, which, if you are growing for market, it is absolutely necessary to have. About this time it will be neces sary to plow out the middles thoroughly with a turn plow or shovel plow, running as deep as possible. Keep the hill free from grass bv fre quent use of the hoe, an 1 each working of the middles must be done in the opposite direction. Be particular never to plow the ground when wet, or disturb the vines when the dew is on them, as at this time they are very brittle and are easily injured, while on the contrary, when they have dried off, they are exceedingly tough. In laying by” a melon patch, in Richmond county, it is customary when the vines have nearly ni*-t or have commenced to set their fruit, to carefully turn them upside down, out of each alternate middle, aud plow them out thoroughly with sweeps, nmning next to the hill as shallow as possible,and dropping two rows of cow peas in the centre about eighteen inches apart, to be covered by the last furrow of the sweep. These peas do not injure the growth of the melons in any way, but after the vines have ceased to bear ripen a very fair yield of pea* to the acre, or furnish considera ble flrst-ciass forage; at the same time they protect many fine melons from the scorching effect of the sun Turn the Tines back into their former place as soon as possible, in order to prevent the sun from twisting them and thereby causing trouble in handling. It is best to have two sets of hands for this business, one set to turn the vines out and one set to turn them back. Having worked out each alternate middle in this way turn back and work out the balance in the same manner. It would probably be better to allow two or three days to elapse before turning back. In order to give the vines a chance to catch hold of the ground again, as a storm might caue considerable damage to the patch if both sides of the hill had been torn up at the same time. To a person unaccustomed to see ing this plan of “layine by,” it would seem as though the patch had been completely ruined, but in a few days the vines grow off with in creased vigor and soon completely cover the ground, and in a short time the senses are glad dened with that luxury of luxuri- a, ripe water melons; and now itis only le't with the produc er and consumer to say “to what profit?” There are two varieties that are very popular in Au gust 1. viz : the old “Rattlesnat e” and the new “Scaly-bark”—the former oblong in shape, wi h light and dark-green stripes, and the lat ter a little more round in shape and of solid da' k-green color. Both have bright red, crisp flash, and are very sweet, and grow to immense size when properly cultivated. I have known melons to have been sold in Augusta that weighed over seventy pouuds. These always command fancy prices. It will be seen that my views have been ex pressed altogether with the object to furnish melons as a market crop, but there is another side of th- question. Is there -ny one in good health who. on a hot day in July or August, when the thermometer ranges in the nineties, would refuse to partake of a well grown, lus cious watermelon, plucked before tjie suu has dissipated the dt*w. aud put asido in a cool place to await the time when its crimson fl-sh shall be called for as a refreshment to his parched lips and throat? I cannot imagine such a person Therefore, if there are any here who do not make a practice of planting watermelons, and who do not consider their cu ture for market possible on account of the situation of their farm, plant plenty for family use, and they will be rewarded bv the happy fares and increased vigor of their families and employes. Frkd Little. How Speculation on the Continent A fleeted Prices. Bradstreet's. The following la taken from the London Economist of January 28- As almost ali the tuiportant movements In securities throughout Europe in January are due to the collapse of the specula’lon In Paris and the consequent sudden demands of that bourse upon London, it will be in structive to note what the movements in some of the leading: securities at that centre have lately been. The rise went on almost throughout last year, and in the face of the undoubted want of sympathy latterly in the London market, and the great pressure for money before the close of 1881, prices in many cases reached their highest eariy in January. The in toe previous twelve months and tb6 fall now may be gathered below: PARIS PRICES (CONVERTED AT S FRANCS—SI.) Jan., Jan 5, Jan 35. 1881. 1.-82. 1882. Bank of France *750 on $1,175 00 00 Suez Canal 270 00 6SO O 0 *OO ft) Credit Fonder 290 00 380 00 312 50 Northern R’y shares. 345 00 46" 00 405 00 Laender Bank..(Mar.l 157 50 240 00 122 50 Sodete de l’Union Generale 2CO 00 630 00 200 00 These are severe movements, though only In the most speculative instances are prices as yet down to what they were twelve months ago. Still, It must not be forgotten ihat for the speculator who has held shares with borrowed money, for which for months he has had to pay extraordinary rates of in terests from account to account, such shares may stand at a considerable rise on the year and yet he be a heavy loser. The Vienna bourse has been very severely affected by these events in Paris, for the reason that Paris and Lyons have been stimu lating Austro-Hungarian finance very great ly during the past year. In the Vienna mar ket alHne leading stocks have moved yery much as follows; VIENNA PRICES (CONVERTED AT 60 FLORINS—*I). Jan. Dec. Jan. 24. 1881. 1881. 1882. Creditanstalt *122 50 *l5O 00 fits 00 Hungrar’n Credit Bank. 110 00 150 00 la 00 Northwestern Railway 81 25 94 25 179 00 States Railway 117 50 137 £0 116 25 Here It will be seen that a year’s advance has been lost in a single month : and proba bly the fall is justified, iorit cannot be sup posed tb*t Paris or Lyods will be In a state to aid Austrian finance much for some time to come. Toe French haute finance may give help where securities are sound, and the BsDk of France may come to the aid of the Agents de Change, but the shock has been too severe and too long courted to be very transitory. Meanwhile, London is qhits right to buy up tne government stocks now being thrown upon the markot at Such de preciated prices. Mr. Alt gander Qrutinell, of Albany, N. y., says; “I had been for years troubled with great weakness of my digestive organs, which seemed to be always out of fix. Mo6t usually 4 suffered from constipation, and at other times a severe running-off at the bowels would set In. No remedy that I ever tried would regulate this function until I tried Brown’s Iron Bitters. It really bene fited me from the first day I used It. My habits are now perfectly regular, and as a strengthenerof 'he digestive organs, I think Brown’s Iron Bitters worth its weight in diamond#,” * WALL STREET EASIER. Bears Tornlog Boll* and All Hands Helping to Hold Up the market. New York Sun, 25 th. The stock market yesterday was a steady and marked reaction from tbe general and rapid decline of Thursday. The operators who engineered the bear movement which began last Monday morning hsd, according to all indications, carried It as far as they dared for the time being. It was a common remark yesterday that the bears had been obliged to turn bulls in self-protection. The operators who, during the last few days, have hammered most vigorously and effectively at certain stocks are long of other stocks which have suffered, and which It Is for their interest to protect. It is cited that the most conspicuous in stance of this is Mr. Gould, whose attack upon Louisville and Nashville led the bear raid. However much he may wish to depress certain stocks, It Is not reasonable to suopose that he would wish to have the market go entirely to pieces as long as he has a mas ter’s interest In the Southwestern ard the elevated railroads, to say nothing In West ern Union and Wabash. So far as the brokers are concerned, be yond a courteous expression of sympathy and perhaps loss of fu’ure commissions, they do not care how much their customers lose, but they don’t like to see each other go to the wall. So they, too, were willing to call a halt. According to Btock Exchange reports Mr. Gould vi as a buyer of stocks yesterday to a large amount, but doubtless a good propor tion of his purchases, as were those for other people, were against short sales. There was the usual volume of talk about good Investment buying which is generally heard after a considerable decline. It was also asserted by brokers who claim to have traced and studied the transactions that Mr. Wm. H. Vanderbilt was in the market as a purchaser. Richmond and Danville and itsaopendage, West Point Terminal, were more depressed, hut less active than on the previous day. The latter dropped from 235 to 180 on sales of 1,300 shares. The day’s transactions aggregated about 520,000 shares, which, it is safe to estimate, is 150,C00 less than the actual business of Thursday. The list of active stocks, with the two exceptions noted, advanced pretty steadily all day, and the closing prices were from 1 to 5 per cent, better than those of Thursday. The large operators and the brokers gen erally expressed the opinion that for the present prices would be eutained on about the present level, and only the most san guine talked of a general and decided advance. One result of the continued depression has b-en to tone down the brokers’ ideas of the offices they will occupy next year. The views of many upon this subject are not as ambitious as they were a few days ago, and sc me are debating as to whether they can not get along by simply renting desk room. ANDRE’S MONUMENT DEFACED. The Deed of a itlya'erlous Stranger In Tappan. Poetic justice in a double sense has over taken the monument to Major Andre, the British accomplice of Benedict Arnold, which was erected at Tappan, on the west side of the Hudson, in 1879. A man of one Idea, belonging to tbe specie® vulgarly called “cranks,” visited it mysteriously on Wed nesday evening last, and, after laboriously destroying the Inscription on each of the four faces, planted a dwarfed American flag and a small roll of machine verses, eviden'ly original, on Its summit. He then departed, with the probable consciousness in his bosom of having achieved deserved immor tality. As some of his movements had > een watched, his identity is likely to be discov ered sooner that he hoped, and a petty pun ishment may crown bis ridiculous dream with a momentary notoriety far different from the fame of an iconoclast. With reference to the malicious destruc tion of a portion of this monument, Mr. Cyrus W. Field says that be had obtained some cine to the perpetrator, and also to some other persons who were back of him. but for the present he thought the ends of justice would be better served by saying nothing about it. The monument, it will be remembered, was the joint production of Mr. Field and the late Dean Stanley. The affair is the aubject of much remark at the clubs. There are evidences in the verses affixed to the monument that the vandal, or or vandals, whoever they are, are persons of some education and literary ability. A deteclive has been put in commission to work up the case. His field of inquiry, for the present, is the village of Tappan, but another detective will go to work at the New York end of the line. CONKLING’S NOMINATION. How tbe New* Affected the Half- Breeds. New York Correspondence Philadelphia Ledger The nomination of ex-Senator Conkling as Associate Justice of the Supreme Courtis accepted here as a notification from the President that his friendship for that distin guished statesman has not been impaired by recent events. The “half breed” politicians received the tews with a feeling akin to consternation, in their estimation it im plies that no favor is to be obtained from the admiplstratton by occupying a position of hostility to Conkling or “Conklingiem,” and that the peculiar phase of Republi can poli'lct which Conkling represents is not to be extinguishtd just yet if the President can help it. This may be a forced inference, but, for the moment., it is the one that, Is generally accepted hy the class of politician* alluded to. They say the har mony of the party, especially in this State, would have been better conserved had the President permitted Mr. Conkling to drop out of sight than by thus tendering him the highest post at his disposal. One hears a great deal of talk of this kind at the custom houee, but the “Conkling man” themselves, it is unnecessary to any, are heartily con gratulating one another upon this turn of affairs. Though Mr. Conkling’s professional practice is worth at least fifty thousand dol lars per annutqiand thu salary of a Supreme Court Judge a mere bagatelle compared to that, they have no doubt he will aceept the position, at least until such time as the Re publican party may have further uss for h;m. Frozen to Death In a Treo. Shreveport Stan,Hard. Wc learned from Mr. J. B. O’Neal re cently the facts concerning a case where a colored man named Henry Lemons died in a tree on the night of the 3d of this month. It seems that Mr. O’Neal and the colored man were returning to their houses in Bossier Point on the night named, and after dark they reached a stream known as Fox Skin, which they attempted to ford, little thinking the rains had raised it so high as to make it dangerous. The colored man was ahead, riding a mule and leading a horse, and in crossing the stream the mule he was riding commenced to swim. In a few moments he called to Mr. O’Neal that the mule was sinking, and that gen tleman told him to watch to a tree, which he dij, and climbed into it. It was im possible for Mr. O’Neal to get to where 1 he was, and he went back to Mr. N. B. Murff’s house and reported the accident’ and Mr. Murff and some of his hands went to the place to render assistance, but it was impossible to reach the man, although they could converse with him from Where they were standing. Some colored men also gathered on the op posite sides of the strearn, built fires and constructed a raft to try and rescue hiui, but did not succeed. In the morning some colored men went up to where he was and found him dead, hanging to the limb3 oi the tree. It is supposed he became chilled and died from the effects. The only way they could get him to the raft wga to place a rope around the body, which they did. He was afterward buried by his wife and friends. Mr. O'Neal informs us be was a good and industrious colored man, and his untimely death Is much regretted by his friends in the point. The mule he was riding and the horse he was leading both reached the shore, and were recovered. The Canadian Government is with drawing its twenty cent pieces from cir culation, they being unpopular. The Deputy Receiver General at Toronto re cently sent SIO,OOO worth of them to Ottawa. ■ " > i ■—— Sweet Breath and Good Digestion, The breath sweetened, foul odors frotu the body removed,food thoroughly digested, good health permanently maintained, by using Brown’s Iron Bitters. A true strength eaer; a sure reviver. ESTABLISHED 1850. HOPES FOB OCITEEC. A Remarkable Collection In tlie Jail at Washington. Washington Special to Baltimore American, Feb. 18. “Another rope for Guiteau,” said an expressman, depositing a package in the warden’s office of the jail this morning. “That makes forty four,’’Deputy War den Rusk responded, as he signed and handed hack the expressman’s receipt book. “Our collection is nearly com plete. ” “Your collection?" queried a press rep resentative, who was present; “what do you mean by that?” “Step this way and I will show you.” Following Mr. Rusk, the reporter was shown into a smaller room, where, hung in a long row, were various samples of hangmen’s ropes, measuring from three to ten feet, of every make and variously tied, each one properly labelled.” “Why, what are these?” the visitor asked, looking hastily over the collection and shuddering at their suggestiveness. from various Ameri can citizens,” the jailer answered, “who desire to give Guiteau a lift in the world,” laughing at the ghastly joke. “We have now here ropes from nearly every State in the Union, and lack but four States to make the collection com plete—Nevada, South Carolina, New Hampshire and Vermont. I might say that North Carolina was lacking also, as it has not sent us a rope, but some fellow down there sent this grapevine, which, I suppose, would come in handy on a pinch.” “Which is the rope you have to repre sent Maryland?” “This one,” answered Rusk, showing a well-greased rope of India hemp, con structed with a noose, done in the high est nautical style, evidently the work of a sailor. “We had another piece, also,” Rusk continued, “but it has become misplaced. This one from California, you will observe, is of twisted silk. It was unaccompanied by the contributor’s name; but it’s a beauty. Very few of them were marked so as to furnish a clue to the senders. It’s a splendid col lection, though, and something that we take pride in exhibiting to visitors.” “Will you use either of these for hang ing Guiteau?” “No. Bob Strong, the hangman, has decided to use a part of the rope with which Bedford and Quenan were exe cuted. He says that’s the best rope he ever saw.” “Has Guiteau seen the collection?” “No, we have not considered it pro per, and have carefully avoided alluding to it in his presence.” “He has knowledge of it, has he not?” “I suppose that he has seen in the newspapers announcements of the arrival of rope at various times, but has said nothing to us on the subject.” “What do visitors say about these ropes?” “Well, I couldn’t begin to tell you. Women generally shudder and turn away; and, now and then, men handle them and discuss their relative merits. But, as a general thing, nobody comes to do more than to glance at them. We had a fellow here the other day—a show man, I took him to be—who wanted to buy the whole lot, to be delivered on the day after the execution. He offered a thousand dollars for them. But we took no notice of his proposition, because we believed that his idea was to sell each rope for fabulous prices, representing them to be the identical rope with which Guiteau was hanged.” “Will the rope used at the execution be cut up and sold as relics?” “I don’t know; but it might as well be. for within twenty-four hours after Guiteau’s death I am satisfied that pieces of ‘that identical rope’ will be offered for sale in every section of the country, and all the side-shows and museums will have the rope on exhibition entire.” In the same room were other queer contributions that had been forwarded to the assass ; n, among them models of gallows and stuffed men hanging in effigy. There were pictures, too, ou letter-heads and other article* the whole forming a collection that would thrill the heart of a bowman with de light. Leaving this remarkable museum, the reporter paid a short visit to Guiteau’s cell. The wretch was writing a letter. His beard has begun to grow out again, and he looked more unkempt and cadav erous than he has for some time. “Confinement is beginning to show on him,” Mr. Rusk said, “and he gets sullen and crabid at times. He is in one of those moods to-day.” Just then Guiteau raised his eyes from the letter sheet before him, and on perceiving his visitors peering in at the door, snarled out, “Get away from there,” fiercely; “I don’t want to see visi tors to day.” “I told you so,” said Rusk, with a smile, and he led the reporter away. Guiteau does not approve the action of his sister in appealing to Mrs. Garfield in his behalf. He has said very little about it, except that he wished she would attend to her owa business and let his affairs alone. He still cherishes the idea that he will be granted anew trial by the General Term MRS. SURRATT’S GRATE. Tbe Stone tbit marks Her Lut Reeling Place. Washington Star. In Mount Olivet Cemetery, on the Bladensburg road (a short distance be yond the terminus of H street), repose the remains of Mrs. Mary E. Surratt, who, it will be remembered, was hung on the 2d day of July, 1865, as one of the conspirators implicated in the assas sination of President Lincoln. Her body was buried in the arsenal grounds near the scaffold with those of Payn>, Herold and Atserodt, and subsequently Wirtz, of Andersonville notoriety, was buried near them. While the bodies were lying there plain headboards were placed oyer their graves. When the old penitentiary building was torn down the remains of John Wilkes Booth buried in the end of the building, and the bodies above named, were all moved into one of the large storehouses of the arsenal aud placed under the flagging. About the close of President Johnson’s administration (1869) the bodies were surrendered to the friends or relatives of the deceased persons, and were removed elsewhere—those of Wirtz and Mrs. Sur ratt being taken to Mt. Olivet. When the body of the latter was exhumed a small black ribbon, tied in a bow knot, was removed from her dress as a me mento. A number of her former friends were present when the reinterment was made in a lot at the extreme northwest corner of the cemetery. Stones marked with the letter S. were set at the corners of the lot. With no other mark the spot was diffi cult to find without guidance, and Mr. P. Duffy, the sexton at that time and for several years afterward, was frequently called on to point out the spot where Mrs. Surratt was buried. About 1875 Mr. Gustavus Craney, a stonecutter, re siding at No. 1122 New Jersey avenue, southeast, was engaged in putting up some headstones in the grounds, and Mr. Duffy called his attention to the want of a stone to mark Mrs. Surratt’s grave. Mr. Craney agreed to cut the letters on a stone if Mr. Duffy procured one. Mr. Duffy having procured a stona it was chiseled by Mr. CraDey, who cut the name ‘‘Mrs. Surratt” upon it and set it at the head of the grave. Since tien tnere have been two other Vnitttaento in the lot, one a grandchild of Mrs. Surratt and the other {lf, Thomas of New Or leans. John J. Flynn, of the editorial staff of the Chicago Daily Net c*, has been ap pointed by the President of the TJoited States Consul at Chemnitz, Germany. The salary is $3,000, and the fees col lected there in 1880 were over $17,000. TIE PALMER-SULLIVAN COM BINATION. What a bate Employe flu to flay About the Rumor of a Collapse. Sew Orleans Timet-Democrat. A reporter of the Timen-Democrat yes terday interviewed Mr. Chas. H. Patter son, civil engineer, who has recently been in the employ of the Palmer Sulli van corporation, who have the right-of way through Mexico for an important railroad and branches. Mr. Patterson declared the reported collapse of the company to be untrue.* He said that the report probably grew out of the fact that a large number of the laborers and many of the profession al men employed by the company had been discharged. The grading of the road from Laredo to Monterey was progressing too fast for the construction trains following. It had got so far ahead that there was danger of the roadbed being beaten down and washed away at the further end before the track layers could reach it. The grading had been carried within 59 miles of Monterev, or about 150 miles south of Laredo. There had been 46 miles of track laid, and the work of placing the rails was progressing at the rate of one mile a day. The grant to the company called for surveys and plans for ninety miles every year, and the lines have been run far enough to cover this stipulation for two years, hence the company was able to dispense with a number of professional men, Mr. Patterson included. Mr. Patterson said that the combina nation had promptly met all its obliga tions, had paid up the discharged men in full, and had even given extra com pensation to the engineer corps. He said further, that at Laredo, there were spikes, rails and ties enough to build seventy-five miles of the road, and more material was coming in daily, while there was a large quantity at Corpus Christi. Work on the Matamoros and Monterey branch was progressing slowly, but he understood when he left Laredo on Peb. 15, that a sloop with a locomotive and rails for the line had left Galveston. Mr. Patterson said that when he left Laredo there was no talk either of a col lapse of the combination, or of a deficit in the funds of the treasurer. SOTELDO’S LOVE AFFAIR. The Story of HU Klopement With and Harrlage to tbe Daughter of a Wealthy Railway King. Biddeford tile.) Special to Chicago Tribune. A. M. Soteldo, the journalist who was the victim of a tragedy at Washington last week, was known to a number of people in this city and Saco. He was here last summer, and was an assiduous 6uitor for the hand of a Miss Clement, whom he came to visit. Miss Clement is the daughter of the Hon. William A. Clement, of Cincinnati, one of the rail road kings of the West, and General Manager of the Cincinnati Southern Railway, and for many years has been in the habit of spending the summer here with hia family, stopping at the Yates House at the pool. Miss Clement was a beautiful and attractive young lady, and has been one of the society belles of Cin cinnati. Soteldo’s attentions to the young lady were not pleasing to the father, who used every possible means to break off the match, but Miss Clement reciprocated Soteldo’s love, and parental influence and mtreaty were of no avail to move her to give him up. Soteldo disappeared for a time, but kept up a secret correspondence with Miss Clement while she remained here. One day last August he appeared on the ground, again, with arrangements perfect to secure his promised bride. An elopement was planned and carried out. By prearrangement Misa Clement went to Sico and met her lover at the Saco House on the 11th of August. The services of the Rev. Dr. Nichols, of the Unitarian Church, had been secured and the two were quickly made man and wife. The young lady returned to her family, and it was some time before her parents learned of the marriage. When they were finally apprised of it, they were filled with mortification and indig nation, feeling that their daughter had made a mesalliance. The marriage short ly after became generally known, and created quite a sensation in society cir cles at Washington and Cincinnati. A Famous Benuly, Public Opinion , When the exhibition 0 f t jj e wor^B 0 f the painter Magnr, g took place at Berlin a great fore a beautiful portrait of a woman. A velvet dress surrounded her figure, while transparent sleeves only half cov ered a marble-like arm. A golden chain, passing through the smooth hair, was fastened on the forehead by a jewel, forming an old fashioned but pretty orna ment. This was called formerly a “Re gardez moi.” The graceful head, the small ears, dark eyes full of Are, the thin nose, the purple and softly rounded cheeks, formed a charm which cannot be described, and which could only be painted by such a skillful hand as that of Magnus. “Who is that beautiful woman?” asked all the people present. “Frederike Robert,” was the answer which an old gray-haired man cave. She was the muse of Henry Heine, whom he once wanted to carry to the banks of the Ganges “on the wmgs of the c ongs.” He dedicated to her that beautiful poem; he called her his “idol,” or the cousin of the Venus of Milo, and he sang about her “sweet feet.” Bhe was also sung by several other German poets, Fouque, Chamisso, Karl Sehall, Holtei, etc. She was admired by W. Hensel, the famous “albumist,” as he used to style himselg because be would carry his album every where, in every society, and. make sketches of the famous people. The beautiful Frederike possessed much talent; she composed verses in the Swa bian dialect, but printed nothing. She was sister-in-law to the famous author ess, Rahel Tarnhagen, to whom she was much attached. (Elaarrttts. T/S RIGHT and proper to consider whether you are get ting the best for your money ? Blackwell’s Durham Cigarettes are claimed to bethel/and purest wade. If the claim is true, you want them. 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