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Georgia Affairs.
Bean Thompstn, of Newnau, eloped last
Monday with a woman of that town, leaving
his eighte n year old wife and seven days old
baby to the town. It is reported before leaving
he sold the only bedstead in the house aad
tried to steal his wife's trunk.
William Simmons, a ' oung white man, of
Atlanta, was arrested Thursday night in Ma
con, charged with stealing a ring valued at
$75, from a Miss Lismuke, of Griffin, and an
overcoat belonging to a gentleman of the same
place. He had sold both for small sums to pay
his fare.
The residence of Mrs. Howell, widow of
Judges. G Howell, of Campbell county, was
burned on Wednesday. Loss 14,000. Insured
for *1,300.
Steps are b -ing taken in Atlanta to organize
a Cotton Exchange.
Wm Buchanan was shot at Ty-Ty, on the
Brunswick and Albiny Railroai, on Thursday
night. It is thought his injuries will prove fatal.
Mr Buck Rape, who lives on Mr. Henry Du-
Pree's piece, in Campbell county, accidentally
shot himself in the thigh last week while work
ing in the field.
Miss Mary Ann Fernandes, of Campbell
county, has a mug which has been in the
family for over a hundred and fifty years, and
. a. dial 1 , which fs over a hundred years old.
Bartow county is th eighth in value of tax
able property, the seven richest having cities
in them ranging from six to fifty thousand in.
habitants. The value of town and cily property
is the thirteenth in the State.
Willie, the son of Mr. J. W. Scott, of Bartow
county, was killed on Sunday night last at
Athens, Dallas county, Ala , by a wind storm
blowing down a house upon him. He was
about twenty-eight years old.
The store o* J. A. Holliday, at Union Point,
was entered a few nights ago and robbed of a
considerable quantity of goods.
The Bainbridge Democrat urges the building
of the Chattanooga, Columbus and Florida
Railroad, and recalls the fact that the road-bed
is graded for a considerable distance.
The wheat rye and oat crops in North Geor
gia are doing finely. A large acreage has been
planted, and with favorable seasons these
crops will turn out finely. The indications for
a good fruit crop at present are fine, although
some peaches were killed by the recent frosts.
The farmers are now busily engaged in plant'
ing corn.
W. T. Flanigan and Mr. R. L. Paschal had
a difficulty in th° i tore of the latter, in Thom"
son. last week, in which Mr. Flanigan shot Mr*
Paschal. The ball passed through the calf of
the left leg and lodged near tbe ankle of the
right leg, inflicting a painful but not serious
wound.
A few days ago Deputy Marshal Jas. Robin
son and Deputy Collector Witt, while in Lump
kin county, came upon Fred. Kailor who killed
Webb Mullins a few weeks ago, near the line
of Dawson and Forsyth counties. Ktior was
about half brunk and was lounging about
a country grocery. He was arrested and
carried to the Sheriff of Forsyth county. There
was a reward of s4i 0—253 by the State and *l5O
by private parties—for the arrest of Kalor.
L. B. a t.-hii'R' n was before Judge Rhea, of
Atlanta. Thu™ru y morning for forging a note,
and was bound in *nm of $ 06 to appear at
the April term of the Superior Court.
The colored boys at Spalding were toying
with a pistol on Friday night which they did
not think loaded. It went off while in the
bands of one of them. John Felton, th* millet
finding lodgment in his breast. The boy's re
covery is doubtful
Gwinnett Herald: ‘ Stevenson was sentenc
ed by Judge Krwin to be hung on the 13th of
May. On that day just forty years ago Tom
Chambers was hung in our village. There has
not been a white man hvirg in this courpy since
that date It is a little remarkable that the
sentence should have fixed the next hanging
on the same day By the way. forty years is a
good long stretch between hangings in as popu
lous a coun'y as th’s. There have been two
negroes hucg during that time, one by the
Sheriff and one hy the Yankees, just after the
close of hostilities in IS6Y”
Atlanta r onstitution: “It is new settled be
yond dispute that Geo-gia has planned more
oats and wheat thi- season than ever before in'
twenty years. It is equally certa’n that she
will have more wheat and corn planted this
spring than before in twen'y years. By this
course she is gaining her practical independ
ence. We may hare conventions, or fight
wars, but as ioi g us we buy all we eat from the
West and everything we wear or use from the
East, we will be hewers of wood and drawers
of water. We are learning rapidly enough to
manufacture the c : othes we wear, the furni
ture and the incidentals we use. and in a few
more years we will be independent of the
East. It rests with the farmers to say whether
or not we shall remain in vassalage to the West.”
BRIEF .NEWS SUMMARY.
The Sagosta C'.b’net has decided tore
sign, if the financial proposals of Secor Ca
macho shall be rejected.
Lorillard’s Iroquois, Gerald and Aranzi
have been scratched from all their engage
ments at the Epsom Spring meeting.
Lincoln, Chamberlain <fc Cos., of Boston,
pork packers, have been attached for *490,-
000, covering the whole of their property.
The Secretary of War has directed that
one hundred and fifty hospital tents he for
warded to New Orleans, to be distributed
by the Governor of Louisiana.
Daring the past week 36 new cases of
small pox and 8 deaths were reported In
Pittsburg, 23 death- in Cnicago, 9 deaths in
Allegheny City, and I*3 cases and 9 deaths
in Bt. Louis.
All the e’erka on the “lapse roll” in the
Treasury Depar meet, twenty-two In num
ber, and mostly women, will be dismissed
on the Ist proximo, for want of appropria
tion to pay them.
A dispatch from Montevideo states that
tbe Italian representative has quitted that
city in const queece of not receiving satis
faction in answer to his energetic remon
strance relative to the maltreatment of two
Italians by the police.
A. E. Graham, aged 21, of Van Wert 0.,
brakesman on the Toledo, Delphos and Bur
lington Railroad, was instantly killed by
falling from the top of a freight car recently
while in the act of trying to save the life of
another man. Graham had Intended to quit
railroading, and was making his last trip.
Quite a breeze has been occasioned in
Milwaukee by the discovery that a promi
nent phyaic'au daily wears a pair of shoes
made from the tanned hide of a negro named
Samuil Steenberg, who was not long ago
hanged near Albany, Jf. Y. Steinberg will
pd h*s skin to the physician’s father for de
fending him.
It is reported from Winnepeg that the
United States lutbcrittes propose to trans
fer Sitting Bull and his immediate followers
from Fort Randall- to the Yankton Agency,
where they will be piaeed under charge of
officers of the Interior Department “for in
struction in the usages and arts of civiliza
tion, for which the old chief claims long,"
The International Sabbath Observance
Conference was in session at Pittsburg on
Tuesday. The matter of Sunday tralne od
railroads was di-cussed, and an article was
read from John Fniton, mining ergineer of
the Cambria I-on Works, on the “Operating
of Iron Mills on the Sabbath." President
Jeffries, of Westminster College, advocated
the stoppage of Sunday mall service, and
the Banday new-paper question was debated.
Jacob W. Ker, a well-known citizen of
Washington, and until recently paying
taller of the Bank of the Republic, corn
ed suicide a few days ago by ehooting
-elf in tbe breast. A note was found In
-ocket stating that he bad “expended
ey belonging to others to an extent he
1 never repay,"- and be therefore
ght this relief from dishonor, sorrow,
{ iisgrace.” It is supposed he lost the
( ailed money in stock speculations.
“Bathnpalba.n
*** v, quick, complete cure four days,
•y affections, smarting, frequent or
lit urination, kidney diseases. $l.
'isU. Depot, Osceola Butler, Savaa
a.
Savannah morning news
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CAPTAIN EADS’ JETTY SYSTEM
ARRAIGNED.
Ita Responsibility for tbe Overflow—
Tbe Peruvian C< rupany’s Empty
Claim—Senator Hill’s Condition—
Coi.gress Yesterday.
Washington, March 31.—1n tbe Senate a
communication was received from the At
torney General In response to the resolution
of the 28'.h Inst., transmitting the corres
pondence with Dallas Sanders. Temporarily
tabled and ordered printed. On motion of
Mr. Butler a resolution was passed, reim
bursing Mr. Ingails, of Kansas, for his ex
penses in defending his title to his seat, to
the amount of *8,195.
Oa motion of Mr. Jonas, the Senate bill
for a public building lu Bhreveport, La , and
appropriating *lOO,OOO therefor, was passed.
Oa motion of Mr. Garland the House
joint resolution, authorizing the issue of
rations in the district of the Mississippi
overflow, was passed.
Mr. Brown asked and obtained indefinite
leave of absence for his colleague, Mr. Hill.
He said the accounts he had received of that
Senator’s condition were favorable, but that
his physicians could not say at what time
he would be able to return to the Senare.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill.
Mr. Hoar withdrew his two million dollar
educational amendment, and offered a sub
stitute calling for half a million dollars for
the same purposes, and the debate ou this
propoei'ion proceeded.
A long debate ensued, fome members In
clining favorably to Mr. Hoar’s proposition
as an experiment in the right direction, but
objecting to the amount called for. Final
ly Mr. Hoar accepted a modification sug
gested by Mr. Wlndom, fixing the appro
priation for this purpose at *250,000.
The amendment as modified was adopted
by a vote of 29 to 18.
The amendment, as adopted is as follows:
“The Secretary of the Interior is further au
thorized and directed to provide for the
care, support and education of all Indian
children dwelling west of the Mississippi,
and not belonging to tbe five civiliz id tribes
in the Indian Territory—or so many thereof
as may be practicable—under such regula
tions as may be approved by the President
n any of the States or Territories, at a cost
not exceeding *2OO per annum for each child;
and for this purpose there is appropriated
$'250,000, or so much thereof as may bo ne
cessary.”
The bill was then reported from the com
mittee and passed. After an executive se -
siou tbe Senate adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
The nouse at 12:35 went Into committee
of the whole on the army appropriation
bill.
The committee rose temporarily, and on
motion of Mr. Hiscock, of New York, the
J lint resolution was passed, appropriating
#lOO,OOO to enable the 8-cretary of War to
issue rations to persotis rendered destitute
l>y the overt! >w of the Mississippi river.
The committee then resumed its session,
and Mr. Butterworth concluded his expla
nation of tbe bill, which appropriates *27,-
406,698, being $718,298 in excess of the ap
propriation for the current year.
Mr. Houck, of Tennessee, argued in oppo
sition to tha* feature of the bill transferring
to the Court of Claim* claims now pending
in the Quartermaster General’s department,
contending t‘ at such transfer would work
gTeat Injustice to claimants, particularly
to those the adjudication of whose cases
had been about completed. The aggregate
amount of claims remaining was about
$9.0C0 000, and be did not think that Con
grees should change tbe whole policy of the
government and erect anew tribunal for
the adjudication of this c!a*s of claims,
after having held out for twenty years
that the Quartermaster General’s De
partment was the tribunal to which
claimants should make their applications.
If It wtre proposed to protect the Treasury
against disloyal claimant*, this manner of
Quartermaster General Investigation should
be kep’ up. It was u’terly Impossible for a
disloyal o'ldishonesticlaiin to creep in under
the present system of adjullca’ion. These
claimants had gone through every concelva
able character of lnvesMgation, and had
been fleeced once or twice by claim agents,
and he protested against giving claim
agents another opportunity to fleece them
again.
The debate on this proposition occupied
the time unMl the committee rose, when the
House adjourned.
the cause of the overflow.
Captain Thomas P. Leathers was before
the House Commerce Committee to day, ad
vocating the outlet system for the Missis
sippi river. He eaid he was in favor of the
levee syrt-m but wanted additional outlets
also, otherwU thee levees would be useless
Captain Leathers maintained that a great
mistake had been made In constructing the
j-tties at the mouth of the river. “It is,” he
said, “impossible to discharge the vast
volume of water furnished by the Missis
sippi river through the little tunnel con
structed at i’s mouth bv Cap’ain Eads.”
Continuing, he said : “If you make an out
let at Lika* Borgne. I’ll stake my life and
all I hive that you’ll never again be asked
for rations It cuts me to the soul that
our peoole have to come here and beg you
for God’s sake to give them rations. As
you hive paid money to stop up
the n outh of the river you might pay a
litt’e to furnish another outlet. My practi
cal experience has all been in favor of the
outlet system, and I have no axe to grind.”
He hi lieved In giving money to the Missis
sippi Rtyer Commission, but would limit
them to taklDg out snags and
wrecks, and not allow them to pro
ceed on the theory that half the river
had a greater capacity than the whole. He
would not give his practical experience for
all the sciences in the world. “AH you
want to do,” he said, “i* to assist nature in
its course, leaving the river to Its natural
bed. There is no mouth now for the water
to flow through, consequently, It is running
blind and raging around everywhere. lam
a levee man, but, if you continue to stop up
the mouth of tbe river, as you hve
done, tbe levees are no good. You
must get rid of the water and then build
levees. We mud hedge against such work
as was done by Captain Eads in blocking up
the Southern Paps ” The Captain argued
that if the outlet is made the river will not
shoal to any great extent—surely not
enough to effect navigation. He thought
that the present overflow was occasioned by
water from the Ohio river, and said : “When
the ice now In th Missouri river breaks up,
the existing oveiflow will be nothing com
pared with what you will 6ee then.”
THE PERUVIAN COMPANt’S EMPTY TITLE.
Chairman William*, of the House For
eign Affairs Committee, has received a
letter from Mr Hurlbut, Minister of Peru,
In regard to the “Coehet” claim, which
is the foundation of Shlpherd’s Pe
ruvian Company. Hurlbut says Coch
et wss a Frenchman, and never
renounced his French citizmahlp, and at
the best the Peruvian Company have a title
to nothing but a lawsuit between the
French claimants, and can have no possible
standing as Americans, and finally that the
whole question fs re* adjudicata, havieg
been settled in 1861 by a mixed French and
Peruvian Commission.
ARGUMENT BEGUN IN THE STAR ROUTE
TBIALS
Argument In the star rou’e trials, on the
motion r o quash the indic'meats against
Bradv, Djrsev and others, began to day be
fore Judge Wylie, counsel for the defend
ants occupying all tbe day that was not
spent in legal sparrings.
Weather Indications.
Owner Chi*f Signal Observer, Wash
ihuton, D. C-, March 31.—Indications for
Samrdav
In tbe Middle and Bouth Atlantic Slates,
•llgb’ly warmer, fai'er weather, easterly to
southerly winds, and lower barometer.
in the Gulf States, southeast to southwest
winds, stationary or falling barometer, part
ly cloudy weather, local rains, and In the
easern portion, higher temperature.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, warmer
south to west winds, lower barometer, part
ly cloudy weather, and local rains in Ten
nessee. _
An Outrage on an American Seaman.
Philadelphia, Pa , March 31—Captain
John Lewis, of the schooner Julia Baker,
from Ruatan, reports that Captain Charles
Hansomb, of the fruiting schooner Mary
Evelina, has been Imprisoned and put in
irons by the authorities of Ruatan without
havlrg been given a proper trial.
Arson and murder.
Bt. Louis, March 31 —The store and reai
detce of Joseph Yerger, a* Antonio, Jeffer
son county, were set on fire last night. 4*
Yerger, with his family, rushed from the
burning house, he was shot and killed by a
concealed assassin, who escaped.
An old Sandy Hook pilot, Mr. Peter
Bailey, residing on Court street, Sooth
Brooklyn, N. Y., was cored of a very severe
case of rheumatism by Bt. Jacobs Oil. His
ailment had resisted all professional treat
ment. i • 1
THE ILL-FATED GOLDEN CITY.
Corrected List of the Lost-The
Captain of the Watch Arrested and
Placed in Jail.
Memphis, March 31.—The following is a
corrected list of the lost by the burning of
the steamer Golden City: Dr. Monahan
and wife, of Jackson, Ohio; Mrs. Crary and
Miss Lula Crary, of Wlnton Place, near Cin
cinnati; W. H. Stowe and wife and Oltie
Wood and wife, of Henderson, Ky.;
Mrs. Anna Smith, of Massachusetts; Mrs.
Helen S. Percival. of Hameeville, Ken
tucky ; Mrs. L. E. Kounze and three
children, Miss Campbell, a relative
of Mrs. Kounze* Robert Kelly, second
engineer; Mary Boyd, Amanda Atchison,
chambermaids; J. C. Crane, owner of the
side show; three of the deck crew, colored;
a negro servant of W. H. Btowe; Wash
Srnttb, colored.
The captain of the watch was sent to jail
on a warrant charging him with murder
through carelessness in causing the fire on
the steamer.
Memphis, March 31.—The steamer Ful
ton, which conveyed Captain Mclntyre and
party to the wreck of the Golden City, has
returned. A diver went down but could do
nothing. The wreck lies in t.wepty-five feet
of water with the bow up stream, and the
current so swift that all efforts to go through
the cabin by the diver proved fruitless. No
more dead bodies have been recovered since
the one mentioned yesterday, which has
been identified as that of Mrs. Anna
Smith, of Springfield, Mass, who had
been visiting relatives In New Orleans. Her
remains have not yet been Interred and are
awaiting instructions from relatives or
friend*. If rotbing come# by to-morrow a
committee of citizens will have the body
buried in E’mwood Cemetery. Many of the
passengers and crew of the Golden City left
last night and this morning for their homes.
Bome others will go to-night on the J. W.
Gaff.
A FORTUNE IN PROSPECT.
Governor Crittenden’* Plan For
C*ptnrliig tbe Missouri Train
Robber*.
St. Louis, March 31.—A special to the
Fbst-Dirpatch says: “Dick Little, the train
robber, has surrendered to the authorities
under the following conditions: That he
be granted immunity from punishment by
the Governor, that he be paid one thousand
dollars cash Immediately on giving himself
up, and that he receive five thousand dollars
more In tbe event of the five train robbers
now at large being captured through his in
strumentality. Little has already received
one thousand dollars, being part of the
five thou*and dollars paid to Police
Commissioner Craig for the arrest of Clarice
Hite, in Kentuckv. Should the capture of
Little’s pals be effected, Craig and Governor
Crittenden —between whom the plan was
evolved—will receive in the neighborhood of
#203,000. the aggregate amount of the re
wards offered,lees $5,000 to be paid toLittie. ”
NORTH CAROLINA NEGROES.
Declaring Their Readiness to Ma
honelze the State.
Raleigh, N. C., March 31.—At tbe con
vention of colored men assembled yester
day at Goldsboro, composed of three hun
dred delegates from all the heavy negro
counties of the Slate, resolutions were
adopted to the effect —
“That while we do not favor the aban
donment of any of the principles of the
R-publican parly, and while we endorse the
Administration, we hail wi’h pleasure the
unmistakable evidences of a liberal move
ment In North Carolina, and we will support
such liberal movement, and will join hands
with liberal men, who have heretofore acted
with the Democratic party and who are
willing to bury the dead past In an earnest
effort to build up the State and guarantee
to all equal rights and privileges.”
NEW JERSEY SALONS.
Great Disorder at the Pinal Adjourn,
meat.
Trenton, N. J., March 31.—The Legis
lature adjourned sine die at noon. The
morning was passed In disorder, amounting
almost to riot, the friends of bill No. 167,
which was vetoed bv the Governor, seeking
opportunity to vote upon Its passage over
the veto, and the bribery Investigation com
mlttee endeavoring to report that money
had been used to secure the passage of that
bill.
Both efforts were defeated, but the strug
gle only ended with the hour for the ter
mination of the session by limitation.
Some important measures were left un
finished.
THE HALTER IN COLORADO.
Two Cattle Thieve* Lynched.
Denver, March 31.—Shortly after twelve
o’clock last night a body of men took W.
T. Phebus and Jay McGrew, two cattle
thieves, from jtll and hanged them to a
tree near bv. The perpetrators are un
known, but are believed to be members of
the Cattle Growers’ Protective Association.
The proceedings were conducted so quietly
that the fact of the hanging was not known
till a late hour this morning.
THE OYER FLOW.
TliejOatiook at Natchez.
Natchez, Miss, March 31.—A small
amount of rations has been distributed to
those most in need. About ten thousand
will need subsistence for from three weeks
to one month. No provisions have been
made for the refugees from Louisiana who
are now in the city, and unless something is
done for them scon a good deal of suffering
will ensue.
Tbe Last Quarter’* Failures.
New Yokk, March 31. —The report of the
business failures throughout the United
B’ates for the three months ending March
31, as compired by R. G. Dun dr Cos , Is as
follows: Eastern States 292 Middle States
508, Southern Stages 700, Western States
533, Pacific Btates and Territories 167;
total 2,190, with liabilities of $30,338,271.
This is a large increase over the correspond
ing quarter of 1881, when the failures num
bered 1,761, with $24 447,250 In liabilities.
The Increase of loss by bad debts this year
is therefore 25 per cent.
Cotton In Liverpool.
Liverpool, March 31 —This week’s cir
cular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ As
sociation says: “Cotton was in fair demand
but with a quiet market, and prices were
rather in favor of buyers. Most grades of
American are reduced 11-16d. In sea island
there was a fair business, chiefly in medium
and fine grades, which are very firm. Fu
tures, after slight fluctuations, closed quiet
ly at 1-32 J. to 1-161 decline.”
Futures In tbe New York market.
Nkw York, March 31.—The Post’s cotton
report says: “Future deliveries at the first
call brought an advance of 6-100, but were
sold down and lost 9 IOOaIO 100. The second
call showed a slight advance. At the third
call May brought 12 22a12 23c , July 12 52c ,
August 12 66c., 3 100 above the lowest point
of the day.”
Poisonous Vaccination.
Galveston, March 31. —T. H. Ballinger,
a prominent Market street grocer, died late
last night from the effects of poisonous vac
cination.
Mr. Redmond, Boperintendent of the
Texas Compress Company, is lying at the
point of death from the same cause.
Good Friday to be Observed.
New York. March 31.—The members of
the Cotton Exchange yesterday voted to
observe Good Friday and the Saturday fol
lowing as holidays.
A Wist Virginia Jurist Dead.
Wheeling, March 31 —Hon. James A.
Potter. Judge of the Supreme Court of.
Appeals of this State, died suddenly of heart
disease last night.
Mr. J. Q. A. Lawrence, of Trenton, N. J.,
writes: “For several years my wife’s health
was very poor. It began with a miscarriage,
from which the never fully recovered, and
consequently suffered many aches and
pains. I was advised to give her Brown’s
Iron Bitters. I did so. Her improvement
began at once, and she says ‘she now fools
likei younggM.'”
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SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1882.
BRITAIN'S REALM.
DILLON OFFERED SELF-EXILE.
Jury Trial* in Ireland—The Vote on
Clotnrc—The Channel Tunnel—
Prince Leopold’* marriage to be
Postponed.
London, March 31 —ln the House of
Commons this evening, Mr. Gladstone, re
plying to a question, eaid that the govern
ment had no change to announce in the
cloture resolution. He stated that he would
introduce the budget on the 24th of April.
Mr. Forster, in answer to a question by
Joseph Cowan, said that he could not re
lease Dillon on account of the state of his
health, but that the doors of the prison
were open to Dillon If he would leave the
kingdom. This reply was received with
cries of “Shame” from the Home Rule
members. Mr. Forster added that the con
dition of Dillon’s health at last accounts
was satisfactory.
In the House of Lords to-night, Baron
Carlingford, Lord Privy Beal, stated that
the government could not suspend trial by
jury in Ireland, and that no fresh legisla
tion was proposed.
The Liberals, who voted In favor of Mr.
Morrlotte’s amendment to the Cloture reso
lution, were Mr. Peter Taylor, Sir Edward
Watkin, Mr. Morriotte, Mr. Cowen, Sir John
Ennis and John Walter. Thirty-nine Home
Rulers voted on the same side. ♦
Mr. Gladstone, in closing the debate
denied emphatically that cloture was in,
tended to prepare the way for coercion. It
was crime, not cloture, that makes coercion
possible. Tbe government only asked the
House, not by passing the amendment, to
shut the door against a principle which will
defeat individual folly and the darker
dedgns of those who would stand between
the House and the discharge of Its duties.
Sir Stafford Northcote, in the course of
his speech, commented favorably upon
the other rules.
John Bright, like Mr. Gladstone, com
mented severely on the designs of the Irish,
which he Hlusrrated by quoting from the
proceedings of the Chicago Convention.
In repiy to a question in reference to the
projected Channel tunnel last evening in
the House of Commons, Mr. Joseph Cham
berlain, President of the Board of Trade,
said that Sir Edward Watken, Chairman of
the Southeastern Railway, had been warned
that the government claims the bed of the
sea for three mi’e3 below low water mark,
and holds itself free to use any powers at
its disposal, as Parliament may director
national Interests may require.
It is probable that the marriage of Prince
Leopold will be postponed because of his
Illness. The preparations for the ceremony
have been suspended.
Patrick J. Smyth, member for Tipperary,
and fourteen moderate Home Rulers, voted
with the majority in the division in the
House of Commons Thursday night.
THE GALLOWS YESTERDAY.
A Murderer Hanged in Virginia—
Two Oilier* in Alabama.
Chatham, Pittsylvania County, Va.,
March 31 —“Doc” Wright, colored, was
hung here at eleven o’clock this morning
for the murder of Coleman Arthur, a
white man, on February 5, 1881. He
walked to the gallows, si'uated about one
hundred and fifty yards from the 1 ill. The
Danville Grays acted as a guard. While
s'andine on the platform, just before
the trap was sprung a reporter
ssked him If he had committed
the murder. He answered, “1 did not,”
which were the only words spoken by him
after leaving tbe jail. The drop was four
feet, and hie neck was broken bv the fall.
He died with scarcely a struggle But a
small crowd was In attendance. The affair
was conducted In a decent, quiet and or
derly manner. The hanging was private,
only the offlc n rs of the court and represen
ativos of the press being present.
Selma, Ala , March 31.—A1. Weissinser
and B* 11 Ludlow, who were convicted In the
City Court, at the January term, of the
raurdrr of Jesse B. We3*ineer, an old man
living in this county, on December 19 last,
were hanged tc-d*y. After manacling them,
the Sheriff took them in a hack to the en
closure prepared In the suburbs, where,
guarded by the city military company, the
prisoners made lengthly speeches, protest
ing their innocense. At 12:20 p. m., the
Sheriff bade them good bve and loosened
the trigger, and in fifteen minutes they were
pronounced dead.
TIIE PISTOL IN RUSSIA.
The Public Proaeeutnr of KtefTShot
la Odessa.
Odessa, March 31.—General Strelnikoff,
the public prosecutor of the Kieff military
tribunal, was shot with a revolver while
sitting on the boulevards here. The ball
penetrated his head and came out through his
forehead. Gen. Strelnikoff died immediate
ly. His two assassins were stopped while
fleeing in a carriage. They offered violent
resistance, and with their revolvers and
polgnards wounded three persons. They
were finally overpowered and conveyed to
the police station. General Strelnikoff
came to Odessa to conduct the preliminary
examination in an important political trial.
Tbe New York Stock Market.
New York, March 31.—Share specula-
in the main %al per cent, lower
than yesterday’s closing prices, the latter
for Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western.
Hannibal and S’. Joe preferred, however,
opened 1 per cent, higher. In the early
dealings an advance of per cent, in
the general list, the latter tor Reading, was
followed by a reaction of per cent.,
the latter for Denver and Rio Grande, while
Rochester and Pittsburg fell off \% per
cent, to 31%. An advance of %*l% per
cent, then took place, in which Hannibal
and St. Joe preferred, Denver and Rio
G'ande, Reading, Nashville and Chatta
nooga and Louisville and Nasnvllle were
conspicuous, but about noon the market
reacted %a% percent., Louisville and Nash
ville leading the decline.
Subsequently another advance of %a%
per cent, was recorded, Hannibal and St.
Joseph preferred, Denver and Rio Grande,
Northwestern and Wabash preferred being
prominent therein. In the late dealings the
market became weak and sold down %a2%
per cent., the latter for Hannibal and Bt.
Joseph preferred, New Jersey Central, Den
ver and R'o Grande, Reading, Wabash pre
ferred, Louisville and Nashville, Michigan
Central and Missouri Pacific were also
prominent In the decline. Tbe market
closed weak compared with yesterday’s
closing prices. The market was Irregular,
the principal changes beirig an advance of
% per cent, in Hannibal and St. Joseph
preferred, a decline of 1% per cent, in New
Jersey Central and 1% in Northern Pacific
preferred. Transactions aggregated 360,
000 shares.
Breadstuff* In Britain.
Liverpool, March 31. — A leading weekly
grain circular says: “Wheat has been
quieter. The supplies have been liberal.
English alone was occasionally dearer. Corn
was strong and dearer. Wheat to day was
in limited demand at a decline, except
ing red winter. For flour there was a fair
inquiry, and the market was steady. There
was no demand fer corn and prices were
lower.” _
South Carolina Political Trial*.
Columbia, 8. C., March 31.—Governor
Hagood has ordered Attorney General
Youmans to repair to Charleston and de
fend the election and other officers of the
State, who are indicted and to be tried in the
United Btates Court.
It is the general opinion that an extra
session of the Legislature will be called
shortly to redistrict the State.
Attempt to It I w Up tbe Andre
mounmont.
New York, March 31 — Another attempt
was made last night to blow up with dyna
mate the Andre monument at Tappan. The
monument itself is not damaged to any con
siderable extent, but the base is completely
destroyed. The monument now stands erect
on three pieces of h&se, the rest of the base
being almost in atoms.
Tbe Strike ml Barcelona.
Barcelona, March 31 —Almost all tbe
shops and manufactories here are now
closed. During the disorders cries of
"Long live the Federal republic” were
raised.
Madrid, March 31.—The province of
CatalonU has been proclaimed in a state of
siege. Official dispatches report that the
agitation is abating.
If you wish peaceful slumber at night, in
spite of cough or sore throat, take a dose of
Brown’s Iron Bitters before going to bed.
It is very soothing and refreshing. Try it.
OUR DARIEN LETTER.
Death of Colonel Thompeon—Tbe
Wealber—Sudden Death—Summer
Hotel Wanted-Various and Sun*
dry Item.
Darien, Ga., March 29.—The news of Colonel
Thompson’s death fills the Georgian's heart
with regret wherever he may be. Children of
to-day have recognised and delighted in the
quaint humor of “Major Jones Courtship,’’
even as their parents did before them.
We had some high winds and heavy rain
Monday night and plenty of dark clouds
yesterday, but they are ail gone now, and we
open our eyes on the freshest and brightest of
mornings.
The weather being propitious ladies of Afri
can descent from New Jerusalem, Mention
ville, Rbett and other suburban villages meet
daily and promenade from run to sun the
boulevards of the rice fields to the measured
stroke of the boe. There was a poor belated
one Monday morning, with an oar on one
shoulder, a hoe on the other, and a basket on
her arm, wandering up and down the wharves,
in search of the lost opportunity of crossing.
A colored woman named Lizzie Williams fell
suddenly dead at the Lower Bluff last Satur
day night, on her return from a visit to town.
Our people were quite disappointed on Sun
day to find that the large and handsome three
masted schooner Cyrus Hall, that dropped
anchor at the Magnolia House wharf, did not
bring ice. but cam-- in ballast to load here
It is difficult to net *t the political situation,
so tbe only consoling thing to be said is that it
is not exactly situated as yet.
The city hearse has not been bought yet.
It is talked "f at every funeral, but the move
ment so far has died away with the notes of
the “Dead March.” We will have one though,
and a fire engine too, though as yet we have
not organized any kind of fire company. The
boys would find a hook and ladder company
like that in Augusta bett‘ r exercise than cock
fighting. which is fascinating the junior class
in natural history at present, some of the
students of which are seen at this end of town
with bloody-headed roosters under their arms.
Far pleasanter Is it to watch the boys play ball
on the green below us. It is a morally healthy
plav, if attended even with an occasional
bruise
Pity, now, that the older lads had not been
open to suggestion and built that nice large
hall in town, when they could have skating and
dancing parties, as well as theatricals. It was
built on the ridge about four years ago for the
combined purposes of improvement and
amusement, and for awhile the debates and re
hearsals were carried on energetically Lat
terly the hall is used by traveling exhibitors,
and sometimes as a school house.
A tramp named Taylor, purporting to be
from a bouse in your city, has been spoiling
pianos here at the rate of $3 to *5 each.
Do you know anybody who wants to set
somebody up in a summer hotel on the Ridge?
If so, do send them down. One is really need
ed there, as business men must ha ve a home
for their families, unless they send them off
*nd get sleeping quarters f>r themselves out
s.de th-city limits after June. ©
The city is clean and is nicely kept, but no
one can guard against the miasma from rice
lands. Wi’h this exception, there is really no
healthier place, taking it the year round.
Doboy has a eood sized hotel. They will
miss “I)r. Bullis” down there this summer.
Several young ladies, who have been spend
ing the winter here, departed for home this
week, and the town wil! be dull awhile until
those promised entertainments begin.
There is not much timber coming in at
present, but we expect April to be a lively
business month.
Merchants are busy opening and arranging
so’ing good •. Some of the shelves are aiieady
full of pretty fabrics and delicate tints.
There was some excitement on the streets
yesterday over the supposed loss of the steam
er Little Willie W, but she is found again—
lad not gone far.
We are so tantalized by the removal of pas
senger boats, that the news of the Bridge
ton's coming on our route is zood news, if
she will stay. During tbe Clark’s disability,
the Cumberland has been doing her best to
supply the want, but although officered by the
nicest and most obliging of gentlemen, she is
not a ladies’ boat par excellence.
The debating society had a lengthy and hot
argument on the tariff question last night. Re
sult at twenty minutes past midnight—“no
tariff.” H. S. B.
Church and State In Germany.
Berlin, March 31.—The Diet to-day
finally passed the ecclesiastical bill in the
form in which it was adopted on iis second
reading. Herr Von Gossler, Minister of
Ecclesiastical Affvrs, s'ated that the gov
ernment held to the original bill. Yester
day’s amendments, he said, went in the
direction of the government’s proposals,
hut wou'd provoke serious diflicultles. The
fact, however, that the Clericals agreed to
compromise would, he thought, contribute
materially to tbe restoration of peace. The
House adjourned until April 18th.
The Cond'mucd Nihilist* Shown
Mercy.
Bt. Petersburg, March 31.—1 t Is offi
cially announced that the Czar has ordered
a commutation of all the death sentences
passed at the recent trial of the Nihllis’s
into an indefinite period of hard labor in
the mines, except in the case of the marine
Lieutenant Suchanoff, in which the sentence
is confirmed, as his position as an officer
aggravated his crime. He Is, however,
granted a military execution, which will
take place to day.
Moulders on a Strike.
Paterson, N. J., March 31 —The mould
ers in the Grant Locomotive Works struck
this evening for an increase of twenty per
cent, in wages, and a general strike to mor
row of all moulders Is expected, as the
Moulders’ Union some weeks ago agreed to
demand an Increase on the first of April.
A Chinese Merchants’ Exchange.
San Francisco, March 31.—The Chinese
merchants of this city have finally opened a
merchants’ exchange, which they have been
secretly organizing for some time past, and
have elected officers. The object of the
organization is mutual benefit and protec
tion.
Big Blaze In Arkansas.
Little Rook, March 31—Special dis
patches report that a block and a half of
business buildings in Forest City were
burned this morning. The fire started at
four o’clock in the drug store of Messrs.
Btearns & Cos , and was incendiary. The
loss is about #40,000; insurance $20,000.
Dr. Lamion’i Case.
London, March 31.—1n reference to Sec
retary Frellnghuysen’s instructions to Mr.
Lowell touching Dr. Lamson’s case, it is
learned that Mr. Lowell had already (on
Tuesday) applied to Lord Granville, Secre
tary for Foreign Affairs, for a suspension of
the sentence.
The War on the Russian Jew*.
St. Petersburg, March 31.— The Golo*
says lhe police are preparing for further ex
pulsions of Jews from Moscow. The Novoe
Vremeya says the idea is mooted of com
pulsory naturalization of all foreigners who
have been resident In Russia over five years.
Tbe Week In Mincing Lane.
London, March 31. —In Mincing Lane
during the past week fine coffees realized
high rates. Plantation Ceylon Is rather
lower. Tea is unimproved. Of sugar sev
eral floating cargoes were sold at firmer
prices. White pepper Is hardening.
Tbe Sicilian Vesper*.
Palermo, March 31.—The anniversary of
the Sicilian vespers was celebrated here to
day. Nearly all the shops were closed, and
the streets were crowded. Senator Perez
delivered an appropriate address. Gari
baldi took no part in tbe proceedings.
Tbe Slate of Englsnd’* Hevenne*.
London, March 31.—The revenue returns
for the financial year ending to day, show
that the receipts amount, to £85,822,282,
being an Increase of £1,780,994, as com
pared with the revenue for the previous
year.
Short Time In Lancashire.
London, March 31. —The majority of the
Oldham spinning companies have agreed to
close their mills for a week at Easter.
Manchester Market.
London, March 31.—The Manchester
Guardian, in Its commercial article, says:
“The market Is becoming flatter.”
A telegram from Dayton, Ohio, asserts
that the Managers of the Soldiers’ Home,
acting under the power granted by the
Board ot Managers in a resolution passed in
1873, havf recently presented bills for board,
clothes and medical attendance to the Ad
ministrators of Eitates of such Inmates as
died poes?ssed of any money, In some cases
these amounting to many thousands of dol
lars. Tbe telegram Instances one bill against
the estate of Joseph H. Cahoe for $55,000
for ten years’ board and maintenance, and
another for $28,084 against the estate of
Joseph Kellv, for 461 weeks’ maintenance,
Tbe Dead Restored to Life.
Any one desiring to have restored to their
normal or natural condition those organs of
life whose functions have become impaired
from excessive gluttony, intemperance or
otherwise, will find health, strength and
vigor in Brown’s Iron Bitters. Where the
weakness is of an exhaustive or debilitating
nature, It removes ajl lifeless feeling and
quickly awakens acUyUy.—Jis'fWci.
MONDAY’S CYCLONE.
ITS TERRORS IN SOUTHERN
OEOROIA.
firol Destruction In snmter, Lee,
*errll, Randolph, Ddgr, Dough*
erty and Other Counties—Several
Persona Killed and IRany Injured,
Arcola, Ga., March 29 .—Editor Morning
News: A terrible cyclone passed oyer the
eastern portion of this (Bulloch) county on
the night of the 27th inst. The houses and
plantations of Louis Hutchison, Mrs. War
nocb, James Wise and William Hogan were
blown down, and Mr. Hogan’s wife and
child were killed instantly in the wreck,
and be was badly injured.
The plantations of Captain W. D. Bran
nen and J. T. Mikell suffered great damage,
also the turpentine farm of Oatland, Bran
nen & Cos. Many head of cattle, sheep and
other kinds of stock were killed. Birds
stripped of feathers were found dead in the
course of the storm.
Americas Republican.
On Monday night last, between the hours
of ten and eleven o’clock, a terribly de
structive storm swept over Lee and the
lower portions of Bumper counties. We
learn that, houses were blown away, a great
deal of stock killed, and many persons in
jured. It is said that a negro man named
Britt Bhepherd was killed, and a child had
Its arm broken. In the fifteenth district of
Sumter the plantation of Jas. Bass was de
nuded of fences, and every house
on it, except his dwelliugj blown
away. His brother, Alex. Bass,
had everything his dwelling house,
barns, stables, fences, clothing, provisions,
fodder, and everything else blown away.
Wesley Bass and family, Thomas Llghtfoot
and family, James Richards and family, the
widow Carter and family, are homeless and
houseless—provisions destroyed, and every
shred of clothing gone. These persons are
in a very destitute condition and call loudly
for help. The neighbors are helping as
much as they can, but they can do but
little, as they themselves are sufferers from
the storm. Outside help is imperatively
needed—help at once. Wade Richards
is supposed to be mortally injured,
Ms father and mother also badly
hurt. The house was blown down on
Wesley Bass, his wife and three children,
all of whom were more or less Injured. The
wind entirely demolished the gin house of
Alex. Bass, blowing it a distance of fifty
yards, tearing it all to nieces, not leaving
two shingles logether. Our informant, Dr.
J. W. Jones, says that his crop is ruined,
that the timbers are lapped over his fields
in inextricable coufusion, and that it
will take seventy-five dollars an acre to
clear the debris. Mr. J. N Carter, of this
place, received a dispatch from his brother,
D. A. Carter, of Lee county, stating that
everything was blown away, and for his
father to come down on the first train, bring
ing with him hands and carpenters. Mr.
Carter had four mules killed by the storm.
In this place, between the hours of
ten and eleven o’clock, Monday night,
an earthquake was sensibly felt. Many
of our citizens felt their houses tremble,
window shutters rattle, and crockery to be
violently jarred. One of our cit. zens noticed
a door in his bouse open apparently of
itself, a thing that he never noticed before.
That it was not wind is clearly demonstrated
from the fact that at that hour but little
wind was blowing here, though at the same
time a violent cyclone at the distance of
fifteen miles was making sad havoc with
lives and property. Dr. J ones also stated
that the crockery in bis house was thrown
to the floor by the violence of the shocks
felt.
Albany News and Advertiser.
As the train drew near the town of Smlth
ville, perhaps three quarters of a mile from
the village, the passengers, who craned
their necks out of the windows, saw a
sight that, when they attempt to describe,
human credulity will hardly gulp at one
swallow. Immense pines felled, cabins
razed to the earth, and fence rails scattered
in every direction. A company of men
were working alongside the railroad track,
repairing track and telegraph wire and
poles. The train ran perhaps five hundred
yards before the track of destruction had
been erosed. * * * * * *
A few seconds’ ride brought us to huge
pine trees that bad fallen across the way,
and after we bad leaped and ridden around
a hundred yards of trees we came to a vast
p'le of lumber, brick and mortar, about
which was sorrowfully grouped a knot of
men. *
“Who lived here ?” we asked.
“Mr. Jack Batts,” said a negro. “That’s
him standing thar,” pointing to a young
man.
We stated cur m'ssion to Mr. Batts, who
kindly asked us to dismount, and led the
way to the mass of ruins. He told us that
this debris was what remained of a two
story, strongly-built frame house, to which
he had brought, only five months ago a
voung bride. He had improved the dwell
log, and was pitching a crop. II? said :
“At about half past eleven o’clock I was
awakened by the noise of a terrible btorm.
It frightened my wife so that she wanted to
get up. I restrained her, and there was a
crash, and the roof fell on us. Myself and
wife were sandwiched, as we lay, between
two rafters. I could put my hand up and
feel the roof. Grasping my wife with my
right arm I began the work of extricating
ourselves. By hard work I succeeded in
reaching a window which opened on a por
tico, at one end of which was the kitchen.
I succeeded in breaking throueh the win
dow and reaching the porch, when I was
blown across the porch, a distance of fifteen
feet, into the kitchen. The wind ceaspd,
and, recovering my poor wife, I made for
shelter, which I found in a negro cabin not
far away.”
Captain McKinney arrived in Smithville
from Terrell county, and said the first traces
of the storm are seen as you cross the Jor
dan mill creek, about four miles from
Smithville, and the other end was, as far as
could be ascertained, at Mr. Sanders’ place,
five miles from Smithville, which would
make a track nine miles. Of course it may
be longer than this. This is the length we
know it to be.
The strangest part is that fragments of
furniture, kitchen utensils and wearing ap
parel are found in the woods three miles
from the track of the storm.
From passengers on the Eufaula train,
which rolled up at SmithTllle a few min
utes before the Albany train departed, we
heard the most marvelous stories of the
storm, and the number of deaths ranged
from a half dozen to forty. At Brown’s
Station the passengers were regaled with
the sight of hands making coffins to bury
the dead. Conductor Shelman Informed
us that there were four deaths at Brown’s
Station, or rather Geise’s saw mill.
Hawkinsviile Dispatch.
On Monday night last, between eleven
and twelve o’clock, a cyclone or tornado,
about three hundred yards In width, struck
Dr. V. H. Walker’s plantation, in Wilcox
county, prostrating every building on the
place except the dwelling and crib, acd the
roofs of these buildings were blown off.
The family fortunately escaped with slight
bruises, but cooking utensils, crockery acd
provisions were carried away, and boards
from some of the outhouses were blown sev
eral miles. The buggies and wagons were
crushed under the buildings, the furniture
destroyed, and the bedding that was left
was covered with the heavy rain that fol
lowed. We received a note from Dr.
Walker saying that he was without a dry
room for his family or the few things that
were left. His neighbors (though the coun
try Is sparsely settled) were rendering such
assistance as they were enabled to offer.
The tornado was confined to a
space about three hundred yards
in width, and passed between the
S laces of Perry Wilson and Pipk Johnson,
ienry Lawson and Alfred Ball, Isaac Ad
kins and Abraham McCormick. Timber
and fencing were carried before the wind as
if so many straws, acd stock in the course
of the storm were killed, though no lives
had been reported lost up to late accounts.
The storm continued in an easterly direc
tion, crossing the Ocmulgee Into Drdge
county, destroying the dwelling of Isaac
Bowen, injuring the new frame dwelling of
Stephen Daniel, and completely blowing
away the cabin of a colored wbman.
One of our merchants returned from a
trip to his plantation on Gum meek, Dooly
county, on Tuesday mornirg, and Informs
us that about 11 o’clock on Monday night a
terrific cyclone passed ovfr that, secti <n.
From the best we could ies-m i commenced
on the Simmons plsce (forme ly Walker
Lee’s), on the east side of Hire river,
passing over the plantations of Sam W.
Coney, P. C. Clegg (McKinney plac ) and
the late John F. Lewis and Warren B. Ham
ilton. On Mr. Coney’s place, t wo tenement
houses, his garden, tree*, fences, etc., were
blown down; fences on Mr. Clegg’s place,
and four tenement houses, gin house and
fenoea demolished on the Lewis plantation,
acd on the Hamilton place the gin house,
stables and barns were leveled to the
ground.
• Wiregrai* Watchman.
The tornado of Monday night last that so
devastated other sections of the State,
passed through our sister county of Dodge,
striking the line of TeUair and peeing
through Montgomery, doing consid
erable damage to houses, fencing,
etc. Among the list of sufferers of
whom we have any report are:
Messrs. Harlow Clark, of Dodge, who suf
fered loss of every house on his place to
gether with his fences; Howard Clark, of
Telfair, who suffered the loss of his dwell
ing and everything therein; David Morrison
and Peter Galbreath, of Montgomery, whose
dwellings were stripped of their roofs.
Albany Cor. Enquirer Sun.
The plantation known as the Duncan
place, lying about 6even miles due south on
the Newton road, and owned by Captain
Wm. E. Smith and J. M. Cutleff, was visit
ed by a tornado Monday night, the first of
the season. The gin house, screw,
storehouse and sixteen negro cabins,
all frame buildings, were blown com
pletely down, fences blown away, and trees
thrown down in every direction. Fortu
nately no stock as far as ascertained were
lost. A good many negroes were hurt, some
severely, but none seriously. No other set
tlement was visited by it so far as heard
from, though fears are entertained that
danuglcg reports may come in from below
in Baker enunty.
Cuthbert Cor. Enquirer-Sun.
A fearful wind storm, accompanied by
floods of rain, visited Cuthbert Monday
night between 9 and 10 O’clock. Fences
were prostrated and trees demolished, but
no houses or persons Injured, so far as heard
from, in the town. Several lives are re
ported to have been lost, and a number of
persons wounded seriously near the town.
It originated on the Alabama side of the
river, and as far as known the tract of the
cyclone was about a mile wide. We cannot
give full particulars to-day, but will send
further intelligence to-morrow. The follow
ing casualtties are reported:
Mr. R. J. Richards, living near King’s
post office, Barbour county, was killed by
the falling of his house; Mrs. Emma West,
In the same neighborhood, was seriously in
jured, but not fatally; Mr. P. Redding,
living near Cuthbert, Ga., was killed; Mrs.
Powell and Mr. Martin, at Brown’s station,
Ga.. were killed; Miss Lanier, at Brown’s
station, was seriouslyinjured; John McCart
ley’s place was badly injured; Calvin Wat
son’s arm was broken and his house de
stroyed. The extensive vineyards near
Cuthbert, Ga., were seriously damaged.
Tice’s mill was demolished. Large trees
were uprooted, and the timbered lands suf
fered incalculable damage.
Dawson Journal.
After assiduous inquiry, however, we
have been enabled to gather the following
facts, which may be considered as entirely
reliable: The storm of wind accompanied
by incessant flashes of lightning, and a roar
ing noise, that was almost death like to
hear, proceeded from a southwest direction,
keeping parallel with the Southwestern Rail
road and going in a northeast course. Its first
point of contact with the earth was in the
vicinity of Mr. M. L. Harps. Here, we
understand, it piled the trees in immense
heaps for hundreds of yards around in all
directions, leaving nothing in its wake
but utter devastation and destruc
tion. Ia its deathly march it next
swooped down with deadly effect
upon the farm of Mr. Calvin Watson,
about three miles north of Dawson.
Here, every house, building and tree on Mr.
Watson’s farm seemed to have been blown
down. His dwelling was leveled to the
ground. Mr. Watson and his aged mother
both Were severely and dangerously wound
ed. Next in the track of the terrible
cyclone lay the wreck of Campbell <fc Liv
ingstone’s mill. The shed over the mill
and several houses here were blown down.
A little further on all the out buildings on
Mr. Wright Kenidy’s place were blown down.
At Mr. John McCarthy’s not a single house
was left standing. The family residence
was razed literally to the earth, Mr. Me
Carthy himself being very painfully and se
riously wounded. Also Miss Sue Tolbot, Mr.
McCarthy’s wife’s sister, was dangerously if
not mortally wounded. She was blown full
sixty yards by the storm, and when found
was in water up to her shoulders. At Mr.
McCarthy’s there was also a negro killed.
In the house were two trunks, ore contain
ing 5400 in gold, the other f!5O. Both of
these tru’ ks were literally blown away, not
a vestige of either nor the money being
fouud. At Mr. A. J. Kenney’s place every
house was blown down except the dwell
ing. Further on, at Mr O N. Grdse’s mill,
every single bouse was blown down. At this
point, four persons were killi and, Mrs. B. F
Powell, Mr. John Msrdn’s little son, and
two negroes. Mr. B F. Powell and one of
his children were also b*dly hurt; also a
lady living with the family of Mr. Marlin.
Mr. Gsts-r had a very fine mule killed and
several wounded. Oa the Barlow place sev
eral houses were blown down and one negro
killed.
THE CHANNF.L TUNNEL.
Progr* ot the Gigantic Undertak
ing and Location of Termini.
From an interesting description of this
great work which recently appeared in
the Illustrated London News we condense
the following: “The shaft upon the
English side of the channel is sunk in
the chalk cliff between Folkstone and
Dover, and is about one hundred and
sixty feet in depth. The opening is cir
cular, with barricaded sides, and fitted
with steam hoisting apparatus. At the
bottom of this shaft is a square chamber,
dug in the gray chalk, the sides of
wteich are heavily timbered, and in
front is the experimental boring, a low
roofed, circular tunnel, about seven feet
in diameter, the floor of which is laid
with a double line of tram rails. This
tunnel is admirably ventilated, and on
visiting days is lighted with electric
lamps. The beginning of the tunnel
proper is 100 feet below the surface of
the sea, and a heading, now
ahout three-quarters of a mile long, has
been driven entirely through a hard
gray chalk, impenetrable to water, and
yet of such a character as to be easily
worked. The present heading, as already
stated, is seven feet in diameter, but ma
chinery has been devised to cut an angu
lar space three feet six inches around it,
thus enlarging it to fourteen feet. The
boring is done by machinery propelled
by compressed air, and progresses at the
rate of nearly an inch a minute while in
operation. It is now going on at
the rate of three miles a year,
which speed of working, providing
borings on the French side progress as
rapidly, will complete the tunnel under
neath and across the channel in three
years and a half. The geological ex
perts associated with the project are san
guine about the existence of a great bed
of gray chalk, which stretches in an
irregular curve from England to Prance,
starting from below Dover and reaching
to a point on the French coast a little to
the east of Cape Grisnez, not far from
Calais. It is the intention to drive the
tunnel along or through this bed. The
tunnel, when completed, will be in the
shape of a circle, fourteen feet in
diameter, but flattened at the bottom
to receive the rails. It will be lined
with two feet thickness of cement con
crete, not that it is necessary to insure
the stability of the work, but to pre
vent accidental falls of chalk. The gra
dients will be one to eighty on each side
until the depth of 150 feet below the
bottom of the sea is reached, after which
the line will be level, subject only to a
very slight inclination from the centre
outward, to prevent the lodging of
water. When the tunnel is opened to
traffic the trains will be run through by
engines driven by compressed air, which
not only furnishes motive power but
also ample ventilation as it is discharged.
The approaches to the completed tun
nel upon the English side will be
strongly guarded against hostile inva
sion by numerous fortifications, many of
which now exist, and, as an additional
precaution, means will be adopted for
speedily flooding it the entire length in
case the necessity should arise. Similar
precautions will also be adopted by
France. But these are chiefly matters
for after reconsideration. To build the
tunnel is the first thing, and, now that
matters are so well under wav, there is
every reason to believe that before many
years continental tourists will be safely
and in comfort traveling more than a
score of miles under the sea, while the
winds and waves are angrily tossing the
vessels that ply above their heads.
Mr. E. D. Richards, of Boston, suggests
that in theatres there be aa iron curtain in
front of all other curtains, held up by an
electric magnet, applied to the necessary
simple gearing, to prevent its running
down. In the orchestra and on the main
floor and each gallery he would have the
now common push-button in a glass case,
with wires running to the magnet and bat
tery, and with printed directions to this ef
f et: “In case '-x fire on the stage break
the glass and p'-sh the button at once.”
ESTABLISHED 1850.
GATE CITY GOSSIP.
NOTES FROM THE STATE
CAPITAL.
Mixed Weather Crop Prospects—
municipal Jotting*-Atlanta Wak
ing; Up aa a City—Some Local Goa*
■lp manufacturing Enterprise*
Generally—Political Paragraphs—
The Liberal movement—Death of
Colonel Win. T. Thompson—Final
Paragraph*.
Atlanta, March 30.— Another week of fine
summer weather closed with the usual rain,
only It was heavier and longer than the former
ones. Sunday and Monday we had thunder
storms and heavy rams, followed by colder
nights but pleasant summerish days.
With all our weeks of rain this winter we
have escaped the hard fate that has befallen
the unfortunate people of many other por
tions of the South. The waters have not en
gulphed us or our homes, nor has the fearful
tornado swept over our dwellings with its de
structive fury. Truly have we cause to be
thankful and to sympathize with the homeless
of other sections.
Reports from various portions of the coun
try show that while one section is too wet an
other is too dry, and crops not washed away
are being burnt up with the drought. Good
authorities in such matters predict a long sea
son of dry weather this summer. Should their
predictions prove true, the crops of the South
ern States will indeed be short this year.
MUNICIPAL JOTTINGS.
The park question is still under advisement*
the no park and the east, west and south At
lanta park location parties being actively at
work to win a victory at the next Council
meeting.
There is every prospect of a paid fire depart
ment in a very short time, as the "boys’’ are
determined to disband, and the City Fathers
see no other way to protect the property of
our citizens from fire.
Action will also be taken at next Council
meeting in regard to an increase in the water
works, either by sale of the works to a com
pany that will enlarge them, or some provision
for an increase in the present uncertain water
supply.
The insurance companies doing business in
Atlanta have “taken the bull by the horns,”
and in raising the rate of insurance have com
pelled the city to enlarge the water supply and
make more efficient our long neglected volun
teer fire department.
And just here I desire to state that no false
impression may go abroad, that Atlanta has
had one of the best and most efficient fire de
partments in the country. Until the water sup
ply weakened and tne city fai ed to sustain
them in a proper manner, the firemen were
prompt, zealous and heroic. But neglect
thinned their ranks and broke their spirits.
Atlanta has only to meet the pressing de
mands of her increasing growth in a liberal
spirit to tide over safely her present crisis—for
it is indeed a crisis in her history. Better
streets, sidewalks, sewers, water works, etc.,
must be provided, or her future will be full of
evils and misfortunes.
SOME LOCAL GOBBIP.
Coup’s circus, which has wintered in Augus"
ta, will open the season there on Saturday of
next week, and on the following Monday ex
hibit in Atlanta. From here It moves west
ward to commence business for the summer.
Favorable weather has steadily reduced the
decrease in Atlanta’s cotton receipts this year,
aa compared with the same period last season,
and we are short only a little over two
thousand bales. The total receipts, I think,
will hardly exceed last year’s when the final
count is completed.
The Atlanta custom house (?) seems to have
been a most unfortunate creation for the busi
ness men of the city. It really amounts to
nothing, except to furnish a “do nothing”
office, with about a thousand dollars a year, for
the colored politician. Pledger succeeds Davis,
and the prospect for a bonded warehouse and
larger importations vanishes into thin air.
There is, however, one consolation left. If
Atlanta cannot become a genuine port of en
try and boast of her increasing importations,
as she does of her varying population, she can
at least brag on her rapidly growing manufac
turing enterprises. In one hundred different
ways is she developing industrial pursuits, not
a few of which promise to assume large pro
portions in the future.
Some of our Atlanta Sunday school men are
agitating the establishment of a Southern
Chatauqua for Sunday school gatherings and
instruction. It is rumored that R. B. Reppard,
of Savannah, a generous-hearted Sunday
school worker, has offered to give five thou
sand dollars to pmmnte t.he movement. Look
out Mountain and Tallulah Falls are spoken of
for the location, but lam confident that Mait
land, in Orange county, Fla., would be the very
best place. It is a region of lakes, is free from
the vices of city life, has a large crowd of
Northern people in winter, and could be made
more attractive than anv summer resort.which
would conflict with the Northern Chatauqua.
MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES.
Atlanta is to have a cotton seed oil refinery
as well as a cotton seed oil mill. Hon. William
Markham and other capitalists are at the head
of the enterprise. In view of the fact that
Georgia is soon to have a dozen cotton seed oil
mills, I beg to repeat my former prediction,
that this branch of business will soon be “run
into the ground” and somebody suffer finan
cially.
It will be remembered that I vigorously op
posed the effort to get up a Clement Attach
ment boom by interested parties some two
years ago. I admitted that the invention was a
good one for certain personp, in certain places
and for certain purposes, but denied that it
would come into general use. Two parties in
Georgia established Clement Attachment mills,
and both have lately been abandoned. Thus
ends a sensational boom that promised to
“revolutionize” cotton manufacturing.
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
The colored people in this section of the State
are justly indignant at the speech of the noto
rious J. E. Bryant, who intimated that they
were prepared to join the Southerners in anew
“rebellion.” Bryant is a gay deceiver in poli
tics.
It is evident that the inharmonious harmony
that pervades the ran ltd of the Independent-
Liberal Republican coalition is a signal of dan
ger ahead for the success of the movement.
There appears to be no head to the concern—
it is all tail, and as a resul of this misfortune
it is constantly wiggling about. It lacks sta
bility and solidity despite the “heavy weights”
with which it is loaded.
The syndicate finds it a hard thing to please
all office-seekers—only one out of twenty get
ting satisfaction. And what is still worse, the
offices will soon be disposed of, and when that
time arrives lookout fora general breaking up
of the coalition and a free fight all around.
General Longstreet (with Buck and Wilson) is
standing on the verge of an awful political vol
cano, and in due time it will pour forth its “red
hot” indignation.
There are no new developments from the
last. Markham House convention (?), and on all
sides I hear but one opinion—that the bandful
of excellent men who met in that assembly
represent but very little besides their own in
terests and the desires of a small body of per
sonal friends. Aa a popular movement, or an
outburst of the people, it is more and more re
garded as a dismal failure. The June roses will
hardly give it a healthy and vigorous boom.
THg LATE COLONEL THOMPSON.
I have looked in vain for a single feature in
the life, labors and death of the late Colonel
William Tappan Thompson to call for regret
or sorrow. True, it is, that we shall all miss
him, but we can hardly mourn his departure
at this time.
Ripe in years, full of the honors that pertain
to bis profession, esteemed and beloved by his
associates, surrounded by a family circle to
which he was most tenderly endeared, and
comforted and sustained by an unshaken faith
in God, he passed from earthly scenes and
labors and associations to a world of never
ending bliss
He might have lived a few years longer, but
at the peril of infirmity and pain as his con
stant companions. There were no higher
honors to be attained, no greater worldly
wealth to be accumulated, no errors of the past
to be outlived, no enemies to be obliterated, no
broken ties to be reunited. Death came to him
peacefully and kindly and in good time.
With his mind clear and bright, his heart
warm and full of Christian love, his devoted
wife to comfort him in his last hours, and his
loving children to stand about his bedside—all
these were granted him in the home where he
had lived so long as a fond hnsband, a tender
father and a beloved neighbor. How few have
all these blessings and privileges to make
smooth the pillow of their dying rest and shed
a halo of peace and joy around their death bed.
His was a gentle, loving life, and its close
was in keeping therewith. Socially, editorially
and politically, I knew him well. We were
members of the National Democratic Conven
tion that nominated Seymour for President,
and were together in the Georgia Constitutional
Convention of 1877, and the last Democratic
State Convention—he as a member and las a
correspondent. In all these conventions he
was a quiet, modest participant, making no
speeches, but faithful in voting and in commit
tee work.
I frequently differed with him as to certain
men and measures, yet I can recall no instance
in which he ever treated me as other than an
equal and with the utmost courtesy. Beneath
his mild And gentle demeanor there was a
strong undercurrent of firmness, and be was
unyielding when he believed himself to be in
the right. His long and successful connection
ith the Morning News is the best tribute to
his worth and ability as an editor.
In social life bis genial, gentle nature more
thoroughly asserted itself. A stranger would
hesitate to pick him out as one who had won
extended fame as the author of “Major Jones’
Courtship” and other popular humorous works.
Ob many occasions \ noted with surprise his
modest retirement when these literary ven
tures were referred to in terms of high praise
by men of culture and standing. I never heard
him speak boastinngly of his own literary pro
ductions, but frequently did he commend the
labors of others. His last message to me, only a
day or two before he died, called my attention
to the beauties of anew story by a Florida
writer.
I close, as I commenced, with the expression
of an opinion, that in Colonel Thompson's death
we have no cause for mourning. Such a calm
and beautiful life—public, professional and do
mestic—witL a close so full of peace and Joy
and comfort. Who of us whom he has left be
hind to miss him in many ways oan hope for
such an exit from earthly scenes—so little
of pain and sorrow stud regret, and so much
of peace and hope and love. Long will he live
in the hearts that loved him so tenderly in his
own home, and long will his memory be rev
erently cherished by his old associates and
friends. And when the name we so honored In
life shall have become obliterated from the
marble monument above his grave, both his
name and his fame will be kept fresh before
the world iu bis rare literary productions,
final paragraphs.
There Is general rejoicing here over the good
news from Col. Black, whose death we had an
ticipated. It is to be hoped that his life will be
spared and his health so restored as to allow
him to resume his seat in Congress.
I have frequently referred to fancy drinking
fountains as unsuited to use in large cities.
The King fountain in this city has finally gone
all to pieces, and, as I suggested, has been re
placed by a plain, low-set Iron basin that will
prove more durable.
The old Atlanta Rolling Mill site has been
sold to the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company, and will be used no doubt for the
shops of the Georgia Pacific Railroad, whose
track runs along the Marietta street edge of
the lot. It will prove a valuable Investment in
any case.
Atlanta has the handsomest and ablest reli
gious paper in the South. Messrs. J. P. Harri
son & Cos., the publishers of the Christian In
dex, have changed and enlarged it to a sixteen
Sage paper, and added several new features.
■e v - Dr. H. H. Tucker is now assisted by Rev.
ur. p. hh-.ver as editor, and his editorials are
marked by an ability and force that attract
widespread attention. Chatham,
The official report upon the statistic* of
immigration states that last year there were
, 4^ 1 * 7 , 9 far “ ers - , 5 . 43a farm laborers and
133,403 classed simply as laborers. • Profes
sional occupations were represented by
5,812 persons, skilled occupations by 66,457,
and miscellaneous occupations, embracing
farmers, laborers, merchants, salesmen,
cooks, coachmen, etc., 344,493. The sum- *
her returned as without occupation, women,
children and others, Is 355.670. It appear*
that special occupations other than farming
embrace five-sixths of the total number of
our Immigrants.
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