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[{ , stored at the f* Office In Sa
es veeond Class flatter.
Georgia AlTalm.
tlva 0. Roor.ey, late of Marietta, committed
’ !e i n Birmingham, Ala ,on Thursday last.
, )V h' f>(ing himself with a pistol.
V v ur.g man named Macon, and another
ci -v,<i Hutchinson, both of Johnson county.
wen . i, a diy hurt 'ast week, one having his leg
- <h-d with a piece of timber, and the other
bring thrown from a wagon.
• Dublin man went to Peacock’s drug store
an i ur, h-took to supply himself with quinine
~u - On the drug clerk’s looking at the
* Stag - he fouud that morphine had been
by mistake.
inmricus is to have an artesian well.
A diffieu'ty took place Saturday evening at
v.r.c-v, the station below Eistman. between
s ■.,whites and negroes, which came near re
m:_' in a serious riot. The trouble wa* occa
s ned by the cutticg of a negro by a white
The recent tornado did considerable damage
n Tattnall county. A number of persons were
* xi-e S&i.der-ville Mercury denies that the
fruit crop in Washington county has oeen In
Sundays difficulty occurred between David
Johnson and Jerry Bland, both colored, in the
former’s barber shop, in Augusta. Johnson
finally ejected B and snd struck him with a
and r t-ar, fracturing his skull and breaking his
aw bone and collar bone. Jjfcnson was ar
r, sted and lodged in jail to await the result of
Eland s itjuries, which are considered serious.
J icob L ster, a young white man about 30
years of age, was drowned in Angier spring,
near Atlanta. Sunday afternoon. Lester and
... lr ral companions were in bathing, hen he
was seized with cramp, and before aid could
reach him he was dead. Late in the evening
his body was recovered and taken to 81 Butler
street. Lester’s parents reside in Missouri.
While two little negroes were playing with a
pi, of ho p iron in Stewart county, one
struck the other, aged three years, in the eye
and knocked it out.
Dublin rtwf: ‘ Judge Wolfe wrote Col. Cde
go, tie lays ago, asking his consideration of the
subject of running a branch road from Coch
ran to Dublin Col. Cole replied promptly,
dating that so soon as he got his extension
u,Dieted from Macon to Rome be would take
up the subject of branch roads, and addel that
he tin ught Dublin was a good point at which
to terminate such a road.”
Sandersviile Mercury: “Someone set fire
to two fodder stock* on Mrs. Smithy Blount’s
p,> on Tuesday night last while the family
w ere at supper, and when they went out to tbe
firv the house wa* entered and robbed of a
truuk containing in cash belonging to Mr.
Lewis Webster, and if it had not been for the
timely aid ot Mr. B. O. Harris other bui|dings
on tlie premises would have been burnt.”
Jackson Herald: “On last Saturday as Mr.
K ert Archer, of Santa Fe District, was com
i-z from Athens with a load of guano, he fell
Off of his wagon and one of the hind wheels
rawed ever his face, breaking hi* jaw bone and
tearing it loose, and mutilating his face in a
terrible manner. A physician did not dress
the wound until the next evening, ar.d at that
time his face was terribly swollen and be was
suffering greatly.’*
Augusta Chronicle: “Friday morning, while
Mr D O'Sullivan, an old and respected citi
z*n remitting on upper Broad street, was en
gaged in haulirg a cart load of snl through
Harrisburg ht* nccide’ taUr drove his cjrt into
ti-.e rear part of one of flhuip-.oQ A Heindel s
I- nber wagons, drivetfTy Berry Simmons.
eoi*-**d. the concussion of which caused him
t : fall from his feat under the wheels of the
cart, ancslsi frightened his horse, which start
ed ft at a 4uiek pace and drew the wheels of
the cart over his breast, breaking three of his :
rib* iniesusi* internal injuries from which
he died, efeera night of terrible sufferinr,
Saturdav morning whout 3 o'clock. Mr. O’Sul
livan was a well known and respected citizen,
and had many friends h> Augus'a.”
D ugl svilie Star: “Some f the hands of
the Georgia Pacific have been at work grading
a side track at the depot grounds in this place.
Once th* re was eom- talk of changing the loci
t ! n< f the depot here Uf a different portion of
the town, but this work on the side track
shows that the first location will be retained
Track laving has been completed to Morse’s
store, thirteen miles fr m this place, aDdthe
construction tram is running regularly to that
p- nt Before it reaches this place, there wid
be hut on cause for delay, and that is tbe
building of the bridze across Sweet Water
creek. Our citizens have every assurance that
the first train will resch D mglasviile bv the
fi-st of May at the farthest Ja-t in time for
the picnic season ”
L me courier: “A temporary organization
was rfUe'ed yesterday for a cotton factory in
Rome. All ne stock * rfeintlly contemplated
Ist b-en taken and $35,(00 more asked for
The original movers in the enterprise are now
C‘ c.-idering the propriety of enlarging their
{•;an*. and we hope will conclude to do so.
There are meny expenses that would not be
ma >• for 5.000 spindles any morethan for 3.000.
such as engineer, superintendent, foreman,
bookkeeper, etc , and it seems to us tht even
e comy would require a factory of consider
a c capacity. The Council has been liberal,
and (he who*e community will rejoice in the
sue ess of this enterprise, and we hope and
believe the Kotr.e Cotton Fac'ory will soon
be a source of pride and gratification to all of
her citizens.”
Marietta Journal: “On Saturday morning
Mr. LB. Cos. went to open his store door
lie found mat someone bad opened it for him
the night uefore The party had used a chisel
and prized it open. Mr. Cox didn’t like the ap
p-araace of ; bis k nd of an April fool, so he
vent in and fv und that they bad tried to open
h s safe also. A large hole had been
dri led into the combination lock and a sledge
hammer near by showed that they had worked
hard to effect an entrance. The safe
door was closed, and Mr. Cox was in
and übt as to whether his safe had been
emptied of its valuable contents or not Mr
v E. Gram ling-went to work, and in about
two hourj t'me he swung the doorip*n, anJ
w i.be gratis ration of Mr. Cox his money and
valuable* were in the safe undisturbed, the
burglar having failed to get the safe open.
F me few articles were missing from the store,
which was a pxr reward for the hard work
bestowed upoa the safe by the unknown
burglar The same burglar on the same night
attempted to break open the store of John H
C' r The rear door show* the marks of
•he chisel and the print of dirty fingers.”
Atlanta rest-tpveal, 10th: “About 11 o’clock
Saturday eight as Wasn Epps, a light mulatto
employed at the cotton factory, was quietly
sireping at his home, Ne. 1 Foster street, near
the vld soap factory, the door to his room was
( reed with little noise, and an assassin, with
knife in hand, advanced to his bedside and
pro r Jed to get in his work. He went for
the throat of his victim, who, luckily for him.
was Ijing on bis face, and instead of receiving
the cuts in his throat thev were made on his
shoulder near the ba k of the n ck and in the
back of the head. So quickly did the would
h- assassin do his work that four of the mur
der us plunges were made before the unsus-
P“ tir.g steeper awoke, and when he did to he
caught th- deecendicg arm in time to ward off
the fl th blow and arose to grapp'e with his
vlant Ke ping a firm hold on the knife
ina. Wash exerted all of his fast failing
Strength es the blood was streaming from his
* 'inda, and pushed hjaaisailant backward to
ward the open door, on arriving at Which, by
powerful effort, he shoved the maa out back
ward, at the same time releasing hi* hold,
closing the door and bracing it with his bloody
st uider. Tbe noise by this time awakened the
occupants of an adjoining room, and instead
of his attack the assassin ran away.
Tnese fact* were gathered from the wounded
by a Post-Appeal reporter this morning,
with the additional information that the party
making the a**auit wit Jim Glover, a dark
•bu-atto, who live* at 10C CAlhoua street, with
hi* Wife, a light mulatto, who, it is said, in the
CJ 05 ** of the trouble. Jim being jealous of
’'aeh, hut, as Wash declares, without founia
-I*oo. He. said further that Glover returned
•bout an h ur af er he had been driven away.
Probably to learn whether Wash bad been
killed The ugh weak from the lows of blood.
Pbe wounded man was getting along very well
to ic rrwaiog. and his recovery is a matter of
only a few days,”
Florida Affairs.
Luring tbe quarter ending on the Ist instant,
* 1 vessels entered and cleared from Fernan
din*.
New steel rails are being laid on the Transit
Railroad from Hart’s Road north,
Four thousand bale* of hay were received
the pa** week by the merchants of Fernandina
A #*.ooo hotel is to be erected at Orange
Lute.
The War Department uas traered sevemy
®e cadet rifies. with necessary accoutrements.
10 shipped to tbe East Florida Seminary.
Justice McQqeen was badly hurt a few days
c in Cedar Key by the falling of a scaffold
upon wnich he was standing.
J South Florida Railroad are just finishing
wr third lot of freight cars, ail the iron being
“ad* in New York, and tbe woodwork at San-
Savannah morning news
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
ford. A fourth consignment of irons for ten
more cars is now arriving. They are also just
finishing some very handsome smokiog, ex
press and mail car*.
Mr. L. M. Morris, of Pittsburg. Pa., has pur
chased tbe old Stafford place, on Cumberland
Island. Mr. M. will soon commence to improve
and beautify this property.
During the past week more than five hun
dred acres of land have been sold in the near
vicinity of Waldo, a large portion of which
will be subdivided into ten-acre lots and a
family located on each lot.
A railroad survey is being made from Gaines
ville to Tallahassee, 'intersecting the Suwannee
river at Old Town, and following as nearly as
may be a northwest course to Tallahassee.
It is said that Mr. H. A. Del.and has pur
chased B’>o,ooo worth of Volusia county land
The Southern Express Company have made
a contract with the'Souih Florida Railroad to
handle their buginess over the road.
Some forty new buildings are in process of
erection at Sanford, among them some very
handsome residences, notably that of Mr.
Way, formerly of the Journal: also some airy,
handsome blocks for stores.
Monticello Constitution: “We are informed
that the peach erop of this county, while not
so promising as that of last year, will be verv
fair. Some trees are already full of well ad
vanced fruit, some even as large as four and
one-half inches in circumference, while others
are in young fruit and others blooming.”
Pensacola zldranee-Oazeffe: “On last Wed
nesday a sailor boy belonging to the German
bark Admiral Prinz Adel her’, while working on
a raft of timber, fell overboard. He sank three
times, and was six feet underneath the surface,
when one of the stevedores, reaching down in
the water, caught him with a boat hook and
hauled him to the surface He was then made
to disgorge large quantities of salt water, which
he'ped to revive him.”
Fernandina Mirror: “The lumber exports
from this port during the first quarter of 1883
amounted to nearly fifteen million feet, being
in excess of any previous quar’er. The ship
ments are likely to increase still more during
the year. Additional accommodations are re
quired, and we learn, wiM be furnished to give
vessels rapid dispatch. The mill owners are
watching the action of Congress in reference to
our bar with great solicitude.”
A Putnam county farmer tells the Pala*ka
Herald that a few days since, whiie walking
along the edg of an oak scrub not far from
his house, he heard loud squealing from a
voting pig. Hurrying to the scene of trouble,
he found that a large rattlesnake had it by
the throat. The pig was making desperate ef
forts to release itself, but the snake had its tail
twisted around a bush, which held him fust.
The snake was dispatched, and the pig imme
diately died.
Fernandina Mirror: 'The city election, which
took place on Monday, resulted in the election
of the straight Republican ticket by a consid
erable majority. The citizens ticket was sup
ported by a majority of the tax payers of the
city but stood no chance of success In the face
of the compact, straightout Republican organi
zation, which comprises nearly all the colored
voters and a very few white votes, just about
enough to divide the offices among. ”
Monticello Constitution: ‘The LeConte
orchards in the neighborhood of Monticello are
doing finely. The tree* are growing rapidly,
and are in an exceedingly healthy condition
W* also understand that next season a great
many additional acres will be devoted to this
pear, and the reasonable inference is that a
few vears hence the LeConte p-ar will create
for this section as great a boom os now pre
vails in Marion, S’lmter and other southern
counties over the cultivation of the orange.”
One D. H. Headly. a young attorney, resid
ing at Bronson for the past two years, has left
for parts unknown. two years azo he
married a young lady of Bronson. A former
brother-in law of iD-adly’s. from Alabama,
suddenly appeared in Bronson a short time
since In Alabama, just a'ter marrying a
young lady thre, it was learned that the
younzster had married twice before coming
there, and had two wives in Indiana, whom he
had deserted. He did not even wait to inter
view his former relative, but boarded the first
train and scooted.
Jacksonville Times: “Mr. Beardslev, of Au
burn. N Y.. Assistant Treasurer of the Oswego
Starch Company, has just left for home, after
a two weeks’ visit to this State. He canm part
ly for pleasure and partly with a view to seeing
what c ‘Uld be done with the cassava root.
JuJge Wright, some time since, at the sugges
tion of Mr. Hammond, of Fort Gates, sent a
sample of Florida cassava to the Starch Com
pany at Oswego, out of which some of the very
finest starch was made. Mr. Beardsley found
that this root can be grown with less labor and
expense than corn and an acre will yield fully
thirty tons. He is greatly pleased with ihe
result of his observations, and a starch and
glucose factory mav soon be seen looming up at
Mount Royal. The company wh ch Mr. Beards
ley represents is one of the largest of its kind in
the world, and the products of tbeir mills are
sold in every clime. They have immense wealth
at theircommand.and it is to be sincerely hoped
that they may consider the report of their as
sociate sufli-ienily flattering to warrant an
immediate investment of the character noted.”
SsnforJ Journal: “Last Sunday a sail boat
returning from Enterprise with the following
gentlemen on board—Mr. Hunniweli of Illinois,
Me. J A Wood of Altamonte, Mr. Mobbs. and
Charley Munson—was capsized in the middle
of Lake Monroe. The boat sank to the bottom,
and by standing on the gunwales the men
could just keep their heads above water, and
in this position, the lake being very rough, the
waves washed over their heads, rendering it
very exhausting and trying They were so far
from the wharves from either side that it was
impossible for them to be seen from these
points, and their only chance for rescue lav in
some passing boat Two steamers came into
the lake and passed out without noticing them,
and they all began to despair of being saved
In their extremity, Charley Munson, who
was an expert swimmer, decided to try and
reach the shore and bring assistance in this
way. He struck boldly out. and as far
as the men could see he was struggling bravely
alorg; but the distance was too great h“ never
reached the shore, and thus in his effort to
save his companions he lost his young life. It
was about 11 o’c ock when tbe boat went down,
and at 3 o’c’ock the balance ot the men were
rescued by the steamer Rosa. Mr. Wood was
in an exhausted condition, and stimulants had
to be applied to restore him The ba>aucc of
the party suffered no inconvenience from the
accident except the scare and the wetting. The
bodr of Munson was found Wednesday even
ing by J. H. Wilcox and his bro’her Eugene. It
was found about half way between Sanford
and the mouth of the iake. ’
Death of a Worthy Patriarch.
In yesterday’s News we made brief men
tion of the fact that General A. R. Lawton
and General J. F. Gilmer hail been called to
Augusta by the news of the death of Adam
L Alexander, E c q , which occurred at his
residence in that city on Easier Sundry, at
half past ten o’clock a. m. We copy the
following particulars of the sad event from
the Augu a ta EveningXeics ot Monday:
“Mr. Adam L Alexander passed away
from earth, peacefully to rest after a long
ard honorable life, at hts residence in Au
gusta, at 10:30 o’clock on yesterday—Easter
Sunday. He died in his eightieth year,
hav'ng been born in ISO3. He was a Geor
gian of whom the Sta’e may well feel proud,
and whose name and blood mark a part of a
glorious record, nis home for a long time
was In Washington, Wilkes county, but he
has been living for a number of years in
Augusta, where his sons arc honored and
beet identified. After a short funeral ser
vice, conducted by Rev. Dr. Boggs, at his
residence this morning, the remains were
p’aced in the priva*e palace car of Gen. E.
P. Alexander and conveyed to Washington,
where they will be interred in the family
burial ground.
“Mr. Alexander was of himself a wonder
ful man, pure, upright, generous, just, *
man of whom the world knew naught but
good, who died as he lived, a Christian gen
tleman; indeed a very patriarch, with all h's
sons and daughters about hfm. He was
pbrsicaFy a strong man, and his health was
such that he was, until recently, daily seen
upon the streets and apparently not far past,
middle age. For the past few year* hts
eyes hive been so affected that he nearly
lost his sight, and when he came to die his
vision was almost, gone, but be was perfect
ly conscious to tbe very las’, and recognized
by vo'ce and touch all of his ten children
about him. He conversed with thf mup to
a few minutes of the time when his soul
pats°d out of his body to the bright Spirit
World, in the presence of a loving wife and
devotid children. Blessed is the end of
such a man.
“Mr Adam Alexander will be remember
ed as tbe bead of a most, remaikable as well
as ve y large family. His sons and daugh
ters and their children are known and held
very dear to our people, and their sorrow
now is hallowed by the knowledge of the rest
which await* the saint 6 above, and softened
by the sympathy of this entire community
and all who know the nime of Alexander.
Two of his sons now reside in Augusta, an
other but recently lived here, while the
fourth 1* at the old home In Washington.
These four sons ands 4: daughters survive
their honored father, and are tbem*elves
esteemed and honored for their name and
standing wherever they reside. His sons
are General E. P. Alexander, late of Au
gUs’a, but now of Louisville, Ky.; Major W.
F. Alexander and Mr. J. H. Alexander, of
Augusta, and Mr. tjharles Alexander, of
Washington, Q\. His daughters are Mrs.
General A C. Haskell, ot Columbia: Mrs.
General A. R Lawton, Mrs. General J. F.
Gilmer and Mrs Gumming, of Savannah;
Mrs. George G Hull, of New York, formerly
of Augusta, and Mrs. Dr. W. E Boggs, of
Atlanta. Surrounded by all these children
and maDV of their children, the good man
died, and well was it that the death scene
of Abrai“ m wftS r3 * d at htß K rave <”
♦ ■
Mr. James B Bailey, of Syracuse, N. Y.,
writes. “Of all men born to suffer I think I
have had my fullest share. From my four
teenth year I have been a miserable invalid.
When twenty-six years of age 1 felt I was
sixty. My troubles made me unfit for busi
ness or pleasure. A year ago I tried Brown’s
Iron Bitten, and now in my twenty-seventh
year I feel my self for once in my life ‘a
perfect man,”’
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
SHIPIIF.KD KEEPS HIS SECRETS.
Nothing ITlore to be Cotten from
Him—The Star Route Gang—A Plea
of Not Guilty Filtered—Congres*
Yesterday—The Frauhlug Prtvl*
lege Defeated in the House—The
Indian Territory Railway Bill—
Tariff Revision—Nomination* and
Confirmation*.
Washington, D. C , April 11.—In the
Shipherd investigation to-day, Mr,
Blount continued the cross-examination,
quoting from the printed correspondence,
and endeavoring to extract categorical an
swers, but Shipherd always replied evasive
ly, or bluntly refused to answer. The pal
pable drift of the morning examination was
to bring out and define exactly how far
wl'ness had gone In a direct attempt
to influence official action oy an official
of the United States. Witness was
asked if Senator Blair, as counsel, was con
ferred with in relation to the letter to Hurl
but in which he (Shipherd) tendered him
8250,000 of stock, and replied that Blair did
not see the letter. Witness told him about
it sometime after it was sent; it was dis
cussed by American counsel. None of them
ever found fault with tt on Its face, but the
remark was frequently made: “Shipherd,
that letter will bear a double construction,
and It may get you into trouble.”
Mr. Belmont succeeded Mr. Biount as
cross examiner, and very soon developed
the probability that the committee has ex
tracted from the witness about all the in
formation he proposed to give them.
Mr. Belmont—“ The association or indi
viduals whom you represented or still repre
sent seemed to give direction to or expected
to exert an irfluence upon the policy of this
government at the time when the President
was disabled. Were you advised by Bout
well that the Secretary of State was au
thorized to act In this matter without re
quiring any advice or authority from the
President?”
Witness declined to enter into a discus
sion of the question. He declined to state
the name of his clients, and said he did so
by advise of counsel.
Mr. Belmont—“ Did you not have corres
pondence with Senator Blair touching the
Peruvian Company?”
A—“l did."
Q—“ Will you produce it?”
“I have been advised that the scope of
this examination does not compel the dis
closure of purely personal matters, and I
consider my correspondence with Senator
Blaie purely of that character.”
To the question, “Will you state whether
those client* suffered an Injury from the
Peruvian Government, which entitled them
to seek redre-’s from the Peruvian Govern
ment, or had they purchased claims which
thev deemed equitable and for the enforce
ment of which they sought to obtain the
good offices of this government?” witness
declined to answer catetgoricallv and was
finally permitted to make his usual state
ment.
Mr. Belmont, however, pressed his ques
tion, when witpess regarded his questioner
In silence, with an angry flurry upon his
face.
Mr. Belmont—“Then you decline to ans
wer?”
Witness (angrily)—“l have as many rights
here as the examiner, and I have come here
prepared to defend them.”
Mr. Belmont said there was no desire to
deprive wi’ness of any right, he might pos
sess, hut the committee had also some rights
and duties to perform. Shipherd then asked
to be excused for the day.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
In the Bena’e, Mr. Grover, from the Mill
tary Committee, reported an original bill (as
a s'lbsliiute for pending measures) author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury
to examine and report to Congres*
the amount of all claims of the States of
Texas Oregon and Nevada and Washing, on
and Idaho Territories for moneys expended
and indebtedness assumed by said States
and Territories because of Indian hostilities.
Placed on the calendar.
The Bsnate took up the calendar and
passed a number of private bills.
The Indian Territory railroad bill, grant
ing the right of way to the St. Louis and
San Francisco Ril’road Company, coming
up as unfinished business. Mr. Hawley de
nounced It in the amended form in which it
came from the Railroad Committee as
an attempt to violate the treaty
rights of the Indians upon the pretext
of ra’i'ying an act of tbe Choctaw
council. He said the bill proposed to seize
their lands without providing any system
for adjusting a rate of compensation there
for. He could conceive of emergencies in
which the United States would have the
right, in the proper legal sense of that term,
to pass legislation in contravention of a
treaty, hut du>y required it to exhaust
all other remedies before going
to that extremity. He denied that
remedies had been exhausted in this in
stance, and asserted that in setting apart a
strip of the Indian country for railroad pur
poses the government was overriding its
uniform practice heretofore. “My chief
concern,” he added, “is not because I see
the Indians wronged, but that my govern
ment, under a treaty with twenty or thirty
thousand Indians, will do that which it
would not dare to do under a trea’y with
Great Britain. I want Uncle Bim to be a
gentleman, and that is all ”
The dlscusrion then turned upon the
pending amendment of Mr. Ingalls requir
ing the consent o’ the Choctaws and Chlcka
saws to the act, to be obtained before it
shall take effect.
Mr. Jonas, of Louisiana, opposed the
amendment as a virtual defeat of the bill,
as the Chickasaws had announced that they
would never grant the right of way, being
opposed to the road. He maintained the
validity of tbe assent alleged to have been
already given by the Choctaws, and that
that tribe had declared in favor of the pro
posed road by electing public officers friend
ly to the grant. The rights of the Chicka
saws were not affected, as the road would
not reach their lands.
Tbe bill finally went over without action.
A bill was Introduced by Mr. Vest to au
thorize the construction of bridges across
the M!souri river, between its mouth and
the mouth of the Dakota river, across the
Missouri river between Bt. Paul, Minn., and
Natchez, Mo., and aerrsi the Illinois river
between its mouth and Peoria, 111. The bill
was drafted last month by the Bt. Liuis
Merchants’ Exchange as a general bridge
law, and is intended to secure reasonable
projection to navigation, and to authorize
bridge companies to construct bridges of
varying dimensions at points on the Missis
sippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers without
further legislation. The conditions are
elaborately specified In the bill, which fur
ther requires that all designs and pi ins for
the contemplated structures shall be sub
mitted to and approved by the Secretary of
War prior to the beginning of tbe work of
construction.
After an executive session the Senate ad
journed.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
In the House, the morning hour haviDg
been dispensed with, Mr. Ryan, of Kn
6as, from the Committee on Appropriations,
reported back the Senate bill appropriating
850 000 to provide for a deficiency in the
appropriation for the subsistence and care
of Indians in charge of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe agencies in tbe Indian Territory.
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, held that
this was a bill in the line of the general ap
propriations for the support of the govern
ment, and as such could not be originated
by tbe Senate.
The Seuate bill was accordingly with
drawn, and an original bill to the same
effect introduced in the House and passed.
The House went into committee of the
whole on the post office appropriation bill
with the Senate amendments. The follow
ing Senate amendments were con
curred in: Appropriating 835,000 for
furnishing fourth-class postmasters with
necessary implements for cancelling stamps,
etc ; increasing the appropriation for com
pensation to clerks in post offices by $15,-
000, increasing by $500,000 the appropria
tion for mall trains provided by railroads,
providing that if any person shall herea'ter
perform any service for any mail contractor
in catrying mails be shall have lien on any
money due by the Post Office Department
to the.contractor.
The amendment restoring tbe franking
privilege was then reached. A number of
members opposed this amendment, among
them Messrs. Connor of Illinois, Hill of New
Jersey, Townsend of Ohio, Robeson, Cobb
of Indiana, and Updegraff.
Mr. Brown, of ludlana, was glad to see
tbe paroxysm of economy which had come
over the House. It was not often that a
tidal wave of that kind came along, but
when It did he wanted to get on the top
wave and float with the balance. The frank
ing privilege as It now existed
covered everything that members of
Congress could ask. Cart loads of stuff
were sent under it every day, and Congress
was running a huge printing office. The
allowance of $125 to each member for sta
tionery was sufficient to pay every penny of
his postage and perhaps give him an opera
glass or two. If the House desired to put
vS A VANN AH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1882.
money into the Treasury, it should abolish
the printing of 95 par cent, of the matter
which was now printed. There were innu
merable bills which died in committee,which
had to be printed ; memorials were printed,
speeches were printed. If the man who in
vented the Congressional Record still lived he
ought to be arraigned before a military tri
bunal, condemned and shot. It bad killed
more members of Congress than Kidwell’s
Bottoms (the Potomac flats).
After a long discussion, almost entirely
in disapproval of the Senate’s amendments,
it was non-concurred in, as were also a large
numbtrof less important amendments and
the committee, having risen, the Hou e
ratified its action, and the bill now goes to
a conference committee.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the tariff commission bill.
Mr. Cox, of North Carolina, opposed the
measure as one which would only delay the
revision of the tariff and prevent the re
moval of the incongruities which existed in
it. He contended that the House through
its Committee of Ways and Means should
Immediatdy proceed to legislate intelli
gently on the subject.
The committee then rose.
Mr. Hendersop of Illinois, from the Com
mittee on Railways and Canals, reported a
bill for the construction of the Illinois and
Mississippi canal. Referred to the com
mittee of the whole.
The House then adjourned.
THE STAB HOUTE CASES.
The hearing of the star route cases was
resumed in the Criminal Court this morn
ing, the question under consideration being
the special plea in abatement made yester
day by the defense, In which it is claimed
that the grand jury was unduly influenced
by the statements of the Post Office Inspect
ors, who weri illegally allowed to present
evidence and pamphlets to the jury. Col.
Totten, of counsel for the defense, said he
Intended to prove that the jury had been
unduly influenced.
Judge Wylly—You cannot prove that.
You have no right to go into the room of
the grand jury and investigate their pro
ceedings.
After some further discussion the court
decided that, if the defense could impeach
the competency of any member of the
jury, the point was well taken, but if they
undertook to go into the jury room and In
vestigate proceedings, which the law ex
prassly declared to be secret, then the plea
was not well taken. -After Col. Totten had
made his argument .Judge Wylly disallowed
the plea. Colonel Totten then gave notice
of his lntomlou to carry It before the court
Ip banc. Minor, one of the defendants, en
tered the plea not guilty. The other defend
ants were then called upon to plead, and,
failing to do so, the court entered the plea
not guilty. Thursday, May 4th, was settled
as the day for the - rial. Colonel Totten an
nounced that the bill of exceptions to carry
the case before the higher court would be
presented just as soon as it could be pre
pared. The trial was then adjourned.
NOMINATIONS.
The President to-day nominated John
Robert. Graham Pittktn to be United States
Marshal for the Eastern district of Louisi
ana, and Edward F. Burton, of California,
to be Superintendent of the United States
Mint at Sin Francisco.
CONFIRMATIONS.
The Senate to-day confirmed the nomina
tion of S. P. Rounds, of Illinois, as Public
Printer, and a large number of minor post
masters and army promotions.
6UITEAU.
Mr*. Scovllle Want* a Guardian of
Ilia Person and Estate—A Curt
Card from llie A*a**ln.
Chicago, April 11. —Mrs. Frances M. Sco
vtlle yesterday prepared a bill, which will be
filed to day, through her attorney, W. F.
Johnson, praying the County Court that she
be appointed the conservator of the estate
and person of her brother, Charles J.
Gulteau.
Washington, April 11. Gulteau has
issued a card in reference to Mrs. Scovllls’s
petition fora conservator of his estate. He
describes the petition as impudent., says his
only property Is the copyright of his book
issued to-day, that ho is not a lunatic was
officially decided on his trial, aDd that his
legal residence is not in Illinois, but in
Washington, and concludes by sayfDg that
the ScoviUes are nuisances.
THE DEAD AT HOLLYWOOD.
The Proposal to 'take Conv'cta Care
for the Graves.
New York, April 11.—A Times special
from R'chmond says : “The joint resolu
tion passed by the Virginia House of Drle
gates, authorizing the Superintendent of the
State Prison to furnish convicts to keep
in order the graves of the thousands
of Confederate dead of the Army of North
ern Virginia buried in Hollywood Cemeteiy,
near this city, has caused much criticism
here. The duty of keepiug these graves
greeu is considered a sacred and holy one by
the people of Virginia. The remains of
thousands of men who fell while following
Lee and Jackson lie buried In Hollywooi,
and for the past fifteen years they have been
cared for bv tne people of Richmond and
its vicinity.”
AN OLD YETERAN DEAD.
One or the Captor* of Santa Anna
Dlen In the Hoapltal at New Or
leans
New York, April 11.—A New Orleans
special to the Times says: “To-day was
buried from the Hotel Dieux, in this city,
Captain James A. Sylvester, seventy years
old. He was interred by the Odd
Fellows in their lot on Metarie
Ridge. Deceased was a printer. He had
an interesting history, having been a sol
dier of the Mexican war and in several In
dian campaigns, and Is mentioned as one of
the four soldiers of Colonel Burleson’s
regiment who captured Banta Anna the day
after the battle of San Jacinto, In April,
1836.”
SCARLET FEVER.
A Malignant Type of the Diaeaae In
Pennsylvania.
Pottsville, Pa , April 11.—A malignant
form of scarlet fever has broken out at Cres
sona. Within a few days one family lost
all its children, consisting of four boys,
and two of another family, who were
in good health yesterday, died this
morning. The citizens called a meeting,
and to-day all the schools were closed. A
liberal use of disinfectants has been
ordered and great uneasiness is felt. The
physicians seem unable to cope with the
disease since it terminates fatally within
twenty-four hours after the appearance of
the first symptoms.
Weather Indication*.
Office Chief Signal Observes, Wash
ington, D. C., April 10.— Indications for
Tuesday:
In the South Atlantic States, fair weather,
easterly winds, stationary or higher barome
ter and stationary temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic Btates, fair
weather, northerly winds, rising followed
by falling barometer, falling followed by
rising temperature.
In the East Gulf Btates, fair weather,
variable winds, stationary or higher barome
ter, and stationary temperature.
In the West Gulf States, partly cloudy
weather, occasional light rains, winds from
east to south, stationary or higher barome
ter, and stationary temperature.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy weather In western portion, possibly
light rain, northeast to southeast winds,
stationary or higher temperature, and
stationary or lower barometer.
A Riot In RoieoiumoD,
Dublin, April 11.—During an illumina
tion at Roscommon last night, in honor of
tffe release of Parnell, the windows of the
houses not illuminated were smashed. The
house of Major Waring was attacked, and
the windows were broken. Serious rioting
ensued and the military were called to as
sist the police. Three of the rioters were
seriously injured.
The Virginia Poisoning Case.
Petersburg, April 11.—Mary Booth, col
ored, aged fourteen, has confessed to hav
ing poisoned Mrs. R. C. Gray and Travis
Jones, in Surry county, by placing arsenic
in their coffee. She implicates Martha
Jones, the colored cook, and others.
Invalids should prevent their disease from
gaining ground by using Brown’s Iron Bit
ters. It stops decay, keeps the blood warm,
and gives the emaciated torm anew lease of
life.
THE RICHLAND CASES.
TESTIMONY FOR THE GOVERN
MENT BEGUN.
Alleged Use of Tiaaue Ballots—A
Specimen Deputy Marshal—
Air tber Special Attorney Sent
Down.
Charleston, April 11.— In the United
Btates Circuit Court to-day, Judge Bond
presiding, the case of the United States
against Bates and others, manager and clerk
of the election at Acton precinct, Richland
county, at the election of 1880, was resumed.
Before going into the testimony the District
Attorney stated the case to the jury, and
read and explained the several counts of the
information. The charges, in brief, he said,
were that the defendants at Acton precinct,
with intent to affect the election and the re
sult of It, disobeyed the law of the United
States in their conduct of the elec
tion, In that they Interfered with,
obstructed and hindered, and neglect
ed to assist tbe United Br,ates Super
visor in the discharge of his duty, in that
they did not open the ballot box and in
spect it, or allow the Supervisor to Inspect
if, to see that it was empty; In that they
placed, or caused to be placed in the box,
and suffered te remain In said box, a num
ber of tissue ballots, which had not been
voted by any legally authorized voter on
that day; that they did it knowingly and
with intent to affect the election by having
said tissue ballo'B counted in place of
genuine ballots voted by legally authorized
voters.
The examination of witnesses for the
prosecution then began. J. W. Bcott, of
Richland, was the first examined, and pro
duced a ballot box given to him by the
Deputy Clerk of the court for Richland
county, as the Acton box. M. C. Robertson,
chief clerk of the Secretary of State was
next examined, and produced the papers
pertaining to the election at Acton precinct,
tiled in the office of the Secretary of State.
Addison J. Forrest, United States Marshal
at Acton precinct on the day of elec
tion and Hugh P. Kane, United Btates
Supervisor at the same, both testified that
the managers upon request of the Super
visor opened the box in the morning before
the voting began, but did not open it wide,
that the election proceeded quietly all day,
and that when the box was opened sixty
eight more ballots were found In the box
than there were names on tbe poll list;
that, tbe managers, In accordance with the
Srate law, drew out the excess from the
box through the medium of the clerk, who
was blindfolded, and destroyed them. Both
of these witnesses testified that they had
seen strings sticking to the ltd of the box
when It was opened and claimed, and that
the box produced In court was not the box
which had been used at the election. Kane
on cross examination testified that he came
to this country from Ireland In 1867 with
his mother; that he came to South Carolina
as the body servant of ex-Governor Frank
lin J. Moses; that he nad never beeD
naturalized; that he had nevertheless taken
the oath as United States Supervisor atsfi
voted at Ac’on on the day of election in
1880.
At the conclusion of Kane’s testimony the
court adjourned until 10 o’clock to morrow
morning.
Philadelphia, April 11.—W. W. Ker,
special assistant to the Attorney General,
will start to-morrow morning, by direction
of Mr. Brewster, for South Carolina, to take
part in the election fraud trials. He does
not know what particular work he Is to do.
AN ARKANSAS TRAGFDY.
A School Teacber Assassinated.
Littlh Rock, Ark , April 11.—A letter
from Perryvllle, Perry county, announces
the assassination on Friday evening, eight
miles from that town, of J. M. Butler, a
school teacher, who came from Indiana
three years ago. It was reported
in the neighborhood, that Butler
intended marrying Mrs. Brazil,
a widow, on Friday evening. When on the
porch of ber house Butler saw a man toss a
note over the fence. Butler called to the
man, who at once discharged both barrels of
shot gun at, his victim, who died in a few
minutes. Tbe note, which was afterwards
picked up, read as follows:
“We warn you in plain words to
leave. Billy Brazil worked hard
Jor what he had, and we can’t stand by to
see It, rquandered by you. If that fi not
enouoh we will make it all right with you.”
J. N. Goodsbot,, an officer, ba* a clue to
the murderer, ard it Is believed that the
guilty parly will toon be arres'ed.
TO BE WOUND UP.
Tbe Dafunct Philadelphia and
Southern Mall Steamship Com
pany.
Philadelphia, April 11.— The Pniladel
phla and Southern Mall Steamship Company
was organized in 1866 with a capital of
8700,000. The company owned eight
steamers of from 800 to 1,600 tons
burthen, each built for freight and
passenger traffic between Philadelphia, (sa
vannah, Wilmington, New; Orleans and
Havana. The enterprise, however, was a
failure from the start. Tbe company has
been gradually disposing of their steamships
at private and public sale, the last vessel
having been 6old just previous to last Christ
mas, and to-day the stockholders met. and
voted to wind up affairs and dissolve the
corporation.
•Cotton Future* In New York.
Nf.w York, April 11.—The Ibst's cotton
report says : “Future deliveries at the first
call were bought at yesterday’s closing quo
tations. They advanced slowly but steadily,
and, after the call, gained 6 100@8-100. At
the sreond call, the advance did not check
the demand, and prices further rose 5-100
to 7-100. The huylug is partly for covering,
but chiefly to fill outside orders, the con
tinued small receipts attracting attention.
The third call displayed a partial decline of
1 100 to 3-100. April brought 12 16c, May
12 26 to 12 29c, June 12 45c, July 12 58 to 12
57c, Bept 12 37 to 12 36c., November 11 49c.
and December 11 51c.”
A Mall Clerk Caught.
St. Louis, April 11 —Henry Parke, a pos
tal clerk on the Missouri Pacific R*ilroad,
between here and Kansas Ctty, twenty two
years old, of very retpectable family, was
arrested this afternoon by Colonel Schaurte,
a post office agent, on the charge of robbing
the mstls. He admitted his guilt before
United States Commissioner Cullen, who
placed him under one thousand dollars bail.
It Is believed that other parties besides
Parke are concerned In the rooberies, whieh
have been goiog on for several months, and
that the aggregate losses are nearly, if not
quite, twenty thousand dollars.
Two More Golden City Victims
Recovered.
Memphis, April 11.—Two more bodies of
persons lost In the Golden City disaster, both
white men, were recovered this afternoon.
One Is supposed to be tbat of W. H. Btowe,
the circus proprie’or, but Is not fully iden
tified. The other had the appearance of
being a working man, dressed in a brown
suit of clothes, and about thirty years old.
Both bodies are at an undertaker’s awaiting
identification. Neither of the bodies was
burned.
Oreat Bale of Trotting Stock.
Louisville, April 11.—The greatest sale
of finely bred trotting stock ever made In
Kentucky up to this time, took place near
this city, and included representatives of
the Elenvlew, Indian Hill and Woodlake
studs. Robert Bonner, of New York,
bought a number of the best horses, paying
for one, the three-year-old Cuyler filly,
$4,000. Seventy-nine head were sold and
brought $29,260. The stock has a wide
distribution. J K
A New Lord Lieutenant for Ireland.
London, April 11.—The jtaily News in a
leading article saysi “A rumor finds fa
vor in Dublin that Earl Cowper, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, is about to resign,”
and says “it may ba taken as proof that in
the opinion of well informed persons in
Ireland some further step, if not some
change of policy, must be made, if order is
to be re-established.”
Teller’* Sacceaaor.
Denver, April 11—George M. Chilcott,
of Pueblo, was to-day appointed United
States Senator to succeed Mr. Teller.
If Ton are Rained
In health from any cause, especially from
the use of any of the thousand nostrums
that promise so largely, with long fictitious
testimonials, have no fear. Resort to jjtop
Bitters at once, and in a short time you will
have the most robust and blooming health.
LOUISIANA JOCKEY CLUB.
First Day of tbe Spring Meeting.
New Orleans, April 11.—This was the
first day of the new Louisiana Jcekey Club’s
spring meeting. The weather was cloudy
and showery, and the attendance moderate.
The track was In good condition.
Tbe first race, a mile and a quarter, over
five hurdles, for a purse of |2OO, three
started —Boston, Glasgow and Strichnlne.
The first, and last fell at the first hurdle and
both riders were badly bruised. Glasgow
galloping over the course.
The second race, the Pickwick stakes, for
three year-olds, 825 entrance, p. p., with 835
added, one and a quarter miles, seven start
ed. It-waswonby Anglia, Apollo second,
Babcock third. Time 2:14. Apollo led at
the start with Babcock second and the
others well together. These positions were
maintained to the back stretch, where
Anglia began to close on the leader, and on
the lower turn went to the front, winning
by two lengths.
The third race, for a purse of $250, a mile
and a half, for all ages, was won by Fair
count, Saunterer second, Balgard third,
beating Moscow and Resumption. No time
taken. Before the horses started a heavy
rain storm began. The judees, timers and
reporters had left their stands for protection
from the weather. Tbe horses were then at
the half-mile post for the start, but could
hardly be seen through the blinding rain.
The occupants of the grand s’and, Including
the ladies, had taken refuge in the hall.
THE IRISH QUESTION.
Humanitarian Smith’s stalwart
Programme.
London, April 11. —Professor Goldwln
Smith writes to the Times that, if the British
Legislature and people would handle the
Irish question with vigor, their determina
tion would be applauded by nobody more
than the great mass of the American peo
ple as distinguished from the poli
ticians. Professor Smith recommends the
abolition of jury trials In agrarian cases,
the collection of fair rents by summary
process, the suspension of the representa
tion of rebel districts, the suppression of a
murderous press,and special legislation con
cerning foreign emissaries, they and their
government being given to fully under
stand their position and the liabilities they
incur.
• New York Stock Market.
New York, April 11—Share speculation
opened 6trong, with prices generally
per cent, higher than yesterday’s closing
quotations, Colorado Coal, Indiana, Bloom
ington and Westeru, Illinois Central and
Lake Erie and Western being most promi
nent In the advance. From tbe opening
until about noon the market declined, with
occasional fractional recoveries, % to 2%
percent., New Jersey Central, Denver and
Rio Grande, Lake Shore, Western Union,
New York Central, Missouri Pacific, North
western and Kansas and Texas being most
conspicuous in the downward movement.
In the early afternoon there was a re
covery of % to 1% per cent., in which New
Jersey Central, Missouri Pacific, Northern
Pacific common and preferred, Western
Union, Northwest and St. Paul were promi
nent. This was succeeded by a reaction of
K to 1 per cent., C. C. and 1. C. and North
west leading therein. Subsequently the
market sold up %to 1 % per cent., the lat
ter for Denver and Rio Grande and Northern
Pacific preferred, after which a reaction of
% to % per cent, took place, Missouri
Pacific leading the decline, but in the final
dealings the general list recovered a frac
tion, and Colorado Coal and Marietta
second preferred 1 per cent. The market in
the main closed firm. Prices were irregu
lar, but generally %to 3 per cent, higher
than at yesterday’s close, the latter for
Colorado Coal. New Jersey Central, how
ever, was \% per cent, lower. Transactions
aggregated 460,000 shares.
Quarrymen Striking.
Chicago, April 11,— One thousand quar
rymen at Lemontare are on a strike for an
Increase in wages from $1 50 to 82 per day.
The employers consider their demand exor
bitant. They have kept the men at work
all winter while there was but little need of
them, and they blame the Knights of the
Labor Union for influencing the men to
striKe. They say they will close their work*
If they cannot run themselves. So far there
has been no disturbances.
Libor Trouble* In Coboe*.
Trot, N. Y., April 11. —Four hundred op
eratives at the Harmony Mills, Cohoes, gave
notice that they would leave because of
a reduction of wages. This notice a
number have reconsidered, and it is
reported that others will follow their exam
ple and accept the reduction with the un
derstanding that their wages are to be rais
ed when the market value of the goods war
rants it. Some deny that any concessions
will be made.
Landlord Smytbe?* Revenge.
Dublin, April 11.— w . S. Bmvth“, the
Westmeath landlord, whose sister-in-law
was recently shot dead, has written to his
tenants revoking his intended reduction of
rents, as he considers many of them guilty
of direct or indirect complicity In the mur
der. He announces that rents will be col
lec’ed bv a non-resident agent, who can
make no a’lowance and do notbiDg not.
strictly required by law.
Tbe Catalan Trouble*.
Madrid, April 11.—In the Chamber of
Deputies to-dav, Senor Gonzales, Minister
of the Interior, read a telegram announcing
that the shops and factories In Barcelona
were reopened to-day. The improved state
of affairs In Catalonia Is due to the report
that the government will accept an amend
ment providing that the Franco Spanish
commercial treaty will be terminated at the
discretion of either government.
Gortacbakofl’a Successor.
St. Petersburg, April 11.—The Journal
de St. Iktersburg says: “The appointment of
M. de Glers as Minister of Foreign Affairs
will not change the foreign policy of Russia.
The declaration In the circular issued on the
accession of the Czar is still in force.” The
Journal quotes passages from the circular
which pointed to the pacific policy of
Russia.
The Franco-Spanlah Commercial
Treaty.
Madrid, April 11.—A syndicate of mer
chants has addressed a petition to the
Cortez, praying that the treaty of com
merce with France be ratified only after an
inquiry Was been made by a committee into
the industrial condition of the country.
|The Coming Transit of Venn*.
London, April 11.—A dispatch to the
Times from Paris says: '“The French Govern
ment will dispatch eight different expedi
tions to take observations of the transit of
Venus on the (sth of D.ecember. Four expe
ditions will be stationed in the northern
hemisphere and four in the southern.”
Horace Greeley’s Eldest Daughter
Dead.
New York, April 11.—Mrs. Nicholas
Smith (Ida Greeley), the eldest daughter of
the late Horace Greeley, died this morning
of diphtheria at Chappsqua. She leaves
three children, the youngest an infant six
weeks old.
Fears for the Delaware Fruit Crop.
Washington, April 11 —The cold snap
extended all over the North yesterday from
Delaware to lowa and Michigan. Snow fell
In Michigan, and ice three-quarters of an
inch thick formed at some places in Dela
ware. Considerable anxiety is felt for the
fruit crop.
The Strike at Lawrence.
Lawrence, Mass, April 11-Thirty
seven additional weavers were hired at the
Pacific Mills this morning, making the total
number of weavers employed 185. Less
than thirty frames are in operation in the
spinning department.
A Royal Convert.
Paris, April 11.—The Clarion has receiv
ed a telegram from Stuttgart, stating that
King Charles J , of VVurtemburg, has been
converted to the Roman Catholic faith, and
was baptised on Monday by the Pope.
The Outlook In Franklin Pariah.
New Orleans, April 11 —A Tnri's-Ikmo
crat Franklin special says : “The water fell
half an inch to an inch, and the outlook is
more hopeful. The people are more cheer
ful, and consider the crisis passed ”
An Editor’s Opinion.
Au editorial friend of ours, who has grown
enthusiastic over a certain remedy which
has cured him of general debility
and nervousness, writes an editorial as fol
lows) “We believe that Brown’s Iren Bitters
are destined to be the medicine of the world
They give real health and strength to every
part of the body, restore every lost or
1 nlpafrea organic function, and give new
Ufr and new vigor to every physical aad
mental faculty. Every man and woman in
ul health should rejoice mat a real cure lies
in Brown’* iron Bitter*,’!
SOUTHERN LAND GRANTS.
DONATIONS TO GEORGIA AND
FLORIDA RAILROADS.
Coosa and Chattooga—\est India
Transit—Pensacola aud Georgia.
Washington, April 10.—In response to a
resolution of inquiry, the Secretary of the In
terior has sent to the House a letter relative to
land grants by the government to certain rail
roads. The letter contains a good deal of in
formation about railroads. In regard to the
Coosa and Chattooga road it says:
This road was authorized bv that portion of
the act which provided for a railroad from
“Gadsd en t 0 connect w j t h the Georgia ana
Tennessee and Tennessee line of railroads,
through Chattooga. Wills, and Lookout \ al
leys,” to be completed within ten years. The
Coom and Chattooga Railroad Company was
organized under said act, and filed in this
office, SeDtember 30. 185S, a man of definite lo
cation of a railroad from Gadsden, on the
Coosa river through the Chattooga valley east
of Lookout Mountain to the Georgia State line,
a distance of about 37)4 miles No oortion of
the road has been constructed. The lands
withdrawn have not been restored to market,
as they lie within the limits of the Wills Val
ley (now Alabama and Chattanooga) Railroad,
the grant for which is not fully adjusted.
Of the Selma, Rome ancl Dalton Road,
formerly the Alabama and Tennessee, it is said
the road as constructed did not follow the line
of location beyond Jacksonville, neither was it
ever completed to Gadsden, the line built run
ning northeast from Jacksonville to the
Georgia State line, instead of running from
Jacksonville northwest to Gadsden, leaving
23.43 miles (from Jacksonville to Gadsden) of
the located line unconstructed. Only one
hundred miles of the road were constructed
within the period required by law. Had the
road been constructed within the proper
period, it would have been entitled to 552,691
acres, provided there was that quantity of
vacant lands within the limit* of its grant.
On May 34. 1859, and May 7. 1860, there were
selections of land aggregating 440,700.16 acres,
anproved to the State of Alabama for the
benefit of this road, and a portion of the lands
i so approved lie opposite the 33.42 miles of un
constructed road.
The act of May 23, 1872, confirmed to the
State of Alabama for the sole use nnd benefit
of the Selma. Rome and Dalton Railroad Com
pany, the successors of the Alabama and Ten
nessee Railroad Company, all the lands prevl
ously certified to the said State for the benefit
of the last named company. Since the passage
of said act, but 16.5'5 21 acres have been ap
proved (May 19, 1875.) to the State for the bene
fit of said road (Selma, Rome and Dalton). The
grant has not been adjusted, and the vacant
odd sections, within the limits of the grant are
still withdrawn for the benefit of the road.
Of railroads in Florida the letter says:
The act of May 17, 1856, granted to the State
of Florida, to aid in the construction of certain
railroads in said State, every alternate section
of land designated by odd numbers, for six
sections in width on each side of such toads.
The provisions in said act for indemnity, for
disposition of the lands by tbe Legislature of
said State, for the sale of such lands, and for
the reversion of the unsold lands to the United
States, in the event of failure to comnlete the
roads within ten years, are identical with those
contained In the act of June 3. 1856. above
quoted, granting lands to the State of Ala
bama. The following described railroads are
provided for by the act (May 17, 1856):
ATLANTIC. GULF AND WEST INDIA TRANSIT, FOR
MERLY FLORIDA RAILROAD.
This road was authorized by that portion of
the act which provides for a road “from Ame
lia Island, on the Atlantic, to the waters of
Tampa Bay. with a branch to Cedar Key on
the Gulf of Mexico.” The lands falliiig within
the probable limits of the road (main line and
branch) were withdrawn from sale and loca
tion, by telegram, on the 17th May, 1856, and
bv notice 568. September 9, D56. On the 22d
September, 1857. a map of definite location of
that portion of the road from Fernandina to
Cedar Keys, 155 miles in length, was filed in
this office. Eighty four miles of the road so
located was on the main line, and 71 miles
(from Waldo to Cedar Kev) was the branch line
complete. The whole of said 155 miles was
completed in 1860. entitling the State to say
595,300 acres for the benefit of the road. Up to
the present time but 290,183.38 acres have been
approved to the State under this grant. Said
lands were approved prior to January 7, 1860.
The reservation of lands on that part of the
main line from Waldo to Tampa Bay. 150 miles
in length, was not respected by this office after
May 17, 1816, entries being permitted of all
lands (unless otherwise reserved) outside and
south of the fifteen-mile indemnity limits of
the constructed portion of the road. Under
date of December 7, 1875, the President of the
company, Mr. Yule?, transmitted a map show
ing the proposed route of the main line from
Waldo to Tampa, and asked that the lands
along the said line and within the limits pre
scribed by the act of May 17, 1856, be with
drawn for the benefit of the road. The map
and accompanying papers were submitted to
Secretary Chandler, who declined to receive or
approve the map, and directed,by letter of April
27, 1876. that it be returned to Mr. Yulee. Sec
retary Chandler says in said letter that he does
not question the principle established in the
case of Schulenbergvs. Harriman; that the title
which vested in the State by the grant and
defloite location of the road thereunder could
not be divested by the mere failure to com
plete the road so located within the time fixed
by the act, but that ho finds nothing in that
case to sustain the doctrine that the state re
tains the right for an indefinite period and long
after the date fixed for the completion of th
road to designate i‘s route and tnus give effect
to the grant. He also held that failure to lo
cate the road before the time fixed for the
completion of the road should be regarded as
evidence of abandonment of the grant
On October 29, 1879, the company, through
its attorney, filed in this office the map reject
ed by Secretary Chandler, and asked that it
might, together with new and material evi
dence bearing upon the original location of the
road, which accompanied it (the map), be sub
mitted to the then Secretary of the Interior
(Schurz) for review.
Ou the 10th of November, 1879, the map, evi
dence, nnd application for review were sub
mitted to the Secretary. The evidence submit
ted showed conclusively that a map of definite
location of the road from Waldo to Tampa was
filed in this office by the engineer of the com
pany December 14, IB6o* which map being re
turned to him January 22, 1861, for the pro
curement of the Governor’s certificate was lost
or mislaid; and that the last map presented
wa* a duplicate of the original map of definite
location.
Secretary Schurz, after due consideration of
the fact* presented, held in effect that the re
turn of the map as above related was unneces
sary; that it should have been accepted bv
this office, as It was undoubtedly recognized
by the officers of the company, and by the
State authorities, as the definite location of
th# road; and that the map was filed in the
same manner as the surveys of previous por
tions of the line had been filed in the office of
the Secretary of State of Florida. The Secre
tary therefore approved the map and directed
that the necessary withdrawal of lands be
made to protect tffe rights of the company and
secure the proper adjustment of the grant
upon the line designated. Such with
drawal was ordered by this office
and took effect March 26, 1881. It
may be proper to state in this connection that,
the company have filed a formal waiver of all
claims to lands within the limits of the road oc
cupied by bona fid* settlers at the date of said
withdrawal. Upon the question of certifying
lands to the Sp.ie under the grant, the Secre
tary decided (hat the lands could be legally cer
tified, referring to the case of Bchulenberg vs.
Harriman hereinbefore quoted, opinions of At
torney General, November 29, 1879, case of
Southern Minnesota Railroa I Company and
October 26, 1880, case of Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company. The Governor o* Florida
under date of July 16, 1881, Certifies to the com
pletion of 44.88 miles of road from Waldo to
Ocala.
hENSACOLA AND GEORGIA.
This road was authorized by that portion of
the act which provides for a railroad “from St.
John’s river at Jacksonville to the waters of
Escambia Bqy, at or near Pensacola.”
The Pensacola and Georgia Railroad Compa
ny was organized to construct that nortion of
the road running from Lake City t > Pensacola,
and the grant for that portion of the road con
ferred upon them by the State. Said company
filed main of definite location for said portion,
which covered about 307 miles of road prior to
May 30, 1858. The lands falling within the pro
bable limits of this road were withdrawn by
telegram and letter of May 17,1856, and May 23.
1856, by Notice 553.
No evidence of the construction of any por
tion of this road has been filed in this office,
but the road is believed to be constructed and
in operation from Lake City to Chattahoochee
river, a distance of, say, 150 miles. Had the
whole length of road located (397 miles) been
constructed the State would have been en
titled to 1,178,880 acres of land, provided so
much vacant and unappropriated land could
have been found within thelfmirs of the grant
Prior to October 30, 1860. 1,275,579 5£ acres
were approved to the State for the benefit of
this road. It will be observed that said amount
exceeds, by 96,7?9 5% acre*, the entire
amount that the State would have been en
titled to had the whole length of road (307
mile*) been constructed; also, that it exceeds
by 699,579.52 acres the amount the State oould
properly receive and sell upon evidence of the
construction of 150 miles of rod. It should be
stated, however, that, although the 1,275 579 52
acres lie opposite that portion of the road from
Lake City Cos Pensacola, which was to be con
structed by the Pensacola and Georgia Itail
road Company, the whole quantity was ap
proved to the State cf Florida for the benefit
of the road ' eeoax St. John’s river, at Jack
sonville, to the waters of Escambia Bay at or
near Pensacola.”
Whether the State conferred aav portion of
the said 1,275,579.5$ acres upon the Florida,
Atlantic and Gulf Central Railroad Company
(below referred to), which constructed that
portion of the road from Jacksonville to Lake
City, is not known to this office; but It Is not
firobable that such action was taken, as th„
ast named road would only be entuied to a
portion of the indemnity ’aado so certified
The vacant unapproved and ungelected lands
in odd section* within the limits of the with
drawal for this road have not been res to -v*
market for aale or entry. ' ,cw lu
FLORIDA, ATL*NT'~. AND GULF CENTRAL.
A ohn bearing the above name was
autfforijea by the State to construct that por
tion of the road “from Saint John’s river at
Jacksonville to the waters of Escambia Bay, at
or near Pensacola,” which was located from
Jacksonville to Lake City, a distance of 59
miles. Said road is believed to be const) ueted
and in operation, but no evidence to that effeat
:s on file in this office or department The con
struction of 59 miles of ro*d within the proper
period would entitle the State to 226.580 acres
of land. Prior *o October 6, 1860, 29,384.18 acre*
approved to the State for the benefit of
this road. No further approvals have been
made for the benefit of said road, neither have
the unselected or unapproved vacant odd aec
tions within the limite of
restored to sale or entry.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
PARNELL.
Ill* Prison Treatment and Views on
tbe Need, of Tenants.
London, April 11.—The Press Association
furnishes the following:
Mr. Parnell took tbe early train for Dover
this afternoon, In order to avoid the demon
stration which would have been made had
he taken hi departure on the continental
train from Charing Cross in the evening
Conversing in private with a friend he said
he had little to comnlain of in regard to his
prison treatment. He hoped the other sus
pects were as well cared for,and said he had
reason to doubt that they were. His imprison
ed followers regarded the present outrage s
with the greatest, indignation. Mr. Parnell
expressed the belief that the state of things
in Ireland would improve if the government
Introduced a bill to relieve the poor tenants
of arrears of rent and amended the clauses
of the land act regarding purchase so as
practically to assist the tenants to become
owners of their farms, a result which he
thought would go a long way to res'ore
r esce and order. He said he would remain
in Paris quietly until the latest moment con
sistent with his parole. Mr. Parnell refused
to see a correspondent of the Irish World.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
John Francis, publisher of the Athenaeum,
s dead.
An American suspect named White has
been unconditionally released from Naas
jail.
The accounts of ex-Treasurer Gibson, of
Delaware county, Indiana, are reported to
be $14,000 “short.”
Mr. Parnell, on alighting from the train
Monday night in London, looked tired and
haggard, and was evidently suffering physi
cally.
The mill hands of the Fleming Brothers,
at McGregor, lowa, struck yesterday for
higher wages and shorter hours. The mills
immediately shut down, throwing one hun
dred and twenty men out of work.
The House Committee on Education and
Labor have directed Representative Sher
win to draft a bill, for submission to the
committee, recommending an appropriation
of $10,000,000 to be expended throughout
the United States for educational purposes,
in accordance with the ratio of illiteracy.
There is “a strong suspicion” that Long,
lynched at Kokoma, Indiana, a few days
ago, for a felonious assault upon a little
gir), was innocent of that crime. The evi
dence against him, which was entirely cir
cumstantial, has been found upon analysis
since his death to be of the weakest kind.
Thomas Fishburn, a farmer of Grafton,
Ohio, killed his wife a few nights ago by
striking her on the head with a piece of
wood. He then went into a neighboring
field and committed suicide by cutting his
throat. Fishburn was treated for insanity
several years ago, but was supposed to have
recovered.
The bill of exceptions in the Guiteau case
makes a printed pamphlet of thirty nine
pages. There are thirty-two exceptions to
matters occurring up to the time when the
case went to the jury, besides exceptions to
the rulings of the court denying anew trial
and overruling the potion in arrest of judg
ment. Thirty-six clauses of Judge Cox’s
charge are also excepted to.
Tbe Ohio Gerrymander.
Columbus, 0., April 12.—Senator Harris’
redistricting bill for Congressional purposes
passed the Senate to-day. It gives Repub
licans fourteen districts, Democrats four
and leaves three doubtful.
Koaeitl Dead,
London, April 11.—Dante Gabriel Rosetti,
the artist and author of the work “The
Early Italian Poets” and a volume of poems,
is dead,
Saving* Bank Cashier Gone Wrong.
Washington, Pa., April 11.—The Sav
ings Bank cashier’s account falls short
$30,000 to $60,000. Grain speculation is
given as the cause.
Fire In a College.
Chicago, April 11.—The ladies’ dormi
tory of the college at Olivet Mich., was
burned last night. The loss is fifty thousand
dollars. Insured.
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