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sea park, • hich has l>een do
• K St S. T. Hoyt, a pubi c
i cotßMst* (if two acres of
! l-'twel with about two
- • rises, tuDps an.l other
a g s: deal • f slirnt h-ry.
safety car coupler was male
. the Rome depot. The Daily
-o.i tnoet admirablr. and
.factory lieoM fashioned
. K me Uaur ad are to Rive war
• owes as fart as thty can lie
- r t for the starting of a
t a Brunswick. Th* plan is to
f-s of S tft.St'A calls to be
i t for s'artuur the enter
- thaa It per cent, per year
The • : >Tfurr.t*il.tji|#ii
- sworees and a satisfied it
r* *re!y. hesi.l# . ad. IB*
-and inuucing other enter
i * .-*• an Urdinarv next Thiirs
■*. > a three p>d and worthy
. * • ot thitnaelTes as candi
- of Clarke county is
jer cent, mteorst. pay able
ie: * wiil he held at
”->■ T.css.lay ,n June.
. n t , rai is ia ptvtrress in
’ . rfi.*, Si far there hare been
w to the Tarious churches
h* Wi-tbooia* f.vrty tso. to
• rwa, and to the Baptists
r Mr sender, ia noticing the
* e aj*nt of t'hrtstiaatty per
; eee. mid we hare ceased to
r* . i t* heoucht ahmt. The
•mr tr.ar.ifes'ed in bringing
-a and Iki oiktlns hoys to
• ir.x Fat wtoa has not, we
mkA a Jttti msttntioa in
• v-vr comptai -* lhnu|k
V •esore, of defaults ia the
• . tain post offices aot many
' St. and says that from such
r *i tea t fifteen dart for
itf.tl t%A)
t • < wrong tst pounds, fire feet
nc am three feet two inches
■ t e.l on last Wednesday oot e
. M s, hy Mr l>ck Wil
i ■ a i -tt chase from three o'clock
-yys the CUmtnl-g Ctshos, ’“now
■ ** :V>: that a ra. mad will be built
iswtii. The people along the
- used, many being ready to do their
wr k At rtbmioary surrey is vow
* - urc u the note is defl
r-i on. the m Aiey or its rijuiT*
-m. : at . tvs a permanent surrey
• -'.mi. and in twelre r flf
. o vt of the iron horse will be
• • • Roswell is atlsme.
nr and Forsvtb not Ittging.''
. a aotaVe fact, and is a matter
a: • off the Floridians, that
f pe pie of Florida emigrated
*ne true < is at home
a ' rapaay received an order
ta the other day for one thou
- H -ns county is sai I to be
and tntny (l*Mt will
:-i Bre to fifty bushels per
i t* iarc*r i.utn rrer before
t: :* ss arv renr anxious for
%:• a to be started in that
-i ■ it the body of
- Uc ’ fr in th“ r t >r
; v mOrl in th • btek
'■ • thmsr* in the rtrer. Suhse
—i foot colored, was arrest
■*r of the Corower's jury pointing
• * murderer Suupicton also rests
* • % thee neeroeu of the neighbor
m s to the k; rrid crime.
• of |'r rsrate of Billie Carr, of
" '-'rated suit afiiinst th* Oeor
' * t >1 lb* property upon which
* * • i. I repot at Athens, together
' improved l" til. which was
tie ccispanr hy Mr. Carr for th
a * rrf Tba heirs control that
r wa cteis or iy for this consider*
• show, and the day a trait,
rear the property reverts to the
* *r or his betrs at law. The pro
ite a little Tdlaye just orer
.se and embraced within the
• f thertty of Athens.
- etttisi from overheatin* took
•A st Saturday afternoon. Both
• s re •- >.ored and had been en
' -—spin* oataa
a colored farmer near Maris tta
* -1 on Morday erenin*. the I'tt.
• \ the hard earned sarinys o r
* -■ lew. T- rtunately by prompt
. vw captured and some Fit 1
> t. •: ■ recoyerad.
s aie-ts are prospecting ' ou*
. fee the erection of asp'ke
▼ Athens has nearly doubled it*
wi . . the past t“n years, and the
"t t: oks that by lh>9o it wti:
*■ th sisaa.l ii. habitants
' -ns passed through Oconee
■ay. and caused coesiderab'e
-■' i c >p ready for harresting
a j pr* va. ng extensively in
C'Silcii COCCty.
rg of the (■•ooll of Polk
at Bartow ou the lHh inst. for
* c-r sslerirur the suhj act* of immi
1 * r.pttis catalogue aa 1 the rail
■ the o unty. A committee
'• r- pare an], rt. asd subse
i.t-1 their r ews to the meeting
* unmend the i>rep'ration of
■ ng the s i sf-t ability of the
tbs rai*itg of semi-tropical
* - -s, and early vegetables. a
• i fulness and salubrity of the
loess cf the winters, and
over all other parts of the
" • f f-ulmonarg diseases. Also
ue counry acrompAny the
t Wanning Committee cn Immi
* " ats.-i app> tvted. The Committee
-a -a made an interesting report
-eased means of transportation
K K. Potter, D. D. the pastor of
Ef i-c-pal Church at Rome, will
fit the pastorate to take I be position
' -c ef of the Wesfcyaa Ckristian
-gas of the Methodist Kpisco
■h fwfit psbtkked at Maoon. (la
-rmlty we.-cwws Dr. Potter to the edi
1 • '-atersJtf.
man named Newton Page was
'li unuon Wednesday last for a mur
-* ia t osreta, Newton county,
t*• since Pare had been capering
;*r ssiutned names, and was
■t tssng drunk ard disorderly in the
k ****• • tranepAred that be was the
wanderer the Newton county
brttws were *ekmg.
. ” I “ p *"** -tdnerfiaer sayu: ‘Tin Har
.nty cahon crap t! n year is confined
he* whheher broad fields about and
•hMt awe oats, wl ich. without doubt,
-bnwt a heatthy cowditAoaof things.
. *the cantywffl he hgater this year
• -'serai yean psst, which u an en
* prmpret.-
Atbeat Ctkeenath.- - Real estate ia our dtf
Savannah morning news
J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
has been on the rise for the past three years or
more, but never before in her history has prop
erty attained the value it has at present. This
fact connected with the sound of the saw and
hammer that is heard in our midst gives our
city a decided boom.”
The Eatonton Messenger says; “Next Tues
day the saloon of Mr. J. y Adams will be
cloned. This is the only saloon in Eatonton,
and when it is closed we will have entered vir
tuslly upon prohibition. Mr. Adams' license
Acs not expire until next September, but the
County C tmmissioners have agreed to refund
a th-usand or twelve hundred dollars of hi*
tax. on condition that he close out this line of
his hii'ir.esa. Is there another instance on
record in tlcorgia where prohibition was car
ried into effect without resorting to an elec
tion? The county lose* three thousand dollars
lax by this action, but otherwise it gains.”
Brunswick AtlrertUer Apveal ; “On last Sun
day the remains of Aunt Elsey Hot-inson were
c i signed hi the dust at the ripe old age of one
hundred and thirteen. She wa- the properly
of the Morel estate, and brought from Savan
nah to the island in ltsuo bv Mr. Thomas Cater,
to w hose estate she has belonged ever since.
Captain James Postell having succeeded h.m
in the ownership of said estate she was, at
her dea h. the oldest p-rson, w hite or black,
living on -t Simon's Island. W hen brought to
the islsnd she was a w- man advanced in years,
t eing the mother of many children, bhe has
not done any work for at 1-ast forty-five years,
being sup- rancuated. She lived to see her
filth if n>.t sixth generation, her youngest
ch Id on the island is in his sixty-eightn year.”
The right of some rich specimens of gold ore
hr. ught to Home and exhibited from the mine
of Dr. T R. Cambell, a citizen of that city, ex
cites the niitor to say: 'All that would be
necessary to make this property a paying in
vestment at once, would be to put up a ten
stamp mill with the improved machinery at
tached for saving the gold. Are we of the
S' ath who now own these valuable deposits of
£■4l iron, manganese, copper, etc., to sit still
ana see the enterprising men of the North
come in and buy them up for a song?
Are the young men of the South to
continue seeking clerkships, profes-ions, etc ,
and ignore the avenues of wealth which lie
before them, and ouly needing Intelligent
1 t>or to develop them into veritable bonanzas?
Wake up'young friends learn to be mechan
ics. miners, chemists and mineralogists, and
give a taelpi. g hand to develop the fairest,
ri -hest and best country that the sun of Heaven
ever shone upon.”
Warcross Reporter: “The beautiful little girl
of Conductor W. K. Ward, now about eighteen
m with* of age, was playing in the yard at his
Dew- residence near the restaurant, where a
well hao tust been dug but not curbed at the
t< p. as is ustid. but had a lot of pltnk put
over it, whi h the little child managed by some
means to move, and in doing so fell in the well.
There being a quantity of water in the bottom,
the great mystery is why the chill was not
dtowced, Mrs. Ward, hearing its -creams, ran
t-> the well, but to behold her darling little one
• ;:<k out of her s ght with its head downwards.
M eat once gave the alarm, when Mr. W. T.
M' rrow went with great haste to her assist
ance, and. in moving the cover so that he could
descend, dropped several short pieces of scant
ling in the mater, which, possibly, caused the
, | to rise once more to *li surface, when ha
grabbed hold of one of its little feet and
brought i' out. After a short while it was re
• n-citated. and given back, as it were, to its
fond and loving parents. We rejoice with them
ii the happy rescue o* their dear little one.
May it l>e spared to make their hearts giad for
many > --ans to come. It is certainly a child of
destiny.'’
>•♦.■
Florida Affairs.
The receiver of the United States Land Offlcs
at Gainesville has sent to Washington over 816,-
ho forTand purchases In Florida since closing
the business of the last fiscal year. This
shows that there has been a land boom in the
State, and the purchases of common school
land from the Btate, if they have been in the
same proper ion, has largely replenished the
State Treasury.
Gainesville is soon to have anew saw
mill which has become a necessi y. The mills
r ow in operation are overwhelmed with orders.
The Messrs. Johnson, who are the proprietors
of the new mill, are only waiting for the iron
to be laid on their switch by the Florida
Southern Railway Company,
The success attending the vegetable business
this year in Leon county is attracting con
siderable attention throughout the State.
Twenty thousand Le Conte pear trees will be
set out next season within five miles of Monti
cello.
Florida's share under the five per cent, land
bill is f .9.319 15.
The grand jury of Calhoun county, in their
recent presentment, say this, which has a
worid of meaning in it; “We find the morals of
the county improving, no case of the violation
of the law having been brought before us.”
The peach crop Is a failure In Jackson
county.
The new building for the insane asylum at
Chattahoochee has been completed.
Tallahassee is a city of churches. There are
n ne,in all of which services were held last
sundav.
Milton Cooper, one of the colored members
of the Council of Palatka. has been ousted
from his office for fighting and disorderly con
■ uct unbecoming a city father.
Twenty houses and several cottages have
oeen erected within the last ten months tn Pa
ia'fca. Six of the number are large store build
ings. The population of the city is increasing.
Mr. George R. Jones died at Jacksonville on
Thursday morning of last week from the ef
'ects of an overdose of morphine. He was a
young man of sp’.endii abilities, but. unfortu
nately. addicted to strong drink. “At one time
he was.” say t the Times, “the most popular
young man in the city, but at the height of his
p: pularity he took to diink, and became irre
claimable. ’’
Three thousand seven hundred and one crates
and barrels of vegetables have been shipped
during the season from Tallahassee.
Tne Ocala Banner has just finished th# erec
tion of anew office, and now rejoices in a com
plete new outfit, type, pr sses, etc. We are
pleased to note this evidence of successful
jonrwllwn
Marion county has dec'ded to have anew jail
and to ray for the erection of the same by di
rect taxation.
A building boom is in progress at Ocala, and
the streets are so crowded with building mate
rial that vehicles find difficulty in passing each
other.
The drainage of the Okeechobee swamp is
being actively contiied. The dredge employed
-uts six hundred lineal feet, four and a half
feet deep, every day.
The Bai ford and Indian River Railroad is
being located by Engineer E. R. Wafford, and
the grading of the same will be at once com
menc“d near Fort Reed.
Pensacola Is very modest In her demands
upon the U-ited Mates Treasury, and will
nly be satisfied with the following aporopria
ions; Cuwoin and court house. $35o.000; ma
• pital, SISO.OV: harbir Improvements,
SiS'.OUU: dry docs (to fi ish it at our owu yard
• i h Alabama iron), JlM.Oft); lights between
Pensacola and Milton, f75,(M). bay a total of
$775,000.
Governor Bloxham, according to the Talla
hassee Floridian, has made the following civil
appointments during the past week: Joseph
H Humphreys, of Polk county, Julius Klontz.
•>f Nassau county. T. H. Hanna, of Washington
•a unty. Justice* of the Peace: J A. Ilrandon,
•'< mmisstoner of Dee :s for Florida in Georgia,
and W M. Walker, Commissioner in New
York; H F. Hamm-n County Commissioner
for Dade county; Irving Gillis, of Putnam
county. John Mc'ennaid. of Hernando county,
nd J. W. Archibald, of Duval county, Notaries
Pub ic.
Tne Mariznna Courier says: “The sound of
the railroad whistle was’heard for the first
time in Jackson county last Saturdav. The
engine, flat cars.etc., have be* n brought across
the rivrr and placed up u the spur track,
where track laying ia progressing as rapidly as
p-wsible. Over a mile of this (rack has been
laid: the l.na is graded to the main track, and
all tbe cross-ties are on the road. Next ilon
■lay tnorn nr track laying in dead earnest will
!>e begun and in six or eight weeks the people
•f Mariannt will doubtless be able to see the
iron horse at their very door*. What news
could be more gratifying to our people?”
Tallahassee Weekly Floridian : ‘ The most
outrageous act of unalloyed devilment of which
we have any knowledge as occurring in this
citv was perpetrated oy a negro girl, about
swelve years old, one dav last week near the
depot. ’ W hile the lady of the house was visit
ing a near neighbor this girl stole six dollars
from a boarder, poured kerosene oil on the
fl >or, set it on fire, locked the house, ran to the
House where the ladF was visiting and gave the
alarm. The Are was extinguished beforeany
material damage was done. We learn that the
girl has not even be-n arrested. If ihe perpe
trator of such an atrocious act is allowed to go
unpunished what are we to expect in the
future?’’
Sanford Journal: “Within a radius of eight
miles of Sanford there are 2,993 orange groves,
with 1*5.235 trees. These groves now produce
i Ots.G.O orang-s, but oni,' 5 percent, of the
tree* in this radius are bearing When the
other 95 per cent come in, there will be a pro
duction of 50,(00,000, or as many as the entire
•(tat- now pi oduces. Colonel Markham now
gets .'O.OOO from a grove, that in six years will
produce 3,000,0(1); General Sanford 50,000 from
a grove that in six years will produce 2,000 000,
and so on. And there are thouands of trees
•ring put out annually, that in five years will
add millions to ihe crop; 250,000,0i0 oranges is
a ie*s>rable estimate of the crop of 1887. In
ten years it will certainly be 5* 0,000,000 in the
-tale. And all the railroads now in contempla
tion coaid not move the crop.”
Crops in Soathwost Georgia,
Thoxasvtllk, May 29.— Editor Morning New*:
Fine rains fell here last Thursday and Satur
day, and to-day (Sunday) crops ar* In splendid
growing condition, and there is a prospect of
an abundant yield. Up to this time there was
probably never known a more favorable crop
season in this section. With the exception of
tbe Leconte pears, however, the fruit proepect
Is not so good. As usual, the crop of that pear
wtU be abundant. P.
k'EIFER FILLS HIS ROLL.
THE AMENDMENT TO THE RULES
CARRIED.
Tbe Radicals Worsted In the De
bate—A Democratic Proteat—Tbe
F sht to be Kept Dp—The Nikr
Routers Forced to Plead—The
Army B ll Noniluatlom and Con
firmations.
W*eHiNOTON,May 29.—The House opened
this morning with many indications that a
bitter parliamentary conflict was td be ex
pected during the day. The two sections of
the hall contained fewer vacant chairs than
usual, and the galleries were pretty well
filled. In the Chaplain’s prayer a request was
made on behalf of the members that the
pith of right and du’y might be made plain
to them.
As soon as the reading of the journal
ended Mr. Reed, of Maine, called up for
consideration the proposed amendment to
the rules prohibiting dilatory motions on
contested election cases.
The que?lon of consideration, that Is,
‘‘shall the House now consider ii?” was in
stantly raised by Mr. Randall, or Pennsyl
vania, and that was followed hy a motion
of Mr. Kenna, of West Virginia, to ad
journ, aud by one of Mr. Blackburn,
of Kentucky, that when the House adjourn
It be to meet on Wednesday nex f , he stating
as a reason for the motion that Tuesday was
Decoration day.
On the latter motion the yeas and nays
were ordered, and the tactics of obstruction
were thus put in operation. The vote on
Mr. Blackburn’s motion was announced at
11:40 as yea* 2, nays 145, and the Speaker
decla-ed the motion lost.
Whereupon Mr. Randall moved that when
the House adjourn to-day, It be to meet on
Thursday next.
Od that motion Mr. Reed niAde the point
of order that on a proposition to amend the
rules, dilatory motions cannot be enter
tained.
Mr. Randall denied the right of the
Speaker to put any such construction on
his motion.
Mr. Reed proposed to discuss the point of
order and suggested that a limit should be
put on that discussion. No agreement to
that end, however, was made, and the
Speaker said he would not make the limita
tion les than an hour on each side.
Mr. R*ed then opened the discussion.
He claimed the House, under the Con
stltuMon, had certain powers expressly con
ferred upon It, powers which It could exer
cise without the hindrance of any other
body, powers which It could not surrender,
which It could not trade away, which It
mult perform, and the first of those powers
was to judge of the election, rcurns and
qualifications of Us own members. This
House had been endeavoring for
the last ten days to per
form that duty, but bad been prevented
by dilatory motions. The best and most
orderly way to put a stop to that course was
to amend the rules, and that was the object
now. The series of motions made to-day
were for the express purpose of delay, of
preventing a change of the rules. He main
tained the proposition that wherever there
Is a duty imposed upon Congress to accom
plish certain work, It Is the du ! y of the
Speaker to carry out that rule of law or of
the ConsJtutlon. He cited a ruling of
Speaker Randall when there was filibustering
against the execution of the electoral count
law, and when obstruction was a'temp‘ed
by Mr. Springer, of Illinois, with that com
bination of physical activity and Intellec
tual scuteness for which he was distinguish
ed, ['aughter] to the effect that he (the
Chair) had allowed this, and had allowed
that, and had allowed the other In the way
of motions, but that the House was now
hrought to a point where It must act. Mr.
Reed laid down the proposition that ln-as
much as by the organic law of the
United States the House had a right
to change Its rules at any time,
no member or set, of members had
ar y right to use rules which are to be
cianged to prevent a change which the
desires to make. There was no such
thing as suicide In any provision of the
Constitution. He then quoted a decision by
Speakei Blaine, whom he spoke of as one
of the greatest parliamentarians who ever
sat in the Speaker’s chair, to the fffet
that pending a proposition to change the
rules, dilatory motions cannot be entpr
tained. This ruling wag made on the 27(h
of January, 1575. He closed by stating
that the minority had no right lurther to
delay the action of the House.
Mr. Rindall proceeded to reply to Mr.
R“ed. lie admitted that the rules of a legis
lative body were first for the orderly conduct,
of business,and next for the protection of the
rights of the minority. Oa this latter point
he quoted from the ruling of one of the
Speak* rs of the English House of Commons.
He argued that just as the Constitution pre
scribed the manner in which It should be
amended, *o the rules prescribed tbe mnn
ner in which they should be changed. As
to hit own decision In the electoral count,
he put It on the ground that the law under
which the House was then acting was greater
than the rules and cut off dilatory motions.
In the present case, however, there was
no law Interfering with the rules. As to
Mr. Blaine’s ruling or rather dictum, Mr.
Randall asserted that It had never been
pressed nor advantage taken of It; but, on
the contrary, efforts had been made on that
occasion (when tbe civil rights bill was
under consideration) to suspend the rules,
so a§ to cut off dilatory motions without
success. 8o that after Mr. Blaine’s dictum
It bad been conceded that only by a two
thirds vote could dilatory motions be cut off.
In conclusion he justified the action of the
minority in this contested election case.
Mr. Kasson, of lowa, agued on the Re
publican side of the question, declaring that
If dilatory motions could not be cut eff the
minority could prohibit the majority from
passing an appropriation bill or disposing
of any other question, great or small, at the
whim—not merely of a minority, but, of a
little over one-fifth of tbe whole number.
Was It possible that ary legislative body of
a civilized community eould be pieced in
that condiMon ? If so the House would be
funetiu (ffleio. Its power would be dead,
and nothing would be left for It but to ad
journ and leave the government to perish.
Mr Kenna asked Mr. Kasson whether tbe
minority had ever been refused tbe right to
make such motions as the majority had
made in the present case.
Mr. Kasson replied that dilatory motions
had not hitherto been made in election
cases. In those cases the House sat judi-
not legislatively.
Mr. Kenna further inquired whether the
constitutional duty of the House was higher
in elec ion cases than in cases of revenue or
pressing appropriation bills.
Mr. Kasson replied that it was because
the House must first fix on the men to be
entitled to pass on such measures.
Mr. Robinson, of New York, suggested
that a simple remedy was by a motion on
Monday to suspend the rules.
Mr. Ka*son 6aid he could not admit the
honafideness of that suggestion, coming
from men who refused to vote so as to de
prive this House even of a majority vote.
In conclusion, he stated that this obstrue
ton became revolution not legislation. It
was not a rule of proceeding, but of non
proceeding. If the Speaker did not at some
point refuse to allow dilatory motions, theD,
of course, the hands of tbe House were tied
up, and could not perform its functions.
Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, spoke on the
s'de of the minority. The House had estab
llshed rules and was bound by them in all
Its proceedings. If the Hou s e could disre
gard them for one purpose it could disregard
them for other purposes. He would not
characterize this proceeding as it struck his
judgment. He would credit the other side
with the same desire to preserve the honor
and dignity of the House and the integrity
of its proceedings that he claimed for his
side. If the House was not bound by its
rules now it would not be bound at
other times. If the majority could, in an
attempt to teke up a contested election
case, change a rule in order to establish a
new method of proceeding, it could a*ep in
in the midst of an appropriation bill and
change the rules that govern the proceed
ints of the House in the consideration of
such a measure, and so it would go on and
on UDtil the rules were frittered away, and
there would be nothing to govern the pro
ceedings of the House, but the arbitrary
will of one man or the arbitrary
will cf a majority. [Applause on the Demo
cratic side.] That was where the House
stood this morning, and the country ought
to understand it. He proceeded to quote
the remarks of Mr. Gmsld in defense of
the rights of the minority, and yielded to
Mr. Williams, of Wisconsin, to read some
other remarks of Mr. Garfield on the same
occasion, on which the action of the mi
nority was characterised as revolutionary.
Mr. Carlisle asserted that Mr. Garfield
had subsequently to those remarks engaged
in just such proceedings as the minority was
now engaged. [Cries of “Never” from the
Republican side]. In the closing periods
of the Forty-slxtn Congress this filibuster
ing policy bad been resorted to
by the Republican minority to pre
vent action upon the apportionment
bill. He had not considered that action
revolutionary, although he had considered
it unjustifiable. The right of the minority
to protect Itself by resort to parliamentary
process was an unquestioned right in this
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MAY 30. 1882.
country. In conclusion he defended the
action of the minority In the present case,
declaring that there was not an enlightened
court of iustice in Christendom that would
not suppress the testimony which was ob
jected to in this contested election case.
Mr. Haskell, of Kansas, made an argu
ment on the Republican side of the ques
tion.
Mr. Blackburn, of Kentucky, followed on
tbe Democratic side. He Insisted that,
while asserting and granting the right of
the House to change Its rules, the change
must be made according to the terms and
conditions which tbe rules themselves Im
posed. He showed the inconsistency of re
quiring the Speaker to exclude dilatory
motions on a question of amending the
rules, while allowing for the last ten days
Fuch motions on a question of the highest
privilege, the right of a member to his seat.
It required two thirds to suspend any rule
for an hour, but now th a claim was that on
one day’s notice a majority of one could
change or abrogate all the rules In fu’iAV;.
The precedent now sought to be set would
not be allowed or restricted to contested
election cases. The same process might be
resorted to In order to abrogate the rule that
protects theTieasu*y from “riders” on ap
propriation bills. lie pleaded with tbe
Speaker to weigh well the consequences
of what he was asked to do, and
to consider the power which such a
decision would give to an unbridled ma
jority to ac’ outside of the rules. It would
Pe the entering wedge for the abolition of
all parliamentary government, and would
open the Tressary to robbers and plunder
ers.
The discussion was continued by Messrs.
Robeson, of New Jersey, Cox, of New
York, Hooker, of Mississippi, Rsagan, of
Texas, McLane, of Maryland. Hazelton, of
Wisconsin, Robinson, of Massachusetts,
and Randall, of Pennsylvania.
Mr. R ( *ed. of Maine, closed the debate.
The Speaker rendered a decision sustain
ing Mr. Reed’s point of order, that dilatory
motlocs cannot be made to prevent a change
of rules.
Mr, Randall appealed from the decision
of the Chair, and Mr. Reed moved to lay the
appeal on the table. The appeal was laid
on the table —yeas 150, nays none.
After th** announcement of the vote, Mr.
Cox, of New York, presented a protest
signed by over one hundred Democratic
members against the ruling of the Speaker.
The protest was not received to go upon the
journal, but was read as a part of Mr. Cox’s
remarks, so as to be printed in the Congres
sional Record.
The report of the Committee on Rules
was adopted—yeas 150, nays 2.
At 6:45 the House determined to resume
consideration of the contested election case.
Mr. Miller, of Pennsylvania, took the
floor to open the debate.
At 7 o’clock the House adjourned until
to-morrow.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate, an order was adopted for
an adjournment from to-day until Wednes
day In honor of Decoration day.
Mr. lioar introduced a bill to establish a
uniform system of bankruptcy. He explain
ed that It was bastd on the Lowell bill, but
that while containing many of the pro
visions of that measure, It reserved
all exemptions under Slate laws, and varied
from It tn some material particulars. He
asked that It be printed and tabled, the Ju
diciary Committee having reported on the
subject. So ordered.
On motion of Mr. Slater the Senate bill to
reimburse the Creek Indian orphan fund
was again considered. At the expiration of
the morning hour the bill was laid aside
without action.
Mr. Rollins called up the bill for tbe sale
of the old post cflice site at New York, and
it was passed.
The Japanese indemnity fund bill came
upas ihe regular order, but after debate,
was laid aside without action. After a short
executive session the Senate adjourned
until Wednesday.
THE STAR ROUTE CASES.
In the Criminal Court to day, after argu
ment, Judge Wylie overruled the motion to
quash the indictments against Turner, and
Mr. Wilson noted an exception. Mr. Cole
then offered an affidavit of Reerdell,alleging
that he absolutely knew of misconduct of
the grand jury, and It was read. Judge
Wylie manifested the greatest Indignation
as tbe reading proceeded and interrupted
Mr. Cole to say to his own knowledge It was
wholly untrue.
“If that paper Is fl'ed, I give you warning
I will direct Mr. Reerdell to be prosecuted
for perjury,” said the court.
Mr. Cole endeavored to explain that It
was, perhaps, bis fault, inasmuch as he
drew up the affidavit and Reerdt 11 had signed
It in a burry. Perhaps, he thought he was
swearing to his belief, not his knowledge,
said Mr. Cole, but the paper had already
been filed and the court refused to allow its
withdrawal, leaving the defendant’s coun
sel much disturbed.
The court then asked if there were any
further motions, “because,” said he, “if
there are I overrule them.” The court
then paid a high compliment to the grand
jurv, and Mr. Merrick asked that the de
fendants be called upon to plead, and the
court ordered them to staDd up In a body
and plead. Pleas of not guilty were en
tered by the defendants. A number of
other motions were made and overruled,
and the court set Thursday as the day for
the trials to begin.
THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL.
The Senate Committee on Appropriations
to day concluded its consideration of tbe
House army appropriation bill, and the
measure as amended and finally agreed upou
will be reported to the BjnateB j nate by Mr. L-*gan
on Wednesday. The aggregate amount of ap
propriations provided for in the House bill
was reduced several hundred thousand dol
lars by the Senate Committee, and the retire
ment clause of the House bill has been
changed materially. Tnis portion of the
bill, a* finally agreed upon to day, provides
that after the first, day of December, 1882,
when an cfficir has served sixty
years, either a** an officer or soldier.
In the regular or volunteer service, or both,
he ehall, if he make application therefor to
the President, be relieved from active ser
vice and placed on the retired list, and
when an officer Is sfx'y-two years of age he
shall be relieved from active service and
placed on the retired list, provided the
General of the army shall be retired on
full pay, and no act now In force
shall be so construed as to limit or restrict
the retirement of officers as herein provided
for. The committee also agreed to strike
out that clause In the House bill which pro
vldes that in computing the length of ser
vice for additional pay the time of service
on the retired list shall In no cise be com
puted, and which allows additional pay for
such service.
A DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.
The DemocraMc members of the House
held a conference this morning, aud after a
general discussion of the present situation,
it was proposed that a managing committee
of five members be appointed to conduct the
contest on the part of the minority. This
proposition was met with the suggestion
that gentlemen who have been act
ing as leaders of the minority be
requested to continue in that capacity. It
was then unanimously agreed that Messrs.
Randall, Blackburn, Carlisle, Kenna and
Atherton should mannge the contest. A
lurther agreement was reached to the effect
that, If the Speaker should make an arbi
trary ruling for the purpose of forcing the
minority to submit to the will of the ma
jority in the pending contest, that another
conference should be held to determine the
course to be pursued by the Democratic
members.
NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS.
The President to-day sent to the Senate
the name of Pay Inspector Joseph A. Smith
for the Chief of the Bureau of Provisions
and Clothing and Paymaster General of the
Navy, with the rank of Commodore.
The Senate, In executive session,confirmed
the nomination of Lsland C. Bacon to be
Consul at Samana.
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CYCLONE AT BRUNSWICK.
Two (JntinUbed Buildings Blown
Djwii.
Brunswick, Ga., May 29—A cyclone
passed through the city at six o’clock this
evening, blowing down Kaiser Brothers’
new building on New Castle street and
Shiloh Baptist (colored) Church. No serious
personal injuries are reported. Its course
was from northwest to southeast. Neither
of the buildings bad been completed.
Tbe Southern Lutheran Synod.
Charlotte, N. C., May 29 —The South
ern General Bynod of the Lutheran Church
Is in convention here. During to
day's deliberations it was decided to
send and support a missionary In
India or Japan. It indorsed tbe
Howard University and the appointment
of Dr. Butler, as its representative in said
institution, agreed to send there and sup
port colored young men who are to study
for the Lutheran ministry in said university.
The subject of union or reunion with the
general synod of the North, caused consid
erable debate, and Is as yet undecided.
Beauty Regained.
The beauty and color of the hair may be
safely regained by using Parker’s Hair Bal
sam, which is much admired for its per
fume, cleanliness and dandruff eradicating
properties. .7 _ , „ .
POLITICS IN THE SOUTH.
THE PEOPLE AND DEMOCRACY.
Replies tn Pertinent Question*
Local D'UVrences bat Solidity on
National Issnea The Popular
View of Garfield and Arthur.
New York, May 29 —The Times prints
fifty answers to the following questions,
addressed to one hundred editors of Demo
cratic newspapers at county seats In Ala
bama, Arkansas, Florlda.Georgla, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina
and Texas:
First. Is the policy of the Democratic
party managers In harmony with the gen
eral sentiment of the people of your dis
trict? If that policy excites any dissatis
faction, Is It chb fly directed against the
principles or the persons sustained by the
party leader* ?
Second. How do your people regard the
administration of President Arthur?
Third. Is there in your neighborhood any
decided expression of opinion in regard to
the tariff ; and, if so, what is its extent and
nature?
The Times summarizss the answers to the
first question as follows : That the South
Is still solid In Its affiliation with tbe
Democratic party, may be laid down as
made absolutely certain by these observa
tions. The masses sUii lock to Democracy as
upholding their best Interests, material and
political. Ou all national issues the people
are a unit. one-fourth of the letters
speak of dissatisfaction with the methods
of leaders, but the writers are careful to
state i hat the people are In full harmony
with the party principles and will forget all
local differences in defending them. Oaly
in two reponses to the first clause of the
question Is answer made “not entirely so.”
Local Issues In two or three Btates and
legislation not entirely satisfactory to the
whole of the party, as for example, the
stock law In South Carolina and the prohi
bition law in North Carolina, have divided
the party, but this division is a Btate matter
and would be lost sight of In considering
national issues. They oppose the Republi
cans as seeking an alliance with the colored
man and putting him in power over them.
They assert that the ignorance of that race
uufits it for control, and its supremacy
would annihilate all hope of prosperity.
Of the replies to the second question the
Times says In all the letters the references
to the hopes of the South from Garfield’s
administration seem like walls. The people,
however, trusted that President Arthur
would carry out the policy of his predeces
sor, but disappointment had followed, and
more than half the letters speak of him as a
narrow partisan, seeking only the interests
of his party, as one from whom
nothing beneficial to the South
can come. Appointments to office in the
South as a rulp are a great cause of dissat s
factlon, and are regarded as showing that
Arthur is not friendly disposed. From the
three States of Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas only come expressions of praise,
and these are almost entirely due to the'
Mississippi levee proclamation, and even
these are generally mingled with words of
distrust.
The answers to the third question show
that, with one or two exceptions, little d's
cusslon of the tariff is reported amoDg tbe
people. Many write that the question is
not understood by the masses; one that they
have no conception of what a tariff
means. The truth appears to be
that they are too busy to take
any interest in the matter, and being chiefly
agriculturists, the subject naturally at
tracts much less attention than in other sec
tions of the country. About thirty letters
say that when there is any discussion at all,
the feeling is in favor of a tariff for revenue
only, with such Incidental protection as
would naturally follow.
A CLEYEIt SWINDLER.
Fleecing Northern Firms by Pro
fessing Connection with Augusta
(louses.
New York, May 29—A well dressed man,
evidently a Sjutherner, representing him
self as connected with the firm of James G.
Balllie and Sons, of Augusta, has been
swindling parties in this city and Boston out
of small sums of money. In Boston he im
posed upon a confiding firm to
whom he represented himself as W.
T. Richards, Jr., of the firm of
W. T. Richards A Son, of Augusta, Ga. With
the affairs of this firm he seemed equally
conversant, and talked volubly of the pur
chases that had been made by Richards &
Son., of the Boston house and Us New York
branch.
When questioned regarding him, W. T.
Richards A Son replied by telegraph: “There
Is no such person as W, T. Richards, Jr.
He is a fraud.”
In a recent letter received by Mr. Wood
ruff, of the firm of Thomas Leemlng & Cos.,
Messrs. Balllie. write they have no knowl
(dgeof who the swindler Is. unless It Is a
young man from Thomson, Georgia, named
Tate, who recently came North on his wed
ding tour, and ostensibly to purchase some
goods for a store he was about to open.
UOUCIUAULT ANI) WIFE.
The Latter Granted Temporary
Alimony.
New York, May 29. —To-day a decision
was given granting the motion in the 6uit,
which has been before the courts for some
time, brought by Agnes Robertson Boucl
cault against Dion Boucicault. Judge
Birrett, in the Supreme Court, to
day rendered a decision upon the
motion to award the plaintiff
alimony. He said there was nolhlng in
his judgment to justify entire withholding
of temporary alimony, but he thought
it ought to be reduced, leaving the
question of permanent alimony to deter
mine upon the trial. Under the circum
stances he thought alimony pendente lite
at the rate of #1,500 per annum would be
reasonable, and would meet the views of
the general term.
A CONFIDENCE WOMAN
Gets tn Some Clever Work In Troy.
New York, May 29.—A Sun special from
Troy, N. Y., says: “A woman of ladylike
appearance, good address and exceptionally
brilliant conversational powers, who gave the
name of Florence A. Houston, disappeared
from the city yesterday, after duping
and robbing the proprietress of a fashiona
ble hoarding house and unsuccessfully at
tempting to borrow a large sum on alleged
valuable bonds. She claimed to be the
daughter of the late Confederate General
Hood, and the widow of a grandson of
Samuel Houston, at one time Governor of
Texas.”
Weatber Indication*.
Omen Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, D. C., May 29. — Indications for
Monday:
In the South Atlantic States, clearing
weather, winds mostly northeasterly, sta
tionary or lower temperature, and higher
pressure.
In the Middle Atlantic States, fair
weather, northerly winds, becoming
variable, stationary or lower temperature,
and higher pressure.
In the East Gulf S’ates, clearing weather,
light variable winds, mostly northerly, sta
tionary or higher temperature and pres
sure.
In the West Gulf States, warmer, fair
weather, light variable winds, shifting to
southeasterly, and stationary or lower pres
sure.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley,warmer,
fair weather, light variable winds, shifting
to southerly, and stationary or lower pres
sure.
Libel ludlctment* Sustained.
Philadelphia, May 29 —Judge Thayer
In the Quarter Sessions this morning sus
tained the indictments charging Julius
Chambers, the Philadelphia correspondent
of the New York Herald, with libeling
United Btates Benator McPherson, and Chaa.
Emory Bmlth, editor-in-chief of the Press,
with libel upon Detective Weyl. In the
case of Mr. Chambers the decision is a
written one.
A Train DKcbed In Arkansas.
Little Rock, May 29 —At seven o’clock
this morning the fast freight train bound
south on the Iron Mountain Railroad ran
off the track near Austin, twenty five miles
north of Little Rock, and ditched nine or
ten cars. An old man named Bryant, who
got on at that station, was Instantly killed,
and another, name unknown, fatally in
jured. _
Fllca and Buga.
Flies, roaches, ants, bed bugs, rats, mice,
gophers, chipmunks cleared out by “Rough
on Rats.” 16c,
THE ALLEGED WHISKY RING.
Tbe Inquiry Begun at Washington.
Washington, May 29.—The special com
mittee appointed by the Benate to investi
gate the allegations that money has been
raised or expended by parties in interest to
Influence legislation upon bonded spirits,
adjourned from Friday to 10 o’clock this
morning, but owing to some misunderstand
ing as to the hour of meeting, a quorum was
not secured until after 11 oVlgck. Colonel
Wharton, counsel for the Kentucky distil
lers, Mj ir W. H. Thomas, of Louisville,
and Mr. Stagg, of St. Louis, were in attend
ance at the committee room promptly at 10
o’clock, and waited somewhat impatiently
for an opportunity to testify.
Mr. Thomas remarked to the Chairman
that he was auxiou3 to have the investiga
tion proceed. This interest was an im
portant one, and was suffering by each day’s
delay while these charges were pending.
Mr. Cockrell replied that, in his opinion,
neither the charges nor the pending investi
gation would affect the action in the Senate
upon the bonded spii Its bill.
Major Thomas was then sworn, and in re
sponse to questions by the Chairman,
detailed at Eome length the processes in use
in Kentucky in the manufac:ure of whisky,
and also the methods employed in making
high wines, and explained the difference in
the products of the two modes of manu
facture. Witness had visited Washington
several times to further the Interests of die
tillers. He had never appealed to any one,
however, but the Senators and Representa
tives from his own Slate. He had nev?r
importuned them, but bad pointed out the
justice of the legislation asked by liquor in
terests, and had made the same character of
statements he had made before the commit
tee. He had never been approached by any
outsider with representation that he could
secure Influence with Senators or members,
and had never seen the time when, In his
judgment, there was any occasion for the
expenditure of one cent to influence legis
lation or secure Influence with Senators or
members. Had seen through the news
papers that money had been used with
the press, but never had been ap
proached by any newspaper reporters or
journalists except with a request for news.
He never was asked for a dollar, never
offered one for newspaper influence, and
never heard any one in the liquor trade say
that he knew of any such thing being done.
The National Liquo’r Dealers and Distillers
Association never raised a fund for lobby
ing purposes and never made an assessment
upon its members. Their only fund was
the annual dues of ten dollars from each
member.
The examination of Mr. Thomas, which
followed, failed to show the use of any
Improper influences to secure legislation
upon the bonded spirits bill, and was mainly
directed to an inquiry into the status of the
liquor Interest and the effect of the pending
bill in relation to bonded spirits.
CORNELIUS YANDERBILI’S WILL
One of Ilia Sisters Contesting Its
Singular Feature*.
New York, May 29.—The will of Corne
lius J. Vanderbilt, who committed suicide at
the Glenham Hotel a short time ago, is being
contested by his sister, Mrs. Mary A. Lebeau
Berger. He left an estate valued at $750,-
000, not one penny of which went to
any person by the name of Vanderbilt.
He bequeathed $120,000 to his friend, Geo.
N. Terry, and sums of money to other
friends, giving SIOO to each of his sisters to
purchase some article in remembrance of
him. Mrs. Berger, in contesting the will,
alleges that Cornelius at the time
the will was executed was a resident of
Connecticut, where all his real estate was
situated; that the writing was not his last
will; that its execution was not his volun
tary act, and that he was not of sound mind
at the time he signed it. She alleges that
the document was procured by fraud prac
ticed on Cornelius by Terry and others; that
the testator suffered from epileptic
fits for years, and was weak
mentally and easily influenced; that Terry
attached himself to Cornelius in the hope
of getting his money; also that the testator
never would have executed such a will but
for undue Influence. She says she was
under considerable expense In assisting Cor
nelius to contest his father’s will, and that
he promised that she would be no loser by
assisting him. The case has been put on
the calendar of the Surrogate’s Court for
the 27th of November next. No other ob
jections have yet been filed.
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WINTER WHEAT.
Tlie Outlook for the Crop Greatly
Improved.
New York, May 29.—The World prints
dispatches regarding the prospects of winter
wheat, which represents that the compara
tively gloomy outlook has changed greatly
for the better. The cold month of May,
injurious, as it undoubtedby was, to
much other vegetation, did no harm to
winter wheat. It gave it vigor without too
rank growth. The harvest has already
begun in Texas, and the yield is excellent
in quality and quantity.
In the Northern States, east of the Missis
sippi, some fields suffered from winter kill
ing, but as has more recently appeared not
nearly to the extent that was feared. Thrre
was little or no increase in the
acreage. In fact, it is probable
that the drought of last autumn
caused some reduction of the area sown, but
at present there is little reason to doubt that
the yield will be larger throughout much of
the winter wheat section. It will be ready
for harvesting in June, and even in North
ern latitudes in July.
THE NEW COTTON CROP.
Special Beports of Its Prospects.
New York, 29.—The World has
special dispatches from New Orleans, Gal
veston, Memphis and Mobile, which, It Is
claimed, have been carefully prepared,
showing the present condition and pros
pects of the cotton crop. The report sums
up as follows:
If the season, from the present time until
cotton picking begins, is an ordinary one,
tbe outlook is that there will be a
considerable Increase In the amount of
cotton grown In Alabama and Texas over
last year, and quite as much (nowlthstand
tng the overflow) In the States of Arkansas,
Louisiana and Mississippi. The reports
from the Atlantic coast and the northern
belt may not be expected to be quite so
favorable as those from tbe Gulf States, but
the whole situation at this time may be re
garded as promising a yield in excess of that
of the current season, last year, and approxi
mating, no doubt, the largest ever raised.
REFORM IN RUSSIA.
The People to Have a Share lu the
Administration.
St. Petersburg, May 29 —The Czar, de
sirous to appease the people, has decided to
grant reform. Two commissioners will be
Instituted to consider questions of central
institutions, and a share in the administra
tion is to be given to the people. There is
a commission already sitting under the
Presidency of General Ktchanoff, to ex
amine local Institutions.
Gen. Louis Mellkoff is placed as supreme
head of the commission.
A manifesto will shortly be issued, stat
ing that the Czar desires to celebrate his
coronation by granting reforms, but that he
is compelled to postpone the ceremony for
a year, because of the impossibilities of
completing the preparations earlier.
Blddled with Bullets.
Little Rock, May 29 —Late Saturday
evening, twelve miles from Little Rock,
Jim Saunders, a colored boy eighteen year
old, attempted au assault on a white girl
named Nannie Carr. Her screams fright
ened him away, and he came to
this city. Sunday afternoon he was arrested
and sent to the country under a constable’s
posse and lodged In a small house in the
neighborhood for safekeeping. About ten
o’clock at night a large body of masked men
broke into the building, overpowered the
guards and riddled Saunders’ body with
bullets.
A Blaze Id Predertcksbn rg.
Fredericksburg, Va., May 29—J. H.
Dunston’s paper bag manufactory and steam
printing establishment, with all the stock on
band, the presses and machinery, were
totally destroyed last evening. The Catho
lic Church building adjoining, sustained
light damage, and tbe parsonage was burned
to the ground. An iron safe was overturned
on Henry Bearer, breaking his legs. The
loss will exceed f15,000.
THE CRISIS JN EGYPT.
THE QUESTION OF TURKISH IN
TERVENTION.
A Commissioner from the Porte En
Route to Cairo—The London Press
on the Situation.
Berlin, May 29.—A1l the powers except
ing France are agreed that in the event of
Intervention In Egypt becoming necessary
for the maintenance of the status quo, it
should be made by the Sultan himself.
London, May 29.—The Daily Nests, In a
leading article, ssyt that It is the first du'y
of the government to protect the lives of
Englishmen resident in Egypt without de
lay. It hopes that the ironclads at Alexan
dria are equal to the task. The English Ad
miral admits his inability to land men.
When this primary obligation Is discharged,
then the real difficulties of the situation
wiil only The duplicity of the Porte
is now tolerably certain. It will be impos
sible for Mr. Gladstone to assist in making
Turkish rule a reality in Egypr.
The Standard says that ir Turkish inter
vention is impossible, then France and Eng
land must take the matter Into their own
hands immediately.
The Daily Telegraph declares that the
policy of deference to France has been
carried beyond the limits of prudence.
The I\>st blames Mr. Gladstone for for
getting the traditions of British policy and
allying the government with anti-Turkish
proceedings of France.
The Standard's dispatch from Cairo
says: “Otman Pasha will be appointed
Imperial Commissioner to Egypt, and will
arrive this week accompanied by a small
body guard. Arab! Bey bas ordered that
the Khedive’s circular against be
revoked.”
Paris, May 29. —The Cabinet Council to
day discussed dispatches from Egypt, and
decided that there was no reason to come
to fresh decisions.
Some evening Journal states that negotia
tions are proceeding between England and
France with the view to the dispatch of
special envoys to co operate with the Tur
kish Commissioner who is going to Egypt.
The Yellow Book to be presented to the
Chambers to-day deals with events in
Egypt from the Ist of February, 1881, to
the resignation of the Ferry Cabinet, and
affoids evidence of uninterrupted under
standing between France and England
touching Egyptian affairs.
Constantinople, May 29 —The majority
of the Ministers favor the immediate dis
patch of a squadron to Egypt with an Im
perial Commissioner. It is stated that the
British and French ambassadors have with
drawn their objections to Turkish interven
tion.
Frank Jamei to be Pardoned.
St. Louis, May 29.—The Post-Dispatch
publishes a statement showing that Gov.
Crittenden has been in negotiation with
Frank James for the past ten days for his
surrender, and that the noted outlaw will
be pardoned within a week.
A dispatch from Independence, Mo.,
states that a sensation was aroused this
morning by the arrival there of Mrs. Frank
James and her five year old son, Jesse. She
came on a train from the West and was met
by her father, Colonel Bamuel Rawlston.
This is her first visit home since 1877 and
confirms the report that Frank James will
soon be pardoned. She refused to say any
thing farther, but admitted that Frank had
been In bad health since Jesse died, and
added that he was at some watering place.
Baae Ball Ifeaierday.
Baltimore —Baltimore?, 16; Merrictts,
none.
Philadelphia.—Athletics, 10; Cincin
natls, 9.
Philadelphia —Athletics, 2; Cincinnatis,
6; Philadelphia?, 2; Detroits, 6
New York. —Metropolitans, 2; Chicagoe,
none.
Buffalo —Buffalos, 9; Clevelands, 8.
Troy —Worcesters, 6; Troys, 4
Springfield —Harvard?, 19; Amherst, 8.
Pittsburg.—Loulsvilles, 15; Alleghanys,
New Brunswick, N. J.—Rutgers, 10;
Browns, 3.
Boston. —Bostons, 3; Providences, 2.
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Tornado In IBasaacbUHeda.
Boston, May 29.—A tornado passed over
Greenfield, Mass., last night, destroying
several thousand dollars worth of property
and Injuring several persons. Tbe resi
dences and barns of John Thayer, Chas. 8
Mead, C. B. Beott, Henry S. Anderson and
others, were partially wrecked. A man
named Bement was fatally hurt by being
buried under the ruins of a barn. Chas. 8
Mead was also hurt. The storm traveled In
a northeasterly direction, and was accom
panied by heavy hail. In its course through
New Hampshire some damage was done.
Tbe Caban stock* of Sugar and
iTlolaase*.
Havana, May 29.—The stock at Cardenas
on the 27th Instant was 4,582 hhds. of mus
covado sugar, 2,545 hhds. of centrifugal eu
gar, 491 hhds. of concentrated sugar, and
2,722 hhds. of molasses. The stocks at Ba
gua on the same date were 27,171 hhds of
sugars, and 2,249 hhds. of molasses. The
stocks at Cienfuegos on the 24th instant
were 11,147 hhds. of muscovado sugar, 2,229
hhds. of centrifugal sugar, and 2,700 bhd6.
of molasses.
The ITlatual Union Telegraph.
New York, May 29.—The stockholders of
the Mutual Union Telegraph Company to
day elected the following directors: John
G. Moore, George F. Baker, George Wm.
Ballou, Harris G. Fahnestock, Charles S.
Peck, George H. Holt, George C. Haven,
Jay Gould, George J. Gould, George 8.
Scott, and Russell Sage.
Tariff Refoim In Spain.
Madrid, May 29 —The Cabinet council
yesterday decided upon a reduction of the
tariffs by progressive stages. The maximum
reduction of 15 per cent, will be reached in
ten years. Reciprocity will be required
from other nations.
Southern Presbyterians.
Atlanta, May 29.—The Presbyterian
Assembly was engaged to day in closing up
the routine work of the session, and ad
journed at half-past ten to-night, to meet
at Lexington, Ky., on the third Thursday
In May, 1883.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
The insurgent Chief in Catalonia has re
ceived amnesty, and there are no insurgents
in arms.
A dispatch from London yesterday an
nounces the death of Colonel Joseph Samuel
Chester, the American genealogist.
Yesterday being Whit-Monday and to
day Decoration day there will be no markets
until Wednesday in Baltimore.
H. H. Tatem, Treasurer of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad
Company, has been appointed Secretary of
the same company vice Geo. F. Doughty,
deceased.
Cardinal McCabe, replying to an address
after his enthronement as Cardinal on Sun
dap, expressed his belief that in spite of
the ominous shadow now cast on Ireland,
there is yet a bright future in store for her.
A special dispatch to the Boston Journal
from Washington says: “It is understood
here that the purpose of the visit of Colonel
Reed (Guiteau’s counsel) to Boston is to
apply to Justice Gray for a writ of habeas
corpus.”
W. O. Camp, a well known carpenter of
Chattanooga, a white maD, while going
home a few nights ago, down the Western
and Atlantic track, was struck by a switch
engine and instantly killed. He leaves a
large family.
The Washington monument at Washing
ton has reached a height of 270 feet, 20 feet
of stone having been added since May 1.
The work is advancing satisfactorily, and
will be pushed forward as rapidly as cir
cumstances will permit.
A motion was made not long since in the
New Yoik Supreme Court in behalf of the
Metropolitan Elevated Company for leave
to discontinue In payments of costs the pro
ceedings, which were begun about two
years ago to acquire title to a portion of the
Jumel estate, for the purpose of extending
the road.
At a place six miles from Lagrange, Wis.,
Eli Gharkey, his wife, and a young man
named Hansford Allison, were returning in
a wagon from Qaincy, a few days ago,
when a severe storm of wind and hall was
encountered. A large tree on the roadside
suddenly fell upon the wagon, crushing it
and Instantly killing Mrs. Gharkey and Alii
son, and severely, if not fatally, Injuring
Mr. Gharkey. Mrs. Gharkey leaves four
small children. Mr. Gharkev’s father was
killed by the falling of a tree a few years
ago.
The DlaUnKUiahtoK Chirm.
A delightful fragrance of freshly gathered
flowers and spices is the distinguishing
charm of Floreston Cologne.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
SOUTHERN METHODISTS.
Nolen on the Work of the Confer
ence at Nashville.
Nashville, Tenn., May 25.—The taking of
the chair by Bishop Wilson caused many to
say. “Now we’ll see how the new Bishops will
do 1” In this case the Presidency wss pecu
liarly felicitous, meeting the highest expecta
tion of the house. Upon taking his seat
Mr. Crawford, in behalf of an Alabama minis
ier. presented him with a handsome, heavy
gavel. It is made of woods from China, Brazil
and the United States. The Bishop replied in
terms brief and polite, and hoped no one
would experience the full measure of its
weight.
A STRAW.
The report of the Committee on Missions
being under consideration, the clause seeking
co-operation with other churches in tne con
duct of training schools was stricken out It
was evident that many were disinclined to any
proposition that seemed to inaugurate organic
union. That was certainly the mind cf the
Georgian who moved the amendment. When
the time comes to discuss a change of neme
the Empire State will be nea ly solid. The
suffix routh has no political significance For
thirty-eight years tee church has carried it on
her banners, and conquest and enlargement
have signalized every field of battle. The name
M. E Church South suggests a history of
which we are not ashamed, for which we
neither repent or apologize. Nor are we r. ady
to consign it to the tombs. If others glo-y in
“the new South.” so be it to them. “De yusti
bus non disputandum est."
MRS. PRESIDENT ,T. X. POLK.
It was our pleasure, in company with the
Conference, to visit this elect lady The
Bishops were presented by Bishop McTyiere:
each delegate by Dr. McFerrin. Though eighty
years of age, Mrs. Polk is well preserved. We
found her in a comfortable, not imposing
mansion, cheerful, entertaining, and, better
than all, a consecrated Christian woman. The
honored President, who died a member of
McKendree Methodist Churcn, sleeps not far
from the front entrance. Thirty-three years
have come and gone, but his library—book*
pens, papers-remains just as he left It.
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY.
A column would not contain ail the poin's of
interest suggested bv a visit to this *iburban
seat of learning. Eight years ago the spot
marking its present location was but a barren
field, void of beauty and loveliness; now the
grounds, comprising seventy acres, are well in
closed, fuitably improved with walks. wat-r,
gas lamps and a hundred varieties of shade
trees. The buildings are well related to each
other, made of the best material, marnifl■•ent
in style, in number ample, [and in ev. rv wav
adapted to the demands cf a ermt uni
versity. Not less than forty officers and
teachers are connected with the institution,
and about six hundred students are associated'
with the various departments. For this grand
gift to the church and country, we are indebted
to the princely munificence of Cornelius Van
derbilt, of New York. The gift is over a mil
lion.
ELECTIONS AGAIN.
The Wesleyan Advocate is once more com
mitted to the care of J. W. Burke, and will he
published in Macon at two dollars. Rv. W.
H. Potter. D. D., well known to Savannah, was
chosen editor. This is the business of the
North Georgia, Bouth Georgia and Florida dele
gations, having, in the order named,
fourteen, eight and four votes. As the right
of nomination—Dr. Hay good, a North Georgia
man, having served and retTed—seemed to be
long to South Geor- a or Florida, some of us
believed that one of these sections should
furnish the editor. But—figures unchanged—
this was and will be highly improbable. How
ever, S mth Georgia will conform to the exist
ing status and sustain the paper. It becomes
her to take steps towards securing an office of
her own. That was the plan adopted by South
Carolina four years ago. She set up
for herself. The sequel justifies the
wisdom of her course. The Nash
ville Advocate has a circulation of
seventeen thousand. Dr Fitzge -ald, the pres
ent editor, was elected viva voce. In the same
complimentary way Dr. Cunningham was
continued Sunday school Secretary. The vet
eran book agent, J. B. McFerrin, received one
hundred anu fifty votes—thirty scattered. The
race for Missionary Secretary was between Dr
Key, of Georgia, and Dr. Young, of Nashville
The Georgian was defeated by seven votes.
Had he given his consent to stand for the
p ace he could have been chosen by a large
majority.
An ex-Georgian, Dr. Wm. P. Harrison, was
chosen book editor. Dr. A. M. Shipp, of Van
derbilt, being his chief competitor. The report
of church extension being adopted. Louisville
was selected as headquarters, and David Mor
ton. of Kentucky, as Secretary.
With great pleasure I announce that Dr. J.
W. Hinton has been elected editor cf the
Quarterly Review. It originated with him.
He made it what it is, and returning justice
ngain calls him to preside over Its columns.
Success to the Review.
EDUCATION.
Report No. 4, as adopted. is a paper of some
interest. Among other things it calls atten
tion to that suicidal Protestant practice ef
sending our children to Catholic schools. The
writer. Dr. Harrison, says: “It erects a barrier
between parent and child, and a lifetime of
sorrow has been the consequence of an error
of judgment. The child of a Protestant will
be the subject of abundant courtesy and sin
gular kindness In a Romarist school. With
consummate skill the methods of proselytis-n
are concealed from parent and child. The end
will come and the heart that has been won in
the convent will bow ere long in the confes
sional. We speak the truth when we affirm
that Homan Catholic schools are in no particu
lar better than our own.” District schools are
commended, but gently exhorted not to as
sume college names, airs and prerogatives.
woman's missionary meeting.
This society, now in session, held a service
this evening. Mrs. Juliana Hayes, the Presi
dent, seemed quite at home. Rev. Mr. Ransom.
Missionary to Brazil, made an address Brrzil
has a higher civilization than one would expect.
According to the speaker, electric lights were
well known, if not widely used; their street
cars far superior to those of this city, and their
women as cultivated and pretty as those of
Nashville.
The last point admits of much debate, and
was rather risky on the part of the speaker.
He had the misfortune to bury his Sarah out of
his sight, and returning to this country that he
may recreate, promote the cause of the mis
'sionary and, in every possible way, advance
the interests of the church. The speech of
Rev. Mr. Sutherland, owing to the restlessness
ef the crowd, was short and soon ssid. Miss
W. Air my. of the M-xican Border Mission, de
livered, or rather recited, an address that
moved all hearts. Her unaffected modesty,
saintly face, select speech and scriptural
thought bespoke her a messenger of peace.
With all my Southern feelings, I must say she
has given us the most eloquent spiritual speech
of the entire session. Her singing “Pass Me Not,
O, Gentle Saviour,” in the Spanish tongue was
so far as I could judge, well rendered and
thrilling in its effects. The women of the
church are doing a great work. Their sphere
for Christ is larger than we have been wont to
allow. Criticism should be very sparing—co
operation as cordial as their mission is Christ
like—that adopted fo- them differs slightly
from the original. During the discussion a
brother. Bright, thought the peace of the sisters
demanded that we should control their elec
tions. After that “Bright episode,” as Bishop
McTyeire called it, we passed to.other business
bishop holskv.
The introduction of this distinguished pre
late of the Colored M. E Church of America
afforded some amusement to the audience.
His speech was very fine for a man of color.
By turns he was both witty and profound.
“The infidelity of Germany and France nevr
disturbed his congregations. Negro skeptics
were scarce. What they could not see through,
they comprehended by belief, songs and
shouts.”
At the close of a session the colored choir of
Fisk University, called the jubilee singers, gave
us a season of songs—“ Swing Low, Bweet
Chariot,” “Noah’s Ark is Moving Along” and
“Way Over Jordan”—stormed and captured
the large and cultivated audience. The sing
ing was natural Less of the artificial and
effected among Caucasians would be to the
praise of God and the perfection of songs.
grave discussions.
Among these I may class the one which re
sulted in inserting anew chapter in discipline
on the subject of temperance. The buying
and selling of ardent spirits is now placed on
the plane of improper words and tempers, and
liable to the same treatment. The chapter
marks an advance on the part of the church
The presiding eldership stood a fierce and
vigorous debate, but suffered no change.
Great effort was expended by way of chang
ing the Ritual, but it was to no purpose. Time
w ill bring the needful reform.
The longest debate, and the last, was on
changing the name. The measure was a com
promise. It proposes to strike off the suffix
South and substitute “in America.” Amended
it would read Methodist Episcopal Church in
America. This, however. Is to be sent to all
the annual conferences. Should they adoDt by a
two-thirds vote and the next General Confer
ence by a three-fourths vote it would become a
law. It has a long journey before it. May it
persih by the way. South Georgia voted solidly
against any change.
By a large vote the conference selected Rich
mond as the place for the next session.
CLOBINO SCENE.
At 6 p. m. Bishop Parker vacated the chair
and Bishop McTyeire proceeded to close after
the usual form. Great harmony prevailed,
the parting song and the able prayer by Dr.
McAnally put every oneiin a happy frame.
All hearts burned, and some mouths were
filled with praise. Amid these rejoicirgs
Bishop Pierce pronounced the benediction,
and the ninth session of the General Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church was
numbered with the past. J. B. M.
A Burglar Arrested In Blackshear
Blacksher, May 28.—Mac Griffin, colored,
was committed yesterday in three ca:es of
burglary. A few nights since he attempted to
enter Mr. A. N. Smith's store. Friday night
he entered Dr. H. G. Smith’s kitchen, ar.d on
yesterday entered several negro houses taking
various articles from each place. He had
quite a quantify of tools and keys with which
to prosecute his profession. He was sent to
the Savannah jail this morning in charge of
Sheriff E Z. Byrd.
R. H. Cameron, 23 Park Row, New York
city, publisher of Business Directory of
merchants In Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico, W.
1., says: “I, myself, have suffered a great
deal from rheumatic gout, and about six
months ago was induced by a friend to try
St. Jacobs Oil. I used two bottles, and
haven’t had a twinge since; previous to that
I have generally had an attack about once a
month.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
'Jhe Americus Pont Office—Lock*
aud (lie New Georgia Marthilihlp
—Congress and Public Health-la
{creating Pacta from the Cenaus.
Washington, May 23.—There is being made a
slurp cc u test as to who f hall suceed Postmaster
Bell at Americus. That Mr. Bell will have to yield
up the office from which he now deducing
emoluments is a fact as settled as the first colo
ny that came to this country after its discovery
by Columbus. Major Black wants the place,
end wants it bad. He may get it. But the man
who appears to have the inside track is named
Brimberry. He was a Deputy Collector under
Andrew Clarke. He has but recently moved
into Americus to entitle him to a candidacy for
the place. Frank Hatton, the unanimous As
sistant Postmaster General,favors Brimberry’a
aspirations. It is probable that Brimberry will
succeed.
A QUESTION OP’POWBR.
At the last annual meeting of the American
Public Healtu Association an officer of the
National Board of Health read a paper advo
cating the establishment, in this country, of a
system of registration and supervision over
tnose who constitute the “social evil,” similar
to the system in v, gue in certain European
countries. A numeroualy signed peti
tion protesting against any such authority
being given to the National Board of Healtu
was presented to Congress early this sesU-n
and referred to the Committee on Epidemic
Diseases That committee has just made the
following report;
“That Congress has no constitutional power,
either by its own direct enactment or through
any board or agency that it may cteate, to make
or enforce any such regulations in the States as
those protested against by the petitioners; no
po*er to enter uuon tne work of general local
sanitation; but Congress has ’power to regu
late commerce with foreign nations, and
among the several States,’ and the committee,
believing that it is the duty of Congress so to
regulate commerce as to prevent the importa
tion of contagious or infectious diseases into
the United States from foreign countries,
or into one State from another, and ail the
powers heretofore given, and all that the com
mittee proposes to give to the National Board
of Health are intended to accomplish this ob
ject, and this object only, and the powers here
tofore given, as well as those proposed to be
given, by the bill heretofore reported to the
Senate, are believed by the committee to tij
absolutely necessary to its accomplishment.
’ The committee therefore reports the peti
tions back to the Seu ite, with the assurance to
the petitioners that they need have no appre
hension of any action on the part of the Na
tional Board of Health upon the subject to
which they refer.”
A NEW PROVISION.
The bill making the annual appropriation for
fortifications and harbor defense has become
a law. It does but little more—appropriating
in the aggregate only s33o, ooo— than to keep
up the present inadequate coast defenses.
There Is, however, anew clause to the bill this
year. It is us follows:
“That the Secretary of War is hereby au
thorized, at his discretion, to issue, on the re
quisition of the Go rernor of a State bordering
on the sea or Gulf coast, and having a perma
nent camping ground for ihe encampment of
the militia not less than six days annually, two
heavy guns and four mortars, with carriages
and platforms, if such can be spared, for the
proper instruction and practice of the militia
in heavy artillery drill, and for this purpose a
suitable battery for these cannon will be con
structed ; and tor said construction and the
transportation of said cannon, and so forth,
the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby ap
propriated for supplying each state that may
so apply.”
MR. LOCKE’S CA>DIDiCY.
Mr. R. D. Locke continues to do work in his
own behalf, in that he may be made Marshal
of the new judicial district in Georgia. Mr.
Locke is a thorough worker when he starts for
a thing. It is true that he did not make the
Oolumbus p >st office, but he worked for it all
the same. He has not had anything like the
opposilion in hunting for the Marshalship that
he had while out gunning for the Columbus
post office. He therefore stands a better
chance. Locke told me the other day that it
President Arthur made the appointment be
fore he left for New York, he was certain to
get :t. If the President delayed the appoint
ment until he returned from New York, he
would, he thought, srand a very good chance
to be the selected, but it would not be a cer
tainty. President Arthur has gone to New
Yoi k without making an appointment to the
place.
INTERESTING FACTS FROM THE CENSUS.
The Census office has just issued a report
showing for the several States and Territories
of the United States the number of-persons:
the area in Fquare miles: the number of fami
lies; the number of dwellings; the number cf
persons, of families, and of dwellings, to the
square mile; the number of acres to a person
and to a family, and the number of personß to
adwel’ing and to a family, as shown at the
census of 1880.
The figures for Georgia and Florida are as
follows:
Florida. Georgia.
Persons 269.493 1,5|2.18!>
Areas, square miles 54, 40 58 980
Families 54.091 393.0 H!)
Dwellings 52,808 289.474
Persons to a square mile... 4 97 ib 15
Families to a square mile.. 1.01 s'h
Dwellings to a square mile. 0 97 4.9 t
Acres to a persou 128 81 24 48
Acres to a family 631.73 124.55
Persons to a dwelling 5.10 5 31
Persons to a family 4.93 5.09
Potomac.
DODGE COUNTY.
An Abortive Eflort to Carry Out the
Civil Right* Rill Building In
Eastman —'the Kasiinan High
School—A Political M nddie—lm
portant Industrie* lu Dodge
Couuty.
Eastman, Ga., May 27.—A burly negro fellow
attempted to revive the exercise of civil rights
on the up passenger train, between here and
Jesup, yesterday. He deliberately walked in,
deposited his bundles, and seated himself in
the first-class passenger coach set apart for the
whites. When the conductor came in to collect
fare he informed the negro that he was in the
wrong car, and referred him to his proper
place. Cuffy insolently replied that he had
as much right there as any other passen
ger, and he intended to remain where he
was. The conductor acknowledged his strict
legal right, but told him it might not be com
fortable for him to stay in that car, and In a
friendly wav advised him to go the coach spe
cially provid'd for colored passengers. The
negro, however, persisted in maintaining his
rights, and the conductor left him. In a little
while, however, his position became decidedly
unenviable. He reconsidered his determina
tion, and it was fun to see how that darkey
hurtled out and meekly retired to where he
belonged.
Col. L. A. Hall is about to commence the
erection of a large brick store on Railroad
avenue. This will make the fifth brick store
built on that avenue within the last few weeks.
Profe-sor Johnson closed the spring
term of the Eastman High School
last night, the exercises being held in the
academy hall. Ti,e scholars did themselves
great credit. The speech of Master Albert
Peacock deserves especial mention. This young
lad of fifteen summers, by his graceful and
splendid delivery, acquired for himself the
soubriquet of the “champion orator of the
wiregrass. ” He is, undoubtedly, a fine natural
orator.
There are now three candidates for legis
lative honors in this county: N. Rawlins, W.
B. Sapp and C. A. Walker. There may be oth
ers before election day. It is suggested that a
primary election be held, if the several candi
dates will agree to abide by the result of such
an election. As the matter now stands,
with so many white candidates in
the field, there is a fine chance for a negro
Representative to be elected. The negro vote
in this county is very sirorg. and they are
daily becoming more and more jealous of their
rights. The county has some shrewd, intelli
gent and influential colored men, and should
they put forth a candidate of their own race
he will carry the unanimous vote of the ne
groes. In view of this fact it is thought best to
have a nomination, or primary election, and
select one good white man to make the race.
It is to be hoped that none of those who have
already announced themselves as candidates
will object to this course.
There are in Dodge county eighteen saw
mills, thirteen turpentine distilleries, and one
shingle mill. At a low estimate these employ
six hundred hands. In a future letter I will
give some interesting figures in regard to these
important industries. J. 8., Jr.
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