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A" 1 * J. H. EVIILL,
Savannah, Qa.
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Georgia Affair*.
e t , receipts of cotton at Forsyth for the
r , > oh closed August 81, 1882, was 11.721
falling off from the year previoui of
vr l miel McCook, one of Irwin county’s
- •as was killed by lightning on Satur
,ja evening last. He leaves a wife and two
y t,„oy had received up to Saturday over
, - bund real '.ales of the new cotton crop, and
acticipates forty thousand bales this winter.
iie up bound freight train on the Brunswick
B , . Albany Kail road jumped the track at the
, ■ r hundred and fifty -fourth mile post, twenty
nr miles from Albany, Monday evening. Five
•s/ and the cab were ditched, leaving the lo
pj C tive on the track. Mr. Loach, train hand,
ta.i his leg and shoulder severely hurt, John
Mullet, colored train hand, received an ugly
w and in the head, and Captain Buckaloo. eon
jimior, received a severe injury on his right
arm.
The Albany AVtcs and Advertiser gives the
f k ,\ving account of the chase and capture of
B.H Taylor, a cow thief who has been operat
ing in Lee county: The negro had stolen p cow
from Mr, G. M. Bynes' place in Lee county,
anl Mr. Easton Smith was deputized by the
Sheriff to arrest the thieves. They overtook
Tayior, who was traveling in a wagon. Seeing
his pursuers. Bill leaped from the wagon and
t, ..k to the woods Mr. Easton Smith jumped
from his buggy aud pursued, while his com
rade drove around the woods to intercept
tii-thief. The latter confronted the negro, who
and, -,v his pistol and comment‘ad tiring at the
young man, but fortunately without effect. Mr.
Easton Smith, coming up at this juncture,
opened fire on the negro, one shot entering his
right breast and felling him to the ground.
Taylor is now lying at his home in a very pre
carious condition.
There is a dearth of meal in Americas A
gentleman visited eight stores to purchase this
commodity and failed in getting any, tor could
he find it in the city.
Home Female College opened on Monday last
under bright auspices, there being seventy pu
pils in attendance.
T he Home Cotton Seed Oil Factory has been
completed, and the machinery will be started
to day. Work will not commence regularly for
& few weeks, as the small quantity of . eed on
hand will not be sufficient to keep the mill run
ning, and a further supply cannot be obtained
until the new crop comes iu more freely.
It is said that in Gilmer county a good deal
of illicit distilling is carried on in common wash
pots.
Griffin received its first bale of ne cotton on
Monday. It was brought in front P.ke county
aud was sold at 160. per pound.
The passenger on the incoming train of • e
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad
who jumped from the train while :n mot inn at
a point six miles from Atlanta in .Sitrrdaj
night last and was killed proves to be Wi in
f’rc.ur, or Haralson county, Ga The jt -of
inquest, iu their verdict, sa? that the ro°
its employes were not responsible for tb
dent.
The Mitchell House at Thomasvi le is
going complete renovation in anticipa
the winter season. Beautiful new velvt . ar
pets now adorn the parlor floors, si .and
lacibrejuins over the windows, with la> < r'
tains and handsome furniture make it of
the cleanest and moat attractive houses the
South.
The Democratic mass meeting and in
Thumasville on Thursday last was one f the
largest ever held in Thomas couuty, and was
perfectly harmonious on the subject f Hen
A. H. Stephens for Governor aud H. ft. Turn*-;-
for Congress from that Congressiina district
The Democrats of Thomas county lhcre tc.
the rotation system.
A oijtting fray occurred in Thom sv ie on
last Friday night, in which a neg - ned
Bright Herring received four j. •. u
wounds at the hands of another net o t.arnec
George Casey. George was arrested .-.id lodge-!
in jail to await tlje result of the ii i tries in
meted.
The candidates for the Legislatur i repre
sent Tliomas county will be nom rated by
primary elections to be held on Sati % the
sth instant.
The Thomasville artesian well has *et-' u
depth of 410 feet, and the work is t r -res-r g
slowly but satisfactorily.
The Athens Foundry and Machii irks
to lie enlarged to double its preset .city,
and the contract for the work has on ,iven
out.
The train on the Athens extt . com
menced running as far as the ir xt I >eec
laid. It is employed in hauling -.re es and
trestling. The cars will be acros T e or In
a short time, es the grading to tha point is
completed.
New fodder is abundant at Cart • one
dollar per hundred.
The Houston county Democrats met at Carry
on Tuesday aud nominated T. M. Gr.iy i; IW.
M. Gordon a3 the candidates fo ■ theLt xla
ture.
Hon. H. G. Turner has been nii; i* dy
and ominated by acclamation by t atic
i ’ongrcssional Convention, which al bany
on Tuesday last.
A cavalry company is bein-- ;,- -n ..ed in
Macon. Forty-five gentlemen>' rued the
roll, and ameeting to p* rfeet t rg.uiiaat o
will be held this week.
The fertilizer and provisi- n i gei, t'w
money for which cotton is no * - J, whs b
accounts for its scarcity jus < 'nafew
days this pressure will be rern mo: lt .y
become more plentilul.
Macon lias another inventi* >- • ear
piercer, and is the invention ph -
Wells, Jr., at the jewelry ho c; O" -.rk* • h
Bolomou. This little contriv •■me* is anjapted l
the piercing of ladies'and children s ears for
earrings. It is so constructed that .here Is no
pain, and yet the ri f **..• o mc.ure
Mayor Corput, of ?,f
a candidate for re a to the ila • -- ,f
Macon.
Ex-colored Ca Vhltsjcer I ir id in
Trinity Colored oi *t Churc, gusla
last night.
Tuesday was voty Uy j„ , , c hmond
county and in A a. From e- morning
Gd dewy eveni e ‘ r ends of various
l andl lates for' f 'vciatic wtion for
the Legislature e ..-aive, -ir efforts
resulted in th- . dl; U|f ot >v - -ge vote,
rhere were n twenty e in the
county who ▼ ted, so fa. a r rom, and
the election was r. markabb and free.
Mr. C. A. Rod *. Ma)orV •, and Mr.
Martin V. Calv j are <jec' 'emocratiC
at and , r e gent i will faith"
roll- -reaem the i: f Richmond
NOO ‘ tEe Leg'.-
r ee of pavertu • >•. being laid in
iptembe
Game'll, sautt is a propo
sition on • XJ j,, eOioned po’.iti-
bar*-~.cue r - • . which all the
candidat- *r t Fhis is a good
m ? T ?' ft aw> are it. Let’s have a
WOKM.
% a ut S o clock, the
{ ruck if lightning,
-v f iin the fire
Then a , c e town gathered,
whldi lt need with ihe fire,
wasco ~ A" 0 ‘ hour, wbqi the fire
was n.-ei J ’n ’ end of thegcademy
bi?£it Qt , u - anJ tl* cupola
t* 1 ." ’>Ti " ** 'people *rt talking
to mllsch i V, * froji.Athens
nee?£v-v t , ,one then it will be
, b iKI ' I* 4 from Maitoonto
£at< ,i .1. jt ri from Athens tc Madf
£S then 21milA"nm
7T e, making the diuance
to * ec. . ,-on .*,-)! 70 miles. As it is sow
M, ; -M , Ci .rOHSM UjJgertUetoAuSmby
IB , r.si Lrj, e. xJS ,• 120 miles \ r
■' • ‘>vili. uva is: ’Thereis a fainilOof
J - lirin * tbe Pine Log district of ius
Savannah morning news
J, H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
county that In likely to soon become possessed
tf a rich patrimony. Mr Joseph L. Dysart is
the head of this family and prospective lera
tee. The fortune is at present in Ireland, but
may scon be in Bartow county. It amounts to
several millions, and belongs to the Dysart
family, the branch of which, it seems, has run
out in the old country. There is strong proba
bilities that Mr. Dysart is entitled to the estate,
and we hope lie w ill get it.”
The Middie Georgia Military and Agricultural
('ol ege ili be open on the Pith instant. The
Board of Tru. .ees have adopted the following
resolution: Resolved. That the matriculation
fee of every one seeking admission as a pupil
io this college, and who has not been previous
ly exempted from the pay men* of the same,
► hall be paid in advance to the Secretary of the
Faculty. The fee is 810 in ihe college classes $4
in the preparatory classes and $1 in the primary
for the scholastic year. The fee in the college
and preparatory classes is divided into two
payments, the first half in September and the
second half in January Pupils unable to pay
may be exempted by the trustees.
A Jasper correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution writes to that paper as follows: “A
man by the name of Nick Wilson, was convict
ed at Marietta of a crime for which he was sen
tenced to the penitentiary for five years and
he was assigned to the Marietta and North
Georgia Railroad. He had a wife and five
children. His wife from girlhood had the
reputation of being a very devout Christian.
Her mortification and crief when her husband
was sent to the penitentiary was intense, but,
woman like, she clung to her husband, ana
visited him about once every month, always
urging him to conform to the rules and regu
lations, and to reform. Some nine months ago
Wilson took advantage of a guard and made
his escape. He left the country and went to
Kentucky. His whereabouts were unknown
except to his wife. She finally prevailed upon
him to returu, surrender himself and serve out
his sentence. Last Tuesday morning Mr. Wil
son notified General Phillips that she wanted
to meet him with her husband, and that was
the first intimation General Phillips had re
ceived of Wilson’s being in the State, or of his
whereabouts. She brought him into Marietta
■ n the public square in oj>en daylight, and told
General Phillips that she had prevailed upon
her husband to return; that she knew that the
convicts were wed treated on the Marietta and
North Georgia Railroad, and, while she c uld
have gone off to her husband and have been
with him all the time, she knew that life
would be no satisfaction all the time
hiding and skulking around trying to
evade the penalty of the law, and she said
she knew that she could not rear her chil
dren In that respectabilitv she so much desir
ed, when they were all the time being pulled
and hauled around from post to pillar with the
consciousness of their father’s being an es
caped convict, and therefore she desired him
to go back to the penitentiary and serve out
his sentence and then teturn home and live a
diff-rent life, and help her to raise up the
little ones that she had labored so hard to sup
por. all the time of his absence. Mrs, Wilson,
ail the time of her husband's absence has sup
ported her family wijh her needle, and has
carried her children to Hatbath school every
Sunday. Mr. Wilson is now at work on the
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad, without
stripes or shackles. '
Florida Affairs.
The Pensacola and Atlanta Railroad will
soon be completed from Pensacola to Chatta
hoochee When thus completed it will entitle
the company to the odd sections of United
States lands for six miles on each side of the
road.
Only eight miles remain to be graded on the
Jacksonville and St. Augustine Railroad.
The Waldo and Saute Fe Lake steamboat
canal, is nearing completion. The Gainesville
Advocate says it will play no small part in
bringing the lake regioa into notice and ad
ding ten fold to its present energetic and pros
perous population.
All the prisoners escaped the jail at Quincy
a few days since.
Mr. R. V. Dahoney, of Baltimore, assumed
charge of the railroad shops at Fernandina on
Friday last.
The following postal notes and changes have
taken place in Florida: W. V. Futrell has
leeu commissioned Postmaster at Yellow
Bluff, A. Crowell at Mohner, and Frederick C.
Humphries at Pensacola. A post office has
been established at EJeu, Brevard county, and
one at Winuiemmsett, Volusia county. Ben
jamin lVachamp has been commissioned Post
master at lola and Thomas C. Richards at
Eden. A oost office has been established at
y. * county, with Abraham
ster. James E. Blackburn
-oiOned Postmaster at Cerro
lE. Robinson Postmistres- at
ne Coroner s jury and inquest on the shoot
•£ -ini’ ing of Savage and James seems
tot: trjvgt ferret out the guilty parties.
T.-i-ee of tfci ’itnesses reside seventy-eight
mi-e- from lison. and subpoenas have been
issued for -ai w T ho reside in Jacksonville.
The main f the witnesses are colored.
A you. Iby the name of Altman was
caught iu ae main belt of Baskins &
Acosts in at Sugarville, on the Pensacola
Raipoad, n miles from Ocala, on the 29th
ui . and verely injured that he died a few
hours af . trds.
The c- of St. Teresa, taken last week,
gives t) torite resort a population of 210,-
188 wb ► d27 colored.
Rev Downian, who wiil shortly assume
his and. t Emory College, Ga., is now on his
List is Presiding Elder of the Tallahas
see •*; r v .
Ca. Mosely has been appointed an offl
•>r oi City Board of Health of Tallahassee
to ce it the instructions of the board in
reft o quarantine regulations, etc. He,
wit; sse and accompanied by Dr. A. L.
R 1 who has been appointed post physi-
Marks, has gone to that place for
ide. of co-operating with the authori
akulla county in enforcing a rigid
. uarv .• • lat that port.
Neti; )ur*hundred shares have been taken
. th v organization known as the Jack
mv: 'emperance Coffee House Association.
Atnoi he shareholders are some of the best
_itizei of Jacksonville. One hundred more
• ire ill secure the successor the organ iza
ion.
An dinance ill be introduced at the next
: of the City Council of Jacksonville,
rith 1 view of remodeling the entire system
of the dre department.
Nic- vessels were at the Pensacola quaran
tine : ition Friday last.
'Alatka will vote on the *ith of October on the
question of the issuance of $6,000 of city bonds
for the purchase of a steam fire engine.
Leesburg has ejected for its Mayor Mr. N. C.
Bte\ -ns, and for Aldermen Messrs. F. C.
Childs, J. G. Ram bo, 8. C. Bradford, J. F.
McCI sndon and Martin Rackett.
The following civil appointments have been
made byfche Governor and duly commissioned
the past dieek: John A. Hunter, to be Notary
. r.uc in and for the county of Fumter; G. H.
übne- io be County Burvevor in and for the
un./ of Manatee; M. 8. Thimon, to be No
u vlr' jc in and for the county of Monroe;
v\ , iu Sims, to be County Surveyor in and
;o'tbsi unty of Alachua: John Raymond, to
So- ary Public in and for Hernando county;
V- A: ?age, to be Justice of the Peace in and
for the county of Putnam.
Jacksonville has quarantined against Pensa
ia, as will be seen by the following proela
tion by Mayor Hurter: “The Board of Health
of the city of Jacksonville and Duval county
having declared the city of Pensacola, Florida,
an infected port by reason of yellow fever ex
isting at that place, this proclamation Is here
issued, quarantining against said port. No
rson or persons will be allowed to enter the
y of Jacksonville or county of Duval coming
am said port, under pain of arrest and reten
mat quarantine grounds. No railroad enter
g Duval coußty will be allowed to bring any
eight from said city, or any that has passed
trough the city of Pensacola ”
An Orange City correspondent of the Jack
sonville Timex, under date of September 3,
writes that “Samuel B. Hunter and Frank Las
inger have been arrested on the charge of
laviDg participated in the murder of the Neffs.
They have been suspected since a short time
after the murder, and have been watched by a
detective, but the arrest was premature, so the
detective says They had been up at Sanford
cutting cabbages for the palmetto brush fac
tory, and learning that they were watched,
they came down the river, but upon landing
they were unwisely arrested by a Justice of the
Peace Contrary statements made by them,
and circumstantial evidence, will lead to their
being bound over to appear at the next term of
court, but up to the present the evidence
would not be s-ufflcient to convict. The pre
liminary examination was adjourned on last
Saturday until next Wednesday. The State’s
Attorney, Mr. St. Clair-Abrams, has been sent
for. and is expected to be present to conduct
the examination.”
Tallahassee Floridian: The following letter
contajms inform unm of general interest to
to Floridians. v. e cheerfully give it a place in
our columns; _ T , ,
Washington Heights, near Chicago, 111 , I
August 35, l(s. I
Hon. C. Drew State Immigration Agent, Jack *
eonviUe, Florida: ~.
I am interested in your State and its
as I intend to settle there after a ittle.
We have in our vicini y a great many Dutch
gardeners. 1 think 1 could induce someot
them to think favorable of moving to your
State, as many of tiiem are selling out ana
going where they can get land cheaper, me
land is now w rth from one to three thousand
dollars an acre, and of coarse taxes
are too hieh to raise garden stuff on it.
It has long been a favorite idea with me to
get a few Hollanders to emigrate to Florida
and engage in winter gardening. You know
there are none so skillful gardeners as they,
at least around here (Chicago). They seem to
understand just whit any soil; will do, and what
to do with it to make it the most productive.
These, after seeing what they could do and the
prices they could get for their stuff, would re
port to their countrymen here and so divert
some of the thousands who are going to the
Northwest into Florida. They enrich any
country in which they settle by their industry
and saving habits.
“If you think it worth while I would like you
to tend me some documents in regard to set-
Itling in Florida to aid me in carrying out my
idea. Very truly yours,
Frans Sherman, M. D.' ’
THE STAR ROUTE TRIALS.
COL. INOEKSOLLS ARGUMENT
CONCLUDED.
Walah’fl Evidence Disserted-A flov-
In* Plea for fflercj—The Attorney
General Cloelu* tbe Case.
Washington, September 6. —C01. Inger
soil returned his argument in the star route
trial to-day, and alter some desultory dis
cussion with the court, he addressed him
self to an examination of Walsh’s testimo
ny, though he thought that it had been
ground to powder already. He said that
everything in the world was true In propor
tion—that It agreed with human experience.
Take a spar crystal from the far North
and another, from the far Bouth
put them together and they would fit
together exactly. So it was with facts.
Every fact would fit every other fact, but a
lie would not fit anything but another lie.
Finally, there would come a place where a
lie had to join some truth, and then came a
jumble. Now for the Improbabilities in
Walsh’s testimony.
First. Bankers and brokers did not loan
money without taking notes.
Becond. They did not take notes which
bore no interest. People always found it to
their Interest to mention interest.
Third. Bankers and brokers did not take
notes payable on demand.
Fourth. It was hardly probable that when
a banker held a man’s non-interest bearing
note for #12.000 he would lend the same
man #13,500 also without iuterest.
Fifth. It was improbable that he would
loan the same person #5,400 more without
taking any note, unless he did It through
force of habit.
Sixth. When a banker called and pre
sented notes for settlement, and his debtor
took the notes and put them in his pocket,
It was highly improbable that the banker
would submit to such treatment.
Seventh. If Brady took the notes by force
it was improbable that he would put him
self in the power of the man he hail robbed,
and would say to him, “Of course you are
my enemy, and I now put it in your power
to be revenged. I am a bribe taker and a
thief.” Bolling the story down. It amounted
to this: A rich man borrowed without ne
cessity and a poor broker loaned without
security. The Improbability of this story
would breed suspicion and incredulity itself.
No man believed it—no man ever would be
lieve it—and It was for the jury to say
whether it was t rue or not.
Col. Ingersoll then went on to argue that,
assuming Walsh’s testimony to be true, it
affected none of the defendants excepting
Brady, and only went to show that he had
received bribes—not that he was con
cerned ia a conspiracy. The same line of
argument would apply to Rerdell’s confes
sion. It bound nobody but himself, and
was not a confession of his complicity iu a
conspiracy. He did not confess that he was
guilty of a single overt act. Col. Ingersoll
then took up and replied to tbe arguments of
the prosocution based on the subject of ex
travagance in the star route service. The
next argument used by the prosecution was
the productiveness. But that had been so
perfectly answered that he would allude to
it only for the purpose of Inquiring of the
attorneys for the government how they
would like to have their fees settled on
that basis of productiveness (laughter).
The jury had been told that Havas hard to
prove a conspiracy case, and that they must
be economical enough to put up with Utile,
no matter how hard it was to
be proved. It must be proved
because it was much harder, or should be
much harder, to convince a man without
testimony. He laid down the proposition
that the hypothesis of guilt must follow
naturally from the facts proved, and to be
consistent, cot with some of the facts, not
with the majority of them, but with
every fact. The evidence must be
such -as to exclude every reason
able hypothesis except that
of the guilt of the defendants. The prose
cution, fie said, had endeavored to terror
ize tbe jury by direct aud Indirect threats
through the newspapers and through ap
peals to public opinion, and upon this point
he dwelt at some length. Then reaching
his peroration, he 6aid:
“Find a Verdict according to the evidence,
no matter whom It hits, no matter whom it
destroys, no matter whom it kills. All you
have read, all the papers have printed
must fiod no lodgment In your brain.
Regard them no more than tbe noises
animals make in the street. You must
stand by the testimony and by the law,
which the court gives you. That is all we
ask. These articles in the papers are not
printed in the hope that .justice wculd be
done. They were printed in the hope that
slander might be justified by your
verdict. In this case you are absolutely
supreme. You have nothing to do with
the supposed desire of any man, or the sup
posed desire of any department (turning
and addressing his remarks to the Attorney
General), or the supposed desire of any gov
ernment official, or the supposed desire of
any President, or the supposed desire of
the public. You have nothing to do with
these things. You have to do only with the
evidence. Here all power is powerless
except vour own. When asked to please
the public you should think of the
lives you are asked to wreck,
of the homes your verdict would darken,
of the hearths it would desolate, of the
cheeks It would wet with dew, of the char
acter it would destroy, of the wife it would
worse than widow, of the children It would
worse than orphan. When asked to please
the public, think of those consequences.
When asked to act from fear, hatred, mal
ice, or cowardice, think of those conse
quences. Whoever does right
clothes himself in a suit of armor
which the arrows of prejudice could not
penetrate, but whoever does wrong is re
sponsible for all the consequences, to the
last sigh, to the last tear. You are told by
Mr. Merrick that you should have no sym
pathy, that you should be like Icicles, tnat
you should be Godlike. That is not my
doctrine. The higher you get in the scale
of Being, the grander, nobler, tenderer you
will become. Kindness Is always evidence
of greatness. Malice is the property of the
small soul, and whoever allows the feeling of
brotherhood to die in his heart becomes a
wild beast. Not a King’s crown nor the
Deputy’s sword, the Marshal’s truncheon
nor the Judge’s robe became them with one
half so good a grace as mercy does. And
yet the only mercy we ask is mercy of an
honest verdict. I appeal to you for my
clients because the evidence shows that they
are honest men. I appeal to you for my
client, Stephen W. Dorsey, because the evi
dence shows that he is a man with an intel
lectual horizon and a mental sky, a man of
genius, generous and honest.
“Yet, this prosecution, this government,
these attorneys, representing the majesty of
the republic, representing the only i eal re
public that ever existed, have asked you
not only to violate tbe law of the
land, but also the law of nature.
Thev have maligned nature. They have
laughed at mercy. They have trampled on
the holiest human ties, and have even msde
light of it because a wife in this trial has
sat by her husband’s side. There
is a painting in the Louvre, a paint
ing of tbe desolation of despair
and love. It. represents “The Night of the
Crucifixion.” The world is wrapped in
shadows. The stars are dead, and yet, in
the darkness 16 seen a kneeling form. It Is
Mary Magdalene, with loving lips|and hands
pressed against the bleeding feet of Christ.
The skies were never dark enough nor
starlets enough, the storm was never fierce
enough nor wild enough, the quick bolts of
heaven were never lurid enough, and the
arrows of slander never flew thick enough
to drive that noble woman from her hus
band’s side. [Applause.] And so It is in
all of human speech. Tfie holiest word is
‘woman.’ ”
[While Colonel Ingersoll was delivering
this speech several ladies burst into tears,
and Mrs. Dorsey kept her handkerchief to
her eyes for some minutes.]
“Now, gentlemen, I have examined this
testimony. I have examined every charge
io the indictment and every charge
made outside of the indictment. I
have shown you that the indictment
Is one thing and the evidence another.
“I have shown you that not a single
charge is submitted against 8. W. JJorsey.
I have substantiated that not one charge
has been established against J. W. Dorsey.
Not one. I have shown you that there is
no foundation for a verdict of guilty
against any one par lcular defendant in this
case. I have spoken now, gentlemeu, the last
words that will be spoken in public
for my clients, the last words that will be
spoken la public for any of these defend
ants, the last words that will be heard In
their favor until I hear from the lips of this
foreman the two eloquent words—‘not
guilty.’ And now thanking the court for
He many acts of personal kindness, aad you,
gentlemen of the jury, for your almost in
finite patience, I now leave my clients, with
all they have, with all they love, with all
that love them, In your hands. [Applause ]
At this point a recess was taken to one
o’clock.
During the Intermission the court room
presented an animated scene, suggestive of
Gulteau’s trial, many of the lady spectators
producing lunches, and eating them without
leaving their seats. Some time before the
reopening of court the Attorney General en-
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1882.
tered, followed by a messenger carrying a
large mass of notes and half a dozn law
books.
When the court was called to order the
Attorney General began his address with a
eta ement as to his connection with tbe case.
It was now one year eince he had received a
telegram from Attorney General MaeVeagh
to take charge of the case, and to consult
with Mr. B'iss in regard to its man
agement. After consideration he had
consented to do so on condition that
he discovered that it was a case
which ought to be investigated. He had
come to Washington, and instituted suit bv
filing an information. Out of that informa
tion the odious thing known as the star
route case had developed, anil upon that in
vestigation before Judge Cox he had come
to the conclusion that it was a case which
ought to be Investigated, and he con
sidered that it was a du y the accused
owed to themseives to demand an inves
tigation, one of them having been a Sena
tor of the United States, and another hav
ing been a Second Assistant Postmaster
General. It seemed to him that as a point
of honor they should demand an Investiga
tion. When the Information was brought
in the prosecution was told In tones that
sounded like trumpets, that all the de
fenders wanted was a fair examination
according to law. “Give us an opportunity,”
they said, “to go before the grand jury and
a traverse jury. Let us be fairly heard and
we will come here and triumphantly vindi
cate ourselves.” He respected the men
who had manhood enough to aland up and
talk that way. They did go before the
grand jury, and the grand jury found an in
dictment, and now they were before the
traverse jury. Had they 6hown a zeal
to tell the whole truth and nothing
but the truth? Here was an indictment,
than which no better was ever drawn. He
had selected Mr. Ker to draw it because he
was determined tnat the best man he knew
of should be the mau to prepare
that paper for the sake of defendants as
well as of the government. How had
they met from the hour that
Indictment was drawn down to the last in
stant of Mr. Ingersoll’s speech. There had
been nothing butcafp'ng andbypercritielsm
on that indictment. They attempted to get
the jury to acquit them on technical points.
Those were tfie men who came into court
boasting that all they wanted was an oppor
tunity to vindicate themselves before the
world.
He wished to explain why he was here.
He was here to see fair play. He was here
on behalf of the government,that wished no
man’s conviction be were clearly
guilty, to say that If these men were Inno
cent they must be acquitted, to say that the
government would not have the law
strained In the slightest degree to secure
a conviction. The jury had been
told in peremptory and almost
offensive tones that his presence here was
an intrusion. He had heard a day or two
since that it was beneath the dignity of his
high office to appear before an Inferior
criminal tribunal, and that no such thing
had ever been heard of in the history of this
Republic. This was not an inferior crimi
nal tribune. It was a tribunal of great
dignity. Before this case wfas
called this room had been filled with
crowds upon crowds of people to hear the
trial of the assassin of the President of the
United States. That tribunal called an in
ferior tribunal that tried a man for assassi
nating the President of the Republic 1
That affront that was put. upon the dignity
of this tribunal was In keeping with the
whole conduct of the defense. From the
beginning the case had been festering with
lies against everybody who stood up here to
cry out merely for the execution of tbe
law. It had been said that no
such thing had ever been heard of as an
Attorney General appearing in such a case,
aud that he was the subordinate of the Dis
trict Attorney- It was no derogation of his
Office to say he was a subordinate of any
officer who aided In the administration of
public justice. From the hour when forty
five years ago h<- had become a member of
the profession he had felt himself bound as
a point of honor to appear wherever justice
was administered if his services were re
quired,and noMagistrate’s office was 60 hum
ble that he would feel himself degraded in
entering if the necessities of his clients’
case required his presence. Wherever jus
tice was administered the place was sacred.
Counsel who bad claimed that the ap
pearance of the Attorney General in a
criminal suit was without precedent could
not have read their books. With only short
notice he had discovered numerous prece
dents. The defense should have trust-
ed to the books more than to
declaration, drawing the verbosity of
this discourse finer than the staple
of their argument. In “Wharton’s Btate
Trials,” there Is recorded a case against
an Illegal privateer, tried In the Circuit
Court of Pennsylvania, and there Mr. Ran
dolph, the first Attorney General of the
United States, appeared and conducted the
case. In the same book was recorded the
fact of Attorney General Bradford
appearing for the government,
and also the fact of Attorney General Lee
appearing in a criminal suit. In a pre
liminary hearing before Chief Justice Mar
shall sitting as a committing magistrate,
when Aaron Burr was charged with treason,
Attorney General Caesar Rodney appeared
and urged his commitment. Now (sarcas
tically) that was never heard of in
the history of this republic. It was pretty
much like everything else that had beeu told
the jury. The same was true of England.
There were sixty-seven instances of great
men like Lord Coke, Lord Bacon, Lord El
don, Lord Longborough and Lord Ellenbor
ough appearing in and arguing cases for the
Crown. Yet it was said it was beneath his
dignity and the dignity of his high office to
come into this inferior court. “If my
place is anywhere,” he continued, [em
pnasizlng his words with strokes of
his hand on the table before him]
“in the performance of the functions
and duties of the high office bestowed on
me, lt will be here as it is here. Now, now,
now, my place Is here. Why ? Because I
want to see justice done, and as far as 1 am
concerned I am determined to see it done,
or else surrender mv office.”
Continuing, the Attorney General said he
had arranged and methodized the conduct
of this case from th e beginning. The
gentlemen In lt, with the exception of Mr.
Bltse, he had Invited. He had de
termined that this case should have an ele
ment of that vulgar thing called politics in
It. He had been determined that every
side of public sentiment, Demoratlc and
Republican should be here, that the
prosecution should be pro bono publico.
After paying high compliments to
the government’s counsel engaged
in the case and stating that the defendants,
lawyers were mistaken In charging that he
was not familiar with the case, he ad
dressed himself to the merits of it. He ex
pressed his supreme regret to see Turner
sitting at the defense table and assisting
the other defendant,after having done what
he had. He might not have a guilty knowl
edge of the conspiracy. He might not have
obtained any gam or profit except the pos
session of his office. After he (the Attorney
General) saw what he saw here, saw the
eagerness with which Turner associated
with those people, how he sat at their el
bow consulting and advising them—after
he saw that he almost repented that Mer
rick had said what he had. He felt ss Mer
rick did, that lt would do Turner good to
hear the grating of the pen
itentiary doors a little nearer,
but be now thought Mr. Merrick’s hopes
far his repentence were rather premature.
It was a scandalous thing. A man came
here Indicted and evidently guilty of some
kind of malfeasance in the discharge ot his
duties, and It was scandalous to have such a
man, who had eujoyed the clemency of
the government, dare to sit here,
as Turner now sat, aiding and
assisting the other defendants. Bu i- was
in keeping with the whole defti.se. He
knew no shame. He had no regrets.
The Attorney General wound up his day’s
address with a legal argument to the court
as to the quality of the evidence, which is
required to prove conspiracy, and dwelt
briefly upon the difficulty of proving it by
positive and direct testimony. He stated
that he would close his address to-morrow
forenoon.
Congressional Nominations.
Washington, September 6. —The Demo
crats of the Eighth Virginia district to-day
renominated John S. B irbour. The Repub
licans of the Seventh Congressional ills'rict
of Illinois have nomit ated Thomas J. Hen
derson. The Green backers of tbe Fourteenth
Congressional district of Illinois have nomi
nated A. C. Stevensor. The Democrats will
also nominato on the 12th Inst. The Demo
crats of the Fifteenth Congressional dlsirlct'
of Illinois have nominated A. J. Hunter,
The Greenbackers and Democrats fus.d In
the Fifth Congressional district of Michigan
and nominated Julius Houseman, a Demo
crat and a banker.
Two Murders near Ensimau.
Macon, September 6.— At Dubois, nine
miles from Eastman, Adolphus Pitts had a
dispute with Alexander Phinney last night,
and the latter being struck by Pitts stabbed
his antagonist fatally. Finney then started
to run but was shot (lead by someone un
known In the dark.
Tbe Dublin Police.
Dublin, September 0. —All the dismissed
constables were summoned to the castle to
day Over two hundred of them attended.
They were separately Interrogated as to
whether they had been present at any meet
lng, and then informed that their cases
would be considered.
THE WAR IN THE EAST.
THE REBELS AGAIN DRIVEN
BACK.
The Sultan's Proclamation—lndem
nifying Alexandrines for Losses by
Plre aud Pillage.
Constantinople, September 6 —The pro
clamation of the Porte against Arabl de
clares that the maintenance of the authority
and prestige of the Khedive Is indispensably
necessary, and the designs of Arab! justify
his being described as a rebel. Dervisch
Pasha, Server Pasha and Baker Pasha and
Leble Effendi are to 6tart for Egypt on Sat
urday.
Said Pasha, Miuister of Foreign Affairs,
has sent a circular to the Ambassadors,
announcing that the Anglo-Turkish con
vention will be signed Immediately.
Alexandria, September 6.—Antono Pau
lo, a Greek, who was arrested on suspicion
of being connected with a plot against the
lives of Europeans, will be sent to Greece.
He is not a consular agent as was at firs
stated.
The Council of Ministers is now engaged
with the question of indemnifying the In
habitants for losses effistained try Incen
diarism or pillage. It is almost certain that
the Ministry will propose to the powers to
appoint any International commission to
settle these claims, the decision of the com
mission to be final.
Kassassin, September 6. The British
outposts were strongly reinforced to-day,
and drove the enemy back. Lieutenant
Holland, of the Fifteenth Hussars, was
wounded In the engagement.
Paris, September 6—The correspondence
of Le Temps at Ismallia telegraphs that with
several English correspondents ne has pro
tested against the additional censorship
of telegrams at Port Said after they have
passed that at headquarters. Gen. Wolse
ley has promised the removal of the griev
ance.
YELLOW FEVER.
Contidence Keturnln* at Peuaacola
-Hie Plague at Hrowimville and
Matamorai.
Pensacola, Fla., September One
case of yellow fever reported to-day and
another to-night, but they will not be offi
cially aunounced till to-morrow. There
were no deaths to day. Youug Frqnk Mc-
Connaughy has the black vomit,and will not
probably live through the night. Sev
eral suspicious cases are under obser
vation, and will be reported when the
character of the disease is more clearly de
fined. This is the ninth day of the fever
and only one case has beeu reported In
twenty-four hours. The slow progress the
fever is making has restored the confidence
even of the timid, who were at the begin
ning alarmed. Precautionary measures are
being incessantly taken to restrict the pro
cress of the disease. The President, of the
Board of Health, Dr. Hayes, declared this
afternoon that, in his opinion, in ten days
the yellow fever in Pensacola would be
merely a matter of history. Relief commit
tees have been organized.
New Orleans, September Tbe Pica
yune's Pensacola special says : “No new
cases of fever are reported to-day and but
one death—that of Frank McOonnaughy.”
Brownsville, Tex, September 6.— There
were forty-six new cases and two deaths,
Mexicans, during the past twenty-four
hours. The fever Is under the complete
control of physicians. Sanitary measures
are as perfect as they can be, and plenty of
contributions to supply the wants of the
sick and needy are flowing in from all parts
of Texas.
At Matamoras there are about one
hundred cases of fever all told, and there
were two deaths in the last twenty-four
hours. The weather is fair. There are two
new cases in Fort Brown.
INDIAN OUTBREAKS.
C lie ye m lien and A raps lines Unit their
Iteaervatlons—The Plega s Firing
Prairies.
New York, September 6.—A special dis
patch, dated Dodge City, Kansas, represents
that the Cheyennes and Arapahoe Indians
have broken out of their reservations aDd
are attacking the freighters, who have
taken to (light. It is also stated
that there is no military in the
neighborhood, and the cattle men are arm
ing. Advices previously received from Los
Aminlos, Colorado, dated September 4, re
ported that 400 Cheyennes, who had left
their reservation in Indian Territory without
permission, were peaceably encamped with
in fifty miles of that place, en route to their
old reservation in the North. A special dis
patch, dated Helena, Montana, says the
Plegan Indians have fired two prairies, and
the whole country is ablaze. Thousands of
cattle are perishlug.
GEORGIA REPUBLICANS.
All Difl'ereucen Healed.
Atlanta, September 6.— The State Cen
tral Committees of the two wings of the
Republican party met here to day and har
monized, altering the State ticket to the
following; C. D. Forsythe, for Congressman
at large; S. A. Darnell, for Attorney Gen
eral; W. A. Pledger, Secretary of State;
Floyd 8. Nelson, Comptroller General ;W. F.
Barnes, Treasurer. A. E. Buck was made
Chairman of the State Central Committee,
and W. A. Pledger Chairman of the Execu
tive Committee.
Tbe New York Slack market.
New York, September 6.— The stock
market at the opening was strong, and
showed an advance of %al% per cent, from
the closing quotations of yeelerday, the lat
ter for Minneapolis and St. Louis pre
ferred. In the early trade the market was
duil, and after some Irregularity prices de
clined per cent., Delaware, Lacka
wana and Western leading therein. After
this the tone became buoyant, and
an advance of per cent, was
recorded, in which St. Louis preferred,
Northern Pacific preferred, Louisville and
Nashville and Oregon and Transcontinental
were most conspicuous. At noon there was
a general fractional reaction, after which
the market became strong and recorded an
almost uninterrupted advance till near the
close, the advance ranging from to l Z}{
per cent., Minneapolis and Bt. Louis pre
ferred and common, Northern Pacific pre
ferred. Bt. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba
and Oregon Navigation being prominent in
the upward movement.. In the final dealings
there was a general decline of % to 1 per
cent., the latter for St. Paul. Minneapolis
and Manitoba, and the market closed weak,
showing, however, an advance on the day’s
transactions cf % to 3 per cent., Minneapo
lis and St. Louis preferred, Northern Pacific
preferred and St. Paul preferred being most
prominent. The principal feature of the
day was Northern Pacific preferred. Trans
actions aggregated 300,000 shares.
The Jews In Russsia.
Bt. Petersburg, September 6—The
recent speech of Gen. Drenheln, Governor
of Kieff, which accused the Jews of slan
der In asserting that the authorities con
nived at the anti-Semite disorders, and ad
vised them to give the country little of the
inordinate love they lavish on money, has
caused Jmuch sensation. Drenheln pointed
out that many of the Jews had been
obliged to return from America, and oth
ers were starving in Palestine, but that
they were better olf in Russia than any
where, if they only knew it.
The Pbl-Cbt Fraternity.
Atlanta, September 6.— The fifty-eighth
annual convention of the Phi-Chi fraternity
met here to-day with sixty delegates from
all Darts of the Union. The following
officers were elected: Henry W. Grady, of
Atlanta, Grand Alpha; H. Stockbrldge, of
Baltimore, Grand Gamma; L. M. Fine, of
Gaston, Pa., Grand Delta. The annual
banquet comes off to-morrow night.
A French Editor blobbed.
Paris, September 6 —A number of per
sons belonging to the so-called “League of
Patriots” last evening assaulted M. Mayer,
manager of the Lanterve. The affair is con
nected with the recent anti-German demon
stration by the League.
We assert without fear of contradiction
that Bailey's Saline Aperient is cheaper and
more pleasant than any pills ever made for
constipation, torpid liver or sick headache;
that it never produces the least unpleasant
feeling, and its action more prompt than
any pill made. It is a terrible enemy to the
plii iamity, driving them from every fireside.
It is so nice, pleasant, cleanly and prompt
in action, whether on steamboats, railroads,
hotels or at home, that all ladies are de
lighted.
STEPHEN J. MEANT.
Surrendering bit Ball.
Dublin, September 6.—Acting upon in
structions from the American government,
Stephen J. Meany, the American newspa
per correspondent, who was recently ar
rested at Ennis, has taken the most decis
ive course for the purpose of testing the
legality of his arrest. He has notified Mr.
Purcell, the resident Magistrate at Ennis,
that he surrenders hts recognisances to be
of good behavior and keep the peace, en
tered into on August 11.
In hts communication to Mr. Purcell Mr.
Meany says: “I no longer coneider
myself bound by the conditions and
obligations of the recognizances.
I cannot as an American citizen carry the
stigma of British bondsman, and unaccused
or unconvicted of offenses continue a con
fession of lawlessness that a continuance of
the bonds would Involve. I thus place my
self in the position I occupied at the police
barracks in Ennis prior to the execution of
my recognizance, but I shall for thirty-six
hours hold myself on parole for your
action.”
Mr. Meany’s sureties have likewise noti
fied Mr. Purcell, at the instance of Mr.
Meany, that they refuse to hold themselves
obligated by the bonds, and ask to be ab
solved from any further responsibility in his
regard. They state that at Mr. Meany’s re
quest, and by his consent, they are prepared
at any time within thirty-six hours to sur
render him into the polite custody. It is a
noteworthy fact that, while surrendering
himself to one Magistrate, Mr. Meany was
the guest of another, namely, Mr. Orgman,
Justice of the Peace of Bueraggv. Meany’s
friends intend to publicly entertain him.
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.
Ita Session In Louisville Yesterday.
Louisville, September 6.— Thi Tariff
Commissioners arrived here last evening and
held a session in the Galt House this morn
ing. Goldsborough Robinson, Secretary
and Treasurer of the Louisville Leaf To
oacco Company, read an argument in favor
of the removal of the Internal revenue tax
on alcohol used in the arts and for indus
trial purposes.
Matthew O’Doughtery, Carroll and How
ard Johnston, a committee appointed by the
Irish Republican club of Louisville, pre
sented a paper stating that tbe members of
the club, Knowing by actual experience the
effect which free trade and a protective
tariff severally had on the social condition
of the masses In other countries, declared
themselves unalterably In favor of a high
protective tariff.
A communication was read from Tarblt
& Castleman and other wholesale grocers of
Louisville indorsing the view presented
vesterday by the wholesale grocers of Cin
cinnati in favor of retaining the present du
ties on sugar, molasses and rice. The com
mission adjourned to meet at Chicago to
morrow morning.
HYDROPHOBIA.
Horrible Death ot Speaker Reeve*,
of Ten*.
Nhw York, September 6.— Referring to
the death yesterday of Hon. Geo. A. Reeves,
Speaker of the Texas House of Representa
tives, a Dallas special to the Bmi says: “He
was bitten by a mad dog several weeks ago.
At the time he tried to apply a plaster to
the wound, but It could not be made to ad
here. He did not sutler au actual attack of
hydrophobia until a few days ago, when,
finding that he was going mad,he Instructed
his friends to lash him to his bed to prevent
his harming any of them. His agOEy, his
ravings and his frotblngs became horrible,
and all day yesterday, last night, and up to
the time of his death to-day, his suffer
ings and frenzy were indescribable. He
expired at one o’clock this afternoon. He
has been for years one of the most promi
nent men in Texas, and was a candidate for
re-election to the Legislature to represent
Cook and Grayson counties.
SPEEDY JUSTICE.
A Negro Fiend to Swing.
Eastman, Ga.. September fi. —Nathan
Smith, a negro, was convicted this evening
of committing an outrage upon Jane
Weldy, a young white woman, in this
county, on last Sunday night.
The jury not recommending the prisoner
to the mercy of the court, the death pen
alty will be pronounced upon him to-mor
row.
Souib Carolina Green backers.
Columbia, Septembers.—The Greenback-
Labor Reform Party Convention made the
following nominations: Secretary of State,
Thomas Biskins, of Sumter; for Comptroller
General, Simeon Carley, of Lexington; At
torney General, C. B. Farmer, of Colleton;
Treasurer, W. H. Stanton, of Oconee; Ad
jutant and Inspector General, J. F.
Johns, of Darlington; Superintendent of
Education, Rev. J. D. Durham, of Aiken;
J. B. Campbell, of Charleston, was nomi
nated for Congress from the First district;
T. H. Russell, of Anderson, from the Third;
D. R. Elkin, of Fairfield, from the Fourth;
T. J. Mackey, from the Fifth; Dr. Bowen,
of Marion, from the Sixth. The convention
then adjourned, after a collection had been
taken up to defray expenses, Fishburn,
the contumacious delegate, was forcibly
expelled.
Cotton Futures In New York.
New York, September 6.— The /oaf’* cot
ton market report says: “Future deliveries
opened 3-100 c. to 4100 c. higher, lost
1-lOOc., but were steady at the third call at
the highest prices of the day. September
brought 12 33c., April 12 02c., May 12 14c,,
and July 12 33c. The gradual decline that
has occurred since the settlement of the
August differences would seem to have
gone far enough. Much will now depend
on the weather, but the backwardness
of the crop, the decrease of acreage, which
competent judges estimate at 8 per cent.,
and the uncertainty as to the final result of
the yield at present will hardly warrant a
further depression, particularly as the de
mand for export from spinners must become
large.”
Court Notea from Eiilmin.
Eastman, Ga., September s.—The trials
ot the rioters being over, the case of James
Coney, a negro man, charged with rape, is
the next on docket at this special term of
the Superior Court.
Judge Mershon, sitting for Judge Pate,
sentenced the last five of the rioters who
were convicted of murder and recommended
to life imprisonment in the penitentiary this
morning. Judge Pate Is expected to return
to day to pronounce sentence upon the six
rioters who were convicted of the murder of
Jamei Q. Harvard without recommendation.
There is more sickness in the community
than I have ever known before at one time.
There have been two deaths here within the
past week. J. 8., Jr.
Another Broken Hank in Colorado.
Denver, September 6.—A dispatch from
Cliff, Custer county, says: “Toe Custer
County Bank closed its doors yesterday.
Its liabilities amount to 140,000, and its as
sets are very small. The bank was owned
by Hartzell Brothers, and was run in con
nection with the Bank of Balida, which
suspended on Monday. There is great ex
citement among the depositors here and in
Salida. The whereabouts of Hartzell Broth
ers are unknown. The cause of the suspen
sion is a mystery.
Chinese Merchants.
San Francisco, September B.—ln the case
of one of the alleged Chinese merchants, who
arrived here on the steamer City of Rio
Janeiro from Panama, and who was not per
mitted to land, Judge Field, in the United
States Circuit Court, has decided that mer
chants coming from other countries than
China may land without certificates.
Haitian’s Latest Challenge.
Toronto, September 6.—Hanlan has chal
lenged Ross, Courtney and Lee to row three
miles, for $2,500 and the world’s champion
ship, anywhere between Washington and
Boston, within two months from the sign
ing of articles, two weeks to elapse between
each race.
Weatber Indications.
OrriCß Chief Signal Observer, Wash -
inqton, D. C., September B.— lndications
for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, fair weather
easterly winds, stationary barometer and
temperature.
A good medicinal tonic, with real merit,
is Brown’s Iron Bitters, so all druggists sav.
THE FLAMES IN DARIEN.
SEVERAL STORES AND VTA RE
HOUSES BURNED.
Loaaes *nl Insurance lnce
ndtarlam Suspected.
Darien, September 6.—A fire broke out
at 9:30 o’clock last night in Levison’s ware
house, and consumed Strain’s warehouse
and the stores of Phillip Keller, Robert
Levison, Collat Brothers, William
Stewart’s restaurant, Clem Subatties’
barber shop, Townsend’s butcher
shop and Collat’s bakery. Levison’s loss is
#1,000; insuranse #1,900. Collat Brothers’
loss #8,000; insurance #4,000. Keller’s loss
#8,000; insurance #6,000.
On the buildings occupied by Levison and
Keller, owned by George C. Camp and W.
H. Atwood, loss #7,000; Insurance #2,700.
On the buildings occupied by the Collate aud
owned by T. Hilton & Sons loss #3,500;
insurance #2,000. On A. Strain Jc Co’s,
warehouse, loss #2,400; insurance unknown.
Mr. Stewart loss #SOO. No insurance.
Townsend & Subatties saved everything.
A large quantity of goods were saved,
but in a damaged condition. The cause of
the fire is unknown, but is supposed to
have been the work of an incendiary.
COTTON FREIGHTS.
Kates from St. Louis, 'lempliU, and
Oblo Valley Points.
New York, September 6.—The following
rates on uncompressed cotton have been
established by the joint executive commit
tee of general freight agents in connection
with Southern lines, to take effect on the
15th inst., uncompressed, with the privi
lege to the carrier of compressed, originat
ing at the points named, to New York, with
the usual differences to other seaboard
cities, the rates named being per one hun
dred pounds, all rail :
Memphis 72c.
St. Louis and Hannibal, Mo 64c.
East Bt. Louis and East Hannibal 60c
Cairo 62c.
Evansville, Ind 60c.
Louisville 68c.
Jeffersonville, Ind 58c.
New Albany, Ind 58c.
Cincinnati 58 e .
Rates from Memphis, via the river, are to
be three cents less than via all rail on com
pressed cotton reaching the following
points via the river, under through bills of
lading on steamer of lines working under
the agreed through rates from Memphis
the proportion of rail rates to New York
from depots will be for the hundred pounds,
as follows:
East St. Louis, 111 44c.
Cairo, 111 44c.
Evansville, Ind 44c.
Louisville, Ky 41c.
Jeffersonville, Ind 41c.
New Alhany, Ind 41c.
Cincinnati, Ohio 39c.
The Vermont Flection.
Boston, September 6.—Late returns from
Vermont show that the election of Poland,
in the Second district, is somewhat doubtful.
There are eighty-one towns to be heard from
in said district, thirteen of which are in
Orleans county, the home of Grant. Unless
Poland develops unexpected strength In
the back towns, his election will be
doubtful. Returns from 103 towns
give Barstow (Rep.) 18,905, Eaton (Dem.)
6,951, Martin and scattering 776. Barstow’s
majority over all 11,178. Six Democratic
town representatives are reported elected
and 97 Republicans. The Legislature will
show a decreased Republican majority.
White River Junction, Vt., September
6.—The election of the Republicans on the
State ticket and their candidate in the First
Congressional district is assured by a hand
some majority. The chances are against
Poland in the second district. If elected at
all, it will be by a very small majority.
Brighton Beach Kacei.
New York, September 6.—The first race
at Brighton Beach, for non-winners five
eighths of a mile, Little Phil woo, Easter
second, Victim third. Time 1:32.
The second race, selling allowances, one
and an eighth miles, La Gloria won,
Morgan Spy seoond, Barney Lyon third.
Time 1:57.
The third race, for all ages, five-eighths
of a mile, Little Phil won, Garfield second,
Blackmore third. Time 1:03%.
The fourth race, for all ages, five-eighths
of a mile, London won, Ranger second,
Disturbance third. Time 1:03%.
The fifth race, a steeple cuase over the
short course, Water won, King
Dutchman second, Ohio Boy third. Time
2:43.
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The Cyclone’s Course.
Washington, September 6.—The Signal
Office reports that the cyclone referred to
yesterday, is now south of Cuba, moving in
a northwesterly direction with the Gulf.
Vessels leaving the Gulf ports will encoun
ter dangerous winds within the next two
or three days.
Key West, September 6. —The cyclone
passed near here yesterday, and probably
over Cuba from east to west. The baromt
ter was depressed and there was consid
erable high wind. No disasters are known
to have occurred as yet on the reef.
A Loaded Omnibus Struck by a
Train.
Boston, September 6.—A special from
liion, New York, says: “The fast mail
east on the New York Central Road, due
here at 10 p. m. yesterday,struck an omnibus
as It was crossing to another train. Albert
P. Redway, a dry goods merchant, aged
forty-five, was thrown one hundred feet and
killed; John Gibbon, of Illi:.>n, and Russell
Dodge, of West Winfield, were seriously
hurt; Otis P. Cooke, a drover, and Walter
Stillson,' the driver of the vehicle, and his
wife were slightly hurt. Two other occu
pants escaped unhurt.
A Train Wrecker’s Work.
Troy, N. Y., September 6.—Seme mlscrt
ant drew out a switch bolt on the Benning
ton and Rutland Railroad at East Dorset
last night, throwing the switch open. Al
though the signal indicated “all right,” an
express train running at a high rate of speed,
ploughed into a gravel bank, and stones
weighing a hundred pounds each were
thrown into she tender. The engineer, fire
man, i,wo coiiiiuctors and one passenger
were all more or less bruised. The traiD
was delayed nine hours.
<>en. McDowell to be Retired.
Washington, September 6. General
Sherman has asked that Major General John
M. Schofield be ordered to San Francisco to
relieve Major General Irwin McDowell of
the command of the Military Division of
the Pacific, and that General McDowell be
ordered to his home In New York prepara
tory to his retirement from active service in
October next. The matter will not be acted
upon until the return of Secretary Lincoln.
Crashed In the ice.
San Francisco, September 6.—By the
whaler Thomas Pope, from the Arctic, it
is learned that the steam whaler North Star
was crushed in the ice near Point Barrow
on the Bth of July. The crew were saved
and sheltered at the United Stales Signal
station at Point Barrow until the arrival of
the whalers Bonhead and Belvidero, which
took them off, except the Captain and En
gineer, who chose to remain at the station.
A Republican 801 l In Alabama.
Selma, September 6. —A conference of
Republicans, dissatisfied with the nomina
tion of George H. Craig for Congressman
from this (Fourth) district, which has been
in session nere for two days, adjourned to
day. A convention is called for September
23d to meet at Greensboro. Doubtless a
colored candidate will be nominated by the
bolters. There is great dissatisfaction
among the colored leaders of the district.
Greek autl Turk.
Athens September 6.—An armistice has
been concluded between the Greeks and
Turks on the Thessalian frontier, based
on the status quo ante helium. Negotiations
for a dcfiuue settlement of the dispute iu
regard to the frontier are progressing satis
factorily.
Lome and Louise lu Chicago.
Chicago, September 6. —The Marquis of
Lome and the Princess Louise and party
arrived here to day and went quietly to ibelr
hotel. No display or ceremony attended
their visit. They leave for San Francisco
to morrow
(Savage* of Cholera.
Madrid, September 6. —An official dis
patch from Manilla states that 253 natives
and four foreigners, including the Ameri
can Consul, died there yesterday of chol
era. In eighteen villages in the proviuee
of Manilla there were 368 deaths.
Base Ball Yesterday.
Baltimore.— Alleghenys 14, Balti mores 7.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
SCENE IN MID-OCEAN.
Man Overboard In a Monsoon, with
Sharks About.
Manchester (Kng.) Courier.
A correspondent who was a passenger by the
steamship Dacca, which left Madras for Lon
don on the Ist ult., sends from Aden an in
teresting account of an exciting scene which
he witnessed during a storm in the Indian
Ocean. The vessel encountered the mon
soon a few days after leaving Colombo, and
bad a rough time of it until the 17th ult.,
when the gale became so violent that canvas
had to be taken in, awnings furled,; and
things made as snug as possible.
The correspondent describes what fol
lowed :
“I came on deck at 8 a. m.: it was blow
Ing fiercely and tbe spray coming over the
sheets. * * * There were three of us on
deck when the bell struck—a Miss, a Mr.,
and myself. We were holding on to our
chairs,wbich were firmly lashed to the inner
cabin skylights, under the lee of the ladles’
saloon. Part of the crew were working
hard to get the starboard lifeboat in-board,
when a bigger roll to the windward warned
us of what was coming. ‘Hold on!’ some
one shouted. We held on. The chairs
rushed forward on their lashings. The deck
stood upright. In came tbe sea over the
gunwale, over the taffrail, up to our waists,
lifted the lifeboat out of its shackles, carried
it overboard, smashing away stanchions and
davits, and out to sea. Then came the horrid
cry of ‘Man overboard!’
“The helm was put down, the engine re
versed, and back we went on a search—all
the more so as sharks had been seen round
the ship earlier in the morning. Tbe boat was
presently seen some 200 yards off, keel up
permost. Boon after the two men were ob
served clinging on to it. Then came an ex
citing two hours during which we steamed
after the boat, which was drifting rapidly
toward the east. But turning a ship like
the Dacca is a very slow business, and as
she huDg in the wind’s eye a jib was hoist
ed to bring her round. By the time this
was done the boat, with its pitiful-looking
crew, was away two miles and more to lee
ward, and we were rolling heavily and un
manageable. At last the Captain decided to
lower a boat, and the order was given
‘Stand by the boat,’ and soon after ‘lower.’
‘Who is going in her?’ he shouted.
“The first officer, Mr. Ingram, sprang
over the side, caught hold of the davit ropes
and slipped down, but just as he got near
her a great roll of the ship lifted him clear
of the boat twenty feet in the air. As he
came down again the boat had drifted for
ward, and he was plunged down in the boil
ing sea for five or six seconds. Up he came
again as the ship keeled over, still banging
on, and missed by an ace having his skull
smashed against the small boat’s side. It
was really a terrible sight, and we shuddered
as we looked on, the boat all the while being
lashed up and down by the violence of the
waves. But at last his opportunity came,
and he dropped into the stern. At
once he was followed by the boatswain,
two firemen and two European sail
ors, tbe native crew hanging shamefully
back. One of the passengers, a young Eng
lish officer, Lieut. Wolff, of the Seventh
Fusiliers, a son of Sir Drummond Wolff,
volunteered at once. But the officer In
charge would not accept a passenger’s ser
vices while men of the crew could be got.
At last the boat shoved off, and the oars
were got out, and in a terrible sea they set
out for the missing boat. Directed by the
motions of a man aloft, they got alongside
her, and took the men aboard. Then began
a hard row back.
“We lost sight of her again and again*
wondering how she could live in such a sea.
But still she held on, and got at last under
our lee. By the help of a case of oil scat
tered over the waves they were compara
tively stilled, a ladder was let down, and
when the last man stepped on board such a
cheer greeted him as told him what we
thought of his pluck and that of the gal
lant fellows with him. Capt. Burkltt was
perfectly cool the whole time, and managed
his ship with great skill. When the first
officer got a change of clothes, and came
down to the cabin, he received all kinds of
congratulations, and his health was drank
in bumpers of champagne. On Sunday
morning we got under the lee of Cape
Guardaful, and so ended our brush with
the southwest monsoon.”
THE LANDING OF OGLETHORPE.
A Suggestion ta to tbe Celebration
or tbe Seaqul Centennial of tbe
Event.
Editor Morning News : Your interesting
article in the News of Tuesday regarding
the propriety and importance of our citi
zens at once taking steps looking to the
proper commemoration of this notable
event, has suggested a few Ideas, which I
take the liberty of laying before your
readers.
It is true that General Oglethorpe landed
in Yamacraw on February Ist. 1733, accord
ing to the old system of reckoning dates,
but the proper date for celebrating that
historic event would fall on February 12th,
under the present accepted system. To
commemorate It on that date would bring
two holidays too closely together in the
same month. I therefore suggest that the
committee, which I hope will be speedily
organized, will carefully consider the pro
priety and advantage of postponing the ob
servance of this sesqui centenary to that
great national holiday—the birthday of
Washington—February 22d, a holiday so
generally observed throughout the South.
Modoc.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY
J. C. Beall was yesterday appointed Post
master at LaGrange, Ga., vice F. Ball, re
signed.
The Mexican Government has commenc
ed the work of construction on the Tehuan
tepec Railroad.
The stealings of Hunter, the absconding
Notary Public of Montreal, are now known
to be over $220,000.
The trial of Captain Haile for the killing
of L. W. R. Blair, a prominent Greenbacker,
began at Kershaw, South Carolina, court
yesterday.
The steamer Dupuy de Lama, running
between Havana and New York and New
Orleans, has arrived at Queenstown with
maceinery damaged.
La Libertad , the ministerial organ ot Mexi
co, published articles yesterday morning
strongly advocating a commeiclal treaty
with the United States.
A special to the News from Paris (Texas)
says: “D. H. Culverson was to-day nomina
ted for Congress by the Fourth district
Democratic Congressional Convention.’’
The bark Sarah E. Kingsbury, of Boston,
five hundred tons turthen, and fully loaded
with an outward cargo, wa6 destroyed by
fire at Fram Fram, on the West coast of
Africa, on the 7th ult.
A syndicate of London capitalists have
entered into contract for the construction
of an electric railway upon the Edison sys
tem, between Geneva and Ferney and
Geneva and St. Julien.
Mali bags from St. John, New Brunswick
for Halifax and other points, have been
found by the Halifax clerks with the straps,
cut and all the registered letters gone. The
robberies are being investigated.
The Louisiana State Lottery Company has
filed suit against tbe Commissioners of the
District of Columbia for $7,000 damages for
the closing of the company’s office in
Washington, arrest of its agents, etc.
At the con-duelon of the army manoeuvres
at lshora, a bridge constructed by the mili
tary across a ravine fell, directly after the
Czar and Empress had passed over it. The
Minister of War was slightly injured.
George Greene, a divorced husband, mur
dered his childreu, a boy aged four years
and a girl aged two, about three miles from
St. Louis, recently. The children were in
possession of the mother, but Greene in
duced a neighbor to bring them to see him.
While William Henry and his young son
were on their way to.blow up stumps with
dynamite cartridge near Shelbyvilie, Ind.,
sparks from a torch carried by th- soa fell
among the cartridges and exploded them.
Henry was fatally injured; ids sou may're
cover.
Oscsr Anderson killed his brother-in-law,
Lars Eckland, near South Evans' on, Illinois,
a few nights ago, and on Sunday morning
Anderson, after confessing his crime to a
third brother in Jaw, committed suicide, first
shooting himself in tbe breast and then
hanging himself to a tree.
Two masked robbers, aimed with hickory
clubs, entered the store of Charles Lever -
nier, near Lombardsvllle, Ohio, a few nights
ago, and assaulted Levernier. Being a pow
erful man, he kept them at bay for an hour,
but they finally overcame and bound and
gagged him, leaving him for dead. They
then robbed the store of sßeo and escaped.
It is feared Levernier will not recover.
A Tennessee Lynching.
Nashville, September 6.—Mrs. Sarah J.
Young, a respectable woman, forty-six
years old, was outraged near Union City on
Saturday by a negto named Winston V. ade.
Last night the negro was taken from the
court house at eleven o’clock by a mob of
one hundred and hanged to ths limb of a
tree.
NBNNME’NT.
Tbe Little Senator Angered bv tbe
Refusal of Department Clerk* to
Far.
Washington Special to New York World.
The greater portion of Senator Mahone’s
time is spent here in Washington, the de
tails of campaign work and the routine of
political management being left with his
able Lieutenants in the Old Dominion. The
giving of patronage Is of no little import
ance to Mahone, as there are many adhe
rents to the Readjuster party whose alle
giance is to be purchased only with prospec
tive offices or money. Asa consequence
the greater part of the Readjuster move
ment is being managed from this
city, and no young Representative in Con
gress in his first session ever did more
tramping from one department to another
and more interviewing of heads of bureaus
and chiefs of divisions, than has Benatoi
Mahone. Dressed In light trousers kid
pumps, and frock coat, buttoned tight
around him, with ruffles at his sleeves and
the old-fashioned turned down shirt collar
over a white cravat, wearing a broad
brimmed white felt hat and chewing an
enormous chunk of green tobacco, the little
m 'cars from one part of the enormous
I'ii be buildings to another as cool a*
in Lrebetg, while the Murid
11* perspiring in seersUckett an
' hats. His persistedy with ©l- -
fearful to behold, and his request alwatr
take on rather the natu e of demanue t
atmnands. The most insignificant meo-en
rt- ’ scrub-woman who has hut the good
or ill fortune to be born Virginia U cot
beneath his notice, anu ** * le'
hds hands to move the Readjuster forces.
He starts in at nine in the morning, and
with a bundle of papers under his arm
spends the day in the departments until the
last clerk has left. He carries in his hand a
list of every Virginia employe in each of
the departments, and it is generally open
before him in all of his conversations with
Cabinet officers or bureau chiefs. He looks
carefully after the matter of assessments,
and never hesitates to demand the removal
of any man or woman who fails to subserve
his purposes in carrying forward the
great Readjuster movement. At this
time, however, he is meeting with
some little opposition. There are
not a few Virginia employes in the
Government Printing Office, and several of
them have gone to Public Printer Rounds
to get an inkling of what would be their
fate should they refuse to subscribe to the
Mahone campaign fund. On Saturday
the Public Printer announced to all Vir
ginians engaged in his office that they were
right in paying the 2 per cent assessment of
the Republican Campaign Committee, but
that so far as Mahone’s 5 per cent, for
State purposes was concerned they were at
liberty to act as they pleased, and assured
them that no man should be removed
from office who refused to comply
with these demands. It is understood
that this opposition of Mr. Rounds has
greatly Incensed Mahone, and that he will
complain of it to the administration at an
early day. There are also symptoms of a
like refusal to comply with the Yirginia de
mands on the part of employes in the other
departments. A general assurance was given
some time ago by the heads of the War,
Treasury, Interior and Post Office Depart
meat 6 that no person should be removed
who did not feel himself called upon to con
tribute to the Republican Committee Cam
paign Fund and a like assurance has been
given to all Virginians in the departments
in regard to the 5 per cent, assessment of
Mahone.
What Manufacture*! Do for a City.
Baltimore Journal of Commerce.
A little over a year ago the writer passed
through Roanoke. Va., then a mere way
station known as Big Lick. To-day Roan
oke has about 3,000 inhabitants, and will
probably have more than double that num
ber inside of a year. This wonderful devel
opment is due to manufactures. The Shen
andoah Valley and the Norfolk and Western
Railroads determined to make this point
their junction, and are now erecting shops
in which employment will be given to about,
1,000 hands. The managers of these roads
interested some Philadelphia capitalists in
Roanoke, and a Land Improvement Com
pany, with a nominal capital of $2,000,0C0.0f
which $500,000 is paid up, was formed;
then came a llarge furnace company;
with a heavy capital; then the Crozier Steel
and Iron Company, with $300,000 capital,
followed by numerous smaller manufactur
ing establishments; while in to-day’s
Journal qf (Commerce and Manufacturers' Re
cord we note the purchase of a site at that
city for a large flour mill; the organization
of anew iron company with a capital of
$300,000; an increase of $300,000 to the
paid-up capital of the Land Improvement
Company; and, iu addition to all these, a
contract has just been closed' for the erec
tion of fifty new buildings. There are also
a number of tobacco factories; a planing
mill and sash and blind manufactory, and
two others in construction; a steam spoke
and axe-handle factory, and a number of
other factories, while a cotton mill is now
talked of.
This is what one Southern village has done
in a year, and one in which the advantages,
while very good, are in no wav superior to
those possessed by hundreds of other South
ern towns and cities. Throughout the South
there are many other places building up
just as Roanoke is doing, although probably
not quite so rapidly. These places are
thoroughly demonstrating tbe advantages
of the Southern States for manufactures,
and the actual results are doing more to
convince the world of this fact than all the
glitterlDg generalities ever published.
Cincinnati Exposition Opened.
Cincinnati, September 6.—The Exposi
tion was formally opened to-day by Gov.
Foster. The ceremonies embraced a grand
street parade, one feature of which was a
series of tableaux cars, representing ten
epochs, beginning with Cinclnnatus at his
plow and endffig with the Cincinnati of to
day.
Tbe Florida Republican*.
Pensacola, September B. —The Republi
can Convention of the First district, at
Quincy, nominated E. T. Skinner, of this
county, for Congress.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
Nbw York, September 6.—A dispatch
from Atlanta reports that by the explosion
of a boiler set Snow this morning three men
were killed.
A Hurricane off tbe Texas Coast.
Galveston, September 6. A Corpus
Christl special says: “Five vessels were re
ported ashore at Arkansas Pass last night,
and the wind was a hurricane for a while.
The Prince Imperial’s Statue.— The
erection of the monument on the green in
front of the Royal Military Academy at
Woolwich to the memory of the Prince Im
perial is being proceeded with. The larger
of the two blocks of polished granite on
which the statue will rest bears the follow
ing inscription: “Napoleon, Prince Impe
rial, born in Paris March 16, 1856; killed
fighting In South Africa June 1, 1879. Gen
tleman Cadet, Royal. Military Academy,
from November 18, 1872, to February 15,
1875. Erected by upward of 25,000 officers
and men from ell branches of Her Majesty’s
forces.”
The statue will be of bronze and rather
larger than life size. The granite blocks
will also bear four bronze eagles, and four
wreaths enclosing the letter “N,”the whole
being surmounted by a crown and four cop
ies of the motto of the Royal Artillery. The
statue will be unveiled soon after the reas
sembling of 'he Gentleman Cadets after the
autumn vacation. —London Times.
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