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VICTORIA USU.
11 vesper bell: thy voice to me
Is like a precious dream,
;,%>* -wept afar beyond my reach
By time's uoslacking stream.
The vesper hymn of bygone days
Comet floating up the past,
A*> memories sweet and old arise
Ard throng around me fast.
u vesper bell', thy music falls
On evening spheres apace.
And in thy chime of love divine
An echo finds a place—
The echo of a voice that sang
Beneath the tall old spire
As red sun-gleams from out the west
Kit up its cross with fire.
The echo of a voice I loved.
It seems, so long ago.
When earth and life seemed fair as heaven
With hope and youth aglow.
And drifting down the stream of years
I see the singer’s face.
Upraised, with eyes that bear the light
Of early, saintly grace.
O vesper bell: the song is hushed.
The singer lieth dead.
And wave-like years that surge along
Bring not what once hath fled.
But in thy chime of iove divine
That voice still rings apace,
And in the sunset glow my dream
ts of the singer's face.
51. Mary's, (fa , 1682.
Georgia Affairs.
** citizens of Rome want somebody to run
n -kating rink in that city during the coming
reason. The Courier thinks if a rink were
if: nerly run it would prove a bonanza.
K >me is about to organize a Y. M. C. A.,
with every prospect of success. Great in
terest in the movement is expresssed by the
rood people of the community on the sub
ject.
The Rome female College -n_., r - -< t-d *n!a
ison with eighty pupils, and every day adds
to the number. Present indications point to
over one hundred and fifty students by the
Ist of November.
The cyclone struck Griffin about 9 o’clock
Saturday night, coal inning until 9 o’clock
Sunday morning. No damage was done to
•l iman life, but the damage to buildings, trees,
fencing, and standing crops was great. The
chmaberry trees throughout the city were al
most universally broken down and several
buildings unroofed. It was the worst storm
known in Griffin for years.
Three children in Louisville have been bitten
by a rabid Spitz dog.
Mr. Frank Leverstt was elected Mayor of
Eatonton on Wednesday last, and Phil. San
ford Marshal.
There are several breaks in the road between
Milledgeville and Macon, and it wili be two or
three days before trains will run regularly be
tween the two cities. The trains will arrive at
Milledgeville up on the usual schedule and
make connection at the breaks beyond 51 il
lidgeville.
The public schools of Columbus resumed
their duties on Monday, with a fair attendance,
although there was a falling off as compared
with last year and the year before. The at
tendance on Monday was 912, against 960 last
year and 1,055 the year previous.
On the 9th instant, in the United States Dis
trict Court, Judge McCay sentenced John
Thames, a sixty-year-old farmer, who lives
near Red Oak, to six months in Fulton county
: ail, and to pay SSOO fine and costs for violating
the revenue laws.
The Democratic primary in Baldwin county
■ m Saturday last resulted in the nomination of
Dr. Mark Johnston, Jr., as the Democratic
candidate for the Legislature.
A revival in Liihonia has so affected the only
saloon man there that he desires to sell out
and leave.
The Democrats of Monroe county will select,
by primary election, on Saturday next, two
candidates to represent the county in the next
Legislature.
Ex-cadet Whittaker, the colored man whose
West Point experiences are familiar to all.
lectured at Athens on last Tuesday night. His
subject was. “Eats and the color line at West
Point.”
Hon. A. H. Stephens arrived in Columbus at
1:10 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, and was met
by a committee of citizens composed of Messrs.
W. H. Young, J. M. McNeil, John King, C. B.
Grimes, G. Gunby Jordan, Reese Crawford,
Porter Ingram, and C. A. Redd, who accom
panied him to the Rankin House, where he
rested Tuesday night. He addressed the citi
zens last night at the Opera House, which was
packed to its utmost limits, the ladies turning
out to greet the next Governor of Georgia in
large numbers.
At the preliminary trial cf Frank Sima, Jr.,
for the stabbing of Mr. Hollis, at Cusseta, held
on Saturday last, the defendant was held to
bail in the sum of $750 to answer the charge of
assault with intent to murder, and was com
mitted in default of the same. Hollis is in a
most critical condition, but his relatives and
friends are more hopeful than ever cf his re
covery.
Judge L. P. D. Warren, of Albany, and
brother of Hon. Joeiah L. Warreo, of Savan
nah, died of c< nsumption at his home in Al
iny, on Sunday morning last. He was bom
in Twiggs county on the 22d October, 1828, and
in 1816 was admitted to the bar by special act
of the Legislature before he was of age In
all the relations of life, social and professional,
he was a man of uncompromising integrity and
decided character. His funeral took place
Monday morning, the members of the Albany
bar acting as pall bearers, and the Masonic
fraternity, of which he was a bright member,
buried him with Masonic honors.
The Commissioners of Oconee county have
decided not to issue ary more licenses to sell
liquor.
The Walton Sews says a rock thrown by one
of the blasts on the railroad extension last
week went through a window of a house near
by, striking Mr. W. A. Bain on the head and
killing him instantly.
There are ninety prisoners in Fulton county
jail, and the institution is about full.
The crops in the vicinity of Crawfordville
have been injured 30 per cent, by the storm.
The Georgia Railroad Company have de'
clart-d a quarterly dividend of *2 75 per share,
payable after October 15.
Carroll county has voted for fence by a large
majority.
Monroe Advertiser: ‘Four persons have
been killed in Dodge county within a month.
Dodge county is a good county to dodge.”
The receiver of the broken Bank of Rome
has paid into the State Treasury on the account
of the Btate, another *2,000. making in all *25,-
‘ i , leavinga balance of *26,-
-v, ~ t due U.r V-tate.
- je war cl* ed the High Shoals Fao
. .1 one iin dred thousand Confederate
* that uH' e >een lying in the safe for
*t:t*>eti years, a a regarded as worthless
r daj Ur. (too. W. Felker t," t
til ta and s* and the pde for SOSO in cur
-racf.
at blows nobody good” was
. -t.T din theexpt ience of a Sumter county
L -net. who says' that all the ears of corn
■[ at wer-* pc<r--A n the direction the wind
B- fr* .: i sh*r . ay night were already
■ ' .-V -d when In got up Sunday morning
■Le tvc.i 'tad h!f,w theshucks back, leaving
■
• t .and urj of Monroe county, in its
y lentmeat, say: ‘We con
, '<! oi so for the evidence of mercy
i Ues lowered in rich profusion
Vs ’em . 11 -sent year in the way of
V freedom from epidemics,
lit i *v v: e m nt estations among ourpeopie
1 Vl* i* v ,wid i tpportgood ordsr. ft? Oft
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
thrift and prosperity of our common country.
May we acknowledge the hand that dispenses,
and invoke a continuance of the same ”
It is probable that Georgia will be fairiy rep
resented at the meeting of tire National Cotton
Planters' Association, which meets in conjunc
tion with the Arkansas State Fair at Little
Rock, from the lth to the 2lst inclusive. Col.
Newman, of the Department of Agriculture.is
the Georgia Secretary of the association. He
will endeavor to get reduced rates for such
delegates as send their names to him.
The appeal docket, now being used in Madi
son Superior Court, no doubt is the oldest one
in u-e. The first entry is September, 3812, and
the last 1882. It has been In usereventy years.
It was bought as appears from an advertise
ment on It—“ From L. O. Burluss, Book s’ore
*“d Lottery Office, No. 10 Peck street. New
York.” It was the finest docket ever used in
the county, and has entries made by every
Judge th?t presided there.
Capt. W. E. Hay good has resigned the Cap
taincy of the Baldwin Blues, Milledgeville*
military organization. We trust that the va
cancy will be speedily filled, for, as the Re
corder remarks, “a good volunteer company in
a city is more necessary than its fire depart
ment, because it protects property rescued,
while the firemen fight the fire; but above all
it is necessary in case of a disturbance that the
local authorities are unable to quell. We do
hope the grand old corps will still carry its Hag
proudly, and we appeal to the pride of our
young men and the material interests of our
o and men to see that the flag of the Blues is not
furled, or its organization impaired by the re
signation of its recent Captain.”
A colored Georgia convict tells this story:
1 worked in a barber shop in Gainesville, and
one day a negro man came in and wanted a
shave and hair cut He lacked five cents of
having the money with which to pay me and
pawned with me a ring that I took to be
A man who keeps a confectionery in
Gainesville saw me with the ring rnd said that
it was his w ife’s. It turned out that somebody
had broken into his shop and had stolen the
ring, and as I had it in my possession and
could not show up the man that I got it from,
I was convicted and sentenced to one year.
The ring was worth about four dollars. I shall
go on to the penitentiary, and I expect by good
behavior to come out before the twelve months
expire.”
In reference to the Senatorial contest in the
Forty second Senatorial district, the Cartera
ville Awierican says: “Colonel H. H. Jones is
now fairly in the race as an Independent Demo
crat, solicited to make the race by prominent
organized and Independents as wed. He has
the quasi indorsement of the Executive Com
mittee, and considers 'hat there is no nominee
opposed to him. Dr. Baker has at last declared
himself an organized Democrat, and proposes
to make the race as the nominee of the Democ
racy of Bartow, and as such claims the entire
organized support of the district. Just as is
always the case with men of ability and de
cisive character. Colonel Jones and Dr. Baker
both have strong support and strong opposi
tion. The race will be lively and close, neither
being a walk over or an overwhelming defeat.
We think thi3 matter should be settled by the
votes of the people as a matter of choice be
tween the two candidates on their personal
merit and fitness for the position.”
A LaGrange correspondent of the Columbus
Times writes of the recent cyclone as follows:
“The predicted cyclone, modified into the most
terrific gale of wind and rain ever witnessed
here, struck the town on Saturday night,
reaching the height of its fury about two
o'clock Sunday morning. From that hour
until five the wind must have blown with a ve
locity of fifty miles an hour. The morning
light reached a widespread wreck of shade
trees and fences blown down and a few houses
unroofed of their tin covers. Almost every
tree in the court house yard was blown down,
and it is thought that fully one-third of the
shade trees have been uprooted The destruc
tion to the crops is incalculable, corn is worsted
and much of it will rot on the ground in its im
mature state. Cotton has been whipped of all
its mature fruit and most of its unopened
bolls. So far, no injury is reported to persons
or stock. So far as fences are concerned in
this county (thanks to the stock law) the farmer
can snap his fingers and cry out to the furious
winds, ‘Blow on and crack your check.’”
The Milledgeville Union and Recorder, re
counting the effects of the recent storm in that
vicinity, says: “In this city and neighborhood
fences and trees were blown down very gener
ally. Corn was lying Sunday morning level with
the ground,and tne growing crops were exposed
to the depredations of cattle, hogs and horses.
It was the first and only disaster that has
befallen the farming interest during the
year in this section. We have visited
many localities in the city where
the greatest damage was done. The washing
away of the bridge over tan-yard branch, on
Jefferson sTeet, is the most serious iDjury to
the city proper. The granite foundation was
partially washed out. The trains due here
from Macon Sunday morning did not arrive.
We learn that the Gordon train got within four
miles of the city when it was stopped by a
long washout. We have been informed that
there was a washout at McCrary’s tank, on the
Au?usta road. We hear that there is a trestle
gone on the Milledgeville and Eatonton Road.
Poms of our citizens who planted below the
city on the river bottom have had their crops
of corn and cotton ruined by the flood in the
Oconee.”
Atlanta Post-Appeal : “An elderly lady, the
mother of Mrs. Brown, who lives in James
town, on the site of the old United States Bar
racks, was, Tuesday morning, crossing the rail
road track on Humphreys street, just in front of
Werner’s barroom, when she was struck by the
West Point accommodation train, which
reaches the city at 9:30, and seriously, if not
fatally injured. The engine whistled, but the
lady, who is said to be quite deaf, took no no
tice, but stepped upon the track just in front of
the engine, which was coming along at fearful
speed. She had gotten almost across the
track when struck. She is not supposed
to have been aware of the pres
ence of the engine before she was
struck. The cowcatcher of the locomotive
caught her up and pitched her as high as a
mans head, throwing her off to one side. As
soon as she fell assistance reached her. Bhe
was found insensible and foaming and bleed
ing at the mouth. Her home being near by,
those who had gathered round conveyed the
injured lady to her house. Medical assistance
was at once procured. It is impossible as yet
to estimate the nature of the injuries sus
tained. No limbs are broken, but it seems
probable that internal injuries resulted from
the blow and fall which may prove fatal. The
reports are somewhat conflicting as regards
the exact manner of the accident. An eye
witness assured the reporter that the lady was
not crossing but walking the track, and had
warning from tne whistle when the engine was
still one hundred feet distant.”
Florida Affairs.
Work has commenced on the Florida Mid
land and Georgia Railroad, which is to connect
the northwestern counties of Florida with the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway.
The water supply at the barracks at St. Au
gustine is soon to be increased by driving an
artesian well.
Green Cove is about to organize a library and
reading room association.
The Democratic County Committee of St.
John’s county will meet on Saturday next at
St. Augustine for the purpose of calling a con
vention to nominate candidates for the Legis
lature.
On Thursday morning last a fatal stabbing
’ affair occurred at Racey’s Point on the St.
John's river between two colored men named
Grant and Brown, in which the latter was mor
tally stabbed by the former, severing the
carotid artery, causing almost instant death.
It appears that Brown was epproaching Grant
with a loaded shotgun fall cocked and was
about discharging the same, when Grant
closed in on him, caught the gun and used his
knife with the above result.
The Jacksonville papers are filled with de
tailed accounts of the doings of the fearful
cyclone which visited a portion of Florida. In
column will be found interesting par
ticulars of its devastation and destruction of
property and life.
The trains from Cedar Keys to Fernandina,
on the Transit Road, were delayed Monday on
account of a washout a short distance from
Fernandina.
The government has invited proposals for the
removing of the wreck and cargo on the sunken
steamer Maple Leaf, lying on the east side of
the St. John’s river, fifteen miles from Jack
sonville.
At Msdison, the storm lifted the new store
being built by Mr. Kirkpatrick, oa Ranee
Ftreet, from the pillars on which it stood, and
deposited it on the ground without other dam
age than a change of location.
Wires are down on the Florida Central and
Western Railroad, and also on the Florida
Transit Railroad, occasioned by the cyclone.
Several children in Gadsden county have
gone blind from sore eyes.
There is to be a congregational church built
in Orange City. The lot has b-en selected.
Tampa boasts of the first and only town
clock in the State, and it surmounts one of the
largest and handsomest court houses.
A young man named Kin Starling, at Cow
art’s saw mill, in Polk county, had his arm
sawed off above the elbow, a few days ago.
He was cleaning out the sawdust beneath the
saw when someone turned on steam, when the
saw struck his arm, entirely severing it above
the right elbow.
The post office at Fort Meade was broken into
on Friday night last, and a number of regis
tered packages containing altogether several
hundred dollars stolen. No trace of the bur
g’ars has been found.
Tee public schools of Sumter county will be
taught for five months during the present
scholastic year
Anew town, named Centre Hill, has been lo
cated in Sumter county. It is eight miles from
Sumterville. six miles from Webster, and six
teen miles from Leesburg.
The Democratic Executive Committee of
Escambia county, in view of the fact of the
existence of yellow fev*. a Pens* U. ■
the Democratic Corn 'y Court ntion ■ • te ut
meet on the 20th in-st., rec*. imeiid '.bat the
several precincts ap nt pro, e:* i represent
them on the occasion
The Democracy of *'.iachua c* uu y met yes
terday to nominate ft unodMate* :>;r ir-4
'tl’tlUllfT
ARABI ROUTED.
TI L EL KEBIR TAKEN IN TWENTY
MINUTES.
A Night March, a Surprise and a Head
long Charge—The Rebels Bayoneted at
their Guns—The Enemy in Full Re
treat Pursued by the British Cavalry—
Many Prisoners and Guns Captured
A Pen Picture of the Battle -The Sul
tan’s Threat to England.
Alexandria, September 12.—The Khe
dive has received a telegram from Sultan
Pasha saying : “The British attack on Tel
el Keblr commenced at 4:30 o’clock this
morning."
London, September 13. —The correspond
ent of the Exchange Telegraph Company
at Alexandria announces that Tel el Keblr
was carried this morning. Forty guns
and a large number of prisoners were cap
tured. Cavalry are in pursuit. Arabi’s
forces appear to be quite broken up.
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from the front reports that the
demoralization of Arabi’s army is complete.
His Infantry are flying towards the Desert.
A dispatch from Kaseassin says: “At the
capture of Tel el Keblr the Egyptian loss Is
estimated at 2,000 men. Our loss Is proba
bly 200, Including many officers. The
Highland brigade bore the brunt of the
action.”
Reuter’s Telegram Company has the fol
lowing from Kassassin, dated 5:30 a.
m.: “The attack on Tel el Keblr began at
4:45 o’clock this morning. The main attack
was directed against the enemy’s extreme
left flank, four miles north of the railway.
A heavy artillery and infantry fire is now
proceeding. The British troops are ad
vancing rapidly and are evidently turning
the enemy’s flank. The British armored
train with a 40-pound Krupp gun, which
was captured a'. Kassassin, and a Gatling
has just come Into action. The fire of the
enemy opposite the extreme right of the
British is nearly silenced.”
A dispatch to the Central News Agency
says : "The Egyptians opened fire when the
British wt re within about a mile of Tel el
Keblr. The place appears to have been
finally captured after a rush. The Indian
cavalry are hotly pressing the fugitives on
the south and the British cavalry on the
north of the canal.”
Another dispatch from the same corre
spondent, dated Kassasiu, 10:38 a. m., says :
“The enemy’s killed alone amount two
thousand. The retreat of the enemy on the
north Is cut off. The cavalry are still pur
suing.”
The Times in Its second edition has the
following :
“Ismailia, September 13.—Tel el Keblr
was carried this morning with a rush. The
first shot was fired at five o’clock. The
positiou was taken in twenty minutes,
we having surprised the enemy by a night
march. The enemy are in full retreat.”
The War Office has received the following
official dispatch from Sir Garnet Wolselev,
giving his report of the battle at Tel el
Keblr:
“We struck camp at Kassassin Lock last
evening, and bivouacked on the high ridge
above the camp till 1:30 this morning. We
then advanced on a very extensive and
strongly fortified position, held by Arabl
with 20,000 regulars, of whom 2,500 were
cavalry, with 70 pins, and 6,000 Bedouins
and Irregulars. Sly force was about 11,000
bayonets, 2,000 sabres and 60 guns. To have
attacked so strong a position by daylight
with the troops I could have placed In the
field would have entailed very great loss. I
resolved, therefore, to attack before day
break, marching the six miles that inter
vened between my camp and the enemy’s
position in the darkness. The cavalry and
two batteries of horse artillery on
the right had orders to sweep the enemy’s
line at daybreak. The First division of the
Second brigade under Gen. Graham, sup
ported bv the Foot Guards under the Duke
of Connaught, seven batteries of artillery
numbering forty-two guns with a support
ing brigade, the Second division of the
Highland brigade leading, and the Indian
contingent and naval brigade on the railway,
advanced. Great emulation was evinced by
the regiments to be first in the enemy’s
works. Vll went at them straight, the
Royal Irish particularly distinguishing itself
by Its dash and the manner In which it
closed with the enemy. All the enemy’s
works and camps are now In our possession.
I do not yet know exactly the number of
guns captured, but it Is considerable. Sev
eral trains with Immense quantities of sup
plies were captured.
“The enemy ran away in thousands,! hrow
ing away their arms when overtaken by our
cavalry. Their loss is very great. General
Willis is very slightly and Colonel Richard
son severely wounded. Majors Colville,
Underwood and Somerville, of the Highland
Light Infantry, were killed. Lieutenant
Mac Nell was killed and Captains Cumber
land and Fox were wounded. General
Alison’s Atde-de-Camp, Captain Hut
toD, was wounded. Colonel Stirl
ing and the surgeon of the Cold Stream
Guards were wounded. Colonel Balfour, of
the Grenadier Guards, was wounded in the
leg, and the Color Bergeant was killed. The
cavalry Is now on Its march to Bilbers. The
Indian contingent Is on Its way to Zagazlg,
to be followed this evening by the Highland
brigade. Three Lieutenants of the Came
ron Highlanders are wounded. The canal
is cut in some places, but the railway is
intact. It has been discovered that Rached
Pasha and All Febmy Pasha were wounded
in the engagement of last Saturday.
“Wolsbley.”
The correspondent of the Daily yews tele
graphs the following:
“Ismailia, September 13. —The troops
for the attack on Tel el Keblr were arranged
in the following order: One troop of the In
dian contingent, with a battery of mountain
guns, on the extreme left. The Fourth brl
gade under General Ashburnham, the High
land brigade and General Graham’s brigade
in the order named, and the brigade of
Guards on the right, in support of Gene
ral Graham. A forty-pounder was
pushed three miles up the railway.
The enemy fired the first shot. For a half hour
the engagement was general along the
whole Egyptian line, of from four to five
miles, after wbich the enemy were partly
driven from their entrenchments. The
Rifles, the Forty-sixth and the Marines had
then reached within two hundred
yards, and preparations were being
made to storm the lntrecchments.
At 5:40 &. m. fighting recommenced
on the left, but not vigorously. At 5:50
there was silence along the whole line, the
entrenchments then already occupied by the
British troops were between Tel el Keblr
proper and Korein. Col. Richardson, of
the Forty-sixth, was wounded at the begin
ning of the ez_ ragement. All our troops
fought well, til Indian contingent on the
left carefully nf erving their fire.”
An eye-witness of to-day’s battle tele
graphs the following graphic account of it
from Tel el Keblr at 9 a. m.;
“The great battle is practically over. The
rebels discovered our men when about a
mile from their works and opened a heavy
rifle fire. Our men paused for a mo
ment on the line of sand hills. Then
with a gallant rush tbev were among
the rebels. Acting on Gen. Wolseley’s
orders, they reserved their fire and went in
with bayonets. The slaughter for the time
was very great. The rebels could not stand
it and broke and fled, being pursued hotly.
I followed the Royal Irish regiment Into the
trenches before one of the forts. They
were filled with Arabi’s followers dead and
dying. A final rush was made over
a distance of two hundred yards, the men
skirmishing and seeking cover until they
reached this point. Several thousand
Egyptians have been taken prisoners. Our
own loss up to this time I should compute
at two hundred killed. The first fire of the
rebels was very wild. It came from both
Infantry and artillery, and passed over
our heads. They ware disconcerted by
our sudden attack. With daylight the
enemy’s fire improved and became like a
hailstorm. Many men fell, but not for a
st cond did our advance stop. Our covering
parties lying down fired while those In
front pressed on. Gen. Graham’s brigade
worked with gallantry. Nothing could
have surpassed their cheer, which resem
bled a wild yell and could be heard above
the din of musketry as they charged up the
steep elopes of trenches. The Egyptians
were terror struck. Many of them hid in
the corners of the works, while others fled
at their utmost speed, throwing everything
from them. . . ,
“Our work, however, was not yet ended.
The large inner redoubt on Arabi’s left,
well manned and armed, still remained in
tact, but the British troops were not to be
deferred. With another brilliant rush they
were among the enemy, bayoneting the
gunners at their guns and capturing the
heavy artillery- Thus was captured the
key of the position. In fifteen minutes from
the first rush we were Its masters. The
.at.je of the enemy’s musketry died away,
while our men forsook the bayonet and
picked off any rebels who still
? bowed fight in their retreat. On
the south the enemy stood a few
paiuwf longer, perhaps a quarter of
aa 2 2k.. hut use appearance of our cavalry
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1882.
on their right flank soon hastened their
movements. In a few minutes an on-rush
lng stream of fugitives was making for
Zagazlg, flying out of all their entrench
ments. A little later Gen. MacPherson’a
Indian brigade burst upon the flying foe
Horn the south, and the rout was complete.
The artillery coming up at a gallop, unlim
bered and sent their shot and shell after the
rebels, adding to their confusion. The cav
alry had got right round the enemy’s flanks
before the fight began.
“My previous estimate of the nnmbers of
rebels captured was under, rather than over,
the mark. The Egyptian losses, and the
number of guns captured, were also greater
than was first mentioned. It Is believed
that the bulk of the rebel force will be cap
tured, and that a death blow has been given
to Arabl. All the work was done by our
troops In the first line of attack. The prin
cipal fortifications had been carried by the
time the Guards and Fourth [brigade came
up.”
Major General MacPherson has telegraphed
from Zagazlg to the War Office here that he
made a forced march after the capture of
Tel el Keblr and occupied Zagazlg at 4:14
o’clock, this afternoon. He seized five
trains with their engines. The Governor
came in and surrendered to the British.
The people are submissive.
The limes, in a leading article, points out
that the departure of Turkish troops tor
Egypt will be delayed In order to await the
arrival of the British commissioner, Sir
Charles Wilson, now Consul General for
Anatolia, who must proceed to Constanti
nople to arrange the details of the expedi
tion, and then go to the headquarters of
the Turkish force. Thus everything will be
over before the Turks can possibly arrive in
Egypt.
London, September 14.—The Daily yews
has the following dispatch from Constanti
nople : “It is stated In official circles here
that if no agreement is arrived at by Thurs
day in regard to the Auglc-Turklsh mili
tary convention, the Porte will break off
diplomatic relations with England.”
SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICANS
Fuse with the Greenbarkers.
Columbia, S. C., September 13.—1n the
Republican State Convention to-day, the
committee appointed to confer with the
Greenback committee, as to the terms upon
which they could unite In the support of
the Btate ticket, reported that they had held
a conference, and recommended that the
convention indorse the State ticket of
the Greenback party, and stated that the
committee of that party had given assu
rance that they would secure a free ballot
and a fair count. The proposition pro
voked a long and bitter discussion, and the
following substitute by E. W. M. Mackey
was adopted:
Resolved, That the convention of
the Union Republican party of
South Carolina, while repudiating
the financial principles advocated by the
Greenback party, and reaffirming the prin
ciples of the Union-Republican party, do
recommend that at the next general elec
tion the voters of the State, in the Interest
of a free ballot and a fair count, cast their
ballots as Republicans for the State ticket
nominated by the Greenback Labor Conven
tion held on the 6th instant.
A resolution was adopted recommending
the Republicans to support B. 8. Cash, the
Independent candidate for Congress in the
Fifth district.
E. W. M. Mackey was re elected Chair
man of the State Executive Committee.
Adopted.
THE STAR ROUTE FARCE.
Tlie Motion for a New Trial for Miner and
Kerdell to be Heard on Friday.
Washington, September 13.—The Crimi
nal Coart met this morning (Judge Wylie
presiding) for the purpose of hearing argu
ments on the motions entered upon Monday
last for an arrest of judgment in the cases
of Miner and Rerdell, end to increase the
bonds of the defendants as to whom the
jury failed to agree. The court held that
the existing bonds as to the four defendants
upon whom no agreement of the jury was
reached were valid, and would be continued
in force. In this view counsel for the prose
cution concurred, but asked that Taile’s
bond be Increased from SI,OOO to SIO,OOO.
The court so ordered and the Increased
bonds were promptly given.
Mr. Merrick said he had Instructions from
the Attorney General to briDg on the case
for retrial at as early a day as practicable.
After the motion for anew trial was dis
posed of he would ask the court to fix the
6th of November or the Ist of December as
the date when the trial would be begun.
The Court —I shall on Friday take up this
motion for anew trial, with any affidavits
presented, and shall decide It on that day
The court then adjourned until Friday at
ten o’clock. Assistant District Attornev
Moore has in his possession the sworn state
ment of Foreman Dickson, and will draw up
an information based upon it as soon as cor
roborating evidence can be obtained.
IN COLD BLOOD.
The Double Murder at Wytlieville, Va.
Ltnchburg, September 13 —Fuller par
ticulars of the tragedy at Wythevllle yes
terday show that Wm. Crockett, who killed
Joseph Hunt and mortally wounded the
boy Robert Clemens, pursued his victims
several miles out of town and shot them
down In cold blood. There had been an
old grudge between Crockett and Hunt, but
the Immediate cause of the murder was a
heavy loss sustained by the former In a
game of ten pins. It is thought that Crock
ett shot the boy to avoid discovery. After
robbing Hunt of all bis money the mur
derer escaped, and, at last accounts, was
still at large.
COTTON FREIGHTS.
Reduced to Points North of Baltimore.
Atlanta, September 13.—A meeting of
members of the Southern Railway and
Steamship Association was held here to day,
and the rates on cotton to points north of
Baltimore were reduced. The Committee
on Recasting Divisions failed to agree, and
the matter was left to the General Commis
sioner and the dissatisfied members allowed
to appeal to the board of arbitration.
MR. HILL’S SEAT.
His Son Declines to Accept It.
Atlanta, September 13. —For several
days past Governor Colquitt has been think
ing of appointing B. H. Hill, Jr., to fill the
unexpired term of his father, the late Hon.
Ben. H. Hill, In the Senate. To-night Mr.
Hill prepared a letter to be sent to Governor
Colquitt, declining the prospective appoint
ment, stating that the office is beyond his
aspirations.
THE FLAMES IN LITE OAK.
A Storehouse Entirely Consumed.
Live Oak, September 13.—At 3 o’clock
this morning the alarm of fire was sounded.
The frame storehouse of 8. L. Clonts was
discovered in flames, and, being very dry,
burned rapidly. The building and stock of
general merchandise were entirely con
sumed Nothing was saved. The loss Is
covered by insurance.
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, D. C., September 13.—Indications
for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, fair weather,
easterly winds, stationary and higher ba
rometer and temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic States, fair weather,
southerly winds In the latter and variable
shifting to southerly in the former district,
falling barometer and stationary or higher
temperature.
In the Gulf Btatea, fair weather, east to
south winds In the East Gulf, variable winds
In the West Gulf States, stationary or higher
barometer and temperature.
In the Ohio valley and Tennessee, warmer
fair weather, eouth to west winds and lower
barometer.
Another Richmond Failure.
Richmond, Va., September 13—Baldwin
& Jenkins, wholesale shoe dealers, have
assigned. No statement of their assets or
liabilities can be obtain ed, but it is claimed
that their debts will ! e paid in full. The
failure Is attributed to * utside speculations
by the junior member of the firm.
Nervousness, debility, and exhausted vi
tality cured by using Brown’s iron Bitter*.
YELLOW FEVER.
THE OUTLOOK DARKER at PEN
SACOLA.
Distress Among the Laboring Classes
Urgent Need of Aid—Brownsville
Flooded—Mier,Mexico,Stricken with the
Scourge.
New Orleans, September 12.—A Pensa
cola special says : “To-day there were re
ported twenty new cases and three deaths
of yellow fever. Dr. Fordham, of the
Board of Health, and Superintendent Salt
marsh, of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, have been down two days with
the fever. They are reported doing well.
Major John O’Brien, city editor of the Com
mercial, died last night. The relief commit
tee and Board of Health have on duty
one hundred nurses. Everything possible
Is being done by the several aid associations
to alleviate misery and give food, medicine
and attendance to the &ick and destitute.
All the associations are working harmoni
ously, and are fn accord with the Board
of Health. A number of our absent
merchants and several persons In
Mobile, New Yoik and New Orleans
have responded to our appeal for
aid. The great number of unacclimated
persons here have doubtless added to the
fury of the disease. Most of these are labor
ing men, whose work having been suspended
are in needy clrcnmstanaes, and further,
these people know nothing as to the care
required for yellow fever cases.”
Brownsville) Texas, September 13.
The river is flooding the northwestern part
of th city. Many families are forced to
leave their bouses.
There were thirty-one new cases of yel
low fever to-day and three deaths, all the
latter Mexicans. The Board of Health has
organized with Dr. Murray as President arid
Dr. Tamer, Secretary. The sick are doing
well. The fever is now at many ranches
along the river. Assistance has been ex
tended them from here. The sick in Fort
Brown were doing we 1. The quarantine
against Matamoras has been re-established.
That city Is healthy. The weather Is clear.
Galveston, September 13 — A Laredo
special says: “Yellow fever of the most ma
lignant type has broken out at Mler,
Mexico, thirty five miles from this place.
The fever was brought to the town from
Matamoras by shipments of merchandise.
The inhabitants are leaving in every direc
tion. Much uneasiness is felt here, and all
the towns on the Rio Grande have quaran
tined against Mler.”
BASE BALL
Chicago* Versus l’rovldeuces Games
Elsewhere.
Chicago, September 13.—The Chicago
Baee Ball Club had a harder, closer and
more doubtful game with the Providence
cub to day than yesterday. The Chlcagoa
won finally by a wild over-throw of George
Wright on an attempt to make a double play.
The crowd, which was about the same as
that of yesterday (five thousand), was good
natured, but when the ball went into it, as it
did twice, complaint was made that It was
difficult to get it out, If the Chicagos could
benefit by It The umpiring was rather un
satisfactory, but neither side profited un
duly by It. The Chicagos made ten base
bits and thirteen totals. The Providence
club made eleven hits and twelve totals.
The Chicagos hits were pretty well bunched.
The Providence men made ten errora and
the Chicagos only five, Including two passed
balls.
To-raorrow’s game Is looked .forward to
with more Interest, as being practically the
decison of the championship.
Bcore—Chicagos 10000 2 02 I—total 6.
Providences—o 2 0 0 2 000 I—total 5.
Reading, Pa.—Baltimores 25, Actives 0.
New Yobk.— Metropolitans 4. Pbiladel
pbiaa 3.
Cleveland —Clevelands 6, Bostons 2.
Buffalo —Buffalos 5, Troys 2
Pottsvillb.— Alleghenys 8, Anthracites
8. Nine Innings; game called on account
of darkness.
LORNE AND LOUISE.
The Princess Bruised in a Railway Col
lision.
San Francisco, September 13 —The train
carrying Lord Lome and the Princess Louise
and party came in collision with a switching
engine at Port Costo to-day. No one was
seriously hurt, but several members of the
British party were ehaken up. The Princess
Louise was thrown from her feet and bruised
slightly.
New York Cotton Futures.
New York, September 13—The Post's
cotton report says: “Future deliveries at
the first call advanced l-100c., lost l-100c.
to 2-100 c. after the call, but were bought at
the second call, September and October, at
prices 6-100 c. to 5 109 c. above yesterday’s
closing quotations, the later months at an
advance of 3-100 c. to 1100 c. Then a reac
tion ensued and sales were made at a de
cline of 2-100 c. to 3100 c. At the third call
Octobe’r brought 11 81c., February 1172 c.,
May 12 07c., June 1217 c., September was
held at 12 37c., November 11 58c., December
1157 c., January 1162 c., March 1184 c.,
April 11 96c.”
A Republican Bolt in Louisiana.
New Orleans, September 13—A Baton
Rouge special says: “The Republican Con
vention of the Sixth district to-day nomi
nated Louis J. Sauer for Congress, by an
almost uuanlmous vote, on tbe first ballot.
Sauer Is an appraiser of merchandise, and
his nomination Is regarded as a victory for
the custom bouse faction. Another Repub
lican Convention for this district will assem
ble at Red River landing on September 18,
for the purpose of consulting with the De
mocratic leaders.”
Gamblers Shot—A Horse Thief Hanged,
Galveston, September 13 —A special
from Houston says: “At Patterson last
Sunday a white man named Frank Harkins,
while gambling with some negroes, became
Involved In a quarrel and snot three of
them, killing one and seriously injuring the
others. Haskins escaped. In tbe same
neighborhood the body of a white man
named Maas was fonnd hanging to a tree.
Maas had the reputation of being a cattle
thief. There Is no clue to the perpetra
tors.”
Praying While He Leaped Into the River,
New York, September 13.—John R Mor
ris, Treasurer of Long Island City, commit
ted suicide this morning by throwing him
self Into East river at Astoria, near his resi
dence. His brother killed himself In a sim
ilar manner some months ago, and his son-
In-liw, a police officer attached to the Long
Island City force, shot himself last year.
When he was picked up Morris’ hands were
folded together as if he was praying when
he took the fatal leap.
The Richmond Bank Failure.
Richmond, Va., September 13 lnquiry
to-day elicited the fact that Mr. Davis, late
President of the suspended bank, was in
debted to it to the amount of over $375,000.
A deed of trust was made this afternoon,
conveying to E. C. Whitlock, Trustee, the
entire property of the Banking and Insu
rance Company, to be used Id the liquida
tion of the company’s liabilities. It ts esti
mated that Davis holds property which will
realize about $250,000.
Western Union.
New Tore, September 13.—At the quar
terly meeting of the Western Union Tele
graph Company to-day a dividend of one
and a half per cent, was declared for the
current quarter, payable on October 16th.
Dr. Norvln Green announced his retirement
from the Presidency at the end of his pre
sent term of office. Newspaper reports
assign Gen. Thos. T. Eckert to the vacancy
thus created.
The Danville Tragedy.
Danville, Va., September 13 —The ex
amination of witnesses In the case of John
H. Johnston, Mayor of the city, charged
with the murder of John E. Hatcher, late
Chief of Police,was concluded this evening,
and pleading will begin to-morrow. John
ston has been admitted to hall from day to
day since Monday In *IO,OOO.
A Circus Attached.
Columbia, 8. C., September 13.—May
bury, Pullman & Hamilton’s circus property
was attached here last night bv their em
ployes for *6,000, and local attachments for
unpaid bills were also served upon the pro
prietors of the show. A judgment for
*6,462 exists In New York against the prop
erty.
Kidney Disease.
Palo, Irritation, Retention, Incontinence,
gravely oft., owed fey “Baefeo-
THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE.
Second Day of the Annual Festivities.
Baltimore, September 13 —The second
day of the Oriole festivities (Lord Balti
more day) was bright and pleasant, and the
holiday was more general than yesterday.
All the principal streets were thronged with
immense crowds, and many of them were
Impassable. The celebration was com
menced with a procession of tugboats,
all handsomely decorated, down the har
bor, where the steamer conveying
Lord Baltimore and retinae was
met and conveyed to the
city. As the convoy passed Fort McHenry
it was saluted with a salvo of artillery. The
landing took place at Brown’s wharf, near
the foot of Broadway, where His Lordship
was received by the military with an artil
lery salute, the ringing of bells and other
demonstrations of welcome. The line of
march was then taken no, led by a platoon
of mounted police, Maj. J. Henry Beban, of
New Orleans, acting Grind Marshal
Lord Baltimore was conducted to the City
Hall, where the keys of the city were deliv
ered up to him by Mayor Whyte, after which
he held a brief reception. The throng of
visitors in the city is greater than on any
previous occasion, there being a large num
ber from Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile
and other cities in the South and West. The
press ts largely represented from all sec
tions. One of the notable features in the
procession of yesterday and to-day was tbe
large number of line and thoroughbred
horses under eaddle and in harness.
New York Stock Market.
New York, September 13 —Share specu
lation opened generally firm at a fractional
advance In prices from yesterday’s quota
tions. lu the early trade there was a gene
ral advance of % to IX per cent., Northern
Pacific preferred leading therein, after
which the market became heavy and re
corded a decline ranging from \ to 2 per
cent., in which Rock Island, Omaha pre
ferred and common, Alleghany Central,
Denver and Rio Grande, Sr. Paul and New
Jersey Central were most conspicuous.
A little after midday there was a recovery
of }i to 1 per cent., the latter for Narthem
Pacific preferred, which sold at. the
highest price It has ever reached. After
this the market became weak, and in the
late trade prices fell off Xto 2% per cent.,
the latter for Canada Southern, to 64}£.
Northwestern, Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western, Union Pacific, Reading, and New
Jersey Central were also prominent In the
decline, while Chesapeake and Ohio sold
1% per cent, higher.
In the final dealings. Michigan Central
advanced 2, Indiana, Bloomington and
Western 1, and Northwestern preferred 1
per cent., and a few other shares a frac
tion, bnt the general market closed weak at
a decline from yesterday’s closing prices of
%to 4 per cent., Northwestern preferred
leading therein. Transactions aggregated
480,000 shares.
Lexington Races,
Lexington, Kt., September 13— The
first race, two-year-olds, three- quarters of
a mile, Pike’s Pride won, the St. Martin filly
second, Bellona third. Time I:l7J<.
The second race, for three-year-olds,
mile heats, Wallensee won the first and
second heats and the race. Time 1:46,
I*9*.
The third race, for all ages, one and an
eighth miles, Mendelssohn won, ArthUla
second, Bquare Dance third. Time 1:58.
An extra race, for all ages, one mile, was
won by Monty, Malasine second, Thesis
third. Time 1:46)*.
The Arkansas Election.
Lttlb Rook, September 13.—Official re
turns from sixty-one counties show the vote
on Governor to be: Berry (Democrat) 75,-
940, Slock (Republican) 39,947, Garland
(Greenbacker) 8,271. The eleven remaining
counties, already heard from unofficially,
may reduce Berry’s majority a few hundred.
The Republicans have one Senator and the
Urcenbacfcers one Senator. The Senate will
stand: Democrats 28 out of 31, and the
House, Democrats 73 out of 91.
The Iron Workers’ Strike.
Pittsburg, September 13.— Two hundred
delegates, representing 5,000 men employed
in thirty-five Iron mills aa finishers, met to
day and almost unanimously voted to ter
minate the strike. If the puddlers and
muck rollers do not agree to similar action
these men will withdraw from the Amal
ga’ed Iron Workers’ Association. President
Jarrett has called a meeting of the Amalga
ted Association for to morrow to consider
the situation.
The Dublin Police.
Dublin, September 13.—The committee
appointed by the police have prepared a
document setting forth their grievances.
The authorities expected from the police
that they would omit references to disci
pline, the rigor of which, however, is the
chief matter of which the police complain.
The Riley-Kennedy Boat Race.
Portland, Me., September 13.—Riley
and Kennedy rowed a mile and a half and
return race to-day on Lake Maranacook for
$3,000. Kennedy took the lead at the start
and was never headed. He won by four
lengths. Time—Kennedy 19:35, Riley
19:53}5. _
The St. Leger Stakes.
London, September 13.—The St. Leger
stakes at Doncaster meeting to-day. was
won by Dutch Oven, Geheimness second,
Shotover third.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY
The Democratic Congressional Conven
tion at Morrlllon, Ark., nominated Judge J.
K. Rogers to-day.
The New Hampshire Democratic Btate
Convention yesterday nominated V. B. Ed
gerly as Its candidate for Governor.
The Democrats of the First Arkansas dis
trict at Forest City, yesterday, unanimously
renominated Poindexter Dorr for Congrees.
The Baton Rouge merchants are jnbllant
over the prospects for the cotton crop. The
weather Is favorable for picking. The
quality Is Improving.
Tbe steamer Benlnah, recently stolen from
United States officers at Bismarck, Dakota,
and started down the river, has been recap
tured at Fort George Island, and her officers
and crew were made prisoners.
John T. Crisp, the well-known Demo
cratic disorganlzer in Kansas City, Mo.,
district, announces himself as-an independ
ent candidate for Congress. It is expected
that the Republicans and Greenbackers will
Support him.
The excitement which has existed among
the negroes of Fast St. Louis during the
past three days upon tbe school question
subsided yesterday, the negroes agreeing to
send their children to the separate schools
provided for them by the school board.
A slight fire near the altar of St. Thomas’
Catholic Church, in Cincinnati, during the
celebration of a children’s mass, caused a
panic among several hundred children pres
ent, and many of them were seriously in
jured in rushing from the building.
The bouse of the late William McSorley,
at West Brighton, Staten Island, was en
tered by burglars recently while the family
were at church and robbed of SIO,OOO in
bonds, a large sum of money in bills and sil
ver, and a quantity of jewelry and plate.
George Nesbitt, a ranchman started from
Tulerosa Canon for Los Cruces, in a wagon,
last Saturday, with his wife, Miss Woods
and a stranger. Yesterday the dead bodies
of the three were found, Nesbitt having dis
appeared. It is thought he murdered them
while drunk.
The wife of Charles 8. Carter has sued a
saloon keener of Brooklyn for $25,000 dam
ages, “for having caused her husband to
become an habitual drunkard.” It appears
that the latter received $17,000 damages for
Injuries sustained in the Ashtabula disaster,
and it is asserted that he “has been on a
spree for some years ”
The Mexican National Railway has
reached the ninety-third mile post from the
city of Mexico, entitling the company to a
subsidy for the 270 miles of the main line
completed, amounting to $3,000,000. The
company has built in all, of main line and
branches in Mexico, about 400 miles.
Commander Pearson, of the Wachusett,
reports to the Navy Department from Fort
Wrangel, under date of the 15th ult., that
“quiet and good order” prevail in Alaska,
“and he knows of no reason to expect any
change.” The reports of disorder some
time ago, he says, “were all untrue, and
gotten up in the Interest of trading com
panies, who desired the continued presence
of a veseel-of-war in that quarter.”
A Statement Denied.
Bajnbbidge, Os., September 11.— Editor
Morning News: The telegram sent from this
place, and which appeared in the News of
Friday, alleging that I was put on notice
John Williams would attempt to escape and
took no measures to prevent ir, I brand as a
falsehood purposely perpetrated by its author
to injure me. L. F. Burkett.
Sheriff Decatur County, On.
For headache, constipation and btifaus
ness, um Mnikf't Selins Aptntnl,
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
INTERNAL REVENUE IN GEOR
GIA.
Reports for the Two Districts— Hnbbell’s
Pillagers—Garfield's Doctors— I The Situ
ation in New York and Pennsylvania.
Washington, September 12.—Acting Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, Mr. Rodgers,
is allowing access to the special annual reports
made by the Collectors of Internal Revenue.
The report for the Savannah district was made
by ex-Collector Wade. He says that he is sat
isfied that this district Is freer from frauds
upon the revenue in the manufacture and sale
of taxable articles than it had been at any time
since the commencement of his term of office.
During the past year the different divisions
have been thoroughly canvassed for frauds in
the sale of illicit tobacco, and he believes that
there is little opportunity for any fraudulent
working combination between the manufactur
ers and dealers, as did exist two or three years
ago, when complaints from wholesale dealers
in ths Urge cities were quite general. The
Illicit distillation of spirits, which was carried
on in almost every portion of the district four
years ago, has been gradually driven from
each stronghold and overcome, with the ex
ception of two counties. With the exception
of those counties, the Savannah district is ns
fro® from this pest as any section in the
Union. In those two counties, however, the
wvfl still has a foothold in spite of the most
strenuous efforts to suppress it. The senti
meet of ths rough hlllsinen seems to have im
proved very little toward an obedience to the
They seldom now meet the revenue ofll
oers with organized resistance, but rely almost
entirely upon the concealment afforded in
forests for carrying on
their Illicit work. They have a system of out
posts End informers, and keep an espionage
over the movements of the revenue officers
that is very difficult to overreach.
•i,K£!L2BP ttMT .. I ’ lßßl, no leas than eleven
illicit distilleries have been seized or destroyed
in the?ft counties, and whenever the parties
have been caught or sufficient evidence ob
tamed they have been held to answer to tbe
courts. These methods have been followed
bv the establishment of a legally registered
distillery In the heart cf the moonshine dis
trict, and it is hoped that by persevering
in a vigorous enforcement of the laws the bad
portion of the dis'rict may be brought up to
that just appreciation of th > laws that obtains
in the other sections. Violation of the law
will occur from time to time, but it is believed
that with the exception of the two counties re
ferred to— Elbert and Oglethorpe—which em
brace but a small portion of the district, obe
dience to the laws famish as general and com
plete a rendition of the government’s revenues
as is made in any portion of the country.
The sentiment of the people of the district
Is better than it has ever been
in regard to complying vith the
laws of the General Government, and the
State officials have shown a disposition to assist
and co-operate with the revenue offioers of
late that has insured a more complete collec
tion of the revenues of both the State and
National Governments. The people have come
to realise that a uniform enforcement of the
law is necessary to prevent unjust competition,
and act upon it.
COLLECTOR JOHNSON’S REPORT.
In his special annual report Collector John
son, at Atlanta, says that he does not think
that the government is at the present time rie
frauded to any great extent in h’.s district.
The great mass of citizens of the district not
only do not oppose but favor and encourage
the execution of ths internal revenue laws.
There are no combinations to thwart or op
pose their execution. It is true that
there are some bad citizens who evade
the laws and defraud the government
when an opportunity offers, but they have not
combined for such purposes Most of the in
ternal Revenue officers are well liked by tbe
tax-payers, and are meeting with less diffi
culty in enforcing the laws than in late years.
Collector Johnson says that on account of the
very promising outlook for the corn crop he is
informed that there will be a good deal of illicit
distilling carried on or attempted, but hopes
that this apprehension will not be verified,
and that with the assistance of the Internal
Revenue Bureau and the aid of the law-abiding
citizens in encouraging the enforcement of
the laws, it will be entirely abated.
THOSE BILLS.
People sincerely hoped that when Congress
passed an appropriation of $15,000 to pav all
the bills of the late President’s illness '.hat no
more would that matter be hawked and be
draggled Into the halls of Congress. Bueh will
not be the case, however. The commission of
Treasury officers appointed to audit and settle
all these claims have only had two bills pre
sented to them, one of which is for $25,000,
only SIO,OOO less than the whole amount appro
priated, which has been presented by Dr. Bliss.
The claimants are not satisfied with the amount
appropriated. They will not present their
claims, but intend to go before Con
gress again at the next session and
try it again. If any one should accept the
allotment which the commission of Treasury
officers might be willing to accord him be
could never go to Congress for more Such
are the terms of appropriation The $15,000
being so disproportionate to the amount of the
claims, the claimants are not willing to lay
their cases before the commission. There
could be but one result. At tbe next session
there will be more unseemly wrangling about
the settlement of the bills incurred during the
dead President’s illness.
AN UNEXPECTED PHASE OF THE THING.
The Hubbell committee is surprised and
somewhat out at the nose j dot They first
sent out their circulars of assessments, and
than followed it up with another circular as a
sort of reminder. Tbe clerks in the Treasury
Department especially did not respond with
any great show of alacrity. Then the com
mittee sent around collectors who were to re
ceive five per cent, of the amount they suc
ceeded in robbing the clerks of. Secre
tary Folger refused to allow a collector
to go through the Treasury Department.
When he left on his trip a short time ago the
Hubbell committee, thinking th's a good op
portunity, put a watchman of the department,
a man named Molair, on the war path. Molair
went at it, and tor the past few days has been
doing some work in collecting. He struck last
Fridav the office of the United States Treasu
rer, Mr. Gilflllan, and asked permission to go
among the clerks in that office. Mr. Gilflllan
wanted to see his authority for making such a
demand. Molair pulled out a letter from the
Hubbell committee. He was told he
would have to exhibit authority
from Secretary Folger. “But that I can’t
get,” he said. “Then.” replied Mr. Gilflllan
“you cannot visit any of my clerks.” Molair
left. The other Treasury officers, learning of
the stand taken by tbe Treasurer, soon, with
one or two exception--, put themselves on the
same ground. The Hubbell pickings in the
Treasury Department promise to be very light
indeed in the future.
ABOUT NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA.
The great States of New York and Pennsyl
vania excite the most interest evidently in poli
tics, judging from what the politicians here
talk. Every New Yorker and every Pennsyl
vanian who sojourns ever so shortly at the na
tional capital, is seized upon for his views. Of
course these views are varied as
the politics of the visitor
is. But it seems to be the preponderance of
opinion that the Cameron machine in Penn
sylvania is this time broken beyond a doubt.
There does not seem to be, however, much
chance for the Democratic candidate to slip in.
The reports generally tend towards the elec
tion of the Independent Republican Guberna
torial candidate, with the balance of the ticket
shared between the independents and the stal
warts. Senator Mitchell, heretofore the most
active opponent ot Cameronism. is reported
to be acting strangely. Some Pennsylva
nians say that he has been, to
a very great extent, “fixed” by
Don Cameron. In New York reports gf> it
that Folger will certainly be the stalwart can
didate for Governor. lie will have the sup
port of the administration, though it will not
be accorded any too warmly. Folger has been
a little too liberal in bis management of tbe
Treasury Department to entirely please stal
wart Arthur or the other stalwarts. It must
be admitted that New York Democrats who
came here do not talk very confidently of party
harmony. Of course it is for the same aid
reason—John Kelly will prevent such harmony.
Potomac.
An editorial in that stanch protection
journal the Boston Advertiser (Rep.) is
attracting attention. It speaks in this
tone:
“The business men of the country are
in a position where the extension of their
operations beyond the limits of this
nation is a matter of necessity. A
beginning has been made in Mexico.
Further openings appear almost every
where. The capital of the country seeks
investments, and when home opportu
nities *are supplied foreign investments
will be in demand. The West is no longer
a borrower in our Atlantic markets, and
the South is growing toward economic
independence. In fact, economically,
the South bids fair to take the place held
by the West during the last twenty-five
years. This deprives the West of an im
portant buyer, and leaves a great mass of
freight for export purposes. Incident
ally it gives further strength to the roads
leading eastward from the Missouri and
Mississippi river points. The South be
gins to manufacture, the factories of the
West begin to supply the local markets,
and so the factories of the East must
think of finding a market elsewhere.
Whether it is better to reduce internal
revenue or tariff dues has been discussed
by many persons, <nearly all of whom de
mand that Congress spare their particular
interest and tax someone else for the
public good—just as if the purpose of
national taxes consisted in fostering
private business, while its true object is
to furnish funds for the use of the Gen
eral Government. We cannot afford to
tax one class at the expense of any other.
It is notorious that many interests axe
tufflcicuUf strong for iadepecdencs.”
ESTABLISHED 1850.
hm.i.vmm; f hie f.nd.
Iron Workers Resuming Work in Defi
ance of the Amalgamated Association.
Pittsburg Special (lltA) to Philadelphia Press.
Tbe interest in the iron strike Is becoming
more Intense as evidences of its approaching
end accumulate. All day the mills of Graff,
• Bennett & Cos. and Wilson, Walker & Cos.,
wherein work was resumed this morning. In
defiance of the Amalgamated Association,
have been surrounded by crowds of angry
strikers, but no overt acts have been com
mitted . There may be more or le6S trouble
tc morrow, however, as the strikers are
determined to hang John Reilly, one of the
men who has become particularly unpopular,
in effigy. A large crowd will be attracted to
tbe place, and disorder Is almost Inevitable.
These actions will not stem the tide, how
ever. The men who have taken the first
steps toward ending the strike are deter
mined, and cannot be induced to return to
the Union fold. Said one of the most
prominent, Mr. Ephraim Truxel), to-day:
*‘We expect to be booted at for a few days,
but I .for one do not care, as lam a member
cf the new Rollers’ Association, and with
the rest have determined not to be ruled by
a set of men who will persist lu a
strike which was begun without a
shadow of reason or a hope of sac
cess. This morning we have 105 men at
work here, the majority of whom are old
men. There were a great many applicants
for work hero when we started this morn
ing, and even puddlers asked for situations
at the rolls. Although we have started to
Work we don’t consider ourselves “black
sheep.” and any man who was ever “black
lfctea” need not apply for work here. We
have simply acted with common sense in
resuming work. We propose to stick to it.
and in the coorae of a few days the steel
department here will be running double
tarn.”
Out of the crew necessary to run his de
partment only three men failed to show up
this morning, and there were a dozen appli
cants for the positions.
The new Rollers’ Association, to which
Mr. Truxell alludes, seems.to be an accom
plished fact, although its existence as more
than a local disturbance is denied by Presi
dent Jarrett, who returned to the city to
day. Right on the heels of his denial comes
the statement of Peter Joyce, who Is chief
roller at the Valiev mills, Youngstown,
Ohio. He ’said : “We all went out with
the puddlers on the Ist of June, and
have remained out over three months
on a point which, even If gained, will not
realize our wages or benefit our condition
a particle. Then after this they ndertook
to choke, us off In the convention
and not allow the delegate finishers to ex
press their sentiments. I think now that it
is about time for ns to assert ourselves and
have our rlgh's. 1 am speaking only for
myself. I have thirty-five or forty men
under me at the Valley mill, but I have
never spoken to them on the subject or tried
to influence them regarding the matter.
Neither have I ever spoken to the operators
of the mill about It, but I am fully de
termined never to have anything more to do
with the association.”
Other prominent members of the associa
tion talk in the same strain, but tbe hangers
on at the headquarters insist that the asso
ciation is as solid as it ever was. This is
such a palpable misstatement that it is no
longer considered. It is known that Secre
tary Martin and one of the Vice Presidents
are traveling through the West soliciting
funds. If they are successful this defiant
tone wlil continue a little longer. If not, the
bangers on will depart. In addition to the
firms mentioned yesterday as intending to
resume operations to morrow with non
union men it is stated positively that the
extensive sheet mill of Reis Bros., at New
castle, Pa., and Brown. Bonnell & Cos., of
Youngstown, Ohio, will resume either to
morrow or Wednetday.
GOVERNOR SEYMOUR.
A Visit to tbe Venerable Statesman**
Home—Franc'.* Kernan.
Tbe editor of the Omaha Herald, who
has been making a visit to New York,
writes to his paper from that city: .“I
have been spending some days in Oneida
and near the native spots, and, as an in
cident of his somewhat melancholy ex
perience, which is common to whoever
gets near the graves of their kindred, I
have had several visits with Horatio
Seymour, his brother, Mr. John F. Sey
mour, and also with Francis Kernan, the
ex-Senator of universal good repute
and strong name. Governor Seymour
insists that he is an old man, and it is
true that he suffers from physical weak
ness in his legs, which disables him seri
ously in walking. But he retains his
old charming simplicity of manner and
conversation, as well as vigor of mind,
and his full face and form do not betray
ar.y falling away under the weight of
seventy-two winters. He discusses all
current subjects, and as little of politics
as possible. I visited him a few days
ago in his Deerfield home, and had a
rare pleasure in doing so. He led us
into the native forest hard by that sim
ple house where, with his usual conver
sational eloquence, he discoursed of the
trees he loves and studies so much.
Tree culture in Nebraska has been
always of interest to him, and never
more so than now. He made a special in
quiry about the catalpa,which seemed to
be new to him, and still urged the value
of the black cherry as a timber tree. The
grand specimen that stands in front of
his bouse, which is five feet in diameter,
and the tall and beautiful specimens that
stand in the woods within a stone throw
of it, leave little room for argument on
that score. Governor Seymour speaks
of himself as a farmer, with much good
humor, and says he does his farming
through “nature and neglect.” Gover
nor Seymour drives to the city
on pleasant days, and sits in his
office in Genesee street, when not
visiting his sisters, Mrs. Conkling and
Mrs. Rutger Miller. It is a pity that
such a man should grow old, but his
own serene philosophy does not see it
in that light. He says it is right. “We
ought to go,” said Governor Seymour in
my hearing, a day or so ago, “to make
room for better people.” Francis Ker
nan returned from the United States
Senate to Utica, and to the law, one of
the best honored and contented citizens
of the State of New York. He is as ac
tive in spirit and as energetic and genial
as he ever was, and is an honor to his
State and country. Mr. Kernan is an
old and wise leader of the party in this
State. His clear head, recognized abili
ties and unspotted name admirably fit
him for it. Mr. Kernan is not afraid of
the tariff issue among the working
masses. His simple way of putting the
question to them, in 1880, proved that
he had no cause for fear
SILENT FOR FORTY YEARS.
Strange Behavior of a Family ot
Delaware County—A Husband and
Wig; Live Together for Nearly
Hair a Century and Never Speak.
Philadelphia Record.
A most singular tale of domestic in
felicity, extendmg over a period of forty
years, comes from Media, Delaware
county. On the Providence road, a mile
and a half from this pretty little town,
near the Rose Tree Hotel, lives Mrs.
Isaac Yarnall, whose husband for forty
years prior to his demise, which occurred
p few years ago, never addressed a word
to his wife. The latter did likewise,
though both lived under the same roof
during all those years. Old Isaac Yar
nail first settled where his wife and
family are now located fully a half cen
tury ago. Mrs. Yarnall, who is now
ninety-four years of age, is spoken of as
being a quiet, kind and clever neighbor,
though extraordinarily headstrong. This
characteristic, it is said, was the princi
pal feature in the composition of her
husband, who otherwise bore the repu
tation of being a fair, square man.
This same stubbornness was not alone
confined to the parents, for the three
daughters and two sons were
also imbued with it to a re
markable degree. The ODly children
living are the daughters, not one of
whom has exchanged a word with one
another for years, though they too dwell
together with the mother in the commo
dious, antiquated farm house near the
Rose Tree InD. The peculiarities of the
family are known to all the farmers for
miles around. What at first appeared
surprising and inexplicable has become
bo commonplace that the strange doings
ot the Yamaha have long veaaed to &
the subject of comment among the coun
try folk of that section. Isaac Y&rnall
was an industrious aDd thrifty tiller of
the soil. He plodded along diligently
and saved his hard earned dollars until
he amassed sufficient to purchase a hun
dred acre farm. This he worked until
his death, and by judicious investments
managed to leave behind him the snug
sum of $25,000, on which the family are
now living.
The trouble between himself and wife
was brought about in this way: Mrs.
Yarnall was bequeathed a small sum of
money by a relative, which her husband
desired to use m purchasing farming
implements and otherwise improving
the property. His better half said no.
Isaac vowed that unless he was given
the money he would never speak another
word to her. True to his vow he
steadfastly refrained from speaking for
forty long years. The daughters, who
were nothing more than mere children
when this falling out occurred, tried to
get the father and mother to make up,
but failed.
Reared under such surroundings it is
not surprising that when the girls grew
to womanhood they should take sides
with their disagreeing parents. One
upheld the father, auother the mother,
whilo the third, after vainly trying to
bring about a harmonious feeling be
tween all bands, became disheartened
and gave up the task. The daughters
have, since they quarreled, always ig
nored each other’s presence. At the
father's funeral a carriage was provided
for the girls to convey them to the ceme
tery. When the funeral cortege was
leaving the house the girls found that
they were expected to ride together.
They at first refused, but persistent coax
ing and tbe fear of creating a scene suf
ficed to induce them to stifle their repug
nant feelings for the time and the
daughters rode off together, A stranger
visiting the Yarnalls would fail to dis
cover at tbe first visit any family differ--.
cnees. The old lady and the three
daughters address their conversation en
tirely to the visitor, and wait patiently
until each question is answered before
pro*poumling anot her. When alone they
eat together, but never speak, anil move
about tho house utterly oblivious of each
other's- presence.
OPIUM SMOKING.
Au Account of Some ot lite
111 St. lOßil,
St. Louis Republican..
At the last meeting of the Police
Board the question of suppressing the
opium evil, which is now known to be
growing and extending in this city,
came up. It was decided that an ordi
nance should be recommended and
brought before the municipal assembly,
embodying in its various sections penal
ties for keeping ODium dens and punish
ing people found in them. A reporter,
in company with two detectives, made a
tour of the opium haunts. After knock
ing at the door of a house in the
neighborhood of Seventh and Market
streets, the bolts were shot back and the
trio were ushered into a dark hall,where
the smell of opium was almost suffocat
ing. The hall was about twenty feet
long, and on each side were two rooms.
Two doors on one side of the hall were
open, and glancing in the reporter saw
in the first four young men, apparently
between the age of twenty and twenty
five years. They were lying on a mat
tress, in the centre of which stood a tray
and a lighted candle. One of them held
a sort of knitting needle in his hand, on
the end of which was a dark substance,
which he was holding over the flame of
the candle.
A dark stairway was found at the end
of the hall, and ascending it slowly, the
three found themselves at the open door
way of a large room immediately at the
head. Two mattresses were in this room,
and reclining about them in various
positions were three women and three
men. All were partially undressed, and
wes t 1 u ' n gaged in taking long whiffs
from blucii. looking pipes, which one
man on each mattress possessed. The
parties were well-dressed and rather in
telligent and greeted the appearance of the
visitors with an invitation to take a pipe.
Here, as below, one of the men was en
gaged in burning the drug on a small
piece of steel. The operation was kept
up for a few minutes, after which it was
inserted in a long black pipe, made
especially for opium smoking. The
steel or pin upon which it was prepared
was then withdrawn, leaving the drug
in the pipe. Tbe stem was then placed
in a victim’s mouth and the pipe lighted.
A subdued hissing noise then ensaed,
during which the pupils of the smoker’s
eyes expanded and his face assuried an
expression of ecstatic bliss.
After a few seconds the pipe was
withdrawn from the mouth, and tbe
smoker expelled from mouth and nos
trils huge volumes of bluish smoke, and
then fell back on a pillow in an ecstatic
frenzy. The opium was again prepared
and placed in the pipe, and handed to a
woman who reclined next to him who
had just smoked. She was evidently an
old-timer, for she handled the pipe and
smoked it in the most expert manner.
Thus it went around on each mattress,
each smoker taking his pipe in turn.
In another house was found a young
man, seemingly well bred, and very
finely dressed. His legs were crossed
oriental fashion, and he hail his pipe in
his hand as he looked up lazily and then
turned again to the light when his pipe
had been refilled by the white man who
did the work quickly and handed it back
to the imitator of De Quincey, who pro
ceeded to inhale the smoke and expel it
slowly from his mouth and nostrils.
Then he dropped his pipe and fell back
upon the bed, rolled over on his Bide,
threw his hands out on the bed and
closed his eyes, to wander in dreams
among happy scenes. He slept sweetly
it seemed, and the look of delight upon
his face almost made the reporter long
to put himself under the influence of
“just, subtle and mighty opium” to en
joy the fantastic dreams which De
Quincey so beautifully describes. He
seemed rather strange-looking in such a
place, sleeping on the mattresses in the
dreary room and the poisonous atmos
phere.
“Yes,” said the white man, “we have
lots like him come here, you bet your
life. They come here in fine style; get
out of their carriages a square or two
away in the evening, and sneak in here
to tap the pipe. Ladies? Yes, you bet,
and pretty ones in fine clothes, and they
smoke and smoke and lay around there
on the floor, just as happy as they can
be. They come here every day, you see,
and have the prettiest pipes of their own.
Nobody knows it, and they just go on
smoking every day.”
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