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Georgia Affairs. a company of capitalists, residing in Atlanta and elsewhere, have formed a corporation with -tn authorized capital of one million of dollars, ander the came of the Au tell Refrigerator u.p ny, for the purpose of p-oviiing cheap t i safe trat spoliation of vgetibles, frui s x fid all perishable produce from the Southern states to the Northern and Western cities. The first tickets ever sold over the new line to Texas, via the New Orleans Pacific Railroad, were sold at the car shed at Atlanta Wednes iay night. 1 his route is the shortest line to Pan Francisco. . Ten circus companies are billed to strike i ieorgia the coming season Their effect may be compared to a moral cyclone. The “sore-eyed’ - have a splendid opportunity. According to the Atlanta Post-Appeal, of baing ured. That paper says: “It is a sight good for sore eyes to look into tin? shop windows of o .r enterp-ising merchants.’’ Shorter College, at Rome, opened on Wednes ! -ijr with 126 pupils, which wili be increased 25 iiore before the end of the ■ eek. This t how g is unparalleled in th* histo-y of the college, and speaks well for its popularity as an educa tional centre. Columbus evidently believes that cleanliness s next to godliness, and is abou: to have en other soap factory. Columbus advertises for a name for its uew c -metery. How would “Bone Yard” sound? The Columbus Female College opened on Wednesday under very fi .tv ring auspices, -i h’ y pupils were in attendance, which is twenty more than ever before entered on open ing day. Arthur Hendricks, eMorel, of Columbus, has received a notification of his app< iitment to a ••rk-hip in the Pension Office at Washington, v. th instructions to report for duty by the first of October. The salary jail is 5900 per a n. is m. All the colored ycung men named Arthur may now expect lucrative positions in the government service. Postal cards are very scarce at the A gu.ta P ,st office, much to the annoyance of the busi ness men of the city. Postmaster Holder, of Augusta, finds it i. jessary to explain that the discharge of Gad Gardner, one of his colored subordinates from tiie service of the government, was not on account of his color, nor because he was not faithful, honest and trustworthy, but because le was “inefficient,” and given to habits ren dering him so. We cannot see in o this sort of ivil service reform. It the man was “faith ful, honest and trustworthy, - ’ we don't see where the “inefficiency” comes in, and farther xplanation is in order. Mr. Wes Almond, who was on trial at Eiber : >n for the killing of Judge Alfred Oliver, of llbert county, has been acquitted by the jury of the charge. H u. Seaborn Reese wid awaken the Demo echoes of old Richmond on Monday evening at Augus'a. The Farmers' Friend is anew paper started a Hawkinsville by Capt. R W Anderson. >->n iast Sunday a negro woman named Msn . g was found in her little cabin, near the metery at Hawkinsviile, dead in her bed, iv th her little child asleep by the side of the h- e >nsequence of the high waters, fallen t a- rs. sickness, etc., Julge Pate last week n-’j i -red Dooly Superior C >urt to the second Monday in October next. The storm did great damage to the crops in D o!y county. The roads are obstructed n ith fallen trees, bridges were washed away thri ngheut the county, and many mills were destroyed. * Mr William Simmons, brother of Col. R. F. and Judge J. M Simmons, of Dawson, who had been in bad beaith for several months past, wav on last Tuesday morning found dead in his b -1. It is bud posed that he died cf congestion. The Dawson Journal comes out “square and s raight” for Stephens. The increase in the valuation of the taxable property of Gwinnett county over that of 1881 is ;: t*,679, and the increase in the number of polls is 88. Hawkinsville, up to the 13th inst., had re ceived 2,312 bales of the new cotton crop, -he receipts for the week past will average 210 tales per day. A fatal affray occurred near Toomsboro, B ; bb criinty. on Thursday, between one Green Clay, a turbulent negro, and an aged and almost blind negro. Clay was stabbed by the ether negro, the blow severing the jugular vein, when he fell and expired immediately. A Macon gentieman had occasion to repair his flooring, and while ripping up a plank he found fo :r hundred thousand dollars in Con federate bonds, but—they were not signed. Politics isconsiderab’y mixed la Dodge coun ty. There are four candidates for the Legisla ture, namely: T. F. DeLacy, N. Rawlins, H. I. Sapp and W. B. Sapp. The latter received the highest number of votes in the primary, and was declared the nominee by the Executive Committee. The Republicans have indorsed PcLacy, which will give him the solid vote of the negroes. Every mill in Houston county excepting the mill at Houston Factory was washed awey by the recent storm. Oglethorpe Echo : “We would like to kcor how many matrimonial associations there are n the South ” According to the last United S ates census there are in Georgia about 308,- 000 matrimonial associations, several of whem want to be dissolved. A co’o-ed convict working at the Graysv He lime work--, in Catoosa county, was shot and kit’- and lat week by on-- of the guards He had become unruly and the guard threatened to wrip him, whereupon he became furious and ruade for the guard with a hammer, and was shot and killed almost instantly. \ugusta Evening News: “The Southern Farmer's Monthly tor September, published by J. H Ettill. Savannah, is out. and as usual fuilof just what every farmer and person w ith a garden likes to read about. The sub ■ .Tiptlon price is only a boat §2 a year, and al n>ost any number of it is worth half the money.” Manager C< hen, of the new Masonic Theatre at Auguita, it is understood, will rent the ih“tre for a political speech, under restric tions that the parqueite be reserved for men, the first balcony for ladies and the gallery for colored people ne is right in using every pre caution in admitting public assemblage s into the hall. Some of Atlanta’s best young men have organized a minstrel company, and are now re h-arsing preparatory to giving a performance at DeGive’s Opera House at au early day. The troupe consists of twenty-two men, who will appear in the first part as six end m n, two qii-'rtettes, two interlocutors and an orchestra of six pieces. It will take six thousand five hundred and -ixty dollars to pay the expenses incurred by Dodge county in the trial of ths rioiers at Eastman The court was in session several weeks, and the other expenses were very heavy. Aneffoitwill be made to induce the legislature to make an appropriation for a part of the expenses, or return to the county the amount of this year’s State tax. In Goosepomi district, in Oglethorpe county, last week. Jim Allen, colored, kill-d l rank WatsoD, colored, whom he (Allen) accused of following his wife. Watson was cut la the thigh by Alien, an artery being severed. _ Jim Allen is one of the convicts that killed the guard In Greene county last year and made his escape. A reward of SICO is offered for his capture. * • It is said thata Boston company is about to be organized with the object of building up Brunswick. Ga. The corporation Is to be known as the Brunswick Land Improvement and Colonization Company. The company proposes to improve lands in the vicinity of the town and to erect wharves, docks, etc. It is iaid that there is an immense sum of British Capital at the back of the enterprise. It Is a part or the Cole Benev syndicate to encourage this plan. There was a great deal of excitement in Athens over the attempted murder of Randall brown hr Mat Davis, the colored Postmaster 2£ W SoMI pet of Hon. Emory Speer on Tuesday n ght, the particuUm of whtofc are pi>ykQ ia the Athena Banner- ft a£cArrtao£ -sBfttSWMJSSg! syg "“SL&“ r & wtf. KSSfSit J. 11. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. format on that we can gather it seems that Davis cslted a meeting of the colored Speer men in Town Hall on Monday night last, which appears to have been convened for the express purpose of ahusirrg and villifying the Candler darkeys. They were, in public speeches, denouncing them as ‘renegades,’ ‘black-hearted scoundrels,’ ‘traitors to their race and party, - etc.; and it is slid that Mat Dav._s publicly spike of Randall Brown p.s ‘a “* a "k , who had sold his votes to tne Democrats arid should not be recognized by h s own family.’ This was a false charge, as Randall voluntarily supported Col. Cardler, B‘ating at the time that he preferred voting for an honest Democrat than a two faced politi cian—half Radical arid half Democrat —as Mr. Speer claimed to be. Or course, the insulting remarks made by Mat Davis naturally incensed ttii*i tnan, and he expressed a determination to tell him? what he thought of a man who would try and sell his influence and people for an office for himself. Tee Davis m-n, however, deny Giat any remarks were made abusive of the Cano ier side. So on Tuesday night one of our colored fire companies met at the Town Hail. After the busin ss had beentran-aeted acrowd gathered in front cf the door, disoussirg gen eral topic i, when Mat Davis came up. Wit nesses tuffer ss to who first started the discus sion, but Brown and Divis soon got into a dis pute as to the in-ulting charge that the latter bad heaped upon h ; m the night before, Hatd woios passed on both sides, resulting in a scuffi.-, when Mat Davis deliberately and ew a knife and inflicted a mortal wound upon bis antagonist Davis says he only cut him with a pen-knife, but Randall Brown avers that he dre v a dagger from his girdle and with that cut him. From the nature of the wound the weapon used must have been of a deadly character. Davis had not time to draw and op -n a poeketknife, and all the evidence goes to show that he came pre pared to take this poor man’s life. Brown had no weapon, and was ruthlessly cut down when asking for a ret!action of an insult that had been buried at him. The wounded man was at once carried to his home, where he was soon surrounded by sympathetic friends, both white and black. Alt that could possibly be done far him was freely given. Drs. Gerdine, Benecict and Carlton were tummoned, who examined the wound and pronounced it mortri. They say that there is not one chance iu ten for the patient’s re covery. The wound was inflicted across the abdomen, and the bowels are exposed. He was gashed into the hollow. The wounded man can speak oniy in a whisper, and he affirms that Mat Davis maliciously stabbed him with a long da' g r, doubtless ca-ried with t his end in view. Had Brown anticipated a difficulty li - would certainly have gone armed: but instead of this it can be proved that he had onlv his naked arms as a defense against cold feel, lavls was soon arrested at his house, and released upon giving bond for 81.100. 'i he od people of our city are incensed at his not being cantlned in jail, as Solicitor Mitchell de cided that it was not a bailable case, as the doctors had certified that the wound would in aii probability prove mortal.” Florida A flairs. Tno Jacksonville and Atlantic (Beach) Rail way Company organized at Jacksonville on Wednesday last, elected Colonel J. Q. Bur bridge President, Colonel J. J. Daniel Vice President. Henry S. Ely Secretory, and J. M- Schumacher Treasurer. Tne intention of the company is to pash the building of the road, which wi : be ccmplet&d by the Ist of May next. Th -two colored boys. John Jones and Wil '.am Johnson, charged with firing the houses of Messrs. Durkee and Burnett at Jackson ville, have had a preliminary examination, and have been committed to jail to answer the srrious charges against them. The Democratic primaries to elect delegates to the County Convention cf Duval will be held at Jacksonville to day. It is rumored in Jacksonville that Colonel Jay, the Postmaster of Jacksonville, had been removed, and General Ledwith appointed in his place. Fore eyes have invaded Volusia county. The solitary cork tree that adorn id Talla hassee, and was a curiosity, was blown down during tho storm. It was too light to resist the pressure of the cyclone. Hon. Wilkinson Call is en route to Florida and will commence active work in the Demo cratic campaign at Leesburg to-day. Bananas have made their appearance in Pa- Istka The Palatba Hirald advocates the making of sawdust tidewaiks in the city. One dollar and five cents will make a walk of one hundred feet. Sugarcane is being harvested rapidly in Volusia county. Jackson county was damaged to the amount of fIGO.COO by the recent atom, and the water ways ali over the county have been impassa ble ever since. The Democratic convention of Baker county met at Sanderson on the 18th. W. P. Horne, of Darbyville, was unanimously nominated for Representative. After appointing twenty dele gates to meet in convention with the delegation of Clay county, at Maxville, on the 21stinst., to choose a Senator, the meeting harmoniously adjourned. * Mr. A. C. Clark will probably be appointed County Judge of Sumter county to fill the va cancy occasioned by the death of Judge Cas sady. The Democrats of Bradford county will be represented in the next Legislature by Messrs. J. L. Gaskins and W. H. Edwards. The store house of Mr. S. L Clonts. at Live Oak, was destroyed by fire on the 13th. The bulking and stock o’ general merchandise were entirely consumed. Nothing was saved. Track laying on the Pennsacoia and Atlantic railroad, between Marianna and Chattahoo chee, ha3 been suspended for the present. The layers returned to Cliattahoocbea last week r.nd will surface up ali laid and turn it over to th- company. This will delay the cars a few weeks in getting here. Tallahassee Floridian: “We are pleased to learn that the crops in Leon county were not so seriously damaged by the storm as was at first reported. Tne corn crop is damaged but Jirt e. and sugar cane is very slightly injured, while 10 p:-r cent, ta'now considered by some an extravagant estimate of the damage to cot ton.” The Democratic Convention nominated C. B. Pendleton, of the Key West Democrat, for the S-cate. and Messrs. Bethel and Perkins for the Assembly The primary meeting was the largest ever held in that city. St. Augustine Weekly: "On Tuesday after noon the fishermen reported that they have r ever seen for years past such an immen-o shoal of mullet near the North beach as. on the above date. These fish lined the shore as far as the eye could reach down the coast, and were of very large siz3. Although there were so many fish, it was impossible to catch any number of them, in consequence of the ereat number of sharks among the fish. If one did not cover a shark in the cast of his net, he would tackle the fish in the net as It was dragged adiore, and tear it to pieces. The quantity of mullet and sharks was a sight larely teen,” The premium list of the Middle Florida Agri cultuia! and Mechanical Association, com mencing at the fa ; r grounds at Tallahassee on Tuesday, the ifith day of January. 1 83. has been sent to the Advocate. Members of the press from all parts are invited to attend the fair as the guests of the association. Fourteen departments have been organized, and the premiums in each are liberal. The total amount to be awarded in premiums is $5,003. It Is intended to make the proposed fair sur pass all previous ones held in Tallahassee in the variety of exhibits, amount of premiums offereJ, and general attractiveness. An “old sdt" writes the following to the Advance Gazette: “l~ have been told by a p lot that the capsizing and the efforts of the crew of the ill-fated bark Rboda during the hurricane was witnessed at the navy yard, but no effort was made for their rescue I can vouch that for three hours after daylight on the following morning no assistance came from there. Can it be possible in a presumed Christian country that fourteen human beings can be exposed for fourteen hours to the tem pest without assistance? Perhaps the author! ties are Mohammedans and fatalists, calling upon Allah to protect those who meet with ac cident ; but must we subvert the great poet’s words and substitute instead of Conscience ■ hat ’Yellow Jack makes cowards of us all?’ Asa Britisher, I ask is this the country where so few years ago deeds of valor and endurance, such as made the world hold its breath whilst the conf ict lasted, were performed? Cannot be the world has changed. Hoist the white h atheronthe crane and the flag half m.st, and s>y chivalry is dead in Pensacola navy yard.” Ia reference to the Green Cove Spring and Melrose Railroad muddle the Spring of the 9th instent has the following explanation : “The Che ter Construction Company, of New Jer sey, have the contract for the building of the Green Cove Spring and Melrose Railway. For some reason, to us unknown, they have failed to pay their sub contractors for the work done, and for which the money was, according to the terms ot the contract, due some time ricee. They claim as their excuse for this defalcation t at they had been shown a contract for the sale of all lands owned by the State of Florida to the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Rail road. That this contract seems to be properly executed : that it bears the seal of the State of Florida ; that on the back of the contract there is an acknowledgment ot the receipt of $ 10,000; that so long as this contract exists the title of lands donated by the State to Green Cove Bpring and Melrcse Railway is valueless ; and to conclud-*. thev can’t pay until this matter Is cleared up; and further, as soon as it is cleared the money is ready, not only to pay up claims, but also to go on at once with the road. This is all that we have b- en able to learn so far about our railroad muadle.” Relief for Railway Sufferers. The P. ntpylrania Railroad Compar y al ways keeps up with the times, and shows its good sense in ordering to be carried on etch locomotive on Us New Jersey Division a supply o! lint, bandages and liniment, for immediate use in case of disaster. A wounded traveler thus relieved by Perry Davie’ Pale Kdlcr, which is the best liniment in the world, Is almost as well off as If no accident bad happened. Considering the frequency of unavoidablyjeeidenta, no train and no passenger oiiK'Jj‘ lt iiy. Perry NEW YORK DEMOCRATS. MAYOR CLEVELAND, OF BUF FALO. FOR GOVERNOR. A Strong Candidate—Harmony Restored Among the City Factions—A Ringing Platform. Syracuse, September 22 —ln connection with the settlement of the New York con tests the Committee on Contested Sea’s this morning adopted the following : Resobed. That this committee recognize the County Democracy as the regular Democratic organization of the city of New York. Temporary Chairman Pefkham called the convention to order at 10:20 o’clock a. m., and stated that the first business before the convention would be the presentation of the report of the Committee on Contested Seats. Mr. Herrick, Chairman of said Committee on Contested Seats, has listened patiently to the claims of the various contestants who appeared before it. The New York County Dsmocracy refrained from voting on the question of representation from the city of New York. The committee recognized the County Democracy as the regular delegation, but with a view to the success of the party at the polls and for the purpose of securing entire harmony, thev recommended that the New York representation be divided as follows : The County Democracy to have thirty-eight members, Tammany twenty-four and Irving Hall ten. He moved the adoption of the report and called for the previous question, which was ordered, and the comthifctee’s report was unanimously adopted, amid most vociferous applause. Mr. Herrick, of Albany, sad that he was directed by the State Committee to offer a re'oluUon recommending that in future primary elections should be he’d by the election districts for the election of dele gates to the convention in the city of New York, under the auspices and direction of the State Committee, until such time as the various factions in that city may agree as to the proper mode of elec'ing their dele gates. The resolution was unanimously adopted. The report of the Committee on Perma nent Organization was then presented. Les er B. Faulkner was named for perma nent Chairman,with a list cf thirty-three Vice Presidents and Secretaries. General Roger A. Pryor, Chairman of the Committee on Resolu’ions, presented the platform and moved Pa unanimous adoption. John Kelley 6aid a plank should be in serted condemning the distribution of pub lic lands among private corporations, and moved that the platform be referred back to the committee for the insertion of a plank which shall condemn the enormous grants of these lands to corporations. Agreed to, and the resolutions were referred back to the committee. The result of the first ballot stood, 81ocum 98, Cleveland 66, Flower 97, Nebon 26, Corning 35, Belmont 12, Campbell 37. Hutch ins 13. Total number of votes cast 384; necessary to a choice 193, The. second ballot brought no result. On the third ballot a scene of confusion ensued amounting almost to a riot. The conven tion for a time passed entirely from the con trol of the Chairmau. As the roll call pro ceeded many changes were announced, and finally appearances Indicated a vote of about 200 for Cleveland, and 100 for Roswell P. Flower, and 80 for General 81ocum. 8 ocum’s friends tried to capture the convention by a motion to de clare him nominated by acclamation. This started a disturbance. Loud calls were made for the announcement of the ballot. B?nator Jacobs moved that anew ballot be token. After a prolonged scene of disorder this motion waa adopted. The third was not announced. The fourth ballot resulted as follows: Cleveland 211. Slocum 156, Flower 15. Total vote cast 352. The Chair announced, amid the utmost enthusiasm, that the nominee of the con vention for Governor was Grover Cleve la and. They band played and the delegates cheered to the echo. Benator Jacobs moved that the nomina tion be made unanimous, which was ac cordingly done. Mr. Northrop, of Onandaga, moved a re cess until 7 o’clock, which motion was car ried. Mr. Cleveland is a young man who, when nominated for Mayor of Buffalo upon the municipal reform ticket was elected by by a majority averaging five tboueand greater than the rest of the ticket. The platform arraigns the Republican party of the country for mal-admiuistration; reaffirms the Democratic platform of 1874; arraigns Ihe Republican majority in Con gress for Its failure to reduce taxation to the legitimate requirements cf the government under an honest and frugal administration; condemns the river and harbor bill; declares the nomination of Secretary Folger by the Republicans a nomination by the Federal Government; declares it to be necessary to forbid by penal enactment the blackmailing of dependent office holders; holds the Re publican administration responsible for un redressed outrages on our foreign born fellow citizens, and demands protection when abroad for American citizens; demands revision of the laws affecting our merchant marine with the object of fostering that industry. The platform favors the enact ment of laws providing against fraud and intimidation at primary elections, and de clares that the encroachments of chartered monopolitß should be squarely met and these be brought under the control of law. It declares against convict labor, and iu favor of regulating the labor of children and of workshops and factories in the interest of the health of laborers. Several sections of the platform refer to tbe canals and other purely State ques tions, John Keliy’s additional plank, condemn ing wholesale grams of public lands to cor porations and demanding that these be re served for occupation by actual settlers,was accepted as a part of the platform. The platform was unanimously adopted. William Cruger, of Ooonda a county, was nominated for Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals. The convention riaseembled at 7 o’clock. Major David B. Hill, of Elmira, was the only person named for Lieutenant Gov ernor, and he was unanimously nominated. General Henry W. Slocum, of Brooklyn, was nominated for Congressman at-large. After naming the State Committee, the convention adjourned sine die. ANOTHER LINK. Completion of the Live Oak and Row land’s Bluff Railroad. Live Oak, Fla., September 22. —The last spike in the completion ot the Live Oak and Rowland’s Bluff Railroad was driven to day at 4 p.m. The road is five feet gauge and of first-class siandard In Its construction and < quipment. It will be regularly opened for business very shortly. Weather Indications. Officii Chief Signal Observer, Wash ington, D. C., September 22.—Indications for Saturday: In the South Atlantic Btates, partly cloudy weather, local rains, westerly winds in the southern, and easterly backing to westerly In the northern portion, falling followed by rising barometer and stationary or lower temperature. In the Middle A’lantlc States, partly cloudy or cloudy weather with rain, northeast winds, lower barometer and stationary or lower teraperatu-e. In the East Gulf States, fair weather, northerly winds, stationary barometer and stationary or lower temperature, In the West Gulf States, fair weather, northeastsrly winds, stationary barometer and stationary or higher temperature. In the Ohio valley and Tennessee, fair winds mostly westerly, stationary or lower barometer and stationary followed by rising tempera! are. Fatal AflYay In Arkansas. Little Rock, September 22.—1n Hot Springs this morning, Charles Matthews, editor of the Hornet, was shot four times and killed In an affray with Col 8. W. For dyce, Ylc* President of the St. Louis and Texas Nsrrow Gauge Railroad Company, and Col. Rugg, one of the proprietors of tbe Arllagton Hotel. It Is not known whether Fcrdyee or Rugg fired the fatal shot. Tie trouble grew out of a bitter newspaper controversy over local affairs. .1 Murderer Overhauled. Ltnchhjhg, Va., September 22.—Sheriff Ford, of Newport, Cooke county, Tenn., arrived hire this morning, having in charge James Rlodes, the murderer of John O. Massie an* wife, of Albemarle county, Vir ginia, on te night of March 9th. Rhodes was capturid on Monday last. He denies that his nane la Rhodes, but claims to be William Aden, of Rockingham county. There is litQe|dr.ubt, however, but that the Sheriff has tae right man. Weak muides and nerves, sluggishness pf thought aid inactivity, cured by Brown’s - Bitters. SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1882. ENGLAND AND EGYPT. Reports from the Recent Seat of War. Cairo, September 22. —Arabi Pasha and his accomplices, both military and civil, will be tried by court martial. Thirty-six prisoners of war have escaped from the cita del by means of ropes. Alexandria, September 22—A1l rebel officers below the rank of Colonel confined at Ramleh have been released. The fifty remaining prisoners have been brought here. An expedition has started hence to occupy Damtette. No resistance is expected. Abderahman Rouchdi Bey, a Maltese, the renegade and Minister of Finance in Ara fci’s last Ministry, has been appointed by the Khedive President of the commission to prosecute the Instigators of the outrages here In June. Port Said, September 22.—The English have abandoned the earthworks they erected when they occupied the towD, and the ma rines have re-embarked. London, September 23—The News has the following Irom Alexandria: “Princes Ibrahim, Hamed and Kamil, who signed the petition prepired by - Arabi Pasha last May for the deposition of the Khedive, called to day to pay their respects to the Khedive, who declined to receive them. They were ordered to quit the palace directly.” TIIE TARIFF COMMISSION. Its Session at Atlanta. Atlanta, September 22. —The Tariff Com mission is in session here to-day. Mayor English expressed his own views in favor of a protective tariff, but intimated that they were not those of the people of the State. Mr. Crane, President of the Chamber of Commerce, expressed his views in lavor of free trade or a tariff for revenue, and particu larly objected to the proposed increase of the duty on cotton ties, which, he said, would impose an additional burden of more than a million dollars on a crop of six mil lion bales. Mr. Norcross, the oldest resident of At lanta, favored a protective tariff, and Mr. Adair, real estate agent, favored a mild form of tariff that, would not tax the people unduly, and that would give incidental protection to some American industries. A SIX HANDED DUEL The Ownership of Cattle Decided by Mortal Combat. St. Louis, September 22 —A special from Denver, Colorado, giving the particulars of a six-sided combat between cowboys, has just been received here. Tbe herds of Geo. Howard and John Keely became mixed, and it was finally agreed to settle the matter by a battle, in which six picked men from each party participated. At the first fire four men were instantly killed. Howard’s party, with the exception of their employ er, fled to their camp. Keely then prop osed to fight it oat with Howard, but the latter declined, 'lhis settled the matter. The dead w'ere buried, and an equitable ex change of cattle was then made. TIIE FLOODS IN TIIE TYROL. Great Damage in Several Towns. London, September 22.— A Vienna dis patch says: “The Tyrol floods have almost entirely destroyed the towns of Innechen, Silleln, Tablach and Weleberg. Houses are filling every hour at those places. Twenty-six bodies of drowned persons have been found. The Emperor has ordered four detachments of pontoonier and engineers to be sent to the distressed province to repair the damage. The railroads in several parts of the province, will not be in running order for a month. The rainfall continues.” A HORRIBLE AFFAIR. A Demented Girl Poisons Her Family, L NAsnviLLß, September 22.—The de mented daughter of James Cleveland pois oned the family of six persons, except the mother, on Wednesday night, by putting . strychnine in their coffee. Mr. Cleveland has died, and one daughter is In a preca rious condition. The poisoner has wandered off, and is supposed to have committed suicide. New York Stock Market. Nbw York, September 22.—Shares specu lation opened about steady, except for Cen tral lowa, which was I}4 per cent, higher than at the close yesteruay. After the opening the general list sold up and reacted to 1 per cent., Memphis snd Charleston leading in both instances. After this the market became strong, and at 12 recorded an advance ranging from to per cent, in which Omaha preferred and common, Erie, Pacific Mail, and Canada Southern were most prominent. In the early part of the afternoon there was a decline of % to %, Union Pacific leading, followed by a general recovery of Kto per cent., after which the mar ket again became heavy, and in the late trade fell off 3 <£ to \% percent., Dtlaware, Lacka wanna and Western, Bt. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba and Omaha common and preferred being conspicuous In the down ward movement. In the final dealings the market recovered % to IX p:r cent., led by Omaha preferred . and common, and closed strong, but with Irregular changes from yesterday’s closing prices, Omaha common being preferred IX, an<l Bt. Paul % per cent. Higher, and Delaware and Hudson, and Cleveland, Co lumbus, Cincinnati anil Indianapolis each 1 per cent, lower. Transactions aggregated 325,000 shares. Breadstuff* in Britain. Liverpool, September 22 —A leading weekly grain circular sayr. “Grain contin ues quiet. English wheats are again Is. lower. At the provisional markets the for eign sorts are not materially altered. Car goes off coast ara rather weaker. Both white and red wheats are cheaper. At to-day’s market there was an average attendance. A moderate business was transacted In wheat at a de cline of Id. to 2J. from the prices of Tues day. Flour WBS dull and unchanged. Corn was in fair request. Mixed was somewhat lower. Other kinds were unaltered.” Cotton Futures in New York. New York, September 22.—The Post's market report says: “September deliveries fluctuated considerably. They were sold at the first call at 11 95c and later in the day at 12 09c. They declined again to 12 03c, advanced to 12 09c, but 12 06c were the highest bids at the third call. The later months varied but little snd brought at the third call, November 11 41c, April 11 76c, and March 11 8&c. September was held at 12 08c, October 1162 c, December 1140 c, January 11 45c, February 11 55c, and March 11 66c.” Cotton in Liverpool. Liverpool, September 22.—This week’s circular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ A-foclatlon says: “Cotton has been In i mited demand and very freely offered, al rhounh the market was steadier. On Thurs d *.y quotations were generally reduced. American has been dull and generally l-16d. :o lower. In sea Island the demand has Increased, but prices are about }£d. lower. Futures opened flit, but closed steadier, at a decline of 1-324. to 3 644. for near and 1-641. for distant months.” The Week in Mincing Lane. London, September 22.—1n Mincing Lane sugar has been extremely dull. Refining West India declined 6d. to Is. Coffee, as a result of the Netherlands Trading Com pany’s sale, was better than was expected. In teas Foo Chow and Congou were easier. There was a large supply of Indian. Prices were Irregular. Manchester Market. London, September 22 —The Manchester Guardian, In its commercial artie’e, says: “The market has been inactive, but with more demand for goods and yarns for China. _ Sydney’s Exhibition Hall Consumed. London, September 22—The exhibition building at Sydney, New South Wales, has been totally destroyed by fire, with all the contents. _ Base Ball Yesterday. Cincinnati— St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4. Boston—Troys 7, Bostons 3. . Cleveland— Clevelands 15, Chieagos 6. Louisville— Loulsyllles 20, Alleghenys 6. Buffalo —Buffalos 4, Detrolts 1. Vigor, strenof .J balth all found In one botty rn. f . t, JAY GOULD. WILL HE GOBBLE THE NEWS? A Bugle Blast from the “Herald”—The Great Stock Jobber’s Programme. New York, September 22 —To morrow’s Herald will have an editorial, of which the following Is an abstract: “The turn which affairs have recently taken in the conduct of the New York Associated Press can not fail to be of interest, as it is of undoubted importance to the general public. Having, aside from Its own membership, a large clientage of jour nals all over the land, It is evident that the Associated Press might, in improper hands, prove unfaithful to the public Interests or subservient to private plans or interests, and become a very powerful engine for mischief. It might give, for instance, a partisan color ing to its political news, and thus seriously mislead public opinion, or it might give color to its crop reports or other news af fecting finance and the stock markets favorable to private speculators but iujurl oui to the general interest. Fcr many years the Associated Press has worked under the direction of an Executive Committee composed of three of the proprie tors of the leading New York journals, and It is very greatly to the credit of this com mittee and of the managers and agents it employed that there has never, so far as we now nmember, been a complaint that this Powerful agency has been misueed for pri vate or partisan purposes. The uses to which a shrewd and unsciupulous man might put the Associated Press re ports have not, it seems, escaped the notice of one of the shrewdest and most enterprising of our weaUhv citi zens, Mr. Jay Gould, who seems to have determined to make this organ'zition an adjunct to his speculations. It is now un derstood that Mr. Gould has control of three of the seven journals which compose the Associated Pre?s, the Tribune, World and Mail and Express, and as he con trols at the same time the Western Union Telegraph Company, which the Associated Press has for many years employed to transmit its news, Mr. Gould has of late began to show his hand. His design is to obtain control of the Asso ciated Press, and to do this he proposes to amalgamate the Western Union Telegraph Company, which he controls, with the As sociated Press, to destroy the or ganization of the latter, and make the employes of the telegraph company his own servants, that is to sav, the collectors of news for his papers Whi’e he could control but three of the journals forming the Associated Press, this scheme, of course, halted, but at the August meet ing of the association he was enabled by a vote of the one which had until then, in common with the Herald, limes and Journal of Commerce opp.)6C(l his plans to strike his first blow by discharging the Executive Committee from further con sideration of its relation with the Western Union Telegraph Company. From this, therefore, it may apparently be f.lrly in ferred that Mr. Gould controls four of the seven papers that cgpatiiute the association. Despite the evidence of facts, we say this in doubtful terms, because we are not pre pared to believe all that this state of the case Inv fives.” The Herald then, in s series of sarcastic personal allusions to Mr. Dana, Mr. Reid and Mr. flurlburt, gives its reason why its statements should be considered doubtful, and then proceeds as follows: “If Mr. Gould really does control all these psperi, then the way Is open to his scheme. That the news of the country should be In the powir of a single individual, and that individual, Mr. Jay Gould, Is a startling prospect. “Mr.Goulilis purely a speculative operator In shares of railway, telegraph and other stocks. His avowed profession Is the manipulation of solid and substantial property, solely for raising or lowering the prices of shares to increase his personal fortune. The impartial and accurate repre sentation of the news of the day in the As sociated Press reports must often, it is easy to see, have been a bar to the guccass of such speculations as those by which Mr. Gould, and others of the same profession, seek to Increase their fortunes This obstacle it is which Mr. Gould seeks to remove. He wishes to give the oauntry its news reports. If he succeeds, that which has hitherto been read under the head of ‘Associated Press dispatches,’ must thereafter be placed by those who print It under the head of ‘Jay Gould’s dispatches.’ “The Heral l has been from the beginning a member of the Associated Press. It ha3 watched jealously the conduct ofjits agents, because It has been our aim to give our readers correct and unbiased reports. We do not propose to abandon the organi zation, at least for the present, but we shall deal honestly with our readers. If Mr. Jay Gould suc ceeds in obtaining control of the Associated Press, which he seeks, we shall not refuse the news he causes to be put in circulation, but shall print it as honestly as our readers will require under the head of ‘Jay Gould’s dispatches,’ anl we shall endeavor by an increase of our numerous corps of special correspondents to give also our own account of Important events. - In the meantime we beg the public to re flect upon the matters we have stated above, and consider whether It is not necessary to the public security that the government shall take {possession of the telegraph lines in this country and make them an ad junct of the Pcs’ Office Department, as has been successfully done In England and other European countries. The audacity of the spirit of speculation grows year by year. This last scheme to enable great and unscrupulous speculators to vitiate the very foundations ot public opinion in but, the nataral outcome of what has beets going on under all men’s eyes for years. A great speculator manages to obtain control of the teles raph communications of the coun try, and not only of these, but also of the cables which connect us with for elgn countries. Having crushed or bought up all 4iia teleg.aphic rivals he next conceives the idea of making hlmseli master of jthe country’s intelligence, and thus of its daily opinions on all sub jects. At tShe present moment Mr. Gould seems likely tofsucceed. If only the limes , Journal of Commerce and Her all vote against him they cannot prevent him, and he will, in fact, have It In his power to muzzle an important part of tbe press of the country. To all, therefore, except the seven New York journals which compose that association, he may yefuse the news, unless thev will print it as he chooses to send it, and that means tuin to them. Will any one say that, in view of this, It is not high time for the government to assume control and management of the telegraph as it has always controlled the post office?” The Gallows iu Galway. Galway, September 22.—Patrick Walsh was hanged here to-day for the murder of Martin Lyden. Walsh protested his Inno cence, and maintained that the witnesses swore falsely. The crowd outside the prison was orderly. When the black flag was hoisted the convict’s mother, who was in the crowd, gave way to walling, and re fused to leave the spot. Her friend* also joined in melancholy cries. A large guird of soldiers was on the ground. Jew Baiting Resumed in Russia. London, September 22 —A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Bt. Petersburg says: “As was feared, the recent speech of Gen. Dreuteln, Governor of Kieff, against the. Jews has been taken &3 the signal by peas ants and minor officials In the provinces for the renewal of hostilities against the Israel ites. From all sides accounts are received showing a revival of anti-Semitic animosi ties.” A Mother’s Fearful Crime. Buffalo, September 22. —Mrs. James Ben son, who had been suffering from fever for some lime past, got up out of bed last night while delirious, and taking her youngest child, a boy of two years, with her, went to a cistern and jumped in. Both their bodies were discovered by the family early this morning. Mrs. Benson leaves a husband and several other children. Captain Payne and Followers. Bt. Louis, September 22.—A dispatch from Fort Smith, Ark., says: “Captain Payne and his followers have been released by the United States Court. Suits were en tered against them, to recover a penalty of SI,OOO, and they were cited to appear at the November term of court, at which time a judgment will probably be entered by de fault.” _ The Trieste Bomb Plot. London, September 22 —A dispatch from Vienna reports that some of the men wto were arrested at Trieste after the throwing of bombs into the ranks of tbe Society of Veterans on August £O, on hearing of the arrest of Overdaisk, confessed that thev threw bombs from their house doors. Decline ofJMau. Nervous Weakness jjuspepela, Impo enccj Sexual Debiiltv ' YELLOW FEVER. Reports from the Southwest. Galveston, Tex , September 22 —An Austin special says in reply to Governor Roberts’ telegram ordering Dr. Murray to be sustained, the Sheriff of Cameron county replied: “Telegram received and will obey instructions. Have placed myself and de puties at the disposal of Dr. Wolff.” Washington, September 22.—The follow ing dispatch was received here to-night: “Brownsville, Texas. September 22.— 1 have full reports from the upper region.. The wires have been down. The fever is reported in Rsynesa, Camirgo, Mler and Guerrara and In the intermediate ranches. Camargo prohibits oral messages across the river. Seven'een deaths are reported in Mler during the three days ending on Sun day. There is no fever in Starr or Hidalgo counties for t wenty miles above here. The guard for Seap.ita countv will need man when the river falls. Dr. Soohn should bring fifteen men south from Laredo. The law seems to be established here. “Murray. Surgeon.” In accordance with the suggestion con tained in Surgeon Murray’s disnatch instruc tions were sent to night to Dr. Spoha at Corpus Chr.’sti, directing him :o extend the guards southward, so as to complete tbe river cordon to Laredo. Surgeon Murray also reports e - ght new case3 of fever and one death io Brownsville during the past twenty-four hours, acd four new cases and one death at Point Isabel. Also that the forcible breaking ot the quarantine for the past two davs ha* increased the number of paupers at Brownsville. CAPITAL TOPICS. Corkliill’s Weak Grip-Tlie President Back-The Buckeye Democrats—Dis gusted Young Tars.. Washington. September 20.— There has long been talk that District Attorney Corkhill was on the eve of being bounc'd. The-e ha3 al ways been as much reason a3 rhyme in these reports. Corkhill has ever since the present administration came info power been hanging upon the verge of the grand bounce. He has been saved time acd time again by Justice Mil'er, of the Supreme Court, who is his father-in-law. Many things have acted against Corkhill-a'l of which things were of Corkhill’s own doing. He has not given any thing like satisfaction to the government. All important cases were taken out of his hands practically end entrusted to special attorneys Notable iostar.c- s of this fact are the Guiteau and star route trials. The star route verdict is what renews the report that Corkhili will have to go. As District At torney all depended upon him in the selection of the jury. It is stated that the government has evidence that Cerkhiil was a partner in the fraud by which a fixed jury was made an ac - complished possibility. Everything looks as if this was a correct view of the case. It is now regarded an certain that it is an impossi bility for Corkhill to much longer retain his place. It will certainly be for tho benefit of. the public service when Corkhill goes. Iu this connection it is a little strange how- Corkhill got his appointment. Devens, who was then Attorney General, refuse • to recom - mend him for appointment. Cckhill had ex hausted all his influence txjept tuat of Justice Miller of the Supreme Court, his father-in-law. He was in debt to Judge Miller, and did not; like to call on him. Finally he w ent to that judicial gentleman and told him that if ha would exert his influence in behalf of the ap pointment he would pay him so much per month out of the salary whieb would come with the office. Justice Miller took to the sug gestion. He worked for Corkhi i, and ho got the appointment. Whether a portion of the salary has gone as it was promised, reponent saith not. AFTER A LONG TIME. Af er summer cruisings here and there, and absences of a long duration, a portion of the executive branch of the government is again on duty. The President is here, but for a short time only, it is s 'id. He stays at Secretary Freiingfcuysen’s house—the White House is all torn up with repairs—ard transacts only routine business. He will again flit In a few days. Secretary Folger is here for a short time again. Secretary Teller is back again for good. A short visit is expected in a day or two from the Attorney General. So once again, after so long, do we have a little executive in ours. And would you believe it? I don’t believe you will; but it is a fact nevertheless, that in pub ic business one cannot tell where the difference is xvhen the heads of the executive branch are here and when thev are away. The old concern moves along ju-t the same. I don’t expect you to believe this, but it is really a fact, t bout oh:o. The information which we get here about the way politics are running in Ohio is not very encouraging It would seem that the Demo crats, as Ohio Democrats have a habit of doing, are claiming the State, ar.d are satisfy ing themselves with such claims without doing much work. Well informed Democrats from the State tell me that so badly is the campaign managed by the Democrats that there is really no ground for hoping for Democratic victory. The most that the most sanguine can expect, they say, is a gain of cne or two Congressmen. Even that would be a big thing lor the Demoaratic party in the State under its present management of all bluster and no work. RESIGNATIONS in the navy. It has become a matter very noticeable at the Navy Department that an unusually largo number of young naval officers are resigning their commissions. It has heretofore been a very unusual thing for a young officer to re sign. But now they are tendering their resig nations at quite a lively rate. The cause of such a course on their part is soon found. The naval bill of the last session stopped promo tion for from eight to twelve years to the re sponsible grades Many of the young men think that their lives had better be spent in business rather than in wading years and years before they attain a fair salary and some au thority in the naval branch of the service. Potomac. Louisville Races. Louisville, September 22—The first race, for all ages, one mile, Aleck Ament won, Belle of the Highland* second, Tax gatherer third. Time lAB%. The second race, for two year-olds, three quarters of a mile, North Anna won, Visa vis second, Gallio third. Time 1:2 . The third race, for tbrec-year olds, one and a quarter milts, Sqaaredance won, Guß Matthews second, John Henry third. Time 2:16 The fourth race, for ail ages, one and one eightht miles, Fellowplay won. Time 2:02. The fifth race, for all age s- , three-quarters of a miie, Violator won, Wapakonlta sec ond, Athos third. Time 1:20. Killed by a Policeman. Nashville, Sep’ember 22 —Joseph Rus sell was killed by Polic3tn&n Fields late last night while the latter was attempting to arrest him. Russell wa3 a steamboat pilot on the Cumberland river. A Terrible Death. San Francisco Exchange, Sept. 12. A railroad accident on the South Pacific Coast Line last night was tbe cause of two deaths, one of which was as terrible as ever recorded. The through freight, train from Santa Cruz, which arrived at Park street, Alameda, at eight, was crossing a barren marshy land east of a trestle bridge that crosses what Is known as San Leandro Bay, and when at a point about half a mile from the bridge the engine sunk and keeled over, drawing after it six cars. As the train was traveling at a rapid rate of speed, the cars and engine were piled upon each other. The engineer i f the train, a man named Symons, was thrown from the engine cab a distance of several feet. Ilis nose was brok en, he was badly bruised and he was proba bly injured internally. When the engine turned over Daniel Driscoll, the flyman,was caught and held to the ground by an Iron bar across his breast, while another bar held one foot fast. Thus held, and retaining consciousness, ho fully realized that as the Pde was rapidly rising, he could escape death from downing but a short time. Six men were on hand and labored to save him. They wrapped sheets about his body and exerted their combined strength to pull him from his appalling position. He cried piteously that they were killing him. They tried again and again, but with tbe same result. A levee was built about bis head to keep down the rising tide. Buckets were brought, and by faithful bailing it was at tempted to keep the water from r selling his head. He was lying under the cab, and a hole was cut through the cab through which he could put his head. They raised his head above the water as much as possible. He re mained thus two hours, but at last the levee broke, snd the men who were bailing out tbe water found that they could do no more. They held his head above the water, which rose slowly about his body. The men found they must make a final effort. Then his head was lowered, and they all caught hold and pulled despe rately. It was in vain. They raised his head again. Tho water raised slowly but surely. It reached his chin. A friend held his hand ovtrthe drowned man’s mouth. The water rose to his nostrils. Nothing more could be done, and he was drowned. The other man killed was a brakeman named Daly. He was on the fourth car, with tbe other brakeman and conductor. Daly was Instantly killed. The force with which he was thrown broke his neck. The conductor, Langdcn, had his legs slightly * '■'* A lornorin, A CBASH IN A TUNNEL. A COLLISION IN NEW YORK CITY. A Crowded Passenger Train Telescoped Several Persons Injured, Some Fa tally. New York, September 22 —This morning word was received at police headquarters ffom an up to th precinct that an accident had occurred at 9:30 o’clock on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in the tunnel at Elgthty-sixth street and Fourth averue. A later telegram to police headquarters conveyed the Information that the 9 o’clock Harlem Rapid Transit train had telescoped the Harlem train In the tunnel at Eighty-sixth 6treet, that five In jured persons had been sent to the hospital, and that a number of people were vet under the train. The police of the Nineteenth sub-preclnet at; the Grand Central depot were notihed, and all the hospitals were Instructed to send ambulances to the depot for the injured. The onlv -person killed outright was Madame Eugenie Aubert, a teacher of French in the Twelfth Street Public School. Harold Metki was taken out of the wreck with his sku 11 crushed, and will die. The accident was the result of gross carelessness. One of the tracks was blocked up by the accident by an engine, and this caused delay to other tr alns in switching across tracks to get around the blockade. While one crowded train with passengers wasthur. waiting on the main track in the tunnel another train came behind and tele sooDed it. Many of the Injured were hur ried away by friends, and it will be diffi cult to secure to-n'ght a correct list of casualties. It is proba ble that others of the injured will die. The great majority of the passen gers in ti’ie Harlem train were school girls and teacl lers on their way to the Normal College, and It was some time before all anxiety concerning them was relieved. They were sent back to their homes. In their terror most of them sprang from the train as eooa as they were able and were found wandering about In the thick dark ness and mini ot th? tunnel. Wm. Howe, of Mount Vernon, a victim of the disastt r, died this afternoon at the Grand Union .Hotel. l ''■■ii. i HRIEF :news SUMMARY The Republican Convention at Omaha yesterday nominated; J. W. Dawes for Gov ernor. Ex-Lteutenant George Rosseau yesterday shot himself through the head at Laredo, Texas, killing him instantly. President Grevy yesterday granted a par don to the Italian Mesehino, who was re cently sentenced by a French council of war at Tunis to nine vests’ Imprisonment for assaulting French soldiers. Collectors of Internal Rerveaue A. L. Mor gan, of Mobile, and James T. Rapier, of Montgomery, Ala., have been suspended, and Philip Joseph and William Youngblood have been appointed to supersede them. Hiram Baker, being despondent at the thought that he was not likely to recover from a long spell of sickness, committed &uiclde, a few days ago, by swallowing carbolic acid, at his residence, in Brooklyn. Jack Chapman, colored, was hanged at Bellevue Bossier parish, La., yesterday for the murder of John Williams, colored, on October 2,1881. His neck was broken. He confessed his guilt and blamed his wife for it. Sylvester R. Comstot k, President of the Citizens’ Bank of New '.York, while engaged In his customary duties at the bank’s office yesterday afternoon, was seized with apoplexy and died inst* ntly. He was over seventy years of age. A special from Skip* dth Landing, La., says that cotton plckiu, T Is progressing rapidly In the river countr y above here. If the present bright weather continues for a few weeks the crop will bs the largest pro duced for many years. Wo ‘ms are reported In some parte, but as yet tha V are limited to a few places. Vast prairie fires are rav* ging the table lands In Western Nebraska, between the Platte and Republican rivers. The town of Indianola has been saved fro a destruction only by the Btrenuous efforts of her cltizenc, and serious results are feared if high winds should occur. Two men 4 fere fatally burned a few days ago north of the Platte. At Indlantown Gap, Lebanoi county, Pa., while Mrs. Nathaniel Balshoi *e and her Infant were seated on the front porch of the house, the rest of the family b eing ab sent, two men, with blackened fat en tered the rear of the dwelling, selzt and Mrs. Balshore, bound and gauged het • end robbed the house of about S4OO. After they left the woman struggled to the road ’lde, where she was found and untied by a ne ’gh bor. The members of the committee dlsappn. v ing of Mr. Gladstone’s Egyptian polie\ having, with the view of discrediting f?k ‘ views of our foreign policy, reiterated ths charge that he sympathized with the Soutfe during the civil war in the United States, Mr. Gladstone, replying through his Secre tary to an Inquiry on the subject, writes that the statement attributing such sympa thy is untrue, acd contrary to authentic facts already made public. A Too Modest Yoncg Man. Philadelphia Times. Mr. Benjamin H. Hill, Jr., son of the late Senator of Georgia, is evidently too modest a young man ever to be of any use in this workaday world. It haviDg been reported that he was about to be appointed by Gov ernor Colquitt to fill the unexptred term of his dead father in the United States Benate, the young man wrote a note promptly de clining the intended honor. This was in it salf so unusual a procedure as to lead to grave doubts In the minds of most practi cal people as to whether the young man was quite right in his head. Bat that doubt becomes almost a certainty when his reasons for such an astonishing course are given. Of course he might have been employed in more lucrative business which he could not afford to neglect for the sum of $5,000 a year and the title of honorable be fore his patronymic, or he might have been in such ill health as to dread to face tbe malarial atmosphere at Washington. But neither of these reasons are offered, and this innocent young man declines the office be cause he don’t thick he is capable of per forming its duties properly. Such modesty Is simply am? zing, and can only lead to the Inference that he has greatly mistaken the duties of a United States Senator, or that he is a very inferior yonng man Indeed. The qualifications demanded for the po sition In modern times are few and simple. If Mr. Hill is of the legal age and a citizen and possessed,’of mental acumen sufficient to discern who his friends are and rejoices In the possession of a back account,the require mentslare all met. He could keep a secretary to write the speeches with which he is ex pected to electrify his constituents, his party caucus will decide for him how he is to vote on any given question, and his friends will undertake to advise him who ought to be recommended for appointment to office. As to knowing anything about public affairs or having practical experience in public life, Mr. Hill Is respectfully in formed that such old-fashioned require ments are not demanded nowadays at all. If Mr. Hill had read the recent political history of Pennsylvania he would have been furnished with a shining example of a young man whose father had tired of Sena torial honors, and who, without a day’s ex perience in public life, felt equal to the task of distributing the post offices and collector ships where they would do the most good. That extremely modest young man haa so Improved by practice and experience that he now feels entirely competent to elect Speakers for the lower House of Congress, choose Presidents and parcel out the post offices for the whole nation, and yet when he was elected hia only known qualifications were age and citizenship. We call Mr. Hill’s attention to this example for his en couragement, because we fear that if he persists la his old-fashioned notions he Is liable to get himself laughed at for hisex t erne verdancy. The grandest musical festival ever pro jected in Philadelphia will be celebrated in April of next year. Tho chorus will be limited to 500 voices, and the orchestra to about 100 pieces. The festival will be un der the management of W. W. Gilchrist and Charles M. Bchmll z. Great interest is mani fested In a quiet way in musical circles, and the success of the enterprise Is unques tioned. There have up to this time been about 250 applicants, and from these 100 voice# are assured. Prominent soloists will be negotiated for, but no names have as yet been made public. The character of the programme has not yet been decided ppou. The pieces will be of the nature of orato rios. “Elijah” and Bchuman’s “Paradise and the ?erl” have been spoken of, but not decided upon. The guarantee fund must be at least $30,000; of this sum $20,000 has been subscribed. •* Dt*, black or brown, 90 eta. ESTABLISHED 1850. THE TREASURY STATEMENT Tbe Great Extravagance of Itepubll can Congreaaea Clearlr Shown. Correspondence of the Detroit Free Press. Tbe Chief of the Warrant Division of the Treasury Department recently completed the statement of the receipts and expendi tures of the government for the fiscal year 1882. The figures in detail have just been verified by the officers of the Register of the Treasury, and they will now stand on the books of the department as the official re cord, which wil’ be transmitted to Congress next December in the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury. These figures are embodied in the statement submitted below: NET REVENUE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, 188i Customs 9220,410,7-10 35 Internal revenue 145.497.555 45 Direct tax 160.141 69 Sales of public lands 4,753,140 37 Miscellaneous. 31,703,14 i 52 Total. $403,575,£ 50 38 The custom receipts were over four mil lions larger than during any other year in the history of the government. In 1872 they were $210,370,286 77. Only twice previous to 1882 were they over two hundred mil lions. The internal revenue receipts during 1882 were larger than during anv year since 1870, when they reached $184,899,756 49. The receipts from the sales of public lands were about one million larger than during any year since 1856, when they amounted to $8,917,644 93. Exclusive of the receipts from premiums on loans and the sales of gold coin, which were quite large a few years ago, the re ceipts from miscellaneous sources during the fiscal year, 1882, were larger than during any other year in the history of the govern ment. NET ORDINARY EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, 1883. Civil and miscellaneous $ 57.219,950 98 War Department 43,670,494 19 Navy Department 15,033,046 26 Indians 9,736,747 40 Pensions 61,345.183 95 Interest on public debt 71,077,206 79 Total $257,981,439 57 A Democratic House of Representatives voted the appropriations for the six fiscal y ars beginning with 1877 and ending with 1882. Your correspondent has tabulated the official figures, showing tbe expendi tures during those six years, and comparing them to a similar statement covering the six preceding years for which the appropria tions were voted by a Republican House of Representatives. This comparison has never been made before, and the results will be found interesting and suggestive, and will be found worthy of the serious considera tion of the people during the Congressional campaign throughout the country. For convenience and brevity the two pe riods of six years will be called the Repub lican period and the Democratic period. In the first place, the comparison shows that while the expenditures during the Rs publlcsn period were $1,650,257,459 59, they were only $1,528,909,504 20 during the Democratic period, a difference of $151,347,- 955 39. That is to say, the average annual expenditures during the Democratic period were $25,224,662 56 less than during the Republican period. The extravagance of Republican Con gresses as compared to the management of Democratic Congresses is even more clearly indicated by a comparison of the details of expenditures. The civil and miscellaneous expenditures, v,filch include the salaries of the civil list and all such expenditures as those provided for-in the sundry civil bill and private bills, were $424,951,508 53 during the Republican period, and $355,377,500 31 dur ng the Democratic period—a difference of $69,574,- 008 22, Oi m annual average of $11,595,- 668 03. This Is a remarkable contrast, the significance of which no one at all acquaint ed with public affaU-s.can fail to understand. The War Department expenditures dur ing the Republican period were $239,000,- 789 17, and during the Democratic period $231,816,415 44, a difference of $7,184,373 73 in favor of the Democrats iu spite of the increased expenditures in recent years for internal improvements. One of the most significant contrast!-, was that noted in the expenditures in the Wavy Department, which were $132,600,617 60 during the Republican period as compared to $91,706,066 23 during the Democratic period—a difference of $43,894,551 27, or an annual average of $7,315,758 54 ! The Indian expenditures were $43,484,- 108 23 during the Republican period, and $37,308,762 16 during the Democratic period —a difference of $6,175,346 06. It thus appears i hat exclusive of the pen sion expenditures aL'd the interest on the public debt,, the ex'tea* of expenditures during the Republican period over the ex penditures made during the Democratic pe riod, was as follows : Civil and miscellaneous *■s 69,574,008 22 War Department a 7,134,373 73 Navy Department 43.894,551 37 Indians 6,175,346 .06 Total $126,828,479 08 A comparison of the two periods in regard to the amount of revenue received by the government and the surplus gives a very striking result. The revenue during the Republican period was $1,955,129,862 85, and ’’wring the Democratic period $1,898,425 803 ln other words, the receipts of the k'ov-rn i-nent during the former period were $57 <ks9 24 larger than during the latter 'h Sit despite the fact that the Republicans ha..' the advantage of the lerger revenue, Democrats during the period they had con trol ox the House secured to the govern ment by their economy a much larger sur plus revenue. The surplus durire the Republican period was only $275 562 - 403 26, as compared to $369,516,299 41 ’ dur ing the Democratic period, or a difference of $93,653,896 15 in favor of the latter, al though the receipts during that time were irsarly $58,000,000 less than during the Re publican period. In other words, if the had been as large during the Democratic period as during the Republican tire surplus revenue would have amounted to over $427,000,000, or $151,000,000 in ex cess of the surpius during the Republican period. Such is the story told by the official figures of the Treasury Department. Cyclone Phenomena. New York Herald. Dr. ALdriee, of the Wllhelmshaven Ob servatory, has recently revived-io an Aus trian meteorological journal the theory of cyclones which refers their origin and trans lation to the upper atmospheric currents. This impo-tant deduction, though not ori ginal with M. Faye, of France, was forcibly put forth by the latter scientist in 1877, who, in presenting Dr. Andries’ views to the Paris Academy of Sciences, on the 14th ultimo, strongly sustains the former’s con clusions. These are, in brief, that cyclone?, tornadoes and trombes are the same mechanical phenomena, differing only in dimensions, and that the force to which they are indebted for their propaga tion resides in the powerful currents which hold sway above the earth. In sustaining these views M. Faye argues from the re cords of American storms and tornadoes, that as their rapidity of translation (often “that of an express train”) Is so great their progressive motion in regular tracks cannot be due to mere differences of barometric pressure. These storms rush over the sea or the continent, crushing houses and rooting up trees ln the twinkling of an eye with the enormous velocitlesof the serial currents en countered by aeronauts at high levels—ve locities which cloud observations' prove sometimes reach one hundred and t wen tv miles an hour. There Is certainly good res son for the French icvesMgator’s conclusion that “the storm Is, as our machines, a simple organ for the transmission of force—that is a gigantic instrument which receives In the upper atmosphere the vis viva In its vast fun nei.” M. Faye says; “The public has learned that storms are not generated here or there; that they come to us from America on the day named, and that they are not transient disturbances, but the display of a grand law of terrestrial mechanics, as fixed as the laws of celestial mechanics.” The origin of cyclones is a confessed mystery wlih the bulk of weather students. But If the suggestions which this scientist and Andries make lead meteorolo gist to a practical study of the cloud phe nomena and other indications of the high aerial strata Instead of confining their obser vations to the comparatively calm lower strata, thev would be In a position to give much more timely and accurate storm waru ings and weather forecasts than are cow possible. We live in the very bottom of the cerial ocean, but in order to know the lower air cnrrenla whleh affect us it is as neces sary to trace and track the upper currents as it is to gauge the Gulf stream in order to study the force and movement of the polar stream which underruns It on the doer of the Atlantic. — The Ctarcoal Iron Workers. Csattanooga, September 22 —The an nual meeting of the United States Charcoal iron Workers, with a membership of three hundred in six States, representing fifty millions of Invested capital, Is called for at Chattanooga on October 18. A free excur sion has been tendered the association through Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, and an attractive programme has been ar ranged for their entertainment here. Our Cotton Production. September 1 ends the cotton year and marks the dividing line between two crops. In place of the vague speculation and guess work with which the gentlemm of tbe mills and the markets have had hitherto to con tent themselves, we have now the figures showing the ac’ua! production for the year 1881, and indicating the disposition which the world made of the staple. The Finan cial Chronicle , in its careful and compre hensive review of the cotton crop and movement for the year ending S°Dtember 1,% makes the total crop reach 5.435.545 bales. The yield of 1860 was 6,589,329 bales, show ing a falling off of 1,153,484 bales. This loss may be charged to the drought and the ravages, in certain localities, of the cotton worm. The acreage planted to col ton last year would have yielded, with favorable weather and exemption from the worm, a larger crop than that of ISBo—per haps fully 7,000 000 biles, so that the weather and the worm together robbed the country of about $75,000,000. There are some modifying circumstances to be con sidered, however. The average weight of the bales in 1881 was 485.88 pounds, for the year just ended it. was 475.67, or more than 10 pounds lighter. Measured by last year’s average weight per tale, tbe crop grown In 1881 would be but 5,321,656 bales. On the other band, the last crop was much cleaner, containing less sand, du3t and “trash” than that grown in ISBD, so that in its superior spinning quali ties and yarn product there is to be found partial, if not complete compensation for the lightness of tbe tales. The crop was disposed of as follows: Ex ported, 3.595,031 bales; taken by spinners at home, 1,661,2C6;5t0ck on hand September 1, 120,722 The exports last year were 4 596,- 279 bales. The European consumption of cotton, however, has been larger than ever before. Great Biitrin having increased her average weekly consumption from 68,692 bales in 1881 to 70,500 in 1882, while the weekly takings of Great Britain and the Con tinent together rose from 125,538 bales to 130,250. The year's Importations of all Europe mount up to 6,760,000 bales, of 400 pounds each, the last two months’ takings being estimated, the actual figures not beinc yet obtainable. But as our i xports fell off 1,001,248 bales, the Increase had to be sought in another quar ter. India supplied most of it, sending to all Europe 1,760,000 bales la the eight months beginning January 1 of the present year, against 1,085,000 bales in the corre sponding period last year. The Financial Chronicle estimates that Europe will want, during the year just begun, 350,000 bales more than she took In tbe year just closed. From present appearances we shall be abuudantly able to supply her needs. Id estimatfbg home consumption for the year it is necessary to take into account the 218,043 bales on hand September-!, 1881. This makes, with the crop grown that year, an available supply for export and manufac ture of 5,653,588. Deducingexports, known losses by fire, and the present stock on hand, the to' al takings of the spinners of the United States for the year are seen to have been 1,899,206 bales, of which 1,661,206 were taken by Northern and 238,000 by Southern mills. The amount Taken by Northern spinners fell off 25,598 from the previous year’s figures, while the Southern mills show an increase in their takings of 38,000 bales. This is the natural result of the rapid expansion of the manufacturing interest In tbe Cotton States. In 1879-80, with 157 mills, these States manufactured 179.000 bales of cotton. They now have 252 mills —not all yet iu operation—with a capital of $41,241,450, or $2,000,000 greater than two years ago, and have increased their consumption 59,000 bales in theee two years. The falling off in Northern consumption has resulted in part from the unfavorable condi tion of the market for print cloths and sheet ings, and in part from the suspension of work at the Harmony Mills, the Pacific Mills, and at Fail River on account of troubles with operatives. The cloth market has been overs ocked all the year, and while tbe staple has risen ia price, the manufactured product has fallen. Low mid dling upland cotton sold for 1111-16 c. per pound a year ago. It Is now nearly a cent higher. Srandard sheetings have, mean while, after a slight rise during the winter months, fallen from B%c. to and print cloths, which s ood at 4c. lust fall, are now quoted at 385 c. The prospect for the future is nevertheless excellent. An increased home consumption • will naturally result from the bountiful har vests of the year, and every spindle will be kept busy. As the Chronicle justly points out, we have in this connection to look only to the condition of the home market for our cotton goods, as our tariff “protects us against foreign customers for our manufac tures.” The effect of this is to shut our mills up to purchasers in the United States, and as the demand naturally falls off in years of short crops and depressed trade, they must suffer periodically" from the evils of overproduction, siuce they can find no outside market for their goods. The exports of cotton manufactun w for the year ending June 33 was only $13,212,979, or $358,308 less than in the preceding year. Put this insignificant sum in comparison with Great Britain’s ex port of $395,000,000 for the calendar year 1831, and it is evident at a glance that some thing is wrong, for we have in this contest important advantages which would tell de cisively in our favor if we were not handi capped in some other direction. We have the raw material 3,000 miles nearer our mills than the Manchester manufacturers; wages in this branch of manufacture are but slightly, if at all, higher here than there, our goods are of better quality, as every one knows who has read the State Depart ment’s report on the cotton goods trade of the world. Yet Great Britain exports thirty Mm's as many dollars’ worth of cotton goods as we do. 'llio Jzlec Clnb. New York World, 15tA. The Aztec Club, which is composed of officers of the United States army who served in the Mexican war and which was organized in Mexico, held its annual reunion and banquet at Pinard’s last night. There were no formal exercises or speeches, but the greatest good cheer prevailed, and many anecdotes were teli? of life afield, in camp and afloat. Presi dent Arthur had beeu expected to attend the dinner, but he was not present. The room in which the banquet was held jvas handsomely festooned with bunting, and Xds of flowers stood about the walls, banquet table was decorated with cut <f>wers, and was lighted by red wax toadies. The menus were nrinted 02 gilt-bordered card board, attached io broad ’ silk-fringed rihhon ornamented at the top SSM ■ W*. in M„ico. and ol t }.„ 'wuac.of the recipient Sd the Azl<3C Chxb > Thirl lc t Generals Grtnt, r IT? i, R C. Drum, Hancock J E. Johm v . C. Lee, Alte Gr. A. H. Biake, G. i , Vltpi D M FW f a ?'p S T art v > V Crane, A." Frost, R. L. Patterson, C. i ' >ann p p Au L ,n dß 7 y ’ P°T Ug ’ H - ?• Graham, Augur, Z. P. lower, L. P. , T oh n Shepherd, T. N. Hagncr, FiU , r Porter, C. M. Wilcox, J. X. Palme. ’ p W. Brice, T. L. Crittenden, Jones * Fry, John M. Schofield and William Denans; Colonels J. D. Wilkins? H. */.' Kendrick. Do L. Fioyd Jone3 and K" H. L. Hardcastle, Lieutenant H. Bartier, Admiral Porter, Command©. r MeCauly. Professor Henry Coppee antf Messrs. H. F. J. Porter, J. N. Davis and George VV. Childs. Failures for the Week. New Yobk, September 22 —The business failures reported by R. G. Dun & Co.’s Mercantile Agency for the week were 109. In thlsctiy o4 OCCUrred in the country and 5 Bailey’s Saline Aperient Is awhile powder, and when placed in water foams, sparkles, and tastes jnst like soda water. It io very cooling ana pleasant, acts gently upon the towels, relieves constipation, cures sick headache, sour stomach and heartburn. 4 POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder lever varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More econoim a! than the ordinary kinds, can not be sold in competition with the multitude of low test short weight, aium or phosphate ESE&Jgj, **** ROYAL B AKIN(I FOWDKR CO., Wail street, JSew York At wholesale by HENRY bouimon * AI
