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Georgia Affairs.
At Rome, on Sunday l ight, Mr. Maston ti rove
and Miss Fannie Loyd were unite 3 in holy
matrimony. The novelty of the scece is found
in the fact that both the high contracting par
ties are mutes. There is one thing certain
that their marriage life will not he interrupted
by any loud debates upon questions where the
couple differ with each other.
The store of Mr. Randy Mitchell, at DeSoto,
near Rome, was destroyed by an incendiary
fire about 3 o'clock Sunday morning last. It is
supposed that the store was first robbed and
then fired. It is the second time within the last
six months that this misfortune has overtaken
Mr. Mitchell, who was only partial y insured.
On the Georgia extension from Athens the
cars are now running over the trestle and de
livering rock for the abutments to the bridge
over the Oconee liver.
The formal opening of Shorter College, at
Rome, took place last Monday morning. Ad
dresses were delivered by Rev. D. B. Hamilton,
I’rof. Toby and the President, R ;v. Dr. Gwalt
ney. Over one hundred and forty students are
in attendance, and the future prospect of the
ins titution is very flattering.
George W. Caraker has been elected to the
command of the “Blue?," a crack volunteer
Infantry company at Milledgeville. The new
Captafn is an old soldier; served his appren
ticeship during the war in the acquirement of
the military art; was wounded, and still limps
a little, which, however, does not interfere
with his keeping step to music when on drill
or parade.
The enterprising burglar successfully
manipulated things in Cartersviile on Wednes
day of last week. One of these gentry entered
the dwelling house of Mr. Miles Collins and
helped himself to Mr. Collies’ purse and valua
ble gold watch. It is well to be on the watch
for these professional characters, as they are
scattered promiscuously all through the
country.
The Democracy of Washington county, in
primary, have nominated Colonel H. C. Wright
and Hon. C. R. Pringle as the can lldates of the
party for the State Legislature.
Atlanta is bouncing gutta percha paint to the
Western market, Mr. Holland having recently
shipped five barrels of Atlanta manufacture of
that material to Jackson, Mississ ppL
The residence aid gr c>ry store of | Mr. Fin
cher, corner of Mitchell and Haines streets,
Atlanta, were totally destroyed byfl.-eTues
day morning.
The cose of the State of Georgia vs. Bolton.
Freeland, Miller and Self,who are interna! rev
enue officers and charged with the crime of
murder In a bill of indictment from Gwinnett
county Superior Court, was called In the United
States Circuit Court at Atlanta Tuesday for
trial- Four jurors were obtained, when 'he
panels were exhausted. This case, which is
an important one, will be watched with seme
interest.
The Gate City Guard, of Atlanta, will, at its
next meeting, elect Captaiu Harry Jackson to
fill the vacancy occasi ined by the resignation
of Captain J. F. Burke.
A “fence" or "no fence" election has been
ordered by the Ordinary of Fulton county, to
take place in Blackh&ll district, in that county,
on the 11th of October.
There is a colored Candler Club in Clarke
county that numbers one hundred and fifty
members. This county—which is Speer's
stronghold Candler’s friend s say, he will
carry without doubt.
In Elbert, Oglethorpe and several other
counties, colored Democrats actively partici
pated in the primaries. It is said to their honor
that they are generally abiding by all nomina
tions and are actively at work for the Demo
cratic candidates, county. State and Congres
sional.
The election for Governor, State house offi
cers and members of the Legislature will be
held in this State on the fourth day of October.
The Legislature meets on the first day of No
vember, and the election for Congressmen will
be held on the seventh day of November. Some
are under the impression that the election for
Congressmen at large occurs at the time the
election for State officers is held. This is a
Mi stake. You do not vote for Congressman at
large until the seventh day of November.
The farmers of Howard district, Bibb county,
still claim that the top crop of cotton will be
an entire failure this year..
The body of a negro man has been found in
the cellar of a house on Decatur street, At
lanta, packed in a soap box. The body had
evidently been used in the dissecting rooms, as
signs of the surgeon’s knife were plainly de
cernibl e.
Gen. W. T. Wofford, heretofore a strong In
dependent Democrat, is now stumping the
Seventh district for Mr. Stephens for Governor
and Clements for Congress.
At the close of the week on Tuesday the
Thomasvilie artesian welt was 685 feet
deep. There is some anxiety felt as to what
kind of water will be struck. There is at pres
ent & strong sulphur smell about the well, which
indicates the presence of that substance in the
shaft.
The Reputjican party has lost its grip in
Thomas county. Saturday last was the day for
tbe meeting of the party at Thcmasville with a
view of making nominations for tbe Legislature.
By actual count seventy-six members of tbe
party were present, with two or three Demo
crats as spectators. Such is the end of this
great party that to control politics in
Thomas county. Dead and rotting.
The case of Tom McCrary, who was found
guilty of breaking into Dr. Miller's store house
at Buena Vista, and to whom the Supreme
Court had granted anew trial, has had his
case carried up to a still higher court. He died
suddenly on Sunday in jail at Buena Vista,
where he was confined awaiting the session of
the court.
W. E. Mumford has again donned the edi
torial toga, and has recently take a editoral
charge of the Talbotton New Era. We gladly
shake on his return to the fraternity.
The Pensacola an i Atlantic Railroad Com
pany will bring suit at once against the city
of Apalachicola, Florida, to recover the value
of the steamer Mobile, which was quarantined
by the authorities of that city while en route
to Columbus, and was wrecked during the
equinoctial gale. The company claim that the
steamer had not touched at Pensacola at all
while en route from Mobile to Apalachicola.
The case will be a very interesting question,
iavolvicg the rights and powers of local quar
antine authorities.
The people of Forsyth had fires, which were
comfortable, on last Baturday morning. The
indications everywhere point to an early froet.
Dawson will, with good luck, soon have an
artesian well—t.., if she will have the patience
to wait on a great bore, and go deep enough
through her granite strata to the water-bear
ing gaod.
. v Ex-oivernor Smith addressed the organized
!■’ at Columbus on Tuesday night.
f th„ ablest speakers and outspoken
of Georgia, and we sbou’d like him
Chatham dad give the Democracy
up.
valuation of taxable property in
ounty is $1,361,611, and ot Swains
ounty seat, $21,170
Swainsboro is about to organise an amateur
minstrel troupe, to bottie up and cork its ama
teur musical talent.
There are twelve divorce cases to be disposed
of at the ensuing term of the Superior Court of
Floyd county. Say now no more about the
stability of matrimonial associations in Geor
gia-
Atlanta Constitution: "The Mr. WhJzzlestink
sky who is said to be running for Congress
somewhere in Southwest Georgia, ought to get
out an injunction to prevent newspaper men
from tampering with his distinguished name."
It isn’t Winzklestintsky after ail. The distin
guished gentleman's name is WUI-o-the-whisky.
J Illnesville Gazette: "Last Thursday a large
Savannah morning news
.1, H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
bear, driven out of the Altamaha swamp by
the high water, was seen near Johnston sta
tion. Some dogs got upon his trail and he
came dashing through Mr. Folsom’s ' ard,
creating no little c msternation among the
ladies and children Mr. Folsom was away
from home, but a colored man came up, seized
Mr. Folsom’s gun and started in hot pursuit.
Whan he got near enough to the bear to shoot
he found the gun was not loaded and he dl i
not have any ammunition along with hi in to
load it. He retired m quick time ”
The Academy of the B ; ind, at Macon, an in
stitution that Georgia m ghs well be proud of,
opened its session finely. There are about
sixty pupils now in attendance, and all seem
to b* doing well. Prof. Williams is doing a
noble work for the State and for the unfortu
nate blind. A large number of his former stu
dents ere now making splendid livings by
their own exertions instead of being encum
brances upon their friends and the community
by the ir misfortunes. There is not a more effi
cient school for the blind in all the land than
our own State institution. It is a credit to the
commonwealth, as it is also to the South, and
it is the pride of Macon as a benevolent institu
tion. There are departments for both white
and colored children.
Chronicle and Constitutionalist: “It is pro
posed that the different Democratic organiza
tions, and those interested in the success of
the nominees of th* Democratic party, unite in
a grand mass meeting and torculight demon
stration next Monday evening. Primarily in
the interest of Mr. Stephens, the demonstra
tion will include all the organized Democratic
State and National nominees, and will wind up
the campaign in a brilliant burst of enthusiasm
and patriotism. Let us have the meeting and
torchlight procession, aDd let the old men and
the young men and the middle-aged men join
in the ranks as torch bearers, and let the can
non belch forth their approbation and the sky
rockets bound and blaze in the brilliant
heavens! Augusta needs just such arouse
ment, and, above all, let Mr. Stephens be on
hand.
The coming municipal election of Augusta
is at present exciting some attention in politi
cal circles. It is understood that Mr May will
be a candidate for re-election, and that he
will be opposed by Dr. Phinizy, and it is pro
posed by some to place In the wards a ticket
for Aldermen in the interest of thoe two gen
tlemen. This cou se the Evening .Vents thinks
unwise, and remarks; “We do not say this in a
spirit of dictation to any ward, or with a de
sire to choke off any espirant for Aldermanic
honors, hut we do not see how such a course
can do the least possible good. We need in our
Board of Aldermen good and true men—men
not swayed by partizanship, passion or preju
dice. and it should make no difference how the
result for Mayor may go, the Council should
be entirely unbiased, and act in every ease
conscientiously and for the welfare of the
grand old city of Augusta.”
Maccn Telegravh and Messenger: "Last
n'ght the Sheriff of Warren county passed
tit rough Macon en route for Warrenton with a
white man named Jack Peavy, with whom
Conductor Irwin, of the Washington branch,
had a difficulty about a month ago It will be
remembered that Peavy- got on the train at
Barnett, on the Georgia Railroad, and was con
sideranly under the irfluence of drink He
was quite disorderly, and when the conductor
went to collect fare Peavy pulled out his pistol
and fired at him. The conductor being un
armed borrowed a pistol fr m a passenger,
and a general firing ensued. In the meantime
Peavy escaped, with some wounds. He was
cap-ured on Monday in Washington county
a?ter a desperate struggle, receiving another
shot In the arm He will be taken to Warreu
ton to await trial for assault with intent to
murder, leslsting an officer, etc. He is said to
be a dangerous and bad man."
The Augusta Evening News, speaking of the
new industries of that city, reiers thus to the
pine wool oil works erected by Mr. L. L. Cann,
an enterprising gentleman who has come to
Augusta with his energy and capital to make
it his home: "Very few understand or appre
ciate the future greatness of this enterprise.
At present the works are small, but will soon
be eularged to such an extent as to surprise
our slow-going people. The pine wood oil pro
duced here will supply a want long felt, a want
that is universal. With the present rate of
destruction of timber for cross ties and other
timbers for railroads it is an absolute neces
sity that some tu-sns should be adopted to
preserve them. T his oil will effectually do the
work—increasing the life of wood to five or six
times Its natural duration. At present the
only method in use for preserving these tim
bers is expensive and tedious, the material for
creosoting (this is what they call the process)
being imported from Europe, and then applied
with very expensive machinery. A gentleman
in this city will soon obtain a patent for a
cheap and simple method of applying this oil
to wood, which will in a great measure do
away with all the old methods, and create an
immense demand for the oil. In addition to
the oil these works will produce, even now,
large quantities of acetic acid, acetate of lime,
acetate of lead, tar, pitch, charcoal, asphal
tum, varnish aud spirits turpentine.”
VIRGINIA READJUSTERS.
Resolutions Denouncing Malione.
Wastiington Special to the Chicago Tribune.
At a meeting of the County Committee
of tbe Roadjuster party, held at Manaseas
last week, George C. Round was elected
Chairman, and the following resolutions
adopted :
Whereas, William Mahone, by his at
tempt to constrain party action by the use
of the vast official patronage confided to
him by the President of the United States,
succeeded In setting aside the will of the
people and nominating a candidate against
their will; therefore,
Resohcd, By the County Committee of the
Liberal Readjnster party of Prince William
county:
1. That the said William Mahone has for
feited our confidence as a i arty leader, and
we will no longer recognize him In the ca
pacity of Chairman, and instruct our officers
to have no communication whatever with
him. We further cill on onr State Com
mittee to remove him from the high office
he disgraces, and to elect a man who has
some respect for the rights of the people.
2. In our opinion no members of Congress
or of our State Legislature, or any commit
tees of the party, have any power to formu
late new principles for the party, or nomi
nate B c&D( l^ ates t 0 be voted for by the
people; and we declare that in such matter
the party can only be bound by regular and
fairly-conducted conventions.
3. That we are as much as ever devoted to
the principles of the ptrty, as ratified by our
State Convention, and we rejoice In the
progress made toward an honest readjust
ment of the State debt, the maintenance of
our public schools, and the re establishment
of free manhood suffrage. We will still
labor to establish these principles, not only
against open opposition, but against the
secret intrigues of William Mahone and his
unscrupulous allies.
Mahone, it is said, has summoned the
leaders of his party in the Fifth Virginia
Congressional district to Washington to
confer as to the situation. An attempt will
be made to place another Readjuster nomi
nee in the field who is m ire satisfactory to
Mahone. The Republican stralghtouts are
taking advantage of every complication in
the Readjus'er situation, and are determin
ed to give Mahone as much trouble as pos
sible. The Readjustee and
this county are endeavoring to unite on the
Republican candidate for Congressman-at
large, Dawson, and the Republican candi
date for Congress, Woßz
Mrs. Melville's Insanity.
Mr. R M. Johnson, of Brooklyn, a half
brother of the wife of Engineer Melville, is
lu lodtanopolis on private business. In a
recent conversation he said that Mrs. Mel
ville’s insanity is the result of the great
mental strain consequent upon Mr. Mel
ville’s absence on the polar expedition, and
to which her extremely nervous tempera
ment has contributed. Last summer she
spent two months at Mr. Johnson’s residence
and >at that time there were indications
of mental disturbance. She would sit up
for hoars and talk about George, her hus
band, and then suddenly lapse Into moody
silence. Asa mother 6he was very indul
gent to her children, and In cariDg for
may have done so extravagantly at times.
She has been married twenty-two years, and
Mr. Johnson thinks that not six years of
that time has been spent In her husband’s
company, owing to his numerous voyages.
He characterizes George Melville as one of
nature’s noblemen,a gentleman In allthings.
Mrs. Melville’s mother was a clear headed,
well" balanced woman, and the report that
she died insane Is utterly without founda
t < Mr. Johnson does not think that Mrs.
Melville will ever recover, and he would not
be surprised at any time to hear that she
had attempted self-destruction. She is a
woman naturally of a kind, loveable dlspo-
Eition, and the story that she ts a capital
pistol shot is utterly absurd, and grew out
of the fact that she once shot a negro bar
glar who was eettiog iu at the window oi
her residence. One hundred feet away,
with the moon as a target, she could not
hit It.
Burned in a Prairie Fire.
Rbdfibld, D. TANARUS., September 27.—Dr. H.
M. Towne, formerly of Chicago, and Zariah
John, of Illinois, were caught In a prairie
fire. In endeavoring to force their team
through the flames Towne was thrown out
of the wagon. His leg was broken, and,
thus helpless, he was burned to death.
John escaped, but was terribly burned.
Fatal Folly.
South Lebanon, o , September 27.—Five
persona entered an old boat at five o’clock
p. m. yesterday to cross the Miami river,
and durirg a playful straggle for the pos
session of the oars tbe boat capsiztd, and
four of tbe party, Newton and Ella Wal
lace, Abraham and Belle Lucas were
drowbqd.
Or rich iNdpoor, If you’re not won,
To bruah ymc teeth with Sozodont,
You’ll onekj.i erum£ ee P remorse,
For soon *o<n decay,
And soon cbanJadfc-a-day,
Thßtj vat” j
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.
Its Session at Wilmington.
0 —————
Wilmington, N. C-, September 27.—The
Tariff Commissioners arrived here this
morning and held a session In the custom
house. The subjects brought to Its atten
tion were rice and peanuts, chalk and slik
cocoons. The rice interest was advocated
by D. L. Russell, Donald Macßae and S. L.
Fremont, tbe peanut and chalk Interest
by Geo. Z. French, and the silk cocoons
interest was incidentally mentioned by Mr.
Fremont. The advocates of the rice Inter
est expressed themselves satisfied with the
present duties, but declared that any reduc
tion of them would be fatal to that interest.
In regard to peanuts, Mr. French gave the
average annual production of the Wilming
ton section as 120,000 bushels. Up to 1801
It was equal to seven-eighths of the entire
crop of the United States, but undert.be
duty of one cent per pound imposed in 1864,
the industry had increased until now Ten
nessee produced from 300.000 to 600,000
bushels, and Virginia from 700,000 to 1,000,-
000 bushels. Prices were affected by the
importation of African peanuts. A discon
tinuance of the duty would put an eud to
the peanut industry of North Carolina, and
impoverish many small farmers.
As to chalk, large deposits of it were
found in the State, but its freight to New
York and Philadelphia, where chalk was
made into whiting would be higher than
the cost of English chalk, which is carried
there as ballast’.
As to silk cocoons, the soil and climate of
the State were favorable to the cultivation
of the mulberry trees and the raising of silk
worms. Both these interests might he de
veloped by the Imposition of a duty on
chalk and on silk cocoons
Mr. Boteler asked Mr. Fremont whether
any complaints came up from the farming
community about the tariff.
Mr. Fremont replied in the negative. All
that was heard about it was from Congress
and stump speakers. He thought, however,
that the popular side of the question was a
tariff for revenue, with Incidental protec
tion, but as the rice people wanted the pres
ent duty on rice maintained, they could not
ask to have the duties taken off other pro
tected articles. The commission left for
Richmond this afternoon.
MACKEY-SMALLS.
The Former Charged with Buying His
Nomination for Congress.
Charleston, September 27.—1n the Re
publican convention of the Seventh district,
after a bitter struggle, which has lasted just
one week, E. W. M. Mackey (white) was
to-day nominated for Congress on the 25lst
ballot, receiving 21 out of the 39 votes. A
stormy scene ensued, MackejGs colored
competitors, Leo and Stn&lle, charging him
with having secured the nomination by
bribery. Lee displayed as evidence a prom
issory note for $250 given by Mackey to a
delegate for his vote. It is understood that
there will be no Democratic candidate in
the district, and Lse and Smalls are ex
pected to run against Mackey, making a
triangular Republican fight.
After Mackey’s nomination to-day, the
promissory note charged to have been given
by him to C. C. Robertson, was read to the
convention by Lee, and Mackey demanded
an investigation of its authenticity by the
convention. After a long and angry discus
sion the convention decided by a vote of 23
to 15 that the note made by
Mackey. This vote virtually gave Mackey
control of the convention, and a resolution
was passed declaring’him the nominee.
THE BONA PARTIS IS.
A Bitter Faction Feud Raging,
London, September 27. —A correspondent
of the limes at Paris telegraphs that while
the Jeromlst section ot the Bonapartists
were holding a meeting to denounce the
newspapers Pays aud Petit Caporal, the
opposition section of the party forced an
entrance into the hall where they were as
sembled. Revolvers and sword canes were
displayed, and a number of assaults were
committed. The Jeromlsts declare that the
recent duel between M. Richard, editor of
the Petit Caporal, aud M. da Massas, editor
of the Combat, In which the latter was
killed, was virtually an assassination. The
feud between the two sections is becoming
very Intense. The Republicans are de
lighted at these dissensions among their
enemies.
SMALLPOX.
Two Thousand Cases at Cape Town.
Cape Town, September 27.—The small
pox is raging here worse than ever. There
have been two thousand cases thus far,
mostly natives, of which six hundred proved
fatal. The disease has reached the military.
Cape Town has been declared infected, and
all vessels sailing thence for other ports In
the colony will be quarantined.
The greatest excitement prevails In the
diamond fields. Legal measures have been
taken to exclude persons arriving there who
are suspected of having the infection. The
streets of Cape Town have a deserted ap
pearance, and business is suffering greatly.
I. u'V u.
The Fourteenth Annual Convention.
Philadelphia, September 27.—The four
teenth annual convention of the Catholic
Beneficial Union commenced here to-day.
After attending high mass at the Cathedral
the delegates marched to Fhilapatrian Hall,
where they were welcomed by M. F. Wit
here, President of the Philadelphia union.
Hon. A. M. Keilly, of Richmond, Va., Presi
dent of tbe National Union, responded.
The I. C. B. U. numbers 235 societies In the
United States, aggregating 17,511 members,
and the payment for relief daring the year
amounted to $79,365.
A BOLD FRAUD.
A Big Haul on Duplicate Bills of
Lading.
Tbbbb Haute, Ind , Saptember 27.—A
man representing himself to be A. J.
Thompson, an extensive grain buyer, has
victimized the Prairie City and the First
National Bank here out of $26,000 by draw
ing money on duplicate bills of lading, hav
ing first erased the word “duplicate" by
means of oxalic acid. The money was
drawn last Friday, but the fraud has just
been discovered. Thompson’s whereabouts
are unknown.
THE MONEY MARKET.
Government Action to Relieve the Pres
sure.
New York, September 27.—1 t is reported
here that Secretary Folger said this morn
ing that the government would take what
action would be necessary to maintain ease*
In the money market. When he returns to
Washington he intends to look into the
matter very thoroughly, and if the law will
permit, he will recommend that the govern
ment shall loan money to the banks and
take bonds for security.
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal Observer, Wash
ington, D. C., September 27.—Indications
for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy
or cloudy weather, local rains, northerly
wind?, stationary or higher barometer and
temperature.
In the Middle Atlantic States, partly
cloudy or cloudy weather, with rain, easter
ly winds, stationary followed by falling ba
rometer, stationary or higher temperature.
In the Eist Gulf States, fair weather, va
riable winds, stationary or lower barometer
and higher temperature.
In the West Gulf States, fair weather,
winds mostly southerly, lower barometer,
stationary or higher temperature.
In the Ohio valley and Tennessee, partly
cloudy weather, local rains, variable winds
shifting to easterly, stationary followed by
falling barometer, stationary or higher tem
perature.
Two Brutal Murderers Caught.
Petersburg, Va., September 27.—Intel
ligence has reached here cf the arrest of two
negroes who murdered Clinton Cane some
days ago near Weldon, and afterwards
placed bis body on the track of the Raleigh
and Gaston Railroad. Tbev confess the
crime. The murderers have been lodged in
jail at Warrenton, N. C., to await trial. K
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1882.
EGYPT.
i
The Khedive’s Latest Decree?.
London, September 27.—A Times dis
patch from Constantinople says the Porte
has addressed a note to Lord Dufferln, the
British Ambassador, demanding to know
what step Is contemplated by his govern
ment In regard to tbe withdrawal of the
British troops from Egypt, as they are no
longer required in that country.
The Times has the following from Cairo,
dated the 26th: "The reception held by the
Khedive at the Ghezlereh palace to-day was
more largely attended than any within the
recollection of the people here. It la vari
ously estimated that from 3,000 to 5,000 per
sons paid homage to the Khedive. He re
fused to receive F.agheb Pasha, Alhadek
Pasha and Marachll Pasha, all late Ministers
of the Khedive. Cherif Pasha and Ouaz
Pasha strongly Insist upon the necessity of
capital punishment for the prime offenders
in the late revolt.
Cairo, September 27.—The Ministers met
in council to-day and agreed upon the
wording of three decrees, which the Khe
dive will sign to-morrow. The first decree
institutes a special commission for the pros
ecution of all acts of rebellion committed by
the military or civilians. The commission
will consist of nine members, and will be
under the presidency of Ismail Bay.
The second orders that a court martial
with eight members, Reouf Pasha presid
ing, shall be held in Cairo, and that it shall
give judgment according to tbe military
code, without appeal, in all cases submitted
by the above named commission.
The third directs the assembling in Alex
andria of another court martial to try all
cases submitted by the tribunals recently
appointed In Alexandria and Tantah.
The proceedings of both courts martial
will be published. The accused will be per
mitted to employ counsel. Tbe Kbedive
will shortly issue a decree granting amnesty
to all officers, from Captains downward, en
gaged in the late rebellion, excepting those
who directly participated in the riots or
joined the army tince the beginning of the
campaign.
„ CATHOLIC CHILDREN.
Milwaukee Sentiment as to Their Edu
cation.
Milwaukee, September 27.—The Ger
man Roman Catholic Society adopted in to
day’s business meeting the following in re
latiation to the education of Catholic chil
dren:
All members of the Central Society are in
duty bound to send their children to the
Catholic parochial schools only. It is the
duty of every Catholic to contribute to the
organization and maintenance of parochiel
scnools and colleges of the Catholic
Church. All Catholics should assist the
clergy in providing for the Catholic educa
tion of their children so that a generation
of Catholics may be raised, who will jeal
ously guard their right and privileges.
The committee reported in favor of the
organization of Catholics for the purpose of
electing candidates for political offices who
will protect Catholics in their constitutional
rights of unimpaired redgious worship.
Resolutions against the prohibition of the
liquor traffic were concurred in.
? THE SYRACUSE TICKET. .
A Call for a United Ratification.
New York, September 27.— The County
Demccracy have written a letter to the
Chaiiman of Tammany Hall, the Tammany
Anti-Kelly wing, Irving Hall and the Ger
man Democratic organizrttons, asking them
for the appointment of committees to make
the necessary preparations for a uulted
Democratic ratification of the ticket nomi
nated at Syracuse. The letter urges that all
local dlffsrences be laid aside.
FRED DOUGLASS.
In Accord with Maliono.
Washington, September 27. —Frederick
Douglass has been interviewed In regard to
the published statement that a prominent
colored man is about to stump Virginia for
the straight-out Republicans, coupled with
.he conjecture that Douglass Is the man.
Dous’lass says be has no Intention of stump-
Iwg Virginia. His sympathies are with the
Mahone movement, but he does not intend
to go to Virginia to speak.
New York Stock Market.
New York, Septemcer 27.—Share specu
lation opened strong with an advance in
prices from those at vesterday’fl close of %
to % per cent., the latter for Nashville ana
Chattanooga. Oregon Navigation, howevere
was per cent, lower. During tbe early .trad,
the market was quiet and heavy, and prices
fell off % to 1% per cent., Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western, Michigan Central and
Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central
being most conspicuous In tbe downward
turn, butjsubsequently the market became
strong, and there was an advance of 1% per
cent. In Canada Southern, 1% In Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, l in Columbus,
Chicago and ludlana Centra!, and % to %
in the remainder of the list, the latter
for Michigan CentraL After this the
market became decidedly weak, and about
2:15 p. m. recorded a decline, ranging from
% to 2% per cent,., in which Michigan Cen
tral, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
Northern Pacific preferred, Union Pacific,
Canada Southern and New Jersey Central
we.-e most prominent, while Oregou and
Transcontinental, after-falling off 1% per
cent, recovered 1% per cent., and
receded 1%. The downward move
ment was checked by a rally of
% to %, led hy Michigan Central, but in the
final uealings prices again declined % to 2
per cent., the latter for Oregou and Trans
continental, to 92%. Northern Pacific pre
ferred, New Jersey Central and Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western were also promi
nent in the downward movement. The break
In Oregon aud Transcontinental, which
opened at 97% and closed at 92%,
was due to the announcement
that the Executive Committee had to day
recommended that the quarterly dividend,
beginning on January Ist, be 1% per cent.,
instead of 2 per cent. The market closed at
a decline on the day’s transactions of % to
4% per cent., Oregan and Transcontinental,
Michigan Central, Northern Pacific pre
ferred, and Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western belDg prominent therein. Trans
actions aggregated 390,000 shares.
Brighton Beach Races.
New York, September 27.—At Brighton
Beach, the first race, for a purse of S2OO, to
be divided, one and one-eighth miles, Hart
ford won, Wakefield second, Elmira third.
Time 2:02.
The third race, for a purse or S2OO, seven
eighths of a mile,Bouncer won, Jim Farrell,
Bonheur and Ida B making a dead heat for
the second place. Time 1:32%.
The third race, for a purse of S2OO, to be
divided, seven-eighths of a mile, Perplex
won easily, The Judge second, Morgan Bpy
third. Time 1:32%.
The fourth race, for a purse oi $259, to be
divided, one and a quarter miles, George
McCo'lough won, Maliz second, Mark third.
Time 2:14.
Tbe fifth race, for a purse of $250, to be
divided, one and a half miles over six hur
dle , Buster won, Bride Cake second, forty
yards in front of Black Crook. Time 2:50.
The Newmarket October Meeting.
London, September 27.—At the New
market meeting to-day the race for the
Great Eastern Railway handicap was won
bv Lorlllard’s Aranza, Hornpipe second,
Warborn third.
The race for the GraDdy stakes for two
year-olds, was won by Lord Stanford's
Goldm&ster, W. 8. Crawford’s the Golden
Farmer second, Beauchamp’s Onward third,
and Mr. P. Lorlllard’s Comanche fourth.
In consequence of the victory of the Ameri
can horse, Aranza, to-day in the race for
the Great Eastern Railway handicap, Lor
lllard’s Sachem and Keene’s B ookmaker now
head, the quotations In the betting on the
race for the Cambridgeshire stakes, to be
ran at Newmarket next month, fourteen to
one being offered against each of them.
Earthquakes in the West.
St. Louis, September 27.—A slight shock
of earthquake was felt in the city vicinity
at 4:18 a. m. to day. In the central part of
the city the shock was first noticed as a roll
ing, even noise followed by twelve distinct
vibrations at intervals of a second. The
first vibration was the most violent shock,
and lasted about fifteen seconds.
Vincennes, Ind., Beptembar27.—A shock
of earthquake was felt here at 3 a. m.,
which rattled windows and lasted three
minutes.
Springfield, Ills., September 27.—A
shock of earthquake was distinctly felt here
about 4 o’clock this morning. It was felt
very strongly at Centralis, where it wo’ ’
all the slumberers.
SOUTH AMERICA.
The Earthquakes on the Isthmus-Mat
ters in Peru, Chili and Bolivia.
Panama, September 16 —The earth has
ceased to quake and the people’s nerves are
becoming steadier. As far as heard from
only five deaths have resulted from the
shaking, four through casualties, and one,
of a woman, from fright. The people who
abandoned the city for the fields are return
ing to their homes and have begum repair
ing damages.
Advices from L'ma are to the 7th, but no
exciting events have occurred.
Dr. Anicata Arzo, a wealthy and highly
educated citizen, has been elected Presi
dent of the Bolivian Congress. He is a
staunch adherent of “peace at any price,"
and confident hopes are expressed of a set
tlement between Chill and Bolivia.
Mentero Is making but slow progress In
Pern. Rumor asserts that Caceres is about
to proclaim himself supreme Chief of the
republic of Chill, anti that Careolla, who
has a few pressed men, is Inclined to adopt
a similar course.
General Adams, the United States Min-
Is'er to La Pz, Is about to return to the
United States.
IN SELF DEFENSE.
An Editor Kills a Murderous Tramp.
Chicago, September 27.— Wm. Dynie
wieez, editor of a Polish newspaper here,
surrendered himself to the authorities this
morning, saying that he had just killed a
man. His story is that after rising he went
out Into the front yard, and was there at
tacked by a tramp with a club, and that the
tramp followed him into the house aud
struck his wife aud daughter, whereupon,
In sslf-defense, he got a revolver and shot
the tramp in the breast. Instantly killing
him.
YELLOW FEVER.
Reports from Pensacola,
New Orleans, September 27.— The Pica
yune's Pensacola special, dated 26th, reports
sixty new cases and two deaths. The in
crease of the sick Is to great and the means
of relief so Inadequate that the Board of
Health have called a meeting of physicians
for to-morrow, with the view of systematiz
ing methods of disbursing the means In Its
hands economically, and yet so as to afford
relief to all who may need aid.
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE.
Its Opening Postponed.
Macon, Ga., September 27.—The Wes
leyan Female College, at this place, gener
ously endowed by Geo. I. Seney, of New
York, has been compelled to postpone Its
opening until November Ist, on account of
the work upon it being delayed by the late
storm.
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
M. LeClanche, the Inventor of the Le-
Clanehe electric pile and other Improve
ments in electricity, Is dead.
The liabilities of Wellington Bros. & Cos.,
wholesale dry goods, of Boston, who sus
pended on Tuesday, aggregate $700,000.
Their assets are nominally $725,000.
W. W. Woods’ manufacturing establish
ment, at Winston, N. C., was destroyed by
fire at 2 o’clock yesterday morning. The
loss Is unknown, but the property was In
sured for $500,000.
Mr. Gladstone, replying to a correspon
dent, reiterates the declaration that he Is
unable to Interfere with the operations of
the Mormons In England, as he presumes
their converts go with them willingly.
Two brothers named Heady attempted to
row across a swollen stream In Duchess
county, New York, a few nights ago.
Fearing they would be swept over a dam,
they jumped overboard, and one of them
was drowned.
Bishop Gallagher, of Galveston, Texas,
passed through Cincinnati on Tuesday
night with a party of twenty-one sisters of
the Dominican Convent at Somerset, Ohio,
who form a colony to found a similar con
vent of Galveston.
Professor Brooks, of the Red House Ob
servatory, at Phelps, New York, says the
comet “Is now visible" near the eastern
horizon, just before sunrise. Its head is
“large and very bright” and Its tall twenty
degrees in length.
The First Louisiana Congressional Dis
trict Republican Convention yesterday In
dorsed the Independent candidacy of Albert
C. Janin, of St. Bernard parish. Morris
Marks has accepted the nomination of the
dissatisfied Republicans of the Second dis
trict.
Duncan A. Grant, a lace importer at 28
West Twenty-third street, New York, has
suspended. His liabilities are large, but his
assets principally cover them. He has been
in business twenty years. He did a heavy
credit business, and his failure Is attributed
to the dull season and bad debts.
A scheme has been propounded by Mr.
Davltt for the formation of a gigantic or
ganizition whose leading objects will be the
Improvement of the social and political
condition of the Irish, and the prevention
of emigration from Ireland by obtaining
profitable employment for laborers and
evicted tenants.
The committee of the National Woman
Suffrage Association is in conference with
the committee of the Nebraska association
at Omaha, to plan the campaign in Ne
braska. Miss Anthony, Mrs. Saxon of New
Orleans, Miss Hindman of Pennsylvania,
Madame Neyman of New York, Miss
Phoebe Cousins of St. Louis, Mrs. Shattuck
of Boston, Mies Foster of Philadelphia, and
Mrs. Colby of Nebraska, will speak until
the election.
General Roger Pryor on His Mnscle.
New York Sun.
The convention had hardly been called to
order in Shaksoeare Hall this evening be
fore there was a row in the Brooklyn dele
gation. It occurred in the back part of
the hall near the entrance. General Roer
A. Pryor was urging the propriety of placing
General Slocum on the ticket for Congress
man at large, when exceptions were taken
by Anthoiiy Barrett, a well known peace
and-harmony Democrat. He declared
that each a nomination would be an In
sult to General Slocum, and animad
verted strongly on wbat he called
General Pryor’s presumption in mak
ing such a proposal. The dispute
grew hot and bad blood was aroused. The
peace-and-harmony Democrat finally called
General Pryor a d—d rebel. Thereupon the
General hauled off with bis right, took Mr.
Barrett between the eyes, and sent him to
grass. The blow knocked all peace and
harmony proclivities out of Mr. Barrett. He
peeled himself of his coat, ana was prepar
ing to knock the General out when he was
seized by other members of the delegation
who ware acting in the real interests of
peace and harmony. General Pryor turned
to those surrounding him, saying:
“Gentlemen, you have all witnessed this
trouble. Under the provocation I feel my
self perfectly justified In acting as I have
acted."
He then walked away, accompanied by
friends. The Brooklyn delegation and all
who witnessed the assault justified General
Pryor.
Louisville Races.
Louisville, September 27.— The first
race, the Blue Grass stakes, for two-year
old fillies, SSO entrance, hair forfeit, S4OO
added, three-quarters of a mile, Queen Can
won, Bellona second, Miss Woodford third,
Vera foartb. Time 1:16.
The second race, the Jockey Club handi
cap, for a purse of $350, one and one-half
miles, Tax Gatherer won by hsfff a length,
Catunez second, Lizzie S. third. Time
2:38*.
The third race, for an association purse of
$350, one mile, Hasson won by a length,
Brad second, Harry Gilmore third. Time
1:44*.
The fourth race, a selling race, for $250,
one and one quarter miles, Annie J. won
easily, Wendover second, Mattie Rapture
third. Time 3:12*.
Cotton Futures In New York.
New Yobk, September 27.—The Post's
cotton market report sayr: “Future deliv
eries opened 1100 c. to 2 100 c. lower, but ad
vanced tt-lOOc. for September and 11-100 c,
to 9-100 c. for the later months, when de
termined sellers entered the market and
prices declined 8-100 c. to 11-100 c. from the
highest point. At the third call September
was sold at 11 60all 62c., October at 11 39c.,
November 1119 c., December 1117 c , Janu
ary 11 23a1l 22c , March 11 42i1l 43c., April
1153a1l 54c., May 11 63** June 11 74c.”
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NORTHERN POLITICS.
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt on the Situation in
New York and Pennsylvania—The Pros
pects of the Democrats in Both States
Very^Briglit.
St. Louis Republican, 25th.
Hon. Abram 8. Hewitt, of New York,
registered at the Southern yesterday, and
last evening was seen by a Republican re
porter and asked about tbe present political
aspect In tbe Empire State and tbe probable
effect o? the recent nomination. Mr. Hewitt
expressed himself as saneuine of Demo
cratic success, and believes that the party
made a good selection in placing Hon.
Grover Cleveland at the head of the ticket.
Baid he: “There was no faction la the con
vention. Of course, there were numerous
candidates for Gubf material honors, but
Mr. Cleveland’s success shows that he Is
strong on all sides. 1 think the outlook ex
ceedingly favorable for the New York
Democrats. Tbe party is now united, and
as the State is Democratic in a fair election
I think that the Reoublicans will receive a
severe setback in November ”
Mr. Hewitt states that Mr. Clevelaud Is
exceedingly popular throughout the State,
and a man with a record that the patty can
be croud of. He Is at present tbe Mayor of
Buffalo, and it Is exoected that during tbe
campaign the email Ripub ieau majority in
Erie county will be changed to a large
Democratic one. The party, both In the
city of New York and tflroughout the State,
express the utmost satisfaction at his nomi
nation, and all have pledged them*elves to
support him.
Of Judge Folger’s nomination, Mr.
Hewitt said : “He is an administration can
didate, and the people are not satisfied with
the administration. The faction quarrels
in the Republican party in New York are
increasing daily iu butermss and, handi
capped by a faction candidate, it will be
overwhelmed if the Democrats keep united.
The offices within the gift of the party in
New York have been bestowed upon indi
viduals as a remuneration for partisan ser
vice, and the people are becoming tired of
this sort of civil service. The people have
also discovered that the plank in the Re
publican platform relating to the decrease
of taxation and reduction of appropriations,
is a dead letter, and mere twaddle. They
are in the majority In both houses of
Congress, and prate daily about reducing
taxation and cutting off useless expendi
tures, yet during the whole session not a
single bill having for its object the reduc
tion of taxes or appropriations originated
with a Republican. The only bill giving
•lief in this direction was one which was
framed by myself and passed by both
Houses. It had for Its object the reduction
of taxation on the tonnage of vessels, mak
ing it equal on all 6ides. Instead of reduc
ing appropriations the Republican party in
power have Increased them millions of dol
lars. The people are beginning to see that
the numerous promises made yearly by the
party are only for effect, and that not a
single one is carried out."
Mr. Hewitt could not 6ay whether Judge
Folger Is the strongest man the party could
nominate. The Cornell faction is very bit- -
ter at present and, unless arrangements are
made lor a division of tbe spoils, will work
against him at the polls.
Concerning the situation in Pennsylvania,
Mr. Hewitt expressed great hope. The Re
publican ranks are hopelessly riven and the
breach is daily widening. Wtih good gen
eralship the Democrats have every prospect
of success.
Mr. Hewitt left New York a month ago
and has been traveling in the West. He is
now on his way home, and will leave for
New York to-morrow. He is not acquaint
ed personally with Mr. Cleveland, the
Democratic nominee, but says that he Is the
best man that could have been chosen.
THE TARIFF REVISERS.
What Secretary Porter Says About the
Work of the Commission.
The Hon. Robert P. Porter, Secretary of
the Tariff Commission, was in Philadel
phia on Saturday, and talked about the
work accomplished by the commission dur
ing the summer. He thought that Us mem
bers were hampered in not being able to
compel attendance or administer an oath.
The most concise and valuable information
on the part of consumers was given by Ev
erett P. Wheeler. The greatest amount of
testimony was taken at Long Branch. Over
thirty custom house experts from the col
lector’s and appraiser’s departments were
examined while the commission was at the
seaside. This brought to light an immense
amount of information on the lack of uni
formity of the present tariff laws, and sug
gested almost endless points for simplifica
tion. The practical work of the cross ex
amination was conducted by Commissioner
McMahon, who tor twenty years has been
at the head of the entry division in the New
York custom house, and is thoroughly ac
quainted with the difficulty of demonstrating
tne tariff laws and the thousand contradic
tory decisions relating thereto. Nearly two
hundred and fifty witnesses were examined.
In the tour through the country little In
terest was manifested in the proceedings of
tbe commission, particularly in the West.
This was explained by the fact that the peo
ple are generally so prosperous that they
did not care to trouble themselves. At Chi
cago, however, interest was revived, and the
testimony was almost equally divided. At
St. Louis the most enthusiastic and satisfac
tory meeting was held. The Board of Trade
and other commercial institutions took
cognizance of the presence of the commis
sion, came before It, and entered eagerly
into the spirit of the proceedings. The trip
South, while it resulted in obtaining ideas
of the needs of the Southern people, did not
secure as much information as in other sec
tions of the country.
Cotton Mills North and Sooth.
N. O. Times-Democrat.
Two years ago the Times Democrat and a
number of other Southern papers brought
prominently before the South the question
of cotton manufacturing. We showed that
if the New England mills could declare
large dividends that mills in the South
could do much better, buying, as they did,
cotton cheaper, having smaller freight bills
to pay, securing cheaper labor and water
power, enjoying a far better climate
for manufacturing, and with a market
close at hand for all the goods they
could turn out. These arguments were so
convincing that a tegular boom was inau
gurated. In the past two years $18,000,000
has been invested in cotton mills in the
South, and their number is Increasing dally.
On September 1, 1881, the Southern mills
(that is, those In the cotton Btatee) contained
583,696 spindles; on September 1 they con
tained 839,361 spindles, an Increase of 45
per cent., and to-day, including the Mary
land mills, they boast of 1,237,409 spindles.
In the meanwhile, there has been no in
crease in sptndlee In New Eagland, nor any
other portion of the North. Those persons
desirous of investing their capital In the
cotton manufacturing business, naturally
torn towards the South as the best field, re
turning them the surest and largest divi
dends on their money. During the season
of 1880-81 the Northern mills t00k.1.661,206
bales for consumption, and, in'lßßl 82,
1,686,804 balee, an increase of only 1 % per
cent., against an Increase of 30 per cent, in
the consumption of the Southern manufac
tories.
The boom still continues. There are now
more mills going up in the South than ever
before. Mr. M. Gunby Jordan, of Colum
bus, Ga., who is thoroughly acquainted with
this subject, predicts that there will be an
Increase of at least 45 per cent. In the spin
dles In the South during the present business
year, and that the Southern consumption
will reach 400,000 bales, or one-quarter that
of the North.
The reasons for this, as we have eaid, are
evident? The New England mill must pay
all the charges of freight, commission, in
surance, drayage; while the Southern mill
has the cotton delivered at its door, com
paratively free from these charges; and, at
the same time the goods manufactured at
the South largely find a market there,
making a great saving in freight.
The result Is larger profits and bigger
dividends. In a speech In Congress, some
time ago, Mr. Russell, a Massachusetts
member, declared that after a thorough ex
amination of the official statements of the
leading cotton manufacturers of New Eng
land, he was able to say that the stockhold
ers in these mills received average dividends
of a little lees than seven per cent.
The Baltimore Journal of Commerce, after
making a similar examination of the South
ern mills, says: “In no case have we heard
of any mill declaring less than 10 per cent,
annual dividends, and In every case In which
only this per cent, was declared, a large
amount was taken from the earnings and
need for repairs, additions to machinery and
increasing the size and capacity of the mill,
while in mauy establishments the profits of
cotton manufacturing ranged as high as 50
per cent a year.
Sbot While Resisting Arrest.
Atlajsta, September 27. A dispatch
from Leary says that In a fight between Lu
cius Edmonds, alias John Spicey, colored,
and a Sheriff’s posse, Spicey was killed.
Spicey In resisting, shot at one of the posse,
and accidentally shot, perhaps fatally, his
own wife. _
Sinuy Sen.
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THE PANAMA EARTHQUAKE.
A Series of Shocks on the Isthmus—Dam
age to Several Towns and to the Rail
road-Loss of Life.
Panama Correspondent New York Herald.
The State of Panama principally, and ad
joining Btates in Colombia, and the Repub
lics of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, as far as
heard from by the new cable In the Pacific,
have been subjected since the 7th iDst. to a
series of earthquakes, which have differed
as widely in intensity as they have In locali
ty. In this city the first one was felt at
about twenty minutes past 3 a. m. on the
7th, and was followed, about half an hour
afterward, by a second one. Both
these shocks were felt In Colon,
and generally throughout the Slate;
also in Carthagena, in the
State of Bolivar; in Rivas, Niacaragua,
which is situated within eighteen miles of
the Pacific, and in Greytown, the Atlantic
port of the San Joan river In the same re
public, and a good hundred and fifty miles
from the before mentioned town. The ab
solute Isck of any regularity In the time
kept in these different countries prevents
calculation of the earth’s motion bv this
means, but all Indications so far received
tend to prove that In the more northern lati
tudes tne shocks were felt subsequent to
their occurrence here, although the most
experienced in such events, and the general
line of damage, indicate that the Impulse
reached here from the north or ’north-
northeast. The alarm in this city was great,
and tbe cracks In the old fashioned rock and
cement houses afforded sufficient evidence
that there was warrant for it. The
walls of more than sixty houses were more
or less Injured, but none fell, and conse
quently no one was hart. Public buildings
were lees fortunate. The high crown of the
pediment of the cathedral fell,as it had noth
ing to support it, and hurled about a couple
of hundred tons of masonry work, decora
tive architecture and a few 6tatues down
through the roof of the nave and into the
central square. The wide balcony of the
Legislative Assembly also came down with
a crash and filled the square in front of it
with blocks of 6tone, fragments of ce
ment columns and a large quantity of
miscellaneous lumber. The offices of the
Interoceanic Canal Company, formerly the
Grand Hotel, were also severely damaged,
and the edifice, which cost the company a
few months ago $260,000, will require at
least $50,000 to put It in order. Many of
the employes are afraid to enter it. The city
of Aepinwsll suffered in a similar manner,
but being so much snaller, and the houses
being constructed generally of the moat
fragile material, the harm done is not so
great.
It is probable that $£50,000 will repair all
the damage done In this city, and a third of
that sum will cover all the losses experienced
in the rest of the Isthmus. Not a single
bouse has fallen in Panama, although many
of the people, fearing.the successive shocks
might bring them down, have preferred to
go to the plains outside the city and reside
in the cane and palm leaf houses rather than
expose themselves to the risk of being
erushed by the falling masonry and brick
work of the more solidly constructed bouses
in the better part of the city. A few of the
standing walls—which In any other part
of the world would have been de
stroyed by municipal order year? ago—
crumbled down. These walls, which
give the city such a ruined appearance, ar e
the relics of fire 6 which have swept, almost
unopposed, through this city within the
last twenty or thirty years, and which many
a casual passer-by considers worthy to be
transferred to the sketchbook as examples
of ancient Spanish architecture, and the
hard hands of the buccaneers who are
credited with causing the destruction, but
who had been dead many years before the
walls were constructed or the Isthmus had
become a transit for all nations. Quite a
number of shocks have been experienced
since the 6th, but no further
damage has been done. The loss of life has
been trifling; only one death occurring In
Aspinwall and another in Gatun can be
distinctly traced to the falling houses. Two
others have also taken place, and both were
doctors and victims of their own impru
dence. One happened here and the other
In Colon, and by a remarkable coincidence
both resulted from jumping from windows
when the first and most severe shake oc
curred. A third doctor Is said to have gone
out of his mind through the strain ot the
succession of shocks. It Is a remarkable
fact that since the shocks commenced
sickness has not been spoken of, although
undoubtedly many people will suffer from
having deserted comfortable homes to sleep
and live In the miserable ranches occupied
by the poorer classes of natives.
It is now the 14th, and since the Bth peo
ple have suffered a tremendous terror. In
earthquake countries, more particularly In
Ecuador, Peru and some parts of Chill,
notie of the shakes so far experienced would
have created the least alarm; but here,
where they have been hitherto almost un
known, the fright has been far more severe
than the reality. The wildest rumors as to
the existence of volcanoes In different parts
of the Isthmus have been set aloat. A
committee of canal engineers has visited
several localities indicated by the natives,
but no such rare, though possible, proof of
the power of subterranean forces has been
discovered. In a few places loose alluvial
soil shows signs of the shakes, and cracks
from one to six inches are visible. In every
case they commence from tbe top, but do
not continue to any depth, Indicating that
their form&tilon is due to subsidence and
not to the direct upward agency which cre
ates the deep rifts and fissures to be noticed
in the countries which have suffered the
eevere effects of direct volcanic actios.
Several of the embankments of the
Panama Railroad, on both sides of
which tropical swamps exist, and the
high masonry abutments of six or seven
of the bridges were severely damaged
by tbe earthquake. The superintendent of
the line, Mr. Woods, however, was equal to
the emergency, and by working day and
night, in a most critical season and at a
most critical time, with laborers scared out
of their lives at the occasional earthquakes,
succeeded in re-establishing traffic within
oue day and sending freight and passengers
through as usual within two days after the
first break in the line. The cable from As
pinwall to Jamaica was broken by the first
shock at a point fifty miles from the Isth
mus. The Central American cables, how
ever, continued to work all right, and
although they are not yet open to busi
ness, the courtesy of the officials con
nected with them enabled the public to
learn that damage had not been done in the
Antilles. So many residents here are na
tives of the Islands and the Spanish Main,
and business relations are so closely con
ned ed that the fear of a catastrophe on the
Atlantic added much to the panic experi
enced here. The Central and South Ameri
can Company’s cables are now all laid, and
will be open to the public Bhortly. The
Silvertown, which has laid the greater part
of them, sailed yesterday for Ban Francisco
to load a cargo of wheat for England.
COURSE OF THE EARTHQUAKE.
The Herald Panama correspondent sends
the following: “Mr. Robert Gaye Gray,
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society,
and chief of the Cable Expedition now here,
after the first violent earthquake advanced
the theory that it was of local origin.
This has been fully confirmed by cablegrams
received from Central and South America,
and from the West Indies by way of New
York. Mr. Gray’s opinion, as a scientist,
is as follows: ‘The centre of the eartbquake
was near Aspinwall. The waves traveled
from north to south. This opinion is borne
oat by the damage done, being
severest In Aspinwall and Its neigh
borhood. The shock of the earthquake
tn traveling from north to south left
transverse cracks In the ground and almost
without exception In every house that It en
countered. The damaged villages of Los
Santos and Chorrara, in the State of Pana
ma, are directly south of Aspinwall and the
Chagres river, and they with Aspinwall suf
fered most. The city of Panama lies to the
eastward of south, and, judging from the
evidence, did not come in for the most vio
lent shocks. Damage done In Asplnwsll is
due principally to the Inefficient construc
tion of the buildings. It is rumored that
Chlriqui, on the Chiriqut Lagoon, eighty
miles to the westward of Chagres, Is also af
fected, but In (all probability this effect
is only tangential from the main direction
of motion. It Is currently thought that
the excessively dry season, instead of wet,
said to be unexampled In Panama for the
last thirty years, has been the prime cause
of the commotion In the earth’s bosom. It
is historical that In 1854, on the 10 h of
July, at midnight, Panama felt the last
severe earthquake. Alihough there is no
accurate evidence for or against, we may
assume that the thirty years ago referred to
as the exceedingly dry season was no other
than the year 1854 ” Mr. Gray conclnded
by saying that this was all that he could
give from the facts submitted to him, and
that it remains with geologists aud scientists
to speculate as to the more intimate causes
that produce such disastrous effects in all
parts of the world.
Deadly Political Quarrel.
Baltimore, September 27.—A quarrel
grew out of a political discussion on Eden
street to-night and Rob*. v Boss, aged 32,
w*s shot, and died in nates. Four
, a were enge <-> e assault on
' -aptured n who fired
symmetry ot tne ■ P en CO r - _
ESTABLISHED 1850.
DE LESSEPS’ CANALS.
Sharp Argument to Show that Panama
and Sue* Widely Differ.
Pall Mall Gazette.
It is often taken for granted that because
M. de Leseep6 severed the Isthmus of Suez
he must also succeed In severing that of
Panama. But the ditch he dug in the sand
from Port Said to But z cannot for a moment
be compared to the channel he has under
taken to hew through the rocks and swamps
of Panama. The new csmal will only be
half as long as the old one, but, as It passes
through a mountain range necessitating a
clean cut 350 feet deep through solid rock,
the difficulty of Its construction cannot
be estimated by Its length. In Africa
the River Nile was of invaluable service
to M. de Lesseps. In America, after the
earthquakes, his greatest enemy is the
River Cbagres, whose turbulent torrent, un
less curbed by a dam the like of which has
never been constructed by engineer, is cer
tain to destroy the canal the first rainy
season. In Suez he was close to the over
stocked labor market of three continents,
and In the Immediate neighborhood of the
workshops of the world. In Panama he
has to import negroes from Jamaica and
coolies from China. All his machinery has
to be transported thousands of miles from
Europe or America. But even in Suez he
would probably have failed had it not been
fcr the lavish support of the late Khedive
and the powerful patronage of Napoleon
IIL The Colombian Government has no
resources to place at his disposal, and the
undisguised jealousy of the United States
will probably lead to the construction of a
competing canal with an American guaran
tee. Yet, even if we accept the Suez
precedent, it is far from reassuring for the
holders of Panama stocks. When M. de
Lesseps began to make the Suez canal, he
estimated its cost at a little more than £B,-
000,000. Reforest was opened it cost little
less than £20,000,000. M. de Lesseps esti
mates the cost of cutting the Panama canal
at £26,000,000. At the Suez rate It will not
be completed at much below £60,000,000.
At present he has raised £6,000,000, not
Including the money required to purchase
the railroad. There Is only one point more
to which we need advert to-day. At Buez
M. de Lesseps has a monopoly of the traffic,
whereas the Foreign Affairs Committee of
the American House of Representatives has
already reported in favor of a bill Incorpo
rating a company with a government > uar
antee to cut a maritime canal through Nica
ragua. There m°y be traffic enough to pay
for making one canal from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, but what prospect Is there of a
dividend If there are two?
A TIPICAL SPORTING MAN.
Success of Ed. Stoke*, the murderer
ol Jim Flak, as a Barkeeper.
When James Fisk, Jr., was alive, he
was the hero of the rapid fraternity, and
when young Ned Stokes murdered him
there was a cry for vengeance from that
set. But time changes things. Fisk is
dead and forgotten. The fast men of
his time have gone to ruin. Stokes is
alive and a free man. The cowardice of
the murder is forgotten, and the
fact that he had the nerve to face the
gallows and didn’t break down when
sentence of death was passed
on him makes him appear a
hero in the eyes of the new set
of gilded youths, and he is to day one
of the most prominent figures in New
York. He is thus described by a cor
respondent of the Hartford Times : ‘‘He
is almost always to be seen around the
room. I don’t know how true it
is, but corridors or office of
his hotel, seldom in the bar
it is often said that the owner of the
finest barroom in the world never takes
a drink across his own bar and is never
known to drink liquor. Some say that
he made an oath if he escaped hanging
or imprisonment for life after killing
Fisk that he would never drink another
drop of liquor. He is the typical spot t
mg man, although he never drinks
or gambles. The sporting men
model themselves after “Ed” Stokes.
They assume his imperturbable, stolid
expression, never showing surprise or en
thusiasm at anything. They imitate his
rich but quiet dress, and if they are so
happy as to have iron gray hair it is an
inestimable distinction; for “Ed” Stokes
has iron gray hair. Since opening
last winter, wine merchants say that
Stokes’ bar has done the most profitable
business in the country. Right in the
centre of the hotel district it attracts the
business men who have nothing to do
but lounge around, and from 8 o’clock
until midnight it is thronged with men
who would frequent it if the minimum
price for drinks was $1 instead of twen
ty-five cents. Some people want to pay
the biggest price in the country for
drinks and cigars, and here they are ac
commodated.
CIGAR MAKING IN PRISON.
Fragrant Havana* and Domestic*
moulded by Convict Flngera.
Philadelphia Times.
Thousands of “genuine Havana cigars”
are the product of the nimble fingers of
convicts in the Eastern penitentiary.
Next to the manufacture of stockings the
fabrication of cigars has become one of
the important industries in that institu
tion.
Like other employments, it is a we 1-
come task to a convict when he has once
acquired the knack of rolling the leaf
together into a cigar. The agile fingered
Cuban is a desirable acquisition to the
penitentiary force, as under his deft
manipulation the Havana cigar develops
almost like magic. For these genuine
Cuba leaf is used and the manufactured
product brings S7O a thousand whohj
sale. There are several grades ot
domestic cigars also manufactured,
some of which sell as low as sl2 60 a
thousand. The industry is subject to
the scrutiny of the internal revenue
officers, just the same as though the
convict laborers were pursuing their
task in a factory outside instead of
behind the prison bars. The daily task
of each is about 200 cigars. All over
that number are credited to his own
account.
Among those who have become ex
perts at cigarmaking is Joel Vanarsdalen,
one of the Whittaker will conspirators.
When he emerges from the penitentiary
his expulsion from the bar will not de
prive him of the means of livelihood.
The prisoners who follow this industry,
notwithstanding the general impression
that the odor of tobacco is deleterious,
enjoy as good health as any of their
fellows. The penitentiary managers
sometimes sell 100,000 cigars in a lot to
some of the Arch street wholesale houses.
The Havanas are put up in fancy boxes
and really pass current as Cuban hand
made, the commercial value being by no
means affected by the fact that the Cubans
work behind prison bars.
AEKIAL NAVIGATION.
Mr. Starr’s Wonderful Air Ship Inven
tion.
If etc York Dispatch, to the Philadelphia En
quirer.
George W. Starr, of Tennessee, is show
ing models of his new air ship to interested
persons In Cooper Institute this evening.
The full-sized air ship, as designed by Mr.
Btarr, which will coet about $1,200 to con
struct, will be In the shape of two cylinders,
the outer ends pointed, joined toe ether so
as to form a straight line, with a space be
tween them large enough for a windwheel
to revolve, Its axis being parallel with the
cylinders. Between the cylinders will also
be suspended the car to contain the engine
that runs the wheel aDd the operator, and
supplies of water and coal gas to feed the
engine.
The length of the air ship will be 132 feet,
the diameter of the cylinders eighteen feet,
the diameter of the propelling wheel
twenty-six feet, the capacity of the cylinder
for holding gas 2,800 cubic feet, and the as
cending power of the gas 1,904 pounds. A
rudder at the stern will steer the ship, a
small vane on an upright axis will serve to
raise and lower It, and a weight hung longi
tudinally below It on a movable cape will
govern Its lncllritlon. Mr. Starr thinks
that his invention will be especially useful for
reconnolterlng In time of war, for '•"’jing
mat's over rough country, et“ ’ • that
extra cylinders, tap* . ,a be
neath, can be drat £ With
thßUngl s omp'-y , , ~-t
UNPARALLELED IN RAILROAD
ING.
An Engine Explode* while In motion
and Leave* a Clear Track lor the
Train, which Run* a mile.
Milwaukee ( Wis.) Republican-Sentinel, Sept. 21.
Paßßenger| who arrived in the city yes
terday morning gave the particulars of
an accident which occurred Tuesday
morning at 0:45 o’clock on the Northern
Wisconsin division of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway, one mile south
of Oconto, and which is the most extra
ordinary in railroad history. The north
bound passenger train, with a very large
number of passengers, was running along
at not less than twenty five miles an
hour when her locomotive exploded with
gigantic force. “I was seated in the
smoking car, the third from the
engine,” said John F. Jerrard,
a passenger, “and knew by the
loud report and the heavy shock to
the train what had happened. I was
talking at the time with Mr. Whitnty, of
Pensaukee, and, springing up, I said,
‘The boiler has exploded!’and I expected
in the next instant that the train would
be smashed into kindling wood. At
almost the same moment a mass of rub
bish from the explosion fell upon the top
of the car, which rattled loudly, but did
no other damage. Of course, in a mo
ment the sensation of danger was passed,
as the train ran smoothly along, except a
peculiar and unnatural sound from the
front of the traiD, which seemed to
move along without any perceptible
diminution of speed. I concluded that
my impression that tne boiler had ex
ploded was erroneous, as everything
seemed to be then all right, and a gentle
man remarked that a torpedo had proba
bly been exploded under the tram with £—
view to mischief. By this time the train
had run down and crossed the bridge
across the Oconto river, when the
br&kcmcn suddenly set the brakes
with great exertion and brought
the train to a halt. Up to this
moment no one on the train knew
what the actual situation was except tM
mail agent and baggage men, and the
were unable for some reason to Dut oi
the brakes to stop the train. The train
was finally brought to a stand still. It
waß then found that the four forward
trucks of the engine were loaded hand
somely upon the tender, which, was in
tact. It was evident tsat not an indi
vidual on the train as it stood there, was
injured, and the fact that the majority of
the passengers did not know that any
thing had occurred until they were told,
as the report was not heard very far back
and many were asleep. But the engineer
and fireman—there was but one voice,
“They are dead.” Some of the v^sseii'* 4
gers and the train men ran back, and
were utterly amazed to find them stand
ing by the wrecked engine, but little the
worse for the dreadful shaking up. After
a careful examination of the whole
ground the following conclusions
were reached by me and many
others: First, that the explosion had
been most terrific; that at the
time of its occurrence the engine was
lifted from its connection with the
tender and violently wrenched clear o£
it; that at the some moment the cow
catcher was thrown downward, as a
matter of course, and as was shown by
the three ties being rooted up and
broken in two nearly in the centre, and
at the same point by the side of the
track lay the nose of the badly domaia
lized cowcatcher. This must have
occurred as the engine was thrown
forward into the air with the most
terrific force, as was fully established by
its beiDg hurled 180 feet forward and
along a little to the right of the track
before it struck the ground, where it
buried itself haif out of sight In the mud.
Of course this thirty ton mass of iron
must have turned a complete somersault
in the air, at which time the forward
trucks were dropped upon the tender,
where they are now lying. The grass
and bushes are blackened and
dead by the escaping steam underneath
the track where the engine flew through
the air. The huge machine took itself
and all its immense rubbish, the result
of the explosion, absolutely out of the
way and left a clean track for the train
to pass along, and, strange to say, the
rails at the point of the broken ties were
scarcely disturbed. But the fireman and
engineer were carried along in the cab
and landed with it, or very near. One
pair of trucks on the mail car jumped
the track at the point where the explo
sion occurred and ran in that situation
one mile, passing over the bridge at the
Oconto river in that way, and another
odd freak, passing a switch a moment
before the train was stopped, they ran
on again, and no great damage was done
except to tear off the heads of all the
spikes from one side of the rail for the
whole distance, breaking nearly all the
bolts which connect the ends of the rails
together, all this without one life being
lost or any one seriously injured. Who
can cite anything like it in railroads to
day?”
Crops in Continental Europe.
The Vienna l*resse, in a review of the
crop prospects in Continental Europe,
says Spain will again have a bad harvest
this year. Italy has also a weak harvest.
The French crops are not satisfactory as
regards quality, the heavy rains having
materially injured the character of the
wheat. According to estimates, the
crops will reach about 112,000,000 to
116,000,000 of hectoliters, while the re
quirements will amount to about 118,-
000,000. There will, therefore, be a
deficit of from 3,000,000 to 6,000,000,
which will have to be covered by im
ports. In Germany the rains have se
verely injured the crop in the south,
and less severely in the northern
provinces. North Germany counts
upon a full average yield of low
quality, while (Southern Germany
will have a considerable decrease
in the yield. The imports, it is estima
ted, cannot be less than in previous
years. Roumania and Servia have both
average crops, the Servian yield being of
finer quality than the Roumanian corn.
Both countries produce more than ’hey
require for home consumption. Both
will have a fair surplus for export.
Reliable details of Russia’s crops are
wanting, but it appears certain that, with
the exception of the province of Cher
son, the average will about be reached,
and already the exports of wheat and
rye from the ports of the North, the
Baltic and the Mediterranean seas are
proceeding in full swing. Hungary has
a full average crop, Austria a weak aver
age, and the quantity available for export
is estimated at 3,500,000 centners of
wheat and flour, valued at 40,000.000
gulden. Of rye there is a surplus of
1,000,000 meter centners available for
export, worth about 7,000,000 gulden.
Oats will yield about 3,000,000 to 3,500,-
000 meter-centners for export.
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