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as second Clam Mail Matter.
Georgia Affairs.
A son of a Mr. Haynes, in the lower part of
Hall coffnty, was kicked by a mule a few days
ago and instantly killed.
A sen of Mr. A. R. Cooper, in the lower part
of Hall county, last Wednesday became en
tangled In some of the machinery of a steam
gin, and was fatally injured.
Hon. H. G. Turner has concluded his labors
on the stump in the Second Congressional dis.
trict, and is now awaiting the verdict of the
ballot-box.
The Ferguson-Hoyt contest for the Senator
ship in the Fulton-Ciayton-DeKalb district has
been abandoned.
The editor of the Athens Banner-Watchman
charges that a mob of Emory Bpeer’s backers
hooted and yelied before his house on Satur
day night during his absence, using vile epi
thets and alarming his family, who were with
out protection. He charges further, that this
was done in the presence cf Speer himself.
T. Si. Hickey, who gives his home as Chero
kee county, came to Atlanta Sunday night and
succeeded in getting fleeced.
Two years ago Hosea C. Stanley, of Gwin
nett county, was one night in Buford on a
spree. A dispute arose between him and a ne
gro named Davis, in the course of which Stan
ley shot the negro dead. Stanley was arrested
a few days ago in Eastern Alabama and taken
to Rome. A strange coincidence of the crime
for which he is now in trouble is that an older
brother of his is now at large, charged with
the murder of a man also named Davis, but a
white man. This killing occurred several years
ago, but no trace has been found of the mur
derer.
Judge Edward Dumas, Ordinary of Monroe
county, died very suddenly on Sunday evening
last of heart disease, at his residence in For
syth.
Mr. W. W. Solomon, of Macon, lost a pocket
book on the cars between Milledgevilie and
Macon, on the ISth inst, containing about $175.
Fifty-five applicants were received into the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Bainbridge last
Sunday, as the result of the recent revival in
that place. Twenty-two adults and two chil
dren were baptized at the same time.
The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons of Georgia will convene in regular
eession in Macon on Tuesday next.
Hal Garret, a colored convict who escaped in
August last from the camps on the Marietta
and North Georgia Railroad, has been captured
at Knoxville. There is a reward of 8150 for
Garret
The new mail service went inio (fleet on the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad,
between Atlanta and Macon, on Tuesday, and
mail coaches now accompany each passenger
train plying between the two cities. Within the
next ten days a mail service will be establish
ed on the Georgia Pacific, between Atlanta
and Temple, the present end of the road.
The new track at the Thomas county fair
grounds runs'across the old one, and will be a
full half mile, and much better in every
respect than the old one. It will be wid-.r aud
smoother, and the inclines are easier and come
exactly in the right places. It will be ready by
the 3d of November.
Oa Monday afternoon Harry Ferris, a young
white man who res des on Cone stree\ Atlanta,
was accidentally shot by a pistol. The weapon
was on a table in the young man’s room, and
being knocked to the flaor was discharged.
The ball penetrated the calf of the leg and
ranged up until it made an exit at the knee.
The wound, though not a dangerous one, is
quite painful. •
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun states that on
Mon ay afternoon au accident occurred in the
road just beyond Cooievviile, by which a little
negro child lost its life. Lindsay King, col
ored, of Chattahoochee couutv, had been to
the city and was returning home. He was
asleep in his wagon, which was drawn by a
yoke of oxen, driven by hli little boy. Be
tween th > double branches, just beyond
Cooleyville, a-liuie two year-ola negro child
was walking along the road,‘some distance be
hind its mother. Fannie Baker, and the negro
boy, not noticing it, drove the team over the
child, killing it almost instantly.
Home Bulletin: "On Sunday afternoon offi
cers Joe Sharp and Jake Moore arrested Luke
Anderson near Floyd Springs, in Floyd county,
on authority of au oik warrant for assault.
The man wa3 brought to town and consigned
to jail. A few moments later a man from Chat
tanooga made his appearance in the'city. The
object of his visit to Rome was to apprehend a
man who several days ago hired a horse and
buggy from a Chattanooga livery stable. In
looking up the Sheriff he had occasion to visit
the jail. HeariDg of a man being arrested a
few nours before, he * xpressed a desire to see
the prisoner. HU wish was gratified; he saw
him, and he was the veritable man he wanted
He sent to Floyd Springs aud got the buggy
and horse."
Griffin c irrespondence Atlanta Constitution:
"Avery sad death occurred this (Monday)
evening on the accommodation train which
leaves Atlanta at 5:15. A gentleman by the
name of Bussey, brother of Shci iff Bussey, of
Pike county, as seised with au > pileptic fit,
and after suffering most intensely for about
fifteen minutes life was extinct He was ac
companied by his wife and three little children,
and the scene on the train, so 1 am informed by
a gentleman who witnessed it, beggars de
scription. Captain Wm. Ennis, the conductor,
aided by his train iiau :s, rendered evtry assist
ance in his power to relieve the sufferer and to
console the distressed wife and children. The
dead man was laid out on two seats, and
carried to Barnesvilie. A purse of between
twenty five and thirty dollars was raised by the
few pas-engtrs on board and kindly tendered
the uistrt-sse i lady.”
Augusta Evening News: “A trial trip of
the new fast train—lightning express and
mail—was made this forenoon over the Geor
gia Road, between Augusta and Harlem. An
engine and train left the union depot a little
before 12 o’clock to-day, the train in command
of Master of Transportation S. a. Hemphill,
while gallant old Uncle Jack Stuib, the veteran
engineer, kept her mse io the track. Tne time
between Augusta and Harlem was thirty-four
pilaufe*. a distance of twenty-five miles. Ia
going oat of town slow and cautious time was
made, but alter leaving the corporate limits
an average of fifty nii.es an hour was made,
in cne run of six ntfles oujy five minutes and a
little over were consumed. Oa board were
p-iwideut Phtcizy General Manager Green,
Colotit' Dorsey, Ms jjr Wilkins, J. S. Davant,
l-am.tr' Fi-. " n * * aa Messr s Alexander, Hitl
ytr, Davison.' Bran.'*’ u *’ aßd other railroad
magnates. On the return .ip a mile min
ute was made on a section of ten nines.
Macon Graphic: "For some time past
tjie temrerance people of Macon have felt
that some steps ought to bo taken looking to
the abatement of drunkenness. On yester
day quite a number of the prominent citizens
met at the residence of Dr. E. W. Warren to
discuss the question pf ’local option.’ After a
full investigation of the subject, an organiza
tion was completed by the election of Virgil
Powers as President; Revs E. W. Warren an ;
J. W. Burke, Vice Presidents; and Hugh M.
Willet as Secretary and Treasurer. The or
ganization is called the 'Bocal Option Alliance.’
It is not a temperance organization in on w re
spect. but a company of gentlemen banded
together to ask the Georgia Legislature, which
is soon to meet, to give the vours of Bibb
county what they have awarded to many other
counties in the State, to asy whether they de
sired to continue the rale or intoxicants j n the
coun y. It is just this and nothing more. A
petition, settiug further this desire, has been
circulating through the city to-day, and aime st
everybody is signing it. TUe whole question is
to be kept out of party politics, and to be de
termined upon its own merits. This is a wise
movement, separating it from all party affilia
tion. and let!iiig every man express his own
convictions upon this vital subject.”
Thomasville Enterprise: ’'Last Saturday, a
tittle after twelve o’clock, the town was
startled by the report ihat a colored man had
been found dead in the watchman’s house on
the Bainbridge branch of the Savannah, Flcri
da and Western Railway, opposite the guano
depot. The Coroner, Mr. S. A. Johnson, being
In town, at one- impaneled a jury of inquest.
The bedy was laid out carefully on a blanket,
-hfct shoes were on the idKntel, a fiddle was laid
dear him *nd a bag and a tin bucket near by.
/Be had a smali gold earring in his ear.
an.* the left ear looked as ,f ~ne bad just been
pulled out?? If- The body was prepared for
burial, but was nJ! Buried until Hands*,
and )t was viewed by a many peo
ple, white and colored, and no one cou.'d iden
tify it at ail. The ohiy information that could
be obtained was that the deceased had been
seen on the streets for a day or two previous
to the finding of the body. It seems from the
neat Information we can gather that this man.
in company with two others, arrived here by
the t ain on Wednesday momiqg. and the three
stall around here until Friday evening. The
rent is surmise, but as the house was vacant,
the solution agreed upon is that the three men
went . there to spend the night and were
gambling, and th-. deceased was killed in a
quarrel growing oytof the gambling. The
/S* 7 (®? dered a verdict of death at the hands
of parties unknown.”
Savannah morning news
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
TROPIC LANDS.
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A SAVIOR FOUND FOR PERU.
His Sad But Patriotic Appeal to the Peo
ple—Ecuador Quieted-Small-Pox in
Colombia.
Panama, October Jp.—The news from
Peru Is unsatisfactory. The Monteneros
continue their raids on friend and foe, and
the Chilians continue to capture them and
to hang and shoot them by dozens. The
so-called leading politicians'hang back, and
Garcia Calderon, who, through the inter
cession of Mr. Logan, has had opportunity
to 6lgn a peace, now refuses to concede the
Chilian demands, which have of late been
wonderfully moderated. The Chilian oiler
to assume the settlement of all foreign
claims has brought into the field a host of
claim ante. Decyfus Jc Cos. figure at the
head of the list. The condition of affairs
has at length brought to the front a man
who will speak the truth.
Iglisiae, formerly the Minister of War of
Pierola, then captured by the Chilians, then
released on parole, which he broke, and
lately commander In the North, has called
a Congress of the seven Northern depart
ments, in order to determine if peace should
be made. In a proclamation he has issued
be urges the Eecessify for peace, and con
cludes by one of the most piteous, though
truthful statements any public man has ever
had yet to make to his fellow countrymen.
After describing at length the course he
has pursued and the events which have
brought about the ruin of the country, he
says:
“Under tfce present circumstances all
who wish to Impose their idea on the coun
try by force are traitors, as are also those
who seek to take advantage or the national
misery to preserve criminal power In
order to continue their horrible
I work of Inspiring party hatreds and
keeping in power at the expense
of tfce b’ood of the people. Let us sincerely
and truly be united for once. Let us throw
aside miserable party passion and endeavor
to save our country irom a common danger.
The public men of Peru have brought about
her ruin by constantly deceiving the
public. A so-called honor Is spoken
of which impedes any pcaoeable
arrangement by ceding territory, and in
order not to cede that piece of territory,
which represents a handful of gold, the
source of all our past corruption, we allow
the enemy’s flag to try from Tumbez on the
north to the Loa on tne south, our homes to
be burned, our hearths desecrated, our tem
ples profaned, and cur mothers, daughters
and sifters to be insulted in order to
sustain this false honor. The Chilian at last
is allowed to fall unavenged upon our de
fenseless brethren, and by this false honor
the widows and orphans of those who died
honorably in the field and who are now de
fenseless and at the mercy of the enemy
are allowed to beg a livelihood from his
charity. Ah, you Cabinet warriors, you bar
room patriots, you hatchers of vile in
trigues, you cowards a thousand times over,
who have produced this national disaster.”
These expressions coming from such a
distinguished source will be greeted with a
storm of disapprobation by the political
traders.
The Bolivian Congress is split in two fac
tions by the same political manoeuvering.
Two Executives have' been formed, each
headed by a Vice President, in the absence
of the President, and as the matter has to
be settled by Congress the members are
amusing themselves by abusing one an
other. Campico has an army with him, and
will probably return to La Paz and again
take charge of the Presidency.
Businers along the Peruviau coast is dull
in the extreme. The cochineal mine In Chill
cou tinues to yield wondrous returns.
H. M. S. Rocket arrived on the 22d from
Acapulco. The United States steamer
Saratoga has sailed for Newport. The
Iroquois will not come to the isthmus. The
damage to the Panama Kailroid by the
earthquake is estimated at eighty thousand
dollars.
The revolution in Equador is ended.
The Star and Herald publishes news from
Bogota that on the 6th instant there were
Jive hundred cases of small-pox In the
hospital, and that the disease prevailed
throughout the Atlantic Btatesof Colombia,
vaccination not being generally practiced.
* PHILADELPHIA.
Second Hay of the Bi-Centennial.
% Philadelphia., October 25.—The fine
weather contributed to make Trades Day,
as to-day is styled in the group of Bi-
Centennial fetes, a perfectly gala occasion.
The city was, as yesterday, fairly swathed
in flags, bunting and evergreens. The streets
forming the route of the procession were
packed With spectators, and, although this
is not a legal holiday, as yesterday was,
business of all kinds is at a standstill.
The trades display with the Mystic
tableau procession and a reception at the
Academy with the minor features formed
the distinctive feature of to-day’s part of
the celebration. The Mystic tableaux were
thirty-seven in number, and were extremely
ingenious and beautiful. The remainder of
the precession was made up of emploves of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, fifteen
hundred in number, of the Adams Express
Company, of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works and of the various manufacturing
corporations and representatives of all sorts
of trades.
POTOMAC OYSTER FISHERIES.
A Better from the Governor of Virginia
to Governor Hamilton, of Maryland.
New York, October 25—A Richmond
special to the Herald says: “Governor
Came:oa tc-day addressed a letter to Gov.
Hamilton, of Maryland, on the sulj ect of
oyster fishing between the two common
wealths. Virginia’s Executive seems deter
mined to regulate the oyster feud, and
to have the laws regarding fishing
and dredging in Virginia waters enforced.
He sajs that as the judiciary of both States
agree as to the binding force of the treaty
cf ITSS, he asks that the spirit and letter of
the existing compact be not exceeded, and
that such action be taken oa the part of the
government of Maryland as will prevent
hereafter the presentment, detention and
trial before the courts of the State of Mary
land of citizens of Virginia charged with
violation of the laws governing the Potomac
fisheries.”
HEAVY GALES.
The City of Augusta Rides Through
Safely.
New York, October 25 —The steamship
City of Augusta, from Savannah, encoun
tered for sixty hours a series of northeast
winds, which threatened several times to
shift and damage her cargo. The steamship
New 0.-leans. when off Cape Hatteras, ws
struck by a heavy northeast gale, which
damaged her rigging. After rolling in the
heavy seas for almost twenty-four hours her
cargo shifted and was considerably dam
aged.
Weather indications.
Ojrics Chief Signal Obsbbveb, Wash
ington, D. C., October 25.— Indications
for Thursday:
la the Mid*ie and South Atlantic States,
slightly Winner, fair weather, winds gener
ally from south to west, stationary or lower
'urometer. •
In the Ktst Gulf States, fair weather,
south to west winds,'slight changes in tem
perature, stationary or lower barometer.
In the West Gulf States, fair weather,
southerly winds, shifting In the west por
tion to northerly, stationary or lower tem
perature, followed by rising barometer in
the west and north portions.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley,
generally fair weather, southwest ‘o north
west winds, followed In the west per ion by
cooler weather and rising barome.er.
Mexican Railroads-
City of Mexico, Oc’obsr 25 —Alfredo
Chavero yesterday presented a proposition
*-om the Tehuantepec Railroad Company,
of'New Yota, !? tbe Mexican Government
for a settlement. It Is stateu !r official cir
cles that the government is disposed to deal
equitably with the company’s claim. Wal
ter Htcchman, President of the Mexican
National Railroad, and Delfia Sanchez, sail
for the United Srates to-day, the latter to
purcnase material for the Tehuantepec road,
and to raise money for the Iromo, Morelos
and Acapulco loteroce&nlc Railroad.
New York City Politics.
New York, October 25.—The Republican
leaders met last night and declined to adopt
the Campbell Mayoralty ticket of the Citl
zsdb’ Committee.
THE EPISCOPALIANS.
Proceedings of the Congress.
Richmond, Va., October 25 —The pro
ceedings of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Congress this morning were opened with
religious exercises by Right Rev. G. W.
Peterkln, Bishop of the diocese of West
\ irginla, and the singing of hymns,
after which the consideration of
the topic of “The Priestly and
Prophetic Functions of the Christian
Minister” was begun. The first paper was
read by Rev. William R. Huntington, D. D ,
of Worcester, Mass. His assertion that a
prophet is one who speaks for God to man,
the priest one who speaks for man to God,
was generally conceded by most of the
speakers who followed him. The
subject was further discussed by
Rev. 8. D. McConnell, of Philadelphia,
Rev. Frederick Courtney, of Boston, Bishop
Peterkln, of Wes’ Virginia, Rev.D H. Greer,
of Providence, and Rev. Dr. J. H. Hop
kins, of Pennsylvania. Mr. McConnell said
be found no little in the office of priest or
prophet which is in the office of minister,
and he found much In the office of a
Christian minister not to be found at all
in the office of priest or prophet.
He said further that the endeavor to com
press the ministry to either one of these
offices will always work badly for the
church fcnd badly for the man who attempts
it. The speakers generally deprecated
ritualistic practices, and nothing was said
in favor of ritualism. To night the rela
tions of the church to the colored race was
discussed.
NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA.
An Old Claim of the Government Pressed.
Washington, October 20.— Prior to the
late war the government Invested 8153,000
of Indian trust funds in coupons of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and Bt. Louis Rail
road Company. During the late war, and
in consequence thereof, the amount due on
the coupons has never been paid. Buit
against the {company has been en
tered, and the trial was to have
begun in Nashville on the 23d inst. Last
week eeveral witnesses for the government
left here for that city. To day Solicitor
Raynor, of the Treasury Department, re
ceived a telegram, from which he under
stands that the trial has not yet'begun,
but that the case will be probably called
during the present week. Ia the meantime
a proposition Tor a compromise has been
made by the company, in which the direc
tors offer to pay $12,500. Judge Raynor has
the matter under consideration, and will
probably reach a decision before Saturday.
THE WALKING MATCH.
The Scores I.ast Night.
New York, October 25 —The following
was the score In the walking match at 1
o’clock p. m. to day : Hughes 302 miles,
Hazael 300, Rowell 293, Fitzgerald 285,
Noremac 282, Hart 280, Herty 275, Vint 235,
Panchot 229.
At 7 p. m. the score stood; Hughes 328
miles and 4 laps, Hszsel 328 miles and 3
laps, Rowell 324 miles and 5 laps, Fitzgerald
315 miles Noremac 308 miles, Hart 307
miles, Hetty 300 miles, Vint 260 miles. Pan
chot has withdrawn.
At 9 p. m. the score stood: Hazael 338,
Rowell 33>. Hughes 332, Fitzgerald 325,
Noremac 317, Hart 315, Herty 305. Vint 270.
At 10 p. m. the score stood Roweil 340
miles 30 laps, Hazael 340 miles, Hughes 332,
Fitzgerald 329. Noremac 322,Hart 320, Her
ty 309, Vint 273.
At 12 midnight the score stood: Hughes
342 miles, Hazael 341, Rowell 341, Fitzgerald
.330, Noremac 330, Hart 325, Herty 309,
Vint 283. 1
YELLOW FEVEK.
Thirty-Eight New Cases at Pensacola.
Pensacola, October 25. Thirty-eight
new cases of yellow fever and two deaths
are reported to-day. Mr. D. G. Brent,
Chairman of the Executive Committee, was
attacked to day while visiting the sick
on Bayou Texar, two or three miles from
th e city. Th e t otal of cases to date Is 2.096 an and
of deaths 170. It Is reported that 20 cases
of so called malarial fever have occurred at
Milliner, on Perdido river, which has main
tained a most rigorous uon-intercourse with
Pensacola, even to breaking down the
bridges. The weather Is clear and growing
warmer.
Brownsville, October 25.— Some cases
of fever have developed among persons just
arrived here. The arrivals are all Mexicans,
with the exception of oDe American. Out
side of these cases the general health of the
place is excellent. The troops continue in
good health. The weather Is hot.
>V. N. C. T. U.
The Ninth Annual Convention.
Louisville, Kr., October 25.—The ninth
annual convention of the Woman’s National
Christian Temperance Union assembled this
morning with a large audience present. The
convention was called to order by the Presi
dent, Miss Frances E. Willard, of Illinois.
Devotional exercises followed, after which
the business proceeded with calling of the
roll and the appointment of a committee
on credentials and other committees on
resolution, plan of work and finances.
After the appointment of committees th
convention listened to the annual ad
dress cf the President. The devotional
meeting was conducted by Mrs. Hannah
Whitehall Smith, of Pennsylvania.
Louisiana State Bonds,
New York, October 25 —Upon applica
tion of E. A. Burke, Treasurer of the State
of Louisiana, the following action has been
taken by the Committee on Securities of the
New York Stock Exchange:
Besotted, That in addition to the present
call of Louisiana consolidated bonds
carrying all unpaid coupons, they also be
called exclusive of all matured fcoUDons.
The committee directs that the bonds be
so called. Considerable inquiry havlt.g
been made concerning Louisiana 3 per cent,
baby bonds in New York, Treasurer Burke
wilt submit to the New York Exchange
an application,accompanied by copies of the
laws under which the same'were Issued,
whereupon, If found regu’tr, these bonds
will be listed.
The House of Commons.
London, October 25.—1n the House of
Crmaaons this afternoon, the Speaker read
a letter from Judge Lawson announcing the
release from jail of Mr. E. Dwyer Gray.
The letter was referred to the committee
considering Mr. Gray’s case.
The debate on the cloture question was
resumed. Sir Henry DeWolfe (Conserva
tive) moved an amendment, providing for
the exclusion of the Chhlrman, when the
House is In committee, from the power
which the rule proposes to confer on the
speaker.
Mr. Gladstone opposed the amendment.
Debate on the amendment continued till
the House adjourned.
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The French Anarchists.
Paris, October 25. —The Minister of Jus
tice has applied to the Court of Cassation to
have the persons arrested In connection
with the riot in Montcean-les-Mines brought
before the Paris tribunal Instead of the
Court of Assfzj. The Minister in his appli
cation says tli at the government have in
their hands clues to a vast revolutionary
organization, in accordance with which
France is divided into local federations di
rected by a committee having its head
quarters in geneva.
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' Terrible Domestic Tragedy.
Stillwater, Minn., October 25.— Last
night a farmer named Clingblte, a desperate
character, attacked bis eloping wife and
cut her terribly. A son who Interfered was
stabbed to the heart and fell dead. Another
son Informed the authorities,who found the
marderer in his barn still clinging to the
knife. After a desperate fight he was shot,
overcome and pnt In jail. He Is dying. He
Is said to have killed two men before and
has been in .the penitentiary. The woman
is In a critical condition.
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by Indians.
San Antonio, Texas, October 25.—Major
K. W. Pltrlken, chief engineer of the Mexi
can and Oriental Railroad, was murdered by
Indians in the mountains near Chihuahua
a couple of days ago.
Bronson Alcott Critically 111.
Boston, October 25. —Mr. A. Bronson Al
cott, or Concord, was stricken with paraly
sis yesterday. His condition Is Critical, and
there is only a slight possibility of his re
covering.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1882.
EGYPT.
THE SULTAN FORBIDS ARABI’S
TRIAL.
England’s Bill for the War—Ninet’s Ex
periences— Horrora of the Prisons—The
Rebel Leader Again Insulted—Bis
Family’s Peril.
London, October 25.—1 t is believed that
the cost of the war In E?ypt will amount to
nearly £4,000,000, exclusive of the expense
of the army of occupation and the Indian
contingent.
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from Cairo says: “It Is rumored
that the Sultan has ordered the proceedings
against Arabl Pashffto be stopped.”
The Swiss Ninet writes to the Times,
protesting that he only served Arab! In the
ambulance corps. He gives a graphic ac
count of the filthy condition of his prison
atC&lio. He says thumbscrews were put
on him during his journey from
Cairo to Alexandria. At the latter
place he was thrust Into
a prison filthier than the one at Cairo, and
swarming with vermin. He was robbed by
the jailers and then put on board a vessel
for deportation to Smyrna, . but was
emuggled ashore at Piraeus by the aid of an
Armenian officer of the ship. He went
thence to Berne. Ninet says he believes that
there are three thousand innocent men in
Egyptian prisons such as he has described.
Cairo, October 25.—The British Govern
ment has made a fresh proposal to Egypt
in regard to the Indemnity commlaslon, ac
cording to which Egypt will have two rep
resentatives in the commission and England
and France one representative each. The
United States and Greece will be Invited to
send representatives. Minor States will
have a collective representation.
Letters from Khartoum show that the
Egyptian rule In the southern province has
received a disastrous, if not a crushing blow.
There are incessant complaints in regard to
the treatment of the families of rebel pris
oners by the Khedive’s employes. Arab!
Pasha’s family shift their residence
almost daily in order to avoid vio
lence. Arabl has again been insulted
by his Circassian guard. Two Notable*, who
are accused of aiding Arabl with money,
are chained together In an underground
dungeon foul beyond description. Among
the correspondence of Arabl are an Impor
tant letter from an Ald-de-Camp of the
Sultan and several letters from Ahmed
Essad, the Sheik of U 1 Islam.
THE TURF.
Results of Yesterday’s Eveuts.
Washington, October 25.—The weather
to-day was fine, and the at'endance at the
National Jockey Club races was large.
The first race, for all ages, one mile, was
won by Brunswick, Jim Nelson second,
Rochester last. Time 1:^8.
The second race, the Anacostla stakes, for
three year olds, one and a quarter miles,
was won by Farewell, Blenheim .second,
Clcquot last. Time 2:13)*.
The third race, a selling raee, for all ages,
one and an eighth miles, Colonel Sprague
won easily, Hartford second, Frankie B
third. Time 1:58)*.
The fourth rac?, one mile and five hun
dred yards, for all ages, was a walk over
for Boot Jack, there being no other entry.
The fifth race, an extra race, three-quar
ters of a mile, for ail ages, was won by Con
stants, lota second, Mary Warren third.
Time, 1:173*.
The sixth race was a hurdle race of one
and a half miles, over six hurdles, welter
weights, Rochester finished winner, Buster
second, Nol Pros third. Time 2:52)*.
Memphis, October 25 —The attendance at
the races to-day was large, and the weather
delightful, bus the track is still “slow.”
The betting was fairly active.
The first race, the Peabody Hotel stakes,
for two-year-old colts, three-quarters of a
mile, Lord Raglan wod, Exeter second,
Rushawav third. Time 1:193*.
The second race, for three-year-olds, norj
winners this year, a mile and a sixteenth,
Ballard won, Gleaner second, Harry Dos
well third. Time 1:553*.
The thfrd race, the Memphis Oaks, for
three-year-old fillies, one and one-eighth
miles, Pearl Jennings won, Frona second.
Effie H. third. Time 2:05)*.
The fourth race, for horses that have not
won at this meeting, three-fourths of a
mile beats, Northman won, Wildmoor se
cond, Harry F. third. Time 1:18%.
The second heat W ildmoor won, Harry B.
second, Northana third. Time 1:19.
The third heat Wildmoor won the heat
and the race. Time 1:24%.
,
The New York Stock Market.
New York, October 25 —Bhare specula
tion opened strong and prices were % to 1
per cent, above yeeterday’s closing quota
tions, the latter for Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati and Indianapolis. In the early
dealings the market was weak, and prices
, sold off X to X Per cent, led by Bt. Paul
and Lake Shore, but at 11 o’clock this was
succeeded by a recovery of to per
per cent., in which New York, Chicago
and Bt. Paul preferred and com
mon, Lake Shore, Wabash preferred,
Bt. Paul preferred and Canada Southern
were most prominent. After this the mar
ket again became weak, atd about midday
a decline of 2 per cent, took place in Den
ver and Kio Grande, which dropped to 50>£,
and %to 1 per cent, in the remainder of
the list, Wabash preferred, Missouri Pacific
and Oregon and Transcontinental were
prominent therein. In the early afternoon
there was a general advance of to \% p;r
cent., the latter for New York. Chicago
and St. Louis preferred, to 33%. Nash
ville and Chattanooga. Canada Southern,
Denver and Rio Grande, Wabash preferred
and Michigan Central were also prominent
In the improvement. Subsequently this ad
vaDce was partially lost, Denver and Rio
Grande reacting 1 ami the general list % to
% percent., the latter for Western Union
and Michigan Central, but In the final deal
ings a general fractional rally took place,
and the market closed firm, with the prices
Irregular but In the main % to 2% per cent,
above yesterday’s close, the latter for Bt.
Paul preferred. Denver and Rio Grande,
however, was 1% and Richmond and Dan
ville 1% per cent, lower. Transactions ag
gregated 300,000 shares.
Following are the closing quotations [oth
er* will be found on third pagel:
Georgia 6s 104* Manhattan EJev.. 47
“ 7s, mortgage. 105* Metropolitan Ele. 83
“ 7s, g01d....‘..*112)4 Michigan Central. 102)4
Louisiana consols 69% Mobile & 0hi0.... 20
N. Carolina, old.. 27 N. J. Central 72%
" new *ls Norf. &W. pref.. 57%
“ funding 10 New York Eiev’d.lOttt
“ special tax.. t 6% Ohio & Mississippi 37%
Tennessee6s, 01d.*48 “ “ pref.§9o
“ new 47% Pacific Mail 38%
Virginia6s *SS Panama 16'|
“ consolidated. Quicksilver 8%
“ deferred +12% “ preferred... 4194
Adams Express.. 135 Reading 61%
Atn’can Express. 90 St. Lotus & San F. 38
Ch’peake&Ohio. £5% “ •* pref 57%
Chicago & Alton .141 “ “1 pref 97%
Ch’goTßt.L.&N.O. 73 St. Paul 109%
Consolidated Coal 30 “ preferred 126%
Del a. Lack. A W 137% Texas Pacific 41%
Fort Wayne 135| Uuion Pacific ...107%
Hannibal & St. Jo. 43 U. 8. Express 66
Harlem .800* Wells & Fargo 128
Houston A Texas 82
•Bid. tAsked. tLast asked. {Last. (Lastbid.
The Star Route Jury Fixers,
Wasuikuton, October 25.—Arthur Payne,
colored, one of the persons for whom war
rants were procured yesterday by the gov
ernment/or attempting to corrupt jurors in
the star route cases, was arrested at a late
hour last night uprn a warrant sworn
out by juror Wm. K. Brown,
whom, it is alleged, Payne corruptly ap
proached. The government Is making
strenuous efforts to apprehend the remain
ing fugitives—Fall, Shaw and Foote. It is
believed that Shaw is concealed in Wash
ington, while Fall and Foote have escaped
to other cities. •
Temperance Advocates in Council.
New Yobk, October 25.—Two hundred
delegates, representing one hundred and
seventy-five temperance lodges, are in ses
sion here to-day j The convention is known
as the Sons of Temperance. The question
of how best to propagate temperance
throughout the Union was discussed during
the day. - .
The Recent Storm in England.
Londok, October 25.—The gale yesterday
did a vast amount of damage throughout
the country. Many districts were flooded.
Shipping along the coast suffered severely.
A steamer was sunk in the Channel by col
lision, and nine persons were drowned. At
Sheerness the gale has not been equaled for
thirty years.
A Petersburg Failure.
Pktkbsbdbo, Va., October 25.—Emanuel
Levi, of this city, a large dealer in gentle
men's furnishing goods, and an extensive
manufacturer of underwear, has failed. His
assets and liabilities are not known. Ills
Indebtedness Is mostly in New York and
Baltimore.
Dr. William H. Harris erm-nltted suicide
at tireensboro, Alabama, Wednesday Light
by taking moipblne. He bad been drinking
heavily.
AN EX-CONFEDERATE IN BRAZIL.
American Immigrants In Brazil-
Great Natural Advantages or That
Country—Bad Government of the
Empire—lts Industries, Taxation,
Health, Etc.
Passing over the Savannah, Florida and
Western Riilwav, a few days ago, my atten
tion was drawn to the distinctness of a sten
torian pair of lungs, dlecourring above the
noisy rattle of the cars most familiarly
about affairs In Brazil, and, apparently,
equally well acquainted with matters per
taining to “the late unpleasantness” In this
country. Though addressing an Individual
passenger, who seemed to be drawing him
out, the speaker appeared to be conscious
that, he had attracted the attention,
If he was not really entertaining
the audience, of a well packed
car. His close cat hair and beard were gray*
his figure tall, tugged and sinewy, showing
considerable remains of a stalwart early
manhood, notwithstanding the wear and
tear of more than three-score years, and the
stirring events and changes of his time.
This was Mr. John A. Cole, a native of Ala
bama, who resided for many years near
Memphis, Tenn., and afterward moved to
Mississippi, where the war found him a
thrifty, slave-owning ■farmer, Industriously
growing cotton. Toward the close of the
war he emigrated to Brazil with many other
Confederates, who felt that defeat was total
ruin to the South, and remained
there seventeen rears, returning to his na
tive country during the last summer and
settling near Ocala, Fla., in the hope of re
covering the health of his only daughter and
recruiting his own somewhat shattered con
stitution. He thinks Florida is the best
place In the world for consumptives, and,
though his own disease is one of the heart,
lie is quite sure the genial climate of
that State, with the quietude and thrift of a
good fruit and stock farm, will soothe his
declining years and perhaps spare him long
er to the r ffileted child of hia devotion.
He was much struck with the visible mor
tality among his old friends and acquaint
ances about Memphis, which city he had
visited since his return and found only four
living of about one hundred of those he es
teemed as bis old friends In that city. He
was confident that he, too, would have been
dead had he not left the country.
IN BRAZIL.
Arriving in Brez'i, Mr. Colo landed at
Rio Janeiro and traveled all over the empire,
determined to 6ee tbe country before he
settled In it, and at las*. chose his future
home in the Province of San Paulo (St.
Paul), near the village of Campina, where
algo others of his countrymen from the
Southern States were Fettling at the same
time. Mr. Cole says, “Cod has done more
for Brazil than for any other country;” that
it is the grandest country on the globe,
whether judged by tbe giant scale upon
which nature has cast Its mountains, rivers,
minerals and vegetation, or by the
wealth of climate, productions and
possible industries for tbe sustenance of
'population, and that San Paulo is the gar
den spot of the continent, picturesque and
beautiful, combining a fertility anu adapt
ability of soil and climate wonderfully pro
lific of the luxuries as well as tbe necessaries
of life. Here he would have been content
to spend the remainder of his life, but for
the affliction of his daughter—his only child
—for whom he would journey to the ends
of the earth, and knowing the reputation of
Florida for the cure of pulmonary diseases,
he determined to abandon Brazil and return
to his own country. Asa farmer he had
been prosperous—chiefly raising cotton
bought the principal labor employed on the
farm, and accumulated considerable prop
erry, In spite of bad government and op
pressive taxation, the latter beihg imposed
upon all articles of export as well as Import,
and often 60 burdensome as to amount to
prohibition. The tax of five cents per
pound on cotton grown In tbe
country, that for the support of the Roman
Catholic Church, the protective tariff on for
eign manufactured machinery, wheeled
vehicles, farming , and other tools —the lat
ter so much needed In the country—Mr.
Cole thought the blindest of blind policies,
and well calculated to retard tbe progress of
an Empire possessing resources unequaled
even by the world-renowned United States
of America.
He ordered a buggy from New York upon
which the government collected a revenue
tax of SIOO to protect the poor establish
ments of that country, and he found nearly
all other manufacturing establishments on
a similar footing, inferior workmen, rude
machinery and slow progress. Even farm
ing tools were so heavily taxed that the ru
ral population seldom exchanged the rude,
inefficient Implements of by gone ages of
barbarism for the improved, efficient, la
bor saving importations from civilized na
tions. To immigrants from the South,
however, the Brazilians are now indebted
for the repeal of the tax on farming imple
ments and mechanics’ tools, and as several
years have elapsed since these taxes were
repealed, a brhk trade has sprung up in
this line, and; improvement begins to make
its appearance throughout the rural dis
tricts. Skilled workmen of all kinds are in
demand, and the profits cf manufacting
very liberal. ,
farm labor.
Though he arrived in the country without
means, Mr. Cole soon acquired sufficient to
begin operations, and bought slaves as he
increased his substance, after the fashion of
the cotton planters of the old South; and of
these slaves he slated that when he left Bra
zil he sold some, freed others, and brought
with him to Florida a family of three, who
decided to rißk their fortune In anew coun
try-with their old master. The freedmen of
Brazil, like those of the South, are
generally impecunious, bad financiers,
disposed to run their credit as far as prac
ticable, and this characteristic, under the
law of that country, rendering the employe
responsible for debt to his employer,even to
the sale of the former for the payment of
the debt, enables the farmers, by agreement,
to purchase a large proportion of their labor
from that source.
stock.
In the province of San Paulo, Paid Mr.
C jle, they never think of turning cattle out
Into the woods—they are al! pastured. The
country abounds with fine grasses, Includ
ing the well known Bermuda, which
seems to be at home there, and hogs are
grazed as well as cows and horses, and are
often made to weigh three hundred pounds
on pasturage, with one ear of ccrn per day.
It is a great stock country as well as farm
ing country, and nothing Is lacking for the
greatest prosperity but good government
adapted to the development of Its resources.
The want of this keeps the country poor,
keeps out Immigrants from advancing na
tions, and even the refugee Confederates
from the South, who went there to stay,
have nearly all returned to ihelr own coun
try.
NO JEWS IN BRAZIL.
Speaking of the capacity of the Brazilians
for trade, commerce and general industry,
Mr. Cole said they were a shrewd, cunning
people—more so than the Jews—which he
thought accounted for the fact that the de
scendants of Jacob did not mingle with the
Gentile population of Brazil. That whoever
goes there with the expectation of profiting
by his superior shrewdness over the natives,
will be apt to come away cured of his con
ceit. L. C. B.
Cotton Futures In New York.
New York, October 25 —The Post's cot
ton market report says: '‘Future deliveries
at the first call lost 3100 c. to 4-lOOc., and In
the Interval between the first and second
calls an additional 4-100 c. to 3-100 c. The
second call showed mere steadiness and a
slight advance, but It was subsequently lost.
The highly favorable weather and a declin
ing Liverpool market could not fail to have
their effect. So long as a killing frost Is
delayed and manipulation remains dormant
an Improvement can hardly be expected.”
A case Is before the Fort Wayne, Ind.,
courts which will test the validity of Indian
marriages, and over one hundred Indian
residents of Wabash county are interested
in the legal decision that may be made. The
test case is that of George Shapp, an Indian,
who, three years ago, asked Nancy Yoterv
to come and live with him and he his wife —
Indian fashion. Nancy consented and went.
In a year a child was born to the pair, and
soon after the mother died. She left a 250-
acre farm, worth SIO,OOO, to the child, but
her sisters now claim the property on the
ground that snch a marriage is not valid
under the laws of the Btße of Indiana.
Bbapp has gone to law about It to ascertain
whether or not bis child Is a legal heir. The
other married Indians of the county are
watching the case, as a decision against
Shapp will render the title to much valuable
land in Wabash and other Indiana counties
open to dispute, the Indian marriages being
all alike.
E. A. Burke, the manager, has shipped to
the Times-Pemo'rat of New Orleans a com
plete electric light plant of the Leavltt-
Muelier patent, containing incandescent and
arc lights from one machine. The Tanet-
Demoerat building will be lighted with elec
tric ty throughout, using Incandescent Pgtats
In their composing, editorial and business
departments, and the arc light forth 6 Im
posing stones and outside lighting,
WASHINGTON.
A WAIL FROM ATKINS' M4NA
GEES.
The Woman’s Labor League—A Trick of
Montgomery Blair’s Lieutenants-Fol
ger an Elephant.
WiSHivoTojf. October 25,-Mahone is not the
only man in the South who is besieging Jay
Hubbell s committee for money and more
money. Very urgent appeals for sinews of
war are being received here from the Republi
cans in the First Georgia district. The appeals
say that unless mon<*y is furnished Mr. Atkins’
cause, he cannot be elected; but that with
more aid from the Republican Committee he
can surely be returned to Congress.
A NSW CRUS IDS.
A few montbs ago a number of the female
sex who were unable to get places in the sev
eral departments gathered themselves together
a u From that gathering sprang
what is known as the Women’s Labor League,
now in active operation. This league now an
nouncee, through Us President, that one of its
objects is to procure the dismissal from the
government departments of all women who
are not strictly what they should be, or, in
other words, as the President of thi league
puts it. it is the intention to turn out all the
female favorites of Congressmen and other
mafe specimens. The league has certainly
made anew departure. Nobody e’se
ever undertook such a reform. No
body ever thought of serious action in
that direction Jt is a matter of too much deli
cacy and fraught with too much danger to be
handled with anything like vigor. It is evident
the league is tackling a subject which is alto
gether of too gigantic proportions for them.
This will be soon discovered and the crusade
will uome to an early entj. Tbo leogvto in alto
gether too previous. It would of course be a
good thing to rid the government service of
Improper females as it would oe to rid it of
unworthy males, but under the present sys
tem, it will be millennium before either is ac
complish oa.
A SICCESSruh SCHEME.
Hon. Montgomery Blair, of MarxianL isrun
ntag' for Congress in the Maryland district
contiguous to Washington. He has but a small
Republican majority to overcome, and is doing
good work in that direction. It is more than
probable that the tall lean figure of Mr. Blair
will again become conspicuous in public af
fairs. a clever little scheme that his cam
paign managers have been working is pro
ducing great effect among the qolored voters.
Blair was a member of Lincoln’s Cabinet when
the emancipation proclamation was signed. A
picture showing Lincoln in the act of tigning
the proclamation surrounded by his Catinet
hangs in the cap! 01. Mr. Blair’s managers
pave bad thousands of fac similes of this pic
ture struck off. They have distributed them
broadcast throughout ipe district. The col
ored people are told what Mr. Blair did for
them. In fact, I have heard it said that many
Democratic speakers, holding aloft one of the
fac similes, boldly tell their colored bearers
that had it not been for Mr. Blair the emanci
pation proclamation would nev, r have been
signed and they would never have been free.
The effect of such arguments as this can be
readily conceived.
WHAT IS TO BECOME OF FOLDER?
As has been repeatedly stated in this corre
spondence, even if Secretary Foiger is not
elected Governor of New York—of which there
appears to be not the slightest probability—he
will not remain in the Cabinet. He may stay in
until tho end of the year, but not longer. He
is to be provided for, however. It is learned
that the President, in case Foiger is defeated in
New York, will recall Minister Lowell at Eng
land and send Foiger there to succeed him. It
would not do to let the old man drop alto
cether and so suddenly as to bounce him from
public Lfe just because there are more Demo
cratic than Republican voters in the State of
New York. Potomac
DARIEN.
The Weather—Turpentine Farms—Vari
ous Notes—Politics.
Darien, Ga , October 23.— Editor Morning
News: It seems to be the custom, especially
with your correspondents, to commence letters
in telling about the weather. For the last three
days it has been raining with but intervals of
a few minutes each, which was quite inconve
nient for citizens living on the Ridge and hav
ing to ride in the city to their business.
Mr. Grubb, the editor of the Timber Gazette,
lost his only child, a liltle son of about six
years of age, on Wednesday evening last, by
that terrible disease diphtheria.
A little over a year ago such a thing as a
turpsntine farm was not known to exist in Mc-
Intosh county, but time has changed things,
and I will mention a few who carry on that
business. E A. Fulton &Cos , George H. Hay
mans, Winn & McDonald. Shave & But(pr and
A. H. Brown have bought aud leased lands and
will soon commence operations. Mr. Brown
was in the city last week negotiating for lands.
A gentleman who sold the turpentine privilege
on a few thousand acres of land for the sum of
three thousand dollars, expects to cut timber
to the amount of three thousand dollars, and
then sell the land for the sameamount.making
if all the neat sum of nine thousand dollars.
The .friends of Toney Farmer, the murderer
confined in jail here, are trying to make him
play crazy before court meets next month,
There is no use in this,for poor Toney is doom
ed.
• H2 ors Sr C !2 Iey ’ one of the negroes who broke
ia Mr. ft. McW. Young's jewelry shop some
time since, has acknowledged that he was one
of the Eastman rioters, George will get off on
that charge, for the doors of the penitentiary
are already open for him.
The Brown murderers are as mum as they
can be. They have been confined in jail for
almost two years, and it is time for tbelr case
to be settled.
Captain O. H. P. Rogers has contracted for a
new schooner, which will probably hail from
this She will be about four hundred
registered tonnage. Quite a large portion of
her will be owned by residents of Daren. The
Captain is here and will take a cargo of hard
pine in his schooner, the Flora Rogers, to be
used in the new vessel.
There is something strange that the returns
from the late election from this county have
not arrived at the capital, for they were mailed
from this post office here without a doubc
Representative Wilson, from tbis county, has
signified his willingness to vote for the Hon. A.
r. Adams forjudge of this circuit.
Parson Flipper, of the A. M. E. Church,
wrote an article in the last issue of the Darien
Gazette, which he publishes some figures
which will be quite useful in the Congressional
campaign to the Democratic party. He is
heartily in favor of Colonel Atkins going to
Congress. Yet there are men in this county
who would have voted for Johnson who will
vote for Colonel Nicholls before the other man.
Colonel Atkins will not get the vote that Col
lins got in this county in 1880.
Fppr candidate? are up for Clerk of the Su
perior Court in Mclntosh county, and all the
other offices will have opposition candidates.
It is thought that Colonel Atkins will be in
dorsed by th*Republican party on Saturday
next - DeR.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH.
Its Disestablishment Spoken of.
A London special to the Cincinnati Timet-
Star states that the growing agitation for the
abolition of the union between the church
and State, by a complete disestablishment
of the English Church, is receiving an un
ususl impetus at the present time. The
frequent recurrence of sales by auction of
farm tools, Implements and utensils, under
distraint to recover extraordinary tithes by
the established Church under a law long
supposed to be obselute, have excited the ut
most indignation among the English farmers,
At several recent sales of this character the
auctioneers and their assistants, and also
intending purchasers, have been “Boy
cotted” by the Indignant farm laborers.
Public meetings have been held In several
counties, at which resolutions, protesting
against a continuance of this unjust impost,
were adopted.
Many of the more liberal members of the
cLrgy would gladly see their titles abolish
ed, and not a few have openly expressed
themselves as being in harmony with the
farmers on this question. At a meeting of
the farmers of Kent and Sussex, one
speaker called attention to the fact that all
assemblages thus far held during the agita
tion had been peaceful ones, and said that
if this gross injustice was allowed, to con
tinue, he should not like to be answerable
for It being always so. Another speaker
said it appeared to him a shameful thing
that money should be drawn from the pock
ets of unwilling parishioners to support a
creed of religion in which they did not be
lieve, simply to add to the already large in
comes of many of the clergy.
Bir E. J. Reed, M. P., sent a letter to the
same meeting to give expression to his en
tire sympathy with the movement and ad
vising a continuous agitation and persist
ence in the policy of resistance as the only
means to compel the attention of the
British public to their just demands.
The outrageous nature of this tax may be
Illustrated by reference to a recent case at
Bwanley Kent, where the tithe amounted to
ninepouDds on a holding of the yearly
value of but seventy pounds. In this In
stance a sale was ordered by the Dean and
the Chapter of Rochester, whose Bishop re
ceives ten thousand pounds annually, while
the revenues of the See are estimated at
thirty thousand pound a.
A Surveyor Drowned.
Jackson, Miss., October 25.—Information
was received here last night of the drown
ing of Mr. a land eurveyor of Chl-
Jgp, in Tailipaha creek, Marion county.
Dunston was employed by an English syn
dieate to examine a large tract of pine lSnd
In Mississippi with the view „of purchasing.
WONDERFUL COTTON.
A “ AU ** e , d Im P°rtant Discovery in Florl
a—A Plant which Produces Cotton Su
perior to Sea Island and which Re
quires no Ginning.
Savannah, October 25 .—Editor Morning
iVews: The accompanying; communication
concerning a remarkable new kind of cotton
was sent to us to day by our New York cor
respopdents, with the request for further
particulars. They suggest that we might
learn something on the subject from some
florlda friend; and as your paper circulates
widely in that State we think we cannot do
better than to suggest your publishing the
account to give the matter that pubilcity
its Importance unquestionably deserves.
iJ^ e i ratbe ' ttlnk the discoverers of this
do “fn M nd . valuable P lant are inclined to
do all in their power to discourage its gen
eral dissemination until they succeed in de
veloping it to the point that when the enor
mous cocoanut boll bursts open it will
reveal, neatly incased within its folds a
wts bandBom8 > well spun ball of yarn,
hut if we are wrong we cheerfully lay our
selves open to correction. Yours truly,
luded [° I | lowlog ,a tbe communication al-
Madras, 16th September, 1883.
Messrs. , Aw Toth
Dear Sirs— We enclose an extract from
one of the last home papers giving a de
scription of anew cotton plant in Florida,
and shall be much obliged if you can give
us any further information about it.
Under wbfjt conditions and in what lati
tudes does it grow be t? What soil is best
suited to it, and what height above the sea?
Does it grow best inland or on the coast ?
Can you obtain any seed for us, and If you
cru, will you be so good as to send us enough
plant an acre with as an experiment 9
We are, dear sirs, yours faithfully,
[extract J
“A New Cotton Plant.— A new variety
of cotton plant has been brought to light In
America, where great things are expected
of it. It Is the product of the hybridization
of the cotton plant with the common okra—
both of them indigenous to Florida, where
the new plant has been reared. The hybrid,
which attains a height of about two feet,
has the stalk of the okra and the foliage
of the cotton, but the flower and
fruit are said to bo quite unlike
either parent. The flower, of which each
plant only bears one, is as large as the mag
nolia, aud nearly as fragrant. It, like the
cotton bloom, Is whits for several days
after it opens; later It becomes pale pink
and finally red, ‘when it drops, disclosing a
wonderful boll.” For about ten days the
boll resembles that of the cotton plant,
when Its growth, “as if by magic,” in
creases wonderfully, and it finally reaches
the size of a large cocoanut. Then the lint
or cotton down appears, of which each boll
produces about two pounds of a fine long
staple, superior to the sea island cotton.
The great advant ge which this cotton pos
sesses Is the case with which the bolls
can be gathered, an unskilled picker
being able to collect 600 or 700 pounds
weight in 4 day. A still further
advantage consists in the absence, or rather
the peculiar disposition, of the seeds, which,
instead of being mixed with the lint, lie at
the bottom of the boil. There are only
four or five of these seeds, which resemble
persimmon seed, and can be easily shaken
out as the boll is plucked, so that the cotton
requires no ginning. The saving in expense
occasioned by the reduction of labor both
in picking and ginning are likely to cause j
this hybrid cotton to supplant the gos
sypium, even if its produce were not of the
superior quality attributed to it.”
DRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on
Monday to blow up the recruiting office in
Lyons.
Alexander Caufman’s “Called to Ac
count” Company disbanded at Atlanta yes
terday.
J. Sehrieber, of the cotton commission
firm of S:taroeder Sehrieber, of New Or
leans, has been missing since Tuesday, and
festerday his body was found in Lake
ontchartrain.
The Southern Railway and Bteamship As
sociation met at Atlanta yesterday, but did!
nothing further than to appoint a com
mittee to consider a division of business.
They meet again to-morrow.
A Chinese coin three thousand years old
has been found by gold miners who were
digging in a claim al Casslar, British Co
lumbia. It is supposed to have been left
there by Chinese mariners wrecked on the
coast long before the Christian era.
A prize fight Campbell, of
Colorado, and William Lynn, of the Pacific
coast, came off at Pueblo recently. Eight
rounds were fought, when Lynn claimed the
stakes—which were paid to him—on ac
count of a foul In the last round.
Thomas Nugent, a painter, was killed re
cently at Baltimore by the breaking of the
scaffold on which he stood while painting
the spire of a church. Joseph Tlnckner,
who also fell from the scaffold, was so
severely hurt that he will probably die.
The Spanish Government has resolved to
summon the Cortes to meet on November 5.
Oa the reassembling of the Cortes the gov
ernment is expec ed to make a statement
declaring Its opposition to the reform of the
constitution advocated by Marshal Serrano.
The American Institute of Architects be
gan their annual session yesterday morning
at the Gibson House, Cincinnati. Colonel
George Ward Nichols, of that city, delivered
the address. Reports were read from the
Cincinnati, New York ana Philadelphia
Chapters.
At a French Cabinet council yesterday It
was resolved to prosecute a speaker at an
anarchist meeting In Lyons, who said he
was quite ready to mHrder President Grevy.
Since the explosion of bombs in Lyons
similar explosions have occurred in Mont
pellier and Lylle.
The revolt in Herzegovina Is increasing,
and many conscripts are deserting and join
ing the insurgents, who are now said to be
In formidable numbers in the hill regions.
The insurrection has reached such serlons
proportions that large reinforcements are
urgently demanded.
Albert Hardies was killed at Chicago a
few nights ago by Frank Miller. The latter
was drunk and 'engaged in an altercation
with his wife on the sidewalk. Hardies at
tempted to act the part of peacemaker,
when Mrs. Miller slapped his face and Mil
ler severed his jugular vein with a knife.
A special from Alton, 111., says: “Sunday
afternoon, at the residence of Richard
White, seven miles from towD, two of his
sons were handling a revolver, believed to
be unloaded. Suddenly the pistol went off,
the ball penetrating the brain of the younger
brother, killing him instantly. The elder
brother has been unconscious ever since the
tragedy.”
The family of Col. John Brady, living in
the vicinity of Johnson ville, Ark., consist
ing of wife and four children, were pois
oned by eating bread made from meal In
which India berries had been mixed. The
youngest child died soon after eating the
food, and the other members of the family
are not expected co recover. The berries
were introduced Into the meal by an un
known enemy while the com was being
ground at a neighbor’s mill.
At Amherst C. H , Ya., on Monday even
ing -Mrs. Jane Roberts was returning from a
visit to Richard Spencer’s, accompanied by
her daughter and two children. Near the
church they were met by Davev Reynolds, a
young man who had attended the protracted
meeting the night before, when he had pro
fessed religion and in a boisterous manner
emphasized his profession by jumpjog over
the benches and finally through a window.
His zeal had not cooled, and bent on mak
ing proselytes, he seized one of the Spencer
children by the hand, saying: “Come up
to the church with me and get religion.”
Mrs. Roberts and the others Interfered, and
the infuriated enthusiast at once fell upon
Mrs. Roberts with a club and beat her fa
tally, also terribly beating othera. He is in
jail.
Deadly Fireworks Explosion.
Pbzl.adbl.phia, October 25.—8 y aa acci
dental explosion of fireworks at Falrmount
Park last night two persons were killed and
seven more or less seriously wounded. Four
more have since died and two are nottx
pected to recover.
Extensive Planing Mill Burned.
Detroit, October 25.— The lumber and
planing mill of A. Backus, Jr., & Sons was
burned last night. It employed 250 man
and cost $150,000. Nearly 1,000,000 feet of
lumber were burned, on which the loss is
$20,000.
The Department of Agriculture, iu its
November estimates of the crops, puts
the Southern corn crop for }BB2 at 340 -
000,000 bushels, against 466 825 489
bushels In 1880, a falling off from' the
crop of 1880 of 126,000 bushels. If this
is correct what becomes of the thousand
and one reports from all parts of the
country of the largest corn crop ever
made in the South? Would it not be
well for the bureau } t review its figures?
ESTABLISHED 1850.
TALLAHASSEE TOPICS.
FRUITGROWERS AND TRUCKERS
IN COUNCIL.
Middle Florida’s Boom-Attraction, for
ImmigranU-The Coming Competitive
Tallahassee, October 24.-Editor Morning
Aews - In accordance with a previous notice a
convention of vegetable and fruit growers as
sembled here on Wednesday, the 18th. At first
it was proposed to meet in the office of the
Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration,
bat so large was the attendance and so great
the interest manifested that Gallie’a Hall was
eventually chosen as the most fit place for
the meeting. Three counties were repre
sented, to wit: Gadsden, Leon and Jefferson.
Interesting discussions were had as to the
proper methods of culture, method of pre
pa ing for shipment; In fact, a general “expe;
rience meeting” was held. Asa natural se
quence. many interesting and important points
were elicited. The convention was in session
the entire day. and in the afternoon a perma
nent organization was effected under the name
of the Middle Florida Vegetable Growers’ As
sociation, with General Bird, of MonticeUo. as
President, and C. H. Choate as Becrety. Gen.
Bird Is by no means an amateur in fruit grow
years he has bestowed considera
ble attention to this industry, and now has the
FWr^ t i. DUrße . ryor . fr “it trees in this section.
Floriculture, too, is not neglected by bim, as
& h , ta flne fl " ral display at our
t^n M „ - The im P° rtaj, ce of this associa
'ts effects upon this new industry in
DOW b?ing so rapidly developed,
overea tlm ited. It will be the means
of inciting our truckers to renewed efforts and
of disseminating usefui information. More than
this, while it unites those so engaged, it gives
them a prestige and increases their influence
as the suggestion of an association to a rail
°°rpo,^vlon concerning the handling of
freight will have much more weight than
when offered by a single individual. While the
rights of an individual trucker may be
ignored, those of a powerful association will
be respected. Among those in attendance
from fferSOn Wir thnoa nrl.A In 9 I
irara Jtirerson were those who in former days
were the largest and most successful planters.
Miccosukee, in this county, too. as well as other
o s. a . j t i. e3 V, waß / alr| y represented.
Middle Florida is now fast getting ‘’out of
the ruts. Immigration does not tend always
to localities where the lands are the most fer
tile, but to those points where the most money
can be made. No section can boast of better
land than we have in Middle and West Florida
But the tide of immigration has not
set in this way became not much
money was made in ratsing cotton.
Just after the war a number of Northern
gentlemen tried cotton planting, sunk money
A lt ’J u ? d left disgusted for East Florida.
And what caused such an influx of settlers in
that section, The orange mania Oranee
growing was represented as a profitable in
vestment Nurseries of this fruit tree sprung
U P j through that section. Groves were I
planted and sold at enormous prices; some
few made fortunes by speculation, and every
”as°n a boom. In vain our people pro
claimed the superiority of their lams, but
h 4 a , d , no . clllcig 10 show but cot
ton. At last, some of our snrewd
observing planters determined on anew de
parture It shipping early vegetables North
was profitable to truckers in East Florida, why
would it not.beequally as profitable here! They
acted upon this idea, and found that it paid
well—far better than the raising of the former
staple products. Others followed their ex
ample with equal success, and now vegetable
growing for the Northern market is becom
ing one of the leading features of
5* 1 ! 8 . ® ec ?! on - There is money in it. and
this it is that is now attracting Immigration to
to this section Lands are so cheap here and
so fertile that an enterprising firm in New
York have lately published a pamphlet devoted
h th V > ie lldd 1 a Weßt Florlda - *nd It is
hoped that through their influence quite a tide
of immigration wili soon set in to tnis section.
Not only is this section destined to be noted
for its fine vegetables, but also for its fruits
especially the grape. Colonel M. Martin the
United States Surveyor General, has a fine
vineyard near Chattahoochee that is famous not
only for the varieties of flne grapes, but for
its wines. As flne scuppernongs can fce raised"
here in Florida as in North Carolina, where
this variety is indigenous. It thrives almost
equally as well in sandy as on stiff clay land,
and its wine is of a very superior quality when
properly made. Rev. I. L. Hugon, the r-atho
ne priest at this place, is a native of France,
and fami'iar with the process of making wine
He says that as a general thing in this country
the grapes are gathered too early tor wine
makitg; that they should not be gath
ered until they become perfectly
**eet, just a little i hgveled For experiment,
no procured five bushels of scuppernongs last i
August, and made therefrom forty-tx gallons
of good wine and ten of vinegar. He first ob
tained seven gallons of the pure juice This
he calls No. 1 He could have obtained ten
gallons, but did not press the grapes to any
great extent, as he wished to make more wine
from the residua and hulls. To this residue he
added about twenty-two gallons of water and
51 50 worth of flne sugar. Letting It stand for
four days, he drew off twenty-two gallons. This
he calls No. 2. Adding about seventeen gal
lons of water and fifty cents worth of sugar to
the residue, he let it stand five days and drew
off seventeen gallons, which he calls No. 3 I
sampled all three varieties a few nights since,
and, though but two months old. the wine is of
good quality. No. 3 is very much like the
teine and ordinaire, and makes a very good table
wme. Puttin ' the five bushels of grapes at
five dollars, sugar at five dollars, he has made
forty six gallons of wine and ten gallons of
good vinegar at a cost of only ten dollars for tha
material. No spirituous liquors were added
and no sugars to wine No. 1. Most of our
wine makers in Florida, add a little sugar and
brandy or whisky. But if the grapes are gath
ered at the proper time, it is unnecessary to
add anything to the press juice. Father Hu
gon says that he intended to make champagne I
of No. 2, but at the time when the proper I
treatment was necessary his attention was di
verted by other matters. In another year he
intends to try this experiment on a larger
scale, and thinks that by his process he I
can easily make fifty gallons of
good wins from five bushels of grspes.
Much of the so-called scuppemoDg wine In this
country is nothing but cordial, and fardiffr
ent from the dry wine or No. lof Father Hu
gon’s. He says that our climate and'soil are
admirably adapted to the grape and predicts
that the day is not far off when Florida will be
a wine producing country.
The new pamphlet of the Commissioner of
Immigration is going off like hot cakes by
every day s mail and express. From all parts
of the Union there come requests for it. As it I
is a fair statement of our climate and re- I
sources, its circulation is calculated to stirau
lata immigration, and the money for its publi- I
catron is well spent. Immigration develops
the country and enhances values, end as a
natural sequence ultimately lessens taxation I
when the goyernment is economically admin
istered.
The long warm spell is now over, and we are
rejoicing In cool, bracing weather, the best
tonic for the invalid. Nearly all of our ab
sentees have returned, and Tallahassee already
presents that lively appearance peculiar to this
season.
The Governor’s Guards have recently re
ceived new accoutrements, and are busy pre
paring for the competitive drill at our fair la
January next. If they do not obtain the first
prize It will not be the fault of their accom
plished commander, Capta’n C. Mosely. The
effle ency of this corps a few years ago gave
this company quite a reputation, tut being
composed of young men, many of whom left
for other fields, the organization
was nearly disbanded. Their veteran
Captain though has revived it, and its
ranks will soon be as full as in former days
But Capt. Mosely will have to drill his corps
long and often if he would win the prize, for in
the West Florida Seminary Cadets, under
Major E. R. Rivers, he will find formidable
competitors. Drilling for one hour every day
for five days in the week, under such an ac
complished tactician, it is very possible that
this junior corps may win the prize.
Lbon.
The Mexican (Episcopal Church) mission
has just held a long and interesting session
at New York, covering parts of three days.
The Bishops were ail present. The latter are
said to have felt the serious danger to the
success of the work In Mexico, growing out
of the long delay in the preparation of the
liturgy, which Is a disappointment to them.
O.her matters also, growing out of a bitter
controversy between the Mexican branch of
the church and certain American mission
aries in Mexico nonnested with the recent
alleged election of two Bishops In that
country, are said to demand imperatlvelv
the presence of Bishop Riley and BishOD
elect Hernandez with the committee for
consultation. Accordingly, the commission
have ics.sted, in the very strongest language,
that these two prelates should, without
further delay, come to New York.
a, 1 ? 1- ’ V- Hoffman, Secretary of the United
States Legation at S’. Petersburg, arrived
at New York a few days ago, after an ab
sence of several years. So far as hts obser
vation extended, he says he is inclined to
the belief that the government has at last
succeeded in stamping out Nihilism, the
principal leaders and movers of that organi
zation having either been exiled or executed.
He describes the Czar as personally a kind
hearted and indulgent man, whose sole aim
Is the welfare of his country and his sub
jects. In regard to the crops, Mr. Hoffman
says, while these have been fair this season
throughout the empire, the Russian fame
as a rule, were not ptpspercm, and or
the main causes of this trouble, un ’*
edly, was United States compel'”
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°*vaknab. Oa„ October 10, M 2.
„ XTW -BDAY. October
iUakea a Speech A Umlral and South
the Christian Free Schooli-SS. M
Politics.
JVF 6 * atten(J anee at the pre
in the hfstorv f OD /i? re^ Ce than eT<>r More
in the history of the Territory. The local
I reduced fares so as to allow those 4
I who bad very little scrip in their nurse an
opportunliy to come to Zion. Besides, it
was expected that the church officials would
pay their respects to the government for the
passage of the Edmunds bill, and to Gover
nor Murray and the commission for en
forcing Its provisions. All th’s came to
pass. The first two daily sessions were held
in the new Assembly room, which holds
about 6,000 Saints. But as the faithful
nocked In by every train the old tabernacle,
which resembles an inverted soup tureen,
| wa3 resorted to. It will seat 10,000, and
yesterday it was crowded to its utmost.
Moses Thatcher, oneof the Twelve Apostles,
who has seven wives, said that the Edmunds
bill originated in Salt Lake with the Meth-
and that its passage was a triumph
o. the Gentile Church over the State.
Thatcher closed by advising all of the
churchmen to patronize none but Mormon
storekeepers.
Brigham Young, Jr., denounced the Gen
tile free school system. He said: “I haven’t
a son or daughter that I would not rather
I see carried to their graves than have one of
them listen to Christian teachings. I would
rather take my child and throw It into hell
than send it to an outside school. That's
the kind of a Latter Day Saint I am. I want
our children taught bv a teacher who under
stands the Word of God s$ I understand It.
They should be taught the Bo k
of Mormon and the revelations of
God to the prophet Joseph Smith.
I look upon these people who
come out here among us as robbers, who
come to take away our children, as wolves
among the children of Israel. To-day w
are struggling against 50.000,000 people; to
morrow we may be struggling against 100.-
000,000 How are we going to sucasefif Not
by our own strength. I haven’t a bit of
faith In my own strength". If I had I should
have hurt somebody long ago. I would not
have stood what I have. But God Is with
us, and In this fiiht one shall prevail against
a thousand, and two against ten thousand.”
The registration of the Territory is nearly
I 34,000, About 15,000 were disfranchised
under the E imunds act. The total popula
tion of the Territory Is not over 150 000. In
States where there is no female suffrage the
average is a vote to every 5 05 inhabitants.
Here it was one to every three before the
[ disfranchisement. But there are about
three women to one man. The registration
has been closer this year than ever before.
Usually both sides were indifferent.
The Mormons, having an overwhelming ma
jority, became careless, and the Gentiles, in
a hopeless minority, were indifferent. The
system was so loose that unnaturalized for
eigners and girls under 21 years of age reg
istered. Notwithstanding the urgency of
the case, there are, perhaps, 1,000 Gentiles
who did not register. Of the 34,000 regis
tered about 8,000 are Gentiles. Asa pecu-
I liarity of this many sided Mormon question,
the gamblers are friendly to the Mormons
and refuse to register and vote, saying that
I Salt Lake is the best and most tolerant city
In the Union for gamblers.
The Commissioners not arrivng In time to
hold a registration for the regular election
in August, the election went hy default.
Gov. Murray declared all the offices in the
Territory vacant, and filled them by appoint-
I ment. The amendment to the Edmunds act
I empowers him to fill vacancies that may
occur by the non-holding of the August
election. The Mormon officials refuse to
surrender their offices, holding that as the
I act did not say that vacancies
I would occur, cone did occur.
I Writs of mandamus have been
served. The case will be tried on the 10th
I instant, and if it Is decided against them
the officials propose to appeal to the Su
preme Court of the Territory, and if neces
sary, to the United States Supreme Court.
In the meantime the Commissioners have
ordered an election next month. Then there
will be three claimants for each office,unless
the present Mormrn officials are re-elected,
which is not nearly every one of
them is a polygamist, and therefore, dis
qualified under the Congressional statute to
hold office.
The Last of the Irish Kings
The Atlanta Constitution of the 25th Inst,
contained a report of the proceedings and
entertainment at Liberty Hall of the com
mittee sent down to escort Governor Ste
phens to the capital. Among other highly
Interesting and very pleasing things said by
Georgia’s statesman on that occasion, was
the following tribute to a great Irishman :
“This room,” said Mr. Stephens, whirling
into a bedroom adjoining the library,
“was occupied the night it was finished by
Smith O’Brien, the last of the line of the
Irish kings of Munster. He spent a week
with me and was the grandest man in some
respects I ever knew. His book on repre
sentative government Is the profoundest
work I ever read, except Mr. Calhoun’s, and
Is much more elaborate. He was the fore
most of the Irish patriots In dfgopy and
power. I had Toombs here to meet him
frequently, and It was interesting to see
them together. Mr. Toombs was then very
extreme—it was in 1859, and I had resigned
in view of the coming storm—and was fond
of painting to O’Brien what a magnificent
republic We could make of the South if we
were only cut off from the body of death,
as he called the North. In his quiet but
positive way O’Brien would Insist that the
perpetuity of the American Union was the
only hope for -true representative govern
ment on the earth. I never entertained &
greater man than this brave and saddened
Irishman.”
Bayß a London writer concerning the an
nouncement of the victory In Egypt: “The
contents-bills of some of the provincial
journals were terrific. Hour by. hour the
newsboys tore through the streets with new
ones, and the way they said boys howled
aloud ‘Terrific slorter !’ and Invented catcfc
crles, was truly marvelous. I happened to
be Id Birmingham when the morning news
came, and there the streets were alive with
inventing war news with a fertility
which put our special correspondents com
pletely in the shade. ‘Horfui slaughter of
the Hinglish ! ‘Kepcher o’ Sir Garnet by
Haribl!’ ‘Two thousan’ o’ the enemy slain
by the Dook o’ Conort, and all the orrybul
details!’ ‘Burstin’ o’ the Buez Kernall, and
loss of all the hiurnclads!’ It was an im
mense day for ‘Spechul Dishuns’ every
where.”
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