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ESTABLISHED 1850.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
H. 11 IRS OF INTEREST IX THE
TWO. STATES.
A Dastardly Assault—The Madison
polionlng—Contested Elections —Cheap
Florida hands for Actual Settlers—A
Lady Accidentally Shot—Serious Acci
dent to a Sailor.
GEORGIA.
Saturday night about 7 o’clock, as Mr. Al
bert D. Fuller, of Augusta, was walking
along Pearl avenue, in Harrisburg, he was
vaulted in the dark by Frank Couch, and
terioualy and, it is thought, fatally cut with a
Lude in the face and neck, one of the gashes
rviending front ear to ear. It is stated as the
es'i-t of this desperate attempt at assassina
: that Mr. Fuller has been for some time
working at the Summerville Mill, where
t rh also bad a position, and it is alleged
that i ouch had an idea that Puller would be
a p]i. ~nted in his place, and made up his mind
j. _ r r*t rid of his supposed rival. Couch was
~i, i about two hours after the onslaught on
and carried to the barracks.
T 1 mortality in Augusta for the week end
. Ko bruary 24 was ten, of which live were
sa.te and live colored, of which two were
,tili-horn of the latter class.
The farmers of Morgan county are now
I, .... engaged in “speeding the plow," and
:■ Lg the past few days of good weather
„ has been accomplished. Much spring
„. t ;, have been sown to cover the ground from
, h late rains hindered cotton picking.
1,. -, -own grain is looking well. Many farm
er- were forced by the wet December to sow
.n January, and it is belter than much
ti ; was sown in November.
T re is yet considerable cotton in (~peon
i will And its way to market between
an,i the Ist of May.
i, ,-nior Stephens lias issue,! a proclama
lering a reward of SIOO for the appre
. and delivery of W. C. Garrett, of
i trruU county, who is charged with Ihe crime
■ -eduction of a girl of tender years in
, in ;i county on thp Jlth of lkscemlier last.
v tunnel will lie cut under the Cenlral
l: nl opposite the old barracks at Atlan
ia. This new enterprise of Col. Peters will
i great advantage to that part of the city,
,!i I will enhance the value of real estate.
our Trailers will remember the account of
t sudden death of Mose Ackndge, at Madt
. !a.-t week, under stroug suspicion of hav
ing ,'u poisoned. The body of the deceased
, -u! noted to a post-mortem examination,
hi- stomach was sent to Prof. White,
-cite chemist, for analysis, who has
jcrf.mscd that duty and returns a report
i the jury of inquest ou the case to
: effect that the stomach contained
ir„ uic poison iu a considerable degree, and
ih, . it to produce tustantaueons death. I)r.
1> !. ib whose charge the matter was in
truded by the jury, says that iu his opiuion
tt; ! " -on administered was what u rom
i. known as “Hough on Hats." The jnry
u making up their verdict say that the de
, -• J came to his death from arseniepoison
aud that in the opiuion of the jury the
:tn Witiie Flemister did the poisoning,
,i -:ud poisoning is malicious murder. The
- .1 i- in jail awaiting trial.
\an clou has this season shipped 15.000 bale*
. sen, with several more thousands liehiud
ii. Putnam and adjoining counties.
on Saturday Governor Stephens issued a
, mumi-.-ion to Senator A. 11. Colquitt to repre
mv. the Mate in the United States Senate for
-it years commencing March 4th next.
■beige Twiggs has been employed to de
i the citizens of liurke county charged
.. :li assaulting the Chinese merchants. Loo
< g A Cos., in Waynesboro. The Chinese
r- iu dead earnest iu the prosecution an,l'a
iiw lr contest is expected. *
\ correspondent at SandersviUe writes
•r data of the 20th instant: “Miss Bessie
•■field, a young lady living near Ten
.i.e. No. 13 Central Railroad, while visiting
or fru-ncL Miss ft. A. Kelly, about one mile
ii ihe above named place, picked up an old
i-i..i that was lying carelessly areuud the
aud snapped it several times without
\pi,sling, and was in the aet of placing it
, mantel,wheu it tired, the bull entering
th ■ left ioeju-t of Mrs. Kelly about two inches
. w the region of (he heart, making an ugly
• amful but not thought to be a danger
, - wound. The two ladies are very iutiiuate
; ■ nds. and the .accident is deeply regretted
v thewutire community. At last accounts
thr wounded lsly was doing very well.”
i . decision in the Georgia Railroad Com
. . will be <tll I nmd to-day. This
. • • .:u„lves the question of *fce constitution
. ~f the aet creating the Railroad Commis
.ol,l is of commanding importance lo the
people of the Mate.
luet rawfordville democrat, issued at the
: ■ - 111 ,• of 1 .overnor Stephens, lias passed to the
• Mr. K. O. fnmftene again Ma r
-Vi /.. Andrews is at the editorial helui. We
.lisa the I‘r i'i' i 4gi'cat success.
V\ o glad to announce on the authority
r Atlanta < 'on*titution that Governor
flier "-aturdav night- Be wm
i. ' Suuda., rs he expected to be. Hiseon
pred serious.
> , g. -j jia Clarion savs: “Col. K. L.
• Straamk DogniM Xm, the
eu-paper man in bcufii Georgia or
ii .d.T, called in to see us lhis week, telonel
,„-.*,-'. , at. talk more newspaper iu l*s (into
■ y mile iu the business. He is a el
, ic \ to gur office.”
T . •• rn/i ,?/ Xewenger of Sunday an
, . ;! , death ou fridav nigtit of Mr. Als
. ; great uusurrsd at
cnce’of his father. Miami I . N.
H i ■ s ~ie time ago jit. WhitiL went .to
I .ing to regaiu his he.’ltb. ha 4i'-
r.i-c. c i-iimpiioß, made rapid headway. and
■ gr • weak that hi- father went to rlon
<t.i ' h..:. and returned U.r Saturday mm
iii Mr. Whittle was well Jkuown and loved
in 'I • on. But for his failing iaffllth he
..cued high distinction as a law
yer. that being his chosen profession.
T f. ic ..tntou AVir, save: “Crops of this
- . c-ide- being at least twenty-five per
■•cat. • —in acreage than it was last year, is
tee a-, forward and promising, owing to
the I t that it was sowu much later.
"• regret that the time and Tttten
t if our farmers was so engross'd
in other matters last fall that they
faded to s<>w their grain until very late ia the
f and much of it was killed by the
•Vavy treeze-. thereby rendering the stand
riv . liar, especially on low lauds. We f'ar,
i*at some of our people were deluded
with tu> idea that the last crop was sufficient
for two y.,rs consumption, andtliat tiiey will
for a heavy cotton crop this year."
There are a number of contested election
r v-- i t iding before Governor Stephens. In
• ai.ij ’.,q| county there is a contest over the
ertn, ~i Sheriff. The eotttest i* by John A.
lie iiij,son against J. D. Collins. Chatta
■ ouiitv there is a contest o-ey the
t ' ,f .sheriff; i*. C. Howell contests the
*U.': ii of L. Harp. McDuffie county there
t • ntc-t over the office of nbertff: M . K.
>i is at,-sts the election of Solontou Norris.
1 li . ct-iiam countv Martin Fuller contests
• tion of Thus. J. Gastlev to tile office of
' l u l.e.' < ’' > n nt . v,,,t * ,vl!, ‘ ,lc,>u,e>to ' er
t • ~f Treasurer; W. D. Wells contests
• tion of IV. H. Newson. In Kffinghaui
■ ■ the Board of c ommissioners of Roads
!'■ venues contests the tdcctiou of Albert
’ d'Tgan. All these cases will be heard this
v ■ ck ,t the Governor is able, with iije exeep-
Pi,. ufatf from Lw county, whieb w set
•• for Monday, March sth.
I> r, a Giuette: “Oa the 25th of October,
colored patorof the A. M. Church
<•' iu, City, the Rev. Prince K,Gadsden, was
arm i. q t the instance of one Edward tt tl
, colored, on the charge of an assault
" uteiit to murder (an account of wkv:h
- in the GatttU of the 2lh „f Oetobar,
• -i tear). The matter was at that time
-.F-Btlemans church, although a Btrong
*Gainst the accused could havebeen made
'■When the grand jury met the month
aflindietineHt was fouud against the
‘•rother. but be could not be for ud, aud
- •en ei adiug arrest yer since. When
; nils'rs of Gads,ten'seburcb dropped the
a tin with the understanding that he
i tc leave town, they did not ,w so
t f it., lack of witnesses to prove tlie
•'■•wy against him, but they did it to keep
• ■ in w -caudal in their church, but afler the
• u i-ft he got miffed at the account In the
' aud wrote an explanation to the ea-
Nes. denotiueing his friends here,
- - ! that they dropped the case because
■ f.lsitv.' This, of course showed
•cikniei, up in ins tyue colors, and left him
)' : t anv friends iu parieu. During the
■ec ii-rin ~f the court J udg* Adams ins true
'•■cr.ff Blount to keep a good lookout for
-a and arrest him the first chance
, - r.nd -,} a few da vs sinee •* in
!ormr,i hy jiostal card that his man was M
cchrao and to come after him. as they
"’ r ' \ '.u- to get rid of him. (The >henff
“id' io Cochraa on Tuesday night, and
‘.’ r , - 1 in to Darien o T hursday morning
gel him in tail. Owing to the fact that
-** .v ihorities there could s til keep him
r than twentv-four hours, he wisi'*ame<l
J, Dawkinsviiie. where he remiiinea **JJ.* 1 ‘
‘* Tin Blount took bin> iu charge. Gmisdev.
‘" r jffii in twrfeetiug his
'•■r ;, c ,{ ig now a t liberty. Ti>e follow -
* *ore<4 people went o* tlie bonjl, the
of which was $500: Prince Biyapt,
j. ant,.nj singietoo, >nsau Ikorsef, Taylor
"ant. LewisSauis."
FLORIDA.
■ ' ,u 1 erriea are ripe in Tampa, hud a lady of
is making arrangements to expert
in silk culture this summer. It is an in
■s'ty kt once pleasant and profitable, as
" e r u ogady sale for every pound of raw
'-d that i agite produced, and there is no rea
'"o why Flonda in tiiia respect may not be
Italy of AmeCtoa,
l ur Legislate* of Florida has passed a law
nena fide nctual setttors to purchase
Gai of the State at 2 i cents per acre. Some
* tbe Urge land owner* do not approve of tue
1 1 hey say it will have a tendency to de-
ate ta value of Unde, AJd they contend
Savannah morning news
that if Florida lands are not worth $1 25 per
acre they are worth nothing.
The collision of the steamers Baya and Syl
vester,during their first race on the St. John’s
river, has resulted in a law 9uit, the Baya
claiming damages to the amount of $7,000.
The ladies of Green Cove Springs have form
ed an association for the purpose of making
an organized effort to improve and beautify
the streets of the town. This is an ex peri -
ment Which will, we hope, be successful, and
if so it will work out some marked improve
ments and bring forth good results.
There are eight prisoners confined in the
county jail at Santa Rosa, two whites and six
colored. One of the former is a Swede who has
been there some months, charged withmur
der. He is a tailor by trade and has been per
mitted to pursue his calling iu the jail, and
being a good workman, has as much to do as
be can attend to.
A thirty thousand dollar hotel is to be lo
cated at Tarpon Springs in Hillsboro countv.
The cotton crop of Gadsden cofinty lias been
disposed of, aud but few bales remain in the
warehouses at Quincy.
The receipts of oranges at Jacksonville last
week from all sources amounted to 5,613
boxes.
Mr. Robert If. Nolan, who has resided in
Pensacola for the past three years, has had a
windfall in the shape of |1H5,000, which has
been tie,! up in the Chancery Court at Dublin
for sixty-five years. Power of attorney was
sent some time ago to Robert Dillon. Queen’s
Consul at Dublin, to collect the amount due
Nolan, as above stated.
One Irhabod Dougherty has sued the city of
DeLand in damages of 120,000 for false impris
onment. Thus one by one the grow ing tow ns of
Florida put on city airs.
It required two eleven-ton schooners to car
ry the freight to Cedar Keys from Dunedin on
the llth, oranges l>eiug the principal ship
ment. * r *
It is stated that water communication lias
la-en opened from the Kissimmee to I.ake
“ alk-in-the-M ater.in Polk county, and boats
can now approach within twenty miles of
Bartow from the east.
The election for tow n officers of Tallahas
set w hich took place ou Tuesday last, re
sulted in the choice of Mr. K.' lewis as
Mayor, Mr. Henry Douglass, the present offi
cer, as Marshal, Mr. Deni illy as Clerk, and
Messrs. IV. M. Mclntosh, C. C. Pearce, 1.,-liny
D. Ball, W . D. Coles, and Edward Yellowhair
as Cotiucilinen.
Marianna is on a boom; the train is making
regular tripe from here to the Chattahoochee
river, connecting with all the boats up and
down the river, aud they have a transfer boat
at Chattahoochee for all ‘passengers and
freight from the Florida Central and Western
Railroad, which will continue till the bridge
at that point is completed.
On Wednesday, the 28th inst., there will lie
a meeting of the residents of Esmeralda and
Altoona, at the latter place, for the purpose
of consulting together as to the propriety and
expediency of constructing a railway between
Altoona aud Esmeralda. If it is ttie opiniou
of the meeting tiiat such a road shall be built,
steps will at once be taken to insure its con
struction.
Ou Wednesday evening last, s the steamer
Sylvester was making a landing at Jackson
ville, the bar tender, A. Schneider, fell over
board by an accident. A colored porter,
named Richard, went over after him, but.
being unable to sustain him. both were in
danger of being drowned. Mr. J. H. Morgan,
the Purser of the boat, then went overboard
to rescue them, and the three w ere struggling
iu Die water when they were* picked *up hy a
small boat.
Last Wednesday, Charles Wilson, a seaman
ou board the American brig Belle of the
Bay, lying at Pensacola, fell from the cross
trees of the main-mast to the deck of the ves
sel. aud was probably fatally injured, Dr.
White, who is attending him, says that both
jaw Itoncs and several ribs were fractured,
besides infernal injuries of a very serious na
ture. The woumted man was taken to the
marine hospital and, at last accounts, was im
proving slightly.
Tlie act locating Die Agricultural College at
Lake City contains tlie following conditions:
That good amt -uflicient titles Is* executed to
the lx,aril of lot) acres of land donated by the
citizens of l.ake City; that the sum of iiO.OOO
cash, as tendered, be made available and
: placed at Die disposal of Die board within
I three months, and an additional $5,000 made
available within six months. l.ake City pro
posed to furnish $15,000 cash and 100 acres of
land for the buildings, and 120 acres in differ
ent tracts in the county. There is a general
feeling of satisfaction w ith the decision of the
board.
The charter of tlie Florida ship canal was
signed by Governor Bloxham on tiaturday
last. The T7mes-l'nunt says: “It is less liberal
than we thought ought to have Iteen cheer
fully granted to men of such standing as the
proposed incorporators, and who were w ill
mg to put their money into an enterprise
whose success would confer inestimable bene
fits upon Florida. It Is sufficient, however,
for all present purposes, and we are assured
hy those who have had Lite matter iu charge
that the company will l>e at once organized
and the preliminary work promptly begun.
The eonuneueement of the work will make
Florida a centre of interest in the monetary
world for many years to cotue, and its com
pletion will put us on one of the great high
ways of the world's eommeree,”
Orange CoHiiti / Jtejiorter: “Tlie steamer Ger
trude, Captain Tom Bass, has successfully
made the passage from Kissimmee down the
Kissimmee river, through Okeechobee, and
down the Caloosahatchie. she was the first
steamer to make Die trip through the new
canal. She took the Disston part'y, numlter
ing about twenty men. aud safely reached
Fort M vers on the Jsth. The success of this
first steamboat expedition practically solves
the queatiun of ware i' transportation from
Kissimmee to Punta Baisja. MTuilher Die
project of draining the lower |K>rtion of tlie
peninsula will prove equally successful is yet
to bo determined. An early Tiud practical
solution of this important problem is of great
importance to Die State of Florida as well as
to the gentlemen who are financially inter
ested iu it.”
Altoona -4 rju*: “On Monday evening last a
serious cutting and shooting affray occfirred
between two negroes, pill Jones and l'ink
Selmell. The tight betweeu them was a con
tinuation of a previous quarrel, in which
mutual threats were indulged in. On the
e'-euing named above Bill Jones was leaning
again.; t counter in Mr. W. M. Nettle’s store,
when Pink siphnell entered the store, passed
in front of Join-., ai.d without warning gave
him a fearful thrust in Uw ride with a knife.
Jones struck Selmell in turn with a weight,
aud draw ing his pistol pursued Sehnell. firing
tlire-o shots at him as he ran, the last shot tak
ing effect .a S**hnell’s left just above the knee.
The thrust receivsdby Jones was immediately
tinder the arm pit, and penetrated the lung.
For a time his life was despired of. .Sehnell s
wound is also a serious one. aud amputation
m av is- necessary. Sehnell was placed under
arrest, but owing to his serious condition was
not removed to jail .*’
Tlie editor of the Jasper County Xetct, an
swering some questions of an inquirer as to the
manner of dealing with the liquor question,
savs: “We should cease to lay the fault at the
thior of those who deal in intoxicating liquors,
and strike at the rd<>l of the evil by blotting
from our statutes every letter of law that
license* obu ritixen to take advantage of the
weakness of auother. W ell, says one. ‘how
are we to accomplish so much ' How can we
strike out that which law aud society has so
long tolerated)’ 1 answer, we must walk up
to the ballot box like men, and elect men
who w ill have nerve to change our statutes.
Down with the fatal delusion that
it wotjld be robbiug our people of liberty to
make ii penal offense to poison our fellow
man by degrees x iDi whisky. If the sale of
liquor "is a curse to mankind, we have just as
much right aud as good reason to restrict the
sale of it as we have to restrict the sale of
arsenic, should make no w ar'noon those
who engage in the manufacture and sale un
der tlie law that mikes U honorable, but we
should blot that law out of ekiafteueeaud then
make war on law breakers."
The Montieello Constitution has tills to say
iu reference to the agricultural products of Jef
fet-zou county: -The cotton crop of this county
for the >pr 1882 in all probability realized
$:e.000 in cash, and it is upon this crop almost
entirely our population rely for revenue to
meet cash excuses for twe?V£ months. Of
course tlie proceeds of the cotton crop are in
adequate to meet the necessary demands of
this farm, the laborer and the household, anil
the sotweonence is the planters, farmers and
everylHeij i*e are compiled to purchase
their supplies on credit, aud thus, year after
tear, we have a terriWa struggle to make ends
ineet. And yet we product, in tips county di
versified crops, the excess of which, over and
above w hat is necessarv for home eousutnn
tion if properly prepared and utilised, would
I,ring a cash revenue fully equal to that real
ized from the cotton crop. Take the one item
of svruu. The amount produced is enormous,
„e doubt whether twenty barrels ate
shinned out of the county, but if properly
prepared u Would be in demand in ali the At
antie cities ut fJK.-y prices* A year or two
ago a leading merchant of this town was a,l
vued by u proniiuent fliifcliintof :i Northern
citv that if be could ship him five tbousand
barrels of first-class svrup, put up in bniform
packages and the quality guaranteed, at least
one dollar per gallon would be paid tor the
-ame. of course the merchant could give no
guarantee, for much of the syrup that
is manufactured is of such Inferior
aualitv that it will not even bear shipment to
Savannah. In fact, a few years ago we pur
a barrel of new syrup that soured
uiiiiin twentv-four hours after delivery.
Now if farmers would exercise care in the
manufacture of th* pane into svrup, making
it of uniform coiisisltucy an,l flavor there
would be no trouble in realuihfe .remunerative
prices. In all probability 5,000 barrels of
svrup, containing thirty gallons each, are or
be produced in this county, and say it will
net out; 50 cents per gallon it will yield a
revenue of tJX)O."
Weather Indication*.
Office Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., Feb. ‘Jb.—lndica
tions for Tuesday:
Jn the South Atlantic States, generally
fair weather, northeast to northwest
winds, stationary or higher barometer in
the northern jtortions, and lower tenu
perature.
The People’s World-wide Verdict.
Buruett’s Cocoaine has been sold in
everv civilized country, and the public
have rendered the verdict that it is the
purest and best Hair Dntsingxn the world.
Burnett’* Flavorlnc Extract*
axe invariably acknowledged the cheapest
and the best.
THE SENATE TARIFF BILL.
A FIGHT IN THE HOUSE FOR
NON-CONCURRENCE.
A Lat 6 Night Session—The Democrsts
Refuse to Vote, Leaving the House
Without a Quorum—Memorials to Con
tinue ihe Cotton Belt Observations—
A Small Deficiency Bill.
ashingtox. Feb. 26.—The day was
spent in the House, and the night up to 11
o’clock, in a Republican attempt to have
adopted their proposed new rule
by which the Senate tariff bill
can only be taken up for non
concurrence and reference to the confer
ence committee. It would allow no con
sideration of the motion to concur with
the Senate. There was strict Democratic
opposition all along the line, and they were
determined that such a rule should not be
adopted if they could help it. There were
roll calls and points of order almost innu
merable. Finally the. Republicans to
night succeeded in having the previous
question ordered, and the Democrats then
refused to vote upou the passage
of the rule. This left the House without a
quorum. A call of the House was ordered,
and finally adjournment was had, w ithout
any material progress being made by the
Republicans. There were very few live
ly passages during the day and
night. It was one of the quietest
days of obstinate Congressional fight
ing on Hook
er is hunting up the absent Re
publicans, so that there may be a quo
rum, even with the Democrats refusing to
vote. lie says lie will have such a quo
rum here by to-morrow night.
senate proceedings.
In the Senate, -Mr. Butler presented the?
resolutions of the South Carolina Ja'gisla
turejin relation to the repeal of the 10 per
cent, tax on State banks.
Mr. Pendleton presented a memorial of
the Cotton Exchange of Cincinnati asking
for a continuance of the appropriations
for tlie Signal Service cotton belt observ
ations.
The President laid before the "Senate a
communication from the Secretary of the
Treasury in relation to the direct" tax on
sales in the Southern States.
The House bill to prevent the importa
tion of adulterated tea was passed.
Mr. Morgan presented a memorial of the
General Assembly of Alabama asking aid*
for the construction of the Gulf and Chi
cago Air-Line Railroad.
Messrs. Jonas, Jackson, Maxev aud
Morgan presented resolutions of the Cot
ton Exchanges of New Orleans, Memphis,
Galveston and Mobile in favor of continu
ing tlie appropriation for the Signal Ser
vice cotton belt observations.
At the conclusion of the morning hour,
the Fourth of July claims bill was passed,
and the Senate proceeded to the consid
eration of the pension bills. Several indi
vidual pension bills were passed.
Anew conference upon the (tost office
appropriation bill was ordered, M iih ihe
re|)it Irom tlie Pension Committee still
under consideration, the Senate adjourned.
IIOLSE PROCEEDINGS.
In the House, on motion of Mr, Ket
ehain, of New York, the Senate amend
ments to the District of Columbia appro
priation bill was iion-concurred in, ami
new conferees were appointed. The same
action was taken iu regard to the legisla
tive appropriation bill.
Mr. Caswell, of Wisconsin, submitted
the conference report on Die post office ap
propriation bill.
After a long debate tin* report was dis
agreed to, and new a conference was or
dered.
The Appropriations Committee reported
the deficiency appropriation bill. Printed
and recommitted. This is said to be the
smallest deficiency bill ever reported. The i
amount of deficiency for 18S3 is $485,113,
and the total of the bill is $2,037,989. The
principal amounts are for old claims an- !
ditetl by the accounting officer of the 1
Treasury aud for back pay and bounties I
to soldiers.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs called
up the Senate joint resolution providing :
for the termination of articles numbeml
from 18 to 27> and article 3 of the treaty
lie tween the United States and Great
Britain, concluded at 'Washington May 8,
1871, Passed without debate.
The tax and tariff bill was returned to
the Senate by request for the correction
of a clerical error, an omission of tae !
committee, in one of the amendments to !
tlie iron schedule, which omission had i
the effect of increasing the duties upon I
the classes of iron affected instead of de- j
creasing them. After correction the bill |
was returned, and went up to tlie Speak- i
er’s table.
Notwithstanding that this is the last
Monday in the session, there were ninety
four measures introduced under the call
of States, and referred. Among them the
following:
By M r Wheeler, of Alabama—To grant
land to Alabama to aid in the construe- ;
tion of the Memphis, Atlanta and Savan
nah Railroad Company; also, to refund
the cotton tax.
By Mr. Bisbce, of Florida—To incorpo
rate the Pensacola anil Perdido Canal
Company.
By Mr. Hobinson, of New York—A reso
lution calling on the Secretary of State for
information as to whether the officers of ,
the British steamship Republic, within a
few days past, held an immigrant under :
arrest until they sent for the British j
Consul and held it pretended trial before
allowing said immigrant to land; also a
joint resolution for the relief of England,
the lienelit of Ireland, aud tlie glory of tlie
United States. [Laughter.j
It recites at length the present condi
tion of Ireland: declares that her people
are panting frfr Republicanism; asserts
that Ireland is more necessary to the !
United States than much of her" present \
territory, and would rival the great State ;
of New York In wealth, intelligence anti j
culture, and requests the President to !
ojien communication with the Govern
ment of Great Britain tp obtain its con
stmt for the restoration of Ireland to tlie j
United States by purchase or otherwise.
The new rule "reported from the Com- '
inittee oi) Rules on Saturday providing a j
means for taking up wi any tiiffe tip* tax j
and tariff bill for the sole purpose of non- i
concurrence in the Senate amendment was
then called up.
Mr. Blackburn raised a point of order
against it. Mr. Carlisle raised the ques- i
tion of consideration upon the latter ques
tion. The House voted 134 to 126 to con
sider the new rule, known as the lleed |
resolution. This was done by a party j
vote, except that Messrs. Boyne. Brumm,
Darrell, Miller, Jorgenson, Prescott and
Scrantop voled in the negative,
With the Democrats, Before the
announcement' ’ Messrs. Campbell. Fish
er, Uruef and Robinsof) of
Ohio, who had voted in the negative, and ;
Mr. Hardenbergh, who had voted in the i
affirmative, changed their votes. Mr.
Tucker, of Virginia, also changed his j
vote to the affirmative, for tlie purpose |
of moving a reconsideration. These
changes made the total vote as above j
stated.
Mr. Reed moved to lay the motion to re- j
consider on the table, and the yeas and j
nays were ordered. The motion was |
tabled—yeas 136, nays 121.
Mr. Heed demanded the previous ques
tion.
Mr. Blackburn raised a point of order
against the resolution, and he and his
Democratic brethren occupied tlie remain
der of the afternoon in its discussion.
The Speaker finally overruled the point
of order. * I
Mr. Blackburn appealed, and Mr. Reed
moved to lay the appeal on the table. On
this mofiou the yeas and nays were order- |
ed. As it now wanted but tive minutes to j
the hour for recess, that time was con- j
sinned iu a confused aud unsuccessful j
effort to obviate a uight session, but at
5:30 o’clock the House took a recess until i
7:30 p. m.
At the evening session Mr. Blackburn’s {
appeal from the ruling of the Sj>eaker
(coming over from the afternoon session), i
was tabled by a vote of 116 to 95.
• Mr. Reed demanded the previous ques- I
sion. , ,
Mr. Carlisle inquired whether Mr. Reed
would permit an amendment t 6 -be offered
which would give the House an opportu- 1
nitv to vote to concur or non-concur in
the" Senate amendments to the internal ;
revenue bill.
Mr. Reed —No, sir.
Tlie previous question was ordered— t
yeas 121, nays 105.
Mr. Carlisle opposed tlie resolution m a
brief speech, and moved to recommit the
resolution to the Committee on Rules,
with instructions to that committee that
if it were again reported to the House it
should be so amended that the House
might be permitted to vote to concur or
non-concur in the Senate amendmen ts.
Mr. Reed raised a point of order against
this motion, which was sustained, and nn
appeal agrinst this decision tabled—l2s to
Mr, Cox then spoke in opposition to Mr.
Reed's rule, and was followed by Mr.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1883.
House, of Tennessee. The latter began
with the quotation, “Whom the gods wish
to destroy they first make mad.” [Deri
sive laughter on the Republican side.]
At 10:30 the House was still in session,
with no indication of an early adjourn
ment.
A vote was taken on the adoption of
Mr. Reed's resolution, and resulted, yeas
120, nays 20, the Democrats generally re
fraining from voting. The following is
the negative vote: Bayne, Beach, Camp
bell, Ermentrout, Darrall, Fisher, Ford,
Hardenbergh, Harmer, Haseltine, Ladd,
Miller, Morse, Rice of Massachusetts,
Ritchie, Speer, Walker, Whitthorne, Wil
son, and Wise of Pennsylvania.
A point of “no quorum” was raised, and
a call of the House was ordered, disclos
ing the presence of 225 members. All fur
ther proceedings under the call were.dis
pensed with, and at 10:55 o’clock the mo*
, tion to adjourn was carried.
NOMINATIONS.
The President to-day nominated S. G.
W. Benjamin as Minister Resident anti
Consul General of Die United States at
Teheran, Persia; Wickham Hoffman,
Minister Resident and Consul General of
the United States-to Denmark; Lucius
11. Foote, Envoy Extraordinary and Min
ister Plenipotentiary of the United States
to Corea; Dwight T. Reed, Secretary of
Legation and Consul General of the United
States at Madrid.
POSTMASTERS CON FIRMED.
The Senate to-day confirmed the follow
ing Postmasters: Jno, Deaton at Brook
haven, Miss,; W. 1). Mearns at Lake
Charles, La.; S. T. Bidder at Fernandina,
Fla.; Liman Philips at Sanford, Fla.
THE WESTERN OVEKFGOW.
Plantations Seriously IXaiaagetl—Work
ing to Save the Levee* Railroad
Travel Suspended.
New Orleans, Feb. 26.—A Vicksburg
special to tlie Picayune says: “The lllay
warra crevasse is now fully a mile long,
and has overflowed a large numlier of
plantations. The water from it will cover
at least over half of the open land on the
westside of Madison parish. The crevasse
above Providence is also, doing serious
damage to plantations in East Carroll, and
much apprehension is felt for the safety
of levees on both sides of the river. The
bridge across Bavou pier, on the Jackson
and Natchez Railroad, lias been washed
away, impeding travel.”
The latest news from the levees between
New Orleans and Greenville, Miss., show
that the government. State and parochial
officials, aided by the planters, are
making strenuous efforts to com
plete and hold all the levees in
tact, with good prospects of success.
Since the river is rising but slowly at
Greenville and points below, all the levees
above Vicksburg on the Mississippi side
tire now considered safe. Large forces
are at work at the threatened points on
tlie Louisiana side, and with favorable
weather for ten days, all will lie completed.
N ICKsburg, Feb. 20.—The water from
the cFevasse continues rising ou the rail
road between the Delta and Monroe. No
train will pass over the road after to-mor
row.
THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE.
The Capital Removal Bill Defeated In
the Assembly.
Tallahassee, Feb. 26.—The following
bills were introduced iu tlie Senate:
By Mr, Crill —To provide for investment
by the Board of Education of moneys of
the common school fund.
By Mr. Crill—To provide for lending the
common school fund on promissory notes,
etc., secured by mortgage.
By Mr. Pope—To regulate the fees and
costs of certain county officers.
The following bills were introduced in
the Assembly:
By Mr. Gaskins—To incorporate the
Fernandina aud Amelia Beach Railroad
Company.
By Mr. Harris—To provide for enlarg
ing and completing tlie scientific appa
ratus of the East and West Florida Semi
naries.
The Dill for removing the capital to
Gainesville was defeated in the Assembly.
The Assembly was engaged in the dis
cussion of the public and county printing
Dills, and voted to restore the East Flori
da Seminary to Ocala by a vote of thirty
three to twenty-eight.
The Senate dispatched a large amount
of routine business. Both are houses hold
ing night sessions
THE FIRE RECORD.
A Town Destroyed—Mills Burned—A
Servant Girl and Ttiree Children Roast
ed-Attempts to Fire a Penitentiary.
Yazoo City, Miss., Feb. 26.—A fire at
Vaughan’s last night destroyed the entire
town, excepting. Birmiuhatn's Hotel and
the depot. The heaviest losers are Tucker
<k Sharp, John Mori arty and Sharp,
Tucker & Cos., general merchants. They
were all partially insured.
St, Lofis. Feb. 20. The mills of the St.
Joseph Lead Company, at Bonne Terre,
St. Francois county, Missouri, were
totally burned yesterday, with a large
amount of valuable machinery. The loss
is $200,000t0 $250,000; insurance unknown.
The mills *.vere chieflv owned in New
York. Several hundred men are deprived
of employment.
Two more attempts to burn the Mis
souri penitentiary were made yesterday.
They were discovered in time to prevent
any damage.
Detroit, Feb. 26.—The residence of
Peter Denner, at Montague, was burned
this morning. A hired girl named Mary
Burr and three children, aged live and
three years and one week, perished in
the flames. Mrs. Denner barely* escaped
froth her sick lied in her bare feet.
THE FRENCH PRINCES.
A Denial from Jerome Napoleon—De-
Chartres’ Farewell Order to His Men.
Paris, Feb. 26.—Prince Jerome Napo
leon, iu an interview, said lie was not a
pretenijer. If the nation elected Grevy or
any one else as the head of the govern
ment the Prince would be one of his most
loyal subjects. Prince Jeroute com
plained that lie was watched by spies.
He lias sent bis most valuable property to
England, anticipating flight thither.
M. Ribolard and another Republican
Deputy have given notice that they will
introduce a bill providing that" non
activity of officers of the army under the
laws of 1834 can be decreed only after a,
report in favor thereof by a court martial.
l>uc de Chartres, who "has been placed
on the retired list, has vacated his com
mand as Colonel of Chasseurs at Rouen.
In his farewell order he enjoined the
Officers anil men jo support his successor,
and prove by their zeal, devotion and obe
dience to the laws that the lessons he hud
taught them had been inspired by a sense
of honor and of love of their couutry.
THE AUGUSTI.VIAN' SOCIETY'.
Attachments Pouring In—The Society
to be Forced into Insolvency.
Lawrence, Feb. 26.—Attachments
continue to be placed on the property of
the Augustinian Society, despite the im
plied threat of the Executive Committee
that ut) subscription will be called fbr un
less the suits already entered are discon
tinued and none others instituted. Three
attachments have been served on Arch
bishop Williams, of Boston, who, e.raijfirio,
controls the Catholic Church property of
this diocese. It seems now as though the
Augustinian Society will be forced into
insolvency. The subscriptions thus far
towards relieving the indebtedness
amount to $3,300. Special attachments
have alsQ been made on the real estate re
cently conveyed by the society to Michael
Carney. X’eter Halihan, James McAvoy
and J. D. Mahoney.
Calderon Treating with Chili.
Panama Feb. 18.—The rumor is con
firmed that Garcia Calderon is treating
iu Chili ‘with Allamirano, and strong
hopes are entertained that an arrange
ment will be arrived at which can subse
quently be ratified by the Congress to be
held at Lima.
A True Bill for Arson.
Milwaukee, Feb. 26.—The grand jury
iu the Newhall House case agreed this
afternoon on a true bill against Scheler,
the tormep lessee of the barroom in the
hotel, indicting him for arson. Tlail was
fixed at SIO,OOO.
A Leaky Ygssel,
London, Feb, 26.—/The Vigilant, from
Berwick for Coosa, S, C„ has taken ref
uge at Spitbead in a leaky condition. The
crew refused to proceed in the vessel.
Durkee’s Salad Dressing, a ready-made,
rich and delicious dressing for all salads
of meat, fish or vegetables. Cheaper and
infinitely better than home-made. No
sauce equal to it,
| ‘TM TELLING THE TRUTH.”
WITNESS KERDELL A SELF-CON
FESSED I4AR.
r!r
What Colonel Ingersoll’* Cross-Exami
nation Elicited in the Star Route Trial
Yesterday—A Continuation of the Dis
graceful Story—Why Rerdell Changed
His Mind—The Dominant Feeling.
Washington, Feb. 26.—1n the star
route trial to-day, after allowing Rerdell
an opportunity to make some corrections
in the testimony given on Friday, his
cross-examination was resumed by Mr.
Ingersoll. Witness said he was satisfied
he did not tell Carpenter or Dor
sey's counsel that he had made his
affidavit (that of June, 1881,) voluntarily.
He did not remember telling him that
Dorsey had used him badly. He may
have told him that he had written the
memorandum shown to MacVeagh, aud
that he could closely imitfit Dorsey’s hand
writing. He may have! told that there
were no books such as described by James.
May have told French In 1881, at Dorset 's
house, that he had conceived a plan "of
acting as detective towards James and
Mac\ eagh. May also have told him that
he was trying to get th* government to
offer hint a money consideration to go
on the stand, he to furnish them with
documentary evidence written by himself,
but purporting to be in Dorsey’s hand
writing, and that he would then expose
them. It was more than probable that he
told French he could imitate Dorset's
writings, so that Dorsey himself could not
detect it. It was very likely he told
French, that after he got the note from
MacVeagh he got so excited over the suc
cess of his plan that he told Dorsey, for
the lirwt time, what he had
been doing, and that Dorsey told
him to stop at once. He also told him
that when Busier had conferred with Dor
sey they had agreed to allow him to con
tinue his plot. He had no doubt that he
told French there were no books, and that
lie had exhibited to James a shirt wrap
ped up in paper.
Speaking of copies of the original books,
witness said he was inclined to believe
that he carried them over to New Y'ork in
the summer of 1880, when the last settle
ment was made between Dorsey and
Bosler. Witness became confused
on this point, and when Mr.
Ingersoll began to laugh, he resent
fully exclaimed: “Y'ou need not
laugh at me; lam telling the truth.” If
he had told Dorsey anything about tlie
book he brought" from New Y'ork at
MacVeagh’s request it was that he didn’t
get it. His object was obvious—he was
concealing tlie book.
Mr. Ingersoll—ln that affidavit ( June,
1881,) did Dorsey put down that state
ment, that there was no such book, know
ing it to be a lie?
Answer (emphatically)—He did, most
assuredly.
Question —And you swore to it. know
iug the same thing"?
Answer—l did.
Mr. Ingersoll wanted to know ltow he
had explained his action to Dorsey, and
how he hud justified the furnishing "of evi
dence against him.
Witness said he was satisfied that Dor
sey was in a b;ul state before that time,
as tlie newspapers were getting closer to
the facts and it looked bad.
Mr. Ingot soli suddenly referred to the
affidavit of July 18, 1882.aud asked witness
how it was, then, that more than a year
after his revelations to ]aines he "had
changed his mind so as to belieVe that
Dorsey had done no illegal aot,
Answer—At that, time, in the reotn I
was—(pausing)—
“Agitated,” cynically suggested Mr.
Ingersoll.
gj'-I did not remember anything particu
larly wrong,” continued the witness.
He went on to tell how Dorsey bad ap
pealed to hitn in the name of his wife and
children to retract his statement.
Ingersoll—Did lie say anything about
your wife?
“No,” said the witness, bitterly, “I
don’t suppose he let my wife and children
cross hits mind.”
Ingersoll—He tjjd not show that un
selfish leeling that you did?
Witness had conceived the idea of sav
ing Dorsey on the occasion of his first in
terview with MacVeagh, still he would
acknowledge that self-preservation was
the dominant feeling in his mind.
PARNELL’S AMENDMENT.
A Violent Attack on the Irish Execu
tive-More Men to Fill the Gap* in the
Ranks of the invincible*.
Lon don, Feb. 26.— 1n the House of Com
mons to-day Mr. Parnell moved his
amendment to the address to the reply to
the Crown, attacking the Exqputive in
Ireland for the administration of the
crimes act. Tlie language of the amend
ment is very violent. It refers to unjust
executions. In moving the amendment
Mr. Parnell said if there has been any
reduction in the number of outrages in
Ireland, it is only because the
people are being kept down by the brutal
and terrible coercion act, administered
in a brutal and terrible way.
He pointed to the fact that hardly any
person arrested under the Curfew clause
had been convicted, and proceeded to
show that the power of arrest had been
abused. He complained of the conduct of
the Irish Judges, who, he said, were
mostly appointed for political purposes,
and were therefore unfit to try political
cases. When the people saw that the juries
were packed, and that the Judges had
turned Crown prosecutors, all sympathy
with law and order was destroyed and the
people inevitably became the abettors of
crime. If the government, after the
Plnenix Park murders were committed,
had relied on the sympathy of
the people instead of upon a
tyrannical act, Ireland would have
been pacified. He protested against
the proclanuitian of meetings and the
prosecution of the press. Freedom of
speech, he said, did not exist iu Ireland.
In the Haynes and other murder cases the
juries were composed almost entirely of
Protestants, Castle tradesmen pr ac
quaintances of Earl Spencer, the
Lord Lieutenant, and the adminis
tration of the law was detested by
everybody. He defied the government to
continue to govern Ireland without the
sympathy of the people. The amendment
of the land act was urgent, though even
that would not quench the spirit of Irish
nationality. He believed Mr. Chamber
lain was one of the few English members
who correctly appreciated the Irish ques
tion. [This remark was greeted with
ironical cheers.]
Mr. Parnell said the government has
now the opportunity to restore peace and
order in Ireland. He was confident of
victory, having a million of Irish in
America behind hitn.
Andrew Porter, Attorney General for
Ireland, replied, condemning the bringing
of charges without evidence and appealed
to the House whether Parnell’s argu
ment justified his atrocious charges
against the government. He then pro
ceeded to rebut the charge of jury pack
ing. He explained that there were more
Protestants than Catholics upon juries,
because the Protestants constituted a ma
jority of the whole panel. Earl Spencer,
he said, would no more think of interfer
ing with the trials in Ireland than he
would those in English courts.
Parnell’s amendment was rejected by a
vote of 130 to 7>2.
Dublin, Feb. 26.—The police, it is
known, have obtained information that
the names of six men have already been
enrolled to fill the gaps in the ranks of the
Irish Invincibles, made by the arrest of
its members for murder in Dublin.
MUTUAL UNION TELEGRAPH CO.
Application Granted to Bring Suit for
Vacation of Charter.
New York, Feb. 26.—Judge Barrett, in
the Supreme Court to-day, gave his decis
ion on the application made some time
ago by Attorney General Russell for leave
to bring action in the name of the people
on the relation of Win. 11. Cameron and
Jay Gould against the Mutual Union Tel
egraph Company to vacate the charter of
that corporation. The court grants the
application because tlie facts justified it,
and public interest demanded the bring
ing of the action.
Folk’* Case Continued.
Nashville, Tf.xn., Feb. 26.—The case
of ex-Treasurer Polk was called in the
Criminal Court to-day, but was contintied
owing to the illness of the prisoner.
Cqtton Mill* Destroyed.
Berlin, Feb. 26.—The extensive cotton
mills of Kamsersmutchle, with 12,000
looms, has been burned,
Being made from fibrous material, the
Celluloid Eye Glasses will outlast ten pair
of rubber. The lenses are the best known
to science.
For sale by all leading Jewelers and
Opticians,
THE EMPIRE STATE.
Chautauqua Dairy Farms—Scientific
Butter Making Cheese Factories
Georgia's I'nreaped Advantages.
Freeoxia. N. 1., Feb. 24.—1n a recent let
ter I made some reference to the dairy inter
ests of this region, and in this I will try and
give you an idea of the magnitude of this in
dustry, the general details of butter and cheese
making, and the management of a dairy farm.
These farms in Chautauqua eonntv range in
size from fifty to two hundred and fifty acres,
maintaining a dairy of from ten to fifty cows
each. The buildings of a dairy farm, aside
from the substantial aud generally genteCl
dwelling, consist of an immense barn or group
of barns for the storage of the vast quantity of
hay and grain necessary io* Hie sustenance of
the stock during a Northern winter, a long,
low cow stable, a horse and carriage barn, a
large pig stye, a dairy or milk house, w ith
other minor structures.
The size and capacity of these barus for a
thirty or fifty cow dairy, together with the
young stock that is growing up to replace the
old cows that are turned off vearlv, mav he
judged from the fact that it 'is calculated to
require two tons of hay to the cow for winter
feed, which is raised on the farm and harvest
ed and stored in the barn during the midsum
mer months of each year. Aside from this is
the straw from the production of several hun
dred bushels of oats, the fodder-stalks, aud all
from several acres of corn, all of which is care
fully housed.
Tlie “horse barn,” which is a distinct insti
tution of every well regulated f rm, is gener
ally about 24 by 30 feet upon the ground,
two stories high and commonly constructed of
dressed lumber, well painted and provided
with glazed windows. The most common
form for a cow stable or milking barn is a !
long, low structure about thirty feet wide 1
something like a substantially enclosed cotton ;
shed, and lias a heavy plank floor.
Extending along down the length of either !
side of the interior is a row of stanchions, iu
which the cows are securely fastened side hy
side, each row facing the outer wall. This
leaves an o)>en space or passageway (low n
through the centre of the stable, with a row
of cows on cither hand, tails toward you.
Iu this region cattle have to lie warmlv
housed, aud their entire supply of food fur
nished them from the middle of October or
first of November until after the first and
often until the middle of Mav, there Wing pe
riods of (lays’ aud even weeks’ duration that
the severity of tlie weather will not admit of
the cattle being turned from the stable only
long enough for their daily drink, water being
generally provided for this purpose in the vard
close to the stable. *
The milking season, during which time only
these cows are a source of production or profit
is limited, in the main, to the period between
the Ist of April and tlio Ist of November The
average production for the season is two hun
dred pounds of butter per cow. Occasional
extra good cows will, when grain fed, pro
<iuf*e three hundred pounds aud even more,
during the reason. The average price oh
taiued by the producer lias, during the past
few years, been about twenty-eight cents per
pound. Where cheese instead of butter is
made the same quantity of milk it is calcu
lated will produce twice as manv pounds of
the former as of the latter, and maintains it
self in the market at about half the price of
butter. The average yield of milk by the
regular stock cow-s of this region is not less
than five or six gallons per day during the
Wst of the season—say from tin* Ist of
May until the Ist of August, after which
the yield gradually falls off. There is proba
bly not, however, a regular dairy in this coun
ty that does not contain one or more cows
that will average eight gallons of milk per
day during the period named. This I know
will seem incredible to the stockmen of tlie
wire grass region of Georgia. It is, neverthe
less, a substantial fact.
The cows are secured in the stable night and
morning during the summer while being
milked.
The dairy house, or building w herein the va
rious manipulations of the milk in the process
of blitter making take place, is a long, narrow,
airy structure with a profusion of windows,
and setting well up from the- ground to give
free ventilation. For the larger dairies these
buildings are commonly about 15 feet by 40
feet, and one low story in height.
About tea feet of the front end is
partitioned oil' as a work-room in
whioh to wasli the multitudinous utensils
in daily use, ami In which stands the im
mense pow er churn used in transforming the
cream into butter.
Through the rear or milk room extends an
intricate network of racks upon which rest
tier upon tier of long rows of circular tin
pans, each containing almut a gallou of the
lacteal fluid, which is allowed to stand thus
until it has soured, when the thick laver of
rich cream is removed and placed iu cans in
the cooling room preparatory to churning.
Tlie churns used in these large'dairies have a
capacity of fromilfty to seventy-live pounds
to the churning. The power most commonly
used is the endless tread, operated by a large
•heep or dog. Kora dairv* of thirty cow-s,
liftv dozen tin pans are required.
These dairy house*and utensils are kept as
neat and clean as anew pin, the wood work
and floors scoured as white as pine and ash
can be made, aud the hundreds of tin pans
made to shine like silver. In fact, the most
absolute cleanliness is necessary in order to
produce an article of butter that will grade as
“ltrst-elass” in this market, for milk and
cream are very ready absorbents of foul
Vapors or odors. A flavor once acquired re
mains to the end, and in this region of gilt
edge blitter every man is an epicure so far as
relates to that article, the regular dealers
acquiring a specially sensitive taste. Butter
that has been properly manipulated comes
trom the dairy Arm and solid, and when cut
or spread upon a pl%ce of cold bread has a
crisp well deflued grain, a clear golden color,
and is as sw'eet as the dew on a red clover
blossom.
The purported Goshen butter of the Georgia
market that came under the writer’s notice
while in that State, was about as much like
the genuine article of this region, as cotton
seed oil, is like ice cream. It is probable, how
ever, that the best New York butter w-onld
not retain its good qualities in that climate,
exposed to tlie healed atmosphere of the mar
ket stalls and grocer shops. Great care lias
to be exercised in 'this climate in summer, or
the butter becomes frowy and salvv. Cold
well water and ice are used freely, besides
which every dwelling has a deep cool cellar
under it. walled with rock and haviug cement
or flagstone floor, where butter is stored dur
ing summer, and kept submerged in strong
brine. For marketing, butter is packed solid
ly in oaken tubs that will contain tlfty pounds,
or firkins that will contain one hundred
pounds each.
The sour milk, after the cream has been re
moved, goes into a large storage tank con
nected with the feed troughs of the adjacent
pig-stye, and affords tlie occupants thereof
their sole feed during tlie summer, turning
out enormous hogs and very choice pork in the
fall. These hogs arc kept closelv penned
all of the time, their pens commonly having
plank floors, so that they never get to the
ground at all. They are fed three times a day
with all of the thick sour milk—termed
“swill”—they will drink, ami they are very
fond of it, growing very rapidly anil becoming
so heavy aud fat toward fall, oftentimes, that
their legs will not support their weight. They
are fed on corn for a month or six weeks be
fore killing, which makes their meat more
solid.
The Georgia planter will accept with a re
servation the statement that hogs thus fed are
made to drees from 250 to 450 pounds of clean
pork when from eight to eleven months old.
It is, however, the case.
All hog meat is cured in brine or pickle in
this region, no bacon lieing made or used. In
fact, a New-YqfH-raised man’s stomach can
never be trained to contemplate a dish of
Georgia side “bacon and greens" with any
degree of equanimity, as the writer knows
from several months of bitter experience.
As it is impossible to make as good an arti
cle of butter during the hot weather of mid
summer as during the spring and fall months,
bringing the price correspondingly lower, a
majority of the dairymen send their milk to
the cheese factory during that period, many
in fact doing so throughout the season.
These factories are in almost every neigh
borhood, and have a patronage of from 600 to
I, cows eaoh. The dairymen deliver their
milk at the factory every morning, where it is
weighed and the amount credited to them,
and returns are made when the cheese is sold
on the basis of one pound of cheese for everv
ten and a half pounds of milk, the patron pay
ing about one cent a pound for the making."
The difference iu tne economy and class of
labor North and South is forcibly illustrated
in the fact that on a farm of 250 acres, having
a dairy of fifty cows that have to be milked,
the milk ami butter eared for, corn, oats
and hay raised and boused to feed all of
this stock during - the winter, potatoes,
fruit and garden truck, ami often the wheat
for the support of the family, the labor is gen
erally performed by the farmer and one lured
man out of doors, and the wife and one hired
girl indoors, with perhaps an extra hand dur
ing baying time. 'Farmers’ wives in thi#dairy
country employ no nurses for their children,
often having a half dozen youngsters to care
Tor aside from her other heavy work. The
milking of fifty cows night and morning,
where they will average two and a half gal
lons each, is no trilling task for four persons.
Two or three horses at the outside are made
to perform the team labor of one of these
farms.
After the foregoing illustration of the
proportion of labor performed to the number
of laborers employed, it is scarcely neeessarv
to add that the colored man does not consti
tute a factor in the labor system of this sec
tion. Asa source of wealth to Chautauqua
county the dairy interest preponderates all
others. The exact statistics of the cqunty are
not before me, but there ase at least 30,000
and probably nearly double that number,
but we will say .30,000—cows in the regularly
classified dairies, producing 6,000,000 pounds
of butter, or its equivalent in cheese, having a
market value of $1,500,000, This is not in ex
cess of the dairy products of this county, and
is probably very far below it.
In the State' are 1,437,855 milch cows; an
equal division among the counties, giving this
county about 25,000, whereas it has more than
double the average.
Aside from milch cows, there are in the
State 89,6330xen. and862,233 other cattle; 610,-
358 horses. 1,715,180 sheep. 751,907 hega.
In 1880 there was raised in this State 37,575,-
506 bushels of oats, 25,375,480 bushels of coru,
11. bushels of wheat, and a large amount
of buckwheat and barlev.
There is no reason why Northern Georgia
should not excel Western New York iff dairy,
frain and fruit products. You have the ad
antage of both a more generous sqil and
genialclimfite; in fact, the natural advantages
of all that portion of the State as far south as
Cuthbert and west of Macon and the South
western Railroad, are far ahead of the most
favored portions of Western New York, if its
advantages were properlv grappled with,
A. G. P.
J. J. Daniel, Mclntosh, Ga„ says;
“Brown’s Iron Bitters cured my sister of
dyspepsia and general debility.”
SHERIDAN’S EXTRADITION
THE DEMAND OF THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT.
The Warrant for His Arrest FUce<l i„
the Hands of the British Minister by
the Secretary of State—What Sheridan
Has to Say and What He Intends to
Do.
M ashixgton, Feb. 26.—The Secretary
of State has, upon application of the Brit
ish Government, issued a warrant for the
arrest of P. J. Sheridan, suspected of com
plicity in the Phoenix Park murder, and
it has been placed iu the hands of Mr.
West, British Minister.
A dispatch from New York savs:
“Sheridan was to-day at his desk in the
oniee of the Irish World, in the rooms of
the editorial staff, ot which he is a mem
ber. He at first refused to answer anv of
the reporters’ questions, hut finally said:
*1 am glad the British Government have j
asked for my extradition, and am anx
toils to appear in court, as it will give me j
an opportunity to show the world how .
we are treated iu Ireland. I think that I
will defend myself in this matter. I am
nqt the least bit frightened, and intend to j
remain just where I am, as 1 do not fear i
the result.’”
“in unswer to further questions, Sheri
dan said that he arrived in this country
on October 19 from Paris, The previous
year he had resided in different parts of
the Continent. lie has been employed in
the_ office of the Irish World since his
arrival here. He denounced in bitter
terms Town Councillor Carey, whose
testimony he stigmatized as* blasphe
mous.”
A TALK WITH I\,J. SHERIDAN.
He Denies Certain Statements Made by
Carey, the Informer.
The Irish World publishes an interview
with P. J. Sheridan, the man whom Carey,
the informer, designated as the organizer
of the “Invincibles.” Mr. Sheridan, it ap
pears, has been in this country for sev
eral months, and is now on the editoi-ial
staff of the Irish World, of New York.
Carey, in his testimony before the Police
Magistrate in Dublin, said he had been in
troduced to Sheridan at tlie Angel Hotel,
in Dublin, where the latter ap
peared in the garb of a priest. In
reply to that statement, Mr. Sheridan
says: “I never met the man in my
life. His references to an interview with
me in the Angel Hotel, Dublin, and his
statement about my promising to forward
him some arms from London are sheer
fabrications, and convince me that his
story lias been concocted in Dublin
Castle, and that Carey, in order to save
his miserable neck, volunteered to swear
to it in the witness box.” Mr. Sheridan
admitted that he bad found it necessary
to travel in Ireland disguised as a priest,
as an order had been issued for his
arrest. “I assumed,” said Air. Sheri
dau, “the disguise a priest, and went
to Ireland, first, for tlie purpose of
arranging for the recovery of some prop
erty of which I had been robbed during
imprisonment and exile; and, second, for
the purpose of putting down agrarian
acts and upholding the ‘no rent, mani
festo’ by the process of social ostracism,
that being, in my opinion, the most po
tent as well as tlie most moral weapon
within tlie people’s reach.” Mr. Sheri
dan had no doubt that if himself and
other active met; had been allowed
to move about as usual among the
people society would he spared the hor
rible exhibitions, or most of them, that
followed, Forster ruled otherwise, aud
on hitn, and him alone, rests the responsi
bility. Maamstrasna, Gurteen, Bullina,
the Plncnix Park, and like tragedies
throughout Ireland would be unheard of.
Asked bis opinion as to whether any of
tlie Land League funds had been used' for
promoting disorder in Ireland, he said
that such a presumption could onlv ema
nate from one or two sources, viz. Neither
a total ignorance of the Land League
policy and its leaders, or an ill
concealed desire to disparage both.
At the time that Mr. Forster
charged that he was engaged in
fomenting disorder he was occupied
in bringing succor to men, women and
children whom he (Forster) had left with
out a home or a morsel to eat. Asked if
he approved of shooting landlords in Ire
land, Air. Sheridan replied: “Well, that is
a very direct question. No, Ido not ap
prove of shooting a man simply because
he happens to be a landlord, nor am I
prepared to condemn a man who will
tight to the death to defend hi§ home and
save his family from destruction. Glad
stone himself has characterized an evic
tion as a sentence of death.”
In conclusion, Air. Sheridan said he had
no intention of leaving New York, and
that if any emissary of the British Gov
ernment wants him lie will find him at
his desk in the Irish World office. He
had no hopes for the prisoners in Ireland,
as the government had only to name its
victims and the informers will swear ac
cording to order. As to the future of Ire
land, he said: “There is one thing, how
ever, of which I have no doubt, and that
is that Ireland was never so determined
on the achievement of iter independence
and never so straight on tlie track to ob
tain it as she is at this hour.” '
LOVE LAUGHS AT LOCKSMITHS.
The Marriage of Mis* Kitty Kernochan
and Mr. Herbert Fell.
Xewport ( R. I.) Special, tSd.
The clandestine marriage in New Y'ork
yesterday of Alms Kitty Kernochan, of
Fifth Avenue, to Herbert C. Pell, the
broker, has created a great sensation here,
where the bride and groom are well
known. The young lady disapneared
from her home soon after lunch, aud later
sent a messenger to her parents with the
intelligence that she had been married in
the morning in St. Augustine’s Chapel,
East Houston street. Her present where
abouts are not known.
“Mr. Pell and Aliss Kernochan have
been acquainted,” said a friend ot the
family to-day, “about five years. Air.
Pell has not called at the house for several
yearsj however, and it has been-under
stood that Air. Kernochan forbade the
young lady to have any correspondence
with him. It was supposed that she had
complied strictly with the order. Air.
and Mrs. Kernochan are leaders in New
port society during the summer,
tfieir villa “Fair View,” qpe of the
finest ip the cify, being located on Alarine
avenue. Airs. Kernochan was a great
favorite, and no entertainment was con
sidered complete without iter presence.
She has in past seasons received many
marked attentions from distinguished
persons who visited Newport, and last
summer she was especially favored by
President Arthur. She was not only
pretty, but amiable and possessed of a
disposition which attracted many warm
friends.
Young Pell also spends his summers
here and was the especial protege of Air.
Lorillard, the uncle" of Miss Kernochan.
He is a very agreeable vouug fellow, but
without money. In the Kernoehan-Loril
lard family there has existed a serious
difference for some time. Kernochan is
trustee of the Lorillard estate. The trouble
originated in regard to the property, but
the breach in the family circle, now that
Lorillard’s most intimate friend has clan
destinely married Miss Kernochan, will
be wider than ever. •
Miss Kernochan was an only and much
idolized daughter. She followed the
hounds at every meet of the (Queen’s
County Hunt at this place, and invariably
was in at tlie death, as she was one of the
best cross-country riders in Newport.
Last summer she received a brush at the
hands of Air. Frederick Gebhard, master
of tlte hounds, and during the season also
received a mash arid other trophies. She
lias taken a brush every season since the
hunts were introduced here.
It is generally believed that Lorillard,
who is Mr. Pell’s special partner, was in
full sympathy with the elopement.
Fruitless Balloting,
Detroit Feb. 26.— 0n1y one ballot was
taken in the legislature for United
States Senator, thore being a large num
ber of absentees, with the following result:
Latbrop t Dem.) 27, Palmer 24, Stock
bridge 21, NVillits 9, Ferrv 2, and scatter
ing 4.
The Russian Mcsseiujer OJiciel publishes
a statistical account of the periodical
publications published in Russia up to the
end of last year. The total number is 776,
of which 197 are published iu St. Peters
burg and seventy-five in Aloscow. Of
these 272 publications in the two princi
pal cities, 249 are printed in Russian, one
in three languages—Russian, German and
French, nine in German, four in French,
two in Latin, two in Hebrew, one in Eng
lish, one in Polish, one in Finish, apd one
iu Armenian. There are nineteen daily
newspapers, fifteen weekly and sixty
three monthly publications issued iu St,
Petersburg, and twelve daily newspapers,
six weekly and twenty-two monthly pub
lications in Moscow. The largoat circu
lation of any paper i# about 71,000; the
next largest is 25,000, *
• Skinny Men.
‘•Wells’ Health Renewer” restores
health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Impo
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TALLAHASSEE TOPICS,
Th* Bill for the Relief of Pensacola In
ternational Railroad and Steamship
Company—The Firing of Woods, Etc.,
to Proceed—The Revenue Bill—Lauds
Sold for Taxes.
Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 24.— This session
has been productive of a swarm of relief
bills, some of which are on a scale of consid--
erable magnitude. That which passed both
houses sometime since to relieve the burden
of the various counties traversed by the
Florida Central and Western Railroad’ was
no small affair.
Another bill, of somewhat inferior Uimen
sions. has been presented iu the shape of a
bill for the relief of the city of Pensacola aud
its provisions areas follows:
At hkkeaS, By the original terms of the act
known as the internal improvement of the
Mate of Florida, aid to construct railroads
was limited to ironing and equipment of the
roads after the location and grudiug was ac
complished, and such aid was then also limit
ed t* the grant of alternate sections for six
miles ou either side of the roads con
structed thereunder, in so far as
the grants of lands were made; and whereas
the city of Pensacola, iu the years 1857 and
iSS3, in order to locate aud grade the Alabama
and r lorida Railroad, a road extending from
1 eusacola to a connection with the Mobile
and Montgomery, of Alabama, issued certain
bonds of said oily, which bonds have been re
funded. amounting to ($280,000) two hundred
and eighty thou*aud dollars; whereas,
bv the disasters and operations of the
late war, the Iron rails ami equipment
ot the road was taken awav and distributed
upon several roads, which action the authori
ties of the road were powerless to prevent, as
the .Mate *f Florida had consented to seces
sion, so that the use and behoof of said prop
erty was lost by said act or the state; and
whereas, by the operation of said internal
improvement aet and by other provisions of
law, large amount* of laud have been granted
for locating and grading other railroads
largely in excess of tlie pro rata amount re
ceived by the said Alabama and Florida Rail
road :
The People of the State Qf Florida, rep re
resented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section 1. That two hundred and fifty thou
sand acres of the indeiu n it v lands received or to
be received, or monies to be received from the
settlement of indemnity lands bv the State of
Florida, or from the United States, be and
they are hereby set apart for the pavnientof
the funded Ixmils of the citv of Pensacola,
which were issued in lieu of the original
bonds: Provided, That this shall not affect
lauds already sold.
The remainder of the bill applies to the ap
pointment of a trustee and the cancellation of
the bonds when redeemed.
The birthday of “the Father of his country”
was duly honored in both houses bv holding
three lengthy sessions, prolonged until after
10 u. m. Considerable work was effected also,
and the anniversary was anything but a
holiday.
General Gordon’s bill passed the Assembly
yesterday, and has been certified to the Sen
ate. The high character ot that distinguished
gentleman, as well as the strong financial
backing that he enjoys, give assurance to the
general lielief that, should the bill liecome a
law, work ou this important thoroughfare
will soon be commenced and carried rapidly
to completion. •
The title to the road is the International
Railroad and Steamship Company of Florida,
and among tlte names of the incorporators are
such men as John B. Gordon, Hugh J. Jew
ett, of New York; William L. Watson, of
England; Kd. Warren, of France; Hugh A.
Hat raison, of Alabama: Kolert AY. Hunter,
of A'irginia, and others.
The road is to run from a point on the Geor
gia line, at or near .lesup, as is supposed, to
Key AA est and Tan\pa ip this State, through
the entire peninsula. Its stock is not to ex
ceed the snip of fifteen millions of dollars, to
lie divided into shares of one hundred dollars
each. It is empowered to construct anil
operate a line of railroad to Tampa and Key
west, and to lay submarine telegraph lines
from those ports to foreign countries.
in aid of this project the company ask the
usual alternate sections of laud along tlie line
of the road and fifteen thousand acres per
mile of the swamp and overflowed lands, and
they ask that all the lands lying south of
the twenty-seventh parallel of north latitude
be withdrawn from sale. The usual privileges
are granted to actual settlers to purchase said
lands. The bill specifies that work is to lie
commenced within one year aud completed
within seveu years, and that no greater
passenger rare is to be charged than five cents
per mile.
An unfavorable report has been made upon
the bill to prevent the firing of woods, lauds
or marshes. It has already been settled bv
this Legislature that dogs are at liberty to kill
and mangle sheep with impunity, and now li
cense is given to anv one owning a half
starved cow to set the woods on tire for tier
benefit, heedless of the damage that may re
sult, and thousands of dollars in the wav of
fences, buildings, fruit trees and other Im
provements are aunpally destroyed bv this
barbarous practice,
The bill for the establishment of an insti
tute for the deaf, dumb and blind has passed
the senate. It enacts that suoh nn asvluin
shall be erected at a j>oint combining the
requisites af health, accessibility, etc., and
appropriates the sum of SIO,OOO for its mainte
nance for this and next year. It is pleasant to
think that there is at last a probability tiiat
this unfortunate class of sufferers are'to be
educated aud made useful members of society.
The trustees of the Agricultural College
Fund have been in session for the past two
or three days without effecting any imj>ortant
results. It is said that there ia quite a conflict
of opinion as to the location of the college,
and the disposition of the interest arising
from the fund.
A conflict of opinion has arisen between the
two houses on the bill regulating the sale of
spirits, wine or beer, by tfie County Commis
sioners, and a committee of conference has
been appointed to adjust the difference.
Tlte lengthy bill on tlie assessment and col
lection of revenue lias passed the Senate with
a considerable number of adverse votes, and
goes to the Assembly, where it will encounter
more or less opposition. Many contend that
tlie old bill was good enough for all practical
purposes, ami contained all the jirovisions
that were necessary.
Tlie tax bill Axes the State taxes for this and
tlie next year ut five mills, and authorizes the
Governor to reduce tlie tax for next year to
four mills, if in his opinion Ihe reduction can
be safely effected. The County Commission
ers can levy a tax of four gulls fur countv
pur)loses, and an additional tax, not to exceed
two mills, for bridge and building purposes,
when deemed necessary. The school tax- shall
not be larger than four, nor less than two aud
a half mills.
Quite a debate arose in the Senate on the
bill in relation to lauds heretofore sold for
taxes and purchased by the State. Tlie bill is
ia brief as follows:
“That all the right and title of the State in
and to all the lands heretofore sold for taxes
and purchased by the State, not transferred
nor in the interest of any third party conflict
ing, is hereby relinquished in favor of the
owners thereof, and the said taxes* thereon
remitted and discharged; and tfie Comptroller
is directed to collect all auch certificates of
sale and cancel the same, and make a proper
record thereof in fiis office iu a book to be
kept for that purpose.”
The measure was advocated by Messrs.
Pope, Bryson and others, and opjxised bv
Messrs. Groely, Shariie, SjM'er, Lesley and
Mallory. The vote on Its iiassage resulted in
its defeat by a vote of 19 to 5.
The jieople of Lake City are greatly elated
by the action or the trustees of the Agricul
tural College fund in selecting that town as
the location of the college. In jmint of value,
this is worth half a dozen eapitols.
AVe have hail a regular March day, and
clouds of dust are in motion. AV. 11. B.
A Blockade Runner’* Death.
The Charleston Xews and Courier of
yesterday reports the death ip that city of
a well know n pilot and noted blockade
runner, known through the South in the
days of th wars
“Capt, John B. Sassard, chief engineer
of the tug Relief, died very suddenly anti
unexpectedly yesterday afternoon about
3:30 o’clock. The physician stated that
death had resulted from disease of the
heart. Capt. Sassard was 54 years of age,
and.was a native of this city. For over
thirty years he has been a chief engineer
at this port. During the war he was chief
engineer of the steamship Nashville on
her memorable voyage to Liverpool and
back, and for some time afterwards. He
was also ohief engineer on a number of
the blockade runners of the Crenshaw-
Line. It was his proud boast to say that
he hail never failed on a single trip to
bring bis boat to port safe and- sound. As
an engineer he w as at the head of his pro
fession. Asa man he was quiet, unas
suming, industrious and conscientious to
a fault. He had very recently secured a
part interest in the Relief, and was login
ning to get along well in the world. He
leaves a widow aud three sons as well as
a large circle of warm friends to mourn
his loss,”
The census ot 1880 shows that the high
est rate of agricultural production to the
persons engaged in farming is in the Pa
cific States, where 110,669 persons in 1879
produced staples worth $75,811,422, ors6Hs
to each person engaged in farming. Next
come the Middle States, New York, Penn
sylvania,Netv Jersey and Delaware,where
755,635 persons raised crops to the value
of $343,757,272, or $454 to each person. The
Western States follow, with 2,346 544
producing crops worth $913,960,652, or
$389 to each person, New England is
next, where with her barren lands, 301,815
farm woriver* actually produced to the
value of $103,343,566, or $342 to each per
son. The Southern States are the last in
the list, with 4,070,945 workers, producing
values amounting to $756,391,308, or only
$lB5 to each person.
All high dresses for indoor wear are
now finished by a straight band at the
neck, inside of which a standing ruffle of
lace is placed, which terminates in a jabot
in front.
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THE SENATE OF TO-DAY.
THE MEN WHO FIGURE IN THE
DEBATES.
Edmunds and Sherman—Beck’s Pug
nacity—Lamar the Logician—Brown
and .Conger—Vest and Voorhees, tho
Orators—Jones, of Florida—The Saint
ly Hoar—Kansas' Senators—Van Wyck.
" ashixgton, Feb. 25.—A short time ago I
a rote to you about the characteristics of
members of the House which Had iieen most
strongly developed by the tariff debate. Sena
tors have their characteristics, too, and they
have also had some sharp tariff" talk. The
man of the Senate with most striking charac
teristics Is Edmunds, of Vermont. He is tho
embodiment of brains and a disregard for all
the courtesies of debate. He takes pleasure in
banging and cuffing people around. He sits
there with his head between his shoulders and
seldoift gets up but that it is to
oppose and maul somebody. His rod
face and deep-sunk eyes never change their
expression. His right foro-flnger is his meth
od of gesture. John Sherman is cool and has
a i>oor voice. He is audacious nud cares not
what may be said til unit his honesty or integ
rity. He is callous to public opluiou. In
flgure tall and in face retined, he has a cer
tain grace about him that few others possess.
Hi* arguments, though they do not always
show good joiner work, are often most con
vincing. He seldom gets testy and is ever
ready to go further in a scheme than any
other Kepublicaii in Congress. Beck
is pugnacious and not always pithy,
lie has a physical force that
seems inexhaustible. He has talked
more on the tariff thau anv man during the
debate. He is hluut and liis diction is good.
His most striking peculiarity is his power of
flaying a man alive without saving anything
to which personal exception could lie taken. A
Scotchman by bfHh, he is thrifty and as tena
cious of an idea as any Sandy'in his native
land. Beck is a good man to have on your
side in a parliamentary tight. Morrill, of
Vermont, is remarkable for liis memory, To
illustrate that faculty of liis, I will tell a story..
He was in the. House during the war. A con
stituent of his had a brother in the Army of
the Potomac, who died near Hampton,
Virginia, while in camp. A natural
desire to lake the lxalv home possessed
the living brother. He came to Washington,
hut could not get a pass through tho lines nor
permission to remove the body. After wait
ing around here without any result for sev
eral days he Anally went to seek Morrill’s
assistance. He had never seen Morrill. The
latter gave him a note to Secretary Stanton
which produced a pass and the permission he
desired. A few days ago the surviving broth
er was in this city. Meeting Morrill in the
rotunda of the capital lie spoke to him.
Shaking his hand warmly Morrill said with
out a moment's hesitation: “I am glad to
see you, Mr. Gould. Did you get your broth
er's body home all right?’’
Lamar is the clearest speech-maker In the
Senate. Personally he docs not attract
But he has one ot the most
analytic minds in the country. In rough amt
tumble debate he is ready, biit that is not his
forte. His strong jioint is when there is to ho
made a speech on a subject that lie can study
beforehand. When lie gets through on such
occasions there is practically nothing left to
lie said. Brown, of Georgia, is methodical,
slow, and thoroughly sensible. He never gets
out of a plane of common sense. He speaks
in sort of a conversational way, anil his only
gesture is a movement up and down of Ins
bands—"all the lingers of the right touching
those of the left—in front of him. Call, of
Florida.is noted for talking more than anybody
else. His remarks have never attracted anv
special attention. Ingalls is the best educated
man in Congress. His apiiearance is striking
—slim flgure, closely buttoned in a long coal,
an intellectual face.eye-glasseson nose, and a
small gray head. He is eloquent and incisive.
He has a sarcasm that is sharp and hurts when
it cuts. He is apt in pertinent references.
Blair, of New Hampshire, belougs to that
goody-goody school ot which Ferry is such a
very picturesque lalleu example. Blair has
not a strong mind, and is most easily
upset. Conger is in the Senate
a toned down edition of what
lie was in the House. His discordant voice
is not heard often except when the duty on
lumber is proposed to be removed. He sticks
to his swallow-tail coat, which attracts tho
quicker the attention which under anv cir
cumstances would be given him. Ho is'still a
nasty lighter. Anthony, of Khode Island, is.
not a good talker, and knows it. He therefor©
seldom says anything. Wheu he does address
the Senate it is in jerky, nervous sentences.
He is a “chummy” man, and must have al
ways a particular friend with whom he eau
spend his time. Morgan, of Alabama,
with a smooth-shaven face and good
voice, is often on his feet. Ho
is deep. He does not appear well
in discussing small things. His stronghold Is
dealing with constitutional questions, lie is
a strong man. Vest, of Missouri, is an orator.
He was tiorn an orator, and when he gets to
logic lie is not exactly at home. Not that he
is at sea at all, but lie does not appear at best
in the avenues of logic. Ills voice is silver.
Words of beauty, and periods of perfect sym
metry roll from his mouth as evenly as a Pull
man ear goes its way over steel rails. Dan,
Voorhees is another orator. He is a tough
tighter, too. He is tall and handsome. Ilia
voice is good and clear. Ho can make e,
speech that will make you hang
upon his every word, lie is good with
that most powerful of alt forensic
weapons—ridicule. He sometimes drops into
anecdote in the Senate. They say about his
qualities as a stump speaker out in Indiana
that when he starts on the warpath the Re
publicans take to the woods. Jones, of Florida,
lias a somewhat boyish look. His voice and
manner are blunt. His mind is one of re
search. His speeches are sound arguments,
and, what can be said of few speeches, read
remarkably well when put in Cold type. Ccrro
Gordo Williams is dashing anil breezy. Hb
talks as lie used to lead a cavalry charge in
the Mexican war. He chews a good deal of
tobacco of his own raising. He is a
farmer, and lias a model farm in the
blue grass region of Kentucky. He would
conduct the Senate just as he does his farm—
on strict business principles. Coke, of Texas,
lias a big frame and a big voice. He can thun
der logic. At ffrst he is not a pleasing speak
er, hut he grows on you. I-ngan is loud, but
when he gets into a subject that he knows all
about no one can unhorse him. Despite hi
enmity to the vernacular, ho would attract,
attention anywhere as a speaker. He won’t
move when lie once plants liis number niuea
anywhere. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is the most
unpopular man in the Senate. He is disagreea
ble to look at. There beams out from all over
him such I-am-much-better-thau-thou air
that you want to hit him once for liis mother
in-law. He can say tho meanest things in the
most malicious way, and then sneak out of
them. The other Senator from Massachu
setts is Dawes. He has a fine looking head,
hut not much in it. He is principally noted
for always making a speech when there are
any Massachusetts people in the galierv.
I’lumb, of Kansas, is the roost matter-of-fact
man in the Senate. He talks right from the
shoulder, and pays more attention to the par
ticular interests of his constituents than any
other man m the Senate. Senator Jonas, of
Louisiana, is the smallest man in stature in the
Senate. He is black-liaired and moustached.
He makes a very good Senator, Imt Ahere
is nothing very brilliant übout him. The
leading feature of liis legislative make-up is a
desire to see the Mississippi river improved.
Of Senator Harrison it can lie said that he
looks like a big man intellectually, but is in
fact a bald disappointment. Senator Hawley,
of Connecticut, is courteous, line-looking ana
possessed of tine faculties all around, lie is
pre-eminently a square man. He is one of the
few instancies of successful newspaper men
making successful members of the National
Legislature. Senator Van Wyck is nothing,
if not independent. He cares no more
for Republican caucuses or Republican
plans of procedure than he does
for what Bismarck wouldn’t think should be
the proper policy for this country to pursue.
lie has a fund of Western wit. He always
wants to be right, hut often goes the wrong
way to fulfill that ambition. Senator Mc-
Pherson of New Jersey, says a good deal, but
in reality does not say" much. These are the
men who are most prominent in the Senate.
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