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ESTABLISHED 1860.
, viNESV ILLE’S GOLD MINE
)t ||\|l MADE WHILE IMG-
W IIIWUW WELL. *
Jt , . I'mltet ing Bonanza- Murder
, ,i autdmother- An Ann Broken
Throwing A Desperate Fight
, ant llog-Notes in Georgia and
* t.KoROIA.
v wn. an Atlanta eoloreJ woman.
-t.-J i-barged with murdering a
. r eighteen year old daughter
i wtdkck. The grandmother,
...tig the infant, liaried it nix
-• ... a Jonesboro eolore<| man, fell
ade asleep, but was rescued by
have just turn sold at Annin
■ -bate delivery.
-.of Conyers, had a desperate
wilii a mad dog last week. He
: k n the lleld with some negroes, a
■ front the house, llis dog,which
'•'■•wn symptoms of hydroplio
ma*l and furiously made at
s-nnis He*l, leaving Andy' to
!, i- fate. He hail by mere aeei
t his gun to the field with him.
- ' •‘centred to him if his gun could
'el'm* lie was bitten, he might
e Ins untimely death. He made
h*s for it, the dog in hot pursuit
He reaclied it ju>t i u time to tire
- itten. lie shot him through,
animal made but little halt. He
• sting him with his gun, striking
. head until he broke' his gun
•arrrt, but finally succeeded in kill
- summer residence, near Tallu
■siyod lii fire a night or two ago.
v i aA' ilson, of Rome, broke her arm
filing it a twist while throwing
Sr . :.i lets said to be 880 feet above
r* : man of Lumpkin over seventy
-nrviled the recent amputation
. r -- mill is one of Atlanta's cas
- ,: r s Guards. of Atlanta, have
\<w York for sixty-live uni
: . .alar membership of the com
tu - venE five, but there.are be
r . ite hundred members, who
eolation lliat they shall have
i turning out when they
v : these will onler uniform's
i: i ■ • ones out iu its handsome
v grand tournament and ball
. ar every six months bv the
rirst to occur a few weeks
'■ !’• >uuth. of Rome, has turn
M Elliott ami associates, thus
I. lane Mcamlioat Coin pa in
- ‘<'n 'tcamUiat Company.
himself and was instantlv
"•> handling a shotgun, Tu
-ity. on Friday.
Double Branches." says the
. "several |iersons are sup
l.isonedby poison sumai-n,
.1 sin the woo<is. lii|unc ot the
i ha- a swollen face, badlv
■ -i 11 • l in another ran- a lady
i :iri > is supposed to be poison
- breaking out in sores,
li t ••n, widow of Jesse llan
■ iiaty. who was a soldier in
- : tih •! a claim for |H*n-ioii sev -
I • Pension Commissioner
v> hcrealiouts, and whether
<d. If living she is entitled
Ist month.
• of \. H. Cox, of Mitchell
s -i-n destroyed by fire.
-* si. was run over and killed by a
i Bn read car mar Smilhville.
§ -i- di-tiirbing the citizens of
f < - are iieing built near t larks
;w •! factory, at Erwin's mills.
urih mile- from tbe village,
■ t a e.-iton factory at what is
' . < • : Furnace Place, three miles
Roth are loented on fine
\ number of houses for oper
■ wool factory have already been
• work of manufacturing will
w ork at the 1.l Furnace i
- on. i>rvparatorv to the erection
• ’ ■ Fifth Georgia Regiment of
- -i..gvte>l by -omcof the sur
- is-. Viu eric us is the place and
•ate proposed. The following
regiment: i lincfi
V . -la. i.rulin Light Guards, Daw*
• rs. -s-hley Guard*. CuthlsTt
u- t.rav-, fpson Guard*. Irisli
Vugu-la. Ilardec Rifics of Itain
. McDutte Rifles of AVarren
’_<• "t .nc Mountain to Atlanta is
with riiniiing -s-veral eonseentive
... ••! two ago at the rate of a nule a
II Parks. ... Augusta, died Mon
■ Ham ; ten married but nineteen
- s.ro - notorious heathens are still
as their stores in that city, not wilh
. all Ihe talk about persecution.
r< i man, named John Martin, died in
Thursday night. A message was
g ggansville to his wife, giving infor
•f nis death, w hen won! was returned
-is* had died on Sunday. They left a lit -
hiM only a few months old.
• Atlanta v ,* un.leistanils that
iw pracltce of Gen. L. .1. Gartrvll. of
t>. amount- to a year.
■ Mi s- tola' held soon to take action
prv.j.o~sl railroad from Tennille to
11. Grady, a handsome and richly
o • Inn. * ho claim-to be a teacher iii
II" ISA < al.. public school, I- the
Atlanta. *in Monday she left her hotel
rive, and while mil stopjMsl at sev
■ rani- am! drank, hampagne, which
it.a-tcred her. After visiting sev
-1- of questionable repute she liti.ilK
.. al the police-lation and rejmrted
. > a.uai.h' - ditairv diamond ring
-ion of money s,,nie think that
- iniKH-ent Ilian -lie profes-cs
1 ■ -• lice will make an effort to re
e*e*f 10-t pnnwrty.
rt-osina.
. /- has the following: “Mr.
.- en for -everal week- l*r
- an w ell in the pnUic square of
bra trying lie- past week to
e through a heavy hard rock
v the -urfact. The |ia.-t several
■ • nlv a few incite* progress, and
-urpri-s| Tuesday morning lo
- trill was penetrating a rich vein
• o i'n pebble* or small bits of
* fn-m the w ell nine were found to
- ierable quantity of gold. The
. . n ts that tlie deposit is very
i.t through four feet of quartz,
.i.-ing spei-imehs were taken,
in gold. Three fii*t of soft Pock
-s-l through, when Ihe same
uartz was again reached, lint
' i:on lo gold as la-fore a white
■■ lead or -ilver. also oreasion
.. po~sihly copper. The s|h-.-i -
■ ■re. -ucii as w ould probably
per ton of ore."
•ia Tr>b‘ >‘f >#;>: On last
;v ; people got into a din
' to go tothe steamer Kmlen.
•li-tanee from ~horc. ami tin 1
-n the of the sea, flllcil,
lrt> was thrown into the
- Ual.iWin ami Mihon i otton
’ : irv a—tstance rouM he ren-
Hullii. Preston was also part I y
> rolling him for some time on
t •* k, ho was rvsuseitaeil
• - brought ti j>er dozen in
4 ~t ia*t week.
- ;• < nptaia Frederick Hoffman
in i.annon loft Apalachicola
> I'lami in the schooner >*Hoff
- - lie cattle. While at the island
’ .an met his death hy drowning.
* steamers will soon he running
hicola amt theChattalioooliee
tprilgL in Alachua count \.
h j~>Mt of phosphate
: ictor. I>r. < . A. "mi -
! ;oo on the market a- a fer
al ami other fruit trees.
- t ami Peninsular Railroad trans
11be month of April the eijuiva
' rates of early vegetables. The
' ' r May am- likely to reach double
'o’od. who killed Joseph Stevens
, _ Precinct, in the lower part of
, ' ciy in 1n“. and fled from the
.-•red himself to Sheriff Watson
. a>: week, and was Miltso|uent-
I t.. t.ail hy Judge Mitehell in the
" . Nelson and Irvin tockler and
ag his bondsmen. Mr. Bond
at the we id term of the Circuit
venes at Pine Level in Xo
i ncral .1. B. Wall, of Tampa,
f M. i.rahan, of Manatee, are
' -r )>rioßr.
•retaieul at Tallahassee.
ar>l Brown, tieneral Freight Agent
"!a and Atlantie Railroad, ha*
lar stating that as there are al
p- "Ibe* in this state in which
••range'- , UM ,|, the Post Office
- declined, on account of cora
- that might arise, to establish an
• Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad
* r ■ ".iwr of "New Orange." and on
> -ideal* in the viriuity. lias cs
|**t office of “thipley,” Flori
'>c4 at “New Orange.”
. ’* fdl.i-r tarweaution in the fight against
-t, all stray dogs in Jacksonville are
Brothers, proprietor of the Jack
-W, have sued the proprietors of
•w. of that city, for *lO,(Wu din
r injuries done to their reputations.
'l>aich aarsthat on last satur
bm tie ocean beach. H. J. Faulk
“ • and Mrs. Captain Sams discov
k >• the snrff floating abort-ward.
Sf 1*- a part of the hull of a large
r ! -*rk. to which several of the
1 -4 cm - dcraUle of the rigging was still
*'• wnvck gave awidence of a long
a.. ; ’ " as U was cflßrcd with bar
li s name of the vessel could not lie
Plies and Bugs.
*- oat-hen, ants, bed bugs, raw,
' -t4i r, chipmunks. cleared out by
i® * Eau ” LV.
jlTk Siuaniiah CrtUi'iiiiig 31ws.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
“Chatham * Grinds Out His Grist of
Interesting Paragraphs.
Atlanta. May 28.—1f ever winter lin
gered in the lap of spring, as the poets
have it, this season she gave us a length
ened lingering long drawn out. We are
still wearing our winter flannels.
Keports from the country vary as to the
effect of the cold snap upon fruit and
growing crops. Some neighborhods have
suffered a great deal, others less, while
many sections report little, if any, seri
rious damage. Location seems to have
regulated the matter.
Atlanta lacks several thousand hales of
her coveted 150,000 bales for the present
season, yet we hope to see that figure
reached before Septemlier, as cotton comes
in slowly every day by wagon and rail.
Strawberries are now so cheap in this
city that the poorest families can indulge
in what was once a rich man’s luxury at
this season of the year. Early vegetables
are also unusually cheap now that we
have plenty of truck farms near the city.
Our real estate I zoom was never in a
boomier condition than now. In fact the
business is so large, and the profits so
immense, that our real estate firms are
compelled to dissolve and make two or
three offices where only one existed be
fore. So long as this continues we need
no circus parades nor negro minstrel
bands, as real estate agents furnish music
and street parades.
l)r. .1. B- Roberts, of Sandersvile. is an
extremely modest man. He came to the
convention, but kept quietlv seated in the
corner.
Lol. D. 11. Elliott, the energetic repri*-
sentative of the Florida Dispatch Line,
talked for South Georgia, Mr. E. Bean
looked after Florida’s interests, and Mr.
-. Tt Jeukinsispoke for Southwest Geor
gia.
It was, however.discouraging to learn no
voice from below Macon, as there are hun
dreds of farmers in all that section engag
ed in truck growing and fruit culture this
year, and it would have leen well for them
to have conferred with the representatives
from sister States and other sections of
Georgia.
The meeting, despite all drawbacks, was
an interesting and profitable one, and good
results will flow from it. The railroad
officials and commission merchants were
present in full force, and have promised
hearty cooperation in shipping and sell
ing to the Ilest possible advantage.
Governor Conley has had bad luck of
late in the management of the Atlanta
(Mist offiee. Mr. lturrill A. Stout is now
the only official left of the old force.
Mills. Seldner and Rhodes resigned, and
now Nall comes up-with a shortage of
several thousand dollars in his cash ac
count.
“Richmond.” in his letter to the Au
gusta Chronic/*, says Nall is responsible
for his subordinates, young Tuller and
Raines. This conveys ah unjust suspicion
that they too arc short. Such is not the
understanding. Assistant Postmaster
Nall is short, but as he has a father-in-law
at Xewnan who is able to help him out,
it is not probable that there will be any
criminal action in the ease. It is always
l>est to live within one’s salary, and
thereby avoid such unpleasant exposures.
Talk about cold weather in May. why
we had it colder than the present snap iii
lx JO, when there was frost May 2<i near
Savannah, and between Atlanta and Ma
con it damaged vegetables and corn and
cotton. Again, in 18:12, as late as June
2:!. it is reported that winter clothes were
worn and tiros kept up all day. The “old
est inhabitant” is full of such unpleasant
recollections of cold snaps.
There are few persons here who agree
with Judge Parish C. Furman that the
growing cotton crop will be 230,000 bales
short. It is always customary to start
this familiar cry early in the season, but
it seldom "pans out” the anticipated
shortage at the final count. I have seen
cotton fields apparently ruined, and the
owners said the crop was worthless, yet a
month or two later a pretty good crop was
gathered. Nothing is more deceptive than
estimates of a growing crop.
Second Lieut. Frank R. McCoy, of Au
gusta, Ga.. has lieen transferred to the
Third Infantry, the headquarters of which
arc at Fort Shaw, in Montana.
Gen. Joseph K. Johnston and his accom
plished wife are at Fortress Monroe,where
the General is cordially greeted by many
old comrades of antebellum days.
The appointment of Gen. Samuel W.
Ferguson on the Mississippi Commission
is piite a long step in the direetion of re
conciliation. Gen. Ferguson is a South
Carolinian, a West Pointer, and an ex-
Confederate, but eminently fitted by edu
cation and experience for the important
(Misition assigned him.
Governor asd Mrs. Boynton are in the
city to-daV preparing to join the great
Northwestern excursion. This trip will
Is* their bridal, and they carry with them
the hearty good wishes of thousands of
friends iii Georgia, and we are sure that
they will come hack freighted with good
wishes from new friends at the other end
of the line, as they make friends where
ever they go.
1 cannot indorse the suggestion that
Col. Issae \V. Avery would be a good man
to till the Professorship of the late Gen.
Win. M. Browne. We cannot spare a
trained journalist like Col. Avery for any
such place. Georgia needs his prolific
and versatile pen back in her newspaper
circles, from which it ought never to have
lieen withdrawn even partially. It would
lie mueh lietter to bring the seholarly and
much lifted Col. Richard Malcolm John
son hack to Georgia and put him in the
vacant chair, and thereby restore to our
State a scholar, writer and educator
whose proper place is in Georgia.
The editor of the Macon Telegraph and
1/ n>p r verv kindly corrects my item
in last letter’about “The Daughter of
M udoza,” and says it teas written by
Gen. Miralieau B. Lamar, although not
ineluded in his published poems. lam
sorry to have done my old friend Martin
an injustice in the matter, and therefore
hasten to correct my own incorrect cor
rection. Now the question arises, whv
was the |sleui credited to George W.
i able? Did his literary anchor drag into
Lamar's lied of |K>etry ?
A good deal is being said about Mr.
Pulitzer, of the New York World, because
he used to be a poor hack man. The fact
is. it is hard to keep down the industrious
German. Twenty years ago we had a
|ioor German burlier in Atlanta, hut he
didn’t intend to lx> kept poor. lie attend
ed strictlv to his business, soon owned a
barber shop, then a cigar store, then a
news depot, then a big share in a lager
later brewerv, then building and loan
shares, and so on, until to-day be controls
a half dozen places of business, and a
fortune of a hundred thousand dollars.
Atlanta has no thriftier or more public
spirited citizen than ex-Alderman Charles
Boorman, who is not ashamed to have it
known that he was once a poor barber.
Our market is well supplied with the
famous early Pien-to peaches from Flori
da, which resemble a cotton bale after it
conies from the compress. They sell well
and are said to lie very profitable to the
grower. „
1 am indebted to Col. C. C, *lOllO6, Jr.,
the scholarly and patriotic President of
the Confederate Survivors’ Association ot
Augusta, for a pamphlet copy of his ex
cellent address, delivered at tin* recent
miuiial meeting. Would that every city
in Georgia bad such a noble association,
officered by such a gifted and liberal
l’resdent. •
Owing to the illness of Mrs. Gov. smith,
at Columbus, there has lieen no regular
meeting of the Railroad Commission, but
Commissioners Wallace and Trammell
have carefully attended to several mat
ters in which the truck farmers and fruit
growers yvere interested. Gov. Smith is
expected here to-morrow, yyheu the regu
lar meeting will be held.
Now that Atlanta has aroused herself
to the importance of haying a live and
decent Hoard of Trade, or < hamber of
Commerce, a demand is started for a Cot
ton Exchange. Our city ought to be able
to support two such institutions as the
above named, if she proposes to be a com
mercial centre and a cottou manufactur
injf eijtv. Wo shall huve a tin© Chamber
of "commerce withiu a week.
Major J. W. Warren, of the Executive
Department, seems to have yvon a warm
Ida. o in the affections of the people of
Georgia by his modest, faithful and long
continued service under Governor Smith,
Colquitt. Stephens, Boynton and McDan
iel. With all the rush for offices from
every part of the State, not a single per
son has sought the position Major \Y arren
sti well tills, but, on the other hand, from
all parts of the State have come requests
that Governor McDaniel continue him in
office. This is a deserved tribute to his
modest worth and faithful service.
Chatham.
♦That wonderful catholicon known as
Mrs. Lydia K. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound has given the lady a world wide
reputation for doing good. It is like a
living: spring to the vital constitution.
Her Blood Purifier will do more to cleanse
the channels of the circulation and purify
the life of the body than all the sanitary
devices of the board of JfeaUb,
BLOODSHED IN* ILLINOIS.
ONE OF THE STRIKERS KILLED
AND MANY WOUNDED.
Two of the Latter Expeeted to Die— 4,
Militiaman Shot in the Knee-Two
Volleys Exchanged and the Mob Ront
ed-Eurthei Trouble Feared - The
Troops Criticised.
St. Lous, May 29.-The strike of Illi
nois miners, which culminated vesterdav
in rioting and
gress for fully two weeks. The remarka
ble feature of its latter stages was the
active part which the wives and daugh
ters ot the miners took in preventing new
men from working in the mines. These
Amazons, numbering fully 800, march
ing in battle array, and sup
ported by about 150 miners, took
possession of the mines yesterday,
and work was entirely suspended through
out the district. The militia which Gov
ernor Hamilton ordered out on Thursday
consisting of companies from Tavlors
ville, Ldwardsville and Verden had* been
concentrated at East Bt. Louis so as to be
in readiness, and proceed to anv point
where the situation was threatening
l hey were placed under command of Col.
Barkley, of Springfield, who received in
structions from the Governor to take his
orders from the Sheriff of the county in
which the troops were stationed.
Yesterday morning Col. Barkley was
notified that a mob had taken possession
of the mines around Belleville and the
civil authorities were powerless. He im
mediately started with his three compa
nies on board a train and arrived at Belle
ville late in the afternoon. When be
learned that the mob had taken posses
sion ol mine No. 1 at Reinicke, a small
station on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, in >t. Clair county, three and a
hall miles west Of Belleville, the militia
started for that point, reaching it alioiit
.>::>0 o clock. From the ear windows
they saw the mob of five hundred
strikers and about one hundred frantic
women in possession of the mine. The
women had just come from Bose Hill, and
wild with rage were very much more de
monstrative than the men. The train
stopped in a ravine between two high
hills and both blurts were covered with
strikers, the women having taken their
position on the summit.
Deputy Sheriff Anthony, of St. Clair
county, mounted upon a box on the depot
platform and, addressing the strikers.said
that he did not desire to have trouble, but
he wanted the law complied with, and
urged the mob to disperse peacefully. Be
fore he concluded the report of a*pistol
rang out on the air, followed by
two more shots from the sum
mit of the hill. The deputy felt
a bullet. whistle past his ' ear,
and noticing where the smoke came from
in the mob, drew his pistol and fired in
that direction. This was the signal for a
general fusilade from the mob, and one of
the soldiers, who was just getting out of
the cars, tell with a bullet through his
knee.
Two-thirds of the militia were still in
the cars when Deputy Sheriff Anthony
ordered Colonel Barkley to give the w ord
to fire and the Colonel shouted out the
command to his men. The troops filed
rapidly out of the cars and poured a vol
ley into the strikers with deadly effect,
The latter retreated, but returned the tire,
w hereupon a second volley was given bv
the militia.
The mob of men and women alike then
scattered and ran belter skelter through
the gullies and ravines.
Alter the smoke had cleared awav it
was found that one of the strikers had
lieen instantly killed and another was
shot through* the head so badlv that he
cannot recover. A third striker was shot
through the hips.
Several of the rioters made their escape,
leaving bloody tracks behind them, but
tbe exact number of wounded has not
been learned yet.
1 wentv-six ol the mob were made pris
oners and are now by the soldiers in
their camp. Company F, of Edwards
ville, numbering 15 men, remain at Bei
nicke’s with the prisoners.
Tin* Taylorsville and Verden companies
left late last night for home, but under
orders to hold themselves in readiness to
move on Collinsville, where trouble is an
ticipated to-day.
At a late hour last night everything
w as still quiet in the Belleville district.
A dispatch from Belleville, 111,, stated
that everything was quiet there this
morning. The inquest on the dead striker
begins at 11 o’clock.
The Reinicke mine, where the riot oc
curred last evening, is working this morn
ing tinder the protection ol the militia. I
This is a machine, which does not employ j
regular miners, and was working yester
day under an agreement with the miners
made some days ago. If any further
trouble occurs it w ill lie at mines at some
distance from Belleville.
The Shcritl' this morning reported all
quiet at the pits in the immediate vicini
ty of Belleville. The streets of that city
are crowded with miners and citizens dis
cussing the events of yesterday. The fir
ing by tlic militia is not generally viewed
in a favorable light.
Fred. Hoffmaster, the glass blower, who
was killed in yesterday’s encounter, came
from Pittsburg. He had lieen in Belleville
two weeks. The glass blowers at Belle
ville are on a strike,' and some of them
w ere with the striking miners yesterday,
which accounts for Hoffmaster’s presence
at the Reinicke mine. There seems to lie
no doubt that Deputy Sheriff Anthony
ordered the troops to fire on the mob, but
not until several pistol shots bad been
tired by the strikers, two of them aimed
directly at Anthony and Gen. Rqpse, who
were standing by the side of the train con
sulting as to w hat should he done.
Collinsville. Ini>., May29.—The Ab
bey miners, which number three or four
pits, are working with a full complement
of men, and no trouble is anticipated.
The men at work, many of who have been
in the employ of the company for num
bers of vears, arc satisfied and w illing to
work. They are paid by the day at the
wages which were fixed when the miners
were receiving 3 cents per bushel at other
mines, and tin* wages are entirely satis
factory. While the wages of other miners
have been reduced from 33 to 50 per cent.,
the pay of the men employed now has
not been reduced at all. The attempt to
stop these miners was merely an effort to
stop the supply of coal for St. Louis, and
there were no demands for an increase ot
pay.
A special grand jury has b*dn convened
■at Edwardsville by Judge Snyder for the
purpose of indicting those who composed
the mob which took possession of mine
No. 4 and maltreated the men employed
there. There are no indications of mob
law in this vicinity to-day, and from the
expressions of citizens of this locality
heard on all sides, i{ would pot be well
for a mob of any kind to assemble with
the idea of violating the law again by at
tempting to interfere with the rights of
others.
AWAITING THE IRON CRISIS-
Pittsburg Firms Working Tlieir Hills
Night and l>ay.
Pittsburg, May ‘if).—The Protective
Association of the Iron Manufacturers of
the West was in session here to-day. The
meeting as usual was held with closed
doors. It was learned that a reso
lution had been adopted leaving
all matters pertaining to the settlement
of the strike in the hands of the Execu
tive Committee. No decided action was
taken on anything else. As the first of
June approaches interest in the coining
strnggle increases. Botli sides appear
as firm as at the first conference.
To-morrow being decoration day quite
a number of the mills will shut down to
night. not caring to light up for one day’s
run. A greater number will continue to
run tip to the last moment and will work
a night turn up to Thursday at midnight.
A Crisis In the Rolling Mills.
Cincinnati, May -if*.— The workmen
in the rolling mills have agreed upon a
scale of prices of s<> per ton, w hich will
be presented to the manufacturers. It was
expected that this would be done to-day,
but it is now said that it will be offered
to-morrow. The manufacturers are, how
ever. unanimous in saying that they will
a°Tee to no bill of prices not in accord
ance with the agreement made with the
men a year ago, which was to abide by
the sca’e agreed on at Pittsburg. They
sav further that if the men insist on de
manding other terms and thus violate
their agreement, they will make no new
agreement w ith them.
The Bootmakers* Lockout.
Cincinnati, 0., May 29.— The end of
the shoemakers lockout does not affect
the lockout of the bootmakers, whose
case stands on different grounds. Tlie
bootmakers in six of the ten factories
here were locked out, because, as they
sav thev refused to agree to submit the
question of wages to a board of arbitra
tion. They assert that manufacturers de
sire in that way to compel a reduction ot
wages. The men have adopted a rule
SAVANNAH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 39, 1883.
pro\ iding that members of their assem
blies shall be excluded from working
hours at night. The same rule has been
adopted by all the shoemakers’ assemblies.
Miners Killed by a Cave In.
Norristown, I’a., May 29.—A gan" of
railroad laborers were buried by a cave
in on the Philadelphia, Norristown and
t honixville Railroad at Censpohocken
this morning, and tbirtv of them were, it
is thought, fatally injured.
PLEA FOR POOR 1,0.
The Presbyterian Assembly Still Talk
ing About the Indians.
Saratoga, May 29.—1n the Presby
terian General Assembly to-day the reso
lution of Dr. Herrecic Johnson was
adopted, that the General Assembly shall
unite with the Episcopal General Conven
tion and Methodist General Conference in
askin g the t nited States Government to
preserve faith with the Indians, to grant
them lands, to prevent intrusions in
Indian Territory and the reservations
and that the matter lie presented to Presi
dent Arthur and the Secretary of Interior
by the special committee on civil govern
ment for Alaska.
Dr. How ard Crosby said that he had
presented a similar petition in a former
committee and had been snubbed twice
bj jDe officials, and he had no desire to
again present it.
He moved that he be excused from serv
ing on the committee, and that Dr. John
son be appointed. He was accordingly
excused and I)r. Johnson named in lii's
place.
A Victory for Crook.
Tccson, Arizona, Mav 29.— General
Crook is reported to have* had a battle
with the Apaches near Griaynapo, in the
sierra Madre Mountains. "The force of
General Crook numbered 500, and that of
[he Apaches 400. Fifty Indians were
killed. General Crook’s loss is not started.
A dispatch from Hermosillo contradicts
the report that General Crook had u bat
tle with the Apaches on the 18th, saving
that if an engagement had occurred* the
authorities at that place would
have heard of it. The fact
is that General Crook has
been so maligned and such
abusive reports have been sent over the
country from some of the Arizoua anil
Texas papers that, he is keeping his move
ments quiet, and it will be impossible to
get any news from him till he has driven
the Apaches from their stronghold and
the Indian question of Arizona fk settled.
EFFORTS TO IJI’RN A CITY.
Incendiaries Apply Three Torches in
Minneapolis Simultaneously.
Minneapolis, Minx., May 29.—About
midnight last night a fire broke out here,
which destroyed L. Dueninsig’s feed
stores and a number of barns near by, on
South Washington street. Dueninsig’s
loss is $50,000. Before this fire was under
control, Wheaton, Reynolds ,t Co.’s sash
and door factory, on the east side of the
city, was found to be in flames, and
Averill, Bussell A- Carpenter’s paper
warehouse, in South Minneapolis, was
also discovered to be on fire. Wheaton,
Reynolds A Co.’s loss is SIOO,OOO, and
Averill, Bussell A Carpenter’s loss is
S7,(KM). The other losses are small in
dividually. but numerous. It is supposed
that all the fires were the work of in
cendiaries.
New York, May 29.—A tire broke out
this morning in the five-story buildings
Nos. 12 and 14 Desbrosses street, occu
pied by George Harlrich as a cotton w are
house. The damage to the cotton Is
roughly estimated at $50,000 and to the
building at SIO,OOO. The loss is covered
by insurance.
The latest estimates of the lire made the
loss SBOO,OOO, There were about 4,000
bales of cotton in the place owned by
Hopkins, White A Cos., of 124 lteade
street ; William Black A Cos., of No. 1
William street; B. E. Bruce A Cos., ot No.
50 l’ine street; H. T. Harper A Cos., of No.
23 Cromwell street, and Everelt Bros.,and
Ditson A Cos., of Wall street. The build
ing belongs to the Hoffman estate, and
was worth $20,000 dollars.
Paris, May 29. —A fire in the ware
house of Decker A Mot, makers of agri
cultural implements, who also have an
establishment in America, lias caused
damage to the amount of 3,000,000 francs.
Several persons were injured.
Petkrsbi rg, Ya„ May 29.— The dwel
ling house of lv. B. Ferris, at Bowling
Green, was burned last night. Mr. Ferris,
his young soil and his daughter perished
in the flames.
DEATH IN A DOUBLE TORNADO.
Indiana Towns Again Devastated tiy 1 lie
Fury of tlie Elements,
Terre Halte, Ix., May 29,—A dou
bletornado swept by Clay City at so’clock
yesterday afternoon, its extremities being
a mile apart. Clay City, which was in
its centre, escaped with slight damage,
but at Neal’s mill, which was on one sjde
of it, a house was swept out of existence,
six persons were killed, a bridge destroyed
and general destruction entailed. On tbe
other side of the little settlement five per
sons were killed and houses were blown
to pieces and oik* child was blown away
and has not yet been found. Twelve per
sons were injured besides those who were
killed, Countless trees were also blown
down over a wide space.
Indianapolis, May 2i>. — About <>
o’clock last evening a cyclone struck the
town of Edenburg, Indiana, followed by a
heavy rain storm- which lasted ten min
utes and raged with great violoime, The
spire of the Methodist Church was blown
down on top of the parsonage, crushing
through it to the ground. South ot the
town a grove of timber, belonging to
George Cuttsinger, was demolished, and
four miles further south the cyclone
struck the farm of 11. J. Iteming, wreck
ing the barn and killing Mr. Deming’s
son Frank and injuring a farm hand.
Fort Smith, Ark., May 29.—This morn
ing a terrific storm passed over this city,
unroofing houses, blowing down shade
trees and carrying away fences. The
Southern Hotel was unroofed, but no one
was injured.
JOHN HOWARD PAYNE'S GRAVE.
Last Tributes to l>e l’aiil to the Writer
of ilie Sweetest Song.
Washington, May 29.—The arrange
ments for the fttnerijl ceremonies which
will accompany the reinterment of John
Howard Payne at Oak Hill Cemetery, on
the 9th June, have been completed. The
remains of the poet will be taken from
their present temporary rest ing place, to
the Corcoran Art Gallery, and will be
escorted from there to the cemetery by a
funeral procession, consisting of the mi
litia, tbe President, the members of the
Cabinet and of the Diplomatic Corps,
Judges of the Ini ted States Courts, Sena
tors and Representatives, the poet and
orator of the occasion, the relatives of
Payne and 31 r. Corcoran. At the ceme
tery there will be memorial ser
vices. consisting of a poem by
Robert 11. Chilton, an oration by Leigh
Robinson, selections and instrumental
music and literary works conducted by
Bishop Pinckney, of St. John’s. The
vocal music, to lie rendered by the Phil
harmonic Society, will include “Home.
Sweet Home,” and the audience will
unite in singiug the last verse of that
song.
VICTIMS TO A FLAGSTAFF.
A High Win<l Hulls flic l’ole into One of
Boston’s Crowded Streets.
Boston, May 29.—A wooden flagstaff 50
feet in height on the store of It. 11. White
A Cos., on Washington street, was blown
into the street this forenoon during a high
wind and fell on a passing omnibus of
the Hawthorne line, containing five
or six persons, prusbing it and
knocking the dMver td the ground.
The coach passed over the driver, injur
ing him, probably fatally. None of the
passengers were hurt. A’ portion of the
eorroniee of the building was also knock
ed off. and fell,striking an unknown man,
crushing in his skull and inflicting serious
injuries. A coupe standing in front of
the store was wrecked, but the occupants
were unhurt. The affair created great
excitement, as the streets were crowded
with shoppers.
Weather Indications.
Offick chikf Signal obskrvkr,
Washington, D. C., May 20.—Indications
for Wednesday:
In the South Atlantic States, fair wea
ther, followed by local rains, westerly
shifting to northerlv winds, lower tem
perature, and generally higher pressure.
ChH>'o Mills tor California,
Oakland. Cal., May 29.—Capital to
the amount of $175,000 has been subscrib
ed for the erection of cotton mills here.
Mr. David Spier, Guyton, Ga., says:
“My strength and appetite I quickly re
gained by the use of Brown’s Iron Bit
ters.”
MR. SPEER'S INSINCERITY.
THE WILY MARSHAL IRRITATED
BY THE NEWS.
He Denies Changing from Wimberly to
White—Official Records which Give the
Denial a Smack of Duplicity—How the
“News” Correspondent Figures in the
Case.
Washington, May 29.—As regards
executive action there is nothing new in
the Savannah Internal Revenue Collec
torsbip matter, but there are some other
things of interest. It will be rememliered
that it was recently stated in the News
that Emory Speer, the insincere, had
withdrawn his indorsement of Wimberly
to succeed Pleasant, and had recommend
ed White for the place. The statement in
the News was secured from the files of
the Treasury Department. It is there in
black and white, and can be produced as
soon as Secretary Folger returns from
New York. But Emory Speer has taken
umbrage at what* was printed
in the News. A friend of Wimberlv to
day informs him by mail that Speer has
said in Savannah that the Washington
correspondent of the News has written a
thousand lies aiioiit him, and that the
statement that he Speer) has made an
indorsement of Waite is another lie
originating wUky* the News cor
respondent. What is the use of all
this stuff on the part of Speer?
He knows that the News correspondent
is a newspaper man by profession, and
makes his bed and board’in that occupa
tion. He might know that a correspon
dent would neither forfeit his bed nor his
board by writing inaccurate matter.
The simple fact is that the correspondent
has told some truths about Speer, but at
the same time has never misrepre
sented, his checkered career, though
the correspondent must admit
that he lias had some trouble in keeping
up with it, but the same letter which
your correspondent quoted in the begin
ning has the following: “Emory Speer
lias been here for three or four days in at
tendance on this court. He says that it
is a lie out of whole cloth that he ever
in any way indorsed White, and
that he is still for Wimberly,
but when Colonel Wade and i pressed
him to go to the telegraph office and send
a message in Wimberley’s behalf lie
wouldn’t do it. We knew Spy or too well
for him to drive us, and as a. matter of
course we believe he lias indorsed White
in every way he could.”
The records of the Treasury Department
show that Speer has indorsed White. It
is there in black and white, as Secretary
Folger the other day told Gen. Longstreet
when the two were at Annapolis. Speer
is simply convicted of more duplicity.
For corroborative evidence the News
correspondent refers the paper to
General Longstreet and the files
of the Treasury Department, if
lie has not already convicted himself
in the facts previously mentioned in this
dispatch. In regard to White the follow
ing letter, received to-day from Augusta,
is quoted as follows, with the comment
that it seems to lie “anything to beat
Wimberly:”
“White lias an affidavit sworn to by
Fleming, United States Gauger, that ho
(Fleming) had the advertisement spoken
of in the News dispatches put in the
newspapers without his (White’s) knowl
edge. You will doubtless take proper
steps to prove the facts. Neither Flem
ing's nor Neibling’s (Justice of ths Peace)
affidavit can be true, as they are not le
gally connected with White’s office and
could not have so unmistakbly advised
White as they afterwards really did.”
RACERS OX THE RUN.
A Ouintfttc of Interesting Events on
the Sward at Louisville.
Louisville, Ky., May 29.—T0-day’s
events resulted as follows;
First Race.—For the club purse of
5300; three-quarter mile heats.
aite Fogle li
Me Bowlin o- 2
Murmur 33
Kva. 2 0
Lord Lyon 00
Nick Chick 0 0
Golden Plover distanced.
Time 1:20%; 1:22%.
Second Bace —Clark’s stake for three
year-olds; SIOO entrance, SI,OOO added;
one and one-quarter miles. Ascender
was first, Cardinal McCloskey second,
Markhand third, Tangier, l’ikesprie,
Brocade, and Standiford Killer were
drawn. The time was 2:18.
Third Race—For a purse of $400; wel
ter weights; one mile. Olweth was first,
Ituckmaster second, £entreville third.
Ohio Boy. Dixietta and Mammonist
drawn. The time was I:s2>^.
Fourth Race —Tennessee stakes for
two year olds; SSO entrance, SSOO added;
three and one-fourth mile. Eva was first,
Golden Bod second, Boh Cook third.
Adrian, Tally ho,Pearl of Savoy,Hannah
and Richard Land, Embargo and High
flight drawn, The tune was 1 ;20j^.
Fifth Race— Club handicap ; $350; one
ami a half miles. Wallenz was first,
Bassett second, Ballast third. Katie
Creel, Tax-gatherer and Fosteral drawn.
The time was 2:45V,.
A Lccturi* by Wattersqn.
Nashville, Te.nn, Mav 29.—At the
.Vanderbilt Alumni Association’s annual
banquet tmday among the sentiments
most loudly applauded was an expression
in favor of the education of the colored
race in the South, and that civil liberty
was a mockery without educa
tion commensurate with its responsibili
ties. To-night, at Vanderbilt University,
Hon. Henry Watterson delivered an ad
dress before the literary societies, taking
lor his subject “The Homicidal Side of
Southern Life.” His conclusion was that
the homicidal propensity was the false
and waning standard of manly courage,
and that honor was in the hands of
churchmen, schoolmen and the press.
The audience was large and intellectual.
Bat and Ball.
Games of base hall were played yester
day as follows:
At Washington—Mutuals 3; Molv
neaux, of Philadelphia, 3.
At Pittsburg—St. Louis 10; Allegheny's
s‘.
At Brooklyn —Quicksteps 1; Brookly ns 0.
At New A ork—Metropolitans 5; Cohoes
At Camden,N. J.—Philadelphias(J: Mer
ritts J
At Philadelphia—Athletics 2; Cincin
nati 1.
At Baltimore—Eclipses, of Louisville,
11; Balti mores 5.
At Reading, Pa.—Chieagos II; Actives
8.
Arts and Sciences at the Hub.
Boston, Mass., May 2ff—-itthe annual
meeting of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences to-day .Joseph Lover
ing was elected President, Oliver Wendell
Vice President, and Joseph I*. Cook Cor
responding Secretary. J. W. Mallet, of
Virginia, and Atticus G. Havgood, of
Georgia, were elected fellows. The Rum
ford medal was conferred upon Henrv A.
II pw land. •’ 1
Small-Pox Among the Convicts.
Lancaster, I*a., May 29.—The small
pox which has prevailed in Lancaster
county prison for some time past, is now
on the decrease, and the authorities are
confident that they have it fully under
control. In all fourteen were affected,
all but four of whom are now convales
cent. Only one case has proved fatal.
The Star Route Trials.
Washington. May 29.—1n the star
route trial to-day Mr. Merrick occupied
all the day in continuing bis closin'' ar
gument for the wosecthian! The court
adjourned until Thursday, partly because
to-morr6w fs decoration day, and partly
to oblige Mr. Merrick, who is not
well. , -
WT-eijked in Business.”
Ban Antonio, Tex., May 29.—Ed.
Buckley, wool dealer, yesterday' made an
assignment. His liabilities are $-*9<>ooo
and his assets $150,000. The alleged cause
is the shortage in the price of wool.
A Bull in a Gentleman's Boon),
Cleveland {O.) SftHtM, tok. 1
Serious troubles exist at the Delaware
College, located at Delaw are, this State
Some days ago a partyof students secured
a hull and. blindfolding the animal led it
upstairs to the private robin of President
lay ne, in the south hall, i’he beast w r as
looked in the room to frighten the Presi
dent w hen he should return. The bull
' ls Symbols about the room, ruined
S.IOO worth of property, smashing a book
case, costly Statuary, the eiaiiqefiers, and
ruiniug tbe warpe:,, ’Detective Morris, of
Spi lngftcld, has been summoned to in
vest igate the case amt will make arrests
as the faculty of the college intend to
prosecute the offenders to the
fullest extent of the law
Thirty students have been suspended for
drunkenness and billiard playing and
many expulsions are anticipated. ’
Hill’s Hair anj>Whisk** Dye, black
or brown, 50 cents.
IRELAND AND THE POPE.
Another Letter to be Issued From the
Vatican Soon.
London, May 29.—The London corres
pondent of the Manchester Guardian
says: “The Pope has confirmed the ap
pointment of the Very Rev. Thomas J.
Carr, rector of Mavnoth College, to be
Bishop of Galway, alter lieing Assured
that he was not connected with the agita
tion in Ireland.”
Another encyclical letter will shortly
be issued by the Pope to the faithful in ail
parts ol the world, denouncing secret so
cieties. It will also enjoiri priests to
refuse the sacrament to all persons con
nected-with seditious movements.
Dublin, 3lay 29.—Before mounting
the seaflold yesterday Fagan told a priest
who attended him that lie hoped Irishmen
would avoid secret societies. The letter
sent to the ijueen by the mother ot Fagan,
in which 31rs. Fagan protested the inno
cence of her son, was referred to Earl
Spencer, the Lord Lieutenant, who, how
ever, refused to interfere iu the case of the
condemned man.
Chicago, 3lay 29.—A movement which
has been organized to hold a mass meet
ing of the Irish Catholics of this city to
protest against the Pope’s bull relative to
the participation of the Bishops and
clergy in the Parnell testimonial fund, is
causing some stir among the Irish-Ameri
ean citizens here. There apparently
exists a difference of opinion as to the
wisdom of such a course, the
more conservative urging that
action lie delayed until the
full text.pt the Papal note is known, and
other leaders insisting on immediate ac
tion. The meeting will be held next Tues
day to decide whother the mass meeting
shall be called. The priests interviewed
join in urging that no layman or prelate
should engage in any crusade against the
head of the church,
3lilwaukkk, 31ay 29. —Alexander Sul
livan. Patrick Egan, Fathers Fairbank
and Boylan, and other prominent Irish
men, were enthusiastically received at
the Academy .of 3lusic last night, where
they all spoke 011 Ireland’s cause.
LIFE IN BUSY BRUNSWICK.
The Fair in Retrospect ami a lloroseopy
-of Future Events. •
Brunswick, 3lav 28. —The annual up
heaval is at an end. The progressive little
seaport has outdone herself. Just think of
the comparison: the managers of the State
Fair asked in vain for $2,000 to start a fair,
and little Brunswick dropped other mat
ters long enough to go into a splendid fair
and make $2,000. They ought to have.
Dunn up around Macon. Seems they
have done with State fairs.
Col. Grubb, of the Darien Gazette, came
over with the Darien Fire Company and
went home in great disgust at the way
the company were treated.
I see by the Gazette that the Darien
boys are getting ready for a lot of ex
planations. I trust that the boys will let
up before matters get explained into a
real breach.
The Brunswick boys will acknowledge
anything but an intention to overlook, and
only ask for a chance to make matters
straight by meeting on the Darien green
with engine and reel. The Blackshear
band and 31cIntosh Dragoons expressed
themselves as highly pleased with their
visit, as also the Darien Base Ball Club.
That fiendish pitching and superb catch
ing of the McCulloughs was rather a set
back to the Darien Club, but they accept
ed the fortunes of war like gentlemen,
and were altogether pleased with their
stay in town.
Darien and Savannah ladies carried
away the best premiums for hand needle
work and laces.
Miss Mattie Cullen’s tapestry work was
magnificent and the subject of the most
marked admiration.
Brunswick energy and vim was never
better exemplified than in the number of
contests won by her fire company, her
ball players, band and race horses, and
in the cock-fights (a side issue), she won
eight out of twelve battles,
The Brunswick Rifles are drilling pre
paratory to their first public parade on
the 4th of July. They are in a healthy
financial condition, and the members, who
are of the best material in the city, are
quite confident of coining out on that oc
casion, as the contract of 3lr. P. G. Meara,
of Wanamaker & Brown, guarantees the
uniforms to be ready before the Ist of July.
The measures were taken by Mr. 3leara
for 40 members on the 21st inst,
We are to have a grand Independence
celebration and oration on the glorious
fourth, a parade, and probably, a fire
manic contest,
The stock for a banking company is be
ing rapidly taken up, and the first meet
ing for organization appointed for July 3d.
Anew hotel will positively be built in
this city during the summer. It is in
tended for Northern tourists, and being
built principally by Northern men.
Glynn.
TWO REMARKABLE DREAMS.
Th** 3Vif an<l sinter I|f a Missiinj Mail
Dream that He was Murdered.
Trenton Special -Wir York Times.
Pliilip Harf, a notion dealer in this city,
lias been missing since last Thursday. lie
left for New York on that morning and
lias not returned. His wife tells a singu
lar story. She says her husband was in
the habit of going to New York every
month to pay bills for goods ai;d fo order
new lots. He always stopped at the house
of his parents, in Greenwich street, near
the Courtland street ferry. When he
left home Thursday morning, at 7:30
o’clock, he had in his possession $l4O. He
reached his parents’old home in New York
at 9:30 and remained there until 2:30
o’clock in the afternoon. It was his in
tention then to go and pay his bill, and he
asked liis sister to accompany him. She
was feeling unwell and did not go,
and he then left. This was flie last seen
of him. He had a sister living on Seven
ty-second street, wfioiu fie intended to
visit, and as fie did not ooiiie back to his
parents' house on Thursday night, they
concluded that he had stayed at her
house. Next day a member of the family
visited the sister and found that he had
not been there.
The most singular thing about the whole
affair is the part two dreams play in the
matter. Both the wife in frenton and the
sister in Greenwich street, in New York,
dreamed on Thursday night that they saw
the missing man on a bridge, with a rail
ing on one side of it, struggling with
another man, and saw him fall off while
the other man runaway. Mrs. II art de
scribed her dream in a vivid manner this
morning. She said she had no uneasiness
about tier husband's going a wav when he
left, as he had been in the habit for the
past three or four years of going to New
York every month. But on Thursday
night about midnight she says she
had the dream. She saw him on the
bridge plainly, saw his face, and saw
the man he was struggling tyfth 'the
dream distressed her So that she woke up
and slept very little the remainder of the
night. Next day she felt depressed all
day, and looked forward anxiously for the
hour when he was expected to arrive at
home, lie was to have left .Jersey City at
7 o’clock, and was looked tor at home by
nine. When this hour arrived uhft’ he did
not come the wife gvhtv'iWofe'nneasv, hut
thought he would be hack on the uiidumto
train, and she sat up waitin'- . , ,
K 37*°;- “i’ tin tb ™ ia the morn!
veryllttle V d °"" °" a 10u,, “ e ’ but slept
hilVitt":?™ I"'’ 1 "'’ Wlfagmm came from
7,77 ”• t Y ork asking if he had
ani>ed at home. In greater sus
liense than ever she sent back a tele
gram he had not, and at once started for
>ew lork. \\ hen she arrived at his par
ents house the sister of the missing man,
without knowing anything about Mrs.
Hart s dream, related her own dream.
When she had finished and Mrs. Hart
told her dream both were astounded, the
dreams were most identical, even to ’he
railing on the bridge. The New York po
nce are endeavoring to find some trace of
him. His Vfife thinks he has lieeu mur
derod for his money.
The Oldest Mason Dead.
" ASHINGTOX, May 20.—The Star says:
< apt. Hosea Ballon, aged fH) years yes
terdav. the oldest Freemason in the
United States, died of general debilitv at
b o’clock this morniug iu this city. He
was made a Mason ip the Rising Sun
Lodge at Wounsocket, R. 1., in 1818, and
w;as Maxtor “f his fodge-in 1821, was ex
ulted in the Chapter at Pawtucket the
same year, and was the oldest Mason in
continuous membership in the United
Mates. He was a wealthy manufacturer
in cotton goods in Rhode Island fifty vears
ago. His remains will be taken to Rhode
Island for interment,
Cincinnati's Biggest Tobacco Sale.
Cincinnati, May 29,-The sales ’of
tobacco at the opening of tfae yaw w'are
i'!'SterJav yggwgateil between
sho,oob and 190.000, the largest ottering
ever put up in this market.
JACKSONVILLE APPALLED
A SMALL-I'OX SPECTRE OVER
TOWERING THE CITY.
No Such Consternation Known Even
During the War Panic—The Board of
Health Leaping to the Front—Quar
antines and Stampedes on Every
Hand—Other News Notes.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 28.—At no
time since the last civil war has there
been as much excitement and alarm iu
this city as during the past week over
small-pox. The first Yankee gunboat
that came up the St. John’s river during
the war could not have produced more
uneasiness or a greater scare than the
wild rumors of the scourge have here
within six days. Two weeks ago all
were confident that the worst was
over and the filthy disease had
about ended its course in this
city. In fact it was little heard of any
where except among negroes in the ex
treme suburbs of thecitv, and with a feel
ing of security from a further spread the
disease was but little feared, and all was
apparently quiet until the cool mornings
ot last luesduy, AV eduesday and Thurs
day, when, to the surprise of every one,
the two white ladies .( Miss Lina Bishop
and Mrs. Simmons), who had lieen pros
trated lor a week or so, were reported
worse and soon afterwards died. The for
mer being a sister-in-law of the City
Health Officer, and residing at his house,
naturally gave.rise to alleged careless
less on the part of the authori
ties, and the whole affair was
freely discussed. On Tuesday morn
ing a little negro bootblack, named Hay
ward, appeared on the streets with the
disease tally developed on his person, and
from this hour and case rumors were as
thick as hail. Everybody began to talk and
censure, insinuate and abuse the authori
ties, and add to the scare in one wav and
another, until all was excitement. Ot
course this was all soon known abroad,
and if there is one place that has not
quarantined against Jacksonville you,
Mr. Editor, will att'ord much relief by* let
ing the public here know where it is. The
log camps have even taken fright and shut
us out; the force ol railroad laborers a
tew miles from the city threaten to draw
the line between this city and their
healthy place of rendezvous.’
This excited state of the community has
caused a daily assembling of the Board of
Health and City Council and on Thursday
a meeting of the citizens for the purpose
ot allaying the uneasy feeling of the
people, and to show to the public at largo
that there is 110 necessity for such great
alarm, and next to rid the city of the pes-
tilence. The outlook at present is that
these objects will be accomplished. The
readers of the News may wonder why
this course has not been pursued before,
but wfeen they understand that for the
want of funds by a defective law the
Board of Health were crippled; that the
negroes opposed vaccination and going to
the pest house, actually threatening vio
lence to every official who visited o. inter
rogated them as to the disease, and with a
determination to secrete all cases, it will
at once be perceived with what difficul
ties the authorities had to contend; and it
was found impossible to ever exterminate
tbe disease without some united action,
hence the public meeting Thursday. Here
white and colored men came together,
pledging co-operation in the speedy work
of extermination and a strict observance
ot sanitary laws, especially vaccination
and isolation of infected premises.
At a meeting Saturday a committee of
six gentlemen were appointed to draw up
a memorial, giving the facts of the baleful
scourge, and to forward same to the vari
ous towns, with a view to having the
quarantine against this city raised. About
$1,300 were collected among the citizens
Friday, to be used iu the work of extermi
nation,
The latest from the Health Officer is as
follows; Number of cases (not in pest
house ) in city and county under treat
ment, 12; of these three are in LaVilla—
one white and two colored; four in the
city—one white and three colored; five in
the county, near pest house, all colored.
There are also six cases in the country,
all except two of which are convalescent.
At the pest house there are about twen
ty-three cases under charge of Dr. Bab
cock, six of whom will be discharged this
week.
The last case in the city is that of a
seven-year-old daughter of D.*C. Dawkins,
Bsq. Himself, three children and a lady
physician are confined to the house where
the sick child is. About two weeks since
Judge Dawkins’ wife died, after a long ill
ness, and now his family visited with this
loathsome scourge, and cut off from all
society of friends or relatives, is truly a
sad condition for one of his years and cir
cumstances to be placed in' Re has the
heartfelt sympathy of all, but more es
pecially the .Masonic order, of which he is
a distinguished and honored member.
The disease and quarantine together
have proved rather hurtful to every class
of business in this city. The dullness was
never exceeded before by any scare.
Trade is at a low ebb, and many feel blue
and despondent, seeing, as they do, a
duller summer than was anticipated by
any one. It is always a long and inactive
season here from July to October, but this
year it commenced with May, and heaven
only knows the end.
Excited people up the St.Mohn’s river
refused to receive the mails the past week,
and consequently thev have had nothing
but rumor and excitement to judge how
bad we have the small-pox, and it is not
half so bad as they imagine.
A passenger, coming front Pensacola to
this city the past week, was informed at
Lake City that 75 eases of snmlbpox made
their appearance here in three days. And
fhus it is all around, 3 cases grow into 75
in traveling 00 miles.
Hundreds of negroes have left the city,
some through fright and others to work on
railroads, etc.
From gentlemen coming to the city
from South Florida, your corres
pondent learns that there is much disap
pointment in that section at the suspen
sion of the usual summer cattle trade.
The cause is said to he the high price at
which cattle are held, aud'thO heavy
charges for transporting them to Havana.
Last summer sl2 would buy the best, now
they are held at irom sls to $lB per head.
.The steamers engaged in this business
have been withdrawn from the route, and
are seeking employment elsewhere. Some
charge that all the shipping cattle have
fallen into the hands of spec
ulators, who demand more than
will be paid far siieh stock.
Inquiring if this did nof keep away all the
ino.hey aud people, we were replied to in
the negative, and the matter tints
explained: "South Florida never did
have such a boom in land be
fore, and thousands of dc,liars are
paid out there weekly for land, and as for
people, the woods tiib fall of faein, in
search of land to buy t'.y these sales,”
sgid the gentleman, “the people will man
age to get through all right.”
Polk county has done a handsome real
estate business during the past few
months, and large bodies of the ifisston
purchase have changed bauds. " Live real
estate agents and H niilr'oad wiH give UIIV
county a hp%i. ” a w
J<* a few days the new railroad talk
eonst n ll '* l UlCt ‘, l,lll ‘ >a,lee samee” does the
oousUn. ion of the Jacksonville, Tampa
mid Key \V r est and International Rail
roads go ahead. The weather being fa
vorable and workmen healthy, the work
of both roads Is being pushed to its ut
most,
Regular trains arrive and depart on the
new St. Augustine Railroad, though little
business is being done by it vet, but next
winter it expects a perl ?ct bonanza, and
should it pan out well a suspension
bridge may span the mighty St. John’s.
The railroad from Jacksonville to St.
John’s bar has not been commenced yet
but about all the capital stock has been
taken. When finished, a seaside town
Will spring up at its eastern terminus. It
is hlghiy important that not only Jackson
ville, but the inhabitants of all the river
towns should have a place of lost in sum
iiicr on our const) w|i6rc they cun rccu
lierafa find enjoy the refreshing and in
vigorating sea breeze. Every family, even
with limited means, can purchase a lot
and erect a temporary building tor sum
mer use there, and business men can
oit\' ld tU<i UlgUt there and the day in the
Hay after day the steamers on the St.
John s river depart with heavy cargoes of
freight for the up river country, and many
w onder what becomes of all the goods
shipped up into that section. Non” un
less they travel through that country, can
realize the vast improvements that have
been made there w ithin the past few vears
Nearly everybody on the river Is engaged
in fruit culture, and these facts show t"hat
the demand for lruit increases each vear
and prices keep up. The past winter
good oranges wfere Sold ait from $2 to $2 an
per hundred, fte money received for
the. fruit last winter is now purchasin''
the goods which are being forwarded hr
every boat. If a man has his orange
grove he is independent, and can make
the grove more valuable every year.
The visit to this city of 3lessrs. Haines,
Owens and £iylor, a short time since,
disabused the minds of the few who saw
so much in their management of freights
etc., as to accuse them and the Wavcross
Railway of discriminating against this
city and merchants, by transporting
freight from SavAnnah to Palatka at the
same price it is sent from Jacksonville to
1 alatka. These railroad gentlemen as
sured all with whom thev came in eon
tact that in nowise did they or the trans
portation lines with whicti they are con
nected desire to at all do anything against
the prosperity of Jacksonville or its mer
chants. That the welfare and prosperity
ot this city was as much a benefit to their
lines as it was to those engaged in busi
ness here.
One thing is certain,the Wavcross Road
has been a great blessing to Jacksonville
as well as the balance of Florida. It has
lowered passenger and freight charges,
and afforded the shortest and quickest
transportation ever enjoyed bv the State,
atlording ample accommodation for all
classes of freight without delay, a thin"
never accomplished bv any line—either on
laud or water—for Florida before. There
is nothing like a personal visit and a chat
irom railroad men to correct wron" im
pressions.
Good news comes from Sanford relative
to the Plant syndicate. Mr. J. E In
graham, President of the South Florida
Railroad Company, just returned from
New 1 01 k, says contracts have been made
to secure iron enough to complete the
South L lorida Railroad from Kissimmee to
Tampa, and also for seven new loco
motives, to be delivered in August next,
and also tor two hundred new ears, in
cluding ten passenger coaches. On June
15 work will commence at Tampa, at
which place a line wharf of creosotod
timber will be built. One thousand tons
of rails will lie forwarded there
next week. Work on the new line
is to lie commenced next month
both at Kissimmee and Tampa. In this
South Florida is most fortunate, and it
will open a prosperity for that section
that will be worth to it millions of dollars,
and, as a matter of course, Jacksonville
conies in for a share of this prosperity, to
which all will be indebted to the Plant
Investment Company and its skillful
Ipinagement.
The reported failurfc of 3lr. A. St. CTair-
Abrams, of Orange county, is wholly
without foundation, as the letter of
Colonel J. J. Daniel, his attor
ney, published a few days since,
fully shows. The rumor was current
here several days before contradicted,
It caused some uneasiness among 3ir.
A.’s friends, but his dispatch and letter of
his attorney was sufficient to smother the
injurious report which was published first
l>v R. G. Dun & Co.’s New York 3lercan
tile Agency, and republished in other pa
pers. In this city Col. J. J. Daniel’s
word is beyond the suspicion of doubt—it
is good.
1 he temperance people seem to have got
the liquor dealers under the hack, so to
speak, as one informed your correspond
ent yesterday that a majority of them
would not attempt to renew their licenses
as they saw it was so difficult to get a
properly signed petition.
A family in which a member had died
ol small-pox made their escape 11 few
days since through the back way while
the guard was watching iu the front.
’I he family got aboard the YVaycross train
and put out for Boston before their al>-
sence was discovered.
Only four deaths in the city the past
week—two white and two colored.
i lie public schools have all closed for
the season.
The City 3larshal will open fire every
day this week upon eats and dogs.
Express messengers run through from
this city to Pensacola. The first one went
through last week,
The cigar makers are in a rush, and
every man that can roll up tobacco is
busy. One firm has one hundred and
twenty-five men employed.
About twenty-three miles of the Jack
sonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad,
between Jacksonville and Palatka, has
lieen graded. Five hundred men are at
work on this road. Cyclops.
WHMPE SULPHUR SPRINGS CASE.
A Decision by Chief Justice Waite as to
Jurisdiction.
Washington Post.
Chief Justice Waite, who as Judge of
the l nited States Circuit Court lor West
A irginia, bas been in Parkersburg taking
testimony in the famous White Sulphur
Springs case, involving a conflict of juris
diction between tlmt nnd the District
Court, has rendered his decision. This
decision is: “That the Circuit Court
has jurisdiction over all the nrou
erty except the two acres next to
j!‘ e . depot of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, it is based upon the
ground that 111 the first ease of Hodges
& Brothers against the defendant com
pany, when the suit was dismissed, there
was no order entered of record releasing
property from custody, although tho at
torney of the plgintifls notified the Mar
shal that the suit was dismissed, and as
there was no appearance by the defendant
that he should not hold the property anv
longer under that order. It was conceded
that the District Court had possession iff
the property in the second suit of Hodges
& Brothers against sniff defendant
company. lieforp the order was made
in the t’uouit Court, in the ease of
Stewart vs, said defendant company
in which the receiver was appointed but
inasmuch as the Circuit Court Lad mado
no order releasing the AJarahal from the
custody of the property pt the first case
iff Hodges ft Brothers against the de
fendant company, that court (the Circuit >
claimed the possession of the property
and Judge Waite, upon this ground, held
that the Circuit Court had jurisdiction
The Judge of the District CoVrt will a te
point a receiver far the two acres of
ground, which is saiff to bo worth SIOO,OOO
and publish his views in a dissenting
opinion at no distant day.
The Brooklyn Bridge,
Hartford Times,
■JI i mak ! l he tw u practically one,
and benefit tq eiifier part will help the
otfier. A question of the moment is, who
first suggested the bridge? The claim of
Horace Greeley’s old partner, 3ir McEl
rath, ante-dates any other yet made
early as 1849 he proposed in the Tribune.
a structure of the general character of
the one now completed. His suggestion
attracted the attention of John A
thmlaht^ 1 tn 'n'° hat * S iv oli some
thought to -the same matter him
self. In 1850 Mr. Roebling put his
ideas into shape and sketched a
bridge that would cost about $2,000,000.
fourteen years later the project was act
ually undertaken under UoehUng>B dirao
ro°*B irufeuf * a d increased
to SB,OOO m The actual cost has run un
to in round figures. The first
wofk was done in January, 1870, so the
actual labor on the bridge bas occupied
twelve years and four months. All La*
been done under the directfcm
u ‘h t, ,ngton W- having
tower isSITM? „ , '•‘■at the height of the
. -eet the he,ght of the maiu
:.‘ mD -■ the middle of the river is 135 feet,
tiio length of the main span is 1,505 feet
the total length of the bridge is 5,989 feet!
the total length of wire used is over 14 000
miles, the weight of the four cables is
3,;>BS tons, and the sustaining power of
each is 12,200 tons, or 48.000 tons for all.
The cables are believed to be good for a
hundred years at least, so very few New
A orkers or Brooklynites of to-day need
worry almut the bridge breaking
down in their time anvway. And vet
there are a good many who probably
wall never use it, through fear of a smash
and a souse in the East river, just as
there are some who have not yet worked
up nerve enough to ride on tiie elevated
railroads. Most of the timid ones as to
the railroads are elderly women. Hun
dreds of these still put up with the slow
street cars, rather than risk their dear
old necks on the gridiron structures above.
Ihe train on the bridge will run at inter
vals of five minutes, and, when every
thing is ship shape, a trip from Union
square to Brooklyn city hall can be made
in from twenty-five to thirty minutes
One of the unique public resorts of Lon
donis W anstead park, on the outskirts
of the city. This park consist* a* one
hundred and eighty-four acres There is
in it a large lake, in wiuoh are several
islands. Hie wUdle park is simplv agi
At this time of the ye*r,
w hen the herons are hatching their young,
v * 8 *ted by large numbers of
citizens, ot whom the b4r<is have very lit.
ue lear. * % *
blue is decided by M.
ti,uckelberger to be a true definite chemi
ca,l compound, requiring lbr its forma
tion a temperature about the melting
point of *inc, and toward the end of
the process even a still higher decree of
heat. °
T“.Vo woman really practices econo
my unless she uses the Diamond Dyes
Asklhedrugist? ** BaVed ever ?
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FRANCE’S WAR IN ASIA.
TWELVE THOUSAND REIN
FORCEMENTS FROM COCHIN.
Two Thousand Troops Already Em
barked at Toulon—More to Follow
Soon—Gen. Kouet to Hold Hl* Posi
tion—Annexation Not Contemplated—
Other Events in Europe.
Paris, May 21). — Le Temps estimates
the number of troops who are to be sent
to Tonquin at once from Cochin China at
12,000. This force, it says, will enable
General Bouet, the French commander,
to maintain his position at Hanoi until
the arrival of the force to be sent out from
France. The latter is expected to reach
there about July 10.
Toulon, May 29.—About 2,000 troops
have embarked here for Tonquin.
London, May 29.—Lord Edmund Fitz
maurice, Under Secretary for the Foreign
Department, stated in the House of Com
mons this evening in response to an in
quiry, that no protest had been addressed
by the government to France in regard to
the recent attack by the French on the
Madagascan forces at W a Juuga and the
capture of that place.
It is reported here that the French Gov
ernment have assured Great Britiau that
they do not intend to annex Thnquin, but.
that they will uphold their treaty rights
and exact full satisfaction from the Em
peror of Annam at the capital of that,
country.
ltuMSia’s Coronation Fete*.
Moscow, May 29,-The Emperor and
Empress received the congratulations to
day ot the civil aud military officials, the
Mayors;°f cities and members of the no
bility. Lord W'olseley, representative of
the British army, and General Von Wer
der, the German military envoy, attended
the reception. Monsignor Vaunutell, the
1 apal Nuncio, was presented to their Ma
jesties to-day. General Von Schwelnltz,
the German Ambassador, gave a banquet
to the German Princes this evening.
Pktkrsbu U(i, Mav 29.—A govern
ment messenger announces that owing to
the great throngs impeding traffic on the
main streets the illuminations of this
evening will be prohibited.
Gladstone on the Session.
London, May 29.— At a meeting of the
Liberal party to-day, Premier Gladstone
announced that it would be necessary' to
drop for the present session the govern
ment s Dill lor remodelling the corpora
tion ot the city of London. He said that
lie could not expect that this would be a
. brilliant session, but he thought that it.
would be a good one and not a discredit
able one.
Suez's New Canal.
Paris, May 29.—The Suez Canal Com
pany and the British Government have
arrived at an understanding in regard to
the construction of the second canal
across the isthmus. The arrangement
must receive the approval of the share
holders of the company before it can be
carried out.
The Alabama Award Surplus.
London, May 29.—M. KenuartL Mem
l>er ot Parliament, has been strongly
urged not to withdraw his motion in rela
tion to the disposition of the surplus of
thfi Alabama award. It will therefore
probably remain upon the paper.
Capital Punishment for Switzer*
. Zurich, May 20,-The people of Zu
ncli have, by a popular vote, sanctioned
the bill providing for the restoration of
capital punishment.
The Memphis Avalanche, noticing Han
cock’s recent call upon the President, re
marks, most likely in pure fun, that ‘‘his
\lr,.h a A Ikk! b V lt l he Whlt House,
March 4, 1864, when he will proceed to
deliver his inaugural address.” in the
way of projffiecy the foregoing is pretty
lair, but it is just possible that General
Hancock may not deliver the aforesaid
inaugural address. The mill won’t run
with the water that Is past.
The number of savings banks in France
ih 541, which have besides 794 branches
lhey comprise about 3,500,000 depositors’
of whom 2,500,000 possess sums below 500
irancs, 360,000 from 500 to 800 francs .250.
OWfromHOO to 1,000 francs, and 290,000
above 1,900 franca. The share of Palis in
these depositors is 500,550, of whom 120 -
171 arc workmen, 55,693 domestic servants,
21,71. trade assistants, 10,811 soldiers and
sailors, 133,837 professionals, 158,324
minors and 507 benerit societies.
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WHAT HE FOUND.
The Philosopher Slanders His Stom
ach Because it Rebelled Against
111 Treatment—People
Who Dream.
Having told the story of that terrible mental
struggle in hie earlier years, which ended in
his abandoning orthodoxy in religion, the late
Thomas Carlyle ended with these words:
“Yes, I was shut up in my room m that way
for weeks, eating little, and that at all sorts of
odd times, and when I settled the faith ques
tion, and came out to the world again, for the
tlrst time in my life I was conscious of pos
sessing such an infernal apparatus as a slam -
ach." It may be added that during the rest
of his long life chronicdys|.epsiakept the fact
of the existence ot his stomach perpetually in
the great man’s mind.
Disordered digestion and a torpid liver
handicap multitudes of people in life’s race.
They are beaten everywhere. With their
liver engorged with blood and their brain
fuddled through lack of nutrition, they pass
through the world like them that dream.
Thus enf jehled and flaccid in spirit and body,
they are tl.e tlrst to fall liefore the touch of an
to yield to any illness. Many a
vacant chair in editorial rooms, in business
offices and iii the studies of literary men tells
this taltK
Nature’s ow n stimulus for a sluggish circu
lation of the blood is BENSON’S CAPCINE
POROUS PLASTER, it stirs the dull organs
into activity, relieves them from the poison
ous matter which paralyzes their powers and:
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Without being harntW, the old stylo pfe*.
ters are always stow, weak and uncertain.
ut lie 'VJUi’s Capeine acts quickly and healo
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