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t ESTABLISHED 1850. I
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ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FGORIIJA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PIT IN TYPE.
Eastman’s Keoeiit Epidemic—An Egg
Shaped Like a Skull—A Bushel of
Dead Rats—An Important Suit Insti
tuted by the Pensacola Railroad Com
pany.
OEC'C A.
Sparta wants a fire company.
Alapaha wants a turpentine still.
Swine are fine in Franklin county.
Wildcats are prowling atwni’ Uoloid.
Americus' artesian well t down 125 feet.
There were no deaths in Macon last week.
It rained in Wayneshore fifteen days during
dune.
liog cholera still raging in i.aureus
county.
Thomastou's new school building is highly
spoken of.
Waynesboro cools oil’ with 26,000 tons of ice
per month.
Barnesville has a guinea egg shaped like a
human skull.
The Tweuty-tbird Georgia Regiment meets
at Canton to-day.
An exhibition of colts is iu progress at
Washington t-dav.
Tlie la scoot Hancock arc urged to organ
ize an agricultural dub.
The small-pox of last April and May cost
.Sumter county alxjut ssu>.
Both the Baptist Church and the jail at
t anion arc nearing completion.
The small-pox in Grangerville some weeks
ago cost Macon county $1,226 16.
•Scriven county’s camp meeting will lie held
at simpson’s Chapel September .!.
Home claims that her population lias in
creased 25 per cent, in four \cars.
I is.in count} jail is unoccupiedat tlii- time,
aud it is only two weeks to court.
The Cutbbert Light Infantry are to lie bene
fited by a fair, which will continue open all
this week.
Jones, the wife murderer, who was recently
executed, made 2<j Inks of cotton in IsSO with
a blind horse.
••Fate" Dorsey, colored, is reported mur
dered iu McDuilic county, but the rumor has
not lieen verified.
Lemuel Parker, an old citizen of Svlvania,
is dead. Mrs. HI ins McClellan, of the same
connty, is also dead.
At t.reshauiviilc one of Major Gresham's
Berkshire hogs killed a mule by stabbing him
with one of his tusks.
Two gentlemen in l exington have formed a
partnership and will build a $1,500 brick build
ing on the old hotel corner.
Key. .1. B. Morton, of Sparta, has a rare
collection of old coins, some of which are said
In lie almost as old as the hills.
One thousand three hundred glasses of
lemonade were sold by one man on one day
at the Joneslioro commencement.
sparta believes that a street car line run
ning from the depot to Court House street
would prove a profitable investment.
I.am Robinson, of Burke county. reports
that a short time since he killed 350 rats in
hi- barn. and that they measured a level
bushel
At Texas Valley. Floyd county, a mule
kicked a -mall colored India the stomach as
he was falling off his back, and caused the
Isiv's death.
Kate Jones, a colored girl, living near Lees
burg. was killed by a falling tree a few days
ago. _.\n infant which she was carrying
iscapPl injury.
The Cuthliert cotton factory is tola* im
proved In the addition of new machinery.
The thread manufactured by the company is
said to Ik- in great demand in the North.
Sear Waynesboro a snake stung a mule on
the nose and the quadrujicd died from the
effects, leaving his owner, William ltayuian,
a poor but industrious citizen, without any
animal to do his plowing.
The malaria epidemic at the Uplands Hotel,
at Kastman, is attributed to bad drainage,
and not to drawing the water off the marsh
land near by. The hotel is to be overhauled
by an experienced plumlier.
At WaynesiJirn. a week ago last >aturdav
there was a reunion of the family of lion. M..
.1. Carswell, of licphzibali, at w hich there
were pre-cut nineteen children and grand
children. and with Mr. and Mrs. Carswell,
making twenty-one iu all.
Cpsoncomity ha- thirty-seven free schools,
twenty-four white and thirteen colored, and
teachers are all graded and paid according
to grades. There are a first grade white
teachers. 13 second grade and 5 third grade: 2
second grade colored teachers. 6 third and 5
fourth graile.
The residence of Captain Kingsbery, at
tjiutii.r -struck by lightning on Saturday
last, out olitmucy was knocked partially
down, a pirtion of" the roof was torn off and
several vi inflow blinds were badly damaged.
The familv were all in the house, but none of
them fell the shock.
William Potts, of Jefferson. Jackson county,
lia- closed out the trade for his farm to Mr.
Bailey, of Banks county. The price i> $7,500 for
siii—a" little over s3spqr acre. The farm is a part
• if the Ben. Burns tract, and lies at the mouthof
Parts’creek, " I . h empties into the North
liconet river, ust below Burns' mills.
Denrts Williams, a negro desperado, who
shot Alder mar itolierts some time since, in
the upper part of Wilkes county, anil for
whom a reward had been offered bv the Bov
•■rtmr. vv;t- eaptured by sheriff McNeil and
Mitchell Itricc. at sDuioustee, Florida, on
Wednesday last, and is now In jail at Quit
man.
A svlvania colored woman who pushed a
white’lady off the sidewalk has been -ca
lcined to’pay a line of twenty-five dollars,
serve ten days in jail, and placed under a bond
of three hnndri J dollars to answer to aeharge
of ...... .m.i battery at the next term of the
superior <•' rt ihe colored women of the
town are said to have become very insulting
and a_-rressive of late.
The August a AVim says: “A writer in the
last issue of the Washington tlazftt*. in a very
well written article, attempts to show the ad
vantages of making the Augusta and Elber
ton Railroad a narrow gauge. The writer is
wasting his time anti talents in this matter.
The Augusta and Klberton Roatl is destined
for a trunk liue between the West and South
east, and no narrow gauge road will suffice.
The people who have the enterprise in band
are determined to make, it a broad gauge road,
and they will succeed. Money put in an en
terprise"of this sort Ls not done merely to pass
away time. A narrow gauge road would lie
money thrown away, and this the stockhol
ders -In not propose to do.”
FLORIDA.
Jacksonville’s police force was reduced to
ten men on Sunday. July Ist.
The states that brew no beer are Arkansas,
Florida. Maine. Mississippi and Vermont.
The Brand Lodge Knights of Honor of the
state uf Florida will meet at Gainesville on
the'lsth inst.
Within the past three months three banks
'have been established at saaford, and all are
doing good business.
Rev. W. 11. McCormick, pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Gainesville, died al that
place Friday afternoon, of typhoid fever.
Among the imports into Jacksonville Inst
month w ere 1.471 tons and 2,1152 bars of rail
road iron. 514 tons and l.;ino hales of hay. 497>
barrels and 160 bags fertilizers, 1,610 tons of
-tone and 412 tons of ice.
One day recently at Pensacola, there were
present in quarantine, twenty-three vessels
hailing from infected ports and i*rts em
braced in the proclamation of the Board of
Health as subject to quarantine restrictions.
At Breenville Friday night, as the audience
were leaving the City Hall, aftef the com
mencement exercises, the stairway gave way.
precipitating twenty-live people a distance of
twenty-live feet. No one was seriously in
jured."
The liisston Land Company has been mak
ing some important changes. The office of
General Manager has been abolished, ami
Col. Dunn as Vice President goes to Loudon
in the interest of the company. Ex-Gov
•-rnor safford. Land Commissioner, is suc
ceeded by Col. W. Forties.
During the month of June there were 3.X04.-
2t*i feet of yellow pine, lumlier shipped from
Jacksonville. <f tin- amount 3,423.uuu feet
went to domestic and 441,2112 feet went to for
eign |H>rts. During the month of June, 1881,
there were shipped 6.591.0C0 feet of lumber,
and for the same month last year 7,502,000
feet.
A meeting of the directors of the Pensacola
Railroad company was held at Pensacola
Saturday at which it was decided to institute
suit for the recovery from the Louisville ami
Nashville Railroad "company of tlie property
of the Pensacola Railroad Company now in
possession of the former company for the
breach of the condition ui>on which said prop
erty was acquired by the l-ouisville
and Nashville Railroad Company;
and also to bring an additional suit for a like
cause and purpose in the < >nris <if Alabama
for the recovery of the p*~c--ion of the IVn
-arola ami Selma Railroad from the Louis
v ilk* pud Nashville Railroad. These suits,
f successful, will leave the bondholder- of the
luisvtlie and Nashville minus of securities
open which they relied to the extent of at
east a million of dollars.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Mall service to Colston post office in Barn
well county has been discontinued.
Kx-Governor Hagood’s hay and stock farm,
in the Saluda section of Edgefield is said to be
The largest and liuest in the state.
Mrs. V. E. Singletary ts the pioneer of
Marion county in -ilk culture. She has many
thousands of these delicate laborers at work.
Col. D, P. Duncan, of Union county, has
been apjsuuled to the office of Railroad Com
missioner. made vacant by the death <>f ex-
G.ivemor Jeter.
A negro man while shifting the switch last
Saturday in Florence, got his foot caught and
before the train could be stopped he was run
over amt killed.
Mr. Samuel \V. Mobley, who removed from
< hesler county to Brazil. In 186 ft, lias recently
returned, satisfied to spend the rest of his life
in South Carolina.
since the Ist of last November Mr. IV. C.
Latimer, of Yorkville, has bought and shipped
to the Chester Cotton Seed Oil Mill 51 car
loads, or 18,600 bushels of cotton seed.
On Tuesday, lth ultimo. Mr. D. S. McCul
lough, of llotiea Path, had too bushel-or more
of oats burned while they were beingthreshcd.
The fire was caused by a coal dropping from
the ash pan of the engine.
The South Carolina Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals "was given large
power- by the Legislature. They recently
had a man prosecuted for cruelty and sent to
the penitentiary for three years.
The Directors of the Darlington National
Savannah morning news
Bank have declared a semi-annual dividend
of $4 per share, and have added to their sur
plus so that it now amounts to *IO.OOO, or 20
per cent, of their capital stock.
Lewis Sullivan, colored, one of the victims
of the recent boiler explosion in Greenville
county, is reported dead, and it is not thought
that there is anv chance for Elisha Wilson,
colored, who, if possible, was more seriously
injured than Sullivan. Benjamin Cox is also
very low.
The trustees of the John F. Slater Educa
tional Fund have appropriated #20,000 to be
divided during the coming year among such
schools as arc best fitted to nelp young colored
people to become useful to their" race, prefer
ence I icing given to those institutions which 1
furui-h industrial education.
A universally lieloved professor of Charles- !
ton says he lielieves staying at home, even i
during the summer vacation, and spending
hi- money where he makes it.helping the poor
people right around him. He would occa
-ionallv go out fishing, and help a poor man j
-truggling for existence by hiring his boat.
The entire community of Charleston
went in mourning " Thursday for j
General James Connor, and at three
••’clock every store vva- closed and busi
ness entirely suspended. Large numbers
visited the coffin, covered with wreaths and
choicest flowers, which was lying in state at
the heavily draped City Hall, and in charge
of a guard of honor.
Judge Aldrich, previous to passing sent
ience on tlie convicts at the June term of the
court for Marlboro county, said the peniten
tiary apparently was no disgrace to the negro,
ami he was fast coming to the conclusion that'
the only way to reach their conscience was
through the skin, and thaL south Carolina j
would have to resort to the whipping post in
order to alia} the propensity for committing J
crime.
tin Saturday morning, says the Charleston
A < tuliiy AVuw, Mr. John H. Campsen, the mas
ter of the <'iij- almshouse, committed suicide
in hi- room in the almshouse building by
shooting himself with a pistol. The discovery
of the I suiting of a little child by Mr. Camp
sen. and notice from the Commissioners of the
Almshouse that his resignation would be ac
cepted. it is thought, led to the act. Camp
bell was a German, and was forty-three years
old. He leaves a widow and two children.
The work of improving the navigation of
Wateree river lias been renewed. Captain
Rhodes, who lias charge of the government
steamer engaged in the work, says that the
\\ ateree i- susceptible of being made an ex
cellent stream for puritoscsof navigation, and
Hunk- the present appropriation of *15,0u0 I
will go far towards completing the work. The I
first appropriation for this purpose was *B,(KX‘, j
w Inch, w it!i the present appropriation, makes
#23,000 already set aside for the improvement
of the 5\ ateree.
Governor Thompson has announced the ap
pointment of the following lioard of regents
of tlie State Lunatic Asylum: IV. B. Stanley,
Columbia; A. H. Hayden, Charleston; Jolin
i . H ilson. Newberry; John T. Rliett, Colum
bia; John IS. Erwin, Lancaster Courthouse;
Anthony White, Sumter Courthouse; Dr. B.
'N • ravjor, Columbia; John J. Ingram, Man
ning; \\ . J. Gooding. Hamilton Courthouse.
These gentlemen will serve six years. Form
erly most of the regents were appointed from
Richland county, but the Revised statutes,re
cently adopted, prescribe that one shall be ap
tminted from each Congressional district, and
two from Columbia.
WEALTHYSTARROUTE JURORS.
Building Houses and Taking Trips to
Summer Resorts on Their Savings.
Washington Special, 90th.
It has been quietly whispered about
here for a day or two that there were in
dications that several of the star route
jurors "had more substantial reasons for
their verdict for the defense than those
presented in open court by the attorneys
on that side. The sturv was that Juror
Horigan. who it will lie remembered was
the last to consent to a verdict of acquit
tal, has lieen led to suspect that there
were arguments which he did not hear,
and that the ett'ects of these arguments
are visible in the sudden improvement I
in circumstances on the part of several j
jurymen.
I called on him to-day to ask him in a '
general way about the'reports, and found
him very willing to talk. He had just
finished his week’s work at his black
smithing shop, and hud dotted his leathern
apron, paid his assistants and was about
to go home.
"1 have a daughter,” he said, “who is
quite delicate, and it is a pleasure to me
to be with her and to do all I can to make
her comfortable.”
“Do you hear much said of the star
route trial. Mr. Horigan?”
“Not very much,” he answered, “and
as 1 heard nothing else for six months, I j
am rather glad of a rest in that direction."
"Have you had any reason since the
case ended to doubt the justice of the ver
dict?”
"Well, I don’t know about that,” he
said, uneasily, as he liegan to walk bath
and forth across the floor of his shop. “1
heard nothing which had an* such effect
till quite recently. I was the last man to
consent to the verdict, you know. There
were three of us who voted for conviction !
at first. Some things that I have heard
and some that have lieen said to me cer
tainly do sou ud a little queer.”
“For instance, I was on the boat going
down the river the other day, and a man
who said he was in the employ of Dorsev
came to me and began to talk.
“ ’Your name is Horigan,’ he said, ’isn't
it?’ I said yes. that it was.
‘“Well,* he said, ‘you are not verv
bright or you might have done a good deal
lietter than you did on the star route
jury.’
•• *llow so?’ I asked; ‘I don’t under
stand you.’
*• ‘Why,' said he, ‘you might as well
have made a couple of thousand out of it
as not.*
“ ‘ln what way?’ I asked.
“ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘if you hadn’t been so
hard to approach you might have made
money out of it.’
"I pressed him for more details, but he
suddenly shut up with the remark that
he had said too much already. 1 was
unable to get anything more from him.”
“Have you seen any indications of a
sudden accession of wealth among the
members of the jury?”
"Well, some rather curious circum
stances have come" to my knowledge. 1
bear that one colored man, who was a
day laborer and was supposed to tie with
out anything, is now prepared to build
him a house. How he could be able to do
this out of his salary as a juror I don’t
see." *■
"What did the jury get?"
“From $8 to $lO a week apiece. The pay
was $2 a day, and some weeks we sat four
days and some five.
"Then, too, 1 have observed that some
of the jurors, who were so hard run that
they had to draw their salary as jurors
every few days, are now able to go off to
Summer resorts and indulge in protracted
sprees, all of which eost more than men
without means can afford.
“1 know that I lost nearly $1,0(X4 iu iny
business by my connection with the jury,
and I doii’t exactly understand bow
others could feel very rich over it."
Mr. Horigan said in the course of the
conversation that he knew he was fol
lowed and watched during his connection
with the trial, though for what purpose
he did not know. lie Is very much dis
turbed because ot the course of certain
papers in alluding to aim as a drunkard.
They confound him with Vernon.
Tlie Flooded Mines.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 2.—The
Conylinghiuu and Balt mines are now en
tirely flooded, the water being over 200
feet deep on the floor. The embankment
on the upiier link of the main track of the
Delaware and Hudson Coal Company’s
road has caved in, and the track has
fallen down, and another house is in im
minent danger. The inflow of water has
l>een checked, and it will take six weeks
to pump the water from the mines.
Shot by His Wife’s Lover.
At burn, N. Y., July 2.—Abram Cop
pernall, a farmer of the town of Victory,
was shot three times with a large navy
revolver by Louis French, a young farm
laborer, suspected of intimacy with Cop
pernall’s wife. The wife was present at
the shooting, and ordered French to fire.
Both French and Mrs. Uoppernall are un
der arrest. The victim will die. All
three shots took effect in his body.
A Strike at New Orleans.
New Orleans. July 2.— The mechanics
and machinists in the'shops of the Texas
and Pacific Railroad struck to-day. They
bad lieen working ten hours a day for $3.
Tin* railroad company decided that the
icn should work only eight hours, and
be paid by the hour or $2 50 per day, 50c.
less than they had been paid for ten hours
work. The men refusttlto work on these
terms.
V Desperado Shot I>el by a Mayor.
DEnvER, Col., July a.—A dispatch
from Maysville says that yesterday
morning “Doe” Baker came to town and
amused himself by shooting into several
buildings. The City Constable being ab
sent, Mayor John Martin undertook to
stop the disturbance, when Baker com
menced firing at him. The Mayor then
shot Baker four times, killing him.
War on the Telephone.
Oshkosh, Wis., July 2.—The city
authorities and telephone'men are at war,
and to-day a number of telephone poles
and wires were cut down by the former.
Litigation is expected.
Call on your Optician and get a pair of
the celebrated Celluloid Eye-Glasses. The
frames are light, handsome and durable,
and the lenses clear and brilliant. Fot
sale by all kailing Jewelers and Opti
cians.
El AM'S LIFE IN DANGER.
NO FLOW OF PUS YND BLOOD
I’OISON INC FEARED.
The Bullet Extracted Sunday, but no
Tube Inserted—The Wound More Ful
ly Described—Lieutenant Governor
Lewis Very Anxious—The Patient
Hopeful—An Ominous Outlook.
Richmond, Va.. July 2. —lnformation
received here this morning from Lieuten
ant Governor Lewis’ residence, in Rock
ingham county, where Mr. Elam was
taken after being wounded in his duel on
Saturday with R. F. Beirne, states that
Mr. Elam’s condition is critical, and that
his wound is much more aggravated than
was at first rejiorted. The ball struck
near the right hip, passed inward and
downward through the body and lodged
in the left thigh, passing in its course
very near the bladder. The bnllet was
extracted last evening.
Harrisonburg, Ya„ July 2.—Lieuten
ant Governor Lew is, at whose house \V.
C. Elam lies wounded, was here to-day.
He is very uneasy about him. I)r. Wheat,
his physician, says that he may tie about
in ten days, or may be dead. Pyaemia is
tired from the clogging of the wound,
no tube lias yet been inserted to give
flow to the pus. Sloughing is also feared
by reason of the proximity of the wound
to the femoral artery.
Staunton, Va., July 2.—Mr. Elam’s
wound is much more serious than was at
flrst apprehended. After his removal
Irom the field to the residence ot Air.
Lewis a closer examination disclosed that
the ball had entered the right thigh near
the junction of the upper third and lower
two-thirds of the femur. After strik
ing the Ihiuo it ranged back
ward and upward through the
peritoneum and lodged iu tlie left
groin, from whence it was extracted.
1 here lias lieen no paralysis and no se
rious injury to the large vessels. The pa
tient’s spirits are good, lie, himself, dis
covered w here the ball was lodged. It is
thought that some foreign substances have
been left in the track of the bullet, such
as particles of clothing and splinters of
bone. The ball, however, was but little
battered. The wound, while not necessa
rily fatal, is a very serious one.
GOV. BUTLER’S THORN Y PATH.
He Refuses to Adjourn the Legislature,
and Speaks His Mind.
Boston, July 2.— Gov. Butler has sent
a long message to the Legislature, refus
ing to adjourn that body to August 27, as
requested by the committee. He states
that he is astonished to hear the reason,
namely, that the Legislature might act
upon the report of the commit
tee which has been investigating
the charges against the management
of the Tewkesbury almshouse made
by the Governor. He claims to have
made no changes. The investigation, he
says, was prompted by legislative action
and he appeared before the committee
in support of the evidence he had to offer,
lie declined to put any charges
iu writing, as it was not
his duty to do so. The State board has.
carried out the reforms he sought to ac
complish. and he asks why, for all practi
cal purposes, has not the investigating
committee fulfilled its object. The Legis
lature can take no action against
the supposed delinquents—that has
been done already. He suggests that it
would do the Legislature good to go home
and read the printed report of its commit
tee on the management of the Tewsbury
almshouse. He enquires why the mem
bers want the session lengthened when
they complain of their pay. He inti
mates that tlie Legislature has
had ample time to accomplish
its duties. He is confirmed in his opinion
that tlie Legislature cannot adjourn
without his consent, and says of any sup
posed right of the two houses to assem
ble without the consent of the Gov
ernor, that it is a power, if it ex
ists, thtit lias not been exercised
for more than 100 years. He can conceive
of a possible emergency that would per
mit it, but that would be an emergency
almost justifying revolutionary measures.
The report of the Tewksbury investigat
ing committee, w hich, in in his judgment,
will not change the opinion or action of a
single individual, is not an emergency.
I>E CRAMBOKI) DYING.
Tlie Condition or the Bourbons Believed
to be Almost Hopeless.
Paris, July 2.—The announcement of
the death of the Count de Chambord was
premature. The Marquis de Dreux Breze
has received the following dispatch:
“Fkohsdorff, July 2, 11:30 a. m.—The
Comte de Chambord’s condition was very
grave yesterday evening, lie was calmer
during last night and on Monday morn
ing, and there is but little change notice
able in his general condition.”
The Legitimist fetes in the name of the
Count de Chambord, which were fixed for
to-day, were countermanded.
It was stated this morning that tlie re
lapse of the Count de Chambord was due
to tlie bursting of the intestinal tumor.
U Clairon says that the case of the Count
is not quite hopeless.
Tlie news of the Count's illness caused
great excitement at Paris yesterday.
Many persons presumed that he was actu
ally dead.
The Monarchists assembled this morn
ing at the house of the Marquis tie Dreux
Breze to consider their course in the event
of the death of the Count de Chambord.
Death of Father Burke.
Dublin, July 2. —Rev. Thomas It.
Burke, the well known priest and lecturer,
died to-day at Tallaghl Convent.
CROOK’S V I EH OF THE V ICTOIiY.
No Danger of Further Trouble With tlie
Chiricahttas.
Dknvkk, Col., July 2. —Gen. Crook
and Capt. Burke, his Aid-de-Camp, ar
rived here at noon yesterday, en route for
"Washington via Omaha and Chicago. In
an interview last evening Gen. Crook
said that the telegraphic reports tllat tlie
hostiles were again on the war path were
absolutely without foundation. In fact,
they were glad of an opportunity
to surrender, and fully realized that any
further demonstration by them would be
most disastrous. With Nana, Loco and
Bonito subdued and old Juh a refugee
from his own tribe, further trouble is tm
liossibie. A few squaws and children only
remain out, and they are expected iii
hourly. Beyond a doubt they will bring
Charley McComas with them. General
Crook is of the firm belief that the Indian
troubles are settled.
A VICTORY FOR LEO.
France Promise* to Restore llie Abol
ished Stipends.
Paris, July 2.—The Union says that in
addition to President Grevy’s reply to
the Poi>e’s letter, a confidential note from
Prime Minister Ferry has been forwarded
to the Vatican, explaining that the
Catholics, who area minority in the coun
try, have sought by all means in their
{lower t > embarrass the Ministers. The
general tenor of the note, however, is con
ciliatory. Promise is made that the sti
pends, of w hich the clergy were deprived,
shall be restored on the occasion of the
National fete.
PRUSSI A’S CHURCH BILL PARSED
The Upper House Adjourns After Cheer
ing for the Emperor.
Berlin, July 2.—The upper house of
the Prussian Diet has, by a vote of 6-t to
16 adopted the government church bill.
Dr. Gossler, Minister of Ecclesiastical
Affairs, declared that the right of nomina
tion to ecclesiastical benefices was not
woitb contending for. At the joint ses
sion of the Diet Herr Puttkamer, Minis
ter of the Interior, declared the session
closed, and the members dispersed after
cheering the King three times.
Baltimore Presented With a Library.
Baltimore, July 2.—Enoch Pratt this
afternoon executed a deed of the prop
erty of the Pratt Free Library on Mul
berry street to the city of Baltimore, and
gave his check for $833,333 33, which will
be invested in city bonds for the support
of the library building, which is nearly
completed, and the library will be ready
for use as soon as the interior is made
ready to receive it.
The best tonic medicine —one that is not
composed mostly of alcohol or whisky—is
Brow n’s Iron Bitters, It is guaranteed
to be non-intQxicating and will absolutely
kill all desire for w hisky and other intoxi
cants. It has been thoroughly tested and
proven itself in every instance a never
failing cure for dyspepsia, indigestion,
biliousness, weakness, debility, overwork,
rheumatism, neuralgia, consumptive dis
ease. liver complaints, kidney tronbles,
etc.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1883.
HILL’S EVIL GENIUS.
Witness Damon Again Denies Offering
any Bribe Whatsoever.
Washington, July 2.—ln the Hill in
vestigation to-day witness Steinemetz con
tinued his criticisms of the bills for work
performed on the New York Post Office,
item by item, pointing out a number
which he claimed were about double the
actual cost of doing the work. .
George L. Damon, of Boston, whom the
prosecution alleged to have been the evil
genius of the Architect’s office, took the
stand. He put in evidence the articles of
incorporation of his company, the United
States Fire Proof Shutter Company.
Counsel Coleman and his clients have
charged that the company was not incor
porated. When the articles of incorpora
tion were read the prosecution raised the
point that the concern was incorporated
in New York, while its goods were manu
factured in Massachusetts, hence they
were manufactured illegally. The reply
to, this was that the company was privi
leged to manufacture wherever it could
do so profitably.
Mr. Damon then denied in toto having
ever ottered to bribe the Manly & Cooper
Company, and said that on the contrary
he had told them that they would lose
money if they attempted to" tullin their
contract, and they had asked him how'
much he would give them to withdraw
their bid. He declined to make an otter.
More vouchers were called for, and the
committee adjourned to give the prosecu
tion time to examine them.
Decreasing the Debt.
Washington, July 2.—The debt state
ment issued to-day shows a decrease of
the public debt during the month of June
to be $18,0i15,201 43; tlie cash in the Treas
ury $345,389,902 62; the gold certificates
$82,378,640; the silver certificates $88,616,-
831; the certificates of deposit outstand
ing $13,375,000; the refunding certificates
s•>•’>s,ooo; the legal tenders outstanding
$346,081,016; the fractional currency out
standing $700,600 81. The decrease for the
year ended June 30, was $137,823,253 24.
John Roach’s Bids the Lowest.
Washington, July 2.—Bids for the
construction of the new naval cruisers
were opened at the Navy Department to
day. John Roach, of Chester, Pennsyl
vania,. was the lowest bidder for all four !
vessels. He bids for the Chicago $889,000; I
the Boston $619,000; the Atlanta $617,000,
and the Dolphin, dispatch boat, $315,000. !
The .contracts will probably be awarded !
to him. There were only four bidders for ;
each vessel.
Arthur Snubs tlie Guards.
Washington, July 2.—The Continental
Guards of New Orleans called at the
White House to-day, but did not seethe
President, as he was too busy to receive
them. The White House was thrown
open to them, however. The Guards will
leave Washington this evening for Cleve
land.
(iuneral Ingalls’ Succe&soi.
Washington, July 2.—The President
this morning appointed Colonel Samuel
B. Ilalabird, to be Quartermaster General
to succeed General Rufus Ingalls, retired.
He also appointed First Lieutenant Cbas.
Ingalls, of the Sixth Infantry, to be Cap
tain and Assistant Quartermaster.
ENGLASDRKJECTS NE WG l INEA
Queensland’s Action Unsustaiiied and
Foreign Greed Not Feared.
London, July 2. —In the House of Lords
this afternoon Lord Derby, the Colonial
Secretary, said that the government was
not prepared to annex New Guinea, owing
to the enormous extent of the territory,
the unknown character of the interior
of that country, and because the natives
would object to annexation.
Mr. Gladstone made a similar statement
iu the House of Commons. Mr. Gladstone
said that a dispatch will shortly be for
warded to Queensland, stating the view
of Her Majesty’s Government on this
question. The annexation of New Guinea
is clearly null legally, and is not war
ranted by policy. “We are not
prepared to confirm the action
of tlie Queensland Government.
We think that tlie colony of Queensland
is not well suited for the function which
it has undertaken to perform. The home
government alone will assume the re
sponsibility of such a step should it be
necessary. There is no reason to believe
that, other powers wish to annex New
Guinea. The dispatch will refer to our
intention to strengthen the hand of the
High Commission in regard to tlie po
licing of the neighboring seas,”
EGYPT’S CHOLERA PLAGUE
Tlie Terrible Death Rate and tlie Fear
on tlie Increase.
Alexandria, July 2.—The number of
deaths trom cholera at Damidtta yester
was 141. There were also 14 deaths at
Mansorah and 5 at Port Said on Sunday
from the same disease.
It is officially denied that there is any
cholera at Cairo. The sanitary cordons
in Egypt have been ordered to shoot all
persons attempting to pass through the
lines.
A death has occurred here which is
suspected to have been caused by cholera.
Havre, July 2. — The steamers St. Ber
nard and Kate, which arrived here from
Bombay a few days ago, have been re
leased from quarantine. There were no
cases of cholera on them, as previously
reported.
London, July 2. —It has lieen decided
in Cyprus to allow no refugees from Egypt
to land on the island, because of the lack
of quarantine stations there.
The Spanish authorities have imposed a
todays’ quarantine upon all vessels ar
riving at Spanish ports which have left
Egypt since June 22, and a fortnight
quarantine on vessels with sickness on
board.
GOULD’S MONEY UNAVAILING.
Tlie Injunction on the Payment of the
Disputed Interest Not Dissolved.
New York, July 2.—Judge Freedman,
in the Superior Court to-day gave de
cisions in tlie cases of William S. Wil
liams and Rufus Hatch against the West
ern Union Telegraph Company and others.
The motion in those eases was to vacate
the injunction orders granted last Decem
ber. which restrained the payment of
dividends upon $15,529,550 of stock which
was declared to have been illegally issued,
upon the defendant’s giving bond, as
authorized by the amendment to the Code
enacted by the last Legislature, sufficient
to indemnify the plaintiff’s against any
loss which they might sustain by reason
of the vacating of such injunction. This
motion was made by the Western Union
Company. Judge Freedman denies the
motion.
A TRAIN INTO A STREET CAR.
Two of tlie Thirteen Passengers Injured
Expected to Die.
Chicago, July 2.—An outgoing Kansas
City express train, on the Wabash Rail
road, last night collided with a street car
at Root street crossing, near the southern
city limits, smashing it into fragments.
The lamps in the car exploded and set
fire to it. Out of thirteen persons in the
car only one escaped unhurt, and it is
believed that two or three of the worst
injured of the persons wil die. Several of
the passengers were badly burned before
they could be extricated from the blazing
fragments. The driver of the street car
misunderstood the signal of the man
stationed at the crossing, and this was
the cause of the accident.
A Tour on Bicycle*.
Detroit, July 2.—Forty-seven bicvlists
started from Windsor this morning on
the much talked of Canadian tour, which
extends via St. Thomas, Goderich, Strat
ford, Brantford and Toronto to Niagara
Falls. There are wheelmen in the party
from Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Louis
ville, Minneapolis, i’eoria, Worcester and
various other cities.
An Arkansas Marshal Sentenced.
Washington, July 2.—Joseph T.
Brown, Jr., late Chief Deputy United
States Marshal for the Eastern District
of Arkansas at Little Rock, has been con
victed of forgery and presenting false, fic
titious and fraudulent accounts, and sen
tenced to five years imprisonment at bard
labor and to pay a fine of SI,OOO.
Weather Indications.
Office chief Signal observer,
Washington, D.C., July 2.—lndications
for Tuesday;
In the South Atlantic States, lair
weather, followed by local rains, easterly
to southerly winds, statonary or lower
barometer, stationary or slight rise in
temperature.
Mr. D.C.Bobbins, Savannah, Ga., says:
“I was cured of annoying symptoms of
dyspepsia by using Brown’s Bitters.”
PARNELL ELECTS HEALY.
THE VOTE DECIDED AMID
GREAT EXCITEMENT.
After Many Corrections the Majority is
Fixed at 3,376 —The Newly Elected
Member Sounding the Downfall of
Landlordism and Prophesying the
Making of Ireland’s Laws on Irish Soil.
Dublin, July 2.—Tne result of the
election in County Monaghan on Satur
day is as follows: Healv, Home Ruler,
2,276; Monroe, Conservative, 2,011; Prin
gle, Liberal, 270.
After the official announcement of the
result had been made Mr. Parnell called
the attention of the High Sheriff to
another mistake which the latter had
made in the count. The mistake was
corrected, and Mr. Nealy was finally cred
ited with 2,376 votes.
At Monaghan this evening Mr. Healy
addressed a large crowd of people, by
whom he was received with great en
thusiasm. He said that landlordism had
been trampled under foot, and the
election represented the demand of
l lster lor speedy reform in the land
laws. He had little doubt that before
many years every farmer in Ireland would
lie the owner of his aiding. An. Healy
also said that the victory ot the Parnell
party would lead to a reopening of the
land question and other great reforms,•
and that his hearers would see the dav
when Irishmen would make the laws oh
their native soil.
New York July 2.—The steamer,
Queen, of the National Line, arrived to
day with ,31 passengers. The emigra
tion inspectors learned that 175 of them
were pauper immigrants, and the immi
grant authorities notified the steamship
company that they declined to receive
them until alter guarantee. It was given
out that they would lie taken back to
Europe when all the necessary legal for
malities were Complied with.
Ellen Sullivan, a widow with three
children, were detained by a Commis
sioner. It was learned tha't the other
“assisted” passengers by the Queen did
not technically come under the head of
paupers, and they were permitted to de
part.
RIGGER’S PHILLIPPIC.
The Leading Trait of the Present Gov
ernment Declared Falsehood.
London, July 2.—Mr. Bigger,Member of
Parliament lor county Cavan, in a speech
at Alanchester, declared that the leading
trait of the present government was false
hood. He said that Air. Errington had
been sent to Rome to lie, iu alleging that
Parnell and his iriends were in league
with murderers and that the Irish were
without grievances. He thought it doubt
ful. whether Sir Trevelyan, the present
Chief Secretary for Ireland, was much
better than Air. Forster. He also asserted
that Secretary Trevelyan has recently
lied about the paupers shipped across the
Atlantic*.
RUNNING AT FULL TILT.
The Postponed Chicago Races Run at
Last.
Chicago, July 2.—The racing meeting
of the Chicago Driving Park Association
was continued to-day with last Thursday’s
regular programme, which was post
poned on account of rainy weather. To
day was clear and warm, and the track
was in excellent condition. The attend
ance was large.
First Race— Purse• $300; all ages;
selling allowance one mile and a furlong.
It was won by Bassett, with Glengairne
second and Billy G. third. The time was
1:59%. Goldfinder and Pearl Thorn wdte
scratched.
Second Race —For the Dearborn stakes
for 3-year-olds: one and three-quarter
miles. Leonitus was the winner, with
Lord Ragland second, and April Fool
third. The time was 3:12%. Slocum was
scratched.
Third Race —For a purse of S3OO for all
ages; one mile. The race was won by
Alediator, with Cardinal AlcCloskey sec
ond, and Standiford Keller third. The
time was 1:43%. Drake Carter, Jennie
Blue and J G Greener were scratched.
Fourth Rack.—For a purse of S3OO for
all ages; five eighths of a mile in heats.
In the first heat Sadie McNairy won,with
Robert Bruce second and Quebec third.
The time was 1:03%.
The second heat was also won by Sa
die McNairy with Finality second, and
Robert Bruce third. The time was 1:03%.
Vixen and Calleron were scratched.
Fifth Race— For a purse of $300; one
mjle and S(H) yards. Ballard won, with
Brigand Belleasecond and Wedding Day,
third. The time was 2:02%. Olivette
was drawn.
Sixth Race— An extra race of five
eighths of a mile, running heats. The
first heat was won by Charley Lucas, with
Fellowplay second and P. D. Q. third.
The time was 1:02%. In the seeond heat,
Fellowplay won in 1:04%; Jim Bell ran
second and P. I). Q. third. The third and
final heat was won by Charley Lucas,
in 1:07%, with Fellow play second.
HUNGARY’S FANATICAL TRIAL.
Witness Raft Terrorized into Obeying
the Prosecution’s Orders.
London, July 2.—The trial of the Jews
charged with murdering the young Chris
tian girl, Esther Salymosi, was continued
at Nyireghyhaza, Hungary, to-day.
Raft, thq proprietor, deposed that Bary,
the police magistrate, held repeated noc
turnal inquiries in prison. That he (the
witness)had been terrorized by seeing
his companion struck and maltreated,
and had said exactly what Bary had told
him to say, although he Yeaily knew noth
ing of the conveyance of the corpse as al
leged by the prosecution.
TAMATAV’S BOMBARDMENT.
Many Frenchmen Believed to Have
Fallen Into the Hands of the Enemy.
London, July 2.—A letter from Tama
tav, dated June 14, received by way of
Aden, states that previous to the bom
bardment of the town most of the foreign
residents took refuge in ships in the ha
bor. The town was set tire to bv natives
as well as by shells. All French subjects
were ordered to quit the capital. When
the hostilities began, none had arrived at
the coast, and it is feared they were way
laid and captured.
In the Base Ball Arena.
Washington, July 2.—Games of base
ball were played yesterday as follows:
At Philadelphia—New Yorks, 7; Phila
delpbias, 6.
At Boston—Bostons, 6; Providence, 1.
At Detroit—Detroits, 5; Clevelands, 15.
At Cincinnati—Metropolitans, 4; Cin
cinnati, 3.
At Louisville—Alleghanys, 4; Eclipes,
10.
Shot Down by a Toy Cannon.
Newark, N. J., July 2.—Mrs. Grover,
of No. 167 Summer avenue, was shot, tit
noon to-day, by some boys who were play
ing with a toy cannon iii the rear of her
house. A minnle ball entered behind and
below her left shoulder and came out in
trout near her left breast. There are
only slight hopes of her recovery.
The People’s Railroad.
Indianapolis, July 2,—Articles of as
sociation of the People’s Railway Com
pany of America were filed with the Sec
retary of the State to-day, and will also
be filed to-morrow with the Seeretarv of
tlie Interior, at Washington. The capital
is stateil at $175,000,000.
The Iron Trade’s Improvement.
London, July 2.—The Iron Trade
Times says that the iron business is more
active, because of the increased demand.
Owing to the new tariff numer
ous shipments have lieen made in order
to take advantage of the new scale of
duties.
A Maniac Kills his Sister and Himself.
New York, July 2.—Wm. H. Seaman,
aged 24 years, sfiot and killed his sister
Fanny aged 28 years, and then killed him
self at the Riggs’ Neck, Westchester
county, yesterday, It is believed that he
was insane,
Satisfying the Workmen.
Sc ranton, Pa., July 2.—The Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Com
pany, are redeeming at par till trade dol
lars recently paid to their employes.
About $200,000 worth has already lieen
turned in.
The Khedive’s Incendiarism.
London, July 2.— lxird Randolph
Churchill has handed to Mr. Gladstone
affidavits and utjier documents in subport
of his assertion that the Khedive incited
the massacres at Alexandria.
It Seems to Satisfy
A family want, and I wonder how we ever
got along without Parker’s Ginger Tonic.
It cured me of nervous prostration, and I
I have used it since for all sorts of com
plaints in our family. Mrs. Jines, Albany
EVANS AND THE PRESS.
The New Commissioner's Gauntlet
Thrown into the Sanctums.
ashington, July 2. —The official who
really does not care for newspaper criti
i cism has at last been tound. He is Mr.
11 alter Evans, the new Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. Mr. Evans saw lit
some time ago to make changes iu the
force of Internal Revenue agents. He
| bounced four and put in four more. He
did this before he was well warmed in his
official seat. Two of the men he turned
out were the pets of two newspapers in
New York. There was nothing very good
to be said of them as a general thing,
hut the aforesaid newspapers took up the
fight, and ' have been pounding Mr.
Evaifs very vigorously. About
the worse thing that could be
said, as a fact, was that Mr. Evans
made the change referred to before he had
really got the run of the Internal Revenue
Bureau! Other newspapers followed the
lead of the New York two, and Mr. Evans
has experienced that circular treatment
which is commonly called “catching it
all around.” But none of the bounced
men have been restored; there is no con
vulsion in official life here that I have
been able to discern, or that the Signal
Bureau has reported; and Mr. Evans is
still Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
with every prospect of a long lease of
official life. newspipers have been
greatly excited,but they have had all that
feeling on their own side. Mr. Evans has
not been excited at all. He is natu
rally a cold man. In th/s matter he
has been phenomenally cool. He has not
printed a card or asked for any newspaper
vindication. He lias adopted the seusible
course of quietly looking after himself
and letting the other side do all the
howling. Ido not remember the case of
any other public official who; attacked
as Mr. Evans lias been, has not rushed into
print with a column or so of vindication.
Public officials as a rule are as scared of
a newspaper paragraph adverse to them
as they are of grim death. Mr. Evans
stands forth as an exception, which when
found is to be “made a note on.” The
newspapers may howl and howl again,
but he never budges an inch or wants to
talk back. Barnum ought to have him
for his collection of winders.
A private letter written by Senator
Jones, of Florida, and datetr* London,
June 12th, has been received here. The
senior Senator from Florida says he has
been having a good time, and that he
greatly enjoyed the dinner given to him by
the Irish members of Parliament. He
anticipated much pleasure at the enter
tainment which was to lie given him
June 23d, by the Lord Mayor of Dublin,
at the Mansion House. Senator Jones
says that he has seen a good deal of the
British Parliament. He thinks the
American Congress and its members com
pare in every way most favorably with
the British Parliament. He had intended
going to Rome, but decided to spend all
of his time abroad in Great Britain. He
will return to the United States in July
and visit Saratoga and other watering
places.
Gen. Crook will be herein a few days
to confer with the all-wise authorities as
to what shall be done with the Indians
whom lie captured in .Mexico after a bril
liant campaign and brought.back. Gen
eral Crook lias been lighting Indians ever
since the late war, and has always fought
them successfully. He ought to know al
most as much about Indians and their
nature as do the present officials who
have been dealing with the Indian ques
tion at long range for about four years—
some of them for a much shorter time.
General Crook recommended that the cap
tive Indians be put on a reserva
tion. He wrote a report giving his rea
sons. He wound up bv saying
that in his judgment to return the In
dians to a reservation where they could
lie closely watched, not only by the
United States authorities but by the other
Indians, was the oulv safe way of dispos
ing of them. The long range authorities
here directed that only the captive women
and children could be taken on the reser
vation. They knew a great deal* more
about it than did Crook. Oh, yes; they
knew it all. But they condescended to
allow Crook to come on here to “consult”
them- Secretary Lincoln went so far as
to say that Crook had been doing hard
work, and that he thought if
he could be allowed to come East
be might get some rest. He
thus branded publicly the so-called consul
tation with Crook as amounting to noth
ing but a mere pleasure trip for that hard
tighter. But it will amount to more. The
Indians who were not captured by Crook
promised to come iu and surrender them
selves. They have since heard that the
Washington authorities have refused to
allow them to go on a reservation. Not
knowing what would be done with them,
they have gone on the war path again,
and threaten to renew tlieir old ravages,
murder and plunder. When Crook gets
here he will be listened to. lie will
have his way and the long range
managers of Indians will, with the recent
lesson before them, defer to his judgment.
They would have shown common sense
had they done so in the first place. While
the Indian problem seems to have about
resolved itself into Gen. Sherman’s axiom
that “the only good Indian is a dead In
dian,” yet a most sensible saying of
Crook’s is that “it is cheaper to feed In
dians than to fight them.” If there was a
little more of the fruits ot the experience
of army officers in the management of In
dian affairs, things would get along much
better.
There is no work doing on the Washing
ton Monument. This is the very height
of what is called the working season, but
for lack of material the tall white shaft
does not.mount higher each day. The
company which was contracted with to
furnish the marble blocks Is unable to
fulfill that contract. It cannot get out
the stone fast enough. Consequently,
things are at a standstill.
This is a great disappointment to Col.
Casey, who has charge of the work. He
expected—and so rejiorted to Congress—
that the monument would be completed
by next fall. The lack of material will
make that an impossibility. It will not
be completed until the following year,
mayhap the year after. The Washington
monument is a long time in getting
there, but its five hundred and sixty feet
will make a grand pile when it does arrive
at completion. Potomac.
American Girls aiul Foreign Swells.
Jfew York World.
When Nellie Grant—sweet little demure
Nellie Grant—was married to an English
dude with a base-ball head, named Alger
non Sartoris, nearly everybody in the
country said, in view of all that General
Grant had done to save the Union, that it
was a pity that his daughter couldn’t
have fastened her affections upon a thrifty
. young citizen of the United .States. But
the dear girls all have a fancy for foreign
swells, and so Nellie married the Sartoris.
And now the Sartoris has turned up as the
lover of the charming Mrs. Bush, who has
an aged husband and who has large liquid
blue eyes, and who drosses her hair in
wavelets. Great is the scandal, because
the Grants are conspicuous people and
the little Sartoris, who looks like a English
JeemsYellowplu6li,has been well advertis
ed. There is a inoral in all this which must
not be lost. Perhaps the Saptoris has
done no worse than a native American
would have done ii he had married into
tHe Grant family, but, girls, you
are all pretty and we think all
the world of you", and we want
this advice to settle down deep in vour
minds—don’t marry foreigners, Fight
shy of the adventurers who come across
the water seeking wives. In nine cases
out of ten these marriages turn out badly.
Resolve, dear giris, to marry none but
American citizens, and don’t marry then
unless ydu are remarkably well ac
quainted with the gentlemen who ask
your hands. It were better not to marry
at all and be a telegranh operator than to
marry a foreign fortune-hunter.
Death Prefer re. I to Life Imprisonment.
Brazil, Ind., July 2.—Sanders, who
was convicted of murdering his wife, was
on Saturday, sentenced to imprisonment
for life. Alter tfie sentence fie attempted,
but failed to kill himself, by taking poi
son.
The Belt-Lqwes Libel Sit,
LONDON, July 2.—The Queen's bench
division of tlie High Court of Justice has
decided in favor of granting anew trial of
the action for libel brought by Mr. Belt
against Mr. Lawes. but the court advises
the litigants PTeffect a compromise.
An Appeal for the Bartholdi Pedestal.
New York, July 2.—Wm. M. Evarts
and Park Goodwin, t;u behalf qf the Bar
tholdi Statue Committee, have issued an
appeal to tlie people yf tne yi|i!**U wtates
to assist in ntigjug funds for the erection
ot the pedestal for the statue.
Send tne a halt dozsn Swift’s Specific
for a customer who says it is the best
medicine known to man. He testifies to
its rare merit, and insists upon having
more. J. M. Hendricks,
Fayetteville, Ala.
LOUISVILLE’S EXPOSITION
THE MERRY TOUR IN QUEST OF
ART TREASURES.
Mining and Dining With the Accomo
dating Owners of the World’s Price
less Bric-a-Brac—Some of the Pictures
which were Secured and Other News
Notes.
Louisville, Ky., June 29.—The com
mittee of Louisville gent lenten who went
to New York in the interest of the South
ern Exposition, and ate and drank and
made merry generally on the trip, have
returned home, filled with the complacent
spirit born of successful efi'ort.
Of course there was the banquet at Del
monieo’s—what stroke of diplomacy
could bo crowned with success without a
feast somewhere in the background?—
where the menu was superb, and the ar
tistic bill of fare was sketched otf by the
loveliest of the Louisville dudes who
helped to comprise the party, in a style
of high art which covered himself
with glory and reflected honor upon his
native city. As the result of all this we
have the promise that the art gallery of
the Exposition is to be enriched with the
best things from the private collections of
August Belmont, Jay Gould, Mrs. A. T.
Stewart, Ed Stokes, the Astors, the Van
derbilts, in fact every one whose name is
conspicuous as a collector of art gems and
whose galleries are famous in art circles.
Stokes’ much talked of picture in the sa
loon ot the Hoffman House has lieen se
cured; it is also rumored that upon sec
ond consideration it will lie rejected. The
art gallery is very nearly completed. It
is built in the form of a cross, of brick
over stone foundations and extends into
the Park. The fact that Gen. Grant
lias promised us the loan of his museum
after having refused heretofore all over
tures of a like nature, was received here
with mingled emotions. The collection
is to be given the most prominent place in
the building, so that the public will be
able to see for itself the treasures of his
cotters and decide what is genuine and
what bears the stamp of the dollar store.
There is something fraternal in thus tak
ing the Southern Exposition under his
wing and giving it prestige, so to speak.
There are some persons spiteful enough
to insinuate that General Grant wants
something from the South. He is
probably hopeful of being made president
of a base ball club —not a vaulting an bi
tion, considering tbe propensity of base
ballists to get whipped when they venture
away from home.
Naturally there is great local excite
ment and much ado of preparation. The
opening of the Exposition is in realitv
the pivot.upon which all other event's
hinge and turn; all things of importance
or interest are set apart for the first of
August. A leading musician of the city
has been entrusted with the task of train
ing 500 voices for a mighty chorus,
which is to supnlement the
Gilmore and Seventh Regiment concerts.
Among the thousand articles to be placed
on the home list of exhibits, is a magnifi
cent silk quilt, now in preparation by a
Louisville lady, for the Ladies’ Depart
ment. It is on the Japanese order
of architecture and is fear
fully and wonderfully made.
If the respected grandmothers of past
generations could open their astonished
eyes upon the peculiar arts in quilt mak
ing over which the present age has gone
mad, they would be convinced that patch
work had fallen into extravagance and
unseemly ways. The one in question is a
sort of national affair, the scraps forming
it having been gathered at great trouble
from every State in the Union. It is ele
gant in material and enriched with the
finest and daintiest needle-work and pre
sents a gorgeous appearance. It will be
rattled at the close of the Exposition.
There was recently a lively little epi
sode in the Board of Exposition Direc
tors. Mr. Dupont, the President of the
company and the owner of the Park,
“spoke out in meeting” and objected to
having a Sixth street entrance to the
building. Were there only one entrance,
and that on Fourth avenue, there would
be only one line of street cars of any avail
in carrying passengers. Herein lies the
beautiful little plot of the designing Presi
dent, for as this same railway line, the
Central, is owned by Mr. Dupont, it would
be the sole dependence in transit, all
other street railways being placed out of
the question. Between the Sixth street
railway and the Fourth avenue line there
has always been waged a bitter and re
lentless warfare, and to close up the Sixth
street doors of the Exposition would sim
ply be playing handsomely into Mr. Du
pont’s pocket, while the visitors and the
other railways would be the helpless vic
tims. It did not take the board very long
to see through this little manoeuvre, and
Mr. Dupont was promptly extinguished,
while the Exposition’s back doors are just
as wide as the front, and will remain
open. .
The exodus from the pulpits begins ear
lier this summer than usual. The churches
are, almost withoufexception, to be over
hauled and renovated, and the ministers
are going into retirement for the purpose
of working up some thrilling sermons
with which to dazzle the stranger within
our gates. He who comes with his grip
sack and limp ulster to tarry a day or two
need have no fear that his soul will be neg
lected. Anew plan will be adopted; in
vitations from the leading clergymen will
be sent to his hotel, and he will discover
amongst his inundation of circulars nu
merous offers ot spiritual food without
money and without price. The plan has
already been tried by one church and
works beautifully in tilling up the empty
seats with strangers, while the members
find it too warm to come to church.
At last the long neglected grave of
Zachary Taylor is to have a monu
ment. It has been customary each year,
when the soldiers’ graves are decorated,
to turn aside and lay an offering on this
one, alone in its wildwood seclusion. It
has been only in the past few years that
the rail fence surrounding the grave was
torn away and a wall of masonry built
around it. The marble statue has arrived
in New York from Italy, and will be
placed with appropriate’ ceremonies on
the first of August.
Selena Fetter is at home again after her
Chicago debut. She will not go touring
yet, but instead will pass the summer
season in New York in hard study. Many
of her Louisville friends and admirers
went to the Lake City to witness her first
appearance. The audience on the open
ing night was large and brilliant; it was
the Southern colony turning out in full
force to do honor to the brave young
Southron who had gone on a doubtful ven
ture, far from home amongst the crowd of
careless strangers and the glances
of unfamiliar faces. It was a grace
ful thing to give her an ovation
on that first night as a grain of comtort
when the Chicago critics dealt her out
strict justice without mercy. The path of
genius is so often thorny,'it needs such
brave and hopeful spirits to tread it.
I*erhap6 after all there is a more equal
distribution of thimrs than we are prone
to Imagine, when it appears that it is
usually but clever mediocrity that has its
way made smooth and pleasant. Miss
Fetter finds that she must give more at
tention to “stage business:” when she
went lefore the footlights she was fresh
from the tutelage of the elocutionist, and
undrilled in all else save the first princi
ples of her art.
Very encouraging reports of Miss Cora
Anderson, who went to New’ York about
a month since to enter a dramatic train
ing school, have come to her friends in
this city, She is a pupil of Balasco, and
the Fromans intend bringing her out next
autumn in “Young Mrs, Winthrop,”
“Hazel Kirk” and “Esmeralda,” She has
given but one year to studv at home, and
it was during that time that she so im
pressed the manager of the Madison
Square Company that he secured her for
thorough training under his own super
vision. Surely it is a gracious and hope
ful sign for the future morals of the
stage when so many young girls of
gentle birth through’ the country are
transplanted to it from quiet ami se
cluded home circles, where they have
been molded into a pure and noble woman
hood by the refinement and good breeding
that comes of careful home training, ft
must be that such as these, strong in their
own purity, are enough to purge the stage
of the taint Of the Bernhardts, the Pattis,
the Lillian liussells, to infuse a fresh and
vivifying and unpolluted current into
their profession from their ow n pure lives
and purposes, and to uplift the stage once
more to the prestige and lustre if enjoyed
in the days of Sidilor.s and tlje Kembles.
Just as in all thtdfcs else, if is to the
Actress more than the gctor that the bunor
of her profession is confided, and if she
prove faithful and jealous in her guar
dianship—and why should she fail here S'
—it need never be assailed by one fling of
contempt.
Yesterday the sale of the contents cf the
studio df the late Clarence Boyd took
place, The purchasers were local with
out exception. The picture he -vas en
gaged upon at the time he was killed, in
tended for the Exposition Art Gallery,
and left unfinished upon his easel, was re
served by the young artist’s family. The
painful domestic tragedy cut short a
career that promised inany glorious
things for the future. He was so young
at the time of his death—barely twentv
seven—he only stood upon the threshold
ol his art life, but in that brief period had
accomplished so much, one might well
hope greatly for his future fame. His
pictures occupied conspicuous places in
the New York and Philadelphia acade
mies and always found readv purchasers
in the East. In that little circle of gay
Bohemians that gathered about him few
were so lieloved, and none could be more
sadly missed, for himself or for his work.
Jessie Buckner, the famous witness in
the murder case of her cousin,Phil Thomp
son. is going to Europe until the memory
of that trial blows over. The fair and
fiendish Jessie may well be spared indefi
nitely. However the verdict ran in that
trial, and whatever the personal populari
ty of the accused and his family, there
was never a shadow of doubt in the mind
ot the public, who knew her, that Jessie
Buckner was as much the instigator and
prime factor in the Harrodsburg tragedy
its if she had herself fired the fatal bullet.
Nature does not often turn out such a
creation as this scheming, revengeful
woman—so splendidly beuutiful, so intel
lectual. and so accomplished a demon.
Coyle Douglas.
THE MILLIONAIRE TRAMP.
How a Washington Widow Caught Hus
band and Fortune.
Washington Special , SOth.
A marriage, about which there is a
flavor of romance and something of the
ludicrous, took place at the rectory ot
Epiphany church, this city, last evening,
in the presence of a few' friends of the
contracting parties.
C. C. Merritt, of Baltimore, a youth of
twenty-three or more, and Mrs'. Hattie
Howard, of tlie Dundores Employment
find Claim Agency, an alleged grass
widow, were the contracting parties.
Mrs. Howard, w ho is described as “fair,
fat and forty,” says she is thirty-three.
Merritt is a rather wild young'fellow,
who ran away from home in Baltimore
several years ago and has picked up a
living about here through situations pro
cured for him by Mrs. Dundove and her
clerk, the unblushing bride.
A few months ago he disappeared, and
recently his father in Baltimore, who had
disowned him after be ran away, died,
leaving him a fortune variously estimated
at figures reaching above a million. The
fair Howard \yarmed up her affections for
the w andering orphan and heir, and by
great effort found his whereabouts and
informed him of his lortune.
Here's the way she tells it: “He was
very wild and would go off' and be a regu
lar tramp and then come back and Mrs.
Dundore would clean him up and
straighten him all out again.
“Late in the winter he disappeared for
good, we thought. Not very long ago we
got word from Baltimore that his father
was dead and that he would be very rieb.
Mrs. Dundore was in Florida.
“I thought he was in Virginia, so I set
to work to find him myself. I sent postal
cards addressed to him, telling him to
come here, all over the State, and one
reached him at Newport News.
“Three weeks ago last Monday he
walked in this office and said: ‘Well,
here I am, what do you want ?’
“ ‘Caleb,’ said I, ‘your father is dead,’
and he fainted right off.
“I sent word to Mrs. Dundare and she
came home. We didn’t let him go to
Baltimore for fear that some people there
might try to put him in the insane asylum
in order to get his money.
“I had no more idea that he was going
to ask me to marry him than 1 have that
you will before you leave this office.”
“But didn’t he show any fondness for
you liefore his return?”
“Oh, yes. Let me see. It was last
winter that I said to Dundore: ‘Dun
dore, do you know that that cub of yours
is trying to make love to me?’
“ ‘Well, never you mind, Howard,’ said
she, ‘some of these days that boy will
have more money than you ever bad or
ever will have.’ ”
“No, indeed,” continued Mrs. Howard,
“I didn’t have any idea that he wanted to
marry me until he asked me to. 1 almost
backed out several times because I think
people will say that I was a fortune
hunter, and that I inviegledhim into mar
rying me. We will have a reception next
week some time and I will invite you to
it, but you must not say mean tilings
about me and rake me over the coals in
the paper.”
“You are interested iu the employment
agency, are you not?” asked the• repor
ter.
“Oh, yes;” was the reply. “Mr. Dun
dore attends to the law and claim busi
ness and I to the agency.”
“Will you continue it after your mar
riage?” '
“No, indeed. We will have plenty of
money and L will help spend it; and I'will
spend it right, too.”
BLISS AND BREWSTER.
How These Legal Luminaries Labor to
Reduce the Treasury.
Truth.
When Congress passed the tariff hill it
abolished the tax upon the capitaland de
posits of national and private banks.
This tax had been collected on January 1
and July 1, upon an estimate made of the
monthly business. Congress plainly in
tended to have the repeal of taxes in
cluded in the Little revenue bill take
effect at the close of the half fiscal year,
July 1, as named in the bill. Hardly
had the measure been passed, however,
when the banks claimed that the repeal
took effect immediately, so far as the tax
upon bank capital and deposits was con
cerned. The amount collected annually
from this source was about $8,500,000. To
declare the tax repealed at once would
free the banks from a six months’ assess
ment and fleece the government of over
$4,000,000. The Internal Revenpe Com
missioner referred the question to the
Secretary of the Treasury. He asked the
Attorney General’s opinion.
.Mr. Brewster held that these taxes are
not due until the date of collection (July
1), and that the repeal taking effect on
that day makes collections impossible.
He allowed Mr. Bliss, who was then
his deputy in the star-route cases, to
argue the matter for the banks before
himself. After which the Attorney Gen
eral, as it appeared, based his opirffon
upon the Bliss brief, which thus became
in effect his adopted child.
This was as scandalous as anything
which transpired in the star route trial.
Somebody made a “pile” out of the scan
dal. The saving of four millions to the
banks was worth a fee of 10 per cent.—
nearly half a million of dollars.
Thus by the simple scratching of the
name “Brewster” with a pen to an opin
ion based upon Bliss’ briet more will be
lost to the Treasury if Brewster is wrong
in his law than has been debited to the
star route frauds.
Gathering Sponges.
A correspondent, writing from Cedar
Keys, Fla., gives the following account
of the mode of taking sponges on the Gulf
coast: “About 20 miles off the coast the
‘sheep wool’ sponge is found in large
quantities. Hither the fleet repairs when
it has sold its previous ‘eatch’ and laid in
their provisions. When upon the ground
where the water is about live or six fath
oms, small boats are lowered, contain
ing two men each. One sculls slowly, the
other lies prone upon U'is breast at the
side of the boat, in one arm he grasps
an apparatus, which is scarcely more than
a deep bucket, with the bottom made of
glass, which is inserted in the water glass
downward. In the other hand he holds a
very slender pole, 20 or 30 feet long,
armed at the end with a double or treble
pronged hook, very like a potato hoe. It
takes a practiced eye, peering through
tills glass to the depth of 20 or 30
feet of sea water, not only to see
the sponges which grow on the rocks
or corals, but to distinguish be
tween the good and me bad. When one
or more are seen worthy of being taken
(he right arm, grown very tnuscqlity anil
skillful by constant deftly ex
tracts the sponge from ifs rocky base and
brings it to the surface. The exertion is
immense. The long, slender pole sways
and bends, and the sea is not always as
quiet as they desire, The left hand and
arm still holds, steadies ahd presses the
water.glass, through which he must look
to guide the manipulation of the pole and
hook.”
• A Revenue Collector Resigns,
Lkxinotox, KYy -July 2.-A. M.
Swoope, < ulleetor of Internal Revenue of
the. new Seventh district, has sent in his
resignation,
An Increase of two Millions.
Nkw York, July 2.—The receipts frons
customs duties for Juue were $13,78Ab00,
against $11,428,000 for June in 1882.
Archbishop Purcell Improving.
WFS'inunu, OHIO, July 2.—The doctor
pronounces Archbishop Purcell
what better than yesterday.
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AS ALMSHOOSB AFLAME.
MANIACS FIGHTING AGAINST
THEIR RESCUERS.
Paupers Saved with IHfttculty—An In
sane Woman's Clothing Ignited by a
Flying Spark Without the Building-.
•Shelter Sought in Tents—#3oo,ooo I*
liOSSPfi.
H arrisburg, Pa., July 2.—A tire at the
Dauphin county almshouse, which began
at l o’clock this afternoon, destroyed every
building on the ground, except the lauii
dry and school house. The main struc
ture was au elegant building three stories
high, with a mansard roof.
Tho fire began in a stable close bv
which in burning heated the slate root
ot the main structure and set tire to that
building. Avery high wind was blowing
at the time, and the building was soon
destroyed.
As soon as the dwelling caught the,
steward and his assistants rushed to the
insane department and forced the ex
cited inmates (seventeen males mid
twenty-one females ) from their quarters.
All of tbem were savisl, though some
fought desperately.
1 he fire is supposed to have been caused
by heated hay just placed in the barn, but
tlieie is ii rumor that it was Jicoideotallv
set on fire by one of the employes from a
pipe or a cigar.
The loss will aggregate about $200,000,
and there is an insurance of about $30.-
000.
One of the insane patients was severely i
burned by her clothing catching fire
from a spark after she was out of the l
building.
The insane were removed to the State
asylum above the city, and the sick were
brought to a hospital hero. Tents were
procured at the arsenal and will be erect
ed near the ruins for the paupers to tem
porarily quarter in.
Very few of the household goods were
removed, nearly everybody’s attention
being given to the initiates.
Shortly after the insane inmates were
gathered up by outsiders and taken to
the State Asylum, it was discovered that
twelve of them were missing, having tied.
Two of them were very violent. Up to
b o’clock to-night none of them had lieen
apprehended. Another woman was this
evening discovered to be very badly
burned about the arms and body.
Fire in a Shoe Factory.
Boston, July 2.-The loss by the fire
winch occurred at Reed A Closson’s shoe
factory, at South Abingdon, this morning
is placed at $105,000.
A FIGHT IN A DEPOT.
Mr. August Belmont, Jr., Chastises Mr.
Tower at Hempstead, L. j.
.'>> York World.
Several ladies and gentlemen were at
the Long Island Railroad depot at Hemp
stead yesterday morning w aiting for the
9:43 train for New York.
Among them were .Mr. August Belmont
son of the well known banker, and Mr*
J. E. Tower. The former was accom
panied by his wire. Both gentlemen have
residences at Hempstead.
Mr. Tower spoke to Mr. Belmont and
the two gentlemen engaged in a conversa
tion which soon became something more
than animated. The attention of the
spectators was attracted. It became very
evident that a storm was brewing. Sud
denly Mr. Belmont’s cane was observed
to flash in the air and descend upon Mr.
Tower’s head. The two gentlemen then
rushed together and clinched, hut were
almost immediately separated by their
friends. The train arriving soon after,
the belligerents got on board, but occu
pied different cars.
Mr. Tower’s temper had been worse
damaged than his head. He chafed in
wardly at the insult which had been
otiered him, and when the train reached
Jamaica he telegraphed the Chief of Police
at Long island City:
“Have an officer at depot to make ar
rest on arrival of 10:25 train.”
Sergeant Michael Carroll was in charge
at headquarters. He sent Officer Peter
Doyle to the depot to await the arrival of
the train. As soon as the train reached
the depot Mr. Tower hastily alighted, and
espying the officer demanded that he ai
rest Mr. Belmont for committing an as
sault upon him. He pointed out Mr.
Belmont among the throng of passengers
who were getting out of the cars.
Mr. Belmont, who had been apprised of
Mr. Tower’s intention, stopped and obolly
awaited his expected arrest. But as Mr.
lower was unable to show Doyle any ex
ternal evidence of the assault of which he
complained, he would not undertake to
arrest Mr. Belmont without a warrant is
sued by a Justice of the Peace. Air.
Tower asked if he could procure a war
rant in New York, and being answered in
the negative, took the ferry for the city,
and Air. Belmont also proceeded on his
way unmolested.
Some few weeks since, during a game
of polo, a son of Mr. Tower was knocked
down by the bor6e which Mr. Belmont
rode and trampled upon. A doctor
charged $25 for attending to his injuries.
Mr. Tower demanded that Air. Belmont
should pay this amount. Air. Belmont
refused. Out ot this grew the altercation
at the Hempstead depot.
Mrs. Gar,Held at Home.
Cleveland Letter to Pittsburg Co>u.mercial.
Mrs. Garfield herself is a changed
woman, and one who saw her two years
ago, burdened with the responsibilities of
a life* she never cared lor, would scarcely
recognize her, so much is she improved.
The deep lines that once marked her face
are gone, and in their stead is an expres
sion that belongs only to one -who is well
content with the world. She manages
her affairs seemingly forgetful of the past
and unmindful of tbe future, and yet to
one knowing her it is apparent that
•she has a regard for both. When
asked by a visitor who was paying her a
visit of condolence, if she was not com
forted by the fact that the entire
world mourned with her, she replied
“Yes, when I think about it.” To her
friends, Mrs. Garfield %eldom speaks of
her late husband as dead, but makes use
ot the present tense in her allusions to
him. In her drawing room is a fine por
trait of Gen. Garfield, taken in his uni
form; on the piano rests the picture of
<}ueeu \ ictoria, which she sent to Mrs.
Garfield, and on a table are a few books
mostly classic authors. It is understood
that no member of the family will go to
Washington during the present admin
istration, and Mrs. Garfield doubts
if she can ever bring horsolf to visit
again the scenes of the saddest moments
of her life.
The ceil in La Iloquette, Paris, in which
Archbishop Darboy was confined previous
to his murder by the Communists in 1871,
has never since been entered by any pris
oner, and remains just as it was when the
august prelate was led forth to die. The
iron cross over the spy hole still bears in
pencil the words “ Vital robur , mentis sa
tin,” traced by Mgr. Darbov, who occupied
his weary time by sketching the instru
ments of the Passion upon the walls of the
cell, together with various mottoes and
texts.
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