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i ESTABLISHED 1850. )
■f j . h. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, |
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
the news of the two states
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Little Fellow Shoots His Brother by
Accident—Man and Wife Die Almost
Simultaneously—Atlanta’s Interest in
Mexican Silver Mines—Florida’s New
Railroads.
GEOKOIA.
Augusta is to have anew building associa
tion.
Cotton blooms are popping out all over the
State.
Unele Bobbie Green, of C layton. i~ now lot
vears old.
Col. James M. Horton, of Union Point, died
ou the 3rd inst.
English sparrows have become indigenous
to Greenville.
35,000 pounds of explosives are stored in the
Atlanta magazine.
Atlanta's death rate for the three months
past is 39t, o\er 130 [ter month.
The machinery for the Athens cotton seed
oil mill will eot-t over c 10,000.
A lady is to become the general delivery
clerk in the post otlice at Darien.
An Athens mule was stunned by lightning
while in a street of that city Friday.
The Marietta Journal says that the chestnut
trees in that county are dying very rapidly.
A farm on Chattooga river, near Summer
ville. containing 352 acres is.offered for sale.
six hundred dollars has been refused for a
year-old Jersey bull by H. 8. Hughes, of
Athens.
Cherokee county raises a good deal of to
bacco. It is all manufactured within her own
limits
Catoosa county farmer- are '.aid to be more
nearly out of debt than they have lieeu in 15
years'.
Atlanta people own at least twenty silver
mines in Mexico, all believed to l*e very pro
ductive.
The Brash Electric Light and Power Com
pany has withdrawn it- proposition to light
< oliimhus.
There arc more than one thousand persons
in Laurens county who have not given in
their taxes.
Kaiser Brothers have commenced the erec
tion of a brick building at Darien, which u ill
contain six stores.
Jefferson s. smith, of Paulding countv, is
accused of maltreating his wife, and running
away with their child.
Judge Crawford's condition shows no im
provement. and to-day he will lie talon from
< olumbus to Chipley.
Whilst the people of lower Georgia have
lieeti deluged with rain, some of the upper
counties are sufferinj?.
The state University, with 1420,000 endow
ment. has las students: Emory College, with
*;:..ww endowment, lias 202 students.
Jefferson finds that she can get her mer
chandise and food supplies cheaper bv wagon
from Atlu us than by rail from Atlanta.
Friday morning a Bartow county farmer.
Mr. Van IS. McGinnis, sold one hundred and
fifty-seven bales of cotton of last year's crop.
In Atlanta, last week. Mr. street sued
( aptaiti Ed. Mercer for SIO,OOO damages li
the result of a tight. He gained a verdict for
The joist office at Pendergrass is railed
Emory. The department would not name it
Pendergrass lieeause they said it was too
long.
Washington went era/.v over the Hancock
plow and thousands of dollars were paid for
territory. Somebody hints Unit the purchas
ers have tieen gulled.
Regulation No. 1 of the B. and W.
Railroad reads thus: ‘•Employes of this com
pany using intoxicating liquor- a- a 1 leverage
will not lie retained in the serviee.”
The wife of General Iloliert Toombs. ~f
Washington, fell from lier lied p, the floor the
other dav and sustained slight injuries, which
delayed the family’s midsummer pilgrimage
to Clarksville.
Captain Merrill Millar. Commandant of tin-
Sixth Division of the Light House service,on i
recent visit to >t. Simon's expressed himself
highly pleased w ith the island. He prefers it
to any on the coast.
The Survivors' Association of the Eighteenth
Georgia Regiment, which was organized last
August at Aewortli. will meet in their second
annual reunion in Atlanta, on the Ist of Au
gust next. *
An infant was found in a pool of water
near Thomaston last Saturday, wrapped in a
silk dress. When found it had undergone so
much decomposition that its color could
not Ihi determined. The affair is a mysterious
one.
The Calhoun Tfwo says that on Tuesday
about f3s.3on was paid on'the li fa. against J.
H. Arthur, former Treasurer, and securities;
ss.s*io was paid in land by Squire Pulliam, one
of the securities, ou which the Commissioners
will establish a poor house and farm.
The King mill at Augusta will commence
operations some time in September. The
cost will come within the original estimate of
ssoo.o<>o. leaving over $200,000 for commercial
capital. It is predicted that the stock will
be worth $l2O per share in eighteen months.
Mrs. shipp. a widow lady living in Chat
tahoochee county. has two little sons aged
five and three. They were playing in a room
together, when the oldest got bold of a pistol
and shot hia little brother in the left breast.
Fortunately the wound was only -light
and the little fellow i- able to run about
again.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Haile both died at Ca
milla on the sth inst., only fifteen hour- in
tervening between their deaths. Mrs. Haile
has been sinking ever since the birth of her
balie, several weeks ago. Mr. Haile was worn
down by watching and exposure, uud dually
took hemorrhagic fever last Friday. The ba'-
by is not expected to live.
FLORIDA.
shrimp have just tiegnn to In" plentiful at
the Jacksonville bar.
Titusville has a junior base ball club. All
the members are under ien years of age.
The Florida Southern near Palatka i-to Ih‘
relaul with new heart ties and -teel rails.
Peach grafted into plum stock is reported
from Lake City as progressing satisfactorily.
The cornerstone of the -outh Florida t ol-
Irge was laid at Brooksville on the 4tli inst.
From "May 28 to June 2s, 2.ti71 paekages of
vegetables ere shipped from Loelibie Station.
Jersey rows are in demand in some parts of
Florida, in Cedar Key milk is fifteen cents a
quart.
Coons, 'possums and squirrels have mate
rially reduced the melon crop around Day
tona*.
Judge J. B. Crim. of Lake City, died a few
days ago from an attack of cholera morbus;
tged 78 years.
Forty-five persons were received into mem
tiersliip in the Baptist churches m this state
during the quarter ending July Ist.
Gulf Hammock has a hen that has made a
nest and hatched a brood of chickens in a tree
twenty-four feet from the ground.
Governor Bloxham has appointed Jefferson
Higginbotham and William Johnson as Coun
ty Commissioners of Nassau county.
A Florida man has grown a radish that
w.v*over two feet long, eighteen inches in di
ameter and weighed fifteen pounds.
Messrs. Jordan & Carroll, of Madison, re
centlv shipped a ear load of watermelons, the
smallest of which weighed 2*t pounds.
J.C. Eastman is erecting a large building
at Gainesville for the establishment of a
French and English (lay and boarding school.
sammie Tigner, aged 12 years, of Bartow,
formerly a resident of Orlando, recently
caught a soft shell turtle which weighed sixty
pounds.
Gainesville pays her city scavenger. Includ
ing board of mules, $836 "per year. Orlando
pays, not including hoard of inule, S9OO per
y car.
It is reporte<l that about 250 hands were re
cently transferred from the Rowland’s Bluff
road "to South Florida, and that about 500 still
remain at work.
The Tribun* says a cypress log was offered to
the saw mill at Apalachicola and refused, be
cause it was so large it could not be handled
on the mill carriage.
Willie Haddock, a ln*v of 18, sonofZach
Haddock, of Jacksonville, was accidentally
shot in the leg on July 4th by Eddie Kernan,
with a small pistol.
The tish fertilizer manufacturing compa
ny, of New Smyrna, Volusia county, is said to
be making immense catches of fish, often as
high as 300.000 a day. just outside of the Inlet.
Florida constructed more miles of railroad i
last year than any other Southern State ex
cept Georgia; and at her present rate of rail
road building she will di-count Georgia this :
year.
The City Council at st. Augustine are hav
ing a fountain reservoir built-on the plaza to
accommodate the fine flow of water from the
new artesian well recently bored at that
place.
The Enterprise ITorald says that a Mr-.
Harris, living at Turnbull bay, Volusia
county, a few days ago chased a uoe into the
bay, "and then pulled vc.i in a boat and
killed it.
The steamer Athlete, which was so serious
ly damaged near Fcrnandina recently by
breaking her walking beam and blowing out
her cylinder head-, has been towed over to
Jacksonville for repairs.
For the months of May and June Folk
■-Minty cold over $46,006 worth of cattle. Sum
merlin Bros., of that county, recently bought j
s*B) head, and irou* the 11th" to the 15th ultimo
paid out $19,450 for cattle raised iu Folk
c<iua%.
A quarterly meeting oftlje Executive Board .
of liie Baptist Stale Convention was liei.l ;n
Gamesviße on the ItU inst.. when it was de
cided to hold the next coni entiou at Lake
City in December.
The condition of the cetion throughout the
■Mate is very fmorable to an abundant yield.
A month ago, owing to tbe heavy rain’s and
cool nighu.it was backward, but the seasons- ,
de weather since has caused it to grow vig
orously.
_ There were received at the express office at i
Letter Key, between October Ist. IHKx, and
1* # 18K3, 307,30* pouu<it> of freight, of .
wlu<*h 76,***; wa* merchandise, 174,044* peri*li
able and 56,07* pound* of malt liquors.
‘Humanity’s great Lope for the future
is alone u* be realized in impro-gt} condi
tions of matritaonv. What a profound
<Alligation does thw fact involve * Those
who realize the responsibility can liar liv
r 1 r, ttftr l^an Lake advice from lirs. Ly
uta E. Piiikkam, whose wonderful re me,
•lies for the cure all diseases peculiar to |
women are so justly celebrated. Send for j
pamphlet.
Savannah morning news
DRIFT FROM DARIEN.
The Topics of the Town Condensed In
Paragraphs.
Darien, Ga., July 7. —Some few years
back there was a plan proposed for build
ing a plank walk from the Methodist
Chapel on the Ridge to where the way
from Union Island intersects the high
road at Mr. Bailey’s store, and it seemed,
from the spirit animating the discussion
on ways and means, that this great com
fort and convenience for church-goers—
people generally—would be built imme
diately. But time has moved on, as noth
ing else ever does, and the poor pedes
trians continue to wade ankle-deep
in the hot sand to reach either
of the churches, the distance varying
from three-quarters of a mile to a few
hundred yards for either congregation.
>f course “light summer fabrics,” in
such a case, are, as Jennie June says,
“suited to the rich,” yet, with the ther
mometer trying to rtval the “R. E. Les
ter," now throwing 250 feet through a
single nozzle, the poor cast very longing
eyes to a future when delicate colors and
cool, soft goods may lie indulged in at the
cost of a few clean, broad boards.
You see. interest in ourselves died away
and for a time here there threatened to lie
one grand hegira. People were so convinced
that just beyond us lay something so much
1 letter, where the go-ahead activity would
bear them onward in its rush anyway.
To reach this melee there they were will
ing to sacrifice their property here.
The constant cry of "things going down
daily, timlier trade our only standpoint,
and that is falling away from us, a few
years and we will Ik? a dead letter, etc.,”
alternately exasperated and disheartened
the few staunch adherents to the place.
Why, one man actually set to work to
figure up for us “that in ninety years our
present nearest timlier supply would be
exhausted." It was a momentary scare
until we added the "steps already trod”
on life’s journey to that ninety and took
courage.
Now the mirage is dissolving and the
illusions tading away, and home influ
ence was never more powerful than when
exerted over some tired wanderer return
ing from his fruitless search for a place
where want never comes and weariness is
unknown.
*ne of our neighlsirs was so carried
away liv the newspaper accounts of
Florida’s present and future, that he gave
notice that his place was for sale. “As
for him and his household,” they were
quitting so circumscribed a domain to
live”’mid orange groves and bowers.”
lie went —he saw—spent the money in
traveling that put windows in his expe
rience, and says: “Poor land can he
bought cheap anywhere, and good land
always does sell high. Mclntosh county
soil is rich enough for him, he only wishes
he had more of it.” Suffice it, he will not
remove to a wider sphere shortly.
All the crops look well, hut rain is needed
again. This is the thirstiest soil in the
world—why, although incredible, still it
i- a fact, that two inches below the sur
face was dry as pulverized dust but a
day or two after those prolonged rains.
Neither dust nor heat stop the young
people, and in the way of amusements
there is to be a foot race at the tourna
ment grounds, next Monday afternoon,
between two of Darien’s young men,
Messrs. Axson Way and Isaac 11. Aiken.
Friendly bets run high on these favorites,
and since the trial race, much enthusias
tic interest is taken in the match.
Next in order comes the Agricultural
“rousement,” and the association will
meet on the 14th inst.
Following this, on the Kith, comes the
second game of the championship series
between the Athletics and Atlantics, to
lie played on the town grounds, directly
after which, on the l s th, the “McCul
loughs,” of Brunswick, are expected
over to try the Altaiualias at home. All
these, with the splendid projected parade
of the “Light Dragoons’’at the Ridge on
the 19th, and tiie “Fire Company’s"
Thursday, well put in, in town, saves
the middle of the month from ennui. The
roar of the “Lester” at work is heard
almost as distinctly at the Ridge as in
town.
For the latter part of the term the
Dixies, Bartows and Oglethorpes, of Sa
vannah. will move in and out among us,
sharing our sea breeze and our mosquito
as one native to the clime.
The Board of Commissioners having
decided to furnish help towards building
the engine house, to the amount of s6oo,
and the hall above being part of the
affair, our visiting societies will in future
enter a tine reception room, we hope.
The resting season has come—too much
chill and lever in the rafting business—
so there is very little timlier coming
down. There are seven vessels yet in
port.
Prohibition and the needed railroad are
making themselves heard, and though
some still fight the air against both, the
rumble of progress increases in volume,
and we shall vet < D. V. 1 ride on those
rails. " H. 8. B.
THE SPEAKERSHIP FIGHT.
Senator Beck’s Outline of tlie Flan of
the Democratic Leaders.
Hot ington Special Courier-Journal id.
The Xational Hepublican this morning
has the following on- the Beck interview:
“The interview emanating from Senator
Beck, and published in the Democratic
papers in several cities Saturday morning,
is generally understood to have been the
authorized utterance of about a dozen of
the leading Democratic free trade Sena
tors. who have been running back aud
forth between this city and New York for
the past two weeks, trying to hit upon a
scheme to save their party from a hope
less split on the tariff question.
Said a Democratic politician of promi
nence last evening: “Beck’s interview is
a carefully prepared paper, and it may lie
taken as a formal declaration of the rep
resentatives of that portion of the party
antagonistic to Sam Randall and the pro
tective interests he represents. The old
hard-heads of the party are determined
to force the issue and have it settled
one way or the other at the be
ginning of the next Congress. They
are fighters, and when they pool
their strength they are a power. They
feel that their only hopes of success
next year is in crushing the protection
element of the Democratic party in the
first battle, showing no mercy anil letting
the full purpose of the fight lie clearly
understood from the jump. They have
abandoned the hope that thev can have
harmony on the question, but they propose
compelling a semblance of harmony, if
nothing more. They have drawn* the
lines and will force the lighting.
“Beck-claims that the determination
arrived at regarding the organization is
without regard to men, but that much of
his statement must lie taken with a grain
of salt. His relations with ex-Senator
McDonald and Mr. Carlisle are of the
most friendly character personally and
politically, and the three stand'upon
identically the same platform, so that it
is reasonable to suppose that the Ken
tucky Senator’s utterance is a public
blocking out of the McDonald-Carlisle
campaign—McDonald for President and
Carlisle for Speaker. That construction
will be put upon the interview at any
rate, and lam disposed to think that
view will be the correct one. It begins
to look very much as though the contest
tor the Speakership may be decided fairly
aud squarely upon the tariff and anti-tariff
issues, itolitics cutting very little figure.
••I notice that the Republican papers
very generally take kindly to Randall’s
candidacy, partly lieeause they want a
high protective Speaker and partly be
cause they know his election will split
the Democratic party all to pieces. Such
being the case, might not a large element
among the Republicans join issues with
RjuitL-I'’s friends and elect him? Carlisle
->ves Randall sixty votes to so in with,
and Randall’s votes may be relied on to
lie thrown for him under* any and all cir
cumstances. The Sjieakership contest is
going to develop some mightv queer com
binations, and there is liable to lie a fu
rious .rattling of dry bones in the next
uinety days.*'
Increase of Stature at Night.
The dally variation in human stature
has been made a matter of practical study
by Dr. Merkel, the result being, as he
niuli, that the height of an individual after
a night's rest measured before rising
from the bed, is’ two inches greater than
Jt is in the evening, measured standing;
that is. there is gradual diminution in
height, caused by the yielding of the plan
tar arches and of the intervertebral discs,
and a sudden diminution when the indi
vidual rises, this occurring at the articu
lations of the lower extremities. The
sinking at the ankle is one-third of an
inch, one-twelfth to one-eighth of an inch
a; Die knee and two-tiftks of an inch at
the hip shortening at the knee being
due, probably, to **,(. cljstricitv of the car
tilages, which would easily involve the
extent of variation named.
Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one
piinute,
A DEFEAT FOR DAUPHIN.
GRESHAM DECIDES THAT KEYS
ORDER .IS IN FORCE.
The Suspension Not an Abrogation, and
the Original Order Put Upon Its
Feet by the Supreme Court’s Decision
5 ague Verbal Agreements Have No
Weight.
M ASHINGTON, July B.—The following
is the decision of Postmaster General Gres
ham, in the Louisiana lottery case: “I
have carefully considered Postmaster
General Key’s order, bearing date of No
vember 13th 1879, touching money orders
and registered letters of a character which
he specifically described. In view of the
subsequent action of the department, and
of the conflicting views to which it
has given rise 1 have deemed it my duty
to make the following ruling:”
After quoting the order to the Post
master at New Orleans, forbidding him to
deliver postal monev orders to M. A.
Dauphin, or M. *A. Dauphin, Sec
retary, or M. A. Dauphin, post
office box 692. Judge Gresham
says: “There can be no doubt
that this order was clearly justified by
the provisions of sections 3929 and 4041 of
the Revised Statutes. It expressly recites
that the evidence which authorized the
Postmaster General to act in the
premises was satisfactory to him. llis
action was therefore conclusive upon
his suliordinates, and the other
departments of the government so long as
tiie statutes remained in force. The only
question in connection with it which
could be judicially examined relates to
the power of Congress to confer upon him
the authority under which he acted. The
doctrine is now settled that
the courts will not interfere
by a mandamus or injunction with an
Executive Department in the performance
of its duties, unless they are of a character
purely ministerial and involve no exer
cise of discretion or judgment. A subse
quent order of Postmaster General Key
is in these words:
“Post Office Department, <
Washington, D. 0., Felt., 27. lsso’f
“Sir—On the 13th of November, 1879,1
issued an order addressed to vou forbidding
the payment of any postifl money order to
M. A. Dauphin, or M. A. Dauphin, Secre
tary, or M. A. Dauphin, post office box
692, and 319 ' Broadway, New York, and
the return of all registered letters ad
dressed to them to the Postmaster at
whose offices they were mailed. This
party having brought suit against
me to enjoin the pertormanee
of this order, and having appealed the
same to the Supreme Court of the United
States, and having this day presented the
certificate of the government and State
officers of the State of Louisiana, that he
has complied with all the legal require
ments of that State and other evidence,
and not being satisfied from the evidence
submitted to me that the said M. A.
Dauphin is engaged in conducting a
scheme or device for obtaining money,
through the mails, by means of false and
fraudulent pretensions and promises, I
hereby authorize and decide a suspension
of said order of November 13, 1879, so far
as it relates to aaid Dauphin until his
ease shall have been been heard and de
termined by the Supreme Court of the
United States.
“[Signed] 1). M. Key.
“Postmaster General.”
“‘ To Ike Postmaster, Xeic Orleans, La.,
and the Postmaster, Xer York, X. 1".’”
“It appears by the recitals.tlnit a suit
had beeu brought to enjoin the execution
of the first order, and that the complain
ant had appealed the case to the Supreme
Court of the United States. The decree,
therefore, of the court of original juris
diction was adverse to him, and the Post
master General consented to a temporary
suspension of that order until the case
should have been heard and determined
by the tribunal of last resort.
"The previous order was not revoked or
cancelled. If such had been the intention
of the Postmaster General it would have
been expressly declared. It was simply,
and in effect provided, that during the
pendency of the appeal the execution of
the preceding order should be suspended.
The dismissal of the appeal, therefore, in
vacation by the appellant's counsel, with
the consent of the Solicitor General, put
an end to the suspension and restored, the
binding effect of that order. It has been
strenuously insisted that the original
order was not to be enforced
until the case to which the second
order refers should have been actually
determined by the Supreme Court. 1
cannot acquiesce in this view inasmuch
as the complainant could at any time, by
dismissing his appeal, withdraw the case
from the determination of the court. The
second order would thus, at the option of
the complainant, have the effect of an
absolute revocation of the preceding
order, while a mere suspension of it was
obviously intended. There is no dif
ference between .a perpetual sus
pension and a revocation of the
controlling order. Indeed, the only ques
tion in the ease was the constitutional
power of Congress to enact the statute
upon that question. I have no doubt that
the Supreme Court, in ex parte Jackson,
96 U. S. 727, has affirmed the constitu
tionality of section 3894, which, as
amended by the act of July 12, 1876, de
clares that'no letter or circular concern
ing lotteries, so-called gift concerts, or
other similar enterprises offering prizes
shall be carried in the mail.
In view of this decision the constitution
ality of the sections applicable to this
case cannot lie seriously questioned. I
have confined myself to the matters as
they appear from the records of the de
partment. Something was stated bv the
counsel representing the parties inter
ested as to verbal agreements or under
standings, but I have not felt at liberty
to consider any other facts than such as
the department records establish. The
first order will therefore be executed as
if the second had not been entered.”
Terminating the Fisheries Treaties.
Washington, July 7.—ln accordance
with the resolution of Congress of March
3, 1883, directing the President to notify
the British Government of the termina
tion ot certain articles of the treaty of
May, 1871, relating to the fisheries ques
tion. the British Government has been so
notified through Minister Lowell, the
American Minister at London, and these
articles will terminate on the 2d of Julv,
1885.
AMERICA'S RIFLE TEAM.
The Success of the Coming Match at
Wimbledon Already Assured.
London, July 8, —The Observer to-day
says: “It is clearly evident that the
coming rifle meeting at Wimbledon will
be the most successful one in many years.
The Canadian team took up their quar
ters at the camp yesterday evening.
Most of the interest centres in the
American team. It is much regretted
that the Americans refused the offer
of a camp similar to that taken by the
Canadians. The question of the wind
gauge has been considered and virtually
settled, the principal shots having peti
tioned the Executive Committee to allow
the use of the gauge. The committee are
to give a banquette the American team at
the Criterion restaurant. The committee
includes the Duke of Teek, the Earl of
Wemyss, Yiseount Ranelagh, Sir Henry
Willot and other prominent volunteers.”
DENVER'S EX POSITION.
Lively Scenes in the Building and the
Kxliihit* Promised.
Denver, Col., July B.—The National
Exposition building during the past few
•days presented a lively appearance, the
exhibitors being engaged in arranging the
displays. The fine art exhibition prom
ises to lie especially good. The Union
Pacific, Burlington and Atlanta and the
Pacific Railroads are providing for
an extensive display. The Richmond
and Danville Railroad Company, oper
rating in Virginia, has been assigned a
prominent space in which to lay before
the visitors its cabinet of minerals, re
ported to lie the finest iu the United States,
which are to compote w ith the iron, coal
and precious metal collections of the Rocky
Mountains. The Commissioners of the
Tertio-Miliennial Exposition at Sante Fe
promise their entire mineral collection.
Weatlier Indications.
Office chief signal observer,
Washington, D.C., July B.—lndications
for Monday:
In the South Atlantic and Gult States,
local rains, slightly cooler and partly
cloudy weather, variable winds, statonary
or higher barometer.
President Gordon's Successor.
Atlanta, July 7.—At a meeting of the
Georgia Pacific Railroad Directors, to
day, Major John W. Johnston was elected
President to succeed General Gordon,
who resigned.
Hill’s Hair Pye, bjack or brown, fifty
cent#.
RAY’S BILL LOST BY’ A VOTE.
Its Defeat Just Accomplished Alter a
Long Debate.
Atlanta, July 7.— ln the House this
morning the Judiciary Committee re
ported that local and special bills cannot
he relieved by a single resolution to cover
all, but must be voted on separately.
Mr. Ray’s fertilizer bill discussion was
renewed and Mr. Ray spoke about an
hour, followed by Mr. Atkinson, of Meri
wether, in opposition. Mr. Wright, of
Washington, moved to recommit the bill
to the Judiciary Committee to have it
duly considered and perfected. The mo
tion was lost, by a heavy majority.
Mr. Falligant opposed that part of Mr.
Ray’s speech which referred to lawyers
and the law, and ridiculed some of his
. illustrations, much to the amusement of
the House. lie desired to have the bill
printed and a day set to renew the dis
cussion, as the bill was very important
"and should be thoroughly understood.
The motion was lost by yeas 60 to nays 71.
Mr. James, of Douglass, resumed the
discussion, and made an impassionate
I speech in favor of the bill. Mr. Lettre, of
Muscogee, opposed the bill and confined
his remarks to the legal points,
lie contended that the Legislature
should not pass this law to encourage
farmers to repudiate their guano debts.
It allows them to plead failure of consid
eration, and thereby repudiate their
guano notes. He claimed that farmers
were not compelled to sign these notes,
but law and good morals require that
when they do they should pay them. The
present laws are ample to protect farmers
from frauds on the part of fertilizer
dealers. Mr. Little made a lengthy argu
ment, and was frequently questioned and
cross questioned by Mr. Spence, of
Mitchell, Mr. Patton, of Thomas, and
others, but he held his own witn rare
ability.
Mr. Middlebrook, of.Newton, favored
the bill, and claimed that many ignorant
farmers signed these notes, and this class
should be protected bv the passage of this
bill.
Mr. Spence, of Mitchell, called the pre
vious question, and the motion was car
ried.
Mr. Peck, of Rockdale, Chairman of the
Agricultural Committee, was allowed 20
minutes to close. He contended that the
farmers on the floor of the House did not
advocate this bill. Its passage would pre
vent them from getting fertilizers except
for cash. The present laws amply protect
the farmers. The yeas and nays were or
dered and resulted iu 87 yeas aud f>7
nays, lacking the one vote* necessary to
make it constitutional. The Speaker
declared the bill lost, which called forth
considerable applause from the opponents
of the measure. A strong effort will be
made Monday to reconsider and pass the
bill.
About a dozen leaves of absence were
granted.
In the Senate leaves of absence were
granted five Senators. *
The rules were suspended and the fol
lowing bills were read for the first time:
By Mr. Oliver—-Changing the time of
holding the Superior Courts of Scriven,
Emamrel and Bulloch counties.
By Mr. Baker—Authorizing creditors
to redeem the property of debtors sold
under tax fi. fas.
By Mr. Jones—Amending the act for
the publication of Supreme Court reports.
Senator Tutt was added to the Judiciary
Committee.
A bill to establish a branch college at
Waycross was withdrawn as local and
goes to the House.
The bill to accept the Walthourville
Academy for a university was recom
mitted to the Education Committee.
The bill to amend section 3910 of the
Code was read a second time and was
lost on the adverse report.
The Governor has been pushed to-day
with appeals in regard to Judge and
Solicitor of the City Court, applicants
and friends pressing claims. Solicitor
Ellis retires, and half a dozen young law
yers are after the place, all well backed.
HOADLY ON THE STUMP.
Pointing Out the Incongruities of the
Republican Platform.
Hamilton, Ohio, July 7.—The ar
rangments for an out-door meeting for a
ratification of the nominations of the
Democratic State Convention to-night
were interfered with by rain, and the
meeting was held in German Society Hall,
which was insufficient in size,
to hold the crowd which gathered from
the city, and was brought in by special
trains. General F. Yandevere, who pre
sided, stated that he had received a dis
patch from Senator Pendleton saving that
he could not be present on account of ill
health.
Judge Hoadly was greeted with cheers
when introduced, and began by saying
that he was here as the representative of
the old Democracy of Butler, as old as
Jefferson, but so new that, God willing, it
shall newly occupy the offices of this
State and nation. Paying a high personal
compliment to his opponent, Judge
Foraker, lie said that the ticket was
nominated to follow the old beaten paths.
He was willing, but as to all personal
attacks he had no quarrel with the per
sonality of the opposite party, hut he
would hold high conflict with the prin
ciples ol Republicans. He then proceeded
to consider the Republican platform,
saying that he wished to avoid making
a keynote speech,, as last year’s effort in
that direction by Gov. Foster was dis
astrous. Taking the first declaration
as to the achievements of the Repub
lican platform, he said that the
party had a habit of getting
its back to the future and pointing with
pride to its past. He then read the
humorous paraphrase of the platform as
it ought to be written. He included
among these achievements, the theft of the
Presidency, the whisky ring, the star
route frauds, the destruction of the navy
and of the mercantile marine, the river
and harbor stealings, etc. These fur
nished. he said, reason why Chase and
Greeley and thousands of good Republi
cans should leave the party. To illus
trate the difference between the two
parties he referred to the four
great political prosecutions since the
war. The tirst was the impeachment
of Johnson. It was malicious. The
whisky conspiracy was a failure. The
third has just come to naught. The fourth
was not inaugurated by Repub
licans and therefore was not a failure—
Tweed corruption in New York. This
act of purification was clone by Samuel
J. Tilden, of New Y’ork. The Republi
cans failed to punish their thieves. De
mocracy strangled theirs.
Referring to the tariff plank of the Re
publican platform, he said that it was not
in line to-night to discuss this, but he
would soon do so. He believed the Dem
ocratic view expressed in its
platform was God’s truth. Speak,
ing of the wool tariff’ plank, he said
it was singular that the Republican
party condened its own action in this
regard. A confession that it was wrong
in cutting down the wool tariff was a good
reason for the punishment of the Repub
lican paty. He ridiculed the declara
tion that the wool tariff’ should be restored
at the tirst possible opportunity. Passing
to the resolution about the prison con
tract system he said that this was a re
bellion of the Republican party against
its own legislation. The abolition
of prison contract labor was specifically
defeated by the late Republican Legisla
ture. Regarding the liquor traffic and
the indorsement of the Scott law, he said
that the platform approves the Scott law
ns it is, starting with the proposition that
that which is intrinsically wrong is not
the subject of compromise, but when its
acting is wrong it deserves no compro
mise in its treatment. If he believed with
the prohibit ioniststhat all alcohol is poison,
that the Saviour converted water into
poison at C ana, then he w ould go with
the prohibitionists with all his force to
have prohibition. He believed* in tem
perance. It consisted not in the use but
the abuse of alcohol. He believed in a
graduated license system that should bear
a proportion to the amount of traffic and
to the amount of injury the traffic may do.
LOUISE MICHEL TO BE AVENGED
A Meeting Adopts a Resolution to Mur
der Her Jurors.
Marseilles, July B. —A meeting, at
tended liv 100 persons, was held here to
day to protest against the sentence re
cently passed upon Louise Michel. A
resolution was adopted pledging those
present to murder the jurymen who con
victed Louise Michel at* the first oppor
tunity. The author of the resolution will
be prosecuted.
The Colored Immaculate*.
Chicago, July 7.—The Supreme Lodge
of the Independent Order of linmaculates
(colored) adjourned after voting 1100 to
ward Garfield University, at Montgom
ery, Ala. The next meeting will be held
in Memphis July 14, 1884.
For chills, fever, ague, and weakness,
Colden’s Liquid Beef Tonic. Golden’s.
Take no other, Of druggists,
SAVANNAH. MONDAY, JULY 9; 1883.
.MANIACAL INCENDIARIES.
A TRAGIC ASSASSINATION AND
CREMATION IN OHIO.
Alter Murdering His Grandson a
Crazed Rustic Makes a Funeral Pyre
of the Buildings on His Farm—The
Bridgewater Almshouse Incendiary-
Caught in Boston.
Cincinnati, July B.—A dispatch from
Batavia says that George Ayres, aged 60
years, a wealthy farmer living half a mile
from Salem Station, in Brown county,
rose early this morning and shot and
killed his grandson, Charles Preston, who
, was asleep, set the house on lire,
i went to the barn, set it on tire, shot
himself and was burned up in the barn.
Another grandson was lying beside the
murdered one, but was not harmed.
Ay res was insane.
Boston, July B.—This morning Ed
ward Whelan applied to the police at
Attleboro tor a night’s lodging, and while
in the lock-up admitted that he was au
escaped convict from the State workhouse
at Bridgewater, which was burned Satur
day. He said that the negro James Gil
more, who escaped with him, started
the tire. Gilmort was found
near by and arrested. He tirst
asserted that he had had nothing to do
with the fire, but subsequently confessed
that he was the incendiary. He said: “I
have carried a match for one year to ac
complish it. 1 shoved a iot of straw up
the ventilator flue, and a disabled steam
pump. lam glad the place is in ashes,
and when I get out of this I will burn this
town.” Another convict who was in
company with these men escaped towards
Providence.
CROOK’S COURSE CHOSEN.
The Apaches to Locate at San Carlos
Under Kye of the War Department.
Washington, July 7.—Secretary Tel
ler, Secretary Lincoln, (Jen. Crook and
Mr. Price, Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, had a conference at the War
Department this afternoon in regard to
the disposition of the captured Apache
Indians, when the following agreement
was arrived at:
“Memorandum of the result of a confer
ence between Secretary of the Interior Tel
ler, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Price,
Secretary of War Lincoln and Brigadier
General Crook, July 7, 1883: In view of
the difficulties encountered in making a
satisfactory disposition of the Apache In
dians recently captured bv Gen. Crook,
under the existing methods of the admin
istration it is determined by the Secretary
of War and the Secretary of the Interior,
after consideration, that the Apache In
dians recently captured by Gen. Crook
and all such as may be here
after captured or may surrender
themselves to him, shall be kept under
the control of the War Department at
such points on the San Carlos reservation
as may he determined by the War De
partment, but not at the agency without
the consent of the Indian Agent,, to be
ted and cared for by the War Department
until further orders for the greater
security of the people of Arizona, and to
iusure peace the War Department shall
be intrusted with the entire police con
trol of all the Indians on the San Carlos
reservation, and charged with the duty
of keeping peace on the reservation and
preventing the Indians from leaving it,
except w ith the consent of General Crook
or the officer who may be authorized to
act under him. The *War Department
shall protect the Indian Agent in the dis
charge of his duties as agent, which shall
include the ordinary duties of an Indian
Agent, which shall remain as heretofore,
except as to keeping place, administering
justice, and punishing refractory In
dians, all of which shall be done by the
War Department, as above stated.
“(Signed) Robt. T. Lincoln,
“Secretary of War.
“H. M. Teller,
“Secretary of the Interior.”
THE GULF’S DREAD GOBLIN.
A Ship Full of Yellow Fever Arrives
Off the Mobile Bar.
New Orleans, July 7. —A Mobile spe
cial says [hat Thursday night news came
that the Norwegian bark Vega, from Vera
Cruz, was anchored fifteen miles off" Mo
bile bar, with Captain Hansen, the mate
and all of- her crew but four down with
yellow fever. The bark was ordered to
Ship Island Quarantine.
A dispatch from Biloxi, Miss., says that
the transfer of the Ship Island Quarantine
Station from the National Board of Health
to the Marine Hospital Service was com
pleted to-day.
GalvestoN. July 7. —The man reported
yesterday as ill on board the bark Salome,
recently from Vera Cruz, has since died
of black vomit. Another sailor on the
same vessel is also sick, undoubtedly
from yellow fever. The Salome is thor
oughly isolated from the rest of the ship
ping here, and it is thought that the Gov
ernor will take action to have her sent to
Ship Island. In addition to the State
quarantine, the city lias established a
picket boat to patrol the waters in the
neighborhood of the quarantine across
the east end of the island.
Pensacola, Fla., July 7.—The two
infected barks Goldbunga and Ungdoms
Venner are to be transferred to Ship
Island quarantine, telegraphic author
ity to that effect having been received
from Surgeon General Hamilton of the
Marine Hospital Service.
Havana, July 7.—Forty-three deaths
from yellow fever occurred here during
the past week.
New Orleans, July B.—Dr. John H.
Rauch, Secretary of the Sanitary Council
of the Mississippi Valley, arrived here to
day in the interest of that organization.
A dispatch from Biloxi says that the
Norwegian bark Vega, previously re
ported off" Mobile, has arrived at Ship
Island Quarantine Station, with four
cases of yellow fever on board.
ELY’ SAVED FROM THE TORCH.
The Troops Find the Miners More Sin
ned Against Than Sinning.
Ely, Vt., July 7.—The four companies
of State troops arrived here early this
morning and found the streets deserted,
the riotous miners not expecting them.
Governor Barstow and other State offi
cials accompanied the troops. Eleven of
the ring-leaders have been arrested and no
resistance was made. They will proba
bly be taken to Chelsea this afternoon.
Much sympathy is expressed for the
miners. Some families are on the
verge of starvation. Some women with
children in their arms have appealed to
the troops for assistance. Money has
been raised to relieve their immediate
wants. The Mining Company proposes
to pay $2,500 ot their indebtedness to the
men tit once, $2,000 next week and the
balance, $15,500, as soon as the ore now in
process of refinement can he put through
and shipped, A large portion of the
troops will probably return to-night, as it
is thought that the danger is over.
Hanover, N. H., July B.— Peace now
prevails at the Ely mines, in Vermont.
The Bradford Guards, the last remaining
company of militia, left for home this
morning. Twenty special policemen
have been sworn in and will remain a
few days longer, but no further trouble is
apprehended, unless such of the ring
leaders as have evaded the officers return
and attempt to create a disturbance.
Chalmers’ Troubles.
Jackson, Miss., July 7.—At Oxford
yesterday, Judge Hill quashed the infor
mation filed by Mr. Chalmers and Mr.
Chandler against Watson and others,
known as the “political case,” growing
out of the Chalniers-Manning contest.
The Judge said that the information
charged no specific crime against the
government, and a grand jury and wit
nesses lieing present, he would* permit no
further proceedings or information only
upon indictment.
District Attorney Chandler said that he
would qot lie dictated to by the court as
to how he should manage his business,
and that he w6nld proceed uo further in
the election fraud cases till the matter
could )>e laid before the Department of
Justice at Washington. Judge Hill said
that this matter should not again he en
tertained in his court unless through the
finding of the grand jury, and that infor
mations were not favored hut onlv tole
rated in extreme cases, of which the pre
sent was not one.
France as a Borrower.
Paris, July 7.—Au extra budget of
300,000,000 francs will be submitted to the
Chamber of Deputies by the government
as security for the 3 per cent, loan of the
same amount to be issued at the end of
the year 1883.
Mrs. H. G. Butler, Way’s station, Ga.,
says: “I used Brown’s Iron Bitters for
malaria, nervous prostration and debility
with great benefit.”
MAJOR NICKERSON’S AMOURS.
The Second Wife Tells Her Story in a
Legal Fight Over a House.
Washington, July 7.— The case of
Emma C. D. Nickerson against Major
Nickerson, W. B. Matthews and Lena
Dillis Carter Nickerson, was before the
Equity Court 40-day. In this case suit
was brought for the appointment of a re
ceiver to take the rents of house No. 7,
Dupont Circle, and for an injunction to
prevent the sale or other disposition of
the property pending a hearing. A tem
porary restraining order had been issued,
and the motion before the court to-day
was whether this should lie dissolved
or made permanent. Lena D. Carter
filed a long affidavit in answer
to the original bill, accompanied by
the affidavits of several other persons,
corroborating the main allegations. In
her answer, she declares at the outset
that from March 31st last, the date on
which the Philadelphia court granted
Major Nickerson a divorce, until June
9th. when the divorce was annulled, the
complainant was not the lawful w ife of
Major Nickerson. She relates how her
mother rented a portion of Major Nieker
son’s house, Major Nickerson retaining
two rooms and boarding with the family.
She declares that she never went out
with him alone, refers to the complain
ant’s charges that the affiant at various
times between the first of September, 1882,
and the third day of April. 1883, commit
ted adultery with the defendant, Major
Nickerson, and declares them willfully
and maliciously false, and says that they
exhibit a revengeful malice on the part
ot the complainant toward the affiant,
who, believing and confiding in the same
man in whom the complainant believed
and confided, ancl with whom she lived
for nearly ten years, having in all that
time trust, belief and confidence in him,
has been equally deceived with the com
plainant by the fraud and deception prac
ticed by Major Nickerson on the affiant as
well as the complainant, and the affiantlias
suffered, still suffers, and during her whole
life will suffer more than the complainant
from the fraud and deceit. She relates
the circumstances of her marriage with
Major Nickerson, that lie showed her a
certificate of the decree of divorce and
urged her to marry him immediately,
that he was going W'est and she must
marry him at once, because when the
divorce was made public her family
would never consent to it. On April 2
1883, she met Major Nickerson at a drug
store, they went to Baltimore, and were
married. As soon as the affiant became
convinced that there was doubt as
to the propriety or legality of
the divorce proceedings she
informed Major Nickerson that they must
separate until the matter was decided by
the court, and if the court declared the
divorce proceedings irregular the sepa
ration must be final. On the 30th of May
last he removed his truuks from her house
and has not stayed in the house since. The
affiant again denies charges of adultery.
She relates the circumstances of the trans
fer of his property to her and admits that
she was most improvident and indiscreet
and acted improperly iu, consenting to
marry Major Nickerson so soon after his
divorce and without the knowledge of her
family, that she accepted the prop
erty in good . faith, lieeause
being married in good faith he was mor
ally bound to provide for her, that it was
a small step toward reparation for the
injury he had done her, aud because she
was advised and is still advised that the
complainant had and has no right therein.
She again denies having beeu guiltv of
adultery and submits that it is enough
that her whole life has been blighted, her
peace destroyed and she and her family
made wretched, that at a time when she
was watching the last moments of a dying
sister, the complainant and her friends
were spreading broadcast through
out the public press slanders
and falsehoods against her. She further
submits that if Major Nickerson was able
to deceive a person ot the mature age of
the complainant, who had lived with him
as his wife for ten years, if he was able
to deceive his counsel in Philadel
phia, was it improbable that he
could and did deceive the affiant, who is
young enough to be his daughter. The
argument will be heard Monday.
FIRE'S FORKED TONGUE.
The Losses l>y the Evansville Confla
gration Estimated at $150,000.
Minneapolis, Minn., July ;• a spe
cial from Evansville, Minn., says that the
loss by the tire which broke out Thursday
night in the rooms of the Bank of Evans#
ville, a two-story frame structure, is
1150,000. Twenty-six buildings, includ
ing the postolfice, the Bank of Evansville,
the market house, and the Weekly
Enterprise building were burned. Fire
apparatus was not obtainable. The
entire mails were saved. The officials of
the Manitoba Railroad issued instructions
to the conductors of freight traius at
Alexandria to run wild to Evansville and
give any assistance desired. A train ar
rived as the tire was getting hold of the
lumber yards, and one of the elevators
had already caught when the w ater on
the engine's tender was brought into
use, and after much effort the flames in
that quarter were suppressed.
Bridgewater, Mass., July 7.—The
State almshouse burned to-day. There
were six hundred inmates, but all were
removed safely. The loss is $150,000.
New Orleans, Julv B.— The roof and
upper floors of the three-story building
No. 34 Tchouptelas street, occupied by
Shropshire Cos., wine and liquor dealers,
was burned to-day. The loss is estimated
at $20,000. The insurance is placed in
local companies. Moffatt’s Candy Factory
and Hartwell A Chambers’ wholesale
grocery were damaged by w ater, but the
latter firms are fully insured.
FLORIDA'S TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
Newton Found Guilty in Four Hours
of the Murder of McMillan.
Jacksonville, Fla., July 7.—A dis
patch from Orlando, Orange county, says
that the trial of Archibald B. Newton for
killing Samuel McMillan, near Sanford
last October, closed to-day with a verdict
of guilty. The circumstances of the mur
der were highly sensational. McMillan
had the reputation of being a miser,
and was supposed to have a
large sum of money always about
him. Newton, an East Indian by
birth, lived near and was poor. McMillan
disappeared September 30, and shortly
afterward Newton and his wife were
very flush with money. On October 17
McMillan’s headless body was found in
Crystal Lake, .partly consumed bv fishes,
with a large rope around the wais't tied to
a pot of nails. The rope, pole and nails
were proven to be the property of New
ton. The evidence was wholly circum
stantial, and the trial was bitterly con
tested by the counsel employed bv
English relatives of Newton. The jury
was out four hours.
DYING BY HUNDREDS.
The Plague in Egypt Increasing the
Number of Its Victims.
Alexandria, July 7. —One hundred
and seventy deaths from cholera oc
curred at Ramietta yesterday, 39 at Man
surah and 16 at Samonaud.
At Mansurah yesterday there were 11
deaths from cholera.
During the 24 hours ending at 8 o’clock
this morning, 72 deaths from cholera oc
curred at Damietta, 50 at Mansurah, 9 at
Samonaud and 3 at Sherbin.
The Constantinople Sanitary Council,
in order to prevent the introduction of
cholera into the Turkish possessions, has
resolved to ask the Porte to request the
Egyptian Government to prohibit refu
gees from starting for the Turkish coast,
and to inform that government that if any
refugees do arrive at ports belonging to
Turkey they will not be allowed to land.
Valuable Lives Gone Gut.
New York, July 7.—C. R. Marvin, the
oldest member of the New York Stock
Exchange, died to-day.
Annapolis, Md„ July 7.—Lieutenant
H. L. Green, of the United States navy,
died here this evening suddenly.
Worcester, July B.— Hon. John Deu
nison Baldwin, senior editor and proprie
tor of the Worcester Spy, died suddenly
this morning of congestion of the lungs,
aged 74 years.
Bloomington, Ills., July B.—Miss
Maria Von Eisner, better known as Mile.
Marie Litta, died yesterday.
China Stops the Man of War.
Stettin, July 7.—Orders have been re
ceived here from the Chinese legion at
Berlin to stop the work of enrolling the
crew and of purchasing provisions for
the new Chinese iron-clad which was
constructed here. The orders for the sail
ing of the ve*sel for China have been
countermanded.
Inexpensive and effective is the great
substitute for gulpUur hathe, Glenn’s Sul
j>Uur soap.
THREE TO FIGHT FIFTY.
TEXAS DEPUTIES AWAITING A
MOB’S ONSLAUGHT.
A Pistol’s Crack the Keynote tor the
Trouble—A Desperate Prisoner Fires
at the Deputy hut Aliases Him—The
Imperilled Official Then Takes Deadly
Aim.
Galveston, Texas, July B.—A dis
patch from Decatur, Jn this State, says
that Deputy Sheriff Owens, in the town
of Sunset, last night attempted to arrest
a drunken rioter when Samuel Hunter
interfered, shooting at < )wens, but missing
him. The latter then returned the tire
with fatal effect. Hunter’s friends as
sembling excitedly, the Deputy tele
graphed to Decatur for help and two offi
cers immediately started to his aid. The
latest report last night was to the effect
that the three Deputies were at a point
midway between Decatur and Sunset, and
are about to make a stand against an
armed mob of fifty.
GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY.
The Sligo Trial Closes with Startling
Revelations.
Dublin, July B.— At the Sligo assizes
Saturday, Rogerson, Tansy, Kelly and
Haughton, implicated in the murder con
spiracy, were found guilty. Sentence was
deferred.
Two informers testified that the pris
oners and a number of other persons who
were obeying the orders of a secret so
ciety, attempted in March, 1882, to blow
up the Weston House, at Galway, with
dynamite. It they had succeeded in de
stroying the house and killing the in
mates, they were to have received £SOO
and if they failed to take any life thev
were to have received £2OO or £3OO.
Five pounds of dynamite were exploded
on a window sill of a house. But little
damage was done owing to lack of skill
on the part of the conspirators. The
Judge in summing up spoke strongly
against the prisoners.
The AVar on Assisted Emigration.
Dublin, July 7. —Twelve Bishops, in
cluding Cardinal McCabe and Archbishop
Croke, were absent from the meeting of
the Catholic heirarchy here yesterday,
which adopted resolutions denouncing
State-aided emigration and favoring a
cultivation ofland in Ireland which could
maintain the population.
A Demand lot- Veter’s Pence.
Toronto, July 7.—Archbishop Lynch
has issued a pastoral demanding the pay
ment of Peter’s pence in the See under
his control.
FRANCE AND THE HEBRIDES.
No Flag Planted, and How the Matter
Must be Solved.
Paris, July 7.—The statement that the
French flag was hoisted on the New Heb
rides Islands’is semi-officially denied.
Le Temps says that France and England
made a covenant in 1878 not to annex the
New Hebrides. Since then a company of
colonists of New Caledonia" has bought
several of these islands and obtained con
cessions in others. In order to counter
act the covetous designs of Australia, it
liecomes necessary to supplement the
vague covenant by according to that com
pany rights similar to those granted bv
Great Britain to the British Noxth Borneo
Company.
Sydney, N. S., July 7.—There is no
foundation for the statement that the na
tional flag has been hoisted on the New
Hebrides Islands by a Frenoh gunboat.
Paris, July 8. —It is stated here that
the Cabinet at its meeting to-dav resolved
to dispatch a note to Earl Granville, point
ing out that the contemplated British
annexation of the New Hebrides is con
trary to the engagement previously en
tered into by Great Britain.
THE EDITORS OF TWO STATES.
North Carolina Scribes Invite Tlieir
Southern Neighbors to Join Them.
Asheville, July 7.— The North Caro
lina Press Association, comprising eighty
members, held its eleventh annual meet
ing at White Sulphur Springs, in Hay
wood county, on the 4th instant. By in
vitation, the South Carolina Association,
of forty members, joined them as guests
here yesterday. In the afternoon the two
associations were handsomely entertain
ed by Richmond Pearson, Esq., and at
night attended a banquet given by the
Board of Trade of Asheville. Among the
speakers was Senator Vance. After the
banquet they attended a ball at the Swau
nanoa Hotel. The two associations have
gone to Warm Springs to attend a banquet
tendered them there.
LEE DOOMED TO HANG.
His Crime Confessed and the Expiation
Fixed for August 3.
Richmond, July 7.—Charles Henry
Lee, colored, who has twice been con
victed of the murder of Daniel Miller, in
Henry county, in February, has made a
full confession of his crime. He had been
living in Miller's house and is supposed
to have been criminally intimate with the
latter’s wife, who is now in jail charged
with being an accessory to the murder.
It was upon this woman’s testimony that
Lee whs convicted. Lee will be hanged
on the third of next August.
ChiU and Peru.
Lima, July 7. —News received by steam
er is published in El Comercio to the
effect that Peruvian affairs are being
. discussed in secret in the Chilian Con
gress.
Arica, Peru, July 7.—Gen. Canavaro
has called a meeting at Magueza, in an
swer to the question whether he was
willing to continue the war. The General
answered that he was tired of the exist
ing state of affairs and desired early
peace. General Canavaro has returned
to Arequipa.
The New Hampshire Senatorsliip.
Dover, N. *H., July 7.—. Judge Jere
miah, of Dover, and Chief Justice Deo,
of Rollingsford, whose names have been
used in balloting lor United States Sena
tor, state positively that they will not
under any consideration accept even a
unanimous election. It is believed here
by both the Rollins and anti-Rollins fac
tions that there will be a break next
week and an advance toward a choice.
Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, is generally
looked on as the dark horse.
• Grant’s Wish Law,
Washington, July B.—Miss Van Lew,
of Richmond, Va., whose services during
the war in behalf of the Union cause and
in aid of Union soldiers in Libby prison
gave her some prominence, has been ten
dered a first-class clerkship in the Post
Office Department by Postmaster General
Gresham, on the recommendation of Gen.
Grant. Miss Van Lew was Postmistress
at Richmond during President Grant’s
administration.
Failures In Husiness.
• Toronto. July 7.—'White & Cos., lace
merchants, have made an assignment.
Their liabilities are $90,000.
Hearn, MaeCauley & McLab, wholesale
milliners at London, have called a meet
ing of their creditors. Their liabilities
are $60,000.
Alexander’s Autograph for Leo.
Rome, July 7.—Monsigneur Vannu
tclli, the Papal Nuncio at Vienna, who
represented the Pope at the coronation of
the Czar, has returned to Rome, and pre
sented the Pope with an autograph letter
from the Czar.
The Hattie at Gauyaquil.
Gauyaquil, July 7, —There has been
heavy firing all the morning, and the
streets are lined with soldiers and no one
is allowed to pass. All the business
houses are closed by order of Dictator
Vientimilla.
Frauds In the Havana Hank.
Havana, July 7.—The court is investi
gating the alleged Irauds in the Spanish
Bank. Frederica Palma Ydominiguez,
late cashier of the bank, has been im
prisoned.
Worms in Alabama Cotton.
Montgomery, Ala., July 7.—The
planters of this section are very anxious
about the cotton crop, as worm's have ap
peared on many plantations.
The Italian Forger Returns Home.
New \ ork, July 7.— Martiningo, the
Italian forger captured by the police
Thursday last, started on his leturn voy
age in a steamer this morning.
There is bqrdly an adult person living
but is sometimes with kidney
difficulty, which is the most prolific and
(jaftgerogs cause of all disease. There is
no Kort of need to have anv form of kidney
or urinary trouble if Hop Bitters is taken
, wcasionally,
SHOT BY’ HER JEALOUS LOVER.
A Wayward Child of Georgia Dies Amid
Sin and Luxury.
Nashville, July 7. —The story of a
romantic love tragedy which occurred in
this city Wednesday is attracting wide
spread attention.
About 6 o’clock that evening passers
by at the earner of Church and Summer
streets were startled by the report of n
pistol. The place is one of the most
prominent thoroughfares of the city, and
immediately an immense crowd gathered.
A few seconds before a woman had been
seen to rush to the second-storv window
of a small tenement-house, two doors be
low Chureh_street, crying “murder."
The first spectators‘on the scene beheld
a woman lying on the floor in death
agony, with a large hole through her left
breast. Reclining on the bed was Wil
liam Boyd, a well known aud weaithv
real estate owner, evidently in an in
toxicated condition.
The woman, until death came to her
relief, kept jxfiuting at Boyd, muttering
almost incoherent lv, “Murder, murder.”
She was found to be Mrs. Birdie Patter
sou, of Americus, Ga., a beautiful bru
nette, twenty-two years old, whose bus
band is now in New Orleans. For the
past month she has been occupying with
Boyd the apartments in which she was
shot.
The tragedy seeiqs to have been the
result of a jealous quarrel. Tuesday night
Mrs. Patterson went to a ball at Wilt
muller’s Garden, staying out until 3
o’clock in the morning. Boyd is under
stood to have upbraided her as unfaith
ful, the quarreling ending by his shoot
ing her. The revolver was found lying in
one corner of the room.
When interrogated Boyd said the
woman had shot hersell; that he was
there, but didn’t see her do it and didn’t
know why she did it.
Boyd was arrested and committed to
jail. Nothing for years has created such
excitement in the city. Boyd has a large
income. Mrs. Patterson is well known in
New Orleans, Florida and Georgia, her
mother being a wealthy resident of the
last named State.
On Mrs. Patterson’s person was found
several hundred dollars' worth of jewelry,
the gift of Boyd.
In the bleeding bosom of the woman
was found a letter addressed to “Mrs. E.
A. Prosser, Americus, Ga., care of J. 11.
Black, Esq.” The letter read as follows:
“Nashville, Tknn., July 5.
“J ly Dear Mamma:
“1* write to say yours of the 25th is at hand
at last. I also received my duster auntie
sent me. Many thanks for the same. I
went to the biggest “to-do” on the Fourth
I ever saw. 1 danced half the day, then
came home, dressed fresh anil tine, then
danced till 2 o’clock. 1 had a nice time.
indeed.
“Mamma, I will wait a few days to de
cide what I will do. I want to find out
how the health of this place will lie be
fore 1 decide to make it my home. I made
a partial arrangement in Macon when I
was there to work for Byrne. If I am
not better satisfied here I will not remain.
1 will write you accordingly. Rest easily
till I write you. I will know soon, in one
week’s time. lam well, and since votir
letter came I am ‘O. K.’
“1 am sorry, indeed, to hear of Auntie’s
sickness, also sympathize with Cousin
Dollie. Give my love to all, and accept
heart plumb full from your loving
“Louisa.”
Atlanta, July 7. —Laura Prosser,
killed by Boyd in Nashville, was one of
the demi mondeot Atlanta known as Sallie
Ross, who figured in the Sam Hill case.
She was here a few weeks ago. and Boyd
had her arrested for trying to shake him
off after he had spent a good deal of money
on her. She was not young nor very beau
tiful, but over thirty and ordinary. Her
associations here were ol the common
class. Her home was Americus, where
her relatives now reside. Bovd was old,
and killed her because she has several
times tried to shake him for younger and
more favored admirers.
DE CHAMBORD’S EBBING LIFE.
A Bad Vomiting Spell, but a Rally Sub
sequently.
Vienna, July 7.— The Count De Cham
bord passed a quiet night aud expe
rienced little suffering. He was very
weak this morning.
Frohsdorff, July 7, Midnight.—The
Count is much better and stronger. He
has taken some beef tea and the vomiting
has ceased.
Paris, July 7. — A dispatch from Vienna
to La Gaulois says that the Count De Paris
and the Duke D’Alencon have gone from
that city to Frohsdorff. The condition
of the Count De Chambord has not changed
since the last reports. If his weakness
continues the physicians will prohibit him
lront seeing all visitors, including the
Princes.
Le letups, published this afternoon, said
that the latest news from Frohsdorf
is extremely grave. The Count De
Chambord is vomiting blood and pus.
The Count De Chambord saw the Or
leans Princes to-day, notwithstanding
the advice of his physician not to see
visitors. He was in his bed, and kissed
the Count De Charis. The Princess on
entering the room of the sick man showed
great emotion. They will return to
Vienna.
Gen. Thibaudeau. the French Minister
of War, has authorized tin* Duke of
D'Aumale to proceed to Vienna. La
Gaulois says that Prince Jerome Napoleon
will issue a manifesto in the event of the
death ol Count De Chambord.
Frohsdorff, July B. —The condition of
Count de Chambord continues slowly im
proving. His mind is now more clear. A
consultation of the doctors has been post
poned for a day or two.
The Orleans Princes will visit Pesth
on Mondav aud will afterward return to
Vienna. They will subsequently go back
to Paris if the Count’s health permits.
Bat ami Ball.
Detroit, July 7.—The base ball game
which was to have been plaved here to
day was postponed on account of rain.
Washington, July 7.—Games of base
ball were played yesterday as follows:
At Philadelphia—Bostons 15; Phtladel
phias 4.
At New York—New Yorks 13; Provi
dences 5.
At Chicago—Chicagos C; Clevelands 1.
At Cincinnati— Baltimores 3; Cincin
natis 4.
At Trenton, N. J.—Anthracites 6; Tren
ton s 10.
At Louisville—Eclipses 3; Athletics 4.
A Suit fur Margins.
Watertown, N. Y\, July 7.—M. S.
Nichols <fc Cos., the Chicago brokers who
recently failed* have sued twenty-three
Watertown speculators for between $40.-
000 ami $50,000 for margins which the firm
advanced to carry their accounts.
Damage by Rains in Mexico.
City OF Mexico, July 7.—The loss to
the Central Railroad owing to the rains is
estimated at $200,000. The destruction of
the bridges will delay the completion of
the road to Agua Calientes a month and
a half.
Typhus Among French Soldiers.
Pari,s, July 7.—The French column,
after a successful campaign in Upper
Senegal, was attacked with typhus fever
and the situation is becoming grave.
From Paris to Japan.
London, July 7.—lt is announced that
Hon. F. R. Plunkett, First Secretary of
the British Embassy at Paris, has been
appointed Minister to Japan.
Sheriff, the Frusgian.
Sew York World.
Another assisted emigrant lias
reached this country in the perso>n Of a
beefy, leather-headed prize fighter named
William Sheriff, alia., ‘'The Prussian.”
Mr. Arthur Chambers has him in charge
and is exhibiting him in his Philadelphia
saloon. Mr. Sheriff is an uglv looking
bull dog. He weighs 190 pounds, but he
will fight at ten stone. 3lr. Chambers
assures the world that his imported slug
ger can be matched to fight anybody for
from SI,OOO to $2,000, within six
weeks after articles are signed. Mr.
Chambers is particularly anxious to
get up a mauling match with Mr.
Mitchell, of England, who is now sojourn
ing in this country. “That sport,” says
Mr. Chambers, “challenged Sheriff tc.
tight, and then left England for thig uuua-'
try before Sheriff could get at Lisa. ‘The
Prussian’Jelt that he vai, wronged,and has
come across to have a go at Mitchell on
this side if we can get them close enough
together on the sod without newspaper i
talk.” Mr. Sheriff is the kind of emigrant
that we don’t care about welcoming &
this country. It is to bG hoped that be
will fall into the ha,uds of a real Sheriff
before many days. He seems to posse *s
qualities which would adorn and beautify
a workhouse. '
John Bright declares that he thinks the i
eight millions of full-grown men on the
British Islands could defend a hole in the
ground twenty feet wide and twenty
miles long. He is in lavor o' lunueliusf
the Channel, , ** s
i TRICE *lO A TEAR. I
I 6 CENTS A COPT? (
PRUSSIA AND THE CURIA.
CARDINAL JACOBINrS LAST
NOTE OF NO AVAIL.
The Contents of the Epistle Cooked
l-'pon in Germany as Mere Grumbling
-The Vatican Expected to Make the
Next Advances—Prussia's Plans to ho
Consummated.
Berlin, July B.—The Xorth German
Gazette to-day, in referring to Cardinal
Jacobini s latest note to the Prussian
Government, says that two diplomatists
at the Vatican are trying to show that
the new church bill is of little value to
the Curia. The Prussian Government
expects the Vatican to make the next
advances. If none are made, Prussia
will continue her present course
of independent legislation as far
as it is possible and requisite. It would
have been better and more skilful on the
part of the Curia’s diplomatists if the
note had remained unwrittea. They ex
plained at the time no absolute necessity
lor its dispatch. The arrogant grumli
limts and criticisms contained therein af
ford fresh proof that it will be imimssible
to satisfy the demands of the Curia and
will only result in preventing Prussia
from making further conciliatory ad
vances.
I NDER WHIP AM) Sl’l'H.
Jockies Plying the Gad and Horses Show -
lug their Speed.
Monmouth Park, July '.—The Mon
mouth Park Racing Association continued
its first summer meeting to-dav. The
weather was warm. The track was in
good condition. The attendance was
large and the betting heavy. The results
were as follows:
First Rack —One undone-eighth miles:
Renegade won by two lengths, with Kn
clide second and Mendelssohn third. The
time was 1:51 %. French pools paid sls.
Second Race— Two-year-olds; three
quarters of a mile; Huron won bv two
lengths, with Chanticleer second" and
King Arthur third. The time was 1:18.
r rench pools paid $-11 70.
Third Race— For the Lori Hard stakes
for three-year-olds; one and one-half
miles; George Kinney won by two
lengths, with Barnes second and Pi/arro
third. George Kinnes and Barnes were
heavy favorites. The time was 2:39%.
French pools paid $0 05.
Fourih Race— One and three-quarter
miles; Monitor and Volusia had a walk
over, they belonging to the same stable,
and the remainder of the entries having
been drawn.
Fifth Race— One mile: Sweet Home
won by a length with Antrim second, and
lleel-and-Toe third. The time was 1:45.
French pools paid $12!) 00.
Sixth Race— A steeplechase over the
short course. Jim McGowan won by
three lengths, with Pasha second, and
Aurelius third. The time was 3:20.
French pools paid $7 75.
Brighton Reach, July 7.—The weather
was very hot to-day, and there were only
a small number of spectators at the races.
likst Race— Selling allowances; one
mile. Plunger was first, Arsenic second,
and Marie third. The time was 1:44.
Mutuals paid sls 15.
Second Race —Selling allowances; one
mile. Topsy was first, Hickory Jim sec
ond and Mattie Rapture third." The time
was 1:43%. Mutuals paid sll 75.
Third Race—For all ages; two miles
It was won by the favorite, Handford
with- Ida B. second and Alta B. third.
The time was 3:37%. Cromwell, who was
sure of the second place and fought hard
for first place, went lame when but a few
rods from home and came ty a stand still
Mutuals paid $8 45.
F oirth Race—Three-quarters of a mile.
Granite, the favorite, won, with Newsboy
second and Woodcraft third. The time
was 1:18%. Mutuals paid $9 70.
Fifth Race— A handicap hurdle race;
one and one-quarter miles; over live hur
dles. Moscow was first, London, the
lavorite, second, and Bedouin third. Tim
time was 2:21 %. Mutuals paid sls 25.
ONE OF ELAM'S SECONDS.
The Attorney General’s Record aa *
Duelist.
Watfiington Special, id.
Neither tbfe President nor H,e Attorney
General has yet received *vny official in
formation showing that District Attorney
Lewis, of Virginia, acted as one of Elam’s
seconds m the recent duel. There are in
dications that the Attorney General is
inclined to take the ground that he can
not interfere on the strength of mere
newspaper statements that Lewis was a
participant in the duel, and that he ought
to wait at least till Lewis shall have been
indicted before taking any action looking
to his removal from office.
A friend of the President said to-dav
that if any responsible person should
bring charges against District Attorney
Lewis on account of Lub recent acts they
would undoubtedly be promptly investi
gated and proper action taken.
It is understood that Attorney General
Brewster strongly denounces the practice
ot dueling, although, it is said, he posses
ses a superb pair of dueling pistols, and
on at least two occasions was ready and
willing to use them. It was understood
that on both occasions—once when he was
under 30 years of age and once ten years
aftersvard—he was the sender of a 'chai
enge. In neither instance was the chal
lenge accepted, and Mr. Brewster has
been heard in lator years to express his
satisfaction that such was the case. On
one of the occasions mentioned, ex-Speak
er Randall’s father acted as Mr. Brews
ter’s friend, and the difficulty was adjust
ed mainly through his exertions. In the
other case the man who received the chal
lenge wrote a prompt and ample apology
which drove all hostile thoughts from Mrl
Brewsters mind.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, the English tem
perance advocate, has been somewhat in
terested in the following drink statistics-
During the year 1882 there were 38,377,-
820 gallons of proof spirits distilled in the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, of which 19,200.892 gallons were
distilled in Scotland, 10,124,467 in Eng
land, and 9,046,461 in Ireland. England,
however, consumed 16,811,494 gallons,
Scotland 6,502,955, and Ireland 5,239,815.
By the annual report of the Auditor of
Boston it appears that during the last
fiscal year that city’s municipal indebted
ness was increased by considerably over
$1,000,000.
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