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ITEMS IN THREE states.
I FORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOLTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
. House Struck by Lightning-Murder
Vlll ong Children in Tlieir Teens-Bears
t., tin ling Near Tavares—A Model Farm
■Near St. Augustine Astor’s New
Hotel.
GEORGIA.
iisrtwell is very healthy at preseut.
\ -evenlh is to Is* added to the saloons at
Valdosta.
Mr,. M. F. Hobbs, of Dublin. 1* dead. Her
ue) . \eas 57 years.
1 ,• thermometer ~too<l at 96 in the shade iu
Hartwell Tuesday.
. H. Carroll, of Ousley. ilied suddenly
, • :;|,|.ople*y recently.
| U ,, t .unmit-sioners will be voted for in
. . county to-day.
, ,:c of Cedar Creek have determined
• rVbuild their eh arch.
1.. lipmenls for this season are nearing
; ■■, ~,vi .u I'.rooks county.
, pt. i lines B. Robinson, one of the promi
r;,t • ns of llrooks county, died a few
’ tof Valdosta's traffic in melons is
ooou by necessity of three tele
'OWii tlie office at that nlaee.
will pick but half aempof water
ipuiman hh* eaten most of the mel
aing within her limits.
Mr VV. IS. Hester, B age<t lady or Dublin,
tears of age, became demented and
- week conveyed to the asylmu at Mil-
Kobinson, a seventeen-year-old lad.
ri in,is -übject to tits of mental alierra
. lias been sent to Milledgeville for
treatment.
I ; Aaron, a former colored resident of
i; r i ..iinty. who is liowed down by the
•f no years, as he claims, has just
v ,;trd lus old home.
vi iiug dash of lightning, followed by a
r bunder clap, threw pictures from
uid overturned several chairs in the
p. f A. K. Wilson, at Valdosta, a few
I , r is. nc war la-tween two druggists of
lb . the price of the fluid dropped from
p. -nl' per gallon. The dealers claimed
- i.g money at the latter figure,and tlie
~r . already assumed an upward ten-
I LOKIDA.
Mi-. Martha Moore, of Apalachicola, died
; ,.t week, aged 7t* years.
I:, lain pa market is lieing supplied with
... . - from Point I’en ell as.
i ■ factory at Orlando has been started,
: iv turning out an excellent quality of
1 l ake l.ustis Railway Company has
autiful hotel at the St. John's ter
minus. Asi or.
i . i.trance to Pensacola harbor is now
r: • : deep by 130 feet in width. It is to be
■ .< dto feet at mean low tide.
i' . * * -5. Ilentz. a son of the famous
ii a laa Ilentz. of Jackson countv, is
gai* • :i.g and growing oranges on Indian
A- irk was recently caught at Fernandina
-ixtecu feet four inches long, and
1.. i.red two feet and nine inches between
the eye-.
Del. ind has made a sale of its public school
bug I" the Catholics, and w ill now erect a
larger and more imposing building farther
I ■ ;• -t office tit sail ford has lieen removed
i. a in iniuolions and better ventilated
! -It: 11 and has received au outfit of lock
l . a— from the A ale Lock otnpauy e>f 252
several bears are roaming through the
vu - oil the opposite side of the canal from
T.t.are-. Au "Id bear and her cub have sev
er limes been seen during the past week by
different parties.
k id ~mitli was arrested at Pensacola Fri
day and committed to jail on a warrant
"barging him with stealing rope, vellow
1.. r and bolts, etc., to the amount of SIOO. from the
ota rak t trmpnny
A negro named Harrison Thomas, confined
m H e jail at Apalachicola, for murder, made
. tempt to free himself last week. Some
of the neighboring residents hoard him at
work in time to prevent his escape.
i upturn Samuel A. smoke, of the East
i rala Seminary Cauels. who received the
.il l ointment to West Point from Jhis Con
gressmual district, recently, lias passed the
examination and been admitted to the sceool.
The Tallahassee Florid'an says: “Dus Boyd,
a demented colored youth, who killed his
brother in a recent altercation in which both
used clubs pretty freely, has been bailed in
tiie sum of S2OO to appear at the fall term of
the Circuit Court to answer to the charge of
manslaughter.”
The Apalachicola Tribune contains the fol
lowing: "Last week a negro woman and a
white woman ! he latter married a negro)
••* at a.creek in Calhoun county fishing.
The former woman is called Crawford and
the latter Minnie Brown. The women had
their children with them, but the children
left them during the course of the day and the
Crawford children got the Brown child off
and threw her down on the ground and
severely l>eat her. They then picked the
child up and put her in the waterclose by and
held her head under the water until she was
strangled to death. The body of the child
was found by its mother in the water where
it had lieen left. The elder fra w ford girl is
U years old.”
The Floridian says: “About tiftv miles
i ■ rth of 7*t. Augustine, and at the junction of
Halifax and Tomoka rivers, Mr. X. B.
Harwood has been at work for two rears In
getting under way a great plantation and
si ■ k farm. His grove includes twelve thou
:.l orange trees of all varieties. 1L- pas
tr.re ~f t,.n thousand acres is fenced with
buried wire, aud he has several hundred
Berkshire hog- and many sheep. For his eat
to he ha- fields of approved grasses, and for
' In fields of hufas and cassava and corn.
Between fifty and a hundred laliorers are
employed anil lodged in comfortable cottages
at different jwints on the lands, which were
cultivated in cane and cotton fifty years ago,
the remains of the sugar works destroyed bv
the Indians in 1836 being still to lie seen."
sot'TH CAROLINA.
savannah river rice crops are reported
v ry promising.
Toe average condition of the corn and cot
'■■a crop compared with last year is 83.
twenty snares of stock in the Newberry
I'-ii.k were sold last Monday. Ten shares
at l*“ r share, and ten shares at
'• ; ator Met all. of Marlboro, made over
.-n hundred bushels of oats on seven acres
" here he used nine bushels of seed oats per
acre.
"lithe stick of tobacco in the counties of
An • rson, Pickens and Oconee the amount of
r> ate. under the recent change in the reve
nue laws, is $1,514 31.
\ sj anish mackerel was taken in Beaufort
nver last Thursday. It was thin, weight
a ■;i two pounds, and in good condition
“Roald have weighed upwards of four pound.-.
Tee following citizens of Beaufort have
Irawn to serve on the grand jury in the
1 ' ' and state- ( ourt, which meets in t'oluin-
Novembcr 4: IV. .1. Baker and O. P. Law.
Phvs'.cians reiKirt an unusual amount of
■ ■ ini'.i throughout Barnwell. Typhoid
t o r ij. quite common. There were five
ueathsof the disease in WiUiston <ownship
la-t week.
Mrs. B. Michalowski, of Georgetown, failed
: i-t week, on account, as the Georgetown En
• r says, of the reckless mismanagement of
• '' r -iiie—. Her probable assets amount to
a iut *35,000.
A k ing of seven negro incendiaries, who
ii n. ,eu operatingaliont Chester county for
- e time past, were arrested on Wednesday
inmiUed to jail to await trial at the
"ctt.iior term of court.
William Johnson, white, wa- arresteit in
N m erry and lodged in jail on last Monday
a ■ barge of highway robbery, the warrant
* ‘U; been i--ued upon the complaint of Mr.
J. ". Berry, of Edgefield county.
since its organization the Newberry Loc'ge
Anight- of Honor lias paid into the Su
preme treasury for the widow and orphan
> eifit fund the -nm of $6,611 30. and has
received from tlie same fund SB,OOO.
A dwelling house of Airs. Cantrell's, near
a : alia, was burned down last week, a
sin girl by the name of Mag. Crawford,
•iiK.tit fifteen years old, was arrested upon
- -picion of doing the deed and placed in jail,
lhe Patmetlo Pont says the uew and power
steamtug of the Sea Island Chemical
Company, as expected, arrived there last
''k. She is called the Reliance, and iscoin
uded by Captain Peck, a reliable tug
master.
< harleston -Vo and < ..urUr: "M. Hedges,
a white man who had been cmplovcil for
nearly two years as a nurve in the marine
ward ©f the city hospital, "jumped the town”
on Thursday la.-t with about SSOO of tlie funds
telonging to the institution, and has not been
heard of since.”
The 'ilk Association in Sumter has gone
‘■J 1 " the industry in earnest. It ha.- pur
chased eight acres of ground, which has been
Planted in mulberry trees for feeding the
worm#. The members of the association
expu t to make the enterprise remunerative.
hey find a ready tale for all their silk and
cocoons.
! ..!■ directors of the Newberry Joint Mock
f-P ‘cultural Association have decided to hold
a county fair on the 17th, ISth and 19th of
J* ext October.■ Entries will be made on the
~ V’ '’I I'* 1 '* 1,51 hof that month. The directors
intend to have distinguished speakers from
[inroad and, in addition to this, bicycle rid
ln* ;tu d various other amusements.
Tvro Large carKoes 0 f pyrites are expected
1 * “*t Royal from Spain. It is said that an
- taaily g.H„| article can be procured in up|ier
hut that the railroad rates fur trans
looanon from the mines to the fertilizer
nf'th Port Doyal are greatly in excess
it, * f tight charges on a vessel from Spain.
l , s to say. it is cheaper by way of the sea
u t its manifold dangers, near 5.000 miles,
mil"- 1116 by raiI ’ a ,|lrta " ce of than 300
3 not >ce of the gold found
, •'' helchel upon his farm was made,
ul. ■„ 18 situated about two miles from
e * a . n - is °“ ,he 'int between
Isl sZ. 1 *, a ?‘ J ®P*rt*aburg. Air. AVhelchel
ii!o re< | en tly increasi-d his land, and the ad
property is also rich in the valuable
hihi.ir has ,0 . utl(l fully fifty veins. Hehasex
rUisi uumberof specimens of the pure arti -
the “ctaoln*warn very pretty nuggets.which
s' Iswclers 1sw clers have worked into tasteful orna
trexin• " helchel will begin work on his
a-S ln earnest next fall, and will mine
CaPiUI WiU P®"
me Sai-minali CMomin 3 ||em
At Greenville the residence of Mrs. S. E.
Turnipiseed was destroyed by an accidental
fire on the 7th inst. A part of the roof of the
burning building fell in upon several young
men who were endeavoring to rescue the con
tents of a room. James Dorroh is doubtless
fatally burned. His condition is considered
hopeless. Ben Johnson, colored, is also dan
gerously burned, and it is thought cannot re
cover. Charles D. Mesely is severely and
seriously burned, but his wounds are not ne
cessarily dangerous. These three were taken
from the building in a blaze of fire, their
clothing being almost burned off them. K. S.
Jones, of Oconee. Is seriously burned about
the face and hands: Frank Shumate is simi
larly burned, and several other persons re
cnived severe but not dangerous injuries.
The Burke-Aladison Tragedy Facts
About Burke’s Family.
Jasper, Fla., July 6.— Editor Morning
Xeirs: In your issue of 9th (probably )
ult. is a communication from Live Oak,
dated June 4th, in reference to the killing
of Madison by Granville Burke near New
Branford, Fla. The killing actually oc
curred, but it seems that your correspond
ent was disposed to convict Burke with
out a trial and to brand him be
fore the world as a “foul mur
derer.” While it is the duty and
privilege of all good citizens to con
demn crime, yet it is best to withhold
our opinions until a legal investigation
has disclosed the facts. If, how
ever, it lie ascertained from such
legal investigation, that Burke isieallv
guilty, then all are at liberty
to say what they please. In many in
stances where crime is committed a legal
investigation shows that the party ac
cused is innocent. It is well known,
however, particularly by lawyers, that
every killing is not a murder, for often the
evidence on the trial discloses a lesser
grade of homicide. We ought then to
be careful how we “pre-judge,” not
so much for the sake of him who commits
the act as lor the sake of others who may
lie deeply interested in him. Take the
Burke case, for instance. Burke has a
mother and two sisters, whose hearts
were already overflowing with grief on
account of the act of their loved one; for
whether he was right or wrong, their grief
was great. It was cruel to cause them
fresh sorrow by writing the communi
cation alluded to.
This article is not written with the
view of justifying Burke, nor is it written
by way of apology for the act, nor vet is
it in any way intended as a defense for
him.
The writer hereof, however, will take
occasion to say that he has known voung
Burke from his earliest infancy, and can
truthfully say that he was by no means
naturally a bad man, but unfortunately
for himself and family he was led astray
and became addicted*to drink. When tree
from liquor,i|c has a quiet, gentlemanly
young man, hospitable and generous to a
fault, which is characteristic of the entire
family. But why say he was a son of the
“old counterfeiter of Mexican dollars?”
where was the necessity for alluding to
that? If bis father was ever engaged in
the counterfeit business at all < which
was very questionable), it was years be
fore this young man was horn.
Captain Burke, his father, was vears
ago wealthy, was a Kentuckian, arid for
several years was engaged in bringing
large droves of horses from Kentucky and
selling them in South Georgia and Flori
da. On one ol those occasions, it was
said, he brought a large amount of Mexi
can silver dollars, which were alleged to
lie counterfeit: Burke, instead of denying
the story, humored it as a huge joke," in
timating publicly that they were counter
feit.
There may have been a few counterfeit
dollars among them, and some of the
counterfeits may have actually gone into
circulation. It is true that the people l>e
eame excited over the so-called “Burke
money,” and some parties went so far as
to prosecute him in the United States
Court, and he may have been convicted
for passing counterfeit money, hut for
counterfeiting, never.
Capt. Burke was for many years
after the prosecution a worthy * citi
zen of this community. Received
and re pee ted by everybody, he lived
an honest life, was kind hearted, exceed
ing lyhospitable, and charitable, manifest
ing friendship for all. Your correspondent
alludes to him as an “old counterfeiter,”
seemingly to bring his innocent family
into public infamy, scorn, etc. Suppose
Burke’s father had been an “old counter
feiter” it would have been, even justice
for him to have continued by
saying his mother was one of the very
best of old ladies, and a pure Christian
woman. Again, his mother is a sister of
Major E. AV. Solomons, formerly of Sav
annah. where “doubtless are still many of
his old friends and associates who can
testify to his high standing.
This article is not written with intent
to wound the feelings of your correspond
ent. It is written only for the purpose of
doing justice to the family of Burke, his
mother and sisters, his father being dead.
Justice.
An Interesting Old Claim.
Chicago Timex.
The attention of the State Department
has recently been called to a claim of long
standing, which, when presented, while
Daniel Webster was Secretary of State,
attracted general interest. The claim
has reference to the seizure and confisca
tion by the Spanish or Cuban authorities
of the barks Georgiana, of Alaine, and
Susan Loud, of Alassachusetts. In April,
1850, the two vessels cleared from New
Orleans for Chagres, having on board
many passengers bound for California
by way of the Isthmus of Panama.
The gold excitement had not
yet died out—iu fact, was still at its
height, and some of the passengers were
already under contract to go to the Gold
den State to dig for quartz. Head winds
and a stroug adverse current compelled
the vessels to stop at the Island of Con
toy, on tlie coast of Alexico. While there
the Spanish war steamer Pizarro came
along and took possession of the vessels
and their crews and passengers and con
veyed them to Havana, the Spanish
basing their action upon an alle
gation that the two vessels were
part of an expedition bound for Cuba with
the object of securing the independence of
the island. The passengers were all
thrown into prison, but subsequently all
but seven were, at the request of" the
American Government, released and re
turned to the United States, the seven,
together with the vessels, being taken to
Spain, where the men were imprisoned
and the vessels sold by order of the Span
ish Government. One of the seven, a Cap
tain of one of the vessels, became insane
and ended his days, it is believed, in a
mad house, but the’ fate of the others is
not remembered by those now interested
in the question. The passengers released
at Havana and returned to the
United States were tried before a United
States Alarshal and adjudged not guilty
of ;uiy intention to violate tlio neutrality
laws "when they sailed from New Orleans.
The United States Government took up
the cause' of the vessel owners and the
passengers, the former claiming indem
nity for the loss of their property, and the
latter for false imprisonment. A volum
inous correspondence between the gov
ernment and the Spanish authorities
was the result; but the late civil
war coming on, ended the proceed
ings. A number of the passengers were
lrom Southern Ohio, and went in a body
down the Ohio and the Mississippi to sail
from New Orleans to the Isthmus of Pan
ama. Several of the survivors live in
Alississippi and other Southern States.
Some of those in Alississippi recently
wrote to Register Bruce, of the Treasury-
Department, asking him to bring the mat
ter before the State Department with a
view of securing indemnity from the
Spanish Government for their false im
prisonment, and he has engaged Gen. J.
I). Mcßride, an attorney of this city, to
manage the case, correspond with
survivors throughout the coun
try wherever they may lie found, as well
as" the vessel owners or their heirs. The
wife of the Captain ofjone of the vessels,
living in Mississippi, had In her posses
sion many valuable papers connected
with the claim, but in the vicissitudes of
the late civil war they were lost and can
not be found, it is "the intention to ask
of the Spanish Government an indemnity
of $500,000, to t>e distributed among the
captives or their heirs, and more will be
asked for the vessel owners.
Koebliug Resigns as Chief Engineer.
New York, Julv 9.—Colonel G. AY.
Roebling to-day tendered his resignation
as Chief Engineer of the East River
bridge. It was accepted, and he was ap
pointed consulting engineer without
salary. His chief assistant, Air. Alartin,
was appointed Chiet Engineer aud Super
intendent of the bridge. The total amount
of money received for the building of the
■ bridge up to the Ist of this month was
$ 14.999,350 and the expenditures were
$14,941,538.
Vientimeila Ready to Set Sait.
Guayaquil, July 9.— There has been
heavy firing since 1 o’clock this morning.
Gen. Alfaro has just come in and has
met with an enthusiastic reception. There
is great excitement among the populace.
It is reported that Dictator Vientimella
has gone on board a river steamer.
HILL ON THE AGGRESSIVE.
COL. TOTTEN CHANGES THE TAC
TICS OF THE DEFENSE.
Ex-Representative Afurcli’s Character
on the Griddle—Favoritism In the
Heating Apparatus Contracts Alleged
by the Prosecution—How Folger Aids
the Architect.
WASHINGTON, July 9.—ln the Hill in
vestigation to-day the efforts of the prose
cution were directed to showing that
Bartlett, Robbins & Cos., of Baltimore,
practically monopolized the business of
furnishing heating aparatus for gov
ernment buildings throughout the coun
try, and that some work had lieen
awarded to that firm without advertise
ment and without competition. In the
course of the proceedings Counsellor Cole
man read from the back of a letter from
Mr. Hill to Secretary Folger, dated
since these proceedings began, an indorse
ment by Secretary Folger awarding to
Bartlett, Robbins & Cos. a contract for fur
nishing heating apparatus for the govern
ment building at Charlestown, AV. Va.
Mr. Coleman said that this was an exam
ple of the manner in which the Treasury
comes to the assistance of Architect Hill.
Col. Totten, counsel for the defense, re
plied that the lacts shown by the prose
cution only proved that Bartlett, Robbins
A Cos., were resitonsible and satisfactory
workmen. The greater part of the day
was taken up in reading contracts, vouch
ers, proposals aud other docu
ments connected with the con
struction of heating apparatus,
covering several years. No charges of
fraud were made in connection with these
papers, but the prosecution read them in
the expectation of finding them useful
later ou in the investigation.
Since Colonel Totten has come into tlie
case as counsel for the defense that side
has assumed more of the aggressive than
before, and Colonel Totten to-day made
some unpleasant references to the per
sonal character of ex-Congressmau
Murch, and became involved in a wrangle
with the counsel for Mr. Murch.
HAUGHN’S ASS A SSI NATION.
The Defendants to Massacre the Whole
Court if Convicted.
Washington, July 9.—The Depart
ment of Justice has received additional
information in regard to the assassina
tion of Judge Haughn, the principal wit
ness for the government in the pending
election cases in Texas. The department
is informed that threats have been made
by the defendants in those cases that
they will not he prosecuted
by the government, that
when they go into court they will go
armed, and that if the trial should result
in conviction they will kill the court and
everybody connected with it. The assas
sination of Judge Haughn has given rise
to considerable uneasiness in Texas, and
it is not known how soon others may go.
In the same way the writer asks that his
name be not used iu this matter, for
should he be known he would not live to
see sunshine again.
HOW CROOK WON THE DAY.
The Significance of the Apache Settle
uient Ex plained in Full.
Washington, July 9.—The origin of
the plan agreed upon last Saturday for
the safe keeping of the Apache captives,
appears to have been generally misunder
stood. The proposition to place the police
control of the San Carlos reservation in
the hands of the War’Department, was
made by Secretary Teller and accepted
by Secretary of AVar Lincoln, instead of
vice versa. Secretary Teller
says that there is 'no foun
dation for the report that if the
arrangement agreed upon proves success
ful the control of all the Indian agencies
will eventually be transferred to the AVar
Department. He denies that anv such
course is contemplated, and says that the
principal reason for placing General
Crook's captives under the supervision of
the War Department is because that de
partment has money to keep them while
the Department of the Interior has none.
The San Carlos Agency will be maintained
as heretofore, except that the military
will have entire charge of the police con
trol, and especial charge of the Apache
captives.
ALIVE WITH A HOLE IN HIS HEAD
A Negro Murderer Roaming About with
His Brains Oozing Out.
St. Louis, July 9.—Sam Cooni, negro,
who in a fit of jealous rage shot Ktnina
Shores, a colored girl, at Potosi, Mo., last
Thursday evening and then shot himself
and subsequently eluded pursuit, was
captured yesterday and taken back to
Potosi. In his attempt to kill himself
after shooting the girl be fired two bullets
into his head, one of which pene
trated both hemispheres of the brain.
The other passed through one hemisphere,
and both bullets are now in his skull.
Notwithstanding these wounds, from
both of which his brain oozed in a con
siderable quantity, the negro roamed the
woods from Thursday evening until Sun
day morning, when he ate a very hearty
meal, talked rationally and walked three
miles from the place where he was cap
tured to Potosi. Physicians say that he
cannot live. The girl still lives, but is in
paralysis from the effects of the bullet,
which entered the back of her head and
passed under and into her spinal column.
TEKKOKI/iED BY BANDITS.
Three Counties iu Arkansas Ruled by
Mountain Outlaws.
Little Rock, Ark., July 9.—Portions
of Garland, A et and Montgomery counties
are still under the control of outlaws, who
defy the focal authorities. To-day Gov
ernor Berry wrote a letter to the
Sheriff of each county saying that
he had been requested • to call
out the militia, but saw
no necessity for doing so, and urging the
Sheriffs to call out large posses and hunt
the outlaws down. The country infested
is mountainous and wild, ana through
terrorism many farmers are compelled to
shield the outlaws by refusing informa
tion and giving them supplies.
TEL.EGRAP H 1 STS RESTLESS.
The Western Union Operators Weary
of Long Hours on Sunday.
New York, July 9.—lt was reported
to-day that the operators of the Western
Union Telegraph Companr, in accordance
with a resolution adopted at a recent
meeting, had resolved to strike for shorter
hours and extra pay for Sunday work.
Inquiry among the operators themselves
failed to obtain any confirmation
ot the report. The officers of the company
stated that they did not expect a strike':
that no change in the hours of work had
been demanded, and that no such change
had recently been made. It is probable,
however, that such a demand will be made
before long, but it is not thought that a
strike is imminent.
McGEOCH S OFFER REJECTER.
Heavy Creditors Not to lie Appeased
With a 50 Per Cent. Basis.
Chicago, July 9.—The proposition of
Peter McGeoch to his creditors to settle at
the rate ot JO cents on the dollar, bids
fair to fall through owing to the refusal
of several heavy creditors to sign an
agreement to that effect. Among others
is the firm of George Eldridge & Cos.,
whose claim amounts to $9:5,000. They
are reported as demanded a full payment.
It is also reported that William Young
& Cos. are opposed to McGeoch's propo
sition.
Hessian Flies at the Mercy of the
Farmers.
Springfield, 111., July 9.—The State
Entomologist reports that vast numbers
of the Hessian fly are now in a dormant
condition so low down in the stalk, that
they are left behind in the stubble when
the wheat is cut. This is true of the en
tire winter wheat region of Illinois. He
therefore urgently advises that the stub
ble be burned at the earliest date possi
ble,or that where this is impracticable, the
infected fields be plowed deeply and
rolled.
Weather Indications.
Office chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D.C., July 9.—lndications
for Tuesday:
In the South Atlantic States, cooler and
partly cloudy weather, local rains, varia
ble winds, higher barometer.
Mr. Edward Charleston, Savannah, Ga.,
says: “I have used Brown’s Iron Bitters
(or heartburn and obtained perfect relief."
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JULY 10, 1883.
LAW MAKERS OF THE STATE.
The ills Still Pouring into Both Houses
in Atlanta.
Atlanta. July 9.—ln the Senate this
forenoon the following new bills were in
troduced :
By Air. Bush—Amending sections 1215
and 1235 of the Code.
By Mr. Alorgan—Amending section 1157
of the Code.
By Air. Jones—Regulating practice in
the Superior Courts.
By Afr. Smith—Amending the law as to
interrogatories.
By Air. Tutt—Allowing a plea of total
or partial failure of consideration to be
pleaded in certain cases. It is similar to
the Ray bills in the House, but is more
general in its application.
Bills on their third reading fared as fol
lows :
Amending section 1788 of the Code as to
adopting orphans. Passed.
Amending section 1933 as to special
partnerships. Passed.
The dead body bill to promote medical
source was discussed and indefinitely
postponed.
The bill to prevent running trains for
excursions on Sunday was amended by
the committee and favorablv considered
and read the second time.
Senator Parks presided during the morn
ing.
In the House this morning Air. Bishop,
of Dawson, moved a reconsideration of
Air. Ray’s fertilizer bill. The motion was
carried. He then moved to make it the
special order for to-morrow. Air. Little, of
Aluscogee, moved to refer it back to the
Judiciary Committee, but Mr. Hoge, of
Fulton, made the point of order that the
bill goes to the foot of the calendar. The
Speaker sustained the point and the bill
was thus disposed of, failing by three votes
to get the necessary three-fonrths vote to
allow earlier action.
Air. Roundtree, of Brooks, offered a
resolution for a committee of twelve to
visit the State University during com
mencement. The regular order was the
call of counties for new business, but as
the call proceeded, all local bilis referred
to committees and reported back were
read the first time. The following bills
were then introduced:
By Air. Johnston, of Baldwin—Requir
ing sellers of oleomargarine to have it so
labelled, Also, hotels and eating houses
to use similar labels, as “this hotel uses
oleomargarine.”
By Air. Crenshaw, of Troup—A joint
resolution for a committee of five of the
House and three from the Senate to inves
tigate the Department of Agriculture and
the mode ot inspecting fertilizers, with
power to administer oaths and send for
persons and papers. This is a very im
portant resolution, and if passed" wili
cieate considerable of a sensation.
By Air. Falligant—Bills to amend sec
tions 708 and 710 of the new Code as to the
blowing of the whistles of locomotives,
making it the tolling of the bell. Also, to
define reckless running of engines on
railroads.
The bill incorporating the Savannah
Street and Rural Resort Railroad Com
pany was read for the first time and re
feered to the Railroad Committee.
By Air. Alorrow,of Clayton—Repealing
sections 4097 to 4100 inclusive of the new
Code.
By. Air. Sweat, of Clinch—Authorizing
the drainage and sale of State lands
about (>kefinokee swamp. The land to be
sold by sealed bids, and for not less than
SIOO,OOO. The scheme proposes a canal
to the St. Alary’s river or other points.
By Air. Irwin, of Cobb—Abolishing the
office of Inspector of Fertilizers in
Georgia.
By Mr. Tucker, of Colquitt—Amending
the act creating a board of commissioners
for that county.
By Air. Ray, of Coweta—Amending
section 2683 of the Code, so as to require
fifteen years for prescription. Also, re
quiring public officers to make an annual
inventory of the public property in their
charge, etc.
By Air. Bishop, of Dawson—A joint
resolution prohibiting the introduction of
new bills after July 20.
Col. Richard AI. Johnston, of Maryland,
was Invited to a seat on the tloor of the
House.
By Air. Chauncy, of Early—Changing
the law as to public work in that county.
By Air. Wright, of Floyd—lncorporat
ing the White Star Line Steamboat Com
pany of Rome.
By Air. Rice, of Fulton—Creating ward
No. 6 in Atlanta.
By Air. Hulsey, of Fulton—Exempting
the AlePherson memorial plat of ground
from taxation.
By Air. Hoge, of Fulton—Providing for
replacing lost ti. fas. Also, creating real
estate assessors for Fulton county.
Ouite a number of unimportant local
bills were introduced for North Georgia
counties.
By Air. Dart, of Glynn—lncorporating
the Brunswick Street Railroad Company
Also,chartering the Turtle and Altamaha.
Rivers Canal Company.
The committees are all hard at work
with plenty of business.
The Senate and House, however, are
agitating resolutions looking to as early
an adjournment as possible.
Colonel Thornton was arrested for per
jury to-day. His examination will occur
to-morrow afternoon. Alessrs. Hoge and
Conley denounce his interview in the
Constitution as false and malicious.
HAYTI’S REVOLUTION.
The Government Forces Claiming to
Have the AVar Under Control.
Port au Prince, June 26.—The
United States steamship Yandalia, Com
modore AVallaee, arrived here June 19,
and was placed under the orders of the
United States Minister. The Yandalia
subsequently southward on a
cruise. Hostilities between the govern
ment forces and the revolutionists con
tinue, with considerable losses on both
sides. Jeretniahas lias been completely
subdued. The government troops have
reached the limits ot Graud Anse and
Tiburon. Perfect order has been re-estab
lished at Aquin. President Salorribrt lias
granted pardon to all rebels at Aquin, ex
cepting twenty of the ringleaders. All
reports from Aliragoane assert success
oti the part of the government forces, but
according to the latest advices from
Jacmel the revolutionists are within
seven leagues of Port-au-Prince. Refu
gees from Aliragoane report that a famine
reigns in that town.
AN END TO SALVAGE CLAIMS.
New Orleans Firemen Agree to Put
Out Fires on Shipboar.l Free of Cost.
New Orleans, July 9.— At a meeting
to-uight of the Firemen’s Charitable As
sociation the following preamble and res
olution were adopted:
AYhereas, In past years certain per
sons have been making large sums of
money by tires occurring on shipboard in
this port, and in order to perpetuate the
good name of the Firemen’s Charitable
Association, be it
Resolved , That delegates representing
the difl'ereat companies of the Fire De
partment at a regular meeting do volun
teer to extinguish fires occurring on ship
board. steamships or other water crafts
without pay, salvage or costs of any kind.
It is believed that this action will put
an end to salvage claims at this port.
AIILES OF FORESTS AFLAME.
Six Miles of Track amt Two Engines
Burned, amt No Signs of Abatement.
Portland, 0., July 9.—Tremendous
forest fires are raging south of Kalama.
Six miles of railroad and two locomotives
have been destroyed at Oak Point lodging
camp. The losses reported up to this
morning are estimated at $200,000. The
flames extend for miles, and are so fierce
that it is unsate to attempt to investigate
the losses. It is believed that the fires
will continue until rait^ialls.
The English Grain Trade.
London, July 9.—The Alark Lane Ex
press, in its review of the British grain
trade during the past week, says that the
favorable weather has been of "the great
est benefit to crops. Trade is quiet and
slightly in favor of buyers. Foreign
wheats are depressed, there being an
over-supply. The best brands of flour
are unchanged. Others are somewhat
cheaper. Trade in cargoes otf the coast is
stagnant. There were eleven arrivals
during the week and one sale. One cargo
was withdrawn and eleven remain, of
which four are California cargoes. The
sales of English wheat during the week
were 38,.->33 quarters at 425. 9d. per quar
ter, against 41,941 qarters, at 475. 7tL,
during the corresponding week last year.
An Ocean Steamer Fast in the Mud.
New Orleans, July 9.— The steamship
Nantes, which sailed last evening for Liv
erpool, with a cargo of cotten and grain,
is aground on a mud lump in the South
Pass. Tug boats, with barges, have been
sent to her assistance.
PAUPERS BY A SEW ROUTE
BUFFALO DELUGED WITH AN
INFLUX FROM CANADA.
No Law to Check the Horde from Land
ing Along the St. Lawrence—Twenty-
Eight Penniless Strangers Sent to the
Erie County Poor House—Many More
to Come.
Washington, July 9.—Special Agent
Howell, now at Plattsburg, N. Y„ has
called the attention of the Treasury De
partment to the large number of immi
grants arriving at Quebec and Aiontreal,
and says that many of them are almost
destitute, having neither money nor
frionds, and are too feeble by reason of
age or infirmity to support themselves.
He says that most of this class are pau
pers who have been assisted in procuring
passage and are ticketed to points in the
western part of the United States. Tlie
special agent is informed that twenty
eight persons, who had left Ireland only
twenty days before, were found help
less aud starving in the streets of
Buffalo, N. Y., and were committed to
the Erie county almshouse on the 26th of
June. All of these people catne into the
United States via Canada. The Canadian
steamers engaged in importing cattle to
Great Britain make very low rates for
this class of immigrants from Ireland- to
Canada. He says that he is also inform
ed that a large number of “State aided”
immigrants are to leave Favrus, county
Limerick, Ireland, on the‘next Allan
steamer and are to be sent at once from
Canada info the United States. It is
stated at the Treasury Department that
there is no law to prevent pauper immi
gration through Canadian territory.
Sentences Passed at Sligo.
Dublin, July 9, — At the Sligo Assizes
to-day sentences were passed on Tanzv
liogerson, Haughton and Kelly, the men
who were found guilty Saturday of being
implicated in the murder conspiracy.
Tanzy was sentenced to fourteen vears’
penal servitude, ltogerson to twelve years,
Haughton to eight years, and Kelly to two
years.
Gladstone Sees Flaws in the Land Act
London, July 9.—ln the House of Com
mons to-day Air. Gladstone, in replying
to questions, declared that the govern
ment had admitted that some parts of the
Irish land act required amendment, and
intimated that they might consider the
subject when the tune served.
YELLOW FEVER’S HORRORS.
The Vega Found Aground with all of
Her Crew Sick Except Three.
\V ashington, July 9.—The quarantine
officers at Pascagoula, Miss., to-day re
ported to the Surgeon General of Ma
rine Hospital service as follows: “We
found the Norwegian bark Vega, from
Vera Cruz bound to Ship island quaran
tine station, with yellow fever on board
on shore. We pulled her off and towed
her to Ship Island with a tug. The vessel
was leaking, and but three men were able
for duty. She needs assistance ”
New Orleans, La., July 9.— a Biloxi
special says that more vigorous .measures
of isolation have been adopted at Ship
Island Quarantine Station since the ar
rival ot the infected vessels. No personal
communication whatever exists be
tween the station and the mainland.
Hie sloop Annie, which forinerlv
plied between Biloxi and the quarantine
station, now remains there on duty with
her Captain and crew, none of them ap
proaching the mainland. Alails and sup
plies ill be sent by a schooner communi
cating only with a lighter anchored at a
sate distance from the quarantine
grounds.
The Swedish bark Berna, Capt. Nyberg,
from Vera Cruz for Tobasco, put into
Southwest Pass and was towed to the
quarantine station. The Captain is safe.
r irst officer, steward and two seamen are
sick with yellow fever.
Galveston, July 7.—The Chief of Po
lice has three men patrolling the beach
along the island to carefully watch the
landing of any boat and to question
closely the occupants in case of such an
attempt. 'The object is to guard
against the possibility of any
of the crew of the bark Salome,
lying at sea twelve miles from the city
with yellow lever aboard, leaving ship
and attempting to come ashore. These
arrangements will continue until the Sa
lome leaves, which will probably occur*
in a day or two.
DAUPHIN’S INTERCEPTED AIAIL.
His Counsel Asked Whether it is Under
tlie Ban in Washington.
VV ashington, July 9.—Postmaster
General Gresham to-day forwarded to the
Postmasters at New Orleans and New
York copies of his decision in the lottery
case, together with letters directing
those postmasters to discontinue the de
livery of money orders or registered
packages to the agents of the Louisiana
Lottery Company. The counsel for the
Lottery Company to-day submitted to the
Postmaster General, a question as to
whether, under his recent decision, regis
tered letters addressed to an agent of the
Louisiana Company in Washington could
be withheld. This question the Postmas
ter General lias not yet decided.
TWO BATTLES WITH BURGLARS.
Both of the Cracksmen Shot Dead After
Wounding Two Men.
New York, July 9.—Policemen John
Donovan and Charles Reynolds were
seriously wounded while attempting to
arrest a burglar in Jersey City last night.
The burglar was fatally shot. He said
bis name was Frank Brown.
Middletown, N. Y., July 9.—A night
watchman at the Franklin furnace shot a
burglar through the heart yesterday
morning while the latter vyas engaged in
robbing the store of an iron company. A
railroad ticket and four watches "were
found on the burglar’s body, but nothing
to identify him. He was a young man.
EDITORS DRAWING WEAPONS.
Seven Shots Fired with Slight Effect on
a Helena Highway.
Memphis, July 9.—A special from
Helena, Arkansas, says that this after
noon VV. It. Burke, editor of the World,
was attacked by W. J. Lewis, a news
paper correspondent. Lewis tired first,
without effect, when Burke drew his pis
tol and began tiring, advancing upon his
antagonist. Lewis fired four shots and
Burke three, one of which passed through
Lewis’ arm and lodged in his breast.
Lewis was arrested. His wounds are
slight. The difficulty grew out of a special
sent by Lewis reflecting on Burke.
The Chances of the Rifle Team.
London, July 9.—Even if the question
of wind gauge is not settled in favor of
the American rifle team thev will obtain
the same amount of practice as the Eng
lish team will, as they have been presented
with complimentary tickets for all com
petitions with military rifles that are to
take place prior to the match at Wimble
don.
The Wimbledon committee has decided
not to allow the American team to use
wind gauges, as it considers that the is
sue to them of complimentary tickets to
the military rifle competitions will insure
the Americans the full amount of prac
tice. The Americans have entered them
selves tor all the matches for which they
are qualified. The American team prac
ticed at 1,000 yards range to-day. The
wind was rather strong, unsteady and
tricky. Out of a possible 35, C. W. Hen
man and W. J. Rabbeth each scored 29,
J. At. Pollard 24, W. L. Cash 4 and Air.
Bull 19.
Ail Objectionable Wages Gauge.
Fall River, Alass., Julv 9.— The
weavers at the Boarne mill struck work
this morning on account of a change in
their wages from day pay to payment bv
the piece. They claim" that this is a re
duction, while the management of the
mill say that it will make no difference
and will be fairer in the end, as under
the old system the strikers received as
much as honest workers. The mill makes
canton flannel.
lie Chambord Not So Well.
Vienna, July 9.—The Count De Cham
bord passed a sleepless night and was
slightly feverish. He was extremely weak
this morning.
Rome, July 9. — lt has been arranged
that if the Comte De Paris becomes the
recognized claimant of monarchy in
France he will come to Rome to pay his
respects to the Pope.
The Hebrides Question.’
Paris, July 9.—lt is stated that the
Cabinet has resolved to send a dispatch
in reply to the note from Earl Granville,
pointing out that the annexation of the
New Hebrides Islands by France, would
be contrary to the engagement previously
entered into with England.
FATHER RITCHIE’S MAXIMUM.
A Requiem Mass Too Much Even for his
Ritualistic Flock.
Chicago, July 9.—The Episcopal
Church controversy, which has grown out
of the High Church tendencies of Rev.
Arthur Ritchie, pastor of the Church of
the Ascension, and which has already
served to draw out a letter of protest from
the Bishop of this diocese, had another
sensational feature added to it vester
day. Rector Ritchie at the morning
service announced that at the conclusion
of the services a requiem mass would be
said for the soul of Daniel Fountain, who
was drowned in Lake Alichigan in the
latter part of May. The announcement
of the requiem mass was apparently such a
pronounced step towards Roman
ism as to cause to rebel even
those parishioners of the Church
of the Ascension who had hitherto stood
t>y the pastor, and one half of the congre
gation left the church. In the meantime,
at-the request of the widow of Daniel
Fountain, the celebration of the mass has
been postponed for a few days. It is be
lieved now that the Bishop will be com
pelled to order a trial of the pastor for an
infringement of the church rules.
EGYI*T UNDER THE SHROUD.
Over 300 Deaths in Five Towns In Two
Days.
London, July 9.—There were 90 deaths
from cholera at Damietta, 48at Alansurah,
1 at Alexandria, 6 at Samonoud and 6
at Sherbin Saturday. On Sunday there
were 88 at Damietta, 64 at Alansurah, 9
at Samonoud, 7 at Sherbin and 1 at Alex
andria.
The Times correspondent at Alexandria
says that a European died there of cholera
yesterday. The abattoirs of the city are
in a tilthy condition, and are extremely
dangerous to health.
Alexandria, July 9.—Provisions have
given out at Damietta and the people are
starving. A number of European resi
dents made an attempt to break the cor
don around the town, and several of them
were wounded.
Cairo, July 9.—it is reported here that
a yacht is being prepared and will be held
in readiness to take the Khedive to Na
ples, in the event of the spread of cholera
making his departure necessary.
Hong Kong, July 9.—Cholera has
broken out at Swatow, and is raging vio
lently.
BItADLAUGH BARRED OUT.
Nortlicote Again Wins tlie Day, Much to
Gladstone’s Chagrin.
London, July 9.—ln the House of
Commons this afternoon Premier Glad
stone, in reply to Sir Stafford Northcoto,
stated that he had received letters from
Air. Bradlaugh announcing his intention
to take his seat in spite of any orders of
the House. Air. Gladstone said that the
government had proposed a method of
meeting this difficulty, which had been
rejected. It now remains with the House
to act.
Sir Stafford Northeote said that he re
gretted the necessity of protecting an or
der, which was the duty of the Prime
Alinister, and moved that Air. Bradlaugh
be excluded from the presence of the
House until he concluded not to disturb
the proceedings. The motion was adopted
by a vote of 232 to 65. Previous to the
taking of the vote Air. Gladstone and sev
eral other members of the government
withdrew from the House. The other
members of the Ministry present voted
with the minority.
NO PARDON FOR RIOTERS.
A Motion for Amnesty Voted Down by
the French Deputies.
Paris, July 9.—ln tlie Chamber of Dep
uties to-day M. • Barodel, Republican,
moved that amnesty be granted to those
persons who took part in the Paris and
Montceau les Alines riots, including
Louise Alicliel. AYaldreck Rousseau, Alin
ister of the Interior de
clared himself absolutely opposed to such
proposition. He said that it would be
possible to grant amnesty to pex-sons who
had been engaged in civil war, but not to
those who had committed offenses in a
time of peace with the object of causing
a social uprising and menacing judges
with death. Al. Barodel’s motion was
rejected by a vote of 304 to 89.
The German Gazette Under Fire.
Berlin, July 9.—The Liberal press cor
dially approve the North German Gazette
article referring to Cardinal Jacobini’s
latest note to the Prussian Government.
The New Prussian Cross Gazette, Conser
servative, warns its readers not to place
too much reliance upon the continuance
of the Conservative-Ultramontane coali
tion.
The Germania, the clerical organ, de
clares the language of the North Ger
man Gazette's article, which the Germa
nia believes was inspired, to lie unseemly
and impertinent.
De Eesseps’ New Suez Canal.
London, July 9.—The Post says that
Al. De Lesseps has made a satisfactory
arrangement with the British government
in the matter of the Suez canal.
London, July 9.—ln the House of Com
mons to-day Premier Gladstone declined
to make any statement concerning the
Suez canal business, saying that it had
not reached a proper stage for discussion.
He assured the House, however, that noth
ing would be done without the approval
of Parliament.
Rowland Indicted for Embezzlement.
Pittsburg, July 9.—The grand jury
this afternoon returned true bills again t
Archibald H. Rowland, Clerk of the
County Court, on two indictments charg
ing him with misdemeanor in office.
The indictments contain 69 counts, alleg
ing that tines were collected where none
had been imposed and that Mr. Howland
failed to account for large sums collected.
Death of a Veteran Telegraph Operator.
New York, July 9.— John E. Clark,
the veteran telegraph operator, well
known to the telegraphic and newspaper
fraternities from Texas to Nova Scotia
and San Francisco died to-day at Atlan
tic City, N. J., whither he had gone seek
ing health. He recently came from Nor
folk.
#300.000 Worth of Libel.
Rochester, N. Y., July 9.— Theodore
and John F. Allen and their mother, Han
nah Langley, of New York, have sued the
Union anil Advertiser for libel for copy
ing, a month ago, a New York letter from
the Indianapolis Journal , questioning
their honesty. The damages are placed
at SIOO,OOO in each case.
Three Lives Lost by a Cave in.
Exeter, N. 11., July 9.—The embank
ment on the Newmarket Manufacturing
Company’s land at Newmarket caved in
this morning, killing Patrick Mullen and
burying two others, whose bodies have
not yet been recovered.
France and Leo More Friendly.
Rome, July 9.—The relations between
the Vatican and France have improved
since the recent exchange of notes.
A Chance for War.
Constantinople, July 9.—The French
Consul has been attacked and insulted on
one of the streets ot this city.
An Invention of Interest.
Cincinnati limes-Star.
A number ol capitalists met yesterday
afternoon at the Gibson House"to form a
company to manufacture and handle Mr.
Green’s device for preserving human life
in case of accidents to carriages and
buggies.
The invention is a simple yet practical
attachment which enables any one in the
vehicle to detach the horses and stop the
carriage at the same time by simply pull
ing a strap. The device consists of pecu
liarly formed cams on the ends of the thill
coupling tripping rod w hich bind against
the inner ends of the hubs on the forward
axle, and these cams are so built and
arranged that whenever the rod is rotated
so as to detach the shafts or pole from the
axle the cams at once bind against the
wheels and gradually check the vehicle.
The beauty of this arrangement consists
in the fact that the driver is able to check
the speed of the vehicle while iu the act of
disengaging the vicious animal.
All who have examined the article are
enthusiastic in its praise, and claim that
as soon as its merits are known, no vehi
cle will be built without it. A number of
those present had taken a ride the pre
vious day in vehicles to which the inven
tion was attached and practically demon
strated its advantages on all kinds of
roads and under all posssble circum
stances. A company will be formed with
a large capital, of which Mr. Green, the
inventor, will hold a majority of the stock.
It Seems to Satisfy
A family want, and I wonder hew 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
IN COLLISION ON A CURVE.
TAAO MEN KILLED INSTANTLY
AND A THIRD TO DIE.
Another Instance of Heroism In the Cab
—The Brother of the Brave Engineer
Saved by Jumping—No Passengers In
jured—A Telegraphist Blamed and
Arrested.
Hartford, Conn., July 9.—An East
bound passenger train on the New Eng
land Railway collided this evening with
a gravel train, one mile east of Plainville.
The collision occurred on a curve, and
both trains were running fast.
The engineer and fireman of the gravel
train jumped and escaped.
George Knickerbocker, the engineer of
the passenger train remained at his post
and reversed his engine. He was caught
in the wreck and horribly crushed and
instantly killed.
His brother, who was acting as his
fireman, jumped and escaped.
Charles AY. Church, an Adams Express
messenger, of Hartford, and Chas. Gris
wold, of AVaterbury, were in the baggage
car. The car was smashed to pieces, and
both men were thrown 40 feet into an ad
joining field.
Griswold’s b*dv was thrown over the
telegraph wires and he was instantly
killed.
Church’s injuries are probably fatal.
I he passengers were badlv shaken up,
but none were seriously injured-
The accident was caused by the failure
oi the telegraph operator at Plainville to
give the conductor of the passenger train
orders to wait there for the gravel train
to pass.
The operator is Charles A. AYelch. It
is reported that he was arrested to-night.
UNCLE SAM’S CRUISERS.
The Class of Vessels Which John Roach
Proposes to Build.
Xew York World.
A reporter visited the shipyard of John
Roach & Son yesterday. They are the suc
cessful bidders of the proposed steel
cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta, and
a dispatch boat to be called the Dolphin.
“Come upstairs to our engineer's depart
ment and I will show you what plans and
specifications were furnished us from the
Navy Department,” smilingly chirped the
rotund Garry Roach, who has charge of
the shipyard here, as he led the reporter
to a room full of musty models of moni
tors, frigates and all sorts of floating
death-dealers.
“How is it that your bid was nearly
$350,000 less than any of the others?” was
asked.
“AA’ell, that is a trick of the trade. Pos
sibly the reason is because we make
everything that belongs to a ship, from
the iron armor to the bottle rack in
tne wine pantry. We fit the ship out our
selves, and do not trust to any sub-con
tractor.”
“How about the speed of these new
cruisers ?”
“They are intended to bo very fast, but
precisely how speedy I cannot sav. For
instance, the Chicago, which "is the
largest, is to be specially constructed lot
light draught and speed. She will be sup
plied with two compound beam engines
and high pressure cylinders with four
feet four inches stroke. She will have twin
screws, and from her stroke and engine
apparatus they calculate her to make
sixteen knots per hour. Of course, it she
don’t make that it will not be our fault.
In short, the speed mentioned in the pros
pectus is only guess-work, and n< one can
tell until the ship is launched and her
machinery put to the test how fast she
can steam.
“The Boston and Atlanta are sister
ships, and will be constructed after the
same model. They will be 270 feet long,
forty-two feet beam and twenty-six feet
deep. The engines and steering appa
ratus will be similar to those of the
Chicago, and they are intended to reach
the same speed. The dispatch boat, Dol
phin, will be 1,500 tons burden and 3,000
horse power. She is to be 240 feet long,
and is to have the new pattern double-end
boilers, with a high and low pressure
cylinder. She is expected to attain a
speed of fifteen knots an hour.”
“AVill you build the ships here?”
“No; we build the bulls and fittings in
our yard at Chester and make the engines
here. We send them here in sections to
be put in.”
“The ships are to be of iron, I sup
pose ?”
“Certainly. The hulls will be entirely
of iron, with strong stay beams for addi
tional strength.”
“AVhat will the navy look like, com
pared to great English and Italian gun
boats, when these new cruisers are fin
ished ?”
“Oh, we’ll have a few youngsters that
can sail around those cumbersome, heav
ily armed thunderers and worry them not
a little, besides being able to
stand a deal ot hard knocks.”
“They can do a deal of damage, and
when it comes to close work they can sail
around them; while if the odds are too
great they can get away.”
“How long will it take you to finish
them ?”
“1 cannot say. AVe have not received
word from AV ashington that the contract
has been awarded to us, but I suppose
from the fact that we are so low in our
bids we will get the work. Alv father,
John Roach, is in AVashington riow, and
lrom what he writes I believe we will
have about two years to complete the
new vessels. If everything is ready for
us at the Navy Department we can finish
them sooner than that.”
COLONEL. BRANSON.
The Last Battle of the War Between
the States.
Albuquerque Journal.
Avery interesting bit of personal and
general history, especially to the resi
dents of New Mexico and the Rio Grande
Valley, is the fact that Colonel David
Branson, now a resident of this place, is
the man who fought the last battle and
gave the last ’order to cease firing at
the close of the war of the re
bellion, and did it at the mouth of
New Mexico’s great river, the Rio
Grande. The battle was fought May 12
and 13, 1860. Colonel Branson was sent
out from the general camp on Brazos
Island with a mixed command of about
three hundred men from the Second Texas
Cavalry, dismounted; First Missouri,
colored, and the Thirty-fourth Indiana,
to capture a herd of cattle for the use of
the troops. While out he was attacked
by a force of about six hundred Texas
cavalry, with artillery, under General
Slaughter and General Ford.
During the fight a war ship arrived off
the harbor with the news of the surren
der of Kirby Smith, the last of the Con
federate forces in the field, and conse
quently, the end of the w T ar. General
Barrett, the commander ot the garrison,
ordered Colonel Branson to cease fighting
and return, w 7 hich being impossible on
account of a sunerior force, and the well
known enmity on their part toward the
colored troops and Southern white
Union troops, the engagement was
continued, though the Unionists re
tired, fighting, toward the island. Gen.
Barrett came to the rescue on the 13th,
with a small reinforcement, and the fight
back to the island occupied all that day.
Fear sunset,as Gen. Barrett was crossing
the ferry with the main body, the attack
was renewed upon the rear guard, in
command of Capt. Coffin. Col. Branson
had just gone back to the guard, and the
enemy were repulsed; the last battle of
the w ar was over.
Then it was that Colonel Branson, who
had been informed of the good tidings
brought by the war-ship in the offing, and
fully comprehended its importance and
the historical significance of that (lav’s
work with himself as a modest though
conspicuous figure in the closing scene of
the great tragedy, gave the order to “cease
firing,” with probably deeper feeling than
he ever before gave a military order, and
gratefully sheathed the sword that had
for five years been the symbol of
command through the bloodiest war
of the ages, and never again,
he hopes, to draw it in deadly
conflict with his fellow-man. Turning to
Captain Coffin he sententiously, and with
an animation he can never feel again, re
marked, “That winds up the war;” when
the Captain remarked with equal empha
sis, “Yes, and I thank God we are alive.”
The impressive scene closed as the sun was
sinking behind the sand hills on the west
ern bank of the Rio Grande and the Gulf of
Mexico, and was witnessed by interested
crow ds of men perched in the rigging of
eighty men-of-war and other shipping
anchored in the offing and flying the nags
of nearly every nation on earth.
The Consolidation Again Modified.
Washington, July 9. —The Executive
order reorganizing the Internal Revenue
service has been again altered, so as to
restore to New Jersey three districts and
retain in office Collector Hathorn. He
was dropped and his district divided be
tween the other two in the recent reor
ganization.
A POLITICAL OLIO.
The Great Star Router’s Defense Cost
Himself Alone Fully 8150,000.
Chicago Tribune.
Among the delegates to the Anti-Mo
nopoly Convention are Col. E. N. Hill aud
Mr. James A. George, both of AVashin"-
ton—the former a Republican aud the lal
ter a Democrat. Both are at the Brigs
House, and a Tribune reporter had an in
teresting chat with them yesterday on a
variety of subjects. Colonel Hill is'known
in AVashington as an intimate friend of
ex-Senator Dorsey—in fact, he was a wit
ness for the defense in t the recent star
route trial—and he was asked his opinion
of that celebrated case.
“Speaking as a lawyer,” he said, “I
read every page of testimony in the star
route trial, and I failed to"find a scin
tilla of trustworthy evidence against Mr.
Dorsey. I have known him since 1871,
and went with him in 1880 to Indiana to
assist in the Garfield campaign. I be
lieve it was liis skill and sagacity alone
that elected Garfield and Arthur! Since
the death of Zach Chandler I believe
Dorsey to be the ablest politician in this
country.
“He was prosecuted by AA T avne Mae-
Yeagh and Thomas L. James because he
opposed them when Garfield selected
them for the Cabinet. Dorsey was present
Alarch 3rd when James called upon Gar
field, and he heard James pledge himself
to act as a ‘Garfield man’ it taken into
the Cabinet. That same day he was in an
adjoining room when James called upon
Conkling, and he heard James make the
assertion that he was not a candidate for
the Cabinet, but that if he was chosen he
would be Conkling’s strongest supporter.
Both conversations took place within the
space of a few hours.”
“AVhat did the recent trial cost Dorsev ?”
“It cost him in lawyers’ fees and in "the
expenses of one of the other defendants,
who had no money, the sum of $150,000.
The expenses of the defense altogether
amounted to $490,000.”
“Did not Dorsey use star route inotocy
in the campaign of 1880?”
“I will tell you. You remember that
‘My dear Hubbell’ letter? AA r eli, Hub
bell wanted the star route contractors
who were in AVashington then to put up
money, Brady said he did not kuow what
Garfield would think about the matter.
Hubbell thon wrote to Garfield, at Men
tor, where Dorsey was then visiting.
Garfield replied, directing his letter to
Brady, but Dorsey induced him to destroy
that letter and to write one to Hubbell.
Then Garfield wrote that curious letter
to Hubbell, asking ‘what Brady was do
ing in the departments.’ By that time,
however, there were only one or two star
route contractors in AVashington, and
they were not asked to put up a single
cent.”
“AVliose money did Dorsey use in In
diana ?”
“He used his own. I went over hi 9
books and found that he spent precisely
$13,300 of his own money.”
“It is rumored that Dorsey proposes to
joiM*he Democrats?”
‘T may deny that, but I do not like to
speak of bis intentions more than to say
that he will attend to his vast private
business, which has been neglected, and
to his ranch in New Mexico, where he
owns 44,000 acres of fine land. I wish to
say this—that Garfield and Arthur should
not have allowed themselves to be made
the tools of designing men to strike down
the man who put them in power.”
“flow does Dorsey regard the standing
Presidential candidates of the Republican
party?”
“I may tell you that there are some
candidates against whom, if they are
nominated, he will work. He has four
boxes of facts—papers,letters, etc.—
which he has preserved, and which in
certain emergencies he will use. At a
meeting of the National Republican Com
mittee last January Logan moved a vote
of thanks to Hooker, the assistant secre
tary, and this was virtually a blow at
Dorsey, who was Secretary. Dorsev is a
warm friend of Conkling; he never" fav
ored Mr. Blaine. His relations are pleas
ant with Secretary of the Interior'Teller.”
“AVill the other indictments iu the star
route cases be prosecuted?”
“I don’t think that they will. The De
partment of Justice wants no more such
cases, as Congress w ill certainly investi-
Site the expenditures of the department.
rewster has said that $270,000 will cover
the expenses of tl\e trials to the govern
ment. I say that it will require five times
that sum—at least $1,350,000. Resolutions
to investigate the expenditures have been
drafted and will be adopted by Congress.”
Colonel Hill told some astonishing
stories of the manner in which detectives
were employed by the Department of
Justice. He spoke in high terms of the
force of character, judgment and gener
osity of ex-Senator Dorsey.
Colonel Hill w T as also questioned about
the nomination of Stanley Matthew's to
the Supreme Court, about which he w T as
understood to be well informed.
“The charge was made,” he said, “in
the Washington Republican that Garfield,
w hen he w as in New York at the August
conference, asked Jay Gould to advance
SIOO,OOO, and the latter consented to do so
only on receiving Garfield’s promise in
writing that Matthews would be elevated
to the Supreme bench. Gould
gave the letter to Whitelaw
Reid, and when the fight over the
Collectorship of the port of New York
was at the hottest Garfield decided to
withdraw Robertson’s name. Reid tele
graphed Garfield that night to the effect
that if Robertson’s name was withdrawn
the Gould letter would be published.
Since the letter was published in the New T
York Sun neither Gould nor Reid has
denied it, and if Reid were to be put under
oath he w ould not deny the existence of
the contract with Gould.”
“What are the Presidential candidates
doing?”
“Arthur seems to be laying his plans.
Blaine occasionally sends for some of his
friends, but that is the most he does. I
think that he wants a friend of his to get
the nomination; in fact, {he wants to con
trol the nomination. Logan is almost an
avowed candidate. A strong effort will
be made for Mr. Edmunds.”
“What will be the policy of the anti-
Monopoly Convention?”
“I am a Republican, and not in favor
of the convention making anew party. I
think that the anti-monopolists can ob
tain w hat they want if they have the po
litical sagacity to avail themselves of the
existing situation. I would advocate the
policy of selecting an Executive Committee
with power to call a convention, should
such action appear wise. From the pres
ent standpoint such action would not be
wise. The anti-monopolists should de
clare in favor of whichever party will
carry out their measures.”
“\Vhat measures are these?”
“The forfeiture of the land grants, in
volving 105,000,000 of aeffes. where the cor
porations have not carried out their con
tracts; the regulation of the currency on
this basis—that the United States shall
issue all the currency as soon as practica
ble; such a reform in the tariff as to pro
tect all the great manufacturing interests,
with enough revenue to run tne govern
ment when added to the present tax on
whisky; and the passage of laws to limit
the possession of lands by corporations as
well as individuals.”
“Much depends on where the limit is
placed ?”
“Yes, we are not Communists or
agrarians, but we do not believe that any
corporation or individual should be
allowed to acquire five, ten or twenty
millions of acres. An English syndicate
bought 3,000,000 of acres of the Texas
Pan-handle from the Farwells of this city.
That land is equal in size to one-tenth of
the State of New York, and is almost as
large as Connecticut. While the House
at Washington is Democratic and the
Senate Republican, the anti-monopolists
hold the balance of power and should
avail themselves of their opportunities.”
“Yes,” said Mr. George, who was
present during the interview, “the anti
monopoly plank in the Democratic plat
form of the Syracuse convention added
100,000 votes to Cleveland’s majority.
The committee on resolutions wanted to
omit that plank, but John Kelly sent the
resolutions back and insisted upon its
insertion. He proposes to put an anti
monopoly plank in the next Democratic
national platform.”
Petroleum Among the Turkg.
Constantinople, July 9.—The Turco-
American Commission has appointed and
examined into the question of the estab
lishment of a petroleum depot. The Porte
has addressed a note to Gen. Wallace, the
American Minister, pointing out that it
notified him of Turkey’s withdrawal from
the treaty of commerce with America on
the eve of its expiration, and invited him
to negotiate for the conclusion of a new’
treaty.
Weariness in New Hampshire.
Concord, N. H., July 9.—A vote for
United States Senator was taken to-day,
but no quorum of either house was pres
ent.
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There is more strength in a bottle of
Parker’s Ginger Tonic than in a bushel of
malt or a gallon of milk. This explains
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A NUN IN TEXAS AND A CHILD AT
EASTMAN THE VICTIMS.
The A illage Blacksmith's Son the YII-
Han in Georgia—The Finding of the
Sister’s Skeleton Reveals the Horror
of Her Fate—Neither of the Criminals
Captured.
Eastman, Ga., July 9.—An outrage
was committed here last night by C. W.
Skelton, a young white man, upon a little
mulatto girl 6or 7 years old. Skelton got
the child in the blacksmith shop of
Skelton & Sons, of which firm he is
a member, and after accomplishing his
foul purpose reported to the child’s
mother that it was about to die in the
shop. The mother hastened thither and
found her child insensible. She took it to
the house, and summoned Dr. nerriman
who found that the child’s person had
been violated. She was brought to her
senses in the course of an hour, and laid
the crime to young Skelton, who has left
town. Sympathy is felt for the w’ayward
young man’s father, who is a respected
member of the Methodist Church.
Galveston, July 9.—A dispatch from
San Antonio says: “Fifteen davs ago
Sister Clemens, of the Catholic order of
the Divine Providence, mysteriously dis
appeared from New' Braunfels, where the
society has its educational institute. At
first it was thought that she had gone
to San Antonio or Austin, hut all
inquiry failed to reveal her where
abouts. Yesterday Gus Pheuffer, of
New Braunfels, found a skeleton in the
mountains, eight miles from that town,
and it proved to be that of the missing
Sister. She was a German, and had only
been in this country one year. It was
suggested that she grew’ homesick, but as
it is the rule of the society that no Sister
shall go alone on the streets or highway,
an abduction with horrible accompani
ments is suspected.”
ENGLAND’S QUEEN AND PKINCE.
Unpopularity of the One and Popularity
of the Other.
Jf. L>. Conway'* Letter to the. Cincinnati Com*
mercial Gazette.
It is about time that Americans should
be given a hint that thev are in danger of
making themselves a little ridiculous in
the way they sometimes indulge their
sentimental side in speaking of Queen
Victoria. Not long ago I was present at
the annual dinner given by the Novlrna
gians, a club of antiquarians, a good many
gentlemen and ladies being there, w hen
Ex-Governor Holliday, of Virginia, made
a speech, in wtiieh lie fairly decorated
“that noble woman” with' rhetorical
Kohinoors, and lett her framed iu a con
stellation of admiration points. The En
glish people smiled and winked at each
other, there were whispers about distance
lending enchantment, and about the cu
rious notions prevailing in the American
provinces.
The Queen is certainly not liked by the
English people. I have formed a pretty
large acquaintance in the course of twen
ty years’ residence there, and I do not
know one English man or woman who
personally likes or admires the Queen.
She is variously objected to as morose,
morbid, stingy, grasping, ugly, sullen, ill
humored, and torpid if not stupid. I do
not say that these opinions of her are cor
rect, but they are generallv held, though,
of course, not publicly expressed. There
are a number of English Radicals of the
Bright school who set a high value on
the Queen really because she has
brought a large degree of unpopularity on
the throne. They would like her to live a
long time, because every year the people
learn more and more how unimportant
the throne is to them, and are gradually
forgetting the traditions of court splendor
and gayety. Their appreciation of the
Victorian reign is as little complimentary
to the Queen personally as the
dislike of the average people. The
Queen has offended the most in
fluential women or England by her hos
tility to all movements for enlarging the
sphere of occupation and influence of her
sex. The thinking and literary people
are ashamed that her only eflusive pat
ronage should be accorded to military
men whose glories have been won by
attacks on small tribes. The great con
servative middle classes (upper and lower)
sneer at her heaping up idle millious of
money and giving none of it to the Prince
of Wales, while he performs most of her
public ceremonial duties for ber.
The Queen's growing unpopularity
measures the growth of the Prince of
Wales’ popularity. This lias been steadi
ly increasing, until it is fast amounting
lip to enthusiasm. The Prince has end
less good humor and marvelous tact, an
instance of the latter being his prompt
consent to go off to Eastbourne and open
an asylum there t ecause it was named
after bis deceased sister Alice. He is
clever, too. Not long ago tho Savage
Club invited him to attend a banquet at
their rooms; the whole thing was slightly
snobbish, and there was a good deal of
satisfaction when the Prince, after din
ner, suggested that so large aud fine a
club (it consists chiefly of actors
and musicians) should found a scholar
ship in the new Royal College of
Music. The affluence of the club was
chiefly on the table, but they could not
excuse themselves to the Prince, and are
now learning that dancers who indulge in
a royal piper must expect to pay him roy
ally. The Prince always makes faultless
speeches now (he has lived a long time
since he spoke of Queen Elizabeth as his
ancestor), and never puts on any airs.
He has outlived a good deal of gossip,
arising from his liking for pretty girls (in
which was always more of the merry Ger
m n than the dangerous English “flirta
tiousness”), and his love for the Princess
is shown not only in his constant atten
tion to her, hut in the bloom and beamiug
happiness of her face. It is probable that
there is not a happier pair in Europe.
Grant Savagely Criticised by a Republi
can Pen.
X*v> York Tribune.
11l the tenacity with which Grant fol
lowed out a determination once fixed in
his mind, perhaps no man has ever sur
passed him, but it was an expensive vir
tue for his soldiers, as the hundred thou
sand men he lost in Virginia are a wit- -
ness. Whether he should have been re
moved after Cold Harbor, a disastrous
blunder only equalled by Burnside at
Fredericksburg, is a difficult matter to
determine. If he had been, the final re
sult would not have differed much in all
probability.
Yet this man, who happened to receive
the surrendered sword of Lee, became on
that account the supposed liero of the
war; received the credit of having sup
pressed the Confederacy; without educa
tion for or experience in civil affairs was
made President for eight years, andfinally
was carried around the earth and exhib
ited to the nations as the greatest prodigy
of the age. The people,in their exuberant
joy ait the return of peace, wished for a
hero to whom they could pay homage,
and, Lincoln being dead, seized upon
Grant as the nearest object. Happier for
him and for them had he been allowed to
continue, like Sherman and Sheridan,
quietly at his post of duty! America does
not require celebrities of a false lustre to
satisfy her pride. “There are others who
are deserving,” as Mr. Emerson said.
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