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ESTABLISHED 1830. }
, J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, j
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE news of the two states
r VUAGKAPHICALLV TOED.
primus Jones’ Neighbors Doubtful of
His First Bale—A Ghastly Mystery in
Carroll County—Some Strange I.ami
Transactions in Dooly County Cleared
I p Killed by a Train.
t.EORGIA.
\u Kastman correspondent of the News,
, ! dentate of Julv 13, writes as follows: "‘The
y ~t Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
r. .. I is hauling a great many watermelons
,l\. Forty-live car loads went up to-day,
o, 1 from ten to fifteen or twenty car load
over the road every 'lav. ’They come
u nl\ front |s>ir.ts between NVavcross ami
i masville. on the savannah, Florida and
Western Railway. This is anew business
u;tl. the ta.-t Tennessee. Virginia and Geor
lUtil this season they have done very
• luling of this kind. Vow they use the
: mi and melon carsof the Cincinnati .South
,.r:i for tin most part, hut if this business eon
increano it it said the Bart Teaaes
\ irgiina and Georgia proposes to build
it- ovn fruit cars.”
A petition to the General Assembly to have
Ii ittalioochee made navigable to Franklin is
A man lives a few miles above Athens who
eats in one county, sleeps in another, smokes
when sitting upon his pia/za in a third, and
it.i~ built his barn in a fourth. He lives where
four counties corner, and is as independent of
i.-cal officers as a wood sawyer.
The < alhoun county Courier says: “A com
pany of Col. Primus .Jones’ neighbors, oon
isttnc of Messrs, b roker, Barbre and others,
visited his plantation, and after diligent in
vestigation, say that they failed to see any
evidence of new cotton, and they are of the
opinion that the cotton sold for new w as raised
last year.”
The uniforms for the Montezuma Lewis
Light Infantry are made of Con federate gray,
the pants trimmed with dark blue and the
coat.-, which are of the swallow tail fashion,
are trimmed with light blue braid. The offi
cers’ suits are the same, with white trim
mings.
.Miss Bullard, of Montezuma, who is charg
ed with the murder of her baby, born out of
wedlock, attempted suicide.
The t olumbus City Light Guards are going
to drill against the Columbus Guards for a
prize.
< olumbus is organizing a mutual loan asso
ciaton.
The negroes, Sim Johnson, his wife and sou,
who have been on trial at Chipley for brutally
beating a child, were bound over to the supe
rior Court. The bonds required of the two
men were SSOO each and sTbo for tiie woman.
The Baptist Church at Fishing Creek has
set apart Saturday and Sunday, the 11th and
12th of August, to celebrate her centennial.
The church was organized in 1783 by Sanders
Walker.
The kiln of brick recently burned at the
brick yard in Washington contained 170,000.
The demand for brick is so great that a kiln
or 300,000 is now being put up, and will be
burned in a week or two.
It cost $156,000 to construct the eighteen
miles of the Washington hraneh railroad. It
was built in the early part of the tlfties.
There are 803,505 whites and 674,075 blacks
in Georgia.
A wild cat has been killed near Dublin.
The //erabl reports cholera in and around
sandersville.
On Tuesday evening of last week, as a con
struction train was approaching the depot at
Greensboro, a colored employe of the road,
who lives at Conyers, fell from the train and
was instantly killed. One arm was cut oil'
and his neck almost entirely eut in two.
Terrell eountv voted for license, the colored
vote carrying the day.
On the loth of December, 18*2, Mi-- e. s.
Soles, of < arroll county, was cither abducted
or voluntarily eloiied with W. c. Graven,al-o
a Citizen of Carroll county. The last heard of
Miss Soles by her friends' and relatives was
on the night of the ltitli of Decemlier last, at
Francis Graven's, near the Alabama line.
>lie had never been seen or heard of. by ant
one known, since that time. A week ago yes
terday, however, her body was found on the
banks of the Tallapoosa river in an advanced
stage of decomposition. The Coroner's jury
were unable to decide whether she was mur
dered or not.
The Pitrier family, of Athens, have a third
interest in the famous Lumsden mine ill Na
eooehee valley, and will contest its sale to the
English company. They claim that the pres
ent titles were obtained through fraud.
A Macon colored boy who was riding on the
steps of an outgoing train Friday jumped off
in front of an incoming passenger train on the
other track and was horribly mangled and
instantly killed, be was not aware of the
passenger train’s approach.
Messrs llenlv & Jeter, who are engaged ill
the manufacture oi or..k m ila hnisviite.
have already sold a million and two hundred
thousand, and have orders ahead for half a
million more. Besides many brick have been
shipped from Macon and* Atlanta, llaw
kinsville will soon be a brick city.
A few weeks ago Judge S. 1.. Atkinson took
a trip down into iv*dy county to look after a
lot of land e hich his mother had given him in
her '*• time. He found that the laud had
been traded several times, all in the same
handwriting, except the last. The partvon
the land had what appeared to lie a regular
chain of titles,with plat and grant of the same
date of the Judge’s, with a forged signature
of his mother, all witnessed,and dated twenty
eight years after ltis mother's death. When
the Judge drew his papers the party claiming
gave it up.
on account of the prevalence of measles in
Chattooga county, the time within vv hieli pub
lic schools may liegin the present year, lias
been extended to the first Monday in Septem
ber. in all cases in which those interested
deem it for the best interests of the schools
not to begin them within the time formerly
lixed by the board.
A Catoosa preacher has given in 12,500 more
property this year than he did last.
A negro has been lodged in jail in Catoosa
county for an indecent assault upon two
young ladies.
At AdamsviUe the other night Thos. Weil
awoke to find a burglar pilfering his pants
pockets. \\ lien Mr, 'V eil c~-aved to arise the
burglar drew a revolver and'after covering
his victim with it coolly hacked out of the
house and disapiieared doven the street.
It is roughly estimated that railroad con
nection between Augusta and Sandersville
w ith hraneh roads to Louisville and Gibson
will cost nlxiut $285,000.
The proposed Rome and Decatur Railroad
will lie almost exactly an air-line about 100
miles long. About half-way between Rome
and Decatur, Alabama., its terminal points, it
crosses the Alabama Great Southern at Col
linsville. When the line is completed to De
catur it is proposed to build an air line from
Rome to Gainesville, connecting the Richmond
and Danville with the Alabama Great soutli
ern at Collinsville aud with the Hast Tennes
see, Virginia anil Georgia at Decatur.
This makes a link completing anew
Atlantic and Pacific line, either liv wav of
New Orleans to the Southern Pacific, or' bv
St. Ijiuis to the In ion Pacific.
Macon suffers from a scanty supply of ice.
Spalding superior Court convenes the first
Monday in August.
A house in Americas occupied by Mr M ix
Marcus, and owned by HarruM, Johnson &
Cos., valued at 11.500 and insured for#l,oso, has
been burned. Most of the furniture was
burned.
FLORIDA.
A movement is now on foot in Waldo to or
ganize a joint .-dock company for the purpose
of building a large steam null at the bead of
the Santa Ke canal.
Kev. t. I!. Simons (colored . a Baptist
preacher, who has been an esteemed resident
of Jacksonville for over fifty years, and an
ex.mem her of the City Council, died Friday
moraing.
Two additional engines are to be put on at
once on the Jacksonville, st' Augustine and
Halifax Railroad. The road is to lie thorough
ly equipped and the organization made as ef
fective as possible.
The Building and Loan Association of
Jacksonville was successfully organized at a
ineettng held there on Thursday evening.
The colored resident of Jacksonville, in
whose house the last case o( small-pox in that
city was developed and concealed, lias been
arrested as a nuisance, and bonnd over in fluo
to answer at the next term of the Circuit
Court.
Crops are suffering for rain near CaCrosse.
The water on Volusia bar is said to Ik’ vert
low, and the heavy draft steamers tiud it
di'Ucuit to cross, especially when loaded.
The great fall in the river is attributed to the
recent heavy southerly and westerly winds
which have prevailed for several months. If
the winds continue from these directions nav -
igation on the upper >t. John's w ill cease.
Ten cars of melons daily pass over the
Florida Central and Western Railway fur
l’ensacola aud New Orleans.
The Pensacola and Atlantic, Savannah,
Florida and Western and Florida t vntraland
Western Railways have all combined t,, erect
a station building, dining halls, etc., at Chat
tahoochee by the first of October.
The grading force on the South Florida
Railroad are now at work in the Walden set.
tleiuent, twenty miles cast of Tampa.
The Key West cattle trade with the island
of Cuba averages one thousand head of cattle
daily.
Vigorous efforts are being made in various
parts of the state to give Florida a good show
ing at the Louisville Exposition.
>onie parties at Apalachicola recently sent
a fodr hundred poundsea turtle to Columbus,
til.
l All desirable government land along the
snores of Indian river has lieen purehased bv
Pfi'ate parties and pineapple plantations are
all the rage in that section.
Arthur Williams, who committed an out
rage upon the per-ou of a Mrs. Reynolds, in
Orange county, on the Sith dav of .March, was
fonpd guilty at Orlando last Tuesday, and
will questionless hang.
Orlando has raised $123 towards the pur
chase of a bell for the Presbyterian Church at
that place.
The WtAkbj Flurid inn says: “The railroad
companies in Florida, as elsewhere, are not
forward in returning their property for tax
ation. The law, however, makes it the duty
of the Comptroller to make the assessment
when there is a failure to do so by the promT
railroad officials. Last year the assessment
was made by the State and the valuation
placed at *4,762.*42 40. This year there has
been a like remissness and the property has
been again assessed by the State. The Yalu
ation for ISB3 is placed at <S,fos.iu9 72. not in
cluding therein the Jacksonville and St. Au
gustine railroad, Telegraph assessment for
the current year is put at *50,000. Tax’ as-
Siuniumli JJenijj.
sessors may increase the railroad assessment,
but are not likely to reduce it. The valua
tion is only on track, etc., and does not in
clude lands or depot buildings.”
AN ALARMING DISEASE.
Worms Which Eat Tp People Alive in
Kansas.
A correspondent of the New York Sun
describes anew and horrible disease, at
first confined to Texas cattle, but which
has begun to attack human beings in
Kansas. On the plains ot Texas lives
the screw worm fly, the terror of cattle.
A tight between Texas cattle usually ends
in one of them lieing wounded. The smell
of the blood drifts down the wind, and
the attracted screw flies course upon the
scent, anxious to deposit their eggs in
the wound. The flies do not alight, but
drop a glutinous substance which adheres
to the wound. The substance contains
hundreds of eggs, which hatch in twenty
tour hours, when the worms burrow into
the flesh and the animal is literally de
voured alive.
The screw worm is a little over half an
inch long. It is corrugated and exceed
ingly hard. When put under the point of
a knife and pressed upon the worm the
worm slips from under the steel and flies
through the air as though made of rubber.
Imagine a white half-inch screw having a
pointed black head instead of the usual
slotted one. That is a fair representation
of the screw worm.
The flies have beeii blown by southwest
winds into Kansas, where they have at
tacked men and women. One case, re
ported in a medical journal, is worthy of
note. The patient hail long suffered from
ozena. On the evening of August 22,
1882, this man complained of a tickling
sensation at the base of the nose, that
was promptly followed by exhaustive
sneezing. This in its turn was fol
lowed by intense pain in the region of the
eyes and cheeks. The physician in at
tendance mistakenly supposed that the
pain was the result of ozena. The dis
charge from the nostrils was purulent and
tinged with blood, and exceedingly offen
sive. The breath of the patient was re
volting. It may be that his condition was
so extremely offensive that the attending
physician did not make an examination
that would have revealed the presence of
the disturbing cause. For two
days the man suffered intense
pain. All remedies adminis
tered failed to give relief. On the evening
of the 24th of August there was a sudden
and profuse discharge from both the nos
■ trils and the mouth. Instantly all pain
1 ceased. There was no longer any in
voluntary discharge. The pus was’with
difficulty expectorated. The soft palate
had lieen destroyed, aud the tongue could
no longer be used in speech, when this
; stage of the disease had been reached a
. screw worm, much to the astonish
ment of the attending physician,
fell from the mouth of the" dying
man. One after another, in obedience
■to the laws of their nature, full
grown screw worms, w riggled from his
nostrils and mouth until 360 ol them
! crawled from the honeycombed head and
throat. The man died. An examination
showed that the fleshy part of the interior
of his head had been almost all devoured.
By throwing hack his head and depress
ing the swollen tongue, the vertebra- were
exposed to view.
There were other oases in which the
worms were removed by forceps, and the
patients, though dilapidated, recovered.
All those attacked had catarrh.
FLIGHT OF A BALLOON.
Breaking front Its Fastenings amt Soar
ing Away—Prof. Allen Injured.
11 1 mli ill Mass.)Speeial to Philadelphia Pres*.
13/A.
Decidedly disagreeable were the expe
riences of Prof. .las. Allen, of Providence,
and the two gentlemen who accompanied
him on his balloon voyage from the fair
grounds yesterday. The ascension was
postponed from the fourth, because suit
able gas could not be obtained. Yester
day there was plenty of -rood iras and the
only trouble was in' keeping the airship
down until the passengers were readv to
start.
The wind was blowing fresh from the
west, and the great gas hag beat about
until it ro*(uirctl tho efforto of tnfiitv 0
strong men to hold it down. Finally Mr.
Allen and his companions took "their
places in the basket, and the order to let
go the ropes was given.
Just then came a tremendous blast of
wind, the ropes were let go on one side a
little sooner than on the other, and with a
whirling sidewise motion the balloon
broke violently away from the restraining
cords. Before the voyagers could recover
themselves enough to throw out sand the
balloon was dashed violently against a
house, breaking the windows and ripping
the slating off' the roof.
Then it cleaned out two or three trees
in a garden across the bay. The basket
catching the benches, the"voyagers were
thrown together in a heap in the bottom
of the basket, and Professor Allen’s collar
lame was fractured. The life-preservers,
drag-rope and two or three hags of sand
were spiled out, and the three men had
to cling for their lives. Relieved of so
much weight, the balloon shot straight up
into the air, attaining an elevation of a
mile and a half.
Pulling the valve cord the balloonists
descended to a comfortable height again,
and were surprised to find that the strong
wind had carried them twenty miles from
the starting point. A safe descent was
made at South Hampton, N. H., near the
Newton line. Mr. Allen's companions
were somewhat bruised, but esoajied
serious injury.
LEE’S UNSELFISH DEVOTION.
Tli** Brilliant Oilers He Declined for a
Lost Cause.
Jliehmomt Whiy.
Not many people know that General
Robert K. I j-e was offered the chief com
mand of the army in 1861, and declined it.
The ofi'er was made iijion tiie recommen
dation of General Scott, hacked by the
venerable Francis P. Blair. Sr., who con
veyed the tender ot the jiosition in person.
It "must have taken great moral courage
to decline the highest position to which
he could ever have attained in his most
ambitious dreams. In 1865 the railroad
which is now called the Virginia Midland,
and its connections, was mainly owned
by English bondholders. After ah expert
had carefully examined the condition of
things the committee of bondholders held
a meeting and tendered to General Lee
the Presidency ot the road and its con
nections under one organization, at a
salary of $50,000 a year. About this time
one of the most powerful of the New York
life insurance companies ottered General
Lee $ 10,000 a year and a house in Rich
mond to take" hold of and build up
their Southern business. General
Lee declined both of these splen
did offers to accept a place as teacher
ot Southern young men, at $3,000 a
year. Capt Burritt says that “the Duke
of Beaufort. Lord John Manners and two
other English noblemen tendered General
1-eea splendid estate in West Rgpng, at
York shire, with a handsome rental, equal
to $25,000 a year, for life, if he would ac
eepl it and live upon it. Karl Spencer,
now Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, made the
tender. General Lee, with a charming
dignity that these gentlemen say was be
yond anything they had imagined, declin
ed the offer.
In the Base Ball Arena.
Washington, July 14.—Games of base
ball were played to-day as follows:
At St. Louis—St. Louis S; Columbus 7.
At New York—Atlantas 7; Keystoness.
At Butlalo—New Yorks 11: Buffalos S.
At Chicago—Providences 3; Chicagos 4.
At Detroit— Detroits 5; Bostons 2.
At Cleveland—Clevelands 9; l’hiladel
phias 2.
At Cincinnati—Cincinnatis 9; Eclipses
3.
At Pittsburg— Atlantics 3; Alleghenys
At Baltimore— Baltimores 3; Metropoli
tans 2.
At Reading—Actives, 10: Brooklyns, 5.
Prussia’s Strategic Railways.
_ Berlin, July 14—Gen. Brousart Von
Sehellendorff, Minister of War, has been
inspecting the fortresses on the Eastern
frontier, aud has drawn up a report ad
vocating the extension of strategic rail
ways hi Kast Prussia on a largo scalo.
England and the Vatican.
Romk, Julv 14.—Cardinal Howard has
left here for England. It is said that his
mission is to ascertain the tendency of
the views ol the English Government in
regard to founding diplomatic relations lie
tween England and the Vatican.
Strength to vigorously push a business,
strength to study for a profession, strength
to regulate a household, strength to do a
day’s labor withjut physical pain. Do
you desire strength? If you are broken
down, have no energy, feel as it life was
hardly worth living, you ean be relieved
and restored to robust health and strength
by taking Brown's Iron Bitters, a sure
cure for dyspepsia, malaria, weakness
and all diseases requiring a true, reliable,
non-alcoholic tonic. It acts on the blood,
nerves and muscles and regulates every
part of the system.
DEATH DEALING DISEASES
BOYS IN AN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
MOWED DOWN BY MEASLES.
Over Crowding and Bad Sanitary Ar
rangements the Cause—Ten Dead Al
ready. and the Sick list Still Full—The
Pestilences on the Nile and in the
Gulf.
Baltimore, July 15.—A malignant
type of measles has appeared in St. Mary's
Industrial School for Boys, a reformation
institute, a short distance from this city,
under the charge of the Ilaverian brothers.
Up to last night there had been ten deaths
since Wednesday and there are a number
sick. The form of the disease is gener
ally known as camp measles, and in this
instance it is said by physicians to be due
to overcrowding and imperfect sanitary
regulations. There are now about 420
boys in the institution, while its capacity
is said to be only 250, with the building
badly ventilated. There were no fatal
cases to-day.
YELLOW FEVER ON THE WANE.
No Cases in New Orleans and No New
Ones in Texas or Mexico.
New Orleans, July 14. —In reply to an
inquiry, the President of the Board of
Health to-day stated that there has not
been a single case of yellow fever iu this
city during the present season. The
Board of Health and the Marine Hospital
service are in perfect accord. He further
stated that if any case of fever occurs,
it will be promptly reported.
Washington, July 14.—The Surgeon
General of the Marine Hospital Service
has lieen informed that the bark Salome
sailed from Galveston, Tex., yesterday
for Hampton Roads with all" well on
hoard. This vessel had been infected
with yellow lever. Information was also
received that no cases of fever have ap
peared in Brownsville, Texas, or Mata
mora, Mexico, since the last report.
Havana, July 14.— The number ot
deaths in this city during the past week
from yellow fever was 55.
Cholera in Egypt.
London, July 15.—0n Saturday there
were 43 deaths from cholera at Damietta,
51 at Mansourah, 7 at Shirbiu, 20 at Men
zaleh, 3at Talka, 13 at Chobar and 10 at
Samanoud.
Cholera has appeared at Ghizeh, a su
burb of Cairo, where there have been 5
deaths from the disease. A cordon has
been established around the town,
NO NEWS FROM TAM AT A VE. *
A Man-Of-War's Captain Acting as Con
sul at the Time of the Outrage.
London, July 15. —Captain Hay, of the
Taymouth Castle, on arriving at Natal,
reported nothing relative to the alleged
insult to the late British Consul at Taiua
tave.
The Captain of the British man-of-war
Dryad was acting as Consul. Captain
Hay was allowed to see the Captain of
the Dryad once. The French wished to
have all consular dispatches sent aboard
Admiral Pierre’s ship, but the English
objected, and Captain Hay received them
directly from the Dryad. The latter ves
sel escorted the Taymouth Castle out of
the harbor ot Tamatave.
D.Currie & Co.’s steamer Taymouth Cas
tle was boarded at Tamatave on J une 26 bv
French officers, who stated that the
French had taken Tamatave. The pas
sengers were forbidden to go ashore, and
the cargo was allowed to be landed onlv
on the payment of duty. A sentry was
placed ou board the steamer. The cargo
aud passengers were then taken to Mau
ritius.
DEATH IN A CONFLAGRATION.
Liglit Corpses Found anil Twenty Per
sons Missing iu Hungary.
London, July 14. —Nearly’ one-quarter
of the town of Bostov, Russia, burned, de
spite the exertions of the poruilaeo, tho
fire brigade and troops. Several firemen
were injured.
Belleville, Nev„ July 14.—Fire this
morning destroyed half the business part
of the town. The losses are #55,000 and
the insurance $30,000.
Pksth, July 15. —A large fire occurred
at Liptosgentmiklo to-day, in which a
number ol persons lost their lives. Eight
corpses have been extricated from the
ruins. Twenty persons, including the
Prefect of Police, are missing. Many
people have lieen made homeless.
.Marriage Licenses Unobtainable.
Halifax, July 15.—Through an over
sight of the Dominion Government, Mr.
Rickey, when sworn in as Lieutenant
Governor of Nova Scotia, was not clothed
with the authority to sign marriage licen
ses. Consequently since July 4. when
Mr. Archibald ceased to hold office, no
licenses have been issued from all parts
of the Province. The local government
are receiving urgent requests for the ne
cessary documents,which they are unable
to comply with, as no legal marriages
can take place in this Province, except
through the unfashionable way of pub
lishing the banns.
A Riot in France.
Ronboix, France, July 15.—A large
crowd assembled here to-day to protest
against the recent action of the Chamber
of Deputies in rejecting the motion to
grant amnesty to the Paris and Montceau
Les Mines rioters, including Louise Mi
chel. The crowd had previously attempted
to invade the town hall. The police com
mander was struck on the head and now
lies in a precarious condition. The mob
was then charged by mounted gendarmerie
and six men were arrested, upon whom
bludgeons and several revolvers were
found.
The Trickery of Politics.
Duluth, Minn., July 15. United
States Marshal Brackett, of St. Paul, yes
terday arrested R. C. Mitchell, proprietor
of the Daily Tribune , and lately appointed
Receiver of the United States Land Office,
for frauds in connection with pre-emptions
said to have been perpetrated a year ago,
in collusion with li. L. Gordon, of Min
neapolis, formerly Register ot the Land
office at St. Cloud. The arrest is gener
ally looked upon here as a move by the
opponents of Mr. Mitchell to prevent him
from receiving his commission.
Provincial of the Oblate Fathers.
Lowell, Mass., July 15. —Rev. James
McGrath, head pastor of the church of
the Immaculate Conception in this citv,
recently returned from Rome, and it "is
now made known that he was there ap
pointed and will soon be proclaimed Pro
vincial of the Oblate Fathers for the Uni
ted States. Father McGrath is a native
of Ireland, and served in Canada and
New Mexico before coming here. He will
keep his residence in Lowell.
Weather Indications.
Office Chief Signal observer,
Washington, D.C., July 15.—Indications
for Monday:
In the South Atlantic States, rising ba
rometer, stationary or lower temperature,
winds mostly southwesterly, partly
cloudy weather and local rains in north
ern portion.
Murder Among Old Citizens.
Galveston, July.is.—A Brownsboro
dispatch says that in an altercation be
tween J. F. II niton and Mr. Van Alstyne,
both old citizens, the latter was shot and
instantly killed. During the melee Mrs.
Van Alstvne. who was present, had her
arm broken and three of her fingers shot
off.
Kicciotti Garibaldi linns Behind.
Rome, July 15.—1n an election held
here to-day for a memlier of the Chamber
of Deputies, Signor Orsini, promoter of
the Rome exhibition, received 2,671 votes,
and Rieciotti Garibaldi 1,388. A second
ballot is necessary.
A Search for Transports.
London, July 15.—A dispatch to Reu
ter's Telegram Company from Simla
says that the military authorities there
have been instructed to make inquiries in
regard to the shipping available for the
transportation service.
Tom Thumb Dead.
Middleboko, Mass., July 15.—Charles
Ileywood Stratton, better known to the
public as General Tom Thumb, died at his
residence here, at 8:30 o’clock this morn
ing, of apoplexy.
Spanish Army Othcers Arrested.
Madrid, July 15. —Several officers in
the northern part of Spain have been sud
denly arrested. It is believed that they
are charged with conspiracy.
The Knights Templar Set Sail.
New Aork, July 14.—Apollo Command
ery. No. 1, Knights Templar, of Chicago,
embarked on the City ot Rome for Europe
to-day.
Inexpensive and effective is the great
substitute for sulphur baths, Gleun’s Sul
pbursoap.
SAVANNAH. MONDAY, JULY 16, 1883.
DOWN WITH THE BASTILE.
Frenchmen Again RrjoireOver the Blow
for Liberation in 1789
Paris, July 14. —Extensive prepara
tions were made lor the celebration to
day of the national fete day, but a heavy
gale prevailed last night wliich, to a great*
extent, destroyed t he decorations through
out the city. The unveiling in the place
Chateau de Eau of the great statue of the
Republic, which was one of the chief
teatures of the day's festivities, took
place this morning with appropriate cere
monies in the presence of Senators and
members of the Chamber of Deputies, the
Municipal Councillors and a vast con
course of people. The weather during
the ceremony was cloudy.
The Prefect of the Seine in his address,
pointing to the statue, in the right
hand of which is an olive
branch as an emblem of jieaee, said:
“The ‘Republic’ holds in her hand an
olive hraneh, showing that the period ot
violence is passed and that universal
suflrage has replaced revolution.”
France, he said, is unwilling to impose
her own will upon other nations, but
wishes to live at home free and respected.
The President of the municipality also
spoke. He said that he should have been
happy had an act of clemency marked
tiie ceremony. This remark referred to
tiie refusal of the government to grant
amnesty to the Anarchists.
There was a grand review of troops
this afternoon by President Grew and the
Ministers. On the arrival of the Presi
dent and his Cabinet at the reviewing
ground they were greeted with shouts ot
“Vive la Republique!”
New Orleans, July 14.— The French
population of this citv to-dav celebrated
the anniversary of the fall of'the Bastile,
the French national holiday, by the tiring
of salutes, a display of flags throughout
the city, the erection of a triumphal arch
on Canal street, which was richly em
bellished and decorated and by a grand
festival at the West End for the benefit ot
the Charity Hospital. There were also
tournaments, music, balls and fireworks.
Many places of business were closed this
afternoon in honor of the occasion.
New York, July 14.— The French na
tional festival, commemorating the cap
ture and destruction of the Bastile, was
celebrated to-day by the French resi
dents of this city. Delegates represent
ing all the French associations met early
this morning and with the Guards La
fayette marched, under command of M.
Bergeret, formerly General of the
Commune at Paris, to the office
of M. Albert Lelatvre, the French
Consul General. They were accompa
nied by a band, and carried with them
French and American flags. There felici
tous speeches were made and M. Lafaivre
expressed his gratification at seeing the
union of the French and American" na
tional banners, adding that the name of
Lafayette would always he a pledge to
close friendship between the two nations.
An informal reception was then held and
the societies went to an uptown park,
where the day was celebrated with
games, dancing and an address by the
Consul General of France.
Mexico, July 14.—The storming of the
Bastile was celebrated by the French
colony here to-day with much enthusi
asm. Two banquets and a hall were given
by the French. Houses were decorated,
and the principal streets of the citv were
gay with hunting.
Lima, July 14. — There were great fes
tivities among the French residents here
to-day ou the anniversary of the taking ot
the Bastile.
A FAREWELL TO SCHOOL DAYS.
The Senior Class at Athens Meet on the
Campus for the Last Time.
Athens, Ga., July 14. —The members
of the senior class of the State Univer
sity held their class day exercises this
afternoon. By five o’clock the members of
the class had gathered under a great oak
which grows upon the campus in front
of the college chapel. Its limbs and
branches seemed to stretch forth in a
porting salutation, as it must have done
to the graduating classes for many years
gone by. The college boys no doubt felt
as though they were leaving true friends,
for often bad they sat and enjoyed its
grateful shade as they did this
afternoon. The friends of the class and
many visitors were seated on chairs anil
benches facing the class. The programme
was opened by music, after which L. M.
Farmer, President of the class, intro
duced the orator, J. P. Brook, of Wood
stock, Ga. His speech was a polished
piece of rhetoric. He mentioned
how many eminent men had
sprung from humble parentage. He then
drew a striking picture of a noble man,
in which truth, honor and sincerity were
the most predominant characteristics. He
said that the earth was the ocean of life,
and fame but a pebble upon the shore. He
then entreated his classmates to lie hon
orable men, so that when they died it could
he said that the earth had lost and
Heaven gained a man.
The historian of the class, J. W. Ben
nett, of (juitman, Ga., was next intro
duced by the President. He mentioned
each member of the class and gave a short
sketch of their course, telling the time of
entrance, the relation each one was
held in by his mates, etc.
The poet, J. 8. Lolton, of Lexington,
Ga., was next introduced, and delivered
an original and very creditable produc
tion.
The prophet was G. F. Hunnicutt. of
Turin, Ga. This gentleman gave his
opinion of the future career of each mem
ber of the class. Alter placing the settee,
smoking the pipe and singing asong, they
were dismissed with a benediction pro
nounced by W. W. Coile, one of the mem
bers of the class who had been elected
Chaplain. The trustees are holding daily
meetings and a full list are in attendance.
THE NIAGARA AT HAVANA.
The Steamer Found to be Not Badly
Damaged hy the Accident.
Havana, July 14.—N0 assistance has
yet been sent from this city to the
partially burned and stranded steamer
Niagara. The only vessel in port having
on board the pumps and machinery neces
sary for helping her is not in a condition
to leave. It is expected, however, that
she can be made ready to proceed to the
reliet of the Niagara to-morrow. Purser
Bernis, of the steamer Newport, who was
formerly a sea Captain, will proceed to
Qie Niagara with a relief party.
The purser of the Niagara will
take the place of Mr. Bemis on
the Newport. A further investigation
shows that among the Treasury bonds
deposited in the treasury at intervals bv
the Spanish bank are $64,000 in counter
feits. At the Matanzas branch of the
Treasury a large amount of counterfeit
bonds have been discovered, while there
is a probability that four books with
bonds representing $500,000 have disap
peaaetl front the Treasury.
Havana, July 15.—The steamer Niag
gara, which took fire and was run ashore
off Indian Key last Thursday, has been
raised and arrived here at six'o’clock this
morning. No very serious damage was
done to the vessel.
APACHES ON THE AVAR PATH.
Crook’s Straggling Foes Up to their Old
Tricks.
Toombstoxk, Arizona, July 14.—Re
ports from Sonora. Mexico, are to the effect
that Apaches are raiding the districts of
Montezuma and Zan l’asepa, committing
murders and stealing cattle. A special
from Aposura states that a band of 20 sav
ages attacked hacienda Pasepa six miles
south of Aposura. and killed three men.
Colonel Bandola started in pursuit of the
Indians with thirty Mexican troops. He
found the bodies'of three men. It is
positively known that twelve men have
been murdered by the Apaches in the
neighborhood of Aposura since General
Crook took their (amilies from the Sierra
Madres.
General Fritcher Acquitted.
Bath, N. Y.. July 14.—The Board of
Trustees of the Soldiers Home here met
in executive session this morning, when
resolutions were adopted fully exonerat
ing General Pritcher. the Superintendent,
and commending his course, and dis
charging Rev. John Coman, James Turner
and Felix Dully Iront the Home. The
resolutions also exonerated Trustee Jona
than Robie and Quartermaster Learens
from the charges preferred.
A Remarkable Tribute.
Sidney Ourehundro, of Pittsburg, Pa.,
writes: “I have used Dr. Wm. Hall’s Bal
sam for the Lungs many years, with the
most gratifying results. The relieving
influence of Hall's Balsam is wonderful.
The pain and rack of the body, incidental
to a tight cough, soon disappear by the
use ot a spoonful according to directions.
My wife frequently sends for Hall's Bal
sam instead of a physician, and health is
speedily restored by its use.”
STEPHENS’FOND MEMORY.
THE LEGISLATURE PAYS ITS
TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD.
His Grand Traits Told In Ealogistic
Speeches by the Georgia Ciceros—A
Befitting Memorial Adopted—Many
Senators Away—The Solicitorship Ap
pointment in Statu Quo.
Atlanta, July 14.— 1n the House to
day the roll call was dispensed with, as
barely a quorim was present. Hon. N. E.
Harris, of Bibb, Chairman of the House
Joint Committee, presented the memorial
on the death of the late Governor Stephens,
accompanying it with one of the mo9t
chaste, elaborate and scholarly addresses
of the kind ever delivered before a Geor
gia Legislature.
It was delivered with rare dignity and
much tenderness, and the closing flight of
eloquence heartily applauded. Mr. Harris
was assisted during his first year at the
University by a loan from Mr. Stephens.
Mr. Brooks, of Floyd, Mr. Jones, of De-
Kalb, and Mr. Watson, of McDuffie, fol
lowed with brief addresses of much merit.
Mr. MeCurry, of Hart, made a lengthy
address, reviewing the life and services
of the deceased.
At this point in the proceedings the fol
lowing memorial v.-s introduced:
The committee appointed to prepare a
memorial of the late Governor of Georgia
beg leave to make the following report:
The Great Reaper has been in our midst.
His resistless onslaught respects neither
age nor sex, good nor had, rich nor poor,
high nor low. No hovel or palace, place,
position or power are beyond the reach of
his remorseless grasp. He has just cut
down our matchless genius, Benjamin H.
Hill, and now he has laid his icy hand
upon one whose head Georgia had just
placed her highest civic crown. Alexan
der Hamilton Stephens, our great Gov
ernor, will come and go out before us no
more forever, llis earthly pilgrimage is
ended, and he has gone to join
“The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm, where each shall
take
His chamber in the silent halls of death.”
In preparing a tribute to his memory
we are at a loss where to begin ot where
to end. His career was so remarkable,
Ins public services so great and numer
ous, his mental and moral characteristics
so wonderful and many-sided, that we can
only refer to them; hut his life was such
au open book that only this is necessary:
Born, reared and educated on the soil of
Georgia, he entered public life in 1836, as
a member of the Legislature, and from
that time to the end of his life, a period of
nearly half a century, he was, almost
without interruption, in the service of the
State and country. Whether as a member
of the Legislature, a member of Congress
of the United States or of the Confederate
States, a member of numerous conven
tions, or in the exalted position ot Vice
President ol the Southern Confederacy, he
displayed abilities which place him in the
front rank of statesmanship, anil made
him the acknowledged peer of any of that
splendid galaxy of great Southern states
men, whose towering intellects and match
less powers controlled the political affairs
of the Union, in the golden time before the
war.
The distinguishing characteristics of
Mr. Stephens, as a statesman, were, his
love of liberty and hatred of oppression..
While he had the most tender compassion
for the infirmities of our common Im
munity, he loved justice ardently and
hated iniquity, opposed wrong anil de
nounced the oppressor with honest indig
nation.
Mr. Stephens possessed more versatility
of talent than any statesman of our dav.
Few men achieve success in more than
one line of intellectual pursuits; hut he
was an exception to the general rule. He
was not only a great lawyer, orator and
statesman, hut reached a very high emi
nence as a writer and historian. His
mind was wonderfully disciplined and
equipped for mental work. The integrity
of Mr. Stephens was incorruptible anil
unapproachable. Passing, during his
long public career, through many periods
of corruption in high places, his record is
without a stain.
It has been said of William Pitt, the
younger, one of the “great commoners”
of England, that the best eulogy that
could be pronounced upon him was that
he lived and died a poor man. We are
proud to be able to say the same of our
“great commoner.” Like Pitt, too, Mr.
Stephens never married. His country was
wife and children to him, and with a more
than Oriental devotion he loved her, and
worshiped at her shrine
But after all, the peculiar feature of Mr.
Stephens’ character, and that which will
endear him to his people forever, was his
boundless benevolence and charity.
When we consider that his mortal frame
was so invested, worn and withered by
disease, that for about half his life he
lived an almost living death, it would he
incredible that he should have done so
much to aid others, were there not
thousands who can testify to his good
deeds. His ear was ever "open to hear,
and his heart to respond to the wail of
widowhood and the bitter tears of or
phanage. Ilis very heart-strings seemed
to have lieen hound around every species
of suffering humanity.
Especially was he generous to young
men struggling with poverty and thirst
ing for an education. He seemed to have
had before him all the time the example
of the grand central figure, and exemplar
ol all time, the Divine Nazarene, who
“went about doing good.” But the end
has come. He has gone, as we believe, to
a country where his spirit, treed from this
“muddy visture of decay,” can, amid the
unimaginable splendor of an eternal light,
reap the rewards of his good deeds for
ever.
Ours is the precious legacy of so good
and so great a man, who gave his life and
his life's work, and his latest prayer, for
us and our children. Patriot, philan
thropist, benefactor, statesman, historian,
orator, fare thee well! Georgia, thy good
old mother, who gave thee birth, mourn
fully receives thv dust back again into
her bosom. She will guard well the sacred
spot where all that is mortal of thee re
poses, for no son of hers ever shed more
lustre on his name.
1. Resolved, That in the death of Alex
der Hamilton Stephens, the late Governor
of this State, we recognize the loss of one
of the truest, wisest and best of the sons
of Georgia, whose genius has added un
dying glory to her name, and for whom
our people cherish an unbounded love and
admiration.
2. Resolved , That in his death the whole
country has lost one of its most useful,
brilliant and greatest statesmen, anil hu
manity an example of benevolence and
charity worthy of all imitation: whose
fame will go down to posterity with ever
increasing lustre as the ages pass away.
3. Resolved, That the indomitable will
and perseverance of this great and good
man in conquering adverse fortune over
every obstacle of poverty and ill-health,
and devoting his life, with its brilliant
success, to the good of others and the wel
fare of his country, stands out as one of
the rare instances of the kind in history,
and should be treasured as an example
and held up for imitation by all the sons
and daughters of the country for all future
time.
4. Resolved , That a page of the journal
of this House be set apart and dedicated
to the memory of the deceased, and as a
further testimonial of respect that the
House do now adjourn till Monday morn
ing at 10 o’clock.
Ou motion of Mr. Pringle, of Washing
ton, the resolutions were adopted by a
rising vote, and at 11 o’clock the House
adjourned.
IN THE SENATE.
Up to the time the Senate adjourned
there wore not a hundred spectators in
Representative hall, and not much over a
hundred Representatives. After the Sen
ate spectators came in there was a
more respectable showing, yet it was
clearly evident that but" little in
terest was taken in the exercises
byjthe State officials or the public at large.
Senator Hoyt, Chairman of the Joint
Committee, presented the memorial pre
faced with an address upon the life and
services of the deceased.
Senator 1,. M. Lamar made a most
touchingjand beautiful address, which was
listened to with deep interest. It
was a heartfelt tribute tenderly
paid. Senator Jones spoke of the de
ceased in general terms, and his eulogy
was worthy the distinguished dead anil
the Senate before whicn it was delivered.
The resolutions were adopted, and at 10
o’clock the Senate adjourned.
NOTES ABOUT THE CAPITAL.
Gov. McDaniel will send in anew nom
ination for Solicitor as soon as the absent
Senators return. Five have gone to the
commencement at Athens until
Thursday. The Governor may go on
Monday, and it is not thought that the
nomination can go in before Thursday.
Senator Meldrim is on the visiting com
mittee to the University and not the agri
cultural investigating committee.
It is not true that Gov. McDaniel was
opposed to Judge Clark, but when the
Judge failed to receive the support of the
Senator and three Representatives of Ful
ton county, he lost all chance of being
nominated, although he had warm friends
in the Senate, who might have defeated
Dorset s confirmation had thev so
chosen. But this would not
have won the support neces
sary to have secured Judge Clark’s
nomination.
Ihe Gate City Guards, with thirty in
the rauks, were escorted to the cars this
atternoon by a detachment of the Gover
nor’s Horse Guard, and left for a week’s
sport at -Morehead Citv, N. C., accom
panied by a party of friends.
Colonel Thorn ton has added Governor
James M. Smith to his counsel, anil a
lively time may be expected on Tuesday.
Justice Butt will sit with Justice Pitch
lord.
GLADSTONE’S BAD BARGAIN.
The House of Commons Almost Sure to
Vote Against the Canal Project.
London, July 14.— The Standard says
that the govermnent are sounding 31. i)e
Lesseps as to whether any modification
of the agreement in regard to the Suez
canal is possible. It is not believed, says
the Standard, that M. De Lesseps will
agree to its being materially modified.
The son of De Lesseps was hastily sum
moned to Paris yesterday. He will re
turn to London in a few days. It seems
certain that the House of Commons will
reject the scheme. At least thirty Liber
als will oppose it, and several others will
abstain from voting on it. The Irish
members will join the Conservatives in
opiiosition to it.
At a meeting of the shipowners held at
Newcastle to-day resolutions condemning
the government’s agreement with 31.
de Lesseps were passed.
31. Fontaine, Secretary of the Suez
Canal Company, in an interview, con
firmed the remarks made by 31. De
Lesseps that he (31. De Lesseps) was in
different as to whether England accepted
the agreement relative to the second Suez
canal. He declares that the speculators
were opposed to the agreement, and were
interested in their own schemes. He said
that no English canal was possible,
because 31. De Lesseps had obtained
a complete concession, to interfere with
with which would he robbery. 31. De
Lesseps, he said, was determined to carry
out his programme with or without Eng
land’s help. If such help was refused
British ship owners would suffer, for the
tolls would be higher. At a meeting of
merchants and ship owners at Birming
ham to-day resolutions were passed con
demning the agreement •between the gov
ernment and 31. De Lesseps.
STOCKS IN ENGLAND.
The Canal Muildle Affects the Value of
Home Securities.
London, July 14.— The Economist this
week says that the rate of discount for
bank bills from 60 days to three months is
o% per cent, and for trade hills from 60
days to three months o]4 to 4 per cent.
Business has been restricted, owing to the
fortnightly settlement. Home government
securities have fallen, largely owing to
the belief that the government’s agree
ment with 31. De Lesseps will increase
the national debt. Egyptian securities are
higher. There has been little business in
American securities. Denver and Rio
Grande, and Louisville and Nashville are
1 )4, Central Pacific 1, and the others
% lower.
THE UNEASY TELEGRAPHISTS.
No Strike Yet Inaugurated, and no De
inands Marie on tiie Company.
New York, July 14.—The officers of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
say that they know nothing about the
impending strike mentioned in the news
papers, and that they have received no
demand from the operators for an increase
of pay or a decrease of their working
hours. It is understood that the opera
tors have not been conciliated by the new
schedule issued by the company Thurs
day night. A meeting of operators was
held that lasted until daylight, and
another meeting was held last night. It
is believed that forty-eight hours notice
will be given the company before a strike
is resorted to.
Philadelphia, July 15.—About four
hundred telegraph operators met here last
night to discuss the condition of trade.
Persons were present from New York,
Brooklyn, Pittsburg, Chicago, Baltimore
and Washington. Considerable dissatis
faction was expressed with the recent
rules adopted by the Western Union Com
pany with reference to night operators.
A dispatch was received from New York
which stated that during the day several
lady operators in the main office had had
their salaries advanced sls per month by
the Western U uion Company. The meet
ing was an enthusiastic one, hut the de
liberations having been secret, it could
not be ascertained what action, if any,
was taken in relation to the formal pre
sentation of the grievances of the men to
the officers of the company.
A THIEF KILLED AT ATHENS
An Eff'ort to Escape from Chief Cran
Oliver Which Cost a Life.
Athens, Ga., July 14.— Chief of Police
Cran Oliver arrested a negro named
3lathews, who was suspected of stealing
cattle. On the way to the guard house
Mathews escaped from the custody of the
chief and attempted to escape, but was
closely pursued until he reached a corn
patch, in which he managed for a time to
hide. Being finally discovered by the
police, he was ordered to surrender, hut
answered hv firing several large stones
at the head ol his pursuers, one ot which
narrowly missed its object. Chief Oliver
drew liis pistol and told Mathews that
he would shoot him if he did not give up.
Mathews further resisted, aud Oliver
fired. The bullet passed through
3lathews’ left lung. 3lathews ran about
one hundred yards, and was stopped by a
second bullet from Oliver’s pistol, 31a
tliews is not expected to live.
POLK’S LEDGER STOLEN.
A Significant Theft Which will Have
Hilt Slight Effect, However.
Nashville, July 14.—A great sensa
tion was caused here yesterday by the
discovery that Thursday night someone
stole from the State Treasurer’s office a
bank, ledger containing accounts with
depositors, from May, 1877, to January,
1883. The hook was kept for 31. T. Polk,
now on trial here, by Captain J. C. Flem
ing, and contains entries relied on hv the
prosecution to convict Polk. Its disap
pearance is greatly commented on. A
reward of $250 is offered for the return ol
the book or the detection of the person
who stole it. No doubt is entertained that
the facts necessary for conviction can be
secured without the book.
ST. LOUIS MAYOR IN TROUBLE.
The Preliminary Step Taken in Im
peachment Proceed lugs.
St. Louis, July 14.—The upper house
of the Municipal Assembly ha's adopted
resolutions declaring that the Mayor of
this city, Wm. L. Ewing, has neglected
his duty and violated his oath of office, in
not making his appointments at the com
mencement of the third year of his term
as provided by the city charter, and that
he will be heard in the matter by the
Council at a session on the night of'.July
26. This is regarded as a preliminarv
step in the proceedings to impeach the
Mayor.
COWHIDEI) BY' A WOMAN.
The Witch of Wall Street Gains New
Notoriety in Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, July 14.—Mrs. Grace
Courtland, of Chicago, known in New
York as “the Witch of Wall street,” last
night cow hided Wm. C. Jones, of this city,
whom she accuses of having seduced her
daughter, Maggie Jones, who is 25 years
of age. He was struck across >he ‘face,
neck and shoulders, and severelv hurt.
The assault occurred at the corner of
YVisconsin street and Broadway, the most
public place in the city, Mrs. Courtland
w as accompanied by her daughter.
A Woman to Hang.
Richmond, Va., July 14.—Barbara
Miller, colored, on trial in the Henrico
County Court as an accessory in the mur
der of her husband, Daniel Miller, by
Charles Henri pee, her paramour, was to
day found guilty of murder in the
first degree as accessory before the facts.
Judge Newman, this evening sentenced
the convicted woman to be hanged on the
14th of September next.
Mr.S. Gordon, White Blurt', Ga., says:
“Brown’s Iron Bitters hassquite relieved
me of rheumatism, with which I long
suffered.”
RUIN BY WIND AND RAIN.
EIGHT STATES AND A TERRI
TORY DEVASTATED.
The Most Widespread Devastation, and
the Brunt of the Storm Borne in Mis
souri-Many Small Towns in Ruins—
The Death List Miraculously Low-
Crops Ruined.
St. Louis, July 14. —A heavy rain and
wind storm passed over this city last
night and did considerable damage on
land and river. -Maryville was visited by
a cyclone yesterday. Thirteen of the best
business houses were unroofed. The
court house and the jail were badly
damaged, and the City Hall and the Pres -
byterian Church are almost total wrecks,
the restoration of telegraphic communi
cation, which was badly broken last
night, reveals the fact that the storm,
part of which swept over this citv, was
general in character, and traversed not
only a large part of 3lissouri, but cover
ed various sections of Kansas, lowa and
Illinois. The velocity of the storm
in this city was 50 miles per
hour, and came apparent]'*
from nearly all directioas, hut mainly
from the North and Northwest. No seri"-
ous individual losses were sustained, hut
a great number of miuor ones are dis
closed in the way of damage to roofs, the
gable ends of houses, chimneys, shutters,
signs, fences, trees, shrubbery, etc., the
whole of which will aggregate many thou
sands of dollars. Some slight injuries to
persons are reported, but nobody wa sseri
ously hurt.
East St. Louis suffered in a similar
manner, and a train of 25 cars, moving on
the belt road on the river front, were
blown from the track and most oft hem
badly wrecked.
Near Browning a train was blown from
the track. Conductor Watson was badlv
hurt, a baggageman was slightlv wounded
and one passenger injured. In the
vicinity of Linens the storm did great
damage to crops, buildings and farm
jiroperty generally.
At Wellsville the school house was
nearly destroyed.
At Jefferson City the main-cell building
of the penitentiary was unroofed and one
or two other houses were damaged.
Dispatches from Maryville, Mo., say
that twenty business houses were un
roofed there and a number of small houses
and shops wrecked. The City Hall was
um-oofed and partly blown down, and tho
post office and two newspaper offices were
badly damaged. The large elevator of
Brinton & Welch suffered severely,
and the Kansas City Railroad
depot and the W abash freight house
were badly injured. Twenty thousand
dollars will not cover the damage to the
town. Burlington Junction is regarded
as almost completely wrecked, not a
dozen houses in the town escaping in
jury. One man was fatallv wounded.
Thirty cars were blown from "the track.
The little town of Sydnev is also re
ported as badly damaged.
At Malden, one church, a school house,
the Masonic Ilall and an unfinished hotel,
were demolished and several residences
seriously injured. The loss is over
SIO,OOO.
At Stanberry, one church was wrecked
and two others greatly damaged. The
tower of the Normal School was blown
down and several dwellings moved from
their foundations.
Wilcox, a small town seven miles from
Marysville had nearly all its houses in
jured. Several other hamlets and small
villages in Missouri were more or less
damaged. The storm was accompanied
by a heavy rainfall in most localities and
in some places large hail stones fell in
great quantities,doing very serious injury
to orchards, gardens and all growing
crops.
Trenton, 3r0., July 14.—A severe
storm passed over this town yesterday.
The Presbyterian church, the public
school and other buildings were badly
damaged. The destruction in this vicinity
is estimated at from $20,000 to $30,000.
Kansas City, July 15.—A special dis
patch from Benton, Mo., says that during
a storm Friday, a mill was blown into
Grand river and completely wrecked.
The loss was SB,OOO. The Presbyterian
Church was destroyed, causing a "loss of
$5,000. 3fany other buildings were badly
damaged.
A CIRCUS STRUCK IN KANSAS.
Great Consternation Caused. But Only
One Person Seriously Hurt.
Larnkd, Kansas, July 14.—The par
ticulars of the tornado ou Pawnee river
are arriving. Row’s and Butler’s mills
were blown away and Fitzgerald’s sheep
sheds are gone. Large stones killed
young calves and lambs. Corn is cut so
that it will not hide a jack rabbit. The
hill northwest of Brown Grove looks as
black as if it had lieen burned. Large
hailstones cut the grass as if it was
plowed, and the heavy rain following
washed it away. The extent of the dam
age is unknown.
A special lrom Atchison, Kansas, savs
that late information shows that Friday’s
gale extended throughout northern Kan
sas and the southern counties of Nebraska,
3lany forests and orchards suffered. In
Doniphan county several houses were
blown down.
At Pomeroy a saw mill was demolished.
The storm struck Whiting just as a
circus performance was about to com
mence and the canvas fell upon the au
dience, creating great consternation. No
one was seriously hurt exceptjone lady,
who was struck by the falling centre pole,
receiving injuries from which she may
die.
DOUBLE DANGER IN ILLINOIS.
The Rumbling of an Earthquake Added
to the Howling of the Winds.
Peoria, 111., July 14.—Belleville, 111.,
was'hadly shaken up by the storm, and a
number of houses were more or less in
jured, hut none seriously. At Alton three
churches lost part of their roofs and
walls. Several other buildings were
slightly injured, and the streets littered
with fallen trees.
At Sumner a large flouring mill was un
roofed and heavy damage was caused to
the machinery and stock from the deluge
of rain which rushed through the build
ing from top to bottom. Several other
buildings were more or less injured.
At Carmi several houses were slightlv
shattered, hut no serious damage was
done.
At Olney two churches were badly in
jured, a large number of trees were up
rooted and other damage was jlone.
Cairo. 111, July 14.—A slight shock of
earthquake was felt here this morning at
about 2 o’clock.
• DAKOTA IN THE BLOW.
A Pattering Shower and Kalinv Freeze
Turn Into Kain and a Hurricane.
Bismarck, Dak., July 14.—A1l day
yesterday the barometer continued to fall
until about six o’clock, when the heaviest
wind storm ever known in this region
began, and lasted about an hour and a
half. The wind at one time reached a
velocity of sixty miles an hour. Lumber
piles were blown down, and a few houses
in the course of the wind were demolished.
The wind storm was followed by a shower,
whieh swrelled into rain at a point within
twelve miles of Bismarck, and tending
Eastward.
A dispatch from Dickinson savs that
one or tw o fronts were blown in'by the
storm, and that the sh.ps being built at
that point by the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company are damaged slightly. A
prediction is made at the United States
Signal Office that the storm will be very
severe in the East.
MORE STORMS TO COME.
Spots on the Sun Interpreted by a Ro
chester Weather Sage.
Rochesteb, N. Y\, July 15.—The Demo
crat and Chronicle observer of the sun
says that to the five groups of sun spots
which have exhibited intense action dur
ing the past week two more have just been
added by the sun’s rotation. The sun
storm which is just coming into view
covers a great area, showing very rapid
changes. Violent thunder storms and
tornadoes may be expected this week in
the Northern States and Canada.
LIGHTNING STRIKES A HOTEL.
Three Section Hands Killed Out of a
House Full of Guests.
St. Paul, Minn., July 15.—A dispatch
from Cokato, Minn., says that at 2 o’clock
yesterday morning ligntning set fire to a
hotel there which was full of railroad
and traveling men, three of whom were
burned to death before they could escape.
Their names are James Wellingham,
Richard Kelly and a young man named
Shepherd. All were section men,
A large number of others received in
juries more or less severe. A traveling
man named Storm broke his leg by jump
lng from a window. The fire, spreading,
burned twenty-one buildings, or nearlv
the whole business part of the village.
The loss if stated at $60,000.
Nebraska White with Hail.
Omaha, Neb.. July 14.-Dispatclies
from Louisville, Cass county, report that
the most severe hail storm 'ever experi
enced in that locality occurred vesterdav
forenoou. The ground was white with
hail. Small grain was scattered, corn
stripped, and much of the glass in town
shattered.
Crops Ruined in Pennsylvania.
Reading, Pa., July 14. —Last night’s
storm was the heaviest known for years
in this section. Fences were levelled,
trees uprooted and stripped of their
fruit and many fields washed out. In the
lower part of the countv the storm was
accompanied by hail.
Cyclones in Pour Towns In lowa.
Council Bluffs. lowa, July 14.
McPaul, Plumb, Holden, Percival and
Hamburg, on the Kansas Central Road,
in Fremont county, was visited hv a
frightful cyclone yesterday.
A Cyclone in Indiana.
Elkhart, Ind., July 14.—A terrific cy
clone accompanied by hail visited this
section this afternoon, uprooting trees
and doing immense damage to crops.
Drowned In An English Culvert.
Barnsley, Eng., Julv 15.—During a
rainstorm here to-day, five children who
had taken refuge in a culvert were drown
ed by a sudden rush of waters. Their
corpses were "swept a distance of two
miles.
APPLYING THE NEW ACT.
Secretary Folger Tells How to Tax Un
en itinerated Articles.
Washington, July 14.—The Treasury
Department has issued a circular to the
customs officers which is regarded as im
portant in its explanations of the new
tariff act, where conflicting rates of duty
are found to he applicable to the same ar
ticles. Thejcircular, which has reference
particularly to duties on manufactures
of flax not enumerated in the new
tar ill act, is as iollows: "The
following provisions are found in schedule
J, of the tariff act of 3larch 3, 1883:
Brown and bleached linens, ducks, can
vas,' paddings, cottons, diapers, crash,
huckabacks,handkerchiefs, lawns,or other
manufactures of flax, jute or hemp, or of
which flax, jute or hemp shall he the
component material of chief value, not
specially enumerated or provided for in
this act, 35 percent, ad valorem; flax or
linen thread, twine and pack thread and
all manufactures of flax, or which flax
shall be the component material of chief
value, not specially enumerated and
provided for in this act, 40 per cent, ad
valorem. For manufacturers of fiax not
enumerated there would thus appear to
he two provisions, one fixing the rate at
35 per cent, and the other at 40 per cent,
ad valorem. The department holds that
the provision first cited was designed
more especially to embrace textile fabrics,
and that all textile fabrics named therein
and all others of the same general charac
ter are dutiable thereunder at 35 per cent.,
white manufactures not enumerated
in said act which assimilate to flax or
linen thread, twine and pack thread,
as well as those articles
themselves, are dutiable under
the provision last quoted at 40 per cent.
This is in accordance with the general
principles by which the tariff laws are
interpreted. Consistency must he given
to the various provisions of the tariff as
lar as practicable, anil the provision in
section 2499 of said tariff—if two or
more rates of duty should be applicable
to any imported article it should he
classified for duty under the highest of
such rates—is not to be applied where
in a case like the present consistent effect
can otherwise be given to each of the
two provisions which may appear to con
flict.”
Kellogg’s Case Again Postponed.
Washington, July 14.—The decision
of the pleas of abatement in the case of
ex-Senator Kellogg, indicted for receiving
money while Senator, for services in rela
tion to contracts with the United States,
was to-day postponed until Wednesday.
Eagles Stuffed with Fraud.
Washington, July 14.—Information
has been received at the Treasury De
partment that “filled” twenty dollar gold
pieces have appeared in Tennessee and
other parts of the South.
GUAYAQUIL’S SUBMISSION.
General Alfaro Issues a Conciliatory
Proclamation.
Panama, July 14.—A steamer which
has just arrived brings General Alfaro’s
proclamation. He says that he deeply
regrets the sacrifice of the lives of the
Ecuadorians, but he first attempted to
obtain a capitulation from the dictator’s
force without other conditions than sub
mission to the laws of humanity
and justice. He informs the inhab
itants of Guayaquil that they may elect
their own authorities, and the number
in the government of the interior or of
the coast, or form a separate government
if preferred. The three sectional govern
ments may unite in calling a national
convention of Ecuadorians. He says the
army which sustains the rights of the na
tion is victorious. Its valor has prevented
innumerable victims, yet those dead on
the field of triumph call loudly lor pa
triotism, liberty and peace.
Advices via Colombia state that the
resistance of Gen. Vientemilla was gen
erally feeble, although the main fort held
out vigorously. The townspeople re
ceived Gen. Alfaro’s troops with delirious
enthusiasm. The greatest order prevail
ed. Gen. Alfaro, while dismounting at
the Colombian consulate was fired
at by a colored man. The
bullet grazed hirn and struck
lii onlooker. The would-be assassin was
seized, ceurtmartialcd and shot. He had
been bribed to kill the victorious leader.
When General Vientemilla, in the steamer
Santa Lucia, was slowly steaming down
the river, the Liberators wanted to
charter or buy the steamer Casma from
the Pacific Navigation Company iu order
to start in pursuit, hut their negotiations
failed.
The steamer Comus has left for l’avta,
the French ship Kerguelen for Callao and
the Italian ship Victor Pisani will leave
to-day lor Callao. Everything is going
on smoothly and business is rapidly re
viving.
Valparaiso, July 14.—Congress is
still sitting in secret session on Peruvian
matters. The government have sent
Dionyso Dirteaneo, a Peruvian notable, to
Chili, where Garcia Calderon, the Peru
vian President, is now confined.
CHIRICAHUAS COMING IN.
Tlielr Action the Kegult of Crook’s Vic
tory at Washington.
Wilcox, A. TANARUS., July 14.—From Mr.
Linderman, who arrived from San Bar
nardino, it is learned that 75 or 80 hostile
Chiricahuas are at that place w aiting to
surrender. They are waiting for an escort
to the reservation. Captain Rafferty w ith
a troop of cavalry left Fort Bowie on
Thursday to bring them in. Mr. Linder
man says that the Indians are well sup
plied with arms, ammunition, horses,
mules and cattle. They are* well posted
in regard to the movements of the Ameri
can authorities, and would not consent to
surrender till General Crook was given
charge of the reservation affairs.
England's New Minister to Mexico.
City of Mexico, July 14.—Sir Spencer
St. John, the British Minister, arrived
here yesterday and was met at the station
by many prominent Englishmen. He w ill
present his credentials Tuesday.
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Old men tottering around from Rheuma
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will be almost new by using hop bitters.
My wife and daughter were made
healthy by the use of hop bitters, and I
recommend to my people.—Methodist
Clergyman.
Ask any good doctor if hop
Ritters are not the best family medicine
On earth.
Malarial fever, Ague and Biliousness
will leave every neighborhood a9 soon as
hop bitters arrive.
“My mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out of her system with hop
bitters.— Editor Oswego Sun.
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ters and you need not fear sickness.
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more refreshing and reviving with hop
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KEARNEY IN A BEE’S NEST
A LABOR UNION REFUSES TO
HEAR HIM SPEAK.
The Wrathy Sand Lot Orator Then
Hires a Hall and Bristles with Epi
thets—A Little Gratuitous Advice—A
Mass Meeting in Union Square Called
for Thursday Night.
Nkw \ ork, July 15.—The announce
ment that Dennis Kearney would be pres
ent this afternoon at a meeting of the Cen
tral Labor l nion, drew a larger number
than usual of delegates and outsiders to
Clarendon Hall. Before the meeting be
gan Kearney harangued the crowd from
the outer steps until the proprietor of the
hall ordered him to stop speaking. When
his name was announced within
and a motion was made to
grant him the floor, uproar and
confusion broke out. “What labororgani
zation does he represent?” “Where did
he get the money to come here?,” and
other interrogations of a like nature, were
called out froin the audience.
His friends yelled: “Who is the father
of the Chinese act?" At length the mo
tion was lost by a vote of as to
I'-, and Kearney strode out denouncing
the members of the Labor Union
who opposed him as blatherskites and
dirty loafers. Some of Kearnev’s admirers
hired another room in the same building
and there Kearney made a speech de
nouncing labor unions and announcing
himself and all workingmen as protec
tionists, advocating higher railroad
freight and passenger rhtes, claiming that
this would lead to higher wages, and
abusing corporations. He finally an
nounced that he will call an open air
meeting for Thursday night in Union
square.
MONMOUTH PARK AT ITS BEST.
A Crowded Grand Stand and East Fly
ers on a Gool Trauk.
Monmouth Park.N. J., July 14.—This
was a great day for the Monmouth Park
Association. The weather was delight
ful, the attendance large and the track
fast. Between the third and fourth races
the lamous horses Iroquois and Leonitius
were exhibited to the public from the
quarter stretch. The days events were
as follows:
First Hack—One and a quarter miles.
Kinglike won by a head, with Parole, the
favorite, second, and Fair Count third.
The time was 2:12. Mutuals paid fib 15.
Second Hack—For the Atlantic stakes,
for two-year-olds; three-quarters of a
mile. King Ernest, minority filly, after
wards named Norag, won by two lengths,
with Aquipoise second and Leo third. The
time was 1:16%. Mutuals paid $27 50.
Third Race—For the Raritan stakes:
one and a quarter miles. Euclid won by
a length, with Carnation second and
Renegade third. The time was 2:12.
Mutuals paid $159 75.
Fourth Race—Free handicap sweep
stakes; one mile. Duplex won handily by
four lengths, Brad was second and Sweet
Home third. The time was Mu
tuals paid S4O 45.
Fifth Race—Selling allowance; one
and one-eighth miles. Major Hughes fin
ished first, with Antrim second and Nim
rod third, but claimed a foul, which was
allowed against the first two named. The
race was given to Dank. His time was
I:SKJ4. Mutuals paid sllO 10.
Sixth Race—A handicap steeple
chase over full course. Ranger won by a
length, with Hilarity second. The time
was 6:20. Mutuals paid $7 50.
London, July 14.—At the third Dixey
July meeting at Kempton Park to-day
the race for the Kempton Park July han
dicap was won by the Duke of Westmin
ster’s four-year-old chestnut colt Whip
perin, with Mr. Cumberland’s three-year
old chestnut colt Chenchy (late Pastry
Cook) second and Col. Forester’s six
year-old brown horse Toastmaster third.
There were seventeen starters, including
J. It. Keene’s four-year-old bay colt
Golden Gate and Lord Rossmore’s (for
merly Lorillard’s) live-year-old bay geld
ing Passaic.
Avenging the Clingan Murder.
Des Moines, lowa, July 14.—News
has just been received that one of the
murderers of Polk City Ims been killed at
Elkborn Grove, Shelby county. The man
killed confessed that he killed Clingan,
and also Mayor Stubbs, a year ago.
The other murderer lias been captured,
and is in charge of Sheriff Littleton, of
Polk county.
Des Moines, l a., July 15.—1n the light
preceding the capture in Elkhorn Grove
Friday night, of Gates and Smith, the
murderers of R. L. Clingan, of Polk City,
J. W. Maddy, druggist and Justice of
the Peace of Marne, was dangerously
shot, and it is thought that he will die.
Benjamin Craig, a farmer, was also shot,
though not fatally. Intense excitement
prevails throughout western low a, and it
is shared in this city. W illis Halloch, who
w-as wounded Friday, died yesterday.
Polk’s Jury Secured.
Nashville, July 14.— The twelfth
juror in the Polk trial w-as secured this
morning, and the jury is now complete.
The attorneys for the defense moved to
quash the indictment, in which it was
held that the first, third, fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh counts
did not conform to the requirements of
the constitution, in that no siiecific facts
were given, hence there were no facts
before the grandjury on which to properly
base an indictment. .Judge Allen said
that he would take up the case again on
Monday.
Leo Supports His Note.
Rome, July 14. —An article written w-ith
the consent of the Pope, which has ap
pearedin Lc Rassegna, review s the Irish
quesCon with the object of showing that
the policy of the Y'atican lias lieen con
sistent throughout the present pontificate
and for a period long anterior thereto.
The article is an emphatic reassurance of
the principles contained in the recent
letter of the Pope to the Irish Bishops.
The Telegraphist Caught.
New Haven, Conn., July 14.—Tele
graph operator Welch, whose negligence
caused the recent collision on the New
York and New England Road at Plain
ville, by .which several persons were
killed, has lieen captured and put under
arrest at Southington, Conn. He has
lieen held in $2,500 bail for trial for crimi
nal carelessness.
Religion in the Schools.
Buenos Ayres, July 14.—The Cham
ber of National Deputies are having
stormy debates on the subject of religious
teaching in the public schools, w’hieb is
now the principal topic of discussion.
The liberals are in the majority. The
Catholics are seeking signatures to a pe
tition to be presented to Congress.
Feather Weights Fight Seven Rounds.
New Y'ork, July 14.—A prize fight oc
curred at Fort Hamilton this morning
between Harry Street, of New York, and
Morris Murphy, of England, two feather
weights. Seven bard rounds were fought,
when Street was declared the vietor. The
fight was with hard gloves for a purse of
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