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TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
A STRIKE TOJHf DEATH.
NO SIGN OF AN END TO THE
GREAT TELEGRAPH WAR.
Yesterday’. Changes Rather Favorable '
to the Operators—Non-Union Men Be
coming Disaffected—Knights of Labor
Offering Aid—Western Union Still Un
compromising.
New York, July 21.—The situation in
the Western Union office Is apparently
unchanged. Over 200 operators were at
work, and none of them seemed to be idle.
General Superintendent Merrihew said
that everything was encouraging, and In
only a few cases was any delay in busi
ness reported. It was stated positively
that there was not a single “dummy” in
the room. A lout 25 rough women were
there this morning, waiting to be tested,
and it was said that none were engaged ;
unless they were competent to do the i
work. Asa general rule,Mr.Merrihew said,
the new hands were much better operators
than the company had expected to be
able to obtain, and the ranks were filling
up rapidly. To-day some of the new
hands who are not required at the main
office are to be sent out of town to man
some of the offices left vacant by the
strike. Only one operator left yesterday,
Mr. Merrihew said, and three old hands '
returned. One female operator returned :
to-day, and none of those who were on
duty v -sterday had left.
The Western department of the Wes
tern Union Company reported to-day that j
the way and State lines were all working :
and no delay was reported.
Chief Baldwin reported all the race i
wires o. k. and no delay in receiving mat
ters.
Chief Gray Says “all the wires in the
South are in good shape, and there is no I
delay in business except in the case of L
New Orleans, where we are one hour be
hind.”
The Superintendent of the Wheatstone |
department says that there is delay there. ;
Chief Penn reports no delay on the Cin
cinnati. < levelaadand St. Louis circuit, 1
and reports business well up.
Chief Landy says that there is consider
able delay all over New Jersey on the
railway wires, but most of this was small
business.
One of the officers of the Western Union
Company said that the outlook was all
that they could desire, no matter what
statements were made to tiie contrary.
The feeling that the Western Union
Company cannot long hold out against
the strikers is very confident. To-day
forty-three new members were added into
the Brotherhood. At the Western
Union office it. is said that then 1 is still a
full force at work, and that messages are
sent to all points without delay.
Washington, July 21.—The Western !
Union Company had about a dozen men
on duty at their main office to-day, in
cluding chiefs. To-night their Manager
reports a force of sixteen men on hand, i
this includes chiefs, three of the day force !
and a few strangers. At the offices of the j
other companies, there is no change from
the situation of yesterday. A num
ber of telegraphers from neigh- ,
’coring cities in Virginia have eon- ’
gregated here, and these help to swell the
ranks of the local branch. The operators i
assert that cash contributions to the '
amount of several hundred dollars bail
been offered them each day since the
strike began, but all these offers have been
declined for the present. The strikers I
seem to be well informed of the expected !
arrival of men to take their places. These I
are met at the depots and only one or two |
of them have reached the company's of
fices.
Baltimore July 21.—Mr. Stewart,
Superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio
Company, states that they have eighteen
operators at their tables in the main office
in this city to-day, of whom six are ac
complished and efficient men ami all the ■
others can handle messages satisfactorily,
that the force in Chicago, Cincinnati aiid
New York lias been increased to-day at
each office, and that their business is
being handled efficiently. So far the men
who have gone out in this city have con
ducted themselves in a most orderly and I
quiet manner, and unquestionably have '
the sympathy of the public.
Memphis, July 21.—The situation here
is improved. Manager Howard now has
seven operators at work, five of whom
came from the interior of Tennessee and
Mississippi. They are not strictly first
class operators, but manage to handle the
business. Both newspapers were served
last night, and the volume of business is
increasing. The striking operators re
main firm and have initiated eleven new
members in the Brotherhood, some of
whom came here for. the purpose of going ■
io work, but were persuaded to join the
strikers.
Manager Howard left the operating :
room this morning for the first time since i
Thursday noon. He says that he is re
ceiving many applications from operators
in interior points asking for work.
Boston, July 21. —The situation in the
Western Union main office has materially
changed since last night. There were at
midnight but nine operators on duty and ■
considerable business on hand. The de- ;
section in the force is explained by the i
departure for home of a number of opera- |
tors who came here yesterday from Prov- j
idence and other neighboring cities. Al
together the condition of affairs is less
favorable to the company, but tiie officials
claim that tiie force will be augmented
to-morrow.
At Worcester the manager and one girl
were at work in the Western Union office
to-day, but to-night there is no business
done, the only operator on duty being one
employed by tin* Associated Press. Tiie
manager says that five applications have
been made for positions and three new
operators will go to work to-morrow.
Cleveland, July 21.—The Western
Union main otliee worked a full force of
men to-day and more men than usual to
night. All but two of the employes of
the other departments have been relieved
from duty at the keys. Operators of ex
perience who have lately been in other
business, and operators from country
towns, are tilling all the vacancies. Two
<>f the strikers at Akron, two at Ashta
bula and one here returned to work to- |
day. The tickers resumed quotations to
day, but brokers' private wires are not in '
use. All other business is handled as
heretofore, except money orders. All the
branch offices but one at the Union Depot
are dosed. The Mutual Union situation
is unchanged. None of its men struck
here. The American Rapid otliee is closed.
The strikers are orderly, quiet and confi
dent. They expect that the work of the
new men will be unsatisfactory to the
company and the public.
Petersburg, V a.. July 21.—since the
strike of the operators in the telegraph
offices along the line of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad have refused to do
any commercial work, the company
have confined themselves strictly to rail
road business. The telegraph lines along
this road are owned by the railroad com
pany, who employ the operators, and the
strike caused a misunderstanding. They
all went to work to-day.
Charleston, July 21.—The Western
Union Telegraph office here continues
badly crippled by the strike, the Manager
having tin' assistance of only one non
union operator sent here from Augusta,
who is much worn down with incessant i
day and night work. The three striking
operators say that they expect and are
prepared for a long struggle.
Providence, July 21.—Six of the ope
rators employed by the Western Union
Company struck to-day. leaving the force
at work insufficient to handle the busi
ness. Three operators, who compose
nearly the entire force of the American
Rapid, also struck.
Chicago, July 21.—The officials of the
Western Union Company in this city re
port a continued satisfactory rendition of
affairs. A good working force reported
for day duty, and all messages were
worked" off expeditiously. Col. dowry
reports an improved condition of affair
throughout the entire Western district.
Some difficulty was experienced through
out the Northwest circuit, growing out
of atmospheric interruptions.
Brooklyn, July 21.—The telegraphers'
strike in Brooklyn differs very little from
that in other cities. The Western Union
Company’s business is seriously inter
rupted, and the sympathy of the public is
with the operators. The’ linemen report
the wires in a terrible condition.
Cleveland, July 21.—The Western
Union force here was somewhat increased
to-day. Affairs in the other offices are
unchanged. The operators who came
here to-day to work for the Western Union
joined the Brotherhood. The strikers to
day express more confidence than ever
that the company will be forced to yield.
On the other hand t he local officials of the
company claim that they will be in as
good condition next week as before the
strike. Messages of sympathy and con
gratulations were received by the strik
ers to-day from all parts of the country.
Jersey City, July 21.—The linemen
lielonging to the Brotherhood of Tele- 1
graphers employed by the New York and
New Jersey Telephone Company have
joined the striker s, aud demand double I
Smntuw Morning Sckgram.
I pay for Sunday work and that eight hours
shall constitute a day's labor. The com
pany was putting up a new set of poles
and wires, but this work is now stopped.
I The company has, however, a sufficient
nuinlier of linemen, who are not members
i ofthe Brotherhood to keep the lines in
working order.
Louisville, July 21.—There has been
no improvement in the situation here.
The strikers are still tirin and are appa
rently gaining strength. They have been
offered financial assistance by local
unions of other trades.
Detroit, July 21.—The telegraphic
situation is improved to-day. Two addi
tional men were brought from offices in
tiie interior of the State. Other than this
there was no change.
MEETING OF THE OPERATORS.
The Men Arranging to Hohl Out and
Confident of Victory.
New York, July 21.—A meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Telegraphers’
| Brotherhood was held this morning.
Minor M. Davis was elected Chair
man and A. A. Orfuth Secretary. After
a canvass of the subject from all its
standpoints it was decided to prepare
some systematic and regular method of
| procedure, and to this end the following
committees were appointed:
. On Finance and Relief—A.. H. Seymour,
i late Manager of the Mutual Union; R. J.
Morrison, S. A. Coleman, Alfred Dillon
ahd William Taylor, of the Western Union
i Company.
On Intelligence— C. A. Simpson, Charles
M. Jansen, A. J. Voyer, also of the West
i ern Union Company.
On /.«(/■ and Order— Charles Matthias
! and Frank Reynolds, of the Western
I Union.
The Skirmishing Committee, asappoint
i ed, consists of E. T. Barberie and E. F.
Welch, of the Western Union Company,
1 ;md I’. J. Smith, of the tire alarm service.
After defining the duties of the several
, committees collectively and individually,
they repaired to the Caledonian Hall,
; where, at 11 o’clock, there were nearly
■ 1,200 strikers assembled.
The duty of the Finance and Relief
Committees will be to receive all sub
scriptions, investigate all applications
tor relief and audit the accounts of all
sub-committees.
The Committee on Intelligence will at
tend to the transmission and reception of
all telegraphic communications which
will continue in cypher.
The duty of tiie Skirmishing Commit
tee will consist of personally visiting the
operators now at work and trying to in
duce them to join tiie secret order of
the Brotherhood. No dishonorable means,
it is promised, will be en jdoyed to this
end.
The striking telegraph operators met
to-day. They numbered about 700, of
whom (io were ladies. The linemen who
had been brought into the city last night
by the Western Union Company from
Scranton, Pa., and the New Jersey dis
tricts, and had been captured by a’skir
mishing committee of the strikers, were
initiated. A petition was received from
tiie distributing clerks of the Western
Union Company asking to be received
into the ranks of the strikers. They will
be initiated to-day. They numbered about
40, 15 boys and the rest girls. They re
ceive from sls to S2O a month, and their
work requires more than ordinary skill
and knowledge.
It was said that letters had been re
ceived from many out of town operators
asking to be enrolled among the strikers.
It was also said that Rev. Mr. Ailsworth.
minister of the Methodist church at I’atn
rapo, N. J., who was once in the employ
of the company, had returned and was
now at a desk in the Western Union
office.
To-day the men formed in line and
paraded from their hall on the west side
to a new and larger hall on the east side
of the city. There a meeting was held at
which it was stated that encouraging
news had been received from all over the
country. It was said that 13 linemen and
50 operators had joined the ranks of the
strikers yesterday.
At a meeting of the telegraphers to-day
at Irving Hall telegrams from various
parts of the country from labor organiza
tions expressing sympathy with the
strikers and offering financial assistance
should it be desired were received and
read. Addresses were made by William
McCabe, of the Central Labor Union,
Chairman Healy and Secretary J. S. Mc-
Clelland, of the Executive Committee of
the Knights of Labor, beside other mem
bers of the Brotherhood who were pres
ent. The strikers will go on an excursion
to Long Branch to-morrow on the Ply
mouth Rock, and will hold a meeting on
their return to the city.
Washington, July 21.—The striking
telegraphers have their headquarters at
the National Hotel,where the landlord has
assigned to them a suit of rooms free of
charge as long as they have need of them.
At a public meeting of the Brotherhood
to-night a number of telegraphers who held
positions in the department united with
their striking brethren. One of these stated
that the services of himself and others
had been unsuccessfully sought by the
telegraph companies to work after the
departments close in the afternoon.
Quite a number of these ex-telegraphers
have been in the habit of increasing their
incomes by such “extra” labor in the city 1
telegraph offices, but an enthusiastic
member of the Brotherhood claims that
none of these department clerks will now
accept such employment.
The membership' of the local organiza
tion now numbers 89. an increase of 11
since yesterday.
Baltimore, July 21.—A public mass
meetingof the telegraph operators was
held to-night at Ford’s Grand Opera House,
which was largely attended. The meet
ing was called to order by 11. O. Steltz,
President of the Baltimore branch of the
Brotherhood, after which Edward Train
er, Secretary, stated the reasons which
had prompted the present strike, and
which none more deplored than the op- I
erators themselves. Since 1870 there had i
been a frequent sealing down in the pay of 1
operators until it could not be borne I
longer. He was glad that the spirit !
of the press and the sentiment of the peo- 1
pie had not attached much blame to the
operators. Misrepresentations had been
made that the Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany had made several efforts to recon
cile the differences, while it was a fact
that they refuse to recognize the
Executive Committee of the Brother
hood, which alone has the right
to confer with the companies.
That company states that they will treat
with their own employes onlv, but such a
course could only break the ranks ot the
Brotherhood, while every principle of
honor would be sacrificed by its employes.
The Western Union Company had per
sistently oppressed its operator's and neg
lected to give an ear to their grievances.
Speeches were made by F. T. Biirk. late
night manager of’ the Baltimore
and Ohio office. D. W. Nields, late assist
ant night manager of the Western Union
office, Wm. T. Crossdale, editor of the
JO'i. and Thos. M. Weeks, of the Knights
of Labor. Dispatches were received from
the Brotherhood in Richmond, Va.,
and Washington, stating that the opera
tors were standing firm. A communica
tion was received from the Nonpareil
Assembly of the Knights of Labor of this 1
city offering material aid. The meeting I
was enthusiastic.
Cleveland, July 21.—Ameetingof the
strikers this afternoon was addressed by
James Lawrence, the Democratic candi
date for Attorney General of Ohio, and
A. J. Williams.
Bl LLS \ND BEARS GRUMBLING.
Many Exchanges and Brokers Begin to
Show Vexation.
Ne« York. July 21. —All the exchanges
teel more or less the effect of the strike.
The most bitter complaint comes from the
Cotton Exchange, where, it was said, that
nineteen messages were behind, two since
the 19th instant. The officials here talk
of entering into a contract with the Bal
timore and Ohio Company, unless affairs
in the Western Union Company resume
their wonted course in a day or two. The
weekly reports of twenty-four towns,
which issued once a week, came out as
usual yesterday. Fifteen of the interior
ones had to be estimated, which caused
much bitter complaint.
At the Produce Exchange it was said
that but tew quotations were received.and
scarcely any to-day. It was thought here
that at least one hundred messages were
behind. •
The Postal Telegraph Company has run
a wire into the Produce Exchange, over
which most of their reports were received.
Some action may la* taken by the board
the first of next week unless the difficulty
is settled.
A member of the Stock Exchange said
that the loss and inconvenience to brokers
and members was much greater than they
would acknowledge. He thought that
the Exchange would quietly await re
sults. and take no action unless the Wes
tern Union Company did not do something
to end the strike.
Th* strike is not felt at the New York
Mining,Stock and National Petroleum Ex
-1 changes.as nearly all their quotations are
' received over private wires.
At the Maritime Exchange the Phila
delphia wire is working all right, but
nothing is coming from Baltimore or
Washington, and this is the cause of much
trouble in their commercial business. In
, all the Exchanges sympathy is expressed
j for the strikers, and hopes for their suc
-1 cess are heard on every side.
Chicago, July 21.—A new’ local diffl
. culty was occasioned this morning by the
failure of the employes of the Gold and
Stock Telegraph Company to report for
duty. This service is one of importance
to the commercial world in transmitting
market quotations. The entire office
force, including reporters on ’Change,
quitted their posts and no quotations
were sent in consequence. The company
is a branch of the Western Union, anil
the officials of the latter company report
that the difficulty will soon be overcome.
Memphis, July 21.—Only meagre mar
ket reports were received and this has
I caused considerable inconvenience to the
mercantile community. Many com
plaints are heard and threats of suits
against the Western Union Company are
! freely discussed, although no definite ac
tion has yet been taken.
. Louisville, July 21.—Business in all
speculative commodities is at a total stand
still here. Western Union is still re
ceiving business, but is handling it with
extreme difficulty.
PRINTERS TO THE RESCUE.
A Typographical Union Votes Money
and Sympathy for the Strikers.
Washington, July 21. —Columbia Ty
pographical Union No. 101 held a special
meeting to-nig and passed resolutions
1 of sympathy with the striking telegraph-
I ers and appropriated SIOO subject to their
I order. The following are the resolutions:
Whereas, The telegraphers ot the
United States and Canada are now en
l gaged in a struggle for right and justice
| with several of the worst monopolists of
this country and
Whereas, We, as printers, recognize
! in telegraphers men who are intimately
! associated with our business, and recog
! nizing the fact that a victory gained for
j them is a victory gained for us ; there
. fore be it
Resolved, That Columbia Typographi
! cal Union No. 101 tender to the Broth
| erhood of Telegraphers our cordial sym
-1 pathy and good wishes in their great
! struggle against organized capital and
I soulless corporations; and be it further
Resolved, That the President of this
; Union be ordered to have set aside the
! sum of SIOO, subject to their order; be
it further
Resolved, That a committee of three be
I appointed to communicate these resolu-
■ tions to the telegraphers this night.
Philadelphia, July 21. —The members
I of Typographical Union No. 2, at their
; regular meeting to-night, adopted reso
‘ lutions tendering to the striking tele
graph operators their sympathy and offer
ing what material aid may be in their
power in the event of funds being needed.
NON-UNION MEN WARLIKE.
A Threat to Strike Unless a Compro
mise is Speedily Attempted.
Washington, July 21. —A press com
! mittee has been formed charged with the
duty of answering the questions of re
| porters. This committee has prepared an
i address to the public and their brethren,
j In it the operators say that they will go to
I work gladly when they can do so honora
! bly, but not till then, if the strike
! lasts all summer. They make an appeal
I to railroad onerators not to come here to
, take the places of the strikers, and they
conclude their utterances as follows:
“The following action was taken to-day
[ by non-members of the Brotherhood now
at work in the Western Union
office here: ‘We, the majority of
j the operators who have remained
lat work here, have signed a
I paper pledging ourselves to withdraw
| our services from the Western Union
Company at a stated time during the com
: ing week unless the Executive Committee
of said company shows a disposition to
negotiate with the operators with a view
to an amicable adjustment of the pending
difficulties. Although not members, we
are all heartily in sympathy with the
■ movement inaugurated by the Brother
| hood.’ ”
I The Brotherhood here have requested
I assemblies in other cities to take such
steps as will lead non-union men now at
! work to take similar action.
GARRETT CONCI LIATORY.
A Bare Possibility that He will Offer a
Compromise.
Washington, July 21.—Robert-Garrett
and Superintendent Stewart, of the Balti
more and Ohio Telegraph Company, are
said to be in this city to-night. Manager
Clarke, of the Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany, has called on his men to meet him
at 11 o’clock to-morrow morning for the
purpose of holding a conference.
Baltimore, July 21.—The Baltimore
and Ohio Telegraph Company to-day
stated their position in regard to the
strike of the telegraphists. They are
willing and ready at any moment to hear
and treat with the men in their own em
ploy and to concede the most liberal
terms, but they positively decline and
under no circumstances will they treat
with a committee of the Brotherhood, nor
any person not in their employ. This
statement is made on the authority of the
officials of the telegraph company’.
MESSENGER BOYS VP IN ARMS.
A Strike Averted in New York, but a
Quit in Chicago.
New York, July 21.—1 t was thought
that the American District messenger
boys would strike •to-day, and about 50
from some of the up-town offices endeav
ored to induce others to quit work. The
movement was not general, and when the
cempany offered to pay the boys ten cents j
an hour for extra work in addition to the |
regular salary of $4 and $5 a week and |
2’2 cents per message, they were per- i
fectly satisfied to remain at work
Chicago, July 21.—The day force of
messenger boys in the employ of the
Western Union Company left the office
in a body this evening, thus emulating
the striking operators."
Iron ’Yorkers on a Strike.
Birmingham. Ala., July 21.—Four
hundred and fifty employes of the Bir
mingham Rolling Mills struck to-day
against a reduction made to Pittsburg
prices. They also induced a strike of the i
puddlers at the Briertie Id Iron Works.
Killed by a Telegraphist's Blunder.
Birmingham, Ala., July 21.—A
south bound passenger train on the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad collided '
while coming into the city at 4:30 o’clock
this morning with a fast freight train.
Both engines were wrecked. A baggage 1
ear and one freight car were demolished.
Fireman Gabriel Logan, of the passenger ;
engine, was killed, and engineer D. Ros
sir was severely injured. There were no
other casualties. The cause of the acci- i
dent was a mistake made by the operator
at Warrior's station.
The Gobliu of the Gulf.
Washington, July 21.—The Surgeon,
General of the Marine Hospital service
has been informed that a vessel from
Vera Cruz has appeared off Apalachi- j
cola. The Collector ot that port haa been
instructed to send the vessel to Ship
Island. The Surgeon General is also in
formed that small-pox and yellow fever
have apeared in Matanzas and Cienfue- ;
gos, Cuba, and that cholera exists in
Campeaehy and Oaxaca, Mexico.
New Orleans, July 21.—The stock and
Cotton Exchanges yesterday adopted res
olutions protesting against the cargoes of
yellow fever infected vessels being
brought to the city, and advising that no
infected vessels be allowed to enter the
Mississippi river.
A Venezuelan Railway Opened.
Panama, July 21.—The railway be
tween Laguayra and Caracas was opened
to the public to-day, the anniversary of
independence.
Great preparations are l»eing made at
I Carios to celebrate the centenary of Boli
var. All Spanish and American nation
alities will be represented.
A Forest Under Ground.
Troy. July 21. —A subterranean forest,
seven feet below the surface of the ground,
has been discovered in Chozy, Clinton
| county. Many of the trees are in an ad
mirable state of preservation.
HORSFORD S ACID PHPOSHATE.
Very Satisfactory in Prostratioa.
Dr. P. P. Gilmartin, Detroit, Michigan,
says: “I have found it very satisfactory
in its effects, notably in tbe prostration
1 attendant upon alcoholism.”
SAVANNAH. GA., SUNDAY MORNING. JULY 22, 1883.
A DEFEAT AT WIMBLEDON
THE BRITISH TEAM VICTORIOUS
BY’ 45 POINTS.
Firing Through Rain and Mists—Many
Misses on Both Sides—The Americans
Lead up to the Long Ranges—The To
tal Scores of the Two Teams 1,951 and
1,906.
Wimbledon, July 21. —The weather
opened very unpropitious for the shooting
in the international match, and the rain
; poured in torrents. At 11:20 o’clock the
rain ceased, but in a tew minutes besran
i again, but cleared and shone out bright.
■ At 1 o’clock this afternoon the firing at
800 yards was completed, and the result
i was a good victory for the Americans.
They scored 346, while the British made
1 but 330. In tiring at 90b yards range,
! Pearse and Lowe, ot the British team,
both missed on their first shot. The first
shot of Smith, of the American team, was
a ricochet, being equivalent to a miss.
The wind was blowing from the
target. Lieutenant Walter Scott, of
the American team, missed on
his second shot. Rain was again falling
hard. At the completion of the third
round the Americans led by 14 joints.
At tbe end of the fourth round there was
a tie in the grand totals. Hinman, of the
American team, missed on his fourth
shot, and Lieut. Walter Scott scored
another miss. Bull, ot the American
team, missed on his third shot at 900
yards, and Smith, also of the American
team. missed his fourth shot.
Smith challenged the decision
as to his shot, but it was confirmed.
Joiner also missed on his fourth shot. At
this time the rain eeased falling. When
shooting at 900 yards was completed, tbe
British riflemen had scored 297, against
263 for the Americans. This made the
British aggregate at the end of the 900
yards shooting 1,697. and the Americans
1,687. When tiring at the 1,000 yards
range began, Young, of the British, and
Smith,of the American team, missed their
first shots. Rain was then again
falling heavily. Doland, Pol
lard and Hinman, Americans, I
also missed on the first round, thus giving I
five misses in that round by Ameri- .
cans. Young, of the British team, missed 1
three times running. During all this |
time the rain was falling in torrents and ’
the shooting on both sides was very bad.
Tiie Americans improved in their tiring
as shooting in the final stage progressed.
The British also improved and made four
bull's eyes. At the end of the second
round at the 1,900 yards range the British
score was 254 and the American 219,
giving 21 points in favor of the British.
The grand total of the British team was
1,951, and of the Americans 1,t»06.
TELEPHONE INTERFERENCES.
The Examiner of Patents Gives Bell
the First Place Among Inventors.
Washington, July 21.—The first stage
of the settlement of the question of pri
ority of the invention of several parts of
the telephone was reached to-day, ■when
the Examiner of Interferences in the Pa
tent Office promulgated his decision in
the speaking telephone “interference
cases.” The first of these interferences,
of which there are eleven, was declared
in March, 1878, and the Patent Office
has, at various times since then
considered them and heard arguments
upon them. The parties originally in
volved were A. G. Bell, J. W. McDon
ough, T. A. Edison, E. Berliner. G. B.
Richmond, E. Gray, A. E. Dolbiar, A. G.
Holcombe, C. E. Chennock, C. A. Ran
dall, F, Blake, J. H. Irwin and G. M.
Phelps. W. L. Ooelker was made a party
to three of the cases in 1879. Os the orig
inal parties the decisions have heretofore
been rendered against Richmond, Hol
combe, Randall, Phelps, Chinnock and
Berliner. The decision of the examiner
is in favor of A. G. Bell in eight interfer
ences, in favor of T. A. Edison in two in
terferences, and in favor of J. W. McDon
ough in one interference.
TWO FIRES IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Newberry and Greenville Lose Valuable
Business Blocks.
Charleston, S. C., July 21.—Before
daylight yesterday a large fire occurred
in Newberry, destroying a business block
of nine stores in the centre of the town.
The loss is estimated at over $50,000. The
aggregate insurance is $43,000. The prin
cipal losers are Messrs. Flynn, Wright,
‘Coppock, Fant, Wheeler. Whirter, Peo
ples, Pratt and Singley.
About the same time a large fire oc
curred in Greenville in a block of wooden
buildings opposite the Mansion House, on
Main street. Five buildings, used as
stores and offices, were burned. The
total loss on the buildings is $67,000, and
the total insurance SIO,OOO. Tbe loss in
stock goods, law libraries and fixtures, so
far as known, amount to $8,500, and the
insurance $3,500. The origin of the fire
is unknown, but it is thought to have
been incendiary.
CHOLERA HORRORS.
Alexandrians Drinking Water in Which
Dead Bodies Are Washed.
Cairo, July 21. —The coffins in which
the victims gs tne cholera are buried here
are covered with only a few inches of
earth. The Minister of the Interior de
clines to interfere to compel a safer in
terment of bodies.
Alexandria, July 21. —The European
Volunteer committee has discovered that
the canal which supplies a crowded quar
ter of the city with drinking water com
municates in the native cemetery with
the place used for washing corpses.
The Place Mr. Watterson Was to Have.
That high-toned Republican journal, the
Denver Tribune, avers that if Mr. Tilden j
had been inaugurated after his election ■
in 1876, the Hon. Henry Watterson would !
certainly have been sent to the court of i
St. James to conduct the diplomatic j
relations of the United States. Very '
well, why should not Mr. Watterson be
an ambassador if he desires it? But we
do not believe that he ever desired it.
The lazy, useless life of mere show and
speech-making, which belongs to every !
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
potentiary that we send abroad, would :
hardly suit the active, restless, original '
and vital disposition of the renowned
Kentucky journalist. Besides, the story
of the Denver Tribune stands out in
flagrant contradictions with another nar
rative that has lons been circulated
among the friends of the distinguished
gentleman to whom our contemporary so
flippantly refers. According to this nar
rative. Mr. Watterson and Mr. Man
ton Marble, finding the sage of
Gramercy Park in a genial hu
mor, one day after the election,
determined together to put squarely to
. him the question what they would be I
in the new regime which thev had so
gallantly and effectively labored’ to intro- ’
duce. The tale runs that Mr. Tilden lis
tened with composure to the inquiry, and i
then replied: What will you be? NVhy,
you will be friends of the administration.” '
This does not accord with the idea that
Mr. Watterson was to have been sent
abroad, for a friend of the administration
is always a personage of profound but
inconspicuous influence here at home.
Itemizing the Accounts.
W ashington, D, U. July 21.—The dis
bursing officers of the national banks
and the sub-Treasurers have been in
structed to refuse pavment on anv check
drawn by a Paymaster of the United
States army in payment for services to an
enlisted man, unless the period covered bv
the payment is statedin such check. This
action is taken in compliance with a re- .
quest from the Secretary of War.
A Stone on the Track.
Wheeling, W. Va., July 21.—The Ka
nawha express on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad struck a stone near l ay
ette Court House yesterday, which threw
the engine and eight cars off the track.
Engineer Frank Hyper was killed, and
his fireman was seriously injured.
Last Year's Cotton Rate Retained.
Cincinnati. July 21.—The Southern
Railroad and Steamship Association ad
journed after fixing the cotton rate the
same as last year. No agreement was
reached as to other matters concerning
rates from here to the South.
*No lady of refinement likes to resort to
superficial devices to supply a becoming
semblance of her former beauty. It is
health alone that kindles thedre that lights
the countenance and brings back the fresh
tints of the apple blossoms to the faded
cheek. If anything on earth will do this
it is Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound, which has already brought
health to multitudes with whom all other
means had failed.
SCENES IN CASTLE GARDEN.
First View of People Who May Become
Citizens in Five Years.
New Tork. July 19.—One of the sights
of this city seldom seen by strangers is
■ Castle Garden. A quainter scene can
hardly be imagined than the one which
may be viewed there on the arrival of a
steamer with its load of emigrants from
I tbe old world. The confusion of tongues
is worse than that of Babel, and, in a five
minutes’ walk around the big building,
one can hear almost all the languages
spoken on the continent of Europe. All
sorts and conditions of men are to lie seen
amoag the speakers. Here you find a
comparatively well-to-do Prussian,
who has left Prussia because
he did not wish to spend
the best years of his life in drilling as a
soldier. Not far distant will be a thrifty
Scandinavian, or Englishman, who
thought that by crossing the seas he
would better his fortunes as well as
change his skies. A large fraction of the
crowd will often be persons who have ex
patriated themselves for conscience’s
sake—as did the Pilgrim Fathers in their
time—Jews who have fled from Russian
persecution.
The resemblance to the Pilgrim Fathers,
by the wav, is only spiritual. It is to lie
hoped that tue passengers on the “May
flower” were tar cleaner than the recent
I Jewish accessions to our population, and
they could not have been so poor in
| pocket. How these penniless creatures
will contrive to support themselves in a
strange land, whose language thev never
! will be able to acquire at all perfectly is a
j mystery, but Jews, like cats, always
i alight on their feet.
Companions in poverty with the fugi
tives from Russia are crowds of Irish,who
have obtained their passage at the ex
pense of the British Government, and of
! Italians, who, if they resemble those of
I their countrymen who have preceded
them, will add to the crime as well as the
poverty ot the nation. Not a few, indeed,
of the motley assemblage to be found
•almost at any time in Castle Garden be
long to the class which first settled New
South Wales, and which described itself
in the lines—
True patriots are we; be it understood,
We left our country for our country's good.
Many of the immigrants, in addition to
being ignorant of the language, are
capable of performing only the simplest
manual labor. Occasionally thev possess
accomplishments which are of but little
use in this country. A Danish friend of
mine once went to Castle Garden to en- I
gage one of his countrymen as a servant, j
There being no Scandinavians in want of i
a place, he engaged a buxom maid from
Finland. Two days’ experience proved
her incapable, not only of cooking or iron
ing, but of doing the most ordinary house
hold duty. The maid when asked what
she could do, replied, triumphantly: “1
can take care ot reindeer!” My friend,
not possessing a team of reindeer, could
not avail himself of her single gift, and
was obliged to dismiss her.
A wise housekeeper, however, will al
ways engage her servants at Castle Gar
den before they have had time or oppor
tunity to learn the ways that are dark
and trieks that are vain, for which New
York domestics are peculiar. As a speci
men of such ways and tricks, let me tell
you of the manner in which the servants
rule the roost in a house on 21st street,
inhabited by a family in good circum
stances and social position. The family
consists of a bed-ridden old gentleman,
his wife and daughter—three in all, while
the servants number five, four women
and a man. The last named gets S6OO a
year for acting as attendant or nurse to
the owner of the house. Although
the expenses of the household are $7,000
a year, or more, the table is not good
enough for this male nurse, who demands
in place of the eggs or warmed-over meat,
which content the family for breakfast, a
porter-house steak every morning!
the chambermaid
once insisted on receiving extra wages
when the son of the house made a visit,
with his wife and child, upon his father
and mother, and, when tbe visit was over,
refused to permit them to be lowered to
the original figure, which was large. Yet,
in this housg of five servants, several of
whom are enormously overpaid, the sou
in question, during his few and tar-be
tween visits, although an invilid, is
obliged to black his own boots or leave I
them unblacked. While engaged in this
occupation one day he computed that
$3,000 of the $7,000 expended yearly
by the household was devoted to the
wages and board of the five servants.
You may say that this is an exceptional
case, It is, but there are scores of house
holds, more or less, resembling the above
described. If one system of extortion is
not practiced by servants upon their un
suspecting or submissive employers, an
other is. It is an understood thing that
in all large households, the butler, or
whoever orders provisions and similar
articles for the household, gets a commis
sion from the vendor. If the commission
is withheld, he buys of some one who will
pay it. Grocers, wine merchants, coal
dealers, et id omne genus, can
often only find purchasers for
their wares by bribing the
servants of their patrons. The nurse in
the household of which an account has
been given is suspected, on good grounds,
of adding to his already too large salary
by such means.
THE THREATENED STRIKE
of the telegraph operators, if at all sue- :
cessful, which apparently is not likely,
will cut short the vacation’ of the dealers
in stock, who summer in the country and
do their buying and selling by telegraph.
Could Wall street be effectually isolated
from the rest of the world by stoppage of
all telegraphic communication, faces will
become familiar in brokers’ offices which
are not ordinarily seen from the middle of
June to the middle of September. What
the blanket sheets here would do without
telegraphic news to till their columns is a
question which even the imagination can
not begin to answer.
Apropos of boots, the multiplicity of |
wires charged with electricity in' the
lower part of the city has the effect of j
rendering the telephone far from the con- >
venience that it is in smaller towns. It i
Is more difficult to talk over a mile of wire 1
in New York, owing to this cause, than
it would be to communicate half a dozen 1
times that distance in the country. The
wilderness of wires, too, causes pr vate
lines to be continually tapped by other
lines coming in contact with them, so
that business secrets are often liable to
be overheard by keen-eared rivals, not to
speak of the annoyance it is to have one’s
bell continually ringing false alarms.
One wonders that the inconvenience is
not greater when one sees the net work of
wires which spans the down town streets
and counts from one to two hundred insu
lators on many of the poles.
NEW YORKERS ARE VERY LIKE
Jacky in Charles Reade’s “Never Too Late |
to Mend.” That Australian aborigine,
when warm, could not conceive that there
would come a time when he would be ;
cold, and vice versa. To-day is cool and
eharming, and accordingly people, forget- I
ful ot the hot weather of last week and
the week before, are saying to each other: i
“Not a hot summer by any means. It’s |
half finished now, and If we can get I
through the second half as well as we .
have the first, nobody can complain.” ;
The.v are more than half right after all.
for although the death rate for a fortnight
was nearly 2,200, or as many as it ordina- !
rily is for three weeks, the sanitary con
dition of the city was never better at this :
time of year. N. D.
ENVIOUS EUROPEANS.
A Social War to be Made Upon Our
American Girls Abroad..
. A London dispatch to the New Y’ork Sun
says that according to one of the London
society journals, which has Mr. Labou
chere for its conductor, a serious question
has arisen at Trouville among the mem
bers of the haute voice as to whether
American girls should not henceforth be
excluded from the best society there
unless there should liapjien to lie' special
personal reasons for admitting them. The
feeling against them is said to be fierce,
and it was finally decided that they should
not receive invitations unless recommend
ed by two ladies of undoubted rank. The
recommendation of a gentleman, even if
he were the Prince of Wales, would be
held to lx? of no value. This may prove ’
exasperating to those American families
who are without number at Trouville and
everywhere in the vicinity this vear. Mr.
Labouchere says that the decision was
due to envy, and to the fact that the
American girls have wholly distanced
their more mature European rivals. He
adds that there will shortly lie a watering
place into the higher social circles ot
I which the grandest names of Europe will
only be admitted upon the recommenda
-1 tion of at least two American ladies of
undoubted distinction.
pint of the finest ink for families
■or schools can be made from a ten cent
! package of Diamond Dye. Thev color
1 Silk, Wool or Uotton.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
THE LAW-MAKERS LET THE
DAY GO BY DEFAULT.
An Exodus to Cool Retreats—Atlanta's
First Cotton Bale —A Small Fire—
Crawford's Rumored Resignation Un
confirmed—A Plow-Share Swindler
Chased to Savannah.
Atlanta, July 21.—The Senate ma
i this morning and almost immediately adt
journed to Monday. In the House the
1 only business was the reading of bills the
second time.
Senators and Representatives in large
numbers made excursions to Tallulah
Falls yesterday, and more followed to
day.
The first bale of new cotton received in
Atlanta this season sold in front of Cum
ming's Cotton Exchange to-day, at noon,
for 15 cents per pound. It was’strict low
middling and goes to New York.
The sheds at Stewart’s brick yard were
burned to-day. but the firemen saved the
shops.
Governor McDaniel knows nothing of
the rumored resignation of Judge Martin
J. Crawford, nor has Robert Toombs
i Crawferd, his son, heard of any such in
-1 tention. The latest reports are that his
i health is improving.
i The Atlanta police are after John T.
Cheatham, of Jefferson countv, who is
charged with cheating and swindling in
plow patent transactions bv a Mr. Han
cock. It is thought that he has gone to
Savannah.
Captain Aldridge, one of our sharpest
police officials, has gone there for him.
MAGGIE MITCHELL.
An Old Alabamian’s Recollection of the
Charming Actress—An Episode in Her
Career—Alabama's YVar Governor her
Willing Captive.
Montgomery is one of the handsomest
of the smaller cities in America, closely
resembling Macon, Ga. The business
blocks are near the river, yet on a dry
level site, safely above the highest over
flow; the ground rises very gradually in
several directions, into high ridges and
hills which afford good situations for
stately residences. The capitol crowns
the most imposing of these hills. The
streets are neither muddy nor sandy; the
soils are good for shrubbery and
gardening. By the excellent
river navigation sea luxuries are brought
more abundantly than to many other in
land towns. The adjacent country is
fertile and abounds in large cotton planta
tions. An easy jog along before the war
brought a competency in almost any busi
ness in this citv. Such was the prosperity
that crime was almost unknown. By
close inquiry a stranger might have learn
ed that two or three men in citizens’ garb
were supposed to ramble about the town
occasionally in the night as a sort of po
lice. There was not the chance for the j
hot political disputes not uncommon in
many of our Southern towns, for the citi
zens were all of the same political faith.
Now add the impulse of the assembling
here of much of the best talent of the
South, and of the hopes which the early
success of the Confederate arms inspired,
and the reader will understand how there
were citizens and visitors who were not
too down-hearted to enjoy a good play.
Before the war theatricals were in a
rather low way, complaints were uttered of
“a decline in the drama,” and towns of
such size as Montgomery were only visited
rarely by strolling companies, which per
formed a few nights in the town halls sr
court houses. But some venturesome
manager (whose name is now forgotten)
looked ahead, collected a really good
company, and fitted up a comfortable the
atre in Montgomery, which had the charm
of being new and sweet. Miss Maggie
Mitchell and her two sisters were en
gaged, the first as the star, of course.
She only played twice or thrice a week;
Miss Mary regularly, and the other as ■
page and in child’s parts. A private box [
was appropriated to Mrs. Mitchell, their
mother, who never failed, in neat old I
style cap, topreside over the performance
of her daughters. Miss Maggie, when off
duty, generally spent a portion of the
evening in her mother’s stall.
Alabama’s Governor was, and had all
his life been, a man of toil. |
Worth and talent as a lawyer |
eariy drew around him many clients.
Next, the duties of a Judge were devolved
on him; next, the Governor’s office, which
at the time 1 write of, he was tilling the
second time. He had the misfortune to
lose his wife. His son and daughter
were married and gone. In his peculiar :
kindness and benevolence, he felt very j
keenly the impending woes of his section of
the country. At times he w ould go to some
fortifications where the soldiers were at
work and “rough it,” or take camp fare,
hoping to lend some encouragement to |
the cause. We thus have a grave, digni
fied character, burthened not only with !
weighty duties, but solitude. One even- !
ing a friend induced him to at- I
tend the theatre. Maggie Mitchell at that |
time was not much past “ sweet |
sixteen,” though already showing a deci- j
ded genius in her profession; her figure 1
was excellent —slender, round and wil- i
lowy. Her manners were winsome. She I
was a blonde. She wrought upon our |
“grave and reverend seignor” like a
charm. He became a regular theatre- I
goer. When Maggie was not on the stage
he would join her in her mother’s box.
He was a captive, and did not mind his
captivity. Alabama society had never
heartily welcomed but one actress—-Julia
Dean—who, in fact, was idolized through
out the cotton-producing States; but the
Governor—not standing on what was
conventional—now gave the cue, so far
as he was concerned, to receive another.
And the enjoyment was not all on one
side. No one that the kind Governor
liked could help loving him in return, and
our charning actress manifested a hearty
appreciation of the distinguished patron
age. The cordial feeling between them
was like that of parent and child. Per
haps she found in it a sense of protection,
down among the so-called terrible “fire
eaters.” For a happy coincidence, there
was not a breath of" scandal therewith;
the community inwardly rejoiced at the
enjoyment the hard working old Governor [
and the no less energetic young actress I
found in their innocent friendship.
On account of this peculiar episode,
and her good acting, many Alabamians
(the writer was one of them) have kept
up with and enjoyed Maggie Mitchell’s
honorable and brilliant career, and they
do heartily wish her many more triumphs.
Respectfully, G. C. P.
Live Oak, Fid.
A FAMOUS PISTOL SHOT.
Reminiscences of Captains Gronow and
Ross, the Doyen of Riflemen.
f.ohdon Society.
Personally, Captain Gronow w'as a re
markably handsome man. always fault
lessly dressed and generally popular in
society. But. as we have already re
marked, he says little about himself in
his “Reminiscences,” and beyond the fact
of a casual allusion to his marvelous skill
as a pistol shot, we learn nothing of his
accomplishments from his books. He
and Captain Ross, the doyen of riflemen,
were, by the way, unquestionably the two
best pistol shots in the world. ’ Captain
Ross was intimately acquainted with
Gronow, and has given the following au
thentic account of a celebrated duel, in
the Bois de Boulogne, in which the lat
ter was engaged:
Gronow’s antagonist was a notorious
French bully, famed for his deadly skill
with the pistol. “Gronow.’’ says Capt.
Ross, “told us the story. He said that tbe
Frenchman stuck his glove on a tree and,
in a swaggering tone, asked Gronow
which finger he should hit. and. after hit
ting the glove, he said to Gronow. -I will
serve you in the same way.’ ( apt. Hesse
(Gronow’s second, afterward killed in a
duel 1 said to him: ‘You must do some
thing to try and shake that fellow's
nerve;’so he threw up bis hat in the air
and Gronow put his bullet through it,
and. bowing to the Frenchman, said:
•Monsieur voila rotre destine A few min
utes and the destiny was fulfilled.
“Gronow was anything but a quarrel
some or bullying person,” said Captain
Ross. “Attempts were made several
times -(> get up a match between him and
myself, but he would not go into it. He
told me that since his duels in Paris (he
fought two > be could not lx;ar the sight of
a pistol. It would have been a rare
match, as neither of us had ever been
beaten; and as we never tried our skill to
gether, it is inqiossible to say who would
have won. At very long ranges (from 50
to ItX) yards) I probably would have had
the best of it. as I practiced a good deal at
those ranges.” Captain Gronow’s latter
years were passed in Paris, where he died
on the 20th of November, 1865, in the 72d
year of his age.
Arthur Oft’ for New York.
Washington, July 21.—President Ar
thur left Washington to-night on the
United States steamship Despatch for
New York. He will probably stop at
Fortress Monroe and Cape May,
BEHIND THE BAKS.
Major Wasson as He Appears in the
Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.
Missouri BepMican Correspondence.
James R. Wasson; one year and six
months; embezzlement; age, 36; five feet
ten inches; light complexion: light hair;
light blue eyes; soldier by occupatiion;
! native State,'Ohio; married, wife in Tar
kio, Japan: one child: no propertv; never
in prison before."
There is the history in a few lines of the
defaulting paymaster, who was first re
ported robbed, then arrested, tried by
court martial and convicted, and then
confessed. As it has frequently been re
ported that the military authorities had
refused Wasson the privilege of making a
statement, I asked permission to see him.
This was readily granted, and Col. Jones,
the warden, escorted me to the cell
house, where Wasson is doing time as
! check clerk, and made known the object
of my visit. He politely offered me a seat,
i and said there was no statement that he
desired to make; that everything con
j eerning his case had been spread
before the public, and as there
were so many different stories atloat eon
| eerning him. that he would not deny any
of them. "There is onlv one thing that is
| hard for me to bear, and that is the con
stant abuse that is being heaped upon me
by certain Republican newspapers. I
I have been tried and sent here to serve my
time, and 1 shall conform to all the rules
and regulations. I did hope that as soon
as 1 entered the prison these attacks
would cease, but 1 understand that these
vilifications are siiii kept up, and as my
disgrace was complete when this uniform
was donned, 1 can see no reason why they
should further abuse me.”
"Where is your family?” I asked.
"My wife is in Tarkio, Japan, with her
father, who is the United States Consul
there. My father and mother are living
in Hartford, lowa.”
"I believe you have also been in Japan?"
“Yes, sir: I was one of the number that
was selected by our government at the
request oi the Japanese to reorganize
their army. After that was accomplished,
I being one of the engineer corps was
placed at the head of their railway system.
1 shortly after returned home and entered
the army, where I served up to the time
of the commencement ot this trouble.
"Then you have nothing to say con
cerning your trial?”
“Nothing whatever. Everything that
I might say would be misconstrued, and
I would only cause pain and anguish to
those who are dear to me." The Major’s
lips quivered and tears sprung to his
eyas as he spoke of his relatives, and
truly pitying him 1 withdrew and return
ed to the company of Warden Jones,
whom I asked how Wasson bore up under
the ordeal, when his citizen’s clothes
were exchanged for the stripes.
“He showed his humiliation, but with a
firm voice answered all questions asked
him. You undoubtedly noticed his mus
tache, which would be considered a beau
ideal amongst the ladies, and, as it is left
to the discretion of the warden as to
whether a convict’s whiskers should be
removed or not, I did not desire to inflict
more pain than was necessary, and when
I asked him if he wanted to be shaved, he
said that ‘to use my own pleasure in
regard to his personal" appearance; if it
was the rule of the prison to shave ami
shear a man, he would not murmur, and
that as long as he remained he should
observe all rules and ask for no other
courtesies than those extended to all the
inmates.’ ”
“You undoubtedly noticed a small gold
chain around his neck,” said Mr. Jones.
“When he was stripped, 1 asked him to
remove the chain, and then he broke
down, and, with tears streaming down
his face, said that the chain was placed
there four years ago by his wife, and
when she fastened it she asked him never
to remove it. ‘I have kept that promise,’
he said, ‘and it is the only favor that 1
will ask of you, to let it remain.’ I told
him it could do me no good by cutting it
off, which would have had to be done, as
it was soldered, and that it might remain.
His manner showed that this favor on my
part was appreciated.”
This is a sad ease, and a man must be
of brutal instincts indeed who could not
feel some compassion for one who has all
the attributes and bearing of a gentle
man and to believe if the whole truth
could be learned concerning Wasson’s
fall that it would show that he was more
sinned against that sinning, and, to use a
gentleman’s expression to me, “You can
bet that Wasson was made an example of,
and this whole business is for the gratifi
cation of a certain army set, with whom
he did not affiliate.”
THENEW YOHKTELEGRAPHERS
How They Left Their Instruments in
the Western Union Office Thursday.
New York Sun.
The great [operating room of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, on the
seventh floor of their building, at Broad
way and Dey street, was as busy as ever
when the minute and hour hands of the
clocks upon the walls crossed each other
at noon yesterday. More than 450 opera
tors were at work at the tables on the
main floor and in the gallery. They ap
peared to be uneasy, turned to look at
anybody who came in,and exchanged
glances with each other.
Then little groups of two or three set
out to leave the room, until perhaps thirty
had gone. A group of spectators at the
entrance steadily increased in size. Many
of the spectators were operators off duty,
who appeared to be expecting something.
As the minute hand indicated ten min
utes past 12, or noon Washington time,
Frank Phillips, a cable operator, whose
desk is near the middle of the room, stood
up on his chair and blew one short and
sharp note on a tin whistle. Instantly 375
operators shoved their chairs back from
their desks and sprang to their feet.
Then, in solid bodies, they pressed quick
ly and quietly towards the doors facing to
Broadway and to Dey street. A large
number of young women were among
them.
Suddenly an operator waved his hat,
with “Hip, hip, hurrah!” and three echo
ing cheers were given, which were audi
ble outside the building above the noise
of Broadway.
“Three cheers fsr the Brotherhood!”
another shouted, and three more cheers
rang out.
“We will all come back, every one of
us. Hip, hip, hurrah!” cried another.
“Where are the 75 per cent, who were |
going to stay at their desks?” somebody |
else shouted.
In the meantime the operators were
pressing steadily out at the doors, there
being apparently an tinderstanding that
they would leave the building as quickly
as possible. The onlv pause made by any
was simply to shake hands with some
comrade. In ten minutes the last of the !
strikers were passing out at the doors of |
the operating room.
At the same moment one of the man- I
agers appeared with two policemen.
There was nothing for the policemen to
do. All was quiet. Less than HXI opera- r
tors, a majority of them voting women, |
remained in "their seats. A larger pro
portion remained at the operating tables
in the gallery than on the floor below.
A reporter of the Sun conversed with
two of the most intelligent-looking men
who remained in their seats.
“The best operators have gone out,”
said one of them. "I suppose there’s no
use in denying that. I don’t suppose
there are more than twenty-one operators
of any kind of competence" remaining. A
good many of these people are operating
commercial instruments, and don’t know
anything about the Morse system. The
company has no doubt greatly underesti
mated the strength of the Brotherhood or [
the extent of the strike, and while I am
not a member of the Brotherhood, I
know they can cripple the company ter
ribly.”
A Price Set Upon Blood.
New York, July 21. —In the suit of
Banks, a colored man. against C. C. Vo- :
kenberg for $250 for blood transfused from
the former into the latter.the decision was
rendered yesterday for the plaintiff at
$197 90 and sl2 costs.
Another Compartment Robbery.
Paris, July 21.—A gentleman was
found insensible to-day in a first-class
railroad carriage, between Paris and
Lyons. He had been stabbed in several
places and robbed. His assailant es
caped.
A Noted Sculptor Dead.
Boston, July 21.—Martin Millore, the
celebrated sculptor, died this afternoon.
Kahoka, Mo., Feb. 9, I*Bo.—l pur
chased five bottles of your Hop Bitters of
Bishop & Co. last fall, for my daughter, ,
and am well pleased with the Bitters.
They did her more good than all the medi- .
cine she has taken for six years.
Wm. T. McClure.
The above is from a very reliable far
mer, whose daughter was iii poor health ’
for seven or eight years, and could obtain
no relief until she used Hop Bitters. She
is now in as good health as any person in
the country. We have a large sale, and
they are making remarkable cures.
W. p. Bishop & Co.
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MR. DORSF.Y’S STATEMENTS.
i Confirmed bv the Testimony of the Hon.
Thos. J. Brady.
Brooklyn Fugle.
“No part of the statement published
this morning in the Sun emanated from
me,” said the General, “but it is true and
well put together. I was verv reluctant
to enter into the business of raising money
from the star route men for the purpose of
carrying Indiana. I had no faith in Gen.
Garfield, because he bad already fooled
me once. I was doing my best to make up
a good star route service for the benefit of
the people of the far West, and not for the
benefit of myself or Dorsey or anybody else.
The raising of the $40,000 campaign money
could not have l»een the result of anv con
spiracy between Dorsey and myself, for
at that time we were on unfriendly
terms. He wanted to have De Witt Clin
ton Wheeler put into my place, but he
finally subsided, and I raised the money,
and we spent it. I promised to take care
of Delaware and the adjoining counties in
Indiana, because Delaware is mv native
place, and 1 wanted to make Delaware
the banner county of the State. We had
really as much of a fight there in Novem
ber as in October, because it was neces
sary to follow up the victory. Where a
two dollar bill sufficed in'the former
month a five dollar note had to be expend
ed in Oetolx>r. and, as Dorsev says, they
were crisp ami new, and seemed like a
shower from heaven to our people.”
How did you come to fall out with Dor
sey ?
"1 didn't fall out with him. 1 think tbe
Dorsey routes were 114 in number, and I
found that some of them were useless. I
thought that the money expended in their
support should lie spent in some other
direction, and that made Dorsev angry.
We are friends now, but he was not niv
friend then.”
How do you know that Garfield approv
ed of the raising of the $40,030 which
Dorsey says you received?
“Dorsey went to General Arthur, and
he was willing to give written authoritv
for the collection of tbe money, but the
authority should come from 'Garfield.
This was communicated to Garfield, who
thereupon wrote the Jay Hubbell letter.
I didn't think 1 needed any better authori
ty, and 1 raised the money at once. As a
matter of personal pride,’ 1 spent $5,000
out of my own pocket in Delaware
county.”
Well, how had Garfield fooled you?
“When Key was Postmaster General
and Tyner his assistant, Garfield promised
to me his influence with the Committee on
Appropriations, of which he had been
Chairman, to have extra approiiriations
made. He made this promise to Tyner
and ex-Governor Shepherd and mvself.
declaring that he would not onlv vote for
the appropriations but defend them in the
House. He found it convenient, however,
to go to Hiram Collegue to deliver a lec
ture, and went no further in the direction
of keeping his promise than pairing off.
He fooled me once, and I didn't trust
him.”
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
New Y’ork Editors on the Presidency.
The New York Herald publishes inter
views with Mr. Dana, of the Sun, Mr.
Reid, of the Tribune, and Mr. Hastings,
of the Commercial Advertiser, on Presi
dential conventions and candidates. All
of them unite in the opinion that the next
Presidential conventions should be held
at Saratoga. Mr. Dana believes that the
Democratic Presidential Convention ought
not to be held much, if any,' before the
first of September. He prefers a short
canvass for the reason, among others,
that the strikers and bummers will
have less of a chance. Messrs. Hast
ings and Reid think the Republi
can Convention should be held ear
ly in the year. Mr. Dana is very em
phatic that Mr. Tilden would not be a
candidate for the Presidency. He says
emphatically that Mr. Tilden “is posi
tively out; no power can get him in
asrain.” He adds: “I know that mder
no circumstances will Mr Tilden accept
the nomination, no matter how unani
mous or pressing it may be.”
Mr. Dana has been credited with being
in the confidence of Mr. Tilden. Mr.
Dana prefers Hon. W. S. Holman,
of Indiana, as the Democratic
candidate, but also thinks that
either Mr. Randall, Mr. McDonald or
General Palmer would do well. He re
gards President Arthur in the lead for
the Republican nomination, thinks Post
master General Gresham is “a pure, up
right. honest man.” and declares that
“Mr. Blaine’s candidacy is out of the
question.”
Mr. Hastings thinks Mr. Arthur is the
strongest Republican candidate. “In
fact,” he says, “there is nobody else. If
there is, where is he? Cornell is a dead
dog. Blaine is out. Sherman is out.
Conkling is out, and means to keep
out. Really, Arthur seems to have a walk
over ”
Mr. Reid believes Mr. Randall to have
at present the best chance ot the Demo
cratic nomination. As to Republican
candidates he is reticent. He regards
Mr. Blaine as not a candidate, and speaks
highly of President Arthur’s administra
tion of national affairs. He says it is a
little too early to talk about candidates,
and that men now prominently spoken of
will hardly be nominated by either party.
He thinks that neither Mr. Arthur nor
any other Republican who may become a
candidate lor the nomination will be able,
under the present district representa
tion rule, to carry a united delegation into
the convention from the State of New
York.
A Model Duel.
Letter New York Sun.
As dueling seems to be attempting to
raise its head airain a little even at the
North, it is in order to recall Preston
King's duel when a young member of the
Legislature of this State. He was a man
of great sense as well as humor, was for
many years member of Congress from St.
Lawrence county, and afterward Senator
from New York. His melancholy fate by
suicide from insanity, while holding the
position of Naval Officer of this port (by
jumping into the river, with loaded pock
ets, from a Hoboken ferryboat), is still
sadly remembered by many friends and
admirers.
His pungent wit in a speech in the Legis
lature once irritated a fellow member,who
gave the measure of his own intellect by
addressing him a formal challenge, from
which resulted a correspondence between
the two, running through several days.
King began by foregoing his right to
hold himself not responsible for words
spoken in debate, but presumed that his
adversary would concede to him the rights
allowed by the code of honor to the
challenged party. Each one of these
conditions—time, place, and wepons—be
came the subject of an interchange of
separate notes. He claimed that, as he
had accepted the charge of the interests
of his constituency for that session of tbe
Legislature, and had various bills in
charge pending which required his atten
tion, he could not consistently with duty
and honor fight before the close of the ses
sion. This point being conceded, he next
claimed as reasonable, since the eombat
was forced on him, that he was not
bound to Impose on his friends the trouble
and expense of carrying his body home for
interment, in the event of a fatal issue, and
he therefore claimed that the encounter
should take place near his own home in
St. Lawrence county, and he named the
banks ot a stream called, if I remember
right, the Black river. His antagonist
accepted, and was the more earnest in
pushing the affair as Mr. King seemed to
be somewhat less so. There remained
only the question of the weapons. Mr.
King then, under his right as the
challenged party, required that they
should stand, tbe one on tbe one side of
the stream and the other, on the
other, and that the weajxins
should Ixj broadswords. But he
added that, as his opponent might not lx?
familiar with the broadsword exercise, if
he should prefer pistols he was willing to
accomodate him, though he had never in
his life fired any other than a Fourth of
July pistol. He named a certain conical
bill on the Black river, and projxised that
they should stand back to back
on the top of it and walk off
in opposite , directions till they
got to the bottom, and then turn and tire.
The history ot this model duel stops there.
The sensations of the young fire-eater
from tbe metropolis ( I lielieve) when he
next day watched the circulation
of this correspondence around the
128 seats ot tne Assembly call for no
historical record. No challenging would
be duelist ever received a more severe
punishment for his folly.
Veintemllla at Callao.
Lima. Julv 20—Ex-Preaident Veinte
milla, of Ecuador, arrived at Callao this
morning, and proceeded at once to Lima,
as General Lynch is alxiut to leave for
the North in the Chilian transport, Ama
zon.
L.o*t in the Plames.
Cincinnati, July 21.—A. D. Bullock &
Co.’s curled hair arid bristle factory was
burned last night. The loss on the "build
ing is $50,000 and on stock $t&0,000. Tbe
insurance exceeds SIOO,OOO.
A LEAP IMO A FURNACE.
AN INSANE MAN DIES ON A BED
OF GLOWING COALS.
The Engineer Riveted to HU Post by
the Shocking Spectacle—The Doomed
Patient Face to Face with His
Agonizing Death —The Engineer in
Danger of Becoming Insane.
Rochester, Minn., July 21.—Charles
Fisherman, a patient at the Second Hos
pital for the Insane, committed suicide
yesterday morning by jumping into the
furnace in the boiler room. The tireman
did not recognize him as a patient, and
before he could stop him he had been
burned to death. After getting in
side the furnace. Fisherman stood with
his back to the red hot brick wall until
insensible, when he fell forward into the
glowing coals.
As the maniac struggled into an up
right position and fell back against the
fiery wall, an expression of unuttera!4e
anguish lighted up his countenance, and
he made an effort to make use of his
voice. It was vain, however, mid an
instant later he fell prone on
the lied of burning coals. A
horrible sizzle of burning flesh and a
sickening odor gained vent through the
i open door of the furnace, and almost over
came the horrified engineer, who stood as
if in a trance with his eyes riveted on the
hideous spectacle which he was
powerless to prevent. In con
versation with a reporter of the As-...
sociated Press, the engineer said ’hat he
believed that the terrified ftu e of the
maniac would haunt him for life. To
night the engineer was very much pros
trated from the effects of "the shocking
sight, and it is feared by some, that then*
is danger of his losing bis reason.
STEEL GUNS FOR CRUISERS.
The Work Now Going on in the Navy
Yard at Washington.
W'< mA inyton Star.
For several months past there has been
in course of construction at the ordnance
machine shops in the navy yard two very
large high pressure steel rifle con non to be
used in arming the new steel cruisers for
the navy. There is only one other steel
rifle in the whole navy, and that is at the
experimental station at Annapolis, Md.
It was manufactured at South Boston
iron works, and gives the highest satis
faction. These being the first steel guns
made in the navy, a representative of the
Star yesterday made inquiries concern
ing their manufacture at the ordnance de
partment of the yard, presided over by
Capt. Niles. On inquiring of an officer If
they Had all the facilities here for doing
such heavy and important wortt~as mak
ing large steel rifles, the reporter was in
formed that the machinery and mechani
cal skill ot these machine shops and
foundries could not lie excelled in the
country. Mr. James Davis, the boss of
the machine shop, was found superin
tending the testing of one of the guns and
carriages, which operations required the
greatest precision. The guns are fifteen
feet in the barrel, and have six inch bore.
The construction of the carriages is pretty
well advanced, and the barrels are turned
out and ready tor the bands, large cylin
ders of steel, which are shrunk on’ the
outside of the barrels, to increase their
strength. There is no private patent on
them, but they arc manufactured by the
government for broadside guns. On ac
count of their great length, and as they
have to l»e worked between the batches
and bulwarks, they can only be carried
by the largest ships. When these are
finished work will be begun on others.
The principal advantage of steel guns
over others is their superior strength.
The greatest difficulty experienced in the
manufacture of this class of ordnance is
gettingheavy steel with the proper ex
pansion qualities, or the proper stretch,
as it is called. It was thought by out
siders, before the work was begun", that
steel of this character of sufficient size to
make cannon could not be had in this
country, but all the difficulties have been
overcome, and when the guns are finish
ed, which will be in three months, they
will reflect great credit on our mechanics.
MI SC EG EN A TION.
The Sensational Case which has Just
been Developed at Cleveland.
Cleveland (O.f Special to Chicago Tribune. '
A sensational case of miscegenation de
veloped here last Wednesday when Alonzo
Walker, a wealthy farmer near Martin’s
Ferry, West Virginia, came here in com
pany with Chief Brennan, of the Wheel
ing detective force, and took Eva Walker
from a family on Sibley street where she
was in service. It seems that some lour
months ago the girl was living with her
parents, whose only daughter she is. A
negro—black, ugly and lame—was
employed in the family as a
coachman. His name was Charles
Ash. He was 35 years of age and
a nativeof Mississippi, where he had been
a slave boy. Part of his duties was to
drive Eva Walker in the afternoon, and
by some strange hallucination the girl
became infatuated with him, and last
April left her father’s bouse one afternoon
in company with the negro. They first
went to Pittsburg, whence the father fol
lowed but lost track of them. Since then
lie has used every endeavor to find them,
and last Saturday it was discovered that
they were in Cleveland. Detective Bren
nan came here and found the man, who is
a cook in a restaurant. He professed
ignorance of the girl, whom he
said had first married and then
deserted him. Further search in
company with the Cleveland detec
tive resulted in finding the girl at
the home of a wealthy merchant on Pros
pect street, where she was doing house
work. To-day her father came and went
to the house. The meeting was touching,
and alter itersuasion she returned home
with him. The girl professed to lie over
whelmed with shame and remorse for her
rash act. She is 23 years of age, and very'
pretty and accomplished. She acknowl
edged the marriage to Ash, but says she
woke up to the disgrace and ran’ away
from him. They were married by the
Rev. W. Jones, a colored preacher here,
July 3. Ash was not arrested, as the
father was satisfied to regain his daugh
ter, and seeks to avoid all publicitv. The
negro seemed contented to lose his wife
rather than bis liberty.
A living Pioneer.
St. Paul Correspondent Boston Herald.
Gen. 11. IL Sibley, the hero of the Sioux
outbreak in 1802, is lying critically ill at
his residence in this city. General Sib
ley’s life has been a romance from his
earliest youth. He is now seventy-two
years old. At twenty-three he was taken
in as a partner in the American Fur Com
pany, and stationed at Mendota, in this
State, as agent tor the company. That
point was the only settlement" on the
frontier. There, in a large stone house,
be lived in true baronial style. He enter
tained there Captain Marrvajt, Colonel
Fremont, Featherstonehaugh, the travel
er, and other distinguished wanderers in ’
this ultima thule of the Northwest. He
was sent as the first delegate to Congress
from the Territory of Minnesota, defeat
ing H. M. Rice, who afterward was one of
the tirst Senators in Congress from the
Mate. W bile the enabling act for this
State was before the House Committee on- -
Territories, as a compliment to Sibley his
home (Mendota) was named as the capi
tal. but he firmly declined the honor, and
insisted on St. Paul as the seat of the
Mate government. Had Mendota been
selected, it would have made Gen. Sibley a
millionaire. His pride in his good name
has kept him out of numerous chances to
make money by shrewd enhancement of
real estate by legislation. He was the
first Governor of the State, and signed,
under compulsion by the Supreme Court,
the $7,000,000 of thricc-repudiated railroad
bonds, which a year ago were redeemed
at fifty cents on one dollar. His manage
ment of the Sioux war was severely
criticised for its delays and apparent
disregard for the suffering captives, but at
the end it was shown that his knowledge
ol Indian character and sagacious mod
ern warfare was the means of saving
hundreds of lives and of releasing every
captive sale and sound. When the war
was over he hanged forty-three warriors
at Mankato, and settled the Sioux troubles
permanently. They have lived peacefully
on their reservations in Dakota ever since.
General Sibley’s achievements at that
time were looked upon much as General
Crook’s now are in New Mexico. He has
been ar. invalid for years, and his closely
muffled form, straight as an arrow, is a
familiar one. His hauteur and crystal
purity of character have kept him apart
from the masses, but few men are more
widely loved than he. His death would
lie felt as that of no other pioneer now
living would be.
Spain's Treaty with Germany.
Maukid. July 21.—The Senate has rati
fied the treaty of commerce between Spain
and Germany.
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