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ES'toVBJ.ISHED 1850.
j H. ESTIwL. Editor and Proprietor, j
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
t hk NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
in :> Colored Church—Faint
* ar( L„e Fair Lady in AmericuM—
- 4' effort to Wreck a Train Foiled—
' , hurley Kom Yarn in Atlanta, and
inlitr Items of Interest.
UEOBGIA.
g ., ,-|.ige i- ready to bore for her artesian
“V |. mat! IS in Georgi* buying ealtle
~ t 0 | lLi pastures.
I : vatih property of Glynn county this
. two marriage licenses were grant
i i ;uuibu- last month.
~ , ~ - on for teachers of Glynn county
.. acid ”U Monday. 13th inst."
Li,!,-;onl < lifton, age about 62 years.
> : oine. near Liberty, on Thursday
ui.'.n>in-. lit" 2>th ult.
\ , named Bill Jones has leen arrested
, , . - on suspicion of being the inur
... : ,. r -ii th Austin, the hackman.
ytu -' i .<f Dawson is twenty-seven years
,j‘ it ;• to its foundation >l. If. Baldwin
*-: ri prii tor of all the lanils where it now
* X -:..re of B. F. Mathews, of l hattahoo
,■ ■.ut;-. six miles east of Cuthbert, has
arr.i'd. The lose is $3,000, and the in
-4,. Ki " arren, it is sai<l, writes such m
d.-i.; . -.-liable hieroglyphics that he ran
n ;l r r’ theiu himself. This fact iloes uot
; ;re widespread popularity, however.
X). An Hayes, anew steamboat, arrived
s; ( oiaiMUis Friday. Her arrival was the
a l for a , ut in rates by the People’s ami
i r Mrn: lane boats, and the lirst reiluetion
ma lc as .70 ier cent.
V.ar Brunswick a lumlier hand had his foot
beneath * falling pile, but conrrnne<t
l!. - |i--t. When he removed his boot his
saislli •• remained in it. Tin- man %vas at
*,,i k ... in the next <lay. however.
Ti i rumor that M.T. Hancock, the inventor
~{ n llam-oek plow, hail left Greene county
8.-ria in ntly was not true. He is now iii
4,ri-i -and has effectually crushed all
,>j!. i.-oig rumors atioiit him.
A writable battle was fought Thursday
ni- ue of the colored churches at Au
gu-t.i •’tween two op|osing factions. The
i . .■ were called in and a number of dca-
I elders were arrested. The trouble
had i. cu iroing on some time.
i F. Pounds, who lives in the Leslie’s
M neighborhood, shot Will Chapman, a
nc. "•>. on last Wednesday morning. A
;iiy occurred between them at Scott
- ioricr’s blacksmith shop. Chapman picked
ui i\ and started towards Mr. Pounds,
wlier. die latter shot him. The ball entered
the -ide of the neck.
An -ter taken from the well of Jim Duke,
uf M ntezuina, was thoroughly petrified, shell
an all. One half of the shell had been split
off. which plainly revealed a clear outline of
ih. >:\ alve. though it is not so soft ami juicy
a- it w as in the days of its earlier existence,
li >a- perhaps imbedded there many years
a-'i when the great waters were receding.
'in llie farm of James M. smith, in the
Cray Lands, a negro boy while puttiug a cap
on a gun accidentally discharged it. the con
tents of the barrel passing through the body
c a colored girl, who was standing near,
killing her instantly. The girl was aiwiit li
years of age. The name of the boy <s George
Tii mas. The name of the girl who was killed
is F. li/.a Moore.
Uenrv Averett, a brother to Bill Averclt.
one of the negroes in jail at Scale, charged
with the murder of Joe Williams, colored, has
l< n arrested as an accomplice. <>n Monday
he was talking to a crowd of negroes on the
Nui'kolls plantation and said that he was
present at the killing of Joe Williams and
looked at the wound in In- head after he had
been knocked down. He said that Ids brother
an-1 Je-se Thomas committed the crime. The
negroes to whom he made this statement at
■ 1... arrested him ami placed him in asmoke
hou-e for safekeeping.
\n effort to wreck a train at the uine-mlle
jii.sl. *.n the Brunswick and Western Kaii
ro . was made cn Thursday la-t hv placing
a oar of railroad iron aer<)ss the trucks. Engi
neer Maliry discovered the bar across the
tra.fc a short distance ahead. He immedi
ately reversed his lever and as soon thereafier
a- liei ouh 1 jumped from his engine. Tlie cow -
ratcher mounted the rail and dragged it
ai. for :h>o feet on tlie tracks, and finally it
worked itself out one side without any ditm-
The engineer, finding no hartii done,
u.'■'.uited his engine and went on to Rruus
i arles Tihlen. an Atlanta newsboy, who
disappeared from his home in that city last
Tio -day, has returned home, and tells a storv
hi h ha- set the city bv the ears. He claims
to have been forcibly a'lslucted and terribly
in,i.treated by Charles Ogletree. living near
Talu.iton. Among the cruelties alleged to
ban in n practiced was the fantastical cut
tir- f his hair, unmerciful lieatings, the
piercing of one of his ears and the insertion of
ai - urriiig, and the cutting out of two moles
from under the lad's arm. Tlie man, the boy
’• compelled him to acknowledge him as
In- father. A warrant for ogletree s arrest
uas I'suedat the lad's application.
The Brunswick Adrrrtiscr tout- Ap/ttal has
t. - follow ing: "A disgraceful affair occurred
•ti \ an. eville, on the Brunswick and Western
Road, the past week. Mr. Ben F'urlong lie
" iniiig enraged with liis w ife, chastised licr
severely with a whip, and liecause she al -
I. nipled to get away, -truck her with the butt
of the whip, knocking licr senseless. He then
stood iu las door way with a double barrel
gun and told all outsiders to keep off, >r lie
would kili the first man who attempted to
enter. He remained master of the situation
for several days, and finally surrendered.
Meanwhile his poor wife was lying extremely
ill without attention. He lias had a prelimi
nary trial, and been bound over in the sum
of 12.500."
The Bri abridge Democrat says": “On Mon
day last Kl Moulton, of Miller county, was
brought to this city by sheriff Kimbrel anti
posse of Miller county, lie fore Judge Bolter,
under a writ of habeas cornu* —seeking bail.
Judge Bower was not prepared to grant the
prayer, however, until the evidence of the
State witnesses could lie adduced—and the
hearing was set for Thursdav. Moulton, it
w ill be remem tiered, is charge.l w ith the kill
ing of one Bolin, a young man aged al*out
nineteen years, in November last, in a ren
contre in the woods, wherethev were engaged
in board getting. Moulton lleil when he com
mitted the deed, and has since been at lurge.
but Sheriff Kiinbrel arrested liim alxiui a
month ago near Knoxville, in r.iw ford coun
ty, Ga„ and brought hint safely hack."
The Americas JUeonlcr has the following
interesting little narrative: "A young fellow
from theeouutry, whose manhood is a wreck
and whose finances are more dilapidated, all
from dissipation, had won the affections ..f a
prettv country maiden and insisted on meet
ing her against her stern father's will.
V few nights ago thev met and wen* arrang
ing an elopement. The spot they had selected
for their tryst was near an old family burying
ground and the hour was near midnight.
They had made no definite plan, ow ing to
the girt’- perverseness, and the fellow was
suing earnestly when a groan was heard in
among the graves and a w hite form rose up
in i advanced tow ard the couple. Neither of
them could speak or move. The figure moved
slowly forward, the eyes seemingly blazing
and the bones clanking as it -tep|x and. When
within a few feet of the lovers it s|ioke in a
scarcely articulate tone, telling the vonth to
“Begone! as his object was to destroy the
girl's happiness after getting her money."
The young fellow, slid on his knees, promised
to leave if he was allowed, lie was granted
len seconds to get out of sight, w hen the girl
keeled over in a faint and the young man
started on a run for home. Then the old man
threw* down a sheet on which some phospho
rus had been rubbed, and some old dead eow
lon es he had picked up, took his girl into his
arms and carried her into the house. The
young fellow has left the country, and the
girl is as <|Uiet and gentle as a dove. The aid
man is happv and gives his daughter all the
present* ami attention he can, but has never
told his part in the transaction, and she has
never siioken her lover's name, nor said a
word of the terror that drove him from her
sale.
FLORIDA.
A spring of water supposed to possess medi
< mal properties has been discovered near
I-ecshurg.
The sugar cane and pea crops alx.ut Waldo
will yield bountifully if the season is at all
favorable.
The Putnam County Journal says the city
of Kvausvilie is bankrupt, and proposes to
repudiate.
W. VanDorn, of Daytona, has a pumpkin
vine in his gardeu 10U feet long ami full of
pumpkins.
A new saw mill, to la* put up between Know
ledge and Poinsett, in the Indian river coun
try, is on the wav.
steps are now being taken to organize in
Jacksonville a Budding and loan Association
for the benefit of the colored people.
Deputy -lioriff J. H. Stevens, of Jackson
ville. accidentally shot himself through the
baud Friday night, inflirting a painful wound.
V guava factory is lieing built at Fort Gat
bn. The business will he carried on under
the name of “The South Florida Preserving
Company.'’
W. IV. Douglass, for a long time editor of
the state news department of the old Jack
sonville Cnion, has nearly lost his entire sense
of hearing.
barge quantities of sea grass are gradually
drifting to the shores of Indian river, and
will soon furnish an abundance of one of the
very best of fertilizers.
The Atlantic and Gulf Coast and Okee-
Land Drainage Company lias re
claimed 1,500,000 acres of land for tlic State,
and received for il- services 535,385 acres.
D'X'k Smith, the would-be murderer of
Jacksonville, has had his bail reduced from
35-Ojo to|l,ooo. He is still in jail, w here he
wili remain until a satisfactory bond is given.
The honey crop at New Smyrna is very
heavy. Four of her citizens haveput up sixty
eight barrels, besides a number of other peo
ple who have commenced to put up iu barrels.
The Masons, Knights of Honor and Im
proved Order of fled Men have lodges in
1 alatka. The latter have built a large and
handsome hall iu which to hold their ineet
ings.
Dr. Ilcrms, of Orlando, has purchased
another ice mill with a working capacity of
twelve tous per day. He will soon add a third
t" the list when he gets this one in working
order.
, Braxton McDonell, for a number of years
the clerk In the office of the Western Cnion
vomp&ny at Jacksonville, returned lo work
Friday, being the first one of the striking
operators to give in.
The steamer Lake Dora passed through the
C&nal into Lake Eustis Tuesday, and is at
t ' —; —~
FhbUSSL in deUvering lumber.
,1 ’ fi?n’, around Lakes Eustis and
Hams and the Ocklawaha river.
, i a )Y e and commodious wharf-house has
en completed at Salt Lake for the re
and this, taken
connection with the new lighter that has
recently been built and put fhere by E. “
w, y '"sure the safe handling of
wHiter" an * ° ,her P r< sluce during the coming
~'/ Lenselaer Morgan, Superintendent of
i'o I e/V*, 61 V, at c s Life Saving Stations, has
just returned from a protracted trip down the
coast of F lornla, where he has established five
refuge stations, as follows: No. 1. Indian
Kiver Narrows (rebuilt,. No. 2. Gilbert bar.
no. a. Orange Grove, six miles south of Lake
north. No. 4. Fort Lauderdale, on New
river. No. 5. Biscayne.
The vegetable growers in and about Lees
burg have organized a society and meet regu
larly to discu-- vegetable gro'wing.fertilizing
how to make orange trees bear, etc. The last
meeting was held at the Leesburg Town Hall
on the 2-lh of July. O. I*. Books was elected
a delegate to the 1 ontological Society of the
l nited statea, which meets in Philadelphia
on the 13th of Septemlier. 1
\\ . R. Brown, cheek clerk at the freight
depot of the Louisville and Nashville Kail
road at Pensacola, has lieen arrested on a
charge of forgery and embezzlement. Brown
went to a grocery store kept bv a man named
Bear, and told Mr. Heinberg, tlie bookkeeper,
that he wislie<l to pay some money on an ac
count which he was owing there,"tendering a
check for *4s 75 on Brent’s Bank in favor of C.
11. Button and signed B. K. Pitts. Mr. Ilein
iH-rg paid him s3v 75 in cash and credited his
account with sls. On presentation of the
cheek at the bank. It was pronounced a forg
ery. Brow n was arrested and taken before
J udge Esmonde upon an affidavit swornout by
Charles J. Heinberg, when he was committed
to.iail iu default of SI,OOO bail.
FAILURES IN BUSINESS.
Shaw & IJro. Urag Another Finn Down
- ami. Make..a Stabnnsnl.
Boston*. August 4.—At a meeting of the
creditors of F. Shaw & Bro. held recently,
the firm, it is said, placed their liabilities,
including accommodation paper and
everything that could come under the
head of indebtedness, at $3,200,000, and
their assets at slo,(XM>,oon, nearly all or
which are immediately convertible. The
failure is laid to the fact that the house
fouu 1 its paper hard to negotiate and
chose to right its affairs by a suspension
of business.
The announcement will be made in the
morning that the large leather firm of
Henry A. Whittier & Wyman, doing busi
ness on Federal street, has (ailed with
liabilities of fsoo.ooo. The suspension,
it is stated, was not brought about bv
the recent heavy failures in that line of
trade, but is due entirely to other causes.
Dover, N. 11., August 4.—Charles W.
Clements' shoe factory was attached this
morning by a Deputy Sheriff on tw o writs
in favor of Boston banks for $31,000.
Clements had for a special partner, Fay
ette Shaw, and had factories in Dover,
Broeton, Randolph, Rockland. Haverhill
and Lynn. It is generally believed that
this failure w ould not have occurred but
for Shaw’s failure. Clement’s factory is
tlie largest in. tlie city and contributed
greatly to its prosperity.
Boston, August 4.—The Journal con
firms the roiiort of the failure of Charles
W. C lements, and says that his liabilities
will amount to $500,000. Clements em
ployed nearly 1,000 hands iu his various
factories.
PROFESSIONALS AT THE HAT.
The Metropolitans anil Alleghany's Play
a 14 Innings Game.
Washington, August 4.—Haines of
base ball were played yesterday as fol
lows :
At New York—The Metropolitan and
Alleghany clubs played to-day. About
4,000 people witnessed the game, which
was very exciting, fourteen innings
tieing played before a result could be
reached. The Metropolitans finally
secured the victory by a score of 7 to 0.
At I’ottsville—Anthracites 4; Quick
steps 3.
At Harrisburg—Harrisburgs, 1; Brook
lyns 2.
At Chicago—New Yorks 3: Chicagos o.
At Cleveland—Bostons 7; Clevelands 3.
At Reading—Trentons 13; Actives 13.
At Philadelphia—Ten innings; Athlet
ics 5; Baltimores 4.
At Buffalo—Providences 11: Buffalos 1(1.
At Detroit—Pliiliulelphias 5; Detroits o.
At Columbus—Eclipses 12; Columbus
es 0.
At Cincinnati—St. Louises 1; Cincin
natis 0.
AUSTRALIA'S AMBITION.
A Letter on tlie Annexation Scheme
Aililrexseil to Lord Ilcrtiy.
London, August 4.—The Australian
Agents General in London have present
ed a long statement to Lord Derby, Min
ister of the Colonies, relative to the rea
sons of the Australians for desiring the
annexation of, and the establishment of
a protectorate over the Western Pacific
Islands and a portion of New Guinea.
They point out that anarchy is existing
there, and the danger of the establishment
of French penal settlements. The
Agents General give direct assurances
that the colonies will recognize the neces
sity of contributing to the cost of the
policy thev ask England to pursue, and
are willing to place themselves in a posi
tion to act in concert with England,
although they cannot hastily decide a
large question of federation.
The Daily AVifjt in an editorial review
favorably s|>eaks of the paper presented
by the Agents General to Lord Derby.
Tlie Peel-Perdue Tragedy.
Eastman, Ga., August 3.— Joab Peel
and A. U. Perdue, relatives of each other
by marriage, were employes of the tur
pentine works of J. M. Woodward, several
miles from Eastman. It is said that for
some time past there lias been bad blood
existing between the parties. In order to
separate them Mr. Woodward discharged
Mr. Perdue. Yesterday, however, he
t ame to where Mr. Peel was work
ing and sought a difficulty with
him. Peel, it is stated, tried to
avoid any trouble, but Perdue was
Insistent, and I’eei went to his house
and got his shotgun, which he kept by his
side. Perdue insisted upon a fair fight,
which was refused. He came up witli an
ax in his hand and, cursing Peel, told
him he had to fight. Whereupon Peel
took up his gun and discharged the load
of one barrel into Perdue's breast, who,
reeling, cursed Peel again. Peel then fired
the other load at him and he fell, exclaim
ing, "Farewell, world!” Life was soon ex
tinct. A Coroner's jury was summoned
and held an inquest. Upon hearing the
evidence, they rendered a verdict of justi
fiable homicide. Peel quietly remained
on the premises after tlie deed was done,
making no attempt whatever to leave.
Shocks at Ischia.
London, August 4.—Four persons were
rescued alive front the ruins in Ischia
yesterday. Another shook was felt yes
terday afternoon. An alarm had prev
iously tieen raised, and people had fled to
the open country. On returning they
found their dwellings had lspen plunder
ed. Twelve robbers were subsequently
arrested.
Another earthquake was felt at the
tow ns of Tonie and Ischia on the island
of Ischia, at half-past two o'clock this
afternoon. Several houses at Forio col
lapsed. Three persons who wore buried
in the ruins were extricated alive. Queen
Victoria has sent a telegram to King
Humbert, tendering her sympathy with
the Italian jieople over the’ recent’ catas
trophe in Ischia. King Humbert, in re
ply, has thanked the Queen for her sym
pathy. saying that the Italians regard the
English with feelings of the warmest
friendship.
An Inhuman Father.
Philadelphia, August 4.— Frank Hint
melsback, a German 40 years of age, was
to-day committed to prison in default of
*IO,OOO bail upon a charge of gross mis
conduct with two of his children—Pau
line, aged 10, and Mary, aged 14 years.
The elder girl was forced to leave home
i by her father’s brutal conduct, and the
l case was called to the attention of the
Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to
! Children, who caused the arrest of the
i unnatural father.
A Hotel Blown Down.
Galveston, August 4.—A Midlothian
special says that a fearful wind and rain
storm occurred last evening which com
pletely destroyed a hotel, burying several
iversons beneath the ruins." All were
badly injured, but so far as learned
nobody was killed. A livery stable was
blown down and the contents of a lumber
yard scattered over the prairie for a great
distance.
Negro Riots in Arkansas.
Little Rock. August 4.—News from
Hempstead county last night reported
everything quiet, but a general feeling of
insecurity exists among both whites and
blacks. ’The number of negroes killed is
live, and eighty have been arrested.
Henry’s Carbolic Salve
Is the best salve for Cuts, Bruises, Sores,
Uncers, Salt Rheum, Tetter, Chapped
Ilauds, Chilblains. Corns and all kinds of
Skin Eruptions, Freckles and Pimples.
Get Henry’s Carbolic Salve, as all others
are counterfeits. Price 2o cents.
THE STRIKE SPREADING.
RAILROAD OPERATORSTOTAKE
A HAND TO-DAY.
Many Lines ami Systems in tlie Move
ment—Engineers and Trainmen Prom
ise their Backing The Telegraph
Companies Not Art-aid of the Final
Result.
New ork, August s. —There were no
new developments in the telegraphers’
strike to-day. This evening a secret meet
ing of the Brotherhood was held. At its
close money was given to all operators
anti linemen needing it. Master Work
man Campbell said that the enemy were
already beaten, but they refused to ac
knowledge it. He stated that the Broth
erhood would play their trump-card to
morrow. and that the result would be
that the telegraphers employed by the
Baltimore and Ohio Road’, the Chicago
and Alton, the Wabash, the Chesapeake
and Ohio, the Shenandoah Valley, the
Louisville and Nashville, the Missouri
Pacific, the Ohio and Mississippi, the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, the
Grand Trunk, of Canada, and, possibly,
those on the Intercolonial Road, will pre
sent bills of grievances to their
respective employers, excepting where
such a bill was presented
yesterday. The bill of grievances, he
said, would demand an increase of $lO
per month on every salary, that no salary
be less than s.">o per month, that extra
pay be given for Sunday w T ork, and that
all telegraphers discharged for refus
ing to take commercial matter, be re-etn
iiloyed. The demands are for all
telegraphers, whether members of
the Brotherhood or not. Mr. Campbell
further said that assurances had been re
ceived from conductors, engineers, fire
men and trainmen on tlie Gould railway
system that they would go out with the
operators.
At the office of the Western Union Com
pany it was stated that all the w ires were
in good order, and that all messages were
sent as soon as received.
Chicago, August s.— The telegraph
operators on the Wabash Railway system
have given notice of their demand for an
increase in pay of $lO per month,
lor extra pay for Sunday work, and that
they be not required to handle Western
l moil business during its pending con
troversy with the Brotherhood of opera
tors. The company is given till Monday
to return an answer. The Chicago and
Alton Railroad officials deny having any
knowledge of a contemplated strike
among their operators, but from the
Brotherhood the statement comes that the
men will go out on Monday.
Pittsburg, August 5. —It is reported
here to-night that all the railroad opera
tors belonging to the Telegraphers’ Broth
erhood will be ordered out at noon to
morrow.
Nkw York, August 4. —The announce
ment that the Brotherhood of Telegraph
ers would serve a bill of grievances to-day
upon the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company, in behalf of
the railroad operators in the employ of
that line, did not appear to cause much
apprehension in that company’s oflice.
During the morning no committee of the
Brotherhood made its appearance, and it
w as thought that the announcement was
premature, as the operators of the com
pany have given no indication
of dissatisfaction with their work or
wages. The officer* of the. company
stated that in case any such action was
taken tiy tlie Brotherhood, they would
probably refuse to listen to their demands.
The company is under contract to take
Western Union commercial business, it
was said, and any refusal on the part of
the operators to transmit such business
would meet with prompt dismissal from
the service. The same is said to be true
with regard to the Louisville and Nash
ville Railroad.
At the Western Union office
there were no indications of any new de
velopments and the position maintained
by the company since the strike is strictly
adhered to. These stories, circulated by
the strikers regarding the condition of
affairs at the Western Union offices, were
reported to he untrue. There were occa
sional delays, it was said, but these were
of frequent occurrence before the strike.
This morning there were 250 operators at
work, and business to all points was mov
ing smoothly.
At a meeting of the striking telegraph
ers this afternoon Chairman Mitchell
stated that a bill of grievances had been
presented to-day to the officers of the Del
aware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
road by the telegraphers employed by the
road, and that bills of grievances would
also lie presented to-day by the telegraph
ers employed by the roads leading out of
Chicago. Mr. Mitchell said that he thought
that the telegraphers iu the employ of the
Chicago and Alton Railroad would strike
this afternoon.
Caicago, August 4. —There was little
change last night in the telegraphic situa
tion. it. C. dowry. Superintendent, said
that he had consulted with the managers
of the leading railroads and is prepared
for anything the operators can do by cull
ingout the railroad telegraphers. Members
of the Brotherhood, who for some days
have been hinting mysteriously
about the impending strike which would
paralyze the company, that strike being
understood to be tlie calling out of the
railroad operators, now give out the im
pressions that the o[>erators who took
the places of the strikers are not satisfied,
and that a large number of them have
been initiated into the Brotherhood, hut
are kept at work till such time as a large
enough force inside is obtained, when
they will be called out in a body, and the
company left without operators or ability
to get any, as there are no more outside
operators to he had.
Cincinnati, August 4.—One of tlie
striking operators returned to work in
the Western Union office to-day.
City of Mexico, August 4.— Places of
the striking operators on the Mexican
National Railroad have been tilled
and trains are running regularly again.
Art Inn at Cheyenne.
Cheyenne, August 3.—President Ar
thur and party have reached this point,
where they are making a short stay in
order that the President may see the "peo
ple. The trip hither was without accident
or incident other than the manifestations
of enthusiasm.
Gkekn River, Wyoming, August j.—
President Arthur’s train arrived at Green
River at 10:30 o’clock this morning, and
in consequence of a pre-arranged plan to
spend Sunday at this point. The party
remained quietly on the train all day".
At 7 o’clock this evening the party took
special wagons for Washakie, atid will
emeamp to-morrow night on Sweet
water. 101 miles north of this point. The
next day they will drive into Fort Wash
akie, 55 miles further on. There are three
spring wagons.
Yellow Fever Oft' Mobile.
Mobile, August 4.— The revenue cut
ter Forward, while on a cruise outside of
Sand Island, off Mobile Bay, yesterday
spoke the Norwegian bark Vasco de
Gama, from Vera Cruz, with yellow
fever on hoard. The sick were reported
to be convalescing and needing no assist
ance. The bark was prohibited from
coming nearer than ten miles from -Mobile
bar, and no pilot was allowed to go on
board. She was ordered to Ship Island,
and set sail at once with a fair wind.
A Murderer Lynched.
Chicago, August 4.—A dispatch from
Pine Bluff. Ark., says that a man named
Barker, living on Hurricane creek, in the
centre of this State, killed his daughter
upon the announcement of her intention
to marry a certain man against his wishes.
The neighbors hung Barker iu his front
yard.
Bush Fires in British Columbia.
Victoria, It. C., August s.—Bush tires
have spread over the entire country, and
everywhere tlame and smoke reign su
preme. Vancouver's Island is similarly
affected. The sky is filled with a smoke
so dense that the sun’s rays cannot break
through it. There has lieen no rain for
nearly three months.
Fatally Beaten in an Asylum.
Philadelphia. August 5,-Wm. A. J.
Fish died in the Norristown insane hos
pital this morning, where he was brutally
beatten by James Gatley, one of the at
tendants, bn July 3. A Coroner’s inquest
will be held to-morrow, and eff'orts will be
ntad? to have Gaffey, who is at large,
arrested.
Revolution in Hadajoz.
Lisbon, August s.—lt is reported here
that a military rising has taken place in
the Spanish province of Badajoz on the
Portuguese frontier, and that the regular
authorities have Been arrested. The tele
graph and railway lines between Bada
joz and Portugalare interrupted.
Pierre Cot Dead.
Paris, August 4.—Pierre August Cct,
the French painter, is dead.
Mrs. S. M. Robbins, Wadley, Ga., says:
“I found great relief using Brown's Iron
Bitters for spinal att'eetion of long stand
ing.”
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1883.
IRELAND AND THE IRISH.
Tlie Lauding of the Informers Forbid
den at Melbourne on Account of a Plot.
Dcblix, August 4.—lt is stated that
the informers, Kavanaugh, Joseph Han
lon and Joseph Smith, were prevented
from landing at Melbourne because a plot
to murder them had baen discovered. A
certain telegram about them was recently
sent to an Irish merchant at Melbourne.
London. August 4.—At the final ex
amination of O’Donnell, a box was-pro
duced belonging to the prisoner labeled
Capetown, and containing a wood cut of
Carey and papers of American citizen
ship.
The 1 i.nes publishes a letter which
states that the Irish National League has
decided to call a series of conventions in
till the counties of Ireland, with a view
tochosing a Central Executive Council.
Arrangements are being made to resume
the propaganda for securing an Irish Par
liament, peasant proprietary, and the
adoption ol other measures desired by the
Irish. It is also intended to hold in the
autumn of l*i<4 a general convention of
the Irish societies throughout the world.
M ashington, August 4.—The Com
missioners of Emigration of New York
have made report to the Treasury in re
gard to the remonstrance of the British
Government to the return of several aided
emigiants from Ireland on the ground
that they were paupers. The report and
accompanying affidavits made by the re
turned emigrants show that they have no
relatives in the United States, and that
they were taken from the workhouse at
Cahircivtfcn, where they had been inmates
for years, that they were unable to take
cure of themselves, and desired to return
to Ireland.
London, August s.—The murder of
James CaVey, the informer, continues to
be the sole subject of conversation in
Dublin. Carey himself chose to go to
Natal. He would not go to Australia be
cause he knew that many Fenians fearing
arrest had escaped to that country. It is
tin open secret that Earl Spencer, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, is much annoyed
by the murder of Carey and the preven
tion of Kavanagh and the other informers
from landing at Melbourne. There has
been some angry correspondence between
Earl Spencer and prominent officials on
the subject . The Ohseroet to-day says that
it is rumored that Kavanagh lias been
murdered.
Melbourne, August 5. — Kavanaugh
and other informers are still on board of
the steamer Parthan. The government of
New South AVales are negotiating with a
view to settling the difficulty.
Buffalo, August 5. —A man named
John Feenry, claiming to be an Irish pa
triot, who has been imposing upon the
patriotism of leading Irishmen in this
city, has been exposed through a letter
front the headquarters of the Chief Secre
tary for Ireland at Dublin Castle as one
of the rankest of impostors.
Feenry claimed to have been incarce
rated in Kilmainham jail, and to have
suffered cruel tortures. Another portion
of his story was that he had been offered
£SOO to testify for the British Government
in the recent murder trials. It turns out
that he was “assisted” to Canada as an
immigrant pauper, and that he was
never in Kilmainham jail.
MONARCHY'S UPRISING.
Tlie Recently Discovered French Plot
Treated Lightly.
London, August 4.—The Paris corres
pondent of London papers do not consider
the plot to restore monarchy in France of
a serious character. The coachmen who
were arrested had papers in their posses
sion which indicated the existence of a
secret Legitimist committee of action.
The Standard says that this committee
consisted of servants and small trades
men.
The Paris Temps treats the matter
as without importance.
Paris, August 4. — Le Temps, in refer
ring to the plot to restore the monarchy
in France, says: “The official report de
clares that a political organization, pos
sessed of various means of action, exists
in France, apparently patronized by Le
gitimist chiefs. The Public Prosecutor
lias been instructed to conduct the trial
of the arrested conspirators. Several Le
gitimists will he examined.
Count Foueher de Careil has been
appointed French Ambassador at Vienna.
Lishon,Jnly 5,12 p. m.- -According to the
latest report, the rising, which was in the
Republican interest, was speedily sup
pressed by the troops from Madrid. Re
ports relative to the movement come from
tlie Portuguese railway employes sta
tioned on the frontier, who say that the
rising took place at 1 o’clock Sunday
morning. The Captain General of the
province is at present on a furlough at a
Portuguese watering place.
CAR ROBRERS CAPTURED.
One of the Most Notorious Bands in the
Country Broken L T p.
St. Louis, August s. —Dick Lindsay,
liis son Thomas Lindsay, Ellis Rhodes,
Mace Jones and William West, mem
bers of a gang of railroad car thieves,
were arrested in Brooklyn, 111., opposite
this city, early this morning by Detective
Furlong and six of his men belonging
to the secret service of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad. These men are all
negroes and belonged to the same gang of
which several members, were arrested
some weeks ago and are now in jail at
Belleville, 111. Fourteen of the gang
have so far been arrested, and the
prospect is that all the remainder,
seven in number, will be captured in
a few days, when one of the most
effective bands of railroad thieves ever
organized will have been thoroughly
broken up. Mace Jones is the man who
killed Town Marshal Green in Brooklyn,
last Tuesday night, and Dick Lindsay
and Rhodes shot and very seriously
wounded a car watchman named Mc-
Lean three weeks ago.
Egypt's Cholera Plague.
Constantinople, August 4.—The In
ternational Sanitary Council will impose
a twenty-five days’ quarantine on vessels
which have had .cases of cholera on
board. Other rigid restrictions have also
been enforced.
Alexandria, August 4.—Five deaths
from cholera occurred here yesterday.
Simla, August 4.—-The Indian Govern
ment will send to Egypt'seven doctors
and fortj assistants.
Washington, August 4.-—Consul Gen
eral Stevens, at Smyrna, in a communi
cation to the National Board of Health,
gives it as his opinion that the plague in
Egypt is not Asiatic cholera, and gives
his reasons for his opinion.
London, August s.— The total number
of deaths from cholera in Egypt on Sat
urday was 870, including 170 "at Cairo, 27
at Rosetta, I*7 in the Province of Gar
bieh, 105 in the Province of Dakahch and
14 iu Beni Suef. The deaths iu Egypt on
Sunday number 728, including 100 at
Cairo, 32 at Rosetta, 100 in Garbich, 44 in
Dakalich and 89 in Beni Suef. Sunday’s
return is somewhat incomplete, but there
seems to have been an improvement since
Saturday.
On Saturday three persons died from
cholera at Alexandria and two at Ram
leh, one a British soldier.
Feruvian Peace Negotiations.
Lima, August 4.—A correspondent ot
Elzonxorcieo at Valparaiso writes that it
is stated that negotiations with Garcia
Calderon, respecting his acceptance of the
terms of peace, signed with Gen. (j. G.
Leeize, are progressing favorably. lie an
nounces the liberation of Francisco Gar
cio Leon, the Peruvian Ex-Minister of War,
who is about to leave for Callas.
Canada’s New Governor General.
Ottawa, August 4.—Owing to recent
threats made by the Inviucildes, a guard
is to be mounted at Rideau Hall after the
arrival of the Marquis of Landsdowne,
and is to be supplied with ball cartridges.
Quebec, August 4.—Lord Lome and
the Princess Louise will remain here
until the arrival of Lord Landsdowne.
A Boy Restored by Apaelieg.
San Carlos, Arizona, August 4.—A
sou of Don Jose Morel, of San Juan, Mex
ico, who was stolen two years ago by
Apaches, was delivered tip to-day by
Chief Nara. The boy was afraid to "reply
to his father in the" presence of the In
dians, but the moment after their depart
ure rushed into his arms.
Grevy and Leo Agreed.
Rome. August 4.— Negotiations lre
tween the Vatican and France in regard
to religious affairs have, through a letter
of President Grevy, resulted in accord on
the principal questions at issue. In
structions in accordance with the ar
rangement made, have been sent to the
Papal Nuncie at Paris.
Laycock Challenges Haitian.
Melbourne, August 4.—Laycock, the
Australian sculler, has issued a chal
lenge to Hanlan, to row a race for the
championship of the world, on the Para
matta (New South Wales) course; the
stakes to be £I,OOO a side.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL
POLITICAL AND GENERAL TOP
ICS OF INTEREST.
Tlie General Temperance Bill—The Aid
for the Maimed Confederate Soldier*
—The Candidates for the Judgeship— A
Revolver Recklessly Fired In the
Kimball House.
Corresporuience of the Morning Xeics.
Atlanta, August 4.— As this is an “off
day” with the General Assembly, I can
devote myself to a little gossip about mat
ters and things in general, as there is no
excitement prevailing either in or out of
the capitol building.
Now that the election of an Associate
| Justice is over, we have few visitors.
i When the redistricting bill first came up,
• there was a rush of Congressmen and
Judges (a wicked reporter said that the
Judges wanted to be Congressmen), but
the firm course ol the Senate soon sent
them home with a big flea in each ear.
It has been said that the present Legisla
ture has a head of its own, and Congres
sional aspirants can't smash its redis
tricting slate in a hurry.
The friends of anew capitol are just
now hard at work to secure a favorable
influence for that project. A compromise
is talked about, by which the cost is to be
reduced to one million dollars, with iron
clad provisions against any future in
crease. Atlanta is very anxious to com
mence the job this year, but I fear she
will have to make a pretty large contribu
tion to the fund for laying the Toundation
before the work is inaugurated.
While there is a strong feeling in favor
of a School of Technology, there is already
cropping out a sectional feeling in regard
to the matter of its location, as I sug
gested might be the case. Augusta,
Macon, Columbus and Atlanta, with
their numerous manufacturing enter
prises, could easily establish preparatory
schools for technical instruction as feeders
to the proposed higher institution. This
done, it would matter little to these cities
where the School of Technology was
located. There must be harmony of
action to secure the final passage of the
bill.
hie fate ok the general temperance
BILL
is still in doubt. The truth is, to speak
plainly, the friends of temperance are di
vided among themselves, and for the past
four years the General Assembly lias been
badly informed as to the real purposes
and wishes of the true temperance people
of the State. Divided counsels and the
defection of some of the temperance ad
vocates have resulted in no progress to
wards securing any kind of healthy
general temperance legislation. It is
a singular fact that some of the local
temperance bills for several years past
have been introduced and advocated bv
members who not only were drinking
men, but who got drunk the same daj r
they introduced the bills. It is said tha't
these are the men who feel the need of
some restraining temperance legislation.
That may be true, but the only safety for
such men is to exercise sufficient will
power to lie able to pass twenty barrooms
a day and not be tempted to go in and
drink. It is the desire for whisky that
needs to tie suppressed first, otherwise
that unsatisfied craving will sooner or
later overleap all legal barriers and find
its gratification in illicit whisky.
Speaker Garrard well says: “It is never
too late to correct an error,” and I ac
cept the proposition. In the report of the
Stephens Memorial Services, which were
held separately in the Senate and House,
the memorial of tlie joint committee was
printed in the Morning News as having
been presented in the House by Hon. N.
fl-:. Harris, of Bibb, when it should have
appeared in the Senate proceedings
its presented by Senator S. B. Hoyt, of
Fulton, the author. It is due Senator
Hoyt and his friends in Savannah to make
this corrrection, which I do at the request
of Representative Harris, who does not
desire to receive the complimentary
words of commendation that justly be
long to Senator Hoyt. The memorial of
the late Gov. Ilerschel V. Johnson, also
an elaborate tribute, was prepared by
Hon. 11. G. Wright, member from Wash
ington county, and not Richmond or Jef
ferson, as some reports state.
The seating of Anthony Wilson, from
Camden, gives the House five members
by the name of Wilson, who are from
Bulloch, Greene, Sumter, Camden and
Mclntosh. There are four members
named Jones, from DeKalb, Bartow,
Twiggs and Elbert. Then we have the
Barksdales, from Lincoln and Wilkes;
the Hudsons, from Jackson and Webster;
the Johnsons, from Lee and Echols; the
Moores, from Hancock and Talia
ferro; the Faulks, from Berrien and
Coffee; the Rays, from Coweta and
Crawford; the Riches, front Paulding
and Wayne; the Russells, from Clarke
and Decatur; the Smiths, from Bryan and
Wilkinson; the Sweats, from Clinch and
I’ierce; the Wrights, from Floyd anti
Washington. There is a Greer in the
Senate and a Geer in the House, but the
printer will make them both Greer. Peek,
of Rockdale, is also made to read Peek.
Wald loop is printed Waldrop and Flynt
is changed to plain Flint. Avary also
becomes plain Avery, while Johnston is
changed to Johnson and Johnson to John
ston.
The Senate has passed a bill giving
maimed Confederate soldiers new artifi
cial legs or arms every three instead of
five years, as now provided under the
constitution, by the act September 20,
1870. As about 050 maimed soldiers have
drawn the money for artificial limbs, in
sums varying from S4O to SIOO each,
should this bill pass the House, and be
approved by the Governor, it will cause
quite a little sum to be distributed to the
maimed veterans of the State. Chatham
county, however, will get only a
small proportion, there being but
five soldiers who have as yet drawn
money from this fund. They are: Wm.
11. Patterson, leg, $100; David Wald
hauer, arm, $00; T. J. Rogers, leg, $75; R.
Montgomery, arm, $00; Fred A. Fink,
arm, S4O. The act does not provide for
furnishing the artificial limbs, but the
money with which to supply them, so
that of the 950 who have taken advantage
of the act all have drawn the money,while
hut very few have procured artificial
limbs.
OK THE RECENT CANDIDATES
for Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of Georgia, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Justice Martin J.
Crawford, who graduated at neither the
State University nor Mercer University,
there were three candidates from the
former and one candidate from
the latter institution. Colonel W. H.
Dabney graduated front the State
University in 1839, Judge E. H. Pottle in
1843, and Col. Win. S. Basinger in 1846,
while Col. M. 11. Blandford graduated at
Mercer University in 1844. Two ot Col.
Dabney’s classmates have been on the
Supreme Court bench—Justice R. P,
Trippe and Justice A. M. Speer. Col
Basinger’s class of twenty-three members
has as yet failed to turn out a Judge of
any kind, although Col. Basinger aiufcol.
W. A. Lofton would make excellent
.Judges tor our highest-legal tribunal.
Judge Pottle’s class gave to the Supreme
Court Associate Justice Linton 11.
Stephens, and the Superior Court his own
services. Although a member of the
Confederate Congress for a time Coi.
Blandford has been little in politics, but
a good deal of a soldier and lawyer. Brave
as a lion and gentle as a dove, he has
drawn around him a circle of’ friends
whose fidelity and zeal have placed him
at last on the Supreme Court
bench. Of a jovial disposition,
lie has been the life of the social gather
ings in his circuit for years past, and no
lawyer could be more missed. How well
do I remember the group of genial Colum
bus lawyers that made the Chattahoochee
circuit the most pleasant and enjoyable in
the State. Ingram, Blandford, Benning
and Crawford were the central figures.
The latter two are dead, and the absence
of Blandford will leave the witty Ingram
a lone figure among the younger lawyers.
MATTERS IN GENERAL.
“Randall Franklin,” in the Sandersville
Herald, refers to Gen. Henry K. McCay
of this city, as a native of Rhode Island!
He was born in Pennsylvania, a State that
has one or two counties about as large as
the whole of Rhode Island.
General Ord was not onlv possessed of
a peculiar name, but he inflicted the same
thing on his own sons. He was named
Edward Otho Cresap Ord, and he called
his som? Placidus Ord and Santiago Ord
The fact that ex-Governor James M.'
Smith presided at the meeting called to
organize the Georgia Bar Association,
recently held in Atlanta, has caused his
name to be reported as President ot the
association, that honor was bestowed
upon Colonel L. N. Whittle, of Macon,
who is the Vice President of the Ameri
can Bar Association for Georgia.
As the office of Railroad Commissioner
belongs to the whole State, it is probable
that Governor McDaniel will be governed
largely by his-own good judgment in re
appoiuttng Major Campbell Wallace or
choosing a successor. Although a rail
road director himself, the Governor has
positively asserted that this fact shall in
no wise influence his official course as to
railroad matters.
is a centr ? l P° int for shippers
of butter, eggs poultry, etc., which has
increased the business of the Southern
Express Company to an enormous ex
tent. Almost daily the Union Passenger
depot is made a nuisance to travelers by
huge piles of chicken coops, butter can's
or egg boxes. As all these coops, cans
and boxes have been returned free to
the snippers, the express company has
had a large amount of dead head
work to do. Capt. Rulbert, however, has
adopted anew plan bv which to gather
some revenue from these boxes, crates
and cans when returned empty. The
shipper is now compelled to purchase
tickets, sold at a low rate, and each box,
can, crate or coop, must be accompanied
oy a ticket when it comes to the office
empty to be returned to the country mer
chant, who refills it and ships it back
again.
the reukllcss firing
of a revolver in the Kimball House rotun
da a tew nights ago, by which the lives
of several gentlemen were in danger,
seems to have escaped the attention of
the officers of the iaw. Neither of the
parties, so far as I know, have yet been
arrested, nor did any policeman put in
an appearance, although two hundred
ladies and gentlemen were startled bv
the sudden echo of the shot. There should
be a law making it a felony for any man
to draw, much less tire, a revolver in any
public place where there is a crowd of
people. But for this bullet strik
ing the iron heating pipes
it is probable that someone of the specta
tors opposite the parties would have been
killed. The delegates present at the
Southern Dental Convention were aston
isiied that such a shooting could occur in
so public a place and manner, and yet
neither party be arrested nor in anv w'av
held responsibly for the disturbance. 'I
should not refer to this matter were it not
that similar cases are ot frequent occur
rence in the State, and the officers of the
law need stirring up in the matter.
It is passing strange how the world
loses sight of its noblest characters, not
only those in quiet walks, but the most
conspicuous public actors. Miss Sarah
L. E. Carter is a name that many Savan
nah people will recognize. She lived a
long and useful life, and being without
home, husband or children of her own,
gave her best years and most earn
est labors to the work of caring for orphan
children. On July 7 she died in Boston,
in a church institution in which she
sought relief for her bodily ills. She was a
sister of Rev. Dr. A. Beach Carter, of New
York, whose father (Rev. Abiel Carter)
and mother nobly died at their post of
duty in Savannah during a yellow fever
epidemie many years ago. In
18(58, Miss Carter aided in the establish
ment of an Orphans’ Home in New Hamp
shire, and to the end of her holy and
zealous life she was devoted to its inter
ests. In the hearts of hundreds of or
phans blessed by her love, care and coun
sel, her memory will be kept green for
years to come. In The Churchman ap
pears a long and deserved tribute to her
memory, in which occurs a beautiiul
poem, commencing with this verse:
“Best with faithful, loving heart,
Like Mary thou the better part
Didst choose, and at the Master’s feet
Didst lay thine all, a gift complete'.
The offering which He loves the best,
And welcomes, and pronounces blest.”
Chatham.
THE COTTON CROP.
Injury front Cold Weather ami Drought
—A Decreased Y’ield.
The cotton crop report of the Memphis
district, which embraces North Missis
sippi, West Tennessee, North Arkansas
and North Alabama, as compiled by Hill,
Fontain & Cos. for the month of July, says:
"The cotton plant, which was stunted
by the cold spell of May 21 to 24, has never
fully recovered from ‘tne damages then
sustained, and the drought which has
prevailed since early in July has pre
vented a heavy growth of the plant, and
the injury is permanent. Un
der the most promising conditions of the
weather during the next six weeks there
will be a decreased yield in
the Memphis district of at
least Vl]4 per cent. as compared
with last year. The rains during the past
few days have doubtless afforded partial
relief, but the growing cotton crop con
tinues iu a critical state, and is subject
to still further injury by unfavorable
weather, while the smallness of the plant
warrants tears of great damage in the
event of an early frost.
“The following is an aggregate of 338
responses bearing the average date of
Ju y 28: 168 report the weather during
July as having been favorable, 170 unfa
vorable, 88 more favorable than last year,
182 less favorable, 68 about the same; 192
report stand good, 50 fair, 96 poor, 126 re
port stands in better condition than last
year, 124 not so good, 88 about the same, 282
report the plant forming, 56 not so well, 188
report the crop in a good condition, 70 in
a poor condition. All report the plant
smaller than usual; 212 report the pros
pect favorable for an average yield; 28 as
being entirely dependent on the season;
98 report a decreased yield owing to the
drought. Average decrease 12)i percent.”
Georgia’s Crops.
The July report of Georgia crops bv the
Commissioner of Agriculture show
the following condition and prospect
August 1, compared with an average
crop:
Cotton. Corn.
North Georgia 70 ss
Middle Georgia 73 67
Southwest Georgia . . so 82
East Georgia 68 67
Southeast Georgia 87 88
For the State 75 74
The dry w eather during June and Julv
was the prime cause of the great lalling
oil' in the prospect. Large portions of
the State have had no good rain since the
23d of April. The southern half of the
Btate, generally, enjoyed good seasons up
to July 4th, and the hot dry winds since
that date have done their work. The cot
ton prospect is most gloomy in North and
Middle Georgia, as these sections are still
suffering for rain. No rust or caterpillars
of consequence, though a few correspond
ents in Southwest Georgia are apprehen
hensive of serious damage from caterpil
lars.
A IV hole Block Burned in San Francisco
San Francisco, August 4.—This morn
ing on Post street a tire destroyed almost
an entire block. Thirty buildings were
burned to the ground, among them the
Winter Garden Theatre and Druid’s Hall.
The losses are estimated at $31X1,000, and
the insurance is believed to be less than
half that amount.
San Francisco, August s.—Yester
day's fire on Post street laid two-thirds of
the entire block in ashes. It started in
the Winter Garden Theatre, a frame
building, surrounded by other frame
structures. From a little below Suiter,
on Stoekton street, to the armory on Post
street, everything was burned, but
the tire was confined within these boun
daries by the efforts of the firemen and
was got under control by 2:45 o’clock.
Harry Morgan, an actor, was burned to
deatli and several other persons were
fatally injured by jumping from windows.
The firemen behaved admirably, saving
many lives that would otherwise have
been lost. The losses, it is believed, do
ffot exceed S2UO,O(X). The insurance is
$70,000.
The French in Tonqnin.
London, August 4.—A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company from Paris
says that M. Challomel Lacour, Minister
ot Foreign Atfairs, has had an interview
with Marquis Le Seng, the Chinese Am
bassador, and it is reported that the former
demanded the withdrawal of the Chinese
troops from the Tonquin frontier.
6 Zanzibar, August s.—The Hoos still
surround Tamatave, hut tbev appear to
be demoralized. Thev have not made any
attacks since July 1.1. The French are
unable to advance because of the small
ness of their force.
Paris, August s.—lmmediately after
the departure of the French the Annam
ites reoeeupied the positions which the
French had taken in the sortie from
Namdinhi.
Progressive Unionists Warlike.
New York, August 4.—The troubles
between the cigar manufacturers and
their employers seem likely to break out
afresh. To-dav the Progressive union men
employed in Uttenberg’s shop quit work
because their employer engaged ten men
belonging to the International Union.
This action of Otteuberg’s men is not
countenanced by the employes of other
manulacturers, as under the late agree
ment the latter were to employ men from
either union.
Granted Leave of Absence.
Washington, August 4.—Lieutenant
\V . P. Rav and Master J. M. Helm, of the
Navy, now attached to the Ranger, at
Mare Island Navy Yard, have been greeted
leave of absence in order to allow their
.employment by the Governments of Gua
temala and Mexico in connection with
the establishment of anew boundary line
between those countries.
BLUECOATA XI) BLACKLEG
TWO CALLINGS WHICH GO HAND
IN HAND IN NEW YORK.
The Charge as Illustrated In the Nugent
Case— Blnecoats Guzzled with Free
Beer and Tipped by Cut-Throats and
Fallen Women—Policemen as Perjur
ers—New York by Gaslight.
New \ ork, August 2. —The arrest of
ex-policeman Nugent in Hoboken on Sat
urday, under circumstances which prove
him to have long been a professional high
wayman and thief, and his subsequent
experience of Jersey justice, causes one to
wonder whether there are other criminals
who still wear the police uuilorm to com
mit burglaries in. A review of Nugent’s
career inclines us to answer this question
in the affirmative. For seven year 9he
was a member of the New York police
force. During that time, on several oc
casions, burglaries were committed on
his “beat,” in the very premises he was
paid to protect. Although he was more
than once arrested for complicity in these
burglaries, he not only managed to escape
conviction, but still preserved his position
as policeman. Consider what must be
the demoralization of a department which
permitted a man to remain one of its mem
bers who was continually under suspicion
of burglary! A policeman certainly
ought to be as much above suspicion in
regard to the eighth commandment as
Ca:sar required his wife to be in regard to
the one next to it. Fortunately for Nu
gent, the Police Commissioners were
not so requiring, and it was not until he
hail been proved guilty of complicity in the
the Manhattan Bank that he
was dismissed the force. The jury which
tried hint for the crime declared him inno
cent in the teeth of positive proof to the
contrary, and Nugent caused the Com
missioners to pay hint his salary during
the eight months he lay in prison await
ing trial. Consider what must have been
tlie mismanagement which permitted a
policeman to draw SBOO lor the time spent
in jail under charge of felony! Since his
acquittal by what was a worse miscar
riage of justice than that of even the star
route and Duke trials, Nugent lias en
deavored to support himself by keeping a
saloon at Houston and Thompson streets,
which is a resort for thieves. This ap
parently has not proved a profitable
speculation, and it was in trying to make
money by a more familiar enterprise that
lie earned for himself ten years incarcera
tion in tlie Trenton prison.
Now, I am not prepared to say that
there are many men, or even one man,
like Nugent on the New Y'ork police force,
but if there be no policemen in collusion
with felons for the committal ol crime,
there are scores who connive at misde
meanors and wink at the infraction of
law. A large fraction of the force is prac
tically in the pay of the saloon keepers
who do business on Sunday’, or after 1 a.
m., which is the legal closing hour. So
systematically do the police sell permis
sion to violate the law that the lager beer
saloon keepers call upon the brewers from
whom they bring their beer to aid in the
purchase. The latter comply with the
demand, for their business would be crip
pled were the Sunday sales of beer put
ail end to, as many saloon keepers sell
more beer on Sunday than during all the
rest of the week put together.
THE CASE OF DRAMATIC HALL.
A disreputable resort in Houston street,
whose rear abuts on the Police Central of
lice, illustrates how the police are liaml
in-glove with law-breakers. Its recent
application for license to sell liquor was
accompanied by police indorsement that
it was a respectable place, and this in the
lace of the fact that it is notoriously the
trysting place of Magda lens and
their dishonest associates. So notorious is
its character that the Board of
Excise was obliged to reject
its application in spite of the police in
dorsement. This rejection, hv the way,
was an instance of straining at a gnat
and swallowing a camel, for the Excise
Commissioners have licensed resorts !fr
more notoriously disreputable. “The”
Alien, the Republican politician, for ex
ample, keeps a licensed place on Bleeck
er street, within a hundred yards of police
headquarters, where thieves and prosti
tutes hold revelry all night long,’while
policemen idly watch those who go in
and out, as they are revealed bv the elec
tric light which flashes over the’door.
It is the social evil, naturally, which
brings most grist to the police mill. Al
though not legally licensed, as thev used
to be in St. Louis, the outcasts of New
York pay a regular tax for the poor privi
lege of plying their trade- but the tax is
paid to the police, and not to the city. It
is safe to say that every disreputable
house in the city, whose character is
known, pays in proportion to its estimated
receipts and number of its inmates, for
immunity from interference bv the po
lice. The poor creatures who ’walk the
streets are obliged to “see” the police
man on post to secure themselves from
continual arrest. It is estimated that the
police Captains in whose precincts the so
cial evil flourishes gather hundreds of dol
lars a month from this source, while the
emoluments of the force throughout the
city from the Sunday liquor tax include,
in addition to cash receipts, no end of had
cigars and worse whisky.
A POUCKMAN’S LIFE
indeed ought to be a happv one in New
York, for he rides on the Elevated and
street cars for nothing, has tobacco and
liquor free, and, as in the case of Nugent,
may for years unite to his profession oi
policeman that of bank burglar and high
wayman.
Our model policeman who allows him
self to be bribed by a drink, and forces a
cyprian to give him of her scanty earn
ings by threat of arrest, much as "a high
wayman says, “your money or your life,”
very often drinks too much of free liquor
and clubs the wrong man. I mean hits
somebody who has spirit enough to have
him arraigned before the Police Commis
sioners. The trial, however, merely
brings to the front his capability for per
jury, in which he is often aided and
allotted by his brother policemen. Rut it
is when Greek meets Greek—when a po
liceman makes charges against another
policeman—that the tug of war, or rather of
perjury, comes. I have myself heard half
a dozen policemen on a side make under
oath diametrically opposing statements,
both of which could by no possibility be
true, and about w hich’ there could be no
mistake; and it would be hardly drawing
a very long bow to say that there have
been more perjuries committed in the
court room at the Police Central office, at
the trials of policemen, than in the same
length of time in all the rest of the world
put together! At least that has been the
cheerful impression left on my mind after
witnessing a police trial.
Like master, like man, the heads of
this demoralized department are politi
cians who merely use their offices to
further their political ends. Promotion
with them becomes a political matter,
and a police captaincy depends not on
merit, but on the political “pull” the
candidate has. Politics alsooften prevent
a policeman who has been proved guilty
of wrong-doing, in spite of his perjurv,
from being punished, and when a police
man who has this “pull” gets into trouble,
his political friends flock to headquarters
and make representations which are far
too often successful in mitigating the
penalty due his deeds.
1 heard recently of the practices of a
class of criminals, who, judgimr from the
infrequency of their arrest, must also pur
chase police immunity. A physician in
good standing was in Fifth avenue about
dusk the other evening, when it began to
rain. As he put up his umbrella, a well
dressed woman stepped from under a tree
and, in a self-possessed but lady-like w av,
said: “May I beg you to shelter me under
your umbrella, sir? I am going but a few
blocks.” The physician was only too de
lighted to share his umbrella, and wished
she were going further. When he reached
his home, however, he found that one of
his diamond studs was missing.
A PATIENT OF THIS PHYSICIAN’S
either met this same woman, or one even
better dressed and more lady-like, appa
rently, coming down the steps of his house
in Twenty-first street as he was about to
ascend them. He half thought that he
recognized in her a friend of his wife’s,
and readily assented when she asked him
to walk with her and hear a private com
munication. He listened attentively to
her imaginative efforts until he caught
both her hands under his coat seeking
his watch and studs.
A mercantile library clerk told me to
day of literary ways that are dark. I had
alluded to the story that Kinglake wrote,
“Eothen,” in his study in England with
out ever seeing the countries he describes
in that charming book. “I don’t
know about Kinglake,” said Mr. Clerk,
“but I am almost certain, that what pur
port to be books of travels in far off
quarters of the globe have been written by
men who never traveled further than this
library, and who compiled all their iafor
genuine books of travels
which they found here.” He mentioned
one or two men who have written travel
ers tales, and went on to explain that the
reason of there being so many theological
works of a certain class in this librarv was
because a well known Doctor of Divinitv
had procured their purchase in order to
compile from them a book which was in
tended to be the greatest effort of his life?
One of the papers here was decidedly
too previous last Sunday. Its column de-
' r °tfd to fashionable intelligence told of a
ball yvlnch had been given the previous
evening at the Pequot House in New Lon
don, and which had afforded opportunitv
for Creighton Webb to show- his social
superiority to the other New Y'ork beaux
who were present. Asa matter of fact,
the hall did not come off, owing to tlie
death of one of the inmates of the hotel
and the presence of the dead body in the
building, combined with a terrific thun
der storm, which lasted seven hours,
rendered Saturday night at the Pequot
House memorable for something very dif
ferent from the pomps and vanities of this
wicked world.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE SOMETIMES THE
BEST. .
On the breaking out of the telegraph
ers’ strike I considered its chances for
success almost hopeless. The surrender
ol the American Rapid caused me to
modify my opinion, but the events ot the
past week serve to confirm my original
impression. People here apparently sym
pathize with the strikers, but compara
tively few think that thev will succeed.
‘ N. D.
XORVIN GREEN IN LONDON.
Western TTnfon’s President Dined and
Toasted by British Capitalists.
London Dispatch, 3d.
A dinner was given to-night in honor of
I)r. Noryin Green, President of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, by the
Chairman and Directors of the’ Eastern
Telegraph and the Eastern Telegraph Ex
tension Companies, at the Star and Gar
ter, Richmond. Mr. John Pender pre
sided. Dr. Green, replying to a toast,
acknowledged the distinguished honor
paid him to-night and the cordial hospitali
ty he had received throughout his sojourn
in this country,and his indebtedness to Air.
Pender and the entire telegraph fraternity
for constant attentions.
He had seen something of city and
country, and found our mother country
kind and agreeable, and was loth to
leave her. He everywhere saw culture,
thrift and progress, power and dominion
of land and sea, but the sheet anchor of
strength was the latent wealth of the
people and their money investments
throughout the world.
Here was the money centre where every
conceivable industry and enterprise in
every country was owned and controlled.
Here, mightier still, were matte the im
mense investments in the bonds of every
country, which, amounting to $2,000,000,*-
000 in the United States bonds, must be
triple that amount in those of other lands.
America was paying England $120,000,000
interest per annum, the greater part of
which returned the balance of trade in
her favor and the profit thereon.
Almost every State and county in the
United States has some partof its domain
mortgaged in the interest of Btitish bond
holders.
America had not done ill by making
these heavy liabilities. She was a young
and growing country, with vast undevel
oped resources. Railroads had vastly
advanced the worth of her productions.
To build them we had to borrow, for we
never could wait. We had greatly bene
fited by tliese loans, and could well afford
to pay the interest. We are a fast peo
ple, pushing 011 in the nice for wealth.
The English are slow aud thoughtful, and
are never in a burry. With us things
move so rapidly that if one is not in a
hurry, he gets left.
He pointed to the great progress made
during the last sixty years in the practi
cal arts, useful inventions and improve
ments, particularly in America. He was
naturally proud of his own country for
having given to the world the electric
telegraph, the telephone and tlie electric
light. And what a wonderful revolution
had the telegraph caused in the modes of
communication. The public had been
slow with its belief in it. and slower with
its patronage. It now could not do with
out it.
Its greatest extension was within the
last seventeen years. The cable com
panies extending him this hospitality to
uigbt could girdle the earth with the
length of the cables they had laid. The
Western Union Company had increased
its plant five-fold, spanned a third of the
earth and had sufficient wire to girdle it
fifteen times. In the meantime our capi
tal stock had been increased only two
fold. With 75,000 miles of wire it was
$41,000,000; with 375,000 miles, it is SBO,-
000,000. The market value of our shares
wtis 40 to 60 per cent. They are better
worth par now than 40 then.
He believed that telegraphy was still in
its infancy. Many important uses had
yet to come. As an interest saving method
it must generally he used for bankers’
drafts, and bring about more intimate
commercial and speculative relations be
tween the two countries. The hours of
the exchanges in London and New Y'ork
must conform, so that those bodies may
he in session at the same time and con
nected by cable. This would result in
vastly increased uses of the telegraph.
There was, therefore, uo property more
secure and no enterprise more promising
than the telegraph. Its necessity and
usefulness must continue to increase in
popular appreciation.
Dr. Green continued as follows:
“And now I come to bid you a grateful
farewell. I have enjoyed much of your
hospitality and had many occasions to
drink with you to the health of Her Maj
esty the Queen. which I have uniformlv
done with a hearty good will, for, if you
must have a Queen, you certainly have
one that Englishmen have reason to be
proud of, as being honored and respected
all over the world, alike for her wise and
prudent rule, for her very exemplary
court, ano for her noble and generous
benevolence. My criticism upon vour
form of government is not that you have
a sovereign, but that you have
but one. We have 50,000,000 of sov
ereigns in our country and are rather
partial to them. The title may be less
appreciated because it is common to all,
but you know we have no title below the
rank of sovereign. Still it is rather re
markable that, with forms of government
so essentially different, there should be
such similarity in freedom and the laws
and in the general promotion’of civil and
religious liberty and protection of life
and property. In these higher aims of
government England and America and
the Anglo-Saxon race march hand in
hand. May they continue to co-operate
in peace and amity till the English tongue
shall become the current language in
every civilized country, and these ad
vanced principles of the English speak
ing people shall impress themselves every
where.”
Hungary's Persecuted Jews.
London, August 4.—There is great ex
citement in Hungary over the result of
the trial of the Jews accused of murder
ing Esther Solvmosi at Presburg. A mob
of anti-semities gathered and became so
hostile in their demonstration against the
Jews that the authorities were compelled
to order out the military to disperse them.
London, August s.—The Jewish resi
dents ol Ekatrinoslav, Russia, were at
tacked by a mob on the 2d inst. The sol
diery had to tie called out to disperse the
rioters, ten of whom were killed and thir
teen wounded. The trouble was caused
by a Jew insulting a peasant woman. The
Town Council of Ekatrinoslav have re
solved to give the Jews 5,000 roubles to
compensate them for their losses and to
provide shelter for those who were ren
dered homeless.
A Prelate’s Funeral.
Lima, via Galveston, August!.—The
body of Bishop Tardora was conveyed to
the Cathedral yesterday, for the ’usual
funeral services, and was buried to-day
with great ceremony. The deceased was
constituted a delegate by the Montcros
Government. Bishop of Cirzco and Tibe
riapolis and Dean of the Lima Cathedral.
His death is much regretted.
One of Alfaro's Minister* Head.
Guayaquil, via Galveston, August
4.—Senor Sembiantes, one of Alfaro’s
Ministers, died at 1 o’clock to-day.
Defaulter Ferguson Pardoned.
Lou is\ ille, August 4. —The Governor
pardoned Ferguson, the defaulting City
Treasurer, last night. .
Off the Track.
One of the incidents of summer travel,
which is not thought enough of, is the ac
cident. It may be only a brui6e, cut, or
sprain, or it may be erions enough to be
fatal, if a remedy is not at hand and
quickly applied. Herein the convenience
and heroic virtue ot Perry Davis’ Pain
Killer comes into play. Be it bruise, or
cut, or sprain, or dislocation, an applica
tion of the remedy on the spot saves many
an after pang. In a railway crash, boat
collision, rowing, fishing, swimming, or
driving accident, he is a real Samaritan
who reaches in his pocket or satchel, and
administers the remedy unto healing.
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A DEATH-BED CONFESSION
AX OHIO MURDER OP 20 YEARS
AGO .JUST REVEALED.
One of the Assassins Tells the Story Be
fore He Dies and an Accomplice Ar
rested—A Fortune of 830.000 the Ob
ject of the Crime—Finding the Skel
eton.
Wheeling (W. Va., Special to the Xew York
Herald, Sd.
The little town of Matamoras, Ohio,
thirty-five miles below this eitv, has just
experienced a singular and uiinaralleled
sensation.
In 18C4 a Xew York syndicate sent a
man. whose name cannot how be recalled,
to Matamoras to prospect for oil land.
He came with a fine team, and had about
him $;>0,0()0 in greenbacks. lie went
from Matamoras to Archer’s Fork, a
short distance above, and stopped with a
man named Ward, whom he took into his
employ. He and Ward prospected about
the country tor a time, when suddeulv he
disappeared.
His team remained at Ward’s, but that
individual said be had absconded
with his employer’s funds apd had left
him the team in payment for his services.
This story was scouted, but there was no
evidence of other facts and it therefor#
had to be accepted. Soon afterwards
Ward’s circumstances underwent a great
change. He was a poor man and owned
a small and sterile farm, which he
disposed ot and moved to Matamoras,
where he purchased a hotel property and
branched out amazingly. About three
-Years ago Ward, while walking iuto the
yard from the house, throw 7 his hands up
and exclaiming, “Oh, my (ltd!” dropped
dead. With his death all talk of the dls
appearance of the New Yorker ended, un
til it was brought back in a thrilling wav
recently.
James West, a good-for-naught about
Matamoras, who had suddenly come into
possession of money a longtime ago, was
taken down with an illness which proved
to be fatal. Finding his end approaching,
he said: “1 have a terrible disclosure to
make; send for a minister.” The miuister
earn.-, and West poured out the long-hid
den mystery concerning the stranger.
Ward had come to West, and told him ot
the prospector’s money and how' easily
they might obtain it. The two men de
cided to murder him. and took into their
confidence a man named Kirkbride, a
butcher in Matamoras. The three way
laid the stranger one night at Archer’s
Forks, and while Ward and West held
him, Kirkbride cut his throat with a
butcher knite. They then robbed hnn
of his jewelry and aheut $30,000 in
money. On one linger was a gold
ring which fitted so tightly they could not
remove it, and they therefore decided to
allow' it to remain. They buried the body
under a manure pile for a few' days, then
dragged it up and threw' it in a well on
Ward's place and filled up the well.
Ward gave out that the well had caved
in in order to cover the crime. The three
divided the money equally and kept their
mouth shut.
West said, in conclusion, they might,
find the skeleton m the well, and could
identify it by the gold ring. Shortly after
making his confession AV r est. gave up the
ghost.
The disclosure created the most intense
consternation and excitement in Mata
moras, though no prompt measures were
taken to institute tue search suggested.
Kirkbride was there, and denied and ridi
culed the story, but after some little time
bad passed the filled-up well was looked
for, found and searched, and the excava
tion brought to light a skeleton, with a
gold ring clinging to the bony finger.
At this the town went wil’d, and Kirk
bride was placed under arrest to answer
the charge.
A Symphony in Coltr.
Xew York Evening Pont.
• At a recent reception given to a party
of artists in this city, it was noticeable
that black and yellow were the favorite
colors, not used in one toilet, but all black
or all yellow dresses seemed to be in the
majority, the yellow ranging in hue from
palest canary to deep amber, a sort of
treacle, and lastly to a golden yellow
brown, with a reddish tinge in it sugges
tive of wall llowers. Marguerites,
hedge-roses, and double white and yel
low hollyhocks, divested of their outside
leaves and made to resemble double roses,
seemed to form the chosen corsage
bouquet, and it was noted as rather a sin
gular fact that as the trains decreased in
size the bouquets increased in circumfer
ence. Some of the dresses were ungrace
fully short, and the bouquets of such an
immense size as to appear top-heavy. If
these monstrosities continue to grow to
larger proportions, some chief leader of
fashion will be obliged to issue an edict
like the one in Elizabeth’s time regarding
high ruffs, prohibiting the bouquet from
measuring over half a yard in width.
One lady, known for her perfect taste
in dress, wore a toilet of black, unrelieved
by any color. The material used was cut
velvet gauze, with a very rich black vel
vet train. She wore soft, drooping, black
feather tips in her hair, held by a diamond
clasp. The feature of the dress w r as some
handsome old paste buttons, which glit
tered down the front of the bodice. The
lady’s young sister wore a dress in per
fect contrast—a white embroidered gauze
train, with skirit of heavy white satin,
white ostrich tips and pearl ornaments
and buttons. Each lad)' wore berthas of
rare old lace and carried jewel-handled
fans of very long ostrich feathers.
Cuban l<‘ I le* at Saratoga.
Correspondence New York World.
The maidens dress becomingly in light
silks and snowy swiss and fluttering rib
bons, and their little feet are hidden in
the most elaborately embroidered slippers
from Havana. They appreciate, it is said,
the harmless sensation they have caused
and are shortly to give a full-dress hop in
which they will favor their guests with
some native Cuban dances.
These Cuhan.families arrived here early
in July, having come directly from their
island home. They are usually very rich
and are planters, tobacco merchants and
professional men. Of late years they
have been complaining of hard times, but
it is noticed that they are still as free and
as generous with their money as any
class here. •
The dark-eyed beauties, and indeed, the
whole Cuban population, mingle enthu
siastically in the life and gayety of the
place. The appearance of the men is
familiar on the streets ol New York, with
their Panama hats, swarthy complex
ions and white linen suits.
In September these damsels with the
midnight eyes, the mothers and fathers of
children, all go back to New York, where
they stop for a month, and then resume
their journey homeward. During this
period they are very liberal in their pur
chases, and return to their homes richly
laden with presents for friends. Some of
these are purchased at Saratoga, and the
summer shopkeepers here receive some
much-needed patronage. But these late
sales help the tradesmen out.
Indulgent parents who allow their chil
dren to eat heartily of high, seasoned food
rich pies, cake, etc,, will have to use Hop
Bitters to prevent indigestion, sleepless
nights, sickness, pain, and, perhaps,
death. No family is safe without them in
the house.
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