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TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
A CHECK ONABSENTEEISM
THE HOUSE VOTES AGAINST SUS
PENDING ROLL CALL.
Several Senate Bill* Given to Hon.e
Committees-House Bills Bead a Second
Time—An Unpromising Prospect for
Next Week -The State Tax Fixed—Bills
Made Laws.
Atlanta. August 11.—As was antici
pated no quorum was present this morn
ing when the House met, and Mr. Sim
mons, of Terrell, moved to suspend the
roll call. At this time only 85 members
were in their seats to respond to their
names. It was plain that no business
could be acted upon by vote, and a motion
was made by Mr. Jordan, of Hancock,
that the regular order, the receiving of
new bills, be suspended and the House
proceed to read bills the second time, or
such other business as the Speaker might
designate.
Mr. Crenshaw, of Troup, objected, but
when the situation was explained to him.
he withdrew his objections, and Mr.
.Jordan’s motion was carried. As the
members had read the Morning News and
other papers on absenteeism and neglect
of public business, it was determined to
move in the direction of a reform of this
growing evil.
Mr. Jordan, of Hancock, offered as a re
solution to meet one branch of the evil,
that on and after Monday next there shall
be no suspension of roll call.
The Committee on Rules met imme
diately and reported favorably ,on the re
solution, and it was passed.
At the suggestion of the Speaker all
Senate bills on the Clerk’s desk were read
the first time and referred to their ap
propriate committees. House bills were
then read the second time. This has
cleared the deck for bills ready lor their
third reading, but the regular order for
Monday is the call of counties for the in
troduction of new business, and on Tues
day tbe Capitol bill comes up, so that very
little business will be finished before the
last of the week if the capitol bill is dis
cussed.
The Governor has signed the bill amend
ing section 44*4 of the Code, as to the es
cape of felons from the penitentiary. Also,
the bill changing the tune ot holding the
Pickins Superior Court. Also, the bill
punishing willful trespass on the lands of
another.
The Governor has ordered that two and
one-half tenths of one per cent, be assess
ed and collected upon the amount of the
value of the taxable property returned,
etc., in this State. The' estimate,
based on a valuation of $300,000,000, gives
a revenue of $750,000. Speciaf taxes,etc.,
will add about $500,000 more.
A colored woman named Martha Cham
berlain, while walking on the Central
Railroad track near Peters street this
morning,was stt tick by the engine of a
(dirt train and killed.
GRAY AND BLUE FAST FRIENDS.
Tlie Reunion on the Battle Ground at
Wilson’s Creek a Si.ccess.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., August 11. I’be
exercises of the reunion at Wilson’s
Creek battle ground took place
yesterday. From 11,000 to 20,000 persons
were present. Governor Campbell,
Acting Governor of Missouri, de
livered the address of welcome, which
was responded to by Gov. Berry, of Ar
kansas; Col. Merritt, of lowa, and others.
Union and Confederate soldiers united in
applauding. The battle-field is about ten
miles from this city, and long
before daylight crowds began to arrive
there. Throughout the reunion the most
cordial feeling has existed between the
old Union anil Confederate soldiers, and
the most courteous *tnd generous senti
ments have been expressed, Not a single
unpleasant word has been uttered to mar
the harmony and enthusiasm. The
men have camped together as though
tibere had never been a difference between
Thefti. An organization to be known as
the Surviving Soldiers’ Union League was
formed on the battleground. It will em
brace soldiers of both armies, and the offi
cers enlisted were chosen from both Fed
era? and Ccufederate soldiers.
MI; R< ANT 11 - E C RASH ES.
F'ngiisJi aii'J Depew Save the Indian
apolis Bank from Sinking.
Indianapolis, August 11. —The con
ference between the Directors oi the First
National Bank and the English-Depew
syndicate ended between 2 and 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Ten minutes before
3 o’clock doors were opened and NV. JI.
English invited tlie depositors to draw
their money. The bank remained opened
an hour after the regular closing time.
All checks presented were promptly
cashed. But few of the large depositor’s
drew their money.
Ruined by Being Long of Stocks.
Philadelphia. August 11.—The sus
pension of NV. IL Miller A Co., stock
brokers at No. .”>33 Chestnut street, is an
nounced. The firm are “long” of several
stocks, among them New -Jersey Central
anil Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia.
Several hundred shares for their account
were sold to-day under the rule of the
Stock Exchange.
Later in the day the suspension of E. P.
Mctzear. stock broker, was announced.
He failed about six weeks ago, but set
tied bis accounts and was reinstated in
the Board,
MEXICO FULL OF SCOI RGES.
All Sorts of Diseases Raging, but None
Traveling Northward.
Washington, August n.—Surgeon
Maf.n, of the Marine Hospital serv ice. has
made a report of the sanitary condition of
Brownsville and Matamoras. Tetanius
is common at Brownsville, but there is
fever of a malignant type. Small-pox is
epidemic at folouria, and measles
are epidemic at Hermosillo and
ihroughout the States of Sonora
uul Sinaloa aud yellow fever at lluataca
iind Osybia, Yucatan, where it has ex
isted for some weeks. The fever is trav
eling west and south and not north. There
is a typhus epidemic in the mountains and
valleys of Durango. Zacatecas. Agnas
and Calientes and it promises to be a
great scourge to Mexico.
PEACE IN SOUTH AMERICA.
The c'emph’te Submission of Gen. Ca
ceres’ .Forces One of the Conditions.
Lima, Aiqgust 11.—Though not general
ly believed, £ll Commercio says that it is
positively known that General Caceres
has solicited and obtained from General
Lynch a safe conduct to Lima, ami is
expected to arrive within three days. The
complete submission of General Caceres’
forces will be one of the conditions of
peace. The names of the expected
Ministers to General Iglesias' Cabinet
are published in various papers, but
are not yet positively confirmed.
THN SINKINC, OF THE LOOMIS.
A Disagreement the Result a Thirty
Days’ Trial.
Wheeling. W. n a.. August H.—One
month ago yesterday the trial of Pilot
Kellar, of the steamer Sciota, which came
in collision with the steamer John Loomis
-July 4, 1882, by which nearly sixty-eight
lives were lost, was commenced at Par
kersburg, in the United States i ircuit
Court, tin Tuesday evening last it was
given to the jury, and yesterday the jury
was discharged’ without agreeing. Eleven
stubborn men are jaid to have caused a
d/sagreement.
OX'ERDI’iT’xVITH MANY LIN ES.
No Ti<i»’no Yet Received from the
IHht' from Steamer Ludwig.
Montreal, August 11.—The over due
steamship Ludwig has lietween 70 anil
si souls on board, 24 of w hom are passen
gers. The vessel and cargo are under
stood to be covered by $500,000 insurance.
Tricycling Down Mount W ashington.
Mount NV ashington, N. IL, August
11.—U. E. Heath, of Chicopee. Mass., rode
dows .Mount NVashington this morning,
from td»e Summit House to the Glen
House. a tricycle. The distance of
eight miles was made in 55 minutes. The
previous recced on a bicycle over the
same road was ? hour and 15 minutes.
A German Frogre«.i<t Returned.
Wiesbaden. August il. tt tbe elec
tion just Wld for the vacant «. s qt in the
Rei/ihstsg a <eapdidate ot the
jiarty was rcturmyl by a large majority.
( etew»yo Going to t i.“termaritzburg.
London, August 11.—A correspondent
of the Ttnies ai Durban says tu*2 Cete
wavo, the Zulu King, is now on his way
to Pietermaritzburg.
Siratinj Jllotninti ilclcnvnm.
SPAIN’S BLOW AT MONARCHY.
Kutz Zorilla the Leader of the Already
Suppressed Revolution.
London, August 11. —A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company from
Paris asserts that Ruiz Zorilla is in
Spain, where he is personally directing
the risings in that country, which, it is
declared, are spreading.
The correspondent of the standard at
Victoria, in the province of Alava, Spain,
says: “1 have interviewed Gen. Quesada,
who believes that order will be maintain
ed in his command of the Six Bosque
provinces. Senors Sagasta Concho and
many other Spanish notables have passed
through here on their way to Madrid to
offer their services to the' Crown. It is
expected that Prime Minister Sagasta will
soon revoke the state of siege.”
The Exchange Telegraph Company has
a dispatch from Gibraltar saying that the
civil officials of the Spanisn town of Algei
ras, on the west side of the bay, and 6
miles from Gibraltar, came into the latter
place last evening and remained there
during the night as they feared a revolt in
the town. Martial law was proclaimed
at Algeiras.
An official dispatch from Jan Ildefonso
says that the insurrection in Spain is en
tirely ended.
Part of the Seo de Urgel insurgents have
entered France and the remainder have
surrendered to the Crown authorities.
Complete tranquility prevails throughout
the country.
The Madrid correspondent of the Post
says that the outbreaks in Spain are the
result of a scheme which Ruiz Zorilla has
been planning for the last six years.
Madrid, August 11.—The King pre
sided at a meeting*! the Cabinet to-night.
It was resolved by the Council to cashier
all officers who took part in the revolts.
The dismissal of the Governor of Seo de
Urgel was gazetted this evening.
The King and Queen of Spain have re
ceived calls from a large number of per
sons who came to protest their loyally to
the crown.
One hundred of the men who participa
ted in the revolt at Seo de Urgel have re
turned from Andorro, whither they had
fled. Fifty have surrendered their arms.
The remainder however, demurred to
yielding them up to civilians, but nego
tiations for their surrender are now pro
ceeding.
Hendaye, August 11.—Gen. Quesada
is massing fresh troops along the line of
the railway in the Basque provinces. The
party favorable to the maintenance of the
Turos in the Basque provinces declare
that they have no connection with the
anti-Troyal agitation.
Rome, August 11. —The Vatican, has
sent instructions to the bishops in Spain
to abstain from sharing in the present po
lical agitation in that country.
PLAGUE RIDDEN EGYPT.
The Rising Nile Destroying Crops and
Cholera Still Raging.
Berlin, August 11.—The German Gov
ernment w ill send a scientific expedition
to Egypt next week to examine into the
origin, nature and cause of the cholera
now’ prevailing there, and to ascertain
the best measures to prevent the spread
of the disease.
Alexandria, August IL—There were
twenty-two deaths from cholera here yes
terday.
It has been decided to abandon the use
of ambulances in carrying corpses to the
cemeteries, in order to pacify the Mussul
men.
The Nile continues to rise. Great
damage has already been done to crops,
in the vicinity of Assisuts the harvest
w’ill be destroyed unless measure? are
taken to prevent the approach of the
water. The English doctors now’ here,
who have bad experience in India in
cholera epidemics, report that the disease
now prevailing in Egypt is a distinctly
different character from Asiatic cholera.
SI NDERLAND AGAIN AROUSED.
Tlie Star ’Vlusic Hall Burns, but All in
the Audience Escape Unhurt*
Si nderland, Eng., August 11.—The
Star Music Hall in this place caught fire
to-night while a perfomance was in pro
gress, and the hall was entirely destroyed.
The audience, which numbered 1,300 per
sons. were w arned in time, and escaped
from the theatre without a panic.
They, however, were only four minutes
in making their exit. No one was hurt. A
half hour after the outbreak of the fire
the roof of the building fell in. This fire
following so closely the recent terrible
panic at Victoria Hall, when nearly two
hundred children were suffocated, caused
great excitement in the town.
ENGLAND S FLEET IN ASIA.
The Forte Willing to Open the Eu
phrates, But Not the Tigris.
Constantinople, August 11. —In con
nection w ith the pending dispute concern
ing the rights of navigation of the British
Lynch Steamship Company, the English
Consul at Bagdad has informed the Gov
ernor that the English fleet would proceed
to Bassorah unless the company's
steamers were allowed to resume their
service. The Porte has instructed Musu
rys Pasha, its Ambassador at London, to
make a friendly arrangement ot the ques
tion. The Porte is willing to concede the
navigation of the Euphrates, but not of
the Tigris.
Vienna's Riotous Workmen.
VIENNA, August 11.—Forty-two of the
workmen who took part in the attempted
demonstration here last evening, before
the office of the Director of Police, owing
to the seizure of workmen’s papers, were
arrested. Fourteen of the persons are
suffering from wounds received during
the charge of the police and dragoons.
The Anti-Jewish Riots at I’estli.
I’ksth, August 11.—The riotous dem
onstrations against the Jews here, which
began by an attack on the house in which
Joseph Scharf had taken refuge was re
sumed last evening. The police were
compelled to tire and charge upon the
mob, several of whom were wounded.
Informers Allowed to Land.
Di blin, August 11.—The Irish 'limes
says that it is understood that the Govern
ment of New South Wales have consented
to allow the informers in thePhu nix Park
murder cases who went out on the steam
er Pathian to land, and have promised to
protect them.
Annexe* for Austria.
London, August 11.—A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company front Ber
lin says that the Austrian. German and
Turkish Governments are engaged in ne
gotiations for the complete annexation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria.
Royal Montenegrins Married
Uettinge, August 11.—I’rince Kara
gcorgevitch and the Princess Zorka. the
daughter and oldest child of the Prince of
Montenegro, were united in marriage
here to-day. The ceremonies were per
formed with great pomp.
De Chambord Losing Strength.
Vienna. August 11.—Intelligence from
Frohsdorfto-day states that the condition
pf tlie Count De Chambord is*again un
favorable. He is slowly losing strength.
His physicians hold a consultation to
morrow.
A Street Whin'll Sinokcs.
Yort Tribune.
The surface of Spruce street, a thorough
fare which gives entranee to the Passaic
Falls grounds at Paterson. N. J., is emit
ting smoke and noxious gases. The street
has been widened within the last few
months by cutting a-»ay rocks in one
place and by dumping yariou* refuse to
form an embankment on the side tow ;ud
a chasm in another, andthis embankment
has a number of cracks iu its face which
emit smoke and so much Ueai that a per
son's hand can not bear contain, Ti?e
tilling iu was done to a large extent by
dumping cinders, slag and coal screen
ings from the locomotive shops. The cin
der* and ashes were dumped w hile still
hot, and have set tire to fee coal
screenings suJ are smouldering under
the surface of Up* street. The tire '
has eaten its way to a par* of the street
where no hot r.sbes were evrnr dumped,
and even then- he smoke and smell Uspe.
This is explained by the fact that tree*
were felled in some piiures to till in the
gaps in the rugged road. These trees
have now eaught'fire from the subterra
nean cinder beds, and are smouldering ,
into charcoal. A Uvu*e occupied by a
family named Chapman etaijils almost
over the smoking ground, and the smoke
and gases go up into the cellar andmaße
rhe inmates sick. They fear that their
will catch tire. The water compa
ny’s pipe* jre to be tapped in such away
as to irrigate xte under-ground beds of
tire and extinguish tt.e ciphers. The phe
nomenon attracts a large crowd 0/curious
spectators.
MURDER AXD LYNCHING.
MILLER COUNTY’ EXERCISED
OVER A HIDEOUS CRIME.
Joseph Fulford, White, Assists two Ne
groes in Founding,Choking aud Stamp
ing the Life Out of his Wife—The
Drowned Body Found —Fulford and
Bradley Hanged and Bullet-Riddled.
Bainbridge, Ga., August 11.—On
Tuesday morning last Mrs. Joseph Ful
ford was missing from her home near
Sprink creek in Miller county, her al>-
senee being first reported by her husband.
The lady had been confined to her bed since
June, and was unable to turn herself in
bed. The neighbors, with Fulford, searched
the country throughout Tuesday and
Wednesday until late in the afternoon,
when her body was found in
Spring creek with numerous hor
rible bruises and gashes about her
head, breast and throat. Fulford
sought continuously to divert the search
from the creek all Tuesday and Wednes
day, and he was put under surveillance
and subsequently under arrest. A Coro
ner’s jury was impaneled and the inves
tigation continued until Tuesday morning
when they returned a verdict to the effect
that the unfortunate woman came to her
death at the hands of “Joe” Fulford
(white), Harry Bradly and Reuben Rober
son (both black). The two negroes had
been arrested on suspicion on account of
something they had been heard to say.
Subsequently they made a full confession
to the effect that Fulford, with the assis
tance of Harry Bradley, had murdered the
woman, the negro beating her on the head
with a club while in bed, while Fulford
choked and stamped her life out with
his shoe heels. They then placed her
body in an ox cart and hauled it one and
a half miles, and sunk it in Spring creek,
where it was found. Thecart tracksand
all other circumstances bore out the con
fession. The three were given a commit
tal trial on yesterday and held for mur
der. -There was talk of burning the trio
to a stake in the cou rt house
yard yesterday in daylight,
but wiser councils prevailed. Last night,
however. Judge Lynch held his court be
tween the hours of 10 and 12, and hanged
Fulford and Bradley to a convenient limb
near the jail, after which their bodies
were perforated with bullets by some of
the jury.
FOLGER’S UNFITNESS.
How the Ohl Treasury Ring at Wash
ington Continues to Carry On Corrupt
Business at the Ohl Stand.
Washington Special.
A good Republican said to me the other
day: “In heaven’s name, is there no
way of getting rid of this old imbecile in
the Treasury Department? Why, this
man Folger knows nothing whatever!
He is managed by the old Treasury
Department Ring as easily as that car
driver out yonder handles his horses.”
“Why, what has he done now?” I
asked.
“Done? Why, he has done everything
he ought not to have done and has left
undone everything he ought to have done,
and there’s lio health in him.”
This Republican belongs to the Episco
pal Church, you see.
“Under Windom,” he went on, “it was
discovered that a very strong and power
ful ring had absolutely controlled the
Treasury Department for years. They
made the Secretaries do anything they
wanted. You see they were all old hand's
and knew the insand outs of the business
thoroughly. Secretaries come and Secre
taries go, and they always go just as they
begin to learn something. These ring
fellows go on forever. And they’ve all
been getting rich. They improve the
shining hours. Upton, late Assistant
Secretary, was the head of the gang. His
chief too! was a man they called a custo
dian. Several hundreds of thousands of
dollars were spent every year by these
fellows, Upton giving the authority anil
the direction, and the custodian doing the
dirty work, in the purchase of
supplies for the government.
They bought carpets and furniture here
in Washington for every custom-house
and United States building in the land.
And didn’t they whack it to the contrac
tors? No man could sell these goods to
the department without making a ‘divvy’
with the ring. The ring furnished desks,
chairs, clocks, tables*, stationery, etc., to
the Sherman nincompoop bureau, when
Sherman was Secretary and wanted to be
President, and the government paid for
the goods. Windom was forced in to an
investigation of these things by poor
Solteldo, that newspaper man whom they
killed up in the liepublican office one
night, you know. ‘Sol’ had a great in
fluence'over Windom. But when these
facts came out Windom got scared, stop
ped the investigation, sent Upton on a
grand junketing tour to Europe at gov
ernment expense—something about bonds
—dismissed ttie custodian, Upton’s tool,
and ordered the clerks who had been mak
ing the investigation back to their desks.
Some think Windom got his orders from
Garfield—nobody’ knows. After he had
been vindicated, Upton resigned anil
started this banking office right up here
in the Corcoran building. And now comes
Folger aud placidly places himself in
the hands of the ring, and refuses to hear
a word against them. lie does whatever
they want him to. Some day he may find
how they have used him. But then, he
thinks he knows everything.
“Sometimes I think he is a mighty sly
one, himself. He put John C. New at the
head of the committee to investigate Hill,
you know. Well, who is New?.
Wasn’t he the man who dis
tributed Dorsey’s greenbacks to buy
Indiana for Garfield? There never
was such a farce as that investigation.
Folger wouldn’t put Hill under arrest.
He left him in charge of all the official
papers. And these papers were neces
sary to prove Hill's guilt. When they
were called for, Hill refused to produce
them, very frequently. Then New and
the rest of the committee would sit back
and laugh at Mureh and the other fellows
who were trying to get at the truth!
They thought it was smart.
“folger knew all this, and yet never
raised his linger. Why, the clerks over
there swear that the old man don’t know
anything—that lie really is an imbecile,
w ith just sense enough to hold on and
draw his salary while the ring runs the
machine. They did hint once that he had
softening of the brain, but 1 don’t take
anv stock in that.
“No; I’m afraid it’sthe_rand old natty’
—l’m afraid it needs a most tremendous
‘licking.’ It's got to be too big aud
strong and insolent. I hate to say it, but
1 really think it would be good for the
country tn turn the boys out tor awhile
and let them scuff around for a living like
other people have to do. Indeed, f do?”
And my friend, with no idea that he
was being interviewed, walked off. He
holds no office, nor would fte accept one;
neither is he interested in any business
before the government. ,
The Childhood of a Great Musician.
Temple Bar,
Chopin's nerves were over-excitable
when he was a child, Whenever he heard
music he was impressed by it to such a
degree that he usually burst out crying;
but he overcame to a great extent this
weak organization at a comparatively
early age. and studied so successfully
that'when 9 years old he had already made
his liebuf iu a concert. His mother, anx
ious to adorn her pet before all. put him
on a chair to see if there was any flaw in
his appearance, and rendered him espe
cially happy by adding to the eharms
of a little'velvet coat a lace collar.
After concert, where he was very
mueb applaudeij. l;ij mother asked him
what tlie public Lad liked !.<-<t.
ppiuiina." he said, “I certainly believe it
as njy collar." The success ot this con
cert labucujid iiiu? instantly into aristo
cratic circles, which eciitributed much to
give him the refitiemeiii and life delicate
taste that made him all bis life keep aloof
from everything common or vulgar. It so
u^pened‘that Chopin accidentally struck
a chord rather distant intervals which
required a bigger than his to span at
once. In order to efiaioe juiniself to do
fiis. he invented, just a» ' >suq-.u t ;jnn
did, s contrivance with which to >
stretch ths sugers, and not only did
he often employ chords, but he
wrote a study on purpose for vi?ch arpea
ylail chords of considerable streU-u. It
was fortUHulc ’hat Chopin was put under
a master Elsner w fco. although a very
kerned man, was liberal emorgh, when
some ><l?Clar drew his attention to the ,
unusual »oi| vt ÜbQpin. to reply: “Let
him alone; he does pct trend igthe beaten
track because be finds one <?f bis own.
He will, if left to himself, producce works
for the piano of an unprece
dented to this day.” '
SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 12, 1883.
KENTUCKY’S ELECTION.
Future Combinations Which Will Fol
low the Democratic Success.
Grayson. Ky., August B.—Well, after
a short, sharp contest the Kentucky State
election is over and the Democracy have
•elected their State ticket by the usual ma
jority. Never did the party do better and
more effective work than during the last
two weeks of the canvass. The calm
which preceded this work, that I mistook
for apathy, was but the gathering of the
storm which was to scatter to the winds
every vestige of Republican hopes. Well
may the Kentucky Democracy announce
to their brethren of the South’
“We’ve lots of glorious news to tell;
We've sent away tlt_e doctor.
The mother’s doing very well.
The baby's name is Proctor."
It was my good fortune to meet Messrs.
Knott and Carlisle during the canvass, as
each addressed the jieople of this countv
here, and each was for a time the guest o's
my son-in-law. Colonel Wilhoit. To sav
that my preconceived idea of the ability
ot these eminent statesmen was more
than realized, would but feeblv express
their intrinsic value, socially and intel
lectually, to the State and nation. Proba
bly no two men enjoy greater reputation
as granite-based statesmen than these
two gifted Kentuckians. Well may
the State feel proud of these
two gallant sons. and con
fide to each her highest trust. Mr.
Knott, I predict, will make the best Gov
ernor the State has had since the late war
between the States. A ripe scholar, sound
lawyer, possessed of social qualities of
the highest order, and as firm as humane,
his administration must be a complete
success. After meeting him and Mr.
Carlisle, I am not surprised to learn that
their respective constituents idol
ize them. So great is the
popularity of Mr. Knott that he might
have represented his district during his
life, but he remarked to me that “he' had
several warm personal friends in his dis
trict, each of whom desired to represent
the district in Congress, but had deferred
their wishes to his, and ho thought he
ought to stand aside and give each an
opportunity to become Congressmen
Hence early in the late session of Con
gress, and when he did not seek or expect
a nomination for Governor, he wrote to
each avowing his determination not to
stand again for Congress.” This was in
deed magnanimous. Mr. Carlisle is
equally as popular with his constituents,
who not only wish to see him elected
again and again to Congress, but
also Speaker of the next “ House of
Representatives, a position which he is so
eminently qualified to till. He said that
“his candidacy for Speaker had been
forced upon him; that be had been passive
until he bail been driven too far to retire.”
lie also remarked, when asked if he had
also Senatorial aspirations, “that he
thought it a bad time to swap horses, but
he was at the disposal of the Democratic
party at all times and under all circum
stances.” He was very glad to get hold
of the Morning Seics, and when 1 handed
him several copies of last week’s editions,
he paid the paper a handsome compli
ment, which I would repeat, but for fear
of making my friend, Colonel Estill, feel a
little vain.
My opinion is that when the crisis is
reached it will t-e seen that he and Hon.
J. C. S. Blackburn will not be antago
nists. One will receive the entire vote of
the Kentucky delegation for Speaker, the
other stand for United States Senator to
succeed Cerro Gordo Williams. Mr.
Carlisle remarked to me that Kentucky
had no representative in Congress who
stood higher in his estimation, and that ot
his colleague, than Joe Blackburn. He
may have said this because he knew we
were related, but as I think he is in
capable of duplicity, I am compelled to
think he was honest in the remark.
This county, hitherto Republican by from
two hundred to six hundred majority, gave
a Democratic majority of over two
hundred votes last Monday,
this, too, after the people had been re
peatedly addressed by nearly every Re
publican speaker of any prominence,
from Colonel Morrow, their candidate
for Governor, down to Swop, the great
revenue bull-dog. The negro candidate
for Land Register proved too bitter for
the mountain Republicans to swallow.
Carter Circuit Court is now in session,
Judge Brown presiding. Neal’s case will
be called to-morrow or next day. He is
confined in the jail at Lexington, and will
be brought here protected and guarded by
a battalion of State militia, with which
will come an artillery company. I pro
pose giving the readers ol the ' Morning
j\'e>rs a report of this ease.
The weather here has been as cold
as it is with us in October, rendering fires,
overcoats and blankets indispensably es
sential to comfort. It is also very dry,
and the corn and tobacco crops are suf
fering for want of rain. I am glad to
state that my health has been greatly im
proved, and' I begin to feel like “Rich
ard is himself again,” despite my long,
painful and seemingly hopeless affliction.
I expect to return to grand old Georgia
about the first of September, when I hope
to be able to resume my editorial eonduct
of the Madisonian.
J. C. C. Blackburn.
xecutlon in Biirmah.
A Burmah correspondent of the Phila
delphia Press asked his companion
whether many executions took place there
now, and he replied: “There have been
none for several weeks, because the
palace intrigues have kept everybody in
authority too busy scheming, plotting and
planning to allow' them to get up a public
execution; but not many months ago I
saw a baud of a score or more men and
women murdered on this sanguinary hil
lock. Some of the victims had royal
blood in them, and they w’ere not butch
ered in the common way. Imagine to
yourself a Princess charmingly dressed
in silk and jewels, with flowers inter
twined in her jet black hair, being pushed
or goaded up tills hill. The crowd of spec
tators clustered in the rice fields there, or
perched upon the roofs of the houses you
see peeping forth among the mango trees
over against us on our extreme right, set
up a shout. It is not a shout of pity or
mercy. It is merely one of holiday ex
citement. It is like the murmur you might
hear once at Newgate when the* felon ap
peared upon the scaffold, or in the Place
de Greve when the victim's head was laid
on the block beneath the guillotine. The
sun is pouring down its brilliant rays,
winch appear to concentrate with their
greatest brightness on this hillock. One
executioner unbinds the girl’s raven hair,
throws tlie pretty flowers away, twists a
tress of it around his hands and pulls her
head violently backward. Another exe
cutioner grasps a bamboo bludgeon with
both hands. One, two, three! He swings
it in the air, and down it falls upon that
outstretched throat. One, two, throe, and
again it strikes the poor gasping victim
on the same place. The body falls lifeless,
though still quivering. The Princess is
dead. Her bodv is cast aside disdainfully.
“Then, look at this other group of men
hustling a handsome young Burmese in
their midst—hauling at him, tugging at
him, to get him to the summit of the
mound. He also is of royal blood. Pride
ot race and that disregard for death which
buoys up your true Buddhist as strongly
as does the fatalism of the Wahabee,
preserves equanimity in his deportment.
He has flung something away over among
the crowd, it is only his cheroot. He is
done with it. and long before the brown
Urchin who has picked it up will have
blown the last embers from it the spark
of life of its original owner will have
joined the elements, and one more Budd
hist soul will have started oft qn "hs vast
career of transmigration. See. he stands
there cool, collected, bis profile a clear,
dark outline qgainaf tfio unclouded sky. A
high cheek-boned executioner seines' his
long, black hair in front and pulls his
head forward until his chin adjoins his
breast. The second executioner spits on
his band, grasps his bamboo club tirnilv,
and whish! whish! the bludgeon hisses
throusrh the air and falls on the nape of
the neck of the victim. He falls forward
on his face, the first exeouti<jm,r?till hold
ing on the hair. A second blow" ou the
back of the neck, while the man lies pros
trate, settles the matter. An experienced
touch on the red and bruised necks tells
the executioner that the vertebra Is brok
en and that life has fled. Onee more the
body is spurned aside, and more victims
are vp the hill. But these latter
are only comihuii’ licunii ard are killed
in a common way,” ' ’ ’ • ■
Sir Henry Thompson, the London
surgeon, recognizes in fish a combination
of all the elements of food that the human
body requires in almost every phase ot
life, more esjiecially by those who follow
sedentary employment. To women be
considers fish to be an invaluable article
of diet, but he scouts as a complete fal
lacy tne tiuiio;: that fish eating increases
the brain pow Br. **Tins fttiiy action had
on the brain was to put a 'man’s-bodv into
prepgr relations with the work he Had to
do/’
Mr. J. B. Battle. WadTey, Ga., says:
* ’Bro wn’s Jron Bitters cureo the of poor
appetite, general debilitv and sleepless
ues».”
NO UNITY IN THE STRIKE.
SOME OPERATORS SURRENDER
AND OTHERS DECLARE WAR.
Conflicting Reports from Along the
Kails—Some Men Go Out, but No Gen
eral Response to the Order—The Cut
ting of Wires Still Progressing in Many-
Places.
New York. August IL—At the meet
ing of the Executive Committee of the
Brotherhood this morning it was ac
knowledged that five men had gone back
to work yesterday to the Western Union
Company in this city.
There was no apparent change in the
condition of affairs at the Western Union
office to-day. and the strikers seem still
firm in their position. The rumor that
there is any indication of general weak
ness on the part of the strikers is indig
nantly denied, and the men who have
returned to the employ of the companv
are said to be of an inferior grade. At
the Western Union office it was said this
morning that two more men had returned
since last night, and others were expected
to apply to-day.
From' Superintendent Trabul. at Nash
ville, the following dispatch was receiv
ed: “One striker returned at Macon,
Ga., yesterday, completing the full force
there. All the strikers at Savannah, Ga.,
seven in number, applied to return to
work yesterday. We have but two vacan
cies and but two applicants were accep
ted. leaving a first class man and two
second class men wanting employment.
Business is moving promptly to all'points
South. Three operators returned at Nor
folk. Ya., yesterday, and Superintendent
Tree, of Richmond, says that in his dis
trict the strikers openly admit their de
feat.”
The advices received from other points
also seem to indicate that tlie men are
losing courage and are willing to return
to work at any time.
At noon a dispatch was received at the
Western Union office stating that nine
first-class operators returned to work in
Buffalo to-day, and as manv more who
applied were rejected. Two were taken
back at Rochester.
Norfolk, August 11.—Three of the
four striking operators have returned to
work. This ends the strike in this city.
Buffalo, N. Y., August 11.—Seven
more of the striking operators returned
to work to-day, making eleven who have
returned so far.
UNCERTAINTY ON THE RAILS.
The Company ami the Brotherhood
Telling Conflicting Stories.
Pittsburg, Pa., August 11.—At six
o’clock last evening the threatened strike
ot the telegraphers employed by the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway
Company was inaugurated. The com
pany decided to insist that commercial
business should be received and summa
rily discharged Assistant Superinten
dent Devern, stationed at Columbus, Ohio,
who was known to be in sympathy with
the men. The determination was com
municated to the operators and was im
mediately followed by an order to strike
at 8 o’clock, which was sent out by Master
Workmen. The order was ‘ obeyed
by all the operators in this city,
including the chief train dis
patchers, and seems to have been
generally observed along the line. Su
perintendent Taylor admits this, but savs
that the strike has not extended beyond
Dennison, Ohio, and that the principal
offices will be supplied to-day. In the
meantime trains will be run by schedule.
It was said that the operators on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail
way would be ordered out to-dav.
The strike on the Panhandle' Railroad
which the telegraphers inaugurated
last evening is oyer. All the opera
tors who left their instruments last
evening have returned to work. The
company reinstated them with
the understanding that they leave the
Brotherhood. The officials of the Tele
graphers’ Brotherhood pronounce the tel
egram ordering the Panhandle telegraph
ers out bogus. The Fort Wavne opera
tors are still working, and those in a posi
tion to know say that a strike on that
road will qot be ordered.
New York, August 11. —At a meeting of
the Executive Committee of the Brother
hood last evening, it was stated that at 6
o’clock 150 operators on the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway went
out on a strike, leaving but two men at
work.
A dispatch from Chicago said that only
nineteen men out of 500 have gone back
on the men.
Encouraging reports trom Boston, Bal
timore, Washington and other points
were read.
Baltimore. August IL—The officials
of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Com
pany at the main office at 2 o’clock to-day
report the situation unchanged, as well
their determination not to treat with
the Brotherhood. They disclaim posi
tively any knowledge of a committee of
telegraphers having been sent for, as re
ported last night.
St. Louis, August IL—Dispatches from
Texas variously say, on the authority of
the Brotherhood, that from 70 to 200 opera
tors have quit work on the Gould roads
in that State during the past two days.
The railroad and Western Union officials
deny this most emphatically, and assert,
as has been previously stated
in these dispatches, that only
ten men in Southern office's
have abandoned their keys. They also
say that there is no interruption to trains
or business anywhere in the State, and
that the strike so far has been utterly in
significant. Some of the Western Union
wires leading East and North from this
city were tied with fine copper wire
Thursday night, but business was not
stopped, and the lines were restored to
good order again.
WIRES CUT BY THE SCORE.
The Company Annoyed, but no Serious
Interruption Accomplished.
New York. August 11. —Superintendent
Humstone, of the Western Union Compa
ny, reported this morning 15 wires cut or
interrupted on the south circuit, princi
pally to Washington and Philadelphia, in
Jersey meadows,between Jersey City and
the car shops. On the Western routes all
the American Union and the Mutual
Union wires to # the number of 18, and 5
Hudson river wires were cut in this city
just south of Manhattanville. At various
points on the eastern circuit 33 wires
were cut, anil also several in the
vicinity of Manhattanville. A large
force of linemen were sent
out to repair them. The accident caused
some delay, but not near so much confu
sion as it would have done a week ago.
The business has been sent by other
routes as soon as circuits could be com
pleted, Uhe interruptions to these wires
occurred shortly alter 1 o’clock this
morning, at about the same time,
showing that the action was
a concerted one on the part of the cutters.
Little inconvenience was experienced as
business at that hour was pretty well
cleared up. Dispatches received from the
West state that the Fort Wayne route
wires were cqt last night in ttj« vicinity
of C hicago, and that seven routes of St.
Louis have been interrupted.
The Gold and Stock telegraph service
was imperfect this morning, many instru
ments not working at all. Statements
were made that several wires were cut
during the night,
Pittsburg, August 11.—Fifteen Eastern
wires of tlje Western Union Company
were cut last night. Several more were
rendered useless by being connected with
a fine wire. The cutting lyas the work of
an exitert,
Jersey City, August IL—The wires
ot the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany were cut in two places this morning
at the foot of St. Paul's avenue, where
twenty-five wires united to form a cable
under the Hackensack river. All the
wires were severed. They were also cut
qg Nywark avenue, at the foot of Hill
street. The New Jersey an;! New York
Telephone Company's wires were cut on
the corner of Brunswick and First streets,
completely shutting off communication
with Newark. Orange, and the other
points on the Bunk lines, as it is called.
A ‘e of linemen are at work repairing
the tines
Canon fterpjird F<Tund not' Guilty.
Tol RNyY. Hki<,U M, August 11 --The
trial of Canon Bernard,' oh the eftarse of
abstracting valuable paper* and seourL
ties from the Episcopal palace at Tournay,
was concluded this morning. The Canon
was fouud not guilty of the charge.
The court, in referring to Canon Ber
nard's acts while he was in America, de
clared that it was incompetent to deal
with offenses committed in that country.
; Many-ladle* who han scarcely enjoyed
the lukhry of feeling well for years have
been so renovated by using Lydia Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound that they
have trinmpaed over the Illa ftesu is said
t>> be heir to. and life has been crowned
With the added charm of a iresher beauty.
A BOATING SENSATION.
Hanlan Accused of Hippodromliig with
Courtney.
5?. Lmiis Special« Ith.
The Globe-Democrat to-morrow will pub
lish an interview which will startle the
sporting world, for in it allega
tions will }>e made to the effect that Han
lan was chiefly to blame for Courtnev
sawing bis boat, at Chautauqua Lake,
and putting a complexion on the
races between these men entirely new and
decidedly novel. In the first place, the in
terview is alleged to have taken place l>e
tween the sporting editor of the Globe-
Democrat and one of Hanlau’s chief
backers. It took place at Chautauqua
Lake just after the sawing of Courtney’s
boats. Haitian's backer, upon this occa
sion. is credited with making a state
ment, of which the following is a brief
synopsis:
Hanlan and Courtnev arranged for
three races in 1878. The first was to take
place at Lachine, 1 Jctober 3, 1878. for a
purse of s6,ooo,.offered bv the citizens.
The second was to take place at Chautau
qua, October 16, 1878, for the Hop Bitters
prize of $6,000. The third wasto be rowed
wherever the most money was to be made.
The first race was to be won bv Hanlan.
the second by Courtnev, and the third to
be decided on later.
The first race was rowed five miles with
a turn, and as per agreement, Hanlan
won. The second race was looked for
ward to with greater interest than tlie
first, for, although beaten, Courtney was
full of confidence and had rallied a’great
crowd of backers about him, who had put
up their all that he would win. The
money was scarcely posted, when Han
lan reached the lake, and alarmed at the
proportions to which the betting had
reached, he called upon Courtney and told
him that he would uot give him the
race as per previous agreement, and that
he would have to row for it if he expected
to win.
Hanlan’s backer claims that Courtnev,
upon hearing this statement, became
aiarmed in turn, and, fearing that if he
rowed Hanlan would beat him and swamp
his friends, he then took the only road
out of the woods and sawed both his boats
iu two.
This interview is so worded that it is
not likely that the matter will rest here.
Indeed there is no doubt but that a full
investigation will follow which will
bring the truth to the surface, and result
in the punishment of those guiltv. Han
lan’s backer claims that of the $6,000
purse in the first race at Lachine, and
which Hanlan won, Courtney received
$2,500 of the plunder.
Hard Exercise Bad for Old Men.
Cineinnati Commercial- Gazette.
Perhaps the most painful experiences, I
next to those of the rheumatic gout, that I
middle-aged gentlemen inclined to corpu- ,
leiicv and sedentary habits manage to '
survive, are gained in horseback riding, i
But your middle-aged gentlemen in- i
dined to corpulency and of sedentary
habits will have it so. Os course he feels |
as young as ever, and can beat all the -
young fellows riding, and throw them
down, too, if they will only go out on the |
grass where he cannot hurt them.
Our solemn old friends who feel so |
young, and are lively on exhibition,
must have their summer vacation. They
want fresh air, and straiige meat and j
drink, and horseback exercise.
And through their vanitv they endure
tortures inconceivable. Last summer
John McCullough, forgetting that he was
more than 40 years of age, and had been
for twenty years doing a giant’s work,
feeling a “little off,” concluded be would
ride a few thousand miles with Phil Sher- {
idan.
He also concluded that he would not
taste anything stronger than tea and cof
fee during the ride, and that he would ni t
smoke a cigar, and he lived through
the ride, but has not been very well since.
NVe suppose that his total abstinence
from liquor and tobacco did not do him
any harm, but sixty days in the saddle
were too many, and tlie work was too
hard. He would have been happier and
healthier in any hotel in the country.
Charles Dickens would probably have
been alive now if he had not been frantic
about walking. He thought he was re
storing his bodily strength by feats ol
agility that surprised the boys.’ He was
subjecting himself to a double strain that
proved fatal.
Chief Justice NVaite, mounted on a
vicious pony on the frontier has been
thrown and hurt. He no doubt thought
that a wild ride on a rough beast would
be a great restorative. The chances are
he would have derived no benefit from
pony riding if he had not been thrown
from a wicked animal, and now he will be
fortunate if he ends his vacation as well
as he began it.
Judge Edmunds is out on the plains,
probably mounting Indian ponies and
galloping through thickets and up anil
down mysterious and picturesque moun
tains. He is pretty tough and will possi
bly come out in a lair condition. But his
case will only show his ability to endure
hardship.
President Arthur has been persuaded
to go with Sheridan, and the Lieutenant
General should be instructed that he
must see that his distinguished guest has
a quiet horse to ride and does not go too
far. Arthur is a strong man-—a true
stalwart—but he is more than 50 years
of age, and weighs 222 pounds, and jolting
40 miles a day on horseback, with a
mosquito bar around his head and a bed
on the ground with a hair rope around it
to tickle away the rattlesnakes, will not
improve his physical condition or increase
his executive ability.
The moral is, that when a man is worn
with cares and weighted with responsi
bilities, when his work tells on him and
his nerves are strung so fine that he
doesn’t sleep well, he should beware of
extrava’gant remedies, even in exercise.
Simple food and good air will help him,
and walking withoutgreat fatigue is good,
but the bath-tub is the safest place for a
swimmer, and the cushions of a carriage
preferable to a hard saddle for riding; and
for a thousand miles the Pullman palace
car is the vehicle that rests the weary.
The First American to Make a Balloon
Ascent.
Good Wordß.
Scarcely two years after the first bal
loon ascent, a daring and thoroughly suc
cessful attempt was made to cross the
English Channel by Blanchard, a French
a*ronaut, accompanied by Dr. Jeffries, an
American, then residing'in London. The
balloon was inflated just over Shakes
peare’s Cliff, at Dover, a much more ro
mantic spot than that selected by Colonel
Burnaby in 1882, who started from the gas
works of that town. At Ip. m., on Janu
ary 7, 1785, Blanchard ordered the car—a
kind of boat—to be pushed from tbe edge
of the precipice. The weight proved to
great for tbe balloon, and it might have
fallen into the sea, but by sacrificing
nearly the whole of their ballast it rose
gentlv and drifted over the channel.
The travelers counted thirty-seven
towns and villages in the pleasant coun
try to the back of Dover, while as a con
trast they saw on the other side tbe break
ers tumbling grandly on the Goodwin
Sands. They passed’over a number of
vessels, and were proceeding satisfactori
ly, when the balloon commenced to de
scend, and they were obliged to throw
out half their remaining ballast in order
to rise again. They were now a third of
the way across, and had lost sight of Do
ver Castle. A short time after the bal
loon again commenced to descend, and all
their remaining ballast had to be thrown
overboard; this did not prove sufficient,
and they had to sacrifice a parcel of books.
At 2:15 o’clock the rising of mercury
in their barometer indicated that
tijev were again descending, and more
books had to be sacrificed.
They were now of their
way across, q>;4 vyere in full liewofibe
French coast, although from the continued
disposition of the rerial craft to descend it
seemed a little doubtful whether they
would ever reach it. Their provisions,
their only bottle, their clothes and other
articles were flung awaj' in rapid succes
sion. and they were preparing to cut away
the boat and trust t<> slings from the hoop
wuen tt<ey iounq ineiu-elves rising, with
Calais and twenty Other town* in sight.
Exactly as 3 o’clock they passed over
the hizh ground between Cape Blanc Nez
an 1 Calais: and it is remarkable that the
balloon at this time rqs.. ~.r y fast, sb that
it a magnificent arch. Tlie two ad
venturers now threw away their cork
jack-ts, which they had taken t> r safety,
and o{ wijihii th-y were aMOqger.'iq Want.
_\t last they descended as l*.w as the tops
of the trees in the fore.t of Guinea, and
Dr. Jeffries, laying hold of a branch of
one of the trees, stopped their progress.
They came safely to the ground be
tween some trees which were just open
enough to admit them. Next dav a ban
quet was organized at Calais, and
freedom of the city preteiiteu to M.
hiairenaHt iu a goid'boM. Sohn after the
Hing granted him a reward of 12,bh0
livres, and an annual pension.
The New York Gominergidt Advertiseer
ugures iip slxty-flve murderers legallv
executed in the whole country during the
past six months, and sevent) -qqeiyncji«q.
COL BANDOLAMASSACRED
AMBUSHED SAN CARLOS IN
DIANS SHOOT HIM DOWN.
Pierced Through the Breast by Two
Bullets, He Falls from His Horse Dead
“Two Companions Mortally Wounded
The Assassins Escape—Seven Mexi
cans Murdered and 23 Horses Stolen.
Tombstone, Arizona. August IL—A
special to the Epitaph says that Y apta'ii
McGreen arrived last evening from
! Casochuca. Sonora, and brings the start!
[ ling news that Colonel Bandola. of the
Twenty-second Mexican Regulars, com
manding the forces operating against the
Indians, was killed on the 3d inst. by our
San Carlos pets.
The news was first brought to Captain
Green's company by six Mexicans from
Oposura, and was confirmed by the Mexi
can customs officers at San Pedro, who
received the particulars on August Ist.
.5 band of thirty Apaches made an at
tack on Opulct and killed four men.
Colonel Bandola, who was at Husahon
with sixty men of his regiment, upon re
ceipt of the information started imme
diately for the scene of murder, going
through a canyon.
Colonel Bandola, a bold and fearless
man. was riding some distance ahead of
his command, In company with two men,
when they were fired upon from an am
bush. Colonel Baudola fell, two bullets
piercing his breast and killing him*- in
stantly. His companions were also mor
tally wounded.
The troops came quickly to the scene,
but the savages had disappeared.
The next day three Mexicans were
killed in the same neighborhood, and the
following day twenty-three horses were
stolen.
A TRIO OF TRIPLETS.
A Woman who Bore Nine Children at
. Three Birthsa
7*Zt 7 lade-lph ia Record.
A number of charitable ladies from
Philadelphia and New York, spending the
summer at Island Heights, a lovelv sum
mer resort on Toni’s river, N. J., are
actively engaged in raising donations of
money and clothing for a Mrs. Johnson,
residing in a small cottage at that place,
who has just given birth to the
third set of triplets. The latest ar
rivals are three chubby, crow- j
ing children, the very pictures of health, I
and all girls. The only way that they
are distinguished from each other is bv
their clothing, which some of the ladies
had mischievously marked “Faith,”
“Hope” and “Charity.” The parents are
both large and well formed persons, and
Mr. Johnson is employed as a laborer on
a neighboring farm. The six other chil- i
dren ot Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are all :
stout and healthy, and are all under eight
years of age.
rhe cottagers and boarders in the |
neighborhood have given parlor enter- ;
tainments, taken up collections and have :
resorted to various other means of reliev- I
ing the famliy, who are poor in circum
stances. A large purse has already been
raised. .
France and Her Railroads.
Springfield Republican.
France, about whose financial sagacity
there has been absurd boasting, has at
length got to the end ot her rope of per
petual borrowing and no paying. The
country which borrowed the millions with
which to pay Germany so easily has been
borrowing ever since,‘and now' can bor
row no longer. Tlie debt of France is
$6,000,000,000, or one and one-half times
that of Great Britain, ami two and one-halt
times that of America. Every Frenchman
owes 859 francs, everv Englishman 579,
and every American 253. The French Gov
ernment h as required of late years sub
stantially 800,000,000 every year to meet
its current expenses and interest. Even
then there was an accumulation of float
ing debt so large that the public refused
longer to subscibe to the rentes. Now it
makes no difference how many troops and
war ships a power may have, it is in -no
condition to take an aggressive attitude
when its own bourse throws back its
bonds in its face. France is really, to
day, therefore, financially crippled.' The
effort to refund the debt' and reduce the
rate of interest has not proceeded far
enough to relieve the treasury very much,
but something has got to be done.
Os recent years much debt has beea
incurred to carry out the unfortunate
railroad development projected in 1878 bv
Minister Ereycinet. The French rallwa'v
system consists of six great companies,
constituting the old network, as it is
called, and the lateral lines, constituting
the new network. On tbe Ist of January,
1879, the trunk lines had a mileage of
9,706 kilometres, and the laterals—l2,so7
kilometres, or together about 22,000 kilo
metres—say 14JHI0 miles, when Great
Britain at the same time had nearly 18,000
and the United States 81,000 miles.
The railroads in France, in fact, failed
to develop with that activity which
the opening of the whole country
demanded, notwithstanding the govern
ment guaranteed a dividend on all new
lines of 4 per cent. NVhile the six trunk
lines radiating out from Paris have
become rich and powerful companies,
they have not been stimulated to build
branches to out-of-the-way places. Minis
ter Freycinet projected a scheme of petty
railway branches which would cos’t
$1,600,000,000, or more than the entire
bonded debt of the United States at this
time. The adoption of this scheme and
the attempts to carry it out explains why
France is so much overburdened with
debt and taxes to-day.
The French Ministry is engaged during
the present session 'of tlie Assembly in
extricating itself from this fatal enter
prise by an agreement with all the six
great trunk lines to build the new laterals
and take them partly off tbe hands of the
government. Tbe six main lines are the
Paris,Lyons and Mediterranean,the Paris
and Orleans, the Northern, . NVestern,
Souther-n and Eastern. The greatest ol
all is the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean,
which controls some 2 ; 500 miles and has
gross receipts of $60j)00,000, which is
more than that of the Pennsylvania Rail
road and double that of the New York
Central. Its net earnings are about $lO,-
000,000. These great properties have been
somewhat depressed by the apprehensions
that the government would exercise tbe
right,’reserved to it under the charter, to
foreclose them outright, and in fact par
liamentary opinion leaned that way until
it became evident that no government
could stand under siteh a load of debt and
administrative labor.
Arthur as a Lawyer.
Saratoga Correspondence Chicago News.
Ex-Congressman Horace F. I’age, of
California, came here yesterday. He is
on his way N\ eat, where he will be joined
in Chicago by ox-Congressman Hazleton.
The two will then go to New Mexico for
the rest of the year, looking after cattle
and mining interests. Page has been in
Congress for over ten years. He is a man
of great toyce of character, who owes his
present unpopularity in California to his
being the “pirate captain” ot the river and
harbor bill. He has been so long in poli
tics at NVashington that he is thoroughly
familiar with all the peculiarities anil
qualities of the leaders.
speaking of Arthur yesterday, he said:
“I atn surprised to see in traveling about
the country what a popular npin he is. I
believe to-day he is the strongest man iu
the republic to put on a ticket,”
After eulogizing Arthur’s course in
many particulars criticising him here and
there, he said: “I have been surprised in
one thing in my intercourse with the
President, and that is to find him a much
abler man and a finer read lawyer Utau
the outside public has anv idea of. 1 re
gard him as an aUer lawyer than anv
man who Las held the post of President
for the last fifty years. His knowledge as
n lawyer was well illustrated only the
other day. I was interested in a com
plicated tide-wap-r land question in mv
State Teller differed with me as to the
ednstfuctlon of the law.
I went with Tidier qpd made an appeal
to the Presid>:ni. 1 lx-gan my argument,
awl I liever in my fife saw a man corapje,
{tend’arid take ip so iiuiekly all the bear
ihgs qf fhai ca*e, which had cost me so
inuch trouble. He was familiar with
every decision of the Supreme Court for
the past hundred years bearing uuon tbe
question of tide-water lands. He .ov
promptly told Mr. Teller '■<> wa- wleug In
his construction o' utv. without con-
a .mgle authority. The clearness
of bls views, when he came to indicate
them, convinced even Mr. Teller
Mr. Page thought ’be .*»Gng ’ticket for
1884 would tfe Ai thur and Gresham. He
thought it would satisfy everyone. In
faet, it would make an ideal ticks.;
And ti»e wind i?*never weary,’.’, waq
w, it ten by Gongfeltow while a spec Nata
at a political convention,
SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS.
| F YRLY NEW YORK POLITICS.
How Mr. Livingston Clot Into and Out
of a “Ditticulty.**
Autobiography of Thurlow Weed.
In 1818 there was a disastrous split in
■ j the Republican party of this State. Gov
' ernor Clinton heading one faction and
1 Mr. Van Buren the other. A political
and personal warfare of unusual viru
lence characterized the campaign of that
year. Mr. Clinton, an able and vitupera
tive writer, assailed the leaders ot the
opposite side through the columns of the
New York Columbian and the Albany
lleyister. William L. Marcy, then a
young man. and others replied through
the columns of the Alban* Argus. One
morning a vehement article, highly denun
ciatory of Gov. Clinton, provoked a note
from the gentleman assailed to the editor
of the Argus, demanding the name of the
writer. Nir. Buel, the editor, banded the
note to Mr. N an Buren, who invited Mr.
Charles E. Dudley, Mr. William L. Mar
cy, Mr. Benjam'in Knower and Judge
Roger Skinner to his house that evening.
NVhile they were discussing the embar
rassing question which Governor Clin
ton’s note had raised, the servant brought
Peter R. Livingston to the library. Mr.
Clinton was at the time Governor'of the
State, while Messrs. N an Buren and Liv
ingston were ipembers of the Senate. The
conversation, as Mr. Livingston discov
ered. was interrupted by his appearance.
He said, in his usual brusque manner,
“You are talking secrets here, and 1 have
interrupted you." Mr. Van Buren re
plied, “Governor Clinton has demanded
I the name of the writer of the article in
this morning’s Argus, and we were talk
ing of the peculiar awkwardness
of exposing the writer." “There is noth
ing peculiar about it,” responded Mr.
Livingston, “nor need there be any
! embarrassment. Send my name to Mr.
i Clinton.' 1 Mr. Nau Buren remarked:
j “This is no occasion for trilling, Mr.
' Livingston. You know what Mr. Clin
: ton means by his demand." “Yes, sir,"
replied Mr. Livingston, “1 do know, and
it is just whatl mean; I have long wanted
a shot at the rascal!" Persisting
in the avowal that he was the writer, anil
in the request that his name should be
i given up, they finally yielded, and Mr.
Buel was instructed accordingly. At a
late hour the parties separated. Just as
the day dawned the tollowing morning
Nir. Van Buren was awakened by a vio
lent application of his knocker, aiid look
ing out of his bedroom window, a voice,
which he recognized as Mr. Livington's,
inquired, "Is that you, Van Buri'ij?" On
receiving a response in the affirmative,
Livingston said, “Let me in." Mr. Van
Buren threw on a wrapper, opened the
door, and showed his visitor into the cold
parlor. Mr. Livingston said, “NVhat
tbe devil were you talking
about last night when I came in?” Mr.
Van Buren replied: “NVe were talking
about your attack on Governor Clinton in
the Argus. ,, Mr. Livingston, using a
strong expletive, rejoined: “I won’t stand
that. Y'ou can’t father your bantlings on
me. I had been dining'out, was drunk,
i and you took advantage of me.” This ren
j dered it necessary to reassemble tlie coun
! oil of the previous evening. The real em
, barrassment was this: The article had
: been written by James King, a young law
yer from Orange county, who had just ob
| tained the consent of NVilliam James, a
I warm personal and political friend of
i Governor Clinton’s, to marry his daughter
j under a pledge to abstain from politics
' and devote himself exclusively to his pro
i session. And now, before the marriage
was celebrated, Mr. King had written a
j most abusive attack oh his intended
father-in-law’s intimate friend.
After much and anxious consideration,
> it was decided that Mr. Knower should
I call on Mr. Isaiah Townsend, a mutual
friend of Mr. .lames and Governor Clm
| ton, and endeavor, by stating some ex
tenuating circumstances, to appease Mr.
James. This, however, was no easy task,
for Mr. James was of a stern and impla-
I cable disposition. But Mr. Townsend
knew his man, drove him up to NVater
l.ford, drank two or three glasses of gin and
i’water, and succeeded in smoothing over
the difficulty. Mr. Townsend then pro
i ceeded to lay the whole matter frankly
before Governor Clinton, whose sense of
■ the humorous was touched by the awk
ward position in which Mr. Livingston’s
sudden belligerency had jdaced his
friends, and by the extreme delicacy of
Mr. King's domestic relations. He good
naturedly withdrew his note, and took
no further notice of the subject.
ORGANIZED FOR VICTORY.
Chairman Barbour's Executive Com
mittee —An Admirable Selection.
Baltimore Sun.
In his appointmentof a State Executive
Committee of five, Hon. John S. Barbour,
Chairman of the Virginia Democratic
State Central Committee,has reinforced bis
declaration made on accepting the posi
tion that tbe “campaign should lie con
ducted on business principles,” and not
as a brass band affair. The State
Executive Committee, of which Mr.
Barbour is also the chairman, will see
to the execution of the work mapped out
by ihe State Central Committee, and
in its composition Mr. Barbour has
favored the politicians and appointed
men who will throw an energetic spirit
into the work of organization. The com
mittee is composed ot Judge Leigh B.
NVatts, of Portsmouth; Archer Anderson,
of Richmond; Peter J. Otey, of Lynch
burg; Hon. A. Fulkerson, of NVashington
county, and M. A. Bowman, of Augusta
county. Judge NVatts is a clearheaded,
earnest worker, ami has done more to ef
fect a thorough organization of the party
in the Second Congressional district than
any man in it, unless it be Mr. Glennan,
of the Norfolk Virginian. Mr. Archer
Anderson is one of the proprietors of the
Tredegar works, the most extensive man
ufacturing establishment in the South,
and he is known as an enthusiastic worker,
an efficient organizer and a man of com
prehensive views. Major Peter J. Otey
is’ cashier of the Lynchburg National
Bank. Chairman of the Finance Commit
tee of the City Council and extensively
engaged in the insurance business. He
has been Chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee of Lynchburg, in
which he earned the reputation of being
the best political organizer in that section
of the State, as well as an early and late
worker in exciting campaigns. Hon.
Abram Fulkerson has been the leading
Readjuster in the Ninth Congressional
district, which has heretofore
been the banner Readjuster dis
trict. He is a man of great en
ergy and a systematic worker, aud
it was largely due to his thorough work
that this district, composed largely of
white voters, became ileadjuster in senti
ment. He i* now back iu the Democratic
ranks, and promises active and systematic
organization in that section. Mr. A. M,
Bowman is the largest and most, success
ful agriculturist and stock »ai*er in
Augusta county, and has done as much
hard and efficient Party work as anv man
in the Vaßey of Virginia. NVith such a
committee there is every promise tor
more thorough ami systematic Democratic
organization than had been in \ irginia
since General Mahone went over to the
Republicans.
Why People Take Medicine.
British Quarterly Review.
It is to be feared that to ruusi people
medicine is not an erudite science or a
learned art, but is ii«De more than com
monplace administration of physic. Thev
cannot understand medicine without
drugs, and its virtue and power are po|e>
ularly measured by the violence ot ns
operations, ft. very name is is ordinary
parlance synonymous with phy.ie. Take
from it its pills and potions, and for them
you take away its whole art and mystery.
1 hey do not believe in a scheme of treat
ment, however deep laid and skillful,
which does not include a certain statu
tory dosage. So that M s a role,
medical men are ta<»cifoaily compelled
to give pa»;ec,» a visible object of faith in
soq;e form of physic, which may be ut
most designed to effect some very .übor
dinate purpose. And i» U remarkable
how strongly ever, among the educated
classes thi‘. Aviiug prevails. Cure by the
administration of mixtures and UcJuses is
so fixed and ancient a tradition that it is
only very slowly that the world will give
it up. The a„ A iety of the triends of
pa’.ifc.A wants to do more than fUfcw the
simple directions of ‘'fuming,” which
have been so cagclully inculcated and
possess apparently so little remedial
power. There 1* nothing of the unknown
about them in which a fluttering Lope of
great advantage can nestle, 'inua it is ne
cessary to educate she world into a belli-*
in medicj“h iqueci from drugs, which
finiU •••* power of curing in auapfations
ot the common conditio;.* of life and ap
plications of physiological facts a medi
cine which takes into I’,s Bands the whole
life, anij quu* and fashions its eyeiy
<leUUi with scientific definiteness it is
found in every-day practice tbi*
popular misunderstapping of the modern
spirit of mi-'Duye youstantl; cheek* the
little huttatiye advances of a more scien
tific treatment, and it is necessary that
it should he generally understood how
powerfully the various processes of th&
economy may be affected by the manipu
lation of the conditi<r>> of life.
A .NOVEL OFFICIAL AXE.
COL, SEATON DISMISSES EIGHTY.
FIVE CLERKS BY LOTTERY.
Cries of Favoritism Effectually Silenced
by the Scheme—Evans' Vacillating
Mind—Knotty Problems Out of the
New Tariff Law—Kay nor Severely
Snubbed.
Washington, August 11.—Colonel
Seaton, Superintendent of the Census
Bureau, has more clerks than he knows
what to do with. They were all faithful
add efficient. They all occupy a warm
place in his heart, but the appropriation
is running low. and the Colonel made up
his mind that eighty of them would have
to go. All of his clerks were good clerks.
One was just as good as another and j»er
haps lietter. but there was this uncom
fortable surplus of energy and brains,
so to-day the Colonel wrote out
the names of each employe on
a slip of paper. The slips
numbering 170 were placed in a box. A
boy was blindfolded and proceeded to
draw from the box eighty-five names
whose pav will cease on the 15th. No
charge of favoritism can be sustained in
Col. Seaton’s bureau.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Evans is a man of many moods and as many
minds. Before he left for the West with
President Arthur he made a rash and ill
considered rulingon the subject of classi
fication of Hostetter’s bitters as an alcohol
ic beverage,the result ot which would be to
drive that article out of the market. He
returned to Washington to-day and the
first thing he did was to re-open
the case and examine a
brief tiled by the bitters company’s
lawyers. Now he does not know whether
he will rule in favor or against the com
pany, and this appears to l>e about the
onh thing he does know on the subject.
The Nev York imp. tiers have been at
loggerheads with the Treasury Depart
ment ever since the new tariff went into
effect over the proper construction of the
clause relating to duties and changes. The
terms of the law were so ambiguous that
more was left in the discretion of the cus
toms officials than was evidently intend
ed by Congress. This has been a matter
of dispute for a long time, and several
knotty legal problems were submitted to
the Secretary for decisions. Committees
of Expert’s were appointed to
give an opinion after a thorough inves
tigation, and the result has
been that the Commission stands as near
ly divided as it can on most of the ijues
tione submitted. These two reports are
now before Acting Secretary French, ami,
as there are hundreds of thousands of
dollars involved, he does not feel like tak
ing either side, so the whole matter will
go to Attorney General ■fitreWster. who
will be obliged to give some sort of a solu
tion to the questions. This is an unusual
procedure, as generally Mr. French is
very willing to make a ruling, and upon
that an appeal can be taken to the courts.
It is a curious fact to note in this connec
tion that Solicitor Raynor, who is the law
officer of the Treasury Department, is
completely ignored, anil has no more to
say about it than an outsider.
A WALL STREET TUMBLE.
How an American Father Tried to Make
810,000 a Year on 880.000 Capital.
Corre»pondenc« Detroit Free Pre»».
Among the thousands of outsiders who
dabbled in Wall street ten years ago was
one—l don’t want to give his real name,
but will call him Richards. He operated
through our house, that is the house in
which I was employed as bookkeeper,
and, as he soon became a daily visitor, 1
got to know him so well that we often
had a familiar chat. 1 sometimes met
him in the evening besides, and our ac
quaintance ripened into intimacy. At
first his luck in the street was pretty
good, and one day, w hen he had ma lea
thousand or so in an hour, he asked me to
dine with him that evening at Delinoni
co’s. Most of our talk was about the
street, and when a Itottle of wine had
imide it pretty free, I ventured to suggest
that, as he had done well, he should
l»egin to think about getting out. ‘-Well,”
he said, “1 have thought about it, but 1
don’t see my way just yet. 1 must have
SIO,OOO a year for my family, and how else
can I get it?”
1 asked if his family was large, and he
said it consisted of his wife, two daughters
and a son.
“And you need SIO,OOO a year to live on
isn’t that pretty high?”
•‘Well,” he Said, “high or low, I can’t
get on with less. - The girls are always
asking for money. In summer they must
go to the watering places with their
mother, and in the winter there is a hall
or a party every week. It costs a great
deal of money, and the money must be
had in some way.”
“May 1 ask how much money you have
as capital—that is, money you can really
call your own?”
“Well, altogether, I suppose I could
rake up s*o,ooo. Now. what I want to
know is how I could use that so as to make
slo,ooo a year. I don’t really fancy this
'' all street business, hut what am I todo’-
I must have SIO,OOO a year, and. though 1
have looked around a good deal, I cannot
find any other business that will produce
it.”
“Why not reduce your expenses? You
say you can’t do with less than SIO,OOO a
year. I think you are mistaken. Many
families live well on less than $5,000, and
some on $3,000. Hoes your family know
just how much money you have?”’
“I have tried over and over to make
them understand, but it is no use. When
t liey want anything there Is no peace till
they get it, and when I say I cannot af
ford it they tell me they 'know I have
plenty of money. I really can’t make
them underHtand or lieJiave that mv
moans are limited, and tin, amount of the
matter is that I must huve spi,oooa year.”
1 lost sight of Richards soon after by
going to another house where I had a bet
ter oiler, but 1 beard from time to time
that bis luck was not so good. It must
have been five years before I met him
again. He look**! like another man; his
race was careworn and hie clothing bare
ly escaped shabbiness. After a few
words I asked him if he was still in the
streets.
“No,” he said, “that’s all over.”
I hope you came out ail right?”
AH right ? V es, if you call coming out
without a dollar all right.”
, so f7’ hear of his
Hl luck and asked hnn if he had gone into
any business. No, he said, it was not
easy for a man with nothing to go into
business; but his friends wore trying to
do something for him, and there was some
that they would succeed. They were
trying to get him a place in the custom
house. I asked him what the salary was.
and he saiu he understood it was" $1,500
With a chance of something better after a
While H would have been cruel to remind
him of what he had said five years ago
tm Z e,,l i?i able ,iv « °n less than
$11,(100, but whilu wo were lunching to
gether he gave me to understand that he
was liviua with his wife and daughters
on the outskirts of
and that the son had obtained a
oierkship at sls a week, which was the
chief support of the family.
Racing Tea Steamers.
Bouton. Transcript *
, tll# ’ P a *. saffe on record be-
mX t v h Rn A. En 6iand was recently
made by the Stirling Castle, which rah
v 'J tl * tubu ’bl r «i miles up the
~ t -’*•**, London in thirty-one
h, " lr »- If only
two ~,.,s I* allowed for the river trip, the
i i“'“ .? ha 41 *- hai to Loudon by this
Lip is less than thirty days. So reniark
■ > - a record is uot the only one of recent
advances made in long-voyage naviga
. i */* only a few years since a steam
, w ‘’h much doubt on the
~l tß owners, to run on a voyage any
thing like the length cf the China trip
w ith-mi stoppmgoii the way to “coal up.”
lue> race made by thfe Stirling < astle was
due to the great anxiety of tea shippers
to get into the market with the new
crop ahead of all comjietitors. This anx
iety leads to an annual race, exciting in
he extreme, and often of doubtful profit,
to say nothing of its danger, Heated
’ strai ® ed engines, a disproportion
ate increase in the consumption of coal
.ca- tne increase of S[>eed attained are only
minor disadvantages in themselves.
Among the interesting facts of the Stir
ling Castle’s trip was her passing early
in the voyage a tea vessel which had
*’ u f from Hankow twodays ahead.
, '“ ther the fast vessel would reach Lon
don on briday or Saturday was a matter
of intense interest to the owners of her
w^ftwi’-ni 1 T l ther > U ‘ a men alKi brokers
s Tbu l rs ‘ ,a y night OU the docks
n the hope of being able to get samples
? a* next ./’f 0 !* °f tea early, so as to be
i lUarket t fjr lwo ahead of all
jxwsible arnvau by other steamers.
HORS, V< > R Reg AC’HI FHOSPH ATE.
Vr. J. L. \\ ilUs, Eliot, Ale., says: “Hors
ford s Acid Phosphate gives most excel
lent results,”