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ESTABLISHED 1850. I
, J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. {
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
thf news of the two states
told in paragraphs.
The >oles Murder in Carroll County lo
. probed to the Bottom Atlanta
lruitei-t 1“ a Legal Wrangle- Koine’s
Kridse Question Given New Impetus—
Jhe Jacksonville Packet Line.
6EOKOI A.
I D. Fonl. of Augusta, is deaii.
, ~!,n Wynn, of Muscogee county, is dead. I
-boro lias a ’’Young Man's Moral As
, . l!t water ha? been .-truck at Camilla.
, j.th of r*> feel
‘ , ... ,-criutions lo the Wadlev memorial
4V y reached SII,OOO.
unty has sent a horse thief and a
‘ • : Muscogee iail for safe keeping,
t , *.r-*-!•*■ ts art* g*>od for the speedv erec
. ' u :ul for Bibb county, at Macon.
. r c i McDaniel has not yet decided the
( tri.Judgeship from Bartow county.
v r .cl* forty names have lieen enrolled on
hi.* V -ter of < olutnbus’ ncjv cavalry nun
pa.iv. .
VIJ i-u.liAry fire in the warehouse of \V.
( j, ;i! t iop'iey. was extinguished Satur
\ Vtic-ns negro who went to the Ordinary
.1. rr i-'c license, forgot the name of the
party oi '!'• n ’* l' art ’
M. Proctor,of Home Male High
... accepted the prineipulslnp of the
~, ~, . ■ •■!k ge,and will give up Las school
xj-v.it Hex. Overton censured the
i, during hi* discourse Sunday, for
.niady amlrecsing a young lady on
sal.i.ath day.
\ i .t.i lias more bicycles than any town in
. . j■ i Nasluille. and yet it is the
hl loun in the South ill which bicycles are
i r .t has not a bicycle club,
y \ -choiieuian. Secretary ..r the Amen
... i _ ~ii of Honor, has paid the heirs of
, iru s Long, ol Maco i, the sum ..i
i" . ii;c amount of insurance on Ins life.
- A. ivrre-ter has pre-i nted the Nla
,lic library with a sabre lieanug the
. . ; "ii, “Presented to .1. W. Aderhold by
y ; , Vlexander, It is quite a curi
-I>, t .iumbus £.n‘iuirer-Sttn says Captain
y ; .i- llervey, one of the proprietors of
, ... tie springs, has rented the Lanier
11.. u--and trill lake charge thereof ou Bcp-
I i.corgia Match Factory buildings at
t, . -vill** are about finished, and U. Van
v , r . tin'principal owner, is in the Eastern
, - ; .,.d Canada shipping tin- machinery.
I .. a-ready to start ly September lutli.
I . Macon ysdice arrested a negro on Sat
,i night who hail nearly a yeckof kun
. r.;i' or conjuring chanus on his |ierson.
\ were little hag- of frog's liver, snake
.. . ,-tc. They" were to pre-vent sieknes? and
ail harm.
II . wife and child of Kev. Flowers, col
ored, partor of the colored Baptist * liurcii in
j .mm, tioth died on Wednc-dae night,
i; child was about 2 years old and died sud
■i.-nlv. The woman had tieen sick several
..... As of typhoid fever. The-two deaths oc
; i e-el within a few hours of each other.
Ibe Gainesville '--wM/ -ay-: “There-arc
;ng in the north end of tins county two
...t g men tiatne-d John anil sain Pasco, who
jrc twins, and look and dec - e xactly alike.
!.. or three year- ago they married tu in
-- . r.-.vvho lesik anddre—exacll; alike. Ihe
- built two cottage-.-that look exactly alike.
! each lady has a child abend the same age
nil.. !<">k very ne-arly exactly alike. All are
c, excellent health, and last week the whole
~ ;rl . .line to this city ls-hind a -pan of iieau
'mules that were ne-arly exact matches
j :o s are- partne rs in the- mercantile Imsi
... and are prosperous gentlemen.”
1 Atlanta drug firm of Pemberton. I\e-r
--, .x Demison are engaged in an interesting
among themselves. Several months
' I;., partnership was formed. J. s. Iver
e,. VV. Dennison and Mr-. M. E. Thorn
.... i, put in tlo.ooO. .1. >. Pemleerton.
. u experienced druggist, pul iii' his
, . " , i evas t<* receive To per rent, of the
;i.j |UK) |H-r inonfh. A few day? ago
•• , i..,truer* who had put in the money >tis
tiie-ir stock to Howard V < aueller.
i ;t !•-!! Mr. Pemberton out, and as lie had
; ,, for a partnership of thre-e- vcai-.’only
J*. .j,t ni tilth-of which hael e-Xjore-*l. lie- began
c stop the sale, lie tiled a bill f
..... against Messrs. Iverson and Deli
-1,!!.",'. ai.-l Mi”. Thornton. Theeourt refu-ed
[i., aw lication and I’einlierlon tiled a bill of
,*xi ..11-. and the ca-e- w ill go up. It is said
,-iait die firm has lost SII,OOO.
1!. G. laxikett ( ■>.. convict les
- one of whose camps i- liwated on the
i . itta! .-<H-he-e river, near Atlanta, have just
iev' notified by the Carroll county authori
ti that \V. C. Gravitt. a white man who is
r’. , -,-rviiig a six months’term, is wanted in
e arroil county to answer a charge of murder,
an ,l [i,ai ins detention at the expiration of his
term u ill lie expected. The trial \yill la’ a se
,jU,-l to the recent finding of the murdered
l.„] ~f Mi— .Voles, iii the Tallaitoosa river.
an i Mi— Seta disappeared at the
-line time, hut murder was not sii-peeted un
til tin* iiniling of the hoelv. >ubse lyuetitly the*
fa; ill r and one-of the brothers of llie- girl were
arrc-.lcd on suspicion of being concerned in
her mysterious disappearance. W h-n Gravit!
it. taken to the chain-gang Ofite’cr heely. <.f
t!„ Mlauta police force, was t he guard. To
that officer Gravitt stateet that the girl was
-till alive, and that he lielievod that she was
ica iiug a life- of shame in Atlanta, t.ravitt
gaic the officer a complete description of Un
girl. Hint offewe-d him st. find her. The oili
er made (he search, hut failed to line! the
The Rome Courier savs: “11 was rumored „a
thcctreetsveste-rdayth.it Judge IVright had
accepted the old proposition made him by tile
l untv Commissioners, via.: To sell his two
bridges to the county for #2s.(Ki. A Courier
m m called on Major’Ayer, a memla-rof the
li '.irel of i oitmissionef-. y esterday morning,
a the Inrpe- of getting at the true inwardue—
••l the rumor, but he faded. Major \vcr-abi
he had heard of such a rumor, but that the
-ommis-ioners hael received no -m-ii commu
nication from Judge Wright. Uelcrmiiit-d to
get at thetruth if possible, our rep->rter called
Ii -e-c -fudge Wright, but he w ,i- not in Id- of
gce*. WV found lii- partner. Mr. Meyerhardt.
iu. and very adroitly applied our gimlet lo
him. Here again vi e- were foiled. We could
-c- that Mr.Meyerhardt knew -omethingabout
tier, but he was not '.<■ be pumped. So
|KS-kete*tl our reportorialgimlet and apin-al
e-i to that gentleman's natural gen.-io-ity.
Bin to no effect, lit- simply remarked Hint if
there m,. or wit* not any truth in the rumor
we would find it all out on the 25th, theelay
for In 1 ge- Wright to give hU answer. Later
in t’ - .i .. however, we learm-t from a gen
i!cu,.,n whet is pretty sure to kiwv, whereof
he -|,c.iks. that the rumor was true, ami that
bulge Weight would accept the proposition
•f tin . ommissiemers.”
KLOKIOA.
Tampa has now three shoemaking estab
tjuail are plentiful and fat in the vieinitv
of lluwthorne. *
1 a has tteiw two telegraph line-, the
T. ,mtl Fort Mea*le. ami Santlforel line*.
Mr. Trod s. Iloitx. Treasurer of Alachua
c.'.m . eiieel at Gainesville last *>unelay.
age,lyears.
'■ -were held in the new si. Andrew's
J . church at Tampa ou la-i Saturday
Jurtlic lirst time.
T southern Oil Company will build a ele
:•! for (he distribution of its products
: fcr gliout the state at I’alatka.
'-.cii-ville merchants are now importing
v • . rti tmtatoes and onion- to their market.
ii:' lion e- e rop having been exhausted.
I'r. J. lin K. Peek and his -;-ler. Mi— Mary
I Vot. of st. Augustine, while on their way
j ' -rtt.. lost their eniire wardrobeby the burn
rg>,f Kimball House in Atlanta. They
is'l rely time to make good llieir cscajM
- :n the burning building.
A : _ronameei Wilson Turner, a deck hand
-teamer City of Jacksonx'ille, having
iwciHi;. insubordinate anil violent while the
\e.,- Iving at the ban for, 1 wharf, was shot
Marshal Turner, while resisting arrest,
in, , i tiNvk effeet in his knee, and was not
A Ilian bv the name of snnnis. of Pens*—.la.
u- -hut at Seale-. Ala., last Thurselay night
■ih, .* robbing a store. One siete was tilled
'* Suvkshot tired from a double'-barreled
- iy Mr Starke, the proprietor of the store,
•>: the burglar xxiiile running. He will not
j *Lc irom the wound.
T • Baltimore and Jacksonville Packet
I is getting ready for business. The Jta!-
t ii,. is' .'.-i-i say -: "The new three-masted
s|, cr t ity ej Jacksonville was latiuehesl at
Batli. Me., . ii the 12th iu?t.. ami is now tad-
I ic- for Baltimore. I’pou her arrival she
I Wi ll take her j dace on the packet lino noxv
I -ii--ii between Baltimore and Jaet-op
! Mile. Km. Mr. E. B. Hunting.of Wilson .v
■bißtmg, one of theowners. has Ins n in Bath
I *sxsrai elaxs on business in connection xvith
I hw - c-el. The City of Jacksonville is
| fas o, . ] ", ;ipont*r now on the- line, the others
llf Wilson ,V Hnnting and Urooxxe it.
I teki s.“
. The linporinjit Period of .Man's Life.
1 Ur r'ii'i of Healths
ir ' ihe age of forty to that of sixty.
I Lilian who properly regrnlatos himself
I p!" ■ nsiilertHl in the prijiie ot life.
| Mist;.,a;: :r .. strength of constitutio.'i rent
I' ; ;dino>t iiuperv ions to tho highest
' Iu * x- f disease, and all the tunctions
jr* 111 •r. Having gone a year or two
’l'" ' , ,r. he* arrix c- at thv < lit i
of ixistence. The lixr
ui*4tj4 laws Ixefore him. and he re
j at a stand-still. But athwart this
LLife-, 1 ' :l . 'iaduet, called the “Turn ef
I ths"; i' 1 “• turned in safety, leads to
t*i„ J*, 1 '”-' '?f "DM Age, M around which
<l, ! v > r vv ‘ods. and then flows E'jthout a
j Tj,” , ' ‘uuseway to.aflcct its paMage.
fri.. |' rul -*' is, however, constructed of
! it ii ® atf Tiul*, and it depends on how
r I'l' it whether it bead or break.
• vpoplexr, and other bad maladies
travel 10 l!le A'icinity to wav lav the
. but 1,, f a,lti thrust hint from the pass:
ki n '.“"“.Sird up bis loins and provide
"dh perfect coin|iosiire. To
‘ l !' l *‘ ta tHior. the “turn of life" has
tic ' rto a prolonged wait er into
itau-fa i*V - rile extern and pow er ba*it,g
to , utmost expansion, noxv begin
brta’ the flowers at sunseA. or
♦titnui, OWE at once. One injudicious
f., ' ;l single latal excitement, may
tewl 1 '<eyond its streswtn. whilst a
’ f u i!D l y of props and the xvith
*lll . 1 that tends to force a plaiit
umiif!2“ il in itß beauty and vigor
1 m ~M has nearly set in.
Savannah morning news
A STRANGE INCIDENT.
An'Old Seal Follows Her Captive Off
spring Eighty Miles.
"uinta Barbara Prtt.
An interesting incident, illustrating the
maternal affection ol the animal for its
young, was brought to notice during the
yisft ot an excursion party to Anacapa
Island. A young seal pup, only a few
months old. was brought awav from the
island by little Ernest Whitehead, who
dosm*d to take it home for a pet. The lit
tle animal was 'secured by a rope around
one of its flns, and tied within a small
yawl hejonging to the sloop. Shortly be
fore sailing a large seal xvas noticed
swimming around the sloop anchored off
the cove where the capture was made,
littering loud barks and at times howling
piteously. No particular attention was
paid to the animal at the time or to the
little captive, which at times barked in
response to the old dam's plaints. The
boat sailed away, making for Ventura
shore. V hen off San Buenaventura a
calm in the wind decreased the speed of
the boat, when a large seal xvas noticed
near by.
On reaching the wharf at Santa Bar
bara at - o’clock next morning a seal was
again discovered swimming about the
boat. It was not supposed that this was
the mother ol the- captive or out of pity for
its misery the pup would have been
thrown overboard. To better secure the
pup until daylight the rojic xvas.taken
lrom its tin and it was tied up in a jute
sack and let loose on the deck. Soon al
ter coming to anchor the seal responded
to its mother's invitation by casting itself
overboard, all tied up as it was within
a sack. It is asserted by the man on deck
tliat the mother seized the sack and with
her sharp teeth tore open the prison of her
offspring. This, however, is a mere con
jecture. If it did the little pup was saved;
otherwise it would drown tied up in the
sack. The incident was the more inter
esting from tiie fact that the old seal had
to follow the sloop at least eighty miles
over the ocean in a hope.-ful endeavor to
rescue its young.
A Fifteenth-Century Millionaire.
Atlantic Monthly.
The cathedral is not the only lion of
B mrges: the house' of .Jacques to ur is
an objeet of interest scarcely less posi
tive. This remarkable mail had a very
strange history, and he too was “broken.’’
like' the wretched soldier whom I did not
stay to see. lie has been rehabilitated,
however, by an age which does not tear
the imputation ot paradox, and a marble
statue of linn ornaments the street in
front of his house. To interpret him ac
cording to this image—a womanish figure
in a long rolc and a turban, with big
bare arms, and a dramatic ise —would
h< to think of him as a kind of truculent
-ultaiia. He wore the dress of his period,
but his spirit xvas v ery modern; lie was a
Vanderbilt or Hothschild of the fifteenth
century. He supplied the ungrateful
< barles VII. with money to pay the troops
xvho, under the heroic' Maid, drove the
English from French soil. His house,
which to-day is used as a Palais de Jus
tice, appears to have been regarded at
tho time it was built very much as the
i*i sidence of Mr. Vanderbilt is regarded in
Now York to-day. It stands on the edge
of the hill ou which most of the town is
planted, so that, behind, it plunges down
to a lower level, and if you approach it
on That side, as I did. to come round
to the front of it you have to hscend a
longish flight of steps. The back, of old,
must-have formed a portion of the citv
xxall: at any rate, it oilers to view txvobig
towers, xvhicb Joanne says were formerly
part of the defense of Bourges. From
the lower level of xx Inch I speak— the
square in front of the post office—the pal
ace of Jacques t'u-iir looks very big and
strong and feudal; from the upper street,
in front of it, it look* very handsome and
delicate. To this street it presents txvo
stories and a considerable length of facade;
and it has. both xvithin and without, a
great deal of curious and beautiful
detail. Above the portal, in tho stone
work. are two false windows, in which
txvo figures, a man and a woman, appa
rently household servants, are represent
ed. in sculpture, as looking down into the
street. The effect is homely, yet gro
tesque. and the figures are'sufficiently
living to make one commiserate them
for having been condemned, in so dull a
town, to spend several centuries at the
window. They appear to be watching for
the return of their master, xvho left liis
ls-aiuiful house one morning and never
came back. The history of Jacques
four, which has been xvritten by M.
Pierre Element in a volume crowned by
the French Academy, is very wonder
ful and interesting, but 1 have no
space to go into it here. There is no
more curious example, and fexv more
tragical, of a great fortune crumbling
from one day to the other, or of the antique
superstition that the gods groxv jealous of
human success. Merchant, millionaire,
banker, ship owner, royal favorite ami
Minister of Finance, explorer of the East
and monopolist of the glittering trade l>e
tween that quarter of the globe and his
own, great capitalist who had anticipated
the brilliant operations of the present
time, he expiated his prosperity by pox'er
ty. imprisonment ami torture. The ob
scure points in his career have been elu
cidated by M. Clement, xvho has
drawn, moreover, a very vivid picture
of the corrupt and exhausted state
of France during the middle of the fif
teenth century. ||e has shoxvn that the
spoliation of the great merchant xvas a
deliberately calculated act, and that the
King sacrificed him without scruple or
shame to the avidity of a singularly vil
lainous set of courtiers. The whole story
is an extraordinary picture of high hand
ed rapacity —the crudest possible asser
tion of tli* right of the stronger. The
victim was stripped of his property, but
escaped with his life, made hie way out
of France, and lictaking himself to Italy,
offered his services to the Pope. It "is
proof of the consideration that he enjoyed
in Europe, and of the variety of his ac
complishments. that falixtus 111.
should have appointed him to take
command of a fleet which His Holiness
xx os fitting out against the Turks. Jacques
four, Ijoxx'evcr. xvas not destined to
lead il to victory. He died shortly after
thifexpedition bad slatted, in the island
of Chios, iu Hot*. The house of Bourges.
Ins native place, testifies in some degree
to his wealth and splendor, though it has
in parts that want of space which is
.H iking in many of the buildings of the
middle ages. The court, indeed, is on a
large scale, ornamented with turrets and
arcades, with several beautiful windows
with sculptures inserted in Mje walls,
representing the various sources ot the
great fortune of the owner. M. Pierre
f lenient describes liiu purt of the house
as having been of an uinrumpartMe
ri'"he**< "—an estimate of its charms w hich
s*s*>!i slightlv exaggerated to-day. There
i, however, something delicate
and familiar in tho bas-reliefs of which I
have spoken, little scene® of agriculture
and industry, which show that the proprie
tor was not* ashamed of calling attention
to bis harvests and enterprises. To-day we
should question the taste' of Aqch allu
sions, even in plastic form. In the house
of u •; merchant prince” < say in the Fifth
avenue ;. Why is it. therefore, that these
quaint little panels ut Bourges do not dis ;
please us? It is, pierhap*, because things
xerx ancient never, for some mysterious
reason, appear vulgar. This fifteenth
ecm*.ry millionaire, xvith his palace, his
autohiogtaphi al sculptures, may have
produced that imjvcgston on some critical
spirits ot his own day,
A Students’ Duel.
Il ielWry /.• tier to Bichmoml Pinjuiteh.
Hearths phut there xvasto lie a students'
duel, xve planned ic gratify our curiosity
in seeing xvlrat has been ®G jMueh xvritten
about. Taking a carriage, we.roue across
ibe river, yp the side of a mountain and
dowu u uarrow gorge to a public house.
We went in and ordered some refresh
menu and chatted for half an nour, when
a white-capped student passed. I ac
costed liim and earnestly made known
our wants in the language of Goethe and
Schiller. He gave me a long und earnest
answer, not a word of which could 1 un
derstand.- At last a xvaiter xvho spoke
English came, and xve sought her kind of
fices. She agreed to take us in ten min
utes ha a room where we see the
combat through a window. We
waited an h°M ,, j 3JJd, as our pa
tience was about exhausted, she
returned. Through the window,
we could see txvo melt confronting each
other, xvith their hands extended straight
..*'vr their heads. Their left arms were
tfed ofefcind their backs and goggles over
their eyes. , *'i*men were padded every
where except their ueo*h' which were lett
uncovered. At the appointed ®i2£aj they
hegan cutting at each other xvith ligin-
Miug-likv- rapidity, Neither seemed to try
to ward off the blexv of his opponent. As
soon as one xvas cut the seconds V3U be
tween them and knocked up the sy.’ords.
The doctor examined the wounds, staunch
ca the blood and the light xvas resumed,
siud went og until the doctor decided that
further lighting y ci’ld endanger life. It
xvas the most beasuy tomfoolery I ever
saw. The hurt inflicted was net enough
to satisfy a man seeking redress for a teal
or fancied insult, but was too severe for
pi&y. I could see no display of skill nor
any particular manifestation ol courage.
WALLACE GAINS A MONTH
gov. McDaniel grants him a
RESPITE UNTIL SEPT. US.
An Important Point Under the Micro
scope—>lr. James Gives Atlanta *a
New Hostelry—Mr. Mattin s ly’s Gun
Bill Not Allowed—Mr. l'utt’s Bill
Passes the Senate.
Atlanta, August 22.— Gox - . McDaniel
has concluded to respite Wallace tor
30 days, in order that all the grounds ol
the appeal tor clemency may be tully con
sidered. Attorney General Anderson and
Gov. McDaniel have given the case so far
a most thorough investigation, but there
is one very important point that requires
more time for examination and considera
tion. and upon this vital point hangs the
final action of the Governor. It xvill re
quire a very clear showing to secure a
commutation of the sentence.
THE KIMBALL HOUSE.
There is nothing new in the Kimball
House matter, and rebuilding is still
doubtful. John H. James has met the de
mand for anew hotel, by clearing out his
law offices iu the old building, and turn
ing the entire new live-story building into
a hotel. This will give hotel accommo
dations nearly equal to the Markham,
and txvo-tbirds new rooms.
IN THE HOUSE.
The House to-day, Mr. Kankin pre
siding, concurred in the Senate resolution
for a committee to examine the business
and report a time to adjourn sine die.
The committee reported its x isit to the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and suggested
that the excuses of the institution
ought to be reduced.
Committees reported considerable nexv
business from their yesterdav afternoon
nieetip
The special order was the resolution to
allow George Mattingly to sue the State
of Georgia for guns furnishetl iu I*oo.
The Judiciary Committee submitted ma
jority and minority reports this morning.
Mr. Keese, of Wilkes. Chairman of the
committee, sent to the Clerk’s desk
an official letter Iront G. H.l’entield, agent
of Sharp's Kitle Company,* denying that
Mattingly owned the bonds to be sued for.
or that he had any authority to noxv rep
resent the company.
Air. Maddox, of Chattooga, favored the
minority report, and argued that the
bonds should not be paid, as the guns
were used by Georgia against the United
States, and Congress has prohibited the
payment of any such Southern xvar
claims.
Mr. \\ atts,'ot Stewart, offered a substi
tute, referring the whole matter to At
torney General Anderson, in order to de
cide several intricate legal and constitu
tional points involved.
Mr. Falligunt, of Chatham, made a
strong legal argument in favor of Mr.
Mattingly, denying that l’eufield’s letter
changed the case in any sense. The bonds
are the property of Mr*. Mattingly to se
cure a debt on the part of Mr. Pentield,
and should be paid. There is no legal or
constitutional impediment in the xvny.
lie opposed the reference to the Attorney
General, as the ablest lawyers in Georgia
have decided all the legal points said to be
in doubt. Mr. Falligant spoke 40 minutes
xvith great earnestness and closed xvith a
beautiful poetic tribute to Georgia.
Mr. Bartlett, of Bibb, opposed the reso
lution xvith considerable vehemence.
Under a call ot the previous question,
Mr. Gary, of Richmond, closed tlie debate
for the majority report of the Judiciary
Committee in favor of the resolution.
Mr. Watts’ substitute xvas lost, and tin*
resolution put on its passage. The result
xvas 30 yeas to 117 nays. Mr. McDonough
voted yea.
The redistricting bill comes up to-inor
roxv, and a lively contest is expected.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate the committee reported
adversely to a branch college at Wal
thourville, but Senator Smith opposed the
report in an eloquent appeal for that sec
tion, and the Senate disagreed to the re
port, which carries the bill to a third
reading.
Senator Gustin's bill regulating leased
railroads xvas made the special order for
to-morrow. The balance of the morning
xvas devoted to the discussion of Senator
Tutt’s bill amending section 4500 of the
Code in reference* i<> interference with
farm laborers. •
Messrs. Davis, Oliver, Fakes and Pee
ples opposed the amendment to the sec
tion as useless and unwise.
Messrs. Tutt, Parks, Livingston and Ihi-
Bignon favored the measure, and it passed
by 20 yeas to 11 nays.
Both the Senate and House spent most
ot the day in speechifying.
AMERICA’S BAR \SSOCI ATION.
Gen. Lawton Delivers tlie President’s
Address at the Annual Meeting.
Saratoga, August 22.—The sixth an
nual session of the American Bar Asso
ciation began hero this morning, xvith a
very large attendance. The convention
xvill last three days. The meeting xvas
called to order by lion. L. P. Poland, of,
St. Johnsbury, Vt., Chairman of the
Council of the association. He intro
duced Gen. Alexander R. Laxvton, of Sa
vannah, Oil., who delivered the Presi
dent's address. At the conclusion of the
address sixty-five new members were
elected. The Council for the ensuing year
xvas then elected, consisting of one repre
sentative from each State. Secretary E.
Otis Ilinkley then made his annual ro
;Mrt, after which the association adjourned
until 8 o’clock this evening.
The association reassembled at eight
o’clock. An amendment to the constitu
tion >n regard to the admission of new
memliers requiring that they lie recom
mended to the Executive Committee by at
least three members from their State, was
carried. A resolution to Invite Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge and his associates to
this meeting, was referred to the Execu
tive Committee,
Hon. Robert G. Street, of Texas, read a
paper on hoxv far considerations of public
policy may enter into judicial decisions*,
and Seymour D. Thompson, ot Missouri,
followed with one on abuses of the writ of
habeas corpus, A discussion on the.
papers was postponed til! the next ses
sion. The association then adjourned till
to-morrow. •
JUDGE BLACK'S FUNERAL.
All York Docs Homage to tlie Memory of
jief Statesman Son.
York. Penn., August 22. —The funeral of
Judge Black was by far the largest which
ever took place in York. All business
was suspended, and tfie streets were
thronged with people as the funeral cor
tege passed. Many distinguished people
were present from abroad. The pall
bearers xvere General Hancock, Judge
Gibson, Judge Wickers, George Small,
Gen. s. W. Crawford, Chief Justice Mer
cur. A. B. Farquhar, George H. Sprigg,
Judge Bear, and W. L. Small, Religions
services were held at Brockie. conducted
by Rev. Dr. Power, of Washington. The
remains were interred at Prospect Hill
Cemetery.
A SHOT TELLS A SCANDAL.
Dr. Abrahams Falls a Victim to a
Negro xvho Watched His Wife Dress.
GabVESTQNi August 22.—A special
dispatch from Houston says that Dr.
Abrahams, a prominent physician and
ex-Confederate surgeon, xvas shot and
probably mortally wounded by a negro
named Clar£ to-day in an affray, during
which both men tired several shots. Yes
terday the doctor fired upon the negrp
twice, but without effect. The negro
claims to have been a victim of a system
of petty persecutions. The doctor al
leges that Clark looked through a window
at” fiis wife while she was making her
toilet.
FRANK JAMES’ TRIAL.
All Missouri Watching the Case of the
Bandit Lieutenant.
Kansas Cpry, Mo., August 22.—A
Tinies special from Gallatin, Mo,, states
that in the Frank James trial yesterday
the entire day was occupied with the
work of impaneling a jury. It is likely
that this w ill take two of three days. The
crowd is increasing, and intense interest
is manifested in the case. The court has
restricted the audience to 400 persons. It
i„ stated on excellent authority that
Dick Liid;* fj here, and xvill apjieai* at the
proper time. *
The Order of St. Luke.
iu TEUSBi no. Ya., August 22.—The
liignt Worthy Brand .Council of the Order
of Bt. Luke of Virginia, ai its annual ses
sion to-day, elected W. M. T. Forester, of
Richmond, Grand Secretary. The reports
of the Secretary and Treasurer showing
the receipts and expenses of the past year
isJrere read. Some amendments to the by
laws were ofered, amj will be acted upon
during this session, • -
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1883.
YELLOW FEVER IN PENSACOLA.
Two Sailors Discovered Sick with the
Disease and Removed.
Washington. August 22.—The result
of the house-to-house inspection in Pen
sacola, ordered by Surgeon General Ham
ilton, which commenced this morning,
was the finding of two cases of yellow
fever in a sailor’s boarding house on
Palafox street wharf. The Surgeon Gen
eral directed that the patients be removed
to the Quarantine Hospital ou Santa Rosa
Island, the bedding and clothing in the
house destroyed, and the house
fumigated , and surrounded by a
guard. The cases were reported by
Acting Assistant Surgeon White at
3 o’clock this afternoon. A l>oat xvas im
mediately chartered by the Collector of
Customs and the patients removed to the
Quarantine Hospital, in accordance with
the Surgeon General’s orders.
Dr. White’s report was given to the
operator at Pensacola at 2:25 o’clock and
telegraphed to Washington at 3 o’clock.
It was immediately replied to, and at 4:15
o’clock notice xvas received that the cases
wore on a boat on their way to the hos
pital.
A telegram received by the Acting Sec
retary of the Navy from Paymaster Brown,
at Pensacola, says that Surgeon Owen is
dying, and that his (Brown’s) child is
stricken xvith yellow fever.
i'lie Surgeon General of the Marine Hos
pital Service has received a report from
Surgeon Main at Brownsville,Texas, trom
which it appears that black small-pox is
prevailing with great mortality in the
towns of Gamattan and Purification, Mexi
co, and that yellow lexer is reported at
Tampico and Panama. Black small-pox is
prevalent at Guatemala, the victims be
iug principally foreigners. There were
160 deaths from cholera in Sandronecco,
Oxaca 1 _ During the months of July there
were 477 deaths from yellow fever in Vera
Cruz during the month of July.
Pensacola, Fla., August 22.—The
Board of Health announces txvo cases of
yellow fever ou Palafox xvharl. A guard
has been placed around the building,
xvhicb xvill lie burned. The “men are sail
ors who were stolen from a ship and
hidden until the ship left port. They are
supposed to .have been hidden at War
rington. Dr. < Jxven is reported with black
vomit, one new ease is reported at the
navy yard.
M KMi'ii is, August 22. —A largo number
ol telegrams were received here to-day
from different points asking whether yel
low fever had appeared in this city. It is
supposed here that the rumor xvas" started
abroad tor speculative purposes, as no
apprehension is leit here regarding it.
Memphis xvas never healthier, and every
preparation lias been made to guard
against (lie diffusion of the disease even
if it should find lodgment at points lielow.
WASHED UP BY THE SEA.
Two Corpses lteveal the F ate of a Miss
ing Sloop.
New York, August 22.—C. W. Btilli
ner, of No. 75 Fulton street, this city, of
fers a rexvard of SSOO for the first informa
tion sent him before September I, as to
the whereabouts of the sloop Mystery, of
New Haven, or of her crew. It is feared
here that the sloop lias been blown to sea
by a heavy gale.
Trkmont. Mass., August 22. —Yester-
day noon the dead body of a man dressed
in a yachting man’s shirt xvith a life pre
server on, was found at West Falmouth,
and this morning a second body xvas
found near the same place. The bodies
were buried above the high water mark,
so that they may be in a position to be
taken up for identifieation if necessary.
New Haven, Conn., August 22.—The
fact that the bodies washed ashore at West
Falmouth, Mass., were dressed in yacht
ing shirts and that on one body was a life
preserver marked “C. H. Northam” have
led to the conclusion here that the drown
ed men were the crew of the missing
yacht Mystery, as the vachtmen borrowed
four life-preservers from the steamer C’.
H. Northam xvhile here. A gentleman has
started for Falmouth to see if he can iden
tify the bodies.
SUFFOCATED IN A WELL.
Txvo Men Lose their Lives at Knoxville,
and Others NarroxxTy Escape.
Knoxville. Tenx., August 22.— This
morning two men met a horrible death six
miles from this city. John McClain had
been digging a well, and hired a young
man named George Gxvinn to help him
finish it. The two men went to
work at 8 o’clock this morning.
Gwitin going to the bottom of the Well.
He had been digging only a few minutes
when he fell over. McClain went to bis
assistance, but before lie could reach him
xvas also overcome. There were no other
persons about the place except children.
Before (lie neighbors could be summoned
both men xvere dead.
Alexander Nelson was let down by a
rojie, but xvas drawn up immediately
nearly dead. The txxo bodies were finally
brought up by means ol hooks. Gwinn
was unmarried; McClain leaves a widow
and children.
WRECKED ON A TRESTLE.
A Broken Rail Ditches Three Cars and
Takes Three Lives.
Memphis, Tenx., August 22.—A xvest
bound passenger train on the Memphis
and Little Hock Railroad which left here
at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon, met
with an accident lust night four miles
west of Forest City, Ark., while crossing
a short trestle. A broken rail caused txvo
second class passenger coaches and a bag
gage express ear togo through the trestle,
killing J. IS. Salinger and Harry Faldberg,
merchants of Cotton Plant, Ark., and
John Adair, formerly foreman of the pile
drivers of tne Little Rock Road, James
White, a stock claim agent of the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad, had his leg
broken. Several other passengers re
ceived injuries, but not of a serious char
acter, The east-bound train, due here
last night at 10 o’clock, did not arrive
until It o’clock this morning.
A RIOT OVER AY AGES.
Txvo Killed, Two Wounded, and One
Unmercifully Beaten in the Row,
Pittsburg, August 22.—A special dis
patch from Punxsuta Wancy, Jefferson
county, says that during the payment of
the railroad hands there yesterday a dis
pute arose about wages, culminating in
a riot. A Hungarian named Peter J.eder
was killed, two fellow-workmen nagged
John Sbormutz and John I)alo were shot
and an Irishman named Tom Kearney
was unmercifully beaten. No arrests
have been made, but Sheriff Anderson and
a posse are on hand and will probably
make some arrests to-day. No further
trouble is anticipated,
imiVEX TO I>KITH BV A L.KTTKK
A Germ it n Gets an Kpistle from Home
and Jumps into the Canal.
Tkkxtox, August 22.—Herbert Mayer,
a German, 28 years of age, employed at
the Trenton terracotta works, received a
letter from Germany while in his shop
this morning, the contents of which were
evidently of a disagreeable nature, for as
soon as he linished reading it he tore the
letter into bits, which he scattered on the
boor. lie then rap into the yard aim
jumped into the adjoining canal without
a word to any one. The hotly was recov
ered an hour later. He leaves a wife and
children.
A Paper Mill Burned.'
CHKSTKR, I*a., August 22. The largo
paper mill of j. H. Lewis, in Springfield
township, six miles Irom here, was de
stroyed by tire at an early hour this morn
ing. While the lire was burning a boiler
in toe mill pip Jed, killing John Mor
rison, aged 15 years, and seriously injur
ing two or three others, including Mr.
Lewis, the proprietor.
The loss is about SBO,OOO, and is nearly
covered by insurance. The cause of the
fire is supposed to have been the sponta
neous combustion of rags.
Aiirtii Cundii.n's Fruit Fan .
Wilmington. August 22.—'The’second
annual fair of the' North Carolina Fruit
htowiijg Association was opened here
to-day, The attendance i not so largo a„
was expected, but the decoration of the
hall, and the display of fruits is said to
he the finest ever seen in the State. The
address of welcome was delivered by E.
I>. Hall, Mayor of the city, and was re
sponded to by S. O. Wilson, Secretary of
the association. There will be a grand
ball and display ot fire-Works to-iught. ,
The Knights in Conclave,
San Fbaxcisco, August 22.— The grand
encampment of Knights Tenydar con
vened in conclave yesterday. The St.
Louis and Boston Knights- are making
active canvass for the next conclave.
T t>e opinion is that St. Louis will get it.
DEZE.XDORF’S MOVEMENT.
M AHONE S OVERTHROW GROW
ING MORE ASSURED.
Encouraging Letters from Virginia—
Commissioner Evans Goes Back on
Himself—Chandler a Public Spend
thrift—The Niagara Hoax*-The Demo
cratic Outlook in Ohio Rather Hazy.
Washington, August 22.—Dezendorf,
of Virginia, who xvas a member of Con
gress from the Norfolk district until he
refused to follow Mahone in his so-called
new movement to rejuvenate the State,
has a law ortice in this city. He has not,
however, given up politics in Virginia.
He still has hopes in that direction. He
is leading a movement which seems to
promise success in that it fc to be com
posed of Republicans pure and simple,
xvith none of the so-called .Democratic-
Readjuster adjuncts thereto. Recent
events in Virginia point so strongly to the
overthrow of Mahone that Dezendorf is
greatly encouraged. He certainly has
grounds for encouragement. As the'leader
of the nexv movement. Republican in all
of its details of management and
everything else, he is gratified, as he
said to-day, by letters of xvhicb he is in
daily receipt. These letters give him
every encouragement to g*> on with the
scheme of the complete reorganization of
the Republican party in Virginia upon a
basis of only Republicans in that organi
zation. He intends to push this scheme
with all his energies, and hopes, with good
reason, to see very many Republicans
who have heretofore been acting with that
political eunuch, Mahone, join him in his
effort. It is the intention of Dezendorf
and those acting with him to hold a regu
lar State contention to select delegates to
the next Presidential Convention in oppo
sition to what Mahone’s people may do.
One more nail will be driven in Mahone’s
political cotlin by this determined organi
zation of those xvho are truly Republican
in Virginia.
EV AN S’ I NI)I KFERENCK.
Mr. Evans, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, who is so indifferent toxvhat the
press may say, to-day made rather a had
break. A short time ago he made a ruling
that all medicinal preparations in which
alcohol enters as a material part should
pay the regular tax upon alcohol in its
various shapes sold by dealers therein. A
certain hitters company that is known as
“ Hostetter’s Bitters” has not only a good
deal of money and influence, but also a
son-in-law, who, in the person of Thomas
Bayne, of Pennsylvania, is a member of
Congress. The bitters company kicked very
strenuously against the ruling of Mr.
Evans. They exerted their influence,
and sent the son-in-law down hereto ar
gue the ease. The result was shown in
the decision made to-day.. Mr. Evans
goes back on his former ruling, and to
all practical purposes releases the bitters
in question from the payment of any tax
whatever, as the little internal revenue
laxv of the last session relieved medicinal
preparations from taxation. Other man
ufacturers of patent medicines will, of
course, take advantage of the precedent
thus set by Mr. Evans, and put them
selves on the same footing xvith Hostet
ter’s Bitters. Mr. Evans, for vacillation,
may certainly be put down as a great
man.
CHANDLER’S COSTLY CRUISE.
Secretary Chandler, who left Ports
mouth, N. IL, to-day, is on a ten days’
pleasure trip on the United States steamer
Tallapoosa. He will doubtless have a
good time. An officer ot the navy said
to-day to your correspondent that the
running expenses of the Tallapoosa and
crew foot up to SSOO per day when she is
engaged in active service. If she were
laying at her wharf, as she would be xvere
not Chandler using her, she would
cost S2OO a day. So that Chandler’s ten
days’, excursion xvill draw $3,*00 out of
the public treasury.
THE NATION HOAXED.
The statement has been published all
over the country, and the world, indeed,
that a Dr. Richardson, of this citv. pro
posed to go over the Niagara Falls by
means ot a machine of his oxx n invention.
The attempt was to be made in the early
part of September, and the apparatus xvas
described xvith great attention to details,
while wide publicity xvas given to the
fact that the experiment would be made.
The bold follower of Captain Webb, and
others who have tried this perilous feat,
courted an obscurity from personal noto
riety, which is unusual in such cases.
No one could be found who had seen this
adventurous doctor, or knew anything
about him, and there xvas not wanting
those who said that he xvas a myth, and
bad no existence save in the fertile
imagination of some newspaper writer.
While such is not a fact, it is practically
so. There is a Dr. Richardson in this
city, who has for a warm friend, a news
paper writer of great resources o( imagi
nation. That xvriter set the whole thing
agoing by the aid of his effervescent
brain and willing pen. It was indeed, a
national hoax.
DEMOCRACY’S CHANCE IN OHIO.
John (i. Thompson, ex-Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House, and a prominent De
mocrat, together xvith other Ohio Demo
crats, is visiting the city. While they
speak in oublie very hopefully of Demo
cratic success in the next election, they
do not keep up the hold private front.
Tlie plain fact is that the Democracy out
there seems to be truly a house divided
against itself.
JEWS IN' RUSSIA,
The Question an Economical Rather
Than a Religious One.
London, August 22,—A correspondent
at >t. Petersburg in bis dispatch referring
to the expulsion from St, Petersburg of an
American Jew in accordance with the
law forbidding Jews to live in that city,
says that it is not likely that the Russian
officials have been over-strict in
such oases, iq view of the
repeated protests by the British and
American Governments iu regard to the
treatment of Jews, The Jew xvho was
expelled declined to ask the Prefect as a
favor to alloxv him to remain until he had
transacted his business, as fie would
demand such treatment as a right, The
correspondent adds that as the Jewish
difficulty is more of an economical
than a religious one there is little pros
pect of a removal of tfie prohibition
against Jews living in St. Petersburg and
Moscow. Thousands of Jews who do live
in both places either belong to tlie privi
leged class or skillfully evade the compli
ance with the law.
IRELAND IN THE COMMONS,
A Motion in Favor of Home Rule to be
Introduced by Mr. Callings.
London, August 22.—1n the House of
Commons this afternoon Mr, Callings, the
Liberal member for Ipswich, gave notice
that at the next session of Parliament he
would otter a resolution declaring that it
is desirable to grant a measure of home
rule ti> Ireland as the best means of secur
ing permanent peace to the Irish, Mr,
Callings’ announcement was received
with cheers.
Mr. Gladstone stated this afternoon in
the House of Commons, response to a
question by Mr. Parnell, that he regretted
that the House of Lords had rejected the
Irish registration bill. Mr. Gladstone
also stated that he would introduce a
larger measure on the subject at the next
session of Parliament. .
I 'RANGE'S WAR TALK.
Bismarck’s Organ Warns Europe That
It May End ii^ Disastrous Hostilities.
Berlin, August 22— The \or(h (ie,--
owo (iaeette, Prince siistdarck’s organ,
in replying to the attacks of the French
journals on Germany, and their cry for
revenge, declares that France alone
threatens the peace of Europe. It also
sayg tfiaf; tin*i t 4 gtaic qf aqairs caoiiuf
continue witnout serious danger, and
that passions fermented by agitation may
burst the bounds of peace!
IRISH CONSPIRATORS CAUGHT
A Plot to Murder CliDord Moyd and
Of tiers Frustrated tU® A*re*i.
Dt bi-in, August 22.—p. Conn lly and
Patrick Connelly, brothers, have been ar
rested at Bruff, county Limerick, on the
p, itieqcpoj. ~a iqfqrmet’, 'fluey ate charged
with being commoted with the murder
conspiracy. Documents xvere found on
the prisoners showing that the conspiracy
in which they w ere engaged was aimed at
the lives of Clillbrd Lloyd and others.
Franco-Spanish Relations.
DRii;, 4,ug04( 44. 'ipe papers'here
Eefefely■comment on the language of a
portion of the French press with refer
ence to Spain. The statement of Le Pro
gresstt of Madrid that France had recta
a collective note signed bv
Austria and Russia in regard to the con!
duet of trance is denied by official jour
nflis
HAYTI’S DISCORD.
Flames and Revolutions Still Stirring
Up the Populace.
Havana, August22.—The English mail
steamer from St. Thomas, August 17, ar
rived here to-day, bringing the following
news*
Port au Prince, August 9.—a large
conflagration broke out here on the
7th instant, beginning in an educa
tional institution of the Christian
Brothers. Four blocks were destroyed.
The loss is $250,000.
An uprising took place July 25 at Fort
Liberte. The insurgents were few in num
ber and were put to flight.
The political situation is unchanged. A
severe battle xvas fought before Jacmel
August 3. Hundreds of men were killed.
The insurgents claim that the battle re
sulted in a great victory for their lorces.
It is stated by government officials that 14
prisoners of war xvere shot by the insur
gents on the day they made their attack.
A government degree was issued on
August 8, declaring Miragoane, Jeremie
and Jacmel in a state of blockade and
closed to foreign commerce.
New York. August 22.—Mr. Preston,
the Haytien Minister, is in receint of late
official communications from Hayti.
President Salomon has issued a procla
mation announcing a crime committed
by tlie insurgents ut Jacmel, murdering
in cold blood fourteen political prisoners,
civil and military. After being defeated
by the government troops in a battle on
the 3d inst., the insurgents retreated to
the city, and before tlie government
troops arrived, assassinated the most in
fluential government officials, whom they
had in their power, because oh
July 23 these officials had
refused to betray the government
of the republic and join in the rebellion.
It appears from further advices that
President is now’ thoroughly
aroused against the rebels, and that the
war will be made hotter than ever. It is
the opinion of the most intelligent Ilay
tiens in this city that the rebels
can’t succeed, and xvill shortly
give up the fight. It is said
in fact that their stubbornness has sur
prised even themselves. M. l’arlangue, a
xvealthy planter and formerly a promi
nent politician, xvho had, however, re
tired from politics, has accepted the Gen
eralship of the armies of the republic.
The crime at Jacmel has excited those
xvho xvere* heretofore neutral and impas
sive into active opposition to the rebel
lion, and President Salomon expresses his
firm determination to redeem the good
name ol the people of the republic at home
and abroad by punishing the rebels and
stamping out (he rebellion.
HENRY GEORGE ON LABOR.
Workingmen Pictured as Abused, and
Government Action Advised.
New York, August 22. —Henry George
was examined to-day by the Senate Sub
committee on Labor and Education. 111
answer to the questions of the committee
Mr. George said that a feeling ot ex
treme dissatisfaction existed among the
laboring classes. Their condition is not
improving xvith the increased prosperity
of the country. There is no direct conflict
between labor and capital, but between
labor and monopoly. Wages in each em
ployment are governed by certain circum
stances, but they must all depend on
the wages obtained on the most productive
industry in the country, and here this in
dustry is agriculture. Mr. George said
that il lie had absolute power he would
abolish the protective tariff and all taxes
except those on land values, the army and
navy, together with West Point and An
napolis; place the telegraphic systems and
railroads under government control; abol
ish the collection of debts by .legal pro
ceedings and reform and simplify the
whole legal system. England, he said,
had greatly advanced in prosperity by the
adoption of her partial free trade sys'tem,
and the condition of the laboring classes
was better there than in this countrv.
The power to remedy the cvtl he had sug
gested, by (In* means which he advocated,
he thought, lay in the government as at
present constituted and could be put into
effect xyithout much difficulty. The ex
amination closed with a discussion of the
advantages of the protective tariff bv
Senator Blair.
TRADES UNIONISM.
Favorable Progress Reported and Poli
tical Activity Advised.
New York, August 22.—At this morn
ing’s session ot the federation of organi
zated trades and labor unions of the
United States aiTd Canada the legislative
committee appointed last year at the
Clex'eland convention reported en
couraging progress in tho formation of
local unions and increasing membership
of the unions previously, formed. The
report reviewed the history of labor agita
tion in the past year, and the efforts made
to obtain legislation • favorable to work
ingmen. It xvas recommended that a
prize of SSOO be offered tor the best essay
on trades unions and strikes, and that
steps he taken to secure harmony
and unanimity among trade’s
and labor organizations. At the afternoon
session the Secretary was instructed to
send a letter to tho next national conven
tions of the txvo great political parties,
setting forth the demands ot the xvorking
men, A resolution favoring the establish
ment of a government postal telegraph
system was adopted. The Executive
( ommittee xvas instructed to communicate
with all national and international
trades and labor organizations xvith a
view of obtaining a basis upon which
mose thorough unanimity might be se
cured. A committee xvas selected to ad
dress a letter to the workingmen of the
country urging them to unite for self-pro,
tection, Votes of thanks to Senators
Yoorheos and Conger for their speeches
in the Senate on February 24th in support
of the principles of trades unions were
adopted.
UNDERGROUND TELEGRAPHY.
A Company Files Articles of Incorpora.
tion at Albany, N. Y,
Albany, August 22.—Articles of in
corporation liaxe been tiled with the Sec-*
retary of State of the Electrical Conduit
Construction Company, with a capital
stock of $1,000,1X10, divided into 100,000
shares, The incorporators are; IL
W, Pope, Y ice President of the
Manhattan District Telegraph Com
pany, of New York: A. B. Chan
dler, of the Fuller Electrical Com
pany, of Nexv York: 11. \V. Fairbanks,
Superintendent of the Postal Telegraph
Company; C. A, Brown, Manager of the
Western Electric Company; S, \V. Knee
land, of New York; Prof. Elisha Gray and
D. N- Hurlbert, of Chicago.
The object of the company is the con
struction of underground telegraphs and
telephones xvhicb, under the patents
owned by the company, and indorsed by
the most eminent and practical telegraph
ers, can he done with more economy than
by any device yet known. The inventor
is D, N, Hulburt, a well-known tel
egraphist of Chicago.
Mexico’* Era of Progress.
City of Mexico. August 22.—The Sec
retary of the Treasury invites each State
to send two delegates to this capital Oc
tober Ist, to discuss the manner of abol
ishing internal custom houses in conform
ity xvith the constitutional amendment,
and propose another more equitable tax
to replace the loss sutfered by States iu
consequence thereof. The Secretary says
that the extension, of the railroads have
me,d“ internal custom houses impractica
ble. The conxeution xvill also discuss the
best means to enforce the constitutional
article which prohibits States from im
posing exportation duties.
Fiy*t lilies it. Uto Carolina*.
WILMINGTON, N. C., August 22.—A
dispatch to the Star Irom Laurinburg re
ports the shipment of the first bale ot new
North Carolina cotton to New York yes
terday.
Columbia, August 22.—The firs; hap.
of new cotton was reuei.'eu yesterday
fftgp rfiiMoa Hook, of Lexington. Its
weight was 407 pounds. It was classed
middling and sold for 9 .1-10 cents.
A Guano-Laden ScJ’ooiie} Stitts.
August gX—The schooner
Water Lifie, of Uoston, Captain Kelley,
from Charleston to Richmond, Va., with
a cargo of :,sf> tons of guano, sprung a
leak on the 17th inst. and sank the next
day, twelve miles east of Body Island
The crew were all saved by ti,g ,u. 6e pi
boat, and \vere u p sooth afterwards
h>’ ttne schodner Lewis K, Coulngham,
from Charleston, and arrived at this port
this morning. *
?.oop a Total Wreck.
Atlantic City, August aa.-The sloop
Ocean Star, in attempting to cross the bar
at Egg harbor inlet yesterday, capsized
in a heavy sea and is a total wreck. The
crew were saved.
MINNESOTA IX A CYCLONE.
A TRAIN BLOWN OFF THE RAILS
AND 25 PERSONS KILLED.
Forty or Fifty Injured. Many of Whom
W ill Die—The Train Running Forty
Miles an Hour When Lifted from the
Rails Great Damage Done by the
Storm.
Minneapolis, Minn., August 22.— A
heavy storm raged west and south of here
yesterday. The xvires are down in both
directions and news is hard to obtain. A
report comes from Kasson, on the NVinona
and St. Peter Railroad, that a cyclone
passed ox'er that place, blowing down
many buildings, killing two persons and
injuring several others Some of the hail
stones that fell measured ten inches in
circumference. Efforts to obtain particu
lars are in vain. The cloud to the west
and north was a heavy one, and fears are
expressed by many here that great damage
has been done, but the wires being down
no particulars have been received.
St. Paul, Minn., August 22,8 p. m.— A
passenger train on the Rochester and
Northern Railroad xvas blown from the
track last night during the cyclone, and
some hundred persons were killed* and
wounded.
St. Paul, Minn., August 22. 9 p.m.—A
disastrous cyclone raged at Rochester,
Minn., last night. Twenty-four persons
are reported to have been killed, and 50
or more injured. ‘A train was blown from
the track. Passengers from Owatanna
state that 25 persons xvere killed in the
accident. Thirty-five of the injured xx'ere
taken to a house at Owatanna. The
Mayor of Rochester telegraphs for assist
ance, stating that 25 persons were killed,
and about 40 injured. One-third of that
toxvn is a complete wreck. It is believed
from all the reports that have come in
that the whole country surrounding
Rochester is in ruins. The killed
may reach up into the hundreds.
St. Paul, Minn., August 22, 10 p. m.—
51. Cole, proprietor of the Zuinbrota Mills,
at Zumbrok, xvas instantly killed. He
was in one of his mills when the storm
struck the town, and wrecked the build
ing. Gov. Hubbard lias sent $5,000 to aid
the sufferers. The Governor has received
word from Rochester stating that the
toxvn is in ruins, and that forty persons
have been killed. It is impossible to get
lull details of the ravages of the storm, as
the telegraphic wires are all down. The
storm in other directions was also severe.
W’inoxa, Minn., August 22.—At seven
o'clock last evening a cyclone struck the
northern part of the citv of Rochester,
lying north of the railroad track, and
made a clean sweep of the elevators, resi
dences, railroad engine houses and other
property. The long railroad bridge xvas
completely demolished. Major Whittier
telegraphs that twenty-four persons xvere
killed and forty wounded.
The city is in need of clothing, food and
other assistance. Superintendent San
born, of the Winona and St. Peter Rail
way, telegraphs that the list of killed
and wounded is hourly increasing. The
prostration of the telegraph lines lias
made it difficult to get particulars. The
storm swept througn the towns of Utica
and St. Charles in Winona county. Job
Thornton was killed and several others
xvere injured.
Reports from Dodge county indicate
that the storm caused much damage and
some loss of life in that county. No par
ticulars are yet obtainable. Mayor Lud
wig, ot Winona, with acorns of surgeons,
left for Rochester this morning.
Owatonna, Minn., August 22.—Tele
graphic advices received here early this
morning give meagre details of a terrible
accident between Rochester and Zuin
brata, Minn., on the Rochester and North
ern division of the . Chicago and North
western Railroad, by which about one
hundred persons were killed or injured.
Owing to the interruption of the tele
graphic service at Rochester, no informa
tion could be obtained until the arrival
of a train from the scene of the disaster,
on which xvere thirty-five persons who
had been injured in the accident. Of this
number many appeared to be seriously
hurt, and ail were taken to the hospital*.
The train that was xvrecked xvas that
which leaves Rochester at about 4 o’clock
in the evening, arriving at Zumbrata at 6
o’clock. It was caught in a severe wind
and hail-storm that prevailed in that
vicinity between 4 and 6 o’clock, and
while running at a high rate of speed was
lifted from the rails and converted into
a mass of ruins. Gentlemen who
have been to the scene of the disaster
describe it as one of the most horrifying
railroad accidents they ever witnessed.
Every car in the trai‘ll was a complete
wreck, and was almost literally shattered
to pieces by the sudden stop caused
by the trains leaving the rails,
burying the unfortunate passengers be
neath the debris, killing many and
injuring nearly every person on board. A
gentleman stated that nine dead bodies
had been taken from the ruins and that
a large number of those seriouslv injured
had been removed to Rochester and Owa
tonna. At the time he left the work of
extricating the unfortunate victims was
still progressing, and it xvas believed that
the number of killed would reach a score
when the final summing up was made.
Hat and Ball.
Washington. August 22.—Games of
base ball were played to-day as follaxvs:
At Philadelphia—Athletics 0; Cincin
natis 8.
_ At Baltimore—Baltimores 10; Eclipses
At Boston—New Y'orks 18; Bostons 10.
AtNexv York—Columbuses 1; Metropol
itans to.
At Providence— Philadelnhias 2; Provi
dences 8.
At Cleveland—Clevelands 2; Chicagos 8.
At Buffalo—Buffalos (!; Detroits 7.
At Pittsburg—St. Louises G; Alleghe
ny's 3.
At Wilmington, Del.—Quicksteps 10;
Trentons 10.
At Reading— Actives 14: Harrisburgs 5.
Schaefer Defeats Scxtou.
Sas Francisco, August 22.— Last night
xvas the second night of the billiard
tournament at Metropolitan Temple. The
game was the back line game of 600
points for SSOO between Schaefer and Sex
ton. Schaefer opened the game but failed
to score. After two hours play Schaefer
won, scoriug 600 to Sexton’s* 502. The
highest runs made xvere 143 for Schaefer,
and 105 for Sexton.
New Jersey’s Democrats.
Trenton, N. J.. August 22.—Taylor’s
Opera House iu this city has been en
gaged by the Democratic State Kxecu
tix-e Committee for September 13, for the
purpose of bolding the State Convention.
No formal call has yet been issued for the
conx'ention.
Egypt’s Cholera Death List.
Alexandria, August 22.—' Thirty use yen
deaths lrom cholera occurred here yester
day. One of the victims was a British
soldier.
London, August 22.—The deaths from
cholera in Egypt on Tuesday numbered
131, including one at Cairo.
Haicluonj; Captured by the French.
London, August 22.—A dispatch to rhe
'Junes lrom Hong Kang, dated to-day,
says that ffaiduong, Tonquin, has been
taken by the French. They also captured
1-50 cannon and $50,000 of Annamite cash
The Annamites fled into the interior.
Trussta and tRe Vatican.
Rome. August 22, —Negotiations be
tween pru&aia and the Vatican will not
he resumed till the return to Rome of
Herr Yon Schloezer, the Prussian Minis
ter at the Vatican, with Prince Bismarck’s
ultimatum.
\ Cwtaqs of Course
J-ijNpos., August 22.—A canister con
taining white powder, which can oniv be
ignited when brought into contact with
water, has been found at Plymouth The
police believe that the contrivance Was
intended for use by Peutaos.' ‘ '
The Work for the Geyiuau I'arliameut.
Pb'-fLY. August 22.—The Bundersrath
and Reichstag, which are to convene next
week, arc* summoned for the purpo c e of
ratifying the treaty of commerce between
Germany and So air. ■ ' "
Threatening; Destruction.
Naplks, August 22.—Mount Vesuvius
is in a state oi remarkable activity. Con
tinuous trembling of the soil has resulted'
in considerable injurv tu euUdihgs an- 1
the railway nififat§ cp the fllOUhiaTn. “*
Budget in the Commons.
London-, August 22.— 1n the Rouse of
Commons this afternoon, Mr Cross t'n
der Secretary (or losi ft , presented' the'
Indhn budget. The surplus for 1884 is es
timate-,' at j?4.i7,000.
A Shower of Fish and an £arthsuaSe.
Washixgtox, August 22.—Early in
August there \vs,3 a shower of thousands
0* B<jh in Montemorelos, and there was an
earthquake at Patchuka, causing 30
?£aths and the destruction of 30 houses.
WASHINGTON’S BIRTH-PLACE.
Spoiled by the Vandals.
A Washington paper of tfie 19th inst.
savs that a youua: girl,
xvho told her London friend that Wash
tngton xx'as born at Mt. Vernon, expressed
the opinion ot a very large number of her
fellow citizens. She was after all ontv
eighty miles out of the wav. Eighty
miles below Mt. Vernon in Wakefield, a
township on the river bank, is the spot
where Washington first saw the gray light
of a Virginia February day. A ‘house
stands 011 the spot, but Washington was
not born iu it, although Grant and Sher
man knocked out a brick apiece from the
wall and brought them up In their pockets
under the misapprehension that ho was.
George \\ ashington was sixtv years
older than this house. Before' the
war there xvas a marble tab
"all of this house
that! informed the world that it stood on
\x ashington’s birth-place. The relic
hunters of the army carried tho tablet
away piecemeal during the war. A year
or two ago Congress appropriated $38,500
tor the purchase and improvement of
W ashington’s biith-place. Nothing seems
to have boeu done about the matter, how
ever. until recently, when learning that
the projectors of anew summer resort
proposed buying the spot and making it
yield shekels, the government stepped in
and bought it for $2,500. There were
twenty-one acres in the place. Any other
tract of like size in the vicinitv
could have been had tor $63. Hoxv
ever, it had some historical value to the
owners, and the $38,500 ought to put it in
good condition. It is suggested that when
this has been done it be placed under the
administration ot that admirable board,
the lady regents of the Mount Vernon as
sociation.
IiOM>OX N'KWSrAI’EKS.
WHat the Manager of the London Tele
graph Says About Them.
Mr. Le Sage, the manager of the London
Daily Telegraph, who is with the Kutus
Hatch excursion partv, was interviewed
in Chicago. He said: “1 don’t think in
terviewing will ever become common in
England, because we are too much afraid
of touching private aft'airs. For instance,
did the Telegraph want to publish .Air.
Gladstone’s opinions, this would be done
by interviewing Air. Gladstone, and the
Telegraph would then state that Mr.
Gladstone would do so and so, and it Air.
Gladstone did not want to do so and so he
would not do so and so, and would be bound
by no newspaper promises. American pa
lters surpass London papers in the matter
of local news. AVe must publish Parlia
mentary speeches, law reports, etc., and
hav e but little rooni for local events. The
editorial forms public opinion in London,
as we see the Telegraph first advocated
Beaconsfield’s Eastern policy, which Air.
Gladstone has followed. The English
people are changing every day, and drift
ing toward Republican ideas, if not to
ward Republicanism. About newspa
pers, I can only say that the Telegraph's
daily circulation is between 240,000 and
250,000. It circulated once 300,000. The
Telegraph >s stereotyped in nineteen min
utes; an American paper, you know, in
about half an hour. I cannot say whether
long or short editorials are the" more ef
fective. AVe use long ones.”
General Kosecrans' Opinions.
Boston Herald.
“Old Rosy” has left the city; but while
he was here he met many leading Demo
crats and told them many wholesome
truths. lie is a bluff old soldier, with a
cheery Western manner, and has a habit
of calling a newly introduced man bv his
last name right off. He believes strongly
in the civil service idea, and talked it”to
Democratic ears with directness and
force. President Hayes, who xveut to
the. war as Major of Rosecrans’
regiment, xvas called on by the
General about the time he xx*as prepar
ing his inaugural, and the bluff old
Democrat talked civil service to Hayes
and persuaded him to put the doctrine
into his address. General Rosecrans
told some of our Boston Democrats that
he believed in a Presidential term of six
years, because he thought that such a
tenure oi office xvould lessen the evil of
office-seeking by tiring out the chaps xvho
somehow manage to exist for four years
hanging on to the raw edge of things in
the hope of a chance. Another of General
Rosecrans’ hobbies is the education of the
young men of America in the pure Jeffer
sonian Democracy. He sees trouble ahead
in the way of labor riots and socialistic de
mands, if political education is not made
general, and he heartily deplores the ten
dency of the wealthy class to neglect
politics for lives of pleasure. He empha
sizes the duty of attendance at the pri
mary meetings in as vigorous language
as the sage of Quincy himself. Our safety
as a nation, says Gen. Rosecrans, de
pends on all our citizens taking an
enlightened interest in politics, and
on the display of more human sym
pathy with the xvorkiug classes on
the part of the rich and well-to-do. He
thought that employers ought to reason
with their men 011 political matters and
show them how voting lor good men
meant good government. General Rose
crans’ platform is “no strong govern
ment business,” but universal education
and a fraternal spirit among all American
citizens, rich and poor. “I told a friend of
mine,” said the General, “a rich man, that
1 believed that he, in his heart, thought
that it was too bttd that his drayman’s bal
lot should offset his on election day. He
frankly admitted that he did feel so, and
then I pointed out to him that the dray
man had the same political rights as him
self; that he wanted to lie protected in
his little property, and in his life and
liberty; that under our system every
mau had precisely these rights, and no
more or less.” Before Gen. Rosecrans
went away some of the Boston Democrats
who had talked xvith him thought that
“Old Rosy” himself would make an ideal
old-fashioned Democratic- candidate.
A Laxvyer Outwitted.
Mattatm (III.) Gazette.
An actual incident which occurred re
cently in the Circuit Court of Caldwell
county, Kv., is worth relating. Several
weeks since a bright country boy named
Cartwright “swapped” a horse of the
trading stock order and $35 cash for a
mule belonging to a laxvyer of this place
named Hewett, who feels himself able to
take care of number one. When the lat
ter came to contemplate his bargain fie
concluded that he had been cheated and
brought suit against tho boy f,a* a mnn
which he considered necessary to make
the trade just. Qn the trial the laxvyer,
who conducted his own case, proved the
horse to be worth only S4O, and
the mule from $l2O to $125. On the
defense Cartwright took the stand
to testify for himself, and swore
that he considered the mule obtained bv
him worth only $75 or SBO. On ore
examination. Ijexyett began with the
question 1 “You have just sworn that
tne mule is worth $75 or $80; now will
you take SIOO for it” Promptly the wit
ness replied, “Yes, i will.” The lawyer
rose, asked the court (Judge Grace , to
excuse the transaction, took mu his
pocketbook and paid over the money
which tlie witness accepted. When the
too practical 1 attorney resumed his seat
the bay thrust S4O toward him and said’
“You have just proxed that tho horse is
worth only S4O, noxv xvill you take that
price for it?” The shout that interrupt,
ed the proceedings for a moment wasonlv
mildly rebuked by the court, who ap
preciates a horse trade himself, and the
toy smart lawyer found that the practical
method of determining values had de
veloped the unexpected, and that he ■„
the one being chiefly j n
part by the witness, but by S4O of
the wealth that t'hd juai passed from his
possession. Yoq stubborn, however, to
48 the witness had gracefully done,
lie declined the oft'er. This closed the evi
dence, and the jury gave him one cent
damages.
I>i<l She >f*;i**i to Blow Hiu* t'|?
Cleveland Leafiey s
l "Ilere'-s a, prescription to be filled,” said
a lady to Ur'. Caldwell at the drug store
of the latter this evening. “Can I have it
tilled at once?” “Certainlv,” said the doc
tor. is * t J or? ” ft i-£or a horse.”
said the lad}. Ihe called for
nitric-acid, and turpentine. I)r.
Caldwell looked at it a moment, and, with,
out recalling the circumstance that the
ingredients formed an explosive mixture
proceeded to put up the prescription, lie
put the mercury i„to a battle and then
poured m f„e turpentine. Then he poured
it; tc uitrie-ac'T 7rom ajar. A tremendous
exploshy- took place, shattering the bott'e
m atoms, and throwing the pieces of glass
and burning acid into the doctor’s face.
The doctor was knocked down by the
shock and terribly hurt. Some gentlemen
came In and found him putting sweet oil
on his face. It was badly burned by the
acid, and his eyes were injured so that he
could hardly see, He was taken home, it
is a serious question whether he doe. not
lose the sight ot one, it not both, ot his
eyes. The strange part of the occurrence
is that neither the woman nor the*pre
scription could be found hfter the explo
sion, The vujnan, accompanied by a man
and a boy, drove hurriedly away from the
store after the explosion.
j PRICE #lO A TEAR. 1
I 5 CENTS A COPT. {
I LONG ISLAND CITY ABLAZE
THE STAXDTUU OIL COMPANY
LOSES $500,000 BY THE FIIiE,
One Man Dangerously Injured by Fall
ing; Walls—The Local Fire Department
of no Avail and Assistance Sent from
Brooklyn—Furious Flames for Six
Hours.
Xkw Yokk, August 22, Br. m.—A fire
j broke out shortly after 11 o’clock this
J morning in the packing shop of the Ktn
j pire Oil Works at Long Island City. I'he
shop was a brick structure 2f>o feet wide
by TOO feet long. Over 100 men and boys
are employed in the shop, and the wildest
excitement prevailed among them. The
! (lames spread rapidly, and the shop was
soon a seething mass of tire, with which
the local lire department was totally una
ble to cope.
.The tin shop, a building 17a feet long bv
2aO leet wide, next caught tiremuid was
followed by tlie barrel shop, which was
about the same si/e.
The dames next spread to one of the
largest agitators in the vard containing
60,000 barrels of oil. The Brooklyn fire
department was called on for aid, and
several engines quickly responded, but,
although they worked hard, the flames
spread in every direction.
At this hour the Howe Lard Oil Works
are in great danger. The damage already
done is estimated at $500,000. Patrick
Cooney, a workman, was very badly
burned, and three other workmen were
also injured severely. James Clare
was badly injured by a falling wall. The
lire is believed to have been caused by a
workman accidentally dropping a hot
soldering iron into a oil can.
The fire at the Empire Oil Works
burned fiercely throughout the afternoon,
and was not subdued until 5 o’clock. The
efforts of the firemen prevented the flames
trom spreading beyond the buildings
occupied by the company on whose
premises the fire broke out. The damage
is variously estimated at from $200,000 to
$500,000. There was no insurance. When
the fire broke out there were several
vessels at the company’s dock. Some of
them were loaded with oil. Fortunately
two tug boats were near at hand, and the
vessels were towed out of danger.
Do Chambord’s Condition Unchanged.
Fkoii.sdohk, August 22.—The condition
of the Count I)o Chambord continues very
critical, lie has received the last saora
ment of the church.
Spain Not to Join the Teutons.
London, August 22.—The Times corre
spondent, at V ienna says that the report
that Spain will join the Austro-Gennan
alliance is idle gossip.
China Atones for a Murder.
Paris, August 22.—The Chinese Gov
ernment lias made reparation for the mur
der of the French missionary in Yun Nan,
and has promised to punish the murderer!
The Lackawanna at Callao.
Lima, August 22. —The United States
steamer Lackawanna anchored in Callao
at 5:30 last night. She was saluted by the
Chilian man-of-war Huascar.
Austria’s Polar Expedition.
Vienna, August 22.—The members of
the Austrian Polar Expedition have ar
rived here. They received an ovation from
the citizens.
O'Donnell to he Tried In England.
Cape Town, August 22.—O’Donnell,
thp man who killed Jumps Carey, will sail
tor England, where lie is to be tried on
September 4.
A Patriarch to Resign.
Constantinople, August 22.—'The Pa
triarch of Armenia lias tendered his re
signation.
Mirage on the Maine Coast.
Squirrel hUind (Lincoln County, Me.) Squid.
A few days ago there was a beautiful
mirage along the whole sea horizon. The.
day had been warm and cairn, and to a
person standing at the water’s edge waves
of heated air seemed to vibrate with great
intensity on the sea. Suddenly at6:2othe
ocean assumed a wonderful appearance.
Above the true horizon seemed suspended
in air a second ocean, which faded away
and formed a gray vapor that ap
peared like an immense tidal wave and
fell and rose to a great height. Vessels
before invisible rose from below the
horizon and sailed in spectral procession
through the clouds. To the eastward
Monhegan rose high above Fisherman*®
Isle, and kept company with a ghostly
island covered with dense lorest, which
quivered far beyond Pemaquid,. A fleet
ot schooners south of Fisherman’s Isle
suddenly stretched upward in a grotesque
manner. A great heave in the atmos
phere separated the masts, and the upper
sails scurried upward and dissolved, only
to appear again just above. A seiner
north of Damariscove was quickly trans
formed into a very leviathan. Her sails
changed from white to grey, and swayed
upward far above Damariscove. But
on Damariscove was the most wonderlul
appearance seen. To the south end of the
island rose up perpendicular columnar
dins 100 leet from the sea. The houses
were nearly hidden behind them. The hill
rolled together into a mound and then un
folded to twice its real length. Just be
yond the spectral cliffs 'the sea broke
on a long ledge and the spray leaped sky
ward with lightning rapidity. Damaris
cove and Heron Isles assumed grotesque
shapes, and danced and stretched upward
in marvelous elasticity. It awoke de
lightful recollections ot the Arabian
Nights, Land and sea were enchanted
and under the mystic spell invisible genii
transformed them into beautiful but fleet
ing illusions. The phenomena lasted till
sunset, and then in the haze slowly faded
awav.
The Youngs: Operator.
Dublin (Texan) Enterprise*
We had the pleasure of meeting' and
witnessing the expertness of Miss Brown
the Infant telegrapher of the world. She
is only six years old, and is certainly one
of the greatest wonders of her age. ’ Her
lather, who will probably rank as an
average operator, is much inferior as to
ability In distinguishing the sound and
the rapidity with which she does it. She
lias just received a second reader, and,
seated on one side of the table on which
were arranged the instruments, the
father seated himself at the kev
and wrote from the book one
page of reading matter at the rate of
•'!0 to S.'> words a ihinute, and the little*
marvel succeeded in getting the entire
page without a single break, her father
being determined to send faster than she
could take, but, vth the greatest speed
he could send, failed to do so. tier la u "r
confesses that she Is much more accurate
than he, and there is no doubt but with
proper care and training she is destined
to make one of the linest operators in the
world. At present her grmttest difficulty
is her inability to comprehend and ar
range together long and difficult words,
and being a mere child and unable to
write, she has either to have 6ome one to
take the message down for her or remem
ber it in its entirety, which in a long
message Is impossible.
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