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ESTABLISHED 1850. I
j. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. )
ITEMS IX THREE STATES.
KOROIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
' CAROLINA PI T IN TYPE.
41l Old 'la ll Hbbel by Highwaymen
Near Columbus—Attempted Ineen
by an Angry Negro—South Car
..lina'- Woman’s Christian Temper
ee 1 nion Annual Convention.
OEOROIA.
~,, k.totman Academy is flourishing,
v [Mnougb supports three dray lines.
~ r ( r iiiale seminary in Washington has
t ..inty’s turpentine industry is pick
nal count in Oglethorpe countyjsets
s-k law.
K ,-,.i of gypsies passetl through MrDou
-1,,, (e days ago.
\ ,1.1,,-i t has more cotton buyers this year
thin an' previous year.
, \| inmougb young men speak of or
; a Msrial Club.
(l . .lam-s. of la-ary. recently killed a
11 .it weighing is pounds.
. , •• was chaseil live miles, near Mil
r . ...re he .vas dually killed.
. , \\ likes county tax rate this year is £5
mi- ..n the hundred dollars.
were :a* additions to the ehurcli at
. , rr .\ c. during the late revival.
..in received an average of alstul luo
per day 'luring last week.
Wni l. I- ks. Jr., of Wayeross. has won a
w , :;.-t.r ride worth fir. at a -hooting con *
p p:. r-oii. who cut his wife's throat, diil not
r wln hi- name was called at Banks’
It.i.i ...nut} furnished the first gin-house
■i. r lt ; ui that has occurred m the state
\ i Miller, formerly of Camilla, aud re-
It.in.l.dph county, is now til business
i: Meigs.
I , percent, of the Mibscriptious to the
a , . I’.uc' Woods Hotel al Thomasville is
\ wing -s-ictv. eoni|Njse.| of In.lll young
. gentlemen, has lieen organized in
1: ii. w bridge al ’ TroupviUe has Is-en
aiut is '.aid to Is* a good and siib'tan-
M... i .tunic Bains, daughter of • 01. George
w t: i,-. of vngii'ta. die<l suddenly in llos
i relay last.
\ ~_!•• met hi- death in < larke county by
. umla-se- from ans k. the gravel get
i i,j |..w ii hi- throat.
\ ilia's freight and ticket business for I lie
i. ..f \ugiist was f l.jtai ill. Thai claimed
:rl r> was $1,1*5 81.
\ . ■ .r-. at work on the Georgia Pacific
cl is" feet :!' s inches high, weighs 525
uiois, and is only 2-'. years old.
1 .rjs.rate limits of M. liouougli. as de
tinr-i the new charter, extend one nine
court houae in every direction.
M.i. low horn, while ginning at It. I,
Ii -. near Kastman, had all the lingers on
I, ri_ r l l l hand lacerated by the gin saws.
\ I I wards and family, who for several
,r- ave resided in Dodge county, left on
1 , .iv for Virginia, their former home.
1 negro who was jaded at Waynesboro
M ailing female attire lias lieen'released
is of evidence of any greater rascality.
I tifty signature' necessary to gel the
oi utry of i aniplM-ll county i>> order an
! ..n on prohibition were secured in about
.*.> liours’ l line.
In.- K'ergreen Baptist < hiireh, of < ainilla,
,us! ,u conference lasi Sundav and iinani
called Kev. Mr. White, of Thomas
I I roup . ..only comniissiouers have pur
.-. I ii..- right oi way around the rocky hill
side.■l O'Neal’s and pn>|>o.se to o|ien a
I • i. ctiiigof the old soldier- of Madison
r.junl . ;tl Madi-on springs, on Thursday, was
i". and everything passed ..iv
it. i IV. 11. LaPradc. accompanied l.y bis
wife, i returned to l.aGrange, from Heard
. ...mi >. where he bad Is-eii on a ten days’
pr. a li .ng tour.
I . lii' -dav Mi" Ida l liderwood. daugli
n-r f l!cv.-I. 1.. I n.lerwiHul, of ainilla, was
hurl by a fall fr-oo a hor~e. Ilcr
riglit arm i- paralyzed.
I 1.. Minn, of Thomasville, claims that
1..' n a gelding which is closely related to
la- Eye see, who lia- just made a mile in
: . , .'.l years of age.
I tic > unty superior < ourl granted live
H ednesday. and at the spring term
_r.e Id the -ame number, making ten di
vorce- f..r the county this year.
W .Ike- i unity has bought file old Masonic
Itail I-. Hiding and will erect thereon a fire
Ii .f ti.c.i-efor the use of the Ordinary and
• I. rk >.f the su|**rior Court.
Vuan. M. Hendon, of (ainilla. lias lieen
Bethel Association scholarship at
M.rc, r I mversity. He was recoin mended by
t. 1 .. ding men of immunity.
Iv- until carrier reports that one negro man
!■ • lit waylaid another on Early Billups’
,n Worth county, and knocked him m
cl with a maul, killing him instantly.
1 • i apltol Commissioners liavcbecu called
t., u.c t in Atlanta Monday for organization
.sulfation a- to the first -teps to lu
l.ik.i, in the work that they have uinler
v or Court will convene in Col<|iiitt
> next week. All the ea-es are in ship
, • and ready for trial. More business
Ui.iu ,1-ual is anticipated at tills term of the
ty fathers to house Tbomas
1. ■' new lire engine, the T. t . Mitchell, in
, i iron hou.-e. to Ik-erected on the t ity llall
.next to 1.. E. Thompson ,X Co.’s ware
< aptaiii Henry, of the steamer Colville,
which ank at her w harf in Dublin a w eek
iicvi ' til a l the boa! was scuttled. The
i.nnage to freight and furniture will amount
••• v;o, or stoo.
At Bccdv Spring- near Dublin two young
-■!, in. .-.I from til-- church a few Sundays
;i di-iance of jo yard-. Due was on foot
I the other on horseback. The horse won
!> a close shave.
An eight-months-old child near Kastman
■ -Ii- only nine and a half |M>und'. It is the
infant >r Mr. and Mr-. 1 . IE Woodard, and i
■j ' right, -weet little girl. Bad health ac
counts for its diminutive size.
'-.me wretch has Is-cn placing obstructions
tin* track of the Brunswick and West
• liuitroail in the neighborhood of Schlat
t- i 'illc. The company ha- offered a reward
-100 for proof to convict the guilty party.
I here is a church in Meriwether countv
winch has only three member—two men and
- woman—and yet it is widely known, has
iiv o iling and other services* regularly, at
• h there is. generally, good congregations.
There was once in Toecoa a mercantile
-c U-aring the firm name of Freeman,
M -cle} A Vow. These gent lemon have each
t. , . > nted the Thirtv-tirst District in the
v - indc, and in the order in w Itii-h 110-ir names
appeared in the firm name.
I" • rc i- a ( hiue-e lady's -hoe in Washing
- wot four inches long. The lady,
1 , cighed nearly 800 pounds, t.mk the shoe
ir ">-r f-K*t and gave it to a former resident
" -hington w lien he was in the I’nited
v i.d> . ii tee and on a trip to < liina.
I- Friday morning the down freight
>ra . nisi alsivc No. li station on the Ventral
l i I. struck an old negro woman, knook
u. her fioni the track and bruising hereon
• r.t -ly. No Ikiiu-s were broken, and lur
cry was looked for at last accounts.
' Wise. Mark Knott and Henley Varner
!''e uglit the vacant lot just below 1.. 11.
I . - residence, in McDonough, aud w ill
" .:i .••nee the erection of anew livery and
■' ible. They exjiecl to lie ready for
' -i.c— in tiiecourse of two or three week-.
V.,-re has been this year some rnalrx lie-
T.C. Mitchell and Major Megall. ol
1 i. is county, as to which one would raise
di. ~ ~t amount of corn on one acre. Mr.
M hell has already measured up ill bushels
, !r, < in-acre. Tin- Major hasn’t measured
I lax digest of Floyd county shows that
ii present year |# j,ov> more property
returned than last year: (ii:! more polls
given in. Keceiver Khudy has also dis
> r. i that Floyd county contains from :{.ouo
! i.'", more acres of land than has formerly
-In.un by the tax iHM.k-.
in effort w ill be made soon to reorganize
1 ' udlitar} of Augusta. There are only two
“ponies m existence, and thev ii-uallV pa
-Ine with very linn ranks. There are tMO
'“• n in the lire department, and le-.- than IUO
-.ii (he rolls of the volunteer military com
panies.
(icn. t.eorgc W. Bivins, of Anierlcus. wa
! rosl Friday aftern.s.n of la-i week." lie
• ;>d Is-en in feeble health for some time, and
•*' -n- was aged and feeble, his itemise was not
mi xpe.tdj, He died on Tliursdax afternoon
di. o'clock lie wak 74 years of age.
Till- negro Henry Johnson, o lio killed Ismg
' hn Johnson at Wayeross in lsso, during a
pute over ; game of cards, w.recently
■n iureil by the police of Jacksonville. Hal,
a' ; T i.slged ill jail ami the authorities at Way -
- n.itified of the fact. Marshal Hodge has
- Ur.,uglit the murderer to Waycroe-.
■wo negroes on Mr. Bradler’s place, a few
■ >ylvania. had a bloody skirmish
• ■* ilouday last. They disagreed about some
s. and arming themselves w ith an iron
1 • ! u, about four feet long and nearly half
an inch in diaibsier, fell to work on one au
‘•Ji.i'r. It was a desecrate fight, but was
1 ! *c**ked la-fore fatal injury W6c ijone.
Djvc (iisdsby anil George Coley, two wol
"**.*’■ ntru from SlcVille, were lodgiol in IXelgc
1,u,,, > Jail a few days ago, the former charged
w nil carrying com ealed weapons and resist -
."is Mbohal of MoVilie, and the latter
dll fighting a nd beating a woman. Each
, :l Prcliimoary trial, anil w ere lion ml over
" awslt trial at Telfair Superior Court,
lherv is -aid to be a grapevine on the farm
K. C . Madden, of Pike couutv. that is pro
' 1 the largest in the world. It is 18
thirty-four inches in circumference
e base, and is a uuarterof a mile long. It
T. wagun loads <jf grains, which are
• vriety ** '* F> *"** bem * oi souu ‘ Kuglish
rnval “/. ‘he new ro.H- or.le.vd,
Tr rlgl “m n : 1 V '? lon hav ‘‘ heen work ’
'gat Thomasville s artesian well with the
"111 ropes, though they were not cousiderc.l
'.?7x y , ' afe ' ~u Thursday night, about s
o clock, the cable parted, droppiug the tool
an.. ? I,WO feet of roiie in the hole. They
will lie pulled out.
„ J “hn E'ountain, Alfred White and John
Hobbs, all colored, were arrested at Ash
-rn * mill, near Eastman, a few davs ago,
the*V. fr °™ Appling county, charging
uem with obtaining money under false pre
(epses. They had been employed by the tur
■{Sh* 1 ” 4 ™,? w - C. Yates A Cos., near Ha
emowi* a r' having liecome indebted to their
employers for Do. attempted to abscond.
A negro boy named Robert Stark. 14 vc-ars
M in ‘he bread orthe'fam
ily of Itoliert ( allaway, who lives four miles
xvo? A‘Hens, and Mrs. Itoliert ( allawav, Mrs.
" illiain (.allaway, of Oglethorpe, and a babv
art- m a critical condition. The law has been
arrested and lodged in Jail. He acknowledges
(ii- guilt, and says be wanted to hurt a negro
girl. R
The colored people held a convention and
organized an agricultural dub in I.at.range
recently. They resolved that going in delit
was detrimental lo their interest: that the
buying of homes was desirable: that excur
sions were a nuisance, and that preachers
who encouraged them were unprofessional.
It was also regarded as highly advantageous
to raise a diversity of products.
A. 11. flamhrick, of stock bridge, lias an ear
of corn—or, rather, a duster of ears—that is
a genuine curiosity. When the-talk xvas in
full -ilk there appeared in the tassel fortv
two diminutive, but |>erfedlv distinct, ears of
corn, each Separate from the other, and dis
tinctly marked with rows of grain. In addi
tion to these Hie stalk Imre two full-grown
ear- in the regular course of growth and ma
turity.
1 In* editor of the Albany A’cic# >tn>l A<lc?r
ha-Is-eu presented a terrapin or turtle
o, some kind in a perfect state of petriflea-
Ut>n, lieing as hard and almost as white a
a pieee of solid marble. It weighs about a
pound, and on the outside all the marks of a
terrapin shell are plainly to lie seen. On the
back of the formation is the imprint of a star
fish, which is also as plainly marked as the
terrapin is.
A quarrel occurred on Watkins street, in
Augusta, la-t Wednesday night la-tween Al
exander Koscoe and Rebeeea Stewart, both
colored. During the fuss Ro-coe made a
threat to the woman that he would burn her
out. _ The house in which Itela-cca lives in is
on \\ atkins street, below Elbert, and is oecu
pied by several other families beside- herself.
Roscik- set lire to the house on Thursday night,
hill the tlames were speedily extinguished.
Saturday -Koscoe u as lodged in jail.
on Wednesday last, at the rotton gin of
Me.-srs. Cordon, McKlhannoii .V White, in
Danielsville. 1.. J. MeElhannoii undertook to
put a la-lt on a pulley while the machinery
was in motion, and the l-lt caught his ha nil
and lacerated it and his fingers pretty badly.
It jerked him from the floor and threw him
against an upright imst 2x4 inches with such
force as to snap the post in two like a pipe
stem. (>n account of their being -o terribly
cut and bruised, the three first Ungers had to
be taken off. but the doctor is confident that
the hand and arm can Ik- saved, though con
siderably bruised.
Saturday morning B. 11. Stanford walked
from hi-store near Cottage Mills to Colum
bii-. Ina lonely part of the road, about 8
miles from the city in Chattahoochee count v
near Cpatoil bridge, he was suddenly con
fronted by two white men who demanded his
money, seeing that resistance was useless,
he .submitted to being robbed of what money
lit* had on his person, which amounted to
The men then allowed the old gentleman to
proceed on hi- way. The two men remained
over tin- previous night \v itli a negro near the
~cene of tile robbery , and the iiegao says thev
ruled his pockets, but as be was “hard up, 1 ’
obtained only 20 cents and a pipe. They have
not vet been arrested.
KI.OKIDA.
A sheep farm will soon Ik- started in Gads
den county.
Roland Williams died last week at liishoine
near Madison, aged 81 years.
The crop of Indian river oranges this fall
will lie the largest ever shipped.
A large number of hog- have died of cholera
\v it hill the past few weeks in Gadsden i-ouulv.
The Key West firemen intend celebrating
‘he anniver-arv of their organization on Octo
ber Btli.
Vu election vv ill Ik- held at tjuiney on (leto-
Ikt 2d to select three Aldermen to fill vacan
cies in the City Council.
K. >. IVrt, who lives five miles cast of Madi
son. recently lo>i three daughters within
three days, of bilious fever.
A Methodist camp meeting will be held at
>aml I'ond. two miles east of Lake city, com
mencing aliout October 10th.
The proceed- of an excursion, given by
some charitable ladies of Jacksonville, for the
yellow fever -iifl'erers at Warrington, amount
i llls.
Tile port physician al ( i-dar Keys has i--
-ued the salutary order that no spoiled fish
shall be landed at that place, but taken out to
sea and sunk.
A negro named >am Williams refused to
lake a letter from tin* |n>s* office at Itellville,
Ela.. I localise the word “colored” was written
after his name.
Joseph Brow n, a colored resident of East
Jacksonville, died from Ihe elicets of eating
the root- of yellow jasmine, a deadly poison,
which lie mistook for myrtle root.
A large alligator was recently caught at
lVusacola and its hide sent to the Ixjuisvillc
exposition. Iti measurement fniin tip to tip
was 11 feet and the skin weighed 1:17 pounds.
A bridge i- to be built across the Ocklawaha
river near Tavares. The County ( oinmis
sionersof Mirntercounty,on Wednesday,Sep
tember sth. appropriated 1250 to assist in
building it.
Elt'ori' are being made to have a mail route
established running from Live <iak to For
rest, in Lafayette county, with offices at Sam
Dees. Horton'- Ferry,* E'.irt Atkinson, Mr.
Day'- and s-erub Hammock.
The greatest damage to crops in Jackson
county i-around Marianna and Greenwood.
The cotton crep i- not as badly damaged as
was feared at one time, and the county has
plenty of corn to last through next season.
A great many oranges are splitting and
falling from the tree- around Lake City ami
throughout the county. This is said to be the
result of the rapid new growth of the trees,
which is caused ly the recent heavy rains.
Two negro laborers on the railroad near
Fort M lute on Tuesday afternoon became in
volved in a light, one slabbing the other in the
thigh, -everingan artery. The wounded man
w as attended to aud the one that did the cut
ting was placed under a lioud of S3OO to appear
at court. The wounded man is not yet out of
danger.
SOITH CAROUNA.
The cotton mill at Vancluse, \ ik<-ti county,
is <-onsuining seventy-five bales of cotton "a
week.
The gin house of George M. slieelv, near
Prosperity, was destroyed by tire on Thurs
day last.
Mr. John K. Burns. a |in>ininent citizen of
Edgefield county, died on the ilth inst., aged
70 years.
Books of si)l>seriiit ion have been opemal for
the eaidtal -tick of a national hauk to he es
tablished at Marion.
Mr. Ilerliert Smith, tlie oldest white citizen
of Marlin. ountv, died in llrighlsville tow n
ship on Sunday last.
The Darlington Manufacturing Company
have i-siied a call for In |.er cent., the lirst in
stallment of the capital stock.
ongre-'inan Aiken will deliver an address
In-fore the Slalitown (Anderson Grange on
the lirst Saturday in October.
A few of the hands at the Catawba Oil
Mills and at the railroad depots at Chester
struck on Monday for higher wages.
Itev. 11. S. Wmgard, of I'oinaria. S. ('., has
In-eu called to spriugtield, Ga., to serve tin
charge recentl\ vacated by IJev.,l. N. Der
rick.
The Williamsburg Herald learns that the
public school teachers of the county threaten
to strike in consequence of recent reductions
in their salaries.
The Marlls.ro Monitor states that there is a
prospect for an early extension of the Raleigh
and Augusta Air Line Railroad through this
state via Bennettsville.
The entertainment of the lleaufort Ladies'
Aid Society, which was to have taken placc
at the Arsenal on Sept. 2t, has been unavoid
ly jiostpoued until further notice.
There is on foot a movement to organize a
Building Loan Association at Beaufort, a
meeting of wliieli will be held at the Council
Chamber on Monday evening next.
Return of deaths within the city of ( harles
ton. lor tin- week ending September 22. IssJ;
Whites *i. hlarks and .-olored i!i—total. 38,
excluding tl still liorus. 2 w bites and 4 eol
ored.
The county Auditor of Darlington has fin
ished his duplicate for the present year, show
ing a total of real and personal property of
?4,:fii0,740. against a total of last year of $4,211,-
740, an increase for this year of’sl7B.ooo.
Tin- Cnion Time* says: "Cotton picking is in
full sway, and the cotton is opening uncom
monly fast. It is generally supiiosed that it
w ill be all out of the field bv tlie middle of
OctolH-r, if nothing interferes. Xo one be
lieves there will Ik- over half a crop.
Dr W. W. Watson, who was arrested on
the charge of horse stealing, was tried in
Laurens last week, lie pleaded guilty of
taking the horse, hut not with felonious in
tent. The jury returned a verdict of guilty.
The sentence of the court was five years at
hard lals.r in the penitentiary.
On Wednesday night. 12th inst.. the stables
of Mr. .lap Poole, who resides in Belton
Township, were destroyed by fin-. A mule
and a lot of corn, fodder, wheat and oats
Were consumed. Johu Gain, a brother-in
law of Mr. Poole, has l>een arrested on the
charge of setting lire to the place.
The time for holding the state Convention
of the Woman's Christian Temjierance Cnion,
al spartan).urg, has been changed to the 19th
j*® l 'of October, on the evening of the
‘■'Jr “ h'-'.b. wpleoitie meeting w ill be held,at
w Inch several short speeches will lie made,
and on the eyensng of the 20th Mrs. W. 11.
smith will deliver an address.
The money market in Cau.'den seems to be
fluctuating. Ihe Jovmtil says: "The inter
est on money varies from' 7 per cent
I*C a:;nuin to .1 jar cent, a day on
call, and sometimes it is not possible to'get it
at any price, no matter what tlie security
may lie. A few thousand dollars in t|„- bank
id l amd.m would bear good an investment as
any jierson would want.
The cattail receipts in Anderson during the
past week averaged abqut HO bales a day. the
total receipts of the season up to Wednesday
night, Scpu-nilier 19th, amounting to l,:k>l
bales. "It is gratifying." says the Journal.
"to note among the sellers recently a number
of farmers who have been going toother mar
kets for some years past, which shows that
Anderson is not only holding her own but is
regaining old customers and gradually ex
tending her trade."
Charleston Xeu*: As the schooners Rebecca
A. Carter, from Baltimore, and General K.
spinner, from Boston, were tacking up the
harbor yesterday the Spinner struck the Car
ter. bow on, nearly amidships, tearing awav a
jiortiQn of the bulwarks and crashing the
planking on the port side nearly to the w ater's
edge. The Carter' .et her eufors for a tug,
when the Wade Hampton, which was coming
in from sea. went to the rescue of the colliding
! t ls '.‘^ para, ' D lf them and towing the Cnr
: V:.‘ '' u ' , ad wharf. The Spinner lost her
i bobstaj and sustained other slight damage.
GEORGIA’S LEGISLATURE.
SENATOR HILL’S PORTRAIT FIT
TINGLY PRESENTED.
Eloquent Speeches by Foremost Orators
A Telling Attack on the Bills In Both
Houses—Speculation Concerning the
Capitol Commission—Elopement of a
Pair of Young Aristocrats.
Atlanta, Sept. 24.—The House to-day
concurred in tlie numerous Senate amend
ments to House bills, and passed the fol
lowing Senate bills:
Providing an additional method lor clos
ing mortgages on personal property be
fore the debt is due.
Regulating the rate of legal advertising.
Making it lawful for a married woman
to act as prosecutrix.
Preventing the Railroad Commissioners
or their Secretary to represent anv rail
road in the courts.
Punishing the sale of adultetated arti
cles of food.
Prescribing the oath for jurv commis
sioners.
Amending the act regulating the pub
lication of the Supreme Court reports.
Amending section 41f>7 of the Code as
drawing jurors in Justice’s Courts.
Making the second term of Justice’s
Courts trie trial term in certain eases.
Giving disabled soldiers limbs every
three years.
Prescribing when the statute ol limita
tion shall run against an unrepresented
estate.
Incorporating the Vigilant Live Stock
Mutual Insurance Company.
The bill requiring the Commissioner of
Agriculture ts have the soils of the State
analyzed was advocated by Mr. Hoge and
Mr. Humber, but being in the nature
ol an appropriation, and coming from the
Senate, w.as tabled.
The bill amending section 521 • of the
Code was lost, as was also the following:
Allowing creditors to redeem property
at tax sales.
Establishing a branch college at
XValthourville.
The Governor has signed the following
bills:
Incorporating the Merchants and Plant
er’s Bank of Forsyth.
Amending the street tax law of Darien.
Requiring railroad property not used in
operating the road to be taxed where
located.
Authorizing Americus to control small
pox cases.
Prohibiting liquor selling in Franklin
county and also in Miller county.
Incorporating Brownwood.
Amending section 409 and 1317 of the
< 'ode.
Repealing the act amending section
4194 of the Code.
Paying the hlarbj County Aews for ad
vertising.
Supplying Notaries Public with Codes.
Paving the expenses of bringing the
records of the old Medical Board to At
lanta.
At the afternoon session the Senate bill
prohibiting the driving of any kind of
live stock into Georgia lrom other States
for grazing, passed: as did also the bil
lowing:
To amend section 49S of the Code so as
to prevent the enticing of servants or
farm laborers from employers.
The resolution to give the North Geor
gia and Marietta Railroad 250 able-bodied
convicts to complete that road came up.
and Air. Beauchamp, of Pike, moved to
amend so as to compel the railroad to
pay tor these convicts at the same rate as
the convict lessee companies pay.
Mr. Kimsey, ol White, opposed and
read from previous acts to show that the
Governor was authorized to make this
division of the convicts, without impair
ing in any way the rights of the lessee
companies, for the purjiose of completing
this railroad enterprise.
Mr. Middlebrnoks, of Newton, also advo
cated the resolution, and was followed by
Mr. Jordan, of Hancock, and Mr. Walts,
of Stewart, and Mr. Bartlett, of Bibb, on
the same line.
Mr. Beauchamp advocated his amend
ment, but it was voted down overwhelm
ingly, and the resolution was adopted by
102 yeas to (• nays, amid prolonged ap
plause.
The hill introduced by Senator McDon
ald, creating a branch college at Way
cross. was lost by 42 yeas to 04 nays.
The bill regulating the manner of dis
posing of cases on the Supreme Court
docket was tabled.
The bill changing the time of holding
Laurens Superior Court, passed.
The bill living the time and manner of
the trial of mandamus cases, passed.
Tne bill regulating publishing and post
ing of notices under section 1455 of the
Code as to no fence elections, passed.
The bill amending section 1235. letter D
of the Code, as to pupils in tin* Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, passed.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate, after a little skirmish on
the disagreement over the amendments to
the Berrien county liquor bill, a commit
tee of conference was created.
The Senate passed the following lulls:
Prohibiting fishing and hunting on cer
tain lots in Dodge county.
Giving a liquor law to Catoosa county.
Amending the act creating the Orphans’
Home of the North Georgia Conference.
Requiring the butchers of Macon to
k(*ep a record oi the cattle killed for the
inspection of grand juries.
Requiring trains to stop before crossing
other railroads.
Incorporating the .Mechanics’ Alutual
Insurance Company of Atlanta.
Providing only one grand jury for Dooly
county.
Authorizing AVaycross to levy a tax for
an artesian well.
Incorporating the Planters’ Loan and
Trust Company.
Chartering the Al anti fact urers' In
surance Company.
Amending section 4608 of the Code in
regard to Ordinaries’ clerks.
Prescribing the costs of dismissed or
withdrawn cases in the Supreme Court.
Amending section 4608 of the Code.
Making a penal ofl'ense of the selling or
encumbering of personal property held
under conditional sale.
Amending section 4441 of the Code.
Regulating illegal huntihg.
Incorporating the Turtle and Altamaba
Canal Company.
Amending section 4214 of the Code in
regard to decisions in chambers.
Relieving the securities of tiie Bibb Tax
< ’olleetor.
Making Flint river a lawful fence in
Macon county.
Giving Echols county a liquor law.
Amending the act "incorporating the
Rome and Chattanooga Railroad.
Giving Greene county a liquor law.
Repealing the act creating Road Com
missioners for Worth county.
Appropriating ss,non for "the Railroad
Commission for printing.
Paying the Penitentiary Committee's
stenographer.
Paying the contingent expenses of the
General Assembly.
Giving extra pay to pages and the jour
nalizing clerk.
Increasing the pay of Hie guards of the
capitol building.
Paying for repairing the capitol and
Executive Alansion.
Paying for repairing the University
building of Athens in the sum of $30,006.
This bill passed amidst applause on ac
count of the appropriation.
Amending the act authorizing the Au
gusta and Atlanta Boards of Trade to
have arbitrators.
Repealing the act as to insolvent costs
so far as Burke county is concerned.
Amending section 2464 of the Code as
to widows' estates.
Changing the time of holding Douglass i
Superior Court.
The resolution passed asking Georgia’s
Congressmen to secure liberal appropria
tions lor the Savannah river below An- ]
gusta.
Senator Lamar announced that the com- i
tnitiee had selected Airs. Gregory as the i
artist to paint Governor Stephens' por- j
trait.
At the afternoon session the Senate read I
House bills the first and second time.
THE HILL MEMORIAL SERVICES.
At the night joint session, a resolution
offered by Mr. Humber, to appoint a com
mittee to wait on Governor McDaniel and
the Capitol Commission ami escort them
to the hall, was carried. Messrs. Hum
ber, Hoge and Geer were appointed.
I)r. Drewrv, of the committee to pro
cure a portrait of Senator Hill, reported
that l’rofessor Horace Bradley had been
selected as the artist to execute the por
trait and it was now readv for presenta
tion.
The committee escorted in Governor
-McDaniel and the Capitol Commission,
who vvere followed in a few moments by
the senate, who occupied seats around
the Speaker's desk.
President Boynton called the joint ses
sion to oriler and announced the object of
the session.
Dr. Drewrv, the Chairman, then in a
few appropriate remarks presented the
picture. As he pointod to the position
occupied by the portrait the veil was
dropjied from liefore it, the gas turned on
and the crowded galleries and floors of
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1883.
the House turned with eager eyes on the
magnificent full length figure of Georgia’s
peerless orator.
Professor Bradley, the gifted young ar
tist, who sat beside Dr. Drewry, also
shared in the high honors of the occasion.
Senator Davis’ presented the memorial
resolutions, which were read bv Assis
tant Secretary Cabauiss of the’ Senate.
They reviewed the entire life of Senator
Hill and paid a glowing tribute to his
ability and virtues.
Hie report was quite lengthy and was
followed by a brief address from Senator
Davis, who closed by moving the adop
tion of the resolutions.
Representative Iluinber, of Putnam, in
well chosen and appropriate remarks,
seconded the motion amidst heartv ap
plause.
Mr. Hoge, of Fulton, paid a most elo
quent tribute to the moral heroism of
Senator Hill, and cited several marked in
stances when this quality was bravely
displayed. His graphic and thrilling des
cription of the Davis Hall speech was fre
quently interrupted by hearty and pro
longed applause, and his sublime closing
sentence called forth renewed outbursts
of applause.
Mr. Russell, of Clark, as the representa
tive trom Senator Hill’s former home,
paid a feeling tribute to the deceased.
He was followed by the eloquent Mr.
Gary, of Richmond, in an address mainly
devoted to Senator Hill’s career as a
statesman.
Mr. Russell, of Decatur, under the im
pulse of the moment, made a volunteer
speech on Senator Hill’s death, after
which the programme was resumed and
Senator Peeples paid a concise and well
delivered eulogy upon the more promi
nent features of the character of the de
ceased.
Mr. \\ atts, of Stewart, gave a lengthy
review of Senator Hill's political career.
Senator Meldrim paid a tender
tribute to the deceased, whom he had
ever regarded as an ideal Georgian, whose
love tor and devotion to his State were re
markable in every sense.
On motion of Mr. Crenshaw, of Troup,
the resolution was adopted by a rising
vote, and the joint session dissolved.
Senator Dubignon and Representative
Falligant were on the programme to
speak, but owing to an interruption of
the programme and the extreme length of
the memorial and of the addresses, they
wisely declined. -The exercises were
much too long, and although the hall was
packed at the commencement it was
only half full at the close.
The Capitol Commission transacted no
regular business to-night, but will meet
to-morrow.
NOTES ABOUT THE CAPITAL.
Saturday night the Finance Committee
of the Senate presented Chairman J. 11.
Pulhill, of Jelfe®o, a tine silver service
in token ol his arduous duties and uni
versal popularity.
The Hill memorial portrait was framed
and hung this afternoon.
Judge MeCay has returned to-day from
the funeral of his daughter, and the Uni
ted States ( oui ts are ready for business.
The Capitol Commissioners had only a
short session to-night, owing to tiie Hill
memorial services. No provision has been
made for tbe appointment of a Secretary,
nor is a superintendent needed if a super
vising architect is employed, and yet
there are twenty candidates now after
both positions. As to the mortgage given
the Northwestern Insurance Company,
that has already lieen cancelled bv At
lanta. The bill has passed to al
low her to issue the $55,000
in bonds to pay for the new capitol, so
there was nothing for the commission to
do in that direction to-night. They can
go ahead and make all their arrange
ments to demolish the old City llall and
get the lot ready for the new capitol.
It is cold and cloudy to-night, but the
rain has subsided. Tbe members are
drawing their pay and leaving lor home.
There will be a thin House on the final
adjournment.
The sensat ion in Atlanta’s highest social
circles is the elopement of a very young
couple lrom two leading families."
MAYO AND Mi GLEXSEY.
Chandler Decides that the Trouble Be
tween Them is a Mere Petty Ouarrel.
\\ ashixgton'. Sept. 24.—Secretary
Chandler said to-day that lie had conclud
ed not to make public the proceedings of
the court ol inquiry# which investigated
the counter charges made by Commodore
Mayo against Commander McGlensey
while on duty at the Norfolk navy yard,
lie regards the ease as a mere petty quar
rel between the two officers. The court*
censured Commander McGlensey lorhav
refused to deliver to his superior officer
the letter he demanded, and also censured
Commodore Mayo for his reckless charge.
As to the character of its contents the
Secretary says that Commander McGlen
sey lias already suffered punishment
enough in being detached and otherwise
humiliated, and that no further action will
betaken in hiscase. The charge of tyranni
cal conduct preferred against Commodore
Mayo by Commander McGlensey was
not sustained, as his action in calling tiie
marine guard to his assistance in enforc
ing his demand for the letter in question
was justified under the circumstances.
The Secretary said, "however, that he felt
that he must take notice of Commodore
Mayo’s conduct in having made unsub
stantiated charges against Commander
McGlensey, with regard to the contents
of the letter, which was the origin of the
difficulty.
RIDS EOR 4 HANDLER S HULKS.
The “Pawnee” the Only One in South
ern Waters Which no One Wants.
Washington, Sept. 24.—The proposals
for the purchase of tiie condemned naval
vessels were opened at the Navy Depart
ment to-day. The following are the ves
sels located in the South with the ap
praised value and bids: The Savannah, at
Norfolk, is appraised at SIO,OOO. E. Stan
nard bid $12,403.
The Sea Weed, at i’ort Royal, S. C., is
appraised at SSOO. Win. Cutler, of Jack
sonville, Fla., bid $000: J. D. Kenny, of
Brunswick, Ga„ $512. and the other bids
ranged from SOOO to SOSO.
The Shuwmut, at Nort >lk, is appraised
at 55,300. E. Stannard bid sS.loo.
The Worcester, at Norfolk, is appraised
at $25,400. E. Stannard bid $27,011.
No bids were received for the Pawnee,
located at Port Royal, S. C.
LAROII TROUBLES.
Strikes in Allentown and Providence,
and a Resumption in Chicago.
Allentown, Pa., Sept. 24.— Twenty
young women engaged as warpers in the
silk mills here struck against a reduction
of their wages to-day. They were paid 4
cents per hundred strings, and made $1 00
per day. The reduction of a K cent was
made some time since, and last week a
further reduction to 3 cents went into ef
fect. One young girl stopped immediately
and the others have since followed.
Chicago, Sept 24.—Work was resumed
to-day at the rolling mills in South Chi
cago, and 1.800 men went in. Their wages
will he paid on the Pittsburg scale.
Providence, lt. 1., Sept. 24.—A con
siderable number of the weavers in the
Lorraine mills at Pawtucket struck to
day on account of the reduction in
wages.
Montreal, Sept. 24.—Many cotton
operatives will be thrown out ot work
next week in order to stop over-produc
tion.
CUTTING PASSENGER KATES.
Tlie Louisville, New Albany and Chi
cago Hoad Jumps Into the King.
Chicago, Sept. 24.— The railroad war
has drawn into it the Louisville, New Al
bany and Chicago Hoad. Hitherto that
road has acted on the defensive, only
meeting the cut of the other roads. To
day it announced a rate of $1 to Indian
apolis. a cut of $4 .'si, with a schedule one
hour shorter than the other roads are mak
ing. and cuts to Cincinnati and other
points in competition with the Pan Han
dle route, ranging from $4 to $4 50. It also
proclaims an aggressive warfare.
Scalpers were to-day selling tickets to
Indianapolis for 85 cents and $0 and a
rate of 50 cents by the roads themselves
is anticipated.
A Moonshiner Sentenced for Twelve
Years.
Raleigh. X. C., Sept. 24.—The trial of
David Fraley, an alleged moonshiner, for
the murder of H. F. Walker, a revenue
officer in Stanley county, on February Bth,
was concluded at Concord on Saturday
night. A verdict of manslaughter was
rendered, and Fraley was sentenced to
serve twelve years in the penitentiary.
Heartily Recommended.
Don’t condemn a good thing because
you have been deceived by worthless nos
trums. Parker's Ginger Tonic has cured
many in this section from nervous disor
orders, and we recommend it heartily to
such autt'erers,— Meics.
RUSSIA’S RUSH TO ARMS.
MAMMOTH PREPARATIONS FOR
WAR ON THE FRONTIER.
No Explanation of Ihe Probable Project
—Stanley Urges an Englioli Protec
torate in the Congo—Havas Reported
Victorious in Madagascar—Missionary
Shavr Reaches England.
London, Sept. 24.—A dispatch from
Vienna states that Russia is making ex
tensive military preparations along the
Austrian and German frontiers. Tenders
have been asked tor 36,000 military beds.
All the railways have been ordered to
have military cars in readiness. A list
has been made of the private steamers in
the Black Sea. and their Captains
have been ordered to prepare
for the transportation of ammunition,
troops and provisions. These vessels have
ceased executing private orders, and the
carriage of corn is thus interrupted. En
ormous provision depots have been estab
lished along the frontier, and two army
corps have been distributed between
Vistula and Bug rivers. A list has been
made of all persons who, in the event of
war, will be deported from Poland to the
interior of Russia.
IRELAND AND THE IRISH.
Mrs. Carey’s Arrival in England and
Sunday’s Land League Meetings.
London, Sept. 24.—The steamer Garth
Castle, from Cape Town, with Mrs. Carey
and other witnesses of the murder of
James Carey on board, has arrived at
Plymouth. The detectives who have Mrs.
Carey in charge will not allow her to be
seen.
The United States Consulate has referred
the question of O’Donnell’s defense to the
American Legation, which is now con
ferring with Sir William Harcourt, Home
Secretary, in regard to the matter.
Dublin, Sept. 24.— Notwithstanding
the proclamation of the government for
bidding the holding of meetings in the
counties of Clare and Limerick on Sun
day, several thousand persons, headed by
a priest, gathered at Miltown Malboy,
county Clare, yesterday, and attempted
lo hold an Irish National League meeting.
A large police force was present, and pre
vented the organization of the meeting.
The Magistrate read a prohibitory pro
clamation, and the crowd dispersed,
uttering groans for the Queen and shout
ing “God save Ireland.” The meetings
of the league which were permitted to be
held at Bandou, near Cork, and at Tallow,
county Waterford, passed off in an or
derly manner. A government reporter
was present at each gathering.
EXPLOSION AT WOOLWICH.
/inly Two Lives Lost—Considerable
Property Damaged.
London, Sept. 24.—The rocket factories
at the arsenal at Woolwich exploded to
day. Many buildings were destroyed,
old soldiers here declare that the explo
sion of rockets during the lire were as
1 right till as if occurring in an actual
siege. Two bodies of victims of the ex
plosion have been found. Some of the
war rockets were projected a distance of
live miles. One of them went straight
through the wall of the arsenal, and
another struck the artillery barracks.
A rocket fell in Frith Flshaiii, Charlton
and Ilford. One of llieni plunged into a
school for infants at Plmnpstead, another
entered a draper’s shop in Woolwich, and
still another wrecked a grocery store.
There was the wildest panic in Woolwich,
but there was no loss of life, with the ex
ception ol the two persons mentioned,
who were employed in the arsenal. The
first reports of the fatalities were ex
aggerated. The principal damage was
confined to the rocket factory, which will
involve a loss of £2,000.
WHEAT SALES IN ENG LAN D-
Trade Dull Throughout the Country
and Prices Lower.
London, Sept. 24.—The Mm-),-Jmuu Ex
press, in its review of the gnjin trade for
the past week, says: “Trade is dull
throughout the country. The trade in
foreign wheat off the stands has not im
proved. The market for flour is very dull
and in favor of the buyers. The off
coast cargo trade in wheat has not im
proved. Eighteen cargoes have arrived.
Five were sold and ten were withdrawn.
Trade forward has been trifling, at nomi
nal values. The sales of English wheat
for the week were 67,665 quarters, at 41s.
8(1., against 51,453 quarters, at 425. Id. for
‘lie corresponding week last year.”
SHAW LANDS IN ENGLAND.
He is Advised to Claim £IO,OOO Damages
from the French Government.
London, Sept. 24.—Mr. Shaw, the
British missionary who was subjected to
indignities by the French in Madagascar,
landed to-day at Plymouth. He states
that during the illness of the late Air.
l’ackenham, the English Consul at Tania
tive, he (Mr. Shaw) discharged many of
the duties of the consulate" which "fact
tended to increase the dislike towards him
of the French Admiral, M. Pierre.
Mr. Shaw lias been advised to file a
claim for £IO,OOO damages against the
French Government. He hopes to return
to Madagascar to resume his missionary
labors.
POPE LEO’S NEGOTIATIONS.
The Expelled Prussian Prelates Au
thorized to Treat with Prussia.
Rome, Sept. 24.—The Vatican has au
thorized the Catholic Bishops who were
expelled from Prussia to open negotiations
with the Prussian Government for their
return to their pastorates. Le Moniteur
ilc Home learns that the negotiations be
tween the \ atican and France have
reached a satisfactory conclusion. The
French Government lias restored the sup
pressed stipends to the Catholic clergy,
and hits given formal assurances of the
most pacific intentions towards the Holy
See.
An Editor on France anil China.
London, Sept. 24.—The Times, in its
leading editorial article, says: “We are
convinced that France cannot obtain
Tonquin without war with China, but she
may have Annum with full right to make
commercial settlements in Tonquin with
out anv further trouble. Until France
fairly grasps this we hardly see that ativ
opportunity exists for the friendly ser
vices of a third party.”
Advices from Mauritius, under date of
the 15th, state that dispatches received
there trom Tamatave, dated Sept. 6, re
port that the Havas have retaken all the
hostilities on the northwest coast of Mad
agascar except Majanga.
Variances are reported to exist between
the French civil and military authorities
at Tamatave.
Stanley Urging an English Protectorate.
London, Sept. 24.—A letter from Henry
M. Stanley, tin* African explorer, was
read to-day before the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, in which
he urges that Great Britain should pro
claim a protectorate over the Con*r o
country.
Paris, Sept. 24.—Hava’s Agency pub
lishes a letter from Lisbon, in which it is
asserted that an English commissioner
has been charged with the duty of ac
quiring for Great Britain the territory ob
tained by H. AL Stanley on the Upper
Congo.
Cholera Quarantine Raised.
Gibraltar, Sept. 24.—The Governor
has issued an order removing the quaran
tine restrictions upon vessels arriving
from Eastern ports where cholera has been
prevailing.
An Austrian Editor Arrested.
Trieste, Sept. 24.—Herr Guretti, edi
tor of aa irridentist paper here, has been
arrested on a charge of publishing a sedi
tious article.
A New Sunday School.
Ehk.v, Ga., Sept 24.— There was a
meeting of the jieople of Eden and its sur
rounding neighbors held at Powers’ Bap
tist Church here Sunday, 23d, for the pur
pose of organizing a Sunday school. The
attendance numbered about fifty. The
following officers were elected": P. M.
Edwards, Superintendent; Mrs. M. s’.
Hahn, Assistant Superintendent; J. e!
Crawford. Secretary. The name given
by the members is Eden’s Union Sunday
school. A financial committee has al
ready raised S4O for the purchase of ait
organ. Doubtless we will have the or
gan in a few weeks time. We expect to
have a fine school as soon as we get
everything in order. D. H. T.
I’ike’s Toothache Drops cure in one
minute.
BRIEFS FROM BRUNSWICK.
The Best News of the Town Interest
ingly Told in Short Paragraphs.
Corrrsvondtnc* of the Morning Xeic*.
Brunswick, Sept. 28.—Tbe band re
union was a success. Tiie Blackshear
band was the only out-of-town band pre
sent. but by their excellent playing and
noticeable assistance in the grand con
cert made up to our citizens for the dis
appointment resulting from the failure of
other bands to appear. The young gen
tlemen comprising the Blackshear baud
have received unlimited praise, as well as
the palm, for the best street music in the
parade. The citizens as well as the band
men were greatly disappointed at
the non-attendance of invited hands.
am informed by Professor
Baumgarten that some failed to acknowl
edge invitation even. Some telegraphed
their acceptance and did not conic.
1 reparations were made for 150 musicians
in the best style the city could afford,
the banquet was spread and the viands
had to be eaten. The writer, with several
Aldermen, Riflemen and newspaper men,
attacked the table intended for the Val
dosta band. A\ e did not make a dent in
the supply. The reunion programme was
fully carried out. and the prize drill of
the Riflemen followed on Thursday even
ing.
lhe first prize, a scarlet plume, was
won by Cornoral Harry S. Barkuloo, after
fifty minutes’ hard drilling.
The second prize, gold and white epau
lettes, were won by Sergt. Ed. Alason, and
the third, a box of embroidered socks, bv
Private Stillwell.
The judges were Lieut.-Col. Win. Gar
rard and Lieut. R. R. Richards, of the Sa
vannah Volunteer Guards Battalion.
1 liese gentlemen have captured the Rifle
men unconditionally and without reserve.
Loth gentlemen were well known by the
majority ol the citizens already in their
professional callings, but their appear
ance as military visitors, and particularly
in their handsome uniforms, was an honor
which the military and citizens alike thor
oughly appreciated.
Captain Neilsen, of the Norwegian bark
Gustaf Adolph, now lying in the sound
ready lor sea, died on yesterday inorniu <r
of rheumatism of the heart. The vessel
hud just finished loading with naval
stores for Europe, and will probably be
delayed several days for anew Captain.
Air. James Hall, eldest son of Capt.
G.J. Hall, l lilted States Shipping Com
missioner. died after a long and painfui
illness on Sunday last.
Airs. W. G. Bennett, daughter of one of
our oldest citizens, Capt. J. A. Clubb,
died after the most intense suffering on
Thursday last. The circumstances sur
rounding her death were particularly sad,
and the bereaved young husband has the
sympathy of the community in his sor
row.
Airs. Lizzie Creamer, so recently left a
widow by the sudden deuili of her hus
band, Air. P. If. Creamer, died almost as
suddenly on Thursday lust. She leaves
sorrow-stricken parents and two bright
little boys, whose grid is shared bv muuv
friends.
Building is still 1 looming.
The project to open up communication
by I)o\er river to Satilla Bluff promises
soon to be a certainty. A meeting will
be held to-morrow by tbe business men of
tins citv to discuss the matter.
A fish and oyster company has estab
lished business here within the last few
days.
1 learn that a Air. Bull, recently em
ployed on the Brunswick and Western
Road as conductor, met with a painful
accident on the road on Friday last. He
is not seriously injured, I am informed,
but did not obtain the particulars.
Glynn.
COLORED MEN IN CONVENTION.
No Important Business Transacted at
‘he Opening of the Session.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 24.—The Col
ored National Convention was in session
this afternoon in Liederkrauz Hall, being
called to order by Alilton Holland, o'}
\\ ushington, D. C. About 250 delegates
were present. The time since the meet
ing of the convention lias lieen consumed
in eflorts to elect a temporary Chair
man. Alessrs. Tandy, of Missouri,
and Green, of Washington, are
the leading candidates. Fred Douglass
will be chosen permanent Chairman.
Kev. A. M. Green, of Louisiana, was
chosen temporary chairman, lie was in
troduced to the convention as a martyr of
Ins race. In concluding his speech,
which recounted the past history of the
colored race and looked into its future
condition, he exhorted the convention to
stand by the principles set down in the
call and to refrain from all discussions of
political questions.
Among the prominent delegates in at
tendance are Al. A. Alurdell. editor of the
Baltimore I indicator: W. Calvin Chase
of Washington: Dr. J. W. Washington,
of Chicago; H. Price Williams and 11.
Hilaries, ol Philadelphia; Jesse Lawson,
of New Jersey; J. H. McGinnis, of Dela
ware; Col. George Al. Arnold, of Virgin
ia; D. A. Straker, of South Carolina; T.
L. Joseph, of Alabama; J. W. Cromwell,
of Virginia: A. Al. Green, of Lou
isiana: W. R. Pledger, of Atlanta, Ga.;
K. L. Kennedy, of New Orleans; T. H.
\ ance, of Louisiana; Fred Douglass, R. S.
Laws and J. Al. Gregory, of the District
ol Columbia; Geo. AV. Williams, of Bos
ton; I. Joseph, of .Mobile; Colonel Alor
rell, ot Baltimore: J. C. Napier, of Ten
nessee; T. 11. Bell, of St. Louis, and W. 11.
I billings wort h, of Kansas. Twenty-seven
States are represented, and there is no
trouble about accommodations, every del
egate being provided for.
NO ROOM FOR CHINAMEN.
Tiie Hong Kong Scheme Ruled Out ill
Court.
San Francisco, Sept. 24.—Judge Field
of the United States Supreme Court, sit
ting in banc with Judge Sawyer, ren
dered a final decision to-day in respect to
the rights claimed by Chinese horn in
Hong Kong to land in the United States.
He ruled that the fact of a Chinaman
being born in Hong Kong does not con
stitute him a British subject. He en
larged on the fact that Congress never
intended to disregard the requirements of
the treaty with foreign govern
ments. An act of Congress, he
said, must lie construed according
to its manifest intent and must be so en
forced by the courts in respect to the re
striction act. No consideration was
deemed necessary to the position of other
governments regarding the Chinese with
in their borders. Its object was to ex
clude Chinese laborers from coming from
any part of the world. It was known
that Hong Kong would pour Chinese la
borers into our country every year unless
covered by the restriction act.
Munitions for Jamaica.
Philadelphia, Sept. 24.—The steam
ship Kttiel cleared from this port to-day.
ller manifest showed eight cannon, dy
namite, shells, and munitions of war of
all sorts. She will sail for Port-au-Prince,
and is owned by theHaytien Government.
No attempt was made to prevent the
vessel Irom sailing.
Collections Under tlie Scott Law.
Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 24.—The report
of the Auditor of the State, just completed,
shows the collections under the Scott
liquor tax law to he nearly $2,000,000 in
the State, distributed in the localities
where collected to the police, poor and to
the general revenue and township funds,
A Thief of Kegtstered Letters
Natchez, Miss,, Sept, 24. Postmaster
H. H. Meng, of\ idalia. 1.a., was arrested
to-day by Inspector George A. live
charged with stealing registered letters
from the mail. Meng acknowledged his
guilt.
Failures in Business.
New \ork, Sept. 24.—Zeideubach
Schwab Cos., wholesale clothiers, have
assigned,^giving preferences amounting
to $118.2:17. Their liabilities are between
s:i.-.0,000 and $400,000.
Church Meintiprs Angry,
MmvfhKAl,, Sept, 24.—A large number
ol Irish Catholics rose and left the parish
church of St. Cunegonde vesterdav be
cause the pastor rebuked them for not
paying their dues.
Webster’s Monument Defaced.
Marshfield, Mass., Sept. 24.-Dan
iel Webster’s monuiqent was defaced yes
terday by vandals or relic seekers.
Many jiersons who seemingly have con
sumption have perfectly sound lungs, and
their distress originates altogether from
disordered kidneys and liver. Now there
are thousands of remedies that will re
lieve kidqey aqd liyer diseases, but there
is only pne thaf can be depended upon for
eflectmg a permanent cure, and that is
Brown's Iron Bitters Its efficacy has
been satisfactorily proven in thousands of
instances after ail other remedies failed.
LIFE’S SADDEST PHASES.
A BRAVE ENGINEER DIES TO
SAVE HIS PASSENGERS.
Mexican Herdsmen Waging a Bloody
Battle with Horse Thieves—A Promi
nent Citizen of Missouri Shot Dead
by a Sport—Disasters by Fire aud by
Water.
‘ incinn ati, Sept. 24.—A dispatch from
Akron, 0., says that John Bull, engineer
of the Thunderbolt passenger train on the
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail
road. died to-day from injuries received
by a collision with a freight train at Tall
madge Saturday night. He could have
saved himself by jumping, but he thought
of the passengers, reversed his engine and
set the air brakes. He then put on full
steam and started the engine ahead. It
broke loose from the cars. The passen
gers were unhurt. He lived at Gallon,
and was the oldest engineer of the road.
Ravages of the Flames.
Alemphis, Tknn., Sept. 24.—A fire last
night destroyed the building No. 318 Alain
street, which was occupied bv S. Levy, a
trunk manufacturer. The loss is aliout
$15,000 and the insurance SIO,OOO.
New Orleans, Sept. 24.—This morning
the square hounded by Prleur, Johnson,
St. Anne and Dumaine streets, contain
ing eight houses, was burned. The loss
was $20,000. The property is insured in
local companies.
Sunk in the Mississippi.
Alemphis, Sept. 24.—The steamer Cen
tennial, Capt. William Burke, from St.
Louis to New Orleans, struck a log yes
terday afternoon, five miles above Hales’
Point, Tenn., and sank in nine feet of water.
The Centennial had a large cargo, includ
ing I,ooobarrels of flour arid other goods in
the hold, which will be seriously dam
aged. The passengers were brought here
to-day by the steamer St. Genevieve.
A Desperate Battle with “Rustlers.”
Chicago, S ;pt. 24.—A special dispatch
from Lordsburg, New Alexieo, savs that
five Alexieans had a tight with “rustlers”
who were running off horses near Clifton.
Two “rustlers”were killed after two hou rs’
fighting. Subsequently the “rustlers,”
reinforced, returned and at last accounts
had the Mexicans surrounded in a house.
A Store Robbed of .<815,000 Worth of
Goods.
Detroit, Sept. 24.—The jewelry store
ot F. liolshoven was robbed Saturday
night or Sunday of $15,000 worth of goods'.
The store is on Woodward avenue, one of
the leading business streets of the city.
Shot by a Sport.
St. Louis, AIo., Sept. 24.—Advices from
Forsythe, Mo., state that J. M. Everett,
a prominent merchant, was killed Satur
day night by Albert G. Layton, a sporting
character. The cause of the killing is
not known. Layton escaped.
A Cure for Howling Dog*,
London Morning Pout,
-Many wearied and wakeful persons find
in the howling ot dogs by night a persist
ent, widespread and most annoying form
of irritation. The owners of dogs given
to spend the hours of darkness in assid
uous howling appear generally to regard
with serene personal imperturbability the
noisy nuisance which makes night
hideous for their neighbors. Neverthe
less, those who keep dogs, especially
those who do so in popular places, ought
to feel bound to take the simple precau
tions which alone are necessary
to prevent a troublesome form of
vexation, which is really it serious
source of inconvenience and loss
of rest, and possibly of loss of health to
very many people. To the honest bark of
a watch-dog giving warning tongue upon
suitable occasion no one would object,
but the purposeless and unending
howling of the chained curs which
are especially prevalent in the suburbs of
towns is simply intolerable. It is not ne
cessary to exterminate dogs to put an end
to tbe annoyance in question. The nui
sance is perleetly preventable by the
adoption of a few simple and sensible
measures which, so far from injuring the
offending animals, tend to give them
length ol days by conducing to their con
tentment. Those who have had experi
ence in keeping dogs know that these
dogs wiy not howl at night if they be com
fortable. If dogs, instead ot lieing cruelly
chained up out of doors, in kennels which
are olten draughty and damp, lie allowed
to have their liberty by day, and to lie
within the house at night, thev will gen
erally sleep through the night in perfect
quietness. Or, if it be necessary to keep
a dog chained by day, he ought to he left
loose at night, when it will be found that
he will retire quietly to his kennel and
abstain from bowling, especially if he be
furnished with some fresh hay or a clean
mat for a bed. In warm weather dogs
often howl simply because they want wa
ter. Many dogs howl at. night because
they are kept constantly chained both by
night and by day. This is a common and
most reprehensible form of cruelty; dogs
so treated are sure to be restless and irri
table, and can scarcely be healthy.
Hotel Society in Washington.
Manhattan for October,
Then there is the hotel society. The
ladies staying in the Brown House all
receive on the same day. Ladies calling
can thus kill all the birds, socially spea£
ing, there are in the Brown House with
one handful of cards. The ladies of the
Smith House have another day, the ladies
of the Robinson House another. Then at
intervals each hotel has a soiree, invita
tions to which are generously distributed.
There is a fine band and a finer
supper, and dancing unlimited. Con
gressmen and their wives and daugh
ters, lobbyists, Southern Colonels
and numerous “Generals,” visit
iting strangers, politicians, and the rest
make up a mixed company. Atone of
these entertainments the wife of a Con
gressmen whose constituents had omitted
to re-elect him, spoke sharplv to a lady
sitting on a sofa next to a friend of the
Congressman’s wife. “You might move
up,” said she. When the lady had “moved
up,” and the Congressman’s wife had set
tled herself down in the room thus ob
tained, she turned to her friend and pro
ceeded: “Yes,” said she, -it’s just as I
tell Lycurgus. This Washington society
unfits one for any other society. You
can’t go back to the society you were
used to once—you just can’t. No; I tell
Lycurgus, we must come back
to the House. He says we
can’t, but 1 say we can. And we must!
That’s all there is about it.” A few mo
months later“Lycurgus’’is wrestling in tbe
dust of the district arena for a renomina
tion. No one who sees him engaged in
that delightful occupation—red in the
face, metaphorically speaking, hot and
out of breath—knows that it is all because
ol the social aspirations of Airs. Lycurgus
who has Been unfitted by Washington so!
ciety for the humbler society in which she
once moved. If any man doubts that wo
men rule the world, he can have his
doubts removed in any circle of AVashing
ton society.
A Countryman in London.
Wiynn Observer.
Previous to commencing the Journey he
made a purchase—two-pen n v-worth of fish
hooks. With them he carefully lined his
trousers pockets freely, planting them all
hook downwards. The train arrived at
London, and our country Iriend sauntered
out of the station and gazed about the
thronged street and at the busv multitude,
Presently his eye caught sight of a crowd,
whither he was at once attracted. Almost
instantly be discovered some one’s hand
in his pocket. Having every confidence
in the efficacy of his plan, he was in no
way anxious about bis purse. Presently
he moved away, and of course the “sharp
er” was obliged to follow, though the
man from the country imyef up.
jieared to lie cognizant of his pres
sence. Seeing the state of thiiu-s
a gentleman made up to our country
fr end and said, “1 say, my man, this fel
low has his hand in your pocket.” in the
coolest manner imaginable came the re
ply, “Well, Jet
he was caujdit, and having a regal'd for
his tortured fingers, the would-be pick
pocket implored lorgiveuess, and begged
to be released from his painful and un
comfortable position. Being of a gener
ous turn ot mind, the country excursion,-
lst agreed to let the fellow off*for the mod
est sum ol 6d.—the cost of the fish hooks
and anew pocket—a fid at once com
menced the operation of cutting away his
l>ocket. The'fxindon shari*cr’s agony pro
vided fun for the group who witnessed his
capture, and on once getting free be was
soon out of sight. The united opinion of
the couatrymau’s friends is “that he is
not so green as he is cabbage-looking.” aa
old proverb in which the i-omidii pick
pocket doubtless fully concurs.
A Varied Performance.
Many wonder how Parker’s Ginger
Tonic can perform such varied cures,
thinking it essence of ginger, when in tact
it is made from many valuable medicines
which act beneficially on every disease^
NOTES FROAI PARIS.
How Americans are Fleeced in the Gay
Capital.
Paris Letter.
In my last letter I spoke of the Prin
cess Souvaroff and describotl her adven
turous career. Another Russian lady,
the Princess Vera, whom I happened to
see on a trip to Nice which l took last
week, will lie the topic of my present
epistle. A few years ago when I first
knew her she was regarded to be the
most beautiful woman in Paris. A
thorough Russian by birth and breeding,
she had all the caprices, coquetries arid
insensate ardors of that race which
has been well termed the French of the
North. She drank deeply of the joys of
life without ever troubling herself about
the morrow. She turned the beads of all
around her, counted her victims with a
stony glance, and then, sure ot_ her
triumph, would break out in a stntnge
yet charming laugh, which would drive
them to the verge of insanity. The most
completely gone of all her lovers was her
husband, Serge P .To know that she
belonged to him, that she was his wife
and vet eluded his embraces like a will o’
the wish, was bitter wormwood to his
soul.
“I love you,” he told her one day; “by-.,
fore the laws of God and man I am your
master. If 1 wanted to I could chastise,
even kill you.”
She shrugged her Aoulders and laughed.
“I know,” he desperately continued,
that you respect nothing, believe in noth
ing, yet God has ordered von to love me.”
“If ttiere is a God,” she replied, ab
ruptly turning her back towards him,
-He has something else to do than occupy
his time with a monkey like you.”
Driven to desperation by this cruel re
tort, Serge suddenly drew liis revolver and
shot himself in the breast.
She uttered a cry, and with an outburst
of emotion threw herself over his body.
She wept real tears—they were the first
she had ever shed.
Serge, however, did not die. While his
lite was in danger she was the most ten
der ol wives, but as he became convales
cent she grew cold again.
“llow 1 would have loved vou had vou
died,” she told him. “I would have cut
my hair and immured myself in the dark
est solitudes.”
‘’ll 1 were sure of it I would begin over
again.”
“Too late. This time it would be sim
ply ridiculous. It is a pitv we are mar
ried. Perhaps I would have loved vou
were I not obliged to.” -
Inspired with anew hope, Serge pro
cured a divorce, and a short time there
after she married the Prince de It .
That was three years ago. I heard noth
ing from her until I saw her at Nice. I
hardly recognized her. Pale, with hollow
eyes and haggard face, she looked like a
statue of grief. Her second husband was
near her. While lie was present she
shunned my glance, but as lie left the par
lor of the hotel for a moment she came to
wards me and extended her hand.
The Court of Appeals has. the other
day, affirmed the decree of separation in
the suit brought for that purpose bv the
Aiarquise de Vernon-Bonneull against
her titled scoundrel ot a husband, and
thereby it is to be hoped put a final end
to a scandal which caused so great a sen
sation here in Paris last year.
The Marquise, who is a’ daughter of a
former Councillor-General of Normandy,
and belongs to a very ancient and distin
guished family of that country, charged
her husband with an improper intimacy
with one of her own servants. The poor
girl gave birth to a child, and in a frenzy
of shame killed it, for which
she was sentenced to penal
servitude by the Cour d’Assises,
The rascally Marquis had the impatience
to bring a counter-action against his wife
charging her with frivolity and violence
of temper, which, according to his allega
tions, led to scenes of domestic warfare,
in rendering judgment the court, after
finding the husband guilty of the acts
alleged, states that there isnot the slight
est foundation for the charges against the
Marquise, and if she was in any way de
monstrative in her anger against her" hus
band she was amply justified bv his mis
conduct.
Americans intending to visit this gay
capital will do well to profit by the for
tune which befell a countryman of yours,
who seems to have been of an entirely too
confiding nature.
Alt-. G., an American merchant, who ar
rived here tiie day before yesterday, left
his hotel in the Faubourg Saint-Martin in
the morning to take breakfast in a cafe in
the Avenue de l’Opeia. On leaving after
his meal he was accosted in the street by
a person who began a conversation with
him in English, and filially proposed to
show him the sights of Paris, a proposi
tion which the unsuspicious American
readily accepted. The amateur guide was
shortly afterwards accosted liy another
man, calling himself an American, who
also offered to conduct Mr. G. The latter
asked to be taken to a certain bank to
cash a draft drawn on it. He carried by
a strap across his shoulders a satchel con
taining, as he said, lu,0(H) francs in
English coin. At the moment of entering
the bank the Englishman who had accost
ed hint first laughingly took the satchel
away lrom him, saying that it would tire
hint, and hung it over his own shoulder.
On coming out of the bank Air. G. only
found the second guide, the supposititious
American, who said that his companion
had gone on an errand and that they
would find him near the Porte St, Alartiii.
While on the way there the American
asked Mr. G. if he had well put away the
money which he had just drawn. The
latter replied by showing him a pocket
book containing 20,000 francs in bank
notes. The American, with a smile, took
t he pockctbook from the other's hands and
put it into his own pocket, saving: “I
will rciurn it to you at your hotel. Paris
is full ot pickpockets.”
Mr. G. strongly insisted that his fellow
countryman should return him his pocket
book, which the latter did with good grace;
but on arriving at the spot where they
were to meet the Englishman who had the
satchel containing the 10,000 francs in
gold, the American in turn disappeared.
Air. G., on opening the pocketbook, dis
covered that it was not his own. although
it was of the same color, and that it con
tained not a single bank note. He made a
complaint to the police, hut thus far no
clue has been obtained to the sharpers or
their booty. But it is not only strangers
who are made the victims of the light
fingered gentry; Parisians themselves are
sometimes entrapped in their snares.
About two months ago a certain num
ber of gentlemen in high life received in
vitations to attend musical soirees given
by Mile. Suzanne P , a young and
beautiful foreigner who had just luxu
riously furnisheu an apartment in the
Quartier de la Madeleine. The truth is
that these musical soirees were each
evening transformed into gambling
seances. But that was not all. The
Swedish Ambassador informed the police
that the lKiautiful Suzanne belonged to a
band of robbers which had recently made
Stockholm and Christiania the scene of
their operations.
Al. Alace, the head of the detective force,
was charged to watch the movements of
the young woman. Learning last Alonday
that a large box was at the depot of the
flare an A ord, addressed to her, he went
there and had it opened. It contained a
large number ot very costlv objects, and a
search subsequently made" at Suzanne’s
residence revealed jewels and other valu
ables amounting to 300,0dd francs. Not
lieing able to account fur their possession
tiie fair Suzanne has been temporarily nut
under arrest.
Waiting to be Called.
Washington Critic.
i Gonkling was in the city a few
days agOj and argued a case before the
Commissioner of patents. After he had
concluded fiik argument and repaired to
hm hotel, two or three of his warm j>er
aonaj triends called on him. During the
evening one of them said to him;
“Senator, do you exi>ect to go into poli
tics again soon
“Oh, no; f am just where 1 want to be
qf this time, l am engaged in repairing
my finances, and am doing very well. I
may enter the field again, but eertaiuiv
not for four or five years. \ now feel
about politics a good "deal like the milk
man’s horse. There was a poor but hon
est and energetic man over i my city who
went mtu the milk busiuess, fj e Bta rted
by carrying bis milk vessels around by
helm}. |n time Ui* business grew to such
proportions that he hail to buy a horse,
ifie horse had been in the service of his
country at one time. The old milkman
went on doing well, his horse doing fiiui
good service, until one day he stopped in
front of the house of one of hi* customers
and went in to deliver his milk. While
in the house, the fire alarm struck, and the
sW'tK started down the street as hard as
he could go. Away went the milk cans,
wagon and all. This old horse had been
in the fire department service, and wheu
he heard the call he went. So you see the
application: When the people'call I will
go.”
Mrs, Douglass, 23 Margaret street, sa
vannah, (la,, says: “t found great relief
Sufi disordered liver and dyspepsia using
own’s frufi Hitters,”
t PRICE SIO A TEAR, t
I ft CENTS A COPY. {
YELLOW FEVER RAVAGES.
MEXICO'S PERCENTAGE OK
MORTALITY I NCHANGED.
The City of Mexico Afflicted With the
Second Case in its History—A Terri
bly Fatal Fever at Mier—Two New
Cases Reported at Pensacola and one
Death.
Washington, Sept. 24.—Dr. J. M.
Main, of tlu* Marine Hospital Service at
Brownsville, Texas, in a letter to the
Surgeon Geueral, transmits the following
items of late news from Mexico:
“Some ot the coast journals advocate a
suspension of the quarantine on account
of the late northerly gale, but the govern
ment will maintain it until late in No
vember. At Vera Cruz the cases are
fewer, but tin* percentage of mortality is
unchanged. There has been one case of
yellow fever in the City of Mexico, which
i$ the second in the history of the city.
, “In the State ot Chihuahua the measles
is epidemic, and is spreading in everv
direction. The mortality, however, is
light.
“The lakes in the vicinity of the City of
Mexico and Matumoras are being drained
for sanitary purposes, and like measures
will be resorted to around Vera Ccuz.
“At Mier, on the liio Grande, a fever
has appeared which is fatal in every ease.
Only a few cases are reported, however."
IN THE FLORIDA CORDON.
Two New Cases and One Death Report
cm! from lle Navy Vanl.
Washington, Sept. 24.—The Secretary
of the Navy lias received a telegram from
Commandant Welch, of the Pensacola
navj yard, dated on the 23d inst., which
. reads as follows: “Twonew cases of yel
low fever have appeared in Warrington.
Both are children. The case reported yes
terday proved to be swamp fever, latch
arrived from Perdido Bay. One death lias
occurred, that of a child, from malarial
fever. The deceased first had vellow le
ver.”
Foreigners Mowed Down in Porto Rico.
Washington, Sept. 24.—The Marine
Hospital Service is advised that vellow
fever prevails at Ponce, on the island of
Porto ltico, especially among the foreign
ers. Among the deaths was that of tin*
British Vice Consul, on August 13.
Kleetrlcitr in Liquor.
Chicago fferahl.
“Give it a shock.”
A young man from Chicago stood before
one of the most elegant bars in the city
yesterday and gave the above order to the
bartender, who stood waitin'? fora citizen
to dispose of a rather big drink of pun
whiskey.
“A what, Bah?” asked the chemist, lean
ing over the bar to catch his customer's
remark.
“Why, a shock. Haven’t you imported
an electrical machine here vet? They’re
getting popular out West.” The young
man raised the glass to his lips andilrank
its contents at one draught. A reporter
who had wandered in to get a toothpick
had overheard the conversation and
begged the Chicago young man to explain
the meaning of a shock. The latter led
the way to a seat and unfolded the mys
tery.
“It is nothing but a cheap method of
purifying whisky,” said he, “age and
purity are almost synonymous in speak
ing ol liquor. By this process every
saloon can have a little machine turned
by hand and every person can Is- con
vinced that his whisky is electrical 1\
pure. All that is necessary is to have
two blocks of carbon, which are inserted
in the liquor to be purified. These car
bons are connected with the positive and
negative poles of an ordinary electric
machine and are wrapped about with
flannel. The chemical action upon tin
liquor is such that all the impurities are
attached thereto. The excess of fusil oil
also finds lodgment in the flannel, ami
when the latter is removed it looks as il
it had been steeped in brine. Dealers wilt
no longer have to use the antiquated pre
varication that wiue has been sent on a
sea voyage. The necessary age can lie
attached to it by a dynamo-electric ma
chine in a very few minutes.”
The young man grew quite enthusiastic
while talking, and as he said good-by,
added: “Come to Chicago and get some
liquor with some age to it.”
'1 lie Proposed Jordan Valley Canal.
SY. '/amen' Cazettc.
The Standard observes that it. has been
calculated that £222,703,000 is the mini
mum cost which the promoters of a Jor
dan canal, who ask “Her Majesty’s Prime
Minister” for 8,000,000, must be prepared
to face.-while the shareholders will be
wise it they indulge in no sanguine ex
pectations ol dividends during their lives
or the lives of I heir children. The scheme
is unquestionably a magnificent one, at
tractive to the imagination, and, if only it
would pay, ol vast national importance.
But if it is to be undertaken as a commer
! cial speculation it must be gone about in
a business-like way. The entire route
must be minutely surveyed by competent
engineers and the cost calculated in an
accurate manner before anvone is asked
to sink his money in it. far less for th
public credit to be pledged by the promo
ters. The Sultan is, possibly, in its favor
—we are told lie is—though the Sultan is
| no engineer; but it is very questionable,
whether he will make any concession to a
foreign company which may in the end
produce complications calculated to
' lessen his hold on Palestine in the same
way that the Suez canal has relaxed Ids
rule in Egypt. At all events, up to date
he has not done so. To “bring M. De
Lcsseps to his senses” is unquestionably*
a most laudable ambition. But the Chair
man of the Suez Canal Company is neither
the great engineer nor the great diploma
tist one takes him to be if he is scared
into acting against his convictions by
tne threat of a Jordan canal, the leasi
bility ol which he fully examined more
than twenty years ago."
RAILHOA I> HUM BUNGS.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from. Near
uml Afar.
It is rumored that the Georgia Central
has bought the Cincinnati, Selma and
Mobile Railroad.
The earnings of the Florida, Transit
and Peninsula Railroad for the fourth
week in August, 18811, were $10,962; and
in 1882, $10,478; an increase of $484.
The earnings of the Florida Central and
Western Railroad for the first week in
September, 188,3, were $10,138; and in 188-j
they were $7,090; an increase ol $2,447.
Passenger travel over the various rail
roads is increasing and a heavy traffic Is
looked for during the winter. The tou
rist travel is not fully opened, but is ex
pected to be unusually large. Addi
tional facilities are being provided for the
season.
Mr. Thomas G. Daniels, Wadlev, Ga.,
says: “I used Brown’s Iron Bitters and
advise dyspeptic, nervous, low-spirited
folks to do the same.”
halting poiultcr.
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