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ESTABLISHED 1850. I
,] H. ESTILT., Editor and Proprietor. I
i.KOKCIA AND FLORIDA.
MfW S OF THE TWO STATES
' rOI.U IN PARAGRAPHS.
g j, er ty Tai • Layers to Fisht Free
I nlfif— To Negro Children Burned
„r,.h In Wilke* County—Marriages
tti.- I’ublic Highway—Capture of a
fuc itive I’ostmaster.
ucouiu.
. . ,- s (ootpailj continue busy.
I at Tliotnasville Friday.
- u. idick. <>f Katonton. is dead.
_ v , _ j o. inone, of Uullibert, is dead.
~ ,-r.t is reported in Jackson county, ;
, ■ lottery has commenced work.
-new steamer is expected there I
U . I*. Ward.
User:'us Fair Ground will tie sold on
... ..f this week.
. - , i that Fuioneounty lias a practicing
an over S3 years old.
. Polite has been committed on a !
", f burglary at Darien.
W - naton negro whose tiraiu was j
a knife blade is dead.
I. ,-tate transactions in and around
are on a veritable boom.
; it Major smyth's bond as Poet- |
Atlanta lias been rejected,
II :,r> l’.u. -so will not consent to l>e- i
. .dictate for the Athens Mayoralty.
1 • iti i'f-nlle Tattnall county Enterprise \
. river is -till too low for timber to
-i rted that a man rolled his wite in a
a f oin North Carolina to Gaines
, • . attend the circus.
I. 11. Bivins, of Taylor county, has
utted of any crime in burning an
a..u-e on Ins place.
. it woman is serving a 4 months sen
i tie ■ ham gang at Powell's camp, in j
county, for cursing a woman,
i .ro's merchants have packed a 12-
oie edition of the Jonesboro Metes full
. >ttcn-up busiin-ss advertisements.
; i l; aek-hcar's cotton gin. cane mill,
and machinery near Thoma-ville
.■•a destroyed by lire, with a loss of
iiindrcd anil twenty true bills were
,t tin* la-t se-sion of Forsvtli Superior
. nu't parties for selling whisky at
I' • -anl that all the money paid out for
r- m Hall county this year would
i paid f-*r all of the land in the county 40
1 grand jury will have to elect five new
■ ■mm rs next month in the places of
M --r Holmes. Fisher, Walker, Laehlisou j
i . ; Gigmlliat.
M ile the engineer was attempting to make I
iiimg switch at Brunswick a collision I
urred and the engine and a coach were '
a fly damaged.
I tie next meoting.of the Jefferson Agricul
' .ral Club will lie belli at slellaville next
T .ursday. Small grain will lie the subject 1
der discussion.
Atlanta's officers are oil the lookout for a
handsome and well-dressed female who is t
i i about tile country duping the gullible
with bogus jewelry.
spencer Hubbard, a man living *> miles la l - j
•w Gainesville, bad bis head and arm eon- I
. rably brui-cd ly a railroad ear near Ccn- j
. s. on Saturday.
t; ink Haralson, attorney for Brown and
s.u uiger. the two negroes who are under in
ent for the murder of old man He Foor
- ife, will move for bail for his clients
Monday.
1 --aid that if the extensive sale of pro- j
■ in and around Naooochee valley to an i
1 . - ; company is consummated, a "narrow !
. .c railroad will lie built to the valley at |
i -iale Hepartment of Agriculture re- ;
sr killing frost as far south as near Ma- j
c .. m l it i-announced that no more cotton '
ibore that line. The yield will !
ivemgc Ik tier than t imt cent,
i . tt. i Imitn- of Fort Valiev, while wait- j
. train at the depot liefore sunrise, a
l v.i ■ .go, was attacked by two unknown
im i. u . heat him and rohlicd him of f.to in
I several valuable papers.
I' w Kenney, who went off with IV. 11.
n! Herman See in an on a sleight-of
r. ha- returned to Athens. Mr. Keu
-avs lie lost £I,COO that he put in the show, •
h li vv.i- a failure from the start ami sunk
i m v right along.
id-. Mason, of Jackson, a few days ago,
was eating dinner, when he suddenly felt a
rvere pain in one of his eyes. Ten minutes
laser the ball of the eye reached the maximum
f iis swelling and burst, dooming the owner
b> partial blindness for life.
■ ipi. D. It. ii lc. of Wilkes county, lias on
ins place a field that has I teen in his family for
.'•years. It was owned by his father liefore
mil. The remarkable feature ot this Held is
shat every year except one. during the entire
70 years, it has bet n planted in cotton.
While a church festival was in progress at
the Fifth Baptist Church in Atlanta, a day or
two ago, W. D. Bell, a well-known lumber
dealer of the city, and Mi— Frank Crow, of
( ilifornia. walked in and enlisted the minis
ter- services in tvingthe wedding knot.
John Harris, white, was attacked by two
egroroblicrs at 6 o’clock in the afternoon at '
uinnta Thursday, and relieved of his po ket
c k. containing a small sum of money and
e.u* papers. The thieves tried to secure his
u'ateh. but were foiled by Ins desperate re
- -.'.nice.
V few days ago a widow lady living near ;
Marietta sent a white man who worked on
h.-r farm to town with two teams and five
..f cotton. The man sold the cotton and 1
in ... pocketed the money, and left for part
known. He was soon overtaken and ar
rested. however.
Judge ft. It. Harris gives notice that the
r.guktr terms of the Home City Court will i
. .e,wi,o on the second Mondays in December,
March. June and >eptember. " This court will
1.. at its regular terms two juries of six
. It has civil jurisdiction to the extent of
s o. |irincipal. and criminal for all offenses I
iielow felony.
The members of the Presbyterian Church
Home declined to accept Hie resignation of
liioir pastor. Kev. s. K. Ax-on. but voted to !
git*if him [our mouths vacation, with the
*. ae that in that length of time he may be
able to regain bis failing health. It was said
that Mr. Ax-oil would yesterday insist on the
a., t |d a nee of his resignation.
.! ,n O'Neill, of Washington, has carried
■ iii'idels of a padlock, w Inch is the invention
■f W. \V. Richards, and a plow, which is the
invention >f Mr. .Scott, of Wilkes county: and
1 in ike application at the Patent office in
Washington for patents on the inventions.
irk - j. Fort-on. of the -ame county, has
u-i been granted a patent on a car coupler.
An elevator.of which H.T. Hardy,of Home.
ha< an occupant, fell from the second story
•■f the building to the basement, in that city
recently. Mr. Hardy was not seriously in
ure.;. Frank Cox bad just stepped from be
icath the elevator when it fell. Aside from
• ' own weight, there were over 1,000 pounds of
aril ware on the elevator, and Air. Hardy’s
. - '.ai,e from serious injury was a miracle.
I Washington Gazette lias the following:
“Two little negro children were burned to
b ath iff Ibis county last w eek. One on Capt.
J. .1. era/ton's place was left in the house
here thefe was a lire, and its clothes catch
ug. it ran out into the yard. It was very
burned au'l died next day On Mr. :t.
F. Bark-dale’s p’acc several children were
left in a house by to r when she very
•on heanl them acr.‘ am ! n l t * a, “* ran to see
••lie of them burned ne. * r, . v •“ a crisp. It died
nan hour or two. Kju^ l ~ .i® 8 ® children
" ere between 2 and 3-yea/" 8 °‘ l **
The Brunswick Adrert. <ttr of Saturday
- ml: “There are now cliarto'rcd for this port,
from various sections of the globe. ten barks,
two brigs, seven schooners, and, possibly, one
steamship—twenty in all. The* latter will
•ad with cotton. If she conies; the rest with
timber or naval stores. By way of showing
tbe depth of water at the new railroad dock,
ie will state that the hark Laura Morton
Mailed there this week, tied up to the wharf,
o<*wn to 21 feet of water and still did not re-t
upon the bottom, she left her moorings at
•b ad low water and went down the stream.
In Lincoln countv. a few nights ago, a white
man named John Slartia was shot and se
verely wounded bv a negro named Mark Jus
ti— Mr. Martin suspected that a thief was
-Mating his cotton and was on watch at night,
when he saw the negro coming into the gin
house. He ordered him to halt, and had
hardly spoken when the negro tired on him
with a shot-gun. The shot, which were not
1 arge. took effect in Mr. Martin's breast and
-boulders. The wounds are severe, but not
b'i' lered dangerous. Mr. Martin fired at
r\e negro several times as he ran off. but i
tiiH certain that he struck him.
Tiicf Griffin .Vw printed the following:
“Two I'Mtber singular wedding- occurred at
Mum s'ide la-t Saturday, Miss Waldroup, a
• laughter of Aaron Waldroup, was wooed and
u in .i,i<in Miles, but her parent- oppo-ed
ih mat' 11, so about 3 o'clock m the afternoon
- • -lipped oiU into the road and was met by
Miles, and thev were married there, within
• feu rods of the house, ltev. J. 11. Elder ofli
• iing. Lriter in the evening Benjamin Bell
was married to a daughter of Thomas Beeves,
■ n the sane neighborhood, in the same way,
though in this case" there was no objection
■ ffered to the young m.an. ’
The Thomasvtle 7Vmss lias the following.
“On Wednesrtav night aeobored inau, Andrew
1 rawford, waslirouglitfrom Och'ockoneesta
tion and lodged in jail. He assaulted, the
-ame day. Mr. William Armstrong with a
piece of timlier, breaking, it is feared, bis
-kull. Hr. Mclntosh was sent for on Thurs
day to attend the wounded man. t rawford
- charged with assault and attempt to mur
•er. It is likely that he will have lodging for
!he winter in jail. Dr. Atclntosh ha- re
turned from Ins visit to the wounded nion.
He trepanned the skull and tiiok out a se**-tion
about three inches long by three ouarters of
an inch wide. He does not think the man
can rwvrcr.”
The Albany JTn on-/ Adrtrtiter says:
"'Some of the largest tax-payers of Dough
erty county give notice to the C'onntv t om
mi -loners and all others interested that they
intend to fight the payment of the hou<ts
whichthe County Coimnlssioner- propose to
jssue for the purchase of Tift's bridge. This
no.'ice. coming from some of the leading citi
zens*)! the county, who represent a very con
siderable portion of the taxable properly of
the comity, will doubtless make it difficult for
the County Commissioners twmcg.iiiaie the
bonds. The Object of the piibnFa lion of this
notice is evidently to put capitalists on notice
that if they invest In these 1 Kinds they will
bacome involved in a lawsuit, aud money is
so timid that it will shrink from any such ad
venture.”
The Fatontou Jfcssci %ytr prints the follow
ing: “On last Monday night, a band of peo-
pie w'ent to the plantation of Dr. Fleetwood
Walker. one oi Jasper’s best citizens, and de
lilierately set fire to both ends of his barn. In
the barn were eorn. oats, fodder, and all farm
prod lie I lon- save cotton, besides nine bead of
cattle and* nine bead of mules and horses.
Everything in the barn perished :n the
flames. It is said that the scene beggars
description. The cries of the burning animals
were terrible to hear. In view of the burning,
a meeting of the best citizens of Jasjier was
called for yesterday at Dr. Walker’s bouse
It is thought that the doctor has some clue to
the per|>etrators. and that decisive action
will lie taken. Supposition is to the effect
that the burning was the w ork of unorganized
baud of men, and that the prohibition and no
fence laws recently passed by the Legislature
for Jasper are at the bottom of it. This is
only a supposition, however. Several vears
ago Dr Walker's gin house was ineendi
arized."
Three weeks ago a young druggist named
Beasley was married to Miss Whitehead.
Both the groom and the bride were well con
nected and ranked among the liest people in
the village. A few days ago there came to
Kockniart a man who set up a skating rink,
which immediately set the young people wild,
and Mrs. Beasley expressed a desire to go.
Her husband objected, but Anally gave bis
consent, and she went in company with a
gentleman friend. Air. Beasley went to his
store and spent the evening. After closing
for the night he went by the skating rink to
get hi- wife. When he entered the hall he
-aw a large number of men, but no ladies
except hi- wife. It was said, however, that
there were three or four other ladies there,
but they were sitting where he could not see
them. When Beasley saw his wife at what
he took to be. a sort of stag dance be became
very angry, and turning on his heel left tbe
place. He" has not been seen since. Suicide
and flight are both rumored.
FLORIDA.
Orlando is to have anew brass band.
Burglars are at work in Jacksonville.
Tiie Na-sau County Commissioners meet
next Wednesday.
' ver eighty new buildings have been erect
ed in Jacksonville since last June.
Samuel Hand, of Altoona, raises French
lemons that weigh a pound apiece.
The Key West spongers are having good
luck around Anclote and Rock Island.
Dr. Ze Butt, one of the oldest citizens of
Ocala, died Thursday morning aged 75 years.
The six ostriches intended for the ostricq
farm near Sanford have arrived safely at their
destination.
The engineers upon the St. John's have
formed a union and propose to strike for
higher wages.
There are several new mills being erected
on the Peninsula Railroad between Wild
wood and Ocala.
Orange City is raising 12,500 bv direct tax
for building a school bouse and for general
school purposes.
Pineapples are selling tor seventy-live cent
l>cr dozen in Key West, and cabbages at twen
ty-five cents each.
Wildwood is terrorized by the discovery of
tracks supposed to lie those of a tiger. A liunt
will soon be instituted.
Bethlehem Church, Hillsborough countv, is
the oldest church in South Florida, having
liecn organized in lS4ii.
Rev. Samuel Small, pastor of Alouut Alo
riah Baptist Church, colored, died at Ocala
on Tuesday night lu his stith year.
11. A. Del.and has presented the Winnc
messctl Sunday school, of Volusia county,
with a library of seventy-five volumes.
Three liquor petitions will be presented
next,Tuesday to the Alachua County Commis
sioners, one from Waldo and two from
Gainsville.
Jefferson Academy, at Alontieello, is to be
opened as a free school under the direction of
Mr. J. S. Brooks, Miss K. E, Partridge and
Mi-s Sarah Williams.
Henry Stringfellow was killed at Fort
White, Columbia county, on Saturday night
of last week, by a negro named Baity, who
immediately tied aud i-still at large.
I>r. E. Snow, of Long Hammock, has a
curiosity in the shape of twin oranges, which
were raised in His grove. The oranges are
grown together, Siamese fashion, aud are full
size.
Peter Go--, for several years a policeman iu
Jacksonville, died Thursday night in the
springti -Ul suburbs, after an "illness of several
months, brought on by dissipation. He was
:17 years of age.
It i- -aid that the flood- at Key West have
caused almost a total suspension of cigar
manufacturing at that ulacc, aud Cnited
States Internal Revenue collections in that
city have temporarily ceased.
Last week J. T. Becks sold the place on
which he formerly lived, near the Lake Irma
settlement, containing 50 acres. 10 acres of
which has a fine grove upon it, to Daniel
Hazen, from Des Moines, lowa.
The f'utndiii County Journal says the three
masted schooner Wilson and Hunting came
into Palatka on Sunday night with 4,ssopack
ages, the largest cargo ever brought to this
place, and -lie is one of the largest vessels
ever on the St. John's.
Last Tuesday night Martin Fonts, residing
at Thoma-ville, Clay county, about sixteen
mile-east of Starke, was fired upon by two
masked men. one ball taking effect lii the
hack part of his neck. At la-t accounts Mr.
Fonts was alive, but his case was regarded as
extremely critical.
Justice Alarcv, of Jacksonville, issued war
rant- la-t Friday for the arrest of the Marshal
and certain Aldermen of tile city of Fairfield,
at the instance of certain citizens of that city,
who charge that in opening up streets there
within the past few days their fences have
been torn down and carted off.
Two men, by the name of Kanian Bolden,
colored, and a Mr. Hardee, white, got into a
difficulty al Lake Weir, when Bolden cut
Hardee with a knife, making a serious
wound. Bolden was brought to Ocala, and
tried by the grand jury, who found a true bill
against him. lie is now in jail.
W. D. Barnes, state Comptroller, lias de
cided that those who sell brandied peaches,
cherries, etc., are liable to pay the regular
retail liquor dealers’ license, and that failure
to provide such license before engaging in the
sale of such prepared fruits renders the dealer
liable to prosecution under the law.
A year agoa man named Mallory took up
his residence in Gainesville. A few days ago
he raised about |250 in cash and other prop
erty, and securing a JSOO livery turnout left
the’city and has not been seen since. He
tried to sell the team, but was prevented
bv a driver who went with him from Gaines
ville
The Wildwood Orange Leaf has the follow
ing: “George W Spivey says that out of one
cypress near hi- house he got 37,000 shingles
anil 1.100 30-inch boards. This tree was so
huge that Air. Spivey dreaded the task of
cutting it down: but one day, while gazing
up amongst its lofty branches and pondering
over the undertaking, he discovered that a
swarm of bees had taken up their residence
in out* of its hollow limbs. He at onee sent
word to the neighbors to come and help him
take a bee tree. The invitation was respond
ed to with alacrity, and Air. Spivey had no
trouble about getting the tree down, but his
neighbors got only half a pound of honey.”
E. A. Boud.theSumterviUe Postmaster who
has been a fugitive since October, ISS2, has
just becu captured in Leon county, Texas.
Bond was I‘o-tma-ter at Sumtervillc, Fla., up
lo Octolier, ISS2. He commenced his robber
ies in January. Iss2, operating by extracting
registered letters passing through his office,
it is estimated that he secured fully |2,000.
Complaint against his office became so fre
quent that Inspector Lanier was detailed to
make an investigation. When the Inspector
reached .Sumterwile III' found that Bond had
already left for parte'unknown. Air. Lanier,
however, secured aliout SI,OOO of the money
that Bond hail taken.
Darien Items.
C"rre*)K>njlenc# of the Momin-j Xeus.
Darien, Ga.. Nov. 3.—On the morning
of the 30th of October Mr. A. 11. Brown’s
turpentine still was found to be on fire,
and shortly afterwards entirely destroyed.
After the tire was discovered the mau
who kept the commissary room had occa
sion to return to that building, when he
discovered that the same had been broken
into and robbed. The thieves retreated
through the window on the approach of
the keeper. Certain parties were sus
pected. and one of them was arrested and
placed in jail and had a trial before Jus
tice De Lorme on Thursday, and bound
over to await a hearing before the Superior
Court. Mr. Brown’s loss is estimated to
be over $1,20*1.
The civil docket is full, and there are
several criminal cases awaiting trial.
The heavy frost this morning was gladly
welcomed, as it is thought it will put ah
end to the fever, which has been very bad
this fall.
Timber arrives slowly, and prices are
Inch. The Hilton Timber and Lumber
Company cleared during the week the
American schooner “atilia for Tusket, N".
S„ with a cargo ot 223,968 feet of hewn
timber, valued at $3,100; a15025,903 feet of
sawn timber, valued at s4t>s.
There arc now two foreign and two
American vessels in port.
The steamer St. Nicholas got snagged
on her way to Brim-wick this morning,
and after a delay of several hours down
the river, proceeded on her way.
Our Presbyterian friends have called a
minister, and their neat little house of
worship will soon be opened for services.
Ir. Kenan, our new Mayor, has cooled
things down till not even a dog-fight can
be seen on the streets.
All of our absent citizens and those
who spent the summer on the Ridge have
returned for the winter DkR.
Many wonder why the brute creation
excel mankind as a rule when it comes
to a question of health. Investigation
quickly ascertains the cause. It is be
cause the brute naturally obeys every
law of health, while mankind is constant
ly degenerating owing to excesses of our
ancestors and our own individual impru
dence. Sudden exposure to extreme cli
matic influences, gluttony, improper
food, alcoholic stimulants, over exertion of
mind and body, worriment. anxiety, care,
etc., all have a marked effect on the hu
man system. Be cured by using Brown's
Iron Bitte'.'s. a remarkable remedy for
restoring health.
DANVILLE'S BLOODY RIOT.
the uprising laid at the
DOOR OF MAHONE.
Furtherance of His Political Aspira
tions in Tuesday’s Election His Ob
ject in Inciting the Conflict—Four
Lives and Possibly More Lost—Quiet
Prevailing, but Apprehension Wide
spread.
Danville. Va., Nov. 4.— Besides the
live negroes reported killed last night it
is said that two others have since died.
The names of only four can be obtained,
however, and these are probably all.
They are: Junius Hall and Ned Davis,
servants in the Arlington Hotel, and Jere
Smith and Peter Walters. The colored
people on the street appear to know
nothing. The bodies of those found dead
on the street were handed over to friends
and taken away.
Charles Adams, Edward Balsist and
Thomas Keene were slightly wounded.
Walter Holland, who was shot in the
head, and who is a son of C. G. Holland,
Chairman of the Democratic Congres
sional Campaign Committee, rested Well
and hopes are entertained of his recovery.
J. E. Seward, who was shot in the ab
domen, will recover, he being a fleshy
man and the ball not having entered the
abdominal cavity.
Richard Valentine was shot in the hand
accidentally.
Al)out 11 o’clock last night, while It. Al.
Hubbard, George Coleman and P. B.
Gravely, on duty as mounted police, W’ere
passing a house occupied by colored peo
ple in the outskirts of the city, they were
tired on. About twenty shots were given
and returned. Hubbard received several
shot wounds in the leg and hand, and his
horse was wounded in several plac-s.
The party entered the building and cap
tured one negro, William Coleman, on
whose person was found, though he had
denied having any, a weapon. It was a
“six-shooter,” three barrels of which had
been discharged, and some powder and a
fuse. He was lodged in jail. Hubbard
was suffering greatly this morning.
By agreement no services were held in
the churches to-day. The city is under
the supervision of "the Town Sergeant,
“The Greys,” the white company, and
the volunteers, who were accepted by the
advice of Hon. C. G. Cabell, member of
Congress, and other leading citizens.
Town Sergeant James Wood did not call
out the colored military company. After
the delivery of the mails this "morning,
which was largely attended by whites
and blacks, the Town Sergeant pro
claimed that no assemblies on
the streets would be allowed,
and he requested the people
to go home and remain quiet. Hon. Mr.
Cabell and Judge Aiken joined in the re
quest. All is now quiet, but the people
of the city are not without apprehension
of further trouble. About twenty per
sons in all are reported to have been
wounded.
Harrisonburg, Va., Nov. 4.—Great
excitement was caused here by tbe re
ception of the news of the riots "in Dan
ville. It is believed that it will have a
decided effect in the valley counties on
Tuesday’s election.
Richmond, Nov. 4. — An immense mass
meeting ot citizens of Richmond was held
in the First Regiment Armory this even
ing to express their sentiments concern
ing the riot at Danville yesterday. Pre
ambles setting forth that the conflict be
tween the races at Danville was the re
sult of a conspiracy to force an issue upon
the white people by the leaders of the
coalition movement was adopted, together
with tbe following resolutions:
First. That in the conflict which took
place in Danville yesterday, the white
people sympathize freely with their own
race.
Second. That we have the fullest confi
dence in the truthfulness of the address
sent out by the citizens of Danville, with
whom one or more of us are personally
acquainted.
Third. That whenever or wherever this
conflict shall take place in the State of
Virginia all whites are affectionately,
earnestly and solemnly entreated to take
the part of their own race.
Fourth. That the whole history of Vir
ginia, up to and including the present
time, shows that they have never raised a
race issue, but that in every case it has
been forced upon white men against their
protest and in an offensive form.
Fifth. That in this particular canvass
the race issue has been forced upon the
white men, and its irritations planned
and sedulously cultivated by William
Alahone and by his co-conspirators for
their own wicked and selfish ends, and
that upon their heads must rest all re
sponsibility for the blood that may be
shed or spilled by the men who are driven
to a conflict in the best interests of civi
lization.
The meeting was presided over by Col.
James B. Purcell.
Danville, Va., Nov. 4, 11:30 p. m.—
Physicians report as wounded only those
named in the previous dispatches. A
ball has been extracted from Walter
Hallard’s skull. Pete Walter, colored,
who was shot, is not dead, as reported.
The Coroner lias summoned a jury, but
the bodies of two of the men bad’ been
taken away. In the case of the
third, a verdict was rendered to the
effect that he was killed by some
unknown person. A circular was
issued this evening signed bv Mayor
Johnson, Judge Blackwell, Judge Aiken,
Hon. George C. Cabell and a number ol
other citizens, in which they say that
they desire to have the peace preserved
and a lair election held on the <>th inst.
The law requiring the closing of all liquor
stores at sunset on the day preceding the
election, an order has been issued requir
ing that they be closed during to-morrow
and till the morning of the 7th inst.
A SURVEY OF THE EVERGLADES
The Feasibility of a Telegraph Station
at Jupiter Inlet to he Derided Upon.
New Orleans, Nov. 4.—D. H. Bates,
Assistant General Manager of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, writes
Manager E. A. Burke, of the Times-Demo
crat, asking that the latter’s Florida Ev
erglades expedition be instructed to
make a survey of that country with a
view of ascertaining the feasibility of
building telegraph lines from the cable
of the Western Union Company on the
western coast through the Everglades to
Jupiter Inlet, on the eastern coast.
All vessels going trom the West Indies
and the Gulf of Mexico to Atlantic ports
pass Jupiter Inlet, and the Western
Union Company have been requested by
underwriters and ship-owners to estab
lish a telegraph station there to announce
the safe passage of vessels. The survey
will be made as requested, a courier hav
ing been sent after the expedition with
the necessary instruments.
MURDERED BY A POLICEMAN.
A mil lier Drunken Member ot the Finest
Kills an Inoffensive Citizen.
New York, Nov. 4. — Policeman Win-
Conroy shot and clubbed to death in a
saloon on Thirty-sixth street last night
an inoffensive by-stander named Peter
Keenan. F'rom information obtained by
a detective, and from the statements ol
witnesses at the Coroner’s preliminary
examination, it appears that Policeman
Conroy had been drinking heavi
ly, and that in a liquor saloon
at No. 33 East Thirty-sixth street
he assaulted several persons without
cause, and finally attacked Keenan, who
was quietly standing near the bar. inter
fering neither with the policeman nor any
one else, and after shooting him without
warning dragged him from the saloon and
clubbed him long after he had become un
conscious. Conroy has made several con
tradictory statements about the matter.
He was placed under arrest.
More Pension Agent Wickedness.
Washington, Nov. 4.— The report of
the Second Auditor of the Treasury shows
that during the past year he has received
nearly 17,000 applications, from soldiers
for arrears of pay and bounty, an increase
of about 8,000 over the previous year. Not
more than one in ten of these claims, he
says, has any foundation. They are tiled
by soldiers," at the solicitation of dis
honest attorneys, who simply wish to get
their preliminary fees and who, after
filing the applications pay no further at
tention to the cases. The Second Auditor
recommends the enactment of a statute
of limitations so as to cut off at the same
time the increasing flood of such claims.
* Boy Abducted and Murdered.
(me ago, Nov. 4.—A special from
Princeton, Wis., says: “Chas. Witte
more, 11 years old, disappeared 10 days
ago. On Friday his body was found "in
shallow water with his throat cut. He
had evidently been dead several days, and
the body had been in the water oulv a few
hours. There is no clue to the murderer
nor the cause of the deed.”
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1883.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
A Midden Death and Quick Payment
of a Church Debt.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 4.—Private tele
grams announce the sudden death at
Auburn, Ala., yesterday of the wife of
Prof. William Leroy Brown, formerly of
the Georgia State University, but now at
the University of Texas.
The Governor’s Horse Guards returned
from Richmond this evening and were
escorted to their armery by j detachment
of the Gate City Guards. They report a
most enjoyable trip.
St. Luke’s Cathedral, which has been
enlarged to double its former capacity,
was opened for service this morning by
Bishop Beckwith, Rev. Dr. Williams and
Rev. C. M. Beckwith, of that parish.
Chairs and extra seats were unable to
accommodate the large congregation.
Bishop Beckwith preached a masterly
sermon on the reasonableness of prayer,
after which he briefly stated what had
been done to enlarge the cathedral, and
that $1,200 were needed to complete the
work. In 10 minutes the amount was
raised, and there will be no debt on St.
Luke’s when the work is all done. The
history of this church is in many respects
most remarkable, especially its’ financial
prosperity.
Atlanta narrowly escaped a lire similar
to Savannah’s this morning. A small
stable in the yard of Dr. Taber, adjoining
Traynheiu’s planing mill and lumber
yard on Decatur street, near the Mark
ham House, was burned, but prompt ac
tion on the part ol the firemen and plenty
of water prevented a spread of the
flames.
Judge Hammond’s decision In the Ma
rietta and North Georgia Railroad con
vict case is considered by both parties as
about six of one and half u dozen of the
other, giving each side a piece and nei
ther party is satisfied, as they want all or
nothing. This carries the case to the Su
preme Court, where the most vital points
in the convict lease legislation w ill be
finally settled, alter being argued on both
sides by several very able lawyers.
MARY CHURCHILL’S FLIGHT.
A “Globe-Democrat” Attache Ferrets
Out her Hiding I’lace—Ail Interview.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 4.— Thomas J.
Gallagher, sporting editor of the Globe-
Democrat , who has been working on the
Mary Churchill case for months past,
finally located the girl yesterday in an
insane asylum three miles from Indian
apolis, Ind., where she has been working
in the laundry since Sept. 4, under
the name of Jennie Lockwood.
Mr. Gallagher had a long
interview with her last night, but
did not learn why she left home, nor
whether she will return there. Her de
parture from home, however, was a vol
untary act on her part. She went alone,
and all the theories* about elopement and
marriage, oi%eing in any way connected
with any gentleman, were wrong. Col.
Churchill, the girl’s father, left for Indi
anapolis to-day, and further developments
will doubtless follow his seeing her.
Spain and France.
Madrid, Nov. 4. — The Cabinet has re
solved to summon the Cortes to assemble
December l.">. At a Cabinet meeting to
day Senor Ruiz Gomez, Minister of For
eign Affairs, read a dispatch from Paris
assuring the Spanish Government of a
speedy settlement of tfie controversy be
tween the two nations, arising out of the
ill-treatment of King Alfonso in the
streets ot Paris.
A portion of the and Libe
ral press is urging the government to
publish its programme before the opening
of the Cortes. The papers consider that
it may be impossible to effect a concilia
tion with Senor Sagasta’s followers if the
Ministry persists in its intention to re
establish the list, universal suffrage and
amend the constitution. It is doubted
whether the President of the Council
will obtain a decree of dissolution should
the government be defeated on these
questions. The Globe says that the gov
ernment’s policy will be "resisted in cer
tain high quarters.
Bulgaria’s Restless Feasants.
Belgrade, Nov. 4.—The troops sent to
suppress the disorders among the peas
ants at Cona Reka comprise six battal
ions and two squadrons, with five bat
teries. Commission Judges accompany
the troops, and a peaceful arrangement
of the troubles will be first attempted.
Ukases have been published, withdraw
ing the liberty ot the press, the light of
association and freedom of speech. Noth
ing will be allowed to be printed in Ser
via without the sanction of tbe police.
l>e LesKcps’ Second Suez Canal.
London, Nov. 4.— The Observer to-day
says that the question of making a second
canal across the Isthmus of Suez is occu
pying the active attention of the Egyptian
Government. Messrs. Keller and Cavalli,
advisers of the government, state that the
convention with M. de Lessens does not
coiiler upon him any kind of a monopoly.
Ravages of the Flames.
New Orleans, Nov. 4. — About mid
night last night tire broke out in Algiers,
near the river front, two blocks above the
Canal street ferry landing, which de
stroyed some 20 houses, including the Red
River Transportation Company’s mill and
shops. The totalloss is about $20,000. The
insurance is light.
A Cargo of Cotton Aflame.
Key West, Fla., N"ov. 4. — The British
steamer Spearman has not been ashore, as
reported. She came in with hoc cargo of
cotton on fire. The dry cotton was taken
out and the ship was flooded.
Dore’s Statue Unveiled.
Paris, Nov. 4.— Gustave Dore’s 6tatue
of the late Alexander Dumas, in the Place
Malesherbes, was unveiled to-day.
Lnnsdowaie Threatened,
Ottawa, On t., nov. 4.— The Marquis
of Lansdowne lias received several let
ters threatening his life.
The Law of Mortality from Alcohol.
St. James' Gazette.
Dr. B. W. Richardson, President of the
St. Pancras Total Abstinence Associ
ation, presiding last evening (October lo)
at its annual meeting, held in St. Pancras
Vestry Hall, said that from tables made
up by Messrs. Mitchell and Buchan, of
Edinburgh, on the subject of weather and
mortalities, he found that the mortality
from alcohol had its particular season,
and that from the period when mortality
returns began first to be collected the
periods were well defined. Messrs.
Mitchel and Buchan indicated this law
by what is known as "Bloxam’s curve.”
He found by this scale, as applied to dis
ease from alcoholic poisons, that the
line of mortality was singularly marked.
At New Year's day the line show
ing the alcoholic diseases, alcoholism
and delirium tremens appeared just above
the mean line; in January it fell below
the mean line, and continued below it
through February, March and April. In
May it began rapidly to rise; In June it
rose and fell, but always remained above
the mean; in July it ran up rapidly, and
in the third week of July attained its max
imum. It began to decline in August,
continued steadily to decline in Septem
ber, fell below the mean in October, ada
continued below until the close of De
cember. when it commenced to ascend,
and yielded what was called the smaller
maximum, which was reached the first
week of January, after which it declined
again below the mean until May.
In the middle of May last, when the
mortality from alcohol naturally rose by
a rather sudden bound, the revenue from
the sale of alcohol went up, giving an in
crease of £3o,otxi, and that increase con
tinued in a smaller degree during the next
four months, yielding an increase of £15,-
000, or a total’during the whole period of
maximum mortality from alcohol—from
the middle of May to the end ol Septem
ber—of £45,000. The lesson he drew from
these facts was that the increase of the
sale ot the a coholic poisons and the nec
essary increase of mortality from them
were due to the weather. Every
season had its diseases. Messrs. Mitchell
and Buchan defined six periods in which
there were conditions of weather when
the diseases causing the mortalities were
specially favored. Among these it was
more prevalent when the air was dry and
warm and heated. Then the evaporation
from the body was very great, and there
was much thirst, and people who indulged
in alcohol drank more, and increased both
the revenue of the nation and the revenue
of death.
♦Revelation suggests the idea that from
woman comes the power to “bruise the
serpent's head.” The words take anew
meaning to-day since this is precisely
what Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham'a Remedies
do for the physically diseased patient.
Her Vegetable Compound reaches the
ultimate sources of the evil. Its action
is gentle and noiseless, hut it is more
powerful than the club of Hercules. —
Bazar.
LAST DAYS AT LOUISVILLE
EVERYBODY’ PAYING A LAST
VISIT TO THE EXPOSITION.
Gyrations of the Youngsters—lndiana
Day’s Glory—An Aeronaut's Sorry
Experience in Bed Tights—The Dog
Show—Gilmore's Band aud the Flirta
tions of One of Its Members.
Corre]ton<lence of the Morning Setrs.
Louisville, Nov. I.— As the hundred
days of the great show are counted oft'one
by one, the last of them seem to slip from
the calendar with a two-fold velocity, like
the last drops in a bottle. The excursion
ists have quite generally come and seen
it all, and have gone home, and the local
population are now turning out everyday
in full force. Home people heretofore
saved themselves for Saturday, which cost
only 25 cents, hut the supply of half dol
lars seems to have largely increased, and
all days, in point of attendance, are alike.
Indiana had a day recently, and they
all came. The streets were crowded with
travel-stained, muddy pedestrians, who
carried shawls and valises and lunch
baskets quite as large as the ark. In the Ex
position popcorn and taffy were above par.
and our friends from over the wav basked
in a sticky contentment. Once in awhile
the management gives a whole day to the
school children, when they anil their
teachers are admitted at 10 cents. Then
it is that the uncalculating observer finds
that he never realized how many children
there are in the world, and is immediately
tempted into appalling statistics. For
that day the Exposition is like a howling
wilderness. The children are accompanied
by all their feminine relatives, aud dis
play great tact in becoming separated
trom them. The dear little boys seek the
gallery railings and perform thrilling gym
nastics to a chorus of shrieks and ero’ans
from the spectators. Before the day is
over the office of the Police Chief is
crowded with a miscellaneous assort
ment of lost children who
yell for their natural protectors with re
markable viiror. Frantic mothers and
sisters resort here, tearfully look over the
collection, select their personal property
and depart comforted, while the police
men and all others in authority groan in
spirit and even wish the young ones were
dead.
IT WAS TO RE EXPECTED
that as the exposition drew to a close
there would be an effort to crowd on
everything that comes under the head of
“special attractions.” The management
imported an seronaut from Boston, had an
immense balloon on the grounds, and
drew a wonderful crowd to witness the
ascension of Prof. Harry Warner in a suit
of scarlet silk. At the appointed time,
the gas company having entered into
agreement to furnish the gas, the balloon
was inflated, but the quality of gas was
so execrable, and the company so
niggardly in lurnishing it, that
there could be no ascension. The
next day the same thing occurred, aud
the disappointed balloon sways in its fas
tenings and the teronaut, after drifting
about in his tights in the soaking rain,
has taken a cold and says awful things
about the Louisville Gas Company. And
the interesting part is that there is not a
Louisville citizen who don’t feel like pat
ting him on the head and giving him a
quarter to say all that language is capa
ble of about that same institution.
The dog show was inaugurated yester
day and drew an admiring crowd*. The
animals are quartered in the south inte
rior gallery, and number about 200.
There are some splendid looking fellows
among them. There are two dogs valued
at S2OO each. One is a smooth St. Ber
nard—a perfect beauty. There is only
one Spitz in the collection, and he is full
grown and white as a snow-drift. There
is a family of five St. Bernards of the
rough coated species, belonging to a Lou
isville gentleman, the young dogs three
months old showing only a trifling differ
ence in size from the full grown members.
In one ot the kennels marked “danger
ous” there is a ferocious bull dog who
sits back on his haunches and glares at
the spectator in a way to make one’s
flesh creep. He is entered from Lan
cashire, England, and no one knows his
owner. lie is such a hideous brute that
it is to believe that dogs are
ever created so ugly until one
lias observed this one. He is enough to
make a strong-nerved spectator go homo
and have a seven-story night-mare, but
all the same, he is the express image of
the familiar wood cuts of Ben. Butler.
There is an English mastiff so huge he
might be mistaken for a horse, several
magnificent Newfoundlands, and a large
and varied collection of setters, pointers,
retrievers, spaniels and miscellaneous
dogs. Many of them have worn the blue
ribbon over and over again, and are ac
customed to admiration and complimen
tary attentions, which they receive with
dignified calmness, and even appear po
litely bored, but some of the youuger
dogs, new to society, appear to take this
publicity as a personal affront, and howl
most frightfully. For a while it was a
struggle between Gilmore and the dogs as
to which could make the most noise.
GILMORE’S BAND STANDS SQUARELY Ul’
to its reputation, and among the solists,
Liberati, who was Cappa’s right bower,
lias left even a more popular successor in
Innes, the trombonist. This accomplished
artist has been taken into social favor,
and the young ladies of Louisville are
petting and lionizing him until he is ridic
ulously spoiled. When he is sitting with
the rest ot the performers lie is constantly
bowing and smiling and simpering to
various fair adorers who are sprinkled
through the audience, and when he takes
his place on the programme or responds
to an encore he trots forward with a deli
cate affectation, poses in a position where
his hangs and moustache will have the
most disastrous effect, and frequently
lowers his instrument in the midst of an
orchestral passage to beam and nod to a
hat and feather in the galleries. It is pain
fully evident that he is going to leave an
immense collection of crushed hearts as
his trophy of the bundled days.
Yesterday being German-American day,
there was a preponderance ot gutturals
observable in circulation, and at night
the Liedurkranz chorus gave some
of its ponderous selections. The
regular exposition chorus, five hundred
strong, every now and then invades the
musicians’ domains in Music Hall, and
having become well limbered up in the
intervals falls into line and tires off some
heavy artillery from the oratorios. Of
course this stormy kind of music is won
derfully grand, Out there are such a lot
of ignoramuses in this world who would
rather have “Traumerei,” which seems
to be an elfin bugle leading the way to
Arcadia, or one of Abt’s songs, soft as
the winds of the South, and these crude
specimens will stand by Gilmore and
don’t care how soon the chorus comes to
grief.
THE MORNING NEWS PRIZES,
which were awarded with all due for
mality, by a committee of judges selected
by a number of newspaper representa
tives, called forth a glowing report from
those judges, who were enthusiastic over
the scheme. None of these gentlemen be
longed to the districts represented by the
contestants, but they could not fail to see
the widespread influence of an enterprise
like this. In a private letter, signed by
all the judges, to Mr. S. T. Jenkins, who
has the scheme in charge, these gentle
men, in addition to their warm approval
in the published report,*still more enthu
siastically applaud the originators
of the enterprise and recommend it as
a prominent feature of all future
expositions.* Certainly it is the great op
portunity for the South to present herself
in the most truthful and convincing man
ner to the attention of the immigrant. A
single voice raised here and there has no
effect; it must be a united effort that will
make the most effective appeal to the
class that the South is most anxious to
invite to her vast and unoccupied terri
tory. No other place or occasion can
possibly offer a chance for such informa
tion to’ be disseminated as these mam
moth expositions, where the whole North
and East and West are congregated. It
is slight wonder the judges should have
become enthused over such a great work,
its grand possibilities and results. The
donor of premiums becomes a sharer in
the practical returns, for his business
card upon the map thus attains a circula
tion he could not compass except by pay
ing advertising bills amounting lo his
donation many times over.
The report that the New Orleans Ex
position is making overtures for the
Louisville building , is without founda
tion; they have never made a proposition
for it. It i.-. possible, since the public
desire increases toward that end, that
this building will remain and become
with us an annual institution, but it will
never be the “great Southern Ex.,’- with
its pristine importance, again. The
managers declare they will come out
square and even, owing nothing, but
very little richer. If the directors
of all expositions would only
undertake ttye enterprise as a
labor of love or philanthropy or public
spiritedness, and never expect to come
out millionaires, the financial question
would be wonderfully simplified, and ever
so much more cheerlul to consider. In a
case of this kind, “blessed is he who ex
pecteth not a penny, for he shall not tie
disappointed.” On the last day the mana
gers will request business men to close
up, it will be 25 cents all day and all
around, and there wils be a tremendous
jubilee for the drop curtain to fall upon.
Coyle Douglas.
GEORGIA GOLD.
London Capitalists About Investing in
the Naooochee Fields—An Important
Scientific Discovery.
Columbus 10.) Letter to Cincinnati Commer
cial-Gazette, Oct. SO.
On the Bee Line yesterday 1 encounter
ed Mr. M. C. Wilcox, of Mount Airy, Ga.
Mr. Wilcox is an Ohioan, his parents and
relatives still residing on the Western
Reserve. He enlisted in the regular
army at the outbreak of the war, but was
afterwards transferred to the volunteers
in an official capacity. The war over, he
joined a Yale Scientific expedition aud
began an exploration ol the hills of North
and South Carolina and Georgia.
Bradley, the leader of this party,
was shot and killed in North Carolina
several, years ago, being mistaken. I be
lieve, for a revenue officer after moon
shiners. For ten years Mr. Wilcox has
been devoting his entire attention to tbe
gold fields of Georgia. He was returning
trom New Y’ork. where, as Secretary of a
mining corporation, the papers were com
pleted by which a party of London capi
talists will place some $200,000 at the dis
posal of his corporation for mining opera
tions. I asked him to locate and describe
the field of operations. Said he:
The gold field is in Lumpkin and White
counties. It is about 250 miles in length
and 25 miles in width. Nacoochee is the
head centre of our operations. It is 25
miles across the country from Mt. Airy.
The gold presents itself in all places. In
some localities there is fine gold, in others
the beautiful flower gold, in others coarse
gold and in still others we find nuggets.
The tract was originally held by Indians.
It is probably the El Dorado, in whose
quest the great DeSoto died. The United
States Government drove off the Indians,
and turned the lands over to the State.
Then the State got up a lottery, and the
land was parcelled out to individuals,
l’revii us to this there had been placer
mining to a considerate extent. But the
Western gold fever and the change in
ownership took ail the old miners
away, aud mining almost en
tirely ceased. Many of the
new proprietors never went to look at
their lands. Others were poor people who
came and took possession of their small
tracts. They could go out anv fine day
and pan out $3 to $5, and it was like a big
fortune to them. Hence when capitalists
talked of developing their field by regular
quartz mining they held the lands at'sueh
a price that it would not have been profi
table. In the southern part of the gold
territory there are now three or four com
panies mining with hydraulic power. I
have spent 7 years in perfecting a combi
nation of 1,200 acres in the northern por
tion of the field. Our territory exteuds 60
miles. It is all ready for hydraulic min
ing when our capital comes’ on from Lou
don.”
“Are the present companies paving?”
“Yes, all of them. And they are in the
poorest part of the field—that is, it lias
been most worked. The old government
mint was in Lumpkin county, where their
operations are confined. We call ours
the new field, although, of course, it is all
old.”
“Do the streams yield up gold as in
California?”
“Wherever there is sand to wash gold
can be found in quantities to pay the
worker well. We earn better wages at
that than at anythingelse in the county ?”
“Are there any difficulties?”
“Not in the ordinary quartz beds. But
when we reach the water-line we strike a
problem that will make the fortune of the
man who solves it. Below the water-line
the gold is mixed inseparably with sul*
pliurets. Assayists can take "it in small
quantities in their laboratories and sepa
rate it, but the problem of separation in
large quantities at a cost that will pay
has baffled scientists for a century.”
“Is there no prospect of solution?”
“Yea, there Is. A hundred men in dif
ferent parts of the country are working
at it. A young man in Cleveland lias a
machine nearly perfected, which I have
just come from inspecting. I am to go
back next month for its final test. It was
built by Leffel & Cos., at Springfield, and
Mr. Book waiter gave the inventor valu
able assistance. The primary tests ol
the machine have been satisfactory. If
it is a success, there is scarcely any end
to the gold that can be assayed" from the
Georgia field. Below the water line is the
richest quartz of all. It will yield fx-om
SIOO to SBOO per ton.”
WEALTHY SENATORS.
Some of Them Intend to Make a Great
Show This Winter.
A Washington letter says that Senators
begin to be seen on the avenue. This is a
sight that, like the bird in February,
points to a speedy coming season. Why
it happens that the first sign of the new
session is the strolling Senator, or the
Senator in his barouche, is hard to tell.
Representatives keep away until a few
days before the session opens. Many of
the Senators come a month ahead of
time. The new Senate will be a body of
very rich men. There were many
wealthy members in the last Congress,
but a majority of the new Senatoi-s are
very rich. Some ol them intend to make
a great show this winter. Palmer, the
successor of Ferry, has taken Windom’s
house. Palmer counts his riches by mil
lions. Sabin, who beat Windom, was
wise enough to make himself a million
aire before he came to the Senate.
Bowen, of Colorado, who succeeded
the ephemeral Tabor, is very
rich, and may hear any
day that his mines have
produced a bonanza; Colquitt, of Geor
gia, is almost as rich as his colleague,
Joe Brown. Randall Gibson, of Louis
iana, inherited great wealth and was for
tunate enough to save a good deal of it
from the wreckage of the Confederacy.
The richest man in the Senate is Fair, of
Nevada, and probably Philetus Sawyer,
a comical yet hard-headed statesman,
stands next. Sawyer can draw his check
for a great deal of money, yet he is so
timid that he is afraid of the’sound of his
own voice on the floor of the Senate.
Dolph, the Oregon lawyer, is wealthy in
prospects if not in property just yet. It
is a mistake, however, to suppose that
the rich men simply come to the Senate
to show off. The laziest man in that
body is one of the poorest, and another
who depends entirely on his salary for his
support, occupies the whole time in
writing long and absurd constitutional
speeches. Some of the hardest working
men in the Senate are very wealthy.
BEAUS AND COONS.
How They Attract the Colored People.
1 Yaehiwjton Letter to Philadelphia Record.
Said an ex-army officer to-night: “The
case with which the dancing bears drew
away the colored audience from the Re
publican orator the other day over in
Maryland puts me in mind of a similar
South Carolina scene in the days of re
construction. Asa bureau officer I was
looked up to from the ranks of the colored
people for all purposes. 1 was expected
to take the place of "ole mahster,’ the
Judge, the doctor, and the parson. In the
latter capacity I was called to read the
service at the funeral oi a picaninny on
one of the plantations in my bailiwick.
It was my lirst appearance in’the charac
ter of parson. I really felt quite sub
dued and solemn as the' little procession
moved out from the quarters to
ward the grove where the planta
tion dead for many a generation had
been buried. The rude little coffin was
borne on the shoulders of the father and
uncle ot the dead child. I walked next,
with my prayer hook in my hand, and the
men, women and children followed along
behind, singing a 'spiritual' in a doleful
minor key. The grove was reached, and
I was soon reading the beautiful burial
service. Happening to look up tor a mo
ment I was astonished to find that the
bulk of the congregation was streaming
across the open field towards a tall tree at
whose foot a couple of dogs were bark
ing. One by one the mourners were de
parting. As I stood there, wondering
what it all might mean, the sorrowing
father turned to me and remarked: ‘Dar,
dat Mungo has treed anudder coon. He's
de best coon dog on dis yere ribber.’ The
subsequent proceedings’were very short.”
The Conflict
Between disease and health is often brief
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sure and safe remedy for all diseases of
the lungs and chest. If taken in season
it is certain to cure, and may save you
from that terrible disease, consumption.
It has been known and used for many
years in America, and it is no exaggera
tion to say that it is the best remedy in
the world for Coughs, etc. Ask for Dr.
Wm. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs, and
take no other.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
A COMPANY NAMED IN HONOR
of gov. McDaniel.
! Fulton County’s Divorce Crop—The
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ble Health—Effects of the Colil Snap
on Health.
Correspondence of the Morning Mews.
Atlanta, Nov.3.—Postmaster Stith, of
Maitland, Fla., who has been quite sick
with pneumonia at Dr. V. 11. Taliaferro’s,
in this city, is now improving, and will
be able to leave for home in a few days.
The sudden cold snap has caused con
siderable sickness of this character, and
sent many of our feeble population ol!' to
their winter quarters in Florida. Atlanta
will this season furnisn the hotels of
Florida a good many visitors, and not a
few permanent settlers.
Adjutant General John A. Stephens has
been granted a leave of absence for a few
weeks, in order that he may settle up the
estate of his distinguished "uncle, the late
Gov. A. H. Stephens, and Gov. McDaniel
has appointed Lieut. Col. AY. I. Heyward,
of the Atlanta Battalion, as Adjutant
General nro tern.
It has been customary for some vears
past to name volunteer military organi
zations iu Georgia after the Governor who
happens to he in office. So we had the
Smith Guards, the Colquitt Guards and
the Stephens Guards. AA’alton county
now comes to the front with the McDau
iel Guards, of Social Circle. This is a
graceful tribute to one of Georgia’s most
gallant Confederate heroes.
It will not be necessary to allude to
Chicago or New York divorce lawyers
hereafter, in the discussion of free "and
easy divorces. The docket of the Fulton
Superior Court for the past year shows
ample evidence that Chicago has a lively
rival in this business. Hasty marriage’s
of youthful couples and ill-assorted peo
ple have filled our court with all kinds of
divorce cases.
OUR STREET CAR SYSTEM
is being rapidly brought to a focus on Ma
rietta street, corner of Peachtree, by Su
perintendent Edward C. Peters, much to
the delight of its patrons. The Whitehall
street railroad crossing nuisance will not
soon be abated, and passengers for street
cars on either side are often delayed by
freight trains until the streetcar has gone,
and they are compelled to wait for an
other. By crossing the Broad street
bridge and running down Marietta street
to the corner of Peachtree, the four lines
are brought to a close connection and all
delays avoided. It was hoped that the
switching of freight cars would "be stop
ped in the heart of the city, but the Cen
tral Railroad has laid several new tracks
up to the Broad street bridge, and during
the busy season the connecting lines are
constantly running cars to and from the
various freight depots.
No case in the Recorder’s Court for
years past has attracted so much atten
tion from our best citizens as the AA’liit
lock-Nolan case, reported in my specials.
The public seem to feel that they have a
right to crowd up to a burning building
without regard to the protests of the fire
men or tiie orders ot the police. And
when Officer Nolan requested Whitlock
to go outside the lines, he replied that he
would go when the crowd went. Nolan,
unfortunately, entered into a personal
controversy, which resulted in a fight.
Two young men, simply spectators, took
sides with Whitlock, and their lriends
backed them. This made things lively
for a time, but Capt. Couch put in a sud
den appearance with half a dozen police
men and restored order. Recorder An
derson, in fining AVhitlock $lO and costs
for not obeying the officer’s first order,
condemned the course adopted by Nolan
to enforce it. Spectators must obey the
police at fires promptly or he arrested,
but lorce is to be used only in-self-defense.
A gentleman who is "extensively ac
quainted with hotels as summer and win
ter resorts, and who has just returned
from a tour of Florida, via Savannah,
tells me that be has seen no place where
he believes a first-class winter hotel would
pay as well as in Savannah. This, of
course, is nothing new, but it adds force
to what has been so often and so well said
on this subject by the Morning News.
A hotel such as is proposed on the Ogle
thorpe barracks lot would draw to your
city every year many of the wealthiest
anil best families of the North anil AVest,
who are compelled to seek a milder
climate during the winter. For several
years past I have given this matter spe
cial attention, and with few exceptions I
have found the mass of visitors to Florida
anxious to patronize such a hotel in Sa
vannah.
GEN. TOOMBS
has been iu the city for several days, but
left this morning. * He is rather "feeble,
yet appears to be somewhat improved in
appearance since joining the church. His
friends are much gratified that he has,
even at this late day, yielded to the plead
ings and prayers of his lamented Chris
tian wile, and will follow her to the grave
with his once proud heart and stubborn
spirit purified and subdued by the grace
of God.
Atlanta is about to be flooded with bus
iness offices and sleeping rooms. Three
of the largest and highest buildings ever
erected hero are nearly complete—James’
Bank Block, the Gate City National Bank
Block and Maj. John Fitten’s building—
all five stories and provided with passen
ger elevators. As soon as they are ready
for occupancy it is expected ‘ that there
will be a drop in the price of offices and
sleeping rooms in the heart of the city.
The supply will exceed the demand.
Chatham.
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.
He Will Wait Until the Last Moment to
AVrlte It.
Mew York Sun.
The President will probably write his
message, as he did last year, at high pres
sure. The sheets will be written in the
President’s little private room and the
first light of dawn will tinge some of
them, for the President thinks he does his
best work after midnight. The Chief
Magistrate, as he writes his message, has
no companions but some choice cigars,
and his desk is heaped with reports, docu
ments and manuscript. Last year Presi
dent Arthur was very nervuts lest his
message should get to the press before it
reached Congress. He sent for thejPublic
Printer and said: “Mr. Rounds, can I de
pend upon you to put my message into
type and keep it away from the newspa
pers ?”
“You can, sir,” said Rounds.
“Very well. I’ll try you, and shall
hold you personally responsible for its
safety.”
The Public Printer took themanuscript,
rushed back to the government’s great
work-shop, cut the manuscript up into
very small takes, took off his coat, put on
his apron, and, with his chief clerk, set
the type for the most important parts.
The President sat up all night reading
the proofs as they were sent up, galley by
galley, from the printing office. The Pub
lic Printer watched each proof as closely
as though it had been a government bond.
At 6 o’clock the message was in type, re
vised, and the President went to bed. At
noon it went to Congress. From begin
ning to end it will be seen that it is no
child’s play to write and send to Congress
a message ot this sort.
Chinese Telegraphy.
Engineering.
Owing to the peculiarity of the Chinese
characters, each of which represent a
word, not a letter, as in our Western
tongues, the Danish Telegraph Company
(the Great Northern) working the new
Chinese lines, has adopted the” following
device: There are from 5,000 to 0,000
characters or words in ordinary Chinese
language, and the company has’provided
a wooden block or type for each ef these.
On one end of this block the character is
cut or stamped out, and on the other end
is a number representing the character.
The clerk receives a message in numbers
and takes the block of each number
transmitted and stamps with the opposite
end the proper Chinese character on the
message form. Thus a Chinese message
sent in figures is translated into Chinese
characters again and forwarded to its des
tination. The sending clerk, of course,
requires to know the numerical equiva
lent of the characters, or have them found
for him.
The Upa and Downs of Politics.
Wushirujton Letter.
The ups and downs of politics find fre
quent and sometimes startling illustra
tions here. For instance, 2 years ago Ben
Butterworth was the most popular Re
publican in Cincinnati; to-morrow he
takes a second-rate office under the gov
ernment. Two years ago he was regard
ed as the coming Governor, possiblv Sen
ator, and had all sorts of high aspirations.
Then he would not have thought of any
thing less than a Cabinet place; now he
gladly takes an office that gives him a
bare living. He has clearly thrown up
the sponge, and it is all his own fault.
One foul speech ruined him. Here is
Young, an ex-Governor of Ohio, too, who
would be glad to get almost any place.
blackmailing methods.
Commissioner Evans’ Denunciation of
Collector Crumbaugh.
Washington Special Boston Herald, Ist.
Commissioner Evans has written a
statement for the public, in which he de
nounces Maj. Crumbaugh, the Kentucky
Collector ot Internal Revenue, whose
aspirations to become Secretary of the
Navy, together with the charge" that he
had used official envelopes unlawfully
have given him some notoriety of late as a
blackmailer. A statement was given the
press at Louisville last night that Evans
had been persecuting Crumbaugh in the
investigation of recent charges against
him for the purpose of forcing him, after
conviction, to keep as a secret a
charge that Evans’ brother-in-law hud
stolen money from the mails while Assist
ant Postmaster at Hopkinsville, lvv.
Evans, in his statement prepared for the
press this evening, says that, while it is
true that his father-in-law is Postmaster
at Hopkinsville, and that there have been
charges of Irregularity against his
brother-in-law as assistant in the office,
the other statements are false. He savs
that, as soon as he heard of the matter, he
wrote his father-in-law that the young
man ought not to remain in the office, be
the facts as they might. He adds, how
ever, and this is the most important
feature of his statement, thatCrumbnugh,
being a supposed friend of the family,
got possession of the facts and im
mediately proceeded to make
use of them in a blackmailing way. He
wrote, Mr. Evans says,a letter to Revenue
Agent Clark, saying that Evans was per
secuting him, that he knew all about the
Hopkinsville post office affair, and that if
Evans did not let up on him he would tell
it all and would defeat his confirmation
by the Senate. This letter Clark for
warded to the Commissioner, who, in
stead of “letting up,” was oulv led to
pursue more vigorously his investigation
of the charges made against Crumbaugh.
Evans closes his statement by saying
that, while the matter referred to by
Crumbaugh is a cause of great pain to
him a lid to his family, he will notallow it
to be used to prevent him iroin doing a
plain duty.
Arthur to Give Receptions this Winter.
Washington Letter to Philadelphia Record, 2d.
The White House is almost ready for
the President. It has been swept’ and
garnished, and it looks very well. The
oniy important improvement was the re
frescoing of the great East Room. This
was a very decided improvement, and the
room looks much the better for it. It
looks best at night. All the frescoes, car
pets and hangings in the AVhite House,
except those in the President’s personal
apartments, are designed for gaslight
effects. That is the reason the East Room
carpet and hangings are so frequently
condemned by notable housekeeper’s
among the tourists, who stream through
it every day. They ought to remember
that a carpet, like a woman, looks very
differently in the softened blaze of the big
chandeliers. I don’t think Mr. Arthur
has any iiltKAthat he will lie re-elected to
bis present position next year, aud I know
that he proposes to make this, his last
season in the AVhite House, a very bril
liant one. He has hired anew cook and
planned the usual State dinners, and lie
contemplates, in addition to the public
receptions and official parties which arc
matters of course, several quasi-private
affairs which will be worthy the Presi
dent. No one who has ever sat in his seat
knows better how to make a social season
memorable. The President’s performance
of his social duties (duties as strictly his
as any enumerated in the second article
of the Constitution) has been as notably
satisfactory as has been his execution of
the graver powers of State. He has made
AYashingtou the most attractive city, so
cially, iii the United States. Barney Big
lin, Johnny O’Brien and the rest of the
New York “boys” will doubtless be here
again this winter looking for crumbs of
patronage. They may get the crumbs
they seek, but they will not get invita
tions to any of the President’s entertain
ments. To tell the truth, I don’t think
they ever expected they would receive
any different treatment from that they
have received—the President lias always
kept his political self and his personal
self apart. These “boys” were very use
ful to him in politics. lie appreciated their
devotion and their services, and did what
he could to advance their interests in pol
itics, but there he stopped. He drew the
line at his parlor door. His relations with
them were purely of a business character;
he did not propose to change them into so
cial relations. Nor was it necessary.
The “boys” understood him; so he
gave them what he could in
return for what they did, and they were
not disappointed. It is absurd to compare
him to Prince Hal, and Barney Biglinand
the rest to Falstaff and his band, and then
talk about a sudden reformation on the
part of the Prince. Nothing of the sort
occurred, because nothing of the sort was
necessary. The “boys” were instruments,
not companions, and they had their re
ward. The President used to laugh over
one of Governor Cornell’s attempts to
combine business with pleasure. One of
the “hoys” came to the President one day
when he was Collector at New York, and
told him that he had just received an invi
tation to visit Mr. Cornell at Albany for a
week. “And,” be added, “Mrs. Cornell
has invited my wife to stay for the same
time.” Mr. Arthur was giad to hear it,
“Bill” had scarcely gone out when
“Tom” appeared." He told Mr.
Arthur similar news. Governor
and Mrs. Cornell had invited
him and hie wife to spend a week with
them in Albany. Mr. Arthur was very
glad to hear it. In the course of the after
noon “Bill” came in again. “I’m not
going to Albany,” he said, sullenly. “And
why not?” asked Mr. Arthur. “AVhy,”
said “Bill,” “I’ve just heard that the Gov
ernor has invited ‘Tom’ and his wife to
spend the same week with him at Albany.
Do you suppose my wife would associate
with Mrs. ‘Tom?’"” The Collector sup
posed not, with a very serious face, but
he must have laughed internally, for Mrs.
“Bill” and Mrs. “Tom” were like as two
peas so far as social positions went. At
any rate, Mr. and Mrs. “Tom” did not go
to Albany, and the Governor had his
pains for his trouble. It was perhaps just
as well to draw a line behind the word
caucus aud the parlor.
Fannie Kemble in Bouton.
Sir. Wendell Phillips is reported to have
said in a recent private conversation con
cerning the appearance of Fannie Kemble
in Boston: “We saved all our money to
buy tickets. I was in the Law School,
and some of my friends sold everything
they could lay hands on—books, clothing
or whatever came first—to raise funds.
Then we walked in from Cambridge; we
could not afford to ride when tickets to
see Fannie Kemble were to be bought. I
went 19 nights running to see her—Sun
days, of course, excepted. After the play
we’ used to assemble at the rear entrance
to the Tremont Theatre to see her come
out. She would be so muffied up that we
could not even see her figure, but we used
to find great satisfaction in seeing
her walk by on the arm of her
escort up to the Tremont House.
Then we would give three student
cheers for her and walk out to Cam
bridge to bed. Such audiences as she
had, too! If you’d put a cap sheaf down
over a theatre you would have covered
about all Boston had to boast of in the
way of culture and learning—Webster
and Everett and Story. Judge Story used
to lie so enthusiastic that he’d talk about
her all the time of the lecture. Next
morning he’d say: ‘Phillips’—or somebody
else, as the case might be—‘were vou at
the theatre last night? Well, what do
you think of the performance?’ 1 said to
him once: ‘Judge Story, you come of
Puritan ancestors. How : do you recon
cile all this theatre-going with their
teachings?’ ‘I don’t try to reconcile it,’
he answered, striking his hands together,
•I only thank God I’m alive in the same
era with such a woman!’ ”
The Whisky Distillers' Pool.
A Washington letter says that it is
plain that the whisky distillers nave not
lost hope. They have pooled a big sum,
hired an able lobl>y ? and will make an at
tack next winter in Congress. In spite
of John Sherman’s ominous prediction
that they would be ruined, and that a
business panic was certain to happen in
the West unless the government gave
them more time, they seem to have pulled
through the summer, and to have been in
condition to contribute liberally to a cam
paign fund. They are going to ask Con
gress to extend the bonded period for two
years on all goods in bond on the Ist of
lifst September. They say, as they have
said before, that unless this is done a vast
amount of whisky will be thrown on the
market. Of course, there is only one ob
ject in asking these delays, and that is to
secure an ultimate remittal of the tax.
' Skpt. 14th, 1880.
Hop Bitters Cos., Toronto:
I have been sick for the past six years,
suffering from dyspepsia and general
weakness. I have used three bottles of
Hop Bitters, and they have done wonders
for me. lam well and able to work, and
eat and sleep well. I cann.t say too much
for Hop Bitters. Simon Robbins,
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THE INTERNAL REVENUE.
COMMISSIONER EVANS MAKES
THE ANNUAL REPORT.
A Decrease in Receipts of 5i.969,889
hs Compared with Last Year—Two
Years Recommended as the Limit for
Outlawing Revenue Cases—Effects of
the Reduction.
ashixuton, Nov. 4.—The annual re
port of Commissioner of Internal Revenue
A\ alter Evaus for the liscal year ended
.Tune 30, 1883, has been submitted to
Secretary of the Treasury Folger. The
Commissioner reports the receipts from
all sources of internal revenue during the
year as $144,353,344, against $140,523,233
for the preceding year, and the total cost
of collection as $5,113,334. He says that
on the final adjustment of the accounts of
the service it will be found that the ex
penses amount to about 3>,j per cent, of
the sum collected. Statistics of the
details of the service as given
in the report show that $01,275
were expended through Collectors and
revenue agents lor the discovery and
punishment of fraud, and 397 illicit stills
were seized and 1,635 persons arrested
-1 employe being killed in the service!
Nine hundred and twenty-seven violations
of the internal revenue lawshave beeu re
ported by revenue agents; 440 persons
have been arrdtSted on information fur
nished by them, and they have reported
for seizure and assessment for unpaid
taxes property to the value of $91,401; and
have also reported penalties to the amount,
of $249,912. The number of distilleries
operated during the year was 5,129,
and the amount of grain con-
Burned was 18.044,787 bushels
a quantity 8,814,308 bushels less than that
used last year. Of spirits 72.235,175 gal
lons were produced during the year
against 104,149,077 in the preceding year.
The Commissioner reports an increase in
the production of manufactured tobacco
and snuff of 9,159,497 pounds over that of
last year, and an increase of 186,234,977
in the number ot cigars, and 98,904,027 in
the number of cigarettes produced. He
presents figures to show that the reduc
tion of sajes made by the internal
revenue act of last March will, on
the basis of the last year’s business,
cause a reduction of revenue from
tobacco during the present fiscal year of at
least $25,000,000. He estimates that the
reduction of taxes on proprietary medi
cines, bank checks, matches, bank de
posits and capital and on tobacco will
cause a reduction of internal revenue re
ceipts of not less than $43,000,000 per an
num. He thinks, however, that the In
creased revenue from distilled spirits for
the current year will so augment the re
ceipts this year that they will reaoh
$120,000,000. He reports that during the
first three months of the current fecal
year the receipts from Internal revenue
were $29,671,178, which is a decrease of $7,-
920,401 from the receipts of the correspond
ing period of last year. The collections
from tobacco during the year amounted to
$42,104,249. The number of Collectors
and districts has been reduced during
the year by consolidation Irom 120 to 83,
and the annual saving is estimated at
$125,000. He reports the condition of the
service as excellent, excent in a few
localities, notably the Fifth and Sixth
districts of North Carolina, where, he
says, some abuses of long standing are
being gradually removed. Ho recom
mends that Congress fix the limit of the
time in which the prosecution of
offenses against the revenue laws
may be commenced at a much
less period than 5 years, except,
in cases where the accused
places himself beyond the jurisdiction ot
the court of the district in which the of
fense is committed. He says that cases
older than 2 years are invariably lost by
the government, lie adds that he has
been strongly urged to recommend the
proclamation ol general amnesty to all
persons who have distilled spirits without
the payment of a special tax, and to all
persons who have operated small distil
leries without registering the same
and complying with the other provisions
of the law. lie says that he thinks the
concession made to the manufacturers of
vinegar by the act of March, 1878, permit
ting them to separate property
from fermented mash* wort or wash and
to use it in the production of vinegar,
should be withdrawn, the privilege being
one which presents to unscrupulous per
sons a constant temptation, together with
sufficient opportunity, to engage in the
production of illicit spirits, lie estimates
the expenses of the service for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1885, at $4,999,190.
FIGURES FROM THE MINT.
The Coinage of Silver Dollars Recom
mended Reduced.
Washington, Nov. 4.—The annual re
port of the Director of the Mint shows
that the coinage last year consisted of
nearly 100,000,000 pieces, of the value of
$00,000,000. Of this amount $06,000,000
were in gold and about 29,000,000 in silver,
mostly standard dollars. The silver cir
culation, the Director says, is in excess
of the requirements, and he suggests that
Congress consider whether directing the
monthly coinage of 2,000,000 silver dollars
should not l>e modified or repealed.
The Director recommends that the
coinage ot gold dollars and
3-cent nickel pieces be discontinued,
that the act authorizing the coinage of
the trade dollar be repealed, and that the
latter coin be sent to the mints and ex
changed for other silver dollars. The
production of gold during the current
calandar year will, he estimates, be
$62,000, (XX) and silver $40,000,000. His
estimate of the coin in circulation Octo
ber 1, 1883, is $544,512,099 in gold and
$235,291,323 in silver.
Moody’s Revival.
London, Nov. 4.—Mr. Moody success
fully opened his great mission’at Isling
ton to-day. Four meetings were held,
each of which was attended by from 4,000
to 6,000 persons.
A Million Dollars Depending on the
Letter “8.”
New York Sun Correspondence.
Leonard Case, a millionaire old
charitable and eccentric, died in Cleve
land city several years ago, leaving, be
sides a handsome legacy for a school of
applied science which bears his name, a
large property for his heirs and next of
kin to quarrel over in the courts. One of
the suits now pending in the Ohio Su
preme Court, the court of last resort,
hinges upon the appearance of the letter
“s” in the statutes. The other descend
ants of Leonard Case’s mother claim a
share in the estate. The statutes provide
that under certain contingencies the es
tate of a deceased person shall pass to the
next of kin of the blood of ancestors trom
whom the estate came. If the word “an
cestors” is to lie construed in its full
force, the descendants of Mrs. Case can
obtain full share. On the other band, it
is claimed that the letter “s” at the end
of “ancestor” crept into the statutes
through the carelessness of some printer
or pioof-reader. The case will be heard
in the Supreme Court before long. Tho
property involved is valued at $1,000,000.
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