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THie 3Uorninq Meirs.
, ESTABLISHED 1850. f
J J. H. ESTILL, Editor aad Proprietor, i
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OFTHE TW O STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Warrenton Heifer’s Fondness for Egc’
A Pistol Ball Strikes a Boy in the
Forehead at Close Quarters and Ke
bound*—Monroe’s .Jail Ablaze.
GEORGIA.
Jiunee B. Artope, of Macon, is dead.
The forest fires around Leary have died out.
Herndonville is the eleventh town lor Wal
ton.
Athens has Just shipped six game chickens
to Texas.
The Fayette county court house is nearing
< ornpietion.
One man tn Walton county has in his yard
NX) bales of cotton.
A cottonseed oil mill is among the proba
bilities at Monroe.
Gov. McDaniel and ex-Gov, Boynton were
at Monroe Tuesday.
A negro woman near Sharon laughed her
solf to death last week.
G. Hauser, of Athens, will leceive from the
State *76 for the loss of his leg.
Dr. I). B. Julian, a merchant and promi
nent citizen ot Carrollton, is dead.
A company is organizing in Athens to start
another bank, with a capital of *250.000.
John F. Hall waaelected Marshal of Greens
boro on last Thursday by the City Council.
The report that Policeman Kelly, of At
lanta, had died of hydronhoLla, was a mis
take.
Oliver Jemison, the alleged counterfeiter,
has given bond in the sum of *suo and gone
home.
A gentleman in Monroe county has given
bis children 510,000 since the war. He is a
farmer.
Thirty-eight car loads of rosin were re
> -reived at Brunswick by the B. and W. train
Thursday.
W. W. Oslin will take charge of the Meth
odist Church at Lincolnton during the en
suing year.
The teachers of Warren county’s schools
•have been paid *2,214. There is yet *l, .80 to
be paid out.
J. L. Blackmon has been appointed Post
master at II imiltou, vice Col. W. I>. Tram
mell, resigned.
Water is said to have been sold in South
west Georgia for 5 cents per glass in several
nstanc.es recently.
After boring 900 feet the contractors digging
the artesian well at Americus have finally
abandoned the work.
At LaGrange on the Ist of January the
youngUadies will give a leap year enlertain
juent t<> the opposite sex.
The Covington /’rrsssays: “The editor has
oeen moping around with a sore heel and an
empty pocketbook this week.”
Milton county has organized an Agricultural
Club. The time of tue next meeting was
fixed for Saturday, December 22.
Prof. W. J. Noyes, who was recently elected
Principal of the Female Institute at Elberton,
has arrived and will accept the position.
The city fathers of LaGrange have decided
that the fire-cracker must not be fired in their
Sown, even on Christmas or New Years’.
The Jonesboro New* says: “The most
amusing thing in this world is to watch a man
•vilb a wig trying to scratch his head in
ohurch.”
W. L. Weston, for many years one of the
editors of the Dawson Journal, has laid down
the pen to become u merchant at Pleasant
City,Fla.
Rev. M. C. Jackson, of Walker county, has
oeen called to Armuchee and Antioch
idiurches, and will move to Armuchee ut an
early day.
Services will he held in the new Unitarian
hapel, corner of Church and Forsyth streets,
Atlanta, this morning for the first time since
its erection.
Wesley Cashman, a Rome car coupler, work
ing at Chattanooga, died at his home in the
former city Thursday from injuries sustained
•while at work.
J. A. and C. P. Beeks has sold the store
house on the southwest corner of Hill street
and siaton avenue, in Griffin, to E. W. God
dard for *s,ou<).
The Southern Express office at Wadley, on
•he Central Railroad, was robbed recently
*rf about *1,600. The robbery was done with
»nt any breaking.
It is said that emigrants coming from
Kurope to Georgia are told upon their arrival
at Castle Garden that they will be sold into
slavery in the South.
The ginhouse of Dennis Kea, at Condor,
.Laurens county, was burned Tuesday. It
contained ft bale* of cotton, 1,000 bushels of
notion seed ami 30 bushels of oats.
Col. D. P. Hill,’of Atlanta, has purchased
the George Ragsdale farm, one mile from Dal
las. The farm contains one hundred and twen
ty acres, and sold for twenty-five dollars per
icre.
Two farmers in Laurens county sold to one
?irm *5,000 worth of wool. The sheep from
which the wool was shorn ran out in the
woods, and was not a dollar’s expanse to the
owners.
Roosevelt & Howland, of LaGrange, have
•old out their hardware establishment to
Messrs. Alf and Neal Truitt, who will con
tinue the business under the firm name of
Truitt Brothers.
Dahlonega is wild over the recent discov
ery of a gold mine ILj miles from that town.
The find is pronounced rich and inex
haustible. It is said that a double handful of
ore panned out about a dessert spoonful of
gold.
The Comity Commissioners of Jefferson
county have purchased a pauper farm for the
paupers of the county, something that has
ueen needed for a long time. The county has
n its pauper list from 60 to 75 annually, at a
cost of from *SOO to *BOO.
Mrs. Warick, who died recently in Madison
i ounlv, bequeathed her entire property, con
sisting of the library of herdeceased husband,
and family Bible, to the Methodist Church
close by her home. She had been a member
of the cnurch fifty-seven years.
Charles Samples, whodied in Forsyth county
last week al the advanced age of 85" years, left
a« his descendants eight children, fifty-seven
grandchildren, and seventeen great-grand
children. Two hundred relatives of the de
ceased were present at the funeral.
N. T. Bulloch, of Dallas, was wounded iu
she left arm from the explosion of a cartridge
*hal had carelessly been thrown into the fire.
He \va« nursing his little child at the time, and
the arm that received the bullet was around
the child. The ball is still in the arm.
Dawson has elected the following municipal
ticket; Mayor, Dr. W. B. Cheatham; Aider
men, Dr. W. C. Kendrick, L. S. Baldwin, L.
A. L overr, W. A. Jones and Charles Deub-
J? 1 ’ 1 Dirk, Col. J. L. Jones; Treasurer, T. H.
Thornton. Mr. Deubler is an Arcadian.
A half dozen of the students at Athens have
- completed arrangements to walk to Atlanta,
u purse of S2OO being raised for the wiuning
man. The distance is seventy-one miles, and
it must be made in two days. They will camp
out, and the first to reach the eapilol will win
•he prize.
The Dublin Pont says: “It is about time for
the beaux to be lookiug around for the huge
randy hearts with the tender verses attached.
* ■“' young tnan who was the direct cause of
•peral extra cords of wood being consumed
should not. be mean when it comes to a Cbrist
present.”
Two freedwomen in Gill’s district, Merri
nether county, having a misunderstanding,
one irate damsel poured kerosene oil upon the
t'lo .nng of her antagonist, and placing the
saturated garments upon the floorof the cabin
»Pl>lt d a torch. Not only the clothing was
■ • mstnued, but the building came near being
burned.
Name’s residence, in Columbus,
nail been the target for brick-bats for several
rights, Who threw them was a mystery,
two negro girls, aged 10 rears, were finally
trapped by the police. They wanted to create
ai ! e - xt ' lteul ent. Their mothers proa ised to
whip them, find took them home. Thus was
c ghoai sensation sent to an early
flo ‘' an d, of Madison, raised a crop
’ a piece of ground of about an
ii! tk n a “'“S a crop of seventy-five bushels,
lobbied the lot in eorn, and front it
g..inereii in November a fine crop of corn,
-niKing jorty bushels, and when the corn was
gathered the oats had again covered the
v'pina and were two feet high, a luxuriant
growth over the whole field. He pastured
th«‘ U “°* n aa d now there is a good stand for
Colaill K spring. The cost was merely
lhe Mayor and Council of Decatur passed
v laauce 011 !4th against the tiring of
!?. ‘ r ’’ 0,1 ~uy other explosive fireworks
»phin the corporate limits of Decatur. Also
against any person hooting or hallooing or
m«K rW 7-" e "laking any loud or unusual noise
►o the disturbance of any citizen. Any per
‘*’n Convicted of violating either ordinance
“‘‘an be fined not exceeding $25. Neither nr
a‘n:-ne.e applies to the 24th and 25th of De
ber - i'he ordinance goes into effect on the
wll: instant.
i Monday night, about 11 o’clock, the sta
i:'v-sos Henry Covington, a thrifty old negro
about three miles from Athens, were
' on fire and all of bis hay, fodder, shucks
■nc, two good mules were burned. His
-aughter, a girl 19 years old, seeing the mules
roTm *° lQ ? l ” burn, and hearing the heart
rcnhmg noise they made, rushed into the sta-
, ‘t 0 tr y and save them, and came very near
U,'‘l‘Dg burned up herself. Henry has au
uca who set it on lire, but has no proof.
Ferrell Superior Court a negro preacher,
“® P* e ad guilty to the charge of an indecent
iwoi”. waSßen tcnced to the chain-gang for
, • r ” onl, ‘* and imprisonment m the
°bunty jail for six months, besides having to
an 'l costs. For keeping
jpen tippling .shops” on the Sabbath fines
*,,.2° heavily imposed. Attempt at rape by a
geo was met by a sentence imposed upon
'* criminal of fouryearsin the penitentiary.
Twenty-three negroes and five white men
were before the court on criminal charges.
Monday nizht four prisoners escaped from
the jail at Hami'ton. One was detained under
a charge of petty larceny. The others were
under sentence. Sim and Charley Johnson,
father and son, were under life sentence to
the penitentiary for murder. Claborne Iziwe,
for Bestiality, "was sentenced to the peniten
tiary for fifteen years. Sim and' harley were
blacksmiths, and their calling stood them in
hand in making their escape. The Journal
presumes the Governor will offer a reward
and that the county will now build a new jail.
The Woods brothers, who are now in jail at
Ellijay on a charge of burglary, made a vig
orous attempt to break jail on Friday night,
and in so doing committed an out-and-out
assault with intent to murder upon Frank
Hipp, the jailer. Hipp was knocked senseless,
but his brother rushed to his rescue and held
the prisoners at bay. Jailer Hipp recovered
consciousness, and the felons were finally
securely caged. A large crowd, armed with
knives, rocks, sticks, etc,., and who were fully
determined that the felons should not escape,
gathered without the jail. •
The Warrenton Clipper savs: “Mr. N. 11.
Styles related to us on last Sunday a very phe
nomenal incident. He had been missingeggs,
which he had every evidence to believe had
been deposited in the nest by his hens. At
tributing this to the superabundance of ’logs
in the neighborhood, he organized himself into
a vigilance committee and kept a strict wat -h
over his poultry yard. While awaiting de
velopments his attention was attracted lo a
half grown heifer going to one of the nests
and eating its contents, shell and all. As the
heifer has been running loose in the yard for
some time, Mr. Styles is prepared to exonerate
all the dogs in the neighborhood.”
The Brunswick Advertiser says: “Mayor
M. J. Colson received this week a check "for
*IOO. for the benefit of the Shiloh Baptist
Church (colored) of this city, from Mr. Rob
ert 11. Coleman of Cornwall, Fa. It was sent
through Mayor Colson as a public official, as
the donor knew neither the church nor the
party who told him of its needs. He felt that'
a congregation whose edifice had been blown
to the ground were certainly objects of chari
ty, and, in the fullness of Ins soul, responded
to the call. The donation is most highly ap
preciated by the entire membership of Shiloh,
who-e earnest prayer is that he may have a
seat at last in the church triumphant.”
The Warrenton Clipper says: “The little
son of A. T. Cason, living near Jewell’s, was
shot in the centre of the forehead by the acci
dental discharge of a No. 32 calibre pistol in
the hands of a negro boy. The shot was tired
at such close range that'the powder from the
pistol burnt the little fellow’s face. The ball,
however, penetrated the skin, but on coming
in contact with the skull rebounded, and thus
miraculously prevented a fatal result. The
little fellow seems fated to accident, but proof
against death. A few years ago he stuck the
blade of hie father’s knife in one of his eyes
and put it out. and has also had a stroke of
paralysis. Mr. Cason may look forward with
interest to the future of his eon, for he is des
tined to make his mark in some wav or other,
in the meantime the boy who fired "the pistol
should be caged.”
The Monroe correspondent of the Athens
Banner- Watchman wrote to that paper, under
date of December 12, as follows: “Last night
about 8 o’clock a negro passing by the
jail saw dense volumes of smoke coining from
the roof. The alarm was at once given and a
hundred men were on the spot at once. It
was known that there were seven men in the
burning building, and the thought of seeing
human beings roasted alive was too sickening
to contemplate. Besides this the handsome
new court house, which will cost *25,000
when completed, stands within three feet
of the jail, and would have been burned. In
an instant men were on the roof tearing off
shinglesand nouring in water. The fire was
soon checked and the building saved. Out
side parties had given matches to Henry
Curry, the desperate murderer, and iu the
hope of making his escape he had torn off a
plank overhead and s-t fire to the logs that
were just above the ceiling. Sheriff Ammons
carried Curry and three others, just as desper
ate. to Atlanta this morning for safe keeping.
This is considered the most desperate crime
ever committed here.”
Macon county’s jail is in a terribly dilapi
dated condition, but the county has purchased
two iron cages at au expense of *3,000. The
grand jury says: “Recent successful attempts
of prisoners to escape shows that the con
tractor placed the iron bars (in the wall) fif
teen inches apart instead of four inches, as
per contract, showing a gross fraud on the
part of the contractor, aud a like neglect on
the part of the county officers in receiving the
same. Repeated efforts of our authorities,
with large expenditures of money, has re
sulted in utter failure to render it a
secure and safe prison.” The jury was
not at all backward about criticising the
county officers. They report: “Upon exami
nation of the Tax Receiver’s books we find
great discrepancies iu the valuation of prop
erty in all parts of the county, a large amount
of the property being returned from year to
vear at much less than its true value. We
recommend that the Receiver be more careful
in the discharge of his duty in this particular
in the future.” The county has a balance of
*425 62 on hand. The Montezuma Record was
recommended as the county organ.
The Griffin Retcx of Friday had the follow
ing: “ Testerday afternoon at about the close
of banking hours. Will Nunnally, a young
farmer living near Creswell, walked into the
office ot the Griffin Banking Company and
presented a check to Cashier J. P. Nichols,
and desired it cashed. The check was for
*l5O, pavable to Milam or bearer, aud
purported to be signed by A. A. Snider, a
Griffin merchant. Mr. Nichols noticed at
once that it was not Mr. Snider’s signature,
aud so stated. Nunnally said that he did not
know anvthing about that, that he had taken
it in exchange for a fl. fa. from Milam and
given *SO besides, the 11. fa. being for $ 00
Mr. Nichols had handed the check back and
now proposed to take it over to Mr. Snider
and have him look at it, but Nunnally de
murred, stating in a very nervous and excited
manner that he would see Milam and fix up
the matter, and hurriedly left the bank, and
immediately drove out of town. Mr. Nichols
went over and saw Mr. Snider, who stated
that neither Milam nor any other man held
his check for *l5O. Nunnally is a young man
of about 24 years of age, and married about
three months ago. His character has gener
ally been considered as good; but it is evi
dent that either he or Milam, or some other
man, has committed a very awkward and
bungling forgery.”
FLORIDA.
B. F. Hart died at Marianna Tuesday.
Monticello’s municipal election occurs Jan
uary 14.
Jacksonville’s fire department is being made
more efficient than ever.
I ighty thousand oranges have been shipped
from Orange City up to date this season.
Col. Hardee says that 10,000 oranges per
day are being shipped North from his grove
near Jacksonville.
Suwannee county oranges retailed in Live
Oak last Monday and Tuesday at 10 eents
each or three for 25 cents.
Pensacola is to have a new paper, the Pen
xacolian. edited and published oy Benjamin
Robinson and John O’Connor.
A brother of Alderman Shockley, of Fair
field. was drowned Friday near St. John's
mill. He was with his father and sister, aud
fell overboard from a boat.
The County Commissioners of Jackson, with
the Comptroller's approval, have ordered the
Tax Collector of the county not to enforce the
collection of taxes until after the Ist of June
next.
The editor of the West Florida Courier
prints his paper, which never misses a week
iu proving itself oue of the best in .the State,
on one of the largest presses run iu the Laud
of Flowers.
The trade recently made between Rockwell
& Woodall and the manager’of the Dummitt
Grove for this year’s orange crop has been
annulled, there being some dissatisfaction
manifested on the part of the company own
ing the grove.
Prof. Lawrence C. Johnson, of the United
States Geological Corps, is visiting the State
to make a preliminary examination in refer
ence to a geological survey of the State by a
commission of three gentlemen, of whichne,
hiuiself, is one.
The Pensacola office is said to have been re
sponsible for the neglect of business which
delayed the telegraphic accounts of tile Mari
anna lire until the day after it occurred. The
ladies in charge of the office at Marianna are
said to be both enterprising and obliging.
W. W. West’s store at Orange Citj was en
tered by burglars, Sunday night, and the safe
blown open. The cracksmen used too much
powder, and half the town was awakened by
the sound of the explosion. The safe and the
window panes in the store were wrecked by
the powder. The burglars escaped, but se
cured no booty.
The Key Wes* 7>eniocrii2 says: “The fisher
men in the channel have of late been troubled
by sharks to such au extent as to render it
dangerous to sail far from the land. They
have, however, found a panacea tor all their
troubles in this respect—it is the root of the
dogwood, whieh causes almost instantaneous
death. Whenever a shark is discerned, a
small fish is killed, this bark inclosed and
thrown overboard, and iu a few moments the
carcass of the shark floats to the surface.”
At the State Capital.
Atlanta, GA. T Dec. 15.—The warm rain
yesterday suddenly turned to severe cold
with a strong chilling wind last night.
This morning the thermometer was down
to 23 and water pipes were frozen up in
many buildings. It is still very cold to
night. A negro named Simms was found
freezing to death just after midnight and
too late to save him.
The Supreme Court finished No. 12 case
to-day, that of the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway vs. Barber. Cases 13,
14 and 10, Clay vs. Banks, and Branch vs.
Mills, and Wilkins vs. Mills were all ar
gued together. They will probably oc
cupy the entire day Monday: then No. 12
will" be taken up.
O’DONNELL’S LAST HOURS.
LITTLE HOPE FOR A REPRIEVE
AT LAST ACCOUNTS.
The Doomed Man Bearing Up—He En
conrages His Brother—Congressman
Finerty Indulges in a Little War Talk
—Other Incidents of the Irish Agita
tion.
London, Dec. 15.—The scaffold upon
which O’Donnell will be executed is be
ing erected. Hangman Binggs is inside
Newgate prison and will remain there un
til the execution takes place. O’Donnell
sleeps well and takes his meals regularly.
He does not occupy the cell to which con
demned persons are usually assigned, but
is placed in a larger one. Two wardens
watch hitn constantly. Usually only one
man is detailed for this service.
O’Donnell maintains great firmness of
demeanor, and is apparently prepared to
meet his fate. He regards himself as a
martyr. His determined air of bravado
and cheerful indifference to his impending
fate have greatly impressed his wardens.
His brother visited him this afternoon and
remained with him for twenty minutes.
At parting O’Donnell ehrxsk his brother
by the band and exclaimed, “Good-by, old
fellow; keep up your spirits and don’t be
downcast because of me.”
FINKRTY AGAIN HEARD FROM.
Washington. Dec. 15.—1 n an inter
view with an Associated Press reporter,
to-day. Congressman Finerty expressed
himself freely in regard to the probable
event of O’Donnell being hanged on Mon
day. He said that he had called upon
President Arthur in regard to tKe case
within a few hours, but had* ob
tained no information beyond his
assurance that action had been
taken and would be announced
through the State Department, when the
reply had been received from E:
The President did not express any
opinion, Mr. Finerty said, but was as
courteous as usual, although he appeared
rather serious and somewhat anxious.
“In case O'Donnell is hanged Monday,”
Finerty, “it will be a snub
to the United States’ The House by its
resolution requested President Arthur to
ask a respite. If it has been asked, which
I suppose it has, and refused, both the
Executive and the House, and conse
quently the whole country, will have
been not only snubbed but insulted. We
may in that event acknowledge that our
government is utterly unable to obtain
even the slightest concession of common
justice for one of its citizens from Eng
land.”
“What can Congress do if O’Donnell is
hanired?” was asked.
“Fold its hands after quietly pocketing
the insult. If you had asked me what
any other nation of our national strength
or of less than our national strength
would do under like circumstances, I
might answer; in fact I would answer
that it would suspend diplomatic rela
tions with Great Britain until the insult
was explained or atoned for.”
“Would you vote for such a proceed
ing?”
“What would be the use if 1 did? Com
mercial interests, as they are called, will
ever, in this country, be superior to the
idea of national honor. I might stand
nearly alone in that position, and I cer
tainly do not desire practical isolation.
We are a commercial people. Were we a
belligerent nation there would be music
in the air before Monday night. We are
the second largest of the Caucassian na
tions jn regard to population, and I believe
territory, Russia being ahead of us in the
latter respect, and yet we are afraid to
sneeze because we might displease a d—d
little island that has a navy to assert
itself with, right or wrong.”
“Suppose Congress should declare for a
suspension of diplomatic relations and
England should declare war.”
“England will do nothing of the kind.
She would backdown completely,because
she knows she has everything to lose in
such a struggle. She might blockade all
our ports, but we would not
starve. We would be healthy and
happy on hog and hominy, if
nothing else, while our letters of marque
authorizing privateers to prey on her
commerce would soon make havoc of her
carrying trade. She might annoy us
badly for six months after war was de
clared, but within a year, or 18 months at
the most, we could starve her to death
and she knows it. Her fleet, great as it
[ is, could never protect her vast merchant
marine.”
“What do you think, leaving out the
question of war, Congress will do in the
premises?”
“1 have heard that, should O’Donnell be
executed on Monday, a resolution will be
introduced by some member, asking that
the State Department lay all correspond
ence on the subject before the House.
Then, I suppose, we will have a debate;
a good deal of sound and fury, indeed,
but that will be the end of it. The con
servative element in the House will not,
in my opinion, permit vigorous ac
tion to be taken. England used
tp be a nation of shopkeepers. Now I
am afraid the description more truly
applies to ourselves. Great Britain has
always adopted the citizen chip upon her
shoulders. She flips our national nose
with her fingers, but the chip will not be
knocked off, and the national nose will
seek refuge in the stars and stripes, which
is rapidly, in foreign relations, degenerat
ing into a sort of pocket handkerchief. In
the adopted citizen business, it is more of
a flaunting lie than it ever was in the
worst day of slavery. lam sorry to have
to speak so rudely of the national symbol,
but frankness is sometimes wholesome.’
London, Dee. 16. 2 a. m.—The Observer
says that all the preparations for the ex
ecution of O'Donnell on Monday are com
pleted. The greatest precautions have
been taken against any hitch occurring
in the machinery of the scaffold. O'Don
nell’s brother, at his farewell interview
with the condemned, was terribly dis
tressed. Father Fleming will attend
O’Donnell at the last moment.
ORANGEMEN AND NATIONALISTS.
Dublin, Dee. 15.—Placards bearing the
signature of Col. Stuart Knox, the Orange
Grand Master, have been posted in Dun
gannon announcing that a monster meet
ing of Orangemen will be held at Dro
more, count)- Down, on the Ist of Janua
ry, in opposition to a meeting called for
the same time at that place by the Par
nell ites. Lord Rossmore will be present.
ELLIOTT’S TRI AL POSTPONED.
The trial of Elliott and others lor con
spiracy to murder Mr. Smythe, has been
postponed until the next assizes, owing
to the continued illness of one of the jury
men.
LORD ROSSMORE’S SUSPENSION DE
NOUNCED.
Fifty-two Magistrates ol County Ar
magh. headed by the Duke of Manchester,
have forwarded to Dublin Castle a strong
protest against the suspension of Lord
Rossmore’s commission as a Magistrate.
Labor and Its Hire.
New York, Dec. 15. —The trouble in
the Y’n&wne composing room is at an end.
The foreman states that he has all the
bands he wants. President O’Donnell,
of Typographical Union No. 6, and Harry
Cole and Benjamin F. Arms, compositors,
who were arrested last night lor remain
ing in the street in the neighborhood of
the Tribune building, were discharged to
day.
Paris, Dec. 15.—Four hundred of the
500 coal miners at Viux, Conde, in the
Department of the Norde. have struck
work.
The Hoars for Female Workers.
Boston, Dec. 15.—-A movement is under
way in this city to enforce a lbw to the
effect that no child under 14 nor any wo
man shall be employed in a store more
than 60 hours per week, and the police in
spectors are investigating cases of viola
tion, which, it is asserted, are numerous
in all the large retail establishments.
Warning has been served on all proprie
tors, but prosecutions will be enforced at
once in two or three instances, the cases
coming up next week. The fine is SSO for
each case proved.
President of the New Orleans Cotton
Exchange.
New Orleans, Dec. 15.—Charles E.
Black, of the firm of Graham, Black & Co.,
was elected President of the New Orleans
Cotton Exchange to-day.
SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1883.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL.
The Democrats on the Alert to Check--
mate Republican Senatorial Trickery.
Washington, Dec. 15.—A rumor was
current here this afternoon to the effect
that the Republican Senators would at
tempt to force an election of officers of
the Senate on Monday, and that a call
would be issued to-night for a caucus of
the Democratic Senators on Monday morn
ing before the meeting of the Senate. The
Democratic Senators, however, have
satisfied themselves that no such inten
tion exist as ascribed to the Republicans,
and that in any event it could be defeated
under the rules by a motion to lay over
for a day the resolution providing tor the
election of officers. It is probable that a
call will be issued Monday for a caucus
of the Democratic Senators to agree upon
the attitude to be assumed by them to
wards the proposed reorganization of the
official corps of the Senate.
FRIENDS OF THE FLOWING BOWL.
A number of friends to the proposed bill
extending the bonded whisky period met
to-day and appointed a committee to wait
upon Secretary Folger and ask him aot to
force collections until Congress takes ac
tion. The visit to-day was postpoaed be
cause of the Secretary’s indisposition.
The committee, as appointed, consists ot
Representatives Blackburn as Chairman,
Willis and Culberson of Keatucky, Jor
dan and Follett and Keifer of Ohio, Da
vis, Morrison and Worthington of Illi
nois. Bellord of Colorado, Valentine
of Nebraska, Broadhead of Missouri,
Morse of Massachusetts, Hewitt of New
York, Bavne, O’Neill aud Hopkins of
Pennsylvania, and Findlay of Maryland.
At a meeting to be held Monday immedi
ately after the adjournment of the House,
the committee will bo enlarged by the ad
dition of members from Indiana, Califor
nia, New York and Missouri. During the
day, if Secretary Folger is in his office, it
is expected that the committee will call
upon him.
SKINNER AND POOLE.
Mr. Skinner, of North Carolina, has re
ceived fiom the Governor of North Caro
lina his certificate of election as a member
of the House, and will present his creden
tials and ask to be sworn in on Monday.
His opponent, Mr. Poole, will contest the
seat on several grounds, one of which is
that the vote of one county in the district
was not taken, and that’the election is
consequently void.
CARLIBI.K’B COMMITTEES.
Speaker Carlisle is quoted as saying to
day that he expects to announce the com*-
mittees before the holiday recess is taken.
Weather Bulletins Discontinued.
Washington, Dec. 15.—The regular
issue of special weather bulletins by the
Signal Service twice a day has been dis
continued. They will, in the future, be
prepared only 'when data of unusual
public interest has been collected.
FR INCO-CH IN ES E A FFAIRS.
The War Party Reported to be Gaining
’Strength at Pekin.
London, Dec. 15.—A dispatch from
Shanghai says: “The latest news from
Pekin confirms the report of the activity
and increasing influence of the Chinese
war party. It is reported that Li Hung
Chang has been appointed Viceroy of the
Provinces of Kuargsi and Canton, which
adjoin Tonquin, and that an uncle of the
Marquis Tseng has been appointed Vice
roy of the Provinces of Pechili.
A Paris correspondent says that lie has
reason to believe that China has submit
ted to the judgment of England the basis
for an arrangement of the Tonquin ques
tion. Lt seems certain, he says, that de
spite all the assertions to the contrary,
there are no Chinese regulars at Bacninh
or Sontay, and thus the taking of these
places by the French could nut constitute
a casus belli.
Paris, Dec. 15.—1 fis stated that owing
to the revolution at Hue and the death of
King Hiephema, the government has or
dered Admiral Courbet to remain upon
the defensive until he is further rein
forced. An uneasy feeling is again ap
parent here. Owing to the silence of the
government in regard to affairs in the
East, the Bourse is agitated and prices
are also agitated.
In the Chamber of Deputies to-day
Prime Minister Ferry introduced a bill
demanding a supplementary Tonquin
credit of 20,000,000 fiancs for the first six
months of 1884. The preamble of
the bill states that the situation
in Tonquin makes necessary the
dispatch of fresh reinforcement;
that Gen. Millot, lately commandant of
Paris, will be intrusted with supreme
command of the French troops on shore,
with Gens. Negriere and De Lisle as
sisting. Admiral Courbet will resume
the chief command of the naval forces.
Urgency for the bill was voted.
At yesterday’s sitting of the Senate
Committee on the Tonquin credits bill,
Senator Saint Vallier declared that when
he was the Ambassador of France at
Berlin Prince Bismarck sounded him
concerning Tonquin, wishing to know if
France bad abandoned its right there,
with a view to the possible establishment
of a German colony in that country.
Le Nationals says that it was reported
in the lobbies of the Chamber of Deputies
to-day that a revolution has occurred in
the palace in Pekin, resulting in the
triumph of the military party hostile to an
arrangement with France, therehj’ caus
ing the disgrace of Li Hung Chang, the
Prime Minister.
THE CONFERENCE AT MACON.
More Work Done for Christlanltv by
Missions Than all Rise.
Macon, Dec. 15.—The session of the
conference to day was almost entirely
devoted to the examination of the charac
ters of preachers and the reading of reports
from their work. The Bishop examined
carefully into the statistics of every field,
and made a note of the leading facts, The
condition of the church within the
bounds of the conference is very
encouraging. The increase in num
bers and of the material interests
is very satisfactory. There are
reported quite a number of new
ehurches, buildings and parsonages. All
the collections to the various causes rep
resented by the church are in advance of
anything since the war. The minute
work of the conference is almost com
plete. To-morrow the Bishop will ordain
the deacons and elders elect. The pul
pits of the Baptist and Presbyterian
Churches, as well as all the Methodists,
will be supplied by members ot the
conference. Monday will be devoted
to reports from the various committees.
Memorial services will also be held in
commemoration of the members who have
died during the year, to wit: James Har
ris, Dennis O’Driscoll, A. P. Wright, B.
W. Key. Dr. D. C. Kelly, Assistant Mis
sionary Secretary of the Southern Meth
odist Church, was introduced and pre
sented the cause of missionaries in an ad
mirable aud effective address. He
answered all of the popular objections
made to foreign missions, and showed that ‘
a church which did not make this cause ,
the central thought was doomed to decay. ;
He stated that the nineteenth century
since the organization of foreign mission- :
ary societies had accomplished more for
the conversion of the world than the sev- ;
enteen centuries which had preceded it. ■
The audience was in perfect sympathy I
with the speaker and his cause, and many ;
of his utterances were heartily applauded, i
The missionary anniversary was held to- I
night and the reports, both of the foreign ’
and domestic fields, were replete with in- j
terest, and were greatly enjoyed by the •
large audience present. It is now thought ■
that the appointment of preachers to their
future fields of labor will be made Mon- I
day night and the members will leave for i
their homes on Tuesday.
Prince Frederick William’s Tour.
Barcelona, Dec. 15.—The Crown
Prince Frederick William of Germany
embarked this evening tor Italy, the Ger
man squadron escorting him.
Rome. Dec. 15.—The German Crown
Prince upon his arrival here will cause
formal application to be made for an
audience with the P*pe, whose reply
thereto will be guided by the terms in
which the request is couched.
A PLOT TO ASSASSINATE.
ONE OF THE THEORIES OF THS
NEW ORLEANS TRAGEDY.
Tiirc® Arrests Made —The Stories of
Participants in the Affair—4o Ogden
and 47 McEnery Delegates Chosen—
Capt. Fortier and Edmund Masson
Buried—Large Funerals and Impres
sive Incidents.
New Orleans, Dee. 15.—At the eity
primaries yesterday forty Ogden delegates
and forty-seven McEnery delegates-were
elected.
G. E. Aucoin, Thomas Buckley and E.
H. McCaleb were arrested to-day and re
manded without bail, affidavits having
been made against them from information
received, charging them with participa
tion in the murders in the Seventh ward
yesterday, in which three men were
killed. The statement that Deputy Con
sul Masson, one of the murdered men, was
a supporter of Ogden for Governor, was
not correct. He belonged to the McEnery
party.
New Orleans. Dec. 15,11 p. m.—The
result of the primary election contest is
not yet definitely known, but the indica
tions point to the election of the Ogden
delegates by a small majority.
Sheriff Brewster makes the following
statement in regard to the shooting at the
primary polls:
‘■John Dominick aval I, and others, went
from the Sixth to the Seventh ward. When
we arrived at the poll there was some one
challenging a voter, and there was 3
large crowd present. The police were
moving the crowd back, so as to
make room for voters, when Miike
Early struck a man named Brennaan.
The police immediately placed Ear
ly under arrest. While he was
in their charge, Thomas Buckley raised a
loaded stick and struck him over the head
and then, jumping into the street* began
tiring. 1 immediately drew my pistol and
pointed at Buckley, but it snapped and
Buckley ran, followed by me as far as
Bagatelle street. I felt that 1 had been
wounded, but walked toward the poll,
but before 1 got there the shooting was all
over. Subsequently I went to Dr. Men
ton’s office, where my wound, a flesh
wound in the right thigh, was dressed, 1
took occasion to show my pisiol to the
doctor, and he can testify that it was
all lull, not having been discharged.
After my wound was dressed I went to the
Sixth ward poll, where I was arrested by
Detectives Stanley and McDonough.”
The above statement of Brewster is cor
roborated by Daniel Douglas, Michael
Early and John Dominick. The latter re
ceived a wound in the right leg below the
knee and was suffering considerable pain.
Hie statement was in substance the
same as that made by Brewster.
He said that he did not see
who shot him, as there were many per
sons using weapons, and that the shoot
ing was very lively indeed. He received
bis wound early in the action. George
Schrotb, an Ogden man of the Seventh
ward, told Police Captain Gill that James
D. Houston, a prominent McEnery sup
porter, had a revolver in his hand;’ that
be saw him shoot, but. that he did not see
at whom he tired. He refused to make a
further statement until called as a wit
ness. Chief ot Police Rowley has ordered
the arrest of Houston upon this infor
mation.
The Picayune charges editorially this
morning that the murder of Capt. For
tier and Gustave Renaud was the result
of a plan to get rid of dangerous enemies
to the administration faction, and to carry
the Seventh ward against a majority of its
Democratic voters by force ot arms. It
bases this charge upon the fact that
armed ruffians from other wards invaded
the Seventh, precipitated the fight, and
under cover of the consequent confusion
assassinated men who had given them no
personal offense.
New Orleans, Dec. 16, 1 a. m.—The
funeral of Captain Fortier, who met his
death at the primary election in the Sev
enth ward yesterday, was held this after
noon. It was attended by a large con
course of people, including the veterans
of the Washington Artillery and Captain
Fortier’s battery, who were commanded
by Captain Beanham. The parlor in
which the body laid, was filled with large
and handsome floral decorations,including
a souvenir from the Alabama State Artil
lery, of Mobile. The pall-bearers were
Gen. Fred Ogden, Col. Vaudry, Henry
Ganucheau and the father and brother of
the deceased. Ex-Gov. Nicholls was
present at the obsequies. A military
salute of three volleys was fired
at the grave. The parting scene
of the wife and six children, the
oldest of whom is only 8 years of age, was
heartrending. It is reported that a sub
scription will be raised for the benefit of
the widow and her children.
The funeral of Edmund Masson was
also largely attended. The members of
the benevolent association of the Sons of
Louisiana, of which he was a member,
were in attendance.
WOMEN AT THE BAR.
Pennsylvania Judges Refuse an Appli
cation for Admission to Practice.
Philadelphia, Dec. 15. —Common
Pleas Court No. 2 to-day, with Judges
Hare, Mitchell and Fell on the bench, re
fused the application lor admission to
practice in that court of Mrs. Carrie B.
Kilgore, the wife of Damon Y. Kilgore.
Mrs. Kilgore had previously been admit
ted to practice in the Orphans’ Court.
She passed a satisfactory examination be
fore the proper boards, but Judge Hare,
in refusing the application, said that
the uniform rule and practice
! of the courts of Pennsylania was against
the admission of women lawyers, and he
was not disposed to take upon himself
the responsibility of introducing an inno
vation. It the people of the State desired
that women should be admitted it would
be an easy matter to have a law to that
effect passed by the Legislature. More
over. he considered that there were spe
cial objections to the admission of mar
ried women under the existing laws
of the State which -permitted them
to carry on unpunished the most
glaring frauds. It the Legislature passed
an act admitting them to the bar he ap
prehended that the statute would be ac
companied by the provision that thev
should lie liable to the same extent as
men. He did not attach importance
to the certificate of the Orphans’ Court
because each court was the sole judge of
its own rule. Unless required by the
Legislature Court No. 2 would not admit
women even on a certificate from the Su
preme Court. An application for the
admission of Mrs. Kilgore will be made
to the Supreme Court early next month.
Mercantile Mattern.
Galveston, Dec. 15.—A special from
Terrell, Kauffman county, says: “Clay
Oldham, a grocer, has made an assign
ment to J. U. Macklorov. His liabilities
are $25,060, and his assets SIO,OOO. The
cause of the failure is unlucky cotton
speculations.
Montreal, Canada, Dec. 15.—Mr.
Morris, representing the creditors of the
Graphic Company, presented a petition
in the Superior Court to-day for a wind
ing up order to issue against the com- 1
pany. The petition was opposed by
Strachan, Bethune «fc Co., representing ]
the company, who made a counter motion ‘
that the creditors be required to furnish :
security for the cost of the proceedings j
instituted by them. This motion was ,
granted, and security was ordered to be •
furnished in ten days.
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Ravages of the Flames.
New Orleans, Dec. 15.—Charles H. !
Walker’s sugar house, situated near i
Franklin, on Bayou Teche, burned last
night. The loss is $75,000 and the in- ;
suranee $20,000 in the Home Company, of
this city. This was the largest refinery in j
the State outside of New Orleans,
and made the best white sugar.
ALEXANDRIA FLAME-LIT.
Alexandria, Dec. 15.—The greater
part of the temporary buildings erected
in the great square after the bombard
ment of Alexandria by the British fleet,
were burned last evening.
An Earthquake Shock.
Constantinople, Dec. 15.—A strong
shock of earthquake was felt at Konio, in
Asiatic Turkey, yesterday.
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
_
Five Prisoners M»ke a Desperate At
tempt to Escape at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Dec. 16.—Five prisoners
made a desperate attempt to escape this
evening while they were being taken to
prison. The prisoners.. who were hand
cuffed, were in charge of Deputies
I Brockau, German and Berlin. When
, passing down Sixth street, which always
i is crowded, one of'the prisoners named
. Patterson kicked Deputy German in
I the stomach, and with another of
1 the prisoners started up Liberty street,
i At the same time Lynch, another of the
prisoners, threw red pepper in Berlin's
eyes. German and Brockau, who had not
seen this, started after Patterson and his
companion and cornered them in an al
ley, when Patterson drew a revolver, but
before he could use it be was overpow
ered by the officers. Meanwhile, Berlin,
although blinded by the pepper, pluckily
held twe of the prisoners, while Lynch
kept the crowd back by flourishing a ra
zor. lienneman. the fifth prisoner, then
came to the assistance of Berlin, and with
the aid of several officers, who arrived bv
this time, the party was safely landed in
prison. The red pepper, revolver and
razor were, it appears, handed to the
I prisoners at the frrial, secured in a pack-
I age of tobacco.
THE WINDSOR THEATRE FIRE.
New York. Dec. 15.—Edmund Rough,
who is charged with arson in attempting
to set fire to the Casino at Thirty-ninth
street and Broadway, Wednesday even-,
ing, has been held in default ot $5,000 bail
to await the action of the grand jury.
The police estimate the loss on the
Standard Theatre building at $35,000. The
scenery and properties of Brooks & Dick
son were damaged $15,000. and the cos.
: tumes. of four operas, belonging to. Mg.
i Rice, were damaged SIO,OOO. The Estrella
i Company’s costumes were valued at
i $6,000. They belonged to L. Searelie. the
■ composer. The personal property of
i actors and employes that was lost was
| worth probably $2,000. The building
tn the rear of 108 West Thirty third street
that was smashed by the tali of the thea
tre was valued at $3,000, and the furni
ture of the tenants destroyed at SI,OOO,
making a total loss of $12,000. Some scat
tered insurances are hold on the stage
; properties and wardrobes, amounting,
I with that on the theatre building, to pro
bably $25,000.
MEXICO’S TRAIN ROBBERS.
Galveston, Itec, 15.—A dispatch from
Laredo says: “It is reported that Gen.
Cuellar refus.es to obey the orders from
the City of Mexico to arrest Quintures,
Mayor of New Laredo, on a charge of
complicity in the Mexican national train
robbery. It is alleged that several of the
robbers are know n to be in Laredo, but no
one is willing to assume the responsibility
of making affidavits against them.
A dispatch from Austin says: “Lieut,
Sheely, commanding the Texan Rangers
at San Antonio, has telegraphed to Adjt.
Gen. King, intimating that the Mexican
National train robbers are in Texas, and
that he will be able to arrest them, and
asking authority to deliver them to the
Mexican authorities. The Adjutant
General has instructed Lieut, Sheely not
to make the arrests without a warrant
and requisition.”
HUNG WITHOUT COMPUNCTION.
Galveston, Dec. 15.—A dispatch from
Fort Davis says: “Juan Duran, the Mex
ican who murdered a Chinaman fifty miles
south of Fort Davis last winter, was exe
cuted within the walls of the county jail
at 1:25 o’clock yesterday afternoon in the
presence of a guard of fifty Deputy Sher
iffs, no one else being admitted. Duran
met his doom coolly, apparently consid
ering it more a holiday spectacle than
anything else. The indifference displayed
by the man was almost without prece
’ dent, lie made no confession.’’
AN EX POLICEMAN A MURDERER.
New York, Dec. 15.—The jury in the
case of ex-police officer William Conroy,
who shot and killed Peter Keenan in a
saloon some time ago, after being locked
up all night, brought in a verdict of mur
der in the first degree. Conroy exhibited
! no emotion at the announcement. Sen
: tence w as postponed until Thursday’ next
I to enable the prisoner's counsel to make
i application for a new trial.
MILWAUKEE’S BOY INCENDIARIES.
i Milwaukee, Dec. 15.—The boy incen-
I diaries, Moffett, Fink and Millard, to-day
! pleaded guilty. Judge Mallory sentenced
I them to the Reform school until they be
i come of age. Bennie West, who was
i present at only one fire, will be tried iu
i January.
• ....
THAT BIFURCATED FEMALE.
Dr. Mary Walker Vanquishes Bed-
Headed Tom Robert non, of Kentucky,
lu Due Round, and Knocks Post Out
in Another.
TFaaAZnj/ion Special Courier-Journal, Dec. I.?.
Dr. Mary Walker walked unon the third
floor of the House this morning. The
House was not in session to-day. She
came near scaring the wits out of Con
gressman Tom Robertson, of Kentucky,
by appearing suddenly before him, like a
bifurcated vision, and”demanding to have
pointed out to her the youngest member
of the House.
“There he is,” said Mr. Robertson,point-
I ing to Mr. Post, of Pennsylvania. He then
I fled into a cloak room.
Young, smooth-faced Mr. Tost was wri
ting a letter to an able constituent. Dr.
Mary gracefully dropped into the chair
I next to him. She placed her beaver on
i the desk in front of her, and, quietly pat-
■ ting the young man on the shoulder, said,
I “Ahem!”
Mr. Post looked at him—her—with eyes
wide open. He soon recovered sufficient
; composure to grasp the situation and Dr.
I Mary ’s proffered, delicate hand. Mr. Mary
fixed him with her eye, and began with a
volubility unequaled by the best record
of any book agent under the sun:
“1 am correspondent of a paper that has
a circulation of 60.000. 1 want to print
on the first page of it a portrait of you.
with a biographical sketch as long as you
are willing to write it. When can I get
the sketch and a photograph ot you?”
i “I don’t w’ant to be written up or go
into a newspaper photograph gallerv
looking like the man who killed his wife
and six innocent children.” said Mr. Post,
feebly.
“But,” continued Dr. Mary, reaching
out tor a bution-hole (Post hastily cov
ered his button-holes with a big newspa
per), “you do not know how much you
are missing; you don’t know how much
good it will do you.”
“You had better,” said Post, gathering
up his half-written letter and a pen, “help
the editor of your paper print his like
ness and biography, or you might print
your own.”
He then fled to the same cloak room into ;
which Robertson had vanished. These
two were seen to shake hands like men
who had escaped from a great danger.
Hancock will Not Decline.
Cheyenne Leader.
Gen. Hancock, bound West, went
through yesterday. A reporter (a com*
rade in the battles in Virginia, and whom
the General knew right away) had a ’
pleasant chat with him. Alter a good
deal of war reminiscence the talk drifted I
to politics. Said the reporter:
“Who is likely to be the next Demo- j
cratic candidate for the President?”
“I can’t tell,” said Gen. Hancock. You
see I am not much of a politician, and j
never was.”
“Would Mr. Tilden decline a nomina- I
tion ?”
“I can’t speak for Mr. Tilden. I don’t !
think, however, that he would seek it.” 1
“I suppose, General, that you would !
hardly decline a renominatibn, would
you?”
“Well, I rather think I should. As I
said before, I am not much of a politician. |
However, such an event is not likely to
occur. No man ought to seek the Presi
dency, and, under some circumstances,
he ought not to decline it.”
Sentenced for Life.
New York, Dec. 15.—Thos. J. Young, ■
a saloon keeper of Brooklyn, who shot
and killed his wife on the 22d ot October
last, pleaded guilty to-day in King's !
County Court of Sessions to murder in ]
the second degree, and was sentenced to i
State prison for life. He is far gone in !
consumption. I
I SPAIN AND HER POLITICS.
ALFONSO OPENS THE CORTES
WITH A SPEECH.
The Country’s Recent Events Reviewed
m a Hopeful Strain—Zorilla Gives Ex
pression to His Republican Proclivi
ties in a Letter from London—bagasta
to be President of the Chamber.
Madrid. Dec. 15.—King Alfonso opened
! the Cortes this evening with the usual
ceremony. !q his speech the King de
, plored the late insurrection among the
I military. Referring to his recent jour
ney, he declared that the object of it was
to pay debts of friendship and affection,
and to s&rensrthen the bonds of friendship
between Spain and foreign nations. The
sole result of the inc idents w hich occurred
during thejmtruey, be said, was to increase
cordiality of the relations of Spain with
other countries, and to provoke on my re-
I turn one of those manifestations which
I are only possible when monarch and peo
ple are united in one sentiment, and
whiali have sufficiently compensated |
me for the excessive grief I was caused
by the late insurrection. Our relations :
with the foreign ]>owers are excellent. !
Yau will find testimony of this cordiality
I iv a note published in the official gazette i
I regarding the state of our relations with ,
I France, and in the visit of the Crown ‘
Prince Frederick William of Germany. 1
and also in the beneficial effect produced
by the protocol signed with England to Pa
prove the commercial relations between
that country and Spain as well as by the I
negotiations now proceeding for !
the coiKdusion of treaties of aoni- ;
I merce with Portugal. Italy, Den- I
mark and the Netherlands, Spanish >
i commerce possesses even greater interest !
| on the American continent. Our repre- 1
j sentatives to the different States of South
America have been Instructed toeouclude
I commercial treaties with the governments
to which they are accredited. We have
opened negotiations with the United
. States, which, it successful, will permit
the products of Cuba and Porto Rico to
’ enter that great market.
Our relations with the Holy See areani
i mated by the same cordial' spirit. The
speech alludes to the reforms which will
be Introduced into the army and navy and
also in the administration of justice,
which will secure trial by jury.
Referrinsr to the colonies, it says that
the suppression of punishment by stocks
and fetters proves the sincerity by which
the law of abolishing slavery would be
carried out. It adds that in order io de
velop the production of the colo
nies the government is preparing
treaties of commerce and reforming the
tariffs. It expresses the hope that the
budget will be covered by the ordinary
resources, and concludes by saying that
after all these reforms are voted the
government will introduce an electoral
I reform bill, in which universalization of
) suffrage will give equitable representation
: to all serral interests. The mission of this
Cortes, it is said, will then be ended. If
| the government is sustained at the gen
eralization, it will submit to the next
i Cortes a scheme for the revision of the
constitution.
SPAIN A REPUBLIC.
; Ruiz Zorilla Airs His Opinions from His
Place of Refuge in London.
, Madrid, Dec. 15. Ln Porvenir pub
i lishes a manifesto from Ruiz Zorilla, a
Radical, dated at London, December 11,
, The document is twelve columns in length
I and defends the military rising in the
! Spanish army of last August. It violently
! attacks the Bourbons and the monarchial
; form of government, and proclaims the
• necessity for a Spanish Republic. It
j states that the chief points of the repub
lican programme are as follows: Civil
i marriages, trial by jury, abolition of
! slavery, assimilation ot colonies to the
' mother country, and reforms in every
i branch of the administration.
Senor Zorilla severely criticises the
; policy of the restoration. He considers
that a revolution in Spain is inevitable, is
I certain to succeed, and will not be long
delayed. He concludes by saying: “A re
i public is the only form of government tnat
: will allow Spain to enjoy order, morality,
I justice and liberty. Whether the future
; struggle shall be one of peace or one of
f arms, the day of battle will be a day of
victory. Our motto always will be,‘Never
compromise with the Bourbons,’ ”
AN AMBASSADOR INSULTED.
Probabilities that the Affair May Cause
Trouble between France amt Spain.
London, Dec. 15.—A Madrid dispatch
states that a few days ago, at tiffi frontier
station of Irun, on the return from Pan*
' to Madrid of M. Andreux, the French Am
■ bassador to Spain, he was physically nial
| treated and insulted by officials at the
station, who pointed out to him that in >
walking in a certain part of the depot
he was trespassing on ground from I
which the public was excluded. The '
scene only ended when the express train, i
on which the Ambassador was a passen- '
ger, started for Madrid. M. Andreux as j
he departed threatened to have the em- j
ployeswith whom the dispute occurred J
dismissed. The Minister of Public Works,
however, refused the request of the Am- j
bassador to dismiss them. All of the
newspapers called the serious attention [
of the government to the case, the Re- !
publican journals commenting thereon as !
strongly as the rest.
Sagasta’* Policy.
Madrid, Dec. 15.—The Liberal depu- ,
ties and Senor Sagasta, with many of his
supporters and members of the dynastie I
left, met at the residence of Senor Pos- '
sada Herrera, President of the Council, :
last evening. Senor Herrera de
clared that his mission was the
unity of tlie Liberal party, whose
banner was the Constitution *of
1876 with the spirit of that of 1869,
and that the public opinion and interests
of the country demanded a conciliation. I
The meeting adopted a resolution to sup- !
port Senor Sagasta for the Presidency of
the Chamber of Deputies. Senor Sagasta
urged the necessity ot a union of the
Liberals, who. tie said, must show that if
a monarchy is impossible without liberty,
liberty is impossible without monarchy."
Great Excitement iu Upper Egypt.
London, Dec. 15.—A Cairo dispatch ;
says that greatexcitement prevails among i
the Mussulmans and Christians in Upper .
Egypt. It is attributed to the action ot J
American missionaries. The Copts are j
defiant and a popular outbreak is inimi- !
nent. The Government of Ascout has
warned the Egyptian Government of the i
situation.
A dispatch from Khartoum.dated Decem
ber 14, says: “Three government couriers
who arrived here-from Kordofan fully
confirm the first accounts of the massasr'e
of Hicks Pasha’s army, and also the ac-|
counts of Hicks Pasha’s previous vic- I
tories. The couriers state that there is ,
no portion of the Egyptian army existing i
in Kordofan.”
THE KHEDIVE TO ABDICATE.
A correspondent at Cairo says: “It is
rumored that the Khedive is about to ab- I
dicate. At a Cabinet council the Minis
ters of the Interior, Foreign Affairs and |
Justice declared in favor of Turkish inter
vention, while all of the rest of the Miuis- i
ters favored English intervention.”
Aden, Arabia, Dec. 15.—The British
frigate Euraylus, with Admiral Hewett I
on board, has sailed for Suakim.
Chicago Gambling Rooms Raided.
Chicago, Dec. 15.—The police raided
five gambling houses at 1 o’clock this
morning and arrested eighty persons,
keepers and inmates. The faro and rou
lette tables, chips and other gaming out
fits captured were taken to the police
station and burned.
Winter’s Chilling Blasts.
Vergennes, Vt., Dec. 15.—There was ,
a change of 58 degrees in the temperature i
last night, and all the factories have
shut down on account of anchor ice.
A Farewell Banquet to the Bishops.
Rome, Dec. 15.—Cardinal Prefect of the !
Propaganda will give a farewel banquet '
to toe Ajuericuu Bishops.
| SINGLE COPIES 5 CENTS.
I BY MAIL S 3 A YEAR.
DALE. WELLS & CO.’S PILOTAGE
The Supreme Court at Atlanta Afflruu
Judge Adams’ Decision.
Atlanta, Dec. 15.—December 12,1882,
in thecaaeoi J. J. Thompson vs.Spraiguc,
Soulle <fcCo., being a case for pilotage of
the steamer “Saxon,” in which the ques
tion was raised as to the constitutionality
of section 1512, Code of Georgia, be
cause {that section was in conflict
with section 4237 of the Revised
Statutes of the United States,
which provides that there shcnld ”be no
discrimination in the rates of pilotage or
halt pihdage charged betwee j the porta
ot one State over the j»orts of ether States
in the United States,” the Sir feme Court,
held that the passage of the a?t contained
in section 4237 annulled tba- exception
contained in section 1512 of the Code of
Georgia, exempting coast srs between
Georgia and Florida and Sc Atb Carolina,
amis that therefore all vessels en
tering the port of Srjrannah. ex
cept steam vessels, were liable to pay
compulsory pilotage tees.. Dale, Wella.
the owners of the schooner Annie
Bliss, refused to take pilots for their
schooners. Suit was brought to recover
.he full rate of upwards nUotage. Recov
ery was had, and Judgq. Adams decided*
that the first pilot tendering his ser
vices was entitled to receive the pilotage.
From this decision an appeal to tho-
Supreme Court was taken by Dale, Wells.
& Co., J. R. Saussy representing thenr
and J. J. Abrams tie pilots. Upon the
argument ot the case in the Supreme-
Court, the court, luler its submission,
said that they could not and would not
reverse the judgme <4 in the Saxon case:
that the passage c-i' statute 4237 annulled
the exception oiriy, and they therefore
affirmed Judge Adams’ decision.
AN INThiUAHONAi. INCIDENT
Two Illinois IjMilew Arrested as Nihil
Isis by tho Suspicious OemUM,
W'icsiAZnt/lon Special.
A private letter received heap from
Berlin details the rather peculiar ex
perience of iwo American ladies in that
city a few djivs ago. The ladies are Mrs.
Mary Penuekl and her daughter, a young
lady aboit 2o years old. Theii’.home is in
Rockford, 111. They are wealthy and havo
been traveling over Europe for the past
four months. Like all Americans, they
are independent. They did as the Ameri
cans do, not as the Romans. In Berlin
they went about the oily, taking a
carnage whenever they felt so inclined.
They went into shops and bought what
they wanted. They spent their money as
fancy dictated. They had been doing thia
three or four days before they discovered
that they were being watched, but thev
thought that thas could not be. One
morning, while they were enjoying them
selves as usual, they were arrested—the
charge was “Nihilism.” They were take®
before a police tribunal. They had but
little difficulty iu getting free. When they
told who they really were, the officiate
apologizisl very humbly to them for the
inconvenience to which they had bee»
put.
Bed Dog Judiciary.
Life.
Dog Canon, Arizona, recently under
took to remodel its judiciary.' Justice,
within the cheerful corporate limits of
Red Dog, had for ten years past been ad
ministered by a random posse of citi
zens, who zealously hung three men a
week in the interest of morality. As tho
posse was composed of heterogeneous
and unrelated leaders of Red Dog society,
the results ot their labors were not al
ways agreeable to the public at large.
Mr. James Mclntosh, for example,
on the 14th ot September, 18 s *!, had
the good fortune to steal a mule,
and the misfortune to be caught at.
it. The posse turned out of bed with
burning enthusiasm, liberated the mule
from the halter, inserted Mr. Mclntosh in
its place, and tied the other end to a stal
wart oaken limb 12 feet from the ground.
To this proceeding, as Mr. Mclntosh had
been on th.- wrong side of the ticket at the
recent election, not one ot the officials of
Red Dog offered the slightest objection. A
week later, however, Mr. Reddy Mc-
Guire. an esteemed barkeeper, scien
tifically managed to hold four ace*
against four kings held by Mr. Line-Eyed
Jim, a professional desperado of no small
local renown, and expired within four
minutes after the bands were shown down.
Mr. Jim exhibited great coolness when
examined before the posse, trusting, no
doubt, that hi* well know n efforts in the
past to secure residents for the publiu
cemetery, together w ith the natural local
prejudice against four aces, would secure
his acquittal. To the surprise and indig
nation ol every right-minded citiz in. he
was not only severely reprimanded, but
was invested with a complete suit of
asphalt trimmed with feathers, and ban
ished from the town.
This CNCited B 9 i> f llC
; ment, and when, a year ago, Mr.Sfontd
CharleJ’, an esteemed but convivial citi
| zen, was exiled for having playfully un
dertaken to ventilate three China aen by
making calibre 45 apertures in their sys
-1 terns, it was felt that the judiciary power
; should be invested in a person conversant
with the spirit and by-laws of the com
munity, and that the posse should be di«-
banded. Accordingly, a month ago, Judge
I Bartley Smith was duly elected to the
' bench, and sobered up sufficiently to take
• the oath and enter upon his duties. Last
: week the sessions began. Red Dog was in
a fever of excitement. The first case called
j was that of Mr. William Falconer, who
had shot and killed a Mexican for fun
Christmas Eve. He was promptly fined
$5, and Bed Dog felt that, although its ad
niinistration was unduly severe, the
judiciary could be depended upon. Tho
I next case was that of Mr. Birdie McGee,
; who had, in a fit of despondency, accl
, dentally wandered off with a hair lariat,
. one end of which had been casualty
’ attached to Judge Bartley Smith’s own
private and particular sorrel mustang.
Mr. McGee pleaded not guilty, and a jury
was impaneled. Nineteen citizens swore
to having found the mustang upon Mr.
McGee’si person, or rice versa, and, there
being no defense other than Mr. McGee’r
own lie, the case rested. Without leav
ing their seats, the jury found Mr. McGee
not guilty. The foreman, it seems, was
Mr. McGee’s uncle, and the rest of the
jurors had private interests in a system
of horse-raising which a different verdict
might seriously affect. No sooner waa
the verdict rendered than His Honor
promptly produced a revolver and shot
the foreman dead. Simultaneously the
counsel for the defense neatly winged the
counsel for the prosecution, and had
the top of his own head blown
off in return; tbe defendant perto
rated His Honor with a load of buck
shot, and a rough-and-tumble discussion
arose among the spectators and officers of
the court, which terminated only after
the necessity for a new election had been
thoroughly created. Red Dog is seriously
considering the advisability of either
making it unlawful for the next judge to
try cases in wuich be is personally con
cerned, or of returning to first principle*
and distributing the judiciary power
among citizens at large.
That Small Boy.
Detroit Free Preu>«.
Parents cannot be too careful about
their method of answering toe numerous
questions of the rising generation. A
youngster on Cass avenue sad noticed a
tall black bottle on his father’s dressing
table and asked w hat it held.
“That, my son, ts hair oil,” answered
his father with a furtive and wandering
look, “and it is not at all nice for littlo
boys.”
The youthful questioner took a smell of
the contents and asked no more informa
tion upon the subject. He kept up a good
bit of thinking, however. Last Sunday
the family entertained some friends at
dinner, and there was plum pudding with
brandy sau :e. The small boy had found
his opportunity. When he was helped to
the pudding lie sized it up with larg*
eyes.
“Pa.” he said, in a loud, shrill tone, a«
he sniffed the sauce afar off, “the
on this puddin’ smells awful good.”
Total collapse of “pa.”
Killed by Bursting Bollen,
New Orleans, Dtc. 15.—Last Satur
day two boilers iu the Pecan Grove plan
tation sugar house exploded. Two em
ployes were killed, and four others were
wounded, two of whom were seriously
hurt.