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■ m TWO STATES TOLD
j r‘“> r\B MiRAPHS.
1 H.*re Head Instead of
I r I-,,,]. Inning the Moon
! M !• Who Stole Hls Mas
11.ther Railroad Crash
r*
H | .[Otull.
j f Athens, died Sunday.
H 1 ' f; (s r coni in Albany.
|| I I.; their vocation in Co
i§ W* - their car marks on the
P'S i :c.vu .Julian, of Carroll 1
IL: , ■.. days ago.
• j lark l Diversity, At-
Wgm .■ ! Tuesday.
fes . r eoiintv cattle thief, is
|||| . r >us vocation.
tfM [ h factory will turn out
SB > i.cii it t# in o|>eration.
fel ■ thirty-*i\ arrests have
k;3 [ •. already this month.
r haul, at I-owr.des coun- i
II a*t Wednesday night.
f | I- munler trial at Macon
i | mrge of the defendant.
I ij* ImcrifUS killed an ov
| *n that netted 713 iiouuds.
f I | > tl or Ty Ty made a coun
| ' M'lling three oranges on j
jt| I # s . •! llawkinsville, has be- i
II r. liiiioui subjects, and sent j
I ; -don. of Jackson. Butts
f arrest at Macon, charged :
' <•
!| Mrs. Coleman's place, iu
I- *• other m a play. The
§§ m l John Hughes filled each i
la JKiUglasville the other day.
|j , uate with Hughes* wife.
|i r ' ter announces that if he can -
[ j the T.*c-a \V< by the Ist of ]
H i > -nspewt its publication.
|| -of Baldwin county, has ar
tl Kunis, colored, charged with :
si n|d to murder Frank Uc>
1 1 of Mr. E. King, seven miles I
II . w as destroyed by fin* Tues- I
I L • house had V>een built seventy- !
I [ij ' ” an oJd negro of Athens, who
I L ..rone year in the chain-gang
Jj | nr. has been pardoned by Gov
|| m n'hants will employ private
ij z-tanl their pr|>erty against
1 -i three incendiary attempts have
|L . luring the past few days.
1 -n building occupied by W. H.
jL< \ at Muone, was damaged bv
1“ icoverj the
I b n world have been endangered.
nt, after an abseneo of 13 years, is
to n- l ow lide'.’ lie In
9. ihe cattle trade in the far west. His
Kt srten i* *•> miles beyond the last
I * in Teta?.
■ - ntlemenof t.ainesville drain'd their
Hw nonrninc after the nernt miirici
jj The opposition ss i that Samuel
1 an not qualify legafli for Minor
I f -n- hi- l cited States Coiumis- ]
I L.-. If thislie true another election 1
j > ob.red carpenter, well known
j '.tiled himself accidentally a few
fit,.. 1-vas. He had wiped oat his gun.
IE , . was unloadeil. and when he put
| the mnxzle to blow through it. I
j - barged and the loatl passed j
IP" - cad. killing him instautlv.
j tee /VswKsrwf says: -The I*o*ty
j if .-, u if. the colored raftsman, who
j or Fodder stack Shoais. gome
j | - . was taken from the river at
j t 're he had drifted, ou Saturday
I ty- . . and interred. So inquest was
11. v . < prrsoM having witnessed
1 - - - eet i hureh. Athens, was thrown I
II ' 'inlay nigtit by the moaning I
IL . .of a drunken man in church.
Bj -. irern was summoned, and ii
H : l<*n t onnell was the man who
I •- the |>**acc and good order of j
■ lb was removed and ilneo $23
■ tV" 1 says: -We know, by ac
■ dial then' is over flOO.Oit) of
■ *■> • • n Italton that would In* con- ]
Bj oi a cotton factory, if men
B unity have a right to take
B 'in ui) work of material ini
■* - •> ii 1 only give it the weight of I
■Uk* -f n. .' and means.*'
B i~c of snrgerv was performed
•n M.s- Alice Miller.
B> V large tumor of the upper
■ - >rw*e*t. which threatened the
1 in** tumor, together with the
B • was successfully removed.
B ■ " stem was necessarily very
B - last accounts the girl was
|j . sawdersville. stoppe*! at
In Macon Tuestay. where
ii well and W. W. Hightower.
I "muring a dollar from
g v uproar hod for it did not
" ■ men hecoming mad en
i cut up his baggage and a
j ere arrvsteil as they were 1
■■ and were placed tit the
'Uls-eqnently set lied and
-•- n i *rtcd seeing a gh-tst at
H Early, who is buried on t he
j Pres ne county. Some white
1| I to m i est igate the matter,
I *v. r,'i that the scare was oeca
| • f e ;.*w placing a candle in a
r< sented a frightful ap
j Mr T. tv. Powell, on whose place
) .1 man rests, says he in-
I --xave nicely enclose*!, as it
SowfAroa says: “Deputy
- IS. Gaston returne*t home
! frv.m a two weeks' rai*t. with
■ bets*, in Gilmer, Pickens
[ ■ - They seized nine U
■ -it in Gilmer, two in Dawson
I * They also captun**l live
| . work. Ih'puty M. Van
I returne*! from a raid in
| - re they captured an il
[ * rought it out. They hail
j : -*k one keg of block.-ids
wd;,* 5i two lailies were sleeping,
f the mountain liovs that they
- : wort an*t abide the law
i- . r. living near Meriwether,
li, -urreptitiously fea-t
--r simt time. The geese dis
'nr owner thought that foxes
j “ne night recentlv. hearing a
I s' his geese in the horse lot,
| 'i and rushed to the lot to in-
I ■ anse of the commotion. Gel -
I ¥ aution allowed, he fired in
j ■! the noise made by the strug
j At the repirt of the gun his ears
w dh a most tern lie squealing
• mules. A light tieing pro
s' discovered that the mule had
• rt of the load in his nose, a stray
.—mg through the animal's ear.
mule that had been eating the
* bloody nose was the result of his
Vo serious damage was done to
“* r lover of goose flesh.
-wick, satnniay, a pa|>er <-alU*<l
. m.vie its tlrst apiiearanee. It will
' ■•erat-wceklv. and is cxpccitsl to
iieeome a daily. Iu first issue is
• well written and lieatlv printed. The
I *v among it* items: -Thelaw library
A 'mith. consumed by the late fire,
wed aiiout i.<loo volumes They have
ipathy of h ts of friends in their great
Vn attempt- was made to fire the house
Ward, on Monk street. Tuesday night,
dies and foovstepe were found. No
u numU rllic houses on our streets,
nion. Esq., son of Gen. J. H. Gordon,
• usit to Brunswick, his o ld home.
>inj after real estate belonging to
New Vork, sold tears ago for non
f taxes. East Monday morning
. k a bum* of combustible uia
‘ f*i*.:nd, all duty satnrate*! with oil
• f speedv ignition, between the
j*he! l>ann > Kaiaer.**
FLORIPA.
" c wants a dog law.
> abounds with ripe tomatoes.
t. paw-paur is raisel near Or
u.t ion for Tampa's new Sanitarium
* mpieled.
* tvn* •• of agriculturists will l>e held
wwaiaesvilte January 21.
Kjsct has o|H*ncd anew liotel at
i known as the Willis House.
, * -ns - stopped a gentleman in the
/** '■ . "-k. near Kissimmee, and roblied
cf entered the bedroom of >1 rs.
. at Tallahassee, and stole S7O in
* > iwaha river has lieeu too low for
. • and 'teamers as far up as Leesburg
■' V ung has soid his orange grove
trade to O. T. Loftim, of North
*..aa. for
v rcan, of Columbus, Ga., arrived in
week, ami probably will settle,
- he like# the country.
' nk# has purchased another,)-acre
1 f x*m Alexander Sumner adjoin
aof Fort Dade. The price paid is
• - -everely but not danger
i#i Saturday night uear Talla
' .' an unknown white man. #uppose<t
of three immigrants arrive*! in
i'l 'anday night from Pike
. and are relative# and suests of
“• H. 1 brasher.
* * of the Ea#t Florida seminary
’* ! a uniform for themselves—
4?*. * ul brass buttons and the roat-of
• ’he 'late in gold.
j. ' , of Madison, will sit at the
v 1 V Fitch for shooting at Don
>. vs Tallahassee thia week. Judge
, r **iOf a witness in the case.
I ' " r -owe Federal soldiers, of Gorapany
•, •’ ihmugb Jacksonville Tue#*lay on
: . .y ‘ t" 't. August me, where they will
• • I for the winter. They are’direct
j," -iiuliua, Ohio.
r, a sailor ou Use steamer Ala
. - ; into a difficulty at Tampa with a
w* •i** "*s severely stabbed in the
<n ‘ ‘“c colored man, Frank Wilson, has
irre-ted and jailed.
vunviiie tity Council adjourned
Wlte Hews.
Tuesdax night without transacting anv busl
alleged that the Cllrk wai ln
toxicated and unable to perform his duties
The Council is said to be divided on impeach
meut proceedings. F
of T wfn?lr“pl l^ i>< ’ r? ' r a& yj : "Holden Bros.,
of V\ inter Park, have just finished staking off
the seventeen acre tract north of Take
Osceola, owned by Messrs. Littlefield* Guild,
. doston, and will plant it in a grove during
tl.e coming week They have Just flnishel
planting sixteen hundred trees for Judge W
iV.v.. C . B f r !i er ’ of Ke , utuck 7* in addition to his
grove or fifty acres plantedtwo years aaro. The
, l ,n e s er > e taken from one of their nurseries
n„ • less, * p ' T s ey were tattn from the
nur Ju ry . one day and all planted in grove dur
ing the day following."
Bailroad accidents are on the increase
‘i? Georgia and Florida. Yesterday's
/i -ae#-printed the following:
Ihe Honda Central and Western pas
senger train, due in Jacksonville at 9 o’clock
I>. ni., Monday eveuing, ran off the track three
miles west of \A elborn between 6 and 7 o'clock
Monday even.ng and every car was ditched,
rhe engine onlj kept the track and the bag
gage car was thrown on a wayside wood rack
w hich kept it upright, but the others all went
over on their sides. There were between
-ixtv aud seventy-live passengers on board,
one W estern sleeper being quite full. Many
were badly hurt. It was just dark when the
accident happened. The locomotive was sent
to W elborn and a freight train sent, about 2
o clock yesterday morning, an engine
and car which conveyed the belated
passengers to this city, thev mean
time camping about a fire built beside the
track and mending their broken heads as
iM*>t they could. Among those injured are
I lon. \\ . 11. Gleason, of this city, leg hurt;
Kev. S. P. Ashurst, Lake City, head cut and
leg hurt; Kev. U. L. Keaves, of Orange coun
ty- head eut amt side hurt; li. H. James, bag
gage master, head cut; Mrs. Kate Spencer,
Minneapolis, Minn., arm, side and back hurt;
Sol. 11. li.tily. Laramie, Wyoming, leg hurt;
*. L. Hodges, Kingston. X. C., hand burned
on the stove and leg hurt; mail agent Gridin,
leg. head and side hurt. Among the passen
gers were Major Knapp, of Tampa, and lir.
Beeler, of Madison, both of whom were badlv
shaken up but not hurt. The cause of the ac
cident, according to reports of passengers,
was a rotten or s a p cross-tie and a broken
rail. The accident is one not likely to occur
often, but one such as is apt to occur upon
any similar railroad.”
ATLANTA IN THE MAILS.
A Letter Which Treats of Timely Topics
in Many Fields.
Corre#jmdenc* of th Homing .Veto*.
Atlanta, Dec. 18.—Despite the cold wave
that has chilled all Atlanta through and
through for the past three days, our mer
chants are opening out immense stocks of
Christmas goods, and the country people are
already flocking in to purchase. It is evident
that there will la* a good manvof Santa Claus
this year, and that some of liis gifts will be
unusually elegant for this section of the State.
I am sorry to say that many, many Georgia
families have concluded to hang up their
t hri-lmas stockings in far-off Texas. And ns
a general thing these emigrating men always
have a house fall of children. Day after day
the waiting room in the depot here is full of
such families, some from Georgia and others
from adjoining states. They liojie to do bet
ter tu anew country. Perhaps they will, but
1 fear they will not.
The matter of difference between the East
Tcnnc"* e, \ irgiuia and Georgia Uailrond
and the Southern Steamship and Kailway As
-..ciation. as to cotton freights, was submitted
to the Hoard of Arbitration, which is com
posed of John Screven, K. K. Sibley and T. 11.
Carter, all men of railroad experience and
sound judgment.
Atlanta will not rush blindly into any more
luu-icul festival traps.nor hasten to “guaran
tee” for any more Thomas concerts. Some of
• >iir leading citizens are out about $*2,000, and
the pile of unpaid hills will stand as a per
petual monument of warning against anv
similar grand enterprise. We have a big
population, but the largest part of it prefers a
circu- or negro minstrel show.
The Darien seems dispo-cd to again
bring to public notice the case of Flournoy,
who killed Sol Smith's brother at Milledge
ville a great many years ago. Nowall the
talk about his disappearance, and the finding
of his remains a skeleton in a hollow tree, is
mere nonsense. After the murder young
Flournoy was at his home near Columbus,
and was killed during the Indian raids in that
section.
IT 13 A SINGULAR FACT
that the appointments for next year of the
south Georgia Methodist Conference bring
Kev. J. O. A. < lark and Kev. *J. O. A. Cook lo
the same city. The former goes to the Mul
ls* rry Street't.’hurch and the latter to the First
Street Church of Macon.
The marble and granite boom continues to
-astonish the natives.” Capt. William D.
Grant has nearly :>OO laborers at work opening
the Koutz granite quarry, near the city, on
the “Half < ircle” Railroad. This will give a
grand impetus to other similar enterprises in
North Georgia.
It is now evident that the Electric Light
Company will commence operations this week,
as they already have lamps placed in a num
ber of" stores. ’ The Mutual Gas Company is
-till laying its mains, and will hardly be readv
for business until late in January. Atlanta
will soon have plenty of light, as the old gas
company will then do better.
Hon. f lavenport Jackson, who lias returned
from a tour of Europe, spent a few days in
Atlanta recently, anil was most cordially
greeted by many old friends here. Asa mem
ber of the General Assembly from Richmond
county he won a v-ry substantial reputation
l*oth a# a debater ail'd law maker, and as a
temporary presiding officer. Few young men
in Georgia have thus early in life adapted
themselves so quietly yet effectively to public
duties, and I am glad that Savannah is
hereafter to 1m? his home. In every posi
tion IB Which he shall Stand in your commu
nity he will prove himself a worthy son of a
nofile -ire. l'ne glory and lierpetuity of a
gn at State are dependent upon this class of
young men,
IT IS CONFIDENTLY KI'MOREI)
that the Supreme Court (Judge John D. Stew
art silting for Chief Justice Jackson) will
probably decide in favor of the convict lessees
and take away the convicts from the North
tleorgia and Marietta Railroad Company,
should this rumor prove true, there will be’a
lively time in politics next year in this State,
as North Georgia feels that" she is entitled to
some little aid in her efforts—slow though they
may have been—to develop ttiat section of the
state. If the convict lessees are wise, they
will act in a generous manner toward this
railroad enterprise.
The rapid march of manufacturing enter
prise has made Atlanta almost as smoky and
dark as Cincinnati and Pittsburg.’ All
through the heart of the city huge chimneys
pour out their dense columns of black moke,
hut there is a compensation in the fact that
such enterprises bring in clean money. While
many of our small concerns fail to’ succeed,
the majority finally reach a paying business.
Cheaper coal and iron will do much to add to
our success, just as cheaper wood has built
up several paying furniture factories here.
The grand jury of Cobh county lias grap
pled the dog question bravely, and it is prob
able that the next General Assembly will
give that county a dog tax law, not to exter
minate the dog, hut to thin out, and to util
ize the lK*st breeds for what they are really
worth. This grand jury estimate that our dogs
now eat enough to feed 50.000 able-bodied
lalsirers. and claim that they ought to bo
taxed ami protected as well as sheep. This
is a subject that all irrand juries might dis
cuss and act upon for the best Interest of their
respective counties.
Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland lias been in
feeble health for several months, ami it is
hoped that his presen visit to Suwannee
'prings, Fla, will prove bent final to him.
IT IS WELL KNOWN
that tne late Governor Stephens had collected
during his long and distinguished public career
a very large ami valpahle private library. In
some respects the library is peculiarly adapted
to the use of a man in public life, of one who
is constantly writing about the political his
tory of the country, as it Is rich in Congres
sional matter. In the midst of this collection
of books Mr. Stephens wrote his three great
historical works, and prepared his articles for
Johnson's Cyclo|nedia. .Since his death
many applications have been made for ttic
purchase of portions of this valuable library,
hut Col. John A. Stephens, the executor,
would much prefer to see the entire collection
go unbroken to some worthy institution or
patriotic citizen. I should be glad to see
Savannah gather this treasure into her His
torical Society library, where it would not
only lie well preserved hut prove valuable for
purposes of reference.
The Negro Educational Convention gave
vour correspondent two very hard days' work,
yet I am satisfied that they were not spent in
Vain. It is true that tlig usual lot of colored
politicians was present and indulged in the
oft-rei>cated contest for supremacy, and made
things lively at times, hut the mass of the
convention’ was composed of quiet, earnest,
sincere seekers after a hitrber citizenship. The
tone of the convention was respectful, conser
vative ami practical. The best men spoke
calmly and prudently, and were heartily ap
plauded. They advocated the universal pav
ment of poll tax, the spending of less money
for whisky, tobacco and useless things, and
the givingof more of it to education, churches
and better homes and farms. While a few
ideas may seem wild, the general expressions
were commendable, and the white people of
Georgia will have no cause to regret the hold
ing of the convention. Savanuah aud vicini
ty sent good delegates, not one of whom in
any way participated in the wrangles. They
were ali given places on the most imnortan’t
committees. Chatham.
Baker Pasha off for Suakini.
Cairo, Dec. 19.—Baker Pasha, on de
parting for Suakini, received an ovation,
owing to his popularity and the feeling
that he has a hopeless task.
It is reported that a counter revolution
against El Mahdi has broken out in the
province of Darfour.
Two Killed by a Snow Slide.
Piktersox, Utah, Dec. 19. —Two men,
named Harrington and Robinson, who
left here Monday on a shooting expedi
tion, were caught in a snotv slide and in
stantly killed. Harrington’s body was
found’to-day.
Bishop Warren to be Married.
Denver, Dee. 19.—The marriage of
Bishop Henry W. Warren, of Georgia, to
Mrs. Elizabeth S. IJeff, of this city, is an
nounced to occur here on the 27th instant.
Bishop Simpson will probably officiate.
Mr. J. H. Hay man, Fleming, Ga.. savs.
“I used Brown’s Iron Bitters for malaria
fever with most beneficial results."
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
keifer retired from the mi
nority LEADERSHIP.
His Set Back a Most Inglorious One—
Mr. Hammond Declines the Elections
Committee Chairmanship— Mr. Skin
ner, of North Carolina, Takes his Seat
After a Debate.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The event of
the session so far, aud one of the plainest
cases of personal discipline that was ever
witnessed in Congress, took place to-day.
Ex-Speaker Keifer was the subject. The
Republicans seemed to have formed them
selves into a committee to kick Keifer.
The latter on the first day of the session
assumed the leadership of the minority,
and at every opportunity has been per
sistent in asserting his right to it. This
was not agreeable to other Republicans,
aud men like Ilisoockand Reed have been
uttering mysterious threat* that at the
first chance they would let Keifer down.
That chance came to-day. The Gover
nor’s certificate that Skinner had been
elected in the First Congressional district
ol North Carolina was presented and a
motion made that he be sworn in.
To this Keifer objected. Mr. Skin
ner’s case is a peculiar one. He was
elected to succeed Pool, Republican,
deceased. Being the only member of bis
delegation elected under the new appor
tionment, his preseuce in the House on
account of the redistricting of the State
leaves two counties unrepresented and
gives a dual representation to three
others. Mr. Keifer offered a resolution
with a long preamble that the case go to
the Committee on Elections and Mr. Skin
ner's so at remain vacant until that com
mittee had reported and the House had
acted upon its report.. He said that the
Governor acted contrary to the State and
United States laws in issuing a certificate
to Mr. Skinner. He did all this w*ith the
assurance of a leader, expecting to be fol
lowed by his party, but he was not.
Messrs. Reed, liiscoek and Belford
pounded and marked him. They took de
light in show ing how foolish and contrary
to law and precedent it would be to
keep vacant a seat when there
was a man here with a certificate of
the Governor of his State that lie was en
titled to it. Much more did they say.
While all of it was not aimed ostensibly
at Keifer, it was as plain as day what it
meant. Keifer was very uneasy. He
shitted about hunting for' some Republi
cans to support him. He only found Cal
kins, of Indiana, who evidently got up
out ol courtesy to the man who had made
him Chairman of the Elections Commit
tee iu the last House. His heart was not
in it. He only said a very few words.
Mr. Keiter tried to get out of the range
of so many boots wielded by his own par
ty by withdrawing itis objection to Skin
tier being sworn in. That was
done, but he was to have a
worse ordeal to go through for his resolu
tion as amended. He was the only Repub
lican who stood up to be counted. His face
was fiery red. He looked really pitiful.
He stood confessed a leader without fol
lowing. It w*as a very bad day tor him.
Mr. Keifer won’t consider himself the
minority leader any longer.
Senator Call to-day introduced a bill to
pay all soldiers who were enlisted in the
several Indian wars in Florida.
CARLISLE S COMMITTEES.
Air., Carlisle is still hard at work
making up the committees. He will an
nounce them next Monday. lie has not
yet completed a single committee, except
the Ways and Means. He is having as
much trouble as his predecessors in
satisfying the members in placing them.
The Chairmanships of the most im
portant committees stand about as
they have heretofore been given in
these dispatches, except that of
Foreign Atiairs. It is impossible to say
whether Mr. Cox or Mr. Belmont will get
that Chairmanship. The Ways and
Means Committee, which, it w ill be seen,
is a strong tariff-reform body, will be as
follows: Messrs. Morrison, Blackburn,
Hurd, Hammond, Hewitt of New York,
Hancock and Herbert, Democrats, and
Messrs. Kelly, Kasson, Iliscock,McKinley
and Russell, Republicans. Of the Appro
priations Committee the following will be
sonie.ot the members: Mr. Randall, Chair
man, Messrs. Blount, Miils, Dorsheimer,
Follett, Evins and Hatch, Democrats, and
Messrs. Keifer and Cannon will be of its
Republican members.
GIBSON’S SUGAR BILL.
Senator Gibson introduced in the Senate
to-day a bill to provide lor giving notice
to the Hawaiian Government of a desire
on the part of the United States Govern
ment to abrogate the commercial treaty
between the two nations. The bill is the
same which Mr. Gibson has introduced at
every session of Congress since the treaty
went into efiect, first in the House and
afterwards in the Senate.
HAMMOND REJECTS A CHAIRMANSHIP.
Mr. Hammond has rejected the Chair
manship of the Elections Committee. He
was offered it the other night, and Mr.
Carlisle was to-day notified by him that
he declined it. Mr. Hammond having
served six years on the Judiciary Com
mittee, would have liked to have had the
Chairmanship of it, but it was given to
Mr. Tucker some time ago.
SEN ATE CONFIRMATIONS.
The Senate to-day confirmed the nomi
nation of Internal Revenue Commissioner
Evans, United States Treasurer Wyman
and Assistant Treasurer Graves, Richard
Gibbs to be United States Minister to Bo
livia, and a number of minor Postmasters
and other officers.
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Mr. Keifer Makes Himself Heard in tlie
Skinner Case.
Washington, Dec. 19.—1n the House
this morning, Mr. Scales, of North Caro
lina, presented the certificate of election
of Thomas G. Skinner as Representative
elect from the First district of North Caro
lina. After the reading of the certificate
Mr. Keifer, of Ohio, ottered a resolution
reciting that at the November election W.
R. Poole was elected as Representative
from the First district of North Carolina;
that he died August 25, 1883; that since
the election of Mr. Poole the Legislature
has redistricted the State and created a
new First district; that the Governor
of North Carolina ordeted an
election, by virtue of which Mr.
Skinner claims the seat, and that to ad
mit him would leave one county without
representation, while another county
would have two Representatives, and re
ferring Mr. Skinner’s credentials t the
Committee on Elections with power to
ascertain and report all the facts pertain
ing to the vacancy and the election to till
the same. 3lr. Keifer contended that the
resolution presented a question which
should be inquired into by the Committee
on Elections, and asserted that the paper
read could not be called a certificate at till
within the meaning of the rules which
have prevailed in the House. The very
fact that the paper bore the date of the 13th
of December, 1883, uggested that it had
cost a good deal of trouble, time and
mental anxiety to get a paper which
would not show what the law required
should be shown. Asa matter of fact
there had not been a vacancy in the dis
trict which Mr. Skinner claimed to repre
sent. He quoted from precedents to show
that in cases of vacancy, when in the
interim between the first and second elec
tions the State had been mhstricted, the
second election was held in the old dis
trict, and not, as in the pending ease, in
the new.
There was, he admitted, a precedent to
be found in the Perkins case in the Thirty
first Congress which might be cited to
strengthen Mr. Skinner’s position. Air.
Perkins was elected from anew district
to fill a vacancy occurring in an old dis
trict, and he was admitted to his seat by
a vote of 98 to 90, nut all authorities pre
sented grave reasons for questioning the
soundness ot that decision.
Ml Scales, of North Carolina, out
lined the history of the case aud con
tended that there was no reason why
suspicion should attach to the fact
that the certificate bore date of the
13th of December, 1883, because the can
vassing board did not meet and act until
that day. There was no weight in the
claim that the paper read was not a cer
tificate of election. It was a commission
to Air. Skinner declaring that he had been
duly elected as. Representative from the
First district of North Carolina, and
with that commission in his hand he
came and insisted that he should
be accorded his right to a seat.
There was but one precedent for this
case, that of Perkins, of New Hampshire,
cited by the gentleman from Ohio (Air.
Keifer), Mr. Perkins, standing in the
identical position in which Mr. Skinner
now stood, was sworn in, and acting
under the only precedent known to law
the Governor of North Carolina had issued
his writ. Air. Scales argued at some
length that Mr. Skinner presented an in
vulnerable prima facie case. If the
house should hereafter come to the con
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, DECEAIBER 20, 1883.
clusion that Air. Skinner was not entitled
to the seat he could be unseated, but it
should not deny his prima facie right.
Air. Springer, of Illinois, waiving an ar
gument upon the prima facie case which
he considered to bo perfectly made out.
passed on to a brief discussion of the
merits of the question, contending that
the decision of the Governor of North
Carolina as to the place of holding the
election was binding upon the House, and
that the election of Air. Skinner was in
accordance with the law of that State.
.Mr. Mills, of Texas, contined himself to
a review of precedents in election cases,
asserting that in an unbroken line they
showed that when a member came to the
House with a certificate lrom the proper
authorities he was entitled to be sworn in.
Air. Belford, of Colorado, said thatin the
blazing light of the 19th century he thought
that the Republican and Democratic
parties could afford to be honest. Each
had endured, as the fortune of the parties
had alternated, a large number of politi
cal outrages. They had been practiced
on both sides, and it was idle to conceal
their commitment. Now a gentleman
comes to the House claiming to be repre
seututive-elect from North Carolina, and
bearing a certificate from the Governor of
that State. It was his deliberate judg
ment that the gentleman should be sworn
in on the prima facie case, whether he was
Democrat, Greenbacker or Republican.
He thought that the position of the gen
tleman from Ohio (Mr. Iveifer) was un
sound, and could be overcome
with purely logical reasoning, and
if the House should set itself up to ig
nore, refuse and repudiate certificates
issued by the Governors of the respec
tive States, it was committing a mas
terful mistake, into the bosom of which
he, for one, did not propose to drop.
Air. Iliscock, of New York, offered as a
substitute for Air. Keifer’s resolution a
resolution for the immediate swearing in
ot Mr. Skinner, and the reference of
the case to the Committee on Elec
tions, with inslructions to report
at the earliest practical moment
whether Mr. Skinner was elected front
the First District of North Carolina, as
created before the last Congressional
apportionment, or in the district in
North Carolina created in that State
since the election of Air. Poole,
and whether Air. Skinner was elected
from the proper district. Air. Iliscock
stated that he sympathized with the re
marks made by the gentleman from Colo
rado (Air. Belford), that it was dangerous
to question the prima facie right of a man
to a seat on the floor. After further de
bate by .Messrs. Hnrd aud Keifer of Ohio,
Reed of Alaine, and Calkins of Indiana,
Air. Keifer withdrew his resolution, and
Air. Iliscock his substitute,whereupon Air.
Skinner appeared at the bar of the House
and qualified. Air. Keifer then renewed
his resolution, the pr iambie having been
eliminated, and Mr. Iliscock again offered
his resolution as a substitute. Air. His
cock warned the Republican side that if
Air. Keifer’s resolution was adopted the
result would be that no report would be
made before the end of the session, where
as the Committee on Elections could, in a
short time, report on the question involved
iu his substitute. Mr. Hiscock’s substi
tute was agreed to. The bulk of the
Democratic members voted in the nega
tive, and the bulk of the Republicans in
the affirmative. The original resolution,
as amended, was agreed to.
Mr." Morrison, of Illinois, offered a con
current resolution for a holiday recess
from Alondav, December 24, 1883, until
Thursday, 3d of January, 1884. He stated
that if the resolution was agreed to he
would ask unanimous consent that no
business should be.transacted on Monday
except the appointment of the commit
tees. The resolution was agreed to by
143 to 21, with the understanding referred
to in Air. Alorrison’s statement.
Air. Blackburn, of Kentucky, from the
Committee on Rules, repovee’d a resolu
tion for the creation of the following
select committees, with the same
membership which was accorded
to similar committees at the last Con
gress: Civil service reform law; respect
ing the election of President and Vice
President; payment of pensions, bounty
and back pay; public health and ventila
tion and acoustics of the Hall of Repre
sentatives. Also, for the creation of a
committee on American shipbuilding and
ship owning interests, to consist of seven
members, which shall investigate the
causes of the decline of the American
foreign carrying trade.
Air. Reed, of Alaine, offered an amend
ment for the creation of a committee on
the alcoholic liquor traffic. After some
debate Mr. Reed’s amendment was adop
ted by 143 yeas to 88 nays.
On motion of Air. Willis, of Kentucky,
an amendment was adopted increasing
the membership of the select committees,
so that they shall be composed as follows:
Civil Service Reform, 13 members; Law*
Respecting the Election of President, 13
members; Pension, Bounty and Back
Pay, Public Health, and Liquor Traffic,
each 9 members; Ventilation of the Hall,
7 members, and American Shipping, 11
members. The original resolution, as
amended, was agreed to.
Air. Blackburn also reported a resolu
tion for the raising of the standing Com
mittee ou Labor, to which shall be re
ferred measures affecting labor; limiting
the jurisdiction of the Committee on Ed
ucation and Labor, and providing that it
shall hereafter be known as the Commit
tee on Education.
Air. Willis, of Kentucky, offered an
amendment, increasing the membership
of twenty-three of the standing commit
tees from eleven to thirteen, and for the
retention of the Committee on Education
and Labor. After a speech in advocacy
ot his amendment, Air. Willis withdrew
it with the understanding that its subject
matter should lie considered by the Com
mittee on Rules, and then the original
resolution was adopted.
Air. Blackburn lurther reported a reso
lution for the creation of a Committee
on Rivers and Harbors, and it was laid
over for action until to-morrow.
Air. Blackburn reported adversely on
the resolution for the removal of the desks
ot the members, and it was laid upon the
taLL*. .
Air. Keifer, ol Ohio, front the same com
mittee, reported without reconnneudation
a resolution for the appointment ol a Com
mittee on Woman Suffrage. It was laid
over until to-morrow.
Air. Calkins, of Indiana, offered a reso
lution, which was adopted, calling on the
Secretary of State for all communications,
documents and [tapers in his possession
relating to the trial, conviction and exe
cution of the late Patrick O’Donnell by
tlie British Government.
The Senate amendment to the recess
resolution was concurred in.
The Speaker appointed Alessrs. Iloblitz
ell of Alarylund. Cabell of Virginia, Wil
son of West Virginia, Kasson of lowa,
and Long of Alassachusetts as members
ot the Special Committee on the Centen
nial Anniversary of Washington’s Sur
render of His Commission as Commander -
in-Cbief of the Army.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate this morning prayer was
offered by the new Chaplain. After the
reading of the journal a number of pe
titions and memorials w*ere presented and
several bills were introduced.
The bill adopting the mean time of the
seventy-fifth meridian as the local time of
the District of Columbia, was reported
from the committee and adopted without
debate.
The Senate then resumed consideration
of the unfinished business of yesterday,
the rules.
Air. Frye withdrew his call for the yeas
and nays on the clause of the first rule,
relating to the three-dav limitation, on the
authority of the Vice President’s substi
stitute. The clause was then voted on,
and was rejected, leaving the rule about
as it has been heretofore, but when the
rule comes up in the Senate, when not in
committee of the whole, the subject may
be again brought up.
The second rule, providing that the
Senate may elect Secretary, Chief Clerk,
etc., was then read. Air. Frye said that this
simply formulates into a rule what has
heretoloie beeu the practice of the Senate,
these officers having heretofore been
elected without a formal rule. After de
bate this rule was disagreed to. Several
of the uew rules were then agreed
to after a few verbal amendments.
The clause of the fifteenth rule gave
rise to considerable debate, in w : hich
Alessrs. Bayard, Beck, AlcPberson,
Sherman. Ingalls and Jones ot Florida
participated. It reads as follows: “Ev
ery resolution of inquiry addressed to the
President of the United States or to the
heads of the departments shall, if objected
to, be referred to the committee having
jurisdiction of the subject matter of §uch
resolution. Said committee shall report
thereon within one week thereafter,
and said resolutions shall be in order for
consideration when reported." Theclause
was rejected.
A message was received from the House
embodying the concurrent resolution
passed" by that body to the effect that
when Congress adjourns on Monday next
it be to Thursday, the 3d of January, 1884,
and asking the concurrence of the
Senate thereto. The message was
read and the Senate then went
■ into executive session. On the termina
tion of the executive session the resolu
tion of the House relatiug to the holiday
recess was taken up. On motion of Mr.
Allison the date lor reassembling of the
two houses was made Monday, January
.7, instead of Thursday, January 3.
A message from the President was laid
before the Senate transmitting the corres
pondence recently called for by the reso
lution of Senator Miller, of California, in
relation to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.
The Senate then adjourned.
DISEASES AMONG SWINE.
Commissioner Curtis Reports the Ru
mors Exaggerated.
Washington, Dec. 19.—Air. Curtis,
member of the commission appointed by
the President to investigate the diseases
among swine, has just returned from the
West and submitted his report to Commis
sioner Loring, of the Department of Agri
culture. Air. Curtis visited all of the
great packing houses in Chicago, and ex
amined the condition of hogs ou the farms,
and reports that there is a great deal less
disease among AVestern swine than has
been reported. So far as feeding is con
cerned he is satisfied that it is conducted
in a manner conducive to the health of
the animals, and he declares that there is
absolutely no foundation for the reports
ttiat have been circulated to the effect
that hogs are fed on offal from slaughter
Ito uses and farms. Air. Curtis expresses
the opinion that two inspectors, with one
or more laboring assistants in each
packing house, will be sufficient
to thoroughly inspect ~ all pork for
foreign or domestic markets. The report
states that the Western people were
found to be extremely anxious for the
adoption ol some efficient svstem of in
spection in pork, so that they themselves,
as well as the foreign market, mav be
protected against trichin* and sitnilar
diseases. Therefore, they were willing to
co-operate with everv attempt made by
the government to give American pork a
good reputation based upon its thoroughly
good quality. It is suggested to Commis
sioner Loring (hat Western hogs might
be improved by an infusion of new blood
of good quality as close in-and-in
breeding which has been pursued lor
many years, especially in the case of
i’oland-China hogs, has tended to in
crease the production of fat, and to
somewhat enervate the constitution of
the animal. A full commission to inves
tigate diseases of American swine will
be called together at the Department of
Agriculture about the middle of January,
and Commissioner Loring has no doubt
that they will be ready at that time to
report.
THE BROTHER IN BLACK.
A Meeting of the National Executive
t omiuittee Held at Washington.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The Executive
Committee appointed at the Colored Na
tional Convention held iti Louisville last
September, which consists of two dele
gates from each State, met to-day in this
city. Chairman W. A. Pledger, of At
lanta, Ga., called the committee to order,
aud the roll of States being ealled, the
following responded, either by delegates
or by proxy: Alabama, Georgia, District
ot Columbia, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Aiissouri, North Carolina,
Texas, Virginia, New York and New
Jersey. Frederick Douglass entered
while the committee was in session and
suggested that it pass a resolution,
if it couUl be done, unanimously indorsing
Judge Harlan’s dissenting civil rights
opinion. He also advised calling a na
tional convention shortly before the Re
publican aud Democratic conventions
were to be held.
A committee was appointed to prepare
an address to the public on the subject of
the recent killing of negroes in Virginia.
The Chairman was instructed to call ou
President Arthur and ask him to name a
day upon which it would be convenient
for him to have the committee call and
pay their respects.
Phillips’ Indian Retainer.
'\ ASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—C01. Boudinot
to-day presented a written application for
District Attorney Corkhill askifig him to
prosecute AVm. A. Phillips, of Kansas,
charged by Col. Boudinot with violating
the Revised Statutes in making contracts
and receiving money from Indians. The
names of six witnesses, including Secre
tary Teller and Indian Commissioner
Price, were furnished to the District
Attorney.
Ordered to Charleston.
Washington, Dec. 19.*-Passed Assis
tant Surgeon H. H. Cook, of the Alarine
Hospital Service, has been directed to pro
ceed from Galveston,Texas, to CharlestfTn,
S. C., to relieve Assistant Surgeon 11. T.
Bennett, who has been placed on sick
leave.
The Proteus Inquiry.
Washington, Dec. 19.—The court of
inquiry into the loss of the steamer Pro
teus met again to-day. Capt. Pike, of the
Proteus, to secure whose presence a long
adjournment was taken, has not yet ar
rived. He is expected to-morrow.
FIRE’S FEARFUL HAVOC.
Three Cotton Warehouses Ablaze at
Baltimore.
Baltimore, Dec. 19, 10:30 a. m.— Fire
broke out this morning in the three ware
houses of the Baltimore AVarehouse Com
pany on the Union Dock. The entire fire
department was called out, and is still at
work. About 2,000 bales of cotton are re
ported to be in the buildings, much of
which is badly damaged and a great deal
destroyed.
Baltimore, Dec. 19.12:30 p.m.—Short
ly after It o’clock the fire was got under
control, warehouse No. 1 being completely
burned out, and also the third story of
w arehouses Nos. 2 and 3. The south wall
and gable end of warehouse No. 1 tell, se
verely injuring two truckmen.
Baltimore, Dec. 19,10 p. m.— The Fire
Inspector to-night estimates the damage
to the buildings and stock at $125,000. The
buildings were filled with cotton, canned
goods and tin plate. The warehouse com
pany is fully insured on its advances.
There is in addition some $50,000 of indi
vidual insurance on goods on which ad
vances have not been made by the
warehouse company. The firemen hurt
by the falling of the wall were Capt. Win.
Dunn and Joseph V. Doughertv, of No. 1
Truck, and Bradley, of No. 11 Engine.
Dunn and Bradley were only slightly in
jured, but Dougherty was seriously hurt.
He was taken from the debris uncon
scious, and it is thought that he is injured
internally. No. 1 Truck was almost en
tirely destroyed, having received the full
force of the fall ol the wall. To-night the
lire is under complete control and no fur
ther damage is apprehended.
At the State Capital.
Atlanta, Dec. 19. — The Supreme Court
to-day finished case 20 and disposed of
case 21, the Mayor ol Savannah vs. Don
nelly; case 22, Hazzard vs. the Mayor of
Savannah; case 23, Wilder & Cos., vs. the
same. Case 24 has already been argued.
Case 25, Pritchard vs. Comer & Cos., was
concluded in the morning. The court
hopes to finish the Eastern Circuit to
morrow or Friday and adjourn over to
January 7. No decisions will be rendered
until that time.
Adjutant General Stephens to-day at
tached the Hancock Vanguard, of Sparta*,
to the Second battalion at Macon.
A FATAL STABBING AFFRAY.
Col. Varnadoe, formerly ot Thonias
ville, and well known in police circles
here, stabbed Asbury Whitehead about
midnight on Decatur street during a per
sonal difficulty, from which stabs he died
this forenoon. Varnadoe is in jail, and
claims to have acted in self-defense.
CURRY RECOVERING.
Henry Curry, the negro who attempted
suicide iu Fulton county jail yesterdav,
is rapidly recovering, he not being severeiv
injured.
ERSKINE RETIRES.
John Erskine, Judge of the Southern
District of Georgia, resigned to-dav. He
is over 70 years of age, and retires on a
salary.
The Irun A flair Exaggerated.
Paris, Dec. 19. — The newspapers here
state semi-officially that the reported
difficulty at Irun between the French
Ambassador to Spain and the railway
officials in consequence of the former
walking in a private portion of the rail
way station has been greatly exaggerated.
The papers add that the relations of the
French Ambassador at Madrid and the
Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs are
excellent.
“My Back ia Non- Well."
This is what Mr. Clough, of Lowell,
Mass., was happy to say aftor his wife
had given him a good rubbing with Perry
Davis’ Pain Killer, and administered a
dose inwardly. For four Years he had
been crippled with rheumatism, and suf
fered agony in his back. After using Pain
Killer, he went to his business with com
fort, and is now as well as ever he was.
O’DONNELL’S EXECUTION.
A DENUNCIATORY MEETING IIELD
AT WASHINGTON.
Congressmen Robinson, Calkins, Finer
ty and Belford Bristling with Speeches
—Lord Lowell and the Anglo-Mania
Under Fire—The Hanging Proclaimed
an Insult to this Government.
Washington, Dec. 19.—A large meet
ing was held this evening at Ford’s Opera
House, under the auspices of the Clan-
Na-Gael Society, to express, in the
words of the call, “American opinion
and feeling with regard to the judicial
murder of Patrick O’Donnell by the Brit
ish authorities.”
Congressman Robinson presided. He
stated the object of the meeting, and said
that O Donnell was not the first Irishman
whom England had murdered, nor did he
suppose that he would be the
last, for there was an interminable
war between Ireland and England.
He thanked God for that,because England
represented oppression of power and
everything that was bad and despicable
in the nineteenth century. He criticised
the Anglo-mania which led American
people to fete and make much ol English
men who visited America simply because
they were Englishmen, ne did not mean
to find fault with the 55,000,000 citizens of
the United States, but with 500,009 dudes
who flocked in the train of
every Englishman. The United States
could not afford to have its
citizens arrested in England without pro
test, nor to have them convicted without
a fair trial. The name of Patrick O’Don
nell was prouder and more houored than
those of all the Queens and monarchs of
the world. He stated his intention to get
the House of Representatives to say
whether it approved of the course of the
Minister to Eugland. If he had been a
true representative of the United States
Patrick O’Donnell would be alive to-day.
“Lord” J. Russell Lowell must come
home. The whole diplomatic cirps was a
disgrace to America.
CONGRESSMAN CALKINS,
ol Indiana, said that he was not here be
cause he had Irish blood in his veins, but
because he bad always been a lover of
liberty and because he hated tyranny and
intolerance. He hoped to live to see the
day when the people of Ireland shall be
as free as the citizens of the United States.
The time was not far off when the tyranny
under which Ireland had been oppressed
would be broken. If it should turn out
when proper investigations had been
made that O’Donuell had been convicted
in spite of a defense, in spite of law and
against it, then Ireland would have added
one more patriot to her long line of indi
vidual sufferers for freedom.
CONGRESSMAN FINKRTY,
of Illinois, said that this meeting had
been called to lament the impotency of a
great nation which, >y a nation not fit to
black its shoes, had been insulted in the
person of its President. There was a day
when the cannon of the United States,
leeble to-day, would have answered the
insult and defiance of England. The
question was not so much one of Irish
liberty as one of American decadence.
Ther'e was never an insult more direct or
more inexcusable than the refusal of Lord
Granville to consider the request of
the American nation. Suppose that the
President, on Friday night, had tele
graphed to Mr. Lowell: “I demand the
respite of Patrick O’Donnell for 90 days,
or diplomatic relations will be suspend
ed.” If he had said that the blood of the
nation would have been up, and if Eng
land had sent her fleets thev would
have been met as they had been‘met be
fore. Referring to the contest for the
Chairmanship of the House Committee
on Foreign Affairs he said that the back
bone of a certain party would resent
the appointment of any man said
to be under the influence of England as
the head of that committee. If one party
was responsible for Minister Lowell he
did not want another party to be respon
sible for a gentleman who’was certain to
be an ally and supporter of the policy of
that Minister. He had spoken these
words as a Democrat, knowing the back
bone of the party, because he thought that
some Democrats should tell the presiding
officer of the House what people of his
sentiments thought of surrendering the
control of foreign affairs into the hands of
a clique who believed in hobnobbing with
the English aristocracy. The sneaker
also referred in eulogistic terms to
Blaine’s foreign policy when Secretary of
State.
CONGRESSMAN BELFORD,
of Colorado, indorsed the remarks of Con
gressman Robinson, and asserted that
O’Donnell had done an absolute com
mendable act in killing a sneak. Had he
been tried in Colorado the jury would have
have acquitted him without retiring. A
man who entered into a conspiracy and
then gave away his confederates in order
to save his own ueck had no right to live.
The meeting, which was very enthusi
astic, and frequently interrupted the
speakers with loud cheers, then adjourned,
after the adoption of resolutions con
demnatory of the action of England in the
O’Donnell case.
The Mayo Conspirators.
Cork, Dec. 19.—1n the trial of the Mayo
murder conspirators Andrew Coleman,
the principal witness for the prosecution,
testified yesterday that the prisoners
were plotting murders while attend
ing mass. This testimony created a
sensation. The cross-examination failed
to shake Coleman. At to-day’s session
of the court a policeman testified
to finding rifles in an old castle in Countv
Meath marked with the initials of the
Irish Republican Brotherhood. They also
testified to finding infernal machines. The
prisoners are Thomas A. McCawley,
Patrick W. Nally, Thomas Daly, James
King, Peter Monelly, Matthew Melvin,
and one other. The venue of the trial was
changed from County Mayo to Cork on
the application of the’ counsel for the At
torney General.
Surrendering His Naturalization Papers
New York, Dec. 19.—A young man
rushed excitedly into the Naturalization
Bureau to-day, deposited a letter on the
clerk’s desk and then disappeared. It
was addressed to the Judges of the Court
ol Common Pleas, and the writer signed
himself “John Joseph Ryan,” a citizen
of the Irish republic. The letter con
tained his naturalization papers, which
were dated October 13, 1880, and a note
which stated that he wished to have his
name erased from the American citizen
ship roll, seeing how American citizens
were strung up unmercifully in England,
while others were allowed to languish in
prison.
The Work of the League.
Dublin, Dec. 19.—At a meeting of the
National League, an organizer who re
cently returned from America said that
the Americans do not seek to direct the
movement in Ireland, but only wish that
the Irish would display energy, and that
American support would he in proportion
to the amount ot work done.
London, Dee. 19.—Premier Gladstone
was attended by policemen while at
prayers to-day in the church at Ilawar
den.
BERNHARDT IN A PASSION.
She Attacks the Author of a Biography
and Causes a Free Fight.
Paris, Dec. 19.—The satirical biography
of Sarah Bernhardt, written by her for
mer friend, Marie Colombier, has been
the cause of a duel between the friends of
the women, and of a scandalous quarrel
between the actress and the author.
Sarah, incensed because she was de
scribed as a she Barnum, asked the police
to seize the book. The police replied
that she must seek redress at the civil
tribunal. Sarah with her son proceeded
on Tuesday to Marie Colombier’s lesi
denee and struck the author of the book
in the face with her riding whip with
lull force. Marie fled, pursued by Sarah,
who smashed everything in her way. In
the meanwhile friends of the women in
dulged iu a free fight in another part of
the house. It is stated that the affair will
lead to a number of duels.
Mampoor Bunglingly Hanged.
Cape Town, Dec. 19.—Details have
been received here bv mail ot the recent
hanging oi Chief Mampoer at Pretoria.
Mampoer was led naked to the jail yard
in the presence of 200 whites. The first
rope used broke when the trap was
spruug, and Mampoer fell into tie pit
below. He was dragged out immediately,
however, and another attempt to hang
him was successful.
Walsh Reinstated.
New Orleans, Dec. 19.—At a meeting
of the City Council last night the charges
against City Treasurer B. 'Walsh were
withdrawn, and he was reinstated in
office.
Mr. H. V. Tiflins, Bull’s Creek, Ga.,
says: “My wife recovered very quickly
from malaria and biliousness by üßing
Brown’s Iron Bitters.”
THE SONS OF TOIL.
Strikes and Suspensions Showing No
Diminution.
Pittsburg. Dec. 19.—The Western Nail
Association met this morning, and after a
session lasting until 2 o’clock this after
noon it was decided to close down for six
weeks, from December 29th till February
11. The meeting was one of the largest
ever held, every mill in the West being
represented in person or by letter. The
stoppage is for the purpose of restricting
the production. Stocks are light and Ill
assorted. but trade is reported io be fair.
The card rate remains unchanged. The
stoppage will throw several thousaud
men out of employment. The manufac
turers hope by the suspension to improve
trade. The employes are very despondent,
having already lost nearly four months
this year by similar suspensions.
This afternoon 3,000 men employed in
the National Tube Works at McKeesport
were notified of a general reduction on
January 1. It the terms are not accepted
the works will close down indefinitely
after that date.
The Manchester Iron and Steel Com
pany’s furnace wfll 3u p p°rd o”em*ions
Saturday, throwing 300 men out of work.
The galvanizers in Oliver & Roberts’
wire mill struck to-day because non-union
machinists had taken the places of the
strikers who went out two weeks ago.
The Volt Iron Works at Apollo, Pa.,
which closed down a fortnight ago on ac
count of a strike, resumed operations to
day, the men accepting the reduction.
Boston, Dec. 19.—A dispatch from Willi
mantic, Conn., report that the Williman
tic Thread Company, employing over 1,000
hands, contemplates reducing its opera
tions owing to the dull times, and that a
proposition is under consideration to sell
its great No. 4 mill, recently finished, to the
Pullman Car Company. The report says
that the Pullman Car Company would
Utilize it for its Eastern branch works.
Col. Barrow, now an official of the Pull
man Car Company, was until recently
President of the Willimantic corporation.
The manufacturing # interests report
growing dullness in several sections of
Connecticut. The Pratt & Whitney Com
pany, machinery manufacturers, of Hart
ford, have reduced their force 200 men—
from 700 to 500—and a reduction to eight
hours’ time maybe necessary. A time
reduction has already been made at a
large brass manufactory in Waterbury,
and several other factories there are
running only four or five days in the
week.
Mr. Carmel, Pa., Dee. 19.—Work at
the different collieries in Northumberland
county was suspended to-day until the
20th inst., throwing 12,000 employes out
of work.
New York, Dec. 19.—The French work
ingmen delegates, w r ho came here to in
spect the manufactures of the country
niul the condition of the laboring classes',
sailed to-day for Havre.
Montreal, Dec. 19.—At a meeting of
otton manufacturers here to-day a pro
position to continue the agreement to les
sen the produeiion beyond the Ist of Jan
uary was not adopted, as the trade is now
improving and looking better.
Pittsburg, Dec. 19.—A strike for the
district price will be inaugurated by the
coal miners of the third pool to-morrow.
About 1,500 men are expected to quit
work.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S EXHIBIT.
Commissioner General Morehead Se
cures an Appropriation of SIO,OOO.
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 19.—A bill
appropriating SIO,OOO for a State.exhibit
at the World’s Exposition and Cotton Cen
tennial at New Orleans, which passed
the House yesterday, was unani
mously passed by the Senate to
day. Previously to the passage ot the
bill Commissioner General Morebead
spent several days in Columbia and went
beiore the various Commissioners, giving
timely information as to the scope and
magnitude of the enterprise. President
Clyde, of the Clyde system of railroads,
says that his entire system will join in
any general plan of cheap passenger and
freight rates to the World’s Exposition
next year, and that he is deeply inter
ested in the enterprise.
Commissioner General Morehead ar
rived in this city to-dav from Columbia
and had a conference with Mayor Courte
nay and other city authorities and leading
citizens on the subject of a special exhibit
by the city of Charleston. The Mayor,
who is one of the most progressive citi
zens in this State, will strongly urge the
City Council to take the proper action.
The cotton centennial feature of the expo
sition is peculiarly pertinent to the State
of South Carolina, because the eight bags
of cotton which constituted the first ship
ment from America were grown near its
capital and exported from Charleston.
Part of Charleston’s contribution will
probably be three companion pictures of
mammoth size—of Charleston in 1784,
with the ship containing the historic eight
bags of cotton sailing out of the harbor;
another, showing the port of Liverpool in
1784 on the arrival of the ship, and the
cotton being seized by order of the King
because of the opinion that so much cot
ton could not have been grown in Amer
ica, and the other showing Charleston of
to-day, with its improved harbor and
extensive shipping.
FAILURES IN BUSINESS.
Two More Large New York Firms Go
to the Wall.
New York, Dec. 19.—Bomann & Von
Bemuth, importers of zephyr worsteds
and ladies’ dress trimmings, made an as
signment to-day to Frederick A. Von Be
muth, with preferences amounting to
$74,525. Among the preterred creditors
are the North Deutscher Bank of Ham
burg for $24,000. A member of the firm
says that the cause of the failure
was the dullness ol the market,
owing to the prevailing fashions, which
are very much against their line of manu
factures. The liabilities are about $150,-
000, and the stock will sell at auction for
$135,000. The principal creditors of the
firm are German houses, from whom the
imported stock was bought.
CLOTHIERS ASSIGN.
New York, Dec. 19.—Schedules in the
insolvent assignment of Zidenbacb,
Schwab & Cos., of Broadway, clothing
merchants, place the liabilities at $742,-
193, their nominal assets at $584,134, the
actual assets at $283,155, and the contin
gent liabilities at $265,377. The assets
consist principally of accounts, which are
valued at $156,562. A stock of manufac
tured clothing, nominally worth $159,219,
is placed at the real value of $71,648. The
doubtful accounts are nominally worth
$153,689.
MACHINISTS SUCCUMB.
Cleveland, 0., Dec. 19.—The Enter
prise Machine Company, of Geneva, have
made ati assignment to'P. W. Tuttle. The
liabilities are $70,000. The assets are not
given. Seventy-five men are thrown out
of work.
The Louisiana Convention.
New Orleans, Dec. 19.—A special dis
patch from Baton Rouge says: “The
Democratic Convention met at noon. The
Committee on Credentials reported pro
gress, seating the anti-administration
delegates from east Baton Rouge. The
committee asked until 7 o’clock to-night
to complete their deliberations, which
was granted, and the convention took a
recess until 7 o’clock.
“The conventionmet again at 7 o’clock.
The Chairman of the Committee on Cre
dentials stated that thef would not be
ready to report before 10 o’clock to-mor
row.’ Some dissatisfaction being ex
pressed, the Chairman said that they
would report at that time if it took them
all night to complete their labors. The
convention then adjourned until 10 o’clock
to-morrow.”
The Creek Chieftainship.
Muskegee, I. TANARUS., Dec. 19 The Creek
Council at Okmulgee ordered a recount of
the votes for Principal Chief, and the
count elected Spieche Chief by 37 votes.
He was duly inaugurated yesterday and
took the oath of office. The' Second Chief,
who had heretofore refused to take the
oath on account of the fraudulent count
under which Perrlman was chosen, was
alse sworn in. This gives the Creek Na
tion two principal chiefs and adds another
difficulty to the situation. A large ma
jority of both houses of the Council favor
Spieche-.
Austrian Troops Massacred.
Banjulka, Bosnia,Dec. 19.—Frequent
skirmishes have taken place recently be
tween the Austrian troops and maraud
ing bands in this province. The former
suffered serious losses. It is leared that
one company of Austrians has been sur
prised and massacred.
Brown’s Bronchial Troches
for Coughs and Colds: “I do not see how
it is possible for a public man to be Jjim
se!f in winter without this admirable
aid.”— List. if. Jf. Dmna , jPocasset, Mass.
GERMANY’S PRINCE AT ROME.
His Visit to the Pope Still a Leading
Topic of Discussion.
Rome. Dec. 19.— Le Capitan Fracassa
asserts that the German Crown Prince
I manifested great svmpathy with the ele
| vated language used by the Pope yester
day upon questions of religion and mo
rality , but offered no reply thereto. It is
not believed that any negotiations were
opened between the Prince and the Pope.
La Liberta says editorially that it trusts
that the significance gireu’to the visit by
Le Moniteur de Home, the Papal organ,
will be disavowed in Berlin.
V Osservatore liomano, the clerical
newspaper. In a violent article, lays em
phasis upon the fact that the Pope can
never be free while compelled to live un
der a foreign flag, and says that the
I nnces visiting him must become aware
of this fact.
i.-- 11ie ., ( ro " n Prince of Germany and
King Humbert were present at a grand
rer iew of Italian troops to-dav*. Twenty
thousand men were in the ranks. The
weather was fine. Large crowds viewed
the pageant and manifested "r-r.test
eUtl'Ugj'SEL ~ D
The troops were drawn up in four lines
upon the meadows outside of the Porta
Popolo. The Crown Prince Frederick
”illiam and King Humbert, who were ac
companied by brilliant stall', were saluted
by the troops on arriving on the ground,
and the bands played the Prussian and
Italian national anthems. The march of
the troops occupied an hour, and was
witnessed by an immense multitude.
The spectators repeatedly cheered King
Humbert and Prince Frederick William.
Paris, Dec. 19.—The Cathoiic journal
Defense prints a telegram from Rome say
ing that when the German Crown Prince
retired yesterday alter his interview with
the Pope, the latter, wishing to preserve
the exact sense of the conversation be
tween them, dictated to his secretary a
summary of the same. The telegram adds
that the Prince proposed to close the Cul
turkampf, and that Herr Yon Scbloezer,
the Prussian Minister to the Vatican, has
received instructions to that effect.
London, Dec. 19.—Reuter’s Telegram
Company asserts that despite the state
ments of the clerical newspapers, the
visit of the German Crown Prince to the
Pope was simply a visit of courtesy.
SECRET SOCIETIES ASSAILED.
A League Formed in Philadelphia and
Denunciatory Resolutions Adopted.
Philadelphia, Dec. 19.—1n response
to an invitation to the general public
about seventy-five men last evening at
tended a meeting in Association Hall to
form an anti-secret society league. Seve
ral addresses were made and committees
appointed to perfect an orgainization. The
delegates convened again this morning
under the name of the Christian Conven
tion. At the opening there were less than
a dozen persons present. The proceedings
were opened with the reading of the
Scriptures and with prayer. A dele
gate who engaged in supplication
prayed that the people might be
delivered from a bondage greater than
that of human slavery. He also asked
that the spirit of God might open the eves
and enlighten Christians to the great
dangers attending secret societies.
Officers were chosen and addresses were
then made by J. W. Phelps, of Vermont,
Rev. J. P. Stoddard and President Blan
chard, of Lincoln College, Illinois. The
latter said that William H. Seward and
Edwin M. Stanton, of Lincoln’s Cabinet,
were anti-Masons. He spoke of Tbaddeus
Stevens as an auti-Mason, who led the
House ot Representatives, and said
that the Lodge is the evil
genius of the United States.
Resolutions were adopted denouncing
all secret societies, and declaring that the
Masonic lodge, which is in active opera
tion in every city and a considerable
number of the villages in the country,
fills our offices, secular and divine, with
its partisans, shapes our political desti
nies, and teaches corrupting morality
subversive both of the Christian religion
and of free institutions. The resolution
also declares the Grand Army of the
Republic to be an insidious, dangerous
and useless form of secret organization.
FLOOD CONQUERS SHARON,
The Control of tile Ophir Mining Com
pany Settled After a Hard Fight.
San Francisco, Dec. 19.—At the Ophir
Mining Company’s election of officers to
day there was a bitterly contested fight
between Flood, who held the control, and
Senator Sharon, who was anxious to
possess it. The election was the most
exciting since the great Hale-Norcross
light in 1868, when the shares
of that company rose to SB,OOO.
The capital stock of the Ophir Company
is $10,800,000, in shares of SIOO each. The
real fight was to obtain possession of the
milling ore, iu which all the profits lie.
Up to this morning the general belief was
that Senator Sharon would capture the
mine, but at the close the vote stood 50,-
922 for Flood, to 48,855 for Sharon. Ophir
stock sold to-day at S2O cash and $7 seller
ten days. Sharon’s defeat is said to be
due to a mistake, or to deceit. Wh#u the
name of Homer S. King, a mining broker,
was called, Sharon’s agent produced the
firm’s proxy for 2,665 shares, but the Flood
party immediately reduced this to 10,
producing 2,655 shares of actual stock.
Three similar occurrences followed, and
this gave Flood the election. While Sha
ron held all the proxies Flood held the
solid stock. The Bank of California voted
over 47,000 shares in one block for Sharon.
Spain’s Ministerial Troubles.
Madrid, Dec. 19.—1 tis believed that
a rupture is imminent between tb(i,fol
lowers of Senor Sagasta and the dynastic
Left. A Ministerial court has been held
to consider the situation. It is thought
that the government, before taking ac
tion, will await the result of the debate
in the Cortes on the reply to the royal
speech. If the government is defeated
in this matter, Senor l’osada Herrera,
Prime Minister, will leave to King Al
fonso the option of accepting the resigna
tion of the Ministry or of dissolving the
Cortes.
Sontay Reported Occupied,
Paris, Dec. 19.—1 tis reported here that
the Chinese forces have been concentrat
ed at Hung Hca,some twenty miles above
Sontay, on Red river, and atßacninh.
La Nationale La France and La Liberte
all publish rumors to the effect that
Admiral Courbet has occupied Sontay
without resistance, the Chinese having
evacuated the place upon seeing the
French troops advancing.
Eight thousand officers have offered
themselves for service in Tonquin.
Exterminating Serria's Radicals.
Belgrade, Dec. 19.—Twenty Radicals,
including M. Pascliiteb, the Radical
leader in the Skuptchina, who were con
victed of complicity in the revolt of Sep
tember and October, having fled to Bul
garia, have been sentenced to death.
There will be no Radical party in the next
Skuptchina.
The Anarchists of I’aris.
Paris, Dec. 19.—The anarchists who
lately advertised the projected meeting in
front of the Bourse have been committed
for trial. Proceedings against the other
anarchists, who were indicted for making
explosives, will begin on Friday.
The Croatian Diet Adjourned.
Agram, Dec. 19.—The President of the
Croatian Diet closed the session of that
body to-day. The minority, supported by
a number of students in the gallery,
grossly insulted the President.
Four Drowned In Maine.
Calais, Me., Dec. 19.—William Wilson,
Percy Truesdale, A. Rollins, and S. Mc-
Farland were drowned last night in St.
Andrew’s Bay by the capsizing of their
sail boaU
Two Suffocated by Gas.
Scranton, Pa., Dec. 19.—John Welsh
and Hiram Ebrgott, two patients at the
Lackawanna Hospital in this city, were
found dead in bed this morning, suffo
cated by gas. It is supposed that they
blew out the gas upon retiriug.
Burying the Wires.
New York, Dec. 19.—The Board of
Aldermen to-day adopted an ordinance
requiring electric light companies to lay
their wires under ground after two years
from May 1, 1884.
Spanish Protectionists
Barcelona, Dec. 19.—A strong protec
tionist movement has been started against
all treaties of-commerce between Spain
and foreign nations.
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CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
T. R. SMITH SHOOTS KATE THOMP
SON AT VALDOSTA.
Maj. Couper, of the Florida Southern
Railroad, Fatally Stabbed at Ocala—
Murder Among Farmers at the Same
Place—Outrage and Murder lu an Illi
nois Hotel.
\ aldosta, Ga., Dec. 19.—This morn
ing about! o’clock T. R. Smith shot Kate
Thompson in the left breast with a pistol.
Dr. Lang was called to see the woman,
and is doing all he can for her, but says
that she cannot live longer than to-night.
Mr. Smith was for several years Marshal
here and has held other offices of honor in
bis community, but his relationship to
this woman has brought him to shame.
Smith left soon after the shooting, and has
not been heard of since.
outrage and murder.
Joliet, 111., Dec. 19.—George Free
stune, 23 years of age, one of the boarders
at the Auburn House, entered the room
of head-cook Jane Haycock last night,
bound her head to prevent her screaming,
and then outraged her. When he started
to leave the room the woman gave an
alarm, when Freestone returned and cut
her throat and fled. He was arrested
while his hands were still covered with
the blood of his victim. He afterwards
coulessed the deed, and declared that he
was intoxicated at the time. The woman
is unconscious, and will probably die.
Her assailant was taken to jail amid
threats of lynching.
MA.L COUPER, OF THE FLORIDA SOUTH
ERN RAILROAD, FATALLY STABBED.
Jacksonville, Dec. 19.—A special
from Ocala says: “Maj. Couper, Chief
Engineer of the Florida Southern Rail
road, quarreled with a tie contractor
named Burchfield at Leesburg last night,
and the latter stabbed Mr. Couper fatally
in the side.”
FARMERS QUARREL FATALLY.
Another special from the same place
says: “Eighteen miles from Ocala, yes
terday, two farmers named Rawls and
Hilvenston, quarreled about some hogs,
and the former blew the side of the lat
ter’s face off with a shotgun, killing him
instantly.”
ROBBERIES AT CISCO.
New Orleans, Dec. 19.—A special dis
patch from Cisco, Texas, says: “Some
robbers entered Yarbrough's’ store at
Clyde yesterday, and forcibly rifled the
safe. A lone horseman robbed the mail
six miles south of Cisco. This coach was
robbed a few months ago in the same
manner thirty miles south ot Cisco.
Galveston, Dec. 19.—A special from
Cisco says: “The Brown wood stage, which
was robbed of its mail yesterday by a
single highwayman, was attacked again
this evening. A passenger named Hen
derson shot at the robber, and the latter,
firing back continuously, retreated as fast
as his horse could run. No one was hurt.”
HIGHWAYMEN IN OREGON.
San Francisco. Dec. 19.—A special
dispatch from Huntington, Baker county,
Oregon, reports a number of highway rob
beries at that place by a gang of seven
men at the point of the pistol. They
robbed a merehant named J. Tyler of cash
and drafts to the amount of $15,000. The
paymaster of a railroad construction
company was robbed of $12,000. Other
persons were relieved of sums ranging in
amount from S2OO to SSOO. There being no
constabulary force in the county it is
thought that the highwaymen will escape
with their booty.
two women murdered in bed.
New Orleans, Dec. 19.—A dispatch
from Clinton, La., says: “Jim George, a
colored man, residing five miles from
here, returned home late last night, and
found his daughter, aged 17 years, dead,
and another womaa mortally wounded,
who has since died. The double murder
was committed by a man who called
there during George’s absence. He found
the women in bed and shot them both.
Edward Eli, colored, lias been arrested
for the murder, the suspicion agaiust him
being strong.”
AN EMBEZZLER FOUND DEAD.
St. Louis, Dec. 19.—W. J. Pearson,
Postmaster at Batesville, Ark., was found
dead in his room, in the Hotel Barnum,
on Monday night. The post office authori
ities here say that he was some $4,000
short in his accounts, and that his where
abouts bad not been known lor a week
prior to finding him dead.
A REVENUE COLLECTOR ROBBED.
Grand Rapids, Mich., Dec. 19.—Bur
glars last night entered the residence of
E. J. Hoppins, Collector of Internal Reve
nue in this city, and stole $43,000 in money
which he had taken home to pay an obli
gation this morning. There is no clue to
the perpetrators.
MURDER ON A PLANTATION.
Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. 19.—Pat Flynn,
an agent on J.Wilsenskie’s Dunbar place,
at Lake Washington, was killed yester
day by a colored man named Howard.
The murderer has been arrested. Threats
of lvnching have been made by white and
colored citizeus. .
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Dissolution of Firm.
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merly engaged in the turpentine busines*
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