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ESTABLISHED 1850. J
j. H. ESTILL. Editor and Proprietor.!
rORGIA AND FLORIDA.
V ~OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IS PARAGRAPHS.
ms Experience of a Whaler Who
m nt Brunswick—Fires Unusual
, I rexalent Throughout the State—
i . Terrible Crime* Perpetrated at
*rt >u<tbmam will suspend soon.
W?a. Mi.unt.oJ Fort Gaines, died a day
> aje- were seen off Brunswick bar
-* secured *55 in a Macon residence
n-' 1 negro Has mysteriously disap
k's new officers will be inaugurat-
J - nth. of Ty-Ty. won the buggy
T' Ty tournament.
Pbeiio. 4' 1 *, and Mrs. Henry Win
neer.il; at Minton.
i lathe cruelties of a gan
nffMftC hrataai day.
.rot-, hare been arrested at Toccoa
iking into freight cars.
r * Conference was in progress at
- .turday and yesterday.
i' :t' residence, near Stockbridge,
■crsel. with tu contents.
. etal and inconsequential shoot -
i••• are reported at Greensboro.
.1 convict, sentenced for fifteen
• -4y county, has tieen captured at
paper will soon be started at Gib-
til '<lr the name of the Gibeon En
' celebrate the inauguration of no
: r i.r. Iges with a monster parade to
• <ns..us "l.and gold mine" will be sold at
. •! In-marrow. It is sold for partition
a k to have a pool tournament. It
-:o January 14. Prises ef $20,410 and
• . he inducements.
' , : .t. <f Forsyth county, stood too
li< . led mule and was dangerous
,red ta consequence.
It. llattAwav. a prominent citizen of
*i, was str.cken with apoplexy last
. and his condition is regarded hoi>e
■ t. '. lain has'o.>ught the old I.anier
st M.-nme. and will erect in its place a
-.ory bn k hotel, with stores under
go t arter and Miss India P. Chastain
I 11. Morel and Miss Martha V. ltelton
■wool the newly married couples of
h. Ih k<<, principal of the Spalding Semi -
-ry.d.ed anr\|,i tedly last Tuesday night
• t re*; trace of ku sister. Mrs. Waltaers,
He Martha t Inlders. ageil 60 yean*, while
n a 81. Icil :n tne dre and was burned to
death at her home tn the Fourteenth district
Prof. It T. Hunter, of Albany, has l>een
n ierrd th< Prcsid, ncy of the branch college
• .r 'ini- I diversity at CCthbcrt, and has
ect .let ti accept is.
V ginli ..ice --longing toG. W. Keatberstonc,
mi > north of Cedartown, containing
..pel* of cotton seed, was burned by an
rdiary Fnday night.
ef ' rok> into the depot at Suwannee
< the !-awrer.reville mail pouch a few
‘ago. Vo c tie to his identity had been
vrred at last accounts.
11-me. of Worth county, has a horse
; 100 ears of corn amt two sacks of oats
u .ght, and was whinnering for some
■i* mill of P. L. Craigmiles, four miles
f nomasTille, wa* burned with 12,000
-m -cr Fri tay night. Mr. Craigmiles
-..tiered three similar calamities.
\ ■ -.r two ago P. L. Cragrailes, who
f .ur miles from ThninasviHe. lost
. nil and several thousaud feet ofluiu
r. The iusurauce is $2,000, but is not
s n ghts ago an affray occurred in
.-•u ' tween Mr. James Well and a
.1 llothuian. in which the latter
lortner w th a hoanl, breaking his
Holliman was arrested,
v K. Lamar, of the Macon Telegmok
-r.wilinot.it is said, wield the
nontu.it paper after to-morrow.
.. . retirement, it is intuualcd. is
> of hi own seeking.
II '•mx-lr's furniture store in At
i'; o'clock yesterday morning did
igc. There was about $15,000 in-
The total stock, all of which is more
. , m .i t. is valued at $60,000.
.!tv I", rrj Thoma- and Wm. Brown.
uariK- . twih colored, collided on
. . .t, and a brick hurled'by
.i- at the lore head of Brown caused a
■d the skull, from which Brown
M.-.Urv. an old and highly respected
: pear Mcßae, while crossing a
v,; urday night lost his foothold, and
-wly forward broke some blood
•pc I before he could be carried
s coining report of the trustees
-■ sch sils, ft will appear that
i '.'unt res . iced the present year
• i inch $6,700 was receivei from
$ .ivvj from the County School
is Hanks county ku-klux. who have
■ and. left Atlanta Saturday night
v . V. V., under a corps of'United
- if-. They go for two years each.
' Y.-r ugh, who'is sick in jail, is being
' ; i. a colored boy, was accidental
- the careless handling of a pistol hy
1. at stark last Tuesday.
. red ix-tween the ere aud ear.
uod under the skin, and was taken
- te-ian well is at a stand
i* about 500 feet of casing its the
ie earth is caring in so rapidly
i he extracted. Work has stopped,
next step to be taken has to be de
-a l>y the County Commissioners.
M, ii turn* Record says: “We see in
enr exchanges notices from the
prohibiting the explosion of lire
\ raging cyeione might be lassoed
< f ro|w. but the American small bov
>mented from having his fun.’’
,or of the Montezuma Recortl was
I w th twin- for a i hristmas present,
w pretty little things, one a blonde
. .h. r a brunette, made of china, and
-non the Christmas tree Tuesday
ii v -din* jont.g lady at Spalding.”
: o. kner, of Hall county, tried to
s\-d( at the expense of a Macon
mk. but when he lost $270 in the at
weot to the t>oiice and secured tlieir
- - e- man attempt to recover the money.
Tbs gamblers were to be arrested Saturday
V .V.xna of (iv oecarwJ at Runbriiigt
• It! rM;n in the direction from
jinx-vc-S-t iih the fire engine,
rv 4. ‘ ii-.na. a w orthy merchant, member
*•• -tumbled ami fell, ami the
a-.sd !, ml wheel- |iawel over one hip ami
omen, inflicting sertons injuries,
; -ar-oi-l son of Ur. P. I', tieer. of Cal
> >.t', pi-reha-ot. amongother article*,
• j oaih-r ami a lot of fire Crsck
>m r -lurt.ng home, in popping tome tire
- t K , ;-..ier vu ignited ami ex
i. n*> i voting veer ami two negroes, who
n the wagon with him. were seriously
one of t Ik negroes perhaps fatally.
thr\ ,igti r. ght freight train No. X. Hast
*nh a .rvmia ami Georgia, that left
-•- k Kruiay night, while
rateof Smites an hour, ran off
1 timber tilt. Kngiue. four dal ami
\ - ars were" itucned. No one was hurt,
kihert MaMhewa. engineer on a tram road
*, at Ha-tte’s Mills had both legs
i -bgift.
mtai a party of malicious villains drew
- Ana out of a rail on the Hast Tennessee.
a an 1 Georgia Railroad, near Prentice.
;h. aryart rf throwing the south bound
• ito track, h'ngineer tieorge Sher
. bt tig;;.g worth hound freight, passed
1 he rail sprung up immediately
. - the passage of the tram.and was seen m
avert a senow# run off that awaited
.;hor traiH.
1 . . - > lev eonalv reporterof the Americas
• sav-; ; ’lat Thursday morning
! -. si-iVr of seaborn Mien, amt who
- ;een a title dt ene<t for the past few
• - pro tired some maiohe- amt splinters
‘vi. ml the house and fired her clothing.
■*wi i were slrnnei hv her ones and rau
to Cad her clothing about al, burned off.
v > '.icat at as summoned. l>ut the homing
a fatal, and shedie*!l the next day, leav
tluw f r* rhiMiva.’’
The Rraaswielt #em*h#aay*: "The whaler
es-\ t apt. Malone- arrived in Brunswick
sts-io ihiMiug. She brought 211 barrels
-he i* out from West Indies two
la an encounter with a whale on the
* i the I*ih, in a rain storm. Capt. Ma
hal awe of his boats crushed, an one of
• .i- m fall ng knocked -ro senseless
M.t.-h owidiiton be remained some time.
been reamed from the water bv the
* iN> . rvw . The |Mitt afterwards harpooned
hair-hip, and the a plain recovering.
- - 4 >- swootiag him and thus getting bis
v**ww-s doWW.**
T'. > .-.win* t from the of Bruns
wl*4: *• W',H>wlhe truck farmers ail ovtrGeor
i sha'l % \amine the hne lands along the line
. Brw- k amt W estern Katlmad. and
V snarer Hum to make them special rates
■ the irawMkvnatmw of their product* to
~x< t. it u> safe hi say that that section will
me a* wealthy and populous a* almost
vmmi of Georgia. uri the truck farm -
-<ak haste to pick out their farms and
a WMMWcweenwnt ia this important
of industry along the lino of the
n-.ni.-k and Wwstem Road.”
Renas* *dk ITeewM savs: ••Some mall
- httowf. w hom the law ought to put where
i * mo barm, put flv* bars of soap In the
t tank on the Rrwaewu k and Western
. near WaaeniMs. on t fcrtstma* day. The
* - < \ mn trww, that came along next.
* sap nth the soapy water,and soapy
WHS i..v wake steam. So the engine
.- 1 u .m Use u-aek. without steam or
power to make St. until another engine
. t oe -eat out snpnll the former tram amt
. V onward. This ion Christmas prank
• mas mWmf Ihnnv nor smart, hut as dan
a- ws matuuma. Let a not be re
pemnd.*
v right-, e—ta og store. 3. P. Dcke’s livery
-SS- . awl rin horse*, both buildings being
■ -ed h Mr. W right, wee* destroyed by Are
' Cedarwwn at ff o'clock Friday morning.
M* hr:--* -i*r <3 A. 3. Y-nag,occupied by
Tdr it ms. fa mile groceries; the wooden
inihUaff of John Mcrrctl, occupied by Owen
Savannah morning news
hotel, adjoining the store of Wright, barely
scaped. The goods and furniture of the
store* and the hotel were saved, but damaged
by removal. The origin of the fire is un
w J h . e total 1088 was $4,500, about one
na.f of which was covered by insurance.
FLORIDA.
Green Cove Spring*’ Marshal has uniformed
lußMll.
I>eer are plentiful around Manatee, if re
ports are to be believed.
Col. Hardee, proprietor of the “Honey
moon' nursery near Jacksonville, who re
cntly made a sale of 25,000 orange trees, has
Just sold another lot of 10,000. They were
purchased by J. H. Welsh, of Erie, Pa., for
the new town about to be founded south of
Ocala.
The Green Core Spring Lavs: “On Thursday
afternoon some malicious person ignited a
fire in the hollow trunk of the large and pic
turesque bar tree which stands on St. John’s
avenue, near the St. Clair Hotel, and which
has been so much admired. The flames burned
nearly all through tne night, but the tree still
stands, alth >ugh only a wreck. We learn
that an effort will be made to fix the offense
upon the perpetrator, aud to award to him a
projier punishment.”
The Jacksonville Heralei says: “While the
hacks and ’busses were collected at the Cvg
nus’ wharf the other evening, awaiting the
arrival of the steamer from Palalka, the dri
ver for the St. Mark's ’bus, old Uncle Archie
Anderson, fell from his seat to the ground,
when the horses either kicked or tramped
upon his head, thereby inflicting painful, if
not serious, injuries. He was taken home by
friends, where he now lies in a precarious
condition. It is thought he was asleep at the
time he fell. Archie has been engaged as a
driver in this city for quite a number of years,
and for a long time was the driver of the mail
wagons.”
A Pensacola special of the 28th inst. says:
“Dave Foreman, colored, shot and killed Bos
tie Hodges, also colored, last night at about 8
o'clock. Hodges accused Foreman of indue
tug his wife to leave him, after which he
pounded Foreman with a club, inflicting seri
ous and severe bruises. Thereupon Foreman
went from the store where the fracas occurred
to his residence, aliout two b'oeks distant, and
returned with Ids shotgun. He. encountered
Hodges and fired one barrel at him. The en
tire charge of fifteen buckshot entered Hodges’
breast and death ensued instantly, he having
groaned but once or twice before expiring
Foreman is incarcerated awaiting trial.—The
carpenter belonging to the Swedish bark Hen
rietta was found on the outskirts of the city
with three bullet holes in him, one shot through
the right shoulder and one through the head.
He was brought to the City Hospital, and is
under treatment. His wounds are dangerous,
though not necessarily fatal. The carpenter
was attacked while en route to his vessel,
which is lying at the Perdido wharf. The
perpetrator is unknow n.”
The Brooksville Crescent contains the fol
lowing items: “Seventeen new comers have
located near the head of the hummock within
the past ten days. That is a good section and
is rapidly tilling up.—Frank Saxon has done
it again: this time he astonished the natives
and writer with a cluster of oranges, fifty
two in number, banging on a limb, a fraction
less than three-quarters of an inch in diame
ter. The cluster weighs twenty-four pounds,
and is the admiration of all who see it as it
hangs In our office.—We regret to chronicle
quite a serious aeeident to Mrs. F. M. Town
scud, nee Miss Futch. From what we can
learn. Mac was on his way home with
his bride, and stopped at some place
vi here the people were grinding cane to get
some cane juice. As lie returned toward
the buggy his made a sudden dash,
striking a * tree as she ran, throwing
Mrs. Townsend very heavily to the ground.
—Our readersjwill remember a little local
stating that Dr. Brown had raised this season
on his place on the edge of town, popcorn at
the rate of to the acre. How the
sequel to the story comes in some sample po
tatoes plant- and since the corn was gathered.
The smallest weighed pounds, and the
largest of the three weighed a few ounces
over 7 pounds. Good judges estimate the crop
at 200 bushels to the acre.
LINCOLN AND THE PRESIDENCY.
The Strength Which the Secretary of
War Would Bring to the Canvass.
Cleveland {Ohio) Special.
Judge S. Newton Pettis, of Meadvilie,
Penn., who wheeled Pennsylvania at the
proper time in the Chicago convention and
caused the nomination of Abraham Lin
coln, and who was made Minister to Bo
livia, was in'leveland on Friday feeling the
pulse of leading Ohio politicians as to the
chance among Garfield's friends for the
nomination of Robert T. Lincoln in 1884.
He says that Arthur has no chance;
that Grant is utterly out of the ques
tion, and that Blaine has acknowledged
to his friends that he cannot be the nomi
nee on the ground that he canot carry
New York. Pettis, who is a Blaine man,
declares that Blaine is willing to go into
the Cabinet of the next President in or
der that he can be the nominee ot his par
ty in the succeeding national canvass.
The Judge, when asked as to Lincoln’s
position, replied that the Secretary de
clares he is in no rush for a nomination,
and feels somewhat embarrassed by the
action of his friends in pushing him while
a member of Arthur's Cabinet.
The Blaine and Garfield element, the
Judge declares, will go to Chicago not
pledged outright to Lincoln, but rife for
him and willing to give him a hearty sup
port. He says that he will have no trou
ble in swinging Western Pennsylvania
into line for Lincoln; that Logan has no
show, and that the Lincoln boom will take
like wildfire in the South, stopping the
exodus of the colored voters from the Re
publican party. When asked if the
running of a Presidential candidate
ou sentiment could succeed, he re
plied that the candidacy was not
bast’d on sentiment, as Lincoln was
undoubtedly the best Secretary of War
our country has had since the days of
Jeff Davis. He added that when the stal
warts found they could not name a man
of their own choosing, they would accept
Lincoln with more heart and grace than
any man in the country. The scheme of
Arthur in getting Gresham in his Cabinet
had killed off Ben Harrison, and, in his
opinion, when Arthur found that he could
not lie his own successor he would throw
his aid to Lincoln, on the ground that
Lincoln's election would be an indorse
ment of the Arthur administration.
MRS. LEE CRAWFORD ACQUITTED.
The Daughter of a Supreme Court Judge
on Trial for Horse Stealing.
Philadelphia Special .
Mrs. Lee Crawford, daughter of Su
preme Court Judge Charles Walton, of
Maine, was on trial on Friday accused ot
thefts. Reuel W. Small, official steno
grapher of the Supreme Court of Maine,
ana a brother-in-law of the fair prisoner,
was in court. He sat with his head
bowed down as he listened to
Lee’s story of her career. After several
witnesses’ had described .Mrs. Lee’s
visit to their houses, her drunken
sprees and her larcenies, Mrs. Crawford
became a w itness in her own behalf. Her
language was polished, aud she gave un
mistakable evidence of having been highly
educated. She still bears traces of beauty,
and her voice was musical, her words
carefully chosen, and her manner, while
bold at times, nevertheless showed that
she bad at one time been used to a life of
refinement.
She related without a blush the debauch
she aud Nellie Watson had indulged in;
how they hired a carriage and horses,
were unable to pav, and sent a young man
back with them to’ the stable. Then turn
ing piteously to the jury she exclaimed,
amid a show’er of tears:
“1 was arrested on October 15, andi
have been in prison ever since.”
On cross-examination she said that she
was married to a man who was command
er of a ship sailing from the port of New
York, but that she had lived apart from
him for six years and had led the life of
an actress. Prior to her arrest she was
about closing an engagement as leading
ladv in the “Uncle Remits” troupe. In
closing the argument for the defense
lawyer Freeman said to the jury:
“Think of the fond and heart-broken
father and mother fur away waiting to
take back their erring daughter, and
never mind how impure she was.”
The jury were absent ovet an hour,
and returned a verdict of “not gunty.” A
murmur of applause greeted the an
nouncement.
Fighting It i>ut Alone.
.Vctr (Vfsons Picayune.
Two Japanese wrestlers who had given
exhibitions in the St. Charles Theatre
quarrelled with each other one evening at
their rooms in the Lee House, on Camp
street, opposite Lafayette square, and at
midnight they ejected all the other mem
bers of the troupe, locked the door of their
room, and. without seconds, judges,
timers, or anybody else, went at it. For
at least an hour the struggle, which must
have been a terrific one, lasted. Not a
sound, save now and then the dull thud of
a heavy bodv falling on the floor, or a
snarl similar to that of an enraged bull
dog, could be heard to denote that any
thing unusual was going on. At the end
of an hour one of the wrestlers opened
the door and presented a most woful ap
pearance. He was-.a mass of scratches
and bruises from head to foot, and his
clothing was in tatters. He was the vic
tor. His opponent was found lying ex
hausted on the floor, with blood stream
ing from his mouth, bis lip being badly
cut. Hiseyes were closed and terribly
swollen, and it was found necessary to
convey him to the hospital.
For Constipation, Indigestion, Foul
Stomach, IMzziness and Headache, no
medicine equals "Brandreth’s Pills.”
Pure and simple, containing no meicurv,
they are the family medicine-chest and
safeguard.
NEWS FROM THE CELTIC.
LEFT ALONE IN A GALE IN A DIS
ABLED CONDITION.
The Gellert’* Captain Refused to Tow
Her, but Offered to Take off Her Pas
sengers and Mails—The Latter Offer
Rejected—Her Fate Now Uncer
tain.
London, Dec. 30.—The steamer Gel
lert, which arrived to-day at Plymouth,
reports that she spoke the White Star
steamer Celtic on the 22d inst., in lati
tude 41 degrees and longitude 44 degrees.
HER MAIN SHAFT BROKEN.
The Celtic's main shaft was broken.
The Captain of the Celtic wished to have
his steamer towed by the Gellert. The Cap
tain of the latter vessel refused to take
the Celtic in tow owing to the bad wea
ther, but he offered to take off her passen
gers and mails. This offer was declined.
THE CELTIC UNDER SAIL.
The Celtic was under sail. The Gellert,
although uuable to take the disabled steam
er into tow, stood by until informed by
rocket signals that her offer to take off the
Celtic’s passengers and mails was de
clined.
LEFT TO HER FATE.
The gale increasing the Gellert pro
ceeded on her voyage, having ascertained
that the Celtic was in seaworthy condition
and that her human freight was in no
danger.
Wounded Kacti Other Dangerously.
Lexington, Ky., Dec. 30.—Stout Hig
gins and Thomas Haynes, wealthy farm
ers, between whom there existed ill feel
ing on account of a law suit„met at the
Greendale Railroad station last night.
Higgins immediately drew a pistol and
seized Haynes by the collar, whereupon
the latter shot Higgins through the lungs.
Higgins returned the fire, hitting Haynes
once in the left side and once in the ankle.
Both men are very dangerously wounded.
John McCarthy Scully Dead.
New York, Dec. 30. — John McCarthy
Scully, the well-known Irish Nationalist,
was found dead in Ins lied this morning.
The cause of his death was heart disease.
He bail been in failing health for several
months and his severe literary labor dur
ing the past year while he lias been en
gaged in writing a work entitled “Anti-
British Tariff or Protection vs. Free
Trade,” it is thought, greatly aggravated
his trouble,
Sudeikin Killed by Nihilists.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 30.—The murder
of Lieut.-Col. Sudeikin, of the gendarm
erie, on Friday night, was undoubtedly
the work ol Nihilists. A letter has been
found in the murdered man’s house
threatening Count Tolstoi, Minister of
the Interior, with a similar fate.
Muldoon Throws Hauer.
San Francisco, Dec. 30.— 1n the
wrestling matcb here last night between
Muldoon and Bauer for SI,OOO a side and
the championship of tne world, the former
won after a three hours struggle, and was
carried in triumph on the shoulders of
the admiring crowd.
A Nationalist Meeting Prohibited.
Bublin, Dec. 30.—Earl Spencer, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, has prohibited the
projected Nationalist meeting at Coothill,
county Cavan.
Grant Convalescing Rapidly.
New York, Dec. 30.—Gen. Grant’s con
dition to-day was greatly improved,
though he is not able to sit up in bed.
MIDNIGHT SCENE IN A HOTEL.
A “Gentle Shepherd” of the State tVho
is a Cannibal in Private Life.
St. Louis Special.
The guests at Barnum’s Hotel were
rudely awakened Wednesday midnight
by a woman's scream. The night clerk,
Arthur Wirebom, was preparing to in
vestigate the cause of the outcry, when a
female figure, scantily dressed, rushed
into the office, and hysterically begged for
protection. The clerk asked her to calm
herself, but she continued to scream
“Help, help! murder!” and in a few
moments the rotunda contained about
fifty guests who had arisen to ascertain
what the matter was.
The woman then, lietween hysterical
fits of weeping, said that her name was
Julia Parker; that shs was a member of
the company that is playing the “Devil’s
Auction” here, and was entertaining in
her room Mr. Decker, who personates the
gentle shepherd in the play, when, a quar
rel arising, he had first whipped her aud
then bitten her upon the arm. She showed
the limb, which bore evidences of a very
severe bite, and again relapsed into hys
terics. Mr. Decker was sent for, and as
he acknowledged the assault he was
turned out of the hotel.
Last night the same hubbub was heard,
and when the porters and clerks reached
Miss Parker’s room they found Mr. Decker
there in the act of attempting to bury his
teeth in the lady’s arm as a wind-up to
another severe beating he had given her.
This time the gentle shepherd did not fare
so well, as he was handed over to the po
lice. The lady at first declined to prose
cute, but the hotel people have decided
that they have something to say about it,
and the case will be pushed to a prosecu
tion in the Criminal Court.
ONLY ONE COURSE.
Senator Jones at a Snobbish Bouquet.
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record.
A gentleman who was present tells me
that at the elaborate but snobbish ban
quet given by the Lord Mayor of Dublin
last summer in honor of Senator Jones, of
Florida, the gallant Senator devoted him
self no less strictly to Mrs. Dwyer Gray,
the brilliant wife of the proprietor of the
United Irishman, than to the eatables and
drinkables. Afterward a gentleman who
sat next them was asked how he enjoyed
the Senator’s loud-toned conversation.
“Well,” said he, “it didn’t suit my appe
tite. You know I like several courses at
dinner. There was but one in this case.
It was made up of the powers and re
sponsibilities of a Senator of the United
States.” By the way, Mr. Dwyer
Gray afterward entertained Senator
Jones at his summer residence near Bray,
on-the-Liffey, below Dublin. This house
Gray had leased from Mr. Justice Lawson
for the season. Lawson committed Gray
to prison for contempt in the form of a
newspaper article last spring. Gray suf
fered martyrdom for his month or two
joyfully. It helped the sale of his paper,
which, it is said, already brought him in
$50,000 a year. When he came to rent a
summer villa he found that Mr. Justice
Lawson’s house at Bray was for rent.
He snapped it up eagarly. That evening
Lawson’s agent said to him: “Who do
you suppose rented your bouse at Bray?”
“I’m sure I don’t know,” responded Law
son. “Dwyer Gray,” said the agent.
“Well,” said Lawson, philosophically,
“that's better quarters than I gave Kim
before.”
Experimenting Ou His Lawyer’s Head.
Xew York Sun.
Christopher Dunleavy, a driver of a
United States mail wagon, was tried Tues
day in the General Sessions for beating
and robbiug Michael Fleming. He said
that he quarreled with Fleming and struck
him, but did not rob him.
“How hard did you strike Fleming V’
asked Judge Cowing.
“I’ll show you, Judge,” replied Dun
leavy, readily. “Just this way.”
Turning suddenly he struck his counsel,
Lawyer Coleman, a resounding blow with
his open palm on the side of the head.
The lawyer sprang away in evident con
sternation. Judge Cowing joined in the
laughter of the jury and spectators. The
jury convicted Dunleavy of assault and
battery, and Judge Cowing sentenced him
to the penitentiary for six months.
Not Among the Tar-Heel*.
Washington Special, ISth.
The report that Speaker Carlisle is
absent from the city on a hunting expedi
tion in North Carolina with Senator Beck
is not true. Yesterday morning Senator
Beck cailed ou Mr. Carlisle and urged
him to go, painting in glowing terms the
pleasures he anticipated having on his
trip, but the Speaker said he had no gun.
“But I have an extra gun,” said the
Senator.
“Is it loaded?” asked Mr. Carlisle.
“Yes.”
“Then Keep it away from me. I have
no use for h loaded gun.”
The Speaker was ueyer on a hunting or
fishing trip since he was a boy. He ii
devoting the days of the. recess to catch
ing up with his private correspondence.
•Among the most efficacious of remedial
agents are the medical preparations from
the laboraory of Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham,
Lynn, Mass.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1883.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
A Budget of Interesting Paragraph* on
Diversified Topic*.
Correspondence of the Morning Xencs.
Atlanta, Dec. 29.— Perhaps the moat
unique Christmas gift fell to the lot of
your Atlanta correspondent. It is a scarf
pin of exquisite workmanship and pecu
liar design. The ground is of hammered
gold, bordered with a wreath, and in the
centre is a miniature fac-simile of the
Morning News first page, delicately en
graved in silver. Across this is laid a
beautiful gold pen, which rests on a tiny
nugget of rough gold from a North Geor
gia mine. This unique piece of work was
executed by Mr. A. L. Delkin, of this city,
a skilled young Georgia artisan, as a tri
bute to the superior excellence of the
Morning News.
The Electric Light Company, utter sur
mounting many obstacles, have com
menced operations in earnest, and Ma
rietta street is now brilliant with the
glare of their lamps. The railroad com
panies have placed two lights at the
Whitehall street crossing, for which tßey
have the hearty thanks of a long-suffering
and forbearing public. The new gas com
pany are still laying pipes, and it is not
yet known when they will turn*on the gas.
Atlanta never saw as dressy a season
as the present, some of the costiimes of
our ladies being perfectly gorgeous. Such
extravagance in dress, carriages and resi
dences, betokens, to my mind, kard*times
ahead, as much of this" display is at the
expense of creditors who caniiot long -re
main unpaid. Extravagance generally
precedes a financial panic.
I HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED
the fact that Lieut. Gen. George Wash
ington, who died December 14, 1799. was
at the time of his death Coimnander-in-
Ghiel of the United States army. Maj.
Gen. Anthony Wayne was the other Com
mander-in-Chief who died in office. After
representing the Savannah District in
Congress for part of a term lie returned to
the army, and was made Comtnander-in-
Cbief in March, 1792, and died in office
December 15, 1700, still a citizen of
Georgia.
A little bird, in whose warblings I have
great confidence, has secretly sung in my
ear the first sweet notes of the song of a
new candidate for Governor, should there
lie an open field and a free race. He is
not a native Georgian, but has resided in
this city ever since the war, and few men
have done more solid work in helping on
the recuperation of the State from the de
vastation of war and reconstruction.
Without in any way mingling in politics,
he has, by private counsels and generous
aid, promoted the political iortunes of
Georgia. No man is more highly respected
or universally esteemed, and he has come
to a green and active old age crowned
with the proudest honors that ever graced
a private citizen. Unselfish, generous,
and unassuming in his manners, he has
won the confidence and esteem of all
classes, and should the opportunity otter
they would be more than glad to vote for
him as a candidate for Governor. But he
is a man who never seeks office and who
never rises over the ruins of another man’s
Should there beau opportunity
for his friends to put him before the con
vention without infringing upon the
claims of any other candidate, his name
will bo presented, and its announcement
will strike most favorably upon the public
ear.
Mr. W. T. B. Wilson, now in the Reve
nue Department, Atlanta’s new Postmas
ter. is well spoken ot by his friends.
As to Judge Erskine’s successor, a
prominent Republican who professes to be
fully posted, asserts that Col. H. P. Far
row’, of Brunswick, will be the favored
applicant. Chatham.
ROGER \. PRYOR.
What Took Him to New York—His First
Fee—Fersonal Appearance.
“Just after the war,” said Gen. Pryor
to an interviewer, “you will remember'
that our Southern land was desolate. I
went to Richmond to try to make a sup
port for my family, but the outlook was
si loom y, indeed. In the depths of my
melancholy a friend suggested that 1
should go to New York and prac
tice law. I looked at him in
amazement, and told him that I
knew nothing about law. lie re
plied, ‘that doesn’t make any differ
ence—go anyhow.’ I reflected for a mo
ment and concluded to adopt his sugges
tion. 1 went home, talked to my wife,
and we got our family and little household
effects together antf started for the me
tropolis. Upon my arrival there I secured
desk room in a law office, and lor several
years experienced the indescribable pains
of a briefless barrister. After I had
grown pallid with despair, a gentleman
walked into the office one day and in
quired for Gen. Pryor. It was such
an unusual thing that it startled me
more than at battle. 1 didn’t knew
whether he had eome to dun me or to put
me in jail. I boldly replied, however,
‘That is my name; what can Ido for
you?’ ‘1 wish to retain you in a lawsuit
which will come up in the Supreme Court
to-morrow.’ After explaining to me the
nature of the case, he asked how
much my fee would be. I didn’t
know what reply to make him.
I felt if I charged SIOO 1 might
lose his business, and it I didn’t
charge him that much I wouldn’t be get
ting enough. In my bewilderment he
said,‘lf I pay you what I agreed to pay
my other counsel, will that satisfy you ?’
I jumped at this proposition and told him
that it would be entirely satisfactory.
‘Wejl, I agreed to pay him sl,ooo—ssoo
down and the other SSOO when the case is
tried.’ No SI,OOO ever did a family more
good than that did mine.
“I went immediately to the great law
library in the post office building, and it
seemed to tne I road every book in it. The
next morning when the case was called
for trial 1 threw my whole life in the
argument, and my side won. From that
date I have had all the law business that
I could attend to, aud am now prospering
splendidly.”
FIGHTING WITH IRON KNUCKLES.
Faces Cut as with Cleavers and Icleles
of Blood Hanging from the Sluggers'
Belts.
Bridgeport (Conn.) Special.
A prize fight unexampled for its bru
tality occurred here Friday afternoon be
tween a New Haven blacksmith known
as Giant Jim and Chubby Joe, of the Mal
leable Iron Works ot this city. The for
mer, a week ago, challenged the latter to
fight with iron knuckles under the London
prize-ring rules. The challenge was ac
cepted and the two belligerents, accom
panied by their seconds and a few friends,
proceeded to one of the outbuildings of
the winter quarters of Barnum’s show,
where the contest took place.
The two stripped to the woiot and
quickly set to work. Two tierce rounds
of three minutes eaoh were fought, when
the spectators, horrified at the sickening
spectacle, unanimously declared the bat
tle a draw.
Each blow received laid the flesh open
like the cut of a butcher’s cleaver, and
the blood ran down their naked bodies,
freezing at the belts in long red icicles.
Their faces were unrecognizable, each
presenting the appearance of a piece of
raw beef. It is possible that but for the
interference of tbe spectators the men
wouldjhave killed one another. Giant Jim
was carried back to New Haven this
morning. NeithCT of the pugilists has
neen arrested.
Artificial Lakes in California.
San Francisco Chronicle.
A natural dam across the centre of Bear
Valley has been repaired so that it will
create a lake that will average lour feet
deep over 600 acres. The reservoir would,
therefore, have a capacity of 104,544,000
cubic teet, and would furnish 60,500 inches
under a four-inch pressure for twenty-four
hours. But this is only the temporary
dam. The main work is being done three
miles lurther down the valley, at the head
of the rocky canon, where a solid stone
darn is being constructed. This stone
dam cau be nuilt as high as necessary to
collect ail the winter rainfall of the valley,
that covers some fifty square miles, arid
it is believed that water can be collected
every winter sufficient to cover 1,000 acres
ten feet deep.
Cotton Failure in Mobile.
Mobile Special.
The old cotton firm of Baker, Lawler &
Cos., founded in 1844 as Lyon & Baker, but
known as above since 1852, tailed ou Mon
day. The assignee has not yet made a
statement ot the indebtedness, but it is
believed to be very large. A member of
tbe firm states, this afternoon, that the
suspended debts due the firm have been
carried ten yeais, and that forced in
vestments in land have been made since
1869. The debts could not be collected,
and a great part of the land was unsale
able. Obligations accumulated, and,
although tbe crisis might easily have been
postponed by selling a large quantity of
cotton in their hands, the firm decided to
suspend.
SOUTHERN NAVY YARDS.
NORFOLK’S ADVANTAGES AND DIS
ADVANTAGES SET FORTH.
Its Retention Advocated by the Com
mission—Similar Action Recommend
ed in tlie Cages of Pensacola and Key
West—Eternal Peaee Improbable and
Preparation for War Advlged.
W A9HINTON, Dee. 30.—The report of
the Commission on the navy yards, which
was given to the public to-day, contains
the following reports and recommenda
tions with regard to the yards in the
Southern States:
NORFOLK NAVY YARD.
Advantages. —When we consider the ad
vantages presented by the anchorage at
Lynn Haven Bay and its accessibility
from the sea, the anchorage at Hampton
Roads, the fine expanse of water which
opens into the mouth of the James on the
north aud Elizabeth river on the south,
affording safe navigation and a secure an
chorage for the largest fleets, and
add tv this an outer line of formi
dable defense which may be con
structed at Old Point, the inner of
which is represented by Sewell’s Point,
and Craney Island, we may well believe
that the site of the navy yard at Norfolk
is more advantageously situated than any
south of New Yor’„. The improvements
now going on contemplate making a chan
nel for Hampton Roads to the inner har
bor and the navy yard, twenty-five feet
deep at mean low water and 500 feet wide.
Only occasional dredging in front
of the wharves is necessary. It is
easy of access. Its soil and
characteristics are such that ample
docking facilities may be constructed
there at a reasonable cost, as well as fresh
water basins, or other conveniences for
the laying up of iron ships. Its water
and railroad connections with iron and
coal regions guarantee practically un
limited supplies ot those materials. It
has inexhaustible supplies of good fresh
water. The harbor and channel are never
obstructed by ice. Its geographical posi
tion and mild climate render it one of the
most accessible and desirable rendezvous
for our vessels of war of any on the entire
Atlantic coast. There is no pressing de
mand for this yard for mercantile pur
poses. It could not be sold for a price at
all commensurate with its value to the
government.
Disadvantages. —lt is easily blockaded.
In times past it has been visited by yellow
fever and may be so visited again.’ Skilled
labor ill iron ship building Is wanting,
and there would be difficulty in procuring
such labor to meet any sudden demand
for extra work.
In view of these facts the Commission
ers submit the following recommendation:
“Your Commissioners do not recom
mend the sale of this yard, though it is de
ficient in many important particulars.
The advantages it unquestionably pos
sesses far outweigh its deficiencies, and
its proximity to Hampton Roads makes it
practically indispensable.”
PENSACOLA NAVY YARD.
Advantages —The magnificent sheet of
water forming Pensacola Bay, its fine and
secure roadstead, and the water com
munication furnished by the Escambia
and Blackwater, Yellow’river and Santa
Rosa sound, with the possibilities of
future railroad and canal connections
uniting it with Pedido and Mobile Bay,
the Alabama river aud the rich coal and
iron districts of the neighboring States,
all combine to render this site more ad
vantageous in many respects than that
ot any other yard. The climate is de
lightfully mild and generally heal
thy. The character of the soil
is such that slips for building,
launching and repairing ships, which
enter so largely into wooden ship build
ing, are to be found in the surrounding
country in abundance and of excellent
quality, and uulitn ted supplies of iron
and coal, indispensable to modern navies,
are already within easy reach. There is
an ample supply of good, fresh water, and
it has fine fresh water ponds for the pre
servation of ship timber. Pensacola Bay,
at the entrance of which the yard is situ
ated, is perfectly defensible. It is easy of
access to vessels of moderate drought,
and ships drawing 24 feet and
over may find good anchorage
off the yard, and those
drawing 22 feet may approach the princi
pal wharf. The government improve
ments now in progress contemplate the
removal by the dredger of what is known
as the “inner bar” to a depth of 24 feet at
mean low water. During the Mexican
war and the late war the military impor
tance of the yard was fully demonstrated.
Pensacola Bay is almost the only suitable
place for a naval station on the Gulf, and
should a ship canal be cut across the
Florida peninsula, its military and com
mercial value would be greatly enhanced.
It is so far removed from the mer
cantile community as to place it beyond
the risk of encroachment.
Disadvantages.— The objections are
fatal to it. The establishment of
a yard at this point was recom
mended when piracy prevailed in the
West Indies, and when vessels of
war were propelled by the winds and car
ried small guns of short range. The com
plete revolution in the methods of con
ducting naval warfare has rendered this
yard of little account. It is but 2J4 miles
from the deep water of the Gulf, and con
sequently within range of modern ord
nance from ships lying outside. It would,
therefore, be untenable, lying, as it
does, in range of the enemy’s
fire directed at Fort Pickens.
It is easily blockaded and entrance to the
harbor is obstructed by a shifting bar,
which is more or less affected by every
southerly or southeasterly gale. At pres
ent the bar has on it nineteen feet seven
inches at mean low water and twenty-one
feet two inches at mean high water. The
success of the present efforts to effect a
permanent increase in the depth ot the
channel is doubtful. In view of these
facts the commission submitthe following
recommendations: “Your Commissioners
do not recommend the sale of this yard, as
it is the only one on the Gulf, for though
it would be from its nearness to the
sea, * wholly untenable against a
naval attack, there may yet arise
circumstances that would give it great
military value. Moreover, it could not be
sold for anything uearits intrinsic worth,
while its cost of maintenance is small.
But recognizing the necessity for a navy
yard on the Gulf that is defensible against
naval attack, they recommend the ap
pointment of a commission to select a site
within the lines of defense on Pensacola
Bay, or in some other locality.
KEY WEST NAVAL STATION.
Advantages.— lt is the key to the com
merce of the Gulf of Mexico and much of
the West India trade. It is on the high
way of the great streams of commerce
which pour through the Florida channel.
Its possession is, consequently, of ines
timable value during any maritime war
in which the United States should ho on.
gaged. Key West and Tortugas held by
our naval forces, we would insure the
safety of that trade. In the possession of
an enemy its destruction would be as cer
tain. The holding of Key West as a naval
station is a military necessity, not a ques
tion for discussion. The harbor is excel
lent and reached by a main ship channel
having a depth at mean low water of 28.5
feet. By the southwest channel there
are 30 feet at mean low water,
and ships may anchor in water of that
depth. The mean rise and fall of the tide
at Fort Taylor is 1.4 feet. No dredging
is necessary. It is easy of access, diffi
cult. from having several channels, to
blockade, and the small site occupied by
the government is not likely to be needed
for mercantile purposes. Conveniences
for hauling up and keeping in readiness
for service one or two small monitors can
be prepared here at small expense, and
there is a lot of land lying between the
two sections of the navy property ad
mirably adapted to this use, which can be
bought for a reasonable sum.
Disadvantages.— By the southwest chan
nel a squadron of the heaviest ironclads,
drawing as much as 27 feet, can approach
within easy range of the station,
say within miles and destroy it.
The defense ot the place by permanent
works has been practically abandoned.
There is great scarcity of portable water,
and the island is occasionally visited by
yellow fever. At present it is cut off from
all communication with the mainland
except by boats. The product of the soil
does not subsist the inhabitants. Skilled
workmen and materials of all kinds ior
repairing and outfitting ships must be
imported.
Your commissioners do not recommend
the sale of this station, believing that in
any maritime war Key West must be re
tained in our possession at whatever cost,
when the facilities and conveniences of
the station would be of great importance.
The commissioners recommend that all
the Northern navy yards be retained and
be put in more efficient condition, and
urge the importance of making prepara
tions fn time of peace for war. “War,”
they say, “is the heritage of man, and
for the people of the United States
history will have been written in vain
should they delude themselves with the
Idle hope ol perpetual peace, and when
War does come in these* modern days it
is swift and terrible. Exposed and un
prepared as we are, the damage that
could be inflicted upon us ere the note of
warning had well sdunded would be
beyond calculation. It is the popular be
lief that our traditional policy of peaee
is easily maintained by reason of our
isolation and our freedom from the en
tanglements which so frequently disturb
the relations of European ’ powers,
but this is a delusion. YYe have in com
mon with all maritime countries interests
which we are in duty bound to support.
Tbe present disturbed condition of affairs
in the Asiatic station, the construction of
the Panama canal, the interpolation of the
Monroe doctrine into our political creed,
our growing commerce in the Pacific and
the naval strength developed by the rising
powers of South America are each and
every one subjects prolific ol questions of
serious import to tbe people of the United
States, This government may at any
day be called upon to take it’s
stand and carry into practical effect
the broad and enlightened principles
which have characterized its foreign pol
icy. To dp this and to exercise that moral
influence which belongs to us ot right as
one of the wealthiest and most liberal
members of a great family of nations, a
certain reserve of force is' absolutely es
sential now. The number, but more par
ticularly the conditions of our navyvards,
may be regarded as part of that reserve
and as an exponent of our naval power.
The logical deduction, therefore, is that
power must be developed or our foreign
policy be abandoned if we would avoid
national humiliation.
CONGRESSMAN FINERTY.
Some Points in Ilig Career.
Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record.
Finerty, of Chicago, does not look half
so fierce as he sounds. He is a tall,
broad shouldered Irishman, with a large,
grave, but pleasant face, dark hair, and a
reddish mustache and goatee. He moves
in a large, slow way. He is generally
seen on the street with his pretty voung
wife, and sometimes their pretty little
baby is with them. All three are young.
B’inerty is a very earnest, sincere man.
He is not a patriot for revenue only. Ho
is an Irishman of Irishmen. He has the
faults and virtues of his race. He is high
spirited and hot-blooded, but kind-hearted
and very sensible. He is absolutely fear
less. He was with Custer’s com
mand on the Rosebud, and in
the preliminary skirmishes rode in
front ot the troops, although his duties as
a newspaper correspondent did not de
mand it. The correspondent of a rival
Chicago newspaper could not stand the
sight of flowing blood, and after the first
little fight made the best of his way back
to civilization. He returned to Chicago
about the same time as Finertv, and fig
ured more prominently than the latter at
banquets and suppers'given in their hon
or. At one of these the little coward was
more than usually eloquent in his descrip
tion of the hairbreadth escapes, the bloody
frays and desperate adventures through
which he bad gone. When they were put
ting their hats and coats on after the din
ner, Finerty, who had remained silent,
rentarkea to tbe braggart: “You de
scribed that very well. It was just
about as you said; but you dian’t
see It, you know.” And this was tbe only
comment be made. The story often told
of Finerty well illustrates his character.
It is, that while walking down a Chicago
street late in tbe night upon which the
news of Sedan’s fall was received he saw
on the other side ef the way a large Ger
man restaurant brilliantly lighted and lull
oi people. Crossing the street, he found
that the saloon was full of Germans
drinking beer and chorusing their con
gratulations. Full of the spirit of Fontenoy,
Finerty dashed into the saloon and forced
his way through the throng to the farther
end. There he mounted the broad bar,
his long form rising two yards above
the crowd. Calling for a “schooner” of
champagne he shouted, “Long live
France!” quaffed a great drink of the
and' then waving the
half full, over his head, he
threw it and its coutents into the middle
of the mass below and straightway leaped
after it. Landing on his feet, with his
customary good luck, be rapidly fought
his way through th 2 angry Germans,
landing bleeding, tattered arid torn, but
happy as only an Irishman can be, on the
sidewalk. Finerty is only a little over 35
now. He was younger then, but his sym
pathies with the oppressed and down
trodden are as warm as ever. Finerty is
well-to-do. His first wife left him a small
fortune; he has made some fortunate in
vestments, and his Irish-American weekly
newspaper in Chicago pays handsomely
and grows all tbe time. He can come to
Congress as often as he likes. Finerty
has a great many friends. All the Irish
men in Chicago are in his “following,”
and half tbe army officers know him as
well as they know each other. His threats
of a war with Great Britain please his
army friends. Thev are just spoiling for
a fight.
TOPICS OF THE SEVENTY WISE MEN.
Peroxide of Hydrogen, Wood Fibres and
Journalism for Its Own Sake.
Xew York Sun .
The forty modern language teachers and
the thirty members of the Society of
Naturalists whose deliberations began on
Thursday last in Anthon Hall, Columbia
College, discovered each other’s presence
suddenly yesterday morning, and were
thrown by the discovery into a great state
of mutual admiration. The naturalists
sent a committee to the linguists with
their compliments expressed with scien
tific accuracy, and tile language conven
tion sent back a committee with its
thanks, elaborated with linguistic skill.
“The preparation of skeletons by perox
ide of hydrogen ” by Prot. Holder, ol Cor
nell University, was the first subject
taken up by the naturalists. Prof. Holder
hold up the skull of a cat. It was as white
as snow. “That,” he said, “tvas bleached
in lour days with peroxide of hydrogen.”
Prof, ltothrock, of the University of
Pennsylvania, described the distinction
between good and bad timber as revealed
under tbe microscope. “Utah pine, called
‘pumpkin pine,’ is tbe lightest and most
worthless wood in the Uniteu States,” he
said. “Its cells are large, and their cel
lulose walls are very thin. In the shell
bark hickory, or American white-oak, tbe
cell walls ar twelve times as thick. Ex
pel intents with Georgia yellow pine de
monstrate that it is as strong as the best
white oak or white hickory.”
The professors of modern languages
voted to call themselves “The Modern
Language Association of America.” The
advocates of a journal to he published in
the interests of modern language profes
sors were divided into two classes, those
wbo wanted to make the enterprise pay
and those who did not. Those who did
not care to have it pay wanted to have re
views, brief original contributions and
pedagogics published more lor the profes
sors’ good than for the good of any one
else. Thosp who wuntud to seo it pay
wanted to print biographies of great
philologists, and their pictures also.
Topics like the translation of the New
Testament or Charles Francis Adams’
Cambridge address might be dished up to
the public in a lively way, with wood
cuts. No steps were taken to establish
the journal. Atnigh fall the convention
adjourned for one year.
I)r. C. 8. Minot smiled at his work.
His silk umbrella bad been banded to the
clerk of the Grand Union Hotel, and it
was in a state of good preservation. A
note accompanied the article. Dr. Minot
declined in the interests of science to re
veal the name of the writer.
Claim** for Peii&ions.
Tn t re Ur s ig< / zinc*
During the recent raid on the pension
thieves at Washington some startling
§ rounds for the issue of pensions were
eveloped. Men who had lost a leg in a
contest with a mowing machine were
found in receipt of good iat sums once a
month. But perhaps the most remarka
ble claim of the lot was that ot one gentle
man, who, on being investigated, asserted
that he drew a pension for what he had
actually lost in the war.
“But what did you lose?” demanded
the examiner; “you seem to baveall your
members and faculties.”
“Yes,” replied the claimant, driven to
the wall, “I lost my head at Shiloh, and
left for home!”
Another should have been placed on tbe
list for tbe rest of his lite at the highest
amount allowed by law.
“What is your claim?” asked the ex
aminer. “What did you lose ?”
“I lost $350 at poker the night before the
battle of Fair Oaks.”
Instead of feeling tired and worn out,
instead of aches and pains, wouldn’t you
rather feel iresh and strong? If you con
tinue feeling miserable and good for-no
thing you have only yourself to blame,
for Brown's Iron Bitters will surely cure
you. Iron and cinchona are its principal
ingredients. It is a certain cure for dys
pepsia, indigestion, malaria, weakness,
kidney, lung and heart affections. Try it
if you desire to be healthy, robust and
strong and experience its remarkable cu
rative qualities.
A LETTER FROM PARIS.
ROCHEFORT’S SON RETURNS FROM
THE CONGO A WRECK.
Some of Rosa Bonheur’s Characteristics
and Her Critical Condition—The Story
of Saint Barbe, the Patron Saint of
Artillerists—M. Ferry, the Prime Min
ister, to be Ousted.
Correspondence of the Sunday Morning Xeurp.
Paris, Dec. 14.—The Cabinet by its bronze
majority of over one hundred has now carfc
blanche, not to protect, but to make good the
“right” of France to Tonquin. Those who
voted the nine millions of expenses, long since
expended, did not the less badger the Ministry
for “fogging” the country, displaying studied
economy, even to parsimony, in the matter of
truthfulness and terrible blundering in the
whole escapade. No Ministry is ever defeated
at the close of the year, when the nation re
quires a fortnight’s political certainty to pass
through the holidays. It is predicted M.
Ferry will be ousted early next month, a re
sult not at all certain, since his successor is
not visible to the naked eye.
War may now be regarded as declared be
tween France and China. Big nations do not
usually indulge in such anoperettc of crack
ing one another’s skulls and remaining at the
same time bosom friends. China will soon
have the occasion to demonstrate does she
mean fight, or has she only “a swashing and a
martial outside.” What retains France from
precipitating matters is the league of the neu
ters, where Germany figures side by side with
perfide Albion. France has never yet produced
the Hue treaty that she caused to be signed a
la mode Tunisia. That document China will
doubtless give when she publishes her
Yellow and Black book. A cartoon
represents Tonquin as a pig, the Chinese
pulling at the tail, and the French at
the ears, to see who is to possess the lard. M.
Waddiugton, on the breakup of the Berlin
Congress boasted, with eyes turned sky-ward,
that France was the only power that quit the
meeting with “clean hands.” We know now,
that he had the Tunis seizure scheme with
the Khrountir overture at that time in his
pocket. Since then note the progress of the
“clean hands’” policy—Madagascar, the
Congo, Oceanica and Tonquin. One can apos
trophise M. Waddington with a “You dirty
boy 1”
ROCHEFORT’S SON, HENRI 11.,
accompanied Brazza to the Congo as the rep
resentative of colonial young France. The
lad has returned a wreck for the remainder
of his life. He was devoured, not by the
natives, but by fevers. He has lost his han
and his teeth. On these points his father con
soled him with the remark that wig-makers
and dentists being now terribly slack of n.ork,
owing the badness of Ministers, he woo’d have
him made up as good as new. but on c jndition
that he was cured forever of the colonization
craze. Young Rochefort views Brazza as a
vi6ionarv. Like the Mahd-, he is
hard up for cash, and pocket
handkerchiefs have fallen ns low as
assignats. Brazza recalls the time, it seems,
when man, free as nature made him. “Wild
in woods the noble savage ran;” be goes
naked, but that is doubtless to win the good
graces of the natives, for im’iation is the best
form of flattery. He is a vegetarian, as he
lives only on cocoanuls an A bananas, if the
inhabitants give them to him. He is a tem
perance man, as he drinks, only water, so his
feats of “pedestrianism” ought to be noted by
hydopists. Brazza’s ambition is simply to
keep moving, like the Wandering Jew. What
a pity not to practical!/ back up such an en
thusiastic pioneer. It is suspected here that
his mission is love’s It.dor lost, as the railway
front the Red Sea to the Soudan—wind,
weather aim Mahdi - permitting—would, with
extensions, be the best route to tap Central
Africa.
ROSA BONHEUB’? LEGION OF FRIENDS AND
ADMIRERS
must be prepared for the worst in respect to
that great artist. She has obtained moment
ary relief from her internal cancer—the mala
dy that carried off her mother when Rosa was
only four yei.rsobl. The artist is now in her
sixty-second year, and still continues, when
health permits, to give her services, as she has
done for years, gratuitously, to the School of
Design for Girls, but it is her sister that prac
tically conducts that school now.
51 lie. R ,salie Bonhcur, that her scheiol
mates baptised “Kosa” for shortness, is rich,
as she cc aid ever name her own price for her
painting i, and the purchasers, almost wholly
English and Americans, bespeak them years
iu advance as they did De.avoche’s. Her
life was a hard struggle in its youth-time.
A native of Bordeaux, she came to Paris with
her fatho r when nine years of age, hut he had
to send her and her two brothers and sister
to a boar nog school in order to leave him free
to gain a livelihood as artist designer.
A fellow student of Rosa’s once told me that
Rosa was one of the “jolliest girls in the
schools;” .vas unequal in romps and ready
wit; that she imd the habit of squatting
in a corer and designing her class
mates with a rapidity and surety of
touch, that Chain only could mate . It was
this precocious talent for designing that de
cided her father to bring her home and edu
cate her h mself. She became not only his
favorite pupil but also his housekeeper. But
what energy she had iu her teens. She went
alone, durit ; several years, to cattle markets
and central slaughter houses, to study group*
of animals. In order to avoid the curiosity of
drovers, butchers, and the peculiar frequent
ers of the above places, she adopted masculine
toilets, and i later years forgot to reappear
in her old ck dies. Thit motive was compre
hensible: not a vagary or eccentricity, as in
the case of George band.
ROSA WAS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE
when she exhibited her first pictures at
the Salon or 1840. These were two small
paintings— rabbits nibbling carrots and tur
nips. Her sister, Madame Peyrol, is the pos
sessor of the j ctures, and treasures them as
an heirloom. Rosa's second grief was the
death of her t acher and father in 1849. Love
for him and for art closed her heart for any
third affection .save that for her family. When
dying he bcg ;ed Rosa to bring him the last
picture she had completed— Lubourage nirer
nais. She did so, sohbingly, to his bedside.
He took her two hands iu his and, endeavor
ing to smile, expired.
In 1853 appeared her celebrated “Horse
Fair,” and in 1155 “Haymakingin Auvergne,”
and now in the Luxembourg Museum. It
was the Empress Eugenie that not only in
sisted on Roi a being decorated with the
Legion of Honor—rarely conferred on the fail
sex—but having succeeded pinned the red
ribbon herself nil the artist’s breast.
Mile. Bouhev r is also a sculptor, but her pro
ductions iu this line have added nothing to
her fame. Her brother is a fair sculptor, the
other brother being a painter of average
talent. She resides at Fontainebleau, that
hallowed giound of artists, and during the in
vasion the Krou Prinz of Prussia ordered her
residence to be carefully protected. Forming
an ante-chamber to her studio is a stable
and paddock for the accommodation of
horses, sheep,etc., that she purchases herself
for subjects. T hug she is surrounded by all
that can develop and keep up that strength
and surety of design, and the grand charac
ter of her lamb-capes, for which she is distin
guished. She draws from nature and the dic
tates of her heart, and, despite what some de
scribe as her vagaries, she remains woman
above all—the Corinue, more beautiful at
Leucade than at the summit of the Capitol.
A LIVELY QUARREL IS GOING ON
respecting the -alubrity of Nice this winter.
It is said fever is in the air, like the volcanic
flerv dust of Ja t-a, that philosophers assert re
cently produced oursupplv of aurora borealli.
This is unfortunate for Nizz* la Bella and the
International Winter Exhibition that some
speculators have organized. However, an
epidemic of some kind is as much an attribute
of a world’s fair as an augmentation in hotel
tariffs. Fortunately, only sturdy invalids go
to Nice, to avoid the coughing streets of Men
tone.
Crime has been on the decline the past week
or two, and this Is, perhaps, due to the new
law, which al lows the Magistrates to deal
summarily wii h “loafers,” the stratum of the
population which furnishes the perpetrators
of all crimes.
M. de Lesseps has escaped being blown
up with * k nd of dynamite snuff box, so
for the future he refuses to accept
Uibetieres as souvenirs. He only hopes to be
spared to assist at the inauguration of his
Panama, and make things pleasant all round
for Suez. Th .-n he will chant his Kune Itimit
ti.
A poor caiman has had a narrow es
cape; while pursuing his lawful calling, the
Philistines visited his bed-room, and next to
gutted it. All his clothing was taken, save a
verr old pair of pantaloons, in which he kept
all his fortu lie, 30.0C0 francs in large bank
notes stitchei lin the lining. Old friends are
best.
AS THE PIPING TIMES OF PEACE
are perhaps destined soon to oease for France,
may explain why the artillerists paid extra
honors to the anniversary of their saint and
patroness a few days ago—Sainte Barbe.
This lady, so dear to the sons of a gun, was a
native of Nicomedia, and existed about the
year 235. Her father was a rich noble, but
cruel and barbarous, as well as a no-surren
der Pagan. Sainte Barbe was very beautiful
and an heims. To protect both, her father,
Dioscore, built a tower, and locked her there
in when awav on business She declined to
marry the husband selected for her, as he was
a pagan; but, further, she had resolved to
wed no mortal Her father then handed her
over to the Prefect of the Province, one Mar
ciau; but she would not renounce Christian
ity, despite sconrgings and scratchiDgs with
broken earthenware; her head was pounded
with hammers, and her sides raked with
heated iron combs. Butnouse. Atlastshe was
condemned to be executed, and her father
having solicited, was allowed to be heads
man. Hardly had he performed his barbarous
act, when he was struck dead by a thunder-
I bolt. Cannons being the thunder of war, thus
j became associated with the poor Saint's fate.
Miners, and all who live by gunpowder, also
select her as their patroness.
Efforts are being made to obtain a free par
don for the Prince Krapolkine, and petitions
keep pouring in on President Grew. It is
the opposition of Russia that stops the way.
Now that the latter has taken again to flirta
tions with Bismarck, the literary prisoner’s
chances of being liberated are greater.
An association has been just formed for ex
tending a knowledge of the French language
in foreign lands. Only one means to effect
this—emigration, and such cannot l>e relied
on. At the rate the Anglo-Saxon language
is expanding, French, before many genera
tions. may be limited to France.
THE OCTOVI, OR BARRIER DUES, OF PARIS
are on the decline, for products are taxed at
the entrance of each town, as well as at the
frontier. In the case of the capital, the Dimi
nution is chiefly under the heads of building
materials—house erections now being aban
doned. But there has been a terrible increase
for wines, and, too, when the supply has so di
minished by the disease. This and the aug
mentation in the adulteration food, woold
seem to indicate that the dream of Balthasar
Calais (that genius of scientific transferism
revealed by Balzac) is about being realized,
viz.: that man can do without nature, and
make himself everything, by handling and
combining the simple bodies.
The postmen, the harbingers of the new
year, have commenced their rounds for the
annual tip.
An advertiser desires to find a philanthro
pist who will adopt a child, aged three years
and speaking tbre languages. Who wants
the Mezzofanti in embryo?
M. Vaneosbeil, Director of the Opera, hav
ing stated he secures his best “finds” in' the
streets, is now besieged with vocal and instru
mental serenades. The police have lately
driven away three organ grinders and a
hurdy-gurdy boy who had a moukev that
plays on a tin whistle.
THE ASTOR BALL.
A Description of the House in which
Mrs. William Astor will Receive Her
Guests.
■Yew York World.
The favorite topic of conversation among
society people is the number of large pri
rate balls announced for the first month
of the new year. While several of these
will, it is thought, be handsome affairs, it
is generally expected that the ball to be
given by Mrs. William Astor on January
21 will outshine them all.
Jt has been stated that this entertain
ment was to celebrate the centennial an
niversary of the arrival of the first Astor
in this country, but this report is denied,
as the auniversas y alluded to has long
since passed.
That all the details of this grand ball
will be perfect will readily be guessed bv
all those who know Mrs. Astor’s gooil
taste. Preparations for it have even now
been begun. That the house corner of
Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth street is
particularly well fitted for a ball, all
those who have enjoyed Mrs. Astor’s hos
pitality well know, and can easily form
an idea of the beauty of the scene as it
will appear when the Tights of a myriad
of gas jets will fall through softly-sliadedd
globes on the fair faces and gav dresse™
of ladies, for which the black coats will
form an effective background as they
wander about amid the tall palm trees in
the richly furnished apartments.
The hall at Mrs. Astor’s home is thought
by many to be the finest in the country,
and it certainly is one o! the brightest arid
most pleasant, being all in deep blue and
white. The floor is of white marble, and
is wide and spacious. On the right side
as one enters is the celebrated tire-place
in blue and white china, finished in brass,
and on either side of it are tall candela
bras to correspond, and which attracted*
so much admiration at the Philadelphia
Centennial Exhibition.
Here, too, are Oriental rugs and china
stools of dark blue. The fine portrait of
Mr. John Astor hangs further back on the
other side, just beyond the niche in which
a marble statue'stands, and where the
marble stairway begins. These stairs
will be ornamented with palms and gutta
percha trees, and the dark green of their
foliage will form a striking contrast to the
white stone.
The first door to the left opens on the re
ception room, which is charmingly fitted
up aud decorated with a profusion of
dainty bric-a-brac, while on the walls are
a number of fine paintings.
The door opposite is seldom used, except
in case of an entertainment, but the
drawing room on which it opens is really
beautiful in decoration and coloring, all
of which is in the lighter shades, even the
tapestries partaking of the delicate color
ing.
The secoud room, which opens off this,
is finished in crimson and ebony. The
mantel in this room, instead of being on
one side after the usual fashion, tills a
corner. Beyond this is the room generally
used by the family as a sitting-room and
which is furnished in rich dark colors,
while opening from it is the long dining
room, the walls of which are hung with
tapestries and from which wide folding
doors lead to the picture gallery.
This gallery is where the dancing will
take place, and was built some time after
the rest of the house.
The beauty of the pictures which adorn
the wails is well known, but on this occa
sion the spaces between them are to be
filled with flowers and greens, while a
screen of exotics will hide the musicians.
Pinard is to serve the supper, but what
the menu will be he can not be induced to
tell, but that a great variety of game will
be served is known. The table will be
very handsome. In the centre a plateau
will be placed, in the silver railing of
which a number of candles will burn,
while from the centre will rise
the great silver basket as large
as a usual parlor centre table, aud which
is to be filled with flowers. On each side
of it will rise the silver candelabras about
five feet high filled with candles. The
service to be used is made entirely
of solid silver and gold, and is of the
beaten work with repousse design of
flowers aud fruits. Even the platters are
of lhe6e precious metals, the entire din
ner set having been made by Kirk, of Bal
timore.
The invitations have not yet been
issued, but it is thought that 700 of those
society people of whom Mrs. Astor is an
acknowledged leader will be there, includ
ing most of those who appeared at the
Patriarch’s ball last week atDelmonico’s.
P HOP I’LSI ON BY CA BLR.
A New System in Which Car Wheels and
Tracks are Under Ground.
New York Sun.
The attention of street car companies
has been directed to anew system of cable
propulsion which has several peculiar
features. The most noticeable is the plac
ing of the wheels that support the car and
the rails they run on under the ground.
A cross section of the underground tram
way is a half circle. On the crown of the
arch is a narrow slot, through which the
steel standards project from the trucks
below to support the car which rests a
very low step above the paving stones.
There are horizontal rollers between these
standards to bear against each side of
an enlargement in the slot just below the
surface, and so steady the car. As
the car is stopped to allow a pas
senger to leave, the brake is arranged to
store air in a cylinder. This air is re
leased when the car is ready to start, and
acting on a system of levers starts the ear
to the full speed of the cable, so that no
jerk is felt by the car or cable. Instead of
dragging the cable by stretching it around
large pulleys at one end of the line, the
cabie is grasped slack between straight
clamps. These clamps are secured to an
endless belt that passes over two pulleys,
the tops of which are on a level with the
line of the cable and several feet apart.
The belt travels in the direction the cable
must run. The clamps are tightened on the
cable and released again automatically
by a simple arrangement of levers. It is
asserted that this method will lengthen
the endurance of the cable indefinitely.
The promoters of this system assert that
it will cost one-third less in the original
construction of the road, and that its spe
cial features will commend it alike to the
public and to stockholders in street car
companies.
Arkansas Ways.
A rkaneaw Traveller.
“Will you please lend me your axe?”
said an immigrant, stopping at the fence
surrounding a log cabin aDd addressing
a citizen of Arkansaw; “my wagon broke
down back here a piece, anti it puts me
out pretty badly. I assure you. I won’t
keep it long. Will you lend it to me?”
“I would if it wan’t fur one thing,” the
squatter, for such he was, replied.
“What’s that?”
“Ain’t got nary’n.”
“You don’t pretend to say that you
haven’t got an axe, do you?”
“Noah, don’t pretend ter say it, but
je9t say it.”
“How do you get along without an
axe ?”
“Don’t git along without one.”
“Didn’t you say you didn’t have one?”
“Yesh.”
“Then you have one?”
“Nock.”
“My friend, I hate to call a man a liar,
but I’m afraid this occasion demands it.
You are a liar oue way or another. I don’t
know which.”
“Ef I thought that yer meant that I’d git
over thar an’ crawl over yer till yer dog
would meet yer in the road an’ wouldn’t
reconnize yer, but I don’t b’leve yer mean
it. Yer see, I uster have an ax, but I
broke it, an’ since then I have been borry
in’ from one o’ the neighbors, but 1 ain’t
got it now.”
“How far does the neighbor you speak
of live from here?”
“ ’Bout six miles.”
“He’s not your closest neighbor, is he?”
“Nock.”
“Then why do you go so far to borrow
an axe?”
“Wall, yer see, if I borried it from a
close neigbbhr he could step over an’ git
it any time, but when I borry it from a
feller that lives so fur away he waits a
good while before he comes after it.”
“Why don’t you buy an axe?”
“It’s cheaper ter borry it.”
“But jou lose a great deal of time going
after it.”
“No more than the other fetlow does in
cornin’ arter it. Wall, good day, for I’ve
got ter go out and borry a tub, for the ole
’oman has got too high-toned ter wash ni
the branch.”
( PRICE SIO A TEAR. I
I 5 CENTS A COPY. $
BURNED IN THEIR HOME.
TERRIBLE FATE OF MOTHER AND
CHILD AT ATCHISON.
The Husband and Father Escapes Seri
ously Injured—The Purcell House at
Norfolk Gutted by Fire and Water-
Over Half a Million in Ruins at Chi
cago.
Atchison, Kansas, Dec. 29.—Last
night, about 10:30 o’clock, fire broke out
in the elegant new house of Charles E.
Styles, agent of the Missouri Pacific Rail
road. Mr. Styles’ wife and child perished
in the flumes, and he himself was seri
ously burned.
FLAMES IN A NORFOLK HOTEL.
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 29.—A fire broke
out at 1 o’clock this afternoon on the top
floor of the Purcell House, Philip F.
Brown, proprietor. The efforts of the
firemen confined the fl ones to that floor,
but the building and furniture were badly
damaged by water. The loss on furniture
is $7,000 and on the building $5,000. It is
all insured.
losses of $625,000.
Chicago, Dec. 30.—A fire occurred this
evening in the large building Nos. 119
and 121 Monroe street, causing a lass of
nearly $500,000. The front part of the
building was 24 by 90 feet and the rear
portion was 112 feet square. It was filled
with printing, lithographing and kindred
establishments. Nine stores in the Mon.
tauk block, adjoining, owned by the B. F.
Brooks’ estate, of Boston, was damaged
to the extent of $125,000 by water.
A Fire Dog's Heroism.
New York Journal.
Among the unpublished heroes of the
Windsor Theatre was Christian John
ston’s dog, who went up in a blaze of
glory. Fritz was a big Newfoundland, a
great pet in the Hartmann Hotel, next
door to the theatre. He was in love with
liis master’sdaughter, little Julia, 4 years
old. They were always together. The dog
slept at the foot of her bed by night, and
she was never out of his sight. He saved
her lift? twice before the destruction of
the "Windsor. She would have been
drowned off Coney Island last summer
had it not been for Fritz. Little Julia inno
cently ran out to meet an incomiug wave.
The dog saw the danger bis little mistress
courted, and dashed after her, bringing
her to land before the receding wave
could drag her out. Again the child was
intrusted to a green German lad to be
taken to a dime museum. Fritz went
along also. The boy carelessly dropped
the child before the feet of"galloping
Third avenue street car horses. Fritz
bounded on the track between the horses
and Julia, and the child was snatched
from danger by a gentleman.
No wonder, then, that Fritz was treated
more as a member of the Johnston family
than as a dependent, and ate his meals at
the same table in the dining-room with
them. lie could do everything but talk
and use a knife and tork.’ When the cry
of “fire” startled the lower end of the Bow
ery’s transient and regular population,
Fritz was awake. He barked lustily, for
the door was shut upon himself and Mr.
Johnston’s daughter. In the hurry Julia
bad been overlooked. But quickly the
missing face flashed upon father and
mother, and the look of anguish that
spread over their features will ever be
remembered by the on-lookers. The
parents searched through all the groups
that stood around viewing the scene
with that awe that blood-red flames,
fringed with dense black smoke, always
inspire. But no Julia answered their
frenzied call. By this time the police
line had been formed, and all who might
have been of service were driven back
indiscriminately with the obtrusive sight
seers.
“Oh, save my Julia!” cried the heart
sick father, while the mother lay fainting
in his arms.
“Too late now,” said the nearest police
man, “no one would dare to enter that
furnace.” The officer spoke truly; no
one would. The heat was unendurable
within forty feet of the outer wall.
At this moment the wind blew away
the smoke from the hotel entrance, and
the flames lighted up the heroic deed.
Down through the firey hallway came a
singed something on four legs, holding in
its mouth a singed something else. It was
Fritz bearing Julia. How thedog opened
the bedroom door will never be known.
But he brought the child safely through
death to her tather, who was now weep
ing for joy. When he dropped his
bundle gently at his master’sfeet she was
alive and soon recovered.
But the dog!
The policemen saw the dog inside the
fire line, and rushed at him with extended
club. From the other side, towards whi?h
Fritz turned to flee, darted another police
man, bent on some kind of mission. The
dog saw that he was hemmed in, and that
there was no escape lrom being clubbed
to death.
Yes, there was one!
And the dog chose it!
Back into the fiery furnace he flew, with
the officers just behind. Not hesitating,
the dog gave one howl and then disap
peared in an ocean of flame. The lire
waxed hotter and hotter, tie walls fell,
and amid a great whirlwind of flame and
smoke the faithful animal yielded his life.
When to Bathe.
The London Lancet give some timely
hints about beginning out-of-door bathing.
If the weather is chilly, it says, or there
be a cold wind soon so that the’ b tdy may
be rapidly cooled at the surface while un
dressing, it is not safe to bathe. Under
such conditions the further chill of emer
sion in cold water will take place at the
moment when the reaction consequent
upon the chill of exposure by undressing
ought to occur, and this second chill will
not only delay or altogether prevent the
reaction, but convert the bath from a mere
stimulant to a depressant, ending in the
abstraction of a large amount of animal
heat and congestion of the internal organs
and nerve centres. The actual tempera
ture of the water does not affect the ques
tion so much as its relative temperature
as compart'd with that of the surrounding
air. The aim must be to avoid two chills:
first., from the air, and, second, from the
water; and to make sure that the body is
in such a condition as to secure a quick
reaction on emerging from the water,
without relying too much on the possible
effect of friction by rubbing. It will be
obvious, therefore, that both weather and
wind must be carefully considered before
bathing is begun, and that the state of
the organism as regards fatigue and the
force of circulation should be considered,
not merely as regards the geueral habit,
but the special condition when a bath is
to be taken. Those precautions are emi
nently needful in the case of the young or
weakly.
An Undoubted Blessing.
About thirty years ago a prominent
physician, by the name of Dr. William 1
Hall, discovered, or produced after long
experimental research, a remedy for dis
eases of the throat, chest and lungs, which
was of such wonderful efficacy that it
siKin gained a wide reputation in this
country. The name of the Medicine is
Dr. Win. Hall’s Balsam for the Lungs,
and may be safely relied on as a speedy
and positive cure for coughs, colds, sore
throat, etc.
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