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; J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, t
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
Key West’s Fishing Trade at a Stand
still—A Long Spree Ends in Poison
ing at Baldwin—Narrow Escape Iroin
Death on a Hand-tar—Dalton's Cotton
Factory.
GEORGIA ■
Mack Evans, of Atlanta, is dead.
The citizens of De Soto are opposed to an
nexation to Home.
The ties are lieing delivered for the atieet
railroad in Columbus.
Lincoln county has paid all her debts and
has money in her treasury.
The salary of the Mayor of Rome is stSoo a
year, that of the Aldermen is 1201.
F. M. and George Sheppard, of Houston
county, have bought lota and moved to Thorn
aston.
There arc six men in McDonough, whose
combined* avordupoi- aggrogatci 1,375
pounds.
Georgia pine is now being shipped to South
America. A Pensacola firm has closed a con
tract for 10,000,000 feet.
Mrs. J. W. Lee. oLitriton, Chariton county,
Ga.. has a quilt, of her own making, which
contains over 3,000 different pieces.
A newspaper to be called the Xew South is
soon to la* started at Ijuitmau by the people
of Itrooks county, with 'ins uev. .sir. Oualcy
us editor.
A negro named Roll Battle who. it is charg
ed, murdered old Nelson Jack-son in Crawford
county about four and a half years ago, has
been arrested at Macon.
The firm of Rucker Jt Stamps, of Thomas
ton, has dissolved..l. B. Stamps having sold
his interest to W.K.Clav, one of the most
substantial farmers of Talbot county.
The municipal election at Thomastonpassed
off quietly. The following gcutlemen were
elected: Mayor, G. A. Weaver; Aldermen, 4.
S. King, W. ’O. Smith, William Carraway, J.
C. Drake.
Athens has decided to challenge both Mer
eer and Emory tor an intercollegiate debate,
and to that end have already selected men to
represent her. The eallenges will he for
warded soon.
The Sylvauia Telephone says: “Between
in id nght and day on last Mondav and Tues
day nights, whiie the mercury stood at zero,
a resident of our town might have been seen,
in night garment, bareheaded, with one slip
per on and a brick in each hand, chasing a 1 it
of hogs down Ogeechee street. They had
taken quarters under his house, and he was
determined to dislodge them. This incident
has i**on appropriately denominated ‘the
phantom boar hunt.’”
The Gridin _Y>i rs says: “Sergeant 11.
Bates and his fourteen year old hoy, Frank
W. Bates, arr veil in this city yesterday
about one o'clock, and spoke in the city hall
in the evening. Very few people attended
his meeting or paid any attention to him.
His programme was to leave this morning at
nine and speak at Milner this evening. There
was some talk of having him taken before a
commission de lunatico inqnirendo. hut as he
seemed to he harmless and did not stay long,
this was not done.”
In tlie municipal election in Tallapoosa Sat
urday the following ticket was elected: May
or, John L. Rowe: Councilmen, W. T. Sum
merlin, R.J. Mcßride, A. J. Head and G. O.
Smith. Two tickets were in the field. the“old
town” and “new town,” the result was in
favor of the old town, as it got the Mavorand
two Councilmen. An amusing accident hap
pened to Jack Wilder, the defeated candidate
for Mayor. Immediately after the result was
announced a frightened cow dashed at him
amt tore his coat about off.
The Villa Rica correspondent of tin* Carroll
Free Press says: “Capt. W. I’. Stalnaker came
very near losing his life last week, on the
Georgia Pacific, near Kdward.svillc. lie was
on his car trying to reach Eden before the
freight got there, on business for the exten
sion company, and was running twenty
miles an hour, when the hand car struck a
rail put on the track by some rascal. The
car was thrown about two feet in the air, he
falling about nineteen feet in front. Ail that
saved him was the car was thrown to the ties
and stcipped, or it would have run over him.”
W. ,J. Ford is under arrest at Atlanta
charged with cheating and -win I dug. On
the persou of the prisoner was found two gold
watches and other valuables. He lived in
Atlanta for some time find married a Miss
White, with whom be lived for quite a while,
blit recentl: went to Marietta and married a
young girl of that place, whom lie carried to
Macon and then returned to Atlanta and
boxed nil bis household goods for tin* pnrposc
of moving them to the home of wife No. 2. A
short time ago Ford mortgaged property H
then sold it. There are several cases again t
him for this kind of work.
The Carrollton Tiros* says: "Roliert Lane
died at Franklin on the 4th inst. llis Bister,
Miss Sally Lane, preceded him only a few
days. Robert had just reached his majority,
lie is the third of his immediate family who
have died within a few weeks, his father,
Jonathan Lane, having passed away in No
vember last. Tiie hand of death has been
permitted to fall heavily upon the family of
Nlr. Lane. Ilis daughter-in-law, Mrs. T. C.
l.ane, a lady of exalted Christian character,
died something over a year ago, and Mi s. 1..
T. Lane, another daughter-in-law. a lovely
Christian mother and devoted wife, having
nursed her husband through a prolonged at
tack of fever, herself fell a victim to the dis
ease, last year. Very many families have
been stricken since the typho-malarial fever
began to prevail in Heard two years ago, but
gone have been so grievously smitten ns
f tit le Jack’s."
The Augusta Chronicle says: "The friends
of the Hams Brothers, who have been doing
business for about a y.ar on upper Broad
street, regretted to hear yesterday that they
had sold out their stock of groceries, and that
ihe firm would probably retire from business,
li seems that some tone ago the Messrs. Hams
put a mortgage of #7.000 upon their store, an 1
the sale was made to Mr. John C. Haius, sub
ject to the lien of mortgage. Their real es
tate, consisting of store and wagon yard, is
also encumbered. Their liabilities are about
12.1.000, and their assets about the same. This
change was the result of an overstock and of
a bail business season. The firm was com
posed of George and John 11. Ilains. both of
iyham are thrifty, honest and deserving gen
leiMen, and who had boon conducting one of
the handsomest ami most thoroughly stocked
grocery houses in (lie city. Their debts are
to the eity banks, besides :* commercial debt
;■> hone an! to Northern creditors. It is verv
probSble that a satisfactory atiyiistmcnf to
their creditors will be made. The Hain- l<oya
are voting and husmess-like, and full of en
ergy-, and have a prosperous life, we trust,
before them.”
The Oglethorpe savs: “In the memory
of the oldest inhabitant, there was a promi
nent lawyer who practiced at this bar named
Cone, arid at the same time them ga* a
carriage maker in this place named K. Put
ney. Once Pinney had e. little ease in court
anil employed Cone, who gained the case in a
ten-minutes speech, for which lie chatted VO.
Dinner refused at first to pay this amount,
claiming that it was extortionate. Cone stood
to his fee though, and Pinney had to pay it,
hut resolved to get even, lniiio-edays stilkys
were the onlr vehicles used, and before a
great while Cone broke the shaft to his as be
was coming to Lexington to court, and carried
it to Pinney to tlx. which he did. When Cone
asked for his bill Pinney simply said, ‘250,’
Cone swore he would not pay it, as two or
three dollars was the usual price for such
work. Pinny stuck to his hill also, telliug Mr.
Cone that he"thought it nothing but right that
iie should have foil for a day's work since he
had been charged that amount for a speech of
ten minutes. Cone reared, but the other
lawyers laughed *i him so much, and Pinney
heldon to his sulky until he had it to pay.
Cone made a reduction tu bis fees after
wards.”
The DaUoU Citizen says: "A cotton fac
tory. an enterprise we have long dreamed of
ami written columns about, i- now a fixed
fact. Dalton will now cert ait;! v have one.
The stock, we understand {over?lOJ.ovO;, is all
taken and the ground bought, and tin coim
panv will organize for business the first of
next month and work on the building, which
is to be a very large one, ami of
brick, will commence immediately
thereafter. The two principal stock
holders are men of capital and experienced
cotton factory men. am! we think we can safe
ly say the enterprise will be a suecers from
the start. The site upon which the building
will be erected is the Hamilton sprint: ot. one
of the best and most eligible for the purpose
that could have been selected. It is imme
diately alongside of the track of the MTestern
and Atlantic Railroad, affording convenient
shipping facilities, and the spring, never fail
ing undone of the largest in this section, af
fords a large voiuree of water, clear, limpid
and pure, sufficient for all (o :qry purposes.
The building of this factory wid i.e an im
portant era in the history of our picturesque
little city, It will be the nucleus around
which other important manufactories will
concentrate.”
FI.OKIPA.
ff aldo wants 3 budding and loan sseOCig
tion.
Mrs. Damon Greenleat, of Jacksonville, is
dead.
Ned E, Farrell has been installed at Mayor
of Waldo.
The new Episcopal Church at Waldo is ready
for the worshipers.
About seventy-five mechanics and laborers
are at work on the new hotel in North City.
six hundred thousand cigars were shipped
to New Tork, from Kev West, on the last
steamer.
Key West is flooded with Mexican and
Peruvian dollars, the former worth 85 and
the latter SO cents each.
There were 32,250 gallons of wine and 675
bales of leaf tobacco imported into Kev West
from Havana during the last mouth.
The Waldo Adcertiser prints a map of
Alachua county and gives several columns of
information beneficial to the town and county.
Rev. Mr. Clayton, an Episcopal clergyman
recently of New York, has purehaseasome
valuable real estate and will locate perma
nently at Waldo.
Tomatoes are selling at 50 cents per crate at
the auctions at Key West, and at $4 in New
York. Sweet potatoes 6ol<j last week at 1 cent
a pound, and Irish potatoes at #2 per barrel.
Miss Fanny S. Papy, the widow of th? late
Hon. Mariano S. Papy, formerly Attorney
General of Florida, compiler of Papy’s Re
ports, and a jurist of high standing iu his pro
fession, died at Tallahassee on Saturdav morn
ing.
Two negro train hands have been detected
robbing freight cars at Waldo. One of them
*eapd, but the other Is in jail. Their mys
“r‘ou* system of pilfering had puzzled the
covery f ° r * lon * time P revlou * to the dis-
Among the real-sstate transfer* at St. Au-
Ufa Horning Him
gustine within the past week is the purchase
by B. F. Oliveros, Esq., from Mm. C. Smith,
of the stone house with premises, situated on
the east side ot St. George street, opposite the
property of Miss Watkins.
The Key West Xeics says: “If there is any
place in the world in need of a compulsory
school system, that place is Key West. Chil
dren are playing in the streets from morning
till night, and their parent* seem to have no
control over them whatever.”
The Methodist Church building in course of
erection on King streeet, St. Augustine, is
progressing rapidly, and in the course of
thirtv days that congregation, which has
been 'long without a permanent place of wor
ship. will be located in the new sanctuary.
Verv little sponge was sold at Key West last
week. 1.. Pierce bought $3,000 worth on
Fridav. John Lowe. Jr., who runs about
twent’v-flve vessels in the trade, advised the
spongers, it is said, to hold hack the sponge
until better prices are offered. The present
rate is $1 75 a pound.
G. W. Brown, of suwaunee Shoale, Colum
bia county, died very suddenly a few days
ago. He had just arriqed at the store of his
brother J. V. Brown when he put his hand to
his Xorhead and complained of a very severe
pain there, asking for a glass of wine, lie said
he would lie down, which he did and expired
in a little while.
I. C. Seizer, County Commissioner elect
from Ormond, has sent to the Governor his
resignation, and a petition, iddorsed by the
members of the Board of County Commis
sioners, its Clerk, the Sheriff and’Treasurer,
was sent to Gov. Bloxham this week from
Enterprise, recommending the appointmont
u f 11 viu j rauiaiier, ot oak Hill, to fill the
vacancy.
The honorably discharged soldiers and sailors
of the late war. living at Key West, met on
the 23d int. and perfected an organization of
a Post of tin* Grand Army of the Republic.
Col. E. N. Wicker acted as’ mustering officer
and enrolled 49 members. The name adopted
is that of Major Lincoln Post, after the officer
who lost his life at Natural Bridge, Florida,
and whose remains are interred at Key West.
An important change will shortly take place
iu Governor Bloxiiam’s Cabinet, by the retire
nieul of lion. E. K. Foster. Superintendent of
Public Instruction, and the appointment in
li is stead of Major Albert J. Russell, of Jack
sonville. Mr. Foster retires to return to Ins
law practice, which demands his attention.
The friends of Dr. W. 11. Babcock are insist
ing upon his api>ointment as superintendent
of Duval county schools to succeed Major
Russell, and lie will probably be tendered that
position.
The insurance on Mr. DeLaney’s establish
ment. destroyed in the late tire at Orlando, is
17,500. The drug store and stock carried noli
cics to tin* amount of $2,000. Neither the milli
nery stock nor the Reporter office had any in
surance. Mr. Gore, on his return from .San
ford, whither he went to arrange with the
Sanford Jour not for the next issue of his pa
per. was met by his friends and presented
with a purse of $1,500 with which to start the
Reporter anew. The whole loss l>y the fire is
estimated at about $20,000.
The Key West Xeic* says: “The Key West
live fish trade with Havana is at a very low
ebb just now. The cause of this depression is
the odious and discriminating duty imposed
on fish taken to Havana in American fishing
smacks. This duty was imposed for the
benefit of the .Spanish fishermen, who have
about twenty smacks engaged in catching
fish on the Yucatan coast for the Havana
market. As our smacks are subjected to
heavy port charges iu Havana, and arc com
pelled to pay a duty ot 2 l s cents a pound on
their fish, of course they cannot compete with
Spanish smacks. After all charges are paid,
our smacks do not realize more than 3
cents a pound for their fish in Havana. This
is not sufficient to defray express. If this
state of things continue, our fishermen will
Ik* forced to abandon the trade and ‘go West.’ ”
Sunday afternoon M. M. Ivey, of Baldwin,
killed himself by taking morphine. He was
employed by Alsop A Clark at thei* log
camps, some distance from Baldwin, on the
Transit road, but since Christmas has been
drinking considerably. He went home from
his work Sunday partly underthe influence of
liquor. At 12:30 o’clock he signified his deter
mination to take morphine and thus end his
existence, anil at once put about two spoon
fuls of the poison in a tumbler and walked to
the well for some water to take with it. His
wife went out and begged him not to take the
poison, lie had his knife in his hand, with
which he threatened to cut her throat if she
interfered. He then turned round and drank
the poison. The family went immediately
into dinner, and while eating he fell asleep.
He was removed to a bed and every possible
effort made to counteract the action of the
poison, hut to no effect, and lie died Sunday
night at i! o’clock. He leaves a wife and four
little children.
THE UNKNOWN 1*0WEI!.
Miss Lula Hurst Mystifies a Rome An
-415111.8.
The Rome (Ga.) Daily Courier, of Sun
day last, has the following about Miss
Lula Hurst, the young lady who is al
leged to possess a mysterious power ot
some sort:
When it was known yesterday morning
that Miss Lula Hurst, the l’olk county
phenomenon, was in thecity and stopping
with her parents at Sirs. DeWitt’s board
ing house, everybody was on the tiji-toe ot
excitement to see her, and there was a
continual stream of people pouring in
and out of the house until Mr. Hurst pos
itively refused to allow his daughter to
see any one else.
Yesterday morning Miss Lulu gave an
exhibition of her powers to a few invited
guests in the parlor at Mrs. DeWitt’s,
The company w as composed of a number
of the leading citizens of the city, and be
fore the performance was over there was
not a single “doubting Thomas” in the
room. Every one left satisfied that Miss
Hurst possesses some strange power out
side the regular order of human posses
sions. A stranger not knowing of what
they had witnessed, could readily have
detected the puzzled expression on each
countenance as the company tiled out.
l'he exhibition consisted in a repetition
of what we have already stated the girl
eou’d do with chairs and sticks. By plac
ing her hands to the back pf a chair sbe
caused it to move all over the rodui while
three men were trying to hold it in one
place. At one time the chair rose about
three feet from the floor and could not be
forced down by the combined efforts of
Hon. Seaborn Wright, C. D. Wood and
several others, who threw their whole
weight and strength into the work, to uo
ayaii. The chair remained up until the
young lady wanted it to go down. No one
attempts to account for Miss Hurst’s
mysterious power.
The powers exhibited by Miss Lula yes
terday, though wonderful’, were evidently
only the manifestations of animal inag
neiiMi, jy electrical attraction. We had
no exhibition of the more wonderful trill
pouter which the young lady is said to
possess. We are assured, however, by
Mr. Hurst, of the reality of the puzzling
phenomena of this kind’heretofore report
ed through our columns—such as the
mysterious disappearanceoi articles from
one part ot the house and their equally
mysterious re-appearance in another part,
neither closed doors nor solid walls seem
ing to interpose an obstacle. When re
minded that none of this will power had
been exhibited here yesterday, Mr, Hurst
informed us that lie could easily have
shown it had it been suggested to him.
For instance, he said that his daughter
could sit down in a chair, place her bands
on the arms and her feet on one of the
rounds, and at the word, by he own voli
v;or> merely, the chair v\ould move about.
We SdppoOO that when a series of exer
cises are arranged for public observation,
such astonishing feats of vi!J power as
this will be exhibited.
Mr. Miftiu’s Terrible Gnu.
Xortcatk . Cam. Hour.
On the floor in one of the rooms of the
Norwalk Iron Works Company is a long,
heavy cylinder. Jts length is about twew
ty-eight feet and the diameter of the bore
about four inches. Ia another depart
ment men are at work constructing an
air compressor. When tbo latter is com
pleted it will be connected with tjje tu!>e
mentioned above, and what the inventor
confidently believes will be a most tre
mendous engine of war will be completed
and ready tor trial. Several years ago,
while in Washington, a gentleman from
Ohio heard a naval officer say that if a
gun could be constructed that would
throw dynamite it would thoroughly rev
olutionize modern warfare. Mr. Miffin.
that was the gentleman/s name proceeded
at once to invent such a gun, arid ue uaj,
reason to believe that it will be a perfect
success. It would not do to use powder
as a propeiitug “ower. for its sudden ac
tum would explode tne uysqriite cartridge
at the start, and blow the gun to atoms.
Compressed air. at a pressure of about
SCO pounds Lc ‘he square inch, will take
the place of powder, and Ibe gun now m
South Norwalk is expected to tqrow a
three pound cartridge a distance of two
miles. Imagine the effect of a cartridge
of even so small a weight striking the
side or deck of a vessel, or me ramparts
of a lort, Tne explosion would he terrible
in its results. If the euu is a success,
others of a size sufficient to throw 100
pounds of dynamite ten miles will lie con*
strueted. The gun, loaded with sand
instead of dynamite, will be tested in
South Norwalk at an early day, in the
presence of naval officers, scientific men
and others.
The Shears and the Cockroach.
Detroit Free Frees.
A Fair of Shears which had long occu
pied an Eduo.ial Table, one day Observed
a Cockroach going for the Paste-Pot, and
promptly called out:
“How, now*, you Vagrant!”
“Who’s a Vagrant?”
“You are. and I Warn you to take
Yourself off!”
‘‘See here,” said the Cockroach, as he
came to a sudden halt, “I don’t want to
crowd Anybody off the Editorial Staff,
but 1 must Warn you that, while plenty
of Editors never have any use for Shears,
no Newspaper Office in this country can
be run without Cockroaches!”
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
CAPT. MERCER DISCUSSES THE
GEORGIA JUDGESHIP.
Th Mississippi River Appropriation
and Retaliatory Legislation Meet With
Bitter Opposition—Sherman Offers an
Amendment to His Bank Bill—The Sen
ate Mississippi River Committee’s
Report.
Washington, Jan. 15.—George A.
Mercer, of Savannah, dined with Presi
dent Arthur to-day. The Georgia Judge
ship was discussed at length between
them. Mr. Mercer did not get from the
President any intimation as to whom he
will appoint. He strongly opposed the
nomination of Mr. Farrow, and put in a
very potent case against that applicant.
He said to-night that he hoped that Mr.
Farrow would be beaten, but at the same
time he would concede that he was very
strong. Mr. Farrow is working every
minute in his behalf. Mr. Saussy, of Sa
vannah, will leave for home to-morrow,
well convinced that he has no chance of
appointment.
THE WORK ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
The report oi me select Committee of
the Senate, appointed in accordance with
the resolution of February 22d last, to ex
amine into the works of improvement in
progress on the Mississippi river below
Cairo, and into the methods employed in
making such improvements, and also into
the jetty svstem, was presented to the
Senate to-day. The committee, which
consisted of Senator Logan, as Chairman,
and Senator Jones, of Nevada, Sawyer,
Jonas and Walker, met at Chicago,Oct. 27,
all being present except Senator Jones.
It was decided to begin the work ol in
vestigation at Rock Island, and testi
mony was taken at that place and at
Burlington. Keokuk. Quincy, Alton, St.
Louis, Cairo, Memphis, Helena, Green
ville, Vicksburg, Lake Providence, St.
Joseph, Natchez and New Orleans. In
addition to this testimony the committee
report that it was assisted in its investi
gation by the engineers in charge of the
work in the various districts visited, who
came on board the boat on which the
committee made its trip of inspection,
and pointed out and explained the fea
tures of the work under their control.
Besides this, the committee report hav
ing made landings at all points where im
portant works are in progress or already
completed, and having made a thorough
examination into their character. The
extent and value of the recommendations
of the committee are brief. The report
says: “The committee unites with the
Mississippi River Commission in the re
commendations made in the late report to
the Secretary of War that provision be
made by law for the appropriation by
suitable'proceedings of the land and mit
terial necessary in the work ol the Missis
sippi river improvement undertaken
by the government; that the right
of the government to ' the tree use
for channel improvement, of the material
found on the bars and islands within the
river banks be distinctly declared and
defined; that provision be made by the
government for retaining control over
areas of land reclaimed arid built up from
the river; that provision he made for the
punishment of persons making, or assist
ing to make, any cut-off' at any neck or
point In the river’ or in any way’ interfer
ing, without the authority of the law,
with its channel, or banks, or any work
of improvement projected bv the govern
ment.”
In conclusion the report says: “Your
committee has not deemed it to be within
the province of their mission to pass upon
the merits of the engineering plans now
in,orocess of execution on the Mississippi
river. In view, however, of the good work
already done by them, and the manifest
results achieved and the reasonable hopes
of lurther benefits to be derived from
them by general navigation, commerce
and trade, it is recommended that the sum
of $1.000.000 I*> apprnpriatod lor the im
provement of the river between Cairo and
the mouth of the Illinois river,
and $1,000,000 between the mouth
of the Illinois river and St. Paul, and for
the improvement of the river between
Cairo and the head of the passes, such a
sum of monev as has been named by the
Mississippi River Commission in their
report to the Secretary of War, now before
the Senate, as lieing necessary for the
further prosecution of the work going on
i in that district under their supervision.
\ “It is further recommended that these,
as well as all future appropriations for
the improvement of the Mississippi river,
tie made the subject of a Dill separate and
distinct from the one embodying the gene
ral appropriations fbr rivers and harbors.”
snERMAN’S BAXK HILL.
The Senate Finance Committee to-day
considered Mr. Sherman’s Du per cent,
national bank note bill, and in connec
tion with it Senator Aldrich's Dill to facil
itate the exchange of four per cent, for
three per cent, bonds. No decision was
reached. During the discussion Mr. Sher
man proposed an important amendment
to his own bill, designed to meet the ob
jection that the measure would base the
amount of circulation upon a fluctuating
standard. He proposes to authorize the
Seeratary to issue national banknotes up
to 90 per cent, of the lace value of the
three per cent, bonds deposited as secur
ity fop circulation. Where the higher
rate bonds are deposited he proposes to
compute the interest above J per cent,
and allow circulation to the amount of 90
per cent, of the aggregate interest over 3
per cent, for the whole time that such
bonds have to run. thus 4 per cent, bonds
having twenty-three years to run, being
deposited as security for circulation would
entitle the bank depositing them to re
ceive currency at the rate of sllO 70 for
each SIOO bond deposited, that being 90
per cent, of the face value and 90 per cent,
additional for all excess of interest over 3
per cent.
SPRINGER AND THE STAR ROCTEB.
Representative Springer to-night,in ref
erence to the resolution introduced to-day
calling for information from the Post
Office Department and the Department of
Justice concerning the star route trials,
said that more than $2,000,000 of over
charges were due the government, and
that the majority of the star route con
tractors who iriade these overcharges
were still in the service of the United
States. It is Mr. springer’s purpose to
call upon the Treasury Department for a
detailed statement of the expenses incur
red in that department, and also on the
courts of the District of Columbia for a
statement of the expenses in the star
route prosecutions.
CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE.
The Senate in executive session to-dav
confirmed the following
Louis A. Barnes. Register of the Land
office at Gainesville, Fla.; John F. Ilol
ime, Receiver of Public Moneys at Gaines
ville. Flu.; James Lewis, Surveyor Gen
eral ol Louisiana; George E. Bowden,
Collector of Customs for the district of
Norfolk and Portsmouth, Ya.
The following were confirmed in execu
tive session: Postmasters--James H.
Gass at Union, S. C.; T. L. Wiston at
Florence, S. C.; Wiley R. Walker at Win
ston, N. C.j p. TANARUS, Dunn at Brunswick,
Ga.; John B. Roberts at Sandersvijle, Ga.
COMMERCE SCB-COMMITTKKS.
The House Commerce Committee ap
pointed Bub-committees, and assigned
subjects as follows:
On the Bureau of Commerce and Xaeigatton.
—Messrs. Clardy, Uarie and Long.
On Shipping 'Commissioners, and the Ship
ment and Treatment of Seamen. —Messrs. Clar
dy, Seymour, Barksdale, Wadsworth and
Stewart.
On Time Balls. —Messrs. Stewart, Dunn and
Boyle.
ui t L',”: • f Lading,etc. —Messrs. Wadsworth,
Bavie .Old T iaray,
fir* Commerce and Xarlgation ana the e,,ju
lotion of Steam Vessels. —Messrs. Dunn, C lar
dy. Turner. Davis aud Stewart.
'On Tonnage. —Messrs. Dunn, Barksdale and
Bte w>,
GERMANY AND THE TJQGS.
The Secretary of State has signified his
intention of to-morrow laying before the
Mouse a!J the correspondence between
America and Germany and other infor
mation in his possession concerning the
exportation of hogs. Dr. Loring. of the
Department of Agriculture, will also sub
mit a report of the Commission that for
some tipie past he has been securing in
formation in this country in regard to the
same subject,
THE CHALMERS-MANNING CASE.
The hearing in the contested election
case of Chalmers vs. Manning was con
cluded this morning by the House Com
mittee on Elections. Gen. F.ppa Hunton,
of \ irginia, appeared in behalf of Mr.
Manning, and T. A. Harris in behalf of
Mr. Chalmers. The committee will con
sider the case to-morrow, but its mem
bers have not determined upon the time
iui jnaking the report.
It is a fact which can he proven by a
single trial, that the flavor given to cakes,
puddings,creams and sauces by Dr. Price’s
Special Flavoring Extracts, are as natu
ral as the fruit front which they are made.
Dr. Price’s for cream, cakes, etc., areas
much unlike, in delicate flavor and
strength, the cheap extracts, as can pos
sibly be imagined.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1884.
IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE.
Detailed Report of the Proceedings in
Both Bodies.
Washington, Jan. 15.— 1n the Senate
j to-day a numerously signed petition from
citizens of Kansas wa9 presented by Sen
ator Plumb, praying for the passage of a
! constitutional amendment conferring the
right ol suffrage on women, and several
petitions were presented by Senator Blair
from citizens of Minnesota, praying that
colonies ol families may be allowed to lav
out villages on public lands in order to
establish co-operative industrial societies.
Mr. Anthony’s resolution of some days
ago regarding retaliatory legislation hv
the United States to meet the exclusion
of American meats from foreign countries
was brought up.
A long debate followed, in which a good
deal of opposition to the proposed retalia
tory legislation was made on the ground
that as we have no system of official or gov
ernmental inspection of food products in
thi3 country, we have no authoritative
data upon which todispute the statements
of foreign governments that our meats are
unhealthy. Senator Logan was the princi
pal advocate of the lesofution, but several
Senators opposed him in the debate.
Finally Mr. Miller, of New York,
thought the whole discussion premature.
He understood that iu a few days the
State Department would send to the Sen
ate the entire correspondence relating to
the question involved, anil with that Mr.
Yliller had no doubt would come a recom
mendation from the President that a sys
tem of inspection of export meats should
be established. The convention of cattle
men had been sitting in Washington for
some days, with whom the Commissioner
of Agriculture had been in conference,
aud, as a result ot their efforts, Mr..Miller
had no doubt that measures would be
taken to prevent the spread of pleuro
pneumonia. These measures would not
be in the direction of retaliatory, but
rather preservative, legislation.’ He
therefore hoped that the matter would go
over for the present.
The morning hour expiring the matter
went over. The Senate then went into
an executive session, and, on the doors
being reopened, an order was made desig
nating Senator Ingalis, of Kansas, to pre
side at the opening of the Senate to-mor
row in case of the absence of President
pro tern. Edmunds, who expects to atteud
a meeting of the Board of Regents or the
Smithonian Institution, of which he is a
member.
The Senate went into executive session
to-day at 1:30 o’clock. A large number
of minor nominations were taken up and
confirmed, after which consideration of
the Mexican treaty was resumed. The
proposition to sit with open doors was
defeated, upon a division, by a small ma
jority.
The discussion which followed was gen
eral in character and not of great inter
est. The opponents of ratification raised
the question of the power of the Senate,
under the Constitution, to take action
which would be in effect a modification of
the revenue law's, and argued that such
action required the concurrence of the
Mouse. It was also said in opposition
to the treaty that the Mexicans were
people of simple habits and primitive
tastes, that the country was thinly inhab
ited and that at best it would afford but
a very limited market for our manu
factures. The friends of the treaty replied
at considerable length, meeting the con
stitutional objections with precedents,
and pointing out in detail the advantages
to he reaped from reciprocal trade rela
tions. The cultivation of coffee in Mexico
would, it was said, be stimulated, and the
price to the American consumer be
greatly reduced thereby. Coffee, to be
sure,’ was now upon our free list, but
Brazil had placed a heavy export duty on
it, and this would in time be taken off in
order to compete with the product of
Mexico. Then the spread of the gospel
and of the highest form of civilization
were among the things nnt to ho dierc
garded in considering the matter. The
doors were opened at 4 o’cloek, and the
Senate adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day, Mr. Green, of
North Carolina, offered a resolution au
thorizing the Committee on Public Health
to inquire into the truth of the allegation
ot adulteration of food, and if it is shown
that such practices exist, to suggest what
legislation is necessary to correct the
w rong, and giving the committee authori
-1 ty to employ chemical and medical ex
perts. It was referred to the Committee
on Public Health.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, from the Committee
on Ways and Means, reported as a sub
stitute for the resolutions offered by
Messrs. Hewitt and Belmont, of New
York, a resolution requesting the Presi
dent to furnish the House with any infor
mation in his possession, including re
ports from the United States Consuls,
special agents of the Treasury Depart
ment, appraisers of customs, arid the de
cisions of the departments, concerning
under valuation, false classification
and other irregular practices in
the importation of foreign goods, wares,
and merchandise since January 1, 1882,
and at his discretion prior thereto, anti
further requesting him to recommend
what legislation, if any, in his opinion, is
needed to prevent frauds on the revenue
resulting from the cases above specified.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, Chairman of the
Committee on Public Lands, reported a
bill declaring forfeited certain grants of
land made to certain States in aid of the
construction of railroads. It was referred
to the committee of the whole. The bill
was described in the dispatches of the
14th inst.
Mr. King, of Louisiana. Chairman or
the Committee on Mississippi Levees, re
ported a bill to close the gaps of the
levees of the Mississippi river and for the
improvement of the navigation ot that
river. It appropriates $1,000,000 to be
expended iu accordance with the recom
mendation of the Mississippi River Com
mission. It was referred to the commit
tee of the whole.
Mr. Money, of Mississippi, Chairman of
the Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads, reported a bill making all public
roads and highways post routes.
Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, introduced
a hill authorizing the President, during
the recess of Congress, to prohibit any
imports injurious to the public health
from those countries which, on the same
ground, prohibited the importation of
American goods. It was referred.
Mr. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, offered a
resolution requesting the President to
furnish copies of the correspondence in
regard to the reported arrest in Russian
Poland of UeinhaidlAVagner, a citizen of
the United States. It was adopted.
Mr. Cox. of New York, Chairman ot the
Committee on Naval Affairs, reported
back the resolution calling; on the Secre
tary of the Navy for information as to
whether any officer of the navy has re
ceived or accepted any gift or present
from any Prince or foreign State without
the consent of Congress, and also as to
whether any United States officers or sail
ors rendered any service to the British
navy in the recent bombardment of Alex
andria. It was adopted.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, offered a resolution
directing the Committee on Judiciary to
report whether the President, by and with
the consent ot the Senate, can negotiate
treaties with foreign governments by
which duties levied by Congress can be
changed or abrogated. It was adopted.
This is directed against the pending Mex
ican treaty.
Mr. Shelley, of Alabama, offered a reso
lution directing the Committee on Rivers
and Harbors to inquire into the necessity
of making immediate appropriations for
continuing important river and harbor
jmpi'o*ements where work has been, or is
about to be, suspended for w'ant of an ap
propriation. It was referred.
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, Chairman of
the Committee on Rivers’ and Harbors,
reported a bill making an appropriation
for continuing the improvement of the
Mississippi river, and it was referred to
the committee of the whole.
The House then, at 1:40 o’clock, went
into committee of the whole, with Mr,
Cox, of New York, in the chair, for its
consideration.
Mr. Willis made a very brief statement
of the purport of the bill, stating that the
appropriation was necessary to prevent
injury to the valuable plant of the gov.
eminent, and to enable the commissioners
to proceed with its work of improvement.
The Louisiana members were the prin
cipal advocates of the measure.
M i'x Miller, of Pennsylvania, opposed
the bill. Many men in the House seemed
to think that the business of Congress
was to find somewhere to dump the sur
plus—not to consider how the money ot
the government should be economically
spent, but how the surplus could be used.
Before favoring this appropriation he
would like to know'how much of the sums
already J>ad been spent
rn building levees. He ventured
to say that there had not
been an appropriation for the improve
ment of river navigation, from which
there had been as much filching as from
the appropriation for the Mississippi
river, Mutterings had come up from that
river that private corporations and pri
vate individuals were being wonderfully
benefited by these immense appropria
tions. He was in favor of fair appropria
tions, but he was not in favor of rushing
through the House a bill appropriating
$1,000,000, when not one-fourth of the mem
bers knew for what object i9 was to be
used.
Mr. Hepburn, of lowa, opposed the bill.
He was in tavor of the improvement of
the navigation of the river, but not of the
banks and plantations on each side of the
stream, and he believed that it was the
purpose of certain men in the House to
secure the improvement of their own
property and the property of their con
stituents, and that this struggle was to
secure the plantations of the lower Mis
sissippi from overflow rather than to pro
tect the navigation of the stream. He
criticized the disbursements of the com
mission for clerical and menial services,
declaring that these services had eaten
up nearly one-half of the $4,100,000 which
had been appropriated. He had heard
a gentleman say that he was willing
to vote $30,000,000 for the purpose
of improving the Mississippi river, but
that gentleman’s ideas were insignificant
in comparison with the ideas of the com
mission. Thirty million dollars would
not begin to reach the estimate or the
commission. lie believed that the system
of the commission included the building
of 5,000 miles of levees along the Missis
sippi and its tributaries, and this expendi
ture of a vast sum was only the begin
ning. The line of argument adopted bv
these gentlemen is that or the principal
opponents of the bill.
The committee rose for the purpose of
limiting the debate, but several motions
to adjourn were interjected and the yeas
and nays were ordered on that motion.
It was agreed that when the House again
goes into committee the general debate
shall be limited to thirty minutes. The
House then adjourned.
ANCILLARY ADMINISTRATORS.
Judge Lawrence Again Declares In
Favor of the Domiciliary Adminis
trator.
Washington, Jan. 15.—in the settle
ment of the accounts of the Treasurer of
the l nitod States iu 1882 a question arose
in a case from a Southern State, and was
referred to the First Comptroller for de
cision, whether a Treasury draft issued in
the name of a citizen of a State in pay
ment of his claim against the United
States, should after his decease at his
domicile be paid to the domiciliary ad
ministrator duly appointed iu such State,
or to an ancillary administrator appointed
in the District of Columbia, and claiming
the right to the payment.
Judge Lawrence, the First Comptroller,
held that the payment of the draft by the
Treasurer could only be made to the
proper legal representative duly ap
pointed at the domicile of the deceased.
The question was carried to the Supreme
Court of the district, and finally to the
Supreme Court of the United States, where
Justice Gray, speaking for the court, sus
tained the judgment of the First Comp
troller by deciding that the United States
Treasurer could not he compelled to pay
to an administrator, appointed in the Dis
trict of Columbia, of an inhabitant of one
of the States of the Union, the amount of
the draft payable to the intestate at the
Treasury out of an appropriation made by
Congress. The matter now comes up for
the final action of the Comntroller thereon,
who holds as follows: The general rule
of national execution in the common law
is that when a party having a claim
against the United States dies, payment
thereof will be made only to the proper
domiciliary legal representatives of the
decedent. In accordance with this
principle and in pursuance of the opinion
of the Supreme Court in this case that the
proper officer of the Treasury Department
is authorized to decide to whom pay
ment shall be made, it will be
made to the rightful legal repre
sentative duly appointed in Ten
nessee. The authorities sufficiently
show that an order of the Probate Court
assuming to appoint an ancilliarv ad
ministrator when there are no assets of
the decedent within the jurisdiction is
void, and it is notv established that a
Treasury draft is not assets which give
jurisdiction to make such an appoint
ment. In the practice in the Treasury
Department the authority of an ancillary
administrator will be deemed as extend
ing only to the assets withmg the juris
diction of the court by which
he was appointed, and treasury drafts
having no legal status within such juris
diction. will be deemed as having a sta
tus at the domicile ofjthe decedent, and
so will be paid to the proper legal repre
sentative there appointed.
The question decided is one of great im
portance, and affects, a large number of
claims against the United States, since
it applies to every case where a citizen ot
a State, having a claim against .the gov
ernment, payable at the Treasury dies,
including all cases of persons claiming,
as representatives of the deceased, to he
payees of United States bonds.
Brewster Cameron Tells the Truth.
Washington, Jan. 15. Brewster
Cameron, in his testimony Mondav, made
a general statement to’ the effect that
United States Deputy Marshals and
l nited States Commissioners in nearly
every State in the Union, and especially
in the South, were habitually employing
disreputable persons to act as informers
against innocent citizens. Per
sons guilty of trivial offenses, he said,
were brought, before Commissioners
that fees might be secured. These offi
cials were reported as sending in state
ments for “constructive mileage,” “con
structive subsistence” and “constructive
guard service,” none of which had been
earned, or duties performed. In many
cases the money asked for amounted to S4O
or SSO.
Pure Alcohol for Poor Lo.
Washington, January 15.—The Indian
officer has received information of an in
genious method recently adopted by
traders to evade the law against selling
liquor to Indians. Pure alcohol is flavor
ed with extract of lemon, and then placed
in small bottles similar to those in which
extracts are sold. The bottles have a
regular label bearing the inscription,
“.Jewel extract of lemon, for flavoring
ie cream, jellies, custards, sauces, cakes,
pastry, etc.”
Corklilll’s Chances Waning:.
Washington, Jan. 15.— N0 appoint
ment as District Attorney for the District
of Columbia was made'to-day, and this
delay is construed as unfavorable to Mr.
Corkhill’s prospects. In the meantime,
tin business of the office is at a stand
still, and considerable embarrassment
is felt by the District and Federal Courts.
Crimes and Criminals.
New York, Jan. 15.—Romulus A. Bon
homum was arrested in this citv to-day
charged with having swindled "various
persons in New York City by pretending
to sell them land in North Carolina at $a
per acre and receiving one-half the pur
chase money. He was sent to jail for a
hearing on Friday next, when his victims
iu New York will be present. The ac
cused is an Italian, and is said to have
been employed as a solicitor by the North
Carolina Colonization Society of New
York.
hanged for killing a debtor.
Walla Walla, W. TANARUS., Jan. 15.—John
Elfers, who shot Dan Hagertv because
the latter would not pay him' 50 cents
which he owed him, was hanged this
morning.
Showing the Inducements of the South.
Boston, Jan. 15.—The first of four exl
cursions to the Southern States, inaugu
rated by the railroad lines and the State
and local authorities of North Carolina
Yirginia, West Virginia and Tenhesseo’
w ill leave here next Saturday for Shelby,
N. C. These excursions are arranged
especially to give prospective settlers and
capitalists an opportunity to obtain front
actual observation an idea of the oppor
tunities offered for settlement and invest
ment in the South,
Killed While Sliding Down Hill.
Maldex, Mass., Jan. 15.—Last night at
Haywardsville, Melrose countv, a double
runner coasting sled struck' a sled on
which James O’Leary was seated, sever
ing his right leg. He died within 30 min
utes. The brother of O’Leary, who was
on the double runner, was hurt internhlly.
Charles Hayward’s right leg was broken
in two places. Two young “women were
Internally injured.
Two Children Suffocated.
New Yoke, Jan. 15.—John and Annie
McDonald, aged four and five years, re
spectively, were suffocated this’ morning
in a room at number 194 Hamilton ave
nue, Brooklyn. Their mother locked
them in while she took another child to
school. During her absence the children
built a fire on the floor and suffocated
themselves.
In Twenty-four Hour*.
“Benson’s Capcine Porous Plasters
cured my lame back ip twenty-four
hours.’’—J. M. C. Pure, sure. 26 cents
FLYING TRAIN’ IN’ FLAMES
THREE BURNED TO A CRISP AND
SIX OTHERS TO DIE.
Sixteen More of the Passengers Terribly
Burned and Injured—Oil on the Track
Ignited by the Engine Fires the Train
While Running Forty-five Miles an
Hour.
Bradford, Pa., Jan. 15. —The engineer
ol train No. 2, a through train between
Wellsville, N. Y. and Bradford, east of
here, at 9:45 o’clock this morning dis
covered oil on the track. He reversed his
engine, but was too late, and the brakes
could not hold the train. It dashed into
the oil, which was fresh and gassv.
Sparks from the firebox ignited the oil
and the flames instantaneously enveloped
the train, which dashed down a steep
grade, one hundred feet to the mile, at the
rate of forty-five miles an hour.
LEAPS FOR LIFE.
The forty passengers on board be
came panicky, and jumped from the doors
and windows into tiie snow, which was
three feet deep. Near the doors the
doomed victims crowded each other,
blockading the passage way. At a curve
half a mile from where the flames seized
the fated train the engine and cars were
derailed. Three women, named Kitty
Moran, Mrs. Lewis Fair and Mrs.Oon
nelly, or Jones, were burned to death.
Fifteen men and one boy were burned and
wounded. The engineer and fireman
jumped from the train. The former,
named Patsy Sexton, was badly burned
aboilt the face and hands and will likelv
die. He made himself a hero by standing
by his engine in the face of death. The
wounded are being taken care of by Pres
ident Carter and Superintendent Wil
liams, who have a full corps of physi
cians and attendants. They are being
brought to Bradford and lodged in hotels.
RUINED ROLLING STOCK.
The passenger coach is entirely con
sumed and the baggage car is partially
destroyed. The mails and baggage were
partly saved.
The baggage master and express messen
ger jumped from the train and escaped
with a few injuries. The arms and legs
of the victims were burned off. Many
of the wounded are in a critical condition,
and four or five will, according to the
opinions of the doctors, die before night.
The burning train, as jt dashed down the
mountain side, was an appalling sight,
almost unnerving those who witnessed it.
Bradford, Pa., Jan. 15, 9 p. m.— Five
women escaped with slight injuries and
three were killed, their bodies being
burned to a crisp. Three of the men are
likely to die.
WHENCE THE OIL CAME.
Bradford, I’a., .Tan. 15, 10 p. m.—A
stream of waste oil flowing from a tank
across the Bradford, Bordell and Kinzua
Railway caught fire this morning as a pas
senger train from Wellsville for Bradford
ran into it, and the train was immediately
enveloped in flumes. The track tor 100
yards was covered with oil. It is be
lieved that the gas coming in contact
with the fire box of the engine exploded,
firing the oil, and, the flames spreading
on the hurricane’s wing, enveloped the
doomed train in an instant in a blazing
mass.
IN THF flying furnace.
So intense was the heat that the win
dow's cracked and fell in. In less time
than it takes to write it the passenger
coach and baggage car were converted
into a mass of fire. It w r as a terrible mo
ment. The coach was filled with passen
gers, and there w'as a rush for the doors,
but the boat was so intense that the panic
stricken passengers were driven back and
forced to jump through the windows,
landing in the snow. A relief train with
surgeons and cots was dispatched to the
scene. Upon its arrival there a terrible
siglit presented itself. The passenger
coach and baggage car were a mass of
smoking ruins. The engine lay on its
bask, having turned a complete somer
sault.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
It is definitely known that only three per
sons, all women, were burned to death.
Mrs. L. C. Fair, of Kinzua Junction, was
burned beyond recognition. Her husband
escaped by jumping through a window.
Miss Katie Moran, of Allens. N. Y., was
burned almost to a crisp.
Miss Moran was found hanging outside
the coach grasping a window sill.
The other dead woman has not been
identified. She was badly burned.
Sixteen persons were more or less seri
ously burned, six of whom tire likelv to
die.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
The Property Holders Must Pay the
Marietta Street Paving Assessment.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 15. —The Supreme
Court to-day rendered the following deci
sions:
Beall et al. vs Clark et al. From Dough
erty. Judgment reversed.
Tucker et al. vs. Edwards. From Talia
ferro. Affirmed,
Johnson vs. Latimer, From Warren.
Reversed,
Heard et al. vs. Palmer, and Dyson, Or
dinary, vs. Pope. Both from Wilkes. Re
versed.
Zorn, trustee, vs. Lamar et al. From
Bibb. Motion to reinstate case denied.
Hayden et al. vs. city of Atlanta. Judg
ment affirmed. This is the case of Judge
Julius A. Hayden, of Fort Reid, FJa., who,
with other large property owners of At
lanta, refused to pay the tax assessed for
paving Marietta street, in this city, and
appealed to Judge Hammond for an in
junction against the collection, wdiich he
declined to grant. The case was then
taken to the Supreme Court, where
Judge Hammond is sustained
and the right ot the city to collect the tax
firmly settled. This is a very important
victory for the city, as the failure to pay
the assessments lias greatly embarrassed
the financial affairs of the various depart
ments.
THE CAPITOL COMMISSIONERS
will have an important meeting to-mor
row, as the marble and granite men are
here with their specimens and the
architects with their plans. Frank N.
Wilcox, of Macon, has a very handsome
plan that attracts much attention.
THE RAILWAY ASSOCIATION’S
differences have not yet been harmonized,
and the association is still in session.
NUTT’S COUNSEL JUBILANT.
The Preliminary Steps of the Prosecu
tion Looked Upon as Blundering.
Pittsburg, Jan. 45. —The second day of
the Nutt trial m.ade no diminution in the
number of persons seeking admission
when the court opened. The prisoner
was brought in and sat beside his counsel.
Mrs. Nutt and her daughters were
present, closely veiled. Senator Voorhees
was also on hand, and will assist the
counsel for the defense. John Boyle, of
Fayette county, made the opening argu
ment for the prosecution, and outlined
the case. The witnesses for the prosecu
tion were examined, their evidence being
directed to establishing the killing of
Dukes, and that Nutt was practising at
a mark with his pistol, in company with
his uncle, on the day he killed Dukes,
thus showing premeditation.
The defense claim to be well satisfied
with the case made out bv the prosecu
tion. The pr<**f of the killing is regarded
by them as more a matter of form than
anything else, ami the circumstances sur
rounding the killing they consider they
have put in as favorable a light as they
possibly could be. In allowing their wit
nesses to tell how Nutt told police officers
that he shot Dukes because he could not
help it, the commonwealth is generally
regarded a9 having made a great blunder,
as they have shown the existence of emo
tional Insanity,or an uncontrollable desire
to kill, which will be the line of defense.
A Yorktown Banquet in Paris.
Paris, Jan. 15. — A banquet in commem
oration of the surrender of Yorktown was
given at Le Hotel Continental to-night.
Gen. Boulanger, Marquis de Rochambeau,
presided. Mr. Morton, the United States
Minister; Mr. Walker, the United States
Consul General; ex-Senator Windom, of
Minnesota: Col. Lichtenstein and a ma
jority of the French delegates
who attended the Yorktown Centenary,
were present. Gen. Boulanger proposed
a toast to President Arthur, to which Mr.
Morton responded. Mr. Walker proposed
a toast to President Grevy, Col. Lichten
stein responding. Before the banquet a
cable message was sent to President
Arthur speaking of the pleasant recollec
tion which the French delegates retain of
their Teceptlon In the United States.
Mrs. Eliza Brannon, Ivanboe, Ga., saysg
‘*l used Brown’s Iron Bitters with best
results for extreme nervousness, sleep
lessness and bad blood.”
ALL EGYPT IN DANGER.
Reinforcements for El Mahdi, Which
Excite Grave Apprehension.
London, Jan. 15.—A Cairo correspon
dent says that it i9 reported that Sheikh
Senoussi is advancing to join El Mahdi.
If this report is true Egypt is in the great
est danger, because the influence of Sen
oussi extends along the whole North
African shore provinces to Egypt,
throughout the Syrian Desert, and among
the Arab tribes bordering upon the Suez
canal. From Tripoli to Dongola or to
Alexandria is only fifteen to twenty davs’
camel march.
A TURKISH CONTINGENT.
It has been decided to raise Turkish
contingents, to be recruited principally
in Albania, which shall form the third
brigade of the Egyptian army. The offi.
cers are to be English.
ACTIVITY AT WOOLWICH.
The Press Association states that the
display of energy at Woolwich arsenal
and the arrival there of immense stores,
such as are required by an army on the
march, have given rise to the belief that
the English Cabinet will soon decide to
dispatch reinforcements to the army in
Egypt. A mountain battery, pack saddles
and harness for camels were shipped to
Egypt to-day.
DECLARING FOR EL MAHDI.
A disp itch from Khartoum savs that
the people on both sides of the Biue Nile
have declared for El Mahdi. All com
munication with Sennaar has been stop
ped. The steamers sent to convey troops
and dispatches to Sennaar have returned
after having gone a short distance.
Thirty thousand rebels hold Salifeh on
the line of the telegraph along the White
Nile.
THE KHEDIVE’S ECONOMY.
Cairo, Jan, 15. —The Economic Com
mittee, recently appointed by the Khedive,
recommends the discharge of 1,500 native
officials.
COST OF TIIE SOUDAN’S EVACUATION.
Abd el Kadir, Minister of War.estimates
hat the evacuation of Soudan will occupy
seven months’ time and involve an ex
penditure ot £ 1,000,000.
SOUDAN’S ABANDONMENT OPPOSED.
Pa r is, Jan. 15.—Advices received from
Cairo state that a committee has been
formed to protect commercial interests
in Soudan, and that the committee will
a “dress a petition to the Khedive and to
the Consuls General in Egypt protesting
againgt the abandonment "of Soudan by
the Egyptian Government.
FRANCE’S WAR IN THE ORIENT.
M. Tricon Regally Received by the Boy
King of Annum and His Council.
Paris, Jan. 15.—Prime Minister Ferry
has received the following telegTam from
M. Tricon, the French diplomatic repre
sentative in Annam:
Hue, Jan. 5.
The young King, and the members of
the Council exercising the regency, for
mally received me to-day. The ceremony
was without precedent, and was conduct
ed with Oriental pomp. After salutations
had been exchanged the King re
quested me to approach. lie
desired me to convey to the
French Government assurance of his re
spect and devotion, and expressed the hope
that the severity of the treaty stipulation
between the two Councils would be miti
gated. I assured the King of our sympa
thy and good will. The King was crowned
under the name of Kien Phue, which sig
nifies, “Height of Felicity.” Thepower is
held by one of the Regents, who was for
merly a leader of the revolution. He is
disposed to follow our counsels.
AN advance ON BACNIXH.
London, Jan. 15.—A dispatch from
Haiphong, dated January 10, says:
“There are indications of a speedv ad
vance ou Baeninh. The French hold a
strong strategic position for attack. The
Chinese troops at Baeninh number 10,-
000. They are splendidly armed. The
recently poisoned King of Annam was
succeeded by a nephew of King Tueutuc,
w’ho died in July last. The new King is
15 years old.
TSENG AWAITING INSTRUCTION.
The Telegraph savs it is authorized to
state that Marquis Tseng is still awaiting
instructions from Pekin.
WAR INEVITABLE.
Washington, Jan. 15.—Li Fong Pao,
the Chinese Minister to Germany, in an
interview with a reporter, said that’he
thought that Marquis Tseng displayed
bad taste in alluding, in his letter re
cently published, to former French de
feats. Li Fong Pao considered that war
between France and China was inevitable
and probably had already begun.
MIL CHAMBERLAIN’S VIEWS.
England Must not Shrink from Her Duty
Toward Egypt.
London, Jan. 16, 2 a. m.—Right Hon.
Joseph Chamberlain, President of the
Board ot Trade, delivered a speech at
Newcastle last night. Referring to Irish
affairs, he insisted that the improved state
of Ireland was due to the land act rather
than to the crimes act. Ho se
verely censured the recent language
of the Pat nellites toward Earl Spencer,
Lord Lieutenant’of Ireland, and Mr.
Trevelyan, Chief Secretary, and con
demned the Orange agitation. Concern
ing Egypt, Mr. Chamberlain said that
“the duty of Her Majesty’s Government is
clear. England has assumed a duty
which she cannot neglect. She cannot
abandon Egypt to anarchy, and on the
other hand, she may not and must not
go back on the assurance which
she has given Egypt, The task is proba
bly more difficult than it was supposed to
be, and its accomplishment may occupy
a longer time than was anticipated, but
nothing has occurred to make me to think
that we shall not succeed with time, pa
tience and discretion.” Regarding home
affairs, he 6aid that the difficulties in
Ireland and Egypt would not justify the
postponement of measures of reform in
Englaud.
A DEAD LADY’S BEQUESTS.
Thousands of Hollars Given to Northern
Colleges and Seminaries.
Malden, Mass., Jan. 15. —Among the
principal gifts made by Mrs. Stone, who
died yesterday from the effects of a fall,
have been SIOO,OOO to Wellesley Female
College, where a large hall has been
erected and named Stone Hall in her
honor, about $150,0(M) to Andover Theo
logical Seminary, sso*ooo to Drury College,
of Springfield, Mo., $50,000 to the
Chicago Theological Seminary, $30,000 to
Hamilton College, of Clinton, N. Y., and
other large amounts to Amherst and
other New England colleges and OberJin
University. All of the gifts were mainly
in the interest of the Congregational de
nomination. In addition sbe gave many
thousand dollars to the American Mis
sionary Association, which was scattered
throughout the South for the education of
the colored people. Mrs. Stone also re
membered Frroburg College, Maine, with
a gift of SIO,OOO, cancelled the debt of the
Malden Congregational Church, and was
also instrumental in helping other local
institutions.
Income Taxation In Germany.
BerliNj Jan. 13. — The lower House of
the Prussian Diet to-dav began the dis
cussion of the bill taxing'incoines derived
from personal property. Herr Richter
warmly denounced the bill, declaring that
it -was the work of amateurs and an im
practicable measure. His speech pro,
duccd a great effect. Herr Richter’s ob
jections were vigorously combatted by
Herr Von Scholtz, the Prussian Minister
of Finance. It is believed that the bill
has little chance of passing.
Spain’s New Treaties.
Madrid, Jan. 16, 2 a. m.— At a banquet
given last evening to the free trade lead
ers to celebrate the conclusion of the com
mercial treaties between Spain and va
rious countries, Senor Gomez, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, Senor Gallostra, Min
ister of Finance, and Senor Moret, Min
ister of the Interior, were present. In the
speeches delivered great stress was laid
upon the beneficial effect a provisional
treaty made with America will have upon
Spanish trade.
Senor Castellar’s Foreign Policy.
Madrid, Jan. 15. —1n conversation on
political affairs, Senor Castellar said:
“Like a majority of the Spanish Republi
cans, I am favorable to free trade as a
means of improving our relations with
England, France and the United States.
These are natural friends. The English
speaking races on both sides of the At
lantic have no better friend in Europe
than myself, even though I have some
times dissented from their foreign policy.”
Mr. I. A. Bacon, Savannah, Ga., says*
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CREAM OF THE SPECIALS.
What the Washington Correspondent*
Have to Say About Men and Things In
General.
GEN. SHERMAN AND THE PRESIDENCY.
Gen. Sherman has been in Washington
for two or three days and has been the re
cipient of a great deal of attention. He is
looking better than when he left. His
visit is purely social. He will remain
here but a few days and will then go to
St. Louis. His presence here has revived
the talk about his being nominated at
Chicago next June. He is verv popular
with r.he Republicans from the South and
Southwest. Gen. Sherman does not talk
politics. His associates are largely with
his old army friends. He laughs at the
rumors about presenting his name, ami
says that he has had enough of public
life. He understands that all the politi
cians want of him is to use him, and sav9
iu the most positive terms that he will not
permit his name to be used, but it is said
that his declinations are not quite so vitr
orous as they used to be.
Those who favor Sherman are not de
terred in the least by his denial. They
sav ho is already tired of St. Louis anil
will not be at all reluctant when the time
comes to enter politics.
A prominent Blaine man in speaking of
Sherman as a candidate said to-dav: “He
won’t do. There is just one cry that
would beat him from the start. Tiie Pro
testant people would at once cry out: ‘Are
you going to turn the White House into a
nunnery? Do you want to nominate a
man whose wife is in almost daily cor
respondence with the Pope?’ The relig
ious question bars out Sherman. His re
fusal to permit his name to be used w ill
not be disturbed, you may be sure.”
presidential receptions.
The President will give a series of en
tertainments after the 23d instant. He
will go to New York to attend the recep
tion given him by the Union League Club
on that date. After his return he will
give a dinner to the Diplomatic Corps,
followed by one to the Cabinet, the Jus
tices of the Supreme Court and Senators
and Representatives. He will give sev
eral receptions, including public and
card levees. The date of Mrs. McElrov’s
visit is not definitely fixed, but it is ex
pected that she will come in time to pre
side at these entertainments.
THE PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.
Speaker Carlisle is one of several of the
statesmen of to-day who considers the
present law for succession of President of
the Senate and Speaker of the House of
Representatives contrary to the intent of
the Constitution, when it left it to Con
gress to provide .for Presidential succes
sion in case of vacancy in both the high
est offices. He thinks the Constitution
meant an officer of the United Ltates
to be named, and he says it has been
decided over and over again in im
portant cases that members of neither
house ot Congress are United States
officers and that they cannot be impeached
for any misdemeanor, as United States
officers can be. When it was mentioned
to him that in reply to this same argu
ment against naming the President pro
tem. of the Senate and Speaker of the
House in the Congress which passed the
present bill, Gerry had said, “The Con
stitution says that the House of Repre
sentatives shall elect their Speaker aud
other officers,” Carlisle answered: “Yes,
it says their Speaker; so the Speaker is
an officer of the House of Representatives,
not of the United States.”
PRIDE BEFORE A FALL.
Pendleton’s defeat is another curious
illustration of how unlucky it is for
aspiring statesmen to build big houses in
Washington. As lar back as this process
can be noted, perhaps it might even be
said with Douglas and Breckinridge, a
public man has generally found that he
has built himself a mausoleum for his
political hopes, instead oi a palace.
Neither Sprague nor his father-in-law
long enjoyed the stately mansion with its
large grounds, at the corner of Sixth and
E streets, which is now a boarding house.
Attorney General Williams was one of
the first to build a fine residence in the
new part of the West End. The red lining
of a carriage killed him not long after.
Senator Stewart built what is still called
“the Castle” furtherout. It nearly burned
down twice, and his family have only oc
cupied it lor a short time latelv. Gen.
Butler erected the well-know'u’granite
mansion on Capitol hill, which could not
have cost less than SIOO,OOO, just before he
went out of national politics apparently
“for good.” Even the leasing of it seemed
likely to prove almost equally fatal to the
prosperity of Senator Jones, of Nevada.
“Boss” Shepherd only completed his fine
house about the time the return wave
came in his fortunes and sent him to the
Mexican mines and his house into the
hands of a receiver. Mr. Robeson has not
lived in his house; Mr. Blaine only asbort
time in his; Mr. Windom’s was directly
used as a campaign card against him;
Senator Cameron has gone abroad from
his immense but somewhat gloomv pile,
and his State has reared and kicked up
against him; and now the near neighbor
of those last mentioned has ruefully
walked the plank in Ohio.
A LITTLE FIB NAILED.
There is absolutely no truth in the re
port of a personal difficulty between Sen
ators Logan and Sewell over the Fitz
John Forter case, as was published in
New York this morning. Senator Sewell
has not been here since Thursday, and the
Senators have not exchanged a word
about the Porter case this winter.
FIGHTING FITZ JOHN.
The minority ot the House Militarv
Committee have finally decided to make
an adverse report upon the Fitz John
Porter relief bill. Their report will not
embrace any new matter, for the reason
that all the new evidence is not in support
of the charges against Gen. Porter, but
will be substantially the same as the ad
verse report made in the Fortv-sixth Con
gress. It is believed that the bill will
pass, nevertheless. A favorable vote in
the House seems to be generally conceded,
and in the Senate Messrs. Hoar and Sew
ell are counted upon to vote for it. Mr.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, is absent, but
his pair with Mr. Butler will not prevent
the lalter from voting, as the absent Sena
tor is himself in favor the passage of the
bill.
An Exposition Building in Hanger.
Chicago, Jan. 15.—1n December, 1882,
the City Council passed an ordinance re
quiring the Mayor to lease the Lake Front
ground on which the exposition building
stands to the Exposition Company at
SIO,OOO per year. Failing in this, the
Mayor was authorized to take possession
of the premises. At a meeting of the di
rectors of the exposition to-day it was
resolved to advise the stockholders to
tear down the building, and this
action Is considered as being
ol a somewhat coercive character toward
the Council, considering that the next
National Republican Convention is to be
held within it, and perhaps also the next
Democratic Convention.
I<ouifiiaD!i Sugar Growers.
New' Orleans, Jan. 15. —The conven
tion of sugar planters called to take action
relative to the threatened legislation by
Congress on the sugar tariff, assembled
to-day at the Washington Artillery Hall.
Ex-Gov. Francis T. Nichols presided.
Among the delegates are many of the
largest, wealthiest and most influential
planters of the State, also a number of
colored planters. All take a deep interest
in the matter before the convention and
very generally declare that the present
tariff on sugar must be maintained or the
planters’ interests will be ruined. A
series of resolutions to this effect was
adopted.-
Thirty Persons Injured.
Galveston, Jan. 15.—A dispatch from
AVeatherford, Texas, says: “The west
bound Texas Pacific passenger train was
wrecked this morning by a broken rail,
ten miles west of Weatherford. The
details are meagre,'but it is known that
fourteen persons were injured.”
Galveston, Jan. 1.5,10 r. m.—A later
dispatch Irom Abilene says: “About
thirty persons were injured, some quite
seriously, although no one was killed.”
A Death from Yellow Fever in New
York.
New York, Jan. 15.— The certificate of
the death of Robert W. Bovd, the tobacco
merchant who died at No. 40 Perry street
from yellow fever, contracted in Havana,
was registered at the Bureau of Vital
Statistics to-day. The interment took
place to-day. The ordinary precau
tions are taken to kill contagion, but no
importance is attached to the matter by
the health officers.
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CHOOSING NEW SENATORS
HKNKY B. PAYNE’S ELECTION
CONSUMMATED IN OHIO.
A Close Race by a Large Flebl In Mary,
land—A Callous taw Which Confines
the Candidates to One Section—Wil
liams Ahead in Kentucky.
Columbus, 0., Jan. # 15.—Henry B.
Payne was elected United States senator
to-day without opposition, the Republi
cans in both Houses voting blank. The
vote in the House was: Payne. 62; Foster,
2; blank, 39. In the Senate it was: Payne,
22, blank, 8. All the blanks were Republi
can.
WILLIAMS IN THE LEAD.
Louisville, Ky., Jan. 15.— The Demo
cratic caucus to nominate a candidate to
succeed Mr. Williams in the United
Mates Senate held a meeting last night at
Fraukfort and adjourned after the lifth
ballot to meet again Tuesdav evening.
After much contention over the organi
iatioii me _ ballot resulted as foilows.
williams, 53; Blackburn, 44; Sweeney
the Becond ballot Williams had
;>, Blackburn 4G, and Sweeney 23. There
was no choice in the third, fourth or fifth
ballots, and on motion the caucus ad
journed. Mr. Carlisle's name was not
proposed. The indications point to Mr.
Williams’ chances as the best of all. The
balloting begins in the two houses to
morrow. but it is not likely that any re
sult will be reached till the caucus meets
again.
A CLOSE RACK IN MARYLAND.
Baltimore, Jan. 15.—The Legislature
to-day voted for a L nited States Senator
to succeed Hon. James Black Groome,
whose term expires on the 4th of March,
188.). The House of Delegates consists of
<53 Democrats and 28 Republicans, and
the Senate of 14 Democrats and 12
Republicans, making the total joint
vote of the General Assembly -117;
necessary to election 69 votes. The
Vote in the House stood: For James
Black Groome, Democrat, of Cecil county,
17; John M. Robinson, Democrat, Queen
Anne county, 18: Philip F. Thomas, of
Talbot, 14; E. K. Wilson, Democrat, of
V orcester, 9; Thomas J. Keating, Dem
ocrat, of Queen Aune, 8; Charles T. I.
Westcott, Republican, 20; J. A. J. Cres
wejl, Republican, ol Cecil, 3.
The vote in the Senate stood: Groome
4; Robinson 6,Thomas 1, Wilson 3, Robert
B. Dixon, Democrat, ol Talbot, 5, West
eott 2, Creswell 2.
There were three absentees from the
House and three from the Senate. All the
candidates voted for reside in counties on
the Eastern shore, an old law of the State
requiring that the Senator to be chosen at
this election shall be a resident ol that
section. This peculiar old law of Mary
land providing that one of the United
States Senators of the State shall he
selected from a particular locality has
always been faithful observed by the
Legislature.
SENATOR ALLISON RENOMINATED.
DksMoi.nes, la., Jan. 14.—At the cau
cus of the Republican members of the
State Legislature to-night Senator Allison
was renominated for United States Sena
tor by acclamation and with much enthu
siasm. He was escorted into the Cham
ber and delivered a brief address of thanks.
Employer anil Employe.
Woonsocket, R. 1., Jan. 15.—Notices
have been posted in three mills of tho
Social Manufacturing Company, the
largest cotton corporation in Woonsocket,
of a reduction in wages, to take effect on
and after February 1. The reduction will
be about 12 per cent.
RUBBER WORKS RESUME.
The rubber works here and in Millville,
employing 1,500 hands, commenced run
ning on half time to-day.
TRYING TO STARVE THEM.
Manchester, Jan. 15.— The cotton
manufacturers have decided to continue
the struggle with the strikers. Measures
are to be taken to restrict the supplies of
the operatives.
Ravages of the Flames.
Panama, Jan. 15.—The American
dredge No. 2 was totally destroyed by lire
yesterday. Tbe loss is $150,000. The fire
is supposed to be of incendiary origin.
The indirect loss to the Canal Company is
considerable.
A CATHOLIC PRIEST PERISHES.
New Orleans, Jan. 15.—The presby
tery of the Catholic Church at Bavou du
I urge, Terrebonne parish, was burned
Sunday morning. Rev. Father Coustarot
perished in the flames.
Bullets Among Jealous Professors.
Philadelphia, Jan. 15.—Dr. Benjamin
Hauiil, Superintendent of the University
Hospital, on Saturday last shot and seri
ously wounded Dr. Edward Martin, tho
resident physician at the institution. Tbe
shooting was the result of jealousy on the
part of Ilamil, who suspected Martin of
intimacy with Mrs. Ilamil, who has
charge of tho table at the hospital, but
since the shooting Ilamil has stated that
his suspicions were unfounded. He is
said to have left tho citv. The police pro
fess ignorance of tbe affair.
Tennessee’s Railroad Commission.
Nashville, Jan. 15.—The argument in
the case of the railroads against the State
Commissioners wus concluded to-day.
The Judges say that it will be sometime,
probably two weeks, before they an
nounce their decision.
Oov. Abbott Inaugurated.
1 RENTov, N, J., Jan. l.j.—A snow storm
that piled flakes many inches high did
not interfere with to-day’s inauguration
of Gov. Abbett. The crowd may have
been smaller, but tbe programme was
faithfully carried out.
Tlo tleltic’i Only Injury.
Liverpool, Jan. 15.—Tbe steamer Cel
tic has been docked. An investigation
into her condition shows,that with tbeex
ception ot her broken shaft, she is per
fectly sound.
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