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i ESTABLISHED 1850. {
| J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, j
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
news of the two states told
IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Negro Carved Into Bits in Washing
ton County—Glynn Superior Court Ad
journed Till the Spring Term—A Negro
Boy Shot on St. Simon’s Island.
GEORGIA.
Preachers attend the theatre at Athens.
A Brunswick lady has just given birth to
triplets.
A large number of horse thieves are depre
dating around Athens.
The building of an opera house has begun to
be mooted at Gainesville.
LaGrange district contributed $1,483 for
Methodist missions last year.
Not less than 5,000 acres of oats were killed
in Henry county by the late freeze.
Blackshear leasts two colored men, one of
\4odo is W and the other lOfi years old.
An Atlanta drummer sold $3,500 worth of
goods in McDonough one day last week.
Many of the towns of the State are beauti
fying their streets with rows of shade trees.
A two-vear-old child at Gainesville can al
ready repeat the alphabet from the beginning
to the end.
Lincolnton derives an annual income of S4BO
from the two saloons doing business within
her limits.
A Lexington lawyer has forgotten the
combination to his safe and will have to get
it blown open.
Manazer Cohen of the Augusta Theatre is
negotiating for a lease of the Athens Theatre
for next season.
Beaver skins bring from $2 tos2 50 at Amcr
icus, and trappers are numerous throughout
Southwest Georgia.
The South Georgia Truck Growers’ Con
vention will meet on Thursday, the 7th of
February, in Quitman.
The borers of Leary's artesian well have
struck water. A flow of from 5,000 to 7,000
gallons per day is expected.
Steps have been taken looking to the imme
diate rebuilding of the church blown down at
Statesboro a few weeks ago.
All the money necessary has been sub
scribed to start the Griffin cotton factorv.
The capital stock is about $84,000.
There arc one hundred and thirty-eight
counties in the State, and ninety-two of them
have adopted prohibition.
The stock law goes into effect in Lincoln
county next Friday. The event will be cele
brated with a grand ball at Lincolnton.
A colored couple in LaGrange supported
eight children last year and had s2<>o over,
with which to make a payment on their place.
Owing to the unfinished condition of the
court-room, there will be no session of Glynn
Superior Court until the regular spring term.
From the opinion expressed at Thursday’s
public meetimr at Griffin, it is probable that
that town will organize a fruit evaporating
company.
A burglar entered William Oliver’s house
at Albany Wednesday, aud while escaping
exchanged shots with the proprietor. Neither
was injured.
A mother in Homer had her own boy of
14 years arrested for carrying off a bushel of
meal, an axe and a calico dress which he
fttgiid on the road.
Campbell county expects to complete a
SS,OOO jail by fall. It will be paid for when
completed, and no debt incurred in conse
quence of its erection.
Jndee Stewart has rendered his decision in
the Gainesville bond case, lie refuses the in
junction prayed for. The case will probably
be carried to the Supreme Court.
The advert’sed lax sales of Decatur county,
liil nine columns of this week’s Bainbridge
Pmnocrat, all local and editorial matter being
excluded to make room for the avalanche.
It is stated that the Capitol Commissioners
are going to pay Architect Post, of New York,
a thousand dollars for telling them which one
of the submitted plans for the new capitol
they ought to select.
8. M. Waynian, who came to Vineyard with
his family in a wagon, has purchased 170 acres
from the S. F. Gray place, north of Vineyard.
He intends to go into the nursery, fruit and
general farming business.
Fayette Waters, Jr., in the upper portion of
Hall’ county, was married to Miss Mollie
Waters, daughter of Fayette Waters, Sr., at
the residence of the bride’s father, last Sun
day, by Esquire John Waters.
At Gainesville there is a sassafras tree that
measures, at the base, nine feet in circumfer
ence. It is nine feet to the first limb, and al
most the 6ame size to the limb. The tree is
thirty-five feet high, and a monster of its
kind.
Ennis Daniel, a thrifty colored farmer f
Dublin, mourns the burning of the dwelling
and outhouses on the McDaniel place, in that
town, which he owns and leases, it had been
vacated a few days before, and incendiarism
is almost questionless.
Hall Superior Court convenes on the third
Monday in February. The first docket in or
der will be the criminal docket. The jail will
be first cleared, and then other criminal cases
will follow until this docket is cleared. After
this the civil dockets will receive attention.
During the month of January last year
s2fl9 37 worth of stamps and postal cards were
•old at the postoflice in Washington. Letter
postage was then three cents. During the
month jnst ended the receipts for the stamps
and cards exceeded this amount by about
forty dollars, with letter postage reduced.
A few days ago, near B. H. Zellner’s, in
Monroe county, a hawk pursued a' covey of
partridges. The birds were so frightened that
two of them flew violently against the house,
killing themselves instantly, and two others
flew into the house, and were sa intimidated
by fear that they allowed themselves captured
without trying to escape. ,
W. E. Shelverton, of Washington, has not
entered suit against the Savannah, Florida
and Western Kailroad for SIO,OOO on account
of the injury to his son, as erroneously re
ported in one of the State papers. The road
asked him what amount or damages would
lie satisfactory, but he answered that he could
not now tell the extent of the injury. He told
Oapt. Fleming, who aeted for the road, that
he would not enter suit unless he found the
matter could not bo adjusted outside of the
courts.
Tcsterday’s Banter- Watchman says: “It is
said that Joe Stewart, of Jackson county,
who lately married his niece in Ozlethorpe,
is nearly'crazy with trouble, while the poor
girl is in great distress and deepiv mortified.
Steps have been taken for a divorce, which
met with no opposition. We learn that Joe’s
mother wrote to the bride’s father a letter
urging that the couple be allowed to live to
gether as man and wife, winding up her ap
peal with, ‘Whom God has joined together let
not man put asunder.’ ”
John Hines and another negro were fight
ing in Washington county just over the line
from Laurens. A man named Hightower
went to the rescue of Hines’ opponent. The
body of Hines was cut into slices, and two
shots were fired with a pistol—one ball sever
ing the windpipe and the second entered the
side. Death ensued in a short while. Whisky
was at the bottom of the sad affair. The
parties had been to Oconee and were return
ing, when the difficulty, culminating as
stated, occurred at a church. When the
killing occurred, the negro and Mr. High
tower were engaged in a hand-to-hand en
counter.
The following is from the St. Simon's de
partment of th Brunswick Appeal: “A negro
boy, Manning Williams, about 18 years old,
was shot on Wednesday, under the following
circumstances: The hands throughout the
island have been called upon last and this
week to work the public roads. Some of them,
Williams among the number, were in the
habit of accosting passers by and demanding .
that thev pull off their hats to the road ]
hands, and if one should refuse their
demands the hands would take him
down and whip him with switches
ttntilhe complied. Twice this occurred. They
had just gone through the operation of lick
ing, m U)‘‘v termed It, Wn2 Williams started
to run awav. A negro in the CrCJ vf E wiiliam
Lewi*, ordered him to stop, or he WoUlus' loot
and at the word “shoot,” Williams fell, shot
in the back. Lewis was at once arrested,
having a Smith & Wesson pistol, No. 32 cali
bre, with one chamber ctnptr. Aa TVillißtns
is in a critical condition, and may die, Lewis
was at once sent to Brunswick jail to await
the ittue, there to be held for his appearance
before the preliminary oourt.”
The Banner- Watchman says: “From gen
tlemen of Madison county we learn these'ad
ditional particulars in regard to the kidnap
ping, by the negro Childers, of the young
white girl in Oglethorpe. Mollie Martin,
while in jail, acknowledged that she had been
living criminally with this negro for about
two years. It is said that Childers was a con
stant visitor at her mother’s house, and that
he was received in the most social manner.
The girl does not seem to have more than half
sense, and her education and moral
training have been totally neglected.
Hence she fell an easy prey to
the designing scoundrel. Childers contends
that the law could not reach him, as he can
establish the fact that the Martin girl accom
panied him voluntarily. It is said that while
in jail at Danielsville the pair had managed
somehow to communi*ate with one another,
and it was agreed w hen they escaped to again
get together. It is highly probable that
Childers is now in the neighborhood of Mrs.
Martin’s, and that by watching her house he
can be captured. It is rumored that if again
caught the county will not long be troubled
with bis support, as the indignation of the
people at the outrage is now up to fever heat.”
FLORIDA.
The lumber business is booming at Apalach
icola.
Jacksonville's new directory claims a popu
lation of 18,740 for the city.
Considerable fencing was destroyed by for
est fires last week in Eustis.
Plant City is the name of anew town which
has sprung into existence twenty miles from
Tampa.
The nurseries at Eustis are depleted of
stock, there having been a rush for trees all
over that section the past month.
The subject of bonding the town for water
works was discussed at the meeting of the
Orlando Council. No decided action was
taken.
The Norwegian bark Gazelle, 571 tons bur
den, ran ashore near Apalachicola a few days
ago, but was gotten off before being badly
damaged.
McClellan A Ellis are going to adorn the lot
next to the Gainesville post office with a
three-story brick building. Work will be
commenced March 1.
The two men arrested on suspicion of hav
ing robbed 11. C. Hays at a Jacksonville hotel
of SSOO have been released for want of evi
dence to convict them.
Representative Davidson has presented pe
titions, accompanied by bills to carry the re
quests into effect, as follows: To appropriate
$55,000 to improve Pensacola liarbor, SIOO,OOO
to improve Kev West liarbor, $57,000 to im
prove Tampa Bay, and $55,000 to improve Ap
alachicola Bay.
A negro girl was burned to death at a school
house near Greenwood a few days ago. All
had lelt for home except the chi'ld and her
brother. While standing near a fire out doors
her clothes caught fire, and no assistance
being at hand she was soon burned so that
she died the next day.
Miss A nnie M. Barnes, who edits and owns
the Acanthus, a juvenile paper published at
Atlanta, and a poet ana prose writer, has
written a novel, which has been accepted by
the publishers aud will shortly appear, enti
tled, “A Beggar at the Gates,” many of the
scenes in which are laid in Florida-
E. W. Speir, whose grove is located about
half a mile north of the court house at Or
lando. has shipped 350 boxes, or about 50,000
oranges, gathered from trees upon one acre of
land, one of the trees having nearly 2.000
oranges by actual count. Returns from first
shipments made this season averaged $3 per
Ik>x net, and he expects to get $3 50 per box on
the last shipment.
At Tallahassee. Friday, Justice Westeott,
of the Supreme Court, in the case of Moody
vs. the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
Railroad Company, decided that the rail
roads, under the general incorporation act,
have not the right to exercise the power of
compulsory purchase of the land of the citi
zen: that the act of the Legislature, in 60 far
as it authorizes it is unconstitutional and
void, and that it is beyond the power of any
judicial authority in the State to remedy the
defective grant of the Legislature, because
the granting of such power is strictly a leg
i islative function, which the constitution it
self. in plain terms, prohibits a court from
exercising.
ICE BOTH PLENTY AND CHEAP.
The Hudson River Crop Nearly all in—
The Trilling Annoyances of the Sea
son.
Tuesday the fhird week of ice harvest
ing along the Hudson began, says a
special to the New York Sun of the 29th
ult., and should favorable weather con
tinue throughout the *eek the season’s
crop will have been gathered. Last win
ter the work of cutting began about ten
days earlier than this. In some places
the work was made troublesome and ex
pensive this year by the tormation of
saow iee. Iu order to reach the solid ice
and house it ill good condition, it became
necessary to plane away the snow ice to
a depth of about three inches.
This required sending the planes
over the surface three times. The
ice crop of the Hudson, in consequence of
additional houses having been erected
during the year, is now about 3,800,000
tons. The number ol men and boys em
ployed in taking in the ice when in lull
operation is about 10,000. There are also
between 1,800 and 2.000 horses, and more
than fifty steam engines. The price paid
to laborers is $1 50 to $1 75 per day, and
in some instances they have received $2.
During the first week of the harvest two
or three strikes took place in the vicinity
of Hudson and Castleton, but it was evi
dent that men were plentiful, aud could
be obtained for the prices the companies
were willing to pay.
Experienced icemen say that the cost of
gathering this season’s crop will be 18 or
20 cents u ton. The actual wastage of the
crop in taking it to the New York market
is from 35 to 45 per cent. The amount of
ice carried over from last season is 500,000
tons, and to this may be added 100,000 tons
which still remain in the Hudson river
houses from the crop of 1882. It is now
thought that by the close of the present
week there will be upward of 3,600,000
tons in the houses.
It is estimated that 100,000 tons of ice
have been harvested between Albany and
Lansingburg, and the total crop of the
Hudson is put down at 4,000,000 tons, or
1,000,000 more than last year. The aver
age thickness of that secured in this vi
cinity is thirteen inches, while some was
gathered measuring from fifteen to six
teen enches. The quality has never been
excelled. Leading dealers in and around
Troy say it cost them about twelve cents
a ton to harvest.
MALIGNANT PUSTULE.
The Death of a Patient Whose Entire
Body Had Turned to a Chocolate Color.
Coroner Menninger, Dr. A. W. Shepard,
Dr. Frank H. Ross,and several other phy
sicians, says Thursday’s New York Sun,
assembled Wednesday afternoon at 199
York street, Brooklyn, to make an autopsy
on the body of Mrs. Mary R. Forrester, ■
who had died on the previous night. When j
the history of the case had been given by
Dr. Ross, the attendant physician, and
the remains had been viewed, it was de
cided that an autopsy might be attended
with great danger, and that it was not re
quired. The body was rapidly beginning
to decompose, and almost the entire sur
face was of a chocolate color. After hear
ing the statement of Dr. Ross, the jury,
which w as composed of physicians, found
that death had been caused by malignant
pustule.
Dr. Ross said be w 7 as summoned to at
tend Mrs. Forrester at 5:30 o’clock on
Tuesday morning. She was suffering from
severe pain in the low er part of the abdo
men. He returned in two hours and found
that the medicines he had prescribed bad j
not relieved the pain. He then noticed a
discoloration of the nose about as large as j
a tive-cent piece. He administered medi
cine hypodermically. When he returned
at 2 o : clock in the afternoon, the discol
oration had extended from the nose to the
face symmetrically on either side. There
was less pain, but a marked weakness of
the heart's action. When he saw her
again at 5 o’clock the discoloration had
extended to the eyes. It was a deep jaun
dice color, and soon it covered all the face,
neck and cheeks. At 8 o’clock she died in
delirium.
The discoloration on the nose started
from a small pimple. The whole body
finally became of a light chocolate color.
Mrs. Forrester w 7 as 27 years of age, and
had three children. She was a healthy
woman, and the physicians are at a loss
to account for the origin of the mala
dy. It is a rare disease.
Beautiful Indian maidens,
Sixty Young Aborigines Exhibiting Their j
Newly Learned Accomplishments.
The delegation of Post 2, G. A. R., of 1
Philadelphia, says the Press, visited Lin
coln Institute, Eleventh, below Spruce
street, Wednesday evening, to witness
the regular evening exercises of the 60
Indian girls now under instruction there.
If any of the veterans present was in
clined to be skeptical as to the beauty of
Indian maidens, so often referred to in
romantic tales and legends, he must have
had his opinion considerably shaken on
this occasion. There was more than one
really pretty face among the five dozen
dusky countenances that were turned
eagerly toward the instructress. One lit
tle girl in particular, Susie Maintinez, a
Delaware, who very cutely recited some
childish verses, excited special admira
tion ou account of her soft, swarthy com
plexion and lustrous black eyes.
The girls range In ago from 6 to 12
years, and represent twelve tribes, in
cluding the Sioux, Delawares, Osages, j
Chippewas and Pawnees. The exercises
consisted of marching, singing and con
certed reading, and the execution was
wonderful, considering that many of the
children came from the plains only a few
weeks ago. At the conclusion of the ex
ercises the house was thrown open to the
inspection of the visitors.
The Montenerog all Gone.
Lima, Feb. 2.— Passengers from the
north state that the Monteneros have
completely disappeared front that section.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
THE JUDGESHIP PAPERS NOT
YET EXAMINED BY ARTHUR.
Mr. Atkins Pressing the Cotton Claims—
Brewster Places Part of His Force at
the Disposal of the Judiciary Com
mittee—l'he Bankruptcy Bill Put in
Shape.
Washington, Feb. 2.—So far from
reaching a conclusion on the sub
ject. a personal friend of President Ar
thur’s to-night told me that the former
had not as yet even looked into the papers
relating to the Georgia Judgeship. He
called for the papers some time ago, but
has not examined them.
PAYMENT FOB COTTON.
James Atkins, of Savannah, is here in
advocacy of the payment by the govern
ment for cotton seized in that city, which
did not belong to the Confederacy.
SENATOR COLQUITT
has gone to Brooklyn on a short visit.
BREWSTER AND THE COMMITTEE.
Attorney General Brewster to-day
placed at the disposal of the House Com
mittee on expenditures in the Depart
ment of Justice the entire force of special
examiners of the department, to be sent
alone or with the sub-committee to inves
tigate the alleged irregularities in the
offices of United States officials. The
sub-committee, accompanied bv a special
examiner, will probably go to New York
city in a short time to investigate the
office of the Supervisor of Elections. At
a meeting of the committee this morning
a resolution was adopted recommending
that a sub-committee be appointed to ex
amine certain star route correspondence
which the Postmaster General thought if
given to the public would interfere with
the prosecution of cases now under inves
tigation by the department.
THE BANKRUPTCY BILL.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary
to-day ordered the Lowell bankruptcy bill
to be favorably reported to the Senate
with amendments. It preserves State
exemptions and authorizes involuntary
proceedings only against persons whose
debts amount to more than SI,OOO, and
only against traders. It diminishes the
number of commissioners iu bankruptcy
by one half. Many of the amendments
suggested by the Bankruptcy Conveut on,
which met here a few days since, were
incorporated in the bill. Senator Hoar
will report it on Monday. Some of the
features above noted are among those
contended ior by the Western Senators in
the last Congress, and their adoption
greatly increases the chances for the pas
sage of the bill.
ARMY PROMOTIONS.
About a dozen nominations for uro
motion are pending before the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs, con
sideration of which involves the point
upon which the committee and
Secretary of War are at issue. These are
the cases iu which an officer entitled by
rank and seniority to promotion is physi
cally disabled to perform the duties of the
office. The Secretary, in such cases, has
promoted the officer next below 7 . The
committee holds that this course is with
out the sanction of law, and that offi
cer is not to be considered disabled until
he has been examined aud retired.
MRS. MILLER’S CAPTAINCY.
Folger Directs that She he Licensed if
She is Competent.
Washington, Feb. 2.— Secretary Fol
ger has to-day written to the Supervising
Inspector General of Steam Vessels as
follows in regard to the application of
Mrs. Mary A. Miller, of New Orleans, for
license as master of a steamboat plying
on the Ouachita river: “A woman, Mary
A. Miller hy name, seeks to be licensed as
master of a steam vessel on the inland
wafers of the United States. I know
of nothing imperative in the
reason of things, in natural
law, in public policy, or iu
good morals, why a woman, if she is
skilled, honest, intelligent, hardy aud
prudent enough may not have command
of a steamer and navigate it, and manage
and conduct the business carried on with
it. To do that is to be master of a steam
vessel. There is, however, a statute law
on the suoject. The United States re
vised statutes, section 4438, says that the
board of local inspectors of steam ves
sels shall license and classify the masters
of all steam vessels, and that it is unlaw
ful for any person to serve as
master on any steamer who is
not thus licensed. Section 4439 savs that
whenever any person applies to be licens
ed as a master of a steam vessel the
inspectors shall diligently inquire as to
his character, aud examine the proofs
which he presents, and if they are satis
fied as to bis character, etc., shall grant
him a license to serve as master. Doubt
less these sections speak in the masculine
gender. If it be said that therefore they
do not contemplate the licensing of a
person of the feminine gender it is
no more technical and close to
reply that they are statutes in dero
gation of the common law by which,
or not in contravention of which any per
son, whether female or male, may paddle
her or his own canoe, or steer or con her
or his own vessel, under sail or driven by
steam. Being in derogation of the com
mon law 7 , these statutes are to be strictly
construed. If, then, power to license
being couched in the masculine gen
der, they do uot permit the
licensing of a person of the leminine
gender, so the prohibition against serving
as master being couched in the masculine
gender does not inhibit a person of the
leminine gender; but I am not crowded as
close to the wall as that. It has been
held by the courts that statutes which
speak of males as of peers, and center
personal privileges, includes females as
peeresses, though only males are men
tioned. The Countess of Portland’s case,
Moore 769, 2 Coke 52; the Duchess of
Kingston’s case, 11th trials, ‘Hargrove’s
4th edition,’ 263. But still nearer to the ,
heart ol the matter, the United States
Revised! Statutes, Section 1, gives defini
tions and says that words imputing mas
culine gender may be applied to females, j
so that section 4438, when it says that it ;
is unlawful for any person to serve as
master of any steamer who is not li
censed, means and 6ays that it iu as
unlawful for a woman as a man
to serve without license. But
inasmuch as its language is negative it
is quick with the implication that a
woman, as well as a man, who is licensed
may thus serve, and section 4439, when it
speaks that ‘whenever any person applies
to be licensed the Inspectors shall dili
gently iSQfiire as to his character,’ i
incaus any persoii, female or mille, anil
!le‘r as well as his character, etc. 1 see
no reason, tnen, in unwritten or written
law why Mrs. Miller may not lawfully de
mand an examination, and if she prove
herself duly qualified have a license to
serve as the master of a steam vessel,
nor is there need of talk pro or con on the
social status or “woman’s rights,” so
called. Having been put on God’s foot
stool by Him, she has the right to earn her
bread in any moral, decent way which is
open to any of His toiling creatures. She
chooses to do so as master of a si earn
vessel. It is an honest calling. If she
is fitted tor it, though clothed in skirts
rather than breeches, she has the rig it to
follow it, and no man should say
to her nay. Let the local inspectors,
putting behind them all thought
of her sex, without antagonism, and with
out partiality, make diligent inquiry as to
her character, carefully examine her and
the proofs she offers, and if they are
satisfied that her capacity, her experi
ence, her habits of lile and character
warrant a belief that she can be safely
intrusted with the duties and responsi
bilities of the master of a steam vessel,
let them grant her license accordirg to
section 4439.”
Commander of the Greely Expedition.
Washington, Feb. 2.— Capt. George
Brown, of the United States navy, no won
duty on Staten Island as Inspector ot the
Third Lighthouse District, is generally
understood to have been the choice of the
Secretary of the Navy as the best officer
available to be placed in command of the
proposed Greely relief expedition. When,
however, the subject was broached to him
SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1884.
he showed, it is said, an evident disincli
nation for the duty, and the matter was
dropped betore any formal offer of thecom
mand in the question had been made.
There is scarcely a doubt that he would
lie given direction of the expedition if he
desired it.
A Statue of Chief Justice Marshall.
Washington, Feb. 2.—lt was decided
to-day to place a statue of Chief Justice
Marshall on the green upon the west
front ol the capitol, and in line with the
middle entrance to the building. Tbe
statue was made by Story, in Rome, aud
has not yet been shipped from there. It
is expected to be in position and ready for
unveiling within three months.
Gen. Wright to be Retired.
Washington, Feb 2.—Gen. H. G.
Wright, Chief of Engineers, w ill be re
tired ou the 6th of March next. It is un
derstood that Col. John Newton will suc
ceed him as Chief of the Engineer Corps.
Restored to Practice.
Washington, Feb. 2.—C. P. S. Dan
iels, of Midway, Ala., who was disbarred
from practice as pension attorney in 1877,
has been restored to practice by the Sec
retary of the Interior.
Brunswick’s New Bank Authorized.
Washington, Feb. 2.—The Comptrol
ler of the Currency has authorized the
First National Bank of Brunswick, Ga.,
to begin business with a capital of
$55,000.
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
Rugg Guilty of Four Murders and Other
Offenses Innumerable.
Long Island City, N. Y., Feb. 2.
Selah Sprague, the last victim of Charles
Rugg’s murderous designs, has again had
a relapse, and the attending physicians
have abandoned all hope of his recovery.
He was sufficiently conscious to say that
it was a black man who assaulted
him. Mrs. James C. Townsend
is in a more favorable condition,
but the physicians say that it is
only a matter of a few days, or perhaps
weeks, before she will succumb to
the wounds and shock she received on
January 7. Rugg will have four murders
to answer for when the Court of Oyer and
Terminer meets in April. He is strictly
iu the Queens county jail, the
jail officials fearing that he may attempt
suicide. Detectives have absolute proot
that Rugg has oommitied at least ten
crimes of robbery and violence within a
few years, in addition to those which dur
ing the past three months have agitated
Long Island.
THE M’BEAN TRAGEDY’S END.
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 2.—A special from
Waynesboro says: “The Superior Court
of Burke county has been engaged for
several days on the trial of T. Brit Rogers,
Rufus C. McNorrell and James Cox,
charged with the murder of Thomas and
Frank Syms, father and son. The case
excited much interest. On October 20th
the defendants, with Duff aud Frank
Syms and others, were engaged in a game
of base ball, when a dispute arose
concerning the game, during which
Thomas Syms, the father of Duff and
Frank, who was present as a spectator,
slapped Rufus McNorrell in the face. Next
day, Sunday, the parties met at a Sunday
school, and another altercation arose.
They retired to the woods to settle the
difficulty. Thomas and Frank Syms w r ere
killed, and Duff Syms and Brit Rogers
were wounded. An array of able counsel
was employed on loth sides. The case
was given to the jury at 2 o’clock this
morning, and after a half hour’s absence
they returned a verdict of not guilty as to
Brit Rogers and Rufus C. McNorrell.
James Cox having severed his case it will
not be tried until the next term of court.
All the persons engaged in the affray be
longed to respectable aud well-to-do
families.
JENKINS’ FATAL MISTAKE.
New Orleans, Feb. 2.—A dispatch
from Mansfield says: “To-day Miss Mary
Butler, her sister and two brothers, who
attended tbe commencement exercises at
Mansfield College, and went home to
gether on a train accompanied to Robe
line station by Rev. Benjamin F. Jenkins,
to-day testified in the Jenkins-Borden
case, their testimony going to show that
Jenkins made a sad mistake in supposing
Borden guilty of any serious misconduct
toward Miss Mary Butler. The witnesses
considered Jenkins sane. Miss Butler ad
mitted having said to Mr. Jenkins that
Borden had treated her badly, and that she
had declined to tell him in what way.
She referred only to Borden’s having re
fused to allow them to enjoy themselves
when opportunity offered. The witness
corroborated fully the statements made
in a letter published a few days after the
homicide. Mrs. Borden was also on the
witness stand. She testified to the
friendly relations existing between her
self and Miss Butler. This closed the
testimony, and argument will begin Mon
day. A plea of insanity is made by the
delense.
A VICTORY FOR DI CESNOLA.
The Jury Render a Verdict in His Favor
ou Two Counts, and Disagree on the
Other.
New York, Feb. jury in the
Feuardent-Di Cesnola libel case remained
out all night. They came into court to
day for further instructions from the
Judge, and having received them again
retired to deliberate. The jury came into
court this afternoon and rendered a ver
dict in favor of the defendant on the first
and third counts in the complaint, but
were unable to come to any agreement on
the second count. The first count pointed
out that* deceptions, alterations and resto
rations iu the Cypriote collection had been
made under the supervision of the defend
ant, upon which the defendant published
a card, under his own signature, that the
charges were maliciously made, aud were
absolutely without foundation. The second
count related to certain financial arrange
ments between Feuardent and General
Cesnola, touching the sale of the collec
tion, and the third count had refereaee to
the publication by the defendant of “cer
tain other false "and libelous writings”
concerning the plaintiff. On the second
count, from the mixed nature ot the finan
cial arrangement, the jury were unable
to agree.
WENDELL PHILLIPS DEAD.
The Great Orator Passes Quietly Away
Surrounded hy His Family.
Boston, Feb. 2,— Wendell Phillips be
gan to show signs of failing at 4:30 o’clock
this afternoon, and died at 6 o’clock. He
tvas conscious up to within an hour of his
death.
Ml - . Phillips had been ill just one week,
but not until Thursday was bis condition
considered dangerous by his physicians.
Thursday night he failed rapidly, but
Friday rallied slightly and passed a fairly
comfortable night. This afternoon his
illness took a critical turn, and he gradu
ally failed and passed quietly away about
6 o’clock, in the presence of his wife and
niece. Mr. Phillips was in his 73d year.
The arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been completed, and it will prob
ably not be held for several days.
BATTLES WITH THE FLAMES.
$5,000 Damage Doae the First Baptist
Charch at Augusta.
Augusta, Ga., Feb. 2.—The First Bap
tist Church, Rev. Lansing Burrows pas
tor, was damaged by Are and water this
evening to the extent of $5,000.
FLAMES IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Iquiquk, Feb. 2. — Fire yesterday de
stroyed tne bodega of Eek, Trevor & Cos.,
which contained 28,000 quintals of salt
petre. The saw-mill of James Ingles &
Cos. was also burned.
Lottery Agents Indicted.
Chicago, Feb. 2. —The grand jury of
Cook county to-day returned sixty in
dictments against thirty-four agents of
lotteries and operators of local policy
shops. Six of the indictments are against
B. Frank Moore as representative of the
Louisiana State Lottery, who was recent
ly convicted in the Federal Court here
under another form of the statutes.
SEVEN PEA DAT ALLIANCE
VICTIMS IMPRISONED IN THE
DERRIS BURNED ALIVE.
The Only One to Escape Bereft of Bis
Wife and Two Children—A Sickening
Smell of Burned Flesh Pervading the
Ruins—How the Disaster was Pre
cipitated.
Alliance, Ohio, Feb. 2.— Orr’s block
was leveled to the ground by the gaso
line explosion, and two brick blocks, one
on each side, succumbed to the shock,
while others further away, were shattered,
riddled and badly injured. In a few mo
ments flames rose from the ruins and a
fire alarm was sounded. Such excitement
prevailed that the fire gained so much
headway as to nearly consume the ruins
aud burned two houses before it was got
under control. In tbe meanwhile the
scene was harrowing in the extreme, as
it was known that six or more people
were killed or were then imprisoned in
the wreck and would perish by lire.
Women and children wringing their hands
and relatives of the inmates of the build
ing destroyed wandered about in the hope
lessness of despair at their inability to
save the inmates.
THE VICTIMS.
F. M. Orr and Elmore Orr, bis son,
nolmer Highland, his daughter, Mrs.
Frank Evans and two children, aged two
and four months, wer6 knotjm’ to have
been in the building at the time of the
explosion. These all perished. The
woman and her children were in the sec
ond and third stories, and are supposed
to have been killed by the failing walls.
Mr. Orr and his son were both spoken to
while confined under the debris, but were
burned to death. Their bodies were all
recovered last night, and were crushed or
charred so as to be hardly recognizable.
Tbe only person in the Orr building
known to have escaped was Frank Evans,
whose wife and children perished. Be
sides those killed seven persons had
broken limbs, or were cut and bruised by
flying bricks, etc,
THE CAUSE.
The explosion was caused by fumes
from the gasoline. A child of Mr. Orr
turned the faucet in a barrel and the fluid
ran out on the floor. Mr. Orr was mop
ping it up when the gas arising there
from ignited from a gas light. John Cur
rey and Charles H. Hayden, of Duprez
& Benedict’s Minstrels, were blown out
of Orr’s store through a plate glass win
dow and carried clear across the street,
where they were picked up badly injured
and carried to their hotel. They will re
cover. The damage is estimated at from
$60,000 to SBO,OOO. Business was entirely
suspended here after the explosion, anil
the minstrel entertainment was post
poned.
WORKING AMONG THE DEBRIS.
Alliance, Ohio, Feb. 2, 2 p. m.—
Workmen are busy clearing the street of
debris from yesterday’s explosion, and
saving property from the wrecked build
ings. The fire was extinguished last
night. No more bodies have been found.
Nobody is missing and no name is to be
added to the list of killed or wounded.
The remains of those who were crushed
and burned to death were placed in coffins
to-day and conveyed to their former
homes to await interment to-morrow.
CROWDS AT THE SCENE.
Cleveland, Feb. 2, 11 p.m.—a special
says: “Alliance has been crowded all
day with people from the surrounding
country attracted here to see the wreck
made by the explosion. At the Coroner’s
inquest to-day it was developed that Mr.
Orr kept gasoline in an air tight galvan
ized iron tank for his customers. About
a gallon of gasoline bad run out on the
floor and had been wiped up by Mr. Orr,
who then turned to other affairs, when
the gas generated by the gasoline ignitsd.
The tank contained not more than half a
barrel of the liquid.
THE MINSTREL MEN BADLY HURT.
Charles Haden and John Carey, of
Duprez & Benedict’s Minstrels, are the
most seriously injured. They will be
taken to the Sisters of Charity Hospital ia
Canton.
A circumstance which has excited much
comment is that the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union appointed a meeting
to be held in the Orr block yesterday after
noon, but some trifling matter prompted
them to postpone it until to-day.
An offensive odor of burned flesh is still
perceptible about the wreck, and suggests
that all the bodies have not been recov
ered, but nobody is missing.
An eye witness says that when the ex
plosion occurred the entire building
seemed to be lifted into tbe air and rent
apart, falling back in a cloud of dust,
scarcely one brick clinging to another.
Millen I toms.
Millen, Ga., Feb. 2.—C01. George S.
Brush, President of the Manhattan Ar
tesian Well Company, of New York, is
here superintending in person the boring
of an artesian well at this place. A der
rick 60 feet in height has been completed.
Supplies and machinery are arriving;
S2,(XX) has been secured, which is a guar
antee of the success of the enterprise, so
far as money can assist. The citizens of
Millen have contributed S7OO of this
amount, while the remaining $1,300
is guaranteed by the Cen
tral Railroad and Banking Company. This
company will be greatly benefited if Col.
Brush is successful in procuring a flow
ing stream, inasmuch as it. will be util
ized by the company in supplying the
tanks with water at this place. Col.
Brush hopes to be able to secure many
contracts for boring these wells in South
ern cities, towns and villages.
A new' business house has been organ
ized here, and will open in a few' days
over the firm name and style of Connelly
& Bird.
The entire oat crop has been destroyed.
This account is credited, I believe, to the
recent freezes. Many planters are again
sowing their fields.
Women at the Bottom of it.
Milwaukee, W is., Feb. 2.—Twelve
men and three girls, printers on the Even
ing Wisconsin, are on a strike, the union
having asked that the girls, who are mem
bers of the union, be paid 33 cents per
thousand ems, which the men receive.
The Evening Wisconsin was paying 28
cents to girl's on miscellaneous and pateut
inside work, and 33 cents when they were
called on daily newspaper work. About
halt a dozen union men remained, as there
is a division in the union as to the policy
Of the strike. The paper comes out as
usual.
Canada’s Commercial Ambitl<ni.
Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 2.—A imputation
representing forty-three members of Par
liament waited on Sir Leonard Tilly, the
Finance Minister, to-day to secure
reciprocity between Canada and the West
Indies, Mexico andthe Hawaiian Islands.
The Minister seemed to be alive to the
importance of making such arrangements,
aud promised to do all he could to bring
them about.
Grain Warehouses Burst.
Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 2.—A spe
cial says: “The warehouse attached to
the elevator owned by the Fergus Falls
Flour Mill Company burst this evening,
letting out 40,000 bushels of wheat, which
now lies mingled with the wreck of the
elevator. Three box cars were also
wrecked. Nobody was hurt, although
several had narrow escapes. It is report
ed that the loss is $70,000.”
The Harbor Grace Riots.
St. Johns, N. F., Feb. 2.—Head Con
stable Doyle and the following Orange
Srisoners: Edmund Butt, Josiah Bray,
dward Ash, Charles French and James
Conrage, were committed yesterday to St.
Johns prison to await trial at the spring
term of the Supreme Court on a charge of
murder in connection with the Harbor
Grace riots.
Bast Sailing on the Ice.
Patchoqub, N- Y., Feb. 2.—Over two
hundred ice boats sailed over South Bay,
L. 1., to-day. In a contest between three
of the boats, that of the Blue Point Life
Saving Station made a distance of nine
miles in twenty minutes. One boat
struck an air hole and all on board went
under, but they were finally rescued.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Probabilities that the Threatened Rail
road War will be Averted.
Atlanta, Feb. 2.— The pool rate com
mittee adjourned without making any
important changes. They merely modi
fied a few classifications.
SENATOR BROWN IS HERE
to-day, but very busy with his rail
road matters. It is now thought that the
pool will not be abolished. All sides talk
in favor of its continuance, with possibly
some modifications. Business men prefer
to know 7 what the permanent rates are to
be, and can do better under the pool sys
tem than when the rates are cut by rival
roads and are constantly going up or
down. Prominent officials intimate that
a second sober thought has been favora
ble to the continuance of the pool.
THE SUPREME COURT
to-day adjourned until next Saturday,
w 7 hen the term will close and the balance
of tbe decisions be rendered to-day. Some
thirty decisions were handed over to the
court, reported by Justices Hall and
Blanford. The only cases of interest to
the readers of the Morning News are
the following: Clay vs. Banks et al., of
Wilkins, vs. Mills of Banks et al., vs.
Mills, from Chatham, all reversed; Mas
land vs. Kemp et al., from Dougbertv,
affirmed.
THE CASE OF HUFF AND MARKHAM
was decided in Markham’s favor, but the
injunction case from Bibb is still to be
acted upon by the Supreme Court, so that
this decision does not give Mr. Markham
possession until the other case is decided,
w hich will be in March. The court to
day decided that landlords are not to be
kept out of their rents by offsets for re
pairs and other claims of tenants.
GEN.LONGSTREET
assures the News correspondent that his
bond is all right financially, but the sig
natures were not affixed according to the
law governing such papers. The matter
has been remedied and the bond returned
to Washington. Yet the villain still pur
sues him and seems determined to have
his scalp.
GOVERNOR M’DANIEL CAME HOME
at noon, and has been busy this afternoon
with appeals for pardons and other mat
ters. The action of the Augusta liquor
dealers in regard to registration and tax
is not considered a wise move by men
who are thoroughly posted.
SURVEYOR PLEDGER
to-day had John Rock arrested for selling
silks and other goods at the Gate City
Hotel on which no duty had been paid,
but Mr. Rock proved that the charge was
unfounded, and the case was dismissed
It was simply a suspicious case of goods
selling below cost prices in England.
TUB TALK TO-DAY
is about the proposed action of insurance
men in view ot the disastrous losses on
cotton, etc. Prominent insurance men
tell me that unless something is done
there will be no companies here next year
to take cotton risks. A meeting has been
called for this and other matters. Great
dissatisfaction is also expressed at the
elaborate aud expensive statement re
quired to be published by the Governor
of the business and condition of the com
panies.
FAILURES IX BUSINESS.
Several Merchants and Manufacturers
Succumb to Bad Business.
New York, Feb. 2.—The Riverside
Furniture Company of Wheeling, West
Virginia, has made an assignment. It
was incorporated several years ago as a
successor to Metzner, Schellhaz & Cos.,
with an authorized capital of sloo,oo*, of
which $32,000 was paid in.
DRY GOODS AND SHOE DEALERS ASSIGN.
Haynes & Glass, dry goods and boot
and shoe dealers, of Wilmington, Ohio,
have made an assignment. Thev suc
ceeded Brockney & Haynes in 1877 j did a
lair trade, and were thought to be mod
erately successful. •
A CHAlit MAKER GOES UNDER.
Henry Brokamp, a chair maker of Cin
cinnati, has made an assignment to
Rudulp Dunkman, and before making the
assignment he gave a chattel mortgage
for $3,000. He has been in business for
about 12 years, but has not been in good
credit for some time.
GENERAL MERCHANTS FAIL.
Fort Smith, Ark., Feb. 2.—J. T.
Perryman & Cos., general merchants, of
Paris, Ark., have failed. Tneir liabilities
are $23,000.
Pope Leo's Troubles.
Rome, Feb. 2.— Le Moniteur de Rome
save: “Herr Von Gossler’s recent replies
in the Landtag end for the present all
hopes of a reconciliation between the Vat
ican and Prussia. The Catholics of Prus
sia are full of faith and ardor and ready
to meet fresh persecution for the honor
and liberty of the church.”
The Court of Cassation has decided the
case of the government against the propa
ganda that the latter’s real property must
be converted into government stock. This
decision is a severe blow to the Vatican,
which talks of appealing to the powers.
Gen. Gordon at Karosko.
London, Feb. 2.—Gen. Gordon has ar
rived at Karosko and entered the desert.
Baker Pasha has made another reconnois
sance from Trinkitat with a strong force.
The enemy fled south, and were pursued
by cavalry. Several hundred of the rebels
were killed.
RAKER PASHA’S ADVANCE.
The advance of Baker Pasha to the re
lief of Tokar has been postponed until
Sunday. The original intention, as tele
graphed by Col. Sartoris, was to start on
Friday.
The Attack on Bacninh.
Paris, Feb. 2.— Le Paris says that the
attack on Bacninh will occur in the be
ginning of March.
GEN. MILLOT AT SAIGON.
Advices from saigon ’announce the ar
rival there of Gen. Millet, who was sent
out to take command of the land forces in
Tonquin.
CHINA ORDERS TORPEDOES.
China has given a London firm large
orders for torpedoes.
A Phcenix Park Witness Persecuted.
Dublin, Feb. 2.—William Meagle, an
important witness in the Phoenix Park
trials, complains that bis lite is made
miserable, Owing to continued persecu
tion and frequent assaults which he suffers
at the hands of sympathizers with the
assassins of Lord Frederick Cavendish and
Mr. Burke. Mr. Meagle is a brass fitter.
On the evening of the assassination he, in
company with a fellow workman, was
bicyling in Phoenix Park. He saw a
tussle of four men in the footway and on
trial identified Brady as one of the four.
More Gales in Britain.
London, Feb. 2.—Serious gales are
again reported in various quarters. They
have been especially severe on the Isle of
Jersey, and at Holyhead, Birmingham,
Chester, Harwich and the Isle of Man.
Many rivers have overflowed their banks,
and floods are causing much damage.
The streets of Duflield, in Derbyshire, are
inundated. A portion of the breakwater
at St. Ives has been demolished, and an
iron bridge at Rhodes Bank, near Old
ham, has been blown down.
Skating Twenty-Five Miles in Nlnety-
T w Minutes.
New York, Feb. 2. —In a skating race
in Brpoklvn to-day Axel Paulsen, a Nor
wegian, beat all previous records for
twenty-five miles, doing the distance in
one hour, thirtv-two minutes and seven
teen seconds.
Victoria and the Cabinet.
London, Feb. 2.—The Queen held a
Cabinet council this morning at Osborn,
Isle of Wight, where 6he is now residing,
preliminary to the opening of Parliament.
The subjects to be considered in the
Queen’s speech were discussed.
Election Cases Dismissed.
Mobile, Feb. 2.—The United States
Circuit Court to-day dismissed all except
one of the cases pending since 1880 for
alleged violations of the election laws.
Ruiz Zorilla in Paris.
Paris, Feb. 2.—Senor Ruiz Zorilla, the
famous Spanish radical,, has arrived
here.
LABOR’S Bill UPHEAVAL,
BITTER COMPLAINTS AGAINST
THE HUNGARIANS.
Large Families Subsisting on Mere
Pittance Amid Filthiness and Im
morality-Congress Asked to Prohibit
the Importation of Foreigners Under
Contract—The Crisis in France.
Washington, Feb. 2.— A number of
representatives of labor organizations ap
peared before the House Committee on
Labor to-day and argued against the im
portation of foreign laborers under con
tract. T. V. Powderly, ex-Mayor of Scran
ton, Pa., said that he represented the
Knights of Labor organization, number
ing over 500,000 men. This association
desires an eight hour law, legislation pre
venting foreigners from purchasing large
tracts of public land in this country and
preventing the importation of foreigners
under contract. He spoke of the importa
tion of Hungarians and said they re
turned home after saving comparatively
6inall sums of money. One family of nine
persons was instanced that lived on $27
per month. Their diet was said to be
mush and water for six days, with meat
on Sunday. The Hungarians, he said,
were fast becoming as obnoxious in the
East as the Chiuese in the West.
W. F. Barclay, also of Pennsylvania
and representing tbe coke regions, said
that only about 5 per cent, of the Hun
garians could read. Their earnings
average $125 per day, and they work
from two to five days per w 7 eek, beginning
work at 1 or 2 o’clock in the morning, and
continuing until 7 o’clock. The Hun
garians, Mr. Barclay said, were most
filthy in their habits, and in some cases
as many as ten lived in a single apart
ment.
William Leach, of New Jersey, and E.
Bullion, of Ohio, w 7 ere questioned regard
ing the importation of Belgians to work
in glass factories. The former said that
the foreigners received 35 per cent, less in
wages than Americans.
John S. McClelland, of New Jersey, re
ferred to the recent strike of telegraphists,
and said that tbe Western Union Tele
graph Company had sent to England for
operators during the strike, but could not
secure them because they held life posi
tions under the government.
Ex-Congressman Murch, of Maine, was
present, and said that unless Congress by !
legislation protected American laborers, j
the men would conclude that protection j
was a fraud.
The members of the committee asked if
the operators advocated strikes in order
that the price of coal and coke might be
raised. *s
Mr. Barclay replied that tliejt did and
that he had been offered tbe privilege of
organizing the men for a strike. The
representatives of labor organizations w ho
are here have selected John S. McClel
land, of New Jersey; John Murray, of
Ohio; T. V. Powderly, James Campbell,
and John Schliecker, or Pennsylvania, as
a committee to remain in Washington
and urge the passage of Representative
Foran’s bill to prohibit the importation of
foreign laborers under contract.
THE FALL RIVER SPINNERS.
Fall River, Mass., Feb. 2.—There
was a large attendance at the spinners
meeting to-night, over 700 being present.
It was voted to strike in ten mills on
Monday, as follows: Three of the Union
mills, one of the Sagimore mills, one of
the Tecumsch mills, one of the Chace
mills, one of the Wampanoag mills, one
of the Slade mills, and two of the Borden
City mills. The following was adopted:
Whereas, In the face of improving markets
and the large dividends made in the year just
past, a reduction of wages has been an
nounced ; therefore
Resolved, That we resist the reduction by a
trike at ten mills.
Resolved, That it should he set forth to the
public that if corporations were in earnest in
believing a cut-down necessary they should
begin with the Treasurer, Superintendent and
overseers.
Resolved, That we urge upon the weavers
working in these mills not lo use filling made
by other mills.
Resolved, That we appeal to the operatives
of New England to aid us in this strike, as
the battle is theirs as well as ours.
There was considerable speaking at the
meeting and attention was called to the
present healthy condition of the print
cloth trade. Some said that they would
be willing to submit to a smaller reduc
tion, but that contemplated was a reduc
tion of nearly 111-9 per cent, in the spin
ners and 12 per cent, in weavers’ wages
and was too much. The ten mills selected
to strike have a total ot 3,570 opera
tives and a weekly pay roll of
$23,600. They produce weekly 39,200
pieces of print cloth. Secretary Howard
said that he had heard from New Bedford
that the directors of the Acushnett mills
had voted to change to print cloths dur
ing the strike, and that the Grinnell mill
was contemplating similar action.
Single spinners will receive $4 each per
week from the union and married spin
ners $4 50 each, and 25 cents for each
child. Whether the manufacturers will
inaugurate a lockout is uncertain. It
will probably be decided Monday. They
claim that in case of a shut down volun
tarily or if caused by a strike, mills in
other places now on white goods would
change over to prints and thus reduce
the market for their own goods while at
the same time keeping the print cloth
market glutted. Both sides are deter
mined, and a long struggle is expected.
THE SITUATION IN FRANCE.
Paris, Feb. 2.—The Chamber of Depu
ties to-day resumed the debate on M.
Langlois’ interpellation regarding the
economical policy of the government and
questions affecting workingmen. The
house adopted an order of tbe day, pro
posed by M. Rouvier, Republican, which
was supported hv the government, de
claring that the Chamber resolved to con
tinue the reforms already commenced,
and to examine proi>ositions tending to
improve the condition of the workingmen.
The question of appointing a committee
of inquiry was then discussed. M.
Ferry hoped that the House would give
priority to the resolution introduced by
M. Clemenceau for the appointment of a
committee, but trusted that it would not
be passed, as inquiry- had already been
made regarding the condition of the in
dustrial and agricultural classes. He
said that the inquiry regarding the condi
tion of the industrial classes of Paris was
proceeding, and would soon terminate.
M. Clemenceau made a speech in support
of his resolution, which was adopted by a
Vote of 254 to 249,
Placards Wefe posted throughout the
city Yesterday evening, inciting disaf
fected policemen and starving working
men to arms.
THE HANDS IN NEW ENGLAND MILLS AC
CEPTING REDUCTIONS.
Dover, N. H., Feb. 2.—The wages of
the operatives at the Landing Cotton Mill
at South Berwick have been reduced 10
per cent. Notice has been posted in the
Cocheco Mills to-day announcing the
amount of the reduction in wages. The
weavers are to get 21% cents per cut, 52
yards long, 42 inches wide, print cloth.
The old price was 23%. The mule spin
ners 3 cents per 100 skeins. The old price
was 3%. The operatives will accept the
reduction.
NEW YORK GLASS WORKERS APPEASED.
Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 2.—A telegram
from Oneida, N. Y., to the officers of the
Window Glass Workers Association was
received this morning announcing a set
tlement of tbe strike there on the same
basis as ttat adopted in the West. All of
the factories in the country will now re
sume work as soon as the furnaces are
heated.
NOT TO STRIKE.
Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 2.—The mule
spinners in the Atlantic Mill held a meet
ing last night and voted not to strike, al
though formally protesting against the re
duction. The decision gives general satis
faction.
The Bitter Fence War in Texas.
Galveston, Feb. 2.—A special from
Austin says: “State Senator Terrell re
ceived an anonymous letter yesterday
threatening that if free grass was inter
fered with by the Legislature all the
waters in the State of Texas inclosed in
pasture would be poisoned. The letter
created a sensation, in view of the mys
terious disease that is sweep ng off num
bers of cattle in certain sections of the
State.”
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EX-SENATORS.
They Don’t Make Much Noise in tii
House.
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Record says: The ex-Sen
ators in the House of Representative®
don’t make half as much noise as the ex-
Representatives in the Senate. There are
'three of these transplanted Senators.
Eaton, of Connecticut, the most distin
guished, is a small, slight man, with
white hair and a smooth, sharp face, who
moves slowly when he walks, and speaks
slowly when he talks. He served on the
Committee on Foreign Relations in the
Senate, and he has not yet forgotten tne
ban ot secrecy which it places upon its
members. It affects him as it does most
men of 67. He telis you just as much, but
he tells it in a diplomatic whisper. Eaton
is a man of marked ability. He is a good
lawyer and a man of wide’reading outside
bis professional library. He has a sharp
tongue, yet he manages to make and keep
a great many friends. He likes to go over
to the Senate, and, standing on its outer
edge near tbe door, moralize upon its
gradual decay since the time when Conk
ling, Blaine, Matt Carpenter, Thurman
and Eaton, of Connecticut, thundered in
tones which are still reverberating. Over
in the House Eaton hasn’t thundered yet.
He is quietly resting on his laurels at the
head of the Committee on the Law Re
specting the Election of President and
Vice President. lie also holds a position
on the Foreign Affairs Committee, which
he got in exchange for a position on the
Committee on Naval Affairs. He swap
ped places with George D. Wise, of Vir
ginia, who wanted to be on the Naval Af
fairs Committee in order to keep his eve
on Mahoue’s performances at the Norfolk
Navy Yard. Kellogg,of Louisiana, seems
to have dropped below the surface. He
has places on the Territories and the War
Claims Committees; but he never says or
does anything— out loud. Privately he is
always at work. He still controls the
Republican machine in Louisiana, and
therefore the Federal patronage. He is
fixing up the Louisiana delegation to the
Chicago Convention this at present mo
ment. It will be uncommitted, but non
committal. As Kellogg says: “It will
be found on the winning side.” Apart
from politics, Kellogg is busy with one of
the largest sugar plantations in the South.
His wife’s brother used to manage it for
him, but since his death, which Kellogg
has sincerely mourned, he has had to run
the plantation himself. Kellogg will come
to the surface in the House whenever the
star route cases come up. He is still
under an indictment, which serves as a
constant irritant, and he knows some
things that are mighty interesting. Kel
logg is a handsome, well-shaped man with
clear complexion, well-chiseled features
and frosted gray hair. He wears a whit®
mustache. Personally Kellogg is a good
fellow, but his methods are very, very bad
indeed. Pryor, of Alabama, the third of
the Senatorial Representatives, was a
Senator for a year only. He was appoint
ed by the Governor in 1880 to fill the term
of George S. Houston, who had died.
Pryor is a tall, well-formed, fine-looking
man, with white hair, full white beara
and piercing gray eyes. He is a man of
no mean abilities. In tbe House li*
serves quietly with Kellogg on the Terri
tories Committee and with Eaton on the
Committee on the Law Respecting the
Election of President and Vice President.
A NEW BANK EXAMINER.
How a Little Girl Inspected the Place
Where Her Money was Deposited.
One morning this week, says tbe Man
chester Union, a little girl, not more than
6 or 7 years of age, opened the door of
the Merrimack Savings Bank, on Elm
street, and walked in. Her appearance
and demeanor attracted the attention of
the Treasurer, ex-Gov. Smyth, who in
quired the object of her visit. She re
plied that she wants* to see the bank.
The kind-hearted Gdfcrnor, attracted by
the childish simplicity of his interviewer,
asked her to step behind the counter, and
as she did so her wide-opened blue eyes
wandered about the apartment in a calm
scrutiny of its surroundings. When her
little orbs rested upon the pile of shining
coins of various denominations displayed
upon the cashier’s table her face became
a perfect panorama of expressions,
viewed with Interest and amuse
ment by her gallant guide.
She was permitted to step inside the vault
to examine the huge locks and interior,
and the inner safe and its belongings, all
of w’bich she did with studious care and
minuteness. All this time the bank offi
cers looked on in mute surprise, puzzled
to know the motive for this rigid exami
nation, if any she possessed. Suddenly
she stopped and looking up archly into
the amused countenance of the treasurer*
exclaimed: “Well, I believe it’s all"
right.” “What is all right?” queried the
official. “Why, the bank is all right,” she
said, and then continued: “Mr. Bank
man, my name is Amy Bell, and my papa
put $5 into this savings bank for me yes
terday, and 1 wanted to see what kind of
a place it was. I never was in a bank be
fore.” The gentlemen assured her that
the money was safe, and after answering
a few ehildisn questions 6he departed,
feeling settled in her young mind concern
ing the custody of her wealth. Governor
Smyth and assistants enjoyed the episode
hugely, and their invitation to their
young visitor to call again was given
with genuine sincerity.
THE BRIO ST. JOHN.
Her Logs Off Cohasset in 1849—Ninety
nine I’ersons Drowned.
The reoent loss of the Columbus with so
large a proportion of its passengers, writes
a correspondent of the Boston Traveller,
recalls an event now almost forgotten!
which at the time made a profound im
pression on the public mind. The British
brig St. John, Capt. Oliver, from Liver
pool bound for Boston, struck on lha
rocks of Cohasset on Sundav morning
October 3, 1849, and in fiftv minutes was
broken up by the force of’the waves, and
99 out of 120 persons on hoard were lost.
The brig struck on what is called the
Grampus rocks, and the wind was from
the northeast, and the force of tbe sea ter
rible to fight against; in fact the peor<te otv.
shore were powerless to help the drown
ing emigrants. The Captain, second
mate and two boys, in getting the -‘jolly
boat” ready to receive passengers, were
swamped by crowding the boats, and
twenty-one passengers, the second mate
and two boys were drowned. The Cap
tain was hauled on board bv a rope
thrown him. The long boat was launched
and the Captain, first mate and two pas
sengers succeeded in reaching the 6hore.
Eleven others, four mi n and seven women,
came ashore on a portion of the deck. The
I rig had only seven first-class passengers,
three being nieces of the owner of the
vessel. The remainder were Irish emi
grants, fleeing from the famine at home.
The bodies of the dead came ashore on
what is now called Cunningham’s Island,
and if I remember eorrectlv funeral
services were held in the Old South, and
the remains carried to the cemetery.
Hundreds of strangers flocked into the
town, and the sad event was the topic of
the hour. Many of the Cohasset men
were honorably mentioned in the press of
that day for their heroic efforts to 6ave the
helpless emigrants.
A Lady Made a Citizen.
Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Mrs. Emily S. Smith, a widow, wa®
made a citizen of the United States in
the Municipal Court this forenoon. Mrs.
Smith was born in England in 1840, and
came to America when eleven years of
age. She had resided in Milwaukee for
the past twelve or fifteen years. The lady
went to Dakota last spring and took up a
homestead near Harold, and in order to
acquire a perfect title to the land she was
advised to renounce forever all allegiance
to Queen Victoria and become a natural
ized citizen of the United States, her bite
band having neglected to take out 1 -
second papers. Clerk Meiswinkle s;<
this is the second instance of the kind
during his incumbency of the office—six
years.
The Alma Still Aground.
London, Feb. 2.—The Norwegian bark
Alma from Darien, Ga., is still aground
at Marypoit. The report that she ha®
been floated is incorrect. She lost her
rudder and her bottom is damaged.