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4 ESTABLISHED 1850.
j J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. j
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IX PARAGRAPHS.
Tlirep Aged Brothers Speedily Follow
Each Other to the Grave—Two Men on
a Bridge Before a Rushing Train,
hat Both Escape—A Fight with a Ma
niac at Gainesville.
GEORGIA.
V band of incendiaries has been run down
at Forsyth.
There is some talk of a paid fire department
for Athens.
A cotton compress is now deemed a cer
tainty at Ilawkinsville.
A -till house was recently burned by incen
diaries in Dade county.
Gen. dames Lonjrstrect’s new bond as Mar
shal of Georgia has been accepted.
Whitfield county lias five rase- pending in
the February term of the Supreme C ourt.
Talbotton is without facilities for lighting
fire, but their purchase is beginning to be agi
tated.
Twenty-five dozen eggs were broken by the
dropping of a box at the Marietta depot the
other day.
A 40 pound eagle, measuring 7 feet from tip
to iip of its wings, has been captured near
Cuthbert.
Mrs. Wei thy Ann McCrea died at Cochran
Saturday, of pneumonia and senile decay,
aged 85 years.
There arc twenty-seven pensioners in Whit
field county, and $251 is paid to them each
month from the pension office.
\ young man of 21 years has eloped from
Cochran with Mrs. Caroline White, a widow
lady aged 51 years, and married her.
The bark Coins, from Brunswick for Ham
burg. with l,4tii barrels spirits turpentine,
was lost in the North Sea on February 8.
Wade Barrett, a small boy of Ilawkinsville,
accidentally shot himself while hunting the
other day. The wound is not dangerous.
At Butler a few nights ago unknown
roughs raided the tent of a traveling pho
tographer, and after destroying the canvas,
demolished everything beneath it.
Col. W. H. shadman, of Cannon's Foint, St.
Simon's island, sold from In- trees between
nine and ten thousand oranges. The recent
iid spell damaged six.or seven hundred.
.Icsse Brundage. of Cuthbert, finds his drug
easiness so dull that he lias established a cob
bler's bench in the rear of his store, and is
j.repared to mend soles as well as bodies.
In tile Ordinary's Court at Decatur a settle
ment has just been made in an estate in which
the court decided that there were forty-nine
lieu- at law. Each heir will receive about
twenty dollars.
Miss Nena I’eddy, of Henderson, who was
reported as elo'piug with -I. G. Grant, her
Id-other-in-law, on the night before she was
to lie wedded to W. E. Till, was overtaken
at Thomu-ville and returned to her home,
when she has since married Mr. Till.
The St. Simon’s correspondent of the Bruns
w. lc Herald says: “Mr. A. G. P. Dodge, Jr.,
of New York, intends erecting a line church
on the site of the old church at Kredricka.
wherein .John Wesley preached when lie was
a missionary to Savannah and St. Simon's
l-land. The site is regarded with peculiar
interest on aeeouut of past associations.’’
Frederick, lohn and Stephen Terry were
three brothers who had lived in the
mountains of Harris county, fast
friends and next-door neighbors all their life
time. They were aged respectively "8, so and
S2 years. .January 27tli Frederick died of
pneumonia. .January 29th .John died of grief
at Frederick’s demise. February Ist Stephen
succumbed to his great sorrow, and also died.
All were prominent, highly-respected and
well-to-do citizens. The property of all
three goes to the children of Stephen, who
was the only one of the trio who was ever
married.
An election is to be held at the Council
el,amber in Ilawkinsville on Monday, the IStli
of February, on t lie question of exempting all
factories, mills, variety works, cotton com
presses, saw. grist and planing mills, machine
-hops and like industries from municipal
taxation—ad valorem—on their property for
the period of live years. Ali citizens of the
tow n over 21 years of age are authorized to
vote at the election. The ballots will have
printed or written on them “Exemption” or
“No Exemption.” atm if, upon counting the
votes, a majority of all the votes cast-hall he in
favor of exemption, the Mayor and Councilor
the town will make contracts with parties
desiring to locate such establishments in the
town, as per the ordinance passed February 4.
The Barnesville Gazette says: "Last week
Joe Mitchell, a colored citizen of Monroe
county, had the misfortune to lose his tongue.
It -ei ins that .Joe lias a mule with which to
conduct ins little farm, and lie keeps him
housed in a sort of shuck pen stable, .toe, de
- ring to have some fun at the mule's expense,
took ilie tin guano strewer. If you have ever
seen one von will remember that there is a
funnel placed on one end and the other is
-imply left sharp. Joe put the sharp end to
in- mouth and pointed the funnel end at the
mule. He happened to be oue of the Tump
l’onder kind of mules, and he fired his lieeis
at tiie funnel end of Joe’s guano bugle. His
aim was well taken, the mule's heel came in
e mtaet with the funnel, and tlic result to Joe
was. Ins tongue was clipped off.”
The Gainesville Southron,’. “Last Saturday
night W. It. Wheeler, whose mind lias lieen
hii'tiy shattered for some months past, went
into Dan Stringer’s barber shop and began
railing at the colored hoy, frightening hitu to
the amusement of a strange couiier-eolored
negro, who happened to be in. Mr. Wheeler
turned upon him, threatening to kill hint with
a paper weight, and finally reached into his
hip pocket, threatening in a loud manner to
shoot him. The badly seared negro no sooner
sot a glimpse of the pistol than he pounced
upon Wheeler with an open razor, cutting
and -lashing in every direction. Dan Stringer
and Howard Thompson went to the rescue as
•iUiek a- possible, but not until Wheeler was
-lightly cut in several places, and the negro
had Ins head thrown back preparatory to cut
ting Ins throat. When knocked or pulled
loose he jumped out of the door and fled.
Those who -aw the afi'air wholly justifv the
negro on the ground of self-defense.
Near Ilawkinsville Friday 11. W. Dews and
J. s. Willis started across the river to look at
the new barrel factory which is now being
itilt. In order to save time, they concluded
to walk over by way of the railroad bridge
nd trestle, a distance of two or
three hundred yards. When thev were
in the centre of the ‘ trestle
they were startled by the whistleof a locomo
tive. A special train had been ordered from
' - hran. The smoke of the locomotive could
be -ceil, and the noise of the ears could be
heard. They were 30 feet from tlie ground
and 100 yards from tile bridge. To jump
from the trestle was an extremely hazardous
undertaking, and to remain where they were
would he instant death. Mr. Dews deter
mined to ‘leap for his life,’ and was just in
the act of so doing, when Mr. Carroll, the
watchman at the bridge, told him to lie down
on one of the erossties. He did so. and the ears
pa-sed over without injuring him. Willis,
when lie first heard the whistle blow, deter
mined to race for life, and try to reach the
bridge before the train. fie reached the
ridge just m time to save himself front a ter
rible death. A second later and he would
: ave lost his life. No injury was received bv
cither.
The dome Courier savs: “Last October a
an calling himself Watson kidnapped the
- v-ycar-old boy of colored parents, residing
i *r l’lainville, in Gordon county, just over
t Floyd line. A rigid search was instituted
f r the missing child, but he could not lie
f" bid. The father came to Rome in N'ovem
i r. called on Mr. W atson, one of our
ii .ggists, and endeavored to fasten the charge
of ki mapping on him, but was, as Mr. Wat
*ii thought, convinced that he had assailed
* * wrong man. Anyway, he reti rued home,
! Mr. Watson thought no more of the mat
r until recently he found that he was being
* -ely watched by someone. The father and
: oiler of the lost boy even went so far as to
< *>ll on Mrs. Watson and ask her if she could
t* them anything of their mi-sing child, and
Mr-. Watson has recently been approached
* :■ t he subject by an official of Gordon county.
< f course, this persistence in trving to fasten
on him the crime of having kidnapped the
oily offspring of these poor blacks is liecom-
Jiig very offensive to Mr. Watson, and he will
>'"t -übmit quietly to another interview on
!!.■* subject. We learn that someone has told
these poor unfortunate parents that Air. Wat
s"n. 1 sung an apothecary, had stolen the
fluid anil killed it for the dissecting room.”
FLORIDA.
The Gainesville lire has been considerably
enlarged.
The foundations of the new Baptist Church,
at st. Augustine, have been completed.
It is expected that the Episcopal Church
at Enterprise will be finished in about two
weeks.
De Land has seven real estate offices. Al
together there are fortv-eight business estab
lishments.
There were >BO.OOO cigars ami 181 hales of
# i"iige shipped to New York from Kev West
on the 20th nit.
The repairs and changes on the steamer 11.
B. Plant, which were commenced about three
months ago, have lieen completed, and the
steamer is in first class condition now.
James Bolen, one of the oldest citizens of
Jefferson county, living near Waukeenah, fell
dead from his chair on the evening of the sth.
The cause of his death was heart disease.
Chief Aguero, the imprisoned Cuban patriot
at Key West, had quite an ovation on the 27th
ult. at the jail, where a large crowd of Cuban
ladies and gentlemen gathered to tender their
heartfelt sympathy.
A man who was on board the Fannie Dugan
la-t Thursday when the steamer was just this
side of Palatka, developed signs of insanity
and became violent. He was, however, over
powered and securely tied.
The schooner Connecticut.while on her way
i Titusville last week, encountered a snag
near Addison Point, which stove a large liole
through the boat and caused her to sink almost
immediately. The oysters have been taken
-ei and she is to be repaired,
t apt. J. F. Leßaron, civil engineer, for the
i=t three years on Gen. Gillmore’a staff in
IV,’ r Je of the Government works at St.
•IMin’s bar, Cumberland sound and other
i .1* i s in that district, is at present the resi
lient engineer of the Florida Ship Canal, and
■ ill-just been appointed deputy county sur
i'eyor for Dnval county.
1 J- A. McKinley was one of the most popu
■’ xr grocery clerks in Jacksonville, but indul
m Dquor so unmanned him Wednesday
. imagined himself guilty of some die"-
■L, u crime. He tried to drown himself
Heft t as rescued. A few minutes later, beiug
Hu*ott e 7 cut a dangerous gash across his
Kicit-d’ “ wilt probably recover, and it is
tV ll * the experience will be the
Koi,*.' ''' forever rescuing lnm from liquor’s
| st: *te Agricultural Convention re
Wht Sarannali 3W owing
cently held at Gainesville, after perfecting its
organization, adjourned to meet in Jackson
ville on the evening of the second dav of the
coming State Fair, next Tuesday, the 12th
instant, for the purpose of considering the
s’eps necessary to be taken that the State of
Florida and her products mav be properly
represented at the New Orleans Centennial
Cotton Exposition, to be held in December of
this year. Jacksonville is now preparing for
the event.
The First Florida Battalion was organized
at Jacksonville Wednesday by Gov.Uloxhatn.
It is composed of the Jacksonville Light In
fantry, Metropolitan Light Infantry and the
Clay Guards. The officers of the companies
held a meeting and recommended the follow
ing battalion officers: Major, Capt. VV. B.
Voting, of the Jacksonville Light Infantry:
Adjutant, Lieut. A. W. Owens, of the Jack
sonville 'Light Infantry; Quartermaster,
Lieut. G. W. Hranning, of the Clay Guards;
surgeon, Dr. AI. J. Canova. of the Clay
Guards; Sergeant Major. Samuel Burkheim,
of tlie Metropolitan Light Infantry. These
officers will doubtless lie commissioned at
once, and arrangement--, will be made for the
attalion to parade at the State Fair.
A PERTINENT QUESTION
Addressed to the Railroad Commissioner.
Rountree, Ga., Feb. 6.— Editor Slorn
int] .Yeirs: Your paper has been instrumen
tal in doing much good for the turpentine
men of Georgia, and under the amended scale
of wage? now paid for labor, the future of
that industry presents an encouraging out
look.
It is true that at the beginning of the pres
ent box-cutting season a rebellious spirit
seemed to control many of the negroes, who
refused to work for leas than the old prices;
but tile pinching demands of want, and the
sudden advent of a remorselessly severe win
ter worked a change “over the spirit of their
dream,” and the majority of them at once
buckled down to work very earnestly. Here
and there a few men who were loud-mouthed
iu their advocacy of a reduction of wages
have violated their contract with the Naval
Exchange by giving 1' 4 cents, or a cent and
rations :tbox: but the really practical aud
successful turpentine men of Georgia, men
who make money, and from whom faeters
sustain no losses,’ are carrying out in good
faith the understanding entered into in Sa
vannah November last.
But there is one disadvantage under which
turpentine men yet labor in this State, which
ought of right to be remedied. I have refer
ence to the unjust discriminations made
against them in the matter of freight charges.
They pay a larger percentage upon what
they produce than any other industrial or
manufacturing class in Georgia. This is sav
ing a great deal, but I believe the facts will
hear me out in the assertion.
Let me illustrate: The charges on a ear
load of lumber from Midville (9J-4) to Sa
vannah isslu; on rosin, $22; an excess against
tlic latter of sl2. If this unjust and unequal
discrimination is made front Midville to Sa
vannah, it is reasonable to infer
that it i adhered to over the entire
line of road. Alt uno disee otnues. And
yet, against this abuse of power there stands
clear cut from the general legislation of Geor
gia, “an art to provide for the regulation of
railroad freight and passenger tariffs, and to
prevent unjust discrimination and extortion
in the rates charged for transportation of pas
sengers and freight,” etc. Pursuant to this
act a commission was created to carry out the
intention of our legislators in this respect.
Section 5 gives said commission power to
“make reasonable and just rates of freight
and passenger tariffs, to be observed by rail
road companies in this State, on the railroads
thereof.”
Is the above illustration an example of the
commission’s conception of what is “reasona
ble ami just?”
But the language of the section quoted from
is mandatory. It says the commissioners
“shall make reasonable and just rates and
regulations, to lie observed Jiv all railroad
companies doing business in this State, as.to
charges at any and all points for the necessary
handling ana delivering of freights; shafl
make such just ami reasonable rates anil
regulations as may la* necessary for prevent
ing unjust discriminations in the transporta
tion of freight and passengers on the railroads
tit this State," etc.
This ip a part of that commendable piece of
legislation by the assembled wisdom of Geor
gia. which aimed a blow at the extortions
practiced against individuals aud communi
ties by railroad corporations. But lots it
been carried out': Have the “reasonable and
just rates” contemplated therein been estab
lished? Have “unjust discriminations” been
prevented? Let the difference between the
charges on a ear load of lumber and oue of
rosin answer.
I therefore repeat, that the turpentine men
in Georgia are straining under a burden which
ought of right to be remedied.
What lias become of the committee appoint
ed at the convention of lust November to
confer with the railroad commission?
It is time to hear from you, gentlemen.
Naval stores.
NAST AT SANFORD.
He Returns Thanks for True Southern
Hospitality with Pencil aud Paste
board.
“Varmint” writes to the Jacksonville
Times- Union from Sanford, Fla., under
date of Feb. 4, as follows:
It was after dark when Lord Hunting
don and his party arrived here, and several
other large parties arrived during the day,
so that the Sanford House, already well
filled, was crammed to the top. Hunting
don and his friends had rooms, for they
ordered them by wire, but some ladies
came and Capt. Gantbier, Mr. Nast, my
self and others gave up our rooms to
them. Mr. Nast was obliging, but badly
out of temper. He and some ol the others
had missed their suppers. They went
hunting all about town in the dark tor a
restaurant and lodging-houses and, as
might le expected with comers who had
not yet seen the place by daylight, they
encountered many unsatisfactory things.
The party came back discouraged and
disgusted; nothing to eat, nothing to
drink, no place to sleep—blank such a
place. “Where are you going to stay ?”
they asked me. I said I could find a place.
Well, wouldn’t I find them a place? Why,
certainly.
1 took'them to the Nolan House, kept
by my friend, Judge Nolan, and though
bis house was full, he had some rooms
elsewhere, and he went off with the party,
showed the rooms and said they were
quite welcome to them if they wished to
lodge there; the rooms were nice and neat
with new furniture.
Then one man, hungrier than tne rest,
broached supper. It was 11 o’clock at
night, but Judge Nolan, assisted by his
chanting daughter, Miss Celeste, got the
hungry travelers an excellent cold lunch,
with hot coffee, and when pay was offered
declined, with that line old Georgia cour
tesy which is ever so grand, inoffensive
and agreeable.
Tom Nast’s disgust of Sanford had
melted clear away; he was wholly molli
fied.
“I wish.” he said afterward, “I could
do something to thank those jteople; it
wasn’t the refusing pay, you know; nor
even the trouble they put themselves to,
so much; but ’twas the way they did it."
“Can’t I?” ne asked, “can’t I'send that
young ladv some sort of a present, or
something. Can’t you help me find some
thing nice? Or would they feel offended
at that.”
I suggested that he make her a little
sketch; I was sure that would please her
and be a very pretty compliment besides.
“I will do it,” he said quickly.
He had no artist’s material,"but he had
a lead pencil, used the hack of a Jackson
ville Club visitor's card, and sketched the
absurdest, most laughable picture ot him
self imaginable, standing, hat in hand, fits
other hand upon his breast, bowing, his
eyes upon the ground—an attitude that
did not need the legend he put upon it,
“Thanks.” Below the picture he wrote
his name and the date and sent it. with
his compliments, to Miss Celeste Nolan,
of Sanford.
AN AWFUL BIRTHMARK.
Mysterious and Horrible Suffering of a
Pennsylvanian
A most remarkable case of human suf
fering, says a Philadelphia special to the
Baltimore Day, undone which has steadily
baffled medical science, is reported in
Springfield, Erie county, Pa. William
lurgeson, when 7 years of age, was
seized with severe pains in his right hand,
and though he is now 46 years of age, he
has been annually attacked, singularly
though at each time suffering more than
at the preceding.
Convulsions and paroxysms now visit
him at exactly the same period of the
year, and always at the same hour in the
evening. He is now suffering the most
acute agony, and is visited by scores of
physicians, who in every case 'have been
completely baffled. By this peculiar freak
\>f nature his body becomes terriblv con
torted. Respiration almost ceases,and he
becomes for the time being unconscious,
and on awakening shows every evidence
of having passed through a most terrible
ordeal. On being restored he becomes
perfectly well, and is only troubled at in
tervals of a year, but with positive regu
larity.
The case can only be accounted for by
the fact that Fergeson’s mother, shortly
before his birth, saw the contortions and
evidences of agony in a snake which had
been thrown into fire, and that he has be
come thus birth-marked.
Pope Pius IX.’g Memory.
Rome, Feb. 7.— Solemn mass was cel
ebrated this morning in the Sistine Chapel
of the Vatican in memory of Pope Pius
IX. The Pope, Cardinals, Prelates,
Diplomats and many foreigners were
present. The chapel was crowded and
the ceremony was unusually imposing.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
MORE ABOUT THE OUTRAGES
OF DEPUTY MARSHALS.
Examiner Wiegand Exposes Some of
Paul Strobach’s Rascality—Horrible
Hardships Imposed on Innocent
Farmers Falsely Accused—The Old
Fight Over the Health Question Re
vived.
Washington, Feb. 7.—E. B. Wiegand,
an examiner of the Department ot Jus
tice, in his testimony to-day before the
House Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Justice, described a novel
method for securing funds to conduct a
Congressional campaign. The aspirant
was Paul Strobach, whom the Senate
failed to confirm for Marshal of Alabama.
While Turner was United States Marshal
in that State the witness said that Stro
bach asked to be appointed Deputy Mar
shal, explaining that he was anxious
to make a canvass for Congress. He se
cured the appointment, named a number
of Deputy Marshals and went through
the District making ai'rests that fees
might be obtained to defray the expenses
of the campaign. Strobach was defeated
and came to Washington and contested
the seat. The examiner said that many
jtoor men were arrested in Alabama by
Deputies on the charge of chopping wood
on public lands. These men were often
compelled to sell their small possessions
to pay the costs of their trial, taken in
some instances more than 100 miles and
forced to go on foot and then dis
charged and allowed to return home as
best they could. Some of the arrested men
died for want of food and from exposure
while walking to their homes. Their
families also suffered, having to dispose
of their means for acquiring sustenance to
pay the costs of the trials of the arrested
parties. Instances were cited where the
examiner investigating the offices of gov
ernment officials was threatened. H. A,
Wilsou, now Receiver ol Public Money,
bad at one time attempted to shoot him.
Wiegand’s testimony covered examina
tions made in Georgia, Alabama and
North Carolina. He referred to the prac
tice of deputy marshals to charge con
structive fees in the way of transportation
for loug distances of persons arrested and
for guards and for feeding prisoners and
guards, while the facts were that the
prisoners in most instances had been
simply notified to appear at the office of
the United States Commissioner, and had
gone there at their own expense and un
guarded. Iu Covington county, Ala., the
witness said that thei'e was scarcely a
man who had not been arrested, and
Weigand could not recall a single case
where a prisoner had been convicted.
THE NATION’S HEALTH.
The House Committee on Public Health
gave a hearing to-day to the members of
the National Board of Health, among
whom were Dr. Cabell, President, and
Col. Waring. Secretary, of the board, and
Dr. Verdi, of the Executive Committee.
These gentlemen reviewed the legislation
of past years with respect to the
national health aud the work of
the National Board of Health,
which they asserted had been economical
and uniformly successful, and they denied
the truth of the accusations made against
the boai'd in discussions in the House of
the appropriation for its support during
the last Congress. Col. Waring asserted,
and j his colleagues indorsed his state
ments, that Surgeon General Hamilton,
of the Marine Hospital Service had been
injudicious, unskillful and unsuccessful
in his quarantine work. He also charged
that Dr. Hamilton, in his efforts to con
trol public and official opinion, had been
guilty of misrepresentations. The
committee will give Dr. Hamilton an op
portunity to reply to these charges at its
meeting next week. It may be stated
iiere that for a long time past there has
been a controversy between the Board of
Health officials and those of the Marine
Hospital service, with respect to national
health matters.
HEARING THE TRADE REPRESENT A-
ITVKS.
The Committee on Ways and Means to
day agreed to grant a hearing to repre
sentatives ol various interests as follows:
Cotton, Wednesday, the 13th inst.; wool,
Thursday, the" 14th inst.; metals, Satur
day, the 16th inst.; earthenware and
glassware, Monday, the 18th.
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Detailed Report of the Proceedings in
Roth Bodies.
Washington, Feb. 7.—ln the Senate
this morning. Mr. Call offered a resolu
tion which he desired to have referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations, re
questing the President of the United
States to prevent the delivery ofSenor
Carlos Aguero, a Cuban patriot, now in
prison at Key West, Fla., on demand of
the Spanish Government, upon a pre
tended charge of highway robbery. Mr.
Cali presented and bad read the proceed
ings of a meeting of American citizens of
Key West, Fla., denouncing the demand
of Spain as actuated by purely political
reasons, and defending Gen. Aguero from
the imputations against him. The resolu
tion was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
The proceedings were of little general
importance. After the expiration of the
morning hour, the Mexican land grant
titles bill was taken up as unfinished
business. This Dill was debated during
the remainder of the day, and several
amendments were proposed and rejected.
The debate was participated in by Messrs.
Bayard, Plumb, Conger, McPherson,
Maxey, Harrison, Edmunds, Call and
Lapbum. Mr. Bowen was about to ad
dress the Senate on the pending amend
ment, when an adjournment was moved
and agreed to.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day, Mr. Dockery, of
Missouri, from the Committee on Ac
counts, reported back the resolution de
claring vacant the positions of stenogra
phers of the committees, and providing
that hereafter on the request of each com
mittee the Speaker shall employ a re
porter at a compensation to be fixed by
the Committee on Accounts. He stated
that the committee desired to pav for
services rendered in the House, and not a
dollar in excess. In other woi-ds, it pro
posed that the law of supply and demand
should prevail.
Mr. Reagan, of Texas, thought that
some action was necessary, and that the
present system of reporting for the com
mittees was wrong. He instanced the
fact that a reporter had recently been sent
to the Committee on Commerce, who
could not report, and the result was that
the argument presented had to be re
written. The resolution was then
adopted.
A number of bills were introduced and
others reported from committees, and all
were appropriately referred. The House
then proceeded to the consideration of the
resolution reported a day or two 6ince
from the Committee on Rules adopting for
the government of the House until further
order the rules of the Forty-sixth Con
gress.
By unanimous consent it was agreed
that the debate should be permitted for
ten minutes on each proposition to amend
the rules, the proposition, however, not to
be considered pending unless the previous
question on the resolution be voted down.
A flood of amendments were offered and
discussed. Among them was one by Mr.
Belford, of Colorado, providing a clerk for
every member not a Chairman of a com.
mittee, and one by Mr. Cox, of New York,
for the creation of a Census Committee,
all of which came to a voto and were re
jected until Mr. Cox’s census resolution
was reached. The vote on this was 10ft
yeas to 47 nays. The point of no quorum
being raised the House adjourned.
CONGRESS AM) THE MISSISSIPPI
The liiver Convention Adopts a Memori
al and Adjourns.
Washington, Feb. 7.— When the Mis
sissippi River Improvement Convention
met to-day the Committee on Resolutions
presented its report. The resolutions set
forth that the interests for which this con
vention is authorized to speak are en
titled in the highest degree to considera
tion from the National Legislature; that
no exercise of the power of Congress can
be more legitimate or more just than the
relief of the commerce of the Mississippi
valley, and of the immense and
varied industries which support
it from the needless burdens
by removing those obstacles to naviga
tion; that the convention earnestly re
affirm the declaration of the River im
provement Convention which met at St.
Louis in October, 1881; that it is the man
ifest and imperative duty ot the Govern
ment of the United States to cause to be
made such improvement of the Mississip
pi river and its navigable tributaries as
shall permanently secure safe and easy
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1884.
navigation thereof; that the convention
also emphatically approve of the appoint
ment by Congress of the Mississippi River
Commission as the first well considered and
efficient step towards permanently open
ing the Mississippi valley to the markets of
the world; that the convention also ear
nestly urge upon Congress that a scien
tific and comprehensive system of river
improvement by a competent com
mission thus inaugurated as the
Mississipi, should be applied with
out delay to complete and make
permanent the improvement of the Mis
souri, Ohio and other navigable rivers;
that in the interest of cheap transporta
tion and to afford a choice oi water routes
to the seaboard, the convention regard the
connections between the upper navigable
waters of the Mississippi and the great
lakes as of great importance, and that
Congress in making appropriations ought
to have regard to the estab
lishment of free water communication
between the valley of the great river of
the West and the tide w ater of the East.
The resolutions also express approval of
the views expressed by the President in
his message concerning the Mississippi
river improvement, recognize the benefits
resulting from the extension of the light
house system to the Mississippi and its
tributaries, and authorize the Executive
Committee to take proper steps for pre
senting to Congress a suitable memorial.
A supplementary series of resolutions
declared that the power of the govern
ment should be invoked to remove any
artificial obstruction to the navigation of
the rivers. Both reports were at once
unanimously adopted by acclamation, a
fact which elicited great applause. The
convention then adjourned sine die.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Freight Rate Restoration—McDaniel and
the Convicts—Western and Atlantic.
Atlanta, Feb. 7. —The Western and
Atlantic Railroad directors had their
annual meeting to-day, and re-elected the
old officers, except Col. W. C. Morrell as
Vice President in place of Col. E. W.
Cole, of Nashville. General Superinten
dent K. A. Anderson made a most re
markable showing lor the past year, the
expense of repairs to engines and cars
from accidents not amounting to more
than about S2OO. He was not only un
animously re-elected, but given a hand
some increase in salary for his excellent
management of the rolling stock oi the
road.
M’DANIEL AND THE CONVICTS.
Gov. McDaniel went to the Dade Coal
Mine this evening, and to-morrow will
make a thorough inspection of Gov.
Brown’s convict camps. It is the Gover
nor’s purpose to personally iuspect every
camp in the State, and examine into the
condition of all convicts.
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION.
The Railroad Commission to-day heard
from millers and othei'S about the restora
tion of the rate on class C, D and F, not
to competitive points but to local sta
tions, President Crane, of the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, and Messrs. Ghol
ston, Zachry, Stephens, Akers and Whit
lock, mill men, or Hour dealers, and Mesrs.
Venable and Cottingham, oi the Grain
Elevator Company, were present, and
participated in the disf?ussion. Athens
was also represented bv Hon. C. G. Tal
madge and others. Dave W. Appier, of
the Central Railroad, wts on hand watch
ing the arguments. Sol Haas and G. S.
Barman, of the Richmond and Danville
Railroad, appeared before the commission
and asked restoration of the C, D and F
rate on their line to local points. The
commission meets again to-morrow, and
all the parties interested for or against
the proposed change will be heard.’ It is
important to local dealers in and manu
facturers of flour, grain, etc.
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
The “Boys in Blue’’ now residing in
Atlanta are making up a donation for the
“Boys in Gray,” of Richmond, Va., in re
sponse to their appeal for aid to build in
that city a home lor disabled Confederate
soldiers. During a two days’ canvass not
a single “Boy in Blue” has declined to
contribute. In some other Southern cities
the same magnanimous and generous ac
tion is being taken.
TWO RESIDENCES BURNED.
Last night the residence of F. G. Cobb,
at Oakdale Dairy farm, about two miles
from this city, was destroyed by fire.
Nothiug was saved. This morning the
handsome suburban residence of John W.
Ward, the Whitehall street hardware
merchant, was also burned, involving a
heavy loss, as very little was saved of the
elegant furniture.
RICHARD 1). FOX’S DEATH.
A Suit fur $30,000 Damages Brought
Against the Western Texas.
New York, Feb. 7. —James Lachlison,
of the State of Georgia, administrator of
the estate of Richard D. Fox, who during
his life was also a resident of that State,
as the next friend of a number of minor
children, has begun an action in admiralty
against the steamship Western Texas, of
the Mallory line, for the recovery of $20,-
000 damages for the death of Mr. Fox.
The steamer, it is alleged, plies
between the ports of New York, Port
Royal, S. C., and Fernandina, Fla. Mr.
Fox was a passenger on her in October,
1883, and on tlx* night ot the 23d of that
month, while passing along the deck, fell
thi-ough an open hatchway, receiving in
juries which caused his death. It was
charged that this hatchway had been care
lessly and needlessly left open. The com
pany gave the usual bond to abide the
issue of the suit.
A NEW RAILROAD.
What the Truck Planters are Doing.
Valdosta, Ga., Feb. 7.—A railroad
from this point to Deadman’s Bay, in
Florida, is to be built soon. A gentleman
in this place received a letter Tuesday
from the General Manager, in New York,
of the Florida, Midland and Georgia Rail
road Company, in gvhich he says that the
money is in the treasury and that work
will begin soon.
The parties whose houses were destroyed
by fire in the late burn out have given out
the contracts, and in sixty days other and
more commodious buildings will be
erected on the grounds.
Our farmers are preparing their farms,
and some of the truckmen are planting
melons, but not so extensively as last
year, owing to the fact that many of
them lost money last year.
RAVAGES OF THE FLAMES.
A Falling Wall Kills Five Firemen and
Injures Eleven Others.
Allentown, Pa., Feb. 7.—Fire broke
out last night in the factory of Grossman
& Klucker in this city, totally destroying
it, and a number of small buildings at
tached. The main building was con
structed of brick and the roof spanned by
a brick arch with iron rods running across
the walls. As the men who were stand
ing on the ladders and in the building
were doing their utmost to subdue the
llames the north and south walls sudden
ly fell outward and some fifteen firemen
were covered with the debris. Streams of
water were immediately directed upon the
ruins covering the men, which prevented
some of them from being burned to death.
Five men were killed and eleven seriously
but not fatally injured by the falling walls.
A JURY DISGRACED.
The Judge Charges Them with Acquit
ting LMhu Proven a Murderer.
Memphis, Feb. 7.—The jury in the case
of Patrick Ilaley, a young Irishman,
charged with killing Alexander Dunlap,
an aged negro, last summer, by cutting
his throat with a butcher knife, returned
a verdict at noon to-dav of
not guilty. This was Halev’s
second trial, he having been convicted’of
murder in the first degree, but anew trial
was granted on a law technicality. When
the jury to-day announced their verdict
in a body, Judge Greer remarked that it
was a perfect surprise to the court, and a
disgrace and an insult to a civilized
community. He had the jury polled and
their names spread upon the minutes,with
instructions that they be never agaiu
summoned as jurors in his court.
Five Trainmen Killed and Fifteen In
jured.
Cincinnati, Feb. 7.—A dispatch from
Lexington, Kv., says that a construction
train on the Chesai>eake and Ohio Rail
road, between Morehead and Farmers’
Station, ran into the caboose ot another
train contauung twenty section hands,
live were killed and fifteen wounded.
Charles Harlon, the conductor, was se
riously injured.
Mr. I. B. Battle, Wadlev, Ga., says:
“Brown’s Iron Bitters cured me of poor
appetite, general debility and sleepless
ness.” r
THE RIVERS RECEDING.
CINCINNATI ALONE REPORTING
A CONTINUING RISE.
The Death List Increased to Four—A
Wild Waste f Waters at Pittsburg
Strange Panoramas in the Inundated
Cities by Night—Relief Measures Be
ing Consummated.
Cincinnati. Feb. 7, 9 a. m.— The river
is 61 feet 6)£ inches high and still
rising. There is no change in the weather,
except that it is perhaps a little cooler.
There i9 slight ram at intervals. Tele
graphic communication with up the river
points is almost entirely cut off, and there
has been no communication with Ports
mouth, Ironton, Huntington and Marietta
or Parkei'sburg this morning. Gallipolis
reports a rise of 3 feet last night, and it
continues at the rate ot 3 inches per hour.
A LEY'EE BREAKS.
The levee on the Miami river at Law
renceburg broke at 2 o’clock this morn
ing, but as the town was already sub
merged with water from the Ohio not
much more damage could be done.
STATIONARY AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Feb. 7, 2:30 p. m.—The
river now marks 61 feet 9 iuches, and is
apparently stationary. The Licking river
at Falmouth and Butler is reported to be
falling. Here the current is much less
swift. This has had the effect of checking
the rise in the Ohio to a slight extent.
The weather is gradually growing colder
and there is scarcely any rain.
THE CRASH AT LAWRENCEBURG.
To-day news from Lawrenceburg indi
cates much fright but not much danger.
When the levee broke this morning the
water from the Ohio had already entered
the town, so that when the Miami water
came in it was not such a current as had
been feared. The chief danger now is in
the crumbling of foundations and high
winds. Many small frame houses will be
moved from their foundations. The peo
ple are well provided for and are cheerful.
$50,000 FOR RELIEF.
Advices from Columbus say that the
bill is now a law authorizing the use of
$50,000 for purposes of relief.
Cincinnati, Feb. 7, 6 p. m.— The mer
chants in the lower part of the citv have
already organized a police force and pro
vided boats and lights to be used in pro
tecting property against theft. Telegrams
have been sent to Sandusky, Toledo and
Cleveland asking for boats to be used lor
the relief of families in the submerged
districts. All the railroads have stopped
receiving freight except the Chesapeake
and Ohio, the Kentucky Central, the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio and the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton. All
trains on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
St. Louis aud Chicago Road and also on
the Cincinnati and Eastern and the Cin
cinnati, Georgetown and Portsmouth
Roads have been abandoned.
Reports from Lawrenceburg, Ind., state
that water covers the town from the river
fi'ont. AH business lias been given up
and thousands of people have left town.
The remainder are occupying houses on
the high ground or the third stories of
buildings which are in the water. There
are provisions for several days, and the
people are provided with boats.
RISING AGAIN AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Feb. 7,11 p. m.— The wea
ther here is becoming cooler, but no de
cided change has as yet taken place. A
light drizzling rain has been falling a
portion of the day and night. Tne wind
is from the northeast. The river con
tinues to rise slowly, standing at 61 feet
10 inches at 10 o’clock, a rise of half an
inch in an hour. Contrary to expecta
tion, the gas is burning to-night, and there
is hope that the supply may not be
cut of at all, This, however, depends on
the future i-ise being very slight.
The view from Supension bridge this
morning was not cheering. Along the
Covington front of the Licking river it was
entirely submerged, the water being in
the second story of dwellings. Newport
presented the appearance of a lake with a
few dwellings peeping out like small
islands. The bridge company tried to
furnish transportation across the water
on the Cincinnati side, but its
single boat was entirely inadequate to
the demand, and a large number of pri
vate crafts are engaged ferrving for five
cents a passage and are earning a rich re
ward. The whole lower part of the city
lrom Second street to the river front was
covered with boats to-day, employed for
patroling and relief. Ten school houses
have been closed in the submerged parts
of the city and placed at the disposal of
the Relief Committee for the accommoda
tion of people driven from their houses.
AT COVINGTON.
In Covington, Ky., a relief committee
was organized to-day and the Legislature
will be asked not to collect this year’s
taxes in tne flooded districts. No loss of
life and no great destruction to property
lias occurred as yet. The story of loss of
life at Marietta, 0., is not credited. The
wires are all down to that point. The
river is still rising, but more slowly. In
the thirteen hours since midnight the
rise has been only 8 inches. The record
at 1 o’clock this afternoon was 61 feet 8
inches. The people still contemplate an
even greater rise than that of last year,
but without alarm. It is estimated that
the losses from the overflow will not be
more than 10 per cent, of the loss of last
year, owing to better care to prevent loss.
THE WORST OVER AT PITTSBURG.
Pittsburg, Feb. 7,2 p. m.—TheMonon
gabela lias fallen one loot, and the Alle
ghany 20 inches since 11 o’clock. The
former now marks 31 leet and the latter
ffifeet. There has been no rain since
daylight. The weather is raw and be
coming colder, and the worst is believed
to be over.
GREAT DAMAGE AT WHEELING.
Wheeling, Feb. 7, 7 p. M.— The river
at 6 o’clock this afternoon was 51 feet
6 inches, and rising slowiv. Steamers
have been busily engaged ail day bring
ing people from the island. More damage
to property than was ever experienced
here before has been done. The fair
ground is a total wreck, and three houses
came down to-day trom above. Vastly
larger areas are submerged tbau in 1882,
and houses, barns and bridges and straw
and hay stacks have been floating past
here all day. The Wheeling Cheese Com
pany loses about $50,000 by water in the
cellars of its storage-house.
The merchants on Main, Water and
Market streets also lose heavilv in perish
able goods now under water Several
houses floated off the island and south
side to-day. Tlie losses will aggregate
over $1,000,000. No loss of life is reported
here, but the fatality among sick persons
who were removed from exposed houses
will probably be great. The Western
Union Telegraph Company’s office can
only be reached by boats. The wires of
the Baltimore and Ohio Company are all
down. Telephone communication with
the suburbs is cut off.
THE CITY WITHOUT WATER AND GAS.
* The water and gas works gave out to
-dav, and to-night the city is in dark
ness and at the mercy of a fire it
one should start. The streets of half of
the city are navigable in boats, and all
sorts of improvised crafts are plying as
ferries. Many people are still exposed on
the island, not a spot of which remains
above water. The work of removin''
them goes bravely on by skiff's and steam
boats. A relief meeting was held this
afternoon, and $27,000 raised in half an
hour, and a committee appointed to look
after the destitute.
THE FALL AT PITTSBURG.
Pittsburg, Feb. 7, 8 p. m.—The fall in
the river continued all day, and at 8 o’clock
to-night the Monongahela marks registered
thirty feet six inches, a fall ol nearly
three feet since midnight. The Allesrhany
marks show thirty-one feet, and the water
is falling about three inches an hour.
Many streets are now clear of water, but
in its stead barrels, twisted boards and
ice are piled several feet high, and in
many places have been left high on the
dry land by the receding waters.
Communication with Alleghany city
by street cars is still cut
off, but by to-morrow morning
it is thought that ears will be able to run.
The Alleghany valley and West Pennsyl
vania Railroad are running trains again
as usual. At a meeting of citizens "this
afternoon an Executive Committee was
appointed who were instructed to take
immediate steps to relieve all sufferers in
the two cities.
Committees representing the leading
business interests were also appointed to
solicit donations. Before these provis
ions can be made, however, the sufferings
will be great among those living in the
second stories of their houses, as they
have been without food or fire tor 36 hours.
TWO MORE FATALITIES.
Two more fatalities have been reported.
Wm. Bowman, aged 50 yeais, living in
the Eighth ward of Alleghany City, while
attempting to step out of a window into a
skiff, fell into the water, and the current
carried him away. Harvey Gerning, ffged
11 years, who has been missing from his
house in the First ward of Alleghany City
since Tuesday, was found drowned this
afternoon. It has been found that be
tween 5,000 and 6,000 buildings in the two
cities were submerged, including the
residences of 26,000 people, 10.000 of whom
are not able to occupy their houses.
Fifteen thousand men are temporarily
thrown out of employment by the stop
page of mills and factories.
\ A PANORAMA OF PITTSBURG.
Pittsburg, Feb. 7,11 p. m.— The flood
ed district presented a vivid picture all
night long. The police patroled the dis
trict in boats, and all the occupants of
skills who were unable to give a good ac
count of themselves were arrested. It
was feared that thieves would take ad
vantage of the deserted stores and dwell
ings and pillage them. No gas was burn
ing on the streets and intense darkness
ness prevailed, relieved occasionally by
an electric light. There were many dwell
ings from which the occupants had
fled. Those who * declined to seek
safety in flight could not compose them
selves to sleep while the danger was so
imminent. Curtains were drawn back
and the occupants of the houses nervouslv
inquired from the windows as the police
patrol passed by in boats what .was the
stage ot the water, and if the river was
still rising. The gratifying news that the
water was stationary at midnight was re
ceived on all sides with expressions of joy
and thankfulness. The Alleghany Coun
cils met this morning aud appointed a
committee to receive subscriptions and to
take such other action as would be found
necessary to relieve the present wants of
the needy. Donations are pouring in from
citizens, and it is thought that no diffi
culty will be experienced iu raising the
amount needed. The public halls of both
cities are filled with women and children
who have been rendered homeless, and
everything possible is being done to alle
viate their sufferings. In the city hall* a
number of women and children are re
ported to be very ill.
DROWNED WHILE CATCHING DRIFT
WOOD.
John Jacobs, of Sharpsburg, while
catching drift wood fell into the water
aud was drowned. Hundreds of strang
ers are unwillingly forced to remain in
the city. Heavy land slides are reported
on all the roads. The Baltimore and Ohio
Road is running trains, but make no at
tempt to arrive and depart on schedule
time. The West Newton accommodation
train on this road going east and the
McKeesport accommodation going west
came together yesterday and both engines
were badly wrecked and the baggage cars
rendered useless, and several persons
were hurt but not fatally. The accident
was caused by a land slide. The Pan
Handle Road is also running trains, but
they are very late. The Pittsburg. Fort
Wayne and Chicago and the West Penn
sylvania Road has not made any attempt
to send trains out.
BRIDGES WASHED AWAY.
A Beaver, Pa., dispatch says that the
most serious disaster there has been the
total distruction of two bridges and the
serious damaging of another. Last night
the pressure of water on the Fallston
bridge caused it to give way, and the
superstructure carried by the 6trong
current against the Cleveland and Pitts
burg bridge carried it away bodily, to
gether with nearly 400 feet of its ap
proaches. The two bridges swept down
the Ohio until they came in contact with
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad
iron bridge just below Beaver. The ap
proaches at both ends were torn away,
and the bridge is in great danger of going
down. Manager Ellsler has tendered the
use of the opera house for the benelt of the
sufferets after next Wednesday afternoon,
the 13th inst.
THE SUSQUEHANNA’S ICE GORGE BURSTS.
Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 7.—A1l the ice
gorges on the Susquehanna river have
broken, and the flood is passing without
damage. The rivy is bank full almost
from end to end, but as the ice is now too
solt to gorge no danger is feared.
AURORA’S VERSION OF THE BURSTING
LEVEE.
Aurora, Ind., Feb. 7.—lntense excite
ment was caused here at 10 o’clock last
night when the alarm bells in Lawrence*
burg, two miles away, were distinctly
beard. The levee above that town had
given away, and the place was no doubt
subjected to a rushing flood. There are
no means of obtaining particulars.
AT LOUISVILLE.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 7.—lt was still
raining last night and the river was
creeping steadily up at the rate ot four
inches an hour. At 10:30 o’clock last
night the canal gauge registered ‘M 1 /. feet
of water, which was within 8 feet oi' the
highest mark of last year. It was ex
pected that by this morning all the
houses on the river front from the point
to the shipping port would be under
water. The people had been warned and
most of them were moving. By noon to
day it was expected that the southeastern
portion of the city would be flooded.
. IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
Port Jervis, N. Y., Feb. 7.—The ice is
moving out of the Delaware river, and it
is thought that the annual breakup has
begun. The flood has not yet, however,
assumed dangerous proportions.
TEXAS’ LEGISLATURE.
IMlls Which HuveDone to the Governor
and One Wlii<'rt£& Senate Rejected.
Galveston, Feb. 7.—The Legislature
has adjourned sine die. The following
three measures were perfected yesterday
and go to the Governor for his signature:
The bill providing lor the leasing of
school lands belonging to un
organized counties, the longest lease to
be 7 years; the minimum rental fixed at
5 cents per acre instead of 10. as propos
ed—-the latter price amounted to pro
hibition against leases, and would con
tinue vast tracts under the domination of
cattle syndicates without compensation
to the State; the bill requiring the open
ing of first-class roads Detween county
seats and all adjoining counties; the
bill requiring gates for each 3 miles of
fencing. The Governor has signed the
bills making fence cutting and grass burn
ing felonies, punishable by from 3 to 5
years in the pentitentiary. The bill re
stricting corporate ownership in land in
Texas to 640 acres failed in the Senate.
LABOR ANl> ITS MIKE.
Tlie Fall River Strikers Augmented by
New Recruits.
Fall River, Feb. 7.—The back boys at
the Merchants’ Mills struck this morning.
The weavers at the Border City Mills,
where the spinners were on a strike, quit
work because knobsticks were employed.
The weavers are arranging to organize a
union.
DETERMINATION IN LANCASHIRE.
London, Feb. 7.—Reports from all the
districts of Lancashire state that opera
tives are unfavorable to an agreement to
settle the strike. Mass meetings have
been held at Darwin and Blackburn, at
which resolutions to continue the strug
gle were adopted.
TWELVE HOURS A DAY’S WORK.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 7.—A bill passed
the Assembly to-day fixing twelve hours in
this State as a day’s work for car conduc
tors and drivers.
SHO.OOO STOLEN FROM TROY.
The City’s Trusted Chamberlain a
?eavy Defaulter.
Troy, N. Y., Feb. 7.—Henry S. Church,
Chamberlain of the City of Troy, has been
missing since Monday. He is a defaulter
in a heavy amount. The Mayor and
Church’s bondsmen are examining his
accounts. It is reported that he took
$6,000 or SB,OOO ready money with him.
Church was a prominent manufacturer,
and a respected citizen. The examina
tion, as far as it has progressed, dis
closes a shortage of over SBO,OOO, anil the
examination is not completed. When he
was reappointed in 1882 his bond was not
renewed, and tbe city consequently loses
allot the defalcation since that date.
There is considerable excitement in busi
ness circles, which is increased by uncer
tainty as to the sums stolen.
Trains Brought Together by a Blunder.
Mobile, Feb. 7.—A conflict of orders
brought two freight trains in collision at
Whistler, sevep miles north of Mobile, on
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, this morn
ing. Both trains were badly telescoped.
The engineers and firemen'jumped and
escaped with slight injuries. A brakeman
named Thomas Austin, of Meridian, Miss.,
had his foot crushed so badly that am
putation has since been performed.
The I.asker Resolutions.
Berlin, Feb. 7.— Die Kreuz Zeit'una,
anti-Semitic, says that the United States
Congress was quite entitled to pass an
opinion on the social, political and econo
mic condition of the Germans, but that it
might have spared the Legislature of
which Herr Lasker was a member from
the communication of a resolution eulo
gizing Herr Lasker.
GEN. GORDON A PRISONER
A STARTLING BUT UNCON
FIRMED RUMOR AFLOAT.
El Mahdi Announces that He will Sub
jugate the World—Gordon’s Mission
One of Pacification—The Rumors ot
His Capture Discredited in England—
tt.2so Men Lost in the Tokar Rout.
London, Feb. 7.—A dispatch from
Alexandria asserts that the rebels have
captured Gen. Gordon.
GORDON’S CAPTURE NOT CERTAIN.
London, Feb. 7, 8 p. m.—No news has
been received at the War Office regarding
the rumored capture of Gen. Gordon. The
report was first posted in the window of
the Daily I\ews office, but has since been
removed.
GORDON’S MISSION ONE OF PEACE.
London, Feb. 7,9 p. m.—A letter from
Gen. Gordon has been made public in
which he says: “It is no 9ecret tbakEng
iand has abandoned ail intention of guar
anteeing a continuance of Egyptian su
premacy over Soudan. It has decided
that the task is altogether too.onerous,
and would be attended with no corre
sponding advantages. It will, therefore,
allow the people now in rebellion to re
vert to their old Sultan.” Gen. Gordon
accepts this decision as wise and just,
“for,” he says, “unless England shall
secure Soudan in the possession of a good
government it ought not to conquer the
country itself nor allow others to do so.”
Gen. Gordon’s mission, therefore is to try
and arrange with the people in a quiet
way regarding their future affairs.
THE DISASTER AT TOKAR.
The transport Poonah, now in Ports
mouth, has been ordered to put itself in
readiness to sail forthwith. It will take
•>OO marines to Suakiin. Official advices
from Cairo announce that the total num
ber of killed near Tokar was 2,250. This
includes ninety-six officers, sixteen of
whom were staff officers. Baker Pasha
telegraphs that he has at present
under his command 3,500 men,
a third of whom are unarmed. It is offi
cially denied that the tribes beyond Ko
roska are in revolt. The government has
ordered the commander of the Mediterra
nean squadron to Malta to dispatch as
uiany marines as possible to Suakim. It
is expected that he will be able to spare
1,200. A dispatch from Cairo says that
Gen. Gordon cannot reach Berber before
to-morrow. It is, therefore, quite impos
sible for any authentic news of his move
ments to reach Cairo before to-morrow.
The storv of his capture is discredited.
A steamer from Khartoum reached Berber
to-day. It suffered no molestation during
the trip.
ANXIETY FOR A CORRESPONDENT.
Great anxiety is felt for the safety of
James O’Kelly, member of Parliament,
the new correspondent of the Daily Hews
in Egypt. Nothing has been heard from
him since December 18.
“UNITED IRELAND” CONGRATULATES EL
MAUDI.
Dublin, Feb. 7. United Ireland this
morning, unde? the heading “Speed the
Mahdi,” congratulates the false prophet
on his recent victory, and hopes that
neither Sinkat nor Khartoum will be re
lieved. It trusts that Gen. Gordon will
meet with the same fate as Baker Pasha,
and asserts that it will rejoice to hear of
EI Mahdi’s victorious arrival at Cairo.
THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE SITUATION.
Paris, Feb. 7.—The Parisian news
papers are indulging in much sarcasm at
the iailure ot England’s policy in Egypt.
The Journal Des Debats considers British
occupation imperative, and urges England
to act promptly in order to prevent the
East from relapsing into barbarism.
La Jlepublique Francaise ironically pre
sumes that England is strong enough to.
act alone, otherwise she would never have
assumed the responsibility of excluding
Europe, and especially France, from par
ticipating in the settlement of Egyptian
affairs.
EL MAHDI TO CONQUER THE WORLD.
New York, Feb. 7.—A Suakim special
says that El Mahdi recently wrote to
Osman Digna, the leader of the rebels
in that vicinity that he intended to invade
Turkey and kill the Sultan, to conquer
India and eventually to subjugate the
whole world. Grave fears are entertained
that the Mussulmans of Suakim will
treacherously rise and massacre the Eu
ropean residents.
TREACHERY AT SUAKIM.
Cairo, Feb. 7.—A Prefect of Police will
be appointed at Suakim with full powers
over the natives, as many of them are
regularly informing Osman Digna, the
rebel chief, of what is being done at Sua
kim. It is expected here that Gen. Sir
Evlyn Wood’s army will go to Suakim.
Travelers coming down the Nile report
that tile news of Gen. Gordon’s mission
was universally welcomed along the
river.
SUAKIM TO be ATTACKED.
It is estimated that 600 rebels were
killed in the late fight. The Khedive has
sent a message of sympathy to Baker
Pasha. Baker Pasha telegraphs that his
men will be able to hold out lor only a
short time behind the trenches. Spies re
port that the rebels intend to attack
Suakim. The Governor of Dongola tele
graphs that Dongola and Berber are quiet.
NO NEWS FROM GORDON.
London, Feb. 8,3 a. m.—A Cairo dis
patch says: '‘Great indignation is felt
both by Europeans and natives at the
apathy of the British Government iu view
of the recent massacre. There is no news
of General Gordon, and the general opin
ion here is that only a miracle can save
him when the neWs of Baker Pasha’s de
feat spreads throughout Soudan.”
THE REVOLT EXTENDING.
Suakim, Feb. 7.—A steamer trom Mas
sowah reports that the revolt is extend
ing from Kassala toward the Red Sea.
Everything is quiet in Abyssinia, but the
natives of the territory on the frontier are
declaring for tne rebels, with
whom so-called friendly tribes are
co-operating. The English sailors
placed in charge of the central
works are on the best of terms with
Baker Pasha’s troops. Thirteen thousand
rifles have been discovered m the poses
sion of the Egyptian Governor, who ought
to have delivered them to Baker Pasha or.
the latter’s arrival. The Bazaar here is
crowded with a mutinous rabble of sol
diers, and if the enemy attack the town
the blacks, who are more mutinous than
the Egyptians, will probably join the pop
ulace In an uprising against the foreign
ers. The enemy now posesses 4,000 Rem
ington rifles, five Krupp guns, two Gat
lings, two rocket tubes, and an abun
dance of ammnunition.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
A Derailed Train Plunges Down an Em-
Jbankmeiit, but Nobody Killed.
Chicago, Feb. 7. —A special from Free
port, 111., says: “A mixed train on the
Illinois Central Railroad for the West
struck a broken rail. The caboose and
seven freight cars loaded with live stock
were thrown down a 60-foot embankment.
Three train men were injured, Conductor
Gordon seriously. There were seven Ger
man passengers in the caboose, all of
whom were more or less injured. Two of
them had their arms broken. A passen
ger coach, containing five passengers,
w'as saved from the frightful plunge by
lodging against a tree near the track.
The caboose was partly burned. The
wounded passengers were brought to
Freeport and cared for.”
#2.500,000 Worth of Laud Purchased.
Dallas, Texas, Feb. 7.—lnformation
has been received here that George B. Lo
ring, of this State, now in England, repre
senting a Texas investment companv, has
sold a large amount of ranch property
situated in four adjoining counties on the
Double Mountain fork of the Brazos river
for $2,500,000. This is said to be the largest
property transaction ever made. The
Mill, Iron and Continental Cattle Compa
nies have been consolidated and will be
hereafter known as the Continental Land
and Cattle Company with headquarters in
Dallas, Texas, and St. Louis, Missouri.
The cash capital is $3,000,000, but the
property interests exceed $5,000,000.
Ending the Rate Wars.
New York, Feb. 7.—Albert Fink fur
nishes the following: “At the meeting
of the presidents of the trunk lines and
their principal connections to-day, it was
agreed to restore at once the tariff rates,
both east and west bound. I was directed
to request all roads represented on the
joint Executive Committee and all roads
working in connection with them to
strictly maintain the taritfs. The presi
dents have pie ged themselves to be per
sonally responsible for carrying out this
agreement.”
Vienna’s Excitement Allayed.
Vienna, Feb. 7.— As all the known
Socialist 'agitators have been expelled or
arrested, troops are no longer kept under
arms in readiness for an emergency. The
railway companies have been forbidden
to carry explosives without permission
trom some government officer.
ENGLAND’S PARLIAMENT.
The Opposition Blaming the Govern
ment for the Egyptian Disasters.
LONDON, Feb. 7.—ln the House of Com
mons to-day Sir Stafford Northcote, leader
of the opposition, gave notice that he will
introduce a resolution on Tuesday stat
ing that in the opinion of the House the
recent events in Soudan are a direct re
sult of the vacillating and inconsistent
policy of the government. This was
greeted with loud cheers from the opposi
tion.
of Partington, Secretary
ot State for 5V ar, stated no dispatches hail
been received in confirmation of the ru
mored capture of Gen. Gordon. A tele
i°2f y . from Sir Evelyn Raring, the
British Minister at Cairo, made no men
tlon of tfus occurrence.
Lord Edmund Fitzmauriee, Under For
e u s *:‘ ret * r - v ’ that the Spanish
authorities had not yet liberated Maceo,
the Cuban patriot, who escaped from
prison and took refuge at Gibraltar, but
was thrust outside the English lines and
recaptured by the Spanish. They have
decided, however, to remove him to Port
Mahon, the capital of the island of Mi
norca, under parole.
Sir Trevelyn,Chief Secretary for Ireland,
in replyiug to the inquiry of Thomas Sex
t°n;, the member for Sligo, relative
to the attitude of the government to
ward Irish Justices of the Peace
who indorse the action of Lord Rossmore,
therecenUy suspended Magistrate, said
that tbe government would deal with all
such cases as they arose.
lion. John Dodson stated that for sev
eral months there had been no case of
loot and mouth disease in imported cattle,
and that in the present condition of the
laws the government had ne power to pro
hibit the importation of foreign cattle.
1 remier Gladstone denied that Sinkat
had been captured by the rebels, but ad
mitted that its condition was critical. lie
stated further that the government knew
nothing of the massacre of 400 men under
TewUk Bay.
In the House of Commons this evening,
Henry Chaplin, Conservative, moved that
a measure to prevent the importation of
animals suflering from the foot aud mouth
disease be introduced without delay.
Premier Gladstone said that he could not
give the pledge of the government that
such a measure should have precedence
of the great measures mentioned in the
speech from the throne.
Sir Michael E. Hicks Beach, Conserva
tne, said that the government knew
that the disease still existed
in America, Holland and Germany, yet
they wore not prepared to give a definite
pledge to prohibit immediately the im
portation of cattle from the countries in
which the disease prevails. Arthur Ar
nold, Liberal, asserted that onlv one case
of the disease could be proved to have
been imported from America in the last
8 ! x souths. The government, he de
clared, would do great injury to the Brit
ish consumers if they should stop the im
portation of cattle from America.
I homas Duckham, the Liberal member
from Herefordshire, quoted statistics
showing that the number of cases of dis
ease among cattle imported from America
in 1883 was 536, against 647 cases among
cattle from all other countries. Mr. Chap
lin’s motion was then defeated by a vote
of 251 to 200.
The Conservatives in the House of Com
mons reckon confidently upon receiving
the votes of the Parnellite members on
* lr Stafford Northcote’s motion condemn
ing the government’s Egyptian policy.
Mr. Bradlaugb will vote on the motion for
his expulsion, which will probably follow
his attempt to administer the oath to him
self on Monday, hoping thereby to make
his prosecution compulsory and a test
of the legality of aii oath thus
administered. In view of the coming de
bate on Ireland, T. M. Healy, member for
Monaghan, has published a pamphlet en
titled ‘'Loyalty plus Murder,” containing
extracts lrom vituperative Orange
speeches and articles, and descriptions of
scenes of violence in Ulster, in which Or
angemen participated. In the introduc
tion, Mr. Healy attacked Earl Spencer,
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The
pamphlet is issued iu an orange colored
cover.
IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
In the House of Lords tbe Marquis of
Salisbury gave notice that lie would in
troduce a resolution in reference to the
government’s policy in Egypt similar to
that which Sir Stafford Northcote gave
notice of in the House of Commons.
A GOVERNMENT DEFEAT CERTAIN.
London, Feb. 8, 2 a. m.—The govern
ment will undoubtedly be defeated in the
House of Lords on the Marquis of Salis
bury's motion condemning the Egyptian
policy.
M. ROUHER’S OBSEQUIES.
A Funeral Mass Attended by the Lead
inc lionapartists of France.
Paris, Feb. 7.—Tne funeral of M. Rou
her, the distinguished Bonapartist, this
morning, was very quiet. There was a
large crowd outside ot the church. Many
policemen were present, but no demon
stration was made.
A funeral mass in honor of M. Ilouher
was celebrated at the church of St. Au
gustine. Six thousand persons were pres
ent, among them all the distinguished
Bonapartists leaders, including Paul de
Cassagnac, Louis Buffet, Pierre Cheone
long, Michel Grandperret, Joachim Murat
and M. de Lesseps. The Prince Napoleon
and Princess Mathilde occupied the place
of honor. The corpse has been tempora
rily placed in the vault of the church, but
will be removed ere long to Auvergne.
The Cotton Movement.
New Orleans, Feb. 7.—The following
statement shows the cotton movement of
the United States from September, to the
close of January as reported by the
National Cotton Exchange:
This | Last
Year. Year.
Receipts at various ports . 3,978,861 4,280,133
Total overland. 628,319 ! 721,322
Of which to mills 379,725 j 390,243
To ports 203,843 289,004
In transit. 33,311 15,202
To Canada # 12.437 26,873
Exiiorts to Great Britain.. 1,458.559 1,745,470
Exports to France 330,147 270,459
Exports to the continent. .. 658,065 767,006
Exports to the channel ... 10,452 12.595
Total exports 2,484,225 2,795 530
At sea between ports 23,436 32,84*
Total takings of Northern
spinners 997,933 1,061,047
Stock at ports at close Jan 1,088,459 906,513
Overland for Jan 65.309 76,815
Spinners’ takings for Jan., 148.235 218,197
The Irish Funds.
New York, Feb. 7.—C01. James Cava
nagh, Capt. O’Meagher Condon, Hon. T.
V. Powderley and Rev. George W. Peper
have completed the audit of the martyrs
and O’Donnell defense funds. The total
funds collected by Patrick Ford amounted
to $65,098. The disbursements were SB,OOO
to the families of the martyrs, $19,027 for
legel defenses (including Joseph Poole’s
defense in Dublin) and $5,268
for miscellaneous disbursements, leaving
a balance on hand of $32,801. A fund of
$5,000 has been placed in the hands of a
committee to be distributed among the
relatives of O’Donnell, and part of the re
mainder will be devoted to the erection of
a monument to O’Donnell in the church
yard of his native village in Donegal.
Insurance on Cattle.
Atlanta, Feb. 7. —A conference with
Executive Committee of the Southeastern
Tariff Association by the special repre
sentatives of the fire insurance companies
composing this association has resulted
in a call for a meeting of the association
to be held at Charleston on February 19.
The sentiment of the conference was in
favor of insisting upon the erection of
heavy walls so as to prevent extensive
cotton fires, and of Increasing the rates in
order to bring about this improvement.
Club Men Fined.
London, Feb. 7.—The trial of fifty-two
members of the Park Club charged with
gambling, in playing baccarat at the
rooms of the club, which was begun last
Friday at the Bow Street Police Court,
has terminated. The proprietor of the
club and the members of the committee
were fined £SOO each, and the players
£IOO each. An appeal has been lodgeu.
W hy the Fenians were Removed.
London, Feb. 7.—A Dublin correspon
dent says that the authorities have for
some time been in possession of informa
tion in regard to Fenian plots, which in
formation has finally led to tbe removal
of the imprisoned Invincibles to England.
A great many people feel themselves
gradually failing. They don’t know just
what is the matter, hut they suffer from a
combination of indescribable aches and
pairs, which each month seem to grow
vy.'i %. The only sure remedy known that
y -i counteract this feeling and restore
perfect health is Brown’s Iron Bitters.
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drives out disease, gives health and
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VICTIMS TO VIGILANTS.
THE NEBRASKA AVENGERS
HANG “KID ' WARD.
Prominent Ranchmen Believed to Have
Fallen Victims to Their Wrath, but
Great Secrecy Maintained—Troy, N.
Y., Fleeced Out of at Least SBO,OOO by
Her Chamberlain—Other Crimes,
Omaha, Feb. 7.—The conductor of a
freight train reported that ho found a man
hanging to the whistling-post one and a
half miles east of Bassett, Neb., this
morning. The man is supposed to be
“Kid” Wade, the notorious horsethief,
who was taken from the Vigilants last
night by the Sheriff, who was to have
taken a train this morning for O’Neil.
Wade was again taken from the Sheriff
and lynched.
Sioux City, la., Feb. 7,9 p. m.—A re
liable gentleman who has just arrived
here from Brown City, Neb., where the
\ lgilants are at work, says “Kid” Wade
had not been hanged when he left. The
parties who took “Kid” back to that coun
try were met by the Brown County Vigi
lauts, and it was believed that those men
would not spare him an hour, but it
seems they tried to get him to tell
the names of other members of the
gang. Other statements made in previous
dispatches relative to the disappearance
of a large number of persons, the gen
tleman states, are true. One missing
man named Murphey was found hanging.
This is the only one found dead. The
others, the gentleman says, were mostly
banished from the country. The general
belief, however, is that more were lynch
ed as it is not likely that any were spared
who proved to belong to the gang, and
that only suspected and those indirectly
connected with the gang were allowed to
go. Many.of the men taken bv the Vigi
lants were prominent ranchmen, and if
any ol these were hanged or shot, the fact
would likely be kept secret.
Prisoner* for Life.
Washington, Feb. 7.—The Chief of the
Post Office Inspectors has received a tele
gram from Texas stating that the three
Barkers, who were arrested for robbing a
mail stage on January 3, have been con
victed in the United States Court and
sentenced to imprisonment for life. As it
was discovered that they were already
under ten years’ sentence for horse steal
ing they were surfendered to the State
authorities, and when they have served
that sentence the government will claim
their persons.
An Embezzler of $5,000 at 30 Year*.
Springfield, Mass., Feb. 7.—William
J. Landon, 20 years old, a teller in the
Hampden Saving Bank of this city, has
confessed to embezzling $5,000 of the
bank’s funds. He has been employed by
the bank three years, and was implicitly
trusted. His method was to post depos
its correctly in the ledger, while entering
smaller sums in the day book. He also
took cash from the till and forged depos
itors’ names on the receipt books. Lan
don is respectably connected, and joined
the church this winter.
Juveniles Imitating Jesse James.
St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 7.—A juvenile
Jesse James gang at Minneapolis took a
lad named Johnny Nolan to a neighbor’s
barn this morning and hanged him, where
lie was struggling in deaths’ throes when
found and cut down.
The Calaucus* Captain Kxplains.
Boston, Feb. 7.—Mr. Burnham, the
United States Inspector who was quoted
yesterday as having stated that the Cap
tain of the steamer Glaucus informed him
that he (the Captain) saw the signals of
distress on the steamer City of Columbus,
and passed on, not wishing to be delayed,
now disclaims making any statement
which could be so construed, ajul the Cap
tain of the steamer (ilaucus denies that
he made the statement ascribed to biin.
All Drowned Save Two.
London, Feb. 7.—The bark .Kohls,
from Brunswick, Ga., stranded at Nord
bve, and is full of water, but is riding
with both anchors out. She lost foremost
and mainmast. Two of the crew were
rescued. They state that they were stand
ing on the deck house lashed to the miz
zenmast without subsistence for a week.
Their feet were frostbitten. The rest of
the crew were drowned.
War Materials”for Touquin.
Paris, Feb. 7.—Orders have been sent
to dispatch to Tonquin war materials suf
ficient for six gunboats.
CHINA ADOPTING TELEGRAPHY.
London, Feb. 7.—China is negotiating
with an English firm for the construction
ot telegraph lines to connect Canton with
the places in Tonquin occupied by the
Chinese.
Spanish Republicans.
Madrid, Feb. 7.—The government has
decided to prohibit the meeting of Repub
licans which had beeu announced to take
place on the 11th inst. This was to be in
commemoration of the proclamation of the
Republic, which was issued on Feb. li,
1873.
Spain and I lie Vatican.
Madrid, Feb. 7.-The papal nunico at the
Spanish court has informed the Vatican
that he is in perfect accord with the new
Minister on all religious questions. The
concordat will be scrupulously main
tained.
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by overwork in warm weather, with good
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