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t ESTABLISHED 1850. j
j J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. >
GEORGIA AM> FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
|\ PARAGRAPHS,
Dastardly Attempt to Assassinate a Lady
Near Tliomasville— Two Sisters Fatally
Poisoned by Well Water Near Rome—
AWaaon Crushes a Man’s Brains Out
Near Dublin.
GEORIiI A.
fobU countv will vote on prohibition
March 5.
The taxable property of Randolph county
aggregates $2,000,000.
Owing to the sickness of Judge J. S. Mitch
ell. Thomas County Court has been adjourned
for the term.
Two hundred and twelve citizens of Milton,
with shovels and axes, met the other day and
worked anew road.
lir. C. Broadhead. the proprietor of the Ar
lington Hotel, of Waynesboro, died at that
place Wednesday last.”
Uncle Larkin Wilcher. a citizen and native
of Glasscock, horn the 15th of September, irys,
is yet as spry as a boy of 23.
Rome will adopt the electric lire alarm sys
tem as s<*on a- she has $2,500 m her treasury.
This will probably be about July.
O. Jennings Wise, of Richmond, Vn., a
grandson of Gov. Henry A. A\ i-**, and son of
the late Rev. Henry A. Wise,died at Thoinas
ville Monday.
The citv engineer of Atlanta asks the
Council to' appropriate S2,O<K) to secure new
maps of the city. No official map lias been
made of the city for several years.
“Squire" liagins is the oldest Justice oi the
Peace in Colquitt county, having been com
missioned for the first time in 1853, and hav
ing held the office every year since.
A large wild eat. says a correspondent to
the Mousing News, showed himself in a
voting man’s bed room, near Greensboro, Ga.,
Wednesday night. He shot him, of course.
Joseph Singletary’s saw qud grist mill,eight
miles from Tlioniasvilie, was destroyed by
tire Sundav. It was the oldest mill” in the
county. There was no insurance. Incendi
arism is almost certain.
Joseph Wiikvrson. an aged negro, split open
the skull of h:s son-in-law. Elbert Williams,
with an axe, at Thomson the other day, ex
posing the brain, strange to relate, the negro
stands a good chance of surviving Ins wounds.
The contract has been awarded by the
Ladies Memorial Association, of Americus,
for placing marble head-stones at the graves
of the Confederate soldiers ill Oak Grove
i emetery. They expect to have the work
completed by Memorial day, the 20th of next
A pnl.
some unknown thief wont into John It.
summerford’s dwelling in Dooly last Sunday
night and took out his trunk. It contained
Mr. Summerford’s money. He carried it
about 500 yards from his house in the woods
and broke it open, and got about SIOO in cash,
and left the trunk lying open.
Since last October hut few of the wells in
Alpharetta have afforded enough water for
ordinary household purposes, and several of
them have entirely failed, and notwithstand
ing the recent rains, that seem to have fairly
saturated the ground with water, there seems
to he but a slight increase in the quantity in
wells.
The rascal who kidnapped two children,
stole two horses and $:!." at Madison, Fla.,
a few days ago and was subsequently report
ed as passing through Quitman. was pursued
by a posse under Marshal Brooks, of Boston,
and finally overtaken and killed on the
banks of the Chattahoochee river at Stiliu
ulga Bluffs.
Over (WO citizens met a day or two ago at
the court-house at Marietta for the purpose
ol asking that the new road law be repealed
and that the old one be restored. A resolu
tion was passed, asking the County Commis
sioners, at their next meeting, if in their
(lower, to repeal the new system and adopt
the old system.
A night passenger train was *1 itched a few
miles above Dallas in a cut Monday morning.
The engine and all the coaches were throw n
from the track. The wreck was caused by a
rock giving way and falling on the track. The
engine struck the rock and turned on its side,
burling itself nearly half up in the railroad
bank. No one was injured seriously.
The Dublin Put says: “On the plantation
of i apt. T. F. Williams, of Montgomery, on
last Wednesday morning, a Mr. Crumley,
while ruling a timber wagon for Mr. Hoaro
Williams, fell from the stick of timber and
one of the rule wheels ran over his head,
crushing it as though his head had been a
baked potato. Mr. i runiley never spoke nor
moved a muscle.”
i nlumiius is excited over 1 he finding of sev
eral .articles of woman's attire at the abut
ment of the upper bridge, on the Alabama
side. No clue to whom they belonged or by
w hat means they came there could be obtain
ed. some think that a woman must have
committed suicide by drowning, but others
think that it was only an attempt to get up
something exciting by some unknown parties,
day. the 29i!i of November, while eating his
dinner swallowed the shiver of a bird bone
which lodged in his throat, causing intense
pain. On Wednesday he came to Butler, and
Dr. smith made every effort to extract the
bone from whence it had imbedded itself in
the flesh, hut proved unsuccessful, and Shep
herd still remains a painful sufferer.
Pink Smith resides a mile from Rome. On
the homestead is a well which supplies the
family with drinking water. A short distance
awav is a slaughter house and a flat into
which dead animals are thrown. It has just
been discovered that every rain washes refuse
from this death pile into Mr. smith's well.
This resulted a day ago in the poisoning of his
whole family. His daughters, sallie and Lou,
aged respectively is and 12 years, died, and
two other daughters were -o'ill at last ac
counts that their lives were considered in ex
treme peril.
Of Houston county's light against the new
road law the Fort Valley Mirror says: “We
learn from Col. M. G. Bayne, counsel in the
road law case, that Judge Fort granted rule
nisi i ailing upon the County Commissioners
to show cause before Judge .Simmons, at
Macon, on February 11. why the injunction
should not l>e granted as prayed for. We
understand Judge Fort's private opinion is
the law will not stand, as it makes the refusal
to pay the three dollar tax or work on the
road a misdemeanor, and makes the County
Commissioner#’ Court to try the same, not al
lowing any appeal or right of trial by jury,
which is clearly unconstitutional. If this
part is unconstitutional all will fail, as the
property tax allowed in the bill is uot suffi
cient to "operate the law."
Rev. J. A. Monday preached on whisky as
an agent of the devil, last Wednesday, iuCar
tersville. The American says that Mr. Man
dav was “for four years an aetoron the stage,
has been a gambler, a drunkard and a clown,
.•several years ago he reformed, professed re
ligion. Joined the Rsptist Chureli, and is now
an ordained minister of that denomination.
He was educated by John H. James and Jo
seph K. Brown,of Atlanta. Ga., and has tieen
pastor of the second Baptist Church in Au
gu-ta. During the lecture he referred to the
ballot-box as an effective means of killing the
devil, and in that connection used the name
oft apt. Harry Jackson, of Atlanta, as the
proper man to elect to Congress from the
Fifth, ( apt. Jaek-on happened to be in the
audience, and the complimentary allusion to
him was loudly applauded, and he blushed
tike a girl.”
Tin* Thoma-ville Knterprise of Feb T says:
‘•Last Monday a man named Wheeler made a
dastardly assault on Mrs. F. K. Duran, out on
the i ulvuitt road. she was driving along the
road alone when he saw her, and (licking up a
fence rail struck her a murderous blow, evi
dently with the intention of stunning or kill
ing. and then robbing her. Fortunately a
sewing machine which she had m the wagon
w ith her acted as a shield and prevented the
blow from accomplishing the object for which
it was intended. Mrs. Duran's screams were
heard by her son, Reno Duran, who happened
to be not far off, and he rushed to her rescue,
knocked the would-be-murderer down, tied
and brought him to town, where he was con
signed to the tender mercies of Sheriff Hurst.
Wheeler appeared to be very drunk n hen lie.
was lieing taken to jail, but it is generally be
lieved that he was not as much -o as he pre
tended.”
The Marietta Journal prints the following:
“On Saturday morning about 1 o'clock, the
house of Mr. Asberry Vann, four miles above
Kennesaw, was destroyed by tiro. Neighbor#
ongoingto the scene, found in the smoking
ruins the burned and charred body of Vann.
His legs, arms ami head were burned off.
Coroner W. K. Root held an inquest, and the
following facts were deduced: It seems Vann
has been drinking, and while intoxicated
abused and choked his wife. To escape from
his cruel treatment, she left the house and
went to her father's home 200 yard.- off. Vann
in his drunken, inconsiderate condition, put
some pieces of railing in the open fireplace,
the ends protruding and resting on the floor.
The Are was communicated to the flooring in
this way, and soon the house was wrapped in
flames; and V ann perished in the burning
building. A large number of people were at
the funeral on Sunday.”
FLORIDA.
Col. D. 1.. Kenau, of Quincy, is dead.
Lake City has just )>een out on parade iu
celebration of the arrival of anew tire engine.
Over a dozen new buildings are now in pro
cess of erection in the northern suburbs of
Tampa.
La Villa elected Us entire “Citizens
ticket” with two exceptions, the candidates
for Clerk and L. J. Stephens for Alderman.
The old cedar mill near the river, at Tampa,
was torn down last week, preparatory to the
erection of the railroad dei<ot buildings.
James Henry, a noted colored burglar and
cotton thief, of the Cedar Key section, has been
captured and placed in Alachua county jail.
On the night of the 2ttth ult„ two colored
men confined in the county jail at Tampa,
burnt a hole in the floor large enough to let
themselves out.
Thursday the stockholders of the various
companies organized under the Dis-ton pur
chase,held their annual meetings in the offices
of the company in Jacksonville, and elected a
long list of officers.
The Metropolitan Light Infantry, of Jack
sonville, has elected the following officers to
SU vacancies: Captain. W. J. L'Engle; First
Lieutenant, Chas. Gould; Second Lieutenant,
Geo. K. Foster, Jr.; Orderly Sergeant, U. E.
1.. Murphy; Second Sergeant, Samuel Rtirk
heim; Third Sergeant, R. del.. Armstrong.
The following civil appointments have been
made by the Governor and duly commissioned
during the past week: E. Bryan Sumraerall,
Sumter A. Bullock and S. i.. Murdeu, to be
Notaries .Public iu and for the State at large:
William H. Allen, to be Justice of the Peace
in and for the county of Leon; James E. F.
Bowden, to be auctioneer in and for the
county of Duval; Washington Chapman, to be
Justice of the Peace in and for the county of
Jackson.
Jlacamroh JHotiuuj
The American Italy says: “Mr. R. R. Smith,
who lives on Jones island, in Lake Panasoff
kee, found, a few days since, a hole cut in a bay
tree near his home, and, having some curiositv
to know its origin, he cut into the tree and
found that it contained the skeleton of a per
son about 12 years of age, presumablv an In
dian. There were also in the tree beads and
some Spanish silver, some of which had been
beaten out of shape. One dime was dated i
1509. Why these bones were secreted in the j
tree, so contrary to Indian custom, will prob- I
ably remain a mystery. Could the mysteries j
of the years be unveiled, however, we might :
find that this remote, silent and singular tomb ]
held the secret of some hideous crime.”
A VERY SINGULAR STORY.
The Tavern at Truman's Corners and its
Owner—How Old Cyrus Miller’s
Death Affected Two of His Life-Long
Friends and Associates.
Nearly forty-five years ago, says a Buf
falo special to the New York Times, three j
men who bad been engaged in different I
callings in Bufi'alo, left it together to
seek their fortunes elsewhere. Cyrus
.Miller, aged 30, was a blacksmith: Lewis
Dorr, five years older, was a carpenter,
and John A. Merritt, about the same age
as Miller, was a sawyer. Miller had
$2,500 in money, and the other two had
but a few dollars. Dorr’s wift? and two
children had been lost by the sinking
of a propeller on Lake Erie a
few months before. Miller and Mer
rett were each unmarried. They
left Buffalo with the intention of going
to the lumber regions of Western Penn
sylvania. Ou their way they stopped
over night at a small village dulled Tru
man's Corners. There were no railroads
in that part of Pennsylvania at that time,
and the “Corners” was quite an impor
tant stage-coach station. It was on the
“old State road,” and several local turn
pikes branched ofl' in different directions.
Miller believed that the place offered a
good chance for him and his friends to
make money. The tavern where coaches
stopped was a rickety and ill-kept hostel
ry, and many travelers preferred to stand
the discomfort of several hours’ night
ride in the coaches rather than put up
with the accommodations at the Corners.
Miller talked the landlord of the tavern
into selling him the place and some adja
cent property along Truman’s Creek. lie
tore down the oid tavern and hired Lewis
Dorr to build him anew one, twice the
size of the old one. Miller ran the hotel
himself, and it soon became one ot the
most famous stopping places along the
State route. Miller married a young wo
man of the village a year after he came
to the place.
Besides the hotel, Miller built a saw
mill on his creek property and installed
John A. Merritt in it as sawyer. Miller
grew rich, and both his friends, Merritt
and Dorr, prospered. Merritt also mar
ried, but Dorr remained single. He took
a room in the tavern he built for Miller,
and never changed it for another one nor
slept in another place. He boarded at the
tavern, and for forty-four years it was the
custom of Miller, 'Dorr and Merritt to
meet at the tavern and spend the evening
together playing euchre. No one remem
bers them to have missed an evening ex
cept Sundays, and they never sat later
than !) o’clock. The close friendship of
the men was proverbial.
Two years ago Miller’s health began to
tail and his wife died. He had but one
child, a son. and to him he deeded the tav
ern and mill properties and retired from
active business. With the ending of the
stage-coach days the tavern had enjoyed
only a moderate local trade,but it remained
in appearance just as it had been built in
1840, and is to-day one of the few typical
stage-coach taverns in the State. The
saw mill, too, had outlived its usefulness.
But Miller kept Sawyer Merritt at the
post where he had grown gray, and from
which he had never been absent a day
since he first started the old-fashioned up
riglit saw m 1840.
William Miller, the old tavern-keeper’s
son. had long been dissatisfied with life
at the Corners, and wanted to move away.
Two weeks ago he informed his father
that he intended to sell the tavern and
mill. The old man protested to no pur
pose, and ou Monday of last week the
title in both properties was transferred to
George Hendershot, who was to take full
possession on -March 1. This was a great
blow to old Mr. Miller, as he said it had
in the house he had founded. He was
prostrated with a nervous shock, and on
ihe following Thursday night he died.
His two old friends were nearly heart
broken with grief, and for the first time
since he entered the tavern, forty-four
years ago, Lewis Dorr's bed was unoccu
pied un the night Mr. Miller died. Friday
morning a girl passing over the turnpike
bridge across Truman’s Creek,discovered
a man lying with his face in the water
under the bridge. Workmen had been
laying anew floor on the bridge, and a
narrow passageway of planks was put
down for pedestrians to cross on. The
girl gave the alarm, and the body was
found to he that ot old Mr. Dorr. lie had
evidently fallen from the narrow plank
footway of the bridge, with his face in the
water, and, stunned, had drowned before
recovering consciousness. At least that
was the decision a Coroner’s jury arrived
at, but the idea of suicide prevailed
among many.
The villagers were still discussing the
sad death of the old landlord and the
tragic taking off of Mr. Dorr, when, on
Saturday night, for the first time in the
history of the village, the cry of “Fire!”
was heard in its streets. A bright light
in the direction of the hollow where the
old saw mill was located drew the entire
population thither. The saw mill was in
flames, and in a short time was entirely
consumed, with its contents and the lum
ber piled near it. The change of owner
ship in the Miller property had indeed
been followed with startling sequels.
On Sunday morning old Sawyer Merritt
called on the new owner ol the property,
who boarded at the tavern,and handed
him a paper on which the statement was
made that the loss by the burning of the
mill and property about it amounted to
$627, on which there was no insurance.
Mr. Merritt also stated that the mill had
lost money for the past 10 years, and could
never have been made to pay again, and
asked Hendershot if it was true that he
had paid S7OO for the property. Heuder
shot said that it was true.
“Then,” said Merritt, “here is the
money that it cost you,” and he handed a
package containing that amount to Hen
dershot. Greatly puzzled and surprised,
Hendershot asked for an explanation.
“1 helped build that old mill, said Met-,
ritt, “and haven't missed a day’s sawing
in it from the first time I turned the wa
ter on the wheel, nearly 4.7 years ago, and
no other man ever sawed a log in it. Billy
Miller sold the property, and his father's
dead because of it, and f believe Uncle
Lew Dorr drowned himself because his
old friend died. AH three ot us came here
together, and I knew with both the others
dead, if 1 had to step out of that old mill
ana see another man running it, it would
be more than l could stand, and I couldn’t
live a week, so I set tire to it and burned
it up, and there’s the money to pay fork.”
Old Mr. Miller and his dead friend were
buried at the same hour Sunday afternoon,
side by side in the village graveyard. On
Monday Hendershot told young Miller of
the confession of Sawyer Merritt, and the
payment by him of the money lor the mill.
Hendershot agreed that the sale of
the mill property might be conceded, and
Miller refunded to Merritt the S7OO. The
old sawyer declaring that he could not
live another hour in” the place, left there
for the first time since he took up his
residence in the village, and will spend
the remainder of his days with a mar
ried daughter, who lives' near Buffalo,
from whose husband, an employe of the
Erie Railway, the above singular story is
obtained.
Sentences Approved.
Washington, Feb. B,—The president
has approved the sentence of dismissal in
the cases of First Lieut. William L.
Clarke, of the Twenty .first Infantry, and
First Lieut. Joseph F. Cummings, of the
Third Cavalry, who were tried and con
victed by courts martial on charges of
duplicating their pay accounts. An or
der will be issued from the War Depart
ment to-morrow dismissing them from the
army.
An Editor’s Punishment.
Berlin, Feb, B,—Herr Neve, formerlv
the London manager of the Socialist
paper Die Freihit, has been condemned at
Ilanau to six mqpths in prison lor being
engaged in selling copies of that paper.
De Brazza Scoring a Success,
Paris, Feb. B.—The French Govern
ment have received advices to the effect
that M. de Brazza is making excellent
progress in his African schemes.
Had I known all that 1 know now,
Had I sown that which I sow now.
Had my better sense controlled me.
Had 1 heeded what it told me.
Had the future condescended
An horizon more extended
To have granted, poor and ailing,
I had ’scaped the pangs of failing;
Had I been a good deal wiser
I’d have been an advertiser.
—Merchant Trateler.
Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. Just
what name implies; Cathartic, Tonic.
Reliable.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
THE TREZEYAXT CLAIM AGAIN
INTRODUCED.
The Defeat of Mr. Anderson’s Amend
ment a Priceless Pearl for Ex-Mem
bers—Objection Made to Eulogizing
Wendell Phillips—Significance of the
Reporting of the Naval Appropri
ation Bill.
Washington, D.C., Feb. B.— Mr. Ham
mond introduced a bill to refund to the
State of Georgia thirty-five thousand five
hundred dollars for money expended in
the common defense in the revolutionary
war, despite the decision of Comptroller
Lawrence that the money appropriated
for this purpose last session should be
credited to the State ou account of the
direct tax of 18G1. This is the old Treze
vant claim.
DAKOTA’S DISSENSIONS.
A committee of fifteen citizens of Da
kota, headed by George P. Flannery, of
Bismarck, appeared before the Senate
Committee on Territories to-day to advo
cate the passage of a bill providing for a
Constitutional Convention for the Terri
tory, and to oppose recognition of the re
cent convention at Sioux Falls, Dakota,
on the ground that it did not fairly repre
sent the people of the whole Territory.
Mr. Flannery explained the provisions of
the bill, which authorizes the convention
to adopt a constitution for the whole or a
part of the Territory. Mr. Flannery pro
posed that the bill be amended by insert
ing a provision to the effect that, in case
the convention decided to frame a consti
tution for only a portion of the Territory,
the term of the delegates from the remain
ing portion should expire with that
action, so that only delegates
from the portion to be governed by the
new constitution should take part in
framing the document. Dr. Bur
leigh, fornferly a delegate in Congress
from Dakota, made a statement of the
local issues, and said that the people of
Southern Dakota were in favor of a con
stitutional convention for the whole Ter
ritory, in order that the differences be
tween the sections might be Settled
authoritatively. He said that the Sioux
Falls convention did not represent the
sentiment of either section. Not a third
of the votes of the people, he said, were
polled, and one-third of those polled were
in opposition to the convention.
Col. Donan, of Fargo, an ex-Confeder
ate, said that he struggled hard to get out
of the Union, and was now struggling
hard to get in. He had not met with
much success in either diretion. He
submitted statistics showing the value of
property in the different sections, assert
ing that the people were intelligent, and
that the convention, if authorized, would
bring to Congress a fair and just decision
of the question at issue, submitting it for
the action of Congress.
Attorney General Hughes, of Dakota,
said that the sentiment in regard to a
division of the Territory had changed
greatly in the last year. Three railroads
from the south to the north were so far
advanced that before the end of next
season a person might travel from the
southeastern most extremity to Bismarck,
Jamestou or Fargo in a few hours with
out going outside the Territory.
THE ADVANTAGE EXTENDED EX-MEM
BERS.
The defeat of Mr. Anderson’s amend
ment to the rules yesterday, excluding
ex-members ot Congress who are engaged
in lobbying from the floor of the House,
has been much discussed in the hotel
lobbies Jo-day and to-night. Lobbyists
who are not ex-members, and are hence
debarred the privilege of the floor, are
kicking vigorously. They say that the
defeat of the resolution is tantamount to
the creation of a privileged class, and is a
disgrace to a Democratic House. It
gives ex - members an advantage
in the race for business that is
simply ruinous to the ordinary
lobbyist. Under the present sys
tem these privileged ex - members
can go on the floor of the House,
collar a member,carry him off to the cloak
room and talk him to death while other
fellows must send in their cards and take
jhpjjhanceaffi'not seeing the member at
interview. If this system is perpetuated
an ex-membership in the House will be
worth as much as seats in the New York
Stock Exchange, which are valued at
forty thousand dollars apiece. This will
doubtless have the effect of tripling the
number of candidates for Congress in
every district.
WHY MR. EATON OBJECTED.
Ex-Senator Eaton said to the News cor
respondent to-night that the reason he
objected to Mr. Finertv’s resolution of
regret in regard to the death of Wendell
Phillips to-day was because the latter had
been a free lance of all parties. He was,
he said, a secessionist, and no resolution
in eulogy of him should be adopted with
out due consideration. Mr. Phillips had,
he said, been in favor of secession, and it
would be as appropriate for a resolution
of the Finerty character to have been
passed when Robert E. Lee died.
HOAR’S ELECTION COMMITTEE.
Mr. Hoar's sub-Committee on Privileges
and Elections, the committee appointed
to investigate the alleged irregularities
at the polls in Copiah County, Miss., held
a meeting this morning to decide upon
their plan of action. They will leave
Washington early next week, probably
Tuesday morning, for Hazelhurst, the
county seat of Copiah county, and decide
upon further proceedings 'upon their
arrival. Their sessions will probably be
held at New Orleans and Jackson, Miss.
SHERMAN’S COMMITTEE.
The Senate committee appointed to in
vestigate the outrages in Mississippi are
very prudent fellows. They have con
cluded that the atmosphere of Copiah
might be dangerous to their health, so
they have determined to sit at New Or
leans and send to Mississippi for wit
nesses. This is a most ridiculous pro
gramme. For all practical purposes, the
Senate committee might as well sit in
Washing-ten as in New Orleans.
CARLISLE’S FIRST APPOINTMENT.
Speaker Carlisle to-day made his first
selection under the new system of ap
pointing stenographers to report the pro
ceedings of nouse committees by assign
ing Andrew Devine to act as stenographer
for the Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Justice. Devine is one of
the official stenographers who were re
moved by Speaker Keifer.
RANDALL’S APPROPRIATION BILLS.
Mr. Randall has at last reported an ap
propriation biil (the naval), and will call
it up tor consideration next Tuesday,
notwithstanding which shrewd observers
here are willing to bet that Mr. Randall
will not l>e in a hurry in rushing appropri
ation bills, and that he will always have
one in reserve with which to antagonize
tariff legislation.
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Detailed Report of the Proceeding? in
Both Bodies.
Washington, Feb. B.— The Chair laid
before the Senate to-day a communication
from the Secretary of the Interior, trans
mitting, in compliance with the resolu
tion of the 11th ult., a copy of the report
of the Commissioner of the General Land
Office relating to the grant of lands made
by tha United States to Florida railroads.
It was referred to the Committee on Pub
lic Lands.
Mr. Frye reported the new shipping bill
agreed upon by the Committee on Com
merce. It is entitled “A bill to remove
certain burdens from the American mer
chant marine and to encourage the for
eign carrying trade.” Mr. Frye premis
ing that he was obliged to leave Wash
ington for Mississippi shortly, said that
he would ask to make an explanation of
the bill in lieu ot a written report. He
explained briefly the provisions of the
bill, showing that fit) per cent, drawback
of the duty allowed on articles imported to
form a part of the structure of ships
built in this country wholly of foreign
materials is by the present bill allowed
when any parts of the vessels are built
of foreign materials. He also explained
that the mariue hospital fees are by the
provisions of the bill dispensed with, and
ltiflpnade the duty of the United States
to support all marine hospitals, as is’done
by all other civilized countries. On* con
cluding his remarks explanatory of the
bill, he said that he hoped that it would
receive careful consideration. It would
enable America to take a step iu advance
of anything done for its shipping
interests within the last twenty yeare,
He hoped that the burdens and barnacles
placed on those important interests by our
own law would be removed, and that
something would be done to enable us to
recover our supremacy on the ocean.
Speaking for himself alone he said that
there was but one way ou earth, in his
opinion, in which to revive American
shipping, and that was to pay subsidies
in bounties, and so far as he was con
cerned he was in favor of subsidies and
bounties.
When the Chair laid beiore the Senate the
resolution of Mr. Beck, offered vesterday,
relating to the discharge of the colored
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1884.
laborer Dudley, Mr. Beck stated that on
ascertaining, as be had ascertained, that
nothing that he could do would secure
the reinstatement of the man, he did not
care to go any further with the matter.
Mr. Riddleberger then offered a resolu
tion providing for a joint committee of
both Houses, 3 Senators and 5 members
of the House ot Representatives, to in
quire and report upon the causes of all
the removals of subordinate officers made
by the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms
of the Senate, and the Clerk, Sergeant-at-
Arms, Doorkeeper and Postmaster of the
House. The resolution further directs
the committee to report how many disa
bled or other soldiers have* been
removed, and the States to
which they and all other
discharged and appointed persons belong;
also, whether the civil service act applies
to Congressional appointments. lii pre
senting this resolution Mr. Riddleberger
said that he had supposed that the reso
lution of Mr. Beck was intended as a
“colurnbiad” aimed at somebody, and so
far as he (Riddleberger) was concerned
he was ready to go to the full length to
which anybody could wish in the direc
tion of the investigation suggested. Vir
ginia had less representatives, he said,
among the government employes than
Kentucky had, and much less than it was
entitled to, and he would like to ascertain
whether the civil service act applied to
the subordinate appointments of the
houses of Congress, and not to one House
only. lie had heard intimations that ap
pointments were made in the interest of
the Senators from Virginia, and he wanted
to show, among other things, a want of
foundation for such a charge.
Mr. Hale called up the conference re
port on the Greely relief expedition. The
Chair announced that the hill from the
point of view of parliamentary law was in
possession of the House of Representa
tives, and no motion or remarks could be
made relating to it except by unanimous
consent. Mr. Hale asked unanimous con
sent, owing to the emergency, to take the
bill up.
Mr. Ingalls remarked that much had
been said about “ emergency,” when, in
fact, no expedition could ’ leave before
May. He severely criticised the conduct
ot the Secretary of the Navy in “imperti
nently attempting,” as Mr. Ingalls said,
to interfere with the legislation of Con
gress by sending a communication to a
member of one house on a subject of
legislation while that subject was under
consideration by the other house, and
with a view to preventing an agreement
between l he two houses.
Mr. Hale defended the Secretary of the
Nuvy, claiming that what he had done
was not an impertinence, but entirely
proper.
Mr. Ingalls also referred to reports
which he had read in the public prints to
the effect that already, and before any bill
on this subject of this expedition had been
passed by Congress, a ship had been
bought by the Secretary of the Navy for
the purpose.
Mr. Hale said that the Secretaries of the
" ar and Navy together, recognizing the
urgency of the situation, had, on their own
personal responsibility, arranged for the
purchase of a ship, and if the government
did not want it there was no obligation on
It to take the ship.
The point of parliamentary law was
covered by a suggestion of the'Chair that
the Secretary of the Senate take a com
munication to the House showing the
condition of the bill. The matter was
then dropped, and the Senate took up the
Mexican land grant titles bill.
The debate was participated in by
Messrs. Barard, Bowen, Dolph, Conger,
Plumb, Van Wyck, Sherman, and Coke.
At 5:30 the debate closed, and the bill was
passed. The Senate then adjourned till
Monday next.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day, Mr. Shelley, of
Alabama, offered a resolution calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for informa
tion as to whether any Consul General,
Consul Agent, or other consular officer is
indebted to the government on account of
fees received, trust funds, or from other
sources. It was referred.
Mr. Belmont, of New York, offered a
resolution directing the Committee on the
Judiciary to Inquire and report whether
Congress has power to regulate commerce
between the United States and a foreign
nation, by the imposition, in the form of
can pork destined for exportation from
any State.
lie said that the inspection laws were
only intended to ascertain and attest the
quality of such American pork, and not
to enforce the inspection laws of any
State of the Union or general revenue or
navigation requirement of the Federal
Government at the several ports of export
applicable to all merchandise to be ex
ported; also whether any State may not,
by its inspection laws, absolutely neces
sary for the purpose, require pork intend
ed for exportation to be inspected and
marked by the officers of such State, and
levy a tax to defray the expense of such
inspection and marking. It was referred
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Randall submitted the conference
report ou the Greely relief bill, announc
ing a further disagreement. The report
was agreed to.
Mr. Finerty ottered a preamble and reso
lution regretting the death of Wendell
Phillips as a national bereavement.
Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, objected and
tbe resolution went over.
Mr. Turner, of Georgia, Chairman of the
Committee on Elections, reported a reso
lution in the Mississippi election case of
Chalmers ys. Manning, discharging the
committee from further consideration of
the pritna facie case and awarding the
seat to neither of the contestants.
Mr. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, asked
leave !o offer a resolution, recommitting
the prima facie case to the committee,
with instruction to ascertain and report
immediately whether a certificate of
election as Representative has been
awarded to either of the contestants, and,
if so, to whom. Objection was made, and
the committee’s resolution was ordered
printed.
Mr. Lowrey, of Indiana, from the same
committee, reported a resolution in the
Virginia contested election case of Garri
son vs. Mayo, declaring that Mayo has the
prima lacie right to the seat, and securing
him in his right pending the decision of
the case on its merits. It was ordered
printed.
Mr. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, introduced
a hill repealing all internal tax on domes
tic tobacco. It was referred.
The House then proceeded to the con
sideration of the report ot the Committee
on Rules.
Mr. Cox’s, of New York, amendment
creating a select committee on the tenth
census, which was pending when the
House adjourned yesterday, was agreed
to by ICO to 90.
Mr. Skinner’s amendment for the ap
pointment of an executive committee was
rejected. There were only two votes in
the affirmative.
The rule regulating admissions to the
floor was amended by excluding ex-Sen
ators from that privilege by a vote of 189
to 203.
Mr. Randall, Irom the Committee on Ap
propriations, reported the naval appro
priation bill, and gave notice that it
would be called up next Tuesday. It ap
propriates $14,203,000, being $8,392,000 less
than the amount estimated for, and sl,-
631,000 less than the amount appropriated
for the current fiscal year.
An amendment to the rules, offered by
Mr. Reed, of Maine, fixing the order ot
business, was discussed for oue hour.
The discussion was principally in the di
rection of pointing out the utter imprac
ticability of having anv public business
done in the House, except the passage of
appropriation bills.
Mr. Randall, in closing the debate rec
ognized the impossibility of Congress
transacting more than a very small per
centage of the business bhfore it. In the
Thirty-eighth Congress the whole number
of bills introduced was less than a thou
sand. In the last Congress it was more
than ten thousand. He opposed the
amendment because it would tear down
every restraint between extravagance
and economy. He suggested that the
remedy was not to be found in rules, but
in such legislation as would provide tri
bunals for private claims for pensions.
Mr. Reed’s amendment was lost by 120
yeas to 137 nays,
The report 'of the Committee on Rules
was then adopted.
Mr. Davidson, of Florida, offered a reso
lution requesting the President to prevent
the delivery of Senor Carlos Aguero, now
in prison at Key West, Fla., and held for
extradition on the demand of the govern
ment of Spain, until it shall be ascertained
that the charges against him are true, and
that he is not held for political offenses.
It was referred.
The Speaker announced the appoint
ment of Messrs. Hopkins, Ward, Adams,
of New York, Poland and Wilson, of
lowa, as a committee to investigate the
charges against H. V. Boynton, the
Washington correspondent of the Cincin
nati Commercial Gazette.
Mr. Goff, of West Virginia, introduced a
joint resolution appropriating SIOO,OOO for
the relief ot the sufferers by the overflow
of the Ohio river and its tributaries. It
was referred. The House then adjourned
until Monday.
THF FALL OF THE RIVERS
MILITIA PATROLLING THE
STREETS OF CINCINNATI.
Six Additional Lives Sacrificed to the
Flood—Desolate Scenes Left by the
Receding Waters—Railroad Travel
Almost at a Standstill—Relief Meas
ures Still Progressing.
Cincinnati, Feb. 8, 8 a. m.— The river
now marks 62 feet, a rise of inches
since midnight. It now lacks I foot
7 inches of the flood of 1847, 2 feet 3 inches
of the flood of 1832 and 4 feet 4 inches of
that of last year. The weather is cloudy
and the temperature is growing warmer.
Cincinnati, Feb. 8, 9 a. m.— The river
now marks 62 feet inches, a rise of
inches since 2 o’clock this morning. The
weather is cloudy and cool. The “cold
wave” flag that was flying from the Sig
nal office yesterday morning has disap
peared. The hopes of freezing weather
are dissipated, and no relief is expected
now from that source.
The river at Portsmouth marks 60 feet,
and is rising fast. It is tailing rapidlv at
the head water, but a further rise must
come before it all runs out.
Marietta and Parkersburg have been
entirely cut off from communication for
two days. Portsmouth is the only up
river point that has been heard from so
far.
MILITIA CALLED OUT.
Cincinnati, Feb. 8, 6 p. m.— The Relief
Committee, in conjunction with Mayor
Stephens, have decided to call out the mi
litia to-nßht to serve as an assistant pa
trol on account ol the darkness. The
President of the gas company says that
the supply of gas will not be sufficient to
last through the night. Three hundred
men have been placed on duty. The river
was 02 feet 7’ j inches high’ at 2 o’clock
this evening, and 62 feet 8 inches at 3
o’clock.
A disspatclt from Zanesville says that
the Muskingum river was higher this
morning than was ever known, and is
still rising an inch every half hour. The
water reaches the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad bridge, and the absence of a drift
only saves it.
ONE DROWNED AND ONE GOES MAD.
Cincinnati, Feb. 8, 10p. m.—There has
been no loss of life ou this side of the
river. In Newport, Ky., early this morn
ing, William Buchert, the bugler of the
United States troops at Newport Bar
racks, fell from a skiff while trying to
reach the second story of the barracks
building and was drowned. He was 22
years old, and belonged in Baltimore.
Mrs. Waddler, a widow, living in New
port, lias become a raving maniac on ac
count of the flood.
At a meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Relief Committee appointed by
the Chamber ot Commerce this morning
it was unanimously determined that all
money received from other places should
be used for the relief of the sufferers in
localities outside of this city, it being the
purpose of the committee to expend for
the relief of unfortunates in Cincinnati
only such funds as may be contributed
here.
the RELIEF WORK AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Feb. 8, 11:30 p. m.— The
river at 9 o’clock last night was 63 feet
high. Relief work continues to be pushed
with promptness. Large subscriptions
are made daily on ’Change. A large
vacant storeroom at Fourth and Race
streets is used as the headquarters, but
supplies are distributed systematically
throughout the various branches
in the submerged districts. To-day 1,000
pounds of hams and 2,000 pounds of
corned beef cooked and five or six thou
sand loaves of bread were distributed,
besides free meats given at the market
house to all who applied. Two thousand
persons are sleeping to-night in school
houses. The relief boats, ten in number,
under control of the associated charities
ply through the flooded districts and dis
tribute food and bedding where necessary
io the occupants of houses. Col. Wilson,
Chairman of the Knights of Honor,
has sent the following dispatch to
T. E. Richards, at Zanesville, Grand Dic
tor of Ohio: “Our Central Relief Commit
tee is engaged in the work ot aiding suf
fering humanity, without regard to orceu
will gratefully receive such assistance as
may lie tendered by sister lodges.”
The militia are on duty to-night, assist
ing the police. The gas is still burning,
but is not expected to continue until
morning.
15,000 DRIVEN FROM HOME.
Wheeling, Feb. B.—Ten thousand peo
ple are homeless and unprovided for here.
Fully fifteen thousand were driven from
their homes by the flood. The public
schools and churchft have been thrown
open, and people are fed and housed
there. The water reached the highest
point at 10 o’clock yesterday morning,
when it was 52 feet. Since then it has re
ceded a few inches.
THE RECEDING AT WHEELING.
Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 8,9 p. m.—
Business is still almost suspended, and
crowds are gathered on the streets watch
ing the slowly receding flood. The water
has fallen about a foot and the weather is
cooler.
a view of the devastation.
Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 8, 10 p. m.—
As the water recedes the full extent ot
the devastation becomes more apparent.
Houses are on their sides and washed to
some distance from their sites or entirely
carried away. Barns and stables are col
lected in great masses wherever any
barrier interposes to hold them. One or
two citizens’ bridges are endangered, and
two over Caldwell’s run have been car
ried away. The water reaches
from hill to hill on the south,
and in many places near the city the river
forms a lake from one to two miles wide.
The Baltimore and Ohio and the Cleve
land and Pittsburg Railroads are under
water lor miles, and there is no railroad
traffic within a distance of ten miles from
the city. People are camped on the hill
tops, besides those accommodated. in
churches, schools and private stores.
Blast furnaces are chilled in many cases
by the water reaching the fires. The water
is faliiug at the rate of about an inch an
hour. The Baltimore and Ohio engine
shops have been carried away. Main
street bridge over Johnathan’s river, at
South Wheeling, gave wav this afternoon,
and a boy was carried down with it, but
was saved.
DROWNED BEFORE A CROWD.
Two unknown men were upset from a
skiff at the upper end of the island, and
clung to willows for two hours, with a
crowd watching but powerless to save
them. Wheeling is in danger of a famine,
nearly all the bakeries and many of the
grocery stores being under water. There
is no supply of milk, and meat, except
salt meat, is almost impossible to secure.
The stock of provisions is rapidlv be
coming exhausted. The situation is
hourly growing grave, and many appeals
have been received from inundated por
tions of the surrounding country for pro
visions.
FALLING RAPIDLY AT WHEELING.
Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 8,11:45 p. m.—
The water has fallen to fortv-eiglit feet
and is still going down rapidly. The
steamer Belle Prince was chartered to
day by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and taken to Mouldsville and five miles
up Grove creek, the nearest point to the
river which trains could reach, where the
passengers who have been flood hound
for two days were taken on board and
brought to the city. Five immense slides
covered a mile of the Baltimore and Ohio
track near Roundsville, and it will be a
week after the falling off that trains can
reach the city.
Three large tanneries have been washed
away, causing a loss of $70,000, and other
tanneries will lose nearly as much by in
undation. Thieves have been detected
chopping holes in the roofs of Bubiner-ed
houses and stealing their contents, f’he
Mayor this evening swore in 100 extra
police, who will patrol the flooded por
tions of the city all night. At the pres
ent rate of faliiug the water will be be
low the danger line by daylight.
FOUR DROWNED.
Coshocton, Ohio, Feb. 8, io i>. m.—
The flood reached its highest point at
midnight last night, being twelve inches
higher than was ever known here. The
water is now slowly receding. The Pan
Handle track embankment broke at Mor
gan run, four miles east, and Franklin,
five miles west of here, last night, and the
track between Dresden Junction and
Adams’ Mills is entirely submerged.
There have been no trains from the east
since Wednesday. While crossing a
swollen creek near Otsego a lady whose
name could not he learned missed her
footing and was drowned. Three broth
ers named Nelson, while out boating,
were struck by driftwood and all three
drowned. They were all under 20 years
of age. •
A fiLOOMY OUTLOOK AT MEMPHIS.
Memphis, Feb. B.—The river at noon
to-day was five feet and seven inches
below the danger line and rising at the
rate of one inch per hour. From the
present outlook, unless the Tennessee and
Mississippi rivers commence rising to
add to the floods now pouring out from
the Ohio and Cumberland streams, the
Mississippi valley will not be subjected
to a disastrous overflow. It is thought
that the danger line here will be reached
by next Wednesday. Warning has been
sent to farmers below to remove their
stock to places of safety. It has rained
since last night, which increases the
apprehension of disaster, and prepara
tions for the worst are being made. The
river lacks seven feet and eight inches of
attaining the high water mark of 1382.
when the entire country between Cairo
and New Orleans, not protected bv levees,
was inundated.
louis villk’s experience.
Louisville, Feb. 8, 10 p. m.—The situ
ation has not materially changed since
yesterday. The river continued rising
slowly till 11 o’clock this morning, when
it came to a stand at 39 leet 6 inches. It
has remained stationary since. The Ken
tucky river at Frankfort is falling rapidlv
with 21% feet in the channel. There is
but little suffering here, aud that is
promptly relieved by the Relief Commit
tee. The water is within Jb feet of the
highest point of last 3-ear. The weather
is colder. It has not rained since mid
night.
STEUBENVILLE’S WORST EXPERIENCE.
Steubenville, 0., Feb. B. —Yesterday
afternoon at 3 o’clock the river reached
its highest point—49 feet, being 2 feet
higher than in 1832, the year of the great
est previous flood. It has since receded
18 inches and continues falling. The loss
to railroads here is incalculable, and it
will amount to $150,000 on private prop
erty. The river division of the Cleveland
and Pittsburg Railway is all under water,
and there is a bad break in the Pan Han
dle Road westof here. No lives were lost
here.
TOLEDO'S WORST EXPERIENCE.
Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 8, li p. m.—The
railroads are unusually well prepared for
the flood, permitting no accumulation of
freight in the threatened districts. Every
thing has been moved to places of safety.
At 7 o’clock to-night the water at South
Toledo was 7 feet higher than ever before.
PITTSBURG’S PERIL PAST.
Pittsburg, Feb. 8, 8 p. m. The
rivers are again within their banks and
steadily receding, the Monongahela
marks showing twenty-six feet eleven
inches at noon, with about one foot more
in Alleghany. The streets in both cities
are entirely clear of water, and the peo
ple in the submerged districts are busy
to-day clearing the houses and streets of
the slimy mud and the debris left be
hind.
FREIGHTS REFUSED AT ST. LOUIS.
Sr. Louis, Feb. B. —The Iron Mountain
Railroad has stopped taking freights for
points southeast of Cairo and Belmont,
on account of the floods. The tracks of
the Texas and St. Louis Narrow Gauge
Railroad are only two feet above the
water, and it is probable that they will
also stop taking freight.
EDITORS DETAINED BY THE FLOOD.
Baltimore, Feb. 8,10 p. m.— The mem
bers of the Illinois Press Association,who
arrived in this city yesterday, did not
leave last night as they expected because
of the uncertainty of reaching Chicago in
the present condition of the Western
rivers. They left Baltimore to-night for
Washington where the} - will remain until
it is safe to leave for home.
GEN. SHERMAN RETIRED.
President Arthur Formally Announces
the Event.
Washington, Feb. B.— The President
to-day Issued the following order, an
nouncing the retirement of Gen.
Sherman -
Gen. William T. Sherman, Gen
eral of the army, haviug this day
reached the age of 04 years, is, in
accordance with the law, placed upon the
retired list of the army without restric
tion in his current pay and allowances.
The announcement of the severance from
the command of the army of one who has
been so many years its distinguished
chief can but awaken in the minds not
only of the army but of the people of the
United States, mingled emotions of
feiaiatVruc, —K>g„i
the withdrawal from active military
service of an officer whose lofty
sense of duty has been a model for all sol
diers since he first entered the armv in
July, 1840. and gratitude freshly awak
ened for the services of incalculable value
rendered by him in the war for the Union,
which his great military genius and dar
ing did so much to end'. The President
deems this a fitting occasion to give ex
pression in this manner to the gratitude
felt towards (Jen. Sherman by bis fellow
citizens, and to hope that Providence
may grant him many years of health and
happiness in his relief from the active
duties ol his profession.
[Signed] Chester A. Arthur.
ARRESTED FOR FENIANISM.
New York Assemblymen in tlie Clutches
of the Canadians.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. B.— A number of
Assemblvmen started yesterday for Mon
treal to attend the ice carnival now in
progress there. Among them was Assem
blvman Donohue from Buffalo. A dis
patch was received by the Speaker from
Assemblyman Taylor, of Kings county,
who is also with the party, notifying him
that Mr. Donohue had been arrested by
the Canadian authorities, but on what
charge it was not said. It is thought
here, Irom the fact of Mr. Donohue’s al
ways having been a Fenian leader, that
lie was identified with the Fenian raids
into Canada in 1806, and that his arrest is
due to that fact. Assemblyman Donohue
was in the late war and was mustered
out at the close with the title of Captain.
NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARREST.
Montreal, Feb. 8, 10 r. m.— The local
police and detectives here are ignorant of
the arrest in Canada of Mr. Donohue, a
member of the New York Legislature, and
say that it could not have occurred here.
LABOR AND ITS HIRE.
Three Thousand Shipbuilders Throw
Down their Tools at Belfast, Ireland.
Dublin, Feb. B.— Three thousand ship
builders at Belfast have struck work.
MORE WEAVERS GO OUT.
Fall River, Mass., Feb. B.— The
weavers in the Barnaby Gingham Mill
struck this morning because of fines
deducted from their pav on account of
defects in cloth. The strikers marched
from the mill to a hall, where they held a
meeting, at which the causes of the trouble
were discussed. This strike has no con
nection with the trouble at the print
cloth mills, and there is no trouble in the
other department of the Barnaby Mill. A
formal meeting of weavers to form a union
will be held.
WELCOMING GEN. KIRRYSMITH.
Nine Years a Professor In the Sewanee
University.
The Maryland Line ex-Confederates,
says the Baltimore Sun of the 6th, gave
Gen. Kirby Smith a cordial and heartfelt
w - eleome Tuesday nightat theirjmeetingat
85 West Fayette street. Gen. Smith is one
of three living full Generals of the five
officers of that rank of the Southern Con
federacy, the other two who are alive be
ing Beauregard and Joseph E. Johnston.
Gen. Smith has been for nine years past
the Professor of Mathematics in the Uni
versity of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn.
He is a tall, erect, soldierly-looking man,
with a long white beard of a slightly
tawny tinge. He is in Baltimore on a
visit to relatives, and is stopping with his
brother-in-law, Mr. Richard Groverman,
Charles and Hoffman streets, whose sister
he married. In introducing him Gen.
Bradley T. Johnson was graphic in de
scription. “It was on the 21st of July,
1861,” be said, “that I was marching along
one of the district roads among the most
excited set of men I had ever seen
before that day. I cried to Gen. Ewell
that 1 should drop with fatigue if that
went on much further.” “There, poor
Smith is killed. Take his horse,” said
Gen. Ewell, pointing to a sorrel horse,
whose rider had fallen wounded. “But
he was not killed, and bj-night is the first
time since that day of the first battle of
Manassas that I have met Gen, Kirby
Smith.” The General was enthusiasti
cally received, and spoke a few words ex
pressive of bis satisfaction at meeting his
old companions in arms. When he sat
down Gen. Johnson proposed three
cheers, which were given with a will,
winding up with a “Confederate yell.”
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ENGLAND’S PARLIAMENT.
PARNELL MOVES HIS AMEND
MENT TO THE SPEECH.
The Government’s Policy In Ireland
Denounced Without Fear or Favor—
The Curt Correspondence Between
Granville and Lowell Presented The
Censure for the Egyptian Policy Un
certain.
London, Feb. B. —ln accordance with a
previous announcement Mr. Parnell
moved, in the House of Commons to-day,
an amendment to the address iu reply to
the Queen’s speech. The amendment se
verely condemns the policy of the govern
ment in Ireland, asserting that it has
failed to tranquilize the people, has wan
tonly prohibited public meetings and in
terfered with the freedom of such, and has
permitted magistrates publicly to applaud
the conduct of Lord Rossmore, who had
been suspended as a Justice of the Peace
for disturbing public order and
inciting ill will and strife between
the different classes of Ireland. The
amendment further demands the imme
diate abandonment of the policy of stimu
lating state aided emigration of the Irish.
In the course of the remarks with which
he accompanied the motion, Mr. Parnell
asserted that the recent visit of Sir Staf
ford Northcote to Ireland had been an
exciting cause of disturbance. The
Orange outrages were in his opinion a
grave misfortune. The Conservatives,
whom Sir Stafl'ord Northcote had dragged
at the heels of a discredited Irish faction,
he denounced in strong terms.
Continuing, Mr. Parnell said that the
Orange demonstrations were not spontan
eous, but w - ere attended by hirelings paid
by landlords. The government opposition
to Nationalist meetings was violent and
seditious. [Cries of “Oh.”] Everyone
participating therein was liable to prose
cution under the intimidation clause of
the crimes act. The recent events in the
North of Ireland, however, would hasten
the time when Ireland would legislate for
herself on her own soil.
T. D. Sullivan, member of Parliament
for West Meath county, said that the
Orangemen were obstacles to the spread
of loyalty in the North of Ireland.
Lord Randolph Churchill, the Conserva
tive member for Woodstock, said that the
dismissal of Lord Rossmore was a bait to
catch the Irish vote.
Mr. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, said that outrages in Ireland had
fallen to a point that would be no discredit
to any country; that rents were being
more regularly paid than in the centre
and east of England, and that incitements
to boycotting and violence were no longer
obeyed. The idea that the government
had suspended Lord Rossmore in order to
win the Irish vote, was a mistaken one.
It was creditable to Earl Spencer, the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, that so few
casualties had occurred, when so many
armed and excited men were parading
through the towns.
THE O’DONNELL CORRESPONDENCE.
' The correspondence between Earl Gran
ville, the British Foreign Secretary, and
Mr. Lowell, the American Minister, on
the sentence of Patrick O’Donnell was
presented to Parliament to-day. Earl
Granville’s replies to Mr. Lowell are curt
and formal. Each letter is limited to a
single sentence.
TESTING THE FEELING.
The Liberal whips have been testing
the strength of the party vote for the com
ing debate on the motion censuring the
government for its Egyptian policy. They
find that a number of Radicals are un
willing to support the government and
wish to vote it uncertain.
FKANCO-CHINESK AFFAIRS.
Papers have been laid before Parlia
ment which explain that the negotiations
between England and other neutral pow
ers as to the course to be pursued should
war arise between France and China,
have twice formed the subject of inquiry
on the part of France. Earl Granville,
the Foreign Secretary of State,
informed M. Waddingtou, the French
Minister at the Court of St. James, last
December, mat the powers which have
vessels in Chinese waters proposed to in
struct meir commanders to unite in the
adoption of sueh measures as would in
sure the protection of foreigners and the
continuance of a friendly spirit toward
both France and China. M. Waddington
said in reply that France would not ex
ceed the programme already announced
by either interfering with foreign trade or
blockading treaty ports unless forced to
do so by the action of China.
UNITED IRELAND TO BE IGNORED.
The government have announced in the
House of Commons that they have no in
tention of prosecuting United Ireland for
its article of yesterday congratulating
Ed Mahdion his recent success.
FAILURES IN BUSINESS.
Last Week’s Record the Least Disas
trous of the Year.
New York, Feb. B. —The business fail
ures during the last week, reported to R.
G. Dun & Cos., numbered for the United
States 232, and lor Canada and the Prov
inces 46—a total of 278, against 327 last
week. There is a marked decrease in the
number of failures all through the coun
try, particularly in the Southern, Middle
and New England States, and also on the
Pacific coast. In Canada there is a slight
increase over even the high figures of re
cent weeks. For the whole country the
totalis the smallest noted in any week
since the commencement of the year.
A SCOTCHMAN’S STRANGE STORY
Deprived of a Large Estate and Locked
Up in a Lunatic Asylum.
The circumstances narrated in an ap
plication for a writ of habeas corpus filed
In the Circuit Court of Chicago, read like
another version of Charles Reade’s great
novel, “Very Hard Cash.” John Faulds
is the name of the gentleman who seeks to
recover his liberty. He is a subject of
Great Britain, from Renfrewshire. Scot
land. In 1863 he came to the United
States, settled down in Cat.lin, 111., and in
that region acquired valuable property,
the market value of which is variously
rated at from £IOO,OOO down to SIOO,OOO.
He says that in 1871 his title to all this
property was questioned, and the owner
ship was contested in the United States
Court belore District Judge Treat,
in Springfield, 111. The suit was still un
settled when, in November, 1882, Mr.
Faulds says be was wrongfully accused
of insanity, convicted, sent to the insane
asylum at Kankakee, and confined there
till December, 1883, when be managed to
escape. He claims that this charge of in
sanity was brought against him for the
purpose of getting him out of the wav%nd
thus preventing him from pros cuting his
suit, which involves the possession of all
his property. How- valuable this property
was is seen from the fact that from 200 to
300 tons of coal were daily taken out of
his mines and sold for $5 a ton, his income
from that source beingalmost an princely
one. Since 1871, however, he says all
this has ceased, and he has not received
a cent from his property, owing to
the pendency of the suit. However, he
says that he has been in the en
joyment of a regular annual income of
£SOO sent in remittances irom his home
ever since 1868. These he received up to
the time he was confined as a lunatic,
since w hich they also have stopped. The
last £SOO he claims to have paid to his
lawyers for their services in prosecuting
his case. The remittances since 1882 he
suspects to have been retained bv Super
intendent R. S. Dewey, of the Kankakee
Asylum. After his flight from the asvlum,.
in December last, Mr. Faulds came to
Chicago, where he has kept himself ever
since till captured Monday, and kept in
restraint for the purpose of being sent
back to the institution at Kankakee as a
crank, whereupon he makes this applica
tion. A number of affidavits are at
tached to the document from prominent
people who knew- him both here and in
Scotland, who say that he has been and
now is perfectly sane.
The War in Madagascar.
London, Feb. B. —Advices from Tarna
tatave, of January 25, says that the
Freneh had seut out a reconnoitering
party which had been stoutly resisted by
the Malagassies. The American man-of
war Pensacola had arrived January 18
from Batavia, and had proceeded to the
south coast of Madagascar.
Church’s Thefts.
Troy, N. Y., Feb. B.— The exact amount
of City Chamberlain Church's defalcation
is figured by the examining committee oi
city officials at $77,381. No reliable evi
dence of Church’s whereabouts have yet
been received.
Sudden changes of weather are product
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There is no more effectual relief in these
diseases to be found than in the use ot
Brown’s Bronchial Troches. Price
26 cu,
THE LOQUACIOUS LOCHRANE
Talks Freely of the Presidential Candi
dates and their Chances—Thinks
Arthur and McDonald Haven’t Much
Chance.
Judge Lochrane, the veteran Georgia
politician, is again in the city, says the
Chicago Tribune of the 6th inst. In his
capacity as general counsel for the Pull
man Company Judge Lochrane is con
stantly traveling about the country and
meeting all manner of men, and he was
accordingly asked by a reporter at the
Grand Pacific Tuesday what he thought
of the Presidential situation.
“The situation in both parties,” replied
the Judge, “is anomalous. No one man
seems to have a mortgage on the nomina
tion. Arthur, up to a lew months back,
appeared to have a walkover for the nomi
nation, but now I should sav that his
chances are waning. I deeply re
gret to see the recent utterances
of my friend, Gov. Foster, because
they are apt to serve as a coffin-lid to
Arthur’s hopes. Arthur is a pure
man; his administration has been blame
less; personally he is known as a good
fellow; by nature and education he is a
gentleman, and I cannot see how the
country could do better than renew his
lease of power. But such body-blows as
Foster has dealt him cannot but have
their effect. Who will be his chief rival ?
The indications all point to Logan. It is
clear to the most casual observer that the
•bioody shirt’ is going to be the chief issue
in this campaign. The Republican lead
ers have won many battles on this issue,
and well they know its potency with the
lieople. Sherman’s resolution in the Sen
ate, and the editorials in leading Repub
lican dailies all over the land, all point to
the prominence of this policy in the com
ing campaign. With such a campaign
who could better suit the occasion than
Logan—a man who owes his present
prominence to__ his war record, and of
whom a New York paper said recently:
‘He fought the war through, and has been
fighting ever since.” ’Tis, in fact, his
stock in trade. Logan is going into the
convention with a powerful following,
and he will only be beaten by a uuion of
all other elements. 1 see only two men
in sight who can be sprung against
Logan successfully—Blaine or Lincoln.
Either ot them might capture the conven
tion, but it would have to be done in the
same way that Garfield was brought for
ward. Blaine will doubtless be a dele
gate to the convention, and he will make
no open effort for the nomination.”
“Who will be the Democratic nominee?”
“That is difficult to predict, but it will
not lie McDonald. I would rather see
him President than any man I % know, but
they will not let him have the nomination.
He will have formidable support, but his
very strength will be his weakness. The
man who is put up by the Democrats must
either have money or be able to command
money. They know they cannot run the
campaign without the sinews of war, and
they will provide lor that. I should sav
that either Flower, of New York, Raudalf,
of Pennsylvania, or Payne, of Ohio, would
be the successful man. Payne especially
stands a good chance, because his State
votes in October, and victory or defeat in
Ohio in October w-ill be apt to meati~ vic
tory or defeat in the country in Novem
ber.”
CAROLINA’S CARPET-BAGGERS.
Not One of the Old Gang Left in the
State Outside of the Federal Offices.
The South Carolina Democrats, says a
Washington special to the New York Sun ,
w’ill make no effort to capture the seat
made vacant by the death of Mr. 31ackey.
The district will probably be represented
by a negro, and the chances of ex-Con
gressman Smalls are said to be good.
While Mackey was not a carpet-bagger,
he was one of their crowd. Mr. C. R.
Thompson, who was prominent in South
Carolina politics iu the days following the
war, in speaking of the carpet-baggers,
says that they are scattered from Dan to
Beersheba, and that, outside of the Fed
nt-o 1 ntYi ooc IKama J a ma! Ana laiif
Patterson has given the State a wide
berth since 1876; Tom Robertson, the
other Senator, is a paralytic in Columbia;
Bowen, who held Charleston and all her
interests in his grip, is dead; Elliott, the
smartest negro developed bv reconstruc
tion—Congressman, Speaker'of the House
and Attorney General elect—is making a
precarious livingin New Orleans; Wright,
the negro Justice of the Supreme Court,
is loafing in Beaufort; Dunn, the Comp
troller General, is peddling a patent glue
in Boston; Hardv Solomons, the financier
and keeper of the State deposits, has a
little bake shop in Kansas; Gurney, Coun
ty Treasurer of Charleston, is long since
dead; Parker, the manipulator of millions
of conversion bonds, keeps a music store
in Indiana and ekes out a living by lec
turing on temperance; Governor Scott,
since his trial for murder, is broken in
health and spirits, but is pretty solid
financially from the rise of Ohio wood
lands; Hoge lives in Ohio, and remem
bers the fat pickings of the Comptroller
General’s office with pleasure; ex-Judge
G. R. Carpenter stays away from South
Carolina, but has done pretty well in the
star route cases, and has not changed his
politics more than half a dozen times;
Cass Carpenter is a wreck in Denver; ex-
Chief Justice Willard has drifted to
Washington, having been digested and
disjected by his Democratic employers of
1876; the irrepressible Judge T. J.Mackev
has also opened a law office in Washing
ton; Cardozo, ex-State Treasurer, and
Swails, once President of the Senate, look
contented with clerkships in the Treas
ury; Whittemore serves the Lord in Mas
sachusetts with the same unction that he
did in the Senate of South Caro
lina; Charley Leslie is as shifty in Kan
sas as ever he was in Barnwell county;
Kimpton, once “financial agent” of the
State in Wall street, is a lame duck
among the curbstone brokers there;
Puffer, who once handled the assets of the
Bank of the State, comes to Washington
occasionally, cheerful but not rich; Mc-
Devitt knows the value of four aces in
Colorado as well as when he had the reve
nues of Edgefield county to back his hand;
John B. Dennis prosiie’rs in Dakota; Joe
Woodruff practices shorthand in a count
ing room in Philadelphia, not so profita
bly as when he was the king pin of the
legislative ring as Clerk of the Senate
and President of the printing company;
Nagle is a special agent of the Pension
Office; and, last but not least, Frank
Moses, the young native Governor of 1872,
having served out his term for swindling,
in the county prison ot New York, is now
teaching the “rustlers” of New Mexico
some new tricks.
An Air Brake Patent Suit Involving
Millions.
A special from Pittsburg, Pa., to the N.
Y. Sun, February 4, says: “The prelim
inary steps in one of the most important
suits that have been entered in the United
States Court for a long time were taken
this afternoon. The suit, which involves
millions, is that of William Loughridge, a
resident of Baltimore county, Maryland,
who filed a bill in equity against the West
inghouse Air Brake Company to restrain
it from further infringement on uatents of
which he claims to be the inventor and
patentee, and which in reality constitute
the whole slock iu trade of the Westing
house Company, as they embrace all pat
ents used in manufacturing air brakes
which have made the firm so wealthy and
so famous. The preliminary statement of
the complainant is that he (Loughridge)
invented the improved mode of operating
car brakes now used by the Westinghouse
Company before April 12, 1864, and the
other inventions to which he lays claim
areas follows: An improved method of
applying steam to ear brakes, patented
April 19,1864; an improvement in steam
and air brakes, patented February 11,
1873, and an Improved pneumatic air
brake for railroad cars, issued to Charles
R. Peddle, and an improvement in pipe
coupling issued to Thomas Smith, both of
which last inventions the complainant al
leges were assigned to him. The bill in
equity is made returnable on the first
Monday of March.
Loyalists and Nationalists.
London, Feb. B.— Patrick James Smyth,
Member of Parliament for Tipperary, has
sent a communication to the Dublin papers
on “Loyalists and Nationalists,” in which
he says that the union is stronger to-dav
than it ever has been: that all the prop
erty and culture and most of the religion
of the country are on its side, and that the
Socialist movement has practically extin
guished nationality.
“She Wore a Wreath of Roses.”
She had the jumping tooth-ache
The night wheu first we met:
Her face was marked with angnish,
Her eyes with tears were wet.
I told her Perry Davis’
Pain Killer was the thing
To cure the jumping tooth-ache,
And take away iu sting.
Next evening, when I saw her,
I asked her, "‘Did you get
That bottle of Pain Killer?”
Said she; “All right—you bet 1”
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IN SI'AKIM.
The Fleet in Position to Shell the Ene
my—Treachery Among the Natives
Still Feared—British Reinforcements
Expected—Suakim iu a State of Siege.
London, Feb. B.— A Cairo dispatch
says that there is reason to believe that
a battalion of Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood’s
army will go to Suakim after the with
drawal of the demoralized troops from
that place. Sir Evelyn Baring is thinking
of establishing a censorship of the press,
owing to the publication of mischievous
rumors—notably the report ol the capture
of Gen. Gordon.
ADMIRAL HEWITT’S FLEET.
Oil the arrival of the transport Poonah
at Suakim Admiral Hewitt will have 20,-
000 sailors and marines available for ser
vice on shore besides the crews of the
ships of his squadron.
SUAKIM IN A STATE OK SIEGE.
London, Feb. 8,10 i*. m.—Adviees from
Suakim announce that a state of siege has
been proclaimed.
PREPARING FOR WAR.
. English regiments have been or
uered to prepare for foreign service, and
more marines have been dispatched to
Egypt.
FEARS FOR GEN. GORDON.
Cairo. Feb. 8,3 p. m.— a conference
which was held this morning for consid
eration of the present conilitiou of affairs
decided to send to Suakim on Saturday
three British officers serving in the Egyp
tian army, to form a battalion of '6OO
picked black and Turkish troops to hold
the place with English marines. Baker
1 ash a and the rest of the forces at Sua
kim are to be recalled. Advices have
been received here that Gen. Gordon was
heard of a number of miles on
the Korosko route beyond the
place where it was reported
that he had been captured. The tribe of
Ashmaries, around Korosko, is showing
symptoms of revolt. Fears are therefore
entertained for Gen. Gordon’s safety.
The officials at Cairo are confident that
Gen. Gordon w-ill suceeed in reaching
Khartoum.
GORDON AT BERBER.
The Governor of Berber telegraphs that
Gen. Gordon has arrived in that province.
STARVATION AT SUAKIM.
Suakim, Feb. 9,3 a. m.— Spies from
Sinkat say that the men of the garrison
there having eaten up the camels, cats
and dogs are now devouring tree leaves.
The British gun-boats Eurijalus and De
coy are now in a position’ to shell the
enemy if necessary.
SURPRISE AT A BALL MASQUE.
Two Dancers Representing Oscar
Wilde and Uncle Sam Unmask as Ne
groes.
A Stamford (Conn.) special to the New
York Times says: “Professor” Dudley
combines the trade of a bootblack with
the dress and profession of a dude. Ho is
a negro, black as ebony, with capacious
mouth and large spread ot nose, and
boasts of pure African blood. Just at
present he figures in Stamford as a de
fender of negro rights. His appearance
at a masked ball recently caused no little
disturbance, which roused Dudley’s ire,
and a few friends spurred him on to new
assertions of his rights. Another bal
masque wa9 held in the Town Hall on
Monday night. It was attended by
nearly one thousand persons. No one
noticed two persons attired as “Oscar
Wilde” and “Uncle Sam.” who entered
the hall and mixed with the dancers. At
about midnight, when the time came to
unmask, “Uncle Sam” and “Oscar
Wilde” were dancing with white part
ners. Wiien they removed the masks
there were screams in the hall. Dudley’s
partner nearly fainted. The other negro,
Henry Carpenter, became alarmed for his
safety and left in a hurry. Dudley was
ejected by the managers. He demanded
ikio rnoucj 1/av.K, Uui am UUI get it. rma
ley is about town describing the quality
of the dancing of his white partners, who
feel terribly indignant. He has consulted
an attorney, who informed him that he
could not legally be ejected from anv pub
lic entertainment. Dudley has deter
mined to attend several local entertain
ments yet to come, and it looks now as
though there was fun ahead.
The Minority Leader in the House.
The actual leader of the minority, says
a Washington letter, is Mr. Thomas B.
Reed, of Maine, a man of tremendous in
tellectual power, and, by ability, capaci
ty, and everything that goes to make up
a safe political pilot, is justly entitled to
the plaee. Reed is a large, rotund man,
with a big, fat, jolly face, and a general
air of contentment and satisfaction that
the world is wagging along just about as
it should. This is his appearance as he
sits in bis seat about the centre of the
Republican side, and watches the pro
ceedings going on about him. When the
time comes for action his appearance
changes in an instant, and as the debate
grows fiercer lie seems like an aroused
lion. Few men in the House have been
able to stand under his withering sar
casm, and his sharp, rapier-like repartees
have become proverbial. So far as I
know-, he is the only man in Congress
who never prepares a speech before de
livery, and I have beard that he says that
be would be sure to make a failure if he
relied upon notes, as the greater share of
the others do. He is an extemporaneous
speaker. His ideas seem to push out a
perfect torrent of words, and, notwith
standing this, the logic of his remarks is
just as clear and penetrating as though
he had labored days in preparation.
Killed Herself at Her Husband’s Grave.
Cedar Rapids, lowa, Feb. 8, 10i\m.—
A dispatch from Eldora says: Mrs. Mix,
of Steamboat Rock, while standing over
the open grave of her husband to-dav, re
marked that they might as well be buried
in one grave, drew a pistol and shot her
self. She is not likely to live.”
- Ravages of the Flames.
New York, Jteb. B.— Fire in the Stand
ard Oil Works at Hunter’s Point, L. 1.,
to-day, destroyed tanks, oil and buildings.
The loss is $75,000.
A Lawyer's Madness.
New Orleans, Feb. B.— James Gra
ham, a lawyer, aged 55 years, shot and
killed his wife and then cut his own
throat to-day.
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