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i ESTABLISHED 1850. 1
| J. H ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, j
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN’ TYPE.
The Mutilated Body of a Murdered
Negress Found on the Halls Near Cuth
l>ert —Bishop Pierce’s Most Notable
Marriage—Brunswick's Port Record
for hast Year.
GEORGIA.
Quitman county is out of debt and has $2,400
in the treasury.
A mammoth marl bed is one of the un
developed resources of Montezuma.
1,6*) acres of land sold at the court house
door in Syivania on Tuesday last for $350.
There is a man in Screvin county who can
eat a peck of biscuits and a pound of butteraj
one meal.
Atlanta politicians are waxing warm over
the election of a couple of Police Commission
ers next month.
There are about 1,600 liquor dealers in the
State and they pay into the treasury $40,000
for license to sell.
T. J. Bridges, of Forsyth, is under arrest,
charge i with attempting to burn the store he
occupied in that town.
The T. iwn Council of Syivania meet on
Tuesday night last and passed an ordinance
to pay the Marshal SIOO a year.
The First National Bank of Brunswick lias
openedits doors for business. It makes the
third banking house in the town.
Mrs. Mary F. Walton, one of the most prom
inent young ladies in Valdosta, died at her
home near that city a day or two ago.
The Baptists of Cedartown have chosen as
their pastor for the balance of the present
year Kev. Mr. Tant, of Bartow county.
There has not lieen a car load of corn
shipped to Georgetown this year, and it is the
Nth of February. The record has not been
equaled before for ten years.
The Cherokee Iron Company will blow out
their furnace in a month or more and change
its construction so as to be able to use coke in
making irou.
Mr. Wheeler, the demented white man who
was dangerously cut by a negro whom he at
tacked at Gainesville a day or two ago, has
boon nt to the asylum.
B-lacob Freeman, a MechanicsviUe negro,
crazed by religion, attempted to cut a young
impress’ throat there the other day, but failed,
lied and is still at large.
levi Evans, who recently jumped through
a window of amoving car near Eastman to
escape from an officer, was not injured, as
lin-t reported. He has not been recaptured.
A few mornings ago.l. G. Field, I’cter Beu
net and others, while chasing a large fox near
Blairsville with a line pack of hounds, pushed
him so closely that he ran and jumped into a
well thirty feet deep, and was taken from it
alive.
Mr. Turner, father of P. M. Turner, of Mer
iwether, whose sentence of death was con
tinued by the Supreme Court, is getting sign
ers to a pe l ition asking the Governor to com
mute the death sentence of his son, Tobe, to
imprisonment for life.
•I. H. Stephens, agent of the Savannah,
Florida aad Western Railway, at Camilla,
has made a careful estimate that, with an
average price in I Kith directions, the money
spent for whisky in Forsyth county would
feed the whole population!
At a meeting of the Directors of the Na
tional Bank of Augusta, held Friday, Mc-
Cord was re-elected President. G. M. Thew
resigned the position of Cashier, and A. C.
Beane was elected in his stead. A good
showing was made of the condition of the
bank.
E. U. Carter, of Winterville, while on a
-rafiold, building a bouse, accidentally fell to
the ground, a distance of i4 feet, hurting his
hip and his back pretty severely, but, luckily,
breaking no bones. A negro on the scaffold
with him also fell ami sprained his ankle
badly.
.Mr. Gray, the defeated candidate for Mayor
of Waynesboro, is contesting Mr. Wilkins'
election. Mr. Gray claims to have proved
that fifty or sixty voters for whom Mr. Wil
kins had paid their taxes, held receipts which
were not dated until the 16tli, two days after
the election.
An eight-year-old boy goes about the streets
of Atlanta after nightfall telling a pitiful tale
of the death of his parents at Cincinnati and
his attempt to reach relatives in New Orleans,
winding up the yarn with an appeal for
money. He is a little fraud of the first water,
and the rut and fineness of his clothes lead to
the belief that he is the scion of wealthy par
ents of Atlanta.
At Greenesboro Monday Miss Mary Bowles,
of that city, was married to Samuel’lland, of
Altoona, Florida. The courtship of the couple
t-maeks much of romance, having been con
ducted wholly by correspondence; and the
contracting parties not having seen each
other until a few davs prior to the ceremony.
The couple left for Florida, which they will
make their future home.
Bishop Fierce says: “The most notable
marriage I ever performed was that of Miss
Sara Toombs, daughter of Hon. Robert
Toombs, and Mr. Dudley M. Dußose. The
marriage took place in Washington City, and
was attended by President Buchanan, the
niembersof the Cabinet, members of Congress,
the fall diplomatic corps, and a brilliant ar
ray of the proudest people in the land.”
Robert Ingram, who is farmingon the plan
tation of J. Storey, near Greenesboro,
killed an enormous wild cat in his bed room
the other night. In the room Mr. Ingrain
had provisions for his hands, and the cat had
by some means got in and was eating meat
when Mr. Ingram awoke. He fired four
times at the beast before he succeeded in
killing it. It showed some fight before it died.
The parsonage of the Athens Circuit, located
near Boggs’ Chapel, five miles from Athens,
caught fire from the stove last Saturday and
was consumed with its entire contents. Rev.
W. L. Wooten, who occupied it with his fam
ily, lost everything, not even saving a change
of clothing. In the excitement the baby was
left in the house, but its absence was discov
ered in time by one of the children, who res
cued it.
A 13-year-old negro went into an Atlanta
drug store to secure some postage stamps,
and while a white lad of his own age was
taking them from the money drawer, reached
over the counter and snatching a $2 bill
r-tuffed it in his pocket and refused to return
if. The white boy picked up a:pistol, and
while pointing it at the negro accidentally
discharged it, the ball entering the negro's
arm. The wound is not dangerous, and the
sliootii g being accidental no arrest was
made.
The Dalton cotton factory was formally
organized Thursday with J." H. Patton as
President, T. R. Jones Vice President. J. K.
Brunner Secretary and Tr ease re r, Wylie Pat
t.m Superintendent, John Bryant! W. N.
Moore, I). P. Bass, D. W. Eattimore, .1. H.
Lattimore, and J. D. Cook Directors, with a
capital of $33,000 paid up. Work will be com
menced as soon as the weather will permit,
and will be pushed to completion as soon as
practicable.
A few days ago Ralph Banks, Jr., the son of
J. R. Banks, of Forsyth, left the employ of
t arliart A Curd, Macon, and without notice
to his family, went to Texas. After his ar
rival at Fort Worth he wrote to his father of
his new location. Nothing was heard from
him till Friday, when friends there tele
graphed of his critical illness. Friday morn
ing his father was advised of his death the
night before of pneumonia. Ralph is the last
of four sons that Mr. Bunks has lost since the
war.
A correspondent of the Morning News
says that the streets of Eastman are being
put in good condition by the new Council,who
are also giving their attention to the sanitary
condition of ttie town. Olie Waite, a little
daughter ol J. I. Waite, on Thursday, was
run over bv a wagon driven by Master Lee
•Jr.-sup, and was badly, but not dangerously
hurt. The infant son of Sir. C. B. Murrell
swallowed potash and frightened the anxious
parents considerably. The little fellow is all
right again.
Dr. J. G. Gibson’s house, in Crawford, is
two or three feet off the ground, latticed on
front and sides, but is open on the back.
Thursday a large hawk darted at a chicken in
his back yard, but missed his prey, and, fail
ing to rise in time, went under the house
wiu re it was not closed up. A servant saw
the liawk go under and immediately informed
Mrs. Gibson of the fact, who came out anti
-aw his hawkship at the frout of the house
trying to get through the lattice work. They
Began to throw at it and worried it so long
I hat it became so confused and scared that
the servant caught it and killed it with a
stick.
The jdacksonj Xetcs says: “Last Monday
niglit Jerry Worsham, a colored boy who lives
out on Mr. F. W. M. Dowdy's farm, went out
after dark with two other boys to split rails.
They worked along until about 9 o’clock, when
they cut down a large tree and ran away from
it as it fell. In falling tbs tree knocked
against another hollow tree that was standing
close by. The shock was enough to make it
fall in the direction where Jerry and the
other boys were standing, and, as it was dark,
they could not see it coming so that they could
get out of the wav. It caught Jerry and
broke his neck ana both legs, from which he
died instantly.”
Four hundred and eleven vessels cleared
from Brunswick during last year—239 for
coastwise and 152 for foreign ports. Of these
2>7 carried our own flag, 50 that of Great
Britain, 27 of Norway, 18 of Spain, 9of Por
tugal, 7 of Sweden, 6 of Germany, 5 of Russia,
lof France and 1 of Italy. Of thsoe which
cleared for foreign ports 29 cleared for the
United Kingdom, 2:l for Spain, 22 for the Ar
gentine Republic, 17 for Brazil, 1 for Uru
guay, 8 for West Indies, 6 for Portugal, 6 for
Germany, 4 for Cuba, 4 for Africa, 4 for New
Brunswick, 4 for the Netherlands, 3 for Bel
gium, 2Jfor the Canary Islands, 2 for France,
2 for Venezuela and 1 each for Russia, Pana
ma, Austria, Italy and Porto I’rico.
The Cuthbert Appealot Fridaysaye: “About
daylight yesterday morning the‘body of a
negro woman was found lying near the rail
road track, just below the Von thg main line,
that had been run over by the midnight train!
The Coroner was notified and repaired to the ;
place designated and held an inquest, return- |
ing a verdict that the deeeased had been mur
dered by unknown parties and her bodv
placed upon the track to cover the crime. A
large Diece of scantling was found several ]
yards from the t>ody. with which the fatal -
blow had been given. The brains had
oozed out through the wound made over the j
right eye with tne heavy bludgeon. Several j
yards distant, in a small skirt of woods, was .
found a small trunk belonging to the de
ceased, that had lieen rifled. The passing
train struck the body in the breast, tearing it
fearfully and breaking both arms. No one
knew ttie name of the woman, although she is
known to have passed through town tne even
ing before. Some thought she bad oeen living j
on Mr. Jno. Mattox’ place for some time, but !
no one was certain.”
Campbell Superior Court was in session last
week at Fairborn, Judge Harris presiding.
Court will continue through this week. John
Thomas, who killed Lindsay Weaver —both
negroes—fit this place on the 25th of Decem
ber, 1882, will be resentenced at this term.
The murder was without provocation. Thomas
was sentenced tobe hung at Campbell court
a year ago, but his lawyers carried the case to
the Supreme Court. That body sustained the
verdict of the lower court. ‘A petition is
being circulated through the county to have
his punishment commuted to a life term in
the chain-gang. If such cases as this escape
capital punishment, the criminal law might
as well be doue away with alto
gether. The guano trade has opened
lively. Farmers are going ahead preparing
for crops. Early gardeners have been busy
this week. The warm weather of the last
few davs has had a beneficial effect on the oat
I crop. Farmers are relieved to find that they
were not so much injured by the
i late freeze as they liad supposed.
Eight new wires are being* erected over this
line by the Southern Telegraph Company.
: This gives us eighteen wires over the line.
■ The general health of the community is good.
FLORIDA.
A Catholic chapel is to be built at Orlando.
Strawberries are ripening in Putnam
county.
A public park is being advocated at Jack
sonville.
The State Fair begins at Jacksonville on
Tuesday of this week.
The Florida Press Association meets in con
vention at Sanford February 27.
The machinery for the ice factory at De-
I Land has been placed in position.
I The Gainesville Cadets will not attend the
i State Fair at Jacksonville next week.
An artesian well is being drilled in
| the orange grove of Col. Hart, at Palatka.
The woods have been burning in every di
; reetiou around Suaitervillc during the'past
week.
One thousand dollars has been pledged for
the erection of an Episcopal church at De-
I.and.
Corn has jumped tosl a bushel at Marianna,
although most of the farmers say they have
plenty for home use.
There are thirteen lakes in the near vicin
ity of Mannville, Putnam county, that can be
: connected for navigation,
i Hon. E. 11. Chadbourne, Secretary of State,
of Maine, has purchased five acres near the
depot at Intulachen, and is having it fenced
and set with trees.
J. J. Bradford sold a piece of land, about
eight miles from Sumterville, to J. S. Thrash
er, on Tuesday, for S6OO worth of stock, etc.
Two months ago he could have sold the same
place for $1,500 cash, but some evil disposed
person sef fire to the woods on Christmas Eve
and destroyed all the fencing, houses, and
| about 40 fine bearing trees, with about 20,000
: oranges thereon.
At Tarpon Springs Friday evening, Feb
: ruary 1. AY. N. Conoley, a hotelkeeperof that
! place, shot and killed a carpenter by the name
j of John Corke. Mr. Conoley had a misunder
| standing with Maj. M. ff. Marks about a
j trade, and as the guests of the hotel, includ
j ing Maj. Marks, were going out to supper
I Mr. Conoley called the Major into the hall
and charged him with having acted In bad
i faith about the trade and then talked about
him in such a manner as to injure his charac-
I ter and business. Marks replied that he hail
! said nothing that he could not repeat, and
that he had told only the truth. A few hot
words passed, when ’Conoley called Marks
a liar and drew liis pistol and fired two
shots without effect, the bullets passing aliove
; Marks’ head and penetrating the ceiling.
| Marks ran into his room and closed the door,
! but fearing that Conoley would force it open,
J he passed out on the other side and ran down
the street. Conoley did not see Marks escape,
j and immediately after his escape Mr. Corke
ran out of an adjoining room and started run
-1 ning down the street, am! in the uncertain
light and the fact that he was running as if to
escape, Conoley mistook him for Marks and
fired at him with fatal result. The bullet
stcnck the left temple and penetrated the
brain, causing death in a few minutes. Mr.
Corke was a carpenter by trade, and a native
of Maryland. He had been at the Springs
only three weeks; nothing more is known of
him, as he had no friends or acquaintances
in Florida so far as known. He
was a very quiet and peaceable man.
Air. Conoley, about a year ago, purchased
lots in the new town and built the De Long
House, and was doing a good business. He
was an energetic business man and deservedly
popular, but failing to meet some notes due
for the property, Marks ordered him to give
up the hotel, and had threatened to have liim
ejected. Meddlesome persons carried news
and brought about bad feelings between the
two men. Conoley is well known throughout
the State. He belongs to a highly respectable
family, and was Governor Drew’s private
i secretary daring his (Drew’s) administration
j as Governor of the State, ana for about two
! years afterward.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
There is some talk of building a town hall
i in Abbeville.
Williamsburg is now out of debt, the litst
check having been ordered paid.
Wm. 11. Hobbs, of Lexington county, was
fatally crushed by cars at Columbia the other
day.
Orange Admorc, a colored perjurer of
Berkeley county, has been bound over for
trial.
Manuel Iseman, of Marion, has male an as
signment to Julius Evans for the benefit of
his creditors.
Jiulge Kershaw lias decided that a goose is
a domestic animal subject to the provisions of
the stock law.
Joseph Howard has been convicted of the
murder of Simon Gaskins at Sumter. He will
doubtless hang.
The bells of the town hall and of the colored
. churches of Georgetown were tolled last week
for Congressman Mackey.
David Shealey died at Eeesville, Lexington
county, last week. He was 81 years of age,
and the oldest inhabitant at Leesville.
The State Grange held an interesting
session at Charleston this week, and adjourned
Thursday. The next annual meeting will be
held in the same city February 5, 1885.
Joseph Sampson & Son, of Georgetown, are
now proposing to settle with their creditors
at 35 cents on the dollar. It is not known
whether or not the proposition will lie ac
cepted.
A. B. Williams, editor of the Greenville
-Wuw, has lieen elected by the City Council
chief of the Greenville fire department, vice
R. H. Kennedy, who declined to serve longer
without pay.
It is said that the South Carolina Railway
Company’s officers have offered Mrs. Jennings
Owens, whose husband was killed at Langley
last week, the sum of S6O per mouth as long
as she remains a widow.
Beck Green, a colored woman living on the
Waccamaw, in Georgetown county, was re
-1 ccntlv caught in the belting at Nesbit’s
threshing null, and so seriously injured that
i she died shortly afterwards.
The dedication of Bethany M. E. Church
South, at Summerville, which was to have
taken place to-day, has been postponed in
consequence of the illness of Bishop Wilson,
who was expected to officiate.
The Aiken Recorder charges that the re
turn of sales made by several of the Main
' street merchants in that place is an Incorrect
! exhibit of their business and a shameful in
-1 justice upon the taxpayers at large.
A number of the creditors of Mrs. A. T.
Westfield, of Greenville, have begun suit to
set aside the deeds made by her to lauds
valued at $30,000, on the ground that the
papers were made for the purpose of defeat
ing the crcdiHirs.
On Friday last, during an affray between
T. M. Roberts and J. H. Outz, at Granite
villc, Aiken county, the latter was danger
ously cut with a knife across the neck and
chest. The large arteries of the neck were
severely lacerated, and Mr. Outz now lies in
a critical condition.
The personal estate of the late Hon. Armis
tead Burt was sold at Abbeville last week
and brought $4,125. Among the articles
sold were two pistols, one of them a his
torical weapon, it having lieen the firearm
which established the law that a woman is
not liable to indictment under law for car
rying concealed weapons. Kitty McKenny,
a colored woman of Abbeville, being indicted
for carrying concealed weapons, the de
fense was set up that the law did not ap
ply to women, which view was sustained by
the court.
The members of the Longshoremen’s Pro
tective Union of Charleston are on a strike,
consequent upon an alleged insult offered to
the President of the union by Thomas Young. ■
a stevedore. It appears that the President of ,
the association, who is a negro, and Mr.
me words, during the course of |
which Mr. Young angrily -shouted that he
would break the negro's “d—d neck” if he
ditint t leave the ship Klyde, which Mr. Young i
was loading with cotton. The negro there- i
upon ordered all members of the union, num
bering 700 or 800 hands, to strike and remain :
idle until his wounded dignity had been ap- i
peased by an apology from Mr. Young. All !
the shipping in the harbor is affected by the j
strike, and the conduct of the negro in thus I
revenging a petty personal spite on the whole !
city is the subject of bitter comment.
WOE ALONG THE WATER.
TERRIBLE SCENES IN THE
FLOODED DISTRICTS.
Wheeling and Cincinnati the Worst Suf
ferers—A Relief Boat Riddled with
Bullets by the Panic Stricken West
Virginians—Rising Waters Reported
from Both of These Sections.
Cincinnati, Feb. 9, 1 r. m.— The river
is sixty-three feet nine inches, and is
rising a little more than half an inch per
hour. The weather is clcudy and cooler
and the wind is from the north. The
white flag is again floating from the
Signal Service office, which indicates
colder weather. The river is not likely
to fall here until the rush from above
takes place. At Ripley, only fifty miles
above Cincinnati, the river is rising to-day
an inch and a half an hour, and at 11
o’clock a. m. it was within one inch ol
last year’s high water mark. Rain was
falling there. The situation is unchanged,
except that the river rises. The loss to
lumber yards and property of that de
scription increases. There has been no
loss by weakened foundations yet report
ed, and last year’s experience in that way
shows that not much damage will result
from that cause.
LEAPING UP AT CINCINNATI. *
Cincinnati, Feb. 9, 9 p. m.— At 8
o’clock to-night the river marked sixty
four feet and one inch. This is signifi
cant, as showing that the rapid rise at
points above here reported yesterday and
the day before is beginning to be felt
here. The total rise of the past twenty
four hours exceeds that of the preceding
day. It is the opinion of close observers
of the Ohio river floods that not ouly will
the rise continue here until Monday, but
that during to-night and to-morrow
it will be increased. The river has
already gone beyond the flood
of 1847, making this the
third in rank. It has only
five inches to rise until the mark of the
famous flood of 1832 is reached. There is
now no doubt that that point will be
reached. It has been said that the losses
this year, with the same stage of water,
would not be more than 10 per cent, of
those ol last year. This applies mainly
to personal and household property, but
in other and larger interests the loss must
be heavy. The interruption to the busi
ness of manufacturing, trading and trans
portation must continue for from two to
four weeks. Much damage has been
caused to the machinery by being
submerged. Lumber and coal yards will
suffer to about the same extent as last
year. In Mill creek valley, where there
are immense vegetable gardens, the loss
is incalculable. It would be idle to com
pute in figures the total losses up to this
time. There has been no great disaster.
No railroad property except the machine
shops have been injured. Thetracks, em
bankments and bridges in the vicinity of
this city are all intact. The Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Road has had no
interference with its travel. Its depot is
used by the New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio and the Cincinnati, Washington and
Baltimore Roads. The Cleveland, Colum
bus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Road
uses its own track to the Eighth-street
station, where the water covers the
track.
A short distance above the depot its
trains will stop a mile further out at the
stock yards. The Pan Handle Road will
not be able to use its depot to-morrow,
but can stop a short distance out. Nearly
all the street cars are running on this
side of the river, but none can cross to the
Kentucky side. The relief work here
grows daily as the stock of provisions of
the poor families imprisoned in their
houses diminishes. The best men in the
city are directing the work and giving it
their personal attention. In Newport,
Ky., the burden has grown so great that
the Mayor has called on neighboring Ken
tucky towns for help.
FAMINE ADDED TO THE FLOOD.
Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 9, G a. m.—
Word Las been received that the people
at Wellsburg, twenty miles up the river,
are suffering from famine. At Benwood
the situation was as bad, but a relief
party visited there on a steamer and left
a liberal supply ot provisions.
APPALLING DEVASTATION.
W heeling, Feb. 9, G p. m.— The scene
in this city is indescribable as the waters
subside, and the amount of destruction to
be seen is appalling. The tire engines are
employed in washing off mud lrom the
streets as the waterfalls. A relief steamer
that went down the river to Benwood,
Moundsville and Bellair has not yet re
turned. They had on board a plentiful
supply of provisions, and none in need of
food will sutler. The points that suffer
worst are above this city, especially
Wellsburg. As far as known at this time
no lives have been lost.
WHEELING buried in mud.
Wheeling, W. Va,, Feb. 9, 7. p. m.—
The water has receded to 48 feet, leaving
three inches of muddy slime over the de
serted streets.' The gas will be turned on
this evening, but a water famine is threat
ened, with no prospect of relief before
Monday. The home subscriptions for the
relief of the destitute have reached SO,OOO,
and plenty more is available. Provisions
are holding out well, and the promise ot
restored communication with the outside
world is bright. Relief nartids have gone
to Benwood and Wellsburg by steamboat.
At West Wheeling, over the river, boats
were prevented from landing by inhabi
tants, headed by State Senator Wagner,
who fired on one boat that made the at
tempt. It was feared that the wash of
the waves would further injure sub
merged buildings.
an appeal for aid.
Wheeling, W. Va., 9 p. m.—On the
representation of citizens of West Vir
ginia that the local resources are insuffi
cient to relieve the suffering resulting
from the floods, the Governor has sent
dispatches to the Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress, asking that a joint
resolution for the relief of the unfortu
nates be increased to $1,000,000.
The Whitaker Sheet Iron Works and
Chicago Car Rooting Company 105e575,000.
THE BULLET RIDDLED STEAMER.
The steamer John Lewis arrived from
down the river this evening. She was
riddled with bullets, and her passengers
were lying on the cabin floor covered,
with mattresses and life preservers as a
protection from the missiles. The boat
left Parkersburg this morning. She re
ports that many houses at New Martins
ville have been swept away. The Pitts
burg Stove Works and dyeing houses are
a total loss.
There is not a vestige left of Cochran
ville, an Ohio village in Monroe county.
At Moundsville the prison ran out of
water, and citizens had to carry a supply
to the place. The reason given for liring
on the steamer was that the inhabitants
feared that the waves from the vessel
would complete the work of destruction
done by the flood.
AMONG THE HOMELESS.
The situation here among the
homeless who are sheltered in
school houses, churches and other
buildings grows worse. Not enough
food can be procured to feed them
and give aid to neighboring towns that are
suffering. Mayor Miller said to-night
that he had hoped to avoid appealing for
aid to the country at large, but now
feared that it would have "to be done.
Clothing, food and money are badly
needed. Two children died to-day from
exposure and insufficient and unfit food.
That the worst has not yet begun is a
sickening conclusion to which the
thoughtful are forced.
a more fa voidable retort.
Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 9, 9 p. m.—Reports
from up the river to-day show a more
favorable condition of affairs. While very
high water is Btill reported, the river has
fallen some during the day. Tbe ice
gorges remain firm and the water is pass
ing off. With the exception of the partial
destruction ot a wagon bridge at South
Toledo, no special damage has been re
ported to-day. From these reports the
feeling that Toledo will escape the flood is
gaining strength. Another encouraging
sign is the solidity of the gorges, which
makes it reasonable to suppose that they
will remain unbroken, permitting the wa
ter to escape gradually to the lake.
SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1884.
A FRESHET AT HARRISBURG.
Harrisburg, Feb. 9.—The ice in Cen
odoquinet creek, on the opposite side of
the Susquehanna river, broke to-day aDd
caused a tremendous flood. Four bridges
over tbe creex, between Carlisle and the
river, valued at over SBO,OOO, were crushed
and carried away, and considerable dam
age was done otherwise. Three dams
were washed out, and the mills connected
with them were so badly injured as to
prevent their running until repaired. The
freshet is the worst ever known in the
Cumberland Y'alley. Portions of the
wrecked bridges are now jammed against
the piers of the Northern Central Rail
road bridge at the mouth of the creek.
LYNCHBURG THREATENED.
Lynchburg, Feb. 9.—Recent rains
have swollen the James river nine feet
above the low water mark at this point,
and the river is still rising rapidly.
Great fears are entertained of a disastrous
flood. The water guards at the first lock
above the city are gradually giving way
under the pressure of the water,and should
they break loose every vestige of propertv
in that section of the city will be swept
away.
THE WORST OVER AT PITTSBURG.
Pittsburg, Feb. 9. 8 p. m.—As the
waters are steadily receding, affairs are
resuming their usual condition, and in a
few days all traces of the flood will be ob
literated. 'l'he effective arrangements
made for relief prevents much of the suf
fering which would otherwise have been
experienced. (Many manufacturing estab
lishments resumed operations this morn
ing, and others will do so Monday. With
the exception of the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie and the Pittsburg, McKeesport and
Youghiogheny, all the railroads are run
ning as usual. The first named road ex
pects to resume Monday.
FOUR FEET AHEAD OF THE FLOOD.
Cairo, 111., Feb. 9, 8 p. m.—The river
is 43 feet 10 inches high and is rising three
quarters of an inch per hour. The weath
er is cloudy and colder. The probability
is that the flood will hardly reach 50 feet
here, and the people are prepared lor even
53 or 54 feet.
HOPE DASHED TO EARTH.
Louisville, Feb. 9, 8 a. m.—The river
ca m e to a stand yesterday about noon,
but has since been rising inch per hour.
At 10 last night it registered 40 feet 2
inches. The worst situation is at Jeffer
sonville. It is feared that the railroad
till will give away and inundate the town.
A Frankfort dispatch says that the
Kentucky river is falling, and that all
danger of an overflow has passed.
a deplorable situation.
Catlettsburg, Ky., Feb. 9, 7 a. m.—
The situation here is deplorable. Only
one hotel and one grocery store are open.
The people are occupying the court house
and school house. The river is rising two
inches per hour.
HUNDREDS homeless.
Ripley, Ohio, Feb. 9, 6 a. m.—Tbe loss
by the fleod here will be fully equal to
that of last year. Many houses have been
swept from their foundations and whole
families are homeless. The river is ris
ing 1% inches per hour. A relief commit
tee has been organized and the citizens
are taking care of their unfortunate
neighbors.
one hundred hours of rain.
Galveston, Feb. 9.—A special from
Longview says: “It has been raining here
continually tor nearly one hundred hours.
The botltoins in every direction are flood
ed. Many extensive washouts and slides
on railways are reported.”
HORRORUPONHORROR.
A Frightful Explosion Adiled to the Woe
of the Flood at Wheeling.
Wheeling, W. Va., Feb. 9.—To add to
the horrors of the flood at Bridgeport this
morning at 10 o’clock, J. C. Dent, of the
firm of Wells & Dent, druggists, in the
Heinlin block, corner of Bank and Ben
nett streets, went into his store with an
alcohol lamp. The store had been more
than two-thirds submerged, and a barrel
of gasoline had becu upset. The gas from
this had risen to the second story. No
sooner did it come in contact with the
flame of the lamp than an explosion
took place, and the building was
set on lire. Mr. Dent, who
was badly burned, jumped from the second
story window and received serious inter
nal injuries. The Wheeling Fire Depart
ment was unable to cross the island,
which is still covered to a great depth
with water, and there were no other
means of checking the fire. Heinlin &
Stall lose $17,000 on the building. Their
insurance is $7,500. Wells & Dent lose
SIO,OOO. Their insurance is $0,500. George
Griffin, grocer, loses $5,000. His insur
ance is $3,500. Bowie & Dean, druggists,
lose $1,500, but are insured. James Me-
Conahey, confectioner, loses $1,500.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Boards of Trade Invited to Address the
Kailroad Commission.
Atlanta, Feb. 9.—The Railroad Com
mission adjourned to Tuesday, when
the Chambers of Commerce and Boards of
Trade will be heard if they so desire on
the C, D and F rate matter. invi
tations have been sent to the Macon, Au
gusta and Savannah Boards of Trade.
POST’S WORK.
Architect Post has given earnest and
diligent scrutiny to all the designs and
plans for the new capitol, and his report,
which will be full and suggestive, will be
ready for the meeting of the Capitol Com
missioners on Monday.
THE GEORGIA REPUBLICANS.
Col. A. E. Buck says that he did not call
the Republican State Committee together
on the 23d, because the Democratic State
Committee is to meet on the 22d, and he
knew nothing of the call. There seems
to be a desire to have both State Conven
tions held early in April or May. The Re
publican Convention for delegates to the
Chicago National Convention promises to
be the liveliest and most important ever
held in Georgia.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
The Supreme Court to-day rendered de
cisions in twenty-six cases, of which only
the following interest Savannah anil
Southwest Georgia: Western Union Tel
egraph Company vs. Shotter, from the
City Court of Savannah, judgment re
versed; the Georgia Railroad vs. the
Railroad Commission, refusal of injunc
tion from Fulton, affirmed and the case
goes to the United States Supreme Court;
Hoehstadter Bros, vs, Harrison et al., pe
tition for the removal of the case from the
Macon Superior Court to the United
States Court, reversed; Dougherty county
et al. vs. Boyt et al., injunction case, af
firmed; Wilder & Cos. et al. vs. the Mayor
of Savannah et al., refusal of Injunction,
affirmed; Savannah, Florida and Western
Railroad vs. Stewart, case from Ware, re
versed; Roberts vs. Germania Fire In
surance Company et al., and vice versa,
complaint from Glynn, affirmed. No de
cision has yet been rendered in the
Shorter will ease or the Bank of Rome
case. The regular term of the court
commences on Monday.
A TRAMP SENTENCED.
The tramp who insulted Father McMa
hon because he would not give him lodg
ing as well as food was to-day sent to the
chain gang for twenty days, although this
kind hearted priest begged for his release.
It will teach tramps a lesson in polite
ness, as several similar cases have oc
curred here recently.
FEARS OF A FRESHET.
Fears are entertained of a small freshet
In the rivers.
A Kiot at San Juan.
San Juan, Argentine Republic,
Feb. 9.—Last night an armed force at
tacked the police barracks and residence
of Deputy Mallar. The Governor is re
ported to have been killed. Several oth
ers were wounded. The body of Senator
Gomez was found under a bush, he hav
ing beeu murdered. Troops quelled tbe
disturbance, and to-day things are quiet.
New Orleans’ Mardl Gras.
New Orleans, Feb. 9.—lnterest in the
the carnival is increasing. All the socie
ties will give elegant pageants. Several
military commands and many distin
guished persons will he present, The
costumes have arrived, and the floats are
nearly ready.
Work on the exposition grounds com
menced yesterday.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
$5,000 ASKED FOR IMPROVING
TV BEE ISLAND.
A Savaniialian Given an Assistant
Postmastershlp in the House—Dari
en’s Appeal for the Improvement of
Her Harbor and River—Wiegand
Again Giving Testimony.
Washington, Feb. 9.—Mr. Nichols
will introduce on Monday a bill to appro
priate $5,000 for the improvement of Tybee
Island. The bill will be accompanied by a
memorial setting forth that the drains and
ditches on the island w r ere filled up, and
in many cases totally obliterated by the
storm in August, 1881, to the detriment of
health and property. The memorial is
signed by leading citizens of Savannah.
T. J. Sheftall, of Savannah, has been
appointed one of the Assistant Post
masters of the House. The appointment
was secured by Mr. Nicholls.
A petition has been received here from
the people of Darien, asking an appropria
tion lor the improvement of Darien harbor
and river. It is necessary that there
should be a survey before the appropria
tion can be made. Mr. Nicholls on Mon
day will introduce a bill to secure such a
survey. He thinks that the River and
Committee will provide for it.
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
The House Committee on Labor to-day
ordered a favorable report on Representa
tive Hopkins’ bill for the establishment of
a Department of Labor Statistics. The
measure provides for the appointment of
a Commissioner, who shall require all
useful information upon the subject of la
bor, 'its relations to capital, and the
means of promoting the material, social,
religious and intellectual prosperity of
laboring men and women. The question
of contract convict labor was discussed
without reaching a conclusion. Next
Friday the committee will hear the argu
ments of employers favoring foreign con
tract labor.
WIEGAND CONTINUES HIS RECITAL.
E. B. Wiegand, Examiner of the De
partment of Justice, continued his testi
mony to-day before the House Committee
on Expenditures in the Department of
Justice investigating the conduct of gov
ernment officials. The witness was ex
amined in relation to the conduct of R.
M. Douglas, a son of Stephen A. Doug
las, and ex-Marshal, of the Western Dis
trict of North Carolina, and said that he
lound him impracticable and almost en
tirely without business capacity. His
office was in charge of his brother-in-law,
said by Wiegand to be totally incompe
tent. The main object of Mr. Douglass,
the witness thought, was to make the
office pay the maximum compensation
allowed by law rather than to faithfully
administer the duties of the posi->
tion. Mr. Wiegand cited numerous in
stances of overcharges and false
accounts made for guards and transporta
tion, and said that the reports of four or
five investigations of Mr. Douglas’ office
were against the incumbent. In explain
ing tbe charges against Deputies for
making false accounts, the Marshal de
fended them by saying that the law al
lowed them to make such charges. A
majority of the arrests in North Carolina
had been made for illicit distilling.
ON LONGSTREET‘B CORNS.
Mr. Joel W. Bowman, an examiner of
the Department of Justice, was the next
witness.
He testified that he had made an inves
tigation of the offices of Mr. Douglas, ex-
Marshal of the Western District of North
Carolina, and Gen. Longstreet, Marshal
of the Northern District of Georgia. He
said that the officers were derelict in their
duty and were guilty of negligence and
inattention to the affairs of their offices,
while some of their deputies were dis
honest. In each district he had arrested
two deputies for rendering false and fic
titious accounts. Two ot them had al
ready been tried, the result in one case
being a conviction and the sentencing of
the deputy to the penitentiary. In the
other the result was an acquittal.
BLOODY WORK IN ARKANSAS.
Three Men Shot Dead and One Fatally
and Another Slightly Wounded on a
Publie Street.
Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. 9.—A terrible
tragedy was enacted on the main street
of this city this morning about 11 o’clock.
Three brothers named Frank, Jack and
William Flynn wer e proceeding home in
a hack when a party of seven men, armed
with double-barrel shot guns, stepped out
from the door of a 6aloon and
opened lire. The Flynns were
armed, but the attack was totally
unexpected. Jack Flynn wa9 shot
through the forehead by a ball from a
Winchester rifle and died in a few min
utes. William was shot through the
breast and the wound will probably prove
fatal. Frank received a shot through the
hand, inflicting slight wounds. Frank
Hall, the driver of the hack, was shot
through the back of tbe neck and died an
hour afterward. Robert Hargrave, a by
stander, was shot through the breast and
will probably die.
J. H. Craig, a prominent lumberman,
received a charge of buckshot through the
back, and his condition is considered pre
carious.
THE CAUSE OF THE SHOOTING.
The difficulty originated some weeks
ago in the effort of Frank Flynn to pre
vent a man named Doran from opening a
gambling house. It culminated at the
time in Doran making a cowardly attempt
to assassinate Frank, tailing in which he
fled the city. He returned a few nights
ago, hut Flynn was unaware of his pres
ence in the city until the fatal volley was
opened on him. The seven men who did
the shooting were arrested and are
now in jail. They are S. A.
Doran, the two Pruitt brothers,
a man named Howell and three others.
The most intense excitement prevails,
and strong threats of lynching the pris
oners are made. The citizens are loud in
their condemnation ot the murderous and
cowardly act. Judge Wood has been
telegraphed to by leading citizens, re
qusting him to adjourn court at Malvern,
and return here and hold a special session
to try the murderers. If he consents, the
law will probably be allowed to take its
course. If not the citizens boldly threaten
to burn the jail and hang the prisoners.
Folger Again Favors Foreign Rice.
Washington, Feb. 9.—Secretary Fol
ger to-day rendered a decision settling the
contest over the classification of rice,
meal anil small rice broken into small
particles in process of cleaning. The
Secretary holds that these qualities are
subject only to a duty of 20 per cent, ad
valorem instead of 2J4 cents per pound
as is charged upon cleaned rice. This
question is of great importance to brewers,
as this small rice has during the past few
years entered quite largely into the manu
facture of the best grades of beer.
An Appeal Dismissed.
Washington, Feb. 9.— The Secretary
of the Interior has dismissed the appeal
of Adolph Eccard from the decision of
the Commissioner of Patents In the patent
interference case of Eccard vs. Draw
baugh, an application for a patent for a
microphonie telephone. Interference had
been decided in favor of Mr. Eccard, but
the Commissioner .granted Mr. Draw
baiigh’s motion to reopen the case for the
introduction of fresh testimony, and from
that decision Mr. Eccard appealed.
Baron Nicotera Sustained.
Rome, Feb. 9. —The Chamber of Depu
ties has refused to authorize the institu
tion of legal proceedings against Baron
Nicotera for assaulting Signor Lobito,
Secretary of the Minister of the Interior.
[On December 6, Baron Nicotera. who
was formerly Minister of the Interior,
crossly insulted Signor Lobito in the
lobby of the Chamber of Deputies. A duel
with swords followed, and Signor Lobito
was badly wounded.]
Forced Loans in Bolivar.
Cartagek, Feb. 9.— Tue Dean of the
Consular corps in the State of Bolivar has
addressed a note to the government ask
ing that foreigners be exempted from the
payment of compulsory loans. Two French
subjects were recently imprisoned for re
fusing to pay the proportion of such a
loan demanded from them.
BAKER PASHA RECALLED.
Col. Hallam Ordered to Succeed the
Defeated Commander.
New York, Feb. 9.—A Cairo special
says: ‘“The government feeling dissatis
fied with the report of Baker Pasha in re
gard to his recent fight with the rebels, in
which his forces were badly routed, and
his hasty action in fleeing from Trinkitat,
has ordered him and Col. Sartorius, with
the gendarmrrie which, formed a portion
ot his command, to report at once to
Cairo. Col. Hallam has been ordered to
succeed Baker Pasha, and will proceed at
once to Suakim, accompanied by Majs.
Kiggott and Naggard, o' the
Egyptian army. On his ar
rival at Suakim they will
reorganize the remnaut of Baker Pasha’s
command, and, with the assistance of
the marines recently landed there, they
expect to be able to prevent the city from
falling into the hands of the rebels. A
dispatch from Suakim states that a mes
senger arrived there from Sinkat bearing
an appeal for assistance from the be
leaguered garrison of that place. A reply
was returned stating that it was impossi
ble at present to send any relief,
as at least 1,500 additional men
were needed at Suakim to protect
the city from being sacked by the
rebels, who are now threatening the
place. The messenger reported that
Tewfik Bey had offered to surrender on
condition that their lives be spared, but
the oiier was refused, the commander of
the rebel forces demanding an uncon
ditional surrender.
ANNEXATION URGED.
London, Feb. 9.—ln a leading article
this morning the Pall Mall Gazette says
that England, although opposed to the
annexation of Egypt, will be under the
necessity of exercising absolute authority
over that country for the next five or ten
years. The exigencies of the present
crisis demands immediate action, and
further delay on the part of England to
assume control would be nothing less
than criminal.
CENSURED BY THE “TIMES.”
The Times, in its leading article this
morning, energetically attacks the gov
ernment’s Egyptian policy. It says that
the government has been shutting its
eyes to facts that all the world sees, and t
avoiding a responsibility which all the
world lays at its door. The Times adds
that there is a prospect that not only the
naval, but also the military force in the
East will shortly be considerably aug
mented.
A LETTER FROM O’KEI.LY.
a letter has been received from James
O’Kelly, the Egyptian correspondent of
the News, about whose fate much anxiety
has been felt of late. It was dated As
sioot, January 5, and filled with gloomy
forebodings of danger.
SEYMOUR ORDERED TO RE IN READIN ESS.
Admiral Seymour received a summons
after yesterday’s Cabinet council and
was directed to be ready to set out for
Egypt at an hour’s notice.
A dispatch from Suakim says: “We do
not know how the sufferings of the uoor
fellows and thousands of women and chil
dren at Sinkat affect the English public,
but here they excite feelings of pity and
humiliation impossible to describe. There
is absolutely no hope of recovering the
stragglers from the battle of Tokar.”
HEWITT’S POWERS.
Admiral Hewitt has been invested with
the civil and military command of Suakim.
He will have at his disposal within a fort
night a force of 3,000 marines.
Gen. Gordon has been spoken four days
beyond Korosko.
Gen. Gordon has arrived at Berber.
THE GAY HEAD DISASTER.
The Government Chart—What an Old
Pilot Said.
Through the courtesy of the Hon. Geo.
M. Landers, of New Britain, says the
Hartford Times, we have the large chart,
40 by SO inches, made by the soundings
and measurement of the Coast Survey,
from Monomoy and Nantucket Shoals,
through the Vineyard Sound. It shows
the soundings at every spot, all the way,
outside as well as inside of the
islands, and the exact course to
be taken by all steamers, according to
the sailing chart. This line is going
west when the steamer makes Nobska
light, at Wood’s Hole, at the east end of
Naushon Island, is plain and the direc
tion not possible to be mistaken. At that
point the course is to deflect southwest
erly, but to keep thence in a true course
just south of Naushon, Nashawena and
Chuttyhunk Islands, for almost a dozen
miles to a point nearly five miles north
west of Gay Head—then turn south. The
City of Columbus had no business near
Gay Head. There is another course
that would take her nearer that
point, but it is not the safe
course of the sailing chart. Moreover,
Gay Head light sent its warning blaze
boldly out from that w r ild promontory,
and to run upon that iron-bound headland
or its outlying rocks and reefs seems to
have been an act of such unaccountable
stupidity as to justify the assertion of an
old pilot, who was among
the first to get on deck,
that everybody in charge of the doomed
ship must have been fast asleep. To-day
the quartermaster, or pilot, practically
testifies that he knew nothing of the route
—knew’ not where he was!
Failures in Business.
New York, Feb. 9.—The Manchester
Mills, W. J. McDiarmid & Bro., proprie
tors, at Manchester, N. C., and W. J. Mc-
Diarmid k Bro., turpentine distillers, etc.,
at Spout Springs, N. C., have made as
signments, making preferences. The Man
chester Mills were incorporated in 1860,
with a capital stock of $24,000. They did
quite a large business, and were looked
upon as a good concern.
FAILED AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
Lexington, Feb. 9.—James A.
Grinstead, of the late banking firm of
Grinstead & jßradley, and for fifty years
considered one of the most solvent men in
Kentucky, made an assignment yester
day. His assets are from $50,000 to $60,-
000. The liabilities are unknown, but are
supposed to exceed the assets.
COTTON DEALERS GO UNDER.
New Orleans, Feb. 9.—Renshaw &
Cammack, cotton dealers, have failed.
No statement of their liabilities and as
sets have been given yet. The failure is
said to have been caused by short crops.
Clara Belden Tippetts’ Romantic His
tory.
New York, Feb. 9.—To-day the body
o t Clara Belden Tippetts, the actress
who died from the effects of stimulants at
Bellevue Hospital, was taken to Roches
ter, N. Y. She was a granddaughter of
Gov. Bell and was Georgia born. She
was there adopted by a St. Louis gentle
man and subsequently married Mr.
Belden, but was divorced. She subse
quently met Tippetts in Texas and married
him in London. Her daughter, from a
convent in Ohio, was present at the ob
sequies.
Baltimore and Ohio Secures More
Wires.
New York, Feb. 9.—The Balti
more and Ohio Telegraph Company has,
through its President, Robert Garrett,
concluded the purchase of the entire
capital stock of the .Manhattan District
Telegraph Company at a price somew T hat
less than par, $lOO,OOO.
Francis Joseph’s Surprising Action.
Vienna, Feb, 9.—The Emperor has
conferred an order upon the Mayor of
Tiza Eslar, who instigated the recent
prosecution of the Jews there on a charge
of murdering a Christian girl. The Em
peror’s action has caused a painful sen
sation.
An Operator Arrested.
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 9.—S. W.
Knapp, an old Western Union operator,
was arrested here this afternoon for di
vulging the contents of cipher messages.
Sudden changes of weather are product
ive of Throat Diseases, Coughs, Colds, etc.
There is no more effectual relief in these
diseases to be found than in the use ot
Brown’s Bronchial Troches. Price
25 cts.
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
REJOICING OVER THE END OF
THE DI CKSNOLA TRIAL.
Langtry at a Down Town Theatre at
Popular Prices—The True Inwardness
of the Gebhardt Scandal—Monsignor
Capcl Pitted in Argument Against
Protestantism, Judaism aid Agnosti
cism.
Correspondence of the Mornino Kexcs.
New York, Feb. 7.—This may be the
worst possible world, but the wind is
generally tempered to the shorn lamb
(except in Wall street), and New Yorkers
have at least one thing to be grateful for
—the Feuardent-Di Cesnola trial has at
last ended 1 It has ended, too, in the
practical triumph of “Gen.” Cesnola and
(he Central Park collection of alleged
antiquities. The General scored 34 i>oints
in a possible 36. To make this, borrow
ing the language of Creedmoor, plainer,
let me briefly review the trial and its
antecedents: Di Cesnola, be he General
or simple Signor, obtained for the city of
New York a collection, which, whatever
its drawbacks, was. earnestly desired by
the British Museum, and could even now’
be disposed of to any foreign nation for
more thaw it cost us. M. Feuardent, a
rival collector of antiquities, gratified a
private but professional grudge which he
had against Cesnola by attacking the
authenticity of many of the objects of
bigotry and virtu in the Central Fark
collection, ne enlisted in the warfare
against the antiquities Oiarenee Cook and
other critics, as well as several rich men
who are to suffer for their enthusiasm by
paying half the expenses of one of the
most expensive bits of litigation on
record.
Di Cesnola, attacked in his teuderest
point, finally, when patience had ceased
to be a virtue, struck back, and, if he did
not call Feuardent, in the language of
Horace Greeley, a liar and a horse thief,
he said in equally unmistakable although
politer language, that he was a delusion
and a snare. Thereupon Feuardent sued
him for libel, demanding $25,000 damages,
and the trial, which ended after fifty-five
days duration last Saturday, was the re
sult of his suit. Although during the
long drawn trial the genuineness of sev
eral of the sculptures in the Central Park
collection was successfully impeached,
the result, as I sauLts that Cesnola scored
34 poinls in a possible 36. For on two of
the three counts the twelve jurymen
agreed that Cesnola had committed no
libel, and they stood ten to two on the
third in favor of Cesnola, and 12x2x10—34
Q. E. D.
The only point which Feuandent satis
factorily proved, perhaps, is that Cesnola
has no right to the military title which
commonly precedes his name. It is not
for native born Americans, however, to
reproach our distinguished Italian fellow
citizen for this. Who that is without sin
amongst us in this respect, let him cast
the first stone! The stone thus east would,
according to Feuardent, do the General
but little harm, for he would at oncehaye
it chiseled into shape, and it would pres
ently appear in the C. P. collection as the
newly unearthed production of a Greek
sculptor who died at least 2,000 years ago!
The expenses bf the trial have been com
puted at nearly SI,OOO a day, including
counsel fees, so that the aggregate cannot
be far from $50,000. This aniouut is to be
divided equally between the two litigants,
or, rather, their backers, who are said to
include D. O. Mills on one side and Cor
nelius Vanderbilt on the other.
MRS. LANGTRY HAS NO CAUSE TO RE
GRET
her condescending to appear at a down
town theatre at popular prices. Crowded
houses have greeted her thus far at Ni
blo’s Garden, and seats are engaged for a
fortnight ahead. The foregoing is not an
advertisement, but is merely an introduc
tion to some gossip which I have heard
about her lately. The gossip is favorabi©
or, of course, I would not repeat it. She
is said to have broken off entirely with
Gebhardt, and his intimacy with her is
declared by one who knows her inti
mately, and who is man of the world
enough not to be easily deceived, not to
have been of a kind to encourage a suc
cessor. My informant declares that Geb
hardt wasted his time and his money in
prosecution of designs upon Mrs. Lang
try, which were presumably not partic
ularly moral, and that he was only suc
cessful in attaining notoriety. Mrs. Lang
try accepted his attentions and his pres
ents, but laughed at his love making.
She is conscious now that she made a
mistake in doing so much as this, and
regrets that she had anything to do with
him at all, for there is no doubt but that
she would have been generally received
in society here if she had not so soon
sullied her good name by an intimacy
with a fast man, which was imprudent, if
nothing worse. Several persons notable
in society are mentioned as having in
tended to entertain her had she not made
herself so shamefully conspicuous. If she
be innocent of wrong-doing, she is almost
as much to be pitied as if guilty, for she
is entirely ostracised by her own sex, and
can only associate with men. AVhen she
gives a dinner party or goes to one she
is generally almost the only ladv present,
and the unseemly struggle which is the
chief leature ot “A Wife’s Peril,” the
play in which she is now acting, between
her as “Lady Ormond” and “Capt. Brad
ford,” is not calculated to rehabilitate her
character in the minds of mo-’hlists.
Henry Ward Beecher, by the wav, hav
ing been announced to be one of the au
dience at Niblo’s Garden on Tuesday
evening, many people went there as much
to see him as to see the Jersey Lily. Sev
eral members of his family attended the
performance, but Mr. Beecher, apparently
disgusted by the publicity which had been
given bis intention, failed to appear, and
went to Boston instead. Several newspa
pers, nevertheless, reported him as pre
sent.
“Alpine Roses,” the plav at the Madi
son Square Theatre, by Prof. Boveson,
whose first two names, Hjalman Hjarth,
are considered unpronouneable by the
average American, has been generally
condemned by the critics, but is neverthe
less advertised by the management as an
“immense success.” When it is remem
bered that nflariy every play at this thea
tre at first failed to please the newspapers,
but, w ith one exception, held the stage
for many months in spite of the fact, the
management may be justified in consider
ing “Alpine Roses” a success.
I HEARD MONSIGNOR CAPKL MAKE AN
ARGUMENT
in behalf of the Roman Catholic Church
before the Nineteenth Century club at
the house of Mr. Courtland Palmer ou
Tuesday evening. He was replied to by
Rev. Dr. Pullman, as the representative
of Protestantism, the Rabbi Gottbeil, as
the spokesman for Judaism, aud T. B.
Wakeman, as the advocate of agnosticism.
The Monsignor had much the best of the
argument. Dr. Pullman, who, to begin
w ith, being a Uulversalist, was hardly a
fair representative ot Protestantism, c on
fined himself to assertions which were
dogmatic, without being well founded,
and the Rabbi, from the nature of his
creed, necessarily talked to deaf ears. He
made a better showing in my opinion,
however, than Mr. Wakeman, who merely
gave vent to the glittering generalities of
his kind about the religion of
humanity. Serious as the discus
sion was, it was listened to with
appparent attention by a number
of ultra fashionable people, including
many recognized belles who, doubtless,
went to a ball, or reception, after the feast
of reason and flow of soul was ended. At
least, one or two I subsequently met at
the reception of Judge aud Mrs. Peabodv
on the same street.
The newspapers of Tuesday morning
exhibited a consideration for a grief
stiicken family which is not often wit
nessed, A millionaire had committed
suicide, and they made no mention of it
in compliance with the request of his rel
atives. As an evening paper told the en
tire story, it will not be betraying confi
dence for me to repeat it in brief. Rich
ard L. Campbell, one ot the largest paper
manufacturers in the country, strangled
himself in his state-room in the Britannic,
in which he was returning from Europe,
where he had been traveling for his
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health, on Sunday. lie was ap
parently insane ’at the time.
Almost the very day be put an end to him
self, his wife, who had remained at their
home in Thirty-fourth street, near Filth
avenue, made him the father of tw’ins.
Mr. Campbell was believed to have been
worth between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000.
It is insinuated by the uncharitable that
a portion of this wealth was used to in
duce the morning newspapers to exhibit
the consideration lor which I have given
them credit.
To go from grave to gay: The course of
true love never does run smooth! A
Danish girl, rejoicing in the name of Ida
Smith, or its Scandinavian equivalent, ar
rived in this city on the Gellert, last week,
on her way to IV isconsin, where she w’as
to be married to her lover who had settled
there several years ago. Her parents dis
approved of the marriage, and her uncle,
a barber in this city, bethought
himself of a professional mode
of forbidding the bans while she was in
transitu. Accordingly, when he met her
at Castle Garden, he persuaded her that
her hair—of which she had a profusion,
curling in golden masses around a well
shaped head—was unfashionably long,
and induced her to let him cut it. He
cut i$ short enough, as he thought, to
render her hideous in her lover’s eyes;
but she, having faith in the latter’s at
tachment, set out to join him as speedily
as if she were still the fair one with
the golden locks to whom he had plighted
his troth in Denmark.
The Republicans in New York are
playing the double game for w hich the
grand old party is noted. They are con
scientiously investigating into the ex
cessive emoluments in the Democratic of
ficeholders of this city, while they refuse
to make the fat fees of the Republican
health officer of the port a subject for in
quiry. What is sauce for the Democratic
goose is not sauee lor the Republican
gander. D.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS. -*
Brljlit Flashes of Intelligence from Near
and Afar.
It was rumored in Atlanta, Friday 1 , that
the Piedmont Air-Line was offering t 0 6hip
freight from New York to Atlanta at $1 10.
The pool rate is $1 25.
A rival corporation has sprung up to
compete with the company already in the
field for building an air line from Macon
to Florida. The proposed routes of both
companies are the same.
The Georgia division of the East and
West Railroad of Alabama is three
feet gauge railway, extending thirty
seven and a half miles through Bartow
and Polk counties, between Cedartown
and Cartcrsville. It is now being ex
tended east and west to Birmingham and
Gainesville, and when completed will 1>
200 miles long. The earnings of that por
tion of the line in operation last year
were $79,710 57, and the operating ex
penses $46,609 07.
Ten years ago the Florida Transit and
Peninsular Railroad had only two mixed
trains, five engines, four coaches and
fifty-five boxes. Two conductors were
all that were needed then to keep up with
the business of the road. There are now
sixteen dailv trains on the two divisions,
twenty engines, twenty-five coaches, five
hundred boxes, two hundred and fifty flats
and fifteen cabooses. Abouttwentvleight
conductors are now required to manage
the various trains, aud the business of
the road is steadily increasing.
Last Monday a publicmeetingwas held
at Dahlonega,and a committee appointed
to solicit subscriptions for the Gainesville
and Dahlonega Railroad. Col. W. P.
Price presided, and informed the meeting
that the Richmond and Danville Railroad
proposes to furnish good second-class
rails at reduced price and take in pay
ment the bonds of the Gainesville and
Dahlonega Road, provided that Lumpkin
county shall raise $20,000 to complete the
grading and trestling of the road from
Leathersford to Dahlonega, about ten
miles.
The earnings of thirty-four railroads for
the third week of January make a very
favorable showing as compared with the
corresponding week last year, a gain be
ing reported of $111,703. The aggregate
earnings are $2,801,590, against $2,689,887
in 1883. There has been a steady im
provement since the first week of* the
year, which is very encouraging. The
earnings of thirty railroads for the first
week in January showed a loss of $238,-
891. For the second week thirty-one
roads reported a decrease of $34,944, and
the third week shows a gain, justifying
our prediction, made nearly a month
ago, that February would find the
railroads in a better position than
that occupied at the beginning 0 the
year. Only twelve of the thirty-four roads
reporting show a loss for the third week
compared with a year ago. These are the
Manitoba, Louisville and Nashville, Lake
Erie and Western, Illinois Central, Chi
cago and Eastern Illinois, Chicago and
Grand Trunk, Cincinnati, Washington
and Baltimore, Cleveland, Akron and Co
lumbus, Detroit, Lansing and Northern,
Grand Trunk, Indiana, Bloomington and
j Western, and St. Louis, Alton and Terre
; Haute. Most of these roads, however, are
j showing an increase in earniugs as com
pared with previous weeks, and the losses
j from a year ago are likely soon to be made
; up.
VILLAKD’S OLD ROADS.
i Northern Pacllic to Sever its Connec
tion with Three Great enterprises.
Chicago, Feb. 9.—A dispatch from
| St. Paul states that it is officially an
nounced there that the Northern Pacific
Railway Company will, onMarch Ist, sev
er all connection with the Oregon Rail*
; way and Navigation, the Oregon
and California Railway, and the
Pacific Coast Steamship Compa
nies. 31 r. Hanaford will become General
i Freight Agent for the Northern Pacific
main line and branches, A. L. Stokes will
be made Passenger and Freight Agent for
the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany. E. P. Rogers is expected to take
charge of the business or the Oregon and
California Railroad, a position he former
ly held, and the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company being controlled by the Oregon
Improvement Company, will come under
31r. 3luir’s management. Negotiations
are said to.be pending between the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company and the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
for the leasing of the track of tte latter
company from Walla Walla to Portland
and to the Northern Pacfic. The latter is
anxious to secure this road, in order to
have practically a line of its own
to Portland aud the seaboard..
North Carolina’s Tin Mine.
Charlotte, N. C., Feb. 9.—The Ob
server has had specimens of the tin ore,
(cassiterite,) just discovered at King’s
Mountain, forty miles west of here, ana
lyzed by Prof. George B. Hanna, Assist
ant United States Assayer. Seven anal
yses showed tbe ore to contain 43.46 per
cent, of tin. No tin mine is know’n to be
worked in the United States, and this dis
covery promises to be of very great value.
A Victorious Ice Boat.
Poughkeepsie, Feb. 9—ln an ice
yacht race lor the championship of Amer
ica the yacht Haze, of the Poughkeepsie
Club, won, beating the Shrewsbury boat
Dreadnaught by 30 seconds. The Dread
naught beat Jack Frost 12 seconds. Ali
of the others w T ere far behind.
Austria’s Reign of Terror.
Vienna, Feb. 9.—During the debate in
the lower House of the Reicnrath on excep
tional measures for the suppression of
socialism, documents will be offered
showing that plots existed which threat
ened the lives of the highest personages
of the realm.
Irish Invinclbleg at Chatham.
London, Feb. 9. — Ten Invincibles
from Irish prisons who were landed at
Portsmouth by tbe frigate 3'alorous have
been taken, along with many others, to
Chatham for confinement In the large
prison there.
Kradlaugh’s Appeal Disallowed .
London, Feb. 9. — Bradlaugh’s appeal
against the Sergeant-at-Arms for remov
ing him from the House of Commons and
not permitting him to enter has been dis
allowed by the Court of Queen’s Bench.
Cetewayo Dead.
London, Feb. 9.—Advices from South
Africa report the death of Cetewayo, the
famous Zulu chieftain, of heart disease.