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i ESTABLISHED 1850. {
j J. n. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor.)
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA,
NEWS OK THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
Further Details of the Killing of a
Horse Thief The Shocks Experi
enced from the Explosion of a Dyna
mite Cartridge—A Negro Arrested for
Arsou.
GEORGIA.
Forest fires are raging in Coffee county.
Dr. Stirling C. Etc, of Augusta, is dead,
'rlington has anew industry—a guano fac
tory.
A 75-pound bear has just been killed in Cof
fee county.
Josiah I!. Henry, a prominent citizen of
Crawfordsvillc, is dead.
It is rumored that anew hotel with 100
rooms is to be built at Quitman.
Bishop Beckwith was in Augusta yesterday
and is hooked for Bel-Air to-day.
Maj. Skelton says he has English peas three
Inches high in his garden near Hartwell.
Parties on the Ocmulgce river are uow en
gaged in running their timber to the market
and disposing of it for good prices.
A lady in Lowndes lias made and sold MM
pounds of butter in one year, nor did she milk
Jersevs either —common piney-woods cows.
At a meeting of the Aniericus Fair Associa
tion. held a few days ago to w ind up the lius
ine-s a dividend was declared of $2 85 per
share.
The Columbus cotton seed oil mill company
sold four hundred tons of cotton seed meal to
one customer Friday. This is an SB,OOO trans
action.
It cos's P. 15. Woodward, of Madison coun
ty, 26 cents per bushel to raise corn on his
farm in that couuty, and his land is not high
ly cultivated.
A Valdosta merchant made a cash sale of
merchandise to the amount of $250 one day
last week to parties who had come in wagons
lifty-five miles.
The South Georgia Mirror, the successor of
the South Georgia Immigrant, has made its
appearance at Thomasvillo. It is a monthly
publication of unquestionable merit.
Mary Williams, a woman of doubtful char
acter. recently made her appearance near
Gibson, and some of the citizens of the neigh
borhood went to the place where she was
stopping and gave her a Hogging.
The Seri veil county jail has been undergo
ing repairs. The foundation has been made
solid of brick and cement throughout, and
when tlie doors and windows are put in
proper order it will be a.- safe as can be.
The Calhoun County Courier Bays: “With a
short drought the ground will be dryer than
ever before. We haven’t had much rain vet.
Many people in this county are hauling their
drinking water from stagnant ponds and
pools."
Mr. Higgins, of Barnesville. lias a watch
bearing the following inscription on the in
side of the ease: “Bought by Catherine Chil
cott, in the city of London, England, in the
year 1701." The movement was in perfect
running order.
There is a strong sentiment in Valdosta in
favor of the purchase of a steam lire-engine.
Foreman Bentley, of the “Patterson,” is now
in correspondence with several manufactur
ers, and will have some facts and figures to
lay before the new Council.
Dr. Henderson has declined the proposition
of the trustees of Bowden College, and will
not accept the Presidency tendered him. Dr.
If. was elected President of Yadkin College,
a nourishing institution of North Carolina,
hut has also declined that offer.
The Cos fee County Gazette says: "A road
leading from the new bridge on the Satilla
river, intersecting wiili the road from Pear
son to Douglass, is greatly needed, ami with
out it the bridge, with aif its expense, will be
of nut little use to the traveling public.”
A petition to the Po-t Office Department has
been extensively signed by the citizens of
Goode’s district. ('amphell county, asking that
a post office be established at the gin house of
•1. il. Beeves. Tne name of the office is to lie
Rock Hill, with .1. 11. Reeves as Postmaster.
The grist mill, gin house and screw of Bunk
Peek, who lives near llatchecliubbee, were
destroyed by lire Friday night. About 400
bushels of cotton seed were consumed with
the gin house. Mr. Peek supposes that the
lire caught from a log heap which was burn
ing near by.
Alex Reed, an employe of the cotton seed
oil mill at Columbus,was the victim of a pain
ful accident Friday. While at work in the
mill his coat was caught in the machinery,
and before he could extricate it he was
snatched upon the shafting and both his legs
broken—one of them in two places.
Eight hundred dollars have already been
subscribed toward securing an artesian well
for Quitman. The county authorities do not
feel authorized to expend any of the county
funds in the project, but will make personal
subscriptions. An effort will be made to se
cure aid from the town authorities.
The Coffee county Gazette says: “One of our
colored brothers was brought to trial last Sun
day for dancing, but he plead not guilty. He
said that he had a partner on the floor and
passed her around on time, still he did not
turn her, and upon this plea he established tiis
innocence. Moral: Don’t turn 'em.”
The Quitman Free rre.ee says: “Some miser
able wretch entered the house of Uncle Nat
I-ovett. in the lower portion of the countv, on
Wednesday last, and stole $320 in gold, some
silver coin and several other articles. War
rants have been issued. He is very old, and
this little hoard is probably all he had.”
A few days ago a uWgro woman on Judge
T. F. Rainey's plantation, near Kllaville. left
one of her children in the house, and it is
supposed that the child went to sleep on the
hearth and caught on lire. The child was so
badly burned that it died in a few hours.
This’is the second child burned to death on
that place this winter.
The Wesl Point Enterprise of Friday savs:
“A month or two ago the Franklin Xews and
tiie Newman llerahi gave an account of a
helled buzzard passing over Heard and
Coweta counties. Tuesdiv a buzzard with a
bell tied to it was seen on Mr. Dallas Jack
son’s place near here, and must have been the
same that our exchanges spoke of.”
The Brunswick Advertiser says: “The
übiquitous Col. Gentry lias been over to Al
bany and taken a drink of artesian water
and'stopped at the Artesian Hotel. In the
exuberance of his soul he tells a reporter
that the Artesian Hotel is the line-t he ever
stopped at. Good hotels and good water are
two things every town must have. We con
gratulate our sister city on having both of
these.”
Peter Freeman, colored, was brought to
Leary Tuesday by some of his colored breth
ren an l looked up Tor burning a house on J.
C. Price’s plantation near Williamsburg. Pe
ter and bis wife had had domestic trouble,
and Peter, who is considered by many as a
lunatic, became enraged, and losing control of
his passions, as he says, set the house on lire
when his wife had vacated it. for the purpose
of destroying her wearing apparel ana other
goods.
The Louisville Xeiee says: “The people
down 011 the river opposite Mosley are ex
cited over a hear that isthouglK to be in the
riverswamp. Twenty-one men with guns
of all sizes, and loaded heavily, found him in
a lug thicket one night, but he growled so
loud no one would crowd 111 on him. The
next night forty-five went to get him, dead or
alive, but he could not lie found. If they
catch him, we think they could make money
by exhibiting it as the native bear of Jeffer
son couuty.”
The Elberton South says: “Weare informed
that Mr. R. < . Adams, of this county, has
been quite ill for some time past. A friend
who visited him a few days since informs 11s
that he met a brother and sister of Mr. Adams
there and tlie three added their ages together,
winch made a total of 274 years, It. C. Adams
being Bb, his sister, Mrs. Davis, 91, and his
brother, Mr. John Adams, 87 years old. The
two latter are 111 excellent health, old man
John being still able to work and make a
living for himself, and Mrs. Davis does all of
her own kuitting and knits socks for sale.”
Miss Frank Heath, of Unadilla. New York,
died at the home of her sister, Mrs. John Ax
tell, at Fleming, on Thursday, of congestion
of the brain. Miss Heath, with her sister.
Miss istella. came South in December to
spend the winter, and had been here but a
few weeks when she was taken sick. Her
remains were brought to Savannah yesterday
and placed on board the steamship City of
Augusta, whence they will be conveyed to
her former home. Her sister Stella was
among the passengers on the ship, returning
to her saddened home.
This week’s Greenesboro Home Journal savs:
"There was a general closing in of stock on
last Friday. The streets of Greenesboro pre
sented a lonesome appearance, robbed of the
accustomed procession of cows and hogs. In
deed, our eyes were greeted on Friday by
only a few gaunt and skeleton pigs, that
rooted in a dejected, listless kind of wav
amid tlie refuse on the street. But even their
freedom was of short duration, for our ajgus
eyed Marshal swooped down on them like a
blizzard and run them in. In ad portions of
the county arrangements were made for the
law and everything moves smoothly along.”
The Oglethorpe Echo says: “According to
the call, many of the District Road Commis
sioners of this county for the year lsß2 and
ISB3, met in the court room Tuesday. The ob
ject of the meeting was to take into consider
ation tlie pending prosecution lor neglect of
duty, and to devise some plans of defense. It
was decided that the Commissioners get sign
ers in their respective districts to a peti
tion to Judge Bottle, showing that the
roads had been as well worked as they had
been since the war, and praying that lie not
make them suffer when otters were guilty of
the same offense. If the cases go to trial one
of the Commissioners will be arraigned and a
test case made of him, the whole number
beariug the expenses.”
The Carroll County Timee savs: “Mr. and
Mrs. Pritchard, at Hutcherson factory, were
quietly eating dinner the other day, when
they were astonished at seeing the clock leap
suddenly from the mantel out into the floor,
feeling at the same time a shock that rendered
them temporarily deaf. On investigation it
was found that a negro, who was engaged in
blasting ill a well, had brought some dvuamite
cartridges into the adjoining room to warm
them ai the fireplace—a stack chimney sep
arating the two rooms. It is supposed that he
dropped one of the cartridges on the hearth,
ilie negro i- fortunate in coming out with tlie
loss of one eye. Mrs. Mobley, who occupied
the apartment in which the explosion occurred,
is reported severely burned about the face.”
The Athens Punster- Watchman savs: “It
has been charged, gravely by some, flippantly
by many, that there was no man killed or
wounded during the war by the Joe Brown
bkc. A man can be produced, living in At
.anta, who carries an emptysieeve on account
of one 01 the said pikes. One Richard Yan
cej", a resident at West Peters street, while at
work near the pike factory during that stir
ring period, lost his arm in this wise; He was
putting a deadly edge on a Joe Brown pike,
Uto Jlimowalt Attorning
using a steam grindstone, when, through
some unaccountable slip between the pike and
the grindstone, his arm was cut off below the
elbow. A curious question might arise out of
this very case. Under the act of the Legis
lature a man who lost his arm below the el
bow in the service is entitled to S4O. Can
Richard draw under the act - Should he look
to the State or t the Joseph E. Brown Pike
Company for an allowance’:”
The Piedmont Press, published at Gaines
ville, says: “On Thursday of last week Mr.
York, who lives down ori the Oconee river,
came to the city with about $l3O in money,
and, getting intoxicated, began to spend his
cash lavishly. Nothing was seen of him later
than Thursday evening, and his friends
thouirht he had gone home. But he did not
put in an appearance there, and his family
getting uneasy began a search for him.
Everytiody’s house was visited, and all kinds
of inquiries made, but.all to no purpose.
Throughout Friday aud Saturday the search
was unrelenting, but not even a trace of him
could be found. All expected that he had
been made the victim of foul play, and that
he lay a corpse in some dark ravine. Tele
grams were sent in every direction. Late
(Saturday evening, arter every one had almost
despaired of finding him, it’was ascertained
that he was in Atlanta. Friends were sent
for him. and he has returned to his home.”
Tlie Jackson Xews says: “The prospector
who contemplates locating in this section
acts unwisely when he decides that Jackson
is not the place and purchases property else
where. lie will see his mistake after the
Grifliu, Madison and Montioello Railroad is
built. The fact that dwelling houses, shops,
etc., are lieing erected on the right-of-way of
the road is no evidence that it is a dead issue.
We don't believe that a sensible man would
pay $20,000 for a railroad unless he kuew his
title was good. Jackson is bound to be the
commercial centre between Atlanta aud Ma
con, and the building of another railroad will
give her all the advantages possessed by any
other inland town or city in the couutrv.
Taking our natural advantages, rich soil,
pur ewater, healthy climate, church facilities
and one of the best schools in the whole coun
try, and with an unmistakable bright future,
which is slowly hut surely developing itself,
110 one should make the mistake of not locat
ing right in the city of Jackson.”
The Quitman Free Press ot Saturday prints the
following fuller details of a tragic occurrence
whfch has already been tin- subject of extend
ed notice in this column: “ll will be remem
bered that in our issue of last week we stated
that a man had stolen two herses and two
children from Mr. Weathington, of Madison
county, and that Constable Carter with a
posse was in pursuit. It seems that after leav
ing Quitman the thief changed his course, and
turned again in the direction of West Florida.
He went through the lower portion of Thomas
county, passed the head of Lake Armenia,
crossed the Ocklockonee river, passed through
the edge of Decatur county and into Gads
den. A portion of the time lie rode through
plantations and swamps, avoiding as much as
possible the roads. After once getting on the
track, however. Carter never left it. and fol
lowed as tenaciously as a blood hound. From
Gadsden the man, children and horses went
directly south into Liberty couuty, anil
were striking for Neal’s landing, on the Chat
tahoochee river. About fifteen miles from
the place where tlie thief was overtaken lie
dropped the little girl, who was completely
exhausted, at the house of a Mr. Walker,
stating that he would return for her. On
reaching Quincy Mr. Carter had notified
(Sheriff Mitchell, who summoned anew
posse. the gentlemen that started with
Carter having dropped out, and con
tinued the pursuit. After reaching Liberty
county the man supposed he hail
eluded all pursuit, and so stated to the hoy,
and when the party came upon him he was
taken completely by surprise. His first at
tempt was to run,' hut the pursuers being
mounted 011 fresh horses soon overtook him,
and then commenced a running tight, which
continued for nearly a mile. The thief in at
tempting to draw his pistol lost it, and it is
probably fortunate for some of the party that
he did so. lie had a large stick, however, with
which he fought desperately. The posse had
determined to capture him alive, if nossible,
ana in the chase nearly all his clothing was
torn from Inin. lie was finally dismounted by
a small man named Bowen, lmt was about to
get the best of Bowen, when the balance of
the warty coming up, he Mas shot dead in his
tracks, three balls passing through his bodv.
Tiie boy, whose name is Burnett, and who fs
sixteen years old, says that the man, who had
been working with Mr. Weathington about a
month, persuaded him to help steal the
horses, promising to give him two hundred
dollars when they should reach their journey’s
end. The hoy refused to go unless the little
girl, his sister, could be taken, and so it xvas
agreed to take her. The little girl, who is
only nine years old, is now at Quincy in a
precarious condition, caused from over fa
tigue and tlie rough treatment she must have
received on such a tramu.”
FLORIDA.
Thirty car loads of brick arrived at Ocala
last week.
Eggs are scarce at Live Oak, and bring 25
cents per dozen.
Green Cove Spring has been ransacked by a
band of burglars.
Oeala lias a young man who wears, white
vests the entire year.
“Kentucky Town,” a suburban village of
Ocala, is still on a boom.
Fifteen cars with 250 boxes of oranges each
left Jacksonvil'e last week.
Hundreds of LeComte pear trees are being
planted by citizens of Suwannee county.
The impeachment trial of W. E. Slm flin at
Oeala has been postponed until next Tuesday.
Two petitions for liquor licenses are under
consideration by the Commissioners of Marion
county.
Haisley and Van Pelt are erecting a two
story brick building on the south side of the
square at Ocala.
So far the number of arrivals at Oeala this
winter has far exceeded the number last year
for the same time.
Berry Thomas, a well known colored man,
living a few miles west of Live Oak, has be
come insane.
Mr. Mairson, a Live Oak merchant, is mak
ing arrangements to move to Orlando, and
will open a store in that place.
Ocala has ten trains a day. six on the Pe
ninsula and four on the Florida Southern. Six
are passenger and four freight.
At a called meeting of the Jacksonville City
Council SBSO was transferred from other ap
propriations to the police fund.
Col. J. H. Gardiner, formerly editor of the
Marianna Times, has left for Houston, Tex.,
with the intention of starting a newspaper at
that place.
Hege, proprietor of the Salem (N. C.) Iron
Works and manufacturer of the celebrated
Salem Saw Mill, has about decided to locate
his iron works in Palatka,
The freight agents of the various Southern
transportation lilies met at Jacksonville Sat
urday to consider the rate on vegetables and
other important topics.
A colored man fell from the deck of the
steamer Marion, last Saturday night, at Sil
ver Spring, and before assistance could be
rendered was drowned.
Maj. W. P. Couper. Chief Engineer of the
Florida Southern, was presented with a hand
some gold headed cane by the engineers and
contractors of that road a few days ago.
The first passenger coach from Green Cove
to Jacksonville will be used on next Thursday
to convey the Clay Guards to the State Fair.
The Guards will return on the steamer Cvg
nus 011 Friday morning.
D. W. Tedder arrived at his home at
Live Oak lrom Tampa, where he has been
employed on the railroad, last Friday, to find
his little child a corpse, li was buried in the
Live Oak cemetery on Sunday.
The young Englishman who so mysteriously
disappeared from Orlando lust Friday week,
was not heard from until Thursday last, when
Ins brother received a reply to a telegram sent
to the bank at Jacksonville, where he had
money on deposit, that he had drawn the
money in person. The only reason assigned
for his strange action is the report that lie
left a sweetheart behind whom his relatives
and friends opjioseil his marrying.
The Florida Xewe. published at Key West,
says: “A report M ils circulated, based 011 the
arrival of Judge Locke, Unit Gen. Aguero was
to be tried immediately. Such is not the case.
Under the law, the court has 25 days 111 its
discretion to investigate the matter, and if no
evidence is produced, or not sufficient iu its
judgment, the accused is set at liberty. If tlie
evidence is sufficient in the judgment of the
court the proceedings are sent to Washington
fir its decision, if the offenses charged are
of a political character the accused cannot lie
held.”
Sanford's municipal election held Thursday
resulted, after a very heated contest, iu the
re-election of Hon. A. M. Thrasher for Mavor,
and 8. J. Drawdv. P. J. Parramore, if, L.
Lilienthal aud 8. l\ Travis for Aldermen; for
Clerk, Thomas M. Mcßae; for Collector and
Treasurer. W. M. Teahen, and for Marshal,
I>. A. Campbell. The race for Mayor was
closely contested by Mr. Thrasher and Dr.
Fleming, but Mr. Thrasher came out three
votes ahead. Parramore made the best race
of any one iu the field and received all the
votes cast except two.
Maj. F. C. Suhrer, manager of the Mansion
House at Feruandina, was shot and mortally
wounded late Thursday afternoon by T. J.
Epps, a conductor on the Transit Railroad.
The ivounded man lived until 3:30 Friday
niorniug. when he expired. Epps charged the
Major with insulting Mrs. Epps, but Mr.
suhrer denied the allegation to the end. Epps
is in jail. Maj. Suhrer % as an old citizen of
Fernandina, and respected by the community.
He was President of the City Council at the
time of Ins death, and that body met Friday,
and decided to take charge of the funeral
ceremony at the request of the family. Tlie
interment took place yesterday. The deceased
leaves a wife aud six children.
The Fernandina .Virror says: “Victoria
Simmons, a young colored girl, living oppo
site the old Episcopal Church, was shot and
killed by her husband, Peter Simmons, on
Saturday evening last übout 9:30 p. 111.
When found she was lying on her face on the
floor in a pool of blood, and her three-nionths
old baby was erflwling around in its mother’s
blood, Her husbaud'had frequeut quarrels
with her, and had several times threatened
her life with his pistol. Though not a drunk
ard, he was a man who drank a good deal,
and on the night of the murder was evidently
under the influence of liquor. He subsequent
ly. and it would seem immediately after com
mitting the murder, went to his mother’s
•Jane Bronson) house, and told her that he
had killed his wife, but that it was an acci
dent. It seems that he was seen by several
men in the city during the night, but escaped
across the river, ana was last seen at Calla
han.”
Sudden changes of weather are product
ive ot 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
20 cts.
THE WESTERN OVERFLOW
NINE FEET HIGHER THAN LAST
YEAR’S RISE.
Immense Losses at Marietta and Park
ersburg—Txvo Thousand Persons Home
less—Catletttsburg Completely Sub
merged and the Water Still Rising-
Houses Washed off their Foundations.
Cincinnati, Feb. 10.—Marietta and
Parkersburg have been entirely cut off by
railroad and telegraph lines from Wednes
day until yesterday afternoon, when a
single railroad wire was opened to
Belpre, 0., opposite Parkersburg. From
this source it was ascertained that the
flood has been terrible at that point, and
at 7:30 p. m, the river was still rising. It
has already gone nine feet higher than
last year's flood. No details of losses
could be given, but it is clear that both
Parkersburg and Marietta must sustain
immense losses. At Gallipolis, 0., at 6:30
o’clock last night the river was five feet
eight inches higher than last year, and
was rising at the rate of an inch an hour,
During the day a large number of houses
and other property floated by. '
STILL RISING AT CINCINNATI.
Cincinnati, Feb. 10. 10 p. m.—The
flood of 1832 was surpassed at 1 o’clock
this morning, and the river has been ris
ing almost constantly all day. Hardly a
shadow of doubt exists but that the mark
of last year .will be reached and passed
within the next .'SO hours. Indeed at 3
o’clock to-night the prospects decidedly
indicated a more rapid rise during the
night, for in [addition to reports of rises
at points above, the rain has been falling
here steadily since 4 o’clock. It is not
heavy, but persistent enough to indicate
an all night’s rain. The same condition
exists at Ripley and Mavsville, 50 and 00
miles up the river.
If the rain continues all night it will
exert a decided influence on the stage of
tlie water here, as side streams will be
pouring in additional floods. The people
have lost confidence in the prognostica
tions of the Signal service. Twice a flag
has been raised to denote a cold wave
coming. The first time the temperature
rose instead of falling, and the second
time there was a slight fall followed by
rain. The prediction that the river would
reach the maximum to-day is also
false. On the contrary the maximum has
not yet been reached at points 200 miles
above Cincinnati, and new floods are
pouring in from the Kanawha river. The
arrival of the highest water here must
now be delayed several days if the pres
ent conditions continue. By extreme
care and ingenuity the gas company has
managed to keep tiie gas supply up until
to-night, but now the street lamps are un
lighted and gas is burning in very few
places. The tables in the Western Union
Telegraph operators’ rooms are
supplied with candles. The thea
tres are running with electric
and calcium lights and private gas ma
chines. Warning had been so long given
that the absence of gas was scarcely felt.
At Music Hall a two-inch pipe is sup
ported on trestles, leading from the Cin
cinnati Hospital across to Music Hall, to
supply the latter with gas manufactured
by the hospital. This gives the Opera
Festival, which begins to-night, its ordi
nary supply of gaslight. On the outsfde
of the hall electric lights will be used to
illuminate the streets.
The number of persons needing relief
increases with each day’s continuance of
the flood, but Cincinnati is determined to
take care of her own people. The high
standing of the lhen comprising the
Relief Committee and the good
work done by the committee
last year in points outside of Cincinnati
led many to send contributions here in an
ticipation of the same thing now. The
Relief Committee has authorized the fol
lowing:
“To the Public:
“The Relief Committee of the Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce and Common Council,
in view of the steadily advancing floods in ad
jacent cities and towns along ranch of the
Upper Ohio river, where great suffering and
destitution are being entailed, begs to assure
the public that any contributions made for
the sufferers will he expended for the relief
of the distressed in other localities with the
same diligence and care which are exercised
in relieving the afllictcd here, upon whom it
is the purpose of the committee to bestow only
such contributions us may he made in Cin
cinnati.
[Signed] “H. C. Urnkr, Chairman.”
THE DAMAGE TO THE RAILROADS.
Cincinnati, Feb. 10, ll p. m.—The
water to-day on both sides ot the embank
ment sustaining the tracks of the Cincin
nati, Washington and Baltimore Rail
road in Mold Creek valley has so softened
tlie earth as to cause two slides, leaving
the track unsupported. This compels the
trains of this road to enter Cincinnati on
the Hamilton and Dayton track, at the
junction 7 miles from the city. It does not
hinder the running of trains. The Bee
line trains will be compelled to make
their terminus at the stock yards, about 3
miles from the regular depot. The Cin
cinnati, Washington and Baltimore Road
has been opened through to Parkersburg,
and through trains will be resumed at 9
p. m. The stage of water here was 05
feet 2% inches.
the work of relief.
YVheeling, YV. Y r A.,Feb. 10, 9 p. m.—
The river has receded more slowly than
was expected, and portions of the city and
country above and below are still under
water.* The disappearance of the water
only reveals the extent of the ravages of
the flood, and the sight exposed to the eye
to-day is indeed disheartening. Huge
rocks, trees, driftwood and small shan
ties cover v>arts of many streets, and hun
dreds of houses and barns are gathered
at points where the surface of the water
was obstructed by trees. Fifty houses are
jammed upon anil' against each other at the
south end of the city. The Baltimore and
Ohio track between here and Benwood
was covered with buildings and drift
wood, which had to be pulled to pieces by
engines to clear tbe road. The first mail
since YVednesday, consisting of over four
tons, has arrived by boat. A few trains
are arriving, the least damaged lines
having opened communication with the
outside world. All the blankets that
could be procured have been distributed
among the homeless sufferers. There is
a great scarcity of bed-clothes. Country
people on both sides of the river are do
ing their utmost to supply the needy
with provisions. Wagons loaded with
provisions are arriving here and at Ben
wood, Bellaire, Bridgeport and Martin’s
Ferry, from points as far back as twenty
miles. There are probably 20,000 persons
to be fed and clothed from Wellsburg to
Moundsville. At Martin’s Ferry last
night Dr. Hineman, now under bail for
abortion, was caught robbing a Hooded
store anil was badly beaten. He is miss
ing to-day, much to the sorrow of his
bondsmen. People are moving back to
their houses and the scene to-day was a
busy one everywhere. Streets are being
disinfected for the protection of public
health. Many kind offers of aid have been
received, but with so many persons
depending on the Relief Committee the
outlook lor the future is gloomy. Many
cases ot premature confinement are re
ported, but there are no deaths from this
cause as yet. The Masons have systema
tized the work of relief. A roll of all Ma
sons has been prepared, and those not
themselves sufferers will he called on for
aid. The Odd F'ellows and other societies
are also working. It is reported that
some of the sufferers on the south side
have been reduced to the extremity of
cutting meat from cows found dead. The
Ohio River Railroad is believed to be en
tirely ruined. Section after section of
Trestle work, bridges and cars have
been washed away.
PORTSMOUTH UNDER WATER.
Cincinnati, Feb. 10, 9 p. m.—The fol
lowing descripiion of the condition of af
fairs at Portsmouth, Ohio, and appeal
from J. J. McFardiu, Mayor of that city,
has been read:
Portsmouth, 0., Feb. io.—The city is
almost entirely under water and commu
nication with other points is shutoff. The
water is higher than during the flood of
1832 when the river was higher than ever
known before. The river is still rising.
One-half of those who moved into their
second stories are moving from their
houses altogether, and all frame houses
are deserted. Many houses are floating
away. Great sufl'ering has already been
experienced and worse is expected. At
daylight this morning fire broke out in
Green’s feed store in the business portion
of the city caused by the slaking of lime
submerged in the rising water, but owing
to the fact that hose could not be laid ou
account of the distance of the building
from dry land, the flames had spread con
siderably before the firemen could get to
work. A flat boat was towed to Sixth
street where a fire engine was loaded
on it and it was towed by men in
skiffs to the corner of Second and Market
streets iu the vicinity of the fire. The
firemen worked in boats and on house
tops, and succeeded in confining the fire
to six buildings. These were burned to
the water’s edge, and all walls fell in.
The churches are all under water. All
tbe engine bouses and school bouses
SAVANNAH, MONDAY', FEBRUARY 11, 1884.
available are filled with drowned out
people. So far the best that could be
done has been to keep our people sup
plied with food. Rations are being issued
daily, and families are supplied bv pro
visions being taken in skiffs to‘ their
second story windows. The river here
to-night is rising over an inch and a half
per hour, and a hard rain is falling. We
have not heard from any place for three
days. No papers or other mails have been
received during that time. Our people
are in great distress.
TWO THOUSAND HOMELESS.
Belpre, 0., Feb. 10.—Two thousand
persons are homeless in Marietta and
Harmar. Hundreds of houses are oft'
their foundations. The upper Muskin
gum bridges are all gone, and the bridge
at the mouth of Duck creek is wrecked.
Harmar hill Is covered with people in
tents or in the open air. The Relief Com
mittee at Marietta and people from the
surrounding country are doing much to
render assistance. A dispatch has been
sent to Gov. Hoadly, making an appeal to
the people of the State for aid.
OATLETTSBURG SUBMERGED.
Catlettsburg, Ky., July 10.—The
town is completely submerged. Only
three houses on the hillside are free from
water, and several frame houses have
floated off. The water at 3p. m. yester
day was 18 inches higher than last year,
and was rising at the rate of 1 inch an
hour.
the SITUATION AT LAWRENCEBORG.
Cincinnati, Feb. 10.—A special to the
A cas-Journal from Lawreneeburg, Ind.,
says: “No additional losses have been re
ported here to-day. The people who have
suffered from the fioud are entirely seii
helpful. Five hundred persons' are
quartered in public buildings and halls.
The township trustee buys all supplies,
and Issues food by a regular system.”
LABOR AND ITS HIRE.
The Fall River Strikers—The Weavers
Organize—Call for a Meeting of the
Spinners.
Fall River, Mass., Feb. 10.—The
weavers here held a large meeting last
night to perfect an organization. Six
hundred persons were present. It was
voted to ask the Spinners’ Union to share
with the weavers any funds received
from outside cities. The names of tbe
officers elected are to be kept secret for
prudential reasons. The weavers claim
that they have every encouragement to
hope for a successful union.
The following is tlie call issued by Sec
retary Howard for a meeting ol'the spin
ners on February 12;
“Be firm, united and determined. Re
member, men, that the emancipation of
tbe working classes must be achieved by
the working classes themselves, and that
labor can only stand on equal terms with
capital when united.”
The end of the first week finds 13 mills
shut down, of which live were closed by
the weavers’ strikes. About 7,000 opera
tives are idle, anil the loss of wages
amounts to something over $20,000. Of 10
mills where spinners were ordered to
strike, Border City and Sagamore were
running yesterday in part. Others have
been obliged to close. The stock on hand
is 155,000 nieces, and the production dur
ing tlie week was 135,000 pieces against
160,000 usually. The manufacturers are
as yet inactive. The King Philip Mill,
winch does not belong to the Board of
Trade, yesterday gave back part of the
cut-down, and promised to make a further
advance as soon as the market warrants.
London, Feb. 10.—Owing to the de
pression of trade in the north of England,
iron masters are reducing wages of their
workmen and placing the men under
twenty-four hours’ notice.
Belfast ship-builders who recently
struck have resumed work.
OYSTER AVAR IN MARYLAND.
Bitter Contest Between tlie Authorities
anil Dredgers —Shooting at the Pi
rates.
Acting under orders of Gov. MeLane,
the State oyster police steamer William
J. Hamilton arrived at Baltimore ou Fri
day, says a special, and secured a stand
of rifles and ammunition from the Fifth
Regiment armory, in preparation for a
cruise against the piratical oyster dredg
ers in Hungars river. The Maryland’s
crew was increased, and every man being
thoroughly armed, she loft port at mid
night for the scene of the troubles. Each
man on board has a Springfield rifle, cut
lass and two revolvers, and the local
press have all sent out war correspond
ents. The Maryland is a swilt steamer
and carries four guns. Her commander,
unlike the Captain of the police sloop that
ran away from the pirates on Tuesday, is
a very determined man.
He says he will call on the defiant
dredgers to either surrender or fight. In
the latter event he is confident that his
crew, being thoroughly armed and or
ganized, will be tlie victors. Governor
Me Lane has also ordered the police
steamer Lelia, now at Annapolis, to pro
ceed to the scene. The Lelia sailed
early Saturday morning and joined the
William J. Hamilton at Hungars. The
Julia A. Hamilton, now at Cambridge,
has also been ordered to the scene, having
been provided with anew Captain and
additional men. The plan is for the three
police boats to simultaneously bear down
on the fleet of dredgers, with guns loaded,
and demand an unconditional surrender!
In the event of a refusal a bitter fight may
be expected.
The dredgers in Hungars river, who
have been working ou forbidden ground
all the week, were strengthened Friday bv
ten more vessels, making thirty all'told
in the fleet. They number nearly 200
men, who boldly declare their intention
of resisting all efl'orts of the police to ar
rest them.
The pirates have gone about the raid
with much system, and it was evidently
prearranged. Three boats have been
kept busy plying between the fleet and
Deal’s Island, where thev have establish
ed a depot. Here the oysters, which are
of excellent quality, are “culled” and
shipped by schooners to Baltimore,
where the prices are now very high. The
residents along the river, which, under
the law is reserved exclusively for tong
men, are greatly enraged at the pres
ence of of the fleet.
Some of the best marksmen in the city
amuse themselves occasionally during the
day by taking shots with rifles at the
pirates as they work ou the schooners
hall a mile out in the river. The oyster
men occasionally respond, but they do not
waste much time, as they evidently desire
to make hay while the sun shines. When
the police boats arrive the officers will
receive the cordial assistance of the
residents. The piratical fleet is supposed
to lie the same that wqis chased out
of Virginia waters by Gov. Cameron
last winter. They are commanded by a
Commodore aud are under good discip
line. Not one of the vessels can be iden
tified, as they are all small schooners,
rigged exactly alike and having hoards
nailed over their names. -The crews do
not come ashore, but ply their vocation
unceasingly, •
Thursday night they worked sor 6hours
by immense torches, which lit up the
river with weirld effect. When the
police boats come in the mouth of the
river and thus blockade the dredgers there
is little doubt that there will be a livelv
fight.
Abandoned at Sea.
New York, Feb. 10.—The Captain of
the steamship Nottingham reports that on
February 2d he ran into a field of ice, and
at midnight on the same night, when the
ship was going dead slow, was struck on
the side, near the bridge, by an iceberg,
which rebounded and struck again near
the engine room. Two holes were knocked
in the vessel's side and the water soon put
out the fires. At 3 p. m. the next day a
large steamer passed close bv and paid no
attention to signals of distress. On the
sth the steamship State of Nebraska took
off all on board. The Nottingham had 18
leet of water in her hold when abandoned.
The Sahara Desert Scheme.
Paris. Feb. 10. — At a banquet given
here to the leading members of the Scien
tific Press, M. de Lesseps stated that the
scheme for creating a sea in the Desert
of Sahara would shortly be realized. M.
Itoudaire, the French hydrographer who
conceived the projector cuttiug through
the dunes which separate the Mediterra
nean Sea from the desert in order to trans
form the arid sands into a fertile country,
is about to start for Tunis armed with the
necessary firman from the Sultan to be
gin operations.
The Republicans in Madrid.
Madrid, Feb. 10.—The Republican
meeting announced to be held at the Al
hambra Theatre to-day was prevented by
the authorities, and the crowd which had
assembled dispersed quietly. The gov
ernment having prohibited the proposed
grand Republican banquet tfn Monday,
separate banquets have been organized to
be attended by nineteeu persons each in
order to evade the law regarding public
meetings.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
THE WEEK’S WORK MAPPED
OUT FOR CONGRESS.
What Will Be Done In Both Houses—
Forty-five Hundred Bills on the House
Calendar—The Bill to Prevent the
Spread of Contagious Diseases Among
Cattle to be Further Discussed.
Washington, Feb. 10.—a letter has
been written to J. R. Sneed, which will
be referred to the Chairman of the River
and Harbor Committee. The letter
lators Habersham’s cut for a passage
through Romney Marsh.
IN THE SENATE.
The Senate having adjourned immedi
ately after the passage of the Mexican
land grant bill last Friday there Is no un
finished business to be 'laid before that
body to-morrow, aud the day will proba
bly be devoted to the consideration ol
miscellaneous business on general calen
dars without reaching, in regular order
any measure of great national impor
tance.
The hill to provide for the erection of a
Congressional library building has been
made a special order for next Tuesday,
and the McPherson banking bill, now on
the calendar with favorable report from
the Finance Committee, is set down for
consideration as a special order on
Wednesday. The discussion of the last
named measure, and of various important
amendments already proposed as a substi
tute for it, will doubtless ruff throughout
the remainder of the legislative week.
IN THE HOUSE.
More than 4,500 bills, most of them of a
private nature, have been introduced in
the House of Representatives during the
present session of Congress. Of this num
ber less than 200 have been acted upon by
committees and reported to the House for
action .T o-m orro w another opportun i ty wi 11
be offered to increase the number of pend
ing legislative measures, under tbe usual
Monday call of States and Territories tor
bills and joint resolutions. Randall will
call up the naval appropriation bill on
Tuesday, and it is probable that two days
will be occupied In its consideration.
A hill to prevent the spread of conta
gious diseases among cattle, it is expect
ed, will be brought before the House for
further discussion in the latter part of
the week, and it is barely possible that
the shipping bill may also be reached in
tbe committee of the whole by Thursday.
In view of the formidable opposition al
ready manifested against the former
measure, members interested in its pas
sage are apprehensive that it will not
command a majority vote.
The retirement of Alfred Pleasanton, as
Major General, will be a question to be
considered next Friday, private bill day.
The committees of the House have' a
number of important measures on their
dockets l'or consideration this week. The
Ways and Means Committee will hear
the arguments of business men on vari
ous phases of the proposed ariff legisla
tion. It is believed bv members of the
committee that Morrison’s bill will not be
reported to the House for three or four
weeks.
The Public Lands Committee expects to
take action this week on bills which pro
vide for forfeiting alleged unearned land
grants of the Northern Pacific and Atlan
tic and Pacific Railroads.
The Coinage and Weights and Measures
Committee will probably report a bill
providing for the withdrawal of the trade
dollar from circulation.
The Foreign Affairs Committee has re
solved to insist that the House should re
ler to it correspondence received from the
State Department last week relative to
the prohibition of American pork in
foreign countries, on the ground that the
question is one of treaty obligation. The
Commerce and Agricultural Committees,
however, both claim jurisdiction of the
same subject, anil the question of refer
ence will probably give rise to a spirited
discussion.
AID FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
Congress to lie Asked for 8250,000 for
the Sufferers on the Ohio.
Washington, Feb. 10.—A meeting of
Congressmen from Ohio, Kentucky and
West Virginia was held to-day at the
Ebett House to take steps to secure an
immediate appropriation for the relief of
the sufferers by the flood in the Ohio val
ley. Senator Sherman presided, and
among the Representatives present were
F’ollett, Jordan, Taylor, Warner anil
McCormick, of Ohio; Goff, of
West Virginia, and Culberson, of Ken
tucky. Telegrams asking for government
aid received from the Governor of West
Virginia, the Mayor of YVheeling, citizens
of Martin’s Ferry, New Martinsville, West
Virginia, and Marietta, Ohio, were read.
It was decided to ask Congress to strike
out the words “$100,000” in the resolution
which passed the House on Friday last,
and insert “$250,000.” For the purpose of
securing immediate aid a meeting of the
Appropriation Committee of the House
will be called to-morrow.
WENDELiLi PHILLIPS.
His Own Idea of His Power Over His
Hearers t
A Jersey City gentleman relates the
following incident of a meeting with
Wendell Phillips:
Mr. Phillips delivered his lecture on
“Lost Arts” in the Bergen Baptist Church
several years ago. I attended and en
joyed it greatly. In the ear, on the return
to Jersey City, were several young ladies
—schol teachers—who kept up a running
fire of criticism, picking out every possi
ble fault and enlarging upon it.* In the
corner sat a tall gentleman, a broad
brimmed felt hat covering his face with
the exception of the mouth, the corners of
which seemed frozen into a smile of cyni
cal amusement.
Arrived at the car station this gentle
man asked me to show him the way to
the ferry, and I recognized him. I direct
ed him to the ierry house and said:
“Mr. Phillips, w’ere you not amused at
the remarks ol' your fair critics?”
“Oh! that is nothing,” he replied. “1
am used to it. i remember that after
making an abolition speech in Boston one
evening, I took a car for home. Next to
me sat a man who asked me it I had been
to hear Phillips. 1 told him I had. He
then asked me what l thought of the
speech. 1 answered that I was pretty
well satisfied with it. Slapping me on
the knee he said excitedly: ‘That
fellow can make you believe black
is white.’ This set me thiuking. I
knew I was capable of exerting a great
influence over my audiences. In those
davs I often stirred them up to such a
pitch of excitement that it would only
have been necessary for me to suggest
that they should go out and burn a barn,
mob a pro-slavery meeting or do some
illegal act and they would' have done it.
But I reflected that this wal not, after all,
a very desirable kind of influence. It
would not be of any permanent value, for
the next day they would repent them of
their folly and be anxious to mob me for
leading them into it. From that time I
sought to reach the reason rather than
the jpassion of an audience, and I know
that the results were better and my influ
ence was greater and more lasting.
Mr. Bok, the Brooklyn autograph col
lector, has in his possession a letter
written by Weudell Phillips to the Rev.
Edward Everett Hale, reading as follows:
“Dear Hale— This is abominable, this clos
ing the adult school to save paint and pennies,
only to waste the saving in ornamental non
sense. You must stop it. Now. I’ll do my
share, but do you go to Phillips Brooks and
Judge Abbott. I’ll tackle some others, and
we'll descend on this penny-wise matter. Be
strong enough to compel submission: no half
way, but a regular avalanche. Yours,
“Wendell Phillips.”
To Visit the Scenes of the Floods.
Washington, Feb. 10.— Miss Clara
Barton, President of the American
National Association of the Red Cross,
accompanied by Dr. Hubbell, special
field agent of the Association, will start
to-morrow morning for the scenes ot the
floods. She will go first to rittshurg and
will follow the Ohio river down from
Wheeling, West Virginia, visiting such
places as have suffered. Miss Barton re
quests that Red Cross societies in the
North will, until further notice, forward
supplies to Cincinnati as the central
point of distribution.
Marquis Tseng Not Going to Paris.
London, Feb. 10.—Marquis Tseng, the
Chinese Ambassador, denies that he is go
ing to Paris to resume negotiations with
the French Government on the Tonquin
question. The last advices from Pekin
instructed him to remain in England un
til further orders.
ADMIRAL GABBER RECALLED.
Paris, Feb. 10. —Admiral Gabber, com
mander ot the French forces in Madagas
car, has been recalled home.
A United States Minister 111.
St. Petersburg. Feb. 10.—Mr. Hunt,
United States Minister here, is quite ill,
and his condition causes some anxiety.
AN ANNIHILATOR.
A New Gun That Is to Destroy Foreign
Fleets.
A long brass tube, with a two-inch bore,
says the New York World , lay upon the
western parapet of Fort Hamilton, Fri
day, Bth Instant. Col. Hamilton, com
mander of the fort, an umbrella and a
reporter stood near by. Out on the bay a
wild duck was making a struggle for life,
having been winged by a relentless
sportsman’s bullet. Col. Hamilton’s eves
wandered from the long brass tube to the
unfortunate duck and then back to the
tube again.
“That poor duck struggling on the sur
face of the water,” said Col. Hamilton, re
flectively, “illustrates how impossible it
would be for a vessel to escape after
having been struck by a missile from this
gun.”
I he long brass tube was a gun, although
an ordinary observer might take it to be a
portion of water pipe used for draining
the parapet.
“This gun,” continued Col. Hamilton,
“is twenty-eight feet long with a two-inch
bore. It was invented by a Mr. Mifford,
an American, and is the property of Mr.
Windsor, the torpedo builder. We were
asked to experiment with it here, which
we are doing under the direction of Lieut.
Zallinski, an expert in proiectiles and
harbor defense weapons. We have been
trying it at half-mile range with good re
sults, notwithstanding that it is incom
plete as to its manufacture and mount
ings, and has by no means realized its pos
sibilities.
“The motor is compressed air, with
which it is proposed to experiment at 600
to 850 pounds pressure. The missile has
been proved to have good power of pene
tiation and is formidable as a direct
weapon. But that is not the main object.
The weapons are made long like an arrow
and are headed with brass cases intended
to be charged with dvnamite, the explo
sion of which is to produce the Intended
effect. As yet we have not experimented
with dynamite, but have loaded the cases
with sand in order to give them weight.
The missiles are of light pine wood, made
to lit the bore and are 34, 40 and 48 inches
in length. The brass cases, which are fit
ted at the head, are 14 and 24 inches Ion",
their diameter being 1 %, 1% and 1%
inches. These eases, when charged, give
weight and steady the flight of the missile
or arrow. The openings at the head of
cases are closed with a wooden plug,
through which a needle penetrates con
necting with a cap. When the projectile
strikes the object the dynamite is at once
exploded.
“As yet very little is known about con
densed gases as a motor for projectiles,
though it has been successfully utilized
as a motive power. The great problem
has been how to throw dynamite shells
with safety. The concussion ol gunpow
der will immediately explode dynamite,
and the result is the gun is destroyed, as
well as everything in the neighborhood.
\\ ith this gun, however, I think that
dynamite can be thrown with perfect
safety to tbe gunner, and with a disas
trous effect to the object it strikes.”
The gun, when in position, is mounted
on a tripod, and has the appearance of a
long, slender telescope. Two small lubes
connect it with a receiver, which in turn
is connected with.a twenty-five horse
power steam engine with a long hose.
The engine and boiler are located in the
fort.
Experiments have been made with the
gun at llalf-mile range. The missile pen
etrated a heavy wooden target, backed
with hard-packed earth, twenty-six
inches. During the passage it obtained
a fall of twelve degrees. Tbe gun, how
ever, is not intended to throw a pro
jectile as a direct weapon, but as a car
rier for dynamite. So rapid is the exploJ
sion of dynamite that ifs force is always
downward. . Consequently, a dynamite
shell exploding on the side of a vessel
would not produce as disastrous an ef
fect as it would if it struck on the deck.
This gun is constructed to meet all the
necessary requirements. The projectile,
though resembling a base-ball bat, will,
when shot from the gun by an expert
marksman, make a graceful curve in the
air like an arrow, and descend head
downward upon the deck of a vessel.
With a heavier pressure it can be shot as
a direct weapon. The pressure can be
regulated at will. When discharged there
is no report, but the miasilo loaves the
gun with a shrill whistle w r hich produces
as disagreeable a sensation in one’s ears
as a buzz-saw when it strikes a hard
knot. The force obtained by 200 pounds
pressure was remarkable. At the first
discharge tlie three three-quarter-inch
iron bars which support the guns were
bent nearly double by tbe reaction, while
the projectile shot from the bore like a
ball from a heavy gun and penetrated the
target twenty-six inches.
“I believe,” said Col. Hamilton, “that
the gun will prove to be an effective
weapon for harbor defense. Lieut. Zal
linski is very enthusiastic over it, and is
confident of its success. As soon as we
have favorable weather we will make ex
periments on the water.”
PREMATURELY BURIED,
The Sad Fate of a Young Girl Who was
Supposed to be I>ead.
A sensation has been created at Dayton
by the discovery of the fact that Miss Hock
walt, a young lady of high social connec
tions, who was supposed to have died
suddenly on January 10, says a Dayton,
Ohio, special of the Bth inst., was buried
alive. The terrible truth was discovered
a few days ago, and since then it has been
the talk of the city. The circumstance of
Miss Hockwalt’s death was peculiar. It
occurred on the morning of the marriage
of her brother to Miss Emma Schwind, at
Emanuel’s Church. Shortly before 6
o’clock the young lady was dressing for
the nuptials and had gone into the kitchen,
A few moments afterward she was found
sitting on a chair with her head leaning
against a wall, and apparently lifeless.
Medical aid was summoned in—Dr. Jew
ett, who, after examination, pronounced
her dead. Mass was being read at the
time in Emanuel’s Church, and it was
proposed to postpone the wedding, but
Father llahne thought best to continue,
and the marriage was performed in gloom.
The examination showed that Anna
was of excitable temperament, nervous
and affected with sympathetic palpita
tion of the heart. I>r. Jewett thought
this was the cause of her supposed death.
On the following day the lady was in
terred in the Woodland The friends ol
Miss Hock wait were unable to forget the
terrible impression, and several ladies
observed that her eyes bore a remarkably
natural color, and could not dispel an
idea that she was not dead. They con
veyed their opinion {to Annie's parents,
and the thought preyed upon them so
that the body was taken from the grave.
It is stated that when tbe coffin was
opened it was discovered that the sup
posed inanimate bodv had turned upon
its right side. The hair had been torn
out in handfuls and the flesh had been
bitten from the fingers. The body was
reinterred, and efforts were made to sup
press the facts, but there are those who
state that they saw the body and know
the facts to be as narrated.
AFTER TWENTY-ONE YEARS.
A Sword Sent Back to New Hayen bv a
Chivalrous Southern Lady.
A postal card from Richmond, Va.,
was received at one of our city banks a
few days since, says the New Haven
(Conn,) llegister , inquiring about Sam
uel M. Smith, formerly First Lieutenant
in Cos. I, Twenty-seventh C. V. It wa9
signed by Mrs. Josie D. YVills, and re
ferred to a sword that had been in her
possession nearly years. Mr.
Smith’s present address, No. 42 College
street, was sent the lady, and a cor
respondence followed. The sword, she
writes, was captured by Capt, John M.
McAfee, Second Missouri Battalion, at
the battle of Chancellorsville,
1863. “ A more gallant sol
dier or more perfect gentleman
never lived. He lost his life the follow
ing spring at or near Spottsylvania court
house. The sword has been in my house
ever since, but thinking you might prize
it, and it being a pleasure alwavs to con
fer happiness, I cheeriully return it to
you.” The sword was promptly for
warded, and is now at home with its
original owner. It is quite dilapidated, and
bears evidence of hard service. The en
graving on it is still legible and shows that
it was a present from Edwin Ylarble, in
whose employ Mr. Smith was when he en
tered the service. Ylr. Smith remarked
to the reporter: “I never thought of my
sword without remembering the officer to
whom I surrendered, lor he was both a
chivalrous soldier and true gentleman,
and amid all the confusion of a hotly con
tested battle, never for an instant forgot
his good breeding.”
Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. Just
what name implies; Cathartic, Tonic.
Reliable.
FROM SUMMER TO WINTER
“.TACK PLANE” COMPARES THE
NORTH AND SOUTH.
Shivering with the Thermometer at 27
Degrees Below Zero-The Winter’s
Efteet on the Crops—Something About
the Metropolis of the Western State.
Correepondence of the Morning Xnea
Ft. Wayne, Ind., Feb. 7.—The transi
tion from Middle Georgia, where the
plows were runuing and preparations
were being made for farming, to this
semi-arctic region, with the mercury
down to 27 degrees below zero, Is more
than the ordinary citizen can stand. I
acknowledge my inability to do so with
any degree of comfort. And yet these
were the figures reached. On the morning
of my arrival the weather measnred 10
degrees below, and in three days after
got down to 27 degrees, the coldest that
has ever bee.i experienced by the oldest
inhabitant here. To-day there is every
sign of a break-up.
The main eropof Indiana is her grain.
This was sadly cut oft'during the present
season. Business has felt the loss severe
ly, and many people have suffered in con
sequence. There was plenty ot hay made,
by which the stock has been sustained
during the hard winter upon them. There
was also a heavy crop ot Irish potatoes
and cabbage made, but many people, tak
ing the prophesies of the weather wise, did
not take sufficient care to house these eat
ables, and when the cold weather came
they were frozen and are now decaying
rapidly, and consequently many suffer for
the necessaries ot life, especially in the
northern portion of the State. Just what
effect the unusual cold weather has had
on the grain in the ground would be hard
to determine. Under ordinary circum
stances the snow which has lain on the
ground longer than usual would be re
garded as a capital fertilizer.
But whether the intense cold
has not greatly damaged the
wheat which had already ventured
above ground remains to be seen. The
snow is now rapidly passing away, but
the weather continues cold and unsettled.
A thaw is a thing to be dreaded here, much
more so than cold weather. The latter
part of February and the month of March
is always looked forward to with forebod
ings of evil. The streams all get out of
their banks, and in their wild sweep
bring destruction to property, and not un
frequently loss of life. The common roads
become impassable, and the railroads are
delayed by broken rails and the carrying
away of bridges and culverts, and not un
frequentlv with frightrul accidents. Of
course every effort is made to overcome
these difficulties, but with all the
skill and genius applied, they continue.
fort Wayne is the metropolis
of Northern Indiana, it has 30,000 in
habitants and is a great railroad centre.
There are three main lines, running east
and west, passing through the city—the
Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific. Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago and the
Nickel Plate. The Lake Shore and other
through lines have a connecting branch,
which really makes four through lines.
Then there are two main lines running
north and south—the Cincinnati and
Grand Rapids and the Cincinnati and
Muucie. Transportation facilities are
abundant, and all the roads seem to be
doing well. During a rate war thev have
lively times.
The Indiana common school system is
noted far and wide, and Fort Wayne is
one of the great centres of education, hav
ing three or four colleges, with many
other schools of high grade.
This city supports four daily papers,
two morning and two evening publica
tions, with quite a number of weekly and
monthly papers. In politics the city and
county are strongly Democratic.
Here also is the headquarters and
manufactory of the machinery for the
“Jenny Electric Light Company,” who
have been given the contract to light up
the World’s Exposition in New' Orleans
next fall. The managers are pressing
everything now to be in readiness for that
work.
Among the many agencies that go to
make Fort Wayne a great and attractive
city, is the enterprise and energy ot her
citizens. Men of wealth do not hoard up
their capital as many are doing In the
South, but they put it into active opera
tion to increase the business and prosper
ity of their city. There is one establish
ment, “Olds’ Wagon Factory,” which
furnishes work for 300 or 400 men. Their
massive four-story building, covering
nearly half a square, resounds with the
hum of machinery and the tread of busy
men. I was carried through it, and won
dered where all these vehicles found
purchasers. There seemed to be
enough to supply the demand
of a dozen States. The question was
soon solved by the gentlemanly superin
tendent. They go into every part of the
United States. Thev had just made a
shipment of five car loads to Portland,
Oregon, to one customer. They are to be
found all over the South. Mr. Henry G.
Olds is the capitalist furnishing the sin
ews for the carrying on of this great enter
prise, but the brain work, which keeps
every machine in motion, is supplied by
Mr. Finis Cartwright, a nephew of the
celebrated but eccentric Methodist
preacher in the West, Rev. Peter Cart
wright. This is only one of the manv.
The question naturally comes, while
seeing all this display of energy
and enterprise. Why cannot we of
the South have such industries? We
have every advantage they possess and
every facility at hand for carrying on such
work, unless it be that of capital, and 1
am inclined to believe there is a sufficien
cy of that if it could be brought out into
active use. We have the coal convenient,
the material, both wood and iron, as easy
of access as they have here, and a supe
rior climate in every respect. We have
transportation equal to any emergency.
Perhaps iu the good time coming we may
wake up to our possibilities. In fact,
there is a great improvement in many
parts of the South, and manufactories are
leiug established to meet the increasing
demands of our people.
POLITICALLY INDIANA IS AN UNCERTAIN
STATE.
With a fair vote and honest count she is
Democratic always. When commercial
methods prevail she has been earned
otherwise. There is considerable activity
now manifested in both political parties
and the vote will be close. One of the
best posted Democratic politicians as
sured me, that if “honest Joe McDonald,”
as they call him, were nominated as a
Presidential candidate, Indiana would
roll up a big Democratic majority. lie
will go into the convention with Indiana,
Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Wis
consin certain, and the Ohio delegation
after any Ohio man shall have been
withdrawn. They claim that he can
command more support West than any
man in the Democratic partv. As an evi
dence, they cite the recent facts developed
by the Cincinnati Enquirer on the tariff
question, which is substantially that of
Judge McDonald. There were 4,100 de
clarations made from various parts of the
State, and 75 per cent, of them were for
tariff for revenue, affording incidental pro
tection ; leaving only 25 per cent, for pres
ent protective tariff'. Eighty per cent, of
these writers were pronounced for Mc-
Donald. Some prominent Democrats think
that Mr. Hendricks is not “toting”
fair with Mr. McDonald. When he
was in active political life McDonald
was faithful, and ready for anv work
necessary for his success. But now,
when McDonald needs his assistance
most, he goes away to Europe on an ex
tended tour. It is hinted that Mr. Hen
dricks has become willing to take the
second place on the old ticket, although
he stoutly retused it four years ago. He
now evidently thinks Uncle Sammv will
not live long, and he may thereby realize
the great dream of his life.
Mr. McDonald undoubtedly has the
hearts of the Hoosiers, and can control
his own State without let or hindrance.
He is a man of commanding intellect,
of strong convictions, and courage to
announce them whether they meet
with the approval of the populace or not.
A prominent Republican assured me that
Mr. McDonald would be the hardest
Democrat to beat that had so far been
named amfing the possible Presidential
candidates, and with Arthur as the Re
publican nominee, McDonald would be
sure to win. Of course, these men see
through Indiana spectacles only.
IT IS A MATTER ADMITTED BY ALL
thinking persons that Indiana is indiffer
ently represented in the lower branch of
Congress. With the exception of the
“great objector” Holman, there is neither
brains nor experience above mediocre
in the whole delegation. In the
Senate, with Harrison and Yoorhees,
the State compares favorably with any
other State. There are a dozen men in
every Congressional district wiio are su
perior in all the qualifications that go to
make up a Congressman to those who
now hold these positions. This fact is
attributed to the absurd clamor for
avoidability because of the closeness of
the popular vote,
Th# Gubernatorial canvass has not vet
set in on full tide, but many prominent
names have been presented. The voung
Democrats have their favorite in H'on. R
C. Bell, oi this city. He has been in the
state Senate for several terms
and has been the recognized leader
of that body lor several years.
1 have had the pleasure of meeting’ him,
and find him a cultured and affable gen
tleman. He is well posted in both State
and governmental affairs, an able lawver
standing at the head of the bar of North
ern Indiana —a fluent speaker and
Popular with the masses. He would
make an excellent Governor and a splendid
r f p .u eßentative °F the energv and progress
of this great State. He will go into the
convention with a large following if he
consents to let his name be presented. He
may be looking for Congressional honors.
He is about 40 years old.
I found one old Savannahian here, Mr.F.
•* -tarnard, who was iornierly connected
with the Ocean Steamship Coiiipanv. He
used to reside on the corner of Taylor and
Barnard streets. He is the brother ot Ylr.
Barnard, of the firm of Richardson &
Barnard, steamship agents of Savan
nah.
There are a great many Indiana people
in r londa this week—quite a number
from this city, and the crowd increases
every year. Some are looking for
homes in Florida and Georgia, and will
become permanent settlers there.
City, the countv site of
W hittey county, is a town of some 2,500
inhabitants, and supports two weeklv
papers, and is thoroughly Republican in
politics. It is prosperous and a delight
ful place of residence. Y’et its chief at
traction and frequent boast of its citi
zens is that there is not a negro living iu
the plaee. It is the only town I have vis
ited in the YVest where such an exemp
li 1011 is enjoyed, and seemingly the people
‘l° really enjoy it. There are manv ex
cellent people here, and I have received
naught but kindness at their hands dur
ing mv sojourn here of several days. Mr.
*: I’eabody, of this city, a prominent
citizen, is contemplating entering into
the lumber business in East Tennessee.
For one, I should like to see a thousand
such men come among us in the South.
As usual, some people ask a great many
strange questions about the proprietv anil
safety of Northern people settling in the
South. As this is the year of popular
elections, the Republican press take
great pleasure in keeping up feelings of
hostility, but the more intelligent can no
longer be duped by these senseless wav
ings of the bloody shirt.
My stay among these people is ended,
and to-day I set my face homeward, still
convinced that Georgia is good enough for
Jack Plane.
TEA CULTURE IN CAROLINA.
The Tea Farm at Summerville—What
the Experiment Has Proved.
A Summerville (S. C.) correspondent of
the Baltimore Bay, writing under date of
February 4, says: “It was three years ago
that Gen. Le Due, the late Commissioner
of Agriculture, leased for twenty years
trom the Middletons, u family of revolu
tionary fame, 100 acres of land, near Sum
merville, for the establishment of an ex
perimental tea farm. The agreed rental
of this land for the twenty years was sl,
and a silver one was specially coined for
the purpose, commemorative of the occa
sion. Congress appropriated $25,000 to
carry ou the experiments, more than half
of which sum Le Due spent on this farm.
He was rather Quixotic in his schemes,
and the bulk of the labor was devoted to
preparing*! “show” place, rather than for
the furtherance of the main object,
which was tea growing. This it was, as
much as anything else, that caused the
partial abandonment of the experiment.
Now from neglect the tea plants, of which
several hundred thousand were planted
out in nursery beds, are growing wild,
and so close together that they are more
like a crop of wheat than the bushy habits
that the tea plant assumes when properly
taken care of, while, iu this light, sandy
loam and crowded condition the only root
they seem to make is an immense top root,
which a foot under ground is twice as
thick as any portion of the stem. In vain
did I attempt to reach the end of one of
these roots, anil the most reasonable con
clusion I could arrive at was that the
plants, disgusted with the treatment they
were receiving from civilized America,
were turning their backs on us and re
turning to their native land by the under
ground route. I was after a ’“specimen”
to take back to Baltimore and show how
tea would grow in our land, but that end
less top root put a stop to taking one
alive, and the next best thing was to take
him dead, and what better way than a
walking stick, and who could better dis
play that stick than our Mayor? So with
his permission he will find himself pos
sessed of the first tea cane in the land.
YVill tea grow in America? is often
asked. Here is the answer: Seedlings,
just three years old, I measured seven
feet high. YVill tea made from these
plants he good tea? Yes, lor I have made
the best tea I ever drank from American
leaves. I say “best” not because the leaf
grows better here than in China, not
“best” because the tea was fresher, for
tea is never so good as it is at the place of
growth—it loses both in quality and
strength, and the absorption by it of any
surrounding moisture or flavors Is
another source of deterioration. Tea
should be put in metal-lined packages as
soon as cured, of a suitable size for fam
ily use, and not in big chests that are
open to outside influences. YVill tea pay
to cultivate in America? That is the ques
tion and one not easily answered. To suc
cessfully make tea requires a climate
that will, in the season, continually
force out new leaves in the place of those
that are picked off; it is warm moisture
that does this, and whether our climate
offers these advantages remains to be
found out, foF the experiment has not been
carried far enough. Most people imagine
it is the expense of making the commer
cial article out of the leaves wherein lies
the difficulty, and they talk about cheap
Chinese labor, etc., but you might as well
compare the “cheap Chinese” mode of
transportation by coolies over mountain
roads to our railroads. Tea making,
which in China is a tedious process, en
tirely by hand, under European manage
ment in India is a simple and quick pro
cess by machinery, and, no doubt, if the
tea making ever becomes an industry in
America, Yankee ingenuity will greatly
simplify and excel the cumbrous English
tea machines now used in India.
WAS IT A DREAM?
A Singular Vision Which Appeared to
Dr. ISruce in Florida.
Dr. Walter Bruce, of this place, says a
Micanopy, Fla., special of the Bth inst.,
recently had a very singular revelation
made to him in a way that is hard to ex
plain. He is a native of Virginia, where
he married Miss Stribling, of Fauquier
county, some years ago, and soon after
wards removed to this State as one of the
pioneers in orange planting, and has ever
since been actively engaged in that busi
ness. He is well known about here as a
man of sound judgment, high standing
and of the most practical ideas, and is far
from being a believer in any ol the popu
lar “isms’’ of the day, especially spiritu
alism.
wLate on the night of Fridav, Dec. 28, he
has awakened from a sound sleep at his
touse in this place by so strong a feeling
ihat there was some mysterious presence
In his room that he got up and lighted a
lamp and looked all over the house, but,
finding nothing unusual, he returned to
bed and apparently fell into a light sleeD
in which there appeared to him a vision
othis wife’s brother, R. M. Stribling. in
a deadly conflict, in which he had his
throat cut in a most horrible manner, and
was removed to a store near by, where he
was placed on a counter, and after the
apparent lapse of time he died from the
effects of the wound.
The vision was so real that Dr. Bruce
could sleep no more, and when morning
dawned he went out, but could not rid
himself of the verv strong impression it
had made upon him. He related the
dream, as he called it, to several of his
friends, and later in the day visited a
well-known spiritualist in Gainesville,
who told him that some awful calamity
must have befallen young Stribling.
And, sure enough, the next mail from
\ irginia brought Dr. Bruce a letter, an
nouncing the death of his brother-in-law
in the exact manner he had seen and at
the very hour that it had appeared to him
in his vision. A sister of the murdered
man, visiting relatives in Kentucky at
the time of his death, had a similar
dream, and, while relating it at the
breakfast table, was handed a dispatch,
announcing its fulfillment.
Yellow Jack in Rio Janeiro.
Rio Janeiro, Feb. 10, via Galveston.
—There are 74 cases of yellow fever here.
The weather is very hot.
Mr. I, B. Battle, Wadlev, Ga., says:
“Brown’s Iron Bitters cured me of poor
appetite, general debility and sleepless
nesa.”
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THE SITUATION’ IN EGYPT.
ADMIRAL HEWITT IN COMMAND
AT SUAKIM.
A Less Gloomy View Taken or Affairs
at Sinkat and Tokar—Gen. Gordon’s
Arrival at Berber Prematurely An
nounced— He is Given Full Power to
Evacuate or Retain Khartoum.
Cairo, Feb. 10.—The report of General
Gordon’s arrival at Berber was prema
mature. The report arose from the re
ceipt of a telegram at Cairo from Berber
signed by Gen. Gordon, which he had for
warded in advance by fast camels. It is
expected that he will arrive in Berber on
Tuesday.
The Khedive has appointed British
Admiral Hewitt commander at Suakim
at the request of the British Government.
A less gloomy view is now taken con
cerning the situation at Tokar and Sin
kat. It is reported that a convoy of pro
visions has entered Sinkat.
The first brigade of Egyptiau battalions
commanded by English officers will pro
ceed to the first cataract of the Nile as
soon as quarters are made ready for it.
1 his movement is made on account of the
threatening attitude of the Bedouins be
tween Keneh and the Egyptian coast of
the Bed Sea.
ARABS FRIENDLY TO UOBDON.
lbe Arabs whom Gordon met after leav
ing Kurosko were friendly. The Ulema, of
Khartoum sent messengers to welcome
Gordon at Berber and accompany him
over the remainder of his journey, in or
der to show the populace that the Mos
lems are not inimical to Gordon’s mis
sion. Gordon expects to reach Khartoum
by steamer from Berber. The government
in advising Gordon of Baker Pasha’s
recent defeat, leaves him full power to
evacuate or to retain Khartoum, as he
thinks fit.
Cairo, Feb. 10, 3 p. m. —The Khedive
appears to be in a deplorable condition.
He labors under the delusion that there is
a plot on foot to poison him. He sends
his wile to the kitchen daily to inspect
his food.
THE PORTE AND EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.
Constantinople, Feb. 10.—Musurus
Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador at Lon
don, has been instructed to inform
Earl Grauville that the Porte declines to
indicate a basis for an exchange of views
in regard to Egyptian affairs, preferring
to leave tUe initiative to Granville.
A SCHEME FOR THE BRITISH ARMY.
London, Feb. 10. —The Marquis of
Huntington, Secretary of State for War,
has obtained the sanction of the Cabinet
for a scheme to increase the effectiveness
of the army. In this scheme the recruit
ing system is modified and the standard
ot height for men acceptable for service is
lower than the present one.
SUBMARINE NAVIGATION.
A New Craft not Unlike Jules Verne’s
Famous Ship.
Prof. Charles F. Ritcbell, of Bridge
port, famous in Connecticut as the inven
tor of numerous practical labor-saving
machines, and famous in Europe amf~
America as the inventor and builder of
the only flying machine ever devised that
succeeded in flying, says a New Haven
special to the New York Times, has per
fected a model of a submarine craft with
which he expects to overcome the obsta
cles that so long kept the civilized
mariner ignorant of the surroundings of
the North pole. He feels confident
that with this vessel he can
navigate the sea with far less
danger below the surface than above, and
make much greater speed. He considers
that bis vessel will be indispensable to
the navy, and for all expeditions in the
Arctic or Antarctic oceans. The first ma
chine will be of an elongated egg-shape,
will be built in compartments, and will
be at least 200 feet long. It will have
four huge glass eyes, through which the
lookout can see above, ahead, behind, and
below. The propelling power will lie
a screw at the stern, and the lowering
and lifting power a screw beneath the
keel on exactly the same principle as
that ot the tan wheel used on the air
ship, whereby the vessel is made to rise
or fall at the operator’s desire. The ves
sel is made to float, but the vertical screw
will draw it downward at whatever rate
of speed it is running.
The professor’s plan about reaching the
North pole is to come to the suriaae at
every opportunity in the ice openings, and,
after securing enough fresh air to fill the
compressed air compartments, descend
again and continue the voyage. Twenty
men could successfully operate the ma
chine contemplated. "The principle of
buoyancy is the same as that of the air
ship, the equipoise being such that a
slight force will govern its upward or
downward movements. Should the vessel
strike the earth or ice it vfould bound
back in the same way and for the same
reason that a foot ball bounds on the
earth. It is proposed to use oil for fuel
and electricity for light. The vessel will
be of copper.
I’rof. ltitchel has built a working model
of his submarine craft. This miniature is
now in operation in a large tank of water
at his laboratory in the Bridgeport Sav
ings Bank building. This model is worked
by means ™ a spring, but in every other
particular it is rigged as will be the larger
vessel. It will be readily seeu herw radi
cal an improvement is Prof. Ritchell’s
plan over the exploded theories of former
inventors of submarine vessels.
A Soldiers Folitlcol Disability.
Among the numerous bills which have
been introduced in the present Congress,
says the New York Times, to remove the
political disabilities of various persons,
imposed by the fourteenth amendment to
the Constitution and the revised statiUes,
is one which the Judiciary Committee of
the House of Representatives has recom
mended should pass. It applies to Henry
Newman, now a private in Battery B,
Second United States Artillery. Newman
has been a soldier in the army al
most continuously since 1806. For faithful
service and ability he was, from time to
time, promoted, until he became First
Sergeant of his battery in November, 1881.
He filled that position until July 3, 1883,
when it was discovered that during tte
war he had been a private in the Con
federate army. The War Department held
that for this reason he was illegally pro
moted, and he was reduced to the ranks.
A petition urging Congress to remove
Newman’s disabilities was signed by Col.
R. B. Ayres, Lieut. Col. Langdon, Capts.
Graves," Wilson and McGilman, and
Lieuts. Creigan, Mitchell and Grimes, of
the Second Artillery, each declaring that
Newman was a good and faithful soldier.
In its report the Judiciary Committee
says that Newman would lie promoted but
for his political disabilities.
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