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1 ESTABLISHED 1850. f
i Jr H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. S
ITEMS IX THREE STATES.
GEORGI A. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
A Former Georgian One of the Victims
in a Double Tragedy in Alabama—A
Voluntary Contribution Sought in
tain of Col. Candler—Reforms Needed
in Charleston County.
GEORGIA.
i.ii; nave declined to 12U cents a dozen in
Alt er.s.
< . iran hunters claim to have slaughtered
I .one robins this season.
A negro man lives in Athens tv hose sister
■an - executed for murder.
-venty dozen eggs were shipped from
\i gi-ville to >avannah last Monday.
• >\ er *:.000 liave been subscribed for the re
. f the cyclone sufferers in Putnam county.
\t Mi A il!e George Willis was committed to
, for the burning of Mrs. ilarntlnon's liarn
.a December.
i apt. Tariuicl McAuley, one <*f Brooks
. ,inrv's oldest and most esteomcsl citizens,
died Wednesday.
Mrs. Malachi Jone-, a sister of the late
Charles K. Groover, of savannah, died at
D nit man Monday.
Green Crider, who-e farm lies just outside
of t arroiton. split hn rails from oue cut of a
pine tree on last .Monday.
Gen. Robert "l oom - owns several thousand
■ res of land in Texas. He lias just refused
S i.ooo for one tract of 4,000 acres.
[t is reported that Maj. A. O. Bacon lias
he, i offer* ! a position with the general eoun
- ; the Pullman Palace Cur Company.
y.-vern mad dogs, one cat. two calves and
have lieeu killed in Brick store dis
tr. . Newton couuty—can - ■ hydrophobia,
v. 11. Gritiin. of Nashville, has bought a
• Iweiling lot in Valdosta and will build on it
ue\, fall and become a citizen of the town.
William Broadhead, alias “Bill Cody,” lias
„*en arresttol at Rome and will have to un
,v. r a charge of intended murder in Cobb
uuty.
Oglethorpe county has been excited over
, t was supposed io he a panther. It ha
.i ,ied out to be a lug dog that was killing all
me sheep.
'efficient returns have been received at
|i on to show that the county was carried
t tin- Prohibitionists in the election of a day
The young sportsmen around Athens are
aughfering robins by the thousand. Their
; >ri v roundelays are sadly missed in the
in :,'!>orhood.
W. 11. I ugliram. former editor of the Calhoun
. * . ini' returned home from Cincinnati,
wli. r.-iic has been attending a medical college
for several months.
Mr. Terry of Valdosta, has sohl live car
of un ions, to he delivered afler the gstli
of .1 . . for SIUO a carload, and got the money
,|. . n when the trade was made.
\ •teatnlxiat line to Darien i 'of the new
enter} r;-< s that is now talked Ju- ait in tm-i
--circles in Brunswick. < m-half of the
k needed is already pledged.
( has. >. Darley. ex-Sheriff of Sumter
I aiuty, a foremost Mason, and the holder of
m , . prominent offices during his life-time,
!., i in that county a few da's ago.
At \nierirus A. T. Oliver and Ilomer Bar
ton. both well known, had a personal diffi
culty. Mr. Oliver’s coat was cut in several
I- aces, and one very painful cut was received
I linn in the face.
Hon. George xdiaefer has commenced col
l.-ling polts for Ins telephone line front
Hamilton to Jackson, by way of McDonough
and Locust Grove. When completed the line
v .11 be nearly 39 miles long.
Mr. Kendrick, of Thomaeville, has the con
t-t for rcbuihling tile four brick stores re
- -titly liurnt on Patterson street, in Valdosta.
They are to be rebuilt with first class Macon
hr,- !; and two stones high.
Henry .1. Moore fell into a ditch on C. \V.
Pii ,X Co’-, tram road, near Prentiss,and
u..-drowned. It is supposed that hetiada lit,
,- lie u ; Subject to them. He left a wife an I
four children in deplorable circumstances.
Mr. Scranton, who lias been spending the
winter in Lowndes for the purpose of training
pointer 'logs for tin* Northern sporting mar
sishot and t illed a very fine buck", with
Lira a" , spreading horns, last Wednesday.
The! ochran Messenger says: “Some bonds
men here were wrought up this week on ac
count of some missing funds, but we learn
th it ti • matter lias been temporarily arrang
ed, and the excitement lias cooled down for
the present.”
lot Sunday night someone shot at Mr.
' t. at Alaualia. while he was in his hou-e
:rt tiii* midst of his family, the ball taking
effe-d ;n the pillow. No one .as Hurt. This
tl, "lid time, in this wav, someone has
sought lhe life of Mr. Eliot.
At Binkley a oue-armed negro named
Aar m ‘ uachman. was arrested and brought
~,-iorc Justice Kreyer, suspieioned of having
jo - •land burned the dwelling andsmoke-
one Wash Anderson two years ago.
f . . i n ■ though not positive, is thought
to b jullieient to convict him of the crime.
; no Hughes, a Rome .shoemaker, started
F relay *. giil to walk to Anniston, Ala. He
was under the inllueuee of liquor and lo t his
way. Sal unlay morning he was found lying
hv the roadside insensible, and on the point
of eg from freezing. He was vveaued back
At < an, the ease of /.. T. Wilson vs. I!.
W. freeman and Rufus Owens, a suit for libel
• ■r.-’au !<■:, the plaintiff claiming in his petition
ten th ii'- uni dollars damages, was tried in
Gor . si: ■■ -riorCoun Saturday, and avt rdiet,
wits rendered for the plaintiff for eight hun
dred d.l • There will in all probability' be
r.i •: -■n for anew trial.
\ eg. ■ was found dead near Rock Run
, the Seim i. Rome oiol Dalton Kall
. . Lind Dave, last Wednesday morning,
lie ti - en a lirakemau on John Briggs'
freight train No. S. Ho is sll|, polled to lime
1,.. . killed white passing under a bridge, and
fail. :.g on top a ear. did not drop off the train
uti! Kiev arrived near Rock Run.
\ e ntleman who passed the Na-ii House,
,-ar Harmony Grove, says it is one huge pile
-pouters, and not enough sound lumber
•e found to build a ehi, ken coop. Even
ar.- ire levelled with the ground. How
• on escaped from it alive is a mystery,
-e o:.k trees in the yard are twisted off
. -traws. Nothing was saved from the
tv reck.
'! Ia iietli MeMath, living with her son
.1 . tl,-Math, six miles from Americas, is
I'. -ars old. -he never needed or had the
-er. -f a doctor in her life until week bc
>iie was then afflicted with chills
a- . er. The chills and fever were cured,
. . . that time she lias grown as helpless
is a '-.M. it is thought the good old woman
■ ly dying of old age. Her son with
>\ i lives i atiout 75 years old.
h Gaines'crossing, Sumter county, last
: :: mile ten-year-ol<l colored boy,
; Henry Taylor, a clever industrious.
: well-to-<fo black man, wa- burning off
■ , -trav in :i field, when he lay down and
went :>• s’eea. The tire reached him and
• -.'s_-.it lus clothes. lie raised the alarm and
■ ! toe-cane, but Indore the laborers work
in the tieid nearby could come to his aid,
■ r child's flesh was burned to a crisp,
lie •. cJ about an hour, hut did not speak
after h. - friends reached him.
i..- :-i. n correspondent of the News,
if .and r dat of Marcii I. writes that the Dodge
super.. ,* I mirt adjourned Friday. There
wa - little civil business anil" only two
•rin ** were disposed of. ‘Willis
Hodge-, a young colored man, was convicted
aid -e : . ••■! to be publicly banged in East
aar. • ■ lMh of April next for the uncalled
r ar, : terly unprovoked shooting and mur-
! t r 1: - • ir.nnour. Lizzie Jones. :ti t liaun
■ ••>. i I':,, 2>tli of !a~t December. Ilcnrv
in' 1 . , . lotv l, was convicted of larceny
• ::i*r trust ilelegatc.l and sentenced to hard
dior tc tii • |ienitentiarr for the term of two
e ar-. II - oileiise was the stealing of sl7 en
t rusted to him In a confiding young man of
is own race and color. The grand jury re
~ irued veral bills of indictment for greater
> r Jt— offenses and recommended the putting
I T aii lit nli/.i'ii oil tiie pauper list,
ii .ie Athf ns Ban her- Watchma* printed this:
lieiu Jlabbi I.evy: Further words and
E'lvhnr. . iru ; are useless. 'I he facts sttiud
lliu-t Ihe Jewish missionaries who came
l i re proimsed to preach on a certain subject,
n our people were not inclined to listen to
Blum on that subject, because thev were
■converted Jews." tint, as I understood the
■ utter, they were willing to listeu to a Chris
■ tninirteron the same subject, and I simp
-11: |‘n.p ired to preaeh a sermon on the line of
■ :_iit which they discussed, and that
B of thought is the following:
■ lid. That your Hebrew prophets
|®r: diet, and a Messiah to come, a persona! Mes
■ ■’>. an i not an impersonal thing. in the form
V ‘vast knowledge’ or ‘higher civilization,’ as
B w liebi by a certain class of Jews. Second,
■ nit I In- Messiah of the Hebrew prophets has
■mi.' since come: and Third, that Jesus of
Bazure!ii is the Messiah predicted by your
Hwn.viiional prophets, and as such is ‘(Old
Banifvet m the flesh.’ I do not ask you to
i.i asennon on these itoints, I only state
direetiou I should have taken under the
■rcuuistances. With me this is lin.s.
H “J. C.Davis.”
W'iie Mien- Banner- Watchman prints the
■ow ing: •• \ few weeks since t el. Candler
§- ti. ■ following paper handed him by a
ii.iid George Smith, of Habersham
- iie Colonel saw at once that it was
B "i get up and dust he would have him
1 o:..re i votes for the nominee than there
A 'n; ills countv. The paper read as
HH lmdersigned. George smith, did
Mr. A. I>. (. handler the day of
election. It is known of him
■ did voted fur Candler four hundred
are j et at work for hismaa w ho are
. ■•• lire, and I will say that be i- an hon-
ad you can deiiend of wiiatevcr he
llh' grots believe in him, and i want all of
grut Democrat Club to signe this De-
met you know me, so I will close. An
|B v iehois. Tins Clarksville, Habersham
. Ga. Ansey Anderson, ‘And we as
body send’him to you. Mr. A. D.
or. in receive $25, and we will make the
and for it just.’ J. W. Dooley, J. 15.
'• at law: -Anil 1 will say to you that he
d. for all he owns was’destroyed with
tiie ‘count of the election.'
b lob i. one of the victims in the follow-
iv. foruieriy lived ill Carroll countr.
of i tie eueoiinti r was near V. cdow ee.
H is thus described in the Carrollton
•' "At a sale at William Woods, at
I' .te and Littlefield were present,
ing under the influence of liquor,
K ' had a pistol nourished it around
finally shooting it off, whereup
,jt Lis friends took the pistol from
iSKi T‘ K ’ t:mc * afterwards. I‘ale accused
of -tealing his pistol, borne warm
■h ..Veiled, which resulted finally
Ldttleueid knocking l’ato down.
In an hour or two afterwards,
when Pate had recovered from the
knocking down, he succeeded in get
ting hold of his pistol, and hunting up Little
lleld, who was getting ready to go home, he
shot him twire, when Littlefield, notwith
standing the wounds he had received, ad
vanced upon Pate and stabbed him in the
neck, inflicting a mortal wound, from which
Pate died instantly. Immediately after this,
a Mr. Knight, step-father of Pate, shot Little
field twice, shortly after which he expired. It
had not been determined at the time our in
formant left the scene of action whether Lit
tlefield’s death was caused by the last or first
shots he received, though Knight had been ar
rested ”
FLORIDA.
Anew store is to he opened at Floral City.
Whitcsville is feasting on new Irish jiotatoes.
The burned cotton -eed warehouse at Live
Oak is to he rebuilt.
Planter- around Gainesville regard the
present cold snap with great apprehension.
.1. M. Baker has purchased 10,000 sweet or
anges and in having the seeds taken out and
planted in a nursery at Floral City.
Lake City pays out for freight on two ex
ported articles alone per year $25,000. and
during the fall months receives upon an aver
age one hundred ear loads of freight per
month.
A car load of lumber left Jacksonville via
Baldwin on February Otli. Up to date it had
not been received. A letter from the lo„t
--froiglit agent says it arrived in St. Louis Mon
day last.
Sheppard Scott, a colored man, while riding
on a fiat car loaded with cross-ties on the
-oath bound construction train on the Penin
sular road Tuesday night, fell between the
ears and the wheels passed over his right arm,
completely crushing it above the elbow. It
wa-. amputated at Ocala, near which place
tlie accident occurred.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
There are ninety-four tax-paying Jacksons
in York county.
The expei ses of the recent term of court at
Abbeville aggregated $1,732 95.
The farmers around Aiken are reorganizing
their county agricultural club.
W. B. Hallet, of Massachusetts, has estab-
Tished an ice factor}- at Spartanburg.
The United States men-of-war Yantic aud
Powhatan are in the harbor at Port Royal.
Several car loads of cattle have recently
been shipped from Anderson to Charleston.
Up to this time more corn has been sold in
Abbeville than during the whole of last year.
The Kalia-Kennedy murder trial at
( harleston resulted Saturday in another mis
trial.
There were six deaths in Columbia for the
week ending March I—whites two, and col
ored four.
The town of Yorkvillc has thus far shipped
5.11x4 bales of cot toll and received 07s tons of
fertilizers.
Lewis Duckett, a colored farmer of New
berry. sold a lot of thirty-live bales of cotton
the other day.
In nearly all parts of Barnwell county a
large corn crop will be planted, beginning the
Ist of March.
The churches in tlie vicinity of Townville
will erect a monument over the grave of the
late Rev. William McWhorter.
The whale that was captured at Port Royal
last week, and its calf, have been sold to Prof.
Henry A. Ward, of Rochester, N. Y.
The residence of the Rev. s. Drummond,
at Woodruff's, Spartanburg county, was
burned on the 25tli. I.oss. $4,01)0; no insurance.
The residence of Lieut.-Gov. Sheppard, at
Edgefield, was burned to the ground Friday.
The loss is $7,090 and the insurance $4,000.
J. < . Lindsey, of Lancaster, has made an
assignment. J. M. Hood is named as assignee.
Liabilities a 1 ><lilt $4,000. Nominal assets about
$2,500.
The principal issue in the approaching
municipal election in Camden seems to be
which ticket favors tlio building of anew
town hall.
The station on the Northeastern Railroad,
in Williamsburg county, heretofore known as
Graham’s Cross-roads.' will hereafter be call
ed Lake City.
The friends of the late Rev. Josiah Obear
have erected, in st. John’s Church, XVinus
boro, to Iris memory a rich and beautiful
stained glass window.
Mrs. K. 15. Brockinton has established a
cotton seed crusher or grinder to her mill at
Kmg-trce. and soon will be able to grind 100
bushels of seed pi r day.
An E Igidield farmer sold four bales of ant
ton in Newbet ry on Monday for $195. He had
them stored in a warehouse four years, and
the storage amounted to S4O.
Rev. J. Howard Carpenter, nowof Augusta,
ha- accepted the call of the Baptist Churches
at Mayesville, Lynchburg, aud Bethel, on
Lj m il’s river. Sumter county.
The Lancaster Ledger states that the cy
clone unroofed and blew down in that county
one hundred houses, causing damages to the
amount of $25,000. Only one person was
killed.
Ten or twelve immigrants, fresh from the
Highlands of Ncotland, arrived in Winnslioro’
several days ago, ami were taken directly to
Ro< k City quarry, where they have been en
gaged as rock cutters.
The Palmetto Rifles, of Aiken, was on the
point of disbanding, but the members met
I hursday, promised to take more interest in
the affairs of the organization and continue
it- existence under much more cheerful aus
pices.
The Aiken Schutzen have been compelled
to change the dates upon which to hold their
annual fest, owing to their inability to pro
cure the services of the Fusilier band upon
tbo.-i- days. The 22d and 23d of April have
now been determined upon.
At a public meeting in Bamberg, Barnwell
county, last week it was unanimously agreed
that a tax of three mills on the dollar should
be levied for the establishment of a graded
public school in Bamberg, as authorized hv
the lasi General Assembly.
Near Shelton Friday the house of a negro
named Henry Oglesby was destroyed by fire,
lltstwo children were locked In" the "house
when the fire occurred, one of whom was
burned to death and the other very lctdly.
The parents were at work in the field.
Tlie Richland Volunteers have received an
invitation to the encampment and Inter-State
drill at Houston, Texas, in May, and they are
seriously entertaining the idea of accepting.
The only matter for consideration is railroad
fare, and that will probable be made satisfac
tory.
A couple of youths, aged about 12 and 14,
started out Monday morning from Newborn ,
on their way to the sea to become sailors.
Their plan was to go to Broad river, get a
boat, and follow the stream down to the sea.
They were found after going about four miles
of the journey.
The Rev. John T. Chalmers, agent for the
endowment of the Associate Reformed Pres
byterian Theological Seminary at Due West,
completed the circuit of the Associate Re
form* 1 churches in Newberry county last
week, from which he obtained subscriptions
amounting to $992.
The Bamberg Chronicle says' “We learn
that Prince Reed, a colored man of this places
is to be presented with a life-time pass over
the South Car Mina Railway for waving down
a tram where the cyclone had passed and up
turned some of the erossties and otherwise
obstructed the road.”
The Governor has appointed the following
supervisors of registration: Tlios. F. Mcßae,
Marlboro county: C. W. Wells, Chesterfield;
W. s. Rrown, Anderson; P. J. Couturier,
Berkeley. Also, Thos. J. Gantt, Thos. 15. Hu
ger ami L. V. Emery, commissioners of elec
tion for the town of "Summerville.
Williamsburg county is out of debt, in eon-
sequence of which the grand jury of the
county recommend that tlie County Commis
sioners make some arrangement in "the future
by which jurors, witnesses and constables can
Is* paid what the law allows for their ser
vices at tlie close of each session of the court.
Last Friday Edward Davidson, while drunk,
attempted to take the life of his father-in
law. Mr. J. A. Brunt, at the sawmill of the
latter, near Bulkehatchie. Just as Davidson
drew liis pistol and aimed at Mr. Brant the
weapon was knocked up bv Mr. Weekly and
Davidson promptly ejected from the building.
The would-be murderer is now in jail.
F. A. Daniels, of Anderson county, has in
vented a cotton planter and guano’distribu
tor. The advantages claimed for the machine
i- that it distributes the seed and guano regu
larly and at the same time deposits the latter
several inches under the former, which pre
vents tlie guano from luting wasted bv the
wind and causes the plant to derive all the
benefit possible from it.
The examination of the papers of those who
recently applied forcerlifieatestoteachsehool
in Orangeburg county has just lteen complet
ed by the Board of Examiners. Twenty-seven
applicants presented themselves. Of these
f..ur received first grade certificates, seven
second grade, five tnird grade and eleven
were rejected. Of the sixteen who succeeded
iu getting certificates, only seven reaehed the
grade applied for.
At John don's, a few days ago, fire destroyed
the building* owned anil occupied byC. M.
Ramon ami Kempson A Hardy, general mer
chandise. Also the law office of P. B. Waters.
The depot caught several times, and was
-aved l.v von hard work. lianton was in
>ured for s2.' ti on the building ami stock.
Gibson for about $1,500 on the building, and
Kempson A Hardy for $l,lOO on the stock.
\\ .-tiers bad no insurance.
ua.-t Saturday afternoon Edward Stanley
an*l John Harris, young men residing in the
neighborhood of Varnville, left that village
for their homes. They were apparently on
good terms. On the road, when about two
miles of their journey had been accomplished,
!:hey became engaged in a dispute, which led
to blows, and ended in the shooting of Harris
bv Stauter, tlie result lieing the almost in
stant death of Harris. The sheriff has been
hunting for Stauley, but he has thus far
evaded arrest.
Barnwell shows her growing prosperity as
clearly as any other county when she comes to
pav her taxes. Out of a total State tax of
$21,227. Treasurer Kirkland has paid into the
state Treasury $20,851, leaving but S37H of
statu taxes tiulln There was not a
piece of land forfeited for taxes in Barnwell
county last year, and the county tax was
collected as closely as the State tax had been.
The .'late Treasurer says that the payment of
state taxes have been "so full and early this
year that but little money is now going into
the Treasury from that source.
Columbus Ross has been pardoned out of
prison by the Governor. Ross was convicted
of arson before Judge Mackey at the Green
villa Court in 1878, and was sentenced to the
penitentiary for ten years. The petition set
forth that the burning for whicn Ross was
tried took place in 187 k, Jjring a period of
groat nolitical excitement; that the defendant
was a young man under age, and was led into
his crime by the influence of oldercompanions
who escaped and have not been tried. There
was also evidence to show that ltoss was in
toxicated when be committed the act
CONGRESS’ WEEK’S WORK.
NAVAL AND POSTAL APPROPRI
ATIONS TO BUSY THE HOUSE.
Xlr. Converse to Try and Rush His Wool
Bill Through—Mr. Hurd to Champion
His Federal Aid for Education Propo
sition—A Blank Before the Senate.
Washington, March 2.—Representa
tive Converse, of Ohio, has announced
that he will move to suspend the rules to
morrow, under a privilege allowed indi
vidual members on the first Monday of
each month, and ask consideration of his
bill providing for an increase of duty on
wool. If the House decides to consider
this measure. Mr. Hurd, also of Ohio, will
strenuously oppose it.
AID FOR EDUCATION.
Representative Willis intends asking
consideration of the bill recently favora
bly reported from the committee, whicn
provides for an annual appropriation for
ten years to aid common school etlucation
throughout the country,
THE PROBABLE WORK OF THE WEEK.
The leaders of the House are of the
opinion that the greater part of the week
will be occupied in the discussion of the
naval and post office -appropriation bills,
and it is possible, they think, that a vote
may be reached on both measures before
the end of the week.
MR. MORRISON’S TARIFF BILL.
Representative XloFrison will report to
the Ways and Means Committee Tuesday
the action ot the eight Democratic mem
bers ol the committee on his tariff bill.
Until then, he says, ne cannot tell defin
itely when the bill will be reported to the
House. The Republican members of the
committee contemplate preparing a mi
nority report.
EASY WORK FOR THE SENATE.
When the Senate adjourned Friday it
lett no unfinished business. There are no
special orders for the week and no mea
sures on the calendar of sufficient import
ance to warrant an expectation that they
will be taken up out of their order.
$700,000 LOST BY I I 111,.
Fourteen Stores in Utica, N Y., De
stroyed, With Their Contents.
Utica, X. X"., March 2.—At 2 o'clock
this morning tire was discovered In the
new manufactory of H. J. Holbrook & Cos.,
on Catharine street, and the conflagration
which followed proved the most destruc
tive in the history of Utica. The Holbrook
building, M. I). Delong’s furniture house,
and James Rockwell's clothing house,
on Catharine street; M. C.and E. I). Com
stock’s large store house on the Erie canal,
the Utica City National Bank,
Newell & Sons, paper and glass store, the
tJtica Observer building and the office of
Comstock Brothers’ wholesale house, C.
11. Sayres’ hard wa; e store and Edward
Martin’s gas fitting and plumbing store,
from No. 109 to 123 inclusive, on Genesee
street, were totally destroyed,with most of
their contents. The Utica Observer saved
its files, but little else. The loss will
probably exceed $700,000.
LEAGUED FOB BOBBERY.
The McCormick Harvester Machine
Company Arrests Another of its Em
ploye*.
St. Louis, March 2.—D. W. J’ratt, re
cently general agent here of the McCor
mick Harvester Machine Company, of
Chicago, was arrested yesterday, charged
with embezzling $4,000 from the company.
The arrest was the outgrowth of the em
bezzlement of $7,000 from the same compa
ny by Hiram H.Post,a book keep* r of Pratt,
who' attempted suicide by cutting his
throat several weeks ago. A written
statement made by Post gives a detailed
description of Pratt’s operations. It
shows that they worked together, Pratt
getting a share of the spoils. It is be
lieved that Pratt’s embezzlement will
greatly exceed the amount charged, but
as some of his books have been destroyed
or otherwise disposed of, the exact
amount will probably never be known.
Our Treaty With Turkey.
Constantinople, March 2.—The Porte
declines to accept Minister Wallace's
view that the treaty with America was
not denounced at the proper time. The
Porte maintains the legality of the denun
ciation. thus making the treaty expire
June 4th. The government is willing,
however, to let the existing tariff remain
in force until negotiations with other
powers are concluded. It grants to Ameri
ca in the new treaty the same advantages
that are accorded other countries.
Watching the Dynamiters.
Lon don,March 2.—The London railway
officials now insist upon an inspection ol
all baggage left at terminal stations. The
meetings of Irish organizations in London
and the provinces to-day were watched
by Irish detectives. Nothing unusual
was discovered.
DYNAMITERS TO BE BANISHED FROM
FRANCE.
Paris, March 2.—The French Govern
ment has decided to expel from France all
suspected dynamiters.
liraillaiiglv. Iterate* Sir Nortlicote.
London, March 2. —Mr. Bradlaugh has
sent a letter to Sir Stafford Nortlicote
charging him with having violated the
law, in having had him (Bradlaugh) ex
cluded from the House of Commons. That
act, XI r. Bradlaugh says, was mean and
spiteful, and unworthy of an English gen
tleman.
President Iglesias Sworn In.
Lima, Xlareh 2.—ln the Assembly yes
terday Gen. Iglesias took the oath of of
fice as Provisional President. The five
members ol the Cabinet have presented
their resignations. Those of Senors Bar
inega, Minister of Justice, and Galyn will
be accepted.
Texas Wanted Cut In Two.
Galveston, XI arch 2.—A dispatch
from Fort Worth says: “The Stockmen’s
Convention at Sweetwater yesterday
passed a resolution favoring a division of
the State of Texas, with Fort Worth as
the capital ot the new State.”
Prince Victor Not Coining to America.
Paris, Xlarch 2. —Prince Napoleon has
decided to postpone the American tour of
his son, Prince Victor. He intends to send
the young Prince to Roumania to serve
in the Roumanian army.
Afraid to Advocate Xlr. Arthur’s Cause.
A gentleman, says a Washington spe
cial to the New York Situ, who called
upon the President yesterday, said to
him that certain subordinate officers of
the Post Office Department in a Western
State had expressed a fear of removal in
ease they advocated his renomination, be
cause the Senator who controls the pat
ronage of that State is liimseif a candi
date for the Presidency, anil claimed their
allegiance and assistance.
The President said he was surprised to
hear this, and hoped it was not true. He
believed that every citizen, whether he
was in an official position or not, was en
titled to the right and privilege to freely
express his preference and work for the
nomination of his favorite so far as he
could do so without interference with his
official duties.
He added that every employe of the
government should be piotected’in the ex
ercise of the widest political liberty. No
Postmaster or other official, had the right
to dictate to any subordinate what he
should do or whom he should favor for
the Presidency, or any other office. Every
post office clerk or carrier bad the same
privilege of favoring aud working for the
candidate he preferred that his superior
officer had, and would in all cases be pro
tected in the exercise of that privilege.
Special Pensions of Widows.
A document now before the Committee
on Pensions, says a New York Sun special
of the 29th ult., gives a list of all widows
or other dependents of officers of high
rank, whose pensions have been fixed by
special acts at a sum beyond the S3O ii
month allowed by the general laws.
Twenty-nine of these are ascribed to
the army, and they include the widows of
twenty-six general officers, the mother of
Gen. McPherson, the daughter of Lieut.
Col. 1. Taylor, and the widow of Indian
Commissioner Xleacham, who was by ex
ception ad> ed to this class. These receive
SSO a month, each, except the widow of
Gen. Shields, who, though her husband
died out of service, receives double this
sum, or SIOO per mouth.
Thirteen widows or have officers receive
SSO per month each, while oue, the widow
of Lieut. Collins, receives S4O per month.
The widow of Farragut has $2,000 a year.
Finally, pensions ot $5,000 a year" are
paid to the widows of Presidents James
K. Polk, John Tyler, and James A. Gar
field.
Mr. XVm. H. Singleton. Savannah, Ga.,
says: “I used Brown's Iron Bitters for
I dyspepsia and indigestion. It greatly
I l>enefited me.”
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1884.
LIFE IN THE ARCTICS.
Lieut. Garlington Describes the Region
of Eternal Ice—No Doubt that the
Greely Party Is Safe.
Lieut. Garlington, of the United States
army, now stationed at Fort Buford, in
Dakota Territory, who had charge of the
government relief steamer Proteus that
was sent to the Arctic regions last sum
mer in search ol the Greely party, says
the Pittsburg Dispatch, was in town last
night, stopping at the Xlonongahela
House. “There is no doubt in my mind,”
said he, “that the Greely party is alive.
1 don’t see how it can be otherwise. If
they are at Lady Franklin Bay, which be
yond a doubt they are. they are certainly
alive and well. Greely had plenty of pro
visions to last him through the’ winter
and he was stationed where he could get
plenty ot fuel, and I see no reason for his
not being alive. I don’t see how lie could
well get away from the bay. The only
season von can sled up there is in the
spring, and that is the only way he could
move. I don’t think he would attempt to
move further north under the circum
stances, and if he had started south I
would have met him when on that expe
dition last summer.
“It is not so dreadfully hard to live up
there as some suppose, provided you have
plenty to live on. It is certainly verv
cold, but one becomes in a measure
adapted to it and does not mind if. We
were within in two degrees of Greely sta
tion when our vessel was crushed by the
ice. It was rather a trying position to be
in. Thousands of miles from anv succor
and no means of getting out except bv a
small boat. But my men did not lose
courage. They kept in good spirits,
although our provisions were limited and
we had to use them sparingly. You can
well imagine a man’s feelings placed in
such a position and knowing that when
the supply of provisions is exhausted
there is ne possibility of securing any
more.
“But, notwithstanding what I have
come through, I would like to go back
again, I intend to make application,
when 1 get to Washington, to join the
present expedition that is now being fitted
out. I have not seen as much of that, re
gion as 1 would like to. There is noth
ing so exceedingly charming about it. but
there is a strange fascination seizes one
when he has a taste of it to see more of it.
When you get up among the glaciers and
rocks, the scene is one of terrific grandeur
and picturesque beauty, but the acme of
dreariness. No sound or stir except now
and then the terrific crash of a huge hya
line boulder, as it grates on the bottom of
the ocean and crushes to pieces. There is
a dreary silence that courts, loneliness,
and one feels such a dull dread all the
time that it approaches misery.
“In the summer time you can occasion
ally hear the piping of seagulls, the chat
ter of ducks, and the growl of walrus, but
you only meet these occasionally. If you
can describe a vast sea of ice and snow,
which is as irregular as anything you can
imagine, you know what appearance that
country has. The nearest comparison I
can make to the appearance of one of
those icebergs is looking down on a city
from the top of a mountain. The high
and low bouses, with an occasional church
steeple, resemble very much one of those
lloating icebergs. The wind has no effect
on them whatever, it is not an uncom
mon thing to see the ‘floe’ or soft ice going
in one direction driven by the wind, and
an iceberg moving in an opposite direc
tion, carried by the current. There is
always seven times the bulk of ice under
the water than is seen above, and one ac
quainted with the Polar re
gion can always tell by the color,
rigidity and appearance of an iceberg
whether it comes from the North sea or
not. You will sometimes see a boulder
three or four times as high out of the
water as this hotel, and probably ten
times as large, carried along by the cur
rent, and when twool them come together
the force is sufficient to crush the less
rigid one. You can judge what a steamer
would be like when caught between two
such icebergs. No boat can ever be built
that could withstand the pressure. Al
though they seem to move slowly, they
have a terrific force aud are often crushed
by their own weight.
“Walrus are very plenty up there in
some places. At the mouth of Xlelville
bay, I believe I saw a thousand at one
time. They crawl up on the ice and lie
there apparently asleep, but on the ap
proach ot a hunter they drop into the
water in a lubberly, awkward manner
which is amusing. At times they sport
and play in the water and out and keep
the sea in constant confusion. They are
an interesting study, especially when
they are the only animated creatures that
can" be seen. While watching them
one forgets that he is out of
the habitable world. The only land
to be seen is an alluvial "deposit
thrown up by the waves near the north
shore of Greenland. There is a kind of
moss growing on the rocks, but from what
it draws the substance of life I know not.
One of the most interesting sights in the
whole northern region is the falling into
the oceau of huge fields of ice. You will
see thousands of acres of ice anti snow
that extend high in the air. The
water wears this away on the
under side, and when ’ the point
projecting into the water becomes
so heavy as to force itself off it breaks
with a loud report and falls into the water.
The traveling is all done up there with
dogs in sledges. The dogs are almost as
large as Indian dogs, and are able to draw
about their own weight. They usually
harness from eight to twelve dogs to a
sledge, and under favorable circumstances
and smooth ice can go about sixty miles a
day. If the surface is uneven and soft
the animals are worthless, and the sledge
has to be drawn by hand.
A DOG AND A RAM EIGHT.
A Combat Lasting an Hour Ended by
tlie Defeat of the Dog.
A Norwich special to the New York Sun
says: “John Barton, a farmer of Foster,
R. 1., near the Connecticut border, owns
an extensive farm, known as the Bradford
Place, on tvhieh he raises large flocks of
sheep. For many months he and his
neighbors have lost many sheep by a
strange dog that killed them at night. Al
most daily in the morning two or more
were found dead in the lots. At about
2 o’clock on Monday morning last a great
clatter was heard in the sheep pens
at Barton’s, but it was not until tivo hours
later that the howls of a dog brought the
farm hands from their beds. Two or three
men hurried down to the pens and found
thirteen fine sheep mangled and dead near
the told. The noise of a desperate strug
gle was heard at a distance in the dark
ness. The men found a big Newfoundland
dog and a powerful ram in combat. They
had fought all around the pen, knocked
down the fence, and in their alternate
dashes and retreats had gone half a mile
from the told. The tight was in the open
pasture and it was impossible tor the far
mers to stop it.
The struggle had lasted nearly an hour,
and both combatants were bleeding. As
often as the dog fastened his jaws in his
enemy’s quarters he was shaken off, and
before lie recovered was butted, rolled
over, and jammed against the turf, The
dog was thoroughly exhausted, and anx
ious to abandon the fight, but at the first
movement to flee the ram fairly ran him
down, and, lifting him high on his horns,
dropped him, trampled oyer his body, and
then butted him. It was not until both
animals had fallen with exhaustion that
the conflict was ended. Two of the dog’s
ribs were broken and battered in, and his
head was terribly mutilated. The ram
was scarred and bloody. The dog belongs
to Job Slade, who paid Xfr. Barton S6O
damages for the sheep killed. Xlr. Barton
asked nothing for the injuries to his ram.
A WICKED CATFISH.
That .Makes Heavy Drafts of the Treas
ury Surplus.
On the western front of the capitol, says
tlie Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Record, on the second ter
race, is a small oval pond fenced with
high, thick railings. In it is a little water,
a good deal of ice, aud a dozen or two
small sized gold fish. I am told that it
cost the government $36 apiece per annum
to keep those fish. Of course, tbev have
to be fed, cared lor and taken out of the
pond when it freezes solid, and boarded
around until it thaws again; but the main
expense, I am told, grows out of the at
tempts which have been made to block
the little game of a stalwart catfish which
comes tip the big drain pipe from the Po
tomac. half a mile off, and eats up the
the spawn of the gold fish. It has been
the custom to drain the pond and make a
raid upon him three or four times a year.
In each case, of course, he has quietly
gone down the drain to his native river.
That was a very easy way out. But the
operation of trying to capture his high
ness was quite tin expensive one. Here
after the catfish is to be allowed to bother
the denizens of the pond as much as he
pleases. When they get ill and die of
worry their places are to be filled with
others. It is cheaper.
THE VICTORY AT TEB.
THE BRAVERY OF THE TROOPS
UNIVERSALLY' COMMENDED.
Further Instances of the Enemy’s Fan
atical Bravery—Victoria Telegraphs
Her Congratulations— How the Success
Will be Followed Up—More About the
Hopelessness of Gen. Gordon’s Task.
Suakim, March 2.—The British troops
entered Tokar at noon Saturday. A few
shots were exchanged with the enemy,
when lour thousand rebels holding the
town fled. Osman Digma is encamped
eight miles distant from Suakim. A battle
with him is expected when tlie British
troops return to Suakim from Tokar. All
reports commend the steadiness with
which the British moved on Teb. The
square iu which they advanced to battle
was never broken.
BRAVERY OF THE ENEMY.
The determination and bravery of the
rebels were shown in the fact that when
they were charged by the cavalry great
numbers ot them tlirew themselves upon
their backs on the ground and speared the
horses of the troopers as they dashed over
them.
The march to Tokar was accomplished
in lour hours from Teh. The Hussars
scoured the country and kept up desul
tory skirmishing with the enemy, who re
tired in disorganized masses in ths direc
tion of Tamanief. The Arabs lost 1,100
men dead on the field at Teb, besides guns
and other munitions. Their whole camp,
including 375 tents and many cam
els, was also taken. The condi
tion of the camp showed that
the Arabs had relied upon being
victorious. Gen. Graham will send part
of the Tokar garrison to Trinkitat, and
will destroy the works of the fortification.
He will then march to Tamanief, where
he will convoke the Sheikhs of the friendly
tribes, and those submitting to him, to
make arrangements to keep open the
route between Suakim and Berber.
AFTER THE BATTLE.
After the battle, Baker Pasha and Ad
miral Hewitt returned to Trinkitat. The
soldiers and sailors stationed there hearti
ly cheered Baker Pasha, who had been so
severely wounded that he was unable to
walk. The veterans who took part in the
battle, say they never met a more reso
lute loe. The enemy’s trenches were
found completely filled with corpses.
GORDON’S TASK ACKNOWLEDGED HOPE
LESS.
Cairo, March 2.— The government feel
ing convinced that Gen. Gordon’s mission
will fail and his life be put in imminent
peril has offered to Abd el Kader Pasha,
Minister of War, under the sanction of Sir
Evelyn Baring, the British Minister, the
Governorship of Khartoum, Abd el
Kadar Pasha refuses to accept the office,
however, unless Gen. Gordon assents.
UP THE WHITE NILE.
Gen. Gordon has ordered Col. Stewart,
commander of the expedition sent up the
White Nile, not to attack the natives un
less he is attacked by them, but to try to
negotiate with Sheikh Buggar to go to
Khartoum. If that Sheikh prefers to
fight, he will precipitate a rising of all the
tribes in Darfur and Kardolan and attack
Khartoum.
THE “BOSPHORE EGYPTIEN’S” SUPPRES
SION.
Nubar Pasha, Prime Minister, under
the influence of Sir Kvelvn Baring, the
British .Minister, suppressed, as men
tioned yesterday, the liosphorc Egyptian.
the leading journal of Cairo. XI. Gtruud,
the editor, who recently received the
decoration of the Legion ot Honor, has
appealed to M. Barrere, the French Con
sul-General, protesting that the only
charge against him is that he denounced
with energy the faults of English rule.
HEWITT LEADING THE MARINES.
London, March 2. —Admiral Hewitt
led the marines in the attack on Teb. The
surgeons behaved nobly. Queen Victoria
has sent a telegram congratulating the
troops on their victory.
G RAHA M’S TELEG R AM.
Gen. Graham telegraphs as follows:
“Tokar has been relieved. The rel>ele
had held the town since February 16th,
oppressing the garrison and inhabitants.
The rebels fled to the mountains. It has
been ascertained that the rebel guns at
Teb were served by Egyptian soldiers.
The Arabs of Hudeda have declared in
lavor of El Xlahdi. The Governor has
telegraphed to Sennaar for troops.”
A PRISONKR IN HER ROOM.
A Wealthy Widow, Formerly of New
York, Guarded by Officers.
Mrs. Jane A. Brooks, a wealthy widow,
says a Chicago special to the Now York
Times, formerly of New York, but now
residing at the Palmer House, was held
on the 29tli ult. a prisoner in her room,
guarded by two deputy officers, whose
mission is to prevent her taking a trip to
Europe, which she has contemplated for
some time. On Thursday Stanley B. Sex
ton recovered a verdict for $68,044 against
Xlrs. Brooks on a bond signed by her
husband, from whom she inherited
her estate of $350,000. Brooks was
one of the sureties on the bond
of Henry M. Curtis, Sexton’s guardian,
who, according to the decision of the
court, was in arrears about $55,000. Sex
ton swore out a writ of ne exeat, claiming
that Xlrs. Brooks was about to leave for
Europe, and that her fortune was entirely
in stocks, bonds, diamouds and transport
able property. The writ was served late
on Thursday evening*at the Palmer
House. XVhen the Deputy Sheriff an
nounced his errand, Xlrs. Brooks prompt
ly relapsed into hysterics and did not
revive lor several hours, so that the offi
cer was not able to formally serve her.
Employes of the house took the side of
their boarder and refused the officer per
mission to again enter the room. He was
therefore obliged to pace the hall in front
of her room and wait until she recovered.
Two •dicers are camped in Mrs. Brooks’
sitting room. 'She recovered sufficiently
to permit the writ to be served, but as she
has not yet given a bond the deputies are
holding her a close prisoner. Her meals
are served in her bedroom, where she is
uuite ill, while the officers have posses
sion of the sitting-room. Young Sexton
is making a desperate attempt to secure
something from the wreck of his estate.
He was left a large amount by his father
and was considered one of the wealthy
young men of the city. "When he came o'f
age it was found that his property had
been entirely dissipated. He is at pres
ent working in a lumber yard for $2 per
day.
Clever Swiixller Captured.
A clever swindler was captured at St.
Louis on the ‘29th ult. and is now in jail,
says a special to the New York Herald.
Last Monday the St. Louis National Bank
received a letter purporting to be from
the cashier of .the Union National Bank,
of New Orleans, saying that the bank had
sold to John A. Vincent, a prominent
merchant of New Orleans, a draft for
$6,000, and requesting the St. Louis bank
to show Mr. Vincent proper courtesy
when he should visit St. Louis
within a few days. The St. Louis
National Bank telegraphed to New Or
leans and learned the letter was a forgery;
that no such draft had been sold; that
John A. Vincent was a prominent mer
chant there, but was not coming to St.
Louis. About 2 o’clock, a distin
guished looking stranger walked into the
bank and introduced himself as John A.
Vincent. He was cordially received and
invited into the back room, where a cou
ple of detectives took him in charge. The
draft, all in proper shape, with the signa
ture of the New Orleans banker forged
thereto, was found on him.
Banking Out West.
Wall Street S r eics.
A Baltimore man who started a bank at
Custer City a year or so ago failed within
a week simply because be didn’t know
Western human nature. His place had
not beeu open an hour when a tnan in
buckskin slouched in and presented a note
of SIOO running for 60 days and asked to
have it discounted.
“I don't kuow you,” replied the bauker,
who was bis own cashier.
“stranger, that’s my name tliar at the
bottom —Bill Biggs.”
“I see.”
“And that note is backed by Jim Mad
den.”
“I see, but 1 don’t care to discount it.”
The man picked up the paper and
walked out, and in the course of ten min
utes a chap with a pistol in either hand
danced into the bank and cheerily called
out:
“Here’s Jim Madden, and he wants to
set eyes on the galloot who won’t discount
a note when he hacks it!”
He popped the banker in the shoulder,
a clerk through the hip, and then tired
away at the fixtures until someone called
him out to drink. The next morning the
banker was missing, and, when he after
wards turned up in Denver, he acknowl
edged that the banking busiuess had some
pain tul features that no one but a cowboy
was able to wrestle with.
ROBBED ON THE CIRCASSIAN.
Over 83,000 Worth of Money and Valu
ables Stolen From an Allan Line Pas
sender.
The steamer Circassian of the Allan
line, from Liverpool to Portland via Hali
fax, says a Portland, Me., special of the
29th ultimo to the Boston Globe, reached
that city Friday, and was docked at 11
o’clock. Capt, Wm. H. Smith says he
encountered severe gales from the
moment of the start, which continued
until she made Portland in the midst of a
snow storm. Among the passengers was
XV. H. Haigh, on his way to Port Hope,
Canada. He was of free and genial dis
position, and very fond of inviting gen
tlemen to his room. One of his con
stant companions he knew per
sonally. Tlie rest he made the acquaint
ance of alter coming on board. Haigh
had crossed the ocean manv times, and
had reason to know that, in"the belief ot
the Steamship Company and officers, a
regular gang of professional pickpockets
make a business ol crossing the Atlantic,
coming here on Allan and Dominion
steamers and returning on steamers of
the XVhite Star line. But he kept a large
sum of money and many valuables in a
carpet-bag, placed at the head of his bed.
It is believed that his habit of keeping
valuables about him became known to
one of these professionals,* who followed
him from London, The morning before
reach in'' Halifax he reported to Capt.
Smith that he had been robbed of £7O in
gold, £2O in Bank of England notes, oue
large diamond ring, two single diamond
rings and other jewelry, worth in all
about s3,2tX>. Private papers of
great value were also missing, making
the robbery a very extensive one.
Hie night before he bad as usual enter
tained several gentlemen in. his state
room. The steward who had charge of the
room had been with the line fourteen
years, and was not suspected. Haigh de
clined to state whom he suspected. Capt.
Smith ordered the ship and crew to be
searched, and on arriving at Ualiiax pro
cured a warrant and offered to search the
cabin passengers, but to this Haigh ob
jected, and at last refused to*allow it; so
there is no prospect that the money and
jewelry will ever be recovered. But the
papers may be, by paying a heavy reward.
Haigh} left ;tbe steamer at Halifax and
cabled borne for more money. This is the
first serious robbery that has occurred on
the Allan line steamers since Sprungly
robbed many passengers of the Circassian
some five years ago. He claimed to be an
English genflenuin, had plenty of money,
was not even suspected at first, but was
searched after going on shore and a great
amount of plunder recovered. in the
Haigh case, Capt. Smith, before allowing
any one to leave, brought three detectives
on board, who searched the ship and crew
in the most thorough manner, thus show
ing that the theft was probably committed
by someone in the cabin.
BLOWN FROM A TRAIN.
Secretary of State Kelsey, of New Jer
sey, Miraculously Escapes Death.
Secretary of State Henry C. Kelsey, of
New Jersey, says a Trenton special of the
29th ult. to tbe Philadelphia Press, took
the Philadelphia and Reading “two-hour”
train from Philadelphia to New York at
Trenton Junction at 8 o’clock that morn
ing on his way to attend a meeting of the
board of directors of a company with
which he is connected in Newark. The
train was crowded. Finding the seat
which he first occupied too cold he started
to walk back to the rear cars to find a bet
ter one.
As he opened the car door the train was
passing along an embankment eight or
ten feet high, about a mile from Trenton
Junction. It had not yet obtained full
headway, but was going some twenty
tulles an hour. He stepped upon the
platform, seizing the brake wheel with
the hand in which he held the newspaper
and mittens, and holding on to his hat
with the other. The wind was blowing a
gale, and had a full sweep across a wide
field and over the embankment.
A terrific gust at the moment Xlr. Kel
sey was stepping from one car to the
other lifted him from his leet, tore his
hand loose from the brake and hurled him
clear ol the train ami several feet from
the track. He went over a pile of rails
lying beside the track and, striking on
the earth embankment, rolled over and
oVfer until he stopped at the bottom. He
was rendered unconscious, but in his ex
citement had strength sufficient to gather
up his mittens, paper ami hat and scram
ble up the bank.
The train, meantime, had been stopped
and backed up, the accident having been
witnessed by a passenger, who pulled the
bell rope. The conductor wished to bring
him back to Trenton Junction, but he in
sisted that lie was not hurt, and was
helped into a parlor car and made com
fortable until Jersey City was reached.
By that time he realized that one foot was
badly injured, and that he was bruised
and sore all over his body. He was put
at once on a train for Trenton, and by 11
o’clock had been taken to his room at the
Trenton House, surprising Mrs. Kelsey,
who bad not hoard of the accident or
known that he had gone on the train.
The injury to his foot is not serious, but
is very painful, and the result of the
shock and his bruises keep him in a ner
vous condition, but no more serious re
sults are apprehended than a few days’
confinement to his bed. Ilis escape from
death is to be attributed to the fact that
he struck with liis feet first, and that his
fall was further broken by his being
muffled in a heavy overcoat and by the
snow that was on the ground. He has
been the recipient of congratulatory tele
grams from all parts of the country.
A BABY’S BIRTH MARKS.
Figures ou the Tattooed Mother Kepro
duced on the Child.
Laura Laramie, says a Baltimore spe
cial to the New York Times, one of the
three tattooed women of America, well
known to museum frequenters,
grave birth to a boy on
Thursday morning in Baltimore. The
baby is remarkable because his skin
bears the same marks, or tattooed figures,
as the mother. Not only are these figures
reproduced identically on the child’s
epidermis, but they are in the same colors
as the marks on the mother’s body. The
colors are blue and red. Adolph Morath,
the father of the bSby, has been lately
engaged in running a small museum in
country towns in Maryland. He said
that less than nine months ago he
went to the husband ot Dora Hildebrant
to get him to tattoo his wife.
Dora is the original tattooed woman,
and her husband refused to tattoo any
woman who would prove an opposition to
his wife, so Morath set to work hirnselt.
He found it too great ajob, and as he was
traveling he engaged men in various
places, commencing with Cincinnati, to
tattoo his wife. It took several months to
completely tattoo Laura. Five weeks
ago his wife was taken ill in Cumberland,
Aid., and since that time she has not been
on exhibition. The child is healthv and
weighs 15 pounds.
Dr. A. Trego Shertzer, a reputable and
well-known physician of Baltimore, at
tended Laura Laramie, or Miss Morath,
during her confinement, and pronounces
the case one of the strangest ever known
in his long practice. The tattooed marks
on noth mother and child arc of various
designs, representing snakes, animals,
flowers and symmetrical figures.
The Keiguiug Favorite.
SprinoJitld Republican.
M. Tricon, formerly French Minister
to China, has arrived at Paris and ex
hibits the gold cup from which the late
King of Annam drank poison by order of
thp present Regent. This is a delightful
little trinket for the amusement of the
populace who are outraged at Trlcon’s
statement that the Black Flags put
Chinese in front of them in battle, and
massacred them if they refused to fight.
But the Regent who gave the King a cup
of poison and put on the throne a stripling
infused with a desire to retain the triencT
ship of France is a great favorite in Paris.
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LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
LENT’S COMING NOT ANTICI
PATED IXMADGAYETIES.
The Patriarch BalU-The Death of the
Two Mrs. Roosevelt—Mrs. Astor’s
Convalescence Republicans Revolt
ins Against the Rossism of John
J. O’Brien and its Bearins on the
National Flection.
Correspondent:* of the Morning Sexes,
New York, Feb. 28.— The iletropolitan
fashionable season of 1883-84 ended in de
corous dullness iu place of the riotous
gayetv which ordiuarily distinguishes the
days immediately preceding Ash Wednes
day, so that the prophesy in my last let
ter respecting the multitude of balls and
receptions which were to usher in Lent,
was somewhat too previous. Of course,
there have been a number of afternoon
teas and small Germans, but the only big
ball during the past week wa9 that of the
Patriarchs, at Delmouico’s, on Monday
evening. The ball was conspicuous, not
only for its being the grand affair of the
week, but for the fact that its floral deco
rations came from the land of flowers—
Florida.
The three patriarch’s balls which have
been given this season cost an aggregate
bf $5,000, which is divided among fifty
subscribers, who, of course, belong to the
class which the Tribune calls the “best
people.” Each subscriber for his SIOO
had the privilege ot inviting nine persons
to the ball, besides that of going himself,
so that about M)0 of our “best people” are
thus collected together.
The iliness of Xlrs. John Jacob Astor
and the death of the two Xlrs. Roosevelts
had not a little to do with rendering dull
the end of the season. Notonlv gloom
was thereby cast over their largo circle
of relatives and friends, but several large
dinner parties were broken up incon
sequence.
As Xlrs. Astor is recovering the dinner
parties abandoned on ber account will
doubtless be given within the next tew
weeks. For, incongruously enough. Lent
is the season lor dinner parties in New
York. Although the period for fasting, it
is devoted to eating and drinking by
many of tbe same people who scrupu
lously refrain from dancing between Ash
Wednesday and Easter Sunday. Could
inconsistency go further? Lent, too, is
the favorite time here for going to thea
tres. Social observances occupy tueir
time so much during the season that fash
ionable people seldom have au evening to
spare until the arrival ot the period for
penance and prayer. Card playing, too,
takes the place of dancing, and with the
aid of whist, theatre-going and dinner
parties, the fashionable folk will continue
to effectually drive dull care away during
the next six or seven weeks. After Eas
ter there will be a number of weddings—
in the spring, you know, a young man’s
fancy, etc.—and perhaps a few balls, but
there will be no real revival ol gayety un
til next winter.
Although there has been only occasional
need of keeping late hours the past week
or ten days, the arrival of Lent is hailed
with joy by the fagged out devotees of
fashion. For Lenten amusements have
the merit of generally ending before the
chimes are heard at midnight, and a com
paratively long period is thus left for
sleep. Ash XVednesday was therefore
particularly greeted with delight by pro
fessional and business men who, even if
they do not get home from a ball until 4
a. m., or perhaps later, are obliged to be
at their offices at 10 o’clock, and some
times an hour earlier. The spoiled daugh
ters of fashion are also glad to restore the
roses to their cheeks bv early hours, al
though as, like the lilies of the field, they
have neither toiling or spinning to do,
they can make up for loss of "sleep at
night by sleeping half the day.
THE TWO MRS. ROOSEVELTS,
whose death so saddened society, were
the mother and wife of young Theodore
Roosevelt, whose bill to give the Xlavor
sole power to make appointments to office
has created such commotion here. Xlr.
Roosevelt is also tbe father of a second
bill, which is asortot corollary to the first.
This bill raises liquor licenses in cities to
SSOO and ale and beer to $250, while half
as much in each case, should it pass, is
to be paid by country saloon keepers. The
bill is dependent on that affecting the
Mayor, because there would be little use
in its becoming a law, unless the Mayor
appointed the officers who will have to do
with its enforcements.
At the meeting held on Tuesday evening
to further the passage of the bill, and at a
previous meeting convened to perform a
similar office for the companion bill, dis
tinguished men of more than twice Mr.
Roosevelt’s age, such as Mr. Evarts, Dr.
Howard Crosby, Judge Noah Davis and
Henry XY'ard Beecher, indorsed the Young
legislator and all his works. There is
hardly a man so young m the country who
is so well and favorably known as’Theo
dore Roosevelt. He was graduated from
Harvard less than four years ago, and is
consequently not over 26 years old. In
herited wealth rendering it unneces
sary for him to work for
his living, he is able, like
l’erry Belmont and Seth Low, to devote
his entire time to his public duties. Al
ready having enough, he has no tempta
tion to rob the public treasury, and is,
consequently, fitted on this account, if on
no other, for being a model legislator.
That he is well fitted in other respects is
proved by his success, for he is insignifi
cant in appearance, and could only have
acquired thecommandinginfluence which
he wields by his mental endowments.
Of course, he has his detractors, who
say that his career is urged by ambition
and self-interest, but he numiiers manv
distinguished Democrats among the sup
porters of his measures, as well as mem
bers of his own party, and I seldom heard
a heartier cheer than that which was
given for Mr. Roosevelt at the Harvard
dinner last Thursday evening. It showed
the respect in which" he was held by his
fellow graduates irrespective of politics.
His recent bereavement, of course, pre
vented Xlr. Roosevelt from being present
at the dinner.
It was fortunate for John Quincy Adams
that he also was absent, for an elaborate
joke was got up at his expense. In ridi
cule of his attack on the study of Greek
in colleges, and of his assertion that he
had forgotten the Greek alphabet, the
menu was minted in Greek characters,
and Charles C. Beamau. President of the
New' York Harvard Club, begun his alter
dinner oration in the Hellenic tongue.
The effect of Deltnonico’s French in Greek
lettering on one who had been dining,
was bewildering in the extreme.
I HEARD A STORY THE OTHER DAY
depicting the domestic demeanor of the
richest man in the world, as Wra, H, Van
derbilt is now considered, Plumbers, in
order to repair a pipe in the cellar of the
great brown stone house at Fifth avenue
and Fiity-first street, had removed a quan
tity of coal from one vault to another.
Mr. Vanderbilt, descending to the cellar
to inspect their work, missed the coal.
Without waiting for explanations he be
gan to scold over the absence of the coal,
declaring that he was continuallv robbed
in bis own house and that his servants
were so many thieves, etc. He stormed
away until out of breath, and, when the
opportunity was then taken advantage of
to tell him what had become of the coal,
he was more angry than ever at having
made an exhibition of himself on so poor
a provocation. He is said to be a house
hold tyrant, and to be rude and overhear
ing to the members of his family, as well
as his servants; but he is so universally
disliked that, doubtless many things are
told about him which are not true.
The advocates ot water as a beverage
have recently received a sad set back.
The decomposed body of A man was found
in the upper reservoir in Central Park on
Monday. Although it was clothed in a
dress suit, the case is probably one of
suicide, as the reservoir is far out of the
way for a belated ball-goer to fall into.
As the body has not been recognized
while, notwithstanding the dress suit,
there was not enough money in the pock
ets to satisfy an undertaker, it will be
buried in the Potter’s field.
A VIGOROUS “KICK” HAS ALJ. AT ONCE
BEEN MADE
against the bossism of John J. O’Brien
over the New York Republicans. The re
bellion is among those who have hereto
fore been his most ardent supporters.
M hetber it sqccoeds or not, the schism
will cause a breach in the Republican
ranks which renders the chance of the
Democrats carrying New York State next
fall, in spite of the already antagonistic
attitude of Tammany, somewhat more
possible than it seemed last week. Should
it succeed, O’Brien will not be able to
make his usual bargain with John Kelly,
und trade city voets for Presidential;
should it fail, the “kickers” in large num
bers will probably either not vote at all,
or will vote Democratic. Still, don’t rely
on New York State as a factor in the elec
tion of a Democratic President. Let a
man be nominated who can be elected
without New York.
A tragedy which startles the commu
nity here at periodic intervals was enacted
earlv this morning. A father aud his thiee
children were apparently needlessly suf
focated or burned to death in an east side
tenement, and tbe mother, who jumped
from a third-storv window to escape the
flames, was killed by the tall.. The fire
which thu9 caused the death of an entire
family did a pecuniary damage of but
S4OO. “ and.
EATING FRESHMEN’S SUPPER
The Clever Trick Flayed by the Cor
noli Sophomores.
Since the time two years ago, says a
Ithaca special of the New York Times,
when half a dozen of tbe Freshmen officers
were kidnapped by the Sophomore class,
no such excitement has been witnessed
among the students of Cornell University
as on the 29th ult. The Class of ’B7 had
made arrangements to have their Fresh
men supper served in a large hall here
to-night by Teal, tbe Rochester caterer.
Since the Freshmen attempted to
prevent two Sophomores from attend
ing their banquet at Elmira last
week, rumors have been current that
tbe Sophomores would retaliate by
attempting to break up the Freshmen
supper by kidnapping some of their ofli
cers, President XVhite threatened summa
ry punishment upon the whole class if
any such attempt was made, but the bold
est practical joke ever played here was
concocted by the Sophomores. Two of
their numbei went to Rochester a week
ago, and told the caterer that thev were
Freshmen, that their plans had been
changed, and that the supper would be
served in Trumansburg Village, ten miles
north of here. He would pay no atten
tion to any dispatches sent to him bv
Freshmen unless they were countersigned
by them.
This plan was kept au entire secret by
the Sophomores, and Teal arrived at Tru
mansburg to-day, with tlie supper, wait
ers, etc. About 80 Sophomores went to
Trumansburg at nightby the 6 p. m. train.
On arriving there they marched to the
Town Hall, which was gayly decorated
with banners and flags, and at the time of
writing they are eating the supper which
the poor Freshmen have paid for and are
being cheated out of. A lew Freshmen,
perhaps 20 in number, seeing the Sopho
mores assemble at the evening train, a!s<r
went down to Trumansburg, “but the ca
terer paid no heed to their indignant pro
testations that they were the true Fresh
men, and he, with his six colored waiters
in full dress, and with music bv a brass
band, is serving the supper to the 80
students whom he still* * supposes are
Freshmen. A few Freshmen are
are still lingering in their ban
quet hall around their desolate tables. At
9 o’clock, when the first authentic news
came that the Sophomores were actually
eating their supper, they gnashed their
teeth in anguish, and unsuccessfully tried
to charter a special train to
carry them here. Crestfallen by
the entire success of the joke
played upon them, they now acknowl
edge their defeat, and have already hired
a brass band to meet the exultant Sopho
mores at their return in the morning.
Considering the decisive action the
Faculty have betore taken on such efforts
to break up Freshman suppers, it is to be
feared a few more Cornell students will
shortly be rusticated.
CARRIE SAVAINE’S HUSBAND.
A Vagabond Who Has Imposed Shame
fully on a Loving Wife.
Miss Carrie Swain, “Cad, the Tom
boy,” who is at present playing an en
gagement at the Standard Theatre, St.
Louis, says a special of the 29th ult. to
the Philadelphia Press, filed a petition in
the Circuit Court here for a divorce from
her husband, Samuel C. Swain, on the
ground of desertion. The plaintiff alleges
that Xlrs. Caroline 11. Swain was married
to Samuel C. Swain at San Francisco, on
the 15th day of February, 1876, and lived
with him up to October, 1881, when he
deserted her. Depositions taken this af
ternoon at the office of Xlrs. Swain’s at
torney revealed a case of deception on the
part of the husband and devotion on the
part of the wife. Mrs. Swain testified
that about three years ago her husband
fell ill, and it became necessary, as he al
leged, that he should go to the Bermudas
for a change.
Mr. Swain left California for the Ber
mudas, with the agreement from his wife
that she should remit to him half her sal
ary. She was then getting S.BO a week,
and she remitted to Mr. Swain’s bankers,
m New York, every week the sum of S4O.
Happening to go to New York, Mrs.
Swain told some friends about her hus
band’s illness and subsequent trip to the
Bermudas, and was astonished to learn
from them that he had frequently been
seen about New X'ork.
These statements, coupled with the fact
that her remittances had always been sent
to New York, awoke a suspicion in Xlrs.
Swain’s mind, which was verified when
she called at a house where she learned
Xlr. Swain was living, and, asking for Mr.
Swain, was told that he was out, but she
could see “Xlrs. Swain.” She did see
“Mrs. Swain” and from her learned that
she and the erring Samuel had been liviug
together as man and wife on the money
sent by the faithful Carrie. Swain never
showed his lace to his wife again, and has
not answered her plea for divorce, so that
it will probably be granted by default,
XIOSES AND THE NEGROES.
Anecdote of the Days of Carpet-bag Rule
in South Carolina.
A XYashington letter to the Philadelphia
Record tells the following: Said iny South
Carolina friend: “This John S. XVise
episode reminds me of an incident in the
canvass of Frank Xloses for the nomina
tion for Governor of South Carolina in
1872. Moses was a native of South Caro
lina, you know, just as Wise is a native
of Virginia. I remember I went with
Xloses to Newberry to report his siteech
for my paper. XV'hen we reached the
station, on the outskirts of the town, we
fouud a comfortable carriage belonging to
a prominent white Republican county
official waiting for us. It was to take us
to the bouse ol it3 owner, where we were
to spend the night, the speech-making
occurring on the morrow. The Governor
was warmly received by a number ol
white and colored politicians. After the
hand-shaking was over he was told that
the carriage was ready for him. ‘Thank
yeu,’ said Xloses; ‘I am waiting tor a
friend, with whom Pm uoing to stay.’ In
a few moments an old-fashioned cart,
drawn by a dilapidated old white mule
and driven by a gray-halred negro, rolled
slowly up, XVhen it reached the platform
Moses said good-night, climbed in, sat
down By the driver, and was slowly driv
en to the old fellow’s cabin, where he re
mained all night. The old negro drove
him to the meeting next day iu tlie same
old cart. It is needless to say that New
berry sent a solid delegation to the con
vention for Moses.”
SOCIETY LADIES AT POKER.
How the Game Effect* Them.
A dispatch from Washington says: Sev
eral clubs, it is said, of fashionable ladies
have been formed where a game of draw
ppker is the chief amusement. Ladies
living at the hotels first started the scheme,
but it has expanded to many fashionable
private houses.
Said a well-informed society lady this
evening: “I was a looker-on the other day
at a game of poker between five ladies at
the Blank Hotel. The ‘blind’ was fifty
cents. At times there was as much a‘s
$25 on the table. One ‘pot’ contained on
this occasion $53.”
“Do the ladies, when at plav, show
much nerve V’
“Some of them do. Others, again, when
they lose look awfully frightened. One
young woman, after ‘losing about SIOO,
deliberately left the table and started for
the door, as it was thought, to go home.
As she turned the door knob she fell faint
ing to the floor, She was the daughter oi
a foreign Minister, and not now a resident
of Washington. Other girls again cry
when they lose. I suppose men are dif
ferent.
“Early in the session there was a very
spirited game of poker played at the resi.
deuce of one of the Diplomatic Corps. The
stakes were high. One young woman,
who has only been out in society one sea
son, lost a large sum of money. After the
olose of the game she stated that the sum
lot (over $300) was given her by her
father to pay for a dress which she had
just ordered, and she asked that the
money lie returned. The winners at first
refused to give back the money, when the
girl said if they didn’t she would just go
to her papa and have him call in person
upon them. This had the desired effect,
and the money was handed back.
“Yes,” continued the speaker, ‘,‘ibe fas
cinating game of draw-paker has gotten a
hold upon veryjpany society ladies.”
Mr. J. A. Speir, Wadley, Ga„ says
“My daughter used Brown’s Iron Bitters
for weakness and general debility, aud
was cured,”
‘ Vr ..Cm,
I PRICE SIO A TEAR, i
I 5 CENTS A COPY. j
A .MONSTER OF THE DEEP.
attacking a BOAT aNI)
CRUNCHING AN OAK.
A Staten Island Constable the Object of
the Onslaught—The Animal as Long
as a Shooting Gallery and Armed
IV Ith a Head Like a Powder Keg—
Its Disappearances.
There was excitement in Eltingville,
Staten Island, Friday, says the New York
Sun ol March Ist, caused by the report
that Constable -Elbert L. Poillon, of that
village had actually seen and been at
tacked by a sea serpent. John Fisher, a
resident of the same village, and who is
an oyster planter and a grower, partially
corroborated Poillon's story. Poil
lon, his son and Fisher were
standing on the beach of the
lower bay on Thursday afternoon, when
they discovered what appeared to them to
be a large log or spar, which was appar
ently floating with the tide and coming
from the direction of the Quarantine
Islands.
Fisher first took a boat and started o>:t
to see what the thing was. After he had
got near it Poillon and the boy noticed
that he hastily pulled back to the beach,
using quick strokes. N\ hen he reached
tho shore, however, lie asked the other
two to accompany him back to take a
look at the thing in the water. He then
thought it must lie a monster lln-baek
shark. The sun had gone down, and it
was growing dark when the three again
overtook the strange objeet, which by
that time bad gone further away, movin''
faster than the tide would carry it. “
On coining up with the object of their
pursuit a second tune, ope of the party in
the boats shipped his oars in a noisy man
ner, when something arose from the
water only a yard from their boat. It
looked like a long, black, and thick neck,
with a head just about as large as a
powder keg. \\ hether it had eves as big
as a saucer, or a mouth as broad as a
band-box, or teeth like butchers’ skewers,
or tufts of hair on the back of its neck,
the three scared boatmen could not de
clare to a reporter who found them at
their homes.
-Mr. PoiUiou, however, exhibited an
oar, the blade of which was crushed in
half lengthwise, This, it was declared,
was done by the marine monster whip
ping its bead aroitud suddenly and biting
the oar when one ol the party attempted
to hit it on the bead with that implement.
All of them agree that the crunching of
the oar between the teeth of tiio serpent
was positively heard by them, and more
positively realized in the effect* ou their
nerves.
The monster then dropped its head into
the water, and with an undulating mo
tion, it speedily vanished. They believed
it to be about 25 feet long, and regret very
much that the approach of darkness pre
vented them from capturing it. -Messrs,
lislier ami Poillon, when accused bv
their neighbors of inventing the story,
went before a local Justice of the Peace,
it is said, and made affidavit to the facts
substantially as given above.
THE MAGAZINE Kll’tiE.
Too Expensive to be Adopted in the
German Army.
It Is now generally admitted by the
German military authorities that finan
cial considerations alone prevent the im
mediate adoption of a magazine or repeat
ing rifle as the general armament of the
infantry of their army. Not only would
the direct expense ot providing the new
weapons be very great, but the cartridges
now used with the Mauser, of which im
mense supplies are stored in the German
fortresses and arsenals, would be ren
dered useless, as, owing to certain weak
points in their manufacture, they couhl
not be safely fired irom a magazine rifle.
How enormous must be the amount of
ammunition which would have to be re
placed may be deduced from the fact that,
according to lately published returns,
the war establishment of the German
army comprised on the Ist of January
last, including all ranks and arm's
of the service, no fewer than
2,075,503 officers and men, while the total
numher or trained men available in tho
empire will shortly not fall far short of
3,000,000. Ol the actually organized forces
1,521,405 are infantry soldiers, so that,
even leaving out of account altogether
the ammunition which would he required
lor magazine carbines carried by troop
ers, gunners, engineers, etc., it is evident
that the cost of substituting new cart
ridges suitable for a magazine weapon
for the present stores of breech-load ing
ammunition would be very great. That
the general introduction of a magazine
rifle will be sooner or later inevitable is
no longer denied, but the change of arma
ment will be deferred by Germany to as
distant a date as possible, unless sonic
one or other of the other great European
armies, by adopting the new arm, obliges
Germany to follow her example.
A Virginia Belle.
A Virginia reporter thus describes the
belle of a ball be recently attended: Com
plexion neither blonde nor brunette, hov
ering between the dawn and the sunrise
of a summer's morning, eyes beside whose
arrowy glances Cupid’s keenest darts are
only fit for killing frogs or clams—eyes
that drive the very stars of heaven dis
tracted with envy. Lashes nr*re gloriously
silken than ever fringed the lids of orien
tal houri. Ilair in which 10,000 sunbeams
nestle, darkly bright, fine as gossamer
threads, but forming a network which
scores of masculine strugglers have
found powerful as the green withes
that bound Delilah’s Samson. Match
less in grace. Marvellously gifted in
woman’s grand endowment —tongue
Tones soft as the softest warblings of a
flute on tropic seas at twilight. A polar
star in every throng toward whom all
masculine compasses point with constant
finger. A magnet strong enough to turn
a whole battalion topsy turvy, and bring
the planets rushing from their far oft
oil spheres. Lovelier, more enchanting
creatures never flitted through the para
dise of raptest poet's dream. Describe
her!' Were my pen a quill from the pinion
of the loftiest seraph that burns In gleam -
ing glory, and dipped in the refulgent ra
diance of the rainbow’s fountain, it would
be impossible. Raphael's ghost, after
three centuries of celestial practice, would
faint at the task of trying to depict hor
transeeudant loveliness.
Josiali Davit' Troubles.
Josiah Davis, North Middletown, Ky.,
writes: “lain now using a box of your
Henry’s Carliolic Salvo upon an ulcer,
which, for the past ten days, has given
ine great pain. This salve is the oniv
remedy I have found that has given me
any ease. My ulcer was caused by vari
cose veins and was pronounced incurable
by my medical advisers. I find, how
ever, that Henry’s Carbolic Salve is effect
ting a cure.” Beware of imitations.
lIOKSFOUD'S ACID PHOSPHATE.
In Night Sweats and Prostration.
Dr. R. Studhalter, St. Louis, Jlo., says:
“1 have used It in dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and in night sweats, with
very good results.”
it nitin o powder.
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At wholesale in Savannah by
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