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( J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, j
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
Death from a Snake-Bite Near Fernan
(lfna—Unprovoked Murder in Wash
ington County—The Sole Survivor of
Kane’s Expedition to the Arctic in
Search of Franklin Lately on St. Si
mon’s Island.
GEORGIA.
The Bridge* arson trial at Forsyth ended in
an acquittal.
Whiskv carried the election in Thomas
county Monday.
The Superior fotirt for Lee county convene*
at Leesburg on next Monday.
Two couple.' have been married from the
Clarke county jail in the past year.
l>r. Jelks and Mr. Hines bid in the Quitman
factory at the public sale Tuesday.
The young vegetables in LaGrange were
nearly all killed by the freezes, necessitating
a genera! replanting.
A Long Cane lady, 38 years of age, is cut
ting an upper front tooth. Its predecessor was
removed eight years ago.
The Rome Hook and Ladder lias challenged
the Pioneers, of Athens, to meet them in Ma
con and run lor the champion belt.
Georgia has 513.r..1 sheep,worthsl 5o ahead,
as against 7,950.275 head in Texas, worth $2 24
eaok, and 1.582.1 Hi hogs, worth $3 >'.7 each.
Rev. J. S. Bean, a learned divine of Augus
ta,'is spoken of in connection w ith the va
cant pastorate of the I.aGrange I’resbyterian
Churelt.
Adjutant General Stephens has ordered that
an election for Captain of the Rome Light
Guards lie held at the company’s aruiorv next
Tuesday.
A negro woman] of Hamilton claims to lie
one hundred and three veers old. Not
another citizen is old enough to disprove her
allegation.
I’rof. T. It. Mass, who has been principal of
Meson Academy at Lexington since 1849, has
tendered his resignation to the trustees. No
action has liceti taken as yet.
The assessors have just finished their labors,
and report as Brunswick’s wealth: Real es
tate, Jsi:i,B27; improvements. $589,850; total,
$1,433.677—an increase of $75,000.
The State Sunday School Convention will
meet at Columbus on the 23d of April. It is
expected that the attendance will he large.
There will be lietween 700 and 800 delegates.
Camplin's circus was purchased in Rome
Thursday by J. I*. Webb. The organization
had Been doing |>oor business and the at
taches are left in the lurch with four weeks’
salary due them.
Four thousand dollars in ncwly-f utliorized
lionds of the city of Brunswick are to he sold
shortly. The interest, payable semi-annually
in cash, will run for about twenty years,
bearing 7 per cent.
The Monroe grand jury do not recommend
the iniHfwrrale adoption of the new road law.
They recommend the repeal of the law
authorizing a County Court, amt refuse to
nominate anew Judge.
Sunday morning R. G. Hood, of Hamilton,
received a telegram announcing the award of
the first and fourth gold medals in Baltimore
Medical College to his son, Dr. K. Van Hood.
The class is composed of 140 graduates.
The pauper list of Troup county numbers
about 112 persons, most of whom are simnly
aided, not wholly supported, by the county.
About two-thirds are aged or afflicted
colored people. The cost is about $325 per
month.
The wihl lands advertised for sale for un
paid taxes during the past month in the Bain
bridge Democrat were not sold on Tuesday
last, the Attorney General having decided
that it w as necessary that they should be ad
vertised for three months before they can l>e
sold.
Quitman's Xew South says: “A certain
voting man in Quitman, wrote a certain young
1 adv a note last Sunday morning asking her
to /t>in him in a buggy ride that afternoon, to
which she replied Unit she had a previous en
gagement to he married at eleven o’clock
a. in.”
The Chattahoochee boat ventured as far a*
Hairston's Ferry last week. It ran ashore and
was gotten off after two days’hard work.
The weather was cold and the hands suffered
fearfully. A week's blasting will make it
easy to pass the rocks. A lock will be built at
Bentley’s dam this summer.
The wife of a gentleman living near Ham
ilton lias presented him with fourteen chil
dren—eight sons and six daughters. He was
thrown from a horse last summer, and a phy
sician who happened to he passing at the
lime was called in. This is the only medical
bill he has made since his marriage.
Monday a two-room kitchen in Dr. ,1. G.
Gibson's yard, at Crawford, was totally de
stroyed by tire. The wind was blowing
a gale, and for awhile fears were entertained
for this gentleman’s dwelling and several
other houses in the vicinity, but luckily
nothing else caught. The origin of the tire is
not known.
The Oglethorpe Echo of March 7 says: “A
move is on foot to lay before the commission
ers of the new eapitol in Atlanta some sam
ples of granite found in exhaustless quantities
In this section. It has been proven that the
granite found here is not excelled in the
United states, and we confidently expect
the eapitol, or a part of it, to be built from
Oglethorpe granite. If so Lexington will
have a railroad and the whole county be lam
ented.”
The Athens Banner Watchman says: “A
stranger was in town last week, ostensibly as
an agent for the sale of guano, hut he "in
formed a citizen that this business was only a
blind. He came here to demand SIO,OOO from
an Athenian, and if the money was not forth
coming that the state would soon ne as
tounded with a revelation he could make. A
few days ago lie showed the party a check for
that sum, and said that all had been arranged.
There was considerable excitement yesterday
over the matter. We predict that there is
nothing whatever in it.
J. F. Cooper, the I'nited States Marshal
who refused to pay fare for a guard who was
with him, on an East Tennessee. Virginia and
Georgia Railroad tra n last summer, and
drew his revolver on the conductor when he
threatened to put him off. has been arrested
at Newnan. Soon after the escapade Cooper
was dismissed from the United States service,
but had previously secured a bondsman who
became responsible for his appearance to an
swer the conductor'sjcomplaint in court. The
bondsman was left in the lurch, and Cooper
continued at large until his capture at Now
nan.
The St. Simon's correspondent of the Bruns
wick Adrertioer says: “Apropos of the recent
reception in honor of ‘the heroic dead’ and
survivors who have lately arrived in New
York on board the Hamburg steamer, we are
reminded that William Baker, an old sailor,
lately at the Mills, as one of the crew of the
British bark Landseer, is probably the only
surviving member of that noble hand who iic"-
companied Hr. Elish Kent Kane in his cele
bra i'd expedition in 1853 and 1854. in search of
Sir John Franklin and his men. Baker is still
a hearty old man, and his eyes glisten with
wonted tire as he recounts to admiring hear
ers the adventures and hardships of the la
mented Kane and his heroes."
The LaGrange Reporter says: “Mr. Silas
Brown, the Heard county gentleman who had
a disastrous visit from a couple of robbers last
week, was in LaGrange on Saturday. We
learn that he deposited his remaining funds
in one of our banks. He says that the men
were masked, and that their liair, in
its disguise, seemed to be long and
straight. He heard a noise in the
vard, and, as he was expecting his
brother at that moment, bade, the persons
come in. The) - entered and immediately
pointed their guns at him, calling on him to
look ut and todeliver his money. Mr. Brown
was so frightened that he ran out of the
house, falling into the yard in his haste. He
went under the house aud thence to his negro
cabins. In the meantime the men hauled out
a trunk containing $1,500 ingreenbacks. John
XV. House and a bov named Cox w ere arrested
by the Marshal of Franklin on Saturday on
suspicion of having committed the deed.’
A Morning News correspondent write*
from Birdford, Tattnall conntv. under date of
March 6 as follows: “We have had a great deal
of wind and not much rain within the last
month. Farmers are forward in planting.Some
have been (lone planting corn three weeks. The
cold weather has delayed the crop from com
ing up. I guess the sugar cane crop will be
short, as it was so dry in the fall that seed was
badlytdaranged.—On hist Sunday Shell Waters,
a son of Wiley Waters, was out in the woods
showing some other boys some exploits with
powder. He poured powder out of a gourd
on the lire. There was an explosion, of course,
and the boy’s hand and face were badly
burned. He was better on Tuesday.—l hear
Mr. James W. Todd split ten cuts'into rails
front one tree, each cut being 10? -j feet long.
That shows that pines are valuable in Tatt
nall county.—The oat crop has been killed bv
the eohl.—Our farmers have commenced to
farm in easnest this year. They are using a
great ileal of guano. ’
The Albany .'Vies says: “The man who at
tempted to commit suicide on Lockett Rawls’
place on Tuesday afternoon was Henry Pear
son. colored, who is well kuown in Albany.
He was sent to the penitentiary for stealing
some time ago, and had got to be a ’trusty.’
A few nights ago the smokehouse on the
place was robbed of some meat, aud the then
was fixed tqion Henry Pearson. As Henry
was given plenty to eat. Mr. Mathis, the man
ager of the place, thought that someone else
was implicated in the stealing, so he told
Henry that if he did not tell who his accom
plice was he would punish him. Mr. Mathis
went out to the field and left Henry to medi
tate upon what he had told him. and after be
ing leit to himself the latter evidently became
reckless and determined to end his life. With
a piece of an old kitchen knife he at
tempted to cut his throat. Several fearful
gashes were made, hut death did not come
fast enough, so he went to carving hisstom
ac“; Two or three gashes were made in that
part of his anatomy, and one of them extend-
cd to the bowels. After bleeding until quite
weak the would-be suicide changed his mind j
and concluded that he would live; so he took j
some cotton, burned it and plugged up his ;
wounds with it to stop the flow of blood. By ;
the time he was discovered he was quite peni
tent, and begged that a physician be sum
moned at once. Dr. Hilsman was sent for
and did all that he could to rescue the sufferer
from death. The doctor thinks his patient
may recover, hut his condition is very criti
cal." Taken altogether, this is one of the most
deliberate attempts at self-destruction we
ever knew a sane man to make.”
FLORIDa.
Bunco men have made their appearance at
l'alatka.
Jackson county’s immigration society has
been reorganized.
The De Bary grove, at Enterprise, produced
5,000 Wives of oranges this season.
There is an orange grove in Micanopy of one
acre that brings its owner one thousand dol
lars yearly.
Anew line of steamers to run between
Jacksonville and Sanford in connection with
the steamship City of Palatka, from Charles
ton, has been established.
sixteen cords of wood are consumed by an
engine on the F. T. and P. road during a run
from Fernaudina to Cedar Keys and return.
The March meeting of the Duval County
Teachers’ Association will tie held at the
.Jacksonville grammar school building on tne
last Saturday in the month.
At Marianna George Stewart and John
Clements, liotli colored, became involved in a
difficulty, when ttie former shot tile latter, hut
without fatal result. Stewart was jailed,
being unable to give a SIOO bond.
\ burglar of considerable notoriety and two
printers who appropriated a box containing
$75 belonging to the local Treasurer of the
Printers' Union, were lodged in the barracks
by the Jaeksonville police Friday.
The Jacksonville Herald says: “Bishop J.
F. this eitv. is now in Cuba, and
will remain there for a month. He is there in
the interest of the Episcopal Church. This
island is not included in any church diocese
of this country, hut some Bishops in the
United States make a visit there annually to
further Episcopal work.”
The Marianna Courier says: “An old white
woman came to town one day this week with
a poor, blind, afflicted sister whom she wished
to pnt in a poor house. Our county not hay
ing anything of this kind, the miserable sister,
if she is deserving of such a name, went off
and left tins poor woman in the streets at the
mercy of the public.
The Presbytery of St. John’s will hold its
spring sessions in the new Presbyterian
Church of Orlando April 9. Eight years ago
this church was organized in the court house
of Orange with only twelve members. Now
there are nearly one hundred members, and
they have a commodious building, erected at
a cost of about $3,000.
The proceedings iu the United States Court
on the part of Spencer Trask and others,
stockholders of the old Jacksonville, Pensa
cola and Mobile Railroad under the Little
field organization, represented by Gen. 'V. G.
M. Davis and J. B. C. Drew, which was ex
pected toeoine up at Pensacola on Thursday,
has been postponed, to come up before tiie
court iu Jacksonville in April next.
The steamer Merrimac has been secured
and another steamer about the size of the
Welaka, called the Vista, now at St. Augus
tine. has been purchased. A third steamer
will he added shortly. These steamers will
form a direct line from New York through to
Tampa, the City of Palatka connecting at
Charleston with New York steamers, and the
river steamers connecting with the South
Florida Railroad at Sanford.
The annual meeting of the State Sunday
School Association was held in Pensacola ou
Tuesday and Wednesday. The following offi
cers were elected for the ensuing year: Presi
dent, Hon. S. C. Cobh, of Escambia county,
First Vice President, G. M. Roper, of West
Florida; Second Vice President, E. D. Beggs,
of Madison county; Third Vice President,
Rev. C. C. McLean, of Jacksonville; Fourth
Vice President, James Snediker, of Marion
county. The association will hold its next
annual meeting at Gainesville in December.
The Palatka Herald contains the following,
which refers to an occurrence already more
briefly noted in the News: “The decayed re
mains of wliat was once a human being came
ashore below tne railroad wharf, and was
found there on Saturday morning. The head
was missing, together with one foot and part
of the other. The remains are supposed to he
those of it white man. The pockets of the
pantaloons are turned, giving rise, in the
minds of sonic, to suspicion of foul play,
though that fact might perhaps he accounted
for by the action of the water. There being
uo evidence of violence, no inquest was held,
and the body was interred on Saturday.”
Joseph Allen, a colored lad from Aiken, S.
U.. on a visit to Berry Riley, living near
O’Neill’s Crossing, not far from Fernaudina,
was uitten by a rattlesnake on Sunday morn
ing last and died from the effects of the poison
at midnight. The place had been recently
cleared and the hoy, in company with anoth
er lad, were out playing. Allen put his right
baud into a hole which lie supposed to lie a
rabbit hole, when he was bitten in the hand.
His companion supported him to the house,
where lie fell in a dead faint. Turpentine
was applied to the wound by his relatives,
they not knowing at first the nature of the
wound. Upon investigating the hole they
found a six-foot rattlesnake, with nine rattles
and a button, which they killed. The lad
lived till midnight, suffering very little pain,
hut bleeding profusely at the nose aud mouth.
He was conscious within half an hour of his
death.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Aiken is to have twenty-five street lamps.
A large business is now done in cypress tim
ber up and down the Fee-Dee.
The taxable real and personal property in
Aiken county is valued at 14,304,120.
A joint stock company, with a capital of
SIO,OOO, is being organized for the building of
a hotel at Montmorenei.
Near Townville a negro in a passion at some
trivial offense flogged his young son so un
mercifully that the boy died in a few minutes
after receiving the chastisement.
Morris Island, S. C., is announced as a
cautionary display station; it will repeat
Charleston signals. No night telegraphic
service will bo arranged for. or paid
While Gov. Thompson's eldest daughter was
reading by a grate in the Executive Mansion,
at Columbia, her clothing was ignited and
she was badly, though not fatally, Burned.
state Senator Williams is the candidate of
the Georgetown county delegates to the
Sumter Convention to choose a successor to
till Senator Mackey’s unexpired term. Clias.
11. Sperry heads a contesting delegation.
All the oat crop in Aiken county that was
sown early in the fall is reported as a (50011
stand and looking well. The later sowings
were seriously injured by the severe cold in
December and the 6tands are very defective.
At Lanes, on the Georgetown and Lanes
Railroad, a young buck was found dead. The
animal got on the track, and as it could not
run as fast as the train it undertook to get
out of danger, was struck by the engine, had
its throat cut and was disemboweled.
The Floral Exhibition of the South Caro
lina Agricultural Association will take place
on the 15th. itith. 17th and lSthof April, Easter
week, at Charleston. It is expected that the
tilt of the Charleston Light Dragoons will he
held 011 the second day of the fair. Frizes for
floral displays will be offered.
A petition has been sent to Gov. Thompson
praying a commutation of the sentence of
Wesley Butler to imprisonment iti the peni
tentiary for life. Butler was convicted of
criminal assault on a colored girl at the .Jan
uary term of the court and sentenced to be
hanged at Orangeburg on the 14th Inst.
At auction, Monday, the somewhat notori
ous Red Top Church,‘in St. Andrew’s parish,
brought $1,525. The tract of land measures
exactly half an acre, and is situated at the
junction of the old Kan tow le's road and the
turnpike road near John's Island Ferry. The
sale was made under a decree in the Court of
Common Fleas.
The Hon. J. .I.Woodward has recently com
pleted a handsome and commodious dwelling
for himself at Moutmorenci, Aiken county.
He intends at an early day to construct
several neat and convenient cottages, which
he will furnish and rent to Northern visitors
at a reasonable ligure. These buildings will
be linished in time for the next season.
Two sailors wanted as witnesses in the
Kennedy murder case at Charleston have
been held in pfison since November 27, cast
among all the criminals who have been in
carcerated there since that time. The dis
gracefulness of such a 6tate of affairs may
lead to an appeal to the Legislature to allow
the tars monetary compensation for their
hardships.
A decision has been arrived at by the ref
eree, John T. lthett, Esq., of Columbia, in the
suit for $62,000 damages by the Bath Paper
Mill Company against W. C. Langley and
others. The testimony in the suit was taken
before the referee at Aiken some time ago
and the arguments heard shortly afterwards
at Columbus. The referee has found in favor
of the defendants on all the issues iu the case.
The committee of the Charleston City
Council on street lighting have invited bids
from the Gas Company and Electric Light
Company for lighting the city on the basis of
1.400 gas lamps(6-foot burners) or 200 arc lamps,
the lamps to burn all night, from sunset to
sunrise, and every night in the year. The
bids to be for a stated amount per annum. The
city to have the right to increase the number
of lights or lamps, paying for the additional
lights or lamps on the basis of the contract.
The bids to be received until March 20, 12 m.
Snow In New Hampshire.
Laconia, N. H., March B. — Two leet of
snow fell hereabouts last night. On the
Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad
three trains are blocked at Lake Village,
two at Plymouth, and twb locomotives
are derailed near Weirs, where an at
tempt is being made to clear the tracks.
COTTON’S CENTENNIAL.
WORK OX THE MAIN BUILDIX’fc
PROGRESSING RAPIDLY.
Applications for Spare Pouring in from
all Partg of the World—Florida to
Make a Regular Boom—A Swarm of
Swarthy Mexicans to he on Hand—
Great Interest in the Cattle Sales.
New Orleans, March B.—The con
struction of the main building of the
World’s Exposition is progressing rapidly.
Lumber is being delivered on the grounds
at the rate of one hundred thousand feet
daily. It is estimated that the main
building will be fitysbed in four months.
The management announce that the
exhibits will be received to the Ist of
August.
APPLICATIONS FROM AFAR.
Applications for space have been re
ceived during the past week from Eng
land, Russia, Germany, Austria, Italy,
Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Guatemala,
Honduras, etc.
FLORIDA’S SHOW’.
Florida’s Commissioner applied to-day
for 50,000 feet of space for horticultural
exhibits, and for 100,000 feet of space for a
Florida garden and a special building.
COLORADO’S MINERALS.
Tue Colorado Commissioner has brought
the first instalment of the Colorado min
eral display, consisting of 400 specimens
from various mines in Colorado.
MEXICANS IN PLENTY.
Commissioner Wood reports from
Mexico that the attendance will be large
from that country and that great interest
Is manifested by persons desiring to pur
chase cattle anti stock at the sales whioh
will be Inaugurated during the expo
sition.
LOUISIANA.
The parishes of Louisiana are rapidly
organizing and will make large exhibits.
TEXAS ON HAND.
Gov. Ireland, of Texas, applies for space
for bis State, as the Texas commissioners
will organize May 6.
SASHES AND SKYLIGHTS.
The contract for the sash and skylights
for the main building w as awarded to-day
to Schmidt & Itederson, of Milwaukee.
The glazing will be done by a party from
St. Louis. Thirty-seven bids were re
ceived from all sections of the country.
From the present indications all the
buildings will be completed and ready to
receive exhibits by August 1.
LABOR’S PACK OK TROUBLES.
Belgium Proves no ltefuge for the Win
dow Glass Blowers.
Pittsburg, March B.— Many window
glass blowers who w T ent to Belgium to
work during the late strike, having been
promised big wages, have returned. They
report that since their settlement there
41 factories out of 150 have ceased opera
tions, owing to a great falling off in the
demand,and that manufacturers have been
compelled to reduce wages 10 per cent.
Great disatisfaction prevails among
American workmen at the condition of
affairs, and more emigration to this
country is expected.
THE AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 8, 1 p. m.—The
District Convention of the Amalgamated
Iron and Steel Workers Association will
meet here at 3 o’clock this afternoon to
receive reports from the various lodges in
regard to the terms they wish to have in
corporated in the sliding scale for the
next year. Meetings will lie held in
Wheeling, New Albany, Chicago, Terre
Haute, Youngstown and Philadelphia for
the same purpose. A national scale con
vention will be held in this city April 5,
when a scale will bo adopted. The indi
cations arc that there w ill be little or
no changes in the principal items of the
scale."w hich will be based upon .$5 50 for
puddling, as it was last year. One of the
causes of the trouble last year was the
introduction of the engineers’ scale of
wages into tiie general scale. This w’as
bitterly fought by mill owners, who as
serted that the attempt to make the rate
of wages of mill engineers uniform w r hen
the degree of competency w'as very far
from uniform would be an unmixed evil.
It is not probable that this will be urged
1 by the workmen this year. One of the
questions which will be discussed will be
the manner in w’hich the association shall
attempt to regain ascendancy in the mills
where the association has been worsted
in attempts to carry out strikes. The
policy ol the association has hitherto been
not to allow union men to w’ork in such
mills together with non-union men. It is
said that this will be changed, and that
association men will be allowed to re
turn to work for the purpose of regaining
their old power by degrees.
BUFFALO PRINTERS QUIT THEIR CASES.
Buffalo, March B.—At the time to
commence work in the office of the Even
ing Republic and Mommy Courier to-day,
which is a non-union oftice, eleven union
printers and several “subs” left their
cases by order of the President of the
Typographical Union. The cause of the
move was an effort to make the office a
union one, which the management re
fused to do. Mr. McCune, the proprietor,
was out of town at the time attending to
a sick daughter. Two years ago, when
the big strike occurred, be acceded to the
union rates of 32 to 35 cents per thousand
ems. The evening editions, notwithstand
ing the strike, were issued regularly, and
accessions are expected to-morrow.'
GLASS BLOWING RESUMED.
St. Louis, March 8. — Two of the lead
ing glass works in this city have lighted
their fires and others w'ill tollow suit in a
short time.
The works at Alton, 111., have also start
ed. This gives employment to more than
1,000 men who have been idle for several
months.
CIGAR MANUFACTURERS THREATEN A
LOCKOUT.
Cincinnati, March B.— The cigar
manufacturers threaten a lock out, Mon
day, owing to a disagreement between
them and the cigar makers about the
wages of two men.
REV. HOY LAN’S TRIAL.
The Charge of Abduction Not Well
Sustained as Yet.
Columbus, 0., March B.— The pre
liminary hearing in the case of the State
vs. Rev. B. M. Boylan, growing out of the
Corning disturbance was resumed before
a Magistrate in New Lexington to-day.
Only two witnesses were examined,
together with McDevitt, the prosecuting
witness. Nothing new was developed
further than that which has been already
published. The attorneys have consumed
most of the time in technical matters.
Nothing yet has transpired in the trial to
indicate that the Rev. Boylan had any
direct connection with the abduction.
DRIVEN TO DEATH BY GRIBF.
A Baker Fondles the Corpse of His
Head Child and Then Shoots Him
self.
New t York, March B. —Christian Rath
geber, a German baker, residing at No.
1154 First avenue, committed suicide
this evening by shooting himself through
the head with a revolver. He was crazed
with grief at the death of his six months
old child, which occurred during the day
before shooting himself. He bugged and
fondled its dead body.
A Russian Organ Prating Peace.
Brussels, March B .—Die Sord , a Rus
sian organ, referring to the speech of the
throne in the German Reichstag, says:
“The present moment is most opportune
for a general or partial disarmament.
The quiet of Europe affords a practical
basis for peace.” The same article denies
that there is an alliance between Russia,
Austria and Germany.
A Jesuit Banished from Spain.
Madrid, March B.—Father Mon, an
eloquent Jesuit, has been banished for
delivering a sermon offensive to royalty.
SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1884.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL.
A Statement of the Earnings of the Vari
ous United States Marshals from 1873
to 1883.
Washington, March 8. —The Speaker
laid before the House to-day a letter from
the Secretary of the Treasury transmit
ting a statement of the earnings of each
United States Marshal from 1873 to 1883.
It was referred.
Under the call of the committees the
following measures were submitted:
By Mr. Turner, of Georgia, from the
Committee on Elections—A resolution
continuing the right of Thomas G. Skin
ner, of North Carolina, to his seatin the
House. It was laid over.
The Committee on Shipping reported
adversely the bill authorizing the pur
chase ot foreign built ships by United
States citizens for use in the foreign carry
ing trade. It was referred to the House
calendar. Mr. Slocum, of New York,
presentee a minority report in favor of
the above bill. Mr. Morrison, of Illinois,
moved that the House go into committee
of the whole on revenue bills, pending
which Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, moved
that the House go into committee on
general appropriation bills.
The Speaker stated that a vote would
tirst be taken on Mr. Morrison’s motion,
and Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, de
manded the yeas and nays.
Mr. Reed, of Maine, inunired whether ii
the motion were carried the committee
would be required to consider internal
revenue bills.
The Speaker replied that it would be re
quired to consider bills raising the rev
enue if there were any such, on the calen
dar. The Chair did not decide whether
there were any such bills or not.
The object of Mr. Morrison's motion
was to take up for consideration the
bonded extension whisky bill. The House,
however, refused to adopt it, the vote
being: Yeas 115, nays 127. This was in
no sense a party vote, as a large number
of Democrats voted in the negative with
the Republicans and an almsst equally
large number of Republicans with the
iKxly of the Democrats in the affirma
tive; nor can it be considered in
the light of a strictly test vote
on the whisky bill, as the fact that it was
antagonized by an appropriation bill in
duced many members to vote against it
who will probably support it when it
comes squarely before the House, and
several Republicans voted for it for the
purpose of immediately moving to strike
out the enacting clause.
The House then went into committee of
the whole with Mr. Blount, of Georgia, in
the chair, on the post office appropriation
bill. Several speeches were made upon
the bill, but beyond this no progress was
made, aud when the Committee rose the
House adjourned.
CONFEREES DISAGREE.
The Use of the SIO,OOO for the Senate’s
Contingent Fund the Bone of Conten
tion.
Washington, March B.—The conferees
on the joint resolution appropriating
SIO,OOO to the Senate contingent fund, with
which it is expected to pay the expenses
of further investigations at Danville, Va.,
and Copiah county, Miss., held their first
meeting to-day, and after discussion disa
greed. The House conferees would not
recede from the clause restricting the use
of the money to investigations already
ordered, and the Senate conferees refused
to agree to it, saying that the unanimous
vote of the Senate against it was equiva
lent to instructions to oppose it. Upon
adjourning it was understood that another
conference will be held, but it is not
thought probable that an agreement will
be reached by the present conferees.
Woman Suffragists.
Washington, March B. —Miss Susan
B. Anthony, l’huibe Cousins, Mrs. Hog
cert and other members of the Women's
Suffrage Association in session in this
city, made addresses before the House
Judiciary Committee to-day advocating
the extension of the right of suffrage to
their sex.
The Alleged Moonshine Hanging.
. Washington, March B.— The Com
missioner of Internal Revenue has di
rected that an investigation be made of
the reported hanging of a reveifue in
former by moonshiners in Floyd county,
Va. He" is informed by Collector Rau
luston, at Danville, Va., that the report
is generally discredited in that neighbor
hood,
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Overflows Reported Clerk Harrison
Very Low—The Convict Lessee Case.|
Atlanta, Ga.. March B.—A heavy rain
fell all last night and until late this morn
ing, when it cleared off. Reports from
the Savannah and other rivers announce
a rapid rise and overflows in many places.
ALMOST AT DEATH’S DOOR.
Hon. Z. D. Harrison, Clerk of the Su
preme Court, who has been quite ill for a
week past, is to-day in a critical condi
tion, and his family and friends are anx
iously awaiting a change, although with
fears that it will be still more unfavor
able.
MARIETTA AND NORTH GEORGIA.
The North Georgia and Marietta Rail
road Company was represented before the
Governor and Attorney General this
morning by Hoke Smith "and B. F. Ab
bott in forcible arguments,(to show that
the company is legally entitled to the con
victs now held by them to complete the
road. Judge Hopkins, in the absence- of
Gov, Smith, presented the entire case of
the convict lessees, and argued that they
were entitled to these convicts under the
decisions of the Supreme Court. Gov.
Brown is not a party to this action, his
convict camp being a separate affair.
Gov. McDaniel and Attorney General
Anderson will confer together and render
a decision in a few days. It is thought,
however, that the Governor will decline
to interfere in the matter and let the case
go to the courts.
12 CENTS INSTEAD OF SIOO,OOO.
A Verdict in Capt. Duncan’s Damage
Suit against the New York “Times.”
New York, March B. — The suit of Capt.
Charles C. Duncan against the New York
Times for SIOO,OOO damages for libel was
concluded to-day in Kings Countv Su
preme Court. In regard to a statement
about Messrs.Beecher,Sherman and others
who had intended to take a trip on the
“Quaker City” to the Holy Land and had
failed to go,the jury found for the plaintiff
and awarded him 6 cents damages. Con
cerning the statement about bankruptcy
proceedings the jury also found for the
plaintiff, giving him 6 cents. On all the
other charges the jury found lor the de
fense. The plaintiff will move anew
trial.
MURDERERS UNDER CHASE.
Hundreds of Men on tlie Trail of the
North Carolina Revenue Officers.
Raleigh, N. C., Match B.—The latest
news from Mitchell is to the effect that
the pursuit of Ray and Anderson, the
revenue officers who in February mur
dered three men, is still being carried on,
several hundred men being engaged in it.
The rewards for their capture aggregate
about $4,590.
A Reigu of Terror in Russia.
St. Petersburg, March B.—The mur
der of Col. Sudeikin has so thoroughly
frightened the masses that it is difficult
to obtain candidates for police. Gen.
Gresser has received fifteen letters
threatening him with death. He, how
ever, moves about attended only by a
single officer.
Pollution in the Mails.
Cincinnati, March B.— Post Office In
spectors Brown 'and Herrick to-day ar
rested St.Ueorge Best on an indictment for
using the mails to circulate obscene
literature. The arrest was made at
Best’s house, and a quantity of vile
pictures and books was found in his pos
session. He was sent to jail.
WAYLAID BYDYNAMITERS
NARROW ESCAPE OF AN IRISH
AM ERIC AN IN PARIS.
A Likeness to Informer McDermott the
Misfortune Which Nearly Cost Him
His Life—Over Eighty Suspects Under
Surveillance in the French Capital-
Detective Vigilance Still Unceasing.
Paris, March B.—The Clan-na-Gael has
begun operations here. A man, who says
he is an Irish-American and who closely
resembled informer McDermott, was
brutally assaulted by four men in the
Place du Tron yesterday. The voice of
the victim showed the assailants that they
had mistaken their man, but they would
nevertheless have killed him if he had re
fused to promise not to inform the police.
EIGHTY-THREE PERSONS UNDER SUR
VEILLANCE.
The police are closely watching the
movement of eighty-three persons now in
France who are suspected of belonging
to the dynamite party.
O’Donovan Rossa’s son is in Paris, but
there is no evidence that he is connected
with the dynamiters.
A brother of Joseph Brady, one of the
Phoenix Park assassins, is living in the
Quartier Latin.
Inspector Moses, who has been watch
ing the movements of suspected Irishmen
in Paris for sometime under instructions
from the British Home Secretary, has gone
to Bordeaux.
•' A FRANCO-IRIBH ANARCHIST.
A Franco-Irish anarchist, named
Morphy, has been sentenced to six
months imprisonment and been fined
1,000 francs for advocating assassination
in Socialist newspapers.
EXCITABLE HALIFAX.
Halifax, N. S., March 8.- The an
nouncement that the authorities had re
ceived another communication cautioning
them against apprehended outrages by
Fenians or dynamiters has revived the
excitement of last May. Lieutenant
Governor Richey received a letter
Wednesday evening and without delay
communicated its contents to the local
government. The latter immediately
took steps to have an extra watch put
over the government properties, and last
night provincial buildings were guarded
by six men and the residence of the
Lieutenant Governor by three men.
A PLOT UNEARTHED.
Pksth, March B.—A dynamite plot has
been discovered here. The police have
seized several packages of explosives for
warded by Anarchists through the par
cels post."
DIGMA’S DESPERATION.
Urging His Troops to Fight While He
Frays.
London, March B. —Gen. Graham has
been ordered not to advance unless he is
sure of finding the enemy. A body of
cavalry, three hundred strong, will recon
noiter to-night. Osman Digna is at Tam
lieb’s wells. Hs is urging his followers to
fight, and assures them that success is
certain. He will watch them afar as
they do battle, invoking the blessings of
Allah upon them.
AN IMMEDIATE ATTACK RECOMMENDED.
Gen. Gordon recommends an immediate
attack upon Osman Digrna.
DIGMA’S TROOPS TO FIGHT TO THE LAST.
Suakim, March B.—Osman Digma’s
troops are determined to fight to the last.
Rebel sentries have been posted upon all
hills to signal the British advance.
OSMAN’S FORCES DEMORALIZED.
A messenger has arrived from the ene
my’s camp. He reports that despite Os
man’s exhortations his followers are de
moralized. The situation appears favor
able for negotiations. Consul Baker has
telegraphed Sir Evlyn Baring, the British
Minister at Cairo, offering to go to Os
man’s camp and bring him to terms. He
believes that the tribes will not only con
clude a treaty of peace, but will under
take to keep the road to Berber open. Os
man Digma is preaching a holy war.
Mahomet, he urges, failed at first, but in
the end was triumphant. Osman will
take no part “personally” in future bat
tles.
MOTHER AND CHILD SUFFO
CATED.
Tlieir Lifeless Bodies Found Lying Side
l>y Side After Four Days.
New Haven, Marchß.—Mrs. Elizabeth
Lewis and her daughter Jessie, aged 18,
were found dead in bed at their home this
evening from suffocation by gas, the
burner being half way turned on. The
last heard ot Mrs. Lewis and her daugh
ter was Wednesday evening, Jessie being
heard playing the organ by a family in the
upper tenement. The family heard what
they supposed to be doves cooing, but what
is now said to have been the groans of
Mrs. Lewis and her daughter, which
were audible from Thursday morning
until the following day. They also smelt
gas, but paid little attention to the fact,
as the smell was not sufficient to be
offensive. Mrs. Lewis and Jessie were
found lying side by side dead, with gas
escaping from the burner. Medical Ex
aminer White is satisfied that their deaths
were accidental. Their husband aud
father lies at the point of death at a hos
pital from inflammatory rheumatism,
having left his home for treatment two or
three weeks ago.
FEN IAN ISM IN DAKOTA.
Gathering Arms and Massing Men for
Another Raid Against the Britishers.
St. Paul, Minn., March B.—A dispatch
to the Associated Press from Fargo, D.
TANARUS., says: “It is stated that an agent of
the Dominion Government here claims to
have discovered that a meeting was held
last night over the “Gold Mine Saloon’’
by secessionist agitators, and that fiery
speeches were made by M. J. McGuire, of
Chicago, and Harry O’Neil, of Fargo.
Mitchell Sullivnn, James Kennedy and
William O’Neil were elected Captains.
Several wagon loads of arms were yester
day unloaded and left at the Fenian head
quarters, and it is even 6tatcd that de
tachments of troops have started for the
border, but this is not generally believed,
as the policy seems to be one of agitation
at present.
A PLATE GLASS WINDOW WAR.
Nine Smashed with Bricks in a New
York Store by Friends of Early Clos
ing.
New York, March B.—Nine of the plate
glass windows in the dry goods store of
Ridley & Son, in Grand street, valued at
$:i,000, were smashed this merning with
cobblestones and bricks wrapped in pa
per and handkerchiefs. Although there
was a police officer and two private
watchmen on the block the parties who
did the work were not 6een. Ridley &
Son blame the Eariy Closing Association
for the work, and have offered a reward
for the arrest and conviction of the perpe
trators of the outrage.
$4,500,000 for Europe.
New York, March B.—The total ship
ment of specie to-day by the steamers
Baltic and Bervla were $4,500,000 in gold
and $200,000 in silver. Four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars in double eagles
were withdrawn from the sub-treasury to
day. The total since February 21st is
$9,140,000.
To Be Hanged for Rape.
Galveston, March D. Sharp
was last August found guilty of outraging
Amanda and Emma Clark, aged re
spectively 16 and 12 years. The penalty
in the first case is 50 years in the peniten
tiary and in the other death. He has been
sentenced to be hanged at Gainesville,
April 25.
A Cloud Burst.
San Francisco, March. B.—A cloud
burst occurred near Caliente last night,
covering in an instant the track of the
Southern Pacific Railroad for a distance of
several hundred feet with two feet of sand
and water. Buildings near by were cov
ered to a depth of eighteen inches.
THE BURSTING LEVEES.
Continned Bain* and the Rising Waters
Causing Gloomy Foreboding*.
New Orleans, March B.— A special
from Vicksburg says: “It rained steadily
ail clay yesterday. The rise in the river
causes gloomy forebodings. All the
levees between Greenville and Vicksburg
are being constantly watched, and large
forces are being employed to keep them
intact. The small levee of Purdie &
Lorch, protecting the upper landing at
Lake Providence, gave way yesterday,
flooding that portion of the town inside
the main levee. The damage is not
great.”
ARRANGING TO BAYE THEIR STOCK.
Several planters are in the city from
Sunflower and Deer Creek sections mak
ing arrangements for the removal of their
stock in anticipation of an overflow. The
crevasse in the Hughes levee in Bolivar
county is now COO feet wide and a great
volume of water is pouring through it, in
undating the surrounding country. The
lands along Phalia bayou, Sunflower
river and the east bank of Deer creek in
Washington and Isaquena counties will
also be overflowed.
BREAKS NEAR NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, March B.—Several small
breaks in the levees near this city have
occurred during the past few days, but
they were closed without much damage.
This morning it more serious crevasse oc
curred at Davis’ plantation, fifteen miles
above this city in St Charles parish. The
latest news "received reports that the
breach is widening rapidly and that the
water is overflowing both the Texas
Pacific and the Morgan Railroads. Plant
ers have a large force at work. The rail
roads will furnish help and material to
close the breaks.
AT BAYOU SARA.
New Orleans, March 8, 11 p. m.—The
river has risen 1 foot at Bayou Sara dur
ing the past 24 hours and 5 inches here.
The gauge is now only 8 inches below the
highest water on record.
TIIE CUMBERLAND RISING.
N ashville, March B.—The Cumberland
river rose rapidly all day yesterday, and
last night was within a few feet of the
recent flood height. Advices from above
report heavy rains aud the river rising 3
inches per hour.
A DELUGE IN CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, March B.—The con
tinued rains are rendering the situation
alarming. The present storm is worse
than the tirst. The southern country is
flooded. Telegraph lines are interrupted
and railroads are again washed out. It
has rained incessantly for the last thirty
six horn's. The Signal Service office re
ports a heavy rain on the entire coast.
At Mojave, Ravenna and other paints
railroads are washed out.
At Waterman’s the Mojave river rose
so rapidly that the inhabitants fled to the
mountains. An Eastern passenger train
and an emigrant train are blockaded at
Daggett, but provisions are plentiful.
General Manager Towne says that travel
Eastward by the Texas Pacific Road will
be re-established by Tuesday, but it will
be a week before trains are running to
Los Angeles.
On the Central Road trains to-day are
moving ail right.
A BIG CONSOLIDATION.
The E TANARUS., V. & G. R. R. Trying to Se
cure the Erl anger System.
New York, March B.— Brice,Thomas and
Shethar, of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia and the Seney Railroad Syn
dicates sailed to-day for Europe. The ob
ject ol their trip is to consummate nego
tiations which have been pending with
the Erlanger syndicate in London, for a
union of the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia, and Marrietta and Cincinnati
Railroads with the Erlanger system, by
which the East Tennessee system will
extend from Cincinnati to Chattanooga
and New Orleans, and connect ■syitu the
Texas Pacific and Southern Pacmc-byg
tem. The present plan is for the East
Tennessee combination to v buy or lease
the Erlanger system, the basis\of which
plan is not yet known.
MEXICAN CENTRAL COMPLETED
The East Spike Driven Near Fresnillo
Yesterday Afternoon.
City of Mexico, March 8. —A special
from Fresnillo, State of Zacatecas, says:
“The final spike in the Mexican Central
Railroad was driven to-day on Broad
plain, six miles from Fresnillo, at 4:50 in
the afternoon, in the presence of a distin
guished assemblage. There is now an
unbroken railroad from Mexico City to
the Rio Grande. Much enthusiasm was
displayed, and General Manager Robin
son was warmly congratulated. The final
spike was driven by Mr. Buckner, master
track layer. Two locomotives, one from
Mexico City and the other from the United
States, decorated with Mexican and
American colors, approached each other
until their cowcatchers met.
SARGENT'S RECALL DEMANDED.
A German Editor who Says That His
Stay will Injure Existing Relations.
Berlin, March B.—Minister Sargent
has decided not to resign. He will sub
mit the matter to the authorities at Wash
ington. Die Deutsche. Tageblatt calls at
tention to what it is pleased to call Minis
ter Sargent’s “incompetence” as com
pared with his predecessors, and says:
“We believe that the American govern
ment is ignoring the fact that Minister
Sargent has exposed himself to ridicule.
He cannot remain at Berlin without
affecting the relations of America and
Germany. His stay will also be offensive
to Germans in America.”
* FIRE’S FE ARFUL WORK.
Three Persons Killed Outright and Four
. Badly Injured at Keokuk, la.
Keokuk, la., March B.—The Mackley
block at Memphis, Mo., was burned yes
terday. The loss is $36,000. Naomi Mott,
Philip Payne and Samuel Dobyns were
buried beneath the falling walls, and
Perry Tuck r, Lee Davis, Haliett Sanford
and Mrs. McDall were seriously injured.
The body of Payne has been recovered
and the search is being continued for the
others.
FAILURES IN BUSINESS.
A Wrapping Paper Manufacturing Com
pany Goes Cutler.
Chicago, March B.— The Consolidated
Paper Company, manufacturing coarse
wrapping paper, has made an assignment.
The liabilities are $97,000 and the assets
$125,000, consisting of bills receivable and
open accounts to the amount of $25,000,
and wrapping paper stock valued at
SIOO,OOO.
Persia’s Appeal to Russia.
London, March B.— lt has transpired
that the Persians last November appealed
for Russian protection against the Tekke
Turcomans. Thereupon Capt. Abkhanoff,
with an escort of Cossacks, went to Merv
with a letter to the Khans and induced
him and otl*>r chiefs to petition Hus da
for annexation. Gen. Komaroff an
swered that Russia would grant
this honor if slavery should be
renounced and the booty taken from Per
sians restored. The Khans accepted
these terms and liberated their prisoners.
Russia intends to establish a permanent
legation at Cabul. This step has been
rendered necessary by the occupation of
Merv. Prince Dondoukoff Korsakoff.
Commander-in-chiel of the Army of the
Caucasus, is going to Merv to study the
country.
A Yellow Fever Hoax.
Wilmington, March B.—With refer
ence to the report from Baltimore that
sailors at that port mutinied rather than
proceed in a vessel bound for Wilmington,
it may be. said that there is no yellow
fever in this city or vicinity, and that n©
i report to that effect has been heard this
I year.
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.
PURE BUTTER ALMOST UN
KNOWN TO NEW YORKERS.
Cheese Also Mainly a Compound of
Lard—Scenes In Overcrowded Cellars
—Woman Seen at Her Worst in the
Misnamed “Velvet Boom”—City Poli
tics as Effecting the Great Election.
Correspondence of the Morning „VctM.
New York, March 7. —lf the vari
ous investigations of men and things in
this city by Republican legislative com
mittees have failed to prove Democratic
misgovernment to any great extent, they
have resulted in entirely depriving New
York butter of its character. In fact, the
report of the butter committee's Investi
gation very nearly reads like the famous
chapter in ancient Hibernian history,
which, with the heading, “Snakes in Ire
land,” consisted of the single sentence,
“There are no snakes in Ireland.” There
has apparently been little or no genuine
butter in New York for years. What
there is is sold at so high a figure that
only the rich can buy it, so that it is al
most safe to say that nine out of ten New
Yorkers do not'taste genuine butter once
in a month of Sundays.
The deprivation, after all; is not as great
as it may appear. So far as the taste is
concerned, few can tell the difference be
tween good butterine, or oleomargarine,
an t real butter, as is shown by a trick
played by Dr. John P. Gray, Superintend
ent of the State Lunatic Asylum, upon
his sister-in-law. He asked her to taste,
first, 6ome “Gilt Edge” Orange county
butter which a friend had si nt him, and
then oleomargarine, and tell honestly
whether she could have distinguished the
bogus from the genuine if she had not been
told which was which.
The perfidious man gave her the oleo
margarine first, and the deceived sister
in-law pronounced it the best butter she
had ever tasted. The Orange county
butter,which was given to her as oleomar
garine, she declared to be so nasty that
she could,have at once detected its true
nature, even it she had not been told!
When informed of the joke to which she
had been made a victim the poor woman
naturally waxed wroth, but in time she
forgave her bold, bad, brother-in-law.
As with butter, so with cheese, both
native and imitations of foreign. It has
for a long time been an open secret that
cheese sold here as imported was of a
home manufacture, but it was supposed
that, at least, it was made in a legitimate
manner. The legislative investigation,
however, has shown that the principal
constituent of what was sold as Neufcha
tel cheese is lard! In view of these
adulterations it is fortunate that the lard
and fat used in the composition of bogus
butter and cheese is no more deleterious
when thus combined than in their ordi
nary state. If the taste is the same, and
it is quite as nourishing, why is not bogus
butter as good as the genuine?
I FOUND DR. JANES, OF THE HEALTH
DEPARTMENT,
the other day, with a compilation of
George R. Sims' sketches of the “Poor of
London,” which originally appeared in
the Pictorial World , open betore him.
“We have nothing worse than this here,”
said the doctor, showing me several Illus
trations depicting the lowest depths of
vice and misery, “if anything half 60 bad.
We used to have, perhaps, before the law
was passed which prohibits people from
sleeping in cellars. I’ve been in cellars
near the rivers which were flooded knee
deep by an usually high tide, and at all
times, when the tide was full, water
would squirt up between the boards as
one walked across the floor. Yet human
beings were born and died, and lived their
lives amid surroundings so damp that an
ordinary person got rheumatism from a
few minutes stay in such a place.
“The worst case of overcrowding lever
saw in New York was in a tenement
somewhere down town, where three
families occupied a room not large enough
to eomfortainy hold over two persons.
There were two chiiaon j n each family
so that there were six timeo manv per
sons in the room as there ought to" have
been. I spoke to the housekeeper of the
crowded condition of the room. ‘Oh, they
don’t mind it,’ she said. ‘You see they all
knows each other, and are good friends.
’Taint like as they was strangers!’ Al
though nothing can be more unhealthy
than such overcrowding, yet after all the
evil effects of men, women and children
thus living promiscuously together are
obviously more, moral than physical. All
sense of modesty is soon destroyed in
children brought up amid such necessarily
indecent surroundings.
“Speaking of indecency, the very worst
scene I ever witnessed was in what are
called ‘velvet rooms’ down in the Fourth
ward. Velvet rooms, you know, are
places in tne rear of saloons where people
are allowed to sleep off the effects of a
debauch. This privilege is generally
taken advantage of by the lowest class of
street walkers, who stupefy themselves
with drink. I have seen the floor of a
‘velvet room’ actually covered so thickly
with drunken women that one could nqt
step anywhere without touching one.
There they lay, snoring away like
swine, and clothed only ' with
rags, which were covered with vermin,
As you would naturally suppose, pesti
lential is no word to describe the atmos
phere of the room. There were little, if
any, means of ventilation, and the pres
ence of so many filthy creatures, exuding
disease from every "pore, and breathing
out the fumes of the vilest possible decoc
tion of alcohol with every breath render
ed the air sickening in the highest de
gree.
“I am quite sure,” concluded the doc
tor, “that there is nothing worse in Lon
don, or in the world, than a New York
‘velvet room.’ How did it get that name?
I'm sure I don’t know, but I suppose that
the title was given ironically. There
wasn’t much velvet in the ‘velvet rooms’
I have seen.”
THE CITIZENS OF SAVANNAH
who have been in the habit when visiting
this city of “putting up” at the St. Nicho
las Hotel will not have a chance to do so
after May 1. The okl hostelry is to come
down and stores: are to bo erected in its
place. The owners may change their
mind, but they went so far as to file plans
of the contemplated stores at the Bureau
of Buildings yesterday. The up-town
march of business in New York is the
cause nf the closing of the St. Nicholas.
There is not enough custom for two hotels
in the locality in which it stands, and the
Metropolitan, which is in the near neigh
borhood, alone can more than supply the
demand.
Before quitting the subject let me tell
thestory of the rustic patron of the hotel
which is to go. who lost his way some
where in the city, and requested someone
to direct him to his caravansary.
“What is the name of your hotei ?” the
person so requested naturally asked.
“I don’t know,” the countryman an
swered, “but I remember the name of
the landlord; it was in gilt letters over
the door —Mr. Nicholas—S. T. Nicholas.”
He was directed to Mr. Nicholas’ hotel.
IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE BILL
giving to .the Mayor the sole power of
appointment, which was passed by the
State Senate yesterday, will -certainly re
ceive the Governor’s approval, and become
a law. If he signs it, he will do so fh the
face of a distinct threat made by Tam
many Hall to sacrifice the national ticket
for the local at the election next autumn.
At a recent meeting ot the Tammanv
General Committee, John Kelly’s right
bower, Grady, declared in so many words
that Tammany Hall would elect its can
didate for Mayor at whatever risk to the
national ticket, and ? if necessary, would,
where the opportunity offered, prefer local
success to national. Mv letter to the News
of a fortnight ago merely anticipated Mr.
Grady’s ultimatum, and the only hope
which now appears for the Democracy
carrying New York State at the Presi
dential election lies in the dissensions
which have broken out among the Repub
licans. These promise, fortunately, to
materially damage the New York city
branch of the “grand old party,” and, on
the principle that when thieves fall out
honest men get their own, the Democrats
may be the gainers thereby.
The failure of Alden P. Stockwell, son
in-law of Elias Howe, the sewing machine
inventor, from inability to pay S4OO yester
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dar, excited more comment than if his
liabilities were a thousand times as large.
Mr. Stockwell was at one time one of the
largest operators on the street, and his
fortune was estimated at millions. He
was the original owner of the famous
yacht Dreadnaught. That he should fail
for such an insignificant sum illustrates
the ups and downs, or rather the latter, of
Wall street. D.
A RAID ON ATLANTA REAL
ESTATE.
An Effort to be Made to Set up a Lost"
Will.
Atlanta has unearthed a Mrs. Myra
Clark Gaines on a small scale. Mrs.
Mary Rasberry sues for the possession of
about 25 acres of land in the Fourth w ard
upon which there are at present about 75
or 80 houses.
There is an interesting story connected
with this piece of litigation, which may
be recited as follows:
In 1855 and in 1857 two pieces of proper
ty were conveyed to Jasper S. Smith.
The land consisted of about twenty-five
acres and was bounded by what is now
Wheat ofi the north, the Boulevard on the
east, Foster street on the south and But
ler street on the west. One ot the deeds
was made by 'William Ezzard as admin
istrator on the estate of Hardy Ivy and
the other was made by Daniel Johnson.
The last named deed was made in 1855
and the Ezzard deed was made in 1857.
These deeds were duly recorded by Jas
per Smith in the office of the Clerk of the
Superior Court. Atlanta was then a
comparatively small place and the prop
erty was not worth much.
But time passed on, and Jasper Smith,
in the year 1862, sickened and died, leav
ing as his only heir at law his wile, Celia
Ann Smith. Iu 1863 Mrs. Smith was living
in Cobb county. She was taken sick and
it became evident that she was nearing
her end. She was convinced that the
time was at hand when she should make
disposition of her property, and, calling
in Col. A. W. Hammond, she made her
will, which was duly sigued and the
names of witnesses attached. The pro
ceeding was in every way regular and
the property, so it is said, was left to Mrs.
Mary B. Rasberry, a devoted uiece of
Mrs. Smith and a’ daughter of William
Han dle, of Atlanta, a brother of the
maker of the will.
Soon thereafter Mrs. Smith passed
away and the will was turned over to
William Harville.
Accompanied by his wife Harville left
lor Atlanta in a buggy, reaching here
from Cobb county without mishap. In
some mysterious way the will, however,
was soon after lost or stolon, but, under
the direction ol the courts, Harville pro
ceeded to settle up the estate. The young
niece, a daughter of the administrator,
asked her father if she was not made an
heir, but was informed that such was not
the case. She was somewhat surprised
at that, as she had expected she would be
remembered in the distribution of her
aunt’s estate. Harville was a long time
administering on the estate, butffinally, in
1879,he sold the property to his son-in-law,
Dr. M. C. Martin, for $1,900, a very low
price. The property is worth about
$50,000. When the deed was made it was
given by Harville as administrator on
the estate of Celid Smith, and that deed is
recorded on the books in the county clerk’s
office.
The letters of administration, it appears,
were taken out in this county, although
Mrs. Smith died in Cobb.
In 1880 Harville died. In the course of
events the property has finally passed
into numerous hands, and now, built up
pretty thickly, is worth perhaps $50,000.
And now comes the strange part of the
story. 1
Lately Mrs. Rasberry has found two
living witnesses to the will, which was
made over 20 years ago. They say they
saw it made and duly signed, and one of
them was with Mrs. Smith nearly all the
time until her death, and that she could
not have made another will without hie
having known of it. He says the will
left the property to Mrs. Rasberry, and
that he is willing to swear to that state
ment.
So it turns out that Mrs. Rasberry will
attempt to prove hat Sho hue toon
wronged by her own fati. OT . w ho, either
intentionally or unintentionally, kept her
out of her own. The evidence on this
point will be exceedingly interesting, as
several very delicate points will be
touched upon. Harville’s widow is step
mother of young Mrs. Rasberry, whose
maiden name was Mary Harville. She
now resides near Wheat street on about
two acres of land that her father gave
her.
As Mrs. Rasberry has become quite
prominent before the public on account
ol this suit, an interesting statement can
be made as to who 6he is.
She is now a widow, and has been for
thirteen years. Her husband was, during
his lifetime, a well known detective, and
about 1870 or 1871 became considerably
mixed up with certain men on account of
what they said were questionable methods
in working up cases.
One night the usual crowds lounged in
the arcade of the Kimball House. Among
those present were Rasberry, Penn Bedell
and others. The crowd noticed the two
men begin a quarrel, and 6uddenlv a
pistol shot was heard and Rasberry*'fell
dead. Bedell was arrested and tried, but,
pending the legal proceedings, he became
Involved, and at the corner of the same
building, while under arrest, was shot
and killed by Mr. Gaines Chisholm. Mr.
Chisholm was tried and cleared, and all
the details passed out of the public mind,
and are only brought out now as a part of
the life history ot the ladv who now sues
to recover twenty-five acres of Atlanta
land, on which are located seventy-five
or eighty houses.
AN OUTLAW’S FEIGNED DEATH.
He Leap* from HU Coffin and Nimbly
Runs Away from Prison.
Lucky Joe Wilson, the chief of a band
of horse thieves and outlaws, says a
Morgantown, N. C., special of the 6th
inst. to the Philadelphia Press, escaped
from the jail of Wataugu county to-day
by a sharp ruse. Wilson was sentenced
to the State prison for ten years for his
outlawry. For seme weeks past he has
pretended to be quite ill. Last night he
feigned death, was laid out by the prison
officials and prepared for burial. The
coffin was ordered and all other prepara
tions made lor the interment of the dead
outlaw.
The body was placed in an outbuilding
where it was viewed by many of the pris
oners and officers of the jail. The eyes
were wide opened and seemingly glazed
in death. Blood had snurted from the
mouth and ran down on the bed cove ring.
A minister was sent for to preach the fu
neral sermon. The body was left alone
until the time arrived for burial. When
everything became quiet about the prison,
Wilson suddenly resurrected himself,
sprang up and dashed out of the room,
and made his escape before any one was
aware of what had occurred. He dashed
down the mountain and fled towards
Tennessee. It is hardly probable that iie
will be captured.
CONKLING AND THE ELECT
ORAL. COUNT.
He Never Promised to Speak or Vote
Against It.
From an interview with Itoicoe Conk ling in tho
Herald.
Never at midnight or midday on the
day you specify, nor at any o'her hour of
any other day or night, did I make anjr
such promise or give any such assurance.
Never did I intend to do what your ques
tion indicates, and never was there any
expectation or belief on my part that
seven Republican Senators, or any other
number of Republican Senators, would
vote against the decision referred to con
senting Louisiana. The 6tory, like many
others which have l>een again and again
repeated for years, and which, though an
noying, I have never publicly noticed, has
no foundation whatever in truth. You
may add that if anybody will produce a
r;rson who in my presence will say that
ever made to him a promise or state
ment that I would speak or vote as stated
in your question I will reward him largely
for his trouble.