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i ESTABLISHED 1850. 1
| J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, j
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA,
THE NEWS OP THE TWO STATES
TOLI) IN PARAGRAPHS.
Fuller Detail* of the Quadruple Slaugh
ter of the Innocent* at Mi:Bean—Fatal
Boiler Explosion near Koine—Colum
bus Opposes Atlanta's Chattahoochee
Ititer Canal Scheme.
GEORGIA.
The belled buzzard is now reported as in
Bartow county.
At Waldon Harman Clark’s 6-montlis-old
baby weighs •>' - pounds.
Mrs. J. W. Knott, formerly of Macon, has
just died at Hartford, Conn.'
The barn and stables on the lot occupied by
" . R- Long at Adairsville have been con
sumed by lire.
At Cassville the depot and telegraph ollice
was struck by lightning Tucsdav night, set on
fire and destroyed.
Chas. Anderson, a 12-year-old white 1/oy of
Albany, ran away from home March 7. and
has not been heard from since.
At Covington in the cast? of Sarah T. God
bee vs. the Geer.: ia Railroad, a verdict was
rendered f0r50,2.70 in favor of the plaintiff.
At Tennille A. R. Adams’ dwelling and
kitchen have been burned. Most of the fur
niture was saved. Mr. Adams had no insu
rance.
A. 11. o'ShieMs, proprietor of the “Roquet”
saloon, at Atlanta, has been lined SSO 75 for
keeping his place open on Sunday, lie has
appealed from tin- decision.
The railroads leading to Macon have all
agreed to give reduced rates to firemen and
visitors to the Macon tournament. Four
cente a mile for the round trip.
Homer, aged about •; years, son of It. K.
I’ope, of t offee county, died Saturday from a
fall. He in walking along stumped his toe
and fell, and died in a short time.
Ed skinner, one of Gainesville’s oldest citi
zens, went to Charlotte, N. c . a few weeks
ago to look after the estate of a dead relative,
lie took sick in that citv and died last Satur
day.
Tue-day the Athens water works were
place)l io the hands of T. s, Midi a.- receiver,
the numerous creditors becoming alarmed.
The action will not affect the interest of
Athens in the works.
The Il.rrien County .Yeits says: “Daniel
Turner came to town last Saturday, and
voluntarily placed him-elf under bond to
keep the peace. \V. s. W alker. .1. L. Mixeu
ami " . N. Fiveash are his bondsmen."
A gentleman said to lie prominent in rail
road circles was found insensible on the streets
of Columbus Saturday night. A small sum of
money had been taken from his pocket, anil it
is believed that he was drugged and rohiied.
At Macon an unknown negro lioarded a
Cullman parlor car. and refused to leave it.
All the white passengers except one went into
another car. and the negro remained in hi
place. The conductor trieil in vain to dis
suade him from his purpose.
At Atlanta Tuesday the Sheriff of Pulaski
county paid into the State Treasury $:!.00n, the
proceeds ari-ing from the sale of several lot
of land acquired by the state in seizing the
Macon and Itrtinsu o k Railroad. Tile land
was sold by order of the Legislature.
The invitation of the Augusta mill men to
the cotton manufacturers of the Smith and
West to meet in Augusta on the Sdof April,
to consider the question ..f over-produetiim of
cotton goods, lias evoked favorable responses,
and the meeting will therefore l/e held as an
nounced.
CL l’. Murphy, who bed from Lincoln counter
to evade arrest, was overtaken and arrested
Saturday, and is nowin jail. The warrant
//n which Murphy and Tarver were arrested
grew out of ihc ar-on ease foi which It.
Blanchard, of Linrolnton, was tried amt ac
quitted nearly two years ago.
Certain citizens of ( ./lambus petitioned the
City Council to prohibit the appearance of
the Rcntz-santley Company in that citv. The
petition yea- received, ami after reference to
the City Attorney the Council ordered that
the signers l/e.informed that it had no power
to prohibit the company’s appearance.
Several dangerous knife wounds, from
which the blood yyas flowing freely, was what
an Atlanta policeman discovered at 10 o’clock
yesterday morning when he went to arouse a
printer named Brown, whose senseless form
lie found lying on a sidewalk in that city. An
unknown man. with whom Brown hud 1/ecu
spending the night, was probably hi- would
be assassin.
The Quitman Free Fret* says that Hon.
Dwight Woodbury, of Anoka, Minnesota, :ie
eompanied by his wife.arrived thereon Satur
day last, and is stopping at the Allen House.
Mr. Woodbury is a gentleman of the old
school, an ex-Kopresentativc and a leading
citizen in his own state. He once lived in
Macon, ami for the first tune in 50 years vi-i t-
Georgia, his old home.
S The I.earv Courier says: “A singular and rare
instance of human caprice is found in the fact
of Mr. Wm. Keel, this county, having hail his
coffin in hi- house for the past two vears.
The coffin is made of cldar. and was fasliioneil
by the owner’s own hands, even unto the fell
ing of the tree out of which the timber wa
taken. This is what we call a philosophical
view of the situation.”
A Sunday school convention will l/e held in
Warrentnn on the 17th and 1-th of April, to be
composed //f the pastors and Sunday -ehool
superintendents of the several churches of the
Augusta district. The object is to arrange a
programme for Sunday school work for the
month of May. that mouth having been speci
ally set apart in the centenary year of
Methodism for Sunday school work.’
Tuesday's Athens Runner- Watchman says:
“A gentleman got judgment against a inaifin
Oconee for $ 1.20 C, which was settled and yes
terday he came to the city to settle up with
his lawyers. Four of our lzest jurists had a
lick at it and divided up the amount of the
ti fa., giving the gentleman who held the
judgment only *75 out of the whole amount.
11 would have been better if they had taken
it all."
Tiie true inwardness of ttie s. Brown rob
bery tn oH'/ite in Hoard county is yet amy s
tery . House and Cox 1/eing arrested, tHe for
mer waived a hearing and gave bond, while
t ox was committed, the circumstantial evi
dence is said to be strong. Cox’s peculiar
track from a broken boot being, it is said, well
identified. Some citizens claim that Brown’s
tax returns show that he had no money, al
though he now claims that for a long time lie
had over Fi.uOo in bis bouse.
Atlanta is to have an improvement com
pany. The association will be called the
< apital City Land and Improvement Com
pany. of Atlanta. Ga. The object of the asso
ciation is to buy and improve land, to build
upon it and sell on the installment plan. The
number of shares is limited to 10,000, and tn*
association will dissolve after running forty
months. Each member will lie required to
pav into tlie association every month 51 on
each share he may hold, making the value of
the share just *4O. but no member can hold
more than 100 shares.
T. W. Winn, of Chattahoochee county, while
in Columbus recently, had his watch stolen
front him. Early Sunday morning lie went
back to Chattahoochee in search of a negro
whom lie suspected. He met tlie negro in the
road about a mile from his house, and told
him his business. The negro’s countenance
siiowed ids guilt, and while lie would not con
fess having stolen the watch he proposed to
compromise the matter by paying f 100. Mr.
Winn accepted the proposition, and soon the
matter was settled. Ihe negro is a well-to
do farmer, and Mr. Winn would never have
suspected him had not the circumstances been
so strong against him.
Tuesday's Rome Courier says: “Senev,
twelve miles from Rome, on the Atlanta d'i
\ ision ,/f the East Tennessee. Virginia and
Georgia Hoad, was shocked last Saturday
afternoon bv tlie expl -sion of the boiler of
I.igon & Griffin’s saw mill at that place. Mr.
Alfred Harris, the sawyer, who was standing
by the saw when the explosion occurred, was
instantly killed: a negro man was seriously
-ealded and several others painfully hurt. It
>s thought that a defect in the boiler was the
cause of the catastrophe. The boiler and en
gine w ere hurled a distance of fifty yards. A
negro man who was Up on the engine greas
ing it at the time was thrown thirty feet out
into a pond, and thus escaped injury.’’
The city of Slaeon contracted with Carling
& Brown to build a gaspipe fence around a
portion of Poplar street, above First. The
fence was put up according to contract, and
approved by the City Engineer and Chairman
I.i the Street Committee. The bill was pre
sented to Council, but payment deferred from
time to tune. It was committed am! recom
mitted to committees, And was reported on
several times. There was a “something"
wrong about the fence—itdidn’t look straight,
and the panels were too far apart, and all
that sort of thing, yet it was according to
contract. It was simply a white elephant,
and the board could never muster courage
enough to order the bill paid. Tired of wait
ing for what they consider their just claim,
i arling .V Brown have placed the matter in
the handsel Col. Hardeman. The matter
was broui/m to the notice of the* ouneil Tues
day night, ami again left to the Committee on
Ptiblic Property.
Yesterday's Tdeqrtiiih and .Vtssenatr says:
“Among the eases before the Recorder yester
day morning was one against Mr. Uanse
Parks. Itanse had gone on an ou l-biling ex
cursion the night liefore, and while under the
influence of the juice, created some disorder,
for which he was lined 115. Uanse served
throughout the late war, making a good light
ing record. On his return home lie found all
Ins mules and slaves gone, hut the misfortunes
of war were accepted with good grace,
and with his industrious wife, he began
life anew. Itanse allowed himself to be
hitched up to a plow and Ills wife
attended to the handles. In this wav they
made three hales of cotton ami one
hundred bushelf of corn. But one day. Uanse
found out in some way that a whisky still was
in operation in the neighborhood, and the
more he pulled that plow ill the hot sun the
more he wanted a drink. He hadn't taken a
drink in three months, and the thirst worked
on him to such an extent that it was just
about as much as he could do to keep awav.
All this 10 himself, mind you. His wife no
ticed a laggardne— in her team that day, but
she tongue-lashed him into occasional trots,
not knowing what was on Ranse's mind.
Finally a sudden notion took possession of
Kanse. He began to kick and cavort and
snort and otherwise act mule until he
kicked himself out of harliess and ran awav,
his wife looking at his retreating form in as
tonishment. Uanse found the still and laid
around it for a week. Then lie returned
home, mended the harness and pulled the
plow as usual."
The Columbus EnquirerrSun of Tuesday
Bounds a warning note against Atlanta’s great
canal scheme as follows: ‘'Before any consid
erable expenditure of money is made on the
proposed canal from the Chattahoochee river
to the city of Atlanta it may be well to con
sider the contingencies connected with it.
The Chattahoochee river is a natural water
course, affording water for water power and
Ifo Sutamiiili
navigation. It is a fact well established that
water may not be diverted by one party from
its natural course to the detriment of another
having a right to its use. Steamboats on
the river have the right to all the
water the riv er affords. The mills using the
water for power are entitled to the entire
volume not diverted to any considerable
extent beyond ordinary consumption. Last
week the' city of Worcester, Mass., had
judgment rendered against it by the courts
for diverting water, and the city of Atlanta
should In* careful that if any considerable
amount of water is diverted from the river
that this same water shall be returned to the
river for use of steamers and mills depending
on it lower down. During the summer
months the steamers would like all the water
they can get, and the mills have arrange
ments by which they would prefer that no
considerable amount of water lie diverted and
not returned for their use. The water shed
on one side of Atlanta drains into the Gulf of
Mexico, and on the other side into the At
lantic ocean. If a portion of Ike river may
be diverted from the Gulf to the Atlantic,
with the same reason all might he so diverted,
and the nulls pi Columbus would lie without
power, and the steamers without water in the
channel.”
The following fuller account of a subject
mentioned in the dispatches of yesterday’s
Nlws i- from yesterday’s Augusta Chronicle-.
* > esterday afternoon reports reached the
city of a most atrocious and unheard of trag
edy in Burke county, in which several col
ored children had been hr itaily murdered in
a cabin which their parents had ju-t left. In
vestigation into these rumors showed that
they were revoltingly true, and special ad
vices lo the Chronic'e from Mcßean, near
where the quadruple murder was committed
developed a story lacking only in sickening
details. The names of the colored family we
do not know. About a mile from Mcßean,
however, yesterday morning, in a little cabin
just across the creek, in Burke county, a col
ored man and his wife, the parents of "llie un
fortunate children, left for the Held, taking
with them their eldest son. In
the course of the morning the old
man’s plow-gearing in the Held broke down
and lie sent the lad hack to the house for ma
terials to inend the harness. The hov repaired
to his home, which had been left "just after
daylight, and arouniL the doorstep and floor
was greeted with traces of blood. Becoming
terrified at the suggestive sight he stampeded
to the Held and hurriedly told his father
what he had seen. The old man mounted tiis
horse and rode homeward with all possible
baste, and, bursting through the door, was
appalled at the horrible spectacle. There lay
upon their beds and floor, weltering in their
blood, four little children. Two of them were
chopped to death and two were almost in
death agony. Pools of blood clotted about
the inanimate forms and dyed the
rude flooring with stains". The
parents were almost beside themselves,
and no conceivable clue to the tragedy could
he obtained. The house was not robbed—
• here had been nothing there to steal; no ves
tige of the mysterious and murderous hand
could he detected. It is useless to add that
the white and colored people of Burke county
are -hocked and incensed at the wholesale
slaughter of innocent children. Thev do not
believe that any such demon exists'in their
midst who would commit such an act. Every
possible aid and sympathy has been extended
the afflicted family b\ all classes and colors.aml
every effort will he made to ferret out matters
and to apprehend the perpetrators. The old
est child, a girl, we are told, may survive,
w itli proper attention, although she was un
conscious last evening.” According to infor
mation received by the News trom Mcßean
yesterday, the children were ahopped to death
with an axe. The oldest was 9 vears old, ami
the youngest was a babe.
FLORIDA.
House servants are in great demand at pres
ent in Tampa.
Bradford county farmers have lteirun to
plant cotton seed.
Heavy peach crops are expected' in Middle
1 loriila this year.
The Avaocado near crop will not he as plen
tiful this year as it was last.
1 wo thousand and eight hundred cigar
makers are at work at Key West.
Hon. Simon Cameron left •Jacksonville for
his home in Pennsylvania Tuesday.
Jhe old court house at Bartow was sold
Tuesday on eight months’ credit, and only
brought $1(0.
The transiiortatiou of early vegetables from
Key X\ est to New Orleans are assuming large
proportions.
Charles L. Tildes offers the (iainesvillc Bee
establishment, subscription list, business and
good will for sale.
Lieut.-Gov. Bethel reports that he has lost
over 1,000 young cocoanut trees hv lire in his
grove near Key West.
l ocal option is said to have increased the
projierty value of Leesburg 50 per cent, dur
ing the last three months.
George Hayden, of Bethel, has broken up
two church services lately while intoxicated,
hut has not been punished.
Mr. Joseph Hawley is building several
beautiful cottages to rent in the neighborhood
of flic St. James Hotel at Tampa.
A mullet 28}.j inches long, weighing li 1
pounds, is among the recent catches at the
month of the river at Braiderlon.
lion. J. M. Husk, Governor of Wisconsin,
and Hon. Thomas J. Stevens, Mayor of Cin
cinnati, with their wives, are at Jacksonville.
A telegraph line is being put up lie tween
l’alatka and Jacksonville along the line of the
Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Key West liail
road.
A novel method of planting an orange
grove has been introduced into Archer li\
dropping two orange seeds in hills thirty feel
apart.
The Halifax Fishery has changed hands
and also name. A stoek company has been
formed, and its name changed to New Smyrna
Fishery.
Tomato wrapping is getting to he quite an
industry at Key West. Although the price, 2
cents a crate, looks small, vet some make as
high as $1 50 per day.
J. Daniels, who is supposed to have killed
John Jackson, of Washington county, recent
ly, while the latter was cutting down a tree,
has been arrested and committed to jail.
The smack Aaron Kingsland took to Havana
from Key West Monday ov< 1.000 kingiish.
They are put u ice and when properly cooked
arc considered a good dish in Cuba.
An artesian well, recently driven to a depth
of over 200 feet, which discharges a powerful
stream of sulphur water, is one of the attrac
tions at Hart's famous orange grove near l’a
latka.
THE YVAR IN SOUDAN.
Digua’s F’orce Increasing Daily—Egyp
tian F'inances Very Low.
Alexandria, March 19.—'The men-of
war Condor and Myrmidon have suddenly
departed, for Suakitt.
EGYPTIAN FINANCES VERY LOW.
Cairo, March 19. —Egyptian finances
are in a critical condition. Sir Charles
Rivers Wilson, Secretary and Comptroller
General of the National Debt office at
London, and formerly English Financial
Comptroller in Egypt, is engaged in
examining them.
A further advance of the British in
Soudan is imminent. Gen. Graham is in
favor of continuing the campaign. lie
thinks that the rebellion is hot yet
crushed.
THE TRIBAL UPRISING UNIVERSAL.
London, March 19.—The tribal rising
in Egypt is universal from Kassala to
Berber. The Arabs between lvorosko and
Assouan have also threatened to revolt.
Sheik Soliman, with a section of the Had
dendowas, who fought at El Teb, wiU re
occupy Baker l’asha’s fort near Trinki
tat. Osman Digna's force around Tunia
nieb has been increased by 3,500. Only
two Shieks have gone to Suakin, and
their tribes are small, numbering less
than 1,500 combatants. Their adhesion is
very deceptive.
The men and horse under Col. Stewart,
now entrenched at Handoub, are suffer
ing from intense heat and brackish water.
It will be impossible for them long to
maintain that position. Gen. Graham
has asked for an increase of cavalry and
a better commissariat. He urges an" early
decision cither to order an advance of a
reinforced army against Sink at or to
withdraw all to' Suakin.
Three great tribes, thellaggas, Bishares
and Batakheers have risen and occupy
the Nile from Duem to Shendy.
A MASSACRE RUMORED.
It is rumored at Conzola that the garri
sons under Lupton Bey, in the province
of Bahr Gazelle, have surrendered and
been massacred.
O'KELLY WITH EL MAHDI.
London, March 19. —Mr. O’Kelly, cor
respondent of the London Daily Slews,
is now with El Mahdi. He was well re
ceived.
FRANCE’S WAR IN TONQUtN.
Upper Tonquin to be Occupied to the
Chinese F’routier.
Paris, March 19. — The government has
decided to occupy upper Tonquin as far
as the Chinese frontier.
FRANCE’S DEMANDS.
La Jlepublique Francaise says: “France
can treat with China only uyon the basis
ot an indemnity and recogniflbn by China
of French supremacy over the whole of
Tonquin.”
A CHINESE RAM DETAINED.
London, March 19.—The government
has given orders for the detention of the
Chinese ram Narnkin, which is now in the
Tyne loading with Armstrong guns, pend
ing an inquiry whether her action can be
construed a 'breach of the laws of neu
trality.
EXASPERATION AT PEKIN.
A dispatch from Pekin says: “The
exasperation prevails here
againt France. If she advances her ex
travagant demands public opinion will
prevent their acceptance. The Black
Flags are on the verge of mutiny, their
pay being in arrears.”
Pope Leo May Leave the Vatican.
London, March. 19.—1 tis reported as
possible that the Pope will depart from
the ‘Vatican.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
A LIVELY DEBATE ON" THE LAS
KER INCIDENT.
Mr. Ochiltree Currycombs Prince Bis
marck’s Character—The Committee’s
Resolutions Finally Adopted The
L ight Over the Extension of the
Bonded Whisky Period Begun.
W ashington, March 19. —In the Senate
to-day. Mr. Miller, of Calilornia, from the
Committee on Foreign Relations, in com
pliance with a resolution instructing the
committee to inquire and report what
legislation, il any, is necessary to protect
the interests of the United States against
those governments which have excluded
or restrained the importation of Ameri
can meats, reported an original bill pro
viding for the inspection of meats for ex
portation, and prohibiting the importa
tion of adulterated articles of food and
drink, and authorizing the President to
make a proclamation in certain cases,
and for other purposes. The bill was
placed on the calendar.
Mr. Vance stated that the minority of
the committee would at some future day
present their views on the same subject.
Mr. Hoar called up the bill introduced
by him and reported favorably from the
Committee on the Judiciary, fixing the
salary of United States District Judges
at $5,000. A long debate followed.
THE BILL GOES OVEK.
The Dill finally went over, and after
several efforts to take up other measures
the Senate continued discussion of the
bill to aid in the establishment of com
mon schools. .Messrs Sherman, Blair,
Ingalls, Pugh, Saulsbury, Logan, Miller
of California, Platt and others, took part
in the debate. Mr. Blair had the floor
and was meeting the objection raised to
the bill when, about 5 o’clock, Mr.
Harris inquired whether he would give
way for a motion to adjourn.
Mr. Blair replied that he would do so
on one condition, that before the opening
of tin! debate to-morrow the Senator
would read his speech of yesterday, as he
thought it covered all the points of the
objection raised to the bill. Mr. Blair’s
speech having occupied several hours in
delivery this suggestion was greeted with
a hearty laugh, in which Mr. Blair him
self good-naturedly joined. In the pro
gress of the debate a few amendments of
the details were made in the bill, and at
5 o’clock the Senate adjourned.
IX THE HOUSE.
In the absence of the Speaker the House
was called to order this morning bv Mr.
Blackburn, of Kentucky, as Speaker pro
tempore. The Speaker laid before the
House a message from the President
transmitting a communication from the
Secretaries of War and the Navy concern
ing the expediency of offering rewards for
the rescue of Lieutenant Greely and party
by the independent efforts of private ves
sels, in addition to the sending of three
ships composing a national reliel expedi
tion. It was referred.
On motion of Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut,
April 2 was set apart for consideration
of the Presidential succession bill.
THE LASKER RESOLUTION.
Mr. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
reported as a privileged question the fol
lowing report and resolutions:
The resolution adopted by tiie House on
the etli of January was intended to express
to the German Government and people sympa
thy for the death of an eminent man, who
died in this country, who had served his na
tive land as a member of its highest legisla
tive body and as a tribute of respect to his
memory. While your committee is of tlie
opinion that said resolution should have been
received and transmitted in the same spirit
of cordiality and good will bv widen it
was prompted, it refrains from expressing an
opinion as to whether the course pursued by
the authorities of the German empire in re
gard to it was or was not in accordance
with the proprieties governing the internal
regulations of said empire, as a matter not
within its province of consideration. The
dignified position assumed by the Department
of State merits and will command tnc confi
dence of the country, fully sustaining the
high character which that department lias
maintained since the organization of tiie
Federal Government. As to the reso
lutions offered on the 10th day of
Mareli your committee is of the opin
ion that they contain language under
tiie present circumstances superfluous and
irrelevant, and not necessary or proper to
vindicate tiie character or dignity of this
House. Your committee, therefore report
hack said resolutions with the recommenda
tion that they lie upon the table, and the re
ports following the resolutions with the rec
ommendation that they tie adopted as a sub
stitute therefor.
Rewired, that tiie resolution referring to
the death of Dr. Edward Lasker, adopted bv
this House on January 9 last, was intended as
a tribute of respect to the memory of an emi
nent foreign statesman who had "died within
tiie United States, and an expression of sym
pathy witli tiie German people for whom he
had been an honorable representative.
Rewired, That the House having no otlicial
concern with t iie relations between tiie execu
tive and legislative branches of the German
Government docent deem it requisite to its
dignity to criticrnVhc manner of the recep
tion of the resolution, or tiie circumstances
which prevented its reaching its destina
tion after it had been communicated through
tlie proper channels to the German Govern
ment.
Mr. Curtin immediately demanded the
previous question.
Mr. Reagan, of Texas, hoped that the
previous question would not lie ordered.
The House had made apologies enough
for having been insulted.
Mr. Cox, of New York, moved to lay
the whole matter on the table. That was
the way to treat the German Chancellor.
The motion was lost by a vote of 83 to
125.
MR. OCHILTREE AROUSED.
The previous question having been or
dered. Mr. Ochiltree, of Texas, rose to de
bate the resolutions. He said that he had
decided to notify the gentleman of his es
teem for and confidence in the distin
guished members of the Foreign Affairs
Committee, and, ordinarily, he was dis
posed to rely on their judgment, but this
affair had gone beyond the domain of red
tape and circumlocution. It had as
sumed a-phase which called on each and
every Representative to look to it that his
individual honor and dignity were pre
served, and in doing so to defend the dig
nity of the people. It was not becoming
the’dignity of this body to enter into ex
planations of the meaning of tiie
original resolution. It spoke for
itself, and the apologetic tone of
the pending resolutions was unworthy of
the representatives of this great nation.
Mr. Ochiltree the* went on to deliver an
eulogy on the high abilities and noble
character of Herr Lasker. Among tiie
njen who had raised their voices for the
amelioration of the condition of the peo
ple of the old world, none were more con
spicuous than Herr Lasker. He had
raised himself to a high position in a
country where heretofore only those of
lineage’ had obtained eminence. He had
not advocated radicalism or socialism,
but constitutional freedom. As an author
and thinker alone he was entitled to the
tribute paid him in the resolution of the
House.
BISMARCK IS DRESSED DOWN.
The compliment to Herr Lasker was a
rebuke to the German Chancellor,because
they were the antitheses of each other.
The present incident of itself showed of
what base metal the latter is moulded. He
had ever been a flatterpr and sycophant to
royalty, who had never upheld the rights
of the people, and never lost an opportu
nity to denounce popular sovereignty.
The proudest boast of this mau of blood
and iron was that he had served the royal
family of Prussia for half a century. Well
might this proud and haughty instrument
of despotism seek to shut out American
principles from the hearts of the German
people. The principles of absolute impe
rialism could not withstand the moral
power of American freedom. Mr. Ochil
tree then, amid some laughter, read an
extract from a letter written by Herr
Lasker some days before his death, in
which he refers to Mr. (>chiltree as having
introduced him to the President, members
of the Cabinet and foreign Ministers.
Mr. Belford, of Colorado, inquired ironi
cally whether it would be in order for a
member to offer a resolution presenting
the apologies of the House to the German
Chancellor for having troubled him.
The Speaker replied that it was not.
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
After speeches by Mr. Deuster, of Wis
consin, and Messrs. Phelps and Curtin
the resolutions were adopted without
division, although an unsuccessful effort
was made to have the j'eas and nays or
dered.
Mr. Curtin submitted the following
further report relative to the memorial of
the Liberal Union of the German Parlia
ment: The resolution contained in this
memorial expresses so just an apprecia
tion of the action of this House and so
cordial a wish for the prosperity of our
country and of the two nations that it is
deemed proper to make fitting acknowl
edgment. The committee therefore re
commends the adoption of the following
resolutions:
Res tired. That the House cordially recipro
cates the wishes of the Liberal Union of mem
bers of the German Parliament for a closer
union of the two nations, and recognizes their
graceful appreciation of its sympathy with
those who mourn the death of Edward Lasker,
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1884.
Retained, That the House accepts these res
olutions and directs that they be spread on
the journal.
After a repetition of the debate which
had just ended upon the former resolu
tions, the latter resolutions were adopted
without division.
GARRISON VS. MAY O.
Mr. Turner, of Georgia, Chairman of
the Committee on Elections, reported a
resolution in the contested election case
of Garrison vs. Mayo, from the First Con
gressional district of Virginia, declaring
the contestant, Mr. Garrison, entitled to
the seat. He asked tor its immediate con
sideration, but the sitting member, Mr.
Mayo, desiring to make a speech in bis
own behalf, the matter was postponed
until to morrow.
The Committee on Appropriations re
ported the Indian appropriation bill, and
it was referred to the committee of the
whole.
THE WHISKY STRUGGLE.
The long expected struggle over the
whisky bill began, Mr. Blackburn, of
Kentucky, calling Mr. Springer, of Illi
nois, to the chair, and moved to go into
committee of the whole on the revenue
bills.
Mr. Dowd, of North Carolina, raised a
question of consideration, and Mr. Ran
dall demanded the yeas and nays, which
were ordered. The motion was agreed to
by 130 yeas to 121 nays, and at 3:50 o’clock
the House went into committee, with Mr.
Doorsheimer, of New York, in the chair.
The first bill was the bonded extension
bill.
Mr. Hiseock, of New York, objected to
its consideration.
The objection was reported to the House,
which, by a vote of 137 yeas to 118 nays,
decided to consider the bill, and the com
mittee resumed its session, Mr. Morrison,
of Illinois, taking the floor in support of
the bill. Before he had finished a sen
tence, however, Mr. White, of Kentucky,
rose, saying that he had moved that the
committee rise for the purpose of bringing
a privileged matter before the House.
The chair stated that he had recognized
the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Morri
son, and on Mr. White’s taking an appeal
refused to notice it on the ground that an
appeal was not in order upon a question
of mere recognition by the chair.
MR. WHITE SEES A LOBBYIST.
Thereupon Mr. White rose to a point ot
order and said that a member of the
whisky ring was now on the floor, when
he had previously given his pledge that
he had no interest in any bill before the
House. Within a few days front making
that pledge he had appeared before the
Committee on Ways and Means in sup
port of the bill, and was now on the floor,
as well as the editor of the Courier-Jour
nal, from a town where more whisky was
in bond than in any other town in the
United States.
Mr. Blackburn submitted that this was
not a point of order, and said that his
colleague knew that he had no right to
be heard upon it. The chair ruled that
it was not a point of order.
Mr. White —I say that lam entitled to
be heard on a question of privilege. The
gentleman from New York i Dorsheimer)
has decided that I am not in order, and
he must take the responsibility. You
may bulldoze this bill through, but—
The remainder of the sentence was
drowned in cries of “order.”
THE OBJECT OF THE BILL.
Mr. Morrison then made a short state
ment as to the purpose and object of the
bill. The tax on distilled spirits must be
paid according to the existing law in
three years, or as much sooner as the
spirits were removed. The object of the
bill was to extend the time for the pay
ment of the tax on spirits now in ware
houses on condition of a new* guarantee
and interest on the tax extended. If this
business of converting grain into alco
hol existed only to be taxed, then
the beneficiaries of this bill were entitled
to uo consideration here regarding it. As
a legitimate branch of tiie manufacturing
industry it was entitled to be placed on
an equal basis with ail other industries.
From this industry the government de
rived more than one-fifth of all its reve
nue. In the next few months there would
he forced out of the warehouses 25,000,000
gallons which must pay a tax, and in the
next few years 70,000,000 gallons, for much
of which there would be no market. The
Commissioner of Internal Revenue esti
mated that the surplus for which
there would be no market would amount
in the next two years to 45,000,000 gallons.
In the years when this whisky was made
everything was overdone. Excessive pro
duction was not alone tn this industry,
but was common to the larger producing
interests of the country.
WHERE IT GOES.
Producers were not able to compete in
the sale of alcohol in European markets
with Germany. This country fought the
German people with protective tariffs
and had to sell in French markets in com
petition with the subjects of tbe ill
natured Bismarck. Suppose that this
surplus was purely the result of
the speculative spirit of our people, was
that a good and satisfactory reason why
an industry of this magnitude should be
forced to pay taxes when the government
had nothing to make by this enforcement?
It was said that this was class legisla
tion, that it was legislation in the interest
of a special few. That was not the fact.
This legislation was to undo as far as it
went special legislation against this in
dustry and put it as nearly as might be
on an equality with all other articles that
pav internal revenue taxes. He believed
with the Commissioner of Internal Reve
nue that if this was anything else than
whisky there would be fib question about
it. He believed, further, that whenever it
could be done, as it could be done now,
that relief should be granted. If this bill
were passed it would not cost the gov
ernment one single cent, and it would not
add to the burdens of a single person of
the 55,000,000 of people to the extent ol a
hundredth part of a farthing.
Mr. Willis, of Kentucky, said that the
people of Illinois, Kentukcy and Ohio and
of half a dozen other States' were deeply,
vitally interested in the immediate pass
age of this bill, but its friends did not
wish to push it through by any railroad
scheme. If there was anything wrong in
it they wanted it to come out. He, there
iore, yielded to Mr. Blackburn, who, with
the expressed hope that consideration of
the bill would be concluded to-morrow,
moved that the committee rise. This mo
tion was agreed to, and the House ad
journed.
COMUJXG Foil GRANT.
Blaine His Second Choice in Uis Eager
ness to Work Arthur’s Defeat.
Washington, March 19.— 1 tis a matter
of political history that President Arthur
and ex-Senator Conkling are at outs,
owing primarily to the fact that the
former would not change the personnel of
the New York custom house to suit the
latter. Ever since then there has been a
growing coolness between them. Mr.
Conkling would not support Mr. Arthur
if the latter should be nominated. Mr.
Bellord, of Colorado, is credited with be
ing an authority as regards Mr.
Conklmg’s political views. He was asked
to give an opinion on the subject to-day.
He replied: “I do not like to talk about
Mr. Conkling’s differences with Presi
dent Arthur. The man that Mr.
Conkling favors as the Republi
can nominee is Gen. Grant. He
thinks Gen. Grant is the most avail
able man. and that his nomination would
be in the best interests of the party. But
if Gen. Grant cannot get it, and Mr.
Blaine should be nominated, Mr. Conk
ling will enter earnestly into the cam
paign and do all that he can to secure his
election.
If Mr. Belford correctly gives Mr.
Conkling’s position there have evidently
been things heretofore not suspected co
in con under tiie surface. Messrs. Blaine
and Conkling have long been bitter ene
mies. Since Mr. Blaine made the
memorable assault upon Mr. Conk
ling, when both were members
ot the House, they had politically beenjat
daggers’ points. A member of Congress
from New Y'ork said to the News corre
spondent to-night that be thought it more
than likely that Mr. Belford tells the tale
correctly about Messrs. Blaine and Conk
ling. He said that while not as public as
his differences with Mr. Blaine. Mr. Conk
ling’s opposition to President Arthur lias
been far more hostile and bitter. Mr.
Conkling will,he said, support Mr. Blaine,
if Gen. Grant cannot get the nomination,
because of bis hostility to President Ar
thur. Another point which he cited was
that Mr. Conkling’s quarrel with Presi
dent Arthur is more recent than with Mr.
Biaiue.
AMERICAN RETALIATION.
•
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Makes Its Report.
Washington. March 19.—The bill re
ported from the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee to-day directed against foreign
countries which discriminate against
American products, after prescribing a
system of inspection of food products for
export, provides that the President of the
United States be authorized at his discre-
tion to exclude from the United States by
proclamation any product of any foreign
State which, by unjust discrimi
nation, prohibits the importation of
any product of the United States.
It provides further that the importation
into the United States of any adulterated
or any unwholesome food or vinous spirit
uous or malt liquors adulterated or mixed
with any poisonous or noxious chemical
drug or other ingredient injurious to
i health, shall be hereafter prohibited under
penalty of a tine and imprisonment, or
both, the President to be authorized in his
discretion to suspend the importation of
articles of this character by proclamation
when he becomes satisfied "that they are
adulterated to an extent injurious to the
health of the public. In the report ac
companying the bill, the com
mittee, alter explaining its provi
sions, say that they considered but
one clause of the resolution of January
22, that directing them to report legisla
tion to protect the interests of the United
States, and that, in their opinion, the bill
reported contains all the legislation neces
sary for that purpose. Their conclusions
are based, they say, upon documents laid
bciore them, comprising correspondence
on file in the Department of State relative
to discriminations against American pork
and pork products—the report of the mis
sion appointed by the President to exam
ine into the swine industry of the United
States, and the report of the Chief of the
Bureau of Statistics on the production of
swine in the United States and the inter
diction of American hog products. The
committee says:
The investigations which tiie committee
have been able to make of this subject result
in establishing to the satisfaction of the com
mittee, among others, two important proposi
tions, or matters of fact:
first. That trichina? does exist to a limited
extent in swine throughout all swine produc
ing countries, anti in the United States as
well as others. Tiie evidence shows that
about 2 per cent, of American pork is infected
by trichina?.
Secondly, That the process of curing pork
by salt destroys trichina? to such a degree that
pork thoroughly salted and permitted to re
main long enough to become saturated with
salt, although infested with trichina', is in
noxious.
NO BLUNDER TO BE MADE.
Mr. ltandall and His Friends Not to be
Embittered Against the Furty.
M ashington, March 19.—There were
many little conferences to-day among the
Democratic members of the House look
ing to a better understanding about the
Morrison tariff bill. What effect these
interchanges of views will have cannot
be developed until the conference of next
week. It has been made plainer to-dav
that any attempt to read Mr. Randall anil
others of his mind out of the party will
ignominiously fail. It is also made cer
tain that no such attempt will be made.
MR. RANDALL’S PROGRAMME.
At the conference next week it is pretty
well settled that the Morrison-Carlisfe
Democrats w T iil insist upon the Morrison
bill without a change. The programme
of the Randall men was formulated to
night. It is that upon the threshold of
tiie conference a Southern member, prob
ably Mr. Tillman, of South Carolina—will
offer a resolution indorsing the Ohio plat
form, which, in substance, is that the
tariff should be for revenue, so adjusted as
to adequately protect American in
dustries and American labor without
fostering monopolies. This resolution
will be pressed to a vote. The
Randall men say that it will receive at
least 00 votes, which of course is not suffi
cient to secure its adoption. It will, how
ever, define the issue at the very start.
Mr. Randall said to-night that he ex
pected the conference to pass a resolution
adopting the Morrison bill, but that most
of those who will vote for the Ohio plat
form resolution w ill vote as they please
when the bill comes up in the House
without reference to the action of the con
ference.
17,<.->:{ FOR BOOK LO.
I.ast, Year’s Appropriation $13,008
Greater—The School Fund Increased.
Washington, March J9.—The Indian
appropriation bill, as reported to the
House to-day, appropriates $5,347,053, a
decrease of $13,002 from the appropriation
of last year, and of $3,119,156 from the es
timates. The appropriation for the sup
port of schools is $185,000, an increase
from last year of $135,000.
[I be amount appropriated under treaty
stipulations for school buildings, and the
the support of teachers is also increased
by $65,000. An appropriation of $15,000 ts
made for the Indians in Alaska. The
new legislation proposed by the com
mittee prohibits the department from in
troducing liquor into the Indian reserva
tions under any circumstances, and ap
propriates SS,O(H) for the detection and
prosecution ot persons attempting to do
this. The census of the Indians is also
provided for. The principal reductions
made by ihe present bill, as compared
with that oi last year, are in the amounts
appropriated for rations and clothing, the
committee taking the view' that as the In
dians become more and more civilized
they should depend less and less on the
government for support.
OCHILTREE’S MODESTY.
Circulating 1,000 Copies of a Dally which
Printed His Physiognomy.
Washington, March 19.—The House
to-day disposed of the Lasker matter in a
dignified manner. Tom Ochiltree, who
has been loaded for days with a speech,
got it oft. It x\'as a good speech. Tom
read it very well. He to-night showed his
innate modesty. An afternoon paper
prints a picture of him. He bought a
thousand copies of it, and has carriers de
livering them at the hotels, with a charge
to all who will take them. He is also
mailing many copies to Texas. Very few
people know that the afternoon paper
agreed to print Toni’s picture only upon
the condition that he would take a thou
sand copies.
DISABLED CONFEDERATES.
Gen. Gordon in New York in the Inter
et of the Richmond Home Project.
New York, March 19.—Gen. John B.
Gordon, of Georgia, has invited the ex-
Con federate soldiers now in New York to
meet him at the St. James Hotel to-mor
row night, for a conference with deputa
tions from the Grand Army of
the Republic in the interest of
a home for disabled Confederate
soldiers. This movement is in aid
ot the one inaugurated at Richmond. Ad
jutant Berry, oi Phil. Kearney post, and
Captain Spitzer, of R. E. Lee Camp of
Richmond, are here on the same business.
They are accompanied by Mr. Nungesser,
ot Lincoln post, New Jersey, and by Gen.
James R. O’Beirne, of Farragut post of
the Grand Army of the Republic, of New
Y’ork. They are making arrangements in
regard to a fair to be held at Richmond in
aid of this cause. In Brooklyn to-day
very satisfactory progress has been made
with the aid and co-operation of Major
Walker, Colonel McLeor, Postmaster, and
other representatives of the Grand Army
of the Republic in Brooklyn, in forward
ing the project.
A BURGLAR SHOT DEAD.
The Arresting Officer’s Life Attempted
l>y the Cracksman.
Boston, March 19.—At 5 o’clock this
morning James Donovan was discovered
by Ortioer Kendall in the basement of a
house in Boylston place, which he had
entered with burglarious intent. The offi
cer secured Donovan. On the way
to the station house the prisoner tripped
Kendall, and, getting possession of the
officer’s club, beat him brutally on the
head. Kendall succeeded in drawing his
revolver and shooting Donovan, the ball
entering Uis mouth and taking effect in
his head. Donovan died fifteen minutes
later. While Officer Burnett, who assist
ed Officer Kendall in carrying Donovan
to the station, was cleaning blood from
his coat he was accidentally shot through
the calf of his leg by his own revolzer,
which fell front his pocket. Ki ndall re
ceived several cuts on the head, hut his
injuries are not fatal.
Bishop Kavsnaugh Dead.
New Orleans, March 19.—A special
from Columbus, Miss., announces the
death there this morning of Bishop 11. 11.
Kavanaugh, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, at the age of 83 years.
His remains will be taken to Louisville.
Accidentally Killed by Their Mother.
Louisville, Ky.. March 19.— Four
children of G. D. Alsop, living near this
city, were given opium to-day bv their
mother in mistake for powdered rhubarb.
Two have died, and the others are not ex
pected to recover.
Coughs.
Brown’s Bronchial Troches are
used with advantage to alleviate Coughs,
Sore Throat, and Bronchial Affections.
Sold only in boxes.
MONEY FOR THE NAVY.
THE INCREASED FUNDS WHICH
NIK. CHANDLER ASKS FOR.
Publication of the Report Sent to tlie
Senate Appropriations Committee at
Its Own Request—Additional Money
Asked for Nearly Every Department
to Which the Naval Fund Goes.
Washington, March 19.—The Appro
priations Committee of the Senate agreed
to-day to make public the communication
sent to them at their request by the Sec
retary of the Navy, recommending appro
priations for the naval service additional
to those contained in the naval appropria
tion bill as it passed the House. In this
communication the Secretary of the
Navy asks that individual items
in the House bill Lie increased
as lollows: To pay miscellaneous ex
penses from $375,000 to $425,000: for the
Bureau of Navigation from $70,000 to
$131,000: for contingent navy expenses
from $15,000 to $25,000; for the Bureau of
Equipment and Recruiting from $707,000
to $903,000; for the Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery from $19,000 to $25,000; for
the Bureau of Construction and Repair
from $1,020,000 to $1,750,000; for the Bu
reau of Steam Engineering from $760,000
to $1,200,000, of which increase it is sug
gested that $lOO,OOO should be applied to
the completion of the machinery, boilers,
etc., of the steamer New York, at the
New York yard.
ORDNANCE FUNDS.
He asks that the appropriations for the
Bureau of Ordnance be made as follows:
General appropriation, including civil
establishment, $192,234; miscellaneous
items, $5,000; purchase of torpedo boat
and working drawings of same, $55,000;
for machine cannon, Gatling guns, mag
azine rifles and machine tools, $273,210,
and for additional steel breech loading
guns, $599,400, and states that the sum of
$200,000 anpropriated by the House bill
for the Bureau of Yards and Docks is
manifestly inadequate to meet the re
quirements of that bureau. Each of the
requests for additional appropriations is
accompanied by a statement from the
chief of the bureau, for which it
is asked, setting forth the necessity
for such an increase. The other addition
al appropriations recommended by the
Secretary of the Navy are as follows:
Completing batteries of new cruisers,
$503,992; completing four double-turreted
monitors, and for ordnance for the same,
$2,000,000. It is suggested that authority
be given for their completion and for pro
curing their armament.
FUNDS FOR NEW VESSELS.
It is also recommended that 20 percent,
of the amount appropriated fOr the com
pletion of cruisers and their machinery
should be made available immediately, in
order to meet pavments on con
tracts which are likely to become
due before July 1, 1884, and
that there bo appropriated $2,500,000
towards the construction of one cruiser
of 4,500 tons displacement, one cruiser of
3,000 tons, one dispatch vessel of 1,500
tons, two heavily armed gunboats of 1,500
tons each, one light gunboat of 750 tons,
one gunboat not to exceed 900 tons, one
steel rani, one cruising torpedo boat, and
two harbor torpedo boats as provided in
Senate bill 098 passed by the Senate, and
that the construction of these vessels be
authorized.
PLENTY OF COMPETENT FIRMS.
The Secretary says, in connection with
the latter recommendation, that it is de
sirable to correct some of the erroneous
statements that have obtained more
or less credence with reference
to the new cruisers recommended
and the cruisers now under
construction of tne same general type,
and he states that, although it has been
asserted that there can be no real compe
tition for the construction of steel vessels
by private parties because only one or
two ship building firms can do the work,
this assertion is entirely without founda
tion. For the cruisers now under consid
eration, thirteen firms have furnished the
department with the necessarv evidence
of their ability to undertake’the work,
and of those thirteen eight were actual
bidders on one or more of tlie vessels.
NORTH CAROLINA POLITICS.
A Fusion of the Republicans and Lib
erall Contemplated.
Raleigh, N. C., March 19.—The Repub
lican State Committee met here this af
ternoon. Eight members weie present
and three were absent. An unusual num
ber of influential Republicans were also
in attendance.
The State Committee of the Liberal par
ty also met at the same time, but sepa
rately.
The Republican committee issued a call
for a regular Republican convention to
meet at Raleigh on Thursday, May 1. The
Liberal committee issued a call for a mass
meeting of Liberals and those opposed to
Bourbon Democracy and the existing
State administration', and all favoring the
abolition of the internal revenue to meet
at Raleigh. The purpose is to have the
Republican convention and Liberal meet
ing at the same time, to make arrange
ments lor a reunion of the two organiza
tions and to agree upon a single ticket if
it is then deemed advisable.
PHILADELPHIA FOII BLAINE.
The Arthur Faction Worsted in the
Choice of State Delegates.
Philadelphia, March 19.—The primary
elections ol the Republican party last
night, tor delegates to the State Conven
tion, brought out a fuller vote than usual.
A glance over the field leaves the impres
sion that the element of party represented
by ex-Secretary of the Commonwealth M.
S. Quay, popularly supposed to he in the
interest of the national administration,
had been defeated, and that the element
of which Mr. Leeds, Chairman of the City
Committed, is the head, and said to be
favorable to Mr. Blaine, had been suc
cessful in a majority of the Represent
ative districts. The result of the conven
tion’s work this morning would seem to
confirm this idea. Outspoken Blaine
delegates have been chosen at many pri
maries in the interior and the western
portion of the State.
Rhode Island’s Democratic Ticket.
Providence, R. 1., March 19.—The
Democratic State Convention here to-day
made the following nominations:
Thomas W. Segar,of Westerly, for Gov
ernor.
Amasa Sprague, of Cranston, for Lieu
tenant Governor.
Jonathan M. Wheeler, of Cranston, for
Secretary of State.
Charles E. Gorman, of Providence, for
Attorney General.
George P. Leonard, of Newport, for
General Treasurer.
Delegates to the National Convention
were also elected.
BOILED IN BURNING OIL.
Three Men Taken Off by the Bursting
of a Still in Ohio.
Cleveland, 0., March 19.—The still at
Merriain & Morgan’s oil works, in this
city, exploded this morning. The escap
ing oil instantly submerged August Fisher
and August Guenther, employes, and the
oil taking fire the men were quickly
burned to death in sight of a horrified
crowd, who were unable to assist them.
The rushing stream of oil overtook Wm.
Stahlman, another employe, as he fled,
and he too was burned to death, Merriain
& Morgan’s loss is $15,000. The cause of
the explosion is uuknown.
FRIGHTENED TO DEATH.
Two Fierce Dogs of Quebec Drive an
Old I.ady into Her Coffin.
Quebec, March 19.—An actual case of
death from fright occurred here to-day.
A middle-aged woman named Verrel was
walking along the street when two huge
dogs rushed out from a yard, furiously
barking at her and tearing some of her
clothing with their teeth, but otherwise
leaving her uninjured. She fainted and
was carried to her home, where she im
mediately expired.
A Great Blood Medicine.
liosadalis cures Scrofula, Swellings,
Goitre, Skin Diseases, Liver Complaint,
Rheumatism, etc. Read the following:
I have been h groat sufferer for 15 years;
not able to walk, from an injured leg.
Have tried many M. D.’s and their reme
dies to little purpose. I believe Rosadalis
will cure me. Send me one dozen by
steamer. It was recommended to me by
a friend. I have taken two bottles, and
find it helping me. The druggists who
usually keep it are out ot it, and I cannot
afford to wait the slow arrival of their
supplies.
Lake Irena, Fla. Joint T. Beers,
Supt. Board Pub. Instruction.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
T /to Important Railroad Meetings—Gov.
McDaniel and Mayor Kirby.
Atlanta, March 19.—An important
meeting has been held here of the repre
sentatives of the lines interested in carry
ing watermelons, an adjourned meeting
from the Jacksonville meeting. Mr.
Whitehead, of the Central Railroad, was
Chairman, and Mr. Colburn, of the Cin
cinnati Southern, wa9 Secretary. A rate
JR 1 cent per ton each mile from basing
'through points was adopted, 24,000 pounds
to be the minimum car load. A bill of
lading was adopted to be used for all per
ishable articles of this kind. The roads
are preparing for a large melon and truck
business, and will give it special atten
tion.
the: rate committee.
Delegates from various cities met the
Rate Committee in the Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce this morning. The room was
crowded with delegates and a few specta
tors. President Crane spoke for Atlauta,
Messrs. McWilliams and Rounsaviile for
Rome, Messrs. Smart, Martin and Peeples
for Cnattanooga, Air. Glauber for Albany,
Messrs. Jackson and Mustln for Augusta,
and Mr. Connor for Macon. Other cities
were represented, but did not participate
in the debate. It was impossible to
agree on any course to re
commend to the Rate Committee,
so the conference adjourned sine die with
out harmonizing on any plan. It was
evident that Atlanta’s proposition did not
meet the favor of the other localities, as
no rate that would suit her could be
recommended without injustice to some
neighboring city. The meeting was full
of inharmonious harmony, all good-na
tured, but still unyielding. The rate
committee has been in session this after
noon, but took no decisive action, as tele
grams were received from New York and
other points which intimated that efforts
were being made to restore the old rates
and stop the cut. The committee adjourned
until to-morrow morning, when some
action will be taken.
ALAPAHA’S LITTLE RIOT.
Governor McDaniel to-day allowed re
porters to read his recent correspondence
with Mayor Kirby, of Alapaha, in which
the latter made a request for military to
attend the trial ol the rioters and was’ re
fused, the Governor telling Mayor Kirby
that lie should appeal to the Sheriff for
the desired protection. Only in the most
pressing emergency could military force
be resorted to.
THE BALTIMORE CONFERENCE.
Interesting Statistics Submitted by the
Hoard of Secretaries.
Baltimore, March 19.— At the Balti
more annual conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South to-day the Board
of Secretaries submitted the general statis
tics of the conference for the year. The
total figures are as follows: Local preach
ers, 110; church members, 32,436; addi
tions, 3,303; deaths, 403; baptisms of
children, 1,357; baptisms of adults, 1,085;
number of churches, 392; their probable
value, $801,006; amount raised for build
ing and improvement, $47,527; pre
sent indebtedness, $28,029; number
of parsonages, 91; their probable
value, $145,065; amount raised for
building and improvement, $16,800;
present indebtedness, $7,165; Sundav
schools, 481; officers and teachers, 4,657;
scholars, 28,962, volumes in library, 45,-
560; conversions in Sunday schools. 1,011:
Sunday school expenses. $10,352. The re
port of the Board of Education, Rev. 11.
“• Hamill, Chairman, showing that the
five institutions of learning under the
control of the Conference were in a pros
perous condition, was read and adopted.
CHURCH EXTENSION.
Rev. S. K. Cox presented the report of
the Church Extension Board, and it was
adopted. The assessment for the past
year was $2,980, of which $1,918 were
paid, leaving a deficit of SI,OOB. The as
sessment for tiie coming conference year
has been placed at $3,250. Rev. Nelson
Head presented the report of the Cen
tenary Committee, and it was adopted.
The recommendations of the report
are that special effort .shall be
made during the year for a spiritual re
vival ; that mass meetings shall be held in
each presiding elder’s district at such
time and place as shall be deemed best by
the district committees; that centenary
services shall be held in all churches on
the first Sunday in October; that children’s
meetings shall beheld in June; that the peo
ple shall make an efl'ort to pay off all local
church debts; that all money collected for
educational purposes, not otherwise
specified, shall go to the endowment of
Randolph Macon College, and finally, that
all conference collections shall be made
by the first Sunday in September.
Ihe proposition to increase the assess
ment for salaries of Bishops did not pre
vail. Salem, Roanoke county, Virginia,
was selected as the place for the meeting
of the conference in 1885.
VIRGINIA’S LEGISLATURE.
An Adjournment Sine Die at Last—No
Mercy pn Malione.
Richmond, Va., March 19.—Tiie Gen
eral Assembly closed its extended session
to-day, aud at 3 o’clock this afternoon
adjourned sine die. H. G. Moffett, Jr., of
Rappahannock, was elected Railroad Com
missioner. The appropriation bill, which
has been approved by tbe Governor, pro
vides for the investment of the surplus
funds in the Treasury to an amount not
exceeding SIOO,OOO per month in Riddle
berger bonds to meet the interest on the
whole State.debt when funded.
. The Senate to-day passed a resolution
instructing the Clerk to send to the Presi
dent of tbe United States Senate a copy of
the resolution adopted some time ago re
questing Senator Mahone to resign his
position in that body, with a request that
said resolution be read in the United
States Senate.
A POLYGAM IS I’S TRIAL.
Married by Proxy for Eternity and Not
for Time.
Salt Lake City, March 19. — Andrew
Peterson, an avowed polygamist, who
voted for the delegate to Congress in I&S2,
and ivho was.indicted under the Edmunds
law for registering and voting, is now on
trial. Chief Justice Hunter allowed seven,
polygamist Mormons to sit on the jury.
One of them has three wives. All seven
swore that they believed the divine laws
superior to the laws of Congress. They
believed that polygamy was right and
revealed from God, and would obey God
rather than Congress. The defendant
admits marriage according to the Mormon
law, but says that his marriage was bv
proxy for eternity and not for time.
FOUR MINERS KILLED.
The Death of Each Attributable to a
Separate Accident.
Wilkksbarke. Fa., March 19.—An
drew Hortaka, aged 40 years, a miner in
the Midvale colliery, and Michael Jones,
aged 50 years, a miner in the Nottingham
mines, were instantly killed this morning,
the former by a falling rock, and the lat
ter by falling coal.
TWO OTHER VICTIMS.
Ashland, Pa., March 19.—8 y the
breaking of a rope at the Bast colliery to
day, George Baumgardner was fatally
and two others seriously injured. Work
in the colliery is suspended.
At the Contrala colliery Anthony Gar
rigan was killed by the breaking of a rope.
A BERLIN CANARD.
Mr Sargent’s Course Reported to have
Been Indorsed and a Furlough Offer
ed Him.
New York, March 19. — The following
dispatch was received here to-day:
Berlin. March 19.—Minister Sargent has
received an official letter from Washington in
indorsement of his action and granting him
an indefinite furlough if he desires. Mr. Sar
gent will not take the furlough at present.
The above dispatch is given out as indi
cating what gossip is current in Berlin.
Inquiry concerning it has been made at
the State Department in Washington,
and a statement obtained that it is not
true that such a letter as mentioned in
the Beilin dispatch has been sent to Mr.
Sargent.
Anna Bishop Dead.
New York, March 19.—Madam Anna
Bishop, the once famous singer, who had
a world-wide reputation, died suddenly
last night of apoplexy, at her residence
on Park avenue. Her husband, Martin
Schultz, was at her bedside when she
breathed her last. She leaves no children.
Jacksonville’s Mayor Renominated.
Jacksonville, Fla., March 19.—Dr.
W. McL. Dancy was renominated to
night for Mayor by the Democrats. The
proceedings were harmonious.
CUBA’S ALLEGED BANDITTI.
The Suspicions Against the Screamer’s
Passengers Not Yet Confirmed.
Washington, March 19.—Secretary
Folger has received a telegram from
Charles F. Donnelly, CiJairman of the
Massachusetts Board of Health, at Bos
ton, in regard to the suspected brig
Screamer, of which the following is a
copy:
An officer of the State Board of Health,
Lunacy and Charity has just reported that he
boarded the brig Screamer, at Vineyard Ha
ven, on the morning of the IStli mst., and
found as passengers thereon fourteen men.
four women and six infants. All the party
were very thinly clothed. The men stated
that the party was going to Sau Domingo via
New lork to work on a sugar plantation
I'hev said thnt they had ample funds and de
sired to proceed on their arrival at Boston
forthwith to New Yark. thence bv a steamer
of Thursday next to San Domingo. They re
quired no aid, but only direction for the route.
The foregoing examination was preliminary.
A further examination was delayed at the re
quest of Captain Gabrielson until the arrival
of the brig at Boston, possible Wednesday
morning.
The Secretary telegraphed to Mr. Don
nelly to-day as follows: “When satisfied
of the honest character and purpose of
the ‘Screamer’ passengers hasten them
on their journey, aiding them in meeting
their needs from the emigrant funds."
The Secretary has also received a tele
gram from R. Rubiera, of New York,
asking for the names of the pas
sengers of the Screamer, and also
asking if he would be permitted to com
municate with them, as in case they be
political refugees, he would take care that
they be treated fairlv. In response the
Secretary informed Mr. Rubiera that he
did not have their names, but that he
could the see Cubans at Boston. The brig
Screamer arrived at Boston to-day.
THE INVESTIGATION AT BOSTON.
Boston, March 19. 11 p. .m.— The brig
Screamer arrived here this evening in tow
of the revenue cutter Dexter. The party
of so-called Cuban banditti on board the
brig were examined by agents of the
State Board of Health, and through an in
terpreter were questioned as to their
movements and plans. Senor Marien, a
lawyer, and Senor Joseph E. Joaouin
Sanchez, fine appearing old gentlemen,
acted as leaders of the party, who are on
their way to San Domingo, where they
propose to found a colony upon a planta
tion owned by Senor Sanchez’s son.
NOT LIKE BANDITTI.
Tiieir passports appear to’be regular,
and their passage money, which was paid
the Captain on the brig, passed through
the hands of the Mayor of Santa Clare
when their passage was engaged upon the
Screamer. It was supposed that she was
coming to New York, but on learning
that her destination was Boston, and that
they could obtain cheap rates from Boston
to New York, they concluded to come to
Boston. They seem to be simply honest
travelers, and there is nothing in their ap
pearance or that can be learned from
their statements, or from the crew of the
brig, that would indicate that they are
persons of criminal habits.
BUT FEW ARMS AMONG THEM.
There were only three or four revolvers
found among the party, ana no other
arms of any kind." They have about $2,000
in money, so they cannot be termed pau
pers. There can be nothing learned here
as to how the statement that they were
banditti originated. The official report of
the State Board of Health to Collector
Worthington v ill be made in tne morn
ing, and there is no doubt that the Cubans
will be allowed to land and continue their
journey. The party numbers fourteen
men, five women anil thre^children.
SUNSHINE ON THE FLOOD.
The Water Receding and a Ray of Hope
Kindled in the People's Hearts.
New Orleans, March 19.—The weather
is clear and pleasant. The river has re
ceded an inch and is now an inch below
the high water mark.
At Baton Rouge the river declined
three inches aud at Vicksburg has risen
nine inches.
The crevasse above Baton Rouge is now
12.) feet wide and is rapidly increasing.
Efforts to close the Davis crevasse con
tinue, but the outlook is discouraging.
No new breaks of importance are re
ported.
NO HOPE FOR THE MORGANZA LEVEE.
A special from Baton Rouge says: “Tbe
Governor to-day received a dispatch from
Bayou Sara toAbe effect that all hope of
saving any part of the Morganza levee
has been abandoned,and that the crevasse
will soon be a mile wide with probablv
an average depth of ten feet. A dispatch
to the Governor from Thibadaux says
that the Jamison crevasse, three
miles above that town on the
leit bank of La Fourche, is still
running at u terrible rate and im
mense damage to planters is the result.
An appeal is made to the State authori
ties for material with which to close the
crevasse.”
THREE BREAKS IN ST. CHARLES’ PARISH.
There have been three breaks in the
levees in St. Charles’ parish, only one of
which has been closed. One of the others
is 20 teet wide and one 30 feet wide. Work
on these breaks is being prosecuted with
vigor and it is boned that they will be
closed to-morrow. The water in the Davis
break is 30 feet deep, and all the piling and
other work done there in the effi rt to
close the gap has been washed out. The
probabilities are that the effort to close
the break will be abandoned. Official no
tice has been given of the discontinuance
of trains, until further notice, between
Cheueyville and New Orleans on tbe
Texas Pacific Railroad. The suspension
is caused by the overflow from the Mor
gan, Davis and Mullet breaks.
THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN KANSAS.
The Legislature of the State Promises to
Co-operate With the Government.
Topeka, March 19.—1n the Senate this
morning a resolution w’as adopted pro
viding for the appointment of a committee
of seven to investigate the cattle disease
question. In the House a special com
mittee of fifteen on the Governor’s mess
age was appointed, and they shortly alter
reported a bill on the cattle disease. A
bill was also introduced accepting the
terms of any act passed by Congress on
the subject of cattle disease.
AN OFFICIAL REPOP.T.
Chicago, March 19. — A special from
Springfield, 18., says: “D. T. Salmon,
Veterinarian of the Department of Agri
culture, telegraphs from Kinsley, Kansas,
as follows: ‘The foot and mouth disease
at Neosho is not spreading. There is no
contagious disease in counties further
west. Dr. Hauoto, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, has reported from
Xenia, Clay county. 111., that twenty
head of cattle have reoently died on the
farnxof R. T. Fort in Wayne county, add
ing that no doubt they died of the Toot and
mouth disease. Dr. Paaren, the State
Veterinarian, has gone to investigate the
matter.’ ”
YOUTHFUL LOVE’S MADNESS.
Parental Opposition Leads to Poison,
the Pistol and One Death.
Indianapolis, March 19.—W. M.
Dane, 20 years old, of Bentonville, Fayette
county, became enamored of a 13-year-old
girl named Ada Swift. Her parents ob
jected to his attentions on account of
Ada’s extreme youth. On Saturday
night Dane purchased two ounces
of laudanum, giving Ada one-half
and swallowing the other half
himself. The poison failed of fatal effect
in either case, lieing an overdose. Yes
terday the father of the girl had Dane ar
rested on a charge of attempting to poison
his child. Last night Wane procured a
pistol and shot hitnself. He died shortly
afterwards. The girl is seriously sicli,
but may recover. Dane was a school
teacher and a writer for the press.
RAVAGES OF THE FLAMES.
Concord Institute in Louisiana Burned
With its Contents.
New Orleans, March 19.—A special
from Farinersville, La., says: “Concord
Institute, at Shiloh, Union parish,
together with its contents, was burned
to-day. It was the most flourishing school
iu this part of the State.”
A crockery stork burned.
New Orleans, March 19.—Nathan
Meyer’s crockery store, at No. 101 Gravier
street, was burned yesterday. The loss is
$23,000. The property is fully insured.
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every civilized country, and the public
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cheapest and best Hair Dressing in the
world.
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WATTERSON’S RIOT ACT.
I*HOTEOTION DEMOCRATS DE
SCRIBED AS POLITICAL
CUTTLE PISH.
Text of the Journalist’ll Demand that
the Hanila'lltes Support the Morrison
Bill or Leave the Party—The “Old
Ticket'* Talk a lVaste ot Words.
The following is the full text of the dis
patch which Henry \Vatter9on sent to his
paper, the Louisville Courier Journal, and
which was published in Louisville and in
Washington last Tuesday morning. The
Mousing News special gave a brief
synopsis of it yesterday and also an ac
count of the stir it created in Washing
ton :
The squad of protectionists, claiming to
be Democrats and led by Mr. Randall,
have undoubtedly mistaken the generosity
and courtesies of Mr. Carlisle for vacilla'-
tion, and have lured themselves into the
belief that because Mr. Morrison has not
been rash he is uncertain and afraid.
Hence this class of political cuttle-fish
are in a state of confusion and rage over
the strong and clear utterances of the
Speaker Saturday night in New York.
'A week ago they were dividing tbeir
time, in about equal portions, with
bullying weak-kneed Democrats and og
ling Republicans with whom they are in
correspondence and conspiracy. All
through to-day they have been whining,
putting up a poor mouth and tearfully
pleading avoidance of a caucus. The
sooner the break comes the better. There
can be no arrangement short of the Mor
rison bill between the Democratic party
and Pennsylvania.
If Mr. Randall and his followers cannot
support so conservative a measure they
can support nothing exeept a high tariff
bill proposed by the Republicans. In that
event they had better pick up their grip
sacks and go over to the Republicans,
where on this question they properly be
long.
It is full time that masquerading should
end. The Democratic masses are sick of
it, and it would have been brought to a
round turn two weeks ago. but for the
determination of Mr. Carlisle and Mr.
Morrison to exhaust every means of con
ciliation before they opened the cam
paign, which the present organization of
the House made, from the first, a fore
gone conclusion.
Mr. Morrison's bill is far from being all
4|e friends of revenue reform, or even its
author, could desire. It was made in the
most liberal spirit of concession, and it is
simply a step in the right direction. Its
failure means thedefeat, and may involve
the dissolution, ot the Democratic party.
The same clique in the National Demo
cratic Committee, headed by Mr. Chair
man Barnum, and in Congress, headed
by Mr. Randall, which procured the de
feat of Gen. Hancock in 1880, by running
away in a panic of ignorance and terror
from the tariff issue, is now seeking to
couple the Democratic party to the rear
end of the Republican express.
The Democratic people of the West and
South arc not going to allow it, nor are
their representatives in Congress. We
may be beaten in the coming struggle,
and the way these 6cmi-Republicans and
would-be Democratic leaders are going it
looks as though we shall be; but if we
are to be beaten let us go down with our
flag flying, and, though we lose our bag
gage, may we not save our honor?
We have no candidate who is an issue
in himself. The talk about “the old
ticket” is the sheerest nonsense, and it
comes mainly from those who opposed
“the old ticket” when it meant something
which might have counted for something.
Mr. Tilden would not, could not. take the
office, far less a nomination. The
schemers who are constantly lugging
him into the struggle know this full well.
He is not in this fight at all, directly or
indirectly. Long ago he made up his
mind not to cheat bis old age of its re
pose. For Mr. Payne, for Mr. Hoadly,
and for Mr. Randall he entertains the
warmest sentiment of personal regard,
and why should he not? They were his
friends during a great and trving crisis
of his life.
Times have changed, and with them
issues. The ever-present issue of admin
istrative reform, which was so empha
sized in the person of Mr. Tilden and so
pointed by the circumstances of his day,
is at this moment only one of many need
ed reforms. The tariff, which in 187 oc
cupied a second or third place, has come
to occupy the first; and yet, though it was
not at the front eight years ago, the tariff
plank in the St. Louis platform was
as carefully and elaborated drawn
as any other plank in that platform. It
was substantially Mr. Tilden’s own handi
work, aad was carried West with his
sanction and brought back lo receive his
approval. The plank itself declares for
“a tariff onhi for revenue.” In spite of
this we hear Democrats saying, “We must
nominate the old ticket to get rid of the
tariff,” as if the Sage of Greystone is not
as thorough an embodimentof tariff reform
as he is of administrative reform.
It is all a trick to mislead the people.
Those who are using it are friends of mo
nopoly. They are Republicans iu dis
guise. By the aid of organization and
money they hope amid the contusion to
make the Democratic National Conven
tion a good second to the Republican
National Convention. Then which ever
way the election goes they are all right.
A caucus will show us who are our
friends and who are our enemies, and a
caucus we should have at an early day.
Deliberation has been had, and the time
for deliberation has gone by. The time
for action has come. The Speaker and
the Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee are fully conscious of this.
They are the leaders of the party in
the House. They are fearless in them
selves, and faithful to their trust. If the
army of tried and true Democrats who
are waiting for their words have doubted,
let them l>e reassured they will not have
long to wait.
An Kartbquake Shock in Canada.
St. John, N. F., March 19.—-A violent
shock of earthquake was experienced
here yesterday. The weight of the dis
turbance was felt in the vicinity of Har
bor Grace, Heart’s Content, Hantz Har
bor, Brigus Bay, Roberts and Holy Rood.
At St. John the disturbance was feeble.
The line of volcanic travel was from north
to south, and the disturbance took place
between 1:30 and 1:45 o’clock in the after
noon.
Incendiaries After Insurance.
Belvipoc, N. J., March 19.—A family
named Billins, consisting oi father,
mother and soil, have all been placed iu
jail here on a charge of burning their
buildings, near Delaware station. The
son confessed and implicated his lather
and mother. The motive for the crime
was to get the insurance.
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