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j J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor.!
GEORGIA FLORIDA.
THE NT.WSOF THE TAVO STATES
TOLD IX PARAGRAPHS.
How Two Hold Swindlers Victimized
Three Macon Banks—Death from
Hydrophobia in Henry County—A
Pensacolian Finds Death in a Patent
Medicine —Sl.OOO Secured by Burglars
at Pensacola.
GEORGIA.
Jug Tavern will be incorporated this sum
mer.
•lames Wehuut has escaped from jail at
Ellijay.
• hardeners in Perry have been transplant
ing cabbage plants this week.
Alderman Waite is inquiring into the cost
of an artesian well for Eastman.
Kerosene street lamps have been ordered
by the Town Council of Franklin.
Esther Washington, of Dougherty county,
has been indietea for infanticide.
Twenty-four thousand bales of cotton have
been compressed at Athens this year.
Thousands of robins have lieen killed in
various parts of Bulloch county tins season.
The sixty-six -s hoolsof Elbert county have
an attendance of 2,791 children of both races.
Andy Howland, colored, will not hang at
Spring Place April 1, an appeal having l>een
taken.
At least fifty horses have died of the strange
disease now epidemic in Oconee ami lower
Oglethorpe counties. *
It is rumored at Eastman that the railroad
company will remove the depot at that place
to a site outside of the town limits.
Col. John A. Trencliard, of Elbert, w ho lias
been in the service or the Baoti.-t Church in
the ludian Territory, is on a visit home.
The Town Council of .Madison has passed
an ordinance ordering all dogs ruuning at
large to lie muzzled after the 24th of Hus
month.
M. W. Hollis, • ouuty Commissioner of Tal
bot, shot Jordan Williams, colored, in the leg.
The wound necessitated amputation, and
death followed.
clwiiiett county's affairs, as shown by the
report of the grand jury, are in a prosperous
condition. There is a balance of over 412,000
in the county treasury.
Five out of the six prisoners in Covington
jail escaped Wednesday night by removing a
stone from one of the walls. The ono who re
mained did so from choice.
Rev. i.eorge C. Thompson, of Darien, has
furnished a handsome design for the proposed
City Hall at Eastman. XX ork will be com
menced on the building at an early day.
Col. E. I>. istewart, of Jonesboro, 10-t his
pocketbook last Monday. It contained sll in
cash. s7l in exchange, and S3OO or S4OO in
notes, lie had found no clue to its where
abouts at last accounts.
Henry, the eiglit-year-old son of T.’ll.
Brady, of Atlanta, was savagely attacked by
two dogs Thursday and badly bitten. The
irate father sent both of the'canines to the
happy hunting grounds.
A number of sheep belonging to M. C.
Perkins, on the Ogeecliee river, in Bulloch
county, were burned to death recently by lire
in the woods. Dogs are killing many sheep
in other portions of the country.
At Laureus Hill, at the commitment trial,
William Rowling was committed to jail as ac
cessory liefore the fact of the Andrew McTeer
murder. Henry, the mur icrcr, has not been
taken yet. Of course Rowling says that lie is
innocent.
The Fannin County Sunday School Associa
tion held a meeting ai Morgan ton on Wednes
day of last week, for the purpose of electiug a
delegate to tin* state Sunday School Conven
tion. to be held at Columbus, on the 23d, 24th
and 25tli of April, which resulted in the elec
tion of O. F. Chastain.
While making brick for Mr. Iterikman's
-tore, at Maxey's. the workmen laid bare a
large Indian graveyard and disinterred a
number of skeletons. They were surrounded
by shell beads and relics, one being an image
of a man carved from stone, and now in the
possession of A. T. Bright well.
The lfawkir.sville AVics printed the follow
ing: ••Mr. P. W. Lock, of Dooly county,
stepped out the other day and brought down
ninety-six black birds at three shots, or at
least lie found that many, and the probability
is that he failed to find one-third oi the num
ber killed, as they were lost in the grass and
briar patches.”
An old negro, Henry Arnold, 80 years of
age. was found dead in a branch near Itairds
town last Sunday. lie had been missing
about two y t'eks. His body was too near de
cayed to tell anything about how he came to
his death. The water had washed sand over
his body in the branch until he was nearly hid
from view when found.
Tiie Warrenton ('Upper says that a few
days siuce an old negro living on Jesse
Roberts' place came to town and bought a
coffin for one of his children who had died
from pneumonia. On Monday he returned
and bought two more cottins,'another child
and his wife having died. He says his whole
family are down witli the disease and another
child at the point of death.
A few days ago, while some of his hands
were clearing oil a field on his plantation near
Eatonton, Dr. 11. A. Cogburn came in posses
sion of a quantity of silver. It seems that an
old tree, containing a hollow, was burned. In
tiie debris was found a quantity of melted
silver. Dr. Cogburn has no doubt it is the
hidden treasure of some miserly person who
is long since dead and buried.
An old colored man who couldn't swim, and
caught to a tree in the river when the timber
raft upon which he and two other men were
passengers went to pieces down ab oit
Viola bend on Tuesday night, held on
to hi- tree until daylight Wednesday morn
ing. when he let himself down into the water
and found that he was outside the channel of
the river and could wade ashore.
The Buford correspondent of the Cutlibert
Enterprise says: **As the season for fishing is
on tiand. we give you the wind signs given us
by Peter Thomas, colored, who, according to
his statement, is the champion fisherman of
the age: When the wind blows from the east
the fist! bite the least: when from the west,
lhe fish bite the best; when from the north
it blows the bait off: when from the south it
blows the bait right in the mouth."
The Cutlibert Enterprise's correspondent at
Buford writes: "About fifty years ago there
settled in this part of the district, then a wil
derness, three men with small families. James
Martin. Alexander Culbreth and Abel Bass.
VII lived to a ripe old age. passed away, and
to-day their nosterity number between live
hundred and a thousand, their homes being
in every state in the South, some of them re
dding in a majority of the populated counties
of Texas.”
The Athens Banner-Watchman says: “On
last Tuesday evening a mad dog appeared at
the resilience of Mr. T. N. Lester, and attack
ed his little daughter, but fortnnatelv slit*
made lierescape unhurt. Then the dog made
fight on another dog, and soon six other dogs
and as main men were lighting the mad dog.
After considerable rtgt:ting the mail dog was
killed, hut not until biting all of the other
dogs, which were killed immediately after
ward.” *
A correspondent of the News at Reid-ville,
Tattnall county, writes under date of March
18. as follows: '"The academy at this place -is
in a flourishing condition. —There is a freshet
in the Ohoopee and Altamaha rivers.—There,
is a good deal of timber afloat for market, and
there is money afloat in the country as a con
sequence.—The guano trade is lively.—Farm
work has begun in earnest and movements
are brisk. Tiie season is fine. The gardens
are coming on encouragingly."
The Walton Sea* tells of an old negro
woman named Nettie McCoy, who lives at
Mr. Tom Philips', who gave a gypsy woman
three bushels of cairn, three hens unci a ham of
meal, everything she iiad in the world
to eat, toget her fortune told. They say the
fortune teller gave the old woman something
that is called tiie hand o’ luck, which she car
ries in her pocket in day time and keeps under
her pillow at night. A great many arc cur
ious to know what the baud o' luck is, hut
Nettie will not be apt to satisfy their enrios
itv.
The Eastman Times ot this week says: "On
Friday last, while quietly sitting by his fire
sidc reading his Bible, as was Ins custom,
Rev. T. H. R. Law. an aged Baptist minister
of this county, called the attention of those
around him to a flock of birds near his house,
and then fixing his eyes on the floor near him.
he said: ‘Look at that little baby." He then
fell from his chair and expired almost w ith
out a struggle. The bain* that he seemed to
look u)H>n for the moment with so much in
terest was visible only to the eyes of the aged
minister.”
A Bartow correspondent writes qn March 19:
"We have had the heaviest rainfall of the sea
son the past week. Our farmers are appre
hensive lest it may damage the stand of corn,
cause the grain to rot instead of germinating.—
The railroad leading off from this place to
wards Dublin, and styled the Dublin and Bar
tow Railroad, is lieing rapidly graded—about
completed for the iron and ties as far as W.
F. Bailey Co.'s mill —Our friend and
neighbor,'Hon. Winder P. Johnson, a brother
of Tomlinson F, Johnson, of your city, has
been very ill recently, but is now convales
cent.*'
In the vear 1818 Benjamin Braswell
died and will*#! all his property to Morgan
county, to be invested in safe securities, anil
the interest applied to the education of or
pnau children of the county, in any school in
the county their guardians might select. Tiie
grand juries mak*- a report at every sitting of
the Superior Court of the status of the funds.
It has up to the present time increased in
stead of diminishing—the several Ordinaries
are made his perpetual executors. His xvislies
have been strictly complied xvith. In 1809
Ylrs. Ann Kold died, leaving $3,000 to be added
to the Braswell fund. The last report iffiows
the nounnal value of lhe fund to bq about
>30,000, aud tiie market value $36,000.
Among (be Elbert county grand jury’s re
commendations are the iolloxving: “XVe re
commend that immediate steps fie taken to
collect from T. A. Uhaudler. former t iers of
the Superior Court and securities, the amount
\ paid out by the county for looking up and re-
I cording papers in the Clerk’s office. \Ve in
ldulee the hope that our next General As-
I eernbly xvill enact a general local option jaw
ifor the State, and, failing in that, xve respects
Ifully ask our representatives to insist upon
Uhe passage of an act giving this countv the
trlghf to vote on the subject of prohibition.
We recommend that *O4 15 be paid the xvidoxv
MG. F. Fierce, dr., former solicitor of this
fcireult, in full settlement of all claims against
lhe county for insolvent costs to date. XV e
recommend that the salary of jurors and
tailiffs be $2 per day," The county has over
<5.000 on hand, and everything is iii good con
jlitiou ”
! The 6-year-old son of L. 11, Thompson, a
resident of Henry county, died on the 19th
Inst, in horrible convulsions and agony, from
the bite of a rabid dost, inflicted four weeks
go. The child was bitten in the eye, the
lower eyelid being torn entirely out.’ This
ITlic j&Momalt A )ttotnin<j Jftros.
rendered -cauterization impossible without
entirely remowing and destroying the eye.
Hopes were entertained that perhaps the (log
was not mad and that it would be useless
cruelty to destroy the eye unless it was posi
tively known that the dog had hydrophobia.
Hence, the wound was thoroughly cleansed
and dressed, and not cauterized. On the
twenty-fourth day after the bite signs of
drowsiness and languor were detected that
were quickly followed by rigors and convul
sions. During the horrible convulsions which
followed one another in quick succession the
patient had to be tied to the bed to restrain
him. Death closed the painful scene two and
a half days after hydrophobia was developed.
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger prints
the following asthe list of companies whohave
already officially announced their intention
of participating in the coming firemens' tour
nament: "Independent hose. No. 1, Morris
town. X.J., reel; Georgia, No. 1, Augusta,
engine; Clinch, No. 2, Augusta, engine ana
reel: Augusta, No. 5, Augusta, reel: Ste
phens. No. >, Augusta, reel; Alert, No. 9, Au
gusta. reel; Griffin, No. 1, Griffin, engine and
reel: Stonewall. No. 2. Griffin, reel; Cochran.
No. 1, Cochran, engine and reel; l’ulaski. No.
1, llawkinsville, reel; .Jeff. Davis, No. 1,
Barnesville, engine and reel; Wideawake,
No. l. Americas, engine and reel; Mechanics,
No. 2. Americus, engine and reel; Washing
ton. So. 1. Savannah, reel; Stonewall, No. 4,.
Columbus, reel; Young-America, No. 5, Co
lumbus, eugine and reel; I‘lnenix Hook and
Ladder, Columbia, truek; Pioneer Hook and
Ladder. Athens, truck: Citizens’ Hook and
Ladder, Rome, truck; Rescue Hook and Lad
der, Columbus, truck; Werner Hook and Lad
der. Savannah, truck, and delegations from
various towns and cities.”
on Wednesday night a young man regis
tered at a hotel in Macon from Chicago. An
other young man registered from Kansas Citv.
They were strangers to each other, apparcn’i
ly, and to the city in fact. The hotel was
crowded and they were asked to room to
gether. Thursday morning, about half past
eleven o’clock, two young men entered the
Exchange Bank and waited their turn. When
it came, one of them asked Mr. Cobb, Hie tel
ler, if lie could give him two two-and-a-half
gold pieces. Certainly, and tit • gold pieces were
brought up. The stranger banded over a one
hundred dollar silver certificate, which the
well-trained eye of Mr. Cobb saw at a glance
xx as genuine. He handed over the gold
pieces aud ninety-five dollars in currency,
and took the certificate. “Now, would you
be kind enough to give me a fiftx-dollar bill
for this change; |it is so bulky.” Mr. Cobb
went to the vault and got out‘a fifty- dollar
lull and handed it. to the stranger, who put
down fifty dolßtrs of the change. Just as Mr.
Cobb finished counting it the stranger quickly
placed the fifty dollar bill on the llflv dollars
in Change and said: "If it's all the'same to
you, sir. would yon please give me back the
hundred-dollar bill as the change is too heavy
to carry -” Mr. Cobb handed oxer the bill
and took .lie lifty-dollar bill aud thn
fifty dollars in change and placed it
in the drawer. The two young men
walked out and while they were closing the
front door there xvas a ruiuor of a suspicion in
a far corner of Mr. Cobb’s mind that there
might possibly lie some mistake in the trans
action, but the l ush of business dispelled the
rumor. The First National and Central
Georgia banks were victims of similar ex
periences with the two strangers, and xvhen
the cashiers balanced their books at night
each discovered a shortage of $.50. The day's
transaction had netted the young men a total
of $l5O. The search of the police showed that
the swindlers had left Hie city.
FLORIDA.
Green peas are becoming plentiful at I.ake
City.
Dr. Griffin, an old resident of Lake Citv, is
dead.
It is said that there 50,000 visitors in Florida
at this date.
The new brick block at Marianna is tapidlv
nearing completion. **
The public library of Monticello has been
closed for want of support.
Only s3oo remains unpaid on the newly con
structed Methodist Church at Jacksonville.
The Gainesville excursion to St. Augustine
has been jvostponed until Sunday week, the
30th.
Steps have been taken to have the cemetery
at Madison enclosed and otherwise made a
more appropriate resting place for the dead.
At Wildwood a couple of negroes muddied
a small lake which was drying up, and with
sticks succeeded in capturing forty-five or
fifty very fine trout
Upwards of forty cross-tie choppers left
Gainesville for Wildxvood Wednesday to en
gage in cutting cross-ties for the Peninsular
Railway, going south to Fanasofkee and I‘olk
county.
An eye witness of the storming of Sebasto
pol, the buttle of Balaklava and other stir
ring scenes in the Crimean war, lectured at
St. Augustine last night. Rev. S. I>. I’aine is
the gentleman's name and title.
The wholesale grocery house of Is-wia Bear
A Cos., at Pensacola, xvas burglarized Monday
night. The safe xvas blown open and rifled of
s*oo in cash, one draft of $153, one due bill for
sloo and one gold xvateh aud chain, while a
lot of silver eoiu of foreign coinage was left
undisturbed. There is no clue to the perpe
trator of the crime.
The Lake City Star says: “In one of the
oaks out down in front of Chalker's old store
xvas found ail iron ring imbedded about six
inches beneath the bark. In sawing up the
tree the saw struck a hard substance, which,
upon examination, proved to be the ring. The
supposition is it xvas driven in the tree years
ago ami the tree had grown ox-er it.”
( apt. Joseph Brooks, of Boston, claimed to
be the originator of the system of weather
observations in this country, is at Palatka.
Capt. Brooks speaks in rather disparaging
terms of the government’s weather service as
compared with the service of some of the
great dailies. To use his language, “the gov
ernment needs no army, but it needs 10.000
men in its signal Service to perfect it.”
The Pensacola Commercial says: "Thedeath
of Jefferson I). Smith, which occurred at Mill
view last week, xvas attended xvitli circum
stances which give well grounded apprehen
sions that he was poisoned by a dose of some
kind of patent medicine which he had taken.
Soon after taking the medicine Mr. Smith was
taken- xvitli convulsions, accompanied by
vomiting and the various symptoms of strych
nine poisoning, aud died during the course of
the day. Before 10-ing consciousness Mr.
•smith stated that lie believed lie xvas poisoned.
Several other parties xvho had taken the
medicine, we learn, were affected in a similar
manner, thtmgh in a less degree.” The Coro
ner's jury decided that the immediate cause
of death was "the rupture of a blood vessel of
the left side of the brain.” Dr. Renshaw
stated that it xvas likely the rupture xvas
caused by the violence of the convulsions or
the straining in vomiting. . He could not give
the name of the medicine, but showed a small
vial of it which he proposes to analx-ze.
A FIGHT FOR A BRIDGE.
The Keystone Company Defying the
Federal Authorities in Yirginia.
Point Pleasant, W. Va., March 21.
A conflict with Judge Jackson, of the
United States Court, has been raised by
the Keystone Bridge'Company, which
built the bridge across the Ohio river here
lor the Ohio Central Railroad aud still
holds the unfinished structure until pay
ment is secured. The road is in the bands
of a receiver and he tried to have a tele
graph wire put on the bridge, but the
bridge company refused to permit it.
Judge Jackson sent a United States Mar
shal, who got possession of the bridge
ancf the wire xvas put up. That night the
bridge company cut the wire and barri
eated both ends of the bridge, defying the
United States Marshal. Under orders from
Judge Jackson, the Marshal has gone to
Parkersburg to get an armed posse to en
force the authority of the court.
Bismarck’s Coarse Commended.
Berlin, March 21. — Prince Bismarck
has received an address from the work
men of Marggrabowa thanking him for
hi 9 action in the Lasker affair. Prince
Bismarck, in reply, says that the signers
of the address must remember that the
American House of Representatives only
wished to express America's desire for
the welfare of Germany. The fact that
recognition of Herr Lasker’s merits in
cluded condemnations of the policy of the
German Government xvas presumably
only known to the German originators of
the Lasker resolution.
Schoolboy t* Break a “Townie’s** Neck.
Cleveland, 0., March 21.—A speiflal
from Wooster, 0., says: “At a public
exhibition given last evening at a school
house three miles from Shrexe a party of
young fellows disturbed the exercises un
til they were put out. They then stoned the
building. The schoolboys went outside
to drive away the intruders, and in the
melee Sheridan Foltz, one of the- village
crowd, had his neck broken.”
XX oolen Mills Shut llomi.
Philadelphia. March2l.—The blanket
and woolen mills of John & James Dobson
at the falls of the Schuylkill have ceased
running, and 1,200 male and female opera
tives have been iniormed that for an in
definite period their services will not be
needed. An overstocked market is said
by one of the proprietors to be the Cause.
Bishops Still in the House.
London, March 21.—1n the House ol
Commons to-night a motion by Mr. YViliis
(Liberal) against Bishops continuing to
sit as members of the House of Lords xvas
rejected by a vote of 148 to 137. The Par
nellites voted with the minority.
Bismarck's Invitations to Sargent.
Berlin. March 21.—Jn addition to the
invitation to dine with Prince fjismarck
to-morrow, in honor of the Emperor's 87th
! birthday, Minister Sargent has accepted
! an invitation to a soiree to be given at the
I Palace.
Tle Bark Assyria Going to I’ieces.
London, March 21.—The British bark
Assyria, Capt. Ellis, from Mobile, Feb
! ruary 14. for Liverpool, is ashore near
1 ort Ellen, Scotland, and will probably
prove a total wreck. Her crew were
I saved.
Are you constipated? Dr. Sanford’6
j Liver Invigorator will cure and prevent
| it. Try it.
AT TIIE NATION’S CAPITAL
THE PROBABILITIES OF A SPLIT
OX THE WAVE.
Personal Consultations Tending to
Make a Compromise Possible at the
Coming Tarift’Conference—An Unevent
ful Day in Both Hbuses—Prospective
Bates Over Government Telegraph
Wires.
Washington, March 21.—1 t has been
agreed to postpone the tariff conference
until the latter part of next week instead
of holding it next Tuesday. This is a
hopeful sign. A postponement is really
necessary to prevent the open clash
which would have occurred had the con
ference been held next Tuesday. The
feeling engendered by recent statements
issuing from both sides, though evidently
tapering off, are still such as xx'ould pre
vent anything like harmony until there
can l>e more private discussion than
would be possible between now and Tues
day. The postponement is one result of
talks among the members which have
been going on lor the past few days.
These talks have been earnest and, hot
only indulged in by the leaders of the two
sides, but by all. They are tending to
smooth things over. While it is not pos
sible that slr. Cox’s prediction in his
speechj'esterday that xvhen the tariff is
taken up in the House the Democrats will
be entirely (harmonious, will prove true,
yet there is every hope that practical
harmony will then prevail. The differing
Democrats all agree that there is uothing
like individual changes of views before
formally deciding what course is best.
WATTKRSON AGAIN TO THE FRONT.
Henry Watterson late to-night sent off
another pronuneiamento on the Demo
cratic tariff differences. He says that
this is a Democratic House and must
stand by the methods of the party. Vo
man. he admits, can read another out of
the party, but a man may read himself
out. Anyone who bolts a caucus action
reads himself out of the party. Mr. Wat
terson also says that Mr. Morrison has
been very patient with the protectionists.
When Mr. Carlisle was elected Speaker
on the tariff’ reform issue, he made
Mr. Morrison Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee. Then protectionists
howled that a free trade measure would
be reported from that committee. When
a conservative and moderate bill was
brought in the protectionists took it for
weakness, and began their blow and blus
ter. Mr. Watterson also says in to-night’s
dispatch to his paper that the passage of
the Morrison bill may cost the Democracy
the Presidency, but t hat as it is the policy
of the party it must be persisted in.
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
No Important Business Concluded by
Either of the Bodies.
Washington, March 21.—1n the Sen
ate the following bills were introduced:
By Mr. Makone—To provide for the
erection of a public building at Staun
ton, Ya.
By Mr. Call —To authorize an investi
gation of the issue of fraudulent land
warrants, and to protect soldiers’and sail
ors from loss thereby,
Mr. Hoar called up the bill increasing
the salaries of United States- District
Judges, and Mr Morgan resumed his re
marks in support of his amendment, which
applies the increase only to Judges here
after appointed.
Upon a vote being taken on Mr. Mor
gan’s amendment it was rejected.
At 2 o’clock the matter went over till
Monday xvithout decision.
Mr. Blair’s educational bill was laid
before the Senate, being the unfinished
business of yesterday. At the request of
Mr. Allison, however, Mr. Blair gave way
to permit consideration of the deficiency
appropriation bill, which was read three
times. The amendments recommended by
the Senate Committee on Appropriations
were agreed to anil the bill xvas passed.
SHERMAN'S AMENDMENT TO THE EDUCA
TIONAL BILL.
Discussion ol the educational aid bill
was resumed:
Mr. Garland, at 4:4."> o’clock this after
noon, moved that the Senate go into execu
tive session, which was agreed to. Be
fore the doors were closed, amendments
to the pending bill were offered by several
Senators in order that they may be printed.
One ottered by Mr. Sherman provides
that the money shall be applied to the
education of children without distinction
of race or color, and shall be distributed
to the counties or school districts in the
proportion which the number ol illiterate
children in each such county or school
district bears to the whole number of
illiterate children in the State, and that
the assent of the State to this provision
shall be bad before the money can be
given to it by the United States.
The executive session was then held,
and \x'heir the doors were reopened the
Senate adjourned until Monday next.
IN THE HOUSE.
lii the House no attempt was made this
morning to call up the bonded extension
bill, and the Speaker proceeded to call
the committees for reports of a private
character. At the conclusion ot the call
Mr. Money, of Mississippi, Chairman of
the Committee on I’ost Offices and Dost
Roads, reported the following resolution:
Besot red, That the charges reflecting on Mr.
Ellis Representative from Louisiana, in
connection with the star route frauds recent
ly published are untrue.
4’he resolution was adopted.
The House then, at 12:30, went into
committee of the whole, with Mr. Cox, of
Vew York in the Chair, on the private
calendar.
After considering the two bills the com
mittee rose informally, and E. H. Fun
ston appeared at the bar of the House and
took the oath ol office as Representative
from the Second district of Kansas, to suc
ceed the late D. C. Haskell.
Mr. Dockery, from the Committee on
Accounts, asked leave to submit the re
port of that committee providing for an
extra month’s pay to the employes of the
present House discharged prior to Febru
ary 1, but E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, demanded
the regular order, xvhich prevented its re
ception. The committee then resumed
its session. |
The greater part of the day was con
sumed in discussion of the bill for the re
tirement of William W. Axerill with the
rank and pay of Colonel. Finally the
committee rose and a number of bills
were passed, including the Averill bill.
The House then adjourned.
GOVERNMENT TELEGRAPHY.
The Senate Sub-Committee on Post Of
fices Formulates a Bill.
Washington, March 21.—The sub
committee of the Senate Committee on
Post Offices and Post Roads, having sev
eral postal telegraph bills under consid
eration, has formulated and caused to be
printed a bill embodying the views of the
majority of the sub-committee, that the
Postmaster General shall establish tele
graph offices at all post offices on tele
graphic circuits, anil at all other post
offices within 10 miles of any such cir
cuit. where the salary of the Postmaster
is not less than $.500 per annum.
The office of Fourth Assistant Postmas
ter General is created, the incumbent of
which shall be a skilled electrician, who
is to control the telegraphic branch of the
Post Office Department.
THE SCALE OF PRICES.
The schedule of tariffs is embodied, the
minimum of which is 20 cents for 20 words
or less tor a distance of 1,000 miles or less,
and the maximum 50 cents for any dis.
tanee however great. Messages of gov
ernment officers and employes are given
precedence over all other business. The
newspaper tariff is on the basis of 50 cents
lor each 100 words perl,ooo miles at night
and $1 during the day; $2,000,000 are ap
propriated for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1885. Nothing in the act is to lie con
strued as prohibiting the operations of
telegraphs by.corporations or individuals.
HOW THE LINES ARK TO BE PROCURED.
The bill provides that the postal tele
graphic service may be done ujion con
tract by existing companies. In the event
of no satisfactory contract being made,
the Postmaster General is authorized and
directed to advertise for sealed proposals,
either to sell existing telegraph lines and
franchises to the government or to con
struct four new telegraphic trunk lines
for the government, so located and ar
ranged as to connect the northeastern,
northwestern, western and southwestern
and southern parts of the United States
with the city of A\ ashiugton, and if, upon
investigation, any of such proposals cither
to sell existing lines to, or construe! new
lines for the government, are (Kerned fair
and reasonable, the Postmaster General
will report the same to Congress at its
next session for acceptance or rejection.
IN CASE OF NO BIDS.
In the event that no existing or here
after organized telegraph company will
contract for the pertormance of the ser
, vice by this act provided for, and at the
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1884.
rates herein before specified, or less, and
in the event of no satisfactory proposition
either to sell the existing line or lines, or
contract for the construction of new ones
for the government shall be submitted on
or belore the 25th day of November. 1884,
then there shall be established, built, op
erated and carried on a postal- telegraph
system within the United States
by a board consisting of the Secretaries
ot State and War and the Postmaster
General, upon lines already described.
Among the powers granted to this board
is that to construct or take and use all
such machinery, appliances, devices and
material, not including telegraph lines
owned by persons or corporations, whether
patented or not, as shall be deemed nec
essary for the convenient and successful
establishment and operation of said lines.
The Board of Civil Service Commissioners
shall cause an examination to he made of
the fitness of all clerks, electricians and
operators who may be employed in said
service.
An Anqpndment for the Whisky Bill.
Washington, March 21.—When the
whisky bill comes up Mr. Potter, of New
York, will move an amendment, v.hicb,
it is thought by the friends of the bill, will
gain it the support of some of those now
opposed to it. The amendment will be
in effect that the 4' j per cent, interest on
the tax, payment ot which, it is proposed,
shall be extended two years, shall be due
either iii advance or semi-annually.
50,000 Post Offices.
Washington, March 21.—The number
of post offices in the United States on
March 20 was 48,993, an increase of 1,135
in less than 9 months. If the same rate
of increase is maintained during the re
mainder of the fiscal year it ia--estiniated
that the post offices will number 50,000 on
July 1 next.
FOOD ADULTERATIONS.
Hardly a Mouthful of Good Butter
Sold in New York State.
Albany, N. Y., March 21. —The Senate
Committee on Public Health, which has
been investigating the adulterations of
food, presented its report to-day. The
committee has discovered alarming whole
sale adulterations of food, which are
dangerous to the consumer, and
which are depreciating property
in the rural districts. The
adulteration of butter by tallow oil, bone
oil aud lard oil was found in almost every
town and city in the State and in an
amount which equals half the production
of the natural articles. The imitation is
so tine that often it can only be detected
by chemical analysis. Out of thirty sam
ples ot alleged butter purchased by Ike
committee in New York only ten were
genuine. No labels to distinguish pure
from bogus butter are displayed as re
quired by the existing law. Bogus butter
is largely purchased by saloons, boarding
houses and second-class hotels. The
poorer quality of bogus butter sells for
from 20 to 30 cents to laboring men, and
the better grades at 40 or 45 cents.
THE COST, WHERE MADE AND OF WHAT.
The cost of manufacture ranges from 12
to 18 cents, the average being 14 cents.
The manufacture in this State is chiefly
carried on in New York and Brooklyn,
several concerns manufacturing over
3,000,000 pounds each out of fats brought
lrom the West, from France and from
Italy. The bulk of the bogus butter is
manufactured in the West and sold in
New York, to the detriment of the State’s
dairy interests. Many dairy farmers have
been driven out of business in conse
quence. The loss to the State is estimated
at s'',ooo,ooo yearly. The committee esti
mates that 40,000,000 pounds of the pro
duct arc sold annually In the State, and
the illegitimate business is breaking up
the State’s export butter trade.
The effect of the deception in trade is
deleterious to business morals. Butter
ine can be sold at 18 cents less than
natural butter.
The committee quotes extensively from
the evidence obtained to show the evil
moral, commercial and sanitary effects of
adulterations. The use of nitric and sul
phuric acids in deodorizing adulterated
butter is particularly condemned. The
committee recommends the total prohibi
tion, after a given time, of the manufac
ture and sale of all butter adulterations.
AN OUTRAGE IN THE WEST.
A Man Acquitted in Court Sliot Dead by
Marked Yigilants.
San Francisco, March 21.—A special
from Modesto, Cal., says: “Messrs. Rob
bins and Doane, citizens of Modesto, who
were accused, but acquitted of having
criminally assaulted two girls, aged 11
and 13 years, daughters of J. F. McCrel
lis, were notified some days ago by the
San Joaquin Regulators or Vigilance Com
mittee to leave town or sutler death.
Owing to the shameless way in which the
two girls gave their evidence on the trial,
the McCrellis family were included in
the order of banishment. The Robbins
and McCrellis families departed imme
diately, but Doane delaped, and Wednes
day night fifteen masked men visited his
house and shot him dead.”
SIOO,OOO FOR CARL SCHURZ.
His Friemls in New York Taking Steps
to Make Him a Valuable Present.
New York, March 21.—The Tribune
says that some of the friends of Carl
Schurz propose to raise a fund ot SIOO,OOO
for him. It is understood that Jesse
Seligfnan has taken a prominent part in
the movement, and lias the subscriptions
under liis charge. The list has not been
filled, although the gilt has been under
consideration for two or three weeks.
Mr. Seligman said that such a plan was
in contemplation by Mr. Schurz’s friends,
but ho declined to give any more infor
mation:
MI'RDERON A BRIDGE AT NIGHT.
The Body Dropped into the River—The
Assassin Rushes FastTxvo Pursuers.
Cedar Rapids, la., March 21.—An un
known man was murdered after a fearful
struggle on a trestle leading to the Chica
go, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway
bridge, on the xvest side oi the river, last
night. The body was carried to a point
on the bridge and dropped into the river.
Two men, hearing the struggle and calls
for help, ran to the scene, but, the night
being cloudy, the murderer rushed be
tween them on the trestle aud escaped.
FAILURES IN BUSINESS.
A Total of 213 in the United States and
Canada During the Past Week.
New York, March 21.—Business fail
ures of last week throughout ’the country
as reported to R. G. Dun & Cos., number
for the United States 176 and for Canada
37, a total of 213, as against 216 last week.
The failures are exceptionally few in the
Western and Pacific'States and in New
Y'ork city, and there is some decrease in
Canada.
A Youthful Train Wrecker Caught.
Mount Carmel, Pa., March 21.
Michael Tonry, aged 16 years, was ar
rested last night, near Watsontown,
while in the act of changing a switch for
the purpose of wrecking an approaching
train on the Philadelphia and Erie Rail
road. He was placed in jail at Sunbury.
Tonry confessed that he has before at
tempted to wreck trains. On one occasion
lie asked his associates to assist him in
wrecking a traiu and plunder the wounded
passengers.
Forced Their Way Out of a Jailer's
Cage.
Nashville, Texn., March 21.—Last
night, while the jailer at Erin was giving
supper to the prisoners, one of them held
him while two fellow prisoners escnjied.
The prisoner xvho was holding the jailer
then threw him down and also escaped.
One of the prisoners has been since re
captured. -
Spain’s Disaffected Army.
Madrid, March 21.—Twenty Sergeant
Clerks in the War Office, have been dis
missed on suspicion of having divulged to
the rebels tbe contents of documents pass
ing between the War Office and provincial
commanders.
Piles! Piles!! Piles!!!
Sure cure for Blind, Bleeding and Itch
ing Piles. One box has cured the worst
cases of 20 years standing. No one need
suffer five minutes after using William’s
Indian Pile Ointment. It absorbs tumors,
allays itching, acts as poultice, gives in
stant relief. Prepared only for Piles, itch
ing of the private parts, nothing else. Hon.
J. M. Coffenbury, of Cleveland, says: “1
have used scores of Pile cures, and it
affords me pleasure to snv that I have
never found anything which gives such
immediate and permanent relief as Dr.
YVilliam’s Indian Pile Ointment. Sold
by druggists and mailed on receipt ol
price, sl. Sold by O. Butler, Savannah.
Lippman Bros., wholesale agents.
BARKSDALE OX COPIAH.
HE RAS A LIVELY TILT WITH
SENATOR HOAR.
Refusing to be Trapped into Making
Misleading Statements Concerning the
Famous Resolutions—Unable to Ex
plain the Reference to Copiah’s Hand
shake with Yazoo.
Washington, March 21.—Major E.
Barksdale, member of Congregp from Mis
sissippi, who, according to the testimony
taken by the Copiah county sub-commit
tee of the Senate, made a speech at Ha
zlehurst advising the Democrats to carry
Copiah county by the shotgun if neces
sary and to hang Buffton, lhe Republican
candidate, was before the sub-committee
of the Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections this morning, and made a state
ment under oath in his own vindication.
He denied the charge in toto. He said
that the history ol Copiah county had al
ways been characterized with love of law
and order, and in the events of the last
election there was nothing inconsistent
with that record. He made two speeches
i in Hazlehurst in one day before the last
election day, one in the afternoon to a pro
cession of country people on horseback
and the other in the evening to the local
Democratic Club. He could not remem
ber whether the mounted nten of
the afternoon procession were armed
with shotguns. His attention was
called to the statements of wit
nesses about his first speech, and
he pronounced all the assertions that he
had encouraged violence false. He re
ferred to the opinion of Justice Miller of
the Supreme Court, in the Kuklux cases,
that public liberties were as much im
periled by the use ol money in elections
in the North as by violence in the South,
and said that the condition of affairs re
sulting from the presence ol a large mass
of ignorant negro voters was not properly
understood.
MATTHEWS’ KILLING.
Senator Hoar asked if in the witness’
allusion to the peaceable and law-abiding
conduct ol the people of Copiah county he
included the killing of Mr. Matthews?
“I have nothing to say in reference to
that. That was a personal difficulty be
tween those two parties. It is before the
courts there and I express no opinion.”
“You have said that the people of Co
piah county stand high in general char
acter, and you have announced that there
was nothing in the conduct of the elec
tion inconsistent xvitli their past history.
Now. I wish to ask whether, if it sliouid
turn out that this mounted croxxM xvent
about to the houses of colored men, whip
ping them, shooting one ol them, declar
ing as they did it that they did it to com
pel them to vote the Democratic ticket or
compel them to flee to the woods in large
numbers, and that Mr. Matthews was
shot because of his influence as a Repub
lican leader, whether that would change
your mind as to the character ot the
people.”
NOT EASILY CORNERED.
“Well, now, I suppose the object of
your inquiry has been accomplished. By
your statement you are yourself giving
testimony in a matter which you pro
posed to me. I think that after’tbe trial
of Wheeler for the killing of Matthews
and the facts are brought to light, then
1 will answer the question.”
Senator Salisbury asked if it was right
and fair, when a person was likely to be
placed upon trial for his lile, to ask a wit
ness of Mr. Barksdale’s prominence to ex
press an opinion upon the guilt or inno
cence ot the party, and to give aji opinion
upon an entirely suppositious case, as
suming that the facts should be so and so.
Mr. Hoar rejoined that Mr. Barksdale
had testified in regard to the character of
an election that the committee had evi
dence, which he supposed was overwhelm
ing, in support ol tko assumptions he had
made. He, therefore, propounded the in
quiry if the witnesse’s opinion remained
the same in view of that testimony.
THE COPIAH COUNTY RESOLUTIONS.
Addressing the witness, Senator Hoar
continued: “Did you read some resolu
tions purporting to have been passed
alter the election at a public meeting?”
“Yes, sir. 1 have them here.”
, “Well, now, may I inquire whether vou
approve or disapprove of the resolutions ?”
“I ' will not answer that question fur
ther than to say that the resolutions have
not been properly understood by the pub
lic, and have been misrepresented. If
you will permit 1 will refer to them so
that my understanding of the purport of
your question may be clear. Will vou
permit me, sir?”
“No, sir; you have stated that you de
cline to ansxver.”
“I decline to answer without an expla
nation of the reasons that influence my
reply.”
The resolutions are in these words. (The
witness read the Copiah countv resolu
tions.)
“1 regard these resolutions simply
as a reply to threats that had been made
by Matthews himself and the clan that he
was at the head of against citizens.”
“Then you mean to say that you do not
approve of them ?”
THE RESOLUTIONS MISREPRESENTED.
“I mean to say that they have been mis
represented, and my understanding—”
“My question was not whether the pub
lit’ had been properly informed, but
whether you approve of the resolutions?”
“Well, my answer has been given.”
Senator Frye—Does he know of any
threats made by Mr. Matthews? I xxffint
to know whether the witness in his state
ment means to testify that he ever heard
Mr. Matthews say anything of the kind he
has referred to.”
The witness said that he had not heard
Mr. Matthews make any threat, but he
heard of them from others.
Mr. Frye—You have no right as a wit
ness to make that answer, and you know
it.
The witness—Well, sir, when you say
you did not know it, or you did know it,
then it is not the manner in which gentle
men address each other.
Mr. Hoar—Did you not know that when
you are asked as to a fact whether you
know it or not that you are,not entitled to
tell what you have heard others say?
The witness—But vou asked my opin
ions, when I am called on to testify to
facts —
SHAKING HANDS WITH YAZOO.
Mr. Hoar—You have no right to put in
hearsay testimony when you arc asked as
to your knowledge of the facts. You say
you are familiar with the political his
tory of Mississippi. There is one resolu
tion to the effect that Copiah shakes hands
with Yazoo. Do you know what that
means ?
“Well, no, sir. I will not undertake to
interpret that.”
“You had no knowledge of the fact?”
“I had nothing to do with getting up
the resolutions.”
“Do you remember any public fact in
the history of Yazoo which might help
interpret that resolution?”
“I will not answer that. I will not un
dertake to interpret that resolution.”
The witness, in the further course of
the colloquy, said that the people of Yazoo
county were law-abiding people.
. A RAP AT TEWKSBURY.
He knew nothing in the history of either
Y azoo or Copiah which would’ compare
with the “Tewksbury horror.”
Mr. Hoar—“ That you know all about?”
lhe witness—“l have seen it stated of
ficially.”
“You are acquainted with Tewksburv
and not well acquainted with Yazoo?”
“Pretty well acquainted xvitb both, and
don’t know anything so much to the dis
credit of Y'azoo as to Tewksbury.”
Senator Hoar expressed the hope that
an official investigation of the affairs of
Y'azoo county would show them to be as
false as those respecting Tewksbury.
After some lurther colloquy Senator
Hoar said: “You have said that the
people of Copiah county w ere law abiding
people, and that at the last elec
tion tney did no discredit to their
history in that respect. I cair your
attention to a public meeting largely
attended the day after the election,
at which the people, congratulating
themselves upon the result, pass resolu
tions saying Copiah county shakes hands
with Y'azoo, and 1 ask you if you can tell
us what that means?”
The xvitness —I can’t, sir. I can’t in
terpret it. It seems to me that it is whol
ly irrelevant and 1 will not undertake to
interpret it. I decline to interpret the
resolution.
Senator Hoar—That is all sir.
Pope Leo’s Probable Departure from
Rome.
Rome. March 21.—The congregation of
Cardinals discussed to-day the expe
diency of the Pope’s leaving Rome. Tbev
also considered the question whether the
next conclave should be held In Italy.
The Pope will form no decision in the
matter without the concurrence of the
powers.
Coughs.
Brown’s Bronchial Troches are
used with advantage to alleviate Coughs.
Sore Throat, and Bronchial Affections.
Sold only in boxes.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Virgil Powers Names the Cut Rates—
Gov. 3lcl>aniel*B Candidacy.
Atlanta, Ga., March 21.—Treasurer
Speer has returned from Spartanburg and
reports favorably of his investigation.
The Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad
will probably be extended, and Georgia’s
interest thereby made more valuable.
gov. m’daniel’s renomination.
Prominent citizens from all parts of the
State report no dissatisfaction with Gov.
jaDaniel’s administration and that there
Uno candidate proposing to antagonize
his renomination. Gov. Boynton is not a
candidate, nor will Congressman Turner
allow the use of his name as a candidate.
cutting the rates.
The Rate Committee met again to-day,
but failed to agree on the figures to be
used duriDg such times as rates are being
cut by the trunk lines, and General Com
missioner Powers, ot the Southern Rail
way and Steamship Association, by the
power vested in him, will name the
following rates from New York,
Boston and Philadelphia -to Au
gusta, Atlanta, Rome, Macon, Athens,
Dalton, Milledgeville, Gainesville and
other places, to take effect Monday, March
24: Class 1 at 50 cents; class 2 at 45c:
class 3 at 40c; class 4 at 35c; class 5 at
30c; class 6 at 25c; class A at 18c; class B
at 22c; class C at 17c; class D at 17c;
class E at 25c; class F at 34c;
class Gat 75c; class Hat 30c. The rates
to Yiontgomtry, Selma and Chattanooga
are to be named by the General Commis
sioner. The above rates are to remain in
force until the Chattanooga, Birmingham,
Selma. Montgomery and Nashville rates
are maintained on a basis of at least
85e first class lor Chattanooga.
The rate from Baltimore to be less than
New York—on the first three classes 5
cents, and all others 2 cents. The rate
from Richmond, Norfolk and group to be
less than Baltimore—s cents on the first
three classes, and 3 cents on all others.
The rates from Charleston, Savannah and
group to be less than Richmond—on
the first three classes 5 cents, and all
others 3 cents. When the rates to Chatta
nooga and the other points mentioned
are made and maintained on a basis of at
least 85 cents for the first class, the
General Commissioner is authorized to
enforce at once the rates to Augusta, At
lanta and other association points on the
basis fixed for Eastern rates at the twen
ty-third session of the Rate Committee,
and on Western rates on the basis fixed
at the twenty-second session of the Rate
Committee, with such amendments as
may have been agreed upon by a Rate
Committee since the adoption of the basis
of the twenty-second and twenty-third
sessions. The General Commissioner is
requested to call a meeting' at the Rate
Committee at the earliest practicable day
after the restoration of the Chatta
nooga rates is au accomplished fact. The
rates from the western points
to Atlanta, Augusta, etc., are to be
adjusted on the usual basis. The Execu
tive Committee and the Rate Committee
of the association have been called to
meet in New Y'ork on Thursday next. It
is thought by some that the rates will be
restored liefore Monday, while others an
ticipate a general war of rates by the
comjieting lines.
PATRIOTS, BIT NOT BANDITS.
The True Character of the Cubans as
Developed In Sew York.
New \ okk, March 21.—The alleged
“Cuban Bandits” are stoppiug at the
Cuban Hotel in Pearl street, in charge of
M. Rubieria, editor of the Separita. The
true story of their departure from Cuba,
which seems to have been surrounded
with so much mystery, is as follows:
Senor Maria and his father-in-law, Senor
Sanchez, persuaded the others, all of
whom are patriots, that their presence in
Cuba, where they were known to be revo
lutionists, was doing the liberal cause
more harm than good and they ought to
leave the island. They agreed to go to
San Domingo, but were unwilling with
out saleguards to place themselves
in the power of the Spanish government
bv boarding a vessel which might be over
taken and captured. It was tinally
agreed that they should depart. Senors
Maria and Sanchez accompanied them,
with passports for all. Seuor Maria
thereupon represented to the government
that it was the purpose of his friends to
leave the country peaceably. He was ac
cordingly furnished with passports for the
entire party. It was decided that they
should be sent to this country in the
Screamer lroin Caibarien, there being no
line of steamers thence to San Domingo,
and should sail from here lor their desti
nations. The whole party will sail hence
on luesday next for San Domingo.
MUZZLING A NEWSPAPER.
A Stockholder’s Assignee Enjoins the
Nashville “American.”
Nashville, .March 21.—This afternocn
Judge Allen, of the Criminal Court, has,
at the instance of John J. A'ertres, Chair
man of the State Democratic Executive
Committee, granted an injunction re
straining A. S. Colyar, President of the
American Newspaper Company from ad
vocating in the American a protective
tariff, and also enjoining him and his
hoard and corps of editors from opposing
the railroad commission. The injunction
as served on all editors is as lollows:
Enjoining and restraining said Board of
Directors and said A. S. Col
yar, as President, from causing
the American to advocate and promulgate
any doctrine, and editorially make anv
publication, not in lull accord and har
mony with the platforms of the political
principles referred to upon the subject of
the regulation and control of railroads
and laying an imposition of the tariff.
Mr. Vertres does not claim to lie a stock
holder, but to have an ecjuitahle interest
in a majority of the stock of said news
paper as assignee ol Duncau B. Cooper.*
GEN. GOUDOVS HOME SCHEME.
The Conference Committee—The Move
ment to be Started in Philadelphia.
New York, March 21.—As a result of
the meeting ot the ex-Confederate sol
diers last night Gen. John B. Gordon, of
Georgia, to-day appointed the following
committee to confer with the committees
already appointed, or to be hereafter ap
pointed by the different Grand Army
Posts in regard to furthering the move
ment: Maj. w. U. Clark, of Virginia;
Maj. John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina;
Col. Thomas L. Snead, of Richmond; I>r.
Theodore Steele, of Kentucky: Burton N.
Harrison, of Virginia, and Maj. W. H.
Quincy, of Tennessee. Gen. Gordon will
be Chairman ol the committee. Capt.
Arthur A. Spitzer, Adjutant of Robert E.
Eee Camp No. 1, Confederate Veterans,
and Adjutant J. F. Beery, of Philadel
phia, Kearney Post, of the Grand Army
of the Republic, at Richmond, who have
come North to start the movement, will
go to Philadelphia to-morrow ami inau
gurate a similar movement there.
THE PANIC IN COFFEE.
Invoices Completely Upset on the De
moralization in Options.
New York, March 21.—The Journal of
Commerce will say to-morrow: “The coffee
invoice market for Brazils is completely
upset on the demoralization in options.
It is impossible to give prices that would
be of any service. To sell probably
decline would have to be accepted. Op
tions sold off fully 55 to 65 points under
much excitement in unloading, closing
weak. One small failure is reported.
Rio is weak, as well as other foreign
points, and there is a complete loss of
confidence, with a desire more to sell
without regarding price. East India
grades have a considerable movement on
the pressure to sell, which has estab
lished a decline.
IRELAND AND THE IKI.SH.
The Capital Stock of the Irish Land
Company ti 1,350,000.
London, March 21.—The prospectus of
the Irish Land Company, popularly known
as Mr. Parnell’s Migration Company, has
appeared. The capital is fixed at £2s#.
OUO. The first issue ol stock will be £50,-
000. Mr. Parnell is Chairman of the Board
of Directors, The Managing Director
will be Prof. Baldwin.
London Museums Not to be Opened Sun*
days.
London, March 21.—1n the House of
Lords a motion in favor of opening the
"Piuseums of London on Sundays was re
jected.
Russia’s New Ambassador to Germany.
Berlin, March 21.—Emperor William
gave audience this morning to Prince
Orloff, the new Russian Ambassador, who
presented hie credentials.
AN IRRESISTIBLE RUSH.
LOUISIANIANS DESPAIRING OF
SAYING THEIR LEVEES.
Several of the Works Trembling Between
Standing and Falling—The Water
Creeps up into the Streets of Vicksburg
Reports from All the Sections of the
State About the Same.
New Orleans, March 21.—A special
from St. Joseph, La., says: “The river
here has risen five inches within twenty
four hours, and is now within an inch of
the high water mark of 1882. The water
is still rising. Kemp’s levee is reported
to be intact, but iu such a dangerous con
dition that a break is expected at any mo
ment. The Hard Times and Ship's Bayou
levees had not given away, but the water
was pouring over them for a distance of
two miles. It is now regarded as only a
question of time when they will break,
pouring more water in the already sub
merged country. The back water is rising
at the rate of two inches per day. Live
stock is lieing brought here for shipment
to Mississippi.”
ALARM AT CHATARD.
A special from Vicksburg, Miss., says :
“Dispatches from Chatard report that the
water from the overflow in the Yazoo
\ alley is now causing serious alarm at
that point. The back water is now w ith
in a foot of the top of the levee from Mag
na Y'ista to Chatard, a distance ot 4
miles. It is feared tiiat the water will
force its xx’ay into Mississippi at this
point, as it did iu 1882. This is the only
point on the Mississippi side uovv in dan
ger.”
A dispatch from Milliken’s Bend, La.,
reports that the levee there and at Omea
ga is in a critical condition, and forces
have been sent to those points to save
them if possible.
Capt. Marshall, United States Engineer,
contracted to-day for the immediate con
struction of a protection levee at Raleigh,
1,000 yards long and 9 feet high. The
necessity for this new levee is caused by
the rapid caving of the old one.
A dispatch from Judge Cordell savs that
the Hard Times levee will not hold forty
eight hours longer urtless the river stops
rising.
WORK ON THE DAVIS CREVASSE STOPPED.
New Orleans, March 21,10:30 p. m.—
The Davis crevasse is now 150 feet wide
and very deep, and all efforts to close it
have been abandoned. A special reports
that no progress has been made in closing
the Mulatto Point crevasse. The water
from this, and the break in the Morganza
levee, is gradually spreading over the
country netween the Mississippi river and
Atchafalaya.
DISASTROUS BREAKS.
New Orleans, March 21,11:30 p. m
A special from St. Joseph, La., says: “The
Buekridge levee broke at 8 o’cloek and
Ship’s Bayou levee at lOo’cioek last night.
Through the former the water is running
ten feet deep, and through the latter fifteen
feet deep, and both breaks are widening.
The Point Pleasant and Hewitt Gap
levees both broke last night, and the
water reached the 1882 gauge at 10 o'clock.
These breaks, together with that in Hard
scrabble levee, already opeu, xvill cause a
general and disastrous overflow in Tensas
parish and parishes south of it. Owing
to these breaks the river has declined one
and a half inches. With the river rising
from Cairo down no hope can be felt of a
crop this year.”
buckridge levee gives way.
Vicksburg, March 21.—The Buckridge
levee in Louisiana, 33 miles below this
city, buike at 11 o’clock last night. If
there is no chance to close it some of the
best lands in Tensas parish will be over
flowed.
HOUSES FLOODED.
The water has backed up through the
railroad culverts, flooding houses on Front
street. The levees at Ship’s Bayou and
Point Pleasant are now reported broken
for a certainty and much damage is being
done. The Hard Times levee at last ac
counts was still unbroken. Local steam
ers are busy bringing stock from the over
flowed district.
THE AVAR IN EGYPT.
No Relative Change In the Positions of
tiie Two Armies.
London, March 21.—Osman Digua de
clares that he will attack the British at
any cost if they advance by the Berber
road.
Gen. Graham telegraphs lrom Suakim
that, three Sheiks have come in from
Handouk. Several slaves belonging to
Osman Digna have arrived at Suafcin.
KHARTOUM DOOMED.
The rebel tribes have cut off the retreat
from Khartoum. They have environed the
town except where it is protected by the
river. Three tribes are advancing to'cap
ture the town.
THE PORTE ABANDONS THE DISCUSSION.
Constantinople, March 21.—The
Porte has abandoned the discussion which
has been going on for some time xvith
England relative to the basis for negotia
tions the Egyptian question.
It has decided To leave Earl Granville,
the English Foreign Secretarv, to take
the initiative in the future.
POLITICAL POINTS.
Randall Secures a Presidential Delega
tion—Tammany in Favor of Tariff
Reform.
Philadelphia, March 21.—A special
dispatch says that the Indiana County
Democratic Convention to-day selected
delegates to the State Convention and in
structed them to support Randall for
President.
A TAMMANY MEETING.
New Y'ork, March 21. —The announce
ment that several prominent public men,
including Speaker Carlisle and Senator
Thomas F. Bayard, would speak upon the
tariff issue crowded Tammany Hall to
night at the meeting of the Tammany
General Committee. Sidney P. Nichols
presided and announced, with regret,
that neither of the gentlemen above men
tioned were able to be present.
Resolutions favoring a reduction of the
tariff and approving the Morrison tariff
k biil were unanimously adopted. Con
gressman Wm. Dorsheimer was the first
speaker.
CATTLE AND THEIR PLAGUES.
Cominiftsiouer Loring Find* vio Foot
and Mouth Disease in Kansas.
Washington, March 21.—Commission
er Loring has received a telegram from
Prolessor Salmon, veterinarian of the De
partment of Agriculture, stating that
after a thorough investigation of the dis
ease at Neosho Falls, Kansas, he has con
cluded that it is not genuine foot and
mouth disease, but is due to local condi
tions, and there is no danger of its spread
ing to other sections. The Commissioner
accepts this conclusion as final.
ENGLAND’S CATTLE BILL.
London, March 21.—1n the House ot
Commons to-day the cattle bill passed its
second reading without division.
At a mass meeting of workingmen to
night speeches were made protesting
against the House ot Lords’ amendment
to the contageous disease cattle bill,
which it was declared would restrict the
importation of meat.
VICTIMS OF THE NOOSE.
0,000 Persons Witness a Brace of
Brothers Hunt in Kentucky.
Louisville, March 21.— Rudolph and
Champ Fitzpatrick were hanged this even
ing at Columbia, Adair county, in this
State,a place 25 miles irom a telegraph sta
tion, for the brutal murder of Miller
Brewster. The execution was witnessed
by 5,000 persons. The condemned men
seemed resigned to their fate. The
scaffold was a double one, and so ar
ranged that both drops fell at the same
time. The execution passed off quietly.
REPRIEVED FOR THE THIRD TIME.
Raleigh, March 21.—Enoch Brown,
the wite murderer, who was sentenced to
be hanged at Halifax court house to-day,
has been reprieved by Governor Jarvis
until April 18. This is the third time tfle
condemned man has been reprieve—
France and Andorra.
Madrid, March 21.—The threat of the
French Government to send a military
force into the little republic of Andorra,
in case the French demands are not com
plied with, arouses indignation in Madrid.
Spain will regard the entry of French
gendarmes into Andorra as a breach of
the international laws.
The People’s World-wide Verdict.
Burnett’s Cocoaine has been sold in
every civilized country, and the public
have rendered the verdict that it is the
cheapest and best Hair Dressing in the
world.
Burnett’s Flavoring Extracts are in
variably acknowledged the purest and the
best.
BEECHER TALKS.
] He Thinks the Republicans will Win the
Presidency, and that Arthur Ought to
be the Republican Nominee,
The following is an extract from an in
terview with Henry YVard Beecher pub
lished in the New Y'ork Herald, March 20:
“Y’ou believe that the next President
will be a Republican, I presume, Mr.
Beecher?”
“I think so, xvithout any question. 1
could name a ticket for the Democracy
though,” continued Mr. Beecher, “that
would draw thousands upon thousands of
votes from the Republican ranks and carrv
the country xvithout doubt. I am not
going to do it, though.”
“A free trade ticket, of course.”
“Oh, I won’t say,” laughing; “I’m not
going to help the Democrats that way.”
“But you think that free trade is to be
the issue?”
“Well. 1 think the question of reduced
taxation is the one question that is bound
to grow steadily in the future. I don’t
think it will be the issue in this election,
but four years from next November the
parties in the field will be on different
ground from what they are to-day.”
“BEEFSTEAK WITH INCIDENTAL STRYCH
NINE.”
“And you think they will divide upon
protection and free trade?”
“I think the question of free trade will
be a far more vital and debatable ques
tion then than it is going to be now. YV'ith
my very strong feeling on the subject of
protection it is not with me simply a
question of high protection or unbalanced
protection, it is any protection. Ex’ery'
single shade of protection that is intro
duced into the tariff—and I suppose that
has got to be the mode of taxation; I
don’t think our people are intelligent
enough,much as they know.to allow them
selves to raise money by direct taxation,
xvhich is the true xvay—but a tariff with
moderate, xvith incidental protection, is
just like beefsteak with incidental strych
nine; every single particle of protection
that goes in is poison.”
“What is your opinion, Mr. Beecher, as
to the probable Republican candidate
from among those xvho have beeu
named?”
“Oh, you can’t tell. 1 think that, all
things considered, on an abstract ground,
there is no man that would make an abler
President than John Sherman. But John
Sherman can’t be elected.”
“Why?”
“Folks won’t vote for him, that’s the
principal reason. The next man,
to my mind, that is promi
nently before the public, is Sena
tor Edmunds, in every way an admirable
candidate, hut I think he labors underthe
same difficulty. He would not excite the
sympathies of the average common peo
ple. What I mean is that the man to
whom the people take is a genial man; a
man xvho has a great deal oi fellow feel
ing; xvho has good nature as well as abil
ity ; xvho can tell a good story, and xvho is
interested in any man, high or low,
xvherever he meets him. Such a man is
catching; the people are interested in
him. And, generally speaking, such men
haxe large trunks; are big bellied and
big chested, with a good ileal of blood and
a well organized head on top.”
“Neither Mr. 'Sherman nor Mr. Ed
munds answer such requirements?”
“They have able heads with shad bel
lies. They are not catching.”
“Hoxv about Blaine; doesn’t he fill the
hill?”
“I doubt whether Sir. Blaine has auv
such following as the Tribune, in its quie’t
way, xvouhl make it apjiear that he has.
I think the nomination of Mr. Blaine
would detach thousands and tens of thou
sands of Republican votes at once.”
ARTHUR HIS CHOICE.
“And President Arthur—hoxv xvould he
suit?”
“Arthur would be my choice.”
“Do you regard him as the most availa
ble candidate?”
“I can’t say anything about that. I am
not in a position to know. I simply say
this—that if the people were inclined to it
I think Arthur would make one of the
wisest and best Presidents we have had
for a long time, and xvhether he should be
nominated is simply a practical question.
I think, though, that the signs of the
times show that he could be elected. 1
know sometimes men are nominated tor
the sake of having them killed, but the
Republican party can’t do that to-day.
They must nominate a man to elect him.”
“Y'ou haven’t asked me about Lincoln,”
added Mr. Beecher. “I think Lincoln
would probably be the adjunct on any
ticket on xvhich an Eastern man was the
principal, ani very possibly would be the
leading man iu the West if the West gave
the principal. 1 doubt about Logan. I
don’t think Logan is going to be strong.
I see some symptoms of General Sherman
lieing persuaded by his wrath to accept
the nomination. General Sherman is a
loyal man in his xvife’s behalf, and if any
body takes up the cudgels against her be
cause she is a Catholic, I think xery like
ly he would be willing to put her in the
White House to vindicate her. I quite
admire the loyalty of the old fellow. Gen.
Sherman has always been one ol my spe
cial admirations, and if lie were to be
nominated and agree to it there xvoukln’t
need to be any more talk. I think he
xvould sweep the country, North and
South. Southern people love a good fighter.
“There has been some little talk of
nominating Gen. Grant?”
“I have never heard a hint of it, and
supposed that xvas a thing settled and
gone by. Of course if Gen. Grant should
be nominated and become a candidate I
should take the greatest pleasure in ad
vocating him with all my heart. 1 hax’e
always been a Grant man—first, middle
and last—and I deride and scoff at the
notion that this great people haven’t the
right to put a man in for the third term
if they xvant to.”
THE COXVARDLY DEMOCRACY.
‘,Y'ou speak of Gen. ShermaD sweeping
the South; is the alleged Republican effort
to divide the Democratic South likely to
be successful?”
It is very doubtful. There is one of the
dangerous things. The Democratic party
is ineffably a cowardly party. It has no
tundamental conviction, and the few that
it comes near having it has not the pluck
to stand by. I regard the Democratic
party as having only one element in ad
vance of the Republican party— it is a
great deal more coxx ardly.”
“More cowardly? Do vou think the Re
publican party afflicted that xvaj too?”
‘•I do not. A large section of the Re
publican party really believes in high
tariff, and acts according to that belief.
They are going to fight it out on that line.
WJiile a large part of the Democratic
party do not believe in it, yet lor political
reasons they are afraid to fight on that
line. The application conies in, ‘He that
shall save his life will lose it, and he that
shall lose his life will save it.’ If the De
mocracy dared to organize this year they
might lose the next Presidency, but they
xvould have the Presidency following,
with a long term of service. But thay
don’t dare to do it. They are too hungry.”
“Then vou think there’s no hope for the
Democracy?”
“YVell, as I say,” responded Mr. Beech
er humorously, “if they let me put up
their candidates and lay out their cam
paign for them they might stand some
show.”
“If Speaker Carlisle were put up would
he be likely to pull through?”
‘•I xvon’t say anything more about it.”
Mr. Beecher also declined to say
whether his candidate was Mr. Henry
Watterson, of Louisville.
FRANCE’S WAR IN TIIE ORIENT.
150,000,000 Francs the Minimum In
demnity to be Asked of China.
Paris, March 21.—The French Govern
ment is debating the Chinese indemnity
question. The lowest figure proposed is
150,000,000 francs.
Italy’s Cabinet Changes.
Rome, March 21.—King Humbert will
probably follow the advice of the principal
politicians and appoint Signor Depretis
Prime Minister of the Cabinet which re
signed yesterday to form anew Cabinet.
Signor Maucini, who was Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and Signor Maglaini,
Minister of Finance in the last Cabinet,
will enter the new one. Signor Depretis
has consented to form the Cabinet.
Four Lives Lost by a Boiler Explosion.
Little Kock, Ark., March 21.—A
special irom Newport News, Ark., says:
“A boiler in ltatman’s saw mill, six miles
from Augusta, exploded yesterday, kill
ing the fireman and three children'. The
sawyer was blown a distance of forty
feet, but was only slightly injured.
A Mine Explosion.
Mount Carmel, March 21.— An ex
plosion of sulphur occurred to-day at
Enterprise collier, instantly killing Carl
Yakubouskey and fatally burning Zacha
rias Herringer and Peter Supolskey. The
brattice work and other timber in the
mines was badly shattered.
The English Franchise Bill.
London, March 2L—ln the absence of
Premier Gladstone, the Marquis of Hart
ington, Secretary ot State for War, will
open the debate on tiie franchise bill next
Monday.
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NEW YORK'S SHERIFF AND
FOLK OTHERS INDICTED.
Malfeasance and Dishonesty in Office
the Charges Brought Against Them
by the Grand .Jury—The Accused Ar
rested and Bailed Immediately,
New York, March 21.—Following the
presentments of the grand jury this af
ternoon five indictments were handed to
Judge Barrett iu the Court of Oyer and
Terminer against as many city officials.
Warrants were immediately issued by
the Magistrate and the prisoners were ar
rested and brought before him. They
were: Sheriff Alex. V.Davidson, Warden
James Bovve. of Ludlow street jail, Dep
uty Warden Philip Kiernan, Deputy Sher
iff and Order of Arrest Clerk David Mc-
Gonigal, and Jacob Worthier, a clerk iu
the Sheriff’s office.
THE CHARGES.
Sheriff Davidson is charged in three in
dictments of extortion, grand larceny in
the second degree and malfeasance* iu
office during the months of October, No
vember and December last.
Warden Bo we is charged with perjury,
in making false affidavits to the number of
prisoners in jail during the month of De
cember last, whose support is charged to
the city.
Against Deputy Warden Kiernan are
found four indictments for forgery in the
second degree, charging him with forgiug
the names of alleged employes of the jail
in order to draw wages due them.
Deputy Sheriff McGonigal is charged
with extortion in charging a fee <?f $2,675
to Win. Bonier, a prisoner in his custody
in January last when he was only entitled
to charge 50 cents.
Jacob Wertheimer, whose case has
already been before the public since the
first sitting of the Roosevelt committee, Is
charged with perjury in making false affi
davits as to the number of prisoners con
veyed by him.
BAIL GIVEN BY ALL.
Judge Barrett fixed the bail at $5,000 in
the case ot each of the prisoners, with the
exception of McGonigal, whose bail was
fixed at $2,000. They all obtained l*onUs
nion who were acceptable to the District
Attorney, and were discharged from
custody.
DESPOTISM’S EIGHT FOR LIFE.
The Crowned Heads Extending Their
Precautionary Alliance.
London, March 21.—The German and
Russian Ministers at Berne have been in
structed to co-operate with the Austrian
Minister with regard to measures against
the Anarchists.
THE DEBATE IN THE REICHSTAG.
Berlin, March 21. In the Reichstag
to-day the debate upon the proposition to
continue the anti-Socialist law in force
for a further period was resumed, llerr
Progressist, advocated refer
ence of the matter to a committee, as was
moved yesterday by Herr Wiudthorst.
“If the law were prolonged,” he said, “it.
would continue to be ineffectual, w hile at
the same time it would increase party dif
ferences, and promote the anti-emitic
movement.” Eor these reasons he urged
the rejection of the measures.
Herr Von Kardorofl spoke in favor ot
the measure, claiming that the interna
tional character of Social Democracy had
become unmistakable.
Herr Sonneman opposed the law, and
contended that it was unjust to persecute
persons for holding and expressing par
ticular opinions. The government, he as
serted, was not entirely free from blame
for therecentdynamiteoutragesat Frank
fort.
Herr Von Puttkamer, the Prussian
Minister of the Interior, indignantly re
pelled this insinuation.
AN EARTHQUAKE IN GEORGIA.
Samlersville and Washington County
Given a Lively Shaking Up.
Sandersvillk, Ga., March 21.—A
shock of earthquake of about thirty
seconds duration was perceptibly felt in
this town this morning at 4:40 o’clock,
making w indows rattle pretty lively. I’he
sound appeared as if traveling from south
to north. The moon and stars were
shining brightly at the time.
A number of citizens in town, especial
ly the inmates of the Gilmore House and
Sandersville Hotel, as well as other people
from the country, living in easterly and
westerly directions, who were in town to
day, tell about hearing-the noise. The
sound was like that of a heavy cannon
ball rapidly rolling over a very smooth
hard surface,unlike thunder, which lias a
waving sound. No damage has been re
ported. Rattling of windows and jarring
of glasses or crockery are reported by all
who the sound.
A .STEAMER S SAFETY FEARED.
The Chateau Morganx, from Bordeaux,
at tile Mercy of the Elements.
New York, March 21.—Punch, Edye &
Cos. express anxiety for the safety of the
Chateau Morganx, which was spoken by
the City of Chester 720 miles from Hali
fax on the 16th inst. The Chateau Mor
ganx was then without a rudder and at
the mercy of the winds and waves. Her
provisions and coal.it is thought, will
run out in eight days. She sailed Feb
ruary 27 from Bordeaux, and was due
here March 11. She carries ninety pas
sengers. The City of Chester sai'ls to
morrow, and, having secured extra strong
cables, will search for the disabled steam
er and tow her into Halifax, if possible.
Milllken Captured.
Galveston, March 21.—A special from
Marshall says: “Milliken, the alleged ac
complice of Clark, the man arrested a few
days ago on the charge of having murder
ed an old farmer named Rogers and his
wile, in Ouchita parish, La., was cap
tured on a train here to-day by W. G.
Rogers, a son of the victims. Young
Rogers attempted to kill Milliken, but was
prevented by the arrival of officers.”
The Sultan anil the Creteg.
Constantinople, March 21.—Photia
.das Pasha, whom the Sultan reappointed
Governor of Crete some days ago, refuses
to return to Crete unless the Porte
ties the demands of the Christians. The
Christians demand a settlement of the
various local difficulties of long standing,
the cessation of iucroachments upon
their church privileges anti the reinstate
ment of their patriarch.
Medical Advice for Gladstone.
London, March 21, —The Lancet, medi
cal journal, advises Premier Gladstone to
accept a peerage.
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Glenn’s Sulphur Soap for diseases of the
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