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j ESTABLISHED 1850. | 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. 1 PRICE SIO A YEAR. 1 | 5 CENTS A COPY. { A POLITICAL SENSATION. 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. 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