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I ESpABLISHKD 1850. j
f J. H. ESTILI, Editor and Proprietor, j
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Discovery that an Innocent Man Has
Keen Hanged in Hall County and
Another Unjustly Clad In Stripes—A
Hatch or Accidents on St. Simon's
Island.
GEORGIA.
LaGrange lias sixteen lawyers.
A <teg law goes into effect at Madison Tues
day.
Corn planted in Harris countv four weeks
apt lias not come up.
A district telegraph company has been
•rganized at Americus.
Mr. Walker, of llrook- county, wa- killed
this week by the falling of a limb on his head.
The Athens Presbytery meets at Paoli.
Madison county, on the evening of the 9th of
April, at 7 o’clock.
John T. Lane, formerly of Thomas county,
is now one of the most 'successful dry goods
merchants at Ennis. Texas.
It is thought that the recent heavy rains
will start all the springs which had been dry
around Cuthberl for some time previous.
The first -i -siou of the quarterly meeting of
the Greenesls.ro circuit was held at Union
Point yesterday, and the session will close to
day.
According to the Xetc South I‘.rook- county
farmers arc shipping country butter to Sa
vannah, for which they realize fifty cents per
pound.
The annual meeting of the Rehoboth 'mi
day school convention will lie held with the
Marshallville Sunday school next Friday,Sat
urday and Sunday.
A geiiiicui.vu hit.Sfjv York loan
association has loaned SIOO,OOO to Harris conn i>
farmers without perceptibly diminishing the
ttringency of the times.
William Simpson, of Quitman, died Wednes
day night with heart disease, lie ate his sup
per and was apparently well. In a few min
utes he fell and expired without a groan.
Mrs. Luke Johnson, who was so badly
crippled during the sleet in January, at her
daughter’s, Mrs. Ren Anderson's, at La-
Grange. has never recovered sufficiently to
return home.
Mrs. Mary Eliza Dix, of I.aGrange. will go
this week to Arkansas, where she will make
her home with a brother. Her sister. Miss
Joe Colquitt,will reside in Tennessee with an
other brother.
The Montezuma Council paid over 12,500 to
the well contractor Saturday. The contract
was for $3,000, but SSOO had been previously
paid. This was the largest single payment
the Council has ever matte.
The attendance upon the West Georgia A.
and M. College at Hamilton is greater than at
any time in its history. President Puekette
thinks of publishing a catalogue this summer,
which it is confidently predicted will contain
the names of not less than lie pupils.
The Americus Recorder says: "Mr. J. W.
Brady received a paper from Jamaica, West
Indies, one dav this week, which contained
notices of the VVatley Wallack troupe. The
paper was a curiosity, lieing in its 105th year,
and yet looked no better than a six mouths
old weekly in the states.
The Jackson UeraUl of this week, says: “On
last Friday morning. Mrs. Lizzie Lyle, wife of
J. M. Lyle, remarked to him that she was
not feeding well, and before he could do any
thing for her relief she died. It is supposed
by the doctors that a clot of blood formed at
her heart and caused her death.”
A test case of the constitutionality of the
prohibition law has lieon made at Jonesboro.
A barber had been giving away liquor to his
customers. He was arrested and tried. His
counsel made several points against the con
stitutionality of the law. Judge Hammond
promptly overruled them all. The ease will
not he appealed.
The Rome Courier says: “At a regular
meeting of the stockholders of the Koine Cot
ton Mills yesterday afternoon Mr. W. McWil
liams was admitted to the company and sub
scribed a handsome sum to the capital stock.
There was no stock for sale among the indi
vidual members, so the company will issue
new stock to the amount of $20,000, all of
which Air. McWilliams w'lll take.”
This week’s Brunswick Advertiser says:
"Through the instrumentality of MissJ. N.
Nathans, aided by a number of -ca captains
in purl, a subscription was raised last week to
purchase and present to Rev. 1. W. Waddell,
of the Presbyterian < hureh, a handsome desk,
well stocked with writing material. Imagine
the gentleman's surprise on reaching home
after a week’s absence in St. Mart's to find
this beautiful and u-eful present in his studio,
a testimonial of esteem from his friends and
congregation.”
The editor of the Cuthbert Enter],vine has
just visited the cotton mills near West Point.
He says: "A commodious brick and iron
warehouse and brick and iron picker room
has ticen recently added. The boat is loaded
and unloaded at the warehouse, and, the
picker room adjoining it, eotton and goods
are very little trouble to handle. The factory
now consumes about thirteen bales of cotton
per day#turning out over 9,000 yards of best
lin k. There are now in operation t>,:>oo spin
dles and 140 looms, and it takes 150 hands to
manipulate them. There are 00 looms stand
ing idle that will soon be put to work.”
Great excitement exists in Baldwin conntv
over the incendiary speeches of the negro T.
M. Smith. He gathered several hundred ne
groes in a wood near Milledgeville Thursday
night and harangued them. When Sheriff
Ennis and posse approached Smith spied them
and fled. The Sheriff llred at him and missed
smith and shot another negro in the arm.
sheriff Ennis was m Macon Friday hunting
smith. Smith has been making Incendiary
speeches, inciting the nearroes to riot, and
■ailing upon them to make a general uprising
i.d commence on April 1 to slaughter and
rail the white people. Smith is a noted jail
bird.
The Piedmont I're* cays: “Uncle Arch
Patterson by a little persi-tetiey once saved
t.V'.OOy to liall countv. When the Air-Line
Road was being built liall county subscribed
he above amount, but it was one of the con
ditions of subsreiption that the road should
pass near our new court house, which was
then tbs surveyed route. The route was
hanged as everybody knows, and the con
trait, so far as Hall’county was concerned,
was null and void. The road persisted in its
right to have the amount subscribed, but .Mr.
Patterson, who had just returned from Cali
fornia, being one of the subscribers, defended
a suit which had been instigated, anil the
ourts decided in favor of the defendants."
the St. Simon's correspondent of the Bruns
wiik AJrrrtiser of this week, writes: “Not
many days ago. Krank, an idiotic son of old
man Ansell Richards, fell into the lire and
• barred himself terribly. Moon after the wife
f t harles Collins, in preparing supper, turned
her hack to her child, who fell into the lire
and was badly burned. The mother, in at
tempting to save her child, burned her hands
and arms so that the cuticle of the hands and
lingers slipped off like gloves. These were all
•olored. and are doing well. Last Tuesday
night Charlie Taylor, a bright little blue-eved
tioy of six summers, was badly scalded by the
nurse awkardly turning a bas’in of hot water
over on him. Under the circumstances, the
ttle fellow is doing well, but suffer.ng a great
•leal.”
The Dooly Vindicator says: “Mr. Choice C.
I ole, a promising young man of this county,
nscounued tohisbedwith the mum) sabout 21
days ago, w hich lasted him only about 4 days,
but he has been lingering ever since til! about
'or 10 days ago, when he seemed to begetting in
a crazy state, and at present the writer con
siders the unfortunate man a perfect lunatic.
Up to the time of this writing he has had no
doctor.butone has beeu sent tor, and it is hoped
he will render some relief. He fancies at dif
ferent limes that he is a lawyeryprcacher and
merchant, and is ready at any time to marry
some nice young ladv. and biiild himself up
and move to a city: further, that he is very
wealthy and is going to put up his widowed
mother a line dwelling house and linisli it off,
etc. Without a change soon, his neighbors
say that he will have to go to the asylum.”
The Sylvania Televlione says: “There was a
considerable rise in the Savannah river last
week, which drove the deer to the highland,
and the sportsmen have been quite active in
consequence. The riTer was rising rapidly
the first of this week and the prospect is that
the water will lie higher than ever, in which
event the sport of deer and turkey hunting
will lie excellent. Mr. R. T. Mills, iti company
with Hr. U. 1.. Mills, J. A. Enneis and T. J.
Willis, went on a deer hunt last week in the
fork of Briar creek. They started and shot
at several deer, only one lieing killed, and
that by Ur. Mills. While on the hunt their
dogs jumped a catamount, and after a
three hours’ chase, succeeded in overtaking
and killing it. it was certainly a huge var
mint. judging from the size of'one of its feet,
which was shown us bv Mr. I{. T. Mills, and
he says it was as large as his old dog ‘Buck.’ ”
The Jackson Herald says: “Three or four
years ago two negroes were arrested in Hall
county on a charge of raping a white woman.
They were tried and found guiltv. One was
hung and the other sent to the chain gang for
life. Sipec then enough evidence lias been
found tof-atisfy the community where the sup
posed crime was committed that the negroes
were innocent. As the negro now in the chain
gang was a resident of this countv. parties
placed the matter before the last grand jury,
and. after an investigation, they decided to
request the grand iury of Hall county to ask
the Governor for the negro's pardon. If these
facts are true how fearful it must be to think
that a human being’s life was required to
satisfy a law that he had never violated, and
another wearing chains for an offer se that he
never committed. The citizens of Hall owe
it to themselves to make a thorough investi
gation, and if they find that the parties were
innocent they should make all the haste pos
sible to make amends to the living.*’
An attache of the Americus Recorder staff
has been seeing snakes as follows: “While
doWD in Magnolia Hell Wednesday afternoon,
a Kteorder man saw for the first time a battle
between snakes, the pair lieing a king snake
and a moccasin. It occurred in the water,
and the first intimation the reporter had of
the fight was a great stir in the water about
twenty feet from him. On looking he saw
what at first appeared to lie a jack fish jump
ing around. In a second the red and
black bodv of a king snake appeared,
twisting and turning, while every novy
and then a streak of black appeared,
as the moccasin was thrown around. The
fight lasted about twenty minutes. Stones
and sticks were thrown when the fight would
subside, hut there was no getting the snakes
apart. When the re|>orter left nothing could
be seen of the moccasin, but the red body of
the king snake was occasionally to be seen as
he pulled himself out of the mud. It would
have lieen more interesting had the fight oc
curred on land, providing an opera glass had
been handy, but it was dramatic enough as it
was.”
Yesterday's Atlanta Constitution says: “Mr.
Emory Speer has been retained in one of the
biggest mortgage cases ever tried in the State.
It is the foreclosing of a mortgage for SBO,OOO
on ten thousand acres of land in Washington
county Mr. B. J. Wilson, of West End, sues
W. C. Kiddle and wife. The circumstances
maybe recited as follows: Mr. Wilson was a
commission merchant in Savannah about the
year 170, ami the Riddles were immense
planters in Washington county. Mr. Wilson
had advanced them over a hundred thousand
dollars, and took a mortgage on the lands.
Kiddle failed to pay and the mortgage was
foreclosed and the property levied upon.
When it was about to be sold Mrs. Kiddle
interposed a claim to it. saying that the
title was not in Wj, C. Kiddle, nut that he
held it for her as trustee for her and her chil
dren. That Riddle's father had executed a
deed creating this trust estate in 1x48; that
the deed was recorded, but the record was
destroyed bv the burning of the court house
in Sandersville aliout 1854; that it was again
recorded and again destroyed on Sherman’s
march to the sea. The contest is over the
validity of this deed. It is claimed that Kid
dle has regularly acted with the property as
though it were" his own. The bill has been
filed by Me. .speer, in the Circuit Court of the
1 nited States for the southern District oi
Georgia, and will staud for trial at the full
term. The land is worth $200,000. lieing as
level as a floor and rieli as it can be.”
A correspondent of the Brunswick Herald
writes from Nashville: “On the train com
ing from Dallas. Baubling county, Georgia,
we had the odd experience of seeing a real
Mormon. He was a young man reared in
upper Georgia, but lately residing in Colorado
and now a ‘missionary.’ His missionary
labor set ms to be confined to converting hand
some young women and escorting them to
Utah. one every five weeks, there to be turned
over to the polygamous wretches who are able
to maintain them. Such a pitiable and per
plexing sight—a decidedly handsome, modest
looking young woman, perhaps 20 years old.
fine complexion, dark eyes and hair, and a
splendid figure, perhaps a little inclined to
robustness, sat beside the missionary. A few
minutes judicious pumping secured the frank
est admissions from the pair. He seemed
honest, intelligent and sincere. She honest,
simple aiid well bred, certainly modest and
virtuous, but with no indication of mental
training. Her face denoted ail that a physiog
nomist would declare strong and perfect, yet
she was a convert to Mormonism. Several
poor benighted people, women and girls, who
met us at the stations in upper Georgia, were
all, as the conductor stated, converts. The
missionary (Mr. Echols) would go to the plat
form at each station and hand out the tracts,
anil told them when he would return. These
missionaries have a strange experience in
only securing handsome hut ignorant youug
women as converts. The men don't need any
conversion.”
The following, from the Eufanla Bulletin , is
the sequel to u story already reprinted in the
News from the Americus Recorder: “It is no
I news to many of our readers that Americus,
Ga., and Eufanla have for some time been in
terested in. if not excited over, a case of al
; leged kidnapping, in w hich Mr. W. 11. Brown
I and wife, of this city, are principals. The
t children are Charley and Leonora Burke,
, brother and sister of Mrs. Ilrown. On his
'lying lied, in 1879, Mr. Burke expressed his
i desire that Mr. Brow n and his daughter Alat
i tie, then engaged, should wait a reasonable
; time after his death, then to marry and take
! control of the two remaining children, Leo
i iiora and Charley. Their uncle. F. E. Burke,
j after their father died, was appointed guar
j dian and administrator of theestate. lie is now
i dead, and as the children had no lawful guar
dian, and to carry out the wish of their father,
Mr. and Mrs Brown, under the additional
advice of their counsel. Major Henry R. short
er. went to Americus after them. The rest is
told by Mr. Brown: ‘We went to Americus,
i procured a carriage and driver, visited the
residence of Mr. J. M. Cook (au uncle to the
children hv marriage). Where one Mrs. Wil
liams, the maternal grandmother of these
. little children, also resided. The purpose of
1 our visit being stated to Mrs. Williams, an
, elderly lady of some 70 years, she objected to
! our taking "the children "away. Mrs. Brown,
urging upon her consideration the wish ex
-1 pressed by her father, Mr. Martin Burke, in
liis last illness, insisted, as the children now
had no guardian, it was altogether right and
proper that she should have the care and
! custody of her little brother and sister, who
begged to go with her. Mrs. Brown took the
children in the carriage with her, insisting
upon her right 1 do so. when we drove in
tow 11 to the depot, and brought them to our
home in Eufaula, where they now remain.’
The ease is now iu the courts.”
FLORIDA.
i The municipal election at Jacksonville is
held April 7.
A sash and door factory is to be erected at
| Satsuma. near Palatka.
! The Republican Convention will be held at
Jacksonville next week.
The young men of Gainesville propose orga
nizing a minstrel troupe.
The Avocado pearcrop will not b: as plenti-
I ful this year as it was last.
Property to the amount of SBO,OOO changed
hands at Palatka last week.
Gen. Agucro has left Key West for New
| Orleans. He will return soon.
The )x>st ofliee will be removed from Cove
Bend to Floral City next week.
I)r. T. C. Griffin, formerly of C'okesburv, S.
C.. died at his residence in" Lake City on the
18th inst.
Three hundred and fifteen dollars have been
subscribed towards building a Baptist Church
at Lake Lindsay.
In the recent municipal election at Cedar
Key there were only 175 votes cast out ol a
registered list of 70C.
An eagle w hich was killed up the river from
Bay Port several days ago, measured 5 feet
11 inches from tip to tip.
The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of
Florida of the I. O. O. F. will be held at Key
West, commencing on the 9th of April.
Tuesday night a large sailboat was stolen
from .Stowe's fertilizer works, near the Jack
sonville bar. Henry Lewis, the culprit, has
been arrested.
Mary L. Shackelford, of Key West, nine
years old, has received a handsome pair of
small gold ear-rings and a dainty finger ring,
as her premium awarded for a child's tidy
stmt to the fair.
George W. Turner, of Monticello. has a
leather poc et-book that lias been incon
stant use since the year 1821, also the leather
string that ties it, and it is as good to-day as
when first purchased.
Mrs. Kate D. Scott, President of the Mem
oiral Association, is already making arrange
ments for the observance of Memorial dav in
Monticello. James E. Broome has consented
to deliver the memorial address.
Sheppard Scott, colored, a laborer on the
Peninsular Railroad, was brought to his
home in Jefferson county on last Friday
night, minns one arm. He' fell from a tie
train, and his right arm was so severely
mashed that amputation was necessary.
The Key West Xeic* prints the following:
“The Catholic Church is lieing thoroughly
repaired and handsomely painted. The work
has been given to Mr. Atkins, and he is
making a fine job of it. The upper framing is
stained in imitation of walnut, and makes a
fine contrast with the polished white ceiling.
The walls are to be painted in imitation of
granite blocks. The whole work will cost
about $5,000, and will be finished iu a few
weeks. It will certainly present a fine ap
pearance when done.”
The St. Augustine Press says; “Dr. Carver
has purchased the lot at the corner of St.
Francis and Marine streets, near the bar
racks, on which is the old house said to be the
oldest house iu St. Augustine, and near which
is the date palm leaning over the wall, fa
miliar in many a picture. The Doctor pro
poses to build hear the front of his lot, but ;
what we wish especially to commend is that I
he proposes to restore, a'nd not to tear down, J
the old house that has so long stood as a laud- \
mark in that part of the city.”
The Key West .Vs us says: “Last Sunday ]
night a Cuban by ttye name of Valentine was
shot at the corner of Thomas and Flemming |
streets, from the effect of which he died short- I
ly afterwards. He was shot by another Cuban ,
named Jose ltecio, with whom Valentine got
into a quarrel. A warrant is out for the ar- |
restofKecia. The jury of inquest failed to j
get at the facts regarding the cause of this fa- i
tal affray. These outrages against law and
the peace of this city should be put down at
all hazards, and w'e hope the officers will
succeed in bringing the culprit to justice.”
Yesterday’s Jacksonville Times-Union says: !
“The schooner Nellie V. Rotes, from Balti- j
more, arrived Wednesday and is discharging |
a cargo ot bulk grain at Col. J. E. Hart's |
elevator. This cargo consiets of 15.000 bushels, '■
and is the largest single cargo of corn ever j
brought to this port. Most of it is choice white '
corn, for the manufacture of pearl grits ami j
meal. Col. Hart is now grinding about 1,000 ;
bushels of corn per dav and making about j
150 barrels of grits and meal, besides feed. !
etc., daily, yet he is usable to supply the large i
and daily increasing demand, and is now ar- !
ranging to organize a permanent night force j
in order to double his capacity. Colonel Hart
has met with unprecedented success, and says j
that if the demand continues to increase, it I
will soon be necessary for him to double his )
present capacity, even'with the day and night I
iorces. With the exception of one mill in New
Orleans, his is now the largest mill in the 1
South.” i
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
THE WHISKY BILL AGAIN UN
DER DEBATE.
Mr. Clements Lends His Voice to the
Opposition—No Vote Reached—The In
dications that the Threatened Split
will be Averted Still Growing Stronger
—Ketfer Compelled Tyson to Walk the
Plank.
Washington, March 22. —ln the
House to-day the regular order be
iug demanded Mr. JJelford, of
Colorado, appealed to the House to allow
one hour to be devoted to consideration of
the Senate bills on the Speaker’s table,
and the appeal proving ineffectual, sol
emnly declared that no more bills could
be passed during the remainder of the
session. Under a call of the committees
the following reports were submitted:
By Mr. Wait, of Connecticut, from the
; Committee on Foreign Affairs, for the re
: turn of the balance of the Chinese idem
nity fund. It was referred to the commit
tee of the whole.
By Mr. Vance, of North Carolina, from
\ the Committee on Patents, adversely, to
, reduce the life time of a patent to five
1 years. At the request of Mr. Anderson,
i of Kansas, the bill was placed on the
; House calendar.
By. Mr. Dockery," of Missouri, from the
j Committee on Accounts, to provide one
month’s extra pay to certain employes of
the House. It was referred to the com
mittee of the whole.
of North Carolina, from
Committee on Foreign Anau s, reported a
resolution calling on the President lor in
formation as to what action had been
taken by the United States or Venezuela
on the provisions of the joint resolution
providing for anew mixed commission,
and as to whether Venezuela has declined
to make the payment of any awards. The
resolution was adopted.
THE WHISKY BILL.
The House then, at 12:45 o’clock, went
into committee of the whole, with Mr.
Keaan, of Texas, fn the chair, on the bonded
extension bill.
Air. Herbert, of Alabama, resumed his
argument against the bill, asserting that
it was only by holding distillers to the
law that Congress could expect to equal
ize production and consumption. Perma
nent relief could be accorded to distillers
only by compelling them to conduct tlieir
business on a sound basis. The passage
of the bill would lead to an overwhelming
demand for the repeal of the whole tax on
whisky.
KENTUCKY’S SOLID PHALANX.
Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, said that the
i whisky industry was made legitimate by
j the government, and demanded the same
| protection from Congress which was
granted to any other business or avoca
tion. He denied that the pending meas
: ure embodied special legislation, and
i maintained that, on the contrary, its ob
i ject was to make a general law and put
; whisky, beer and tobacco on the same
! footing in regard to taxation. It was a
j measure of relief which would prevent a
; crisis in the AVest. lienee Congress could
do this without detriment to the public
interest, and it should be done.
A CRANKY SQUEAL.
Mr. Thompson, cf Kentucky, supported
the bill, which, he said, presented the
question whether the government would
bankrupt one class of its citizens when it
did not require for any purpose the money
j which would fall due for taxes. He was
not in favor of demanding a “pound of
! flesh,” and he expressed his surprise that
his friends from the South, Messrs.
! Blount and Herbert, should uphold the
l policy of saying, “In the name of the law
1 we demand the bankruptcy of these peo
ple.” The question of temperance was
j not Involved in the measure, but if a few
temperance cranks in the House would
vote for the bill it would result in keeping
whisky in bond and out of consumption.
DENYING THE SOFT IMPEACHMENT.
Air. Milliken, of Maine, while denying
that he was a temperance crank, inquired
whether, even if the bill passed, the
whisky would not be taken out of bond in
the course of time, to which 31 r. Thomp
son replied that it would pass into con
sumption when it was called out by some
temperance cranks, for he had never seen
one of that class, who, before making a
speech, would not step behind a door and
“wet liis whistle.”
MR. CLEMENTS’ OPPOSITION.
Mr. Clements, of Georgia, opposed the
billon business principles and incidentally
declared his willingness to forward any
demand for the total abolition of the in
ternal revenue system.
MR. BRECKEN RIDGE’S PLEA FOR THE BILL
Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, spoke
at length in favor of the bill as a measure
of justice and relief to the whisky ludus
-1 try. and portrayed the ruin and bankrupt
! ey which would follow the failure of the
1 House to grant that relief. He denied,
i emphatically, that there was any dishon-
I est ring organized to urge the measure
' through Congress, but called attention to
| the numerous petitions before the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, asking lor
this legislation.
AWAY WITH INTERNAL REVENUE.
Mr. York, of North Carolina, expressed
his desire to see the entire internal reve
nue system w iped out.
THE GOVERNMENT A PARTNER.
Mr. Hiscock, of New York, opposed the
bill. By its passage the government
would be entering into partnership with
the distillers of rye and bourbou and
would be getting per cent, as its share
of the profits.
THE NATION WOULD BE A WHISKY
STOREHOUSE.
Mr. Ray, of New York, opposed the
turning of the nation into .a great whisky
storehouse, declaring that the bill asked
the government to become the wet nurse
of the big body of the whisky interest.
whisky’s bad work.
Mr. Hepburn, of lowa, opposed the bill
and made au onslaught upon the achieve
ments which the whisky interests had per
formed, declaring that it had kept in the
field not the armies of tke Union, as Uftq
been alleged, but armies o* paupers, of
crime and of drunkenness.
MEETS MR. FINDLAY’S PAVOR.
Mr. Findlay, of Maryland, contended
that the measure was a proper one, and
because the relief which was accorded in
the bill, especially to the State
of Kentucky, was no reason why a
proper measure should he defeated. The
hill was also in the interest of temperance.
There was now safely guarded in the
reservoirs 70,000,000 gallons of double
distilled damnation. If the bill were de
feated all this fiery mass of corruption
would be forced upon the market in one
fell disastrous overflow. Before the con
clusion of Mr. Findlay’s speech the com
mittee rose.
Mr. Hancock, of Texas, from the Com
mittee on Appropriations, reported the
pension appropriation hill, and It was
referred to the committee of the whole.
At 5:15 o’clock the House adjourned.
AT KEIFER’S REQUEST.
The Committee Investigating Tyson’s
Removal Find that it was Forced.
Washington, March 22.—The House
Committee on Accounts reported to-day
the result of their investigation into the
dismissal of Mr. Tyson, the House com
mittee stenographer, and the appointment
of Speaker Keifer’s nephew, Mr. Gaine9,
to fill the vacancy. The report concludes
as follows: “We have reviewed with
great care the testimony submitted and
find that there are several conflicting
statements as to the minor points involved
in the investigation, but from an analysis
of the evidence upon the material points
at issue the following conclusions are
reached: That Mr. Gaines performed no
service during the vacation of Con- ;
gress; there were no committees of |
the House in session and uo ser- j
vice could be rendered by either
of the stenogiaphers to the committees;
that the agreement as to Mr. Tyson’s res- j
ignation, alleged by Mr. Keifer to have |
existed from the date of Mr. Tvson’s ap- j
pointment, was one which Mr. Tyson ,
seems not to have understood, although it j
is fairly probable that the Speaker had !
SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1884.
such an impression. It is also fairly
probable, taking into consideration the
testimony of Messrs. Robeson, Gaines,
Dawson, Clark and Tyson, and the letter
written by Mr. Keifer March 3, 1883, that
this agreement or understanding, if it ex
isted, affected both Messrs. Dawson aHd
Tyson; that the negotiations between
Messrs. Dawson and Tyson, by which the
former agreed to share his salary with the
latter during the vacation of Congress,
were had with the knowledge and ap
proval of Mr. Keifer. It is fair to state,
however, that Mr. Keifer did not see.the
contract between Messrs. Dawson and
Tyson either before or after its execution,
and was in no wise a beneficiary thereof,
except in so far as it saved him from the
painful necessity of ordering the removal
of either Mr. Ty on or Mr. Dawson. That
the resignation of C. W. Tyson was ten
dered because demanded by the Speaker,
and was, in fact, a resignation under pro
test.”
WAITING FOB THE CAUCUS.
The Action on the Tariff Now More
Mildly Discussed.
Washington, March 22.— Ex-Senator
McDonald is beginning in the role of
peacemaker on the tariff. He was very
busy to-day -in the House and Senate,
especially in the House. He got knots of
members around him and argued for har
mony. He wishes peace on the basis of
the Morrison hill with some concessions
to the Randall men. His influence is be
ing felt to a certain extent. He had a
long conference with Messrs. Watterson
and Mills, of Texas, in the Ways and
Com ini ff.ee room to-day. Mr. Mills
is one of the Tew ITcnticrats fan so
as Messrs. Watterson ai.d Morrison
in saying that any Democrat who will not
stand by the caucus action on the tariff is
out of the party. To-day there has been
a good deal of quiet tariff talk, but no ex
citement on the subject. They are wait
ing for the caucus before breaking out in
emphatic discussion again.
The fact that ex-Governor Curtiu, of
Pennsylvania, a tariff Democrat, signed
the called for the caucus is commented
upon very generally. The protection
Democrats think that he has made a mis
take. Others say that Mr. Curtin’s action
is a sign that the policy of conciliation is
having its effect and that it is the first
practical result that looks towards har
mony.
#8,690 ill Charred Paper.
Washington, March 22.—A package
of charred paper, the remains of green
backs and national bank notes, amount
ing to $2,690, was received at the Treasury
to-day for examination and redemption.
Of this amount $1,950 was recognized as
legal tenders and redeemed at once. The
remainder will be transmitted to the
banks of issue, and the whole amount
will be saved to the owner, who is an old
quarryman of Wisconsin. The money
represented twenty-three years savings.
Georgia Again to the Front.
Washington, March 22.—Mr. Clem
ents to-day added another to the Georgia
members who have raised their voices
against the whisky hill. In a short speech
he presented an exposition of his views
on that side, and attracted universal at
tention. The whisky men will not again
bring up their measure until after the
Democratic caucus on the tariff.
Mr. Buchanan Coming Home.
Washington, March 22.—Mr. Bu
chanan left for home to-night to be gone a
week.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
Fulton County Republicans in Session
( —A Hit by “the Cracker.”
Atlanta, Ga., March 22.—The Repub
lican County Convention met to-day and
elected delegates to the State and District
conventions, and also indorsed President
Arthur’s administration. There was no
excitement.
true to nature.
The Cracker this afternoon creates a
great sensation by a Dvo-page colored
cartoon of Tilden as a broken down horse,
and Capt. Evan I*. Howell rubbing life
into him with a horse brush. Various
kinds of plasters and medicines are lying
around loose, and Messrs. Hemphill and
Finch are helping Mr. Howell. All the
likenesses are good and the cartoon takes
well.
COMMISSIONED BY THE GOVERNOR.
Governor McDaniel to-day reappointed
H. W. Baldwin as Judge, aud W. K. Mus
tin as Solicitor of Morgan County Court.
Ho also commissioned Thomas H. Rein
sen as Ordinary of Lincoln county, vice
the venerable Judge Tatum, recently de
ceased.
GEORGIA AT NEW ORLEANS.
The Governor held a joint interview to
day with the Commissioner of Agricul
ture, Mr. Henderson, and the State Com
missioner to the World’s Exposition at
New Orleans, and no effort will be spared
to have Georgia well represented.
Atlanta proposes to erect a building ot
her own and till it.
THREE BUILDINGS ABLAZE.
A grocery and several small dwellings
on Foundry street were damaged by lire
at noon to-day. Two of the buildings
were almost destroyed. There is but lit
tle insurance. The grocery and bar were
managed by Geo. Fisher.
INDIANS KKADY TO RISE.
An Outbreak Again Imminent in the
Great Northwest.
Washington, March 22.— Agent Rior
don, of the Navajoe Agency in Arizona,
who came to this city with the delegation
from that tribe to endeavor to have the
boundaries of the reservation extended
and defined, has been suddenly recalled
to the agency by a dispatch from the act
ing agent, saying that an outbreak of the
Indians l was imminent.
A COW BOT SHOOTS.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
received the following from Indian Agent
Over, who is now with the Northern
Cheyennes en Tongue river, Montana:
Miles City, March 21,1884.
Black Wolf’s band burned down An
derson’s ranch. A cow boy shot an In
dian. The cause is unknown. Particu
lars will be sent by mail. Great excite
ment prevails. I am afraid of trouble.
There is no mail or telegraph station
nearer than sixty-live miles.
KILLED BY THKIR FATHER.
A Probable Solution to the Murder of
the Children at McKean,
Augusta, March 22. — The preliminary
investigation nearMcßean into the killing
of four negro children iastens suspicion
on Ed Dowse, their father, who is re
ported to be a rather worthless sort of
man. He was trying to raise crops and
found it difficult to get provisions for his
family. He had doubts as to whether the
children were his, and it is suspected
that he killed them merely to get rid of
supporting them. Dowse has been arrest
ed and is in jail at Waynesboro.
KIDDED BY CARS AT AVGUSTA
Capt. Cunningham’s Horse Places Him
into the Jaws of Death.
Augusta, March 22.— Capt. Thomas
Cunningham, an old gentleman, while
trying to drive across the Georgia Rail
road track this morning seven miles
above this city, was run over and killed
by an accommodation train. His head
was nearly severed from his body. His
horse, which balked on the track, was lit
erally torn to pieces.
Mr. Bethune’s Will Piled.
New Yoke, March 22.—The will of the
late John G. Betbune, manager of the
Blind Tom combination, was filed for
probate today in the Surrogate’s office.
The instrument was executed in Wash
ington in January last. It gives all his
estate to his father, Janies N. Betbune, of
Virginia, but in case of the latter’s death
the estate is to be divided between the de
cendent’s sisters. The decedent says that
he has made no provision for the woman
calling herself Mrs. Bliza Bethune, and
declares that she is not his legal wile.
KHARTOUM’S DREAD FATE
0.000 REBELS ENCOMPASSING
THE TOWN.
General Gordon Making Grave Prepa
rations Against Unconquerable Odds—
Halfaya Gallantly Relieved by a
Force of 1,800 Men—Only Two Lives
Lost—Clifford Lloyd Liberates 185
Untried Prisoners.
London, March 22. —A dispatch from
Khartoum dated March 14 says: “Six
thousand rebels face the Palace on the
right hank of the Nile. They recently
fired upon 300 blacks who were sent down
the river for wood and killed 100 of them.
Gen. Gordon states that the garrison at
Kassala is holding out strongly. G‘eu.
Gordon restricts himself to the defense of
Khartoum, owing to the assembling of
the rebels in this district. Produce con
tinues to enter Khartoum from the south,
southwest and southeast. Gen. Gordon
has armed many of the inhabitants, hut
they can do hut little against the mass of
rebels fronting Khartoum.”
A BRILLIANT VICTORY AT HALFAYA.
I'he expedition to relieve Halfaya con
sisted of 1,260 men in three steamers. The
men were concealed in the holds to avoid
the fire of the Arabs on the hanks of the
river. The expedition returned to Khar
toum, having rescued the garrison, raised
the siege and captured many cattle and
arms. The expedition lost only two men.
There was great rejoicing over the victory
and an enthusiastic demonstration in
honor of Gen. Gordon. Gen. Gordon will
attack- the Arabs opposite the town on
March 20.
PRISONERS’ SHACKLES SIROKEN.
Cairo, March 22.—Clifford Lloyd, Un
der Secretary of the luterior, has ordered
the release of 125 untried prisoners con
fined in jails at Assiout and Esnet. Some
of them have been imprisoned for years.
ROBBED IN AX AVGUSTA BANK.
$2,500 Extracted From a Money Satcbel
—The Robbers Probably Captured.
Augusta, Ga., March 22. —To-day one
of the boldest bank robberies ever heard
of was committed in this city, by which
Richard D. Crocker, bookkeeper at the
Commercial Bank, was robbed of $2,500.
He had been making exchange collec
tions from other hanks and had gone into
the National Bank for that purpose, and
had partly opened a satchel containing
over $3,000 to receive money, when two
strangers entered the bank. One re
mained in the rear while the other showed
Mr. Crocker a check and asked if that
was the Georgia Railroad Bank. Mr.
Crocker partly turned around and told
him that it was a few doors below. The
man then asked a few more questions and
then went out with his companion. As
soon as they lelt Mr. Crocker dis
covered that he had been robbed,
and tried to overtake them, but they had
disappeared. All points were notified by
telegraph to look out for them. This
afternoon the conductor of the Port Royal
train, which left here at 1:40 o’clock, tele
graphed from Allendale that he had ar
rested t-V0 men who answered the J*_
SCiiption and who had hoarded the train
outside of the city. They were searched
and a number of cheeks and a great many
keys lotnd, hut no money. A special
train lef; to-night for Allendale with bank
officials and police to identify them, and
if they are the right ones they will be
brought back to Augusta. These are
probabiy the men who “worked” the
Macon l*uiks Thursday. A telegram was
received from Allendale at midnight say
ing that the train had left for Augusta
with the suspected men.
DEFINING THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
Ergot In Hay Said to be the Cause of
the Trouble In Kansas.
Kenosho Falls, Kan., March 22.
The following veterinary surgeons have
been in consultation here and have made
a thorough examination into the alleged
foot and mouth disease among the cattle
of thi§ locality: l>r. Beatty, of the Breed
ers’ tfixzette, of Chicago-, Hi. D. E. Salmon,
veterinarian tor the Department, of Agri
culture; Dr. M. Thrumbower, of Sterling,
111.; Dr. George C- Faville, of the Colorado
State Agricultural College; Dr. E. E. Ilaz
zard, an old Scotch surgeon, now of Lex
ington, Ky.; Dr. Harris, of Lex
ington, Ky., and Dr. Stocker, of
lowa. These gentlemen are positive
that they have discovered the source
of the trouble and all agree that
it is not epizootic aphtha, lacking
mauy important symptoms of that dis
ease; it is not lack of care, neither is it
alkali water. It is no contagious dis
ease whatever, as not anew case has ap
peared for a week in the infected herds,
although the weather has been moist and
warm.
ERGOT IN**HAY THE CAUSE.
Dr. Salmon says that as sooti as he
saw the cattle he thought of ergot, and
they proceeded to examine the hay. It con
tained a large amount ot wild rye, which
was full of ergot. All the surgeons say
that they never saw one-twentieth part
as much ergot in a bunch of feed. The
theory is that the ergot, by contracting
the blood vessels and otherwise retarding
circulation in the extremities, caused the
feed to freeze. W’bile many do not give
lull faith to the verdict of these experts,
it was thought to be the duty of the com
munity, in justice to the people of other
sections, to act in accordance with their
decision.
A DISEASE IN IOWA.
Keokuk. la., March 22.—A disease,
pronounced to be the foot and mouth, is
prevalent in Van Buren county, la.
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
The Buffalo Courier Again In Trouble
with its Compositors.
Buffalo, N. Y.. March 22.—Sixteen of
the new men who recently took the place
of the striking compositors on the Courier
left their cases to-day at noon, Mr. Mc-
Cune, the proprietor, was out of town.
Other compositors have been telegraphed
for, and no great inconvenience is antici
pated, as a fair number remained.
KAILWORKKRS OVER-PERSUADED BY
STRIKERS.
Ware it am, Mass., March 22.—The
French Canadian nailers employed by
the Warcham Nail Company to take the
place of the striking nailers have been in
duced by the strikers to return to Canada.
The factory has shut down.
STRUNG UP BY LYNCHERS.
A Kansas Murderer Taken from Jail
and Swung into Eternity from a
Bridge.
Kansas City, March 22.—A dispatch
trom Marysville, Kansas, says: “About
forty masked men went to the jail here
last night and five of them entered the
Jailer’s residence, presented revolvers,
and compelled him to open the jail doors.
Samuel Frayer, convicted of the murder
John Bennington and wife, was taken out,
conducted to the wagon bridge in the
southern part of the town, and hanged.
He is said to have made a full confession,
stating that he had no accomplices in the
murder. The mob was very quiet, and
dispersed as soon as the work was done.
Bisliop Kavanaugh’s Funeral.
Louisville, Ky., March 22.—The fu
neral services over the late Bishop Kava
naugh took place in the Broadway Meth
odist Church here to-day. The sermon
was preached by Bishop McTyeire.of Nash
ville. The body was not brought to the
church, but after the services, in which
all the Methodist ministers in the city
participated, was taken from the vault
where it had been placed and buried in
Cave Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Billups Guarding His Seat.
New York, March 22.—Jacob P.
Billups, a member of the firm of J. P.
Billups & Cos., cotton brokers, who failed
recently, has procured an injunction from
the Superior Court restraining the New
York Cotton Exchange from selling or
disposing in any way of the seat or mem
bership of Mr. Billups in the Exchange.
BUSINESS EMBARRASSMENTS.
A Receiver Appointed for the Ameri
can Ship-Building Company.
Philadelphia, March 22.—Upon ap
plication by R. C. Dale and Samuel Dick
son to-day, Judge Mitchell, in the
Court of Common Fleas No. 2,
appointed a receiver to take
charge of the affairs of the Ameri
can Sbip-builtiing Company, whose yard
is located at the port of Richmond. The
appointment was the result of a bili in
equity filed by the Bank of New York, to
which the ship-building company was in
debted in the sum of $150,000, and
it was for the protection ol
the creditors of the company
that the proceeding was taken.
Judge Mitchell appointed ex-Commander
Gorringe as Receiver, and, as the com
pany is doing a prosperous business, the
suspension, it is expected, will be hut
temporary. Thomas Hart, Jr., appeared in
behalf of the company and assented to the
appointment. The business of the com
pany will he continued by the receiver
and all contracts carried out.
A BANK SUSPENDS.
Denver. March 22.—The National
State Bank of Bonlder suspended this
morning after a short run. The failure
has for a longtime been anticipated.
The failure of the State National Bank
of Boulder, Col., is attributed to the loan
ing of large sums on real estate, the
security on which is deemed ample, but
upon which it was unable to realize
speedily enough to assist iu this crisis.
The bank owes its depositors about SIOO,-
000. No orookedncoo 10 charged and tho
hank will undoubtedly he able to pay in
full if its affairs are judiciously handled.
KAISER WILLIAM'S BIRTHDAY.
Thousands of People Besieging the
Royal Paluce at Berlin.
Berlin, March 22.—T0-day is the
eighty-seventh anniversary of the Empe
ror William’s birthday, and is observed
as a complete holiday. The buildings
throughout the country are decked with
flags. Thousands of people are thronging
about the palace. Nearly all the German
Princes are present. The first congratu
latory telegram received was from Queen
Victoria.
The Emperor appeared at a window of
the palaee, whereupon the multitude,
who thronged ( the streets,saluted him with
enthusiastic and long continued cheers.*
BISMARCK’S CONGRATULATIONS.
Prince Bism arete drove to the palace
through cheering crowds and at
the head ot the Ministry offered his
congratulations to the Emperor. Later
he paid a second visit at the head of a
deputation of the Prussian nobility. The
ceremony of mounting the guard was at
tended by the principal military and naval
officers of Berlin in full uniform.
The watchword for the day is “Long
live His Majesty the Emperor and King.”
The Emperor has appointed Capt. von
Seckendorff, of the navy, his principal
aide-de-camp. This is the first time this
honor has gone to the navy.
RAVAGES OF THE FLAMES.
An Electric Candle Factory and Lard
Refinery Burned.
New York, March 22.—The factory of
the Electric Candle Company and lard
refinery were destroyed by a fire to-night,
that was kept with difficulty from en
croaching upon the surrounding property.
The loss is $300,000, nothing being saved
from the wreck. It is insured in forty or
more companies, amounting to $150,000.
A stock company had control of the
candle factory, of which U. K. Thurber is
President.
A GROCERY BURNED.
JaSper, Fla., March 22.—Fletcher
Brothers’ barroom and grocery store at
Statenville station was burned this morn
ing. Nothing was saved.
A HANDLE FACTORY BURNED.
Ch attanooga, March 22.—The Ten
nessee Hanoi*. Company’6 factory in this
city was burnea tqi s morning. The loss
is $13,000, and the insurance SB,OOO.
THE RATE WAR E-x^ D
Louisville and Nashville and the Other
Roads Come to an Agreement.
New York, March22.—President Bald
win, of the Louisville and Nashville road,
states that the Chesapeake and Ohio,
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
and tke Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Companies have come to terms for busi
ness in their respective sections on a poll
ing basis, and full rates have been re
stored, taking effect after the sailing of
the steamers to-day.
MR. DORSEY NOTIFIED.
Augusta, Ga., March 22.—A dispatch
from Virgil Powers,General Commission
er ol the Railroad Pool, to E. R. Dorsey,
of the Georgia Railroad, states that it has
been agreed by all parties to restore
rates on Monday next to all Southern
points to the same figures as before the
break.
FI RE-E ATI NG HERDERS.
PnbliciTands in Nebraska Fenced in and
Heath Threatened Anyone who Ob
jects.
Washington, March 22.—1n his re
port to the Commissioners ot the General
Land Office, George W. Fairchilds, Depu
ty United States Surveyor for Nebraska,
says that all the agricultural land in that
section has been fenced iu by cattle men.
Their ranges extend t for huriclrsd* of
miles, and wire fences enclosing all de
sirable public lands, and even water
courSes, are posted at intervals with
notices threatening death to any person
opening them. The herders assert that
they hold these lands under the desert
land and timber culture laws. The result
is a complete check to persons# seeking to
make homestead settlements.
C.\RPENTER ACCJUITTED-
Pretty Zora Barns’ Blood Pronounced
by the Jury Not on His Hands.
Chicago. 111., March 22.—A dispatch
from Petersburg says: "The trial of O.
A. Carpenter for the murder of Zora
Burns has resulted in the acquittal of the
accused. The case was given to the jury
last evening and they spent the night in
deliberation. The Judge was notified
early this morning that a verdict had been
aereed upon and the court was (opened
without delay. The jurors quickly filed
into their places and the foreman an
nounced that they had found the prisoner
not guilty. The accused maintained his
composure throughout, and upon being
discharged from custody, left the court
room surrounded by his friends.”
MONEY STEEPED IN BLOOD.
Part of Herr Most's Fnnds Said to Have
Come from Apsasginff.
Vienna, March 22.—The police have
evidence proving that some of the money
stolen from Herr Eisert, who was mur
dered several weeks ago, was sent by An
archists to Herr Most, who is now in
America.
A French Protectorate in Madagascar.
Paris, March 22.—A petition has been
received by the government from the
Frenchmen of Reunion and Maurtius
urging that the present situation of affairs
in Madagascar be terminated, as it is dis
astrous to French commerce. The peti
tion advocates a French protectorate over
the island.
A Sait for 810,000 Over the Loss of the
Coiambus.
Boston, March 22.—James T. Joslyn,
counsel for the administrator of the estate
of the late George E. Goddard, of Stowe,
one of the victims of the City of Columbus
disaster, has entered suit against the Bos
ton and Savannah Steamship Company
for SIO,OOO damages.
Sir Northcote Loses his Voice.
London, March 22. —Sir Stafford North
cote, Conservative leader in the House ot
Commons, has lost his voice from the ef
fects of a severe cold.
CLEVELAND’S BRAVERY.
SIGNING THE ROOSEVELT BILL
TO HIS OWN IiOSS.
Tammany’s Threat of Vengeance Failed
te Deter Him from Following the Path
His Conscience Dictated—Postmaster
Pearson’s Order—Two Stories Abont
Matthew Arnold.
Correspondence of the Mominq S'evcs.
New York, March 20.—8 y signing the
Roosevelt bill, putting appointments in
the hands of the Mayor alone, Gov. Cleve
land has proved that he had rather be
right than be President. He made the
bill a law in the face of the outspoken
threat of Tammany Hall to sacrifice the
Presidential ticket next November to the
interests of its local candidates. Unless
Tammany undergoes a change of heart
within the next six months, which is not
much more likely than the leopard chang
ing his spots, Cleveland, should he he
nominated bv the Democratic Chicago
Convention, could not carry hi 9 own
State, and he knew this when he signed
the Roosevelt bill.
Whether one approves of the bill or not,
one cannot help admiring a man who thus
has the courage of his convictions. No
one act in Cleveland’s career has proved
him so worthv Of the l’residency than that
which made the Roosevelt bill a law. In
deed, his act is almost without a parallel
in our political history. He sacrificed
himseli and a noble ambition to what he
believed to bo tho oaueo of good govern
ment ip the metropolis of the Western
world.
He will doubtless follow up his first
step with the signature of the hills which
are the corollaries of that affecting the
Mayor—those providing for the election of
the Comptroller and for the President of
the Board of Aldermen, and prohibiting
the present Mayor from making appoint
ments to the offices which became vacant
before his successor takes his place. He
will probably, too, still further bait the
Tammany tiger by removing Sherifl
Davidson" for irregularities, which, to be
sure, were countenanced by custom, and,
if alter doing all this, he should be able to
make friends with the mammon of un
righteousness and conciliate the Kelly
faction, his astuteness would deserve
almost as much praise as his honesty.
The Times did a good turn to Governor
Cleveland and the Democracy in its issue
of to-day. Its Albany dispatch has this
to say of John J. O’Brien, the leader of
the New York city Republicans: “What
would be characterized as blackmail in
the ordinary routine of affairs, becomes
political pressure when associated with
his name. * * * He is surrounded oy
ex-members and ex-officers oi the Legisla
ture who can scent carrion quite as far
as O’Brien himself. * * * In these
latter days of O’Brien’s declining politi
cal power the grand old party is being
worked for all it is worth by this choice
specimen of the East side slums.” When
the foremost Republican paper in the
country uses this language regarding the
leader of the party iu the chief city in the
country, the prospect of the “swallow
tail” lamb lying down next autumn with
the “short-hair” lion is not encouraging.
The crushed worm may uirn and the
s Wiiiiow-taiis vote Democratic.
THE NEWSPAPERS HAVE BEEN MAKING
GREAT ADO
over an order of Postmaster Pearson re
quiring the holders of money orders to
prove their identity before the amount
called for is paid to them. This a stran
ger in the city olten cannot do, and the
requirement ’ is • productive of incon
venience and loss of time to those who
can comply with it. The devil, however,
is not so black as he is painted, and I had
comparatively little trouble the other day
when I went to the general post office to
get an order cashed. Of course when I
presented the order I w as told toget6ome
one kuown to the postal officials to cer
tify as to my identity. I met this demand
by showing an envelope addressed
to me. “Anybody can get hold
of an old envelope,” said the Fed
eral officer with a dissatisfied
air. I then showed him my card and
talked in the tone of one having author
ity, and at the end of five min„to g he gave
mo an order on the cashier for ehp re
quired amount. This involved my taking
my station at the end of a line of persons
who were on the same errand as myself.
The line, however, was much shorter than
it ordinarily is, and within fifteen minutes
from the time I entered the post office I
received my money.
It may have been that my being a news
paper man helped mein breaking through
the red tape, for I saw several unfortu
nate women turned away because they
had no one to identify them; but a confi
dent tone and assured manner will doubt
less enable anyone to get an order cashed
without going' through the trouble of get
ting themselves identified. Nevertheless,
I advise those of your readers who may
visit New York while this identification
requirement is in force to have their re
mittances from home sent to them in some
other way than by postal money order.
If a money order is sent to them, let it be
made payable at the postal station nearest
to the hotel or house where they stay.
While this would not solve the identifica
tion problem, it would enable them to
avoid the crowd and delay of the general
post office. For the same reason, money
orders should be made payable at a sta
tion rather than the general office, even
when Postmaster Pearson’s rule requiring
identification becomes a dead letter. This
will be a long way in the future, for so
much money has been paid to the wrong
persons, and so great has been the loss to
the postal department, that the rule will
be adhered to as long as it proves a pro
tection.
THE PRACTICE OF DRINKING HOT WATER
as a preliminary to eatiac has spread
among fashionable and has be
come a perfect mania. On every side one
hears of persons well known in society
yielding themselves to the “hot water
mania.” One of the Astors is conspicu
ous as a believer in the efficacy of boiled
croton as an aid to digestion, and he has
converted many of his friends to his way
of thinking. Hot water is considered not
only a cure for dysiiepsia, but a panacea
for nearly all the ills flesh is heir to, and
all sorts and conditions of invalids drink
it. People* too, who have nothing the
matter with them drink it, apparently on
the principle that it is a preventive as
well as cure-all.
One is reminded by the latter of Mr.
Pickwick, in Dickins’ delighttul novel,
who every time he drank the bath waters
remarked that he felt very much better.
This announcement naturally gave his
friends great delight, although they had
supposed him to be in the best of health
to begin with.
Between sick and well drinking hot
water lor the stomach’s sake, no break
fast table in any well established house
hold is without Us pot of boiled croton,
while the more particular use distilled
water. At the rate the mania is spread
ing the near future may find the hostess
at dinner parties offering her guests a
cup of hot water as the first course of the
meal.
TWO NOT HALF BAD
(as the English would say) stories are
being told about Matthew Arnold. He
was invited by Education Commissioner
Wood to visit the Normal College. The
Commissioner called, as was his custom
when a distinguished stranger was pres
ent, on the members of the crack class in
the college to show their literary taste by
reciting poetry for the poet of sweetness
and light. The girls had anticipated both
the visitor and the request, and were
primed for the occasion. They all, with one
or two exceptions, recited selections from
Mr. Arnold’s verses. Commissioner
Wood, being a Scotchman, did not see
through the joke and gravely congratu
lated Mr. Arnold on the compliment
which had been paid to him. Mr. Arnold,
more acute, estimated the compliment at
its true worth.
The second story was originally told at
the last social gathering Mr. Arnold at
tended in this city, but probably not to
him. According to what is most likely
a fable, a very heavy woman, not un
known in society here, was awakened one
night by the bed being shaken. She look
ed down at the floor and saw a man’s head
emerging from under the bed. Courage
ous in the weight of 240 pounds Mrs.
rolled out of bed upon the unfortunate
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man, who was, by the way, a negro.
“What’s your name?” she asked, as he
lay crushed beneath her. In stifled ac
cents the negro replied, “Matthew Ar
nold !” D.
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICANS.
A Reform Association to be Formed by
Them at Chicago.
Chicago, March 22.—The call for the
formation of an Independent Republican
Association was made public here to-day.
it is indorsed by fifty leading citizens,
comprising the most prominent business
and professional men of Chicago, and it
is expected to increase the list to 5,009. It
is as follows:
The undersigned, citizens of Chicago,
are members of the Republican party, at
tached to its past and hopeful of its fu
ture; its victory at the next election, in
their opinion, depends upon that element
in the party which, by reason of its inde
pendence of action and its patriotic mo
tives, has in its hands the party’s success
at the pons. They believe that’it is essen
tial this year to nominate for Presidency
and Vice Presidency men who are commit
ted to the work of "administrative reform
and the total removal of the spoils system
and bossism from public life, and they are
convinced that the Independent Repub
licans will refuse to vote for candidates
whose records, characteis and opin
ions do not illustrate these
principles. They feel that there
should be an organization in this
city to represent these views, and they in
vite all Republicans in sympathy with
this movement to unite with them in the
formation of an Independent Republican
Association of Chicago. Among the sign
ers are N. K, Fairbanks. A. A. Sprague,
William T. Baker, A. C. McClurg, Frank
lin McVeagh, Murray Nelson, Henry W.
King, M. I>. Wells and Henry Field.
A DRUGGIST KILLS HIMSELF.
Detected in Shipping Goods Felonious
ly a Few Hours Before. ’
Denver, March 22.—James B. John
son, of St. Joseph, Mo., committed sui
cide here this morning by shooting him
self. Johnson ran two drug stores, one
at Salt Lake City and the other at Pilkin,
Col., having partners in each. He spent
most of his time in St. Joseph, occupying
desk room in the wholesale drug store
of Smith, Vannatta & Cos., from whom he
bought most of his goods. A few days
ago it was discovered that Johnson had fe
loniously shipped away goods aggregat
ing several thousand dollars. He was
accused and confessed his guilt, and at
the tinre of the shooting was in company
with Yannatta, en route to Salt Lake City,
for the purpose of transferring hi 6 stores
to indemnify the firm from loss.
THE LOUISIANA FLOOD.
The Water Falling anil the Worst Prob
ably Over.
New Orleans, March 22.—The only
break reported to-day was near Maj.
Bradford’s place just below the Delta.
At Vicksburg the river is an inch above
the mark of 1882.
At Baton Rouge it has risen 2k inches,
and is now 2 inches below tie highest
point of 1882.
No progress has been made in closing
the Mulatto bayou levee.
A number of steamers are engaged in
rescuing people and saving the stock in
the overflowed sections.
At St. Joseph, La., the water is three
inches above the rise of 1882.
A CORPSE IN BAD HANDS.
Intoxicated Negroes Upset the Coffin of
a Small-pox Patient.
John Schroeder, an undertaker, says a
New Albany, Ind., special of the 20th
inst. to the New Y'ork World, employed!
two colored men, Nathan 'Williams and
Cleman Johnson, last night to bury the
body of Mrs. James Horn, who died oi
small-pox. The negroes came to the
undertakers at night, got the coffin and
demanded $lO for their services. Fearing,
they worn* drunk, Schroeder refused
to pay the money u,.ai thu vd,
but gave them fifty cents lu buy disin
fectant to ward off disease. With this
money the negroes got drunk and were
found by a policeman after midnight in a
drunken stupor. They had placed the
coffin In a wagon and started to the
country, but on their way upset the wa*qm
and threw the corpse out on the pave
ment. If the wagon had not upset they
would have driven into the river. While
the corpse was lying on the sidewalk A
couple of negroes stumbled over the coffin
in the dark. Schroeder sent men after
midnight to the scene and had the body
buried. The negroes will be prosecuted.
The Pension Appropriation Bill.
Washington, March 22.—The House
Committee on Appropriations to-davcom
pleted consideration of the pension appro
priation bill. The measure appropriates
$20,614,400, and provides that any balance
of the appropriation for the current fiscal
year that may remain unexpended June
30, 1884, shall be reappropriated. This
balance is estimated at $60,000,000. The
estimates of the Pension Bureau for the
next fiscal year were $40,000,000, in addi
tion to the unexpended balance at the
close of the current fiscal year.
Trouble in Crete.
Athens, March 22.—Greece is fanning
the excitement in Crete and party feeling
is running high. The British Consul at
Candia has refused to receive a memorial
submitted by the Mussulmans of the
island against Photiadas Pasha being
Governor. The memorialists oppose him
because he is a Christian.
Disastrous Competition.
Hoboken, March 22.—Large receipts of
Chicago dressed beef have prostrated the
business of slaughtering cattle in this sec
tion, and slaughter houses in Jersey City
and Hoboken, which employ over 200
butchers, have been closed. The butchers
have formed a protective association and
appointed a committee to confer with the
New Y’ork association so that a concerted
movement can be made to crowd Chicago
dressed meat out of the market.
Fifteen Injured on the Kail.
Minneapolis, Minn., March 22.— An
up passenger train on the Milwaukee
Road ran into an immigrant train at Red
wing at noon to-day, wrecking two
coaches’and an engine. About fifteen per
sons were injured, some seriously, but
none fatally.
Santa Domingo's Fx-President Dead.
Havana, March 22.—Buenaventura
Boez, ex-President of Santo Domingo,
died on the 4th inst. at Ilormequero, near
Mavaquez, l’orto Rico. He was 75 years
old. He left a fortune estimated at $2,500,-
000. ’
An Appeal to the House of Lords.
London, March 22.— Mr. Lawes, the
sculptor, a judgment against whom for
£5,000 for libeling Mr. Belt, a fellow
sculptor, was reaffirmed a few days ago
by the Court of Appeals, will appeal
against the verdict to the House ot Lords.
Augustus Schell Sinking.
New York, March 22.—Augustus
Schell, for many years a prominent Demo
cratic politician, and who has been in
bad health recently, is to-night reported
rapidly sinking.
German Anarchists Must Leave Swit
zerland.
Bkrnb, March 22.—The Swiss Federal
Council has decided to expel lour Ger
man anarchists from the country.
Four now passenger coaches for the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key VV’est Rail
road arrived at Jacksonville Friday.
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