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ITEMS IX THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AM) SOUTH
< AROIAN \ ITT IX TYPE.
The Columbuit Guards Fail to Win the
Prize at the Opelika Drill—A Wilkes
County Man's Peep Into Nautical Life
Around Savannah—Feats of a Mil
ledgeville Whittier.
GEORGIA.
Darien non has seventeen pilots on the bar.
Hunting will now he illegal until Decem
ber 13.
• I( *e Gould, said to be a pugilist, is to spar at
Griitin.
Schley Superior Court will be in session
next week.
A Burke county party of three killed ninetv
six partridges in seven hours.
The second quarterly meeting for the
Bright-ville circuit begins at Wesley Chapel
next Tuesday.
Steps are lieing taken by the citizens of
Thomaston to secure furniture for the new
K. K. I.ee University at that place by public
subscription.
The Mclntosh Light Dragoons have fully
made up their minds to participate in the
grand military tournament on the 2sth of
May, in Muqim.
According to the H-izetU there i- a gentle
man in W a-hiiigton wlio says he rather likes
to hear the -quailing of a' rat in the dead
hours of the night.
It is siad that a |iost otlice is needed in the
western portion of x hley county, where it
might lie placed on the new mail route from
Ellaville to Friendship.
Komc is to have a street ear hue. The line
will run from the Howard street bridge up
Howard street to Broad, and tltenee up
Broad a distance of one mile.
The Darien says: -It is said that
Mr. John Deary will move to savannah with
in the next month or two for the purpose of
engaging in the mercantile business.”
William Simpson died suddenly at his home,
a few miles east of tjuitman. Wednesday
night. He had been in good health,apparent
ly, and his death is attributed to heart dis
ease.
Mr. Harper, of Covington. ha- arrived at
t\ ashinglon and w ill open a drug -lore in the
new building T. B. Green i-erecting, .iu-t be
low the po-t office. The building will be com
pleteti in ten >r lifieen days.
>. 11. lingrhs, one of the oldest and most re
specie*l citizens id Baldwin county, died at
Meriwether station Tuesday, lie had reached
the age of four-score sears. For many years
tie was Tax deceiver of the countv.
A 7-year-old -*.n of /.eli t olley, of Washing
ton, was severely gored by a eow last Satur
day. A dog had been barking at tile row, and
she,becoming irritated, ran after the bov. He
fell and she booked him in the back. The
wounds are severe, but not dangerous.
Mr. 1 at ha m, of Philadelphia, it gentleman
skilled in mines and milling, has insjiecieil ;1
new gold mine on Henry "daton's place, near
VV ashinglon. The shaft has only been sunken
20 feel, hut Mr. Tat ham says it promise- re
markable well, though he’ cannot tell any
thing definite about it.
The Greenville Vin-lit ■</Z. c says: “The crop
of spring oats lias escaped damage so far from
the cold weather and i- looking very well.
Wheat w as thinned out by the freeze that fol
lowed ttic snow amt sleet.’ hut enough is left
yet to make a good crop if the seasons are
favorable in the future."
f It is said that the White star l.iue will put
a steamer on the 1 lostanatila to make regular
trips between and ( arter's I.aiding a
soon as all ol structTOns are removed. The
distance is 107. miles. Draw - w ill have to he
put in several bridges, including the one at
Calhoun, if the line 1- put in operation.
The Pre* says: "ifuilraau is s<m,h t.•
have variety works for planing, matching
lumber, making moulding, etc., etc. The
building [slicing erected near the qi nit man
Mills, on the South side of the railroad. The
machinery is on the ground, and Mr. I. E.
Griffin w ill have charge of the business."
Handy singleton, a colored waiter at the
Hamilton House,* haltanoogi, wassliot and
killed at a colored masquerade in that city
Thursday night by a negro named ( alvin
Young, singleton i-a Koine darker, and his
remains reached that citv Friday night. A
colored woman prompted A ouug to the deed.
The Washington otzrtt- -ays: “A horse
coffin is something new under the sun. at least
111 this part of the country. A favorite horse
‘Mike,’ lielongingto Mr. J.M. Wood, which
he had owned for tenor twelve years, died,
and wa- yesterday buried in a coffin made by
Mr. Hind. Ii wa- a huge box, measuring
hxii feet.”
The .'•</ a,ter IGjmblican -ay-: “Mr. lames
A. Culver, of i.ee county, was in the city
Thursday witti the hide of it bearer he caught
in a -teel trap oll Chokec creek. The beaver
weighed titty-seven pounds. He also showed
<1- tiie hide of a very large otter, reported as
weighing about twenty-eight pounds and
caught in the same way."
The Milledgeville Chronicle says: “Dan
( arakar is a patient whittler. "We were
shown a stick the other day which he had
carved out of a piece of wood that looked tor
all tin- world like a natural knotted crab ap
ple orosage orange cam*. It has sixtv-four
knot- at regular distances from each otiier on
it, and is crowned bv a head with two faces.
He whittled out a cane in the shape of a snake
sonic time ago, and a drummer cauie along
and gave him live dollars for it."
The Koiik* Courier -ays: -Alter a thorough
investigation the Building Committee of the
Board of Trustees of I'ublie schools have de
rided that, 011 account of freezing, tlie walls
of the public sc ImMil building should he torn
down entirely and work recommenced on
April 1. The work had not progressed far,
hence ilie damage will be exceedingly small.
The schools will he opened early in the fall.
The election for superintendent and teachers
w ill take plaee during the summer, probably
iu July.”
A * auton correspondent of the Morning
N 7" S W rites as follow -, under date of March
22: -The farmers of Cherokee are irreatlv be
hind on account of wet weather. A few peach
blooms ean be seen, notwoutstanding the iate
ne-s of the season. Knowing ones pre-liet a
good fruit year. Mrs. Curtis, wife of Depute
.sheriff J. IS. C urtis, died in Canton last Thurs
day . The southern portion of tins (Cherokee
county wa.- visited by a hailstorm last Thurs
day. But little damage was done. No gar
den seeds have been planted in this county
vet. The ground has been too wet ever since
the 40th of December last."
The Cojf,. County Ornette -avs: “Tor
thirteen years Uncle John Gaskin has been
Imss of the railroad tank at Pearson, and well
has he tilled the bill. He has earned and re
ceived for work of the company up to date
$5,200. He has been blind for a number of
years, but hi- mind is still strong and his
-pint high at the ripe old age of 7:1. He made
the first half sweep in the United States. He
has an original mind, loves the sciences,
which lie has reduced to a theory of his own.
and is almost a theologian, lie is a natural
mathematician, and. altogether considered, a
wonderful and good old man, and if the
Brunswick and Western has a superannuated
list we suggest that Unde John's name lie
placed thereon.”
Saturday’s Columbus Sun says: ‘-The long
talked of competitive drill of the I.tc Eight
Infantry took place at Opelika last night.
The four entered by the Columbus Guards,
Messrs. C. W. Connelly, Ed. lturru-. I . w.
Kimbrough and Sam Goodman, accompanied
by several of the officers and members of the
company, and a few friends, left for < qielixa
yesterday at 2 o'clock. There vvereunlv two
visiting squads entered, the other being the
Montgomery Greys. Each company was
entitled to name one judge. The contest was
fora prize of $7.0, and a special to the Kn
gnirer-Snn, received at 12 o'clock la-1 night,
states that the Montgomery Greys were vii
torious. The Guards will’return to tlie citv
at 12 o’clock to-day.”
The Schley county correspondent of the
Americas Jtejnihlicn a says: “We know of a
place where water usually has remained in a
pond tlie year round, covering from 1 to 25
acres of land; this pond is not nearer than ollc
mile from any running stream of water, and
on account of the last unprecedented dry
summer and winter the water had all dried
out six or eight months ago, lmt one day this
week we had rain enough for a quantity of
water to stand, anil it was only two or three
hours before it contained hundreds of grown
frogs, such us usually inhabit such places.
Theuuestion is, were they imbedded in tlie dry
earth waiting several months for rain to
conic, or where did they come from :"
The YVashington Gazette of Friday says:
‘ Mr. O. >. Barnett returned hist Fridav from
the mouth of the savannah river, where he
liad been engaged in surveying with reference
to putting jetties in the river, lie was one of
the engineering corps of four employed by the
United States Government: and in lux month’s
stay down there combined lmth business and
recreation. He was there principally for his
health. The party lived on two “house fiats,”
as they are called, which went tied up to an
island". During a severe storm one night one
of these flats was swanqied and the
other one came near sharing the same fate.
The one that went down was occupied by the
steward and the other employed hands, but
they escaped drowning. Mr. Barnett says he
learned something of nautical language while
down there, and the difference between a
sloop, a brig, a schooner,etc., that a citizen of
the inland at first appears very green in such
matters among coa-t people. He had the
pleasure of going over and inspecting a great
many foreign vessels that were anchored at
the quarantine station. He says these vessels
seldom ever briug anything to Savannah, but
are nearly always loaded with ballast. They
gre principally engaged in exporting.”
FLORIDA.
Cedar Key wants a bank.
Del.and wants a money order post olliee.
Fires are raging in tlie woodsaliont Apopka.
A school house to cost $2,500 is to be erected
at DeLand tills summer.
Postmaster Burrell, of Oraugc l ity, lias
been removed from office.
Strawberries are plentiful at 25 cents per
quart atGreeu Cove Springs.
The sale of oysters in Jacksonville will be
prohibited in nine days more.
Greouwood, near Marianna, ships five wag
on loads of eggs daily on an average*.
Most of tlie farmers around Green Cove
Springs are through planting cotton.
Madison county farmers are busy seeding
corn and preparing land to seed cot lon.
Corn at Green Cove spring is selling at $1 75
a bushel, and at Madison at forty to fifty cents.
At a temperance meeting last week at De-
Land 120 persons signed the total abstinence
pledge.
Large hail stones fell thick and fast for a
few seconds at Green Cove Spviugs last
Wednesday.
Col. O. YV. Bailey, of Jasper, after serving
as a Justice ot the Peace for about seven years,
Mh resigned.
Cedar Key has two saloons at present, and
two more will probably be added to the 1111m
tier tn a short time.
Alligator limiting with a “bull’s-eye” lan
tern on Dead river is now the principal sport
| for the nimrods of DeLand.
The Floridian says that Tallahassee’s boom
will receive a set hack if a 200-room hotel is
not erected there during 1884.
! Dr. Thomas and the Board of Health, of
! ( edar Key. have reached an amicable set tie -
• ment of the matter in controversy between
them.
! The vulcaniz.er of Dr. G. F. bumpkin. T
dentist of Jacksonville, exploded Saturday.
I The doctor had a narrow escape from serious
injury.
' It is estimated that 7.5,000 visitors have spent
I the present season in Florida; and that there
! lias liven 2.5,000 people settled in tlie State vvith
| 111 the past year.
Ed. < . Campbell, formerly of the Pensaco
la Advance-Gazette, has lately assumed the
Citv eilitorshipof the Jacksonville Herald and
is doing good work.
It i- -ant the cold wave the past winter lias
not discouraged the orange growers of Flori
da. Thousands of acres are being put out in
young trees ttiis spring.
Tlie Soring says: “The orange trees in and
around Green Cove are literally covered with
embryo oranges so that we niav expect an
unusually large crop the coming season.”
Mr. Brigham, formerly purser on the Caddo
Belle, has accepted a position in the custom
house at Cedar Key. Air. H . H. Anderson
yo" fills Ids place as purser on the Caddo
Jacksonville children trap wild mocking
birds and sell them to guests at the hotels.
The purchasers cage the birds and the latter
soon dash their brains out agaiust the bar- of
their miniature prison.
The Kepuhlicans of I-eon countv will hold
their county convention, to elect delegates to
tin* state convention, at Centreville on the
Hith of April. The precinct meetings will be
held on the 17th of next month.
C'apt. IE F. Bradford. United States N’avv,
as-umed command at the navy van! at Pen
sacola la-t Saturday, superseding Lieut. Win.
Wvi-h, who lias been commandant at that
jHiint for a considerable length of time.
Solomon Sills, of Miccosukie. shipped his
whole crop of syrup to New York. It was
graded high in the market, and sold readily
for forty cents a gallon, but he claims that the
freights arc so exorbitant farmers cannot af
ford to ship their syrup.
Nearly all the leading hotels in Florida are
making arrangements to enlarge their ac
commodations during the coming summer
U a moderate estimate the established hotels
will he prepared next winter for a twenty
per cent, increase of patronage.
The number of arrivals at the three Talla
has-ce hotel- to date this season aggregate U*i2
more than were registered at the same hotels
up to and including April 3, 18sa. This is ex
clusive of hoarding houses, fifteen of which
accommodate from twenty to thirty guests.
The proprietors of the hotel at White
spring- are hnvingan engine put iipand pipes
run through the house, for the purpose of
supplying water to every romn in the house
from the celebrated spring. This water can
be used for drinking and bathing purposes by
guests in their rooms.
The Orange Heights mineral spring- at
Apopka, three in 1111111 tier, are eon-tantlv flow
ing with water clear a- crystal and possessing
mineral priqicrtics which proveto lie highly
lienetirial to invalid-, and not surpassed by
any water for its refreshing sweetness and
pleasantness for drinking purpo-es.
It is rumored that the proprietors of the
steamship City of I'alatka have fullv decided
to build another steamship the coming sum
mer to run between I’alatka and Charleston,
via Jacksonville, in connection with tlie City
of I’alatka. Except that she is to he fifty feet
longer, the new steamer will be 111 every re
spect similar to the City of I’alatka
During the survey made last summer one
of the engineers of the Ship ( anal Company
discovered in the interior of the state an ex
tensive dtqMisit of what he believed to he gen
uine phosphate rock, specimens of it were
taken to New 5 ork and submitted to a well- I
known analytical chemist, who has recent lx |
reported that it is not only a genuine phos
phate, but that it is richer iu fertilizing prop
erties than tin* famous Carolina phosphates
should tin- deposit prove as extensive as the
discoverer believes, anew industry on a large
scale will soon be inaugurated in ’Florida.
A mass meeting at Cedar Key passed a
resolution asking the City Council to purchase
the laud now used as a cemetery, but which is
not owned by the citv. The" meeting also
recommended to the Board of Health and
< ity Council to proceed at once to put the
town in first rate sanitary condition, to pre
vent the introduction of disease and conserve
public health. The following was the
subject of another resolution adopted:
“Asa few parties own most ot the vacant lots
in our city, and have withdrawn tiie same
from market, we would suggest to them that
it would lie liirg* ly to their interest, as well
as the general interest of Cedar Key, if they
would -sell every settler sufficient land to
build home or place of business, thereby an
choring capital and enterprise among us
w hich now goes elsewhere, for the reason that
p rsons residing here, or wishing to immi
grate to this pi -ee, cannot purchase a home in
our midst." Various minor improvements
about the city are advocated,
and the following shows how the
citizens propose to defray the exfffinse
of |earrj mg out their plans: “Resolved, That
inasmuch as the improvements specified, and
others quite as necessary, will reqnire the
outlay of more money than can he obtained
through the ordinary channels of revenue, I
we respectfully request our City Couucil to
take such steps, immediately, as are necessary |
under the law to raise the needed revenue by I
borrowing money or issuing city bonds: and, I
in tlie meantime, the want of the funds I
necessary to carry the work forward at onee
be supplied by the issue of citv script.”
SOI'TH CAROLINA.
The ( hosier Reporter says: “Two thousand
additional spindles were put in the Fishing
Creek Factory last week, making in all 5, OOj
spin.lies.”
The sixty-second annual meeting of the
Charleston Port Society for promoting the
g'-pel among seamen, was held in the
Mariner's Church, in that city, Friday after
noon.
A few nights ago while .1. \V. Nuns, of
Kingstree, was at his desk writing, some per
son shot at his house, the ball striking the
window facing, and glancing struck the blind
and then fell to the ground.
The gin. press and grist mill of J. C. llollv,
of Bed <>ak township, Barnwell county, were
destroyed by fire on last Thursday night. Air.
Holly is satisfied that it was <if incendiary
origin, but has no clue to the perpetrators.
The Orangeburg Timm and Democrat says:
“Messrs. \V. H. l’crrvclear and \V. F. Rohm- I
son have fades I 111 business during the past !
week. Bad collections and a consequent in- !
ability to meet their liabilities was the cause.”
On Sunday morning the dead body of Char
lotte Ashley, colored, was found inl’owell’s
mill pond, 111 Barnwell county. Although
there were no witnessesof her death, it is sup
posed to have been accidental and not a case
of suicide.
Airs. Margaret Petrie, about 79 years old,
was killed by the up train of the Spartanburg
and In ion road Saturday evening, about one
mile below the Glendale station. She hail
gone across the road to pick up some chips
and was returning just as the train was com- ;
ing up. when she was striu-k hv the cow 1
catcher and instantly killed. V’ verdict ol
accidental death was rendered by the coro
ner's jury.
Air. \V. J. Neeley, of York county, has lost
two fine mules since January Ist, the last dy
ing about two weeks ago. Suspicion attach- !
ing to the death of the last mule, the body
was dissected by Dr. Camiiladl, who sent the |
intestines to Dr. J. I!. Johnson for analysis, .
which showed that the intestines were fully '
charged with arsenic. Mr. Neeley lias lost
seven mules ‘luring the past six "years— all
dying iu the same way. .
A Columbia special of the 21st inst. says:
“A remarkable discovery has been made in
Chester county. For some time a rumbling :
sound lias been heard on the plantation of
Nicholas Calvin, and two days ago it was
found that the noise came from au opening
in the ground from which smoke was issuing
in a considerable volume, and lor quite a dis
tance the ground was heated. The inhabi
tants are also unable to account for the phe
nomenon. A party of diggers worked with
pick and spade to ascertain the cause of the
incipient volcano, but were forced to desist in
consequence of the intensity of tire heat and
the dense volume of smoke. Many of the
residents believe it to be an actual volcauo,
and othora think it is a geyser, judging from
the xapors amt surrounding moisture. Great
excitement and some alarm prevail.”
A Laurens correspondent of the Charleston
V. wrote tlie following: “Although no cast
on the civil docket Yvas of any great import
ance there was one of some interest to the
lawyers. At the sale of au intestate's per
sonal property during tiie early part of the
war.the widow Knight several slaves and
gave her note, will#good sureties, to the
administrator. In the progress of the warthe
administrator was killed in battle. Tlie sons
of tiie intestate all living in the army the
widow became administratrix de bonis non.
and received from the personal representative
of tin- deceased administrator all the Vlioses
in action’ of tlie intestate, including her own
note alive mentioned. At the settlement of
tlie intestate's estate the administratrix de
hums non was charged, by the Judge of Pro
bate, \n ith the value of that note as so much
•easli in hand The tact, however, was be
vond question that tin* administratrix do
bonis non had accounted for every dollar she
ever received; that she was ruined bv the
emancipation of the identical slaves for which
this note was given, and otherwise so insol-
veut as not to be able to pay on the above
mentioned decree as much as 1 per cent. Her
administration bond surety sues the sureties
to the note to compel their payment of their
and her (widow and administratrix’s) sale
note in aid of the former, and one of the
sureties to the note is a large creditor of the
intestate's estate and pressing for satisfaction
of the probate decree. The defendants (note
sureties', by their attorneys, claim that the
note was paid by operation of law, when it
came lo the maker’s possession in*the
character of administratrix, and tiiat the
precedents are binding agaiqst the ad
ministratrix and Iter bondsmen for a faithful
administration, and exonerate her as an
individual and also her sureties to the note.
The attorney, however, for the plaintiff, (the
surety to the administration bond) contends
that there is no case to be found Exactly like
this; that the principles which have war
ranted certain exceptions to the general rule
as to “cash in hand” clearly warrant this
case beiug made anuther exception; that un
der the Code all legal ffetions and technical
ities have tieeu swept away; that facts are
now omnipotent, aud that to require the bond
surety to pay for the sale note is shocking to
natural justice! The Judge reserved his de
cision, which will be looked tor with a lively
interest bv many others thau the parties and
i their attorneys.”
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
THE WORK WHICH WILL EN
GAGE CONGRESS THIS WEEK.
District of Columbia Adairs on the
Tapis To-day—lmportant Appropria
tion Bills—A Vote oil the Whisky
Bill To-morrow—Senator Blair’s Edu
cational Bill.
W ashington, March ’23.—ln the House
of Representatives to-morrow is set apart
lor District of Columbia business. The
District Committee, however, will have
nothing of general interest to bring up.
Should the minor matters that it will pre
sent he disposed of early, discussion of
the bonded whisky bill will be continued.
The friends of this measure expect to
reach a vote Tuesday.
On the evening of that day the Demo
cratic caucus on the tariff question will
be held.
The Indian and pension appropriation
bills have been reported by the Appropria
tion Committee, and either of them may
be taken up in the House after Tuesday.
The Appropriation Committee has a num
ber of bills in an advanced stage of prepa
ration which can be reported on short no
tice. The sundry civil and legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bills,
the two most important measures, are al
most completed.
THE EDUCATIONAL BILL.
The Blair educational bill is the unfin
ished business in the Senate, and neither
its friends nor its opponents are willing
to make predictions as to its fate, or the
time which will be required to dispose of
it. Senator Blair is still liopelul that it
will pass.
An attempt to set it aside for the
consideration of the pleuro-pneumoma
bill, and another to send it back to the
committee for revision, which, if success
ful, will be equivalent to its defeat for the
present session, will probably lie made 011
Monday, or if the bill tie not earlier dis
posed of on Tuesday. There seems to be a
majority in favor ol" some kind ot national
education bill.
The bankruptcy bill, the pleuro-pneu
monia Dill and the bill to regulate prac
tice in patent suits still stand as special
orders on the calendar and w ill require
more time for consideration than that
portion of the week remaining after the
educational bill is disposed of. The Ap
propriation Committee lias under consid
eration the naval and post office appro
priation bills, but it is not thought prob
able that either will be reported in time
for action by the Senate this week.
MR. MORRISON’S VIEWS.
His Bill Going Through—He Has no
Hope for the Whisky Bill.
Washington, March 23.. —To-night the
News correspondent met Representative
Morrison, father ot the tariff' bill, in the
lobby at Williard’s Hotel. “You will
have your caucus on the tariff bill on
Tuesday night,” the correspondent ob
served.
“Yes, sir. And we will have a majority
of between twelve and twenty,” be re
plied.
“Do you anticipate a stormy caucus?”
“No, sir. Democrats are always will
ing to abide by tlie decision of the majori
ty. We (the tariff reformers > are clearly
in the majority and will carry the caucus
in favor of tariff'reform, and, I think, when
a vote is taken in the House, it will re
ceive a good round majority.”
“Will you make each man’s vote in the
caucus a test of his Democracy ?”
“Oh, 110; such talk is nonsense. No
man on account of his vote on this lull
will be ostracised, but the bill will go
through, however, and as the sentiment
of the great Democratic part}’ of the
country.”
THE WHISKY BILL DOOAfED.
Mr. Morrison Rays that while he favors
the whisky bill, he apprehends that the
vote, which will probablv be taken on
Tuesday next, w ill be against it. There
are several members who have expressed
the belief that the subject has been agi
tated to death.
EDMUNDS AND LINCOLN.
The Republican Presidential Ticket
AY liich Catches Massachusetts.
Boston, March 23. —The Advertiser
Avill print, in the morning, about 300 re
plies to a circular sent to prominent Re
publicans i’ll every Congressional district,
with a del,ire to obtain a correct repre
sentation of the Republican sentiment
throughout the State upon the Presiden
tial question, and the action likely to be
taken by the caucuses and conventions of
the coming month.
Edmunds and Lincoln, by a decided
majority arc• first choice for President and
Vice President two-thirds of the writers
selecting t'aese names and giving the pre
vailing se'utiment of Republicans in their
vicinity as favoring their nominations.
Arthur *comes second and Blaine third for
Preside nt, while the feeling for Lincoln as
Vice Pr esident is almost unanimous.
SIPPING POISONOUS SAP.
Due Pennsylvania Lad Killed and Three
Others Probably Beyond Aid.
Philadelphia, March 23.—A special
from Meadville says: “Six children from
the village of Valonia, near this city,
went out yesterday afternoon in search
of ‘sugar water.’ Not finding a camp in
operation the boys tapped some kind of a
tree with their pocket-knives and all the
children supped the juice. Soou after all
were taken sick and gave every symptom
of being poisoned. George Fusty, aged
10 years, is dead and three others are con
sideved beyond aid. The kind of tree fur
n Vuing the deadly poison is unknown.”
A GAME OF BLUFF.
An Effort to be Made to Kill the Mor
rison Bill Without Debate.
Saturday’s New York Herald's Washing
ton special says: Both factions of the Dem
ocratic party in the House are playing a
game ol bluff', which is getting to lie ex
tremely monotonous to those who look on.
It is a relief, therefore, that a caucus is
to bo held. The preliminary beating of
drums which has been going on must, it
would seem, then come to a stop.
What the caucus will conclude nobody
now knows, although blusterers on both
sides profess to be very confident. Whe
ther the caucus is to be merely a confer
ence, to talk the Morrison tariff bill over,
or whether it will be a real caucus pre
scribing a party policy is not even yet
certain. How much the friends of the
bill will concede, ijf anything, is not
known; nor what concessions, if any,
will secure the support of those who now
oppose it. In a sort of pronunciainento
issued here to-night, probably without
the knowledge or consent of the tariff re
form leaders, it is suggested that the bill
will be open to amendment in the House,
and that Mr. Morrison will accept amend
ments. But, 011 the other side, the pro
tectionist Democrats desire not only to
defeat the bill but to prevent its consid
eration.
The game has become one of political
strategy between Mr. Morrison and Mr.
Randall. Mr. Randall has a grievance,
and to defeat the Morrison bill would
mean to him the defeat of.Mr. Morrison.
The success of the lnil would mean not
only a second and almost ruinous person
al defeat for Mr. Randall, but it would in
sure a victory for the tariff' reformers at
Chicago in July. The weak point of the
tariff reform side lies in their
known anxiety to pass a meas
ure through ’the House. This has
led to attacks upon them from men
Yvhose votes were necessary, and who
have demanded that their special in
terests be exempt from reduction. Thus
ores were some time ago struck from the
free list on the demand of some Southern
Democrats, and the free list generally
was pared down. At present attempts
are-making to coerce Mr. Morrison into
the abandonment of the whole free
list, aud even changes in the body of the
bill are urged. AVhat he will agree’ to con
cede remains to lie seen, and whether any
concessions will help him effectually.
The Republicans are very desirous to
secure the defeat of the bill without de
bate, but some of them do not agree to
this. They have prepared tariff speeches,
and would like to put themselves on
record. An attempt is making, however,
to secure a united Republican vote to cut
off the bill without debate, and the lead
ers ou that side believe that they can
get Democratic Y’otes enough, if their own
men stand solid, to lay tlie bill aside when
it is brought into committee of the whole.
An Alleged Complaint Against YY'allace.
Constantinople, March 23.—1 t is un
derstood that the Grand A'izier has com
plained to the United States Government
of Minister Wallace’s reeeut conduct.
SAVANNAH, .AIONDAY, MARCH 24, 1884.
SOME NOTABLE WOMEN,
Seen by the Governor of Missouri while
Visiting Nashville.
A Jefferson City special to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat says: “In a conversa
tion with the Globe-Democrat correspon
dent, Gov. Crittenden spoke of noted la
dies whom he met during his recent visit
to Nashville. Of Mrs. James K. Polk he
said:
“A’es, she is well preserved and quite
active, considering that she is 81 years
old. About twenty-five of us called on
her at her residence, and were received
by her in person in the most gracious
manner. She is a very handsome and in
telligent lady, taking deep concern In
every movement in the interest of the
South. She desires to see it prosperous
and in harmony with the progressive
views of all the States. She resides in
the old family residence purchased
by President Polk before his death.
It is an old-fashioned Southern resi
dence, built of brick, with a large
portico in front, supported by large pil
lars. The outside of the house shows evi
dence of age; the inside is full of bright
ness, comfort and handsome adornments.
President Polk was not a man of large
fortune at the time ol his death. Within
the last tew years Congress has appropri
ated S.S,(XX) annually for the widows of
Presidents Tyler, Polk and Lincoln. This
sum gives Mrs. Polk a comfortable sup
port, when added to the other means she
had. Her home is always a charming
visiting place, for not only the old and
young at Nashville, but also to the thou
sands ot strangers who go to that city. Her
mind remains bright and is well stored
with the recollections of other (lavs, the
events of our past history, and the remi
niscences of the very many great men
who played their parts on the political
stage in her day at Washington. She
commands the universal respect of all
classes at Nashville. She is a devoted
Christian woman, ever having a word of
cheer for the prosperous in life, and of
deep, consoling sympathy for those whose
lives have not fallen in such pleasant
places. The world is better because of
her life. That life will go out as gently
and sweetly as dies the wave along the
sltore.
“President Polk was buried in the vard
immediately in front of the residence.
His last resting place is marked by a
unique monument, bearing this inscrip
tion: ‘James Knox Polk, 10th President
of the United States,’ and other appropri
ate ones. The grave and monument are
much worn and corroded by time. Con
gress should see that the graves and mon
uments of our dead Presidents are care
tully preserved and protected against the
wear and tear of age.
“Nashville is full of historic places and
persons. I met there Mrs. Porter, tbe
daughter of Felix Grundy, one of the
early United States Senators from that
State. He was the compeer and equal of
Clay, Webster and Calhoun. I remem
ber hearing one ol the greatest lawyers
and statesmen of that day say that Felix
Grundy had no superior as a lawyer, and
was the peer of any man. Mrs. Porter is
the worthy scion of such a father. She is
the mother of Mrs. Fred N. Juilson, of St.
Louis. Mrs. Porter is still a queen in the
social circle, ‘an autocrat at the break
fast table.’ Such ladies are bright, golden
links connecting the present with the
past. She, too, commands the respect and
love of all.
“1 also met with Miss Patterson, tlie
granddaughter of President Andrew
Johnson. She is said to resemble that grand
old commoner even more than any ol his
children. She is tall, graceful and quite
handsome. She is also quite intellectual,
possessing all the unbending disposition
of Gov. Johnson when she believes that
she is right. As she remarked to another
in my presence: ‘Right is right; nothing
more or less, and there is no compromisin g
it. Policy and diplomacy may present it in
one hue or another, but" at last it remains
the same great principle, which should
never he yielded for the sake of policy.’
Withal she is a young lady of attractive
manners and disposition. There is noth
ing repulsive or unwomanly in that strong
will and sincere determination. She is a
worthy descendant of that remarkable
man who would not have flattered Jupi
ter! for policy’s sake, nor Neptune for his
trident.”
THE BOSTON BANK FAILURE.
Opening of the House Investigation—An
Angry Scene.
The House Committee on Banking and
Currency, says a AVashington special of
the 21st, began the investigation of the
failure of the Pacilic National Bank, of
Boston. The Comptroller of the Currency
and his employes are accused of responsi
bility, first, for the failure of the bank, by
neglect to investigate its condition as the
law requires: and secondly, for permitting
it to resume business when it was appa
rent that its assets were not of the value
represented by the Bank Examiner.
The bank finally closed its doors a few
weeks after the Comptroller permitted it
to resume.
Several ol the shareholders of the bank
were present at the meeting this morn
ing, as were also Comptroller Knox, Bank
Examiner Needham and Receiver Price.
Mr. Knox made a broad denial of the
charges preferred agaiust him, and ac
cused the stockholders, who started the
investigation, of attempting to libelously
asperse his character.
George H. Frost, of Neponset, Mass.,
one of the movers for the investigation,
who lost $45,000 by tlie failure, followed
Mr. Knox, and accused Mr. Needham of
having deceived the directors of the bank.
The committee adjourned before Air. Need
ham had an opportunity to reply.
The Examiner is a short, thin, nervous
man, with a bald head and white side
whiskers, who has the reputation of being
a good church member and an excellent
neighbor. Bustling across the commit
tee's room to where Frost, a heavy, broad
shouldered man stood, Needham began a
wordy attack upon him. With some pro
fanity he told Frost that he was a coward
and a liar, and announced his intention to
whip hint then and there. Frost -,vas so
astonished that he stuttered and stam
titered, vainly seeking words to make a
reply. Chairman Buckner quickly put
himself between t he two men, shoved them
apart, reminded them of their folly, and
Mr. Frost left tlie room, Needham firing a
volley of severe adjectives in his wake.
The inquiry promises interesting disclos
ures, and it is reported that the investiga
tion of other bank failures will follow.
ALLEVIATING A CANCER.
The Russian Minister’s AVife Effects the
Astonishing Cure by Houiieopatliy.
An astonishing change has lately been
manifested in the condition of Mrs. Henry
Bingham, wife of the Philadelphia Repre
sentative in Congress, savs a AVashington
special. A year since a cancer developed
itself in her mouth, and the most eminent
surgeons in Philadelphia were consulted.
An operation was performed, but late last
fall the cancer reappeared, and alter sev
eral consultations. Dr. Agnew and the
other physicians pronounced it incurable,
and upon her repeated commands told
Mrs. Bingham that she could not live
more than three months, at the most. A
few weeks ago Mine, de Struve, the wife of
the Russian Minister, learned of Mrs. Bin
gham’s condition and was urged to go and
see her. Mine, de Struve is a most won
derful woman in every way; of strong
anti decided character, a fine mind, and
great nerve and courage.' Before her
marriage she studied medicine, and,
although a member of one of the most
distinguished Russian lamilies. a favorite
at tbe court of the late Empress and tbe
possessor of a great fortune, she was de
termined upon beginning the regular
practice ot her profession. M. de Struve
persuaded her out ot this promised career,
and she practices her art now on the
members of her own family. In theory
Mnte. de Struve is a honueopatliist, and
she uses chiefly the medicines of the great
Dr. Mattei, of Bologna. Italy. Dr. Mat
tel has been especially successful in the
treatment of cancers, and Mine, de Struve
keeps with her always a full case of his
preparations. When . Mine, de Struve
came to see Mrs. Bingham she began
with a course of Dr. Mattel's medicine.
Within these few weeks Mrs. Bingham
has improved wonderfully. The opium is
wholly discontinued, she sleeps, she eat 6,
the cancer is diminishing in size, and a
few days since Mrs. Bingham was able to
ride. out.
DeGaefl’s Capture Rumored.
sr. Peteusbukg, Marcli 23.—A number
of important Nihilist arrests have been
made at Kieff. One gendarme was mor
tally wounded while assisting in making
arrests. It is rumored that DeGaetf, the
leader of the party of Nihilists who mur
dered Lieut. Col. Sudeikin, is among the
prisoners.
Two Cardinals to be Created.
Rome, March 23. —At the consistory to
morrow the Pope will create two Cardi
nals and twenty-one Bishops.
IN TIIE PATHS OF CRIME.
ALLEGED SEXUAL SINFULNESS
LEADS TO MURDER.
The Girl’s Brother Finally Killed in a
Terrible Death Struggle After Wound
ing His Antagonist—Further Particu
lars of the Daring Bank Robbery at
Augusta and the Capture of the Crimi
nals.
Marco, Ind., March 23.—At Pleasant
A’alley, Ind., yesterday, A'es Meeks enter
ed the house of a man named Goodman
and shot him in the back, the ball passing
through the body and lodging under the
skin in front. Goodman threw Meeks
1 down, wrested his pistol lrom him and
: shot him twice in tlie forehead and once
| in tbe chest, killing him. Goodman will
! probably recover. Meeks alleged that his
sister had been dishonored by Goodman.
THE BANK ROBBERS IX JAIL.
*2,440 Recovered from a Piece of Piping
in the Vard of a Brothel.
Augusta, Ga, March 23.—The bank
robbers were identified and brought back
here last night and jailed. To-day
$2,440 of money was found secreted
iu a Dleee of pipe in the yard of a com
mon house in this city. The conductor
on the train yesterday overheard one of
the men give the number of a bouse to a
companion, telling him not to forget it.
On his return to Augusta the clue was
followed up and the premises searched
with the above results.
Upon their arrival at the police station
at 3:30 o’clock this morning the prisoners
gave their names as Simmons and Wat
son.g They had keys and blank checks in
their possession.
The robbers registered yesterday at the
Globe Hotel as from Aiken, S. C., under
the names of G. AVatson and U. H. Sim
mons. but it is believed that they Yvere
traveling under assumed names, as no
such men live at Aiken. A diamond ring
and s2ll were found on their persons.
RAVAGES OF THE FLAMES.
An Acid Works Laid in Ruins by a
Sunday Fire at Baltimore.
Baltimore, March 2(l,—The acid works
of Thomas G. Chapel I, on Federal Hill,
were totally destroyed by fire to-day, and
one ol the buildings of the Flango Guano
Company, adjacent, was partially burned.
The building and stock of the
acid works were insured for
$115,000 in fifty-nine different companies
at an average of about $2,500,
no one insurance exceeding $5,000. The
insurance will probably cover tbe loss.
All the machinery in the building was
new and there was a full stock on band.
The loss of the Flango Company, con
trolled and owned principally in Boston,
is estimated at about $30,000. It is fully
covered by insurance.
TWO BRICK BUILDINGS BURNED.
Galveston. March 23. —A special from
Hillsboro says: “Two brick blocks of 7
stories, owned by J. D. Warren, was de
stroyed by tbe fire of an incendiary ves
terday morning. The total loss is s4!),<h'k>.”
THE CAMPAIGN IN SOUDAN.
Suakin Unhealthy—Hewitt Confident of
Opening the Road to Berber.
London, March 23.—Suakin is un
healthy. It is proposed to leave 400 Brit
ish soldiers] at Suakin, to be relieved
every fortnight, and to station the re
mainder of the troops at healthier points.
Admiral Hewitt is|sauguine ol being
able to open the Berber route. He pro
poses to divide the road into sections and
make the tribes answerable for their re
spective divisions. The troops will ad
vanee on AVeduesday to form cantos
around Tamanieb and attempt to sur
round Osman Digna.
THE MYSTERIOUS MONSTER.
Edgefield Still Infested by the Yx lllipus-
Wallapus.
Right on the top of the information that
the Willipus-wallapus bit off a dog’s nose
in Edgefield on Monday night, says the
Nashville American of the 21st inst.,
comes the information from Mr. Melville
Chadwell, who keeps books for Messrs.
John Gilgan & Cos., and resides in Edge
field, to the effect that he actually met and
repulsed the mysterious monster in Edge
field, on Lindsley avenue, on Tuesday
night. Mr. Chadwell told his brother-in
law, Mr. Moses R. Priest, yesterday, that
if he wanted to hunt the Willtpus-walla
pus he needn’t watch for hint in the
Eighteenth district any more, for ho was
now infesting Spring Park, Edge
field. “Why!” said Mr. Chadwell
to Mr. Priest, “1 was never so astonished
in my life when I saw this great big ani
mal about the size of a bear coming to
wards me on all-fours as if he meant busi
ness strictly. I was mighty glad I had
my gun, I can tell you, and 1 let him have
both barrels right in the face. This seemed
to disconcert hint a little, for he stopped
and rubbed his face while I leisurely re
tired from the scene Yvith all the dignity
inspired by the occasion. As near as I
could make him out in the fog he was be
tween the size of a bear and bull, and had
no taij to speak of. The slugs I let drive
into hint must have done him some injury,
for I was plenty near enough to hit him.
He was an ugly looking creature I can
tell you, and I afterwards heard that after
the shot was fired he was seen going into
Spring Park.”
Doc. Ambrose says he is not sur
prised at hearing that the AVillapus
wallaptts has no tail, for about a week
ago, in company with Fred. Gross and
Billie Cheatham, he hunted him out of the
Eighteenth District to his lair on the
bank of the Stone’s river, and as he was
about to go into his hole, after being badly
wounded, according to Mr. Ambrose, he
caught the ugly beast by the tail and
Messrs Cheatham and Gross immediately
took hold Yvitli him. They were being
drawn in the hole by the main strength of
the monster, when Doc. Ambrose, who
is proverbial for bis presence of
mind, whipped out a sharp hunt
ing-knife, and wit) one powerful
stroke severed the tail of the AA’illapus
wallapus from its body. In proof of this
fact, Doe. Ambrose produced a black,
skinny-looking object, the like of which
the reporter jtever saw before, and said it
was certainly the caudal appendage of
the Willapus-wallapus. The doctor lays
no small store by tcis trophy of the chase
and his own and his comrades’ prowess,
for he has suspended it from the wall of
his saloon with pink ribbons and placed
a placard upon it, which reads, “The AVil
lapus-vvallapus’ tail.”
The dog whose nose was bitten off by
tlie monster died yesterday in great agony.
DOMINION SENATORS AROUSED.
Alleged Murder of a Canada Indian by
Men from tlie United States.
An Ottawa (Ont.) special of March 21
to the New York Herald, says: In reply
to Senator Macdonald, Sir Alexander
Campbell, Minister of Justice, stated in
the Senate to-day that it had come to the
notice of the Dominion Government that
an Indian, named Loui Sam, had been
seized within the boundaries of British
Columbia by a party of masked men from
the neighboring American territory, and
afterward hanged by them. Immediately
upon receiving the information the Do
minion Government had sent a message
to the British Minister at Washington,
asking him to bring the matter to the no
tice of the United States Government. A
few days since Sir Alexander stated that
he had received a telegram from the Lieu
tenant-Governor of British Columbia to
the effect that he bad received a commu
nication from the Governor of AY'ashing
ton Territory assuring him that he would
do all in his power to identify the perpe
trators of the outrage.
Senator Macdonald drew the attention
of the Senate to the gross breach of inter
national law which had been perpetrated
on the people of the Dominion, and he
hoped that the government would not al
low such an insult to pass without repre
senting tlie facts to the authorities at
AVashington.
Senator Altfion, during the discussion,
reflected severely ou the British Minister
at Washington. Yvhom he thought would
have been better occupied in acting
promptly on the representations made o’l
this case from Ottawa than in preparing '
bogus statistics of the exodus from Cana
da, as two weeks had elapsed since he
was first notified, yet he evidently had
taken no action in the premises up to the
present time.
Peruvian Affairs.
Lima, March 23.—The resignation of
Senor Larrabure y Unanue has been ac
cepted. He will be temporarily replaced
by Senor Zaldivar. Don Belisario Salinas,
the Bolivian Minister to Chili, has been
transferred to l’eru. It is rumored that
ex-l’residcnt Pterola will start for Europe
ou the 27th inst.
ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCES.
A New Theory to Account for Wondrous
Winds aud Phenomenal Floods.
Beyond a doubt the winds and the rains
have each formed a “combination” on us
until \Y e have come to be the most deluged
and cycloned country of the age, and at
such short intervals as to have the dis
play become monotonous, says a St. Jo
seph, La., letter to the New Orleans
Timea- Democrat,
Time was when old folks talked about
the waters of 1828, ’44, ’SO, ’62, ’74, the
“Natchez tornado,” and the “Last Island
hurricane.” But ’B2, ’B3, and ’B4, all in
one procession, and the “AVesson cy
clone,” the \Vestern tornadoes, and the
last little breeze tearing around promis
cuously over the country, form such a
climatic carnival as to suggest that two
or three screws must he” loose some
where in the Ohio ValleY - , and several
more somewhere iu the wind-mill.
Ami now it is quite in order for some
protoplastic scientist Yvith an idea
scratching around him to rise up and find
the screw-holes and proceed to put the
machine in order again, while some of us
are leit to enjoy it. Or for some hypostol
icai outlet man to open a vent at the other
end and nip the thing iu the bud while it
is young and tender, and before it gets too
big for him to see all around it.
We know that rings and combinations
are the legitimate results of civilization,
and hold the same relative value in pro
duction ot power, as the “division of labor”
in political economt’ does in the produc
tion of wealth.
May not the modern wind and rain
storms also be the result of civilization?
The product of electrical combinations,
acting on atmospheric conditions favora
ble to a sudden burst of wind-motion, or
a continuous fall of rain-masses? The
net-work of wires and steel rails crossing
and radiating from an hundred centres to
every portion of this vast country, form
ing a connected chain of perfect conduc
tors, of many thousand miles, would seem
to be a most appropriate vehicle for per
fecting these electrical combinations and
uniting currents from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, from the lakes to the Gulf. The
“fishbar” connection, for splicing and
uniting the ends of the rails, has come
into universal use, and makes a solid
and perfect conductor of the rails from
New A'orkto San Francisco, from Chicago
to the Gulf coast. AVinds are produced
by heat, both equatorial and electrical;
the latter are the most violent and sud
den. Rain clouds gather over certain
centres for days and weeks, by a suc
cession of winds. If we could break up
the combination we might scatter the
cloudy forces and stop the floods by open
ing the circuit.
It is a well ascertained fact in our own
history that barren and waste plains, as
well as other lands bare of trees, are sel
dom visited by rains, but that since the
railroads have crossed these countries
rains have become more frequent and
crops more certain in such localities.
Another fact seems to be also established,
that tlie atmospheric conditions or
changes are of late more pronounced than
formerly; when it is dry it is dryer, and
when it is wet it is wetter, and more of
it. In other words, there appears to lie a
combination or concentration ot atmos
pheric farces unusually strong in which
ever way the tendency lies at certain lo
calities.
Rainfall beiug due to evaporation, con
centration and condensation, it follows
that the average rainfall is necessarily
the same. But too much “aY'erage” at
one place is what the weather bureau
must draw a focus on.
If it is due to the rails and the “fish liar”
connection, perhaps a non-conductor like
paper board or rubber beltiug, placed be
tween the connecting “liar” and the rails
might do the work. The attention of the
“scientist” aud the “outlet” man is re
spectfully cal(ed to this suggestion, and
it is hoped they will concentrate on this
problem.
JOAQUIN MILLER’S CABIN.
A Place to Give a Poet Inspiration.
Joaquin Miller, t’ue poet of the Sierras,
says a Washington special, has just got
into his log cabin. I called upon him in
it, and found a tall, well made, blue-eyed
man of forty-live, with long, tawny hair
flowing out from under his slouch hat,
with pantaloons tucked into a pair of line
boots, and a good-natured air of Western
wildness, which well accorded w’ith his
picturesque surroundings, lie received
me cordially and kindly showed me over
the cabin, saying that for fifteen years he
had been wandering about over the face
of the earth, and that he was glad to feel
that he had at last a place he could call
his home.
The cabin is on the bights at the head
of Sixteenth street, the great street or the
Washington of the future. As Waukeen
says: “The President’s house is at one
end of it and his hut is at the other, but
that while he has a cabin the President
has only a cabinet.” Sixteenth is a great
wide street pa\ ed with asphalt, and lined
alternately with $50,000 mansions and SSO
negro huts. The White House, almost
bathed by the Potomac and faced by Laf
ayette Park, is its starting point, and half
way up towards Mr. Miller’s cabin is a
green plat in which a bronze equestrian
statute of Gen. Scott looks at the Execu
tive Mansion. The street steadily rises,
carrying with it old St. John's Episcopal
Church, George H. Pendleton’s mansion,
negro laborers’ cabins, Senator Cameron’s
great palace, and a like mixture till it
reaches the boundary of the town, where
there is a jump upward in the shape of
a fifty-foot hill or plateau, running back
into the country. On this plateau Joaquin
Miller has bought a lot and put up one of
the prettiest of log cabins.
The lot runs almost to the edge of the
hill, and the view is certainly one of the
finest in the United States.' Mr. Miller
says he has never seen anything to equal
it, and that if man can write poetry any
where he ought to be able to write it here.
Stand in front of the large yard of the
cabin, under one of the great oaks which
shade it, all Washington lies before you
surrounded by hills which make it look as
though the nature arouud was a mam
moth coliseum of the gods and the national
capital the scene going on in the arena
below. The great white, classic capitol
is plainly seen, the Potomac flows on
along the edge of the arena, and off on
neighboring hills you can look into Alqx
andria and at the tombstones ot Arlington.
WHAT <’OL. PAYNE SAYS.
•Senutor Payne is not a Candidate lor
the Presidency—Tilden the Man.
A New York special of the 20th says:
Col. o. 11. Payne, of Cleveland, son of
Henry B. Payne, prominently spoken of
as a Democratic candidate for the Presi
dency, said to-day: “Senator Payne is not
a candidate, and has so stated; but it is
not likely that anything I may say
in this connection will have anv effect,
judging from the past.” ’ \
“Do you coincide with Mr. Tilden in
the belief that Gov. Hoadly of your State
would be oue of the strongest men the
Democrats could unite upon as their
standard bearer, and that he would, if
nominated, secure a large German vote in
Ohio!”’
“Gov. Iloadly would unquestionably
make a strong candidate, for he is an ex
ceptionally able man. It is extremely
doubtful, however, if he could be induced
to accept, owing to the feeble state of his
health.”
“As to Mr. Tilden ?”
“He should be the nominee at Chicago.
A purer patriot and a grander man than
he does not live.”
A Diasusted Democrat.
Representative Henley, of California,
says a Washington special to the New
York Times , is reported to be somewhat
chagrined at discoveries he has made
since he introduced his resolution calling
for an investigation of the Alaska Com
mercial Company’s contract with the
government. One of the resolutions is
said to have been offered with the expec
tation on Mr. Henley’s part that an inves
tigation would show that a large part ol
the Republican campaign fund in Califor
nia was contributed by the Alaska Com
pany. He now knows that a majority of
the stock of that concern is owned by
Democrats, and the largest stockholder
gave to the Democratic campaign fund in
California the largest contribution it re
ceived. Mr. Henley has also received in
timations’ that this stockholder is not
pleased with his hasty effort to gather in
material for Democratic use in the cam
paign on the Pacific slope, and that this
displeasure may have an unpleasant ef
fect upon Mr. Henley’s political hopes.
Mr. Henley’s ignorance of the fact that a
Democratic Ways and Means Committee
investigated the Alaska Company in 1876
is excused on the ground that he is anew
member.
A Peaceful Settlement of the Andorra
A fl air.
London, March 23. —The Andorra diffi
culty is being settled peaceably.
A PAYMASTER’S HARD LOT
AFTER YEARS OF WORRY HE
BECOMES MAD.
i Racking Experiences while Guarding
Government Funds—The Victim of
Two Robberies—Pitied but not Con
soled—The Thanklessness of the Office
as Described by au Army Officer.
Paymaster Broadhead’s case, says a
AVashington letter to the Philadelphia
Hecord, is a very sad one. About 15 years
ago he went down into the Southwest to
pay tbe troops at a small field camp. He
had $2,500 with him m a little iron safe.
He got to the camp at nigbt._ He took his
safe to the tent he Yt as to share Yvith a
brother officer that night. He was very
tired and slept heavily, even though a
storm raged outside. In the morning he
found an impression on his mind that dur
ing a moment of wakefuiness in the night
he had seen his companion l>etiding over
the safe, candle in hand. He dismissed
it as a dream and prepared to
pay the troops. When he opened
bis safe it was empty. High
spirited, sensitive, the Y-erv soul of honor,
Broadheacl was crushed by the discoverv.
He thought the man who slept in his tent
had taken the money, but be could not
prove it, and so he had to assume the loss
himself. He paid it all back in two years
out of a small salary. He w orried ail the
time about the matter, as he feared an
other loss. He traveled with everv possi
ble precaution, and even then he trem
bled. Eight or nine years past, and he
was beginning to be himself again. One
day he had to pay out $25,000 at Fort Sill.
He sealed up the money in an iron safe at
Fort Leavenworth, and* turned it over to
the express company to be carried
to Wichita, the railway station nearest
Fort Sill. At Lawrence he had to change
cars, it Yvas an hour before the train left
for Wichita. At Wichita Paymaster
Broadhead noticed that the wax seal over
the keyhole of the safe had been disturb
ed. lie told the express agent before be
surrendered his receipt that the seal had
been removed and ttien replaced. The
express agent thought he was mistaken
thought the seal had been partially re
moved by the rough handling which the
safe had received. Finally, Paymaster
Broadhead surrendered his receipt, call
ing attention of witnesses to the condi
tion oi the seal. Then he put the safe ill
a wagen and slowly jolted more than 100
miles to Fort Sid. Arrived at the fort, he
opened his saffi and found it filled with
brown paper. Every dollar of bis money
had been taken. The shock was terrible
to a man of his experience, then 60
years old. For a timo be was pros
trated. Then he rallied and at once
returned to Wichita. Of course, he
found no trace of his money. lie at once
sued the express company. After several
years of litigation of the’most vexatious
character he won his suit in the highest
courts, and the express company paid the
money to the government. But Bruad
head’s success did not bring him peace.
He was too old. He had become morose,
nervous, suspicious—suspicious of him
self and of everybody else. A Yvord, a
kindly word, from tbe Secretary of War
or the Paymaster General would have
soothed and comforted him. But tlie iron
rules ot .officialism forbade the expression
of the sympathy which they felt with the
unfortunate l%ymaster. And noYY- his
brain has yielded to the incessant worry,
and he is on his Yvay East to die in an
asylum. “1 refused a Paymastersbip iu
the army,” said au old army friend;
“I would not carry the burden
involved for ten times the salary.
To start with, you have to giY'e an
iron-clad $40,000 bond. Your bondsmen
are, of course, responsible for all your
accidents and mistakes. Aou are always
carrying large amounts of monev—any
where from SI,OOO to s3oo,ooo—under the
most disagreeable and hazardous circum-
stances on the most fatiguing journeys.
Most of our post garrisons are so small
that when a Paymaster starts out on the
I>lnins they can only spare him two, three,
or, at the most, four or five soldiers as an
escort. In order that the chances of rob
bery may be lessened he must travel with
the utmost secrecy. He must get out of
the little frontier towns without being
known, and must travel as rapidly as
possible. He has two ambulances—one
for himself aud the money, and one for the
escort. Of course, he" has to travel
in the beaten track and stop at
the usual watering places. There
are no others. I remember ■
several years ago a Pavmaster of mv ac
quaintance stopped for the night ‘by a
stream. A quarter ol a mile farther up
was another camp fire. Thither two of
his four soldiers rode after supper. There
they sat down with some plainsmen to
cards. They drank, they quarreled. Fi
nally one of the soldiers was shot dead.
The other was too quick for his enemies.
He shot two of them before either could
pull his weapon out. Then he galloped
back to the Paymaster’s camp. The Pay
master hearing the shots, feared the
worst, and was prepared, with his little
force, to give his life lor the $50,000 he had
in his safe. But the plainsmen made no
pursuit. The Paymaster always believed
it was all part of a scheme to
raid his camp and eaptifre his safe,
and that it Yvas defeated onlv by the
promptness of the second soldier. No, 1
never wanted to be a Paymaster. Except
once,” he added reflectively. “That was
during th early days of the war, when
the Federal troops Yvere occupying Ar
kansas. The General in command sent
to New A’ork and bought for a song or
two several million dollars in counterfeit
Confederate money. He had his Paymas
ters and his Quartermasters and his Com
missaries instructed. They were to take
nothing from the people except for a con
sideration. They were to be offered first,
Quartermasters’ receipts; second, green
backs; third, the counterfeit Confederate
money. No*'-, as a general rule, the peo
ple knew nothing about Quartermasters’
receipts. They knew that the greenbacks
would render them suspicious to the Con
federacy, under which they expected to
live; but they were entirely willing to
take the Confederate money, which was
so much brighter and cleaner than any
they had ever seen. Thev gave receipts
for money received. They were perfectly
willing to give receipts for anything, be
cause they got three or four prices for
their things—but it was all in counterfeit
Confederate money. 1 don’t suppose that
the Federal Government was the gainer
by it.”
GKANT STANDS HA' I.<X.AV
He Scans the Political Field and Mea
sures the Candidates.
Gen. Grant was found on Friday morn
ing in a private parlor upon the sunny
front of the Arlington Hotel, says a Wash
ington special of the 21st inst. to the New
York World. He was seated in an easy
chair near a small table covered with
visiting cards. When approached by
your correspondent he was waiting to
have a late breakfast served. He talked
freely about the political situation.
In answer to an inquiry he said:
“I have not taken any active part in
politics this winter. I have been shut up
in a sick room. I have had to depend
largely upon the three newspapers I read
at home for my tacts.”
“What papers are those ?”
“The Times, Tribune and Commercial
Advertiser. Each one has a different can
didate, and, by studying them all, 1 have
arrived at certain conclusions.”
“You were interviewed at Fortress
Monroe ?”
“Not with my knowledge. The editor
of a Norfolk paper sent up to me a written
request to pay his respects as a Virginian.
He said he was the editor of a Norfolk
newspaper, but he said he did not call to
interview me. I talked with him gen
erally. He printed what he could .remem
ber ot this conversation. There was some
truth in his report and some mistakes.
For instance, I did not say that 1
thought the contest Jor the Republi
can nomination at Chicago had narrowed
down to Blaine and Arthur. What I
did say was something equivalent to this:
I believed from present indications that
when the first ballot at the Chicago Re
publican Convention should l>e taken,
Blaine, Arthur and Logan would lead in
about the order named. I said also that
Edmunds had considerable strength in
the East, and that other candidates
would have enough votes to make the re
sult uncertain and a sound prediction im
possible. In saying this I did not indi
cate the slightest preference.”
“You have a preference?”
“Certainly. 1 have never made any
concealment ot the fact that I should pre
fer John Logan to all the other candidates.
I have said so frequently, and have never
had any reason to change my views. I
think Logan’s chances as good as those of
any of the candidates.”
To make a salad that is certain to please
all tastes you need only use Durkee’s
Salad Dressing. Nothing equal to it was
ever ottered, and none so popular. It is a
superb table sauce.
ARTHUR WASTES AN HOUR
To See If He Might Properly Attend
Minister West's Masked Ball as
•• Hamlet.”
A AVashington special of the 20th to the
Boston Globe says: “The President spent
an hour this morning looking up prece
dents guiding the social conduct of Presi
dents He wished to find a precedent to
enable him to attend an entertainment at
a foreign Minister’s house. He was not
successful. The social code declares that
the President can call at the residence of
a citizen of this country, but not on any
member of a foreign legation, as that
would be beneath him in his official ca
pacity. Mr. Arthur really wished to at
tend the brilliant masked ball given at the
British Minister’s to-night. It is said he
Yvished to go in the character of ‘Hamlet.’
Mrs. McElrov and Miss McElroy, how.
ever, Yvere among the guests. The
ball was given in honor of the
two younger daughters of Minis
ter AA’est. They are about Miss
McElroy’s age, anil are not in society.
Nellie Arthur was Y’ery anxious to go the
the ball, aud pleaded very hard to be
allowed to do so, but Mr. Arthur did not
think it best. When he found he could
not go himself, he asked Nellie to stay at
home and take care of him. To this she
cheerfully assented. Miss West is a very
devout Catholic, and some surprise is oc
casioned by the fact that the hall is given
during Lent. As it is in honor of the
younger ladies, and very private, it does
not make so much matter. The guests
numbered OY'er 200. Not all of the ladies
were masked. This was left principally
to the young ladies. The costumes were
all dominos. The guests were confined
principally to the members of the diplo
matic corps. Mr. AA’est makes a distinc
tion between his official and his
private entertainments. Avery
limited number of Americans are
invited to his private ali'airs. The rule
adopted among the male portion j)i the
diplomatic corps to-night was for all the
gray-haired men to wear dark wigs and
all tbe young men gray wigs and Yvhisk
ors. This made an interesting confusion.
A’oung ladies would rush up to the voiyig
men, and, thinking them as venerable as
they looked, would express in round
terms their horror of those stupid voting
men. AVhen the gay maskers came to un
mask, explanations were in order. “Ol
course,” said the ladies, “we knew all
about it all tbe time, and simply tried to
keep up your delusion. The" Chinese
Minister found it impossible to disguise
himself. He put on a high black wig and
a long, dark cloak. He looked very much
like the heavy vlllian in a plav, and im
agined for a short time that his disguise
was complete. His feet, however, betray
ed him, and as the guests YY’ere con
tinually coming up and addressing him
as Mr. Ju, he began to suspect that some
thing must be wrong. His delusion was
completely lost when the butler spoke to
him b>- name and asked him to have
some wine. He swore a big Chinese oath
and tore off his mask. Baron de Struve,
the Russian Minister, wore an immense
gray wig that bung down on his shoul
ders. He rather overdid tbte matter, how
ever, by using a large staff to assist bim
in walking. Avery pretty domino came
up to bim and said, “Good eY'ening,
Baron.” The Baron s|ieaks very good
English, and replied in that tongue. Tlie
domino was suspected of being Miss Mc-
Elroy. The Baron, by the use of a little
diplomacy, succeeded in throwing the
young lady off' the scent. Baroness de
Struve wore a plain black domino, with a
pink ribbon at the throat and a bunch of
violets on her breast. Mrs. AA’est was not
in costume. Tbe two Misses AVest wore
black dominos trimmed tvith blue and
cardinal ribbons. • Miss McElroy was
also attired in similar costume. The le
gation was brilliantly illuminated. A
number of masquerade balls are expect
ed to follow the ope given to-night.
LIGHTNING LASHED TO LABOR.
Tlie Ilion “Citizen” Prints Its Entire
Edition by Means of an Electric Motor.
The entire edition of this paper, 3,000
copies, says the Ilion (N. Y .) Citizen oi
the 14th inst., was, during the night just
past, printed by means of an electric
motor, and is thus the first newspaper
in the country printed by the power of
electricity.
But how was it done? This way was it
done: A Parker dynamo machine,
which is used for electric lighting, Yvas
set in the old rolling-mill of the armory,
and run from the same old shaft which
has turned the rolls to roll the gun-bar
rels used in the millons on millions of the
world-famed Remington guns, used in
Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Greece, Home,
Egypt, Holland, Cuba, Japan and China,
beside many South American countries,
and our own beloved land. From this
dynamo were run two electric wires,
over buildings and alleys, to the Citizen
printing office, w here stood a Parker elec
tric motor, manufactured by E. Reming
ton A Sons. It is a small machine, will
slip inside of a medium sized trunk, but
it weighs half a ton. There stood the
pressman, with his eyes half out, there
stood Yve all. No steam Yvas there, no
engine, no power. Mr. Lee adjusted one
wire to its jilace in the little giant motor,
and there we stood unmoved. The other
one he grasped, and as he lightly pressed
the end of it into the slotted knob and se
cured it by a screw, a spark darted from
the copper brushes, the “dwarf Cyclops’’
began to move, tbe Yvhole shaft-work with
scores of pulleys answered to the call,
and three great cyciinder presses began
their work of printing, as though an un
seen hand had bid them go, and they
obeyed. And so in truth it was. A nov
elty indeed!
fhe whole force of the Citizen office,
thirteen in number, beside many specta
tors, enjoyed the sight, and it will doubt
less be long remembered. This age is
one of advancement and improvement,
and who can tell what next will come?
THE STEEL CRUISERS.
A Proposition that Their Construction
be Divided Among Several Guilders.
The bill recently passed by the Senate
authorizing the construction of seven ad
ditional steel cruisers, says a AVashington
>q>ecial to the Boston Globe, lies upon the
Speaker’s table, with no prospect of re
ceiving immediate attention. A motion
was made several days ago to take up the
-billand refer it to the Committee on Naval
Affairs, but objection was made by the op
ponents of the measure. AA'hen the Naval
Affairs Committee is next called, a motion
to refer the bill will be made. Represent
ative llarmer, one of the oldest members
of the committee, says tbe bill cannot
pass the House in -its present shape, but
be believes it can be amended so as to
obviate the objections of many Demo
crats. Mr. Ilarmer’s plan is to so change
its provisions that no single shipbuilding
firm can construct more than two or three
of the proposed vessels, thus dividing the
work among the different private yards.
He would preserve the competitive bid
ding system and making the awards
among the different builders on the basis
of the lowest responsible bid received
(rom any one of them. Mr. Harmer says
if Cangress would appropriate $150,000 to
be used in the purchase of machinery for
the l’ortfj(noutb. New Y ork, League Island
and Norfolk navy yards, all tbe engines
and boilers for the cruisers could be
built economically and in the best manner
by the government.
A CABINET CRISIS.
A Split on (ilaiUtone'*) Kgyptian Policy.
Saturday’s New York Herald cable
special says that it is an open secret that
there is a Cabinet split on the Egyptian
policy of Mr. Gladstone. The Earl of
Derby, Colonial Secretary, and Lord Sel
borne. Lord High Chancellor, are opposed
to lighting. Mr. Gladstone recalled his
Mid-Lothian speech where, speaking of
the Afghans, he said: “It is disgraceful
that a nation whom we call savages
should, in defense of their native land,
otter their naked bodies to the arms of
European science, and be killed by
the hundred thousand for doing with
rude, ignorant courage w r hat were,
for them, duties ol patriotism.”
How, having denounced the massacres
of Cabul and Candahar, could Mr. Glad
stone sanction the massacres of Teb and
Tamanieb?
His colleagues overbore him. They
could not riss dissolution. Each had a
pet measure for the coming session. Mr.
Chamberlain, the .President of the Board
of Trade, was posing as the guardian
angel of mariners. Sir William Harcourt,
Home Secretary of State, was busy with
“turtle fed boors of the city.” The rest
were pushing the reform bill, which they
hoped would increase their strength at
the next election. So Mr. Gladstone con
sented to summon the doctor and lie abed
till Gen. Graham’s work was done and
the butcher’s bill came in from Sualuu,
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HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE FLOCK
ING THERE BY EVERY TRAIL.
Ceur D’Alene Creek Lined with Gold
Throughout it* Length Fortunes
Picked Ip in a Twinkling-A City in
Course of Construction—" Millions In
It.”
The Chicago Tribune's start" correspon
dent at Eagle City, Idaho, sends the fol
lowing: .
Eagle City, Idaho, via Trout Creek,
Montana, March 20.—The Tribune cor
respondent and his companion arrived in
this camp yesterday, eight days out from
Chicago. Our party was three days on
the trail from Thompson’s Falls, on
Clark’s Fork, crossing the summit
of the Cuur d'Alene on St.
Patrick’s Day. Hundreds of peo
ple are coming in bv every trail. There
is undoubtedly gold all along the creek.
It is impossible at the present time to
give much authentic information relative
to the richness of the placer diggings.
••l'lieM kfow” has unquestionably yielded
from sl2 to S2O per" day a man.
The aggregate amount ot dust taken
from the claim exceeds SIB,OOO. The
Peter claim only ran about three weeks
and cleaned up from $ 10.000 to $12,000,
according to the statements
of Dr. Campbell, who was in
a position to know the facts. IV. E. Cob
saw one lot of dust weighing SBOO which
the parties asserted had been washed out
by three men in three days’ work, having
been performed in six 'inches of water.
Eleven claims have lines of sluices, and
are said to be down to bed rock. These
a-e the Widow, Ives, Appenstall Wyant,
Macomber, Campbell, Points a Co.,' Mc-
Queen, Moscow. George Mudray, Rock
lord Company, and Allman A Cos. On
these claims and many others work is
now progressing, drainage ditches are
being cut, and sluices are being placed
in position. The Widow claim is now in
shape for mining, and pay dirt is being
washed. On Bear Gulch and
on all the numerous tributa
ries of Pritchard creek miners are
busy at work. A few weeks will solve
the problem fully, and gold dust will
either be plentiful in the various camps
or else the mines will be voted a lailure.
So far as the placer diggings are con
cerned, no fears are entertained of the re
sult by those whose money is invested in
older claims. It is boldly asserted that
the question has been fully decided, and
the answer is, “There’s millions in it." It
is estimated that 1,000 buildings are in
process of construction in the mining dis
trict. Every man who will work finds
ready employment at irom $5 to $8 per
day.
There is an abundance oi small timber
suitable for log houses, and the sound of
the axe and falling trees can Lie heard on
every hillside. Cabins are costing from
$250 to $2,000, every log delivered on the
ground being worth $5. Lumber whip
sawed is worth $250 per thousand and finds
ready sale. Shakes are s.'! per hundred,
cedar being best adapted to the manufac
ture.
HOADLY SURPRISED.
How Hi* Friend, Col. Woolley, Occu
pied Himself on Flection Day.
Col. Charles M. Woolley, ol" Cincinnati,
in a recent interview, says a Columbus
(O.) special to the New York World,
stated that Gov. Hoadly openly prelerred
Payne for the Democratic nominee for
President, and then indulged in advice to
Hoadly in order to avoid bad taith and in
gratitude, to other prominent Democrats
who aided in his election. Gov. Hoadly,
when his attention was called to the sub
ject to-day, said: "Col. Woolley’s advice
to me is surprising as well as jynusing.
The Colonel is reputed to have been some
what interested in the third fcieket last
fall while the Democrats were sweating
in the heat of the campaign. Moreover,
on election day, when 367,(MM) Dem
ocrats cast their ballots for the
winning ticket, he donned his fine
English hunting suit, got out his breech
loader, whistled for his fine pointers and,
with kindred spirits, broke for the woods.
He was shooting birds, listening to the
babbling brooks and enjoying nature on
election day. He had no game at the
polls and his name is not on the poll
hooks. He was not posing then as my
adviser or supporter or even as a Demo
crat, and I am amused at the responsi
bility lie now feels, lie is a most excel
lent gentleman and my good friend, but
is hardly in a position now to open up a
civil service examination as to the Presi
dential choice ot" our party, or to question
the good faith of his friends who had
learned to vote, but not to shoot. 1 am
profoundly grateful to Senators Thurman
and Pendleton and Gen. Ward tor effi
cient and zealous aid rendered toward my
success at the election at which the Colo
nel was too absent-minded to vote, but l
don’t see why this sentiment should pre
vent my supporting Mr. Payne for Presi
dent.
ELECTRICAL INTERESTS.
A Large an<l Advantageous Transaction
by a Boston Corporation.
I have just learned that negotiations,
which have been in progress lor some
days past, says a Montreal special to the
Boston Globe, have culminated in an
agreement on the part of the American
Electric and Illuminating Company to
sail its business, plant, manufactory and
rights to use theTbomson-Houston system
of electric lighting for the entire Dominion
of Canada, to the Royal Electric Com
pany, to be chartered by the Provincial
Parliament of (Quebec, and capitalized at
$250,000. For tiiis sum, the new corpora
tion, which includes gentlemen prominent
in electrical matters and in financial af
fairs, secures the sole ownership of liie
only established and successful system of
electric lighting in the Dominion, and
enters, no doubt, on a prosperous aud
honorable career.
The statements in the above dispatch
are confirmed by the officers of the Ameri
can Electric and Illuminating Company,
who state that the two companies will
oi>erate in close alliance, each obtaining
from the other whatever it needs and the
other can supply, and both participating
in any invention secured by either in the
future. Thus, it is believed, tbe new ar
rangement will be mutually advantage
ous. Tbe purchase by tbe American com
pany of the plant, business and l ights ior
Canada of the Tliorason-Houston electric
lighting system caused qnite a sensation
in electrical circles some three months
since. The business was then tinde
veloped and comparatively small. Hav
ing secured tbe field and the business at
a very small figure, and developed it by
energetic and intelligent effort into a
pr sperotis and largely profitable busi
ness, the American company is now able
to dispose of it at a handsome advance.
This it is willing to do at this time, on ac
count of the prospective increase of its
own business in the United states, which
demands all its energies and attention.
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