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j ESTABLISHED 1850. I
) J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor, j
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
Tlie Executive Committee of the State
Agricultural Society Hold an Import
ant Meeting at Macon, and Name Octo
ber 17 as the Opening Day of the Fair-
Other Important News.
OEOBGIA.
Brunswick Is taking steps to secure an ar
tesian well.
Tiie reorganization of the Richmond Hus
sars is probable.
Catoosa county will have an election on the
fence question on April 30.
The Glynn countv agricultural fair will he
held on the 27th, 28th and 29th of May.
A lodge of Good Templars has been organ
ized at Mcßae with twenty-five members.
W. H. Hodgson, of Athens, announces that
he is a first cousin of Hon. Thomas Ochiltree
by marriage.
Dr. H. R. Casey, of Augusta, died at Alba
ny Tuesday, where he had gone for tiie benefit
of his health.
The present roll call of the Newuan Raided
Church, as deposited iu the corner stone,
numbers 2*i9 names.
East and South Rome anil De Soto are in
cluded iu the annexation scheme which Rome
proper lias in contemplation.
Eire broke out on the Saflbld place, two
miles west of Sandersvilie, Wednesday, and
burned five houses and probablv half a mile
of fencing.
l.aee Moore, of Loganville, lias a wagon
body just finished which has been in process
of construction for 2J years. Five parties
have worked on it.
At Heard court were tried John M. and J.
Daniel Owensby for arson. The State made
a weak case, but there were eight jurors for
conviction and four for acquittal.
The following municipal ticket has been
elected at Fort \ alley: For Mayor, \V. K.
Brown; Aldermen, A. D. skellie, A. B
Greene. 11. A. Mathews, M. 1.. Cooper.
The Governor has ordered the TaxsCollec
tors of eighteen neighboring counties to pay
iuto the Bank of Americas, which is now a
legal >tate depository, ‘‘all moneys col
lected by them for autl on account of State
taxes.”
Wednesday’s Athens Bamur- a>s: “There
is considerable excitement on the outskirts of
Athens, and cowhides and pistols are brought
into requisition. It is feared that the end is
uot yet. as tiie trouble is expanding instead of
diminishing.”
Saturday the old court house at Moultrie
was soli! for s7:l. It, cost upwards of S3OO
three years ago. The contract for building
the new court house was awarded to Mr.
Hendricks, of Bulloch eountv. the lowest bid
der, for sl,*oo.
At Macon, Wednesday, the large two-story
frame house known as the Mansfield House
was burned. Seveu or eight negro families
occupied the ten rooms, and they had time to
get out nearly all their effects. The building
was insured for $2,000, which will fully cover
the loss.
Tiie dwelling formerly occupied by D.
Abrams, on tiie corner of First and Poplar
streets, and on the site purchased by the
Macon \ olunteers for their new armory, was
sold Wednesday. The main bnilding was sold
to C apt. H. T. Johnson for s23">. The small
house was sold to the same purchaser for f:IU.
Another small house was sold to Capt. Carnes
for S3O.
The Cochran correspondent of the News,
writing on April 2, says: “About !i o’clock
this morning the dwelling, barn and stable of
Janies foody, who lives a mile from tc.wn,
was entirely consumed by fire. The Haines
are now fast spreading over his plantation.
Assistance from town lias been furnished.
There is little hope as long as the wind is so
high.”
The Cherokee Adesince says: “Col. 11. M.
Field, of this countv, is now turning his at
tention to stock raising, and at the same time
successfully conducting his large farming in
terest. He now has a line lot of cattle num
bering some 80 or more, although only a few
days since lie shipped to ranchmen in the
West about 130; of the Ml he has left some 2i
or more of them are Jerseys of the finest
breed.”
The Brunswick Herald says: “Farmers in
Glynn county whose crops have been depre
dated upon by crows, have a novel mode of
ridding themselves of the nuisance. They put
strychnine inside one end of an egg, and put
several thus prepared in an open box in full
view of Mr. Crow. He sees the eggs, and
loves them too. and never refuses them, and
darts down and gobbles up the eggs, and fre
quently falls to the ground immediately after
tasting.”
James W. Burnside, an old and respected
citizen of Dahlonega, died a day or two ago.
Mr. Burnside was originally from Appling,
Columbia county. He moved to that place in
)s3O. His father was killed in a duel with
Gov. Crawford, and was related to Gen.
Burnside of the I’uion army. He was a
bachelor and leaves only a brother and nu
merous friends to mourn his death. Col.
Price remarked of him that nobody ever
charged him with dishonor.
The Darien correspondent of the News
wides, on April 2. as follows: “A white man
named John Cobb, who has been for some
time in the employ of James Townsend, died
suddenly yesterday. The verdict of the ln
uue-t \v:.s Providential cause.—Mclntosh
county sent four delegates to the Brunswick
Convention: A. C. Gould and June Gordon,
elected by mass meeting held Saturday, 29iti
ult.. and Richard Jackson and John M.
Brown, elected by a small number of citizens
on Monday, 31st ult.”
The llawkinsville AVtr* says: “Among the
packages shipped by express from this place
.m Monday last were two miniature hives of
Italian bees. Each of the hives contained
three frames of comb, with honey sufficient to
last the bees iiuring tlieir journey, a tested
queen, a few drones, and workers enough to
keep up the business of the colony until rein
forced from the brood-nest. They were ship
ped by Mrs. J. B. Mitchell, of our town, io
Air. AY. It. Guerry, of Fort Reid, Fla., and are
expected to arrive at the latter place in about
six days.”
On April 2 tiie l anton correspondent of the
Ntw# wrote as follows: “Tuesday while Mr.
. M. Day was plowing near Hickory Flat,
iu Cherokee county, lie fell dead. The Coro
ner was sent for. who organized a jury. After
tiie usual examination, a verdict was ren
dered. •The deceased came to his death from
natural causes.’ Mr. Day was a good, re
liable citizen and pious Christian. He leaves
a wife and six small children to battle in life’s
conflict. A good number of our citizens are
• tigging storm pits. No corn planted in
Cherokee yet. We are now enjoying the first
pretty weather siuce the first of last Decem
ber.”’
The I'heroker Atlr.t ice of yesterday says:
“To-day Thursday' Judge Brown will hear
the argument of ’counsel for the motion for
new trials in the eases of Geo. Hill ami Jerrv
Marshall, both colored, sentenced at the last
term of court to be hung on Friday, the 11th
uist. of course we cannot sav what will lie
Judge Brown's decision, but even if lie does
uot grant anew trial the case will go to the
supreme Court, which meets in September
uevt. and the negroes will not be hung on
April 11. In this connection we would sav
that the condemned have behaved themselves
wgdl since placed in jail. Jerry Marshall is
tfic most stubborn, and lias but little to sav.
den. Ilill tries to lie as cheerful as possible
under the circumstances, and says if lie finally
lias to hang why of course ir niust be right,
although he claims to have killed Wm. Krvant
in self-defense.”
On the 27tli of March a difficulty occurred
outlie plantation of William Watkins, about
eight miles south of Jackson, between Lewis
Dickerson and George Williams, both color
ed. The origin of the difficulty was about a
half pone of corn bread. They only passed a
few words, and George stepped out of the
house where the difficulty started and picked
up a stick, and then re-entered and cursed
Dickerson, and then turned as though he was
satisfied, and as he turned Dickerson sprang
on George with knife in hand and stabbed
him in the breast and bowels, completely dis
emboweling George. It is said that George
went out of tiie uouse with his bowels in Ills
arms, lie died on the 30th from the cuts. \
warrant was issued for the arrest of Lewis
Dickerson, and after considerable trouble said
Dickerson was arrested.
Major Lamar Cobb, Secretary of the Board
of Trustees of the state University, has ap
plied to the Governor to issue a Iwnd of
SOO,OOO for 20 ytvirs at 7 per cent, interest per
annum, in lieu of 96 of the 8 per cent. Nutting
bonds held by the University, which have
fallen due. It will be remembered that seve
ral of these mammoth bonds have been is
sued. Gov. Colquitt issued several. Gov.
Boynton issued a $30,000 bond for tiie Brown
donation. This $96,000 bond will probablv be
the largest State security that will ever lie
issued by Georgia, as it is uot probable that
the State University will again hold at one
time so large an amount of due securities.
The State funds instead of paying these ’Kinds.
The State lias been paying s per cent, interest,
which is $7,880 yearly. At 7 per cent, she will
now pay $0,720 a year iuterest, or an annua!
saving of $960.
The Xewuan correspondent of the Macon <
TtUtjrapk write* as follows, ilating liis letter
April 2: “On the 25th ult., a cyclone passed i
near the village of Whiteaburp, jugt across
the river from Coweta, in the county of Car
roll. The full particulars of that cyclone
have already appeared in voitr paper. ’ l’rof.
\V. H. Andrews teaches a school which num
bers seventv-flve or eighty students, in
Wbitesburg. ’ Hearing the cyclone ecinine
Prof. Andrews and his wife and five small
children the yjuugest being about three
months old) made their way to a railroad ex
cavation near their residence. Mrs Andrews
Jumped into the excavation and Prof. An
drews threw' down to her the five
rOiali children while she caught them
in hr arms as ecu h one tell. The
cyclone passed over and the Andrews family
were uninjured. From the exhaustion inci
dent to this exercise, Mrs. Andrews had fully
recovered, and on yesterday superintended
the planting and arranging of her flower
yard. Fast night she retired much improved
in health, little expecting that death was
to near at hand. During the night a roaring
wind began to sweep over the country. This
wind aroused tier from tier .deep. She called
to her husband by her side, very much fright
ened, spoke a few words, began breathing
hard, foil back upon her pillow, and in a few
seconds was dead. Prof. Andrews and his
estimable, amiable wife lived in New nan for
three years past until the first day of January
last. Her many friends here are sad indeed
to heaF of her death. The lifeless form pass
ed through Xewuau this morning, on its way
to Fairburn.”
Yesterday's Macon Ttltgraph and J lf*ang*r
says: “The Executive Committee of the
State Agricultural Society, composed of L. F.
Livingston, of Covington, President; E. C.
Grier, of Griswoldviile, Secretary: T. G.
Holt, of Macon, Treasurer; Geo. w. Adams
_ *- *
HThc j&aiMWtlt owing
of Forsyth, K. J. Powell of Barnesville, J. H.
"l a * k Americus, H. H. Carey of LaGrange,
Joues of Y\ avnesboro, R. W. Anderson
” awkl SS vi,le * Hatcher and Jere
ilollis, or Macon, met in the rooms over Har
deman A Gibson’s warehouse yesterday morn
tng, pursuant to invitation adopted by the so
ciety in Savannah. They were met by the
citizens’ committee from Macon, composed of
Messrs. Emory Winship, W. If. Singleton,
Nathan Solomon ami Jos. Dannenburg. This
committee reported that they had canvassed
the city, and presented subscription lists with
amounts subscribed, aggregating $3,000, the
bonus asked for by tiie society. The com
mittee then proceeded to organize. Mr. Mar
shal J. Hatcher was made General
•Superintendent, with Mr. Jere Hollis as as
sistant. The premium list was then taken up
and tlie organization of the departments be
gan, resulting in the following selection of
superintendents: First department, horses,
mules and jacks, J. H. Black, and J. O. \V rad
dell assistant; second department, cattle,
sheep and swine. \V. B. Jones: third depart
ment, poultry and bees, S. M.H. Byrd; fourth
department, field crops, J. L. Fleming: fifth
department, horticulture, orchard, etc., .T. C.
McCall; sixth department, home industry. It!
" • Anderson: seventh department, oruahieu
tal needle-work’ll. 11. Carey; eighth depart
ment, fine arts, R J. Powell; ninth depart
ment, tools and implements, F. Hevser;
tenth department, manufactures, J.' l)!
Boyd; eleventh department, machinery,
A. I. I!aim: twelfth department, mer
chants’ display, J. Jf. Faunin; thir
teenth department, races. Pierce Home.
It was decided after debate that the fair
should open October 27. The premium list
Was taken up by departments, seriatim.
Horses of all work was the first item, and the
premiums are as follows: Best stallion, three
vears old and over, S3O and sl3. Best sucking
colt, $lO. Best brood mare, with colt, S2O and
$m Best tlope-year-old mure and over, 120
and $lO. Best yearling colt, $lO ami $5. Road
sters—Best stallion, three years old and over.
$25 and $lO. Best mare, $25 and $lO. Thor
oughbreds—Best stallion, three years old and
over. s::n and sls. Best sucking'colt, $lO and
Best brood mare and sucking colt, S3O
aud $lO. Best mare, three years old ami
over, S2O and SB. Best yearling colt, one to
two years old. $lO and $5. Premiums also of
fered for trained horses, jacks and jennets
ami mules. For Jerseys a premium of SIOO
is offered for the best herd to consist of ai
least one bull and three cows and Iwo calves;
$lO for the best bull three years old aud over;
$25 bed bull two years old and under; S3O for
the best cow, and $25 for the best heifer. Pre
miums are also offered for Ayrshires. Devons
and other breeds, aud also for all kinds of
cattle, sheep and swine. The committee ad
journed before completing the list. It will
be finished to-day.”
FLORIDA.
lort Dade's nigh school building i- to bo
erected immediately.
A hotel has been opened at Magnolia
Spring, near Hawthorn.
Circuit Court at Titusville lasted just six
days, ending Saturday, March 22.
The steamer Indian River grounded in the
Indian river narrows last Friday.
The Sanchez lot on the Shell road at st
Augustine lias been sold for $12,000.
Eighteen thousand homesteads have been
entered in Florida during the past year.
Cargoes of vegetables are beginning to
come in large numbers from the Keys to Kev
West.
Jacksonville has subscribed up to date
s■>44 50 for the Confederate Home project at
Richmond.
1.. 1.. Ilinelv, of Mosely Hall, while hunting
in the san Pedro, near Madison, last week,
killed six deer in two shots.
Ihe question of expanding the corporate
limits of Madison so.as to take in the depot
property is again being agitated.
A steamer lias been purchased to run on
I. lake, near Hawthorn, in connection
with the railroad, to carry vegetables, etc.
The shark caught by Thos. A. Edison, the
electrician, at St. Augustine recently, has
been mounted and placed on exhibition.
Mrs. Wilson, of Marianna, has a LeConte
pear cutting, planted this year, that is in full
bloom, although barely six inches in height.
In the case in the Circuit Court at Tallahas
see against Bush and wife, tried for the mur
der of William Hughes, body servant of
Prince and l’rimffss Murat, the jury hung.
The evidence was entirely circumstantial.
A hotel company has been organized at
Montieello and over $12,000 subscribed. The
company will be incorporated. The capital
stock will not be less than $20,000. Work will
be commenced at once. The hotel will
have 75 rooms.
The News correspondent at Lake City fur
nishes the following as the municipal ticket
nominated April 1: \V. T. Bacon, for Mayor;
11. R. stov, s. B. Cathv, .1. W. Hensley,
Howell Hunter, for Aldermen; W. M. Ives,
for Clerk; 1.. Harrison, for Collector; A. A
Ross, for Assessor; Ab. Berthea, for Marshal.
The Key West Democrat, in its last issue,
says: “On Wednesday evening the custom
house inspectors succeeded in capturing about
220 gallons of affieadiente, being smuggled
ashore iu boats near the barracks’ beach
Carriages were waiting, but the officers ar
rived just in time to tli wart tlieir little game.”
The Marianna Times savs: “The serenity
of our usually quiet little city was disturbed
Monday by the news that ii party' bv the
name of .1. W. Mattox, claiming to half from
Texas, who had been clerking for.). P. Coker,
had absconded with $l5O or $175 In money and
a horse belonging to A. A. Calhoun. About
10 o’clock news was received that he had
passed Stapleton’s, eleven or twelve miles
north of Greenwood, on the Gordon road.
Messrs. Calhoun and Coker swore out a war
rant and sent Deputy Sheriff Mozlev and X.
B. More after him. The thief was ii voting
man about 26 or 27 years of age, 5 feet W inches
in height, dark hair and heavy moustache.”
The Montieello correspondent of the Jack
sonville Times- Vnion furnishes the following
additional information on a subject which has
already been briefly mentioned in the News;
Tony Piner, a respectable and well-to-do col
ored man, was waylaid and shot on Saturday
night last near his house on the Col. Dilwortli
place in this county. Piner had been to Mon
tieello and was returning on horseback. The
assassin concealed himself behind a large cher
ry tree, waited till his victim was within a few
feet of him and fired, the charge of
large buckshot passing entirely through
Piner’s heart. His horse sprang on
and dropped the dead man’s body near
his own door. Sunday morning
sheriff Simkins arrested Watson Baker,
colored, on suspicion. He at first denied all
knowledge of the crime, hut before reaching
the jail confessed that lie was the guilti
party. and detailed all the circumstances of
tiie killing. Baker is in jail. There was no
whisky—there was a woman in flic case.”
MINISTER SARGENT’S TROUBLES
A New Explanation of the Causes Which
Have Led to Ills Designation.
In diplomatic circles here anew expla
nation is given of the causes which led to
Minister Sargent’s unpleasant mission to
Berlin, says a Washington special ot the
Ist inst. to the Philadelphia Press. Here
tofore his want of success has been at
tributed to matters political, but it is now
asserted that lack of social tact and want
of regard for the forms of etiquette and
customs prevailing at the German court
were the prime cause of the unpleasant
ness.
The accomplished wife of the Minister
has lor many years been one of the leaders
in the woman’s suffrage movement, and
her husband, in the Senate and at the an
nual convention of the Suffrage Associa
tion, has advocated the use of the ballot
by women. Mr. Sargent and Mrs. Sar
gent also entertain advanced Ideas on
many social questions which, in the
family circle at Washington, were dis
cussed by the pleasant and refined com
panies that frequently assembled at their
house.
The etiquette of the German court is
as rigid as that of any government of
Kurope, possibly excepting that of Sweden,
and not only are the outward forms and
observances ot royalty strictly main
tained, but the conversation flows within
well defined channels of thought and ex
pression. to transgress which would be
regarded as an unpardonable offense.
It is said that the topics of conversa
tion at social parties given by the Ameri
can Minister were inexpressibly repul
sive to the officers of the German Govern
ment who attended them. Members of
the Imperial Court were not disposed to
listen to expressions favoring suffrage for
men. much less for women, and they ac
cordingly ceased to socially recognize the
Minister’s family. On the other hand, the
Liberal members of the Reichstag, among
whom was Herr Lasker, found the Minis
ter’s home an exceedingly agreeable re
sort, and his warmest Irieuds were the
principal opponents ot the government.
The Chancellor’s hatred of the Liberals
and bis bitter opposition to all Socialistic
theories led him in time ro regard the
American Minister with peculiar aversion.
These teelings, it is said, might have
been outwardly repressed until tlie end of
the present administration, when Mr.
Sargent would have been recalled, had it
not been for the Easter episode, which
brought matters to a crisis. Whether this
explanation of the trouble is the true one
or not, enough is known to justify the ad
ministration in accepting Mr. Sargent’s
resignation.
More Delegates for Blaine in Penn
sylvania. .
Newport, Pa., April .3.— The Repub
lican Convention of the Eighteenth Con
gressional District, representing Hunting
don, Juniata. Fulton, Franklin, Perry and
Snyder counties, elected Blaine delegates
to the State Convention to-day. Creden
tials were not given to the delegates till
they signed a pledge to support Blaine for
the Presidential nomination.
All House Builders in Nexv Orleans to
Strike.
New Orleans. April 3.—At a ineetingof
the Grand Council 8f the Mechanics Union
tonight it was decided that there be a
general strike ou Monday next providing
an advance is refused. ‘This strike will
include all the mechanics engaged in
house building.
THE EVERINGHAM BURNS.
15 OH HO LIVES LOST ON THE
CHATTAHOOCHEE.
Four O’clock In the Morning and Fitz
gerald Landing the Scene of the Dis
aster—A List of the Dead—All Asleep
When the Alarm was Given—A Heroic
Pilot and His Son Do Good Work.
Eufaula, Ala., April 3.—The steamer
Rebecca Everingham, of the Central Line
of boats plying between Columbus, Ga.,
and Apalachicola, Florida, on the Chatta
hoochee river, burned to the water’s edge
at Fitzgerald’s landing, four miles above
Florence, Georgia, and twenty-eight miles
above Eufaula, at 4:05 o’clock this morn
ing. She was loaded with 350 bales of
cotton and carried about 30 passengers.
The fire is supposed to have been caused
by a falling particle of carbon from the
electric light. The boat was amid stream
when the alarm was given and was
quickly enveloped in smoke and flame,
lighting up the sky for miles around. The
shrieks of the terrified passengers and
crew, mingled with the roar of the flames,
were heart-piercing. Men and women
rushed hither and thither in their night
garments imploring aid.
HEADED FOR THE SHORE.
The boat was headed for land by tbe
pilot, but before the landing was efl’ected
nearlv every part of the craft was envel
oped in fire. Within thirty minutes after
the bank was touched, and the few that
it was possible to save had been landed,
the boat burned down to the hull, and sev
ering her mooring, drifted into the stream
and sank hall a mile below.
SOME OF THE LOST.
Among those known to be lost are:
W. L. Kennedy, of Eufaula.
Mrs. Avant, of Cuthbert, Ga.
Miss Simpson, of Fort Gaines, a sister
of Mrs. Avant.
•Julia Adams, the colored stewardess.
Dolph Thomas.
Randall Singer.
A. L. Stephen, the last three colored
deck hands.
Robert Griflin, a colored stevedore.
A colored woman, whose name is un
known. ,
A child.
Among the missing are J. H. High
tower, of Eufaula.
Two other white passengers, whose
names are unknown, are fatally burned.
E. B. Williams, of LaGrange, is serious
ly burned.
SURVIVORS AT EUFAULA,
The Captain commanding, George
Whiteside, Second Engineer J. T. Carey,
with two wagon and two bateau loads of
survivors and their effects, reached Eu
faula at 2 o’clock this evening.
Among these was Pilot G. H. Lapham,
to whose heroism and that of his young
son those w’ho did escape are indebted tor
theii lives.
THE BRAVE PILOT AXI> HIS SOX.
When the pilot saw the danger thev
were in he did not wait for the boat to
make the landing to make fast, but or
dered his son overboard with a rope, who
swam ashore, made taut, then swam back,
and heroically went to work to save life.
The pilot was the last to desert the deck,
and then did so only after saving the life
of two ladies and his wounded Captain,
besides aiding others.
FEARS THAT MORE HAVE BEEN LOST.
Pilot Lapham makes the gloomy fore
boding that it is impossible at present to
arrive at the number that may have per
ished. The names given above were re
ceived from him. lie says that the small
number seen alive after the disaster make
it apparent that the roll ot missing is
larger, and among these may be many
others who were either burned or
drowned.
SOME MIRACULOUS ESCAPES.
One lady saved herself by jumping from
the cabin to the deck below, a distance of
twenty-five feet, on the opposite side from
the flames and another by clinging to the
motionless wheel.
One of the passengers, J. B. Yates, had
a presentiment of the disaster, and spoke
of it the preceding night, and so stronglv
was he impressed with the idea that when
retiring he refused to disrobe, but slept
in a rubber coat, with his valise at hand.
He was sleeping nervously when the
alarm sounded, and reached for his
satchel and looked for the shore, with no
thought of the safety of others.
No ortieers were lost or seriously in
jured.
THE COTTON’S VALUE.
The Everingham had a cargo ol 350
bales of cotton, valued at SIB,OOO. Of tbe
number, 234 bales belonged to JI. L. Hull
& Cos., of Eufaula, and are covered by in
surance in the Fire Insurance Company
of Liverpool.
The balance was not insured.
THE BURNED STEAMER.
The steamer Everingham was built
about two years ago, and was tbe newest
and handsomest craft on the Chattahoo
chee river. She belonged to the Central
Railroad, and was valued at about $20,000.
She i6 probably insured.
THE SURVIVORS.
The almost nude survivors were pro
vided as well as possible with clothing
at Fitzgerald's landing, and, together
with the under officers in command of
Pilot Lapham, spent the afternoon in this
city, and leave by tbe night train for their
respective homes, the officers going to
Columbus, Ga.
This is the most shocking disaster on
this river since the explosion of a Con
federate gunboat near Fort Gaines, when
eighteen lives were lost.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
The Capitol Commissioners in Consul
tat ion with the Architect.
Atlanta, April 3. —Tbe Capital Com
missioners were busy all day with Archi
tect Edbrooke, approving or modifying
the plans and specifications. They will
try and finish to-morrow. Bids will be
advertised for to cover, marble granite,
and other material, and the Commission
ers will decide which to use by the cost
and quality. The object is to’ secure a
durable building within the million dol
lars. A Morning News reporter ex
amined the interior plans to-day, and he
is certain that the people* will be
even better pleased with them
than the handsome exterior design. No
clear conception has yet gone abroad of
the superior and attractive arrangement
of the interior. The Commissioners are
doing slow but sure and valuable work
for the State.
the suicide.
There is no clue to the identity of the
suicide. Dr. Hugh Titian, of South Caro
lina, indiscreetly reported to be the man,
is here alive, but failing to call for his
trunk at the hotel occasioned the report
that he was the victim.
THE EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES.
Another United States prisoner died at
St. Joseph’s Infirmary to-day. It is hoped
that no other cases will prove fatal. A
hi h wind has prevailed all day. There
are distressing reports from a cyclone in
Floyd county.
ANARCHY IN CUBA.
Distrust the Kule In Every Part of the
Island and a Series of Revolts Proba
ble.
Havana, April 3.—An order has been
received from Madrid reinstating Anibal
Arriete as Custom House Collector. He
is the man who has continuously imposed
fines on American vessels and who within
five months fined merchants $120,000.
Emiliano Nunez is being court-martialed
iu a Cuban fortress. Many people fearing
that they will be’Shot down like other sus
pected individuals have disappeared
from their homes. Reports from
all parts of the island describe
the situation as daily growing worse.
New bands are reported to have risen.
The government will soon be obliged to
fight such a number of scattered parties
of bandits that the troops available will
be insufficient. The feeling of distrust and
alarm is spreading.
SLAUGHTER BY AN ENGINE,
Four Hungarians Killed, Two Injured
and One Escapes Unhurt.
Scranton, Pa., April 3.—Seven
Austro-Polanders looking for work,
while walking on the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western Railroad track at 4
o'clock to-day, 3 miles from this city,
were struck by a backing engine. Four
were killed, one was fatally injured, one
lost an arm, and one escaped unhurt.
The bodies of the killed were horribly
mutilated and dismembered. The heads
and limbs were ■ scattered over the road
for many rods around. The dead were
placed in the Coroner’s charge. The in
jured are at the Lackawanna Hospital.
None know a word ot English.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1884.
DANVILLE DEMOCRATS.
Further Light Thrown on the Election
Troubles in Old Virginia.
Washington, April 3.—Alexander W.
Miller (white), ot Danville, was the first
witness examined by Senator Sherman’s
sub-committee to-day.
lie narrated certain features of the riot and
many circumstances bearing on the condition
of affairs before and after the riot. On one
occasion before the riot he heard a pistol shot
at a distance. A colored man, who was walk
ing in front of him, thereupon drew his re
volver and fired au answering signal, saying
at the same time, “My brother, I meet you.”
He had seen colored women butt white ladies
off the side walk. When the negroes were
living from the scene of the riot, the witness
saw E. M. Hatcher, a white man, chasing a
colored boy. The witness caught the boy,
placed him in a hallway arid
told Hatcher to let the liov alone.
Hatcher, who was under the influence of
liquor, ceased his pursuit.
8. L. Dance, of Pow hatan county, Va., tes
tified to hearing a negro say to a crowd of
his fellows that he wanted to get a chance to
kill a white man. The same scene was de
scribed bv Mr. Ruffin yesterday.
Chess Ingram (colored) was called. He
had been a Democrat for five or six years.
George Adams, a colored man. had threat
ened at the election before the last that it the
witness voted the Democratic ticket
he should uot live out his days. The colored
people followed him after he voted his ticket,
so that had to take refuge in his stable. The
colored people in Danville did not visit or as
sociate with him.
THU LAWSON’-NOEI. FIGHT.
Aaron Ibfinter tcolored), of Danville, who
described his occupation as a general handy
man, saw the riot, He rehearsed the light
between Lawson and Noel. The white man,
Noel, had slightly the advantage, when Geo.
Adams jumped on the white man, aud in the
struggle the pistol of the white man went off.
Someone then ran up and took Adams off.
Lawson was drunk, and he thought that the
white man was all*). George Adams
went across the street aud said
to a crowd of colored men : “There, let’s get
him (the white man) and kill him.” Jeff
Corbett came to the crowd and tried to pre
vent a disturbance, hilt without Success.
Adams got some more negroes and they
started after Noel. Seven or eight of the
negroes had pistols. Glass had a pistol and
started after the man they said had hit Law
sou.and would have killed him hut for a little
white man with a big head, who stood in a
doorway and pointed a gun at the colored
men. He concluded to get under a signboard
near there aud did so amt it (the
signboard) is there yet. Presently
the firing began, and lie got from under the
signboard,and ran until he came to a little store
and went in aud flung himself on a pile of
turnips. He did not know who fired first,
lint the colored people would have killed
Noel (“just as sure as yon’r a man and I’m a
man”). Lawson had done nothing for several
weeks prior to the fight except drink and loaf.
HOW COLORED DEMOCRATS ARE TREATED.
The witness had been attacked by ’Squire
Taliaferro, Arthur Hatchet and Geo. Wilson
for voting the Democratic ticket. Thev
threatened to get a rope, tie it to a horse, anil
make a noose out of one end and “ketch him
in it.” Some colored people said “howdy” to
him, but none visited him. ’Squire Taliaferro
advised colored women to leave their hus
bands if they voted with the Democrats. The
’Squire had great influence around there
because he did uo work, wore good clothes,
roul<l road, and went around with newspapers
in his pocket. He tried to get a woman the
witness was courting to give him up. but the
witness, hearing of it, married her right
away. ’Squire Taliaferro had stood up well
until the tiring began, and then he didn’t stand
up at all. The-witness did not see him until
two weeks after the riot. He heard from him,
however, that if the colored people did not
vote, and could prove that it was from fear
the government would give them two votes
for one. This was circulated among the col
ored people. The negroes had talked of kill
ing Captain Graves. On Tross-examination
the witness said that Lawson, the colored
man who was the principal in the preliminary
list fight, was drunk and was generally in that
condition.
A. Wiinbisb, a commission merchant of
Danville, who lives a short distance from
town, testified that George Adams, the lead
ing witness subpoena'd by Senator Sherman,
was a very quarrelsome man.
THREATS OF THE NEGROES.
B. F. Walker (white), an ex-Federalsoldier
and a Republican, who is a helper in a livery
stable, was examined, lie saw two of the
men who were killed by the rioters. Several
white men picked up one of the bodies and a
pistol dropped from the pocket. He heard a
colored man deprecating the riot on the
ground that it was brought on prematurely.
He saw ten or twelve of the colored men in
the crowd of rioters flourishing arms and
saying lo their colored associates behind:
“Come on ! It is as good|a time now as ever.”
He had heard colored men planning to divide
up the stores in Danville.
Senator Vance—“ You say you are a Re
publ lean?”
“Yes, sir: I am a Republican.”
“How did you vote last time?”
“I voted the Democratic ticket straight.”
“How is that?”
“Well, I’ll tell you.”
Senator Lapham—“Well, I object to that.”
Seuator \ ance—“l think when a professed
Republican votes the Democratic ticket—”
Senator Lapham—“That’s the reason why I
object. Because he is a professed Republi
can.”
Senator Vance—“ Well. I insist upon it.”
The witness—“ Well, I’ll tell you. I didn’t
consider that there was any issue in Virginia
at the last election, except the nigger against
the white man. and I’m for the white man
every time."
Senator Lapham, smiling contentedlv—
“Exactly.”
A GUN DEALER’S TEHTIMONV.
It. W. Valentine, a merchant of Danville,
ivas examined. He said lie thought that he
sold a greater number of pistols to colored
people than he did to the whites.
<-’• C. Lance, of Lynchburg, agent of the
west \ lrgima Coal Company, a Republican
in national affairs, was examined, lie votes
the Democratic State ticket in Virginia for
tlir* reason that he thinks the Democrats the
best qualified to manage State affair?. He
was in Danville on the day of the riot, lie
saw people running down the street, both
white and black, getting out of the way to
gether. Ho. saw no firearms and heard no
threats. The only person he heard talk about
the riot after it was over was Major Suther
land, who expressed regret for it.
He was in South Boston Thursday.
There had been a politieal meeting of the
colored people the night before, at which
threats were made to burn the town. Since
he has lived in Virginia he lias seen no at
tempt or disposition on the part of the white
people to intimidate blacks or prevent their
voting.
Roger A. Pricer, Jr., and Wm. A. Moor
man, both of Danville, testified to the con
duinn of affairs in Danville and to certain
features of the riot.
At 4 o’clock tiie committee adjourned until
to-morrow.
Cotton Brokers Suspend.
New York, April 3.— The suspension
of James F. Wenman & Cos., cotton
brokers, at No. 146 Pearl street, was an
nounced to-day at the Cotton Exchange.
Mr. Wen man, who has been several times
President of the Exchange, stated that
his liabilities did not exceed SIO,OOO and
that his suspension was caused by the
failure of his customers to put up their
margins.
MIXFORD A CO. RALLY.
L. W. Minford & Cos. have posted a
notification at the Coffee Exchange an
nouncing that they are ready To pav all
obligations in full at once. They only
suspended a few days ago on account of
the heavy break in prices ot coffee.
Sealed Hl* Own Fate.
Galveston, April 3. —A Dallas special
says: “Rumors that Morgan Cammack,
the great Texas Pacific cotton swindler,
who turned State’s evidence and was out
on bond, had fled after being permitted to
visit New Orleans, were verified this
morning by a telegraph from detectives
and from Cammack himself, that he had
been captured at Guaymas. Mexico. lie
has by fleeing, forfeited his clemency and
will he tried with the other members of
the gang. The evidence helurnished will
be used against himself.
A Double Hanging.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, April 3.—A
dispatch from Regina, Northwest Teiri
tory, says: “John and George Stephen
son were executed here tbis morning at
8 o’clock for the murder of an old man
named John McCarthy, at Troy, on the
14th of June last. The prisoners made a
full confession of their guilt and ac
knowledged the justice of the sentence.
The punishment, even by the Indians and
half-breed population, l’s considered just,
and will produce a most salutary effect.
A Free Trade League In Minnesota.
St. Paul, Minn., April 3.— The mem
bers of all political parties in the State
met last evening to organize a Minnesota
State Free Trade League. The constitu
tion declares in favor of absolute free
trade, and pledges the members neither
to support nor vote for any candidate for
Congress or for members'of the Legisla
ture who is not pledged to free trade.' The
memliership includes some of the most
prominent men of both political parties.
The Silver Coinage A citation.
New York, April 3.—A large meeting
was held at the Produce Exchange this
afternoon and the question of the silver
coinage was discussed. A memorial to
Congress was adopted, praying that body
to at once provide lor a suspension of the
coinage of silver dollars for sued a period
of time as may be necessary to readjust
the relation of gold and silver coins, ami
to bring about a gradual absorption into
the circulation of silver dollars.
A Cyclone In Virginia.
Lynchburg, Va., April 3.— A terrific
wind storm prevailed throughout this
section last night. Several houses were
blown down in adjoining counties, and
great destruction was caused in the
suburbs of this city. Two large tobacco
factories were unroofed here. Trees were
I uprooted and fences were torn to pieces.
AT THE NATION’S CAPITAL
MR. PENDLETON SPEAKS ON THE
EDUCATIONAL BILL.
He Finds no Authority for it in the
Constitution—Mr. Williams Indulges
in a Little Sarcasm—The Indian Ap
propriation Bill up in the Uouse
Washington, April 3.—The Chair laid
before the Senate to-day a message from
the President similar to that read in the
House of Representatives yesterday in
relation to the protection of the levees of
the lower Mississippi.
After the transaction of miscellaneous
business Mr. Blair moved that the Sen
ate, dispensing with the calendar of
cases unobjectofl to, proceed at once
to the consideration of the educational
bill. The motion was agreed to, Mr.
Cockrell saying that he would not
object to such a motion this morning, but
gave notice that in the future he should
object to interruption of the morning busi
ness.
Mr. Pendleton said that his judgment
was clear as to what should be done, but
his sympathies and sensibilities were im
pelling him in another direction. This
was a bill to appropriate $ 105,000,000 for
education within the States, the money to
be expended through a series of ten vears.
If $300,000,000 had t utlioed for the ex
penses of the government heretolore,
additional taxes must be levied to
meet this expense—a tax on • tobac
co or whisky produced within the
United States, or on iron or something
else imported into tne United States. The
Government of the United States had no
independent fortune. It had not a dollar
except what was contributed in taxes by
the people,and if we were wise we would in
the first section of the bill impose tbe tax
which the second section expends. It
would have been well if in this bill the
first section had said that on all woolen
goods or on all iron and steel manufac
tures imported into the United States, and
all whisky and tobacco manufactured in
the United States, tbe taxes heretofore
imposed should, for the nurposes of the
bill, lie increased by so much per cent.
He sympathized fully with tbe
object of the bill, recognized
the suffering and losses experienced by
the Southern people and appreciated the
statement made by Dr. Mayo and others,
and had heard those statements with a
feeling of honest pride that the people of
the South were brethren of ours, co-heirs
of the same liberty and worthy to be mem
bers of the same free government. Mr.
Pendleton paid a high tribute to the
energy and impartiality of Mr. Blair as
Chairman of the Committee on Education
lor the spirit which be had displayed in
connection with the bill and the willing
ness that he had shown to have the bill
amended in any way that would not de
-Btrov*its substance. Mr. Pendleton agreed
fully with the remarks of the Senator
from Mississippi (Mr. Lamar) made some
days ago regarding the advantages of ed
ucation to men as citizens of’a free re
public. If tiie alternative were, between
this bill and the illiteracy complained
of he would bo strongly inclined to favor
tbe bill, but there was another and a con
stitutional way out of the difficulty. Mr.
Pendleton could not find in tbe constitu
tion any authority for a bill of this char
acter. Tbe Senator from New Hampshire
(Mr. Biair) had said that the government
had the power to perpetuate itself. He had
said that the education of the citizens was
necessary to the perpetuation of our form
of government. In making that state
ment the Senator had gone
far beyond the tenth amend
ment to the constitution. The government
had no such power to perpetuate itself as
was intimated by the Senator from New
Hampshire. If within the limits of the
constitution no power could be found to
enable tbe government to perpetuate it
self the government must fall even though
the alternative should be tbe life or death
of tbe government. He had diligently
looked into the constitution, but could not
find tbere the grant invoked by the sup
porters of the bill. If illiteracy was fatal
to a rightful exercise of suffrage it was
as fatal in the States that were able but
unwilling to educate their children as it
was in those that were unable to do so, and
if the bill iverc correct in principle
Congress would have to educate the chil
dren of unwilling States as well as those
of States that were unable to educate
them.
Mr. Pendleton was followed by Mr.
Beck in a speech upon the taritt’ and reve
nue and incidentally upon the education
al bill.
Mr Williams inquired of the Chair as to
what the business before the Senate was.
Tbe Chair replied that the pending ques
tion was on tbe motion Of the geutieinali
from Kansas (Mr. Plumb) to recommit
the bill to the committee.
“To recommit what?” asked Mr. Wil
liams.
“The educational bill,” replied tbe
Chair.
“Ah!” remarked Mr. Williams, amid
the laughter of the Senators.
Mr. Williams continued that this de
flate had covered so wide a range
that he had got out to sea,
and lost his reckoning, and it required
some effort to collect his thoughts to get
back to the subject which the Chair had
informed him was tbe subject betorc the
Senate. The bill he said had been debated
for three weeks and everything but educa
tion had been tulkcd about. The pro
vision of the constitution imposing on
Congress the duty of promoting the gen
eral .welfare was the same as that requir
ing it to provide for the common defense.
Whatever right Congress had as to one
it had as to the other. No one doubted
the right of Congress to provide fo“ tiie
common defense. Mr. Williams had no
doubt as to the constitutionality of
the measure, and if he had
a doubt he would give the
benefit of it to the poor, struggling hu
man soul living and dying in ignorance
and vice. He would tryto get some light
into the prison house ot the ignorant that
would lead them up to a higher plane of
mauhood. In reply to a question by Mr.
Morgan, Mr. Williams said that educa
tion made better men of the negroes as
well as of white men. Referring to Mr.
Sherman’s remark that the Southern
States could not be trusted with the money,
Mr. Williams said that that Senator over
estimated the race question in the South.
Every man who knew the South knew
that there was more prejudice against the
negro in the North than in the South.
To say that there was anv intention or
prospect of this common school machin
ery becoming a political engine, was to
trifle witk a great subject. Those who
Bupporteuthe bill, he said, even the prin
cipal promoter of It, the Senator from
New Hampshire (Mr. Blair j,in reply to a
question by Mr. Williams, had distinctly
disclaimed any intention of the sort, and
Mr. Williams had not the remotest idea
that any such question would ever arise
in connection with it. There was no force
In the objection that the Federal Govern
ment might interfere. It had not hereto
fore interfered in the States to which it
had given land grants for schools. There
could be uo freedom, Mr. Williams con
tinued, where ignorance nnd prejudice
prevailed.' Tbe bondaj e of taskmaster
was not half so galling as the bondage of
ignorance and vice, lor while one en
slaved the body tbe other enslaved the
immortal soul.
Mr. Morrill said that from the tariff
character of Mr. Beck’s speech he sup
posed that the Senator was afraid
that if be did not get a speech off
in connection with the educational bill lie
would have no opportunity of getting it
off at all, and Mr. Morrill said that if the
country could be assured that the Morri
son biii would never reach the Senate, he
thought that the country would feel
greatly relieved.
Mr. Bayard secured the floor, liftt
yielded to a motion to adjourn. Be
fore adjournment a bill was reported
favorably from the Public Buildings Com
mittee authorizing the erection of a pub
lic building at Asheville, N. C.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day, on motion of G. D.
Wise, of Virginia, a joint resolution was
passed authorizing the Secretary of War
to loan flags and bunting to the Mayor of
Richmond, Va., to be used at the fair to
be held in that city in aid of the home for
disabled Confederate soldiers.
The resolution reported from the Com
mittee on Accounts authorizing the
employment iu the bookkeeper’s de
partment of the House of a force of
laborers to fold speeches, gave rise
to some discussion, in the course of
which reference was made to the fact that
tUjs being a Presidential year, every
meTnber would want to make'a campaign
speech, and the work of folding would be
increasing. It was finally adopted.
The morning hour having l>een dis
pensed with the House, at 12:45 o’clock,
went into committee of the whole, with
Mr. Wellborn, of Texas, in the chair, on
the Indian appropriation bill. The pending
question was ou the appeal taken from
the decision of the Chair yesterday de
claring in order the motlou'made by Mr.
Throckmorton, of Texas, to strike out the
clause appropriating $12,500 for the pav
of five Indian inspectors, and to insert a
proviso abolishing the offices of Indian
inspectors and authorizing the Secretary
of War to detail five officers of the army,
not under the rank of captain, to act as
ludian inspectors.
After debate the Chair reiterated the
decision made by him, stating that
earnest consideration ot the matter only
brought him more strongly to the conclu
sion that his ruling yesterday was cor
rect. The judgment of the Chair was sus
tained by a vote of 114 to 14. The motion
was discussed upon its merits by Mr.
Morrison, of Illinois, who failed to see in
it any intention of translerring the In
dian Bureau to the War Department; by
Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, who did see In it
a proposal to turn over a part of the
army to the Indian Bureau; ♦y Mr.
Wait, of Connecticut, who opposed it
as putting untrained men in the place of
trained men; by Mr. Cox, of New York,
in favor of elevating tbe condition of the
Indian; and by Mr. Belford. of Colorado,
in advocacy of the control of the Indians
by tbe army. “How long,” inquired the
latter, “was the L r nited States going to
support a class of idle paupers who would
not work ? A man who would not work,
white or red, ought to starve.” The mo
tion was agreed to by a vote 91 to 67.
After concluding consideration of the
fifty-two pages of the bill the committee
rose.
Mr. Cox, of New York, presented a me
morial ot the New York Mercantile Ex
change aud the merchants and citizens of
Now York protesting against the passage
of any bill which will enable tbe govern
ment to receive trade dollars in any other
way than by purchase at their market
value as bullion. It was referred.
The House then, at 5:10 o’clock ad
journed.
GENERAL GORDON’S POSITION.
Humors of Another Reverse— The Gov
ernment’s Position.
London, April 3.—A correspondent at
Alexandria says tkatjie possesses posi
tive proof that Gen. Gordon expects that
British troops will be sent to Khartoum.
Gen. Graham discredits the reports of
spies that Osman Digna is mustering a
lresh force. He deems it altogether un
likely that Osman will attack the friend
ly tribes.
IN THE COMMONS.
In the House of Commons this evening,
Sir Stafford Northeote moved an adjourn
ment to discuss the government’s Egyp
tian policy. He said that the honor' of
England was pledged to insure the safety
of Gen. Gordon. Premier Gladstone com
plained against the opposition Tor con
stantly raising debates iu regard to Egypt.
The motion of Mr. Northeote. he said,
was mischievous. He believed that the
object of the opposition was to consume
the time of Parliament in order to weak
en the resources of the House in regard to
the franchise biii. Mr. Northcote’s mo
tion was negatived.
In the course of his speech Mr. Glad
stone said that the time had not yet ar
rived for sending a peremptory order to
Gen. Gordon to withdraw from Khar
toum. At the same time Gen. Gordon was
not under orders to remain. He could
leave at any time if lie felt so disposed.
Gen. Gordon believed himself to be per
fectly safe.
FINANCES.
CAntO, April 3.—The Consuls from the
different countries oppose the new Egyp
tian stamp duties and trade licenses, or
any change in capitulations, so long as
the country remains in its present unset
tled state.
GORDON REPORTED AGAIN DEFEATED.
London, April!, 2a.m. —Reports are
current that Gen. Gordon lias had another
reverse. Explorer Schweinfurth has re
ceived a letter from Gen. Gordon in which
the latter says that the demeanor of the
people has much changed since he was
last in Soudan.
LONDON’S GREAT FIRE.
Only the Favorable Direction of the
Wind Saves St. Paul’s Cathedral.
London, April 3.— The fire yesterday
originated in the printing house of Pardon
A Sons, Lovell’s Court, Paternoster Row.
From there it quickly extended to the fa
mous old “Dolly’s” chop house. This,
together with the house of Faudel, Phil
lips & Sons, importers of toys and fancy
goods of all kinds, in Newgate street, the
large bookbindery of Smith Bros., iu Ivv
lane, and the music publishing bouse of
B. Williams, in Paternoster Row, were
completely destroyed. Tbe damage is as
great as that caused by the Wood street
lire. The favorable direction of the wind
saved St. Paul’s Cathedral. Overhead
the wires were bent double bv tbe intense
heat.
The losses by the lire were covered by
an insurance of £1,250,000.
A DEPOT BURNED.
Charlotte, N. C., April 3.— Last night
the freight and passenger depots at Rock
Ilill, S. C., were burned. It is supposed, by
incendaries. IV ith the depots, a cotton
platform containing 100 bales of cotton,
the Western Union telegraph office, a car
load of lumber and a car-load of guano
were destroyed. The cotton belonged to
J. M. Ivy. The total loss is SIO,OOO. it is
tully insured.
LABOR AND ITS HIRE.
Another Strike Among the Iron Work
ers of Pennsylvania.
Sharpsville, I’a., April 3.—The iron
workers at the Douglass furnace of Pierce,
Kelly & Cos., the Spearman Iron Company,
atul the Mabel furnace of Perkins & Cos.,
have all struck because of a reduction of
from 10 to 15 per cent, in the wages of
laborers, iron carriers, filers and the iron
makers. The firms allege that the condi
tion of the iron market forces the reduc
tion. The workers at Middlesex have
accepted the reduction.
HUNGARIANS MUST GO.
Shenandoah, Pa., April 3.—The min
ing bosses have discharged all the Hun
garians working in the breakers of the
collieries in this vicinity.
WHY THE HUNGARIANS ARE DIS
CHARGED.
This is done because the boys who have
been going to school all winter have now
applied for work at the collieries, and as
they are better slate pickers the Hunga
rians must go. There are a large number
of Hungarians here, and most of them are
destitute.
Valuable Arctic I.iterature.
London, April 3.—The Times pub
lishes the report of the Board of Officers
on the Greely relief expedition, including
the letter from Sir George Nares, Lieut.
Markham and Mr. Field on the naviga
tion of the Smith sound route. The Times
says that their advice is the wisest possi
ble, that the board’s work is verv praise
worthy, and that the report will'be a val
uable guide for future expeditions.
The Price of Barbed Wire Leaping Up
ward.
Chicago, April 3.—At a meeting of the
barbed wire manufacturers here to-day
the price of wire was advanced 10 per
cent. This is the second advance within
sixty days. An advance of )4 cent per
pound was made at St. Louis only a short
time ago.
A Boy Murderer Hanged.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 3.—George alias
Babe Jones (colored), the boy murderer
convicted of killing John Foster, also col
ored, was hanged in the county jail yard
here this morning in the presence oi sev
eral hundred spectators. The boy met
his fate unflinchingly.
A Cotton Operator’s Suicide.
Shreveport, La.* April 3.—Maj. C. G.
Thurmond, a prominent member of the
Cotton Exchange and a well known cot
ton ojierator, committed suicide last night
by shooting himself through the head.
The act was caused by financial embar
rassment.
Prince Leopold’s Remains.
London, April 3.—The royal steam
yacht Osborn has arrived at Portsmouth
from Cherbourg, bearing the remains of
the Duke of Albany. The Crown Prince
Frederick William, of Prussia, has ar
rived in London, where he has come to
attend the funeral of Prince Leopold.
A Party to a Murder Conspiracy.
Pesth, April 3. —Herr Schiefler, editor
of the Anarchist paper, the Madical , who
has been under arrest for som# time, con
fesses that he was present at a meeting of
Anarchists in Vienna when the murders
of Detective Bloch and Police Commissary
Klubeck were planned,
Bismarck In tbe Bundesrath.
Berlin, April 3.—Prince Bismarck w’as
present in the Bundesrath yesterday dur
ing tbe discussion of the proposal of the
German Liberal party that a responsible
Ministry be formed for the empire. Tho
session was a secret one.
SOUTHERN COTTON MILLS.
AUGUSTA’S MEETING REPRE
SENTATIVE AND IMPORTANT.
Millions of Dollars and Hundreds of
Thousands of Spindles and Looms
Represented—“Tbe Southern and Wes
tern Manufacturers Association” to be
Organized—The Ohio Tariff Plank the
Favorite.
Augusta, Ga., April 3. —A meeting of
tbe owners of the cotton mills throughout
the South was held here to-day for the
purpose of discussing the question of the
supply of and demand for cotton goods.
It was stated in a circular, issued by the
Augusta mill men who originated the
call for the convention, that it was their
belief that the purchasing power is not
equal to the supply, and that for the ben
efit of all concerned it was of the great
est importance that some plan should be
agreed upon to reduce the produc
tion of cotton goods. President Hickman,
of the Graniteville Manufacturing Com
pany, called the convention to order and
welcomed the manufacturers to Augusta.
J. F. Hanson, of Macon, was elected
President and A. H. Twitchell, of Clifton,
S. C., Secretary. Mr. Hanson said that
manufacturing interests just now were
in anything but a satisfactory condition,
and he hoped that united action would
result in favor of the manufacturers of
the South.
THE MEN PRESENT.
The following mills were represented:
A. E. Hutchinson, President of the Rock-
Hill Factory, 7,904 spindles, capital $116,-
500; O. S. Porter, proprietor of the cotton
mills at Covington, Ga„ 2,300 spiudles;
A. F. Pope, proprietor of Powell's
Mills in Georgia, 3,000 spindles, capital
$60,000: 11. T. Inman. President of
the Exposition Cotton Mills at Atlanta,
16,000 spindles, 480 looms, capital $350,000;
F. 11. Barber, of the Fishing Creek Mill,
South Carolina, 4,000 spindles, capital
$120,000; O. Barber, of Cedar Shoals, S.
C., 816 spindles, capital $22,000; R. L.
Bloomfield, President of the Athens Man
ufacturing Company, 9,000 spindles
and 250 looms, capital $105,000;
O. F. Cnwthon, President of
the Stonewall Manufacturing Company
at Enterprise. Mississippi. 6.000 spindles,
180 looms, capital $169,000; R. B. Bullock,
President of the Atlanta cotton mills,
10,240 spindles, 330100m5, capital $300,000;
Louis Hamburger, of the Wavne Manu
factory of Georgia. 2,500 spindles and 48
looms, capital $250,000; n. P. Haramot,
President of the Piedmont mills,
23,024 spindles, 540 looms, capital
$500,000; I), E. Converse, President
and A. H. Twitchell, Secretary of the Clif
ton Manufacturing Company of South
Carolina. 20,224 spindles and 456 looms,
capital $51)0,000; Mr. Converse also repre
sents I>. E. Converse & Co.’s Glendale
Mills of South Carolina, 5,000 spindles
and 136 looms; Charles T. Boehm, repre
senting the Union Manufacturing Com
pany of Maryland, 13,000 spindles
and 325 looms, capital $400,000; he
also represents the Phoenix Mills of
Maryland, with 6,000 spindles and
150 looms; NY. C. Sibley, President of the
Sibley Manufacturing Company, of Au
gusta, 19,200 spindles and 500 looms, capi
tal $1,000,000: he is also President ol
the Langley Manufacturing Company, of
South Carolina. 10,880 spindles and 329
looms, capital $400,000; George T. Jack
son, President of the Enterprise Manu
facturing Company, of Augusta, 28,558
spindles and 652 looms, capital
$500,000; N. W. Armstrong, Treasurer
of the Fairmount Manufacturing Com
pany. of NVilliston, S. C., 4,000 spindles
and 60 looms, capital $45,000; John B.
Connelly, proprietor of the Sterling Mills,
of Augusta, 2.800 spindles; G. AY. Felker,
President of tbe New High Shoals Com
pany, iu AA r alton county, Ga., 6,(KM)
spindles and 80 looms; C. H. Phinizy,
President of the Augusta Factory, of
Augusta, 26,000 spindles and 786 looms,
capital $600,000; AV. G. McCov,
President of the Riverside Mills,
of Augusta, 2,400 spindles for yarns,
capital $200,000; AVilliam I. Russell,
agent Princeton Factory, Athens, Ga.. 3,-
280 spindles and 100 looms, capital $93,-
000; J. H. Montgomery, I’icolet Manufac
turing Company of South Carolina, 1,080
spindles and 341 looms, capital $300,000;
11. H. Hickman, President of theSGranite
viHe and A’aucluse Manufacturing Com
panies ot South Carolina, 33,400 spindles
and 950 looms, capital stock $600,000; J.
F. Hanson, representing the AVilcox
Manufacturing Company of Newnan,
Ga.; Mr. Hanson is als’o agent of the
Bibb Manufacturing Company of Macon,
16,500 spindles and 140 looms, capital
$200,000; J. O. Mathewson, representing
the Randall Manufacturing Company of
North Carolina, 45,000 spindles and 7300
looms, capital $100,000; he also represents
the Naomi Mills of North Carolina. 5,000
spindles and 150 looms, capital $150,000;
Charles Estes, President of the John P.
King Manufacturing Company of Au
gusta, 26,464 spindles and 760 looms, capi
tal $1,000,000, and President AYaiker, of
the Charleston Manufacturing Company.
15,000 spindles and 312 looms, capital
$500,000.
LETTERS OK SYMPATHY.
Letters were received from tbe man
agers of the following mills exjiressing
sympathy with the object ot the conven
tion : Beaver Creek and Bluff Mills and
Anniston Manufacturing Company,
through A. L. Tyler; AYehadken Manu
facturing Company; F. P. Randall, Presi
dent of the Morotock Mills at Danville,
Va.; AV*. H. Hill, Treasurer ot the Mat
thew’s Cotton Mill at Selma, Ala.; 11. A.
Haralson, Secretary and Treasurer of the
Fulton Cotton Spinning Company at At
lanta, Ga.; J. Elsas, President of the
Bellemont Manufacturing Company at
Sumter, S. C.;D. J. AVinn, President of
the Battersea, Etrick and Matoaca Manu
facturing Companies: 1). Callendar, agent
of the Pulaski Cotton and AVoolen Mills
in Tennessee; Gordon & McCord, the Ivy
Shoals Factory in North Carolina;
Pliyfer and Allison, of the Natchez cotton
mills, in Mississippi; R. F. Learned, Pres
ident. President Young, of the Eagle and
Phcenix Mills at Columbus, Ga., sent a
letter expressing regret that he could not
attend. He thought that the surplus com
plained of was more apparent than real,
and that the jobbers were now buying
and trading from hand to mouth and com
pelling the factories to carry goods for
merly bought in bulk. He thought that
limiting the production would hurt needy
operatives and engender strikes.
a committee report.
The Committee on Business, through
Chairman Hickman, made the following
report:
Your committee has the honor lo report for
the immediate action of the convention the
organization of an association, to be known as
the Southern and Western Manufacturers’
Association, the object and purpose of said
association to be of the same general charac
ter as those of the New England Manufactu
rers’ Association. To effect this object we re
commend the election by this convention of
an executive committee’ consisting of fifteen
members, of which the Chairman of this
convention shall be ex-officio Chairman, by
whom said organization shall lie furnished,
with printed copies of said plan of organiza
tion to be mailed to each spinner and manu
facturer south of the Potomac and Ohio riv
ers, anil membership of this organization
shall be obtained by written reply accepting
the proposed plan. In view of the short cot
ton crop of last year we recommend the adop
tion of the following resolution:
Resolved, That we recommend that our spin
ners and manufacturers reduce their produc
tion in proportion to the reduced quantity of
raw material now in the country.
The plan for tbe organization of the
Southern Manufacturers’ Association was
unanimously adopted. The resolution
looking to the reduction of production was
discussed at length bv Messrs. Phinizy,
Hickman, Bullock, Jackson, Hammet,
Bloomfield, Hanson, Sibley, Estes, Caw
thon, and others, all the speakers agree
ing as to the necessity for a curtailment
of the production ol yarns and cloth, the
only difference being as to the manner of
accomplishing the result. After several
hours or discussion ex-Gov. Bullock, of
the Mills, offered the fol
lowing resolution, which was unani
mously adopted:
Resulted, That it is the unanimous sense of
this meeting that the production of yarns and
cloth be curtailed pending definite action by
our committee.
The committee of fifteen to whom was
referred the organization of the Southern
Manufacturers Association were In
structed to formulate a plan for reducing
the production of yarns and cloth. The
committee were authorized to, call a
special meeting of the manufacturers to
act upon their report, The convention
adjourned snbjcct to the call of tbe com
mittee. This was the largest and most
influential meeting of cotton manufactur
ers ever held in the South. The result
shows harmonious and determined action
for the curtailment of production.
An interview with the members of the
convention shpws that a majority of the
manufacturers in attendance stand on
tbe tariff plank In the Ohio Democratic
platform.
Bourne’s Majority.
Providence, R. 1., April 3.—The com
plete vote for Gov. Bourne (Republican),
is 15,903, and for Begar (Democrat l 9,599,
scattering 15,
LOUISIANA REJOICING.
The Waters Falling anil Planters Putting
In Their Crops.
New Orleans, April 3.—A special
from Vicksburg says: “Captain Sargeut,of
the steamer Henry, reports that the water
is falling very last along Big Deer creek
and - will be in its banks by to-morrow.
Everybody is plowing, planting and pre
paring for the next crop. The people are
all in good spirits over the rapid fall of
the water. Crop prospects are fine.”
A special troin Vicksburg says: “John
Murdock, of Tensas parish, reports the
following lands on Lake St. Joseph, in
that parish, uot overflowed on the planta
tions named: Routhwood, 200 acres:
A’erona, 700 acres; Franklin, 800 acres;
Balmoral. 500 acres: AYyoming, 300 acres,
and the Perkins estate, 3,000 acres. D.
Morris, of Hard Times landing, reports a
fall of 18 inches iu the back water. He
says that many places in the parish
which were submerged, including
his own, are now out ot water. On Lake
St. Joseph and elsewhere in the parish
planters are plowing and sowiug as if
there had been no overflow.
A special from Morgan City savs:
“The water is now over the floors of some
of the stores on Front street. The rise
to-day was five inches. There are still
hopes of saving the crops.”
THE BRIDGE SOLID.
A' ICKSBURG, April 3.—The report tele
graphed hence yesterday that the Louis
ville, New Orleaus and Texas Railroad
bridge over the Yazoo river at Anthony’s
lerry had listed eleven and a half inches
while undergoing a severe test is errone
ous. The bridge detected but an inch and
a half under the test. There was no list
ing whatever.
TOO HASTILY ABANDONED.
The I’ilot Bjt Kncliant ress Brought
Back to Port.
The pilot boat Enchantress, which was
abandoned Sunday night after haying
been in collision with the schooner Sarah
and Lucy, says the New York 'Times, was
brought into New York harbor on the Ist
by a prize crew, which boarded her about
25 miles from the scene of the collision.
Capt. Rackett, of the fishing smack G. L.
Daboll, says that on Monday morning he
was fishing about 15 miles east-southeast
of Squan Inlet. The Enchantress came
up under a three-reefed mainsail.
She just cleared the Daboll. Capt.
Rackett was greatlv sui prised to
see no one at the wheel of the pilotboat.
He thought that all hands might be sick,
and he immediately boarded the Enchan
tress. Her maintopmast had been carried
away, her plankshear was stove, and
some ot her headgear was missing, but
she was not leaking badly. She appeared
to have been very hurriedly abandoned,
as a gold watch, a diamond pin, some
money, and other valuable property were
found in the cabin. Capt. Rackett placed
three men on the Eachantress and they
brought her into port. She now lies
among the fishing vessels in the Fulton
Market slip. The cost of repairing her
will lie slight, but the amount of salvage
due the fishermen has not yet been de
cided.
The pilots who so hastily left their ves
sel say that when they first saw the Sarah
and Lucy the lights of the latter were not
burning brightly, and thev were not dis
covered until it was too late to avoid run
ning into the schooner. The latter was
heading toward the shore, and the En
chantress got under her bows. The
schooner frequently rose and fell, and in
so doing pounded so violently on the pilot
boat that the latter appeared about to
break in two. AV’hen she was in this dan
gerous position her crew abandoned her.
A STRUGGLE. FOR LIFE.
Heroic Efforts of a Young Man to Res
cue a Drowning Child.
Ira, the 10-year-old son of Geo. Menard,
a wealthy resident of St. Charles, says a
St. Charles, 111., special of the 30th ult. to
the Chicago Tribune , fell in the river this
afternoon a short distance above the dam
and was swept down the stream. The
river is swollen by the flood and is a rag
ing torrent, boiling and seething. The
child disappeared when near the dam,
but reappeared just below it. James
r. Dougherty, the City Clerk, was on
the bridge, 200 feet below. He plunged
from the bridge and caught the child
as he was swept by. Then began an ex
citing struggle for life. The current was
irresistible, and both were carried down
the stream for half a mile. A great crowd
gathered and watched the struggle breath
lessly. At last Dougherty neared the
shore, and a rope was thrown. To tins
he clung, and was dragged under the
water to the shore. After an hour’s hard
work Dougherty was resuscitated, and
it is thought he will be all right. The
boy, whom he clung to to the end, is
alive, but very ill. The hero is a young
man of 23, but of immense strength, else
the feat would have been impossible.
ELEPHANT FIGHTS IN BURMAH.
The Contest which Prince Arthur U
Said to Have Attended.
The cable said recently that the pres
ence of the Duke of Connaught (Prince
Arthur) at an elephant fight, given by tbe
Rajah of Bhurtpore, India, would be made
tbe subject of a question in Parliament.
G. B. Gaylord, says the New York Times
of the 31st ult., who brought Barnum’s sa
cred white elephant to this country said
yesterday that he saw a light at Prome, in
Buhmah, and another at Theyatmo, in
British Burinab.
“The one at Theyatmo was by all odds
tbe best one,” said be. “There were fif
teen elephants on a side.' A pair of them
are never started alone at a fight. The
fights are always arranged for the amuse
ment of the nobles, and are great events.
The battle is terrific. The elephants are
given toddy, made out of the fermented
juice of the palm, which they drink out of
buckets. Jersey lightning 'is like water
compared to the stuff. I drank some un
der the impression that it was a kind of
cider, it smelled like cider. I took only
one finger, and I never was so drunk in
my life. I never would have felt the same
amount of whisky. It makes the ele
phants reel and tumble about like
drunken men. They snort and trum
pet and create a terrible racket.
In the fight at Tbevatmo the
mahouts or drivers straddled their necks
and urged them on. The beasts had been
maddened by prodding and beating and
rushed at each other like mad. There
were some that wheeled around and ran
away, but those that kept on made the
earth shake when they came together.
They ran right into each other. Thev
locked tusks, and gored and lashed one
another with their trunks. Tusks were
run into elephant sbouldera six or eight
inches. The lights in India are the same
of course. In Burraah fights take place
between elepliaats and tigers. King The
bau has men fight tigers. Tbe Burmese in
power are cruel. One King used to make
the people lie down for his pony to walk
over.”
Col. George Arstingstall, Barnum’s ele
phant trainer, said elephants were fond of
whisky or any kind of liquor. One would
take four or five gallons at a dose.
England’s Low Kate for Money.
New York, April 3.—The reduction in
the Bank ol England rate to 2% per cent,
was not generally anticipated by bankers,
although street rates for money'in London
have ruled at 2%@2%. The Bank of Eng
land is very' strong at present, and the
action of the directors has probably been
taken to stimulate business and create a
better feeling. It is not regarded as
probable that any further change will be
made in tbe rate unless unforeseen cir
cumstances should arise. With low rates
for money in England shipments of gold
from this side are likely to be retarded, at
least for the present.
One Farmer Whips Three.
Waterbury, Conn., April 3.— Beni.
Bissell, a farmer, was stopped by three
teamsters at Torrington Mondav, and as
saulted for blocking the roadl He de
fended himself with a cart stake and
whipped all three, being himself badly
beaten, James McCone, one of the
teamsters, has since died, and is found to
have had his skull fractured in many'
places by Bissell’s blows. Bissell is sck
in bed. and the inquest has been ad
journed until next Tuesday.
Jail Birds Take Wlsg at Lexingtoi .
AvGim, Ga., April 3.—A dispatch
from Lexington says; “Five prisoners
escaped from the jail here this morning.
When the jailer went to give them their
breakfast one of (hem knocked him down
with a chair, and all five escaped.”
Hied of Trichinosis.
Latrobe, Pa., Aprils.—Mrs- Galheond
her daughter, victims of trichinosis, died
at Loyal Harma, i'a., this morning, and
tbe father find another daughter are mi
expected to recover.
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CINCINNATI SOCIALISTS.
THEY MEET BUT DO NOT Dl9*
CUSS THE RECENT RIOT.
A Heated Meeting; ExpeotcJ Sunday,
However—A Better Feeling Toward
the Military Manifested—The Barri
cades Slowly but Surely Disappearing
—Desmond'* Killing the Result of
Haphazard Firing.
Cikciknati. April 3. —Matters continue
quiet everywhere in the city. Portions of
the barricade in Sycamore street, near
the jail, remain as rallying points in case
of any further attack. The lower portion
of the court house will soon be protected
by boards to keep out the crowds. The
militia on duty, the Seventeenth Regi
ment, patrol the sidewalk all around tho
court house and jail, and keep everybody
from approaching nearer than the curb
stone. Although almost every building
in the vicinity is marked by bullet holes,
which ordinarily would draw crowds of
sight seers, there are comparatively few
people about, and they keep moving.
SOCIALISTS IX SESSION.
Cincinnati, April 3, 11:43 i*. m.—At a
meeting of Socialists, held to-night, it was
expected that some action would he taken
on the subject of tiie riot, but the matter
was not discussed. It is announced that
a meeting will be held by them on Sunday
next for the purpose of discussing the
recent disturbance. There is no change
in the situation about the could house and
jail except that the crowd of sightseers
became greater during the afternoon, and
a much more friendly feeling was mani
fested toward the* military on guard
around these buildings. The soldiers
until to-day have been very earelul
not to venture upon the streets in
uniform, and even to-day in some quarters
their presence would be likely to cause a
bad feeling. The great mass of citizens
condemn the hostility to the militia as a
class because of the mistakes made by a
few. Tire deatlr of Leo Vogeliresang, of
Columbus, makes a total of fifty deaths
by the riot. Further details wh’tch have
been discovered in relation to the death
of (.apt. Desmond tend to show that his
killing was not deliberate murder, but
that he met his death by a shot tired at
the troops without being aimed directlv
at any one. It was dark at the place
whore ho was killed, and his death was
not known for some time to his own com
mand.
The deaths in the hospital last night
bring the total of Uvea known to be lost
from the riot up to 49. 01 3S burial per
mits for victims, 11 were born in Germa
ny, IS in America {mostly of German pa
rents), 1 in Ireland, and 1 in Wales.
MRS. BLAINE.
A Statesman's Wire Who i* Not at all
Popular with Women.
Anew Congressman’s wife—and they
hear more gossip in their first year than
in all the rest of the time they stay here—
was telling me, says a Washington letter
to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, of the
discussion she had iieard during a week
of afternoon calls. At every other placo
Mrs. illainc was the topic of talk, and ex
cept for the sectional and lukewarm de
fenses by the New Englandepeopie, tiiero
were no champions for the cause of Mrs.
Blaine. The majority decided that thev
never wanted to see her in the White
House and would prevent it if they could.
The most of these women are really afraid
of Mrs. Blaine, and she has a frigidity of
demeanor that impresses some men with '
a nervous desire to get away from her.
While her husband occupied public posi
tions here and her house was open to
callers on the customary afternoon of each
week, many who went’tbere to pay their
respects owned up to a regular stage
fright as they entered the parlor. They
all stood in awe of Miss Dodge (Gail
Hamilton), who is a cousin of Mrs.
Blaine’s and siiends the winters with her,
and when they learned that Miss Dodge
had small opinion of the average woman’s
mind, reasoning and conversational pow
ers, they felt more uncomfortable still.
Mrs. Blaine is a magnificent looking wo
man; tall and of majestic carriage, with
a prominent aquiline nose, strong features
and a crown of gray hair. She is an ideal
duchess of the old regime when arrayed
in evening dress, with her diamonds
sparkling about her; and once this win
ter, when she wore a black lace dress, re
lieved with knots of orange velvet rib
bons, and the low ball corsage revealing
her plump shoulders and arms, she was a
picture to lie remembered. Her sons are
fine looking men, but neither or her
daughters equal their mother in appear
ance. All six of her children have the
strongly-marked features of both father
and mother, and their eyes and noses
would decide their parentage anywhere
without other knowledge. Going through
the city market one morning with a sight
seeing friend, we spied Mrs. Blaine at a
butcher’s stall buying mutton chops. All
the swell housekeepers here go to market
in person, and irotn the time Daniel Web
ster used to stroll oil" to market at G
o’clock ir. the morning, with his servants
and baskets, there has never been a ques
tion as to its being the most natural thing
in the world. I’eople who come here from
some other cities think it wonderfully
strange to ifieet in the market the same
women who astonished them with tho
lustre of their high position and the rich
ness of their dressing at a reception tho
night before. When my Western friend,
therefore, became convinced thatthe mat
ron standing so near us in the market waa
really Mrs. Blaine and the wife of a pos
sible President, she watched her intently
for a few minutes. Everything about
Mrs. Blaine is strongly individual and
characteristic, and she has the same ma
jestic, austere manner in the market
house as in the parlor! She stood with
stately and unconscious pose before the
man of cuts and chops, and her calm, di
rect gaze, and the way in which she
dropi>od the change into her purse and
snapped it shut, was as characteristic as
any studied move in a drawing-room.
When she had walked away ray friend
drew a long breath and said: “Well, I’d
like to see the butcher, the politician, the
man, woman or child who would try to
cheat or deceive her! She could freeze ma
solid with one such look.”
A Boiler's Flue Collapses,
New Orleans, April 3.—The fine in
the boiler on the marine dry dock col
lapsed tewlay, fatally scalding Robert
Matthews, the engineer. Several work
men were blown into the river and were
more or less injured.
Tlie French to Enter China.
Paris, April 3.—lt is semi-officially
stated that the French will enter China
and collect an indemnity from the Canton
native customs.
A Colliery Explosion in England.
London, April 3. —A colliery explosion
occurred near Cardiff yesterday. Two
men were killed and seventeen others are
yet entombed.
A Leading French Finn In Disgrace.
Paris, April 3. —One of tbe first firms
of money changers in Paris is about to be
prosecuted for negotiating forged English
bank notes.
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