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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA,
THE NF.WSOF THE TWO STATES
TOED IN PAKAGUAPHS.
An Aged Gentleman of Meriwether
County II:s a Narrow Escape from
Being Burned to Death—A Eaw Suit
Over a Steamer Barnett on the Chatta
hoochee in 1865.
GEORGIA.
forest fire- have been raging west of Smith
villa.
There is but one prisoner confined in the
county jail of Scriven county.
l’rice Matthews, formerly of Washington,
has purchased au interest in the Milledgeville
( hroniele.
A dog tight in the Haulr~t Church at Dub
lin was a source of no little annoyance anti
. disturbance last Sunday night.
A lady near Athens invited a lady friend to
spend a"w< ck with her. but presented a lioard
bill iqioii the gue-t's departure.
Mrs. Gilliford IZitchie, of Franklin county,
committed suicide last Monday by taking
a quantity of strychnine. Her motive is a
.?. V. . Mercer has retired for the present
from ttie management of the Ca’houn County
i "trier, and has leased his paper to s. .J. Cook
and F. 11. Hall.
The ladies of I.tier Cobb Institute at Athens
decorated the grave Of Gen. Cobb, founder of
the school, with flowers Thursday, that being
the annivei -ary of his birth.
Good stands of corn are reported by tqe
farmers of s. riven county. From present in
dications the crop of peaches in that section
will also lie unusually large.
A 10 year old negressof Covington, who had
been whipped by her mother, attempted to
commit suicide by cutting her throat with a
razor. 3he will survive the wound, however,
Sylvania Telephone: “One of our young
farmers informs us that he has one" piece
of Cotton that was chopped out over a week
ago. lie evidently intends to try for the first
bale,”
A resident of Walker county attributes the
prevalence of cyclones to the large quantity
of gas and electricity from the immense num
ber of “gastric and "electric lights used in the
- ities noiv-a-days.”
Oglethorpe AVAo:‘“J. W. Echols, Esq., this
week traded for tiie pistol with which Jones
killed Ins wife. He holds and prizes it highly
:i~ a memento of that terrible tragedy. It is
tad a very dangerous looking weapon."
The City Council of Leesburg fixed the
liquor license at sßo<> Monday night. If any
person takes license under this regulation, the
money so raised will go to aid in building an
artesian well, the County* Commissioners,
under the recommendation of the grand iurv,
to pay the balance.
Brunswick’.- market house, which had been
.; landmark for forty years past, was torn
town last week. The City Council are con
templating the erection of anew market
hoii-e, ttie budding to be of brick or iron. 40x60
feet. As soon as built the present system of
green grocers will be changed.
Calhoun Courier: “Leary for years past has
•ecu the centre of a large credit trade. It is
gratifying to state upon inquiry among our
merchants, that the proportion of this year’s
credit trade is nothing ill comparison to years
of ttie past. There is but small demand for
‘prime necessities,’ the principal trade being
in dry goods. This shows a healthy state of
affairs”
Cuthbert .t pve,i!: “Randolph county is out
of debt and has from four to five thousand
dollars in cash on hand. Still we are almost
without a court house and the probabilities
are none will be built until the present
dilapidated concern falls to the ground. The
Ordinary has Isolds for sale hearing 6 per
rent, issued for the purpose of building anew
court house, but can find no purchasers."
The ampbell county Board of Commission
ers have adopted a plan for the new jail, and
will let out the contract at once. The build
ing will he of brick and stone, with a shingle
roof. The dwelling house part will he two
stories high, with four rooms below and three
iltiove stairs. The building will lie let in three
••lit raids, one for the brick and stone work,
Mie for the wood, and one for the iron rolls,
when completed the jail will cost between
live and six thousand dollars.
Leary Courier: "The City Council met last
Tuesday and transacted the following busi
ness: A license of SI,OOO pm upon the sale of
whisky, |6OO of this amount to go toward the
payment, of debt incurred by Capt. Boyd on
the artesian well, remaining *4OO to pay the
Marshal’s salary; an ad valorum tax of about
..nc-hnif of 1 per cent., and a per capita of $3,
together with a mu license to do business
on the establishments of the town, was as
sessed and w ill lie devoted to the improve
• •int of the streets and the artesian well.”
treea-l>nro Home Journal: “The election
for City Council came off on last Saturday.
The day passed quietly, the vote was light
fcd no excitement was manifested. The to
tal vote was as follows: For Mayor— 11. T.
Lewis, 113; for Councilmen—W. Durham.
112: V. S. Halt, ill: James IS. l’ark, Jr. 105;
J. J. Burke, lull: \V. F. Reynolds, 8; scatter
ing. 1. The new Council. Mayor If. T. Lewis,
and Couiirilinoii Durham, Hall, Park ami
Burke, will liegin their term of service at
once. Mr. Reynolds was not a candidate.”
Oglethorpe Echo: “Owing to the earliness
•I the hour at which we went to press last
week we could not give a detailed account of
the jail delivery on Thursday. As we stated,
the fugitives were pursued by dogs, and sev
eral times overtaken, once by Messrs. Travis
Rowe and K. K, Smith, near the residence of
Mr. \\ . T. Sturgus, but these gentlemen being
unarmed, and the four negroes being together,
tiiey could not take them. The chase lasted
until late in theevening, when by some means
the dogs were evaded and the negroes made
their escape, nothing having been heard from
them since. A reward will probably be
offered for Will Reid, but the others' crimes
are not of so much importance. A sharp
lookout is kept, and they will in all proba
bility be taken again.”
Montezuma Record: “It seems that ‘trouble
never comes singly’ with some of the people
of Dooly county, and those who suffered so
severely by the ravages of the recent cyclone
were yisitedlast week by the fire element. The
debris of tiie cyclone on the plantations of
Messrs. Bellflower and Sheffield, near Snow,
was being gathered and burned when the
windstorm of last week set in, and the fire
got beyond control and spread so rapidlv that
houses, fences and everything in its'reach
was consumed. Mr. Bellflower lost all of his
houses and saved nothing from them bftt two
or three beds and some bed clothinsr. The
houses and fences of Mr. Sheffield and others
living in the settlement suffered the same fate.
Those who witnessed it say thev never saw
anything to equal it before, and that it looked
like a prairie on Are. It followed the track
of the cyclone, and cleaned up everything of
a light, inflammable sub-tance."
Meriwether Vindicator: “Mr. Frank
Thompson is a citizen of the Tenth District,
living atmut four miles from Oakland. On
Wednesdai of last week Mr. Thompson, ac
companied by his son-in-law. Mr. Sam Tid
well, was returning from N'ewnaa with a
t wo*horse load of guano. Tiie wind was very
high and. fire lieing in tiie woods, Mr. Tbonip
-on was anxious to gel home, as he saw a
dense smoke in his plantation and in the di
rection of his residence. When w'ithin, per
haps. a mile of home he observed a small
patch of leaves oil the side of tiie road w ith a
little fire in it. Being in a hurry, and think
ing there was no danger to he apprehended.
Mr. Thompson attempted to drive past the
lire. Wlien about opposite the centre of the
unburned leaves a sudden gust of wind fanned
the flames so quickly that they reached the
border of the road in au instant. The mules,
shying from the tire, ran the wagon out of the
road, and one of the wheels struck a log. Mr.
Tidwell leaped from the wagon to lift the
wheel over the obstruction, when the fire be
coming so hot the mules, instead of going for
ward, began to kick aim endeavor to break
loose from the wagon. Mr. Thompson, jump
ing out. tried to cut the harness so that the
mules could escape, when he was kicked or
pushed dowit. Being an old man of over 60
years, he did not gel up quickly. While down
!i;s hands, face ami Jwtvl Were badly burned.
ears being parched almost to a crisp. One •
of the mules is reported badly burned, i
Though painfully injured Mr. Thompson’*- ■
iiurtisjtre not likoij to prove serious. Hut for
Mr. Tin Well'- presence the old. gentleman
might have been fatally burned.”
( . ollimbus Sni: “For the past two days T.
M. Foley, com nr. -sinner, has been engaged in
taking "testimony concerning the title to the
proceeds of 5-llths of the steamer Jackson,
which was burned on the Chattahoochee river
n INGS w hile under charter by the govern- ,
• nent. It will lie remembered that Captain 1
\aron Barnett, of New York, and C aptain
Daniel Fry, of Apalachicola, put in their
claim as owners of the vessel for its entire
value, and in 1871 the government awarded
*36,176. There w as, however, a dispute a- to the
ownership of 5-14ths of the steamer, and Bar
nett gave bond to repay to any person or per -
-ons who should establish a valid claim to the
7> 14tlis interest, amounting to $12,901 7S.
Subsequently John li. Ely, John 11.
Locker, A. R. Godwin, Sand J. Irwia. Thos.
M. White and Ellison and Hughes, profess
ing to lie the valid owners of the 5-Hth interest
made claim liefore Congress for their pro rata
of the award, alleging that they had never
conveyed their interest in the steamboat to
Barnett and Fry. Congress at its last session
gave the Court of Claims jurisdiction of their
claim, with the right to offset against it the
cost of such repairs as could be proved to have
been made on the steamboat by Barnett and
Fry while under their alleged ownership. The
object of the testimony taken here has been to
determine all issues in relation to the owner
ship of the 5-14th interest, and also the cost of
repairs and amount of advances made by
Barnett and Fry under the supposed legal
ownership on their part, Capt. J. C. Blaiu
and Capt. Daniel Fry have given depositions
in the case, the latter being ordered here for
the purpose from Apalachicola, Fla. Both
witnesses testified that tiie value of the re
pair- upon and debts chargeable to the steamer
Jackson arc exceeding $15,000."
Macon Telegraph and Messenger: “During
itae late war, capt. R, JE, Park, now a well
known citizen of Macon, was a soldier in the
Twelfth Alabama Regiment. From the time
of his enlistment in December, 1802, to the
time of his capture at Winchester, Ya„ in
September, 1864, he kept a diarv of his move
ments. He was a mere youth at that time,
and was sentimental enough to jot down
many thoughts of sweethearts at home. At
any rate, the diary was a very valuable one
to him, 60 he save, and we suppose this is the
reason why: "In the subsequent capture
of the baggage trains by Pliil Sheridan,
the diary " found its "way into the
lines, while the Captain mourr.cd its loss.
Many titne- in the twenty years that have
passed since then he has wondered what be
came of it. A few days ago the postmaster at
Greenville, Ga., received the following letter:
“I have, in my possession a part of a in <nu
script belonging to and written by one Robert
K. Park, of the Twelfth Alabama Regiment,
during the late war. I believe he was killed,
and lately, in looking over old mementoes, I
read this diary, and, as it is very interesting,
thought perhaps some of his surviving rela
tions would like to own it. Apparently lie
had been an Oxford student and a very intel
ligent young man. Perhaps you know his re
lations and will communicate tiiis to them,
and if thev desire it they can send to me. I
thought of writing at the close of the war, but
other affairs more momentous drove the sub
ject from my mind. Mrs. Vine Smith, -South
Lee. N. ll.’ This letter was handed by the
postmaster at Greenville to Mr. John W.
Park, whoerelised it in another envelope aud
forwarded it to his brother in Macon. It is
needless lo sa> < .'apt. l’urk lmc written for the
diary.”
FLORIDA.
Charles Dell is on trial at l’alatka for the
murder of Ben Campbell.
The Baptist N" a/.are ne Association meets at
Tampa on Thursday, the 24th inst.
The editor of the Fernanditra Virror has
started a subscription for the benefit of the
i onfederate soldiers’ Home at Richmond,
l iti Capt, John L. Inglis has contributed $39
to tiie (saiis6.
A little sou of Minus McCieary, of Fernan
dina, 6 years of*age. was dangerously burned
on Thursday morning by the explosion of a
can of kerosene, out of which he was pouring
into the fire.
Key West -Veir*: **B. G. Albury, a blind old
man, was robbed by his son-in-law, Manuel
Benitez, of $525 last Friday, and the thief got
away on the Dauntless to Havana the same
night, leaving his wife and child behind on
the hands of his poor blind victim. A dispatch
was sent for his arrest.”
Key West Xews: "The Cuban testimonial to
Mr. L. W. Bethel, who was counsel for Gen.
C. Aguero, was received last Saturday from
New York hv .Mr. Esca-.-i. Chairman of the
committee. The present is a line gold watch
and chain, price about $250. The case is of
the Louis \!V. style, beautifully [engraved
with Mr. Bethel's monogram. The following
inscription is ou the inside of the case: ‘Pre
sented to Hon. 1.. W. Bethel, Lieutenant Gov
ernor state of Florida, as a testimonial from
the citizens of Key West, Fla., for his noble
defense of the Cuban patriot, Gen. C. Aguero,
Feb. 21, 1884.’ ”
Jacksonville Herald: “Parties write us
from Alachua county that one of the largest
and strongest land companies in the State has
ju-t been termed in that countv. It is com
posed of J. 8. Christie and W. B. J.ipjev.
I’li i- company lias purchased the entire unsold
portion of tiie celebrated Arredondo grant,
comprising about 15,000 acres of choice vege
table and fruit land. The Transit Railroad
passes through a portion of the tract. A
village is to he at onee founded,
and will be known as ‘Economy.’ One
thousand acres will be laid out and
sold as town lots. Six thousand acres
are to be placed upon the market and
sold only to actual seniors in lots of eighty
acres. The balance of the land, about six
thousand acres, will be planted in orange,
peach, pear and other fruit trees. This will
be owned and controlled by the share holders
in common; shares being limited to a thous
and to each holder, and each of whom will
be entitled to vote for trustees, to number
of five annually. Saw mills,stores, churches,
school buildings aud residonees will be
erected during the summer. It is also the
intention of this, ‘the Quaker "Orange Com
pany.' to establish a fruit and vegetable
canning factory at this new town during the
next four months.”
ATLANTA'S POPULATION .->.-.(XIO.
Turner's Hanging Not Yet Certain-
Major Burke's Coming.
Atlanta, April 12. —Weatherby has
just Issued his directory of Atlanta. It
contains 53.212 names, and does not in
clude any of the small towns bordering
on the city, such as West Eud anil Tight
Squeeze. These join Atlanta, but operate
under laws of their own. With their as
sistance the Gate City's population can
safely be put at 55,000.
Governor McDaniel, accompanied by
Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland, Principal
Physician to the penitentiary, and Col.
Towers, Assistant Principal Keeper, has
gone to Jefferson county on a visit to the
convict camp at Old Town. He will re
turn to-morrow.
TOBE TURNER'S CASE.
Tobe Turner, the Meriwether county
man who killed Shuttles two years ago, i's
sentenced to hang Friday, the 18th, but as
yet it is not certain that his neck will be
broken on that day, as a strong appeal is
being made to have his sentence com
muted to life time in the peniten
tiary. Ex-Congressman Henry R.
Harris, Hon. W. A. Turner, of
Coweta, who is a distant relative
of Tobe Turner, the father, mother and
wife of.the doomed man and a dozen other
citizens of Meriwether county have been
before the Governor in behalf of the con
victed man. The testimony, records and
papers of the case are voluminous and
will require time for examination. At
the Executive office it is believed that
some definite information relative to the
action of the Governor in this case will
be known Tuesday.
IT IS STATED HERE
upon what is believed to be good au
thority that Dr. Felton will be a candi
date for the lower house in the next Legis
lature from his county, Bartow. As he
usually carries Bartow by from 1,200 to
l,soo majority when he runs for Congress
he will in all probability be elected.
Major E. A. Burke, of the Tiaus-Demo
crat, Director General of the World’s n
dustriai and Cotton Centennial Exposi
tion, isexpected here to-morrow. He will,
no doubt, be met here by State Commis
sioner I>. C. Bacon, Major C. 11. Smith,
Judge John T. Henderson. Commissioner
of Agriculture, and Col. L. F. Livingston,
President of the State Agricultural So
ciety. He comes to Atlanta for the pur
pose of conferring with parties here rela
tive to Georgia's exhibit at the Cotton
Centennial.
Interest in North Georgia’s undevelop
ed wealth seems to be on the increase.
A day or two ago a citizen from the
mountain section came here with fully
fort) specimens of granite, marble and
ore of various kinds, to ascertain the
value and use ot each. The specimens of
ore were found to be rich in iron, and some
contained gold and silver. The marble
specimens were fery fine. The citizen
when asked how much he had of this or
that lump, would invariably answer,
“Why, thar’s a whole mountain of it."
A heavy frost fell in the counties along
the line of the Georgia Railroad Thursday
night. When the people woke up Friday
morning they found the ground white and
the fruit trees looking sick.
THERE IS SOME TALK HERE
among the politicians and manufacturers i
of getting up a-joint debate upon the tar''!,
question between Dr. Felton and Dr. "qy.
ler. As these gentlemen are fast, '/fonds
it is claimed that no ill-feeling could re
sult between them, no matter now warm
the debate might become. p r . Felton is
what is termed jt tan', lu;ui , and Dr.
Miller is a free trader. Arrangements
are now- being made looking to this dis
cussion, aud if it occurs the opera house
will no doubt bv the scene of the contest.
The S|recie Movement in New York.
New York, April 12.—The increase in
specie in the bank statement, in the face
of the large gold exports and the heavy
decrease in legal tenders, indicating that
there has been little or no outflow oi cur
rency lrorn this point, attracted much
attention on the street to-day.
These unexpected changes are ex
plained by the fact that the Park Bank
last week reversed its figures for specie
and legal tenders and this week corrected
the mistake.
A Florida Captain Found Drowned.
New York, April 12,-The bodv of
Capt. Eugene Sylvanus, of the schooner
S. L. Evans, who has been missing from
his home, in Fernandina, Fla., since
January tl. was found in the Hudson
river yesterday, and is now at the
morgue.
A Million in Bullion.
London, April 12.—The bullion gone
into the Bank of England on balance to
day is i 123,000.
KNOX’S FOES AT THE HUB.
CRIMINAL! PROCEEDINGS ONE
OF THEIR THREATS.
Their Charges Fourteen ill Number—
Grave Accusations in the Pacific Bank
Failure—The Comptroller Pronounces
the Complaints Old and Already Re
futed and He lias no Fear.
Boston, April 12.—William A. Paine,*
Secretary ot the committee of share
holders oi the Pacific Bank, said this
evening that on Tuesday last a series of
charges against Comptroller Knox were
forwarded to the House Committee on
Banking and Currency in Washington,
which is now investigating the affairs of
that bank. “These charges,” he said,
“are 14 in number and contain entirely
new evidence implicating Comptroller
Knox. At the time ot the previous hear
ing before the House Committee on
Banking and Currency we had been
too much hurried, owing to the death
of Air. Ives and a change in our counsel,
to put these later charges in proper form,
so we delayed their presentation till now
in order to make them complete in every
detail, bath as regards the allegations and
the evidence supporting them, ram not
at liberty to say what these charges are,
because Mr. Knox is to appear before the
House committee on Tuesday next, when
these charges will be formally presented.
Suffice it to say that they are very dam
aging to Mr. Knox, and are abundantly
supported bv incontestable proofs.
The first ot the fourteen charges refers
to Another prominent bank in Boston,
with which also Comptroller Knox was
identified. One prominent shareholder of
the latter bank, who owned $200,000 worth
of stock in the Pacific Bank, lias declared
that if the House Committee on Banking
and Currency does not proceed in the mat
ter as would seem just and proper from
the serious nature of the charges present
ed, he will at once institute criminal pro
ceedings against Air. Knox.
MR. KNOXIS STATEMENT.
Washington, April 12.—The Commit
tee on Banking and Currency has called
upon Comptroller Knox tor all papers and
correspondence in his ; office relating to
the Pacific National Bank of Boston. A
number of charges against Air. Knox,
have been placed before the committee
since the recent investigation by the sec
retary of the committee of Ihe sharehold
ers of the Pacific Bank. A copy of these
charges was handed to the Comptroller
to-day, in order that he might answer
them! A member of the committee says
that with some exceptions, they are simi
lar to those previously filed before the
committee, and that the new charges are
that Air. Ben yon, President of the
defunct bank, was a defaulter
when appointed, and that Air.
Knox knew it; that Air. Knox knew
that the bank was insolvent when the
capital stock was increased in 1879 and
again in 1881. The Comptroller said to a
reporter of the Associated Press to-night:
“There is not a single allegation, though
they are fourteen in number, that has
not already been answered in a pamphlet
containing my statement. There is no
proof whatever accompanying the allega
tions. They are simply a repetition
of the statements made by the attorney of
the stockholders before the Banking and
Currency Committee. Aly whole action
in reference to the officers of the Pacific
Bank was based on the reports of the
bank examiner, and chiefly on the reports
of the directors themselves who are agents
of the shareholders. The only question
that can arise is in reference to my con
struction of the law and that is for the
courts to decide. The complaints of tne
shareholders have arisen from the fact
that suits are being prosecuted ns vigor
ous by as possible as'the law requires!
IN THE HOI'SE.
An Early Adjournment in Respect to
Mr. Herndon’s Memory.
Washington, April 12.— Under the
call of committees the following reports
were submitted:
By Mr. Dorsheimer, of New York, from
the Committee on Judiciary—To make
bills of lading conclusive evidence in cer
tain vases. It was referred to the House
calendar.
By Air. Poland, of Vermont, from the
same committee —Regulating appeals from
the Supreme Court of Territories and Dis
trict of Columbia. It was put on the
House calendar.
By Air. Greene, of North Carolina, from
the Committee on Agriculture—For the re
lief of fruit-growers and to encourage
the cultivation of fruit. It was referred
to the committee of the whole. It allows
fruit-growers to manufacture brandy
from the product of their orchards with
out the payment of a tax.
By Air. Skinner, of New York, from the
Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads—
Granting letter-carriers and clerks in first
class offices thirty days’ leave of absence
each year. It was put on the House cal
endar.
By Air. Kleiner, of Indiana, from the
Committee on the Alcoholic Liquor Traf
fic (adversely )—To restrict the use of dis
tilled spirits to arts and manufactures.
It was put on the House calendar.
At the conclusion of the call Air.
Thompson, of Kentucky, moved to res
cind the order under which the House had
been considering public building bills
and which was adopted on Alonday last.
The Speaker was clearly of the opinion
that the motion was not a privileged one,
but as it was anew question he preferred
to submit its decision to the House, which
determined by a vote of 77 yeas to 101
nays that it was not privileged.
Public business was then suspended
and the House proceeded to consideration
of the resolutions expressive of regret at
the death of the late Thomas H. Herndon,
of Alabama. After eulogies by Alessrs.
Jones of Alabama. Forney, Ho'rr, Dovd,
Culberson of Texas, Henderson, Herbert.
Sbelbv and Oates, the House, as a mark
of respect to the memory ol the deceased,
at .’!:45 o'clock adjourned.
Appointed Disbursing Agent.
\\ ASiriNGTON, April 12.—The Secretary
of the Treasury has appointed J. L. Mor
bliss disbursing agent for the 'uew public
building at Oxtord^Miss.
ROASTED IN A FURNACE.
The Shock of a Collision Throws a E’ire.-
manjnto the Coals.
Philadelphia, April e c .i ai
dispatch from Easton. 7a., says: - The
accident on flic "Lehigh Valley Railroad
at Could s Station yesterday was worse
than at rs t reported. It occurred in a
cll V and the engineers of the trains did
Lot see each other until the locomotives
almost came together. As the trains
came in sight of each other Jacob
Hotter, the tireman of the coal
train, was throwing coal into the fire-box.
The engineer warned him of the approach
ing danger and then leaped to the side of
the out. As Hotter has not yet been found
the impression is that he was thrown
head foremost into the furnace by the
force ol the collision and roasted alive.
The number of cars wrecked and damaged
was between thirty and forty.
Mexican Merchants Submitt lug.
City ok Mexico, April 12.—Many
houses, and they the largest in every line
of business, are now open, and it is ex
pected that those still holding out will
open Monday. It is understood that
when the merchants all conform to the
new measures the government will mod
ify the stamp tax. Confidence in the sta
bility of the government is manifested in
business circdes.
A Tug Sights a Wreck.
Philadelphia, April 12.—The Captain
of the tug Inca reports that he passed a
sunken wreck on the evening of the 10th
instant at Little Egg Harbor light, bear
ing northwest by west miles, with
her lower mast and topmast about forty
feet out of water.
Louisville and Nashville's Earnings.
New York, April 12. —The earnings of
the Louisville and Nashville Railway for
the first week in April show an increase
of 128,965.
SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1884.
BILLS OF LADING AS EVIDENCE,
A Statement of the Points Made in Rep
resentative Dorsheimer’s Bill.
Washington, April 12.—Representa
tive Dorsheimer’s bill to make bills of
lading conclusive evidence in certain
cases, reported to-day from the Judiciary
Committee,provides that all bills of lading,
or instruments in writing in the nature
thereof, hereafter issued for merchandise
received in any State of the United States
for transportation therefrom to any other
State, or to any foreign country, when
issued by any person or corporation, or
when issued by any officer or agent au
thorized or permitted by any person or
corporation to issue similar instru
ments in his or its behalf for
merchandise actually received for trans
-portation, shall be conclusive evidence in
the hands of every bona tide holder
thereof for value as against the person or
corporation by whom or by whose officer
or agent the same were issued, that the
merchandise therein described was
actually received for transportation as
therein stated, and that such officer or
agent was duly authorized to issue said
instruments in behalf of his principal.
The report accompanying the bill says:
“The Committee are of the opinion
that the system under which the trno
portation businoic <if the country is
done requires that bills of lading held by
bma tide holders for value, should be
binding upon those who issue them. The
usual course of business is to make bills
of lading the security upon which loans
are made. They are used as collateral to
drafts, and are evidence of the transfer to
the party making the loan of the property
described in the bill of lading. This sys
tem has been established by legislation
and judicial decisions of many of the
States, and under it vast commercial
transactions have been conducted.
PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATES.
Blaine of Maine Still Capturing the
Pennsylvania Conventions.
Reading, Pa., April 12.—The ltopub*
licans of the Eight Congressional
district this afternoon elected delegates to
the Chicago National Convention and in
structed them for Blaine and Lincoln.
PLEDGED TO BLAINE AND LINCOLN.
Erie, Pa ~ April 12.—At the Republi
can Convention to-day delegates were
elected from the Twenty-seventh Con
gressional district to the Chicago Conven
tion on a pledge to support Blaine and
Lincoln.
MORE BLAINE DELEGATES FBOM PENN
SYLVANIA.
Pittsburg, April 12. —The Republican
Congressional Convention of the Twent
y district met to-day and elected
delegates to Chicago who were instructed
for Blaine.
OI’POSED TO LOGAN.
Chicago, April 12. —The First Con
gressional District Republican Conven
tion this afternoon chose Abner Taylor
and J. L. Woodward as delegates to'the
National Convention. The delegates were
not instructed, but were appointed
by that wing of the convention
known as the unpledged, namely,
opposed to the pronounced Logan men.
The Second Congressional district held
two sets of primaries and two conven
tions. One convention selected W. S.
Powell and William E. Kent as national
delegates. They are uninstructed. The
second convention selected Win. 11. Ruger
and Chase Piper as delegates. They were
instructed for Logan.
The Fourth Congressional district nam
ed Samuel B. Raymond and L. C. Collins
as delegates to the National Convention.
They were instructed for Logan.
UNINSTRUCTEI > DELEGATES.
White Plains, N. Y'., April 12.— I The
Republican Convention of the Fourteenth
Congressional district to-day elected
Collector William 11. Robertson and As
semblyman James W. Husted Delegates
to the Chicago Convention. They are un
instructed.
TWO GENT POSTAGE.
A Falling off of 13,000,000 Postal Cards
Since its Inauguration.
W ashingtox, April 12.—The statement
prepared at the Post Office Department
shows that while the Revenue for the
quarter ended March 3r was less than
that of the corresponding quarter in the
preceding year, the issue of two cent
stamps exceeded by 27 per cent, the com
bined issue of 2 and 3 cent stamps in that
quarter. The large increase in the num
ber of pieces mailed is attributed at the
department to the fostering influence of
the 2 cent rate. While allowance was
made in the estimates for a normal in
crease of about 8 per cent., and the bene
fits to accrue from the substitution ol
letters for postal cards, this increase in
the number of stamps issued is viewed
with gratification at the department. The
issue of postal cards has fallen off about
13,000,000 pieces since the inauguration of
the 2 cent rate.
BAKUKTT IX ENGLAND.
Tlie American Accorded a Warm Re
ception in London.
London, April 12.—Lawrence Barrett,
as Yorick , in “Yorick’s Love,” scored a
decided success this evening. There was
present a large and critical audience from
the highest rank of the theatre
going public. At first the
actor was quietly received, but
as the play progressed the house
warmed into sympathy with him, and at
the end of the first act he was greeted
with a round of applause. The enthusi
asm increased during the performance of
the second act, and the brilliant and pa
thetic acting of the talented American
electrified his British audience. When the
curtain fell on the last act Mr. Barrett
was recalled several times. He expressed
his gratitude in a few modest and well
chosen words.
Cincinnati's Dramatic Festival.
Cincinnati, April 12.—At a large
meeting of persons in the guaranty fund
for the dramatic festival this evening a .
most determined spirit was
make the enterprise --■ , -own to
nation was successful. Indig
expressed that any rumor of
.ponement had become current. The
feeling was unanimous that such a course
Is utterly uncalled for. and the guarantors
adopted a resolution to use redoubled per
sonal efforts to demonstrate the wisdom
of their position. They declare that the
city is in a state of profound peace and
they expect to improve it bv crowded
audiences at the Music Hall during the
coming festival.
One Sheriff Attacks Another.
Cincinnati, April 12.—A Lexington,
Kv„ special says: “A serious fight oc
curred between Sheriffs on a Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad train to-day. Sheriff
William Dawson, of Mbysville, had a
prisoner en route to that place who was
also wanted in Rowan county. Sheriff
Day, of Rowan county, with four depu
ties, boarded the train, overpowered
Dawson, beating him severely, took the
prisoner, delivered him to the jailer at
Moorhead and got a reward of SSO.
A New Dispatch lioat Launched.
Chester, Pa., April 12—The United
States dispatch boat Dolphin, built at
Roach's yard, was successfully launched
this afternoon in the presence of Secretary
Chandler, Admiral Mullany and other
officers ot the navy, and a large number
of people.
War on the Voles.
Lembhug, April 12.—The new Gov
ernor General of Wilna is taking active
measures against the Poles. All Polish
employes of the Russian Government
have been dismissed, and the use of the
Polisn language in public places has been
prohibited.
Burial of a Former Savannah inn.
Blackshear, Ga., April 12 L. L.
Cole, a former citizen of Savannah, died
at Graham, Ga., on the 11th inst., of
pneumonia, and was brought here to-dav
for interment. Mr. Cole was sick only
twelve days.
AGUERO’S WAR IN CUBA.
MEN AT HIS BACK AT LAST
ACCOUNTS.
Receivers of Taxes and Their Sates Be
lieved ot Thousands of Dollars—Freed
Slaves Applying the Torch to Planta
tions—Villages Receiving the Invader
with Acclamations.
Madrid, April 12.—Official advices
have been received from Cuba by the War
Department to the following effect: “The
Aguero band remained only one day near
Cardenas and all is now quiet at that
place. After landing near Hecusos, the
insurgents were followed to the east in
the direction of Morena, where they
were joined by several persons.
Thence they went towards Macgua to the
south, in order to reach Puerto Principe
and the old revolutionary district of
Bayomo. Gen. Aguero did not dare to
attempt a direct landing tnere because
he knew that the southeast coast was
watched with especial vigilance. His
band was greatly increased dining the
march of eight days', aud is now not far
from 1,400 strong. According to the latest
advices the force arrived on the 10th iust.
jr the neighborhood of Ciego de Anila.
„ -PAN ARMY 1,400 STRONG. ___
They “passed"" on" the 'precetfuig day
through the district of Santa Espiritu.
The insurgents were received by accla
mations in the villages where the patro
cinados (freed slaves) themselves joined
the column, alter having set fire to four
plantations and sacked the safes of the
Receivers of Taxes. The Receiver of
Trinidad, who was making his rounds
from the direction of San Espiritu, ac
companied by an ordinary escort of
twenty Cazadores, fell into the hands of
the insurgents, who overpowered his
guard, and took from him several thou
sand dollars which he was conveying to
Trinidad. Gen. Aguero and his army
will reach early m the week the moun
tains of Las Tunas and of Bayomo. Cap
tain General Castello holds two councils
of war a day.
GEN. BADEAU’S RESIGNATION.
Havana, April 12.— Gen. Adam Ba
deau, late United States Consul General
here, declines to state his reasons for
tendering his resignation, and says that
he may see tit later to give his explana
tion through the press. The impression
prevails that the resignation is in some
way connected with the Aguero expedi
tion.
THE GOVERNMENT’S EXHIBIT.
President Arthur Issues an Order which
Insures a Display.
Washington, April 12. —It was de
ckled at a Cabinet meeting last Friday to
have exhibits made from the various de
partments of the government at the
World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial
Exhibition, which opens at New Orleans
next December, and to-day President
Arthur, through Secretary Frelinghuy
sen, issued an executive order similar to
the one issued by Gen. Grant in the case
of the Centennial Exhibition. The order
recites that it is desirable that from the
Executive Departments of the Govern
ment of the United States, in which there
may be articles suitable for the purpose
intended, there should apnear such
articles and material ‘ns wiil.
when presented in collective exhibition,
illustrate the functions and administra
tive faculties of the government in time
of peace and its resources as a war power,
and thereby serve to demonstrate the na
ture of our institutions and their adapta
tion to the wants of the people. The order
further instructs the heads of the several
departments to select suitable persons, all
of whom when selected shall form a
hoard, which shall at once communicate
with the Board ol Management of the Ex
position in relation to such matters as may
be connected with the subject. The Com
missioners of Agriculture and Education
are also made members of this hoard.
This is regarded here as the most impor
tant measure that has yet been adopted
In favor of the great exposition.
LOUISIANA’S LEVEES.
A Review of the Damage Inflicted by
tiie Recent Floods.
Washington, April 12. —The Secretary
ol War has received a telegram from
Major Stickney, of the engineer corps at
New Orleans, as follows: “1 have re
turned from the inspection of the levees.
The whole line along the Tensas parish
front is badly broken, the grade was
much too low for this flood aud the water
poured over the tops of the lavees for
miles. There are no breaks in the Con
cordia Parish front excepting on Lake
Concordia, where the levee is small.
The overflow in both parishes was
not as deep as in 1882 by from 3 to 4
feet. From Red river to Profit Island
a strong fight has been made and no
breaks have occurred. The river has
fallen 3 feet at Vicksburg, 17-10 at
Natchez, 1 at Baton Rouge and 1 at
New Orleans from the highest point.
The back water or overflow in
Tensas and Concordia has fallen
from eight to twelve inches or more in the
upper part. At the head of the Atcha
falaya the water has fallen neat ly a foot.
The situation is more encouraging than
could have been expected two weeks ago.
and it seems very probable that a cotton
crop may be raised in Tensas and Con
cordia. The immediate danger for the re
maining levees is rapidlv passing, and
it is not probable that any other break in
the levees will occur.
The Greely Relief Squadron.
Washington, April 12.—Chief Con
structor Wilson returned last night from
New York, where he inspected the Arctic
vessels Bear and Thetis. He says that
the Bear is ready for sea with the excep
tion of her supply of coal. The Thetis is
still in the dock, but she is being fitted
rapidly and nothing will interfere with
her being ready to sail by the Ist of May.
The Arctic steamer Alert is expected to
arrive from England the latter part of
next week or the first of the week follow
ing.
Hendricks Not a Candidate.
New York, April 12—Ex-Gov. Thomas
A. Hendricks, of Indiana, and his wife
arrived here to-day from Bremen. He is
reported as saying"that he has abandoned
all idea of having Ins own name con
sidered by the convention as a Presi
dential candidate. His health, while
better since his trip to Europe, is bv no
means fully restored.
Closing tlie Contributions.
Cincinnati, April 12.—The sales to-day
of the twenty-four carloads of corn and one
of flour given to the Ohio river flood sut
ferers by citizens of Butler county, Kan
sas, realized ssjßoo. The relief commit
tee will immediately after the distribu
tion of the results of this sale close up its
business, and will decline hereafter to re
ceive any further contributions.
3,000 Emigrants Landed by Two Steam
ers.
New York, April 12.—Two thousand
emigrants arrived here to-day on two Ger
man steamers. Four Arab pauper emi
grants were returned to Antwerp bv the
Emigration Commissioners.
An American Consul Head.
London, April 12.—Edward .Smith,
the American Consul at Manubiem, died
.f apoplexy last evening in a railway
carriage near Read in. He was on his
way home.
' Death of a Presbyterian Divine.
Petersburg, Va., April 12.—Rev. J.
D. Dudley, aged 68 years, a prominent
Presbyterian Minister, died suddenly this
afternoon at his home in Dinwiddie
county. *
French Bankers Fail.
Antwerp. April 12. — Messrs. Ghislain,
bankers, of Charleroi and Antwerp, have
failed. Their liabilities are 16,000,000
francs.
Imports at New York.
New York, April 12.—The imports for
the week of dry goods were $2,086,483, and
merchandise $5, 780, 652, a total of $7,867,-
136.
THE CAPTURED DYNAMITERS.
Daly Well Dressed and Offered to Make
a Resistance.
London, April 12.—Dynamiter Daly’s
first name is John. He was well dressed
in a tourist suit and wore a diamond ring.
He is a short, thick-set man of about 55
years of age, with a black moustache.
When seized he struggled to escape, and
tried to reach his overcoat pocket, in
which were found two infernal machines
of clockwork pattern. Two more ma
chines were found in an inside pocket of his
undercoat and one in his breast pocket.
The machines are believed to be exactly
like those recently found in the London
railway station. It is expected that he !
will finqjlv be brought to London and ;
charged with having caused the explosion !
at Victoria station.
Daly is acquainted with Fitzgerald, the
Fenian, arrested here Thursday.
FITZGERALD'S OFFENSES.
It is stated that Patrick Fitzgerald has i
been in regular communication with P.
•J. Sheridan. He was connected with
James Carey’s gang, and once presided at
a meeting of Invincibles in Dublin.
NO MERCY FOR INFORMERS.
The Times this morning prints a com
munication from its Paris correspondent
which gives much information concern
ing the dynamite and Clan Na Gael So
cieties, The constitution and terms of
the oath of these organizations Are fully
described. An account is also given of
how dynamite is obtained in France. It
is asserted that the Clan Na Gael So- ;
ciety has received a letter, bearing a
Russian postmark, from informer Mc-
Dermott, in which he pleads his inno
cence and begs for mercy. The society
treated the letter with silent contempt,
and its agents are tracking him.
The same article says that Matthias
Brady recently arrived in Paris from New
Y'ork to investigate the truth of the rumor
that Peter Carey was hiding there. A
careful search was instituted, but proved
fruitless, whereupon Brady returned to
New York, leaving orders to cable him at
once if any of the Careys should be dis- [
covered. A constant watch is kept on in- j
formers I.amie and Coleman, and a record j
of their movements is regularly kept at I
Paris.
Hogan, the drill instructor of the Bir-’
mingnam Volunteers, has been suspended I
and his house has been searched. He |
was constantly in the company of James !
Egan.
DALY REMANDED FOR A WEEK.
Liverpool, April 12. — Daly, who was
arrested yesterday on suspicion of being
a dynamiter, was brought before the court
this morning and charged with having in j
his possession infernal machines with in- I
tent to commit a felony-. He was reman- |
ded to prison for a week.
EGAN ADSO REMANDED.
Birmingham, April 12.—James Egan,
who was arrested yesterday on suspicion
of being an accomplice of Daly, was
brought before the court this morning,
charged with conspiring with Daly to
cause an explosion. He was remanded
to jail to await trial. Egan’s wife de
lares that the papers belonging to Egan,
which the police secured, refer to the op
erations of Home Rulers and not at all to
dynamite. The Police Inspector says that
he has been watching Egan for live
months, that Egan and Dalv were very
intimate and were in the habit of spend
ing their evenings together. Egan had
claimed that he knew Daly only as Den
man, but the documents which were
seized proved that this claim was false.
FITZGERALD ARRAIGNED.
Sligo, April 12,—Fitzgerald, who was
Arrested in London two days ago, reached
here last night. He was brought before
lhe,eourt this morning charged with being
a Fenian organizer. He was remanded
tojirison for a week.
MEXICO RIPE FOR REVOLT.
The President's Acquisition of $4,000.-
000 in Four Years Looked Upon as
Suspicious.
Galveston, April 12.—A Laredo spe
cial says: “For several days rumors have
been rife of a threatened revolution
throughout Mexico. These rumors are
about assuming tangible shape and seem
likely to erupt the state of quiet prevail
ing for the past four years. The causes
are the large moneyed concessions granted
to American railroads, the action of the
Mexican Government oh the nickel ques
tion, in ordering base coin funded and
then repudiating the certificates of deposit
or the return of nickels, the passage of
the stamp act requiring a 12 cent stamp
on all articles offered lor sale, notwith
standing the previous exorbitant custom
house tax, and the failure to pav soldiers
of the regular army, resulting in the j
thorough demoralization of the troops.
The forces at Monterey are throwing '
down their arms and deserting in squads 1
because they are starving ia their gat-ri- I
sons. Charges of corruption are openlv !
brought against the present President, !
who is said to be now worth $4,000,000. i
although he was poor when he went into !
office 4 years ago.’’
AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION.
Emphatic Condemnation of Greenback
Heresy.
The sub-committee of the House Judi
ciary Committee, says a Washington spe
cial, to which was recently referred the
joint resolutions introduced by Congress
men Potter and Hewitt, of New York, re
lating to legal-tender questions, have
agreed upon a report. They recommend
the adoption of the following amendment,
to the Federal constitution: ‘-The legis
lative power granted to Congress bv this
constitution shall not be construed to in
clude the power to pass anv law making
anything but gold and silver coin a teiv
der in payment of debts, except after a
declaration of war or in case of rebellion
or invasion, when the public safety may
demand it.”
This proposition was submitted to the
full committee, with the recommendation
that it be reported tavorablv to the
House. Tlie sub-committee which has
taken this important action consists of
some of the ablest and most influential
members of both parties in the House.
They are Tucker, of Virginia, who is
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee;
Dorsheimer, of New York; Broad
head, of Missouri; Hammond, of
Georgia, Democrats; and Reed, of
Maine; Brawn, of Indiana, and Taylor,
of Ohio. Republicans. It is understood
that all of the sub-committee except Ham
mond favor the proposed amendment.
There can be scarcely a doubt that the
full committee will report the amend
ment favorably to the House. Members
of the Judiciary Committee who have
been conferring with other members of
the House are encouraged to believe that
if a joint resolution proposing the amend
ment can be reached it will receive the
necessary two-thirds vote in the House.
One of the Sections of the Scott Law Re
pealed.
Columbus, April 12.—The bill' repeal
ing the local option feature of the Bcott
liquor law, which gave to residents of in
corporated villages the right to prohibit
by vote the sale of Intoxicating liquor in
their villages, has become a law. As the
Legislature adjourns on Monday, it is
thought that this will he the end of legis
lation on the liquor question.
The Damage to a Railroad.
Vicksburg, Miss., April 12.—General
Manager Edwards, of the Louisville, New
Orleans and Texas Railroad, has returned
from an Inspection of the road from Yazoo
bridge to the intersection of the Georgia
Pacific in Washington countv, and says
that $13,000 will repair all damages bvthe
overflow. A large force is now working
on that portion ol the road.
Tildeu’s Congressional Visitors.
Washington, April 12.—The Demo
cratic member, of the Pacific Coast dele
gation in Congress expect to leave Wash
ington to-morrow for a short visit to
Gramercy Park. They had intended
making a visit to-day, but Mr. Tilden re
quested that they come Monday instead
of Saturday.
TO BE ROASTED ALIVE.
A TERRIBLE FATE INSTORE FOR
DWELLERS IN FEATS.
The Warning Giveif New Yorkers by the
Recent Fire—A Rase for Sealing Wax—
The Cheap Cabs—A Journalist's Lucky
Find—Dr. Newman's Coarse—A Mam
moth New Hotel.
Correspondence of the Morning Meter.
New York, April 10.—The burning of
the St. George’s flats has caused wide
spread uneasiness among the thousands
of inmates of apartment houses. The
building held the reputation of being fire
proof, and yet it burned like so much tin
der. Had the fire occurred at night the
loss of life would have been great. As it
was, there were several narrow escapes.
There are doubtless scores of other apart
ment houses in the city- no better pro
tected against tire than was the St.
George, and it is only a question of time,
apparently, when a wholesale roasting of
human beings will take place which will
fill the city with horror.
The pillaging which followed the fire, !
and by which much valuable property ,
which the flames had spared was lost,
is in one sense a greater calamity than ;
tne fire itself. For there is good reason ,
to suspect that the stealing was done by I
firemen, acd if the firemen are not to bo i
trusted, house-holders will hereafter not
summon them in ease of fire until the i
last moment after they have tried in vain ;
to put out the tire w ithout their help, and ;
a serious conflagration will result which,
were the firemen summoned immediately,
would be avoided.
One of the sufferers by the St. George
disaster, by the way, is a’faithful follower
of Roscoe Cukling—Timothy Griffith,
formerly of Oneida county, lie is clerk
in the United States District Court through
the favor of his patron.
Speaking of badly constructed flats,
New Y'ork has been called the ugliest city
in the world, and it doubtless is the
ugliest of all the cities large enough and
rich enough to devote money and space to
buildings w-ith any pretensions to archi
tectural design. What buildings we have
of the sort, both public and private, are,
with few exceptions, built on wrong prin
ciples. The post office, with its mahsard
roof, surmounting a Greek facade, is an
ey-esore in lower Broadway, and AVilliam
11. Vanderbilt’s mansion, although it
must have cost two months’ income of
the owner, is exteriorly almost the ugliest
structure in upper Fifih avenue.
But it is a monotony of its rows ot
brown-stone houses, with their square
doors and windows, each the duplicate of
the other, that renders New’ York the
ugliest city in the world. Although of
late years there has been au attempt made
to break this ugly uniformity, ana many
structures of varied, if not always correct
designs, have been erected in different
parts of the town, yet a parsimonious
spirit is so continually displaced in the
construction of buildings on the best
streets that the city will not for many
generations be redeemed from its reputa
tion for ugliness.
For example a structure has recently
been erected at Broadway and Seven
teenth streets on Union I square, one of the
most conspicuous sites in the city, which
not only has little architectural merit,
but is manifestly built of comparatively
cheap material/ The owner had it in his
power with such a commanding situation
to have built a structure that would have
been an ornament to the city, but he
chose to earn a high rent with the smallest
possible expenditure of capital.
THE BUILDING; HOWEVER, WHICH OF
ALL OTHERS
illustrates the spirit of parsimony that
renders New York the ugliest city in the
world, and which has inspired this dia
tribe, is now in course of erection at
Broadway and Bleecker street. Although
it is intended for a store, it is built of
brick i-oartz and cheap enough for a fac
tory. To say that it resembles a barracks
is paying a poor compliment to what is
ordinarily considered a dismally plain
structure. The building, indeed, is so
ejjeap and ugly that one sighs for a law
which will prohibit the erection of similar
structures on such streets as Broadway.
The chief business street of the chief city
on the continent should be protected from
the parsimony which would fill it with
eyesores. The law giving the Mayor the
sole power of appointment to officejshould
also have empowered him to prohibit the
erection of cheap aud unarchitectural
structures on the principal streets!
In spite of the ridicule which has been
thrown upon it, the fashion of using
sealing wax to close envelopes in place
of gum-arabic, as our grandfathers and
grandmothers did, is spreading. All
letters one now receives from persons “in
society” are sealed with wax in the old
style, and family heirlooms in the shape
of seals are being put to their former
familiar use to w hich they have long been
unaccustomed. The same fashion pre
scribes the use of the prefix “for” betore
and a little above a person’s name on the
address of a letter. Thus, for example,
the address should read:
For
Miss Flora McFlimst,
Madison Square,
New York.
♦ *
The “black-and-tan” cabs, as the cheap
vehicles which “pro ,vl” the town on the
London plan are called, arc apnarently
tabooed by the very persons who, in view
ot their English origin, one would have
expected to use them. Club men who
have-patrouized them have been so guyed
by their clubbable friends that lew now
dare to be seen in one. The reason of
their ostracism on the part of the gilded
youth 6eems to be their conspicuousness
because of their black-and-tan hue. and
because they are cheap. Nothing.cheap
is tolerated bv these favorites of fortune,
who, although like the lilies, they toil not
neither do they spin, are arrayed in great
er glory, in their own opinion, than was
Solomon. If glory consists in wearing
tight trousers anil being dudes, Solomon
certainly should hide his diminished
head!
SERVICES ON GOOD FRIDAY
ordinarily form the test by which an
Episcopalian clergyman is proved to be
high or low church. Judged by this
Rev. Mr. Kainsford, the
English rector of St. George’s, is a high
churchman. He intends to hold a “three
hours agony service” to-morrow. Such a
thing is unknown at St. George's, and
when it is remembered that Mr. ltains
ford recently introduced choral singing
there, and that boys in surplices now
parade in procession at the beginning and
the end ol "the services, one wonders at
the patience of a congregation reared as
low church. Perhaps in the eye% of even
the more low church members of his
flock Mr. Raiusford’s prayer meetings
and evening communions cover a multi
tude ol high church practices.
A well known newspaperman, whose
name, however, Ido not feel at liberty to
give, had a funny experience yesterday.
He was with a party of triends in Nash &
Crook’s restaurant,’in the Times building,
when, in pulling out ins handkerchief
from his pocket, iiis hand came in contact
with a magnificent watch, valued at
several hundreds of dollars, which did
not belong to him. How the watch got
there is a mystery. The journalist, how
ever, concluded that it was put there by
an enemy in order to give occasion for his
arrest, and he at once gave it up to the
police with an explanation of the circum
stances under which it came into his
possession.
DR. NEWMAN (l WON’T CALL HIM REV
EREND),
Grant’s old parson, is master of the situ
ation. The attempt of the ltanneyites to
turn him out of the pulpit of the Madison
A venae Congregational Church has only
resulted in seating him more firmly in
the saddle. His recent resignation, al
though every one knew it to be a laree,
proved to be a capital stroke of policy. Of
course it was not accepted, the congrega
tion receiving it in the same spirit in which
it was offered, and, although the Ranney
faction claims that the congregation was
not really represented in the meeting at
which the resignation question was de
cided, the only remedy of the malcon
tents is to quit the church or appeal to
the courts. The first alternative would
be the part of wisdom, as it is very ques
tionable whether Ranney & Cos. have any
case.
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I heard l>r. Newman preach a charac
teristic sermon on Sunday in the Bedford
Street M. E. Church. It was less of a
lecture than he usually gives, as when
speaking to a Congregational audience, he
Is afraid of conflicting with their theo
logical prejudices, but it contained one
sentence at least which many will con
sider more blasphemous than religious.
Speaking of the Redeemer being “tempted
like as we are,” he alluded to Him as
“coining of an ancestry debased and
damnable to the last degree!”
1 forgot, when speaking of New York
arehitectuie; to allude to the erection ol
anew hotel at the Filth avenue entrance
to Central Park, one of the most eligible
situations in the city. It will cover the
entire block on the west side of Fifth ave
nue, between Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth
streets, and will be of nearly proportion
ate depth. The site, which'belonged to
the Anderson estate, cost SBOH,OOO and the
cost of the building will be $1,500,000.
I aless of faulty architecture, it will
prove a great addition to the city. It is
intended to be a hotel for families, aud its
neighborhood to Central Park will doubt
less cause it to be well patronized.
Easter week will see a partial resump
tion of the gayeties which have been sus
pended during Lent. Among the wed
dings next week will be that of Poultnev
Bigelow to Miss Jaffray, and next Thurs
day the bachelors give their ball at the
MetropolitanXlpera House. D.
A BRAZILIAN OTHELLO.
Tragic Ending of the Baseless Sus
picions of a Corporal of Police.
A Braziliau Othello has appeared in the
Province of Marauham, at the town of
Caxias, says a Rio Janeiro letter to the
New Y'ork Herald. -Mariano Monteiro da
Silva was a Corporal of Police at that
place and was married to Leocadia Fran
cisco de Souza, also a member of the
mixed white, black and Indian race which
constitutes the great mass of the natives
of the north and northeastern provinces,
and of the Brazilian interior in general,
He was a quiet and well conducted man,
much respected bv his officers, aud ador
ing his wife, who seems to have been
equally attached to him. But one eve
ning, on going to his parade service, he
saw signs of mrfle and female footsteps in
the back of his rear garden and suspicion
entered his bosom, especially as liis wife
bad apjieared very earnest in reminding
him ol the hour for going to parade.
Brooding over this he returned imme
diately as soon as afternoon review .was
over, and as he entered bv the bacg ot his
garden at 6:30 p. m. he saw in the dusk a
man in converse with a woman dressed
in a pink rob?, such as his wife had worn
that day. Darting forward, he thrust
his bayonet seven times into the man:
the woman had fled, hut he pursued in
the direction she had taken and as
he re-entered the yard of his house he met
his wife hastening toward him. Con
vinced of her falsehood, he, without a
word, stabbed her with the bayonet
eighteen times, and then went and sur
rendered himself to the police, declaring
that he had avenged his dishonor on his
wile and her paramour.
The wife died in a few hours and the
latter’s ease was almost hopeless. Next
(lay a slave girl came to the police and
declared that the wife was completely
innocent, that it was she herself who had
met the slaughtered man and who had
fled in fear. The poor Brazilian Otuello
had sacrificed another Desdemona to un
just suspicion.
A CASTLE GARDEN ROMA NCE.
The Bride and Bridegroom, Betrothed
in Childhood, Meet for the First Time.
Joiuu Buchwold came from a German
village to this country two years ago,
says the New Y'ork Herald, when he was
twenty-one years old, to seek his fortune,
ne left behind him a sweetheart whom,
curiously enough, he had never seeu.
The parents of the two were old friends,
and their son and daughter were solemnly
betrothed when they were babies. The
children grew up without seeing each
other, the parents of each, as it happened,
tiving in different parts of Germany, and
so it happened that when John came to
America ho had uef? r gwd upon the
face of his sweetheart.
The young immigrant settled in Pitts
burg, and, having made a home for hinv
self, recently sent for his betrothed to joia
him. She sailed on the Frisia from linnfe
bure, and when the steamer arrived om
Wednesday, John was waiting fo: iiis
bride at Castle Garden. Neither had ever
seen even a picture of the other, and they
had to be introduced by an official. The
lovers gazed earnestly at each other for
a moment with a look in which curiosity
and affection were mingled, then sprung
into each other’s arms and a resounding
kiss echoed through the rotunda.
The happy pair departed for Pittsburg
Thursday. They will lie married at 'jf
groom’s nome.
THE MORRISON BILL.
A Free Trader ou Its Proapect* a;: ;
Presidential Outlook.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Washington, April B.— A free trade
Representative said on the dav the whisky
bill was defeated:
“We are going to pass the Morrison
bill, but we expect that it will take one of
the most tremendous parliamentary con
tests ever seen In this world.”
“What vote do you expect to get upon
it?” 1
“We expect to get all the votes which
supported the bill in the late caucus, and
a considerable proportion of the Demo
crats who voted against the bill in that
caucus, and there are a few Republicans
who favor the bill. We shall have a bare
majority, but we expect to debate this bill
with a vigor and fire which will bring out
our vote, and under the obligations of par
ty honor we shall put it through.”
Said I: “How will the Presidential
nomination be affected by the lree trade
interest?”
“We shall push this tree trade ques
tion." said my acquaintance, who is noted
for his Indomitable spirit, “into the nomi
nating convention, and no man shall l>e
nominated there who is not absolutely
sound.”
“Give me an idea,” said I, “of the nomi
nee.”
“1 think the nominee of the convention
will be Thomas F. Bayard, of Delaware.
When we had this bill brought forward in
the House Mr. Bayard was asked what
he thought about it, and he said: -You
have not gone half far enough. Y'ou
should have had a more radical free trade
bill, and not a mere shaving down of the
present tariff with its enormities: but I
will give you all the support I can. never
theless i’”
Said I: “Why have you gentlemen
abandoned McDonald as your candidate?”
“Because he has not' the courage of
other men that we know on this question.
He is a mere Presidency seeker, and we
want a candidate of convictions.”
Recommendation of a Shipping Bill.
The House Committee on Commerce
have authorized ex-Gov. Long to
present to the Committee on Ways and
Means the bill allowing the free imi>orta
tisn of foreign materials to tie manufac
tured into articles for the construction,
equipment, repairs, outfit, or provisions
of American vessels employed in the for
eign carrying trade. The aim of the bill
is fo remove the discriminations against
the.American manufacturers, which ex
ist under the law allowing manufactured
articles for use in shipbuilding to come in
free of duty, by placing raw materials for
the same purpose on an equal footing.
A Fall Campaign in Egypt.
Cairo, April 12. —English officers have
been offered a ten weeks furlough. This
is believed to foreshadow an autumn cam
paign. The German and Austrian Gov
ernments have presented identical notes
to Egypt requesting the early payment of
indemnity claims.
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Great Southern Remedy for all diseases of
the blood, when patients had been gi\,
over by physicians. It is one of the best
remedies ever offered to the public, and is
prepared with the greatest care, as a
specific for certain diseases, Take Rosa
dalis for all disorders arising from impure
blood. It is indorsed by leading profes
sional men as well as by eminent physi
cians and others. Try it, and be cured.