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ITEMS IX THREE STATES.
GKOKGI \. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
All Kv-Thi Collector of Hart County
Burned to Death— A Putnam County
Si bool Boy Avenges a Flogging by
Burning (lie School House and Firing
a tlin ri li
GEORGIA.
About ten acres in okra are planted in and
urounct Quitman.
i obb county will be under the new roa*l law
tor the next two years.
B. Bryan's new paper, the Bluffton
<t s - has made its appearance and gives
evidence that it will merit a generous na
tron age.
Bichard Meager lot his saw mill by tire la-t
Sunday morning. The mill was located about
midway between Ac worth and Big .•shantv.
The loss was nearly SIOO.
Arrangements have lieen made Torn reunion
of the survivors ( ,f < apt. Wm. A. Walkic’s
company < K , Thirty-fourth Georgia, at Go
shen, Heard countv.” ou June 21.
John Scoggins and Will Webb, of Baldwin
county, lost their houses by tire Tuesday.
Furniture, clothing and $l5O in money were
destroyed. The fire is supposed to have orig
inated from some sparks which fell through
the floor from the hearth.
Near Mount Zion < linreli, in Bartow coun
ty, last Sunday, some boys were handling a
pistol, when it was passed iuto the hands of a
son of John I>> ar. and was accidental! v dis
charged. the ball entering the fleshy part of
the thigh, and lodging among the muscles of.
the thigh.
Bluffton Spring*: “About six wars ago the
merchandise of Blufft.,ll could have been
hauled at one load by a two-horse team, and
now there are five business houses, which are
doing a good business. The dwellings are all
occupied and the demand for more houses has
been constant."
The Bax lev correspondent of the Macs
writes as follows under date of April 12: “A
voung man about 17 years of age named
Charley W heeler, was run over and instantly
killed by a timber cart in the vicinilv of
saiilla, Wayne county vesterdav. Wheeler
was a stranger in that'section and claimed to
have hailed from Brunswick."
Ilomer Ethridge, the 14-year old sou of a
prominent e ti/.en of Putnam county, was
sent to Prof. Carswell's school, near Harmony
1 liureli. The lad was \ei v unruly and the
teacher found it necessary to apply the lash.
In revenge the boy set lire to the school build
ing, and it was completely destroyed. The
young incendiary also attemiited to burn the
church, but the flames were extinguished
before doing much damage. The second story
of the school building served as a Masonic
hall. The structure was owned bv the com
munity, and was not insured. Young Ethridge
bad not been criminally prosecuted at last
accounts ou account of the prominence of id
fa mily.
Hartwell 8„,n: “Mr. John Moss, of this
county, has received a letter from Mr. .!. H.
'tefle. Ids brotlier-in-law, near Granitcville.
M. C.. stating that his father. Mr. BavidStei
fle, was burned to death ou the 2d of April.
The woods caught on lire and all of his out
buildings were consumed. Mr. steille was
confined to his lied with rheumatism, and he
was taken out of the house and placed in the
field, and while they were trying to save the
dwelling his clothing caught on lire and were
burned ..If of him. This took plaee about :!
o’clock in the afternoon, and he died at about
tio'clock next morniug. Mr. steille was Tax
Collector and Receiver of Hart county for a
number of years.”
FLORIDA.
Three Aldermen will lie elected at Waldo
to-day.
The Lakeside Hotel. South Lake Weir, will
close this week.
The Republican county convention of Ma
rion meets in Ocala to-dav.
It. Hicks intends to erect a large steam
saw mill immediately in Waldo.
M. \ugustine has forwarded $222 50 fertile
confederate Home at Richmond.
\ “dummy" railroad is to be constructed
between Hawthorn and Melrose.
There are seven saw mills between 1 teala
and Lake Weir, on the Florida Southern.
The steam launch Princess is now run as a
ferry boat between Sanford and Enterprise.
The contractors on the Ocala House are en
deavoring to complete that hostelry by Au
gust.
Forty-seven persons residing 111 Duval
county draw pensions from the Federal Gov
ernment.
Two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of
real estate is said to have changed bauds at
Del.aud this winter.
Three hundred ami sixty feet have been
drilled in Del.and's artesian well and no
water has been reached.
Dr. E.M.llale has been exploring Indian
mounds in Volusia county. The only relics
round were three human skulls.
A strawberry measuring three and a half
inches one way by four the other, was picked
from a Hawthorn patch a few days since.
John T. Spriggs lias secured the necessary
ground and has made all arrangements pre
paratory to establishing a brick -van I in
Waldo.
A 15-year-ohl son of Mr. Sims, of Higley,
orange county, while blowing into the muz
zle of a gun was killed by its accidental dis
charge
Waldo Advertiser: “There will be a large
< n>p of honey peaches this year. The trees
are bearing more than iu anv previous
season.’’
The >l. < lair Hotel, at < .reeu Cove springs,
dosed its doors for the season on Monday,
and the lessee, Mr. Moon, has returned to
Saratoga.
\ man and his family arrived in Del.and
from Edinburgh. Scotland, a few days since,
having purchased through tickets at Edin
burgh to DcEaml.
Henry Clemmons claims to have killed ISO
Wars in Putnam county. He is oueof the old
.'itizous of the county, but -an centre the
bull’s eye now with a rifle bullet.
The Gainesville Advocate believes Alachua
1 ouuty will send delegates to the State Demo
cratic Convention favorable to the nomina
tion of George F. Drew for Governor.
W. AV. Painter, proprietor of the Magnolia
Hotel, St. Augustine, contemplates tearing
down the old part of his establishment and
erecting a spacious structure lu its place.
George Sykes, who has lieen stealing money
tor a long time from F. J. Hammond's store,
at Hawthorn, was trapped a few days since
,;nd jailed. He has stolen iu all about SI,OOO.
The ladies of Ocala arc endeavoring to es
tablish a reading room, and already have
commenced to raise funds to purchase"a suit
able place, shares at $5 a piece are living
rapidly taken.
The machinery and the hull of the steamer
F. S. I.ewis. recently burned in Santa Fe
canal, has been recovered, and is now on
terra Anna. Much of the material may he
used in the construction of another boat.-
\ convention of the Republicans of Clay
county will lie held ai the court house at
Green Cove Springs on Saturday, April lit. at
noon, for the purpose of electing two dele
gates to represent ( lay county in the State
convention, to be held at St. Augustine April
•to.
Cedar Kev Journal, April 12: “The spring
session of the Florida Presbyterv convened
here on Wednesday night, and will continue
until Sunday night. Ministers from all
parts of the State are 111 attendance, and the
services, which are being held in the Cmon
Church, are very interesting and Instructive.’’
Dr. Henry Foster has erected near Sanford,
near his residence, on Lake Charm, at an ev
l>ense of $2,400. one of the neatest little
churches in the State. Over the entrance is a
marble tablet bearing the inscription, “Lake
' harm Memorial Church." in perpetuation
of the memory of William Foster, a brother
of the Doctor, who speul a number of winters
with him.
The Telegraph Company, now
operating a line between Brooksville and
Wildwood, are contemplating an extension
rom ttio former place to Cedar Keys, taking
ju Bay Port and Crystal River. The Presi
dent. Mr. Fred 1.. Robertson, will visit the
Island City shortly with a view ot getting
matters ii: shape and giving the business in
terest a ehanee to subscribe tor stocks.
Waldo Ail!■ rtis,r • “( apt. .1. W. Voelmrg
ami Mr. K. l.utz. ot Waldo, have organized a
ioiut stock company under the name and
-tyle of the Orange Lake and Imchloosa Xm i
tration Company. They have purchased all
the machinery and material necessary for ttie
construction of an elegant light draft steamer
to ply the waters of lakes Orange anil Looli
hosa. skilled workmen are now employed in
molding the craft, and nothing to prevent the
steamer will Ik> completed and launched on
or before June 1.”
The following is the vote at the municipal
election on Monday last at Green Cove
springs: For Mayor, G. N. Bardin HI, W. s.
Plummer CO; for Marshal. R. B. Snllivan lug.
.1. W. s m ith 13, W. S. t.eter 1: for Town
cli ri,. 11. F. Rein is 1 hi, T. T. Edgerton, Jr.,
. C. f*. Grant 1; for Assessor, Clarence
Tyier jn, W. S. Geter :!9, T. J. Branning 38;
lo’r Aldermen. 11. W. Davis ss, Thomas
Kuliert- 74: T. It. Jenkins A. S. Backus IS,
• T. liutler 50, It. If. Barrows 51, D. W.
Gib-on p. .1. Bram s, t . K. Crosley 1.
Key West Journal: “Commissioner sobring
vased through town on Monday en route to
i’.rnii-on from Key West. He has been below
organizing the counties, and says the whole
southern tier of counties arc up and at work,
and great results are sure to follow. He has
■t live, active board organized for Monroe
county. Key West proposes to send cocoa
nut, palm and date trees, also a full line of
tropical trees and plants. Commissioner Se
briug i- greatly elated over his trip through
the whole of South Florida, and found the
people working in earnest. Now lot the large
hearted anil lug pursed men go to work and
raise $1,500 to complete the grande-t show
that will ever be Florida’s opportuuitv to
make. Commissioner Sebring leaves on Mon
tay next for Alachua and Suwannee coun
ties. Success to him,”
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The present debt of tlie town ef Newberry
is $22,3& Mi.
An SIB,OOO court bouse is to be built at
t hesjterflebl.
The total indebtedness of the town of Sum
ter is sio,m no.
Jennie Foster, colored, who lives in Green
ville, is 107 years old.
Subscriptions to the Darlington Hotel pro
ject amount to $0,700.
The Catholics have bought a lot iu Wal
lialla on which la build a church.
An enterprising citizen of Chester talks
about building an ice factory at that place.
Two hundred and twenty-three bodies have
been interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
in Laurens county, since 1845.
Whc jlaratmalt Hem
great damage in the State
la.-t week. The destruction of dwellings bv
lire was also exceedingly great.
Vol. George W. Croft is authoritatively an
nounced as a randmate for Congress from the
the Second Congressional District.
The colored people of Edgefield village are
thoroughly aroused on the temperance ques
tion, and will vote for prohibition to-day.
Thomas Kennedv, of Laurens county, has a
pocket knife which was brought from Ireland
twenty-six years ago. It is a good knife yet.
The County Commissioners of Ecrshaw
have settled 'the old Waterec Free Bridge
debt by paying *4.395 on the notea and bonds
which nave been taken up and cancelled.
Manager Barron will relinquish the manage
ment of the Academy of Music at Charleston
shortly, and be succeeded bv John E. Owens,
the owner of the theatre and celebrated actor.
T. E. Richardson, while out bunting near
Wedgefleld, Nuinter county, with some friend
last week, found six young foxes under an old
tombstone. He carried two home anil gave
them to a cat, which straightway adopted
them.
The largest purchase of cotton which has
been made in Columbia since the war was
effected Thursday by I). Crawford A Sons.
They bought from one man 050 lialod’at it 1 ,
cents round, the cash paid being about
$31,000.
The < liarleston Presbytery has lieen iu
session at Summerville for several days past.
After an animated debate on the question of
admitting negroes a- members of the church,
the question was virtually decided in the
negative.
Judge Witherspoon has handed down a de
n-inn holding that < liarleston is liable for thy
"tire loan lmads" authorized in 1300. ami pay
ment of which was lately demurred to on the
ground that the issue of the bonds was un
constitutional.
At Society Hill Friday the wife of Timmons
Alston, colored, left her house to get wood and
locked in three children, aged 2 month-, 3 anil
4 years, lu a few minutes the house was on
lire and the three children were burned, to
gether w (tli every thing else in the building.
A negro woman who was injured some
time ago by a falling bill board at' the Green
ville opera house brought suit for $5,000 dam
ages against Belton Gilreath, the manager of
the opera house. She settled the ease the
other day for ten dollars, which was paid to
her by Mr. Gilreath.
Lieut. Henry T. Thompson, who has since
tiie reorganization of the State Military
Acadoim at Charleston, filled the position of
a—istant professor at the Citadel, in conse
quence of ill health, has been compelled to
tender lii- resignation, and it has been ac
cepted. He will probably practice law at
Darlington.
The Newberry Observer lias published a
statement of the convictions secured at the
spring terms of the Sessions Court in the
several counties of the Seventh Circuit in
lsv; am! 1-st, respectively, from which it con
cludes that crime is on ilie increase in that
circuit, and that there is little hope that the
colored people are improving their opportuni
t les.
The United States Circuit Court convened
at Charleston Thursday, Judges Bond and
Brvan being on the bench. District Attorney
Mellon handed to the grand jury bills of in
dictment against Absalom A. Itlvtlie. late
United States Marshal; Albert D. Ttiillippy,
late United States Deputy Marshal of this
city, and against James Turner and Charles
" • Cummins, ex-Unitcd States Deputy Mar
shals or Pickens county. The indictments
all charge a violation of section 5438 of the
Revised Statutes of tlic United States, viz:
Presenting and causing to be presented false,
fictitious Linl fraudulent.claims against the
United States Government while acting ns
United States marshal and United State-
Deputy Marshals in the State of South
Carolina. The grand jury had made no report
up to the hour of adjournment.
In the Court of Common Pleas at Columbia
Saturday the jury in the case of Lipscomb,
superintendent, vs. Seegers, after being out
three-quarters of an hour, brought in a ver
dict for the defendant. There may he an ap
peal. The action was one brought by
T. J. Lipscomb, as superintendent of the
penilentiary against Mr. John C. Seegers, of
this city. Mr. Seegers was the lessee of tltirty
convicts during the year 1879. Five of these
convicts escaped, and the plaintiff alleged
licit the defendant, having negligently al
lowed their escape;, became bound for penal
ties of $l,lOO, as provided by law, which
amount was sued for. The case was first heard
at the March term, 1882. The jurv found for
the plaintiff for some ot the escapes. An ap
peal was had to the Supreme Court, and the
case was sent back for anew trial. This was
had at the October term of last vear. and the
jury failed to agree upon a verdict. The trial,
which ended Saturday, was the third which
the case has undergone, and tills is probably
not the end of it.
BUSINESS FAILURES.
Brad street’s Budget of Trade Kraliar
rassments In t!e South.
There were 195 failures in the United
States reported to Brad street's during the
past week, against 143 in the preceding
week, and 158, 111 and 98 iu the corres
ponding weeks of 1*8.3, issg and 1881, re
spectively. Additional comparisons are
given in the following table:
. 188& . Corresp'g weeks.
/’,/*■' Preri's . ' ,
States. week. week. ISHS. JBSt. 1881.
Middle 37 33 28 111 22
New England 22 25 1C 20 23
Southern .50 30 :i!i 20 23
Western. .. lit 12 50 33 21
Pacific and Ter
ritories 25 13 14 7 4
Totals . 105 143 ' 153 111 03
Canada .. 30 30 25 13 8
About so per cent, were those of small
traders whose capital was less than $5,000.
Among the suspensions reported were
Hagen A Billing, bankers and specie bro
kers. New York city; the First National
Bank ot St. Albans, Vt.; the Exchange
Bank of Versailles, Ohio; the First Na
tional Bank of Monmouth, 111.; f armers’
Bank of Covington, lnd.; T. liobert Jen
kins A Sons, wholesale provisions, Balti
more; Lee & Potts, pork packers, Rich
mond, Ya.; Henry S. Rosenthal, cattle.
Albany, S. Y.; Davis & Taylor, whole
sale grain and Hour, and Pettingill A Ev
erett, merchants, Boston. In the princi
pal trades they were as follows: General
stores 33, grocers 24, hardware and agri
cultural implements 13, liquors 13, pro
duce and provisions 12. jewelry 8, grain
and flour 7, clothing and cloth 0. shoes 5,
dry goods 5, hotels and restaurants 5, har
ness 5, manufacturers .5, banks 4, coal
and wood 4, bakers and confectioners 3,
commission 3, furniture 3, luml>er3, mil
linery 3, stationers, etc., 3.
ALABAMA.
£ ll/aula.— A. Giglio A Cos., fruits, closed by
sheriff. James A. Hay, saloon, closed by
Sheriff.
FLORIDA.
Jacksonville. —M. J. Christopher A Cos., pro
duce commission. failed. M. J. Christopher
eontiuues as agent for his wife.
UEORC.I A.
Alapaha. —MeCrea A Coarsev. general
store, failed.
Camilla. —W. F. Hat-field,general store, sold
out to pay home creditors, to whom he was
indebted about $2,000.
Haralson.— W. 1.. Brakcficld, general store,
failed and railed meeting of creditors.
Savannah.— Daflln A Dresser, cotup, failed.
U’urritufoa.—C. A. Culpepper, general store,
reported tyiled and out of business.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston. —Julius H. Blake, coal, failed.
Xinety-six —James Rogers, Jr., confection
er, assigned to J. I’. Phillips.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from
Near and Afar.
Engineer Preston has severed his con-'
lieetion with the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railway and returned to Nor
wich, Conn, lie ran the first passenger
train over the new road.
Lester Clark and others have published
a notice of incorporation of the “Enter
prise (Fla. i Railroad Company.” This
company is to build a road from Enter
prise to Thrasher's Ferry-six miles in
length.
The corps of surveyors of the Jackson
ville,Tampa and Key West Railroad have
located the line from Palatka to Sanford.
It is the intention of the company to ex
tend this road trom Palatka to Sanford
during the summer.
Eight representative men from North
Mississippi met at Memphis last Friday
to organize a company to build a railroad
from Memphis to Columbus, Miss,, $ dis
tance of laO miles, to connect there with
the Georgia Pacific, giving a direct
line, without a break, from Kansas City
to Brunswick, Ga., on the Atlantic sea
board. It will require $2,000,000 to build.
A meeting of the Memphis Cotton Ex
change was held Saturday morning to
offer aid to the enterprise, which is con
sidered of the greatest importance to
Memphis. The road will run through a
country which now trades with St. Louis
and Louisville, on account of the round
about railway to Memphis. It will cross
the Mobile and Ohio and Illinois Central
Railroads, but not run parallel to any. It
is believed the trade ot Memphis will be
at once increased about $6,000,000. The
road’s charter grants exemption from tax
ation for twenty years. The leaders in
the enterprise are J. J. Hooker, J. L. Me-
Kev, Benjamin Price, C. J. Barker, F. S.
White, F. J. Barry, J. F. Harrison and J.
A. Orr.
A Pitched Battle with Convicts.
St. Louis, April 13.— Eight jiersons
confined in jail at Gainesville, Green
county. Arkansas, assaulted the jailer
last night and escaped after they had
secured arms from the jailer’s house. A
posse of fifty citizens started in pursuit,
and a pitched battle occurred, in whicn
over one hundred shots were fired. A
burglar named Breckman was killed, and
three other prisoners were wounded and
secured. The remainder ecsatied. The
jailer received dangerous injuriel.
CONGRESS’ WEEK’S WORK.
THE TARIFF BILL MAY BE CALL
ED UP TO-MORROW.
All the Republicans Save Three to Op
pose Any Consideration of the Meas
ure and Confident of the Co-Operation
of at Least Forty Democrats—A Chance
for the Bankruptcy Bill in the Senate.
Washington, April 13.— 1 t has been
announced by Chairman Morrison, of the
Ways and Means Committee, that an ef
fort will be made in the House on Tues
day next to call up the tariff bill for con
sideration, and if this purpose be adhered
to a lively struggle will ensue with an al
together uncertain result. Mr. Kelley has
said that he will call for the yea and nay
vote on the question ot consideration.
Leading Republicans say that their side
of the House will oppose every step taken
by the friends of the Morrison bill. They
assert that the Republican Representa
tives, with the exception of possibly
three, will vote against any consideration
of the measure. *ome of the Republi
cans, Mr. Kasson being of the number,
have expressed themselves as preferring
to allow the Id 11 to be brought before the
House for consideration, and to try to kill
it at the first opportunity by striking
out the enacting clause. They have con
sented, however, to vote with the major
ity of the party and oppose considera
tion. The Republicans claim about 130
votes on their side of the House. Thev
say that they will also have the assis
tance of not less than forty Democratic
votes, which would give them a majority
even it all of the 325 Representatives were
in llieir seats. Of the Democratic votes
against consideration it is said that eight
will come from New York, twelve front
Pennsylvania, five lrom Ohio, three from
New Jersey, five from California, two
lrom Maryland, three from Virginia, and
one each from Alabama, Delaware, bouth
Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana, Connecti
cut, Georgia, and West Virginia.
TO MAKE A HARD FIGHT.
Earnest friends of the bill have notified
the Democratic Representatives to be
present Tuesday. They say that they will
certainly secure consideration of the
measure, il not on Tuesday, then at some
future time not far distant. It is their in
tention to continue their efforts, if neces
sary, day after day, and to demand a vea
and nay vote on each occasion. If the
House refuses to consider the tariff bill
Tuesday, and the pension appropriation
bill is not urged, various pending special
orders will doubtless be brought
in conflict tor precedence. The or
der for the consideration of bills
providing for public buildings through
out the country,which last week displaced
prior orders, it is believed, will have the
most strength. The other special orders
are the shipping bills, the measure to
establish a board of Commissioners of
Inter-State Commerce and the National
Library bill.
Senator Hale who has the naval
appropriation bill in charge thinks thai
it will require but one day more to pass
it in the Senate. It is expected that the
post otlice appropriation bill will lie re
ported to the Senate on Monday or Tues
day and the members ot the appropria
tions Committee express the opinion that
it can be disposed of with one, or at the
most two days debate. If these
opinions prove to be correct the long
standing special orders of the Senate,
the first being the bankruptcy bill, will
receive the attention of the Senate dur
ing a portion of the week.
SILVER DOLLAR COINAGE.
The Subject H ilt be Heard by a Com
mittee of Congress To-Morrow.
Washington, April 13. —T0-morrovt,
the House Committee on Coinage will
hear representatives of the New York
Chamber of Commerce in opposition to
the further coinage of silver dollars. One
of the leading advocates of unlimited sil
ver coinage admitted in conversation to
day that the silver dollars would not cir
culate because the coin is too heavy and
inconvenient. He went further and ex
pressed the opinion that tlie government
ought to save the expense of coining sil
ver dollars by issuing silver certificates
of any denomination desired in exchange
for silver bullion. He thought, however,
that it was impossible to harmonize the
conflicting opinions of members of the
House so as to make it possible to enact an y
legislation this session with respect to the
silver question. The vote on the trade
dollar bill showed that the House will not
consent to discontinue the coinage of sil
ver dollars, and the opponents ol silver
coinage will uot be likely to agree to
amend the law so as to permit the pur
chase of silver bullion not to be coined, if
that proposition should be made. When
reminded that the issue of $1 and $2 cer
tifieates would be a convenience to those
who are now compelled to receive silver
dollars, but would hasten the descent of
this country from a gold to a silver basis,
and that recently there have been large
exportations of gold, he said: "it makes
no difference so long as silver is kept at
par with gold. Of course if gold should
bring a premium that might hurt some,
but it would not make much difference.”
MAHOXE AND BLAINE.
Tlie Virginian Endeavoring to Make a
Sal© of I’art of tlie Virginia Delegation
to Chicago.
Washington, April 13.—Politicians,
especially the Virginia Republicans, are
much astonished at certain developments
yesterday. Senator Riddleberger and
Congressmen Wise and Hooper, all Re
adjustee, were closeted with Mr. Blaine
last evening for a good while. This is in
terpreted to mean that Mahone is making
terms with Blaine, believing him to be the
strongest candidate. The straighout Vir
ginia Republicans, or the Wickham-
Dezendorf party, will have, it is said, one
half the State delegation, and as their
votes will be cast for Blaine, Mahone now
proposes, it is supposed, to give him the
rest if he can secure for himself the re
cognition that such an offer should be
worth.
IRELAND AND THE IRISH.
English Demands on America Mrs.
Egan’s Account of her Husband.
London, April 13.—The Observer, in an
article on the recent arrests of dynamit
ers, says: “If American law cannot reach
the dynamiters, it ought to be altered, A
demand to this effect might fairly be ad
dressed to the government at Washing
ton, as the main contention in favor of the
Alabama claims was that it is the dutv of
every government to have such municipal
law as will prevent injury to citizens of
friendly States.”
Mrs. Egan states that Daly took the
name of “Denman” because he intended
to make his debut as a music-hall singer
under that name. Daly intended to re
turn to America at the end of April.
Col. Majendie, in his report on the dyna
mite attempts at the London railway' sta
tions, says: “There never was a case re
quiring a more searching examination.
A great crime was planned, the results of
which were escaped by only a slender
chain of wliat it would be profane to call
accidents.”
A dispatch from Paris says; “The be
lief in the existence of a group ot foreign
anarchists, including Germans, connected
with the dynamiters in England and Ire
land, has been confirmed.”
EPITHETS HURLED AT LORD SPENCER.
Dublin, April 13.—At a meeting of
Nationalists at Ennis to-day, Mr. Kennv,
member ol Parliament, said that lie had
attended the meeting to show that the
right of free speech could not be sup
pressed because Mr. Biggar had called
Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
a drunken house-breaktr and other names
eqally true.
A DISASTER FOR AGFERO.
38 Out of 4 1 Recruits to Ilis Standard
Shot Down by Troops.
Key West, Fi,a., April 13.—Boats from
the flagship Tennessee are patrolling
around the island and lighthouse. The
steamer Laura is cruising about the en
trance of the harbor to intercept any con
templated expedition to Cuba. Rumors
are rife, but they have little foundation.
38 INSURGENTS KILLED BY TROOPS.
Madrid, April 13.--An official dispatch
from Cuba reports that a band of 42 in
surgents under Duran, who intended
joining Gen. Aguero, were attacked bv
troops and 38 men were killed.
Fatally Wounded by Accident.
Cincinnati. April 13.—At 3 o’clock
this morning Frank Kelley, a barkeeper,
struck James Miller on the head with a
loaded revolver. The weapon was dis
charged and the ball struck Charles Lar
ken, entering bis lung and inflicting a
wound which will probably prove fatal.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, APRIL JI, 1884.
A WILD RUN ON THE RAIL.
How a Runaway Train Without an En
gine was Propelled by a Tornado.
An incident which we believe has never
had a parallel in railroad history, says a
Lincoln (Mo.) dispatch to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat, occurred on last Thurs
day on the Burlington and Missouri Rail
road between this city and Denver. At
Akron the tornado on Thursday unroofed
the round house and did some other dam
age. About 5 o’clock in the evening,
when the wind was at its strongest, it
started a train of eight box cars,
loaded with coal, that were stand
ing on the side track at that
place. Two brakes were set, but they
were not enough to hold it, and it ran
through the split switch without being
derailed and started east. The track was
nearly level where the train started, but
there is down grade this side of Akron.
The wind was so strong that it took the
train more rapidly than the passenger
trains over the line move, even ou the
level track, and when it reached a down
grade oi course the speed became some
thing fearful. The operator at Akron
noticed the runaway train soon after it
broke loose and sent the alarm down the
line. Everything was ordered side
tracked, and the crazy train had the
right of way. The cannon ball train
barely escaped.
Marvelous as it tnay seem, those run
away cars ran 100 miles, passing eight
stations, over a track which is for a great
part of the distance almost perfectly
level, with no propelling power but the
wind. They ran the 100 miles in less
than three hours, and station agents and
others who witnessed the strange train
held their breatli with awe as it whirled
by at the rate of nearly a mile a minute.
It passed Haiger at the rate of forty miles
an hour and is said to have run the twen
ty miles of down grade this side of Akron
in eighteen minutes.
At Benklemau, ninety-five miles this
side of Akron, a freight was standing on
the side track. As the runaway train
passed the engineer rau his engine out,
vyith a brake-man on the tender to make
the coupling, ar.d gave chase. It was an
exciting chase, but the engine, which
brought to the aid of the wind the power
ot the steam chests, soon closed the gap
between itself and the flying train. About
half way between Benklentan and Max
the fugitive was overtaken, the coupling
successfully made and the cars, after
pulling the engine some distance, brought
to a standstill.
TILDEN ONCE MORE.
Revival of Ilis Literary Bureau—AVliut
Ills Ambition is Said to lie.
Some very curious facts about Mr. Til
den, says a Washington special of the
11th inst., to the New York Evening East,
have come out here to-day. A Western
editor a few days ago communicated to a
friend who \yas traveling this way, the
fact that Tilden had recently start
ed a literary bureau which is notv
in full blast. Each week this
editor was receiving printed sheets
containing editorials and correspondence
from Eastern papers pressing Tilden’s
nomination. These were accompanied
with letters urging their publication and
saying that il' printed and the bills sent
to the New York address given, the latter
would be promptly paid. This particular
editor had already published one lot of
this literature, and had received the
amount of the bills rendered.
This discovery gives great uneasiness
here among the friends of other Demo
cratic candidates. There is an interest
ing theory of Tilden’s intentions which is
current among the Democrats. It is that,
while he knows that he cannot livelong,
he has a consuming desire to die a Presi
dent. Some of those who understand his
feebleness and his ambition, and who
think his name and his money would give
strength to the campaign, are said to he in
a scheme to nominate him, giving special
attention to the second man on the ticket.
This man, they feel, will, in ease of Mr.
Tilden’s election, speedily be President,
and thus be the dispenser of patronage.
W'ith these Tilden men the intorwsis iu
me convention will centre on the nominee
for N ice President.
head prevents blood
shed.
How a Minnesota Sheriff’ Disarmed Four
Montana Deputies in a Sleeper.
Last spring, says a St. Paul special, a
corrupt ring of county officials was broken
up at Miles City, Montana, through whose
malfeasance and extravagance the county
was involved in an indebtedness of over
$20,000. They were charged with election
frauds in November, 1882, and gross offi
cial malfeasance. Forty-one indictments
were found against them bv the grand
jury. County Clerk Taylor escaped, but
was arrested in El Paso, N. M., recently,
anil three officers from Miles City went to
bring him back. They arrived with their
prisoner a few days ago in St. Paul, where
friends of Taylor obtained a writ of habeas
corpus. The -Montana officers—the Con
ley brothers and William Smith—refused
to obey the writ, and an attachment was
issued, and Sheriff Mertz, of Crow Wing
county was directed to arrest the party at
Brainerd.
On the arrival of the train at Brainerd,
Sheriff Mertz boarded the car with a dep
uty and stationed a man at every door.
In the forward sleeper he found tile four
men, who instantly drew pistols and
backed into a corner. Each had a pair
of self-cocking revolvers, cowboy calibre,
and each covered liis man, a half dozen
having rushed to the Sheriif’s support.
The coach was filled with people, all in
tensely excited. Although the Montana
fellows threatened to shoot at the first
movement, Sberitf Mertz coolly walked
up and took the pistols from them one
after another and locked up the party In
jail. They were returned to St. Paul to
day.
NATIONAIi RANK CIRCULATION.
The McVhemon Bill to be Reported.
In deciding to report the McPherson
Senate bill, and to bring that bill up for
passage under a suspension of the rules
on the third Monday in April, says a
Washington special, the House Commit
tee on Banking and Currency got rid of a
large batch of bills on the subject. The
McPherson bill will come up as a substi
tute for the hills of Mr. Whiting to repeal
the tax on national banks and to fix the
amount of circulating notes which may
be issued by national banks on deposit of
bonds; the bill of Mr. Ossian ltay to re
peal the tax on circulation of national
banks; the bill of Mr. Storm to provide for
the issue of circulation to national banks;
Mr. Smith’s bill removing the tax on cir
culation of national banks; the bills of
Mr. Hunt and Mr. Buckner to prevent
undue contraction of the currency: Mr.
Elwood’s bill authorizing the organiza
tion of national banking associations lor
circulating currency secured bv United
States standard gold and silver coin; Mr.
J. F. Miller’s bill providing for the re
demption of the circulation of national
banks; the bill introduced by Mr. Potter
to maintain the currency atruinst injuri
ous fluctuations; Mr. A. J. Warner’s Dill
better to secure the stability of paper
currency ; Mr. Henderson’s bill providing
for the issue of circulating notes to na
tional banks, and Mr. Wilkins’ bill to
issue circulation to national banks,
which has been made identical with Mr.
McPherson's bill as it passed the Senate.
BRITISH AMERICA.
Manitoba Politics Rapidly Approach
ing the White-Heat Stage.
The political atmosphere is again be
coming clouded, says a Winnipeg special,
and another crisis is imminent. The Hon.
John Norquay, though not fully indorsing
the platform of the Farmers’ Union, has
taken so strong a stand for Provincial
rights as to incur the displeasure of the
Dominion Premier, and a plot is on foot
to oust him from the leadership of the lo
cal government. It is understood that
when the Legislature reassembles after
Easter an important move will be made
by Attorhey General Miller, who is anx
ious to secure Mr. Norquay’s position in
the government. Should a dissolution fol
low this intrigue the people will not be
slow to take advantage of such an oppor
tunity to electa Legislature that will fear
lessly adopt the cause of the province
against the tyranny of the Dominion Gov
ernment.
Louisiana’s Hopeful Planters.
New Orleans, April 13.—A dispatch
from Baton Rouge says: “The river is
steadily declining at’this point. West
Baton Rouge will probably not suffer as
much as was at first apprehended. The
planters hope to save the greater portion
ol the seed cane. They have put in opera
tion drainage machines for the purpose
of relieving the crops of water.”
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
GEN. SIjOCUM SAID TO BE >IR.
TIBDEN’S FAVORITE.
Payne’s Course an Imitation of that of
the New York Sage—Ne Chance for
Either Morrison or Randall—Bayard,
McDonald, Field and Flower—Lincoln
Confident of a Place—Disappointment
Said to he In Store for Blaine—Gen.
Sherman Thought to Have a Chance—
Logan’s Show Slim Edmunds Too
Lazy.
Washington, April 13.—There is not
very much of general interest doing in
Congress just now. Beyond the passage
of the regular appropriation bills, the
brief discussion of the Morrison tariff bill
(which is expected to come up this week),
and the consideration of a small number
of other bills of national interest, the ses
sion may lie said to lx; practically over.
In this statement there is to be allowed,
however, the usual big margin for the
unexpected both in measures and in
lively rows. But the Presidency’s now
the thing with all members both of the
House and Senate. Who will get the
Presidential and Vice Presidential nomi
nations at the Chicago conventions is the
staple of Congressional talk. Where there
are three or four members talking together
it is safe to assume they are discussing
the chances of the various -’residential
candidates.
Tilden, it is thought, could have the
Democratic nomination if he wanted it.
Whether he wants it or not is a matter of
some doubt, although it is alleged that ha
has repeatedly said that he would not ac
cept it if offered to him. Nine people out
of ten here think that if Tilden is not
chosen Payne has the best chance. Payne
is generally considered to be what the
elder Weller would have called Mr. Til
den's “leg-at-ease.” Such is not the case,
however. The man to whom Mr. Tilden
would prefer to have his influence trans
ferred, in case always that the convention
does not ask him to take the nomination
himself, is Den. Slocum.
THERE 18 NO SHADOW OF SECTIONALISM
hovering around Gen. Slocum. He was
one of the most gallant of all tlie soldiers
of the Union. He is a steadfast, honest,
fearless Democrat. He is earnest, plain
and straightforward. He is closely allied
with Mr. Tilden. He is strongly affiliated
with that statesman’s views.
A good deal is heard of Payne, of Ohio,
in the prints. He is there 'talked of as
Tilden’s choice for the latter’s mantle for
the cloak of his power in the party. Mr.
Pavno is not talked of much among the
political workers here. He is very old and
litis the odor about him of being a practi
cal and very wealthy monopolist. Mr.
Payne has a sou who goes roaming about
the country, saying here that his father
is a candidate, and denying there
that he entertains any such ambition.
This is all there is about Payne’s being
Tilden’s second choice. The similarity
of tactics or rather his imitation or Til
den’s course is the sum and substance
of the claim that after himself Tilden
would like to see Payne nominated. Mr.
Morrison was a candidate before the con
vention of 1880. He wilt he before the
convention of 1884. He has been
so weak, so vacillating and so lack
ing in the characteristics of a leader
in the present House, that he is free
to stand without fear of Presidential
lightning. He need not hide in a feather
bed when the thunder begins to get very
loud. Mr. Ranjall is a candidate.
Mr. Randall has been a candidate
several times. He has had the Tilden in
fluence twice. He could not do anything
even with that great aid. He has not the
Tilden influence now. lie Is estranged
from his party by his course in the pres
ent House. He could not carry his own
State if he got the nomination. That he
will have a chance of trying to do is one
of those things which, at the” present out
look, is among the impossibles.
AS TO MR. BAYARD. .
The honesty, dignity and purity of Mr.
Bayard is not questioned by any one. He
is a candidate, but does not propose to
work for tlie nomination. Helen states
man who would htmoi any position. But
he comes front the small State of Dela
ware, and lacks the quality of making
friends readily. He is too cold, and there
is the popular prejudice against him that
he goes too much on his coat-of-arms and
a family genealogical tree running back
for hundreds of years. The average man
who votes in this dear, delightful republic
has a contempt for coats-of-arms and ge
neaology. McDonald is another man.
There is no doubt about McDonald's can
didacy. He announced it eighteen months
ago, and lias been watering and nursing
the boom which he then planted with an
assiduity certainly worthy of the most
distinguished consideration. He made a
mistake there. He has been booming it
too long. McDonald might carry Indiana.
McDonald has strong friends, but he
cannot win. It might be said of him and
his boom as the late lamented Ben Hill
said of Emory Speer, “lie is rather bright,
hut he was plucked before he was ripe.”
Hancock is not heard of oftener than
once a week. He is a good man, however,
and his weight remains about what it was
four years ago. The Field and Flower
booms are woefully weak.
OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES,
Blaine is most talked of. Blaine is not a
candidate, ot course. But his canvass
goes along at a lively rate.
The talk that bubbles to the surface
smacks strongly ot Blaine. Lincoln is
pretty certain to tie on the ticket. The
most general expression heard is that it
will be Blaine and Lincoln, But little
Mr. Lincoln seems to have an idea
that there is a good chance
of its being Lincoln and somebody else.
He is perfectly confident, and with every
reason, too, that he will be on the ticket;
so he holds off trom affiliations here or
there with his idea to the chance of bein°-
first. But as to Blaine, the war between
him and Arthur has been accented and em
phasized. He is getting delegates in New
York, Arthur’B own State. He is fighting
Arthur at every point, ami Arthur is
.fighting him—but is doing it in a swallow
tail coat and with the outward mould of
a Chesterfield. Blaine is on the other
hand fighting in his evervdav clothes and
without regard to the proprieties. He is
getting the best of it. It is alreadv as
sured that Arthur has a chance that it
would not be safe to gamble on to the ex
tent of a dime with a hole in It.
THOSE WHO MAKE POLITICS A STUDY
don’t see success for Blaine. He has
many enemies, they say, in the party.
He is erratic, and even those of his politi
cal faith—that is, many of them—do
not hesitate to pronounce that he
is unfaithful and dishonest. He could
capture all the farmers in the
country by slapping them on the back
and all the women by kissing their ba
bies. But the politician does not want to
be slapped on the back nor does he care
about his “kids” being kissed, if he has
any. It is freely predicted in the inner
circles that Blaine is again doomed to
disappointment, although he now seems
to have the underhold. He is put
down by the manipulators as being des
tined to share the fate of Henry Clay—a
brilliant career, but no Presidency in it.
These same gentlemen predict a very big
row in the Republican convention,’with
the candidates killing each other olf. And
they also assert that Gen. Sherman will
be the grist that is ground out.
They say this even with the
doubt before them as to whether Sher
man is a Democrat or a Republican. Gen,
Sherman, it must tie remembered, was in
favor of Hancock in 1880. John Sherman,
“whose blood is very much like snow
broth,” is not considered in the race. But
Logan is. Logan is trenchant and has a
wife who knows much more
about politics than he knows:
as she does of the orthography,
etymology and syntax of the English
language. Logan’s chief strength is
in the soldier elements and his
bristling moustache (always except
ing Mrs. Logan). But ’ Logan is
from Illinois. So is Lincoln. Lincoln
is going to lie on the ticket. Thev can’t
take two men from the same State. Ed
munds is loxy, but don’t care much about
the nomination. He would take it, but is
too lazy to work for it, and there does not
seem to be many who care to
work for him. He is regarded
as lieing a man who expects that he may
lie in luck when the row at Chicago is
fully inaugurated. He would not mind
fighting for the place. He has no punc
tilious scruples on that score. But it
would be too much trouble. As to Sena
tors Hawley and Harrison, it seems to be
generally conceded that they are—Sena
tors Hawley and Harrison, and likely to
remain so, as far as the Chicago Conven
tion is concerned.
The Porte’s New Tariff.
London, April 13.—The Porte having
decided to put anew tariff into execution
June 6, the governments of England,
France, Germany, Russia, Belgium and
the United States have informed the Porte
that they will not consent to the abolition
of their commercial rights under the
capitulation.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
Tlie Rapacity of the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
, By skillful engineering and evasive poli
cy, says a Seattle special to the Detroit
Free Press , the Northern Pacific Railroad
hns succeeded in withholding from settle
ment nearly one-half of Washington Ter
ritory, and robbing the people of valuable
rights.
Its land grant, eightv miles wide, ex
tends from Wallula, in Eastern Washing
ton, down the Columbia to Portland; from
Portland to Puget sound, and from the
sound back across the Cascade Mountains
to Wallula, thus forming a great triangle,
embracing within its limits the very rich
est undeveloped region of America. The
railroad company owns but one-half of
this land, but the remaining portion, much
of it not being surveyed, cannot be taken
with safety, because there are no means
of ascertaining which will be government
land, aud which will belong to the rail
road.
Again, upon the land offered for sale by
the railroad company such conditions are
imposed as those: A reservation to the
company of all the minerals, including
iron and coal; a reservation of anv water
that may be used for mineral purposes; a
reservation of the right of way for a rail
road and forty feet on each side of it,
whenever and wherever it may be built,
but giving no compensation for’the same,
nor for the destruction of any improve
ments that may be placed upon the land.
At the infliction of tiiese great public
wrongs our people have long been indig
nant; and now, through the company’s
failure to construct the road within the
time agreed, law as well as justice is on
the side of the people, and they are rising
as one man and demanding the forfeiture of
the land grant. LargS mass meetings are
being held in every county and every city.
It is the chief topic discussed bv all tlie
newspapers and by nearly all individuals.
Not only are the demagogues heard, who
cry “down with all corporations,” but
men of ability and sense are taking part
in this movement and backing it with
their money—men who understand what
failure aud the consequent enmity of the
Northern Pacific forbodes.
The city of Seattle alone, after a thor
ough canvass, has passed resolutions
promising to build a road across the
mountains without any government aid if
Congress will only declare the railroad
grant forfeited.
A delegate lias been elected by this city
and SI,OOO raised by popular subscription
to pay his expenses at the national capi
tal lor the purpose of representing the
people in this movement and their earn
estness in the fight against monopoly.
. If . Washington Territory must take tlie
initiative in the great fight between the
people and corporate monopoly, we want
no better justification than a continuance
of the heartless oppression of the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company.
FRENCH FLYING MACHINE.
Solving the Problem or .Erial Naviga
tion.
Once more the problem of terial navi
gation has been solved—in theory; and
the new machine by which traveling
through the air is to be guided may
he seen working—in theory— at a house
in. the Avenue Wagram, Paris. The
inventors of the new apparatus are
two Frenchmen, who have, as usual, ex
pended a large part of their lives in
elaborating the contrivance, and are as
confident of success as any of their prede
cessors in the same field. The ‘’system of
locomotion” they have adopted is bor
rowed, not from the birds nor from the
bats, but from the insect world. It ope
rates by setting in motion a set of rotatory
wings, something like those which are
used to raise the little imitation butterflies
commonly sold at bazaars and fanev fairs,
or as children’s toys. The principle of
their action is that of scattering the air,
and so creating a vacuum into which the
air behind rushes, carrying with it any
solid body which may be floating within
it. The apparatus is described as con
sisting of n long-shaped spheroidal bal
loon, measuring about twelve feet from
end to end and three feet in diameter. At
each end is arranged a projecting axis,
having arms like a windmill, with
small cards fixed to them as sails*
\\ hen one of them Is set in motion the
whole machine moves forward in the direc
tion ot the axis so working, and continues
to do so as long as the sails revolve. By
stopping these sails and starting those at
the other end a contrary movement is im
parted, and so also with another similar
apparatus affixed to the lower side of the
balloon and intended to make it descend
toward the ground. There is also an ar
rangement of screens on each side of the
several sets of sails, by raising one of
which the course can be made to deviate
to the right or the left.
THE COURT RIGHTS A WRONG.
Verdict Against the Weber Estate."
The Court of Appeals to-day, says a
New York special of the 11th instant,
gave judgment against the estate of the
late Albert Weber, the piano manufac
turer, for $30,000 in an action brought by
Josephine Todd, the natural daughter of
Mr. Weber. Miss Todd was born June
27, 1852. The mother was hardly more
than a child herself, and was entirely de
pendent for support on her own mother,
a widow. At its birth Mr. Weber re
ceived the child in his arms, and in the
presence of witnesses acknowledged its
paternity. The child remained at its
grandmother’s nine or ten years and
was visited often by Mr. Weber.
He directed that she should be well
educated, and in 1876 be said he woulu re
member her in his will. Mr. Weber died
on June 25, 1870, and uo mention of Jose
phine was made in his will. The total
amount expended by relatives on Jose
phine was estimated at $20,868 43. Five
years’ interest and cost make it about
$30,000. The case was hrst heard before
Referee John 11. Whiting, who in his re
port said that while justice seemed to be
on the side of Miss Todd, yet legally he
must decide against her, as be did not
believe that Mr. Weber’s promises were
binding. On appeal, the general term of
the Supreme Court ordered anew trial.
The estate appealed to the Court of Ap
peal, and agreed to abide by its verdict,
which is now “absolute” against it.
HIE RANDALL PLATFORM.
A Prize for First Correct Solution an
Object of Ridicule.
The tariff planks of the Pennsylvania
Randall platform, says a Washington
special to the Detroit Free Fress , is caus
ing much amusement here among politi
cians of both parties. It is evident that
during the coming tariff debate in the
House it will be the subject of much
ridicule on the part ol both revenue re
formers and Republicans, Pennsylvania
Democrats here refuse to explain what it
means. They do admit that according to
the platform the first thing to be done is to
abolish the entire internal revenue system,
and the second thing to be done is to adjust
the existing tariff rates so as to provide a
tariff for revenue limited to the necessi
ties of the government. A Democratic
member of the Ways and Means Commit
tee said to-day that the abolition of inter
nal revenue would wipe out about $130,-
000,000, thus leaving a deficiency of at
least $50,000,000, of which would have to
be raised from customs duties. Is this
increased custom revenue to be raised by
increasing or reducing the tariff duties?
The Randaliites dodge this question.
They will have to hold a conference on the
subject before committing themselves.
RELIEVING ARTHUR.
The Fitz John Porter BUI Not to be
Called up Futil After the Convention.
The President is to be temporarily re
lieved of all embarrassment in regard to
the Fitz John Porter bill, says a Wash
ington special to the Louisville Courier-
Journal , by the decision of the friends of
the measure not to call it up in the House
to consider the Senate amendments to it
until after the Republican nomination
for President is made. The Logan men
have been claiming that the President
was in a bad way on the subject of
his action in the' premises; that he
would be damned by the soldier element
ol the country if he did sign the bill, and
convicted of playing second fiddle to
Logan if he did not. Happily for Mr.
Arthur, it goes over now until the time
when his action cannot influence bis
party one way or another in the selection
of a standard bearer. The President’s
recent reverses in New York have filled
his opponents with encouragement.
A Peddler Fatally Stabbed.
Nashville, April 13. — Meyer Fried
man, a Russian Jew peddler, was fatally
stabbed here last night by some person
unknown.
MILLOT TAKES IICNGHOA.
THE ANSWERING SHOT TO SIX
HOURS OF BOMBARDMENT.
The Town Fired by the Evacuating
Chinese—Tseng Summoned to Pekin
for a Conference—Text of the Terms
on Which France Would Make
Peace.
Paris, April 13.—A dispatch from Son
tay, dated April 11, says: “Gen. Negrier
on Wednesday bombarded the villages
before Hong Iloa. The enemy forthwith
began to evacuate the town without re
sistance. The French will enter Hong
Hoa to-morrow."
THE TOWN FIRED.
Paris, April 13 —Gen. Miliot telegraphs
under date of the 9th inst.: “Hong Hoa
was bombarded for six hours aud the
Chinese offered uo resistance, but evacu
ated after setting tire to the town, which
is now in flames. Part of the Chinese
fled to Plumlang and part to Donvang and
Thanhow.”
FRANCK’S BASIS OF PEACE.
Paris, April 13. — La Liberte publishes
the conditions of peace between Frauce
and China, which M. Patenotre, the French
Minister, is charged to offer at Fekiu. It
is stipulated that China shall accept a
limited French protectorate overTouquin.
No demand for an indemnity is men
tioned.
TSENG CALLED TO PEKIN.
London, April 13. —Marquis Tseng has
been summoned to Pekin to confer with
the Supreme Council. He is not recalled
in disgrace. It is expected that he will
return to England.
CHUSAN’S POSSIBLE SEIZURE.
LONDON, April 13.—Earl Granville lias
received petitions from the Chambers of
Commerce ot Hong Kong and Shanghai
against the threatened French seizure of
Chusan for an indemnity. Earl Granville
It as advised 51. Waddington, the French
slinister at London, of England’s Inten
tions to adhere to the Anglo-Chinese
treaty of 1846, securing Chusan against
occupation.
LOVE, HATE AND MURDER.
A Federal Officer Killed by His Faith
less Sweetheart’s Husband.
The sequel of the fatal love of a Federal
prisoner named Capt. Raphael Livingston,
tv ho was a prisoner in one of the Confed
erate prisons here during the late war,
says a Salisbury (N. C.) special to the
Philadelphia Press, has just come to light.
During the last year of the war Living
ston, through the aid of a pretty girl,
managed to effect his escape. He was
given shelter by his fair friend, and re
mained in the place for a day and night.
Fearing capture by the Confederate pri
son authorities, the escaped soldier made
his way on foot through the mountains in
the western part of the State. After
many trials aud much suffering he reach
ed Wilkes county, one of the remote coun
ties of that section. There he was lucky
enough to meet Miss Rose Austin, an
other young lady, who assisted him in
eluding the Confederate officer in her
neighborhood. The handsome young Cap
tain made a deep impression upon" Miss
Austin, and an engagement of marriage
was the result.
RETURNING FOR A BRIDE.
stiss Austin managed to render such
assistance to her lover that he got through
the Southern lines and made his way to
bis home in New York. In 1867, two years
after the close of the war, Livingstone re
turned to Wilkes county to claim his
bride. During the intervening years
Charles Bird, a young farmer in the
neighborhood, and an old admirer of sliss
Austin, had come between them and
gained the girl’s affection, and soon after
the young Captain’s reappearance in
Wilkes he one day suddenly disappeared
without leaving any clue to his where
abouts.
Bird and Jliss Austin were soon afte
wards married, and the romance of he
Federal officer soon passed out of -be
minds of the Wilkes county people It
was revived last night by a quarre be
tween Bird and his wife, in which tie lat
ter informed one of the neighbor that
Bird and two other men shot an* killed
Livingston and buried his bcJy in a
neighboring woods. A negro, vho is al
leged to have participated in the crime,
corroborates the wife’s story.
All of the parties were a rested to-day
and committed to jail in WiAcs county to
await an examination upon the charge
of murder. The ease attr*cts intense in
terest in this section, where all of those
most deeply interested are well known,
and where the mlssitu Federal officer was
a great favorite during his Brief and, it
now appears, fata) visit, bent on wooing
and claiming his beautiful bride. 51rs.
Bird is now .‘53 and still quite pretty. She
is accomplish**! and of good family con
nections.
WASHINGTON CAMPAIGN TALK.
Democratic Comfort—Grant as a Possi
ble Candidate.
Postmaster Lycurgus Dalton, of the
House of Representatives, says a Wash
ington special, who comes from Indiana,
finds cause for delight in the return* from
the spring elections in Indiana. Mr. Dal
ton finds that the returns show tbat the
Democrats have increased their majority
of two year* ago. wlien they had 17,000
votes m'oe than the Republicans, besides
carrying counties which have been Re
publican. He finds that the Democrats
have gained control of the election ma
chinery all over the State.
Mr. Belford, of Colorado, gives eolor to
the report, which has gained some circu
lation here, that Grant is to be a candi
date for President before the National
Convention. He said tc-day, in conversa
tion with a Star reporter:* “Either Mr.
Grantor Mr. Blaine will be the Republi
can nominee for President. When 1 say
this I know what I am talking about.
Grant is the man who is the most likely
to be the choice of the convention. There
can hardly be a doubt that he w ill be nomi
nated, but if he should not, then the foiees
wilj go over to Blaine and he will be nomi
nated. Wait until the middle of May and
you will see that lam right. I know—
[with emphasis]—l know what is contem
plated.”
“What are Mr. Arthur’s chances?’,
asked the reporter.
“Mr. Arthur’s chances are no ltetter
than mine,” was the reply. “He has no
chance whatever.”
“And Mr. Logan?”
“It’s all right about Logan. That’s a
side play. I tell you it is bet ween Blaine
and Grant,” he said, with a significant
smile.
A DELIGHTFUL REGION.
A Plea for Pure Liquors.
Nbwnan’s Lake, Fla., April a.—Edi
tor Morning Mews: 1 think we have one of
the best countries under the sun. We
have a healthy climate, our lands are pro
ductive. We have good water. Musqui
toes and other insects are almost un
known. Our farmers don’t have to get
their merchants to “run.” Hence every
thing is done on a cash system. How
many neighborhoods can say as much?
The orange trees (notwithstanding we
were visited by three or four blizzards the
past winter) are doing exceedingly well.
The trees where they had dropped their
leaves have again clothed themselves in
their beautiful green foliage and bending
under the weight of young fruit. The
acreage planted to vegetables for ship
ment to Northern markets is unusually
large. Some are already being shipped
and command very satisfactory prices.
Should any of your readers think we are
trying to make out everything better
than it really is, we ’ invite them
to come down here and we will
prove to them that it is far better than we
have pictured it.
Now, a few words in regard to
the liquor question. We see so
much said nowadays about the evils of
whisky. Our opinion is that whisky is
not doing near so much harm as it is
credited with, from the simple fact that
we don’t get any whisky these days. Our
liquor dealers manufacture a stuff (and I
am told) from poisonous and dangerous
drugs, and which they sell to people for
whisky, and we are under the impression
tbat this is where the trouble comes from.
This is why whisky kills so many nowa
days. It is not whisky, but stuff. We
think if our law making men would pass
such laws as would compel them to stop
manufacturing this noxious stuff the evil
would be greatly remedied, if not en
tirely cured. Because then the whisky
dealers would lie compelled to keep and
sell pure liquors, and there would not be
so much money In it. It is claimed that
whisky has killed and is killing so many
of our jieople, but we think that we caii
remedy the evil just mentioned. The
trouble will at least be greatly remedied.
We would like to hear from some of your
readers on this subject.
Leonidas.
A CLERK’S DOWNFALL.
He Vexes a Lady Clerk and Her
Brotlier-in-L.aw Intervenes.
Avery vigorous-looking mau, with
snapping black eyes, a short, turn-up
nose and a very red face, says a Wash
ington special of the 11th inst. to the New
York World, entered the Treasury this
morning and walked very briskly down
the cor-ridor towards room 220f the Fourth
Auditor's office. In walking he brought
his boot heels down very hard as if he
was very much excited. Arriving at
room 22 he gave a good sonorous rap at
the door. In response to the knock a
colored messenger smiling and supercili
ous appeared.
“Is John T. Cramer in the room?” asked
the visitor.
“He is, but the rules are very strict,
salt. No visitors are permitted, salt, dur
ing office hours, suit.”
“Blow the rules. You go and tell John
T. Cramer that John R. Risdon wants |
see him upon very particular business.
Here, you take my card to him.”
The messenger glanced at the card. It
was a business one, an 4 indicated that
Risdon was a grocer.
The messenger inferred that the grocer
had come to collect a bad debt. In the
interest of sport he went in and called
the clerk. Cramer, a tall, lank, pale faced
clerk, dressedin black, came out, directly,
evidently unsuspicious and very friendly.
“Holloa, Risdon, old hoy, how are you?”
said he.
Risdon made no reply. Without a
word of warning he struck Cramer a
terrible blow iu the face, knocking him
down. As the man went down Risdon
cried out:
“1 intend to teach you a lesson liefore
I leave you, you miserable insulter of
women.”
At this Risdon flew into a terrible rage.
Every time Cramer would try to get up
Risdon would knock him down again,
following up his blows with kicks.
Cramer’s nose bled freely, and the kicks
made him fairly howl with pain. He made
little if any resistance. He fell over with
a thud and wailed. It is probable that
Risdon would have pounded the clerk for
sometime if the solored messenger had
not alarmed a Treasury Dogberry, who
came down with the watch.
Risdon was taken to the Twelfth Street
Station. He at once deposited collateral
for his appearance. He said there that
the motive for the assault was this: Cra
mer bad used bis influence as a clerk to
secure the employment of Risdon's sister
in-law upon the temporary roll of the
Treasury. He had, subsequent, to this,
annoyed the sister-in-law by writing her
notes asking her to call at his rooms
down town during the evening, vpon tlie
pretense that he wanted to tali to her
about her place in the Treasury. She re
fused to answer these notes. Then it was
pretty plainly intimated in other notes
that she was not acting wisely if she
wished to keep her position.
Cramer tried to get lur to make other
appointments. The sister-in-law, finding
him so persistent, turned the notes over
to Risdon. He received them last night,
and made very shortwork of the clerk.
After he was released from the station,
Risdon called upcu Secretary Folger and
showed him the ivtes Cramer had written
with a view of improperly intimidating
one of the lady clerks. Secretary Folger
looked the letters over carefully. He
then rang hi* hell, sent for the Appoint
ment Clerk and directed him to have
Cramer pep nip tori ly dismissed.
FYGLISH SARCASM.
Alleged American Fondness for I.ec
tnrer-Rlcliard Grant White's Dis
covery.
A<cording to a paragraph, which maj
or oay not be correctly inspired, says the
London Xe>cs, Mr. Arnold has compiled
a“huge body of notes on the curious so
dal distinctions” in the United States.
It would be an undignified but not an un
lucrative enterprise for Mr. Arnold to go
round England lecturing on the queer so
cial distinctions in America. Naturally
the Strayed Keveler is not. so famous 9 mi
popularly attractive as the author of—
well, of whatever Mr. Oscar Wilde has
written. Mr. Wilde’s anecdotic lecture
on the Leadville miners and their pianist,
and on the man who said the moonlight
was nothing to what it had been before
the war, seems to have been a suc
cessful entertainment. Mr. Arnold could
not hope, of course, to cope with “impres
sions” like the other poet’s, but it he did
choose to lecture on what he saw in
America he would be listened to eagerly.
Perhaps, however, he will not think that
good taste permits him, either in lecture
or printed book, to make fun of his recent
hosts. It Is difficult to say what is the
true rule of international etiquette in this
matter. Our kinsmen are certainly very
curious about us and about Europe, and
their curiosity is not always according to
knowledge. For example, Mr. Charles
Dudley Warner has just published a rec
ord of bis wanderings in Syracuse, where,
“Herodotus in hand,” he studied the
Athenian manoeuvres about Epipohe.
As Herodotus was not the au
thor, any more tnan Ezekiel, of
the account of the Sicilian expedition, it
is guessed that Mr. Warner has rather
the semblance than the substance of
scholarship. Perhaps a similar want of
knowledge on modern matters, coupled
with a plentiful lack of the humor that is
abundant in Mr. Warner, has darkened
the views of Mr. Richard Grant White.
He is, we think, the adventurous explorer
who discovered to his dismay that Eng
lishmen dress for dinner. Embittered by
this, Mr. White gives a somewhat gloomy
and scornful account of us, but we do not
seem to mind much. American corre
spondents :n London, too, send amazing
literary and social gossip across the
ocean, and still we do not vex ourselves
in England. But it does not follow that
a poet and a critic like Mr. Arnold should
make sport for us about Americans,
though sport, no doubt, be could make if
he chose.
Among the differences between England
and America, Mr. Arnold will doubtless
be struck by the comparative neglect of
lectures in England. In America the
“lecture business” is a large, lucrative,
important business. The citizens go to
lectures as we go to operas and theatres,
and take in culture in that way, without
the trouble of reading. There is some
thing democratic and personal in lectures.
The audience is brought into living con
tact with the men whom they have heard
of. and whose books, though expensive in
England, can be purchased in the States
for a few cents. In England, perhaps, we
prefer not to see our authors too much;
we like better to take them for granted,
as Wordsworth took Yarrow unvisited.
In America there is more curiosity
about the great beings* height, light
ing-weight, eves, hair, boots, voice,
and other properties. It is not that the
Americans do not read—they are great
readers—but they also delight in looking
and listening. In England this curiosity
seems much more sluggish. People paid
to see Thackeray and Dickens, and to bear
them read, but would any living novelist
find that it paid to give lectures? Would
any American author find his lectures
crowded if he came over here? Probably
not, unless he were a comic writer, like
Mark Twain. In England lecturing is
dreadfully ill-paid, as a lecturer not han
dicapped with shyness once told an audi
ence at the Royal institution. Only re
ligious and scientific lectures or lectures
on a man’s own adventures succeed here
as a rule. The literary lecture flourishes
best in America; “its bright home is in the
setting sun.”
French Miners Not to Strike.
Paris, April 13.—A committee repre
senting various French miners’ syndi
cates met to-day at St. Etienne. Delegates
were present from all the northern por
tion of France. A proposal for a general
strike was rejected. A resolution hoping
that the government would not for any
length of time leave the miners at the
mercy of the companies, but introduce
measures to revise the law and protect
workmen, was passed. The symptoms of
a strike are weakening.
The “Ellwell” Going to Pieces.
Washington, April 13.—The Signal
Service station at Fort Macon, N. C., re
ports as follows: “The schooner Clara
W. Ellwell, before reported ashore, will
become a total wreck. The crew and
twenty tons of ice are saved. She has
now about four feet of water in her.
Pope Leo's Opposition to Free Masonry.
Paris, April 13.—La Oaulois says:
“The Pope is preparing a strong encycli
cal letter against the order of Free Ma
sons and other secret societies.”
Berber Cut Ofl'.
Cairo, April 13.—Communication with
Berber, both by land and by water, has
been cut off. The rebels have made a raid
in the environs of Berber.
Oliver Doud Byron Dead.
London, April 13.—Mr. Byron, the
dramatist, is dead.
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AN EMPEROR’S OLD AGE.
KAISER WILLIAM SAID TO BE
VERY WHIMSICAL.
The Royal Physicians Resorting to All
Sorts of Subterfuges to Circumvent
Him—Public Appearances and a Desire
to Exercise Imperial Functions Two
of His Longings—The Darmstadt
Meeting.
The Emperor William, it is reported
on good authority, says a London cable
special to the New York World, has
entered into a state of pronounced
dotage. He has become abnormally sus
picious of every person surrounding him.
and constantly exhibits a childish eager
ness to lie before the public in im
perial state and to perform royal
duties. This mania renders him al
most intractable to the attending
physicians. They find themselves compell
ed to resort to all kinds of subterfuges in
order to deceive their patient into acewut
ing the discipline absolutely necessary*!!
his present enfeebled condition. It is
said that one of the principal medical ad
visers of the Emperor has lM?en ordered bj T
him into disgrace, because the prudent
doctor, in the excess of bis zeal, found
himself compelled to resort to a white lie
for the purpose of preventing His Impe
rial Majesty from imprudently enjoying
a drive when too weak to bear the exer
cise.
The doctor, on the occasion referred to,
induced the Kaiser to spend the day in
doors by misrepresenting the state of the
thermometer and the barometrical indi
cations outside. William did not discover
the deception until the next day, when he
learned Irom a uon-posted visitor that the
weather on the previous day had been
simply delightful. This information made
the Kaiser furious, and he at once for
bade the offending doctor to ever again
enter the imperial presence.
The fact that such deceptions as the
above are found necessary by the court,
physicians, and that the order oi expul
sion is secretly ignored, indicate plainly
how far advanced is the old Emperor’s
childishness. Of course the authorities
officially deny that the aged Emperor is
seriously ailing, and busy themselves in
making many official declarations that he
is rapidly recovering. But all Uiese official
announcements may be set down as at-
tempts oi statecraft to bide the disa
greeable truth, which is that the Emperor
is lar on the dangerous side of the line oi
decadence, lie is at present suffering
greatly from the insomnia that set in
during the congestive chill which pros
trated him last Tuesday, and which kept
the attending physicians desperately en
gaged at his bedside all that night.
It is on the programme that the Em
peror shall go to Darmstadt next Tues
day, that Queen Victoria shall arrive
there on the following Thursday, and that
a state meeting between the two shall
take place on Monday, the 2lst inst.
There is gieat anxiety in both London
and in Berlin to have this meeting take
place, and there can be little doubt that
William will keep his appointment if
alive, and the doctors dare allow him to
go, no matter what may be the conse
quence to his health.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
How Experience of its Workings in
Wyoming lias Changed the Opiuions
of a Former Advocate.
The following letter from a lady resi
dent of Wyoming Territory, says the New
York Times, was read in the Massachu
setts House of Representatives by Mr.
Williams, of Foxboro, during the recent
debate on woman suffrage, Mr. Williams
explaining that the letter w as written by
one who was herself an advocate of
woman suffrage before she saw bow the
“reform” worked in Wyoming:
Wyoming Tkriutoky, Jan.
Williams: I received a few days since a
request to make a statement with regard
to woman-suffrage in Wyoming. I pre
sume you wish my opinion of its work
ill£;o i. liv(L L. ’ * ~vl*
looks to me like this: The man who has
a wife controls two votes instead of one,
and he who has grown-up daughters con
trols just as many as he has daughters.
Women are emotional.and will invariably
do as desired to make the home pleasant.
I have lived in Wyoming eight years, and
in a town where 500 votes are polled, and
I have looked into this matter with a good
deal of interest, and as yet I have not
known one-half dozen women to
vote different to the male members
of the family. And 1 have seen
and known of "very bitter feelings being
engendered because one woman did not
vote for another woman’s husband when
he was running for office. I have talked
with many women, not only in U——, hut
in Lawrence City, with regard to whether
they wished to vote, and without excep
tion they unanimously vote it a bore and
dread election time. lam a Republican,
and naturally wish to see that party tri
umph, and 1 tell you candidly 1 would
never vote only that my vote will make
some Democratic woman’s vote null. I
cannot say how woman suffrage would
work in Massachusetts. There the women
are better educated and desire suffrage,
and many women pay taxes on property;
here I don’t know of one who pays any
thing but a poll tax, and our population
is largely foreign, being made up
of all nationalities, and, indeed, I
know very few have any idea of politics
and could not tell what Democracy con
sisted of, and have not the least idea ot
the difference between a Democrat and
Republican. Now, we in a territory only
vote for county officers, and we wonteh
have no Voice m nominating men for
office, primaries and conventions being
only open to men; but after delegates
have made the nominations they are very
glad to have the women come in and help
to elect them, and they can make them
selves (these candidates > very agreeable
to the ladies up to election time and ig
nore them alter. We women might,
of course, demand to be admit
ted to primaries, but I have
been unable, after considerable ef
fort, to get oik* half-dozen who would go.
Thev simply don’t care anything about it
only so far as helping someone they are
interested in who is running for office.
Now, we all readily admit that the best
man should be elected, regardless of par
ty; yet 1 venture to say no two women in
the Territory would vote for a Republican
if her hjisband were a Democrat, or vice
versa, and, indeed, most women take their
tickets from their husbands and never
look at them at all. but cast them in, and
if there is any scratching done it is never
by the women. This is a brief statement
oi' the quest* >n as I see it.
England and Egypt.
London, April 13.—Earl Granville is
preparing a circular to the powers de
claring that England is desirous of re
newing a definite understanding in re
gard to Egypt ad of establishing future
relations oh an*international basis. The
concord between France and Russia, says
Lord Granville, will not permit England
to act in contradiction to the protocol of
disinterestedness signed at the confer
ence at Constantinople.
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