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I J. H. ESTIIL, Editor and Proprietor, j
ITEMS IX THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA I’UT IX TYPE.
Rain Inearths Another Indian Burial
Ground Near A (worth—A Confederate
Kettnion on the Tapis in Harris County
—A Boy Accidentally Shot at Sparta
While Hunting.
GEORGIA.
K< v. A C. Reese, of Carrollton, uses a horse
that is 34 years old.
Br. Bond, of Litlionia, will invest SIO,OOO in
a flouring mill in Dallas.
The Austell chair factory in Paulding is
running at its full capacity.
A 17K. pound catfish has just been taken
from the Etowah, near Acworth.
The Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias con
venes at Brunswick Wednesday.
Jos. A. Aveock, of Chattooga, has refused
lIO.OUO f. r his patent on lumber racks.
Brunswick has contracted for an artesian
well. It will be located in Hanover square.
A saw mill Arm of Terrell countv has re
ceded a large order for lumber from Wis
consin.
Bainbridge is to have a national bank. An
Atlanta capitalist put in $30,000 and citizens
$14,000.
The anniversary of the Phi Delta anti Cice
ronian Societies of Macon University will
occur May 23.
A cavalry company, as well as one of in
fantry. is expected to lie in the field at Mil
ledgeville soon.
Judge Bowden ha* leased the Salt Springs
to an Atlanta company for $210,000. A fine
hotel will be built.
The fair at Thomasion to assist in raising
funds lo furnish the K. E. l.ee Institute in
that town, netted $2,532 01.
J' din Johnson, an ' iglethorpe l>oy now living
in Atlanta, has invented a cash’drawer for
which lie has refused SIO,OOO
The Macon merchants have begun to receive
their reflates on tobacco. They are being for
warded in alphabetical order.
Due A Hartridge arc erecting a planing
mill at Austell Junction. Fifteen thousand
dollars are said to lie invested.
At Bron-wick. Friday, a Mr. Kean was
arrested, charged with the murder of a negro
m Camden county M.me years ago.
Raccoon mills factory, in Chattooga countv.
will lie m working order by September 1. it
wi.l have 1,30 spindles and 4$ looms.
A negro woman on the farm of W. A.
Blount, near Waynesboro. fell in the fire
isatur lay night, and was fatally burned.
At Elliiay. Friday, Dan Evans nut the muz
le of a loaded gun in his mouth and fired it
off. blowing Ins iirains out. Cause not known.
A finer prospect for a good peach crop has
never been known in Harris county. Trees
are everywhere landed to their fullest ca
pacity.
The Industrial Manufacturing Company of
Pulaski have added 25 coopers to its force.
The company is manufacturing 30,000 barrels
per annum.
The spring meeting of the Harris countv
Minday School Association will be held at
M unt /ion Church, \\ averly Hall district,
Saturday. May 30.
Five hundred dollars reward is offered liv
the May mof Americtis for the arrest of ah
incendiary who attempted to burn W. D.
Haynes’ livery stable in that city.
( bfford Anderson, of Macon, leaves for An
nap' ha, Md„ Tuesday morning, accompanied
by his brother. Louis J. Anderson, who wilt
enter the Naval Academy. Young Anderson
was appointed last fall by Congressman
Blount.
In Meriwether county oats are suffering
for want of rain. The best crops are heading
out very near the ground. Rain would greatlv
benefit all crops. Cotton planted just before
the last rain cannot get through the hard
crust formed on the beds.
Mclissie Allis, colored, wife of Andrew
Allis, dropped dead at her home in Decatur
Saturday, she was in the yard washing
clothes and went in the house to attend to tier
child, which was crying. The child was hav
ing spasms, and she cried out: “My child is
dying." anil fell over on the floor dead. The
child is still living.
While hunting rice birds Saturday, Hardy
C. Culver, a lad about 13 years old and son of
German P. Culver, a prominent merchant of
Sparta, was accidentally shot, the entire load
entering his left leg about three inches above
the knee, damaging the hone. The extent of
the damage is not fully known. The wound
is serious but not dangerous.
Athens Banner: There is a negro outlaw
named Sharpe, in the upper part of this
county, w ho refuses to lie’arreated, and savs
he will die iir-t. lie is half Indian, and tlio’se
who know him say he will carry out hi*
threat. A few day* since an officer went to
arre-t him, but a white man walked ten miles
to give Sharpe notification that he could hide
omt.
In Columbus in a personal encounter be
tween ex-Alderman J. C. Andrews and E. M.
Johnson, a prom blent grocery merchant,
which occurred on Broad street, tenor a dozen
shots were fired, though neither party was
lot. Dr. J. 1.. Jordan, of M. D. Hood A Co
at his store half a block off. was struck by a
spent ball, but not hurt. The parties have
been connected in business, out of which the
misunderstanding grew. Both were arrested
and put under bond.
For some days experienced miners have
been looking into some of the gold mines
around Acworth, and yesterday a considera
ble quantity of rich ore w as shipped to New
York for a scientific assay. This ore came
from the lands of Mr. llcnrv House, some two
miles from Acworth, which have long been
considered well stored with the precious
metal. The simple “panning" test with his
ore has been attended with such results as
arc calculated to inspire strong hopes of a
x aluable find.
In accordance with the suggestion
of the State Democratic Executive" Com
mittee, a meeting of the Democracy
of Mclntosh county will be held a't
12 m., on Tuesday, the 3d of June, next, for
the purpose of selecting two delegates and
two alternates to represent the countv in the
Mate Convection, which will lie helil in At
lanta, on Wednesday, the 18th of June next,
for the purpose of electing delegates to the
( hie ago National Democratic Convention,
which convenes on the Bth of July.
AVavcross Bn rtrr: The Savannah. Florida
and tVcstern Railway Company, with an eye
always to business, had a man stationed at
the bridge over the branch between the old
and now parts of town, to count the persons
passing, for the purpose of approximating the
probable business that might be expected,
should they build a street railroad. The re
sult was more than satisfactory, there having
passed to and fro during the day more than a
thousand persons. So we may with a reason
able certainty expect, before’a great while, a
first-class, well-equipped street railway.
Last Tuesday week Capt. L. L. Stanford
made a motion, during the session of the
County Agricultural Society, for the appoint
ing of a committee of five soldiers of the late
war to advise as to a time, place and manner
of holding a reunion of Harris county Con
federate soldiers, to report to a public meet
ing of these veterans at Hamilton on the first
Tuesday in June. Ttie motion prevailed, anil
Judge Wisdom, Chairman of the meeting, ap
pointed the following gentlemen upon the
committee: Capt. L. L. Stanford, Col. \V. H.
MeCnllohs. t apt. T. J. Neal, Capt. R. L>. Lit
tle. Capt. H. E. Moss.
Columbus En<jtUrer-Sun\ Yesterday after
noon a white woman, who gave her name as
Rebecca Abner, applied at the police head
quarters with four children and asked for aid.
She -aid that she wa- from Kentucky and was
trying to reach Tallahassee, Fla., where she
had a brother. Her husband, she savs, died
two or three months ago. leaving her a small
place, which she sold for SSOO, andshe started
for Florida. While traveling through the
country to the nearest railroad station the
wagon was attacked by robbers, who took
every cert of money she had. Since then she
lias been making her way from town to town
as lu st she could, suffering all the time for the
actual necessaries of life. One of her chil
dren is only 2 years old and the oldest is only
14. Chief Palmer provided food for them and
gave them lodging in the guard-house, where
they will be cared for until to-morrow morn-
when Mayor Grime* will give them
transportation on the boat to Chattahoochee.
Acworth AY//Mi: The big rain of last month
uncovered several things in this section which
had been hidden from the eyes of man for
many years. On the plantation of AY. J. Pal
mer. near Acworth. a great many arrow
bead*, and other things made of stone by the
red man. have been found, and it was 'well
understood that the place was once the dwell
ing place of many Indians: but Mr. Palmer
did not know that he was the possessor of an
Indian graveyard until the big freshet lifted
the soil that had been gathered over it
for a half century or more. This
part of the place was cleared
a .‘suit fifteen years ago, aud was remarkably
fret from rocks at that time. It is on a little
elevation of the bottom lands. About twenty
round boles are now exposed to view, bearing
evidence of having been carefully dug and
lined with rocks. 8o far nothing ha* teen
found in them more than arrow heads, short
stone spear* and pieces of soapstone and
earthenware vessel*, though a further explo
ration may reveal other and more important
relics. Mrs. Palmer has a soapstone bowl,
which was left by the Indians, and she has
used it twenty years for a chicken trough.
FLORIDA.
Anew hotel is to be erected at Welalca this
summer. •
The lm'al option law has proved a failure at
K.'J West.
X.'neves have recently stolen 200 orange trees
at W.'titesville.
A ne\ T sojioolhouse is to be built at Indian
River Narrows.
The Tavares ice factory will be completed
in alxiut two weeks.
Many thousand crates of vegetables are
leaving Archer weekly.
A number of Tennesseans have recently
settled in Marion county.
Bears are doing considerable damage to
sugar cane on Indian river.
A large hotel is being built in Whartonville,
on Ea.'t l'ohopekaliga Lake.
A Mr. Adams 1s buying land in Madison
county for Western colonies.
A uew poat of the Grand Army of the Re
public has been orgamaed at Sanford.
The Democratic Convention of Putnam
county will be held at Palatka June 11.
Nearly all the public lands in Monroe coun
ty bave'baeu converted into fruit farms.
A liquor licence has been granted to an
Ocala man, and his barroom is in full blast.
The Fernandiua Volunteers are* now thirty
strong. The company has just been organ
ised.
6. B. Adkins, of Hawthorn, has three trees,
tvcenty.fivc years old, which yielded about
30,(W0 oranges this year. Last year one tree
$l6O S ° *° r anf * the purchaser realized
Mrs. L. i,. Cody and Mrs. M. J. Anderson,
or Alabama, have leased the Magnolia Hotel
at Ocala.
Those interested in the Baptist Female Col
lege are looking to its establishment at_a suit
able point on the seaboard.
The young men of the Indian River section
have started a yacht club. A meeting will be
held May 31 to complete the organization.
Father Baasen, of Pensacola, has seven
volumes of “Commentaries on the Bible"
printed in Latin in 1498, nearly 400 years ago.
The canal between Lakes Dora and Eustis
is to lie widened to seventy-five feet, and
<leei>ened so as to give fire feet at low water.
Anew Presbyterian Church is to be erected
at Reddick Station, Marion county, during the
summer. The fund* are all in hand to pay
for it. v J
Ihe Jefferson County Hotel Company, of
Monticeilo, has formed a permanent organi
zation. AA ork on the hotel will be begun at an
early day.
Apparently the County Commissioners have
concluded no longer to await the resnlt of the
long deferred election for a change in the
county site—at least they are moving in tlie
matter of building a decent and secure jail
for Clay eouuty.
A petition is being circulated in Orange
county for signatures, to he presented to Gov
ernor Bloxham, requesting him to commute
the death-sentence of 8. B. Carter, convicted
last year of murdering John AV. Griflin, to
life imprisonment.
George AA’. Jones, business manager of the
Jacksonville Time*- Union, contemplate* en
tering th* newspaper go-as-you-please foot
race at Jacksonville. Mr. Jones is said to be
as lively with hi* feet as he is with his pen,
and will give the boys a lively shaking up.
Young Mr. Overstreet, aged 16 years, who
lives with Ins father on Rocky creek, in Tav
lor county, was attacked by a huge wild cat
while, out hunting one day fast week. •A load
of shot quieted the animal's fighting propen
sities. A panther, measuring eight feet from
tip of nose to lip of tail, was killed recently
in that county.
There are now in process of construction,
within the city limits of Sanford, twenty
seven buildings, aud under contract and con
sidering alsmt fifty more. In the suburbs
there have been many new groves started,
each of which will require one or more resi
dences. Even in this dull time of year there
is not a cottage or house for rent.
The Clay Guards of Green Cove Springs
have informed the Town Council that they
will act as a lire company if the city will pur
chase apparatus. The town lacks the neces
sary water facilities to make an engine avail
aide, and the purchase of a book and ladder
truck is contemplated. Three houses were
burned in the town on Monday last.
AVilliam Young, of Anthony,Marion county,
last week accidently killeiL himself. He had
been hunting, and placed nis gun upon the
bank of Indian lake while lie went to the boat
to fish, and on returning he attempted to mill
the gun into the boat, muzzle toward him.
The nammer became entangled and the gun
was discharged, lodging the contents in his
body, from which he died almost instantly.
SOFT IT CAROLINA.
There is talk of starting a bank in Laurens.
The Clifton Cotton Mill paid 14 per cent,
profit last year.
The Pawnee was sold at Beaufort by the
government for something over $6,000.
There is a project on foot in Georgetown for
building a cotton compress at that place.
J. H. G. McDaniel, of Pickens, has apiece
of crystalized quartz found in that county
which has almost a perfect resemblance to an
ear of corn.
At Crump Gold Mine, near Charlotte, one
negro lmried ;t mining pick in the head of a
companion with whom he had quarrelled,
killing him instantly.
At Vance’s Ferry a few days ago Mrs.
Daniel Avinger, Sr., was thrown from her
buggy against a projecting fence and was
almost completely scalped, only about three
inches of skin holding the scalp on at the
back of the head.
A meeting of thg directors of the Agricul
tural, Mechanical aud Horticultural Associa
tion of Chester, Y'ork, Lancaster and Fairfield
counties has been held, and a fair at Columbia
will lie the result. The associated counties
will raise SIOO or more each to he offered as a
premium fertile largest and best exhibit of
tlie natural resources and products of each
county for the New Orleans Exposition—the
same to lie exhibited at the Chester Fair and
State F’air before being forwarded to New
Orleans.
Marion Star: A correspondent writes us
that he was present at Friendfleld last Satur
day at the investigation of Trial Justice
Basque over the bones of the skeleton found
in Horse Pen Bay. and of which we made men
tion last week. The following facts are ad
duced: That some thirteen months ago two
colored children, a boy and a girl, ran away
from their parents, living at Graham’s Cross
roads, intending to go to Cartersville. Tliev
crossed Lynch’s river at Bass’ bridge, anil
since then the girl lias never been seen. Ttie
boy, who is only 12 or 14 years old, savs that
ihe girl was drowned on the AVilliamsburg
side. Dr. Bass says that ttie skeleton was
that of a colored person and was a female,
and suspicion is very strong against the bov.
Nothing definite was done though, as tile
court adjourned to get other important proof.
THE SPEER GROVE.
Profitable Orange Trees.
The editor of the Sanford (Fla.) Journal
has interviewed Mr. Pace, owner of the
celebrated Speer orange grove, with the
following result:
“How long have you had charge of the
Speer grove ?”
“For a little over four years, which
covers the handling of five crops. During
this time 1 have owned three-tifths of the
grove. Recently have purchased the
other two-lifths. so that 1 am now sole
owner.”
“Have you objection to stating what
you paid "for those two-fifths?
“Not at all. I paid SBO per tree, so that,
estimating the grove at 600 trees, 1 paid
at the rate of $40,000 for the grove, $16,000
for two-fifths.”
“You state the seedling trees (about
half the grove") were the product of seeds
grown from the original budded trees.
Were those seeds planted in nursery, and
when up transplanted, or were they
planted where the trees were to stand and
never transplanted?”
“My information is, they were first put
in nursery and then transplanted. I am
told that’thrqp of the nursery trees that
happened to be in proper position were
never disturbed. These are now the larg
est trees in the grove.”
“How much fertilizer have you used?”
“I have used 1,200, 1,500 and 2,000 lbs.
per acre, for the three last years. 1 broad
casted and harrowed in, applying twice
annually, in January and June.”
“What has been the cost of the grove
per annum for fertilizers, cultivation and
care ?”
“From S2OO to S3OO for fertilizers, and
from S2OO to SSOO for cultivation and care.”
“What has been the annual average in
come of the grove for several years past?”
“Five thousand dollars per "annum, per
haps a little over, net since my connection
with it.”
“What will be the yield, probably, this
year?”
“As well as I can judge about 300,000,
or about 600 oranges per tree.”
Do you think allowing the fruit to re
main on the trees so late has contributed
to the shortness of the crop this year?”
1 do, for the reason that those trees
from which the fruit was gathered earliest
have the fullest crop now.”
“If properly cared for, what do you
think will be the annual average yield of
the Speer grove ?”
“I believe, if kept up properly, as I in
tend it shall be, that it will yield an aver
age of at least 1,000 oranges per tree.”
OUT OF THE RACE.
Senator-Elect Payne, of Ohio, Not to be
a Democratic Candidate for Preftldent.
Mayor John Farley, who was the able
manager of Henry B. Tayne’s canvass in
the recent Senatorial fight, says a Cleve
land (Ohio) special, has made a statement
which carries great weight with it. He
says, most emphatically, that Mr. Payne
will not be a candidate for President; that
he has no desire for the nomination, and
that his name will not even be presented
at the Chicago Democratic Convention.
Mr. Payne himself maintains a strict si
lence. Being asked if Mayor Farley had
a right to make such a statement,
the Ohio Senator-elect absolutely
refused to answer. lie will not submit
to an interview on any subject whatever.
John F. Wey, Chairman of the local Dem
ocratic committee, said last night that
Payne was not a candidate, and, even if
he "were, his chances were not good. In
this connection, he said, regarding the de
feat of the Morrison bill: “With the ex
ception of forty-one bolters, the Demo
cratic party, as" represented by its Con
gressmen, are in favor of pronounced tariff
reform. The party cannot ignore them or
attempt to lead a successful campaign
except on those principles. The platform
must embody a plank for low tariff, with
free trade tendencies. There is no doubt of
that. That will mean the nomination of a
man like Tilden. In short, he is the man
whom the party will undoubtedly be com
pelled to nominate.” Judge Blandin, an
other prominent Democrat, says: “Payne
is out of the race now, and it looks to be
more like Tilden than ever. The majority
of the Democratic party have placed
themselves on a platform tending toward
free trade, or, more properly, radical tariff
reform, such as the Morrison bill provided,
and, though a sufficient number bolted to
defeat the measure, the sentiment of the
majority was expressed. Tilden stands
on that platform. The only •question as
to his nomination is whether he will ac
cept it.”
CONGRESS’ WEEK’S WORK.
A CALL OF THE HOUSE COMMIT
TEES PROBABLE TO-DAY.
An Effort to l>e Made to Get up the Wal
lace-McKinley Contested Election
Case—Mr. Randall's Eye on the Ap
propriation Bills—The Programme In
the Senate.
ashington, May IS. —Notice has been
given by the Chairman of the Elections
Committee that he will to-morrow call
up the Wallace-McKinley contested elec
tion ease for action by the House of Rep
resentatives, but in view of the fact that
the third Monday of the month is the only
day on which the list of committees can
be called for motions to suspend the rules
there is reason to believe that the House
Avill give preference to the regular order
of business. In this event the call will
begin with the Judiciary Committee,
which will offer a resolution to
fix a special day for consideration
of the Senate bankruptcy bill.
Tlie Banking and Currency Committee,
which stands next on the list, will hold a
meeting to-morrow morning to determine
its action under the call. It especially
dbsires to procure the passage of the
McPherson bill authorizing the issuance
of national bank circulation to the full
amount of the bonds held by the Treas
ury as security, and it may, therefore,
offer a resolution to-morrow' evening to
make this meflsure a special order for
some specified future day. It he can
find an opportunity, Mr. Randall will de
mand the votes in the House upon the
consular and diplomatic, District of Co
lumbia and army bills, Avhich were passed
upon by the committee of the whole last
Friday.
The English-I’eele contested election
case is to be urged for consideration by
the House as soon as the Wallace-McKin
lev case shall have been disposed of,
and there promises to be a confusing.
struggle for precedence during all the
rest of the week on the part of the special
champions and adherents of a large num
ber of miscellaneous measures heretofore
reported.
The unfinished business in the Senate
is the bill for the creation of a bureau of
labor statistics. The agricultural and
pension appropriation bills are upon the
Clerk’s table aw'aiting consideration, and
these, with the Utah bill, will probably
consume the time of the Senate during
the week.
MR. DINGLEY’S SHIPPING BILL.
Prospects that the Subsidy Clause will
he Dropped and the Bill Passed.
Washington, May 18.—Senator Frye,
Chairman of the Senate conference com
mittee on the Dingley shipping bill, wants
to go fishing to Maine on Thursday to
remain until after tlie Chicago Conven
tion. ne will try to have the bill disposed
of before he leaves. The House has not
yet acted on the Senate’s request that a
conference committee be appointed on tlie
differences between the two houses.
Wlien the motion* to agree to this
request is made, as it probably
will be on Tuesday by Mr. Slo
cum, the Chairman of .the Shipping
Committee, the point of order will lie
made that the bill, since it contains a sub
sidy clause, must go to the committee of
the whole. Tue point will probably be
sustained. In committee of the whole an
attempt will be made to consider the bill
as privileged in character and so entitled
to immediate consideration. If considera
tion is had the request ot the Senate will
probably be acceded to. In conference
the bill will be amend so as to omit the
subsidy clause and will then probably
pass.
THE DUTY ON ART.
A Suspension of the Rules which May
Reopen the Tariff Debate.
Washington, May 18.—The Ways and
Means Committee has a bill to present for
a suspension of the rules to-morrow,
which, if passed in the House and re
ported by the Finance Committee in the
Senate, will give rise to a prolonged tariff
debate in that body, ending in votes on
Mr. Morrison’s bill, Mr. Hewitt’s bill,
and other tariff propositions. It is tlie
bill fixing theduty on all imported art at 10
per cent, ad valorem, in lieu of the pres
ent rates, to wit: 30 per cent, on foreign
art, while the productions of American
artists residing abroad are admitted free.
It is not certain whether this bill will
command two-thirds in the House. It will
have opposition, although it has the sup
port of both American and loreign artists.
Some Democrats do not want a reduction
in art duties pointed to as the only re
venue retorrn outcome of this session.
RUSSIA’S HEIR APPARENT.
His Arrival at His Majority Celebrated
with Gorgeous Pomp.
St. Petersburg, May 18.—The ma
jority ot the Czarowitch was celebrated
to-day by various court and state cere
monies and a fete to the people in the
Field of Mars. The streets of the city
were thronged by enthusiastic masses.
The Czar and Czarowitch drove through
the crowd at midday in an open
carriage and without escort. The
populace loudly cheered as the royal per
sonages passed. The windows along the
route were specially ordered to be kept
closed. The Czarina was driven later in
the day to the winter palace, where the
members of the Imperial family, officials
of the various embassies and high State
and church dignitaries were assembled.
At the palace Prince William of Germany,
in the name of his father the Emperor, con
ferred upon the Czarowitch the deccra
ations of the order of the Black Eagle.
The procession then formed and pro
ceeded to the Palace Church, the Czar
and Czarina leading. They were fol
lowed by Olga of Greece, the Czar
owitch, Duchess ot Mecklenburg Schwer
in, Prince William and the Russian
Grand Dukes and Duchesses. Alter
prayers had been offered the Czarowitch
took the oath of allegiance to tlie
and loyalty to the Fatherland, and swore
to maintain the legal order ■ of
succession to the Throne. A salute of 301
guns in honor of the day was then tired.
Returning to the Palace the Czarowitch
took the oath of military allegiance on the
standard of his body guard and of his
Cossack Regiment. Another salute was
tired and their imperial majesties retired
from the ceremonies. The Czarowitch
in the afternoon received deputa
tions from all classes ol the
civil, military and provincial
population. The shipping in the Neva
was resplendent with the display of flags
of all nations. *rhe streets were all pro
fusely decorated with flags and banners.
The entire city to-night is brilliantly
illuminated. Special services of thanks
giving were held to-day in all the
churches. Prince William placed a
wreath of immortelles upon the tomb of
Alexander 11.
Mr. Dinglej’s Hunk Note llill.
Washington, May 18.— The Banking
anil Currency Committee, if reached to
morrow, will'ask the House to pass, un
der a suspension of the rules, the Dingley
bill, authorizing the immediate invest
ment in three per cents, by the Secretary
of the Treasury, of the" national bank
note redemption fund now amounting to
about $40,000,000, in legal tenders. It is
doubtful whether the necessary two-thirds
can can be obtained.
Racing Prospects at Pimlico.
Baltimoke, May 18.—The spring meet
ing of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pim
lico, will begin on Tuesday next, and there
is every indication that it will be of more
than ordinary interest. The track is in
splendid condition, and the steeplechase
course is being covered by better turf
than ever before. There will be live races
each day, and all the stakes are well filled.
About 140 horses are now at Pimlico, and
they are" generally in good condition. A
large number of people visited the track
to-day, and the horses were worked
throughout the entire day.
The Baltimore ‘‘Sun's” Telegraph Edi
tor Bead.
Baltimore, May 18.—W. G. Hali
burton, telegraph editor of the Sun, died
suddenly this evening et 6 o’clock. He
was discovered in an unconscious con
dition, and before a doctor, who was im
mediately summoned, reached him he had
expired. The deceased was about 42
years old, and was a son of the late J udge
llaliburton, of Richmond, Va.
• Declarect Untrue.
Paris, May 18.—The statement that a
Fenian plot to assassinate the Prince of
Wales was brewing is declared to be un
true. The Prince freely moved about the
streets of Paris and made many visits
unattended. He left Paris for a suburban
hotel. The Prince refused to allow his
carriage to enter the inner court of the
hotel or to permit police agents to accom
pany him.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1884.
CONTEST OVER A CORPSE.
Midnight Grave Digging that Startled
a Party of Related Reveler*.
The St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, says
a Norwich (Conn.) special to the New
York Sun, is situated two miles to the
north of this city in a lonely aud isolated
opening in the heavy white oak forest
which but stubbornly yields space to it
and to the narrow plot of green sward
occupied by the monument which marks
the spot where Miantonomah fell and
where his heart was cut out and sampled
by the blood-thirsty Uncas. It is a gloomy
spot. On Wednesday morning last,between
2 and 3 o'clock, a party of belated revel
ers from Baltic, on their way to this city,
while passing the cemetery had their hair
raised on end by the sight of lanterns
moving among the tombs in the grave
yard, by the clanking of tools, and by sobs
as of a distressed female. They caught
sight of a group of men bearing a long
dark object between them slowly. Then
the tall figure of a person, apparently a
woman dressed in sweeping black robes,
seemed to rise out of the ground and move
swiftly towards them, holding aloft her
hand, as though in warning. This was
enough. Plying the whip, they urged
their horses to the top of his speed until
tie reached the city limits. It Was either
the russet cider at Baltic or else a black
ghost, they concluded among themselves.
To the general public they said not a
word until the event of to-day caused
them to unloose their tongues.
Some time on Tuesday night the corpse
of Michael Enright, a wealthy Irishman
of this city, was spirited from its resting
place in the lot of his sister, Hannah Eli
right, in the Catholic Cemetery, and proba
bly interred in the lot of his wife in the
same cemetery, as a newly made grave
would seem to indicate. No one knows
tilts for certain, but the rumors, the con
duct of the widow Enright, and the new
grave have so maddened the Enright
family that it is thought they will tear the
grave open and carry the body, if they
find It, back to their sister’s lot. They
have already instituted legal proceedings
to recover the body from the widow, but
they (ear the courts cannot tell them who
the body belongs to. A prolonged contest
will be the result, whatever course things
may take. The affair is the outcome of a
family quarrel. The Enrights disliked
Michael’s wife. When he died Hannah
had his body buried in her own lot, and
ever since then she has claimed to own
the right to retain the body. The widow
Enright lias vainly appealed to the courts
for it, and finally resorted to the midnight
grave digging.
THE BURIAL OF BOGGAN CASH.
A Melancholy Procession—No Service*
Over the Body—The Hearts of the Spec
tators Melted to Pity.
w. B. Cash was buried this afternoon,
says a News and Courier special of the
16th .from Cheraw, at 3 o’clock, about 200
yards sout’i of his father’s residence. As
the family have a burying plot in the Epis
copal graveyard at Cheraw it was gene
rally supposed that he was to be buried
there. X’o public notice had been given
of the time or place of the funeral, and
consequently the attendance was not so
large as it would otherwise have been.
About seventy-five persons were present,
including some ten or fifteen from Cheraw
and the immediate vicinity. No funeral ser
vices were held over the body, which
was followed to the grave by the entire
family, with the exception of his father,
who remained on the piazza of his resi
dence, but within sight of the grave. Col.
Cash is very quiet and uncommunicative.
Public sentiment has subsided, and nearly
every one regrets that Cash came to such
an untimely and tragic end. It was hoped
that his arrest would have been effected
without bloodshed, but from the evidence
of the posse who arrested him it will be
seen that if they had not killed him some
of them would certainly have been shot
down. Col. Cash’s quiet manner since
yesterday, so different from what many
expected, has gained him many sympa
thizers.
The latest report from Coward is that
lie will hardly survive more than one or
possibly two days.
Samuel J. Lee, one of Boggan Cash’s
friends who was wounded at the time
Cash was killed, is a young man of about
25 years of age. He was quite a quarrel
some fellow, and about five years ago, in
a difficulty, killed Pressiar. As near
as we can learn the particulars there had
been bad blood between them for some
time on aceount of a girl. Lee was tried
for the murder at the February term,
ISBO, and acquitted for want of evidence,
as only the principals were present, and
Lee told the story to suit himself
on the trial. Lee was riding
.along a neighborhood road, while
Pressiar and the two Brock boys
were on a path leading from Brock's house
to this} road. Pressiar left the bovs and
cut across to meet Lee. An altercation
ensued, Lee got off his mule, both parties
drew their pistols. Lee claimed that
Pressiar fired first and shot six times,
while he fired five. The Brock boys when
they saw the parties were about to fight
ran back to the house, and consequently
dul not witness it. Lee is unmarried, we
believe. His relations with the Cashes
have always been intimate, and in all
their difficulties he was ready to fly to
arms and-help them, right or wrong, lie
is a farmer, and lias at different times
worked on Col. Cash’s plantation, either
as tenant or hired.
ENGLAND’S AVAR WITH MAHDI.
12,000 Men to Constitute the Khartoum
Relief Expedition.
London, May 18.—Cairo advices of to
day state that preparations for the Khar
toum expedition for Gen. Gordon’s relief
include equipments for 12,000 men, 40
steam launches, 400 shallow draught
boats, and several thousand camels. It i9
doubtful whether the expedition will be
ready to sfart before the end of August.
The officers of the army of Egypt are get
ting furloughs till the end of July.
THE conference.
Final negotiations in regard to the
Egyptian conference have been concluded.
France and Italy persistently insist upon
their right to discuss the general question
of the administration of Egypt. Earl
Granville is expected to announce the
programme of the conference to-day.
GOING FOR GORE.
A Duel Arranged Between an Indiana
Ex-Soldier and an Alabama Colonel.
A stir has been created here, says a
Roswell (Ind.) special of the 15th inst. to
the Cincinnati Times-Star, by the an
nouncement that a meeting under “the
code” between Col. J. C. McGuire, of Mo
bile, Ala., and John Spies, of this place,
is to take place. It seems that Spies, who
was a well-known soldier, in a conversa
tion related the incidents attending the
capture of Jefferson Davis, with the cir
cumstances of which he was familiar, as
he was one of the capturing parties.
Spies says that in return for his cour
teous attention to Mrs. Davis he was given
a bunch of flowers by her, which he kept,
bringing it home with him at the close of
the war. A reporter wrote an account of
it for the Biswell Courier. A copy of the
paper reached Mrs. Davis, who at once
placed it in the hands of MeGuire, a friend
of the family. McGuire wrote to the edi
tor of the Courier a denial of Spies’ state
ment, saying that Spies lied and offering
him satisfaction “under the code.”
The editor suppressed the letter and
only a few days ago told Spies about it.
Without hesitation Spies accepted the
challenge and named Col. Harris as his
second. That the meeting will take place
and be fought “to the death” there is no
doubt. Friends have interfered without
avail.
A LOVER’S THREAT FULFILLED.
Scattering Hi* Brains Over the Carpet
anil on the Dress of His Lady-Love
Sinithville, Ritchie county, says a Graf
ton, West Virginia, special of the 16th
inst., was last nigbt the scene of a tragic
ending of a romantic love affair. Victor
Frederick, an impulsive Frenchman, has
for some time been paying attention to
Miss Lillie, daughter of G. W. Hardman,
a well-known iron operator, but she did
not smile on his suit. For the past three
days he has been in a fit of melancholy
over her repeated rejection of his hand
and fortune. Last night he bade good-bye
to several friends, telling them they
would probably never see him alive again.
He went to Miss Hardman’s house and
once more offered her his hand. She re
fused, when he drew a revolver and told
her he would scatter his brains over the
carpet if she did not.reconsider her an
swer. Supposing he was joking, she re
peated her refusal. Hfi pulled the trigger
and fulfilled his threat, literally scatter
ing his brains over the carpet and over
her dress.
THE NATIONAL EXHIBIT.
SOME OF THE SIGHTS TO RE
SEEN AT NEW ORLEANS.
Fibres and Fabrics from the State De
partment-Implements of War as Dis
played by Secretary Lincoln—Secretary
Chandler’s Models of Vessels of War—
A Post Office in Operation.
YV ashington. May 18.—In conformity
with the President’s order the Board of
Representatives ot the Department of
State to prepare exhibits and represent
the United States Government at the
World’s Exposition in New York met at
the State Department Saturday and or
ganized, with Colonel Lyford as Chair
man and YV. A. DeCaindry as Secretary.
The following is an outline of the most
important exhibits to be made by the
government: The Department ot State
will exhibit samples of cotton, wool and
cosmos fibres and of fabrics made from
them m all parts of the world, with sta
tistics of the markets, styles, ruling
prices and demand.
The YVar Department will exhibit
models illustrating the various work of
the Engineer Bureaus, such as torpedoes,
models of methods of submarine mining,
and all outfits and appurtenances of the
military engineer field service. The Or
dnance Bureau exhibit will include every
variety of artillery and small arms, o'f
fuses and projectiles, from those in use
before the revolution to the latest imrove
ment. The manufacture of guns and me
tallic cartridges will be illustrated by
machinery in operation. The Signal
service work, in war and peace, will be
illustrated by all the apparatus of the
field service and by exhibitions of the
methods of the YVeather Bureau.
The Navy Department wilt exhibit
every variety of ordnance and small arms
used in the service and those that have
been superseded. Its display of artillery
and machine guns will illustrate the suc
cessive stages of progress made during
the century. All the torpedoes used in
naval warfare, with every kind of projec
tile,will be shown, also Farmer’s dvnamo
electric machine for firing. Models of
war vessels, ancient and modern, and all
things belonging to the supply depart
ment will be exhibited.
The Post Office Department will place a
handsomely equipped office in practical
operation at the exposition, and will
exhibit a postal railway car, and all the
appliances of the mail service. It will
also have machinery in motion making
envelopes and stamps.
The Department of the Interior will
exhibit a great variety or objects col
lected by the agents of the Indian Bureau.
The Patent Office display will consist
of groups of models taken from its cases,
showing chronologically the advances in
steam engineering, in cotton spinning,
and other industries due to the ingenuity
of American inventors.
Tlie exhibit of the Geological Survey
will comprise mineral ores and rocks
from every State and Territory, and gi
gantic and interesting fossils of extinct
animals and plants discovered in many
sections of the United States.
The Bureau of Ethnology will exhibit
models of the ancient Pueblos and cliff
dwellings still existing in the Southwest,
with a large collection of relics illustrat
ing the life and condition ot the Indians
and prehistoric inhabitants in that sec
tion .
The Smithsonian Institution will have
exhibits from several divisions of
the National Museum. The first
will represent every species of
American food fish ’by life size
casts and by specimens preserved in alco
hol. The processes employed by tlie
United States Fish Commission for secur
ing and hatching eggs and transporting
young fish to various parts of the coun
try, with all the implements, apparatus
and transport appliances of this depart
ment will be shown in detail. Every va
riety of fishing tackle used through
out tlie world, from the crudest
savage devices to the latest
inventions of civilization will be exhibit
ed. Photographs of fishermen pursuing
their calling, of their homes, of their man
ifold methods of preparing their catch for
the market, of their boats and fishing
craft, and of everything connected with
their lives and surroundings will be dis
played; together with life-size figures of
fishermen of all nations clad in their pe
culiar costumes.
The evolution ot ships from primitive
crudity to the present perfection will be
illustrated by a collection of handsome
models, to which all nations have con
tributed. The Albatross, one of the largest
and best of supplied steamers of the Fish
Commission, will be anchored at the Ex
position wharf as an exhibit.
FROM YALE TO PRISON.
“My God, am I Then a Convict!’’ said
He, as thev Chained Him to a Hid
eous Burglar.
“Have you communicated with your
family, sir?’’ asked Judge Galbraith to a
prisoner awaiting sentence in court to
day, says an Erie, Pa., special ot the Kith
inst to the New York World. The cul
prit, who was a refined and well educated
young'man, said he had not nor did he
propose to. He had given his name and
the other particulars because he had an
objection to giving untruthful answers to
the court’s questions. He preferred to
expiate his crime In silence and would
suffer anything rather than his disgrace
should be known to them. The prisoner
was Brooks Hadley, son of a wealthy
boot and shoe manufacturer of Stoneham,
Mass., and the son-in-law ef the Connec
ticut millionaire, Elisha Baldwin. About
four years ago this young man came a
stranger to Erie. Among those upon
whom he made a good impression was
YVilliam L. Scott, the railroad magnate
and millionaire, who, after a brief ac
quaintance, offered Mr Hadley a posi
tion of trust in his service. The young
gentleman was placed where It was
part of his duties to make large disburse
ments of money.
A few weeks ago it was discovered that
false entries had been made in the cash
account. Investigation revealed the fact
that a systematic embezzlement bad been
practiced after the first month of his ser
vice, amounting to thousands of dollars.
He was arrested, and with seeming in
difference to his fate pleaded guilty. His
chief desire since his confinement has
been to’be sent to the penitentiary without
delay, which is accounted for by Tears ex
pressed that some of his family, especially
his wife, would hear of his whereabouts
and come here to confront him. Ilis
anxiety dn this score probably arose from
the fact that a young lady of good family,
believing him single, had promised him
her hand and was making preparations
for her marriage.
Judge Galbraith regretted the necessity
of having to consign a man of such pro
mise to the State prison, but sentenced
him to two years’ separate and solitary
confinement with hard labor. Mr. Had
ley was handcuffed and marched to the
place where the rest of the sentenced
prisoners were awaiting transportation to
Alleghany.
‘•My God, am I then a convict?” he ex
claimed as the Sheriff chained him with a
repulsive featured burglar. From papers
and letters discovered by the officers who
searched his lodgings, it would appear
that he is a graduate ot Yale.
CRASHING INTO A SCHOOLROOM
A Stone Hurled bv Dynamite Into a
Room Full of Girlg.
Miss Hough was teaching drawing to a
class, of fifteen girls yesterday afternoon
in Grammar School No. 54, corner of
Tenth avenue and 104th street, says the
Now York Sun of the 17th inst., when an
explosion was heard, and a stone weigh
ing nearly 100 pounds crashed through
the window. The wooden shutters were
closed and the stone smashed them into
kindling wood. It then struck a desk in
front of a girl and ruined her drawing
book. The stone then struck the opposite
wall and fell to the floor.
With the larger projectile came a show
er of small stones, and the floor was
strewn with splintered rocks, wood and
glass.
There was a panic among *he girls, but
Miss Hough did not lose her presence of
mind, and she quieted the children as they
were rushing for the door. No one was
hurt, except Mabel Androvette, 15 vears
old, living at Tenth avenue and "lo6th
street. Her face and neck were cut a
little, and one piece of rock had made a
gash on ner forehead.
The police were sent for, and they soon
learned that the stone had come from the
Boulevard, a block away, where dynamite
is used in blasting cellars.
Base Ball.
Washington. May 18.—To-day’s base
ball games resulted as follows:
At St. Louis—St. Louis (Unions) 6, Balti
more (Unions) 2.
At Indianapolis—lndianapolis 1, Cincinn&tis
At Cincinnati—Keystones (of Philadelphia)
5, Cincinnati (Unions) 7.
A HARD FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS.
Major Whipple’s Story of HU Battle
with Highwaymen.
A Fort Buford special to the St. Paul
Pioneer Press May 17 gives an interview
with Jlajor Whipple, the Paymaster who
was attacked by road agents, and who has
just reached the garrison. He says: “YY r e
left Glendive at 9 o’clock yesterday morn
ing. Our party was composed of myself,
my clerk, Mr. Such and Sergt. Conrad,
wno was In command of the escort,
which Was made up of three men, with
two drivers. Mr. Such and I occupied
the ambulance with Sergt. Conrad, and
one driver on the front, while the
other rode in tlie wagon immediately
behind. Contrary to my usual cau
tion, I had placed my money in the am
bulance. At in the afternoon,
as we were driving through a deep ravine
road, about four miles this sideot Barnes’
ranch, I heard rapid firing. I looked out
and saw Sergt. Conrad firing to the left at
a party of masked men, seven in number,
who had opened a murderous fire upon us
without a word of warning. Three of the
seven men were tiring directlv into our
ambulance, which fire was returned by
the Sergeant in the bravest and most gal
lant manner. At an early stage of the
action, however, he received two mortal
wounds, but continued to tire until the
loss of blood so weakened him that he
could no longer hold his rifle. About this
time the driver received a scalp wound
and fell down from his wagon, when Mr.
Such and 1 jumped out. One of the mules
was wounded, and the team becoming
frightened ran away with the ambulance
which contained mv money. Mr. Such and
I were kept under a very heavy fire, and
our escape was most miraculous. Fear
ing that the highwaymen would capture
the ambulance I immediately started in
pursuit and made the best record of my
life in running the mile I was obliged to.
I was successful in overtaking the mules
and climbing into the ambulance. The
Sergeant died in my arms about twenty
minutes after being shot. I reached
Scott’s ranch, about eight miles from the
scene of the attack, safely. In the mean
time Mr. Such and the ambulance driver
were covered by the rifles of the highway
men and forced to return to the escort
wagon. One of the men was badly
wounded in the arm in the act of raisins
his carbine for a second shot. The vil
lains, thinking that the escort wagon con
tained my sate, had paid little attention to
my escort beyond a few shots, which
they sent unpleasantly near. They then
began to search tlie escort wagon, keepiie'
the men and Mr. Such covered. Their
search, of course, was fruitless. They
seemed rather disappointed and began to
search the men aud Mr. Such. They
found a little tobacco on one of the men
and from Mr. Such they took about S2O
and a watch, which, however, they re
turned. After destroying the carbines
they ordered the driver to his seat and
allowed the party to go on. Upon receipt
of the intelligence Gen. YVhistler ordered
Major Bell, of the Seventh Cavalry, to
start with his troops. He made a forced
night march and readied us at 4 this
morning, greatly to our relief, we having
been on guard duty the entire night.
Major Bell has taken with him three In
dian escorts and an interpreter.”
USING HER EYES ON THE JURY.
A Disagreement in the Case of Sirs.
Morse, She Female Broker.
Carry B Morse, alias Mrs. YY'arren, alias
Marion E. Dow, alias Marion McDowell,
alias Miss Grass, who was formerly known
as the woman stock broker in Union
square, says the New York Times of the
17th inst., was tried yesterday, in the
Court of General Sessions, on a charge of
swindling Helen YY r ilson, of Newark, and
Catherine Herter, in October, 1882. The
accused, although said to be 40 years of
ace, is of striking appearance and looks
much younger. She is a well-built blonde
and has large and expressive blue eyes,
which she apparently used with telling
effect upon some of the more sensitive
jurymen, now gazing at one in mute ap
peal and then casting melting glances at
another.
From the testimony of the witnesses it
appeared that Miss Herter answered an
advertisement by the accused for an as
sistant to attend to a stock indicator at
her place of business, at No. 47 YYtest
Thirty-seventh street. On Miss Herter’s
arriving there Mrs. Morse showed her a
lot of indicator tape, which she brought
from the back parlor, where, she said, the
indicator was, and told her that she would
be willing to pay her sls a week for her
services, but she required a deposit of
S6OO as security. Miss Herter did not
have the money, and called off her friend,
Miss Helen YVilson, of Newark, who prom
ised to give the required security. Several
days later the two friends called on Mrs.
Morse, and Miss YVilson told her she had
come to give security for her friend. Mrs.
Morse said she would require SI,OOO, but
finally consented to take S6OO, because, she
said,she liked Miss Herter,who could speak
many languages and would be of great
service to the many lady customers. She
then volunteered the.information that she
was the president ot a bureau of thirty
ladies, and that she had just been re
elected to a third term of office. Her as
sociation was known as the Ladies’ In
vestment Bureau, and had made $200,000.
She herself had learned the stock-broking
business from her husband. Miss YVilson
handed over to Mrs. Morse six one-bun
dred-dollar bills. The latter took the
money and gave her a Written acknow
ledgment of the security, and promised
to pay her interest on the money at the
rate of six per cent, per annum.. She re
marked that she was compelled to ask for
security, because a former employe of
hers had defaulted with SI,OOO.
On the day set for Miss Herter to go to
work the two friends went to the office,
but found it empty. Even the desk had
been removed, and the people in the build
ing said that Mrs. Morse had lert. Miss
YVilson did not see her again until last
July, when she met her on a ferrv boat.
The counsel for the defendant claimed
that the S6OO had been given to her as a
loan, and that she could not therefore be
convicted of larceny, for which she had
been indicted. The District Attorney
held that the written .acknowledgment
distinctly stated that the money had been
deposited as security. The jury were out
tor nearly two hours, and on their return
the foreman said that they had not been
able to agree. Two other iurvmen said
that they would not be able to agree if
they were locked up for two months. The
court thereupon discharged the jury, and
remanded the accused in charge or an
officer. Alter the disagreement Mrs.
Morse became cold, and did not even
deign to give one glance at the sensitive
jurymen who had saved her from State
prison. ■
CHARLES O’CONOR.
Recollections of Ills Regal Triumphs.
If Charles O’Conor had died in his prime,
says a New York letter, every newspaper
in New York would have turned its rules
and appeared in mourning. They used to
do it in old times, but nowadays no one
man’s death can cause more than a ripple
in the world of life about him. I remem
ber him as a great man when I came here
a schoolboy—now more than thirty-five
years ago. Uis name was one of a great
legal constellation never since excelled in
brilliancy—of whom were Daniel Lord,
Ogden Hoffman, Francis B. Cutting,
David B. Ogden, Edward Sanford, James
T. Brady and 'William Curtis Noyes—all
dead and gone now. His most popular
case, probably, was the Forrest divorce
suit, in which he was counsel for Mrs.
Forrest. Asa boy, I lived in West
Twenty-second street, next door to the
Forrest Mansion, concerning which some
thrilling stories of tragic adventure were
current among us juveniles; and on
Sundays as one of the choir boys -of Trin
ity Church I sang, and with an extra fer
vor of chivalry, from the same music
with Mrs. Forrest, whose voice was not
strong enough for the solo parts. ' Dr.
Hodges, the organist, was an ardent
champion of Mrs. Forest, and had made a
place for her in the choir, in which her
sister, Mrs. Yoorhees, was one of the
altos. When Mrs. Forrest got her ver
dict, we boys, who had heard the matter
discussed at every tea table, were w ild
with enthusiasm and ready to crown
O’Conor with laurel. My own enthu
siasm for him was much dampened in
later life when I met the thin, querulous
acetic, who seemed to receive with a
snarl the compliments of his fellows at
the bar. He was a great man, but not
an agreeable one—and I never wondered
that his wife, during the time they lived
tsgether, was said to have exhibited a
marked preference for the more cour
teous society of other gentlemen.
Mexico’s Borrowing Propensities.
City of Mexico, May 18.— The Cham
ber of Deputies has authorized the Presi
dent to contract a loan of $30,000,000, cov
ering $8,000,000 already received by the
government. The proposed'loan reported
some time ago will probably be effected
in Paris.
ARTHUR'S HOPEFUL LEAD.
BLAINE SAID TO CONTEMPLATE
WITHDRAWING.
An Independent Washington Paper
which Gives the President the Benefit
of a Boom—New York Business Men
Represented as Demanding the Presi
dent’s Nomination—Delegates who It
is Said Will Flock to His Standard.
YV ASHINGTON, May 18.—The Capital,
independent in polities, presents to-day
the following just view of the political
situation: “The President is growing in
strength as a candidate for the Republi
can nomination at Chicago. This cannot
be affirmed of any other of the several
candidates. The evidence of his increas
ing strength comes to us from various
sources. YY'e cannot help being impressed
by this*evidence. It i9 becoming hourly
more clear that as between Mr. Arthur
and Mr. Blaine, if the convention be lim
ited to that choice, Mr. Arthur will be
nominated. The nomination of Mr.
Blaine we now regard as an impos
sibility. It is elearl v impossible
for any thorough-going Republican to
raise a respectable objection to the
present administration. The business
men everywhere are for Arthur, and thev
are making their influence felt not onlv in
New York,, but in all the Northern States.
Chairman Y r auzile, of Michigan, who has
been in town this week, says that it is not
improbable that the whole delegation trom
his State will decide to vote for Mr. Arthur.
Senator Cullom, of Illinois, says that half
or the delegates trom his State will go to
Arthur when they leave Gen. Logan. The
6trong business influences working in
New York have compelled the New York
Times to cease its unfair attacks on the
President. The known opposition of Gen.
Grant and ex-Senator Conkling
is doing him a great deal
of gord. No one has better
reason to be satisfied with the outlook
than Mr. Arthur. To this it may be added
that Mr. Blaine’s attempt to convert
Southern Arthur delegates havq failed,
and that it is stated on high authority
that eight of the Massachusetts delega
tion certainly will go to Mr. Arthur after
it becomes apparent that Senator Ed
munds cannot be nominated, and proba
bly the whole delegation, with two ex
ceptions. Mr. Blaine will not allow his
name to go before the convention unless
the situation changes.”
MR. HOLMAN’S SEAT IN CON
GRESS.
The Re-Election of the Objector Tigor
' ously Objected To.
On Thursday next, May 22, says an
Aurora, Ind., special to the New York
Sun, the Democratic Convention or the
Fourth (Holman’s) Congressional district
will be held. There are six candidates,
including Judge Holmau, for the nomina
tion, and all of them, excepting Holman,
are fairly moving heaven and earth to ob
tain it. Holman, however, remains at
his post in YY'ashington carefully guard
ing the vaults of the United States Treas
ury, apparently unmindlut of the fact
that he has any interests here. He has
not been here at all, nor has he any one
who is specially employed in his interests,
nor has he ever made any statements
through the local press intimating a wish
to return to Congress.
The rank and file of tlq* Democracy of
the district are so well satisfied with Hol
man’s Congressional record that they are
content that he shall remain there as long
as he chooses, and no power, or no talked
of combination of the other candidates,
can beat him. In the first place, there is
no danger of a combination, from the fact
that each one of the candidates would
prefer Holman if he cannot get the nomi
nation himself, and in the second place
llolman could even beat the combina
tion. No one of the other candidates
has instructions from any other
county than their' own, and llolman
has instructions from a portion of
some of the counties which have candi
dates. There are three counties which
have no candidates, and all of these have
instructed for Holman, while Dearborn,
Holman’s own county, which is Demo
cratic by 1,800 majority, and the largest
county in the district, will give him its
solid support. YY'liat the other candidates
base their hopes upon is only known to
them and their intimate friends.
It is said that Judge Holman will be at
the convention, but it is more than
probable that he will do as he has done
heretofore, leave everything in the hands
of the people; and it is certain he will do
this if he thinks his presence necessary at
Y\ T ashington.
IIIS SMALL INVESTMENT.
What a Brooklyn Man Says Happened
. to Him in Dealing with Grant &
Ward.
“It’s a good story and the reporters
ought to have it,” said a member of the
Brooklyn Board of Assessors Friday to a
New York Herald reporter. “A member
of the AYard firm of blind pool financiers
in December last met a young man who
resides in the Fourteenth ward, and who
w-e will call ‘Jim.’ ‘Hello, Jim!’ said he,
‘why don’t you put your money with us
and make something?’ ‘Put niy money
with you!’ exclaimed Jinj. ‘Whv, how
far do you suppose it would go? I’ve
only got $500.’ ‘Well, put that in,’ said
the financier, ‘and it will make money for
you. It will all come back.’ Jim did so.
In March he met this gentleman again
and asked him how the investment was
going on. ‘Oh, I don’t remember just
how you stand,’ said he, ‘but it’s all
right. Come over on the first of the
month, when we strike our balance sheet,
and you can see just how you come out,’
The young man called about the 9th of
that month and was told that there was
just $7,500 to his credit. ‘Whatl’ he ex
claimed, ‘57,500? I never had so much
money in my life, and I’ll leave it with
you to make more.’ A few weeks later,
in April, he returned to the office andsaid
that his wife seemed to Think that she
ought to have a little house of her own,
and she had a bargain in the purchase of
just such a domicile from a man who was
in need or ready money. The contract
had been signed by him and he would
draw out $7,000 from the firm, leaving the
SSOO with them for such further profitable
investment as thev might see fit to make.
Jim got his check for $7,000, walked out,
paid for bis house and obtained the deed
therefor. Now he savs he has ‘lost’ SSOO
by the failure of the firm. It’s a good
story, ain’t it?’ and it’s true,” said the as
sessor, as he walked away.
SENEY, FISH AND ENO.
Three Bank Presidents who Lately At
tracted a Good Deal of Attention.
It is something of a novelty, says a New
York letter, to have the first burst of
financial thunder and lightning make vic
tims of three bank Presidents, as in the
present case. Yet three more dissimilar
men than Messrs. Seney, Fish and Eno
could not he found. Seney is a miniature
Vanderbilt in railroad building and
wrecking, but he has also managed to get
himself much more extensively advertised
as a wholesale philanthropist. The
Methodist brethren have heretofore used
his name as a hy-word, and he has stood
them in good stead as the legitimate
successor of the late “Uncle Daniel”
Drew, of Church and Wail street
fame. Mr. Eno was a domestic man.
educated to society and club life, but car
ing little for it. and finding his only ex
citement outside of strictly business
duties in flying his kites in Wall street.
His father's fortune made it easv for him
to risk millions on a change in the stock
market. Fish Is the oldest of the three
unfortunate bank Presidents; but, not
withstanding his age, he was a Sybarite
in his ways, and strange stories are told
of wild doings in the luxurious apart
ments he inhabited over his bank offices,
ltumor says that these rooms were a daz
zling dream of Oriental splendor in their
appointments, and were a centre of at
traction for the beauties of the ballet. In
fact, this was no secret to Mr. Fish’s
associates, but it does not seem to have
disturbed their confidence in bis powers
as a successful financier.
Duke D’Aumate 111.
Paris, May 18.—The Duke D’Aumale
has been confined with a severe attack of
gout at his chateau in Chantilly. His ill
ness is very serious.
Grant to be Retfred.
Washington, May 18.—The Senate bill
placing Gen. Grant on the retired list,
with the rank of General, will be passed
this week by the House.
Not Holes Only.
Other Plasters have boles, but Benson’s
Capeine Porous Plasters alone have gen
uine healing virtues, 25 cents.
BLAINRAND HIS PROSPECTS.
Could He Carry a Large Portion of New
York’s Irish Vote ?
Says a Washington special of the 16th
inst. to the New York World : A Blaine
maniac from Ohio said to-night in a wild
burst of frenzy:
“I shall not be surprised to see Blaine
get the nomination aud then decline to
accept it.”
He remarked also that he remembered
that Crapo, of Massachusetts, had said
that it mortified him to say that Ylassa
chusetts w - as a doubtful State if Blaine
was nominated, and he added: “I was in
Crapo’s State two years ago, and well re
member his mortification over Butler’s
election, a signal triumph over the piety
and virtue of Massachusetts, which re
sulted in the defeat of Crapo and the sub
stitution of a purer man to beat Butler.
The argument of Mr. Crapo, reduced to its
absurdity, is that Blaine, not being so had
a man a9 Butler, would be beaten.”
“How many votes do you think Blaine
will get on the first ballot?”
“From the North from 270 to 280, and all
the Southern votes required to nominate
him. All this talk about Northern dele
gates elected as Blaine men making over
to Arthur is bosh and an insult to tlie in
telligence of all the delegates. Blaine’s
following at Chicago will be the most un
selfish, and will consequently have the
greatest moral strength. He will have en
thusiastic, quiet aud sutitle workers in
every Northern delegation, not even ex
cepting Massachusetts. The argument of
George YY’illiam Curtis and Carl Sehurz,
that it won’t do to trust the people be
cause they make too much noise, and that
it is safest for the Republican Pharisees
to go into a dark room to select candi
dates. will be jerked outof tlie convention
with a lusty Western whoop. They will
he reminded by these friends of Mr. Blaine
that it is better to nominate the man who
has the most Northern strength at his
back than to select him who has the least.”
“Then you expect to nominate him on
the first ballot?”
“Y'es. This presentation of Blaine’s
strength will be patent to the Southern
delegates, who have no responsibility, are
nearly all uninstructed and will gladly go
where the greatest strength in the North
lies. This will give them a moral stand
ing which they have never had before, for
no one is going to buy them this year.
The officeholders will understand this.”
“Can Blaine carry New Y’ork if he
should lie nominated?”
“Now you touch a subject upon which
Republicans have been making toots
of themselves, simply because the past
history of every fight we have made in
New Y'ork shows this to be the case.
Whenever the Democracy ot that State
are united they invariably sweep tlie
State. Grant, in his pride and glory, in
1868 Was beaten out of sight by Seymour.
Then the Democracy gave New York
away with Greeley. Then when Hayes
and Wheeler were put up in answer to the
same stupid claim of the present, and
Conkling pledged himself to carry New
Y'ork, they were beaten by Tilden. In
1880 the figures show that owing to the
factional fight in New Y'ork Hancock lost
33,000 or 40,000 votes, and so Garfield
slipped iii. Now we face a united Demo
cracy in New Y'ork. If we can break the
solid Irish factions of Brooklyn and New
Y’ork by the selection of a proper candi
date we have a fighting chance for the
State. The only Republican who can
draw a vote from the Irish Catholic votes
is Blaine. Outside of the city his popu
larity was demonstrated at ’ the Utica
Convention. His foreign poliev is what
commends him to the Irish.”
HOW STONEW ALL JACKSON
DIED.
Tlie Scene Related by an Eye-Witness
On the Fatal Spot—Hooker’s Retreat.
The members of the First Army Corps,
headed by Generals Rosecrans and Long
street, says a Fredericksburg,Va., special
of the 16th inst. to the Washington Post ,
left Fredericksburg at 9 o’clock this morn
ing lor Chancellorsville and the Wilder
ness. The first point reached was the
junction of the old turnpike and the Cath
erine Furnace roads. Rev. Janies I*.
Smith, an aide of Jackson, pointed out
the place and described the council of
Generals Jackson and Lee in the woods
over a small fire kindled by themselves,
and also the subsequent movements of
Jackson which resulted in bringing him
on Hooker’s flank near the Wilderness
church. From this spot the party pro
ceeded to the point on the turnpike about
three-quarters ol a mile above Chancel
lorsville, where Jackson received his
wound. Gen. Rhodes had on Sunday
asked permission to withdraw his line iii
order to re-form. Jackson, impatient to
cut Hooker off, refused, and ordered A.
I*. Hill to re-form the line. While this
was being done he rode rapidly to the
front until he came to within a few vards
of a detachment of the First Massachu
setts, who fired one or two shots at the
party. Jackson turned back and
rode to the right of the road, and
was met by a volley from a com
pany of his own men. He then rode over,
as yet unwounded, to the lett of the road,
where he was received by another volley
from another detachment of his own
troops, which wounded him in three
places. Mr. Smith then described the
difficulty of getting Gen. Jackson off the
the Jield, the treatment of his wounds and
his death on the 10th of Mav. A simple
stone marks the place where Jackson
fell. Driving to Chancellorsville, Gen.
Joseph Dickinson, chief of staff to
Gen. Hooker, described the position
and movements of the Federal armv,
the disaster that befell the Eleventh
Corps and its disgraceful retreat, and also
the wounding of Gen. Hooker on the
porch of the Chancellorsville House and
the subsequent destruction of that house
by fire, caused by the bursting of a shell.
Miss Chancellor, a young lady who was
in the house at the time, was standing
just back of Gen. Dickinson during his
recital.
Gen. Henry Slocum pointed out the po
sition of his troops, and in speaking of the
Eleventh Corps said: ‘“The Lord never
made men who could stand in the position
in which the Eleventh Corps was put.”
In answer to a question he said: “I don’t
know whose fault it was.”
Gen. Robinson of the Eleventh Corps
made an energetic defense of that body,
and said that no braver men ever fought.
Said Gen. Robinson: “No precautions
tvere taken by Gen. Howard, no pickets
were put out, and we had no skirmish
line and only three videttes. An officer
reported to Gen. Dickinson that Lee was
in retreat. During all this time Gen.
Howard was off with Gen. Sickles in pur
suit of other laurels. Gen. Howard had
written orders from Gen. Hooker, but put
them in his pocket and never opened
them until the next morning. Gen. How
ard said that Gen. Hooker had told him to
get bis dinner and be at ease. The fault,”
continued Gen. Robinson, “lay with Gen.
Howard, and he never bad the manliness
or courage to take his share of the blame.”
Gen. Robinson was plied with many
questions, and was frequently applauded
during his remarks.
From Chancellorsville, through the
sombre Wilderness woods, the party
drove to where Gen. Longstreet and Col.
Herbert located the lines, and to the spot
where Wadsworth was killed, and then
back to Fredericksburg.
A STRAY HAND.
Mr. Greiner Hants Unsuccessfully for
the Rest of the Ilody.
John Greiner, an oil-well driller, while
trout fishing on Saturday in the
Grove oil region, says a Warren, Pa.,
special to the New York Sun , found a
human hand lying on a rock near the
margin of the brook. It was badly mu
tilated, and evidently had been the hand
of a large man. From its appearance it
could not have been severed from the arm
more than a few hours.
The only explanation that can be given
is that it must have belonged to some vic
tim of a nitro-glycerine explosion, but no
explosion is known to have occurred in
the vicinity. Moonlighters, men who tor
pedo oil wells at night with nitro-glycer
ine, against the legal rights of the Roberts
patent, frequently secrete cans of the ma
terial in the woods until thev can remove
it without detection to points where it is
wanted for use. It has happened that
woodchoppers in felling trees in the oil
regions have had them fall where nitro
glycerine was thus hidden in the bushes,
unknown to them, and frightful explosions
have followed.
An oil prospector once fired his revol
ver at a pheasant which he had flushed
while going through the woods in the
Cherry Grove region. The bullet struck
a hidden can of nitro-glycerine, and ex
ploded it, but the distance at which the
man was standing saved him from serious
injury.
The opinion is that the man whose hand
Greiner found on Saturday exploded a can
of this kind in some way, and was blown
to pieces, the hand being thrown to the
spot where it was discovered. Greiner
made a search, but could find no trace of
other remains.
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REPUBLICANS AT CHICAGO
THE FACTIONS DISCUSSING TH*
CHAIRMANSHIP.
Arthur’s Followers said to ContemJ
plate Ceding the Position to the Kd
•uuudsites—Some of the Names Men
tioned In Connection with the Posi
tion—Henry Ward lteecher Wanted tot
Propose Arthur's Name.
The selection of Chairman for the Re
publican National Convention, says
Washington special to the New York:
Herald , is already a matter of discussion
among the friends of the candidates, and
although it is supposed to be the duty of
a committee on permanent organization
the choice will be made long before the
committee is appointed. The Blaine meu
are advocating Senator Harrison, of In
diana, who is supposed to be Mr. Blaine’s
second choice for the Presidential nomina
tion; but if he is a candidate before the
convention the honor of the chairmanship
will be sought for Mr. Cushman K. Davis,
of St. Paul, in whose office a son of Mr.
Blaine studied law. Congressman Howe,
of Michigan, is also spoken of and Senator
Sewell, of New Jersey.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S FRIENDS.
It is said that the Arthur men will con
cede the Chairmanship to tlie Edmunds
contingent, or to the friends of some other
“dark liorse” candidate, and are talking
of several gentlemen who are well quali
fied for the position. Among the names
mentioned are those of Mr. George Wil
liam Curtis, of New Y r ork; Mr. Augustus
lirandigee, of Connecticut; ex-Senator
Henderson, of Missouri; ex-Secretary of
the Navy Thompson, and Congressman
McQuiley. of Ohio. The latter was Chair
man of the Ohio State Convention and
favors the nomination of Sherman.
It is understood that ex-Congressmau
Burrows, of Michigan, and Win. H. West,
of Ohio, will place the name of James G.
Blaine in nomination at Chicago, and
they will be carefully drilled, so that thev
may not make the same mistake that Mr.
Jov did four years ago, when he forgot
the initial of his candidate and nominated
“James H. Blaine.” Mr. Wes) is a blind
man, but is said to have rare gift of ora
tory.
MR. BKEOIIKR’S PRESENCE DESIRED.
. The President’s friends have been very
anxious to have the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher go to the National Convention in
order to make the nominating speech, and
a plan has been proposed by which it was
thought he could be given a seat. Tbo
idea was to have one of the delegates and '
his alternate decline aud Mr. Beecher ap
pointed a substitute. This was the
method _ by which Air. Levi P. Mor
ton obtained u seat In the conven
tion four years ago. but a study of the
call of the National Committee disclosed
difficulties in the way of carrying it out
this year as it requires all delegates to be
elected by State or districtjciinventions
thirty-days before the meeting of the Na
tional Convention and provides no method
of filling vacancies. It is “the opinion of
several members of the National Commit
tee now in this city that neither the Con
gressional District Committee, nor the
State Committee nor even the National
Convention itself, have the power to fill a
vacancy occurring from any cause what
ever, except by the unanimous consent of
the convention.
This view of the case is shared by Mr.
Edward McPherson, Secretary of the Re
publican Congressional Committee, and
will not only shut out Air. Beecher, but
Air. Emery A. Storrs, who wants a seatiu
the National Convention very much.
NATIONAL CONVENTION GOSSIP.
O! the latest political gossip about com
binations at the Chicago Convention,
number one runs as follows:
An attempt is being made by Senator
Hoar and Congressman Baker, of In
diana, and others, to form a combination
between Harrison and Hawley, but they
have not made much progress so far. Air.
Hoar is opposed to Arthur, Blaine and
Edmunds, and would not like to vote for
either of them. Harrison suits him
very well, and he thinks if he can get
Hawley interested enough ho can
carry a formidable support for his
combination with the convention. But
Hawley does not look upon tlie suggestion
with any favor. He would like to be the
candidate ior President, and would ac
cept the Vice Presidency if nominated,
but would not ask the support of anv one
for the second place on the ticket. Haw
ley is for Arthur, ar.d Harrison has not
sufficient strength in his own State to
make a combination that will give the
other candidates any apprehension.
A NEW TORPEDO BOAT.
Propelled by Chemicals and Steered by
Means of Electricity.
Close to the New Y'ork Yacht Club’s
new quarters on Charles Island, in the
harbor off this place, says a New York
Ilerald special of the 16th inst., ex
periments of an interesting character
have been made with a torpedo and boat
of new design, model and principle, which
possibly may tend to revolutionize the
science and use of explosive projectiles.
The revenue cutter Speedwell, having on
board the commissioners appointed by
government to witness trials of the tor
ledo as a sailing craft, or craft propelled
in the water, had been lying in the harbor
since Monday. The officials were Atessrs.
E. D. Matthews, J. E. Jewell and W.May
nard, of Newport, R. I.; G. E. Belknap, of
Norfolk, Va., and Lieutenant A. R. Con
don, of Washington, D.Ci The managers
of the experiment is Mr. W. W. Rowley,
of New York. The test was made by
placing a target a half mile down
the harbor, and, guided by
means of wires from the
shore, the vessel was caused to perform
various evolutions in the water and finally
strike the target. The motive power of
the torpedo boat is secured by means of
chemicals which, when united, generate
an enormous pressure. Electric wires are
connected with the steerage apparatus,
aud an operator, standing either on shore
or in a sailing vessel, sends the destruc
tive weapon of attack to any point de
sired. The torpedo is built of iron, 26
feet in length. At one end is placed 160
pounds of the deadly dynamite, which in
case of violent concussion, such as would
be occasioned by the torpedo striking a
vessel, is discharged. During the experi
ments the torpedo boat was in perfect
control, the operator being able to cause
it to advance, recede, turn to the right or
left at pleasure. It was explained that a
half mile of distance between the battery
and point of attack was much within the
range of control, and it was claimed that
thb stanchest craft afloat would be an
easy target and be likely to succumb to
an explosion. The experiments were suc
cessful in every particular.
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