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( ESTABLISHED 1850.
) 3. H. KSTILL, Editor and Proprietor. |
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
A Murder of Twenty Years Ago Re
called In Franklin County—Mysterious
Clots of Blood Agitating Macon— A
Child Accidentally Killed by a Pistol
in Berrien County.
GEOR6IA.
R. M.Tison. of Brunswick, is a Senatorial
candidate.
A DenTocratic mass meeting was held at
Rome Saturday.
The Democrats of Lowndes county meet in
A aldosta to-morrow.
A cow was killed by last week's miniature
cyclone at Eastman.
Capt. Daniel Morri#on.an old citizen ef Ber
rian county, died .May 29-
The last brick on the new Baptist church at
Macon was lahl Saturday.
The cornerstone of the new armory of the
Macon Volunteers will he laid to-morrow.
The country around Liberty Hill has not
had rain since April 22. The farmers of that
seetiont complain of tirough and poorstandsof
cotton.
Robert Harper, one of the most prominent
farmers of Bahl win county, died at Ins resi
dence near Meriwether station last Wednes
day night.
A. W. Hill, of Coweta county, fell 20 feet to
the bottom of a well, and injured one of hi#
legs so badly that amputation rnavbe un
avoidable.
Hon. C. F. Crisp is expected to be at home
in attendance upon Sumter Superior Court
this week. He is employed in a number of
important rases.
The Griffin Xewn thinks that if the old Light
font Base Ball Club of that city is reorganized
and enters the stale League, it will be able to
at least hold its ow n.
J. I*. Matthews Iras retired from the Eaton
ton Chronicle. .1. B. Reese’s name is now at
the head of the column, with E. W. Sammons
as eorreei>onditig editor.
A 14-year old Putnam youngster has turned
his attention to turkey mi.- :•>. lie has m.P
100 little ones in a thriving condition and ex
pects as many more to hatch.
A teething child of Henry Ho ik, of iklbany,
put a -tick covered with a dry crust of ver
miiiiou red into its mouth,and died in convul
sions a short time afterwards.
The encampment committee has invited
Col. Henry W. Grady, of the Atlanta Con
itih '/ a, to deliver the championship banner
to the victors at the Rome encampment.
The <' u weta Advertiser prints interesting
matter in a neat fashion on a superior quali
ty of paper—three points which will give anv
paper a good start on the road to success.
Darien Gazette: Hon. Robert Falligant, of
Savannah, is the very man to lie the Presi
dential elector from the first Georgia district.
He is one of the ablest orators in the South.
The Lowndes county grand iurv recom
mend the binding of a court house in each
militia district of tne county, and thereu n
tion of SIO,OOO as the price of a liquor license.
Darien Gaaette: Tattnall countv being enti
tled to the .Senatorshin this time.it is gener
ally understood that the many friends of
M. I>. McArthur will pat him forward for the
place.
Carroll County Times: John M. Bowen has
the earliest wheat we have heard of. judging
fr ni a bunch which he brought to town last
Friday. He thought it would do to cut this
week.
nice tounty Xevs : Mr. Tom Riviere has
over ?,t# cabbage plants. He sowed 50 pane s
of the Flat Dutch variety, and with goods ea
sons will supply this market with white
winter cabbage.
Louis Curry, colored, has been sentenced to
five years in stripes for entering the residence
of Mr-. E. A. Owens, at Darien, and compell
ing her to give him all the money she had in
the house, about $:!.
.1. P. Adair's house, which was burned at
Carnesville lasi week, it is said, was once the
temple of justice of Franklin county. Its
age is variously es'.imated at ftom sixty to
one hundred years.
John Phinazee, of Barnesville. received a
letter Thursday from Atlanta to walk against
Seel, who has made the best record. A Jl.ooO
purse will lie made up for a man to beat him.
Mr. Phinazee will accept.
It is said that more than two-thirds of the
creditors of Mr. James, the Atlanta banker,
have- igned thepapers agreeing to the terms of
compromise made by the joint committee and
adopted at a meeting of the preferred and
non-preferred creditors.
Evans Wright, who attempted lo assa-sinate
ex-Gov. James M. .Smith, at Columbus, suc
ceeded in giving a S3OO bond and was released
from custody, " right's mother went his bail.
Two of the three bullets fired passed through
the ex-Governor’s coat.
Eatonton has one carriage shop, one har
ness, two wood and four 'blacksmith shops.
The i .res furnish employment to one hun
dred persons during the summer mouths.
There are nineteen water and steam grist
and flour mills in the county.
Jim Helton, living three miles east of Car
rollton. had his house burned Wednesday
night. Everything in Ihe house was destroyed
except his betiding, lie estimates his loss at
over $2,500. The people of the town are con
tributing liberally for his relief.
Valdosta Times: Col. Robt. G. Mitchell, of
Thomasvillc, Solicitor General of the Thonias
vilie Circuit, performed his last service as
Solicitor at the Lowndes Superior Court last
week. He will resign his commission and
leave his office for some other to fill.
Mrs. Lavinia Blount, of Dafien, mother of'
C'apt. Edmund Blount, Sheriff T. Butler
Blount and Mrs. James T. Clanev, of the
Ridge, and John Henry Blount,.of Liberty
county, died Suuday evening last, at her resi
dence on the Ridge, after a painful illness of
some duration.
Waycross Reporter: We understand that
Coffee. Clinch and Ware will probably have
candidates in the field for Senatorial honors.
As Coffee has not had a Senator for some time,
tiie probabilities are. in justice to her claims,
that the voters of the three counties will
throw their strength to her man.
There have been of late many sheen killed
by dogs in New Mexico district. Carroll county.
Among the leeers are J. N. King. Fed Knight,
J. T. Layton, s. J. Jackson and J. P. Yates,
Mr. Thigpen thinks 'OO have been killed with
in a circle of five miles around his house. In
one place, one and one-half miles from his
house, six were found dead.
Franklin County Reyister: There was a bot
tle of brandv burned between the ceiling and
weatherboarding of J. P. Adair's house that
was pttt there when the bouse was building.
It was left there by one of the workmen at the
dinner hour, and fastened up by the other car
penters before he knew it. By this time it
would have lieeu sixty year# old. and would
have caused the old toper to smack his lips.
The Columbus Stars and the Central City
Base Ball Club.of Maeon.playon the grounds
of the latter club to-morrow. It is said that
the Columbus nine, with one exception, is
composed of professionals from Louisville,
Cincinnati and other cities. The Central
City club exjiect soon 1 • be reinforcod by
good players from a distance, and the boys
will do the best they can until their arrival.
One night last week the old Wells place,
about ten miles norlh of Buena Vista, was de
stroyed by fire. The origin of the fire is not
known. John Benson had been living there
several years, ‘and had everything that he
wanted, but to-day he a- a very poor man
The fire had burned down to the room in
which Mr. Benson and family were sleeping,
and one of Mr. Benson's feet was badly
burned. Nothing was saved except three
mattresses and one pair of shoes.
Bibb county Democrats will be represented
at Atlanta by the following gentlemen, who
were selected at Saturday's mass meeting at
Macon: s. B. Price. R. K. Park. Washington
Dessau, J. J. Antason and H. C. Johnson. S.
B. Price was selected Chairman. After re
tiring the committee reported the following
delegates: George W. Gustin, Chairman; A.
O. Bacon, RE. Park. l. Y. Sanders, James
Holmes. Alternates—S. C. Chaiuble. C. W.
Howard. H. C. Johnson, J. C. Hannon, John
McManus. <. N. Dana. The following was
unanimously adopted: **!t is the sense of this
meeting of the Democracy of Bibb county
that delegates to the National Democratic
Convention should go untramnieled w ith in
structions.”
Valdosta Times: News of one of the saddest
accidents which we have been called upon to
chronic e comes to It - from Berrien county,
about 20 miles above Valdosta. It is another
sad chapter in the history of the evil habit of
carry tug pistols. Mr. Ditvid Mating, e young
man* with a family, had living w ith him a lad
of a brother who was the proprietor of a
pistol. The boy had the deadly weapon out,
and had just loaded it, when a little four
year-old child, son of Mr David Matliis,eame
up, and innocent of the danger, reached out
for the pistol. The boy unwisely let the child
take it in its hands, and in an mstaut the
deadly instrument fell to the floor and fired
off, shooting the child through the body. The
little victim soon died from the wound.
Eastman correspondence News. Mar 31:
One of the prisoners, George Fuller, who es
caped from jail a few days since, returned
His 1 surrendered himself to Magistrate E. F.
Lee this morning, demanding a preliminatv
trial, which resulted in his discharge. It will
lie remembered that he was accused of the
murder of Ed. Curry, in February last, was
arrested, tried before' Magistrate "deals, and
discharged. He was then rearrested under a
warrant issued upon the affidavit of Henry
Hixson and lodged in jail without commit
ment. He says Bias \S right and Lewis Slc-
Kae broke jail and let themselves ami the
other prisoners out. George, feeling his in
nocence, came back and surrendered, with
the result stated. He says Bias and Lewis
are in Irwin county.
Macon TtUqrapk and Mtsttwjfr of Sunday:
One day last week a pool of blood was found
on the floor of the second story of the grand
stand at the park. It was reported to the po
lice, but nothing could be developed. Yester
day Chief Wiley received through the mail
the following, written on a postal cant: “If
you will go to the park, and in the second
story of the grand stand, you will find where
a uiurder was committed. The benches
were knocked over and blood marks
the spot where the victim fell. The
body was thrown into the river. If
I knew I was right I would tell it all. But
investigate. This is a clue. 1 am afraid to
sec any notice about it. I leave to-dav. The
fare of the murdered victim drives me to
madness.—Criminal.” Chief Wylie does not
attach any importance to the card. Yester
day afternoon Lieut. Wylie made an ins|iec
tion of the spot. The floor has two large spots
on it, and the back of the benches is spatteced
over with blood. I’pon the steps below there
is another large spot, caused by the blood
running through the cracks How the blood
came there is a mystery. About a quart must
have been spilled, but there*nre no drops
leading away from the place, which is one of
the most remote on the sund. A well-known
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( Yt I Stitts
detective said yesterday that he thought there
was something in it, and that he would
quietly set about to investigate the matter.
FLORIDA.
Lake City is to have au artesian well.
An artesian well is among the possibilities
at Live Oak.
Watermelons can be eaten for 20 ceuts each
at Tallahassee.
The manufacture of brick has been added
to tne industries of Jasper.
E. " hite. one of Sanford’s foremost
Citizens, died a day or two ago.
The ranks of the Nassau Light Infantry, of
rernandina, are increasing in numbers rap-
The grand jury pronounce the Columbia
county jail unfit for the safe keeping of pris
oners.
It is said that the addition of fifty more
rooms to the Leon Hotel at Tallahassee has
been reduced to almost a certainty.
Andreas Gluckstadt of Pensacofti, who was
so unfortunate as to have his leg crushed
while lioarding an engine in motion, died
from his injuries.
The Board of Trusteesof East Florida Semi
nary will meet at Gainesville on the 24th of
•tun 1 - to elect the teachers for the coming
scholastic year for that institute, and to trans
act other important business.
It is said, that new evidence has been
brought to light that fixes the murder of Mrs.
Crum, which occurred recently on the line of
Wakulla and F'rauklin counties, upon Ike
ton. He has been arrested and placed in
jail.
Tne following United States officers of the
3d Artillery w ill act as judges at the contest
to take place during the Pensacola Encamp
ment this month: Capt. .!. B. Burbank. First
Lieutenant C, W. Foster and Second Lieu
tenant Ira C. Haynes.
Last Thursday three buildings, situated at
the Marine Barracks, on the Naval Reserve,
at Pensacola, were destroyed by fire. These
building# were burnt by orders*from the De
partment at Washington. D. (’., received
some time since, a# they were the ones used
for the iok soldiers during the epidemic of
yellow fever in ISB3.
Tallahass?e Land of Flower : From the liest
information we can gather the corn crop of
this county, although a little backward, has a
good color and promises a fair yield, an aver
age crop, if not more. Cotton ‘looks well; the
dry weather been favorable to it. Tobac
co i# reported very good in some places, but in
others it is said to be greatly damaged by
worms and inclined to sucker and run up to
#-ed. The vegetable crop is about over. The
dry weather ruined it.
" . 11. Sebring. the Commissioner for Flor
ida of the New Orleans Exposition, was in
1 ernandina last week. He appointed the fol
lowing committee for Nassau county: W. F.
Scott, of Amelia, Chairman; Charles W.
lewis, of Fernandinu, Secretary; Thomas
l\ydd,of Fernatdina; Isidore O'Neill.of New
Hope; J. E. Davis, of King's Ferrv; W. A.
Mahoney, of Callahan: Capt. Hilliard, of Hil
liar :*s station: G. W. Bryce, of Brandv
Branch; Noah A. Hicks, of Duttun.
On Sunday afternoon, during a heat v thun
der storm, the hotel at Astor was struck by
lightning. A number of ladies and gentlemen
were in the hotel office ami on the piazza,
when a terrific clap of thunder, accompanied
by a vivid Hash ot lightning, shocked them.
Investigation showed that the thunderbolt
struck the main part of the house, imme
diately over the roof of the kitchen, where it
joins the main part. Aside from the damage
done to the house no harm was done, as no
one was injured, though several of the in
mates felt the shock.
Pensacola Ad ranee-Gazette: Last Monday,
about 12:30 o'clock, during the hour of recess
ai the public school on the hill, a young loy
by t he name of James Odom was struck dead
by lightning. We learn that the young boy
was sitting under a low tree eating his lunch,
while several of I he other scholars were stand
ing or playing nearby, when a terrible flash
of lisrlitning, accompanied by terrific peal of
thunder, came, and young James was seen to
fall. Efforts at restoration were resorted to
immediately, blit with no avail, and he was
pronounced dead, the only evidence that h
was killed by the lightning being a small
wound on the forehead and a large hole in
the ground where lie was standing. Several
other pupils were shocked bv the electric
current.,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
There l# some talk of starting a savings
Lank in Spartanburg.
There is some talk of building a railroad
from Greenwood to Abbeville C. li.
The crops of Marlboro county generally,
though backward, arc growing finely.
A negro tuan aud woman were killed by
lightning near Chester a few days ago.
The McKcegan will case at Charleston has
been decided in favor of the beneficiaries.
The project to bridge the Ashlev river is
meeting w ith great success at Charleston.
The shipments of cotton from Spartanburg
since September last amount to 15.300 bales.
Col. James Edward Calhoun is raising some
fine tea on his plantation in Alfiieville county.
The Edgefield County Teachers’ Institute
will meet at Johnston*, in that countv. on
July 1.
Ahel Robins lias been appointed Postmaster
at Whetstone, anew post office in Oconee
county.
The dead body of a white child has been
found in the river near Greenville. Infanti
cide is probable.
The real estate of Newberry was assessed at
$670,1.20 last year, and $743,830 this year, an in
crease of $64,210.
The Williston fruit growers, of Barnwell
county, wilt make their first shipment of
peaches next week.
The State Normal Institute will meet in
Spartanburg on June 15, and will continue in
session four weeks.
William Trezevant, colored, will hang at
Orangeburg Friday. He murdered Frank
Mitchell in February.
IS. J. Ramage, Jr., of Newberry, lias gone to
Heidelberg University, Germany, where he
expects to s|M?nd a year.
Two young Edgefield farmers, brothers,
think thev will make S.OOO bushels of oats and
309 or 400 bushels of wheat.
The United States War Department has es
tablished a cotton licit signal station at An
derson, with E. T. Cashin as reporter.
The corner-stone of the new Associate Re
formed Presbyterian Church at Due West,
Abbeville county, was laid on Monday last.
The Seneca Free Pres# announces the death
on Tuesday of last week of W. 11. Burdette,
who was horn 1776, and was, therefore, 106
years old.
The Colleton Tress says that Flood, the In
dian doctor, had to leave Walterboro’ the
other day because he had been passing spu
rndl' monc-y.
Mr. 1.. McKay, white, of Clarendon county,
lias invented a machine for chopping out cot
ton that is said to be the very tiling the
farmers need.
While Perry Fox, of Colleton county, was
riding home last week his horse was bitten by
a rattlesnake, and fell dead liefore it hau
gone 100 yards.
Robert J. Herndon, of Yorkville, is said to
be a remarkably fine cornet player. He car
ried off the cash prize of s3o’ at the Charlotte
contes - . last week.
A clock peddler has been going through
New berry county selling $lO clocks to the ne
groes, and taking mortgages on their cows for
the purchase money.
The stocking factory at Walhalla has been
in operation some time, but chiefly in train
ing the employes. The proprietors'will applv
steam to the machinery in a few days.
Gen. E. T. Stackhouse, of Marion county,
is trying to organize a joint stock company to
indroduce thoroughbred Percheron horses
into that county for breeding jiurposes.
G. G. Alexander, Esq., of the Camden
Journal, is a great-grandson of Abram Alex
ander, who was Chairman of the convention
that passed the Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence in 1773.
The Rev. Robert Lathan, D. D., of York
ville, was appointed a delegate of the Asso
ciate Reformed Synod of the South to the
Pan-Presbyterian Council which meets at
Belfast, Ireland, on the 24th of June.
J. If. Bice, F>q„ of Ninety-six, Abbeville
county, took the renunciation of thirty-six
dowers in one day last week, the largest busi
ness of the kind that ha# ever been done by
one officer iu a single day in Abbeville county.
There is a good deal of checked cotton in
Barnwell county this year. Those who have
tried this plan say that it cost? less to culti
vate and that the percentage of lint is con
siderably greater than that of crowded cot
ton.
On the whole it is said that there has never
been a better prosped for crops of all kinds
in Oconee countv, and unless some blight or
storm should injure the crops, with good
seasons such a crop is expected as will relieve
the present embarrassment iu that county.
Col. William Pinckney Starke, of Beech
Island, who is busily engaged on liis work,
the “Life of Calhoun,” recently visited
Winnaboro to examine some letters*and other
documents formerly belonging to Mr. Cal
houn, now iu the possession of Col. James 11.
Rion.
A tax of 2 per cent, has been levied by the
Town Council in Georgetown upon all real
and personal property subject to municipal
taxation. The tax is payable in two install
ments of 1 per cent, each, the first from May
26 to May 31 inclusive, and the second from
November 18 to December 18.
James Smoak, of Colleton county, was bit
ten some time ago by a cat in the forefinger or
his left hand, while trying to separate the
dog and cat in a fight. The bite healed up and
be thought no more of it. On last lie
was seized with severe pains while plowing
in a field, and died in a few hours of hydro
phobia.
Some time ago a Newberry man, who holds
an account against a Georgia man, sent him a
note for the amount of the debt, and asked
him to sign it. The debtor, who is a well
meaning man, having a wholesome fear of
written obligations before his eyes, sent the
Newberrian this laconic answer; “I be dog
goned if I'll sign anything.”
W. H. Burditt, who died last week in
Franklin county, Ga., was a native of Abbe
ville county, in South Carolina, and was per
haps the oldest man in the State, having
reached the age of 108 years. He could ride
on horseback up to three years prior to his
death, and when over 100 years old would
trade horses. He preserved his faculties to
the last moment ana talked freely, though he
had been helpless for a year.
Joel Vaughn, who lives near Seneca City, is
said to have one of the largest families in the
l nited States. He is 80 years of age, has
been married four limes a'ud now has an in
fant child. His last three wives were widows,
all of whom had children by previous hus
bands, respectively eight, seven, and four, a
total of nineteen. These four wives bore Mr.
' aughn twenty-seven children, which, added
to the nineteen step-children, gave Mr.
Vaughn control of forty-six children. There
are thus seven different sets o( children.
SUNDAY IN CHICAGO.
THE CHURCHESNOT BOTHERED
BY THE DELEGATES.
California Still Booming Blaine and
Illinois Sticking to Logan—Edmunds
ites Give Him 100 Vote# on the First
Ballot—The Day Devoted to an Ex
change of Visits.
Chicago, June I. —To-day w as not pro
lific of results in the preliminary work of
the coining National Republican Conven
tion. The Blaine men made more de
monstration than toe others, paying visits
in entire delegations, and moving their
headquarters from the two small rooms
heretofore occupied to the large ladies’ or
dinary at the Grand Pacific Hotel. Colo
rado’s full delegation arrived in a body
this afternoon, openly declaring for
Blaine. They bore at their head as they
moved from the depot a live eaglp,
which was deposited in the Blaine head
quarters.
Maine’s quota came in during the earlv
hours and were met at the depot bv the
Californians and escorted to their quar
ters.
The Pacific coast people rtticuimUmm
taking a band of music with them, owing
to the character of the day, hut they car
ried with them on their march the banner
presented to them by the people of Mar
shalltown, lowa, hearing the motto:
“From California to Maine through lowa
for Blaine.”
Tiie remaining noteworthy contingent
in the interest of the Maine statesman to
arrive during the day was that from Kan
sas. The entire delegation from that
State came in during the afternoon. They
were permitted to arrive without any un
usual demonstration on their behalf. The
delegates declare that they will vote as a
unit for Blaine.
ILLINOIS VISITS CALIFORNIA.
The Illinois delegates were quiescent
to-day, with the exception of an early
morning visit ol* a portion of them to the
California headquarters. Col. Clarke
Carr headed the Illinois party,
and after presenting them to the
Californians made a short
address, in which he stated that while
Illinois sympathized with California in
her local (Chinese) issue, she was follow
ing the fortunes of a leader other than
the man whose cause California had
espoused in the present contest. He
closed by expressing the belief that Cali
fornia would see it her interest to come
over and join Illinois before the present
fight ended. Col. Morrpw replied on be
half of his State. He said that the slope
people had come with their wives and
children and were provisioned for a siege.
They proposed to remain on the ground
and fight it out to a finish, whether their
leader conquered or fell.
A prominent member of the Vermont
delegation, who has been here two days,
assured an Associated Press correspon
dent to-day that Edmunds was fast gain
ing ground and would have at least 100
votes on the first ballot.
Secretary Martin, of the National Com
mittee, sent to all the delegations to-day
a request that they all be prepared to re
port to the convention upon its temporary
organization Tuesday their officers anil
committeemen and that the names of the
chairmen of the State and Territory dele
gations be sent to the National Committee
before the convention assembles.
SAMPLE REPUBLICAN METHODS
A Rival Faction Help# a Brother in
Black Fleece Blaine.
Washington, June I.—William Wal
ter Phelps lias poured several thousand
dollars into the Southern delegate sieve in
the past ten days. He acted as the bank
er of the project tor the conversion of Ar
thur delegates into Blaine delegates. He
only succeeded in defraying the expenses
of some of these Arthur delegates to Chi
cago. One case is typical. It is that of a
sharp Arthur colored man from Louisi
ana. He talked Blaine around the hotels
so much that he attracted the attention of
both the Arthur and the Blaine men. He
soon convinced the Arthur men that he
was not a Blaine -man. Then thev
drilled him in a story and sent him up to
Blaine. He was to say that he was
a Blaine man, but that he thought he
could labor for Blaine most effectively by
seeming to labor for Logan. Blaine lis
tened attentively and then gave him a
note to Logan, in which he was described
as a trustworthy man. The Arthur men
have a copy of that note. Logan was
glad to see him. He listened to a pleasant
story of what, the Louisiana man could
do, but the Louisiana man said that he
was poor. He was not able even to pay
his way to Chicago. Logan said that he
was poor, hut there was his friend, Wil
liam Walter Phelps, a political philan
thropist of large means, who was in the
transportation business. Armed with a
note from Logan the Louisiana man went
to Phelps. Phelps gave him SIOO. He
showed it to the Arthur men and then
went on his way to Chicago rejoicing.
Where Blaine will Stay.
Washington, June I.—A local paper
contained the following this morning:
“Mr. and Mrs. Blaine, with their family,
leave the city to-morrow for Au
gusta. Maine. They have taken the Ashe
cottage at Bar Harbor, occupied by Sena
tor Hale, for several seasons, and will go
there to spend the summer and early
autumn. They take the infant son of
Col. and Mrs. Coppinger with them.”
This was shown Mr. Blaipe. He said
that the statement was premature. He
had not made up his mind whether he
would go to-morrow or late in the week.
The matter had been discussed without
result. It is thought that he will probably
remain here. To-morrow special wires
will he placed in the house of each of the
Republican candidates.
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS.
Y Prospect That a Few Speeches Will
Constitute Congress’ Work.
Washington, June I.—So large a num
ber of Congressmen are absent at Chicago
and elsewhere, or paired with absent
members, that there is very little prospect
of the presence of a voting quorum
to dispose of important measures in
the House of Representatives before
the end of the week. The unfinished busi
ness iu the Senate is the Utah
bill. Senator Hoar, who has it
in charge, has gone to Chicago, and has
requested Senator Ingalls to take charge
of it during his absence. It will be call
up each day, and if Senators have tormal
speeches to make upon it, opportunity will
he afforded. It is more likely, however,
that it will be temporarily laid aside after
being formally taken up each day, and
that the time of the Senate will be’giveu
to the consideration of * unimportant and
non-partisan measures ouits calendar.
S. ML SHOEMAKER DEAD.
-A Fortune of 53, 000,000 Amassed in
the Express Business Left for His
Heirs.
Baltimore, Mb., June I.—Samuel M.
Shoemaker, one of the most prominent
and active of the business men
of Baltimore and a director of the
Adams Express Company, died at 12
•o’clock last night of Bright's disease, at
the Hygeia Hotel, at Old Point Comfort.
Mr. Shoemaker was a nativeof Louisiana.
He was the originator of the express
tiusiness in this city and of lines leading
South and West, and one of the organ
izers of the Adams Express Company, of
which he was Vice President until about
two months ago, when he resigned on ac
count of ill health. lie left a large estate,
exceeding $3,000,000. He was inhisClth
year.
‘■BITE” MINOR IN A VISE.
Captain Foute, of Atlanta, Takes Him in
Charge to Bring Him to Georgia.
New York, June I.—'“Rule” Minor, a
noted bank robber and sneak thief, was
arrested iu this city last Tuesday on a
charge o t robbing the Commercial Bank
of Augusta, Ga., in March last, of $2,700.
Three men were engaged in the robbery.
Two of them w r ere shortly afterward ar
rested and sent to State prison for seven
years. From descriptions furnished to
the police it was supposed that the third
was Minor, and he was accordingly ar
rested. Captain W. E. Foute, of Atlanta,
arrived here to-day with extradition pa
pers, and Minor, being lully indentified,
was surrendered into his custody.
Leo's Stand Against Free Masonry.
London, June I.—An encyclical letter
from the Pope was read in' the Catholic
Churches throughout England to-day
warning the people against joining secret
societies under pain of excommunication.
The letter says that Free Masonry, at its
inception, was probably merely a friendly
society, but, if so, it asks where was the
necessity for the blind obedience de
manded of its votaries.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1884.
RUSSO-GERMAN FRIENDSHIP.
It# Illustration in the Discussion of the
Egyptian Conference.
Paris, June I.—A Vienna correspon
dent says that there are symptoms of a
break up of the triple alliauce since the
interviews between M. De Giers, the Rus
sian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and
Prince Bismarck at Friedrichsruhe, The
mutual i "'.tidence of the courts at Berlin
and Vienna are ceasing. Indications ot
a secret entente cordiale between Russia
and Germany are found in the bril
liant style in which Prince William
of Prussia went on his mission to St. Pe
tersburg, in the constant exchange of
courtesies, in tiie warmth of the welcome
Emperor William gave the Czarina
when she was passing through Berlin,
and in the contemplated interview be
tween Emperor William and the Czar of
Russia. The correspondent iurther states
that it is reported that Prince William of
Prussia, during his visit in St. Petersburg,
arranged a project for a marriage between
Princess Sophia Dorothea, granddaughter
of the Emperor, and the Czarowitch oi
Russia.
IRISH MEETINGS HELD.
Messrs. Sullivan anil Harrington Pre
sented with £350 Each
Dublin, June 1. —A large meeting of
nationalists was held at Mullingar to-day.
Messrs. Healy, Dawson and Kenney were
present. At a banquet given this even
ing Messrs. Sullivan and Harrington,
members of Parliament, were each pre
sented with a purse of £360. Nationalist
meetings were also held outside the town
of Newry, despite the fact that a procla
mation has been issued prohibiting such
gatherings. Five hundred policemen and
two troops of Lancers were drafted
from Dublin to prevent a
disturbance. # Great excitement
prevailed in and about Newry. Messrs.
Biggar and O’Brien addressed the people
as they were leaving church, advising
them to come to terms with the landlords
in order to secure their tariffs. A letter
was received here yesterday stating that
two dynamiters had started for Newry
from London, intending to blow up
public buildings if the meetings were
stopped.
LULA HURST’S RIVAL.
Mangle Lee Price, Wonderful Georgia
Girl in Kentucky.
A little girl, fourteen years of age, and
weighing ninety pounds, says a Frank
fort special of the 28th ult. to the Louis
ville Courier-Journal , gave an exhibition
at the Opera House last night of such re
markable physical powers as would put
Sullivan and Mace and all the great
health-lifters to blush. Mattie Lee Price
i# the name of this prodigy of power; the
place of her nativity Bartow county,
Georgia, During the Christinas holiday’s,
so says her manager, she first discovered
her power by astonishing her playmates
in the moving of chairs and tables merely
by the touch of her hands. She is an or
dinary looking child, and is devoid of cul
tivation, but is quick in reading charac
ter, which she has demonstrated by refus
ing to hold any converse with certain
persons brought before her for introduc
tion. The manager says her powers in
this respect were tried liefore she left*
home and proved correct in every in
stance.
At the performance last night, Gov.
Knott, Attorney General Hardin, Auditor
Hewitt, Col. John It. Proctor, Major
Henry T. Stanton, Hon. Ira Julian, Col.
H. M. McCarty, Col. C. E. Bowman, Gen.
Daniel Lindsey, I)r. J. <J. A. Stewart, Dr.
Sawyier, Dr. Janies, Dr. Hume and Capt.
Sam. M. Gaines were among the many in
the audience. The Attorney General, who
weighs 200 pounds and over, and is per
haps one of the stoutest men in the
State, took hold of a chair, and
the little girl touched it with
her open palms and caused it to
wriggle and move him all about the stage.
Maj. Stanton, weighing 225 pounds, then
sat in the chair, the Attorney General and
Dr. Sawyier both pressed upon it with
their whole®weight and power, and the
chair rose up to the girl’s touch.
This experiment was ' varied by
other men, and the same result was
equally as satisfactory and astonishing.
Dr. Sawyier and the Attorney General took
hold of a stick, and, despite their resist-"
auce, the girl’s touch dragged them about
the stage, iiyich to the delight of the gal
lery, as attested by their loud applause.
The doctors here examined the Attorney
General’s pulse and found it had risen to
140, while the girl’s was 104. She be
trayed not the least evidence of muscular
exercise or excitement attending such
powerful feats. Maj. Stanton and Dr.
Sawyier took'hold of a chair, and with all
the power they could summon they could
not place the chair on the floor as long as
the gil l’s hands touched it.
Another, and, perhaps, the best test of
her preternatural powers, was the touch
ing, by open palm, the end of a stick
standing upright, on the other end of
which Dr. Sawyier, James and the At
torney General exerted their combined
strength to press to the floor, but without
avail.
EXCITEMENT AT KEY WEST.
Groundless Humors of Projected Vio
lence House the Authorities to Action.
The excitement occasioned t some days
since by reports sent from here that riots
prevailed, and that mob violence was
threatened the Spanish Consul, says a
Key West, Fla., special of the 30th ult.
to the New York Herald , was revived to
day.' Those reports the Mayor had char
acterized as a lie, and a mass meeting
was called, at which violent language
was used against the resident Spanish
Consul as the reputed author of the tele
grams, and at which meeting resolutions
were adopted to address to the State De
partment a request to intercede for his
removal. The excitement to-day wa oc
casioned by rumors that telegrams of
similar purport bad been again sent
abroad, and that an armed marine guard
would be sent from a war vessel in the
harbor to act as a body guard for the
Spanish Consul.
A conference was held this afternoon
by tbe Mayor, the commander of the
Galena, the District Attorney and the
special agents, over the matter. They,
however, decline to state what action
will be taken, hut sufficient is known to
warrant the belief that the meeting was
not very harmonious and that the origi
nal programme regarding the disposition
of the marine guard was changed St the
instigation of the Mayor, and instead of
patroling the city the guard is stationed
in the naval depot within the government
grounds. The Mayor also suggested the
arrest and punishment of parties threat
ening the peace of the city and personal
violence. Rich developments are antici
pated within a few days over tbe sup
posed conflict of authority between the
municipal and Federal officials.
THRILLING ALL HIS CUSTOMERS.
A Paterson Baker Announces that His
Last Batch of Bread wag Poisoned.
A well-known German baker of Pater
son, N. J., named Richard Werner, cre
ated a decided sensation Friday, says the
New York Sun, by going around to his
customers and warning them not to eat
any of the bread he had served the day
before, as it was all poisoned. Most of
the bread had already been eaten, with 7
out any serious effects, but as soon as the
parties heard the story matiy began to
feel pains in the stomach and grow pale.
They sent for their family physicians.
There is no telling what would have been
the result had not Werner subsequently
asrain gone over his round warning his
eustomors that the devil was in their bread
and they had better look out for him.
Then it was discovered that Werner had
suddenly gone crazy.
His relatives say "that Cpr the past two
or three years, during tire time he ought
to have devoted to sleep, he has pursued
the study of the subjects of Socialism and
Communism, and he has been considered
weak-minded, at least upon those matters.
His friends took him in charge, hut he
will no doubt have to be sent to the asy
lum. Previous to his taking up the study
of Socialism he was a devout church
member, but he became a cynic, and
would not allow any of the members of
his family to go to church. He is a man
weighing nearly 300 pounds, and owns
considerable property.
A Captive Balloon Falls,
Lille, June I.—The car of a captive
balloon, containing twenty persons, be
came detached to-day and fell iorty
metres. "Three of the occupants of the
car were killed outright and the re
mainder were severely injured. The ac
cident created a great sensation. The
car was only built to contain ten persons.
The ascent was made for the purpose of
viewing the horse races.
CRIME AM) MISFORTUNE.
ONE RAILROADER SHOOTS AN
OTHER AT ATLANTA.
Arch Orme Sinking to His Grave-
Eleven Cowboys Ssift from Earth
by a Cloud Mill
Bolters Claim Ti.reo Live# Instant y
and Drive a Widow to Suicide.
Atlanta, June I.— John Donnally and
Beu. Childes, two firemen on the Air Line
Railroad, had a difficulty this afternoon
near the cemetery, which culminated in
Childes shooting Donnailv in the neck
with a pistol. The ball entered the neck
under the chin, and passing through,
lodged in the back of the neck. Donnally
was drunk, and after knocking Childes
down, jumped on him, and beat him
severely. Friends interfered, and Don
nally was pulled off. Childes told him to
go away, that he did not want
to hurt biin. This caused Donnally
to attack him ngsun for the
purpose of repeating the chastisement.
As he approached, Childes drew a pistol
and tired at him, with th - effect already
stated. The attending pi an think's
the yvound serious. The general opinion
seems to be that Childes acted in self-de
fense. Childes, it is said, will give him
self up to-night.
ARCH ORME SINKING.
Arch Orme, the ticket agent ot the
Union Passenger depot, who shot himself
in the head yvith suicidal intent, yester
day, is reported to he sinking. This does
not surprise tiny one, and is about yvbat
was expected. An investigation of his
office is being made. So far no shortage is
reported.
CAUGHT IN A CLOUD BURST.
Eleven Cowboy# ami their Animals
Flooded Into Eternity In Nebraska.
Denver, Col., Juue I.— The cattle
round up camp on Frenchman creek, near
the Nebraska and Colorado lines, was
destroyed by a flood Thursday, and eleven
cowboys belonging in Colorado and Ne
braska were drowned. The flood was
caused by a cloud burst. The yvater
came with such force that it swept away
everything in its path. Men, horses,
wagons, camping outfits and all were
carried down the stream.
A MILL BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Three Jleu Killed and Four Wounded—
A Crazed Widow Kilt# Herself.
Detroit, June I.—Last Friday after
noon tyvo boilers in the mill belonging to
Wood & Thayer, ouo mile east of
Mcßride’s in Mont Calm county,
exploded, literally demolishing the build
ing, instantly killing three men and
wounding four others. It is reported
that the wife of one of the men killed,
crazed by the sudden terrible shock, cut
her throat last night, killing herself.
THE BRIDGE’S FI It ST BIRTHDAY.
Crossed by Six Million Foot Passengers
in a Year.
The Brooklyn bridge was a year old yes
terday in its accessibility to the public,
says the Neyv York Times, of the 25th
inst. No conspicious celebration was
observed. The employes complained
bitterly of neither having received a holi
day nor a cigar nor a glass of ebampagne.
“But of course the flags are flying over
the piers,” remarked one of these
officials, “and we must rejoice. Flags
ain’t nourishing, though, nor even cool
ing during the heat of the day.”
The bridge did nothing more than usual
yesterday. It simply stretched itself
from New York to Brooklyn in a lazy
May-dav fashion and allowed people to
walk over it. During the year which has
just drawn to a close G.083J00 loot pas
sengers, representing $(10,832, have tra
versed it. Tiie vehicles have numbered
587,024 aud realized $73,378. Col. Paine’s
much discussed “grip” has wafted 5,151,-
220 people across the East river and con
tributed $257,501 to the treasury. Alto
gether $391,770 have been received.
The happy birthday of the bridge was,
however, the occasion for presenting the
police of that structure with new hats,
which are neat but far from gaudy. In
shape they resemble candle-snuffers,
painted gray. The light of the policemen
is entirely extinguished beneath the ex
tremely protective brims. These hel
mets, lor so they are called, were manu
factured l>y a Brooklyn firm. “There is
one thing 1 must say’about the bridge,”
remarked Capt. Ward, Superintendent of
the bridge policemen, “and that is that it
is the safest thoroughfare in the United
States. Not a single crime has been com
mitted on the structure during the past
vear. Not a pickpocket has been arrested
on the span, though several have been
arrested at the entrances. A few‘drunk
and disorderlies’ have been handed over
to justice. But they crop out everywhere,
don’t they?”
Last evening Jumbo and Barnum’s
Circus crossed the bridge, not necessarily
as a guarantee that the feat could be
accomplished with impunity, but more
for publication.
HORN DEAF AND DUMB.
But Talks and Converses Easily.
The most remarkable case of deaf-mute
speaking in this country, and, perhaps,
in the whole world, says the New London
Conn., 19uj, is that of Enoch Whipple,
nearly 60 years old, who resides at Led
yard. This deafman possesses quick per
ceptions, with a fine intellect. He meets
and converses with strangers, and they
never mistrust that he is deaf. The only
serious difficulty he encounters is a mous
tache which hides the mouth. He has
some trouble at evening time, especially
when the face is shaded so that be cannot
plainly see the movement of the lips. It
is then he spends much of his time read
ing, often orally, to his family or invited
Iriends. At a mass grove peace meeting
held at Mystic river nearly two years ago,
he was introduced from the platform, and
spoke to an astonished audience of over
5,000 people, who listened to the words of
one who was horn deaf and dumb. Mr.
Whipple, of the Whipple school at Mystic
river, tells some amusing anecdotes about
himself. He once met a stranger near his
home who asked him if there was a deaf
mute in that neighborhood who had been
taught to speak; and he replied, “I am
the man of whom you apeak, and you can
judge for yourself.” He "as once con
versing with a lady who did not know he
was deaf. Her face being shaded by her
bonnet, he had to get very near in order
to see her mouth. She, mistaking his
motives for rudeness, hurriedly left him
standing alone. They afterwards became
well acquainted, and had many a laturh
over the incident of the long siinbonnet.
Mr. Whipple married a very estimable
lady, and she talks with him apparently
with as much ease as she would were his
hearing perfect.
TWO CRUSHED SKULLS.
How Two Negroes Furnished Food for
Thought to the Medical Men.
Two crushed skulls, on exhibition at
the National Medical Museum, says a
Washington special, attracted much at
tention from the Medical Convention
which has been in session here. They are
the skulls of Sandy Williams and Henry
Peacock, two young colored men who
lived in Norfolk, Va. They were both
paying attention to the same girl,
and becoming involved in a quarrel
over their respective claims, agreed
to decide who should have the
girl by the result of a butting match. Thev
were both large, powerful men. They
stood twenty paces apart and ran, head
downward, against each other with full
force. The tops of their heads came to
gether with such tremendous violence
that the skull of each was crushed like an
egg-shell. The medical authorities at the
museum regarded the skulk as curious
specimens, as the cranium of the negro
has generally been Considered too thick
and hard to be mashed in a butting con
test.
Arab! Paslia on Egypt's Condition.
London, June I. —ln a recent inter
view Arabi Pasha declared that the events
in the Soudan were the outcome of the
unwise policy pursued by English clem
ency, and that an impartial inquiiy into
the people’s grievances could alone re
store order. Otherwise there would be
lrightful bloodshed before the
end was reached. It was certain
that El Mahdi would never
make overtures for peace, and that he
would fight till captured or killed. ' Arabi
declined to say whether he believed El
Mahdi to be the true prophet. He said
that, he felt the highest regard for the
British, and hoped to see the day when
the Egyptians in Egypt would be on the
same footing as the English in England.
O’CONOR’S ECCENTRICITIES I .
Some of the Weaknesses of the Great
Advocate—Strength of His Prejudices.
A New York lawyer says in the Com
mercial Advertiser: Twenty-four years
ago there were few better known appear
ances on New York 9treet than the dry
as-dust earthly tabernacle of Charles
O’Conor, with a swift stride and the pre
occupied air; and in the courts was no
better known voice than his high tones
carrying the utter bitterness of Sarcastic
emphasis. To the man of to-day, how
ever. Mr. O’Conor is an eidolon, a tradi
tion. And yet the man, by reason of bis
very singularities , his extraordinary abili
ties, and his curious mental limitations,
is worthy of recall to people’s memory.
Charles O'Conor was incontestably the
last of the common law lawyers, a relic of
the believers in the “perfection of human
reason,” and though his weapons began
to become antiquated in his later life, he
was so thoroughly trained to their Use
that skillful had to be the guard which
could oppose the thrusts ot his old-tasb
ioned logic aiul learning. In mentality
Mr. O’Conor resembled a bar of burnished
steel, as bright, as strong, and as narrow.
Never in the whole course of his life did
he divest himself or one single prejudice,
never did he allow an event to mddify his
preconceived opinion. And ljever, never
did he forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
An old friend and protege has the follow
ing illustration of his unforgiviugness: In
an inquest on insanity, O’Conor was, for
him, uncommonly mild with the witnesses
and examined away in perfect peace un
til a round-faced, good-natured, rather
inconsequent doctor was put on the
stand.
Then the scene changed; hissing and
glaring, the great advocate fell upon this
unfortunate, and rended him limb from
limb. Sweating and trembling, the un
happy man was forced into endless con
tradictions, and finally retired covered
with shame as a garment. Years after
the witness to this episode ventured to ask
the cause of this unprovoked assault.
“That fool attended my mother when I
was born,” said O’Conor; “his stupidity
nearly killed her, and I never forget.” A
great deal of this after-life bitterness was
doubtless due to the intense poverty of
O’Conor’s early life, when at times he
was actually short of food, and to the ob
stacles, partly, no doubt, caused by his
own temper against which he forced his
upward way. The struggle was a bitter
one and a long one, and it was not until
O’Conor had for years been a very king in
the lower courts that he succeeded in
gaining an arena fit for the display ot all
his talents. For some reason lie’ attri
buted his delayed preferment to the
adverse influence of the New England
lawyers at this bar, and therefore he
hated them with a true O’Conorian
hatred. And a great joy it was to the
veteran when he could drop vitriol on
New England or New England men, as
when, with a smile of delighted malice,
he described Dudley Field as “that gigan
tic pettifogger.” Naturally, Mr. O'Conor
was a Democrat in politics, but his intense
sympathies with the South rested on as
slight a foundation as did his hatred for
New England. When Fierce was Presi
dent, O'Conor visited Washington, and
was received at the instance of the Presi
dent. by the Southerners with a distinction
which forever after bound him to their
cause. Among Mr. O’Conor’s many queer
limitations of genius was hi utter inabil
ity to choose men, consequent on which
came an amount of work vvhichfi nally
wore out even his strength. This
liability at once rates Mr. O’Conor as a
second-rate man, despite his learning and
his genius. Through this queer labric,
combined of ability, prejudice, envy, and
malice, wound a silver thread of charity,
of love, of chivalry—of charity which was
at times Quixotic in its largeness; of love
which, to the te-.v people v%ho came within
its scope, was as warm as the sun of
August, and of chivalry shown to a
marked extent in the matter of bis mar
riage. When going to Paris to settle up
the affairs of his friend McCracken, and,
finding that gentleman a bankrupt, with
no support offering for the widow, he,
though by no means a marrying sort ol
man, promptly offered himself, and tor the
rest of the lady's life treated her with the
most perfect courtesy, indulgence, and
generosity. Besides which be adopted
her son and treated him as if he had been
in truth liis own.
With all these fihe traits one fears
that the bitter side ot O’Conor will be the
one least rente mitered in this community,
and that men will quote “You may get
mercy in hell, sir, but not in Beekman
street,” rather than the chivaleresque
incident ot his marriage or his countless
acts of private munificence.
A MEDIUM’S ACQUAINTANCE.
Talks With the Departed—A Man Who
Knew Moses.
Mrs. Dr. Marston, of Chattanooga, a
lady of strong mediumistic power, says
tne St. Louis Globe Democrat, entertained
a select circle in Dr. Goodwin’s office re
cently. The spirit of Stephen A. Douglas
was present in response to a desire ex
pressed to hear from him on the near po
litical future. Under this influence Mrs.
Marston walked over to the person who
had courted the Little Giant’s company,
and shook hands impressively. Then,
taking her place in the middle ot the
room, she spoke with great delibera
tion. “You have asked about the politi
cal campaign and its outcome. This
nation will continue to exist as the world
revolves. We shall not let it go down.
Behind the chair of nearly every member
of Congress stands a spirit to see that he
speaks and-acts for the good of the people.
We are trying to break up the monopolies
and believe we shall succeed. We cannot
tell whetbdr the Republicans, the Demo
crats or the Liberals will be successful,
but whoever the President is we shall
control him just as we dtf President
Arthur.”
Further than this Mr. Douglas was un
willing to communicate. Hermes, who is
one of the medium’s “households,” came
readily. Hermes was twenty years old
when Moses was born, aud professes to
be able from actual knowledge to throw
some light on the bullrusbes story. Ac
cording to this ancient sport “the meekest
man” was the illegitimate fcon of Pha
raoh’s daughter. She concealed the in
fant in the reeds and then pretended to
have discovered him when she went to
bathe, planning in this way to deceive her
father, the king, and to rear her own off
spring in the palace.
Robert Emmet has communicated
through the lady the information that the
Irish will be the next people freed. Oil a
recent visit to the medium he brought
with him O’Donnell, but the avenger had
nothing to say.
Wendell Phillips informs Mrs. Marston
that he is still doing his work of reform,
but on a different, basis. He now inspires
men in the workshops to go forth and
champion the cause of the oppressed. Gen.
Burnside has dropped into poetry. He
says liis spiritual mission is the filling up
of the bloody chasm, and be offers this
sentiment:
Let the blue and the gray
Be happy and gay;
For we are comrades forever and oir;
Let the gray and the blue
Be blithesome aud true;
We arc singing the self-same song.
Abraham Lincoln reports that he is very
happy, and “Little Tad” says that he anil
his father influenced “Brother Bob,” the
Secretary of War. to the prompt disburse
ment of relief to flood sufferers.
THE CHOLERA GERM.
Honors to l>r. Korii anil the Physicians,
who Accompanied Him to India.
A vote of 135,000 marks, says tho Herald,
lias been uuanimously granted to the doc
tors who have risked their lives in their
brave and thorough investigation of the
causes from which the cholera is sup
posed to sprins, and that, too, in its most
unhealthy hotbeds among the swamps of
India. The hero ol the hour at Berlin at
present, is Dr. Koch, the President of the
commission, who has just returned from
India, where he has discovered the
cholera germ. He studied medicine at
Gottingen, and afterward pursued his
microscopic studies of bacteria at Breslau
under Prof. Cohn. Geheimer Rath Koch
has been known to the scientific world for
some time as a conscientious and accu
rate observer, but to the non-scientific
world his name was unknown until his
discovery of the cholera germ. It now
promises to be as famous as that of Jen
ner or Ilarvey. Dr. Koch is to receive
100.000 marks and the remainder will be
divided between his two assistants and
the analytical chemist who accompanied
the party. The grand banquet in their
honor took place on the 13th of May, in
the Central Hotel, Berlin. They had a
special audience with the Emperor, and
were lately at a dinner given on their ac
count by the Minister of the Interior.
Germany has in former years suffered
much and frequently from" visitations of
the cholera; it is therefore easy to com
prehend with what feelings or gratitude
and thankfulness anyone must be regard
ed who can really help to ward off the in
roads of the disease.
ALL FOR A BANK BOOK.
FULL DETAILS OF MRS.
SCHREIVER’S MAD WORK.
Four of the Children Found at Home
With Their Throats Cut From Ear to
Ear—The Other Child and It# Mother
Found Beside the Track, Where She
Had Sprang Before a Train.
The mangled bodies of five little child
ren and their mother, savs an Albany (N.
Y.) special of the 30th May to the New
Y'ork Times, are the ghastly evidences of
the desolation brought in one night to the
home of Christopher Schreiver by the
trenzy of a suddenly crazed woman.
Thursday evening about 7:30 o’clock,
Schreiver, who is an industrious German
blacksmith, left his house on Third street,
in the upper part of the city, after a quar
rel with his wife over the loss by her of
their savings bank book. AVhen he re
turned, two hours later, there was no
light in the rooms and no answer came to
his calls to his wife and children. Sur
prised at the silence, he went and felt in
the bed for the children. His hand touched
a bl< lod-satwroted-sheet , and jiftraii hnnvar.
stricken into the street to arouse the neigh
bors. The sight that met their eyes made
their blood run cold. In the cradle was Wil
lie,aged 9 months, with his throat cut from
ear to ear and his head hanging to his
body simply by a piece of skin. In au
adjoining room in a single bed were three
other children, Henry, Annie, and John
ny, aged respectively 7, 5. and 4 years,
each with a blood}' streak across tho
throat. The mother and the oldest
daughter, Mary, aged 0 years, were not
to lie found. Underneath the bed was
Schreiver’s big, coarse razor, made bv
himself, tho instrument of the horrible
murders. Searching parties immediately
began a hunt for the missing ones. Down
by the New Y'ork Central Railroad's
tracks they came across the unfortunate
mother with her head almost severe!, the
legs and arms broken, and the body
frightfully mangled. While engaged in
gathering the remains together they heard
th 6 moans of the child, who was still
alive. She called to them to take her
home. One arm and one foot were ampu
tated, aud she was otherwise terribly
bruised. She was cared for at the hos
pital, but died this afternoon.
Schreiver, the only one who can give
any clue to the cause of the terrible deed,
is well-nigh crazed by the horrors. He is
about 45 years old, and his wife was 33.
He says:' “I have been engaged for the
past 11 years as a blacksmith in the West
Troy Railroad shops until day before yes
terday, when 1 left there to engage in
business for myself. I was to purchase a
business of H. Strevell, and had promised
to pay him the cash, $225, for a horse,
wagon and rag route. My wife told me
there was $295 in the bank, and she was
to draw out the required amount. Last
night I was to pay Mr. Strevell $125 and
close the bargain, but my wife said she
had lost the bank book, aiid that they re
fused at the bank to give her the money
without the book. She said she informed
them that she was the person who de
posited the money and that they knew
her. She said they told her thev
did know her, but they could not give
her the money. Carolina bad gone down
town the day before to draw the money,
1 supposed, but returned without it. Then
she gave as a reason for not bringing the
money that there was such a large crowd
in the bank that, the doors were guarded
by two policemen, and she was iiot per
mitted to enter. AVhen I came home yes
terday afternoon I asked her about the
money. She said she bad had bad luck. I
said, ‘AYhat do you mean?’ She said she
had lost the bank book. That was the
first I knew of it being missing. I was
angry, and we had a quarrel. I came into
the house and she and I had more hard
words; finally Ijstruck her across the side
of the head with the flat of my hand. I
supposed the money was gone because
the bank book was lost; that is what my
wife said when she came from the bank.
After this 1 went out to tho house of a
iriend of mine.”
The theory i9 that after Schreiver went
outliU wife performed her evening work as
usual. She put her children to bed with
the exception ot Alary, the eldest, and
then sat down and meditated over the first
trouble that had arisen between herself
and her husband. The more she thought
the more it worked upon her mind, until,
crazed by what she supposed was the
death-blow to her husband’s hopes, she
resolved upon a desperate deed that
would end her own and her children’s
troubles at once and forever. The sight
of the razor on the mantel in the room
probably suggested the means of accom
plishing her object, and, finally grasping
it, she cut one after another the throats
of her Tour youngest children as
they lay on their couches. Then
throwing the razor beneath the bed,
she entered the middle bedroom, seized
the eidest child, and hurrying from the
house through the front door across the
fields, passed Tivoli Lake to the railroad
tracks. There the frenzied woman waited
until the train leaving here at 10:25 was
due and flung herself upon the track, and
endeavored to retain her child with her.
But Alary, recovering probably from the
fright which had possessed her while
being hastened along with her mother,
struggled to free herself as the train came
in view, but could not entirely break
from the grasp of her mother. The child
was sufficiently conscious when picked
up to moan out that she had tried to get
away, hut her mother held her.
This afternoon it was ascertained that
Airs. Schreiver was enceinte, a fact which
partially accounts for her sudden and ter
rible insanity. The victims of this un
paralleled Sextuple murder will be buried
together on Sunday.
A CHECKERED CAREER.
A Polish Count, the Veteran of Three
M ars, in a Har'rford Police Station.
One of the applicants at the police sta
tion last night for lodgings, says the
Hartford Vourant, was a venerable man
whose long, silvery hair and beard and
martial bearing commanded more atten
tion than is usually shfrtvn those who
ask a night’s shelter. The face of the
venerable man indicated refinement, and
us he ambled off to the lodgers’ quarters
it was remarked that he had evidently
6een better davs. He was called back
and asked a few questions, which were
answered in broken English, and, as they
aroused an interest to hear his story, the
old man sat down and narrated his his
tory. According to his story be is the
son of Count-Zowaski—a Count himself—
and was born in Warsaw, Poland, ninety
three veai s ago. He is a veteran of three
wars, and fought under Napoleon at
Waterloo, Austerlitz, and Leipsic. lie
took an active part in the Polish war for
independence in . 1831, and warmlv
espoused Kossuth. Finally he was
declared a political offender, and fell
under the ban of the Austrian ruler and
was transported to Siberia. After a few
years he escaped from that inhospitable
country and lookup arms fry: Hungary,
at last finding himself a prisoner of war
in Turkey in Asia. His property at War
saw having been confiscated, Zowaski
came to this country in 1851. When our
war broke out he offered
his services and went into the field as
Captain of a Pennsylvania battery
attached to Sigei’s command, and fought
with marked bravery. The old man has
been in the Soldiers’ Home near Washing
ton. But he has a propensity for wander
ing, and his tramping has taken him all
over the United States and Canada. The
names of Napoleon’s officers and contem
poraneous Generals of Europe are at his
tongue’s end, and he rattles off history
with considerable facility. He had with
him last night a package of time-worn
documents whicli substantiated many of
his statements, and there was an appear
ance of sincerity about his talk. He
claims to be on his way to New York to
see Carl Schurz, with whom he once
crossed the ocean, to see if Schurz can
aid him in getting hack to Europe. The
old man’s eyes glowed when Poland was
mentioned, and it is there that he wants
to die. He was in Hartford a few years
ago, and then said he was going to "New
York to solicit help lrom bis old friend
Carl Schurz. While the story of his
career is undoubtedly true, the poor old
man doubtless finds comfort and happi
ness in roaming about the country, living
on tho charity that his venerable gray
hairs bring, aiid the chances are that he
will pass the few remaining years of his
life in looking for Carl Schurz". He seems
wedded to that occupation.
Money to Purchase Irishmen.
London, June I.—Sir William V.
Harcoutt, Heme Secretary, on the demand
of the chief of police,'has advised the
-government to place at the disposal of the
chiefs a jarge sum of secret service money
with which to buy information regarding
treasonable and other criminal projects
without revealing the informers. The
chiefs of police report that certain con
spirators are ready to sell information
which they possess provided their names
are kept secret,
A RUSSIAN ADVENTURESS.
The Career of the Woman Who Has Be
witched Prince I.ouis of Hesse-Darm
stadt
The curiosity of the most decorous is
piqued to know something of the woman
able to bewitch the dull Prince Louis of
Hesse-Darmstadt, says a letter to flie
Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. About
seven years ago Parisian society was daz
zled by the entrance into its brilliant cir
cles of anew beauty, who promised to
eclipse any yet known in the fashionable
coterie of the world’s social capital.
Prince Captzka, a wealthy Russian no
bleman, had only been married three
months when be and his young wife made
their entree into Parisian hau ton. The
Prince’s bride was charming. Fancy a
tall, slight figure, every line of which
might have been copied from some Greek
sculpture, a face, combining in its delicate'
features the high-souled beauty of Helen
of Troy, together with all the diablerie of
Cleopatra when she charmed the great
conqueror of Eygpt, who left his galleys
at Achim that he might lay his laurel
wreath at the feet ot the star-eyed Egyp
tian Queen, who, although discrowned,
still reigned supreme. Her hair was of
the tawny brown that Titian loved, and
she had eyes of that soft topaz hue of
which poets have sung ever since the
day when the warrior poet and hero of
Greece portrayed in faultless verse the
one perfect woman " hose grace and beau
ty were worthy of the love and crown of
imperial love. AYith such gift 9as those,
small wonder that she soon had all of gay
Paris at her feet. She set the fashion in
bonnets, and invented anew robe, La
Gabrielle, and was painted as a goddess
of the olden time, Who had returned to
earth to show men the kind of beauty
that flourished when the world was
young. Even the women acknowledged
tier peerless beauty. The Princess Detnl
dotL with kingly blood in her veins, de
clared La Russe to be the loveliest woman
of her day, and Princess de Mouchy, the
fairest of the Bonaparte race, though
born in our own New Jersey, said that
the lovely Russian was well worthy of
the adoration of the dead days of
romance and beauty. The fair butterfly
flitted its wings and had its brief day of
conquest, but it soon end. They
are none too straight-faced in Paris
touching the requirements or duties of
wives to their husbands, as all the world
knows, but they do draw the line some
where. There was whispered gossip at
first, and then it became bolder and more
definite. Even the friskiest of the young
matrons, .ho regard their marital ties
none too strongly, withdrew, one by one,
their countenance and sanction from the
fascinating Russian, and finally the end
came, not unexpectedly to those' who had
read as they ran. The Prince charged his
wite with fractures oi* the seventh com
mandment, and prayed the patriarch of
the Greek church to unloose the bond mat
rimonial that had been so triumphantly
tied but five years before, and it was
done, and the fair star went out from the
charmed circle where she had lately been
its first ornament in silence and tears.
Just then she met Louis, Grand Duke
of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was in mourn
ing for his faithtui domestic wife, who had
been a mode! of all the homely virtues,
t hough she was a Queen’s daughter. The
dull, phlegmatic German Princeling bad
never seen such a woman before. His
sluggish blood was aflame. He was fairly
bewitched. Thinking no doubt that she
would gladly accept “an establishment,”
he offered hOr his protection. And then he
was taught a lesson he will be likely to
long remember. 4Vith lambent eyes and
tongue sharper than Damascus steel, she
answered him in words that went
through his panoply of stupidity and hurt
like a stab. This only made him the more
in love with the witch of the North. His
daughter, A'ictoria Albeits, whose honey
moon as the bride of Prindfc Louis, of Bat
tenberg, is not yet on the wane, saw that
something was very wrong with her rath
er stupid father, and, womanlike, set
about discovering the cause of the pater
nal unhappiness. She was not long in
finding it out. One day site came upon a
photograph, in a drawer which Prince
Louis usually kept locked, that told her
the story. Greatly distressed, she at
once wrote to her grandmother, the
Queen of England, and told her what she
had suspected. Her Majesty was very
anxious to hurry up the marriage she
had set about. But her “faithful com
mons” could not and would not he hur
ried in their work. Still, Prince Louis was
induced to make a formal proposition for
the hand of Princess Beatrice, subject, of
course, to the legislative action of Parlia
ment. Aleantime the Grand Duke became
more and more infatuated with this new
Circe, and finally offered to contract a
morganatic marriage with the fascinat
ing peri he had found wandering outside
the social paradise. This was a different
matter, and the volatile young beauty
carefully considered it. Perhaps she was
somewhat touched by the devotion he had
Shown and the sacrifice he must make to
do it. He would enrage the royal family
of England beyond the possibility of for
giveness, for lie would have cast the bit
terest slight possible upon a Princess of
the blood, his own children’s aunt. He
would estrange beyond recall the affec
tions of his brother-in-law, the Crown
Prince of Germany, and his wife, the
Princess Royal ol England, ajid all the
mighty relatives of the imperial family of
Germany, But there is no more ioolbardy
man than one of this stamp when he is
lairly set agoing. So a fortnight ago, as
soon as the wedding chimes of his daugh
ter were over, he wedded the fair and
rather frail Russian, with all the solemn
rites of the church, and has taken her for
better and for worse—probably a good
deal more ol the latter than the former.
There is no need now to hurry through
the act legalizing the marriage of a man
with bisdeceased wife’s sister,and Princes
“Bee” has had a reprieve. Heaven forbid
she should ever succeed to the penury and
drudgery, even in a palace, from which
the fair Alice, the sweetest English
Princess, died.
A KISS IN COURT.
A Brooklyn Belle Gives Her Sentenced
Lover a Farewell Fin brace.
When John McElwee, a sensational
youth ol twenty summers, says the Brook
lyn Eagle , was arraigned on a charge of
striking his sweetheart, Maggie Andrews,
a pert and pretty miss of W, he wiped his
moist eyes with his coat sleeve as he
said:
“You see, Judge, me and Maggie has
been keeping company for some time, and
I’m so fond of her that I don’t like to see
her at all free with other young fellows.
Last Saturday we took a walk on Grand
street, and Maggie giggled and flirted so
with every fellow we passed that I
couldn’t stand it. The more I growled
about it, the more she laughed at me. aud
at last 1 got excited and just hit her on
the face with my open hand. She fell off
the chair somehow, and her head came in
contact with a chair rung somehow.
That’s how it happened, and I’m awful
sorry, sir, and I don’t think Maggie will
press the charge against me,”
“Yes, I will,” said Maggie, whose pret
ty blue eyes were also tilled with tears,
while an ugly bandage half hid her gold
en tresses. “I’m ready to forgive vou,
Johnny, at the proper time, but I don’t
think I can quite forgive you till I know
you’ve had something done to you for the
way you treated me. I want to see some
thing done to him, Judge.”
“Very well, then,” said the obliging
Magistrate. “John, the offence you have
committed is a most unmanly and brutal
one. We send husbands who beat tbeir
wives to the penitentiary for three or six
months, but I don’t know what sentence
could be too severe lor a young man who
thrashes his sweetheart. She should feel
thankful that she found you out. in time,
and should, while she was still free, sen
tence you to banishment from her society
forever, in order that she might be in no
future danger of a repetition of so cow
ardly assault upon her. That, how
ever, is her business. The sentence of
this courtis that you be imprisoned in the
county jail for a term of twenty-nine
davs.”
Young McElwee cast a despairing
glance at Miss Andrews, who, for her
part, looked as though she wished she had
not insisted upon pressing the charge
against her pugilistic lover. The youth
blubbered aloud, and tears fell very freely
from the blue eyes of the pretty maiden.
They looked at each other for a moment,
and then the youth ran with his out
stretched arms to where the girl stood
and in a second they were locked In a
farewell embrace, while their lips met in
a kiss whose resounding 6mack could be
heard in every corner ol the court-room.
The young man was hurried off by the un
feeling officer to his dungeon cell aud the
girl stood looking sadly afer him until the
laughter of the couvt.room crowd aroused
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JOHN C. ENO’S CAPTURE,
DETECTIVES MISTOOK HIM FOR
TELLER HINCKLEY.
Arrested in Montreal and Set at Liberty,
Proving that He was Not the West
Side Rank Fugitive His Clerical
Friend a Catholic Priest of New York.
New Yoke, June I.—The arrest of John
C. Eno in Canada, it seems, was due to ac
cident. Detectives were keeping a sharp
watch for Hinckley, the defaulting teller
of the West Side Bank. They came across
Eno, who passed under the name of Mar
shall, suspected him of being Hinckley,
and arrested him in Montreal. He satis
fied the officers that he was not Hinckley
and was release. Meanwhile it was
discovered that he was Eno
and be and his companion
were arrested on the steamer as she was
about leaving Quebec, this time under the
name of Bonton. His clerical looking
companion was Father Ducey, pastor of
St. Leo's Catholic Church, of New York,
with whom the Eno family was on good
terms, although not Catholics. Eno says
that he knows he has done nothing to#
which he can be extradited, uud refuses
to return voluntarily. As he cannot be
extradited for embezzlement, some other
means will have to be devised. He nar
rowly escaped being spirited out of
Canada by the detectives, but is now held
in custody awaiting a hearing on the writ
of habeas corpus.
CONGRESSMAN bitdips career.
How He Advertised Himself Into Con
gress.
Budd is tbe name of a bright young
Congressman from California; says a
Washing ton letter, who has a fine head of
hair and a fine brown beard, such as the
old masters gave the Saviour in their best
works. Budd, they tell me, is pining for
the genial climate of California, and does
not care to come back here again, although
he could do so easily, and is the only
Democrat who could. Budd lived in a
district which people had come to believe
was owned by Page, the stage driver, who
hart forced his way through politics into
Congress very much as lie used to force
his coach over rough places on the road.
Page was neck deep in the star’route
business, and was Chairman (be
ing a man alter Keifer’s own heart)
ot the Commerce Committee which
brought in the river and harbor bill that
President Artuhr vetoed. I don’t know'
that either of these things would have de
feated him in his district. The Democrats
thought not.-They nominated Budd, a
rollicking “good fellow with the boys,’’
who was a lawyer and a politician and
half a dozen other things, and who got
very little money out of any of them. Tie
had a big heart and hosts of friends, who
were fond of telling such stories as that
when a minstrel friend w'as ill Budd
“corked uu” and took his place as end
man, rattling tbe bones and cracking the
jokes for weeks under his friend’s name
on the bills. The Democrats nominated
him as a joke. Budd’s career seemed to ■
be a series of jokos, practical and theo
reticnl. It seemed fitting that it should
be crowned in this wav with a stupendous
piece of humor. Budd laughed with the
rest for 'awhile. Then he bought a big
stencil plate, with “Vole for
Budd” cut in it in large letterp,
and with his wife, a modest,
pretty little woman—started on a tramp
through his district. At first, I am told*
they w'alked. Then they trot a buckboard
and rode. But they always boarded
among their future constituents,
and on every available spot, every big
stone, fence, barn and house, on every
pulpit, it is said, and every church steeple,
they printed with the stencil: “Vote for
Budd.” It stared at you like a patent
medicine advertisement from every point
in the compass. They shook hands w'ith
every man, woman and child in the dis
trict-kissed all the children, too. and
had a clear majority of 1,000 over Page,
who had represented the district for ten
years consecutively. Now Budd finds
his lungs, of such power in California,
affected by the raw winds of Washington.
When he came to speak on the Chinese
immigration bill, the bill of greatest in
terest to iiis people, he found that he had
exhausted his splendid voice in a few
preliminary questions and answers, and
lie had to content himself with printing
his speech in the Congressional litcord.
A FAMOUS GAMBLING HOUSE.
A Gambler Who Was Respected.
Pendleton’s gambling house, says, Ben:
Perley Poore, was one of the sights of
Washington before the war. The entrance
was through a narrow, lighted hallway,
opening from the avenue uear the Na
tional Hotel. A pair of stairs at the fur
ther end of the hall were closed half way
up by a door fastened on the inside. A
lattice was opened on the ringing of a
bell, and a colored man scrutinized the
new-comers to see if all was right. If
there was no apparent objection the door
was opened, and the visitors proceeded
up-stairs, where there was a large front
parlor, elegantly furnished, with a centre
table, on which were tho leading news
papers and magazines of the country.
Around it one generally found several
gentlemen, some of them members of
Congress, reading and discussing the
news of the day. The back parlor,
was more luxuriously furnished, and'
at one end. in a massive gilt
frame, was a life-like picture of a huge,
crouching tiger, with fiery eyes and open
mouth, apparently ready for a spring upon
his unsuspecting victim. Beneath this
picture was a table, on which was the lay
out of a faro bank. In a box were piles of
bank bills and gold pieces of different de
nominations, and in another box were the
“chips,” circular pieces of ivory, in
scribed “sl,” “$5,” “$25,” and “$250,”
which were purchased by players as a
matter or convenience, and redeemed bv
the banker at the end of each game, fbere
was a supper-room, where a free supper
was served every night. The cook was
the best in Washington, and at Pendle
ton’s those who did not fancy the poor fare
at the hotels and the worse eating at the
private boarding-houses, could feast on
turtle soup, oysters, terrapin, canvas-back
ducks and venison. The best of wines
and liquors were also supplied. Mr.
Pendleton belonged to an old Virginia
family, and his wife, w ho lived on Capitol
hill, went in the best society. After his
death President Buchanan attended his
funeral.
93.000 for tilt; Confederate Home
Baltimore, June 1 .—The benefit per
formances at Fords’ Grand Opera House
for the Confederate Soldiers’ Home at
Richmond, Va., will net *3,000. They
were concluded last night.
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