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GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
U WSOK THE TWO STATES
TOLU IN PARAGRAPHS.
I < 1( . • separated Mother and Son
■* | t j CidiT Romantic Circumstance*
1 "i,, ( ounl J-I'tardl]r Attempt at
* |, v H .Negro la Montgomery
County- A Negro Thief Suicide* at
Aotof
GEORGIA.
, , -j oak-uf l>uinimg a line hotel
■ f ' . r: , ~ r nrgro at Flowerv Branch
‘V,n:r-:4 U*'! cut off bis foot.
°‘ i . . -;*tc teachers’ institutes will
1 . j,, A 4. fur one month.
’ ' . i * tie rsons earned sl7 2$
. ,r a ■ rnea at Gainesville last
for the benefit of the
trimcnt is booked at that
f . . 1 ■ r was mailed at Pateville.
„ . - .*! the -ame letter returned
>! reunion of the old Kighl
i I; . meat will lie held this rear
Friday, Atf. 1.
T \ r - -n 1 . -red Methodist Churrh are
. erection of a 11.5J0 churrh.
~ ji : . |iro|SMcd that a stock com
and a ten thousand dollar
i beautiful site very near the
i -K* itcrNV. It. Baldwin re ports an in
f, . • t‘.e t.i\i!>le property of Terrell
carol $81,733, and an increase
.-cl to l>e William Ferguson,
, !■> have stolen a valuable gold
. iv. E. < o-strove, of Augusta, has
al Atlanta.
j v 1 • : uho bad his hand smashed
, • ru -c injured bv cars at Marietta
against the Western and
iid h road for trn.OGO damages.
It ’•at i p of the negro vote in favor
~,f a- .nr wa* what turned the day
I‘ike county; NO per
• r ■ :.’t- was cast by negroes.
T tr . toroflhe mail on the star
•ween Vicm a and Montezu
v\ : 'I . has failed to earry the
. l ine ( 'iininenced, July 1, except
\ .- ■ • -up Tuesday with
ng his power over it.
||. . ! ■ I m his mouth, opened its
. -•• i it in pull a -mall wagon along,
j We have beard that one of
1.. . . - Henry county, last week, was
- met, and adswered;
•44 Sew 1 orl or Chicago, blamed
if | '.mew here up there. Any
k. o’- uptilH've Atlanta.”
1 . n: Edward Kv ans. the negro who
■ . : at i U' Tuesday night from the
, ’ on the head, inflirted by lien,
h 4.*. .uh a loaded cane, in ailiffi
r . tr- t 'l. James A. M. K. Cnurrh,
on the night . f July I. hat been pronounced
u-t t. . ■ I " nicule l>y tlie t droner’s jury,
T • r ire three farms on (he line of Gordon
titles which made tins year
ever thousand t.u-hela of wheat. ’The
f.r -i" Mr. Gaines, who made over
f. r t •o and. Mr. Trtmhleovcr three thous
and. S ' It ver three thousand bushels.
1 • in. -all lie joining each other, and are
1 . -tai.bsfm ent of a Hoard of Enterprise
< i. i. ;■ vied at Atlanta. The objects of
■rd are to fre-ter alj new enterprises
it -* are de-erving of public sup-
I"’ -s charge of the new projects for
tr.. of the city’s interests, to
i|. -. ,ii operate p’an- forlbe improvement
.fils, ty in all commercial and industrial
A Mi- I’.ii!. n.of han-on county,happened
i-- ar . . deni one day last week, she
* i ■ V' - in the yartl, and, seeing w liat she
th "Ci w -a \< ild vine dinging around a fa
t. I. -h. pniltsl it off. 11 proved to lie a
-mis. ahu h Wound around her wrist, and.
l. 'g alino-t frantic w ith fright, she fell
tad d.-located In r hip. Tlie harmless little
>iuh' made off, unconscious of the injury be
The colored volunteers will have u grand
nr./, drili and lair in 4 otumbus on the 2dh
or I his month. All the colored non
par - in this Mate, Alabama and North
Ist i have been invited to participate.
I . be judges will be W. A. Pledger, of
At. ; M. an I W. II Wood house, of Savannah.
The ;ir-t prize will tie $l5O. second SIOO and
third fs). The pr.zc drill will take place at
Mar Hark, in addition to the Jirize drill, a
fair will be given for tlie beuclit of tlie volun
teers.
11-*• Bmwn, a commercial traveler for W.
11. Alien *x Cos., of Baltimore, dealers in wood
and willowwan*. a- taken ill at Augusta
1 nr-dav id 44 a. found m a dying condition
on is. i .nun mi-. He was taken to a hospital
an t in lin a few minute-. He was once a
no ; or of l.ord A Brown, of Baltimore,
sti-i tv..- a well-to-do merchant of that city,
hut met 44 ith rover*.--, which resulted iu his
g. rg on tin-road. He leaves a wife and two
oh -iron. The body was sent to Baltimore
uiv in -h..,-,,, rrespondenec News, July 18:
"a. ,<ro now Isia-ts of a line brass band,
O ’ - den up by Ihe colored jieople.
I > i. 00-1 a few nights ago and per
o'mnd • n Id ihlv.— Matt Nugent was ad-
Hi. by Judge T. J. McElninrray
■ 'I -i - last and taken to the asylum at
M. ■■!_. 4 die. lb t\mild go out at night, so
th, in- . . ,rs say. and pull down 2k) or
- r ” 1 ■ rs of corn and eat a part of them
in "oo in.at. lb -ays he cannot eat corn un
h- it -1 144 and on the cob. He would also
f" int > the i,. igtiliors* watermelon patches
an-l--real. up over so many green water
lor something to cat, and
m -trim ail unlit.—Crops in Burke art*
1 •' ir. -pod was never liner. Cotton
14 doing 44c11. and corn is good.
t aii. 'iiu r : On lut Saturday our town
i:,lt *■' Hie novelty it seeing a boy
" - I '' - h unts, anil a carious crowd
lie was rather reiieont
“ r ;i ' i“ h i afllirtion, but c nversed
■ r " 1 I ii l ifter topics, lie was twrn
-iri'l walks on liishands from nc
"" • 11 ' !*• y ami arms'are perfect in
’ - t ln-latter me larger than usual
;" r " ■"t In- years. His bauds extended
• Un'i-vi uin-of his laxly, and with
Ihi'iti i.i i-.ii: ki ip pace with nnv ordinary
* ir. Hen ir 1 years old licfore lie
' • i walk a! all. but he is now almul 15 and
to huh. a ions as easily as if he were
" s He can play on the violin
ih things which do not raqnire
*' ! " ■ li:s name is John Miller and
i- ' i.rar Heevi‘l station, in this county.
tr .ss • .v, ir* : Avery painful and sad ac
-1 ■• 1 urn I near Texas court ground last
J -• Vli-ses Mollie Sample and
I iii.d ii ra Hearn started to church at
Fr -i" t.afew miles from their homes, and
i mar g the court ground themule they
' 1 r ' ;r ‘ v ' - came frightened at a little boy
* . run bide aud started to run, and Miws
; s wi driving, fell forward over
j ><i. c arrying the lines with her,
!•!.: n hurt. The mule’s flight was in
" ' ’■ and Misses Mollie and Cora,
, * in in,- situation, leaped from the
1 "-*>• ‘-’Hi receiving - broken legs on
* Dr, Watkins, was ini
n 'lnteli M.uitnonei to set the broken limbs.
rer> ..recheerful and getting along
ted,cos sidering their
vr- •• niul Hounds.—Miss Mollie has a verv
'• i..| near ihe camp ground,
Win -in w Hi lie compelled to ahandon.
■ Oilerwe News. July 17: In
' 1 ! >nr Mount Vernon, in Montgom
. there lives an eeccntrie old maid,
old. entirely alone, anil pns
-- ■ d,o aside rabie pn>i>erty. Ifor
’ • - I. ice. Last Wednesday night
lit t heater lJrown coinmit
■ ' | rage U|nhi Hie iierson of this poor,
" ‘I - •i* Old soul. l>av before yestor
•iav the ’i.!ri r. as ttTNtcd. When taken
is r, -tietisu she readily and positively
l ” 1,: ■ ! him, and jesterday the Montgom
ery..-itioers brought him to Kastman
t’ -i- i hiui in jail, there to remain until
Ej taken out to stood a trial (aeroM.
1 ''■ r ' ~y it was with difficulty that he
" - 'a ntod from 1 icing lynched.—There
O ' m "sir ls>mg another escape from jail.
}e-tor ‘.tv. The only prisoner was a negro
re: i in re from Telfair county, incarcerated
o i ••attic -h aimg ,<t that comity. While the
JL" r ;“ * -* 1 ! * lc Jail to lake the prisoner his
•' a-allowed to go into the Tor
i' r ;..r little while, anil tlmling a piece of
i n 1" concea’ed it n his cell. When the
I- was 'pencil at noou yesterday he had
a* ■ irt,. iid i,i S escape, and In half an
Il " ur • would doubtless have beeu out.
• r n,o siting. “Some Strange Things
\i Hoard on a lJecent Visit to the
<►." the PiedißOat /><■ prints the
" ' ► V fun ale minister near Dahlonegn
*i •a : > oar u U white man.—A in as let a
j -> lean apple from his mouth and had
.l v '“*tcn no.—A natural spring of wa’er
V' “ irT: -d ihe thermometer almost to the
in' .';r g pilot.—A man in Gaddislowu stuck
j-in i lr ,r in liis wrist and died in three
r *’ :i! ‘P-offsets.—Two cftilden soexactlv
n.iu even their parents had to mark
tt T a l ,:ir *—A etii'cinut farm, on
V ' : **ie Williams brothers, iu I'nion
<< aty.— \ouug lady in tiaddistown with
•or nearly six feet iu length.—The
l"'-',’ 0 crop is unknown In luinu.—A
• 1,1 ' a-g* young man who has inereas
yn over 1.-o pounds in weight in two
• r a '-- -t•an ;o 1 anada with twelve living
' the obiesi uodcr sixteen years of
• - beautiful sl> i prudikctiye farms’ way np
'' rummit of the Bluv U. ii-e.-J, >.
V ’us t— -1* lusof a ilog that barke-f Inmself to
~ v “ an wbo has often walked froui
-"w n. a distance of eigbty
from sou.up to sun-down.—A
f.%"" ,P snat e Hj al mcaoure-l nine feet and
. t ’ • lies m length.—Oavis district, in
■ ’• sia county, has no court limine. Justice
' v ““tnistcred under the shade of a gigantic
• ■' number of carp po.i.u about Porter
.. “ n ‘* all of them well stocked. —A
_y‘ ' r °‘ sheep and homeil cattle in Union.
-:i ut crop will be a bountiful one.
B nj'-ii:'.'neers are very clever, but will
■■ her feed or ei.udcr revenue officers or their
*£ e buihiiug of a flue hotel on
■ ' "l* ' f tic Blue Rsdgc. at v >?>x.‘r's Gap, is
i l ' —Aa o>d man who tfto„ght that
• I ”i“ ” tlll President of the United Slat-.,
*. , ne jer heard of tae assassination of
I'r.i. ' —° D ‘y ah'* ll * thirty colored voters in
■ "D t'gatr.—The houses in Union county
n- in **?? ra “l r huiit of poplar lumber.—A
•■c- wao has been weo-Ud to three sisters.
t mi l "i n anil ifi-scy/r: Some
counts ! nc * 3* - Tear a widow in l-pe
Bv’iV'l ?'* rrle d a man named Jack Stanley,
full of „‘s 1? er “•triage she had quite a house
as m.. C i hlldren ’ fl ve sons and ada lighter, and.
as swhJ": '“agiued. the honeymoon was not
In th/ho M 11 “ught have been with leas noise
mi’ll*state of things continued
UD,U the • baby, Charlie, was about H
Ww 3N omnia %lms.
months old, when Stanley folded hi* tent and
quietly stole away, taking with him the
infant. The mother mourned the los*
of the baby more than that of her husband, and
though she searched far and near no tidings
could she bear. She resigned herself to the
situation, and to her every prayer added the
word Kismet. The sons by her former hus
band grew up and became a' support, and thus
the wolf was kepi from the door. Stanley’s flrst
-topping place was in another county, where
he left the baby in the hands of bis own rela
tives, and vtandered off to Arkansas, where
he so far forgot his Georgia wife as to marry
again. He returned to Georgia and carried
back hi# boy. Tiring of Arkansas, Stanley
moved to Alabama, where he is now living
with his third wife, and prospering. When
C harley reached his teens he became anxious
to know something of his early history, and
questioned his father. Stanley always gave
him evasive replies; but from sn outside
source the hoy obtained a hint that his mother
was in Lee county. Haying nothing to his
father, the lad slipped away from his Alabama
borne a short while ago. and last Sundav found
him at a Primitive Baptist church in Lee
county. In the congregation sat Mr*. Stan
ley. wholly unconscious of the pr<—nee of
her long-lost mid. He asked some of the loit
erers around tlie door to point out Mr*. Stan
ley to him. This was done, and he entered
the church w itlmut thinking of the surround
ings, and with a kiss and a hug was soon
pre--ed to bis mother's hea-t. The scene that
followed thi* sudden interruption of the ser
vices can be better imagined than described.
The men roughed, the women cried and the
children stared in sheer astonishment. Mother
and son left the church, and long were the
stories each had to tell. The lad is about 17
years old. and our correspondent describes
him as being a handsome young fellow. He
and his mother are now happy, and his in
tentions are to drive down hia stakes in old
Lee and live with bis mother.
FLORIDA.
Mont ice Ho will ratify the Democratic na
tional ticket July 24.
The Continental Hotel of Pensacola Is to
have a {32,000 addition.
The steamship Cochran will make semi
monthly tri[>s between Key West and Cedar
Key.
At last accounts efforts were making to se
cure a jury in the Willingham murder trial at
Bartow.
Win. T. Hunter, of Columbia county, has
raised SI,OOO worth of colts from one pony
mare in seven years.
A Pensacola egg measures 6% inches in
diameter one way and "% inches the other
and weighs 3% ounces.
A negro at Madison last week killed a moc
casin snake, and cutting it open found 63
young snakes in its stomach.
Some of the figs so abundant in Tallahassee
are being shipped to Jacksonville, where they
bring from $1 75 to $2 per bushel.
Tlie liears are making fearful havoc with
corn on several plantations near Monticello.
Hunters will soon follow their tracks.
Mr. Frank Myers Has a lime tree seven
years old growing in ids yard near Tarpon
springs, which yields about 10,000 limes per
year.
There has been sllO subscribed by the peo
ple of Brevard county towards furthering the
work of tlie New Orleans Exposition in that
county.
The deaf colored man. Dock Barnes, who
was run over at Tallahassee by the west-
Wund tram Friday morning, is in a fair way
to recover.
The watermelon growers in Jackson county
are not too well pleased with the results of
their shipments North. Freights, they say,
eat up most of the profits.
There are three little German boys, the eld
est of whom is only 11 years old. living near
Tampa, that have picked and sold during the
present season 120 worth of huckleberries.
The novr frame schoolhouse. near the place
of .las. E. English, in Columbia county, was
burned by an incendiary on last Friday night.
Boofcs.paper. slates and everything belonging
to the scholars were destroyed.
There have been sixteen trials for murder
in Polk county, in every one of which the de
fendant was acquitted, notwithstanding the
fact that in most of the cases the evidence, it
is alleged, was sufficient to convict.
Farmers in Jefferson county are complain
ing of their cotton crops dying. The leaves
turn yellow and fall from the stalk, leaving
nothing but the bolls thereon. The cause is
attributed to the recent heavy rains, followed
by hot weather.
Dick Xellycliffe. a colored lad, of Tallahas
see. took his gun and went out one night last
week to shook the man who was stealing
Judge Gwytm’s watermelons. He got to nod
ding, fell off the fence, discharged his gun and
shot off one of his own hands.
At Pensacola. Saturday, Wm. Pitapaw, one
of the crew of the American schooner Blanch
Allen, was drowned iu the bay Mt the end of
the railroad wharf. Pitapaw attempted to
walk ashore across a narrow plank that
reached from the vessel to the wharf, and,
missing his footing, fell into the water and
sank immediately.
It seems that Sir Cecil E. Byrne, who was
put in jail at Palatka, recently, to await the
next term of the Circuit Court on a charge of
obtaining money under false pretense, is
utterly unknown at the hank in London
where he claims to have had a deposit for
years, and there is little reason now to look
for “his unde, Sir Thomas Brassey, of the
yaclit Bunbeam.”
When Col. A J. Lane, of Macon, reached
Astor on his way up from Florida last week,
his hand aatehel, containing some razors and
other toilet articles, was stolen, Cajit. W T . J.
Jarvis, of the St. John’s Railroad, succeeded
by telegraphing in having the thief captured
and lodged in jail at Ocala. He proved to be
a negro who had come up on one of the boats.
He sold the razors and hid the satchel under
some brush. It now turns out that the thief
wrote a note to his wife while in jail, bidiling
her an affectionate farewell, and with his
handkerchief hung himself to the door of the
jail.
At a meeting of the Board of Pilot Commis
sioners of Jacksonville, an affidavit was read
from the Captain of the schooner Charles 11.
Wolston, which was grounded on the beach
on May 31, charging Capt. R. D. Gordon, the
pilot in charge, with negligence of duty, and
with deserting the vessel after she had
grounded. Alter considering all the facts
before them tlie board has decided to suspend
Capt. Gordon for th rty days for negligence
in attempting to bring the Vessel in over the
bar after the tide bad turned and was run
ning out. and further suspend him for sixty
days for leaving the vessel after she hail
grounded, and not going back to assist in
saving her. The action of the board was
unanimous.
Crescent City, Florida, correspondence
Mousing Xews, July 17: For the sake of suf
fering humanity in and around Crescent Cilv.
will you please' “cry aloud and spare not,”
and tell to the M. l's. (medical doctors—not
mule drivers,) that Crescent City and vicinity
is in need of a resident physician? There is
not one within five miles of the place: some
will tell you there is not one nearer than
Palatka. thirty miles distant. A doctor who
would take nphis alxxle here winter and sum
mer, if worthy of the title of doctor, could do
a good business. Last winter Dr. S. L. B.
(Brian) came here in Noyembcr and left in
May, and l am told by a reliable party
that he coined $1,900 during that
time.—Yesterday I heard a man of means
begging a doctor who has retired from the
practice of medicine to go and see his sick
wire, but that man had to go back home with
a miserable, disappointed heart and depend
on the suggestions of the good, motherly old
ladies of ihe neighborhood for medical advice
and counsel. To-day a young lady is taken
suddenly ill, doctor sent for, but says he “has
quit practicing medicine,” aud does not go.
v\ e want a good, experienced doctor, one
that understands his profession—not too ex
travagant or proud; one who can live
on a moderate income for a few years.
And there is no reas n why a doctor may not
build up an orange grove along with his prac
tice. We da not want a fop or a quack, but
our hands and hearts are open to a good, com
mon-sense doctor who will settle among us
and s tny here monster and winter. We have
manv visitors here in the winter, a large pro
portion of them invalids, but we have more
s ckne.-s among those resident here during
summer and fall.
Politics in the State.
There was a mass meeting held at Owen’s
Ferry, Camden county, on July 15, and the
following resolutions, offered by Col. Duncan
L. Clinch, were adopted:
Rttolrtl, That we approve of and indorse
Ihe administration of His Excellency Gov.
McDaniel, and would be pleaded at his re
election, and that Mr. Robert Thompkins and
His Honor Judge J. M. Arnow be appointed
delegates to attend the Gubernatorial Con
vention.
K**olrtl. That as there is nothing in the
platform of either the Republican or Demo
cratic party that affects the interests of the
colored people, in a greater or less degree,
than our own. we cordially invite them to
unite with us in the election of honest and
capable officials, and we urge upon them the
vital imjxirtance of electiug a Jienator and
Representative, who will have influence in the
Legislature and who are pledged to secure all
the aid the State can give to the cause of edu
cation.
The following delegates and alternates were
elected to attend the Congressional Conven
tion :
Delegates—Rufus S. Lang, Ksq., Joseph H.
Scarlett, Esq.
Alternates—John W. Foster, Esq., Capt. W.
H. McGowan.
After the adjournment of the meeting
speeches were made by Col. Ira E. Smith, of
Brunswick, and John C. McCarthy, of Tar
l>oro.
Florida's Metropolis.
Jacksoxvit.le. Fla., July 18.—The two
city Democratic clubs have consolida
ted. They have a large membership, and
pr&pcss to accomplish substantial work
during the campaign. Three promi
nent Republicans, Cheney, United
States District Attorney, Egan, Col
lector of Internal Revenue, and
Shipman, a former Presidential elec
tor, declare through the papers their
purpose not to lollow J\>pe into the Inde
pendent camp, and thev will not support
him if indorsed bjr the Republican State
Convention. Many other influential per
sons of the same party express a similar
intention.
Reilly, who was killed by a rattlesnake
ip Rew York was here several
months last winter in charge of a side
show.
Not a single death baa bean recorded in
the city since last Saturday.
POBSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE.
Very Satisfactory in Prostration.
Dr. P. P. Gilmartin. Detroit, Mich.,
says: “I have fouud it very satisfactory
iu its effects, notably in the prostration
attendant upon alcoholism.”
BLAINE’S ACCEPTANCE.
THE TARIFF MADE ITS MOST
PROMINENT TOPIC.
Its Relations to the Different Avoca
tions of the Nation Reviewed From
the Protective Standpoint—The Writer
Explains His Foreign Policy—How the
South Stands In the Writer’* Estima
tion—Civil Service Reform, Mormon
ism, tt\e Currency and Other Subjects
Not Overlooked.
Boston, Mass., July Is.—Hon. James
G. Blaine’s letter formally accepting his
nomination by the National Republican
Convention for the Presidency of the
United States was made public to-day and
is, in full, as follows:
„ A t orst A. Mt .. July U 18-4.
Thf Hon. John B. Ifendtraon and othera of tha
Committee, etc., etc.:
Gentlehes—ln accepting the nomination
for the Presidency tendered me by the Re
publican National Convention, I beg to ex
press a deep sense of the honor which is con
ferred and of the duty which is imposed. 1
venture to accompany the acceptance with
some observations upon the questions in
volved iD the contest—questions whose settle
ment may affect the future of the nation
favorably or unfavorably for a long series of
years.
In enumerating the issues upon which the
Republican party appeals for popular support,
the convention has been singnlariv explicit
and felicitous. It has properly given the
leading position to the industrial’interests of
the country as affected by the tariff on im
ports. On that question the two political par
ties are radically in conflict. Almost the first
act of the Republicans, when they came into
power in ifiil, was the establishment of the
principle of protection to American labor and
to American capital. This principle the Re
publican party has ever since steadily main
tained, while on the other hand the Demo
cratic party in Congress has for fifty years
persistently warred upon it. Twice w’lthin
that period our opponents have destroyed
tariffs arranged for protection, and since the
close of the civil war. whenever they have
controlled the House of Representatives, hos
tile legislation lias been attempted—never
more conspicuously than in their principal
measure at the late session of Congress.
THE TARIFF QUESTION.
Revenue laws are in their very nature sub
ject to frequent revision in order that they
may lie adapted to changes and modifications
of trade. The Republican party is not con
tending for the permanency of any particular
statute. The issue between the ttvo parties
does not have reference to a specific law. It
is far broader and far deeper. It involves a
principle of wide application and benifleent
influence, against a theory which ive believe
to lie unsound in conception and inevitably
hurtful in practice. In the many tariff re
visions which have lieen necessary for the
past twenty-three years, or which may here
after become necessary, the Republican
party has maintained and will maintain the
policy of protection to American industry,
while our opjionenta insist upon a revision,
which practically destroys that policy. The
issue is thus distinct, well defined and una
voidable. The pending election may deter
mine the fate of protection for a generation.
The overthrow of the policy means a large
and permanent reduction in the wages of the
American laborer, besides involving the loss
of vast amounts of American capital invested
in manufacturing enterprises. The value of
the present revenue system to the people of
the United States is not a matter of theory,
and I submit no argument to sustain it. I
ouly invite attention to certain facts of offi
cial record which seem to constitute a demon
stration.
In the census of 1850 an effort was made, jfor
the first time in our history, to obtain a valu
ation of all the property in the United States.
The attempt was in; large degree unsuccess
ful. Partly from lack of time, partly from
prejudice among many who thought the in
quiries foreshadowed anew scheme of taxa
tion, the returns were incomplete ami unsat
isfactory. Little more was done than to con
solidate the local valuation used in the States
for purposes of assessment, and that, as every
one knows, differs widely from a complete
exhibit of all the property.
In the census of 1860, however, the work
was done with great thoroughness—the dis
tinction between “assessed” value and “true”
value being carefully observed. The grand
result was that the “true value” of ail ihe
property in the States and Territories (ex
cluding’slaves) amounted to $14,100,000,000.
This aggregate was the net result of the lalior
and the savings orall the people within the
area of the United States from the time the
first British colonist landed in 1607 down to
the year 1860. It represented the fruit of the
toil’of two hundred and fifty years.
After 1860 the business of the country was
encouraged and developed by a protective
tariff. At the end of twenty years the total
property of the United States, as returned by
the census of 1880, amounted to the enormous
aggregate of $44,000,000,0< 0. This great re
sult was attained, uotivithstanding the fact
that countless millions had in the interval
been wasted in the progress of a bloody war.
It thus appears that while ourpopulation be
tween 1860 and 1880 increased 60 per cent.,
tlie aggregate property of the country in
creased 214 per cent.—showing a vastly en
hanced wealth per capita among the people.
$30,000,000,000 had been addeu during these
twenty years to the permanent wealth of
the nation.
These remits are regarded by the older na
tion* of the world as phenomenal. That our
country should surmount the peril and the
cost of a gigantic war and for an entire pe
riod of twenty years make an average gain to
its wealth of $125,000,000 per month surpasses
the experience of all other nations, ancient or
modern. Even the opponents of the present
revenue system do not pretend that in the
whole history of civilization any parallel can
he found to the material progress of the
United States, since the accession of the Re
publican party to power.
The period between 1860 and to-day lias not
been one of material prosperity only. At no
time in the history of the United States has
there been such progress in the moral and
philanthropic field. Religious and charitable
institutions, school*, seminaries and colleges,
have been founded and endowed far more
generously than at any previous time in our
history. Greater and more varied relief has
been extended to human suffering, and tlie en
tire progress of the country in wealth lias
been accompanied and dignified by' a broad
ening and elevation of our national character
as a jieople.
Our opponents find fault that our revenue
system produces a surplus. But they should
hot forget that the latv has given a specific
purpose to which all of the surplus is profit
ably and honorably applied—the reduction of
the public debt and tlie consequent relief of
the burden of taxation. No dollar has been
wasted, and theonly extravagance with which
the party s’ands charged is the generous
pensioning of soldiers, sa lors and their
families—an extravagance which emlio ties
the h ghest form of justice in the recognition
and payment of a sacred debt. When ieduc
tion of ’taxation is to be made, the Republican
party can tie trusted to accomplish it in such
form as4vill most effectively aid the industries
of tlie nation.
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.
A frequent accusation by our opponents is
that the foreign commerce of the country has
stcadilv decayed under tHe influence of the
protective tariff. In this way they seek to
array the importing interest against the Re
publican party. It is a common and yet
radical error to confound the commerce of
the country with its carrying trade—an error
often committed innocently and sometimes
di signedly—lut an error so gross that it does
not di-tinguish between the ship and the car
go. Foreign commerce represents the exports
and imports of a country regardless of the
nationality of the vessel that may carry the
commodities of exchange. Onr carrying trade
has from obvious causes suffered many dis
couragements since 1860, but our foreign
commerce has in the same period steadily and
prodigiously increased—increased indeed at a
rate nd to an amount which absolutely
dwarf all previous developments of our trade
beyond the sea. From 1860 to the present
time the foreign commerce of the United
States (divided with approximate equality
between exports and imports) reached the
astounding aggregate of 124.0C0,000,000. The
balance in this vast commerce inclined In our
favor, but it would have been much larger if
our trade with the countries of America, else
where referred to, had been more wisely ad
justed.
It is difficult eveu to appreciate the magni
tude of our export trade since ISiiO, and we
can gain a correct conception of it only by
comparison with preceding results in the same
field. The total exports from the United
States from the Declaration of Independence
in 1776 down to the dav of Lincoln’s election
in 1860, added to all that had previously been
exported from the American Colonies' from
theiroriginal settlement.amounted to less than
$9,000,000,000. On the other hand, our exports
front iB6O to the el< so of the last fiscal year
exceeded $12,000,000,000 —the whole of it being
the product of American labor. Evidently
a protective tariff has not injured our
export trade when, under its influence, we
exported in twenty-four years forty per cent,
more than the to’tal amount that had been
exported in the entire previous history of
American commerce. A:1 the detaile, w’hen
analyzed, correspond with this gigantic result.
Tlic commercial cities of the Union never had
such growth as they have enjoyed since iB6O.
Onr enief emporium, the city of New York,
with its dependencies, has within that period
doubled her population and increased her
wealth five fold. During the same period the
imports and exports which have entered and
left her harbor are more than double in bulk
and value the whole amount exported bv her
between the settlement of the first D’utoh
colonv on the island of Manhattan and the
outbreak of the civil war in 1860.
AGRICULTURE AND THE TARIFF.
The agricultural interest is by far the larg
est in the nation, and is entitled in every ad
justment of revenue laws to the first consider
ation. Any policy hostile to the fullest de
velopment of agriculture in the United States
must be abandoned. Realizing this fact the
opponents of the present system of revenue
have labored very earnestly to persuade the
farmers of the United States that they are
robbed by a protective tariff, and the effort is
tiins made 'o consolidate their vast influence
in favor of free trade. Rnt happily the farm
ers of America are intelligent aud cannot be
misled br sophistry when conclusive facts are
before them. They see plainly that during
the past twenty-four years wealth has not
lieen acquired in one section or by one inter
est at the expense of another section or an
other interest. Theysee that the agricultural
States have made even more rapid progress
than the manufacturing States.
The farmers see that in 1860 Massachusetts
and Illinois had about the same wealth—be
tween $810,000,000 and $900,000,000 each—and
that in 1880 Massachusetts had advanced to
$2,600,000,000, while Illinois had advanced to
f 1,200,000,000. They see that New Jersey and
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1884.
lowa were just equal in population in 1860,
and that in twenty years the wealth of New
Jersey was increased by the aum of $850,000,-
000, while the wealth of lowa was increased
by the sum of $1,500,000,000. They see that the
nine leading agricultural States of the West
have grown so rapidly in prosperity that the
aggregate addition to their wealth since 1860
is almost as great as the wealth of the entire
country in that year. They see that the South,
which is almost exclusively agricultural, has
shared in the general prosperity, and that
ha Ting recovered from the loss an<i dev&eta
tion of war, has gained so rapidlv that its to
tal wealth is at least the double of that which
it possessed w 1860, exclusive of slaves.
In these extraordinary developments the
farmers see the helpful impulse of a home
market, and they see that the financial and
revenue system, enacted since the Republican
party came into power, has establisbetl and
constantly expanded the home market. They
see that even In the case of wheat, which u
our chief cereal export, thev have sold, in the
average of the years since’ the close of the
war, three bushels at home to one they have
sold abroad, and that in the case of corn, the
ouly other cereal which we export to any ex
tent, one hundred bushels have been used at
home to three and a half bushels exported.
In some years the disparity has been so great
that for every peck of corn exported one hun
dred bushels have been consumed in the home
market. The farmers see that in the increas
ing competition from the grain fields of Russia
and from the distant plains of India, the
growth of the home market becomes daily of
greater concern to them, and that its impair
ment would depreciate the value of every
acre of tillable land in the Union.
OUK INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Such facts as these touching the growth and
consumption of cereals at home give us some
slight conception of the vastness of the inter
nal commerce of the United States. Thev
suggest also that, in addition to the advan
tages which the American jieople enjoy from
protection against foreign competition, they
enjoy the advantages of absolute free trade
over a larger area and with a greater popula
tion than any other nation. The internal
commerce of our thirty-eight States and
nine Territories is carried on without let or
hindrance, without tax, detention or govern
mental interference of any kind whatever,
it spreads freely over an area of
3,500,000 square miles—almost equal In
extent to the whole continent of Euroiie. Its
profits are enjoyed to-day by fifty-six millions
of American freemen, and from this enjoy
ment no monopoly, is created. According to
Alexander Hamilton, when he discussed the
same subject in 1790, “the internal competition
which takes place does away with everything
like monopoly, and by degrees reduces the
prices of articles to the minimum of a reason
able profit on the capital employed.” It is
impossible to point to a single monopoly in the
United States that has been created or fos
tered by tlie industrial system which is upheld
by the Republican party.
Compared with our foreign commerce
these domestic exchanges are inconceivably
great in amount—requiring merely as one
instrumentality as large a mileage of railway
as exists to-day iu all the other nations of the
tvorld combined. These internal exchanges
are estimated bv the Statistical Bureau of
the Treasury Department to be aunuallv
twenty times as great in amount us our
foreign commerce. It is into this vast field
of home trade—at once the creation and the
heritage of the American jieople—that for
eign nations are striving by every device to
enter. It is into this field that the ojinonents
of our present revenue system would freely
admit the countries of Europe—countries into
whose internal trade we could not recipro
cally enter; countries to which we should be
surrendering every advantage of trade; from
which we should bo gaining nothing in re
turn.
EFFECT UPON THE MECHANIC AND THE
LABORER.
A policy of this kind would be disastrous to
the mechanics and working men of the United
States. W ages are unjustly reduced when an
industrious man is not able by his earnings to
live iu comfort, educate his children, and lay
by a sufficient amount for the necessities of
■ age. The reduction of wages inevitably con
sequent upon throwing ourhoin* market open
to the world, would deprive them of the
power to do this. It 4vould prove a great
calamity to our country. It would produce a
conflict between the poor and the rich, and in
the sorrowful degradation of labor would
plant the seeds of jiublic danger.
The Republican party has steadily aimed to
maintain just relations between labor and
cajntll—guarding with care the rights of
each. A conflict between the two has always
led in the past and will always lead in the
fuiure, to tlie injury of both. Labor is indis
pensable to the creation and profitable use of
cajiital, and capital increases the efficiency
and value of labor. Whoever arrays the one
against the other, is an enemy of both. That
jioltcv is wisest and beet which harmonizes
the two on the basis of absolute justice. The
Republican party has prole'ted the free labor
of America, so that its compensation is larger
than is realized in any other country. It has
guarded our people against the unfair compe
tition of contract labor from China and
may be called npon to prohibit the growth
of a similar evil from fiurojie. Jt Is ob-
Tiou-ly unfair to permit capitalists to make
contracts for cheap labor in foreign countries
to the hurt and disparagement of the labor of
American citizens. Such a policy (like ,hat
which would laave the time and other condi
tions of home labor exclusively in the control
of the employer) is injurious to all parties—
not the least'so to the unhappy persons who
are made tlie subjects of tlie contract. Tlie
institutions of the United States rest upon tlie
intelligence and virtue of all Hie people. Suf
frage is made universal as a just weapon of
selt-protection to every citizen. It is not the
interest of tlie republic that any economic
system should he adopted winch involves the
reduciion of wages to the hard staudard pre
vailing elsewhere. The Republican party
aims to elevate and dignify labor—not to de
grade it.
Asa substitute for the industrial system
which under Republican administrations has
developed such extraordinary prosperity, our
opponents offer a jioliey which is but a series
of exjieriments upon our system of revenue—
a policy whose end must be harm to our man
ufactures and greater harm to our labor.
Experiment in the industrial and financial
system is the country’s greatest dread, as sta
bility is its greatest boon. Even tlie uncer
tainty resulting from the recent tariff agita
tion in Congress lias hurtfully affected the
business of the entire country. Who can
measure the harm to our shops and our homesj
to our farms and our commerce, if tlie uncer
tainty of perpetual tariff agitation is to be
Inflicted upon tlie country? We arc in the
midst of an abundant harvest; 4ve are on the
ex'e if a revival of general prosperity, Nothing
stands in our way hut the dread of a change
iu tlie industrial svstem which has wrought
such 44'otiders in the last twenty years, and
which, with the jiower of increased capita),
will work still greater marvels of prosperity
in the twenty years to come.
OUR FOREIGN POLICY.
Our foreign relations favor our domestic de
velopment. We are at peace with the world
—at i>eace upon a sound basis with no un
settled questions of sufficient magnitude to
embarrass or distract us. Happily removed
by our geographical position from participa
tion or interest in those questions of dynasty
or boundary which so frequently disturb the
peace of Europe, wc are left to cultivate
friendly relations with all, and are free from
possible entanglements in the quarrelsof any.
The United Slates has no cause and no desire
to engage in conflict with any power on earth,
and"we may rest in assured confidence that
no power desires to attack the United States.
With the nations of the Western hemis
phere we should cultivate closer relations,
and for our common prosperity and advance
ment we should invite them all to join with
us in an agreement that, for the future, all
international troubles |in North or Sou li
America shall be adjusted by impartial arbi
tration and not by arms. This project was
part of the fixed policy of President Garfield's
administration aud it should in my judgment
he renewed. Its accomplishment on this con
tinent would favorably affect the nations
beyound the sea, and thus powerfully contri
bute at no distant day to the universal accep
tance of the philanthropic and Christian
principle of arbitration. The effect even of
suggesting it for the Spanish American States
has been most happy and has increased the
confidence of those people in our friendly dis
position. It fell to my lot as Secretary of
State in June, 1881, to quiet apprehension in
the Republic of Mexico, by giving the as
surance in an official dispatch that "there is
not the faintest desire in the United States for
territorial extension south of the Itio Grande.
The boundaries of the two Republics have
been established in conformity with the best
jurisdictional interests of both. The line of
demarcation is not merely conventional. It
is more. It separates a Spanish-American
people from a Saxon-American people. It
divides one great nation from another with
distinct and natural finality.”
We seek the conquests of peace. We desire
to extend onr commerce, and in an especial
degree with our friends and neighbors on this
continent. We have not improved our rela
tions with Spanish-America as wisely and as
persistently as we might have done. For
more than a generation the sympathy of those
countries has been allowed to drift away from
us. We should now make every effort to gain
their friendship. Our trade with them is
already large. During the last year our ex
changes in the Western hemisphere
amounted to 1350,000,00.) —nearly one
fourth of onr entire foreign com
merce. To those who mar be disposed
to underrate the value of our trade with the
countries of North and South America, it may
lie well to state that their population is nearly
or quite 50,010,000, and that, in proportion to
aggregate numbers, wc import nearly double
as much from them as we do from 'Europe.
But the result of the whole American trade
is in a high degree unsatisfactory. The im
ports during the past year exceeded $225/00,-
000, while the exports were less than $125,000,-
000, siiowing a balance against usof more than
$100,000,000. But the money does not go to
Spanish America. We send large sums to
Europe, in coin or its equivalent, to pay
Eurojiean manufacturers for the goods whicn
they send to Spanish America. We are but
paymasters for this enormous amount annu
ally to European factors—an amount which is
a serious draft, in every financial depression,
upon our resources of specie.
Cannot this condition of trade iu great part
be changed? Cannot the market for our pro
ducts be greatly enlarged? We have made a
beginning in onr effort to improve onr trade
relations with Mexico, and we should not be
content until similar and mutually advan
tageous arrangements have heen successive
lv made with every nation of North and South
America. While the great powers of Europe
are steadily enlarging their colonial domina
tion in Asia and A rica it is the especial pro
vince of this country to improve and expand
its trade with the nations of America. No
field promi--es so much. No field has been cul
tivated so little. Our foreign policy should be
an American policy in its broadest’ and most
comprehensive sense—a policy of peace, of
friendship, of commercial enlargement.
The name of American, which belongs to ns
in onr national capacity, must always exalt
the just pride of patriotism. Citizenship of
the republic most be the panoply and safe-
guard ol him who wears it. The American
citizen, rich or poor, native or naturalized,
white or colored, must everywhere walk se
cure in his personal and civil rights. The re
public should never accept a leaser duty, it
can never assume a nobler one than the pro
tection of the humblest man who owes it Toy*
alty—-protection at home, and protection
which shall follow him abroad into whatever
land he may go npon a lawful errand.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
I recognize, not without regret, the neces
sity for speaking of two sections of our com
mon rountiw. But the regret diminishes
when I see tnat the elements which separated
them are fast disappearing. Prejudices have
yielded and are yielding, while a growing cor
diality warms the -Mmthem and Northern
heart alike. Can anyone doubt that between
the sections confidenceffind esteem are to-day
more marked than at *cv ptrkxl in the sixty
years preceding the elation of President Lin
coln? This is the result in part of time and
iu part of Republican principles, applied
under the favorable conditions of uniformity.
It would be a great calamity to change these
influences under which Southern common
wealths arc learning tj vindicate civil rights,
and adapting themselves to the conditions of
political tranquillity and industrial progress.
If there be occasional and violent outbreaks
in the South against this peaceful progress,
the public opinion of the country ngtrdi
them as exceptional and liopefullv trusts that
each will prove the last.
The South needs capital and occupation,
not controversy. As mnch as any part of the
North, the South needs the full protection of
the revenue laws which the Republican party
oilers. Some of the Southern states have al
ready entered upon a career of industrial de
velopment ami prosperity. These, at least,
should not lend their electoral votes to de
stroy their own future.
Any effort to unite the Southern States ujnm
issues that grow out of the memories of the
war, xvill summon the Northern Stares to com
bine in the assertion of that nationality xvhich
was their inspiration in the civil struggle.
Amt thus great energies which should he uni
ted in a common industrial development will
be wasted In hurtful strife. The Democratic
party shows itself a foe to Southern prosperity
by ai44 ays invoking and urging Southern jxi
ntical consolitlation. Snell a policy quenches
tlie rising instinct of patriotism in the heart
of the Southern youth: it revives and stimu
lates prejudice; it substitutes the spirit of bar
baric vengeance for the love of iicace, pro
gress and harmony.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.
The general character of the civil service
of the United States under all administra
tions has been honorable. In the one supreme
test—the collection and disbursement of rev
enue—the record of fieldity has never keen
surpassed in any nation. With the almost
fabulous sums which were received and jiaid
during the late war, scrujiulous integrity was
the jirevailing rule. Indeed, throughout that
trying jjeriod it can lie said to the honor of the
American name, that unfaithfulness and dis
honesty among civil officers were as rare ns
misconduct and cowardice on the field of bat
tle.
The growth of the eouutry has continually
and necessarily enlarged the civil service,
until noxv it includes a vast boily of officers.
Rules and methoilsof appointment which pre
vailed when the number was smaller have
been found insufficient and impracticable,
and earnest efforts have been made to sepa
rate the great mass of ministerial officers
from partisan influence aud jicrsonal control.
Impartiality in the mode of appointment to
be based on qualification, ami security of
tenure to be based on faithful discharge of
iluty, are the two ends to lie accomplished.
The public business will lie aided by separat
ing the legislative branch of the government
from all control of appointments and the
Executive Department will be relieved bv
subjecting appointments to fixed rules anil
thus removing them from tlie caprice of
favoritism. But there should be rigid obser
vance of the law which gives in all cases of
equal competency the preference to the
soldiers who risked their lives in defense of
the Union.
I entered Congress in 1863, and in a some
what prolongcil service I never found it expe
dient to request or recommend the removal of
a civil officer except in four inetanccß,and then
for non-political reasons which were instantly
conclusive with the appointing jiower. The
officers ia the district, appointed by Mr. Lin
coln in 1861 upon the recommendation of my
predecessor, served, as a rule, until death or
resignation. I adopted at the beginning of
my service tlie test of competitive examina
tion for appointments to West I’oint and
maintained it so long as I had the right bv
law to nominate a cadet. In thecascof many
officers I found that the present law xvhich
arbitrarily limits the term of the commission
offered a constant temptation to changes for
mere political reasons. 1 have publicly ex
pressed the belief that the essential modifica
tion of that law would bo in many resjiects
advantageous.
My observation in the Department of State
confirmed the conclusions or mv legislative
experience, and impressed me xvith the con
viction that the rule of impartial appointment
might with advantage bocarviod beyond any
existing provision of the civil service latv. It
should ue applied to upjiointments in the Con
sular service. Consuls should be commercial
sentinels—encircling the globe with watch
fulness for their country’s interests. Their
intelligence and competency become, there
fore, matters of greHt public, concern. No
man should be appointed to an American Con
sulate who is not well instructed in the his
tory and resources of his own country, and
in the requirements and language of com
merce in the country to which lie is scut. The
same rule should be applied even more rigidly
to Sac re ta ries of Legation in our iiplomatic
service. Tlie peojile have the right to the most
efficient agents in tlie discharge of public
business aud tlie appointing potter should re
gard tliis as the prior and ulterior considera
tion.
THE MORMON QUESTION.
Religious liberty is the right of every citi
zen of the republic. Congress is forbidden
by the constitution to make any law “respect
ing the establishment of religion, or prohibit
ing the free exercise thereof.” For a century,
under this guarantee, Protestant and Catholic,
.Jew and Gentile, have worshiped God ac
cording to the dictates of conscience. But
religious liberty mnstnotbe perverted to the
justification of offenses against the law. A
religious sect, strongly intrenehed in one of
the Territories of the Union, and spreading
rapidly into four other Territories, claims
the right to destroy the great safeguard and
muniment of social order, and to practice as a
religious privilege that which is a crime pun
ished with severe penalty in every State of the
Union. The sacredness and unity of the
family must be preserved as the foundation
of all civil government, as the source of
orderly administration, as the surest guaran
tee of moral purity.
The claim of the Mormons that they are
divinely authorized to practice polygamy
should no more bo admitted tiian the claim o'f
certain heathen tribes, if they should come
among us, to continue the rite of human sac
rifice. The law does not interfere with what
a man believes; it takes cognizance only of
what he does. As citizens, the Mormons are
entitled to the same civil rights as others,
and to these they must be confined. Polyga
my can never receive national sanction or
toleration by admitting the community that
upholds it as a State in the Union. Like
others, the Mormons must learn that the lib
erty of the individual ceases where the rights
of society begin.
OUR CURRENCY.
The p oplc of the United States, though
often urged and tempted, have never seri
ously contemplated the recognition of any
other money than gold and stiver—and cur
rency directly convertible into them. They
have not done so, they will not do so, under
any necessity less pressing than that of des
perate war. The one special requisite for the
completion of our monetary system is the
fixing of the relative values of silver and gold.
The large use of silver as the money of account
among Asiatic nations, taken in connection
with the increasing commerce of the world,
gives the weightiest reasons for an interna
tional agreement in the premises. Our gov
ernment should not cease to urge this measure
until a common standard of value shall be
reached and established—a standard that shall
enable the United States to use the silver from
its mines as an auxiliary to gold in settling
the balance of commercial exchange.
THE PUBLIC LANDS.
The strength of the Republic is increased by
the multiplication of land-holders. Our laws
il ook to the judicious encouragement of
1 settlers on the public domain, which
i henceforth be held as a sacred trust for
the benefit of those seeking homes. The tend
ency to consolidate large tracts of land in the
ownership of indiviouals or corporations
should, with proper regard to vested rights, be
discouraged. One hundred thousand acres of
land in the hands of one man is far less profit
able to the nation in every way than when its
ownership is divided among i,OOO men. The
evil of permitting large tracts of the national
domain to be consolidated and controlled by
the few against the many is enhanced when
the persons controlling it are aliens. It is but
fair that the public land should be disposed of
only to actual settlers and to those who are
citizens of the [republic, or willing to become
so.
OUR SHIPPING INTERESTS.
Among our national interests one languishes
the foreign carrying- trade. Jt was verv
seriously crippled in onr civil war, and another
blow was given to it in the general substitu
tion of steam for sail in ocean traffic. With a
frontage on the two great oceans, with a
freightage larger than that of anv other
nation, we have every inducement to" restore
our navigation. Yet the government has hith
erto refused its help. A small share of the
encouragement given by the government to
railways and to manufactures, and a small
share of the capital and the zeal given by otir
citizens to those enterprises, would have car
ried our ships to every sea and to every port.
A law just enacted removes some of the bur
dens upon our navigation and inspires hope
that this great interest may at last receive
its due share of attention. All efforts in
this direction should receive encouragement
SACREDNESS OF THE BALLOT.
This survey of our condition as a nation re
minds us that material prosperity is but a
mockery if it-, does not tend to preserve the
liberty of the people. A free ballot is the
safeguard of republican institutions, without
which no national welfare is assured. A pop
ular election, honestly conducted, embodies
the Tery majesty of true government. Ten
millions of voters desire to take part in the
pending contest. The safety of the repub
lic rest* upon the integrity of the ballot,
niton the seenrity of suffrage to the citi
zen. To deposit a fraudulent vote is no worse a
crime against constitutional liberty than to
obstruct the deposit of an honest vote. He
who corrupts suffrage strikes at the very root
of free government. He is the arch enemy of
the republic. He forgets that in trampling
upon the rights of others he fatally imtieril*
his own rights. “It is a good land which the
Lord our God doth give ns,” but we can main
tain our heritage only by guarding with vigil
ance the source of popular power.
I am, with great respect, your obedient ser-
Janes Q. Blaine.
A STORY OF THE RESCUE.
SERGT. LONG FIRST TO HEAR
THE LAUNCH’S WHISTLE.
Almost too Weak to Answer the Wel
come Signal—Connell so Weak as to be
Unable to Kealize his Good Fortune
for Several Days—Sergt. Fredericks
Describes the Heartrending Death
Artist Rice—Plans of the Rescuing
Fleet.
St. John, N. F., July 18.—Sergeant
L°ng, of the Greely party, who was the
first to respond to the welcome tone of
the steam whistle, says that he and Ser
geant Brainard were the first to hear the
sound and they helped each other to
crawl out of the tent.
When Sergt. Long got clear of the entangle
ment of the tent which had been swept to tha
ground lie rose to his feet with great difficultv
and succeeded in clamliering up to a rock that
gave the most extensive view in that neigh
borhood. Sergt. Brainard went back, but
Sergt. Long stayed, looking in everv direction
for some strange object. At iength’ he saw an
unwonted sight, a large black object aliout a
mile distant, which at flrst looked like a rock,
but he knew that there was none there.
Suddenly the steam launch changed its course
and Sergt. Long recognized the ajiproach of the
rescuers. He came down from the rock, went
towarils the camp, raised a flag pole aud flag
which had been blown down, and held it for
about two minutes till liis strength gave out,
and it fell again to the ground. He then ad
vanced totteringly in tlie direction of the lit
tle steamer, and soon tlie warm hand of Capt.
Ash had grasped his in greeting.
CONNELL TOO WEAK TO REALIZE IT.
Maurice Connell, who is still excessively
weak, said that for some days after his rescue
he had no recollection of anything that trans
jnred. lie did not hear the atvakeuing scream
of the whistle. When Ins comrades shook him
from his jirostrate jxtsition ip the camp and
told mm that succor was at hand, he w ildly
exclaimed, “For God’s sake, let me die in
peace.” A teaspoonful of brandy applied
*• Ilis Bps called back the fleeting
life-spark, for Connell could not have
survived more than a few hours,
lie was by far tbs weakest survivor,
ami the strongest must have succumbed in
forty-eight hours. The storv told by Connell
from his recollection of their starvation ex
perience is simply heartrending—how they
burned the hair off their seals, cut them into
strips, boiled them into a stew and ate vora
ciously of them till their stomachs rebelled
ami nausea aud weakness ensued.* In several
cases nature gave no call for twelve, fifteen
and eveii eighteen days, and then a bloody
hemorrhage and consequent weakness ensued,
jirostratiug the victims for several days.
FIGHTING AGAINST FREEZING.
The difficulty of keepipg heat in the body
was great. The rule of tlie camp was to
permit no one to sleeji longer than ttvo hours.
He was awakened roughly and called up to
shake himself, heat his hands, pound his feet
and restore circulation. This was found
absolutely necessary to jirevent, torpor and
possible death, the usual accompaniments of
intense cold.
Commander Sohley has received instruc
tions from the Secretary of tlie Navy to remain
at St. John till there are twelve iron caskets
constructed to receive the bodies of the de
ceased explorers. The survivors are all doing
well, but are still weak and suffer from nerv
ous prostration. Lieut. Greelv has improved
front 120 pounds weight on June S2 to 189
pounds to-dav. Sergt. Brainerd and tlie
others are jiulling up proportionately. The
tt eather here is delightful and all that could
be desired for the sufferers, t he mercury rang
ing from 65 to 75 degrees. Great sympathy is
evinced by all classes here alike for the sur
vivors and the dead, and every token of
respect is manifested for them.
A SOMBRE SCENE.
The Thetis and Rear, as they ride quietly
at anchor in the harbor, wear a sombre and
mournful appearance, with the flags of the
United States at half-mast. The United
States war ship Alert arrived here at 8
o’clock to-night. Her detention was caused
by a fog and a search for the other ships of
the squadron. All on hoard are well. ,
Sergeant Julius R. Fredericks relates
mournfully the tragic story of George Rice,
the artist of the exjiedition. Ajiril 6 Rice
and Fredericks volunteered to leave
the camp to jiroceed a dis
tance of ttventy-fivc miles for
some meat that was cached near Cape Isa
bella. They had a sled, rifle, and a hatchet,
and provisions for five davs. They traveled
for three days, hut failed lo’flnd the cache. On
the way to their camp Rice got weak and
gave uj>. He was attacked by the bloody
flux, which gradually wore him down. He
succumbed, and was interred in au ice grave.
Fredericks camped out that night under the
fragment of a boat, and the next day
rev (sited his comjianion to |>ay
the last tribute to tlie remains.
Fredericks retained sufficient strength to drag
the stedge back to tlie camp, where heencoun
tered more woe in the form of Lockwood and
another. The cached meat that Fredericks
and Rice were in search of was brought by
them on Ajiril 6 from Cajie Isabella and aban
doned the next day. Rice was the life of the
i.irty, full of hope, buoyancy and energy, and
lis death was a terrible blow to them. He
died in a brave struggle to prolong their ex
istence.
CARING FOR THE SURVIVORS.
Washington, July 18.—Rear-Admiral
Nichols, Acting Secretary of the Navy,
and Gen. Ilazen, Chief Signal Officer, had
a conference to-day, at which it was con
cluded to suggest to Commander Schley
that he bring the survivors of the Greely
party from St. John to Portland, Me.,
where they can remain until better pre
pared to stand a change of climate. Their
families can join them at Port, and, if so
desired. The vessels of the expedition
will remain at St. John several days.
A TEXAS WHOPPER.
lynchers Shoot a RavDher Fifteen
Times, and leave Him for Dead, but
He Gets Up and Escapes.
Galveston, Texas, July 18.—A Rich
mond special says: “On Wednesday as
Haffnah Burton, aged twelve years, was
returning lrom school, she was met by
Webb Hetler, an ex-convict, who at
tacked, outraged and then killed her,bury
ing her body in John’s creek, eight
miles from here. Shortly alter the girl’s
clothes were found, torn, muddy and
bloody. Learning that Hetler was
seen running from the plaee a short
time before, neighbors made a
search and arrested him. He
confessed, and took the party where he
had buried the body. Officers started for
Richmond with the prisoner. They tied
his hands behind him, and put a rope
around his neck. They were met by an
infuriated crowd, who took the prisoner,
tied him to a tree, and shot him fifteen
times, when he fell apparently dead.
They took the rope off and left’himfor
dead. After the party had left, Hetler got
up, went home, dressed his wounds, and
left. On Thursday morning the Coroner
went out to hold an inquest, but the re
mains had disappeared. The officers are
now hunting for the corpse.”
LABOR TROUBLES.
Republican Friendship for the Work
ingman Proved a Farce.
Pittsburg, July 18.—A Scottdale spe
cial says: “The Workingmen’s Protec
tive Association of the Connellsville coke
regions held a convention yesterday, at
which 44 delegates, representing the prin
pal coke works of the region, were in
attendance. Among the resolutions
adopted wasrtne boycotting the Philadel
phia I’ress and Calvin Wells, a Blaine
Presidential elector-at-large on account of
discharging members of the Typographi
cal Union, and refusing to employ any
such men.
strikers giving in.
Another break occurred in the river coal
miners’ strike yesterday by the resumption
of Brown & Co.’s pits. ' Two other pits
started in the third pool at a reduction
last evening. It is a foregone conclusion
that victory is not for the strikers. Sec
retary Flannery says that if the miners
should not ijiake their point the strike
would be money in their pockets.
THE HOCKING VALLEY TROUBLES.
Columbus, 0., July 18.— There is no
change of consequence in the condition of
the strike in the Hocking Valiev. Twen
ty-five of Pinkerton’s detectives have
been placed on trial at New Straitsville
for usurping the plaee of the local police.
A decision in the case wiii be given Sat
urday morning.
J. Hawley Douglas!) Shot.
Charleston, July 18.—A special from
Cheraw, S. C., says: “Information has
just been received here that J. Hawley
Douglass, who was generally thought to
be the person who led the posse that
killed Bogan Cash, was shot down to-day
while at work in his field. He was shot
in the side, and the wound is considered
mortal. He claims to know who did the
shooting, but has not communnicated the
fact to anyone.”
Kellogg Bound to Scalp Walsh.
Washington, July 18.—William Pitt
Kellogg will write a letter to the At
torney General asking him to request the
District Attorney to bring before the
grand jury an indictment against John A.
Walsh for perjuries committed during the
star route trials and investigations.
Disease, Propensity and Passion, brings
Mankind numberless ailments. Foremost
among them are Nervousness, Nervous
Debility, and unnatural weakness of
Generative Oreans. Allen’s Brain Food
successfully overcomes these troubles and
restores the sufferer to his former vigor.
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' Allen, 315 First avenue, New York city.
GEORGIA’S NEW CAPITOL.
All the Bid* Rejected and Readverttse
meat Ordered.
Atlanta, July 18.—At a late hour last
night the tenor of the views expressed by
the Capitol Commissioners on the bids
and proposals presented for constructing
the new capitol was that nothing could
be done at the figures named, and that ali
that remained for them to do was to re ad
vertise for bid 9 and proposals, and in effect
to make another effort, trusting to luck
tor better success. When the board met
this morning the question was discussed
fully until the subject took shape as set
forth in the following resolution, which
was offered and unanimously adopted:
Besolved , That the board reject all the
b;ds received for furnishing materials aud
the construction of the State capitol.
dieselved further, That the Commission
immediately readvertise for other bids for
furnishing materials aud construction ot
the State capitol, to be received until
Sept. 4, 1884.
The necessity for this new advertise
ment arises from the fact that the aggre
gate amount of the local bids exceeded
the limit allowed bv the act. There
are many of the bids that are
practically within the limit of
the figures prescribed by architect Ed
ward Brooke. There are others, however,
that exceed his estimate considerably,
and there are several items of importance
upon which the commission bad no bids
at all. The commission of course could
not accept the bids that were satisfac
tory unless they knew positively that they
could put under contract the balance of
the building within the limit. It is a
noticeable fact that there are discrep
ancies iu the bidding which would indi
cate that the different bidders put
differeut constructions on the plans and
specifications aud the details of the work.
It is the purpose of the commission to
make these things exceedingly plain and
explicit, iu order that all bidders herealter
may bid on the same basis. The commis
sion has also had intimation that the
figures for some of the material can and
will be reduced in the next bidding. The
former advertisement for bids has been
remodeled and ordered inserted in
specified newspapers, as heretofore.
Commissioner Crane, in an interview’
with the News correspondent to-day,
said: “The lowest estimates made by the
contractors who put in bids to furnish the
material and do the work aggregate
aliout SBO,OOO over aud above the $1,000,-
000 that we have to work with, aud we
are going to keop within the appropri
ation. We don’t want to let the work for
more than $900,000. The remaining f 100,-
000 we want to hold as a reserve or con
tingent fund to pay other expenses with.
We are of the opinion that witli another
trial we can accomplish this. At any
rate we arc going to try again.”
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
Gov. McDaniel to-day commissioned as
Notaries Public in Chatham county the
following applicants: A. Bonaud for the
Fifth district; S. Kisinger lor the Fourth;
Waring Russell, Jr., for the Second; Johu
S. Tyson for the Third; Michael Naughtin
for tha First; James T. Buckner for the
Sixth; McLeod King for the Seventh, and
Van R. Winkler tor the Eighth. These
commissions are for four years trom date.
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT.
Work on the Shaft Proper to be Com
pleted by Sept. 1.
Washington, July 18.—Capt. Davis
reports that the two mills of the con
tractor are capable of turning out in six
weeks time all the stone necessary to
complete the Washington monument, and
work on the roof can therefore be com
menced by Sept. 1, as was first in
tended, with but little fear of delay from
unforeseen obstacles. This evening the
monument reached a height o( 488 leet,
leaving but one higher structure in the
world, the cathedral at Cologne, which is
525 feet high. During the first
season of the work of adding
to the structure which stood so long at a
height of 150, the monument was raised
to 170 feet, an increase of 26 feet in height,
and in cubic feet an increase of 37,719.
At the end of the second season, the mon
ument stood 250 feet high, an increase in
height of 74 feet, and in cubic feet of 80,-
010.80 feet. At the end of the third season,
the register shows the increase to have
been 90 feet in height and 77,700 cubic
feet. The next year the increase was 70
feet in height and 41,155.78 cubic
feet. By the 10th of August,
of the present and fifth year the shaft
proper will have been completed, and will
le 500 feet high, a gain of thirty feet in
height and 30,156 cubic feet. By compar
ing the increase in height with that in
cubic feet it will be seen that the latter
has been gradually diminishing in pro
portion. The gradual decrease in the
thickness of the stones can bo realized by
comparing the weight of the first course
which was laid, 26,630 tons, and the last
course, which will be 3,170 tons, the for
mer being between eight and nine times
as heavy as the latter.
FIRE SAVEEPS A TOWN.
Cedar Springs, Midi., Visited for
Third Time Within a Year.
Grand Rapids, Mich., July is, 8 p.
M.—For the third time in a year the
neighboring town of Cedar Springs is be
ing swept by fire. The conflagration
started this afternoon in a large lumber
yard. A high wind was blowing directly
towards the business portion of the town
at the time. Johnson & Link’s mill, the
Grand Rapids and Indiana Rail
road depot, the Cedar Springs
House, and the whole business
part of two squares and both sidep of
the main street of the town, are entirely
consumed. The Grand Rapids fire de
partment has arrived on the scene and is
endeavoring to save the residence portion
of the town. The new dwelling of D.
Ford has just been burned. Two men
and one boy were burned in a mill. One
man, a commercial traveler, was burned
in the Wager House. Their names have
not vet been learned.
All the business portion of Cedar
Springs, with the exception of a few
stores, and the Clipper office, were de
stroyed, and fully two-thirds of the resi
dences. The loss is estimated at from
$150,000 to $200,000, chiefly itr small
amounts well insured.
A NORTH CAROLINA HOTEL BURNED.
Charlotte, N. C., July 18.—The Heal
ing Springs Hotel, forty miles west of
here, burned this morning. The guests
escaped and most ot them saved their
personal effects. The building cost sls
-and was insured for SB,OOO.
PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN.
The Greenbackers for Butler—The Gen
eral Has a Conference.
Portland, Me., July 18.—The Green
back State Committee met here to-day.
It was voted to make a vigorous and
aggressive campaign, provided that
Butler is their candidate. The feel
ing expressed at the meeting
was that in all Greenback districts
the Greenbackers, as between Blaine and
Cleveland, were in favor of Blaine, partly
trom State pride and partly owing to the
feeling that Cleveland has no special
sympathy with the masses while Blame
has.
butler has a conference.
New York, July 18.—Gen. B. F. But
ler had a conference to-day at the Fifth
avenue Hotel with John F. Henry and F.
B. Thurber, for the purpose of discussing
Gen. Butler’s Presidential prospects.
Nothing could be learned as to the result,
and Gen. Butler wont to Boston by an
afternoon train.
Negroes Ratify' the Republican Ticket.
Baltimore, July 18.—A meeting to
ratify the nomination of Blaine and Logan
was held this afternoon by the colored
people at Irving Park, midway between
Baltimore and Washington. Several hun
dred were present, and speeches were
made by Fred. Douglass, ex-Congressman
Rainey of South Carolina, and William E.
Matthews of Washington. The platform
of the Chicago National Republican Con
vention was approved.
Snyder Renominated.
Charlestown. W. Va., July 18.—The
Democrats of the Third Congressional dis
trict met to-day and renominateu C P
Snyder. J. W. Harris was nominated
as Presidential elector.
Nominated for Congress.
Fergus Falls, Minn., July 18.—The
Democratic District Convention has nomi
nated Col. L. L. L. Baxter for Congress
by acclamation.
The Czar’s Trip Postponed.
St. Petersburg, July 18.—The Czar
has postponed his visit to Warsaw on ac
count of the discovery of the plot to blow
up the royal palace there. A number of
arrests have been made In connection with
the discovery.
CHOLERA’S CAPTIVE CITIES.
The Death Rate and Other Conditions of
the Plague Unchanged.
Toulon, June 18. —There were fourteen
deaths here from cholera last night.
The Mayor, who is suffering with the dis
ease, is improving. The Deputy Mayor is
also ill from cholera. The panic con
tinues, and the exodus of inhabitants is
increasing.
THE DEATHS at AND ABOUND MAR-
SEILLES.
Marseilles, July 18.—Twenty-three
deaths from cholera occurred here last
night.
Cholera has made its appearance at
Arles, situated forty-four miles from here.
Three deaths from the disease have oc
curred there.
Six deaths Iroin cholera were reported
here between 9 o’clock this morning and
noon.
There were 47 deaths from cholera here
during the 24 hours ending at 8 o’clock
to-night.
At 9:50 o’clock to-night there had been
58 deaths here from cholera during the 24
hours ended at that time.
Sixteen deaths from cholera occur ret l
hero between 10 o’clock this morning and
6 o’clock to-night.
PROTECTION FOR NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, Julv IS.—ln accord
ance with a resolution adopted by the
Board of Health July 9, the President ol
the Board yesterday issued quarantine
regulations as follows: “All vessels, to
gether with their crews, passengers ami
cargoes, on arriving at the several quar
antine stations in this State lrora the
ports of Tottlou and Marseilles and troiu
any port that may hereafter become in
fected with cholera shall lie detained for
obsertation and disinfection until such
time as, in tbo opinion of the Board, it
may be safe to hllow them to enter the
port of New Orleans. Quarantine officers
are specially charged to strictly
enforce this order.” The President of the
board to-day telegraphed Surgeon (Gen
eral Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital
service, requesting that a revenue cutter
lie detailed to cruise off the mouth of the
Mississippi river to warn oft’ all vessels
from Toulon and Marseilles, and direct
them to go into quarantine at Shin
Island.
LONDON PREPARING FOR AN EMER
GENCY.
London, July 18.—The health officers
ot Loudon have held a meeting for the
purpose ol organizing a hospital service
throughout the city, so that in the event
of the apjiearance ol cholera patients can
be cared for.
The ol Italy and Switzer
land have agreed to eo-operate in meas
ures to prevent the introduction of cholera
into their territories. Switzerland has
expressed her willingness to guard the
French frontier in order to examine all
persons and goods crossing it.
Hospitals for the accommodation of
cholera patients have been formed at
Uhiasso, Switzerland, and Luino, Italy.
AN INFECTED STEAMER AT QUARAN
TINE,
London, July 18.—The steamer Saint
Dunstan, from Marseilles, arrived in the
Mersey to-day. Two deaths from cholera
had occurred on board during the voyage.
The steamer was ordered to be placed in
an isolated position, and all communica
tion with the shore was forbidden.
THE CABINET CONSIDERS THE CHOLERA.
Washington, July 18.—A meting of
the Cabinet was held at the White House
to-day. There were present Secretaries
Frelinghuysen, Folger and Teller, and
Postmaster General Gresham. Secre
■ taries Chandler and Lincoln and Attorney
General Brewster are absent from the
city. The session was devoted te con
sidering the best method ol preventing
the introduction of cholera into the Uni
ted States.
PRECAUTIONS IN CANADA.
Ottawa, Ont., July IK.-The officials
of the Dominion have been instructed to
exercise extra vigilance and to carefully
inspect all vessels arriving from Mar
seilles, Toulon and London to prevent the
introduction of cholera.
BUSINESS FAILURES.
A Total of 315 for the Week Shown by
Dun & Co.’s Report.
New York, July 18.—The business
failures throughout the country, occur
ring in the last week, as reported to R. G.
Dun & Cos., number for the United States
192, and for Canada 23, or a total of 215,
against 198 last week, an increase of 17
failures. The casualties show an increaao
in the Western and Middle States, and
several important assumnicnts have taken
place iff New York city. In the remaining
sections of the country the failures are
below the average.
heavy failure in the clothing link.
Schedules in assignment of Carhart,
AVhitford & Cos., clothiers at Broadway
and Canal street, to Nathaniel Whitman
were filed in court to-day. They show
the liabilities to be $1,156,497,
the contingent liabilities $189,808,
the nominal assets $1,510,184 and
the actual assets $911,562. The prin
cipal creditors of the firm are Martin &
Leack, $266,660; Lesher, AVhitman & Cos.,
$48,381; vhe National Citizens’ Bank, $20,-
000, anrl the estate of Thomas F. Carhart,
$361,059. Among the contingent liabilities
are the National Broadway Bank, $40,438;
the National Citizens’ Bank, $45,124, and
the Ninth National Bank, $82,246.
HEAVY DEEDS,
Indianapolis, July 18.—Ingrain & A.
E. Fletcher & Sharpe have deeded
property to trustees for the benefit of
their creditors to the amount of $450,000.
A RUN ON A HANK.
There was a run yesterday on the small
banking bouse of A. & J. C. S. Harrison.
Depositors were paid only a portion of
their checks. Mr. Harrison refused pay
ment of clearing house checks to the
amount of $27,000, and was ruled out of
the association. The house did not open
its doors this morning. No statement is
obtainable yet. There are about 4,000 de
positors, some for considerable sums,
among them $60,000 of the city’s funds.
A COMPROMISE BEING ARRANGED.
Indianapolis, Julv 18.— A plan for re
organizing the suspended bank of
Fletcher & Thorpe was made public to
day. It is proposed that the principal
creditors take stock to the amount of
their claims aud smaller creditors
be paid fifty cents cash and re
ceive certificates of deposit for the
balance, payable in six and twelve
months. The proposal met with favor,
and in a few hours the the creditors, rep
resenting $250,000, agreed to the plan. If
the arrangement be perfected, Ingram
Fletcher will be manager of the new bank.
AN OLD CHICAGO FIRM FAILS.
Chicago, July 18.—Harmon Spruanee
& Cos., one of the oldest and most con
servative houses on the Board of Trade,
announced their suspension this after
noon, and said that the differences against
them would be adjusted as 60on as their
trade could be transferred. The firm is
understood to have been short about
1,000,000 busbels of corn, and to have lost
both on the ascending and descending
market. It declines to make any state
ment. but the liabilities are estimated at
SIOO,OOO. The firm has been in existence
25 years. Harmon Spruanee. the head of
the house, was once President of the
Board of Trade, and was rated as worth
$2,000,000.
ANOTHER FAILURE AT OVID.
Detroit, July 18.—Potter, Beattie &
Cos., dealer in general merchandise and
lumber, of Ovid, made an assignment to
day, The firm was a large one. This is
the third failure in two days.
LONDON’S MONSTER PARADE.
The Friends of the Franchise to March
to Hyde Park Six Abreast.
London, July 18.—The procession in
connection with the trades demonstration
at Hyde Park Monday, in favor of the
iranebise bill, will form on the Thames
embankment' at 3 o’clock in the afternoon,
and will march six abreast to Hyde
Park. It will be 'composed of
eight sections representing different
trades, and twelve sections comprising
various political clubs. There will lie
speaking at the park till 6 o’clock. The
addresses will be made from seven differ
ent platforms. The putting of resolutions
favoring the franchise bill will be an
nounced simultaneously from the differ
ent stands by bugle call, when it is ex
pected that they will be adopted unani
mously.
Jnslah Davis’ Trouble.
Joslah Davis, North Middletown, Ky.,
writes: I am now- using a box of your
Henry’s Carbolio Salve upon an ulcer
which for the past ten days has given me
great pain. This salve is the only remedy
I have found that has given me any ease.
My ulcer was caused by varicose veins,*
and was pronounced incurable by my
medical advisers. 1 find, however, that
Henry’s Carbolic salve is effecting a cure.
Beware of Counterfeits.
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A. SCORE OF NINE TO ONE.
the stars again defeat the
oglethorpes.
A uu et KMill M “ ke * Dupo.bl
r", 7 the Proportions of ths
Crowd Ruinously Small-The Scow
• VCD In Full Other Events In Din
mond and Oblong. **
Columbus, Ga., July 18.—Rain
the game between the Stars wid
Oglethorpes Unlay, only about one hun
dm! people witnessing it. The ball was
80 wet that it could not be bit very hard
the Stars only getting five base hit. off
Fanning, and the Oglethorpes two on
Lawrence. The errors of the Oglethornes
gave tho came away. The playing of
Rossi tor, Fanning and Colly for the Ogle
thorpes and Lawrence, Lallan and Swo l
for the SUra was good. The
play the Stars again to-morrow and will
then leave lor Augusta, where they will
play the Browns aud Clinches. * u
THE SCORE.
The score was as follows:
OGLETHORPES.
Hossiter, 2b * *’ o*' T %°' f' “i
tanning, p 4 0 0 0 2 ii
Gomm, c.f 4 o 1 l an t
anwfu.2U.Ac. a o o e s s 1
Scanlan, sg ... . 4 o ii ", 7 !
Colly, lb. .A <• 4 1 0 0 2 0 0
Cleary, St,. Jt lb. . 4 0 o 0 8 0 i
Delgn*n,lf • 0 o o 0 o J
Bohan, r.f 4 o 0 0 1 o 1
Tolal ’ 3,1 1 3 2 24 n io
STARS,
„ A ’ B ‘ K - 18. Til. r.o. A. K
Burk alow, r.f 5 ;l 2 j 0 o
Hamburg 2 b 5 2 o o o ? *
Uo ins. it,.... .1 0 0 0 7 0 0
Mdler. B.„ | , j , ! 5 “
Lawrence, p 4 0 0 0 I 8
Laffan, c 4 l o 0 12 4 ft
Gibson, r.f ii i io J ®
Daniel, Sl> 1 0 0 0 4 2 a
Swope, Lf... 4 1 11J01
’fetal 30 8 5 5 27 17 "s
SCORE BY INNINGS.
12345 0 780
Oglethorjics oooiooooo-l
Stars... 5 2 0 J 0 0 0 0 0-0
Time of game—One hour and flftv minutes.
Struck out—Fanning 4, Lawrence 8.
left on bases—Oglethorpes 8, Stars 5.
{ asset| balls—Blown 5, Collins I, Laffan I.
”'l'l pilches—Vanning*, Lawrence I.
I lies caught—Oglethorpes 10, Start 7.
fouls came lit—Oglethorpes I, Stars 8.
Out oo^-es—Oglethorpes W, Start 10.
Umpire—Clarence K. Walker, of Stars.
Games Elsewhere.
Washington, July 18.—Games of ball
were played to-day as follows:
At Jodianapolit—Toledo 1, Indianapolis 0.
AJ Alleghany 4, Washington 2.
Baltimore—Baltimore (Unions) 14, Kan*
1 A* Wilmington, Del.-Wilmington 5, Brook-
At Providence—Providence 5, New York 2.
At * ■ronton, N. J.—Reading 4, Trenton 28.
■A* New York-Athletic 0, Metropolitan 12.
AJ Cleveland, O.—Cleveland 11, Detroit 2.
At Buffalo—Buffalo 12, Chicago 7.
At Louisville—C incinnati ft, Louisville 5.
At Lancaster, Pa.—lronsides 12, York (Pa.;
Brighton Beach Races.
New York. July 18—The Brighton
Beach races to-day resulted as follows:
Must Race— For non-wlunors; one mile.
Logan won. with Regret second aud Hen.
Woolley third. Time 1:18.
•SKooNi, Rack— selling race; ono and one
eightli miles. Woodcraft won, with Black
Jack second and Tattler third. Time 1 ;68.
1 hihd Rack— Handicap; one and a quarter
miles. Arsenic won, with Dizzy Blonde
second. Time 2:13V
Foitkth Rack—For all ages; three-quarters
oi a mile. Clara 15. won, with Telemachas
second, ami Weasel third. Time 1:17V
Fifth Rack— Selling race; one and a half
miles over six hurdles. Voltaire won, with
ono bee second. Time 2:531.,.
The Egyptian Conference.
London, July 18.—In the House of
Commons this morning 'Mr. Gladstone
said that he hoped that Lord Granville,
the Foreign Secretary, would be able to
summon the Egyptian Conference to meet
on Tuesday next.
ANOTHER APPEAL FOR GORDON.
Berlin, July 18—Dr. BcbufelnfUrtb,
the well known African traveler, has
made an appeal to England to rescue
Gen. Gordon, who, he says, has been
abandoned. Ills condition is desperate.
He is defending his house against increas
ing numbers.
London. July 18—The Egyptian Con.
fcrence will resume its deliberations on
the basis of the report of the Technical
Commission, viz; A suspension of the
Egyptian sinking fund, a tempoxtu-y re
duction of from sto ti per cent, in the
Interest on the Suez canal shares held by
the English Government., a tax upon
property in Egypt held by foreigners, the
creation of a tooaceo monopoly, ana the
limitation of the lime of the occupation
of Egypt by the British array. * -
A Plague in theCav^g
St. Petersburg, Julyj <
has made its uppearance aTifliars, a city
ol Asiatic Russia, not far from Erzeroum,
and also at other stations of the Cau
casus. It was brought from Persia. The
sanitary cordon at ltoku has proved en
tirely useless, 800 personsffiaving died at
Bedra during the month of May. Prince
Dondoukoff Korsakoff has interdicted tho
Moslems of the Caucasus from making
any pilgrimages to their holy places.
IJtco and Cowboys Thirsting for a Fight.
Washington, July 18.— A communica
tion from Fort I,ewiß, Col., dated July 10,
says: “There is a very great probability
of trouble in this vicinity this summer
between tho Indians and the cowboys.
Two of the latter are now at this post
under medical treatment for serious
wounds received in a fight with the Utes
a few days ago. All the cowboys in tbs
country are vowing vengeance against
the Indians, and as the latter are almost
ajl well armed and desperate, it is not
difficult to predict a fight when they meet,
should Major Whiteside not be on the
spot to prevent it.”
Four Burled Alive in a Well.
Raleigh, N. C., July 18.—A well
which was being dug at the iactory of
Dukes & Son, at Durham, caved in to-day,
burying seven men, three of whom were
taken out. Two of them were badly In
jured. The bodies of the other lour re
main in the well. One of them, before he
died, could be heard begging for succor,
saying that the water had risen to his
neck, and that he was about to be
drowned. Duke paid $5 an hour to men
to dig to rescue the unfortunates.
An Express Messenger’s Crookedness.
Pittsburg, July 18.—Henry Bloom,
a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad express
messenger, was arrested to-day charged
with having stolen a package containing
SIO,OOO. The money was sent from Balti
more to Cumberland yesterday. Instead
of delivering it Bloom took the money
home and offered to divide with his bonds
men. The latter took the money and had
Bloom arrested as he was preparing to
leave.
Confirmed by the Fope.
Rome, July 18.—The Pope has confirmed
Father Schultz, of Philadelphia, as pro
rector of the North American College in
this city.
For other telegrams see fourth
page.
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