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'H'liT S&miminli doming
ESTABLISHED I*M. I
, II ESTILt, Editor and Froprietor. j
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
thj m:\vs of thk two states
ioLJ> IN PARAGRAPHS.
,;.,i Stan din* of Counties • Shown
. T Digest*—Speculation from
!?, , ri.(W-An Assignment at Carters
,ille the Business of the Augusta
Clearing Exchange.
GEORGIA.
r moving for a hook ami ladder
V. Johnston died at Columbus
j> rounty's next fiiir will c€lii>sc till
p <v. -ones.
* ] . ' - -mall gram .'rop will amount to
-9eh*.
, on of ex-Confederate soldiers
, ■' . n-zvl in Monroe county.
‘ v ~f the Georgia journalists have
", ' uu- from their Northern trip.
a!ue of the taxable pro|>erty of
* Jt,!->l,viO. There are 2,462
t or- the county.
, .;■! considerable damage at the
r ' , in works Thursday, and stunned
j,*!. , . i the workmen.
s . i...■ rr, of cartersville, made an
. • r . .t(k"lt of groceries last Mon-
Ci ’ Leake is the assignee.
].. i ,:.!i potter, pastor in charge of the
, ‘ ,ty circuit, died very suddenly last
e .jit fr. on cholera morbus.
v E , . r-j named Jack Jones was drowned in
x 1 | ..nd. at Jefferson, last Friday.
1. n bathing, but could not swim.
. protwrtyof Clay county is re
. r ; ss*>s 425, an increase of $64,940 in the
..at. Tne polls number 965, an increase
of 7•>.
T tax digest of klbert county shows
S. c polls—whites, 1,065; colored, 1,005. The
taxable pro pert v amounts to $1,459,419, an iu
cr ase of alxjut $12,000 over last year.
The total amount or taxable property ir.
- il ling county i- $2,4:13,420; increase during
*177,. : ;.i-t year, fUMB; total
r rt ’t.-c in two years, $406,766. Increase in
J -Til. r acres returned during the last two
years, ~-c|B acres.
The re< • ntly inaugurated clearing house
S v-- in n the’Augusta banks works like a
i an 1 gives great satisfaction, besides
f, tai ig business in a wonderful way. The
ex; - - through the clearing house for
j. . n.rc (766,916 11. One of the largest
1,,' . ■ -t la-long to the clearingjhouse.
TANARUS, s Tax lie -eirer’s books for Pierce county
t $77 i.927 total value of projicrty,
k i r..i. lonal tax. This is an increase
c-- ..-cer ino ,-and over last tear in the value
, erty. and this notwithstand
itk- * r. od of several saw mills and the
ii, , ~f several turpentine farms in
tliV-oU: •'
Pi orrespondenee News, Aug. 1:
TV ta- wn projiertv in Kastman re
• .r amounts to $133,643 against
.. t.i.r, showing an increase of
). -1! tne" value of the public buildiugs
pit l ■ gone up during the year were
increase would be several
ta.-Uss- : -l olars more.
A; Forsvt:: the residence of two widowed
vV-r-, '1 -audefer and Mrs. McAfee, was
s:-j r •" days and great excitement
IS boom efforts to discover
th . throwing were unsuccessful,
but * . i. •t iy learned that a little adopted
!i . Mr-. McAfee and a negro boy
wen- b.-- ], r.ts. Mischievousness was the
incentive.
Wavi • —r< True Citizen: A year or so
a; u .■ man of this county pitched a
mi-, a-- capital was a cur" dog and a
li -r- 11-. -e ng that his capital was short,
sw,; ! - •> ■ liable - dog for another cur
an : i ; -nut of lioot, and so on. until
a! the - tin -eason, his horse was fat, he
- in his lot, and a few bushels
of -n :ti - rib, leaving his crop clear of
all exi-eti-c-, but his dog had dwindled down
to a rat terrier.
' - v'.. ! correspondence News, Aug. 2:
Tester - Dr. J. f. Davis was about
m here, on his way back from
v - ipa::- and. he got out of his buggy to
i'. top. A heavy clap of thunder
In - horse, an'l the animal ran off,
lea i-: the d<- t->r. The horse carried the
me safe, five miles, and broke
nc; .ig-.ry nor harness.—The seasons are
in.- 1 section, crops are fair, but
nol: extra. Sugar cane is very poor lor
p.-i* is a-on of the year. The county is vefy
ht a thy at this time, hut the weather is very
warm.
Gret usboro /A-- * Journal: While crops
arc generally good in Grcetie county, here
s:i i ttn-re i- to he found some that reduce the
aii rag. The past three weeks have afforded
far -r- . -Kendid opportunity to clean their
crops _ and they have taken advau-
Ltf. Many are running over their crop
: • all me, and some have--laid by.” Fod
der [ will soon commence. On last
T - v w<- had tine rains. From reports
1 to havs been very general, and did
ti '. - the growing crops. Along the
ha o-orgia Railroad the benefits of
tL- ran will Ik? felt. Altogether the outlook
is very encouraging.
FLORIDA.
Tne tola, valuation of property in Madison
' - taken from the digest for 18*44, is
ii . u the town of Madison $130,600.
A i-.-rouis who have registered with
(. :erk-of the t ircuit Court this year are il
•' - ' ? r, 'g -b. red, and will not be allowed to
v i—re-registered after the first Mon
day it, October.
During a thunder storm at Waldo Tuesday
*'• r- the residence of James Weeks was
* tr x lightning. Besides damaging the
‘ : nr. Mr-. Weeks was prostrated and serl
-- he*:, though fortunatelv >he was
not injured a great ileal.
51. : -on AVir Fr,i: A petition asking the
pa- ! - * of a white woman, Georgian.! Abbott,
as convicted of muntermg her own
ct ust alter its birth, at the fad term of
L: . renit Court in 1 "b, and is now serving
out a life sentence in the chain gaug, has been
e-: - us by Dr. J. S. Hankins for circulation
in ; r • • immunity for signatures before being
fur trded to the Pardoning Board for its
Cot- ration. Dr. Hankins is the attending
PUT. ,tn of the Fiorida State prison, and
b. ws whereof be |>eaks when he says “every
fe> . humarntariatusm calls loudly for
her release.’ -
Politics in the State.
A-P- B-ll is a candidate for Mayor of
i■ ' ' rial Convention met in AVrights-
Tilie j esterday.
I‘r ■ n carried tho day in Frankluy’
c-,n: . Friday. The majority is estimated at
4jo.
A - A .. -:a. Friday. John S. Davidson was
n-'t :at. i by acclamation to represent the
r- - tit. District in the .-state Senate.
Kv-i; r. -entativeJ. L. Adderton wants to
•cr ' ter county again in the lower house
of: - :t- U-rislature. Hon. W\ A. WU
- 5."-••* -' presented the county last rear, is
*lso a candidate.
■ District Senatorial Convention
p ' AVaycro-s yesterday, sixty delegates
[' - r ' ' n! - 51- Wilcox, of Coffee coun
t ruinated by acclamation. Great
s --aud perfect harmony prevailed.
T - ret urns of the primary election,
Har; unty Thursday, are as follows:
ate, Thirty-first district, J. F.
v. G. MoCurrv, 773. For Repre
-7 p -B. It. Parker, 859; A. J. Mathews,
6tk. ’
- -7 the Democracy of Greene will
mass meeting for the purpose of
indidatea for the Legislature,
- - * legates to the Senatorial Con
; ■ " meets in Craw fonlville some
t '--'' - ' - -nth.
B. nt;- goes back to the old de’.e
-f _ All the delegates go unin
' : resolutions of commendation
J; -in regard to Col. Mitchell and
er. Aft.-r indorsing the na
- the meeting adjourue.l tine die.
A ls:no- race mas* meeting will lie held at
‘ i-t-utc in ijuitman next Tuesday to
r - - to the Democratic Conveu
j' hf i-e’.d in Atlanta. Aug. 13, ls*4, for
P' - <>f nominating candidates for
“ • an i 'tate House officers aDd select
e' r:U!c candidates for Presidential
,7, 7 A Democratic Executive Commit-
i r brooks county will be elected.
avhat bkcnswick wants.
C*d. Norwood’s Re; ly to the Demands
tor Assurance or His Exertions in its
Interests.
Ts- Brunswick Heraht, in a series oT
-. demands an assurance of Col.
sorw j that Brunswick shall be legis
kted '.,r. as far as his influence is con
rV on a basis of actual merit, re-
L. 1 ; of the jealousies and rivalries
- ! bairns have* so long subordi
■ that city and its harbor
‘ hipetitors, who imagine that
ukU W t 0 Brunswick means in-
L r r - ! them, and without such assur
!‘ •' ■ •? Herald cannot join in the grand
er CoL Norwood's selection.
a liihmng News reporter called upon
•- a rwi and, and, after jiointing out the
- • r flerring to his position, asked him
to say about the matter,
w ‘ ' -iib r them altogether premature,”
- ' ;f Fdy, “There is certainly no
j- 5 !, n f- r such a demand.
da- • Brunswick at an early
tit •' ‘ a wi, h her people. 1 intend
“... ■ interests of no part of the dis-
I‘‘D1 ‘‘ D sUfft r > a ®d 1 shall devote
- ' brnnswick so far as her inter
® Ll * a d attention in common with
eaiiii u, ' r I‘ art 01 the territory lam
f-aiiwi upon to represent.’'
GEORGIA’S CAPITAL.
Camp and Myler’s Cases In Court—Col
/ quitt in the Pulpit.
Atlanta, Aug. 2.— The cases of embez
zlement preferred against B. A. Camp and
Theodore Myler, the lormer acting Post
master and the latter Assistant Postmas
ter during the interval between the re
moval of Postmaster Conley and the ap
pointment of W.B. ATilson in the Atlanta
post office, were called to-day before Com
missioner Smith and continued until
Saturday. Myler was arrested several
days ago by’ Inspector Crawford, and
Camp was arrested upon his arrival here
yesterday, and both of them gave bond in
the sum of $2,000, Carl AVeinmeister
going security for them. To-day,
when brought before Commissioner
Smith, they were represented by Hopkirs
and Glenn, District Attorney Speer ap
pearing for the government. Two indict
ments were read against each of the de
fendants, one charging them with selling
stamps and envelopes and not accounting
for them, and the other lor disposing of
old paper and appropriating the proceeds
to their own use. AVhen the charges
were read Camp got up and made a state
ment that Frank Hatton, Assistant Post
master General, had given him carte
blanche to sell the old papers
that accumulated about the office dur
ing his administration and appropriate
the proceeds to anv purpose that he saw
tit, and that Hatton had told him that it
would not be necessary to take vouchers
tor the monev spent in that way. A9 the
post office laws are so explicit upon such
matters, the impression prevails about
the custom house that Camp is stating
what is not so. The News correspondent
is informed that in the expense account
rendered by Camp during his term of
| office, items that Camp says he purchased
; and paid for with lunds received from
the sales of old paper are charged
| for and properly allowed. The
: impression about the court room appeared
I to l*e that Camp had made a statement
- that Hatton would not ratify. The coun-
I sel for Camp got a postponement on the
' ground ot the absence of important wit
nesses, one of them being Pledger, who is
i out of the city, and Hatton, who is in
AVasbington. It is stated thatex-Postmas
i ter Conley and Joseph Nall are witnesses
against Camp and Myler. The indict
ments charge the defendants with having
gotten away with $143 95 for sales made
of old paper, postage stamps, stamped
envelopes and postal cards. Camp gave
bond in $2,000 in each case against him,
and Myler furnished security in the sum
of SI,OOO on each charge against him.
AVeinmeister signed the bond for both de
fendants. Camp and Myler are from Ohio
and for a long time have been connected
with the postal service. The latter now
holds some position in the department at
AA'ashington. and the former is Assistant
Postmaster at Boston. Their duties in
connection with the postal service here
until recently have been those of postal
inspectors.
COLQUITT TO PREACH.
Senator Colquitt is announced to preach
at the Third Presbyterian Church to
morrow morning.
The marriage of Joseph Thompson, Jr.,
to Miss Einma Mills is publicly an
nounced to take place ou Thursday after
noon next at St. Phillip’s Church. Invita
tions announcing this event were issued
to-day. Miss Mills is a daughter of Liv
ingston Mills, at one time a citizen ot
Savannah, and the groom to be is a mem
ler of the firm of Cox, Hill & Thompson,
of this city.
The funeral of Arch Orme, who died
yesterday, took place this afternoon from
the residence of J. M. Clarke.
The hotel firm of Hotchkiss & Cos,,
which was to have taken charge of the
Markham, will not go in till Wednesday
next. The new proprietors are first-class
hotel men, and, under their management,
the fine reputation of the house will be
maintained.
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Macon the Scone of the Commencement
of a Tragic Trial.
Macon, (5a., Aug. 2.— Newton Hutch
ins, Dock Edmondson and John Ryals
were bound over to-day by United States
Commissioner Erwin in the sum of SI,OOO
each to stand a committal trial next
Thursday to answer to the charge of
murdering Doc Hinson. All the parties
are white citizens of Wilkinson county.
Ryals was arrested last evening by
United States marshals and brought to
Macon. Hutchins and Edmondson came
to Macon this morning and delivered
themselves up to the authorities. The
case was brought into the United States
Court for trial because the prose
cution claimed that the defend
ants defied the State authorities,
who were afraid to make an arrest. This
the defendants denied. Joseph Jones, of
Twiggs county, represented the defend
ants. He will endeavor to have the case
transferred to the State courts for trial.
Hinson was waylaid one night recently
by three men in disguise, dragged from a
buggy, terribly beaten and then murdered,
and baited, and the grave plowed over.
Traces were afterwards found leading to
the grave where Hinson’s bloody body
was found. Various uegro witnesses are
willing to swear that they saw the
defendants in disguise. The prose
cution claims that Hinson had been
accused by Ryals of stealing a pair of
pants and money. Hinson was cleared of
the charge, which angered Ryals, who,
with Edmondson and Hutchins, then mur
dered ii inson. The trial to-day on the bond
excited great interest, as the defendants
are well-known citizens of Wilkinson
county. A large number of their triends
came to Macon to attend their trials.
Our Defenseless Harbor*.
Washington, Aug. 2.—The Chief of
Engineers of the army has received the
annual reports of all engineer officers in
charge of coast and harbor defenses.
They reiterate their assertions of last
year that the Atlantic coast and the lake
fronts are in a totally defenseless condi
tion. A majority of the defenses are said
to be lalling into decay and the arma
ment in most instances is so far behuid
the times as to be wortbless. Gen. New
ton, it is said, will, in his annual report,
ui ge provision for adequate protection of
the harbors by batteries and fortifications
of modern design.
WASHINGTON EXPOSED.
Col. Haines, of the Corps of Engineers,
has made his annual report on the fortifi
cations of the Potomac river to Gen.
Newton, Chief of Engineers. The forts
constituting the defense of the national
capital are Forts Washmgton and Foote,
situated on the Potomac, below the citv.
Both of these, Col. Haines savs, are in an
utterly useless condition. The construc
tion of Fort Washington was begun in
1816. The masonry is still in
good condition, but it is not adapted to
receive guns of modern style, or for de
fensive purposes against such guns. Iu
1872 it was intended to convert the demi
lune into a battery of modern construction
with guns of larger calibre. Platforms for
four of these guns were built and a maga
zine partially constructed, when work ;
was suspended for lack of funds. At the
present time the defenses at Fort Wash
ington consist of tour fifteen-inch
gun platforms without a para
pet in front of them and with
out magazines or guns mounted.
Fort Foote was constructed in 1862. No
improvements have been made within the
past ten years. There are five gun plat
forms laid, four in front and one in the
centre pintle. They are built of concrete
and granite and are serviceable. No
guns are mounted. The buildings are
constructed of perishable materia], and
are fast going to decav. Col. Haines asks
for an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the
next fiscal year for the improvement of
those two forts.
A Duel iu Louisiana.
New Orleans, Aug. 2.—A duel took
place yesterday at Cotton Port, near
Eolia, ’between Messrs. Ducote and Le
moina. The lormer wras dangerously
wounded in the lower portion of the ab
domen.
Jew* Driven Out.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.— The police
have expelled five Jewish merchants
from St. Petersburg who were residing
here without a permit.
CONFERENCE COLLAPSES.
THE POWERS FAIL TO SETTLE
THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.
Franco-Brltish Inability to Agree—The
Principal Cause of the Fruitleieness
of the Negotiations—England Left to
Work Out her Own Future in Conse
quence.
London, Aug. 2.—The Egyptian Con
ference met to-day at the foreign office,
and after a brief session adjourned sine
die without arriving at any agreement,
provisional or otherwise. This action is
regarded as tantamount to dissatisfaction.
In the House of Commons this afternoon
Premier Gladstone announced the failure
of the Egyptian Conference to arrive at
any conclusion.
Premier Gladstone said that the confer
ence had failed to attain the object for
which it had met. The delegates were
unanimous in their views representing
the prospective changes in Egypt, and
the necessity of a fresh loan, but England
and France differed irreconciliabiy re
specting the charges and receipts. France
refused to assent to any diminution of the
dividends payable under the law of liqui
dation. England was unable to accept
any plan which did not provide for neces
sary changes of administration.
The French plan, Premier Glad
stone said, would have entailed
financial confusion in Egypt. He ex
pressed the hope that the idea that the
government had not proposed to consti
tute an international control similar to
dual control might be altogether dis
missed. The government was unable to
consider any plan incompatible with
just and moderate, though firm govern
ment of Egypt. The conference had ad
journed indefinitely. The government
had no proposals, as yet, to submit to the
House. The Anglo-French agreement
had ceased to be in force, and England’s
responsibilities in Egypt had been greatly
increased.
THE CABINET MEETS.
Immediately after the adjournment of
the conference a meeting of the Cabinet
was held to discuss the result.
The Conservatives held a private and
unformal meeting after Premier Glad
stone had concluded his statement in the
House of Commons. The discussions that
ensued elicited marked difference of
opinion as to what should be the line of
attack. Many advised that no attempt
should be made to adopt a vote of censure,
the government’s refusal to yield to
France finding approval on both sides of
the House. No decision was arrived at.
The Liberal and Radical members are
satisfied with the collapse of the confer
ence as leaving England free banded. It
is said that Premier Gladstone will make
a proposition to carry out the English pro
posals without further reference to the
other powers.
Henry M. Stanley expresses the opinion
that Gen. Gordon requires no help from
England, and ascribes Gordon’s despond
ing' messages to bitterness. Stanley is
further ol the opinion that in order to
crush the slave trade, the slave dealers
will have to be approached from the
Congo.
FAVOR EL MAIIDI.
Cairo, Aug. 2.— At a preliminery meet
ing of the Bisharees a majority favored El
Mahdi. Much disputing was indulged in.
The chiefs are undecided as to what
course to take.
The Mudir of Dongola telegraphs that
he has sent Gen. Gordon’s letter to this
city. The messenger who brings the let
ter Avill arrive here on Aug. 17.
FRANCO-CHINESE SPARKING.
ltumors that the United Staten will be
Asked to Become an Arbitrator,
London, Aug. 2.-—A dispatch from Foo
Chow says that it is reported that China
and France have agreed to accept the ar
bitration of America lor a settlement of
their pending difficulties, but that the
matter remains uncertain.
The French yellow book was published
to-day, which gives the follewing infor
mation concerning the recent negotia
tions between France and China; France
at first demanded of China an indemnity
of 250,000,000 francs for the affair at Lang
Sou, but after China ordered her troops
to withdraw entirely from Tonquin
France only asked that China should
compensate the families of the soldiers
who were killed at Lang Sou and pay
extra expenses which the Chinese attack
had made it necessary for France to incur.
China objected to indemnity, but July 19
consented to appoint the Viceroy of Nan
kin to enter mto negotiations’ with M.
l’atrenator, the French Minister. China
then announced that she had submitted
the indemnity question to the powers.
Between July 27 and 29 M. Patrenator tel
egraphed his home government that it
was impossible to arrive at an under
standing with the delegates of China,
who refused to pay the indemnity, and
asked that the time granted China to ac
cept the French ultimatum might
be extended. Minister Ferry tele
graphed July 30 to extend
respite if necessary. M. Patrenator re
plied that China had offered to pay an in
demnity of 100,000,000 francs, and he had
rpfused’ it. On July 13 France informed
Admiral Courbet of her intention to oc
cupy Foo Chow and Kelurg in case China
refused the French ultimatum. Admiral
Courbet was ordered to use force only if
attacked.
Advices from Hue state that the King
of Annam is dead. He had been ill for a
long time.
NO REQUEST RECEIVED AT WASHINGTON.
Washington, Aug. 2.—lt is said at the
State Department that no request has
been made so far as is known for arbitra
tration by the government of the United
States in the Franco-Chine9e trouble.
THE AVESFS DISEASED BEEF.
New York’s Board of Health Decides to
Look Into the Matter.
New York, Aug. 2.—The problem of
possible dangers from Chicago dressed
beef that arrives in this city, dressed, by
the train-load, has received the thorough
consideration of the Board of Health.
Since the reports of the existence ot Texas
fever at Chicago and elsewhere in the
West have been confirmed,the wholesome
ness of these large cargoes of cheap beef
that threatens to ruin the butcher interests
of New’ York, has been open to question.
The health officers decided to settle it for
good, and to-day they dispatched a meat
inspector to Chicago with orders to
thoroughly investigate the cattle disease,
and to make a searching inquiry into the
mode of killing the beef that is sent here
and sold at a low figure, and likewise the
circumstances under which the cattle so
killed is killed and fed.
The “Baker’*” Mutinous Crew.
Philadelphia, Aug. 2.—The owners
of the schooner Julia Baker, now at Key
West, are advised that Second Mate
Walker, of that schooner, has been per
sonating Capt. Lewis, and that Lewis
died seven days out. The entire crew
will probably be arrested and the matter
investigated.
The crew of the Julia Baker state that
the Master was attended by Gomez, the
steward, and Walker, the mate, for seven
days after leaving New York. When the
crisis came they gave him something
from a bottle and be died in three minutes
afterwards. Walker was arrested this
afternoon. Gomez left the schooner at
Fortune Island. He said that he owned
half of the cargo. Walker told the crew
after the schooner left the Bimini
Islands that Gomez had stolen money
which had been realized from the sale of
flour. It is feared that there has been
foul play and further developments are
expected. The supposed master ol the
schooner has been exhibiting considerable
gold and trying to buy silence.
The Best Man Turn* Murderer.
Louisville, Ky„ Aug. 2.—A dispatch
from Maysville. Ky„ says: “Ttllie Wal
lace and Stephen Massy, of Harrison
county, accompanied by John Galvin,
eloped, and were married to-day at Aber
deen, after which Galvin got drunk, rode
through the streets flourishing a pistol,
and shot Gabe Hawkins through the
stomach, killing him. There is much ex
citement, and talk of lynching.”
SAVANNAH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1884.
WEST VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.
A Conference Held and Considerable
Sham Enthusiasm Manifested.
Deer Park, Mi*., Aug. 2.—About
thirty prominent Republicans and Green
backers of West Virginia gathered at the
Deer Park Hotel to-day, it is said at the
in stance of Stephen B Elkins, of the Re
publican National Committee, and held a
conlerence with doors closed and cur
tains down, which lasted about three
hours. Among those present were Mr.
Elkins, who presided, Congressman Goff,
Messrs. Maxwell, the Fusion candidate
for Governor of West Virginia; Alick,
the candidate for Attorney Gen
eral; Gibbons, of Charles
town; Smith of Berkely Springs,
Stone of Fairmount, Raymond of Clarks
burg, Beale of Wellsburg, Hart of the
Wheeling Intelligencer , Duunington of the
Gratton Sentinel, Peterson of the Hunting
ton Republican, Powell of the Fairmount
Virginian, Dornier, Scofield and others
of Wheeling, as well as men from Pleas
ant, Austin, Westmore and Hamlin. The
plan of operations and the general con
duct of the campaign was decided upon,
Mr. Bikins, it being understood, repre
senting Blaine.
SEVERAL SHAKY ONES TRESENT.
Several of the Republicans present were
among those who in the State Convention
opposed fusion. However, harmony pre
vailed throughout and much good reeling
was manifested over the prospect of very
liberal contributions from the National
Committee to aid In the campaign. The
belief prevails among the gentlemen In at
tendance at the conference that Goff will
withdraw his objection to being a candi
date to succeed himself in Congress and
that he will run, a circumstance which
will strengthen the Republican Na
tional and State fusion ticket.
Mr. Elkins entertained the whole
party at the hotel, where an elegant din
ner was served, after which another ses
sion was held. There was a decided ten
dency to secrecy as to everything except
enthusiasm, which is open and confident.
Blaine is expected at Mr. Elkins’ cottage,
at Deer Park, during the month, where
he will probably meet several of those
who participated in to-day’s conference.
Prominent Democrats among the guests
at Deer Park profess no uneasiness over
what they call, characteristically, the
loud professions of the Blaine
men, and insist that all monev
spent by Elkins, Jones and others in West
Virginia, will leave so much less to
combat in their really doubtful States.
Postmaster General Gresham arrived
from the West to-day, and will spend
Sunday with his family, who are at a
hotel here. He is not mentioned a9 hav
ing had anything to do with the confer
ence.
GREELY AND HIS BRAVE MEN.
Royal Honor* to be Accorded Them at
Portsmouth To-morrow.
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 2.—The The
tis, Bear and Alert, comprising the Gree
ly relief squadron, will leave Portsmouth
for New York Tuesday afternoon. This
afternoon the survivors of the expedition
were landed and put under the care of
the War Department, represented by
Gen. Hazen. They will rest quietly to
day and to-morrow.
On Monday a great demonstration in
honor of the return ol Lieut. Greely will
be held by the Naval Department, which
will be landed to participate in the cere
monies of Monday. The survivors are in
good condition, but have gained flesh
faster than strength, and hence require
rest and watchfulness. A reporter inter
viewed some of them to-day, one of whom
said: “The greatest loss to the expedition
was when the Esquimaux died. He was
able to get game food for us when we had
not the strength or knowledge to get it
for ourselves.”
ALL READY TO GO AGAIN.
When the reporter asked if they be
lieved that other expeditions would be
sent to the Arctic one and all replied:
“Yes, and we are all ready to go with
them, and could start to-morrow if neces
sary.” Sergt. Brainerd said that the
party did not suffer much on the journey
down from Lady Franklin Bay, there
having been but little inconvenience
from cold. “It was when we began to
starve that we began to suffer.”
When the reporter asked him if the
Greely party could have gone still further
north, Sergt. Brainerd repl ed that it
would have been very difficult. “A
ship,” he said, “certainly could not
have gone farther north. The
ice would open and close so rapidly that
the vessels would surely have been
nipped and crushed had a passage fur
ther north been attempted.
“The same ice conditions,” he said,
“would prevent sledging northward,
because where the ice was opening so
often it would have been of great danger
to life.”
When asked as to his opinion whether
future arctic expeditions would succeed
in finding the North Pole Sergeant
Brainerd said that he did not believe that
this would be accomplished.
“Nor do I believe,” said he, “that any
explorer will ever reach higher latitude
than the Greely expedition did.”
NEW YORK GOOD FOR 70,000.
Democratic Success In November Dally
Becoming More of a Certainty.
Washington, Aug 2.— Granville H.
Oury, Delegate in Congress from Arizona
Territory, and a member of the commit
tee which notified Cleveland and Hen
dricks ot their nomination, is in the city.
To a reporter to-day he said that his in
tercourse with New York Democrats had
inspired him with a feeling of confidence
in the success of Cleveland in that State.
Said he: “Every Democrat I talked with
was not only hopeful, but confident,
while the Republicans were dispirited.
Our folks in New York do not feel any
doubt of the result. I saw John Kelly
several times, and Tammany will sup
port the ticket. My belief is that Cleve
land will carry New York by 70,000 ma
jority.”
LOUISIANA AND PROTECTION.
“This was Democratic day,” said Sena
tor Jonas. “I have no doubt whatever of
the success of the ticket. The nomina
tions are greeted jvith great good feeling.
The accessions to the ticket are greater
than the losses. I have just
met men irom all parts ol tho coun
try and they are all confident
of success. The protectionist element
in Louisiana knows what it is about. It
prefers tbe Democratic platform to the
Republican platform. It will be for
Cleveland and Hendricks. The Cleveland
scandals, so called, will do more good
than harm to the party. Nobody believes
them. Even the Republicans are dis
gusted with them. Every charge against
Cleveland has been exploded.’’
CANADIAN CUSTOM FRAUDS.
Large Seizures Made of Goods Given In
at Less tlian their Value.
Montreal, Aug. 2.—Customs officers
have made a series of seizures of valuable
goods imported from the United States
and entered under value with the inten
tion of defrauding the revenue, from some
of the wealthiest and largest firms in
Montreal. The first descent was
made upon the firm of E. & A.
Evaves, where a seizure to the amount
of $6,000 was effected. The
warehouse of Scabb Bros., diamond and
watch importers, and William
Evaves, a wholesale merchant,
were next visited in order .
and large seizures made, the value of
which is at present unkkown. The affair
has created a sensation here. Several
large seizures were made elsewhere than
at Montreal, but owing to the reticence of
the officers nothing definite can be learned.
It was but a short time ago that some of
these same firms were seized for the same
violation.
No Show for tbe Lepers at Washington.
Washington, Aug. 2.—O’Donnell, of
San Francisco, will not be allowed to ex
hibit his lepers here, either in the House
of Representatives, as he proposes, or any.
where else, nor will he be allowed to
, speak from the steps of the capitol.
WITH BAT, OAR AND REIN.
MAUD S. DOES A MILE IN 2:09%
- AT CLEVELAND.
Two More Professionals to be Added to
the Atlanta Ball Nine—List of the
Gaines on the Tapis in the State this
Week—Saturday’* League Game* and
Races.—Teenaer Beats Hanlan’s Bec
ord.
Cleveland, Aug. 2.—Maud S. trotted
a mile here to-day without a skip, urging
or mate, in 2:09%.
AT SARATOGA.
SARATOGA, N. Y., Aug. 2.—To-day’s
events were as follows:
First Race—Purse $400; non-winning and
maiden allowances; three-quarters ol a mile.
Jim Renwick won, with John Henry second
am) Lady Lvons third. Time 1:16%.
SECOND Race—Sequel stakes for three
year-olds; SSO each; half forfeit, with SI,OOO
added: nen-winning and maiden allowances;
one mile and five furlongs, Modesty won in
a canter by a length, with Blast second, three
lengths ahead of Emma third. Time 2:56.
Third Rack—Free handicap sweepstakes of
sls each, with SSOO added; one mile. Bob
Cooke won, with Mammonist second and
Baron Faverot third. Time 1:44%.
Fourth Race—Match race;one mile;stakes
SSOO. Eulogy took a lead of four lengths to
the three-quarters post over Wall Flower,
who drew up and won. Time 1:45.
Fifth Race—Handicap steeplechase; purse
$500: fractional course No. 2, about a mile and
a haU. ltieuzi made nearly all of tbe run
nhf*a|nd won by a length and a half, with
Disrgniance second and Rose third. Time
2:55
AT MONMOUTH PARK.
LoNg Branch, Aug, 2.—The weather
was fine but the track slow at the Mon
mouth Park races to-day. The events
were as follows:
First Race —Purse $500; for 2-year-olds;
tho winner to be sold at auction; three-quar
ters of a mile. Prescott stayed in front and
won by four lengths, with Sussex second and
Adonis third. Time 1:18%.
Second Race—Palisade stakes for three
year-olds; penalties and allowances; one
mile and OBe furlong. The Minnie colt won
easily by three lengths, with Water Lily sec
ond and Freda third. Time 2:00.
Third Race—Free handicap sweepstakes
for all ages; one mile and half a furlong.
Lizzie Mack won by half a length, with Chick
adee second and Duplex third. Time 1:54.
Fourth Race —Free handicap sweepstakes;
one and a half miles. Hellton won by a
length, with Drake Carter second and Tra
falgar third. Time 2:42%.
Fifth Race—Sand stakes; handicap for
gentlemen riders or jockeys; five furlongs.
After a whipping finish, Emulgation won by
half a length, with Ilaledon second and
Rosier third. Time 1:06.
Sixth Race —Purse SSOO, for three-year
olds and upwards; selling allowances; three
quarters of a mile. Queen Esther won by a
length, with Clara B. second and All Awake
third. Time 1:37%. The winners entered to
be sold for S9OO, was bought in for $1,105.
Seventh Race Handicap steeple-chase
over the bull course. After a good start
Charley Epps got off in front and led over the
first three hurdles, but fell at the fourth and
his rider was badly shaken. Trombone
eventually won by a short length, with Capt.
Curry second and Wooster third. Time 5:22.
AT BRIGHTON BEACH.
New York, Aug. 2.—The weather was
clear at the Brighton Beach races to-day.
The track was good and the attendance
large. The races resulted as follows:
Fiest Race—Purse $250; for maidens of all
ages; three-quarters of a mile. Theodora
won, with Florence M. second and Bon
Bouche third. Time 1:19%.
Second Race—Purse $250; for maidens of
all ages; three-quarters of a mile. Tallyrand
won easily, with Blizzard second and Forlorn
third. Time 1:20.
Third Race—Purse $250; selling allow
ances; one mile. Carley B. won, with Carrie
Stewart second and Electrifler third. Time
1:47%.
Fourth Race—Purse $400; handicap for all
ages; one and one-eighth milts. Tom Martin
won, with Miss Brewster second and Wood
craft, third. Time 1:59%.
Fifth Race—Purse $250; for horses that
haterunand not won at Brighton Baach in
1884; seven-eighths of a mile. Ben Woolley
won, with Australian second and Joe Mitch
ell third. Time 1:33%.
Sum Race—l’urse $350; for all ages; wel
ter weights; one mile. Arsenic won by a
neck, with Lewis second and Quixote third.
Time 1:50.
BAT, BALL AND BASE.
A Busy AVtek Before tbe Crack Player*
of the State.
Atlanta, Aug. 2.—The Atlantas, the
name by which the Athletics will here
after be known, perfected a permanent
organization this evening by the election
ot the following officers: H. W. Grady,
President; Emory Speer, Vice President;
Stephen A. Ryan, Treasurer; Joseph J.
Eckford, Secretary. Directors—Charles
A. Collier, B. B. Crew, S. li. Phelan,
Stewart F. Woodson, Darwin G. Jones,
Robert J. Lowry, W. T. B. Wilson, Henry
Jackson, James F. Lynch, Walter
R. Brown, Allison L. Green,
A. 11. Woodward, W. C. Sparks, J. T.
Glenn, John F. Ryan, R. B. Bullock, Clar
ence K. Knowles, H. I. Kimball, D. W.
Appier, Julius L. Brown, The Atlantas
have made arrangements for nine games,
commencing Monday of next week. They
will play the Dixies here Aug. 4, 5 and 6.
They then go to Columbus, where they will
cross bats with the Stars Aug. 7, 8 and 9,
leaving the Dixies here to play the Browns
three straight games while they are away.
Returning to Atlanta, they will try the
Browns, of Augusta, three more games—
Aug. 11, 12 and 13—on their grounds here.
Manager Grady has telegraphed to Louis
ville for Simpson and McAleesh, two
more professionals. This will make the
nine even stronger than it was when it
played the Stars.
THREE IDLE DAYS BEFORE THE STARS,
Columbus, Aug. 2.—Up to to-night the
Stars have no games on their hands for
Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday next.
A telegram from the Oglethorpes, seeking
to secure games in Savannah on those
dates, has been received, but no decision
in the matter has been reached as yet.
BROWNS AND CLINCHES.
Augusta, Aug. 2.—The Browns and
Clinches, of this city, will cross bats on
Monday and Wednesday next. The con
tests will be stubbornly fought. The
friends ot each nine admit that the teams
are very evenly matched. The result will
be looked upon as a cue to the probable
outcome of the games between the Dixies
and Browns at Atlanta at the close of the
week.
Base Ball.
Washington, Aug. 2.—Games of bat*
ball were played to-day as follows:
At Washington—Metropolitan 6, Washing
ton 5,
At Baltimore—Baltimore (Unions) 4, Na
tional 3.
At Philadelphia—Providence 9, Philadel
phia 2; Boston (Unions) 3, Keystone 4.
At Chicago—Cleveland 10, Chicago 8.
At Dolroit-siluffalo 2, Detroit 0.
At
At New 2, New York 1.
At Brook 9, Baltimore 7.
At Pittsburg-Athletic 7, Alleghany 2.
At Richmond—Vlrgini* 8, Allentown 7.
At Fortress Monroe —National (of Hamp
ton) 7, Norfolk 3.
At Wilminton—Wilmington 18, Domestics 7.
At Lancaster, Pa.—lronsides 9, Trenton 7.
At York, Pa.—Y'ork 4, Active 1.
At St. Louis—St. Louis (Unions) 1, Kansas
City 0.
At Indianapolis—Columbus 12, Indianapo-
Teemer Beat* Ross and the Record.
New York, Aug. 2. —John Teemer beat
Wallace Ross iu a four mile boat race at
Oak Point to-day in twenty-six minutes
and twenty seconds, which is one minute
and thirty-6ix seconds better than the best
previous record, that of Hanlan.
Elkins Resign* a Bank’* Presidency.
Santa Fe, N. M., Aug. 2.—Stephen B.
Elkins, member of the Republican Na
tional Committee, has resigned the Presi
dency of the First National Bank of this
city, which he has heid for thirteen years,
in order to give more time to the duties of
the campaign.
Louisiana Fails to Pay.
New Orleans, Aug. 2. —The State yes
terday failed to pay interest on the “baby”
bonds. About $15,000 premium and in
terest of these bonds is payable out of the
collection of back taxes, and there is no
money to the credit of this fund now in
the hands of the fiscal agents.
A Pistol in a l’arisian Court.
Paris, Aug. 2.—While Judge Puy was
giving evidence to-day in the civil tri
bunal at Perpignau against his brother
in-law for defamation of character the
latter shot him, inflicting serious wounds
in the arm and chest. The assailant wa9
I arrested.
FRANCE’S EPIDEMIC.
The Virulence of the Disease Ap
parently Rapidly Declining.
Paris, Aug. 2.— Physicians at Mar
seilles believe that the cholera will disap
pear from the- city in a few days. The
crowd outside of the Mairie cheered to
day when they saw that the bulletin
announced a decrease in the number of
deaths.
There were 8 deaths from cholera
at Marseilles last night an l 2 at Tou
lon. The residents of Marseilles who fled
at the approach of the epidemic continue
to return, and the streets of the city are
again assuming their normal aspect of
gayety. Sixteen deaths from cholera dur
ing the past 24 hours. The total
number of deaths from cholera since
the outbreak is 1,248.
The mortality statistics for the past
week 6how a decrease of 69 deaths in
Paris. One of the deaths is suspected of
having been caused by cholera. The Min
ister of the Interior has sent to Toulon
44,500 francs to be distributed among the
refugees.
After a long debate in the Chamber of
Deputies to-day on M. Clemenceau’s in
terpellation in regard to the cholera epi
demic it was made the order of the day
by a vote of 333 to 115.
At Arles there have been 4 deaths from
cholera since last night.
At Villa Franca, in Asti district, Italy,
there have been 2 deaths from the disease,
in Cossinosco 1, and in Sessome 1. There
is cholera in all the principal towns of
Italy. Six cases of cholera are reported
at Garfagnana, Italy, 4 of which were
fatal, and 21 cases at Pancalieri, Italy, 8
of which were fatal.
CHOLERA AS A CRUISER.
London, Aug. 2. —Another steamer
from Marseilles has arrived in Penarth
Roads with a case of cholera on board.
Several persons died from cholera during
the passage.
The ports of Brazil have been closed to
vessels from Marseilles, Toulon, Spezzia
and all ports at which cholera prevails.
The authorities at Madeira have refused
to allow the passengers and mail or a
steamer which has arrived there from
England to land.
YELLOW FEVER AT PANAMA.
Panama, Aug. 2.—During the month of
July four prominent people died of yellow
fever in this city. The hospitals here and
at Colon are crowded. The heat is in
tense, and dysentery of an
form has appeared.
THE SIBERIAN PLAGUE.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 2.—The Siberian
plague has appeared at Yiborg.
FORTY FEVER DEATHS AT HAVANA.
Havana, Aug. 2.—There were 40
deaths from yellow fever in this city
during the past week.
IRELAND’S IMPROVEMENT.
Tenants Greatly Benefited by the Ar
rears of Kent Act.
London, Aug. 2.—A letter from Mr.
Parnell to the local Secretary of the
National League in Ireland has just been
made public. In this Mr. Famell says that
he anticipates, as the outcome ol the
Parliamentary Commission’s report,
that an important improvement in the
condition of the laboring classes in Ire
land will be effected. The officials of the
local government board have given
evidence confirming the report circulated
by the Irish party that a measure is to
be prepared giving the local authorities
power to take or lease land compulsorily,
whether attached to laborers’ cottages or
not, for the purpose of letting it to laborers
at moderate prices. The measure will also
empower the authorities to make repairs
in cottages. A return has just been made
to Parliament in regard to the operation
of the Irish arrears of rent act. Accord
ing to this the sum of £2,570,000, which
was owing to landlords by farmers, has
been wiped out under the act since 1882.
Of this amount Ulster gained £820,-
000 in remissions of rent; Linster, £250,-
000; Connought, £1,000,000, and Munster,
£500,000. Tbe Nationalist papers, com
menting on this return, state that the
land act has already secured to the farm
ers a permanent reduction of rent
exceeding £500,000 yearly. The Bishop
of Limerick, Earl of Bilmore and other
members of the commission which has
been considering the condition of educa
tion in Ireland, state that the curtailed
rents were better and more regularly paid
last year than at any time since the Par
nell agitation began. The relations now
existing between the landlords and ten
ants are amicable. The primary schools
established for the benefit of tenants are
everywhere appreciated. The govern
ment has resolved upon a large reduction
of the forces in Ireland.
Before sentence was pronounced upon
Daley at Warwick yesterday he indulged
in a’ violent speech. He attacked the
Crown for the manner in which the prose
cution had been prepared. Daley and
Eagan received their sentences with ap
parent indifference.
RAVAGES OF THE FLAMES.
Twenty Business Firms and Fourteen
Families Burned Out at Emporium.
Emporium, Pa., Aug. 2.—Fire broke
out here this morning which destroyed
most of the best business portion of the
town. Twenty business firms and four
teen families were burned out. The loss
will aggregate about $200,000.
A RIVER STEAMER BURNED.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 2.—The
steamer Eagle, of the Newburg and Al
bany line, burned this morning. She
caugfft, fire south of Milton, and was
burned to the water’s edge.
The passengers of the steamer were all
landed at Milton dock, and some of the
freight was saved. The lines of the burn
ing steamed were cut, and she was then
sunk in the stream. The loss on the boat
will be $50,000. The insurance is $25,000.
A COTTON FACTORY BURNED.
Columbia, Aug. 2.—The Saluda Cotton
Factory,* in Lexington county, three
miles from Columbia, was burned this
evening. Fire broke out in the cupola of
the third story; 8,400 spindles were ope
rated, the mill running exclusively on
yarns. The loss is $150,000. The fire is
supposed to Tiave been incendiary. One
hundred and fifty hands are thrown out
of employment.
A GLASS WORKS BURNED.
Pittsburg, Aug. 2.— The glass works
of King, Son & Cos., on the south side,|and
a mould house full of valuable moulds
were burned this morning. The loss is
$50,000. The fire started iu the furnace
house and is believed to have caught from
the leaking of natural gas pipes. The
flames spread so quickly that the entire
works were ablaze in ten minutes and the
buildings in ruins in less ihan an hour.
MACHINE SHOPS IN RUINS.
Hartford, Ct., Aug. 2. —The large
machine shop and foundry belonging to
Barnum, Richardson & Cos., of Lime
Rock, Salisbury, was burned this morn
ing. The total loss is $85,000, insured for
$60,000. The firm will rebuild at once.
Ex-Senator Barnum is the head of the
firm.
Keifer Beaten at His Home.
Washington, Aug. 2. —Private dis
natches report that ex-Speaker Keifer
was beaten at the Republican primaries
to-day in his own town of Springfield by
800 majority and in the county by 500 ma
jority. His opponent was Capt. Bushnell.
Keifer has been working extraordinarily
hard for renomination.
Springfield, 0., Aug. 2.—The Clark
county primary meetings for the nomina
tion ot Congressman have given a 1 arge
majority for Capt. Bushnell, thus
throwing Gen. Keifer out of the race.
The Frauds In the Navy Department.
Washington, Aug. 2.—lt is undsr
stood that the court of inquiry investi
gating the Navy Department frauds has
discovered a fraudulent voucher dated
two months prior to Gen. Wales taking
charge ol the bureau as Surgeon General,
and indicating that fraudulent practices
began earlier than has been supposed.
. Australian Federation.
London, Aug. 2.—The Earl of Derby,
Secretary of State for tbe Colonial De
partment, has advised the government to
consent to the federation of ths Aus
tralian colonies.
PUBLIC MEN NOT ROUES.
TIPPLING FAST BECOJHNG A
THING OF THE PAST.
The Fact Strikingly Illustrated at Re
cent National Conventions—Every
Washington Correspondent tha. Au
thor of a Romance—Thurman’s Disap
pointment—Two Private Palaces Soon
to be Built by Author*.
Correspondence of the Horning Hewe.
Washington, Aug. l.—Of course,
the attempt of Congressman Culbertson,
of Kentucky, to let out his brains while
recovering from a summer spree is the
text for innumerable discourses by the
good old ladies and gentlemen who can
remember Lafayette’s last visit as though
it had occurred but yesterday, upon the
rapidity with which our public men are
running down hill. They’re a degenerate
lot, who guzzle, and gamble, and steal,
and lie, and finally drink themselves to
death. I beg to differ. Our public men
were never less open to the loose charge#
of this sort which have always been in
the air than they are now. The moral
condition of our public men was
never better than it is now;
no, not in the days,of the founders of the
republic. It was a matteivof general re
mark of the National Conventions of 1880,
which, as usual, drew together thousands
of public men from all over the country,
and under unfavorable conditions as to
food and sleep, exposed them amid the hot
excitements of such a supreme struggle to
the temptations of the barroom, that so
many temperate men had never been seen
before on any such occasion. In the four
years since the barrooms of Chicago
have become twice as attractive as they
were then. They are now the finest in
America. One of them, on one of the
principal streets, is a model of quiet,
tasteful, costly elegance. They are al
most all as handsome as money can make
them. The conditions of the con
test over the great nominations
were as hard as ever; yet the increase in
temperance among the public men so
gathered together from every State and
territory in the Union was so marked as
to be frequently the chief topic of conver
sation. There was, of course, a great
deal of drinking; but the barrooms were
filled by the lower classes of politicians,
and by their hangers-on. The great ma
jority of the delegates and alternates
drank very little—many of them not at
all. The minority drank with compara
tive moderation. During the whole week
I saw but one member of the convention
under the influence of liquor, and he was
able to think and talk with almost his
usual fluency. I remember that I was
sitting at dinner in the Leland
dining room when I saw him weaving
to and fro on the threshold. He was an
enthusiastic friend of Cleveland who had
materially helped to nominate him that
morning. As he stood there swaying for
ward and backward, he said quite audi
bly, “It’s all right. We’ve nothing to do
but pass in our chips for redemption.”
1 could not help smiling, although I felt
sad enough, for I knew that the gray
headed old man had not been drunk be
fore for years. But, as I say, his ease
was the exception that proved the rule of
sobriety. I have observed the same pro
gress in the direction of temperance here.
IT IS MORE MARKED EVERY YEAR
among the Representatives ot the whole
counti-y. It is the manifest outgrowth of
a general improvement in the habits of
the whole people. The Congressional
stream cannot be expected to be higher
than the popular source from which it
comes. It never has been. Before the war,
when everybody drank and when it was
not particularly disgraceful to drink to ex
cess, ourpublic men, like our private men,
drank habitually and were habitually
druuk. Now when the temperance move
ment has gotten a good grip on us all we
see a great change for the better when
ever public men get together. The great
majority of tbe men in the two Houses
of the present Congress, either do not
drink at all or drink with great modera
tion. When they drink they confine them
selves to wine or beer. In the
minority there are a few notoriously hard
drinkers whom now and then you see
drunk, very infrequently. I myself saw
in all of last winter just one drunken
Senator and one drunken Representa
tive. Tlje rest of the minority don’t
drink half as hard as the majority of
Congressmen did twenty, yes ten, years
ago. The change in public sentiment
which makes it degrading to drink and
disgraceful to be drunk, has its effect on
even the dullest minds. Besides men see
the manifold advantages of sobriety.
Don’t misunderstand me. The millennium
have not arrived. The Congressional
Temperance Society is not much bigger
than it was in 1874. Most of the moderate
drinkers in Congress, many ol tbe men
who drink very little, or not at all, espe
cially those whose great temperance prin
ciple is to substitute beer for whisky,
rather smile at the old-fashioned Con
gressional Temperance Society. They
don’t care to identify themselves with
a crusading organization. Perhaps
some of them are afraid to do so. But
nevertheless there are proportionally more
temperate men in Congress to-day than
there were hard drinkers arhen that so
ciety was organized at the beginning of
the century, and that’s saying a great
deal, and every year the feeling against
drinking grows stronger. It is gradually
passing under the ban of social disap
proval. It is done covertly. It is apolo
gized for. It is publicly condemned by
the men who drink. There can be no
doubt that our public men have better
morals, if not better manners, than at any
previous period-in our history.
ALMOST EVERY WASHINGTON CORRE
SPONDENT
has either a novel or a drama of his own
writen in the drawer of'his desk. Those
whose drawers are not thus encumbered
have their novels and their dramas in
their heads. You see there is a great deal
in the life of a Washington correspondent
to tempt him to write novels and dramas.
All the ordinary incentives—the love of
fame, the love of money and the desire to
benefit the world operate more strongly
in the Washington correspondent than in
the everyday outsider, even if the latter
be of a literary turn of mind. Then the
Washington correspondent has such
means to observe and such things to ob
serve as do not come to most men. To say
nothing of the ever present desire to elabo
rate into picturesque romance the every
day news which he must present to the pub
lic accurately and concisely, he is always
tormented t>p a longing to tell the rest of
the world, in an honorable way, the thou
sand and one stories, usually the best of
the year, which are confided to him under
the sacred seal of secrecy as to the real
name* and dates and places, without
which they are practically useless to a
daily newspaper. Asa general rule the
Washington correspondent is a bright,
well-bred, well-educated man, who knows
that he could write a good novel or drama
if all the conditions were favorable. Yes,
they are all sure of it. and the rejection of
their novels or dramas wouldn’t cure
them. Seriously, Ido not know any class
of literary workers who are better
“fixed” for novel and drama writing than
the Washington correspondents' if they
only had a little more command of their
time. The great trouble is that even in
these dull dog days they are always on
duty—minute men who may be sum
moned to prodigious exertions at the
moment most unexpected. No day could
have been duller, from the newspaper
point of view, nor at the same time
sweeter and brighter, from my own point
®f view, than the day before Garfield was
shot. So the entire corps must stand at
“attention” day and night. Nevertheless
in the hours between the alarums many
of the correspondents have managed
to write stories, and comedies, and
farces, some of which have seen the
light. Henry R. Elliot, a clever Yale
! man. now in Europe for the
j hundredth time, has just published
I “The Bassett Claim,” a “Washington
novel” which gives you some idea ol
Washington. This will be followed in
October by a somewhat more ambitious
novel by Henry L. Nelson, a clever Wil
liams College man, which will show you
something of life in Boston and in Wash
ington. He has not named it yet. Nelson
is a brilliant writer, and his book will, I
hope, be read by all the misguided
people who have given themselves over
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to the absurdly fantastic views of Wash
ington life presented in the nightmare
novels, purporting to give some account
of it, with which the market has been
supplied heretofore. 1 know no city in
the world which has been so shamefully
lied about as has Washington, lam glad
to hear that someone who is capable of it
proposes to do her justice.
I TEEL VERY SORRY FOR OLD ALLAN G.
THURMAN.
The fine old gentleman went out to Chi
cago in a strange confidence that he
would be nominated for President, and
came home a much disappointed man. It
was not so queer, after all, that he should
have thought himself a probability. If he
had only had a solid delegation from his
own State he would have been at least
more than a mere possibility. But as it
was he had a considerable’ number of
pledged delegates and a band of devoted
friends who made zealous if somewhat
unintelligent workers. Then, too, the
old Roman had an element of strength in
the kindly feeling of the convention, which
be may well have overestimated. Certain
it is that there was nothing in the cordial
enthusiastic reception awarded him by
the convention which could undeceive
him during the first two davs’ proceed
ings. He was in one of his most delight
ful moods daring all that time. He was
radiant wijh happiness. Meeting him in
the evening in the Palmer House Speaker
Carlisle said to him: “The convention
gave you a very gratifying ovation to
day, Senator.”. “Yes,” said the old gen
tleman, beaming with pleasure, “they
certainly did.” “I should not be sur
prised,” continued the Speaker, “if they
should nominate you to-morrow.” “Well,”
said Thurman, with an arch little laugh,
“they will not find a better man.” And
he believed what he said despite the little
laugh. But he was a sad man when he
took the cars for home.
MR. JAMES G. BLAINE
has practically finished the second vol
ume of his “Twenty Years of Congress.”
It is expected to be out in the fall. It will
not be equal, from a literary point of view,
to his first volume. It is needless to say
that the whole work is a failure. It pre
sents a fairly good view of our history,
but it is not half as good as the views
taken by McMasters, of Princeton; and
as a literary performance it is but com
monplace. Blaine had an idea that he
was a second Macaulay—like him to bo
famous as statesman, lawgiver, orator and
historian. He is certainly Macaulay’s infe
rior as a statesman and an orator. He has
never framed any law of any consequence.
You have only to read a few chapters of
his history to see that it will be unreal,
if not forgotten, before the middle of the
twentieth century—perhaps before its
beginning. Blaine fiuds his English
parallel in either Brougham or Beacons
field—he has qualities of botlr and neither.
He can do some things that neither of
them could do. For example, to write the
Mulligan letters.
Col. John Hay, “Little Breeches,” who
married a million and the daughter of
Amasa Stone, of Cleveland, and Mr.
Henry Adams, a son of Charles Francis
Adams, who is an amatertr historian, are
to reside permanently in Washington
hereafter. They are building residences
next W. W. Corcoran’s and opposite La
fayette square, which promise to be hand
somer than the majority of the new
houses in the West End. Hay’s house
will cost furnished about $200,000 and
that of Adams about $150,000. They will
not try to run their establishments on the
earnings of their pens.
OF ALL THE CHEEKY YVESTERNERB,
the rum seller is the breeziest. He usu
ally runs his town and helps to run the
State. A St. Lofiis liquor seller was re
cently possessed with the idea that he
ought to have a finger in the national pie,
so he wrote the Postmaster General that
he would like to open a barroom in the
basement of the St. Louis post office build
ing. When he had recovered from his
surprise, the Postmaster General sternly
replied that government buildings were
not for rent for such purposes.
The chapter giving a history of tariff
legislation in Mr. Blaine’s book, which
Mri Blaine’s triends consider so impartial,
is being distributed by the Republicans as
a campaign document to prove the ex
ceeding desirability of that sea of fire,
which Henry C. Carey prayed might
seeth and boil between us and our neigh
bors of the Old World so as to afford ade
quate protection to out infant industries.
There has never been a national ad
ministration which took so little interest
in politics in a Presidential campaign as
this administration does this year. The
fact is, every member ol the administra
tion believes that Blaine’s nomination
was a blunder, and would be glad to see
him beaten. No one of them will go be
yond the limits of perfunctory political
duty to help him to the White House.
Richard T. Greener, the colored lawyer,
who is about to go on the Republican
stump in Ohio and Indiana, as usual in
the years of Presidential elections, is
about to write a novel, which will proba
bly deal with some of the problems ol the
race question. Bkows-Floyd.
A Verdict Against Western Union.
Petersburg, Va., Aug. 2.— The Hust
ings Court of this city, Judge C. Mann
presiding, has been engaged for the past
three days in the trial of the suit of Ar
rington & Sons against the YVestern
Union Telegraph Company, to recover
$720, which amount the plaintiff claimed
to have lost in the 6ale of a large lot of
tobacco through a mistake of the compa
ny in transmitting a message. An offer
of sale was made at 13% cents per pound,
but when the message reached the pur
chaser it read 13 cents. The jury last
evening gave a verdict in favor of the
plaintiff for the full amount. An appeal
will be taken.
Saw Husband and Child Drown.
Isle of Wight., L. 1., Aug. 2.—Peter
Donnelly, a night watchman at the Os
borne House, and his little daughter were
drowned here this afternoon. His wife
came down to see him, bringing ODe of
their little girls. They went out bathing
some distance from tbe hotel. The mother
was on the beach and the father was
swimming with the girl on his back. Sud
denly he called for help, but it came too
late, and both were drowned.
Peru’s Dissensions.
Lima, Aug. 2.—A party of Monteneros
have occupied Huaeho. The government
troops have retired to Chancay. Gen
Caceres has organized a Cabinet’and pro
poses to Gen. Iglesias to deliver the
Presidency to Vice President Lapuerto.
Why the Bill Failed.
London, Aug. 2.— The Manchester Ship
Canal bill was rejected because the com
mittee which had it in charge thought it
would injure the interests of Liverpool.
The expenses of the promoters and oppo
nents of the scheme aggregate £260,000.
A British Captain Dismissed.
Plymouth, England, Aug. 2.— The
Captain of H. M. S. Defence, who was
court-martialed on account of the recent
collision between that ship and the Val
iant in Bantry Bay, has been dismissed
Irom his vessel.
Mahone’s Despicable Method*.
Washington, Aug. 2— Mahone has.
caused Sergeant-at-Arms Canada to say
in an interview, published to-day, that
Col. W. E. Sims was removed for cause,
and that Mahone had nothing to do with it.
The Franchise Agitation.
London, Aug. 2. —The agitation of the
friends a*d opponents of the franchise
bill is still vigorously carried on. Many
demonstrations for and against it were
held to-day.
gm-vor Other Telegrams See Fifth
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