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I ESTABLISHED 1880. I
, j. H. ESTILL, Editor nd Proprietor. $
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLIN A PUT IN TYPE.
Convention of the Tiinbermen at At
lanta— A Rival First Kale to Primus
Jones’ Reported—A Dead Man Re
ported to Have Coine to Life at
Darien.
GEORGIA.
Bai'lwia county’s bonded debt Is *BI.OOO.
Ja< k=n county votes on prohibition on I
Aug. 9. I
Valdosta now has three drug stores and live
doctors.
A well sixteen feet deep will get water in
Juz Tavern.
The scuppernong grape crop will be short in
Lowndes county.
An Athenian of 19 years tips the scales at
nearly 300 pounds.
Over 10,000 melons have been skipped from
Waycross this season..
The jounsr men of Whitfield are organizing
district agricultural societies.
The barbecue of the Baldwin Blues, of Mil
ledgeville. was a gratifying success.
At Atlanta the Sheriff has foreclosed a I
mortgage on J. W. Russell’s livery stock.
The > entral Road pav train leaves about |
j, - at Baraasville the 23d of every month.
During the past week there were i!deaths
in Augusta, of which 10 were white and 13 i
colored.
fifty thousand gallons of water are held by
the savannah, Florida and Western Railway
tanks at Waycross.
Tie depot agent at Washing’on has received j
11, i ..ales of cotton up to date, against 15,403
at the same time last year.
W. P. Waal retires from the editorship of
the Waycross Headlight. His successor’s name
has not lieen made public yet.
Rev. W. W. Wad-worth, formerly pastor of
the First Methodist Church in Athens, will
go into the newspaper business.
i 01. A. P. Hearing has tendered his resig
nation as cashier of the University Bank of
Athens on account of bad health.
Ware county’s taxable property is placed at
*>.<12.48'.. an increase of *124.3 7' in the past
war: of this increase *10,012 is in Wavcross
town property.
Dissolute men and women will not be al
lowed to live .n Carrollton, unless in the
chain-gang The Mayor of that city has just
published an ordinance to that effect.
A few days ago the storehouse of G. W.
Smith A Sons. miles below Jug Tavern,
ve broken into and between *75 and *IOO
taken. Three negroes who were the culprits
have been arrested.
\ ma- meeting cf the citizens of Whitfield
n.uutv. at the court house, in Dalton, Sal ur
,v, Aug. 13, has lieen suggested, to discuss
tne importance of anew road law, or the en
for euient of the one now in controversy.
The Richmond Hussars, of Augusta, have j
requisition for carbines, with which
tf,. company will be armed instead of the {
old regulation pistol. They have satires
n .ub if all member* would only report to
Du ijuartermaster.
It .-u> i -ed that the farmers of Putnam
counts will payout ia money or its equiva
lent for meal for the present year about *50,-
ii. for corn, not less than thirty earloads,
aggregating 15,000 bushels, about $15,000
summing P I“5,000.
At the special session of Terrell Snjierior
t . :rt Saturday George Clark, colored, was
convicted of outraging Mrs. Wni. Jennings
and sentenced to hang on Aug. 25. The crime
was committed but a few days ago, and court
wa- called at the request of'prominent citi
zens. It doubtless prevented a lynching.
on .Inly 21 the law raising the license for
telling liquors in Alapaha to 13.000 went into
eff. t. and the only saloon in town closed its
door*. There are -everal other places in the
county where whisky can le got. but in Sep
temlier the last license expire*, and it will
then cost * t.W per annum to sell whisky any
where in Berrien.
L. .1. Lamar, the steward, furnishes the fol
lowing statement of the amount of rations
coii-unied daily at the State Lunatic Asylum:
Bacon, 300 pounds; beef. SOO pounds: coffee,
70 ponds; tl ur. sfti pounds; hominy, lto
pounds: lard. 25 pounds; meal. 3*4 pounds;
rice, 110 pound*; sugar, 75 pounds; butter, 40
pounds; molasses, 0 gallons.
At Rome Saturday the trn*teesof Shorter
College received from the executors of the
late Alfred shorter *45.01>, being the legacy
left to the college in his will. <>f this amount
*5. *0 will be used at once to improve the
ds and purchase a telescope. The bal
ance is invested, and the interest will lie used
to pay the tuition of poor and deserving girls.
There is an old colored woman in Milledge
ville who is very old. and a few days ago took
up a collection"among her grandchildren to
rn -e money to vi*it i.er si-tcr in Sparta, and
only having money enough to carry her to
M>arta. she took the train and was soon there,
and U|H>n inquiry she found that her sister
had Ih-cii dead ever since fore the war. She
walked back to Milledgeville.
Mil'edgeville Ckroniclt: Cap . Enni*, iicing
up a good deal at night last week, and fearing
that he might sleep too sound to hear what
wa- going on in the jail yard, and also think
ing that the notorious John smith might at
tempt to aid his wife to escape, tied a heavy
cord around the premises and then
tied the end to his arm went to bed.
Sometime during the night his Jersey
hull became entangled in the cord and pulled
the Captain from his lied in somewhat of a
hum . The breaking of the cord probably
saved him from being badly hurl.
Darien Timber Gazette'. Quite n sensation
ve created on Broad street just after supper
on Thursday night by a rumor going the
noire!*, to the effect that Air. Madison Thomas,
who died the previous night and was buried
that afternoon, had come to life again. It was
n*>* long Indore a crowd of citizen* got
blether and repaired to the graveyard for
the purpose of examining the vault anil ascer
taining the truth. Suffice it to say, that upon
examination they found that the body was in
the -ante jajsition as when put away." Several
people who were at the graveyard on the
afternoon he was buried heard a noise in the
vault, and the report spread from that.
Macon Telegraph anil Messenger: As to
who produced the first bale of new cotton this
vear seems to Is- a matter of discussion. Last
ii.*lit a bale of cotton was brought up bv
Ci.pt. AllieShellman from Primus Jones, at
A: any. consigned to a house in Savannah.
Mr. Jones enjoys the reputation of getting in
the first bale" for several years. In this year
u ;* i- a red that Primus will be second, as we
are in receipt of a letter from Reynolds sav
ing that Mr. John Childre, a liveandpro
gre-sive young farmer living two and a half
r.i:i>- southwest from Butler, brought iu a
hair Thursday weighing :ti6 pounds, which
was so!.I to da*. A. Adams, of Reynolds, at
i' 4 cents. The honor of s-tiding in the first
in* of new cotton belongs to these gentle
men.
Atlanta Constitution: Hiram I.ee, an old
r., gn man whose home is near Peachtree
et. beyond Ponce de Leon avenue, was
kr. s. it ;i"i the head and instantly killed >at
urd.-n night by William Carter. "The killing
• rnd at Lee's home, and was the result of
a -tent quarrel. It was witnessed by the
members of Lee’s family, and was tragic in
- ni-. Ire was advanced in year-, aid
ha-quite a family about him. lie has bad the
reputation of working hard aud has saved a
lit; !, money. Carter (s a young darkey, and,
although quiet and inoffensive, has been tri
fling and worthless. He ha* been in the habit
of \i-iiing Lee's home, and Saturday evening
went out about dark. During the evening he
and the old man had a quarrel, which lasted
until late in the n-ght, when the two men
grappled. Lee undi rtook to whip Carter with
a heavy stick and made a success of it, as is
iv leaved by Carter's conditio*. Carter
escaped froth the old man's grasp, and pick
ing up a large rock threw It at iiis ad ver
sa rv. The-tone- ruck the old man squarely
■n the middle of the forehead, crushing the
skull in. The old mau sank to the ground
without a moan, and Carter left. Soon after
the difficulty Patrolman Mercer was notified,
an i m a short while he succeeded in arresting
Carter, and conducted him to the city prison,
where he was given a cell. Lee was picked
tip and carried into bis house, where he died
in about a quarter of au hour. He never
spoke after receiving the blow' and was
w body unconscious of his approaching end.
Carter was bloody as a hog, and his head is
terribly gashed up. He claims that Lee made
the as-ault upon hint and compelled him to
strike the bioar ba -elf-defense. The blow did
net cause any e-citement, s nonne was pres -
w hen it occurred except Carter, Lee and
Atlanta Constitution: The convention of
sawmill men which met here .July 31 ad
journed yesterday. The convention, which
embraced representatives from Middle Geor
gia aud Alabama, met at 9 , first .Mitchell
* reet according to announcement. The
moi ling was organized by electing as tem
porary officers, J. Litchenwaiter, of Talla-
P -a. President; J.G. Crouch, Vice Presi
dent; AV. f. Ayeock. Secretary, and J. B.
t mton, of Rockmart, Treasurer- The Presi
dent, Mr. Litehenw alter, explained the olv
je> :s of the meeting as fo'lows: Tim saw mill
tn. n, realize the necessity of some sort of
organ /.ation by which a concert of action can
"’ had to govern the price and the production
of lumber, and thereby further the interest of
the -aw mill fraternity. The subject was
further discussed by the follow ing persons:
■ Ayeock, J. G. Crouch, J. C. Jackson, J.
. t inton, K. J. Jone*. J. B. Daniel,
t- A. Jones. J. E. Garrison, J. P.
Sillier, t\. B. .Tones, J. O. Perkins,
P- AieVey, C. M. Carpenter and
ot.iers. tin motion the following committee
Wan appointed to draft a constitution and by
•jw-* for the govern tent of the association:
”.C. Aycoek. J. E. Garrison. W. B. Jervis, D.
t-Jones and James O. Perkins, the meeting
then adjourned to me t on Friday morning at
soel.- t, at which time a constitution was
*d. pted. At the afternoon session Friday a
t M l* ni '' a!lon "as received from the At
jauta Lumber Dealers’ Exchange stating that
th?- v lIS l appointed a committee of five, and
mat they request that w similar committee be
appointed from the Milliueu’. Association to
~! - er with them for the pur|sje of getting
ip a classification and inspection of lumber.
Dn motion of J. C. Jackson the fol ow
,B were appointed on the committee:
, h. Garrison, J. O. Perkins W. B.
•Jones, tv. c. Avcock, J. B. Vinton.
A oilmans. Davis, May and Donald
. '"e committee, made remarks, pledging the
"0-operation of the Atlanta lumber exchange
out the objects of the association
“they would agree not to sell to the consumer
m ttus market, and thereby protect the
on motion of AV. C. Ayeock, all the
'awmill men present agreed to ship no lum
to Atlanta unlesson order, and they fur
mfri 10 hell only to dealers. The cotn-
f hnm the exchange extended an in vita
,.’ n 10 tne association to attend a meeting of
IT * xc .han*e. The following was offered and
; ItevAm td. That if necessary for the
Protection of the milling interest, we would
i vwtmuend uie organization ol a etock com
ITW owing
panr of the sawmill men. and open a lnmber
vara in Atlanta, to be conducted through an
agent to be elected by the board of five direc
tors. This stock company to advance a cer
tain per cent, of cash to the shipper,
and then hold the lumber until the company
can dispose of it to the dealers, and then they
will remit balance to shipper, retaining a
small per cent., which is to be used as a fund
to operate the business, and to defray inciden
tal expenses, etc. On motioD, the subject of
maturing a lumber yard or stock company
was deferred until the Dext meeting of the as'-
sociation. On motion, the board of five direc
tors was directed to prepare a circular let
ter to the mill men of Georgia and Alabama,
setting forth the objects, and requesting them
to meet the association on Aug. 21, 1834, at 2
o clock p. in. On motion, the temporary offi
cers were requested to act until the meeting
on Aug 21. at which time the association will
proceed to a permanent organization and
election of officers.
FLORIDA.
Sanford is to have the telephone.
The cotton crop looks well about Monti
cello.
A militia company is to be organized in
Micanopy.
Freight car thieves have been operating at
Gainesville.
There are seventeen prisoners in the
Gainesville jail.
The Marianna Timet has been enlarged to
an eight-page paper.
There are to be five steamers on the Chatta
hoochee river next winter.
The new dredge boat that is being built at
Tavares has been launched.
The post office at Crescent City has been
made a moucy order office.
Plenty of rain and consequently good crops
at McLeod's, in Dade county.
Mack White, of HeLeod’s, near Fort Dade,
has sold bis bearing orange grove for $3,000.
Work has been begun on the new planing
mill and sash and blind factory at Tavares.
The latest addition to Gainesville is Veitch
ville, a line liody of land lying south of the
union depot.
As Live Oak now has no school house, there
will be no more public schools taught in town
until there is one built.
It. McS.Byrne and Benjamin Robinson have
been nominated by the Democrats of Orange
county to represent them in the Legislature.
Enterprise is to have a Catholic church,
which, it is said, will lie an ornament to the
town. The workmen are engaged now in its
erection.
The erection of a large brick store has been
begun at Gainsville, and it is said that anew
hotel will be ready for guestg when the winter
influx begins.
Thomas Cronan, after a protracted spree,
killed himself by tiring a bullet into his (train
at Manville Friday morning. Despondency
ami a jilt led to the act.
The Fort Dade Agricultural and Horticul
tural Society will hold its next meeting at
Fort Dade Wednesday. Aug. ti. They will
have dinner on the ground.
George Center, the railroad agent at Mi
canopy. estimates the shipment of oranges
from that point the coming season at 2\ooo
boxes. The orange crop in that section is uu
usually good this year.
Micanopy Oaeette: The idea that figs will
not do well after being transplanted seems to
la* not well founded. The large tig tree which
stood for years beside the old Stoughton Hotel
was removed by Mr. Simon ton last January
to his lot. an<l lias astonished everybody with
the vigorous and rapid growth it' has since
made. It has a crop of thousands of tigs on it
now, which will soon be ripe.
Ja-per Timet: Buck Bohanan and John Jor
dan were out dipping turpentine the other
day, and saw a wild cat and gave it chase.
When they found they were out of caps, and
hail tret d’the “critter," Buck told John if he
would watch be would run home and gel caps.
So he ran a mile, and finding neither caps nor
matches begot an old flint, ran back and told
John to hold a dead aim on the cat, ho struck
his tinder over the tune of the gun. when
bang went the fuse, anil off jumped the cat;
whipped a dog and ran about fifty yards be
fore it fell dead. Only one shot struck it, and
that went through the heart.
l’alatka Herald : The Florida Steamship
Company, owners and managers of the steam
ship city of I’alatka, have ju t purchased the
iron steamer City of Norfolk now plying be
tween Morgan City, La., and Galveston,
Texas, and it is expected that she will arrive
here and be placed on the line between
Charleston and l'alatka on or before Sept. 15,
and run in connection with the steamship City
of Palatka, when each steamer will make one
round trip per week, touching at Savannah
ami Fernandina both ways. The City of Nor
folk is said to be atmut three years old. very
nearly the size of the steamer St. John’s and
buiit about on the same model. She is elegant
ly tilled up, has splendid accommodations for
one hundred first-class passengers, is in every
way seaworthy, having been built with a view
to running on the ocean.
Maitland correspondence Sanford Journal:
Our esteemed townsman. Capt. J. C. Eaton,
a day or two ago. received an orange tree
from Joppa, the ancient Joppa, the sea |>qrtof
Jerusalem, and forty miles distant from it.
Trie tree is about two years old; was sent in
the box in which the seed was sown, and al
though rather badly bruised in its travels
(plainly done after getting pretty well towards
its de>tination) has sigualized its arrival by
putting out anew and vigorous growth, be
ingstill rooted in the sacred soil. This tree
was sent a present to Capt. Eaton by Lieut.
Lowery, United States Navy, an old time
fried and shipmate. He sent it because after
y. ars of familiarity with oranges of the Med
iterranean ami South America, he thought
the Joppa oranges by all odds siijicrior to any
he had eaten eLewnere. It is to lie hoped
that in tnis manner may be introduced to
Florida anew and most valuable varietv.
Mr. Kedney.who is an expert in 6ueli matters,
declares tliat it has quite a different leaf from
that which is here sometimes called the
Joppa.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Several alligators have recently been killed
in Kershaw county.
The post office at Grant, in Marlboro county,
has lieen discontinued.
The Tirzali Bible Society, of Lancaster
county, was organized 27 years ago. .
The swamps and ranges in Marion county
arc said to alionnd iu deer and other game.
The little girls of Edgefield, ranging from
8 to 13 years of age, have organized a musical
club.
Sant Nimmons, colored, of Barnwell county,
has killed thirty-two hawks since January
last.
George Goshe, of Greenville, lost his house
and all it contained by an accidental fire last
week.
William Denton, of Lancaster county, has
a five-acre patch of cotton that he would not
sell for *3OO.
Less than *SO have been received by fines
by the town of Florence for violation of ordi
nances sinee April.
The race of the Carolina Yacht Club Satur
day for the English challenge cup was won
by the “All Revoir.”
There are S5 paupers in Beaufort county,
nearly all of whom are entirely dependent
U|H>n the county for support.
Lot* are now l*eing surveyed in the town of
Black's for the purpose of erecting two col
ored churches. Baptist and Methodist.
The Barnwell Sentinel advises the Governor
to offer a reward for the capture of Carson,
the fugitive murderer of Rev. John G.
Sessions.
The board of Directors of the Darlington
ManufacturingCotnpany issued a call for the
fourth installment of 10 per cent, on the capi
tal slock.
The i>each crop m the Camden section has
proven almost an utter failure, as nearly all
of the fruit has rotted upon the trees before it
could ripen.
Sirs. Felix McLarron. of Lancaster, was
stricken with paralysis while making her toi
let on Sunday morning last. She will proba
bly recover.
On July 26 Edward Wiley, colored, of Ker
shaw countv, gave his chilli a dose of lauda
num by mistake, thinking it was paregoric.
The child died in a short time.
Rev. O. M. Miller has resigned liis
pastoral relations with the Baptist Church at
Ninetv-Six. in Abbeville county, and also
with the Fellowship and Siloam."
J. M. l’idceon. of New York, denies that
lie has failed in business, and Baum. Marks 4
Cos., of Georgetown, say that thev have had
no dealings nor any connection with Pidgeon.
The lire which destroyed the residence of
Mr*. J. F. Nesmith, in Walhalla, on the night
of J uly 26. is now said to have been incendiary.
Several negroes have been arrested for the
commission of the crime.
John W. Rykard. of Abbeville, has invented
a car coupler which, it is said, is destined
to be of great value to the railway interest.
It couples itself, and can be uncoupled with
out going in between the cars.
A verv singular death occurred on Round
O, in Colleton county, last week. Jim Haines,
a negro boy. while riding a mule along the
the public road, for some unknown reason lost
his seat and fell, dislocating his neck.
Numerous arrests have been made in Gaff
nev City during the past week for stealing.
Two oi the business houses of the place claim
to have Wen missing good* from their stock
for some time, and traced it to a gang of little
colored urchins.
James Power, who lived near old Pickens
court house, in Pickens comity, to the ad
vanced age of S4 years, never in his long life
ttought a pound of baron or flour or a bushel
of corn, but always made a sufficiency of
these articles for home consumption.
The annual reunion of the Survivors of the
12th Regimoot. S. C. V., will lie held in Wal
halla on Aug. 21, which day will be the 23d
anniversary of the formation of the regiment.
The survivors of the 6th Regiment, S. C. V.,
will have their reunion in Winnsboro on
Aug. 21.
“The managers of the South Carolina Me
morial Association announce that the work
of removing the Confederate monument at
Columbia has been completed. Its proximity
to the State House rendered its former loca
tion dangeroqs. and it was determined to re
move it and to add to its height by a granite
platform.’’
At the last session of the an act
was passed authorizing the of
Georgetown to provide a system for the reg
istration of births, deaths and marriages
within tlieiimitsof Georgetown. At its meet
ing last Thursday the Council fixed the salarv
of the registrar at *2OO per annum, and elected
LeGrand G. Walker to the position.
It Is reported among the negroes is New
berry that a little negro boy, S or I# years old,
is missing from the Carr place, near Mount
Olire. The report saya that the boy’s mother
sent him after some dresses she had made;
that he got the dresses, but has not been heard
from since. His tracks were followed some
distance, and blood was found, indicating foul
play. The report U not credited.
CLERKS TO BE SQUEEZED.
REPUBLICANS FIND CHEERFUL
GIVERS VERY SCARCE.
The Sweetly Couched Appeal Proves
Such a Poor Magnet for Drawing
Shekels that Sterner Methods Will be
Resorted to—Blaine’s Peculiar Luck in
the Money-making Line.
Washington, Aug. 3.—The Republi
can squeezing committee has not re
ceived many contributions yet. Its mem
bers talk as though the clerks were
thronging their office to deposit their con
tributions, but they are not. The office is
empty most of the time, aud the commit
tee has taken in less than SSOO. The fact
is, the committee does not expect much
from its first move. A few hundred zeal
ous partisans may contribute a few hun
dred dollars, but there is a very great re
luctance among the clerks to respond to
the invitation of the committee to make
voluntary contributions this year. The
committee does not rely upon this. Con
tributions have always been obtained
heretofore by personal solicitation. Tbis
will be the method finally employed this
year. The present circular will be al
lowed to do what it will to remind
the clerk of his duty until Sept.
1, when a second circular will be
sent, couched in polite terms, ex
pressing surprise that no credit has yet
been placed opposite his name upon the
books of the Finance Committee. It will
close by informing the delinquent that
during the month an agent of the commit
tee will call at his residence to receive a
contribution. The committee do not think
that it will be necessary to call on every
one of the 5,000 or 6,000 clerks in Wash
ington. After a few' have been talked to
they will tell the others in their respec
tive rooms. The interviews will be pri
vate and the arguments will be effective.
When these visits are talked over in the
departments it is believed that the neces
sity for them will rapidly decrease.
Nevertheless no one will be neglected,
Democratic clerks will be visited as well
as Republicans. The record will be com
plete. In order to make these domicil
iary visits the city will be divided into
convenient districts and a person will be
assigned to each.
MEN HARD TO GET.
To get just the right kind of men for
this service occasions the committee
the most anxious thought. Iu 1880
there was not so much trouble. Men
were taken right from the body of the
clerks. They were selected by the bureau
chiefs. They ostensibly resigned from
duty, altnough some of them only took a
leave of absence for a month while col
lecting. They of course lost nothing by
either plan. They were paid a good com
mission on their collections, and were
thus encouraged to squeeze their fellows
as dry as possible. After the election
they were all reappointed, and most of
them were promoted. Unfortunately lor
the committee, the civil service law’ pre
vents the continuance of this practice.
If a man resigns now he cannot
get back again except through the
Civil Service examinations, so there will
be no clerks used to squeeze clerks this
year. To find just the right kind of col
lector* is going to worry the Finance
Committee, and Mr. Clapp’s thorough
acquaintance in the city will be needed to
secure just the right men. A coarse per
functionary dunning bill collector will
not do. The reluctant clerk would be
likely to slant the door in such a fellow’s
face, nr possibly have him arrested
as a blackmailer. What the com
mittee wants to find is a corps of
men of gentlemanly exterior somewhat
familiar with the workings of the
departments, with a personal knowledge
of the principal officials and with political
information enough to talk intelligently
with the victims. These are the qualifi
cations needed, but to men having them
the work will not be attractive. A
very good canvasser would, in all proba
bility, come in for a good consulship should
Mr. Blaine be elected.
But whether the committee is able to
get the ideal canvasser or not, the clerks
can lie assured that they are going to be
w'ell looked after in the next three months.
The committee indulge the hope that in
this way thev may get anywhere from
$60,000 to SIOO,OOO.
BLAINE AS A MONEY MAKER.
*57,000 Given to Him on One Occasion
Without His Risking: a Cent.
Washington, Aug. 3.— Somebody who
has a talent for minding other people’s
business has discovered that 31 r. Blaine
is indorsing over to Wm. Walter Phelps
the SIO,OOO checks which he is receiving
from the Norwich (Conn.) Publishing
Company that lately brought out his new
book, but they are worrying about a mat
ter of no consequence. Mr. Blaine has
never yet paid for the land on which his
new house is built in this city, and the
title of which still remains in the name of
Mr. Phelps. When the money is
paid and the Presidential election is
over a deed of the property from 3lr.
Phelps-to 3lr. Blaine will tie placed on
record. Speaking of Blaine’s SIO,OOO
checks reminds the News correspondent
that he has always made money very
easily. A venerable citizen of Boston
told the correspondent not long how
he was the means of putting $57,000 into
3lr. Blaine’s pocket without 3lr. Blaine
ever having invested or risked a cent.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
The gentleman referred to is J. 31. S.
Williams, who was the leading man in
the lowa Falls and Sioux City Rail
way. That road was built through
the’ usual instrumentality of a
construction company, and it did not
differ from the ordinary construction com
pany of the period. It was very profita
ble indeed. Mr. Williams allowed a fel
low-Baptist, ex-G Abner Coburn, of
3liune, to take stock in the construction
company to the amount of $228,000. 31r.
Coburn went in half for himself and half
for Blaine, he supplying all the money
required. By the time he had got $114,000
invested he had $228,000 to his credit. His
profits within a short period were 100 per
cent, and 3lr. Blaine received as a gift from
Messrs. Williams and Coburn the sum of
$57,000. The News correspondent does not
know whether the lowa Falls and Sioux
City Road ever required the assistance of
its friends. Had it done so, it is thought
that 3lr. Blaine would have found it
rather hard to “prove a deadhead in the
enterprise.”
THE IRISH QUESTION.
How tlio Constabulary Bill Passed—Da
vitt aud Parnell.
London, Aug. 3.—ln the House of Com
mons last night, previous to the vote on
the Irish constabulary bill, the adherents
of 3lr. l’arnell demurred to the provision
charging certain districts in Ireland for
extra police, and urged that the extra
force be either removed or their mainte
nance charged equally to the whole coun
try. The bill was finally passed by a vote
of 90 to 33.
DAVITT AND PARNELL.
The Observer says: “Though the
breach between 31r. Davitt’s party
and the Farnellites is temporarily
closed it is not healed. 31r. Parnell’s fol
lowers believe that 3lr. Davitt will take
his own course, and in the event of a gen
eral election prove a formidable oppo
nent.”
The Lydian Monarch Disabled.
Queenstown, Aug. 3.—The steamer
Austral which arrived here to-day from
New Y'ork reports that she spoke the
Monarch line steamer Lydian Monarch,
Cant. Huggett, which left London July 19
for New York on Thursday last In latitude
48 north and longitude 33 west, heading
southwest in a disabled condition. She
refused assistance.
Mr. Seacord, of Galesburg, Ills., who
was a passenger on the Lydiin 31onarch,
and who boarded the Austral, says that
the former vessel was disabled by the
bursting of her cylinder. Her Captain
tried to make arrangements with two
passing steamers to tow her into port, but
the price asked for such service was
deemed exorbitant, and assistance was
declined. She is proceeding slowly un
der sail.
Tlie Hill-Sharon Suit.
San Francisco. Aug. 3.—The Chron
icle publishes this morning a four-column
communication from William Keitson,
the original attorney for Miss Hill, in her
suit for divorce against ex-Senator Sharon.
After stating his reason for his with
drawal from the case, he reaffirms that
the word “wife,” in the “My Dear Wile”
letters is a forgery.
Half a Village in Kuins.
Binghamton, N. Y., Aug. 3.—Afton, a
thriving village twenty-eight miles from
this city, on the Albany road, was half
destroyed by fire this morning. The con
flagration started shortly after midnight
and raged for four hours’and a half. The
losses aggregate |75,000,
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1884.
VISITORS TO THE ARCTIC FLEET.
A Throng Surrounding the Vessel*
Throughout Sunday—To-Day’s Parade.
Portsmouth. N. H., Aug. 3.—Lieut.
Greely had a refreshing night’s sleep
last night and took a drive through the
navy yard and around the city to-day
with Admiral and Mrs. Wells. Ever
since early morning all sorts of water
craft have plied between the city and the
lower harbor laden with visitors to war
vessels lying at anchor. The interest, of
course, centered in the Artie fleet and it
is estimated that 8,000 or 9.000 persons in
spected the Bear, the Thetis and the
Alert to-day. The surgeons have decided
to perm it Lieut. Greely and his little party
'of survivors to take part in to-morrow’s
demonstrations. To-night the party
are apparently well and
in the best of spirits. The city is abso
lutely packed with strangers, and all the
hotels in this section have more atjplica
tions for rooms than they can possibly
fill. Nearly all the buildings in the city
are handsomely decorated, and it is ex
pected that to-morrow’s display will be
the most magnificent in the history of
Portsmouth. An immense crowd of peo
ple visited the vessels of the Greely relief
fleet until late this afternoon.
MARCH OF THE CHOLERA.
Decreased Deaths in France—ltalian
Villages iu a State of Excitement.
Paris, Aug. 3. — The Pope has directed
the Cardinals and Bishops now visiting
Rome to return to their dioceses to pre
pare for the appearance of cholera. The
Pope has presided at several conferences
of the clergy, which were called to decide
what relations the clergy should main
tain with the civil authorities in case of
an epidemic.
In the 24 hours ending at 9 o’clock
this evening 15 deaths from cholera had
occurred at 3larseilles.
There were no deaths from cholera at
Toulon to-day. Thirty cases were taken
to the hospitals for treatment.
Several cases of cholera have been re
ported to-day in various parts of Italy.
There have been many disorders at Borgo,
San Dalmazzo, the inhabitants believing
that the doctors and chemists poisoned a
girl who died there from cholera. Strin
gent orders have been issued by the gov
ernment that all linens arriving from
France shall be disinfected or burned.
NERVY WORK BY A GIRL.
A Story Showing How a Heart of Bet
ter Stuff than Oak May Beat Beneath
u Bodice,
Miss Ella 3lcCall, a young lady of this
city, says the Cincinnati Enquirer, has
suddenly become a heroine, having per
formed a feat requiring such bravery and
endurance as lew men possess. She lives
at No. 220 Longworth street, near Smith.
Saturday afternoon as she sat at her sew
ing she was startled by piercing screams
coming from the side yard. Rushing to
the window, she was in time to see
Frankie Parr, the 4-year-old child of the
servant employed in the family, disappear
down the eistgrn, the cap of which had
inadvertently been removed. It took her
but an instant to reach the opening,
where she could see the little fellow floun
dering about 8 feet below in 4 feet of
water. Unfortunately, she was alone iu
the house at the time. The little boy sank
below the surface, and there was no help
at hand to summon.
It was a time to rather than to
think, and without taking into considera
tion what might be the consequences to
liersell, 3liss McCall, without a moment’s
hesitation, grasped the rim of the cistern
and lowered herself through the orifice.
Hanging suspended at arm’s length for a
second, she dropped into the water, bare
ly missing the struggling and almost ex
hausted child. In striking the bottom,
she lost her footing and was herself sub
merged in the chilling water. She man
aged to get the boy into her arms in time
to save his life. She cried for assistance,
but no one beiug at home, no oue came.
She tried to attract the attention ot
passers-by on the street, but failed.
Courageously she stood in the water,
which reached above her waist, and held
up the boy, who was much too heavv a
load for her. She stood there for fully
half an hour. She was almost fainting
away and was chilled to the bone, when
help finally came in the person of her
mother, who had been away on an errand.
Help was quickly brought and a ladder
was lowered into the cistern. 3liss 310-
Call scarcely had strength left to haDd up
her charge, and had to be assisted to the
dry ground. Restoratives were at once
applied, ancl yesterday she was as well as
usual and able to receive the many con
gratulatory calls from her admiring
neighbors.
AN OLD MEXICAN TRAGEDY.
A Race Against Justice Overtaken at
Last.
High up in a canyon, about 60 miles
from 3lonterey, the traveler on the ferro
carril sees the ruins of an ancient “casa,”
whose crumbling walls are usually mis
taken for one oi the numerous fortifica
tions left in Gen. Taylor’s wake. But
this ghastly place has a sadder history.
It was the scene of a midnight tragedy,
the actors of which, if stories be true,
still prowl about the prem’ses, though
their bodies have been dust for a hundred
years. The history, in brief, is this: A
high-spirited Spaniard lived there, who
inherited all the jealousy, suspicion and
bad blood of his race. His beautiful wife
discarded another suitor to marry him,
and the jilted lover determined on revenge.
He acted the part of “lago,” and caused
“Othello’s” ear to be filled with cunning
talcs of liis own invention. Jealousy once
roused in Southern blood knows no
bounds but death. The infuriated hus
band carefully devised his plans—feigned
business in Monterey, but caused fleet
horses to be stationed every few miles
along the road. During the silent watches
of the night he returned, murdered his
wife in her bed, and by dint of hard rid
ing accomplished the 160 miles before
daylight. Being found in 3lonterey in the
morning, nobody suspected him of the
crime till, long afterward, discovering the
plot and his wife’s innocence, he plunged
his dagger into the enemy’s heart and
then into his own. The orphaned chil
dren were taken to Saltillo and cared for
by the church, and the descendants of the
actors in this “o’er true tale” to-day
represent one of the most prominent fami
lies in Coahuila. The deserted casa still
stands as a monument to the poor “Des
demonti,” and the venturesome who have
visited it assert that a “woman in white”
may be seen fluttering about the moldy
halls in the moonlight.
A PENNY AT A PREMIUM.
How the Washington Copper was Dis
covered and Saved.
John W. Hazeltine, the antiquary and
numismatist, tells a curious story, says
the Philadelphia Times, of his accidental
discovery of the General Washington
penny of New Jersey: “One day an old
man, a total stranger to me,” said Mr.
Haltine, “came into my place with a num
ber of old copper coins he wished to sell.
After a little discussion in regard to price
I bought the lot, which seemed to consist
altogether ot trash, at the rate of about 2
cent 9 apiece. They were dirty and in
very poor condition. After they had
been washed and the acids applied, I dis
covered this one, the only one of its kind,
to my knowledge, in existence. Dr. Maris
came in to see me a few days after this,
and I offered him the coin for
S4O. He refused to give more
than S3O, and when he came back
the next day to give me my own price for
it, 1 told him I had been thinking all night
about that penny, and it should’nt go lor
less than SIOO. lids made him angry, and
he Went away. I sold it in New York two
weeks afterward for $l5O. This was eight
years ago. After the man who bought it
died his collectien passed into the hands of
L. G. I’armelee,of Boston,who paid $640 for
it. This gentleman possesses the finest cab
inet of coins in the United States. It con
tains more unique specimens than half a
dozen other cabinets put together, and
must have cost him not less than $50,000.
It couldn’t be bought for $100,000.”
Condition of the Cotton Crop.
New Orleans, Aug. 3.—H. and B.
Beers’ cotton crop reports just published
show that the crop in the various States
progresses favorably, but is about two
weeks late as compared with last year.
The indications are that there will be a
good sized crop. In portions of South
western Texas rain is very much needed,
but throughout the State generally there
have been beneficial rains within the
week just closed.
The nutritive properties of Golden’s
Liquid Beef Tonic sustain the body
without solid food, Golden's j mother,
HOTEL WALLS TUMBLE IN
SEVEN PERSONS HURRIED BE
NEATH THE DEBRIS.
Three ot Them Rescued but In
jured—The Fate of the Other Four in
Doubt—The Dilapidated United States
Hotel at Washington the Scene of the
Disaster.
Washington, Aug. B.— The back part
of the United States Hotel, a building sit
uated on Pennsylvania avenue, a short
distance west of the capitol, fell in with
out warning this evening, and buried in
the ruins a number of inmates. The
building has a frontage of 125 feet cn the
avenue, and depth of 185 feet,
the rear end opening upon
an alley leading from Third
to Four-and-a-balf street. A small por
tion of the rear wall first gave way and a
general collapse of the whole rear portion
immediately followed, sending up a great
cloud of dust. A general fire alarm was
sounded, which brought to the scene of
the disaster a number of fire engines and
hook and ladder companies and a force of
police.
BURIED IN THE RUINS.
There were about forty-five persons in
the hotel at the time the disaster occurred,
including guestc :..sd employes. It was
impossible at first to ascertain how many
were buried in the mass of debris, which
occupied the ground upon which the rear
portion of the building had stood.
Cries and groans could be heard
from the ruins, showing that all who
were there imprisoned were not dead.
A large force of men went to work at
once, and in the course of an hour Ernest
Snooks, a boy 11 years of age, and Annie
Dickson, a colored chambermaid, were
taken out, both alive but badlv injured.
In the meantime it had been ascertained
that the number of persons buried in the
ruins did not probably exceed seven, viz.:
3lrs. Belden, wife of the proprietor.
Earnest Snooks, a boy 11 years of age,
son of a restaurant keeper next door.
Five colored servants.
It is feared that those who have not yet
been rescued are dead.
NO GUESTS INJURED.
Part of the building which fell con
tained chiefly rooms appropriated to the
use of employes of the hotel, and it is be
lieved that none of the guests have been
either killed or injured.
The United States Hotel is one of the
oldest structures in the city, and is said
to have been for a long time in an unsafe
condition. The barkeeper is reported to
have made complaint to the Inspector of
Buildings some tlays ago with regard to
its condition, dangerous cracks in the
walls having become visible on the out
side. The portion which fell wa9 erected
about twenty-five years ago and was five
stories in height.
BUNGLING WORK IN THE RUINS.
The search for bodies was bunglingly
managed. The men worked slowly, em
barrassed by the crowd which thronged
upon them. You could hear the feeble
voices of some of the men and women
through the piles of debris as the men
paused in their work. They were taken
out more dead than alive. ’3lrs. Belden,
the wife of the proprietor of the hotel, was
taken out in a ghostlike con
dition. She will probable die. The
occurrence attracted an immense
crowd, which remained around
the hotel until after midnight. The hotel
was a cheap establishment recently noto
rious as the place where Iveifer plotted
Boynton’s destruction with his friend
Elder and the other perjured witnesses.
An enterprising electric light company
had two lights in position at midnight.
THREE RESCUED FROM THE DEBRIS.
Up to midnight but three persons had
been taken out of the ruins, all of tljem
alive. These were the lad Snooks, Anna
Dickson, a chambermaid, and Mrs. Bel
den, the wife of the proprietor of the hotel.
The latter was rescued at 11:30 o’clock,
after having been imprisoned four
hours. She was on the first floor
ot the back building and was
caught in a narrow Vshaped space formed
by part of the second floor resting in a
slanting position against a side wall.
After the firemen and volunteers had
worked two hours digging down into the
debris from the surface a force of fire
men, under Capt. Cronin, entered
from the front of the build
ing, against the back of which
timbers and bricks had partly lodged, and
bearing groans, worked their way back
by removing timbers and supporting
others. They finally got near enough to
see 31rs. Belden and talk with her, and
eventually to hand her some water and
whisky.
HELD FAST BY HER CLOTHES.
She was not crushed, but held down by
her clothes and penned in by fallen tim
bers. Jacks were brought and the weight
held up while saws and axes were used
to cut a way to her. At last the rescuers
got close enough to cut her clothing away,
when they were euabled to extricate her.
She was apparently not severely injured,
but very much exhausted and fainted as
she was carried out. In the meantime
men at work on the surface of the ruins
continued their labors to which
they were every now and then stimulated
by groans and appeals of at least two
persons who were beneath the mass of
rubbish. About 12 o'clock the rescuers
talked with one of the imprisoned men,
who said that he was not badly hurt, but
was held by his arm being’caught be
tween two joists. He was told to keep
up his courage, and firemen are now
working vigorously to get to him.
CLEVER IKE HILL DEAD.
A Man Who Has Saved Many a Member
of Congress from Disgrace.
The evening papers, says a Wash
ington special of Aug. 1, announce
the death of Col. Isaac Hill, of New
ark, Ohio, to-day. This removes
one of the most familiar figures
from the national boards. “Col. Ike,” as
he was called, was probably the best
known public man in Washington, where
he has been prominent for the past ten
years. He was Assistant Sergeaut-at-
Arms of the House of Representatives
when he died. This does not convey the
precise status of the man here. He was
the most noted Democratic “whip”
that ever kept his party in the
legislative traces. When a sudden squeeze
would come the Democratic leaders
would always exclaim: “Where’s Ike
Hill?” and rely upon his tact and in
genuity to get the scattered votes to
gether. This trick he had learned by his
strong political instincts, which ran in
practical channels. Nobody knew’ bet
ter than the personal habits of the
Those of his own side he
knew peiiMUly, every one, before the
end of thewst month of the session. He
knew where to find them. The clever de
vices adopted to secure immunity from
an all-night session were of no use when
Hill undertook to find those who attempted
to escape. He was the practical man of
his party the opposition had always to
combat. *
He was a big-hearted, generous fellow
and bad many friends on the Republican
side, especially among the easy-going,
poker-playing set. 31any a member on a
spree had been saved from disgrace by
Hill’s precautions, aud in all the personal
courtesies of life he knew no party bar
riers. On one notable occasion Hill la
bored all day and all night with a South
ern member of the Forty-sixth Congress,
on the verge of the delirium tremens, to
prevent him from shooting a correspon
dent who had been giving an account
of his antics in the House, and
Ike was successful. It nearly broke
his heart at the way certain members
of the Ohio delegation treated him
when he came back to Washington penni.
less, seeking the position of Assistant
Sergeant-at-Arms. There was a rival
candidate from Ohio and the delegation
split between the two. Ike, however, was
backed by influences which compelled the
opposition to come to him and thus won
after a bitter fight. He had gone to Ohio
to assist his party in organizing the State
campaign. His’ tall, stoop-shouldered
figure and homely face will be missed by
many friends here and the services he has
rendered his party in Congress will he ap
preciated now poor Ike has gone.
Stanley at Ostend.
Ostend, Aug. 3.— Henry M. Stanley,
the explorer, who arrived here yesterday
was received with enthusiasm. M.
Strauck, President of the African Inter
national Association, met Mr. Stanley on
the arrival of the steamer, and King
Leopold and Due d’Aumale were present
at a banquet given in hishonor last night.
Drowned.
London, Aug. 3.—The English steamer
Dione, from London for Middlesborough,
has been sunk in a collision in the Thames.
Seventeen persons were drowned.
An American Frigate Ashore.
London, Aug. 3.— An American frig
ate, believed to be the war steamer Lan
caster. is ashore southwest of Shingle
Bank.
THE OTSEGO LAKE SUICIDE.
Dramatic Death of Young Steers in
Sight of His Lady Love.
The News contained a dispatch a ‘day
or two ago relative to the shooting of Ed
ward C. Steers, of Louisiana. .At the
time the dispatch was sent it was’thought
that the shooting was accidental. It
seems that it was suicidal. The follow
ing is a fuller account of the sad affair:
The guests and residents at Richfield
Springs, N. Y., were startled Friday
morning on learning that Edward C.
Steers, a young society man, son of Schuy
ler B. Steers, the richest man in Louisi
ana, who has an income of $40,000 a year,
had committed suicide on the dock at
Ilyde Hall, on account of the refusal of
Miss Tese White to marry him. Miss
\v hite is a tall and pretty girl, 21 years of
age, and above all a cousin of Pell Clarke
and Hyde Clarke, who inherited 00,000
acres of land from George Clarke, who
received it from George 111. through his
lather’s wife, who was a countess. Tne
Clarkes go in the verv best society here.
They are courted and invite dozens of
people to their mansions on Otsego Lake.
Hyde Hall is a stately old mansion nest
ling in a nook and surrounded with ior
ests of fruit and shade trees. Miss Tese
White has been a frequent visitor at her
cousin’s. Steers has been furnished with
everything he wished by his father.
The suicide was dramatic in the ex
treme. Thursday was the twenty-first
birthday of young Steers, and inviting
Wilson Curtis, son of Judge Curtis, of
Cooperstown, they visited Miss White.
With her and two lady companions they
went across the lake to enjoy a picnic in
the grove opposite Hyde Hall, with the
subsequent intention of taking tea at
Hyde Clarke’s. After their meal Steers
got into his boat with Miss White, while
Curtis took the other two young ladies.
Steers hurried across the bav and jumping
on the dock assisted Miss White to alight.
He then said:
‘•Tese White, I ask you once for all, will
you marry me?”
“Aou know I cannot,” was her reply.
“Then I will shoot myself,” and pulling
a revolver from bis pocket he shot him
self under the right eye, the ball passing
out the top of the skull, death being in
stantaneous. The lady rushed up to Hyde
Hall for help and Curtis jumped to the
dock. The body was covered with leaves
and evergreens and left lying on the dock
nearly all the afternoon as it fell with pis
tol in hand until the Coroner from Coop
erstown could be summoned by boat eight
miles distant. Steers’mother is prostra
ted with grief. He was her only child.
DYNAMITE FOR CUBA.
The Discoveries Made by Agents of the
Government.
Information was sent to the State De
partment at Washington some time ago,
from New Orleans and Key West, Fla.,
says the NewY'ork Times of the 24th inst.,
that a large quantity of dynamite was
being bought in New Y ork for shipment
to Cuba to aid in the proposed insurrec
tion. This information being communi
cated to the Treasury Department, special
agents were sent to investigate the matter.
They have completed their investigation
and are now preparing their report.
It was ascertained that a supply station
had been established at Nassau. West
Indies, by the leaders of the insurrection
movement. This station is said to be in
charge of Gen. Aguylera, Gen. Alaceo,
and Gen. Bonarez, all of whom have been
in the habit of making occasional trips to
this city. The supplies which are being
accumulated at Nassau are under the
personal charge of an Alsatian named
Lasseure. During the past few months
agents of the insurrectionists have lieen
actively engaged collecting provisions
and ammunition iu this country and
shipping them to Nassau. The special
government agents discovered recently
that 50 pounds of dynamite had been pur
chased from a large chemical house in the
lower part of the city, for shipment to
Cuba or Nassau. Certain circumstances
led the officers to suspect that this was
designed for the uses of warfare by the
Cuban rebels. Subsequently it was
learned that the same firm front which the
50 pounds of dynamite was purchased had
received orders from the same suspicious
buyers for 1,000 pounds more. The addi
tional order has not yet been filled, how
ever, as the question of the respective
quantities in which the explosive stuff
shall be supplied has not yet been settled.
The result of the investigation will be
reported to the Treasury Department, and
from there to the State Department. The
officers who have been working up the
case had no authority to seize any of the
dynamite or to make arrests. A gentle
man who has given some attention to this
matter said that there were ample indica
tions that dynamite was being bought in
this city by the agents of insurrectionists
and plotters in more than one foreign
country.
THE VANDERBILT SKELETON.
How Col. Vanderbilt Allen Abused His
Pretty Wife.
3lrs. Edith Allen, the wife of Col. Van
derbilt Allen, a nephew of the late Com
modore Y’anderbilt, recently begun suit at
New York for a limited divorce from her
husband, charging him with cruelty and
inhuman conduct. The suit came up be
fore Referee YV iekes yesterday, and Mrs.
Allen was placed on the witness stand.
She is a handsome brunette, with hazel
brown eyes, and her husband, who
watched her during the examination, is a
fine-looking gentleman, wfth iron-gray
hair and black moustache. The first testi
mony which she gave tending to show his
cruelty was the assertion that he snored
so' loudly that he awoke the baby, and
when she remonstrated with him he
threatened to kick her out of bed. This,
she said, induced her to bring the suit.
For awhile after their marriage they lived
magnificently in a splendid mansion in
Philadelphia, but the Colonel became in
volved in financial difficulties and money
gave out. They then went to Cape 31 ay,
where they sojourned in a boarding house
at the rate of $7 per week apiece, but the
plebian surroundings of this place grated
upon her nerves, and they next took up
quarters in New York. Later she dis
covered a note signed by 3lrs. Edith De
Belleville, the actress, in Mr. Allen’s
pocket, regretting that the writer could
not keep an appointment with him. Mrs.
Allen then concluded that a referee
would have to decide the differences be
tween herself and her husband, although
he denied any wrong-doing. They sepa
rated meanwhile, and finally she brought
this suit. Since the separation she .has
been supported by her brother, and it
costs her %10 per week to live, which is
the least she can exist upon, and she
always refers to the Cape 3lay boarding
house with horror and disgust.
A WHALE AT CLOSE QUARTERS.
A Monarch of the Deep Racing With a
Schooner.
On Tuesday morning, about 0 o'clock,
says a Block Island letter to the Hartford
Courant, the schooner Hattie Rebecca,
Capt. Edwin A. Dodge, sailed from the
basin with a sword-lishing party composed
of Judge Q. P. Hawes and two sons, New
York city; John G. Croxton, Philadel
phia; Henry E. Marvin, Toledo, 0., and
Edwin Fowler, St. Louis. At about 6:30,
when about two miles oft' Southeast Point,
and sailing southeasterly under an eight
knot breeze from the west, a whale sud
denly rose and spouted about 600 yards
ahead, a little to the left. He remained
above the water only a few seconds, and
was next seen just a'head of the bowsprit,
headed directly towards the vessel, of
which he was evidently atraid, for he in
stantly plunged downward again. Wnile
under watei this time he turned complete
ly around and reappeared a minute later
less than fifty feet away swimming for
nearly two minutes in the same direction.
This time he rose well out of water and
showed nearly his full length, extending
in both directious beyond the schooner,
which is forty-six feet‘long. All on board
agreed that he was fully seventv feet in
length. The whale soon distanced the
schooner in the race, and, diving once
more, was more than a mile to seaward or
the vessel when he spouted again.
The Escaped Apaches.
Galveston, Aug. 3.-A special from
Van Horn,Tex., says: “Capt.McMurray,
with a company of State Rangers, arrived
here this morning. He was joined by a
number of cowbovs, and started in pur
suit of the escaped Apaches. A company
of cavalry has arrived at Camp Rice, and
is now awaiting orders. The Indians have
taken a northerly course, and the Rangers
are closely pursuing them. The Texas
Pacific Railroad Company has lurnished
a special train for the n)ove(nent of troops
along Its line.’ 1
WATCHING THE CAMPAIGN
BLAINE’S FRIENDS HOPING HE
WILL TAKE THE STUMP.
Cnpopularity of Scurrilous Tactics—A
Letter that Gov. Cleveland Threw In
His Waste Basket—No Mud-Slinging
on the Part of the Democrats.
It is beginning to be believed here, says
a Washington special to the New York
Times, that the magnetic presence of Mr.
Blaine himself will be needed to give en
thusiasm to the Irish-American cause,
and that he will take the stump, together
with Gen. Logan, early in September. It
is intimated that this subject of a personal
canvass has been serlouslv discussed by-
Mr. Elkins and the other Blaine
managers, and feelers have been thrown
out for the purpose of ascertain
ing how the public would take this
innovation upon, the campaign
methods of recent years. It has been al
leged that all the advantage which might
be derived from such an innovation would
be on the Blaine side, for Gov. Cleveland,
occupying a position which requires all
his time and personal attention, could not
aftord to neglect his Official duties, even if
his personal claims have to sutler in con
sequence. Neglect of official duty or dis
honesty in its discharge, it is hardly nec
essary to say, has never been charged
against him, and he will be unlikely to
lay the basis for either charge during this
campaign.
Some of Mr. Blaine’s friends are criti
cising the management of his campaign
already, alleging that although the cam
paign is not opened, nor can it be con
sidered as fairly begun until Mr. Cleve
land’s letter of acceptance appears, all
the ammunition that can be used against
New Y ork’s Governor has been discharged
already, and nothing can be said
against him that has not already been re
peated until its novelty is worn off, and
three long, weary months intervene be
fore the November election. The necessi
ty of injecting sky rocket material into
the campaign has suggested the ap
pearance of the Republican candidates on
the stump. Regrets are expressed bv the
baser following of the Irish-
American cause that the introduc
tion ol' scandalous matter was not
delayed until late in the campaign,
then to be sprung as the 3lorey letter was
four years ago. The Democrats are natu
rally exceedingly angry at the sort of tac
tics which has been introduced into the
canvass, and which has been “deplored”
by the Blaine press with a hypocrisy that
is as skillful as it is genuine. The appear
ance of a clergyman or two upon the
scene who countenanced this subterra
nean warfare leads Washington people to
rub their eyes and look over the recent
past, when enough occurs to them to sat
isfy tqem that, in spite of protestations to
the contrary, a direct line of communica
tion has all along been established be
tween one of the clergymen and the Elkins
camp. In stalwart hands the manage
ment ef Presidential campaigns of yore
was not snch as to draw a blush to the
cheeks of members of the party. Only
the unskilled would be guilty of such a
blunder.
It is well known that the mail of Gov.
Cleveland has been loaded down with let
ters since his nomination. Not the least
emphatic of his correspondents has an
nounced his readiness and his ability to
furnish affidavits of persons high in the
educational ranks of Kentucky supple
mented by affidavits made in another and
more easterly State which would forever
set at rest some questions which
have been mooted in YVashington, such
for instance as whether two pistols are
more effective than one in constituting
marriage contracts, or whether pistols
ought to he employed at all
even by enraged relatives, or whether
young people should or should not
have guardians all their young lives.
The letter, which was remarkably ex
plicit, and which was written by are
sponsible man of the world, was thrust
into the Governor’s waste basket. It is
perfectly safe to say that neither he nor
his immediate friends will lend them
selves to the circulation of stories about
any Republican candidate, no matter
how well founded they are nor how
numerous may be the affidavits of those
who are ready to swear to certain acts of
certain people which come under their
observation, and which few journals are
likely to publish even in a mud-slinging
campaign.
GOV. ST. JOHN SPEAKS.
Arraigning the Republican Party for
its Misdeeds—Logan’s Black Law.
The St. John circuit of temperance
camps, says a Port Jervis special to the
New York Sun, was opened here ou Tues
day last in the 3lethodist Church. The
first speaker was ex-Gov. John P. St.
John ot Kansas, the Prohibitionist nomi
nee lor President. In the afternoon he
addressed a large audience, which had
assembled in a heavy rain storm, on the
evils of licensing and the enormity of the
crimes that had cursed our nation
through the liquor traffic. In the evening
a larger audience assembled, and Gov.
St. John spoke of the political aspect ol
the question, and arraigned the Republi
can party for the misrule that has charac
terized its work for the past twenty
years. We quote his words:
“I have been a Republican all my life
up to the 4th of last month, nut 1 have
never lost an opportunity to say or do a
good deed for this great cause of prohibi
tion. When the Republican party met at
Chicago to select candidates lor President
and Vice President last month, they were
waited upon by the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union, a band of brave
women having at heart the advancement
of the race, and the Republican party
failed to take any recognition of them. The
day after the nominations were made I
told my wife 1 would never again vote the
Republican ticket, and all my exertions
would be for this grand cause of prohibi
tion. Neither party dared to take un this
great issue for fear of losing the wuisky
vote. Shame, shame on our political par
ties. I used to lay awake nights, when I
lived in the border towns and was a Re
publican, hating Democrats and Demo
cratic principles. Since the 4th of last
month I have made up my mind that Re
publican whisky is as bad as Democratic
whisky, if not worse. The Republican
party is false to all the teachings ad
vanced and inculcated when that grand
old party went into power.
“ There was a law once in force in Illi
nois to the effect that any white person
caught in the act of giving aid or suste
nance to any colored man, woman or
child should be arrested, and, upon proof
of the charge, should be thrown into prison
for two years. I was practicing law at
that time in an Illinois town, when a lit
tle colored lad came to my house and said:
‘Please, mister, won’t you give me some
thing to eat? I haven’t had anything to
eat in two days.’ 1 called my wife and
told her to get the boy a big slice of bread,
butter it all over, and get some meat.
‘Would it not be better,’ she said, ‘to
have the boy come into the house, as
everybody seems to be watching
us?’ I said: ‘No, I want this peo
ple to 6ee that 1 am not afraid
to give and sustain any of God’s poor un
fortunates.’ The grand jury was in ses
sion at the time, and an indictment was
soon fonnd against me for giving suste
nance to a negro. I was accordingly ar
rested and brought before the court, and
pleaded guilty to the charge, and stated
in open court that I would do so again,
and whenever I found the laws of man in
terfering with the laws of God I would
violate the human law every time. The
testimony given had the desired effect,
and the court announced to the packed
court house that he found the prisoner at
the bar ‘Not guilty of the charge,’ and I
was set free. The man who was the
prime mover and factor in the passage of
this bill was none other than John A. Lo
gan, the nominee for Vice President of the
Republican party.”
Child With a Double Braiu.
A child with two brains, says the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, is the latest treak
of nature in Nebraska. It was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kuerwitz, of Spring
Creek Precinct, near Hebron, July f6, but
only lived two days. On the back of its
head was a tumor, eleven and a half
inches In circumference, connected with
the real head by a ligament six inches
long. Drs. Easton and Bristol, of He
bron, who made a post-mortem examina
tion. found the supposed tumor to be a
second head, supplied with an active
brain, scalp, etc., and lacking only the
face development. Through the ligament
between the two heads was an artery en
tering the real head through a small ap
erture near the first vertebrae. Photo
graphs of the monstrosity have been taken
and will be sent to the Journal of the
American Medical Association at Chicago.
With Durkee’s Salad Dressing there is
no waste or disappointment. You are
certain to produce a good salad. It costs
less than home-made, and is, besides, a
superb table dressing,
“A MAN OF DESTINY.”
This U Abram S. Hewitt’s Ascription
to Grover Cleveland.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Immediately after the Friday morning
session of the National Convention in
which Gov. Cleveland was nominated,
Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, and Gen.
Butler met in a hall of the Palmer House.
To a question of Hewitt as to what he
would do, Butler answered he had not
yet made up his mind. Hewitt then
spoke as follows:
‘‘Gen. Butler, I have been an interested
observer of your career for a quarter of a
century. I have never known of a man
or measure you were afraid to antago
nize. You have gained victories, but
have also met defeats. Now let me ad
monish you against opposition to this
man Grover Cleveland; it will meet only
disaster. I have not always admired
him. A year ago 1 rather'derided the
mention of him for this candidacy; in
deed, I had some anticipation of its com
ing to me, and there were dozens of older
and more experienced Democratic leaders
more deserving the honor than
Cleveland. But within the year I have
noted him well, and my estimate of him
has been changed. He is really a won
derful man—fully equipped tor the Presi
dency. But more: I look upon him as a
man of destiny. I believe he has been
selected by Almighty God as a special
agent for defeating the Republican party
and reforming the administration of this
government.”
The ioregoing conversation is here
printed for the first time. Of course, 3lr.
Hewitt’s ascription to Cleveland of the
mystic hold upon fortuitous fate is not
argument. The supporters of the Repub
lican candidate would find in any faith of
Cleveland’s success grounded on the
“star of destiny” idea a weak supersti
tion to laugh at; though, iu truth, such a
faith would be no less absurd than the
imagination which parades that invisible
iu war and invincible in peace as Abe
“plumed knight.”
hieverthelese, it is worth noting that
there have been men whose triumphs
have seemed to be guided by what we
term destiny. The first Napoleon fully
believed his achievements so directed.
Richelieu, the great Cardinal of France,
claimed to be proof from harm by violent
bands, declaring “the stars have said it.”
In our own age Ulyses S. Grant, with less
military experience and less renown than
other as brave and sagacious Generals,
passed over them all to the commander
ship of them all. By many he was termed
a man of destiny.
Call it what you will—fortune, fate,
destiny or special Providence—there is
back of some men an impelling current
setting to preferred harbors. Vanderbilt
and Gould were never brainier, more in
dustrious nor more ambitious for wealth
than thousands about them who have
never accumulated a half hundred thou
sand. Abraham Lincoln had never been
the most ijetive or noted worker in the
abolition cause, whose adherents selected
him tor their candidate. James A. Gar
field was less prominent than several
Republican leaders over whose candida
cies he was chosen by his party in. 1880.
Whatever be this subtle element, Gro
ver Cleveland has been its beneficiary. It
has sent offices and honors in quest of
him, not waiting for him to go in quest of
them. From the retirement of a quiet
profession he was called to reform the
administration of a considerable city, and
performed the trust. From that .Mayor
alty he was elevated for a like purpose to
an office which in its exactions and ex
tent of bestowment of patronage is second
only to that ol the Presidency; and now,
for the same work of reform, one of the
great national parties has selected him as
its standard-bearer. His star has been
steadily in the ascendant. Fortune, fate,
destiny or special Providence—call it
what pleases each —has crowned his
former nominations with victory, and it
appears to be still lending him its good
right hand.
POLYGAMOUS DOMESTIC LIFE.
How They Oct Along; with Two or More
Women.
The private home routine of a polyga
mous family, says Ernest Ingersoll in
Harper's Magazine , is a matter upon
which so much curiosity is constantly
expressed by my acquaintances that I
venture to say here what little I know;
but the reader must remember that less
than 10 per cent, of the voting Mormon
population of Utah are polygamists. The
polygamist, as a rule, has accumulated
some property and. owns a house before
he takes a second and successive wives,
though sometimes he begins by marrying
two or three at once. All of these mar
riages, however, except the first, are made
secretly by the church, and no record of
them is accessible. In the city, at least,
it is seldom that the different wives share
the same quarters. In the country this is
not so uncommon, but the natural un
pleasantness follows in most cases. The
general method is to have a large house,
the main part of which, perhaps, is occu
pied by the first wile, and wings or addi
tions by the successive candidates for
marital honors. These large, straggling,
hotel-like houses arc common in Salt Lake
City, and mark a difference between it,
and a town of small houses like Cheyenne
and most other Western villages.
In many cases, however, the husband
sets up his wives in separate homes,
either side by side or in different parts of
the city. In any case, each has her own
kitchen-garden, etc. I have in mind a
wealthy dignitary of the church whom
you might easily have mistaken for the
late Peter Cooper, and who is possessed
of seven wives. Each of these women has
some farming and garden ground of her
own, and all are greatly devoted to rear
ing bees. With the help of their grown
children they each raise a large amount
of produce- and honey annually. The
husband acts as their agent. He hives
their swarms ot bees and charges them
for it; he renders special aid when
called upon, and is paid for it; he sells
their crops and honey when it is
ready, and credits each wife with
her due share. Most of them live
in suits of apartments under the
roof of his great house in town, but the
first wife has a beautiful farm of her own
a little out of the city, to which she and
her children have retired, to end their
days in peaceful independence. The way
in which this old gentleman has always
arranged his domestic life is reported to
be thus; He had certain rooms in his
house where he kept his bod, his ward
robe, his books, and saw any visitors who
called upon him. Here he was a bachelor,
and here he staid every other day and
night. On alternate days and nights he
was the guest of one or another of his
wives in regular rotation, devoting the
one day (in this case fortnightly) which
was hers, diligently to her society. Of
course this routine w’as not invariable, but
for the most part It was regularly fol
lowed.
TEACHING TELEPHONERS.
‘‘What are Ye Hivin’ Us,” and Like
Slang Untelephonic.
When the telephone was first brought
into public notice, says the Electrician,
a great number of purposes which might
be served by it naturally suggested them
selves to those interested in the promo
tion of the invention, but not until re
cently, so far as we know, has it been
used as an argument in favor of the higher
education of the masses. We have ob
served, however, that considerable atten
tion is now being devoted to the question
of the propriety of educating telephone
subscribers; but, it does not yet fappear to
be fully decided whether it is' most ad
visable that the contract should be award
ed 0 the day schools or to the Sabbath
schools. The opinion, however, is gradu
ally gaining ground that a full and ef
.ective educational course must neces
sarily embrace both secular and relig
ious instruction in order to meet all
the peculiar requirements of the ease.
Everyone must have observed the
universal use in telephony of the sin
gular expletive, “hello,” whose etymol
ogy is obscure and uncertain, but which
is well ascertained to have no authentic
foundation in classical literature, and
have also perceived that it is frequently
received by telephonic listeners in the re
verse order of its syllables. This phe
nomenon is supposed to be due to the re
flection of the sonorous vibrations from
the organs of speech of careless, impa
tient and ignorant subscribers, and is cer
tainly a strong argument in favor of a re
ligious education. Surelv, it is a matter for
profound regret that the telephone should
deteriorate into an approved medium for
the circulation of extra-dictionary words,
or, in short, slang; and the frequent
transmission to the central office of such
?& Ct *° nabie and literate phases as
“What are ye givin’ us?” *‘Oh, take
your moustache out of your mouth, and I
can hear you better,” etc., have no doubt
given rise to the proposed plan of tele
pifomc education.
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TRIP OF TIIE TWO LEPERS
DR. O’DONNE LI, TAKES THEM TO
NEW YORK IN A BOX CAR.
No Exhibition to be Allowed liy the City
Authorities Cases not at all Uncom
mon in San Francisco— The Doctor’s
Explanation of the Nature of the IJls.
ease.
Dr. C. C. O Donnell, who claims to have
brought two Chinese lepers from San
Francisco, and who wants to lecture in
the open air against the Chinese and on
leprosy, says a New York special of Aug.
1 to the Philadelphia Times , could not get
permission to-day from any of the author
ities. He wrote to the Board of Health
that he had brought on his lepers and
invited the board to call on him at the
hotel if they had any objections to offer.
Lp to i o’clock nobody came.
“You don’t know anything about the
horrors of leprosy in the East here,” he
said to a reporter, “and I wanted to tell
you something about them, so that public
sentiment would drive out the filthy Chi.
u e ®?. 1 s! “Pl'cd these two lepers from
Satu f rdftv a °Th he Ce , ntral l>aoitic road last
Satui day. The contractors put them on a
freight car all by themselves, and
ton a Af U n£,ih di 3F through to Washing-
A 1 °. maba were switched off on
to the Rock Island road to Chicago. The
Chicago newspaper men saw them, but
nnf nf h ont es ",° 1 ul(,n ' t let me take them
out of the car. I lectured in the streets
though, on Saturday, Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday, to tremendous crowds. If
theauthorities here to-day had let me ex
hibit them you would have seen the live
liest sensation the metropolis has ever
in'lllfcT - , 1 M (,uld navo Paraded them
in the streets, the same as I did fifteen
leprous egarmakers in Judge Ferrill’s
1 olice Court m San Francisco. I was im
prisoned for contempt for doing it ”
“Who are these lepers’”
“Woo Liu and Ah Chili. Ah Chin is 27
jeais old. He was a servant, and has
been a leper for five years. Woo Lin made
overalls, is 31 years old, and has had lep
tures ” r BeVen yearS ’ Here art ' their pic-
Dr. O’Donnijfcjieid up two photographs,
tfijUPease-eaten faces of two
disfigured iming Chinese.
“But suppose you had spread leprosy
the people in such an exhibition?”
„, ere mno danger, so long as you do
" eper - T f?G disease is conta
?. i*9, but sale to exhibit under restric
tions. Jusi before I left San Francisco I
counted 210 lepers. I went among them
gloves on mv hands and a
of carbolic acid, creosote and
oil of the eucalyptus tree. Leprosy is ab
solutely incurable and is on the increase
in California. The lepers hide in dark,
damp cellars, where the sunlight never
penetrates. The light of day seems to
bund then-sight and aggravates the itch-
P ain accompanies the disease.
White people have caught the disease
from contact with the patients. The
lepers I have with me receive their food
raw and prepare it themselves. They are
too indolent to care to move and as long
as they have sufficient to eat and drink it
is all they ask. They are under the influ
ence of morphine a considerable part ot
the time.”
AVOMEN AND HORSES.
No Sympathy to Waste on Poor Human
ity.
1 met accidentally in Scotland recently
a lady ot the small landlord class, says
Henry George in Nineteenth Century, and
the conversation turned upon tne poverty
of the Highland people. “Yes, they are
poor, ’ she said, “but they deserve to be
poor; they are so dirty. I have no sym
pathy with women who won’t keep their
houses neat and their children
tldy .\. suggested that neatness
could hardly be expected from women
who every day had to trudge for miles
with creels of peat, and seaweed on their
backs, “let" she said, “they have to
work bard. But that is not so sad as the
hard lives of the horses. Did you ever
think of the horses? They have
to work all their lives—till they can’t
work any longer. It makes me sad to
think ot it. There ought to be big farms
where horses should be turned out after
they had worked some years, so that they
might have time to enjoy themselves
before they died.” “But the people?” I
interposed. “They, too, have to work till
they can’t work longer.” “Oh, yes!” she
replied, “but tbe people have souls, and
even if they have a hard time of it here
they will, if they are good, go to heaven
when they die, and be happy hereafter.
But the poor beasts have no souls; if they
don’t enjoy themselves here they have no
chance of enjoying themselves at all. It
is too bad!” 'Tbe woman was in sober
earnest. And I question it she did not
fairly represent much that has been
taught in Scotland as Christianity. But
at last, thank the day is breaking,
and the blasphemy that has been preached
as religion will not be heard much longer.
The manifesto ol the Scottish Land
Restoration League, calling upon the
Scottish people to bind themselves to
gether in solemn league and covenant for
the extirpation of the sin and shame of
landlordism, is a lark’s note in the
dawn.
A M YSTERIOUS SOCIETY.
Something; About the White Camellias
of Texas.
Just after the war, says a Galveston
special, a well-known society called tbe
“White Camellia” flourished in the South,
especially in Texas. At one time it
counted over 20,000 members in Texas,
drawn from the best people of tbe State,
it is said that the ritual and doings
“White Camellia” were more solenSKv
secret in their character than those of any
society or body of men in the world. At
one time it undoubtedly exercised a
powerful secret influence throughout the
South, but just what it did to advance the
interests of humanity is known only to
those who belonged to the order, and,
if it did aught to retard human
progress, that also is known only to
them. So matter what its mission was,
it is again coming to the front, whether in
its old garb or under anew name is not yet
known. Those who are reorganizing the
“White Camellia,” or building from its
old foundation, are working in profound
secrecy and covering their tracks so that
it is impossible to learn what the objects
of the order are or are likely to be. It is
vaguely hinted that the Island of Cuba is
to be looked after, and that 31exican in
sults to, and oppression of, citizens of the
United States need a check. One gentle
man says that the Key West Cuban revo
lutionary junta had an active and prop
erly commissioned agent in Galveston,
who was working up this new society for
the purpose of raising men, means and
arms tor revolutionary service on the
island.
Heavy Fighting at Berber.
London, Aug. 3.—Advices from As
souan state that a refugee merchant who
has arrived there reports that the Bisha
riens stormed Berber on June 8. Very
severe fighting ensued, with heavy loss on
both sides.
Oiilullij yoHJtlrv.
I. war X
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