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ESTABLISHED 1880. j
,J. H. KSTILL, Editor and Proprietor, j
ITEMS iy THREE STATES.
FOIU.IV FLORIDA AND SOUTH
' CAROLINA PIT IX TYPE.
Suroßier T | ! , e Lovers Make Marriage
Doubly -ecure by Haring the Cere
mony Twire Performed—Aaron Lamp
l,ot Down In hie Doorway at Tif
ton _ Wayeroaa Residents Inventive
Geniute*.
GEORGIA.
, , m;.liber of old Confederate, met at
. . .-metery at Marietta last week,
‘; r j [ggi . w ork.
r . Mr. Chr -!ian, rf >av.anuab. was ex
. ’ -unday morning and evening
-' . ‘' ,* jjjj- 1 ~f Home.
-urvivora of the Forty
. Tt will be held at Gaines-
J t : _;rove. on Tuesday. Aug.
\[ r< . Wilkin* w. f Orlatulo, Florida, nee
s, of Tun county, died
r .1. in ttie former place Thursday
“x .. )• r springs Agricultural Club had
. xting last >aturday. One
,rt -of the day was a fine speech
f r .ii., Torn Howard.
. died at Waynesboro Tues
- irlrt fever. The case is said to have
n rted one. The Council b.vl her
i. !i lues'iay night. So other case has
- nil McNeil, of Brooks county, captured
or 1 !iv last George Washington,
n ..'tempted to kill William Golding and a
: man last year, lie is a dsaper .te fel
i, ~. I mado threats against any one who
! attempt to arrest hnn. He is in jail.
’ Gor-tj, a negro girl who was ont
i as a nurse by .lames A. T,ewis. of
: ! ii. was kieked by a horse on Thursday
a tied from the effects Thursday night.
- was spending tnesuminer with Air. Lewis’
i on t!ie plantation of Dr. E. C. lloo<i in
llirris county.
1 ur negro prisoners in jail at Conyers
lined to kill the sheriff wnen he brought
i in their breakfast and make their escape.
They h*d secreted a heavy club and bar of
w ith which to deal tlie deadly blows. An
• r negro in the jail conveyed a warning to
ti. 'heriff and the plot was, of course, frus
\i.tr Alpine, in Chattooga county. Thurs
. bam Hardwiik. a reputable citizen of
int . u|H>n g<og out upon bis porch to
P ■ :i drink of wafer, was fired at by some
-i unknown, ami two loads of buckshot
! 1 in his body, killing him almost in*
Miti.i.nv Williams, a black old sinner, was
c :i itt. dto jail last Wednesday for raping
■ :ri viri nain and I> - e Parks, in the >i\-
;n •:.-tri.-t of Sumter county. A number
■ f :i■* "W a race made the arrest, carried him
r. lie girl for identification, and then
p.r I him over to an officer,
w " n* unijht: .Messrs. Le-ter .V Rav
..f * naunah. and I 01. John C. McDou
f Waycross. have filed suit in Pierce
- . r r i curt against the savannah, Florida
\\ -tern Railway for |2U,<MO damages in
tv r.d Mr-. < hauncy Folks, whose husband,
. • renumbered. was killed in a colli
,i,,a last February.
At -envy, on the Fast Tennessee Road, last
v. due-day, a small neg-o boy was passing
. w ith a bucket of water and a uegro man
,4. : ti. h: or a drink. Fpon being refused a
’ ■ i ti-iied in which the man cut the boy
t. r in several places. The cutter was
tr i I down with dogs, caught and lodged in
at < edartown. The boy will die.
! : k Herald: A negro man was se
f ,r. tied across the railroad track, about
f rii . - north of Eastman on Friday night,
j . < umc thundering along and cut his
! ..i n hi-lody. The train stopped, and
it- 'y Hie vicinity was alive with ne
v -v. tin had undoubtedly bmnd the man to
tr ... no! were hypocritically lament
l' affray lietween three colored men—
I’ \i -i .ii. Massey -earlett and Hampton
- -at Brunswick. Massey Scarlett Wits
in ibe shoulder with a knife, flic
which was so deeply imbedded in his
i I the point could not be pulled out.
i l; r: r l tried to extract the blade, but
r - -t< and all efforts at extraction. Austin is
11.-carle:t e-caped unhurt.
- merville Ornette: Someone stole Dr.
1 a IV horse Monday night. Killing to
.1 1 . ivii ■ x‘s with a rope, be went in to get a
i r . Tom Knox, coming from meeting,
f. ! hun there, thought he was one of the
put his hand on his shoulder. He
an- rered hi- mistake when a pistol was stuck
fee. with the remark: “stay a word
a I'ii blow your brains out.'* Torn called
for . One or two from Sam Knox's ran
0.. ! several ineffective shots were dis
'i! on both sides as he ran off through
t: Id, being cut off from the horse.
\ few weeks ago a negro in Chattooga
■ :*y ( inmuted a horrible crime upon the
i . r-. .of respectable young w hite girl near
- icrvfth*. V posse was at once sent out
:■ ii the fiend and he was captured, l ar
i' i . fore his victim and identified, after
uii ' ‘ he confessed his horrible crime, but
wi. a t art of his captors were after their
l r- - the scoundrel broke awav and suc
■ 1. 1 in making Ins escape. < n ltust Wednes
'*'. however, information was received iu
- ct-rv die that the negro was near there,
: .ii a few hours he was brought to town at
t • imi of a rope and lodged :u jail.
Uii Wedne- lay night an attempt was made
to wreck a train uton the Fast Tennessee,
' .iV m i and Georgia Railroad, near ltig Ce
lt ir ereek. In the curve jut beyond the
rrci me one unbelted a rail on theou er
carve, and moved it two inches and left it
'•< One of the bolls that held the rail
not tie unscrewed, so was twisted off.
If iii rail had iieen taken front the inside,
uL.-ro most of the weight is thrown in a
curve, the train would iuo*t certainly have
b < n wrecked. Several trains ran over it
that night. The division master found it the
next morning. No clew to the persons who
removed the rail.
Vnanv Mniium : Aaron Lamp was killed
last Sumiav while standing in the door of l>r.
tv lute's office at Tifton. in Berrien county.
It seems that he had some words with Mr.
lake Young on that day. and that a gun had
been fired, the ball from which shattered the
stock of Lamp's gun, which lie held rc-ting
in the hollow of his arm. >OlllO of the splin
ters wounded Lamp in the breast, lie left
fur the purpose of fixing hi* gun, and later in
the day was standing in the door of Dr.
W lute's office, someone shouted to
. in to “lo.k out!" and this was imme
,:e!y followed by the report of
u gun. Lamp fell in the doorway,
pierced by a ballet. If entered one am. be
tween the shoulder and elbow, and passed en
t;ri ly through his body, from the effects of
It hhe died soon after. Lamp was a white
rear, and bore the reputation of tieing a dec
ile character. He seemed to be prone to
t Ac up other people's difficulties, anu it was
ti - trait that led to bisdeath. He was strictly
t* rate, so w e have been informed, even
r>-f -eg to drink soda water. We met him
nTyTv, and judged from his manner
ip pea ranee that he was tailoring under
• kind of insanity. The person wno fired
the fatal shot is not known.
FLORIDA.
[.< 0.-bnrg sisrlis for a bank.
iv i West's hotel project is said to be nap
artcsian well is being mooted at Ker
caniiina.
I! re are 42 t atholies within the conwrnte
"f Orlando, but they have no church,
l. tit rial ears at Pensacola are plagued by
' ontinued screeches from the steam
whi-tles of the town.
T 1 -t. khoiders and others who take an
irsl. i;->t in the h.itel prospect at IVnsacola
nn-et witn the Board of Trade Wednes
t lit hundred and ninety-eight thousand
-and about I7t> bales of sponge were
1 to New York from Kev West last Sat
urday.
: d'.i l for the house and lot owned by the
' !. • ! S'. Joseph, on Fourth street, Ker
> us :ii a. will come off on the evenings of Aug.
'! f victim of tiie recent outrage at Fer
n.ir. ru was over 60 years of age. She will
r*' ‘ ’■* r. Two negroes have been arrested on
iic health officers of the town of Orlando
at work looking after the unclean
and putting the town through a gen
era, purifying process.
The County Democratic Convention, to
i > nate a Representative from Clay county
next la g,.-ature. will assemble in-Mid-
Ob liurg next V\ ednesday.
V rattlesnake was captured on Anatasia
Kami, pear St. Augu-tine, measuring 13
1‘ hcs in ctrCPmfen uce. 5 feet in length anil
had 7 rattles. It was sold for fS 50.
Cast season's vegetable crop in Marion
'it., amounted to over 54.000 cra’ea. For
it hardly amounted to 13,000. This year
it will reach nearly, if not over, PC,OOO.
11 i- stated that Lake de Funiak, Fla.,U*et-
T * with a class of farmers from lowa
Wisconsin, who will engage in raising
i. cattle, rice, sugar pecans, olives and
itrapts.
"• v .'nowden, of Alachua county, gath
• i ; lj> crates of cucumbers from three
r til an acre of land. He sold them
! r 75. Hu lias a line crop of corn now
£ivw ing on the same land.
1 Id county jailator.cn Cove springs
et n torn down and tlic debr s burned up.
i . ; tract lor anew jail has been let to 1.
t,. ami be will liuueoiatcly begin Us crec
-1 Bon the site of the old oni,
The night blooming cerena of Mrs. L. P.
, "it. of Orlando, one night put out seven
and another night four. They
l -iiortly after dark, remained open un
til ■ :break, and then closed their eyes to the
w-r.-I forever.
; *r!c- C. 1 onvcrsc will start a laundry in
• -as -.ion as he can procure a build
ing. He says that he has engaged the ser
vi'es of two Ch namec to begin with, and
b ut if ti e business justifies him in doing so
he w.i! use steam.
“inner liwches, of Leesburg, accidentally
sli"T himself last Thursday night. He was
attempting to shoot a rabbit and in someway,
he does not know how, the pistol went off sn
‘irau mg it from his pocket, the ball pene
traling his abdomen.
Henry Cunningham, of Albany, X. Y.. has
hsen in Orlando for a week or two, and is so
favorably impressed that he has invested
flatte heavily, and proposes to go there for a
Perin-meut residence, lie purchased the Mc-
Murray place on the west side of Lake Con
cord.
There are 89 colored children in Orlando of
•chool age, and i9i white children of school
•ft within the corporate limits of the town.
This does not comprise the school district, as
there are many who live within the district
*ho are outside of the corporation. The
number within the district must be about 850.
Wat Simmnali Jjjem
The Democratic party of Bradford county
will meet in convention at Lake Butler, Tues
day, Sept, t, for the purpose of nominating
one State Senator and two Representatives, to
represent the county in the next General As
sembly of the State "of Florida, and to attend
to such other business as inay properly come
before the convention.
The schooner FUa M. Hawes, loaded with a
cargo of ice for Wm. F. Forward, of Palatka.
was damaged to snch an extent in a receat
gale off Currituck beach, near Cape Ilatteras,
that she was compelled to put into Fortress
Monroe in a leaking condition. Her main and
mizzen masts were carried awav and a heavy
leak sprung. The cargo of ice will prove a loss".
starke Telegraph : Mrs. A. J. Hagen, resid
ing at Lake -file, eigh - miles south of this
city, has produced the finest crop of grapes,
cucumbers and sweet potatoes this season we
have ever seen. She had bunches of grapes
weighing one pound each, encumbers weigh
ing four pounds eaco, and sweet potatoes
measuring 22 inches long and 12 inches in cir
cumference.
The immigration agencies of Florida have
been discontinued, m consequenee of the ex
haustion of appropriations for that purpose,
until further action by the .State Legislature,
which meets in January next. Anv inquiries
on the subject of immigration must hereafter
be made direct to Hon. I*. W. White, Com
missioner of Lands and Immigration, Talla
hassee, Florida.
Tlie citizen, in the vicinity of Oviedo are
subscribi-g quite liberally in'iands and money
to induce the early extension of tjie Sanford
and Indian River Railroad to lhat place.
Thei • subscriptions are contingent upon the
completion of the road to Oviedo by Feb. 1.
l*s:>. and it is understood to lie the intention
of the railroad managers to have the line in
operation to that poiut as early as that date—
jiossibly sooner.
The following figures are given as the result
Of till' OfcilsU* UUtk*.-wV ui in.t.rf-Toiat
nmnliei'popuiation, l.tKSfi; white males, tS9B;
white females, 461: colored males, 280; col
ored females, 224; born iu United States, 1,594;
foreign. 42; number of voters 011 registration
book, 219; sehools—children lietween 0 and 21
years of age, white, 292; colored. 99; total, 291:
churches—number members M. E. Church,
white. 154; Baptist, white. 60; Episcopal,
white, 65; ( atholic, 42; Presbyterian, white,
102; total, 423.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Democratic primary election in Edge
field county will lie held on Aug. 26.
There have been almut 15ca*csof diphtheria
in the lower part of Barnwell county.
I’.-of. James W. Reid, of Jacksonville. F'la.,
is to lie the principal of the Abbeville High
School.
41st 1 reek Baptist Church, iu Lancaster
county, was organized on April 10, 1778. and is
consequently 106 years old.
Dr. Joseph LeConte, of the University of
< alif< rnia. who has been visiting relatives in
Georgia and ;-outh Carolina, has returned to
San Francisco.
In ]s>2 there were 39 candidates running in
the Democratic primaries in Lexington
county and 1,723 votes were polled. This year
there are 52 candidates.
The Rev. DeWitt Burkehead, of Texas. Is a
successful revivalist. Recently he conducted
a revival meeting in Anderson which resulted
m the addition of 64 members to the Presby
terian Church.
The Rev. Robert Lathan, D. It., of York
ville, who was a delegate from the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church to the Pan-
Presbyterian Council at Belfast, Ireland, lias
returned to his home.
It is said that Miss Woodrow, a daughter of
the Rev. Dr. James Woodrow, of Columbia,
has gone all the way to China to marry a
young man who is a successful missionary" in
that distant country.
A conference of the Presbyterian ministers,
elders and deacons of Anderson county will
le held at Anderson on Sept. 3 and 4 to excite
renewed interest in the spread of Presbyte
rianism in that section.
The Spartanburg district of the Methodist
i hureh is composed of the counties of Spar
tan uirg, Laurens and Union. There are fif
teen itinerant preachers in the district, and
the churches have 5,000 members.
F.x-Gov. Bonham is reported to have said
that when he was a hoy he met his kinsman,
the Rev. Neheiniah Bonham, of North Caro
lina. who said to him: “My dear young man,
the Bonhams are a proud, high-toned and
honorable family, but 1 never knew one of
them to have any money.”
The Milliter Ad ranee says that Capt. W. R.
Delgar lias received a letter saving that Mr.
11. D. Melntvre. Secretary National Jockey
• lull, who has just formed a Southern circuit
for racing this fall, will be willing to include
Sumter, provided the association there will
conform to its dates, so as not to conflict with
the meetings at Greenville. Columbia, Barn
well, Augusta or < harles.on.
Union Time*: There is a mistaken idea
among our citizens that the debt of the coun
ty is enormous, and that nothing has been
done bv the County Commissioners to reduce
it. After the present collection of taxes the
county will owe no debt for the ordinary
county expenses of the present fiscal year,
and the levy of l mill for past indebtedness
will nearly wipe out that debt, which is now
hut little over $3,600. The lioard has also re
tired 48 railroad bonds—l3 at their face value
and 35 at 90 cents on the dollar.
Between John Bowers and B. F'. Welsh, of
Lancaster, a fend has long existed. Bowers
was not sparing in the epithets which he
heaped u|k>u his enemy. A few days ago
Bowers and his son George drove to Lancas
ter in their wagon. In the afternoon lie
loaded his wagon, hitched up his team, and
with his son started to drive home. About
Ibis time the Welsh lioys disappeared from
town. Bowers and his son were nearing the
depot, and were just passing the Episcopal
church wheu a trace came loose, aud tne
eider Bowers stopped to fix it. As he was
doing so It. K. Welsh stepped out into the
road from behind the church with a double
barrelled shotgun in liis hand. Behind
the church were a party of Welsh’s
friends, who remained in readi
ness to help him. Welsh hailed
old Mr Bowers with the remark: “You’ve
got to take back what you have said about
us.” “I'll not do it." was Bowers’ reply, ac
companied by an oath. At this Welsh raised
his -hot-nun and fired at the old man. The
charge struck Bowers’ hat brim and carried
part of it away, and tlie old man fell for
ward. Welsh then fired the second barrel at
young Bowers, the charge taking effect 111
the side of his face and severing a large
artery. The shot-gun being empty. Welsh
drew a pistol and fired at the young man
again. The bullet entered young Bowers’
groin. The team in the meantime had be
come frightened and dashed off, being stopped
some distance down the road by a colored
man. Welsh, supposing that he" had kiTed
lioth men. at once fled, and up to our latest
information had not been captured. Several
of the men who were in ambush with him be
hind the church have been placed under ar
re-s..
On Thursday, Aug. 7, a constable came to
l’r.'f. G. M. Yancy's farm in Colleton county,
accompanied by l>. Is. Connor. Dr. Jim Con
nor and Frank" stokes, and there urre-ted
Prof. Yancy’s two sons, who were having fod
der stripped, along with a young white man
named Abe Mc Alhanev and a colored boy.
The armed meu then went into Prof. Yancey’s
house and took out two guns and two pistols
without permission. They then made the
hoys under arrest take their horses aud oc
conipany them to Waiterboro. twenty-three
miles. They would not permit the liovs to
get anything to eat before they started, nor
would'they let them stop on the way to get
refreshments, although one of them was ill
and asked to buy something to eat with his
own money. Prof. A’ancey's boys asked to
be taken to their father at Branchville,or to
have him sent for, but their request was de
nied. They were harried on to Waiterboro,
where Dr. Peter stokes had l*‘cn and ar
ranged the trial beforehand. They asked for
counsel, but were refused and carried through
a bogus trial before Trial .1 ustice l’rice, of
Waiterboro, •nd then locked up in jail. Dr.
Black, acting sheriff in his uncle’s place,
wished to take the boys down with his family,
but Judge Ben stokes and Trial Ju*tiee Price
warned him against doing so. These men
tried to extort money from the boys, hut fail
ed. The next day Prof. Yanoev was told oi
the affair, and burned to Waiterboro and
soon had all the boys liberated. These boys
of Prof. Yancey’s are grandsons of the Rev.
Paul A. M. Williams, deceased. The land the
boys were on had been inherited from their
grand parents. Some dispute arose last fall
about the land adjoining a part that Dr. P.
siokcs had bought from his late wife, who
was the widow ox the late Rev. P. A. M. Wil
liams. The trespassing party had been elect
ed by law and these boys put into possession
by an officer for their mother.
State Politics.
At the Senatorial Convention at Hinesville
Thomas Clifton was nominated.
jV. j|. Cobb, now Depute sheriff of Sumter
county, offers for the higher position of
■sheriff.
11. H. Singletary Is announced as a candi
date in the nominating convention for Repre
sentative for Schley.
Brooks county will on Vug. Sft sc’ect dele
gates to the Congressional Convention, to be
held at Albany Sept, 3.
J. P. Lane was nominated for the Legisla
ture at the Early County Democratic Con
vention on the eleventh ballot.
The friends of Hon. J. H. Kirby, of Berrien,
are soliciting him to stand for the Legislature.
He has represented Berrien in days gone by.
The friends of lion. Thomas Paulk, of Ber
rien. are pressing him to be a candidate for
re-election to the Legislature. Air. Paulk has
represented Berrien county several tunes.
John C. Middlebrooks' friends at Barne
villehave announced him a candidate for
Representative. Mr. Middlebrooks is Presi
dent of the Agricultural Society at Barnes
vlile.
The friends of Hon. Scab Wright are urging
him to make the race for re-election as Rcp
re entative of Floyd county in the State Leg
islature. W. F. "Jenkins and J. T. Dennis
have been nominated to represent Putnam
county in the State Legislature.
The Democratic Executive Committee of
Clayton met Thursday and ordered a primary
election on Aug. tl, for Repre
sentative. there being four in the
belli for Representative and tv ~W .r Senator,
at the time—Hon. R.J2. Col. J.
T. Spence. Mr. epencc has declined the race
in favor of Col. W. A. Tigucr, who has been
put forward as the proper man, and is now
actively engaged in the canvass.
The nomination for county officers of Upson
will take place on Sept. 13. There are already
several candidates in the field, among whom
re W. H. Richardson, J. G. Lewis, B. F.
Matthews, J. J). H. Thompson and Simeon
Moore for Representative, and an unusual
number for Tax Receiver and Collector have
made their appearance. The contestants for
the other offices will probably not be so plenti
ful. Col. J. E. F. Matthews will be a candi
date for re-election to the office of Clerk of
Court.
GREELY’S LIFE IN THE ICE.
THE ARCTIC HERO TELLS THE
STORY OF HIS TRIP.
Last Glimpse of the Proteus—Pleasures
of the Winter Life at Fort Conger-
How the Men Spent Their Time—Lieut.
Lockwood’s Journeys to the North.
Portsmouth, N. H., Aug. 17,-For the
purpose of obtaining some idea of the
general nature and probable value of the
scientific observations made by Lieut.
Ureely at Lady Franklin Bay, an As
sociated Press agent visited the Lieuten
ant at his cottage oti Seavey’s Island
Saturday afternoon. He was very cordi
ally received by Lieut, Greely, and when
he stated the object of his visit the Lieu
tenant at once willingly consented to give
all the information desired.
Lieut. Greely first stated the object
of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition,
viz., to establish at Lady Franklin Bay a
polar station as one of the thirteen sug
gested by Lieut. Weyprecht of Austria,
who discovered Franz Josef Land. Sim
ultaneous observations of all physical
phenomena were to be taken. The" com
plete programme which was to be follow
ed was arranged by an International
Polar Congress, in which representatives
of thirteen nations took part. The obser
vations. in which the srrentest possible
accuracy was to be had, were those of
the declination and deviation of the mag
netic needle, the temperature of the air
and of the sea, height of the barometer,
and the mean and maximum rise and fall
of the tides. All explorations were in
cidental to the main objects, of the expedi
tion.
START OF THE EXPEDITION.
The expedition was fitted out under the
authority of an act of Congress approved
May 1,1880. The party was composed of
three officers of the army, one acting As
sistant Surgeon and nineteen enlisted
men, selected by recommendation from
the ranks of the army. Stores for twenty
seven months were put on the Proteus for
the party. The Proteus steamed awav
from St. John, N. F., July 7, 1881,
with the party on board. She touched
at Disco Island and Upernavik to procure
sledges, dogs, skins and dog food. Two
Esquimaux were added to the party at
Proven. A landing was made at Carey
Island in north water, and provisions
cached by Lieut. Nares in 1875 in tlie
Alert were found in good condition. At
Littleton Island Lieut. Greely per
sonally recovered the English Arctic mail
left by Sir Allan Young in the Pandora
in 1876. At Carl Ritter Bay, in Kennedy
Channel, a cache of provisions for
use on the retreat was made.
It was the original intention
to establish a polar station at Water
Course Bay, but heavy masses of ice
which were" encountered rendered Water
Course Bay an exceedingly dangerous
anchorage.
THE FIRST STATION.
In moving to Discovery Harbor a sta
tion was there established on the site
occupied by the English expedition of
1875. The erection of a house was at
once commenced and stores and equip
ments were landed. On Aug. 28 came
the parting between tlie Greely party and
the men ot the Proteus. The little band
gathered on the frozen shore and watched
the Proteus as she steamed slowly
down Lady Franklin Bay, leaving
them to the "mercies of the cruel north.
On the evening of the same day the tem
perature sank below the freezing point,
and the icy Arctic winter was on them in
earnest. Their house was finished about
a week after the Proteus left. It was
named, in honor of Senator Conger, Fort
Conger. During the first month the cold
affected the men more than at any subse
quent time at Fort Conger. Later on, in
December, the temperature sank to irom
50 to 65 degrees below zero and so remained
for days at a time, but even in that weather
the cook’s favorite amusement was danc
ing bareheaded, barearmed and witn
slippered feet on the top of a snow drift.
HOW THE TIME WAS SPENT.
During the day the men dressed in or
dinary outside clothing, but their flannels
were very heavy. Five of the men were
generally lor a part of the day engaged in
scientific work under Lieut. Greely’s di
rection, and in the duties of the camp.
The rest of the men were employed gen
erally about one hour per day, and de
voted the remainder of the time to amuse
ment. All slept in bunks. The quar
ters were heated by a large
coal stove, the average heat maintained
being 50 decrees above zero. Playing
checkers, cards and chess and reading
were the amusements of the evening. The
life was said by Lieut. Greely to be far
from a lonely one, and many of the men
said that they had never passed two hap
pier vears than those spent at Fort Con
ger. On Oct. 15 the sun left them for ISS
days, and twilight, varying from half an
hour to 24 hours, succeeded. For two
month it was so dim that the dial ot
a watch could not be read by it. On
April It the sun came above the horizon
and remained there 135 days, giving the
party a great sufficiency of midnight sun.
WEIRD SCENES BY NIGHT.
During three months the stars were
visible constantly, the constellations of
Orion, the Bear and Great Bear being
brightest. The North star looked down
from almost overhead. Standing alone
outside of the fort on one of these nights
the scene was weirdly grand. To the
north flamed the aurora borealis, and
bright constellations were set like jewels
around the glowing moon. Over everything
was a dead silence so horribly oppressive
that a man alone is almost tempted to
kill himself, so lonely does he feel. The
astronomer of the party said that with
the naked eye a star of one degree smaller
magnitude than can be seen here in the
same way might be discerned. The moon
would remain in sight lor from eleven to
twelve days at a time. The thermometer
registered on June 30, 1882, tlie highest
temperature at Lady Franklin Bay which
we knew during our stay. It was 52 de
grees above zero.
66 BELOW ZERO.
The lowest was in February, 1883, and
was 06 degrees below zero, in this Feb
ruary our mercury froze and remained
solid for fifteen days, so intense was the
eold. The mercury in the thermometer
invariably rose during storms or high
winds. The highest barometer was
slightly above 31 and tne lowest slightly
below 2ft, showing a great range. The
greatest variations were in winter. An
electrometer, an instrument used to
ascertain the presence of electricity,
was set up, but to the astonish
ment of Lieut. Greely, not the
slightest results were obtained. The
displays of the aurora were very good,but
not to be compared with those seen at
Disco Island or Upernavik. As far as
Lieut. Greely could observe no crackling
sound accompanied the displays, and the
general shape was that of a ribbon. The
southwesterly horizon was the quarter in
which the brightest displays were seen.
Sir George Nares reported in 1876 that no
shadow was cast by the aurora,but Lieut.
Greely says that he distinctly observed
his shadow cast by it.
NO ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCE.
There were no electrical disturbances
save those manifested by the rumbling of
distant thunder, heard twice tar away to
the North. In the course of tidal obser
vations a very interesting fact was dis
covered, viz., that the tides at Lady
Franklin Bay come from the north, while
those at Melville Bay and Cape Sabine
come trom the south. The temperature
of this north tide is 2 degrees warmer
than that of the south tide at Cape Sa
bine. Why this was Lieut. Greely would
not venture to state. He used in meas
uring the ebb and flow ot tides a
fixed guage, an iron rod planted in the
mud. The average rise of the
tides at Lady Franklin Bay was found to
be 8 feet. At Cape Sabine the highest
tides rise 12 feet. Serf was only observed
twice during the two years at Lady Fran k
lin Bay. The average tempereture of
the water is 2ft degrees above zero, or 3
degrees below the freezing point. Wolves
weighing 90 pounds were killed around
Fort Conger, and there are foxes and
other animals there. Of fish there is a
wonderful scarcity.
SALMON IN AN ARCTIC LAKE.
Perhaps the greatest surprise of the
expedition was taken trom Lake Alex
ander, a fresh water lake 15 feet above
the sea level, a 4 pound salmon. From
the bay or sea ody 2 very small fishes
were taken during the entire 2 years,
and very few are "to be found North of
Cape Sabine. Yegitation at Lady Frank
lin Bay is about the same as at Cape
Sabine, and comprises mosses, lichens,
willows and saxifragn. Snow storms
are, of course, most frequent, and
rain falls very rare. The high
est velocity of the wind
was registered during a terrific snow
storm at 70 miles per hour. Lieut. Lock
wood’s trips to the north in 1882 and 1883
were productive of most valuable results.
Standing on May 19 in each year where
Dr. Hayes had formerly stood at about
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1884.
the same dav. Lieut. Lockwood, from an
elevation of 2.000 feet, using his strongest
glass on Hall’s basin and Robinson’s
channel, could discern nothing but ice
packs. Here it was that Dr. Hayes
claimed to have seen his open polar sea.
THE NORTHERNMOST POINT.
On the trip of 1882 Lieut. Lockwood
reached the highest latitude ever attained,
83 degrees and 25 minutes north. This
was about 300 miles directly north of
Lady Franklin Bay. but to get there he
traveled over 1,000 miles of open water
and broken packs, frequently causing
him to retrace his steps 50 miles. Lieut.
Lockwood sounded the sea both years be
tween Cape Bryant and Cape Britannia but
could not touch bottom with a 135 fathom
line. Lieut. Markham, a few years be
fore, about 100 miles to the west, got bot
tom at 72 fathoms. Lieut. Lockwood
found at his furthest point north about
the same vegetation as at Lady Franklin
Bay, but no signs ot a polar current or
open polar sea. In 1883 he was stopped
near Cape Bryant, 125 miles from Lady
Franklin Bay, by an open channel, ex
tending west to the coast of Grinnel Land.
The width of this channel varied from 200
yards to five miles, but on the north ice
packs extended as far as could be seen
with a glass.
WHERE HE MIGHT HAVE GONE.
With his supply of provisions, the fail
ure of which had caused his return the
year'before, Lieut. Lockwood was confi
dent that he could have reached 85 de
grees north if this open channel had not
4tarred his way. No fossil remains were
discovered on this trip, and the only ones
found were the trunks of trees on
the southwest coast of Gnnnel Land.
The only sea animals seen by
Lieut. Lockwood at longitude 83 de
grees and 25 minutes were walrus and
seal, and strange to say walrus is not to
be found at Lady Franklin Bay. At lon
gitude 83 degrees and 25 minutes the de
flection of the magnetic needle was 104
degrees west, more than one-quarter of
the circle. As far as Lieut, Lockwood
went the northeastern end of the coast
stillcontinued. Maps of the newregions he
discovered are in the possession of Lieut.
Greely and are very carefully made. All
’hrough the two years at Lady Franklin
Bay the magnetic needle was never quiet,
except during the storms in February,
1883. The preparations for retreat were
made by establishing a depot at Cape
Baird twelve miles to the south.
DAYS OF ANXIETY.
Day after day the anxious men looked
off over Lady Franklin Bay expecting the
ice to open, so that they might commence
their journey towards home. At last, on
Aug. Ift, 1883, the welcome news that the
ice was open was brought. All had been
made ready, aud that very day the party
embarked in a little steam launch. Be
hind them they left their dogs, as they
could not be taken. Four barrels of pork
and some seal oil were left for the ani
mals. Lady Franklin Bay was crossed
to_ Cape Baird, a distance of thirteen
miles, and then the western coast of
Grinnel Land was followed south as far
as Cape Hawks. Large quantities of
heavy ice were met, and there was dan
ger every moment that the little launch
would be crushed. Several times all the
boats were nearly lost, and the suffering of
the men was great. They were now within
fifty miles of Cape Sabine. Steering from
Cape Hawk’s direct for Bates Island the
party was caught in an ice pack
and frozen in ten miles south of
Cape Hawks. In thirteen days they
drifted South 25 miles in the floes, suffer
ing horribly from the cold. So they
drifted to within 11 miles of Cape Sabine,
and were obliged to abandon the steam
launch on Sept. 10. The pack now re
mained motionless for three days, and
several times the party got within 2 or 3
miles of Cape Sabine, only to lie drifted
bac kby southwest gales. Five seals
were killed and eaten while the party
were drifting abaut.
Driven past the cape eventually, a
heavy northwest gale drove them bv Cape
Sabine, within a few miles of Brevoot
Island, but they could not land. On Sept.
22, there arose the most terrific gale they
had yet seen on the Arctic ocean. Their
ice floe was driven hither and thither by
the tempest, and the waves washed over
them again and again, the spray freezing
to them and causing them intense suffer
ing. Night came on, one of inky black
ness. The wind threw tlie heavy floes to
gether, and crash after crash of ice
breaking from their own floe warned
the men that death was almost
certain. In a few days they
returned. Their report sent a chill
of horror toevery heart. At Cape Isabella
aud Cape Sabine were found only 18,000
rations, and from Lieut. Garlington’s re
cords they learned the late of the I’roteus.
Every one knew that death must come to
nearly all of the party long before a ship
of rescue could force its way into Melville
Bay. Efforts were made to sustain the
spirits of the men by lectures and light
reading. On Oct. 15 the party removed to
Cape Sabine.
DYING MAX BY MAX.
On Jan. 18 Sergt. Cross died of scurvy.
In April the rations issued daily had
dwindled to lour ounces of meat and six
ounces of bread. Alan after man died,
and all hope had fled when on that stormy
day the blast of the Thetis’ whistle roused
the survivors front the lethargy of ap
proaching death. Lieut. Greely, when
asked as to his ideas upon the probable
results of arctic explorations, said: “I
don’t think that the North pole can
be reached unless everv circumstance
hitherto found to be unfavorable should
prove favorable to the party attempting
to reach the pole. If it Is to be done at
ail, it will be done by way of Franz
Josef Land. It could never have been
reached by the Jeanuette’s route. That
there is an open polar sea I am well
nigh certain. This is proved by ice drift
ing out of Mussel Bay and Spitzbergen
in mid winter, and the northern drift of
the polar pack experienced by Lieut.
Pavy and Lieut. Lockwood in longitude 82
degrees and 83 minutes. Men can stand
two winters very well at Franklin Bay,
but physical strength rapidly deteriorates
further north. If we had every supply
and necessity of food, we could have
lived perhaps eight or ten years at Ladv
Franklin Bay.”
LOGAN’S CASTLE IN THE AIK.
Fancying Himself Already Vice Presi
dent) He Kents a Palace.
Washington, Aug. 17.—Senator Logan
has evidently made up his mind that he
is to be the next presiding oflicer ot the
Senate, for alter boarding for a number of
years, he has now determined to go to
housekeeping. Capitol' Hill has been
chosen as his future home, and he will
reside at “The Maples,” as the property
belonging to “Olivia,” the correspondent,
is termed. The house is charmingly situ
ated in the square at the intersection of
Pennsylvania and South Carolina ave
nues and Sixth street, southeast.
Here Senator Logan proposes to receive
and entertain visitors in a very different
style from what he has been wont to do
in a Washington boarding house. Be
sides, there are disagreeable recollections
with his present abiding place, as it was
at its common table that he first met the
assasin Guiteau.
Alsop and Graves Killed.
Lexington, Ky., Aug. 17.—At 11
o’clock this morning a man living nine
miles from here notified the Sheriff' that
George Alsop and Theophilus Graves,
two of the escaped convicts who
led the recent revolt in the
penitentiary at Frankfort, were
seen in that neighborhood. Deputy
Sheriff Rogers headed a posse and imme
diately left for the scene. The men were
discovered in a cornfield belonging to Geo.
Cassell, who joined the posse. The con
victs,being surprised. immediately opened
tire on the posse, killing Cassell. The
posse returned the fire, killing both Alsop
and Graves.
A Ship Load of Nonnandles.
New york, Aug. 17.—The steamship
Assyrian Monarch which arrived here to
day brought 124 thoroughbred Normandy
stallions and mares. They were bought
in France and shipped via Havre to Lon
don. They are intended for stock farms
in various parts of the country. The im
porters’ agents report that the French
Government is beginning to scrutinize
these shipments very closely, and regards
the deportation of this class of 6tock with
anxiety and disfavor.
Fatner Matthew's Birth.
New York, Aug. 17.—The Central
Council ot the Father Matthew temper
ance societies of New York met to-day
and perfected arrangements for the cele
bration of the anniversary and jubilee of
Father Matthew's birth, which will be
held in the great hall of Cooper Union on
Oct. 10. The oration will be delivered by
Rev. Father Walworth, of Albany, New
York, and Rev. Father McGlynn, of New
York, will be director of ceremonies.
Fever on Shipboard.
Key West, Fla., Aug. 17.—The brig
Clarabelle, from Aspinwall for Hampton
Roads, in ballast, arrived here to-day with
all bands except the cook and one sailor
down with fever.
KOW MILES WPS THE DAY
DR. BLAND PROVES DAWES
FULL OF BLANDISHMENTS.
Papers which were Meant to Kaze the
Scalp of the Wicked Indian Agent In
nocently Handed Over to the Chuck
ling Senator and Confided to the
Waste Basket.
Washington, Aug. 17.—At the time
the row between Agent McGillicuddy, of
the Pine Ridge Agency, and Dr. T. A.
Bland, of this city, was published, Sena
tor Dawes In an Eastern paper defended
the former, and made some unpleasant
references to the latter and Chief Red
Cloud. Dr. Bland has written a card in
reply. While trying to justify himself
and Red Cloud he is very caustic and
makes some very severe charges against
Mr. Dawes. He says that the defense of
McGilJicuddy set up by Mr. Dawes is
characteristic of its author and is therefore
not very reliable. He then says: “1
will note first that Mr. Dawes attempts
to discredit me and thus weaken the
force ot my statement of facts by dis
cending to personal abuse. To this I
shall not reply. But he says that while
I have some notions about Indians that
seem kind, yet I make trouble with every
body who is trying to help that people
(the Indians).
WHEN DAWES WAS TROUBLED.
“This statement revives the recollec
tion of a time not remote when I did give
Senator Dawes some trouble, not when
he was helping Indians, but when he was
doing just what he is now sustaining, a
bad agent. He seems to be the special
champion ot the class of agents who
save up from $20,000 to $50,000 a year
from a salary of SIO,OOO a year. The case
I refer to is that of Agent Miles of the
Osage Agency. Miles was reappointed
agent of the Osages in January 1883, on
the recommendation of Commissioner
Price, who knew that there was at that
time on file in his office the most
serious charges against Agent Miles
and abundant proof that those charges
were true. More than a year before that
time Commissioner Price had admitted to
me that the charges were all substan
tially sustained by the official evidence
on file in his office. Because I insisted
that Miles be retired and an honest agent
appointed in his place, Mr. Price thought
that I was making him trouble, and got
quite out ot temper.
THE VISIT TO DAWES.
_ liearin o of the reappointment of
Miles, I called on Senator Dawes and tiled
with him, as Chairman of the Indian
Committee of the Senate, a statement of
the facts in the Miles case. He said, ‘I
am very much obliged to you, and I shall
lay your communication belore my com
mittee.’ He did not lay my communica
tion before his committee as a body, nor
did he show it or speak of it to any mem
ber of his committee. He did not tiring
Miles’ case before the Indian Committee,
nor did he ask any member of the com
mittee to sanction the confirmation of
Miles. 1 make this statement on the
authority of the Clerk of the
committee and every member of the com
mittee except Dawes. Instead of placing
Miles’ name and record before the com
mittee for consideration and "action as
was his duty, and as he had promised me,
Henry L. Dawes, Chairman of the Indian
Committee of the United States Senate,
professed philanthropist, defender of In
dian rights, etc., smuggled Miles’ name
in with some other names then before the
Senate, and by that contemptible trick he
got him confirmed as agent. Less than one
hour atter he had irotten Miles confirmed
and before I had heard of it I sent my
card to him, and had a talk with him in
the marble room of the Senate about the
c..se, and filed with him some additional
evidence against Miles. He said: ‘1 am
very much obliged to you, and 1 will lay
your communication before my commit
tee.’ To my great astonishment the even
ing papers of that dav announced the con
firmation of Miles.”
78 BUILDINGS IN ASHES.
The Best Part of Grenada, Miss., De
stroyed—Flames at New Iberia.
New Orleans, Aug. 17.—A special
from Grenada, Miss., says: “A fire
which broke out last night destroyed the
greater portion of the business part of
this town. The fire burned for three
hours, consuming 78 buildings and their
contents. The loss is $300,000 and the in
surance $45,000.”
INCENDIARISM AT NEW IBERIA.
Aspeehtl from New Iberia says: “Early
this morning Gall & Pharr’s saw mill was
destroyed by fire. It is believed that the
fire was caused by an incendiary, as
threats to tire the town have been made.
The loss is $20,000. There is no insurance.
Mr. Pharr, one of the owners, is a member
of the militia, and has taken an active
part in the preseut troubles. This inci
dent has increased the excitement here.”
SEVERAL BUSINESS PLACES BURNED.
Altoona, Pa,, Aug. 17. —Fire broke
out this afternoon in the ofiiee of the
Sunday Morning , and before the flames
could be stayed the following business
places were burned: Sunday Morning
office, 4V. H. Kehler’s confectionery store,
A. Leubbert’s tobacco store, A. K. Lackey
& Co.’s store, L. Metts’ dry goods store,
J. Steir’s tobacco store, Jno. Stebls’
hotel, and several dwellings and out
buildings. The loss will aggregate $50,-
000, and is partly covered by insurance.
The fire was evidently of incendiary
origin.
CHOLERA’S CORPSES.
Deaths Not Decreased in the Small
Villages of France and Italy.
Paris, Aug. 17.—Five deaths from
cholera occurred at Arles during the 24
hours ending at 8 o’clock this evening.
At Montfort-sur-Argens two new cases
and one death are reported. At Toulon,
during the 24 hours ending at 0 o’clock,
there were nine deaths from the dieease.
The sanitary condition of Toulon
is less satisfactory, owing to
a relaxation of the precautions
on the part of the inhabitants, and a re
vival of the epidemic is feared. At
Castelnovo, in Italy, one Iresh case and
1 death are reported, and at Livignano
1 patient died. Reports from other points
in Italy give a total of 8 fresh eases and 8
deaths.
Cincinnati Getting luto the Old Rut.
Cincinnati, Aug. 17.—The jury in the
case of McDermott, who is
charged murder in the first degree,
of guilty of murder in
the shortly after midnight,
after delWmating for 9 hours. McDer
mott was knocked down in a saloou by
two brothers, John and Charles Kennedy.
After this he went to his boarding house,
procured a revolver,’returned, and shot
and killed both brothers.
Mexico’s Revolutionary Sensation.
City of Mexico, Aug. 17.—1 t is re
ported authoritatively that Gens. Ita
mierz, Mejia and two others, implicated
in the reeent foolhardy conspiracy, have
been shot by order of the President. La
Diana officially publishes the proclama
tion of the conspirators, which decrees
that Gonzales, Diaz and all the others
engaged in government affairs since the
revolution of Tuxtepec, in 1876, 6hall for
feit their lives and property.
The Labor Statistics Commissionership.
Washington, Aug. 17.—Candidates
for the position of Commissioner of Labor
Statistics continue to multiply. The
President, puzzled by their conflicting
claims, will, it is now stated, appoint on
his return Charles S. Hill, of the Bureau
of Statistics of the State Department,
who has fine indorsements for the posi
tion.
Belford’s Hays Sealed.
Washington, Aug. 17.—1 t is now said
that the House is to lose its Belford as well
as its Ochiltree. Belford will, it is said,
decline to be a candidate for re-election,
or in the event that he is such a candi
date will fail of the renomination.
A Theater Treasurer’s Corpse Found.
Boston, Aug. 17.—The dead body of
G. H. Tyler, Treasurer of the Boston
Bijou Theatre Company, was found in the
water at Hull to-day.
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
Bright Flashes of Intelligence from
Near and Afar.
The switch was put iu at Andersonville
last week for the Buena Yista Railroad
and the actual railroad is now pointing
up this way, and the regular construction
train will be put ou this week.
Yaldosta Times: Work on the F. M. &
G. R. R. has been suspended on the grad
ing, but the bridge force is pushing ahead.
Exactly what this partial suspension
means is not known here. Various ru
mors are afloat, but we are convinced that
the road will go through to Madison,
AN EXCITING EPISODE.
A St. Louiftan Relates an Adventure
With “ Belle Boyd ”
“Your article on ‘Belle Boyd,’ the
famous Confederate spy,” remarked Mr.
J. W. Meyer, the Main street merchant,
to a St. Louis Republican reporter, “called
to memory a littte experience I had with
the dashing young lady years ago. I was
at Winchester, my home, soon atter the
battle in 1864, and Belle was there. I had
heard a great deal of her and her daring,
and, I may say, wonderful exploits,
but I had never met her. We met at the
Winchester depot in March, 1864, both go
ing to Baltimore. She was with a number
of her friends, and a number of my friends
accompanied me to the station. We were
introduced, and when the fact was re
vealed that we were en route to the same
place, her friends insisted that I play
the gallant for the handsome aud lively
young heroine. 1 was young, -and this
was, of course, just to my taste,
and I enjoyed the honor greatly.
Soon after leaving Winchester Capt. Ban
ning, a famous Federal officer and after
wards Congressman from Mount Vernon,
Va., got on the train. He was going to
Washington, and was considerably the
worse for having lingered a little too long
with the wine cup. He was rather drunk,
and having learned that Belle was on
the train, he made up his mind to get
acquainted with her. He had a real good
opinion of himself, and resolved to ‘jump
her,’ to use a slang phrase. He was going
to learn something of the enemy’s move
ment. He sat down in the same seat with
the spy, and the two were soon engaged
in enrnest conversation, the spy leading
by several lengths. At last the Captain
began to ‘yawn’ and ‘gape,’ and in a short
time he let his head fall back, and was
asleep. Miss Boyd asked me for my knil'e,
and while the Captain was snoring away
in good order, she removed his shoulder
straps.
MISSING EPAULETTES.
“The passengers enjoyed this amaz
ingly and laughed heartily. In an hour
or so the Captain awoke, and the laugh
ing crowd soon caused him to look about,
and he discovered the absence of his
shoulder straps. He charged the little
rebel, as he called her, with removing
them and demanded their return. She
refused. He stormed and she laughed.
He declared that unless she returned
them he would arrest Belle and myself.
Still she refused. lie was as good as his
word, and we were confined in the Utah
House, Baltimore. 1 was kept there three
weeks, the spy was kept some longer.
She was still there when 1 left, and as
happy and light-hearted as you please.
She seemed to enjoy the situation ex
tremely well. I have not seen her since,
and lost all trace ot the little woman
with whom I had a most romantic expe
rience. She was the most remarkable
woman l ever knew—handsome, dash
ing, perfectly formed, a splendid talker
and an actress of remarkable force and
power. 1 never saw a woman of so many
remarkable traits of character.”
EATING HUMAN FLESH.
The Horrible Effects of Cannibalism on
Those Who Survive.
One of the junior officers of the Thetis,
says a New York special of Aug. 15, talk
ing to-day on board the ship of the charge
against the Greely party, said: “Here,
on this very spot, one of the survivors
held us through all one night telling, if
words can tell, of his first taste of human
flesh. He would give years from his life
to forget it, but, be said, that first taste,
the sensation of having between his teeth
the flesh of one who had once been
his friend, was with him always.
Waking or sleeping, be seemed to feel
his lips pressing the smooth, flabby meat
that must be choked down somehow if he
would live. And then the inhuman,
savage way of getting it! Each feeder
upon such food must cut off his own
shreds of flesh. No friend could be found
to perform this horrible office. Every
man, if he would eat, must of necessity
be his own butcher, and these canni
balistic orgies, these midnight feasts,
were secret. The little beaten path,
worn smooth between the graveyard and
the wretches’ tent, told its own tale. But
every dweller in that tent shut his eyes
and refused to see. Body after body was
stripped of flesh, but none of those
t hat trod that little path dared speak of
this. No man asked a question at the
too common sight of a starving wretch
creeping up to the only fire at midnight,
carrying in his hand a strip of flesh. As
he thrust this into the flame on the end
of a poiuted stick no one of his compan
ions says a word. And when tearing the
smoking flesh with his teeth he lies down
and another of the would-be sleepers rises
up and goes silently down that mysterious
path, knife in hand, it is easy to guess his
horrid purpose.
“And the after effects of these ghastly
feasts were as awful as the descent upon
the mangled corpses. The mere thought
of what the}' had eaten brought on nau
sea, and in their weak state the stomach
refused to retain this human flesh, is it
wonderful that these men will carry that
sensation of chewing human flesh for
ever? ‘I hope and pray I may forget it
when I die,’ was the only prayer that the
wretched cannibal could truly pray. It
was his heaven of heavens to forget that
awful, sickening taste.”
Blockaded with Porpedoes.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 17.—The Mari
time Board has notified Uussian ship
owners that the harbor of Canton is block
aded with torpedoes.
FRANCE’S FINGER IN THE FIE.
Paris, Aug. 17. France has made
overtures to Berlin, Vienna and St. Peters
burg for an entente cordiale on the sub
ject of the limitation of English occupa
tion in Egypt, neutralization of the Suez
canal and the independent policy as
sumed by England. The overtures from
the French Government have been well
received.
ANNAM’S CORONATION.
AnnaMj Aug. 17.—The coronation of
the new King of Annam was performed
to-day with great pomp.
CHINA SEEKING MEDIATION.
Shanghai, Aug. 17.—The Ministry of For
eign Affairs on Aug. 12 addressed a pro
test to the foreign diplomatists here
against the action taken by France, and
a request lor the mediation of their re
spective governments. The protest is
couched in pacific terms.
France and the Leeward Islands.
Paris, Aug. 17.—31. Deschanel, editor
of the Journal dee Debate, has commenced
an agitation, under the prompting of
Prime Minister Ferry, for the cession to
France by England of the Leeward Isl
ands in exchange for French concessions
on the coast of Newfoundland.
M. Deschanel, in a lecture before the
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences,
ad vocated the acquisition of the Leeward
Islands as a part of the prospective
French line via Panama, Tahiti and Aus
tralasia.
France’s Big Divorce Suits.
London, Aug. 17.—Judgment in the
Patti divorce suit has been postponed un
til after the vacation. It is supposed that
this indicates the failure of the applica
tion of Mme. Patti to obtain a divorce
from Marquis de Caux.
Madeline Brohan has obtained a di
vorce.
Games of the League Clubs.
Washington, Aug. 16.—The games of
ball to-day were as follows:
At Cincinnati—Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 10.
At Indianapolis—lndianapolis,'. Louisville 2
At st. Louis—St. Louis (Unions) 3, Chicago
(Unions) 2.
Gen Millot to he Recalled.
Paris, Aug. 17.—A Cabinet Council
was held at the Elvsee Palace on Saturday,
the deliberations lasting seven hours. It
was decided to recall Gen. Millot, com
mander of the French forces in Tonquin,
and place Gen. Negrier at that post.
Liszt Denies That He is Blind.
Berlin, Aug. 17.—Abbe Franz Liszt,
the famous pianist, has sent an autograph
letter to his friends denying the story that
he had become blind, lie says that he is
able to work without difficulty.
England’s Mission In Egypt.
London, Aug. 17—Lord Dufferin, the
British Ambassador to Turkev, has as
sured the Porte that Lord Northbrook’s
mission does not indicate a change in
England’s Egyptian policy.
Another J. G. Blaine.
Bouton Gazette.
One of our English cousins was recent
ly placed at dinner by the side of a charm
ing woman who had been requested by
the hostess to amuse the stranger. They
were getting on very well, when he drew
attention to a guest opposite by saving,
“Oh, I say, do look at that spotted man:
did you ever see such an object?” Ami
the lady said with much dignity, to stop
his prattle, if possible, “Yes, that is my
uusband.” And the wretch said, “Oh,
how delightful, you know, because you
can tell me—is he really spotted all over?”
A VISIT TO LIBERTY HALL
CRAW FORD VILLE A THOROUGH
LY ANCIENT TOW N.
Gov. Stephens’ Fame the Town’s Pride—
The Old House About as it was When
Its Great Occupant was Alive—Short
Stops at Other Georgia Towus.
CRAWFORDVILLE, Ga., Aug. 15.
Every admirer of the late Alexander Ste
phens is anxious to make a pilgrimage to
Liberty Hall. Among the number of pil
grims recently was the writer. The first
impression on arrival at Crawfordville is
one of disappointment. The town is an
old one. The idea appears to nave pre
vailed from the first improvements that it
was finished. Nobody has had the cour
age to doubt this opinion or change
the status of affairs. One new
house and a few buildings repaired con
stitute the improvements ofl the last de
cade.
There are some very clever and intelli
gent people here. Some charming young
ladies passing on the streets relieve the
dull monotonyzif the scene. Business is
dull, aud numbers could be seen around
the pool tallies and playing draughts on
the sidewalks. There are some good
stores, with splendid stocks of goods. To
day, the citizens say, has been an excep
tional dull day. This fact, taken iu con
nection with the' unpainted buildings,
and the dilapidation apparent everywhere,
was calculated to impress the pilgrim
unfavorably. There was but one talis
man that would arouse the average citi
zen from his dreamy indifference,
and that was the name of
“Little Aleck.” They never tire
of disc-anting upon his virtues and proudly
point to the plain, unpretentious building,
almost hid by the grove of locusts, on the
distant hill as the home of the Great Com
moner. To an unsophisticated stranger the
impression is made that these people
bank largely on Mr. Stephens’ reputation.
There are some industries here which are
worthy of all commendation. There is
an excellent gin factory, from whence
some of the best machines in the State
are sent out. Messrs. Andrews & Jones
get up an excellent paper, the Democrat.
THE WRITER BELIEVING A TRIP
to Liberty Hall would be best en
joyed alone, wended his way
thither unaccompanied. There was
more time to look upon the scenes
that had become part of the life of one of
Georgia’s greatest statesmen; more op
portunity to meditate upon those things
which employed one of the greatest minds
of the day. It is one of the remarkable
characteristics of human nature that sim
plicity is the charm of the truly great.
Ostentat on belongs to the vulgar and the
would-be patriot. Here simplicity reigns
supreme. The house is modeled after the
old Southern residence, with its long pi
azza in front anil wide hall through the
centre. I was met very cordially by Airs.
Corry, a niece of the dead statesman, and
conducted through the apartments open
for public inspection.
The parlor and Air. Stephens’ bed
room remain just as he left them when
he went to occupy the more luxurious
apartments in the Governor’s mansion.
Everything comfortable and substantial,
but there were no tinsel ornaments. When
the good lady threw open the library room
1 was surprised that such an extensive
collection had not been secured by some
of our public libraries, not only because
of its associations, but because of its real
merit. It was purchased by Col. John A.
Stephens, who, no doubt, would dispose of
it to some public institution on reasona
ble terms. The Stephens Memorial Asso
ciation, through the efforts of Aliss Gay
and Mr. Meyers, of Augusta, purchased
the buildings and grounds, and the furni
ture in the parlor and bedroom.
They did not feel able to purchase
the entire property as it stood. It is a
great misfortune that they were not able
to do so. Sitting on the broad piazza and
looking down over the lawn in front of the
bouse I gave free reign to imagination.
Here the great man had ofttimes sat, and
gazed in wondering admiration upon
these same trees, and the sloping lawn,
until every object became to him ani
mated with life, and as familiar as his
own thoughts. Here he sat and heard
the songs of praise that went up from the
humble Alethodist chapel that stands in
the left corner of the yard, which had
been erected in accordance with his
wishes. I was aroused from my reverie
with the consciousness that tbat which
made this spot grand aud great was no
longer here. The mortal was held
iu a rock-bound tomb in the
cemetery in Atlanta, while that
which made the man great aud grand
had entered into the pale realm beyond,
where, unfettered by frail mortality, he
lives the real life awarded to the just.
Slowly the writer wended his way
through the long avenue of shade and
passed out into the outer world. The
little village of unpainted houses* was
soon left behind, and only the memories
ot the day remain.
THE CROPS ALONG THE GEORGIA
from Atlanta to this point are the poorest
I have seen during a month’s travel. On
the Athens branch they are very fine and
this is true also along the Washington
branch road. In this immediate section
they have not had a good rain since the
first week in July.
Athens, with its spirit of progress and
templed hills, suggests gn air of thrift
and contentment that would lure the pil
grim to rest and enjoyment. This one,
however, being indisposed, was unable to
take in the charms of the ancient city. It
has been Ift years since I looked upon the
college campus, and it is the most famil
iar scene in all the city. Editor Gantt
has given the Athenians one ot the live
liest daily papers in the State. His let
ters on the editorial excursion are com
mended by many. Aly stay was short,
and I turned reluctantly away from
scenes in which 1 had anticipated much
pleasure.
A hurried trip to the old town of Lex
ington and a few moments only with the
Echo man, I hurried forward to spend the
night at Washington, in AVilkes county.
Every foot of ground about it is historic.
The town has not only become famous be
cause it is the home of one of the grandest
men Georgia has ever produced, Gen.
Robert Toombs, but during the closing
days of the late Confederacy some re
markable occurrences took place. Look
ing out from the Arnold House door the
frame building stands where the last
Cabinet meeting of the Southern Confede
racy was held. From here the
government officers scattered, and
the world has long since learned
the result. Near here the wagons con
taining the government gold were aban
doned and the suspicion stiil lingers with
many that much ot the treasure lies buried
yet in this vicinity. Here the Baptists are
building an elegant brick church—one
of the finest in the State. Here is the
Catholic Orphan Asylum and their Fe
male College. Near here is Sharon, the old
est Catholic diocese in Georgia. There are
some of the loveliest homes here that can
be found in the county. There are many
other attractions, but time and space fail
me, and so I mu9t hasten on to Thomson.
Jack Plane.
It LACK JACK, JR.
His Inherited Exuberance of Language
Causes Him to l>e Court Martialed.
The Newburg (N. Y. ) llegiater of Aug.
15 says that John A. Logan, .Jr., the son
of the Kepublican candidate for Vice
President, who is in the fourth class of
cadets at West Point, has been placed
under arrest there to await trial by court
martial on a charge of using profane lan
guage while on duty and for conduct un
becoming a cadet and prejudicial to mili
tary discipline.
The story goes that young Logan used
profane language to the corporal of the
guard, while doing guard duty a few
nights ago. The corporal was on his
rounds relieving the different guards, and
when he approached Logan, was saluted
by the Senator’s son with “who goes
there, by G— d?”
The corporal, although surprised, gave
the usual reply, when young Logan, in a
clear voice, cried out.
“Advance friend and give the counter
sign, by G —d!”
Logan was relieved from guard duty,
and the case was reported to the Super
intendent. The following day he was
placed under arrest, and has since been
on trial. The court held a session
Wednesday, the llegister says, but none
of the proceedings have been made public.
Slialcegpeare Says Truly:
“That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell ns sweet.’’
But the reverse is equally true, and the
simple fact that so many" wretched per
fumes are designated Florida Water does
not impart to them any of tbe sweet
fragrance of the genuine Murray 4 Lan
man Florida Water. Beware of these
counterfeits and make sure of obtaining
only the right article, which has won for
itself the foremost position as a toilet
requisite.
A CLEAR STEAL OF A MILLION.
How Diamonds Were Sown With Shot
guns In the Hills of Arizona—An Old
Story Retold.
In IS7I two rough-looking prospectors
walked into the Bank of California, says
the Chicago Herald , and asked for Air.
Ralston, the cashier and leading spirit of
the bank. They had two little buckskin
bags, which they said contained some
thing and they did not know exactly what
it was. One of the bags they said they
believed had diamonds in the rough, but
the other they said they did not “know
what kind of a d— 9tone it was. They
mout be garnets.” Ralston laughed at
the idea of “diamonds,” but he asked to
see them. There was about half a pint of
black, dirty-looking crystals, ranging in
size from a pea to a hazelnut. The other
bag had dark blood-red stone 9 that were
promptly pronounced Arizona “garnets”
by the great banker, and cast aside as
worthless. He told the prospectors to
leave the bag with the black crystals, and
he would have them examined by experts,
lie did so. Professor Le Conte, the geolo
gist of the Uuiversity of California, pro
nounced them diamonds. So did Profes
sor Janin, the best mining expert in San
Francisco. Shreve and other leading
jewelers all agreed they were diamonds.
Shreve had one partially cut, and it re
vealed a beautiful white stone. The
question then arose: l/ \Vhere did they
come from?” Ralston was greatly ex
cited. He called in Sharon and even took
D. O. MiHs into his confidence. The two
prospectors gave tbeir names as William
Arnold and Isaac W. Slack, anil said they
had been prospecting in Arizona and Utah
and Wyoming, aud they had found these
stones in one of the regions named, but
refused to say just where. They said,
however, that there were “bushels” of the
same kind left. The diamond fever grew,
and finally Ralston, Sharon, Nicholas
Luning, a great San Francisco capitalist;
William 31. Lent, S. L. At. Barlow, of New
York; George D. Roberts, the present
postal telegraph man; Alichael Reese, the
great Jewish millionaire, aud several
others formed a syndicate and agreed to
take the “diamond fields” at $1,000,000,
provided the representations of Arnold
and Slack were verified by experts. Alean
time tbe other little bag of specimens was
submitted to tests and found to contain
genuine rubies. Some were sent to New
York to be cut, and were found to be gen
uine stones. These were said to come
from the same “fields.”
“When they had the bargain drawn up
in black and white and $25,000 paid as
earnest money, Arnold and Slack reveal
ed secretly to Ralston the location of the
find, and offered to pilot three of the
bank’s own experts to the ground. One
morning in April, 1872, .four disguised
figures crept down In the dawn to the
Oakland Ferry. They were Arnold,
George D. Roberts, Henry- Janin and
George Hearst. Janin was the most ac
complished geologist and mining engineer
in the city, and Roberts and Hearst were,
and are yet, the best practical miners in
California. The party took the cars and
Arnold piloted them to Green River, Wy.
T. There they left the train, got mules
and ambulance and struck tor the Green
River Mountains, forty-five miles south of
tbe railroad. They were on the ground a
week. The ‘diamond lield’ did not seem
to be more than fifty acres in extent, and
was at the base of a low range of barren
red sandstone hills. They" found dia
monds in the greatest quantities scattered
about in the low beds of dry gravel. They
dug down and found them in groups of
six and eight. They were all greatly ex
cited except Arnold. When at the end of
a week they prepared to leave they had
more than a quart of diamonds and rubies
of all sizes. Well, when they got back to
San Francisco the town was aflame. A
company was at once organized with $3,-
000,000 capital. The million dollars to pay
Arnold and Slack was advanced by Rai
ston, and in part made good by the syndi
cate. Roberts, Lunning, Lent, Ralston
and Sharon each put in $100,060, and Bar
low made up a pool in New \ r ork to take
$250,000 more. Then the public began to
clamor for the stock, but so confident
were the promoters of the scheme that
they had anew Golconda tbat they locked
the stock up in the Bank of California and
refused to let a share go out. Arnold and
Slack took their money and left the coast.
Arnold got $440,000 in cash. He went to
Elizabethtown, Ky., bought a magnificent
farm and settled down. Slack went to
Europe and was never heard of again.
“Clarence King, the United States geol
ogist, had made a survey of that region
and remembered the exact spot in which
the diamonds were said to be found. He
knew it was not a diamond country. He
suspected a fraud. Anyhow his reputa
tion as a geological surveyor was at
stake, and he went to examine it quietly
by himself. A week’s close study reveal
ed the whole truth, and in an elaborate
report he showed how the ground had
been salted, and even the mechanical ap
pliances used. He found a few of the dia
monds and unhesitatingly declared them
of the same character as the stones from
South Africa. An investigation followed,
and in a few months the whole truth
came out. Harpending had put up the
job and had supplied Arnold and Slack
with the money to carry it out. The lat
ter bought in London $40,000 worth of
rough diamonds and SIO,OOO worth ot com
mon rubies. They picked them up at odd
times and in odd lots, and Arnold smug
gled them into the country by way of
Quebec. Slack, who bad been in South
Africa, selected the field—and Clarence
King said the immediate region was well
selected, too—aud together they planted
them, poking them down one by one with
slim steel rods. They also scattered some
into a gravel bank with a shot-gun, and
it was this last method that King detect
ed by the powder stains.
“The company burst up at once and
Ralston and the rest set about recovering
a portion of the money. Lent and Roberts
hunted up Arnold, in Kentucky, and it
was said by some he gave up a portion of
the money, but others affirm that he never
did. Several suits were begun, and not
long after Arnold was murdered in a local
quarrel. It was a ciean steal of about a
million dollars.
THE MOREY LETTER.
The Story of the Man Who Says He
Forged It Made Public.
The long delayed expose by U. S. Com
missioner John I. Davenport of the Morey
letter, says a New York special of Aug.
15, will be published to-morrow morning.
It makes a book of 150 pages. It is
largely made up of fac similes of docu
ments showing the forgery in its various
forms. The narrative is. only a brief part
of tbe whole volume. Tbe book sets
forth that the person who actually
penned the forged Morey letter was a
lawyer of this city named
Henry 11. Hadley, of 13 Park
Row. Davenport describes him as
tbe manipulator of insurance companies
of doubtful character, and of other mat
ters equally precarious, with an innate
love ot intrigue and with a craving for
notoriety and an unconquerable desire to
dip into politics and to correspond with
public men. He quotes from his letters
to show that he was alwavs a Democrat
though at the time of the" commission of
the forgery he was the Secretary of the
Hancock Republican Association, in the
rooms of which the iorgery was com
mitted on or about October 2,18 SO.
The according to Hadley’s ad
missions and confirmatory evidence col
lected by Davenport, was originally in
the form of an extract trom a supposed
interview with Mr. Garfield. Mr IJaven
port possessed himself of about 1,000 let
ters written by Hadley between 1873 and
1879. and finds all thedistinguishing marks
of orthography and caligrapbv alike in
them and the forged letter. It was on the
display of the evidence of guilt that Had
ley confessed his part in the crime. Mr.
Davenport attempts to show the connec
tion of Mr. Barnum and other members of
the .National Democratic Committee
with the forgery and the employ
ment of the forger, claiming
that he paid Hadley various
sums for the work done by him. Hadley
admits that there was no such man as
H. L. Morey, to w hom the letter was sup
posed to have been written, nor was there
ever any such person as John W.Goodall,
who claimed to have been the executor of
H. L. Morey, and who transmitted the
forged letter to Truth. Hadley wrote the
Goodall letters also. Charles A. Dana, of
the Sun, was informed of the existence of
the letter ten days before its appearance
in Truth, but he declined to have any
thing to do with it, because he believed it
to be a forgery.
Duels With Swords.
Paris, Aug. 17.—A third duel with
swords has been fought between Al.
Emanuel Orne and M. Ernest Gudet
journalists of this citv. M. Orne was
wounded in the arm.
M. Perreries, of tbe Paris Figaro, and
M. Mariatu, a violinist, have also fought
a duel with swords, the latter receiving
two wounds,
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BLAISES BOMBARDMENT.
THE DATE OF HIS CHILD’S BIRTH
CL T FROM ITS TOMBSTONE.
A Clue to the Culprit's Identity Be
lieved to Have Been Obtalned-Wat
terson Deprecates the Attacks on the
Blaine Family, and Shows How the
Plumed Knight Will Make Capital
Out of Them.
Augusta, Me., Aug. 17.—The Ko*nebec
Journal to-morrow will say: >%luch
feeling has been excited in this commun
ity by an event of extraordinary charac
ter. In the well known cemetery lot cf
the Stanwood family an infant sou of Mr.
and Mrs. Blaine lies buried. The child
died in July, 1834, and its resting
place is marked by a beautiful memorial
of marble, erected in 1855, on which the
dates of the birth and death were plainly
inscribed in raised letters. About two
weeks ago it was discovered that
the date of the child's birth
had been carefully chiseled
away. It was quickly discovered, and an
intimate friend of the Blaine family placed
a detective on the track of the perpetra
tor, who has not yet been discovered,
but it is thought that a clue
has been found in the fact that
directly after the mutilation of the
memorial a person whose name is known
had copies of the alleged record sent to
newspapers in numerous parts of the
country antagonistic to Blaine. The
motive lor the act of vandalism is scarcely
apparent. There is great indignation
among all classes ol people over the
sacreligious act.”
WATTERSON ON MUD SLINGING.
Ho Frowns on the Attacks and Shows
How Blaine Will Use Them.
Louisville, Aug. 17.— Henry Watter
sou returned from Virginia to-day, and in
answer to a question as to the Blaine
scandal said that ho had long ago dis
credited and dismissed it lrom serious con
sideration. lie had oceasiou some fifteen
years ago to look into the matter, aud had
found nothing which could justify an im
peachmentMdjJh-s. Blaine’s virtue. The
Courier-J ol to-morrow will
in the course of an editorial, say:
“To the integrity of the good
woman who lor thirty years has
presided over 31 r. Blaine’s household,
recognized by all who knew her to be the
best of wives qnd mothers, an entire
generation of testimony may be called
and will be confidentially and cordially
answered. The only effect of the sense
less and wicked invasion of the home life
of the eminent and corrupt statesman w ho
heads the Republican ticket, the one re
deeming feature of his career will be to
furnish him an opportunity to pose in the
character of a defender of the fireside and
hearthstone aud his own honor, a char
acter offering especial opportunities for
histrionic display and driving di
rectly at the most susceptible
corner of the popular heart.
It is, besides, his purpose to advance
this wanton attempt to destroy an honest
domestic fabrication as an offset against
the personal attacks made by the Re
publicans upon Gov. Cleveland.
Iwo wrongs do not make a right, nor are
the cases in any w T ise alike—one case in
volving nothing more than the chastity of
a bachelor, and the other the foundation
of a family.”
Hlaine’d Suit for Damage*?*.
Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 17.— John
U. (shoemaker, proprietor of the India
napolis Sentinel , was here last night with
the purpose, it is believed, of employing
Senator 3 oorhees in the libel suit brought
by 3lr. Blaine aginst the Sentinel. 3lr.
v oorhees was out of the city, hut 3lr.
Shoemaker had a consultation with bis
law partner, Judge Carlton, lasting sev
eral hours.
PEDDLING PADRE ISLAND.
Mythical Titles to Texas Property—For
eign Capitalists Swindled.
“A specious swindle has been quietly
and successfully prosecuted in this city
for some time past,” said Mr. Baxter
Noyes, a broker and negotiator, of No.
120 Broadway, to a New York Herald
reporter. “There is an island off the
Gulf coast of Texas known as Padre
Island. It contains about 550,000 acres
which would make pretty good ranch
land, a kind of property which is begin
ning to be valuable in Texas. For the
past two or three years various sets of
adventurers, who have everything to gain
aud nothing to lose, have infested New
A ork, besieging the offices of capitalists
and promoters ol companies, endeavoring
to sell the title to Padre Island at tempt
ingly low figures. Their scheme has nearly'
always been to get New Porkers to take
the island at what seems to be a cheap
price, and then sell it in London to a syn
dicate of English capitalists, who are
ready buyers of Texas aud other Ameri
can grazing lauds, and are always look
ing for investments of that kind.
“Now, the swindle lies iu the fact that
neither these men nor anybody else, so
far as 1 can learn, can give a legal title to
the island. It lias been in dispute for
generations and nobody knows just who
owns it. Here is a letter to me from J.
11. C. White, the Postmaster of Corpus
Christi, Texas, in which he says, in an
swer to my inquiries:
“‘There is hardly a mau who lives or
ever did live in AVestern Texas who does
not claim the whole or a part of Padre
Island, or the Big Sand Bar.’
“After I had been repeatedly approached
by these men to get capitalists interested
in their schemes 1 consulted my frie.gl
3lr. Charles 11. Mallory, of the Texas lino
ot steamers, and by his advice I wrote to
Mr. Mifflin Kenuedy,a wealthy landowner
in Texas, whose reply comes through the
Postmaster in the language I have quoted.
31 r. Kennedy says he has received thous
ands of such letters'as mine.
“The adventurers show what they call
a title deed, which is secured in this way:
They have some of their confederates in
Texas execute a quit claim deed for the
island, which anv man may do. This
deed is duly recorded, and then the Town
Clerk is asked for a certified copy of the
deed. This is shown in New York and
forwarded to London. Such a title is
absolutely worthless, but it has deceived
many people. I don’t know of any Ameri
cans who have put their money into the
thing, but I do know of Englishmen who
have put from £I,OOO tq £IO,OOO into the
scheme in the belief that the property was
worth over half a million dollars, and it
was necessary to pay something down to
secure the refusal of it. 1 have no doubt
that over SIOO,OOO has been sunk in Padre
Island in this way in England at various
t'mes. 1 suppose no public complaint
has been made before liecause the losers
are all rich men, and the amount asked
for from each has generally been small—
about £1,000.”
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