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. ESTABLISHED 1880. I
. j. n. BBTILL, Editor und Proprietor, j
ITEMS IX THREE STATES.
I OKGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IX TYPE.
4t ircunittuiUl Clue to the Murderer
„f Digust*'* Night Watchman—Clilp
. v . Homicide in Court—Two Families
.uueduntbe Line of Hancock and
jjaldwia Counties.
GEORGIA.
~'vi.u unity Court meets on the third
M in each month.
v, in a voung man in Darien who cbai
..'.lv in the county tor a foot race
' a side.
; : t,-ll.iurke Spalding, of Sapeleo, was
• r • ! cx-l'nited States Senator Pope
Birrow. of Athens.
;i's new Acaitemy of Mnsic will be
to Um public a week from t 0...
... .al talent giving a concert.
w rains during the week have in
withthe rice planters. Darien has
|H-d aliout li,(JUO bushels of new rice
,□ ainiah.
li 1.. Cheshire's residence at Gainesville
.iliy consumed by lire at about 7:30
, - ,’tnrday night. ’ The loss is II,OtKI.
re was no i..-.urance.
I i-i of W. A. Gamble vs. the South
i, -n. il ad road, suit for damages, which
~ n mi trial in Talbot Superior Court
nict, resulted in a verdict for the plam
[>. i;. Johnson has grown two of the largest
nf sugarcane in Pierce county, so far
rd frmn. One stalk of ribbon cane has
r-v joints, and the other stalk of green
,'ane has 14 joints.
; residence andoutbildingsof C. W.Coie,
suburbs of Spring Place, were con
;o and bv lire Friday noon. Most of the con*
-> -of the house were saved. The tire caught
.me shavings from a wash place near by,
..thence to the smokehouse and dwelling.
There was no insurance.
The trial of John Davis for the murder of
Henry Foster, which was begun in the Su
nerior Court at Summerville last Wednesday,
lias been one in many respects unparalleled m
tl history of that section of the state. After
more than live days in which to consider the
jury was unable to make a verdict and were
dismissed on last Tuesday afternoon.
At Madison, in the trial of the State vs. Dr.
\V. 1.. Hitchcock, charged with “involuntary
manslaughter in the commission of a lawful
liiiiotil due caution and circumspec
u ui." the jury returned a verdict of not
_ , iv. He was so greatly provoked by a
_rn named Felix Jackson that he shot him.
i; negro bore the reputation of being a vio
lent character.
( apt. Benssce, money clerk at the Athens
-i dice, says that Matt Davis informs him
,t he has "no wish or intention to remove
of li - assistants, and will not do so unless
, . iiomtsmen demand it, which they have uoi
vet done. Davis’ reason for changing his
-nu n was that there had been so much
i—nm over the matter from both Dcrno
i rats am! Republicans.
\ professional runner named Dobson, of
,-v.vania, pretending to be from Gaines
,. bn., took in Augusta Saturday after
. , by beating Harry Roberts, a youth
.-t as Beet as his brother. I amis Roberts,
' .-usta’s champion, in a hundred yards foot
lie left Harry several yards and made
r-e in K ,! 4 seconds with ease. Dobson
. ii in a purse of SIOO and more in private
Uai'.ilia correspondence News. Sept, li:
i : .■ match game of base ball played here this
,ri..""ii the >umncr club came out victori-
Foilowing is the score: Sumner club 20,
\ ,paha IS. lime of game, two hours and
I-. minutes. Seven innings only were
t. T-.t on account of darkness intervening.
i, ball to-night was quite a nice one, and
parties w ilt return to their homes much
-i with llieir visit to our village. “Oh!
* girls.”
p .;., v nr two ago a little child of Air. and
Vj- vV M Dennis, of Katonton, came near
I'.ving scriol'* 11 "“I fatal injuries by being
1 ii.'acmv. 7Joth of their children were
■i in the vard w t'on the cow made her
.oarancc. The Oldest CWW, a little girl,
i I from danger, but the little boy remained
.1.; it irroun*t and was attacked l*y the cow.
:i -i ilks were considerably torn, and it is
• \ ! ri mclv fortunate that the child was not
badly hurt.
Rrig.-Hcn. Ben. Harden Helm, of the First
ivtut.ck: Brigade, was killed at the Cliicka
ivi - battle, and, twenty-ona years ago, his
w - buried in Oakland Cemetery, at At
lama. Wednesday it will be disinterred and
: ried back t > Kentucky and laid beside his
ancestors. The local military will turn out
t and honor the dead Confederate hero, and
will cwort the remains to the depot. Gen.
Helm's regiment will have a reunion at the
Heim place, near hl.zabelhtown, Kentucky,
on Sept. 19 and 2t>.
At < illuming a nilk cow of Mrs. F. H. Nich
ols fell into an old well 2-5 feet deep, on the
- ithwe-tern corner of the square. It was
not long before a crowd had collected around
the well, and after some delay pulleys w ere
iM’d alwvc the well and a negro hired to go
;,,wa and fasten ropes around the cow's head
aid liody. The rojies were run over the pul
vs. a number of men [lulled with all their
might and out came the cow head foremost.
S lie was alive, and in a few minutes walked
oif home somewhat stiß’ and sore.
Katonton Mtsernaer: Messrs. S. R. Law
rence and W. T. Pearson went to Morgan
. .nintv to arrest a ceitain negro. They went
into a house and failed to find the one they
v-iit. and. but arrested anolher whom they sus
•ted, from his actons, of having done some
.ln g wrong. Upon inquiry they learned that
!;,■ mis wanted by the railroad authorities for
b r e ; king open their ears. His name is Aleck
v ire. and we learu there is a reward of SSOO
V , ‘ 1 tor his arrest. They delivered him to
sheriff of Morgan county, who imprisoned
him in the county jail.
The delay of vessels in unloading ballast at
the Brunswick quarantine has been over
, , the L’uited .States Government has
i -.I jetties in Turtle river to change the
•urrent so as to make it run near the city
, rve-. and to catch the Boating mud and
’• ud Hlt up tlie channel on the opposite
j -uruian O'Connor, of the ilarbor
, '* -* soon as he heard of the com
, “ -nut quarantine for unload
' a -'oui r.io.. M (i rk to have the vessels
; '*,l. • - thus putting ballast
i.; .led at the jetties, -iaeers want to get
w re the government en„ . .b-euer
it .a order lo make the chann.
\ a . .-ia Th.es-. A runner came w for'uie
1 :,| ay night from Bellville, Fia.. lor me
iiiirpiwe of telegraphing for Dr. Jelks. *’
Vi liman, bringing the report that Mr. Tlio-'
i' Liil had lieen dangerously, if not mortally'.
i;i by Mr. Bob Met all, aided perhaps by his
•ii i r. The McCalls had fallen out'with
Mr. I‘olhill about a hog, it seems, and they
went to Rowland’s mill, where Mr. Pol lull
wliving by himself and caring for the mill,
hi. i tin* quarrel culminated in a difficulty, in
Mi h Mr. Pollnll received four or live ghastly
• -. It is thought that Mr. Bob McCall did
'! riccipal work, if not all of it, with the
I'l iijarain Braswell died in Ma.lis<>n county
■ :i' ISIT. bequeathing the income of his
whole estate to the education of the poor
•rp ms of Morgan. The fund is now aliout
T . b Saturday the annual memorial eele
t-ration in h i honor was held at Braswell
park. ■ car the line of Walton and Oconee. A
- I'd-tn .us dinner was served, and nearly
jteople were there. The Masonic
it iiernitv laid the corner stone of an elegant
, tv iml'ting—Braswell academy. The cere
v u ... led au.l the Masonic Sjieech deliv
t y Rev. David K. Butler. The regular
I;' . well memorial address was mavle by
.it.,. H. W. Baldwin, of Madison.
vi Igeville Cknmidsz The families of J.
, say and J. A. Ray, together with
Mr Mills and son. all living on the line of
li i. Vic a "Ml Baldwin counties, were all poi
n ! twe vv. vk before last by a girl who was
iv.-nik of \ r r. liar, and who put rat poison
,1, q r { uo .j' q'he poison seems ti have been
'-v iis'i red in such small quantities from
:* v iliac that its effect was not sufficient to
1. . 1 in any investigation, until Mrs. Ray dis
■ •■-•■re-1 ton disappearance o* the rat Ikusoii ;
:i ; iirubably th.it discovery*, together with
:b. inc- of the parties mentioned, led to
an investigation. For the want of absolutc.y
-itive proof of guilt, the girl v'as simply
• I-iiib-eit fr .m employment and ai'oweil to
ilt large, but we learn that a more rigid in
vestigation will probably be raa.le, and possi
liv punishment mar yet overtake the guilty
; ir . Those who were made sick, we under
stand, have recovered.
James Harris, the colored man, who was
made -t Macon to figure, by a traveler named
anipbell, a-oneof the ringleaders of a North
Carolina mob in which Campbell was a vic
tim. is lot yet in prison. Lient. Wood, who
went to lt.i*kinsviile to get liarris. whenee
h-- Bed. and was reported under arrest,
found the negro still at large, and
returned to Macon without him. Harris has
lieen working in the Red Bar barber shop at
ilawkinsville for some time, and a few days
igo went to Macon Softer an assistant bar
ber. It was during this visit that he saw
Campbell and fled from him. On his return
be informed his employer. J. E.Laidlcr, pro
prietor of the Red Bar. that there was noth
ing in the raob story, but that he once had a
sight with a man in" North Carolina, and that
tf there was any price put upon his head he
V! iot know it. In addition to this, there
and been a man registering his name as
u, ten. from Elbert county, whose descrip
wvery similar to that of Campbell, and
■ 'ad played himself off as a deaf mute in
tuville, and. coupling the two facts, in-
Cr. Laidler to take ins part, which lie
jV ' . refuses to surrender the ufgro
until Can p. ' Btor y U ““^euticatcd.
. , , *uire,'-S* n: Tbe preliminary
• ~ L* ■'*'* > n Wilh the kiiling
I,IXI tChmV'y. was conclude.!
•1 .>. < hristiau, a vws After hearing
t ritia\ ai 7 c 0 f - x unßel, the
til'- and arsni ntDI 01 -* rii<trf?p
• -urt held the prisoner u ' ii h '’ - Su
of raurder at the October u ,1 | ' r
inrior Court. Application , ?ll * una t
a writ of habeas corpus v. u ' .™ a . ae
at once. .Judge Willis being rela to ’** '} C Z
fendant. Judge Allen Fort will Ik requested
to h, ar the writ. The two prin. ?I P al w it
nesses introduced by the prosccuti.'s. " erc
two white nu n named Vardeman and . wason,
who testified that they were standing J° st
outside of the depot and heard the latter j "° r '
lion of the conversation between Dixon i ia
Christian, and that Dixon remarked to Chris
tian that there was a li© out, and Christian
replied that he didn't tell it. The report of
the pistol quickly followed. The prosecution
also introduced t>r. Glass, who testified as to
the cause of death. The defense introduced
ro testimony except the statement of Mr.
Dixon, which he had carefully written and
read from the manuscript. Ile stated that a
larg-boxof freight had been received for Mr.
Christian, which was not in good condition.
Thinking that possibly some article might be
missing, he requeaked" Mr. Christian to brißg
his invoice over and open the box and check
off the goods in the det>ot eo as to ascertain if
they were all there. Mr. Christian said that
be would not come over himself, but would
< jPte Satiinnali H|ofiring
send the invoice by his driver. Mr. Dixon ob
jected to this, as he did not consider the driver
competent to check eff the goods, and sug
gested that Mr. Christian get some gentleman
*n Chipley to act for him. Over the question
of the competency of the driver a controversy
arose, and Mr. liixon states that Christian
said there was a lie out and he did not tell it.
At the same time Christian said, “If you take
that, you'll take this,” and dropped his
hand to his side as if to draw a
weapon. Mr. Dixon was standing behind
his counter w.th the drawer open at the time,
and when Christian made the movement re
ferred to, be took a pistol from the drawer
and fired. The ball took effect in Christian’s
right breast, ranging downward and going
out at the left side. Mr. Dixon stated that he
had begged Christian to leave the depot, and
started lo leave once himself to avoid a diffi
culty. He said that Christian seldom came
to the depot without attempting to raise a
disturbance, and be had always tried to
avoid anything of the kind. He would never
have shot had he not known that Christian
was in the habit of carrying a pistol, and he
believed that he had one at the time, and in
tended to use it on him. When Christian fell
Dixon said: “Why did you make me do it?”
The witnesses who were outside also testified
to having heard this remark. No weapon
was found on Mr. Christian's person, how
ever, except two pocket knives.
Augusta Chronicle : The story of Thursday
night s murder was the talk of the town Sat
urday. The current of indignation was only
broken by discussion as to the theory of the
crime and by vigilance in seeking for some
clue to the terrible deed. The funeral of Sir.
Vales took place Saturday afternoon from
Curtis Church and was largely attended.
There was deep regret expressed all over the
city for the death of the unfortunate, faithful
old fellow. Two or three arrests of colored
men living on the .Street Car Company’s
premises have been made, among them
Chance Green, who slept on the place that
night. Saturday morning, however, a cir
cumstance leaked out which threw new
on the case and which gave new direction
and fresh impetus to the search for the
murderer. One of the former employes of
the company was Preston Valentine, a dark,
lithe fellow, with slight moustache and chin
whiskers, and who some time ago was dis
charged from Ins place. He had worked at
the station at the foot of the hill, changing
horses, etc., and had been also employed on
the grounds. Valentine had been out of work
for some time, it is said, and a few nights ago
applied to an up-town grocer for credit, as he
repre - ted himself to be in destitute circum
stanc s. The morning after the murder Val
entine appeared at the stables in the crowd of
people, looking at the premises and making
inquiry about the killing. F'riday night some
party, answering exactly to Valentine’s de
scription, went to a store in Dublin and pre
sented s‘ijin nickels, which he had changed
into one dollar bills. This fact excited com
ment. and as muchof the money in the drawer
of the .Superintendent’s desk was in nickels.the
act aroused suspicion. Saturday morning
Valentine appeared at the Union Passenger
Stattoa w ith his wife, for whom he purchased
a ticket to Charleston. Later in the day he
boarded a street car and conversed with a
car and conversed with a driver about the
muriler, a-kiug who was suspected, and then
learned of Chance Green’s arrest. He rode
on up to the stab es and afterward got on a
dray and started dow u town. By that time
some of the circumstances above narrated had
been made known and a policeman was sent
for, who started after Valentine. The latter
saw himeomingand did not wait to be hailed.
He leaped from the dray and ran dowu tee
street, finally escaping, it is said in the South
Carolina Railway yard. It was believed that
he would try to make his way down the Car
olina road, and Saturday evening two detec
tives took the outgoing traiu to track him up.
FLORIDA.
A Cleveland and Perry club has been orga
nized at Hart’s Road with twenty-nine mem
bers. W. W. Farmer was elected President,
and J. C. Snowball, Secretary.
The Fernandina Cleveland and Perry club
now has over 100 members. Gov. Bloxham
aud Messrs. Dougherty and Hartridge will
speak at Fernandina to-morrow night.
Tampa Tribune-. Nebraska and F’lorida
avenues, extending for several miles north of
town, are becoming almost liued from end to
end with flourishing orange groves. Those
groves are generally from five to ten acres in
size, and are situated only short distances
apart along both sides of each of these ave
nues.
It is said that one day last week a Mormon
missionary, having iti charge six women,
boarded the traiu at Baldwin, all en route for
Salt Lake City. One of the females was a
pretty young woman of about 19 years of age,
while tlie others were somewhat older, but all
presented a neat and comely appearance and
seemed satisfied.
James Heluies, formerly of Yellow river,
who at present resides in the edge of Ala
bama, was bitten by a rattlesnake last week.
He was in the woods looking for a board tree
aud was in the act of “chipping” a tree when
the snake, which was concealed in a clump of
bushes, struck him in the calf of the leg. Mr.
Holmes lingered several days, aud tinallydied
from the effect of the bite.
For the year 18S3 there were 1.479 public
schools in the State attended by 51,945 chil
dren. and State and county taxes for school
purposes, with the State’s apportionment
added, collected to the amount of $219,054 üB.
This is against 676 schools, with an attendance
of 25,444, and a total school tax of $158,846 3 1 ,
as shown only as far back as 1876. The rate of
progress made in this direction is so marked
ns to need no pointing out.
Last Monday evening as George Parker and
two others, named Parker and Sullivan, were
crossing Lake Monroe from Sanford in a sail
boat the lioatman climbed the mast to fix the
sail, which capsized the boat, throwing them
into the water. It did not sink, so they held
on to it, but it would not bear their whole
weight, so they were in the water from about
5:30 until 3 o'clock the next morning, when
they drifted ashore about a mile below San
ford. The steamer passed close by them
t wice, but they could not make them hear.
They lost nearly all their clothes, and George
Park' r lest a valuab e watch and some
papers.
Mary Giant, an old and much respected cit
izen of Apalachicola, departed this lift* a few
weeks since. leaving a considerable amount of
prop-.rtv, which she disposed of by a formal
will. The ltev. F. J. Tobin was made a lega
tee in the will to the extent of one-lialf of the
property. Father Tobin learning that she had
a living sister that was poor, old and infirm,
and unprovided for by the will, true to the
cause he so nobly vindicates before the w r orld.
and in accord with the instincts of his manly
nature, came forward and voluntarily re
nounced solemnly by deed all his interest in
the estate in favor of the poor, old and infirm
sister.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
tton pickers are plentiful in Darlington
county, ftntl E et 40 to 50 cents Per 100 pounds
for picking.
One .lav last Dick McCall, of Marl
boro county, had tn.-* good luck to muster a
force 6Utllcient to gather him 15,02a pounds.
G. W. Cromer, of Abbeville county, planted
this year an acre and a half in sorghum. On
this He made 150 gallons of Hue syrup, which
at 50 cents per gallon would make ?.5. There
is money in such farming. __
Mr S. V. Massey, of Oconee county, is mak
ing a success bv tobacco growing. He has
placed on exhibition in W alnalla one stalk s;x
feet high, containing twenty full sized leaves,
each of which measured twentv-five inches in
width and thirty-seven inches in length.
John A. Reeves, of Anderson county, re
cently captured on his plantation in Centre
viile township a snake with a forked neck
with two distinct heads. It was about the
size of a man’s little Huger and about twelve
iuehes long. Many who saw it say that it is a
king snake.
About two weeks ago a valuable, horse be
longing to John A. Crawford was killed in
Abbeville county by lightning. There were
no marks about the dead animal except that
her ears were singed. The sun was shining
at the time of the stroke and there was no
cloud near the house at all.
G. Wanner, of Walhalla, has brought down
from Jocas.-ee Valiev over sixty specimens of
mountain timber to be sent to the New Or
leans Exposition. He has a specimen of chest
nut two feet long and seven feet in diameter
and weighing 1.600 jounds. He has a few
other specimens equally as large or larger.
Camden Journal: The efTect of the drought
during the past three or four weeks upon lhe
late crops in this vicinity has been very severe
indeed. Scarcely any cotton has been made
during tiie month of August, all the young
l>olls and forms shedding oil as soon as the
dowers opened. Up to Aug. 1 the prospect
was as fine as we have ever seen, and from a
half to three-quarters of a crop had been
made by that time. None worth speaking of
has been made since, hence the yield for this
year in this section will not average more
than one-half to three-quarters of a good crop.
Beaufort correspondence of the Morning
News Sept. 10: Court has been sitting here
this week. Judge Hudson presiding. There is
law in the verv air you breathe. The streams
of “brothers in black" flowing to the court
house all dav long have ku air of busy im
portance, as if the affairs of Um nation were
hanging in the balance. All day long the
“wear" lawvers’ endless tongues- - * are wag
ging, and no doubt the Judge, like the one in
"Maud Muller," longs for "peace and quiet.;
Uv the way. next to a funeral, there is
nothing so entrancing to the colored mind as
having a “case in court." There is something
so Important in being called into court and
having to testify, etc. About the only class
which does uot cuj jv court here is the unfor
tnnate set of beings known as the pack horses.
The labors of the |>oor ghosts, if possible more
ghostlv than ever, are now redoubled.
For riot only must the phantom chase
afiur phantom passengers be continued
with the same diligence as hereto
fore, but to that is superadded the daily con
veyance to and from court, of the colored
brethren who frequent the hulls of justice
from early morn to dewy eve.—We are to
have anew monster of the deep over here in
our witters goon—one pf man’s invention,
however—in the shape of a gglf-propelling
... tee, or “drudge" ag someone suggest
**ie generic name of the article. Mr.
MO, Of the Hume Chemical ones,
James HOw g cot j Bn d to see about its
has gone ove. *® , oihty j 5h on this
coming over. There is , , h
side of the water. Ids.ead o. naTtc-v-.-
lever.it hasau endless wf
The power is almut eqnqHbg V>ut MOO .
power. Hume Bros, fclkended their
works over to Battery crcck-JQkf *• the crude
nhosphate sent over xJJ^iufactured
-to the fertilizer.—Th re is anotntr iroprove
ra‘ei.'t going on, too, down at the Wilson Phos
phate' Works, an the shape of an elevated rail
way, on which a donkey engine is to run, to
transfer the phosphate from one side over to
the other, where it is dnmpcd off to be dried.
We are progressing.—Some of the progressive
citizens wan't * street railway. Certainly, as
a measure of humanity, it ought to be snp
norted as it would run off all the hack horses
from competing, and enable them, or some of
them at least, to have a peaceful end, by dy
iniTin their beds, which they don’t have a
, chance of doing fit present.
BEN’S MISCHIEF MAKING
ONCE IN CONGRESS HE WILL
NAME THE PRESIDENT.
Blaine to Have 199 Votes, Cleveland 181,
and He the 11 Which Will Turn the
Election According to His Pleasure—
Republicans and Greenbackers Fuse in
Missouri.
Washington, Sept. 14.— Gen. Butler’s
friends here say that he does not seriously
desire New Jersey to go in favor of
Blaine, bat that he desires to have Blaine
get the electoral votes of all the Northern
States except New Jersey, Indiana,
Michigan and lowa, and for that reason
he will bend all nis energies to help
Blaine in New York, Connecticut and
Massachusetts. If only New Jersey,
Indiana, Michigan and lowa of the
Northern States go against Blaine
and the Southern States go for
Cleveland, the election of President
would be thrown into the House, tor
Blaine would receive only 199 votes,
Cleveland 181 and Butler 11, the Butler
votes coming 6 from Michigan and 5 from
lowa. The Butlerites say that their chief
energies will be directed to defeating
Cleveland in New York, inasmuch as this
will be necessary to the carrying out of
their programme.
FUSION IN MISSOURI.
The Republicans and Greenbackers
Unite Against tlie Democrats.
St. Louis, Sept. 14.—Separate and joint
meetings of the Republican and Green
back State Committees were held here
yesterday afternoon and evening to per
fect State and electoral tickets, as pro
vided for by the Republican and Green
back State Conventions recently held in
JefTerson City and Kansas City. The
Greenback committee tilled three vacan
cies left on the Republican State ticket
by the Jefferson City Convention, as fol
lows: Secretary of State, Paul J. Dixon;
Register of Lands, George Bond; Rail
road Commissioner, John Bates. The
committee also named a full electoral
ticket, but one half of these electors are
to be dropped in the lusion with the Re
publicans. At a joint session of both com
mittees last night the general situation
was discussed, and it was decided to open
a fusion campaign at Boonville Sept. 20,
when speeches will be made by several
leading Republicans and Greenbackers.
It was also decided that the State ticket
should be called the anti-Bourbon ticket.
The matter ot naming a joint electoral
ticket of eight nominees to be selected
from each party was deferred to a future
meeting.
Congressional Conventions.
Washington, Sept. 14.—The Republi
cans of the Tenth district nominated
Judge C. A. Newcomb for Congress.
In the election at New Orleans for dele
gates to the Second Louisiana Congres
sional District Nominating Convention
Judge W. T. Houston’s delegates carried
all the city wards in the district.
John Ilailby was nominated by the
Democrats of Idaho as a delegate to Con
gress. An anti-Mormon resolution was
voted down.
High Officials Give Their Mite.
Washington, Sept. 14.—Within the
past week a number of the higher officials
of the government, who would be liable
to removal in case of a change of ad
ministration, have sent in their little con
tributions to the Republican Campaign
Committee. They evidently consider the
“cause” to be in a somewhat seedy con
dition.
Roble’g Majority.
Augusta, Mr., Sept. 14.—The official
vote of the State, nearly complete, gives
Robie a majority of 19,700. The prohibi
tory amendment is adopted by 44,000 ma
jority.
Trouble at the Boundary,
Nogales, Arizona, Sept. 14.— An in
ternational surveying party has located
the boundary of Mexico and the United
States 600 yards north of the old line.
This throws a considerable portion of this
town on Mexican soil. The Mexican law
prohibits foreigners from holding real
estate within twenty leagues of the
boundary. The Americans declare their
determination to hold their property by
iorce of arms if necessary. Gen. Topete
will enforce the demands’ of his govern
ment and compel the American occupants
to relinquish their possessions. Trouble is
expected.
Asleep on His Brother’s Corpse.
New York, Sept. 14.—Joseph and John
Kluber, who arrived in this country from
Alsace about nine weeks ago, hail several
drinks together on Saturday night. Joseph
had to drag his brother along the street to
his home, in Christopher street, as the
latter was intoxicated. On the way both
fell, and two hours later they were dis
covered by a policeman. John was dead
and Joseph was asleep on his body.
During the evening the brothers had
visited John’s wife, a servant employed
on Fifty-ninth street. Joseph was held to
await the action of the Coroner.
Tried to Kill One of His Four Wives.
Baltimore, Sept. 14.— Otto Weimar,
alias Emil Baker, alias Lawrence Weick
ley, indicted in Montgomery county. Ra.,
for attempting to murder his wife, Eliza
beth Weimar, by administering poison,
was arrested in this city last night. It is
said that Weimar has four wives living—
one in Philadelphia, another in Lebanon,
Pa., another in Conshohocken (the one he
attempted to poison), and a fourth in this
city.
The Meeting of the Emperors.
London, Sept. 14.— The Czar and his
party arrived at Skiernevic at 6 o’clock
this evening. The Czarewitch has gone
to Granitza to meet Emperor Francis
Joseph. Prince Wittgenstein will meet
the Emperor William on the frontier.
The Czar and Czarina intended to meet
him, but the Emperor expressly desired
that they would not make the journey.
The conference between their Majesties
will take place to-morrow.
The Czar’s Guards.
Warsaw, Sept. 14.— The St. Petersburg
police who have been guarding the line
ot the Czar’s journey have been recalled
to St. Petersburg. Many persons who
were arrested on suspicion of having
designs against the Czar and his party
have been released. The game keepers of
the royal preserves at Skiernevic have
been changed three times within the past
two weeks.
Nast’s Genius in Demand.
Washington, Sept. 14. —On the Invita
tion of Commissioner Butterwortb, agent
at the Cincinnati, Louisville and New Or
leans Exposition for the Interior Depart
ment, Thomas Nast will come here this
week to consult with Maj. Butterwortb
about a colossal sketch which Maj. But
terworth wants drawn representing the
“Genius of Invention.”
Tlie Irish Policy in Parliament.
London, Sept. 14. — A National League
demonstration took place at Galway to
day. Speeches were made by Messrs.
Healy, O’Connor and others. O’Connor
threatened an obstruction policy during
the autumn session of Parliament unless
the demands of the Irish members with
regard to the Maamtrasna case were
granted.
Murdered with an Ax.
Wheeling, W. V a.. Sept. 14.—Intelli
gence has been received here ot a murder
at Coal Valley, Fayette county. Smith
Olden and Alexander Tincher became in
volved in a quarrel, when Olden struck
Tincher with an ax, cleaving his breast
open from the right shoulder and cutting
through both lungs and heart. The mur
derer was arrested.
Granted a Divorce.
Albany, N. Y., Sept. 14.— At the spe
cial term of the Supreme Court yesterday
a divorce absolute was granted Maria
Nolan, daughter of ex-Mayor Nolan, of
this city, from J. Bullard Carroll, on the
ground of adulteries committed and dis
covered subsequent to the late trial be
tween the parties, which resulted in the
acquittal of Carroll.
Fatal Quarrel Among Stockmen.
Galveston, Sept. 14—An Abbott, Tex.,
special says: “in a difficulty to-day be
tween John Friar and Marion Teague,
the latter was stabbed and killed. Friar
received two wounds, which it is believed
will prove fatal. Both were highly
esteemed stockmen. They quarrelled
0> T er the settlement ot accounts.”
Peaclies and Steam.
WilkksbAltPa., Sept. 14.—A “wild
cat” peach train on t£? 1 hiladelphia and
Beading Railroad collided with a coal
train this morning. Samuel Cole, engi
neer of the peach traiD, was instantly
killed, and John Ruhf, the fireman, dan
gerously injured.
England** Ambassador to Germany.
London, Sept. 14.—Sir Edward Malet
will succeed Lord Ampthill as Ambassa
dor to Germany.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1884.
VICTORIA RETURNS HOME.
Finding no Boom for the Groom She
Leaves Again.
New York, Sept. 14.—A dispatch re
ceived to-day at police headquarters from
the Captain of the Yonkers police states
that Victoria Morosini, who eloped with
Ernest J. Schelling, her father’s coach
man, voluntarily returned to the parental
mansion at Yonkers with her husband
this morning.
The return was the result of negotia
tions that have been pending for two days
between the runaway couple and Mr.
Morosini. Mr. and Mrs. Schelling, who
have been stopping in Troy since the
elopement, took a carriage at the station
and drove to the Morosini mansion. Mrs.
Schelling entered the house alone, her
husband remaining outside about a block
away.
NO RECONCILIATION.
The young woman remained indoors
for about an hour. What occurred inside
is not certainly known, but it is believed
that the griet-stricken parents besought
their daughter to renounce her husband
and come back to their care. The lather,
however, absolutely refused to recognize
Schelling as his daughter’s husband. The
daughter refused to give up her husband,
and left the house to rejoin Schelling.
The newly married couple then proceeded
to a hotel on Riverside avenue, where
thej passed the night. Mrs. Morosini’s
condition was reported as being ex
tremely critical in the evening, and her
being able to live through the night was
doubted.
A Hong Kong dispatch says: Chinese
officials explain that they at first fired
over the British gunboat Zephyr, and
fired directly at her afterwards because
she refused to stop at the first shot.
Mrs. Schelling was afterward arrested
on a charge of larceny preterred by her
father, in that she stole from her sister a
diamond brooch.
3,297 CHOLERA CORPSES.
A Terrible Showing Made by tlie Offi
cial Records at Naples.
Rome, Sept. 14.—From midnight of Fri
day last up to 4 o’clock this (Sunday)
afternoon there.have been 1,299 cases and
687 deaths at Naples. Since the begin
ning ol the outbreak there have been 3,297
deaths. To-day’s bulletin shows, in the
last 24 bouts: At Bergamo, 28 iresh cases
and 12 deaths; at Caserta, 8 cases and 2
deaths; atCuno, 19 cases and 6 deaths; at
Genoa, 43 cases and 32 deaths; including
atSpezzia, 28 cases and 16 deaths, and at
various other points in the country from
1 to 3 deaths have occurred.
KING HUMBERT’S DEPARTURE.
King Humbert and the Duke of Aosta
arrived here to-day, and proceeded to
Monza. They received an ovation in
this city. A crowd encircled them, and
greeted them with storms of cheering,
notwithstanding the fact that Minister
Depretis had telegraphed from Naples
that the King would prefer a quiet recep
tion. King Humbert, in taking his fare
well of the Mayor of Naples, said that he
departed satisfied that the cholera was
decreasing. The President of the Red
Cross Committee at Naples has received
offers of personal aid from all parts of
Europe, but intimates that funds are
more needed.
SPAIN’S BULLETIN.
The bulletin of the ravages of the chol
era for the past 24 hours in Spanish cities
shows at Elche 5 new cases and 8 deaths;
at Novelda, 2 new cases aud 3 deaths; at
Montforte, 3 new cases and 2 deaths.
Four suspicious cases of sickness are re
ported to-day from Balagner.
A RATTLE ON A TRAIN.
IJrnnken Men Fire Tlieir Revolvers and
Eventually Meet “the Wrong Man.”
Jackson, Miss., Sept. 14.—Last night
“Sonny” Smith and Bob Marlow, while
under the influence of liquor, entered a
north bound train from New Orleans at
Crystal Springs disturbing and abusing
passengers and flourishing pistols. They
were finally put out of the’ ladies’
car and went into the smoking car, where,
after abusing a number of passengers,
they encountered L. H. Bell, a
guard in charge of a num
ber of convicts. Marlow, urged by
Smith, drew a pistol and commenced
firing, shooting five times. Bell re
turned the fire, discharging his pistol four
times. Conductor McShanc received two
shots, one in the left shoulder and the
other in the right hip. Marlow was shot
in the left breast near the heart. His
wound is believed to be fatal. Bell was
slightly wounded. The affair created
great consternation among the passen
gers. ■
FIGHTING AN ASSOCIATION.
Belmont Lodge, of Wheeling, Trying to
Disrupt the Amalgamated Workmen.
Wheeling, W.Va., Sept. 14.— Belmont
Lodge of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers, composed of
the boilers and helpers in the Belmont
mill of this city, last night resolved to
sever their connection with the associ
ation, and solicit boilers all over the
country to aid them in the disintegration
of the Amalgamated Association. The
action is taken because of a refusal of the
nailers here, who cut steel nails, to de
mand a 20 per cent, increase ot wages, as
the schedule signed last June by the
manufacturers provides may be done.
The step is an important one, but ex-
President Jarrett and several officers of
the association say that the lodges
throughout the country will not co-oper
ate with Belmont lodge.
SUNK OFF NORTH CAROLINA.
Four Survivors Rescued from a Raft—
Five Lives Lost.
Washington, Sept. 14.—The Signal
Station at Smithville, N. C., reports as
follows: “The ninety-ton stern wheel
Mexican steamer Dos Hermonos, from
Philadelphia bound to Mexico, sunk off
Frying Pan Shoals at 11 o’clock last night.
The Captain, two engineers, one deck
hand and the cook were lost. The re
maining four of the crew were saved.
The Blanche, of this place, started lor the
wreck at 12 o’clock to-day and picked up
the four survivors at 2 o’clock this aiter
noon floating on a raft three miles out at
sea. The wind was blowing a gale from
the northeast at the time of the sinking.
A deck hand reports that the raft floated
within 200 yards of the Cape Fear life
saving station, but no effort was made to
save the lour men. The survivors are
being cared for.
A TUG’S BOILERS BURST.
The Captain and a Boy Drowned—All
the Others Saved.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 14.—The steam
tug Frank Somers exploded her boiler in
the James river, near City Point, this
morning. At the time of the accident the
tug was towing the schooner Samos up
the river to the city. Her crew consisted
of Capt. Edward Cavanaugh and four
other men. As soon as the explosion oc
curred all the men jumped overboard.
Capt. Cavanaugh and a bov, 18 years old,
were drowned. The other members of the
crew were rescued by the men on the
schooner.
A DUEL W ITH KNIVES.
Love, Jealousy and a Tragedy in a Vir
ginia Village.
A deadly encounter took place near
Whitmell, says a South Boston, Va., spe
cial of Sept. 11, between John Dixon and
Jackson Davis, two rivals. A Baptist
revival has been progressing in the vi
cinity since Monday night, among the
visitors to which was Ella Afton, aged
19, who received much attention from the
young men. Dixon and Davis were the
most persistent admirers. She inadver
tently made an engagement with both of
them for last night, and each repaired to
her house at the hour fixed to escort her
to church. She settled the matter by ac
cepting Dixon’s escort for the eveniug, as
she thought he had the prior claim. Da
vis sulked all the evening during the re
ligious exercises. After Dixon had taken
his charge home the men met in the road
near her house by agreement. It is un
derstood both were armed with knives,
and had a duel iu which Dixon left his
rival lying in the road and fled. Davis’
wound was a terrible stab in the stom
ach, which is believed to be mortal.
Base Ball.
Washington, Sept. 14.—The following
games of ball were played to-day:
At Louisville—Louisville 6, Virginia 1.
At Cincinnati—Cincinnati!, Brooklyn 8.
At St. liOuis —St. Louis 7, Metropolitan 4.
At Columbus—Columbus 4, Athletic 2.
PUBLIC BUILDING RINGS.
BREWSTER HOLDS ALOOF TO
GIVE ROBBERS TIME.
The Department Officials Run to a Cor
ner Where They Dare Not Erect Build
lnjcs Without Regard to the Mone
tary Limits Drawn by Congress.
Washington, Sept. 14.— The Supervis
ing Architect of the Treasury is troubled
by another question about the method of
conforming to the Congressional bill in
the construction of public buildings. The
question now raised is in connection with
fhe public buildings to be erected in
Brooklyn, Denver and Louisville. In each
case about one-half the appropriation has
been already expended in tbe purchase of
the site. Now the question is whether
the Supervising Architect shall erect a
building which shall cost in each case
just the remainder of the appropriation
or whether he shall begin a
building which may cost two or three
times as much as the balance of the ap
propriation. For example, the Brooklyn
site has cost $308,000. The whole appro
priation was only SBOO,OOO. A $500,000
building would not meet the needs of
the government at Brooklyn.
TO < O TO BREWSTER.
This question will be referred to the
Attorney General, together with the old
question decided recently by Acting Sec
retary Coon—namely, that the Supervising
Architect in continuing the construction
of buildings heretofore commenced shall
consider the latest Congression
al appropriation as fixing
the limit of expenditure. Tfiis decision
changed the old practice of the Super
vising Architect’s office, which took
every additional appropriation after the
first as indefinitely extending the limit of
expenditures. This decision of Acting
Secretary Coon is what prevented the
Supervising Architect from going right
ahead in the cases of the new buildings
at Denver, Brooklyn and Louisville, and
beginning construction on a scale com
mensurate with the cost of the site, re
gardless of the amount of the origi
nal appropriation in either case.
This question has also been re
lerred to the Attorney General. His de
cisions are not expected before Congress
meets. By that time the public buildings
ring on the floor of Congress will have its
plans well laid for liberal additional ap
propriations.
HOW’ INGERSOLL LECTURED.
The Authorities of Victoria Refuse Per
mission, but the Mob Sustain Him,
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 12.—Having failed
in all other means to prevent Col. Bob
Ingersoll from securing a hall in Victoria,
British Columbia, in which to deliver a
lecture on orthodoxy, the civic authori
ties, on learning that he had rented the
new Royal Opera House, entered a
protest against the building being
used for a public meeting, on the
ground that means of egress were
inadequate in case of fire. Their de
cision was announced on the day Inger
soll arrived—Aug. 28—the date he was an
nounced to lecture. On hearing that there
was likely to be trouble, Mr. Ingersoll
stated that he would lecture on the street,
but feared the interference of the police.
Learning that he could charter a steamer
then in the harbor, he proposed to charter
her at his own expense and take those
who wished to accompany him to Port
Townsend free of charge, when he would
deliver bis lecture rather than disappoint
them. However, this alternative was not
taken advantage of. H“ and a number of
friends bad gained admittance to the The
atre Royal, where he proposed to hold the
lecture.
Hundreds were waiting outside of the
door to gain admittance, but were stopped
by the police. The Superintendent of
Police ordered the Treasurer to stop
selling tickets under pretext that the
building was not safe. The Treasurer
with a few friends then went around to
the west side of tae building, and with an
ax cut an entrance. Mr. Ingersoll and
ladies, the United States Consul. Col.
Stephens, and other ladies and gentlemen
finally appeared upon the stage. Aider
man Fell, stepping forward, began in a
strong speech to condemn what he pro
claim?d as a bold attempt to frustrate
Iree speech, and said that, though British
born, he blushed this evening for what
had been done. He was enthusiastically
cheered. The scene that followed
beggars description. Windows and doors
were smashed in, by which entrance was
ettected. The police were powerless to
keep order or carry out their instructions.
The crowd were with the lecturer and
were determined to hear him. During the
melee several ladies fainted. After the po
lice found that they could not prevent the
lecturer going on, they contented them
selves with endeavoring to keep order,
immediately after the lecture was over
Col. Ingersoll took a steamer for Wash
ington Territory. It is stated that he will
sue the corporation of Victoria for heavy
damages.
BALLOON EXCITEMENTS.
A Proposition to Have a Balloon Cen
tennial in England.
Apropos of balloon steering, says the
Pall Mall Gazette, it is announced that
a committee is making arrangements to
celebrate the centenary of the first aerial
voyage in this country. The first person
who rose into the air from British ground
appears to have been a Mr. J. Tytler, who
ascended from the Comely gardens, Edin
burgh, on Aug. 27, 1784, and traversed a
space of about half a mile at an altitude
of from 350 feet to 500 feet. But the ascent
which it is now intended to celebrate is
the more successful one of Vincent
Lunardi, made from Finsbury fields on
Sept. 15 in the same year, in
the presence of the Prince of Wales
aud a vast concourse of specta
tors. Lunardi afterward wrote an
account of the proceedings, which con
tains some amazing statements. For ex
ample, he had risen to a considerable dis
tance when one of the oars, by means ot
which he hoped to raise or lower the bal
loon at pleasure, dropped to the ground,
and he tells us that a lady, mistaking the
oar which fell for the aeronaut himself,
was so affected by bis supposed fate that
she died in a few days, But, on the other
hand, he was assured by a judge that “he
had certainly 9aved the life of a young
man, who might possibly be reformed and
be ttl the puDllc a compensation for
the death of the young lady,”
for a jury" were deliberating in
a capital case, and must infallibly
have brought in a verdict of guilty, when
the appeared, which so distracted
their iQMtion that they at once acquit
ted to save time, and the
whole court instantly turned out to see
the sight. The King, too, was in confer
ence with his ministers, but on hearing
that the balloon was passing his majesty
dismissed the couneil, remarking that
they could discuss affairs of state any
day, but perhaps they might never see
Lunardi again.
SWINDLING SOLDIERS’ WIDOWS.
How Thomas Baker is Said to Have
Carried on a Series of Frauds.
Special officers of the Pension Depart
ment, says a Pittsburg special to the
Philadelphia Press, are collecting evi
dence against Thoma? Baker,alias Brown,
now awaiting trial lor swindling soldiers’
widows and children out of back pension
money. Another case has been discov
ered, the victim being a woman living on
the South Side, and an additional charge
for the offense will be entered against him
in a few days.
Baker played a bold game. He always
fleeced the widows and daughters ot sol
diers. His plan was to learn where a
woman had secured a large back pension
and to go to her residence during the ab
sence ot any male relative. He would
represent that he was a government offi
cer; assert that he had procured the pen
sion through fraud; place her under
arrest and compel her to accompany him
on the next train which invariably left
in a short time. His apparent destina
tion would be Washington, D. C., but he
would stop at some large city and compel
the prisoner to occupy the same room with
him in a hotel. The next day he would
inform the victim that, upon examining
the papers, he had found that, as the fraud
was not extensive, he would release her
and give her sufficient money to return
home, but would keep the balance until
he had consulted the government authori
ties.
He was captured at Wilkesbarre. He
bad then been traced under six distinct
aliases.
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Everybody likes it. Try it.
CLEVELAND’S CHANCES.
Every Prospect that He will Have Sev
eral Electoral Votes to Spare.
The election of Grover Cleveland to the
Presidency, says a New York special to
the Detroit Free Press, seems assured, so
far as figuring at the present time is con
cerned. On Sept. 1 your correspondent
determined to interview Democrats and
Republicans of national reputation, for
ten days, and get them to figure the result
by States, and thus present probably the
first detailed opinion of the campaign. In
all twenty-three gentlemen were inter
viewed—thirteen Republicans and ten
Democrats. There are 401 votes in the
electoral college this year, made up of
thirty-eight States. It is generally con
ceded that the fusion of Democrats,
Greenbackers and labor advocates in
Michigan will be successful, giving Cleve
land seven and Butler six of the total
thirteen votes of that State. Thus there
remains really only 395 votes in dispute,
and the winner must have 198 of these, or
201 in all.
THE BLAINE COLUMN,
Without seriously disputed States, stands
as follows:
Colorado 3 New Hampshire.... 4
California 8 Oregon 3
lowa 13 Pennsylvania 30
Kansas 9 Rhode Island 4
Maine 6 Vermont 4
Massachusetts 14 Wisconsin 11
Minnesota 7
Nebraska 5 Total 124
Nevada 3
THE CLEVELAND COLUMN—
And there is not a seriously questioned
State in it—stands this way:
Alabama 10 Mississippi.... 9
Arkansas 7 Missouri 16
Connecticut 6 New Jersey 9
Delaware 3 North Carolina 11
Florida 4 South Carolina 9
Georgia .12 Tennessee 12
Indiana 15 Texas 13
Kentucky 13 Virginia 12
Louisiana 8 West Virginia 6
Maryland 8
Michigan 7 Total 190
BUTLER’S COLUMN
contains only six votes from Michigan.
THE BATTLEFIELD.
The three great States in dispute are
Illinois 22, New York 39 and Ohio 23, a
total of 81, filling the grand total of 401.
The Cleveland column will be seen to in
clude the solid South and three Northern
States—lndiana, Connecticut and New
Jersey—and the Republicans do not pre
tend to claim them, except as possible
scratches. Wisconsin is given to Blaine
jn the face of a very general opinion that
its 11 votes will go to Cleveland, making
him 201 without Illinois, Ohio and
New York. The Republicans claim
West Virginia, with six votes, but tbe
claim is not held to be good, even by care
ful thinking Inembers of that party. The
Democrats claim Illinois, Ohio and New
York, and the Republicans do likewise,
both equally persistent and with reasons
apparently of equal value. Should the
Democrats carry either of the three
States, Cleveland’s election is a foregone
conclusion, while, according to the same
figures, Blaine must carry all three of
them, together with Wisconsin, and the
loss of Wisconsin to Blaine would give
the place to Cleveland without New York,
Illinois and Ohio—always counting upon
fusion success in Michigan.
SAM RANDALL’S OPINION.
In conversation with tne writer the
Hon. Sam Randall said the figures here
presented were unjust to Cleveland. After
carefully footing up the columns and dis
cussing this an(l that State, Mr. Randall
said: “I think it will be conceded that I
know something of the feeling in Penn
sylvania, and with every confidence in
the world I ask you to put that State,
with its thirty votes, in Cleveland’s
column; aud why do you attempt to
mislead Western people by placing
New York in dispute? I tell you, we
will carry this State without any great
difficulty. As to Ohio, I don’t know so
much, but judging from the reports I hear
at headquarters and read in the news
papers, 1 haven’t the slightest doubt that
it will go Democratic in November, what
ever it may do in October, when fixing
up State and local affairs will be the
principal object of the voters. From Illi
nois the reports seem all our way, and
our people are resting easy about it. The
Southern States have 153 votes, and Cleve
land will get them all.
BLAINE’S RAILROAD DEAL.
A Transaction Which is Said to Have
Netted a Handsome Sum.
The Richmond State prints a long com
munication from the pen of Col. Frank G.
Ruffin, the Second Auditor of the Com
monwealth, in which he reviews Mr,
Blaine’s connection with the Richmond
and Allegheny Railroad. This road was
constructed a few years ago along the
tow-path of the old James river and
Kanawha canal. This property of the
canal company, with all of its
franchises, was surrendered by the
State of Virginia to a syndicate,
composed, amoDg others, of James G.
Blaine and Hugh McCulloch, upon the
condition that they were to construct a
railroad along the line ot the canal. That
property cost the State $11,000,000. The
Richmond and Allegheny Road has re
cently been placed in the hands of re
ceivers. After detailing the expenses of
construction, the purchase of the James
river and Kanawha canal, which was
also in the construction of the railroad,
and the amounts of the various mortgages
of the road, Col. Ruffin states that a bal
ance of $4,255,702 75 remained. Unless
the company went into bankruptcy on a
surplus, this money, Col. Ruffin insists,
has been stolen by the syndicate that had
access to it, among whom was Mr. Blaine.
Col. Ruffin then says:
“The culminating point in the bond 9
and stocks was in June, 1881, aud then
Mr. Blaine sold out, having made, it was
said, SIOO,OOO by the transaction. It was
said also that he was displeased at the
administration of the road, but cei tain it
is that he got SIOO,OOO, for in June, 1881,
as I have taken pains to ascertain, he
contracted to build nis hundred-thousand
dollar house in Washington. I know it
has been said that this SIOO,OOO was to
be paid to Mr. Blaine for the use of his
name in this business and that this was all
he got. Ido not believe it. Is any one green
enough to believe that such a manfas Mr.
Biaine has been proved to be would retire
from millions of plunder and content him
self with only one-fourth of what he
might have had by remaining with the
other nine of the syndicate. Of course
not.”
A BATTLE-FIELD BOUGHT FOR
GOLD.
How a Scotch Millionaire D Erecting a
Memorial of His Brother In Kentucky.
Avery interesting event of considerable
importance, historically speaking, says
the Nashville American, will come off at
Mumfordsville, Ky., on the 17th inst. It
is nothing more nor less than the unveiling
of a monument weighing thirty tons, it
is eight feet square at the base, six feet
square at the top and twenty-five feet
high, cut in one piece, of white oolitic
stone, near Bowling Green, Ky. The
monument is already in position and
bears the following inscription:
South 42 degrees, west 90' poles distant, is
the place of the sacrifice of Col. Robt. A.
Smith and a part of his regiment, the Tenth
Mississippi, on Sept. 14, 1862.
James Smith, of Glasgow, Scotland,
some time ago bought the battle-field of
Mumtordsville, with the view of erecting
a suitable monument to the memory of
his brother, Col. Robert A. Smith. Mr.
Smith Is a millionaire and was heartily in
sympathy with those who fought for the
lost cause. In 1861 he bought the uni
forms, guns, horses and trappings for
equipping a battery of artillery, which he
forwarded through the blockade to Jack
son, Miss., where it joined the Tenth Mis
sissippi Regiment. He arrived in New
York yesterday with a number of Jriends
and relatives, who will immediately pro
ceed to Mumfordsville and pitch tents on
the battle-field. They will remain there
until the arrangements for unveiling the
monument are completed.
The monument is located on a hill near
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
and is in the centre of an enclosure fifty
feet square, around which a handsome
coping has been set. Within the en
closure there are to be erected six other
monuments, one in memory of the dead
of each of the regiments that took part in
the engagement, Capt. James W. Fite
will to-day superintend the removal of
the remains of the Confederate soldiers
who were buried alter the battle of Mum
fordsville to the new cemetery. Tbe
headstones which will be placed over their
graves are four feet high and one and a
half feet wide, and will each bear the
following inscription:
In memory ol the dead ol the Tentli Missis
sippi Regiment, who fell in the battle at
Mumtordsville, Ky., on Sept. 14,1862. Erected
by their gratetul state.
BOTH OUT FOR CLEVELAND
HAMILTON FISH AND BRISTOW
REPUDIATE BLAINE.
They Decide that They Cannot Give
Their Support to Chicanery and Cor
ruption—They Prefer Honesty and Re
form in a Clean Democratic Candidate.
The principal diversion the past
week, says a Saratoga special, has
been swearing at the weather and
talking politics—especially talking poli
tics. It has even invaded the ranks of
the ladies, and along the shaded verandas
the names of Cleveland and Blaine are
heard from feminine lips more frequently
than “plated basque” or “Watteau train.”
Among the men there has been much
serious comparison of political views and
grave discussions of Mr. Blaine’s past re
cord. The sturdy old ex-Secretary of
State and ex-Governor. Hamilton Fish, an
old-time friend of Mr. Blaine, leads many
of tnese discussions. In spite of his
lifelong devotion to the Republican cause
he is outspoken in his admiration for
Cleveland, and in his bluff, hearty wav
says so t® the little group ot admirers that
can always be found about his favorite
seat. Such men as Benjamin H. Bristow,
who was Secretary of the Treasury while
Mr. Fish was at the head of Grant’s Cabi
inet; Francis Walker, Chief of the Census
Bureau, and others, men whose names
stand at the head of the Republican party,
are equally outspoken in tneir determina
tion to vote for Cleveland. It will be
their first vote for any other than a Re
publican, they say, but they must vote
for him unless they choose to not vote at
all. The idea of supporting Blaine is not
even considered.
The venerable Mr. Fish, whose services
as Secretary of State under Grant, and as
Governor of New York, elected by Whig
voters, make him one of the most promi
nent men in his party, was somewhat
averse to talking publicly of his prefer
ence for Cleveland.
A SPLENDID RECORD AS GOVERNOR.
“I am out of politics altogether,” he
said, “and it would hardly look right for
me to take any active part in the cam
paign under the circumstances. I have
the greatest respect and admira
tion for the Democratic candi
date, and personally I should like
to see him President. He has made a
splendid record as Governor, and I believe
would do equally well as the Chief Execu
tive. There is only one thing 1 shall
possibly fear in voting for him aud that is
the Southern Democratic element. Cleve
land himself is all that could be desired,
but he mightr—mind, I say might—be con
trolled by the Southern Democratic ma
jority. Even though I vote for Cleveland
it is the man and not the party 1 indorse.
Why, I still consider myself a Republi
can, and a good Republican, too,” and
the ex-Governor dropped into a reverie as
he reviewed his half century of political
service.
“Now, about Blaine,” he resumed, in a
retrospective sort of way. “I know him
personally, and a more agreeable, fasci
nating man I never met. But his past
record”—and Mr. Fish, broke oil abruptly
and pursed up his lips, fearful of saying
too much. “I won’t say anything of his
doings in Congress, for on that point there
is some dispute, but his course in the de
partment is patent to all—you know it as
well as I—and it cannot be too strongly
condemned. I don’t want to talk public
ly—l am out of politics and really must
riot say any more. Still, it is the most
uncertain election 1 ever saw. What
with Butler in the East and St. John in the
West, and the Independents everywhere,
there is no telling where we will bring up.
I wish I knew,” and with an inquiring
look he turned to a party of friends, as
though they could tell him.
“I SHALL VOTE FOR CLEVELAND.”
Benjamin H. Bristow was equally mod
est. He had been too honest for Grant as
Secretary of the Treasury, and ever since
then had tried to keep out of politics.
“You know I am not a public man any
longer,” he said, “so don’t ask me to say
anything. Talk to my old chief, Mr. Fish.
I have only one vote, and the deposit of
that constitutes my entire political work
this campaign.”
“And what name will be on tbe ticket ?”
“I shall vote for Cleveland as an em
phatic protest against the nomination of
such a man as Mr. Blaine. It is the only
way 1 can protest against the candidacy
of so dishonest and corrupt a man. Yes,
my one vote is for Cleveland.”
“It will be your first Democratic vote,
will it not?”
“I don’t call it a Democratic vote, sir;
1 call it an honest one. lam not in love
with the Democratic party, and am not a
Democrat. But I really will not say any
more,” and with that the soldierly ex-
Secretary joined his chief on the veranda,
where the record of Mr. Blaine was
handled in a calm, dignified way, but
without gloves.
ANOTHER CLEVELAND RECRUIT.
Francis H. Walker, ex-Superintendent
of the Census, is another of the prominent
public men up here out of politics. Mr.
Walker, a life-long Republican, changes
his vote this year. “I shall vote for
Cleveland, but I am still a Republican,”
he said. “The Republican nominee has
always had my support except when
Grant ran a second time. Then I did not
vote. In Massachusetts, my State, the
candidacy of Butler has taken lroin the
Democrats 20,000 of the most disrepu
table voters. On the other hand, 1 be
lieve that fully 15,000 of the best and most
intelligent Republicans will vote for
Cleveland. The independent movement
is large and well organized, but it is
doubtful whether it will counterbalance
the Butler defection. Jt looks somewhat
now as though the Blaine managers were
becoming afraid of the spirit they had
evoked in Butler. He is not wholly under
their control, and seems to be nurting the
Republican as much as any other party.”
THE INDIAN SITUATION.
Trouble Not Apprehended—The Reports
of Outbreaks Denied.
Reports of threatened outbreaks among
the Indians on various reservations, says
a Washington special to the Philadelphia
Press, have been quite frequent of late.
Stories of destitution and starvation
among the Piegan, Umatilla and other In
dian tribes have been published, causing
considerable uneasiness and fear that the
policy ol cutting down appropriations
adopted by the Democratic House of Rep
resentatives, would result in another In
dian outbreak and the slaughter of the
white settlers livingnear the reservations.
While the appropriations made at the
last session of Congress for the support of
the Indians are entirely inadequate, the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs thinks
that by judicious management they can
be made to answer, at least until Congress
convenes again in December, when it will
be asked to increase the appropriations.
Commissioner Price said to-day that he
anticipated no trouble from any of the In
dian tribes in the near future. He said
there was no truth whatever in the re
ports of outbreaks among them. “The
appropriations for the support of the In
dians,” he said, “have never been as large
as they should be. but we have always
been able to get along by getting deficien
cy appropriations. The sums appropri
ated for some purposes are sufficiently
large, but for others they are entirely too
small. I think we will be able to get
along all right, and without any trouble
until Congress meets again. The reports
that we have from our agents do not in
dicate that there Is any great suffering
among the Indians or that there is any
possibility of outbreaks.”
Chinese Troops Lying on Their Arms.
Paris, Sept. 12.—A Hoi Phong dispatch
says: All interest has now centered in the
operations in the Chinese littoral. The
troops at Hoi Phong are on the defensive
and awaiting the dry season before mak
ing any further advance. Twelve com
panies of marines have gone to reinforce
Admiral Courbet.
Mining Works Destroyed.
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 14.—A Car
thage, Mo., special says: “The extensive
works of the Granby Mining and Smelt
ing Company at Oronogo weft burned
to-day. The loss is not stated, but it is
heavy, including $40,000 worth ol new
machinery recently added.”
920,000 to Peter’s Pence,
Paris, Sept. 14.—Count de Paris, in ac
knowledging the Pope’s" benediction on
his son, sent 100,000 francs as a contribu
tion to Peter’s pence fund.
The Beetle and the Flea.
If a one hundred and fifty pound man
had strength in proportion to that of the
beetle, he could lift nearly 200,000 pounds.
If he were agile in proportion to the agili
ty of the flea, he could leap over a three
story house. Some poor fellows are so.
feeble that they can neither lift nor leap.
Their blood is poor, their digestion bad,
and their energy gone. Give such men
Brown’s Iron Bitters, which will enrich
their blood and tone them up gloriously.
HOW MAINE WAS CARRIED.
Votes Listed in Blaine’s Exchange and
the Frlces Publicly Quoted.
Evidences of bribery on the part of the
Republicans throughout the State last
Monday, says an Augusta special to the
(N. Y.) World, continue to accumulate.
A letter from Mr. Everett Farrington, of
Lincoln county, to a friend, says: “I never
saw such reckless buying of votes as we
had here Monday. It was as well under
stood that it was $5 for Marble (Republi
can candidate far State Senator) and $lO
for the Republican ticket as it was that
corn was 75 cents a bushel. They were
bought and sold with equal impunity.
Tbe only wonder to me is that we got amy
votes at all.”
I hear this sort of testimony from every
section of the State. The buying was not
confined to the cities, but extended to the
country districts. My estimate of 15,000
purchased votes in the State was too low;
20,000 would be nearer right. It is as
clear a case of a purchased majority as
ever went on record. This accounts for
the lack of enthusiasm that was com
plained of by Judge Foraker, Gen. Haw
ley and other Republican orators who
came up here to make speeches for Robie
and Blaine. If there could be an honest
expression of the vote of this State to-day
it would not be for Blaine, and if Cleve
land should be elected in November
Maine will be almost certain to go Demo
cratic two years hence. As it is now, the
State is absolutely in the power of a
corrupt, infamous, office-holding oligar
chy. In this city, for instance, govern
ment, State and county officials all com
bine when an election is to be held. There
are 200 office holders in Augusta, count
ing clerks ia the post office. Ail these
people are expected to do political duty.
The maintenance of Mr. Blaine is to them
an absolute necessity. When he goes
down they all go down with him and to
save him is to save themselves. They stop
afho prostitution of their official position.
Although they are almost universally
Prohibitionists they made a combination
at the late election with the proscribed
liquor sellers, who in return for clemency
agreed to support the Republican ticket.
Nine-tenths of the whisky element
voted that way. Indictments against
liquor sellers found by the grand jury
and reported to the court last Saturday
were not made public till after the elec
tion, so that no offense might be given to
an element whose support was desired.
Happy combination—the whisky seller
and the Prohibitionist! It way anything
to uphold Blaine. If through the honest
people oi the United States Gov. Cleve
land should be elected President, the
worst Bmashup in the country would take
place in this city of Augusta, county of
Kennebec, State of Maine. Here is the
robbers’ roost of the United States.
There is hardly a Democrat in the city
who has not been in some way approached
to join in the corrupt ring that holds sway.
Sometimes it is the offer of a direct bribe
in dollars and cents, as it was in the case
of a liquor dealer who was offered SIOO to
stay at home on election day. Sometimes
it is an offer of a place in that receptacle
that Is never filled, the Augusta post
office. It is a continual struggle, by
fair "means or foul, to extend the life
of the ring and make it more secure,
just as it always has been iu the
history of every other ring. The resigna
tion of Postmaster Manley ought to be
demanded by President Arthur or Post
master General Gresham. He has em
ployed men in the Augusta post office
who under the laws of Maine ought to be
in State prison. He permits these men to
leave their official work to go out at the
elections and commit the crimes for
which that punishment would be none too
severe. The proof is at hand that these
are not idle assertions, and it shall be
forthcoming at the proper time.
AN ENGINEER’S UNLUCKY DAY.
His Train Kills One Man and Plunges
Into a Picnic Party.
Yesterday was engineer Edward Crane’s
unlucky day, says a Schenectady, N. Y.,
special of Sept. 12. He took the 10 o’clock
Saratoga train on the Delaware and
Hudson Road up from this city, and
having until 4 o’clock to wait for his
return trip, he was detailed to engineer a
wild cat train sent out to pick up iron
scraps. At 2 o’clock the engineer was
backing a train just out of Saratoga,
when a man stepped quickly from the
side of the road and stood across the
rail fifty feet from the rapidly approach
ing train. The man on the car shouted to
him and the engineer blew hi?whistle,
but the man kept his eyes fixed on the
train and did not move. In an instant he
was struck and hurled from the track into
a ditch. He was picked up dead and
recognized as James Douglass, a shoe
maker, of Saratoga. It was without a
doubt a deliberate suicide.
Engineer Crane brought the 4:10 p. m.
train from Saratoga by the South Ballston
station. A party attempted to cross the
track in front of the Saratoga train. Craue
saw the heads of a team of horses almost
on a line with the outer rail. Before
warning could be given the engine struck
the nearest horse, killing it instantly.
The occupants of the wagon were J. D.
V. Tenßroeck, his daughter Lena, his son
Culver, wife and child; D. H. Palmer,
son and daughter; Tuesting Sharpley,
Mr. Vandenbergh and four others. They
were returning from a picnic. Mrs. Cul
ver Tenßroeck was thrown under the rear
passenger car, which passed over her
without doing her serious injury. Miss
Clara Palmer was thrown so near the
train that her dress was cut by the car
wheels. Tuesting Sharpley sustained se
vere injury to his left arm. Mr. Vanden
bergh received a cut on the bend. All the
occupants were thrown out and bruised,
except Culver Tenßroeck’s infant child,
which was found under a seat in the wa
gon unhurt. The horse not killed was
led Into a field to die this morning. It is
considered .marvelous that no human life
was lost.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN’S YOUTH
A Story About the Brilliant Young Ex-
President of the Irish League.
A good story is told about Alexander
Sullivan, who declined re-election as
President of the Irish National League,
and whom Mr. Parnell’s representative
at the late convention in Bostou pro
nounced the ablest man of his race in the
United States. When a boy in Michigan,
where he removed from his birthplace in
New England, his mind was filled the
social degradation to which political
oppression in Ireland had reduoed his
race, and he devoted his gifts, which
were developed early, to the cause of
liberty for all peoples. He became an
abolitionist, and, before he was old
enough to vote, effectively stumped the
State in support of a constitutional
amendment giving colored men the right
to vote, before the national constitutional
amendments had been ndopted. He was
taunted with taking his opinions from
Wendell Phillips and Faneuil Hall. Not
twenty years have passed, and the other
day he presided over the convention in
that place in support of political liberty
for the people of Ireland. His speech was
carefully prepared; but when he reached
the paragraph in which he reminded the
convention of the historic building,
although a man of reserve and self-con
trol, the fervor of youth swept back upon
him, and, to the astonishment of all wno
knew that he was following a set text, he
broke away from the lines, and sponta
neously throwing up his arms in saluta
tion, he cried with firs, “Dear old Faneuil
Hall—9lavery.kating Faneuil Hall J” and
the convention rose and cheered in quick
response. The abolition boy had over
taken and conquered the man.
Fast Time Iu Minnesota.
Sr. Paul, Sept. 14.—The race at Still
water yesterday between the pacers John
ston and Rtehball was won by the former
in 2:12, the fastent time ever made by auy
pacer in Minnesota. Minnie R. and her
running mate Firebrand were driven an
exhibition heat in 2:09)^.
The Rajali Frees the Captives.
London, Sept. 14.—The Rajah.ofTenim
has submitted to the requests of the Patch
Government and released the remaining
members of the crew of the British
steamer Nisero, who were captives on the
Island of Sumatra.
A Kaviaher Shot.
Galveston, Sept. 14.— A Clay (Texas)
special says: “A negroravisber,escaping
from Brazos county, who sought refuge
in this place last night, was captured and
shot by unknown parties.”
Justice Bradley to Resiga.
Washington, Sept. 14.—1 tis said that
Mr. Justice Bradley is to retire from his
place on the United States Supreme bench
this winter, and that Attorney General
Brewster desires the position.
15,000 at a Funeral.
London, Sept. 14. — Fifteen thousand
persons attended the funeral of the Fenian
Duggan at Dublin this afternoon. Among
the throng were'G’Brieu and Havitt,
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ARTHUR AND BLAINE.
rumored dicker to make
THE PRESIDENT A SENATOR.
A Celebrated Team Broken Up-~The Sit
uation lu New York as Outlin'd by a
Republican Politician.
The suggestion, says the New York
Herald , made some days ago simulta
neously in several Blaine papers of this
State that it would lie well to give Presi
ded Arthur the next Senatorship, has
caused the Republican politicians to
prick up their ears. They ,r a bar
gain, and they like bargains. H u they
are not all agreed about the value of Mr.
Arthur’s possible services to the Blaine
cause in the coming election. It is ad
mitted, however, by leading Blaine men
that some kind of help is needed by them
in this State, and that “if Arthur can
show us that ho can help us where we,
need it, we ought to pay him for it, that’s
all there is in it,’’ as a Republican boss
frankly put it to a Herald reporter.
The same gentleman discussed at some
length the question of Mr. Arthur’s value
to the Blaine canvass. lie said: “I don’t,
of course, know how far the trade has got
along. In my judgment Arthur’s help is
not worth as much as Blaine or some of
his advisers believe, and there are a good
many more of my opinion. But I know
that this dicker has been going on for
some time, and I know also that it is op
posed by some of our leading men. I hear
now that Chandler, the Secretary of the
Navy, wants to have Folger’s place as
Secretary of the Treasury; and I judge
that if Arthur gives him that it will he' a
sign that Blaine and Arthur have come
together, and that Arthur will go into the
campaign and has the promise of being
the next Senator.”
A DIFFICULT PROMTS!! TO KKKP.
“What do you think of such an arrange
ment?” asked the reporter.
“Well, I don’t know. You see it will be
very diflieult to keep the promise to make
Arthur Senator without making a good
deal of trouble in the party hereafter.
Blaine’s managers, or course, look no
further than the November election. They
are ready to do or promise anything to
elect Blaine. Of cdffrse I want to see
Blaine and Ljmcui elected, and 1 know as
well ns anjjp that we need all the help
we caiyMf^rsarry New York for Blaine.
the men who have been press
ifWTiis dicker on the Blaine side are from
other States and Territories, and they
don’t know and very probably don’t care,
much about our State politics. We who
live here and who have got to think
of the future oi the party in this State
and of our own futures, more or less,
don’t see it as plninly. To make such a
bargain with Arthur can’t possibly bo
pleasant to Senator Warner Miller, be
cause no man likes to put a knife some
where near his own throat.
SENATOR MILLER’S POSITION.
“Senator Miller is a good manager,
though still a little new to the ropes. But
he has seen the old managers go down be
fore him and has the field to himself. It
was not pleasant to him that Blaine made
a personal pledge to Tom Platt to make
him Secretary of the Treasury; but ho
had to swallow that, because Platt was a
very important fellow at Chieago, and
was determined to have his price. I sup
pose Tom Platt and Waruer Miller might
agree together, perhaps, though l’latt, as
Secretary of the Treasury, or even Post
master General, would not leave much
chance to Miller in this State, except as a
subordinate. But anybody can see that
to put new life into so shrewd and unscru
pulous a political manipulator ns Arthur,
who is uow ns dead as a door nail, is un
pleasant to Senator Miller. To be sure.
Platt and Arthur are out with each other
just now, but as they are both practical
men they will know how to get together;
and, don’t you see, if they should come
together, Warner Miller might get a
squeeze.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW’S ASPIRATIONS.
“Then, again, Chauneey Depew has
been wanting to go to the S.-nate for a
good while; he came near going when
Platt got the place, and it was a disap
pointment to him. He won’t take it very
kindly now to have Arthur put in ahead
of himself. Depew’s tired of waiting, and
he has a notion that the Senate would
give him a chance to make a much bigger
mark than he has yet made, aud he is not
the only one by all odds who lias u long
ing for Senator Lapbam’s place. There
is Cornell, for instance; he’p mighty quiet,
but he is by no means dead, and he would
not be pleased to see Arthur slip in past
him.
“The fellows who want to use Arthur
keep throwing it up to the rest of us that
if it hadn’t been for him the State wouldn’t
have gone for Garfield in 1880. That’s all
right, but they forget that Arthur then
and Arthur now are two very different
persons.
CONKLING,PLATT, ARTIIUR AND CORNELL.
“Four years ago we had a team in this
State that could pull together—Conkling,
Platt, Arthur, Cornell, all working to
gether, could achieve results. No doubt
Arthur played the trick that saved us the
State, but he couldn’t have done it il he
had not had with him and behind him
Conkling, Tom Platt and Cornell. And
just think what he got for it, not to Speak
of the others. He was abused like a pick
pocket for two years by the m'jn whom he
had saved from political death; his friend
Folger was slaughtered and is now dead
of that undeserved mnushment; andfinal
ly, at Chicago, Arthur himself was
slaughtered by the same men who killed
Folger. I oan’t blame him if ho requires
to be paid for any work he may do for the
men who have shown him and his friends
no mercy. But what I was going to say
is that Arthur now stands alone; he has
no Conkling or Platt or Cornell to work
with him, aud therefore I doubt whether
he can give as effective help now as he
did in 1880, while to promise him the Sen
atorship is sure to make a very ugly row
in the party after the election. That’s the
way it looks to me.”
CettiiiK in St. Louis.
St. Louis rost-lHsfpatc\
Betting on the Presidential contest has
been at .a lo w ebb on ’change of late, but
was revived this morning, and in a de
cidedly contrary direction to what it had
been. A week or so ago the Republicans
were offering odds on Blaine. When
Goortre H. Small got back from the North
he astonished the crowd by betting $250
that Ohio would go lor Cleveland. Sine®
then odds have been offered the other way
on this State and not taken. For some
time past T. G. Bowman had
orders, presumably from his partner,
Moses Fraley, to put sl,oooeven on Blaine,
if he could find a taker, but his offer has
been withdrawn. This morning Ami
Cheever received a telegram from It. R.
Magnus, who Is now m Chicago, telling
him that a certain party in Chicago would
bet SI,OOO even up on Cleveland. The
money would he banked in Chicago as
soon as the bet was taken. Tom Martin,
of Martin & Ben net, is the party who will
make this bet. Cheever showed the tele
gram around the floor, but could fiud no
one to take tho bet.
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