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) J. H . BSTILL, Editor and Proprietor. {
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
A Respected Citizen of Crawfordville
Arrmied for Manslaughter in Texas
Three Years Ago—Arrest of a Georgian
Who Murdered a Man in Upson County
Thirteen Years Ago, Fled to Texas and
Reformed—A Pardon to he Asked.
GEORGIA.
•Johnson superior Court convenes at
it rightsville to-day.
Ihe cows are dying above Athens with a
disease like murrain.
Hie cane crop of Dougherty will be a small
one. owing tj the small acreage planted.
llenry Cato, who murdered .lack Dukes, has
been sentenced to hang at Conyers Oct. 31.
i aldosta nas ordered a fire engine. It will
bo paid for jointly by the city and private
subscription.
Dalton’s first bale of new cotton was
brought in Tuesday by Mr. Chastain, ot Mur
ray, and sold at auction for'.qc.
The Valdosta Gun Club will go to Boston
next Friday to engage in another shooting
match with the club o( that town.
At Wrightsville .1 E. Page has torn down
his old hou-c, an t a fine cottage residence is
now being elected on the same site.
Extraordinary revivals of religion have
been in progre-s throughout Whitfield and
Murray counties the past few weeks.
At Dalton Hubert Springfield is going to re
build hi-livery stable, destroyed bv fire last
week, at once. The loss, without insurance,
was about 11,00.
A distemper has greatly reduced the Jersey
herd of cattle of the Messrs, tlemister, at
Tunnel Hill. It is said they have sustained
over 12,000 in losses. The disease is called
bloody water.
Cotton Is nearly all open, and farmers,
taking advantage of the favorable weather,
are picking i out rapidly. Bv N'ov. 1, if the
weather continues favorable, tbe most of the
crop will he gathered.
The McDaniel Monumental Association is the
name of an association that has iieen organ
ized at C arroltton for the purpose of raising
funds to erect a monument at the grave of the
late ' 01. Chas. A. McDaniel at Bowdon.
The caterpillars have done some damage to
the cotton in Dougherty countv, but the hot,
drv weather has been vastly more destruct
ive. There i- no “top crop" of cotton, and
the middle crop is only moderately good.
A gentleman living about two miles from
Wrightsville has twenty children bv bis
wife, who is a hale and hearty lady, and is in
the bv.-t of health. The youngest child is
about 1 years old. and sixteen of the whole
number are now living. The old gentleman
and lady. and uearly all the children, are
consistent members of the Methodist Church.
The wounds of Thomas Polhill, ot Valdosta,
received in the difficulty with the McCalls last
week, were not as serious as first reported.
While the knife penetrated to the hollow of
the alslonien in one place, causing an uglv
and dangerous wound, still the danger is sup
poaedtot*; pa* ed now, an*l Mr. l\>Unll is
cheerful an*i 'ioing well. He will be contineil
to hia l>ed some time.
WrightaTille Recorder: Wrightville con
tmues to grow, and real estate continue* to
increase in value. I.and on the outskirts of
our town is now worth from 173 to *IOO per
acre. When whisky was sold in W rights
viile but few buildings were being erected,
and the same lands could have then been
bought for *lO jcr acre. Ajvay with the idea
that the whisky trullic builds up a town.
The main brick work of the Crown Cotton
Mills at Dalton is nearing completion, and the
w-. l work >s being placed in order. Its com
pletion for business is set for the first of the
next year. It will be of three stories, and
proluiblv the liantlsotnest build-ng in Georgia
ii .rili of Atlanta. The old oltirers were re
elected at the late stockholders’ meeting.
Fifty per cent, lias been called for and mostly
paid in.
Thomas Alexander, of Atlanta, aged IS
years, and the heir of the dead convict lessee
of In, name, walked into a room in, which his
sister was sitting Saturday night, and draw
ing a revolver, tired a bullet into his left breast,
lie fell to the floor with a moan, in a
p h>l of blood. He wanted to die because the
parents of a young lady of whom he was en
amored and his own relatives objected to calls
which were rapidly maturing into courtship.
Ttie wound s very dangerous, and death is
feared. He had previous l y signified an in
tention of poisoning himself, but his sister
matched the puial from him.
The first fire in \ ilia Rica occurred last
Thursday night between 11 and 12 o’clock in a
1, .use occupied by Presncll & Cos. The fire
li.el made such headway before discovery
that it was impossible to save anything. The
I: was fully covered by insurance, also the
a ol goods' and fixture-. The fire soon
t aught the adjoining house belonging to E.
M. Allen and occupied by /. T. Allen and
v. fe, millinery goods, etc., and bv Mr. Allen
as n -!piaster. Most of the contents of this
li,,u-e ere saved by the crowd, who gathered
at the lire. There was no insurance on the
la-t house or goods. Two other houses were
v posed, but by continual wetting, they were
saved.
A serious difficulty occurred in Marion
county a few days ago which came near re
sulting fatally. The parties were Robert
Rutherford and Ruck Parker. There has
boon an old grudge existing between them for
. .me tune, and a few days ago, while they
.re Isdh working on the public roads, it
w a- renewed, Rutherford proceeding towards
Parker with a drawing-knife and inflicting
two wounds on his left wrist. Barker then
proceeded io defend himself with a hoe and
struck his assailant over the head, felling him
to the ground and inflicting a severe wound—
at first thought fatal Rutherford was carried
to his home, and has been laid up ever sioce
from the effects of tbe wound.
Wrightsville Recorder'. Since Air. W. B.
Bales' recent recovery from a severe spell of
fever his eyes have been very seriously af
fected, and last week, accompanied by Dr.
P. M. Johnson, left for Atlanta for the pur
po e of being treated by Dr. Calhoun. a noted
oculist of that city. East Tuesday a i>ostal
from Dr. .Johnson informed ns that Mr. Bales'
eyes were still in a very critical condition,
and that the chances for saving his sight were
not verv good. Another postal Thursday
evening brought the sad intelligence that he
wa- then suffering from a severe attack of
asthma, compl cated with heart and liver
trouble, and that he was in almost a dying
condition, but was being kindly cared for and
treated bv the best medical skill of Atlanta.
Milledgeville chronicle : On Sunday morn
ing. Coroner IV. S. >n*tt was summoned to
the plantation of Squire John Ray to hold an
inquest upon the laxly of a negro boy, 10 years
of age, by 'he name of Silas Miller, who was
accidentally killed by a gun in tbe hands of
another neg-o, 10 years or age. by the name
of lleory Allies. The two boys thought to
take a hunt.and started out with an oil gun
that had probably lieen loaded half a year or
more. Walking'along In the field, Henry
Mile carry tug the gun, and walk
ing in front with the gun on his
shoulder cocked, and Silas in the rear, sud
deulv Silas saw something he wanted toshoot,
and running up to llenry tried to get posses
sion of the gun. Henry at the same moment
saw the object that bad* attracted the atten
tion of >i!s and struggled to retain posses
sion of the gun, and in the struggle the gun
went off an I planted nine buckshot in Silas'
stomach, from the effects of which he died in
an hour ami a half. The verdict of the jury
was he came to his death accidentally by a
gunshot wound.
Augusta Exttiing AVie*: The Brown Base
Ball Club has widened its scope and organ
ized the Auzu-m Athletic Association at the
meeting Friday night, as intimated in yester
day's IS--UO of the A 'etc*. The association is
stocked with sixty shares at |23 each, making
a capital of |1,3 si, which can lie increased by
a majority vote. The association will lx*
maintained on a strong, popular basis, and
kept alive the year round, and encourage in
every possible way athletic sport- and manly
development. Angu-ta, in fact, is taking deep
interest in such matters, and with two line
organizations is not only fostering generous
rivalry at home, but keeping up with
the procession of Southern cities now
so ambitious in this line. The offi
cers elected last mgliV are as fol
lows: President. Geo. It. Sibley: Vice Presi
dent \V. E. i umraings; Manager. Frank \\.
Foster; Assistant Manager and Secretary, M.
j _ Vertferjr; Pm’ctors, Jno. J. Cohen, 1.. r.
Taliaferro. 4. IT, Jackson, C. IV . f iayton and
H. H. D’Antignac: Treasurer. AV. J. Craig;
Captain of Ball Team. Asbury Hull; Scorer,
W. At. D’Antignac. Messrs. J. R. Lamar,
•las. Tobin and Paul Alustin were appointed a
committee to procure a charter, and Messrs.
XL J. Ver ier}-, F. 'V. Foster apd J. H.
*r*Brien a committee to select a suitable base
ball park.
Robert Usher, who. after three years’
residence in Crawfoydville as a respected
grocer and .confectioner, has just lieen ar
rested charged w tb committing murder m
Texas three years ago. says that at the time
of the killing he was keeping store at Doug
lass. in Nacogdoches county, Texas. lie had
In his employ a man named Edward G.Ag
new, who tended a part of his business. On
the night of July 12, I*Bl, he noticed that Ag
new had Closed up Ins store and was going
off. He then spoke toAguew, and told him
that it was t.xi soon to lie going away, as
was a crowd in town that day, and he
woO.’d lose cu-totn by closing up too
„._i r Agnew ,nsw< rul that he was not
paid to Wo." k A* a d day, when Usher told
him that lie - a, ‘ “von going too soon of
late and that the!" ,ia '* better part company.
Agnew then got ang." '. I shr says, and came
up and curbed him. 4 light ensued, and
Anew who was a largo and much more
xfwer;ul man than Usher, beat Jura up badly.
Usher went back to la* store tc-n. Agnew
having U-en joined by hu brother and two
other men. He continued to curse l .her and
went towards his store after him. I-b r, n
the meantime, armed himself w ith a pi.Jol,
Jh, he believed that Agnew was Aim
iatu r continued to advance uiuard nim this
time in a threatening attitude, when t sin t
ered. The ball took effect in Ajtnewjs
breast. and he fell dead. I”**? 1 ’
that he immediately went toward Tvacog' o
ches court house to give himself up.
After th, Sheriff had arrested him, and he
had been boiled on *1,300 bond, he learned
that A Knew’a brother and other parties were
after him. He the* left the place, forfeited
his bund, proceeding to Florida and finally
turning up at Crawfordvilla. Re liked the
place and concluded to settle, and was doing
very well, his family having been written tor
were living with him, t'sher seys that he
nail always intended, so soot* the private
enmity died out against him at hi* old home,
to return and stand his trial and that be does
wot fear the law. He wantod to accumulate
e ? M> ogh money to employ counsel and he de
*“** s**® private passion time to
corn. Esher believes he will come clear.
Murder is a crime against which no statute
of limitations ever acta, and a guilty fugitive
Whose hands are stained in blood always
Wht JHomhm Hem
wMks in the shadow of the gallows. Upson
lounty has just shown an example of this in
a mn^to 81 of i ,lerry w ' uiam i who committed
a murder in 1 |ison county thirteen years ago
and escaped from jail and lied to Texas. Wil
liams killed a man named Calvin in Upson
ft December, 1871, stabbing hTm lo
death. He was arrested and put in jail.
uJ™ r, if ,na “T g , i , n jail * w months Wil
liams escaped, lie had a wife andtwocliil
dren, and with these he fled to Texas. Wil
liams arrival in the lame Star State thirteen
years ago marked anew era in his lire. He
had lieen given to drink while in Georgia, but
in Texas lie left the bowl untouched. The
terrible crime to which whisky had
brought lum, and the narrow ’ escape
from the scaffold or a felon’s chains gavo
him a shock that quite cured him of all desire
for anything like a rowdy spirit. In short, he
reformed and set aliout to act the part of a
g od citizen. In the climate of Johnson coun
ty his w ife sickened and died, leaving Wil
liams with two children, lioth of whom were
very young, too young to know of their fath
er's crime. The grave thus held the only wit
ness that was near except the man’s own
guilty conscience, and that did not betray
him. Years passed, and as no officer of the
law laid heavy hand on him, he grew to think
he was secure. His bright-faced children
prattled on his knee and contested for the en
vied kiss. Their hearts were light, but the
guilty conscience of their father was heavy.
At n l; l st married again, and as the years
roiled by six mire ‘’pledges’’ came
to brighten his home. Thirteen
years had passed; Williams had
prospered, his home was happy, he was a
leading citizen in the community, and a model
man; a member of the school board, and had
several times been honored with office. He
was enjoying the fruitsof liis well spent years
and uas-ing an honored among his feliows.
l,ut murder will out. Several weeks ago
* her iff Foster. of Upson county, re
ceived an anonymous letter informing him
■i 1 ~ " e wou 'A correspond with the
Sheriff of Johnson county. Texas, he would
earn something of the whereabouts of Wil
liams. The correspondence ensued, and
one day not long ago the wife and eight
happy children of the murderer were
dazed at his arrest. Tne community was
convulsed by the shock, and a most stupen
dous sensation was created. Williams had
• or thirteen years borne himself so well
and had appeared so unlike a fugitive
criminal that the people hardly knew
w hat to think. The wife who had
Jxjrnc him six children refused to be
lieve the charge until he admitted that it
was true, but he protested that the killing
na*lJn*i*n in self-defense. A few days ago the
lluams was torn from his happy surround
lugs and brought back to Georgia. He now
re.-ts in Upson county jail charged with the
murder committed thirteen years ago. A
strong effort will lie made to secure his
acquittal, or pardon by the Governor, in view
of the reformation in liis life.
FLORIDA.
Edgar G. Young love, of Gainesville, died a
day or two ago.
Nearly 800 hales of rotton were shipped
from Fernandina by the Sea Island Route this
week.
Gr hamville will give a barbecue on Oct.
<ien. Finley, ( 01. Bullock, Mr. Long and
other speakers will be on hand.
B SI. Porcher has a raft of 1.000 cedar logs
at Faber’s mill at cedar Key. He owns a
large log camp on Oeklokonee river.
At Tallahassee cotton is coming in slowly.
Mr. Shine has only received 150 bales this sea
son against 350 to the same date last year.
Troy is the name of anew flag station on
the South Florida Railroad. It is at the place
of S. J. Morrow, three miles south of Or
lando.
The Democratic Executive Committee have
i--uec a call for a convention to meet at Ocala
Thursday for the purjiose of nominating
a legislative ticket.
Columbia county has eight Democratic
clubs organized ana working actively. Colum
bia will give an increased majority over 1880
for both Die Presidential and State tickets.
Five head of fine graded Jersey milch cows
were shipped from Tallahassee last Sunday.
One was for Mrs. A. E. Phillips, of Sanford,
and the other four were for Mr. Cameron, of
the same place.
Colored farmers are hauling their corn to
Tallahassee and selling it at 10 cents per
bushel. The /.and of F/otcers says many of
these same parties will buy coru'liefore an
other crop at |1 per bushel.
The alligator ponds around Tallahassee are
becoming a source of revenue to the country.
E. W. Clark paid over *2O last week for one
lot alone. All the saurian skins that he has
bought during the week, laid out in a line,
measured 223 feet.
John Qualey, formerly of Ohio, who has
been cultivating Cuba tobacco a mile south
of Tallahassee the present year, says there is no
section of ti e Union in which land can be
made to yield larger crops of tobacco, of the
finest quality, than in Leon county.
Patrick Smith, ont* of Tallahassee’s oldest
-etthrs, died Thursday from natural decay,
aided by a fall receive I last Monday. Mr.
Smith was upward of of age. lie was
many years ago for
Leon, and held that office, it is said, more
than 20 years.
A call for a conference of the Independents
of Madison county is made to convene at the
court house in Madison on Wednesday, Oct.
l, to nominate a candieate for State Senator
to succeed Hon. F. W. Pope, resigned, and
three candidates for the Assembly.
Randall Pope, one of Madison’s leading
druggists and the brother of the Hon. Frank
W. Pope, Independent candidate for Gover
nor, can’t stand the mixed ticket, and on last
Tuesday evening joined the Cleveland and
Perry Club No. 1 of Madison precinct.
Fernandina Mirror'. Dave Wilson, known
all ovor the State as one of the most success
ful traveling agents in the mercantile busi
ness. has accepted the position of gereral
traveling agent of the new steamboat com
bination between Savannah and the upper st.
John’s river.
The door of the Orlando calaboose was
forced open on Sunday night last and two of
the inmates, I). Y. Russell and George
Bailey, who were serving out a fine, made
their escape. The other two prisoners, C. B.
seals and Henry Amos, remained to serve out
their unexpired time.
A young man named James F. Sherwood,
who came to Orlando recently from the
northern part of the State, and has been
clerking in W. G. White's store for the past
two weeks, met with a serious accident Tues
day afternoon oy being thrown from his
horse, striking the ground on his head. At
last accounts he was lying in a semi-con
scious condition, and the attending physicians
were unable as yet to say how it may ter
minate.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
It is said that there are a few cases of diph
theria in Prosperity, Newberry county, and
it good many a lew miles below that place. It
is not a very severe type, however, and no
deaths reported from it'as yet.
Sumter Watchman: “We are glad to say the
factory has started again. It has been leased
by private parties and will be run by them
till December, at which time we suppose other
arrangements will be made. Mr. D. James
Winn is now the superintendent and will
manage that department with his accustomed
energy.”
A few days ago the steward of the steamer
Two Brothers, at Georgetown, finding his
>-tove chimney choked with soot, adopted a
highly original expedient for cleaning it out.
Procuring a handful of gunpowder he dropped
it into the stove. An explosion followed, of
course, and the negro was blown out of the
galley, but was not seriously hurt.
A bright little four-year-old son of Dr. E.
B. Smith, of Marion county, was ins:antly
killed last week by liis clothing being caught
by the shafting of his father’s gin while in
motion. liis body was revolved around by
the shafting several times, causing his head
to strike the floor before the engine could be
stopped, producing instant death.
Joe Stevens, of Edgefield, has worked the
public ma t every year since the war, and has
never failed for a single time to answer to roll
call by his overseers. lie worked under James
T. Onzts, Jr., for thirteen consecutive years,
and though now past 50 years of age and ex
empt from further road duly, he still works
whenever the hands are warned out by the
overseers.
8. W. Teague, of Florida, is on a visit to
Newberry. As an illustration of how lands
are increasing in value in Florida, he says
that Messrs. Wheeler & Moseley, of l’ros
perity, sent him last year *3,000 to invest in
real "estate, which he did, purchasing 2,000
acres with the f:t,000. Now the same land can
he sold for *14.000 —a clear profit of *II,OOO In a
year’s time.
A difficulty occurred at the store of Mr.
Carter in Graniteville, Aiken eonntv. on Mon
day, in which Mr. Ben Whitlock drew a pis
tol and discharged its contents, No. 3 shot, at
John Carter, missing him. Whitlock was ar
rested and carried before Trial Justice Sims,
who bound him over for trial at the approach
ing Court of Sessions. The difficulty grew ont
of an old feud.
A negro named Tom Black, alias Tom Starr,
induced Anna Young White, a daughter of
W. T. White, of Landsford, Chester county,
to run off with him, and the father has pub
lished a card begging the public to assist him
in reclaiming the girl, it is thought that ti e
negro has taken refuge in Ebenezer township,
in York county, and that the girl is still with
him.
On Sunday morning. Sept. 13, Mr. J. Belton
Watson, of Anderson county, had his barn,
stables and corn crib destroyed by fire. Over
5 (XX) bundles of fodder, about 400 bushels of
oats and about 30 bushels of corn were also
consumed, aggregating a loss of about *6OO.
The fire was accidental, having been caused
bv Mr. Watson’s little son, who, while play
ing near a straw pile, popped a match with
Ins knife, Igniting the straw, from which the
fire spread.
Edward Rice, an old and well known tailor
ed citizen of Georgetown, died on Friday
night. Sept. 12. Ned was for nearly thirty
years janitor of the Winyaw Indigo Society,
having Wen installed in the office by Gov. r.
" • Allston, the father of the Rev. Benj. AU
ston, an h'-nored ex-President of the society.
Ned’s devotion to thesocietv. whose keys hung
at his girdle, was profound and unbounded,
and lie cherished with singular fidelity the
reminiscences which clustered around hia
long term of service.
George" White, the man who was caught in
the ery act of breaking into the safe of Mr.
X. Christiansen in Beaufort on the night of
July 4, had to be turneu loose at the recent
term of court for want of a law to suit his
cruutt. He could not be convicted of bur
glary, because the store in which be was found
was not a dwelling house. He could not he
found guiltv of larceny because he was ar
rested before he had time to accomplish bis
purpose of robbery. He had to be turned
looae after the charge of malicious mischief or
trespass, because in breaking the handle off
the safe and punching the combination he was
guiltv only of an attempt to rob, but bore no
malice or wtifuilneas toward Mx.Chrwtiansen.
BIDS FOR THE LETTERS.
BLAINE’S OFFER TO MULLIGAN
AND FISHER.
Consulships Temptingly Whispered in
Their Ears as the Reward of a Sur
render-Mulligan Inclined to Treat,
but Fisher Rejects Negotiations with
Scorn—Blaine to Mulligan: “Buy
Them; I Tell You, to Buy.”
Washington, Sept, 21.—Mr. Warren
Fisher is neither a liar, nor a blackmailer,
nor a drunkard, nor any of the miserable
things that Mr. Blaine’s newspaper
friends have called him. Mr. Blaine has
never alleged that he has not been well
treated on the whole by Mr. Fisher. He
may be in some respects a weak man, but
he is at least an honest one. It is within
the News correspondent’s personal
knowledge that he could have had SIO,OOO
for copies of Mr. Blaine’s letters if he
would have sold them, but both he
and Mr. Mulligan scorned to touch
? . c ® nt or the letters and
treated every proposition for payment as
an insult. Something has been said
about Mr. Fisher writing to Mr. Blaine to
ask for a consulship. Ever since the
revelations of 1870 Mr. Blaine has been
iuietly talking consulship in a way to
reach the ears of Messrs. Mulligan and
r isher. Sometime ago he procured an in
terview with Mr. Fisher and the subject
came up. Mr. Fisher has a family grow
ing up. His wife is a sister of the'banker
Sistare, of New York, and is a woman of
esprit.
They have a good income from trust
funds which is uot affected by his business
reverses. It would not have been an un
pleasant thing for Mr. Fisher to have
gone abroad and held a consulsnip, while
he sent his children to some good school.
OFFERS OF CONSULSHIPS.
But this was not what Mr. Blaine
wanted. As soon as the subject came up
Mr. Blaine began to sound Mr. Fisher
about the letters in Air. Alulligan’s pos
session, whether he would sell them, and
whether Air. Mulligan would not like to
return to the “old country” in an
official capacity. Air. Fisher asked Air.
Blaiue how much he would be willing to
pay for the letters in Mr. Alulligan’s pos
session. Mr. Blaine warmly declined to
mention any sum, saying to hint with
great emphasis : “Buy them. 1 tell you
to buy.” Air. Fisher continued to express
a doubt. Air. Blaiue shouted: “Every
man has bis price. I tell you to buy
them.” When Mr. Fisher reported this
conversation to Air. Aiulligan he re
plied that there was hot money
enough in the lflink ol England to
buy the letters. He did not want a con
sulship. Air. Fisher found that, in Air.
Blaine’s mind, the return of all the copies
of his letters and consulships for the men
who had them were ideas closely asso
ciated, so nothiug ever came of it."
BUTLER GIVEN A SHOW.
The People’s Party of Lowell Turns Out
With Bauds and Torches.
Low ELI., Alass., Sept. 21.— The first rat
iticati on meeting under the auspices of
the People’s party was held here Saturday
evening. It was one of the largest gath
erings ever held in this city. The mem
bers of the different ward clubs number
ing 10,000 assembled in their several ward
rooms, and headed by bands and St. Pat
rick’s drum corps, inarched to Gen. But
ler’s residence in Belvidere, where the
People’s party’s candidate for President
awaited them. He was escorted to the
skating rink. J. B. Carmichael presided
and introduced Gen. Butler. . After re
ferring to the happiness he felt in meeting
his brother soldiers of Lowell the General
delivered a speech in which he discussed
the tariff in its bearings upon
the workingmen. He spoke of the impor
tation of foreign labor, and said that a
bill was passed through the House to
prevent it by contract to debase Ameri
can labor, and that the bill was pigeon
holed in the Senate, where there was a
Republican majority, and it sleeps the
sleep that knows no wakening. [Cheers
and applause.] “Tuat is the great objec
tion that I have to the action of the Re
publican party.”
Gen. Butler then addressed himself to
the workmen, saying: “If those colored
men at the South are going to come into
competition with you in the market, they
being compelled to work for half price,
what are you going to do? What is tbe
use of a tariff under such a condition of
affaire? They are starting manufactories
of all kinds down there in the
South, and by paying their laborers
one-half what you get here are
competing with you. There is iron down
there, and they are starting iron works,
and the same condition of affairs will be
obtained with other laboring men as with
the laboring men of the South, who are
paid one-half the wages that are received
by their brethren in the North. What are
you going to do about it?”
JERRY AIcAULEY’S FUNERAL.
The Lower Classes and Upper Tendom
Indiscriminately Thrown Together,
New York, Sept. 21.—A remarkable
assemblage gathered in and about the
Broadway Tabernacle this afternoon,
when the funeral services of Jerry Mc-
Auley,ex-prize fighter,ex-high way robber,
ex-river thief, ex-convict, and the founder
of the AVater Street and Cremorne Alission,
took place. Wealthy ladies and gentlemen,
patrons of AlcAuley since his re
formation, mixed with thieves, pick
pockets and disreputable women. The
church was crowded, and more than 1,000
persons who could not euter the building
loitered on the outside. The Rev. Dr. S.
iraneus Prime read the Scriptures, and
eulogies were delivered by Rev. Dr. Wm.
Al. Taylor, pastor of the tabernacle, Rev.
Air. Murpbv, A. S. Hatch, the banker, and
Director Whittemore, of the Cremorne
mission. The remains were buried at
Woodlawn Cemetery.
A DUEL IN KENTUCKY.
One of Henry Clay’s Descendants Dan
gerously Wounded.
Louisville, KY.,Sept. 21.—Harry Clay,
a well known lawyer and politician, was
shot and perhaps tatally wonnded here
this morning by Andrew Wepler, Coun
cilman oi the Eleventh ward. Clay was
drinking, and wanted to borrow some
money from Wepler, who would not lend
him as much as he wanted. Clay then be
gan to abuse Wepler, and went out for a
pistol with which to shoot him. On his
return the two men, armed with pistols,
said that they were ready to fight, and
took their stands. Wepler fifed and the ball
struck Clay in the groin and ranged
downward into the thigh. Clay is a
grandson of Henry Clay and he was one
of the Arctic voyagers on the ill-fated
Proteus, and is prominently mentioned
for Congress from this district. His
wound is very dangerous, though he may
recover. Wepler gave himself up.
DR. WOLF FINDS A COMET.
Tlie Harvard Observers Turn Their
Glasses on the Stranger.
Boston, Sept. 21.—A cable message
received this noon at the Harvard College
Observatory from the European Associa
tion of Astronomy announces the discov
ery of a bright comet by Dr. Wolf, of
Zurich, on Sept. 17. The comet was ob
served at Strasburg on Saturday evening.
An observation at the Harvard Obser
vatory to-night shows that the comet
discovered by Dr. Wolf is circular, 2
minutes in diameter and well defined,
with a nucleus ol the ninth magnitude.
Its position is as follows: Sept. 21, 14
hours, 36 minutes, 30 seconds, Greenwich
time; right ascension, 21 hours, 15 min
utes, 53.11 seconds; declination, 21 de
grees, 62 minutes, 4i.7 seconds.
Lively Times for the Pension Office.
Washington, Sept. 21.—There are
lively times ahead for the ladies and
gentlemen in the Pansion office. Col.
Dudley’s resignation has been accepted.
Secretary Teller will appoint anew
commissioner in a day of two, and in
tends to have the Pension office run more
according to his own ideas hereafter. He
wants a general “shake up.” He doesn't
believe that pension examiners should act
as attorneys either for the government or
for the claimant.
Doni Pedro Nearly Drowned.
Rio pf. Janeiro, Sept. 21.—Dom Pedro,
second Emperor of Brazil, while return
ing from a naval review to-day, had a Har
row escape from drowning. The boat
which he was in capsized, but he was
rescued.
Bane Ball.
Washington, Sept. 21.—The following
games of base ball were played to-day:
At Columbus—Columbus 2, Metropolitan 1.
> At Cincinnati—Cincinnati 11, Baltimore 10.
At St. Louis—St. Lotus 14, Brooklyn 4.
At Louisville— Louisville 7, Athletic 4.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1884.
IRISH INDEPENDENCE.
Assertions that Agitation Will Not
Cease Till Its Aim is Attained.
Dublin, Sept. 21. -The National League
held a meeting yesterday at Ballinasloe.
Joseph M. Kenny, member of the House
of Commons for Ennis, declared that Ire
land would never be contented until she
was free. The Irish members of the
House of Commons, he said, oppose the
Liberal government, because they expect
more from the Conservatives. Resolu
tions were adopted in favor ot independ
ence and a peasant proprietory. Air. Par
nell was cheered as the future Premier of
Ireland.
RIOTING AT NEWRY.
Newry, Ireland, Sept. 21.—Great ex
citement prevailed here this evening,
upon the return of a Nationalist proces
sion from Castlewellan, where a demon
stration was held to-day, during which a
disturbance occurred. ’ The streets were
crowded, and much cheering and hooting
were indulged in. Stones were thrown
and windows smashed. The police at
Castlewellan charged on the mob, and
made several arrests. The mob there
upon attacked and wrecked the police
barracks, several persons being injured
during tbe attack. Two black flags were
floated from the market house. The dis
orders lasted until a late hour.
CHOLERA’S CESSATION.
The Deaths at Naples Reduced to 101
and the Fresh Cases to 303.
Rome. Sept. 21.— The daily bulletin of
the progress of the cholera in Italy is as
follows for the twenty-four hours ended
to-night: Bergamo (Province)—l4 cases,
7 deaths ; Cuueo (Province) —15 cases,
10 deaths; Genoa (Province)—ll cases,
0 deaths; Spezzia (city)—l9 cases, 12
deaths; Naples (Province)—7o cases, 45
deaths; Naples (citv)— 303 cases, 101
deaths; elsewhere, 30 cases, 12 deaths;
totals, 462 cases, 193 deaths.
The Liberal newspapers praise the
action of the Pope in founding a hospital
near the Vatican, and dwell especially
on his intention ol personally visiting the
hospital in the event of a cholera out
break in Rome.
THE RECORD OF FRANCE.
Paris, Sept. 21.—There were fivedeaths
from cholera at Alarseilles to-day and
three at Toulon.
SPAIN’S AFFLICTION.
Aladrid, Sept. 21.—There were six new
cases of cholera and four deaths at Ali
cante to-day and nine new cases and five
deaths at Tarragona.
SUITS FOR A MILLION.
Two Companies Trying to Get Heavy
Damages from the Government.
Washington, Sept. 21.—Suits have
been entered in the United States Court
of Claims against the United States by
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
and the Great Falls Alanufacturing Com
pany for damages aggregating in the two
cases nearly $1,000,000. Action has been
brought by both companies on account of
prospective damages to be caused by tbe
proposed extension of the Washington
aqueduct, provided by the act of Con
gress of July 15, 1882, work upon which
has already been begun. In the case of
tbe canal company $600,900 are claimed
as damages for the appropriation by
the government of certain lands
belonging to tbe company, and for dam
ages to its rights in the waters of the Po
tomac river; while in that of the Great
Falls Manufacturing Company, although
no sum is mentioned as damages, ah offer
is made to compromise for $250,000. This
latter suit is to !e brought liy Benjamin
F. Butler, on behalf of the stockholders.
HAROLD DE WOLFE’S CASE.
The Proceedings iu the Eno Extradition
Case to be Rivaled.
Montreal, Sept. 21.—The attempt to
have Harold De Wolfe removed from
jail to Longue Pointe asylum, promises to
be as difficult an undertaking as the at
tempted extradition of John C. Eno. The
jailer refuses to acknowledge the Lieuten
ant Governor’s order, and will not give De-
Wolte up. He says that tbe only orier he
will recognize is one from the Judge of
the Queen’s Bench. The Judge of the
Queen’s Bench was interviewed, and says
that the jailer is right, and that the pro
per way to act is to bring De Wolfe up
under a writ of habeas corpus. The credi
tors of De Wolfe propose contesting the
pretensions of insanity, and wdl probably
issue a criminal warrant for forgery
against him.
PH ALL AS AGAINST THE WORLD.
Mr. Case Puts Up a Forfeit for a $13,500
or $5,000 Race.
Cleveland, 0., Sept. 21.—Last night
W. H. Crawford, manager of Mr. Case’s
horses, sent the following to the Cleve
land Herald for transmission to New York
together with a draft for $2,500, payable
to Hamilton Busbey:
//ami/ton Busbey, “ Turf. Field and Farm
Neio York :
Dear Sir.—Mr. Case will match Phallas
against any stallion. Maxey Cobb preferred,
lor two races of a mile and two-mile heats,
best three in five, for (2.500 or *%ooo a side,
half forfeit, to be trotted during October over
any tracn that may be mutually agreed upon
or decided by lot. All money added by the
track to go to the winner.
Inclosed please find forfeit.
W. H. Crawford.
BLAINE ANOTHER HENRY CLA^.
Three Times a Candidate Before His
Party and to be Finally Defeated.
Cincinnati, Sept. 18.—Howard Doug
lass, an attorney, has just returned from
Dear Park, where he spent several weeks
with John It. McLean, of the Cincinnati
Enquirer. They were both nursing cases
ot hay fever. Mr. Douglass was interro
gated to-day as to Mr. McLean’s opinion
of the political prospects. “John Mc-
Lean,” he replied, “thinks Cleveland will
be elected, and his father, Washington
McLean, is confident that will be the re
sult. The old gentleman regards Blaine
as another Henry Clav, who was three
times a candidate before his party, and,
when at last nominated, defeated. He
thinks Blaine will be treated like Clay.”
“What is you own impression?”
“1 think Cleveland's chances are much
better than at the start. I met Mr. Sloan,
a bank President and railroad Director of
Baltimore. He had just returned from
New Y’ork, and said he was surprised at
the number of independent Republicans
there.”
The Tunnel’s Opening.
BRBGKKZ, Sept. 21.—The ceremony of
opening the Arlberg Railway tunnel yes
terday was followed by a grand dinner.
Sixty-two persons, including the foreign
diplomatic representatives in Austria,
were invited to be present. In tbe even
ing the heights above the town were bril
liantly illuminated.
Emperor Francis Joseph made a tour
of the Lake of Constance and was every
where loudly cheered.
Sargent’s Resignation.
Berlin, Sept. 21 .—Die Boersen Courier.
commenting on the sudden resignation of
11. Sydney Everett. First Secretary of the
American Legation at Berlin, says: “The
relations of Mr. Everett with tbe Ameri
can colony in Berlin have la’ely become
unbearable. Mr. Everett no longer pos
sessed tbe confidence of his countrymen.
The trouble probably dates from the Sar
gent affair.”
Agram in a State of Siege.
Agram, Sept. 21 .-“-A minor state of
siege has been proclaimed here owing to
election riots. An opposition journal at
Sloboda has been suppressed and the edi
tor arrested. Military have been sent to
Zengy, where there is rioting, and the
Mayor of the town has been suspended
from office.
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Yellow Fever in New Y’ork.
New York. Sept. 21.—A physician re
ported to the Board of Health to-day that
Domingo Morales, who arrived from Hav
ana Thursday, was ill with yellow fever
at the Hotel Espano Americano, on West
Fourteenth street. An inspector from the
board reported that the case was not dan
gerous.
Gen. Cacerei Put to Flight.
I’aita, Sept. 21.—The steamship Santa
Rosa has arrived here bringing govern
ment troops under Col. Car rase. The
town was peacefully occupied. The au
thorities, under Gen. Caceres, fled upon
the approach of the steamer.
Belgium’* Educational Bill.
Brussels, Sept. 21.—The educational
bill has been published, bearing the royal
assent and countersigned by the Ministers
of the Interior and ol Justice, enacting
, its immediate entorcemeqt,
CLEVELAND’S FIREBUGS.
ATTEMPTS MADE TO BURN THE
LUMBER DISTRICT.
Losses of $230,000, with Insurance of
s34o,ooo—The Same Band Probably
at the Bottom of the Fire of Two
Weeks Ago—The City Thoroughly
Alarmed.
Cleveland, 0., Sept. 21.—The scenes
at the great fire two weeks ago were re
peated to-day on a smaller scale. That
fire was thought at the time to have ori
ginated in an accident, but to-day’s oc
currences lead to the belief that it may
have been the work of an incendiary.
Fire broke out this noon in Monroe
Brothers & Co.’s lumber yards, on the
Upper Flats, and destroyed a large
amount of property, including 2,000,000
feet of lumber. When the flames were
under control, a dense smoke was seen
pouring from the inside of the firm’s
dry house. There was no fire
outside of the building and no wind to
blow sparks from the large fire, and it
was undoubtedly the work of an incen
diary. The second fire was extinguished
with a loss of about $3,000.
MOKE DIABOLICAL WORK.
Between 3 and 4 o’clock in the after
noon, when the fire department were
about to go borne, thick smoke, as if from
coal oil, suddenly poured forth from the
inside of a drying shed in Browne, Strong
& Co.’s lumber yard, some distance from
the yard of Monroe Bros. &
Cos. Two suspicious looking men,
who were seen watching this fire
at its inception without moving to give
an alarm, strengthen the theory ot arson.
When this last fire broke out, and it be
came certain that incendiaries were at
work, word was sent to neighboring towns
for help, and engines came from Akron,
Painesville. Sandusky, Elyria and Ashta
bula. At 9 o’clock this evening the fire
was under control, and no further danger
was apprehended.
Monroe Bros. & Co.’s loss is estimated
at $60,000. Their insurance is $160,000.
Browne, Strong A Co.’s loss is estimated
at from $160,000 to $170,000. The insur
ance is about the same.
A PANIC AT ASHBURY I’ARK.J
Ashbury Park, N. J., Sept. 21—Fire
at Ashbury Park this evening caused a
loss of about $30,000. During the fire a
20-loot ladder broke, precipitating three
firemen to the ground. Two men were
severely injured. When tbe alarm was
sounded the Salvation Army barracks
was crowded and a panic ensued. Women
fainted and a rush was made for the exits,
causing several women to be trampled
upon. The tire caused great excitement,
as the town had not been visited by such
an extensive one since it was founded.
The lire was caused by the explosion ot a
lamp, and at 10 o’clock was under con
trol.
CAR WORKS BURNED.
Buffalo. N. Y., Sept. 20.—The Grand
Trunk Car Works, at London, Ont., were
burned this evening. Four hundred men
will be thrown out of employment. Most
of them lost their tools. The loss is $500,-
000.
a cotton seed oil mill burned.
Galveston, Sept. 21.—A Terrell,
Texas, dispatch says: “The cotton seed
oil mill of James N. and Joseph R. Rush
ing burned yesterday morning. The loss
is $50,000.
SUNKEN GOLD AND SILVER.
A Treasure Said to be Buried in New
Castle Little Harbor.
There has been more or less gossip for a
long time, says a New Castle, N. H.,
special, in reference to a fabulous amount
of money said to be buried in New Castle
Little Harbor. The story of the hidden
treasure has, perhaps, for its foundation
some facts; at least there are those who
accept the visionary tale about buried
treasure on our shore, and at difl'erent
times within the past three years a sys
tematic search for the still uniound gold
has been instituted. Those most directly
interested in the affair are very reticent
when interrogated relative to the story.
It is affirmed that many years ago a
wealthy clergyman set sail from England
for America, bringing with him a large
amount of money, which he proposed, as
became his benevolent nature, to use in
benefiting our forefathers in tbe name of
his < 'reator. Those on board of the vessel
in which he embarked learned of the
weal’h aboard, and resolved to have con
trol of it. To attain this end the clergy
man was forcibly put oft' the vessel, and
placed upon one of tbe islands comprising
the Isles of Shoals, and bearing with him
for companionship a goat. The crew
sailed away, but on account of a severe
storm was obliged to put into Little Har
bor. How why or when the gold was
buried, or by whom, are points not made
clear in the narrative as told to your cor
respondent. A chart showing tbe locality
of the yet unearthed gold fell into the
hands of a school teacher, who, while on
a journey, was taken sick, and sought
the hospitality of a family in a
Maine town. His sickness proved
a fatal one, and just be
fore dying he informed his kind friends
that he could only repay their kindness
by presenting them with a chart which
would indicate where much wealth was
concealed, and stated that the chart was
sewed up in the lining of his vest. The
party who is now engaged in the search
is A. J. Griffin, of Melrose. By marrying
into the family he came into possession of
the chart in question, which locates the
money at one and a half miles below
Portsmouth, on the west side of New Cas
tle Island, 25 rods below the bridge, 20
rods below Black point at low water,
where there Is a rock 3x4 feet, with the
formation of a window sill on the top; on
the east side is a barrel of silver, ami on
the west three chests of gold. Three
different times has Capt. Thomas
Symond, of Leominster, the well
known contractor on govern
ment harbor and river improvements,
worked with his dredger in search of the
long buried treasure, at the bidding of
Mr. Griffin, but without success. There
aro two objects which the chart specifies
that cannot be found, namely: the 3x4
foot rock and the bridge spoken of. At
the supposed spat wbers the chests and
harrel are submerged an excavation has
been made sixteen feet deep and fifty feet
square. Divining rods have been used,
which have only served to add to the un
certainty of the situation, but the holder
of the chart isnot discouraged, and firmly
believes that the money is there. Further
efforts will soon be made to unearth it.
Judging from the amount of expense
already incurred, the gold and silver will
bn eaten up in attempts to obtain it, if the
effort is much longer continued.
JAY COOKE’S ESTATE.
Present Condition of tb© Affairs ef the
Man Who Failed Eleven Y'ears Ago.
Robert Shoemaker, one of the commit
tee of creditors ol the bankrupt estate of
Jay Cooke & Cos., says a Philadelphia
special of Sept. 17, was appointed to-day
trustee to succeed the late Edwin L.
Lewis. The great failure occurred eleven
years ago to-day. Jay Cooke’s offer to
pay 10 per cent, in cash and the balance
in "Northern Pacific bonds was declined.
People now see that the bankrupts’ offer
amounted to a compromise ol 100 cents on
the dollar. The committee of creditors
have ever since been at work on the sched
ule of the property, lands, stock, bonds
and bills receivable. The claims reached
$10,804,848 85, and the claims against in
dividual members of the firm over $500,-
000 more. People all over the country
owed the firm money, many of them on
very shaky securities, and in Washington
nearly everybody had been borrowing
money from them whenever possible.
Nearly 100,000 shares of Northern Pacific
common stock were sold at $2 per share
to a Philadelphia capitalist, who believed
that it would be worth something seme
time, but unfortunately died before his
hopes came true. When it sold at SSO per
share his heirs bad reason tocomrratulate
k themselves on his foresight and Mr. Lewis
to regret that he sold for comparatively
nottiing the estate’s heavy interest in a
valuable property. The committee now
are anxious to sell enough land to pay off
tbe balance of the scrip, which amounts
to about SBO,OOO. Alter that is accom
plished Mr. Shoemaker will be in favor of
selling every bit of property held by the
estate for just whatever it will bring.
The accounts will then be wound up and
the famous Jay Cooke estate in bank
ruptcy vanish forever.
Where the Libel Hurt.
A politician who had been nominated
for office said to a lawyer, “I want you
to bring suit against the editor of the
Daily Wanderer. He has defamed my
character outrageously.”
“But, my dear man, what he has pub
lished won’t lose you any votes.”
“Of course it won’t lose me any votes,
but my wife complains that she isn’t able
to hire servant girl.”
BLAINE’S PAUPER UABOIt.
He is a Stockholder in the Hocking
Valley Mines.
Information from the Hocking Valley
mining regions that the locked-out union
miners are being evicted by the coal
operators’ syndicate, says a Columbus
(Ohio) special to the New York World , is
a significant reminder that the loud pro
fessions that James G. Blaine represents
protection and lair-play to workingmen
is not borne out by his practices! Some
time ago it was charged that Mr. Blaine
was not a consistent exponent of the Re
publican platform, inasmuch as he was
an employer of imported pauper contract
laborers, and that such labor was
used in coal mines in Pennsyl
vania, West Virginia and Ohio, of
which he was and is now a part owner.
It was lurtber charged that Blaine & Cos.
replaced American workingmen with im
ported cheap pauper laborers because the
former would not work for 60 cents per
day in order to swell Mr. Blaine’s pockets
with additional profits and prostitute
themselves to the base level of ignorant
paupers who are willing to work and live
as no decent American can or will. About
the time the above charge was made the
great lockout of union miners by the coal
mining syndicate of the Hocking coal
region was incubating, and tne result
easily foreseen.
A solicitous Ohio Republican, anxious
to conceal Mr. Blaine’s complicity and
interest in a movement having for its ob
ject the reduction of the price of miners’
wages to a starvation point, wrote to Mr.
Blaine in relation to the statement circu
lated against him, and presumably in
forming him that it was of the utmost im
portance that he deny the charge for the
sake or consistency and the party. Mr.
Blaine made what has been termed an
“explicit denial.” Meantime the lockout
came to a focus, and capital, in the form
of a great monopoly, said to labor: “Aban
don the union, and renounce all claim to
a right to organize to protect yourself and
maintain your rights, or else step out. We
can hire men who are willing to work at
starvation waeres.”
The miners of the Hocking region knew
that it was a contest for existence, and
retused the ultimatum of the coal syndi
cate. Thereupon their places were filled
by Sclavs, Polish and Italian pauper emi
grants, imported under contract, and es
corted into the mining regions by squads
of Pinkerton’s detectives and guarded by
them while at their work. The main
tenance of this armed force proved too
costly, and the monopoly tried to induct*
Gov. Hoadly to furnish State troops to
escort and guard their serfs. This the
Governor refused, and the mine operators
are going to suspend mining and render
houseless and homeless 15,000 people.
A careful investigation discloses the
sequel of Mr. Blaine’s “explicit” denial.
He has been and is now interested in Ohio
coal mines—located in the Hocking val
ley. He is at this time directly or indi
rectly interested in mines whose managers
have locked out union miners and put in
their places pauper “scabs” at starvation
wages. He is a stockholder in one of the
largest coal companies in this State.
This company controls thousands of acres
of the best coal lands in Ohio, and by vir
tue of the terms of the option contracts
through which it has acquired control of
the said lands, it controls the mining right
after coal has been developed for ninety
nine years, unless it fails to take out
the coal. The company has still a big
margin of time to develop all the
coal land that lias not been
opened by mines. Mr. Blaine was one of
the original movers iu the enterprise, was
one of the three men who furnished the
money required to perfect an organiza
tion of the company and secure its mining
properties. His name is on the stock
books of the corporation at the present
time and will also be found recorded as a
stockholder, past and present, on the
records in charge of a loan and trust com
pany in the city of New York. He has
been in Ohio severa l times to attend meet
ings of the board of directors and to look
after other business interests connected
with tbe company. His “explicit” denial
was a deliberate misstatement, made by
bim to cover his real character as a sor
did, grasping and soulless enemy of work
ingmen.
ANGLING FOR IRISH VOTES.
False Campaign Document Exposed by
an Irish “Suspect” YVho was Impris
oned.
There is now in the hospital of the Mis
souri Pacific Railroad, says a St. Louis
special to the New York Herald , an Irish
man who knows from actual experience
something of Blaine’s efforts in behalf ot
Americans in ioreign prisons.
A short time ago E. P. Brooks, of Peo
ria. 111., who was United States Consul
at Cork, Ireland, wrote a letter to a Peo
ria paper setting forth, in very strong
words, what Blaine had done through him
(Brooks) in behalf of Irish-American sus
pects. Re-puDlication of the article in
the Cork Examiner was secured, and it
has been used as a trump card by the Re
publicans to secure Irish votes.
Henry O’Mahony, the Irishman allud
ed to, had an experience as a suspect in
Ireland that he will not soon forget, and
it was in his case that, according to
Brooks, Blaine’s efforts were most earnest
ly made and were successful. O’Mahony
has lived in this country off and on about
twenty years, making periodical trips to
Ireland. During the war he served on
a gunboat fleet on the lower Mississippi.
He was shown the letter and asked for
information on the subject. After reading
it he proceeded to analyze it.
EXPERIENCE OF A SUSPECT.
He said he was arrested while in Ire
land in April, 1881, on a false charge of
shooting at a man. Brooks visited him in
a Limerick jail, but did nothing for him.
He subsequently wrote to Brooks, who re
plied that the ease had been laid before
Minister Lowell, and that the latter had
replied to the effect that it was his opin
ion that O’Mabony would not be in prison
if be were innocent of the crime charged.
When Earl Spencer and Mr. Trevelvan
came into power O’Mahony says that Mr.
Lowell issued a circular to his subordi
nates instructing them to offer each of tbe
imprisoned “suspects” £4O to pay their
way to America at such time as they
might lie released. The offer was rejected
by O’Mahony and his fellow prisoners,
because its acceptance would be an ad
mission of guilt on their part.
They were at length released uncon
ditionally, and when they applied for the
£4O they ascertained that the previous
offer had been withdrawn. O’Mahony
says that Blaine, being at tbe head of the
Department of State, was responsible for
each and every act ot Minister Lowell.
He suffered considerable while in prison,
and speaks bitterly of Blaine and the Re
publican party generally.
SPEAKER CARLISLE SANGUINE.
He is Morally Certain that Cleveland
will be Elected in November Next.
Cincinnati, Sept. 19.—Speaker Carlisle
was met this afternoon in his law office in
Covington, and questioned as to the part
he is taking in tbe campaign, and his
opinion of the outloook. He said he had
made a number of speeches in both Ohio
and Kentucky, and was expecting to do
some hard campaigning before the elec
tion. He had received more invitations
to speak than he could possibly fill, and
modestly added that he supposed the rea
son ol his services being in such request
was the high office with which he had been
favored.
“Who do you think will be successful in
November?”
“I don’t think, but am morally certain
that Gov. Cleveland will be our next
President.”
“Why?”
“I am too busy to go into a long explan
ation, but will give you the figures and
you can work out the result. There are
153 electoral votes in tbe South, and Mr.
Cleveland will positively secure’every one
ol them, no matter how much talk there
is about West Virginia, North Carolina,
Florida or Louisiana being in doubt.
Then he will just as certainly carry New
York with its 36 votes, New Jersey with
9, and Indiana 15, making 213 votes, 12
more than are really required: and then
we feel very sanguine of carrying,Con
necticut, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado,
Nevada, Oregon, ar.d California, so that
Mr. Blaine will fall very far short of get
ting enough votes for success.
The Baby.
With “black drops” in infancy and can
dy when he got a little older, baby grew up
pale and puny They gave him all sorts
ot medicines. They heard of Brown’s
Iron Bitters, but had an idea it was for
grown folks only. As everything else
failed, they tried this medicine one day on
baby. Baby began to pick up. The blood
in his Rule veins was enriched. He was
saved. The doctors agreed tfiat Brown’s
Iron Bitters had given baby new life. The
druggists says that many of his custo
mers find immense success in using
Brown’s Iron Bitters for ailing and deli
catt cl tdren.
DE.TALMAGE ON SUICIDE.
A SERMON YVHICH ELECTRIFIED
BROOKLYN YESTERDAY.
Tbe Text Taken from Acts it!., 27 and
28 —Self-Destruction Looked Upon as
Courageous in the Olden Time—Now
One of the Blackest of Crimes.
Brooklyn, Sept. 21.—The opening
hymn at the Brooklyn Tabernacle to-day
was:
“Our God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come.”
Dr. Talmage expounded the 11th chap
ter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and
preached on “The Cause of Suicide,” tak
ing his text from Acts xvi., 27 and 28:
“He drew out his sword and would have
killed himself, supposing that the prison
ers had fled, but Paul cried with a loud
voice, ‘Do thyself no harm!’” Dr. Tal
mage spoke as follows:
Here is a would-be suicide arrested in his
deadly attempt. He is Sheriff having pris
oners in charge. According to the Roman
law the bailiff had to suffer the punishment
that was due any culprit escaping, and if the
prisoner breaking jail was to have been en
dungeoued three or four years, then tliekeep
er must lie endungeoned three or four years,
and if the prisoner escaping was to Have suf
fered capital punishment then the keejier
must suffer capital punishment. The Sheriff
had received unusual charge to keep a close
lookout for Paul and Silas. There was some
thing strange and supernatural about them,
and the government had not much confidence
in bolts and bars to hold fast these two incar
cerated clergymen, and, now, sure enough,
they are loosed by miraculous power, and as
they were to die for the crime of preaching
Christ the Sheriff i-upposed lie would have to
die, and rather than go under the execution
er’s axon the morrow, and suffer public dis
grace, he would precipitate his own decease.
But the sharp, keen, cruel dagger which the
Sheriff was aiming at his own heart halts at
the command of one of the unloosed prisoners:
“Do thyself no harm!”
In olden time, and where Christianity had
uot interfered with it, suicide was popular
and considered a sign of courage. Demos
thenes poisoned himself when Alexander’s
ambassador demanded that tho Athenian
orators be surrendered. Isocrates, the ora
tor, starved himself to death rather than sur
render to Philip of Maccdon. Cato slew him
self rather than subni’t to Ca>sar, and after
the wound* had been dressed three times Cato
tore them open and died. Mithndates pois
oned himself to escape Pompey, the con
queror. Hannibal killed himself with poison,
which he always carried in a ring, because he
thought life unbearable. L curgus a suicide;
Brutus a suicide. Empedocles ended liis life
by jumping into the crater of Mount Etna.
Zeno, tbe great philosopher, at PS years of age,
passing out of a school, fell and put a linger
out of joint, ami, because of the accident,
hanged himself. After his Moscow retreat,
Napoleon always carried a preparation of
opium for self-destruction, and his servant
one night heard him rise and put something
into a glass and drink it, and soon after there
followed groans that awakened all his at
tendants, and it took utmost mcd'cal skill to
resuscitate him from the stupor of the opiate.
So the crime goes down through tne ages,
and modern society needs some toning-up on
the subject of suicide. You can’t take up a
newspaper without seeing the account of a
passage out of life by one’s own hand. De
faulters, alarmed at the prospect of exposure,
quit life thus precipitately. Men losing for
tunes end a life that tiiey think not worth
living. Frustrated affection, domestic ills,
dyspeptic impatience, remorse, envy, grief,
destitution and misanthropy are considered
sufficient cause for absconding fro u tills
world by Paris green, by belladonna, by lau
danum, by leap off an abutment, by Othello’s
dagger, by rope, by firearms. Never so many
cases of felo <ie se in any two years as iu the
last two years. The critic is becoming com
mon by the day. A pulpit not long ago ex
pressed a doubt as to whether there was really
anyihing wrong in ending one’s life when it
becomes too disagreeable. And there are
strewn through the community, among re
spectable people, apologists for the deed that
the Apostle in the text arrested. I shall show
that it is the worst possible crime, and will
lift against it a warning unmistakable.
At the opening of my sermon let me say that
some of the !>■ st Christian people who have
ever lived have committed suicide, but they
did so in dementia, and therefore were irre
sponsible. 1 would have no more doubt about
their immediate entrance upon eternal happi
ness than I have about those who die in their
beds in the delirium of a typhoid fever.
Winle the shock of the catastrophe is greater
than in ordinary demise, I charge those whose
Christian friends have in cerebral aberration
stepped off tho boundaries of tiiis life to have
no fear about their desiiny. Tho dear Lord
took them out of their dazed and frenzied
state into perfect safety, if you want to
know how Christ feels toward the insane see
his treatment of the demoniacs of Godara and
t e child lunatic, and the potency with which
lie hushed tempests, whether of water or
brain.
Among all the graud and glorious men of
Scotland, the land prolific of intellectual
giants, no one grander has lived than Hugh
Miller. Great in science and great for God.
He came from the best High'and blood, and
was a descendant of Donald Roy. memorable
for piety and for the rare gift of second sight.
IDs attainments, climbing up as he did from
quarry and stone-mason’s wall, drew forth
the amazed admiration of Buckland and
Murchison, the scientists, and Chalmers, the
theologian, and held universities spell-bound
as lie told them what he had seen of God in
the Old Bed Sandstone. He did more than
any man that ever lived to show that the God
of the hills is the God of the Bible; striking
his tuning-fork on the rocks of Cromarty un
til Geology and Theology lifted their voices in
the same p-alm of worship; his books, entitled
“The Footprints of the Creator,” and “The
Testimony of the Rocks ” proclaiming the
banns of an eternal marriage between science
and revelation. lie toiled on this last book
day and night, from love of nature and
love of God, until sleep was impossi
ble, and his brain gave way, and he
was found dead with a revolver liy liis side,
tiie cruel instrument that had two bullets,
one for him and the other for the gunsmith
who afterward fell dead while examining it.
Can any one doubt the beatification of Hugh
Miller when h’s hot brain ceased to throb that
winter night in his study at Porto Bello?
Among the mightiest of earth, among the
mizhtiestof heaven.
No one ever doubted the piety of William
Cowper, author of “Oh, for a closer walk with
God!” “ I here is a fountaiu filled with blood,”
“What various hindrances we meet,” Wil
liam Cowper, who, with Isaac Watts and
Charles Wesley, wears the chief honors of the
sacred hymnology. in hypochondria William
Cowper resolved on self-destruction, lode to
the Thames river for this purpose, but found
a iran seated upon some goods on tre bank
from which the sacred poet expected to
spring, and so returned to his house, and that,
night lay on the blade of a knife, which broke,
and tliensu-pended himself with a rope,which
parted. No wonder when he got out of his
abnormal condition he wrote that other hjmn:
“God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.”
But while we make all this merciful and
righteous allowance for those Christian peo
ple who have been plunged m a s'ate of men
tal incoherence, I declare that he who, while
in the possession of his reasoning faculties,
by his own hand intentionally snaps the bond
between body and soul, goes straight into per
dition. Shall I prove it? Revelation xxi., 8:
“Murderers shall have their part in the lake
that burnetii with fire and brimstone.” Rev
elation xxii., 15: “Without are dogs and ;or
cerers and whoremongers and murderers.”
Don’t believe in the New Testament? Per
haps, then, you believe iu the fen com
mandments: “Thou shalt not kill.”
Do you say all these refer
to the taking of the life of others? I ask, is
not a man a* much responsible, in regard to
bis own life as the life of others? Your life is
committed to your especial care. You are its
custodian as you are the custodian of noother
life. God has given you means foritsdefense,
arms with which toetrike hack assailants, eves
with which to watch invadeis, and a natural
love of life that was intended always to be on
the alert. Assassination of others is a mild
crime as compared with the assassination of
yourself, because m this last case you are
treasurers of an especial trust, and you sur
render a castle you were especially bound to
protect. It is high treason against natural
law and high treason to God added to murder.
That Goa is against self-immolation I show
you a rogues’ gallery In the Hi le, the pic
tures put there as warning to all men against
this unnatural deed. There hangs the head
less trunk of Saul on the walls of Bethshan.
This is the great big coward who tried to kill
ittle David; ten feet of stature chasing four
This is the man who consulted with the clair
voyant, the witch of Endor, completely
whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his
sword with dignity as hundreds of heroes
have done, he asks his servant to kill him;
and, the servant declining, the giant plants
the hilt of his sword in the ground, and turns
the sliarpeued point of it up, and flings him
self upon it. And there his picture hangs in
the rogues’ gallery of miscreants. There also
is Ahithophel. the Macciavclli of Bible times.
He betrayed David in pro*pect of being prime
minister to Absalom, and mined that fellow
in his attempt at patricide whittrophel’s
change of politics not securing him what he
wanted, he took a short cut out ot a disgraced
life into a suicide’s eternity, and in First Sam
uel you have his post mortem photograph.
Yonder, also, is Abimolech, practically a self
murderer. While he was bombarding a tower
a woman took a grindstone from its place and
dropped it upon liis head, leaving Just enough
life in his cracked skull to say to his armor
bearer: “Draw tliy sword and slay me, that
men say not a woman slew him,” And
thrust through at his own command, he wa*
practically a suicide, and his picture hangs in
the gallery among cowardly imbeciles
But the hero of th s group is Judas Iscariot.
Dr. Donne, in his celebrated book, calls him a
martyr. And in *ur time some have been his
apologists. And what wonder* in this age
which has a book reviewing Aaron Burr as a
patron of virtue, and which has a monument
recently built to George Sand as a benefactor
of literature, and which has cases of betrayal
of Christ among his pretended Apostles so
black that in the contrast Judas Iscariot's in
famy is white.. But there he is, a’ter selling
his Master for about *:s, suspended by hia
own band for the execration or alj centuries.
All the good and honorable men ami women
of tbe Bible left to God the decision of tU iy
earthly terminus. And they could ail
have exclaimed wj£h Job, who
though he had good reason for suicide if any
man ever had, what with bis property gone
and his body aflame with insufferable carbun
cles, and nothing of his home left except the
curse of it -a pestiferous wife and four gar
rulous people, pelting him with their com
fortless talk, while he sat on an ash
heap, scratching his scabs with a piece of
broken pottery, yet triumphantly saying; “all
' " .. ■ . -
the days of my appointed time will l wait till
my change come.'
Notwithstanding all that the Bible savs
against suicide and all the aversion it would
create by the ghastly and loathsome spectacle
of those who hurled themselves out of life, and
the fact that Christianity has always been
against it by the arguments and the" useful
lives and illustrious deaths of its disciples, the
fact is alarmingly patent that suicide is on
the increase, and everybody asks, why is it?
I charge the whole thing upon the intidelitv
and agnosticism abroad. If there be no
hereafter, or if that hereafter is blissful,
without reference to how we live and how
we die, why not swing back the
sliding doors between this world and
the next? Why not let all those who
find this world uncomfortable pass right over
into Elysium? Take this fact for considera
tion: In every case of suicide that has ever
been recorded, or ever will be recorded, the
perpetrator was either demented—and hence
not responsible—or an infidel. I challenge the
universe, and I challenge the ages for one
exception. There never has been, there never
will lie. a man who took his own lile while
appreciating the fact that he is immortal,
and that this immortality will be glorious or
wretched, according to las reception of Jesus
Christ as a Saviour or the rejection of Him.
You account for the increase of suicide by
business misfortunes, by overwork, by insom
nia, by this, by that, by the other thing. Go
back to the source ana see that it is either
through abdication of reason or through the
handsome and delectable work of infidelity,
which practically says: “If you don’t like
this world, get out of it, and you will either
go into annihilation—where you will hare no
notes to pay and no persecution to suffer and
no gout to torment—or you will pass imme
diately into a world where you will have
everything glorious without paying for it.”
Infidelity always has been an urologist for
suicide. David Hume writes: “You admit
that it would be no crime in me to direct the
Nile or Danube from its course, if I could.
Where, then, is the crime of turning a few
ounces of blood out of their natural channel?”
Hume lent this essay to a friend, who, after
reading it, returned it, with thanks, and the
next (fay shot himself. Voltaire, Rousseau,
Gibbon, Montaigne were advocates for sui
cide under certain conditions, infidelity puis
not up one bar to binder people rushing vol
untarily out of this life into the next. They all
tell you that you will laud safely anyhow,
either in nowhere or a happy somewhere. So
Infidelity holds the upper end of the rope of
the suicide and fires ofl the pistol with which
the man blows his brains out and mixes the
strychnine for the last swallow. If Infidelity
could carry the lay and persuade trie majori
ty of people that it is rmiit, and that however
men go out of this life they land well in the
next existence, the East river and Hudson
would be soon so full of corpsesthat the ferry
boats would be impeded on their way to New
York, and the crack of the suicide’s pistol
would be as common as the rumble of a street
car. Let t oroners’ juries get brave enougli to
•render a verdict according to the case, and as
in the irresponsible cases they say, “While in
a slate of insanity tho deed was done;”iu
other cases say, “While suffering from the re
sults of reading Infidel books or hearing Infi
del lecturers which destroyed all ideaof retri
bution. the deceased took his ewn life.”
Let brazen Intidelitv staud up and get its
sentence. Its lip, blistered with every blas
phemy, and its cheeks scarred with every lust,
and its breath foul with the corruption of the
ages; this satyr, this filthy goat, this unclean
buzzard of nations, this leper of centuries!
Stand up! thou monster! part man, part pan
ther, part vulture, part reptile and
part dragon, and take the sentence, for
that thou art the instigator of self-murder,
and thy hands are red with the carnage m
which thou hast washed, and thy feet crimson
with the human gore through which thou hast
waded. Go down, sentenced to the pit and
sup on the sobs and groans of families whom
tliou hast blasted, and roll on bed of knives
which tliou hast sharpened for others, and
thy music be the unending “Miserere” of those
thou hast damned. I brand infidelity and
agnosticism with the crime of all those who
in nossession of their mind committed self
slaughter during the last century.
My hearers, if you ever, because life by
reason of its trials and molestations is un
bearable, should 1 c tempted to quit it at your
own behest, do not condemn yourself above
all others. Christ himself was tempted to
cast himself down from the roof of the tem
ple; but as he resisted, so resist ye. Chris
tianity comes in to medicine all our wounds
and give us victory. I‘eople who had it worse
than you have been songful all the way. Be
side that. God has arranged witli precision
the chronology of your life as well as the
chronology of nations, the time to die as well
as the time to be born, your grave
as well as your cradle. The Egyptians were
slain in Egypt at precisely 12 o’clock at night,
and tho I-raelites emancipated. Why at 12
o’clock at night? Because 430 years wore up
at that hour. God knows when to let you out
of earthly bondage. By liis grace don’t make
the worst, but the best oi things. If you must
take pills, don’t chew them. Your heavenly
reward will correspond witli your earthly
perturbation, as Caiusgave to Agrippa a chain
of gold as heavy as once had been his chain of
iron. For the asking you cau have the same
grace that was given to the Italian martyr
A Igerius, who dated his letter “From the de
lectable orchard of the Leonine prison.”
above all, let us realize that there is around
our earthly life a rim which it is most perilous
for us to break. AH around this brief life a
rim beyond which is eternity, and we had
better keep out of it till God breaks the rim,
thin but important, which separates this from
that. 'To go out of present ills don’t rush into
greater misfortunes. Don’t, to get rid of a
swarm of summer insects, plunge into a
jungle of Bengal tigers. There is a sorrow less
world, and so radiant that the noonday sun is
but one of its lower doorsteps, and the Aurora
that tights up the northern heavens, confoutid
inir astronomers as to what it can be, is
only one of the banners Of its pro
cession come out to conduct a
conqueror from church militant to
church triumphant. And you and 1 have ten
thousand reasons for wanting to go there.
But we shall not reach it cither by seif-immo
lati-m or by impenitency. All our sins, slain
by the stroke of Him who came to do that
and nothing else, we want to go in at the
time divinely selected and from a bed
divinely spread. And then the clang of the
sepulchral gate behind us will be drowned
out by the clang of the opening of the solid
pearl before us.* O God! whatever others
may choose give me the Christian’s hope, and
the Christian’s life, and the Christian’s death,
and the Christian's burial, and the Christian's
immortality.
HIS CAMPAIGN ENDED.
A Sad Interruption in the Transmission
, of Edmunds’Speech.
About 10 o’clock Tuesday night, says the
Pittsburg Times, the telegraph operator
in the Times editorial room was receiving
over our special wires the United Press
report of the opening of the Republican
campaign at Burlington, Vt. Among the
other papers in the same circuit receiving
messages simultaneously by the same
wire was the Petersburg Index-Appeal.
Tho message ticked out at a slow and
steady pace, which seemed to add dignity
to the names of the prominent orators
pre sent. The operator in the Index-Appeal
office had said to the sending operator in
New York at tne beginning:
“Not leeling very well to-night—been
spitting blood—take iftasy.”
New York was sending slowly:
The exercises were held in the City
Hall, which was densely crowded. Ad
dresses were made by Congressman Horr,
of Michigan; Stewart, of Vermont, and
Frost, of Maine. Senator Edmunds pre
sided. The following is a verbatim re
port of his address;
Suddenly from the Index-Appeal; “Bk—
Bk—Bk—•” and then left his key open, in
terrupting the message. New York had
to stop sending. Washington out the re
peaters, and the offices gossiped with
each other over the wire, exchanging
guesses as to what was the matter with
Petersburg. Ten minutes passed. They
began to call Petersburg hard names.
Fifteen minutes. New York was getting
impatient, and was just about to cut Pe
tersburg out and continue the report to
the other papers, when the interrupting
key was suddenly closed, Washington
put the repeater through, and then this
from the Index-Appeal:
“Cummins, regular press operator, just
died. Hemorrhage. I’m his sub. Go
ahead, address.”
And Senator Edmunds’ speech went on,
while the body of Ned Cummins, the
great campaign ended for him, was car
ried out.
MOKOSIM’S WOKS.
His Wife Attempts Suicide Three Times
—Victoria’s Threat.
The Morosini ease has excited fresh in
terest to-day, says a New York special of
S t pt. It), by a* disclosure of the fact that
Mrs. Morosini was so worked up over her
daughter’s elopement that she made three
attempts at suicide. On Thursday morn
ing of last week she swallowed laudanum
and Dr. Pike and Chief of Police Mangin
were sent for. They walked her about
the house for hours until she recovered.
The same evening her son Giovanni en
tered her room just in time to snatch from
her lips a vial of laudanum which was
hall emptied. She made a third attempt
on Saturday. This so excited Mr. Moro
sini that on Wednesday he drove from
Yonkers to New York, placed his wife and
children on the steamship Urania and sent
them to Europe. He was dissuaded from
sailing by Jay Gould, who insisted that
Morosini should remain and settle up cer
tain branches of business in his hands.
When this is done Morosini declares that
he will go to ltaly, never to return tathie
i country. Victoria sent to her banker
(Cal lette) to-day feu* the fo,ooo in her
name, oniy to he toid that her father had
put ap injunction on it restraining the
hanker from paying it to her. Morbs'/ai
claims that he placed the monev there for
Victoria to use as his child aiid that hi
her marriage she bag lost a right to it.
she also demanded her clothing, which
was refused. Then she served notice
upon her father that unless he acceded to
her demands by next Wednesday she
would accept tne offer of *£oo a dav at
Jtiblo’s Garden and would appear as an
actress on the following Monday,
i PRICK KIO A TEAR.)
j S CENTS A COPT. J
FIGHT WITH CIRCUS MEN.
ouTON’s Toughs kill a man
and wound a mayor.
A Boy Slightly Wunnileil—The Mayor’*
Wound Mortal— Burr Oak. Kansas,
the Scene of the Encounter—Five Hun
dred Citizen* Beady tor Anything that
Might Develop.
Atchison, Kan., Sept. 21.-A special
says: “A serious row occurred between
citizens of Burr Oak, Jewell county,
Kansas, and showmen belonging to Miles
Orton’s circus, Friday night, in which
one man was killed and several were
wounded. The disturbance was raised
by a drunken citizen named Elliott, and a
general fight occurred. Elliott was
arrested, and the circus men took their
effects to their train. A crowd followed
them, and just as Mayor Mann had re
stored order a man named Evans appeared
at the depot with a double-barreled
shotgun and tired into the train. At this
moment the train pulled out and the cir
cus men tired a volley at the crowd, kill
ing J. longnecker, ’ mortally wounding
Mayor Mann and slightly wounding a
boy. Longnecker had not taken part in
the row. He leaves a widow and six
children. Orton’s circus is the same that
was in the horrible affair at Oreely, Col.,
some time ago. It was lulled to show at
Washington yesterday, and thither
about a hundred Burr Oak people
went by a special train to arrest the
murderers. Great excitement prevails at
Burr Oak. Another special from Wash
ington says that sixteen circus men were
arrested there yesterday morning by the
Sheriff of Jewell county. In the after
noon t hey were taken to Greenleaf by the
Sheriff of Washington county. At 7
o’clock at night a hundred men arrived
therefrom Burr Oak, and at last accounts
live hundred men were at the depot await
ing developments while the circus was
performing up town. The Burr Oak peo
ple demand the arrest of Orton and his
son. The crowd was orderly.
THE SELF-EXILED.
A California Han Who Was a Hermit
for a Sufficient Baason.
Leaving a log cabin school house in San
Luis Obispo county about ten years ago,
says a San Francisco letter, I saddled up
my wild brown broncho for a ride north
ward through the passes of the hills to
the old stage road. 1 lost my way before
nightfall In the wildest portion of the
headwaters of the Naciemiento river, the
boundary line betweeu 3lontesev and San
Luis Obispo counties. When, late in tlio
afternoon, 1 rode into a narrow ravine and
found signs of occupancy, great was my
rejoicing. There seemed to be a narrow
path trodden in the tall, dry wild oats,
leading to a spring set low in the bank,
and a little further, in an open space, at
the head of the gulch, with cliffs behind
it, was a rude cabin. t> .meihing about it
thrilled me with a strange feeling of
dread. There was a curious sickening
odor that came from it on the breeze, and
startled me into wondering whether any
one lay there dying of fever or a disease.
I know now what that odor was, but I did
not know then. A great live-oak tree stood
by the path near the spring, and as I rode
oast it I saw a board nailed to it, and on
that board rudely painted in weak and
wavering letters was the sentence: “For
God’s sake come no nearer.”
I thought a moment slowly; I was
young and foolish; I rode on. past the
sentence, ready to turn and gallop off at
any sign of danger. On the slope of the
canyon a rod of garden lay, brush-fenced
and watered; quail traps were piled by
the door; th's hermit had food in abun
dance. A harsh, cracked voice called
out to me from the cabin door, a hand pro
jecting closed it, and then, speaking
through the crevice, I heard in good Eng
lish words like these: “You must goj
away; it is death to stay here. 1 ami
accuised. The air is poison.” I ask IB
the way. “Climb that mountain,” h|
cried; “go, go at.once.” The words werefl
spoken with intense earnestness, andfl
with an indescribable quality of super-’
human airony, if the phrase may be par
doned. For hours after I had left the
place I kept liiuling new meanings in that
harsh, painful cry.
A mile from the cabin a bit of white
fluttered in the grass. I dismounted and
examined it. A fragment of a letter it
was; most of the words illegible, and the
handwriting delicate and feminine, the
paper of the costliest. Had it belonged
to that poor leper, crouching in his loath
some cabin crying “unclean 1”’ That ia
one of the secrets for the hereafter to re
veal. Before dark I was on the hilltop,
and saw the shining course of the great
river, the great peaks, height after height
in vast ridges of pine and spruce, the
Pacific lying low along the western hori
zon. I found a cattle trail, and followed
it to a pioneer’s cabin, some time about
midnight, finding food and a blanket on
the haystack for the rest of the night, but
of the hermit in the mountains I said not
a word. *
Five years later a local journal men
tioned the fact that a cabin had been
found in the mountains, at the head
waters of the Naciemiento, and in it a
man’s skeleton lav. Some refugee from
justice, it was thought, had perished at
his own bands there, or died of disease. I
met one of the cattle owners of that region
and questioned him concerning it. Yes,
they had seen a board by the spring, hut
the writing was faded. No hooks, papers
or clothing; all had been burned in the
fireplace. They raked the ashes over and
could tell there had been a Bible, a photo
graph album, and packages of letters; but
really it was no consequence, they said.
He was a sheep herder, or a lunatic, or a
stage robber, they believed. But I knew
that I had seen and spoken with a sel/r
--exiled leper, and that bis torture bad
.come to an end, because flesh and. blood
could bear no more.
An unusual number of deaths has occurred
among New t ork policemen lately, partly
owing to the hot weather, eleven of the force
having died since .Sept. 1, as against thirty
live in the preceding eight months. The result
of this mortality is the fear that the Police
A ssociation will not be able to meet the de
mands on it maturing Oct. 1, collection day.
Tlie 2,309 members of the association are
graded into three classes, who pay death as
sessments of 75, 50 and 25 cents, respectively.
Already the pay of men for September is
taxed ft 75 for the lirst class, ft 50 for the sec
ond and 12 75 for the third, and the older of
ficers, who have contr bated largely in the
east, aro somewhat anxious lest the" associa
tion should be unable to fulfill its future obli
gations.
Kxcelsior!
II the old saying “Imitation is the sh
eerest flattery” is true, certainly Murray
& Lanman Florida Water is one of the
most highly flattered of modern produc
tions. Every year sees new attempts to
ioist upon the public worthless concoc
tions in the sbu]>e of so-called Florida
Waters, but these seem only to have the
effect of showing up in stronger relief the
sterling worth ol the genuine article. To
distinguish the genulre article bom its
imitations look out for the “Trade Mars,”
a narrow white strip lalel bearing the
signature of Lanman <& Kemp, New York,
sole proprietors.
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purity, strength and wholesome ness. Mar*
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