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I RSTABf.TSHID 18 50. 1
I J. H. B ATI LI., Editor and Proprietor. |
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
( AltOl.lXA PUT DV TYPE.
A Burglar’* Big Haul at Linton and a
sregro'* Eldfnc. of Guilt—A Pa..Son*
•IF Planter of Mclnto.ta County Kill.
HU llor.a While Angered and Then
Kill. Hiin.elf from Remorse.
GEORGIA.'
i , negroes of (juitman are taking but lit*
5 v. if any. interest in politics,
jxvk Almond, of Rockdale county, had bis
•. i terriMy lacerated by a gin Friday eve-
One finger was cut completely off.
Ci> rp W. Adams, of Camp Hill, accident
not him- f Friday while handling a
i,;rtol. The i*a entered bis eye, producing
death in a few moments.
The follow ng deaths are reported: At
( oh:mm- M. 11. Dessau and Mrs. 8. A.
I arter: :.t uUrtSR, R. G. Allison; at
ii.-j . , < 01. K. M. Johnson; at Augusta,
Hr*. I’. M-trunk. age'l 90 years.
i.c rgetown Echo: The cotton crop of this
, .i.nti has been greatly cut short by dry
m r. and two-thirds of an ordinary crop
a the calculation. The corn cron is tole
y g-iod. The sugar cane and potato crois
; re very poor.
An Augusta man writes as follows: By a
• ..-h calculation, the corn on a chessboard,
ng one grain on the first square and
iiii* on each succeeding one of the sixty
would fill 1.844.875 barns each holding
o bu-helsof 100 000 grains each, bushels
: ! numbers. If the United States made
. * •.<* bushels each year, it would re
re a little over ■ 50 years to make enough.
■. * .rgl.tr entered the house of Prof. Ivy W.
1 >i.rg in, at I.intoti, Thursday night and stole
■ • gi.hl watches. He first went into Prof.
s room, where a lamp was bunning,
: t tus watch from his pocket without
. uscovered, and then went up-stairs to
am apiad by M. L. Duggan, Ir. J. B.
Du —taaiul John Allen. In this room he got
i watch Iroru the mantlepiece belonging
l. Mr. Allen, and a watch and some smallar
t - from M. 1.. Duggan’s pocket, but failed
to and his pocketbook, containing an amount
i, icy, which was in his coat pocket. M.
I Duggan arose about an hour before day
: >k, and in dressing discovered that Ins
watch was gone, and on reportirg his loss it
on found that the other two wowe also
gone. A psrty of men at once went to the
- •! a suspicions negro. One of the party
, ; .•red the door and called for the negro, who
mediately jumped out of a back window
attempted to make his escape, but was
on caught by Mr. Baxton Trawick, who is
, i a- a svvitt runner. This attempt to es
, ,)„• was about the only suspicious evidence
< ’ tamed at last accounts.
h • g stebbins,* resident of Mclntosh coun
l., harnessed hi- horse preparatory to taking
a drive to a friend’s house in another part of
the only. After lie had harnessed the horse
..n hitched it to the buggy he started to leave
: for the purpose of getting some articles he
:rc l from the house. The horse wa- res
tive and would not stand, and every time Mr.
Stebbins started for the house the horse would
attempt to walk off. After several ineffectual
attempts to quiet the horse and get it to stand
at ill, Mr. Stebbins flew into a terrible pas-ion,
ruslied into the house, seized his gnu and shot
the horse, which felt to the ground dead.
XI r. Stebbins wits under ihe impress
ion that the gun was loaded with small
‘shot, but found, after it was too late, that
sum one had heeD using it and left it
loaded with buckshot. FiinHug that he had
ki.it I lit* horse, Mr. stebbins reloaded his
..a ami left the house. Ills wife thought he
w.- in one of his fits of passion and had left
c, ,me for the pnrpose of cooling off, and that
: , would return during the afternoon, but
such old not prove to be the case. He lias lieen
, •nt now -ix days and hi* family have not
heard a word f oin him. The supitosilion is
that he became demoralized at his fool-hardy
act and went out into one of the swamps in
it,, neighborhood and blew his brains out.
Mr.- in- was about 10 years old, and at
.... . se subject to terrible fits of pnssioif,
for hours would rave like an insane
m in. knocking down everything that came in
• way. At other times he was as doolie ami
• a- • L>mb. He leaves a wife aud two
children.
FLORIDA.
I’e mango crop in Southwestern Florida
lias been good.
♦ 'range groves in Sumter county range in
pro e from slo,ioo to 1115,000.
Aismt 2.000 barrels of freight are landed at
Key West weekly for Key W est merchants.
11 is not likely that the Key W est Republi
i iri- will nominate any city ticket this year.
There have been already l.Mil gallons of
- lie imported at Key West from Havana
thi* month.
There will be no court held in Bradford
only this term on account of the illness of
lodge Baker.
The Ocolo V,:nnrr says the demand for
range frees is now greater than ever before
known in the .State.
squirrels re thick around Brookaville. A
party of gentlemen went out after some Wed -
■ -lay and brought in 53.
It is said by some of the Key West Cubans
that lieu. Marco has bee i shot seventeen
o- amt stall <ed live times.
A sailor, who said that he escaped from a
man-of-war cruising along the Gulf coast,
was in Archer last Wednesday.
Tin Key West Democrats nominated Mr.
i -.arty for Mayor last Friday night; the vote
- I. JS for Fogarty and 4t for Bethel.
Whiteledge is the name of anew t iwn ju*t
• • t ut on the Bartow branch of the South
i ri'l'i Railroad, six milessouth of Sanitaria.
In all probability the work of laying the
stone and brick oil Pensacola’s new custom
Is,.use will be started tn the early part of Oc
tol>er.
The Democrats of Marion county have nomi
-1 ihn M. Marlin for the vmUg and
l>. \. Miller and J. Porter Smith for tile As
sembly.
The sale of the street railroad at T.ake Oily
wa* eonsuiHiiated last Friday. The rolling
sleek one car) and road brought S2O. It is
being torn up.
The South Florida (irony* (Irore , published
at Liverpool. Manatee county, one of the
latest addition* to Florida journalism, is a
in -t excellent little eight-page sheet.
Willtara Yeates, a citizen of Cork, nearly 80
y jm old. went into the woods near Plant
last week and kille<l a large buck and
.rought it into town during the evening.
H. It. stov sod L. llarrion, formerly pro
prietors of the Lake City .Xf.ir, have disposed
~r their interests in that paper to C. A. Fin
bo. of the li'i->r(er, and will enter other bus-
Kfv West Cubans held a mass meeting
TANARUS, ur-dav night at San Carlos and Indorsed
Hart is for the Senate. Figuerado and Mon
- i vxig,' for the Assembly, Locke for Congress
aud 1; -thel for Mayor.
Ihe Cuban Fish Ranch has commenced
operation* again in Charlotte Harlior and
among the islands, but tile water li:* been too
Irish in the bay lor mullet. They will proba
bly lish uuttl December.
William sauls and Lewis Alexander, two
eoloi. and hands on the steamer St. Nicholas,
were arrested at Fernandma and sent to jail
for rifling a trunk of its content*. Nelson
Hardman was also arrested, but he was ac
quitted.
Wn. B. Mcllvatne, of Cedar Key. I• o*i
Thursday. Sept. In from wounds accidentally
roeived whil.t oik-rating a pile driver at his
fishery at i tear Water, lie was a son of ir.
l; 11. MrllTtwe, eUtor-in-chief of the Cedar
Key Bntcnn.
Kev West .Vricw: The St. .fames Baptist
i hureti is getting into hot water again. The
tru-tee., we hear, have looked the church
aealt—t Thompson, who is said to have four
female .and two male members at his hack.
Bev.c.r. I*alv was recently elected pastor,
i-ut the Tfcactsonite* Have rebelled.
One dav las* weex a negro woman living
near Mo'ntieel lwat a I tile child severely,
nn.t to escape further punishment, it got
muter a lied, whereupon llu* woman threw a
piece of llghtwood at it, *hu h wounded it
mv’er the eve. the splinters penetrating the
it.-U, which resulted in the entire lose oi one
it an early boar Saturday morning fire was
discovend in the Christ Church school build
e. Jacksonville. and so rapid was the march
• t ihe dPspuriug element tba! iu a verv brief
si , eof time that and the adjoining buildings
! the Presbyterian parsonage were.uval
ved in flames. The first two were leveled to
tl ground, and uoly the east end of the par
- igo was saved. The hiss is about J5.0C0.
The fire i* attributed t incendiarism.
SOt'TH CAROLINA.
par the rear ending Aug. SI last, tberfi
, re 9.i-cs baWr of cotton shipped from Cnion.
\ uew military <-ompM>y has been organ
• 1 in Edgefield under the name of Kdgefleld
Tbe County Trea*urer of Laurens has col
h 'ted for taxes only 44l*> tint cf 140.341 due,
exclusive of penalties.
4r. address to the citiieas of Aiken county,
w ih alsmt 100 names sinned to it, has been
i-ard. calling a convention of those favora
ble to prohibition to meet in Aiken. Oct. 14.
-laae H amilton. colored, of Pickens county,
•i rd on nept.4 from the effects. itls supposed,
a hurt she rev*‘ivel while shouting in the
... r.-d Methodist Church at Liberty a short
It has been determined Jo celebrate the
- \ty truth anniversary of the Pendleton
f armers' Society at Pendleton oo Thursday.
♦*> i.. with au exhibition of stock, farm pro
duct*. etc.
Hampton county b# had another j'>P
creaking, the third since May 1. It api—ix%
t i the keysol tbe jail were in the han 'j oP
a prisoner who was trusted by tin- 'her' 5' udj
left in charge.
A negro man. ap'd 10S years, it.ol in '*
< 1 - u,.\ section of Pickens ,-ountv ia*t w rk.
Hr was a native of Africa, and was tbe rets
dave ever owned by the late Col. Benji lin
Hagood, of PicKcns coucty.
A very heavy hail storm, arcompanief by ,
e incidefable rain, visited the section of ci ui
try a lout 10 miles below t oiuuttaa on : In
-lay afternoon. A great deal of cotton ras
- - eked out, but uo other serious datnagi has
een reported.
\ negro aaawd Joe t.rant attempted, c a
wager, to run ten miles in an hour at Ui cn
ille Saturday. At the end of fifty-two da
utes he had made seven miles, and was taken
from tile track, lie made ka first mile f 4
sules. second TV. third fit. Garth I'aJlfth
v sixth 7V$, and seventh 8 minute*. I
Camden Jtmnal. The drought enite* on
ivu IVedDcmvay. when rain began to falfl jt
is pro liable that the potato crop, the jut* -rop
and the gardens will be benefited by the Ham,
l>Qt the corn and cotton will not be improved
any. It is too late for any new bolls to ripen
s tore frost. Young corn is also past help.
The Abbeville Prut says: Our tannery m
many instances, |,y strict economy, will be
presumed? ll* h * >Ut i t,l , < re are l *“e whom we
fJ?h res will o, ' elW * lv lnvo,vo,| ‘ *■! whose
the e *tent inconvenience
h i U ’ who are - a rule, perfectly
r™!’.* 11 ' 1 enjoy a credit in the markets
beyond their desires to use.
f .?~ke press and types of the Saluda Ary u*.
bKenwood,,ar** bei ng removed to Abbeville.
“ thal the pres**, tvjie ani jroo<l
will of the A tqua office has been transferred to
?„n ar f* V .i intlemen, who will edit and
pu .11*1, the paper at the latter place. It is
sa. I Messrs M. L. Bonham, Thomas P.
Cothran and .fames 8. Perrin will conduct the
new jhjht.
GEORGIA’S CAPITAL.
Another Woman Courts Death—John
Neel and John Flynn Very 111.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 29.—The attempt
made yesterday by Alice Glover to kill
herself was followed up to-day by Mrs.
Mary A. Phillips, residing a few miles
from Atianta. on the the Flat Shoals road,
who becoming tired of life threw herself
in John Faith's fish pond and commenced
to take in water w ith suicidal intent.
Mrs. 1 hilhps is a widow of 57, who gives
as an excuse for attempting to drown her
self that she is tired of life. She was
rescued from the fish pond by a carpenter
w’ho happened to be passing along and
saw the woman floundering in the
water. Mrs. Phillips, it seems, swung
out into the pond with the aid of
the limb of a tree. She said, after the
water had been pumped out of her. that
she is sorry that she was not permitted to
drown, and that she will yet carrv through
successfully the object that she seems
most to desire.
Alice Glover, who took poison yester
day because her sweetheart kieked'her, is
in pretty fair condition to-day and will
get well.
JOHN FLYNN ILL.
John 11. FTynn, the veteran master ma
chinist of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, is lying dangerously ill at his resi
dence on Calhoun street. This morning
he was thought to be dying and the family
was called in to see the la9t of him in life,
u ’ however, passed through what was
thought to be the last moments of bis stay
on earth and to-night is reported as rest
ing easily. Jfis attending phvsic ans are
somewhat puzzled as to the exact charac
ter of his troubles. They are wnat might
be termed an attack of paralysis of the
entire system, and he is in consequence
not only perfectly helpless but totally
ignorant of what is going on about him.
The death of John H. F’lynn at this
or any other time would tie a great
loss to Atlanta, as he is one of her most
enterprising and worthy citizens, He
was one of the founders of the Young
Meu’s Library. He has been in the City
Council several times. Capt. Flynn ha*s
been master machinist of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad front the rebuild
ing of the line to the present day, and is
well known not only in railroad circles,
but all over the State, having inanv
friends in Savannah who will regret to
learn of his illness.
JOHN NKKL AT DEATH’S DOOR.
John Neel, one of the oldest citizens of
Atlanta, and at the same time one of the
wtelthiest, is at his home in this city, ly
ing on what is supposed to be his death
tied. His trouble is such as usually over
takes a man of his years.
To-night 4—bArris’in tight occurred on
Decatur street, between Fid. Owens and
W. F\ Ellis, two painters, during which
Owens had his left side ripped open by
FJljs, who used a large pocket knife.
Ellis was arrested and locked up. The
wound is considered dangerous.
The Capitol Commissioners are still
holding meetings here perfecting the de
tails ot the arrangements for the building
of the new capilol.
City Attorney Angier, while opening
his iron safe Saturday afternoon, suffered
a very painful accident, in pulling the
large door open it caught his right wrist
against the wall, breaking the wrist, lie
suffered much pain Saturday night, but is
new getting along nicely.
BUILDINGS BURNED.
Tlio Epidemic of lucendiari*m Spreads
to Rathdrum, Idaho.
Portland, Oregon, Sept. 29.—A dis
patch from Ratbdrum, Idaho, gives the
paiticulars of a fire yesterday by which
titty-five buildings were burned and the
loss atiout $85,000. The insurance is light.
The lire is ascribed to an incendiary.
Twenty families are left destitute.
INCENDIARISM AT ALLENTOWN.
Allentown, Pa., Sept. 29.—Vigorous
endeavors to carryout threats made by “fire
bugs,” in an anonymous letter, Saturday
to lay the city in ashes were made yestor
day with the following result: The total
destruction of a stable |m the F'irst ward,
a dwelling house slightly damaged in the
Sixth ward, and an unsuccessful attempt
to tire a large stable in the F'ourth ward.
Three suspicious characters were arrest <1
and lodged in jail. There is considerable
excitement and threats of lynching were
made.
CLEVELAND'S AGITATION.
Cleveland, Sept. 29.—Allen Diemer,
who operated the Cedar avenue planing
mill, which was tired last night, and an
employe named William Richter were ar
rested this afternoon charged with set
ting the place on tire. The warrant was
procured by the owner of the property. It
is believed that some of the tires here lately
were started by mischievous boys and
others resulted from spontaneous com
bustion, but in the present state of anx
iety the general belief is that an organ
ized band ot incendiaries is at work.
BUSINESS COMPLICATIONS.
Hardware Dealers of Dallas Fail for
Thousands of Dollars.
New York, Sept. 29.—Mitchell &
Scruggs, wholesale hardware dealers at
Dallas, Texas, have failed. Attachments
have been issued against them for $17,000.
ANOTHER DIVIDEND.
Receiver Oslsirne, of the Wall Street
Rank, says that some time this week
notice that another dividend will be paid
will be given, and that there is money
on hand to pay 15 per cent., and that this
will probably‘be the amount.
GRANT A WARD.
Receiver Julian T. Davies, oi the firm
of Grant & Ward, was to-day given per
mission by Judge Donohue to bring suits
against certain persons who procured
sums out of the assets of the firm before
the failure, for which they gave no con
sideration.
A TYI’K ASP PRESS COMPANY FAILS.
Chicago. Sept. 29. —The Rounds' Type
and Press Company made a voluntary as
signment to-day. The liabilities are $45.-
000 and the assets $55,000. A branch at
Denver, Cot., also assigned. The com
pany was organized by S. P. Rounds, the
Government i’riuter, but he is not now
connected with the company.
MASTER AND WORKMAN.
A Strike Looked for at the Dunbar
Furnaces on Get. 1.
Dunbar, Pa., Sept. 29.—The employees
of the Dunbar Furnace Company have
been notified that unless a M per cent, re
duction lu wages js accppted Oct. 1
the furnace will be shut down. The men
have decided not to accept a reduction.
A SHUT DOWN AT FALL RIVER.
Fall River. Mass., Sept. 29.—A meet
ing of manufacturers will probably be
held here to-morrow to .consider the ques
tion of another shut down, which now
seem* inevitable. Some advocate a shut
down during the entire month of October
and others tavor running on half time.
STRIKERS sue for peace.
t’n isUKia,Sept. 29.—The stove mould
ers, who have been on a strike tor several
months, held a meeting Dvoight and ap
pointed a committee to wail upon the
manufacturers to make terms with them.
30.000 MBS Ot T (OF M'O r K.
Lyons B*pt. at.— someworkmeu
are out of work in this city and stormy
meetings are of frequent occurrence.
FUforlas !“ be Uncouragrrt No Loafer.
Washington. Sept. 29.- 7 Chief Inspec
tor Sharp, of the Post Ofijge Department,
has issued a general order to all inspec
tors, directing them in case* where a (te
ndency is found to exist in the accounts
of a post oflioe, to arreot the Postmaster
and ak-orioe begin proceedings against
him through" the District Attorney. The
practice heretofore has been for a delin
quent Postmaster to supply the deficiency,
if of small amount, from his personal
means.
Dyspeptic and Nervous people, “out
Of sorts," Colden’s Liebig’s Liquid Ex
y- ict of Beef and Tonic luvigorator will
our*, A*k for Cotden’s; take no other
Of druggists generally.
It is better to remove t&an to hide com
plex mnal blemishes. Use Glenn’s Sul
phur Soap.
Hill’s Hair Dye, black or brown. F'ifty
cents.
Pike’s Toothache Drops cure in one
minute.
STAR ROUTE BANDITTI.
the REIGN OF’ thf; republi
can ROBBERS REVIEWED.
How they Sprang up and Thrived Under
the Petticoat Regime or Rutherford
the First-The Cost of Their Existence
Beyond Computation—Some of the Od
dities of the Prosecutions,
Washington, Sept. 29.—The Commit
tec on F.xpendittires in the Department
of Justice, which, during the last session
of Consrress, investigated tne star route
prosecutions, has completed its report for
submission to the House on reassembling.
The report is signed by Messrs. Springer
(Chairrfffin , Van Alstyne, Hemphill,
Fyan and Crisp, the Democratic members
of the committee. It save:
During President Hayes’ administration
certain contractors in the star route mail ser
vice ei.tercd into conspiracies to defraud the
government in the P-tting and performance
of mail contracts. The contract division of
the Post Office Department is under super
vision of the Sec ,nd Assistant Postmaster
General. During the letting and perform
ance of the fraudulent matl service, Thomas
J- Brady filled thisofficc. The frauds upon the
service could not have been committed with
out his knowledge, co-operation and assist
ance. The attention of the country to the
star route frauds was first attracted by the
increased expenditures under Gen. Bradv’s
a uninistration for that service. There was a
large deficit reported to the Forty-sixth Con-
K r J s ' 1 ; and a deficiency appropriation was
asked for the purpose of meeting largely in
creased expenditures. A partial investiga
tion into the frauds was made by the sub
committee on Appropriations and a report ad
verse to the granting of the increase required
by the I’ost Office Department was made
by the Committee. But so great was the
pressure of :he star route contractors, their
agents and attorneys, hacked by the powerful
influence of the Post Office Department, that
an appropriation was made to meet a large
part of this deficiency. The fraudulent con
tractors thus obtained anew lease of power,
and continued to draw immense sums from
the treasury for a fraudulent and fictitious
service.
the era of reform.
Reference is made to the inauguration
of President Garfield and his appoint
ment of T. L. James to the Postmaster
Generalship, who “entered upon the
duties of his office with a determination
to reform the abuses and Tun the service
on strictly business principles.” The’re
port continues:
President Garfield was of the opinion that
there had been great cxi ravagance, if not cor
ruption, in the department, and directed Mr.
James to proceed with a thorough and ex
haustive investigation.
A review is made of the efforts of P. H.
Woodward, who as confidential agent
was given the details of the investigating
of the tabulated statement of the cost of
the 93 routes; of the removal of Thomas
J. Brady and his chief clerk, John L.
F'rench; of the sending ot a post office in
si>ector into the West ami Southwest “to
investigate the star routes ut>on which
the increases were most glaring;” of the
testimony of Montfort C. Iterdell,’which
“the Attorney General did not consider ot
value to the government, and allowed Mr.
Rerdell to return to his old associates
without securing bis papers or his affida
vit, and whose credit as a witness subse
quently was much impaired by contradic
tory affidavits made under the influence
ot his former employes,” and of the re
port of A. 51. Gibson on the general sub
ject of the star route frauds.
The reports prepared by Mr. Woodward,
the committee’s report says, and the reports
of the (Mist office inspectors made under his
ilirertion. the rei>ort of Mr. Gibson, and the
testimony of the witnesses before vour com
mittee, show that glaring and stupendous
frauds were ]>ei’petraled on the government
in the star route mail service, and that not
only contractors, hut that many other persons
in high offieial positions in the government
were either criminally cognizantor the frauds
or guilty as participants therein. The exact
amount out of which ihe government was de
frauded in the star route service during Presi
dent Hayes’ administration can never be ac
curately known.
LYMAN’S FIGURES.
Henry D. Lyman, the present Second As
sistant Postmaster General, submitted to
your committee a rejiort showing the number
and termini of forty routes, the names of the
contractors and the amount paid for expedi
tion, less fines and deductions for failures to
lierform expedition. Expedition on these
forty routes was obtained through fraudu
lent' representations or false affidavits, and
the aggregate amount estimated to be due
the government on account of over payments
on fraudulent service was $2,172.132. The
whole number of routes upon which fraudu
lent service was proven amounted to Hi. In
case civil suits are brought against the con
tractors to recover over pavments on account
of fraudulent expedition, the amount the gov
ernment would claim of the forty routes just
mentioned a Wive no estimate has lieen made
by the Post < Mtice Department. Of the amounts
due upon the fifty other routes impli
cated in the fraudulent transactions, the
whole amount of which the government was
defrauded in the star route mail service dur
ing President Hayes’ administration, will ex
ceed |4,000,0e0. Ihe number of routes —
eighteen—controlled hv the Dorsey combina
tion are cited, showing the amountof increase
secured. The report says: “The evidence
showed that the receipts from the offices on
these routes for mail matter carried over
them were inconsiderable in comparison with
the vast amount of money required for tlie
service. On the Mineral Park and Piereclic
route.which was expedited so as to cost about
ssti,ooo per annum, the emoluments on all the
offices on the route were but $7Ol per annum.
This amount after expedition ran down to
$599.
ROUTES WITHOUT MAIL.
During thirty-nine days it appeared that
not a single letter or paper passed over this
route, although the government was paving
nearly $50,000 for carrying ttie mails. On nn
oiher route it appeared that the contractor
carried the entire mail in the leg of lus boot
over the mountain and received $50,000 for the
service. The original pay of the contractors
on all of these routes was J 41.135 per year.
It was increased so that it became $448,070 a
year. The revenue from the offices depend
ing solely upon these routes amounted the
first year to $10,297. in the second year to $l:l.-
108, and in the third yoar to $11,622. actually
diminishing during the third year when the
pay for the service was greatest. The gov
ernment was paying at that time nearly $450,-
KH. per vear for earn ing mails to offices that
vieideo less than $12,000 for rex’enue.” Other
expeditions are cited, on one of which “the
speed at which the service was let was one
mile and eight-hundredths per hour; a time
much slower than a horse could walk.” Rela
tive to the route from Las Vegas. N. M., to
Vinita. f. T.. the report says, that the pay
began at $6,330 ami was increased to $136,888
per annum; that the post office inspectors re
ported that some of the offices could not he
found and that several others might as well
not have been found; that Col. Bliss testified
that these offices were all established on the
recommendation of cx-Senator Dorsey, and
that Mr. Woodward testified that the net rev
enue derived from all the offices which de
pended exclusively for their nnil supply on
this route reached the sum of slsl for the year
ending June 30. 1879. $2 6 for the year ending
June 30. 19>0. and $232 for the mue months
ending March HI, 19S1, to offset an annual ex
penditure of $150,592.
BLISS’ EFFORTS TO COMPROMISE.
The efforts of Col. Bliss to arbitrate the
Salisbury and Parker cases, one of which was
the route mentioned above, after the grand
jury had failed to indict, are thus mentioned
hv the Committee; "It appears from the
testimony of Col. Bliss that the proposition for
arbitration in the Salisbury and Parker eases
were proposed pending their consideration be
fore the grand jury, fait rejected; that Cob
ll iss affected surprise when the grand jury
failed to indict, and Immediately desired to
secure something from the wreck by conceal
ing the fact of the grand jury’s failure to in
dict from the attorneys of Messrs. Parker and
Salisbury until there could be a renewal of
the efforts at arbitration, and an agreement to
submit the cases so as to secure a return
to the government of the moneys illegally
obtained bv these combinations. But the
testimony of Attorney General Brewster and
Messrs. Merrick and Ker seems to lie con
clusive that U ; ol. Bliss had no expeotat’ou.
nor, perhaps, intention, of procuring indict
ments against Mr. Salisbury, and he could
not have been surprised when he learned that
the grand jury had failed to indict. There is
evidence on record also that the evidence
presented to the grand jury in these cases was
meagre, apd that the jurv could scarcely have
understood, anq jol not understand, the
ebaraner and egteut of that evidence.
The effort to arbitrate the civil liabilities of
these parties utterly failed, and, pendingcon
sideration of the arbitration proceedings, the
statutes of limitation ran against the parties
in criminal actions. Postmaster General
liowe and the Attorney General held that the
proposed arpi;rj?ion w'as void.
THE TWO BIG COMBJN^SImN6-
Other extracts from the roports are
made at- follows.
It app. are from toe eridepc* that the two
most lajwerfirt* combinations of (.be post rout*
eontrae. ire were known as the Saßsbfiry and
' Parker combinations. All efforts at proci
ing indictment* against them failed. A ma
terial witness against Mr. Sa’isbury wo*? Zdo
T. A. McPavitt, a contractor for the Jir.iLl-v
pals, who held a Urge amount of expedited'
service- It seems that McDariJt ha* been
indicted * Philadelphia for fraudulent bid
ding on certain routes in Texas. The matter
was quite distinet from U,o_e in whtehSis
evidence was ehicfly sought. Sir. Wood- ,
want wan directed by Attorney Gem raj Mac-1
Veaxh aud Postmaster General Jameslo pro
cure an affidavit from McT>avist as’to his
knowledge of frauds in the Salisbury eases.
VcDaviti made a full statement of all the
facts with; hts knowledge, and was given by
xir. Woodward n jmplied promise of im
munity tn consideration of tus making IwH
disclosure*. The binding force of this .molted
promise of immunity wasTocogntzed by
Messrs. James aud MsoV eagb. They doetded
t \at he couhf’freely commimoato - any in
formation w henever caUed upon by the gov
ernment.
GOVERNMENT FLEDGES BROKEN.
Notwithstanding this full disclosure on the
part of McDaviti. and the promise of immu
nity which he had received, the Philadelphia
indictment was pushed to trial and McDnviti
w ms convicted and sent to pruon lor one year*
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1884.
M"-: Woodward protested to the President
that ln the trial ami
conviction of McDavltt solemn pledges of the
sro\eminent had been broken, and urjred ex
in.his behalf - which was not
X. 1,/..!;, Mr - Woodward testified also that
a V}* was i a ,tncss he should have relied
upon to break into the Sababnrv combi-
P* 1 !"" ancl 6>, ' ow their methods 'of doing
businiss. and he was the only
witness accessible to make proof agaim-t the
powerful combination, but that the govern
ment took t hat witness and sent him to prison.
♦J 8 A? w . r6, MacVeaeh and .Tames W>
state that the pledge of immunity to McPavitt
Thf ate ' l “J 1011 their retiring from office.
1 he manner of procuring expedition w as re
* f a9o "‘ nc “’ Affidavits of contractors
fv J?. t , herß WC^ C 11 ■* c ' l a " the foundation for
if Li 1 an service was allowed. The
taring effrontory of these affidavit makers is
unparalleled in the history of criminal prose
cations. r
READY-MADE affidavits.
Affidavits signed and sworn to in blank
were kept on band by contractors just as they
Uid up supplies of grain for their horses.
These affidavits were the sole measure of the
cost of expedition, and no other evidence was
required by the department for granting
increases of services end increases of speed,
which cost the government hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. * * * * * A
stock of these blank affidavits was kept on
hand, and the blank filled when occasion re
quired the use of them, and the pa|ers filed
with the department Yvere the basis of se
curing large and valuable additions to a con
tract. Thus perjury was made the basis of
all the frauds perpetrated.
Relative to the employment and compensa
tion of attorneys the report says that A. M.
Gibson was employed in April 1 81, upon the
recommendation of Mr. Woodward, and that
upon the recommendation of Mr. Gidson Wil
liam A. Cook was employed. Both Messrs.
Gibson and ( .ik formally terminated their
connection with the cases in the early stage
of the proceedings. It appears, however, that
suspicions of their fidelity and of the proprie
ty of intrusting evidence’to them had arisen
in the minds of their associates at an earlier
date, so their actual participation in the work
practically ceased in December. 1881.
SOME OF THE BIG FEES.
Benjamin Harris Brewster and George Bliss
were obtained early in September, 1881. by
Attorney General MacVeagh. W. W. Ker
was retained Jan. 21. 1-82, and Richard Mer
rick March SB, of the same year. The totai
amount paid to the above mentioned attor
neys for service in these cases was $144,846, of
which Cos). Bliss received the greatest amount,
nis compensation being $57,732. In addition
$6,727 was paid to Allan Pinkerton for the ser
vices of detectives, $359 for other detective
work and $1,579 to Janies M. Semple for
service in summoning witnesses. The report
says in thisconnection: Yourcommittec find
it impossible to ascertain the whole amount of
expense to which the government has lieen
subjected on account or the star route frauds.
The amount paid attorneys and detectives is
correctly stated above, but it is impossible to
determine lioyv much the expenses of the
courts in the District of Columbia Yvere in
creased by reason of the manv indictments
considered and presented by grand juries, and
by reason of the long and expensive trials in
the Dorsey-Brady case. There were also
largely increased expenses in the i*st office
incident to the investigation of the star route
mail service through special agents.
OTHER EXPENSES.
The expenses of the trials and the appear
ance of witnesses before grand juries were
largely increased from the fact that the gov
ernment counsel could not entrusl the service
<>f court processes to the United States Mar
shals and their deputies, but were compelled to
employ special agents for this purpose. They
were sent to a'l parts of the country at great
expense in order to serve subpoenas, procure
the attendance ot witnesses and arrest par
ties indicted.
HALF A MILLION STOLEN.
In reference to the contractors not indicted,
the report says that from the tabular state
ment irom the office ol the second Assistant
Postmaster General the amount which it is
claimed could ln> recovered from Messrs.
Salisbury and Parker is estimated at $561,403.
While the record evidence in the Post Office
Department at the beginning of the investi
gation by the department was meagre against
Messrs. Salisbury and Parker \et the evi
dence subsequently procured through special
agents sent out for the purpose showed that
the operations of these parties as contractors
were glaringly fraudulent and that tliev
should have been indicted and convicted
and prosecuted in civil suits for the
recovery of large sums illegally
obtained from the government. Some
mysterious and powerful influence most
have operated to secure this immunity. In
relation to the efforts to indict ex-Seuator
Kellogg, of Louisiana, the committee merely
embody a condensed history of the different
attempts in that direction, and the transac
tions upon which the attempts were based,
but makes no comments thereon. Concern*
ing the civil suits the report says: “LTp to the
time of adjournment no civil suits had been
instituted by the government aga nst any
star route contractors for the recovery of the
sums paid fvr fraudulent expedition. Attor
ney Gei cral Brewster stated before your
committee tli .t after Mr. Gresham became
Postmaster General it tvas made the subject
of discussion as to whether or not civil suits
ought to be instituted, whether they might
not prove fruitless in many instances, and
whether those sued at remote distances would
not interfere with juries and prevent verdicts
and make it a costly and interminable busi
ness to the government.
GRESHAM’S DETERMINATION.
All this was considered, but it was finally
determined that the government did not pur
sue this kind of suits for the purpose of mak
ing money. That was bis opinion, and It was
accepted because the object Yvas to show a
determination on the part of the government
to follow up, as he staled, whenever anybody
had wronged it. by way of example. lie ttie
remedy civil or crim nal, etc. Then the Post
master Geueral undertook to have the cases
put in o aer for the purpose of bringing civil
suits in the fall of 1883. lie sent
the Attorney General full and abundant
letters on the subject, together with the pa
papers in the cases. Tlie Attorney General
says that Col. Bliss then wrote him several
letters on the subject, in Yvhicli be showed
great anxiety to *et possession of those cases
and to pursue them, but that on a conference
with the Post master General it was concluded
that it would be beuer not to give them to
Col. Bliss, that he had his hands full with the
criminal suils, and, then again.it might he an
expensive thing to let him take charge of
these civil suits. At any rate, it was not con
sidered the proper or polite tiling to do. The
Attorney General caused the papers in the
case to be referred to Simons, who examined
them.
seeking for counsel.
The Attorney General made several efforts
to employ counsel in these cases, but had noi
succeeded in securing the services of compe
tent persons to take charge of them at tiie
time. He testified before your committee
July 3,1881, and said that no civil suits had
been instituted at that time in the star route
easi s. The report continues relative to the
removal of local officers in the District of ( o
luinliia who wore hindering the prosecution
of star route cases and were
giving aid and comfort to the defendants,
and says that Marshal Henry, according to
the testimony of the Attorney General, was
removed “'or a flagrant violation of his duty
in aiding the defendants.” At the beginning
of the prosecution an effort was made to se
cure the removal of District Attorney Cork
hill upon ttie alleged ground that he sympa
thized vritli the star route eontraetors! “It
was objected to his removal that he was then
engaged in the trial of the case and should be
continued till that case Yvas concluded, but
after Ihe conclusion Mr. Corkhill continued in
the office of District Attorney, but he was not
allowed to appear before the grand jury or
before the petit jury in any of the star route
cases.”
MERELY' SIGNS HIS NAME.
He merely signed his name officially to the
indictment when found. He continued in
office till the expiration of his term in the lat
ter part of 18*3. Mr. -MacVeagh thought that
it was a misfortune to have Jl*. Corkhill in
that office for his retention presented the
anomoly of having a District Attorney- in the
district in which these defendants were to lie
prosecuted who never was allowed to
know anything about the prose
cution or take gny part whatever in
it. Mr. MacVeagh retired from the office
of Attorney General, ami also declined to act
as chief prosecutor in the star route cases,
uion the ground that he did not see how- he
could hope to have moral support in the cases,
and it was moral support alone in the District
of Columbia for which he cared.
Alter taking up and passing separately,
in the same manner, upon each feature of
the star route frauds, and the litigation
connected therewith, the report con
cludes as follows:
Y’our committee is of the opinion that there
were many causes which operated to prevent
successful prosecution of the star route
offenders, w hatever these causes may have
been, it is doubtless true that those wlio will
take pains >o read carefully the testimony
taken by your committee on this subject",
comprising nearly a thousand pages of printed
matter, wilt reach different com-lnsions.
There ws great diversity in the testimony,
and many coutradiel.ons will lie
found wholly irreconcilable. It is
sufficient, however, for the purpose of
this investigation to state that while the evi
dence against the star route contractors and
public officials was strong and conclusive as to
their guilt, ami that the government was de
frauded of la, -go sums of money, and that
large sums Were also expended to secure in
dictm nts afld convictions, yet no person was
convp’icd or punished, and ho civil suits have
as yi oeen instituted to recover tiie vast
anm- illegally and fraudulently ohta ned from
the ! u" pc treasury.
ANOTHER SfAR ROUTE SUIT.
A suit on a star route contract was filed
to-day by District Attorney Worthing-
Aon. to recover $11,904 with interest from
* contractor on the route from Monument
ito Lake Bend, Coiorado.between F'ebruarv
’1879, aud June, 1882. It is alleged that
Brown obtained the sum by fraud bv
claiming to have employed eight men and
twenty- our horses, when his force was but
three men anj} fourteen horses. The total
allowed on the contract was *27.010 22, on
, the basis of the stock and carriers employ
ed, and it is alleged that it should have
been but $15,106 66.
pandora s Box
lsrought a multitude of ills upon hu
manity, so saito the Ancients; but a
bottle ot SogODONT is a well-spring of
toy in the family. It refreshes the invalid
Dy cleansing bis mouth and fits the belle
for the parlor.
DEMOCRACY I.NVINCIRLE.
STATES ONCE DOUBTFUL NOW
SLUE FOB CLEVELAND.
West Virginia Far Out of Blaine's Reach
—Tammany’s Support in New York
Earnest and Sincere—The German Dis
affection from the Republicans Wide
spread and Ominous to the Plumed
Knight.
AV A>HINGTON, Sept. 29.—Senator Gib
son, of Louisiana, who has been engaged
in the canvass in West Virginia for sev
eral weeks, has returned to Washington.
To a reporter he said; “There is no doubt
about the State, and the Democrats are
thoroughly aroused. If the Republicans
ever really entertained a hope of carrying
West Virginia inthecomingelection, they
have abandoned it. With regard to Ohio
I know nothing, except what I’ve heard
from our friends who have been there.
They tell me that the outlook is encour
aging. We will cut the Republican ma
jority down to a low figure, anyhow.
The Republicans are working for
a big majority in Ohio in Oc
tober for the effect it would have
in New York aud Indiana.’*
The reporter reminded Senator Gibson
of the reports which jJloced his own State,
Louisiana, in the doubtful column.
“There was never more unanimity and
harmony among Louisiana Democrats,”
he said, “upon Federal issues than now.
Cleveland and Hendricks have a better
support and will get a larger majority
than did Tilden or Hancock. There is
some party disagreement, but it is con
fined entirely to local issues. There is no
dissatisfaction with ths national ticket.”
A prominent Democrat, who has just
returned from New York city, was talk
ing to-day in a group of several party
friends about Tammany.
TAMMANY SINCERE.
He said: “Tammany will support Cleve
land honestly. The nomination ot a sep
arate local ticket by Tammany does not
show that it means treacberv. The truth
is that the rival local Democratic tickets
will bring out a bigger vote for Cleveland
than a union local ticket. Rival tickets,
with each side striving to win, will get
out all the vote it can command in ordor
to win, and every vote cast for each local
ticket will have Cleveland and Hendricks
at the head.”
Representative Thompson, of Kentucky,
who talked with different Tammany lead
ers during his recent visit to New York,
says that there is no question ol the hon
est and sincere support of Cleveland by
that organization. He says that the lead
ers will do all in their power for the
national ticket, and that the rank and file
are for Cleveland.
An anti-Blaine Republican ol Ohio, who
arrived in the city from that State yester
day, Yvhere he has been looking into the
situation, said to-day that he did not
think that the Republicans could carry
the State in the coining election.
THE DISAFFECTED GERMANS,
lie said that he had talked with a large
number of leading Germans, Republicans
and Democrats, and he was convinced
that there is an extensive and increasing
sentiment among them antagonistic to
Blaine and the Republican machine. He
says that even Butterworth, who is prob
ably the strongest man the Republicans
could have put up for Congress in that
district is rapidly losing ground in Cin
cinnati until it seems as it his election
over Follet would be impossible. The
Germans and the anti-l’rohibitionists
throughout the State, he said, have gotten
the impression that Robertson, the Re
publican candidate for Secretary of State,
sympathizes with the Prohibitionists, and
a bitter opposition to him has sprung up
inconsequence. The prominent name on
the ticket, J ldge Johns lor the Supreme
bench, is also violently opposed on ac
count of his connection with the Scott
liquor law. Blaine’s presence, how
ever, he said, would do some good, pro
bably, and the money, of which the
State Committee has none, will be put
into the fight by the Eastern managers.
But there is an antagonism here ajain be
tween these managers and the State Com
mittee, w r ho feel that everything has been
taken out of their bands.
TAMMANY’S COUNTY TICKET.
Cleveland and Hendricks to Receive
Solid Support In the National Con
test.
New York, Sept. 29. —Tammany Hall
held its County Convention to-day and
nominated a straight ticket. The Hall
was crowded. John Kelly was greeted
with extraordinarily enthusiastic ap
plause. Mr. Kelly said:
So far as I understand, you propose to hold
this convention as representative of the
Democratic party, without regard to any
other organiz itions. [l oud applause.l Be
fore, wlieu we eonfeared Yvith other Demo
crats, we bartered away our rights in one
instance by means of a lottery in the hat. Our
party has lived through good and evil reports,
and to-day stands pre-eminentiy high before
the people, 1 mean people who are Yvilling
to look at both sides and decide according to
their conscience. Truth is truth. Tiie light
of heaven xvlll prevail. Gentlemen, ia select
ing your candidate*, remember Thomas
Jefferson’s words: "Is he honest? Js tie
capable? If so, be will do lo send before the
people.” The world may say what it pleases
aismt me. We believe that the nomination
at Chicago was an unwise one, but Grover
Cleveland is the nominee of the Democratic
party, and we will not separate from the
party we have all known and loved so long.
We shall give Cleveland and Hendricks full,
fair and honorable support.
A communication was received from
the Executive Committee of the People’s
party, suggesting certain candidates, but
no attention was paid to it. A. B. Lap
pan was elected Chairman, with a Vice
President from each Assembly district.
The Committee on ltesoiutions reported
in favor of indorsing “unqualifiedly the
nominations made at Chicago, and those
for tbe Court of Appeals, made at Sara
toga.” Both reports w ere adopted.
The following ticket was then unani
mously nominated:
For Mayor—Alderman Hugh J. Grant.
For Comptroller—Ex-Congressman H.
Henry Dugio.
For District Attorney—Ex-Senator Geo.
11. Forster.
For President of the Board of Aldermen
—Gen. (ex-Alderman ) .John Cochrane.
All the candidates, especially Alderman
Grant, were heartily cheeredl After ap
pointing a committee to arrange for a
ratification meeting, the convention ad
journed.
HOW THE GERMANS STAND,
New York’s Teutons Denounce Blaine
at a .Monster Meeting.
New York, Sept. 20.—The Academy of
Music was crowded to-nigbt with Ger
mans who came-in obedience to a call for
a mass meeting ot German Democrats.
Gen. Franz Sigel called the meeting to
order and introduced Oswald Ottendorfer
of the Staats Xeihing as Chairman. The
principal speeches of the eveniug were
made by Mr.Ottendorfer, ex-Gov. Solomon
and Joseph Pulitzer of the World. Mr.
Pulitzer’s speech was largely devoted to
an arraignment of Blaine as a representa
tive of the Maine prohibitionists.
The following resolution was adopted:
Whereas. The nominations of Cleveland
and Hendr i ks give promise of real reforms;
therefore, he it
Reaolced. That we see in these candidates
men whom the nation ran well place at the
side of oar best Presidents and Vice Presi
dents, and that we have the greatest eontl
dence that on Nov. 4 i ext the German-Ameri
can eitizensof the Tinted States with un
paralleled unanimity will declare themselves
for Cleveland and Hendries.
The following telegram from Gov .Cleve
land was read by the Secretary:
I regret that I am not able to attend the
meeting to-night. I hope n will be as guc .
ecssful as its most enthusiastic promoters can
desire. Grover Cleveland.
Mayor Edson also sent his regrets. Be
fore the meeting adjourned Carl Soburz
appeared on the platform, and was re
ceived with great applause.
He made a few remarks, closing bv say
ing that James G. Blaine could never be
come president of tbe United States as
long as his record remained as black as
it was now.
An overflow meeting was held in Irving
Hall, and was addressed by ex-Senator
Koch, Augustus Kleiuan and Charles
Welke.
BLAINE IN OHIO.
Toledo the Scene of Monster and Simul
taneous Republican and Democratic
Torchlight Processions.
Washington, Sept. 29.—Mr. Blaine
left Cleveland at 9 o’clock this morning
on his Ohio tour. Among the additions
to his party is ex-Senator and ex-Secre
tary Windom. At Norwalk, q., ex-Presi
dent Hayes ascended tbe platfoym and
made a brief speech in favor of the Re
publican ticket. Sandusky was reached
about 1 o’clock, when the party left the
train and addressed a public meeting at
the court house.
Mr. Blaine and his party reached Toledo
this evening, where they will pass the
night. After dinner Mr. Blaine was
driven to a grand stand, from which he
reviewed a great torchlight procession,
many of the organizations coming trom the
surrounding country, and some trom quite
a distance. The Republican demonstration
was to have taken place Saturday even
ing, and its postponement until Monday
brougut it on the same evening with the
pre-arranged Democratic parade, which
Yvas also very large. The rival proces
sions between them seemed to have taken
possession of the city, but everything
passed off peacefully! Mr. Blaine will
lea\e Toledo at 9 o’clock to-morrow for
Dayton.
BLAINE AND LOGAN.
Cincinnati, Sept. 29.—Gen. Logan has
cancelled his Chillicotbe, Ohio, engage
ment for Thursday and has telegraphed
his intention to be here Thursday evening.
Mr. Blaine will also be here at that time.
BUTLER AT ALBANY.
Workmen Greet Grady with Hisses and
a Fusilade of 4-ggs.
Albany, N. Y., Sept. 29.—Gen. Butler
arrived here from New York this after
noon. Ale was met at the depot by about
1,000 persons. He entered a carriage and
was driven to the Capitol Park, where he
subsequently made a brier speech. He
denounced monopolies and expressed the
belief that he would be elected. Ex-Sen
ator Grady, late of Tammany Hall, spoke
for Gen. Butler at Troy to-day. v
Gen. Butler, Thomas J. Grady and Col.
Blanton Duncan, of Kentucky,’addressed
a labor meeting to-night at the Hudson
Avenue tent. An organized mob, con
sisting of employes on the new capitoi,
took possession and reviled, interrupted
and endeavored by all means to break up
the meeting. The ' followers of
the labor movement, however,
were in the majority. The
gang, finding all their efforts futile, pro
cured eggs, and, notwithstanding the fact
that many ladies were on the stage, five
of these missiles were thrown at Air.
Grady_ during his address. He paid no
attention to these but continued on, when
his revilers, finding his sharp retorts to
their questions were in each instance
against them, allowed him to finisff. The
action of the mob was evidently directed
against Air. Grady.
An Klvctor Ke&ign*.
Jacksonille, Sept. 29.—William Mc-
Williams, the Democratic Presidential
elector of the Second district, has with
drawn in consequence of his resignation
as Postmaster not being accepted by the
department. The position has been
tendered to Mr. Sanckez, of Gainesville.
Hendricks to Visit Louisville.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 29.—Ex-Gov.
Hendricks will be in this city Tuesday as
the guest of the Southern Exposition. He
will address a political meeting in New
Albany, Ind., Tuesday night.
Consrrcssional Convention*.
Washington, Sept. 29.—Louis St. Alar
tin was to-day nominated for Congress by
the Democrats of the F'irst Louisiana dis
trict.
A MOB AT A JAIL.
The Lynching of a fair of Murderers
the Object of the Visit.
Middletown, 0., Sept. 29.—Henry
Slopey was murdered here yesterday
evening at 4:30 o’clock by Sandy Jack
son, a rough character. Jackson was
drunk and attempted to stir up a row.
Slopey ran away, and was struck with a
stone, which broke his nepk. Jackson
was arrested immediately, together with
bis confederate, a young man named John
Flaherty. The murder caused much
excitement among the citizens, and
threats of lynching being made special
policemen were called out to guard the
jail. At midnight a large crowd sur
rounded the building. The lyncbingof the
murderer had been determined upon, and
the signal for the attack on the jail was
to be the putting out of the electric light.
\V hen this was done the mob approached
the prison with ropes and weapons to
force an entrance, but someone turned
on the light, and the crowd, having no
masks, retreated for a while, but soon
returned. At 2 o’clock this morning the
attack had not been again attempted, but
it was thought that Jackson, if not
Flaherty, would be taken lrom jail before
daylight.
AN AMOUR ENDS IN DEATH.
Bather Than be Separated a Couple of
Lovcru Decide to Die.
Dallas, Tex., Sept. 29.—A lovers’ trag
edy of Saturday, wherein George Foul
stech slew Miss Annie Manlor and then
committed suicide, has been the all-ab
sorbing topic of conversation. The bodies
have been visited by hundreds. Further
investigation of the identity of the victims
show that they hailed from Fort Worth,
and that their visit to Dallas was to con
summate their murderous ends. Miss
Manlor’s body was claimed by her brother
last night and taken to Fort Worth, while
that of Foulstech was buried here.
Later developments reveal the fact that
Foulstech was a young officer in the
German army visiting Americaon a year’s
leave of absence. Faulstech and' Miss
Manlor had been stopping at an obscure
hotel for several weeks. His parents in
Germany refusing to sanction his mar
riage, and his leave of absence about ex
piring, they concluded to die rather than
be separated.
IMMIGRANTS AT GALVESTON.
345 Healthy ami Robust Land
ed at the Southwestern Metropolis.
Galveston, Sept. 29.—The North Ger
man steamer Wesser, from firemen, ar
rived here to-day bringing 545 German
emigrants. United States Emigrant Com
missioner Sweeny boarded the Wesser,
and inspected the emigrants, but found
no paupers among them. Every member
of the particular family complained of in
a dispatch from the Consul at firemen to
the State Department was found to be
healthy and robust. They Indignantly
denied being paupers, and the head of the
family exhibited a handful of gold coin.
The commissioner issued a permit for the
emigrants to land. The Wesser also
brought 72 cabin passengers, including 12
cabin passengers taken from the French
trans-Atlantic steamer Marseilles, irom
Havre for New Orleans, which went
ashore on the Florida coast on Friday
last. The cabin passengers proceeded
overland to New Orleans. The Marseilles
has been rescued from her perilous posi
tion. She is#xpected at New Orleans to
night.
BUTLER ANTAGONIZES NEAL.
The Government’s Bight to Sell a House
to be Contested in the Courts.
Washington, Sept. 29.—The Solicitor
of tbe Treasury has advertised for sale a
house on K street which was sold to a
man named Smoat fifteen years ago at a
government sale as part of the estate ot a
defaulting army paymaster. Smoat paid
one-quarter of the purchase money cash,
but has never paid either principal or in
terest of the remainder, which with Inter
est now amounts to $27,000, although he
has lived in the house eve:' since. He gave
Ben Butler a mortgage for SIO,OOO on the
land shortly after he bought it. Gen. But
ler has always prevented its being sold
to satisfy the government’s claim, deny
ing the government’s original title, on
the ground that uo specific act of Congress
was ever pass and giving the government
the right to hold that property. Solicitor
of tbe Treasury Neai says that he pro
poses to see whether Ben Butler can pre
vent the sale he has announced.
HARD LINES AT SEA.
The Brig “Leonard Meyers’ ” Captain
Lose* Hl* Wife and Two of His Crew
in a Storm.
Pensacola, Sept. 29.—The schooner
Rebecca M. Walls, Captain Truss, from
Philadelphia, with coal, arrived here to
day. Her Captain reports having been in
collision with the brig Leonard Meyers,
Capt. Davis, from New York, Aug. 31,
for Laquena, Mexico, on Sept. 15, at 8
o’clock iu the evening in latitude 29:45 and
longitude 74:50. The brig was in a sink
ing condition before th3 collision from
heavy weather. For three days the wind
had been blowing a hurricane and the sea
was rolling heavily. The wife of Capt.
Davis, of New York, and two of
the crew were lost. The Captain
and five others were rescued and
brought to this port in the R. M. Walls.
Capt. Davis says that his vessel was sink
ing before sbe came in contact with the
schooner, and tbe rescue of himself and
five others was miraculous.
A beautiful set of fancy cards sent free
to persons who have taken Brown’s Iron
Bitters. Address Brown Chemical Cos.,
Baltimore, Md.
A XjtßftAgp OBSERVER
I.IN('OLN tlßllftßS GREENE S EN-
I JSTStE&T UNDER H AZKN.
The Chief Signal Officer and the*Re
cruiting Officer Both Work in Vain to
Keep Black* out of the Department—
The GUt of a Long Correspondence.
Wa*hngton, Sept. 29.—The corres
pondence which passed between Gen.
Hazen, Chief Signal officer, and the Sec
retary ofWar. in reference to the applica
tion of a colored man for enlistment In the
Signal Corps, is given to the public. The
man’s name is W. Hallett Greene. He is
a graduate of the College ot the City of
New Y'ork. He has since this correspon
dence been enlisted into the Signal Corps
as a private.
In a letter dated July 2S. Gen. Hazen
refers to a former letter in which he stated
that the general policy of the government
had been opposed to the enlistment of col
ored men in any part oi the army, except
the four colored regiments especially* set
apart by Congress for that purpose. Gen.
Hazen says that the applicant has been
notified to hold himself in readiness, and.
the Secretary ot War directs that ha will
be enlisted, but that he is informed by the
recruiting officer that w ithout this ‘order
of the Secretary he should not fee!
legally authorized to make this enlist
ment. Gen. Hazen then reiterates that be
was not in error in stating whßt the cus
toms of the service were, and that, except
ing the four regiments named, all branches
have been closed to colored men. Ho pro
ceeds ;
1 did not deem it in the province of the chief
of any one of these brandies of the army to
depart from tbat general rule any more than
for the Cloacl of any one of the thirtv*si\
white regiments to have and ine so. but publica
tions lead to the inference that I by narroiv
prejudice had gratuitous l v taken adverse ac
tion in Greene’s care. The appointment of
colored civil officers and of colored officers to
the four colored regiments referred to in the
Secretary’s indorsement are not of the class
or eases to which this question applies. The
affirmative legislation, creating the four col
ored regiments, has always been construed to
exclude colored enlisted men from oilier j>or
tions of the army, and this construction has
always governed enlistments.
HAZEN AGAINST THE BLACKS.
If it is intended that the signal Corps shall
be singled out as a separate, branch of the
armv, where mixed enlistments may take
place, I feel it my duty, to the liest interests
of the corps and the service, to recommend
that this be not done. It is duo Greene to say
that his preliminary examination papers
place him near the head of ail the applicants
for enlistment to tiie Signal Corps.
In his indorsement upon this letter.
Secretary Lincoln says that he -
secs no reason to modify liis
former views concerning the enlistment of
colored men into the signal corps,
ft is not considered necessary to discuss the
propriety of assigning colored recruits of
the line of the army to other organiza
tions of the line than the four regiments
required by law to he composed of colored
men. The reasons which might he good
against such action would not apply to the
employment of colored men of good character
and sufficient attainments inanv ottier posi
tion under the War Department any more
than to their employment under other de
partments. There is certainly not, in
the view of the Secretary, anything pe
culiar m the character of the organization
or in the duties of ordnance detach
ment hospital stewards, commissary ser
geants, ordnance sergeants or the Signal
Service, or of the clerical force of the War
Department, which makes it proper to ex
clude competent colored men from employ
ment m the; c organizations, and he knows’of
no law. regulation or decision by winch any
of them have been, as stated within, closed to
colored men. It is thought proper to sav also
that even if in these branches of the public
service under ttie War Department, which
are esentially military, there were valid
reasons for the exclusion of colored men, the
Secretary does not think that these reasons
would apply to the Signal Service.
ITS ATTACHES CIVILIANS.
In his opinion, its military name and its
military methods of administration do not af
fect the fact that all o the work done by its
members was essentially civil as that done by
theclerksof the War Department. Indeed,
with the exception of a few telegraph opera
tors at military posts, they have, in fact, as
little to do with any branch of niHitarv duty
as if they did not exist.
To this Gen. Hazen answered that the
secretary’s indorsement aid not overcome
the difficulty.saying that the Signal Corps and
other organizations mentioned are all eqnallv
legal parts of the armv. The men are all
similarly enlisted, suit the fact that no
colored men have ever been enlisted,
while four other regiments are exclusively
colored is. of itself, proof that there is either
law, or in place of it the custom of the service,
which up to this time hat exclusively con
trolled the subject and prevented mixed en
listment* The recruiting officer lias informed
me that from tins fact he does not feel au
thorized to enlist Greene, except up.in
order of the Secretary of War. In view of
the foregoing indorsement of the Secretary of
War, I withdraw all objections, if 1 ever had
Mb’, to Greene’s enlistment in the service.
The next indorsement is as follows:
If the recruiting officer referred to in Ure
preceding indorsement has lieen advised o'
Hie views of the Secretary of War in this
matter, and lie declines to act in accordance
therewith, his name will he reported to the
department to lie relieved by an officer yvlio
will act in accordance with the views of the
Secretary.
By order of the Secretary of War.
(Signed) John Tweedale,
Chief Clerk War Department.
Aug. 20,1884.
A DISTASTEFUL TASK.
The correspondence was then referred to
the recruiting officer interested, Lieut.
Hursell, of the Signal Corps, who contributed
to the series as follows: “The recruiting
officer has been fully advised of the views of
the Honorable Secretary of War at each stage
of this correspondence. The recruiting
officer’s personal feelings and sympathies are
all in favor of allowing Greene to enlist in tiie
Signal Corps or any other corps or regiment
of the army, hut he does not believe he has the
authority of the law. custom or precedent to
make the enlistment. He (the reerniting
officer) will with pleasure enlist Greene at
any time, provided he ha authorized by the
Honorable Secretary of war to write on ttie
enlistment papers the words: ‘Enlisted by
authority or the Secretary of War,’ and I
respectfully ask that he lie authorized.”
Gen. Hazen writes under this that he
believes that the position taken by the re
cruiting officer is correct.
Secretary Lincoln closed the matter up
with the following:
War Department, Washington, Sept. 12.
The Chief Signal Officer of the army is
hereby ordered to give mch orders and in
structions to officers now or hereafter serving
under him as recruiting officers for the Signal
Corps of the army a* will prohihif the rejec
tion as a recruit by any such recruiting
officers of any applicant for enlistment in the
Signal < orps on account of color oron account
of the African descent of mch applicant.
The Chief Signal Officer will report to the
Secretary of War ttie action taken under
this order with special reference to the ap
plication of William Hal let Greene.
Robert T. Lincoln,
Secretary of War.
WIND ANI) RAIN.
Great Damage Done by a Cloud-Burst
Near Dayton, Ohio.
Dayton, 0., Sept 29 —A wind storm of
unusual violence swept across the coun
try twenty-five miles north of Dayton
Saturday, a cloud-burst giving a fail of
five inches of rain in forty-five minutes,
and raising the Miami river at Davton
five feet in a short time. At Swift Run,
two miles north of Piqua, the banks of
the lakes connected with Piqua water
gave way and the flood rushed into the
canal breaking its banks. There are two
breaks in the hydraulic canal at that
place. The Sidney feeders also broke.
Four houses at St. Paris were damaged
by lightning, and at North St. Paris a
number of houses were unroofed. Xoith
of Mechanicsburg houses and barns were
blown down. At Dayton it rained hard
yesterday tor an hour, flooding the lower
part of the city. Rain was needed.
A CYCLONE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Bradford, Pa., Sept. 29. —A terrific
cyclone passed over Alton, a few miles
south of Bradford, yesterday afternoon.
It came from the southwest. Six houses
were wrecked there, but no lives were
lost. The path of the storm was five rods
wide, and it swept everything before it.
Several families had thrilling adventures
and many narrow escapes from death.
THIRTY KILLED IN MEXICO.
City of Mexico, Sept. 29.— A cloud
burst occurred at Pachuca on the after
noon of Sept. 27, causing a terrible inun
dation. The amalgatinc works were de
stroyed, and considerable silver which
was under treatment was lost. It is esti
mated that 30 persons were killed. A
great deal of property was destroyed and
many cattle were drowned.
An Eloping Couple’s Return.
Toronto, Sept. 29.—Jonathan Madell,
the builder, and Mrs. Martin, the organ
ist of the College Street Baptist Church,
who eloped about five weeks ago and went
to New York, returned to their families
yesterday, and being truly penitent and
heartily ashamed of their conduct, were
welcomed hack.
HORSFOKU'S ACID PHOSPHATE
Unanimous Approval of Medical Staff.
Dr. T. G. Comstock, Physician at Good
Samaritan Hospital, St. Louis, Mo., says:
•‘For years we have used it in this hos
pital, in dyspepsia and nervous diseases,
and as a drink during the decline and in
the convalescence of lingering fevers. It
has the unanimous approval of our medi
cal staff.”
" GORDON’S BRAVE DEFENSE.
Mines Run Out from Khartoum and
Many Rebels Blown Skv High.
London. Sept. 29.-a special from
Yieuna asserts that the Cabinet of Great
Britaiu has Informed the powers that, in
its opinion, the suspension of the sinking
fund by the Egyptian Government is
justifiable in the pnjflent condition of its
finances.
The French papers represent that r’rinee
Bismarck is leading the movement against
the F7nglish policy in Egypt.
A correspondent at Khartoum, ufider
date of April 28. reports that Gen. Gordon
was laying mines in all directions. Food
was dear. Gen. Wonlon had issued paper
money and was paving the soldiers with
it. The town was quiet. Half of the pop
ulation joined the rebels previous to the
beginning ot the Beige. The correspond
ent sent the following extracts from his
diary:
‘•March 2o—Hassan and Zyd were extv
outed for their treachery during the battle
which occurred Aiarch 16, when we lost
SSO killed and wounded.
“April 16 to 29—The rebels attacked the
town, but suffered heavy losses bv the ex
plosions of mines.
, V-Mayl. —An accident occurred to-day.
An officer trod upon the connection to one
of the mines and caused an explosion.
Six men were killed.
“May 3.—A man reported that the Eng
lish army was at Berber.
“To the end of Alay the rebels made fre
quent attacks upon the town, suffering
losses from the mines.
“During June steamer expeditions un
der command of Saati Bey were made
daily. Our losses on these expeditions
were slight. We captured many cattle.
“On June 25 Mr. Cuzzi. the English
Consul, informed us of the fall of Berber.
Mr. Cuzzi was sent to Kerdofan.
‘•On June 30 Saati Bey captured a quan
tity of corn and killed 200 rebels.
KALAKALA's BURNING.
“July 6.—Saati Bey burned Kalakala
and three other villages, lie also attack
ed Gatarnh but was deleated. Saati Bey
and his officers were killed. The loss
was heavy. Col. Stewart had a narrow
escape. |
"On June 29 we beat the rebels out of
the Burie on the Blue Nile. A number of
the enemy were killed and we captured a
quantity of material. Steamers advanced
to F]lfin clearing thirteen rebel forts.
Since the siege began our loss has been
under 700.
“J uly 21.—The siege has been very close.
Arab bullets are flying on all sides. Some
of them are falling on the palace. Food
is tremendously dear. Since my recent
dispatch all hope of government relief
is gone and we only depend on
steamers. It is impossible for us to cut
our way through the rebels, burdened as
we are with numbers of women and
children. One Arab horseman suffices to
frighten 200 ol our men. On the day that
Saati Bey was killed 8 reliels charged 200
ot our men armed with Remington rifles
and dispersed them. The only men we are
able to depend on are negroes.
“July 29.—MehemetJAll’s action yester
day was very successful. F'ive armored
steamers, alter clearing 13 forts, found at
Gareff two strong lorts. The vessels en
gaged the forts for 8 hours under a ter
rific fire. The cannon in the forts were
finally disabled and the rebels driven out.
Our loss was only 3 killed and 13 wound
ed. Gen. Gordon will soon send two
steamers towards Senaar to trv to recap
ture the steamer taken from ‘Saleh Bey.
Gen. Gordon is well.”
THE FRENCH RECALLED.
Alexandria, Sept. 29.—M. Barrere,
the French Diplomatic Agent, Has sum
moned all the F'reneh officials in the
Egyptian service who are absent to re
turn to their posts immediately.
LIFE’S FELL FOE IN EUltOl’E.
355 Cases and 213 Deaths ip Italy In
the 24 Hours.
Rome, Sept. 29.—The report of the
cholera epidemic in Italy for the 24 hours
ended to-night gives a total of 355 fresh
cases and 212 deaths, including 171 cases
and 100 deaths in Naples and 95 eases and
55 deaths in Genoa.
CHOLERA AT VENICE.
Venice, Sept. 29.—Two deaths from
cholera have occurred here.
NAPLES’ RECUPERATION.
Naples, Sept. 29.—Owing to the de
crease in the mortality from cholera in
Naples the Association of the White Cross
has discontinued its work here.
TEN DEATHS AT MARSEILLES.
Marseilles, Sept. 29.—During the 24
hours ended to-night there have been 10
deaths from cholera here. Many other
deaths have occurred at various points in
the southern portion of France, but in no
slace have they been so numerous as to
Ye remarkable.
Six F'reneh passengers from Cochin
China on the steamer Abd El Kader,
which put in at Bona Algiers for quaran
tine, died of cholera after having been
landed and placed in the hospital. There
have been 5 deaths from cholera here to
dav.
Eleven deaths from cholera are re
ported in the southern provinces of
F’rance, including the Vicarage General
of Nirnes in the department of G ird.
FOUR DEATHS NEAR KAIX.
I’aris, Sept. 29.—F’our deaths from
cholera have occurred near F'aix in the
Department of Avilge.
BARCELONA’S DENIAL.
Madrid, Sept. 29.—The newspapers of
Barcelona positively deny the statements
published elsewhere that cholera prevails
there.
ENGLAND’S CORNS TItEAD ON.
The French In China Stop and Search
Tyvo English Trailln; Vessels.
Paris, Sept. 29.—The ministerial papers
express satisfaction at the agreement be
tween F'rance and Germany relative to
Egyptian affairs. The bill for the organ
ization o! a colonial army will be present
ed to the Chambers as soon as they con
vene. The chief feature of the bill will
be the transfer of the marines to the con
trol of the Minister of War.
It is reported that the Fhnpress of Chi
na has decided to conclude peace with
F'rance.
Admiral Courbet will not, according to
official advices, recommence operations
in Chinese waters until Oct. 1.
It is stated that Admiral Courbet has
expressed the opinion that while the oc
cupation ofKe Lung,on the Island of For
mosa, will have a certain amount of favor
able influence for the French flag in
China, yet he believes that nothing short
of a march upon the city ol Pekin and the
actual occupation of the Chinese capital
by F’reneh troops will suffice to compel
the government of China to accept the de
mands made by tne French Government.
0 STEAMERS STOPPED.
London, Sept. 29.—“A dispatch from
Hong Kong says: The French stopped
and searched the English regular trading
steamers Tuhkien and Hailoong in For
mosa Channel. This action has caused
great irritation. The lact that neutral
steamers are conveying soldiers and mu
nitions of war to various quarters will
probably be the source of complications
in view of Admiral Lespes’ recent action
in connection with a German ship.”
ERIN’S ROYAL HONS.
The Establishment of a Branch League
at Neale Made a Big Event.
Dublin, Sept. 29.—Several thousand
persons joined in the demonstration held
at Neale, county Mayo, yesterday, for the
purpose of establishing a branch of the
Irish National League. Several promi
nent mem tiers of the House of Commons
and Mr. Dorney, of Chicago, were pres
ent and delivered addresses, which were
received with enthusiasm.
ENGLISH DYNAMITE.
London, Sept. 29.—Sir William Vernon
Harcourt, Secretary ol State for the Home
Department, has written a letter urging
upon the Nobles Explosive Company, of
London, the necessity of having their fifty
dynamite depot* strictly guarded nightly.
In response Mr. Nobles states that to com
ply with his request would involve an ex
pense of SI2S,(XX), and render their compe
tition with American and German dyna
mite manufacturers impossible. The sale
of the latter is practically uncontrolled,
while the police In England control the
sale of the native dynamite. They state
that foreign dynamite has been used in
nearly all the recent outrages that have
been perpetrated in England. They close
by suggesting to sir Harcourt that the
government should levy a duty upon for
eign-mane dynamite, and thus enable
British manufacturers to provide safe
guards for their premises and yet realize
a profit.
Wive* of Presidents Immortalized.
Washington, Sept. 29.—Portraits of
the wives of Presidents Tyler and Polk
were hung in the green room of the White
House to-day.
j PRICB tit A TEAR, i
Ift OKNTBA OOFT. j
A MACONITE’S MORPHINE.
TIRED OF I'EMIRY HE SEEKS
TO END HIS liIFE.
A Last Letter Filled with Love of hi*
Mother—A Negro Softool Teacher
Charged with Attempting Outrage—
Black Republican* or Bibb Roundly
Denounce the SeltUhuess or the Broth
er. tn White.
Macon, Ga., Sept. 29.—Horace D.
Christopher, a vouug men of
this eitv, attempted to 'contnSit suicide
Stindav afternoon in bis room at the Na
tional Hotel. At 2 o’clock in the after
noon some children heard groans proceed
ing out of Christopher’s room, hut thought
him talking in his sleep. At 5 o'clock
Wiley Jones, the proprietor of the hotel,
also heard the groans, and thinking some
thing wrong tried to enter the room, but
found the door locked. A window opening
on tbeside porch was forced open and en
trance thus made. He found Christopher
dressed, stretched across the bed sense
less and apparently suffering great*
ly. Dr. Stevens was summoned, who
decided that Christopher had
taken morphine. Dr. Stevens mada four
hyperdermie injections to counteract the
poison, but without success. Dr. Black
shear also came, and shocked the bodv
w ith a galvanic battery and obtained no
evidence of relief. H<> saia that Chris
topher would die. At 8 o’clock last night
Proprietor Jones summoned Drs. Moore
and Mettauer, who applied a stomach
pump, and brought forth a large quantity
of morphine mul other matter, giving
Christopher relief. He shortly afterwards
opened his eyes nnd recovered bis senses.
He lingered throughout the night, and by
careful watching and nursing is bettor
to-day, and may recover. Satur
day night a negro woman
purchased 15 cents worth of morphine at
Ingalls’ drug store, which it Is thought,
was for Christopher. Mondav. Sept. Si,
Christopher was found in J.‘ R. Hicks’
barroom unconscious, with his head
resting on a billiard table. He was
aroused, and said that he had been feel
ing badly, having taken too much laud
anum. This is considered only another
attempt to commit suicide. Among his
effects found to-day was two letters, one
addressed to a young lady at Nashville,
which was considered sacred, and was
unopened. The second letter was dated
Sept,. 21. the same day he was found iu
Hicks’ barroom. It was addressed to J.
R. Hicks and W. It. Philips, and read:
Dear Khikniis: Please sell the piano, if yon
possibly can, and send mamma the money. I
could not stand to see her come lo want. 1
have suffered a thousand deaths this week. I
would have been so glad to have seen my dear
mol her and sister once more. Tell her to go
to her brother and sister. Telegraph her of
my death. Please try to sell the piuuo. Shu
is among strangers without u dollar.
Yours truly, H. l>. Ciihistoi’HKK.
Financial embarrassmonts was the di
rect cause of Christopher’s attempted
suicide, although he had been suffering
sometime from a terrible disease. His
mother lives at Nashville, Tenn. She
formerly resided In Macon, where her
husband did business, but died a few
years ago, since which time the tainily
lias been In very straightened circum
stances financially.
ATTEMPTED RAPE.
Last night a negro school teacher named
James Deakle, of Knoxville, Crawford
county, came to Macon and went to the
bouse of a negro woman named Nanov
Henderson, on Fourth street, and applied
for lodging. 110 was accommodated. In
a room adjoining his was sleeping
the 10-year-old daughter of Nancy
Henderson. At 2 o’clock in the morning
Nancy heard her daughter crying loudly.
Nancy entered the room ami saw Deakle
standing in tbe corner in hlsnightclothea.
He hail been trying to commit rape. He
gave Nancy $2 and his watch not to have
him arrested. This she accepted and
Deakle lett the house. To-day ho return
ed and demanded that the woman give
him back bis money and watch. She re
fused and went to find a policeman to
have him arrested. Deakle lied and has
not been caught.
Sunday afternoon several meinliers of
the Bibb county chain-gang, located
just outside of the city limits, began
a playful tusrle. Guard “Doc” Hamlin
ordered them to desist. They seemed to
pay no attention, when Hamlin raised his
gun and tired a loud ol buckshot at them,
mortally wounding Henry Williams In
the side.
As Bennie Long, a well known farmer,
was coming down the hill near Tolcrofkeo
creek, in this county, Sunday, his mules
took 1 right, throwing Long out of the
wagon, fracturing bis skull.
News was received bore to-day that the
new gin engine and 12 bales of cotton
were destroyed by fire in Crawford coun
ty Saturday. The gin houses ol Dr.
Wortham and John Braswell, In Bibb
county, also caught tire Saturday, hut
were extinguished before much loss re
sulted.
NEGROES DENOUNCE THEIR WIIITR
ALLIES.
The negro Republicans of Bibb county
representing the Longst.reet faction, under
the leadership of cx-Congressman Jeff
Long, held a largo and enthusiastic meet
ing to-night, crowding the Superior Court
room. Many came several miles, attest
ing Long's old time popularity. Allen
Ellington, a popular negro, was chosen
Chairman. Long, in a siieeeh, stated that
the object of the meeting was to take ac
tion against the State Central Committee
nominating electoral tickets on which
was the name of no colored man. He
strongly denounced the white office
holders of Georgia ns “dirty ring
sters,” who were the negroes’
worst enemy, and only eared for
the negro’s vote, not his welfare. Reso
lutions were adopted denouncing the
present Republican electoral ticket, and
requesting a State convention of colored
men to nominate a ticket with negro
electors. They also denounced the pres
ent system of internal revenue and char
acterized United States Marshals In bitter
terms as unworthy tbe Republican party
and a disgrace thereto. They call the
United St ites Courta place where justice
is unknown. Long and his large conven
tion are Blaine and Logan men, but tre
mendously opposed to the present ring
office holders of Georgia. The convention
opened with prayer and singing.
Another meeting was held here to-night,
in the United States court room, pursuant
to a call from the Executive Gommittee
of the regular Itepublican party, for the
purpose of deciding whether or not Re
publican candidates for the legislature
should be put out. It was deck e 1 not to
do so. There were about 100 present. A
mass meeting was called for Oct. 17.
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