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1 KBTABLISHKD 1850. |
jJ. H. E9TILL, Editor Mid Proprietor j
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.
Another Alabamian En Houle for Rome
Mysteriously Disappears A Lsrse
Catamount Captured Near Meriwether
—A Faith Cure at Augusta—The Fail
ure of the Shannons.
GEORGIA.
The Catholic fair in Home will open to
night-
Lawrence M. Burros, a prominent citizen
o! Columbus, (lied Saturday.
The salary ot the City Marshal of Calhoun
has been raised to s2i per month.
Twenty-seven candidates have announced
themselves lor office in Scriven county.
Eipht prisoners now occupy the county jail
at 'vlvania. awaiting trial at the Superior
Court.
.lu.lzc Arthur Hood and lady, of Cuthbert,
celebrated the forty-fifth anniversary of their
marriage last week.
scriveu Superior Court is but two weeks
off. Jurors and witnesses will govern them
selves accordingly.
Most of the Americus merchants will close
their ston s to-morrow, and turn out to work
fur Cleveland and Crisp.
The number of white polls in Carroll coun
t - 2.<13; white defaulters, 45; colored polls,
4v ; colored defaulters, 38.
Kx-Gov. Allison, of Quincy, Fla., who has
he* a -pending several weeks with his daugh
t. Mrs. Atkins, in Cuthbert, has returned
home.
( :.t. James White, of Athens, has lately
h Ben Ilill mansion overliauled and re
p.onted, and it is now being magnificently
turi .-bed, ready for occupany in a few days.
To- superior Court of Bierce county met at
lij o'clock on last Monday and adjourned 9
o k Tuesday night Not much business
was transacted, the most of the causes being
continued.
l>r. John 11. Coyle, of Thomasville, left on
Saturday for Baltimore, Md., where he goes
t.> a-sume the Brofeaeorship or Operative
IH-nUstry and Mental Materia Medica in the
i; Litimore Dental College.
In view of the threatened criminal prose
fu! ■ aof President George T. .Jackson, of the
y erprise Factory of Augusta, for confessed
defalcations, and unfounded rumors of his
llgtit, Maj. Jackson states that if wanted he
can l>e found at his home.
! Valley was visited by another fire last
Friday night, and six wooden buildings were
ei -iimed. The fire originated in a restau
rant kept by a negro woman, and the other
liou-* * destroyed were: M. L. Cooper’s Hall,
A. Was-er's store, express office, C. Koach’s
sic >p and Cook’s shop.
on Wednesday afternoon at the railroad
camp, two miles from Greenville, Bill Breston
struck Ed. Keid on the head with a large
stick. The blow is likely to prove fatal. Both
th. parties are colored railroad hands. Con
stable Florence, armed with a warrant, went
out to the camps Wednesday night and ar
rested Breston. who is now in jail.
Last Wedne-day Revenue Officer W. O. 11.
Shepard and Jim Nelson m de a raid on a
still located three miles west of Lavonia. in
Franklin county. They captured the still “on
the wing” (as it was in full blast at the time;,
also Its engineer. Bob Scott. They cut up the
still, and brought Scott to Toccoa, prepara
tory to taking him to Atlanta for trial. He
said he was running the still for the Burgess
boys.
Merikrether Findidtor: Mr. John M.
Philips caught a catamount on Thursday
eight at his home near the Warm Springs
ti: it weighed 21 pounds and measuring 4’ ,
< ,-t in length, besides its tail, which was t>
inf las long. It was the height of an ordinary
■1 The animal was shot live times amt fin
ally cut down in a large pine tree and dis
patched with an ax. tt hen first discovered
it was making an attack upon the poultry of
Mr. Philips.
Mr. Moore, of the firm of Moore A Porter
i 1. Cross Plains, Ala., disappeared last
Wednesday. He bought a ticket for Rome
that day and took the cars at Cross Plains at
about ti o’clock that evening, and has not bo n
in Home that any one there knows of—and his
pn— nt wherealiouts are unknown to his
friends. He is known to have had some s7t O
or Ivw in money with him. He is a solier,
g -'d man, and his friends fear that he has
been foully dealt with.
The members of the F'ifty-sccond Regiment.
Georgia Volunteers, C. S. A., request the
members of the different companies compos
ing the regiment to hold meetings to their
respective counties and send up a list of all
th -urviving members,with their post offices.
t> (apt. R. R. Asbury, Pleasant Retreat,
White county, Ga., who will for the present
act as Corresponding Secretary. It is also
*ugge-ted that said regiment hold a reunion
at U.dilonega on July 4, 1985, with a view of
making a permanent organization of the tur
vio r-of the regiment.
Augusta furnishes a clear case of faith cure,
vouched for by Rev. M. 11. Dillard, pastor of
St. Luke's Church. Mrs. Mary Benson, a
raemtxT of las church, was prostrated in lied
ten weeks and two days, suffering with in
ternal tumor, and was pronounced incurable
I the physicians. She was impressed with
the faun cure for five days, and Wednesday
ii -m. ju-t as the mail brought her Rev. W. A.
IVlge's Atlanta paper, the O' /y of Lift,-©n
tamiug the account of Mrs. Wimipy’s cure.
Mr-. Henson pronounced herself cured by
faith, ar-oe, dressed aud has since felt per
il' tly well and happy. The physicians arc
grimly puzzled, especially as she continues
well and performs her household duties just
a- before her long prostration.
H alford, Tattnall county, correspondence
Nt> < let. :tl : We are having extremely dry
weather. This has lieen a very favorable fall
f-r -xving cotton, wbieli I think is nearly
1 rops are generally a good a vci -
sgc. except sugar-cane, of which the cro|i is
t iaii, on account of the scarcity of seed in
the -oring. —There is a great deal’of sickness
■ this section. On Oct. 18 Mr. A. E. Bacon,
a prominent citizen, was taken by death very
net inly, leaving a large family, ilut. not
withstanding the sickness, on the night of
•At. ±), the friends and neighbors of Mr.
!*• K. >ikes, of Hind ford, were collected tc
g<' ■r at the house of J. P. K. Sikes to wit
mi- the marriage ceremony of Mr. W. J.
V nuan, of Reuisville, amt Miss Fanny E.
which was performed by Rev. Mr. Bor
ne. After the marriage the guests were ia-
Tiieo to the table, which was hard to surpass,
M l to which justice was done, and all made
we in- The attendants were Mr. M.
A voder, Mr. H. Yeomans and Mr. Milton
“ gbter. an>t Miss Gilly Rustin, Miss
1 < ctv Jones and Miss Sarah’Jones.
H uc Courier: Owing to the absence from
! • :. y. -tenlay of t ot. I>. S. Printup. E. G.
' mnon A Co’s attorney, Judge Branham
1’ - ;...ned until next Monday week the henr
omot Um creditors of Hems.
..forthe appointment of a rc
r .vcr. We h urn that Messrs. Shannon A Cos.
' -Aim to h solvent and will fight the motion
i*. i hamlters for the appointment of a re
f ■ r - I he New York creditors, represented
M --r-. Wright, Meyerhardt A Wright,are
*'- iueinier. Goodktud ft Cos., Guggenbeimer
■a ' air it. Loeb ft Siessel, Nu.-sbauni &
At i him Mass A Cos., C< ntral Nst
tsn.al Hank, of New York, and White
“J'-tl A Cos. The aggregate claims
<J Uic-e creditors amounts to about $!5,00(>.
i x-r- D an ft Ewing, representing Bonner
hr -and snedeker ft Boynton, of New York,
h if' .iiiiu for fi.ltib. While Mess s. Dabney
v 7 m-be, representing F. "ells, of New
lorv. have fl ed creditors claims for $2,100.
' t . Haldwin, TwecdFft Cos., of NeWSriU
a ; . hold a mortgage on Messrs. Shannon ft
*k of goods for |i1,400; aad the Na
i,lU I’urk Bank of New York puts tn a
um for |SCO, making the total liabiiities foot
141.066. A stock of goiMls. the value of
wa ci estimated at about |13,000, the credi-
n ton is all the available assets of Shan
-sn A to. they have been able to find.
FLORIDA.
cur Jay quarantine was discontinue! by
“e port of Fernandina.
AU the steamships running to Fernandina
- e in crowded with passengers.
Two more cargoes of steel rails arrived at
•trr .ir.iiina las week for the Florida Bail way
Navigation Company.
A number of lots at Pablo Beach are to be
aoc:i.*ned Wednesday, Nov. 12. the auction to
JJAont.nued the next day in the city of Jltck-
Au e-t mate made of raising and grading
'-retri, Cedar Key, places the amount at
s '. ’“. ovi r half the amount expended
"’vhutliling the dirt road.
r,, -i-tra:ion at the Cedar Key precinct
™t * 1 t"tal of 676 of which 3iO lire whites
|* co . red. This indicates a Democratic
ot re-tween 5j and 75.
ij?* f^ 1 drat ion books for Clay county have
wen cloee,j and when consolidated have been
yOBd to stand as follows: Total number of
aites. To; total number of colored, 214; to-
BUn laT registered, 974; number whites
°ver cot,red, 4-8.
Ti,e Heniivcrataof Florida will turn out in
-'tree at the polls to-morrow, every ballot
- • • :ai to make victory a certainty.
(• KepubUcaas have prepared a large uuui
rr.i , bogus ballots, resorted to
aonuattnn, and will make every effort to
j, - jae Mate by the despicable means which
- ”1. , w ,th the party’s history. The regis
l, . -how. that the State is secure if the
rwG will only go to the polls and vote.
t ,-L Lrnandina on Wednesday there lay at
tllne at the railroad wharf the
'an Antonio, of the New York
!t ' .’L Line; at the Centre street wharf the
, a , l’ ‘ I'. Monticello, of the Charleston and
krtLine; and at the Broome street
i:‘ “ le sleamsbjp Lorenzo D. Baker, of
-. . "7, n an ‘l F.orfiia Line—all of them ves
*. ' carrying capacity, which were
Y • ."-iiii-d with the products of Florida for
- - u rn markets.
i Madison Wednesday a horse ran away
sliju n| achine wagon, tore off the
, j,J2 “ n ’L as be passed around Pope’s corner,
Mr \ ! Wl, h another horse belonging to a
one r V?’ w,l ° live* near Quitman, and ran
Leh V • through the fleshy part of
ii 8 through the lower region of
tije**•* and out on the other side !>elow
.; rl r V -• At last accounts the wounded
*as doing well, and there were hopeful
-cti„ns of his recovery.
7nnA>w Era: Monday night, between
i Ch>tk ’ while Mr. 8. B. Thomas. Jr.,
* r t r7-i.”V* er ® at supper, his barn was dis
m, V.J*® on ® re * ai >d the devouring e!e
--- ~1 J l , bfogreseeil sofarthatitwasim
ofabmTt i or ** contents—consisting
Hii-,i, ‘, y bushels of corn and bis entire
t‘, aJ™ fodder and oats—a loss of about
The ■tw corLln p B> Mr. Thomas’ estimate.
Work nr . can 6* accounted for only as the
Le ei " a i n ln t rfe O'liary. Mr. Thomas seems to
ct ln? ‘ y ““fortunate in the destruction
tire. Only two or three
It iirA ago ,)* e *° Bt b dwelling and its contents
hLr* 8 tb* result of a spark from a
‘“8 tree near by.
Palatka A r i cs: A good joke is told at the ex
pense of our fellow-citizen Mr. Henry Peter
mann. while in Jacksonville Thursday. He
was riding in a carriage near the head of the
grand Perry procession Thursday night, with
Col. I>ancy and other gentlemen, and as the
carnage would pass the crowds of ladies on
t? and in the window®, the genial
old Colonel, noted as much for his gallantry
as for his burning Democracy, would raise
his hat and give a hurrah for Geu. Perry,
causing many to mistake Mr- Petermann for
ne .l l , Governor and so strong was this be
uei that at several places along the
line of the procession he was greeted
w,u ‘ cheers, to which lie re
sponded by gracefully raising his hat. When
the procession came to a stop at the speaker’s
stand, an ardent admirer of Gen. Perry and
who had never seen him, picked his little boy
up in his arms, ru-hed up to the carriage,
grasped Mr. Petermann by the hand, aud
wall tears rolling down hi’s cheek, assured
htm of his undying sunport for the Governor
ship. and wound up hv pushing his little bov
into the carriage and telling “Johnny to kiss
the Governor.’ Mr. l\, seeing no way out of
the s< rape, took the little fellow to his bosom
and gave him a regular smacking. The father
and lioy then left, the happiest mortals in the
State.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Ridge Spring will ship 3,500 bales of eotton
this season.
The sixth annual fair of the Chester, York,
rairfield and Lancaster Agricultural, Mc
eliamcal and Horticultural Association
opened at Chester Tuesday.
At Midway Uiley Smoke, while squirrel
hunting, was killed by the accidental dis
charge of bis gun. The load pierced his heart,
lie was an excellent young man, aged oulv 21
years.
C. G. Dantzler and E. M. Parler, of Or
angeburg, iost their residences and outhouses
aud most of the contents by fire a few days
ago. The losses were respectively $1,500 aud
$2,500. Neither were insured.
At Abbeville Trial Justice Tarrant, charged
with official misconduct in office, was tried oa
three counts in ttie indictment for forcing the
pay of jurors in advance, hiring out prison
et-and refusing to allow the arrest of pris
oners by constables with a warrant. A ver
dict of guilty was returned. The counsel
give notice of a motion for anew trial.
iv Greenville special says: News has been
received here of the arrest’at Gainesville, Ga.,
of Robert Hager, who is well known here, and
whose career lias been a checkered one.
linger came to this city from North Carolina
several years ago and married. His wife,
who is a model of industry and thrift, estab
lished a millinery store, and always prospered
in tier but for a long time she was
kept ill a continual state of fear and anxiety
by l'ager, who was seldom sober, and who
always became insanely jealous and
dangerous when drunk.' He served a
number of terms in jail for assaults on
his wife and for failures to give peace
bonds when required, and at length he sud
denly disappeared, and nobo ly knew whither
he had gone. It was subsequently discovered
that at the time of his marriage in this city
he had a wife living in North Carolina, whom
he had deserted. Ills marriage here was then
annulled, ami Mrs. llagersoon afterwards re
married. A few months ago linger was
beard from at Hartwell, Ga.. where he had
married a respectable aud well-to-do widow,
and, after living with her a short time, fled
with her horse and buggy. Within the past
month he has married and deserted another
woman in Georgia, and committed a burglary,
and it is for the last two crimes that he was
arrested at Gainesville. Four women who
have married Hager are now alive in three
States. In Georgia he w ill doubtless be re
quired to ans vcr for double bigagny, the
burglary, aud the theft of the horse and
buggy, and it is therefore probable that he
will retire front public life permanently.
THE SAINTS.
How They Became Associated with Cer
tain Nations and Trades.
The exaltation of the pious dead to the
privilege of watching over human lives,
says the Sunday Magazine, has been a
very agreeable custom. Whole nations
have been placed in the protecting shadow
of some special saint. St. George, who
transfixed the dragon with his lance, was
highly venerated In the East. When
ltichard 1. marched out his columns ol
crusaders, the King named St. George as
their patron saint, and from that day to
this, if Protestant England have a na
tional saint, it is St. George. It would
not le popular, at any rate, to formally
uncanonize the brave Eastern hero. With
Ireland, we associate St. Patrick; Wales,
>t. David; Scotland, St. Andrew; France,
>t. Denis, anti also St. Michael; Spain.
St. James; Italy, St. Anthony; Portugal,
st. Sebastian. Some countries have had
a s>. ntomania, Russia and Germany
claiming several, St. Nicholas being
one item in Russia's pci
session of sacred personages, anti St. Mar
tin in that of Germany. Cities have been
inflamed with this saint lever, Venice
claiming St. Mark; Vienna, St. Stephen;
Lisbon, St. Vincent; Paris, St. Genevieve;
Edinburgh, St. Giles; Rome, St. Peter and
St. Paul. Cologne showed a very grasp
ing spirit, appropriating to itself “The
I hire Kings,” St. Ursula, and her mar
velous troop of 3,000 virgins. But why
should not the trades and occupations of
men, the arts and the professions, lie rep
resented in the bright circle of saints?
The centuries found no objection, so that
shoemakers were allowed" to look to St.
Crispin; fish-dealers, to St. Peter; schol
ars, to M. Gregory and St. Catherine: mu
sicians, to St. Cecilia; pilgrims, to St. Ju
lian; painters, to St. Luke; the theolo
gians, to St. Thomas. Wo can certainly
see in lhe reputed lives of some of
the saints a fitness for the office
to which, without consultation,
they had been elected. There
was St. Cecilia, who was the author of
hymns which she sang so sweetly that the
angels flew down to hear her. Naturally,
the musicians gave her their suffrages.
St. Crispin and a brother saint, going to
France to preach, were furnished leather
by the angels, and so could make shoes
for their support in this preaching tour.
What wonder at their supposed sympathy
with all knights of the lapstone? St. Se
basti u, that brave martyr, was riddled
with arrows, and this was believed not
only to interest hint in archers, but pin
makers. Si. Nicholas, to whom the sail
ors turned their thoughts in a storm, is
said to have brought to life a drowned
sailor while he was on a voyage to Pales
tine, and also by bis prayers to have saved
the lives of all the crew in the ship which
a storm threatened to wreck. St.
Florian is one of Austria's patron
saints. Among the marvels attribu
ted to him was the extinction of a serious
conflagration with a pitcher of water.
In Austria and Bohemia, St. Florian is
the sillject of mauy representations. He
is a popular figure for the decorations of
fountains and pumps. St. Agatha is cred
ited with this message to a persecutor:
“If thou shouldst kindle a fire to consume
me. the angels would quench it with their
dews from heaven.” She was thrown into
flames, but subsequently removed to
prison, dying there after much agony. It
is easy to understand, then, v. hy St. Florian
and St. Agatha should appear as fire-sa
viors in these lines of an old poem:
St. Agatha defends the house from fire and
fearful llante,
But when it burns, in armor all doth FTorian
quench the same.
He Paid the Mortgage.
Courier- Journal .
“ Did 1 ever tell you how I paid the
mortgage on the old gent’s farm ? ” asked
the champion.
“ Never,” said we.
“ Well, I was fishing in the creek one
cold day last winter, when I hooked on to
what I thought was a whale, but what
proved to be an enormous bass, that
weighed on the ice 350 lbs., and clinging
to his tail was a smelt that weighed ten
pounds.' 1 sent both immediately to the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington,
and received in return a check for $2,000
and a request to catch more if possible.”
“ The bass was all right enough, per
haps, but how do you account for the ten
pound smelt clinging to the bass’tail?”
“ Oh, if the bass was to go on exhibition
he wanted to go too,” replied the cham
pion.
A Fast Age-
Wheeling Register.
“Come here, Lucy,” said an Austin
farmer to his 11-year-old daughter, who
was champing a gum drop, and rockiug
her doll to sleep; “come hither, girl.”
She came. “I’ve a notion to box your
ears for talking to Tom Jones over the
gate. AVhat do you mean by flirting with
the boys?” “Pa, we were not flirting.
Bye O baby! Now you go to sleep, dolly,
like a good iittle girl. No, father, ours is
no frivolous flirtation.” “1 suppose,”
said the father, giggling at the idea, “you
are engaged.” “No, we are not engaged;
but. pa, you might aid us m carrying out
the desire of our young hearts. It would
make us so happy.” “AVant to get mar
ried, do you ?” “Oh, no, we were married
two months ago. A divorce jp what we
are after now.”
A Watch Fit for a Klug.
Kalakaua, King of the Sandwich Isl
ands, has ordered a massive gold chrono
graph of elegant design and elaborate
finish, with stop-attachment and three
dials, giving the time of day, recording
the minutes, seconds and fractions of
seconds. The machinery of such a watch
is complicated, yet not as much as that
of the human system. Take your watch
to the watchmaker when it is out of re
pair; but restore the debilitated system
with Brown’s Iron Bitters, the never fail
ing remedy which cures dyspepsia, indi
gestion, weakness, etc.
BOTH SIDES CONFIDENT.
THE DRIFT OF OPINION IN
CLEVELAND’S FAVOR.
New York Considered Certain for the
Reform Governor aud the General Re
sult Generally Expected to be in His
Favor—The Republicans Reiving on
Money in New Jersey and Indiana.
New York, Nov. 2.—lt is difficult for
one who wants to he perfectly fair and
impartial to reach a satisfacrory con
clusion with respect to the probable
result of the electiou on Tuesday. In one
locality one hears the most positive
expressions of opinion favorable to Blaine,
aud so many reasons are advanced why
Blaine is certain to win that it is almost
impossible to doubt. In another locality
the sentiment will be found to be wholly
in favor of Cleveland, and the reasons for
his success appear to be as strong, if not
not stronger, than those advanced for
Blaine. At the end of a day’s canvassing
public sentiment, however, and after a
visit to the leading hotels and the head
quarters of the National and State Com
mittees, the impression is apt to be that
Cleveland will carry New l'ork by a good
large majority, and that the general
result is clouded in doubt, with the
chances rather in favor of Cleveland.
THERE IS THE UTMOST CONFIDENCE
expressed at the Republican headquar
ters in Blaine’s prospects. It is not pos
sible to bear an expression of doubt there.
Among the most intelligent Republicans
the same confidence is shown. They not
only claim New Y'ork, but every other
Northern State, and insist that thev will
carry two Southern States. It is'taken
for granted that they mean Florida and
North Carolina. The boldest of them are
offering to bet even on New Y'ork, and to
give odds on the general result. Thev are
not taking any even bets on New \-ork,
however. They could get all of that kind
that they want. In fact, they can get two
to one on New York. It is thought that
the confidence in Blaine’s success among
his supporters js based upon the belief
that the Republican managers have,
enough money to carry all the Northern
States except New York. It is asserted
that William Walter Phelps in
tends to put $500,000 in New
Jersey, and it is thought that
this sum will give the electoral vote of
that State to Blaine. It is certain that
very large sums have been sent to Indi
ana and Connecticut, and that the money
has been placed in the bands of those who
know how to spend it to the best advant
age. In other words, the campaign has
come to the point where the Republican
managers rely on money to accomplish
what they have failed to accomplish by
speeches, documents and by slandering
Cleveland. The fat and wily Elkins
wears a smiling face, and insists that
there has never been any doubt about the
result since the opening of the campaign;
but, of course, nobody knows what his
real sentiments are. It is his business to
appear satisfied and confident whether he
is or not.
There is no doubt that the remark of
the Ite v. Burchard, charging that the an
tecedents of the Democratic party were
“rum. Romanism and rebellion,” lias
done Blaine harm. The Republican man
agers feel that it lias, and they have been
exerting themselves to the utmost, and in
ways that have not appeared in print, to
counteract its effect.
THE DEMOCRATIC MANAGERS
have done an amount of work in this
State that is surprising. A poll of the
entire State has been made and there
isn’t a shadow of a doubt in the minds of
the best informed Democrats, and iu the
minds of the leading Independent Repub
licans, that Cleveland will carry New
York by a plurality of between 35,000 and
55,000. In fact they don’t admit any
discussion respecting Cleveland’s chances
in New Y’ork. The doubt, if they have
any, and of course they don’t admit that
they have, is about other States. They
must have 12 votes more, assuming, of
course, that there is no question about
the 153 electoral votes of the South
and New Y'ork’s 36 votes. Thev know
they ought to have New Jersey because
there is a Democratic majority there, and
Connecticut, because that State is also
Democratic on a fair vote, but they do
not know to what extent money will be
used, and to what extent money can be
marie to ehange the situation. There is
plenty of purchasable material in both
States, and it is known that the Repub
licans have plenty of money. In fact it
is reliably asserted that the rich men at
the Delmonico dinner last Wednesday
raised without a murmur SIOO,OOO. The
Democrats haven’t any money. There is
no use denying the fact that their treasury
is practically empty. They are entirely
hopeful, however, of getting both New
Jersey and Connecticut.
IN THE XVEST THEY COUNT ON INDIANA
almost as confidently as they do New
York. Recent information received from
that State is to the effect that the total
registration is 404.650, and that there are
30,000 voters whose preferences are un
known. Of those whose preferences are
known Cleveland lias a plurality ot be
tween 6,000 and 7,000. There has been un
precedented interest in the canvass, owing
largely to the fact that Hendricks is a
citizen of that State. He is wonderfully
popular, and it is believed that State pride
will contribute a great deal to Democratic
success. Hendricks says to the National
Committee that the State is Democratic,
and that he hasn’t any apprehension at
all about the result there. The South,
with New Y'ork and Indiana, would give
the Democrats all the electoral votes they
need.
Of course, there is some talk that the
Democrats have a prospect of carrying
Wisconsin, Nevada and California, but
not much reliability is placed on it.
There is just a speck of apprehension
growing out of local political complica
tions in this city. In some quarters it is
insisted that Tammany has sold out to
the Republicans and that Blaine will get
a tig Tammany vote. In view of the
prominent part that John Kelly and other
Tammany leaders have taken iu the cam
paign, and the conspicuous part, that
Tammany played in the great parade last
night, it doesn’t seem either probable nr
possible that Tammany doesn’t intend to
stand true to Cleveland.
The betting is almost two to one that
Cleveland will carry New Y'ork, but it is
rather in favor of "Blaine on the general
result.
A DRUNKEN MAN’S CRIME.
The Author of the Fatal Cry of Fire in
the Glasgow Theatre Arrested.
Glasgow, Nov. 2.—The man whose cry
of “fire” caused the panic in the Star
Theatre last evening has been arrested.
He was drunk when he raised the false
alarm. Persons who were in the theatre
at the time describe the scene on the stair
case as terrible. The steps were strewn
with ribbons, hats, saeques and shawls.
The victims were first suffocated and
then tramped to death. The
panic lasted about fifteen minutes. It is
a noteworthy fact that the authorities had
disapproved the means of exit, and it was
contemplated to construct additional
exits. The scenes witnessed when the
relatives identified the dead were most
afl’ecting. AmoDg the victims were eight
females.
Bulldozing In Chicago.
Chicago. Nov. 2.— The Federal authori
ties last night arrested John Stearns,
brother-in-law of Mayor Harrison, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, AV.
J. Clingen, Clerk of the South Side Police
Court, and Frank A. Owens, on a charge
of aiding ana abetting false registration.
The officials decline to make any public
statement, except, in a general way, that
tbetr evidence is direet and absolute. A
detective named Douglass, who is sup
posed to have collected evidence against
these and other persons, was arrested by
the citr police on some general charges,
but was released on bail. The three per
sons arrested bv the United States of
ficials were tak£n before the Commis
sioner, and their bail was fixed at $3,000
each.
The New Iberia Affair.
New Orleans, Nov. 2.—lnformation
from Republican sources gives a different
coloring to the affairs which occurred at
Loreauville yesterday. A Blaine, Logan
and Kellogg meeting was being held
there, which, it is alleged, was broken up
by armed IXemoerats, who fired at the
speakers and into the assembled Republi
cans. Eight men were killed and
wounded. All the Republican speakers
were arrested by the local militia and
committed to jail without authority of
the law. Intense excitement prevails in
the parish.
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SAVANNAH, AIONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1884.
CINCINNATI APPREHENSIVE.
Extra Police Asked For to Offset the
Horde of Deputy Marshals.
Cincinnati, Nov. 2—At a special meet
ing of the Board of Police Commissioners
last night to consider petitions signed by
a number of reputable citizens asking
that the police force be increased
to preserve order ou election day,
a resolution was adopted instruct
ing the Vice President of the board
to appoint a special force, not to
exceed 600 men, to be used as he may
direct. This action grows out of an ap
prehension that there will be trouble on
election day in consequence of the ap
pointment of Deputy United States Mar
shals, and the alleged intention of an
attempt to force the election judges to
receive ballots for Presidential electors
of men whose names have been stricken
from the registration lists by the Board
of Revision.
AT THE STATE CAPITAL.
An Unknown Negro Killed by a Train—
The Legislative Vanguard.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 2. —This morning
the mangled remains of an unknown
negro man were found ou the Decatur
street crossing of the Air Line Railroad.
His head was split open and both legs
broken. The negro, it is believed, wss
killed by a passenger train while it was
being backed from the yards to the depot.
All day the body has been on inspection,
but up to a late hour to-night the name of
the deceased was still unknown.
Many candidates for the various offices
to be filled by the Legislature have ar
rived. Legislative material to work upon
is scarce, as only a dozen or so are here.
Charles Balocchi, the well-known fruit
dealer ot this city, died to-night at St.
Joseph’s Hospital. The deceased was a
member oi the Odd Fellows and Knights
of Honor, and by them will be buried to
morrow 7 .
CUPID CONQUERS.
The Rich and Racy Romance of a Ite
cent Louisville Wedding.
At 3:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon Mr,
T. G. Hewlett, of Huntsville, Ala., and
Miss Sallie A. Ragsdale, of Meridian,
Miss., says the Louisville Courier-Journal
of Thursday, were quietly married at the
parsonage of the Methodist Church at 768
Fifth street, by the Rev. Henry C. Settle.
The ceremony was strictly private, the
only witness being the mother of the
bride and Mr. Clifford, a friend of the
tnniily. When the nuptial knot had been
properly tied the party re-entered the
hack which had taken them there and re
turned to the Broadway Hotel, where they
had been staying since last Sunday morn
ing. This ceremony terminated one of
the most singular romances ever encoun
tered outside the pages of a novel. The
story, as gleaned from Mr. Hewlett, his
bride, her mother and Air. Clifford of the
Broadway Hotel, who has known the
Ragsdale family for many years, is as fol
lows:
The groom is a young man of excellent
social standing, and holds a position as
special agent of the New Ot leans and
Texas Pacific Railway, which position re
quires him to travel a great deal. Some
thing more than a year ago he visited
Meridian aud stopped at the principal ho
tel of the place, which is owned and ope
rated by Mr. L. A. Ragsdale, who is also
a wealthy and leading citizen of that
place. Mr. Hewlett became acquainted
with Mr. Ragsdale’s family, which con
sisted of his w T ife, son and a very pretty
daughter, who although but fifteen years
old was developed far beyond her age. A
friendship sprang up between the young
people, which soon ripened into love, but
Mr. Ragsdale objected to the match on
the score of his daughter’s youth, and af
ter a frank discussion it was agreed that
they should at least wait until the young
lady had completed her education.
Mr. Hewlett was called away from Me
ridian on business, but returned before
the father had completed arrangements
to send bis daughter to a boarding school
at Staunton, Va. The young people
thought that a long separation would be
MORE THAN THEY COULD SURVIVE,
so they made arrangements for a secret
meeting, to occur after she was sent to
Staunton. Before Miss Ragsdale was
ready to start, Mr, Hewlett was again
called to New Orleans on business, and
Mrs. Ragsdale went to Hot Springs, Ark.,
to be treated for rheumatism. Air. Hew
lett wrote to his sweetheart after his ar
rival in New Orleans, and received a re
ply stating that her lather would take
her to the school in Staunton in a few
days, and that when Hewlett earae to
visit her he must pass himself off as her
uncle in order that he would be permitted
to see her. Air. Hewlett replied, but
waited in vain for an answer, and finally
becoming alarmed he wrote to a friend in
Meridian inquiring what had become of
Miss Ragsdale. Tee reply was that fath
er and daughter had left Meridian for
Staunton, but that the girl’s brother had
intercepted one of Air. Hewlett’s letters
after their departure, in which the agree
ment to meet clandestinely at the school
was mentioned, that he had telegraphed
his discovery to his father, and that Mr.
Ragsdale had returned alone atter a
week’s absence.
Acting on that information Air. Hewlett
wrote to Aliss Ragsdale at Staunton, blit
failing to get a reply ascertained by iu
quiry from the faculty that she was not
there. He again wrote to his friend, and
after some delay the latter informed hint
that he had seen a letter from Oxford, 0.,
addressed to Mr. Ragsdale, and bearing
the business card of Dr. Aloss, the super
intendent of a private insane asylum in
that place.
The distracted lover did not know what
course to pursue at first, and consumed
valuable time in ascertaining positively
,the whereabouts of his missing sweet
heart, and also in discovering where her
mother had gone. He finally verified his
suspicions by means of an intercepted
letter from the Insane asylum, and about
the same time heard that Airs. Ragsdale
was in Hot Springs. He at once tele
graphed to the mother, who hurried to
Oxford and managed to
ABDUCT HER DAUGHTER FROM Tift:
ASYLUM
and got her to Cincinnati, where Mr.
Hewlett had arranged to meet them. But
unfortunately, Dr. Moss ascertained the
whereabouts of the mothei and daughter,
and getting possession of Miss Ragsdale,
carried her hack to the asylum despite
her protests,even threatening to have Mrs.
Ragsdale incarcerated also.
As soon as Mr. Hewlett arrived in Cin
cinnati able lawyers were employed, and
Miss Hewlett was released on a writ of
bab3as| corpus Mr. Ragsdale and several
acquaintances of the family were sum
moned as witnesses, and, before a jury ol
lunatico de inquirendo , it was clearly
proved that the young lady’s mind was
perfectly sane.
The affair created a great local sensa
tion at Oxford, and resulted in an order
being issued that the insane commission
ers should visit all private asylums four
times a year, for the purpose of investi
gation, without warning the superinten
dents of their intentions. Mr. Ragsdale
admitted that he did not believe his daugh
ter insane, but would give no reason for
incarcerating her in the asylum. The
same court of Inquiry gave the custody
of Miss Ragsdale to her mother, declar
ing that Mr. Ragsdale was not a tit per
son to have charge of her. The father
finally consented to the marriage of Mr.
Hewlett and his daughter, but declined
to be present at theceremony, and after the
trial went to New York to attend to some
business, while the mother, daughter and
Mr. Hewlett came to this city, where they
determined to have the marriage occur.
It is said that the joint property of Mr.
and Mrs. Ragsdale amounts to about
$750,000. Mrs. Ragsdale told a reporter
last evening that she thought her husband
had behaved as he did in order to force
her to accede to a proposition of bis con
cerning the disposal of some ot her pro
perty. She said, moreover, that her
husband had been an excellent business
manager, but that he had a stroke of
paralysis about six years ago. and that at
times he had acted very strangely.
The bridal party will remain in this city
about two weeks, and w ill then go to the
home of the groom in Huntsville, Ala.
Curtin to Have a Walk-liver.
Philadelphia, Nov. 2.—Messrs. An
drew G. Curtin and J. H. P. Hall, the con
testing Democratic Congressional candi
dates from the Twentieth district of this
State, having submitted to Chairman
Hensel, of the Democratic State Commit
tee, the question as to which would best
serve the inte v ests of the party as its can
didate, Mr. Hensel has decided in favor of
Mr. Curtin. Mr. Hall will accordingly
withdraw from the contest.
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MOBILITY IN POLITICS.
DR. TALMAGE TALKS OF THE
FOUR CANDIDATES.
Partisan Pen Pictures Declared Unre
liable and Generally Wide of the
Truth—The Three Leading Candidates
Each Bombarded With a Command
ment by Men Who Break All.
Brooklyn, Nov. 2.—Among the great
throngs in the Brooklyn Tabernacle are
noticeable many theological students who
come from the seminaries around New
Y’ork, and also a large number of clergy
men of all denominations may be seen in
the audience. To get some idea of the
wide attention this pulpit is attracting,
even across the water, it need only be no
ticed that Air. Spurgeon, of England,
writing to this country, says: “Air. Tal
mage’s discourses lay hold of my inmost
soul. Tie Lord is with this mighty man
of valor. So may he ever be till the cam
paign closes with victory. lam indeed
glad of his voice. It cheers me intensely.
He loves the Gospel and believes in some
thing which some preachers hardly do.
There are those about who use the old
labels, but the articles are not the same.
Alay the Lord win armies of soul 9 to Jesus
by this man. lam astoni-hed when God
blesses me, but somehow I should not be
so much surprised if He blessed this
man.” The opening hymn to-day was:
“Am Ia soldier of the cross,
A follower of the iamb:
And shall I fear to own his cause,
Or blush to speak his name?”
Before the sermon to-day Dr. Talmage
read and expounded the ten command
ments. The subject of bis discourse was:
“Should the moral character of candi
dates for office be taken into considera
tion by voters?” Dr. Talmage announced
bis text as “Exodus, the 28th chapter aud
the first 17 verses; namely, the “Ten
Commandments.” He said:
Earthquake and lightning put their forces
together to rock a mountain of Arabia, Pe
tnua, and the traveler to-day finds a heap of
broken porphyry and greenstone rocks, bould
ers against boulders, the ruins of the first law
Horary—not written on parchment or papy
rus, but on shattered slabs of granite. The
corner stones of all morality, of all wise law,
of all righteous jurisprudence, of ad good
government, are the two tables of stone ou
which the ten commandments were written.
All Roman law, all English law, all French
law, all American law worth anything, civil
law, criminal law 7 , common law, martial law,
and law of nations, were rocked in the cradle
ot the twentieth chapter of Exodus. It would
be well if at this time all the newspapers of
the land would at some time publish this
chapter in place of one of their editorials.
Some of its passages have evidently been for
gotten; they are all equally in force. You
have no right to say which is the more impor
tant. They are the pillars upon which the
temple of society rests. Strike down any one
and you damage the wholes true lure. 1 notice
that men are very apt to become incarnate
Sinais and thunder especially against the sdi
to which they are not especially tempted.
They take one gun out of the batterv of ten
guns and unlimber that, and loud that, and
fire that.
To-day I shall, in continuance of the series
of sermons on national affairs and within two
days of the Presidential election, try the four
candidates for the Chief Magistracy. This
decalogue prohibits idolatry, image-making
and profanity and Sabbath’desecration and
irreverence of parents and murder and incon
tinence and theft and lying and covetousness.
That is the standard by which all candidates,
national. State and city, must be tried. We
must not expect perfection. If we don’t vote
until we find-the immaculate nominee we
would never vote a all. Ourselves far from
perfect, we must not he censorious or mal
edictory or hypercritical of others. The
Christly rule is as appropriate for November
as for any month of the year, and for every
fourth year as for the preceding three years’.
“Judge not that ye be not judged.”
Neither am I to take that which opposing
red-hot partisanship shall say of a man as
his true character. From nearly all the great
cities of this continent 1 receive daily or
weekly papers, sent me regularly or iu com
pliment, so 1 see both sides of everything. It
is interesting to sec the opposites of a man
stated. The one makes him an angel and the
other a demon. Then I split the difference
and find that he is half way between. There
never has been a respectable or honest man
that ran for the Presidency since the founda
tion of this government, if I am to believe the
old files of newspapers in museums. What a
great mercy that they were not all hung be
fore inauguration day! If a man should be
lieve one-half he saw in the newspapers, his
career would be short outside of Blooming
dale Asylum. “That procession last week in
New York was 5,000, says one puper. “It
was 17,100,” says another. “The orator at the
Rink or the Academy of Music received a
very cool reception,” says one paper. “The
audience rose at him as one man.” savs the
other, “and it was only after he had lifted his
hand to quiet the multitude that the vocifera
tion subsided.” One paper twists a letter one
way and another paper twists it another way.
You must admit that at such a time it is dif
ficult to estimate which of the candidates
comes the nearer to keeping the ten com
mandments. I charge you to caution and
mercifulness in your judgments.
Bo careful alto not to make the mistake
which many do make in thinking that men in
high position are to he judged py a different
standard from tnat which they apply to ordi
nary mortals. Men in high place or with
large means have no more liberty given them
in the interpretation of the ten command
ments than those in place inconspicuous. Sin
ners on a large scale are no more to he ex
cused than Aiuucrs on a small seale. I)o not
c 11 such illustrious defection eccentricity, or
chop off anything of these ten commandments
to suit especial cases. The right is everlast
ingly right, and the wrong is everlast
ingly wrong. If men differ from the deca
logue of my text, do not fix up the decalogue
hut fix them up.
Remember also that if a man breaks one or
two of the ten commandments he will find it
easy to break them all. Sin of any kind
weakens the conscience, and the conscience
weakened, the door is open for transgression
of all sorts. If, for in-tance. a man he pro
fane, he is not trustworthy; for if he mal
treats the Almighty do you think he would,
if tempted, decline maltreating his fellow?
After a tnau has been guilty of malfeasance
in office you cannot trust’liis word in any
thing. A man that will steal will lie, and vice
versa. If a man is unchaste he will do anv
crime under proper provocation. In such
unchastity he commits theft of the worst sort,
and is guilty of covetuousness of the basest
style, and is chargeable with falsehood be
cause he pretends to be decent when he is not,
ami he fractures the law against dishonoring
parents, because he disgraces their name, if
they were good. Becarefuihow you chaive
such a sin against any man, whether candi
date for office or not, for in so doing you
charge that man with all vileness, with*all
disgusting propensities, with all rottenness.
A libertine is a beast lower than the vermin
lhat crawls on a summer carcass, and lower
than the swine, for the swine have no intelli
gence to sin against. Be careful how you
charge such dishonor on any man, either in
office or out of office. Be so careful of it that
a mathematical demonstratiou would be
doubtful compared to it.
Moreover, if you know of any man who has
thus fallen, inquire diligently and prayerfully
if he has not r. peuted. Perhaps he may have
been down on his knees befere God, crying
for mercy, although if a man of 3berepre
hcn-ible for such sin there is not more than
one chance in a thousand if lie ever reforms.
Y’et the case you are investigating may be
thht glorious one. To meet anv especial
case enlarge your forgiveness, but don’t shave
off the seventh commandment. Let that
stand as the everlasting defense, ot society.
Do not change Fairbanks’ scale to suit what
you are going to weigh with it. Do you join
in ttie cry that I have seen in some news
pipers that there is no such thing as puritv ?
Then you are a foul-mouthed scandalizer of
the human race. You are yourself a leper.
Make room for that leper. When a man ut
ters such a sentiment as that, cither with
tongue or pen, I know he is a walking lazar
etto, and know that he is a reeking ulcer, and
that he is fit for no society better than that of
devils damned. There is such a thing as pur
ity. and ten thousand times ten thousand are
is disciples who are the upholders of family
and church and nation.
1 es; if a man breaks one commandment ic
makes it easy for him to break them all. Do
you notice lhat when one of those Wall-street
defrauders or one of those bank embezzlers is
brought to justice it turns out in the trial that
he had loose companions, and gambled, and
went to places where he ought not? Sins go
iu llocks.and herds and droves. Admit one and
you will be apt to admit all the miserable seg
regation. Noted by the papers that manv of the
campaign orators, bombarding the suffering
candidates in their speeches, think nothing of
riding from place to place sll sabbath day, or
sit, as they probably are doing now, in
a political headquarters calculating the
election probabilities. During all the
week they nave been hurling the
eighth commandment at Mr. Blaine, and
the seventh commandment at Air. Cleveland,
and the ninth commandment at Mr. St. John!
But what are they doing with the fourth
commandment—“ Remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy?” They are breaking it. Is
not the fourth commandment as good as the
seventli or eighth or ninth? All the week de
nouncing candidates for misbehavior, while
some of these campaign orators profane the
name of God, tossing it irreverently from
their lips. And what are they doing with the
third commandment—“Thou’ shalt not take
the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the
Lord wilt not hold him guiltless that taketh
His name in vain?” Is not the third com
mandment as important as the other seven 11
Ave, this decalngne is my authority for
saying that the man who swears or breaks the
Sabbath is as reprehensible as any of the
candidates now nominated if they should be
found guilty of the offenses charged. What
right have we to go through the ten com
mandments and make our selection as to
which we shall keep ana which wo shall
break? Better not experiment with the
divine ammunition. Better not handle the
thunderbolts of God to see which has the least
blaze and the least momentum. Better not
meddle with the guns and say this is a
Dahlgren and this a three-inch mortar and
that an Armstrong and this a Krupp and this
a Whitworth aiuT this a Nordenfeldt five
arreled gun and this is a Gatling ten-bar
reled gun, this is a Martigny thirty-seven
barreled gun and this is a Parrott. They are all
of the same calibre and of the same make,
and they shoot from eternity to eternity.
Cicero says he saw the Iliad written on a nnt
shell, and I have seen the Lora’s prayer on a
5-cent piece anil the attempt is to wrirc the
decalogue so small that if cannot be seen at
all. I protest against the frequent attempt
to revi-e the decalogue given from .Mount
Siniai's arid blast of trumpets and the crack
ing of tlie porphvrv rocks and the paroxysm
of the mountains of Arabia Petra>a.
Stand up Mr. Blaine, and Mr. Cleveland
and Mr. St. John, and let us measure you by
the first seventeen verses of Exodus, the
twentieth. Of course they, like all the rest of
us, will be found Imperfect by that rule. But
the one who comes the nearest to the moral
accuracy of the decalogue is the one 1 shall
vote for and the one you vote for if you re
gard God more than your party. Herodotus
tells us that Nitocris, the daughter of Ne
buchadnezzar, was so fond of the beautiful
village of Arderlcca lhat she had the river
above Babylon changed into a winding course,
curving tms way and that, so that sailing on
it for three days one must come three times
in sight of the exquisite villace. And Ido
not care which way you sail if you sail all the
time in sight of this group of divine com
mands, a little angular they may seem to
yon. but sailing thus you will never get
aground and you will never shipwreck.
The w 7 orst army on earth to fight is the ten
regiments that, with sabres and bayonets of
fire, march down the side of Mount Sinai.
They always get the victory, and go down
their enemies must. Wliat was the matter
with that young man of whom I read, dying
in his dissipation? Nothing, except that he
was worsted of the decalogue. In his last
delirium he cried out: “Now 7 for the dice!
That is mine! No; all, all is gone! More wine,
more wine! Oh, how they rattle! Fiends,
fiends assail me! I say you cheat! The cards
are marked! Now the chains rattle! O
death! O death!” Ladies and gentlemen,
don’t attempt at anytime to revise and re
model the ten commandments.
And I charge you to use your influence, in
society and at the polls, for such as come the
nearest to that God-lifted standard. At
family prayers next Tuesday morning read
the twentieth chapter of Exodus. The moral
or immoral character of your next President
will add 75 per cent, or subtract 75 per cent,
from the moral welfare of this nation. You
and 1 cannot afford to have a bad President.
The young nun of this nation cannot afford
It, and the homes of America cannot afford it.
The commercial, the agricultural, the liter
ary, the laboring, the religious interests of
our country cannot afford it. If you cannot
find a candidate who, in your estimate, comes
within reasonable distance of obeying the
decalogue, stay at home and vote not at all.
When the election times came in Sodom, and
there were four candidates for Mayor, and
Lot did not believe in any of them, he did not
register at all. Politics in Babylon were in
such a desperate state that Daniel stayed
home all election day and prayed with his
face towards Jerusalem. But wo are not
shut up to such an exigency, I am glad to say.
That tlie moral character of rulers affects
the ruled I prove from all history. Wicked
King Manasseh lowered the moral tone of all
the kingdom of Judah and established idola
try. Good K>ng .Josiajt lifted the whole na
tion by his excellent example. What helps
to make the English nation higher in the pre
sent reign than in all its predecessors? The
fact that at the head of it is the best sovereign
of Europe, the attempt at scandaliz ng her
name always a conspicuous failure. The po
litical power of Talleyrand brooded into life
the tricksters of tlie last 90 years. The Vice
Presidency of dishonest Aaron Burr w 7 as so
baleful that nearly all the important letters
in the post office in this time were in cypher
because the United States mails could not be
trusted. March out, ye court circles of Louis
XV. and Henry VIII., followed by the de
bauched nations that you led into sin. The
malaria ot swamps rises from low lands to
the heights, but moral malaria settles from
the heights to the plains. The higher you
elevate an unrighteous man, the worse Ins
power for evil. The greatest of fabulists
tells us that the pigeons were in mortal
dread of a kite, but kept hiding from it day
by day. But one day the kite said: “Why do
you live thus in fear from day to day? Make
me your king and I will protect you from all
evil.” The pigeons called him to the throne.
Then the kite had for his regular fare a pigeon
a day. One of them while waiting for his fate
said: “It served us right.”
But suppose you put in the Presidential chair
vine of any sort, you simply sav to the young
men of America: “Don’tyousee?Thetencom
mandments do not mean as much as they used
to. Honesty is not the best policy. Immoral
ity pays, liuzzali for tiie powers of darkness
in the ascendancy!” What we need most is
to publish a campaign document and scatter
it through all the States, a well printed copy
of thesinaitic decalogue. It was a terrible
waste when the old Alexandrian library was
destroyed, and the books were used as fuel to
heat 4,000 baths for the citizens of Alexandria.
That was a very expensive heat. But with
out any harm to tiie decalogue itself it might
be made to heat 40,000 baths for the moral
purification of the American people.
The nation needs a tonic, a powerful tonic,
a corrective, a mighty corrective, and Moses
in the text, with steady hand, notwithstand
ing the jarring of the mountains and the
blazing of the air. and the awful orchestra of
the tempest, pours out the ten drops, no more
and no less, which this American nation need
immediately to take for its moral convales
cence. But lam not the man to leave vou in
the discouragement that might come from the
reading of the ten commandments, because we
have nil offended and we have all done wrong
and been wrong. There is another mountain
in sight, and u hen f-inai thunders the other
mountain answers in thunder, anil if the light
ning of the one writes doom, the lightning of
the other writes mercy. Only in one way can
the guns of the decalogue be spiked, and that
is by the spikes of the cross; only one rock
that can stop the boulders of Sinai from quak
ing, and that is the Bock of Ages.
Higher than Sinai is Calvary. I know that
one peak of Sinai, according to the English
survey expedition, is 7,000 feet high and an
other i ieak 8.000 feet and another 9.000, and
that Mount Cnlvary, according to modern ex
plorers, is only a slight rising knoll outside
the wall of Jerusalem. But in moral power
it overtops and overshadows all the mountains
of the hemispheres, and Himalayas and
Mount Blancs and Mount Washingtons and
Sinais are hillocks compared with it. As
fortress sometimes silences fortress, Moultries
dismantling Sumters, so I set against .Sinai,
the mountain of the law, the mightier moun
tain of the cross. “The soul that sinneth it
shall die!” booms the one, till the earth jars
under the cannonade. “Save them from go
ing down to the pit, for I have found a ran
som!” peals forth the other, and earth and
heaven and hell tremble under the reverbera
tion. Moses, who commands the one, sur
renders to Jesus, who commands the other.
“Once by the law our hopes were slain,
But now in Cnrist they live again.”
Aristotle says that once when Mount Ktna
erupted and torrcnt9 of scoria; came upon the
villagcsjat its base, the flames parted so that
they made a lane of safety for those who went
to rescue their aged parents from the destruc
tion of the overflowing mountain. So this
flaming volcanic sinai of the text parts its
fury to let pass into eternal safety those
whom Christ has come to rescue
from the red ruin that bounded them on
both sides. As 1 stand this moment half way
between the mountain of the 20th of Exodus
and the mountain of the 19th of John, my
terror subsides in a supernatural calm, be
cause the uproar of the Sinaitic peak is mod
erating. and subsiding, and quieting, until it
conies to so deep a silence that I can hear the
other mountain sneak. Yea, 1 can hear it
whisper as it softly says: “The blood, the
blood, the blood cleanseth from all sin.”
That up-turned mountain of the text,
writers tell us, has several wadys or water
courses, Alevatt and Ajelali, emptying into
Feiran. but they are not navigable. You can
not put a boat of human construction into
those rocky streams. But the boat of gospel
rescue can sail anywhere, and it comes right
np amid these water-courses of Sinaitic
threat, and doom, and offers to take you off
and out and from under the shadows into the
sunshine and to the land of peace.
Oh, if you could see that boat of rescue coca
ing you would feel as John Gilmore, in his
book “Storm Warriors,” says a ship’s crew
felt when they were being beaten to pieces on
the Keritish Knock sands ofl' the coast of Eng
land. And they had all given up to die. for
every minute took away some of their plank
from the wreck. But at last they saw a
Ramsgate lifeboat coming through the break
ers straight for them, and they cried: “Can
it be so! It is! It is! It is! Thank God, it
is!” And a Jack tar, speaking of that boat
afterwards, said: “Oh, my lads, what a beau
ty she looked! What a beauty she looked
coming over those seas!” May God take us
all ofl' the miserable wreck of our sin into the
beautiful escape of the Gospel.
The German Elections.
Berlin, Nov. 2.—The elections for
members of the Reichstag resulted as fol
lows: Conservatives 69, Centres 97, Im
perials 24. Nationals 35, German Liberals
31, Poles 16, Yolk’s Partei 2, Alsatians 14,
Guelphs 5, Socialists 10, including Lieb
knecht. Ninety-seven second bal
lots will be necessary. The Socialist
committees have ordered their supporters
to vote in the second ballotage against
candidates who refuse to oppose the re
enacting of Socialist laws and the levying
of fresh taxes. This order is specially
aimed at the Conservatives.
Stabbed to Death on a Bridge.
New Orleans, Nov. 2.—Edward Gard
ner, master mechanic of the Canal Street
Railroad, was stabbed to death this morn
ing by John E. Duffy. About nine months
ago Gardner discharged Duffy, who was
his fireman, and the latter became em
bittered against Gardner. This morning
Duffv sent Gardner a note to meet him on
Broad street bridge, near the railroad
shops. Gardner went there armed, but
laid his pistol down, when Duffv drew a
butcher knife and stabbed him ’to death.
The murderer was arrested. He claims
that he acted in self-defense.
Squeezer Clapp's Record.
Washington, Nov. 2.—The venerable
Squeezer Clapp is a member of the order
known as the American Union, a secret
society fiercely opposed to the Roman
Cathoiic Church. This order has no great
love for Mr. Blaine, and some of the
ancient squeezer’s friends and associates
are therefore not in harmony with him.
In fact Clapp himself got out a circular
against Mr. Blaine only a few days be
fore the Chicago Convention, a matter
which he probably hopes will not come to
the knowledge of Mr. Blaine.
A Challenge to Eight Declined.
Berlin, Nov. 2.—Prof, Sehwenninger,
Prince Bismarck’s physician, has chal
lenged Dußois Reymond to figfct a duel,
the professor having taken offense at re
marks of Herr Reymond on his appoint
ment to a chair in Berlin University,
Herr Reymond declined to fight.
TALKER ROGERS A CRANK.
SOMETHING OF THE MAN AV HO
SET LONDON BY THE EARS.
What the Article Which Caused the
Trouble wag Like—Tammany’s Deal
not to Injure Cleveland—The Business
Men Unquestionably for the Ite form
Candidate.
Correspondence of the Morning M&ics.
New Y'ork, Oct. 31. —Cablegrams pub
lished in various local newspapers a week
ago Sunday, told of an assault committed
by George E. Rogers, a New Y'orker, on
the manager of the St. Stephen’s Review,
a society paper of Loudon. The assault
grew out of an article in the Review en
titled “The Man from New Y'ork,” at
which Mr. Rogers took offense. Subse
quent cablegrams detailed that Mr. Rog
ers was obliged to give bail to keep the
peace. These telegrams represented Rog
ers as an agent of Blaine’s who had been
sent to England in the interests of the
grand old party. Perhaps he is, but,
while there may be some doubt on this
point, for what use would Blaine have for
an agent in England? There is no doubt
of his being a most unmitigated crank.
At least you will come to this conclusion
when you read what l have to tell about
him and which 1 know of my own knowl
edge. He used so live at a boarding house
at 27 West Twenty-seventh street, which,by
the way, at that time was much frequent
ed by Southerners, and was a boarder
there when President Garfield was shot.
From the moment Guiteau fired the fatal
bullet, Rogers became excited to mad
ness. Y’ou would have supposed the
wounded President was his dearest and
best friend, if not a blood relative, so
heartfelt were his expressions of grief
when unfavorable symptoms were re
ported, and those wno’heard him vituper
ate the newspapers which first announced
there was no hope c onsidered him crazed
by the sorrow of a personal bereavement.
No sooner had Garfield died than Rogers
transferred all his sympathy and all his
solicitude to Guiteau! He went through
the same programme as before, with
Guiteau substituted for Garfield, and
when he read the account of the assassin’s
execution, his face became ashen in color
and he looked as if about to faint. He has
apparently transferred his affection for
Garfield and solicitude for Guiteau to
Blaine. This much is evident, although
1 am still incredulous as to his being an
agent ot the tattooed statesman.
The article in St. Stephen’s which ex
cited Rogers’ ire is a rather heavy speci
men of the always ponderous British wit.
It represents Rogers as talking to death
the sub-editor of the paper, with Blaine’s
merits as a subject. The article con
taining the new and original idea of a
man being talked to death is nearly 1,000
words long. Rogers was a great ass to
make a fuss about it, as, had he not done
so, nobody would have known that he w 7 as
“The Man from New York.” How be
managed to w hip the other fellow I can’t
imagine, for he is by no means large, and
he never struck me as strong—never
struck me at all, in fact. The issue of St.
Stephen’s containing the Rogers’ article
also contains sketches of Blaine and
Cleveland written by its New York cor
respondent, which, indeed, were the cause
of Rogers’ getting mi xmd up with the con
cern. These sketches are of a character
to do away with the idea that English
men are necessarily friendly to Cleveland.
In fact, the St. Stephen’s correspondent,
being a Democrat, wrote with that object
in view. The sketch of Blaine,
while it tell3 about the Mulligan
letters, compliments him on his ability,
manners and personal appearance, aud
in this connection makes odious compari
sons between him and Cleveland. The ac
count of the latter takes the New Y'ork
Sun view of his being Sheriff’, and finds
fault with him because, as it alleges, bis
manners at table are not of a Chesterfield
ian character. St. Stephen’s, I under
stand, is the organ of those members of
the British aristocracy who are opposed
to Gladstone. The Duke of Norfolk, the
premier Duke in England, heads its list
of titled subscribers. Hence the corres
pondent finds it easy to make capital for
Cleveland by representing a hard-working
American citizen as not enough of a fine
gentleman to please the aristocratic sub
scribers of a British society paper. But
this roundabout way of making Cleve
land capital is a secret. Tell it not in
Gath. The American colony in London,
by the way, is considerably stirred up by
tiie Presidential sketches in St. Stephen’s,
aud both Blaine and Cleveland men unite
in denouncing them, the latter evidently
not reading them in the spirit in which
they were written.
THE LOCAL POLITICAL HORIZON
has not brightened much since I last
wrote, but there is, nevertheless, a silver
lining to the cloud which overhangs us.
The complexion of tbe Republican ticket
as at first constituted proved so mani
festly the existence of a deal with Tam
many Hall that respectable Republicans
were disgusted, as is shown by Col.
Bliss’ declaration that it would lose
Blaine 10,000 votes. By quoting Col.
Bliss on this point, I don’t mean to assert
that he is a respectable Republican; he
merely voiced those who are. Even as
remodeled, the ticket is so objectionable
that many respectable Republicans who
had, with much compunction, forced
themselves to think that the good of the
party required them to vote for Blaine,
and were in hopes that good
local candidates would offset the
bad national one, will not go to
the polls at all next Tuesday. This is
evident from the manifest falling off
in the last day’s registration as compared
with the figures of the three preceding
days. What is New York’s loss, there
fore, is Cleveland’s gain. The election of
Grant, the Tammany candidate for Mayor,
is conceded by all but the fast friends of
Grace. His calling and election are con
sidered so sure, indeed, that Tammany
may not consider it necessary to consum
mate its deal with the Republicans. Even
if the deal should be consummated, it is
doubtful whether more than 15,000 votes
would be transferred thereby, and the
kind of men who will vote as John Kelly
bids them are the very ones who are the
enemies of Cleveland, and who would vote
orJßlaine in any event.
This, of course, is written on the as
sumption that there is a deal between the
two Johns—John Kelly and John J.
O’Brien—and that it will be carried out if
necessary. There are those who deny
that there is any deal, and declare
that Tammany Hall will honestly support
Cleveland. Such place Cleveland's ma
jority in this city at upwards of 60,000.
This is 25,0C0 more than is conceded by
what may may be considered a fa'r esti
mate from a Republican point of view. If
Cleveland gets 40,000 majority I shall be
surprised, and 1 hope I shall be. What
ever his majoritv may be in New York
city, however, a general impression is
prevalent that he will carry the State in
any event. It is not evident whether the
impression has any reason of being, as
tbe French say, but it none the less exists.
“It is in the air,” a Cleveland man
will tell you if you ask him why bethinks
the 36 electoral votes of New York will
be cast for Cleveland. Even Democrats
who are not particularly hopeful are be
ginning to think that Cleveland will cer
tainlj carry this, even if he carries no
other Northern State. As for the Inde
pendent Republicans, and their name is
legion, they have never doubted of Cleve
land’s election, and some of them expect
his majority in this State to be nearly
what it was when he ran for Governor.
Of course, their expectations will not be
realized. If he he has a tenth part of his
previous majority, moderate estimators
will be content.
PERSONALLY, ALTHOUGH WHEN WRITING
ON POLITICS
I have always endeavored to take a rosy
view of the situation, 1 never had much
hope of Cleveland’s carrying this State
until I saw the parade of the business
men who support Cleveland last Satur
day. Nothing like it has ever been seen
in New York. Heretofore all parades of
the business men of the metropolis have
been in the interests of the Republican
candidates. Never before have men of
the financiaf and sociaf standing of those
who took part in last Saturday’s proces
sion turned out under Democratic aus
pices, and I doubt whether a large propor
tion ever participated in a political pa
rade before. When I thought, while view
ing the long procession, that it was the
New York business men who carried New
York State for Garfield, there seemed no
room for doubt that this time they would
turn the tide the other way.
The counter demonstration of the Blaine
business men yesterday, although it was
considerably larger than that of Satur
day, has not changed my opinion, for what
I saw of it was not so respectable in ap
pearance, and there is little doubt of its
having been largely composed of men from
other cities. A Brooklyn friend of mine
told me just now that the elevated train
in which he rode to the ferry last evening
was filled with Blaine paraders who
crossed over to Brooklyn with him. The
train which he took at the same time on
Saturday, after the Democratic parade,
was comparatively empty.
1 he stars in their courses fought against
; The elements are not propitious
to Blune. Although It did not begin until
after the procession had formed, and con
sequently did not much diminish its size
rain deprived yesterday’s parade of its
lull enect, And to-dAy a Btorniißra tf in ir
which must more than dampen the en
thusiasm of the Brooklyn demonstration
in honor of Blaine. Y'est’erday indeed was
a bad day lor Blaine, in spite of his big
parade and grand Delmonico dinner.
How he must have sympathized with the
great man who said: “Deliver me from
my friends; I can cope with my enemies
without htlp,” when lie heard the Pres
byterian preacher, the Rev. Dr. Burchard,
ailude to the Democracy as “the partv ot
rum, Romanism and rebellion!” The”re
mark was certainly not calculated to win
Irish votes for Blaine.
Dealers in campaign goods find them
selves at the close of the canvass with an
unpleasantly large stock on hand. An
announcement in a Broadwav window
sets forth that 65,000 torches, 30,000 rub
ber suits, 2,500 helmets, and 1,500 United
States Infantry caps are to be sold for
half their actual cost.
I WAS AMONG THE NUMBER
who were favored with a private view of
the new decorations of the Metropolitan
Opera House last evening. The interior
has been vastly improved. White and
gold on the balcony fronts, and cardinal
red as a lining for the stalls have taken
the place of the monotonous cream color
by which it was conspicuous. The change
is said to have been due to those wives
and daughters of the directors who can
not wear blacu, which was the only color
that harmonized with the cream color.
New Y'orkers have been enjoying the
past ten days a kind of opera to which
those who have not been abroad are un
accustomed. The Milan company, now
singing at the Star Theatre, while it
boasts no bright particular star, also pos
sesses no very poor singer, and conse
quently presents opera with a uniform
excellence which is as delightful as it is
foreign to the ordinary production of op
era in America, and which reminds trav
elers of opera a9 they have heard it in its
home—ltaly. D.
DUDLEY IN INDIANA.
He Sends Gold Comtort to Steve Klkins
and Gives Up Indiana.
Since Pension Commissioner Dudley
returned to Indiana, says a Buffalo special
of Oct. 31, he has been trying to see how
he can capture that State for Blaine, but
has found it a more serious undertaking
than he supposed. After leaving In
dianapolis Dudley went to Richmond, in
that State, where he spent much time in
talking with Elkins by telegraph, alter
having a wire from that place put in di
rect connection with Elkins at head
quarters. The first evening he was en
gaged two hours in talking with Elkins,
giving him the situation in Indiana and
the amount of “soap” that would be re
quired to capture it. He was again en
gaged in talking with Elkins, the latter
telling Dudley what he could do on the
following day.
During this private telegraphing the
question was debated between them of
abandoning Indiana and directing all
their efforts in other States. Dudley ad
vised that course, but Elkins at once
showed him that it would not do, for New
Y'ork was hopelessly against Blaine, in
his opinion, and to abandon Indiana was
to give up the contest in advance.
“We must carry all the other Northern
States,” was Elkins’ cry.
In this telegraphing it turned out that
the best canvass that the Republicans
could make of New Y'ork of the probable
vote gave Mr. Cleveland 30,000 majority,
and the idea of over oming that for Blaine
seemed to be too much lor Elkins or Dud
ley to think ofundertaking. as it required
tbe change of too many votes in each elec
tion district to make it feasible. The re
sult of this private telegraphing was a
practical admission that Blaine was de
feated.
The telegraph operators who were in
position to get the tone of the talk be
tween those men have taken the hint, and
those who were betting on Blaine are now
hedging their bets. To their friends they
state that they heard enough passing over
the wires to satisfy them that the Re
publican managers considered Blaine’s
chances hopeless, that, in fact, they prac
tically gave up the contest.
Dudley on Thursday sent to Elkins for
$240,000, saying that without it Indiana
could not be carried for Blaine. Elkins
replied that it was not possible to send
such a sum, as the banquet of millionaires
and monopolists only yielded $250,000,
and every dollar of it was necessary in
New Jersey, Connecticut and New Y'ork.
Dudley was advised that he must rely
entirely upon Pennsylvania for pecuniary
help. Dudley failed to get a satisfactory
answer from Pennsylvania, and when
Elkins replied that he could not send any
funds, “Then the jig is up,” was Dudley’s
emphatic rejoinder.
And so it is.
SEQUEL TO AN ELOPEMENT.
The Daughter of an Englishman Dying
In the Pittsburg Almshouse.
Pittsburg, Oct. 31.—A woman, aged
36, who is undoubtedly the daughter of a
wealthy Englishman of high social posi
tion , is dying in the Pittsburg alms
house. Two weeks ago she sought ad
mission. After a private audience with
the Poor Board, to whom she told her
story, she was placed there. She was
born in Wolverton, England, and was the
youngest of three cbi'dren. At 16 she
eloped with a family servant named Lang
don. Her lather discarded and disin
herited her. When her child was born,
he offered to rear and adopt it. As
the husband was growing dissolute and
neglectful, she consented, and then emi
grated with her husband to Pittsburg
with £I,OOO given her by an aunt. In
1877, when times were bawl and the
money had been spent, Langdon deserted
her. Since then she has lived in private
families. Her brother, the head of the
largest tool manufacturing firm in Eng
land, visited Pittsburg five years ago as a
guest of the iron kings. As he passed
through the streets in au open barouche
his discarded sister watched him from the
curbstone. Two weeks ago her health
broke down and she sought shelter in the
almshouse, with the promise from the
Poor Board, who verified her story, that
her name should not be told until after
her death. She is sinking to-night.
Dying of Trichinosis.
St. Louis, Oct. 30.— Lena Haberland,
10 years of age, died at the female hospi
tal on Tuesday of trichinosis. Ten days
ago Lena and her brother Robert, 8 years
of age, were brought to the city dispen
sary suffering from what was at first sup
posed to be rheumatism, complicated
with malarial fever. They were sent to
the female hospital, where it was found
that their muscles were infested with the
trichinae parasite. The disease was sup
posed to have been communicated by
eating half-cooked pork. The girl died
after suffering fearful torment, but the
boy is slowly improving, and the physi
cians believe that he will recover. A
po6t-mortem shows that the muscles and
tissues were alive with the parasite. Por
tions of the tissues were sent in to Dr.
Corson for microscopic examination.
Grant Said to be Opposing McCulloch.
Washington, Oct. 31.—1 t is rumored
here that Gen. Grant intends to do what
he can to prevent the confirmation of Mr.
McCulloch as Secretary of the Treasury.
The story goes that he has had an un
friendly feeling against McCulloch for
years, growing out of the dismissal of
Secretary Stanton by President Johnson.
This step was taken in the face of a pro
test from Grant, and in the controversy
Mr. McCulloch took President Johnson’s
part so boldly that Grant was much
offended.
Blaine’s Tariff Eloquence.
New York Times,
Blaine’s eloquence about the tariff and
the old flag recalls once more the well
worn anecdote ol Col. Yell, of Yellville,
Ark. It should not be despised in this
canvass on account of its age, for there
has never been a canvass in which it was
so applicable. “Although, iellow citi
zens,” said the eulogist of Col. Yell;
“although as President of the Y’ellvilie
National Bank our deceased friend did
not account satisfactorily for the funds
of that institution, yet bis remarks upon
the busting of the same showed that his
heart still beat warmly for his native
land.”
No “Eao de Cologne”
Can possibly compare either for fragrance,
sweetness, purity, or durability of aroma
with a genuine Murray and Lanman
Florida Water which is formed by tbe
most careful distillation ol the choicest
flowers of that garden of the tropics from
whence it derives its name. Only one
trial is necessary to insure its constant
use as it imparts vigor to the body,
strength to the nerves, and calmness to
the mind.
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THE WORLD’S EXPOSITION
A POSTPONEMENT OF THE
OPENING TO DCC.'IO.
President Arthur and the Presidents of
Several South American Countries to
be Present at the ('eremouies—Direc
tor General Burke Reports Every
thing Progressing Favorably.
Nkw Orleans, Nov. 2.—The following
address has leon issued:
W ORLn’B INI>S*L ANB COTT’N EXPOSIT’N. j
Director Gknekal’s Office. J
New Orleans, Nov. 1.)
The committee appoiu v I by the manage
ment to confer with the President of the Uni
ted States and the heads of the Executive de
partments in respect to tlm opening ceremo
nies of the World’s Industrial and Cotton
Centennial Exposition, having reported
J-hat inasmuch as Congress assem
bles on the day heretofore an
nounced for the opening of the exposition,
■he opening ceremonies cannot be attended
by the President and the members of both
Houses of Congress, as contemplated by the
act of Congress and ea neatly desired by me
management, it is herebv announced that the
formal opening of the World’s Exposition will
occur at 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday, Dec. H>,
HN4. Applications for space will be received
until Nov. 25. Exhibits will be received until
Deo. 10, with the understanding that they
must be arranged in place by the opening day.
unprecedented demands.
The demands upon the World's Exposition
for space have exceeded anything in tho
history of former oxpositi ms. The manage
ment has added 700,000 square feet of exhibit
ing space to the buildings originally designed,
and advantage will be taken of the time now
allowed to provide additional space for ex
hibitors, who may rely upou every possible
effort to accord reasonable space to all who
may apply. E. A. Birkk.
Director General.
Director General Burke reports that the
preparations for the exposition are in an
excellent state of forwardness, and the
exposition will be opened in the presence
ul the Presidents of the United States,
Mexico, the Central American republics,
heads of the departments and foreign
representatives. The action oi the board
of management in deferring the opening
until President Arthur can inaugurate the
exposition is warmly approved. His warm
support of the exposition is appreciated
all over the South, and the management
declared that it would be a source of in
tense disappointment to the people if it
opened without him. The delay will ena
ble delinquents to get into position and
avoid much of the confusion incident to
the opening of the exposition. Director
General Burke has reported to the man
agement that if they would roof the Park
(277 acres) and give him GO days, the ap
plicants for space would till it.
Charged with Treason and Felony.
Dublin, Nov. 2.—Frederick J. Allen,
Vice President of a young Ireland so
ciety and an employe of the freeman's
Journal, has been arrested, charged with
treason and felony. At a recent meeting
of the society Mr. Allen moved a resolu
tion, which’was adopted, rescinding a
vote previously passed expressing sym
pathy with the family of the late Hon.
Alexander 31. Sullivan, on the ground
that the English policy of the latter re
cently was deserving of condemnation.
Arab Disorders in India.
London, Nov. 2.— Advices from India
state that Arab disorders occurred at
Hyderabad during the 3Lohurrum festi
val. Eleven policemen were killed and
many others wounded. The Arabs looted
police stations and pillaged several
houses. A panic was created in the city
and shops and houses were closed. Troops
from Golconda restored order. The Coun
cil was summoned to hold a meeting, at
which tbe'.Nizam presided. A committee
of inquiry was ordered by the Council.
The Naval Frauds Astounding.
Washington, Nov. 2.—1 am told that
there are to be lurtber startling revela
tions when the investigation of the frauds
in the Navy Department is resumed. It
ha 6 been conveniently postponed until
after the election, but cannot of course
be postponed much longer, for if it is
Congress will be here to take hold of the
matter. 1 also learn that if the cases in
court ever come to trial the revelations of
trickery and fraud will be surprising.
A Candidate at Dealh’s Door.
Petersburg, Va., Nov. 2. —Dr. George
E. Hives, the Democratic candidate for
Congress from the Fourth district of Vir
ginia, is lying extremely ill at his home in
Prince George county, a few miles from
here. Doubts ol his'recovery are enter
tained. His illness Is believed to have
been brought on by over exertion in the
present canvass. Prayers in his behalf
were offered in some of the churches to
day.
Turkey and tho Conco.
Constantinople, Nov. 2.—Turkey has
demanded that it be allowed a represen
tative at the Congo conference, on the
ground that the Sultan has suzerainty
over the territory in which the Congo
river has its source.
Chamberlain’s Threat.
London, Nov. 2.— Kt. Hon. Joseph
Chamberlain will resign his position if
the motion in the House of Commons,
censuring the composition of the shipping
commission, is carried.
I’atti to be Divorced.
Paris, Nov. 2. -The decision of the
court in the Patti divorce case will be
given Nov. 7. The court will grant a
divorce on the demand of the Marquis de
Caux.
Gen. Gordon’s Fate in Doubt.
London, Nov. 2.—The foreign office is
still without any news in regard to Gen.
Gordon’s capture, and the report is dis
credited.
Cleveland at Albany.
New t York, Nov. 2.—Cleveland left
here for Albany by the 8:40 o’clock train
this morning. He goes to Buffalo to
morrow.
The Statesman’s Choice.
Ben Perley Poore.
Daniel S. Dickinson, when in the Sen
ate, was requested by the Postmaster
General to call at the department and
give an opinion on tbe relative claims of
several applicants for appointment as
Postmaster oi an office near his home resi
dence. The request was promptly com
plied with, and the documents were duly
inspected, not without some perplexity in
the mind of the Senator, for two of'his
personal and political friends, both
highly respectable and competent men,
were, as appeared from the papers,
about “neck-and-neck” in the race for
office so far as influential signatures on
either side could make them so. But sud
denly a light dawned upon the Senator.
A neatly written note in a lady’s hand
writing came to view, applying for the
office in her own behalf and giving but a
single name as reference, and that the
name of the honorable Senator himself.
He had known her deceased husband in
timately and most favorably for many
years, and was no stranger to the young
widow nerself. After a moment’s reflec
tion he carefully returned the delicate
missive to its place, and made the follow
ing laconic indorsement upon the papers:
“I go ior Nancy.” Nancy was, of course,
appointed, and faithfully served the
public in the capacity of Postmistress.
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